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The Trump/RNC fundraising haul
Yesterday, Bernie Sanders reported that he'd "raised $46.5 million, which I wrote about here." That's quite a haul. That being said, the Trump/RNC digital fundraising for February was pretty extraordinary, too:
The fundraising numbers for February are in, and the RNC and Trump campaign saw their largest digital fundraising hauls since 2016. According to the Daily Caller: Trump's reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee raised upwards of $86 million in February, making it the largest digital fundraising monthly haul since 2016.
Additionally, the joint Trump/RNC account has $195,000,000 Cash-on-Hand. Then there's this:
Republicans raised more than $3 million per day for the entire month. The campaign has raised more than $600 million since the start of 2019 and currently has more than $225 million cash on hand. According to Monday's announcement, the campaign has gathered more than 4 million voter contacts this cycle in conjunction with the RNC and authorized joint fundraising committees.
The thing that I look at most closely is the number of voter contacts. I'm also paying attention to the size of the Trump rallies. According to Brad Parscale, Trump's campaign manager, 96.6% of the people who attend a Trump rally wind up voting for him. Additionally, Parscale said that if a person who attends a Trump rally and who makes a contribution, the chances of that voter returning and voting for Trump jumps to 98.4%.
Finally, Republicans are holding voter registration drives at these events. They break things down into categories. For instance, they track what percentage of new voter registrations are from people who haven't voted recently. I don't have the number of people who fit that category but it's a significant percentage of the new registrations.
Still, with so much riding on this election, Republicans must work hard through election day. Bernie's voters are supermotivated and we can't afford to get complacent.
Posted in Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Election 2020, Fundraising/Voter Registration, RNC
2 Responses to "The Trump/RNC fundraising haul"
eric z says:
The raising and spending amounts would be far higher if Bloomberg spending is included, which it should be, given the dude is as Repubican as Prescott Bush.
Chad Q says:
Quit hitting the bong Eric. Bloomberg is as progressive/socialist/totalitarian as Bernie and Warren; he just doesn't come across as bat shit crazy as they are. All three are despicable. I'd throw Biden in there but he has no idea where he is or who he is talking to most of the time.


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Ink Node: Lawrence Giffin, "In Loco Parentis"
that rations libertates as Rights of Man.
camped out in flagrante delicto.
to end up a test market for Teletubbies.
of being there without having to go.
is a door that leads one only away.
What remains: period piece, daily life.
from things without measure or making.
to usufruct. Still mute so to speak.
of a body against opportunity.
as in of an estate or limb.


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Q: Xorg stops working after all X applications has exited I have a simple application which I use to determinate when my X server is ready. The application is used in the init process, and all X-applications depend on it to be completed. It keeps on trying to connect, and when it does get a connection, it simply exits.
int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
{
    Display *dis;

    while(1){
        dis = XOpenDisplay(NULL);

        if(dis != 0)
            break;
        usleep(1000);
    }

    if(dis != 0)
       XCloseDisplay(dis);

    return 0;
}

My problem is, that after I upgraded my Nvidia driver, none of the X-applications was able to display anything on the screen, if they ran after this simple test.
Also, if I run xeyes as the first application, then it works. Then if I press Ctrl-c ( to end the running xeyes application), and start a new one, nothing is displayed on the screen, but no errors appear on the screen.
Is this the expected behavioral? Is Xorg supposed to stop working after the last X-application has exited?

A: X has the concept of "server generations": whenever the last clients disconnects from the X server, the server tries to reset itself and then we say it started a new "generation". Most users never get past the first generation, so multiple generations are not tested very much, so it is not a big surprise if you trigger a bug when using multiple generations. There are often memory leaks when new generations are triggered. If you find a bug triggered when the X server gets to new server generations, please report it to bugs.freedesktop.org.
From your environment description, it seems you're triggering new server generations. You can start X with "-noreset" to avoid having the server reset, possibly hiding any existing bugs (it is a good test!).
As a side note, you might consider replacing the program you pasted for a scheme using SIGUSR1. The following text is from "man Xserver":

  SIGUSR1 This  signal  is  used  quite  differently from either of the above.
          When the server starts, it checks to see if it has inherited
          SIGUSR1 as SIG_IGN instead of the usual SIG_DFL.  In this case, the server
          sends a SIGUSR1 to its parent process after it has  set
          up the various connection schemes.  Xdm uses this feature to recognize
          when connecting to the server is possible.

A: This is obviously not expected behaviour.
But the fact that you are using this 'polling' program indicates to me that you are trying to workaround other bugs.
There have been known issues with fast-booting machines, Ubuntu+Nvidia+plymouth; See if you can upgrade your system or disable plymouth?
Also, can you check what vty X is running on when it 'stops working' ?
ps -ef | grep X
gdmtty="$(ps --no-heading -o tty -p $(pgrep X))"
stty -F "/dev/$gdmtty"
ps -f -t "$gdmtty"

(sometimes the terminal flags with regard to SIGNALS would be inapropriate for XServer and your Ctrl-C might cause the issue then).

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Today I have two posts on offer; one is a little piece on the matter of writing and the other is a somewhat more grisly affair. 9th April marks the anniversary of the death of Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat and the last man to be publicly executed in England as he met his maker on Tower Hill.
Lord Lovat lived a life of controversy and was not above double dealing and subterfuge to achieve his ambitions. When the Hanovers and Stuarts went head to head, Lovat played both sides like an expert but when the moment came to choose his colours, he made a fatal mistake and chose the Stuart cause.
A wanted man, Lovat was discovered hiding on an island in Loch Morar and arrested. With no time wasted the infirm and aged Lord Lovat was moved from Scotland and taken to London to face a trial that lasted less than a week. Age had caught up with the once fearsome character and left him unable to see or hear and barely able to walk or stand. His cunning, which had served him so well throughout his life, was no match for the English law and his conviction on a charge of treason was a forgone conclusion from the day his trial began.
The death sentence was passed on Lovat on 19th March 1747. He languished in prison until the appointed date of 9th April and then, with some difficulty due to his physical condition, he was conveyed from his cell to Tower Hill. At the block he was received by his executioner, John Thrift, and an enthusiastic audience keen to see the death of this notorious character.
An enormous crowd gathered to witness Lovat's execution and such was the scrum to get a good view that a bank of scaffolding collapsed beneath the weight of spectators, killing twenty people. This struck Lovat as singularly hilarious and he laughed uproariously before setting his head on the block, becoming the last man to be beheaded in England.
I am a *huge* fan of the Outlander series! I didn't know Lord Lovat was an actual person!
He certainly was; somewhat larger than life!
plants, how they smell, look and their use is true. So many people in her books really did live. Of course, there are Some People who did not, but, I've become fond of those as well.
I love that you have a loan copy and a sign copy, what a treasure!
Mine also..My grand mothre is in a direct line from the Fox; Bell-Zora Fazier..


If I'm going to talk about God songs I better not fail to mention Toby Mac. Toby Mac is an innovator in the Christian music scene. The God songs he performs have an energy that very few can match up to. From the days of DC Talk which started with a hip hop sound that later evolved into a rockin guitar driven Christian rock sound to today's sound. Toby Mac sound has continued to change and evolve into something that has a great sound.
Toby Mac was born Kevin Michael McKeehan in 1964 in Virginia. Toby Mac is an award winning singer producer and song writer. Many know TobyMac from DC Talk originally. He has also lead an impressive solo career that produced some excellent God songs. TMac also has been married since 1994 and is the proud father of five children.
Toby Mac is an award winning performer that has enjoyed much success both with DC Talk and in his solo career. He is also the president of a record label Gotee Records. Toby Mac has even authored a couple of books as well as various popular God songs.
You know when I write these posts I feel the need to put some background information (not sure if it is necessary) then I ramble and this and that. The truth is I talk about Christian music artists and the God songs they perform because I like the way they sound. TobyMac is an excellent performer. The God songs he releases whether solo or the stuff he did with DC Talk for a decade have all been great. If you don't have TobyMac discs in your collection of God songs you probably should. If you don't have them all you should think about getting them.
A couple of the Toby Mac songs that I really like are "Lose My Soul" with Kirk Franklin from the album "Portable Sounds" I know it's one his slower ones, but it really is pretty touching and kind of makes me think. Another one of the God songs I like is the Kirk Franklin song that features TobyMac "I Am God" that is a jam I really dig. "Phenomenon" is a pretty good tune." I'm not even sure what all TobyMac God songs I like. I definitely think there is more good than anything.
The album "Tonight" is scheduled for release in February. The first time I heard "City On Our Knees" (the first single from "Tonight") I wasn't sure about it I mean the lyrics are great I just wasn't completely sure about the music. So I listened to it a couple more times, and I really like it. It wasn't what I expected at first but it really grows on you. I heard "Showstopper" and "Funky Jesus Music" on YouTube and these are some good God songs. I look forward to TobyMac's new album "Tonight" he's even doing a tour with Skillet to promote that I hope to make it to.
TobyMac does great God songs and has for years getting the message out through his Christian songs. I'm not sure if you would call him Christian rock, Christian Rap, Christian hip hop or something else. I call him an entertaining and talented musician that does Christian music that you should check out if you haven't.
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© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Many machine learning systems rely on data collected in the wild from untrusted sources, exposing the learning algorithms to data poisoning. Attackers can inject malicious data in the training dataset to subvert the learning process, compromising the performance of the algorithm producing errors in a targeted or an indiscriminate way. Label flipping attacks are a special case of data poisoning, where the attacker can control the labels assigned to a fraction of the training points. Even if the capabilities of the attacker are constrained, these attacks have been shown to be effective to significantly degrade the performance of the system. In this paper we propose an efficient algorithm to perform optimal label flipping poisoning attacks and a mechanism to detect and relabel suspicious data points, mitigating the effect of such poisoning attacks.
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. Open Datasets provide one of the most popular ways to acquire insight and information about individuals, organizations and multiple streams of knowledge. Exploring Open Datasets by applying comprehensive and rigorous techniques for data processing can provide the ground for innovation and value for everyone if the data are handled in a legal and controlled way. In our study, we propose an argumentation and abductive reasoning approach for data processing which is based on the data quality background. Explicitly, we draw on the literature of data management and quality for the attributes of the data, and we extend this background through the development of our techniques. Our aim is to provide herein a brief overview of the data quality aspects, as well as indicative applications and examples of our approach. Our overall objective is to bring serious intent and propose a structured way for access control and processing of open data with a focus on the data quality aspects.
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. Machine learning lies at the core of many modern applications, extracting valuable information from data acquired from numerous sources. It has produced a disruptive change in society, providing new functionality, improved quality of life for users, e.g., through personalization, optimized use of resources, and the automation of many processes. However, machine learning systems can themselves be the targets of attackers, who might gain a significant advantage by exploiting the vulnerabilities of learning algorithms. Such attacks have already been reported in the wild in different application domains. This chapter describes the mechanisms that allow attackers to compromise machine learning systems by injecting malicious data or exploiting the algorithms' weaknesses and blind spots. Furthermore, mechanisms that can help mitigate the effect of such attacks are also explained, along with the challenges of designing more secure machine learning systems.
© 2017 IEEE. The use of drone systems is increasing especially in dangerous environments where manned operations are too risky. Different entities are involved in drone systems' missions and they come along with their vast varieties of specifications. The behaviour of the system is described by its set of policies that should satisfy the requirements and specifications of the different entities and the system itself. Deciding the policies that describe the actions to be taken is not trivial, as the different requirements and specifications can lead to conflicting actions. We introduce an argumentation-based policy analysis that captures conflicts for which properties have been specified. Our solution allows different rules to take priority in different contexts. We propose a decision making process that solves the detected conflicts by using a dynamic conflict resolution based on the priorities between rules. We apply our solution to two case studies where drone systems are used for military and disaster rescue operations.
© 2017 IEEE. Verification techniques are applied to policy based systems to ensure design correctness and to aid in the discovery of errors at an early stage of the development life cycle. A primary goal of policy verification is to evaluate the policy's validity. Other analyses on policy based systems include the identification of conflicting policies and policy efficiency evaluation and improvement. In this work, we present a discussion and classification of recent research on verification techniques for policy based systems. We analyse several techniques and identify popular supporting verification tools. An evaluation of the benefits and drawbacks of the existing policy analyses is made. Some of the common identified problems were the significant need of computational power, the limitation of the techniques to particular policy model, which restrict their extension to other policy models and the lack of efficient conflicts resolution methods. We use the evaluation results for discussing the further challenges and future research directions that will be faced by policy verification techniques. In particular, we discuss specific requirements concerning verification techniques for coalition policies systems and autonomous decision making.
© 2017 IEEE. Policies govern choices in the behavior of systems. They are applied to human behavior as well as to the behavior of autonomous systems but are defined differently in each case. Generally humans have the ability to interpret the intent behind the policies, to bring about their desired effects, even occasionally violating them when the need arises. In contrast, policies for automated systems fully define the prescribed behavior without ambiguity, conflicts or omissions. The increasing use of AI techniques and machine learning in autonomous systems such as drones promises to blur these boundaries and allows us to conceive in a similar way more flexible policies for the spectrum of human-Autonomous systems collaborations. In coalition environments this spectrum extends across the boundaries of authority in pursuit of a common coalition goal and covers collaborations between human and autonomous systems alike. In social sciences, social exchange theory has been applied successfully to explain human behavior in a variety of contexts. It provides a framework linking the expected rewards, costs, satisfaction and commitment to explain and anticipate the choices that individuals make when confronted with various options. We discuss here how it can be used within coalition environments to explain joint decision making and to help formulate policies re-framing the concepts where appropriate. Social exchange theory is particularly attractive within this context as it provides a theory with 'measurable' components that can be readily integrated in machine reasoning processes.
© 2017 IEEE. Firewalls represent a critical security building block for networks as they monitor and control incoming and outgoing network traffic based on the enforcement of predetermined security rules, referred to as firewall rules. Firewalls are constantly being improved to enhance network security. From being a simple filtering device, firewall has been evolved to operate in conjunction in intrusion detection and prevention systems. This paper reviews the existing firewall policies and assesses their application in highly dynamic networks such as coalitions networks. The paper also describe the need for the next-generation firewall policies and how the generative policy model can be leveraged.
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery. Access control for information has primarily focused on access statically granted to subjects by administrators usually in the context of a specific system. Even if mechanisms are available for access revocation, revocations must still be executed manually by an administrator. However, as physical devices become increasingly embedded and interconnected, access control needs to become an integral part of the resources being protected and be generated dynamically by the resources depending on the context in which they are being used. In this paper, we discuss a set of scenarios for access control needed in current and future systems and use that to argue that an approach for resources to generate and manage their access control policies dynamically on their own is needed. We discuss some approaches for generating such access control policies that may address the requirements of the scenarios.
This report examines the policy challenges for the Internet of Things (IoT), and raises a broad range of issues that need to be considered if policy is to be effective and the potential economic value of IoT is harnessed. It builds on the Blackett review, The Internet of Things: making the most of the second digital revolution, adding detailed knowledge based on research from the PETRAS Cybersecurity of the Internet of Things Research Hub and input from Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering. The report targets government policymakers, regulators, standards bodies and national funding bodies, and will also be of interest to suppliers and adopters of IoT products and services.
© 2018 Institution of Engineering and Technology. All rights reserved. We build upon the idea of Physiological Value Based Security schemes as a means of securing body sensor networks (BSN). Such schemes provide a secure means for sensors in a BSN to communicate with one another, as long as they can measure the same underlying physiological signal. This avoids the use of pre-distributed keys and allows re-keying to be done easily. Such techniques require identifying signals and encoding methods that can be used in the scheme. Hence we first evaluate step interval as our physiological signal, using existing modular encoding method and our proposed learned partitioning function as the encoding methods. We show that both of these are usable with the scheme and identify a suitable parametrisation. We then go on to evaluate arterial blood pressure using our proposed learned mean FFT coefficients method. We demonstrate that with the correct parameters this could also be used in the scheme. This further improves the usability of PVS schemes, by identify two more signals that could be used, as well as two encoding methods that may also be useful for other signals.
© 2018 Institution of Engineering and Technology. All rights reserved. We propose a model to represent the health of WSNs that allows us to evaluate a network's ability to execute its functions. Central to this model is how we quantify the importance of each network node. As we focus on the availability of the network data, we investigate how well different centrality measures identify the significance of each node for the network connectivity. In this process, we propose a new metric named current-flow sink betweenness. Through a number of experiments, we demonstrate that while no metric is invariably better in identifying sensors' connectivity relevance, the proposed current-flow sink betweenness outperforms existing metrics in the vast majority of cases.
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018. Discovering who performed a cyber-attack or from where it originated is essential in order to determine an appropriate response and future risk mitigation measures. In this work, we propose a novel argumentation-based reasoner for analyzing and attributing cyber-attacks that combines both technical and social evidence. Our reasoner helps the digital forensics analyst during the analysis of the forensic evidence by providing to the analyst the possible culprits of the attack, new derived evidence, hints about missing evidence, and insights about other paths of investigation. The proposed reasoner is flexible, deals with conflicting and incomplete evidence, and was tested on real cyber-attacks cases.
© 2018 Institution of Engineering and Technology. All rights reserved. A physiological signal must have a certain level of randomness inside it to be a good source of randomness for generating cryptographic key. Dependency to the history is one of the measures to examine the strength of a randomness source. In dependency to the history, the adversary has infinite access to the history of generated random bits from the source and wants to predict the next random number based on that. Although many physiological signals have been proposed in literature as good source of randomness, no dependency to history analysis has been carried out to examine this fact. In this paper, using a large dataset of physiological signals collected from PhysioNet, the dependency to history of Interpuls Interval (IPI), QRS Complex, and EEG signals (including Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma and Theta waves) were examined. The results showed that despite the general assumption that the physiological signals are random, all of them are weak sources of randomness with high dependency to their history. Among them, Alpha wave of EEG signal shows a much better randomness and is a good candidate for post-processing and randomness extraction algorithm.
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018. With users being more reliant on online services for their daily activities, there is an increasing risk for them to be threatened by cyber-attacks harvesting their personal information or banking details. These attacks are often facilitated by the strong interconnectivity that exists between online accounts, in particular due to the presence of shared (e.g., replicated) pieces of user information across different accounts. In addition, a significant proportion of users employs pieces of information, e.g. used to recover access to an account, that are easily obtainable from their social networks accounts, and hence are vulnerable to correlation attacks, where a malicious attacker is either able to perform password reset attacks or take full control of user accounts. This paper proposes the use of verification techniques to analyse the possible vulnerabilities that arises from shared pieces of information among interconnected online accounts. Our primary contributions include a logic-based reasoner that is able to discover vulnerable online accounts, and a corresponding tool that provides modelling of user accounts, their interconnections, and vulnerabilities. Finally, the tool allows users to perform security checks of their online accounts and suggests possible countermeasures to reduce the risk of compromise.
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018. In recent years drones have become more widely used in military and non-military applications. Automation of these drones will become more important as their use increases. Individual drones acting autonomously will be able to achieve some tasks, but swarms of autonomous drones working together will be able to achieve much more complex tasks and be able to better adapt to changing environments. In this paper we describe an example scenario involving a swarm of drones from a military coalition and civil/humanitarian organisations that are working collaboratively to monitor areas at risk of flooding. We provide a definition of a swarm and how they can operate by exchanging messages. We define a flexible set of policies that are applicable to our scenario that can be easily extended to other scenarios or policy paradigms. These policies ensure that the swarms of drones behave as expected (e.g., for safety and security). Finally we discuss the challenges and limitations around policies for autonomous swarms and how new research, such as generative policies, can aid in solving these limitations.
Györgye A, Muñoz-González L, Gyorgy A, Lupu ECet al., 2018, Detection of Adversarial Training Examples in Poisoning Attacks through Anomaly Detection.
© 2017 Association for Computing Machinery. A number of online services nowadays rely upon machine learning to extract valuable information from data collected in the wild. This exposes learning algorithms to the threat of data poisoning, i.e., a coordinate attack in which a fraction of the training data is controlled by the attacker and manipulated to subvert the learning process. To date, these attacks have been devised only against a limited class of binary learning algorithms, due to the inherent complexity of the gradient-based procedure used to optimize the poisoning points (a.k.a. adversarial training examples). In this work, we first extend the definition of poisoning attacks to multiclass problems. We then propose a novel poisoning algorithm based on the idea of back-gradient optimization, i.e., to compute the gradient of interest through automatic differentiation, while also reversing the learning procedure to drastically reduce the attack complexity. Compared to current poisoning strategies, our approach is able to target a wider class of learning algorithms, trained with gradient-based procedures, including neural networks and deep learning architectures. We empirically evaluate its effectiveness on several application examples, including spam filtering, malware detection, and handwritten digit recognition. We finally show that, similarly to adversarial test examples, adversarial training examples can also be transferred across different learning algorithms.
© 2017 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Attestation and measurements inspection are different but complementary approaches towards the same goal: ascertaining the integrity of sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks. In this paper we compare the benefits and drawbacks of both techniques and seek to determine how to best combine them. However, our study shows that no single solution exists, as each choice introduces changes in the measurements collection process, affects the attestation protocol, and gives a diferent balance between the high detection rate of attestation and the low power overhead of measurements inspection. Therefore, we propose three strategies that combine measurements inspection and attestation in different ways, and a way to choose between them based on the requirements of different applications. We analyse their performance both analytically and in a simulator. The results show that the combined strategies can achieve a detection rate close to attestation, in the range 96-99%, whilst keeping a power overhead close to measurements inspection, in the range 1-10%.
© 2017 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). We examine the impact of increasing autonomy on the use of airborne drones in joint operations by collaborative parties. As the degree of automation employed increases towards the level implied by the term 'autonomous', it becomes apparent that existing control mechanisms are insufficiently flexible. Using an architecture introduced by Bertino et al. in  and Verma et al. in , we consider the use of dynamic policy modification as a means to adjust to rapidly evolving scenarios. We show mechanisms which allow this approach to improve the effectiveness of operations without compromise to security or safety.
© 2017 Association for Computing Machinery. Internet of Things environments enable us to capture more and more data about the physical environment we live in and about ourselves. The data enable us to optimise resources, personalise services and offer unprecedented insights into our lives. However, to achieve these insights data need to be shared (and sometimes sold) between organisations imposing rights and obligations upon the sharing parties and in accordance with multiple layers of sometimes conflicting legislation at international, national and organisational levels. In this work, we show how such rules can be captured in a formal representation called "Data Sharing Agreements". We introduce the use of abductive reasoning and argumentation based techniques to work with context dependent rules, detect inconsistencies between them, and resolve the inconsistencies by assigning priorities to the rules. We show how through the use of argumentation based techniques use-cases taken from real life application are handled flexibly addressing trade-offs between confidentiality, privacy, availability and safety.


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Tura (; , Turu) is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Evenkiysky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located in the Syverma Plateau, at the confluence of the Kochechum and the Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers. Population:

History
Tura was the administrative center of Evenk Autonomous Okrug before the okrug was merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai on January 1, 2007. Until April 2011, it had urban-type settlement status.

Transportation
Tura is served by the Tura Airport.  The town and airport are linked together by the A-383 road, though Tura is currently isolated from the Russian road and railway network.

Climate
Tura has a very cold subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc) with short, but warm and rainy summers with cool nights and long, bitterly cold winters with little sunshine.

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External links
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Zachery Barnett as vocalist and guitarist, James Adam Shelley as lead guitarist, Dave Rublin as bassist and Matthew Sanchez as drummer, collectively formed Blue Pages (currently American Authors) while attending Barklee College of Music.
Blue Pages remained confined within Boston, recording several EPs including Surrounded by Wolves, Bear Fight, Night Hawke, Anthropology and Rich With Love.
In 2012, "Blue Pages" got renamed to "American Authors". American Authors released their first debut single, "Believer", making to US alternative rock radio, and caught attention of Mercury Records.
"Hit it" which initially came out as a single got featured on a game by EA, FIFA 14. They released their first studio album Oh, What A Life on 2014. On 1 February, 2019, they released their third studio album, Season with Island Records as their recording label.


The 2015 Vanquish 24 Runabout is a modern boat, in a classic package.
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-Top-shelf Armorflex buff-back gelcoat is used on the exterior.
-Through-hull fittings below the waterline are silicon bronze, and those above the waterline are stainless-steel.
-With a 375 HP, 6.0L Crusader straight inboard, performance was surprisingly spiffy: cruising speeds in the low 30 MPH range, and a top-end just shy of 40 MPH.
-There's plenty of low-end grunt for pulling water skiers and water toys.
-Thanks to the prop pocket, draft is a surprisingly low 1'10" and shaft angle is significantly reduced.
-Oversized rudder makes for tight turns and quick responses at the helm.
-Inboard power provides a low center of gravity, improving the boat's wave-splitting ability and reducing roll.
-Variable-degree deadrise hull rides well for its size. We got bounced around a bit on test day but that was no surprise, considering the rough conditions. All in all, the boat handled it well.
-The length-to-beam ratio is relatively low, with a beam of just 8'0" (and a LOA of 25'8"). This improves stability and seakeeping, though it does also reduce room inside the boat; it seems a bit narrow inside.
-The motorbox, which rises on an electric lifter at the press of a button, makes for a great sunpad and converts into a lounge.
-The motorbox also eats into deck space.
-Did we mention that this is a new 2015 model boat… with a straight inboard powerplant?
Watch the video boat review of the Vanquish 24 Center Console or read the full review of that boat, Vanquish 24 CC: A Boat With Blue Blood.
Interested in buying a Vanquish 24 Runabout of your own? See these Vanquish 24 Runabout listings, or visit Vanquish Boats.


Music is a big part of life at St. Margaret's, and our program suits girls with a variety of interests and talents. The Music Department is equipped with a variety of instruments, including a grand piano, practice rooms, a Music Library, and is well-suited for both group and private instruction. Our Treble Choir receives basic theory, vocal pedagogy, and exposure to music from Classical, Romantic, Modern and Popular styles. This class is open to students in any grade level. The Ensemble offers select students an opportunity to work at a proficient level in grades 9-12.
Each year, we stage a major theatrical production that involves a large part of our student community in key rolls, including as student directors, actors, and crew. The Drama program uses our music studio as well as a mirrored dance studio for rehearsal space, and the wings of our stage are used as a staging area for props and technical equipment.
Cinderella was a standout show!
Our 2019 winter musical, Cinderella, engaged over 40 students and staff in staging three performances for the public, and there was hardly an empty seat in the house. It was a great opportunity to show what's possible in the performing arts at St. Margaret's.


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Kimberly – it's been a long time . . . Miss your creativity and passion in the larger universe of crafting.
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The self driving car apocalypse is upon us as Google is now unleashing its autonomous vision of the future to the public.
The little 2 seater features no brake or gas pedal, no gear shift or steering wheel and a lot of molded plastic. And of course, it is totally autonomous.
Google was originally representing this as pretty much an autonomous build by themselves, but Jalopnik Detroit put an end to that assumption fairly quickly, noting Roush Enterprises in Michigan is in "midst of hiring engineers for the Google project and is making interviewees sign a confidentiality agreement keeping the partnership secret.
Still, its a pretty swell little EV and a great first effort at taking the 'human element' out of the driving equation.


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Q: Execute foreign functions using FDWs in Postgres Is it possible to execute functions that are located on a foreign server using postgres_fdw? If not, is there any available workaround?

A: You can wrap the function in a view on the foreign side, then map a foreign table onto that view.  This isn't very flexible as you can't specify the arguments to the function--either it must take no arguments, or they must be specified at the time the view is created.
Or, you can use dblink to execute arbitrary SQL on a foreign PostgreSQL server.  This is pretty annoying, but if you already have a foreign server defined using postgres_fdw, you can at least give dblink's functions the name of that server rather than needing to give them a connection string.


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Man found not guilty in San Bernardino shooting that left veteran paralyzed
By Leticia Juarez
Man found not guilty in shooting that left veteran paralyzed
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KABC) -- The family of an Army veteran who was left paralyzed after a shooting in San Bernardino had an emotional outburst in a courtroom as the suspect was found not guilty on Friday.
Christopher Sullivan's family said they had been betrayed by the very system their son fought and nearly died for.
Sullivan, who was an Army specialist on leave after surviving a bomb attack in Afghanistan, was shot during his homecoming party on Dec. 23, 2011.
Officials said Ruben Jurado shot Sullivan twice following an argument with Sullivan's 16-year-old brother.
Jurado sat next to his attorney during the verdict reading and the relief was clear on his face after he was found not guilty of attempted premeditated murder.
Jurado's attorney said his client, who had been in custody for the past five years, was remorseful about what took place. However, he said what happened was a case of self-defense.
"He was getting attacked by a whole bunch of people. He did his best to avoid any sort of conflict by firing a warning shot. That didn't appease them and he was attacked by Chris and a second shot went off. He was still attacked, which required a third shot," said Benjamin Arsenian, Jurado's attorney.
"But the entire time I felt like he was just trying to get away. There was never any intent to kill," he continued. "He made a stupid mistake by bringing a gun to a party. It was an idiotic thing to do and that was really what he was guilty of."
Sullivan, who was a standout football player at San Bernardino High School, was shot in the buttocks and neck.
The bullet shattered his spine, paralyzing him from the neck down.
Ruben Jurado was found not guilty in a shooting that left Army veteran Christopher Sullivan paralyzed from the neck down.
Following the emotional outburst, Sullivan's family was escorted out of the courtroom. His family did not want to go on camera to discuss the verdict, but a close family friend told Eyewitness News that justice had not been served.
Eyewitness News spoke to a juror who said had the charge not been for attempted premediated murder, the outcome may have been different.
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"This Assembly has affirmed the vitality of the ecumenical movement and the commitment of the churches to the ecumenical vision and goal of unity, and to strive for a more just and peaceful world," said WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia following the closure of the event.
Addressing the core issues of Christian unity, the Assembly agreed on a new text, "Called to be the One Church," and urged that WCC and its member churches give priority to the questions of unity, catholicity, baptism and prayer.
Recognising a rapidly-evolving church and social context, and faced with a decline in income, the delegates agreed to focus future WCC work on a limited number of core issues and urged the WCC to "claim a clearer and stronger public profile in its witness to the world".
"The WCC should do less, do it well, in an integrated, collaborative and interactive approach," said the Rev. Dr Walter Altmann (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil), moderator of the programme guidelines committee which formulated the proposals. Calling for a strengthened theological basis for all areas of activity, the delegates also pointed to the need for comprehensive planning and communication strategies "to build engagement and ownership by the churches".
The Assembly affirmed that WCC should expand its work on alternatives to economic globalization, deepening the theological and analytical grounding of this work, and sharing "practical, positive approaches from the churches".
The mid-term of WCC's Decade to Overcome Violence (DOV) was celebrated at the Assembly - which received messages from three Nobel Peace Prize-winners - and the delegates recommended that the WCC move towards an international Ecumenical Peace Convocation. A candlelight vigil for peace was held in central Porto Alegre to launch the Latin American annual focus for the DOV.


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Q: How to use sklearn.inspection.permutation_importance for clustering algorithm import numpy as np
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X, y = make_classification(n_samples=1000,
                           n_features=4,
                           n_informative=3,
                           n_redundant=0,
                           n_repeated=0,
                           n_classes=2,
                           random_state=0,
                           shuffle=False)

km = KMeans(n_clusters=3).fit(X)

result = permutation_importance(km, X, y, scoring='homogeneity_score', n_repeats=10, random_state=0, n_jobs=-1)
result

In the real problem, I don't have y (true label), I tried to do y=None to make it as an unsupervised learning. But it does not work. I got:
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ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-72-81045ae9cb66> in <module>()
----> 1 result = permutation_importance(km, X, y=None, scoring='homogeneity_score', n_repeats=10, random_state=0, n_jobs=-1)

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/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/sklearn/metrics/cluster/_supervised.py in check_clusterings(labels_true, labels_pred)
     53     if labels_true.ndim != 1:
     54         raise ValueError(
---> 55             "labels_true must be 1D: shape is %r" % (labels_true.shape,))
     56     if labels_pred.ndim != 1:
     57         raise ValueError(

ValueError: labels_true must be 1D: shape is ()

Do anyone know how to implement without true label?

A: First of all, it is trivial to prove that k-means is invariant to a permutation of features... Because the sum is permutation invariant.
If you still want to experiment, try using an array of 0s as y maybe?


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Did you know, male causes account for roughly half of all infertility cases?
Yet fertility has historically been perceived both in the population at large and within medical practice as largely a female matter. While women have had gynaecologists, specialists trained in female reproduction, there is now finally an equivalent for men, known as andrologists, who will fully evaluate and treat the male partner.
There has recently been increased attention in the media about the lack of care and services for men with fertility problems including articles in The Guardian and on the Victoria Derbyshire show on the BBC.
A comprehensive study published last year suggests that sperm counts among western men has more than halved in the last 40 years. And according to experts in the field, as many as one in five young men have low sperm counts, and about one in two are below the optimum.
Variocele - a leading cause of male infertility
One of the leading causes of male infertility is a condition called varicocele, which is caused by enlarged varicose veins in the testes. About 40% of infertile men have varicocele, although it doesn't always impair fertility – 15% of fertile men also have varicocele. It creates an engorgement of blood that heats up the testes by as much as four degrees, which can cause significant damage to sperm.
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Once inside, the setting reflects a more Victorian Christmas theme with holly and lighting around the ceiling.
You're also greeted at the ticket office where the kids can pick up their personalised golden ticket for the PQ Express.
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And then head inside to see Santa's little helpers as the kids get to colour while they wait.
Remember, this is Santa and not Father Christmas so ours even had an American accent. Each child gets a few minutes with the big man himself. He sits them on his stool next to him, chats, offers a gift and even let her ring the bell.
There's a choice of gifts to buy at the end with a photo of their time with Santa.
Princes Quay's central display this year has gone wordwide with a recent photo of Rudolph. No signs of animal harm tonight though as the display looks great!
The lights switch on and the PQ Express grotto opens this Sunday at around 12 noon following the epic street parade for Santa's Arrival. It'll be open every day until Christmas Eve so plenty of time to go over the festive period.


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Ahmaud Arbery's Killers Sentenced To Life In Prison
The family of Ahmaud Arbery has finally found justice. On Friday, January 7th, the three white men convicted in the murder of the late 25-year-old were handed life sentences.
Gregory and Travis McMichael have received life in prison without parole, while their third accomplice, William Bryan received life in prison with the possibility of parole. As Complex notes, the decision doesn't come as a major surprise, seeing as "Georgia state law makes such a sentence mandatory for murder unless the death penalty is sought."
Today's hearing also heard testimony from Arbery's family members, including his mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, who delivered an emotional speech. "I want to first speak directly to my son," she said. "This verdict doesn't bring you back but it does help bring closure to this very difficult chapter of my life."
"I made a promise to you the day I laid you to rest. I told you I loved you and someday, somehow, I would get you justice. Son, I love you as much today as I did the day that you were born. Raising you was the honour of my life and I'm very proud of you."
Both McMichael's and Bryan were found guilty of felony murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment back in November of 2021, following their pursuit and fatal attack on Arbery in the Satilla Shores neighbourhood in February of 2020.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has also shared his thoughts on the verdict, saying, "after nearly two years of pain, suffering, and wondering if Ahmaud's killers would be held to account, the Arbery family finally has some justice."
"Nothing will bring back Ahmaud, but his family will have some peace knowing the men who killed him will remain behind bars and can never inflict their brand of evil on another innocent soul."
Complex notes that next month, the convicted murders will once again appear in court, this time over federal hate crime charges, with all three men being charged with one count of interference with right and one count of attempted kidnapping. On top of that, Travis and Gregory are also facing charges of "using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence."
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Ocean Waves (1993)
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Midori (1992)
After losing her parents, young flower selling Midori is put up by a fairground group. She is abused and forced to slavery, until the arrival of an enigmatic magician of…
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Tokyo Decadence (1992)
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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)
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Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back – Evolution (2019)
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Promare: Lio-hen (2019)
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Hachi-ko (1987)
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.
Detective Conan: The Fourteenth Target (1998)
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This is the sister piece to the Cup of Life posted earlier .... I've had great fun playing around with collaging stamps - there are nine different stamps used in this piece - finding I can get so much more out of them now I don't just see them as a whole image and break them down using them as different components. I took Hels kind advice from last time and gave this one an inky border which I think works. They are growing in stature too - venturing beyond the atc which is my preferred size to work in. Now, just to find her a suitable frame. Having taken the vow to hang nothing upon my walls apart from art made either by myself or my friends ... I got a whole lotta wall to fill!
You made a beautiful piece of art for your wall. I think the inky border is perfect! I have been counting, and yes I see 9 different stamps, it's amazing what you do with your stamps!
Ink-reasingly bigger and better! Fill those walls now.
I just went out last week and bought a bunch of ink to try out too.
This is a fabulous piece of art for your wall, beautiful.
Fabulous creation to go with The Cup of Life! I think that's brilliant, to use 9 different stamps, Penny! The two will look gorgeous on your wall, for sure.
This is very lovely and I think the border works very well!
I love this piece and couldn't believe you'd combined 9 stamps - cool! Loving the inky border as well. I find ATC's tiny to work on but I think that can be just as challenging as massive pieces that I normally work on! Thank you for your comments on my blog I'm going to try and have a me day!
These are such fun, lovely colour background as well - it inspires me to look at my stamps with new eyes! Fabby.
I love "whimsical" and this is beautifully whimsical and quirky and appealing.


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Femininity and sensuality, without doubt this are two words that can characterize very well a floral dress. The dresses are clothing items "must have" in the summer, and the floral can be a good choice, because they are easy to match and very feminine. But even when you want a more stylish look and not necessarily "girly", also a floral dress can be very helpful.
Romantic or atmosphere of the office, both are perfectly covered by a floral dress, but also in the special evening events, but also in the home. The important thing is to choose the right cut for each of these occasions and, of course, print coating suitable situation.
Floral dress is subject to some tips for the combination you choose. For example if you are petite and have no extra kilos, molded mini dresses are ideal for you. If on the other hand you are tall and thin can wear just about anything, but preferably medium-sized prints and bright colors. Or if you type apple silhouette with skinny legs and extra pounds on your belly, baby doll dresses are ideal with small floral print. But these are women who have thick thighs prohibited.
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Spring break equaled lots of reading in the car, on the beach, at the pool... divine!
It was definitely a varied week of reading, with an unusual focus on middle school titles. Usually I read more YA/High school titles but not last week! Walking Disaster was the only YA title. Darkest Minds fits both middle and high school ages...much like the Hunger Games and Divergent series.
My most favorite 5 heart awesome reads of the week?
Know what else I read? Wrinkles Wallace: Fighters of Foreclosure by Marquin Parks! Nope, not an ARC -- the soon to be published manuscript (thanks, friend!) I smiled, laughed, and enjoyed seeing how the characters had grown since Wrinkles Wallace: Knights of Night School.
I am really NOT avoiding Homeland...still don't have a copy to read. My public library is processing theirs and my school library copy has yet to arrive. :( My son and I are reading Seagulls Don't Eat Pickles together. I haven't yet started Hold Fast but after Colby Sharp described it as "The Mighty Miss Malone meets Wonder" in his 5 favorite middle grades books of the first quarter, how can I NOT read it?
I hope you have a great week filled with wonderful books!


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De Renault R.S.19 is een Formule 1-auto die gebruikt wordt door het Renault F1 Team in het seizoen 2019.

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Op 12 februari 2019 onthulde Renault de nieuwe auto op het internet. Via foto's op het internet werden beelden van de nieuwe auto vrijgegeven. De auto wordt bestuurd door de van Red Bull Racing overgekomen Daniel Ricciardo, die zijn eerste seizoen met het team ingaat, en de Duitser Nico Hülkenberg die zijn derde seizoen bij het team rijdt.

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† Uitgevallen maar wel geklassificeerd omdat hij meer dan 90% van de raceafstand heeft voltooid.

Formule 1-auto uit 2019
R.S.19


It's not unusual at this time of year to hear the phrase, 'If you are in biotech you need to be at BIO.' The UK has certainly taken that to heart – we had the largest overseas delegation, some 500 business leaders amongst the 17,000 from around the world gathering for the event in San Diego last week.
BIO is the world's largest biotech convention and the 2017 event comes amid a period of seismic change, with a US President focused on a number of sensitive industry issues, and the UK negotiating its exit from the EU.
The Department for International Trade (DIT) had a stand at the convention which Alderley Park was pleased to be a part of alongside a sizeable presence from the North of England. We were joined on the stand by the government's Northern Powerhouse, the Northern Health Science Alliance, and North West EHealth. All of whom worked together to communicate that the UK has one of the strongest and most productive life sciences sectors in the world, offering a high concentration of talent and ample opportunities for value creation through partnering, deal making, or direct investment.
The North of England is a hotbed of innovation and discovery, with scores of fast growth business making their way on the global stage. At Alderley Park we are proud to have developed an ecosystem tailor-made to the needs of life science start-ups, whether they are at the embryonic stage where all they need to work is a lab bench, the right brains and the right equipment, to those moving to the next stage of operation and seeking collaboration with other firms. And indeed the entrepreneurial atmosphere here combined with mentorship opportunities with leaders in the industry may provide exactly the right mix of new world and old world for young pharma businesses hoping to make it big in the sector. BIO creates a platform to showcase the offer but it's not the only opportunity.
At the moment, the pharma sector in the UK is misshapen and unbalanced. This is because the successful start-ups in the sector tend to be subsumed by large, multinational firms, with the consequence that mid-size pharma businesses are hard to find. This has a negative impact on the industry for several reasons. For example, entrepreneurial talent tends to get lost once a smaller firm is bought by a larger one, meaning that the sector doesn't nurture what may have been its dynamic leaders of the future. It also means that innovation is stifled as the 'start-up' mentality in which left field ideas and people thrive becomes unsustainable in a corporate environment, which in turn can lead to the sort of lack of intellectual diversity that compromises research.
In order to address this, the government needs to do more to support small pharma businesses to become medium pharma businesses by ensuring that they have access to adequate capital, whether through direct grants, tax breaks or other measures that would make scaling up a more attractive proposition to businesses than exiting early.
Nobody knows what a Brexit – hard, soft or somewhere in between – will mean for freedom of movement, but if the UK life science sector is to succeed, it needs to be able to access international talent without the time lag caused by labyrinthine visa rules. To facilitate this, the government should ensure that those who are coming to work in the UK life science sector from abroad are not impeded by hard-to-navigate immigration restrictions, perhaps through the use of a points-based system that could mean applications are fast-tracked because of the importance of life sciences to the UK economy.
The inadequacy of STEM education in the UK is something that successive teams at Number 10 have failed to address and unsurprisingly, this has led to a skills shortage. In 2015 the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) published research indicating that those working in blue chip companies such as GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer are concerned about the lack of availability of people with clinical pharmacology, bioinformatics and statistics skills. And the impact on the sector goes far beyond just recruitment. And unfortunately, the problem goes beyond recruitment into finding those who will fund newer pharma businesses. In the City, for example, a lack of understanding about the processes within the life sciences industry leads to nervousness around investing in the pharma sector. Better education – from schools right through to postgraduate levels – could help to address this.


The game's entertaining coaster editor can't save an underwhelming experience.
Rollercoaster Tycoon is one of the greatest video game series ever made. The originals, made by Chris Sawyer and his team, kept me hooked for hours on end and are my fondest memories of a video game. Everything that happened during the gameplay loop felt raw and instantly required a reaction from the player. This is why Rollercoaster Tycoon Adventures, a title based on the mobile version, doesn't exactly leave an impression. The connection between you and the world is extremely minimal, which quickly made Adventures boring to look at. It has the general idea of a Rollercoaster Tycoon game, but it fails on plenty of fundamental levels.
If you are looking for what Rollercoaster Tycoon used to be, you won't find it here. Instead of hiring employees and actively following your customers, this version of the theme park simulator focuses on the building aspects. No longer will you hire employees to do your bidding or really feel you are steering the day-to-day operations. Instead, you are building attractions and facilities to keep your guests happy. Your numbers will go up and down, and with statistics you will find out what needs to be changed. Adventures doesn't really offer fun indicators as there are no longer lines at the attractions, nor can you see the costumer's thoughts in any coherent way.
Rollercoaster Tycoon Adventures was set on building a wall between me and the game from the outset. For the first two hours, I tried to make it fun by making neat arrangements and building up a park that I would love to be in. The problem is that it felt incredibly empty after those initial moments. Once again, I would put an attraction down and see how customers would barely touch it. This is what made the originals so good: you got the instant feedback you needed to push forward. Now and again, you will get some feedback, but that mostly comes down to something being simply good or bad. When I tried to solve a problem, the customers would remain negative. A good example of this is how I would place additional arcade machines to satisfy the crowds, but it almost seemed like only one cabinet seemed to exist for them. It felt discouraging.
The greatest interaction that the game offered was with the coasters. Within the coasters, you can change up the individual nodes and change the structure the way you want. I was able to change the height, alter the curve or move it further in and out. It was possible to make your own simple coasters, which worked surprisingly well. In particular during the sandbox portion of the game, I would go for the full two kilometers and build something absolutely massive. This is literally the saving grace of the package, and even then, you can't really do anything outside of further tweaking what you made. You can't hop into the ride or get any strong feedback for a future project.
Outside of the Sandbox mode, where you can build the park with everything unlocked, there are two more ways to play Rollercoaster Tycoon Adventures. In the Adventure Mode, you will build a park from absolutely nothing and try to earn everything over a longer period of time. You won't have much money to do whatever you want with, and new attractions need to be researched before you can use them. In addition, the game throws you curveballs that can have an impact on sales or the hygiene levels within your theme park. This is how likely how I experienced the game the most, and it suffers from all the problems mentioned above. The player will, at least, encounter some unique situations that need to be dealt with swiftly.
The most fun I had was in the Scenario Mode. Here, you have to deal with restrictions that are placed on you from the get go. Within these restrictions, you will need to react speedily and get the job done fast. There are three awards to shoot for on each of sixteen stages, depending on your performance. While it works within the boundaries of Rollercoaster Tycoon Adventures, it benefits quick play sessions and knows to not waste much time. This content is very appreciated and offers a more traditional video game challenge.
Rollercoaster Tycoon Adventures doesn't run fantastic on the Nintendo Switch. When you really start building, the frame rate is the first thing being sacrificed for the sake of playability. It slows down the general movement more and more to a halt, the more you continue to build. At the end of building a massive park, the movement couldn't keep up with my button presses and stopped registering sometimes. In an ideal world, the game would've restricted the building space to maintain a decent performance. While you won't keep building into infinity during Scenario Mode, it heavily impacts how you approach the other modes. Regardless of that, Adventures is at least a colorful endeavor that isn't visually draining by any stretch.
Rollercoaster Tycoon Adventures is somewhat of an underwhelming game. While a younger player could find potentially some fun in building attractions and coasters, it will feel absolutely flat for most. The placing of buildings doesn't continue to entertain, and the feature set is remarkably slimmed down. There is some fun to be had in the Scenario Mode, but even that has its fair share of limits. The worst thing about Adventures is its performance. There were plenty of instances where the game slowed down for no apparent reason. While Adventures absolutely looks the part, it doesn't stack up to any of the older games. This game doesn't quite deserve its moniker.