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The Door Within by Book Resume:
There is an unseen world of good and evil where nightmares are fought and hope is reborn. Enter The Door Within. Aidan Thomas is miserable. Within two weeks, Aidan's life is completely uprooted as his parents move the family across the country to care for his ailing grandfather. The quiet but imaginative Aidan is struggling with attending a new school and fitting in with a new group of friends. But when he begins having nightmares and eerie events occur around his neighborhood, Aidan finds himself drawn to his grandfather's basement—where he discovers three ancient scrolls and a mysterious invitation to another world. No longer confined to the realm of his own imagination, Aidan embarks on an adventure where he discovers a long-fought war between good and evil. With the fate of two worlds hanging in the balance, Aidan faces Paragory, the eternal enemy with unfathomable power. Will Aidan be willing to risk everything and trust the unseen hand of the one true King? With over 250,000 copies sold in The Door Within trilogy, this is a perfect time to introduce the series to a new tween audience The fantasy genre is wildly popular among young readers, and this series will leave tweens and teens on the edge of their seats. Meets national education standards.
The Rise of the Wyrm Lord
Author: Wayne Thomas Batson
The Rise of the Wyrm Lord by Wayne Thomas Batson Book Resume:
The second exciting adventure in The Door Within trilogy awaits! The Rise of the Wyrm Lord revisits favorite characters from The Door Within and opens with Aidan Thomas in trouble. Separated from his best friend by a thousand miles and unable to return to The Realm of Glimpses himself, Aidan needs a way to reach Robby with a message from King Eliam, the one true King. Enter Antoinette Reed, a bright but headstrong young woman who seems like the perfect person to reach King Eliam. When Aidan discovers that Antoinette has been called to enter The Realm, he solicits her help to find Robby's Glimpse before it is too late. But when she arrives in the Kingdom of Alleble, Antoinette finds the kingdom is in turmoil. Alleble's allies are inexplicably beginning to turn away, renouncing former ties with King Eliam. And there are rumors that the dark Prince of Paragory, sworn enemy of the Kingdom, is seeking an ancient evil power—the Wyrm Lord—to crush the Alleble once and for all. With over 250,000 copies sold in The Door Within trilogy, this is a perfect time to introduce the series to a new tween audience The fantasy genre is wildly popular among young readers, and The Rise of the Wyrm Lord is a heart-pounding second installment that will leave tweens and teens on the edge of their seats. Meets national education standards.
The Final Storm
The Final Storm by Wayne Thomas Batson Book Resume:
The final installment of the thrilling The Door Within trilogy! Pure evil collides as Paragor, the betrayer of the one true King Eliam, unites with the Wyrm Lord and the mythical Seven Sleepers to launch a full-scale assault on the Kingdom of Alleble. And while their enemies plot their next attack, Alleble's remaining allies flee from the four corners of The Realm to safety within the Alleble's walls. Once there, the allies find the Kingdom crestfallen, grieving a fallen hero. While Alleble and its allies prepare to face the coming onslaught, they cling to an ancient legend about three witnesses who have the power to bring victory. But is the legend true? And if it is, where are the witnesses? Time is running out as darkness spreads over the Realm, and Paragor unleashes the final storm. But will anyone survive to see the dawn? With over 250,000 copies sold in The Door Within trilogy, this is a perfect time to introduce this bestselling series to a new batch of readers. The fantasy genre is wildly popular among young readers, and The Final Storm is thrilling end to this epic trilogy! Meets national education standards.
Isle of Swords
Isle of Swords by Wayne Thomas Batson Book Resume:
A young lad awakens on an island, alone and brutally injured, with no memory of his past. Captain Declan Ross searched for riches that will free him and his headstrong daughter, Anne, from the piracy business forever . . . Bartholomew Thorne, an infamously ruthless pirate, seeks to destroy Ross and any who stand in his way of the legendary treasure hidden by a mysterious order of monks. With these intriguing characters and many more, Wayne Thomas Batson weaves a spell-binding adventure filled with high-seas drama where battles rage, storms brew, a long-dormant volcano awakens, and a sea creature slithers in the deep as pirates race for a cliff-top fortress.
Author: Jeff Shaara
Publisher: Ballantine Books
The Final Storm by Jeff Shaara Book Resume:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With the war in Europe winding down in the spring of 1945, the United States turns its vast military resources toward a furious assault on the last great stepping-stone to Japan—the heavily fortified island of Okinawa. The three-month battle in the Pacific theater will feature some of the most vicious combat of the entire Second World War, as American troops confront an enemy that would rather be slaughtered than experience the shame of surrender. Meanwhile, stateside, a different kind of campaign is being waged in secret: the development of a weapon so powerful, not even the scientists who build it know just what they are about to unleash. Colonel Paul Tibbets, one of the finest bomber pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps, is selected to lead the mission to drop the horrific new weapon on a Japanese city. As President Harry S Truman mulls his options and Japanese physician Okiro Hamishita cares for patients at a clinic near Hiroshima, citizens on the home front await the day of reckoning that everyone knows is coming.
Curse of the Spider King
Author: Wayne Thomas Batson,Christopher Hopper
Curse of the Spider King by Wayne Thomas Batson,Christopher Hopper Book Resume:
Fantasy. Mystery. Action. Humor. Parents, teachers, and librarians will no longer have to push kids to read—The Berinfell Prophesies will engage intermediate readers and leave them clamoring for more. The Seven succeeding Elven Lords of Allyra were dead, lost in the Siege of Berinfell as babes. At least that's what everyone thought until tremors from a distant world known as Earth, revealed strange signs that Elven blood lived among its peoples. With a glimmer of hope in their hearts, sentinels are sent to see if the signs are true. But theirs is not a lone errand. The ruling warlord of Allyra, the Spider King, has sent his own scouts to hunt down the Seven and finish the job they failed to complete many ages ago. Now 13-year-olds on the brink of the Age of Reckoning when their Elven gifts will be manifest, discover the unthinkable truth that their adoptive families are not their only kin. With mysterious Sentinels revealing breathtaking secrets of the past, and dark strangers haunting their every move, will the young Elf Lords find the way back to the home of their birth? Worlds and races collide as the forces of good and evil battle. Will anyone escape the Curse of the Spider King? Learn more about The Berinfell Prophecies at www.heedtheprophecies.wordpress.com. Create your own tribe. Connect with fans through the forum. Win pre-release chapters and the opportunity to have Wayne and Christopher at your very own book party!
A Door Behind A Door
Author: Yelena Moskovich
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
A Door Behind A Door by Yelena Moskovich Book Resume:
"Moskovich (Virtuoso) mystifies with this vivid story of a pair of estranged siblings who immigrated to Milwaukee from the Soviet Union as children in 1991... The dynamic style and psychological depth make this an engaging mind bender." —Publishers Weekly In Yelena Moskovich's spellbinding new novel, A Door Behind A Door, we meet Olga, who immigrates as part of the Soviet diaspora of '91 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There she grows up and meets a girl and falls in love, beginning to believe that she can settle down. But a phone call from a bad man from her past brings to life a haunted childhood in an apartment building in the Soviet Union: an unexplained murder in her block, a supernatural stray dog, and the mystery of her beloved brother Moshe, who lost an eye and later vanished. We get pulled into Olga's past as she puzzles her way through an underground Midwestern Russian mafia, in pursuit of a string of mathematical stabbings. "Yelena Moskovich returns with her latest work, A Door Behind a Door, bearing many of the hallmarks – the post-Soviet diaspora, the mesmeric blending of past and present, desire and violence – of her previous novels, Virtuoso and The Natashas. This time we are in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the protagonist Olga receives a phone call opening up a Pandora's box of haunting memories and unsolved puzzles from her Soviet past." —Matt Janney, The Calvert Journal, "Books to look forward to in 2021"
Opening Doors Within
Author: Eileen Caddy
Opening Doors Within by Eileen Caddy Book Resume:
A new edition of the much-loved perennial meditation diary whose messages radiate spiritual wisdom, encouragement and serenity throughout the year • Provides messages of spiritual insight and guidance for every day of the year from Eileen Caddy, co-founder of the Findhorn Community • Offers specific suggestions for your daily spiritual growth and development • Includes a new introduction by Jonathan Caddy, one of Eileen's sons, who adds a fresh perspective to the profound influence this guidance can have One of the much-loved books of Eileen Caddy (1917-2006), co-founder of the Findhorn Community in Scotland, Opening Doors Within is a perennial meditation diary offering down-to-earth inspirational messages of spiritual guidance for every day of the year. For over 35 years, people have used these practical teachings that offer advice on achieving stillness, faith, and fulfillment. Specific suggestions for your daily spiritual growth and development enhance the impact of the supportive words. Eileen's brief messages, from what she called "the still, small voice within," offer inspirational, uplifting, and powerful words of love and support. Her daily guidance was the bedrock of the early Findhorn Community, and the concept of "inner listening" is still very much part of individual and community practice there today. The encouraging and practical messages speak to those embarking upon the journey to find their divine inner self and spiritual truth. Anyone who meditates--whether inexperienced or seasoned--will find the wisdom shared both insightful and heartening. A new foreword by Jonathan Caddy, Eileen's son who lives in the Findhorn Community, adds a fresh perspective to the profound influence this guidance can have. No matter how you use the wisdom shared in this small book, take these teachings into yourself and carry them within you, until they have done their silent, gentle, and loving work of opening the doors within.
Venom and Song
Venom and Song by Wayne Thomas Batson,Christopher Hopper Book Resume:
Now in the strange realm of Allyra, the Seven young lordsconfront a traitor in their midst, a creature-infested forest, teenage fearsand doubts, inexplicable mysteries . . . and the Spider King himself. In a rigorous training program that makes boot camp looklike Disneyland, the Seven must quickly learnto harness their own powers, work as one, and elude the Spider King's spies.But as the ancient Berinfell Prophecies are revealed, the Seven soon discovertheir training might not be enough. To stop the Spider King they must also unravelthe secrets of the Rainsong, travel to a creepy, trap-infested fortressto find the legendary keystone, and lead the Berinfell Elves in an attack on theSpider King's own turf. An epic adventure withpowerful messages about true strength, forgiveness, and working together as onebody that will grab the attention of intermediatereaders. Learn more about The Berinfell Prophecies at www.heedtheprophecies.com.
Isle of Fire
Isle of Fire by Wayne Thomas Batson Book Resume:
Brace yourself for a thrilling high-seas adventure and dare to set sail for the Isle of Fire."A great explosion rocked the crowded harbor. The ferocious blaze engulfed ship after ship expanding the circle of destruction in mere heartbeats. The fire rain had been unleashed."As Cat's memory returns, he realizes that he has lived two very different lives. Now he must choose whether to return to the ways of his notorious father and join the evil Merchant, or defy the Merchant and risk his life to save his friends.The best-selling Isle of Swords adventure continues in Isle of Fire as ancient mariners rise from legend and cut an all-too-real swath of destruction across the Atlantic. The newly formed Wolf Fleet scours the Caribbean, hunting the pirates they once called comrades. And in the pitiless winds of a monstrous hurricane, whole fleets will be blasted apart and devoured.
Dreamtreaders
Dreamtreaders by Wayne Thomas Batson Book Resume:
Book #1 in a trilogy from fantasy author Wayne Thomas Batson explores the concept of dreams and their effects on us. People are fascinated by dreams, and the Bible has a great deal to say about them. From Jacob's dream of the heavenly stairway in Genesis 28 to angels visiting Joseph during dreams in Matthew 1 to the Apostle John's "waking dream" from which he obtained the book of Revelation—dreams have been powerful ingredients of God's plan as revealed through Scripture. Fourteen-year-old Archer Keaton discovers he has the ability to enter and explore his dreams. He is a dreamtreader, one of three selected from each generation. Their mission: to protect the waking world from the Nightmare Lord, who wreaks chaos in the Dream World. But as Archer's dreams become more dangerous and threatening, so too does his waking life. Rigby Thames, the new kid from England, builds a suspicious rock star-like following at Dresden High School a little too quickly. Even Archer's best friend and confidant, Kara Windchil, seems taken in by the cool guy with the wild blond hair, which definitely rubs Archer the wrong way. Archer must face two foes in two worlds, but he cannot succeed alone. Archer sets off to find other dreamtreaders in a desperate attempt to defeat the enemy terrorizing his friends and family. Features & Benefits: New fantasy trilogy from bestselling author Wayne Thomas Batson Batson's previous epic fantasy trilogy, The Door Within, has sold more than 250,000 copies Brings epic fantasy with a biblical base to middle grade readers Epic fantasy is popular in movies and TV shows, and this is a spiritual epic fantasy
Author: Markus Zusak
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Book Resume:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. "The kind of book that can be life-changing." —The New York Times "Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank." —USA Today DON'T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK'S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.
Author: S. E. Hinton
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton Book Resume:
50 years of an iconic classic! This international bestseller and inspiration for a beloved movie is a heroic story of friendship and belonging. Cover may vary. No one ever said life was easy. But Ponyboy is pretty sure that he's got things figured out. He knows that he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. And he knows that he can count on his friends—true friends who would do anything for him, like Johnny and Two-Bit. But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up on "greasers" like Ponyboy. At least he knows what to expect—until the night someone takes things too far. The Outsiders is a dramatic and enduring work of fiction that laid the groundwork for the YA genre. S. E. Hinton's classic story of a boy who finds himself on the outskirts of regular society remains as powerful today as it was the day it was first published. "The Outsiders transformed young-adult fiction from a genre mostly about prom queens, football players and high school crushes to one that portrayed a darker, truer world." —The New York Times "Taut with tension, filled with drama." —The Chicago Tribune "[A] classic coming-of-age book." —Philadelphia Daily News A New York Herald Tribune Best Teenage Book A Chicago Tribune Book World Spring Book Festival Honor Book An ALA Best Book for Young Adults Winner of the Massachusetts Children's Book Award
The Great Controversy
Author: Ellen G. White,General Press
Publisher: GENERAL PRESS
The Great Controversy by Ellen G. White,General Press Book Resume:
Beginning with the destruction of Jerusalem and continuing through the persecutions of Christians in the Roman Empire, the apostasy of the Dark Ages, the shining light of the Reformation, and the worldwide religious awakening of the nineteenth century, this volume traces the conflict into the future, to the Second Coming of Jesus and the glories of the earth made new. In this concluding volume, the author powerfully points out the principles involved in the impending conflict and how each person can stand firmly for God and His truth.
Into That Darkness
Author: Steven Price
Publisher: Dundurn.com
Into That Darkness by Steven Price Book Resume:
Acclaimed Canadian poet Steven Price has conjured a stunning debut novel that explores what we ask from each other, and how much we are prepared to give. Set in the city of Victoria, British Columbia, Into That Darkness opens at the moment when a massive earthquake hits the entire west coast with devastating results. Amid the destruction of the city, survivors are left to negotiate a calamity in which bonds of civility are pushed to their limits and often broken. When Arthur Lear hears a voice crying in the rubble, he finds himself descending deep under a collapsed building in a desperate attempt to save a young boy and his mother. But what he discovers there will change him forever — as circumstances lead him across the city's broken landscape, through the chaos of its hospitals and streets, in a harrowing search for the mother's lost daughter. Over the days that follow, Lear's very sense of humanness will be tested and compromised, as he faces the limits of himself and his fellow survivors, in his long journey home. A novel for our age of anxiety and fear, Steven Price delivers a powerful story about the physical manifestation of the darker things lurking in our culture, in ourselves.
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher: The Floating Press
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Book Resume:
Alice in Wonderland (also known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), from 1865, is the peculiar and imaginative tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit-hole into a bizarre world of eccentric and unusual creatures. Lewis Carroll's prominent example of the genre of "literary nonsense" has endured in popularity with its clever way of playing with logic and a narrative structure that has influence generations of fiction writing.
The Door in the Wall
Author: Marguerite de Angeli
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli Book Resume:
Set in the fourteenth century, the classic story of one boy's personal heroism when he loses the use of his legs.
Night Shift by Stephen King Book Resume:
Stephen King's first collection of short stories showcases the darkest depths of his brilliant imagination and will "chill the cockles of many a heart" (Chicago Tribune). Featuring "Jerusalem's Lot," the basis for the upcoming tv series Chapelwaite. Here we see mutated rats gone bad ("Graveyard Shift"); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity ("Night Surf," the basis for The Stand); a possessed, evil lawnmower ("The Lawnmower Man"); unsettling children from the heartland ("Children of the Corn"); a smoker who will try anything to stop ("Quitters, Inc."); a reclusive alcoholic who begins a gruesome transformation ("Gray Matter"); and many more shadows and visions that will haunt you long after the last page is turned.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: BookRix
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Book Resume:
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. There are two personalities within Dr. Jekyll, one apparently good and the other evil; completely opposite levels of morality. The novel's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' is a thrilling Gothic horror novel. John Utterson, a prosecutor, is on his weekly walk with his relative, who proceeds to tell him of an encounter with a man he had seen some months ago while coming home late at night from Cavendish Place. The tale describes a sinister figure named Edward Hyde who tramples a young girl, disappears into a door on the street, and re-emerges to pay off her relatives with 10 pounds in gold and a cheque signed by respectable gentleman Dr. Henry Jekyll (a client and friend of Utterson's) for 90 pounds. Jekyll had recently and suddenly changed his will to make Hyde the sole beneficiary. This development concerns and disturbs Utterson, who makes an effort to seek out Hyde. Utterson fears that Hyde is blackmailing Jekyll for his money. Upon finally managing to encounter Hyde, Hyde's ugliness, as if deformed, amazes Utterson. Although Utterson cannot say exactly how or why, Hyde provokes an instinctive feeling of revulsion in him. Much to Utterson's surprise, Hyde willingly offers Utterson his address. After one of Jekyll's dinner parties, Utterson stays behind to discuss the matter of Hyde with Jekyll. Utterson notices Jekyll turning pale, yet he assures Utterson that everything involving Hyde is in order and that he is to be left alone.
Author: S. A. Bodeen
The Compound by S. A. Bodeen Book Resume:
S.A. Bodeen's The Compound is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. Eli and his family have lived in the Compound for six years. The world they knew is gone. Eli's father built the Compound to keep them safe. Now, they can't get out. He won't let them.
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Wards shut by 'vomit virus'
HOSPITAL bosses have been forced to seal off 10 wards after staff and patients were struck down by a winter vomiting virus.
Just nine months after the last outbreak of the highly contagious virus closed three wards for 11
days at Battle Hospital, Royal Berkshire Hospital has been afflicted by the same 48-hour gastric disorder.
The bug has prompted the hospital to put all non-urgent operations on hold until the hospital is clear of the bug and to issue warnings telling people to stay away unless absolutely necessary.
Managers are also restricting movement of staff between wards to minimise the spread of the virus.
So far the accident and emergency department has not been shut by the virus but local GPs have been warned that in some cases patients will bypass A&E and go straight on to a ward to avoid further spread of the virus.
However a spokeswoman for the hospital said the ward closures were causing increased waiting times in accident and emergency.
She said: "The trust is asking members of the public to restrict themselves from visiting the hospital unless it is absolutely necessary. We are taking precautions to try to control the spread of the virus and contain it within areas identified as affected. However the virus is out in the community and because of this it is difficult to stop it from coming into the hospital.
"We are asking both staff and patients to be vigilant and if they need information or advice about this viral illness, to contact NHS Direct on 08 45 46 47 or if you need medical attention please contact your GP."
Victims of the bug suffer projectile vomiting and diarrhoea and there is no specific treatment other than to ensure patients do not get dehydrated.
When a patient comes down with the bug in a ward, the hospital closes it to any new admissions. The ward then remains closed until all the patients with the virus have recovered.
The hospital then has to wait four days before admitting new patients to the ward.
Patients whose operations have been cancelled will have their operations rescheduled in the order they appear on the waiting list.
The hospital is offering reassurances that they will not have a long wait because their operation has been postponed.
Emergency admissions will continue and the hospital is doing its best to carry out all urgent operations.
Andrew Stacey, consultant micro-biologist, said: "Norwalk-like viruses are a frequent cause of diarrhoea and vomiting in the community. Although it is very contagious, the illness is a short-lived one and there is no specific treatment for these symptoms. However, we do have to ensure that people affected do not get dehydrated and patients usually recover quickly. Relatives visiting patients on the wards affected have been informed of the situation and asked to limit visits where possible for the short-term."

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\section{Introduction}

Hard X-ray (HXR) emissions from solar flares provide important information on how particles are accelerated to high energies.
In particular, non-thermal HXR emissions from the solar corona are important because they are emitted near energy-release sites just after acceleration.
In many flares, HXR sources at footpoints of magnetic-loop structures are prominent compared to coronal sources \citep{krucker2008review}.
Therefore, it is challenging to observe weak HXR sources in the corona, with stronger HXR sources that are relatively near.

This problem requires a high imaging dynamic range, but
the dynamic range is limited with past instruments for solar HXR observations.
Unlike visible-light optics, it is technically difficult to focus HXRs using optics (mirrors and lenses), so indirect imaging methods are typically used.  Applications of directly focusing optics for solar HXR observations have been made but are so far limited to short-term observations \citep{krucker2014, christe2016, grefenstette2016}.
However, to study particle acceleration, which is usually detected in medium to large flares, long-term observation is necessary.
The most thorough available data set to date for solar HXRs comes from the \textit{Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager} \citep[RHESSI:][]{lin2002} spacecraft, which operated from 2002 to 2018.
The imaging technique used by RHESSI is a rotating modulation collimator, and it is not optimized for high dynamic range observations \citep{hurford2002}.

One of the ways to investigate coronal HXR sources with RHESSI data is to select flares whose footpoints are behind the solar limb.
In those flares, footpoint HXR emissions are absorbed by the lower layers of the Sun and are not visible to the observing instrument.
In such a case, there is the possibility to more easily observe coronal HXR sources, which are at, or near, the places where particle acceleration is thought to occur.
Those flares are often referred to as partially occulted flares, and are thought to be important events for investigating features of accelerated particles.
In this article, we define a partially occulted flare, or just an ``occulted flare'', as a flare that occurred near the limb without a detection of a HXR source at its footpoint(s).

Occulted flares observed by RHESSI have been published as catalogs.
\citet{krucker2008survey} studied 55 events, and \citet{effenberger2017} added to that catalog 61 more events that occurred later.
Both studies identified the occulted flares by checking HXR images of candidate flares by eye for every event.
To perform such a search, two major steps need to be performed by an experienced HXR imaging analyst (upper path in Figure~\ref{fig:diagram}): image reconstruction and visual inspection.
Obtaining HXR images with good quality from the RHESSI data is not a trivial effort with modulation collimators.
A complicated image-reconstruction method is necessary, and knowledge and experience are required to obtain reliable images.
It is also difficult to determine which features of a reconstructed image are real and which are artificially generated due to noise in the reconstruction algorithm.
As a result, statistical studies of occulted flares were time consuming and not available to non-experts.
We note that the RHESSI mission archive (\url{https://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/rhessi3/mission-archive/index.html}) has partially alleviated one of these problems, by providing automatically generated images in several energy ranges for \textbf{all} RHESSI flares.  However, identifying occulted flares using traditional methods would still require visual inspection of all of these events by an expert, so examining the entire RHESSI database in that way would be impossible.
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 \centerline{\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth,clip=]{diagramfig1.eps}}
 \caption{Diagram comparing two methods of searching for occulted flares.  The upper path shows a method using manual image reconstruction and visual inspection by an experienced researcher.
 The lower path shows the method suggested in this study using a machine-learning model.  }\label{fig:diagram}
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A better situation would be if a broad range of researchers can determine whether flares are partially occulted or on the solar disk without spending too much time, and application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, especially machine-learning techniques, is a candidate to overcome that difficulty.
By treating data without image reconstruction as explanatory variables, we can formulate this problem as a two-class classification problem.
If we construct and train a machine-learning model with a reasonable accuracy, we can reduce the time and effort to find occulted events and focus more on scientific analysis of target events.

In the field of solar physics, several recent studies use machine-learning techniques for space weather prediction or image classification.
Specifically, deep learning (DL) using models of deep neural networks (DNNs) are used for complicated data sets including image data.
\citet{nishizuka2018} and \citet{panos2020} each use DNNs for their solar flare prediction models.
A convolutional neural network (CNN) is a kind of DNN especially applied for image recognition, and it is
used for classifying solar images in categories of filaments, flare ribbons, prominences, sunspots, and no feature regions \citep{armstrong2019}.
In addition, CNN is also used for instrumental calibration of solar telescopes \citep{neuberg2019}.
The generative adversarial network (GAN) technique is an application of DNN used for generating images from other data.
GAN is used for generation of solar images from magnetograms \citep{park2019}, and solar image deconvolution \citep{xu2020}.

So far, in most of the classification studies using machine learning in solar physics, input data were images understandable to humans, such as UV images and magnetograms.
While it is true that those automations are natural applications of machine-learning techniques,
another advantage of machine-learning algorithms is the ability to judge data that humans cannot recognize with our eyes only.
The input data are not necessarily in an understandable form.
One example of non-understandable image classification is a malware detection algorithm \citep{nataraj2011}.
In this study, they made ``images'' from binary data files, and they classified whether each image contained malware or not based on the observed patterns.
Of course, humans cannot understand an image produced from binary data inside a data file, but we can use a CNN model since the data are represented as a two-dimensional image.

In this study, we use RHESSI spectrograms as input data and present a concept of a CNN model to judge whether test flares are occulted or not.
The RHESSI spectrograms can be systematically produced without specialized expertise, and we can search for occulted flares automatically without an expert and without the need for individual inspection (lower path in Figure~\ref{fig:diagram}).
A major goal of this work is to liberate the extensive database of indirect solar HXR observations from the realm of specialists and make its scientific content more easily available.  This will induce more active researchers to study particle acceleration in the Sun. This effort supports and enhances the use of the RHESSI legacy mission archive.

\section{Data Set and Modeling}
\subsection{Data Format and Preparation}
To train and test a machine-learning model to detect occulted flares for supervised learning, we prepared HXR spectrograms observed by RHESSI during flares as input data.
A RHESSI spectrogram is a two-dimensional histogram with axes of time and energy, and the value in each bin indicating the number of counts observed by RHESSI at that time and energy.
Since RHESSI's imaging technique works by modulating the photon flux, the intensity changes over time contain both temporal and positional information for the HXR source.
Imaging analyses are typically performed using data binned in intervals that are an integral multiple of the modulation period, which corresponds to the spacecraft rotation period of approximately four seconds.
Rather than separating spectral and positional data, we use the spectrograms themselves as input data; we can then apply models that are well developed for image recognition with little modification.

We defined an input data format as a 100~pixel $\times$ 100~pixel histogram covering one rotation period for the time axis ($\approx$0.04\,second bin size) and 2\,--\,52\,keV for the energy axis (0.5\,keV bin size).
We set the time interval such that it covers one full rotation of the RHESSI grids, and the time resolution such that each bin contributes significantly to the modulation.  (See discussion of imaging timescales by \citet{lin2002}.)
For the energy, we set the range to cover both thermal and non-thermal components, and the resolution to be slightly less than the instrumental spectral resolution.
We also attempted several other resolutions for temporal and energy bins, and we found no significant performance improvement with resolutions finer than 100~pixels $\times$ 100~pixels.

There are 116 occulted-flare events published by \citet{krucker2008survey} and \citet{effenberger2017} that occurred between 2002 and 2015, and we used all of these published events for the data set of occulted flares.
Since 116 data are not enough to train a CNN model in most cases, we made ten spectrograms for each event using ten consecutive time intervals.
In the context of machine learning, this is related to the concept of data augmentation to obtain enough training data from a limited sized data set.
The time intervals are selected from the time range between five rotation periods before the flare peak time to five periods after it, and there is no time overlap between the intervals.
The peak time values are from the RHESSI flare list (\url{https://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/rhessi3/data-access/rhessi-data/flare-list/index.html}).
We therefore obtained 1160 spectrograms of flares that are known to be occulted.

For the data set of flares not occulted by the solar limb, we randomly selected 1000 events from the RHESSI flare list that had a radial distance from the solar disk center of $<300''$.  This ensures that this set of flares occurred on the disk.
In addition, we selected only flares with a peak count rate of $>100$~counts\,s$^{-1}$ to ensure sufficient statistics for each spectrogram.
We did not set a criterion on the time of the flare observation.
One spectrogram for each event with a time interval starting from the peak time was produced, and 1000 spectrograms in total were used for the on-disk data set.

We added labels of either of two classes - ``occulted'' or ``on-disk'' - to all of the spectrograms.
Examples of the spectrograms for the occulted and on-disk flares are shown in Figure~\ref{fig:spectrogram}.
It is difficult to tell by visual inspection which features in the spectrograms correspond to the labels.
The problem to be solved in this article is formulated to classify this kind of difficult-to-understand images, and we expect that the machine-learning model can distinguish them even though the human eye cannot.
 \begin{figure}
 \centerline{\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth,clip=]{spectrogram_samples.eps}}
 \caption{Sample spectrograms for the input data shown with a log scale, including an example of (left) an occulted flare and (right) an on-disk flare. }\label{fig:spectrogram}
 \end{figure}

We split each of the occulted and on-disk data set into 80 and 20\,\% at random for training and testing the machine-learning model.
24 occulted flares are picked and 240 spectrograms of those flares were used for the test data set.
The other 920 spectrograms were used for the model training.
We note that we did not use spectrograms from any of the same flares for both the training and test data sets.
Spectrograms from the same flare are thought to have similar features, so there is a risk to overestimate the performance if we include them for both the training and test data sets.
800 and 200 randomly sampled on-disk flare spectrograms were used for the training and test sets.

\subsection{Model}
We constructed the DL model with CNNs based on the residual net \citep[ResNet:][]{he2015} model originally developed to classify a large set of images (ImageNet).
A feature of the ResNet is a concept to train only residuals of each layer of neural networks against the input data for better training of neural networks deeper than before.
Accuracy of ImageNet data classification with a machine-learning model outperformed that of a human for the first time by \citet{he2015b} with a new training parameter initializing method (known as He initialization), and the same group
improved the accuracy further with the ResNet models in the same year.

We added a few layers to a 50 layer ResNet model (ResNet-50) to make a two-class classifier.
A flatten layer was added to convert the ResNet-50 output to a one-dimensional array.
Two fully connected layers with 256 and 2 outputs were added to reduce the output size gradually, and a dropout layer \citep{srivastava2014} was added between the fully connected layers to avoid overfitting.
The model configuration is summarized in Figure~\ref{fig:modeldiagram}.  This model has 31,923,970 trainable parameters.
We trained the model with cross entropy loss function and Adam optimizer \citep{kingma2014} with a learning rate of $3 \times 10^5$.
Mini-batch training was performed with a batch size of 64.
 \begin{figure}
 \centerline{\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth,clip=]{modeldiagram.eps}}
 \caption{The DL model presented in this article based on the ResNet-50 model \citep{he2015}.}\label{fig:modeldiagram}
 \end{figure}

We implemented the model using the machine-learning framework TensorFlow version 1.14.0 \citep{abadi2015}
in combination with the neural network wrapper library Keras version 2.2.4 \citep{chollet2015}.
The model construction, training, and test are performed using Anaconda3 5.3.0 with Python version 3.6.8.
The ResNet-50 model with the trained parameter set by ImageNet is available with the Keras library, and we utilized it as the starting point for building our model.

\section{Result}
We trained the CNN model for the flare event classification using the training data described in the previous section.
Initial parameters for the ResNet-50 part of the model were the parameters obtained by training ImageNet.
The parameters are for color images with red, green, and blue channels, and we put identical two-dimensional spectrogram data for all three color channels of the model input.
This concept corresponds to transfer learning or fine tuning of an existing trained machine-learning model.
Although it is usually used for new data sets with similarities with the original data used for the model training,
we found the model training with the HXR spectrograms got better results initializing with the ImageNet parameters than when not.
The ImageNet parameters are only initial values; we did not fix any parameters from them.
Even so, the performance was better than using random initialization.
The trained model is available as electronic supplementary material and in the Data Repository for University of Minnesota: \url{{https://doi.org/10.13020/wtbm-2258}}

We then tested the model with the test data set described in the previous section.  The model classified correctly for $\gtrsim$90\,\% of the cases.
We made several trials with different splits for training and test data sets with the same optimizer, loss function, and hyper-parameters, and the results ranged within a few percent.
We show detailed results for one of these trials here.
In this trial, 226 out of the 240 occulted flare test data were successfully categorized as occulted.
For the on-disk events, 179 out of the 200 data were successfully categorized.
Focusing on the occulted-event detection, the true positive (TP) and true negative (TN) cases are the 226 and 179 events.
The accuracy is defined by
\begin{eqnarray}
 \mbox{Accuracy}=\frac{\mbox{TP}+\mbox{TN}}{\mbox{[Total Cases]}},
\end{eqnarray}
and it is calculated to be 92\,\%.
Although the accuracy varied depending on training and test data set selections in the several trials,
it was $>$90\,\% for most cases and reached a maximum of 94\,\%.

The precision and recall, which are defined as
\begin{eqnarray}
 \mbox{Precision}=\frac{\mbox{TP}}{\mbox{TP}+\mbox{FP}}, \\
 \mbox{Recall}=\frac{\mbox{TP}}{\mbox{TP}+\mbox{FN}},
\end{eqnarray}
where FP and FN are false positive and false negative cases, were 91\,\% and 94\,\% for the occulted events in the trial shown in the previous paragraph.
The precision corresponds to the ratio of the actually occulted events out of the events classified as occulted,
 and the recall corresponds to the coverage of the occulted event detections out of the total occulted events.
The result of those measures are similarly high, and it means we do not have many FN cases and we do not miss many occulted flares.
The $F_1$ score, which is the harmonic mean of the precision and recall described as
\begin{eqnarray}
 [F_1\mbox{-score]}=\frac{2 \mbox{[Precision][Recall]}}{ \mbox{[Precision]}+\mbox{[Recall]}}=\frac{2\mbox{TP}}{2\mbox{TP}+\mbox{FP}+\mbox{FN}},
\end{eqnarray}
was calculated to be 92\,\% for the occulted flares.
Therefore, it is confirmed that the model has an ability to detect occulted flares from systematically generated HXR spectrograms.
The statistical measures are summarized in Table~\ref{table:measures} for the occulted and on-disk events.
\begin{table}
\caption{Summary of the statistical measures for one model test.  The total accuracy was 92\,\%. }
\label{table:measures}
\begin{tabular}{cccc}
  \hline
Label & Precision [\%] & Recall [\%] & $F_1$ score [\%] \\
  \hline
Occulted & 91 & 94 & 92\\
On-disk & 93 & 89 & 91\\
  \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

Since the objective of this work is to demonstrate the concept of automatic detection of occulted flares without specialized expertise,
we purposefully did not fine-tune the model.
The classification accuracy could be much higher if hyper-parameter tuning and/or model architecture modification were made.
We found that the ResNet-50 model achieved better performance than other models based on built-in models in the Keras library.
We did adjust some hyper-parameters such as learning rate and batch size to achieve better results with this model.

Not much computer resources were necessary to train this model.
We performed the model training not with a GPU server but with a CPU in a laptop computer (MacBook 2017 model with 1.4\,GHz dual core Intel Core i7 and 16\,GB memory).
It took less $\approx$300\,seconds per epoch, and we trained the model for 10 epochs since initial tests did not show any improvement after 10 epochs.
Applying the classification using the already-trained model is even easier;
one can apply this model to a set of spectrograms in much less than an hour with a laptop CPU.
With our MacBook, it took less than a minute to classify the 648 events described in the following section.

\section{Discussion}
The accuracy of $\approx 90$\,\% or better for the occulted versus on-disk flare classification shows
that this technique could be useful for event screening in the archive data, or for future observations.
The accuracy from this initial demonstration is not high enough to identify \textit{all} of the occulted flares from the whole RHESSI flare list, but it would identify the vast majority ($\approx 90$\,\%) of them, providing plenty of events for statistical studies.
We can utilize the model in combination with other information such as radial distance from the Sun center, flare size, and energy range detected.
If the radial distance is small, the probability of misdetection is high even if it is classified as occulted by the model.  But these flares are easy to exclude from the analysis and would not affect studies for occulted flares.
If the energy range detected for a flare only included thermal emission (such as up to $\approx$12~keV or less) and not higher-energy, nonthermal emission, or the flare was faint,
the probability of a misdetection is higher.  But these flares are not often the ones desired to study for particle acceleration.
Therefore, one usage for this model is to select the set of events to analyze in detail.
We would obtain a reasonable number of events by using additional criteria along with the classification result, such as basic information from the flare list, and we can take more time for scientific analyses for more suspect events.
We note that the model presented in this article was trained with the on-disk events with $<300''$ from the disk center, and there is a possibility that the performance to classify events close to the limb improves if we train the model using the on-disk events closer to the limb.
In addition to that, it is also possible to use the model to perform an onboard event alert for occulted flares for future observations (e.g. \textit{Solar Orbiter}, in which other instruments could respond to a flare trigger by the hard X-ray instrument).

We have tested the model for events from the RHESSI flare catalog with criteria of a peak count rate to be $>$100~counts\,s$^{-1}$,
a radial distance to be $>$950$''$ and detection energy range to be up to 25\,keV or more.
648 events meet these criteria, and 536 events are  classified as occulted events by our model.
The 648 events include 78 occulted events from the lists published by \citet{krucker2008survey} and \citet{effenberger2017}, and 76 of those events were successfully classified as occulted events.
In addition to these are the other 460 events classified as occulted but not on the previously published lists.
These include the rather famous X-class flare that occurred on September 10 2017, and we can confirm that the HXR footpoint sources were actually occulted over the solar limb from previously published results \citep{gary2018, ovchinnikova2019}.
As a result, we successfully demonstrated the ability to find an occulted event not in our training or test data sets.

In general, for standard DL models, it is difficult to interpret which features of the input data are important for the result.
The is true for the model presented in this article, and we cannot tell which feature in the HXR spectrograms is important for identifying the occulted flares.  We can guess at possibilities for the differences in HXR spectrograms of occulted and on-disk flares. In general, intensities of coronal HXR sources are weaker than those of footpoint HXR sources, and source areas are generally larger for coronal sources.
In HXR observations with both coronal and footpoint source detections, coronal sources tend to have steeper spectral indices \citep{masuda1995, ishikawa2011looptop, krucker2014}.
This might make a difference in spectra for the occulted flares, which show only a coronal source in the HXR range, in contrast to the on-disk flares with strong footpoint sources. Future work will examine spatial and spectral characteristics of the false positives in order to determine whether such trends are important for the DL model identification..
As described in the previous section, we did not consume too much time in optimizing the model to achieve the highest possible accuracy.
This means that there remains potential for future work to construct an optimized model that can detect the occulted flares with even better accuracy.
Even in that case, we note that this model should be used primarily for event screening, not for directly deriving scientific results.

In this article, we focused only on a two-class classification of the HXR sources, i.e. whether they are occulted or on-disk.
For future work, classification in more than two classes would be possible based on the successful result of this model.
Also, a model to classify, detect, or predict features of solar phenomena would be possible using a combination of observations in HXR and other wavelengths.

\section{Summary}
We constructed a DL model to classify HXR observations of solar flares as occulted or on-disk, and have demonstrated a successful concept to detect occulted HXR flares automatically without too much time or presence of an imaging analysis expert.
An accuracy of $\approx 90$\,\% was achieved for the test data set, and successfully demonstrated the ability to find occulted flares by detecting another flare not on the existing list of occulted flares.
We can directly apply this model for event screening, and there exists a wide range of application for the DL technique in this scientific area.

\begin{acks}
 We would like to thank Tomoe Hoshi for introducing an example of non-understandable image analysis.
\end{acks}

{\footnotesize\paragraph*{Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest}
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
}

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Ronald Ride likely to see big numbers again in year 5
Kevin Cederstrom herald@eot.com Since its first year in 2002 the Ronald McDonald House Benefit Ride in New York Mills has increased dramatically the following year. And since the ride drew 750 bikes in 2005, for this years motorcycle ride June 10...
Kevin Cederstrom
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Since its first year in 2002 the Ronald McDonald House Benefit Ride in New York Mills has increased dramatically the following year. And since the ride drew 750 bikes in 2005, for this years motorcycle ride June 10 to see 1,000 is not that far-fetched.
The ride has grown from 150 bikes in 2002 ($3,300 raised) to 250 bikes in 2003 ($13,000) to 450 bikes in 2004 ($26,000) to 750 bikes last year ($63,100).
Considering it rained during the ride last year and still drew 750 bikes, organizers are confident the 5th annual ride will draw at least that many, and to reach 1,000 would be quite an accomplishment.
Billed as Central Minnesotas Premier Motorcyle Benefit Ride, the RMH takes off from the NY Mills V.F.W. Post 3289 at noon sharp on June 10, rain or shine. The bikers will leave the V.F.W. and come through Mills on Centennial Drive before heading out on the scenic 110-mile route through East Otter Tail County with stops in Wolf Lake and Ottertail before ending up back at the Mills V.F.W. for a hog roast, door prizes and live auction. The band Icebreaker will play Saturday night on the outdoor stage.
The winner of the 2006 Harley Davidson Fatboy, (2) $500 cash prizes and (10) $100 cash prizes will be announced at 8 p.m.
During the ride folks in Wolf Lake will treat the bikers to a turkey sandwich feed and at The Local in Ottertail there will be a dunking booth and pie throwing booth set up for the bikers entertainment.
All motorcycles are welcome to participate in this fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald House in Fargo. Cost is $10 per person, which includes the hog roast, eligible for door prizes, and live auction. All proceeds raised at the event go to the RMH in Fargo.
Admission to the V.F.W. following the ride is $5. For more information go to www.rmhride.com
The night before the ride the popular 1990s band, Firehouse is playing outside at the V.F.W. on June 9. The opening band is Sassy Jones. Admission is $10 for everyone at the gate and the show starts at 8 p.m. The admission fee includes camping at the newly-acquired 70 acres for camping and public parking. Hot showers will be available for campers.
Bike Safety Rodeo
This event begins at 9 a.m. on June 10 in the Farmers & Merchants State Bank parking lot. Ronald McDonald, Hamburglar and Grimmace will be on hand to entertain the kids. Also making an appearance will be Minnesota Timberwolves mascot, Crunch. Kids participating in the bike safety rodeo will be eligible to win one of 22 new bikes given away.
The cultural center will also be on hand to help kids decorate their helmets and bikes.
The Senior Citizens Center will hold a pancake breakfast June 10 starting at 7:30 a.m.


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Q: Changing Look and And Feel in JAVA not working when opening jar file So i am trying to change the look and feel of my java gui from nimbus to windows. Its works when i launch the program on netbeans but does not work when i build it and launch the jar file.
I am using windows 10
my code:
public static void main(String args[]) {
        /* Set the Nimbus look and feel */
        //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Look and feel setting code (optional) ">
        /* If Nimbus (introduced in Java SE 6) is not available, stay with the default look and feel.
         * For details see http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/plaf.html
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        try {

                    UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel");

        } catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
            java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(MainFrm.class.getName()).log(java.util.logging.Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        } catch (InstantiationException ex) {
            java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(MainFrm.class.getName()).log(java.util.logging.Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        } catch (IllegalAccessException ex) {
            java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(MainFrm.class.getName()).log(java.util.logging.Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        } catch (javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
            java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(MainFrm.class.getName()).log(java.util.logging.Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
       MainFrm f = new MainFrm();
        //</editor-fold>

        /* Create and display the form */
        java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                f.setVisible(true);

            }
        });
    }

Thank you!
EDIT:  my main project, where I had three forms. Where I changed only two to windows feel, I made all three to windows feel and it worked!. I guess this was the problem.

A: My Project had three JFrames, Where I changed only two JFrame to windows look and feel, after changing all three JFrames to windows look and feel, the problem was fixed.

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I unknowingly hung out with a murderer before he was arrested.(self)
896 points897 points898 points submitted 5 months ago * by AshleySchaefferWoo
If you're into true crime shows or channels, you may have heard this story before, or at least the main details. I've seen it covered in several myself. Here's some context:
This event happened 11 years ago. I had just turned 18 and moved to Orange County, California. I moved into an apartment complex near the community college I was attending, so a bunch of younger people around my age lived there. I didn't know a single person in California, so I would take any opportunity to socialize and meet new people. A big gathering place at the complex was at the main pool where people would drink and relax in the sun. Over the first few months, I would meet a bunch of people while hanging out at the pool. I never got super close to any of them, but I would see these same people several days a week. We would often go back to each other's apartments after the pool to drink or smoke some more. It was a really mellow and fun environment.
Three people I would see all the time were Sara, Mike, and Jon. One day after hanging out at the pool, Sara, my GF, and I went back to my apartment. The three of us smoked and Sara went back home. Regular day.
The next day, we were at the pool and there were a few of the usual people missing, but still a solid 10 people, so we didn't really notice. We go home later that night and my GF gets a call from one of our friends.
My GF playfully answers her phone and the expression on her face starts to change. She's just listening and her eyes get super wide. She says, "What the fuuuuuuuck?!?!?!" Are you fucking serious?" and hangs up the phone. I'm super confused, so I ask her, "What? What happened??"
She says, "Dude, the police just found Sara dead in Mike's apartment and Mike is NOWHERE to be found..."
WHAT. THE. FUCK. It was insane. I asked her if he said anything else, but she told me he was really hard to understand. We went to bed and met up with the usual crowd at the pool the next day, which included Jon and his fiance.
We're all talking about how unbelievable this is. Sara was the epitome of sweet and Mike was easily one of the kindest people I'd ever met. He was one of the first people I met when I moved and he gave my underaged ass some beer and told me stories. These were both good people. It didn't make any sense.
We all kind of started speculating and just tried to make sense of it. Nobody can get ahold of Mike. We all start to worry if he's safe. Somebody suggests that Mike probably killed Sara, panicked, and ran. That was a hard pill to swallow for most of us but it was the only thing that kind of made sense. Jon shook his head and said, "Man....just awful." We all dispersed and went home. It would be the last time that I would see most of those people.
Fast forward a month or two. I was hanging out in my apartment one evening when my GF calls me frantically. "Please come to my friend's apartment. You are not going to believe this shit. This is the most fucked up shit I've ever experienced," she said. I rushed over to the apartment where my GF was. She was with two friends we knew from the pool. One of them was crying hysterically while the other sat with him. My GF motioned for me to go outside and the other friend stayed back to keep consoling the other. Once we were out of earshot, she told me why her friend was crying so intensely:
Her friend had just got back from being with the police. He was asked to identify pieces of a dismembered body that were found in the sewer. He was crying because he positively identified the body parts as Mike's. How did the police know they were there? They knew because Jon told them he did it.
Turns out Jon was and still is a broke piece of shit. This bastard was engaged and didn't have enough money for his wedding. Being a god damn smart person, Mike had a bunch of money saved up. Jon found out about it and decided to kill Mike and steal his money.
Jon was an acting student and asked Mike to help him move some heavy things at the theater. When Mike's back was turned, Jon shot him. He then took Mike to another location where he dismembered his body and dumped the remains in the sewer. Jon took Mike's keys and phone and then went back to Mike's apartment. From there, he texted Sara on Mike's phone, asking for her to come over because he wanted to talk. Being the sweet and caring person she was, Sara went over to Mike's apartment to help him feel better. When she got there, Jon snuck up behind her and shot her. He left the apartment and framed Mike for Sara's murder.
Jon was caught because he's a stupid fucking idiot. He paid some kid to withdraw money from Mike's ATM account. Cops found the kid and he told them about Jon. They quickly tracked Jon down, AT HIS FUCKING BACHELOR PARTY, and he was taken in for questioning where he would admit that he murdered Sara and Mike.
He would later be sentenced to death. After sentencing, Mike's dad spoke to Jon across the courtroom and said, "My only regret is that the state of California doesn't allow me to kill you myself". Turns out his fiance tried to help him hide evidence and she was sentenced to time as well.
All in all, pretty dark story. Aside from the violence, what messes me up is that this guy had literally just murdered two of our friends and he was at the pool commiserating with us. Like, genuinely acting upset, sad, and confused. He's a horrible human and I hope he suffers for the rest of his life. My deepest and continued condolences go out to the family of the two innocent people that were killed.
EDIT 1: Mother of all typos in the last sentence. My apologies.
EDIT 2: Accidentally wrote the wrong name. Thanks, halloweenbooty I need to improve my proofreading.
EDIT 3: Fiance, not wife.
classicfilmfan 1 point2 points3 points 5 months ago
It is very troubling, but, to be honest, I'm really not so sure that putting Wozniak to death is really the thing to do. As horrible as this guy's crimes were that he committed, and as despicable and horrible and dangerous a human being that he was, I think that when the state puts him to death, it's lowering itself to that same level of brutality.
Dan Wozniak, imho, should've been sentenced to a lifetime jail sentence, in a maximum-security penitentiary, with no parole.
AshleySchaefferWoo[S] 3 points4 points5 points 5 months ago
I couldn't agree more. I know the right thing is to forgive, but I'd really prefer if he suffered for a long time, just like the family members have to.
classicfilmfan 0 points1 point2 points 5 months ago
Hi, Ashley. Thank you for your response to my post. One doesn't even necessarily have to forgive Wozniak for the heinous crimes that he committed, but I do agree that Wozniak should've been made to suffer the same sort of pain and sadness that the family members have to.
I'll also add (and this is something that many people really don't agree with.) that a society that aspires to become civilized does not solve the crime problem by putting those who commit such heinous crimes to death.


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Estabilidade econômica  diz respeito a característica estável da situação financeira e econômica do país, sem alta de preços, com a manutenção do preço da cesta básica, sem oscilações em taxas de juros.

A estabilidade na economia é pré-requisito para o crescimento sustentável (sustentabilidade) de um país, e portanto, para uma sociedade com mais justiça.

A estabilidade nos preços e a diminuição da desigualdade social ajudam na melhoria do poder aquisitivo da população de baixa renda, enfim, na redução da pobreza, através de uma melhor distribuição de renda.

"O Brasil é um dos países com maior concentração de renda em todo o mundo – possui a 97a renda per capita do mundo."; (Gazeta Mercantil, 19.07.2006, pág. A8).

No Brasil, a estabilidade nos preços (o controle da inflação via contenção e/ou queda dos níveis de tais preços) tem sido obtida, em sua maioria, devido a altas taxas de juros, as mais altas do mundo. O lado negativo disto é que juros altos contribuem para a concentração da renda, ou seja, sua má distribuição e sua conseqüente canalização em direção à população rica. Mas vale notar que altos índices de inflação concentram a renda nas mãos dos ricos ainda mais.

A partir de 2003, o salário mínimo no Brasil subiu 32,2% acima da inflação. Em conseqüência,  6 milhões de pessoas, das classes sociais D e E, melhoraram seus níveis de vida, passando para a classe C, uma vez que foram aumentados seus níveis de consumo e suas perspectivas de melhorias futuras.

Nível salarial da população brasileira medido em salários mínimos = a) classe C: a renda mensal das famílias (68%) é de até três salários mínimos (3 x R$ 350,00 reais); b) classes D/E = 86% com renda de até dois salários mínimos; c) classes A/B = 50% com renda superior a cinco salários mínimos.

Custo da cesta básica em relação ao salário mínimo = a) em 1996 = 88%; b) em 2004 = 69%. A partir de 2003,  o valor da cesta básica diminuiu da seguinte forma: ano de 2003 = -6,5%; 2004 = -2,6%; 2005 = aumento de 0,3%; 2006 = espera-se a estabilidade de 2005.

O barateamento da cesta básica e o aumento do salário mínimo contribuem para a desconcentração da renda (aumento do poder de compra) da população de baixa renda no Brasil.

A queda da inflação foi o principal fator, no Brasil, para a redução da desigualdade social.

No Brasil, a desigualdade social é medida pelo Índice de Gini, o qual indica que entre 1996 e 2005, esse índice, de 60.1%, desceu para 57,2%.

Melhores distribuições de renda têm efeitos positivos, como, por exemplo, a diminuição da violência.

Dados sobre a má distribuição de renda no Brasil: graças à política de juros altos, saíram-se bem os ricos e a classe média. Entre 2001 e 2004 = a) A renda financeira dos ricos teve um aumento de 66% em termos reais; b) A renda do trabalhador, nesse mesmo período, aumentou tão-somente 19% acima da inflação.

Ver também
 Paridade do poder de compra
 Consumo
 Economia financeira
 Economia da cultura
 Individualismo metodológico
 Neuroeconomia
 Praxeologia
 Sociologia econômica
 Viés de confirmação

Referências
 Gazeta Mercantil, 19 de julho de 2006, p. A8.

Ligações externas
 The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank, 2008.
 Os determinantes do crescimento econômico mundial: algumas evidências para o período 1994-2012. Por Rafael Montanari Durlo, Sergio Alexandre dos Santos Júnior, Elisangela Luzia Araújo e Eliane Araújo.

Desenvolvimento econômico
Macroeconomia

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Q&A With Contagion's Science Advisor (Plus Spoilers!)
If you are a disease geek, then yes, you will love Contagion, the all-star Oh God Oh God We're All Going To Die movie that opened last night. Paramyxovirus! R-nought! BSL-4! And, bonus, so many insider references to the CDC that the script could double as an epidemiology drinking game. (Go to the end of this post for my fact-check of CDC references. They're spoilery and thus hidden on the next page.)
To me, the fascinating thing about Contagion is how seriously it takes its epidemiology, its virology and even its sober sense of how unprepared most Americans are for a mass-casualty disaster (as captured in this April report from the National Biosurveillance Advisory Committee).
To find out where those came from, I asked its chief science adviser: Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, who is the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology, and Director of the Center for Infection and Immunity, at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, dubbed a "master virus-hunter" by master science-writer Carl Zimmer in the New York Times. Here's our email Q & A.
Maryn: Given past "science" movies — Outbreak, for instance — I was surprised that the science in this movie is so solid. Was this your doing, and how did you manage it?
Lipkin: Scott Z. Burns and Steven Soderbergh insisted that Contagion be firmly grounded in fact. You won't see footnotes; nonetheless, choices were carefully researched and vetted. Actors met with people whose work they represented in laboratories and the field. Where feasible we used bona fide equipment in lab scenes. My colleagues and I were on set for critical scenes to address questions from Soderbergh, actors and other artists, or to help with dialogue or makeup on the fly. We want viewers to understand and appreciate what is needed to protect them and their loved ones. Contagion is a work of fiction but it's based on fact not fantasy.
M: You and your Columbia colleagues designed the viral villain and its syndrome. Why did you choose what you did?
L: [The fictional] MEV-1 is a paramyxovirus that infects the lungs and the brain. It was modeled on Nipah virus because we wanted something more interesting cinematically than an agent that causes only respiratory distress. We do a lot of work on Nipah surveillance in Bangladesh and have produced immunological therapeutics that we hope will be effective in preventing or ameliorating the effects of Nipah encephalitis. I can't exclude the possibility that influenced my thinking; nonetheless, the choice was perfect in that it gave us a link to bats and pigs as well as an interesting clinical presentation. We considered casting other viruses but this was the best.
M: While MEV-1 is the actual bad actor, the movie has a second villain: the corrupt blogger specifically, and more generally both the Internet and the traditional media. Can you expand on how important it is to address the spread of fear and rumor along with viral spread?
L: People like [Jude Law's character] Alan Krumwiede can be dangerous as well as exploitative. They prey on our fears, consume precious resources and may discourage us from pursuing real solutions. On more than one occasion I've heard Steven Soderbergh lament the fact that there is no vaccine against stupidity. Perhaps Contagion is that vaccine. If it is, I expect the studio will remind us of the importance of booster shots at regular intervals.
M: There's an interesting contrast in the film between what civilian characters say about the epidemic — several times, we hear "You public health people were wrong about H1N1" — and how severe MEV-1 eventually becomes: large-scale quarantine, breakdown of food delivery, mass graves. Did you mean to send a message, that this is what preparedness really looks like?
L: Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. One of the sad facts of public health is that if we do our jobs well no one sees us. How many of us are prepared for an earthquake, fire, or other disaster with water, batteries or even an emergency contact plan for loved ones?
M: Warner Bros. has sold this pretty simply as a horror-thriller. What are the issues you want people to take away from this movie and think about afterward?
L: The Royal Astronomer, Martin Rees, predicts that a serious biological threat will emerge to claim at least one million lives by 2020. Only time will tell whether he's right or wrong. Nonetheless, I'm appreciative that he has focused the thinking of many influential people on the need for preparedness. Support for science and public health is eroding just when we need it most.
And now: Spoilers! Click through to the next page for a quick run-down on what's real and what's fictional in Contagion's science-studded script.
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