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Question Thread :: Milton Mailbag
By Admin, June 26, 2018 in Milton Mailbag
RaukGorth 10
Hey Ralph,
I can totally see how my previous post (about player fat) could be seen as a Wishlist Item, so let me shine a different light on the topic.
In a previous Dispatch (#2) there was a question about being well fed over long periods of time resulting in a buff to strength and hitpoints.
While the design of the buff is the best I have seen in games in many years (see this post) :
1. Mechanically perfectly clear, it did not change (nerf) the previous game mechanics
2. Gives a small advantage, not a game changer. The 5kg does not impact the game that much
3. It is still challenging to maintain being fed constantly for 72h,
However for Interloper players this buff changed the game. Previously the "cookie cutter strat" was starving to death during the day and eating before sleep to regenerate health. Now the strategy it is just hunting and eating 3 kgs of meat per day, while enjoying +5 kg carrying capacity and hitpoints buff, with no drawbacks.
Introduction of fat to the game would change that. There would not be a very easy choice of "just eat everytime you can", as the fat would reduce the carrying capacity, or even add more red area to spriting/climbing meter. To make this even more interesting, humans usually do not heal a lot while pumped with insulin (hormone which is produced when you eat). So eating before sleep would prevent healing.
So do you think that the Well Fed buff achieved its goals for Interloper players, or is there still some area for improvement?
Someone 2
So I noticed that for the survival bow, the arrows are called simple arrows. Does this imply you plan to add another type of arrow in the future, or does the name have no meaning? Also, about my last post with the flashlight, I think if it could be used in a struggle it would be more useful, or if the battery you got from an aurora was still there after the aurora, so even though you can't recharge it until the next aurora it would still be more usable.
GothSkunk 26
This may ruffle a few feathers, but I'm curious nevertheless.
We currently have the ability to kill rabbits with our bare hands. In the context of The Long Dark it's understandable that such an option is available to us. The decision is not an easy one for new players to make, because a) its gruesome despite its necessity, and b) rabbits are just so darn cute!
Is it by design, or due to a lack of resources that we are not compelled to kill other animals in a similar fashion? Particularly when it comes to hunting with the bow or rifle and relying on our quarry to bleed out rather than scoring a clean killshot.
Tracking a wounded deer/wolf/bear slowly bleeding out, finally come across it keeled over, too weak to move but still alive, struggling to breathe. To me it seems like a missed opportunity to compound on the dilemma presented by the option of breaking a rabbits neck, wherein before we can harvest a hunted animal, we'd have to first end its suffering. Either by hunting/improvised knife, by revolver/rifle, or by hand if the aforementioned tools are not at our disposal. Which could present additional challenges particularly with bears and wolves, as even in their weakened state, they might still put up a fight if you try to finish them off.
If it's by design, that's fine. If not, I could always forward this to the suggestion box as well. I just thought I'd ask first if the lack of such a feature is by design first.
Skelegutplays 35
Why are the challenges rated 1 to 5 hatchets in difficulty but there are no challenges with a difficulty of 1 or 2 hatchets?
Also why are there no steam achievements for the challenges?
neboblizko 0
On 6/7/2019 at 9:40 PM, FrozenCorpse said:
While you're waiting for a response to your specific questions, you can find several previous responses on these two topics (food / cooking and backpacks) here in the index:
Thanks for advice! I show all topic Mailbag related with c crafting clothing, but not find answer on question about that in survival mode, not have on start knowledge about as crafting clothings and medical tea, but finding their manufacturing recipes during survial. Think this will complicate game and will force gamers more explore, and collide with dangers. Same when gamers for example find recipe on crafting bear sleeping bag. hi say WOW! Now i may make sleeping bag, COOL! Atmospheric!
8 minutes ago, neboblizko said:
The reason I chimed in at all was because your post was something more appropriate for the Wishlist forum than for the Mailbag and I kinda figured you wouldn't be getting a response that differed much from "Please check the index" or "Please post these suggestions to the Wishlist to have them considered for possible inclusion in the game.". The "finding recipes first" idea seems to me to have great potential. It could increase the difficulty of the game considerably under certain circumstances and I know there are some hardcore survivalists out there who would welcome it. Again, however, it's better to post it in Wishlist if you want it to be considered.
The backpack portion of your post is something that has been addressed in some detail previously - even in the mailbox - and you can find the threads containing those questions in the index next to the item heading "backpacks". As I mentioned, you'll have to scroll until you find the question that relates to backpacks, but that's easy enough. The idea you had for an Elk backpack recipe is also good and would be something to include in your Wishlist post.
Torqen 2
Whats up with having to use 2 x to heal each sprained limb? Instead of just using 2x to heal all? And why is it that only my arms get sprained while walking in elevated terrain? Would it not be more sensible if the sprain would occur in the legs/ankles?
PlayerPawn 38
Over the last few years, a spotlight is ever growing on the practices by big triple A companies around, among other things, crunch time. As a studio that is more independent, what are your views on crunch and mandatory overtime to meet a deadline?
I've been reading William Gibson's Neuromancer recently, and couldn't help wondering if there was any connection between the title of your game's storymode- 'WINTERMUTE' - and his character with the same name. On the surface, it's hard to correlate the wilderness setting of The Long Dark with the neon lights of Chiba City or the themes that define the wider cyberpunk genre, but the more I thought about the two settings, the more I realised that the two share more in common than I initially thought.
For instance, both worlds explore our relationship with technology, albeit in different ways. For me, The Long Dark is a tale of how our over-reliance on modern devices and infrastructure, even at the most basic level, cripples us in the wake of catastrophe. Gibson's novel seems to explore themes of identity, humanity and the extent to which technology can both bring people together and tear them apart.
I was surprised and amused to learn that Gibson is an American-Canadian, and washed up in Toronto in an effort to avoid the drafting in the 1960's. As I recall, 'Draft Dodger's Cabin' is a location in Pleasant Valley, so I was wondering if there was possibly a link there?
Regardless, I had a lot of fun reading up about his life, and drawing connections with one of my favourite games. I'm looking forward to the next installment of the story.
ajb1978 607
Seeing as how it's irrelevant now that Redux is released...what were the contents of Jeremiah's Letters, back when that was still a side quest?
Will joked that it was old romantic correspondence letters, but seriously...what was it? Surely it can't have been anything deeply confidential, or Jeremiah wouldn't have trusted them with some rando that gave him a handful of deer hides he'd ripped off ravaged carcasses. The curiosity is killing me.
MikeV 0
Hi RAF! I realized survival for survival-it's cool) But maybe You will add to the game another test in the form of limited survival? Say includes something from other tests, for example, to reach a certain point, to take out rescuers or there is electronics and the hero leaves himself? Or, hold out many days, before the arrival of rescuers, which Mackenzie called on the radio? That would be cool.) One more question. Surely everyone is interested in at least the approximate time of the release of the next episode, could you lift the veil of secrecy?:)
Edited June 11 by MikeV
Snowtippedwolf 2
Hey, guess it's my first time asking here. Hope all is well with the team.
I guess I'll start with the schmoozing first. Thanks for all the hard work creating, in my opinion, the greatest survival game out there right now. I'm stoked you guys keep working on refining the game. I look forward to each and every update.
Now on to my question. As with everything in Survival mode, it's about a mixture of game balance and realism, and your goal of surviving for survival's sake. One thing that currently strikes me as 'missing' from this mode is, in mine and many other's opinions is the lack of a 'late game.' (Sorry if this has been addressed before, I searched and did not find anything addressing my specific concern.)
For a brief example, we have the early game where you have nothing and are struggling to make it by day by day, and you have the mid-game where you've collected all the tools and clothing necessary and are fully self-sustainable, or have the means to craft or hunt or fish or gather whatever it may be that you need to continue surviving. But there's no late game. Yes, the temperature decays globally to a certain point, and decay rates are a continual march to death, but the path to that end is in the thousands of days. For as long as I've been playing and as long as I've been interacting with the community on Steam and elsewhere, I've yet to see a meaningful challenge later on in the game. The challenge early on is collecting gear just to make it a few more hours. The challenge in the mid game is getting used to managing your time and resources carefully to survive off of what is available in the world now that the processed goods are running out. But there's no further challenge from that, nothing else that changes or tips the balance in any way that would create an immersive or meaningful challenge to continue to engage players in risk/reward and survival aspects.
Obviously, we all have our own ideas of what would begin to create a meaningful, balanced, and immersive late game challenge or set of changes to the world to create more variability and risk, but I wanted to hear from you on your thoughts on the subject. Do you currently feel across all stock survival modes that the later portions of a run (100-200 days and beyond) are well balanced and MEANINGFULLY challenging? This may be anecdotal, but I know a lot of people who finish or end a run after getting self-sustainable because that's the 'engaging' or 'immersive' part of the run, and there's no more fun to be had after that as it's too easy (regardless of experience mode.) Do you have any thoughts on changing up how the world handles having the player in it, things that could be adjusted and tuned to start to turn those longer runs more dangerous, more progressively difficult, to a point it's still possible to survive but not skating on thick ice with ease? Do you currently feel that there is no point to a later game challenge or think that it is challenging enough from self-sustainability forward?
If you do think that more work needs to be done there, (it may be too early to ask,) do you or the team have any ideas and mechanic introductions or re-tuning in mind to pursue towards achieving a more equally balanced gameplay that's engaging and immersive and 'surviving for the sake of surviving' at all points in a run?
Thanks for all consideration, and sorry for the wall of text. Cheers Raph!
-Lonelywolf
ShatteredCiv 2
Are you guys going to fix the lunar cycles? For a game that touts itself on being mostly realistic, at least environmentally, it's always driven me mad to see the waxing half moon rising at sunset! The moon doesn't work like that. That particular phase of the moon rises at noon and sets at midnight. Each phase rises and sets at very specific times. Full moon? Rises at 6pm and sets at 6am. A waning half moon? Rises at 12am and sets 12pm; waxing, see above (12pm to 12am). It's the reason you can see the moon in the daylit sky, like, all the time (if you know where to look)! Just wondering...
Is it intentional to be so that you can take your arrow back from a live animal? I managed to do that on a fleeing wolf today!
4DON: Can we expect one this year?
CalNieDaGtarGuy 193
Regarding the Hinterland Store... Are you guys planning on bringing back the Wetterling's hatchet? Or what about the Region posters? I always wanted one of those...
ibloud 0
Have you thought about approaching #Netflix for an interactive episode based off of some of the best player tales?
Would you consider building this on #SpatialOS so it can become multiplayer?
SpanishMoss 1
First question, Would you consider sending the game to YouTubers (like gtlive) so you can increase revenue and get the word out?
Second, why don't you need a container to collect water(via melting snow/toilets)? Should you plan to add a feature like this?
Third, I think you should add a walking stick. It can be crafted from 2 cured maple saplings and a cured gut. Its passive ability is to decrease the risk of sprains. But it could be upgraded to have a spike on the end for defense against wolfs OR it could have a torch on the top that can be lit with a match ect. to create light. An improvised version can be crafted from 6 sticks an 6 cloth using a sewing kit or fishing tackle. Of course it would weigh more and have less durability.
You guys are doing a great job!
-SpanishMoss
Themadlad94 1
A few mailbags back, you said we would be getting a new region after the update after steadfast ranger. I don't like to be the one to ask, but can you give us any hints on the new region?
Annette 2
Do you plan to add more feats to survival mode ?
Edited June 16 by Admin
Deleted extra spacing.
frickoffanddie 4
Some of the themes of this game are the reawakening of humanity's primal nature, the realization of how dependent we have become on fallible, modern technology such as cell phones and cars, and how we'll adapt to their absence or failure (the transition from manmade to natural).
My question is: Will we ever see these themes reflected in the personalities of our survival mode character?
It's unfitting to see my 800 day character dressed in bear furs looking like death warmed over, yet still complaining nonchalantly about his mouth being dry or wondering if he can eat trees. Even after surviving hundreds of blizzards, living in a cave, covering himself in rotting animal skins and culling legions of hostile wildlife, he's still the same old gleefully cautious everyman that he was on the first day.
Maybe he's afraid of turning into Jeremiah. In that case, keep being you, Mackenzie.
Edited June 15 by frickoffanddie
TheUnknown 9
2 questions for ya 1 ties into the other.
1. Was there anything you added/made that you wanted in the game but after added it into the testing phase you realized it doesnt fit right or just doesnt seem right for what you are aiming for?
2. The things that dont fit right or seem right for what you are aiming for has their been any thought after removing them like making them into a mini project or possiblely become games themselves in the future?
Jendo 3
Have you ever thought about adding, er... "toilet" mechanics?
Pan Pastwa 2
What is your vision of Hinterland in 5 years from now?
Azdrawee 36
Clothing items (and maybe some other items as well, I'm not sure) change their appearance based on their condition. Have you ever considered adding this feature to more items? I think that it would be nice to see the condition of food items for example, because as it currently is, you have to wait a few seconds before seeing if the food item is safe to eat.


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Home The World and the Basques Basques in the world On April 9, 2022, Pope Francis has named Mons. Elorza "Venerable"
On April 9, 2022, Pope Francis has named Mons. Elorza "Venerable"
Just as we announced a month ago finally came true today: Pope Francis has named Martín Fulgencio Elorza Legaristi, also known as Monsignor Elorza, the Basque Passionist missionary in the Peruvian Amazon and Bishop of Moyobamba, as "Venerable of the Church", which is a fundamental step on the way to his canonization.
Regardless of whether or not you're a Catholic, to recognize this Basque missionary is to recognize all the work the Basque Passionists have done in the Peruvian Amazon. Moreover, it is also to recognize the work that so many Basques have carried out during missionary work all over the world. As we've commented before, they are a fundamental part of the Basque diaspora. All members of the diaspora have many things in common, but these members stand out in one very important way: while most left the Basque Country in search of a better life, Basque missionaries left their homeland in order to build a better life for others.
Today. thanks to the hard work of Father Artola C.P.. is a good day for the Passionists, for Basque Passionists, and for the Basques who know the amazing work these compatriots have carried out around the world.
This is the press release the Catholic Church issued from Rome, which is also presented on the website of the Passionist Congregation.
Roma – 9/4/2022 – Italy
Decree on the heroic virtues of Martín Fulgencio Legaristi.
BEATIFICATION and CANONIZATION OF THE SERVANT OF GOD
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Running will come back in Milan
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Salomon Running Milano is confirmed and it will take place, as usual, on Sunday 27 September 2020. Milan is there, with all its desire to start again and run fast again, with all its vitality and energy, with the greenest running sport event in town, after all the pain due ti the global pandemic which hit very hard the Italian city.
Salomon Running Milan, in full compliance with the health regulations in force, will be the first real running competition in the Lombardy post-coronavirus capital, the first real return to the normalcy that we took for granted and instead this year we understood that it is of fundamental importance for our existence.
It will be an opportunity to return to live the challenge, share emotions, confront opponents and find many friends. Finally thousands of runners will be able to return to train with a real and concrete goal, dreaming of a medal and a goal.
In the coming weeks, registrations will open and registration methods will be given to win the bibs, the number of possible participants will be large but limited, for any further information the website and social networks will be constantly updated.
Last year there were over 4,000 members, 1,500 women, 17 Italian regions present, runners have always loved this event thanks to a different race track than many other competitions.
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Maybe this year the participation numbers will be slightly reduced, but what matters is that the Milan that runs starts, there is a desire for freedom, to conquer spaces again, to breathe fresh air, well-being, positive sensations and Salomon Running Milan in the 9 past editions has always given all this and will still do so on September 27th.
It will be a Special Edition, the special birthday of the 10th anniversary is already decided it will be for September 2021, but in less than three months you can live a day that will remember the origins of Salomon Running Milano which has a very trail-like soul in its DNA .
Milan is a city in constant evolution, now the race will develop mainly between the CityLife Park where there will be the race village and the commercial village, also in compliance with the health directives in force, the Portello Park with its spectacular helical cone and precisely the mountain of San Siro with its paths, the difference in height and the many legends that accompany it.
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Slipknot, Lamb of God, Bullet For My Valentine, Motionless In White; 08-19-2015
Slipknot, Lamb of God, Bullet For My Valentine, Motionless In White
Summer's Last Stand Tour
Morrison, Colorado
Review by Nathan Pickering with Adam Tibbott
The Colorado Rockies were going be the perfect backdrop for Slipknot's Summer's Last Stand Tour as it stopped in Morrison, Colorado at the historic Red Rocks Amphitheater. For the Summer's Last Stand Tour, Slipknot would bring Lamb of God, Bullet for My Valentine, and Motionless In White along for the final tour in support of the band's 5th studio album, .5, The Gray Chapter. Having already made their way across the world in the past year, and headlining the largest U.S. summer festivals since their latest album's release, Slipknot made one last trek across the U.S. this summer before the two day Knotfest this October.
Close to ten thousand Maggots filled the historic natural amphitheater for tonight's sold-out show. The evening would be filled with mosh
pits in the aisles, and each band's signature horror style costumes. and set designs.
Motionless In White were first to take the stage. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, MiW embody the horror-metal genre of music. The band's 7 song set was dominated by tracks from the band's latest release, Reincarnate. Vocalist and founder Chris Motionless conducted the crowd like a psychotic ring master and worked ten thousand screaming Maggots into a frenzy. Bass player Devin "Ghost" Sola switched out his Leather-Face costume for that of The Jackal from the movie 13 Ghosts. Sola wore the loosened straitjacket for the band's entire set, but the head cage, whose front bars have been snapped apart, for the band's first song. During the set vocalist and founding member Chris Motionless mentioned that it was one of three venues in the world that they always wanted to play and was a dream come true. I'd agree as a huge music fan it is the mecca of concert venues that any fan should attend at least once. This venue has so much history behind it.
After MiW, next up were the men from across the pond, Bullet For My Valentine. Hitting the stage with Your Betrayal which I believe is an awesome opener. During the set, they mentioned the new album they had coming out and how it reached number 1 in England, and how they wanted to be number one in the US also.
After the quick change over, the group from Virginia, Lamb of God, hit the stage with the crowd chanting their name over and over. By the time they hit the stage the crowd of 9,500 were ready to rock. Richmond, Virginia metal Lamb of God continued to work the crowd into frenzy. Lamb of God's brutal live show pushed the crowd to the edge of insanity and left security guards scrambling to break up fights that had erupted throughout the amphitheater. Several oddly placed mosh-pit even opened up in a few of the aisles.
With no place for a mosh pit amongst the reserved seats, it was interesting to see how the crowd reacted to Lamb of God's brutal live show. It was really kind of nice to be close and not worry about getting knocked around and the crowd didn't seem to mind. Lamb of God's 10 song set saw a mixture of songs from each of their album and not to much focused on one particular release. The band's stage set up consisted of two video monitors which played videos that went along with the song lyrics.
Vocalist Randy Blythe addressed the crowd a few times during the band's set. "I've had three bucket list venues and Red Rocks was one of them," said Blythe told the crowd. "We just came from one of them in Sweden, but this place is it!"
After Lamb of God's set, the big red curtains with the tribal "S" were raised, and everyone knew who was about to hit. Being my 13th time seeing Slipknot it never gets old. As Van Halen's Running With the Devil rang out over the PA, the time was near. XIX was being played which has been the normal for this tour cycle and cut straight into Sarcasthrope as the curtain rose. Slipknot's stage setup is like a twisted carnival. Lights were strung around the ceiling, and the crazy fun house mirror dominated the backdrop beneath the sneering devil's head that gazed viciously upon the crowd.
One thing noticeable during Slipknot's set was that bass player Alex "V-Man" Venturella found his comfort zone moving around the stage more and not staying in one place as he was on the Prepare For Hell tour. Also added to the band's set was Psychosocial, which was absent before.. The track replaced My Plague from the Prepare For Hell Tour There was also more Pyro than before. Fire burst from all corners of the stage during Heretic Anthem, and spread along the ramps during Vermillion, and Killpop. As a fan of the new album I'm glad they added Kill pop to the set which is my favorite track off the new album.
Also during the fan favorite Spit It Out, the lyrics were changed as they have been in past years. "Were ya gonna be in the next 5 years" was changed to 10, and now 16 years. Can you believe it's been almost 20 years since the band formed? Imagine what the next 10 years will bring. Are you ready?
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Q: Return Distinct Objects with Linq (I'm new in VB.Net) I have these three classes:
Public Class Classe_PIVA_Cond

Public Property my_codFiscale As String
Public Property my_presenzaDuplicati As Boolean
Public Property my_listaCondominii As New List(Of Classe_Condominio)

Public Sub New()
End Sub

Public Sub New(codFiscale As String, presenzaDuplicati As Boolean, listaCondominii As List(Of Classe_Condominio))
    Me.my_codFiscale = codFiscale
    Me.my_presenzaDuplicati = presenzaDuplicati
    Me.my_listaCondominii = listaCondominii
End Sub

End Class

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Public Class Classe_Condominio

Public Property my_Studio As New Classe_Studio
Public Property my_Amministratore As New Classe_Amministratore
Public Property my_codCondominio As String
Public Property my_indirizzo As String
Public Property my_comune As String
Public Property my_cap As String
Public Property my_provincia As String
Public Property my_codFiscale As String

Public Sub New()
End Sub

Public Sub New(studio As Classe_Studio, amministratore As Classe_Amministratore, codCondominio As String, indirizzo As String, comune As String, cap As String, provincia As String, codFiscale As String)
    Me.my_Studio = studio
    Me.my_Amministratore = amministratore
    Me.my_codCondominio = codCondominio
    Me.my_indirizzo = indirizzo
    Me.my_comune = comune
    Me.my_cap = cap
    Me.my_provincia = provincia
    Me.my_codFiscale = codFiscale
End Sub

End Class

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Public Class Classe_Studio

Public Property my_codice As String
Public Property my_ragioneSociale As String
Public Property my_pIvaCodFisc As String

Public Sub New()
End Sub

Public Sub New(codice As String, ragioneSociale As String, pIvaCodFisc As String)
    Me.my_codice = codice
    Me.my_ragioneSociale = ragioneSociale
    Me.my_pIvaCodFisc = pIvaCodFisc
End Sub

End Clas

I would try to return a List of distinct Classe_Studio.my_codice in a List(Of Classe_PIVA_Cond).
Any suggestion?

A: Try
    Dim my_codiceDistinctList = Classe_PIVA_CondList
                                        .SelectMany(Function(x) x.my_listaCondominii)
                                        .Select(Function(y) y.my_Studio.my_codice)
                                        .Distinct()
                                        .ToList()

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Stevie Wonder Tells Fans He'll Undergo Kidney Transplant
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Stevie Wonder will undergo a kidney transplant later this year, the legendary singer announced Saturday at a concert in London.
Wonder told fans he had found a donor and would soon be taking time off.
"I'm going to have surgery. I'm going to have a kidney transplant in September of this year," he said in a video posted to Twitter by BBC reporter Aleem Maqbool. "It's all good. I'm all good. I have a donor, it's all good."
"I want you to know, I came here to give you my love and to thank you for your love," Wonder told the massive crowd at British Summer Time Hyde Park. "You ain't gonna get no rumors about nothing. I told you what's up. I'm good."
The Motown icon disclosed the information following media reports over the last several days about the status of his health.
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Rumors that Wonder was having medical issues surfaced last month, after an urban radio host in Philadelphia told listeners the singer is suffering from kidney failure and had started dialysis.
"Prayers going out to singer Stevie Wonder… He's currently on dialysis, hoping that one of his children will give him a kidney," said WDAS personality Patty Jackson in a video posted to YouTube on June 25. "He's been having health problems most of the year."
Jackson did not identify her source.
Then in a story published on July 3, the Detroit Free Press said it spoke to multiple people with ties to Wonder, who said he was having "serious" medical problems.
"He's got some health challenges, but he doesn't want a big PR thing out of this," said musician Joan Belgrave, a longtime friend of the singer.
"He knows what he has to do to get himself together, and he's doing it," Belgrave added. "He's got a team around him — that's what he needs. He's got people around him who love him."
Wonder, 69, is known for such hits as "For Once in My Life," "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours," and "Isn't She Lovely," just to name a few. He has been nominated for 74 Grammy Awards and taken home 25 trophies, according to grammy.com.
The singer is next scheduled to perform in Dublin, Ireland on July 9.
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Q: (.Net) Optimal data structure to find union of words between a sentence and dictionary I am trying to find the most optimal way to compare words in a collection (hashset, list) to a document (like an essay, blog) for finding matching words.
For example - I have the following collection of words
Old
Man
Lazy
Dog

and if the document on which I need to search is
A dog is man's best friend
The output should be
dog, man

It is possible that the document contains more than 1000+ words.
The most easiest approach will be the following where
HasSet {Collection} = {Old, Man, Lazy, Dog}

for each {word} in the {document}
    if the Collection contains {word}
       return {word}
    else
       continue

Is there a more efficient approach to perform the text search? Wouldn't a suffix tree be a overkill for this approach? The challenge I am having is that the input word document could be 1000-5000 words long and the collection is a list of 9000 words


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Q: Python error in calculating deep learning model value loss - "ValueError: Data Cardinality is ambiguous" Despite having previous coding experience in R and Python, I am brand new to Jupyter Notebook, tensorflow, and deep learning model-building, so I am looking for someone to help me diagnose this error. I am following a tutorial demonstrating how to classify imagery with deep learning modules (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ8BIBpya2k&list=PLQVvvaa0QuDfhTox0AjmQ6tvTgMBZBEXN). The model loads the mnist image dataset, and classifies the images between 1-10. Running three epochs, the overall model accuracy comes out to 97%.
#Import module
import tensorflow as tf

#Import image dataset
mnist = tf.keras.datasets.mnist

(x_train, y_train), (x_test, y_test) = mnist.load_data()

#Defining training and test
x_train = tf.keras.utils.normalize(x_train, axis = 1)
x_test = tf.keras.utils.normalize(x_train, axis = 1)

#Define model
model = tf.keras.models.Sequential() #Feed-forward model

#Define imput layer
model.add(tf.keras.layers.Flatten()) #Input layer

#Two hidden layers
model.add(tf.keras.layers.Dense(128, activation=tf.nn.relu)) #Rectify linear, default
model.add(tf.keras.layers.Dense(128, activation=tf.nn.relu))

#Output layer
#Corresponds to the number of classifications; ten in this case
#No relu because it is a probability distribution
model.add(tf.keras.layers.Dense(10, activation=tf.nn.softmax))

#Defining training parameters for the model
#Loss is error, or what you have gotten wrong
model.compile(optimizer = 'adam',
             loss= 'sparse_categorical_crossentropy', #could use binary if looking for cats/dogs
             metrics = ['accuracy'])

#Training the model
#Epoch = how many times the model runs
model.fit(x_train, y_train, epochs = 3)

Output is as follows:
Epoch 1/3
1875/1875 [==============================] - 1s 578us/step - loss: 0.2612 - accuracy: 0.9236
Epoch 2/3
1875/1875 [==============================] - 1s 571us/step - loss: 0.1068 - accuracy: 0.9668
Epoch 3/3
1875/1875 [==============================] - 1s 562us/step - loss: 0.0721 - accuracy: 0.9773

When I try to figure out the model loss...
#Printing the model loss
val_loss, val_acc = model.evaluate(x_test, y_test)
print(val_loss, val_acc)

...I get this error:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-6-3452f7a38776> in <module>
----> 1 val_loss, val_acc = model.evaluate(x_test, y_test)
      2 print(val_loss, val_acc)

~\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\tensorflow\python\keras\engine\training.py in _method_wrapper(self, *args, **kwargs)
    106   def _method_wrapper(self, *args, **kwargs):
    107     if not self._in_multi_worker_mode():  # pylint: disable=protected-access
--> 108       return method(self, *args, **kwargs)
    109
    110     # Running inside `run_distribute_coordinator` already.

~\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\tensorflow\python\keras\engine\training.py in evaluate(self, x, y, batch_size, verbose, sample_weight, steps, callbacks, max_queue_size, workers, use_multiprocessing, return_dict)
   1354             use_multiprocessing=use_multiprocessing,
   1355             model=self,
-> 1356             steps_per_execution=self._steps_per_execution)
   1357
   1358       # Container that configures and calls `tf.keras.Callback`s.

~\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\tensorflow\python\keras\engine\data_adapter.py in __init__(self, x, y, sample_weight, batch_size, steps_per_epoch, initial_epoch, epochs, shuffle, class_weight, max_queue_size, workers, use_multiprocessing, model, steps_per_execution)
   1115         use_multiprocessing=use_multiprocessing,
   1116         distribution_strategy=ds_context.get_strategy(),
-> 1117         model=model)
   1118
   1119     strategy = ds_context.get_strategy()

~\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\tensorflow\python\keras\engine\data_adapter.py in __init__(self, x, y, sample_weights, sample_weight_modes, batch_size, epochs, steps, shuffle, **kwargs)
    280             label, ", ".join(str(i.shape[0]) for i in nest.flatten(data)))
    281       msg += "Please provide data which shares the same first dimension."
--> 282       raise ValueError(msg)
    283     num_samples = num_samples.pop()
    284

ValueError: Data cardinality is ambiguous:
  x sizes: 60000
  y sizes: 10000
Please provide data which shares the same first dimension.

What can I do to fix this error and compute the loss?

A: As the error says, your number of samples in x_test corresponding to y_test do not match
  x sizes: 60000
  y sizes: 10000

If you check your code you will see that you have a bug while creating x_test
It should be :
x_test = tf.keras.utils.normalize(x_test, axis = 1)

Not
x_test = tf.keras.utils.normalize(x_train, axis = 1)


A record-breaking 228,000 people turned out in Ratheniska for the three-day event that was the National Ploughing Championships.
Anna Marie and Anna May McHugh, the Carter family, the gardai, exhibitors and all staff at the National Ploughing Championships take a bow, you did the country proud to showcase everything that is great about Ireland.
In addition thousands of people worldwide tuned into the live streaming of the event and AgriLand reported live on all of the action.
President of Ireland Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabrina officially opened the National Ploughing Championships. After a 70-year absence, the showcase event of the farming year was back at Ratheniska, Stradbally in Co Laois.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny also arrived amid much fanfare. The man of the moment ploughed his way through the Ratheniska site, visiting the senior reversible ploughing competitors, including world champion and Irishman John Whelan, the horse ploughing exhibitions and the many, many farming organisations.
"There is a sense of confidence among the people who have turned out here among the last couple of days," said the Taoiseach to the waiting media. "That is based on people's recognition. Recognition that our country is making progress from a very difficult circumstance we have been in, in the last number of years.
"Top class innovations also took ploughing championships by storm. The GrazeMate paddock Controller exhibited by Neilus Murphy from Coolagown, Fermoy, Co Cork was the overall winner of the National Ploughing Innovation Arena Prize.
For a recap of all the news and events from this year's National Ploughing Championship click here.


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A humourous play about bourgeois competence and mendacity.
Though the books of Bernard Shaw have probably been printed in more languages than those of any other living writer, and his plays have had their 'first nights' in almost every country in Europe, this attempt to put Arms and the Man into another sort of English may come as a surprise.
The new language is Basic -- a simple form of English which, though it has only 850 words, seems to the eye and ear in every way like normal English. With these 850 words it is possible to say almost anything which is not part of some special branch of learning, and what is said will be clear even to those with very little knowledge of English.
There may possibly be some doubt as to the value of the undertaking, and there will certainly be general interest in the reasons why Mr. Shaw has let one of his plays be put into the narrow limits of Basic's 850 words. In view of these facts, a clear statement of the purpose of the book seems to be needed.
First, let there be no error on one point. The Basic play is not in any sense in competition with the play in its normal English form, but is designed to put readers with only a small knowledge of English in a better position to take pleasure in Arms and the Man as it came from Mr. Shaw's pen. In more ways than one Basic is a better bridge between such readers and the works of the great English writers than another full-dress language would be. When a book goes smoothly into another language, there is a tendency for it to be looked on as a work of art in itself. Though most English persons of any education have quite a good knowledge of German and French, only a very small number of them have gone to the trouble of reading Goethe or Voltaire in their natural tongues. But even with two languages as like one another as French and English the outlook is very different, and the effects produced are not so much the same as parallel. So that the reader of a work which has undergone the change from one language to another may get an experience unlike that which would be produced by reading the work in its first form. When, however, a book in which the quality of the writing is important is put into Basic, the reader will naturally be in no danger of tasking the pleasure he gets from it -- however great this may be -- for the complete experience, which is clearly dependent on the full range of a living language.
Basic gives a learner the desire to go forward from the simple to the more complex material, while placing in his hands the key which will make it possible for him to do so with profit.
For those whose language and point of view are as different from ours as those of the Chinese, the value of coming to English Letters through Basic is even greater. Here the process of turning English into the other language makes a change not only of feeling but very frequently of sense, and the danger of serious error is great. Dr. I. A. Richards has given some surprising example of these errors in Basic in Teaching. The use of Basic -- a language of the West -- is a help in keeping the Chinese mind from twisting European ideas into a design more natural to the East, and at the same time make it possible for those ideas to be put in a form simple enough not to give trouble. The fact that there may be some loss in forcing great writing into 850 words is not important if Basic is looked on not only as an international language but as a possible step to reading normal English with pleasure.
With certain sorts of writing it may be hard for Basic to do much more than give notes making clear the senses and relations of the words. It gets the complex structure of thought and language broken down, but the process of building up is dependent on words of power which have no place in the 850. The nearer a writer gets to the verse-form, the harder it is for his effects to be copied in Basic.
There would, for example, be very much greater loss in putting Back to Methuselah into Basic than there has been with Arms and the Man, which is in straight-forward, everyday English. In such a play as this, the humour and interest are dependent less on language than on thought and event, and the loss is chiefly in the smooth and natural turns important for acting.
Lastly, it has to be kept in mind that there are hundreds of millions for whom any attempt to get its full value from the language of Arms ad the Man as it came from Mr. Shaw, with his wide range of words.1 would be the work of years, and for them Basic may at least be a first step to the ideas in which Mr. Shaw is specially interested.
1 Such a play is probably representative of a store of more than 30,000 words. There is nothing in Shakespeare which would give trouble to the Shavian public ; and Shakespeare made use of more than 20,000.
THE sixth of March, 1886. In the garden of Major Petkoff's house. It is a clear spring morning ; and the garden is looking bright and beautiful.
IN the library after the middle day meal. It is a very poor library. It has one fixed shelf full of old paper-covered books of fiction ... : the rest of the wall space being being taken up by firearms and horns.
Compare the normal English version at Project Gutenberg.
Basic English is an attempt to give to every one a second, or international language, which will take as little of the learner's time as possible.
It is a system in which everything may be said for all the purposes of everyday existence : the common interests of men and women, general talk, news, trade, and science.
To the eye and ear it will not seem in any way different from normal English, which is now the natural language or the language of the Governments of more than 500,000,000 persons.
There are only 850 words in the complete list, which may be clearly printed on one side of a bit of note-paper. But simple rules are given for making other words with the help of those in the list ; such as designer, designing, and designed, from design, or coal-mine from coal and mine.
" I will put the record on the machine now "
Whatever is doing the act comes first ; then the time word, such as will ; then the act or operation (put, take, or get) ; then the thing to which something is done, and so on.
It is an English in which 850 words do all the work of 20,000, and has been formed by taking out everything which is not necessary to the sense. Disembark, for example, is broken up into get off a ship. I am able takes the place of I can ; shape is covered by the more general word form ; and difficult by the use of hard.
By putting together the names of simple operations -- such as get, give, come, go, put, take -- with those for directions like in, over, through, and the rest, two or three thousand complex ideas, like insert which becomes put in, are made part of the learner's store.
Most of these are clear to everyone. But in no other language is there an equal chance of making the use of this process. That is why Basic is designed to be the international language of the future.
In addition to the Basic words themselves, the learner has, at the start, about fifty words which are now so common in all languages that they may freely be used for any purpose. Examples are radio, hotel, telephone, bar, club.
Those who have no knowledge of English will be able to make out the sense of a radio talk, or a business letter, after a week with the word-list and the records ; but it may be a month or two before they are talking and writing freely.
In fact, it is the business of all internationally-minded persons to make Basic English part of the system of education in every country, so that there may be less chance of war, and less learning of languages -- which, after all, for most of us, are a very unnecessary waste of time.
Last updated March 20, 2012.


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But now, for the first time since that night, I feel that maybe there's a chance ... because that little boy, Bruce Wayne, he came back to fight for this city. And now you're here, too - you're changing things.
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Batboat (Destroyed)
Synopsis for "Dark City, Part Four"
Someone has set the Batman up for murders committed by Dr. Death, and now the GCPD is hot on his trail, fully intent on charging him for the crimes. Unfortunately, the police seem to be aware of his every tactic, and with each move he makes, they are prepared to counteract it. This problem is compounded by his inability to get any communication signal from the Batcave. In an effort to make a quick getaway, Batman makes for his Batboat, only to learn that it has been rigged to explode. With both his identity and his health at risk, Batman desperately tries to outrun the police snipers' bullets. He is forced into the Gotham River, where he encounters a lone Jim Gordon in a police dingy. The Lieutenant promises that he will save Batman's life and protect him from Commissioner Loeb's men. Reluctantly, Batman accepts his helping hand.
Jim insists that Batman should remove his cowl before the acid that was sprayed on it burns through his eye, offering up his prescription glasses as a show of good will in maintaining the vigilante's secret. Of course, Batman must be his eyes, lest they crash the boat with the storm still approaching the city rapidly. Jim admits that it was the Riddler who sent the department information about the Batman's methods, claiming that they were estranged partners. Given that, Batman wonders why Jim would help him. The lieutenant explains that he has not met many men who would save others' lives without thought. Batman had saved his life at A.C.E. Chemical recently.
Batman asks why he should listen, and Jim responds that he should listen because of Bruce Wayne. Ever since Wayne returned to Gotham, something had changed in him. He had met Bruce once after he'd skipped school, and he was called to bring him back. On the way, they stopped to check in with shop owners as part of their usual rounds, and Bruce had seen Jim accept a gift - a coat. He had told Bruce that it was a gift of thanks for his help, but the look of hope on the boy's face drove him to worry that maybe Gotham wasn't any better than Chicago. Maybe Gotham was just as corrupt. The feeling motivated him to return to one of the shops on the route that night, just to be sure.
He was horrified to discover that a dog-fighting ring was being run out of the establishment. Dan Corrigan, his own partner, was there, breaking bread with criminals. When Jim threatened to go to Loeb with this, he was disturbed to learn that the Commissioner was in on it too. Realizing that he wouldn't play ball, they threw him in with the dogs. It took him a moment, then, to realize that they wanted the dogs to tear him apart. When it was all over, it turned out that Corrigan was the only one who had bet on him to live. Jim had wanted to kill him, but instead, he decided to walk his beat, shut his mouth, and stay out of it.
That night, though, when he walked his route up Park Row, he heard two gunshots, and discovered Bruce Wayne again, crying over his murdered parents. After seeing him so hopeful that afternoon, he couldn't face Bruce. The next day, an anonymous present came for his daughter Barbara. It was a pit-bull puppy - a reminder. So, Jim still wears that coat he'd received as a reminder to them that he hasn't forgotten what they did either. Sometimes, though, he wonders if he doesn't just wear it out of shame. Since that awful night, though, Jim feels that maybe there's a chance things can get better in Gotham. Bruce Wayne came back to fight. The Batman is helping to change crime. Maybe, together, they can fix the city. Batman calls for Jim to stop the boat, and finding his glasses surreptitiously replaced in his front pocket, Jim puts them on. By then, the Batman has already gone.
Alfred Pennyworth finds Bruce working on the jammer he built to counter another EMP attack by the Riddler. Unfortunately, tests cannot pinpoint the location of Dr. Death's lab, and so with no leads, Alfred suggests it is time for Bruce to eat - or rather drink - his breakfast smoothie, commenting that lately, he has had to feed Bruce through an IV, with all the injuries he's incurring. He suggests that Bruce might benefit from some help - like that offered by Jim Gordon, who appears to be one of the few good cops in the city. Meanwhile, Alfred himself wishes to help.
Alfred explains that there was a time when word got out that Bruce was sighted before he returned to Gotham, and Philip Kane had endeavoured to go and collect him. Alfred had used his old military contacts, spending all of his savings in an effort to get word of Philip's plans to Bruce first. He got a courier to put a phone in Bruce's hand, and he waited on the other end of the line for the sound of his lost charge's voice, but nothing came but silence. Even though he tried to rationalize that the courier had lied in order to get the payment, Alfred knew that Bruce was there, and that he'd refused the call. He had told himself that with his reputation for having reported Bruce for truancy as a boy, reporting that behaviour to his parents, Bruce would have no reason to trust that he'd help him escape.
Now that Bruce is back, though, Alfred sees the truth. It wasn't that Bruce didn't trust him. It isn't that Bruce doesn't trust Jim Gordon, either. He is just angry with them for failing to be there for him when his parents were killed. Nobody was there, and so part of him is angry at the entire city. Being Batman is, in part, a way for Bruce to punish the city for failing him, by making them bare witness to his success. By being now what they could not be, then, he shames them all. Letting the past be what drives Batman will cause him to fizzle out, eventually, though. And having seen his example, the people want to help. Bruce cuts Alfred's heartfelt pleading short, explaining that he has determined where Dr. Death's lab is.
Batman enters the city's catacombs, pointing out to Alfred via radio that the catacombs cannot be a tourist attraction during a blackout. The multiple DNA sources of the sample they tested is explained by the dust from bones and decayed remains from within the catacombs. In any case, the catacombs stand as a monument to the idea that the essence of a person can be carried on through his or her bones - which plays into Dr. Death's flair for the dramatic. It isn't long before Batman discovers the lab, but what he finds there disturbs him. He realizes that Helfern's killings aren't revenge, they're a smokescreen for his theft of the victims' research materials, with which he intends to build some kind of doomsday device. Of course, this wasn't Helfern's plan - it was his master's. And that master is the Riddler.
At that moment, the Riddler's visage appears on Helfern's computer monitor, and he calmly remarks that the deaths of thousands is his intent. The world is throwing more disasters at humans all the time, and the only way they will survive is with intelligence. He proposes that if he forces humanity to get smarter or die, it will prepare them to face destruction, and evade it. Batman though, he says, is not not smart enough to survive his plans. A sudden explosion causes the catacombs to flood, and the last thing Batman hears before being swept under the water is that Gotham City will soon belong to the Riddler, and the time of the self-styled detective is over.
This book was first published on January 22, 2014.
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How To Calculate Net Income Formula And Examples
by satya | Apr 5, 2021 | Bookkeeping | 0 comments
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Learn about cash flow statements and why they are the ideal report to understand the health of a company. Investors and lenders sometimes prefer to look at operating net income rather than net income.
No assurance is given that the information is comprehensive in its coverage or that it is suitable in dealing with a customer's particular situation.
Net income is also used to calculate net profit margin, which is net income expressed as a percentage of revenue.
Your gross income can also be used by lenders to determine whether to trust you as a borrower.
NI flows through the balanced sheet through retained earnings, and through the cash flow in the indirect method.
In this example, Real Estate Investor LLC used the net income formula to find out that the business generated $98,000 in net income after all expenses.
Your company's income statement might even break out operating net income as a separate line item before adding other income and expenses to arrive at net income.
Sometimes, a company may have additional streams of income such as interest on investments that must be accounted for as well when calculating net income. As a business ventures internationally into new territories, the https://www.bookstime.com/ added scale brings with it various financial and operational challenges. B) what proportion of each dollar/pound of revenue earned is ultimately keep inside the business and its shareholders after paying all expenses.
Interest and tax, for example, don't fall under the cost of sales, but your company still has to spend that money. Net income is your gross income after deductionsand taxes have been subtracted. The gross income of your company is the difference between all of the money your business made and all of the money your business spent to get that income.
If a company has a positive net income, it means the company has earned a profit.
The above formula is widely used by real estate investors who own income-producing properties.
On the other hand, net income subtracts all expenses — not just this one expense item.
For instance, if you don't what the total revenues of the company are, here is how to calculate net income using thegross profitinstead of total revenues.
That's why financial reports get specific with a universal term like "net income," because it's calculated the same way in every company.
They can be fixed costs that repeat, such as monthly rent for an office, or variable expenses that are rarely the same amount despite occurring regularly, such as payroll. ScaleFactor is on a mission to remove the barriers to financial clarity that every business owner faces. Get instant access to video lessons taught by experienced investment bankers. Learn financial statement modeling, DCF, M&A, LBO, Comps and Excel shortcuts. Net income, also referred to as net earnings, is found at the very bottom of the income statement.
Let us break down the formula and understand each component of the net income formula to calculate your net income accurately. Net income is used to incur daily costs, pay off your business debts, make capital investments, and pay shareholders or retained for future use. Every kind of negative transaction, even the simple return of a defective product for another one, counts as an expense. By tracking each-and-every expense (in each-and-every possible category) you can accurately examine your company's health and profitability.
As the gross margin grows, so may net income—although that is dependent on whether or not items like selling and administrative expenses increase. To calculate net income, you have to develop an income statement to take account of all the firm's revenues and expenses. The next step is to take all of your deductions into account and subtract them from your gross income.
Net Income Formula is a formula used for the calculation of the net earnings of the company. The net income formula helps us to arrive at the amount of revenue/income left in the company after paying off all its expenses. Therefore, It is a useful tool for the companies, investors, shareholders, and analysts to arrive at profit earned for the accounting period or period under analysis. Net income is one of the most fundamental metrics that business owners, investors, and finance teams will use to help make big important decisions about the future strategy of a business.
It shows how much profit is left from revenue after accounting for expenses and liabilities. Understanding the financial health of your business is vital. And there are multiple important metrics you should track that can offer valuable insight. But perhaps the most important is net income, which indicates whether your company has made a profit. But it's more complicated to calculate than just looking at your bank account balance.
At Bench, we do your bookkeeping and generate monthly financial statements for you. Net income is known as the "bottom line" as it appears as the last line on the income statement once all expenses, interest, and taxes have been subtracted from revenues. If you have more income than expenses, you will have a positive net income. If your expenses outweigh your income, you will have a negative net income. However, that's not the final amount that is deposited into his paycheck.
Some people refer to net income as net earnings, net profit, or simply your "bottom line" . It's the amount of money you have left to pay shareholders, invest in new projects or equipment, pay off debts, or save for future use. Add single-period revenues and expenses on operating profit and then deduct interest and taxes to calculate net income. Single-period revenues and expenses are included here because they are not expected to occur again. For example, if the above business received $2,000 in a lawsuit settlement and then incurred taxes of $1,500, its net income is $9,500. To calculate net income for your company, start with the company's total revenue.
That gain might make it appear that the company is doing well, when in fact, they're struggling to stay afloat. Operating net income takes the gain out of consideration, so users of the financial statements get a clearer picture of the company's profitability and valuation. It reports your business's profits and losses over a specific period. Income statements basically outline the process of calculating net income. Net income is arguably one of the most important gauges of financial health for a business and its stakeholders. As the final line on the income statement, it shows how much of a business's revenues is ultimately converted to profit once all expenses have been paid. Notwithstanding these challenges, it is absolutely critical that business owners and management teams plan and manage their international finances prudently.
The cost of manufacturing the candy during the period was $39,500, leaving a gross income of $35,500. The company's operating expenses came to $12,500, resulting in operating income of $23,000. Then ABYZ subtracted $1,500 in interest expense and added $1,700 in interest income, yielding a net income before taxes of $23,200.
Can Net Income Be Higher Than Revenue?
Net income is what's left over after all business expenses are paid. It is a number that is useful to the business owner for the purpose of analysis and study. The business owner uses the net income figure and the other line items on the income statement to know how well the firm has performed in meeting the standards it has set.
Bottom LineThe bottom line refers to the net earnings or profit a company generates from its business operations in a particular accounting period that appears at the end of the income statement. A company adopts strategies to reduce costs or raise income to improve its bottom line. When your company has more revenues than expenses, you have a positive net income.
For an existing property, this is a matter of simply adding up all of the rental income you've collected in a given period. Net income is important because it tells us how much we can spend on a discretionary basis. As an individual, this might include our living expenses and anything we want to spend on food, shopping, travel, and entertainment. Another version of the formula can be used to calculate individual net income. Jonathan is the owner of Real Estate Investor LLC. He pays himself a monthly salary of $5,500. The net income formula can be used to get a financial snapshot of any given period, such as monthly, quarterly, or annually.
This method of calculating cost of goods sold is not the best but produces a reasonable estimate. The value you've just calculated is your company's earnings before tax. Subtract the amount of tax you pay from your earnings before tax. In a perfect world, your rental property would have zero vacancies. It could take several weeks to months to fill a unit between tenants in a slow market. Even in a hot rental market, you still need to account for the number of days it could take to turn over a unit between tenants for cleaning and maintenance. This loss of rental income will eat into your final net income.
The cost of goods sold refers to the expenses incurred to run your business's main operations, such as raw material costs. net income equation It is a fairly reliable method to determine your company's profitability and measure the business operating incomes.


I never imagined publishing a book just six years after buying my first DSLR. At some point the idea of doing a book crossed my mind, but I thought it would be the culmination of a much longer career. Perhaps that book is still in the stars in the years to come, but the door was opened to me much sooner by publisher Rocky Mountain Books, and hence the journey began.
Summits & Starlight: The Canadian Rockies is my first book and the culmination of the last five years of photography. Most of the images featured in the book are from the last year or two, and demonstrate a more recent swing in my work to nighttime photography and a quest to find unusual ways of capturing common mountain subjects.
While my other mountain activities brought me into the landscape in a special way, I realized that photography allowed me to observe nature more closely. Looking at the wilderness through the camera lens made me more aware of my surroundings and my observations became more deliberate. I began paying attention to how sunlight filtered through the evergreens, how all but one twig pointed in the same direction, and how fast the clouds were moving. Soon this magnified way of observing the natural environment became indistinguishable from living life as I had known it.
You'll have to pick up a copy to read more!
I am so grateful that I am able to share my passion for photography and the Canadian Rockies in a book format so early in my career. Many thanks go to Rocky Mountain Books for approaching me with the idea of doing a book, and to everyone for your support along the way.
Summits and Starlight: The Canadian Rockies can now be purchased at a variety of book stores and retailers. Look for a copy at your local bookstore or order online below!
For wholesale orders or to purchase a signed copy from the author (pick-up/hand delivery only in the Bow Valley), please Contact Paul.
With fellow mountain photographer, Glen Boles, at a book signing at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival. Glen wrote the Foreword for the book.
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Paul, my daughter is a big fan of your work. We are going to attend you book release in Canmore next Friday and are really looking forward to it. I would like to buy my daughter one of your photographs framed for Christmas as a surprise. How would I go about doing this? Amazing work. Thank you for your sharing your passion.
Congratulations Paul. I'm looking forward to picking up a copy soon. This promises to be a wonderful collection of unique, beautiful images.
I'll be away for the launch but wish you nothing short of an exceptional turnout – it is well deserved.
Thanks very much Chris! I really appreciate the support!
Paul Zizka does it again!
Congratulations on your book 'Summits & Starlight'. I grew up in the Banff area so I purchased your book as a Christmas present for my parents to remind them of what great times we had hiking and skiing in the Bow valley. I'm sure putting your book together was a huge amount of work, but you must have felt great when you first saw your book on a shelf in a bookstore.
Thanks so much for taking the time to write Jens. The selection process required to make the book was a little painful to go through, but I think the result was worth it. Thanks so much and have a great Christmas!


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How Eileen Myles won a battle for personal pronoun plurality
by Diana Wichtel / 31 May, 2018
Eileen Myles at the Edinburgh Book Festival last year. Photo/Getty Images
New York punk poet and writer Eileen Myles is happy complicating what being a woman is.
The ripple
of experience is the
only beauty here.
– Dissolution (2015).
Myles, Myles, Myles … I'm in danger of wearing out the name trying to write about legendary American poet and writer Eileen Myles without using the pronoun "she". Myles prefers to be referred to as "they".
"Yeah, I do. Well-known people, as we know, transition. For me, it's transitioning in language, just acknowledging that I feel like I experience myself as a multiple. It seems like something I can ask for and do."
Walt Whitman wrote, "I am large, I contain multitudes." Myles told the New Yorker, "I'm happy complicating what being a woman, a dyke, is. I'm the gender of Eileen."
The change to using "they" started in the poet's professional life. "And then people who know me personally are, like, 'Do you want me to call you they?' And then I hesitate and struggle with it, so it's new to me, too." It can be awkward. "But the more I thought about it, the more I thought it's what I feel and it's what I need." So third person plural she is. They are.
The pronoun isn't always embraced by the literary establishment. "Yeah, HarperCollins. When my selected poems came out in paperback was when I was, like, I'd like it to be 'they', and it became kind of a tempest in a teapot. They really fought it a bit and then my agent stood up for me – that was so cool – and we got our way."
For Myles, who you imagine picks battles, this one is worth fighting. "I cringe more the older I get every time somebody calls me 'madam' or I'm at a table full of women, some of whom look femme, some of whom look masculine, and the waiter comes over and says, 'How are you ladies tonight?'. I never go through the airport security without them stopping me and feeling my crotch. Because I wear my jeans low. I just wear low jeans. Every time, no matter how high I pull them up … They call it 'groin anomaly' and I get patted down."
Groin anomaly: that was the eloquent title of an episode of Jill Soloway's brilliant Amazon television series Transparent, about college professor and father Mort Pfefferman, who comes out as Maura, a trans woman. Transparent's poet and lesbian literary professor, Leslie Mackinaw, played by the formidable Cherry Jones, was based on Myles. Soloway and Myles were, for a time, a couple.
In the Transparent episode, Maura, going through airport security, is assumed to be a woman until a security scanner picks up … the anomaly. "If you want me to be a man, I'll be a man. If you want me to be a woman, I'll be a woman. If you want me to be a f---ing chicken, I'll be a chicken," Maura shouts at the security agent.
Was that episode based on Myles's experience? "I can't confirm it, but I certainly told Jill about it because it happens to me constantly. I think because the airport is such a police place that it is a little bit of a way of saying that you're not one of us and you're kind of a terrorist."
So it's not confusion but hostility. "That's what I think, though it may not be quite conscious. It just might be more clear to me than to the people who are doing it."
Eileen Myles, New York, 1992. Photo/Getty Images
In Transparent, Leslie reads from Myles's poem School of Fish. Myles is an extra in the scene. That might be an out-of-body experience. "Well it is. And then, of course, they never are you and that's kind of a relief. It's a bad copy, just like everything is.
"Cherry Jones was great. We've become friends and like each other a lot."
Myles is good company and exceptionally accommodating, considering my call was not entirely expected. "Oh, we have an interview right now. Yeah, yeah, I'm in a cab. I'm so sorry, I completely spaced on it. I'm a master at confusing my calendar." It's like a found poem racketing along on the way from the East Village, which is home for Myles (there's also a place in Marfa, Texas), to Brooklyn, where a friend lives.
Pause to pay the cab driver: "Okay, hold on, one last movement getting out of this vehicle … And then I'm home free." We carry on talking. At the end of almost an hour, it occurs to me to ask: "Are you in your friend's house?" "No, I'm standing out on the sidewalk." Good grief. It's 9pm in New York. March can be a cruel month. "No, no, it's very nice out."
Myles, 68, was born in Boston to Irish and Polish immigrant parents; landed in New York in the 70s; knew poet Allen Ginsberg; was photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe. There's a Myles poem titled On the Death of Robert Lowell: "The famous, as we know, are nuts/Take Robert Lowell/The old white-haired coot/F---ing dead." In the 90s, Myles ran for president of the US as a write-in candidate.
Myles has, in a sense, come in from the sidewalk, or at least the maverick margins of the literary world, since the re-release of Chelsea Girls, a vivid, staunch 1994 autobiographical novel, in 2015, along with a collection of new and selected poems.
Terms like "badass" and "punk poet" get used, along with "queer feminist literary icon", which is … "a mouthful", says Myles. "Some of those are kind of a literary world trying to figure out how to deal with something they feel awkward about." It's a way, Myles believes, of not talking about class and sexuality. "I mean, there's a whole tradition of men being a little rough or broad or working class or avant-garde. There are lots of names for the male artist, but when you're female, especially if you're queer and you're feminist, then they don't know what to call it except those things. So I feel like a lot of it is an easy way not to deal with my work."
These days, the work gets published in the New Yorker and the London Review of Books. A new book, Afterglow (a dog memoir), was supposed to bring Myles back to New Zealand for the Auckland Writers Festival but changed circumstances meant that didn't happen. Myles' last visit was in 2016, for a reading. "I went to the west coast with a few young writers and artists and saw the black beach and it was amazing."
The ocean, the beach, feature evocatively in Myles's work. "Even in Texas, where I live, which is desert, you can feel the Earth's tectonics have shifted over millennia and in Texas I feel like I'm living under the ocean," says Myles happily.
Afterglow is a trippy, funny, sometimes confronting voyage around the death and life of Rosie, the pit bull adopted by Myles from a litter of street dogs. The book has been described as playful, demanding, fantastical, feral. "A weirdo, Kafka-type book," Myles has called it.
"When the dog was dying, I began writing, just because that was my impulse. She was dying for about six months, so in that time I got to think about it and be in it and make jokes with myself about it."
There's an extended play on what Myles calls "the god/dog reversal". Well, dogs can come with god-like gifts, like unconditional love. "Right. For me this was a god that I would like, the dog god."
Afterglow presents Rosie's owner from the dog's point of view, "when she's loping towards me with a big smile and a rope like it's good news I've got to go home for hours and sit on the floor." In fact, Rosie takes credit for the poet's oeuvre from 1990 to 2006, "as well she should", says Myles serenely. Afterglow anatomises the transaction via an economic excursion to the heart of primary relationships: "She was it. Mainstay of my liturgy for sixteen point five almost seventeen years. She was observed. I was companioned, seen."
The book blurs every boundary it comes across: male/female, human/animal and certainly, in a work where dogs get to speak for themselves, fact and fiction. "Part of what it's doing is showing how much fiction there is in non-fiction. The two aren't that separate, is what I really believe. By saying the book is a memoir, it would end up being the most fantastic fictional book I've ever written. I think that says a lot about form and how it happens."
Afterglow is not Marley & Me but it can end up lumped in with the dog books. "Men are expected to do wild and wonderful things and make big complicated books. Paul Auster wrote a dog book and they just reviewed it. They didn't put it together with a lot of other dog books," sighs Myles. Myles has been touring the book. Do they get a lot of people telling them their own dog stories? "Oh, yeah. I'm signing a lot of books to people and their dead dogs. It's a whole other inscription experience. It will be, 'Write it to my Dad and Otto, his dog who he lost'. They show me a lot of pictures of living and dead dogs. So I've become a sort of shrine-y place." You can't help but laugh. "It's very peculiar and very sweet."
Very peculiar and sweet: it's not a bad description of the experience of reading about the poet and their dog. "Part of what I'm meditating on is something just being alive that lives with me always until it doesn't live," says Myles. "You don't have to be Kafka in Prague in the early 20th century to make much of something that isn't human. And make something human of it, too."
This article was first published in the May 12, 2018 issue of the New Zealand Listener.


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