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Q: Plotting/Working with 1million nodes I am busy with an exercise to plot nodes on a pane. My first goal is to work with 1million nodes and then ramp it up to 15million.
I have a custom Object Graph and I can add edges and nodes to this object. Each node object has an ellipse that I can call and plot and same with the edge objects.
At the moment I have a function that generates a random position for the nodes.
I am using a scroll pane at the moment to enable panning around the pane and to view all the nodes.
What I thought was a good idea was to use a hashmap
Map<String, ArrayList<Node>> mapX = new HashMap<String, ArrayList<Node>>();
Map<String, ArrayList<Node>> mapY = new HashMap<String, ArrayList<Node>>();

I use the following code to add nodes to the hashmap:
int  tempXFloor = (int)Math.floor(tempX);
ArrayList<Node> tempList = mapX.get(tempXFloor+"");
if(tempList == null){
tempList = new ArrayList<>();
}
tempList.add(node);
mapX.put(tempXFloor+"",tempList);

Then while I am panning I get the current position, floor it and check if an entry exist in the map. if an entry exist, I add all the nodes in the ArrayList to nodesOnScreen.
nodesOnScreen is an ArrayList type, and I will add the nodes to that list while I am panning and likewise the nodes that are off the screen are removed from the nodesOnScreen variable.
I only plot the nodes that is in the ArrayList nodesOnScreen.
I would appreciate some guidance in this matter, and how to handle such big data structures. Am I going in the right direction or am I missing an obvious "trick" to do it.

A: What you want falls into the category of space partitioning structures.
The thing you described is a specialized form of uniform grids or bins. The general version differs from yours in that each bin may span more than 1 unit in size, and thus is better suited for datasets of different resolutions. Bins are generally useful for datasets which are more or less uniformly distributed, it's also very simple to implement. Finding on-screen elements simply involves finding all the bins that your viewport falls into.
If your dataset is non-uniform, i.e. there's tight clumps and large empty spaces, you might want to try an alternative structure like quad trees.
Also, if you are using a hash table or any other java container, use the int by boxing it into an Integer (Map<Integer, ...>), don't convert it to a string, which is much slower and consumes more memory.

A: There are several points to think about:

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*How complex are your nodes? If they are just dots you may consider drawing them on an WritableImage and save a lot of memory. For more complex cases you may want to use Canvas. Either way you will save on event handlers, properties and other small things which counts in larger amounts.

*Another important matter is relevance of the data view. If you presents a map or something similar then user only care about visible part. The rest can be stored in disk cache and by Pareto principle only 20% of that data will be of much use. So you can plan accordingly and have real graphical nodes only for visible part (and maybe preload some adjusted parts for user experience sake).

*"Divide and conquer" conception. Even if you don't want to restrict user view according to plan (2) you can't be in constant need of 15 millions nodes. Not in UI library, there is no big enough monitors I'm afraid. So, split your data into segments and load one segment in a time. If you need to perform any kind of calculations on the whole set -- do not work with nodes, use simplest implementation and perform calculations in some background process.

*Existing solutions are always a matter of investigations before doing big stuff. For example, there are a lot of caching libraries like PojoCache which seamlessly allow you to work with relevant data only once you splitted your billions of nodes into groups.

A: You can try build it "on-the-fly" using data virtualization and data provider. Don't use your RAM to hold big data. Use database queries. Implement your List type and implement indexer there, which will return an item from database.

A: Think about level-of-detail. You cannot possibly see 15M distinct dots on a screen (not enough pixels to make individual node foregrounds visible above the backgrounds). Two types of level-of-detail approaches are available:

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*graphical: use a very large canvas (say, 10M x 10M), drawing small tiles (say, 1K x 1K pixels) at a time and down-scaling these to compose the final image (for instance, 1K x 1K -> 10 x 10, twice, allows your 10M x 10M virtual canvas to be down-scaled into a 1K x 1K image).

*semantical: aggregate clumps of nodes into single nodes, and draw the clump-nodes instead of the individual nodes. You can do this at several levels. Indeed, if you plan on drawing graphs, this is exactly what the graph-drawing algorithms will do underneath (no graph drawing algorithm deals with >50K nodes in reasonable times without some sort of hierarchical decomposition).
In both cases, you would supply some sort of zoom and details-on-demand; the main overview would be used only to pan and zoom into particular details. Some sort of spatial index (quad-trees are the most frequent one) would allow you to quickly retrieve tiles from disk or secondary storage. In the semantical-zoom scenario, you would instead add "parent" fields to each node, building a giant (externally serialized; don't load 15M nodes in memory unless you really, really have to) tree of nodes.


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Odessa Young
By Haley Weiss
Photography Craig Mcdean
SWIMSUIT (VINTAGE): SOUTHPAW. JEANS: GUCCI. RINGS: YOUNG'S OWN. STYLING: ALASTAIR MCKIMM. HAIR: DUFFY/STREETERS. MAKEUP: MARK CARRASQUILLO/STREETERS. MANICURE: YUKIE MIYAKAWA USING DIOR BEAUTY/KATE RYAN. SET DESIGN: PIERS HANMER. PRODUCER: CAROLINE STRIDFELDT/LOLA PRODUCTION. PRODUCTION MANAGER: TERESA BERGEY. RETOUCHING: GLOSS STUDIO NEW YORK. DIGITAL TECHNICIAN: NICHOLAS ONG. SPECIAL THANKS: RED HOOK LABS.
HOMETOWN: Sydney.
BASED: Los Angeles.
FIRST FILM: The heartbreaking, Ibsen-inspired drama The Daughter, which earned her an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award at age 18 (she's the youngest actress to ever receive the honor).
UP NEXT: Assassination Nation, an update of the Salem witch trials (sort of) for the social media set, with Hari Nef and Suki Waterhouse; the Western-tinged thriller Sweet Virginia, with Christopher Abbott, Jon Bernthal, and Imogen Poots.
THE SOCIAL MEDIA SCARIES: I go through this thing, maybe once a month, where I get really freaked out and delete everything. I put everything on private and just sit there. I did that about four times yesterday, just flipped my Instagram off private, on private, off private, on private. I don't know how to deal with it. I don't use it as an insight into my life. I don't post things that I'm doing. Obviously the people in Assassination Nation with me, like Suki and Abra, they have quite large social media followings and presences, and every time they post, I get this influx of followers, and that's what would freak me out. I'd be like, "Everything's changing." I've had the same Instagram for years and no one's ever followed me. It's a weird thing to realize that people are suddenly seeing what I put up there. People are responding to it and enjoying it, but it's not real.
WORST AUDITION: I had to speak gibberish, because the character's language—some sort of elfish thing—was to be written later, and I bombed. I just sat in front of the casting agents, going, "Eh, eh," my mouth gaping like a fish. I left realizing that maybe there is a limit to what I can do.
A SELF-IMPOSED RULE: I never want to do boring work. And not boring for anyone else—I don't care if people think my performances are boring—but I couldn't live with myself if I didn't have fun on set during a job, because that's where my livelihood comes from.
HERSELF IN A FEW WORDS: I am a naturally blonde Piscean.
AN ON-SET LESSON: My only scenes in Sweet Virginia are with Jon Bernthal, so we got to know each other a lot. We come from very different backgrounds—he's a trained actor, I'm untrained, we are quite different personalities—but for some reason, the way we worked together was the most connected to a performance I've ever felt. I learnt a lot from him. I feel like with trained actors, you can quite often tell that they're trained; there's something theatrical, there's something refined about them. He has that skill and that background and that technicality without letting it overshadow his true performance and his style and his rawness. That's always been something that I've unfairly repelled myself from, that trained thing, because A. I was too lazy to go to drama school and I wanted to make myself feel better about that, and B. I do think that people lose sight of humanity in drama school. Even though that's what it's for, people get caught up in the technique and become overly trained and overly analytical and don't trust their instincts enough, and it's all head as opposed to body. But seeing Jon work made me realize that you can keep your human integrity, you can keep that realism and naturalism in your performance, and just heighten it and use that technique in the best way possible—that whole less-is-more [approach]. He's definitely a big part of my growth in the last year.
PRIMARY PET PEEVE: An adamant lack of curiosity.
ELDERLY AMBITIONS: I've got this morbid idea that I'll turn 78 and just become a full-blown heroin addict, or do all of the things that my conscience has stopped me from doing, because at that point, everyone I love will probably be dead. I'm assuming that I'm going to live to be about 85, so that'll give me seven years to do my worst.
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Falcons basketball heading to D3 Hoops Classic in Las Vegas
By Reagan Hoverman
The UW-River Falls men's basketball team has booked its D3 Hoops Classic trip for December in Las Vegas, Nevada.
New women's basketball coach aims to fill seats of Don Page Arena
By Hunter Breault
The women's basketball team at UW-River Falls starts its regular season on Nov. 8 against Marian University of Milwaukee. The Falcons' first game of the year will be at home in the Don Page Arena and that is how the brand new coach wants it.
Women's basketball season ends with three consecutive victories
UW-River Falls Women's basketball season came to an end after a three-game win streak propelled the team to a 10-15 record on the year.
Men's basketball season ends without a playoff berth
The University of Wisconsin-River Falls Men's basketball team had their season come to a conclusion against UW-Whitewater on Feb. 16, 2019, after a 77-74 loss in the closing seconds of regulation.
Falcons comeback falls short in last second thriller
The UW–River Falls Women's basketball team dropped to 7-14 on the season following a last second 63-60 loss against UW–Stevens Point at Don Page Arena on Feb. 2. The Falcons came into the game at the bottom of the WIAC standings with a 1-9 record. The UW–Stevens Point Pointers came into the game second to last in the WIAC with a 4-6 record.
Falcons fall to nationally ranked Titans
UW–River Falls Men's basketball dropped to 8-11 on the season, including a 1-7 WIAC record, following an 80-69 loss to UW–Oshkosh at Don Page Arena on Jan. 26.
Men's basketball treasures playing at U.S. Bank Stadium
By Owen Elle
Despite traveling to Minneapolis and suffering a defeat, the Falcons and UWRF still look at the experience as favorable behind all of the work it took to put together this U.S. Bank Stadium Classic event.
Falcons men's basketball makes history at U.S. Bank Stadium
The UW-River Falls men's basketball moved to 4-2 on the season after an 85-70 loss to the University of St. Thomas on Friday, Nov. 30. The Falcons played a neutral site game for the first time this season at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
Minnesota Timberwolves fandom finally paying off
By Zach Dwyer
The Minnesota Timberwolves will no longer be the trivia answer in the category of "longest playoff drought in the NBA." With their 112-106 victory over the Denver Nuggets on the last day of the regular season, the Timberwolves clinched their first playoff appearance since the 2003-2004 season.
Athlete of the week: Alex Herink
Alex Herink, a senior basketball player from Hudson, averaged 20 points and 5 rebounds per game last week as the Falcons knocked off WIAC foe UW-Whitewater on Saturday night. The reigning WIAC player of the year is averaging 16 points per game on 48 percent shooting to help lead the team to a 15-7 record so far this year.


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The Measure of Mankind
Source - http://www.news.pitt.edu/news/measure-mankind
Homo habilis - Wikipedia
Pitt professor Jeffrey Schwartz argues in Science that there's more to Homo than we may think
Among the many things that science is, it is a system of categorization. The human fossil record—file under genus, Homo; species, sapiens—is rather poorly categorized, contends the University of Pittsburgh's Jeffrey Schwartz, leading to a narrow view of what he believes to be a more complex and expansive evolutionary history than most anthropologists recognize.
In the Aug. 28 issue of the renowned journal Science, Schwartz, professor of anthropology and the history and philosophy of science, argues that, "the boundaries of both the species and the genus remain as fuzzy as ever, new fossils having been haphazardly assigned to species of Homo, with minimal attention to morphology."
By this, Schwartz means that the form and structure of hominid (a group consisting of modern humans, extinct human species, and all our immediate ancestors) fossils are too often ignored in deference to tradition over objectivity.
As an example, Schwartz cites Jonathan and Mary Leakey's 1960 discovery of 1.8-million-year-old fossils in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge. When the pair published their findings in 1964, they claimed the fossils represented a new species, Homo habilis.
"There was scant morphological justification for including any of this very ancient material in Homo," Schwartz writes. "Indeed, the main motivation appears to have been the Leakeys' desire to identify this hominid as the maker of the simple stone tools found in the lower layers of the gorge …"
According to Schwartz, including these fossils in Homo, when their age and appearance dictates otherwise, "so broadened the morphology of the genus
that other hominids from other sites could be shoehorned into it almost without regard to their physical appearance. As a result, the largely unexamined definition of Homobecame even murkier."
To ultimately understand what is Homo and what is not, Schwartz contends, anthropologists must approach their science in a more systematic fashion in order to truly understand the evolutionary past that led to the human of today.
"If we want to be objective, we shall almost certainly have to scrap the iconic list of (genus and species) names in which hominid fossil specimens have historically been trapped and start from the beginning," he says.


Cut Out -Turkey Cake ( Grandmas Recipe) FAIL!
Add the eggs, and the remaining 1/4 of the milk now mix vigorously.
Combine the egg whites , sugar. Salt, water and corn syrup beat about 1 minute, place it over boiling water and beat with a rotary beater for 7 minutes .
Now that your cakes have cooled, spread one cake layer with your frosting , and top with your second layer now cut and arrange the cake accordingly to make a turkey ,use your frosting to "glue" them securely.
Use your gumdrops to make a face, a beak, some texture for the tail and use your licorice for its little feet!
Let's be grateful for all the little memories , for every burnt cake, for hard cookies and for having our loving families who get to eat them!!


Sen. John McCain and Gen. David Petraeus, U.S. commander in Iraq, visit a Baghdad marketplace last Sunday.
It is a gamble at a critical time for the former front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination.
WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will begin a high-profile effort this week to convince Americans that the Iraq war is winnable, embracing the unpopular conflict with renewed vigor as he attempts to reignite his stalling bid for the presidency.
With the Virginia Military Institute as a backdrop, McCain plans to say in a speech Wednesday that victory in Iraq is essential to U.S. security and that President Bush's war machine is on track after four years, aides and advisers said.
It is a gamble at a critical time for the former front-runner for the Republican nomination — the political equivalent of a "double-down" in blackjack, as one supporter close to the campaign put it. A candidate once seen as the almost inevitable winner of the nomination, McCain is struggling in the polls and last week placed last in fundraising among the six top contenders from both parties.
While he is not declaring "mission accomplished," McCain's supporters say, he has little choice but to enthusiastically renew his support for the war.
"You can't get around the elephant in the room, which is Iraq," said Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Ariz., who discussed the speech with McCain as the pair flew back together from a congressional visit to Iraq last week.
In the interview tonight on CBS News' "60 Minutes," McCain responds to criticism of the marketplace comments: "Of course, I am going to misspeak, and I've done it on numerous occasions, and I probably will do it in the future," according to excerpts released by the network.
Among voters who will determine the Republican nominee, support for the war and the president's policies remains strong.
The Iraq speech will be the first of three major policy addresses McCain will give in coming weeks as he prepares to announce his candidacy officially, with stops beginning in New Hampshire and ending in Arizona. He will give a speech about taxes, trade and government waste April 16 and a lecture on domestic policy, perhaps emphasizing energy issues, a week later, his advisers said.
Aides hope the speeches will serve as a reintroduction of McCain to voters, helping to ignite the same kind of passion his candidacy evoked in 2000. They also are hoping to recapture the limelight from his GOP rivals, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Giuliani, who raised $15 million, is leading in national polls; Romney, with $23 million, raised $10.5 million more than McCain in the first three months of the year.
The immediate focus, however, is the Iraq war, which McCain has said for weeks will be the issue that defines his campaign.
In early drafts of the speech, he criticizes the pace of political progress under Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki but argues that the price of defeatism is lower morale among U.S. troops, according to Renzi and advisers familiar with preparations for the speech. McCain plans to praise the "measurable progress" made by the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Petraeus, particularly in Ramadi, and to urge the public to leave more time for achieving success. The speech comes as congressional Democrats work to finalize legislation, attached to war-spending measures, calling for a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq.
"This gives him an opportunity to put a marker down on what his foreign-policy vision will be and how important it is to win the war in Iraq, and do it in a very specific, cogent way," said one top adviser who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The conflict at times has given the senator opportunities to show his independence from Bush. He was one of the first to call for the firing of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. While campaigning, he decried "mismanagement" of the war effort under Bush's leadership.
But as opposition to the war has grown — 64 percent of respondents in the most recent Washington Post-ABC News poll said the war was not worth fighting — McCain's campaign has been affected by his support for Bush's overall position on Iraq.
His upbeat assessment of conditions in a Baghdad marketplace last week drew criticism from Iraqis there and from some journalists.
But McCain's advisers are pursuing a political strategy often advocated by White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove: taking a perceived weakness and attempting to turn it into a strength.
In the Post-ABC News poll, 70 percent of Republicans said the Iraq war has been worth fighting. And in a recent Newsweek poll, two-thirds of Republicans said they oppose the Democratic legislation calling for a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.


I have check in my count matrix there is no NA values. Probably you can give me some suggestion about this problem. Thank you.
I tried to find error by subset the RoundedReadCount for the first 3 data, it succes. After I move to the fourth data, it is error. So, my guess is the data like the 4th row is causing the problem.
It seems there is a really huge number there. Do you think that's the problem? The number is illogical. I tried to visualize the bam files in that gene, the result shouldn't that big. Probably have some problem in express.
How did you do your counting?
31 Billion reads mapping to a single transcript is not realistic.... something has gone wrong somewhere.
I use eXpress software. I choose the effective count for the read count matrix. I don't know why its result is strange. After that, I tried to use estimate count fro eXpress and the result is normal. I'm still trying to figure it out why effective count from eXpress is weird.
One thing that I should note is that you have transcript IDs in there. DESeq2 is not designed for transcript level counts, only gene level counts. You can do HTSeq_Count -> DESeq2 on your data to do gene level differential expression. Transcript level is a whole other ball game, as you'd be dealing with fractional counts. Tools such as Salmon or Kallisto can return transcript level quantification, or the Tuxedo pipeline. I'd definitely go back through your eXpress command (if you choose to go down that route), and check everything. Otherwise, check out some of the other software I suggested.
Actually I had tried Tuxedo workflow. The problem was Cufflinks result gave me the gene expression for entire locus which is in my gene of interest, the locus has 9 different genes.So, the gene expression level is actually the accummulation of 9 different genes. That's why I changed to count based analysis. At first I use HT-seq to generate the readcount, but the result was weird because it gave too many ambigous result. Many of the rea count from HT-seq was 0 because this ambiguity.
Well, there's not a great deal you can do about the counting methods if your alignment has ambiguously mapped reads. Look at Salmon (https://github.com/COMBINE-lab/salmon) It'll take your fastq files and quantify them to the transcript level, you can also get it to give you gene level quantification. it's a completely different method to the ones you've used thus far, it uses k-mer counting to map reads.
Well, actually, I hope I can use a tool to get the gene level expression directly. I realized that what I want to do is find the correlation between gene expression and its promoter expression. Probably if I use transcript level, after I get the expression level, I will find another problem when I need to accummulate the expression level of different transcript for the same gene. Do you have any suggestion? Actually I think cufflinks is really suitable for this. It's just that the result report for the whole locus it's really unfortunate. My gene of interest is quite unique. All of the 9 gene family, each of it has 5 exon which only the first exon is different (all other 4 exon is used together by 9 different genes). No wonder HT-seq get ambigous mapping because of this. HT-seq will fail to decide which gene is the owner of the read in 4 exon which is used together by 9 different genes.
Salmon uses the accumulated transcript expression to give the gene level expression. I'd say Salmon is your best bet in this case. The alternative is Kallisto, but they haven't implemented gene expression level yet. I've come into so many problems with what Cufflinks actually does, that I'd much rather trust Salmon's approach. My final point would be that if you've got ambiguous reads, then k-mer counting is going to be a much better approach for you.
Thank you. I will try Salmon then. I also read in other forum about StringTie. Probably I will try both to make sure but maybe if you have any opinion or experience about that tool.
Again, stringtie works on the same principle as cufflinks. I don't know how it'll deal with ambiguously mapped reads.
I have finished generating Salmon output. It was quick. So, for the gene level analysis, do I need to generate raw count and use DESeq2 to analyze the expression level? At what step di I need to sum the transcript level so that I can get the gene level expression? Is it after I load DESeq2 or before that? (I think if I need to sum before I load to DESeq it would be hard because I need to know the transcript id for every gene). Thank you for your suggestion.
Just to restate, DESeq2 is designed for gene-level analysis, and we recommend using software such as htseq-count, summarizeOverlaps or featureCounts to obtain for each gene a count of fragments which can be uniquely aligned to that gene.
"Many of the read count from htseq was 0 because this ambiguity."
I'm not sure exactly what problem you are describing, but if you want to sum all the reads/fragments for a gene family, you could edit the annotation file so that these genes all make up one feature. However if you want to test each gene in the family separately, it is not recommended as input to DESeq(2) to use non-uniquely assigning reads. You can search the archive to find many posts on this topic.
The HTseq-count read is ambigous for my gene family. After I tried to find the problem, I think it is caused by the ambiguity in the HTSeq process. My guess is in my gene of interest, the gene family contains of 5 exons. All of it use the same 4 last exon and only the first exon is different. I'm thinking that the usage by 9 gene together can make HTseq confuse which one should the reads of the last 4 exon count assigned to. So, Htseq-count, summarizeOverlaps, and featureCounts is already out of option. I already tried to use them and most of the read is 0.
What I want to do is not get the gene family expression, but the single gene in a gene family (consist of 9 genes). For info, the cufflinks workflow produce result but for whole gene family, not for a single gene. My problem right now is to get gene expression from trasncript expression. eXpress result is in the form of transcript expression count reads. My gene of interest actaully has 2 transcript variant and another gene that I want to check has more variant. I'm kinda confused to get the total gene expression level. I imagine the gene expression level is the accummulation of transcript level but I'm not really sure whether I can directly add count from eXpress or not and in which step I should do the addition.


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      msg.data.should.exist;
      msg.data.test.should.equal('test');
      done();
    });

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      msg.options.deliveryMode.should.equal(2);
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    });

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Our Flickr Heroes this week are: 'Epiphany' by Matthias Dengler on Facebook and Twitter and 'International Cat Day' by Felicity Berkleef on Google+ and Tumblr.
Both are beautiful captures, one highlighting our place in the world and the other capturing others' place in ours. Thanks to all that submitted photos this week to the Flickr Heroes group. We can't wait to see what everyone captures this coming week for next week's Flickr Heroes.


Bo is young street magician living in L.A. He has to support his younger sister Tina following the death of their mother. To do so has had to turn to working as a courier for the drug dealer Angelo. During one of his street performances, Bo meets Holly who leaves him her number. The two go out and attraction blossoms. At the same time, Angelo begins to draw Bo deeper into his operations, including making him party to a brutal crackdown on a rival dealer Maurice.
Sleight was a directorial debut for African-American director J.D. Dillard. Sleight gained great word of mouth after its premiere at the Sundance Festival and was given a theatrical release by Blumhouse in April 2017. Dillard has subsequently signed on to direct Sweetheart (2017) and script Stray (2017), both horror films.
We have had a number of films about stage magicians in the last few years with the likes of The Illusionist (2006), The Prestige (2006) and Now You See Me (2013). Sleight is another. What is different about it is that it takes place with a young African-American hero from a lower socio-economic setting and amid the setting of L.A."s drug culture. In these scenes, Sleight does nothing that we haven"t seen before, playing with familiar easy arcs " the young innocent dragged into a dangerous criminal world; the deal that goes wrong and he finding himself in over his head and having to pay back far more than he is capable of obtaining. Essentially, it is the same plot we had in Nicolas Winding Refn"s Pusher (1996). All of that said, J.D. Dillard has a soft, quiet tone that makes it work. The three principal actors " Jacob Latimore, Seychelle Gabriel and Dulé Hill " all give convincing performances. These are clearly names that are going places.
These scenes occupy a good two-thirds of the film, interspersed with the occasional cuts back to Jacob Latimore performing as a street magician. The weirdest aspect comes in the latter quarter of the film when Latimore decides to uses his magic to stand up to gang leader Dulé Hill who has abducted his sister. We have seen throughout that he has a device planted in his arm that this allows him to conduct levitations, including one scene where we see him causing two AA batteries to float up out of his hand. After going to visit his old teacher, Latimore amps the current in his battery such that it allows him to go and take on the gang members. Here we see him being able to pull a car towards himself, wrench out the jaw of one gang member coming towards him (presumably by affecting his fillings), create a strong enough electrical field to blow out all the lights in the house and stop bullets fired at him in mid-air and propel them back towards Dulé Hill with equal force a la Magneto in X-Men (2000). This is the novelty of something being presented as science-fiction that actually exists " the use of an electrical field as a magnet " but in a way that is completely fantastical. In actuality, Jacob Latimore would have difficulty levitating bullets as the lead in them is near-inert in terms of electrical conductivity. Not to mention the small issue that the amount of electricity required to create a field strong enough to pull a car and stop bullets would require a massive number of copper or iron coils hidden somewhere on Latimore"s body and a powerful battery. It is questionable which would have killed him first " the fact that he is using the skin of his own arms to conduct the charge, which would electrocute him, or that the amount of electrical current required would be enough to fry his skin the moment he turned it on.


R. Melzac and P. Wall's gate control theory presented in 1965, is based on the existence of different types of nerve fibers in charge of "sensation" transmission, from the human body fringe area to the central nervous system. In this way we have: – Small diameter myelinic fibers type A (delta) and unmyelinated type C.
Pelvic floor or perineal stimulation is a popular method for treating incontinence. Pelvic floor electrostimulation successfully restores continence, especially in female patients.


With the demise of Andre C. Avanessian's solo folk metal project and a one year hiatus, Andre got together with some friends to jam on one majestic night in July of 2006. Some days after, Andre had a detailed conversation with an old jamming partner and longtime friend Arin Zakarian. The two decided to mesh their musical talents together through the formation of a band, something both had desired for quite some time.
At first they started out rewriting some of Andre's old music but soon after, the band developed their own sound that was darker than the old material. With the band progressing, Vahe Yaymayan joined the ranks who was at the time, the guitarist of a local thrash metal act. With this lineup the band became known as Vishapakahr in summer of 2006.
The music itself at times carries over a few remnants from Andre's solo project dating back to late 2003, however Vishapakahr is another creature entirely. The band celebrates pre-Christian existence in the Armenian region, otherwise known as the Urartu/Urartaean empire, and embraces concepts of chaos, mythology, nature, and darkness of those times.
Vishapakahr means Serpent(Dragon) Stone in Armenian, these pagan symbols date back thousands of years before the plague of Christianity. The Vishapakahrs are said to represent wisdom, the beginning of life, among other interpretations.
In June 2007 the band recorded their self-titled debut EP album at the Nightmare Sound Studios in June 2007, with session drums provided by Caleb Bingham and is now open for offers from music labels.


12 reasons why you and your child should train Jiu-Jitsu - Gator Family Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, DeLand Fl.
Jiu Jitsu has given me many goals, a sense of purpose and the drive and discipline to go after those goals.
I believe there is no program out there that encompasses physical education and character development like Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu does.
As you become more proficient Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, your confidence gets a big-boost. You become more self-assured and confident. Your Professors encouragement goes a long way to help you achieve this goal, but the confidence level will extend far beyond the Academy.
Belts and rankings are a public recognition among peers for the student's effort and progress. Martial Arts ranking system helps teach you to set goals and achieve them, to persevere and prioritize.
Even during sparring, where the student shows how creatively he or she can apply their well-honed skills – there are still rules and protocols to be followed. All of this teaches you to respect one another, their opponents and colleagues, and how to play games fair and square – lessons that follow you in your non-Martial Arts lives. It also teaches you to commit, to go to practice even when you don't feel like it.
5. Individual Achievement: No one sits on the Bench.
Coaches have access to a endless supply of players that renews itself each year, the big and strong get picked and get to play while the less physically developed watch from the bench, this leads to an even greater disparity in skill development as the season goes by.
At Gator Family Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, our mats are packed while the benches are empty, all kids get equal 'playing time'. Naturally some kids develop their skills and physical abilities earlier than others but we personally find that many kids who start out with underdeveloped athletic attributes such as strength, speed and size, end up blooming onto some of the finest technicians we have in all of our programs.
At Gator Family Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, we have a large amount of girls in our kids and adult programs, and in many classes they outnumber the boys. The girls are among the most technically proficient students we have and often dominate many of the local, regional and national competitions they enter.
At Gator Family Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, we have many families that come to class together and either take class simultaneously or watch each other's sessions.
Jiu Jitsu's main goal is technical prowess and perseverance but the training itself is a whole body workout – Grips, Feet, Hips and Head all need to move in fluid and exact timed motions to properly execute a throw or a fight ending submission. Many world class professional athletes such as NFL players take up Martial Arts in order to improve their game skills.
Jiu Jitsu has experienced a World Wide growth in the past 10 years unlike any other Martial Art. You can find a Jiu Jitsu school in any corner of the of any continent.
In Jiu Jitsu, a student may travel to any school and they will still be practicing the same hip throw, arm lock or choke that are taught at his Academy. In fact I encourage all my students whose jobs involve traveling to always bring a Gi and visit other schools. Even when my students go away on vacation they tell me stories of training from the other side of the country to the other side of the world.
Gator Family Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is part of the Robson Moura Association. We have affiliates worldwide.
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using Dapper;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
using NBXplorer.Backends.Postgres;
using Npgsql;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace NBXplorer.HostedServices
{
	public class DatabaseSetupHostedService : IHostedService
	{
		public DatabaseSetupHostedService(ILoggerFactory loggerFactory,  DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory)
		{
			Logger = loggerFactory.CreateLogger("NBXplorer.DatabaseSetup");
			ConnectionFactory = connectionFactory;
		}

		public ILogger Logger { get; }
		public DbConnectionFactory ConnectionFactory { get; }

		public async Task StartAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
		{
			Logger.LogInformation("Postgres services activated");
			retry:
			try
			{
				await using var conn = await ConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(b =>
				{
					b.Timeout = 120;
					b.CommandTimeout = 120;
				});
				await RunScripts(conn);
			}
			catch (Npgsql.NpgsqlException pgex) when (pgex.SqlState == "3D000")
			{
				var builder = new Npgsql.NpgsqlConnectionStringBuilder(ConnectionFactory.ConnectionString);
				var dbname = builder.Database;
				Logger.LogInformation($"Database '{dbname}' doesn't exists, creating it...");
				builder.Database = null;
				var conn2Str = builder.ToString();
				var conn2 = new Npgsql.NpgsqlConnection(conn2Str);
				await conn2.OpenAsync();
				await conn2.ExecuteAsync($"CREATE DATABASE {dbname} TEMPLATE 'template0' LC_CTYPE 'C' LC_COLLATE 'C' ENCODING 'UTF8'");
				goto retry;
			}
		}

		private async Task RunScripts(System.Data.Common.DbConnection conn)
		{
			DbConnectionHelper.Register(NpgsqlConnection.GlobalTypeMapper);
			await using (conn)
			{
				HashSet<string> executed;
				try
				{
					executed = (await conn.QueryAsync<string>("SELECT script_name FROM nbxv1_migrations")).ToHashSet();
				}
				catch (Npgsql.NpgsqlException ex) when (ex.SqlState == "42P01")
				{
					executed = new HashSet<string>();
				}
				foreach (var resource in System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceNames()
																 .Where(n => n.EndsWith(".sql", System.StringComparison.InvariantCulture))
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				{
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					if (executed.Contains(scriptName))
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					{
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					}
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				}
				((NpgsqlConnection)conn).ReloadTypes();
			}
		}

		public Task StopAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
		{
			Npgsql.NpgsqlConnection.ClearAllPools();
			return Task.CompletedTask;
		}
	}
}


Approximate Nearest Neighbors in C++/Python optimized for memory usage.
A fast Python implementation of collaborative filtering for implicit datasets.
A library for Field-aware Factorization Machine (FFM).
A library for Factorization Machines.


Artistic Dentistry opened in 2010 and is located at 1640 Fountain View Drive in Houston, TX.
Our office is on the first floor in a free-standing building with a beautiful, artistic exterior next to the Exxon Gas Station and diagonal from the HEB. We are wheelchair accessible and have plenty of free parking.
Dr. Zingalis grew up in Houston, TX, and graduated from Westfield High School in 1992 and the University of Texas in Austin in 1996. He earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from The University of Texas School of Dentistry at Houston in 2000 and was the recipient of The Southwest Prosthodontic Society's Annual Award of Merit and the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Dental Student Award. He completed the American Orthodontic Society Comprehensive Orthodontic Education in 2003 and is a graduate of Dr. Gerety's Straight Wire Orthodontics. Dr. Zingalis became Invisalign certified in 2016.
To stay on top of advancements in the field of dentistry, he routinely exceeds the state-required hours of continuing education. Dr. Zingalis is a Pre-Fellow Member of Academy of General Dentistry, Fellow of the prestigious Misch International Implant Institute, Fellow of International Congress of Oral Implantologists, and Diplomate of International Congress of Oral Implantologists.
Dr. Zingalis and his wife, an Army veteran, have a son, Nathan, a daughter, Kayla, and an American Bulldog, Max. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his kids, watching movies, cooking, and hanging out with friends whenever possible.


A Flamboyance, A Crash, and A Dazzle - is a delightful book about the words describing groups of animals. From a Mess of iguanas to a Flamboyance of flamingos this rhyming book will delight all audiences. Endorsed by several award-winning authors, actors, and news anchors, this book is entertaining, enchanting, and informative for children and adults alike. Filled with animals from all over the world including rhinoceros, giraffe, baboons, iguanas, mice, elephants and many more.


In these countries, cosmetic labeling always come with an indication to that effect, and there is a growing awareness and concern among consumers about the cruelty-free claims of their favorite cosmetic brands and their actual adherence to the reverential animal testing ban.
But where does China stand regarding this policy? And why is it so important for China to join the cruelty-free bandwagon? Are there cosmetic brands who claim to be cruelty-free, but are not?
These tests appear to be life-saving techniques for verifying the safety of cosmetic products. However, they do not give an accurate proof of what exactly will happen when a chemical is applied to the human body and how long it will take for that something to happen. This is because the chemistry of human bodies is different from that of critters and other animals.
The cruelty comes from the fact that the animals used in these tests are exposed to hazardous chemicals and thus develop unimaginable allergic reactions. Then they are killed after performing the tests.
China is on the verge of becoming the world's largest cosmetics consumer market, exploding even in the face of recession. This demographic proves to be quite promising for foreign investors and retailers. It has now become a race for premium brands to capture this massive market via online and on-ground sales channels. There's a lot of money to be made.
However, many foreign and domestic cosmetics companies stop cold in their tracks due to China's compulsory animal testing regulations.
It is mandatory for all cosmetic products that are manufactured outside of China and imported into mainland China to be registered, and therefore animal testing must be carried out by law on all such cosmetic products.
While the animal testing regulations have been lifted from locally manufactured cosmetic products, they must be registered if they must be sold in physical stores within mainland China. And thus, locally produced cosmetic products are again subjected to animal testing regulations if they must be introduced for sale into stores.
What this implies is that companies that claim to be cruelty-free brands but sell their products physically inside China cannot truly be cruelty free because they will still be subjected under this law.
Hong Kong is an exception because the political system of Hong Kong is different from that of China.
Recently, China began efforts to meet up with world cruelty-free standards for cosmetic products, but a major drawback for the country is a lack of alternative technology and testing techniques to replace animal testing.
Many high-end and drugstore cosmetic brands are gearing up for the race to be truly cruelty free because consumers are actively boycotting brands that insist on succumbing to animal testing. These cruelty-free makeup brands are also on the way to reformulating their products to be purely vegan as well.


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NSA surveillance everywhere
The Digital Arms Race: How the NSA Reads Over Shoulders of Other Spies. In addition to providing a view of the US's own ability to conduct digital attacks, Snowden's archive also reveals the capabilities of other countries.
The Transgression team has access to years of preliminary field work and experience at its disposal, including databases in which malware and network attacks from other countries are cataloged. The Snowden documents show that the NSA and its Five Eyes partners have put numerous network attacks waged by other countries to their own use in recent years. One 2009 document states that the department's remit is to "discover, understand (and) evaluate" foreign attacks. Another document reads: "Steal their tools, tradecraft, targets and take. " New Snowden Docs Indicate Scope of NSA Preparations for Cyber Battle. Normally, internship applicants need to have polished resumes, with volunteer work on social projects considered a plus.
But at Politerain, the job posting calls for candidates with significantly different skill sets. We are, the ad says, "looking for interns who want to break things. " Politerain is not a project associated with a conventional company. It is run by a US government intelligence organization, the National Security Agency (NSA). More precisely, it's operated by the NSA's digital snipers with Tailored Access Operations (TAO), the department responsible for breaking into computers.
Potential interns are also told that research into third party computers might include plans to "remotely degrade or destroy opponent computers, routers, servers and network enabled devices by attacking the hardware. " New Documents Shed Light on One of the NSA's Most Powerful Tools. Today, we're releasing several key documents about Executive Order 12333 that we obtained from the government in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that the ACLU filed (along with the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic at Yale Law School) just before the first revelations of Edward Snowden.
The documents are from the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and others agencies. They confirm that the order, although not the focus of the public debate, actually governs most of the NSA's spying. In some ways, this is not surprising. NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel. The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals.
Details of the intelligence-sharing agreement are laid out in a memorandum of understanding between the NSA and its Israeli counterpart that shows the US government handed over intercepted communications likely to contain phone calls and emails of American citizens. Snowden Documents Indicate NSA Has Breached Deutsche Telekom.
When it comes to choosing code names for their secret operations, American and British agents demonstrate a flare for creativity.
Sometimes they borrow from Mother Nature, with monikers such as "Evil Olive" and "Egoistic Giraffe. " Other times, they would seem to take their guidance from Hollywood. A program called Treasure Map even has its own logo, a skull superimposed onto a compass, the eye holes glowing in demonic red, reminiscent of a movie poster for the popular "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, starring Johnny Depp. Treasure Map is anything but harmless entertainment. Cash, Weapons and Surveillance: the U.S. is a Key Party to Every Israeli Attack.
President Barack Obama (L) greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference on March 20, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. Photo credit: Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images The U.S. government has long lavished overwhelming aid on Israel, providing cash, weapons and surveillance technology that play a crucial role in Israel's attacks on its neighbors. But top secret documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden shed substantial new light on how the U.S. and its partners directly enable Israel's military assaults – such as the one on Gaza. 20140803-Intercept-NSA Intelligence Relationship With Israel. XKeyscore. NSA targets the privacy-conscious. NSA targets the privacy-conscious von J.
Appelbaum, A. Gibson, J. Goetz, V. XKeyscore exposed: How NSA tracks all German Tor users as 'extremists' : worldnews. NSA targets the privacy-conscious. Granted, arrests are held to a different standard than convictions in that they merely require "probable cause" rather than proof of guilt and this lower standard does make it look like the spam filtering analogy scenario may fit - but in calculating this new "guilt probability" our spam filter is relying increasingly on the "testimony" and "facts" presented by the surveillance database itself and it is the objectiveness of this database in practice, or rather the ones accessing it, that I am directly calling into question (though I didn't elaborate above).
Unfortunately, the database cannot be trusted by virtue of its centralized nature and administration (even if that centralization is justifiable, for example to protect everyone's privacy). Unfortunately, there are no checks and balances on absolute power (centralization), and so we cannot allow centralization to continue indefinitely. Anyways, thanks for the opportunity to flesh my thoughts out more. NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists" NSA Targets the Privacy-Conscious for Surveillance.
Jake Appelbaum et. al, are reporting on XKEYSCORE selection rules that target users -- and people who just visit the websites of -- Tor, Tails, and other sites.
This isn't just metadata; this is "full take" content that's stored forever. This code demonstrates the ease with which an XKeyscore rule can analyze the full content of intercepted connections. The fingerprint first checks every message using the "email_address" function to see if the message is to or from "bridges@torproject.org". Next, if the address matched, it uses the "email_body" function to search the full content of the email for a particular piece of text - in this case, " If the "email_body" function finds what it is looking for, it passes the full email text to a C++ program which extracts the bridge addresses and stores them in a database. [...] It is interesting to note that this rule specifically avoids fingerprinting users believed to be located in Five Eyes countries, while other rules make no such distinction. Report: Rare leaked NSA source code reveals Tor servers targeted.
Two Germany-based Tor Directory Authority servers, among others, have been specifically targeted by the National Security Agency's XKeyscore program, according to a new report from German public broadcaster ARD.
Tor is a well-known open source project designed to keep users anonymous and untraceable—users' traffic is encrypted and bounced across various computers worldwide to keep it hidden. The NSA Is Targeting Users of Privacy Services, Leaked Code Shows. NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland. Dear NSA, Privacy is a Fundamental Right, Not Reasonable Suspicion. Project Bullrun – classification guide to the NSA's decryption program. Turn autoplay off. Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security. US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and emails, according to top-secret documents revealed by former contractor Edward Snowden.
The files show that the National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have broadly compromised the guarantees that internet companies have given consumers to reassure them that their communications, online banking and medical records would be indecipherable to criminals or governments. Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas. Photo credit: Getty Images The National Security Agency is secretly intercepting, recording, and archiving the audio of virtually every cell phone conversation on the island nation of the Bahamas.
According to documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the surveillance is part of a top-secret system – code-named SOMALGET – that was implemented without the knowledge or consent of the Bahamian government. Instead, the agency appears to have used access legally obtained in cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to open a backdoor to the country's cellular telephone network, enabling it to covertly record and store the "full-take audio" of every mobile call made to, from and within the Bahamas – and to replay those calls for up to a month.
All told, the NSA is using MYSTIC to gather personal data on mobile calls placed in countries with a combined population of more than 250 million people. The NSA Files: PRISM & Boundless Information. New Details Show Broader NSA Surveillance Reach. NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic Communication, Says Former Analyst. N.S.A. Dragnet Included Allies, Aid Groups and Business Elite.
While the names of some political and diplomatic leaders have previously emerged as targets, the newly disclosed intelligence documents provide a much fuller portrait of the spies' sweeping interests in more than 60 countries. Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, working closely with the National Security Agency, monitored the communications of senior European Union officials, foreign leaders including African heads of state and sometimes their family members, directors of United Nations and other relief programs, and officials overseeing oil and finance ministries, according to the documents.
Secret Cold War Documents Reveal NSA Spied on Senators - By Matthew M. Aid and William Burr. As Vietnam War protests grew, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) tapped the overseas communications of prominent American critics of the war -- including a pair of sitting U.S. senators. NSA planted bugs at Indian missions in D.C., U.N. Inside TAO: The NSA's Shadow Network. NSA revelations: the 'middle ground' everyone should be talking about. NSA Surveillance Lawsuit Tracker. A federal appeals court recently ruled that the National Security Agency's bulk collection of Americans' phone records is illegal.
NSA Spying Scandal - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten. NSA Spying. Top 10 things you wouldn't believe the NSA is doing on the Internet. Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying. NSA Primary Sources. The NSA Spying Machine: An Interactive Graphic. With every new leak from Edward Snowden's bottomless trove of pilfered documents, it gets harder to keep track of all the bizarre ways the National Security Agency has cooked up to spy on people and governments. This may help. Data in Motion NSA's spies divide targets into two broad categories: data in motion and data at rest. Information moving to and from mobile phones, computers, data centers, and satellites is often easier to grab, and the agency sucks up vast amounts worldwide. Yet common data such as e-mail is often protected with encryption once it leaves a device, making it harder—but not impossible—to crack.
NSA considered spying on Australians 'unilaterally', leaked paper reveals. The US National Security Agency has considered spying on Australian citizens without the knowledge or consent of the Australian intelligence organisations it partners with, according to a draft 2005 NSA directive kept secret from other countries.
Related: Snowden / Assange - NSA / Prism - scandale NSA PRISM - Vie privée - Empreinte numérique - Through PRISM & Other Ports - BIG BROTHER & Co. are WATCHING us.... - Limits on the Media - Privacy Concerns - OpBigBrother - When You See It....ll - republican twits - argumentaire US - NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel - Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security - NSA Spying - Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying - Résultats des plans de surveillance - Résultats des plans de surveillance résidus - Internet surveillance and examples - Surveillance & Sousveillance - Inside the NSA - NSA and Swisscom - NSA US - NSA - Surveillance - NSA - burgeoning surveillance technologies - persistant surveillance systems - NSA - NSA - All Things Surveillance - The NSA and the Internet - NSA surveillance: A guide to staying secure by Bruce Schneier - NSA - Surveillance and Big Brother - Surveillance syndromique en abattoirs - State Surveillance - Mass Surveillance - IP Cameras and Video Surveillance Systems - DAPL: ENFORCEMENT & SURVEILLANCE - Big Brother Awards International - Education - Enterprise


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10 Things To Do For This Saturday in L.A. [5-7-2022]
May 7, 2022 by Brian Champlin
Overlooking the newly renovated Los Angeles State Historic Park. Photo by Christina Champlin / We Like L.A.
Mother's Day is on deck, but there's plenty going for Saturday too.
Below you'll find our top three picks for today (May 7) in Los Angeles, followed by a bullet list of seven other quick ideas to consider. Whatever you end up doing, enjoy your day!
Things To Do For Saturday
1st Valley Asian Cultural Festival -> To celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the West Valley – Warner Center Chamber of Commerce is hosting a first-ever Asian Valley Cultural Festival this Saturday at Pierce College in Woodland Hills. The event flyer promises food, music, dance, shopping, children's activities, and more. Free admission. Runs 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. More info here.
"Deep Routes" at Union Station -> Union Station hosts a special evening to celebrate dublab's "Deep Routes" radio series, which was produced in partnership with Metro to document the intersection of music history and L.A.'s transit systems. The event includes live performances, DJ sets and special installations. Runs 4 to 8 p.m. Free to attend. More info here.
Score For Here Opening -> Clockshop will host an opening reception for Score for Here, a new site-specific sonic experience (aka, a free app you download on your phone) designed for LA State Historic Park, and created by artist Jimena Sarno. Park visitors can use the app to compose and record specially modified audio samples, with unique sound elements triggered as they move into different zones throughout the park. The opening event runs from 3 to 5 p.m. this Saturday. Free to attend. More info here.
Seven More Things To Do in L.A. Today
Today in Westlake, Levitt LA and Cultiva LA team up for a garden block party and spring health fair featuring free music and food. The event is part of the month-long We Rise 2022 event series, which aims to reshape mental health treatment by promoting awareness and increasing community access to health and wellness resources.
Mount Wilson Observatory welcomes a new traveling exhibit on the Hubble Space Telescope starting today.
Free Comic Book Day is today, and both Revenge Of (Eagle Rock Blvd) and Golden Apple (Melrose Ave) will be hosting events to celebrate.
Thinkspace Projects will host an opening reception tonight for two new solo shows, Sandra Chevrier's Cages and the Shadow of the Colors and Troy Lovejoy's Would.
It's the opening weekend for the L.A. County Fair at Fairplex in Pomona.
Today at 4 p.m., the city will host a public celebration to mark the unveiling of the Historic Filipinotown Eastern Gateway at Beverly Boulevard and Belmont Avenue in Historic Filipinotown. The ribbon-cutting and lighting ceremony will also feature music and dance performances. Those interested in attending are urged to RSVP here.
Street Food Cinema continues its 2022 season with a screening of Mamma Mia at LA State Historic Park.
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Xia Junsu's "Flower" is More than Incredible
Xia Junsu recently dropped his third solo album, "Flower", on March 3rd, with the title track MV of the same name dropping with it. After stunning the world with "Tarantallegra" and reinvigorating it with "Incredible", we were promised a shocking transformation on Junsu's part for his next release.
"Flower" is like nothing we have seen before in K-pop; it is an incredibly detailed piece of art, with every aspect being well thought out and relevant. Filled with deep emotions, jaw dropping aesthetics and a symbolic message, this release is more than "Incredible".
The song is an intricately woven piece; it uses elements of hip-hop, musical theatricality, orchestral pieces and opera to create an emotional ride that is not easily forgotten. Junsu, himself, composed and wrote the track, so it is easy to see where these influences have come from with his background in musical theatre. The song starts off with a eerie melody that pierces the silence like a chiming clock. From that point on more layers are added to the song, creating an ebb and flow of emotions; From Tablo's introduction, to the operatic vocals, to the flourishes of the string instruments, this song has the ability to create an emotional experience — even without lyrics.
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It is so epic it feels like it belongs in some sort of Lord of the Rings battle. If I hadn't already seen the MV, I would be expecting Gandalf to come in to save the day on an eagle. So obviously, someone needs to get a note to Junsu, the MV needs more eagles.
Junsu's impressive vocals completely slay this song, bringing emotional depth and direction to it. The desperation and deep-rooted scars, which may not be visible, become apparent through his singing. Junsu's part tells the story of someone who has been kicked down and is trying to get back up, reaching for something that he can hold onto. The prominent 'Come take my hand' lyric plays a role in creating that desperation.
Come take my hand
So I can live for you again
Please take my hand
Tablo's rap breathes life into a piece that seemed to be sunk in depression and desperation. He brings to the song his own experiences of rising above his struggles and coming out on the other side. The emotional depth that Tablo creates in his lyrics has always astounded, and "Flower" delivers the listener nothing less than that.
Look at me, I've died but I opened my eyes again, I killed it
The darkness swallowed me but now I'm swallowing you
The excitement for the collaboration was fully justified with the result being better than imagined. These two seem to fit perfectly together, with both artists having come out of dark periods in their lives; Tablo was caught up in a modern day witch hunt and Junsu left one of the biggest groups and companies of the K-pop industry to an unknown fate. They're experiences as musicians and people really shine through in this song.
There should be a rule that one should never watch a Junsu MV with expectations or assumptions, because they are guaranteed to be blown away. I thought we learned our lesson with Tarantellegra. The first time watching this MV it was easy to get lost within the imagery, whether it be the setting, costuming, props or Junsu's lips; Let's face it, that is as close as most of use are going to see Junsu's lips. A lot of detail was put in to create Junsu a world of his own for this MV.
However, as easy as it is to get lost within the imagery, it isn't as easy to completely understand it first watch. Rather than being based on a clear dramatic plot line, this MV relies on the use of symbolism to get the message across. Watching this video is a bit like solving a mystery, as you have to piece together all the symbolism presented to create the story. For that reason, the video seems very open to the viewer's own interpretation. You only have to glance at the YouTube comments to see that.
From the beginning of the MV, we are introduced to Junsu as a king living a life of supposed luxury. However, it quickly becomes apparent that there is something very wrong with the world around him; The severed gold head thrown at his feet, the melted-down head being served in a tea cup, and the grotesque fish each symbolize different things but all three declare that something isn't right with the world. Junsu, as the king, has become desensitized to the wrongness — shown by his unfocused gaze — and doesn't realize until it is too late. Soon enough, he is poisoned and dying as an 'innocent' young girl laughs menacingly on the sideline.
This signals that a change needs to be made. That lifestyle of royalty, the people involved and himself are all killing him. This could be a representation of fame and wealth in general, but most likely it is a representation of his never-ending fight with SM entertainment.
It is easy to draw comparisons between this MV and the ongoing battle JYJ has had with SM entertainment in the years after they left. The little girl could be a representation of SM Entertainment that seems innocent but really has bad intentions. Whether or not you believe that is your opinion, but you must admit it leads to good production material.
From the death of the king, we are introduced to three different types of Junsu; They are represented at the head of three dancing troops as a king, a peasant and a god. These three versions of Junsu, could be projections of what the possible outcomes of his struggle could be and who he will become because of it.
The king represents who he was, the god represents his dreams, the peasant represents his fears; One is stagnant, another loses everything and the other wins everything. The climax of the MV occurs when the video cuts between the three versions of Junsu dancing, as if he is warring between them. However, the last scene, where we see Junsu become a knight, is the pivitol conclusion to that entire MV and his struggle. Junsu is no longer a king, a peasant or a god, those titles mean nothing anymore, he's a fighter.
This MV seems to not only reflect his struggle with the outside world but also his struggle with himself. Junsu is constantly reinventing himself, from his time as a DBSK member, a member of JYJ, a musical actor, to becoming a soloist. He draws inspiration from his own experiences to become, what I consider, a true artist. As he has grown as a person his music has too, presenting an authentic reflection of himself to the world.
"Flower" was everything, if not more, than what was promised. Sadly, this review would've turned out to be too long if all the symbolism in this MV was addressed. However, that fact is a testament to the amount of detail that went into the creation of this release. It's practically top marks from me, but what would you give it? And what was your take on the story of the MV?
Rating: 4.95/ 5
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Traditional methods for Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) usually, consider that processes operate under a single steady condition, but because of several reasons (e.g.: equipment aging), operation conditions of industrial processes change continuously in practice. Under these new circumstances, the use of the originally tuned FDD system would cause false alarms and will reduce the fault classification performance. In this study, the Hyperplane-Distance Support Vector Machine (HD-SVM) method is exploited for process FDD to maintain FDD performance when it decays because of the ageing. Its effectiveness is shown through simulation studies on a CSTR reactor, for which an aging term is simulated by progressively decreasing the heat transfer coefficient (5%). This aging will lead to reduce the classification performance accordingly. Next, performance of HD-SVM, Traditional Incremental Learning (TIL) and Non-Incremental Learning (NIL) (using all data) are compared. The HD-SVM incremental learning is shown to reduce the training time of the classifier, while increasing the accuracy of the classifier. Therefore, HD-SVM is shown to cover the weaknesses of Traditional incremental learning algorithms to lose possible information and to improve classification performance in process FDD.
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1. The U.S. Army is a racially diverse force with about 40% non-whites in its active duty service. What percentage are women?
2. The U.S. Army budget is $70 billion. But Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki recently testified before Congress that he wants more money each year to meet anticipated equipment and personnel shortfalls. How much of an annual increase did he request?
3. The U.S. total current military budget is how much compared to the combined military budgets of Russia, China and the seven nations on the U.S. State Department's list of sponsors of terrorism (Iran, Syria, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Cuba, Sudan)?
4. The U.S. Army currently is planning to spend about $13 billion to develop a new mobile artillery system to replace its aging howitzers. What is this artillery system called?
5. At the end of the Cold War, the U.S. Army had 18 active divisions representing nearly 800,000 active duty personnel. The Army currently has how many active divisions?
6. At the end of the Cold War, the U.S, Army had more than 260,000 troops based overseas. How many Army troops are stationed abroad in 2000?
7. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki recently decided to change the standard headgear of all Army personnel. What's the new look?
8. The Army expression "Hooah!" could be translated to mean what?
10. In 2000, what percentage of Army soldiers are married?
11. The average U.S. Army officer retires at what age?
12. The Army National Guard budget today is $6.5 billion. How many are active Army guard members?


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Q: Batman villain- child or teenage crime boss I saw this character in a Batman comic in either late 80's/early 90's. The character is a child or teenage crime boss who fancies himself a general/strategist; early in the comic Batman tries to "save him from thugs" only for the brat to hit him with a hammer when his (Batman's) back is turned.
Later, thinking he killed Batman, the crime boss addresses his goons and tells them Batman is dead (he's wrong of course, but doesn't know that yet) then interrogates two of Black Mask's men (who are both dressed up as clowns for some reason) and executes one for talking back at him.

A: Could be Ulysses Hadrian Armstrong, known as The General. He later became the second Anarky.

A: Ulysses Hadrian Armstrong, also known as the General and later the second Anarky, fits your description. He's a young military genius who first appeared in 1992, uniting Gotham's gangs as his own personal army during a three-issue arc in Detective Comics.

The scenes you describe happen in the middle issue, Detective Comics #655. Batman saves the General when another gang leader drops him off a roof, re-opening a previous wound and allowing the General to hit him from behind:

Later, he captures two of Black Mask's men and executes one:

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Hi Joyce, I've been waiting for your take on Porgy & Bess. I saw it on the 17th and I loved it - especially Audra MacDonald and, of course, the music. I hated the ending, although I think they might have changed it since I saw it. The Times review said that "the show's original ending, which had been replaced in the early previews, has now been restored." When I saw it they had Beth and Clara's baby encountering Porgy after his release from jail. Beth wants him to come to NY with them. Porgy wants her to stay, finds out she's got some cocaine in her purse, they have a fight, the Catfish Row women take the baby, and she leaves. Next thing you know, Porgy changes his mind and goes after her. I thought: How could they change the perfectly reasonable and believable original ending and come up with that confused lovers' quarrel which didn't really make any dramatic sense. So did you see the normal ending where Beth falls off the wagon and leaves while Porgy is still away and then he comes home to learn the news and goes after her?
I also didn't like the set very much. I wouldn't have minded a spare, abstract set to focus the action on the actors, but I just thought the set was pretty ugly and could have been much more interesting evocative of Catfish Row.
I miss doing your reviews at the station, although now it looks like there's another ban on free-lancers and overtime. Know anybody who needs an edit done?


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Madlib and Freddie Gibbs will release their collaborative album Piñata on March 18 via Madlib's label Madlib Invazion. (It was pushed back from its initial February 4 release date.) After "City", "Shame", "Harold's", "Thuggin", and "Deeper", they've shared another track. Listen to "Robes" featuring Earl Sweatshirt and Domo Genesis above.
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Coalition of Peaks to hold six Closing Gap engagement in Western Australia this month
Broome will today host the first of sixface-to-face meetings in Western Australia on the development of a new NationalAgreement on Closing the Gap. Themeetings provide an opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peopleto tell the Coalition of Peaks and governments what changes are needed toimprove their lives.
Aboriginal Health Council Western AustraliaChair, Vicki O'Donnell said it was critical to engage with communities acrossWestern Australia as part of the policy development process.
"We're kicking off a series of communityengagements today in Broome and will be holding five more face-to-face meetingsacross the state throughout October," O'Donnell said.
"Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islandercommunities must be at the centre of decision-making on policies that willaffect our lives. We know better than anyone what will work for us so listeningto communities makes for better policy. We want to make sure governments heardirectly from our communities.
"The historic partnership between the Coalitionof Peaks and governments represents the best chance we've got to ensure theexpertise and knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people isembedded in government policies to help make improvements in our lives.
"This is the first time Aboriginal and TorresStrait Islander people, through the Coalition of Peaks, have had a formalpartnership with governments on such significant policy reform. As part of thatprocess, the Coalition of Peaks is determined to give communities acrossAustralia the opportunity to have a say about what is needed to help close thegap.
Following today's engagement in Broome, the Coalition ofPeaks will hold meetings in, October 21 in Kalgoorlie, October 23 on PortHeadland, October 28 in Perth and dates yet to be finalised in October andNovember for Geraldton and Katanning. The face-to-face discussions are part of acomprehensive set of community engagements, which also include Peakconsultations with its own membership and an online survey, open until October 25.
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Boise, ID – Ballet Idaho will bring a version of their Winter Repertory to the Nampa community in February. The original program of the Winter Repertory, performed over two nights at the Velma V. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts February 10 -11, 2017 will consist of Peter Anastos' comedy ballet Night Crawlers, new work by company member Daniel Ojeda, titled The Monster and the Gift, and George Balanchine's masterpiece, Concerto Borocco. Music for the Winter Repertory at the Morrison Center will be played live by local pianist Del Parkinson and the Boise Baroque Chamber Orchestra.
The Winter Repertory will then travel to the Nampa Civic Center two weeks later for one night only, February 25, 2017. This revised program will include Peter Anastos' ballet Sweet Dreams with music by Patsy Cline and Elvis Pelvis with music by Presley, the Anastos comedy ballet Night Crawlers, as well as excerpts from Ojeda's The Monster and the Gift.
Since 1972, Ballet Idaho has enriched lives through classical ballet and served as a dynamic reflection of the Boise community. Led by Artistic Director Peter Anastos, Ballet Idaho is the only professional ballet company and academy in the state of Idaho, bringing together the highest level of dance excellence with a commitment to education and training. For more information, visit www.balletidaho.org. Tickets available here.
Winter Repertory's "The Monster and the Gift"
We sat down with company member and choreographer Daniel Ojeda to discuss his new ballet, The Monster and the Gift, which will make it's world debut at this month's Winter Repertory. Ojeda's ballet will run February 10 and 11, alongside Concerto Barocco by George Balanchine and Peter Anastos' Night Crawlers.
Ballet Idaho: What inspiration do you look for when creating a full ballet?
Daniel Ojeda: Most of the work I create, big or small, tends to be conceptually driven and preferably current. Whether that means a current reflection of my own personal struggles, or something more universally topical, I do my best to be consistently creating in the now otherwise I see no point attempting to create anything.
BI: What about ballet/dance gives you the most joy?
DO: To me, Dance is the best vehicle for the purest form of expression. Before we could talk, we could move and emote. I love being able to use my body's unique physicality to express myself, it's like therapy, really painful therapy.
BI: How/when in your life did you begin choreographing?
DO: I began choreographing here, at Ballet Idaho as part of our NewDance, Up Close series. The 'how' is a combination of things. When I danced at Pacific Northwest Ballet School as a professional division student, there was a program where company members would create original work for the students to be performed at the end of the year. This was my first exposure to the choreographic process. I loved dancing the work but I loved the process of working to create something more. This is why I decided to give choreography a shot.
BI: What do you love most about choreography in contrast to dancing?
DO: The ability to create work on different bodies is probably my favorite thing about choreography. My own body can sometimes be very limiting, so being able to make tangible the things I see in my brain but can't necessarily execute is really interesting. There is an intimacy and trust that comes with having a piece choreographed on you. But when you are in front of the room and you're the one creating that environment, it's very rewarding.
BI: How did you begin your process for The Monster and the Gift? Does the ballet have a story?
DO: The process for this ballet has been longer than most. The idea to do a collaborative work, especially one involving original artwork has been on my brain for a little over a year. The ballet stems from an original narrative I have created. From there, the artwork and score were created. So yes, the ballet certainly has a story. The title refers to the artist, their talent, and how oftentimes the most talented people are monster in their personal lives. The work comes at a cost, sometimes it's at the cost of ones humanity. Since the artist's life is her work, we see bits and pieces of her life through the process of her creating the art and where she was in her life during that creation.


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Microsoft — Shares of the technology giant slipped 3.5% despite the company posting third-quarter results that topped analyst expectations. Microsoft posted earnings per share of $1.95 on revenue of $41.71 billion. Analysts polled by Refinitiv expected earnings per share of $1.78 on revenue of $41.03 billion.
Alphabet — The technology titan's stock rose 4.8% after the company posted first-quarter results that topped analyst expectations. Google's parent company posted earnings per share of $26.29 on revenue of $55.31 billion. Analysts polled by Refinitiv expected earnings per share of $15.82 on revenue of $51.70 billion.
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Starbucks — The coffee company's stock fell 1.5% after the company released mixed fiscal second-quarter results. Starbucks reported earnings per share of 62 cents on revenue of $6.67 billion. Analysts surveyed by Refinitiv predicted earnings per share of 53 cents on revenue of $6.82 billion.
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AMD — The semiconductor company's stock climbed 3.3% on the back of better-than-expected results for the first quarter. AMD logged earnings per share of 52 cents on revenue of $3.45 billion. Analysts polled by Refinitiv expected earnings per share of 44 cents on revenue of $3.21 billion.
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Measures E and U were approved by voters in November of 2014. Since that time, a great deal of work has been underway for the district's facility upgrade projects.
In 2013, the District embarked on the process of creating a new Facilities Master Plan (FMP). The purpose was to identify facility needs within Tahoe Truckee Unified District that would support the educational goals of our students. The FMP identified over $236 million in facility needs. The facility needs to be included not only upgrading and expanding our schools but also the rehabilitation, repair, and replacement of our aging buildings. The Board and staff reviewed the FMP and prioritized the facilities needs to be identified to include only the most crucial projects. The Board identified over $114 million in priority projects in the Truckee Area and $62 million in the Lakeside Area.
Measure E Projects: Tahoe Lake Elementary, Kings Beach Elementary, North Tahoe School, and North Tahoe High School.
Measure U Projects: Alder Creek Middle School, Donner Trail Elementary, Glenshire Elementary, Sierra Expeditionary Learning School (SELS), Truckee Elementary, and Truckee High School.


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Q: static member variable in a class function with multithreading deleted by another thread I have a static member variable in a class:
template <class T>
class classFactory
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private:
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    static Creator &GetCreators()
    {
       static Creator creator;
       return creator;
    }
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An exit()->atexit() was called on the main() function which called a global destructor and deleted this static member creator.
another thread was still accessing this static member using the same GetCreators() function and caused a crash.
My question:

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*Where is this static member allocated? I know it is an uninitialized global so it should go on BSS? But why does it get destroyed by the global destructor even when it is in the static member function?

*I was told making it a new would fix this problem -> global destructor will leave it out.
i.e.
static Creator &GetCreators()
    {
        static Creator* creator = new Creator;
        return *creator;
    }

Why would this fix the problem? Because now it goes on the heap? Why would the global destructor leave this alone?
In this case, when should I delete this object. I have no way of knowing which thread will be last in execution.
Now I did try making the object a thread_local but this makes many of my programs crash (this is a driver framework called by other clients).
static Creators &GetCreators()
{
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    return creators;
}

The reason , I think , is that the object creation becomes timing based when I make it thread_local static and causes many race conditions.


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