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Looking for last-minute Christmas presents? The Good Food team recommend their favourite cookbooks of 2010.
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Many CA readers have probably noticed Lucia's recent coverage of Benestad Schmidt (JGR 2009) (with the inevitable acronym BS09). BS09 was an effort by B&S to verify Scafetta and West.
realclimatescientists can also be climateauditors, I guess. It's too bad that they don't spend the same amount of energy examining Mann et al 2008 or something like that.
Scafetta replied to BS09 at Pielke Sr here. The rebuttal point that interested Lucia was an issue relating to end points. Scafetta argued that BS09 had failed to understand wavelet decomposition and urged the BS authors to study a wavelet primer. While I've used wavelet decomposition in R from time to time and have written algorithms using modwt, my initial reaction was that once they started arguing about wavelets, you'd have to see their scripts to fully understand what the dispute was about.
In fact, the matter is much simpler than that and pertains only to end-point padding, an issue that we've covered here on a number of occasions, especially in connection with Mannian smoothing and Rahmstorf smoothing. Lucia referred to the latter discussion, but the discussion has been going longer than that.
As we've discussed, there are several methods in play for endpoint padding to create a smooth: padding with the mean (IPCC); reflection; reflection-and-flipping (Mann); linear extrapolation (Rahmstorf).
An option embedded in some algorithms – one which is highly inappropriate for trending series – is "cyclic" padding. Where you pad the end with values from the beginning.
Here is BS09 Figure 4. Note in particular the downslope of the smoothed version of the various series at the end.
Figure 1. Excerpt from BS09.
Figure 2. Figure from Pielke Sr blog illustrating the cyclic padding in BS09.
This particular issue is unrelated to wavelet decomposition in the sense that cyclic padding with a gaussian filter or something like that would have yielded a more or less similar smooth. In the latter case, however, you'd have had to make a decision on endpoint padding and even the BS09 authors would have been unlikely to include cyclic padding in their written description. It seems to have crept in as a default mechanism in the algorithm, to the authors' bad luck.
B&S09 clearly stated that we had not been able to fully emulate Scafetta and West's methodology and so statements that we did something different to them were to be expected. The issue with the periodic vs. reflection boundary conditions in the wavelet decomposition does make a difference – but what they used was never stated in any of their papers (look it up!).
We repeated the analysis in SW06a and SW06b, and tested the sensitivity of the conclusions to a number of arbitrary choices. The methods of SW06a and SW06b were used (1) …. We reproduced the SW06a study…".
There is no mention of any concern over how to emulate BS09 endpoint padding. Limited concerns were expressed about getting "exactly the same ratio of amplitudes", to a "slight" difference in lagged values and to the ACRIM discussion in a separate paper by Scafetta and Willson. Perhaps there's a "clear statement" elsewhere in the article that I missed. If so, perhaps someone can bring it to my attention.
In any event, the use of cyclic padding is a clanger. I presume that Scafetta is going to pursue this as a reply, in which case, I suggest that it would be useful for him to compare BS09 endpoint padding to IPCC padding, Mannian padding and Rahmstorf padding.
It looks like the realclimatescientists are going to have to start on another Corrigendum. Predictably Gavin declared that the error doesn't "matter". Funny, Team errors never seem to "matter".
Gavin's got this part exactly right. Verbal descriptions of methods seldom provide enough information; code saves a lot of time and energy. This has obviously been a CA campaign for a long time. I, for one, am quite willing to do my part in "freeing" the code; I've already emailed Nicola Scafetta. (In this case, it seems logical to also provide the code for BS09.) Maybe Gavin will join us in resolving long outstanding questions pertaining to MBH that have frustrated us for years (and ignored by Wahl and Ammann): how were the confidence intervals in MBH99 calculated? how were the number of retained principal components calculated?
This entry was written by Stephen McIntyre, posted on Aug 7, 2009 at 11:38 AM, filed under General and tagged benestad, bs09, mannomatic smoothing, rasmus, schmidt, smooth, smoothing. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.
I would probably prefer the padding by setting "T" at all future points equal to the last known "T". At any rate, if some conclusions don't survive the change of the padding to some of the other algorithms, I would say that they're not robust. It's the old observation by Feynman that one can't build his conclusions on the last point in a graph. If the people were sure that it was reliable, they could add one more. In some sense, it applies to time series, too.
Is the usage of wavelets and their chosen shape justified? Many of these things look arbitrary to me. They can be OK to get some idea or conclusion if it is robust but if it is not, it is not hard to see that people write papers like BS09.
is certainly a propos here. Wavelet analysis, however, does not rely upon that last point, per se, in looking for nonstationarities, which are not the real issue in Scafetta's analysis anyway. Although Scafetta could have made his original point perhaps more strongly via other techniques, it is BS09 that makes the bonehead end-point error, while indulging in gratuitous talk about robustness.
There is nothing "non-robust" about properly applied wavelet analysis despite the different forms of wavelets that may be employed. The onus is entirely on the analyst to make the proper choice (similar to that of choosing a spectral window) and run the analysis intelligently. Those choices affect only the granularity and not the substance of the picture obtained.
IMO, the issue here has very little to do with wavelet analysis to the extent that it is used as a form of smoothing – and I really don't want to spend time on the wavelet aspect of this.
Let's stick to the endpoint padding issue.
Dare I point out that it Lubos Motl (#1) who raised the wavelet aspect in the first place? I certainly don't wish to waste anyone's time.
Another aspect of this paper is the problem of collinearity between solar and CO2 in a regression. MBH98 did a linear regression of the type criticized. Chefen and I did some useful posts on this a couple of years ago.
That's the best point Gavin made.
A bit of a 'clanger'. I like it.
I should mention that it doesn't appear from Gavin and Scafetas comments that Gavin or his team have been in contact.
From Dr. Scafetta on Lucia's.
The problem I saw in BS09 is not just the evident mathematical errors it contains but the arrogance of the tone. They never contacted me to ask a clarification, for example.
It is the way how they used the code that is wrong because they do not know how wavelet works and how they must be used to let them to work.
It was big of Dr. Schmidt to admit error, but the end point treatment they used made so little sense it's hard to explain.
Dare I say that BS09 is robustly wrong?
Or advise him of the admonition about living in glass houses.
I guess you won't be handing out brownies. hehe.
I should point out that the end-point issue with doing a circular transform is not unique to wavelets. Wavelets as implemented here are nothing more than a class of FIR filters that obey certain properties (which are useful for perfect reconstruction). The normal implementation of a FIR filter is a convolution. For some applications, it makes sense to implement the convolution circularly, i.e., by tying the end to the beginning and performing the convolution in a circle. Doing so inevitably forces discontinuities between the end points, be they wavelets or other functions serving as the basis.
Is the usage of wavelets and their chosen shape justified?
I suppose it depends upon your goal. Without a priori knowledge of the "signal" you're looking for, I'm not sure any one choice is better than another as long as the choice obeys the specific requirements for being called a wavelet.
BS09 reads like an example of "Ready, Fire, Aim", which always increases the chances that you will shoot yourself in the foot.
As you may be aware, I've been trying for some time to achieve a more "perfect emulation" of MBH methodology. While some code was provided in connection with the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearings a few years ago, the code was unfortunately incomplete. The code did not include the steps in which the confidence intervals in MBH99 were calculated nor how the number of retained principal components for the various tree ring networks was calculated. Existing information is insufficient to permit either to be emulated. Aside from myself, some very able Climate Audit readers (Jean S, UC) have tried hard to figure out these steps and have been frustrated.
I would appreciate it if you would attempt to persuade your associates to provide the relevant code for these steps. I will do what I can to persuade Scafetta to provide a script for their calculations.
Resolving small measures like this can go a long way.
Unfortunately my carefully composed contribution seems to have vanished before being submitted :-(( I'll try to start again.
I fear that I must have missed a vital point early in these discussions of smoothing, endpoint treatment and wavelets. I admit immediately that I know /nothing/ about wavelet analysis, so will have to assume that in common with other methods of smoothing it is intended to produce believable (plausible?) estimates of as yet ungathered observations. In other words, it is hoped that the future of the series can be predicted. This demands (I think) that a model must be hypothesised and then tested against known observations so that one can be reasonably convinced that model and observations are mutually "consistent". Having achieved this the model is projected into the future and its consequences weighed in the balance of politics and science.
What I would really like to know is the provenance of the data that were used to generate the intriguing plots provided by Steve. The cyclic component is truly amazing! Where can they be found, please? To my untutored eye some of the curves appear to be creations of fantasy – though since I cannot see the individual data points I may be fantasising too.
Is anyone really going to place credence in these methods? I would like to see the result of applying them to some well-known climate data. I would suggest trying observations from Anchorage, Fairbanks and other Alaskan sites for the thirty year period 1946 to 1976, totally ignoring data from the following years, applying the endpoint manipulation methods of the types described by Steve, and using the fitted model to forecast events from mid 1976 onward. My expectation is that a simple model will do a brilliant job on the known data, 1946 to 1976, producing forecasts for 1977 to say 1987 with impressively narrow confidence bands. This exercise should be repeated for the 30 years after 1976, using the data that emerged during that period. Comparison of the two fitted models and their relationships to the actual data numbers should provide some talking points.
Underlying all this is my feeling that climate for a given location or region may be essentially resistant to any "rational" attempts to forecast it. A "random" component may in practice outweigh the best-laid schemes of skilled operators in the art of climate forecasting.
To this econemetrician, this really looks like someone desperately thrashing the data. There is no connection between the original data and the final results.
Scafetta and West's conclusions do not stand or fall on the basis of any end-point issue (although it's not clear how they resolved it)*. It's the efficacy of wavelet analysis as a bandpass filter throughout the entire record that matters in revealing the similarities between the solar and temperature records. By contrast, SB09's critique does fall on the basis of inept cyclical padding of trending data. I think that's the point that John S was driving at in this discussion, which got off on the wrong foot from the start.
Uncritical resort to cyclical padding has become fairly common practice not only in filtering but in spectral estimation, where the entire record is assumed to repeat indefinetly in FFT-based analyses. When the record is very long and suitable decimation techniques are used, the results can be quite indicative despite such assumptions. That luxury is very seldom available in climate studies. My employer wisely bans all analyses that involve data padding.
* Maybe Mark T can shed some expert light on this question.
Good for you. Cleverness is not even required, it's built in to the periodic nature of Fourier series analysis.
Re: sky (#20), I believe I was initially misled by Scafetta's framing of the cyclic padding issue, and I think others have too. B&S, as I now see it, did not use cyclic padding for trended data. They fitted a fifth order polynomial to get their initial smooth, reflecting the trend. This does not involve any padding. They then subtracted this to approximate a stationary process, which they band filtered by wavelet analysis, recovering two bands D8 (centred on a 22yr cycle) and D7 (11yr). It was in this band filtering that cyclic padding was used. BS say that S&W used reflection padding.
Cyclic padding, of course, introduces a discontinuity – reflection makes a discontinuous derivative. Both produce Gibbs effects. In this case, they are not so large, because the process (D8 and D7) is at least approximately stationary, and just a part of the total signal.
I don't think your explanations really fit.
Had BS09 properly detrended the data, the downturn at the end of their bandpass shouldn't be as severe as it is. Furthermore, Gavin has effectively admitted to error in using cyclical padding. Lacking any code from him, nobody really knows what was actually done.
The higher-frequency ripple known as the Gibbs effect is manifest only between cardinal points of a discrete series when insufficient terms are retained in the Fourier series expansion of a sharp-featured signal. This is not an issue here. Both wavelet and F. analysis provide exact results at the cardinal points. If anything, I would expect customarily very smooth finite-duration wavelets to smooth over discontinuities.
Re: sky (#24), First I don't think Gavin has admitted an error using cyclic padding. He shouldn't have, because I think his approach using a low-order polynomial to detrend is better than what S&W did, and much reduces the dependence on padding anyway. I think what he did concede was that what B&S did was not a complete emulation of what S&W did.
I didn't understand your argument about cardinal points, but it certainly isn't true that Gibbs oscillations are only manifest when insufficient Fourier terms are retained. Sharp featured signals have many harmonics, extending into high frequencies. They only remain sharp featured if all these are retained with amplitude and phase unchanged. Any filtering changes this, and the harmonics then become evident as oscillations within the data set.
In the case of these bandpass filters, the artefacts created by the boundary treatment generate oscillations within the frequency band. There would have been higher frequencies as well, but they are attenuated by the band pass.
There's really no solid ground for speculation when only the authors know (???) what they did with the data.
No matter how sharp-featured or discontinuous the signal, if it satisfies the Dirichlet conditions, the entire stretch of record can be reproduced over continuous time with an infinite Fourier series. That reproduction, however, is not extendable to other stretches, unless the signal itself is strictly periodic. When that signal is sampled at discrete time-intervals, the F. series is necessarily truncated to a finite series at the Nyquist frequency. If there's no aliasing introduced by sampling, that reproduceability survives. Otherwise, truncation of the series produces the Gibbs effect between the cardinal points at which the underlying signal was sampled. The exactitude of reconstruction at the cardinal points survives in any event. Any post-sampling filtering of the discrete data series can only operate on the frequencies below or at Nyquist. With genuine band-pass filtering, there's no need to detrend the data; the filter removes that trend by itself.
I really can't take any more time to clear up your persistent confusions about the basics of signal analysis/synthesis.


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The beautiful and historic Ljubljanica River.
We arrived in Ljubljana via a 3-hour shuttle bus ride from Venice's Piazzale Roma and checked in to one of the city's trendiest hotels, Hotel Cubo where we were met by Karmen Rus, a representative of the Public Relations office of Tourism Ljubljana. It was almost 4 pm when we arrived, but since it was summer the days were longer. Since we really did not expect much of our stay, we decided we were not going to be in the city for more than a day (something we immediately regretted afterwards).
Despite the short stay, we managed to see quite a good sampling of what life is in Ljubljana. Since Hotel Cubo was right smack in the centre of the city, all the major sites were within walking distance (31 sights and institutions and about 16 museums and galleries are all within 5-15 minutes walk from the Old Town). The city is refreshingly green, earning itself the accolade 'European Green Capital for 2016' and it's main river, the Ljubljanica is extremely clean.
Out of its many sights and attractions, we do have our favourites and among these favourites, Ljubljanski Grad (Ljubljana Castle) stands out - both figuratively and literally. This iconic Slovenian fortress stands on top of a 376 metre hill and is the symbol of of the city. The castle was first mentioned in ancient writings between 1112-1125. Fast forward to 1905, then Mayor Ivan Hribar purchases the the castle from the Austro-Hungarian authorities with a vision for it to become a centre of the city's many cultural activities realised over a century later in 2011 when the Ljubljana Castle Public Institution was founded. Now, the castle is mainly accessible through a modern funicular on the side of the hill and offers panoramic views of the city, while the castle itself hosts both archeological and artistic exhibitions (the Museum of Puppetry was our favourite!), as well as featuring meeting halls, 2 restaurants serving traditional and modern Slovene dishes (Restaurant Strelec and Gostilna na Gradu) and an open courtyard which serves as an open-air cinema in the summer (which was quite well attended when we were there!).
Another beautiful feature of Ljubljana's Old Town is the Franciscan Church of the Annunciation (1646-1660) with its distinct pink facade and the Prešeren Square (Slovene: Prešernov trg).The square was very much alive and teeming with locals and a few visitors enjoying a warm relaxing weekday afternoon after work. I think it's probably one of the best places to have a glass of Lasko and people watch (there seem to be more than just a handful of good-looking Slovenes!). The historic square is located right in front of the medieval town's entrance and is a funnel-shaped hub of streets that run into it from different directions. Prešeren Square and the Old Town itself is pedestrianised and family-friendly. Slovenes are very friendly people, with a quick smile and easy disposition. I don't think anyone would have trouble making good friends here!
Aside from the castle and the squares, Ljubljana is also quite known for its bridges: The Triple Bridge (Tromostovje) which is a group of three pedestrian bridges (the first bridge opened in 1842 and the other two in 1932) across the Ljubjanica River and connects the medieval town and modern Ljubljana. The other bridge Zmajski most or the Dragon Bridge is another noteworthy bridge inspired by the symbol of Ljubljana. According to folklore, Ljubljana was founded by Jason when he and his Argonauts had slain a dragon. That dragon is represented by one of the statues on this road bridge. Cheekily, the structure was also referred as the 'mother-in-law' due to its fiery nature. According to stories, the tails of the four dragons would wag every time a virgin crosses it - and one thing's for sure, we never saw anything move when a group of Spanish-speaking tourists crossed that bridge! Kidding aside, this road bridge was considered as the most beautiful bridge produced by the Vienna Secession and celebrated its centenary in 2001.
The Church of St. Nicholas (Stolnica sv. Nikolaja Cathedral) is also among one of the most recognizable landmarks in Ljubljana due to its green dome and twin towers. Completed in 1706 in the Baroque style by Italian architect Andrea Pozzo, a Jesuit from Trento, who designed it as a basilica. The two belfries resembling those of the cathedral in Salzburg were added later by Giulio Quaglio. Baroque frescoes, ancient Roman tombstones, a Gothic pieta, sculptures (and a curious looking sundial on the southern facade) adorn this cathedral. Another worthy recent additions are the bronze doors in front (Slovene Door, commemorating the 1250th anniversary of Christianity in Slovenia by Tone Demšar) and on its side (Ljubljana Door featuring the portraits of 20th-century bishops of Ljubljana by Mirsad Begić.
Near the Church of St. Nicholas is the Ljubljana Town Hall with its replica of a fountain by one of the leading Baroque sculptors Francesco Robba. The original work (finished in 1751) named The Fountain of the Three Carniolan Rivers is kept in the National Gallery. The fountain was inspired by Bernini's Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers). In front of the Town Hall is the house where Gustav Mahler, an Austrian late-Romantic composer, lived from 1881-1882.
The National Anthem of Slovenia.
The city of Ljubljana is complemented by Ljubljanica which meanders and bisects the city. The many outdoor cafes along its embankments are great places to cool down with a drink during a hot summer's day. The temperature averaged in the mid-thirties when we arrived in Ljubljana and after the private walking tour, it was great to hang about and have some ice cold drinks to cool down and do a little souvenir shopping.
A street performance in Ljubljana.
In summer, Ljubljana comes alive with an overwhelming frenzy of local and international arts events from film showings, to opera and ballet at the stately Slovenian National Opera and Ballet Theatre - a subsection of Slovene National Drama Theatre in Ljubljana, contemporary concerts and art exhibitions. We rued the fact that we did not spend enough time in Ljubljana (and Slovenia) in general but were nonetheless grateful that we were able to experience its highlights. Who knows, one of these days we might have a chance to go back, stay longer and explore more of this delightful country!
We will be posting the photo gallery for Slovenia soon so don't forget to bookmark this site!
Hotel Cubo (Slovenska cesta 15, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia) is one of the top hotels in the country. We chose (booked and paid ourselves) to stay here due to its proximity to all the major sites of Ljubljana. Our room faced on the third floor faced the Slovene National Drama Theatre's Art Nouveau edifice across the street, the other rooms face the Ljubljana Castle. The hotel also sits in the centre of the Roman Trail of Ljubljana with the Early Christian Centre Archaeological Park only a few steps away. The hotel only has 26 rooms, but it was terrific with little details such as the exceptionally friendly welcome from the lobby reception to its well-known restaurant and its well designed rooms with free IDD calls and free wifi. We hate to say it's good value for money because that would make the hotel sound cheap - but it really is an awesome deal for such modern luxury. You can book it here.
We'd like to thank Tourism Ljubljana for the hospitality! Hvala!
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Tata Motors in talks to set up car unit in Iran
Knocked down version of the cars will be imported and assembled at Iran Khodro's manufacturing facility after adding local contents like tyres and batteries.
TEHRAN: India's Tata Motors is in talks with a local manufacturer here to set up a joint venture for assembling its petrol cars in Iran as it looks to tap the fast growing market that has just emerged from sanctions.
Tata Motors is talking to Iran Khodro Company for a joint venture to assemble knocked down units of the petrol versions of its models, including the latest compact car Tiago, Bolt and Zest, which are powered by the company's new Revotron petrol engines, sources said here.
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Tata Motors will use Iran Khodro's sales network to sell the
The branding will be of Tata Motors and Iran Khodro will be just a contract manufacturer, they said, adding that Tata Motors will start assembling in Iran in less than 2 years.
Initially, Tata Motors is looking at 1 lakh cars a year which will be gradually ramped up. Production at the factory, which may be located in suburban Tehran and Masad, is slated to begin by 2018.
Iran Khodro had earlier this year renewed partnership with French manufacturer PSA Peugeot Citroen.
Iran Khodro Company (public joint stock) was founded in August 1962. Starting with contract manufacturing of sedan 'Paykan' for British firm Rootes in 1966, it has manufactured for France's Peugeot as well as Tondar 90 sedan (Renault Logan). It manufactures several Chinese models now.
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Peugeot had earlier this year signed a contract with Iran Khodro to start a joint venture that will make three new models.
Peugeot's January 2016 deal marks its return to Iran after a four-year absence.
Iran Khodro, which is 14 per cent-owned by the Iranian government, was Peugeot's former partner before the French company's decision to shut down its operations in 2012 in the wake of international sanctions.
Before 2012, Peugeot would send parts, which then were assembled in Iranian plants.
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Q: Numpy reshape list to 3D Array I have a list of arrays that I would like to be reshaped. Each array is a trial, the columns within each array is a feature, and the rows in each array is the timestep. I would like the list reshaped to (trial, timestep, feature). As an example, D is what I am trying to convert to a 3D array - the timesteps are not uniform.
A = np.random.rand(3,10) #Trial 1 has 3 timesteps and ten features
B = np.random.rand(10,10) #Trial 2 has 10 timesteps and ten features
C = np.random.rand(7,10) #Trial 3 has 7 timesteps and ten features
D = [A,B,C,D] #Data as given in the form of a list

How am I able to get a 3d array with variable timesteps? I am trying to use this an input to a keras neural network

A: You can do the following:
D = tf.ragged.stack([tf.RaggedTensor.from_tensor(x) for x in [A, B, C]])

This yields an ragged tensor with shape: TensorShape([3, None, None])
Or
values = np.vstack([A, B, C])
D = tf.RaggedTensor.from_row_lengths(values, [x.shape[0] for x in [A, B, C]])

which yields a ragged tensor with shape: (3, None, 10)
Working with ragged tensors in keras can be tricky.
Typically, for most applications the best choice is to use a reasonable number for the maximum sequence dimension and mask the sequences that are empty. For some applications I'm working on that is not a very attractive option because I have lots of documents with very small sequences and then some with very large sequences. But if you don't feel really comfortable with keras/tensorflow mechanics you should probably avoid using ragged tensors.

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How CPP of SoCal Aids Law Enforcement
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Preventing, Solving Construction Crime
According to retired law enforcement professional Lou Koven, there are two kinds of construction companies: "Those that have been a victim and those who are going to be."
Koven's more than 40 years of experience dealing with construction crime translates to a great perspective on what's happening in Southern California. He spent 35 years with the Los Angeles Police Department, where he worked as a Detective, followed by another 7 years working as a private investigator and vehicle theft investigations instructor. He spent 8 years as a Special Agent with the National Insurance Crime Bureau and served as a board member and Past President of the Western States Auto Theft Investigators Association's Southern Chapter and the Crime Prevention Program of Southern California.
With such an extensive history dealing with crime in the construction industry, Koven has seen just about everything. He has experienced, first-hand, the important role CPP of SoCal fulfills as a liaison between law enforcement and the construction industry and the vital support the organization offers to support officers and agencies with investigations.
On-going training is key
Koven knows from experience that CPP of SoCal is a go-to resource and points out, "Other than the few LEOs that know this subject material, CPP is the only local source for the industry for information distribution." Unless you happen to work in the construction industry, it's safe to say most people have limited or minimal knowledge about heavy equipment, which can be incredibly challenging to investigate regardless of your familiarity with it. With limited training and even fewer resources for law enforcement officers, plus the intrinsic obstacles that arise when two different worlds need to communicate, it's no wonder stolen equipment goes unreported and unrecovered.
Sometimes, construction companies don't report crimes. While there are a lot of reasons why this happens, one is often that they don't believe law enforcement will care. "We do care," says Koven, "Something will be done, but you have to report it. If you don't report it, how can we ever know?" He also affirms "[CPP of SoCal's] layered approach works. There IS a community you can call."
CPP of SoCal has been devoted to offering on-going support and training to law enforcement officers (LEOs) and member companies since being founded in 1984. Frequent turnover and assignment changes in both law enforcement and construction — as well as an ever-changing world — dictates the need for an established and reliable source of support. Koven shares what he knows from experience, "CPP of SoCal is the one resource to call. Victims and law enforcement alike can get on the phone and Melissa [Somers] ties them all together."
Unmatched network
Koven has been around long enough to see the myriad of challenges faced when investigating construction crime. Since it's foundation, CPP of SoCal has worked with law enforcement and construction industry representatives to address the issues before they become challenges to maximize impact on crime.
Having a vast interconnected network makes all the difference. "Melissa hears about something and she relays it to all of her contacts. She's got a big audience. They know who she is," Koven said.
"CPP is like a funnel. The information goes in and then Melissa filters it and it comes out in a concentrated form. Melissa is truly all in." It helps law enforcement because information gets to the right contacts in a timely matter. Plus, it's instrumental in defining patterns because similar acts of crime can be strung together.
Proof of positive partnership
Koven conveyed real world examples of the impact CPP of SoCal has had in assisting LEOs and the impact they have on crime overall, these include:
Lost loader: A resident in Riverside called police complaining someone had left a large piece of construction equipment on her property without permission. As Koven spoke to her, she noted a CPP Reward Hotline decal. That made Koven's job easy. "The rental company was there to pick it up before the sheriff was able to get out there," he said. That simple sticker led to the return of a stolen $100,000 loader.
Crime ring: Jackhammers and generators were stolen from rental companies in a number of different districts: Burbank, Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley. Koven notes that one district won't usually call another district to discuss smaller thefts. However, CPP of SoCal works as a network that connects all these smaller crimes together to reveal a pattern of similar crimes across various parts of the region. This was vital to helping break up a crime ring based in Ventura County.
The coordination of efforts by CPP and law enforcement agencies across Southern California and the region really make an impact when it comes to solving construction crime and efforts to prevent it from occurring in the first place.
Join CPP SoCal to discover the great value membership adds to your organization. CPP's long-standing dedication to support and training for both members and law enforcement translates directly to results. As Koven emphasizes, no one concentrates the time and energy to combating and preventing crime in the construction industry like CPP of SoCal, "I have never seen another organization anywhere in the country that does what CPP does." Koven's perspective and history of successes partnering with CPP of SoCal further affirms our motto: "Together, We Make a Difference."
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'Always Above The Fold': Audio Joins The RTB Ranks
by Steve Smith , Staff Writer @popeyesm, May 6, 2013
As programmatic media buying extends its reach beyond display and into video and perhaps eventually to TV, John Rosso, president, market development, Triton Digital, is hoping that agencies will look at their trading desk dashboards and realize that they could be bidding on audio ads, too. "This is the first audio ad exchange, a supply-side platform for audio, that can plug into programmatic audience buying and real-time bidding," he says. But unlike some RTB display ads, an audio insert is never missed. "The beauty of audio is that it is always above the fold. An audio ad replaces content. It is native, interruptive and always audible."
Triton already has a deal with Xaxis to appear on their trading desk, and it brings the company's long-standing connections with online radio broadcasting to the table. It has provided software as a service tool to radio and TV companies for years, including loyalty programs, metrics and the infrastructure for Internet radio. But now it is taking those connections and bringing 40 million uniques listening to online radio into the RTB universe. Publishers like CBS, Cumulus and Townsquare already have inventory in the system.
Rosso says that in one sense RTB in audio is no different from display. "When you tune in or launch the player the first thing we do is a cookie match to see what we know about you. We set and read cookies in the player as you would in any browser for behavioral targeting or retargeting of an audio ad. It is the same process." The buyer can pull in third-party data or also layer in Triton's first-party data about the nature of the content being played. The buyer can target not only a specific audience but also a listening context such as classic rock or top 40.
The technical trick comes in the audio insertion process and making that seamless across many formats and listening conditions. While fades to black are a traditional signal in TV and video for transitions to commercials, dead zones in audio are heard as jarring to listeners, so an audio RTB system has to ensure seamless moves from content to ad. Triton's RTB platform, dubbed "a2x" puts up a bid request and pre-caches audio ads when the stream is loaded so that it has the ads ready for breaks, which are not always predictable.
Rosso says that it would be hard to categorize the inventory that streaming media companies are putting into the system as "remnant." "Not based on how it is priced," he says. "When you add targeting and the cost of data it can be more expensive than the un-targeted directly sold stuff." He says that RTB is giving audio advertisers targeting capabilities they never had in over-air or online radio before, and the post-exposure cookie tracking can give them new levels of attribution precision.
It also brings new advertisers to the medium. Publishers choose to dedicate a percentage of available spots to the exchange, from 10% to 100%, and Rosso says he sees a typical pricing floor of $8 CPMs, which compare favorably to typical spot radio CPMs of $12 and up.
One of the most intriguing possibilities attached to audio RTB is creative. Rosso believes there is great potential for retargeting listeners with sequences of audio spots. Since audio breaks are more likely being heard than display ads are predictably being seen, an advertiser could retarget a listener with episodic ads. "Once I know you have heard one ad, I can serve you the next episode," he says. "The technology exists. We haven't done it yet, but it isn't hard to connect the dots."
Harder dots to connect will be the mobile piece. Rosso admits that tracking and targeting just are not up to snuff on devices yet, even though about 40% of the listening he sees on the platforms are already on mobile. But he sees audio RTB to devices as a clear monetization path for publishers because it is less disruptive and more bandwidth-friendly than mobile video. "We think audio ads are just the right size and shape."
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1 comment about "'Always Above The Fold': Audio Joins The RTB Ranks".
Pete Austin from Fresh Relevance, May 7, 2013 at 5:47 a.m.
Two problems: (1) "Once I know you have heard one ad, I can serve you the next episode," Actually you don't know that, because in my family we share mobile devices with family members and friends. And (2) Audio RTB may be more bandwidth-friendly than mobile video, but that's pretty uncommon, whereas it's much less bandwidth-friendly than text ads.
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FTC Seeks Substantial Changes to the Privacy and Safeguards Rules
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Paul Bond
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has focused over the course of 2018-2019 on consumer protection, data security, privacy and FinTech issues as part of its review of "Competition and Consumer Protection Issues in the 21st Century" which we discussed in a prior blog.
During this time, the FTC Commissioners have made clear that they believe in strong enforcement of all of its existing authority and expressed concerns over consumer protection issues. On March 5, 2019, the FTC announced that it plans to reopen two key rules: the Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information (Safeguards Rule) and the Privacy of Consumer Financial Information Rule (Privacy Rule). The notice stated "We are proposing to amend our data security rules for financial institutions to better protect consumers and provide more certainty for business," said Andrew Smith, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. "While our original groundbreaking Safeguards Rule from 2003 has served consumers well, the proposed changes are informed by the FTC's almost 20 years of enforcement experience. It also shows that where we have rulemaking authority, we will exercise it as necessary to keep up with marketplace trends and respond to technological developments," said Director Smith.
Director Smith also testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on March 7, 2019, about the FTC's work on data security issues including its call for the Congress to pass comprehensive data privacy legislation.
While the draft rules have not yet been released, the FTC did indicate in the release of the direction that it plans to go which has important ramifications for the financial services industry.
First, the Commission was split (3-2) on proposed changes to the Safeguards Rule. As noted by Commissioners Phillips and Wilson in dissent, the proposed changes are "based in substantial part on regulations promulgated two years ago by the New York State Department of Financial Services," and "[w]e do not have data about the impact and efficacy of those regulations." The proposed changes include a requirement for formal designation of a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and annual reporting to the Board of Directors, detailed risk-assessments; implementation of specific safeguards including encryption, access controls, secure development practices, multi-factor authentication, security awareness training, use of qualified information security personnel and a written incident response plan. While many of these prescriptions have been captured in existing guidance, the proposed changes would create many new formal requirements.
The proposed regulations would also add "entities acting as finders" to financial institutions under the FTC's Safeguards Rule jurisdiction, alongside "mortgage lenders, 'pay day' lenders, finance companies, mortgage brokers, account servicers, check cashers, wire transferors, travel agencies operated in connection with financial services, collection agencies, credit counselors and other financial advisors, tax preparation firms, non-federally insured credit unions, investment advisors that are not required to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission." As noted by the dissent, the proposed changes may put those entities subject to FTC oversight on a different footing than those supervised by other federal financial regulators.
Second, the Commission unanimously (5-0) proposed modest changes to the Privacy Rule. The changes would clarify that, pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act, the FTC's role in the privacy notice rulemaking is limited. While transferring most privacy notice rulemaking authority to the Bureau for Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB), Dodd-Frank reserved the FTC authority over any "motor vehicle dealer that is predominantly engaged in the sale and servicing of motor vehicles, the leasing and servicing of motor vehicles or both." The proposed changes would reflect this by narrowing the scope of the FTC's Privacy Rule, thus eliminating: definitions, subparts and illustrations not relevant to motor vehicle finance. The Commission will seek comment on whether or not the Privacy Rule should apply to "finders" that match potential borrowers and lenders in the motor vehicle finance space. Lastly, the press release indicated that the proposed rulemaking process could suggest clarifications that bring FTC's requirements for annual privacy notice disclosures in line with the exemptions which Congress imposed when these changes were included in P.L. 114-94. These exemptions to annual notice apply in some circumstances where financial institutions do not make any disclosures which may trigger a right to opt out of sharing and do not change their practices from those disclosed in the initial notice.
The FTC's actions are important components to systemic changes that are being seen across other Executive Branch agencies to focus on consumer protection and data security issues. It also mirrors the concerns seen in the U.S. Congress now about similar issues and the discussion around the need for a federal privacy law in the U.S.
Feel free to contact the authors of this blog and to check back for more information on the FTC's rulemaking process on these issues.
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George Soros Dumping Cash Into Tax Day Protests
by Rodney Pelletier • ChurchMilitant.com • April 18, 2017
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WASHINGTON (ChurchMilitant.com) - April 15 protests across the United States asking President Donald Trump to release his tax records were funded by billionaire George Soros.
For over 20 years, Soros, a Hungarian-born billionaire, has been funding political movements around the world through his Open Society Foundations (OSF) to promote progressive political ideals that oppose Catholic teaching. He has a net worth of over $26 billion and has personally donated over $11 billion of his personal fortune since 1979.
April 15, or Tax Day, in the United States is the day individual income taxes are due to the federal government. Coinciding with Easter Sunday this year, thousands hit the streets to demand that President Trump release his tax records.
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The protests were held in Washington, D.C. and 60 other cities throughout the United States. The group's website claims more than 125,000 people marched in D.C. alone.
Breitbart released an investigative report on April 16 showing close ties between Soros and groups organizing the protests. The report notes that some of the partner organizations sponsoring the march are the American Federation of Teachers, Americans for Tax Fairness, Center for Popular Democracy, Indivisible Project, MoveOn.Org, Our Revolution and The Working Families Party — all organizations funded by the OSF.
Trump reacted to the march on April 16 on Twitter:
Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!
While establishment media outlets are claiming the protests are the product of grassroots movements, reports show they are manufactured and financed by liberal progressives like Soros to push their agenda.
Soros also funded post-election protests in November 2016, which resulted in riots in several cities. He is known to have given $33 million to the terrorist organization Black Lives Matter, which took in an additional $100 million from other groups.
He was the top donor the Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 presidential campaign and U.S. abortion giant Planned Parenthood, along with the American Civil Liberties Union and many organizations pushing for the acceptance of homosexuality and so-called transgenderism.
With one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world, a win there could impact other strongly Catholic countries in Europe, such as Poland, and provide much-needed proof that change is possible, even in highly conservative places.
It was revealed that Soros had been dumping millions of dollars into getting pro-life laws repealed in Ireland with the hopes that it would also influence the heavily pro-life abortion laws in Catholic Poland. In August 2016 the OSF was hacked and thousands of memos were made public on the internet. One memo read, "With one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world, a win there could impact other strongly Catholic countries in Europe, such as Poland, and provide much needed proof that change is possible, even in highly conservative places."
Soros also funds two self-proclaimed Catholic organizations, Catholics for Choice (CFC) and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACB), which directly promote ideas contrary to Church teaching. CFC promotes feminist ideology and unlimited abortion on demand, and CACB promotes liberal-socialist candidates, social causes and legislation among Catholics.
In March, six U.S. senators, including Ted Cruz, sent a request to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson requesting he investigate U.S. taxpayer funds going to Soros organizations to affect the politics of foreign governments.
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How Dollywood Adapted Entertainment Auditions During Pandemic
As you have probably already experienced, the shows at Dollywood are top-notch. (It's Dolly Parton's theme park, after all!) Performers come from all over to audition for the opportunity to entertain audiences on a Dollywood stage.
This year, as we all continue to make changes for COVID-19, it's exciting that Dollywood will have shows in indoor theaters when the park opens, and in-person auditions for those have been held over the past few weeks. This is a big deal; most venues that employ entertainers either currently are closed (like cruise lines and Broadway), and those who are hiring primarily are holding virtual auditions. Performers will tell you—there's just something special about wowing a live audience.
I spoke with Addie, a Dollywood stage manager, as she was checking in performer prospects. She told me that Dollywood had about 300 auditionees scheduled over three days. She said her team spent a full week just scheduling those audition appointments.
I have had the opportunity to observe Dollywood auditions in the past. You can read about my experience HERE when I was a fly on the wall at Dollywood's DreamMore Resort and Spa where the lobby was full of excited and nervous perspective entertainers. In pre-COVID years, they had large groups of performers entering a conference room together and cheering each other on, and a two-day try-out including a long all-call day. Then, the second day was for call-backs and dance try-outs.
This year, to accommodate social distancing guidelines, the auditions were held in the three largest theaters at Dollywood. Each performer submitted his/her resume, headshot and sheet music prior to the open call and then made an appointment for their audition. Each person auditioned in a socially-distanced group of six.
The first step was performing two, 45-second prepared songs in any genre; this was the first time the singers were able to show off their talents and personality. After all six finished, the performers might be finished for the day because the producer panel felt like they understood the auditionee's talent level and didn't need to see more. Or the judges might want to see more, and the performer was sent to the next stage.
At stop number two, the prospects once again performed their 45-second selection and also were taught a few bars of songs from Dollywood productions. This gave the producers a good idea of the different types of music the person can perform well. Once everyone in the group was finished, they changed clothes for the dance portion of the audition and moved to the third stage.
Tosha, a long-time choreographer at Dollywood, taught the group 16 eight-counts of a dance (though auditioning individually, they dance together). The group was able to practice several times before dancing twice for a panel of Dollywood producers. Tosha said that while dancing skills are important, it isn't all she looked for. Dollywood performers typically have about three weeks to learn an entire show, so picking up dance steps quickly is a must. They're also recorded, so if Tosha wants to go back and watch again, she can!
For the singing portions, these performers were not required to wear masks because Dollywood follows state guidelines that requires 15 feet between vocalist and audience members (or in this case, producers). During the dancing portion, they did wear masks though they were still spread six feet apart. I watched as the Dollywood team sanitized seats and high-touch areas between each group.
While the Dollywood auditions were adapted from previous years, entertainer interest and turn-out was very strong. Dollywood is a top-tier entertainment venue, and it is really neat to see the caliber of performers who come each year to audition. I wish a big "break a leg" to each person auditioning this year, and I'll speak for all Dollywood guests by saying we can't wait to see you on stage in 2021!
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Millwall v Leeds United over the years
In total, the two sides have met on 28 previous occasions, with Millwall and Leeds both picking up 12 wins each; the remaining four ending all square.
Sunday will be the 13th League game hosted by The Lions. Millwall have won six of the previous 12 meetings, Leeds four, with two ending all-square.
When we last met:
Saturday 24th March 2012
Millwall 0-1 Leeds United
Ross McCormack's 65th-minute strike condemned The Lions to a seventh home defeat in eight games as Darius Henderson saw a second-half penalty saved by Leeds keeper Andy Lonergan.
The game turned out to be Millwall's final defeat of the 2011/12 campaign and sparked a run of seven games unbeaten to the end of the season; a sequence which secured Championship safety and saw Kenny Jackett pick up the April Manager of the Month award.
Millwall: Taylor, Smith (Montgomery, 83'), Robinson, Ward, Craig, Henry (Bouazza, 83'), Wright, Abdou, Kane, Henderson, Keogh
Subs not used: Forde, Feeney, Lowry
Leeds: Lonergan, Lees, Bruce, O'Dea, Robinson, White (Webber, 62'), Clayton, Brown, Snodgrass, Becchio, McCormack (Connolly, 90')
Subs not used: Rogers, Forssell, Thompson


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How we helped a national airline get off the ground
NewLeaf Travel is an indirect flight retailer that offers ultra low-cost flights across Canada and parts of the United States. In the fall of 2015, the start-up put out a national RFP looking for an marketing partner to help them compete on the national stage. Based on our experience in brand definition and digital marketing, Metric was selected as Agency of Record to help get NewLeaf off the ground.
We began by defining the company's positioning. This included creating messaging that emphasized their simple, no-frills approach to travel and building a communications platform that would allow them to differentiate themselves from the competition. We then turned towards building a playful visual identity that included a new logo, custom iconography set and bold colour palette representing the sun and sky. Finally, we designed a responsive website framework that integrated with NewLeaf's third-party booking software.
Leading up to their first flight in January, we launched an engagement strategy focused on building brand awareness. The multi-city campaign focused on promoting NewLeaf's routes, with ads targeted to destination locations and driving traffic to their site. In the first week of sales, thousands of people booked flights with NewLeaf and close to a quarter million people visited their website.
Unfortunately, 10 days after their launch, facing complaints from competing airlines and passenger advocates, the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) launched a review of NewLeaf's licensing model. All flights were postponed and refunds delivered to customers until the airline's suspension of operation was lifted.
To expedite the decision, Metric launched a community engagement strategy aimed at capitalizing on public goodwill. Creative focused on traveller empowerment and was executed through display ads, social media (paid and owned) and email marketing. The call to action drove traffic to a petition signup page and in less than two weeks, the initiative garnered over 16,000 thousand signatures and converted paid traffic at a rate of 37 per cent.
While NewLeaf awaited the CTA ruling, we were still working hard behind the scenes to understand audience behaviour to help inform future marketing activities. The analytic data from NewLeaf's website and their social properties gave us access to age, gender and geographic engagement insights. All of which helped us to develop content strategies and an overarching marketing plan for the re-launch of the airline.
In late spring, the CTA cleared NewLeaf's business model for takeoff. While they were grounded from January through June, our activities helped to build an email subscriber database of over 50,000 contacts and a social community of more than 17,000 people. Tho convert these people into passengers, we developed a teaser email marketing and social media campaign segmented by audience and supported with content specific to these groups. Over the course of the three day marketing blitz, the airline acquired another 1,500 social followers, over 2,000 email addresses and hundreds of seat sales after their official media launch.
With their regulation challenges behind them, NewLeaf's internal marketing department has taken our recommendations in-house to execute where our brand positioning, marketing tactics and digital strategies continue to deepen passenger engagement and drive sales.
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Ne-Yo Responds To Wife Crystal Smith's Cheating Allegations
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Ne-Yo arrives at the Latin American Music Awards on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Ne-Yo Responds To Wife Crystal Smith's Cheating Allegations Ne-Yo has answered his wife Crystal Smith's claims that he cheated on her. These claims come just four months after the couple renewed their wedding vows. "For the sake of our children, my family and I will work through our challenges behind closed doors," he wrote. "Personal matters are not meant to be addressed and dissected in public forums. I simply ask that you please respect me and my family's privacy at this time." The R&B singer later posted a video on his Instagram Stories featuring an audio clip that goes, "Even if you hear a bad story about me, first understand there was a time I was good to those people, but they won't tell you that." Crystal wrote a lengthy post on Instagram about Ne-Yo's infidelities and that after eight years, she was calling it quits on their relationship. Do you think Ne-Yo was right to post a video saying he was "good" to his wife at one point? What do you think of their public display of emotions?


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The bottom line: It's your choice how you live life."
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Q: The singularties of the dicriminant loci of the Lagrangian fibration Let $X$  be a holomorphic symplectic variety of dimension $2n$ and $\pi: X \to \mathbb{P}^n$ be a Lagrangian fibration. It is known that $\pi$ is smooth outside of the discrimiant divisor $\Delta$. The divisor $\Delta$ is not necessarily irreducible and hence it can be singular. Does somebody know some resctrictions on the singularities of $\Delta$. For example, is $\Delta$ a simple normal crossing divisor?

A: I am afraid not. As it is usual for discriminants, the singularities are rather complicated. Take for instance a K3 surface $S\subset \mathbb{P}^g$, with Picard group generated by $\mathcal{O}_S(1)$. There is a holomorphic symplectic manifold $X$ with a Lagrangian fibration $\pi :X\rightarrow (\mathbb{P}^g)^\vee$, such that the fiber $\pi ^{-1}(h)$, for $h$ a general hyperplane in $\mathbb{P}^g$, is the Jacobian of the curve $h\cap S$. The discriminant locus $\Delta $ is the locus of hyperplanes which are tangent to $S$, that is, the dual hypersurface of $S$. It is irreducible but has quite complicated singularities.


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Q: Attempting to make a summary tibble but not working? This is what I've put, what am I doing wrong? The error says:

Error in group_by():
! Problem adding computed columns.
Caused by error in mutate():
! Problem while computing ..2 = ... %>% dplyr:::mutate(data_1, data_summary).
Caused by error in is.factor():
! argument "object" is missing, with no default
Backtrace:

*

*data_summary %>% ...

*base::summary.default(...)

*base::is.factor(object)

This is what I've used:
 data_summary%>%
     group_by(c(learning_time_min),
    summary(
      mean=mean(learning_time_min),
      sd=sd(learning_time_min),
      n=n(),
      se=sd/sqrt(n))    %>%
     dplyr:::mutate.data.frame(data_1, data_summary))

('learning time min' is a column in my dataset full of numerical data)


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The frame's FACT IS-X 11m carbon fiber construction stands as the pinnacle of lightweight, efficient, and tough trail performance. It's been built off our 29 Geometry, which also lends itself to running 6Fattie wheels and tires (only a 7mm BB drop), in order to provide an aggressive, well-rounded ride. And with internal Command Post IR routing, a return to a threaded bottom bracket, and an integrated SWAT™ Door at the down tube, you get a bike that's clean, dependable, and ready for anything that the trail has to offer.


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Q: StructureMap proxy all instances or modify instances just before returning In StructureMap we can proxy TInterface and TConcreteImpl with TProxy this this:
ConfigurationExpression config = ...

config.For<TInterface>().DecorateAllWith<TProxy>();

config.For<TInterface>().Use<TConcreteImpl>();

I wanted to use DispatchProxy (and globally log before method invocation and after invocation) and globally register it for all types being instantiated from StructureMap, I'm wondering how to accomplish this?
More specifically, I want to run the following for all the types being instantiated:
TConcreteImpl instance = ...

TInterface proxy = DispatchProxyGenerator.CreateProxyInstance(typeof (TInterface), typeof (TProxy))
     .SetParameters(instance);

I already experimented with IInstancePolicy of StructureMap but no success because Instance is not the actual object instance.
public class Policy : IInstancePolicy
{
    public void Apply(Type pluginType, Instance instance)
    {

    }
}

Thank you so much

A: Looks like implementing a custom IInterceptorPolicy fits here. It will be called for all types in the container, and may produce decorators for some/all of them.
An example of it with dummy logger to console:
public class CustomInterception : IInterceptorPolicy
{
    public string Description => "test interception Console.WriteLine each method' arguments and return value";

    public IEnumerable<IInterceptor> DetermineInterceptors(Type pluginType, StructureMap.Pipeline.Instance instance)
    {
        Type dispatchProxyType = DummyDispatchProxyDontUseAtWork.GenerateStructureMapCompatibleDispatchProxyType(pluginType);

        yield return new DecoratorInterceptor(pluginType, dispatchProxyType);
    }
}

Called as:
var container = new StructureMap.Container(cntnr =>
{
    cntnr.Policies.Interceptors(new CustomInterception());

    cntnr.For<IFoo>().Use<Foo>();
    cntnr.For<IBar>().Use<Bar>();
});

var foo = container.GetInstance<IFoo>();
foo.FooFoo("1", "2");

Produced output:
FooFoo(1,2)
BarBar(2,1)
   BarBar -> 21
   FooFoo -> 21

The rest of example is below, so it could be executed.
Tricky thing with DispatchProxy is that it creates a new type which is hard to be constructed by StructureMap. In .Net Core 2.1 DispatchProxy makes constructor with Action... parameter, but StructureMap expects something it can create. You definitely need an alternative proxy generator which would work with StructureMap more smoothly.
public interface IBar
{
    string BarBar(string a1, string a2);
}

public class Bar : IBar
{
    public string BarBar(string a1, string a2) => a1 + a2;
}

public interface IFoo
{
    string FooFoo(string a1, string a2);
}

public class Foo : IFoo
{
    public IBar Bar { get; private set; }

    public Foo(IBar bar)
    {
        Bar = bar;
    }
    public string FooFoo(string a1, string a2) => Bar.BarBar(a2, a1);
}

public class DummyDispatchProxyDontUseAtWork : DispatchProxy
{
    public object Instance { get; protected set; }

    public DummyDispatchProxyDontUseAtWork() : base()
    {}

    protected override object Invoke(MethodInfo targetMethod, object[] args)
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"{targetMethod.Name}({string.Join(',', args)})");
        var result = targetMethod.Invoke(this.Instance, args);
        Console.WriteLine($"   {targetMethod.Name} -> {result}");
        return result;
    }

    private static readonly ConcurrentDictionary<Type, Type> generatedProxyTypes = new ConcurrentDictionary<Type, Type>();
    protected static readonly ConcurrentDictionary<string, object> privateHackedState = new ConcurrentDictionary<string, object>();
    private static readonly AssemblyBuilder assemblyBuilder = AssemblyBuilder.DefineDynamicAssembly(new AssemblyName(Guid.NewGuid().ToString()), AssemblyBuilderAccess.Run);
    private static readonly ModuleBuilder moduleBuilder = assemblyBuilder.DefineDynamicModule(Guid.NewGuid().ToString());

    private static Type EmitDispatchProxyType(Type interfaceType)
    {
        object dispatchProxyObj = typeof(DispatchProxy).GetMethod("Create", BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Public)
            .MakeGenericMethod(interfaceType, typeof(DummyDispatchProxyDontUseAtWork))
            .Invoke(null, null);

        string typeId = "DummyDispatchProxyDontUseAtWork" + Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N");
        privateHackedState[typeId] =
            dispatchProxyObj.GetType().GetField("invoke", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance).GetValue(dispatchProxyObj);

        var resultTypeBuilder = moduleBuilder.DefineType(
            typeId,
            TypeAttributes.Public,
            dispatchProxyObj.GetType());

        var baseCtor = dispatchProxyObj.GetType().GetConstructors().First();

        var ctor = resultTypeBuilder.DefineConstructor(
            MethodAttributes.Public,
            CallingConventions.Standard,
            new[] {interfaceType});

        var il = ctor.GetILGenerator();

        il.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_0);

        il.Emit(OpCodes.Ldsfld, typeof(DummyDispatchProxyDontUseAtWork).GetField(nameof(privateHackedState), BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Static));
        il.Emit(OpCodes.Ldstr, typeId);
        il.Emit(OpCodes.Callvirt, typeof(ConcurrentDictionary<,>).MakeGenericType(typeof(string), typeof(object)).GetMethod("get_Item"));
        il.Emit(OpCodes.Call, baseCtor);

        var setInstanceMethodInfo = dispatchProxyObj.GetType()
            .GetMethod("set_" + nameof(Instance),BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Public);
        il.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_0);
        il.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_1);
        il.Emit(OpCodes.Call, setInstanceMethodInfo);

        il.Emit(OpCodes.Ret);

        return resultTypeBuilder.CreateType();
    }

    public static Type GenerateStructureMapCompatibleDispatchProxyType(Type interfaceType)
    {
        return generatedProxyTypes.GetOrAdd(interfaceType, EmitDispatchProxyType);
    }
}


In this diagram, as the ball is moving up the hill its gradually gaining potential energy. Once it goes over the top, gravity allows it to gain velocity and it begins a free-fall. As it rounds the curve, centripetal acceleration allows it to gain even more velocity. Once it reaches the first loop, acceleration stress slows it down. However, when it reaches the top of the loop, centrifugal force (the force that drives a moving body away from the center of rotation) adds to the cars kinetic energy, allowing it to make it back to the station where friction brings it to a stop. Without all of the angles being exactly as they are, or all of these forces acting on it, the car would not be able to make it back to the station.