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Dallas Pittsburgh NYG Washington In that order. I am surrounded by Pittsburgh fans, that's why they are so highly rated in my book.
How bout get to the playoffs first.
Take it to the Cowboys board. Turd!
Best part about this is he would be past this and playing if he didn't appeal the initial suspension.
Giants fans are saying the same thing about us and Kelce.
Only two things can make it feared. Close off both ends of the stadium and win. Fans will take care of the rest.
Being at home at day games is an advantage as well. Should we write the league about that too?
Why does it matter what time the game is or if it's national tv or not? How is it an advantage either way?
Painfully obvious, in his 17 starts he is: 391 for 627 62.4% 4912 yards 35 TD 8 Int 100.00 Passer Rating. It's actually painfully obvious that you are like pretty much every other Dallas fan, clueless.


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It's a huge weekend in PlayStation® 4 NPL Capital Football as the top four sides all look for maximum points as the race for the league title intensifies approaching the final three weeks of what has been a fascinating season.
Leaders Tigers FC have the destiny of the title in their own hands with their lead at the top of the table forcing pressure on the chasing pack who need to win their games in hand in order to reign in the Cooma-based side who, by virtue of a superior goal difference, have another ace up their sleeve. With Stephen Domenici and Nicolas Abot in excellent goal-scoring form, Tigers will take some stopping.
Trying to do just that, and keep alive their hopes of retaining the League Championship, will be Canberra FC, the visitors to Nijong Oval on Sunday afternoon. FC saw their match with Gungahlin United postponed last weekend and will have had time to try and rehabilitate some of their walking wounded ahead of the trip South. Last season saw a remarkable game at this venue with FC claiming an amazing comeback win, so goals aplenty should be in store.
Canberra Olympic, the closest challengers to Tigers FC, will be out to take the points, and perhaps improve their goal difference into the bargain, when they meet the CU Academy at Hawker Football Centre on Saturday evening. Olympic did just enough to defeat a youthful looking Tuggeranong United at O'Connor Enclosed on Matchday 15 but they will come up against an Academy team in good form, buoyed by their 7-1 annihilation of Woden-Weston FC. They could yet throw a spanner in Olympic's championship aspirations.
Belconnen United, third heading into the weekend, travel the short distance to Gungahlin United to meet the Gunners at Nicholls Synthetic. The Blue Devils are four points adrift of Olympic before the match and nothing less than a full quota of the points will be acceptable if they are to continue to be a part of the picture in the championship chase. Gungahlin, meanwhile, are eyeing off a fifth placed finish.
Action starts on Saturday afternoon with a brace of matches scheduled for 3pm. The FFA COE boys, fresh from returning from representing Australia at the AFF Championships, welcome Monaro Panthers to the AIS whilst Woden-Weston FC will face Tuggeranong United at Woden Park. None of these sides can make the finals, but positions on the ladder are up for grabs and two keenly fought encounters are anticipated.
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Gungahlin United v Belconnen United (Nicholls Synthetic, 15:00)
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Q: Removing rows with non-unique values based on a second variable in R? I have a data set with time stamps and location names (radio-tracking data). I want to remove all instances where there are two different locations at the same time stamp (detected by two different receivers at the same time).
Example data set:
ts<-c("2014-08-07 20:12", "2014-08-07 20:12",  "2014-08-07 20:13","2014-08-07 20:13","2014-08-07 20:14", "2014-08-07 20:14")
site<-c(a,a,a,b,c,c)
df<-data.frame(cbind(ts,site))
df
                ts site
1 2014-08-07 20:12    a
2 2014-08-07 20:12    a
3 2014-08-07 20:13    a
4 2014-08-07 20:13    b
5 2014-08-07 20:14    c
6 2014-08-07 20:14    c

So I want to remove lines 3&4, but keep 1,2,5 and 6.
I have looked at different applications of duplicated, distinct and unique, but can't figure out how to base it on another column (in this case timestamp).
Any and all help appreciated

A: Using dplyr you can determine the number of n_distinct sites for each time stamp, then filter those that are not equal to 2 (you could also just filter if equal to 1 as well).
library(dplyr)

df %>%
  group_by(ts) %>%
  mutate(num_loc = n_distinct(site)) %>%
  filter(num_loc!=2)

Similar to @wusel's answer, you could just filter as:
filter(n_distinct(site) == 1)

and then leave out mutate.

A: Here is my approach with dplyr
df %>%
  # consider each time stamp seperately
  group_by(ts) %>%
  # keep only observations which have one unique `site` value
  filter(length(unique(site)) == 1)

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Q: Problem with converting .class file into .dex file I was truing to convert .class file to .dex file, but got error.
When I type in cmd "dx --dex --output=(.dex file path) (.class file path)" I got error:
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ERROR: No suitable Java found. In order to properly use the Android Developer
Tools, you need a suitable version of Java JDK installed on your system.
We recommend that you install the JDK version of JavaSE, available here:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads
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variable in Control Panel / System / Avanced System Settings to point to the
JDK folder.
You can find the complete Android SDK requirements here:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/requirements.html
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C:\Program Files>echo %JAVA_HOME%
C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\JDK
also the path to .dex file and .class file doesn't contain any cyrillic letters)
Maybe I need to try another Java JDK version?


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Q: Why does Tomcat use reflection for Catalina instancilization Reading the Tomcat 7 source code, I just wonder why Tomcat instance Catalina and invokes the related methods by using reflection instead of simply using new to create the object and calling the method directly?

A: The answer is in the javadoc comment of the Bootstrap class:
/**
 * Bootstrap loader for Catalina.  This application constructs a class loader
 * for use in loading the Catalina internal classes (by accumulating all of the
 * JAR files found in the "server" directory under "catalina.home"), and
 * starts the regular execution of the container.  The purpose of this
 * roundabout approach is to keep the Catalina internal classes (and any
 * other classes they depend on, such as an XML parser) out of the system
 * class path and therefore not visible to application level classes.
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Eugene William Beier (born 30 January 1940 in Harvey, Illinois) is an American physicist.

Beier received in 1961 his bachelor's degree from Stanford University and in 1963 his M.S. and in 1966 his Ph.D., with advisor Louis J. Koester Jr., from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign with thesis A search for heavy leptons using a differential Cherenkov counter. He became in 1967 an assistant professor and in 1979 a full professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Beier has worked, since the end of the 1970s, on neutrino physics, first at Brookhaven National Laboratory (Experiment 734) and then, starting in 1984, on the science team of Kamiokande II.

In 1987 Beier joined the science team at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO). He was co-spokesperson for the United States collaborators (along with R. G. H. Robertson of the University of Washington) working on the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. The SNO science team provided strong evidence for solar neutrino flavor transformation. This flavor transformation implies that neutrinos have non-zero masses. The total flux of all neutrino flavors measured by SNO agrees well with the best theoretical models of the sun.

His current research deals with the question of whether neutrinos are their own anti-particles; the investigation involves searching for the rare (and perhaps entirely hypothetical) neutrino-less double beta decay occurring within atomic nuclei.

In 2010 Beier received the Panofsky Prize. Also, he was Chair of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society in 2000. He was a member of the International Committee for Future Accelerators 1998–2000. For the academic year 1998–1999 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 1989 the Bruno Rossi Prize was awarded to the Kamiokande II team (and the Irvine-Michigan-Brookhaven team).

The Kamiokande II work and especially the observation from Supernova 1987a led to the award of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics to Masatoshi Koshiba. The Kamiokande II work (i.e. observation of an unexpected result in the ratio of electron neutrino to muon neutrino interactions from cosmic ray neutrinos produced in the earth's atmosphere) extended by the 1998 work by SuperKamiokande, along with the work of the science team in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, led to the 2015 award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald.

References

Selected publications
New Limit on the Strength of Mixing between νμ and νe, L. A. Ahrens, et al., (Brookhaven E734 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 31, 2732-36 (1985).
Measurement of Neutrino-Proton and Antineutrino-Proton Elastic Scattering, L. A. Ahrens, et al., (Brookhaven E734 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 35, 785-809 (1987).
Observation of a Neutrino Burst From the Supernova SN1987A, K. Hirata, et al., (Kamiokande II Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 1490-93 (1987).
Experimental Study of the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux, Kamiokande-II Collaboration (K.S. Hirata (Tokyo U., ICEPP) et al.). 1988. 17 pp. Published in Phys. Lett. B 205 (1988) 416
Determination of electroweak parameters from the elastic scattering of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos on electrons, L.A. Ahrens, et al., (Brookhaven E734 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 41 3297-3316, (1990).
Real-time, directional measurement of 8B solar neutrinos in the Kamiokande II detector, K.S. Hirata, et al., (Kamiokande II Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 44, 2241-60 (1991).
Observation of a small atmospheric muon-neutrino / electron-neutrino ratio in Kamiokande, Kamiokande-II Collaboration (K.S. Hirata (Tokyo U., ICRR) et al.). Jan 1992. 13 pp. Published in Phys. Lett. B 280 (1992) 146-152
Atmospheric νμ/νe Ratio in the multi-GeV Range, Y. Fukuda, et al., (Kamiokande II Collaboration), Phys. Lett. B 335, 237-245 (1994).
The Sudbury neutrino observatory, SNO Collaboration (J. Boger (Brookhaven) et al.). Oct 1999. 58 pp. Published in Nucl. Instrum. Methods A 449 (2000) 172-207
Measurement of the Rate of νe + d —> p + p + e– Interactions Produced by 8B Solar Neutrinos at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory,  Q.R. Ahmad et al. (the SNO Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett., 87071301/1-6 (2001).
Direct evidence for neutrino flavor transformation from neutral-current interactions in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, Q.R. Ahmad, et al. (The SNO Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 011301/1-6 (2002).
Measurement of day and night neutrino energy spectra at SNO and constraints on neutrino mixing parameters, Q.R. Ahmad, et al. (The SNO Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 011302/1-5 (2002).
Measurement of the total active 8B solar neutrino flux at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory with enhanced neutral current sensitivity
SNO Collaboration (S.N. Ahmed et al.). Sep 2003. 5 pp. Published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (2004) 181301

External links
Oral History interview transcript for Eugene W. Beier on 27 April 2020, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
Yoji Totsuka Memorial Symposium — Neutrino, Particle and Astroparticle Physics, June 2009

1940 births
Living people
People from Harvey, Illinois
21st-century American physicists
Stanford University alumni
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Winners of the Panofsky Prize

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Home Latest News Polisario Greatly Disappointed after Latest Diplomatic Setbacks
by Khalid Ibrahim Khaled | posted: September 15, 2016 0 comment
Over a period of just ten days, the Polisario sustained a series of setbacks that made it clear to the Algeria-backed separatist movement that the diplomatic battle it is waging against Morocco about the Sahara is far from turning to its advantage.
The black series began with the case of Guergarate, a no man's land located at the border area between Morocco and Mauritania. This desert piece of land, dubbed Kandahar because of the trafficking thriving there, had become a hub for smugglers and traffickers of weapons, migrants, drugs, stolen cars…
Algerians, seeking to score points, thought it wise to push the Polisario to oppose the operations undertaken by Morocco in the area, namely the cleaning of the area from traffickers and the paving of a 4-km long road between the Kingdom and Mauritania. The duo went as far as involving the MINURSO in the hype. But the agitation stirred by Algerian diplomats and the Polisario relays in New York did not produce the desired effect in the Security Council. The manoeuvers were fruitless.
The second setback suffered by the Polisario took place at the level of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), when Venezuela attempted to include the Polisario in the list of guests invited to attend the NAM summit. The move was strongly opposed by the member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and several other states, forcing Venezuela to rescind its decision.
Another blow was dealt to the Polisario and its Algerian mentors last Tuesday in Luxembourg. While Algiers believed that the ruling of the European Court of Justice in December 2015 that annulled some provisions of the Morocco-EU agricultural agreement was final, the Court's Advocate General put the records straight.
Not only he recommended the Court to dismiss the case brought by the Polisario, but he also made it clear that the Saharawi Front does not have any legal authority to lodge a complaint at the European court on behalf of the Sahrawis. The Advocate General dismissed all the arguments of the Polisario and insisted that the separatist Front is not entitled to defend the economic interests of the local population.
After this latest setback, the Polisario tried to make against misfortune good heart, but the disappointment was palpable in the statement it issued in response to the plea of the Advocate General of the European Court.
Tags: GCC, Guergarate, MINURSO, Morocco, NAM, Polisario, Venezuela
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Being an Interior Designer in the Scottsdale/Phoenix area is amazing. There are so many different showrooms available for endless design inspiration and hidden gems that make this designer giddy. I thought it would be fun to spotlight some of my favorite showrooms to shop at. This post is one in a series of my Scottsdale/Phoenix Interior Design Spotlight. So be sure to check back for future Spotlights.
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Kravet is the industry leader for Designers and their clients. With the wide range of fabrics from all of the world, the possibilities are endless and only limited to your imagination. The best part for you is we can create that unique piece of furniture or drapery that's not found in any store, and you'll be the envy of all your friends. After all, you want a room that is unique to you and your personality, not to the store where you bought it from. If you want unique, you can find that with two of their main manufacturers; Lee Jofa and Brunschwig & Fils.
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When webcomics started out, longform creators felt like the ugly ducklings in the crowd. Many of them expressed the same complaint when I'd talk to them. They just didn't feel as if the Web was the right place to present their work to its full strength. However, I think the Web— and its users — have both improved and matured to a point that longform comics not only can survive — but thrive — on new platforms (such as eComics).
But it kills me — kills me — when I see longform-comics creators continually trying to present their work in the "traditional" webcomic set-up that was heavily geared towards strips and other short-form comic. It's a classic square peg scenario.
I think longform comics are on the cusp of a real revolution, and the artists who are going to best position themselves to take advantage of this will be the ones who will adapt their publishing approach to a new way of thinking.
Here are a few thoughts on where I think that new way of thinking should go.
Pages are the units of a book. Updates are the units of a Web site. The two are not interchangeable.
If you're posting the pages of your book on the Web, I think you may be making a mistake (unless you're planning those pages very carefully).
Your Web site itself (and the reading experience on a Web site) is not conducive to book-reading. And if you want your Web site to flourish, you're going to have to create the best-possible reading experience on that site — not a book-reading experience that you shoe-horn into a Web site.
Now there are a lot of ways to do this. I'm particularly fond of Scott Kurtz's approach at Table Titans, and I strongly urge you to give it some thought. Every update is a half-page of the book he will later release. And every update has a significant element to it — a punchline, a plot hook, a cliff-hanger, etc. He writes the comic with the site/book polarity in mind. He knows that every update has to be important for the site, and he knows exactly how those updates fit into the overall book (top of page, end of right-hand page, etc.).
And this guides his writing. If he needs another update to make a two-page spread work right in the book, for example, he'll do that. And he'll make sure it's significant for the site — at the same time that it fits into the storytelling of the book.
Impossible? Absolutely not. It's just a new way of thinking about storytelling.
Here's another option: You simply release your graphic novel in significant updates. And if that means releasing two panels today and a page-and-a-half on the next scheduled update day, then that's what it means.
This approach takes less planning in the writing stage — and allows you to keep the storytelling in the book "pure." But it's going to put you in a tight spot sooner or later as you run out of finished, significant updates to post.
FILLERS, SKETCHES, GUEST ART, ETC.
This is poison to the Web-reading experience. You fool yourself into believing that you had a post up for your readers that day — and, to an extend you kinda do. But that crap lives forever in your archive, taking readers out of the spell that you're trying to weave as a storyteller.
Please don't settle for this in leiu of doing a little planning and time management. You're hurting yourself.
I think a longform-comic creator should give seriosus consideration to instituting a landing page as the main page of their site. I go into this subject in greater detail here.
The Frequent/Consistent/Significant rule will always apply to a comic on the Web. There are no special dispensations for longform comics. Every update has to be updated as frequently as it possibly can be, while maintaining consistency (of quality and schedule) and significance of each, individual update.
That's another challenge — to the writing for sure — and to the comics-creation process overall.
Digital tablets are so widespread as to make them almost an assumed possession among our readers.
And it's so freaking easy to sell digital downloads — either independently, through sites like SendOwl and Gumroad, or through online distributors such as ComiXology and DriveThruComics — that you literally don't have an excuse to avoid it any longer.
This is a longform comic on the Web.
Navigation buttons will allow the reader to jump from update to update — and also from chapter to chapter.
If the reader is intrigued enough by what they're reading on the Web, they can easily read archival content (and perhaps even the rest of the current chapter) by buying a digital download.
That's the user experience you have to set up — in the first screen view of your site.
Again, that's going to take some planning — and some excellent time-management skills. But I think there's a way that longform creators can make this work.
The book is planned, plotted, and outlined. You know where the story is going conceptually, but more importantly, you know how many updates you have (and, on the other side of the coin, how many pages you'll have for your impending book/digital download). You don't have to have every last word written, and there's a little room for wiggle, but you have a strong outline against which you can plan your approach.
Once you're ready, you now launch your longform comic. You make an announcement. You hit inbound social media* as hard as you can. You send preview comics and press-releases out to sites that cover comics news. And you have reader-grabbing updates in place to… well… grab those readers your driving to your site.
* Your Twitter feed, your Facebook page, etc… all sending traffic "inbound" to your Web site.
…where a traditional webcomic would encourage readers to dive through the archives, you're making sure they know they can read previous chapters (or even previous books, issues or volumes) by purchasing digital downloads. These links are prominent, and your "message" on the site, social media, etc. reinforces this fact.
Of course, if you're updating on the fly, you're getting updates finished just in time for publication on your Web site. But if you've planned ahead, you can offer interested readers the entire chapter (or book) as a digital download — which includes the stuff that's already appeared on the site as well as the rest of the content they haven't seen online, all the way to the end of the chapter/book/etc.
At the grand finale, we have the completed piece (chapter/book/etc.) available as a digital download. If a printed version of the comic is in your plans, this is when you launch the Kickstarter. You have a product in hand, a dedicated reader base, and a clear path to your product. These are all important ingredients to a successful crowd-sourcing campaign.
And now you go dormant. Well, not completely dormant, but the activity on your site slows down. You convert it from an active webcomic to a storefront for your digital download(s). Make sure there's a message explaining when the next live content will begin appearing on the site. And you can even post teasers for the next round with sketches, etc — as long as they're not included in your comic's archive.
During the "dormancy" period, you go back to "PLANNING" and start the entire process over again.
Then you do the whole thing over again.
Now, obviously, there is a wide range of longform comics, and this probably won't apply to some. However, I think there are elements there that could apply to all of them. And there are creative people who will take that framework and run with it.
But that's my thoughts on running a longform comic on the Web. What are yours?


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Budget leaves Moray Council staring down a £3.7m black hole
17th December 2015 by insideMoray
£3.7m cut in Moray's budget could mean job losses
MORAY IS FACING a £3.7million cut in their finances as a result of the Scottish budget measures revealed by John Swinney on Tuesday.
Councils throughout Scotland are the biggest losers with the Deputy First Minister announcing a "strong but challenging" financial situation for local authorities, who are also faced with the prospect of a ninth successive year where council tax will be frozen.
The cut to Moray's budget reflects the Scottish Government's own estimate of a 3.5% reduction in funding – and that, according to one local councillor, will mean cuts to care for the elderly, schools and roads as well as local council jobs being lost.
Fochabers/Lhanbryde Labour councillor Sean Morton said: "We were promised an anti-austerity budget but we've given a budget riddled with hidden cuts.
"This budget doesn't deliver fairer taxes, a long term plan for Scotland or an anti-austerity alternative. Local services like our schools, roads and care of the elderly will likely face massive cuts.
"It's not enough to blame Westminster any more when the SNP have all the powers they need to end austerity. Councils in Scotland will now face £500m worth of cuts – that's the equivalent of 15,000 jobs. These cuts to councils are cuts we're all about to feel."
The representative body for all Scottish local authorities, COSLA, last night said the budget was "catastrophic" with their president, David O'Neil, saying: "This is a budget that hits the council workforce in terms of job losses. It hits the child in care, it hits the elderly struggling with dementia and vulnerable adults.
"A cut of 3.5% is catastrophic for jobs and services within Scottish local government because the harsh reality is that it actually translates to real job cuts that hit real families in real communities throughout Scotland."
Councillor Allan Wright, the Convener of Moray Council, said that he felt local authorities were being "hard done by" when compared with the NHS which has been given an increase in funding.
However, the SNP group leader at Moray Council, Councillor Gary Coull, insisted that the budget put Scotland's councils in a better position than those in England – but admitted that redundancies were possible.
He said: "It's something we did in the past when savings have had to be made – and the staff at Moray Council have been excellent."
This budget was the first time the Scottish Government had real power to vary the rate of income tax – but that proved a move too drastic to take for a government on the eve of the Scottish Elections, Mr Swinney electing not to tinker with the 10p rate he has control over.
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US sailor from coronavirus-hit aircraft carrier dies after contracting virus
A US Navy sailor died on Monday after contracting the coronavirus, marking the first death of a sailor assigned to the coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt.
Two dead as Russian carrier fire extinguished
Emergency workers and sailors have extinguished a blaze on the Russian navy's only aircraft carrier that has killed two people, the navy said Friday.
Russia's only aircraft carrier damaged after crane falls on it
Russia's only aircraft carrier was damaged while undergoing repairs in the north of the country after the floating dock holding it sank in the early hours of Tuesday and a crane crashed onto its deck, tearing a gash up to 5 metres wide.
China has plan to build nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
China is developing technologies to build a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, state media reported on Wednesday, as Beijing pushes forward with an ambitious military modernisation programme.
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The United States is poised to send an aircraft carrier to Vietnam in March, officials of both sides said, dramatic evidence of deepening military ties between them, more than four decades after the Vietnam War.
China's aircraft carrier sails by Taiwan as tensions grow
China's sole operational aircraft carrier passed through the Taiwan Strait Wednesday, the island's defence ministry said, as Beijing steps up pressure on its democratic rival.
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Britain's new three billion pound warship has a leak
Britain's biggest ever warship, the new 3.1 billion pound ($4.2 billion) aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, has a leak and needs repairs, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on Tuesday.
New US aircraft carrier a 'message to the world': Trump
The United States on Saturday commissioned a new aircraft carrier that President Donald Trump called "a 100,000-tonne message to the world."
China aircraft carrier to lead Pacific drills for first time
China's navy sent its sole aircraft carrier into the Pacific for the first time, state media reported -- a move likely to ratchet up regional tensions.
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This funding opportunity is part of the Government of Canada's continued rapid response to address the health challenges of the viral COVID-19 pandemic. The funding will enable rapid and timely research responsive to the current phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, which is focused on slowing and stopping the spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus and mitigating the health and social consequences of the disease. The Government of Canada will provide funding for research focused on addressing the impact of COVID-19 on the health and well-being of Indigenous Peoples.
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The Nominated Principal Applicant must have their substantive role in Canada for the duration of the requested grant term.
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A little-known synaesthetic 'hearing-motion' phenomenon in which people hear faint sounds following totally silent visual flashes may be more common than previously realised, according to a new study from City, University of London.
The paper, which is published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition, is the first to shows that surprisingly high proportion of individuals report such sensations, and that these visually-evoked sounds seem to interfere with the ability to hear real sounds, with the flashes essentially having a deafening effect on individuals.
It is thought it may arise as humans are better at recording sound than images, therefore the ability to recode visual signals as sounds would take advantage of such abilities.
Most synaesthesia is rare, where stimulation of one sensory pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experience of a second sensory pathway, occurring in around 4 percent of the population. However, the new City study found that such 'hearing-motion' synaesthesia occurred in 22 per cent of people when tested and it is thought that they may occur subliminally, disrupting detection of real auditory signals.
The frequent natural correlation between visual and auditory stimuli might explain the surprising prevalence of this phenomenon. Overall, the results suggest that learned correspondences between strongly correlated senses may provide a precursor for some synaesthetic abilities.
The research supports the idea that in fact some forms of synaesthesia might be grounded on normal mechanisms involved in forming and reinforcing associations between different senses, and that such synaesthetic associations might form more frequently when they occur between senses which are naturally related, such as sound and vision, as they can be consistently reinforced.
To investigate the effect, 40 randomly-sampled participants with normal hearing and vision were presented with pairs of either visual or auditory Morse-code like patterns, and had to decide whether each pair contained the same or different sequence. Participants were then asked whether they were aware of hearing faint sounds accompanying the flashes. In a final critical task, participants had to detect faint sounds, presented with or without irrelevant visual flashes.
Of the 40 participants, 22 per cent of normal participants reported hearing sounds accompanying the visual flashes in the 'Morse-code' task. These participants performed significantly better in the visual sequence discrimination task, supporting previous suggestions that the ability to recode visual events as sounds may influence visual discrimination of rhythmic sequences. Furthermore, the study is the first to suggest that such auditory-recoding of visual events not only indirectly affects visual performance but directly affect auditory signal detection, making it harder to hear real sounds in the presence of visual stimulation. This kind of visually-evoked auditory response (V-EAR) is thus apparently not only quite common but it can impact on detection of real sounds.
"Our study has provided the first evidence that a surprisingly high proportion of individuals can sometimes report auditory sensations evoked by visual flashes. This phenomenon is fascinating as it suggests that many of us can use our hearing to help us to remember visual sequences and process them more efficiently. In some people the ability to hear what we see such conversion of images into sounds might compensate for a poorer ability to discriminate pure auditory sequences.
"These internal sounds seem to be perceptually real enough to interfere with the detection of externally-generated sounds. The finding that this 'hearing-motion' phenomenon seems to be much more prevalent compared to other synaesthesias might occur due to the strength of the natural connection between sound and vision.


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Shelob's Lair (manuscript)
The name Shelob's Lair refers to more than one character, item or concept. For a list of other meanings, see Shelob's Lair (disambiguation).
Shelob's Lair is a manuscript page by J.R.R. Tolkien for The Two Towers. It is kept at the Bodleian Library (MS. Tolkien Drawings 81). The manuscript, featuring a sketch of Shelob's Lair and the Tower of Cirith Ungol, was first written in pencil, before Tolkien went over it in ink.[1]
A cropped version of the manuscript was first published in The Lord of the Rings 1977 Calendar, together with the following note by Christopher Tolkien:
"The writing accompanying this picture is a fragment of an early draft of the passage in The Two Towers (Book IV, Chapter 8, The Stairs of Cirith Ungol) in which is described Sam and Frodo's first sight of the Tower of Cirith Ungol. In this draft Gollum had already disappeared at this point in the story."
In 1995, a full reproduction of the manuscript appeared in J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator (p. 175, drawing 171).
In 2012, the manuscript was displayed at the exhibition The Romance of the Middle Ages (also reproduced in the accompanying exhibition book).[1]
↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Romance of the Middle Ages: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings", Bodleian Library: The Romance of the Middle Ages (accessed 14 February 2012)
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There were a few difficult sellers on this week's episode. It made for some tough negotiations, but it also gave the dealers a chance to shine, and show that dealing is what they do best. Generally, it was not Jordan's week, but not for a lack of trying!
This week on Final Offer, a husband and wife brought in a guitar owned by Kurt Cobain and played by Cobain during Nirvana's first major tour in 1989. Jordan didn't get a chance to make an offer on the item and it was sold to another buyer for $10,500. In the end though, the owner likely regretted his choice as Jordan said that he would have easily paid $25,000 for it knowing that similar guitars have recently sold for $100,000.
Jordan Tabach-Bank's recent feature in Interview Magazine.
Jordan made his debut on the new Discovery Channel show "Final Offer" last night. He got the first deal of the show – convincing Billy Mason and his wife Kelly to part with three NASCAR racecar hoods for $4,250.


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Robert 'Bob' F. Hartman '42 of Pleasanton, Calif., died December 28, 2010. He was born in 1919 in El Centro, Calif. While at Mines, Bob was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Sigma Nu fraternity, and graduated with a professional degree in petroleum engineering.
In 1942, he married Mary Ellen Perry. That same year, Bob began his professional career as a petroleum engineer for Standard Oil in El Segundo, Calif. In 1956, he patented a method for the recovery of hydrocarbon vapors emitted during the pumping process, resulting in a major reduction in air pollution. The following year, Bob took his family to Adaban, Iran, to work in conjunction with National Iranian Oil for two years. In 1962 he received his master's degree in engineering from UCLA.
Bob retired from Chevron in 1982 after 40 years of service, but he continued his public service to philanthropic organizations, his local church, and Plumas Eureka State Park, where he reconstructed the assay office and gave lectures on ore milling. After 62 years of marriage, he was predeceased by Mary Ellen. He is survived by his second wife, Dorothy; daughters Janice Cheney, Linda Hall and Carol Smith; seven grandchildren, including Shawn Cheney '97; and nine great-grandchildren.
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NFTs Are Finance as an Aesthetic Medium
The fusion of fractionalized art and DeFi opens up new opportunities for art and creative money-making.
By Michael Maizels
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Michael Maizels
Originally trained as an art historian, Michael Maizels is a technology researcher with Pilot44, a boutique innovation consulting firm in SF, and is also affiliated with the metaLAB, a think tank and creative design studio at Harvard University.
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The explosive, ten-figure growth of the NFT market over the past year will be remembered as a sea-change moment. And while it is difficult to imagine the market for new non-fungible tokens heating up forever, the rise and fall of individual objects should not damp the long-term outlook.
The speed at which this new, digital art market is taking shape is astonishing. You feel like an astronomer watching the formation of a galaxy in fast forward. The "modern" art market took centuries to develop, and it was only within the last 40 years that innovators (or depending on your view, greedy bad actors) introduced financial instruments such as credit lines to the sale of paintings and sculptures. By contrast, the financialization of NFTs is occurring moment to moment.
Michael Maizels is a technology researcher with Pilot44, a boutique innovation consulting firm in San Francisco, and is also affiliated with the metaLAB, a think tank and creative design studio at Harvard University.
NFTs are a perfect alignment between art and finance. They are two halves of a strange love-finance-aesthetics union hanging together with a precision that has never been achieved in any previous chapter of the interrelationship of art and money. Because NFTs themselves are a kind of currency, the creative possibilities they open (making, borrowing, sharing, rarity distributions, permissioned access, etc.) have direct analogs on the right side of the balance sheet (issuing, lending, pooling, risk curves, investor control, the beat goes on).
Call it finance as an aesthetic medium.
The world got a crash course in the emergent field of "creative economics," or "token economics," through the boom year of 2021. Though it began with the sale of a multimillion-dollar one of one, the story has been the rise of massive, community-driven projects epitomized by the Bored Apes (whose sales now top $1 billion). Just as one would rue the idea of building physical infrastructure with no consideration of physics, so, too, it has become difficult to imagine orchestrating the behavior of 10,000+ individuals – many of whom have come suddenly into wealth – without recourse to social psychology and elementary economics.
Read more: Joon Ian Wong - The Future of NFTs Is Fungible
Seen from the perspective of creators and storytellers, this constitutes a paradigm shift with momentous consequences.
While poets, playwrights, concert musicians and conceptual artists have all worked through the aesthetics of co-created narrative art, no such figures could have wielded the medium of finance as a storytelling device until now.
And yet, this lens of the hybrid aesthetic/financial object has thus far been understood exclusively to apply within a single project: creative micro-economics. Beyond this lies a whole meta-universe of possibilities that might be referred to as "creative macro."
As Defiance ETF's co-founder Sylvia Jablonski recently explained, "The next generation of traders are not like traditional asset allocators. These people are interested in things that allow them to connect and create and be a part of something."
The desire for investors and collectors to play across the boundary between financial value and aesthetic expression will be unleashed to massive effect. But the shift from blockchain as a store of value to a creative substrate will require a fundamental recalibration of decentralized finance (DeFi) itself.
NFT lending has already begun to heat up. Startups, including NIFTEX, Ark.Gallery, Charged Particles and Upshot, have introduced functions such as fractionalization, blind bidding for off-market works, community-owned index funds and crowdsourced appraisals into the NFT market. Standard math suggests that, with a loan-to-value ratio of 80%, the NFT market would expand by five times if collectors were easily able to access leverage. When this happened in the analog art world during the 1980s, it was more like an order of magnitude increase.
Read more: Jarrod Dicker et al. - NFTs, DAOs and the New Creator Economy
We believe that attaining such lofty heights for the marketplace layer will depend upon finding ways to map financial value onto expressive power. How might a seemingly simple transaction, such as a collateralized loan, be reconsidered not only as an economic exchange but also an artistic act? Indeed, artists have been figuratively "borrowing" one another's work for a very long time through the act of simple copying.
NFT exchange holds the promise to make this borrowing literally as well as computationally interesting. Artists who wish to use each others' ideas can now seamlessly buy, sell and trade, as well lend against, underwrite, securitize or any number of exotic derivations one another's work.
As often the case in the metaverse, the key to transformation lies in meta-data. Permissions could be written into NFT contracts that grant rights to modify purchased or borrowed pieces in either temporary or permanent ways. What if each collector, as in the tradition of ancient Chinese manuscript holders, stamped works that came into their portfolios?
Other contracts could specify how exchanged pieces might be divvied up into non-fungible parts. What if Ape collectors could leave their simian friends safely in wallet, but then sell (or even rent) the NFT's rarest attribute, say, his shiny diamond grill, out to the market?
The fractionalized liquidity of creative attributes may be extended to the intellectual property rights attached to NFT ownership. What if the diamond grill, only available for a limited time, could be editioned onto virtual merch that might disappear at a fixed date? Or merch that would revert royalty payments once the smile went home? The possibilities seem endless.
And NFT derivatives promise to create still stranger monsters. One could assemble hybrid pieces or form collages out of extant works. Untouched originals would become rarer, and new offerings would undergo a period of profound adaptive radiation as collectors find themselves able to gene splice across a whole metaverse of secondary marketplaces and tertiary securities.
Just as financial transactions can be fractionally resold through derivative "strips" or "tranches" that cut across entire asset classes, large groups of NFT artworks and permissions could be similarly securitized and recirculated, creating something akin to the shadow banking for creativity.
Perhaps the most important role for digital re-composition will be to preserve the work of the Web 3 world by continuously revitalizing it. Importantly, the way that hardware and software formats come and go has caused artifacts of digital culture to fare very badly through institutional preservation. A large part of the value of oil painting derives from its durability, by contrast.
Velazquez's "Las Meninas" looks basically the same as it did in the 17th century, if not a little cleaner. The NFT will not win this game – oil painting has a head start of hundreds of years, marble sculpture several thousand. But if the odds are stacked against them becoming ancient, the artists of today are much better positioned to stay in front of modernity.
Read more: Michael Casey - The Value of NFTs Is Belonging
This moment is not entirely without precedent. In the 15th century, after a global pandemic rewired the social order and trust in public institutions had thoroughly rotted, there emerged a period of innovation. The achievements of Renaissance painting and Renaissance thinking are deeply inter-related. In the century that followed, the discoveries of mobile money (paper money/deposit slips), movable art (paint on canvas rather than fresco wall) and cross-ocean exploitation all fed into one another.
The joint stock company, the movable printing press, representative democracy and the editioned artist's print all spun out of the next turn of the screw. Another two hundred years would see the telegraph, the railroad and the photograph follow the same well-worn grooves. What we are calling the metaverse is just the latest in a series of worlds that abstracted away from its predecessor by playing across the lines of telecommunications, finance and art.
This piece is excerpted from a longer white paper, which can be downloaded here.
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D1. Standing Calf Raise – Load up, stay within 8-10 reps with a challenging weight, allow ROM to decrease slightly, but maintain slow, controlled tempo.
D2. Seated Calf Raise – controlled and smooth for 8-10 reps with an emphasis on end ranges – pausing in the bottom and top position and ensuring full ROM.
D3. Donkey Calf Raise – Sets of 50+. Pump it out fast and stagger back to the start again.