Authors: Luitel, H.S. and Tosun, M.S. Abstract: Assuming a normal distribution of hazards, Dubin, Graetz, and Wilde (1992) analyze state tax amnesties in the 1980s and conclude that states run amnesties in response to revenue yield motive. Given the increased frequency with which states enacted amnesties during and after the 2001 recession, we investigate if there is a possible shift from revenue yield motive to fiscal stress motive. We find that the normal distribution of hazards assumption along with the multicollinearity problem led prior research to an erroneous conclusion, and that fiscal stress is indeed the main determinant of initial and repeated tax amnesties enacted by states between 1982 and 2005.
Authors: Parker, E. and Cargill, T. Abstract: This chapter assesses the potential for reform in North Korea, and considers the lessons learned from economic reform and transition in China, the Soviet Union, and Central Europe. We focus in particular on the importance of reforms in the financial regime, and argue that in the absence of a major change in North Korea's environment, such as a crisis caused by reduced economic and/or political support from China, or increased access by the North Korean population to events in the rest of the world, the current situation is likely to continue for many years. North Korea will thus continue to alternate between declining, stagnant or mediocre economic growth. It will also continue to be a source of geo-political instability in the world in general and Asia in particular.
Authors: Rollins, K. and M. Kobayashi Abstract: This paper contributes towards the development of an empirical approach applicable to contingent valuation to accommodate non-expected utility risk preferences. Combining elicitation approaches used in field experiments with contingent valuation, we embed an experimental design that systematically varies probabilities and losses across a survey sample in a willingness to pay elicitation format. We apply the proposed elicitation and estimation approaches to estimate the risk preferences of a representative homeowner who faces probabilistic wildfire risks and an investment option that reduces losses due to wildfire. Based on prospect theory, we estimate parameters of probability weighting, risk preferences and use individual characteristics as covariates for these parameters and as utility shifters. We find that risk preferences are consistent with prospect theory. We find that probability weighting may offer an explanation for respondents' observed under investment in measures to reduce losses due to wildfire.
Authors: Kobayashi, M., Moeltner, K. and Rollins, K. Abstract: In many stated preference settings stakeholders will be uncertain as to their exact willingness-to-pay for a proposed environmental amenity. To accommodate this possibility analysts have designed elicitation formats with multiple bids and response options that allow for the expression of uncertainty. We argue that the information content flowing from such elicitation has not yet been fully and efficiently exploited in existing contributions. We introduce a Latent Thresholds Estimator that focuses on the simultaneous identification of the full set of thresholds that delineate an individual's value space in accordance with observed response categories. Our framework provides a more complete picture of the underlying value distribution, the marginal effects of regressors, and the impact of bid designs on estimation efficiency. We show that the common practice of re-coding responses to derive point estimate of willingness-to-pay leaves useful information untapped and can produce misleading results if thresholds are highly correlated.
Authors: Melkonyan, T. and Taylor, M. Abstract: This paper analyzes regulatory design for agroecosystem management on public rangelands. We present an informational and institutional environment where three of the most prominent regulatory instruments on public rangelands – input regulation, cost-sharing/taxation, and performance regulation – can be defined and compared. The paper examines how the optimal regulation is shaped by the informational and institutional constraints faced by federal land management agencies (FLMAs) such as the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service. These constraints include informational asymmetries between ranchers and FLMAs, limitations on FLMAs' ability to monitor ranch-level ecological conditions, and constraints on FLMAs' actions due to budget limitations and restrictions on the level of penalties they can assess. The theoretical model extends the previous work of Baker (1992), Prendergast (2002), and Hueth and Melkonyan (2009) by considering optimal regulation by a budget-constrained regulator in an environment of asymmetric information and moral hazard.
Authors: Guerrero, F. and Parker, E. Abstract: We consider whether there is statistical evidence for a causal relationship between government expenditures and real GDP growth in postwar Japan. After studying the time-series properties of these variables, we find that government consumption and government investment both have a positive and causal effect on growth. This suggests that fiscal policy may not have been as ineffective during the last two decades of Japan's stagnant growth as some have suggested, but may have helped to prevent an even more severe balance-sheet recession after the collapse of the Japanese bubble economy.
Authors: Melkonyan, T. and Pingle, M. Abstract: Using basic decision-theory, we construct a theory of agnosticism, where agnosticism is defined as choosing not to choose a religion. The theory indicates agnosticism can be supported as a rational choice if (a) adopting agnosticism provides in-life benefits relative to any religion, (b) the perceived payoff for agnosticism after death is not too much less than any religion, (c) no religion has a high perceived likelihood of truth, (d) probability of death is neither too high nor too low, or (e) it is less costly to switch from agnosticism to a given religion than from one religion to another, while at the same time there is a reasonable likelihood an informative signal may be received in life as to the truth of various religions.
Authors: Kimberly Rollins, M.D.R. Evans, Mimako Kobayashi and Anita Castledine Abstract: Public good attributes that are correlated with protest beliefs but not separable from the good's value, would affect stated preference estimates of the WTP for the public good. Survey data collected to value a program to prevent ecosystem losses on Nevada rangelands, where the majority of land is publicly owned and managed, reveal more than half of the respondents exhibiting some protest belief. Of these, about 60% voted 'yes' to some nonzero bid amount. By treating protest beliefs and opposition to the proposed program as separate concepts, we systematically analyze their determinants and impacts on WTP. In this framework, people with protest beliefs may or may not vote 'no' to all bids and people may, without being protesters, answer 'no' to all dollar amounts. Multinomial logit regression results suggest that factors motivating people to protest and/or oppose the proposed program are so diverse that a single model does not provide a good fit. We estimate nested models and conclude that different underlying processes determine WTP for "protesters" ($34.02) and "non-protesters" ($69.56).


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Path of Exile •
On The Beta Track: Path Of Exile
former Deputy Editor
7th September 2011 / 6:41PM
We last wrote about online-only, free-to-play ARPG Path of Exile in April and it was already looking like an interesting proposition. It's in closed beta now and there's a terribly agonising countdown clock on the website to inform the world of when another lucky player will be allowed in. It's like a cruel competition that I never win. Has anyone had any luck and if so can you bring back any reports from the entirely lootable dark and gritty world (that's the official description) in which you have found yourself? There's several feature length films worth of beta footage after the jump as well as a trailer for the Templar class.
It looks a lot like Diablo the first in 3D. Unlike Blizzard's new offering and Torchlight, wherein puppies and unicorns are the order of the day, Path of Exile is set in the kind of world where a rainbow would probably be covered in spikes and blood. And it would growl at you and actually be an angry yet multihued demon-faced skybastard, not a rainbow at all.
Despite having a PVP element, the developers have repeatedly stated that though free-to-play this will not be a pay-to-win game. Instead, it's a pay-to-be-pretty game, with a raft of aesthetic options available for a bit of coin. This is particularly impressive given the apparent depth and customisation offered through the skill tree. It would have been easy to lock off pathways and combinations behind a wall penetrated only by a credit card, but that's not the case. The whole twisted skill tree, which is more web than tree, is available to everyone. There's a picture of it here. I don't know whether to be impressed or intimidated. Both, most likely. Intimipressed. Or terrifroused.
Although there is a class system, with six to pick from, every character can unlock the skills of his or her choosing. Different classes are more suited to certain paths (of exile) but they're not locked down. The level cap is currently set at 100, which sounds like a lot. Obviously, it's not necessarily a lot. It's an arbitrary number and if it takes two minutes to earn a level, 100 is suddenly an exceedingly rubbishy arbitrary number. But fear not. Grinding Gear claim that it'd be possible to improve a single character "for years on end".
If you sign up for the beta now, you could still get in before it opens up to everyone in the near future. The people picked for the closed beta are being randomly selected from all those who signed up. No first come first served here.
Oh, and here's that beta footage. I'm not going to pretend I've watched it all so hopefully it doesn't contradict everything I've written.
Tagged with ARPG, beta, free games, Grinding Gear Games, Path of Exile.
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Osceola Music Festival by Robert "Nighthawk" Tooms
Posted on 5/29/2010 by Robert "Nighthawk" Tooms
(Memphis, Tennessee) This week we travel up Interstate 55 to the lovely town of Osceola, Arkansas, in the northeast part of the state for the yearly Osceola Music Festival that is held in the town's beautiful old court square. After listening to some great eclectic music by the band, Smiling Dog, we reunited with old friends Paul, Randy, and Steve "Odie" O'Dell and headed for the hospitality room for some delicious home made food.
My first gig for the day was with the Eric Hughes Band and bassist, Leo Goff was deeply entrenched with some barbecued pork and fried chicken. The nice folks that host this event cook and bake tons of great food and Wayne Russell particularly enjoyed the vast number of desserts they had brought to the event.
Eric Hughes Band starts playing in the 92 degree afternoon
Memphis Mike Forrest and Jumping James Cunningham on the drums
Leo Goff plays the Barker Leo Goff Signature Model electric upright bass
Eric Hughes
my old buddy Steve O'Dell makes sure the sound lights and show go smoothly
Steve has worked hundreds of these shows all over this state
Sonny Burgess and The Pacers take the stage for some classic rockabilly entertainment
The band was formed in 1955 at Newport, Arkansas. They had five singles on SUN Records: "Red Headed Woman" backed with "We Wanna Boogie," "Thunderbird," "Ain't Got a Thing," "Buckets Got a Hole In It," and "Sadies Back In Town".
They were inducted into the Rockabilly Hall Of Fame In Jackson, Tennessee in 2002. The Rock and Soul Museum in Memphis also opened in May of 2000 and features a section on the Pacers.
From Sonny Burgess and the Legendary Pacers site
SUN recording artist Sonny Burgess sings one of his hits
The Legendary Pacers
Jim Aldridge joined the Pacers in 1962.
He is a superb horn player.
Kern K. Kennedy on piano
Fred Douglass on bass
drummer Doug McMinn and Donna Donald
Confederate Railroad's bus
From their site:
"The Pacers started with Sonny Burgess on vocals and guitar, Kern K. Kennedy on piano, Johnny Ray Hubbard on slap bass, Russ Smith on drums, Joe Lewis on guitar, and Jack Nance on trumpet. In early 1957 Joe and Russ left the band; Russ going to work with Jerry Lee Lewis and Joe to further his own career. In August of 1957 Jack joined Joe working with Conway Twitty and Bobby Crafford joined the Pacers as drummer.
In March of 1958 J.C. Caughron joined the Pacers as lead guitar. In 1962 Jim Aldridge joined the Pacers playing sax and in 1963 Fred Douglas replaced Hubbard as bass player. Joe Lewis was killed in a car wreck several years ago and Jack Nance passed away in 2000. Russ Smith currently lives in Mississippi. Johnny Hubbard retired and now lives in Newport, AR. Charles Watson II plays fiddle on the "Still Rockin' and Rollin'" album and appears live with the band."
Sonny Burgess
Our friend Sonny clowns for the camera
Sonny Burgess plays the Fender Telecaster
The town square of Osceola begins to fill with festival goers
folks find a good place to relax sitting on hay bales
Plaques on the town square honor the town's famous musicians
A memorial to my friend and former band mate, SUN recording star, Billy Lee Riley
Doug McMinn
Reba Russell slays the crowd with some newly released blues off the CD, "8"
Wayne Russell strokes the bass guitar
later he would eat twelve desserts
Doug McMinn and Robert "Nighthawk" Tooms
Josh Roberts
The Reba Russell Band took the stage and played for a wonderful crowd of kind Osceola folks. Reba commented on how warm and hospitable thes crowd and the festival volunteers and staff are to all the bands throughout the many years we have been blessed to entertain here. This two day annual event is a festival not to miss and concert goers in the know drive for many miles to attend. Our friends, Bill and Barbara Crawford, from Poplar Bluff, Missouri, drove to the event and we were delighted to spend a little time with these beautiful folks.
The night was capped off with the pleasant strains of Confederate Railroad playing their country hits. It was a beautiful day and an even cooler, more enjoyable night. Sincere thanks to all our dear friends for a spectacular event and a memorable day and night of music.
Confederate Railroad plays their country hits
© Robert "Nighthawk" Tooms, 2010


The 2015 Sundance Film Festival is a kid at heart that cares about the world.
During the closing-night award ceremony held at the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse on Saturday, the Sundance Film Festival's grand jury awards in the U.S. Dramatic and Documentary competitions were given to films about teens.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" took home the dramatic award and Crystal Moselle's "The Wolfpack" was bestowed the documentary award.
"Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" is a heart-touching drama about a high-school senior named Greg who makes films with his best friend Earl and is forced to befriend a classmate with leukemia.
Moselle's "The Wolfpack" is about six teen brothers who live in a Manhattan housing project, whose only knowledge of the world was gleaned from films.
Gomez-Rejon, whose film also won the U.S. Audience Award, appeared breathless while he thanked his cast.
"This movie was about processing loss and [was made] to celebrate a beautiful life and man, who is my father," he said. "Thank you for this opportunity."
Moselle was all smiles when she accepted her award.
"I stopped these kids on the street one day and here I am," she said. "I know you're watching this and I [expletive] love you."
The heart of a teen was also recognized in the Grand Jury's selection for the World Dramatic award with John Maclean's "Slow West."
The film is about about a 16-year-old boy named Jay who searches for the woman he loves across the American frontier.
The award was accepted by cast member Kalani Quepo, who read a statement from Maclean at the podium.
"I with I could be there to pick up my award," Quepo quoted the filmmaker. "I'm now in Sequoia in upstate California staring at the world's biggest tree. Let me tell you it is big."
After relaying Maclean's thanks to his supporters and crew Quepo relayed one more item of gratitude.
"Thanks to dad for taking me to Westerns when I was a wee boy," he read. "Thanks to Sundance to showing me a good time… John."
One of the evening's first awards presented was the Grand Jury World Documentary Award that was handed to Chad Garcia's issue-examining "The Russian Woodpecker."
The world-premiere film is about the plight of Fedor Alexandrovich, a victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster who risks his life to reveal a terrifying government secret.
In one of the most heartfelt moments of the night, Garcia said he felt so lucky to be at Sundance.
"Not because of this unbelievable award, I feel lucky to be here because a good friend of mine, [cinematographer] Artem [Ryzhykov] was shot by snipers and almost killed while making this film," he said.
In addition, the film's subject, Alexandrovich, was threatened by the KBG, according to Garcia.
"He's still with us, but many Ukrainians, thousands of Ukrainian artists aren't as lucky. I don't think we can stop Russians with bombs, but I think with a little bit of art and truth, maybe we can make some progress."
Ryzhykov paid tribute to the Ukrainian artists who were killed.
"I hope this film will change this situation and help Ukraine," he said.
Alexandrovich, who also addressed the audience, implored to "Save Ukraine now. Tomorrow will be [too] late."
Another emotional moment came after Marc Silver's "3 ½ Minutes" was given the Jury Award for Social Impact.
The film is about the shooting of the 2012 shooting of 17-year-old Jordan Davis by Michael David Dunn.
Davis' parents, Ron Davis and Lucy McBath, were present at the ceremony.
"We would not be here if it wasn't for these visionaries," McBath said about the filmmakers. "I never would have imagined his life as well as his death would mean so much to so many people."
Davis was also touched by the award.
"Never did I believe when I hugged Jordan to go to with his friends to go window shopping that would be the last time I would talk with him," he said. "This world we live in doesn't tolerate children no more. This is not just a film. Black Lives Matter."
Before the awards were handed out, Keri Putnam, executive director of the Sundance Institute, thanked the festival's supporters and sponsors, and said she was proud of the filmmakers whose works made it into the festival.
"They entertain and inspire us," Putnam said. "Pioneering artists need a creative home for risk taking. Their ideas create a ripple effect and create cultural shifts."
Festival Director John Cooper also gave a short speech and shared his gratitude to his staff and volunteers, including those who gave more than 100 hours of their time.
"Our deepest thanks goes to our dedicated and tireless volunteers, all 1,950 of them," he said.
He also acknowledged Cheryl Soshnik, who was recognized with the Gail M. Stevens volunteer award.
The award was named after the late Sundance Film Festival board chair who passed away in 2008.
The evening was hosted by comedian Tig Notaro, whose film "Tig" was in the festival this year. Notaro's dry humor and non sequiturs helped the evening move along efficiently as she introduced the jurors, filmmakers and actors.
For more information, visit sundance.org.


Britain's Defra (Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs) informed ADI that no licences have yet been issued for the British Government's hugely expensive and doomed scheme to regulate wild animals in circuses. Yet ADI investigators have photographed camels at Mondao circus in Kirton, Peterborough – a species that should be licensed.
The licensing and inspection regime was opposed by all animal welfare groups following consistent evidence of suffering and brutality released by ADI dating back twenty years. Only last year, ADI evidence secured the conviction circus owner Bobby Roberts for cruelty to his elephant, Anne. The first ever conviction of cruelty under the UK's Animal Welfare Act after multiple inspections failed to identify any of Anne's abuse.
Given the circumstances of keeping animals in small, lightweight, collapsible accommodation that can be fitted onto the back of a vehicle, it is simply not possible to provide these animals with the environment and facilities they need to maintain optimum psychological and physical health. That is aside from any physical abuse during training and control, that ADI has consistently exposed. The solution is not to use them in the travelling circus business.
I remain mystified by the Government's stubborn refusal to move straight to their promise to ban wild animals from circuses, in the face of such overwhelming public and parliamentary support. A Defra survey found 94.5% of the public support a ban; a Dods poll for ADI showed the majority of Members of Parliament, 63%, also support a ban.
This appears to be blind political dogma, at the expense of vulnerable animals.


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The Art of Sailor Moon Crystal: Oy Vey….
The Lure of the Original
Perhaps one of the most important things when it comes to the new adaptation of Sailor Moon into the new version Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Crystal, is the fact that the new version has some very big shoes to fill. Sailor Moon is one of the most popular anime of all time, and many generations of fans grew up with the original series and its products. Sailor Moon cosplays and references are still very strong and frequent in the anime fanbase. With such a worldwide audience, fans were certainly excited to see a new version being released, and were also hoping that this new version would bring the story of Sailor Moon to new generations of fans. However, although fans did get the new adaptation that they were hoping for, it took some time to get used to it… to say the least.
A Very Peculiar Style
The opening of the series showed a lot of potential and some very nice visual and 3D effects. However, once the episodes started, the characters looked a little…odd. They were certainly the same characters, but with strangely proportioned faces and eyes that were exceptionally big, even by anime standards! The cute and energetic sailors from the original series, were now looking a little more… uhmmm… 'dazed' than usual. This would certainly take some time to get used to, and in some shots they were looking like completely different characters. Now it is certainly no strange occurrence that during action scenes, and fast movement of characters in general, animators have to compensate with shots that are disproportionate in order to move faster between one shot and another (this is frequently done depending on the time and budget that the anime is allocated). However, Sailor Moon Crystal seemed to have difficulty in design even when the characters were still.
Whenever design flaws occur during slower movement viewers will definitely notice it, and it tends to leave a bitter afterimage that stays with you even as you continue to watch the episode. This happened so frequently in the new version that there have been many discussions online from disappointed fans. If this had been a new anime that had no history behind it, it is unlikely that fans would have raised any fuss. However, this is Sailor Moon! She's supposed to be the beautiful, charming, quirky and powerful girl that so many other girls were inspired by, which is why it is so disheartening to see her looking like a somewhat bewildered gecko.
Here's Hoping for a Better Future
With Season 2 confirmed, fans are hoping that the animation will see some major improvements and hopefully a bigger budget. Fans are certainly not asking for perfection, but it would be wonderful to see all the characters portrayed in the quality and detail that they deserve.
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Romance in Tales of Zestiria?


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Serotonin Transporter Genetic Variation and the Response of the Human Amygdala
Ahmad R. Hariri1,
Venkata S. Mattay1,
Alessandro Tessitore1,
Bhaskar Kolachana1,
Francesco Fera1,
David Goldman2,
Michael F. Egan1,
Daniel R. Weinberger1,*
1 Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
2 Laboratory of Neurogenetics, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Ahmad R. Hariri
Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Venkata S. Mattay
Alessandro Tessitore
Bhaskar Kolachana
Francesco Fera
Laboratory of Neurogenetics, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Michael F. Egan
Daniel R. Weinberger
A functional polymorphism in the promoter region of the human serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4) has been associated with several dimensions of neuroticism and psychopathology, especially anxiety traits, but the predictive value of this genotype against these complex behaviors has been inconsistent. Serotonin [5- hydroxytryptamine, (5-HT)] function influences normal fear as well as pathological anxiety, behaviors critically dependent on the amygdala in animal models and in clinical studies. We now report that individuals with one or two copies of the short allele of the serotonin transporter (5-HTT) promoter polymorphism, which has been associated with reduced 5-HTT expression and function and increased fear and anxiety-related behaviors, exhibit greater amygdala neuronal activity, as assessed by BOLD functional magnetic resonance imaging, in response to fearful stimuli compared with individuals homozygous for the long allele. These results demonstrate genetically driven variation in the response of brain regions underlying human emotional behavior and suggest that differential excitability of the amygdala to emotional stimuli may contribute to the increased fear and anxiety typically associated with the short SLC6A4 allele.
↵* To whom correspondence should be addressed at Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, 10 Center Drive, Room 4S235, Bethesda, MD 20892–1384, USA. E-mail: weinberd{at}intra.nimh.nih.gov
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By Ahmad R. Hariri, Venkata S. Mattay, Alessandro Tessitore, Bhaskar Kolachana, Francesco Fera, David Goldman, Michael F. Egan, Daniel R. Weinberger
Science 19 Jul 2002 : 400-403


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Nina Menkes, Cinematic Sorceress
UCLA Film & Television Archive, in partnership with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, presents
filmmaker Nina Menkes.
"One of the greatest figures in new wave feminist cinema." — Vienna International Film Festival
"For me, cinema is sorcery, a creative way to interact with the world in order to rearrange perception and expand consciousness, both the viewer's and my own."— Nina Menkes
Type "NinaMenkes.com" into your browser's address bar, and note the subtitle that preempts any of your doubts: "Yes! I am a Witch." A proclamation that centuries ago would have led to certain persecution is here embraced and celebrated by Menkes herself, the artist holistically comprehending and embracing its historical, malignant, and yes, gendered implications. A filmmaker conjuring her cinematic magic in a fiercely independent mode, film historian and critic Bérénice Reynaud has declared that Menkes "does not inscribe herself in a recognizable avant-garde tradition. She has no master and no disciples." This final note is not to be taken quite literally, for Menkes is a full-time faculty member in the Film and Video program at the California Institute of the Arts, and, before this appointment, was one of the most popular film directing professors at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Her seven feature films, each of which resonates as a hypnotic meditation that insists on creating its own rules, have been featured in major international film festivals, as premieres or as part of retrospective screenings, including Sundance, Rotterdam, Locarno, London, Viennale, and Toronto; notably, Nina was also one of the first female filmmakers to present a feature in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Traditionally controlling all aspects of production, including camera operation and picture and sound editing, Nina Menkes could not be more autonomous, though much of her inspiration comes from a long-standing collaboration with her principal actress and co-editor, her sister Tinka. Their creative partnership imbues in each film an outward expression of deeply personal interiority, of understanding beyond earthly expression. The Archive is thrilled to present, along with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, an enchanted evening with this incredible filmmaker and two of her most evocative works.
Special thanks to Mark Toscano and May Haduong of the Academy Film Archive; David Marriott, Dennis Bartok and Ei Toshinari of Arbelos Films; Gwen Wynne, EOS World Fund; UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Office of Alumni Affairs.
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Q: Transaction in a blockchain If I make a transaction in a blockchain, does the bitcoin transfer occur only after adding the transaction into the blockchain? If so, it can take time to mine the block and urgent payment cannot be made. So isn't it a disadvantage of blockchain?

A: It is only a disadvantage if you do not value the advantage of being able to make a monetary transaction with no third party involved (no banks or governments). The entire purpose of blockchain was to be able to move value without relying on a third party who might censor/block transactions, inflate the currency, become compromised, etc. Bitcoin is transparent (verifiable) and decentralized money available to anyone with a computing device and internet connection without restrictions based on your background, nationality, citizenship, or laws.

If I made a transaction in blockchain, does the bitcoin transfer occur only after adding the transaction into blockchain?

A transaction on Bitcoin is not considered to be final until it has been included in a block. This is important because there are many reasons why it might not be included in a block:

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*Obviously if the transaction is invalid (the user doesn't have the Bitcoin to send, or it contains invalid signature or other invalid information)

*The fee was too low, and it was rejected by the network

*If the network is busy, the fee might be too low and it will not be selected by a miner for inclusion in the next block (they will pick transactions with higher fees so they make more money). After 2 weeks Bitcoin Core nodes will kick out stale transactions from the mempool (where they wait to be mined).

If so, it can take time to mine the block and urgent payment cannot be made. So isn't it a disadvantage of blockchain?

The bigger question here is how much security do you want? If you send someone Bitcoin and they don't even wait until it is included in a block (they see it in their mempool) and they give you the product or service you are buying, they are taking the risk that it might never be mined. Also, after it is included in a block, there is a very small risk of being invalid in the case of a reorganization, see Chain Reorganization. This could happen because of latency issues, for example.
Another risk is a 51% attack, where someone gains a majority of the hashpower on the network, they can change past blocks and if they are able to make a chain with more blocks on it (more proof of work), the network will accept the new chain as the source of truth (longest chain always wins, even if it is different than a previous chain).
So, the more blocks have been mined since the transaction occurred (aka number of confirmations), the more secure it will be from being reversed (or removed) in a reorganization or 51% attack.

A: You may consider it as a disadvantage in bitcoin blockchain. But it was just the starting point for the technology. In the current scenarios, ethereum has block time of 15 seconds. Which improves the speed of transactions. Also, New consensus mechanisms are helping blockchains to improve this transaction process even more.

A: In public blockchains take a time to confirm transaction but in consortium blockchains or private blockchain since existence of regulatory entity transaction confirmation is fast.
In public blockchains, type of consensus protocol effects on speed of transaction confirmation for example in Tron blockchain which base on proof of stack ,confirmation process take 1 minute but in Ethereum which base on proof of work ,confirmation process take 6 minutes

A: someone said: "transaction happens immediately but for some time not all people on the planet know and believe in it".
if you want speed, look at waves-ng protocol

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Walk the unknown path and be prepared for where it will take you.
I had hoped to have my second book to the publisher by end of March, but it only happened early this month. Since moving into our new home, I've had technological challenges, been in hospital, and generally had a life to live. I've decided not to fret about being behind though because being stressed doesn't achieve anything, in fact, I think it makes me less productive.
Despite this, my second novel is now with the publisher and my third novel is well under way and should be finished for pitching to the visiting editor at the Romance Writers of Australia Conference in August.
Sometimes I underestimate the time a project takes. It's common for me to believe I can achieve much more than I'd thought. I see days ahead of me with lots of hours available, but I forget about the thinking time, and the revision time, not to mention the creative time required to see a project through. Throughout these six months I found I became so absorbed in my work, I forgot about my weekly blog. However, after reviewing my goals and making a new plan, I hope to achieve that weekly blog.
So let me know how you're going on your journey to achieving your goals. What's holding you back: life or the big 'P' word, procrastination. See you soon!


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Q: pugixml vs tinyxml Short question: any comments on comparison of pugixml and tinyxml please?
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I need to use an XML parser/writer. My software is written in C++.
It seems to me TinyXML and pugixml are both good options (RapidXML is good as well but its interface does not seem to be as easy as the above two as I have to manage data allocations myself).
Do people have any comments on the comparison between the two? I am working on an embedded platform so memory handling is important to me, and I need to be able to both parse and write XML data.
Speed is not that important but memory usage and easier interface are.
Thanks.
PS The XML files I am dealing with are fairly small (max size=1200bytes; max elements=6 or 7; XML files are fairly simple).

A: I used tinyxml, QtXml, boost property tree, and, as I remember, pugixml is fastest DOM xml-parser.
As for embedded, I used pugixml with about 9Mb xml-files - and all works fine and fast. But I don't know about your memory limitation - just write simple example and check.

A: I have used TinyXML 6 months ago, I think it is excellent...

A: You might look at Expat. I have used it for about 8 years in a commercial product without any trouble. It is open-source with a non-viral license.


Describe This Movie In One Simpsons Quote: "They didn't start chasing us until you turned on that getaway music!"
Rating Using Random Objects Relevant To The Film: One life preserver out of five.
Brief Plot Synopsis: L + R, down, down, right, up. FATALITY.
Better Tagline: "The fast and the lugubrious"
Not So Brief Plot Synopsis: Need a package delivered promptly but find yourself disagreeing with Amazon's employment practices? Frank Martin (Ed Skrein) is your man. The self-described Transporter will handle your job promptly and with discretion. These qualities are what draw Anna (Loan Chabanol) and her fellow call girls, who involve Martin in an allegedly elaborate plan to rob their "manager" Karasov (Radivoje Bukvi) blind. Complications arise when Martin's father Frank, Sr (Ray Stevenson) gets kidnapped and Karasov turns out to be personally procuring live octopi for Pope Francis' perversions and I'm just seeing if you're still paying attention.
"Critical" Analysis: The Transporter Refueled is the first installment in a reported new trilogy of films. It's both a reboot and a prequel, with a much younger Frank Martin behind the wheel. This is now where I will appear to harp on trivialities in a movie where a car does a 360 in a roundabout and clips open the pumper outlets on four fire hydrants. Bear with me.
The movie opens in 1995, with Karasov establishing his strong pimp hand in the French Riviera by murdering the previous regime and installing his own girls. It's where we first meet a teenage Lana, turned out for the first time and unsurprisingly unenthusiastic about the situation. And then it's 15 years later (literally, the titles read, "Fifteen years later"). Math was never my strong suit, but 1995 + 15 = 2010, right?
For example: why 1995? The year plays no role in the plot, but it was probably in a first draft somewhere and no one bothered to change it. Just like no one bothered to see if you can electronically transfer millions of dollars between bank accounts without verification, or steal tanks of chemicals from a hospital unchallenged, or somehow be out-acted by a supporting cast consisting of models and Miss World 2012.
Ed Skrein quit Game of Thrones to do the new Transporter trilogy. This was either a savvy preemptive move before he was unceremoniously fired, or extreme hubris befitting a man best described as a smirk in human form. Part of the reason we (mostly) forgave Jason Statham for this ridiculousness was, well, it was Statham. He earned our good will thanks to being in the two good(ish) Guy Ritchie movies and having a sense of humor about the ridiculous onscreen acts he performed. Skrein made a rap album nobody ever heard of and tried to sleep with the Khaleesi.
Anna's cunning plan involves hiring Martin, whom Karasov has already used, thus ensuring he'll put two and two together when he sees the inevitable CCTV footage. Even better, her coup de grâce relies on every other bad guy in the movie coming to same mistaken conclusion at the same time and deciding on the same course of action. The original movies weren't exactly Kubrickian in their construction, but Refueled plays out like a 14-year old's Transporter fanfic.
And let's talk about Ray Stevenson for a second. TTR only escapes being a no-star affair thanks to him. Frank, Sr. has more charisma in one of the bags under his eyes than Skrein does is his entire Crossfit-hewn frame. I wanted a movie that was nothing more than dad Martin dodging questions about his past, drinking vodka, and getting into situations over his head. Like a James Bond movie without the krav maga or supervillains.
The Transporter Refueled is longer (by 30 minutes or more) than any of the previous movies, which were already stretching our tolerance for vehicular tomfoolery. No Statham, no Inspector Tarconi, and no personality. Non merci.


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Review from the Movie Theatre: Mary Poppins Returns
Released December 2018.
The much awaited return of Mary Poppins has landed.
Mary Poppins Returns takes a beloved old classic and gives it some modern aesthetics and new stomping grounds. It's not so much about carrying on from or matching up to the original, it's about finding a way to bring great characters back to the big screen with modern upgrades to boot. It's still set in yesteryear though, with the now thirty ish year old Banks children looking after the the children of the now-widower Michael. With a recent bereavement looming large, new conflict arises as the bank are demanding payment; the fractured Banks family unit must find some rather vital paperwork or face losing the house. With the man of the house spiralling and growing impatient with his little darlings, and with his sister unable to help him out of his anxiety, it's down to Mary Poppins to return to save the day…and the happiness of this family.
Emily Blunt is a well chosen and interesting new Poppins. Blunt has proven herself to be incredibly versatile in recent years and adding an iconic role like this to her catalogue is great to see, but there's something a little odd about this Mary Poppins. It's not the performance itself, which takes the best of Julie Andrews' characterisation and adds just a slight sprinkling of fresh nuance. It's not the costume, which does well to keep Poppins recognisable but newly clothed. It's the voice. Not your recognisable RP and also not quite Blunt's usual sound – it's impressively maintained, but I did find it a little distracting and I can't say I was a fan, despite the otherwise perfectly charming performance. What Blunt does do beautifully is the array of pointed Poppins looks. One look holds so very much in it, and Blunt nails those expressions captured by Andrews as if she herself originated them.
Ben Whishaw is utterly wonderful in this movie. As the grown up Michael Banks, a man with the world on his shoulders and all knowledge if his magical childhood long gone, he's just struggling to keep it together for his motherless children while keeping the wolves from the bank at bay. Whishaw sensitively captures the conflict of this character; a loving, devoted father who ends up taking on the worst of his own father when his patience and strength are pushed to the limit. Best of all, Whishaw's performance is incredibly feeling without slipping into that heavy brand of musical sentimentality – for me, His is the best performance of the movie.
The child actors are fantastic. In Pixie Davies' performance, little Anabel is very much the mini mother. She's all maturity and care when it comes to her siblings and it's adorable to watch. In much the same vein, Nathanael Saleh's John is a mini father type. He's the man of the era in the making and alongside Anabel, John is responsible for chasing after the bounding ball of energy that is George, played to maximum cuteness by the cute-as-a-button Joel Dawson.
Interestingly, there are pointed equivalents rather than attempts to recreate here which saves us the anxiety of trying to match up characters from the first film with older versions. Lin Manuel Miranda plays Poppins' go-to guy Jack, a lamplighter with all the stylings of Dick Van Dyke's chimney sweep but crafted to bring the same charm to the story, not necessarily the same exact cockney geezer. Manuel Miranda gives a winning big kid performance, making all ages swoon for his fun-loving ways, infectious optimism and can-do attitude.
Emily Mortimer's take on the grown-up Jane Banks is a homely, gentle soul who is permanently breathless and completely endearing. Soft-spoken and infinitely optimistic, she's the perfect would-be antidote to her brother's haze of frustration and heartbreak if it weren't for those pesky bankers. The flirtation between Jane and Jack is a lovely little detail too and Manuel Miranda and Mortimer bring the sugar-sweet fluster and innocent coy looks back to the screen- quite refreshing in the contemporary climate of saucy scenes and sexual tension depicted in most movies…
Colin Firth dons his villain hat here as Wilkins, the greedy banker seeking to steal the Banks' house from under them. Firth plays the duality well, helped significantly by his track record of charming bachelors but he certainly plays the charm and the charmless equally well here. Caught up in Wilkins' wicked scheming are clerks Gooding (Jeremy Swift) who seems rather on board with it all, and Frye (Kobna Holdbrook-Smith) who is an earnest and likeable take on our classic 'in with the wrong crowd but has a good heart' type. And then there's poor Receptionist Miss Penny Farthing (Noma Dumezweni) who seems caught up in Wilkins' lies without a clue as to his real nature.
Cinematography from Dion Beebe is beautifully nostalgic. It paints the story as exactly that: a story. Often mimicking the fairytale in plot, the aesthetics keep in step and much of the movie feels lovely and cosy with a real all-the-family-together haze. Production design by John Myhre conjures the era and the styles of it with a conscious eye on Costume Design from Sandy Powell which has our enervating cast popping out of monochrome, stuffy or grand settings in all manner of patterns and shades – and so, so many hats and flat caps…
Segments taking the characters into animated worlds are a great throwback to the most winning elements of the first movie, and all such scenes are full of thrill. That said, the dated nature of the animations, while in keeping with the period setting, mean that there's not much to really dazzle and it does feel like there were opportunities missed in terms of modernisation or genuinely original moments.
Other highlights include the wonderful Julie Walters as maid Ellen. There's more than a hint of Mrs Overall in there, but this Cockney take on Walters' grandmother type also brings a distinctly working class, salt-of-the-earth wit and warmth along with some of Walters' brilliant physicality. Meryl Streep briefly appears as Cousin Topsy, the Russian (?!) cousin of Mary Poppins who is all kinds of dotty and can crack out one heck of a fast-paced ditty. You'll spot some welcome familiar favourites too as Angela Lansbury makes an appearance as the Balloon Lady in the park and Dick Van Dyke as a sprightly Mr Dawes Jr. – an unlikely but thrilling victor!
Mary Poppins Returns is of course a musical – how else would Poppins ever signpost a learning moment? Marc Shaiman's Music is suitably jaunty and there are plenty of lively sequences to impress, though it must be noted that there's nothing here which comes close to the rooftop sequence of the original which is surprising considering modern movie making capabilities. Songs are entertaining and perfectly accompany the narrative, though I didn't leave humming anything which again felt a little surprising. It almost feels like the movie plays things a little too safe, and by making everything simply very pleasant and streamlined in relation to the first movie, it hasn't quite managed to make an impressive impact all of its own.
Directed by Rob Marshall and with Screenplay David Magee (Screen story by Magee, Marshall and John DeLuca), Disney's delayed sequel paints P.L.Travers' character as charmingly as ever. What the film doesn't quite manage to do however, is give the character or the story surrounding her any daringly new elements. There's really never a dull moment though and the whole movie ticks away nicely while offering up some old-timey escapism and I'm sure little ones of those who watched the original as little ones will love it just as much.
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Review: Hawes
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Hawes, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Small but thriving market town set in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales
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Wensleydale Creamery, Hawes
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Hawes is a small and thriving market town at the head of Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales. This is the only dale to be named after a village and not a river. The Yoredale series of rocks with alternating bands of sandstones, shales and occasional ironstones and thin coals give the valley sides there characteristic stepped appearance. The limestone rock provides very fertile farmland and the 'sett' in many place names comes from the old Norse saetr or summer pastures.
There is no mention of a settlement in Domesday Book although the disperse population was large enough for a Chapel of Ease to be built here in the C15th. It was granted a Market Charter in 1699 which allowed a weekly market and three fairs per year, serving the local farmers. Hawes has not looked back since, and grew rapidly in the C19th when the railway arrived and a live stock market holding fortnightly cattle sales. Cheese made by local farmers was sold at four cheese fairs each year.
It is an attractive settlement of old stone buildings along Gayle Beck which tumbles down through the village to the River Ure to the north.
St Margaret's Church is set above the Main Street and surrounded by a churchyard. This was built in 1850 in response to the growing population, replacing an earlier Chapel of Ease. Inside it is a simple Victorian Gothic building with side aisles. Don't miss the old funeral beir at the back of the church.
The heart of the village is still around the market place with its weekly Tuesday Market. The Auction Mart is on the edge of village and attracts farmers from all over the north of England.
At the top of the dale and a long way from major settlements, Hawes still maintains a good shopping centre of locally owned shops. The chain stores and supermarkets have yet to arrive.
There is also a very strong community spirit and support for the local shops. The Upper Dales Community Partnership took over the running of the post office and library when they were threatened with closure. They have also taken over the Dale Head Petrol Station which is now run by part time staff and volunteers. They also run their own bus service, the Little White Bus , which connects with trains at Garsdale Station and local villages. As well as being used by locals, it is also popular with walkers.
The railway connected the east coast main line at Northallerton with Garsdale junction on the Settle Carlisle Line. Passenger services were withdrawn in 1959 and freight in 1964. The Wensleydale Railway has reopened the bottom end of the line as far as Redmire and has long term plans to extend to Hawes and finally Garsdale junction.
Hawes Station building has been carefully restored and now houses the National Park Centre with the Firebox Cafe and the Dales Countryside Museum Dales Countryside Museum. This is very much a hands on experience featuring artefacts of rural life in the Dales as well as history of the area. A small section of track has been relayed alongside the platform with a steam engine.
The large car park is designated as one of the Dark Sky Discovery Sites in the Yorkshire Dales.
"W R Outhwaite and Sons, Ropemaker ":http://wasleys.org.uk/eleanor/presocialhistory/socialhistory/industrial/outhwaites/index.html near the Station buildings, have been making ropes in Hawes for nearly 200 years and are one of the few traditional ropemakers in the country. They make everything from shoe laces to bells ropes, clothes lines to dog leads.
The shop is in the original workshop and a new ropewalk has been built behind. Visitors can visit the workshop and watch the various stages in preparation of the different sorts of ropes.
Wensleydale Creamery is on the edge of the the village. Cheese making was a traditional summer activity in all the farms until the first creamery was built in 1897. A new dairy was built here in 2014 and is run by local businessmen using milk from 40 local farms. It is a major employer in Hawes and has a shop and cafe. Cheese is still made traditionally and can be watched from a special viewing area.
There is a small museum of cheese making and the factory also offers guided tours demonstrating the process of turning 8 pints of milk into a 500g truckle of cheese in 40 minutes.
Gayle Mill is in the tiny hamlet of Gayle, just south of Hawes. Built in 1789, this was originally a cotton spinning mill but was economically unviable as it was too far from major industrial towns. The mill reopened in 1879 as a mechanised saw mill with a joinery workshop. The local coffin maker and undertaker was based here.
When the last owner retired in 1988, he locked the door, leaving all the machinery in situ. The Mill featured in the first of the 'Restoration' series on BBC TV in 2003. Although it didn't win, this provided the publicity and money needed by the community to restore and open it offering workshops in traditional skills and an outlet for local craftspeople.
Unfortunately the Mill had to close in 2018 for major repair work and is not currently open for tours, although it is still running workshops in traditional crafts. You can even learn how to make your own cart wheel.
The leat supplying water to the mill and the large crane used to lower tree trunks into the mill are still visible.
Hawes is popular with both visitors and those spending longer on holiday. There is a good range of accommodation in the town and plenty of eateries. It is surrounded by some of the best Dales scenery and is popular with walkers. The Pennine Way runs through the village.
Local attractions include Hardraw Force , England's largest single drop waterall. Semmerwater is the second largest lake in Yorkshire and is popular with fishermen as well as canoeists and sailing boats.
Buttertubs Pass is the unclassified road which climbs from Hawes to Thwaite in neighbouring Swaledale and is one of the highest roads in Yorkshire. Jeremy Clarkson descibed this as a 'truly spectacular road'. At the side of the road near the summit are the Buttertubs, 70' deep potholes.
Mary Queen of Scots spent six months imprisoned in Bolton Castle further down the dale and this is one of the best preserved Medieval castles. It is also a wedding venue and offers falconry experiences.
Alternatively there are working sheepdog demonstrations given by a local farmer.
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'Thundercloud' is a documentary about the events that transpired on and leading up to the 8th June 2012, when a storm of massive proportions sent a 50ft + swell straight towards the South Pacific archipelago of Fiji.
It just so happened that the swell was scheduled to arrive right in the middle of an ASP World Tour event at Cloudbreak, Fiji and very few of the world's best surfers were prepared for waves of that size.
A tight knit group of the world's best Big Wave surfers were aware of the forecast swell and converged on the break that the ancient Fijians called Thundercloud Reef.
'Thundercloud' takes a brief look at the history of Cloudbreak, investigates the change of decree that lead to the reefs in the region becoming non-exclusive (meaning anyone could surf there) and hears the accounts of the best surfers in the world that chose to brave the conditions on June 8th 2012.
met in the line up of Cloudbreak after the Volcom Fiji Pro World Tour event was called off for the day.
further pushing surfers' limits and imaginations.
A day that will be revered as an historic day in surfing, when men faced their fears, raised the bar, rode moving mountains in the South Pacific Ocean and lived to tell their stories.
What went wrong in the deadly America's Cup crash ?
Another America's Cup boat crashed today, this time with fatal results.
The team is nominally Swedish, but the tactician and CEO, Paul Cayard, is a San Francisco Bay Area native, and his crew is comprised largely of British and American sailors.
It was an Englishman who died, Andrew Simpson.
Preliminary reports indicate Artemis's boat didn't capsize because the sailors were pushing too hard or made a mistake, as was the case with Team Oracle.
The problem was with the boat itself, either faulty engineering or faulty construction.
The boat simply broke apart under sail, folded, then flipped. The Artemis boat has had a history of cracking and problems with the carbon fiber used in the twin "beams" — the two girders that lash the two narrow hulls together.
The boat had been in and out of the shed numerous times in an attempt to correct those problems.
Today, however, the forward beam — the girder in front of the sail — gave way during a practice run.
The two hulls, no longer connected, began sailing in slightly different directions.
This caused one hull to snap just forward of the aft beam, and the mast, held up by high-tension rigging connected to the front of the hulls, simply fell over.
The boat began to cartwheel, ultimately trapping Simpson underneath and drowning him.
The Oracle crash last October happened in much worse conditions, and in much rougher seas.
The team was risking a turn in a twenty-five knot wind, with an ebb tide that was running at six knots.
The new America's Cup boats are powered with a solid wing instead of a soft sail, which makes them very efficient, but it also means that they cannot be de-powered.
The turning maneuver in high winds is greatly feared by sailors, who call it the "death zone." Oracle's boat was blown over mid turn, landing on its side.
In that case, the rigging securing the wing held, and the boat didn't fully flip, allowing all of the sailors to exit safely.
The boat subsequently broke up when it was swept out the Golden Gate by the tide.
It is unclear what this latest capsize might mean to the future of team Artemis and, indeed, to the future of the America's Cup itself.
Artemis may have the parts and resources needed to rebuild its boat before racing begins in July.
However, Simpson's death makes it unclear whether the team will continue.
The high-powered boats have proved to be crash-prone and, now, deadly.
If Artemis pulls out, there would be only two teams left in the playoff series, the Louis Vuitton Cup, which establishes who will challenge Team Oracle for the America's Cup.
If another of these powerful, but new and skittish, boats should crash, it could throw the entire contest into limbo.
Today however, has been devoted to eulogizing the sailor who died.
"It is with immense sadness that Artemis Racing confirms the tragic death of crewmember Andrew "Bart" Simpson today in San Francisco. Simpson, a British double Olympic medalist, was one of the 11-man crew aboard Artemis Racing's AC72 catamaran which capsized during training on San Francisco Bay ahead of this summer's America's Cup.
All other crewmembers are accounted for.
"The entire Artemis Racing team is devastated by what happened," said CEO Paul Cayard.
Scientists have discovered a 10-metre-high rock of granite deep in the Atlantic, suggesting a continent may have existed off the Brazilian coast.
As granite is usually only found on land, the discovery points to a previously unknown landmass that was swallowed by waves.
A member of the Geological Service of Brazil with the rocks dug out from the deep sea bed.
The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and the Geology Service of Brazil (CPRM) announced Tuesday the discovery of granite at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, about 900 miles off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
Rio Grande Elevation, a rise on the ocean floor about 1,500 km (932 miles) southeast of Rio de Janeiro, features granite and minerals, including iron, manganese, and cobalt, that differentiate it from the rest of the surrounding seabed.
Granite, normally found on dry land, suggests that a continent once existed in the region and then sank, much in the same way Plato described, according to The Japan Times.
"South America and Africa used to be a huge, unified continent," Shinichi Kawakami, a professor at Gifu University told the outlet.
"The area in question may have been left in water as the continent was separated in line with the movements of plates."
Plato wrote that Atlantis was "an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Hercules," Reuters notes.
CPRM geology director Roberto Ventura Santos emphasizes that his team's references to the so-called "Brazil's Atlantis" are mostly symbolic.
"Obviously, we don't expect to find a lost city in the middle of the Atlantic," Santos said, according to the Telegraph.
"But if it is the case that we find a continent in the middle of the ocean, it will be a very big discovery that could have various implications in relation to the extension of the continental shelf."
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JAMSTEC, which is currently conducting a variety of missions and experiments, has been exploring this region in the Atlantic for some time using its state-of-the-art manned mini-sub the Shinkai 6500, the Telegraph notes.
On its website, JAMSTEC states its mission is "to contribute to the advancement of academic research in addition to the improvement of marine science and technology by proceeding the fundamental research and development on marine, and the cooperative activities on the academic research related to the Ocean for the benefit of the peace and human welfare."
Finding Plato's actual lost city has been something of a holy grail for many researchers and has spawned several unproven "breakthroughs."
In 2011, a team of researchers claimed to have found Atlantis buried in mud off the tip of Spain.
The ancient city was allegedly flooded by a devastating tsunami, according to PopSci.
In 2009, a mysterious, underwater grid pattern on Google Earth was also heralded by some as the lost city; however, Google Earth quickly explained it was a glitch created by sonar boat data collection, Time reported.
Time-lapse of our icebreaker, the Nathaniel B. Palmer, traveling through the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Two months of sequences, condensed into less than five minutes, with a surprise at the end.
A gorgeous new video is the best way to experience Antarctica without even feeling chilly.
The time lapse clip, produced and narrated by Cassandra Brooks, a doctoral student at Stanford University, condenses two months on an Antarctic ice-breaker into less than five minutes.
Frame by frame, the video reveals how stunning sea ice can be — from polka-dot pancake ice to thick white flows. "It was so beautiful," Brooks told LiveScience.
"And it was such a neat experience to be on this crazy boat that was just screaming through the ice."
Brooks spent two months aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer on a National Science Foundation expedition through the Ross Sea of Antarctica.
Her team was investigating the release of carbon from phytoplankton blooms, which are so huge in this area that they're visible from space.
During the expedition, Brooks also blogged for National Geographic.
The time lapse video was inspired, in part, by that blogging opportunity, and also by Brooks' husband, photographer John Weller.
"I happen to be married to an amazing photographer who insisted on sending me out on the boat with the right equipment," Brooks said.
In this case, that equipment was a GoPro camera and a Joby GorillaPod flexible tripod, which withstood 60-knot (60 miles per hour) winds and negative 40-degree-Fahrenheit (negative 40 degrees Celsius) temperatures, she said.
Almost every day, except when the weather was simply too harsh, Brooks went to the bridge of the ship to capture images as the Palmer steered through the Ross Sea ice.
The final scenes, though, were filmed from the back of the boat.
The Palmer had broken into an area called Cape Colbeck, home to a colony of emperor penguins.
Another research group aboard the vessel was tagging the penguins, so the ship remain parked for several days as they did their work.
"The longer we were there the more and more penguins came.
By the third day we just had it seemed like hundreds, if not thousands, of penguins just playing in our prop wash behind the boat," Brooks said.
She got the penguins on film, of course — and captured their raucous, squawking cries as well.
"The most amazing thing for me is that every time I go to the Antarctic, I make some sort of blog or some kind of media, and I felt like this is the first time I've been able to capture it well and also really share it well," Brooks said.
"It's incredibly rewarding to know that people are really feeling it and probably falling in love with the place."
Ice-capped Saunder Island is ringed by a layer of thin sea ice in Baffin Bay.
Absorption is particularly fast in cold water so the Arctic is especially susceptible, and the recent decreases in summer sea ice have exposed more sea surface to atmospheric CO2.
The Arctic's vulnerability is exacerbated by increasing flows of freshwater from rivers and melting land ice, as freshwater is less effective at chemically neutralising the acidifying effects of CO2.
The researchers say the Nordic Seas are acidifying over a wide range of depths - most quickly in surface waters and more slowly in deep waters.
The report's chairman, Richard Bellerby from the Norwegian Institute for Water Research, told BBC News that they had mapped a mosaic of different levels of pH across the region, with the scale of change largely determined by the local intake of freshwater.
"Large rivers flow into the Arctic, which has an enormous catchment for its size," he said.
This is being made worse, he said, by organic carbon running off the land – a secondary effect of regional warming.
"Continued rapid change is a certainty," he said.
The research team monitored decreases in seawater pH of about 0.02 per decade since the late 1960s in the Iceland and Barents seas.
Chemical effects related to acidification have also been encountered in surface waters of the Bering Strait and the Canada Basin of the central Arctic Ocean.
Scientists estimate that the average acidity of surface ocean waters worldwide is now about 30% higher than before the Industrial Revolution.
The researchers say there is likely to be major change to the Arctic marine ecosystem as a result. Some key prey species like sea butterflies may be harmed.
Adult fish look likely to be fairly resilient but the development of fish eggs might be harmed.
Globalisation, with its ever increasing demand for cargo transport, has inadvertently opened the flood gates for a new, silent invasion.
Scientists from the Universities of Bristol, UK, and Oldenburg, Germany, have examined ship traffic data and biological records to assess the risk of future invasions.
Their research is published in the latest issue of Ecology Letters.
Animals and plants can hitch a ride on cargo ships, hiding as stowaways in the ballast tanks or clinging to the ship's hull. Upon arrival in a new port, alien species can then wreak havoc in formerly pristine waters.
These so-called invasive species can drive native species to extinction, modify whole ecosystems and impact human economy.
The risk of marine bio-invasion caused by global shipping around the world.
Some regions, such as the San Francisco Bay or Chesapeake Bay, have even reported several new exotic species per year.
The knock-on effects to fishermen, farmers, tourism and industry create billions of US dollars in damage every year.
Conservationists and ship engineers are now trying to prevent the next big invasion.
But without knowing when and where it may occur, their possibilities remain limited.
As part of the research project, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, the team obtained detailed logs of nearly three million ship voyages in 2007 and 2008.
Depending on the particular route travelled by each ship, the researchers estimated the probability that a species survives the journey and establishes a population in subsequent ports of call.
Although this probability is tiny for any single voyage, the numbers quickly add up because modern cargo traffic volumes are enormous.
The final tally reveals the hotspots of bioinvasion. Large Asian ports such as Singapore and Hong Kong but also US ports like New York and Long Beach are among the sites of highest invasion probability.
These waterways are notoriously busy, but, traffic is not the only important factor.
The North Sea, for example, does not rank among the top endangered regions despite intense shipping.
Temperatures here are lower, making it more difficult for alien species to survive.
However, arrivals from the other side of the Atlantic pose a serious threat to the North Sea.
Most invaders are predicted to originate from the North American east coast.
As severe as the risk of future invasions may be, the study also contains a hopeful message.
If ship engineers could prevent at least some potential invaders from getting on board, the total invasion risk could be substantially mitigated.
By successfully removing a species from 25 per cent of the ballast tanks arriving at each port (eg with filters, chemicals or radiation), the overall invasion probability decreases by 56 per cent.
The reduction is so disproportionately large because the effect of ballast water treatment multiplies at successive stopovers.
but there are many unknowns about future trade routes.
Bioinvasion is, as the researchers admit, a complex process, and records of past invasions are far from comprehensive.
Facing these uncertainties, they simulated various different scenarios.
Interestingly, the key results are comparable for different models, predicting the same hotspots and global highways of bioinvasion.
The traffic on the main shipping routes plays the greatest role for the calculation.
For example, the future of the world economy remains uncertain, and Arctic passages may become navigable as a consequence of global warming.
Future simulations will also have to take into account which engineering solutions for ballast water treatment will eventually be adopted by port authorities.
Paper: The risk of marine bioinvasion caused by global shipping, Hanno Seebens, Michael T. Gastner, Bernd Blasius, Ecology Letters, published online 24 April 2013.
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The Victory Grower:
Author. Historian. Food Systems Advocate.
Rose Hayden-Smith is the Victory Grower. She is an author, U.S. historian, garden educator, food systems expert, and food systems advocate. She focuses on policy and practice. You can learn more about her work by following her on Twitter @victorygrower
Hayden-Smith advocates for school, home and community gardens and food enterprises…and for public policies that support a healthy, affordable, sustainable, accessible and just food system. You can find her work under the moniker"Victory Grower". Hayden-Smith holds Masters degrees in Education and U.S. history, and a doctorate in U.S. history from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
She currently serves as an academic leading the University of California's strategic initiative in sustainable food systems, which operates under UC's division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. She also serves as a UC Cooperative Extension advisor in youth, family and community development in Ventura County, where she works on community food systems projects, including school gardens, farm field trips, and a student-run farm.
Hayden-Smith received UC Davis' Bradford-Rominger award for her work in agricultural sustainability in 2013. In 2011, she was named one of the thirty most influential women in sustainable food systems by the White House Project. She is also a former W.K. Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellow.


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Ebola, Lassa fever, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), Lyme disease, West Nile virus (WNV), and beyond, –terrorist.
With all these out there, is it safe to travel this summer?
The answer is yes, only if you are proactive. With proper planning and precautions, you can hit the roads and sky this summer.
Find out as much as you can in advance about destination-specific health risks. The ISTM as well as the CDC and the World Health Organization (WHO) offer up-to-date information.
A spare pair of glasses and Mosquito or other bug repellents may also be advisable.
Knowing the destination-specific health risks and having all the right vaccinations and medications before you leave to prevent.
Wash your hands and follow the correct technique to prepare you food is important.
Travelers' diarrhea throws a wrench into more vacations than any other disease, striking an estimated 10 million travelers each year. High-risk destinations: Mexico, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
Eat well cooked, rather than raw or undercooked meat and seafood.
Avoid any foods or beverages purchased from street vendors or establishments with unhygienic conditions.
Don't put ice in your drinks.
But no matter how closely you follow this advice, you may still come down with travelers' diarrhea because of restaurant food. Eat only freshly served foods that were cooked at high heat.
Sitting in a cramped position for long periods — whether in an airplane, car, or a bus — can lead to an increased risk of potentially deadly blood clots.
To minimize risk, drink plenty of non-alcoholic fluids and frequently move your legs, he says. Taking frequent, deep breaths can also improve circulation.
Those at moderate risk should also wear compression stockings, sometimes called support hose, he says. And those at high risk should ask their doctor about an injection of heparin immediately before the trip, which will provide protection for about 12 hours, he says.
Your risk for blood clots increases if you are age 60 or older, have heart disease, a family history of blood clots, varicose veins, obesity, cancer, are pregnant or recently had a baby, or have had recent surgery.
Mosquitoes are not just pesky pests: They can carry West Nile disease, dengue fever, even malaria. Ticks spread Lyme disease. But a few simple precautions can minimize your risk of getting bitten this summer, the experts say.
Stay indoors at dawn and dusk and in the evening, when mosquitoes are most active.
Wear long-sleeved shirts, long pants, and hats. Shirts should be tucked in.
Tuck your pants into your socks and wear boots, not sandals.
Inspect yourself and your clothing for ticks, both during outdoor activity and at the end of the day. Prompt removal of attached ticks can prevent some infections.
Consider using an insect repellent: Most experts recommend repellents containing DEET on skin and permethrin-containing repellents on clothing, shoes, bed nets, and camping gear. But these ingredients can be toxic, so be sure to follow the instructions carefully.
Use safe water or treat it to make it safe; select fresh and wholesome foods; choose foods processed for safety such as pasteurized milk; wash fruits and vegetables, especially if eaten raw; do not use food beyond its expiration date.
Wash your hands before handling food and often during food preparation; wash your hands after going to the toilet; clean all surfaces and equipment used in food preparation; protect kitchen areas from insects, rodents and other animals.
Cook food thoroughly, especially meat, poultry, eggs and seafood; bring foods like soups and stews to boiling. For meat and poultry, make sure juices are clear, not pink; reheat cooked food thoroughly.
Do not leave cooked food at room temperature for more than 2 hours; refrigerate promptly all cooked and perishable food (preferably below 5°C); keep cooked food piping hot (more than 60°C) prior to serving; do not store food too long in the refrigerator; do not thaw frozen food at room temperature.
Separate raw meat, poultry and seafood from other foods; use separate equipment and utensils such as knives and cutting boards for handling raw foods; store food in containers to avoid contact between raw and prepared foods.


Poker players have been posting hands online since the dawn of internet poker. Whether it's players looking for feedback on their game, or fans sharing big hands from the high stakes rail, much of the activity on the internet forums revolves around these posted hands. Over time, tools were developed for prettifying and condensing down the information in these raw hand histories so they're easier to read.
The Pokeit converter can return formatted text in addition to forum code and there's also a replayer only option. Web-links are generated for hands by default but this can be toggled off if you prefer to keep your hands private.
We hope you enjoy this new free tool and good luck at the tables!
We've introduced two new ways for you to share your poker hands, stats, and graphs. The first, called Snapshots, lets you share a single visualization. The second, Secure Share, is for granting access to your entire database.
Many of you have asked for a way to share whole reports and graphs instead of just single hands. After you finish a tournament you may want to send the hands you played to a friend or coach to help you review. With the new Snapshots feature, all you would have to do is open Hand Browser, add a filter for the tournament, and then click on the new sharing button in the top right corner of the toolbar. Other visualizations can be shared just as easily.
You may not always want to share everything about your poker data when you make a snapshot, so we've included three privacy options for your convenience. Hide Player Names obscures the player aliases at the table and replaces them with their seat number. Hide Holecards only reveals holecards if they're shown or mucked at the end of the hand. Hide Hand Details disables the detail side panel so hand histories and the replayer cannot be seen. By default, the snapshot name will be the name of the visualization but it can be changed as you see fit. This is useful if you've added a filter to the visualization and want a distinct title to reflect that.
Visualizations shared via Snapshots do not update when new data is added to your database. You can remove or alter the privacy options of your shared snapshots at any time by visiting the "Snapshots" section of the Account page.
With other poker programs you would have to use a screen sharing application or share your own password if you wanted to show someone else your database. This can be cumbersome, time consuming and is most of all insecure. We've solved this problem with a new feature that lets you securely share your entire Pokeit database.
We built Secure Share with coaches and backers in mind, but you can share your database with anyone as long as they are a Pokeit user. You can grant access to another user from the "Secure Share" section of the Account page and that access can be revoked by you at any time. All they have to do is accept your invitation for access and then they can switch between their own database and yours by clicking on the Account icon in the main header of the app.
We've been fairly quiet over the past few months. Two new yet-to-be-released features are in the final stages of development. We're really excited about what's in store and we look forward to telling you all about these features in the coming weeks.
Now, every time you login, you'll be greeted with a dashboard snapshot of your results.
Featuring all the capabilities and power of the new Pokeit, the dashboard is graphically interactive with toggles for hands and tournaments, timeframe and currency. Filters added from the metadata menus will update your dashboard automatically.
Visualizations can be loaded into the app just like before and are displayed in a widget to the right of the graph. We've also included a new tips & tricks box with suggestions for getting the most out of Pokeit.
The new dashboard answers your most common poker questions while enabling deep dives into visualizations to answer the harder ones. We'll be adding more capabilities to the dashboard in the coming weeks so look out for more updates like this one.


the lego group is pleased to announce today the partnership between bugatti and lego technic. The second set from the Lego Technic Ultimate Series will be created as part of this collaboration. ...LEGO: "after the success of the porsche gt3 rs it was important for us to find a partner with an iconic vehicle which is unique in the automotive industry, with bugatti we have achieved just that" ...BUGATTI: "we are very proud of the chiron and We are honored that there will now be a lego technic version of this exceptional supercar, and our designers and engineers have enjoyed working with the lego technic team and the result is an authentic replica of the chiron. "
Cool! Slight change of topic title, but this set warrants a dedicated topic.
Hm, first Porsche, then Bugatti, what will be next Bentley?
Please don't start a discussion like this. Lets stick to the Chiron.
Is it bad that I'm expecting so much from this Chiron set? Like, you look at the Porsche now and see just a display piece with little in the way of motorization or standout features, and now there's this, a car of greater magnitude than the Porsche GT3RS in real life, so the feature list has got to have something that can make this set worth the asking price.
So black and blue has to be the obvious colour scheme for this?
do we think it'll be all Technic or some brick builds to capture all the important shapes, side curves, rear light strip etc ?
Are we sure that will be a new wheel hubs?? Wheel rims have pins, I know, but in the video is a moment, when it looks like the old one.. what do you think guys?
What this set needs to make it stand out, is what someone mentioned earlier - new 4wd hubs with bigger angle cv's or similar. Plus a special gearbox. For me, they have to do that to add a bit of Whiz-Bang.. being pretty isn't enough to cover the cost. Clever and pretty and wallets will open up for it!
No new hubs, guys. With the Porsche ones it is easy to make front drive, steering and suspension.
The question will be: Did they learn from their mistakes or did they continue the line of miserable engineering set in by the Porsche?
Then again, new rims with better offset and new hubs are always welcome.
The hub at 0:14 in the video is the same rear hub as in the past. Coupled with 4185 Pulley wheel the old hub and new wheel can be connected. I'm not yet convinced of new hubs. Remember how excited we were at this point with 42056. I'm keeping my expectations low until I am proved otherwise.
This is awesome! I like the new rims a lot!
Where is the video to prove?
You are free to post screen capture of the video to show us this fancy new gearbox and hubs.
That's the one. From the Lego Technic Facebook.
Right screen 0:14 !! Gearbox! And W16!
Removed quoted video from the same page.
In the video he is holding what looks like a gearbox, hopefully better then the Porsche's.
The only other scenario I can imagine is that there are new hubs, but old ones were used in the teaser video to slow down certain copycats.
Yes, I thought so... Darn it!


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