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Sometimes while fighting, people stand still and let their enemy attack. Why?
I watched action movies, Bruce Lee's movies, Steven Seagal's movies and realize that while fighting, they (or their enemy) just stop punching and stand and sustain the other's attack. Why is that?
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Quang Minh NguyenQuang Minh Nguyen
By "sustain", do you mean they wait for the attack, or take it without attempting to defend themselves? – Macaco Branco Jul 10 '18 at 17:28
Movies do not represent real life, they're fictional. – slugster♦ Jul 11 '18 at 12:58
I don't know about the movies, the reason has more to do with the plot than an actual answer.
In the real world, people exhibit one or more of six responses to an attack: fight, flight, freeze, negotiate, capitulate, and contemplate.
In your question, those who "just stand there" are either contemplating their move, which isn't an unreasonable response if the victim was not yet being struck and had time to ponder options; or could be freezing, an subconscious result of fear and not knowing what to do.
But in the movies, the tactic is more likely a result of the antagonist trying to scare the protagonist by making the protagonist think the antagonist has no fear. If the antagonist is not affected by the protagonist's strikes, this is more likely to be effective. I'm thinking this was the case in the movie "The Punisher" when Frank Castle was fighting The Russian. The Russian was a huge monster who was impervious to anything that could be delivered (except for a pot of hot water, LOL!) and in several strikes just stood there when Castle delivered several (ineffective) blows. Rope-a-dope, as Muhammad Ali was famous for using, was also used by Rocky Balboa in several of the movies, but rope-a-dope isn't quite the same as the behavior you describe.
Andrew JayAndrew Jay
It's basically for dramatic effect.
In any fight be it competition or self defence or anything else you never stand still. This is to showing to the audience that they can block without moving and so must be much better at fighting than whoever they are facing... which is the point of most of these action films.
Sometimes it also drives the plot as in some films they want to show that the hero has some other motive than killing his opponent.
In either case it has little to do with regular martial arts teaching or with self defence and everything about showmanship. Stage martial arts are a skill in themselves but only sometimes transferable to actually fighting.
Huw EvansHuw Evans
Sadly, this happens in most martial arts schools in real life, too. The instructor typically has his partner do something to him, and his partner will just stop immediately afterward. Then the instructor does a bunch of other things to him in rapid succession.
The purpose is obvious. It's to make the instructor look like a martial arts god. The same thing is done in movies for the same reason. It's to make the main character look super-human.
By the way, I want to clear something up. This is something that actually took me a while to figure out and to solidify in my brain. So I want to pass it on:
Whenever you see anyone stop after doing something, and his instructor is just doing a bunch of things to him in rapid succession, that's fraud.
It's okay to demonstrate what to do immediately after the punch comes, for example. But instructors cross the line when they continue doing a bunch of other things after that to an opponent who's just letting him do it. When they do that, it's just fraud. And it's BS.
The only time it's acceptable is in movies, or for entertainment purposes.
If you belong to a school where this happens a lot, especially if it's the primary way you're being taught, then it's time to wake up and realize that you're being misled. The stuff you're learning doesn't work like it's being taught. It probably wouldn't work at all. And in the end, your false confidence might get you in a lot of trouble should you try using it for real.
Just wanted to pass that on.
Steve WeigandSteve Weigand
A little harsh as I can think of some effective combinations that would look like that. However, over all you are quiet right. – Sardathrion - against SE abuse Jul 13 '18 at 7:12
Keep in mind I am only referring to when the instructor keeps on doing many things after his student stops. – Steve Weigand Jul 13 '18 at 11:37
We are in agreement I think. I was thinking of a "quick" set of jabs & hooks or a punch, balance break, and wrist lock or throw followed by a pin… Those are "many things" and the students "stops" (read: cannot/should not react). – Sardathrion - against SE abuse Jul 13 '18 at 11:45
Well something like a wrist grab immediately to a standing arm bar and then showing a throw from the arm bar is fine. That's the objective of the arm bar. But what about then after applying the arm bar, the instructor does some kicks to his legs, a punch to the face, take him down, step around, stomp to his head, knee on his back, crank the arm for an elbow break, reach down and choke him, followed by a neck break, then jump away and cover block out for good measure? Haha. I see this all the time in martial arts. It's like martial masturbation. Makes the instructor feel god-like. – Steve Weigand Jul 13 '18 at 11:58
Without knowing the exact situations you're citing, one possibility is that someone is doing a "rope-a-dope", using a strong defense and letting their opponent wear themselves out before starting their counter-attack. Fighting is hard, and someone constantly on the attack can wear out quickly. If you're in a situation where you can minimize damage (the classic boxing case is either just barely dodging out of the way, or backing into the ropes and letting the ropes take some of the force of the blows as you block), it might be worthwhile to let your opponent wear down and then make a comeback. If you're not actually in the midst of the combat, and just standing there while your opponent circles you, you're also potentially coming out ahead on energy spent.
If it's a brief pause, they may be attempting to throw off their opponent's rhythm to create an opening. Fighting is about patterns, and disrupting the pattern can be effective. if it's a longer one, they might be more confident in their counter-attacking skills. By forcing the other person to approach, they're controlling the situation. In addition, it dovetails with what Huw Evans stated above about superior ability. Someone willing to stand still and act is suggesting they don't need to move, which could provide a psychological edge if they convince the other person that they're just that good.
And yes, some of it will be cinematics. It makes a person look good if they don't even have to move to fight. It makes the camera work easier. And it avoids some potentially fight-ending accidental injuries like sidestepping the attack and putting your foot down on a slick spot on the floor, or a prop, and turning an ankle.
Macaco BrancoMacaco Branco
I suppose the quickest or shortest answer (IMO), is that you don't want to waste YOUR energy while your opponent seems to be perfectly fine with wearing themselves out, wasting their own energy. The "What-Ifs" are numerous. They could have friends who may want to fight with you, your opponent could grab/find a weapon to all of a sudden tip the odds in their favor a little bit, or a huge amount. So, maybe an even better (and shorter) answer is so that YOU can remain "ready for anything" that is within your control. - Michael
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Determined AI Documentation Experiment Configuration
This YAML file provides the pertinent user settings needed to run an experiment in PEDL. In particular, this file contains the following fields:
description: A human-readable description of the experiment. This does not need to be unique.
labels: A list of label names (strings). Assigning labels to experiments allows you to identify experiments that share the same property or should be grouped together. You can add and remove labels using either the CLI (pedl experiment label) or the WebUI.
data: Specifies the location of the data used by the experiment. The content and format of this field is user-specified: it should be used to specify whatever configuration is needed for loading data for use by the experiment's model definition. For example, if your experiment loads data from Amazon S3, the data field might contain the S3 bucket name, object prefix, and AWS authentication credentials.
checkpoint_storage: Specifies where model checkpoints will be stored. A checkpoint contains the architecture and weights of the model being trained. PEDL currently supports two kinds of checkpoint storage, s3 and shared_fs, identified by the type subfield.
type: s3: Checkpoints are stored in Amazon S3.
bucket: The S3 bucket name to use.
access_key: The AWS access key to use.
secret_key: The AWS secret key to use.
endpoint_url: The optional endpoint to use for S3 clones, e.g., http://127.0.0.1:8080/.
type: shared_fs: Checkpoints are written to a directory on the agent's file system. The assumption is that the system administrator has arranged for the same directory to be mounted at every agent host, and for the content of this directory to be the same on all agent hosts (e.g., by using a distributed or network file system such as GlusterFS or NFS).
host_path: The file system path on each agent to use.
container_path: The optional file system path to use as the mount point in the trial runner container. Defaults to /pedl_shared_fs.
storage_path: The optional path where checkpoints will be written to and read from. Must be a subdirectory of the host_path or an absolute path containing the host_path. If unset, checkpoints are written to and read from the host_path.
propagation: (Advanced users only) Optional propagation behavior for replicas of the bind-mount. Defaults to rprivate.
type: hdfs: Checkpoints are stored in HDFS using the WebHDFS API for reading and writing checkpoint resources.
hdfs_url: Hostname or IP address of HDFS namenode, prefixed with protocol, followed by WebHDFS port on namenode. Multiple namenodes are allowed as a semicolon-separated list (e.g. "http://namenode1:50070;http://namenode2:50070").
hdfs_path: The prefix path where all checkpoints will be written to and read from. The resources of each checkpoint will be saved in a subdirectory of hdfs_path, where the subdirectory name is the checkpoint's UUID.
user: An optional string value that indicates the user to use for all read and write requests. If left unspecified, the default user of the trial runner container will be used.
kerberos (Experimental): A optional boolean value indicating that Kerberos is enabled on the HDFS cluster (defaults to false). If true, Kerberos authentication will be used when connecting to HDFS. Kerberos authentication cannot be combined with the user configuration option. Please see the security/kerberos section for more information about configuring Kerberos.
When an experiment finishes, the system will optionally delete some checkpoints to reclaim space. The save_experiment_best, save_trial_best and save_trial_latest parameters specify which checkpoints to save. See the documentation on Checkpoint Garbage Collection for more details.
min_validation_period: Instructs PEDL to periodically compute validation metrics for each trial during training. If set, this variable specifies the maximum number of training steps that can be completed for a given trial since the last validation operation for that trial; if this limit is reached, a new validation operation is performed. Validation metrics can be computed more frequently than specified by this parameter, depending on the hyperparameter search method being used by the experiment.
checkpoint_policy: Controls how PEDL performs checkpoints after validation operations, if at all. Should be set to one of the following values:
best (default): A checkpoint will be taken after every validation operation that performs better than all previous validations for this experiment. Validation metrics are compared according to the metric and smaller_is_better options in the searcher configuration.
all: A checkpoint will be taken after every validation step, no matter the validation performance of the step.
none: A checkpoint will never be taken due to a validation step. However, even with this policy selected, checkpoints are still expected to be taken after the last training step of a trial, due to cluster scheduling decisions or due to min_checkpoint_period.
min_checkpoint_period: Instructs PEDL to take periodic checkpoints of each trial during training. If set, this variable specifies the maximum number of training steps that can be completed for a given trial since the last checkpoint of that trial; if this limit is reached, a checkpoint of the trial is taken. There are two other situations in which a trial might be checkpointed: (a) during training, a model may be checkpointed to allow the trial's execution to be suspended and later resumed on a different PEDL agent (b) when the trial's experiment is completed, to allow the resulting model to be exported from PEDL (e.g., for deployment).
hyperparameters: Specifies the hyperparameter space via a list of user-defined subfields corresponding to the hyperparameters.
In order to fully define a hyperparameter, the following subfields can be specified:
type: Defines the type of the hyperparameter. Must be one of const, double, int, log, and categorical.
minval, maxval: Specifies the minimum and maximum values for the hyperparameter; only applicable for hyperparameters of type double, int, or log.
val: Specifies the value of a const hyperparameter.
vals: Specifies the list of possible values of a categorical hyperparameter.
base: Specifies the base of the logarithm of a log hyperparameter.
count: Specifies the number of values for this hyperparameter during grid search (see the grid search documentation). The count field is required for log, double, and int hyperparameters when using the grid search method. The count field is ignored for double, int, and log hyperparameters with other searchers. However, specifying this field for const or categorical hyperparameters will always result in an error.
If a scalar value is specified instead of the subfields above, the hyperparameter type will be assumed to be const.
The value chosen for a specific hyperparameter in a given trial can be accessed in the model definition via the hparams dictionary or the pedl.get_hyperparameter() API. For instance, the current value of a hyperparameter named batch_size is stored in hparams["batch_size"] or accessed as pedl.get_hyperparameter("batch_size").
searcher: Specifies the procedure for searching through the hyperparameter space. PEDL supports four search methods (single, random, adaptive, and pbt), and the user can specify which one to use via the name subfield. See the Hyperparameter Search documentation for more details. To use one of these search methods, the following subfields must be specified:
name: single: This search method trains a single trial for a fixed number of steps. By default, validation metrics are only computed once, after the specified number of training steps have been completed; min_validation_period (see above) can be used to specify that validation metrics should be computed more frequently.
metric: Specifies the name of the validation metric used to evaluate the quality of the hyperparameter configuration at the end of the trial.
smaller_is_better: Specifies whether to minimize or maximize the metric defined above. The default value is true (minimize).
max_steps: Specifies how many steps to allocate to the trial.
(optional) source_trial_id: If specified, the weights of this trial will be initialized to the most recent checkpoint of the given trial ID. Note that this will fail if the source trial's model architecture is inconsistent with the model architecture of this experiment.
(optional) source_checkpoint_uuid: Like source_trial_id, but specifies an arbitrary checkpoint from which to initialize weights; only one of source_trial_id or source_checkpoint_uuid should be set.
name: random: This search method performs a random search. Each random trial configuration is trained for the specified number of steps, and then validation metrics are computed. min_validation_period (see above) can be used to specify that validation metrics should be computed more frequently.
metric: Specifies the name of the validation metric used to evaluate the quality of different hyperparameter configurations. The metric name should be a key in the dictionary returned by the validation_metrics() function in a standard model definition.
max_trials: Specifies how many trials, i.e., hyperparameter configurations, to evaluate.
max_steps: Specifies the number of training steps to run for each trial.
(optional) source_trial_id: If specified, the weights of every trial in the search will be initialized to the most recent checkpoint of the given trial ID. Note that this will fail if the source trial's model architecture is incompatible with the model architecture of any of the trials in this experiment.
(optional) source_checkpoint_uuid: Like source_trial_id but specifies an arbitrary checkpoint from which to initialize weights. Only one of source_trial_id or source_checkpoint_uuid should be set.
name: grid: This search method performs a grid search. The coordinates of the hyperparameter grid are specified through the hyperparameters field. For more details see the grid search documentation.
metric, smaller_is_better: See above.
name: adaptive: This search method is a theoretically principled and empirically state-of-the-art method that adaptively allocates resources to promising hyperparameter configurations while quickly eliminating poor ones.
mode: Specifies how aggressively to perform early stopping. There are three modes: aggressive, standard, and conservative. These three modes differ in the degree to which early-stopping is used. In aggressive mode, the searcher quickly stops underperforming trials, which enables the searcher to explore more hyperparameter configurations, but at the risk of discarding a configuration too soon. On the other end of the spectrum, conservative mode performs significantly less downsampling, but as a consequence does not explore as many configurations given the same budget. We suggest using either aggressive or standard mode.
target_trial_steps: Specifies the maximum number of training steps to allocate to any one trial. The vast majority of trials will be stopped early, and thus only a small fraction of trials will actually be trained for this number of steps. We suggest setting this to a multiple of divisor^(max_rungs-1), which is 45-1 = 256 with the default values.
step_budget: Specifies the total number of steps to allocate across all trials. We suggest setting this to be a multiple of target_trial_steps, which implies interpreting this subfield as the effective number of complete trials to evaluate. Note that some trials might be in-progress when this budget is exhausted; adaptive search will allocate some additional steps to complete these in-progress trials.
(optional) divisor: Specifies the fraction of trials to keep at each rung, and also determines how many steps are allocated at each rung. The default setting is 4; only advanced users should consider changing this value.
(optional) max_rungs: Specifies the maximum number of times we evaluate intermediate results for a trial and terminate poorly performing trials. The default value is 5; only advanced users should consider changing this value.
(optional) source_trial_id: If specified, the weights of every trial in the search will be initialized to the most recent checkpoint of the given trial ID. This will fail if the source trial's model architecture is inconsistent with the model architecture of any of the trials in this experiment.
(optional) source_checkpoint_uuid: Like source_trial_id, but specifies an arbitrary checkpoint from which to initialize weights. Only one of source_trial_id or source_checkpoint_uuid should be set.
name: pbt: This search method uses population-based training, which maintains a population of active trials to train. After each trial has been trained for a certain number of steps, all the trials are validated. The searcher then closes some trials and replaces them with altered copies of other trials. This process makes up one "round"; the searcher runs some number of rounds to execute a complete search. The model definition class must be able to restore from a checkpoint that was created with a different set of hyperparameters; in particular, you will not be able to vary any hyperparameters that change the sizes of weight matrices without taking special steps to save or restore models.
population_size: The number of trials (i.e., different hyperparameter configurations) to keep active at a time.
steps_per_round: The number of steps to train each trial between validations.
num_rounds: The total number of rounds to execute.
replace_function: Describes how to choose which trials to close and which trials to copy at the end of each round.
truncate_fraction: Defines truncation selection, in which the worst truncate_fraction (multiplied by the population size) trials, ranked by validation metric, are closed and the same number of top trials are copied.
explore_function: Describes how to alter a set of hyperparameters when a copy of a trial is made. Each parameter is either resampled (i.e., its value is chosen from the configured distribution) or perturbed (i.e., its value is computed based on the value in the original set).
resample_probability: The probability that a parameter is replaced with a new value sampled from the original distribution specified in the configuration.
perturb_factor: The amount by which parameters that are not resampled are perturbed: each numerical hyperparameter is multiplied by either 1 + perturb_factor or 1 - perturb_factor with equal probability; categorical and const hyperparameters are left unchanged.
resources: Describes the resources PEDL allows an experiment to use.
max_slots: Specifies the maximum number of scheduler slots that this experiment is allowed to use at any one time. The slot limit of an active experiment can be changed using pedl experiment set max-slots <id> <slots>.
weight: Specifies the weight of this experiment in the scheduler. When multiple experiments are running at the same time, the number of slots assigned to each one will be approximately proportional to its weight. The weight of an active experiment can be changed using pedl experiment set weight <id> <weight>.
slots_per_trial: Specifies the number of slots to use for each trial of this experiment. The default value is 1; specifying a value greater than 1 means that multiple GPUs will be used in parallel; training on multiple GPUs is done using data parallelism. In the current release of PEDL, all the slots used to train a single trial must reside on the same agent. For example, this implies that if all the PEDL agents in the cluster have at most 4 slots, configuring slots_per_trial to be greater than 4 means that no trial of this experiment will ever be trained. Similarly, configuring slots_per_trial to be greater than max_slots is also not sensible and will result in an error.
NOTE: Using slots_per_trial to enable data parallel training for PyTorch can alter the behavior of certain models, as described in the PyTorch documentation.
batches_per_step: Specifies the number of batches in a single training step. As discussed above, PEDL divides the training of a single trial into a sequence of steps; each step corresponds to a certain number of model updates. Therefore, this configuration parameter can be used to control how long a trial is trained at a single agent:
Doing more work in a step allows per-step overheads (such as downloading training data) to be amortized over more training work. However, if the step size is too large, a single trial might be trained for a long time before PEDL gets an opportunity to suspend training of that trial and replace it with a different workload.
The default value is 100. As a rule of thumb, the step size should be set so that training a single step takes 60–180 seconds.
NOTE: The step size is defined as a fixed number of batches; the size (number of records) in a batch is controlled by the batch_size() interface method in the experiment's model definition.
bind_mounts: Specifies a collection of directories that are bind-mounted into the trial containers for this experiment. This can be used to allow trials to access additional data that is not contained in the trial-runner image. This field should consist of an array of entries. Note that users should ensure that the specified host paths are accessible on all agent hosts (e.g., by configuring a network file system appropriately).
container_path: The container path that host_path to bind-mount.
read_only: Whether the bind-mount should be a read-only mount. Defaults to false.
environment: Specifies the environment of the container that is used by the experiment for training the model. Default values are in bold. Note that if custom_image is specified, os, cuda, python tensorflow, pytorch, and keras should be unspecified, and vice versa.
os: The operating system used for the environment. Required to be "ubuntu16.04".
cuda: The CUDA version (if any) used for the environment. Accepted values are "10.0", "9.0", and "none".
python: The Python version that is used for the environment. Required to be "3.6.9".
tensorflow: The TensorFlow version (if any) that is installed. Accepted values are "1.14.0", "1.13.1", "1.12.0", and "none".
pytorch: The PyTorch version (if any) that is installed. Accepted values are "1.0.1.post2" and "none".
keras: The Keras version (if any) that is installed. Accepted values are "2.2.4" and "none".
custom_image: Specifies a custom Docker image to use when executing the command. The custom image must be available via docker pull to every PEDL agent host in the cluster. If supplying a custom image, please consult the Custom Docker Images documentation for more information.
force_pull_image: Forcibly pull the image from the docker registry and bypass the docker cache. Defaults to false.
registry_auth: Specifies the docker registry credentials to use when pulling a custom base Docker image, if needed.
server (optional)
runtime_commands: Specifies a list of commands to execute before running the trial. Users can customize trials run on GPU vs. CPU agents differently by specifying a dict with two keys, cpu and gpu (details).
runtime_packages: Specifies a list of Python packages to install before running the trial. Users can customize trials run on GPU vs. CPU agents differently by specifying a dict with two keys, cpu and gpu (details).
reproducibility: Specifies configuration options related to reproducible experiments. This is an optional configuration field; see the documentation on reproducibility for more details.
experiment_seed: Specifies the random seed to be associated with the experiment. Must be an integer between 0 and 231 - 1. If an experiment_seed is not explicitly specified, the master will automatically generate an experiment seed.
max_restarts: Specifies the maximum number of times that a trial will be restarted due to an error. When this limit is reached, the experiment is marked as a failure and all remaining trials are checkpointed and closed. If an error occurs while a trial is running (e.g., a container crashes abruptly), the PEDL master will automatically restart the trial and continue running it. This parameter specifies a limit on the number of times to try restarting a trial; this ensures that PEDL does not go into an infinite loop if a trial encounters the same error repeatedly.
entrypoint: Configuration details for a simple model definition.
script: Specifies the location of the entrypoint script, relative to the provided model definition directory.
args: Specifies a list of arguments to pass to the entrypoint script, defaulting to an empty list.
security: Specifies configuration options related to security.
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config_file (optional): The path to the Kerberos configuration file (e.g. /etc/krb5.conf) on the host filesystem of agent nodes. Note that this file must be replicated and available at the same location on every enabled agent node. Currently, the principal used for creating and renewing Kerberos tickets is hard-coded—please consult the Determined AI team for details.
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Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand
By Rachel Weiner
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Local reporter covering federal court in Alexandria, Va. and local court in Arlington and Alexandria.
Voters might be most interested in Paul Ryan's workout plan. But the Republican vice presidential nominee has another interest dating back to high school, one that sheds a little more light on his economic plans: the philosopher and author Ayn Rand.
Ayn Rand, Russian-born American novelist, is shown in Manhattan with the Grand Central Terminal building in background in 1962. (AP Photo)
Ryan has referenced Rand repeatedly over the course of her career, saying her writings got him into economics and policy. Ryan told the New Yorker recently that he has been reading Rand since high school; it was "Atlas Shrugged" that got him interested in economics. In March of 2003, Ryan told the Weekly Standard he was still a huge fan.
"I give out 'Atlas Shrugged' as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it," he said. "Well... I try to make my interns read it."
If you're behind on your mid-century philosophy, Rand invented Objectivism, a philosophy which holds that laissez-faire capitalism is the ideal economic system and that all people should pursue their own rational self-interest, not the good of others.
She laid out her theories in two novels, "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged", which have long been popular on the ideological right. While Rand is influential among libertarians and conservatives, she saw both groups as insufficiently wedded to capitalism. Still, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are Rand fans; Barry Goldwater was one too.
Ryan spoke to the Atlas Society, a Rand-devoted group, in 2005, telling the group that Rand was "the reason I got involved in public service, by and large." He cited two excerpts from "Atlas Shrugged" that he goes back to frequently: "Francisco d'Anconia's speech ... on money" and "the 64-page John Galt speech."
The Galt speech is a summary of Objectivism (here's an Atlas Society outline).Slate's Dave Weigel has a deep dive into the other speech, in which a copper mine owner rails against the end of the gold standard and the use of paper money to help "legal looters."
And in a 2009 video series, Ryan added: "I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault."
But Ryan has distanced himself from Rand in recent years, for obvious reasons. While she provides a sweeping justification for capitalism and the free market, many of her positions give Republicans pause. Rand supported abortion, opposed religion and was for the most part anti-war. She hated the idea of "duty." She did not like Ronald Reagan.
"I, like millions of young people in America, read Rand's novels when I was young. I enjoyed them," he told National Review earlier this year. But, Ryan added: "I reject her philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy."
In his New Yorker interview, Ryan emphasized that he rejected Rand's atheism; presumably that includes all her social views. Whether he rejects any of her economic philosophy is still unclear.
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The Big Sky Music Festival is heading into their second year with a lineup featuring classic country stars and fresh Canadian talent with the release of their official 2020 artist lineup!
At the beginning of November, we learned that Dwight Yoakam, Ronnie Milsap, and would be on the way to Burl's Creek Event Ground on July 18, 2020. And now we know that Leann Rimes, Sons of Daughters, and Kelly Prescott will join them to round out the full-day country music lineup.
This is a list or artists that brings some big hits that fans will be able to sing along to at the tops of their lungs throughout the day and into the evening. There's star power. And, to our delight and surprise, there's balance with male and female performers.
Early Bird tickets for Big Sky are available now at $99.99 with RV and Tent camping available for folks who want to set up and enjoy a little more time on the grounds before and after the show. Bundle packages are also available with built-in savings for multiple tickets as well as tickets + camping.
And yes, we're excited about the lineup of country music that will play on the stage on July 18, but that's not all.
The Classic Car Show, Big Rig Show & Shine, and the Food & Craft Market are big parts of the day and will give ticket holders a chance to enjoy the day in more than one way. More details are coming for those parts of Big Sky, so stay tuned and check in on the website and social media channels for updates.
All in all, it looks like July 18, 2020, is going to be a fun day at Burl's Creek Event Grounds when the Big Sky Music Festival goes on for year two.
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Veteran organizations from around the state will be gathering at the Pinal County Fairgrounds to participate in a stand down for veterans in need.
The day-long event will take place from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., with numerous booths providing information to those who are in need of services or products, and in the past have been left to fend on their own. These services include Veteran Affair benefits, VA medical services, employment and training opportunities, housing assistance, legal aid assistance, Motor Vehicle Department information, clothing, food and substance abuse counseling. All veterans and families of veterans are encouraged to attend, with children's activities and entertainment also on the schedule.
This will be the first ever stand down to take place in Pinal County, with veterans having in the past to go to Tucson or Phoenix to attend such an event. In military jargon, a stand down is "a time of relaxation following a state of readiness or alert", according to Diann Lesueur, founder and president of the Open Hands Outreach Program (OHOP) in Coolidge, which last week received certification as a non-profit organization and will be one of the organizations in attendance at the event.
"The purpose of this particular stand down is to connect veterans, and in many cases their families, who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless, with needed resources and services," Lesueur said.
This is the latest in a string of efforts to try to end the poverty and suffering of the 34,000 veterans in Pinal County, who are often enduring injuries or Post Traumatic Stress from their time at war, leading to many other problems as they continue to be neglected by the community.
OHOP last month hosted Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick to discuss the ever-growing need to more aid to veterans, especially in a county where the VA does not have a tangible presence. Many from around the community came to that meeting, and expressed their concerns over what veterans' futures have in store for them.
Organizers are looking for more volunteers to help with connecting veterans to services. Those interested are to contact Danny Meehan and 520-374-3030.


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With all of the moves the Los Angeles Lakers have made this off-season, one continuous question mark has been the future of Nick Young. After a disappointing season, many believed the Lakers would look to move Young this summer to clear out more cap space.
— Have you seen the 'Bleed Purple and Gold' phone case? —
That move has yet to be made and while it still might, general manager Mitch Kupchak believes that Young will be a core player for the team this season according to Lakers Nation reporter Serena Winters:
Kupchak says he does expect Nick Young to be a core player this season, but does have to improve (i.e. defense) & also adjust to teams needs
— Serena Winters (@SerenaWinters) July 10, 2015
Kupchak also added that Young will have to show the coaching staff that he can do more than just score the ball according to the Lakers official Twitter page:
Kupchak on Nick Young: "He has to convince our coaching staff that he can play within our system & that doesn't just mean scoring the ball."
— Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) July 10, 2015
Young clashed with head coach Byron Scott at times last season, but said that the two were on the same page at the end of the season. In any case, Young's spot in the rotation, assuming he isn't traded, is far from guaranteed after the Lakers' off-season additions.
Lou Williams can provide the same explosive scoring off the bench as Young and if someone like rookie Anthony Brown can play great defense, he may move ahead of Young as well. The rotation of the Lakers is not set in stone and Young will have to work to make sure his spot is secure.
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Novelist Catherine Robertson talks to Soraya M. Lane, internationally best-selling romance author of such novels as "Hearts of Resistance" and "Wives of War", and Michele A'Court, whose latest book, "How We Met", talks to couples about the origin stories of their relationships, and to experts about the psychology of love.
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Love is in the air for this discussion, in which novelist Catherine Robertson talks to Soraya M. Lane, internationally best-selling romance author of such novels as "Hearts of Resistance" and "Wives of War", and Michele A'Court, whose latest book, "How We Met", talks to real-life couples about the origin stories of their relationships, and to experts about the psychology of love. How does the escapism of romance novels measure up against real-life romance and long-term relationships? And could we all do with a bit more romance in our lives?
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Canada is the second largest country by area in the world (after Russia) and the largest in North America. Its only land border is with the United States, and remains the longest land border in the world. The US border is situated at Canada's Southern edge. The border with the United States varies depending on the area you are visisting. The 49th parallel is the border from Mainland BC to Ontario, but drops as low as the 41st parallel in southern Ontario. Canada also has a long border with the US State of Alaska in the Northwest. Canada is also a major tourist destination, and is one of the world's wealthiest countries. The country is renowned worldwide for its vast, untouched landscape and its unique culture.
Visiting Canada all in one trip is an ambitious endeavour. When speaking of specific destinations within Canada, it is better to consider its distinct regions.
Ontario - multicultural and vibrant Toronto, the Niagara wine region, the immense Boreal and Taiga forests, Ottawa - the capital, the Great Lakes coastal areas, small rural towns.
Geopolitically, Canada is divided into 10 provinces (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador) and 3 territories (Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut).
Canada is a land of vast distances and rich natural beauty. Economically and technologically, it resembles its neighbor to the South, the United States, and shares with it the longest undefended border in the world. Canada became a self-governing dominion in 1867 by an act of the British parliament, and is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. Though a medium sized country by its population, Canada has earned respect on the international stage for its strong diplomatic skills. Domestically, the country has displayed success in negotiating compromises amongst a culturally and linguistically varied population, a difficult task considering that language, culture, cuisine and even history vary significantly over the country. In contrast to the United States' image as a melting pot, Canada prefers to consider itself a mosaic of cultures and people. The information below will get you started, but be sure to check the specifics for given regions and cities. It has socialized medicine, too.


otherwise capable of addressing in some way (whether by way of risk assessment/mitigation or otherwise – the Toolkit provides some guidance in this respect).
For AI to be accepted for use in a given market (for example, by achieving sufficient end user uptake), as a matter of commercial reality the use of AI will need to be perceived by the participants in that market as meeting certain minimum ethical standards. What these are will vary according to the type of AI at issue and the relevant sector in which it is deployed.
the related key legal issues for businesses.
Why are ethics a key issue for the AI industry?
Take an accounting software package. It can be used to reconcile accounts, but in the wrong hands it can also be used to commit corporate fraud. Assuming programming designed to facilitate such fraud was not deliberately included in the coding, the morally objectionable outcomes from its use (fraud) are determined by the user.
AI, like an accounting software package, performs functions determined by its programmers. However, unlike an accounting software package, AI can learn, determine on what basis (or criteria) it is to make decisions, and make autonomous decisions based on that learning and such criteria.
Its autonomous actions and outcomes are determined not by the user, but flow inexorably from ethical judgments: (1) made at the time the system was programmed; and (2) inherent in training data to which it was exposed.
AI systems are both the outcome of, and result in, a movement of ethical decision-making to an earlier stage in a system's life-cycle. This can have profound implications for where ethical and legal responsibility can lie in a given AI supply chain. The Toolkit examines how businesses can mitigate the risks that arise as a result.
Can human values be embedded in AI?
The idea that AI systems should be designed at inception to embed human values in order to avoid breaching human rights and creating bias, commonly known as "ethics-bounded optimisation", is increasingly accepted within the AI industry.2 An example of ethics-bounded optimisation in, say, the Life Sciences and Healthcare sector would be the coding of AI systems to reflect the "first do no harm" principle of the Hippocratic Oath (and its modern equivalents).
"AI will revolutionise many activities within the Life Sciences and Healthcare sector. AI in combination with Big Data analytics already plays an important role in clinical trials and diagnostics, and in the future will be expected to significantly augment (and perhaps replace aspects of ) human decision-making in primary healthcare and surgical procedures.
The ability of AI to predict healthcare-related trends at the macro level (within national, regional or global populations) will also help with private and public sector investment decisions within the industry.
Have human values already been codified?
aspects of state and federal constitutions (such as the U.S.'s Bill of Rights).
AI will not change the fact that those who breach legal obligations in relation to human rights will still be responsible for such breaches (although it may make determining who is responsible more complex).
In Europe, data privacy laws are seen as an elaboration of human rights. In the U.S., on the other hand, data privacy is more often regarded as an extension of consumer rights.
AI may also lean from real time interactions with society. Such interaction may lead to unfortunate results.
In 2016 a well-known tech giant launched a chatbot through the messaging platforms Twitter, Kik, and GroupMe. The chatbot was intended to mimic the way a nineteen year old American girl might speak. The chatbot owner's aim was reportedly to conduct research on conversational understanding. The chatbot was programmed to respond to messages in an entertaining way, and to impersonate the audience she was created to target: American eighteen to twenty year olds.
Hours after the chatbot's launch, among other offensive things, she was providing support for Hitler's views, and agreeing that 9/11 was probably an inside job. She seemed to choose consistently the most inflammatory responses possible. By the evening of her launch, the chatbot was taken offline.
As the launch of this particular chatbot shows, AI can result in unexpected, unwanted outcomes and reputational damage. The chatbot's responses were modelled on those she got from humans, so her evolution simply reflected the data sets to which she was exposed. What AI learns from can determine whether its outputs are perceived as intelligent or unhelpful.
In some instances, the values to embed in an AI system might need to be specific to the relevant community or stakeholders, particularly for vulnerable groups or users impacted directly by the AI system (such as operators of AI-enabled robotics).
What steps should be taken to mitigate the risk of bias?
the AI system needs to integrate identified values and enable third party evaluation of those embedded human values to detect any bias. Members of groups who may be disadvantaged by AI systems should be included in the engineering and design process to embed specific values and mitigate bias. (We discuss this approach in more detail in the Toolkit.
AI and AI-enabled products and services will need to incorporate degree of ethical transparency in order to engender trust (otherwise market uptake may be impeded). This will be particularly important when AI autonomous decision-making has a direct impact on the lives of the market participants.
deliver transparency as to the decision or action.
Most products involving machine learning or AI rely heavily on proprietary datasets that are often not released. Keeping the data sets proprietary can provide implicit defensibility against competitors. An AI developer might seek to rely perhaps on the law relating to trade secrets/confidentiality and other intellectual property rights in relation to the data sets (see What IP Protection is available for AI?).
The proprietary nature of its data sets may be particularly important to an AI developer in circumstances where open source software might otherwise lower barriers to entry by competitors.
are not used: proprietary data sets may contain inherent biases not obvious to those without access to them. The type of bias at issue may vary according to, say, the country, culture, or age demographic from which the data set was sourced.
The operation of an AI system should be transparent to ensure that the AI designer, developer, manufacturer, or other responsible person can explain how and why the system made a decision or executed an action.
designers, developers, and manufacturers may wish to protect their intellectual property rights in an AI system as a trade secret, which can lead to a deliberate lack of transparency.
What steps are required to deliver accountability?
AI systems can cause physical damage and economic loss. Legal systems will inevitably need to consider how to allocate legal responsibility for such loss or damage. As AI systems proliferate and are allowed to control more sensitive functions, unintended actions are likely to become increasingly dangerous. There should accordingly be program-level accountability to explain why an AI system reached a decision to address questions of legal responsibility. We explain in more detail in the Toolkit how this can be achieved in practice, including by the use of an ethics compliance log.
The complexity of AI systems in combination with emerging phenomena they encounter mean that constant monitoring of AI systems, and keeping humans "in the loop", may be required. One-time due diligence in advance of implementation may not be sufficient. Introducing (or maintaining) an element of human involvement in AI autonomous decision-making may well assist in demonstrating accountability where program-level accountability might otherwise be problematic.
Businesses should therefore identify how their AI may fail and what human safety nets can be implemented in the case of such failures. Where AI systems are used in safety-critical situations, a human safety override capability should be embedded into the AI's functionality.
So-called "interactive machine learning" puts interactions with humans as a central part of developing machine learning systems. It includes building in functionality that enables: (1) an AI system to "explain" its decision-making to a human; and (2) the human to give feedback on the system's performance and decision outcomes.
However, while keeping humans "in the loop" may help to achieve accountability, it may also limit the intended benefits of autonomous decision-making. Not having to involve humans may have been the reason the AI was implemented in the first place.
an insurance framework (such as that advocated by the European Parliament in its Resolution on Civil Law Rules Relating to Robotics)6 to compensate those harmed by AI systems may be required for a business to avoid liability. It could be similar to the workers' compensation frameworks operating in many jurisdictions. In its 2017 Queen's Speech, the United Kingdom Government announced an intention to introduce an Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill. The proposed legislation would extend compulsory motor vehicle insurance to cover the use of autonomous vehicles.
2. This approach can be vulnerable to being undermined by the autonomous nature of the technology (for the reasons discussed in more detail in the Ethics Risk Toolkit).
3. Future of Life Institute, Asilomar AI Principles, 2017.
4. House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, 5th Report of Session 2016 – 2017, HC 145, 12 October 2016, page 17.
5. IEEE, Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Wellbeing with Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems, version one, 2016, page 90.
6. European Parliament, Resolution with Recommendations to the Commission on Civil Law Rules on Robotics (2015/2103(INL)), 16 February 2017.


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Nothing is more important to me or to this Department than the health, safety and well-being of our people and their families, as well as that of residents living near our installations.
To that end, I am receiving daily updates by the Navy Department about fresh water contamination near the strategically important Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam – contamination that has directly affected thousands of military members and their families.
More than three thousand have been displaced from their military housing and are living temporarily in hotels, and thousands have been evaluated by medical staff.
We take this very seriously. And I am personally monitoring our progress and our mitigation efforts. Indeed, Navy leadership updates me daily on the measures they are taking to care for affected military personnel and families, to restore the safety of the water system in military housing, and to coordinate with local authorities – in particular the Hawaii State Department of Health – about the best way forward.
They have also provided me an update on the status of the Navy's investigation into the causes of this contamination and its plan to supplement environmental health measures on the island with additional resources and experts.
I fully support the Navy's decision to suspend operations at the Red Hill Underground Storage Tanks while investigative efforts continue and their commitment to conduct an independent study of operations and system integrity at Red Hill.
My expectation is that military leaders in Hawaii will continue to do everything they can – as fast as they can – to return residents safely back to their homes and to communicate clearly and frequently the steps they are taking to do so. I appreciate the value of their efforts to date: providing temporary lodging, establishing a Pregnancy Medical Advice Hotline, delivering more than 150,000 gallons of potable water, and flying in additional water filtration systems to the island.
I also expect them to continue keeping Hawaiian residents, legislators and leaders fully informed. Adm. Paparo, the Pacific Fleet Commander, is now the on-scene commander and understands those expectations. But in that same spirit, I have asked Deputy Secretary Hicks to visit the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility this week during her travel to Hawaii and to consult with Navy leaders, local officials, experts, and affected personnel and families.
As I said, nothing is more important than the health and well-being of our people and our neighbors. We will solve this problem, and we will do so safely, expeditiously and transparently.
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KaiOS seemingly came out of nowhere. A few months ago, we didn't even have a website. Now our operating system is running on over 30 million phones in India and North America. By the end of 2018, we plan to offer KaiOS in more than 100 countries across the globe.
This didn't happen overnight. Here's the real story about our name, history with Firefox, and purpose.
That brings us to the name. When the current stakeholders took over the project from Mozilla, we wanted something that would reflect our ambition to be accessible and open to all members of society. We also wanted a name that would work in both Western and Asian languages.
While it could be mistaken for a person's name, "Kai" originates from the Chinese word for open: 开 (kāi). The meaning fits and the sound is pronounceable in almost every tongue. Which brings us to the most important part: why does Kai exist?
We believe the world doesn't need another expensive smartphone. There are still vast groups of people locked out of the digital revolution. In emerging markets, over three billion (!) people don't have basic internet access. In mature markets, close to 20 percent of mobile users still use basic phones because they can't or don't want to use a smartphone. For all these people, not being connected means missed opportunities in education, health, communication, entertainment, and business.
Kai exists to unlock these opportunities. Together with our partners, we're focused on creating products that make that happen. In 2017, we launched phones with Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T in North America, and with Jio in India. This is just the beginning. Many other countries and partners will join us on this mission in the months ahead.
We believe genius, happiness, and wealth are waiting to blossom in new places. All that's needed is access to the digital revolution, just like it has sparked these things in other parts of the world. We believe KaiOS can play a small part in making this happen, which is why our team of close to 200 people comes to work every day in our offices around the world.
I am impressed and agree with your philosophy. Those with too much don't need more, but those without enough need . . . enough. Thankx. I want a banana phone!
Ohhh, now I know what 'Kai' means. I always thought it sounded Chinese but could not see the connection with it being a US-base company. Your FAQ should be linked to this article because it best explains your history background and especially name!
Hey Prediksi, we appreciate your feedback, it truly means a lot to us. Stay tuned for more helpful information!
I like this blog very much, Its a very nice spot to read and incur information. "There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people." by Robert Frost.
Hi Regena. If you would like to be aware of the specific information about release dates and the latest news, feel free to follow our Twitter account @KaiOStech. Additionally, you can always contact our customer support by messaging our other account @KaiHelps.
Bonjour! Merci de votre commentaire. Le KaiStore vient de paraître sur le 8110 4G, comme vous le savez peut-être déjà. Nous sommes conscients qu'il n'y a pas beaucoup d'applications pour le moment, mais vous aurez bientôt accès à diverses applications, notamment les médias sociaux, la messagerie, la navigation et les jeux.
Thanks for some other great post. Where else may just anybody get that kind of info in such an ideal method of writing?
what is ful form of KaiOS? KAI=?
Hi Palash, actually Kai is not an abbreviation. "Kai" originates from the Chinese word for open: 开 (kāi).


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Launched in 1966, Fidji by Guy Laroche is a truly a classic. The fragrance is a blend of soft floral notes with powdery undertones. The floral base includes: floral hyacinth, lemon, bergamont, carnation, jasmine, and rose.


- Worsted weight yarn - approx. 80 yards skin tone color, 200 yards white, 50 yards turquoise, 50 yards hair color(s), scrap amount of yellow.
My doll measures 10" tall (minus the horn) when made with the above materials.
All of my patterns are tested and checked for errors, however sometimes things get missed, so please feel free to contact me should you encounter any errors in the pattern, or if you need any assistance.
R22: Stuff arms, leaving the top unstuffed, 4 sc across both sides of the top of the arm to close.
R8: sc dec, 7 sc, sc dec x 2, 7 sc, sc dec (18) Change to white on the last st of this round.
Part 2 will be joining the legs and crocheting the body.
Stuff body and fasten off white.
R3: Ch 1, (dc, tr) in same st, tr x2, (tr, dc) in next st, (dc, hdc) in next st, hdc inc x2, (dc, tr, dc) in next st, hdc inc x2, (hdc, dc) in next st, (dc, tr) in next st, tr x2, (tr, dc) in next st, sl st.
Fasten off with long tail. Sew to the body.
Part 3 will be crocheting the head and adding a face to your doll.
Insert neck support if you are using one, otherwise stuff as firmly as possible.
You can use foam hair rollers, popsicle sticks, plastic spoon, or crochet a tube the diameter of the neck and insert that. All of these methods will help prevent a bobble head.
Insert safety eyes between R12-13, 8 sts apart. Embroider eyelashes.
Stitch a nose using skin tone color between R11-12.
Add blush to cheeks if desired.
R9-16: 48 sc (48) Change to turquoise on last st of R16.
Fasten off with long tail. Sew the hat to the head.
Fasten off with long tail. Flatten ears (do not stuff) and sew to the hat.
Fasten off with tail. Stuff and sew to the hat.
Fasten off with tail. Sew 12 down the hat for the mane – in 2 rows of 6. Sew 4 to the body for the tail.
Fasten off with tail. Sew 2 on either side of the horn.
Thank you for posting this pattern. I love it so far! I just have a minor problem with joining the legs to the body, but I am getting there, slowly but surely. Take care.
Are we not allowed to print this pattern then?
Thank you so very much for sharing this pattern with us , gotta make this for my granddaughter. Once again Thank You.
Congrats for the beautiful job!
I do not understand how to make the Long and short curls. Only chains?
Chain and then turn and crochet up the chain.
HI, thank you for sharing this pattern. Could you let me know which yarn you used for the head? Thank you.
Beautiful doll, my grand daughter will love her. Thanks for sharing your pattern.
Merci, pour cette adorable poupée, une superbe idée.
Amei o seu trabalho. Muito obrigada por compartilhar.
I have enjoyed making this for my great granddaughter. It's a Christmas present. I think she is going to enjoy this one most of all. Thank you so much. This pattern is so quick and easy.
Thank you so much for sharing this easy to follow wonderful pattern. My daughter loves her new unicorn girl I made her for her new unicorn/fantasy room. In a week or so there will be a blogpost about her on my blog.
I love this pattern so much! I'd just suggest making sure to let people know if it's continuous rounds or slip stick at the end of some rows.
I will say though, I've learned a bunch by following this, the legs specifically, I've been crocheting them and just sewing onto the body....not anymore! Thank you!


It's official. Weekends are the best. No wait… maybe birthdays are the best. In any case, this weekend is going to be super duper fun. I get to see almost all of my favorite people (come down Melissa!) and open presents and eat ice cream and hopefully see PPZ and definitely not watch the Super Bowl. Because Poirot is a million times better. What are you doing this weekend?
<3 one of your best yet!!!!


The OUMIER Wasp Nano RDTA has a small size with 2ml oil capacity.
The OUMIER Wasp Nano RDTA has a small size with 2ml oil capacity. It can be compatible with an 510 drip tip. With a single coil building way, you can refill from the filling hole on the build deck, which is easy to refill. Besides, the atomizer features in its side airflow control with 2 air slots, which create a smooth vaping experience. There are 3 colors for you to choose.


Still needs a few bits and pieces, seat & trim, exhausts, and hoping I can find some wire wheels that fit.
Very neat. Rearsets and upswept pipes would be nice. Good to see a bike on a budget.
Cool, will look into that for wheels.
Can't wait to see your magic on the seat.
Perfect, stubby reverse megas, exactly whan I was thinking.
Looks great mate, should bundels of fun to ride.
Top Job Mate, I love that. I've been thinking about turning the bandit into a cafe racer you may have just inspired me..
well you do have some triples mate!!!!
Hey Sen, didnt realise you posted this up here mate. I am glad you like it andhopefully soon you can get the other goodies you want for it so I can put them on it.
Just to run through what has actually been done to this bike I will list it all below as follows from front to rear.
Headlight fork brackets flipped to lower light. Dammoto single speeedo replaced the massive ugly stock unit.
Ace bars fitted a flipped. Reason for that was the tank is so wide, clip ons to the forks would hit badly so this was the other option, and it seams to work well.
Solo seat has been cut and made wider by 35mm to fit onto the massive frame of GSX. The rear sub frame shortend and closed off with a mounting plate for rear tail light. The tail light was then moulded into the rear seat section.
As Sen has stated, there are future plans for this bike by him, I'll just help by turning the spanners.
thats coming together real nice mate should be fun ,thinking of doing one myself as soon as i get back on my feet.


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The incomparable life of Elton John is explored in this biopic that spans five decades of his career.
Adam Bohling, David Furnish, Michael Gracey
Elton John's life story is too fantastic for a down-to-Earth biography. Rocketman casts Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service) as the celebrated 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' singer in an uncensored story that reveals all the grand highs and difficult low points of John's five-decade career.
If you were enraptured by Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocketman will take you even further into the stratosphere, as Elton John's story becomes the fuel for musical fantasy sequences that break the bounds of reality. Dexter Fletcher, who worked on the Queen biopic, directs. Jamie Bell, Richard Madden and Bryce Dallas Howard co-star.
Matthew Illesley
Kit Connor
James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe were considered to play Elton John.
Reg Dwight chose his stage name after his band-mates Elton Dean and Long John Baldry, but the movie implies his new persona's surname honors John Lennon.
John Reid: There are moments in a rock star's life that define who he is and how people perceive him as he ascends into the heavens. You lit the blue touch paper. Now we can all see you shooting light and color into the night sky. Where there was darkness, there is now... you, Elton John. You could do anything you want. You can be anyone you want. And it's going to be a wild ride.
#musical
#truestory
#awardbuzz
#blockbuster
Great movie, but often a sad one, and often because people who think homosexuality is an abomination ARE an abomination themselves.
Jeffrey K
What a great movie. Almost as good, but I think better than Bohemian Rhapsody. Music was great and the actors were spot on. A definite must see movie!!!!
Nicole F
As a fantasia on the making of Elton John, Rocketman at the very least commits wholeheartedly to its flashy eccentricity, and for many, that will be more than fun enough.
David Rooney
Rocketman is so energetic that it's possible to be swept away by its enthusiasm for putting Reg on a pedestal. Too often, though, the film just flattens you, demanding fealty to Sir Elton.


Illinois American Water reminds homeowners of steps to take to prevent water damage from frozen and burst pipes. Customers are also encouraged to ensure their contact information is accurate to receive important water service information should weather affect water service.
According to Vice President of Operations Mike Smyth, Illinois American Water has invested in water main replacements across the state to decrease main breaks, but weather can still be a factor.
During water service emergencies, Illinois American Water contacts customers either through in-person notification, door hanger or a customer notification system called CodeRED. CodeRED is a high-speed customer notification system which contacts customers via phone, phone and text, or email based on customer preferences. Customers are encouraged to log on to the company's web self-service portal My Account to enter their contact information and preferences. Customers who do not have internet access can contact the customer service center at (800) 422-2782 to update their contact information.
Landlords are required to pass along alerts to their tenants. Tenants can also download the free CodeRED Mobile Alert app at ecnetwork.com/coderedmobilealert to receive location-specific notifications on their smartphone. They will receive Illinois American Water alerts and public safety information sent by local organizations using CodeRED.
If a customer sees a leak, their water service is disrupted or they experience low pressure, they should contact the company's 24-7 customer service center at (800) 422-2782 to report an emergency. For general inquiries, customers can call between 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Protect pipes and water meters. Customers can wrap exposed pipes with insulation or use electrical heat tracing wire; newspaper or fabric might also work. For outside meters, they should keep the lid to the meter pit closed tightly and let any snow that falls cover it. Snow acts as insulation, so customers should not disturb it.
• Shut off the water immediately and not attempt to thaw frozen pipes unless the water is shut off. Freezing can often cause unseen cracks in pipes or joints.
• Apply heat to the frozen pipe by warming the air around it, or by applying heat directly to a pipe. Customers can use a hair dryer, space heater or hot water. Space heaters should not be left unattended, and customers should avoid the use of kerosene heaters or open flames.
• Once the pipes have thawed, water should be turned on slowly and pipes checked for cracks and leaks.
• Have a friend, relative or neighbor regularly check their property to ensure that the heat is working and the pipes have not frozen.
More cold weather tips can be found here.


In India Garbanzo Beans/ Kabuli Chana or Choley is often associated with peppery, hot and picante flavours. With puffed deep fried breads or bhature they are most often paired and can be lapped up in a single go. In the northern part of India especially in the state of Punjab Choley is a staple and an everyday fare.
While deciding which dishes would be a part of my Go Green Mission I was very tempted to include a dish which had a creamy spinach gravy. Normally the use of cottage cheese or corn kernels in a spinach gravy is rampantly cooked and dished out in homes and restaurants alike. So I decided to choose a little less cooked but supremely yum garbanzo beans / Choley in a very thick and silky textured spinach gravy. This gravy does not contain a drop of cream or butter but when having it with piping hot flat breads you will miss neither.
It's been so much fun so far to introduce little D to the world of greens through a green coloured dish at the dinning table and a little story to make it all the more exciting for her. There has been Popeye the Spinach Oops sailor man who offcourse could get those power punches on Brutus because he ate his spinach with a smile, Rapunzel whose long overflowing tresses was because she never complained but ate her Broccoli happily and off course there has been Elsa and Anna from the movie Frozen who could get back their Kingdom because they loved to eat their greens. Well it maynot make sense to most of us but these stories have worked their way well with little D who now eats her Broccoli without a fuss because she is waiting for her tresses to grow and become like Rapunzel. I sincerely hope that when she grows up she will fondly look back to these stories which I am sure she will laugh at then but she will still love to eat everything healthy and green and cherish the bounties that nature has blessed all of us with.
A portion of green on our plate everyday is definately our secret to a healthy life. A doctor friend of mine once told me that most of the diseases, maybe all have their roots or start as a result of our eating habits. Keep the gut healthy if you want to ward of any maladies from entering your system. Eat locally sourced, fresh food as much as possible. I do not have any documents to back these claims but I speak from self experience and have tried and seen tested results if eating more green amongst my family, friends and acquaintances.
But friends along with eating your greens you will have to smile double the amount of greens you eat in order to remain "fit as a fiddle" and I vouch for this statement with all my heart.
Today's recipe has the protein rich garbanzo beans in a spinach gravy which you have to cook with a little patience and lots of love. There are a few steps in getting that lush bright green colour of the gravy and trust me its worth going through all the steps which I have put down below without omitting to get the creamiest and velvety gravy ever.
2) 1 bunch of Spinach Leaves/Palak This would be appriximately 500 gms with leaves and stem. I use both but if you are particular about using only the leaves then go for two bunches of Spinach to get you a yield of 500 Gms leaves only.
Wash the Garbanzo beans in a colander throughly and soak them overnight. Wash the spinach leaves throughly taking care specially if you decide to use the stems as well, dry and keep aside. Wash, Peal and chop the Potato into long slices not too thick. Chop the Tomatoes and Onions Roughly. Assemble all the Ingredients together.
Pressure Cook the Garbanzo beans using enough water to cover them after adding salt and turmeric. Cook till they are so soft that they smash easily between your thumb and first finger. Keep aside retaining the water in which the Garbanzo beans have been cooked.
In a wok or pan take 1/2 tsp of oil and add the onions and spinach. Cook till all the water is absorbed and the onions become transparent. Don't cook covered to retain the lovely green colour of the spinach. Cool. In a food processor add the sautéed onion, spinach and coconut and whizz into a smooth paste. Keep aside.
Again take the wok or pan add 1/2 Tsp of oil, add in the chopped tomatoes and ginger garlic paste. Cook till the tomatoes soften a bit and the ginger garlic paste becomes fragrant.Remove from the flame. Cool. In a processor blend to a smooth paste. Keep aside.
In a wok or pan add the remaining oil. To the warm oil add the sliced potatoes, turmeric and sauté for a couple of minutes. Now add in the paste of tomatoes and ginger garlic to the potatoes, coat well, add about 2 tbsp of water, low the heat, cover and Cook till the potatoes are soft. This takes about 3-4 minutes as the potatoes are sliced not very thick. Once cooked, add the chilli powder and Choley masala and mix well and cook for a couple of more minutes.
Now add in the soft cooked garbanzo beans along with the water in which it was cooked. Mix well.
Finally add the spinach, coconut and onion paste, mix well. Taste for seasoning and add salt if required. Add water depending on the consistency of the gravy you would like. Simmer for a couple of minutes to allow everything in the wok or pan to blend together well. Do not cover. Now your Garbanzo Beans in velvety Spinach Curry is ready to serve.
Serve hot with bread of your choice.
*Do not cover the spinach and cook at any point of time to retain its bright green colour.
Thanks dear. I learnt a few things and incorporated it along the way, both in terms of cooking and food photography.


DO NOT soak your occlusal guard in mouthwash, denture cleanser, hot water or place in direct sunlight.
Rinse well with water before and after use and store dry.
Clean the guard with warm soapy water. An old toothbrush with a small amount of toothpaste can be used to clean out the grooves.
If your guard becomes loose, tight or causes discomfort, don't hesitate to contact us.
Oral hygiene is very important when using your night guard. Remember to brush, floss rinse before inserting your night guard.
Seat your guard from back to front each night before going to bed.


With the number of customers willing and able to buy products and services using a mobile device increasing rapidly, there is considerable pressure for companies to embrace mobile commerce (m-commerce) or risk losing customers to competitors old and new.
This is the first of a series of actionable reports which outline what is required for m-commerce success. It is imperative with every m-commerce site and app that companies carefully consider the strategy and feasibility of the project, before embarking on design and development.
Part 1 of our DNA of a Great M-Commerce Site series will help you to prove and ensure that your m-commerce project will be a success.
Understand the imperative of research and evaluation.
Build your team to research, interrogate, prove viability, scope and plan the project.
Assess the business objectives and business fit.
Conduct a competitor or landscape survey.
Analyse the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (SWOT) of the project.
Understand the methods of customer and market research to identify and prove customer need.
Use customer research for segmentation, personas and user journeys.
Provide you with a feasibility matrix to help you interrogate and establish technical, operational and schedule feasibility.
Calculate the economic feasibility, define KPIs and balance the costs and benefits of development, operations and promotion and return on investment (ROI).
Plan the viability of the go-to-market strategy.
This is part 1 of two-part series. Click here for DNA of a Great M-Commerce Site: Part 2.
This report will help business stakeholders and digital teams put their mobile commerce project on a sound footing. It is imperative for everyone involved in the project to understand the best practice involved in conducting extensive research into the customer, market and competitive environment, and to ascertain if the project is viable from a technical and economic perspective. It is critical for all members of the project team to understand how they can and should contribute to the discovery and viability stages of an m-commerce project.
Andy Favell is a freelance mobile and digital consultant, journalist and web editor. He advises companies on their mobile, digital, media and content strategy. He has been writing about business and technology since the 1990s, for numerous titles, including a weekly column on mobile best practice for ClickZ.


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Thank you Greg for allowing us to have this opportunity and for all your support of iKnifeCollector.com. In the 1 week we had 21 members join us. Our winner is Gary Kifer.
Thanks Greg for your support. Congrats to our new member Gary Kifer.
Thanks Greg for your support.
Okay.......why does this not surprise me??
A great friend, supporting my other great friends.
Steve and Peter Force say it all, so +1 for me too!
greg is by far one of the best IMO- when it comes to selling knives... plus he is just an all around great guy!


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Student creativity shines through in protesting ID badges
Students at Arizona-based Prescott High School are protesting the school's newly enforced ID badges by taping them to their foreheads, making them into t-shirts, defacing them with their favorite sports teams and cartoon characters and one student even hanging his through the hole in his stretched earlobe, reports The Daily Courier.
The school recently ordered all of its 1,850 students to wear their ID badges at all times when on campus, which the school says is part of a national trend toward visible identification cards to address concerns about school safety and security. Students, however, say the badges clash with their personal styles.
Vice Principal Deb Salcedo understands the student complaints but said the badges address the school's number one concern, which is safety. "It's a big school," Salcedo says. "The IDs will help determine who belongs here."
In Arizona, high schools in the Mesa and Peoria unified school districts are among others with similar ID badge requirements.
Paradise Valley school district inc... TUSD heightens campus security with... New university policy requires all ...
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As a result of a two-year work of certain individuals, Animal Friends, the Student assembly, the Student centre and the Ministry of Science, the vegetarian meals for vegetarian students have been introduced into the Student centre in Zagreb. Animal Friends considers it a great success, because we submitted the request for introduction of vegetarian meals to the Ministry of Science more than two years ago, when we were still individual students, and last year, when we had founded Animal Friends, we submitted it again as an organization.
Before the members of the Student assembly were relieved of their duty, we negotiated with the assembly that gave us a great support and presented our proposals to the Minister Kraljevic, as well as received an affirmative answer. After the members of the Student assembly had been relieved of their duty, we could no longer count on their support and all negotiations were suspended. The vegetarian meals, although accepted over two years ago, had to wait for the diet rules to be introduced, and afterwards some time more before they were finally introduced.
But today, on February 1, 2002, the vegetarian students are able to eat the food they want to eat at least in one of the student restaurants. We consider this a big success for the vegetarian community and hope that it is the first step in introducing the vegetarian meals in all public institutions in which there are vegetarians.
As a group of individual vegetarians, on the World Vegetarian Day, October 1, 2000, we launched a petition for introduction of vegetarian meals into public institutions, which, after Animal Friends had been founded, we submitted to the Member of Parliament, the Prime Minister, the Ministers and the President of the Republic of Croatia on the same day in 2001. During one year of petition signing, we collected over 3,000 signatures and realised how great a support the public gave us. The largest number of signatures was collected on the information stall on the World Vegetarian Day last year, when we also handed out over 10,000 leaflets. We decided to submit the petition and requests of the Animal Friends to all Ministries in charge of public institutions.
We also offered our help in organizing the meals, supplying the food and providing the courses for cooking the vegetarian food to the employees of public institutions.
Unfortunately, only the Minister Kraljevic replied to our requests with a positive solution and sent to us a proposal of the menu for student restaurants. The other ministries we turned to, especially the office of the President of the Republic, constantly ignored our requests and avoided any answer whatsoever.
Hereby we would like to thank the Minister Kraljevic and the whole Ministry of Science for having treated our association democratically. The Ministry of Science is the first ministry that abolished the discrimination of persons committed to a vegetarian way of living and showed that the choice can be given to all citizens, in this case the students. Only by such moves can we come closer to Europe that we aspire to so much, because in the whole Europe, the vegetarian meals were introduced into all institutions a long time ago.
We will repeat our requests soon, but we will also organise more serious protests because of the disrespect of vegetarians rights. We believe that our civil right is to be able to eat in the public institution that we stay at, that our children stay at, and that we will probably find ourselves at. After the Student restaurants, we request that the vegetarian meals be introduced into schools, kindergartens, hospitals, jails, the army, and other public institutions in which there are vegetarians.
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