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DJI opens new market
Not so long ago drones became affordable enough for ordinary users. Now videos from drones are mainstream. However, drone world is really versatile, starting from industry drones and ending with FPV drones. Today I would like to tell about nearest release of DJI and its consequences.
On 2nd of March DJI will present their first FPV drone and it will be the last niche that they will cover. Before that, to fly on an FPV drone you had to build it by yourself. It was time-consuming and money consuming. Next problem is small time of flight, with new DJI FPV drone has 20 minutes of flight time. New drone comes with glasses and controller what helps to make connection more efficient, because all this parts work in one ecosystem. Thus, we see new level of FPV drones. Initial cost is 1300$, for drone, controller and glasses it is cheap enough if compare to self-made drones.
What about specs?
Camera has 142-degree angle. It shoots in 4k 60fps, thus, I may guess, it has sensor from Mavic Air 2, with quit good quality. It is needed to reduce the price.
In my opinion, the greatest advantage is gimbal that helps with stabilization of an image.
Finally, speed – 60-90 mph, relying on rumors. This makes DJI's a great competitor in FPV world.
Summarizing my thoughts, I'm really happy with this, because DJI made ultimate FPV drone for everyone, what widely opens FPV market. This market was growing rapidly last year, but release of DJI's drone will boost it drastically.
Sources: https://dronedj.com/2021/02/23/everything-about-djis-new-fpv-drone-specs-pictures-controller-more/
The more megapixels, the better camera?
There are a lot of myth going around cameras, thus producers use it to make their product more appealing to sell more. So, as a photographer, I would like to destroy these myths.
Three main parts of camera: sensor, lens and processor.
Many people think, that the more MP camera has, the better its quality. However, it's not, quality really depends on size of matrix(sensor) of the camera. So, the conclusion is: the more light (fatons of light) sensor receives, the better quality of an image. Basically, when a sensor receives more information, quality of a picture increases. Sensor is divided into pixels to receive this information. However, when producer says, that our camera has 100MP it doesn't mean, that it is better than 12MP camera. It is all because of physical scale of matrix.
Why pixels should be bugger in most cases?
We need bigger pixels for night shoots, when there is lack of light(information). However, even in day light it can be noisy, because there are many small pixels, that can't collect information as good, as bigger ones can.
For what do we need more pixels?
Greater number of pixels helps to make pictures more detailed. Also, it makes work of digital
zoom much better.
ISO is next really crucial factor:
It is about sensitivity of a sensor. The higher number, the more sensitive sensor to light, the
Lighter the image. However, when you up ISO number, more noise appears. And it also doesn't
mean, that in day light you should keep ISO on 100, every camera has its own BEST ISO
number, this is known as "log". This helps to expand dynamic range – number of dark and light
pixels. In this case sensor collects more information about light and dark points instead of color,
thus, final image is almost grey, nevertheless, it is much easier to correct colors.
These are main SENSOR sizes:
Other ways to make image better is optics:
It measures in focus length and aperture. Aperture is extent to which it is opened. The bigger
number, the more opened it is. When it is fully opened, sensor receives the biggest amount of
information and "bokeh" effect appear. For sure, final result also depends on quality of these
lenses.
The closer focus point is to sensor, the wider image you have. This correlation is shown on this picture
The last but not least parameter is shutter speed, in simple words it is the time that sensor
receives the information about light.
Here is the example:
What do we see? Companies use hype slogans about quantity of MP, however, there much more features that effect on the final result.
End of banking systems?
In this topic I would like to cover these questions:
What is Defi? Its advantages and disadvantages. What to expect in the future?
In a nutshell, DeFi (Decentralized Finance) is the system (applications) that can work separately from financial institutes, making all actions peer to peer such as transfers, trading, using blockchain. The main coin on which DeFi is based on is Ethereum.
What are the guarantees? Because financial institutes ensure users from fraud and they act as trust guarantees. Products based on DeFi work using smart contracts. These are online contracts with your terms. If any terms are violated or fulfilled deal will be closed. This system gives opportunity to get rid of middleman.
What are the main functions:
You can lend money or get loan, one of benefits is flash loans (extremely fast), common financial institutes can't offer such an option. This is known as "yield farming"
Trading without middleman
Buying derivative assets.
What are disadvantages:
1.Predictable ones:
Uncertainty: crypto market is still developing and there are many problems with it, thus it can work not as good as it could.
Risks: only you are responsible for mistakes.
Smart contracts issues: it can be an issue, if there are any mistakes in code of a smart contract.
2. Unpredictable:
Although it is Decentralized, it is still in hands of developers
I guess, government won't give a chance to develop this to such a level, when people will start using it instead of ordinary financial institutions.
1. Secure from environment triggers, such as covid, because all physical contacts are reduced to zero.
2. Quick operations: getting a loan will take no more than a minute, when in a bank you should send a lot of time.
3.Owing to smart contracts human factor is dramatically reduced.
4. Reduced cost owing to absence of a middleman.
5. You can't lose the "smart contract" or it can't be stolen, because it is extremely difficult to hack it.
Summarizing it, I would say that it is future, however, there are many pitfalls that can bury this idea. What is more, I'm curious whether it will be legal or not, because it is great competitor for state.
The microchip was created from graphene. It is 100 times faster than standard.
Researchers at the University of Sussex have created a prototype microchip that uses graphene and its appropriate combination to deliver significantly better performance than standard chips. According to the assumptions of physicists, it should offer 100 times the more incredible speed of action.
The innovative microchip, created by British scientists, was made from graphene, although it can be replaced with other materials with a similar structure and susceptibility to modifications.
For its production, the "nano-origami" method is used, which includes "stacking" the raw material in such a way that the resulting shape becomes many times smaller than originally intended. Thanks to this discovery, graphene chips can be noticeably smaller than conventional chips and much faster.
According to researchers from Sussex, this discovery will soon find use in computers or smartphones, which will significantly facilitate the development of the electronics and IT industries. They argue that the current semiconductor technology is already on the brink of development, and the new solution will remove the limitations for years to come.
VAIO Z — a new attempt to revive VAIO
VAIO, once a Sony brand, unveiled the new Vaio Z laptop. According to the manufacturer, it is the world's first mobile PC to receive a three-dimensional carbon fiber chassis.
A super lightweight Japanese laptop with a carbon fiber chassis for the price of a few MacBook Air. New VAIO Z unveiled
In this case, it is meant that the carbon fiber is not made of individual panels, but of the entire body. Thanks to this approach were possible to get rid of plastic and metal parts, due to which the laptop became stronger and lighter.
More precisely, in the presence of a 14-inch screen and the ability of the design to withstand a fall from a height of up to 127 cm, the device weighs only 1.04 kg.
The configuration of the laptop assumes a Core i7-11375H processor, 16 or 32 GB of RAM, SSD capacity from 512 GB to 2 TB, 4K UHD display and a battery big enough for 10 hours of work. The Japanese specs, where the approach to testing is different, indicate even 17 hours.
The super lightweight Japanese laptop with a carbon fiber chassis for the price of several MacBook Air. The new VAIO Z is unveiled.
Of the rest we can note a physical curtain for the camera and a pair of Thunderbolt 4 ports. Unfortunately, the price of the laptop is even more striking than its weight. The base version costs $3,580, while the top version will cost $4,180.
But the main disadvantage of VAIO Z is its price, because even MacBook Air, which the majority considered as an overpriced laptop is 2 times cheaper, comparing to the base version of the new Japanese laptop, let alone the top one.
Ford announced that it will go all-electric in Europe by 2030
Whether we like it or not, everything seems to indicate that the future of cars is electric. A few days after Jaguar informed that it will only offer electric cars from 2025, carmaker Ford follows the same path. It says its cars line-up in Europe will be fully electric by the year 2030.
Ford emphasis the transition process to EV-production over the next decade. The company's plan is to achieve by 2024 commercial vehicle lineup which will be "zero-emissions capable, all-electric or plug-in hybrid." By 2026, Ford claims "100 percent" of its passenger vehicle lineup will be the same. Moreover, by 2030, carmaker expects two-thirds of its commercial vehicle sales to be all-electric or plug-in hybrid, while all of its passenger vehicles sold will be entirely electric.
Automaker said it will spend $1 billion to update its factory in Cologne, in order to produce fully electric cars. "Our announcement today to transform our Cologne facility, the home of our operations in Germany for 90 years, is one of the most significant Ford has made in over a generation," said Stuart Rowley, president of Ford in Europe. "It underlines our commitment to Europe and a modern future with electric vehicles at the heart of our strategy for growth."
Ford, having a 15 percent share of the local market, is the biggest car brand to make such a statement in Europe.
Multiple European countries have set goals to ban conventional gas-powered vehicles and trucks, with Norway targeting 2025 and France as well as United Kingdom – 2030 and 2040, respectively. There are also ambitious targets in many states in the US, with California leading the pack, vowing to outlaw the selling of gas-powered cars by 2035.
The initiative of Ford to step up its electrification plans is intended to persuade those on Wall Street who have been anxious about the potential of the company to keep up with Tesla, which over the last few years has been the only carmaker to successfully develop an EV business.
Automotive electrification is definitely an expensive and tough process for all car producers. However, it will be soon inevitable to meet standards and stay in the market.
The robot "Perseverance" arrives on Mars to look for traces of alien life.
On Thursday night, the US space agency NASA landed a new rover, Perseverance, on Mars. The rover's main task will be to search for traces of bacterial life on the Red Planet. Scientists are sure that if there was once life on Mars, it falls from 3 to 4 billion years ago when there was still water on the planet. Perseverance is the third spacecraft to arrive on Mars in the past month: earlier robots from the UAE and China entered its orbit. All three missions left the Earth in July 2020.
"This is amazing," said the acting director. NASA chief Steve Yurczyk. The dispatch of the device took place in challenging conditions due to the pandemic and related precautions, he said, which only increases the joy of success.
Perseverance will serve as a scout for future rovers, Yurczyk said: the experience of a successful landing simplifies the task for the next missions.
Landing on Mars was a daunting task. Unlike the Moon, it has an atmosphere, which makes landing very difficult: only about 40% of such missions succeed.
The Atlas-5 launch vehicle with the American Perseverance (Perseverance or Perseverance) rover launched from the Cape Canaveral launch site in the United States on July 30, 2020. In six months, the spacecraft covered the distance from Earth to Mars of almost 500 million kilometers.
Before landing, Perseverance experienced "seven minutes of horror" – the time of transition from the upper atmosphere to the surface of the Red Planet. To do this, he dropped the speed from the second space (for Mars, it is about 20 thousand km / h) to the speed of a pedestrian. The rover is located at a distance of hundreds of millions of kilometers from us, which means that the signals transmitted by it reach the Earth with an almost 10-minute delay. If something went wrong at some point, it would be physically impossible to adjust the landing trajectory quickly.
The Jezero crater's satellite images, where the device landed, indicate that the now dried-up river once flowed into a vast lake there.
It is one of the best-preserved Martian deltas, where rivers have formed sediment layers from brought in rock debris, sand, and possibly organic hydrocarbons.
TikTok – How does it work?
The TikTok algorithms are subject to constant discoveries because of their uniqueness and innovativeness. They manage to capture peoples attention for at least 10 minutes after opening the app. While Instagram can not show off such results – only 3 minutes. This is a piece of strong evidence proving the great advantage given by recommendation algorithms rather than "like&follow" algorithms. So how do they work?
From the creator's point of view:
After the video is uploaded the TikTok analyzes every kind of content related to this video (images, videos, text, hashtags). Algorithms capable of doing that helps creators to popularize content by recommending it to the global audience based on their preferences. This is thanks to the technologies provided by Bytedance Corporation, the company that deals specifically with algorithms for video-platforms such as TikTok or its Chinese counterpart Douyin. As a rule, TikTok analyzes the duration of the video, hashtags, theme, music used, location, time of publishing etc.
From the user's point of view:
Each of these factors is individually considered by TikTok's For You recommendation system, which means that every For You page will be fully unique up to the interests of a particular user and his level of interest:
Users interaction: liked/shared videos, followed accounts, the comments you post, and the content you create.
Video you like/share information: This may include details such as captions, music and hashtags.
Device and account settings: language settings, country settings, and device type.
For instance, TikTok reveals that a strong indicator of interest may be long videos (up to 60 sec) watched be a user. This will be more significant than a weak indicator, for example, the viewer and video creator are in the same country. Videos on the page "For you" are classified according to these "indicators of interest" and on the probability of user interest in certain content.
Elon Musk announced the successful chipping of a monkey
In 2016, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the opening of Neuralink. It creates technology to connect the human brain to a computer, and it seems to be doing quite well. At the end of 2020, the company "chipped" a pig and was able to monitor its brain activity using a computer. In this case, the animal felt well, which means that at least this technology does not harm pigs. Recently it turned out that the company Neuralink went further and was able to install the chip in the brain of a monkey.
According to Elon Musk, the animal feels great and thanks to the technology can play video games with its mind and even turn on the TV. In the future, the company wants to insert the chip into the head of another individual and make it possible for monkeys to compete with each other in virtual tennis. About the chipped monkey told Bloomberg edition, citing the words of Elon Musk. The entrepreneur shared the news about Neuralink during a conversation inside the social network Clubhouse. During the conference, Elon Musk was asked about the latest developments at Neuralink. The entrepreneur replied that they have a monkey with a wireless implant in its skull that can play video games with its mind. According to him, the chip is virtually invisible.
At the moment, there are no pictures or videos of the Neuralink monkey, but they should appear in the coming months. It is unlikely that the company has been able to improve the technology much in such a short time. The company wants to implant the chip into the brain using a laser. But at the moment, this requires surgery. But human involvement, in this case, is no longer necessary because all the necessary actions can be performed by a robotic surgeon. It was also shown at last year's presentation, but not as much time was dedicated to its introduction as we would have liked.
For now, we can say that it is human-sized and quite accurate – otherwise, how would it be able to successfully perform brain surgery?
The Show-up Date of New AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT was Announced
According to Cowcotland, AMD company will introduce their new Radeon RX 6700 XT graphic card. It will become the first model on Navi 22 graphic core. This information confirms the previous leak that happened in January this year.
The graphic card is going to be the first model on a graphic core Navi 22, which is based on RDNA2 architecture. It is worth mentioning it is a middle-class processor, which is aimed to be used in gaming laptops too. In the general configuration, it has got 40 counting blocks, which is equal to 2560 streamed processors. It is predicted that RX 6700 XT will get a GPU in its general configuration, and RX 6700 will get a slightly cut variant.
It is known that RX 6700 XT will have 12Gb of GDDR6 memory and a 192-bit memory bus. This model is likely to compete with Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 12Gb, which is going to be presented 25-th of February. However, Nvidia is still the first in the graphic cards market top due to the number and variety of cards produced.
There is still no reliable information on the price of RX 6700 XT. However, Cowcotland information warns buyers about the difficulty they will face buying this graphic card due to a low production volume. It is better to choose something from Nvidia's arsenal, in case you need to get your card as soon as possible.
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Would You Tell Me If the Boat Is Sinking?
Posted on March 25, 2013 by Toby
Veronica Falls, Golden Grrrls and Brilliant Colors at the Tractor, Seattle | 21 March 2013
The Spring-time Slumberland traveling show stopped in Seattle last Thursday night. Veroncia Falls from London were the headliners and for good reason, their second album is no sophomore slump and adds some diversity by varying the tempos and adding a little more nuance in the form of some good old fashioned psychedelia to their jangling flying nun influenced pop. All of the leaves were reading that this would be great fun to see them play again. Too bad that it was kind of a disappointment. If the band would have just played it would have been a great show. They sounded great. The guitar and vocal interplay between Roxanne Clifford and James Hoare appeared to be in top form and everyone at the Tractor was grooving to it. The only thing was, the band weren't happy with it and quipped to the sound guy between nearly every song that something was wrong. First it was more vocals, then it was less vocals then it was move, then less, then something else. By that time it had became a joke to everyone in the audience and a huge distraction to an otherwise good show. Too bad. I have said this before here, and it applies to not only bands playing but anytime you are speaking, acting, or doing anything in front of an audience: don't dwell on the bad. Oftentimes you are the only one that notices. When you incessantly bring attention to it then you become the distraction/problem. People are paying to hear you play, you are professionals. If the sound is sub-par in your monitor deal with it and carry on.
stream: Veronica Falls – Teenage (from Waiting For Something to Happen out on Slumberland)
Glasgow's Golden Grrrls on the other hand were a bundle of wide-eyed fun. They obviously have drank at the K fountain. Beat Happening, Lois and Tiger Trap all are obvious influences, and being Scottish I'm sure they've imbibed their fair share of Pastels and Vaselines records. So it was fun seeing them play in the fertile ground of where their indiepop roots were first mixed together (they played Olympia the night prior). The three piece band of two guitars and drums were ramshackle and sweet in their delivery. The sound of Golden Grrrls lo-fi indipop aesthetic is quite prevalent these days, but few do it this well and with this kind of enthusiasm.
stream: Golden Grrrls – We've Got… (From their self-titled album on Slumberland)
In the middle of the two British Isles bands was the Bay Area's Brilliant Colors. I remember the last time I saw them I was kind of impressed by how much they rocked out live. I continue to be impressed. Singer and guitarist Jess Scott has nack for writing noising melodic songs that seem to get new legs when the are played live.
stream: Brilliant Colors – I Was Born a Fantasist
All three bands had excellent merchandise for sale. Veroncia falls had CD versions of their second covers EP that coincided with the release of their album. Golden Grrrls had tour only 7-inch for sale and Brilliant Colors had an exclusive flexi for sale.
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FEXT Hobby - OWL ONE Armour
Saburo posted a topic in Toys
O.W.L. [Operations Weapons Laboratory] One Armour Review Manufacturer: FEXT Hobby Price: $45.00 USD Overview: The OWL One Armor is an add-on kit for the Bandai Hi-Metal R as well as the older Hi Metal line for VF-1 Valkyries. The design of the armour appears to be based of the custom built Thunder Hummer aka Thunder Hammer Hammer Modeled by Kouichi Hatakeyama that was featured in Model Graphix Magazine in October 2002 issue. Packaging: The OWL ONE comes packaged in a simple window box the same size as the Hi-Metal R box format. The box art is a photo of the armour and is the same across all the different version, the only differentiator is the text on the lower left of the box. The armour parts and armor display rack are laid out in 2 layer clear plastic clamshell, the instructions and sticker sheets are in plastic bag beneath the yellow cardboard backing. The display bay is bagged under the clamshells. Design: The armor has clean lines and has a good amount of detail for its size. It has 8 panel/covers that open to reveal the missile bays and slot in the arm armour to connect the missiles included with the Hi-Metal R. The hip mounted missiles are on a rotating joint so that can swivel vertically. A great feature FEXT Hobby added the back boosters is an integrated arm that swivels out to help lock the boosters in place to prevent the backpack from falling back on the figure. The armor does not hinder the range of motion of the most parts figure with the exception for the hips. The bracket that holds the front armor in place reduces the amount of outward angle of the hip joints. Details: The armour is molded in a bright white plastic with various parts of the armor, boosters, cannons, and missile tips molded in color with tampo printed markings on various parts of the armour. Build: Build quality is excellent, the plastic has a good and durable feel to it. I would put on par with the plastic quality of the Hi-Metal R line and top tier 3P TFs. Parts fit together nicely with just the right amount of friction to hold them together without being too difficult to take them apart. Fitment: The armour parts fit securely onto the VF-1 and held in place by friction tabs, while the shoulder armour snaps into place. The leg armour has a slight bit play when attached. There is a slot in the armour that appears to tab into the peg in the inner part of the leg of the VF-1 which I could not get to lock in. Accessories: The accessories vary based on what version of OWL ONE armour you have gotten, this can range from shields, missile and booster mounted cannons. Also included are sticker sheet for ranking emblems for the boosters, an armour display rack and display base. Summary: I am very impressed with the OWL ONE amour from FEXT Hobby, the quality and fitment of the armour is great add-on for Hi-Metal/Hi-Metal R VF-1. I like that for $45 USD FEXT Hobby included the display bay and armour display stand with the armour. On a side note the OWL ONE box weighs 670g about 1.5lbs. I am looking forward to FEXT Hobby's future releases and I hope they make a Low-Vis version of the OWL ONE Armour. Note: The chest piece of the OWL One armor will not fit onto the VE-1 Elint Seeker and VT-1 Super Ostrich due to their 2 seater canopy is larger than their single seat counter parts. Weapons and accessories list courtesy of @no3Ljm #000 (All White) - Regular Boosters #001 (Yellow Trim) - x2 Strike Cannons - x1 Shield #011 (Red Trim) - x1 Strike Cannon - 1x Shield #101 (Red Trim) - x2 Shields #102 (Brown Trim) - x2 Shield #102F (Brown Trim) - x2 Strike Cannons - x2 Big Missiles (2 Missiles Each) - x2 Gatling Guns on Forearm Armor #202 (Blue Trim) - x1 Strike Cannon - x1 Shield - x1 Big Missiles (2 Missiles Each) - x1 Gatling Gun on Forearm Armor #303 (Red Trim) - x1 Strike Cannon - x1 Big Missiles (2 Missiles Each) - x1 Gatling Gun on Forearm Armor
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Banshee's First Impressions of Macross 7!
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Listen To My Song!!! This ain't your daddy's Macross. Released in 1994 at the same time as Macross Plus, M7 is a bit of a departure from what has happened in the Macross productions that came before. Now what I'm going to do in this is no more plot summaries, at least not long ones. I'm going to split this up into the story, the characters, the mechs and misc. So here we go. First off, the story. As short as I can do this, the story takes place in the year 2045, five years after Macross Plus and thirty-five years after the end of the Space War in the first Macross series. The YF-19 prototype is now being mass-produced and is the VF-19 Excalibur, although the older VF-11 Thunderbolt still far outnumbers the -19 in the fleets of the UN Spacy. Instead of focusing on a single ship, Macross 7 is focused on the fleet of the same name. The colonization plan that we saw outlined in the last few episodes of SDF Macross and the launch of the first colony ship, SDF-2 Megaroad-01 in Flashback 2012, is expanded upon here. The Megaroad ships, which could only hold about 25,000 colonists, give or take, have been replaced with the New Macross-class ships, which can embark roughly a million colonists. The Macross 7 fleet in particular consists of the central colony ship City 7 and its escort battle carrier, Battle 7, seven main ships that fulfill different functions such as the recreation ship Riviera and the factory ship Three Star, and an entire flotilla of frigates and carriers to protect the fleet. This fleet is the seventh of the New Macross-class colonization fleets, as the name implies. We see some old standbys from SDF Macross show up here. Max Jenius is now the Fleet Captain of Macross 7 and the Captain of the Battle 7 carrier in particular. A funny little anecdote here: Max is 52 by the time Macross 7 starts but he looks like he's only in his thirties. The character designer explained it, I believe, by saying, "Growing old is a state of mind... and Max Jenius is a genius, so it's not an issue for him!" We also have Max's Zentradi wife Milia, who's basically his opposite number as the Mayor of the City 7 main colony module. She also doesn't look too much older but that has more to do with her Zentradi DNA than anything else. We also see the Zentradi advisor Exedore Folmo. Unfortunately we find out that not all is well with the Jenius family since we saw them last. Max and Milia's relationship has gotten to the point where they're pretty much separated and Milia's even wondering if it was the right thing for her to have gotten involved with Max. We're also introduced to all the new cast members as well. We have the rock band Fire Bomber, which consists of members Basara Nekki, Ray Lovelock, Veffidas Feaze and Max and Milia's youngest daughter Mylene Flare Jenius. There's ace pilot Gamlin Kizaki and the pilots of Diamond Force, and bridge operators Sally Ford and Miho Miho. Why her last name is the same as her first, I have no idea. Another little anecdote here: The long running joke about bridge bunnies continues here or, that is to say, that the ships in UN Spacy all seem to have a 90% female bridge staff. Har har. So the basic story of Macross 7 is that the fleet has been searching for an Earth-like planet to colonize for the past seven years until they encounter the Protodeviln and their Varauta army slaves. The Protodeviln need this energy called Spiritia to survive. It's never explicitly stated what Spiritia is but it seems to be some term for a person's lifeforce. The Varauta find the Macross 7 fleet and realize that the people onboard can regenerate their Spiritia, so they decide to make a kind of farm out of the citizens of Macross 7. However, some people like main character Basara Nekki, produce a kind of Spiritia called Anima Spiritia that Varauta mechs and the Protodeviln can't absorb. We eventually find out that the Protodeviln are responsible for the destruction of the ancient galactic Protoculture and the Macross 7 fleet takes the fight to the ice world where the Protodeviln are imprisoned. At the eleventh hour, Basara and Fire Bomber's music, enhanced by some nifty techno-wizardry is able to show the Protodeviln that they can produce Spiritia on their own, the destruction of the galaxy is averted, the day is saved, hooray! A simplistic take but Macross 7 is still the longest Macross series so far at 49 episodes so I didn't want to make this too long. Now, as I said at the beginning of this entry, this ain't your daddy or your grandaddy's Macross. Though plot points from the previous productions are filled in, Macross 7 has a style that is definitely all its own. The overarching story could lag at times but there were many episodes with a lot of character development that made up for this. The concept that music is a form of (possibly psychic; they're very vague on this point) energy and can be used to bring understanding and an end to conflict may seem pretty far fetched even in a sci-fi setting but it is one of the primary themes of Macross, just taken to a new level here. Personally, I feel that when stacked up against the other Macross productions it doesn't really jive but that's a minor gripe at best. I liked how they showed that after 35 years, Max and Milia are experiencing a lot of relationship problems. It even gets to the point where you think Milia at least just doesn't love Max at all anymore and then it slowly starts to change, starting with an episode where Mylene gets her parents to sit together at one of her concerts. By the end of the series they're not back together but I believe they've pretty much fallen back in love with each other, which is nice because, even with the bad knife fight and the almost instantaneous wedding in SDF Macross, I liked Max and Milia's relationship and was glad that they reached an understanding at the end of Mac7. No Macross show would be complete without some kind of love triangle but the one in this show is kinda weird. It could even be said that there are two triangles in the show. First of all there's the "triangle" with Basara, Mylene and the Diamond Force pilot Gamlin Kizaki. I put "triangle" in quotes because I really don't know if this qualifies. Mylene is set up with Gamlin because Milia wants Mylene to marry him. She eventually develops feelings for Gamlin BUT she also has a crush on Basara. Basara for his part really doesn't give a damn. As far as he's concerned she's a kid (which she is). But having all that said up, nothing really happens. Mylene waffles between Basara and Gamlin, Gamlin kinda-sorta-awkwardly proposes to Mylene which she doesn't say anything about. Considering the triangle between Hikaru Ichijo, Misa Hayase and Lynn Minmay in SDF Macross, this doesn't quite measure up. In my opinion, the actual triangle with more punch should have been between Basara, the Protodeviln banshee Sivil and the Protodeviln Gigile. Why? Well because the sexual desire that Sivil has for Basara could be cut with a chainsaw! And Gigile is so devoted to her that he actually betrays the other Protodeviln. He even ends up sacrificing his own life to prevent Basara and Sivil from being killed. You know what? I'm going to declare it right here: Basara should have ended up with Sivil at the end of the series. One part of the story that was well done was when they discover a sunken Protoculture instalation/temple thing. The murals inside reveal a lot of what happened to the Protoculture, which was never explained in SDF Macross. One of the best touches was that to access a holographic data cache, Mylene's blood (she had got cut on the arm earlier) which is half-human and half-Zentradi opens the cache. Seems some of the Protoculture thought that their creations might meet in the future! Basically the story that is revealed by the murals and the Protoculture AI is that the Protoculture had an ancient galactic republic and they were peaceful... UNTIL (you knew there had to be a but or an until in there right?) some of the Protoculture dissented from the rest and formed the Supervision Army. The Protoculture genetically engineered the giant Zentradi warriors to fight in this war and then, as most people probably would, created even more powerful bio-weapon creatures. But then (and I might be messing this part up) either some Protoculture drew the Protodeviln into our universe or they just showed up, but the Protodeviln posses the bio-weapon creatures and pretty much trash the Protoculture completely. But just before the Macross 7 crew can find out how the remnants of the Protoculture imprisoned the Protodeviln, they attack and destroy the installation. Figures. Overall the story was enjoyable enough to keep me going to the last episode. And it's unusual but somewhat satisfying to see the villain of the series get a happy ending whereas usually they are slain by the hero. There are some aspects though which lessened my enjoyment of the series, mainly that with a lot more focus on the music and the "power" of music, there isn't as much of the high-flying adventure or space opera as there was in other Macross shows. Now to the characters. Basara is likable enough as a hot-blooded rocker and Valkyrie pilot but he can be a jerk a lot of the time. He also doesn't have a lot of dramatic change in the series. When you look at what Hikaru went through originally, especially with Roy dying, not too much happens to Basara and he's pretty much the same character throughout the whole series. This would certainly be a big minus if the series was plotted differently, but the way Macross 7 is, it's thankfully minor. Mylene can be likable enough but she just doesn't quite do it for me the same way characters like Minmay, Misa, Ranka or Sheryl do. Also the sexualization of Mylene, especially in a lot of the end credits can be kinda disturbing when you remember that she's supposed to be 14. I ain't a Pedobear dammit! Ray, I think, actually gets some more character development than Basara does, in that we learn he was once a special forces pilot that made a bad call that got his wingman killed. Ray almost became a hopeless drunken loser until he met Basara and started a band with him. Veffidas the Meltrandi drummer is mysterious. We never learn much about her and she doesn't talk much at all except to say mysteriously profound things. Also, her habit of drumming on EVERYTHING can get a little annoying. Gamlin is one of the best characters of the series and I would actually rate him a little higher than Basara inasmuch as he starts off the series as a by-the-book pilot with an iron rod up his butt and later mellows out some, falls in love with Mylene and gains a belief in Basara's music. He grows as a character. His old boss Lt. Kinryu gets points and a mention simply by being a pimp and dating Sally and Miho at the same time, something that the ladies in question don't mind one bit! (Which really makes me wonder about those two... you know what? better not go there.) Dr. Chiba gets a mention as a creepy Minmay fanboy and being the resident Egon Spengler of the fleet. I already mentioned Max and Milia and as another thing concerning them, I would have liked more info on their family. They have eight daughters (7 natural, 1 adopted) but we barely know anything about them. We know Moaramia was adopted and is a pure-blood Zentradi, Milia almost died giving birth to Miracle, Komilia was the first Zentradi/human hybrid, and Mylene and Emilia are singers, but that's about it. What about the twins Muse and Therese? What about Miranda? Where are the rest of the Jenius daughters during Macross 7 (besides Emilia, who we'll get to in the Mac7 movie)? Also, Max proves that he's still the best pilot in the fleet, even at 52, by doing his own version of the Death Star trench run and Milia also kicks butt in a (by then vintage) VF-1J. I also felt sorry for the un-named Flower Girl. She only could get that bouquet to Basara right at the very end! And Colonel Barton gets the award for being the military #$^&wad of the show. The rest of the secondary and background characters on the fleet, like Rex and her biker gang, Sally and Miho and others all look like they have a story to tell, but don't get a chance because Fire Bomber's in the spotlight with others. There's also the Protodeviln villains. The head boss man Gepelnitch might be a little confused as to whether he's a man or a woman (joke joke) but it's pretty obvious that if anyone interferes with his plans he'll kill them and not even blink. Funnily enough I think he's the only villian that I know of that gets a happy ending. Gigile was kind of annoying at first but he grows on you and its kind of touching how he sacrifices himself and betrays the other Protodeviln to save Basara and Sivil, especially when you're not entirely sure if she returns his feelings. Sivil herself was kinda cool, mostly for being a hot alien chick but for being the first of the Protodeviln to realize that something more can be had from the hapless humans than Spiritia. The long and short of it is that I think she goes from being creepy alien seductress/vampire to actually falling in love with Basara (and if I had my way she would have stayed with him in the end. Check it.) As for the other Protodeviln there's not much to say. Except for those two really annoying twins. I WANT THEM TO ROAST ETERNALLY ON THE SPITS OF A FLAMING HELL!!!!!!!!! And they were only in five episodes or so. Think about that. Now there are some cool mechs in this show but unfortunately they are seriously underused. I don't know what the exact reason is but most of the fights between UN Spacy and Varauta variable fighters largely consist of stock footage for at least the majority of 2/3 of the show. You have the VF-11C Thunderbolt, which is the old workhorse and looks cool but is made completely useless. Seriously, the way the Thunderbolts are depicted in this series they seem even more fragile and useless than TIE Fighters! And even with other designs like the F-117 inspired VF-17 Nightmare and the mass-production VF-19 Excaliburs and the Sound Force custom VFs all mostly operate on stock footage. One of the rare exceptions ar Max and Milia's VF-22S Sturmvogel II planes. If you've seen Macross Plus, you'll recognize that the VF-22S is the re-tooled YF-21. Even though the YF-19 won the competition and was mass-produced, the YF-21 was adopted by SpecOps and was produced in limited numbers as the Sturmvogel. Milia only gets to fly hers at the very end but she's still brilliant and Max pulls of the most awesome Death Star Trench, as I said. The Varauta mechs look nice enough but don't really float my boat. *sigh* It's just such a pity that almost all the combat footage is stock. that is one place where this series truly fails. There is one fun scene in an episode where Mayor Milia throws a festival and asks the citezins to donate their privately owned Valkyries/battroids for "exhibits." Actually it's a little plan for her to find some good pilot candidates after City 7 becomes separated from the rest of the fleet, but results in hilarity when some old farts bring a Monster mk. II Destroid and try to use its quadruple cannons, which results in devastation. They really should have known better to fire warship-killing cannons near a city! Last thing to talk about is the misc. which means music in this case. And quite appropriate because music is a VERY big thing in Macross 7. The one unusual thing though is that Mac7 has no score. Instead the entire soundtrack is Fire Bomber songs. This is good and bad because while Fire Bomber's songs (featuring the vocal talents of Japanese Rock god Yoshiki Fukuyama) are early 90s rock and very catchy, some of them, like Charging Love Heart and Planet Dance get way overused while other gems, like Diamond Calling, barely get used at all. Also, I don't think that Mylene's singing voice, Chie Kajiura, doesn't actually sink up well with Fukuyama. They're still worth a listen and be honest, nothing matches up with space fighters charging into battle quite like rock. Here's some of Fire Bomber's songs. A burning, passionate heart and a sound more explosive than missiles!! FIRE BOMBER! In the final analysis, I don't think Mac7 is the strongest entry in the Macross franchise but despite the fact that it can seem like Power Rangers meets Star Wars, it's a Macross series at the core and is worth a watch both on its own and as part of the franchise itself. On the MAHQ scale it gets 3 1/2 stars. BOMBA!!!!


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Q: Rearranging a data frame from row id to column id Lets say I have a data frame created as
id <- c("a","b","c","d","e","f")
a <- c(6,4,3,6,4,9)
b <- c(8,5,2,9,0,1)

df <- cbind.data.frame(id,a,b)

which gives the output as
   id x y
1  a 6 8
2  b 4 5
3  c 3 2
4  d 6 9
5  e 4 0
6  f 9 1

This is of course a smaller reproducible version of my actual problem. In my actual scenario I have created a data frame from multiple .xlsx files in the following manner
files <- list.files(path = "Discharge", pattern = "*_SUMQH.xls", full.names = T)

strm_data <- sapply(files, read_xlsx, simplify=FALSE) %>%
  bind_rows(.id = "id")

strm_data <- as.data.frame(strm_data[,-(7:19)])
strm_data <- na.omit(strm_data)

row.names(strm_data) <- NULL

What I want is to arrange the data frame in the following manner
  id x y  id x y id x y id x y  id x y id x y
1 a  6 8  b  4 5  c 3 2 d  6 9  e  4 0  f 9 1

A: Try the base R code below, using cbind + split
> do.call(cbind, unname(split(df, 1:nrow(df))))
  id a b id a b id a b id a b id a b id a b
1  a 6 8  b 4 5  c 3 2  d 6 9  e 4 0  f 9 1

A: Here is really basic solution:
cbind(df[1,], df[2,], df[3,], df[4,], df[5,], df[6,])

Output:
  id x y id x y id x y id x y id x y id x y
1  a 6 8  b 4 5  c 3 2  d 6 9  e 4 0  f 9 1

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Peter Mertens (born 17 December 1969) is a Belgian politician who led the Workers' Party of Belgium from 2008 to 2021. He has served as a member of the Chamber of Representatives since 2019, and as a municipal councilor in Antwerp since 2013.

Youth
Mertens was born in Antwerp. In 1987, when he was 18 years old, he founded the Studenten tegen Racisme (Students against Racism, SteR) with fellow UFSIA student Marc Spruyt. Four years later, when he was studying sociology at Ghent University, he led a student protest movement against the Gulf War. At this time he joined the youth organisation of the Workers' Party of Belgium, the Marxistisch-Leninistische Beweging (Marxist–Leninist Movement, MLB). With this organisation he was also present at a wide range of student activities, like the solidarity campaign with the workers of the shipyard Boelwerf in Temse, which was threatened with closure. In 1994 Mertens became the president of the MLB, which then participated in the strike movement against proposed reforms by the Minister of Higher Education in the government of the French community, Michel Lebrun.

Mertens obtained his licentiate in sociology in 1998 and started working as a temporary employee (interim work). For a year and a half he worked as a labourer for industrial cleaning firms and subcontractors in the Port of Ghent.

Politician
In 1995 the 5th party congress of the PVDA-PTB took place and Peter Mertens was elected to the National Council of the party. He left his position as president at the youth movement in 1998 and became political secretary in the party branch of the province of Antwerp. In 2002, at the 7th party congress, Mertens was elected to the party bureau. Another four years later he became responsible for the daily management of the party.

In 2007, the Workers' Party of Belgium started its Renewal Congress, which gathered 460 delegates. At the closing session on 2 March 2008, Mertens was elected as the successor of then party chairman Ludo Martens, who was having serious health problems. Almost immediately, he began to expand the party's reach to a wider audience. Mertens declared in the Dutch language newspaper De Morgen that his party would leave behind its pedantic attitude and the big theories. As chairman, he announced his intention to rethink the position of the party in accordance with the decisions taken at the congress, in the process turning his back on Maoism and Stalinism. To present the new vision and direction of the party he wrote the book Op Mensenmaat (On a human scale). Its successor, Hoe durven ze? (How dare they?), appeared in December 2011 and became an instant hit. After half a year 17.000 copies were sold and in 2012 Mertens received the Jaap Kruithof Prize for this work.

At the local elections of 2012 he was on top of the list for the municipal election in the city of Antwerp and was elected with 8.976 preference votes. This made him the fourth most popular politician in Antwerp, behind Bart De Wever, Patrick Janssens and Filip Dewinter.

In 2014, Mertens led the Antwerp list for the Belgian Chamber of Representatives. With 26.010 preferential votes and a result of 4.5 percent in the constituency of Antwerp, he narrowly failed to reach the electoral threshold. At the same elections, however, the Workers' Party of Belgium for the first time had members elected to the Belgian Federal Parliament: Raoul Hedebouw and Marco Van Hees.

In 2016, he distanced himself from his predecessor Ludo Martens who used to praise Joseph Stalin.

In the 2018 municipal elections, Mertens was re-elected as a municipal councillor with 11.842 preferential votes.

In the 2019 federal elections, Mertens was the lead candidate on the Workers' Party of Belgium list for the constituency of Antwerp and won a seat in Belgian Chamber of Representatives. He received 46.802 preferential votes, ranking him 12th nationally for the Chamber. He became the first Dutch-speaking Marxist in the Federal Parliament since 1981.

Bibliography
De Belgische vakverenigingen tijdens en na de Tweede Wereldoorlog (The Belgian workers' unions during and after World War 2, Gent, 1993)
Het fascisme gisteren en vandaag (Fascism yesterday and today, EPO, 2000) Herwig Lerouge, Peter Mertens e.a.
De arbeidersklasse in het tijdperk van de transnationale ondernemingen (The proletariat in the age of transnational corporations, Imast, 2006)
Op Mensenmaat (Stof voor een socialisme zonder blauwe plekken), (On a human scale, EPO, 2009)
Hoe durven ze? (De euro, de crisis en de grote hold-up) (How dare they?, EPO, 2011)
Graailand (Het leven boven onze stand) (Grabland, EPO, 2016)
Ze zijn ons vergeten · De werkende klasse, de zorg en de crisis die komt (EPO, 2020)

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1969 births
Living people
Flemish politicians
Workers' Party of Belgium politicians
University of Antwerp alumni
21st-century Belgian politicians
Members of the Chamber of Representatives (Belgium)

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CEO scared as Saudi Aramco Plans $300 billion investment in Oilfields
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Saudi Aramco plans what could be the world's biggest initial public offering, will invest more than $300 billion over the next decade to maintain its spare oil-production capacity and explore for more natural gas, President and Chief Executive Officer Amin Nasser said.
The outlook for oil supplies is "increasingly worrying," with about $1 trillion in investments lost during the current industry downturn and fewer new deposits being discovered, Nasser said at a conference in Istanbul. Some estimates suggest that at least 20 million barrels a day of new output is needed over the next five years to offset rising oil demand and the natural decline of developed fields, he said Monday.
"There seems to be a growing belief that the world can prematurely disengage from proven and reliable energy sources like oil and gas, on the mistaken assumption that alternatives will be rapidly deployed," Nasser said in a speech. The petroleum industry will be at the heart of global energy for years, and the transition to use of alternatives will be "long and complex,' he said.
He shared his concerns that not enough investment will be made in oil and gas in the long term due to social pressures, regulatory pressures and the move towards cleaner technology while Speaking at the World Energy Congress in Istanbul
The state-run company known formally as Saudi Arabian Oil Co., the world's biggest oil exporter, boosted production to an annual record last year before the kingdom led the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and other producers to curb output to stem a global glut. Aramco is also at the heart of the nation's long-term strategy to wean its economy off oil. The government plans to sell about 5 percent of the company in 2018 in what could be a record IPO.
Current oil prices won't affect the company's decision for a planned share sale, Nasser told reporters at the conference. Brent crude, the international benchmark, has slid 19 percent this year and was 45 cents lower at $46.26 a barrel at 12:14 p.m. in London.
"Financial investors are shying away from making much needed large investments in oil exploration, long-term development, and the related infrastructure," Nasser said in his speech, putting part of the blame on what he said were "misleading arguments about peak oil demand and stranded resources."
The volume of conventional oil discovered around the world over the past four years, for example, is down more than 50 percent from the previous four years, he said.
Shale Oil effects
"Investments in smaller increments such as shale oil will just not cut it. Yet without those higher investment levels, the energy transition — and therefore energy security — may be fatally compromised."
Aramco plans to spend $300 billion on projects over the next 10 years to maintain its spare oil production capacity, the biggest by far in OPEC, and boost exploration and output of conventional and unconventional gas, Nasser said writes Bloomberg.
"Three hundred billion dollars over 10 years is a strong statement for Saudi Aramco, especially against the backdrop of the current oil environment which has strained the Saudi budget," said Will Hares, an energy analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence in London. "This may form a response to its concerns of a long-term supply deficit resulting from under-investment in the industry since 2014."
Global energy needs amount to approx. 280 millions barrels of oil and 80 percent comes from fossil fuels, says Nasser
Aramco's capital investment program last year was its biggest ever, he said, without specifying what it spent. The company is looking to invest in new offshore oil projects, pending approval by the board, and it isn't planning to increase production capacity with new projects but rather to maintain current oil output, he said.
Aramco plans to double its production of gas resources to 23 billion cubic feet a day over the coming decade, Nasser said. The forecast increase will raise the share of gas in the kingdom's utilities to about 70 percent, the "highest of any G20 nation," he said.
Apart from Saudi Aramco Plans $300 billion investment in Oilfields, Saudi Arabia is also committed to developing solar energy and other renewable sources, and the economic restructuring strategy foresees the nation's becoming "nothing less than a solar powerhouse," he said.
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Close conceptual similarity may mean confusion cannot be ruled out, opines Désirée Fields. O/337/19, BLACK SHEEP (Opposition), UK IPO, 13th June 2019.
O/337/19, BLACK SHEEP (Opposition), UK IPO, 13th June 2019
In June 2018, Black Sheep Brewery Plc (the Applicant) applied for BLACK SHEEP as a UK trade mark in respect of alcoholic beverages in class 33. Baron Phillipe De Rothschild S.A (the Opponent), proprietor of UK trade mark MOUTON CADET (meaning "young sheep"), opposed the application under s5(2)(b) and 5(3) of the Trade Marks Act 1994, arguing that: (i) the mark applied for would cause likelihood of confusion with its own mark; and (ii) the use of the mark applied for would take unfair advantage of or be detrimental to the distinctive character or repute of the earlier mark.
The Hearing Officer (HO) found that there were two relevant categories of average consumers: French speakers and non-French speakers. There was no visual or aural similarity between the parties' marks, meaning that the main point of contention was conceptual similarity. For non-French speakers, the only potential connection between the BLACK SHEEP and MOUTON CADET marks was the association of "mouton" with the English word "mutton". However, having identified the words as foreign, it was deemed unlikely that an individual would try to make associations with similar-sounding English words. Accordingly, there was no likelihood of confusion between the two marks for non-French-speaking consumers.
Despite the similarities in the literal meaning of each mark, the same conclusion was reached regarding French-speaking consumers. The proportion of French speakers capable of translating the Opponent's mark was deemed insufficient and, for those that were capable of translation, the lack of visual similarity between the marks and the dual meaning of "black sheep" meant that it was unlikely that they would mistakenly recall one brand in place of the other. The possibility of indirect confusion (acknowledging the differences between the two brands but assuming, due to similarity, that the marks have originated from economically linked undertakings) was also dismissed since "neither mark is a logical extension of the other".
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The lack of any similarity between the respective parties' marks meant that the case under s5(3) fell at the first hurdle regarding non-French-speaking consumers. For French speakers, the lack of any aural or visual similarity between the marks and the limited conceptual similarity suggested that the relevant public would still be unable to make a link in their minds. Accordingly, the opposition failed in its entirety.
While here there was insufficient conceptual similarity between the English-language mark applied for and the earlier foreign-language mark, it is not difficult to imagine a situation where the literal meaning of two marks is more closely aligned. The reasoning of the HO suggests that even if an earlier mark is in a language that is not spoken by the majority of the relevant public, conceptual similarities and a likelihood of confusion may still be found.
Where there is potential conflict between two trade marks, one of which is in a foreign language, the likelihood of confusion between these marks must be assessed in relation to both those who do and those who do not speak that foreign language
It is possible to find a likelihood of confusion between an English language mark and foreign language mark if they are conceptually identical or similar. However, a global assessment between the two marks must still be carried out
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Eaten, Barely Blogged: Shrimp Heads, Downtown Ramen, Bitters-Free Manhattans
Allswell. Being open till 11pm is not late night dining, not
in NYC anyway, and it's always bothered me, especially on weeknights when maybe
you want to go out to eat at 10:45pm and the pickings are beyond slim. Allswell serves real food until 3am, not
whole menu, but it's something. These
hyper-crispy head-on shrimp in a Meyer lemon sauce and duck rillettes were
pre-midnight, normal menu items. The burger, fat and meaty (with cheddar and
bacon, both add-ons) and perfectly pink inside, can be had any time. The fries
were an abomination, though, if you hate wet and oily thick-cut fries like I
do. Steak fries are the bane of my existence. That's the worst part about pub
burgers, which this appears to be emulating. Bring a friend who likes fat, mushy fries (they
exist!) and let them go wild.
Ganso. With ramen I often give the same disclaimer I use
with barbecue: I'm neither a fanatic or expert. Obviously, I like both and have
opinions, but I can't speak to what a broth's correct flavor should be or the
specific pH of mineral water needed to produce the ultimate noodles. Frankly, I
just like that there is a ramen shop in that odd pocket of downtown Brooklyn
near the IHOP. The short rib buns weren't anything remarkable, and a little
mesclun-y (I did not try the short rib ramen pictured, but love the idea that
each broth receives a different noodle, subtle and thoughtful) but the spicy
miso ramen with thinly sliced pork belly, Chinese broccoli and a soft-boiled,
soy-infused egg was winsome, if not a little gut-busting (I always find that
Asian noodle soups of this size put me into a coma). I will be even more happy
about Ganso being there when it becomes cold enough to better appreciate the
ramen's warming and filling properties.
Mayflower. A miniscule moderately new bar affiliated with neighboring
Aita, a corner Italian restaurant I may never visit because I rarely eat
Italian food (unless you count pizza). Some might call it a speakeasy (signage
was recently added). Jonathan Ames was there on a date, at least I think so, I
don't like staring at people. The bartenders (who can get overwhelmed when at
capacity) are weird about bitters: on one visit none were used in a Manhattan,
on the other I was asked whether or not I wanted them used. Would it
be too hyperbolic to say that a Manhattan without bitters is not a Manhattan? Still like the place.
Wallace. Along with Prospect, it's one of two new upscale restaurants to open
on Fulton Street. I figured I should try one of them, and the main reason The
Wallace won out because it was slightly less expensive (entrees in the low $20s
vs. high $20s–now that I live in new shiny condo, no complaints, I'm going
broke buying things like shades for ten-foot-high windows). There's nothing
radical going on, food-wise or with the decor (one might get the impression
this was another tin ceilings, Edison bulb joint, but the interior is oddly
generic like it could've been a suburban Italian restaurant in a previous
life–ok, it was Caribbean) just solid, well-seasoned New American dishes with French
foundations like crispy pork belly on a bed of lentils with braised greens, the
latter an unexpected slight Southern twist, and tilefish with a potato gratin and
beurre blanc tinged with saffron. Manhattans are on the cocktail list and bitters are used, no question.
Il Porto. When I was assigned to review this Italian/pizza
place for nymag.com after it opened a few years ago, I thought it was in the
middle of nowhere. I guess it still is, though now that I live down the street and
that the scary-seeming (not just to me) Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge has been
gutted and looks like any generic storefront for sale, the block seems less
isolated and off-putting. With that said, it's not a destination unless you're
already in Fort Greene or Clinton Hill. The wood-fired pizza is pretty good
(arugula, prosciutto and parmesan is popular) though the floury, barely charred
and nearly flaky crust that I happen to like probably isn't the pinnacle of
Neapolitan pie-making.
Arby's Brooklyn
What? So soon. I can't believe an Arby's couldn't make it on the Fulton Mall. (8/12/10)
Some restaurant openings garner more fanfare than others. This week we had Colicchio & Sons, Carteles and Village Tart. But Brooklyn's first Arby's was the only newcomer that spurred me into action.
Their decision to take over the Gage & Tollner space (previously occupied by a short lived T.G.I. Friday's) brought out Brooklyn's finest NIMBYism even though Arby's had to hew to historical preservation standards. No such considerations were given in 2005 when Niederstein's, Queens' oldest restaurant, was flat out razed for an Arby's, oddly enough. Brooklyn has higher sense of self worth it seems.
The end result being what might be the world's classiest Arby's. Spacious, with enough detailed dark wood, patina'd mirrors and near-steampunky light fixtures to be the envy every prefab speakeasy in the city. On day four, everything was still tidy, the staff uncharacteristically upbeat and polite for any fast food joint, suspiciously so for one in Brooklyn. If you do as directed by the sign behind the bell at the original revolving doors, "If your service was GREAT, please ring the bell," the workers break into a song-cheer. This is so totally ripe for abuse.
I'm fairly certain that I have not eaten at an Arby's since I was in high school. Freshman year I'd get a Beef 'n Cheddar and a Jamocha shake multiple times per week. The menu now includes salads, gyros, deli sandwiches and "Sidekickers" like southwestern egg rolls and mozzarella sticks. The core roast beef sandwiches now come in three sizes.
This was a regular. Ok, the Beef 'n Cheddar fills a similar void as Taco Bell, a fun facsimile that can become crave-worthy in its own right. If you want a real roast beef sandwich (I'm picturing Baltimore-style pit beef) Arby's will not please you. The meat is thin and salty like Land 'O Frost (I don't think that brand exists in NYC) and the cheddar is orange and warm like nacho cheese. I happen to love processed cheese in all forms: plastic-wrapped, in a jar, spray can or foil-covered block.
In my day we had Horsey Sauce and Arby's Sauce, a.k.a. sweet bbq in packets. That was all. Like someone who awakes from a twenty-year coma to givens like cell phones and thongs being standard underwear for women, I was dazzled by the condiment bar with self-pump service. Spicy Three Pepper Sauce? What else have I been missing out on?
Jalapeno Bites were new to me in this venue, but not new in the scheme of things. Poppers are right up there with crab Rangoon in my fried snack pantheon. These are served with a gooey candy apple red sauce called Bronco Berry. It's like sweet and sour.
Blogging has its privileges; a man who I suspect was the manager (green polo rather than red) brought me a vanilla shake when he saw me taking photos. My loyalties can absolutely be bought, and they come cheap.
Arby's * 372 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY
Chuck E. Cheese's
I don't even want to think about the E. coli factor in the place, you'd be insane to do the salad bar. Babies in diapers and nothing else were crawling all over tables, the air conditioning appeared to be nonexistent. I'm not a germ freak at all, but this was a serious breeding ground. I could imagine the strep and pink eye brewing in the already filthy kiddie habitrail (it had only been open seven days and already looked sticky and worn out). I didn't dare brave the bathrooms (though I entertained the notion of leaving a big, messy dump somewhere inside it and preferably not in the toilet).
The fact that adults with children are given a different hand stamp than the childless grown ups is telling. I couldn't figure out the logic at first, how would that keep anyone from kidnapping? I don't think nabbing kids is the fear so much as parents will taking off without their children. I'd certainly be tempted. But to be fair, I have to admit that despite the madhouse atmosphere, both kids and parents were in surprisingly good spirits. It was kind of shocking. I didn't witness any yelling, spanking, threatening to spank, or general rudeness from any grown ups, and I while I saw lots of wrestling, kicking and hitting, I didn't see or hear a single crying child, which is pretty miraculous. I guess they were having a good fucking time, and who can blame them? Their tagline is "where a kid can be a kid," after all.
What strikes me about experiences like this is the demographics, and how uniquely NYC it all is. I don't understand how white people know not to go there, and why black people do. There's always been a bit of the same at NYC area Red Lobsters too. Certainly, there arent any hard and fast rules, anyone can go anywhere, they just don't. It's not so much of a race thing as a culture issue, like there's a strata of people who think they're above chain restaurants (I'm fascinated by Trading Spouses. So far they're only swapped two moms, but both of the richer families eat out at Japanese restaurants, and shun carbs, of course. The lower income moms are freaked out by sushi [this has also been recently employed as a look-at-the-differences device on Amish in the City. The Amish, and of course, the one non-Amish black girl have never eaten sushi.] Low fat and exotic equal classy, didn't you know? Lowbrow people love fried food and starch! Heck, I do.) and taste tends to align with income and perceived notions about what they're supposed to enjoy and disdain. And high taste people have strong ideas about what's good for children, and Chuck E. Cheese's probably doesn't align with their values.
And its not a simple matter of people living closest to this Chuck E. Cheese's being black because that's not true at all. The Atlantic Terminal mall is in a part of Brooklyn that falls under Community District 2. That district includes a variety of neighborhoods: Brooklyn Heights, Fulton Mall, Boerum Hill, Fort Greene, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Fulton Ferry, Clinton Hill (I have no idea what Fulton Ferry is, I'm just going by what NYC Gov tells me). The composition of that district is: 34. 4% white, 40.5% black, and 16.8% Hispanic. The minor 6% white/black difference certainly isn't reflected by Chuck E. Cheese's clientele. So, where are all the white families going on Saturday nights? Probably somewhere precocious in my neighborhood. When it comes down to it, I think I prefer my children penned-up and concentrated in mall spaces.
No, its not video installation art. We managed to snag a few seconds on Chuck E. Cheeses creepy TV camera toy before hordes of tiny riff raff commandeered it again.
Chuck E. Cheese's * 139 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, NY
The first time I visited this Brooklyn institution was quite an experience.
I naively chose the smoking section at 1 am on a Friday night and ended up
being seated in thug central. O.k., I don't really know if the room was
filled with actual gangsters or not, but I felt pretty out of place. I was
most impressed with how the waitstaff left your half-smoked butt in the
ashtray when they dumped out the ashes. Classy. Clearly, they had been
reprimanded for tossing out still smokeable cigarettes before.
On my most recent visit at 5:30 on a Sunday it was a different scene
altogether–families galore and no apparent smoking section in sight. This
was o.k. too. The setting isn't as important as stuffing yourself to the
gills.
A reuben sandwich and side order of fries was just the ticket. But
Junior's is famous for their cheesecake so I couldn't leave without a slice.
However, I veered from the standards and opted for the black forest
cheesecake, which may not have been the wisest choice. It wasn't bad, but it
wasn't cheesecake. I'd liken the taste to a dense, creamy crunchberry a la
Captain Crunch. I suppose one should stick to the basics when it comes to
diner food. (11/19/00)
Junior's is fun. Though it was more fun when you could smoke in the back
room late at night surrounded by sketched-out characters. It sort of felt
like when you were in high school and would hang out smoking and drinking
coffee at Denny's because there wasn't anything better to do. Maybe the
cheesecake isn't what it used to be, but I'm no old-school Brooklynite, no
nostalgia for me. I just get a kick out of the place and the way it's
changed with the neighborhood. The cocktail menu (I love it when places
actually list choices of drinks) has this retro design, I think they've
re-branded themselves in a slightly knowing kitschy way, though it's by no
means a hip haunt. And there are things like sidecars and brandy Alexander
listed, but you know it's downtown Brooklyn by classics like sex on the
beach, screaming orgasm, and my favorite: thug passion. What the heck is in
a thug passion? I wonder what will happen to Junior's clientele when the new
T.G.I.Friday's opens down the street in the old Gage & Tollner space. Ghetto
mudslides will have to be concocted to keep up. (3/5/04)
I don't recall Junior's having bathroom attendants before. But then,
maybe I never used the facilities in the past. It's a weird bathroom scene
(and hardly the freshest smelling) for sure. Clearly the attendant is more
security guard than social marker. (1/29/05)
Junior's * 386
Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, NY


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Q: The Scutoid, a new shape The scutoid (Nature, Gizmodo, New Scientist, eurekalert) is a newly defined shape found in epithelial cells. It's a 5-prism with a truncated vertex.  The g6 format of the graph is KsP`?_HCoW?T .

They are apparently a building block for living creatures. One simple set of vertices that look reasonable with planar faces is {{2,4,0},{0,4,2},{0,2,4},{2,0,4},{4,0,2},{4,2,0},{1,3,6},{3,1,6},{6,6,2},{4,16,14}/3,{16,4,14}/3,{5,5,0}}.

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*Under what fixed parameters is the polyhedron a space-filler?

*If curved faces are allowed, are there more single-shape space-fillers?

*Is there a nice lattice representation with just a few different types of scutoid cells?

*What is the scutoid-building algorithm used by DNA?

Using code at Canonical Polyhedra, a canonical form looks like

A: The green-yellow pic of yours looks like being interested in a stacking of layers. Then you would require a vertex layer of pentagons and hexagons, which just flips from one layer to the next those 2 shapes. And the medial vertex layer in between would intersect those shapes in a tiling with pentagonal shapes only. - Neither of those is possible to be done by regular polygons only.
As an aside one might add so, that these shapes look like a hybrid mixture of a prism and a cupola, thereby replacing the medial vertex by the simplex spanned by the neighbouring vertices each. - Sure, that derived space-filling then no longer uses just a single cell type, but might be considered easier non the less, as there are no additional vertex layers in between.
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A: Partial answer only. According to mathematician Laura Taalman of James Madison University in her discussion after about 06:40 in the Standupmaths video THE SCUTOID: did scientists discover a new shape?, *it is not a polyhedron as it indeed has several curved faces.


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Where is Canada's answer to Rand Paul? - Macleans.ca
Where is Canada's answer to Rand Paul?
Rand Paul may be one of America's most divisive politicians, but he's leading the charge against the Patriot Act. Scott Gilmore on the lessons Canada can learn
by Scott Gilmore
U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) formally announces his candidacy for president during an event in Louisville, Kentucky, April 7, 2015. (John Sommers II/Reuters)
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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is arguably one of the most divisive politicians in America. From the left, he is often ridiculed for his relatively extreme libertarian and isolationist views. From the right, many of his fellow Republicans are frustrated by his reactionary Tea Party activism. Which is why it is so remarkable that, this week, he was instrumental in leading a rare display of bipartisanship: a cross-party revolt that appears to have derailed the long controversial, yet resilient, Patriot Act.
The legislation giving the U.S. government sweeping surveillance and security powers will expire at the end of May. Due to Paul's procedural wrangling, and eroding support within both the Democrat and Republican parties, an extension now appears to be almost impossible. Time is running out, and observers are doubting that enough votes can be found. Even though congressional leaders are reconvening legislators in a last-ditch effort to find a compromise, the National Security Agency (NSA) has already begun to shut down some of its domestic intelligence-gathering operations.
The Patriot Act was passed in 2001, while the ruins of the World Trade Centre still smouldered. Its invasive provisions reflected a post-9/11 America that was shocked and terrified. The public was more than willing to sacrifice privacy for safety. Although the act was widely criticized for permitting warrantless searches and the wholesale collection of telephone and Internet records, opinion polls by the Pew Research Center recorded that a majority of Americans still supported it, even a decade later.
Public attitudes have shifted recently, however. Last week, another Pew poll revealed that 65 per cent of Americans believe there are inadequate limits on "what telephone and Internet data the government can collect". Lawmakers of all ideologies are noticing a growing belief that American intelligence agencies have gone too far, which has given them encouragement to support Paul's previously lonely opposition to the Patriot Act.
There could be several reasons for this apparent sea change in public opinion. The lingering shock of 9/11 has faded; in lower Manhattan, the memorial was completed several years ago and the replacement Freedom Tower now dominates the skyline. American forces have withdrawn from Iraq and Afghanistan, giving hope to many that the "war on terror" is finally coming to an end, thus making the compromises of the legislation less necessary.
Related: Scott Gilmore on how heightened security will only increase our fears
But the most likely cause is the continuous stream of revelations that the U.S. government uses the Patriot Act to spy on the American public. The most prominent of these were provided by former NSA security contractor Edward Snowden. He disclosed that every single American was being spied upon, his or her digital life captured, analyzed and kept by intelligence agencies. But there were many other surprises, too. For example, the American Civil Liberties Union revealed that the FBI was helping police departments across the country to track local cellphones without warrants. A lengthy investigation by the Washington Post exposed that there are now more than 1,270 U.S. government agencies working on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence. Piece by piece, people have come to realize that a massive, and largely invisible, domestic security infrastructure has been built that seeks to protect Americans by spying on their every move.
The American public has clearly decided it is no longer willing to trade quite so much of its personal liberty in return for promises of greater security. And American politicians, on the left and right, are listening.
It is interesting to compare this transformation to what has happened in Canada. In February of this year, shortly after the terror attack on Parliament Hill, an Angus Reid poll found that 82 per cent of Canadians supported the Conservatives' proposed Bill C-51, which limits Charter rights and gives the government new powers to combat security threats. As time passed, and more information was revealed about the considerable extent of the bill, public support began to soften and some critics declared it "Canada's Patriot Act." When Liberal leader Justin Trudeau took the politically expedient decision to back the legislation, there was mockery from the NDP benches and grumbling within his own caucus. But a follow-up poll this week shows that 72 per cent still support it, "all things considered." Compared to Americans, Canadians are clearly not as troubled about their own privacy, and remain much more trusting of their government and security agencies.
Related: When will Canadians start caring about privacy?
In Canada, though, the public's opinions about legislation are not especially relevant, as they are almost always subservient to the perceived desires of the ruling party's base. Even if support for C-51 had collapsed (as some earlier polls suggested), it is impossible to envision members of Parliament breaking ranks, as Sen. Paul has done. Liberal and NDP MPs have an almost perfect record of voting with their leaders in the House of Commons; and the most independent-minded MP in the House, Conservative James Bezan, supported his caucus almost 99 per cent of the time.
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Good news for those who own the 03-07 125/250 bikes and are wanting that updated look. Looks like Pro Circuit has been developing a restyle kit that is to be released later this year. Btw, ignore the click bait title they used on the video.
WOW! VERY COOL! Thank you for posting that.
Yeah I'm sure it won't be cheap but I'd definitely pay for it if I had the right bike. The nice thing is they made it look like it came from the factory, no shortcuts or hack work.
for sure, i wonder if graphics for the 17 KXFs will work on the restyle kit?
They should, as far as I've seen the 16-18s are the same setup body wise.
Hmm. Doesn't go any faster, lose any weight or turn any better. No thanks. I actually like the stock look anyway.
I've been on this subforum for over ten years. I wish I had a dollar for every time I saw a post about "updated plastics" or similar. Maybe one of those people can now put his money where his mouth is and buy this kit.
very ugly on that bike imo.
Indeed. What really looks stupid is how far beyond the rear tire the fender sticks out. Not a good look overall.
anyone hear any updates on this? or was it bogus?
Not much flatter. Maybe a little bit.
I just can't see how one could say the spastic, monster energy plastered abomination looks better than the original 05 plastics and configuration. Incomprehensible.
I agree the 03-07 is one of the better looking gens. The seat is def quite a bit flatter. The angle on your picture makes your seat look flatter then it is.
What little difference there is could be attributed solely to seat foam.
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CCM in the News
Impulse Dynamics Expands Commercial Leadership Team
by Impulse Dynamics | Jul 19, 2021 | News and Events, Press Releases | 0 comments
MARLTON, N.J., July 19, 2021 — Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc., a company dedicated to improving the lives of people with heart failure (HF), today announced the appointment of Jason Spees to the position of President, Chief Commercial Officer. Spees, who will be based in the company's headquarters office in Marlton, N.J., brings nearly 20 years of commercial success in the medical device industry, most recently at Biotronik, where he implemented a new commercial strategy driving strong market share growth across all divisions. Prior to Biotronik, Jason was Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer for digital health and diagnostics company Preventice Solutions, and also served in commercial roles at Boston Scientific in cardiac rhythm management, interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, and diagnostics. Jason was also a captain in the United States Air Force and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Research and Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy with academic distinction, and holds a Master of Arts in Public Management – Finance from the University of Maryland.
"We are very pleased to be welcoming Jason to Impulse Dynamics," said Dr. Simos Kedikoglou, CEO of Impulse Dynamics. "Given the strong demand for CCM® therapy in the U.S. and abroad, his leadership and experience will be critical assets for Impulse Dynamics. Capitalizing on our global regulatory approvals and our supportive reimbursement, Jason will further build our commercial team and processes to drive strong business execution and help Team Impulse Dynamics reach the numerous heart failure patients that can benefit from CCM therapy in the U.S. and worldwide."
"Heart failure is a devastating disease, and it is exciting to be a part of getting the revolutionary Optimizer Smart technology to the heart failure patients that can benefit from the therapy, while also driving value for shareholders," said Spees. "Impulse Dynamics continues to gain momentum, and I am eager to help bring this breakthrough device to more patients in need of this therapeutic alternative."
CCM therapy is the first approach of its kind designed to improve contraction of the heart, potentially allowing more oxygen-rich blood to reach the body. This breakthrough technology can enhance the quality of life for patients who are no longer adequately responding to medications to manage their symptoms.
About Impulse Dynamics
Impulse Dynamics is dedicated to helping healthcare providers enhance the lives of people with heart failure by transforming how the condition is treated. The company is focused on delivering its proprietary CCM therapy, which is delivered by the company's Optimizer device, the CE-marked, and FDA-approved treatment verified to improve the quality of life for heart failure patients. CCM therapy is a safe, effective, and minimally invasive treatment option for many heart failure patients who otherwise have few effective options available to them.1 To learn more, visit www.ImpulseDynamics.com, or follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
This press release contains forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this press release are forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as ''may,'' ''will,'' ''should,'' ''expect,'' ''plan,'' ''anticipate,'' ''could,'' ''intend,'' ''target,'' ''project,'' ''contemplate,'' ''believe,'' ''estimate,'' ''predict,'' ''potential'' or ''continue'' or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions, although not all forward-looking statements contain these words. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning potential benefits of CCM therapy, and the absence of risks associated therewith; the ability for CCM therapy and our products to fill a significant unmet medical need for patients with heart failure; and the short-term and long-term benefits of the Optimizer and CCM therapy in patients with heart failure, as well as to the physicians treating those patients. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Other important factors that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those contemplated in this press release include, without limitation: the company's future research and development costs, capital requirements and the company's needs for additional financing; commercial success and market acceptance of CCM therapy; the company's ability to achieve and maintain adequate levels of coverage or reimbursement for Optimizer systems or any future products the company may seek to commercialize; competitive companies and technologies in the industry; the company's ability to expand its indications and develop and commercialize additional products and enhancements to its current products; the company's business model and strategic plans for its products, technologies and business, including its implementation thereof; the company's ability to expand, manage and maintain its direct sales and marketing organization; the company's ability to commercialize or obtain regulatory approvals for CCM therapy and its products, or the effect of delays in commercializing or obtaining regulatory approvals; FDA or other U.S. or foreign regulatory actions affecting us or the healthcare industry generally, including healthcare reform measures in the United States and international markets; the timing or likelihood of regulatory filings and approvals; and the company's ability to establish and maintain intellectual property protection for CCM therapy and products or avoid claims of infringement. The company does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements and expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the company's views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.
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