JIM LEHRER: The wrangling over health care reform resumed in earnest today in Congress. There was talk of possible progress on the Senate side, while House Democrats labored again to round up votes on their side.
NewsHour health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser has our lead story report.
BETTY ANN BOWSER, NewsHour Correspondent: The focus in the Senate remained on a bipartisan group of Finance Committee members who've worked in secret for weeks.
It was widely reported they're nearing a compromise that would discard key White House priorities: a government-run public option plan to compete with private insurance companies; and a mandate for large businesses to provide coverage for their employees.
The senators were also said to be talking about including an independent government commission that would have authority to set Medicare reimbursement rates and was considering taxes on so-called high-cost "Cadillac" health insurance plans.
Committee Chairman Max Baucus addressed that point as he headed into another round of talks.
SEN. MAX BAUCUS, D-Mont.: Senators like that, probably because it raises some revenue, but, second, it does bend the growth curve.
BETTY ANN BOWSER: Meanwhile, inside the Capitol, the Democratic caucus met to brief members on the status of negotiations. And at this point, there does not appear to be agreement.
One House Democrat opposing the bill, Michigan's Bart Stupak, said the logjam remains.
REP. BART STUPAK, D-Mich.: We have no bill.
BETTY ANN BOWSER: But the number-four Democrat in the house, John Larson of Connecticut, said there's reason for hope.
REP. JOHN LARSON, D-Conn.: I remain confident that we'll come to agreement and then be out about the business of making sure that we're able to sell this plan, as well.
BETTY ANN BOWSER: The dissension within Democratic ranks made it less and less likely the House will pass health care reform before the August recess. The Senate has already given up on that goal.
House Republicans argued today the impasse bolsters their claim that the Democrats' plan will fail because it costs too much.
REP. MIKE PENCE, R-Ind.: House Republicans and a handful of Democrats are on the verge of a historic victory for American taxpayers and for the American health care economy.
BETTY ANN BOWSER: President Obama continued making his case today at an AARP town hall meeting in Washington. He said again health care reform is crucial to Medicare's survival.
U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: As costs balloon, so does Medicare's budget. And unless we act within a decade, within a decade, the Medicare trust fund will be in the red.
Now, I want to be clear: I don't want to do anything that will stop you from getting the care you need, and I won't. But you know and I know that right now we spend a lot of money in our health care system that doesn't do a thing to improve people's health, and that has to stop.
BETTY ANN BOWSER: The president continues his health care campaign with two more town halls, tomorrow in Virginia and North Carolina.
JIM LEHRER: Judy Woodruff has more about one of the key questions: whether to include a public plan.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And for that, we turn to two people who've been closely watching this battle and making their case about this issue in their respective health care blogs.
Ezra Klein covers domestic and economic policy for the Washington Post and recently the American Prospect.
And Tevi Troy writes for the "Critical Condition" blog of the National Review. He served as deputy secretary of health and human services during the second Bush administration, and he's now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.
It's good to have both of you with us. We appreciate your being here.
Let's start out and just -- we know it's hypothetical. It hasn't come out of Congress. They're still negotiating. But, Ezra Klein, if there were a public plan, who would run it? How would it work? How would it be different from the private insurance many people are used to now?
EZRA KLEIN, Washington Post: Well, I wish I could answer it more clearly. There's as many different public plans as there are bills. Some would be national; some would be run by states; some would be triggered by certain conditions not being met, as if, in one condition, say, private insurers don't hold down costs and then in five years the public plan comes into being.
But the primary issue here would be the public plan would be a private insurer -- not a private insurance plan, an insurance plan run by the government, available only -- and this is important, and people don't know it -- on the health insurance exchanges, so available to those people who are able to buy into these sort of new regulated markets that are at the beginning really only available to the unemployed, small businesses, and the self-employed.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So when we ask who's eligible, you're saying the unemployed and who else?
EZRA KLEIN: Small businesses. Certainly, in the first couple of years, businesses under 10 or 20 people, the self-employed. But I work at the Washington Post. We're a large business. We get health care. I could not buy into the public plan, because I could not get into the health insurance exchange.
JUDY WOODRUFF: But eventually the idea would be to enlarge it? Is that right?
EZRA KLEIN: Some people have that idea, and others don't. I mean, it is not built into the bills that that would happen.
JUDY WOODRUFF: All right. Well, let me turn to you, Tevi Troy. How do you see -- what's your understanding of what a public plan would be?
TEVI TROY, National Review: Well, I agree with a lot of what Ezra said, especially that it's vague. We're not really clear on what it is. I also agree with Ezra that there would be limitations at first, but then it would expand. And I think long term you would see government taking over more and more of the system.
TEVI TROY: I think a Medicare model is likely. I think that something where you have the government as the payer, setting the rules, determining who's in and who's out, determining what coverage is available, and what products get covered, and I think that's an important point.
Ezra has said in the past that one of the biggest problems with the public plan is what it does to innovation. It could stifle innovation if government chooses what products make it forward and which don't.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Ezra Klein, do the proponents of the plan agree that it's what Tevi Troy just described?
EZRA KLEIN: No. I also haven't said what he just ascribed to me, so, putting that aside for a minute, there are a couple different theories of what the plan would be, but at the outset, the plan actually under consideration is one insurance option that will compete among many.
Tevi is correct that there are people out there who would like to see it grow, but it's very important to be clear about the mechanism here. The way a public plan would grow to be larger, grow to be like Medicare, which would be an incredible leap in growth, would be that it turns out to be cheaper and have higher quality than competing private insurance plans and people choose it.
The whole idea behind the public plan is that you can choose it and that, if it works well, it will either be a good choice for people or will force private insurers to compete more efficiently and more effectively for consumer dollars.
JUDY WOODRUFF: If the idea is that it's available to more people and one can choose it, then, Tevi Troy, tell me, what are the opponents -- what is it that they object to about the plan?
TEVI TROY: Well, of course, again, at first, perhaps people can choose it. And they are going to delimit it in certain ways at first, is the idea.
JUDY WOODRUFF: What do you mean "bleed into"? You mean because it's more attractive in terms of rates?
TEVI TROY: They find it more attractive because the government limits the costs and because it subsidizes it. So people bleed into the system. They switch from the private coverage to the public option, and more and more people enter the government plan. CBO has found something like 80 million people would engage in this crowd-out-type behavior.
JUDY WOODRUFF: All right, so now that we've heard some of the pluses and the minuses of what it might entail, Ezra Klein, who is in favor of it? And why are they in favor of it?
EZRA KLEIN: You know, The people you generally see pushing for it are not only Democrats, but consumer groups, folks who fundamentally believe that private insurance hasn't worked very well, that it's done too much to limit coverage, too much to price people out, too much to take health care away from people who needed it, too much to deny people who, you know, came in and had a pre-existing condition, people who fundamentally believe the system we have isn't working.
And one of the important things -- it was interesting seeing what the Senate Finance Committee may put out here, the employer mandate and the public plan, because, along with the employer mandate, the public plan is a wildly popular part of health care reform. People really like the idea of having one more insurance option among many, because in recent years you've had incredible insurance consolidation and most people just don't get much of a choice.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, let me -- I want to ask you about that in a minute.
But, Tevi Troy, the opponents, what do they not like about it?
TEVI TROY: Well, first of all, I'm not sure it's wildly popular, because on Capitol Hill a public plan does not appear to have the votes either in the Senate or the House to pass. So there are some questions about its popularity.
The opponents don't like the fact that it would be a government plan that is like Medicare, which is going to go bankrupt, as President Obama said in the set piece beforehand, in about 10 years. So it's extremely expensive. It could limit coverage.
It could lead to rationing. I mean, you can ration -- when you have limited resources, you can ration in only a certain number of ways. You can ration by line, which they do in Canada. You can ration by limiting products and availabilities, like they do in England. Or you can ration by price, which is for the most part what we do in the U.S.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Having said that, how confident are you that it's completely off the table? I mean, there are reports today that it's off the table, the negotiators aren't looking at it anymore, at least in the Senate.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And what are you hearing about it, Ezra Klein, in terms of where it stands?
EZRA KLEIN: Well, the Senate Finance negotiators aren't looking at it. It does exist in the Senate HELP plan, which was already passed out of committee, and it exists in the House bill, which has come out of two committees so far and is still working its way through Energy and Commerce.
So I don't think it's anywhere near off the table. In some ways, I'd be surprised if you don't have something called a public plan in the final legislation.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And in terms of the political state of play, where's the balance now? I mean, is it the Blue Dog Democrats? The more fiscally conservative Democrats, as we just heard in Betty Ann Bowser's report, have not been for this, but they might be willing to go along with it.
EZRA KLEIN: You know, they might. I met with Nancy Pelosi last week for an interview, and she said she feels the Blue Dog Democrats accept that it will be part of the final bill and are, you know, trying to work their way through what the final form should be.
So it's going to be very complicated to see. And one of the key questions that you have to ask right now is, who's going to have more votes and more power at the end of it? And many liberal Democrats, both in the House and the Senate, have sworn they will not vote for a plan that does not include a public plan.
Well, I've actually not heard any sort of similar categorical denials from either centrist Democrats or Blue Dogs. So people generally expect that at the end the moderates will make the compromise, but you could really see dissension in liberal ranks on this.
JUDY WOODRUFF: How do you size up the political prospects among the conservative -- well, among the Blue Dog Democrats and the Republicans?
TEVI TROY: Well, I certainly agree with Ezra that there's going to be a huge push from the left for a public plan. In fact, Harry Reid said something like whether you call it a co-op or a public plan, we're going to have some kind of government-run option in there. So there's definitely an insistence on the left that that be in there.
That said, I think the Blue Dogs are very uncomfortable with it and they've made it clear. I've done a lot of talk radio recently, and one talk radio host said that he in 50 years of broadcasting has never heard as much public anger as about this public plan. So I know there is some groundswell of opposition out there, as well.
JUDY WOODRUFF: You said a minute ago whether it were a co-op. This is the nonprofit cooperative agreement. Are you saying that the conservatives would oppose it even if it were structured that way?
TEVI TROY: Well, the thing about the cooperative is that they're vague enough that it can be whatever people want it to be or people can see what they want in the co-op. So I think there's a chance that a co-op can pass and could bring some Blue Dogs on board. However, it could in the end be very much like a government-run option, if government sets the rates, if government picks the people who lead it, and government provides the seed capital for it.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Recognizing we're still throwing terms around here that a lot of us, including me, don't completely understand, at this point, Ezra Klein, what do you think the prospects are? And, Tevi Troy, how do you see the prospects?
TEVI TROY: Well, I think that -- I don't think they're going to make it through before the August recess.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, what about the fall?
TEVI TROY: I think what happens in those five weeks in the August recess is going to be crucial, because if congressmen go back and basically have to wear flak jackets in their districts because of opposition to the public plan, then they might rethink this.
However, you know, there might be a push the other way, so I think it's up in the air right now. My bet, at the end of the day, is no public plan, but something does pass.
EZRA KLEIN: I think you're going to see something pass. I think you'll probably see it have a public plan. I think, at the end of the day, you know, health care reform ends up being something strong. And both Democrats, you remember, from 1994, when they lost on it, they lost big in the following elections, and that was true for the sort of Democrats that we associate with the Blue Dogs and true, as well, for liberals.
So I don't think you're going to see in any situation nothing go through. And at the end of the day, I think the public plan is popular enough that you'll see it embedded in the legislation.
JUDY WOODRUFF: In one form or another?
EZRA KLEIN: In one form or another.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Ezra Klein, Tevi Troy, thank you very much.


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Shelter Island Library President Jo-Ann Robotti has announced that five seats on the library's Board of Trustees will be up for election by the membership at the January 17 annual meeting. The deadline for candidates to file applications is Friday, December 19.
Four of the current trustees will stand for re-election to three year terms; a fifth position for a three-year term will replace a board member who passed away this year. The board is hoping to fill that position with someone with personnel experience or background in human relations.
The board is charged with the library's governance, including setting policy, exercising fiduciary responsibility, overseeing and evaluating programs and services and maintaining the facility.
Because of the library's small staff and tight operating budget, it is a working board and each member contributes specific skills to the library's operation.
"To meet the strategic goals and operational needs of the library in the most cost-efficient way possible demands a board that is willing to roll up its sleeves and take an active role in many aspects of the operation," Ms. Robotti said.
The Shelter Island Library is one of the oldest libraries in the state. Predating the New York Public Library, it was founded in 1885. Two years ago, the library completed a major renovation of its lower level — its first in 50 years — providing a center and community space for all Shelter Islanders, young and old.


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Q: Как проверить на равность два вещественных числа в языке Си? Цель - проверить равенство двух вещественных чисел (1.2 и 1.2).
Приведенный код не работает.
float a = 1.2;
if (a == 1.2)
{
    printf("Equals");
}

A: Вы сравниваете float и double, а они имеют разные представления.
float a = 1.2;
if (a == 1.2f)
{
    printf("Equals");
}

Так вы будете сравнивать два float. Но учтите, что если 1.2 вычисляется - скорее всего равенства не будет, просто из-за того, что только редкие числа представляются в виде типа с плавающей точкой точно.
Лучше задавать точность сравнения и проверять равенство типа
if (fabs(a-b) < eps) { // равны

A: Более подробно:
1.2 в двоичном виде имеет бесконечное количество знаков после точки: 1.00110011....
Бесконечное количество знаков, очевидно, не влезает в память, поэтому это число хранится неточно (округляется).
В double x = 1.2; хранится число  1.0011001100110011001100110011001100110011001100110011.
В десятичном виде: 1.1999999999999999555910790149937383830547332763671875.
В float x = 1.2; влезает меньше знаков: 1.00110011001100110011010
В десятичном виде: 1.2000000476837158203125.
(Если используется стандарт IEEE 754.)
Когда вы делаете:
float a = 1.2;
if (a == 1.2)

Происходит сравнение float и double. Для этого float преобразуется в double.
Получается, что вы сравниваете
1.0011001100110011001100110011001100110011001100110011 == 1.19999999... и
1.0011001100110011001101000000000000000000000000000000 == 1.20000004..., которые конечно же не равны.
Как уже написал @Harry в соседнем ответе, если заменить сравнение на a == 1.2f, то проблема пропадет.
Если бы вместо 1.2 стояло какое-то другое число, которое может быть представлено точно в обоих типах (например 1.25), то ваш код работал бы без изменений.

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Charles Pinot Duclos né à Dinan, le  et mort à Paris le , est un écrivain et historien français.

Biographie

Fils d'un riche chapelier de Dinan, Duclos était destiné à reprendre les affaires de son père mais c'était un enfant doué d'une vive intelligence et d'une grande mémoire et sa mère, devenue veuve, décida de l'envoyer achever ses études à Paris. Il suivit d'abord les cours de l'académie que tenait, rue de Charonne, l'abbé de Dangeau, puis du collège d'Harcourt où il entreprit l'étude du droit en vue de devenir avocat. Mais il se laissa aller à la dissipation, s'appliquant surtout à l'étude des armes, avant de décider de se consacrer aux lettres. Il fréquenta le café Procope et le café Gradot, où l'on ne tarda pas à le remarquer pour l'agrément et le piquant de sa conversation.

C'était, dit Jean-Jacques Rousseau, « un homme droit et adroit ». « Il faisait profession, écrit La Harpe, d'une franchise brusque qui ne déplaisait point […] Soit habitude, soit dessein, il gardait ce ton même dans la louange et l'on peut juger qu'elle n'y perdait pas. Il avait d'ailleurs un fonds de droiture qui le rendait incapable de plier son opinion ni sa liberté à aucun intérêt ni aucune politique ; et cependant ce ne fut point un obstacle à son avancement, parce qu'il n'offensa jamais l'amour-propre des gens de lettres, et qu'il sut intéresser en sa faveur celui des gens en place. » Duclos avait beaucoup d'esprit et une grande liberté de parole ; on cite de lui nombre de mots heureux.

Il fit ses débuts littéraires dans les recueils de facéties publiés par les gens de lettres de la société du comte de Caylus sous des titres tels que Étrennes de la saint Jean, Recueil de ces Messieurs, Les Manteaux, Les Écosseuses ou les Œufs de Pâques.

Protégé de Madame de Pompadour et de Madame de Tencin, très répandu dans tous les salons philosophiques et les cafés littéraires, membre de la société du Caveau, il fut nommé à l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres en 1739 sans que rien le justifiât. Les citoyens de Dinan le nommèrent maire de leur ville en 1744 et, en cette qualité, il participa aux États de Bretagne. Lorsque ceux-ci furent requis par le Roi, en 1755, Duclos reçut des lettres d'anoblissement.

Le , il fut reçu à l'Académie française alors qu'il n'avait composé que trois romans (libertins), un ballet et un essai historique, l'Histoire de Louis XI (1745). En 1750, il remplaça comme historiographe de France Voltaire, qui partait pour la Prusse.

Il publia ensuite en 1751 les Considérations sur les Mœurs, dont Louis XV disait : « C'est l'ouvrage d'un honnête homme ». Les Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des mœurs du , qu'il donna peu après, sont comme le complément des Considérations. Profitant des avantages de sa position d'historiographe, il rédigea des Mémoires secrets des règnes de Louis XIV de Louis XV, qui ne parurent qu'après sa mort.

Duclos devint en 1755 secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie française. Dans cette fonction, il se montra très actif et rendit de nombreux services à cette compagnie, prenant une grande part à l'édition de 1762 du Dictionnaire, dont il écrivit la préface, et faisant substituer aux lieux communs de morale qui formaient les sujets du prix d'éloquence des éloges des grands hommes (1755). Il s'opposa aux candidatures de grands seigneurs lorsque les postulants ne justifiaient pas de titres littéraires suffisants, et soutint la dignité de l'Académie chaque fois qu'il en eut l'occasion, faisant preuve d'une grande fermeté lors de l'élection du comte de Clermont, obtenant qu'il renonce au titre de « Monseigneur », et du maréchal de Belle-Isle, l'amenant à se soumettre à l'obligation des visites.

À l'Académie, il soutint généralement le parti des Philosophes, mais sans en faire partie car les excès de ses membres l'irritaient : « Les grands raisonneurs et les sous-petits raisonneurs de notre siècle, disait-il, en feront et en diront tant qu'ils finiront par m'envoyer à confesse. » Ses relations avec Voltaire furent froides et leur correspondance n'est qu'académique et de politesse. Il n'avait pas de relations avec Diderot, dont on lui reprocha d'avoir fait échouer la candidature à l'Académie. Il se brouilla avec D'Alembert et les deux hommes ne se réconcilièrent jamais entièrement. Il fournit cependant des articles de critique artistique et d'histoire à l'Encyclopédie. Généralement, son caractère autoritaire rendit ses relations souvent difficiles avec ses collègues.

En 1763, Duclos reçut la recommandation pressante de quitter la France après qu'il eut pris le parti de son ami et compatriote La Chalotais contre le duc d'Aiguillon. Il voyagea en Angleterre (1763). En 1766, ayant trop vivement critiqué la condamnation de La Chalotais, il dut faire un voyage en Italie et écrivit à son retour ses Considérations sur l'Italie, qui ne furent publiées qu'après la Révolution. Il mourut en 1772.

Œuvres
L'œuvre la plus célèbre de Duclos est les Considérations sur les mœurs de ce siècle (1751), qui connut un vif succès et fut traduite en anglais et en allemand et souvent rééditée. Elle est écrite avec un style précis, piquant, clair parfois jusqu'à la sécheresse. La peinture des modes et de l'esprit du temps est assez peu vivante. L'auteur disait d'ailleurs avec justesse :

Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur ne parle guère des femmes. Aussi en fit-il le sujet principal d'un autre livre, les Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des mœurs du  (1751), très inférieur en style au précédent.
 Histoire de la baronne de Luz, anecdote du règne de Henri IV, 1741 : récit des aventures d'une femme qui succombe toujours et n'a jamais tort.
 Histoire de  de Luz, 1740
 Confessions du comte de ***, 1741. Il dresse la liste de ses conquêtes et lui oppose sa découverte d'un sentiment profond avec . Roman qui eut un très grand succès ; manquant d'intrigue, c'est avant tout une suite de portraits.
 Les Caractères de la Folie, ballet en 3 actes, 1743
 Acajou et Zirphile, 1744 : roman féerique, composé à la suite d'un pari pour accompagner des estampes déjà dessinées par François Boucher pour un autre texte, qu'il avait apporté à la Société du Caveau dont Charles Pinot Duclos faisait partie avec lui.
 Histoire de Louis XI, 1745 : malgré le style sec et souvent épigrammatique, cet essai montre un effort d'impartialité et s'appuie sur des recherches sérieuses. Cet ouvrage lui ouvrit l'Académie française (1748) et lui conféra la charge d'historiographe de France.
 Considérations sur les mœurs de ce siècle, 1751, frontispice de Jean-Baptiste Delafosse d'après Hubert-François Gravelot
 Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des mœurs du , 1751
 Remarques sur la grammaire générale et raisonnée de Port-Royal 1754 : dans cet ouvrage, où Duclos montre une grande connaissance de la grammaire, il préconise une réforme de l'orthographe plus conforme à la logique et à la prononciation.
 Considérations sur l'Italie, 1791 : ouvrage de morale et de philosophie politique
 Mémoires secrets sur le règne de Louis XIV, la régence et le règne de Louis XV, 1791 : cet ouvrage a perdu l'essentiel de son intérêt depuis la publication des Mémoires de Saint-Simon, dont Duclos avait eu en mains le manuscrit et dont il s'était largement inspiré.

Ses œuvres ont été republiées en 1806, 10 vol. in-8, et en 1820, 9 vol.in-8, et 3 vol. gr. in-8, avec une Notice par Mathieu Guillaume Thérèse Villenave.

Notes et références

Cette notice est presque entièrement reproduite, à part quelques mots, de : G. Vapereau, Dictionnaire des littératures. Point à signaler sinon plagiat.

Liens externes

Écrivain français du XVIIIe siècle
Auteur français de roman érotique
Historien français du XVIIIe siècle
Historiographe français
Membre de l'Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen
Secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie française
Naissance en février 1704
Naissance à Dinan
Décès en mars 1772
Collaborateur du Supplément de l'Encyclopédie (1776-1780)
Collaborateur de l'Encyclopédie (1751-1772)
Décès à 68 ans
Naissance dans la province de Bretagne
Décès à Paris

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Rusty Wallace finishes 10th in final Ferrari Finali Mondiali race
By Daniel McFadinDec 5, 2016, 7:42 AM EST
In the final 35-minute Trofeo Pirelli race of the Ferrari Finali Mondiali, NASCAR Hall of Famer Rusty Wallace finished 10th overall for his best result of the four-day event.
Driving for Risi Competizione/Ferrari of Houston, Wallace's top 10 bettered his results of 15th and 32nd in the second and third days of the event, which was held at Daytona International Speedway for the first time.
In Sunday's race, Wallace finished third in the Professional, North America class.
"I told myself that after the struggles we'd had, that if I could walk out with a solid top 10 in the finals I'd be happy," Wallace said in a release from the track. "The team did great and I learned a ton. We've been here five days, run 1,000 laps and we don't have a dent on the car.
"This was totally out of the box for me. It was a great opportunity from Ferrari, Risi and Daytona. We had a nice solid run and we had a lot of NASCAR fans here, too."
German driver Thomas Loefflad won the Coppa Shell event. Venezuelan Carlos Kauffmann won the Trofeo Pirelli race Wallace took part in.
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NASCAR weekend schedule for Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
NASCAR's winter break ends this weekend as Cup Series drivers return to the track for Sunday's Clash at the Coliseum in Los Angeles.
The second Clash at the LA Memorial Coliseum has been expanded to 27 (from 23) drivers for the 150-lap main event. Qualifying, heat races and two "last chance" races will set the field.
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Heirloom-quality, unframed giclee reproduction of a vintage watercolor painting by Mabel Minnich Miller [my grandmother].
Mabel Minnich Miller, a California native, graduated in Fine Arts at UC Berkeley in 1937. She also attended the California College of Arts in Oakland. Her high school sweetheart, Francis E. Miller--an electrical engineering graduate student--proposed under the Campanile and they were married in Berkeley in 1936, the year she created this painting.
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When I read the description of The Journey, I was both intrigued and skeptical. According to the description, this show was going to include a family who likes taking drugs together, a pet psychologist, a budding pop singer, a rookie cop with a blushing problem, a retired Elvis impersonator/mafia money runner and a dog named Tom Petty possessed by the ghost of Tom Petty. That's quite a packed agenda. This had high potential for eye rolling corniness, especially when you put a human in a dog costume. I must say, I was pleasantly surprised and really enjoyed it. The cast was a mix of actors who were early on in their careers and seasoned actors with some impressive stage, screen and television credits. They took great care to convey the Joshua Crone's well-crafted material with respect and an ideal balance of emotions to ensure a quality production.
Nick and Luna, a young couple in love, desire to be married. Nick is well liked by Luna's family but in order to secure the patriarch's blessing, Nick must go on a "journey". There is no need to pack socks and sundries for this journey. This is a drug trip. Set in psychedelic California, this family bonds by taking a drug called ayahuasca in the form of heart shaped chocolate. They refer to it as medicine and it's doled out by the family shaman/therapist and her partner. Clearly the "Say no to Drugs" campaign didn't impact them. Nick is squeaky clean and has not dabbled in drugs hence his hesitation to obtain the blessing. Obviously, a lot of hilarity ensues but this show is not without some side plots and heftier themes such as jealousy and insecurity.
The set was black box with a few props and some special effects. A proper set was not necessary for this sturdy play. Clever lighting effects with some bubbles thrown in did a good job of including the audience in the drug trip. There was some audience interaction in the form of hugs and Tom Petty, the dog, very much acting like a dog eliciting scratches behind the ears and head pats. All audience members were invited to have a heart shaped goody. I'm sure it was just chocolate…I think.
The cast was iron clad and all well suited to their craft and their roles. Kelsey Susino and Jordan Theodore charmingly play the happy couple. Jeffrey Grover and Stephanie Roseman did a fantastic job played the hip loving yet conflicted mom and dad, Mr. and Mrs. Liebman. Katie Housely and Sami Petrucci were delightful as Luna's sisters with boyfriend troubles. Their chemistry was wonderful. Tim Palmer had a short but funny and memorable role as Officer Anderson. Annabelle Fox was awesome as Zuzu, one hot mess of a rising pop star. Jessica Van Niel was outstanding as Shanti Marsh, the family Shaman. She played the role with conviction and was totally believable. Equally outstanding was Leif Riddell who played Brad Marsh, Shanti's husband and co-guru. His experience in the industry was evident. There was a sort of intensity to his performance that commanded attention. Ben Jaeger-Thomas was great as Burt Becker, the flirtatious dog trainer. His facial expressions were priceless. Desiree Baxter and Marco Greco as the grandparents making a surprise visit to the family to celebrate the Jewish sabbath, absolutely stole the show. They just ran amok with the funny material that they were given. At last we get to Tom Petty, both the name of the dog and the ghost played flawlessly by Thoeger Hansen. This character was actually the least conflicted and was the voice of reason in the show. Among the other human characters, he played a sweet friendly dog. In the absence of humans, he had some substantial monologues weaving the material together. Thoeger Hansen did a wonderful job of drawing the audience into this likeable character.
Despite the seemingly cluttered plot, the show flowed very well. It was a very sweet ending, especially if you are a Tom Petty Fan. It was ambitious material that was done right and done well. It's worth the journey to Manhattan to see this show.
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Andrew Cuomo's Groping Court Date Postponed, Albany DA Warns Case Against Him Is 'Potentially Defective'
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The forcible touching case against former Governor Andrew Cuomo is potentially in peril, the Albany County District Attorney David Soares warned in a letter sent to Albany City Court Judge Holly Trexler Thursday.
"The filings in this matter are potentially defective," the letter read, describing how the lack of sworn witness statements and misstated case law could end in the case's dismissal. The letter asked for an extension to sort out all the relevant documents.
A spokesperson for the Albany District Attorney said both parties had agreed they'd return to court for Cuomo's arraignment on Jan. 7, pushing back a previously scheduled date of November 17th for Cuomo's arraignment. The spokesperson declined to comment further.
A spokesperson for the state court system confirmed the new arraignment date. The New York Times first reported District Attorney Soares' office had concerns about the viability of the criminal case against Cuomo.
The arraignment delay stems from confusion late last month when Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple's office filed a court summons without consulting the district attorney or an attorney for Brittany Commisso, the executive chamber assistant who alleged Cuomo groped her under her blouse in the executive mansion in December of 2020.
Apple, a Democrat, had maintained filing a misdemeanor forcible touching summons without talking to the District Attorney was par for the course. But Cuomo, who has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, seized on the confusion as further evidence that any attacks against him are politically motivated. His campaign didn't return a request for further comment Friday evening.
Commisso's attorney Brian Premo couldn't be reached for couldn't be reached for comment immediately. The Albany County Sheriff's Office didn't return a request for comment immediately.
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Gwynne Hogan is a general assignment reporter who's worked at WNYC and Gothamist since 2017. Before joining WNYC, she did stints at the New York Post and the late DNAinfo New York and studied at the CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, graduating with the class of 2014. She won a Gracie award for her coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and a Society of Professional Journalists award for her reporting on one Rockaway school's efforts to avoid suspending students. Follow her on Twitter @GwynneFitz or email her at ghogan@wnyc.org.


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Maybe it's the phrasing, the word series has baggage.
Stand alone novel from an expandable universe, conveys a different image.
Possibly so. Though "expandable universe", to me, implies that the other books have the same setting, but different characters. That's a different sort of fish.
Mr. Taboo is clearly full of it, as a cursory glance at the mystery aisle of your local bookstore will tell you. Non-series mysteries s written by new authors are at best exceedingly rare. As far as the SF/F field goes, the problem I see there is that there are far too many aspiring authors who approach their novel not as something that could be the first in a series, but as something that *is* the first in a series. So instead of writing a stand-alone novel that could be expanded upon, they end up with what amounts to a really long first chapter. The first Wheel of Time novel springs to mind here.
In my opinion, it's far better to write the first book as if there were going to be no sequels. I think you'll generally end up with a better novel that way, though that first book may seem a little "off" when viewed in the context of the series as a whole (take, for example, the first book in Tony Hillerman's Joe Leaphorn series, in which Joe Leaphorn is a minor character).
As far as expandable universes are concerned, I think a well constructed series is by definition an expandable universe. Your pal Julie Kenner's Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom series is a good example; the mythology she's created could very easily support any number of spin-off series: a YA series focused on a team of trainee hunters; a men's adventure series about a rogue hunter who travels from town to town; a romantic comedy series featuring a pair of married hunters a la Nick and Nora Charles; a Blackie Ryan-style series about a former aliamentore who becomes a Bishop (or, better yet, Pope!); and so on.
Perhaps what sucrelefey had in mind was the kind of series that is based more on a shared setting than on shared characters. Monica Hughes's Isis Trilogy is like this, as are Susan Howatch's St. Benet's novels (and, to a lesser degree, her Starbridge novels). I think "shard universe" would be the term to describe a series of this nature.
Good points, and I think that the Demon Hunting Soccer Mom series is a perfect example. You could read Carpe Demon and get a satisfying, complete story without having to read another book. And I think those are the kinds of series that publishers are looking for.
However, on the question of query letters, I would think using the phrase "expanded universe" (or similar phrase) would be far MORE daunting than "possible series". The latter indicates you have more books in you; the former indicates you wish to launch a franchise.


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When you think of air traffic control, you naturally think of planes, but did you know that NATS is also involved in rocket launches and the safe passing of them – and the aircraft around them – through our skies?
A colleague and I recently attended a meeting in Brussels with the European Space Agency (ESA) and other key stakeholders to discuss improved collaboration when planning for rocket launches in Oceanic airspace. As members of the Service Performance Team at our control centre in Prestwick, we are responsible for processing any airspace reservations in Oceanic airspace – including those caused by rocket launches.
The ESA is currently planning around 12 rocket launches a year from French Guiana in the north east of South America. These are to launch commercial satellites into orbit. Although the rockets only enter Oceanic Airspace for around 540 seconds, it's obviously vital for safety that we block off the airspace and re-route aircraft where necessary – not least because elements of the rockets (such as boosters) are jettisoned during flight.
So it's up to the NATS Service Performance Team to work strategically with the ESA's flight safety engineers and to plan for these launches on the occasions that Shanwick airspace (which is controlled from Prestwick) will be affected.
Our control centre at Prestwick from where the Shanwick airspace is controlled.
This means putting restrictions in place and advising our airline customers of re-routing well in advance to ensure commercial aircraft avoid the airspace that the rocket and its boosters will travel through.
The ESA launches involve three different types of rocket: Vega, Soyuz and Ariane 5. There are various rocket trajectories from French Guiana, but the trajectory of interest to us crosses the North Atlantic and may affect NAT (North Atlantic Tracks) Track Planning and possibly routes to and from Northern Europe, as well as to the Canary Islands. Two such launches planned this year have this potential.
As this meeting proved, international collaboration is imperative if we are to minimise the safety risk while maximising the efficiency of any re-routing we need to do to accommodate the launches. By working together, a positive outcome for all is the only result – no disruption or flight delays for airlines and passengers and a successful Payload deployment into orbit.
Rocket photo – Soyuz lifting off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 3rd April 2014 – courtesy of ESA
Hypersonic flight – to the edge of space
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These blogs are really interesting. Keep them coming!
Jonathan joined NATS in 1989, first working in Area Control at West Drayton before moving to Terminal Control when it opened. He moved on to Manchester Tower in 2000 and then the NATS Control Centre in Manchester before becoming the resource office there, looking after the rostering of ATCOs and ATSAs. He joined the Prestwick Centre and has worked for Procedures and then Service Improvement ever since.
Prior to NATS, Jonathan worked as an aircraft cleaner at London Gatwick Airport and a courier, flying out of Heathrow.


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A key figure in New York's East Village scene in the late 1970s and 80s American artist Keith Haring's artwork populated not only art galleries but also the city's subways streets and sidewalks. His work often combined a iconographic vocabulary including hearts flying saucers winged figures and a crawling "radiant baby" with abstract marks and patterning. The UNIQLO at MoMA collaboration aims to honor Haring's desire to make his work available to all. Keith Haring's work is represented in MoMA's collection.
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Two men were on Monday arraigned before the Special Offences Court, Ikeja, Lagos State, for allegedly engaging in child marriage and defilement.
One of the defendants, Henry Onyekwere, was said to have conspired with others still at large to marry off a 16-year-old girl (name withheld) to the second defendant, Awele Odigo.
A customary marriage rite was performed in August 2019 between the minor and Odigo on Musbau Ashafa Street, off Agbe Road, Abule Egba, Lagos.
This was after the age of the minor was allegedly falsely declared in an affidavit at a magistrate's court in Ogba on June 30, 2021.
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The second defendant, Odigo, was accused in count two of defilement, contrary to Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2016.
He was said to have had sexual intercourse with the minor.
The defendant was also arraigned for unlawful engagement in child marriage contrary to Section 210 (24) A, B, C of the Child Rights Law 2015.
Both defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges as Justice Abiola Soladoye adjourned the case till February 6, 2022.


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Bianchi: Why are Gators drug-testing players far more frequently than Texas Longhorns?
By Mike Bianchi
Sep 25, 2014 | 6:21 PM
The frequency in which the University of Texas drug-tests its athletes became national news on Thursday when the Austin American-Statesman reported that drug-testing of UT players under first year coach Charlie Strong is on pace to double from last season under former coach Mack Brown.
According to data obtained by the Statesman, a total of 188 drug tests have been administered in the first eight months of Strong's tenure. At such a rate, 282 tests will be administered by the time Strong's first year is completed. From 2010 to 2013, Texas administered an average of 104 drug tests per year under former coach Mack Brown.
When I read those numbers, I have to admit, my first thought was this: Even 282 drug tests per year for a football team of more than 100-120 players doesn't seem like an incredible amount. So I got on the phone and found out how many times a similar program -- the University of Florida -- drug-tests its football players every year.
The results were eye-opening: Last year, the Gators drug-tested football players 406 times. The year before it was 377. The year before that it was 350. This year, UF has already tested its football players 300 times, which puts them on pace for another year of 400-plus drug tests.
I point this out not so much to laud UF, but to point out that this is just another example of why there needs to be uniform drug-testing throughout the NCAA. Every school that plays big-time college football should have the same drug-testing requirements.
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As it is now, some programs take it seriously and some programs -- like Texas under Mack Brown -- simply paid lip service to the serious drug issues on college campuses. Don't ask me why Brown's Texas program tested so infrequently, but a possible answer is this: The Longhorns didn't want to know if their players were doing something that might get them suspended from the team.
Much like Muschamp at Florida, Strong has had to come in at Texas and clean up a mess left behind by a former championship coach who left a broken program. Strong's already kicked nine players off the team in his first season.
"You have 95 percent that's doing it right, and then you just have that small faction of guys that feel like this is the way they're going to do it whether I like it or not," Strong told reporters Tuesday. "I just tell them that there's always other teams out there, but this isn't the school for them."
Email me at mbianchi@tribune.com. Follow me on Twitter @BianchiWrites. And listen to my Open Mike radio show every Monday-Friday from 6-9 a.m. on 740 The Game.
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Implementation Taskforce
Growing a culture of social
impact investing in the UK
The Implementation Taskforce is a focal point for engagement and cohesion around these issues to ensure as many recommendations of the Advisory Group come to fruition and that sustained industry engagement continues at sufficient pace.
There are already a number of ongoing, active contributors focused on growing social impact and sustainable finance in the UK. These include:
The UK National Advisory Board on Impact Investment to the Global Impact Investment Steering Group: In 2013, under David Cameron's presidency of the G8, the Prime Minister launched an independent Social Impact Investment Taskforce with the objective of "catalysing a global market in impact investment". The Taskforce created National Advisory Boards for each member state which continued when the Social Impact Investment Taskforce was expanded into the Global Impact Investment Steering Group in 2015.
Accounting for Sustainability: The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project was established by HRH The Prince of Wales in 2004 "to help ensure that we are not battling to meet 21st century challenges with, at best, 20th century decision making and reporting systems". A4S aims to inspire action by finance leaders to drive a fundamental shift towards resilient business models and a sustainable economy.
This Taskforce will aim not to duplicate what these groups do but rather co-ordinate development, celebrate and champion best practice across our five key areas and commit to quality, clarity, authenticity and integrity as the market grows.
MAKE IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO INVEST
The relatively slow rate of growth of the social impact market led the Financial Conduct Authority in 2016 to call for input on whether regulatory barriers had impeded its development. A few months earlier the government had asked the Law Commission to look into pension funds' consideration of social impact when making investment decisions. In both instances, a number of relatively minor impediments were identified, but the overall finding was that the obstacles were primarily structural and behavioural, suggesting efforts to build awareness around social impact investing will be useful in promoting the market's growth.
If the social impact investment market is to achieve its potential, investors must also be confident investments will perform in line with expectations. Communications materials and labels can be useful tools to build on the existing narrative around ESG investing and its increasing mainstream success, while public relations efforts could help journalists engage with the topic. Journalist feedback shows that articles on social impact investing would best sit in the personal finance, money, investing, and finance and economic sections of publications.
This work is led by Amanda Young, Head of Global ESG Investment Research at Aberdeen Standard Investments
STRENGTHEN COMPETENCE AND CONFIDENCE WITHIN THE INDUSTRY
Social impact investment is a relatively new concept that spans financial and social behaviours, and practitioners are on a journey to better understand how the two can be integrated. However, investors must be confident investments 'do what they say on the tin', based on insight into investment targets and their performance. Equally, the industry, government and regulators must protect the market's integrity, so that current and future issuers can rely on it as a source of funding.
Efforts to improve education will help drive the market's expansion, allowing more issuers to raise social capital, more intermediaries to structure social capital into investment products and more advisers to assess social capital investments for their clients.
This work is led by Will Goodhart, Chief Executive of the CFA Society UK.
DEVELOP BETTER REPORTING OF NON FINANCIAL OUTCOMES
There is a need for a common set of standards and language through the social impact investment chain. From investment management reporting on predicted and actual social impact to the information provided by capital raisers to investors, ratings agencies and indexes, consistent and reliable reporting formats are key. The UN's SDGs are an invaluable resource in creating reporting data elements across a range of social activities.
Following a call for evidence, in October 2018 the working group published the Better Reporting Landscape report. The report captured the fragmented impact reporting landscape identifying 16 different reporting approaches as well as several trends which have the potential to drive coalescence in impact reporting.
This work is led by Olivia Dickson and Paul Druckman, Non Executive Directors of the Financial Reporting Council.
IMPROVING DEAL FLOW AND THE ABILITY TO INVEST AT SCALE
The natural starting point in expanding the social impact investment market in the UK is to ensure there are sufficient opportunities to invest. The financial services industry has a key role to play in identifying opportunities supported by government in its capacity as a driver and enabler of social outcomes.
Challenges include giving enterprises and companies the tools they need to fund effectively and aiming for efficient capital formation, which can help bridge the gap between the sometimes modest requirements of social organisations and the larger scale needs of the investment community.
This work is led by Jamie Broderick, former CEO of UBS Wealth Management (UK).
MAINTAIN MOMENTUM AND BUILD COHESION ACROSS INITIATIVES
There is significant momentum in the development of the social impact investment market, including rising demand, an expanding range of products and better systems to monitor performance and social outcomes. To encourage the sector to accelerate its progress, stakeholders must commit to taking the necessary steps to embrace the opportunities ahead.
The advisory group for this report is committed to building on the valuable work already undertaken, and plans regular reviews of progress across the various initiatives recommended here, alongside increased collaboration with parallel efforts, hopefully creating a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
This work is led by the Implementation Taskforce Steering Group.


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Master Ernest Antwi Nyarko, known as Ernest Antwi or Ernest Nyarko (born 9 September 1995) is a Ghanaian footballer who most recently played for Aktobe.

Club career
He made his professional debut in the Segunda Liga for Desportivo das Aves on 8 August 2015 in a game against Sporting Covilhã.

In July 2017, Antwi went on trial with Russian Premier League side FC Rostov.

Antwi moved to Kazakhstan Premier League club Aktobe, but was released from his contract on 5 January 2023.

References

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1995 births
Footballers from Accra
Living people
Ghanaian footballers
Tudu Mighty Jets FC players
Ghanaian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Portugal
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Ukrainian Premier League players
Ukrainian First League players
Saudi First Division League players
Expatriate footballers in Ukraine
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine
Expatriate footballers in Saudi Arabia
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
Expatriate footballers in Kazakhstan
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan
S.C. Farense players
C.D. Aves players
Liga Portugal 2 players
U.D. Leiria players
FC Rukh Lviv players
FC Lviv players
FC Aktobe players
Association football forwards
F.C. Oliveira do Hospital players


Wolfsburg are aiming to sew up their second-ever UEFA Champions League group-stage spot, when they host Hannover in Bundesliga action on Saturday.
After continuing their stellar season by winning through to the DFB Pokal final on Wednesday, Wolfsburg can take that momentum and make certain of their spot in the European top tier in the 2015-16 season.
A win over the relegation-threatened Hannover - they sit just one point above the bottom three - will take Wolfsburg into Europe's elite for the first time since 2009-10, the season following their lone Bundesliga title.
"This is a massive moment for the team, for VfL and for the city of Wolfsburg," director of sport Klaus Allofs said, according to the club's website.
"It is sensational that we have booked our place in the final at the third consecutive attempt and that we have now finally done the job so convincingly.
"The [DFB Pokal final] clash with Dortmund will surely be a great game between two teams absolutely at eye-level.
"But before that, we must first achieve our greatest goal and secure second place in the Bundesliga."
Wolfsburg are on a two-match winless run in the league, although Hannover's streak without a win is 14 matches - stretching back to December.
The first of four Bayern Munich 'celebrations' sees the champions head to Bayer Leverkusen in the late Saturday kick-off.
Bayern were assured of the title when Wolfsburg lost to Borussia Monchengladbach last week.
Leverkusen (fourth, 55 points) are tracking third-placed Gladbach (57 points) for a spot in the Champions League group stages, but are already assured of at least the qualifying place.
Leading the race for the UEFA Europa League spots are Schalke - who host Stuttgart - and Augsburg, who welcome Cologne.
The two sides are level on 42 points, ahead of Hoffenheim (40), Borussia Dortmund and Werder Bremen (both 39).
In-form Dortmund are away at Hoffenheim after surpassing Bayern in the DFB Pokal semi-finals, and are also on a two-match league winning streak.
Bremen host Eintracht Frankfurt, while Freiburg take on Paderborn in a relegation six-pointer.
On Sunday, Hamburg - who are placed 16th - are away at Mainz, before Hertha Berlin welcome Gladbach.


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Q: BitmapFactory.decodeStream causing "read failed: EBADF (Bad file number)" error I have a piece of code where use a 2-stage image loading for loading images from the SDCard.
First I use the method BitmapFactory.decodeStream to just decode the image bounds and after I use it to really load the (sampled) image.
Here is my method. I think it's derived from an example I saw here someday, but I don't remember the thread.
public static Bitmap decodeSampledBitmapFromStream(Context c, Uri uri, int reqWidth, int reqHeight) throws IOException {
    FileInputStream fis = getSourceStream(uri, c);

    final BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
    options.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
    BitmapFactory.decodeStream(fis, null, options);

    options.inSampleSize = calculateInSampleSize(options, reqWidth, reqHeight);
    options.inJustDecodeBounds = false;
    fis = getSourceStream(uri, c);

    return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(fis, null, options);
}

It always worked perfectly running on real devices, but now I need to run some tests in AVD, but when I hit the line return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(fis, null, options) (the second decodeStream) I get this error:
java.io.IOException: read failed: EBADF (Bad file number)

The reading/writing sdcard permissions are set.
What should be done?


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Xu Yan
Will defend his dissertation
Modeling Local Behavior for Multi-Person Tracking
Multiple pedestrian tracking in unconstrained environments is an important task that has received considerable attention from the computer vision community in the past two decades. A number of approaches that address this issue have been proposed. Accurate multiple pedestrian tracking can greatly improve the performance of activity recognition and analysis of high level events through a surveillance system. However, the complexity of human motion poses several challenges to the accuracy and precision of a tracking system. Traditional approaches to pedestrian tracking build a motion prediction model to track the target. With improvements in object detection methods, recent approaches replace the motion prediction stage track targets be selecting among the outputs of a detector.
To incorporate the merit of traditional and recent approaches, we have developed a novel approach for multi-target tracking using an ensemble framework that optimally chooses target tracking results from that of independent trackers and a detector at each time step. The compound model is designed to select the best candidate scored by a function integrating detection confidence, appearance affinity, and smoothness constraints imposed using geometry and motion information. Parameters of our association score function are discriminatively trained with a max-margin framework. Optimal selection is achieved through a hierarchical data association step that progressively associates candidates to targets.
To further improve the tracking performance we focus on the design of a novel motion prediction model. Most of the existing methods assume that each pedestrian walks independently and the tracker predicts the location based on an underlying motion model, such as a constant velocity or an autoregressive model. However, human interaction behavior is known to play an important role in human motion. We present a novel tracking approach utilizing human collision avoidance behavior, which is motivated by the human vision system. The model predicts human motion based on modeling of perceived information. An attention map is designed to mimic human reasoning that integrates both spatial and temporal information. This perception based motion model is integrated into a data association based tracking framework with appearance and motion features. An enhanced tracker is also developed that models human group behavior using a hierarchical group structures. The groups a re identified by a bottom-up social group discovery method. The inter- and intra-group structures are modeled as a two-layer graph and tracking is posed as optimization of the integrated structure. The target appearance is modeled using HOG features, and the tracking solution is obtained via dynamic programming. Finally, we propose another novel tracking method to unify multiple human behavior. To investigate the effects of potential multiple social behaviors, we present an algorithm that decomposes the combined social behaviors into multiple basic interaction modes, such as attraction, repulsion, and no interaction. We integrate these multiple social interaction modes into an interactive Markov Chain Monte Carlo tracker and demonstrate how the developed method translates into a more informed motion prediction, resulting in robust tracking performance.
We test our methods on videos from unconstrained outdoor environments and evaluate it against common multi-object trackers.
Date: Thursday, May 22, 2014
Place: PGH 550
Advisor: Prof. Shishir Shah


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Ever wondered why nearly everybody knows the Christmas story but most of us can't recall more than half of the 10 Commandments? Why we remember the parables but forget the Epistles?
A major reason is that stories move us and stick with us better. We tell them to our family and friends, and that cements them in our minds. And that's a great lesson for all of us as we communicate about our products and services. With the exciting (and sometimes puzzling) changes in media technologies these days, we sometimes focus too much on the media and give short shrift to the message.
Let's face it: the Christmas Story is about as good as it gets. A mother giving birth in a barn and using the cow's food dish as a crib. Angels singing. Lights in the sky. Oriental kings paying homage, as the local tyrant kills hundreds of babies but misses the right one. I mean, sheesh, if that story doesn't stick with you, I don't know what will.
That's why I always try to find a story in whatever I'm communicating, and why becoming a great storyteller can improve your results as well.
I spend a lot of my time these days promoting upcoming real estate auctions, and those provide some great stories. A farm family selling their property after more than a century because the next generation prefers city life. A home previously owned by a rock star. A piece of ground settled in the early 1600s.
But you can find a story in almost anything if you look hard enough and ask enough questions. Folks love the stories of Steve Jobs, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard inventing computers in their garages. (What is it about computers and garages, anyway?) In the 1980s, when Jim Koch was launching his new line of beer, he tapped into the legends of Revolutionary firebrand Samuel Adams. But my favorite story — which as far as I knew was never used in the brewery's marketing materials — was the one of how Koch showed up one day for an elective college course on homebrewing. The instructor asked the students why they had enrolled and practically all of them said it was because the winemaking class was closed. The exception? Koch, who earned some raised eyebrows by saying he wanted to start a brewery.
Ask questions. Dig a bit. Use your imagination. Tell stories. You'll get better results. I promise. And if you don't, I'll buy you a beer.