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Thank God for Jupiter
I spent most of my childhood in Vancouver, British Columbia. On those rare winter days when we did get snow it was wet and slushy. Consequently, getting hit by a snowball in Vancouver was a much more unpleasant experience than in other parts of Canada. I quickly learned the value of building a strong snow fort before getting involved in a snowball fight.
Our planet also benefits from having strong shields between it and potential colliders. Those shields are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Because of its size and proximity to Earth, Jupiter is by far the most important of Earth's protectors.
As Figure 1 illustrates, more than 1,300 planet Earths would fit inside of Jupiter. Though not as dense as our planet, Jupiter still weighs in at 318 times the mass of Earth. Jupiter's volume and mass are such that asteroids and comets headed for Earth are almost always either deflected away (the much more common outcome) or absorbed into the volume that makes up Jupiter.
Figure 1: Earth-Jupiter Size Comparison
Even a single storm eddy, known as the Great Red Spot, on Jupiter is larger in size than planet Earth. Image credit: NASA.
The first planetary impact event observed by astronomers occurred in 1994, when comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter. Figure 2 shows the aftermath of the collision event. At the time, astronomers believed such impact events would prove rare—less than one such event per astronomer lifetime (astronomers manifest notoriously long life spans). However, on July 19, 2009, amateur astronomers observed another collision event on Jupiter, and in the June 1, 2010 issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters two teams of professional astronomers published the results of their analysis of the event.1
Figure 2: Aftermath of the Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter
Just before the collision, Jupiter's gravity broke up comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 into at least 21 distinct pieces. Collisions with Jupiter occurred between July 16 and 22 in 1994. The purple spots in the image above mark a few of the collision sites. The largest collision spots were as big as Earth's diameter. At the impact moments, fireball temperatures reached 24,000° Centigrade (43,000° Fahrenheit). Image credit: NASA/Hubble Space Telescope Comet Team.
The collision itself was not observed because it occurred on Jupiter's far side. Within a few hours, however, Jupiter had rotated around enough so that a number of amateur astronomers could observe and report "an anomalous feature." Subsequent infrared observations confirmed that the feature was exogenic (the result of an external collider). Figure 3 shows a Hubble Space Telescope image taken of the debris from the collision impact four days after the collision event.
Figure 3: Impact Scar from the July 19, 2009 Collision Event
This Hubble Space Telescope image was taken on July 23, 2009, with the newly installed Wide Field Camera 3. The dark smudge toward the bottom right of Jupiter is the debris from the asteroid collision. Image credit: NASA/ESA/STScI/Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colorado/Jupiter Impact Team.
Astronomers observed just one debris spot, indicating that the collider did not break up before the collision event. A research team led by Heidi Hammel of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, noted that the July 2009 impact site differed from the 1994 Shoemaker-Levy 9 sites in both ultraviolet morphology and contrast lifetime. These three distinguishing features point to an asteroid, rather than a comet, as the culprit for the collision event.
Another research team, led by A. Sánchez-Lavega, estimated the size of the collider as 0.5–1.0 kilometers. They also put the collision rates both for this type of impact and the Shoemaker-Levy 9 event at about five to ten times more frequent than what astronomers had previously determined.
That the July 19, 2009 Jupiter collider was an asteroid rather than a comet and that Jupiter colliders are five to ten times more frequent than previous estimates reveals how dangerous a place the solar system can be. One of the 21 fragments of Shoemaker-Levy 9 generated by itself the equivalent of a six trillion ton TNT energy release upon impact. (This is about 600 times greater than the energy that would be released if the world's total nuclear arsenal were detonated all at once.) Yet, the solar system is probably a much safer environment than other planetary systems thanks to a 1:2 orbital resonance between Jupiter and Saturn (a situation where Jupiter orbits the Sun exactly twice for every single orbit of Saturn). This event occurred 3.9 billion years ago and caused the Kuiper Belt, the solar system's most dangerous belt of asteroids and comets, to be reduced to about one percent of its previous size.
The July 16, 1994 and July 19, 2009 collision events on Jupiter demonstrate just how crucial a role the planet plays in protecting life on Earth. Without Jupiter's gravitational shield our planet would be pummeled by frequent life-exterminating events.
Yet Jupiter by itself is not an adequate shield. The best protection is achieved via a specific arrangement of several gas giant planets. The most massive gas giant must be nearest to the life support planet and the second most massive gas giant the next nearest, followed by smaller, more distant gas giants. Together Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune provide Earth with this ideal shield.
Some might argue that a gas giant planet more massive and closer than Jupiter would better protect Earth. While such a planet would provide Earth with superior protection from collision events, its gravity would be strong enough to seriously disrupt Earth's orbit. A Jupiter more or less massive would pose a greater risk to life on Earth, as would a Jupiter more or less distant. The same delicate balances hold true for Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
The Jupiter collision events remind all of us how thankful we need to be for God providing Earth with such wonderfully designed planetary partners. These celestial bodies also illustrate that the more we learn about our solar system, the more reasons we discover to believe in Christ as Creator, Lord, and Savior.
A. Sánchez-Lavega et al., "The Impact of a Large Object on Jupiter in 2009 July,"Astrophysical Journal Letters 715 (June 1, 2010): L155–L159; H. B. Hammel et al., "Jupiter After the 2009 Impact: Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Impact-Generated Debris and Its Temporal Evolution," Astrophysical Journal Letters 715 (June 1, 2009): L150–L154.
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I have mentioned this in my previous reviews that after sipping my first Kilchoman I vowed never to touch it again. I can't say which one it was because I've genuinely forgotten. Let's just say my brain decided to erase that experience from my memory.
What I do remember is wishing I could tell Anthony Wills, the founder of Kilchoman and who was presenting the whiskies to us that night, how I felt exactly. Out of politeness I did not.
But now I would like to tell him that his little Islay farm distillery is fast becoming my top rated whisky. Maybe of all time. Yes, you heard that right Ardbeg & Laphroaig.
Every time I review a good Kilchoman I offer Anthony an apology in the hope that he reads it and sends me something fantastic. As a sign of his acceptance.
Looks like he's due another one.
The Loch Gorm that I am reviewing has been distilled in 2009 and bottled in the spring 2014 making it around five years old. It has spent it's entire length of maturation in Oloroso sherry casks making it the only Kilchoman to be completely matured in ex-sherry.
Nose: So fresh. So crisp. There's the Islay grist. Honey. Clean peat. Oloroso. Nuts. Green tobacco leaf. Orange blossoms. Coffee beans. Faint smoke. Faint tar. Sweet and salty coastal sea air. White melons. An essay in fine tuning the perfect balance.
Palate: Smoke. Honey. Grated ginger. Peat. Cinnamon. Coffee beans. All spice. Cardboard. Delicate flavors that are on point. All the savory Islay goodness with a controlled Oloroso sweetness.
I don't know what the whole hue and cry about dwindling stocks and NAS whiskies is when you can turn around a successful product like this in 5 years and be completely transparent about it.
Must be the inability to charge a bomb for young spirits. So everyone hides behind NAS.


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Q: Armadillo C++ expmat stacks I'm trying to execute the expmat() function from the Armadillo c++ library but it gets stacked when i run it. First i tried in Matlab with the expm function, and with different values in the C++ program and it works in both cases. So, the problem is with something related with the values i put on the matrix, seem that some of them are too small... This is the squared [14x14] matrix i want to calculate the exponential:
mat A;
A  << 0 << -0.0000769006 << -0.0000511322 << -0.0000915495 << 0 << 0 << -0.00254523 <<                 0.00000001 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << endr
    << 0.0000769006 << 0 << 0.0000915495 << -0.0000511322 << 0.0043037 << -0.00254523 << 0 << 0 << 0.00000001 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << endr
    << 0.0000511322 << -0.0000915495 << 0 << 0.0000769006 << 0.00254523 << 0.0043037 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0.00000001 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << endr
    << 0.0000915495 << 0.0000511322 << -7.69006/100000 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0.0043037 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0.00000001 << 0 << 0 << 0 << endr
    << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0.00000001 << 0 << 0 << endr
    << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0.00000001 << 0 << endr
    << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0.00000001 << endr
    << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << -0.0000769006 << -0.0000511322 << -0.0000915495 << 0 << 0 << 0 << endr
    << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0.0000769006 << 0 << 0.0000915495 << -0.0000511322 << 0 << 0 << 0 << endr
    << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0.0000511322 << -0.0000915495<< 0 << 0.0000769006 << 0 << 0 << 0 << endr
    << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0.0000915495 << 0.0000511322 << -0.0000769006 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << endr
    << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << -0.0043037 << -0.00254523 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << endr
    << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0.00254523 << -0.0043037 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << endr
    << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0 << 0.00254523 << 0 << 0 << -0.0043037 << 0 << 0 << 0 << endr;

B = expmat(A);

When i press pause on the debug i see that line wich is being executed is:
arma_fortran(arma_dgemm)(transA, transB, m, n, k, (const T*)alpha, (const T*)A, ldA, (const T*)B, ldB, (const T*)beta, (T*)C, ldC);

...inside the file "blas_wrapper.hpp". No errors are displayed, only the program is there but it doesn´t advance. If i use different values on the matrix i can make it working, but with the ones i displayed not...
About the LAPACK version i don´t know how to check it...
Thanks,
AV9

A: In fact, any matrix with infinite norm lower than 1 may trigger some sort of nearly infinite loop. The problem does not come from your code, but from the library.
The following code, compiled by g++ main.cpp -o main -larmadillo reproduces the problem :
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdio>
#include <armadillo>

using namespace std;
using namespace arma;

int
main( int argc, char* argv[] )
{
    cout<<"start"<<endl;

    mat A=randu(2,2);
    A=A/100;
    cout<<"A is "<<endl<<A<<endl;

    double norm_val = norm(A, "inf");
    double log2_val = eop_aux::log2(norm_val);
    const uword s = (std::max)(uword(0), uword(log2_val) + uword(1) + uword(1));

    cout<<"norm inf is "<<norm_val<<" log of norm inf is "<<log2_val <<" uword "<<uword(log2_val)<<" nb it is "<<s<<endl;

    mat B = expmat(A);

    cout<<"B is "<<endl<<B<<endl;
    cout<<"end"<<endl;
}

And here is the reason why...
Armadillo quotes the following article to compute the matrix's exponential : Nineteen Dubious Ways to Compute the Exponential of a Matrix, Twenty-Five Years Later by C. Moler and C. Van Loan in SIAM Review, 2003. The third method,  called "Scaling and squaring" is implemented by the library Armadillo. The following formula is used :

m should be large enough so as to decrase the norm of A/m and ease the exponentialisation of A/m by Taylor series.
The algorithm is the following :

*

*Choose integer s so that the infinite norm of A/2^s is lower than one

*mat AA=A/2^s

*compute e^(AA) by Taylor series

*compute e^(A) by squarring e^(AA) s times

In the library Armadillo, in file armadillo-4.550.3/include/armadillo_bits/op_expmat_meat.hpp here is how s is computed :
    double norm_val = norm(A, "inf");
    double log2_val = eop_aux::log2(norm_val);
    const uword s = (std::max)(uword(0), uword(log2_val) + uword(1) + uword(1));

If the infinite norm of A is lower than 1, log2_val is negative and casting it to uword (u stands for unsigned) fails. It results in s being very large (4294967291 for instance), and the code is stuck in a nearly infinite loop when squaring is performed.
A test should be added to the library, in file armadillo-4.550.3/include/armadillo_bits/op_expmat_meat.hpp,  something like :
uword s=42;
if(log2_val<0){
   //no need to use the formula, use Taylor series
   s=0;
 }else{
   //need to decrease A and use the formula
   s=uword(log2_val)+2;
 }

instead of :
const uword s = (std::max)(uword(0), uword(log2_val) + uword(1) + uword(1));

Change file op_expmat_meat.hpp, reinstall armadillo by typing cmake . make and make install (or sudo make install) and the issue will be gone. The new result seems to be correct. If A is near 0 :

I will report this bug to the developpers of Armadillo by email.
EDIT : no need to do so : as noticed by @mtall, this issue is removed in version 4.550.4. My guess is that the developpers have seen your post. The patched version has been modified a few hours ago : the developpers'team is reactive !

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I just registered for the Vermont City Marathon on May 27, about a month after my already-scheduled Big Sur, and I'm pretty excited.
- Ben & Jerry's ice cream. I have recruited some friends to accompany me on this trip. After the race, we are going to share the Vermonster, a 25-scoop sundae that incorporates all the flavors the factory makes.
- Beer. Magic Hat is made in Burlington. I'm sure there are more.
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My friends want to hike and kayak while we're there, too, so anyone familiar with the area with suggestions, please let me know!
Anyone else planning two spring marathons? Which ones?


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Contact Centre Summit To Be Held In Mo-Bay Feb. 8-11
Jamaica will host the 2004 Contact Centre and Strategic Sourcing Summit of the Americas from February 8 to 11 at the Half Moon Hotel, Montego Bay, after outbidding Puerto Rico and Miami.
The island's investment/export promotions and facilitation agency, Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), is organizing the Summit, which is regarded as one of the highlights on the international contact centre calendar.
Addressing a JIS Think Tank on February 4, Julian Robinson, JAMPRO's Investment Promotions Manager, explained that this Summit was one of a quarterly series of networking events, which focus on contact centre outsourcing in four specific regions worldwide – the Americas (the Caribbean, Latin America and North America); Canada; Europe; and Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.
In vying to host this Summit, Jamaica competed and won against Puerto Rico and Miami, noted Mr. Robinson. He said this was an indication that companies viewed Jamaica as a good location to conduct contact centre activities. This was consistent with JAMPRO's attempts to market and promote the location, he added.
Pointing to the Summit's importance, Mr. Robinson said that more than 150 company executives would attend. He emphasized that their presence was critical to the development of Jamaica's contact centre industry, as they would have the opportunity to interact with local service providers and to view first hand, local call centres.
Highlights of the Summit include the official opening on Monday, February 9 by Minister of Commerce, Science and Technology, Phillip Paulwell; a 'Jamaica presentation' by Mr. Robinson and a case study by Patrick Casserly, Chief Executive Officer of E-Services Group International, which is one of the largest contact centres locally, with 1,100 employees in two locations.
On Wednesday, February 11, JAMPRO will conduct site tours of three facilities, E Services Group; Vista Print, and National Asset Recovery Services.The JAMPRO executive expressed optimism that the Summit would provide economic spin-offs for Jamaica. "We (JAMPRO) are hopeful that out of the conference a number of participants will get a first-hand view of Jamaica's capabilities and hopefully make a decision to invest in Jamaica by establishing their own facilities or outsourcing to our existing contact centres locally," Mr. Robinson said.
Outlining the advantages that Jamaica offered to regional investors, Mr. Robinson noted that Jamaica was the third largest English- speaking country in the hemisphere behind the USA and Canada, and that citizens were highly exposed to North American culture, and identified with many North American goods and services.
Another distinct advantage highlighted by Mr. Robinson, was the island's close proximity to Miami, Florida. This facilitated company executives establishing contact centres and monitoring performance.
Jamaica's telecoms infrastructure was also considered world class and the existing centres were cost competitive as companies saved up to 40 to 50 per cent in operating costs by moving their centres from North America to Jamaica, said the JAMPRO official.
Mr. Robinson gave details of the types of call centres. For inbound call centres, a customer could call a tele banking centre to query bank transactions and account balances. Other examples of inbound calls were technical help desks where a company offered technical assistance to customers who have purchased appliances from consumer electronic firms; and the centre that handles e-mail support for web hosting firms by responding to queries from web masters about problems with their sites.
In outbound centres, telemarketing or tele sales calls originate from the centre to clients being sold products or services. Another example is the collection centre where banks or credit card firms pass on bad debts information to collection agencies to recover the debts.
Mr. Robinson pointed to the various training agencies that the Government had established to ensure that companies had an adequately trained pool of customer care representatives to employ.
These include the Human Employment and Resource Training (HEART) Trust that has a call centre curriculum; the Caribbean Institute of Technology, a software training institute that has an 11-month software development training programme; and Cisco Academy that trains network engineers.
Addressing queries about the competitiveness of the island's call centres, Mr. Robinson observed that while the country's telecoms rates were higher than what competitors paid in other parts of the world, this was offset by lower labour costs. He noted however, that Government's liberalization of the telecoms industry had helped to bring down costs significantly.
Major issues to be discussed at the Summit include legislative matters relating to the 'Do Not Call' list issued by the USA last year, including 50 to 60 million people, as well as how to deal with the protectionist lobby which fears that off shore outsourcing will take away American jobs.
A statutory body, JAMPRO was established in 1988 to initiate and co-ordinate the development of plans, programmes and policies for the economic and financial development of Jamaica.

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Drive Safely — Your Life Depends on It
Nonnewaug Emphasis on Safe Student Driving
Curiosity of @NHSParkingJobs/instagram
The Nonnewaug senior parking lot displays student driver cars and the NHS senior lot with some exceptions of junior spots.
Sophie Pape, Reporter
Henry Ruggs, former wide receiver for the Las Vegas Raiders, got stripped away from his silver and black colors because of a fatal car accident which killed a 23-year-old woman and her dog.
Ruggs was driving 156 mph with an alcohol level twice the legal limit just a mile from his home. He then hit the other car which lit into flames and burnt the victim to death. Friends and family of Ruggs have been nothing but supportive and cooperative to all parties at this time.
Former teammate and friend Derek Carr, the Raiders' quarterback, told CBS Sports: "I will always be there for him that won't change — he needs to be loved, and if no one else will do it, I will."
As high school students, it is not out of the norm for kids to go to a party, get under the influence, drive home, and get into accidents that lead to devastating consequences. The brain doesn't fully develop until age 25, so as a 22-year-old or a teenager, one isn't fully able to make conscious decisions that lead to these incidents.
In America, accidents are the leading cause of death in teenagers. They have little driving experience on top of lack of decision-making skills.
Nonnewaug's Chris O'Toole, the school resource officer, gave his thoughts on student driving risks.
"I believe that [motor vehicle] accidents are the leading cause of teens because of speed and distractions while driving, [such as] phones, passengers, [and] loud music."
O'Toole explained the dangers of driving.
"What I discussed at the student driver assembly was that a vehicle is a 3,000-pound bullet traveling down the road, and in a split-second lives are changed forever. When you travel at a high rate of speed, your reaction time significantly lessens and anything — snow, ice, road conditions, other things that require a quick decision — can cause you to be involved in an accident."
O'Toole stated that in his 28-plus years as a police officer, he has seen and investigated many accidents caused by speeding.
"It's not too much to say that most drivers of any age exceed the speed limit, but exceeding the speed limit in addition to inexperience and distractions leads to disaster," O'Toole said.
Pamela Sordi, principal of Nonnewaug High School, explained her concerns with student driving.
"We continue to talk about the importance of safe driving," Sordi said, "whether it be through programs like 'Shattered Dreams' in cooperation with the fire department — although due to COVID, we have not done this in the past couple [of] years — or discussion with student drivers as we did last week at flex time or individually with students at any given opportunity."
At Nonnewaug, like many other high school students, accidents from students have happened, some resulting in a horror story the community never forgets.
"It is terrible to even think about," Sordi said. "Accidents can happen and they are part of life; however, some accidents are preventable ones if only the driver had made a different decision. Things like reducing speed, staying focused from distractions such as cell phones, eating, reaching for something, or wearing a seat belt are all things that can help to reduce risk of injury. The frequency of accidents vary but any accident is one too many, especially when the accident was preventable."
The ability to drive is a privilege many take for granted. Teenagers get this opportunity to drive at such a young age. Being able to drive is exciting, but that being said it needs to be taken seriously.
"I personally think that getting your driver license at 16 years old is too early," O'Toole said. "I would like to see the driving age moved to 18 years old. Driving is a big responsibility and lives can change in a blink of an eye, and I am not sure a 16-year-old (or most drivers) really comprehend the consequences of their actions."
Nonnewaug has taken into account that there has been signs of reckless driving from student drivers arriving and leaving school.
"Last week, the school administration and I had an assembly with all student drivers," O'Toole said. "We discussed their driving behavior and the steps the school will be taking to slow student drivers down [like] speed bumps, radar signs, additional speed limit signs and more monitoring of their driving. I also try to regularly talk to drivers during the school day about their driving and the dangers of their driving."
Sophie Pape, Campus Community Reporter
Sophie Pape is a junior at Nonnewaug high school and a first year writer for the Chief Advocate. She enjoys writing about politics and upcoming events in the community. She is also a part of class council, the anchor program, and spirit club at NHS. She is from a family of nine; five out of her six siblings all graduated from Nonnewaug and her younger brother will be here next year. She has a five year old niece who she loves being with. She enjoys early mornings, watching the news, going to work, studying nutrition, reading about history, and drinking coffee. After Nonnewaug she is looking to go to college for history and political science and maybe even come back to NHS to teach. She is super excited to be a part of the Chief advocate Team!
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When I.T. Co. was moving to a new office in autumn, 2010, a decision was made to create a modern system of monitoring building electricity supply and subsistence of the corporate data processing center (DPC). The development and putting into operation of the intellectual monitoring system was performed by I.T. Co.'s "Industrial Automation" department that specializes in implementation of automated building management systems.
The smart monitoring system gives a possibility to record dozens of parameters of electricity supply quality for every measured channel or area in real time, in particular, voltage, currents, input power, including the presence of a reactive and harmonic component, etc. The analysis of electrical parameters in different areas of the object allows to find out "narrow" places, where there is a necessity of installing additional equipment that corrects the quality of electricity supply and allows to cut the general electricity consumption and "smooth over" peaking operation to raise the performance index of equipment and increase general reliability of functioning of the whole infrastructure.
There are functions of instant registration of emergency situations in DPC and building energy system, archiving of system parameters values, as well as warning the operator by e-mail and SMS about proximity of electrical supply parameters to critical values or emergency situations. It allows to avoid development of emergency situation and take adequate timely measures, ensure continuous control of the electricity supply system. The system also registers other emergency situations: leak of water, critical change of temperature and humidity, of which it also informs operators on duty.
Besides, the realized possibility of documenting all the events that happen in the system, storage of historical data, construction of charts and issue of required reporting documents for any set periods.
The hardware part of the system is built on the basis of the Janitza Electronics equipment (Germany). I.T. Co. is its official partner and has the status "3P-Provider" which allows to perform large-scale integration projects aimed at creation of smart systems of monitoring energy consumption of administrative and industrial objects. The "top level" of the system is realized on the basis of SCADA WEB STUDIO class software by InduSoft (USA).
As a result of implementing a smart system of monitoring energy supply and subsistence of corporate DPC and building, I.T. Co. managed to ensure full control over the necessary parameters and increase the efficiency of the object's electricity supply system. Now authorized specialists have an integral picture of DPC's technological equipment functioning with a possibility of receiving early notification about arising problems and prevention of peak demand. There is also reduction in the operating cost of energy supply systems, better information awareness of personnel and transition to real energy saving on the object.
"Today the Smart Grid is one of the most demanded industrial technologies and we, being a systems integrator, are actively developing this trend, improving expertise and competences for their promotion on the market, says Valery Volobuev, Head of "Industrial Automation" Division of I.T. Co. Infrastructural Solutions Department. – Besides measurable profit from implementation of the monitoring system in the office building and corporate DPC, our specialists obtained invaluable experience of deployment and adjustment of a complex solution which we are already transferring to our customers. Thus, in 2011 we realized the projects aimed at creation of automated systems of dispatch control in a number of operator class DPCs, including for departmental structures. Moreover, this experience helped to create a situational energy efficiency system of a large Russian higher educational institution, a complex system of technological accounting of industrial enterprise energy resources in Novosibirsk".


An editor with a New York publishing firm—I'll call him John Samuels—once told me about an experience he had when he was speaking at a writers conference. His topic was, "What Editors Look for in a Manuscript." The room was packed with aspiring writers eager to achieve publication. They were bright-eyed and excited. Their notebooks were open and ready. Yet as he spoke, addressing some of the same subjects we'll be talking about in this book—creating strong characters, devising a compelling plot—John realized he was losing his audience. Their minds were wandering, their heads nodding. From the back of the room, he thought he heard someone snore.
Then, about halfway through the hour, a woman raised her hand. "Mr. Samuels," she said, "you're not sticking to the topic. You're supposed to tell us what editors want. So let's talk about that. Now, when I send in my manuscript, how wide should I make the margins?"
John wasn't surprised at the question. He hears at least one off-the-wall question every time he gives a talk. What surprised and dismayed him was that suddenly the whole audience became alert, sat up straight in their chairs, and poised their pens over their notebooks, ready to take down John's magic formula for writing success. Make the margins precisely this wide, and you will be published.
If only it were that easy. Of course margins count, because a properly prepared manuscript demonstrates to an editor that you have a professional attitude, that you know what you're doing. If you present your story in its correct business attire, the editor will read it with a higher expectation that it will be pub-lishable; if your manuscript looks sloppy or careless, the editor may not read your story at all. But plenty of neatly typed manuscripts with one-inch margins all around are rejected. What matters to both editors and readers are the art and the craft you bring to the writing of the story itself.
Achieving art and craft in short story writing requires hard work and dedication. In the process, you will become frustrated and dejected, you will wad up pages of leaden prose and false starts and dead ends and fling them across the room. You will be tempted to smash your computer screen or heave your typewriter out the window.
But what is far more important, you will also experience great joy. You will have moments when you become so absorbed in the fictional world you are creating that time will seem to stop; days when you sit down at your desk after breakfast and look up just minutes later to realize that it's dinnertime. You will experience the high that comes after one of those rare days when when prose flows, the characters don't balk, and the story takes on a life of its own. You will know the exhilaration of hearing someone who has no vested interest in saying so tell you, "Hey, I read your story. It's really good."
Some writers maintain that writing can't be taught. Perhaps this is true, especially when it comes to the art of the writing, because the art is born of the individual vision and insights and passions that the writer brings to the work.
But the craft of writing, if it can't be taught, can certainly be learned. Learning is a process of trial and error. Take classes, listen to writers speak, read this book and others, do the exercises that they suggest. Try the suggested tips and techniques in your own writing, and see which ones work for you.
What you will discover is that there is no foolproof recipe for writing a short story. There is no definitive set of instructions. There is no secret that, if only you can persuade someone to whisper it in your ear, will guarantee success.
For every writer, the creative process works differently. Every writer uses different techniques for tapping into her creativity, keeping track of her ideas, and managing her writing activities. There are writers who work best in the early morning, and others who can't get juiced up until the late news signs off. In this age of technological sophistication, I know one author who, after eighteen published books, still pecks out her stories with two fingers on an old typewriter. I know another who writes all his first drafts in longhand on yellow legal pads. All of these writers are doing it right—for them.


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In the scenario of constant progression to PID, with a constant daily risk of developing PID, it takes 228 days until half of the expected PID cases are observed and for the progression at the end it takes 253 days, using the MLE in Table 2 (see Additional file 1 Figure A1).
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Born a slave in 1818 on a plantation in Maryland, Douglass taught himself to read and write. In 1845, seven years after escaping to the North, he published Narrative, the first of three autobiographies. This book calmly but dramatically recounts the horrors and the accomplishments of his early years—the daily, casual brutality of the white masters; his painful efforts to educate himself; his decision to find freedom or die; and his harrowing but successful escape.
An astonishing orator and a skillful writer, Douglass became a newspaper editor, a political activist, and an eloquent spokesperson for the civil rights of African Americans. He lived through the Civil War, the end of slavery, and the beginning of segregation. He was celebrated internationally as the leading black intellectual of his day, and his story still resonates in ours.
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Hooverdammen (, tidigare Boulder Dam), är en dammbyggnad över Coloradofloden mellan USA-delstaterna Nevada och Arizona, 48 kilometer sydöst om Las Vegas. Kraftverksdammen är en 222 meter hög valvdamm av betong. Byggandet pågick från 1931 till 1936, under tiden för Den stora depressionen. Dammbyggnaden är uppkallad efter Herbert Hoover, som var USA:s president när det startade. Detta namnval var kontroversiellt. Dammbyggnaden invigdes 30 september 1935 av president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Den var då resultatet av en enorm arbetsinsats av tusentals arbetare och hade kostat mer än hundra människoliv.
Den konstgjorda sjö som dammbyggnaden dämmer upp heter Lake Mead.

Ravinen Black canyon och den närliggande Boulder canyon hade utretts sedan ungefär år 1900 med avseende på möjligheten att anlägga en kraftverksdamm där. Dammen skulle säkra tillgången till vatten för städer och jordbruk i södra Kalifornien och Arizona. Den innebar också ett skydd mot översvämningar till följd av snösmältningen i Klippiga bergen som tidigare hotade boende längs floden. Även elproduktion var ett viktigt syfte. Projektet beslutades av Kongressen år 1928. Ett konsortium som kallades Six Companies, Inc. fick uppdraget och arbetet påbörjades i början av 1931. Ingen hade tidigare uppfört en så stor betongkonstruktion och tekniker som användes var oprövade. Det torra och heta vädret på platsen och bristen på samhällsfunktioner innebar också stora svårigheter för projektet. Men den färdigbyggda dammen överlämnades till de federala myndigheterna 1 mars 1936, vilket var 2 år tidigare än planerat.

Kraftverket har genom sin produktion av elektricitet haft stor betydelse för utvecklingen inte minst i Las Vegas. Effekten är numera 2 080 MW. Det är den största uppdämda volymen i USA, när den är fylld.

Fördämningen ligger nära staden Boulder City, en stad som ursprungligen byggdes för att hysa personalen som deltog i dammbyggnadsprojektet. Staden ligger ungefär 5 mil sydost om Las Vegas i staten Nevada .

Den intensivt trafikerade vägen U.S. Route 93 löpte tidigare längs dammens krön. Under 2010 öppnades en ny motorvägsbro som leder U.S. Route 93 förbi dammen. Dammen är tillsammans med bron ett av de stora turistmålen i området. Hooverdammen har närmare en miljon besökare per år.

En kopia av dammen återfinns i TV-spelen Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, Goldeneye: Rogue Agent och Fallout: New Vegas.

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Validity Proofs vs. Fraud Proofs
StarkWare
Jan 23 · 6 min read
In this blog post, we analyze and compare various Layer-2 (L2) scalability solutions, based on the distinction between Fraud Proofs and Validity Proofs. We claim that Validity Proofs have a fundamental advantage, in that they ensure that nothing other than correct state transitions are accepted.
In recent months several exciting proof-based attempts at solving Ethereum's scalability problem have surfaced — projects such as Truebit, Gluon Plasma, dFusion, Roll-Up and Ignis. The basic idea is simple: instead of writing many transactions to the blockchain, one produces a proof that some succinct representation (e.g. a hash) of these transactions represents the new state of affairs.
The above-mentioned projects are all L2 solutions: they define a protocol (and logic) that runs on top of Layer-1 (L1), and relies on it for various services: deposits/withdrawals, a ledger for commitments to off-chain state, and as a "universal clock". Importantly, L1 is not aware of, and therefore cannot enforce, any L2 logic.
We would like to present a framework for comparing these solutions, with a particular focus on the difference between Fraud Proofs, and what we shall refer to as Validity Proofs. Fundamentally, Fraud Proofs and Validity Proofs can exist in L1, but current attempts, and therefore our analysis, are all in L2.
Fraud Proofs present evidence that a state transition was incorrect. They reflect an optimistic view of the world: the assumption is that blocks represent only correct states of L2 data, until proven otherwise. In reality, a committed block could well include an incorrect state transition.
Validity Proofs present evidence that a state transition is correct. They reflect a more pessimistic view of the world. Blocks include values representing L2 state if, and only if, that state is correct.
Before proceeding, it is worth emphasizing: Proof Systems (e.g. SNARK, STARK) can be used as either Fraud Proofs or Validity Proofs. One should not confuse how we prove (e.g. SNARK, STARK) with what we prove (Fraud or Validity).
Fraud Proofs
The main advantage of Fraud Proofs is that they are not needed for every state transition, but only when things supposedly break down. As such, they require fewer computational resources, and are a better fit for a scalability-constrained environment. The main disadvantage of these protocols stems from their interactivity: they define a 'conversation' between multiple parties. A conversation requires the parties — the party claiming fraud, in particular — to be present (liveness), and allows other parties to interrupt the conversation by various means. But the heart of the problem is the protocol's interpretation of silence (the absence of a challenge to a new state) as implicit consent. Indeed, an attacker could attempt to create the semblance of silence with DDoS attacks.
Let us describe the conceptual protocol: Since a block may include an incorrect state transition, the Fraud Proof protocol allows for a time frame — the Dispute Time Frame (DTF) — to dispute this incorrect state. This window is measured in blocks. If no Fraud Proof is submitted within the DTF, the L2 state transition is considered correct. If a Fraud Proof is submitted to the smart contract, and is found correct (i.e., was submitted within the DTF, and indeed proves an incorrect state transition), it results, at a minimum, in the smart contract reverting to the commitment of the last correct L2 state. Additional steps, such as penalties to the violating party, may be applied.
The selection of the DTF duration is of consequence: the longer it is, the higher the probability of detecting an incorrect state transition — that is good. But, the longer it is, the longer users have to wait, for example, to withdraw funds — that is bad.
Validity Proofs
These are an altogether simpler beast: a representation of some off-chain computation is sent to a smart contract. The smart contract updates the blockchain with this new value only after it is verified as correct. The main advantages of Validity Proofs are that the blockchain will always reflect a correct L2 state, and that a new state can be immediately relied upon and used. The main disadvantage is that proofs are needed for each and every state transition, and not merely when such a transition is contested, and this impacts scalability.
51%-Attacks
Of the numerous possible attacks, we would like to focus on 51%-attacks on L1. We have seen a surge in these recently, including an attack on Ethereum Classic. How would Fraud Proofs and Validity Proofs fare against such attacks?
Fraud Proofs: A 51%-attack allows an attacker to introduce into the blockchain a fraudulent state and, for example, steal funds from an exchange being attacked. In more detail:
The attackers create BlockFr with a fraudulent state transition. For example, that includes a transfer of all of the funds in the exchange to their own account.
On top of BlockFr, they will add DTF blocks, culminating in a block that includes a withdrawal of the funds granted in BlockFr.
They then continue to extend the chain beyond the DTF, and beyond the current chain. They are capable of doing so, as they control 51% of the hashrate.
Disturbingly, the operating cost of launching such an attack is independent of the "jackpot" (and remarkably low at the moment: under $100K/hour of an attack on Ethereum), i.e. the funds controlled by the exchange under attack. This means that as the volume of activity in crypto-exchanges grows, they become increasingly attractive targets for such attacks.
To summarize, the root problem is that an L2 solution defines its own logic, and in particular permits a block containing a fraudulent state transition. The state of the ledger after our attacker stole the funds is a legal state! No double spend ever occurred and, yet, a fraud occurred.
Validity Proofs: A 51%-attack can merely unwind recorded history, and possibly offer an alternative history; importantly, this alternative history is also correct. The range of attacks that can be carried out here is limited to the attacks possible at L1. In crypto-to-crypto exchanges (and in particular, when all assets traded reside on the same blockchain), the unwinding of recorded history can at times be a hugely profitable move: a seller, for example, may be delighted to unwind a transaction that took place at what in hindsight was a rock-bottom price, but in an exchange of crypto-assets on a given blockchain there is no means of outright theft of assets.
Proposed Solutions
Why are Fraud Proof systems (e.g. Gluon Plasma and dFusion) being considered, given these substantial disadvantages? The main reason is that proving validity was up until recently too expensive and cumbersome.
Prior to the use of Proof Systems, the only option for "Validity Proofs" in a permissionless system involved naive replay, and as such greatly limited scalability; in essence this replay is what is still done today in L1, with the known penalty to scalability. Proof Systems offer a very appealing trait known as succinctness: in order to validate a state transition, one need only verify a proof, and this is done at a cost that is effectively independent of the size of the state transition (more precisely, it is polylogarithmic in the size of the state transition).
Ignis/Roll-Up both rely on SNARKs that require a trusted setup and considerably more prover computing resources than STARKs. StarkWare is working on deploying StarkDEX, its scalability solution for DEXs, which will use STARKs to achieve Validity Proofs. We intend to see this deployed on testnet by the end of Q1 2019.
This blog post compared Fraud Proofs to Validity Proofs as tools for L2 scalability solutions. We highlighted the inherent advantages of Validity Proofs with respect to 51% attacks. STARKs, with their fast proving time, succinct verification and trustless setup, are a compelling means for producing Validity Proofs.
Thanks to Dan Robinson, Linda Xie, Alexey Akhunov, and Georgios Konstantopoulos for reviewing drafts of this blog post.
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"With this album, we wanted to mix it up and just get heat from everywhere. Bizarre, Proof, everybody just started getting beat CDs from anybody. Like, Bizarre stays in Atlanta now, so he gets beat CDs from talent there and brings it back to us. Every record sounds different on this album. That, to me, is gonna show the growth of D12. Plus, when we do D12 albums, man, we just feel like it's a friendly competition thing to see who gets on the track and just rips."
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Grammy winners The White Stripes, Eminem, new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Bob Seger, Kid Rock and Aretha Franklin are among the nominees for the annual Detroit Music Awards, which will take place Friday, April 23 at The State Theater in downtown Detroit.
The White Stripes' Elephant, Kid Rock's Kid Rock, Aretha Franklin's So Damn Happy, Alice Cooper's Eyes of Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop's Skull Ring and Obie Trice's Cheers comprise the Outstanding National Major Label Album category.
Only weeks after Ray Benzino's latest attack on wax, D12's Proof and Swifty Mcvey have retaliated on DJ Exclusive's latest mixtape.
DJ Exclusive Presents Luthaism hosted by Proof features a track on which the emcee accompanied by Swifty responds to Benzino's latest stabs at the Shady camp, 50 Cent, The Roots, Outkast and Da Band.
"We're in the studio... they already had the stuff they wanted to say. He keeps throwing shots at Em, now he's racist, come on. They were doing the song and they wanted to put it on the mixtape," Exclusive told SOHH regarding the recording of the track. "Benzino is just trying to do anything to stop Shady and it's not going to happen."
MTV's Spring Break started March 19 check the Weekly Schedule for all air times. Check some of the pictures below.
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ORNL Supercomputers to Boost National Cancer Moonshot
July 29, 2016 by Doug Black
Vice President Joe Biden addresses attendees of the Cancer Moonshot Summit held at Howard University.
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will add its computational know-how to the battle against cancer through several new projects recently announced at the White House Cancer Moonshot Summit.
ORNL brings to the table our world-class resources in high-performance computing, including the Titan supercomputer, as well as leading experts in the data sciences and neutron analysis, to the fight against cancer," said ORNL's Joe Lake, deputy for operations at the HDSI.
The goal of the Cancer Moonshot is to double the rate of progress toward a cure – to make a decade of advances in cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care in five years. During the Cancer Moonshot Summit held June 29th, Vice President Joe Biden highlighted a set of new federal and private sector projects that will accelerate the Cancer Moonshot effort.
DOE, in partnership with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), is launching three pilot projects to bring together nearly one hundred cancer researchers, care providers, computer scientists, and engineers to apply the nation's most advanced supercomputing capabilities to analyze data from preclinical models in cancer, molecular interaction data for RAS, and cancer surveillance data. Four DOE National Laboratories: Argonne, Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge, in conjunction with the NCI Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, will participate in the pilots.
ORNL will contribute expertise in health care data analytics and computing assets, coordinated through its Health Data Sciences Institute (HDSI). Georgia Tourassi, Director of HDSI, and ORNL researchers will help lead the pilot pertaining to cancer surveillance, but will also be involved in the other pilot projects.
ORNL will also support a collaboration between DOE and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that applies the national laboratories' most powerful computational assets and data science expertise to nearly half a million veterans' records from one of the world's largest research cohorts — genotype data from the VA's Million Veteran Program (MVP) combined with phenotype data from the VA's Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW), as a cornerstone of the President's Precision Medicine Initiative. This partnership will combine VA's clinical and genomic data with the labs' advanced computing infrastructure and analytics to push the frontiers of precision medicine and exascale computing.
The goal is to partner with the VA to study how genetics affects health," said ORNL's Jeremy Archuleta. "This big data project aims to integrate genetics with environment, lifestyle and health information to predict illness and determine the best treatment for diseases important to VA and the nation, such as cancer."
The first phase of this partnership will focus on cancer, cardiovascular disease and mental health issues, and the resulting platform will create a foundation to accelerate understanding of disease detection, progression, prevention, and treatment by combining and analyzing clinical, environmental and genomic data.
We are very excited to learn how our existing advanced analytics algorithms can contribute to this national initiative and to co-design future analytics capabilities specific to health science, " said Tom Potok, who leads ORNL's Computational Data Analytics group.
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