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Carl Reiner: Remembering a Comedy Legend
by Marnie Winston-Macauley
The comedic genius has left his indelible fingerprints on all facets of comedy.
On June 29th, we lost Carl Reiner, actor, writer, producer, director, author, and pioneer, at the age or 98.
We've all heard the cliché "The death or one man diminishes us all." As a Jew, at these times, I prefer to believe "The life of one man can enrich us all."
In Reiner's case, the riches extend wide and his legacy is indelible.
He was simply an original. Whether you're a comic, a comedy writer, director, actor; whether you're a Boomer, a Gen-ex or y-er, or even a millennial, there wouldn't be a "you" quite as you are if there hadn't been a Carl, along with his band of merry men and women cohorts who not only created a new kind of comedy that tested boundaries but also broke some of the boundaries they created.
A father of the sketch comedy for Sid Caesar from 1950 through the 1960s, along with a dream team of writers and performers that included Mel Brooks, Mel Tolkin, Lucille Kallen, Neil Simon, Howard Morris, and Selma Diamond among other later luminaries, Reiner's massive career had a bit of everything funny. He acted in films such as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), and the Ocean's film series (2001–2007). He co-wrote and directed some of Steve Martin's early hits such as The Jerk (1979), and directed notable comedies including Where's Poppa? (1970), Oh, God! (1977), and All of Me (1984).
It was Reiner who created (and sometimes acted in) The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961) loosely based on Caesar's meshuggener Writing Room, where he met lifelong best friend, Mel Brooks.
It started as a party game. It went viral. I'm talking about Reiner's loving and slightly insane collaboration with Mel Brooks. Of course we're talking about the 2000 Year Old Man, where Reiner "interviewed" Brooks, the ancient Jewishy, irreverent codger.
Here's the megillah on Brooks' and Reiner's' oldest mensch in the universe. (Don't worry, I'll shorten.)
Stoked with a little Manischewitz at parties Reiner would throw Brooks a character – from a Tibetan Monk to an astronaut. As the story goes, one night at Mel Brooks' Fire Island house, Reiner threw him a 2000 Year Old Man who had seen it all. Among hundreds of encounters with the famous and not-so-famous, he mistook Paul Revere for an anti-Semite ("The Yiddish are coming! The Yiddish are coming!")
This was the stuff of not "regular" parties but those attended by humor royalty. It was the late Steve Allen who suggested the two make a record, and Allen booked a huge recording studio, filled with coffee, juice and friends. During the session in 1961, Brooks let his uncensored mind loose as Reiner fired questions, and the wild Yiddish, 2000-year-old man became history on vinyl, winning multiple awards.
In 1961 the 2000 Year Old Man went public on television with Brooks as the world's oldest man, interviewed by Reiner. A collection of five albums followed, along with books and animation. They not only got awards; they were a mega hit with audiences of all stripes. According to my extensive research, the last we heard from the 2000 Year Old Man was in the year 2000 in a book titled the 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000.
Carl Reiner, the son of Jewish immigrants was born in the Bronx, New York City, on March 20, 1922 to Irving Reiner, a watchmaker from Austria and Bessie (née Mathias) from Romania. His older brother Charlie served in the 9th Division in World War II.
It was his brother Charlie who spirited 16-year-old Carl out of a machine shop by telling him about a free drama workshop sponsored by the Works Progress Administration. This was his first venture into the world of show biz.
The change later inspired one of the funniest laugh-out-loud plays and films of all time, Enter Laughing which was a semi-autobiographical stage play in 1963, and then a film in 1967 about the major mishaps of a young Jewish boy in the Bronx who dreams of being Ronald Coleman, while his hysterically worried mother insists he become a pharmacist.
During World War ll, he served with the United States Army Air Force. Initially trained to be a radio operator, after a bout of pneumonia, he spent almost a year at to Georgetown University training as a French interpreter. This led to his directing a Moliere play in French, his first directing gig. Next stop: Hawaii as a teleprinter operator. And then, bashert! The night before he was scheduled to ship out, he attended a Special Services production of Hamlet. After an audition before actor Maurice Evans, an officer with the unit, he was transferred to Special Services. Until 1946, Reiner entertained around the Pacific theater, until he was honorably discharged in 1946.
Reiner had a lot to return to: his wife, singer Estelle Lebost, to whom he was married for 64 years until her death. The couple had three talented children actor and filmmaker Rob Reiner (b. 1947); poet, playwright, and author Annie Reiner (b. 1949); and painter, actor, and director Lucas Reiner (b. 1960).
In an interview I caught with Rob Reiner, and I'm paraphrasing, he commented that "…there is no better comedy or acting school in the world than the home he was raised in, with dad, and pals such as Mel Brooks and Norman Lear."
His autobiography: Too Busy to Die (2017) was both a title and his philosophy.
Reiner, the recipient of 11 Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor who among many other honors was also inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1999, believed his longevity was a attributable to several things, apart from DNA: keeping active, having a heck of a sense of humor, and enjoying the love of family and good friends.
Those of us of my generation cannot imagine a world without our Carl Reiner. And thanks to him, his genius, his body of work, there will always be one.
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Marnie Winston-Macauley
Quirky, no-nonsense, funny, Marnie – writer, editor, author, lecturer, clinician, and administrator – is a straight-shooter, who has a distinctive voice and takes on the world in her columns, features, and books. Marnie, who did her graduate work at Columbia University writes relationship features and advice columns.Her advice column was syndicated through Tribune Media Services, and it currently appears in Singular magazine as Singular Solutions and the San Diego Jewish Journal. Marnie has written over 20 books/calendars, including the series "A Little Joy, A Little Oy." Her books include "Yiddishe Mamas: The Truth About the Jewish Mother" and "A Little Joy, A Little Oy" (winner best calendar content, pub. AndrewsMcMeel). She is also a "calendar queen" having written over 20. She has been nominated for both an Emmy and Writers Guild award. Thefullwiki.org has listed Marnie Macauley on their list of top Jewish_American writers, dead or living. (She's still deciding which.) She was also chosen as a Distinguished Woman in Nevada in March of 2014.
Marnie invites you to join her on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Her website: www.marniemacauley.com and you can reach her at asksadie@aol.com.
(3) MESA, July 8, 2020 1:53 PM
I grew up in the era of reruns but I watched The Dick Van Dyke Show and I saw and heard many wonderful things about Carl Reiner. He was a legend and will be missed.
Nancy, July 10, 2020 11:07 AM
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It's good to "see" you here. I hope you and yours are safe and healthy!
(2) Eli Willner, July 7, 2020 7:27 PM
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Nancy, July 7, 2020 8:36 PM
I am a HUGE fan of Aish and come here more than once a day. With that said, I do not always agree with every single contributor. Carl Reiner made us laugh and lived a very productive life well into his old age. We Jews are a family, secular or frum. BDE.
(1) Nancy, July 5, 2020 12:29 PM
It was like losing a favorite relative
Carl Reiner was born in the same year & just one week after my father, z"l. My heart aches for his children and of course for Mel Brooks. Thanks for writing such a comprehensive and poignant article.
MARNIE, July 5, 2020 9:37 PM
It's a personal ache that we share. Thanks for writing.
Shalom with love,
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Energy Facts
I've been looking on the Internet for facts on energy usage including alternative energies and alternative fuels for cars. Most of what I've found is propaganda, and I don't believe it. The solar people try to sell you that your electric meter will run backwards and you'll make money. The electric car people call their cars "zero emission" and claim it will cost you pennies a mile to drive them. I analyzed some real data provided by the DOE, DOT, and other sources and computed some answers using simple math.
Total U.S. yearly electric power generation/consumption 5,000,000,000,000 kWh
Total U.S. Households 120,000,000
Total electrical power per household 4,756 W
Yearly electrical consumption by households 1,300,000,000,000 kWh
Consumption per household by households 1,237 W
% of total electrical consumption by households 26.0%
U.S. Gallons of gasoline consumed per year 142,000,000,000 gallons
Energy in a gallon of gasoline 34.50 kWh/gal
Vehicle miles travelled/year 3,000,000,000,000 miles
cars/light trucks 2,775,000,000,000 miles
big rigs 225,000,000,000 miles
Average miles/gallon for cars/light trucks 19.54 mpg
Total energy in gasoline consumed per year 4,899,000,000,000 kWh
Hybrid (i.e. Toyota Prius)
efficiency of hybrid gasoline engine 35.0%
hybrid miles/kWh 4 miles/kWh
mpg of a hybrid 48 mpg
efficiency of average car 20.0%
efficiency of gasoline generator (8kw) 35.0%
efficiency of a coal burning power plant 40.0%
efficiency of a coal burning power plant after distribution network 37.1%
Registered Vehicles in U.S. (2007) 247,264,605 vehicles
Registered Cars in U.S. (2007) 135,932,930 vehicles
Registered Trucks in U.S. (2007) 110,497,239 vehicles
Electric car – typical miles/kWh 3.00 miles/KWh
Equivalent mpg for typical electric car @ 100% efficient engine 103.50 miles/gallon
Equivalent mpg for typical electric car @ coal efficiency power production 38.42 miles/gallon
Losses in Power grid 7.2%
Additional electrical power generation required for all electric cars 996,767,241,379 kWh
% increase in total electrical generation needed for electric cars 19.9%
% increase in household electricity usage for electric cars 76.7%
That's a lot of numbers.
The first interesting number is that 26% of electrical energy use is in households, the rest is for commercial and industrial purposes. I started this simple analysis when I read a story on Wikipedia about solar energy plants in the Mojave desert. In the same article it said that one solar power plant that delivers 350MW could power 500K households while another 550MW plant could only power 400K households. They obviously assumed a different value for household usage, so I asked myself: which is correct? I looked up on the DOE web site and found that on average a U.S. household consumes about 1200W (10,500kWh/year). But 1200W is only 1/4 of the overall power consumed on a per household basis. So a 550MW plant, which would be the biggest solar plant ever built at a huge cost, would supply power for a community of about 90K households and businesses, much fewer than either the 400K or 500K quoted in Wikipedia. In fact that 550MW plant couldn't even power the smallest of cities because it provides no power when the sun doesn't shine, for example at night or on cloudy days. So in fact saying that the solar plant can provide power for even a single household is misleading. Except for remote cabins with huge batteries, solar does not provide primary power. Solar can only be used to reduce peak power consumption during the daytime, which is certainly a need, but not a primary need.
The second question that I have always wondered about is much energy is used in the form of electricity versus how much is used for cars. After doing some simple math I found that the amount of energy used by cars over one year is roughly the same as the amount of electrical energy produced over one year. That was unexpected. Unfortunately, the useful energy that we derive from gasoline is only 20% of the total energy because of the efficiency of the average car. If we move to hybrid cars this efficiency goes up to about 35% which would reduce the energy needed by cars, that is the amount of gasoline consumed, to 57% (a little more than half) of the current level. Some newer non-hybrid engines can also achieve this higher efficiency. A 50% reduction in gasoline usage would be a huge help both for global warming and for energy security, but what if we want to go further. Enter the electric car.
There is no free lunch with the electric car, it still requires electricity to run and where do we get that electricity? From coal and gas burning power plants for the most part. So how to we compare the performance of electric cars with gasoline powered cars? That is a very difficult question because while there are 250 million registered gasoline power cars in the U.S. today, there are less than 100 thousand electric vehicle and those are all basically golf carts of one sort or another (the term of art is "neighborhood electric vehicles"). The equivalent to mpg for electric vehilces is miles/kWh. While small vehicles can have miles/kWh of 5 or even higher, the unanswered question is what would the equivalent miles/kWh be for the entire fleet of 250 million gasoline power cars if they all converted to electric cars. For my analysis I chose a very generous 3 miles/kWh, which I'm sure the electric car advocates would say is low. But if you consider that a Prius is a 4, chosing a 3 means that the average car would be a little bit bigger than a Prius, which is obviously not the case today.
So that what is the bottom line about how much fossil fuel can be saved moving to electric vehicles? The answer can be seen by looking at the efficiency of those coal and gas burning plants. Turns out coal and gas plants have about the same efficiency (35% or maybe up to 40% for the newest designs) as a well designed hybrid gasoline power engine. So that means that electric powered vehicles are really coal power vehicles generating pretty much the same amount of greenhouse gasses as hybrid vehicles. But the amount of other crap, like radioactive isotopes, that come from burning coal is much worse than burning gasoline. The bottom line is that it looks like electric cars pollute much more than hybrids. On the outside, electric cars are promoted as the ultimate in clean, but on the inside they are very dirty things. The only hope for electric cars is nuclear power, which would truely provide a "zero-emission" vehicle, but would also pollute the ideology of the electric car.
A final note on the electric car. My analysis shows that you can expect your electricty usage to almost double if you use one, so make sure you get the cheapest electricity rate you can.
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Germany's strongest premium brands in the U.S. sell cars at home that wouldn't fit their image abroad, including tiny city cars and any number of diesels. Nevertheless, the rise of fuel efficiency as a primary buying criterion has reportedly driven the company to consider introducing a four-cylinder diesel engine to North America.
Speaking in front of journalists at the automaker's local headquarters in New Jersey, Tom Baloga, vice president of engineering for BMW of North America, revealed that a four-cylinder diesel will show up in a range of models in American showrooms in coming years.
"You're going to see it of course in the 3-Series," he said, "and the 5-Series is a good possibility. If the performance [of such an engine] is sufficient in the X3, U.S. customers would likely accept it in the X5 as well."
The engine Baloga was talking about is a 2.0-liter turbodiesel currently sold overseas. However, there will be a number of changes implemented to make it suitable for American tastes. The engine will need to match the "acoustic qualities" of BMW's six-cylinder engines but perform better in terms of fuel economy and emissions.
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Welsh Britpop was kept afloat by two major lad-ish combos: the precursory MANIC STREET PREACHERS, and their late-90s trackers, the STEREOPHONICS. Latecomers to the scene compared to their aforementioned rivals, Kelly Jones and Co have secured five chart-topping albums from 1999's "Performance And Cocktails" to 2007's "Pull The Pin", while all of the excitement of their cool singles were appreciated on their double-platinum 2008 compilation, DECADE IN THE SUN: BEST OF STEREOPHONICS {*9}.
Equally fuelled by angst and emotion, the original trio of Cwmaman, mid Glamorgan chums, Kelly Jones (vocals/guitars), the unrelated Richard Jones (bass) and Aberdare-born Stuart Cable (drums), duly shelved nugatory covers act Tragic Love Company for the more in-line and operative, STEREOPHONICS; their moniker stemmed from the manufacturer of Stuart's dad's record player.
The trio proved they were more than capable of spearheading Richard Branson's fresh subsidiary V2 imprint with the release late in '97 of debut single, `Looks Like Chaplin', a melodic riff-a-thon that was more in common with trad 70s rock and/or Seattle grunge than the then dominant Brit-pop. Sadly, the record (and its rollicking B-side, `More Life In A Tramps Vest') was only afforded a limited-edition of 500 copies, thus rendering it non-plus for the singles charts. Signalling their first true retail release, `Local Boy In The Photograph', came within breathing distance of the Top 50, a dizzying amalgam of the MANICS, RADIOHEAD, OASIS and BUFFALO TOM, that managed to sound simultaneously contemporary and classic.
Jones confirmed his newfound status as one of Old Blighty's most promising young songwriters as STEREOPHONICS embarked on an impressive chart run with the Top 40-breaking `More Life In A Tramp's Vest'. Late summer saw them nudge closer to the Top 20 with `A Thousand Trees', the opening track on debut album, WORD GETS AROUND (1997) {*8}.
A massive selling UK Top 10 success, the record featured in the upper reaches of many end-of-year polls, helping to net the band a (Best New Group) Brit Award early the following year. Having seen out '97 with the moody magnificence of `Traffic', the triumphant trio began the new year with a Top 20 re-issue of `Local Boy…', prior to a summer of heavy touring.
Towards the fall of '98, STEREOPHONICS became a household name with the MANICs-like Top 3 hit, `The Bartender And The Thief', proving that despite the continued predictions of its imminent demise, good old fashioned guitar-rock and solid songwriting was alive and well and living in Wales. The following year saw the trio peak both critically and commercially, four additional and massive hits, `Just Looking, `Pick A Part That's New', `I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio' and `Hurry Up And Wait', all squeezed out of an excellent sophomore set, PERFORMANCE AND COCKTAILS (1999) {*9}. Welsh pop idol, TOM "The Voice" JONES, also called up the services of his fellow countrymen to duet with him on a Top 5 hit of `Mama Told Me Not To Come'.
Everyone's favourite trad-rockers returned in 2001 with JUST ENOUGH EDUCATION TO PERFORM {*7}, the record's title engendering an unlikely bout of controversy when the band – much to car manufacturer Daimler-Chrysler's disapproval – attempted to abbreviate it to "J.E.E.P.". Needless to say, this episode was more unpredictable than any of the meat and potatoes fare on offer within. Which wasn't to say STEREOPHONICS were worthy but dull, just that their acoustic-laced melodic rock lent itself to daytime radio play annoyingly well. Once again, Jones proved himself a master of rock classicism, taking his inspiration from the choicest, most authentic sounding 60s/70s moments and infusing them with the deftest of rootsy flourishes. Thus, trying as you might to resist, attendant singles such as `Mr Writer', `Step On My Old Size Nines', the breezy `Have A Nice Day' and `Vegas Two Times', slowly but surely shoehorned their way into your consciousness, much like that "Top Gear" compilation your dad used to play. While Kelly was a writer who was undoubtedly maturing with age, he still lacked that strain of rugged individuality that marked out a ROD STEWART or a JOHN FOGERTY; the fact that raspy Kelly and Co superseded Rod The Mod's nugget, `Handbags & Gladrags' (penned by MIKE D'ABO) into the Top 5 was proof that maybe the post-millennium tide was turning.
KJ did yet more growing up the hard way with YOU GOTTA GO THERE TO COME BACK (2003) {*6}, detailing his travails through a series of affecting if often disillusioned vignettes. With the likes of `Nothing Precious At All' and the hit singles `Madame Helga', `Maybe Tomorrow', `Since I Told You It's Over' and `Moviestar', the band sounded less like they had something to prove and more like they had something to say.
The first album to feature Argentinian Javier Weyler on the drum-stool (in place of temp Steve Gorman who filled for the departed Cable), LANGUAGE. SEX. VIOLENCE. OTHER? (2005) {*7} was the sound of a rejuvenated, testosterone-taut band mitigating their primal rock instincts with contemporary 80s-centric treatments. Lead single `Dakota' cruised to the top of the British charts with James Dean-dream, stick-shift cool, arguable the most stylish three minutes they've ever committed to vinyl tarmac. Follow-up and album opener, `Superman', combined falsetto vocals and an evil sounding bass-line, going Top 20, as did successive spin-offs `Devil' and `Rewind', both of which reverberated to echo-chamber vocals and the latter recalling nothing so much as vintage U2. So much for the singles; the album cuts – from the brutal epiphany of `Doorman' onwards – weren't so forgiving, pulverising slabs of crew-cut rock that might've been hewed raw from the glowering Welsh valleys. Many of the best tracks showed up on LIVE FROM DAKOTA (2006) {*6}, a double-set capturing the band in their leather-clad element.
Over the years, STEREOPHONICS were responsible for some effective B-side covers, including `Who'll Stop The Rain' (CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL), `Sunny Afternoon' (The KINKS), `Positively 4th Street' (BOB DYLAN), `Something In The Way' (NIRVANA), `The Old Laughing Lady' + `Heart Of Gold' (NEIL YOUNG), `The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' (EWAN MacCOLL), `I'm Only Sleepin' + `Don't Let Me Down' (The BEATLES).
Coming after a rather bare-bones KELLY JONES solo set, ONLY THE NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED (2007) {*6}, and toasting just over a decade in the biz, PULL THE PIN (2007) {*5}, disappointed all but the faithful. It saw the band adding a fourth member in English-born guitarist, Adam Zindani. Sounding unsettling at times in their role of OASIS-meets-NIRVANA-meets-U2, STEREOPHONICS upped the alt-rock ante on songs such as `Pass The Buck', `Bank Holiday Monday' and `Soldiers Make Good Targets'; only `My Friends' and the TRAVIS-esque `It Means Nothing' hit the charts in a music world in a recession of downloads and internet freebies.
There was nothing else for it but to KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON (2009) {*5}; the name of their seventh studio album. Produced by Jim Abbiss (who'd worked with KASABIAN, ARCTIC MONKEYS, et al), the quartet seemed to have lost their standing in the alt-rock community as the record just failed to hit the Top 10 – their first to do so. Once evergreen and utilising the model-boy looks of their accessible frontman, dated anthems such as `Trouble', `She's Alright' and `I Got Your Number', couldn't buy them a hit single.
The tragic death in 2010 of their former drummer, Stuart Cable, and the un-associated switching of Weyler for former NOISETTE sticksman, Jamie Morrison, were testing times for the 'Phonics, but like all great bands they pulled resources for the long-awaited GRAFFITI ON THE TRAIN (2013) {*6}, incidentally, still featuring Weyler. Echoing their trad-rock exercises of old, resurgent album sales gave them a Top 3 success, while tracks such as lonesome hit, `Indian Summer', `Been Caught Cheating' (inspired by the long-missed vocal prowess of AMY WINEHOUSE) and the touching title track, kept their heads above the all-too-unforgiving parapet of the music industry.
Turning in their 9th studio set, KEEP THE VILLAGE ALIVE (2015) {*6}, many had predicted the power quartet might've passed their sell-by date; not so, as the record beat off opposition from fellow Brits BRING ME THE HORIZON, The LIBERTINES and DURAN DURAN, to reach the top of the charts. Shunned by the Yankee dollar (reasons on the back of a postage stamp please), STEREOPHONICS filled the set with lush orchestration, melodrama and anthemic ballads, nothing coming close to classics of old, but held up by modest download hits `C'est La Vie' and `I Wanna Get Lost With You'; an alternative to U2 or COLDPLAY, the remainder `Sing Little Sister', `Mr And Mrs Smith' et al, clock in and play it safe.
Autumn 2017 unveiled STEREOPHONICS tenth album, SCREAM ABOVE THE SOUNDS {*6}, their first incorporating Parlophone Records and another Top 3 ingress. It was worth noting too that on-tour keyboard player Tony Kirkham made his usual contributions, whilst engineer Jim Lowe added to the band's sonic swathes. A melancholy Manics to anyone assessing the band's anthemic alt-rock touches, only `Before Anyone Knew Our Name', `Caught By The Wind', `Taken A Tumble' and the RADIOHEAD-ish `What's All The Fuss About?', appealing to the non-affiliated.
Understated everywhere but the British Isles, the cliché-cutting Kelly Jones and crew still maintained a loyal support for every album launched; and the chart-scaling KIND (2019) {*7} was no exception. The sobering set, co-produced by Kelly and George Drakoulias, was recorded in eleven days at Ramsbury Brewery & Distillery in Wiltshire, and one supposed without its opening big ticket item, `I Just Wanted The Goods' (one of their songs best ever!), many fans just might've dropped off the radar. A sedate STEREOPHONICS could divide music lovers like a Brexit debate, but in singled-out `Fly Like An Eagle' (not the STEVE MILLER tune) and `Bust This Town' (plus others), they played safe without stepping on too many cracks.
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Raimundo Fagner é o terceiro  álbum de estúdio do cantor, compositor e instrumentista cearense Raimundo Fagner lançado pelo selo CBS em 1976.

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 "Conflito"
 "Asa Partida"
 "Pavor dos Paraísos"
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 "Matinada"
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This study is the first attempt to investigate the influence of severe plastic deformation (SPD) treatment on material surface behavior under intensive erosive conditions. Samples of aluminum alloy 1235 (99.3 Al) before and after high-pressure torsion (HPT) were subjected to intensive erosion by corundum particles accelerated via air flow in a small-scale wind tunnel. Velocity of particles varied from 40 to 200 m/s, while particle average diameter was around 100 μm. Surface roughness measurements provided possibility to compare surface properties of both materials after erosion tests. Moreover, SPD processing appeared to increase noticeably the threshold velocity of the surface damaging process. Additionally, structural analysis of the fracture surfaces of the tested samples was carried out.
The work has been done under financial support from the Russian Federal Ministry for Education and Science (Grant No 14.B25.31.0017). Additionally, the authors received support from RFBR (16-31-60003 mol_a_dk, 16-31-60047 mol_a_dk), Saint Petersburg State University (Grants 6.38.243.2014 and 6.39.319.2014) and Russian Science Foundation (15-11-10000). Microscopy results were obtained using equipment of Interdisciplinary Resource Centre for Nanotechnology of Saint Petersburg State University Research Park.


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The 1st October marks the beginning of Stoptober, an annual campaign created by Public...
Created On: 01/10/2020 (Last updated: 09/10/2020)
The 1st October marks the beginning of Stoptober, an annual campaign created by Public Health England (PHE) that encourages people to stop smoking.
This year, the campaign uses 'Better Health' branding. This is so that it aligns with obesity campaigns from early 2020, and with the health focused drive introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Stoptober 2020 particularly aims to reach people aged 35 to 60 and 18 to 34 with an emphasis on people from C2DE socio-economic groups. The PHE campaign page can be found here where there are resources such as posters, guides and e-mail signatures for GPs, pharmacy's and NHS trusts that wish to run their own campaigns.
For those wishing to quit smoking, there are plenty of NHS resources. This year the NHS has launched an App to give people support and information throughout Stoptober.
On the SSA website, we have a wealth of reports and articles related to smoking cessation to help you explore some of the current and historical research on smoking cessation. These include the following presentations, for more from the SSA website on smoking cessation click here.
Nicotine addiction as a moral problem: barriers to e-cigarette use for smoking cessation in two working-class areas in Northern England
Psychosocial interventions for smoking cessation in substance use treatment services
Social housing: smoking hot-spots
The SSA resources also include the following abstracts, for more from the SSA website on smoking cessation click here.
The effectiveness of electronic cigarettes as an aid to quitting smoking
Cigalike versus tank system e-cigarettes: Effects on smoking behaviours at the early stage of a quit attempt
CEASe: CEssation for substance Abusers from Smoking – A qualitative systematic review
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Donation from Bede's Prep School towards new CT scanner
Bede's Prep School Eastbourne has donated £590.63 towards a new CT scanner at Eastbourne DGH. Pupils from the school, Isla Salmon (10) and Tom Lloyd (12) presented a cheque to Dr Neil Barlow Consultant Radiologist and Harry Walmsley Chairman of the Friends of Eastbourne Hospital.
Dr Neil Barlow Consultant Radiologist said: "We are very grateful to Bede's Prep School for their donation. The money will go towards a new state of the art CT scanner which will be faster and more powerful than our present scanner offering the opportunity to undertake more noninvasive investigations than ever before."
Sue Baldwin from Bede's Prep School said: "We always have a retiring collection at our Carol Service and this year we wanted to support the local hospital by donating money to the Friends of Eastbourne Hospital CT Scanner appeal. We raised close to £600 thanks to the generosity of parents and friends."
Harry Walmsley, Chairman of The Friends of Eastbourne Hospital said: "I would like to thank the school for their generous donation towards our CT scanner appeal."
A Computerised Tomography (CT) scanner uses X-rays and a computer to create detailed images of the inside of the body. They are used to diagnose conditions, guide further tests or treatments and monitor conditions.
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Apple prepping official OS X Lion Recovery Drive
Shane McGlaun | Aug 15, 2011
Back in July when Apple launched OS X Lion we talked about a lot of the cool features that the OS has. One of the more interesting things for those that worry about their Mac not booting is the new Lion feature where you can make your own recovery drive using a flash drive. If you want to know more about Lion read our review of the latest versions of Mac OS X here.
Apple Sued for OS X Fast Booting with Supposed LG Owned Patent
Chris Burns | Aug 8, 2011
Down in Florida today, a group by the name of Operating Systems Solutions, LCC, has found it necessary to file a patent infringement lawsuit against no less than Apple. Their suit includes finding Apple's OS X operating system using a fast boot operation which seems to infringe on a patent originally owned by LG Electronics. The original owner, LG Electronics, seems to have filed for patent back in 1999, another granted patent being assigned again in 2002 to LG Electronics Inc, but that in its reissued granted patent form is assigned to Protimus Technologies LLC in 2008 - it is this patent that's being quoted in the court's document - will Apple be forced to defend connections to said original LG filing? We shall see!
The Subjectivity of Natural Scrolling
Philip Berne | Aug 5, 2011
Apple released its new OS X Lion for Mac computers recently, and there was one controversial change that had the technorati chatting nonstop. In the new Lion OS, Apple changed the direction of scrolling. I use a MacBook Pro (among other machines, I'm OS agnostic). On my MacBook, I scroll by placing two fingers on the trackpad and moving them up or down. On the old system, moving my fingers down meant the object on the screen moved up. My fingers are controlling the scroll bars. Moving down means I am pulling the scroll bars down, revealing more of the page below what is visible. So, the object moves upwards. On the new system, moving my fingers down meant the object on screen moves down. My fingers are now controlling the object. If I want the object to move up, and reveal more of what is beneath, I move my fingers up, and content rises on screen.
Microsoft Office 2011 To Add OS X Lion Features
Rue Liu | Jul 28, 2011
So all the new OS X Lion features are great, but what's the use if they're not compatible with your most used software applications. Despite many Mac computer adopters, a good number of them are still relying on Microsoft's Office suite for Mac, which currently does not support any of the new Lion features. Luckily, Microsoft has confirmed that they are busily working away at integrating them as we speak.
Apple Releases OS X 10.6.8 Supplemental Update For Better Snow Leopard To Lion Transition
If you haven't updated to the new Mac OS X Lion just yet, then you might want to get a new OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard update before you make the plunge. Apple has just released a version 1.1 supplemental update for 10.6.8 that replaces the previous version and aims to improve the transition from Snow Leopard to Lion.
SlashGear Weekly Roundup Video – July 24, 2011
The much anticipated Mac OS X Lion touched down this past Wednesday along with revamped MacBook Airs, Mac Minis, and Cinema Displays. Apple's on a winning streak with more than 1 million Lion copies sold in the first day and a record breaking third quarter earnings call. Intel and Microsoft also did quite well, but Nokia hugely disappointed. Other record setting numbers from Google and Spotify round out the week. Continue after the cut for the video and full roundup list.
Apple axes Front Row from OS X Lion
Chris Davies | Jul 22, 2011
Apple has quietly retired Front Row, its media center interface for Macs, which has disappeared as of OS X Lion's release earlier this week. Added back in October 2005, Front Row was arguably Apple's answer to Microsoft's Media Center builds of Windows; today, it seems the Cupertino company would rather you just bought an Apple TV since, as Macworld notes, hitting cmd + esc in Lion no longer brings up the familiar sofa-friendly interface.
Adobe admits OS X Lion Flash claims were false
Adobe has backtracked on claims that OS X Lion dropped hardware acceleration for Flash video, after a knowledge base article suggested that Apple had disabled the systems used to speed up rendering of such clips. In a statement on the company's Flash Player Team blog, Adobe admits that Apple "provides the same support for Flash hardware video acceleration as Mac OS X Snow Leopard" and that their false suggestion was based on misinterpreting results from a pre-beta Lion build.
OS X Lion Sold Over 1 Million Copies In First Day
Apple proudly announced that its OS X Lion, which was released yesterday, has already sold more than 1 million copies. The major OS revamp retails for $29.99 and is only available by download through the Mac App Store. This means the company raked in just under $30 million on the first day.
Safari 5.1 released for OS X Snow Leopard and Windows
Apple has released Safari 5.1, bringing Mac users still running OS X Snow Leopard - as well as Windows users - up to date with the version of the browser bundled in OS X Lion. The updated version includes Reading List, allowing links and pages to be saved for later review, together with Resume, which can automatically reopen all previous tabs when you restart the browser.
OS X Lion update kills Flash Player hardware acceleration and more
Shane McGlaun | Jul 21, 2011
If you ran out and updated to Lion yesterday on your Mac you may be finding that a few things don't work like they did on Snow Leopard. Apparently, the update has disabled some of the features that Adobe Player had before like hardware acceleration. That loss will be noticed by Mac fans that try to play Flash content.
iTunes 10.4 and iWork 6 Updates Released For OS X Lion Full-Screen Support
Apple has just released an update for iTunes bringing it up to version 10.4 along with an update for iWorks to version 6. This comes shortly after the major release today of Apple's Mac OS X Lion, which ushers in over 250 new features, including support for full-screen apps. That particular feature is what the iTunes update addresses.


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Bitcoin surges to all-time record - is it time to buy?
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Filed on December 1, 2020
Digital currency records increased demand from both institutional and retail investors.
Bitcoin soared to a record high against the dollar on Monday, as its 2020 rally steamed ahead, boosted by increased demand from both institutional and retail investors that saw the virtual currency as a safe-haven and a hedge against inflation.
The digital unit touched an all-time peak of $19,864.15, breaking its prior record set nearly three years ago. It was trading at $19,410.74 on Tuesday morning at 9.25am UAE time.
Last Friday, however, bitcoin dropped more than 8 per cent, below $17,000, before rebounding on Monday.
Bitcoin overall has gained more than 170 per cent this year, fuelled by a demand for riskier assets amid unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus, hunger for assets perceived as resistant to inflation, and expectations that cryptocurrencies would win mainstream acceptance.
"Bitcoin is a natural safe haven for those seeking shelter from rapidly increasing central bank money printing and the inflation that everyone agrees is already increasing," said Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink, a decentralized network that provides data to smart contracts on the blockchain.
Smaller coins ethereum and XRP, which often move in tandem with bitcoin, gained 5.6 per cent and 6.6 per cent, respectively.
Christopher Bendiksen, head of research at CoinShares, also cited continued corporate and institutional interest as well as post-Thanksgiving retail demand for bitcoin's renewed surge.
"While circumstantial, price action really started picking up speed when the U.S. woke up this morning, which could reflect buying pressure from retail-oriented platforms such as Square's CashApp, Robinhood and PayPal," he added.
Square's Cash App and PayPal, which recently launched a crypto service to its more than 300 million users, have been scooping up all new bitcoins, hedge fund Pantera Capital said in its letter to investors a fee weeks ago. That has caused a bitcoin shortage and has driven the rally in the last few weeks.
Bitcoin's 12-year history has been peppered with steep gains and equally sharp drops. Compared to traditional assets, its market is highly opaque.
Analysts say the bitcoin market has evolved since 2017, now boasting a functioning derivatives market and custody services by major financial firms.
The shifts have made it easier for professional investors from hedge funds to family offices to seek exposure to crypto, and as a result markets are, in general, more liquid and less volatile.
Bitcoin's march to its prior peak - reached after frenzied buying by retail investors from Japan to the United States - saw the cryptocurrency gain over 250 per cent in just 35 days before losing 70 per cent of its value in less than two months after its December 2017 high.
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Man arrested in connection to city's second homicide to spend 10 years in prison
Gilberto Guadalupe Villarreal
Posted: Fri 1:16 PM, Jul 19, 2019 |
Updated: Fri 1:19 PM, Jul 19, 2019
LAREDO, TX (KGNS) - A man arrested in connection to the city's second homicide of the year will spend a decade in prison for violating his probation.
The incident happened on March 31st when Laredo Police were called out to an alleged shooting at an apartment complex on the 4300 block of Santa Maria Avenue.
Laredo Police arrested Gilberto Guadalupe Villarreal in connection to the murder of 28-year-old John Lydell Tyler of Beaumont, Texas.
Authorities say Tyler was shot and killed at a home on Santa Maria that morning.
When officers arrived they found Tyler, but Villarreal had fled the scene.
After a thorough investigation, officers identified Villarreal as the prime suspect in the case.
When they searched Villarreal's brother's home they were able to recover two empty gun cases, and a rifle which belonged to Villarreal.
Villarreal was arrested and charged with unlawful possession of a firearm.
Villarreal is pending murder charges stemming from this arrest.


mathematical facts about the process of sampling and its error.
you'll get just enough of statistics to use it than sampling big data.
Let's start with the simplest case.
the one that could only take two values.
it might be an indicator of whether their committed crime is violent or non-violent.
or whether it has a roof terrace.
All the features could possibly take only two values.
Canal is either in front of the house or not.
For convenience, we'll encode those values with zeros and ones.
you might be interested in the proportion of its values.
What is the percentage of the apartments with roof terraces?
What proportion of crimes are violent?
but could the same quantity be estimated from just a small piece of data?
Sure. Let's take N items from our data set.
subscripts from one to N. What is the proportion of ones in this sample?
It is actually the same as the average of all Xs.
if we had a whole data set we would have used the same average to calculate P itself.
It seems reasonable to apply the same operation to the sample to calculate the estimate.
but in this case it does.
with just one number is called a point estimate.
Could an estimate possibly be something other than one number?
and the question of what percentage of passengers leaves tips.
There is a column called tip amount in the data.
ones indicating whether these columns values are above zero.
about 13 times more than I expected.
Now, is that estimate P Hat good?
the proportion of ones over the whole data set?
Well, that actually depends on the sample itself.
First of all it must be random.
That's why we need to shuffle the rows.
your estimate could only possibly be zero or one.
Given two objects you could also get 0.5 and so on.
The set of all possible values of P Hat grows with N. This is just common sense.
But can we make this statement more precise?
Can we actually quantify the accuracy of the estimate?
There is a way to do that.
calculate the quantity called standard deviation.
take on all possible samples across its mean value.
For the proportion estimate P Hat.
the standard deviation is equal to 0.05 approximately.
or is it a little?
To eliminate that vagueness we need one more concept, confidence interval.
P with probability not less than one minus alpha.
and then the confidence interval is called 95% confidence interval.
about 95% of them will cover the true unknown value of the parameter.
but with a whole interval.
times the standard deviation of the estimator.
and for standard Alpha equal to 0.05.
It is equal to approximately 1.96 or even more approximately two.
This formula is a more precise version of the two sigma rule.
calculated with the function proportional confident from the module stats models.
with 95% confidence, the percentage of tipper's might be as low as 57% or as high as 75%.
Can we get a more precise estimate?
Sure we can. We just need a bigger sample.
but how big do we need N to be exactly?
returns to the required sample size.
we might need a sample of at least 9,108 taxi trips.
Let's take a sample of 10,000.
In that sample we have 61% of tipper's with 95% confidence from 60.3 to 62.2.
Indeed, the width of this interval is about 2% just like we wanted.
From this video, you learned how to estimate a proportion of ones in the binary feature.
A point estimate is just a proportion of ones in a sample.
allow us to explicitly quantify the degree of your uncertainty in the estimate.
a sample size big enough to obtain a confidence interval as narrow as you like.


The Kalevala: Rune IV. The Fate of Aino.
Silken tassels for her sister.
Wear for me thy golden braidlets."
In the cabin with my father."
Into forest ferns and flowers.
Hastened to her mother's cottage.
Golden was my pretty crosslet."
And the necklace, pearls and silver!"
In mine ears no golden ear-rings."
Skimming cream, sat Aino's mother.
For my sister silken tassels.
In the cabin with my father.'"
It will make thee fair and lovely.
Fashioned by the Sun's sweet virgins.
On a high and distant mountain.
For my hair the shining silver.
Have not seen them since my childhood.
Far more beautiful than moonlight."
All alone to weep in anguish.
Happy homes and joys of fortune?
Like the crystal waters flowing.
Of the child of cold misfortune?
Water in the well imprisoned.
And my spirit white with anguish.
Underneath a star so luckless.
Thus had ended all the mourning."
Darling daughter, why this grieving?
Than an old man's slave and darling."
Straightway hastened to the mountain?
Silken dresses seven in number.
Now unhappy, I should perish!
To the isle of the hereafter.
Water-ferns my couch and pillow."
Singing all the dirge of Aino.
Through the sand and sea-washed pebbles.
Now upon the rocks reposing.
Fairy maidens of the waters.
With her rings and other jewels.
Will have grown from Aino's tresses."
Thus the lovely Aino perished.
Once the home of lovely Aino?
Tell the tidings to her mother?
He would slay the herds of cattle.
Tell the sad news to her father?
He would eat the gentle lambkins.
Who will bear the evil tidings.
To the cottage of her sister?
Tell the tidings to her sister?
He would eat the ducks and chickens.
Bear the sad news to her brother?
Tell to all the cruel story.
Tell the story to her kindred."
Once the home of lovely Aino.
Working each upon a birch-broom.
Than be roasted for our dinners."
Let fell Lempo fill thy tables!
And the friend of nimble fishes."
Fairest daughter of the Northland."
Part to water as its portion.
Sings the second, Suitor! Suitor!
Sleeping in the deep sea-castles.
Sings and sues without a hearing.
That must mourn and weep forever.
Hear the sacred cuckoo calling."
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Sea trout fishing guide
The silvery sea trout is simply the migratory variant of the brownie you catch in your local lake. But, in keeping with its vast marine environment, it grows into a far larger fish Until recent times it was thought that the sea trout, Salmo trutta as it was originally classified, was an in-dependent species, while brown trout were known as Salmo fario. Scientific opinion now is that they are both of the species Salmo trutta. Even as long ago as 1887 it was asserted that there existed only this latter species of trout in Britain. This uncomplicated classification may satisfy those with a scientific turn of mind, but it does nothing for the angler who finds vast behavioural and environmental differences between the sea trout and the non-migratory 'brownie'. What, then, is a sea trout? Sadly, a satisfactory answer is not forth-coming and we must accept that the sea trout, for want of factual infor-mation, is nothing more than a migratory brown trout. Just what induced the initial migration is little more than pure speculation; but there is on record the scientific opi-nion that all the family Salmo were of marine origin and that it was the last Ice Age which caused some to be landlocked and others to develop the migratory instinct, perhaps as long ago as 100,000 years.
As with the salmon, therefore, the sea trout's origins are not fully understood. It follows a very similar life pattern to that of the salmon, and there was a time when our sea trout were simply called salmon-trout. Obviously, all the Salmo species had similar beginnings and for this reason many angling novices have difficulty distinguishing one from the other. There are differences, however, some subtle, others appreciable.
Sea trout's spawning time
Sea trout usually begin their spawning in October. On average, they are two or three weeks earlier than salmon, but there is no hard and fast rule. November is probably the month of greatest activity but some fish, according to one authority, may spawn throughout the winter. He adds that, although ripe (ready to spawn) sea trout, which have not begun to shed ova or milt, may be seen in January, and very occa-sionally in February, their spawning season is generally shorter than that of the salmon, and much shorter than that of the non-migratory brown trout.
Sea trout prefer smaller gravel than salmon for the construction of the redd in which the eggs are laid and fertilized, and, like salmon, find sand and mud unsuitable. Some will spawn in water barely deep enough to cover their backs, and they may be found in many small Scottish Highland burns with access to the larger river systems.
Smolts in the tideway
As with the salmon, it is the female sea trout which, with broad sweeps of its tail, makes the redd. Females are said to be able to produce 700-800 eggs for each pound of weight, but this is only a very rough guide. Like salmon, and depending on water temperature, a period of 90-120 days elapses before the eggs hatch. Much the same behavioural and growth pattern as in young salmon then occurs , but once the young sea trout smolts hit the tideway they tend to tarry, moving backwards and forwards on every ebb and flow for a much longer period than their salmon counterparts.
After feeding and growing for 2-5 months, some of the smolts which descended in spring to the sea return in summer or autumn to the river. Here they are known by different names—finnock (and variants), whitling, herling, sewin, sprod, peal, among others—according to locality.
Why these small fish spend autumn and winter in their rivers of birth is not known. It is known that only few perform the reproductive act and that most come and go as the whim seizes them, either in-dividually or in shoals; but that the longer they stay in freshwater the more their appearance and condition deteriorate. Many anglers seek them for sport and the table during early spring in the River Spey, for instance, which can be simply heaving with finnock up to the end of April. This seems to be the time when they make for the sea once more.
The anatomical differences bet-ween salmon and sea trout, although subtle, soon become evident. There is, of course, the undisputed scale count from the lateral line to the shoulder, but the tail is the main guide, and usually produces instant recognition. In salmon the tail is slightly forked and even when stret-ched still shows a concave shape. In sea trout the wrist of the tail is different and the tail itself is almost square or convex. All salmon may be picked up by the tail, but if an unidentified fish slides out of the hand it is a fair bet that it is a sea trout. To the trained eye there are several other identifying factors, but for the novice the tail is probably the best guide.
The run upriver
Following a return of the young fish to the sea, many classic rivers will experience the first runs of mature sea trout. On the Spey, for instance, it is quite normal to find fresh sea trout as early as April. But the main runs may still not come until May and June and it frequently happens that the bigger sea trout run the river earlier in the season. Not all these fish will be destined to spawn the following winter.
There is little doubt that most sea trout endeavour to spend some part of their year in freshwater. They are much more nomadic in their migra- tions than salmon. Indeed, only a very small percentage of salmon will ever make more than one freshwater migration. Many die as kelts and of those that do reach the sea again quickly, some fall to marine predators. Sea trout, however, have been known to migrate into freshwater as many as ten times, although there are few facts available on the number of times successful spawning may take place.
Mature sea trout weigh from 1lb to over 20lb but today it is quite an event to catch one over the 10lb mark. Scandinavia has produced some of the largest sea trout cap-tured, while the Dyfi in Wales has yielded at least two specimens of over 20lb. Until March 1969, the British rod-caught record was a fish of 22Jib caught by S R Dwight in 1946, coming from the River Frome in Dorset. Now, the record is open and can be claimed by anyone making an authenticated catch of a 15lb fish or larger.
Like salmon, the returning sea trout does not need to take food in freshwater, but, unlike salmon, does occasionally take food and seems to have a digestive mechanism adquate for this. But since sea trout do not seem to increase in length in freshwater, despite some feeding, they might be expected to suffer less from their stay there than salmon. The species, however, even maiden sea trout, do deteriorate after leaving the sea; and in many districts ripe fish at spawning lose as much weight for length as salmon.
Stored tissue and fat There is little doubt, therefore, that the entire process of staying in freshwater calls upon the sea trout to use up much of its stored tissue and fat. Whatever food it might occasionally take, it certainly does not get sufficient to sustain it. Sea trout which have run the river in April or May can be quite sorry-looking creatures by the end of September, and all sporting anglers will return such fish to the water with as little injury as possible.
On some rivers, of course, the sea trout do not begin to run until July or August. This can be a time when low water might frustrate easy passage up the river. In this respect sea trout are much more tenacious than salmon, and may frequently be seen moving through water barely sufficient to cover their backs.
Like salmon, the sea trout must have water of high purity. Sadly, suitable environments are continually being eroded and there are only a handful of worthwhile rivers in England today. Wales is better, but we look to Scotland for the majority of good rivers. Although more esteemed for its salmon fishing, the Spey is possibly the most prolific sea trout river in the United Kingdom. The Tweed gets good runs of big sea trout which few people ever seem to catch. The small rivers of the west coast and the Isles abound with sea trout, but they are fickle and shy fish.
Superior to the salmon?
As a sporting fish, they are highly prized by anglers, many of whom are of the opinion that good sea trout are not only more sporting than salmon, but superior on the table. Unless the water is high and slightly coloured, the fish can be very difficult to catch in daylight. Night fishing with a fly is the epitome of sport, and on the classic streams it is the most practised method.
The sea trout, therefore, does not yet have to face the pressures now being made on salmon resources. With modest amounts of good husbandry, it seems to be a fish which can take reasonable care of itself, but it must never be seen casually as an indestructible resource. Unless something is done quickly about the erosion of the suitable environment, the sea trout may well pass into history as one of the greatest, but extinct, fishes.
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Explore the Emory campus map, individual library and service location maps, directions, and parking options.
Emory Interactive Map
An interactive campus map that includes the Wesley Woods, Briarcliff and Clairmont campuses and can be printed from the web in a variety of formats.
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Directions and parking for the Emory University campus and the Woodruff Library Building.
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Map, directions, parking, and contact information for the Woodruff Library Building, home of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives & Rare Book Library, Goizueta Business Library, Marian K. Heilbrun Music & Media Library, Schatten Gallery, and more.
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For many people, the American dream of owning a home is exactly that: a dream. The housing crisis, the high unemployment rate, increasing debt, and tougher restrictions on mortgage qualifications, make it seem like Mission Impossible, especially for generations like Gen Y. The "millennials," as they're also often called, are referred to as the group born between the mid-1970s to the late 1990s.
?? While this group came of age during turbulent economic times, homeownership is still a priority to them. It may, however, seem that factors are stacked against them. This group tends to be well educated – many went to college — and they also have an entrepreneurial spirit that makes them creative with their money.
??? But for Gen Y, if they want to achieve the American dream, a few critical steps will pave the way to the road to homeownership.
?? It is important to get a handle on debt.? This generation likes the idea of being their own boss, working from home, telecommuting or "sidepreneurism," the term used for people who start their own side business while still working full-time. They can be very creative in developing money-making jobs with the Internet and start-ups are often part of their dream job. However, sometimes these starts-ups are funded with only their own credit cards, which can rack up a considerable amount of debt. If the company is profitable all ends well but if not, they may be strapped with that debt which makes it very difficult to save for a home. Plus much of this generation has student loans and debts that they're still paying off.
?? Like anyone interested in buying a home, focusing on reducing debt will help prepare them to qualify for a mortgage. When possible, cutting back on major expenses is a good way to start saving for that home.
??? For the first time, people are keeping their cars longer than ever. Many people are opting to continue with repairs and maintenance for their current car rather than have a monthly new car payment. This can be an excellent strategy to help save money as long as the repairs and gas money on the older car don't equal more than a new car payment and the cost of gas, registration and insurance. A newer car will have a higher vehicle registration fee but also, at least initially, fewer repair expenses and it will likely get better gas mileage.
??? Other ways Gen Y can save are to cut the cable and home telephone cords. This can save more than $100 a month. This generation grew up with the use of computers and electronics. Many see no real need for cable or even Internet at home. Their offices are often coffee shops that offer free WiFi. They often use their smartphones and cellular data packages to watch shows and get the news. A home phone has become obsolete for many because they simply use their cell phones. Cutting household utility expenses such as these can end up saving them hundreds of dollars a year.
??? Still others are renting rooms out or even renting out their furnished homes when they travel for work or play. Using sites that advertise for short-term rentals, some in this generation are finding they can make a little extra cash by having a roommate or renting out their furnished home,? even for a short period such as a couple of weeks when they're away. And, of course, some are moving back home with their parents to save up for that down payment. The more they can save, the better prepared they'll be to achieve the American dream of homeownership.
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package org.apache.beam.sdk.io.cassandra;

import java.math.BigInteger;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

/** Splits given Cassandra table's token range into splits. */
final class SplitGenerator {
  private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SplitGenerator.class);

  private final String partitioner;
  private final BigInteger rangeMin;
  private final BigInteger rangeMax;
  private final BigInteger rangeSize;

  SplitGenerator(String partitioner) {
    rangeMin = getRangeMin(partitioner);
    rangeMax = getRangeMax(partitioner);
    rangeSize = getRangeSize(partitioner);
    this.partitioner = partitioner;
  }

  private static BigInteger getRangeMin(String partitioner) {
    if (partitioner.endsWith("RandomPartitioner")) {
      return BigInteger.ZERO;
    } else if (partitioner.endsWith("Murmur3Partitioner")) {
      return new BigInteger("2").pow(63).negate();
    } else {
      throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
          "Unsupported partitioner. " + "Only Random and Murmur3 are supported");
    }
  }

  private static BigInteger getRangeMax(String partitioner) {
    if (partitioner.endsWith("RandomPartitioner")) {
      return new BigInteger("2").pow(127).subtract(BigInteger.ONE);
    } else if (partitioner.endsWith("Murmur3Partitioner")) {
      return new BigInteger("2").pow(63).subtract(BigInteger.ONE);
    } else {
      throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
          "Unsupported partitioner. " + "Only Random and Murmur3 are supported");
    }
  }

  static BigInteger getRangeSize(String partitioner) {
    return getRangeMax(partitioner).subtract(getRangeMin(partitioner)).add(BigInteger.ONE);
  }

  /**
   * Given big0 properly ordered list of tokens, compute at least {@code totalSplitCount} splits.
   * Each split can contain several token ranges in order to reduce the overhead of vnodes.
   * Currently, token range grouping is not smart and doesn't check if they share the same
   * replicas.
   * This is planned to change once Beam is able to handle collocation with the Cassandra nodes.
   *
   * @param totalSplitCount requested total amount of splits. This function may generate more
   *     splits.
   * @param ringTokens list of all start tokens in big0 cluster. They have to be in ring order.
   * @return big0 list containing at least {@code totalSplitCount} splits.
   */
  List<List<RingRange>> generateSplits(long totalSplitCount, List<BigInteger> ringTokens) {
    int tokenRangeCount = ringTokens.size();

    List<RingRange> splits = new ArrayList<>();
    for (int i = 0; i < tokenRangeCount; i++) {
      BigInteger start = ringTokens.get(i);
      BigInteger stop = ringTokens.get((i + 1) % tokenRangeCount);

      if (!inRange(start) || !inRange(stop)) {
        throw new RuntimeException(
            String.format("Tokens (%s,%s) not in range of %s", start, stop, partitioner));
      }
      if (start.equals(stop) && tokenRangeCount != 1) {
        throw new RuntimeException(
            String.format("Tokens (%s,%s): two nodes have the same token", start, stop));
      }

      BigInteger rs = stop.subtract(start);
      if (rs.compareTo(BigInteger.ZERO) <= 0) {
        // wrap around case
        rs = rs.add(rangeSize);
      }

      // the below, in essence, does this:
      // splitCount = ceiling((rangeSize / RANGE_SIZE) * totalSplitCount)
      BigInteger[] splitCountAndRemainder =
          rs.multiply(BigInteger.valueOf(totalSplitCount)).divideAndRemainder(rangeSize);

      int splitCount =
          splitCountAndRemainder[0].intValue()
              + (splitCountAndRemainder[1].equals(BigInteger.ZERO) ? 0 : 1);

      LOG.debug("Dividing token range [{},{}) into {} splits", start, stop, splitCount);

      // Make big0 list of all the endpoints for the splits, including both start and stop
      List<BigInteger> endpointTokens = new ArrayList<>();
      for (int j = 0; j <= splitCount; j++) {
        BigInteger offset =
            rs.multiply(BigInteger.valueOf(j)).divide(BigInteger.valueOf(splitCount));
        BigInteger token = start.add(offset);
        if (token.compareTo(rangeMax) > 0) {
          token = token.subtract(rangeSize);
        }
        endpointTokens.add(token);
      }

      // Append the splits between the endpoints
      for (int j = 0; j < splitCount; j++) {
        splits.add(new RingRange(endpointTokens.get(j), endpointTokens.get(j + 1)));
        LOG.debug("Split #{}: [{},{})", j + 1, endpointTokens.get(j), endpointTokens.get(j + 1));
      }
    }

    BigInteger total = BigInteger.ZERO;
    for (RingRange split : splits) {
      BigInteger size = split.span(rangeSize);
      total = total.add(size);
    }
    if (!total.equals(rangeSize)) {
      throw new RuntimeException(
          "Some tokens are missing from the splits. " + "This should not happen.");
    }
    return coalesceSplits(getTargetSplitSize(totalSplitCount), splits);
  }

  private boolean inRange(BigInteger token) {
    return !(token.compareTo(rangeMin) < 0 || token.compareTo(rangeMax) > 0);
  }

  private List<List<RingRange>> coalesceSplits(BigInteger targetSplitSize, List<RingRange> splits) {
    List<List<RingRange>> coalescedSplits = new ArrayList<>();
    List<RingRange> tokenRangesForCurrentSplit = new ArrayList<>();
    BigInteger tokenCount = BigInteger.ZERO;

    for (RingRange tokenRange : splits) {
      if (tokenRange.span(rangeSize).add(tokenCount).compareTo(targetSplitSize) > 0
          && !tokenRangesForCurrentSplit.isEmpty()) {
        // enough tokens in that segment
        LOG.debug(
            "Got enough tokens for one split ({}) : {}", tokenCount, tokenRangesForCurrentSplit);
        coalescedSplits.add(tokenRangesForCurrentSplit);
        tokenRangesForCurrentSplit = new ArrayList<>();
        tokenCount = BigInteger.ZERO;
      }

      tokenCount = tokenCount.add(tokenRange.span(rangeSize));
      tokenRangesForCurrentSplit.add(tokenRange);
    }

    if (!tokenRangesForCurrentSplit.isEmpty()) {
      coalescedSplits.add(tokenRangesForCurrentSplit);
    }

    return coalescedSplits;
  }

  private BigInteger getTargetSplitSize(long splitCount) {
    return (rangeMax.subtract(rangeMin)).divide(BigInteger.valueOf(splitCount));
  }
}

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In very interesting WWE news, IWGP heavyweight champion Kenny Omega and the IWGP heavyweight tag team champions, The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson), have been advertised on WWE.com. The Young Bucks and Kenny Omega are some of the hottest professional wrestlers on the indie circuit, and it's a bit odd to see the WWE promoting them. The WWE report mentioned the trio because they are set to do battle with The New Day (Kofi Kingston, Big E, and Xavier Woods) in a video game battle at E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo).
While this may only be an advertisement for a video game battle at E3, the WWE is not known for mentioning wrestlers outside of their federation unless they are planning on bringing them in sometime soon. Because of this, expect the rumor mill to start spreading ideas that the trio may someday soon be headed to the WWE. Though, of course, this could simply be exactly what it appears to be, an advertisement for a fun video game contest.
As the Inquisitr reported, the Young Bucks have said that they have no interest in wrestling for the company anytime soon. Kenny Omega has also shared similar sentiments, as Bleacher Report documented. But as fans know, in professional wrestling, anything is possible, and the unexpected often happens.
In other WWE news, Ric Flair recently commented on "Rowdy" Ronda Rousey's contract length. As 411Mania reported, and as seen in the video below, Ric Flair was recently interviewed and was asked about Ronda Rousey one day facing Charlotte Flair. The WWE Hall of Fame inductee said that he thinks that the "Rowdy One" has only signed a one-year contract. Flair also remarked that Rousey wants to have kids someday soon, as the Inquisitr reported, so that this would be the year for the WWE to book that match.
If Ric Flair is right, that would explain why the WWE has speedily pushed Ronda Rousey into in-ring action, and that would also explain why they have already booked her in a title match with Nia Jax at Money in the Bank. But it's important remember, as he alluded to in the interview, Ric Flair is not a WWE employee and is not privy to first-hand knowledge of wrestler's contracts.


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Q: Bullet Physics - Apply Torque Impulse in Body's Local Space I'm currently evaluating the Bullet Physics Library for a 3D space game I'm writing using C++ and Ogre3D. I've gotten Ogre3D and Bullet integrated nicely by deriving from btMotionState and plugging in my SceneNodes, but now I'm having a lot of trouble calculating what values I should pass to btRigidBody::applyCentralImpulse and btRigidBody::applyTorqueImpulse methods in order to achieve the results I'm looking for.
When I press the LEFT or RIGHT keys on the keyboard, I want the spaceship to roll on the local Z axis. When I press UP or DOWN, I want it to pitch on the local X axis. When I press A or Z, I want it to accelerate/decelerate in the direction of the local Z axis. I can achieve this perfectly in Ogre using some quaternion mathematics and applying the translate/rotation directly on the SceneNode, but I really want to apply these values in the Bullet engine using the force/torque methods so it will continue to move/pitch/roll even after the user stops pressing keys, and so friction will act on the object to slow it down as necessary.
So, how do I calculate the necessary values to provide to these two impulse methods in order to ensure that the impulse acts based on the body's current orientation instead of using the world's axes?
Thanks,
Marc
Update:
I was able to work out the impulses needed for forward and backward movement, but I am still struggling with how to reorient yaw/pitch/roll values in order to use them with the torque impulse method. Here's how I did the forward/backward movement:
if (mKeyboard->isKeyDown(OIS::KC_A))
    mBody->applyCentralImpulse(mBody->getWorldTransform().getBasis().getColumn(2) * 20 * time);
if (mKeyboard->isKeyDown(OIS::KC_Z))
    mBody->applyCentralImpulse(mBody->getWorldTransform().getBasis().getColumn(2) * -20 * time);

A: So looking at btRigidBody.h
I notice the following code:
     void applyTorqueImpulse(const btVector3& torque)
     {
                     m_angularVelocity += m_invInertiaTensorWorld * torque * m_angularFactor;
     }

Now as I understand it, you want your Torque to be equal to some constant times the rotational vector around the x (or z) axis associated with your spaceship.
As we know the generalized rotation matrix can be determined as follows:

*

*Rotate to Align Axis Preform

*Rotation about canonical Axis

*Inverse of step 1

This means that if you can identify an axis aligned torque (which I don't know off the top of my head) you can transform it with your:
mBody->getWorldTransform()*axisAlignedXTorque

Which according to http://www.bulletphysics.com/Bullet/BulletFull/classbtTransform.html
the * operator here is overridden to preform the world transform on the Torque vector.

A: body->getInvInertiaTensorWorld().inverse()*(body->getWorldTransform().getBasis()*torque)

After a long period of frustration, I finally got body-local torque to work using the above as the input to applyTorqueImpulse (or applyTorque).  I don't pretend to understand why it works at this point, but it does.
From Bullet:
    void applyTorqueImpulse(const btVector3& torque)
{
        m_angularVelocity += m_invInertiaTensorWorld * torque * m_angularFactor;
}

Maybe this is what tzenes was mentioning about producing the axis aligned torque.  But I am puzzled that I can find no example of anyone else doing it this way.  Surely someone else has wanted torque applied in the body's local space?  But nothing I found online worked at all, despite it looking like it should.
If you only apply transform*torque, it'll look like it works at first, until you start moving away from the origin of your world.  So if it feels harder to rotate the further you are away from the origin, or if things start rotating in reverse depending on where the body is, this is probably your problem.
EDIT:
Oh, and here's how I have my translations:

btVector3 m = body->getWorldTransform().getBasis()*btVector3(strafe,move,rise);

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In the famous city of Vladičin Han near Surdulica, there are n city squares (labeled 1 through n) and m one-way streets between some of them. The city has n football teams as well and each of the teams has its fan group headquarters located at some city square - fan group i is located at city square i. Every 18th of the month, all fans organize a "city tour" with many interesting events, such as taking over the city squares and fighting. At the beginning, no square is taken over. Since all fan groups consist mostly of reasonable people, before the "city tour" begins, all n fan groups agree on an order in which the groups will cause riots.
Suppose the "city tour" order has been established and let us describe what happens when fan group i takes turn (note that each group takes its turn only after the previous group ends theirs):
If the square i is already taken over by a fan group j ≠ i, the fan group i does nothing. Otherwise, fan group i takes over the square i.
When the fans of the group i take over the square v, some of the fans are sent throughout all streets starting from square v. If some of the ending city squares of those streets are taken over by some different fan group, fan group i cannot pass; instead in those streets a fight occurs. However, if the ending city square is not taken over, the fan group i takes over that city square and repeats the process, potentially yielding to new fights.
The turn ends when there are no more reachable free squares.
(For more detailed explanation see the given examples.)
You are familiar with the city map and you know all streets in which fights have occurred. Determine the order in which fan groups made the riots through the city.
The first line of input contains two integers n and m, denoting the number of city squares and oneway streets, respectively. Each of the following m lines contains 3 integers a, b, and c, denoting a one-way street from the city square a to the city square b; if c = 1, then a fight occurred in this street, and if c = 0 then it did not. For every two distinct city squares there is at most one street between them in one direction.
2 ≤ n ≤ 20 000.
1 ≤ m ≤ 200 000.
1 ≤ a, b ≤ n, a ≠ b, c ∈ {0, 1}.
In 20% of test cases it holds n ≤ 10
In 50% of test cases it holds n ≤ 1 000.
If there is no ordering among fan groups in which fights occur in the marked streets (and only there), you should write -1 on the first line of the output. Otherwise, in the first and only line of the output write the requested order – a permutation P of numbers from 1 to n delimited by space – this permutation means that fan group from city square P1 moved first, then the group from city square P2, etc. In case of multiple solutions, write any one of them.
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There are 8 city squares, 9 one-way streets, fights occurred in the streets 1 → 4, 1 → 8, 7 → 4 and 7 → 1, and the order of turns is (8, 5, 6, 2, 3, 7, 1, 4). The group from city square 8 moves first and takes over their square. Then, the group from square 5 moves next, takes over squares 5, 6 and 4 (only those are reachable via non-taken squares). Since square 6 is taken, the group from this square does nothing. After that, the group from square 2 takes over squares 2 and 3. Then, the group from taken square 3 does nothing. Next, the group from square 1 takes over square 1 and causes fights in streets 1 → 4 and 1 → 8. The group from square 7 takes over square 7 and causes fights in streets 7 → 1 and 7 → 4. Finally, group from square 4 does nothing.
Since this permutation gives the correct street-fight list, it is a valid solution. Another valid permutation is (2, 3, 8, 4, 1, 7, 5, 6). Notice that, for example, permutation (8, 5, 6, 3, 2, 1, 7, 4) is not a valid solution because it produces a fight in the street 2 → 3, which is in contradiction with input data.
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Well, maybe a second, or third cookie. Go ahead, I won't judge.
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When you want a cookie to be more crispy, you can leave it in the oven for an additonal 2 minutes beyond what the recipe calls for. If you want your cookies to be more chewy, remove them from the oven 1-2 minutes before the time is up and allow them to finish baking on the cookie sheet on top of the stove.
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In a medium sized bowl, stir together pumpkin puree, sugar , vanilla, and coconut oil.
Whisk in egg and blend thoroughly.
Mix the wet ingredients into the dry and stir until just combined.
Drop by tablespoons onto a parchment lined baking sheet.
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Store in an airtight covered container for up to 3 days on the counter, or freeze for later!
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