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Ernest Airlines (ERN, Milan Malpensa) plans to restart operations with a fleet of sixteen ATR72-600s covering more than 70 routes and five bases, the aviation news site Naviganti has reported.
Ernest suspended in-house flight operations on January 10, two weeks after the Italian civil aviation authority (Ente Nazionale per l'Aviazione Civile - ENAC) said it would retract its Operating Licence (OL) due to an alleged lack of required guarantees.
At the time, the airline operated a leased fleet of one A319-100 and three A320-200s serving two key markets from Italy - Albania and Ukraine.
Now the company aims to alter its strategy in a bid to regain the trust of the authorities and the public, relaunching operations as a domestic and regional carrier in December 2020.
President and CEO Chady El Tannir, Accountable Manager and Chief Operating Officer Alfredo Sostero, and other directors reportedly approved the change of business model at a virtual meeting on August 5.
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Moldova's HiSky secures first in-house aircraft, an A320
HiSky (Chisinau) has announced it has entered into a long-term dry-lease agreement with Air Lease Corporation to add its first in-house aircraft, an A320-200, with delivery scheduled for July 2020.
The aircraft, msn 4493, is a 9.7-year-old narrowbody powered by International Aero Engines V2527-A5 engines and is currently stored at San Bernardino. It was previously operated by bankrupt Ernest Airlines (ERN, Milan Malpensa) and was due to be dry-leased by Volaris (Y4, Toluca) but ultimately not taken up by the Mexican LCC.
HiSky initially planned to launch in early April this year as a virtual carrier chartering an A320-200 from Cobrex Trans (CBX, Brasov). It had hoped to connect Chisinau with a number of destinations in Europe. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it deferred its launch plans to July 1, when Moldova plans to reopen its borders.
It is unclear if HiSky still wants to launch using the A320 chartered from Cobrex Trans before its own A320 is delivered.
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Ukraine's SkyUp Airlines also eyes Ernest capacity void
SkyUp Airlines (PQ, Kyiv Boryspil) has announced it will launch six new routes between Ukraine and Italy this spring, aiming to fill the service void which has been left following the demise of Ernest Airlines (ERN, Milan Malpensa), on January 13.
From March 29, the Ukrainian carrier will commence 3x weekly flights from Kyiv Boryspil to Bologna, Rome Fiumicino and Milan Bergamo. On the same day, SkyUp will start a 3x weekly route between Lviv and Fiumicino. On March 30, the airline will open flights from Lviv to Bergamo and Naples Capodichino, both with a 2x weekly frequency.
Although not previously operated by Ernest, later in the summer, SkyUp will link Kiev (2x weekly from May 30), Kharkiv (1x weekly from June 1), and Odesa (1x weekly from June 3) with Lamezia Terme in Italy.
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Wizz Air steps in to fill Ernest Airlines' void
The Italian civil aviation authority (Ente Nazionale per l'Aviazione Civile - ENAC) has confirmed it has now suspended Ernest Airlines' Operating Licence (OL) in accordance with earlier warnings.
"Therefore, from 0001L on Monday, January 13, 2020, the carrier will cease all operations. ENAC requests passengers in possession of tickets issued by Ernest dated January 13, 2020, onwards, not to go to the airport but to contact the airline directly for further information," it said.
ENAC said in late December that it would suspend Ernest's OL unless the airline addressed financial shortcomings by January 13. It underlined that as the issues were not related to flight safety, it decided to allow the airline to continue operations through the busy New Year and Orthodox Christmas (January 7) periods.
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Two face charges after thrown baby hoax
Incident was reported Thursday night at Comeau Bridge in Haverhill
Updated: 9:17 AM EST Dec 25, 2015
Two women face charges after police said they made up a story about seeing a man throw a baby into the Merrimack River on Christmas Eve.The incident reportedly took place off the Comeau Bridge in Haverhill, Massachusetts before 8:30 p.m. Thursday.Police say the investigation by Haverhill and State Police, which included interviews with two women who claimed to have seen a baby thrown into the Merrimack River by a man on the Comeau Bridge, has led them to determine the report was a hoax.Haverhill police have charged Holly Fowler, 42, and her daughter Kristine Fowler, 23, both of 170 Washington St. Haverhill , with misleading a police investigation and filing a false police report.Holly Fowler is being held on $10,000 bail.They are expected to be arraigned Monday in Haverhill District Court.The motive in the hoax was not immediately clear.Authorities spent several hours search the dark waters of the Merrimack River near the bridge. Fire crews from Salem, New Hampshire also provided resources to assist in the search.
HAVERHILL, Mass. —
Two women face charges after police said they made up a story about seeing a man throw a baby into the Merrimack River on Christmas Eve.
The incident reportedly took place off the Comeau Bridge in Haverhill, Massachusetts before 8:30 p.m. Thursday.
Police say the investigation by Haverhill and State Police, which included interviews with two women who claimed to have seen a baby thrown into the Merrimack River by a man on the Comeau Bridge, has led them to determine the report was a hoax.
Haverhill police have charged Holly Fowler, 42, and her daughter Kristine Fowler, 23, both of 170 Washington St. Haverhill , with misleading a police investigation and filing a false police report.
Holly Fowler is being held on $10,000 bail.
They are expected to be arraigned Monday in Haverhill District Court.
The motive in the hoax was not immediately clear.
Authorities spent several hours search the dark waters of the Merrimack River near the bridge.
Fire crews from Salem, New Hampshire also provided resources to assist in the search.

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"The law has limits, especially in regard to family matters," Sheng said. "I always feel society expects too much of the court to resolve problems of a family. How can you expect judges to take sides when they're also supposed to be neutral toward all disputes?"
Time passes and society changes, but many women still feel it is a moral flaw to walk away from a marriage, even if they are not happy with it.
"We don't want to encourage moralistic thoughts, because it's unfair to have one party stuck in an unhappy marriage just to make others feel comfortable," said Yang Feng-wan (楊芳婉), also long-time women's rights activist and a lawyer.
Women's groups have made great efforts to fight for better protection for women under the existing legal framework and have also taken pains to help people understand the nature of marriage.
"When love is gone, it's painful to remain in a relationship. This is true both for men and women," Yang said. "I think what has made divorce such a terrible word in Taiwan is a misunderstanding about the nature of marriage. Love is the foundation of marriage. But with marriage also come obligations. A marriage might end, but the obligations won't," Yang said. "As long as it is safe, no one should be afraid of walking out of a unhappy marriage."


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from Player import Player
from Gamemaster import Gamemaster
import random

def evolution(iterations=None, players=[]):
    # Must have 2 or more players to play round robin!
    if len(players) >= 2:
        if iterations is None:
            iterations = random.randint(100, 150)

        gm = Gamemaster(iterations=iterations)

        for player in players:
            gm.add_player(*player)

        gm.generate_matches()

        gm.start_tournament()

        # d = gm.get_overall_points()
        # for v in sorted(d, key=d.get, reverse=False):
        #     print v, d[v]

        output = {
            'points': gm.get_overall_points(),
            'winner': gm.get_winner(),
            'results': gm.get_match_results()
        }

    else:
        output = {
            'points': {},
            'winner': None,
            'results': []
        }

    return output

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    players = [
        [1, 'def decide(context): return context.iterationstest'],
        [2, 'def decide(context): return "C"']
    ]

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I have deleted your duplicated post in Game Archive.
not much dealing with etc1 compression. you need this to open the files this thing extracts.
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edit: tested and figured the irfanview thingy doesn't seem to work. you gotta use the pvr sdk tool. or get photoshop. it allegedly has a pvr plugin.
episoder, i really like these texture scripts you cook up for Quickbms, i had to deobfuscate the variables in this one to understand it though.
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it had to be a soccer thing. sorry about that. was it necessary to 'correct' it anyway? dunno why you did. is it better? i'm sure mine is faster cause i read longs where only transfer matters. and... i tried xnview. it didn't wanna do it. maybe i gotta upgrade it? i barely use it tho.
for me to read, it just has to work and be easy to understand so don't take offense.
for me is easier to just read number of bytes instead of longs in the size.
i didn't think anybody might actually read that. it's all good. and... thx for the plugin idea. this pvr tool was a bit of a slomo.
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xnview can't save file as .pvr!
ugh. what is it you wanna change? wrong club? some ocd sorta thing?
it's not possible to compile a legit codesafe fsh file. a bunch of those bytes in the footer are unpredictable. i won't write it. if you wanna change something you could just as easily hex it. ofc you gotta encode (ctrl+e) the texture. you gotta use opengl es and choose the etc1 format, you gotta generate mipmaps ofc. and safe as pvr. how hard is that to figure out?
for the hex you open the re-saved pvr. file difference is that pvrtool added meta data. i skipped those. you gotta start at offset 0x43 (seems default). select all to end of file and copy paste and replace this data into the correct file chunk. it should be identical size since mipmap layout is predictable and rather failsafe.
@acewell you wanna do the re-fsh c/p it?
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ehh. dummie response. i like those. effed.


a color i wish i could wear.
it makes me feel calm and comfortable to have it around.
adore the smell of fresh cut green grass.
don't care for those green insects though.
hot green tea on a cold day... absolutely.
think chartreuse is my favorite shade.
and i sure love my cute irish friends!
what are some of your favorite green things?
happy saint patricks day yall!
it's a tidge cold this morning... 16 below zero to be exact.
i think i love it!
being thankful for the roof over our heads... and the warm fire at our backs.
the temps will rise of course as the day marches on and the sun shines.
i wish i would have had more time yesterday to get out and explore.
like a land of shiny sparkling crystal... everywhere.
that fluffy shiny good kind.
i think my goddess gal was loving it too.
gave her hair a little extra sass!
i suppose with it being so cold... it should.
maybe we'll get lucky and get more sparkle too... some more flying snow!
i wrapped up the last of the gifts to be shipped yesterday.
and i have to say... it sure felt good to get them in the hands of ups!
this year i pulled out some left over ribbon from last year.
i got lucky and came across some martha stewart ribbon... on sale!
like a really big sale!
something else i really love to use... good 'ol yarn!
i think it gives a cozy... classic feel.
and... you get lots of it on that ball too!
i really like the chunky fuzzy ones... they're like butter!
the girls found him playing in the fluff.
i'm thinking someone needs to come remove them from my home!
i am liking them a little too much!
so happy we have snow!
happy for the new day ahead.
whoever you are... you ROCK!
happy my mama will be here in three days!
wishing you a happy... warm & fuzzy... kind of day too!
what they are calling "unseasonably warm temperatures".
well... how nice of the weather... thanks... we'll take it.
on saturday we decided to head up to the mountain for a picnic.
no way... really... we ran by subway & headed up.
it was kind of chilly up there but... we found a sunny spot & it was perfect.
lil bit was all to eager to explore.
she could have spent all day up there.
"awwwweee... now this is what wilderness is all about"!
just fun to hear to how it makes her feel.
she was having quite the time.
now this... is me right before i decided to do something not so smart.
and i'll let yall know how BIG the bruise becomes... okay!
hmm... wonder who that could have been.
bless her heart... she just wasn't in the adventure mood this time.
so we loaded up & headed back down... slowly... i couldn't get enough!
honestly... the aspens were just gorgeous!
they seemed to literally SING autumn.
one we have yet to walk.
there's just no stopping it.
more in stepping firmly... with my heart.
truly present with what's under foot & giving myself the time to embrace it!
stepping firmly... and embracing every precious moment.


New Taipei City Mayor Eric Chu speaks at an event in New Taipei City yesterday.
An opinion poll published yesterday showed that former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) and New Taipei City (新北市) Mayor Eric Chu (朱立倫) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) are seen as politicians most capable of fighting corruption, with each winning support from more than 40 percent of respondents.
Tsai was named as the most trustworthy politician among a selection of 10 politicians when it comes to tackling corruption, with a support rate of 46.5 percent in the survey conducted by Taiwan Indicators Survey Research (TISR). Chu was second with 41.1 percent.
All four DPP politicians on the list were in the top five. DPP Chairman Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) came in third with 38.5 percent, ahead of Greater Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu's (陳菊) 37.2 percent and Greater Tainan Mayor William Lai's (賴清德) 34.3 percent.
The results showed widespread public disappointment with the government's efforts to fight graft, as President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and Vice President Wu Den-yih (吳敦義), plagued by a series of government corruption cases, endured embarrassing results.
Ma ranked second to last with 17.6 percent, while Wu was last with 12.6 percent. Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺) placed eighth, one place above Ma, with 18.4 percent, trailing Greater Taichung Mayor Jason Hu (胡志強) and Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌).
With regards to political parties, 30.1 percent said both the KMT and the DPP were incapable of monitoring potential corruption when in power, with 26.2 percent saying the DPP was better and 18.9 percent voting for the KMT. Just 6.2 percent supported both parties' efforts, while 18.6 percent were unsure.
The survey also found that people's confidence in the judicial system has dramatically waned since 2006, with 69.2 percent saying they did not believe the judicial system could uphold fairness and justice.
That was up from 48.5 percent who expressed their lack of confidence in the judiciary in 2006, 47.2 percent in 2009 and 63.3 percent in July last year, TISR said.
Only 18.6 percent believed that justice and fairness would be upheld, a far cry from the 40.4 percent in 2006 and 39.1 percent in 2009.
The poll, conducted on Monday and Tuesday, had 1,005 valid samples and a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
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Africa in the Americas
By Benewaah December 3, 2019
The Americas embraced African music in a tight hug in 2019
From Coachella mainstages, breaking into American radio, doing top-rated TV shows and numerous sold-out shows, Afrobeats and African music made its mark on the American music scene this year.
However, this would not be the first time in modern pop culture that African artists would be owning American airwaves. In 2000, Nigerian musician D'banj broke into the American market with his hit song Oliver Twist. Landing himself a remix with Latino rapper, Pitbull, and co-signs from musicians.
The only difference is now, America is not trying to shape African music to fit its mould; American music is adapting to the rhythmic beats and kicks of afrobeats.
In January 2019, Davido's Fall made its way to become one of the top 100 most Shazam'd song in the USA, according to Rolling Stone magazine. Surprisingly, Fall was released in 2017. Only showing, that America has been late to the wave.
In the months following, we have seen a boom in Afrobeats and other African genres in the Americas. From collaborations with top stars, collaborations with brands, participation in shows and events, the Afrobeats storm doesn't seem to be ending now.
This seems to have changed the trajectory labels once took towards African musicians. From Wizkid and Davido's previous works with RCA, it seems labels wanted to make African artists conform to their sound. We spot a difference now with Tiwa Savage and her recent signing with UMG. It seems the world's largest music label has given the Afrobeats sweetheart, creative control when it comes to her sounds, and it is working exceptionally.
Burna Boy took over 2019 with a performance at Coachella and followed up with an impressive album African Giant, and a marketing plan that looped in the USA, UK and Africa. The Nigerian took over airwaves and concerts that earned him a Grammy nomination in the 2019 Grammy Awards.
With many of these artists having label support, it is interesting to witness independent artist Mr Eazi make the same strides. The Nigerian superstar played Coachella 2019 and topped it with a feature with South American artist J Balvin.
The afrobeats flu left America in high spirits. From their biggest stars such as Drake and Beyonce, collaborations and experimentation are happening with afrobeats and African music. In 2019, Beyonce released an album for The Lion King film which she featured African musicians, producers and songwriters. The album featured artists from Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa, and was highly anticipated by her fans.
2019 laid the pathway for Africans and African music to flourish. A deep appreciation for the African culture shined through with this flux.
Even emerging acts such as Santi, who rules the alternative sound of Nigeria gained their due from African music's popularity in the USA. The Rapid Fire hitmaker, signed with label Love Rennaissance (LVRN) which is the home of R&B stars 6lack and Summer Walker. Crooner, Tay Iwar also followed through by joining the independently run, Soulection family.
The question however remains: Will Africa be able to hold on to this fad and thrive beyond this season.
A cue can be taken from Caribbean music which was just as influential and marketed as Afrobeats and other African genres is now in the USA, back in the early 2000s. Superstars like Beenie Man, Elephant Man, Sean Paul and more pushed the Caribbean sound globally. Yet, due to lack of internal structure and system in the Caribbean music industry, that boom took off and sputtered into an end.
For Afrobeats and African music to live gloriously beyond these times, there needs to be a reinforcement of structure and system. However, beyond that, there needs to be a sense of pride, unity and collaboration. Showing up and out for ourselves as Africans, before anything else.
Check out our curation of some of the most fire collaborations between African musicians and producers with North and South American artists.
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Centrum – stacja linii M1 metra w Warszawie znajdująca się na placu Defilad, przy rondzie Romana Dmowskiego.

Opis stacji
Nazwa stacji została nadana uchwałą Rady Narodowej m.st. Warszawy 16 grudnia 1983.

Stacja Centrum jest najgłębszą stacją na linii M1 (15 metrów od poziomu gruntu). Jest dwukondygnacyjna. Dwa perony, każdy o szerokości 7 m, są rozmieszczone po bokach stacji, a tory metra pośrodku. Galeria znajduje się nad obydwoma peronami. W połowie stacji, nad torami, jest połączenie między bocznymi galeriami. Całą konstrukcję podtrzymuje rząd wysokich słupów znajdujący się między torami. Na stacji oprócz zwykłych schodów są schody ruchome przy każdym z czterech wyjść z peronów oraz windy.

Stacja jest utrzymana w kolorach żółtym i niebieskim. Na terenie stacji znajdują się liczne punkty handlowo-usługowe, toalety, bankomat, posterunek Komisariatu Policji Metra Warszawskiego i placówka Poczty Polskiej. Stacja spełnia też funkcję przejścia podziemnego. Na placyku przed południowym wejściem na stację Centrum, nazywanym zwyczajowo patelnią zbudowano betonową ścianę utrzymująca różnicę wysokości. Na tej ścianie artyści prezentują swoje prace (m.in. graffiti).

W październiku 2018 na stacji doszło do awarii schodów ruchomych, w wyniku czego ranne zostały cztery osoby. Badający przyczyny wypadku Transportowy Dozór Techniczny orzekł, że przyczynami awarii było zużycie materiałów i bieganie pasażerów po schodach, powodujące dodatkowe drgania i obciążenia dynamiczne.

Dane techniczne stacji
 Powierzchnia – 25 520 m².
 Kubatura – 145 300 m³.
 Hala peronowa czteronawowa, z trzema rzędami słupów
 Za stacją Centrum od strony północnej znajduje się połączenie między torem 1. i 2. Połączenie to może być wykorzystane w sytuacji, gdy na trasie zepsuje się jakiś skład, można go wtedy odholować, tak aby nie przeszkadzał w dalszym kursowaniu metra.
 Architektem stacji była Jasna Strzałkowska-Ryszka.

Inne informacje
 Razem ze stacją metra pod placem Defilad powstał parking podziemny na 266 miejsc.
 Za stacją, od strony północnej znajduje się rozjazd, dzięki któremu pociągi mogą skręcić w tunel techniczny łączący linie M1 i M2.
 Z dworca Warszawa Śródmieście planowany był tunel dla pasażerów, mający połączyć go ze stacją metra Centrum. Projekt nie został jednak zrealizowany.

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Schemat rozmieszczenia przystanków przy stacji Centrum

Stacje metra w Warszawie
Śródmieście Północne
Stacje i przystanki kolejowe w Polsce oddane do użytku w 1998

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Christine Quinn Net Worth 2023: Income, Salary, Career, Bio
Christine Quinn is an American actress and real estate agent who has a net worth of $2 million. She was born on 14 October 1989 in the United States and is well known as a cast member of the famous Netflix reality show series called the Selling Sunset.
She made her debut film in 2010 called 'The father of Invention.' Her character 'Lisa' gained popularity worldwide as well as she also acted in various TV series such as Family Trees, Drop Dead Diva, and Angie Tribeca. She then turned her attention to the world of real estate and started working for the Oppenheim Group.
Today in this post we are going to tell you in detail about Christine Quinn's total net worth, her earnings, salary, and all other business. Her luxurious lifestyle would make anyone wonder how much money she must be making. So, the answer to all your questions will be given today in this post. Let's take a look at her net worth.
1 Christine Quinn Net Worth
2 Christine Quinn Net Worth Growth
5 Income Sources
6 Assets & Properties
9 Matters
10 Wealth Dependency
Christine Quinn Net Worth
As of 2023, Christine Quinn's net worth is estimated to be $2 million. She is one of the highest-paid relators of the Oppenheim group and is well-known as the overdramatic diva of the selling Sunset series.
She makes money through several sources, from acting to modeling to being a real estate agent. She has been in the news lately after she had a small beef with the Selling Sunset co-star Emma. Her annual income & salary is estimated at $250,000.
Full Name: Christine Quinn
Christine Quinn Net Worth Growth
Net Worth in 2022 $1.8 Million
ALSO READ – JASON OPPENHEIM NET WORTH
Christine Bently Quinn was born on 14 October 1988. Her zodiac sign is Libra. Her mother's name is Barbara Dragony and there is no information available about her father. She is married to a software engineer named Christian Richard. The couple tied the knot in 2019. The couple also has a child together.
She did her schooling in Texas. She then moved to Los Angeles. Christine took up the California Real Estate Exams in 2019 and thereafter started her career as a real estate agent. She is about 5'7 feet inches tall and is blonde. She also has a pet dog that she is very fond of and loves to spend time with.
After graduating, she started her career as a model and went on to model for various agencies. She then studied fashion design to be a fashion designer. She started trying her luck in acting with her debut film being 'The Father of the invention.'
She then went on to act in various movies such as Casting Couch, Humans vs. Zombies, and Hot Tub Time Machine, and then went on to act in various tv series. Her debut tv series was 'Lone Star.' She then acted in several tv series.
After a few years in the acting industry, she took a break and went traveling around the world. That is when she realized her love for interiors and buildings and came back to start her career as a real estate agent. She works for the Oppenheim Group as an agent. She is also very active on her social media handles.
Christine Quinn Net Worth and Salary
Christine Quinn's main sources of income are her career as an actor and as a real estate agent. She has worked in various movies and TV series which has fetched her a lot of money.
In 2019, she was held to be one of the highest-paid agents in the Oppenheim Group with an overall whopping amount of $9 million. She is also a fashion designer which also helps her earn passively. She has been featured in the Netflix series The Selling Sunset in the year 2019.
Assets & Properties
Christine Quinn is a real estate agent herself and has several luxurious properties across Los Angeles and other states in the USA. In 2019, after she married her husband Christian Richard, she purchased an extravagant $5 million mansion in the Hollywood hills.
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Income $250K (Annual)
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The reason was that both of the stars had a common ex-boyfriend. Christine said that she was not happy with the topic of the ex being brought in again and therefore decided to leave the series. However, some reports talk about her quitting the Oppenheim Group. These reports are not confirmed since Christine has not announced the same officially.
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An algorithmic approach to reducing unexplained pain disparities in underserved populations
Emma Pierson1,2,
David M. Cutler3,
Jure Leskovec ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5411-923X4,
Sendhil Mullainathan ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-8508-40525 &
Ziad Obermeyer6
Nature Medicine volume 27, pages136–140(2021)Cite this article
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Underserved populations experience higher levels of pain. These disparities persist even after controlling for the objective severity of diseases like osteoarthritis, as graded by human physicians using medical images, raising the possibility that underserved patients' pain stems from factors external to the knee, such as stress. Here we use a deep learning approach to measure the severity of osteoarthritis, by using knee X-rays to predict patients' experienced pain. We show that this approach dramatically reduces unexplained racial disparities in pain. Relative to standard measures of severity graded by radiologists, which accounted for only 9% (95% confidence interval (CI), 3–16%) of racial disparities in pain, algorithmic predictions accounted for 43% of disparities, or 4.7× more (95% CI, 3.2–11.8×), with similar results for lower-income and less-educated patients. This suggests that much of underserved patients' pain stems from factors within the knee not reflected in standard radiographic measures of severity. We show that the algorithm's ability to reduce unexplained disparities is rooted in the racial and socioeconomic diversity of the training set. Because algorithmic severity measures better capture underserved patients' pain, and severity measures influence treatment decisions, algorithmic predictions could potentially redress disparities in access to treatments like arthroplasty.
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Fig. 1: Heatmap of a representative X-ray image.
Anonymized imaging and clinical data to reproduce results of this study are available online at https://nda.nih.gov/oai/.
Code availability
Code to reproduce the results of this study is available online at https://github.com/epierson9/pain-disparities.
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We thank K. Blumer, J. Duryea, J. Irvin, P.W. Koh, S. Lamb, G. Lester, S. Li, K. Lin, B. McCann, A. Miller, L. Pierson, C. Olah, M. Raghu, P. Rajpurkar, N. Roth, C. Ruiz, C. Sabatti and participants at several seminars and meetings for helpful comments. We acknowledge financial support from Hertz and NDSEG graduate fellowships and the US Social Security Administration (SSA) grant RDR18000003, funded as part of the Retirement and Disability Research Consortium.
Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Emma Pierson
Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
David M. Cutler
Jure Leskovec
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Sendhil Mullainathan
School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Ziad Obermeyer
E.P., D.M.C., J.L., S.M. and Z.O. jointly analyzed the results and wrote the paper.
Correspondence to Sendhil Mullainathan.
E.P. is employed by Microsoft Research. S.M. and Z.O. have equity interests in LookDeep Health (healthcare services), Dandelion (healthcare services) and Spur Labs (healthcare services). Z.O. has equity interests in Berkeley Data Ventures (consulting).
Peer review information Jennifer Sargent was the primary editor on this article and managed its editorial process and peer review in collaboration with the rest of the editorial team.
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Extended Data Fig. 1 The effect of dataset diversity on model performance.
Each row of plots shows the effect of removing one minority group from the training set: from top, Black, lower-income, and lower-education patients. Each column of plots shows one metric: from left, R2 in predicting KOOS pain score, and the reductions in the education, income, and racial pain disparities (relative to KLG). In each subplot, the blue dot shows, as a baseline, the performance of KLG. The red dot shows the performance of a neural network trained on a non-diverse training set, with all minority patients removed. The five black dots show the performance of neural networks trained on five diverse training sets of equal size, with five random subsets of non-minority patients removed; in all cases, the diverse training sets yield superior performance to non-diverse training sets of equal size.
Extended Data Fig. 2 Analysis pipeline.
Prior to conducting any analysis, 1,295 patients (red box) were reserved as a held-out validation set to assess final results. In the exploratory phase, the remaining patients were analyzed as follows: a training set was used to optimize model weights, and a development set to select model hyperparameters and conduct early stopping to avoid overfitting. The main analyses to run on the held-out validation set were determined prior to examining it, and the hyperparameters were finalized. In the final analysis, all models were retrained using the hyperparameters chosen in the exploratory phase, and model predictions were assessed on the 1,295 patients in the held-out validation set.
Extended Data Fig. 3 Pain levels among overlapping racial and socioeconomic subgroups.
Race and socioeconomic status are correlated: among Black patients, 61% were lower-education and 63% were lower-income, while among non-Black patients, 34% were lower-education and 34% were lower-income.
Extended Data Fig. 4 Predictive performance for pain.
95% CIs are computed by cluster bootstrapping at the patient level.
Reporting Summary
Pierson, E., Cutler, D.M., Leskovec, J. et al. An algorithmic approach to reducing unexplained pain disparities in underserved populations. Nat Med 27, 136–140 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-01192-7
Artificial intelligence for disparities in knee pain assessment
Said A. Ibrahim
Nature Medicine (2021)
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Too few college-ready low-income students attend and graduate from college, which limits their economic mobility for the rest of their lives. More than sixty percent of jobs will require education beyond high school by the end of the decade, but research shows that many low-income students who have demonstrated college readiness don't even apply.
The White House's convening of more than 80 college and university presidents this week was an important step forward. Attendees made concrete commitments to increase college access, particularly for low-income students, and expressed the sense of urgency needed to make progress. However, public policy improvements are also required to ensure students can maximize their educational potential. States have a responsibility to come together in working to meet this national challenge.
In Delaware, we call our initiative "Getting to Zero." The idea is simple. In Delaware, 27% of our college ready low-income students don't even apply to college, and 1,000 of our college-ready students don't enroll anywhere. We believe that zero of our college-ready students should fail to apply and attend college.
In the fall, we launched a partnership with the College Board that follows research from Stanford's Caroline Hoxby and Harvard's Christopher Avery showing that we can help low-income students take advantage of college opportunities they've earned simply by better informing them of their options. We're providing all of them with information on college affordability and financial aid, materials to help them choose the best institutions for them, and application fee waivers, which have traditionally been far too complicated to obtain.
Our highest-achieving low-income students received a letter signed by all of the Ivy League schools, Stanford, and MIT, congratulating them on their accomplishments and letting them know that many students attend those institutions at no cost. And our other college ready students heard from other universities interested in having them matriculate.
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We are proud of the College Board partnership but it's only one step. Students deserve our support in pursuing higher education at every step.
At the White House, we announced four follow-up initiatives, already happening in some Delaware schools, which will go statewide and reflect our commitment to improving college access for our students.
First, we need to make sure they apply. So every high school in the state will make time for students to fill out their applications in computer labs, and write college essays in our English classes.
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Last weekend Donald Trump tweeted the now infamous Crooked Hillary Picture with her smug face over a background of Benjamins and a Red star. The text within the star read, "Most Corrupt Candidate ever."
Most have seen the original and the edited version, where the star is replaced with a simple red circle, yet retaining the text. And why was it edited? We all know why, but if you happened to not – someone started a campaign against the tweet (I don't know who was first) claiming the star was a mockery of Jews as it may be a depiction of the Star of David.
It may have been Never-Trumper Erick Erickson who first noticed it. The left then quickly jumped on the bandwagon and the Trump bashing was off and running.
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I'm not going to defend Trump – but I'm also not going to condemn him here. Neither I nor anyone else really knows what the intent of the tweet was – beyond the obvious Hillary bashing – which is of course is accurate. Hillary is more than likely one of the most corrupt individuals in America – not just the most corrupt politician.
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Whoever started it, the left and their media brethren have glommed on and really hammered Trump on the anti-Semitism angle. To some extent it worked, as he, or someone, dropped the star.
I don't think Trump is an anti-Semite. To my recollection, I have never been witness to anything which would cause me to question him. But none of this is my point. My point here is the left and once again their ridiculous display of double standards.
They so want everyone to believe Trump is some sort of Jew hater. Heck, his son-in-law is a Jew and his wife, Trump's daughter Ivanka, converted to Judaism. If he were anti-Semitic, his head would have pooped off by now and he would have disowned his daughter. But, again, this is not the point.
Out of one side of their mouths, the leftist press cries anti-Semitism and out of the other they exclaim Obama as great man and an even better President. The fact is that their hero Obama has been the biggest Israel-hating president we may have ever had. And this goes for many in his Cabinet – particularly Jew-hating John Kerry.
Since Obama took office he has been, at minimum, hostile toward our only Middle Eastern ally.
Western Journalism reported just three days ago that, "the Obama administration launched a new blistering attack on Israel," over new housing developments and accused them of seizing "Palestinian land." Of course the developments are being built to house 800 Jewish families and 600 Arab families. Yes – Arab families. Those darn Jews – always trying to keep the Arabs down – by building them houses.
John Kirby, State Department spokes-hack said, or more precisely was instructed to say by his Israel hating boss that, "If it is true, this report would be the latest step in what seems to be the systematic process of land seizures, settlement expansions and legalization of outposts that is fundamentally undermining the prospects for a two-state solution. We oppose steps like these, which we believe are counterproductive to the cause of peace." Outposts? What is this – the Wild West?
He added that, the administration is "deeply concerned" about the Israeli building plans.
What's deeply concerning, to anyone who cares to look at the Obama administration's record toward Israel, is the outright contempt for them. In March of 2015 Ben Shapiro, then at Breitbart did just that, placing in chronological order dozens of instances of mistreatment by Obama toward Israel. Among them is the constant refusal to accept any Israeli settlements because it might upset the Palestinians – those guys who just want peace. His insistence on Israel returning to the 1967 borders and the constant berating of Netanyahu by members of his administration.
And recall that in 2011 Obama was caught on a hot mic saying he hates Netanyahu and called him a liar.
The left would say that their hero Obama just has enmity toward Netanyahu, not Israel, but to read the chronology, one can only conclude that Obama wouldn't mind if Israel just ceased to exist.
So for the left to get all bent out of shape over Trump's tweet is just pathetic on its face. I'm not a Trump guy, but I can guarantee Israel and the Jews will fare far better with Trump than they ever have with this Jew-hating administration.
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In my estimation, very few films truly deserve the label of "classic." However, "To Kill a Mockingbird," the 1962 film starring Gregory Peck is, truly, a classic film with a socially relevant script, excellent acting and a remarkable faithfulness to the spirit and heart of the Harper Lee novel of the same name.
In the film, Peck plays Atticus Finch, a Southern lawyer who chooses to defend a Black man in the deep South who is accused of raping a white woman. As seen through the eyes of six-year-old Scout, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a unique film that balances the innocence of a time period with the harsh realities of race and discrimination.
Peck, who captured the Oscar for his performance here, is simply marvelous in a role that requires him to balance a deep sense of compassion, social justice and staunch defender. In a career of many wonderful roles, this role is, in my opinion, Peck's shining moment on screen.
Yet, the supporting cast that surrounds him is just as solid and wonderful throughout the film including a remarkable cast of young actors and actresses. Most notably, Mary Badham is a standout and picked up an Oscar nomination for her supporting role as Scout (at the time of her nomination, she was the youngest nominee ever in this category).
Kudos to director Robert Mulligan for his faithfulness to the book, though I must knock off a point or two out of a desire to see a tad more devotion to the relationship between Atticus and the children. The novel develops these relationships quite nicely, while it tends to be a more surface development onscreen.
Yet, truly, this is a minor quibble for a film that is, without a doubt, one of the greatest films of all-time. While it is a bit dated at this point, "To Kill a Mockingbird" was bold and courageous during the early turning points for racial equality in this country. With a powerful script, excellent acting and beautiful production design "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a definitive classic of American Cinema.


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The only remaining member of the Coalition's leadership group of a decade ago, the Defence Minister holds deep fears for the future of Australian politics.
After Malcolm Turnbull became the latest victim of Australia's political leadership abattoir last year, Christopher Pyne told confidants just how much it had knocked him around.
"Malcolm is Aslan to me," Pyne said at the time, referring to the Christ-like lion king from C.S. Lewis's Narnia novels.
He cried all the way home to Adelaide the night after Aslan was slain.
Still, Pyne, 51, came through that leadership change as he has through all of them: ahead. Pyne acknowledges he is a survivor. The manager of government business is the only remaining member of the Liberal leadership group of a decade ago. Everyone else has fallen: Turnbull, Tony Abbott, Julie Bishop, Joe Hockey, as well as George Brandis and Eric Abetz who were leaders in the Senate.
As a factional boss who is also a master of parliamentary procedure - he marvels at why so many colleagues don't share his enthusiasm for that arcane skill - Pyne has developed a reputation as a ruthless operator. Some colleagues call him Machiavellian.
Pyne's devotion to the Liberal Party comes second only to his devotion to the moderate wing of the Liberal Party. While he fights Labor in public, he gets along well with opposition figures such as his Labor defence counterpart Richard Marles. His most famous feuds have been with colleagues such as the arch-conservative and former Liberal Cory Bernardi.
I think that when we both leave politics, we're more likely to renew our friendship. I think it's been very raw for Tony and that's made our friendship, which was very strong, strained.
Regarding last August, Pyne says that once it became clear Turnbull would not be a candidate, he recognised that it would be a race between Scott Morrison, Julie Bishop and Peter Dutton.
It is at this point that he makes a remark likely to raise eyebrows among colleagues trying to kickstart their election year. Dutton, Pyne says, would be "electorally unpopular" outside of Queensland.
Morrison was a better outcome for Liberal moderates and a better election prospect.
He attributes his survival to the fact he's steered a steady ideological course. While Turnbull was his "kind of Liberal", he was loyal to Abbott as leader while still sticking to his moderate values, he says.
Pyne and Abbott were close during the Howard years, having dinner every week together. He acknowledges that has changed.
Not all of Pyne's colleagues share his view that he's behaved perfectly through these hard times.
"He looks to make himself indispensable to every leader. It's really something to watch - it's a seduction and a betrayal," one Liberal MP says, asking to remain anonymous.
He's too busy plotting against colleagues, this MP adds, to be effective against Labor.
A senior party figure said: "Christopher ingratiated himself with every leader except Howard. Howard was the one who showed the best judgement."
This figure said Pyne had good political instincts, honed by holding a marginal seat. "He was long ago institutionalised by politics. He lives and breathes it. But self-preservation is the main driver for Christopher."
One claim against him is that, despite promising moderate colleagues on a WhatsApp discussion group he had told Bishop they were steering their support to Morrison in August, he had in fact given her no such warning. Pyne adamantly denies this.
He says he has no leadership ambitions of his own, mainly because he's not conservative enough and has never been prepared to "compromise what I believed in to become the leader".
"Too liberal, too South Australian," is how he sums up his bind, noting that leaders typically come from NSW and Victoria.
Pyne insists he will run again for his seat of Sturt, amid speculation of an exodus of senior Liberals. His insistence also comes despite the normally irrepressible minister giving a depressing assessment of the state of politics, clearly cemented by the treatment of Turnbull.
The recent turmoil is "the consequence of people not being able to see through the haze of the media environment in which we live today, driven mostly by social media", he says.
With remarkable frankness for a politician who's spent 26 years in Parliament, Pyne says this political environment is not good for the country and he can't see that changing.
Which raises the obvious question: How much responsibility does he take as an MP who's always played the game hard?
The answer is not much. Pyne insists there's a difference between playing to win - which one has to do to get things done - and creating internal strife or indulging in "public introspection that is now so much a part of the political system".
He says he's not thinking about his own future, insisting it's "bad karma" before an election. But if the Coalition loses, as polls widely predict, another change of leadership as well as a likely push for generational change would put Pyne's survival skills after more than half his life in Parliament to the test as never before.


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over the years, I have provided yoga therapy for various clients that have suffered from different conditions. Yoga therapy has provided them with the space and support to facilitate their own healing process.
I have seen first-hand, the recovery and results that yoga therapy can bring about. I have worked with people with various conditions such as asthma, depression, insomnia, stress, anxiety, infertility, arthritis, back pain and even recovery from cancer.
yoga philosophy has provided us with much insight into the human condition. Within scripture, there are vivid explanations of the human condition including our psychological and physiological essence which are described in terms of subtle energy.
these explanations fit within the principles of contemporary quantum physics and biology and there is plenty scientific research and medical evidence into the effectiveness of yoga for health.
in brief, wellbeing is the result of good circulation and a free flow of energy within our being. All disease and health problems can be attributed to dis-ease and dis-harmony within the energetic sphere, i.e. energy blockage or stagnation, whether temporary or more persistent. thus yoga therapy works from this straight forward premise and seeks to tackle the very source of the energy weakness.
I am now available for 1-2-1's form my home studio in Hove.


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The harsh weather in the UK last autumn had a silver lining for goose producers, according to results of the annual survey carried out by Norfolk Geese, the UK's largest gosling supplier.
Coming after the better quality of the early autumn grazing, the hard frost stimulated the birds' appetite and led to them putting on additional weight while also facilitating the plucking and chilled storage.
Despite the economic climate, producers experienced another healthy season of Christmas sales. This year he is again seeing a trend to earlier ordering with the smaller customers increasing their production slightly and larger producers continuing at roughly 2010 levels.
Norfolk Geese sells the traditional Legarth strain which produces 5-6 kg oven-ready geese and also the larger framed SuperStow for 7-8 kg finished weights.
Last year the gosling price was held, but with the big leap in feed costs the 2011 goslings will be around 6% more expensive with the hatchery absorbing part of the increased costs.
Over the past year Norfolk Geese has seen an increase in demand for organic goslings. The parent stock has been certified by the Soil Association and a second generation organic flock in Essex is providing the goslings for this market.


Party at the Tel Aviv Beach, the Jewish club Hakoah celebrates its 100th anniversary and a new community center is built. Is Vienna's Jewish community experiencing a renaissance? No. Many of the young people among its 7,500 members are leaving.
Vienna – Marcello loves parties, every day, also on the Sabbath. "I party then too, unfortunately," he says with a slight sense of guilt and continues to sip his drink. It is quite normal to go out on a Friday evening.
At the Tel Aviv Beach, the blue and white beach club situated on the Danube Canal (Donaukanal) is not only a place for many of the Viennese to meet this summer, whether Jewish or non-Jewish. It is also a place where young people, liberal Jews like Marcello happily celebrate in flipflops and beach garb behind large sun glasses.
One can encounter, however those who do wear a black skirt - namely the Orthodox Jews who are from Eastern Europe and have come to Vienna - merely a block away from Tel Aviv Beach in the section of Karmelitermarkt or districts where they live. A breath of Williamsburg - is this also a sign of an ever-growing vibrant Jewish Community?
Also in Leopoldstadt, a few kilometers outside the city, there are signs of Community life, even if it is currently somewhat more bleak. Behind Prater, on the corner of Simon-Wiesenthal-Straße and Wehlistraße, just before the Danube and far from any inner city building a new Jewish center is coming into play. A school, a home for the elderly and a tenement have been built, and in marking the 100th anniversary of Jewish tradition in Vienna, Hakoah already will be constructed on the newly designated space. The Community is growing, at least when speaking of building sites. But can one speak of a renaissance?
No, in terms of numbers, certainly not. Much more the contrary, says the Secretary General of the Jewish Community Vienna (IKG) Raimund Fastenbauer. Out of an estimated 10,000 – 15,000 of Jewish citizens residing in Vienna, many of whom are not religious, some 7,500 members presently belong to the Community.
The Community's problem, says Fastenbauer, is that "we have educated and strengthened our children perhaps too well in regards to their Jewish identity. Through our school and contacts within the Community, they learn to want to lead a life like that offered by Israel, or London or New York, where there is a strong sense of belonging to a Jewish Community." Consequently, the problem arises - namely finding the right marriage partner in such a small Community like that of Vienna. Through international contacts made during their school or university years, many leave out of love and stay forever, never to return.
As to the increase in the Jewish Community due to emigrants from Eastern Europe: Before 1938 and the Holocaust, there were more than 210,000 Jews living in Vienna. Some 1,000 survived the persecution by living in the underground or by marrying a non-Jew. After WW II some 4,000 survivors returned to Vienna. In contrast to Germany, there was never a genuine invitation or any concerted efforts toward taking back the former Austrians, said Fastenbauer. The Jewish Community has basically grown because of the large number of emigrants from Eastern Europe – Bucharian Jews from Usbekistan, Sephardic Jews from Georgia and Russian Jews. Almost one-third of today's Jewish Community is made up of recent arrivals from the East.
Great efforts were made by the Community to integrate these people; moreover, badly needed was an expansion of infrastructure in the way of additional prayer rooms for those having different rituals. Esra, originally created as service to Holocaust survivors in the way of psychological and social assistance, is involved today in helping newcomers with problems of integrating into their new surroundings of Central Europe.
However today this increase of new members is on the wane due to the strict laws on foreigners, complains Raimund Fastenbauer. The only possibility of compensation due to the departure of many young people is that "we must speak to the smaller Eastern European Jewish Communities in the EU countries, who themselves are having difficulty surviving on their own. For them, Vienna might appear very interesting. Also, for that reason, the new Hakoah Center has been established," argues the Jewish Community's Secretary General. It is there that school children, seniors and families can come to live and learn.
The project is, however, not without debate within the Community itself. One hears from people that it is too grandiose for a Community of 7,500 members. It would create a new Jewish ghetto, far from the city. And it costs too much money. Ariel Muzicant, head of Vienna's Jewish Community, had to turn to his Community members and ask for donations for the new social center. Lacking is a total sum of two-and-a-half million euros, and that alone for security measures.
As to politics at the beach: People enjoying the Tel Aviv Beach feel emotionally far, far removed from thoughts about a home for the elderly. Last week, for example, not only young people but also ambassadors and even the Mayor of Tel Aviv and his Viennese colleague, Michael Häupl, celebrated the 100th anniversary of the city on the Mediterranean.
It's true that some ten percent of the guests are Jews, and at special events, the percentage is higher," said Molcho, but certainly not everyone in the Community comes here to stick their feet here in the sand. Molcho claims that "it bothers the highly religious people that we are observing the Sabbath and are not eating kosher." With other Jewish Communities in Vienna, it is a bit more like with neighbors. One knows each other, one greets each other, of course. But, "we would not go together out on the town," says Marcello.
One is primarily not a Jew. Viennese, Israeli, Austrian, Jew or even Italian? In Marcellos, Philips and Nuriel world, there are ultimate possibilities of identity and their sense of belonging is much more open. The three define being Jewish primarily as something cultural since they are not particularly religious. "Praying," says Philip, "gets on my nerves." Recently they attended some of the Jewish youth organizations and very soon lost their interest. All three of them went to international rather than Jewish schools. Their circle of friends are to a great extent non-Jewish. And yet, to all three of them, particular traditions are very important. For example, on certain holidays such as Jom Kippur, they go to the synagogue. Also marriage is a special matter. In any case, the wife should be Jewish, said Philip and Nuriel. Marcello tends not to think in such absolute terms, but then adds: "It would, however, be better." The point is that he is a single child, and the tradition of the Jewish family is at stake.


I will connect 40 pushbuttons to the Bela system. When I press 1 button, I need the Bela to send a sound on the Sd Card (When it's pressed down, the sound is read, when the button is released, the sound is off) . When I press another button, I need to have the same process, but with an other sound. That's it !
Are you comfortable with using C++ or PureData? What you are asking for is fairly straightforward in Puredata, and it's a bit more involved in C++.
How long are the sounds?
Hello @giuliomoro ! Thanks for the answer. I am not comfortable with C++ neither PureData, but I can learn. I come from the Teensy world, with Arduino IDE.
The sounds would be between 10 sec to 1 min. It will be mp3 format.
That should add up to 600 seconds (or 1200 if stereo) , so yes it should be easy to do that by pre-loading everything in RAM. Again, as I mentioned earlier, if you needed much more than 200MB of memory, you would still be able to do it, but it would be more complicated, as you would have to stream the samples off the disk.
If you want to do it in C++, the example 04-Audio/sample-piezo-trigger is a good starting point: this detects the envelope of the signal from a piezo disc, and triggers a sample playback when an onset is detected. In your case it would be easier: you could just check that the multiplexed analog input is above a certain threshold and trigger the sample at that point. You would have then to repeat the sample loading for each of your files, and trigger a different file for each different input.
To learn how to read from the multiplexer capelet, look at the example 09-Capelets/multiplexer_display.
If you want to do it in Pure Data, you can use a combination of the [soundfiler] and [tabplay~] objects. Check the help file for [tabplay~]: that contains a fully working example of sample loading and playback. You would then, again, just need to threshold the input coming in from the multiplexer capelet to decide whether to trigger a [bang( or [stop( message to [soundfiler], to - respectively - start or stop the playback. To learn how to read from the multiplexer capelet in Pd, look at the example 08-PureData/multiplexerCapelet.
So, you will first want to convert all the files to 16bit wav, as it's faster to load (and I don't think there is any mp3 decoder on Bela, though you could install one if you so wish).
Then, without getting language-specific yet, if you can load all the files from disk into RAM at startup, it would be much easier to implement this; otherwise you should store in RAM only the initial fragment of each file and load the rest from disk as you start playing the head. To find out which approach will work for your case, read below.
Each second of mono audio takes (44100*4) bytes when loaded into RAM (considering that you are storing it as a 32-bit float). A reasonable RAM usage for your program is about 200MB. You could probably push this a bit further (maybe 300MB?), but the OOM (out-of-memory) killer may eventually kill your program.
Assuming the 200MB threshold, this means you have about 200000000/(44100*4) = 1133.79 seconds of monophonic audio you can store in memory. Could you go through all your files and get an estimate of whether you are above or below this threshold? Note that the above measure is for MONOPHONIC signals. Stereo audio files will take twice as much RAM per second, so please take care of that in your computations. Also, if you have some stereo files where the two channels are exactly the same, and could be downmixed to mono, make a note of that.
spkrn I thought I would load sounds files on the Sd card ?
EDIT: It just occurred to me maybe you were wanting to stream directly from the SD card? As @giuliomoro pointed out this is possible but a little more complicated. If you attempted to read byte-by-byte from the SD card at real-time audio rates the disk I/O probably won't keep up and you will get a lot of glitches and drop-outs. So... you have to buffer the audio. That is, to read large blocks of data into RAM outside of the real-time thread and then hand off the pointer to the data to the real-time process. This involves some synchronization between the real-time process and the disk I/O process to make sure audio is streaming at the correct average rate. Handling this synchronization is more complicated than just loading everything to RAM and reading it from RAM in real-time.
giuliomoro If you have a Linux machine (or you installed a suitable driver on Windows/Mac that allows you to read / write ext4 filesystems), then you could in principle put the SD card on your computer and write the files there this way.
On Linux this is approach is very straightforward because it "just works" when you plug the sd card into your computer.
You can also resize the ext4 partition and create a fat32 partition for audio files if you want the operation to be more generally compatible with systems that don't natively work with the ext4 filesystem. For example, if you intend to make several of these and deploy them at several locations where the end user has to be able to copy wav files onto the SD card, but is not very technically inclined.
giuliomoro Assuming the 200MB threshold, this means you have about 200000000/(44100*4) = 1133.79 seconds of monophonic audio you can store in memory.
You can double this by keeping the audio in 16-bit integer representation as long as your application is not mixing so many channels at a time that the CPU is unable to keep up with integer-to-float cast load in real-time. This is a trade-off between CPU utilization and memory utilization.
Furthermore, if you don't require high-quality audio you can convert it to 8-bit although at that point you would get higher quality by downsampling to 22.05 kHz samplerate rather than losing 8-bits resolution. Reduced bandwidth is generally more acceptable than quantization noise (unless you are purposely going for the bitcrusher effect).
Hello, thanks a lot ! So do you think it's possible to read simultaneously 20 (30 sec length) wav tracks on the Bela ?
giuliomoro spkrn with Arduino IDE.
This is correct. The Arduino libraries simplify a lot of things so that you typically don't need to dive very deep but the code you write is C++, compiled by a C++ compiler. It is a nice way to get familiar with programming because you hit on all the basics of the C family language programming.
With Bela you don't need to go much deeper into C++ than you do with Arduino. You can probably do most of your programming pretending you're doing it on an Arduino. As you can see the Bela team has created an environment with lots of sample code that will probably get you up and running with a similar level of effort as a comparable Teensy project.
Hello @giuliomoro . Thanks a lot ! This is a very precise answer and will help a lot.
ryjobil thanks ! So it seems quite simple !
@giuliomoro & @ryjobil I thought I would load sounds files on the Sd card ?
The BELABOOT partition that shows up on the host when you plug in the board does not really have much space available, and does not give you access to the folder containing the Bela projects. It is a small FAT32 partition that is used to hold drivers for legacy systems and some configuration files.
If you have a Linux machine (or you installed a suitable driver on Windows/Mac that allows you to read / write ext4 filesystems), then you could in principle put the SD card on your computer and write the files there this way.
- for smallish files (e.g.: < 10 MB), just drag-and-drop them on the IDE, one at a time: they will be stored in the current project.
ryjobil You can double this by keeping the audio in 16-bit integer representation as long as your application is not mixing so many channels at a time that the CPU is unable to keep up with integer-to-float cast load in real-time.
True. I was thinking that, if using Pd and [soundfiler], you'd be forced to float storage.


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Olongapo is een stad binnen de grenzen van de Filipijnse provincie Zambales in het westen van het eiland Luzon. De stad is onafhankelijk en valt dus niet onder het bestuur van de provincie. Bij de laatste census in 2010 telde de stad ruim 221 duizend inwoners.

Geografie

Bestuurlijke indeling
Olongapo is onderverdeeld in de volgende 17 barangays:

Bestuur en politiek
Zoals alle steden is de belangrijkste bestuurder van Olongapo de burgemeester. De burgemeester wordt elke drie jaar gekozen door de kiesgerechtigde stemmers binnen de stad en is het hoofd van het stadsbestuur en de uitvoerende organen. Het burgemeesterschap van de stad is het grootste deel van de geschiedenis van Olongapo in handen van de Gordons. De huidige burgemeester van de stad, James Gordon jr. is tijdens de verkiezingen van 2007 voor drie jaar herkozen voor zijn tweede opeenvolgende termijn. Gordons ouders en grootouders waren in het verleden ook burgemeester van Olongapo. De viceburgemeester, momenteel Cynthia M. Cajudo, is voorzitter van de sangguniang panlungsod (stadsraad). Deze sangguniang panlungsod vertegenwoordigt de wetgevende macht binnen de stad en is samengesteld uit tien gekozen raadsleden.

Lijst van burgemeesters van Olongapo sinds 1964
 1964 - 1967 James Leonard Gordon
 1967 - 1971 Amelia Juico Gordon
 1971 - 1980 Geronimo Lipumano
 1980 - 1986 Richard Gordon
 1986 - 1988 Ted Macapagal (benoemd als Officer in Charge [OIC])
 1988 - 1993 Richard Gordon
 1993 - 1995 Cynthia Cajudo
 1995 - 2004 Katherine Gordon
 2004 - heden James Gordon jr.

Demografie
Olongapo had bij de census van 2010 een inwoneraantal van 221.178 mensen. Dit waren 6.092 mensen (2,7%) minder dan bij de vorige census van 2007. Ten opzichte van de census van 2000 was het aantal inwoners gegroeid met 26.918 mensen (13,9%). De gemiddelde jaarlijkse groei in die periode kwam daarmee uit op 1,31%, hetgeen lager was dan het landelijk jaarlijks gemiddelde over deze periode (1,90%).

De bevolkingsdichtheid van Olongapo was ten tijde van de laatste census, met 221.178 inwoners op 185 km², 1195,6 mensen per km².

Geboren in Olongapo

 Antonio Diaz (6 september 1927), afgevaardigde van Zambales (overleden 2011).

Stad in de Filipijnen