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'Willow' review: Warwick Davis returns in Lucasfilm's series sequel for Disney+
Disney's press materials refer to the original 1988 movie "Willow" as "beloved," which despite its admirers feels like nostalgic inflation of a pretty generic George Lucas-plotted fantasy that provided an early directing showcase for Ron Howard. Setting that aside, a Disney+ revival series isn't without its charms, in a more contemporary narrative that brings back Warwick Davis while focusing on the next generation.
The series begins by recounting the events of the movie, which saw Davis' simple farmer Willow turn sorcerer and join in a fierce battle to protect a baby who carried the kingdom's destiny on her tiny shoulders, overcoming ancient evil with the help of the swordsman Madmartigan and (eventually) princess Sorsha. The latter were played by Val Kilmer and Joanne Whalley, respectively, who as an off-screen bonus got married after the film.
Kilmer, amid his struggle with cancer, remains out of the picture, but Whalley returns as the now-queen and mother of two headstrong grown children, who play roles in a mythical quest that requires journeying across treacherous lands to thwart the evil crone.
As for the aforementioned baby, Elora Danan, she has grown up in anonymity, "Sleeping Beauty"-like, to protect her, although her identity (a not-to-be-revealed spoiler) soon becomes known. The quest includes a colorful band with plenty of youthful relationship issues, including Princess Kit (Ruby Cruz), who is secretly in love with the knight charged with training her (Erin Kellyman, whose credits include Lucasfilm's "Solo: A Star Wars Story"); and Boorman (Amar Chadha-Patel), an irreverent brawler in the Madmartigan mode.
Jonathan Kasdan (who also worked on "Solo") serves as showrunner, collaborating with four directors who each oversaw back-to-back episodes. As constructed, "Willow" draws upon the original while weaving in flourishes that recall the "Lord of the Rings" movies, including lots of sweeping green countryside and abundant, occasionally quite-violent action.
As is so often the case with the growing subgenre of expanded-to-series sequels, this "Willow" at times feels as if it's spinning its wheels, devoting lengthy stretches to Willow guiding the now-older Elora to master her powers, which he presents as the only hope of saving the kingdom. And while Kilmer's absence leaves a sizable hole Kasdan and company do a reasonably good job of filling it, including the late arrival of another knight (Christian Slater) with whom Madmartigan shared some history.
Beyond modern-sounding dialogue and situations, the story does exhibit plenty of playful irreverence and humor mixed in among the action sequences and elaborate fantasy production design. The latter in particular suggest that this revival was no small undertaking, and to its credit, it looks like that money ended up on the screen.
While that combination doesn't add up into making "Willow" significantly worthier of the "beloved" label than its late-'80s predecessor, consumed on its own unpretentious terms, it's easy enough to like.
"Willow" premieres November 30 on Disney+.
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Palatka staff proposes tax decrease
Though not official, city finance director says millage rate could drop nearly 10 percent
Scott J. Bryan
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The much ballyhooed fire assessment fee implemented a year ago might lead to another city of Palatka millage decrease, according to city documents and Palatka Finance Director Matt Reynolds.
According to Reynolds, city staff has suggested lowering the millage rate from 6.9967 to 6.25 if the city can get the fire assessment fee added to the uniform method of collection. Reynolds said he was confident that would happen, and he's working with Tax Collector Linda Myers to complete the task.
The fire assessment fee was the biggest reason for the millage decrease, Reynolds said, but an uptick in other economic factors helped lessen the blows from various expense increases.
"Revenue citywide, from what I'm seeing, are trending well," Reynolds said. "That's sales tax revenue, state-shared revenue, utility taxes, franchise fees, gas taxes, as well as taxable value. I think it was an increase of about 2.8 percent. … It wasn't a whole lot … but when all of these different revenue streams are going up by $10,000-$15,000, it all ads up to being enough to assist in lowering the millage rate."
Reynolds said next year's budget is still in the works – it changes daily, he said – but during a presentation July 14, he shared with city commissioners a variety of increases.
Under the heading "City-wide Assumptions," Reynolds suggested a 5 percent cost-of-living increase, as well as a projected 30 percent increase in health insurance costs.
In reviewing the current fiscal year budget, Reynolds had good and bad news. The utility fund, which was projected to lose $9,347 according to budget estimates, is now projected to generate $187,323 in revenue because of various savings and increased revenue.
The golf course, which is on the agenda during Thursday's regularly scheduled city commission meeting, is projected to lose $122,000 more than originally projected and the city will take a $293,297 loss on the city-owned links.
City commissioners will host their second budget workshop 2 p.m. Thursday. During their 6 p.m. meeting, commissioners vote to approve or reject a tentative millage rate of 6.9967 for the Notice of Proposed Property Taxes (TRIM notice).
Reynolds said city commissioners can then lower the millage rate after the TRIM notice, before finalizing the budget in September.
Another C for Putnam schools, state report says
Payne seeking $10M from state on Putnam's behalf
Sheriff's office receives training to continue decrease in crime
County mulls restarting search for new attorney

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I've written a couple of times before about Romney's ridiculous lie that half of recent college grads can't find jobs (the real number is somewhere between six and nine percent). And though I hate to beat a dead horse, he told the lie again twice in last night's debate, with a twist that makes it worth revisiting.
There are a few things going on here. First, there's the fact that in each case he repeated the original claim — that half of new college graduates can't find work of any kind — before revising it by repeating it with the "college level" qualification. Whether this was an attempt to befuddle fact-checkers or an example of old habits being hard to break I don't know, but in any event it had the effect of making his walkback hard to catch and hard to follow.
But in a sense it doesn't matter, because Romney's new, scaled back claim is no more defensible than the original. As I've noted in the past, the claim that half of recent college graduates "can't find … a college level job" is false.
That "everybody else category includes the unemployed, who were something like six to nine percent of the total recent-graduate pool. It includes those who went on to grad school or law school or med school. It includes those who took entry-level positions in their field that didn't require college degrees but would get their foot in the door for later jobs that would. It includes actors who decided to wait tables while going on auditions and poli-sci majors who took jobs with campaigns and writers who took paralegal gigs so they could pay their bills and work on their one-woman shows in the evenings.
It includes all sorts of people, in other words, most of whom have jobs, and many of whom are pursuing their careers in exactly the way they'd planned before going to college.


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A Critique of Alister McGrath on Justification by Faith
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John Warwick Montgomery (Ph.D., Chicago, D.Théol., Strasbourg, LL.D., Cardiff, Dr. [h.c.], Institute for Religion and Law, Moscow) is Emeritus Professor of Law and Humanities, University of Bedfordshire, England, Distinguished Research Professor of Apologetics and Christian Thought, Patrick Henry College, Virginia, U.S.A., and Director, International Academy... read more
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On Wednesday, 8 November, Birmingham Councillor Sharon Thompson visited Trident Reach's homeless hostel in the city centre to learn first-hand about its work to fight Birmingham's homelessness crisis.
The Birmingham City Councillor met with staff and service users to find out more about how the Midlands based charity helps people who are experiencing homelessness. Washington Court is a direct access hostel that provides 101 beds to both men and women.
The support offered addresses the underlying issues that have contributed to the individual's homelessness, including but not limited to; mental health, drug and alcohol addiction, financial problems and criminal activity.
Ms Thompson who grew up in Yardley, is both a magistrate and a Birmingham City Councillor as well as a champion for tackling the homelessness crisis within the city; using her own experiences from nineteen years ago when she found herself homeless and had to find help through a city charity to secure a roof over her head.


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Master of Puppets is the third studio album by the American thrash metal band Metallica. It was released on March 3, 1986, through Vertigo Records, Music for Nations and Elektra Records, making it the group's major label debut. The album peaked at number 29 on the Billboard 200 chart and was the group's first record to be certified gold for sales of over 500,000 copies. This was done without any radio airplay or the release of a music video. The album was certified six times platinum by the RIAA. Master of Puppets received positive reviews. Master of Puppets marks the last Metallica album with bassist Cliff Burton, who died in a bus accident while touring to promote the album. Allmusic's Steve Huey commented that Master of Puppets was "the band's greatest achievement." "Some critics have called Master of Puppets the best metal album ever recorded," Huey noted. Master of Puppets has been featured on several "greatest albums of all time" lists. The album is present in the list "The All-TIME 100 Albums," published by TIME magazine in November 2006. In TIME critic Josh Tyrangiel's opinion, "Metallica didn't bother with hooks or pop discipline" in writing Master of Puppets. IGN ranked
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The KAUST Gifted Student Foundation Year Program wrapped up its second year with a ceremony on May 6th. The program, facilitated by the Global Training Initiative and the Intensive English Program, prepares gifted Saudi students for undergraduate study in the United States. It is an invitation-only scholarship administered by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology that selects students from the top three percent of Saudi high school graduates in science and math.
17 students completed the rigorous year-long program at NC State that included courses in English, math, science, writing and American culture. Six of these students will remain at NC State to begin degree programs in the fall and the others will go on to top-tier institutions across the country.
Making new friendships is also what Muhanned describes as the most challenging part of his freshman year at NC State. He felt isolated at first, but says he realized that all he needed to do was start talking. "You only need to start conversations to make new friendships," he says of this aspect of the American college experience.
Muhanned Alsaif addressed the 2016 graduates of the KAUST Foundation Year Program at a May 6th ceremony.
Muhanned plans to declare a major of Electrical Engineering and is unsure whether he will pursue a career in academia or the industrial sector. He knows he does not want a routine job and is committed to exploring different career options during his time at NC State.


3. Alicia Plummer. For starters, she lives in Maine, so we already know she's awesome. Her patterns are beautifully textured, and they all look wonderfully wearable. Alicia's designs make me want to go camping, or curl up in front of a fire with a good book. She loaned us some of her sample garments once, and I got to wear Eased. I have to tell you, I almost didn't give it back, it was that cozy (and it was my color, too). Even though it's summer (at last!), I've got this urge to knit with Mirasol Ushya, a luscious super bulky on our shelves — and it's all Alicia's fault! She has designed a cowl called Au Courant that absolutely must be around my neck by the time the first snow flies: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/au-courant. The only question is which color to choose (which I will agonize over for an inordinate amount of time).
2. Tin Can Knits. This designing partnership of Alexa Ludeman and Emily Wessel is my go-to when I'm knitting for young'uns. The Gramps Cardigan for my favorite toddler came from them, and they've got a whole collection of adorable, pint-sized patterns. One of the best things about Tin Can Knits is the way they size their patterns: almost every pattern is sized from Newborn to 4XL. Yes, you read that right. No more envy of those stylish babies, no more wondering whether you could figure out the math to size it up for yourself. Alexa and Emily have got you covered. My guy even requested a matching Gramps Cardigan so he and his young buddy can be twins. (So far, I've resisted — the cuteness might be too much for the world to handle.) Many Tin Can Knits patterns also come with ultra-helpful tutorials, just at the points where you find yourself wondering, "Am I doing this right?" The gorgeous sweater pictured here is Snowflake: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/snowflake-123, and is one of several Tin Can Knits items on my to-knit list.
1. Martin Storey. My long-time knitwear designer crush, Martin Storey, is in a league of his own. He has over 30 pages of patterns listed on Ravelry. He designs for Rowan. The men who model his designs are ruggedly handsome and look like they should be striding across the heath or else helping you aboard their yacht. The women all look like they own homes in the English countryside yet are completely approachable, and might invite you to join them for a glass of wine in the garden, which of course you would say yes to, and then the two of you would become inseparable friends, and she might convince Martin to design a sweater for you, too. I am clearly insane in love with the world that Martin Storey has created with his knit designs. His patterns for children are equally lovely and classic. You really can't go wrong. My current favorite is Venus, pictured here. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/venus-9.


FTI Consulting, Inc. Announces Completion of $250 Million Accelerated Stock Buyback Transaction with Goldman, Sachs & Co.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan 27, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- FTI Consulting (NYSE: FCN), the global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations protect and enhance their enterprise value, today announced that as of January 21, 2010, Goldman, Sachs & Co. completed the accelerated stock buyback transaction entered into as of November 9, 2009 ("ASB"), which resulted in the purchase of an additional 580,784 shares of common stock, for a total purchase of 5,455,591 shares at a total acquisition cost of $250 million. The ASB was part of the Company's previously announced $500 million share repurchase program, and was funded using available cash on hand. FTI has today filed a Current Report on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission concerning the completion of the ASB.


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Some Libya Returnees under the aegis of Association of Edo Libya Returnee Farmers have appealed to well meaning Nigerians including government and religious bodies to support their farming projects.
Upon arrival, the returnees, about 25, embarked on cash crop farming at a land spanning over 12 hectares in Urighon Village, Uhunmwode Local Government Area.
The leader of the returnees, Festus Okosun said embarking on farming was a clear departure from what other returnees are doing.
Okunsun said they have decided to get on serious venture in Nigeria rather than planning to return to Europe for greener pastures or look for white collar jobs.
He attributed the success they have made so far to the contributions of Pastor T.B Joshua, the Oba of Benin, Omo N'Oba N'Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare 11 through their separate supports, as well as the Orakue of Benin, Chief Osabuohien Omokaro for providing them with the land under a gentleman agreement.
"We want to contribute our quota to the society through the development of agriculture. We want it in a wide scale in such a way we could provide food in the table of Nigerians. But we don't have the financial well withal to expand the farm, Okosun stated.
Another returnee, Omokaro Aigbe who returned earlier in the year appealed for produce processing machines, fertilizers and other materials that could enhance their produce.
He lamented that the country was fast losing its productive young people to migration to Europe and political thuggery, while dumping agriculture.
Aigbe who obtained a diploma from College of Agriculture, Iguoriakhi urged relevant authorities to support them and become employers of labour.
Also part of the team, Bridget Obarisiuwa and Mercy Aimienoho corroborated the views of Okosun and Aigbe.
While describing farming as life sustaining said cultivation of crops and other activities in the farm keep them busy and they are happy doing it.
The returnees started with cultivation of cassava and existing palm trees planted by the landowner, Chief Omokaro.
The Senior Special Assistant to Governor Godwin Obaseki on Anti Human Trafficking Issues, Solomon Okoduwa said he was amazed by what the youths are doing.
"I have seen what they're doing. I appreciate it. With this, the youths have written their names on gold. I will go back to inform the governor and see how the government can also support them. Obviously, they need support. These set of returnees have shown that they could make it here in Edo State, Nigeria." Okoduwa noted.
The youths are 21 including six girls.
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Austrian filmmaker Peter Kubelka screens film (actually short but characteristic excerpts as he speaks to audience before & after screening) plus a walk-about within his instillation MONUMENT FILM Sculpture, at Views from the Avant Garde, NY Film Festival, 2012 – filmed by HFisher with iPhone in 2012 and reworked as short sketch, Dec 2016. Description of project by Daniel Kasman is quoted below. His text refers to his own images, not mine and not reproduced here within his text. Google his name for his entire piece w/ pics:
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Images of the Day. Peter Kubelka's Monument Film sculpture
Images from an installation constituting Kubelka's new film, _Antiphon_, _Arnulf Rainer_ (1960), and the two combined.
Daniel Kasman
09 OCT 2012 LAST UPDATED ON 29 NOV 2016
Please excuse the reprehensible qualities of digital, composition, lighting and coverage in the below photos, but I thought I'd share a glimpse at Peter Kubelka's celluloid sculpture at the New York Film Festival, "Monument Film". It is being exhibited at the Walter Reade theatre in tandem with two screenings (accompanied by a lecture by the filmmaker) that occurred on Monday at the Views from the Avant-Garde of a new film work by Kubelka, Monument Film. This work isn't a film so much as a material-projector-theatrical experience/performance: it began with a projection of his 1960 film Arnulf Rainer—a short of overwhelming, assaultive visual-aural intensity made up of black frames, empty (clear) frames, white noise and silence—and was followed by a projection of his new film, Antiphon, a work that is made up of the material inversion of Arnulf Rainer. Where the old film has a clear frame the new one has a black one, where one has silence the other has noise. (Though, as Kubelka pointed out, it is impossible to make this inversion totally exact, as over fifty years has passed between two films.) Next, the two works where projected side by side on the same screen in perfect sync. And finally, the two films were projected on top of one another, again in perfect sync.
The exhibit, as can only be partially be gleaned below, is installed on three walls: on the right, facing inward, is the entirety of Antiphon; on the left, facing inward (and seen only obliquely in my photo) is Arnulf Rainer. In the middle, facing outward, are the two films placed on top of one another.
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Game 1 Success Key To Predators' Playoff Run
By: Steve Layman
While the Stanley Cup Final is a significantly bigger stage than the Predators have played on before in their history, they are prepared for the task in front of them against the Penguins.
Three times in this playoff run have the Predators started a series on the road, and all three times the Preds have won game one and stolen home ice advantage away in the process.
In order to beat the defending champion Penguins, the Preds will have to win at least once on the road at PPG Arena. The way they see it, they might as well get it out of the way early.
"There's only one opportunity to win game one and we've looked at that in every series," Predators defenseman Yannick Weber said. "I think we came out strong in every game one so far and it will be the same tonight."
The Predators have put together the NHL's best road record during the postseason, partly due to necessity of having the lowest seed in the entire playoff field. The Preds are 5-3 on the road through the first three rounds, a far cry from the team's early season road struggles.
"We started off pretty bad on the road," Predators forward Filip Forsberg said. "But midway through the season we found a way to play and from there we've just been growing and growing and now we feel really comfortable playing on the road."
A big reason for the road turnaround, and the Preds' playoff run in general, has been the spectacular play of Pekka Rinne. The 6-5 Finnish goaltender has posted two road shutouts and allowed just 1.81 goals in the playoffs, the second lowest goals against average of any conference champion ever.
Now Rinne, who matched his age with his 34th career playoff win in the Western Conference clincher against the Ducks, heads into his first ever Stanley Cup Final game, and the Preds need him to be superb again.
"Although Pekka has not been in this situation before, he's been in situations where he's played for his country in big games and always delivered," said Predators head coach Peter Laviolette when asked about Rinne's readiness for the Cup Final stage. "I think there's a good confidence inside our room with our goaltending."
Confidence is a big thing in sports and these Preds have tons of it. They believed through the struggles of the regular season and as underdogs through the first three rounds.
And they believe they can beat the defending champions in the Final. They're the hot team with the hottest goaltender on the planet.
"We just believe that we can win," forward Austin Watson said at Sunday's Media Day. "(We believe) that going into each game we're capable of winning that game and we're going to win that game. We're just looking at one game at a time. We've got an opportunity to win game one and we'll be ready."
The Predators stand just four wins away from capturing the greatest prize in all of sports in the Stanley Cup. But they're focus is on game one and game one alone for now.


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Calculating the Cost of a Data Breach [Infographic]
By Lauren Papagalos
In Data Breach, Infographics
The cost of a data breach is rising globally. Learn how different countries and industries are impacted when they're hit with one.
WordCamp Europe 2016
By Adam Warner
At 2,200 attendees, WordCamp Europe (#WCEU) 2016 was officially the largest WordCamp ever held. Tickets sold out over six months in advance, prompting organizers to quickly allocate additional tickets and arrange additional presentation space.
WCEU 2016 was hosted in the MuseumsQuartier of beautiful Vienna, consisting of three very large tracks and the sponsor hall, where the SiteLock booth could be found front and center. From a total 220 applicants, 75 speakers were selected to present at WCEU on subjects ranging from the REST API to figuratively "herding cats."
Cybercriminals are Oversharing with Social Media Data Breaches
In Cyber Attacks, Data Breach
It's been a busy time for data breaches in the social media world with Myspace, LinkedIn and Twitter all experiencing them. In each of these cases, the cybercriminals behind the breaches were after usernames and passwords. The most commonly used passwords today are, "password" and "123456," and it only takes a hacker .29 milliseconds to crack them.
Analysis Of An SEO Spam Campaign
By Weston Henry
In Malware, SiteLock Research
Search engine spam, more frequently known as SEO spam, is a technique used to manipulate rankings in a way that is not allowed by search engine terms of service.
This week we'll take a look at an interesting SEO spam campaign that recently came across the SiteLock research desk. Turkish escorts are apparently big business and we had the opportunity to dig a bit into the makings of a malicious Turkish escort spam campaign.
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In Ask a Security Pro, The District, WordPress security
In Part Three of our firewall series, we're drilling down into some of the mechanisms used in firewalls, namely the progression from stateless to stateful packet filtering. First, packet filtering is the action of inspecting the traffic traversing the firewall's network to determine if the traffic is meeting the firewall's security policy. Traffic conforming to the firewall's security policy is allowed to proceed, while traffic not meeting the policy (e.g. a malicious attempt) is blocked.
Case Study: YeeWittleThings
In SiteLock Reviews, The District
Brandi Yee is the owner and writer of YeeWittleThings, a family-friendly blog that offers product reviews, giveaways, recipes and lifestyle information to its readers. Yee is happily married, has two kids and takes pride in writing about family-focused topics.
Yee's passion lies in her blog. "I started my blog over six years ago as a way of creating an outlet for my passion of writing, but also to connect with families and offer them recipes, honest reviews on family-friendly products and the opportunities to try those products themselves," she says.
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In Cyber Attacks, Small Business
It is hard to keep track of all the websites that are compromised on a daily basis. Cybercriminals are constantly crawling the web for targets, and they'll often go after websites you might not expect, such as a vegan cooking blog. So what does a hacker look for in a website? And why would they be tempted to attack your site? Here are some examples so you have an accurate picture of common website attacks.
WordCamp NEO 2016 – WordPress Community Interviews
In Community, The District
In this edition of our WordPress Community Interview series, we chatted with a few of the folks we met at WordCamp Northeast Ohio.
It's always interesting learning how others found WordPress, what they're using it for, and what they intend to do in the future.
WordCamps: How They Started and Why You Should Go
WordCamps represent the very pulse of the WordPress community, brought to life with the enthusiasm and contributions of hundreds, if not thousands, of WordPress enthusiasts. They are becoming more and more prevalent throughout the United States and around the globe. With so much excitement and growth, we wanted to take a look back at where WordCamps started and why they have become such a strong force in the WordPress community.
The first WordCamp was the creation of Automattic Founder and CEO, Matt Mullenweg.
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In Infographics, Malware
Malware, short for malicious software, is typically installed on a website by cybercriminals. Malware is a broad term that refers to a variety of malicious programs. It can spread viruses, steal personal or financial data and even hijack computers. Read our infographic to learn about the different types of malware.


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Q: Transform xml to xml using XSLT - Advices I have one XML file :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<Cars>
    <Car>
        <Color>Blue</Color>
        <Model>Car2</Model>
        <Year>1988</Year>
        <Speed>250</Speed>
    </Car>
    <Car>
        <Color>Blue</Color>
        <Model>Car2</Model>
        <Year>1988</Year>
        <Speed>250</Speed>
    </Car>
</Cars>

I want to transform this using XSLT for have :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<vehicles>
    <vehicle>
        <vehicleColor>Blue</vehicleColor>
        <vehicleModel>Car2</vehicleModel>
        <vehicleYear>1988</vehicleYear>
        <vehicleSpeed>250</vehicleSpeed>
    </vehicle>
    <vehicle>
        <vehicleColor>Blue</vehicleColor>
        <vehicleModel>Car2</vehicleModel>
        <vehicleYear>1988</vehicleYear>
        <vehicleSpeed>250</vehicleSpeed>
    </vehicle>
</vehicles>

My XSLT File :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

    <xsl:template match="/">

        <vehicles>
            <xsl:for-each select="Cars/Car">

                <vehicle>
                    <vehicleColor><xsl:value-of select="Color"/></vehicleColor>
                    <vehicleModel><xsl:value-of select="Model"/></vehicleModel>
                    <vehicleYear><xsl:value-of select="Year"/></vehicleYear>
                    <vehicleSpeed><xsl:value-of select="Speed"/></vehicleSpeed>
                </vehicle>

            </xsl:for-each>
        </vehicles>

    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

It work but I want to know if my XSLT file is correct and if no, I want advices.
Also, in my output file generated with XSLT, I have not the XML header. Why ?

A: Your XSLT is just fine.  I think the best way to answer this question for the benefit of helping people study XSLT is to go through your tags and explain why they work correctly.  First, you need to add the XSL stylesheet and namespace, as you've done here:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match ='/'> is boilerplate.  If you did not have it, the output would be incorrect.
The <xsl:for-each select="Cars/Car"> calls each element of the XML DOM that matches that tag specified by select =.
Next, you used all your literal tags to directly change the names of tags in your output file.  A tag is literal in the sense that XSLT will just drop it into your output.  The <xsl:value-of select = someString> tag writes the value of the tag in the original file specified by someString.  If you wanted to write an attribute, you would need an @ symbol at the first position of the string. Regardless of what data you had started with, your output file would contain the correct results.  If you are having doubts, because, as you say, you are just learning XSLT, getting a trial version of XMLSpy is a great way of validating your XSLT files to verify they are doing what you want them to.

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I have not the XML header.

The XML declaration is optional. Most XSLT processor will include it, unless you explicitly omit it. If your processor doesn't, try adding:
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="no"/>

to the top level of your stysleheet.

I want to know if my XSLT file is correct

There is nothing wrong with your stylesheet.
However, if you are really only prepending "vehicle" to the names of the elements, you could do it all at once:
<xsl:template match="/Cars">
    <vehicles>
        <xsl:for-each select="Car">
            <vehicle>
                <xsl:for-each select="*">
                    <xsl:element name="vehicle{name()}">
                        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
                    </xsl:element>
                </xsl:for-each>
            </vehicle>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </vehicles>
</xsl:template>

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Arivnd Panagariya
No shortcuts to solving India's job crisis
In the recent past, India's jobs crisis has come to the fore. There is no specific reason for it, given that India has had a jobs crisis for a while now, with the media discovering it only recently.
As per the OECD Economic Survey on India released earlier this year, close to 30 per cent of India's youth (individuals in the age group 15-29) are neither employed nor in education or training. Data from the Labour Bureau suggests that only three out of five Indians who are looking for job all through the year, find one. In rural India, only half of the individuals looking for a job all through the year, are able to find one.
Long story short—India has a jobs crisis. And it has been there for a while, despite the media discovering it only recently.
Arvind Panagariya, while he was the Vice-Chairman of the Niti Aayog, was asked on more than a few occasions, on why India had a jobs problem. As late as August 25, 2017, around a week before his term at the Niti Aayog came to an end, he remarked: "The major impediment in job creation is that our entrepreneurs simply do not invest in labour intensive activities."
It's not fair to blame just the entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur will go in areas where he sees value and in the process if he ends up creating jobs, then so be it. The bigger question is why have entrepreneurs stayed away from labour intensive activities.
Given India's population, the country's natural comparative advantage should have been in large-scale, labour intensive manufacturing. But the sectors like automobiles, engineering goods, pharmaceuticals and software, where we have done well, are both capital and skilled labour intensive.
As far as labour intensive sectors like apparels, food-processing and footwear, are concerned, these sectors haven't really progressed in India. Let's take the case of apparels. This is a hugely labour-intensive sector. As per an estimate made in the Economic Survey, the sector creates nearly 24 jobs for every lakh of investment. This is a sector which is 80-fold more labour intensive than automobiles and 240-fold more labour intensive than steel.
Apparel exports grew rapidly in the East Asian economies and pulled them out of poverty. As the Economic Survey points out: "The average annual growth of apparel exports was over 20 per cent, with some close to 50 per cent." In the Indian case textiles and readymade garments exports have more or less stayed flat between 2013-2014 and 2016-2017.
The question is why? The labour costs in India are similar to that of Bangladesh, but cheaper than that of Indonesia, Vietnam and China. But the logistic costs are the highest in India at $7 per kilometre of road transport (to be able to get the merchandise to the ports from where it can be exported).
The logistic costs in China are at $2.4-2.5 per kilometre. In Bangladesh they are at $3.9 per kilometre. In Vietnam, the logistics costs are the same that as of India, but delivery to the east cost of the United States takes 14 days. It takes anywhere between 21 to 28 days from India. The turnaround time is greater in case of India.
What does not help is the fact that most Indian apparel firms are very small. As per the Ease of Doing Business—An Enterprise Survey of Indian States close to 85 per cent of the firms employ less than eight workers.
As the Survey points out: "At one extreme, enterprises with less than eight workers employ more than four-fifths of the apparel workforce in India and less than 1% in China. At the other extreme, nearly 57% of the workforce in China is in enterprises larger than 200 workers but barely 5% in India. The Chinese apparel industry is highly competitive with $187 billion in exports compared with just $18 billion for India in 2014." Hence, the ability of Indian firms to execute large orders is limited.
The apparels sector, which has the potential to create a huge number of jobs, hasn't been creating them. Most firms in this sector, start small and continue to remain small. One reason for this lies in the fact that historically, labour intensive sectors in India came under small scale industries up until 2000. Clearly, the historical hangover persists.
As the Enterprise Survey of Indian States points out: "The largest enterprises—employing more than 200 people—are mostly concentrated in industries like manufacturing of motor vehicles, trailers, transport equipment, pharmaceuticals and textiles."
The question is why do firms in labour intensive sectors start small and continue to remain small. The answer to this question lies in something that Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya wrote in India's Tryst with Destiny: "The costs due to labour legislations rise progressively in discrete steps at seven, ten, twenty, fifty and 100 workers. As the firm size rises from six regular workers towards 100, at no point between the two thresholds is the saving in manufacturing costs sufficiently large to pay for the extra costs of satisfying these laws."
The point here is that Pangariya knew why entrepreneurs stayed away from labour intensive sectors. Hence, economists also tend to get rhetorical once they are a part of the government.
To conclude, if the government wants to get labour intensive sectors going, then major labour law reforms are necessary. Along with that the logistics costs need to fall. And that can only happen with an improvement in physical infrastructure. There are no short cuts here, really.
The column originally appeared in DNA on Oct 26th, 2017.
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Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge broke the marathon world record by more than a minute Sunday, winning the Berlin Marathon with a stunning time of 2:01:39. The previous record, also set in Berlin, was a 2:02:57 race run by Kenya's Dennis Kimetto in 2014.
"I had a great belief that I would run a world record," Kipchoge said after his victory. "But I didn't know I'd run 2:01. I didn't know that what I was believing translated to 2:01, but I'm happy for it."
A race for the record books!


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Q: Visual Studio Typescript intellisense applied to Javascript file Does anyone know how to stop this from happening? Sucks having
Function () { } //note: capital F

instead of
function(){ } //how its supposed to be

There is a related question asking if typescript can be removed.. the answer is no.
Would be awesome if someone knows the fix, or how to remove typescript (and all the other crap ..Windows Phone SDK..) from Visual Studio.


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Monetary Policy and Government Debt Dynamics Without Commitment
Staff Working Paper 2019-52 Dmitry Matveev
I show that maturity considerations affect the optimal conduct of monetary and fiscal policy during a period of government debt reduction. I consider a New Keynesian model and study a dynamic game of monetary and fiscal policy authorities without commitment, characterizing the incentives that drive the choice of interest rate.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy JEL Code(s): E, E5, E52, E6, E62, E63
Furor over the Fed : Presidential Tweets and Central Bank Independence
Staff Analytical Note 2019-33 Antoine Camous, Dmitry Matveev
We illustrate how market data can be informative about the interactions between monetary and fiscal policy. Federal funds futures are private contracts that reflect investor's expectations about monetary policy decisions.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Analytical Notes Topic(s): Central bank research, Credibility, Financial markets, Monetary Policy JEL Code(s): E, E4, E44, E5, E52, E58
Changing Fortunes: Long-Termism—G-Zero, Artificial Intelligence and Debt
Staff Discussion Paper 2019-12 Stephen S. Poloz
This paper discusses three long-term forces that are acting on the global economy and their implications for companies and policy-makers.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Discussion Papers Topic(s): Financial stability, International topics, Monetary Policy, Trade Integration, Uncertainty and monetary policy JEL Code(s): E, E6, E63, F, F0, F02, F1, F15, F5, F53, F6, H, O, O1, O11, O3, O33
Economic Progress Report: Charting Our Own Course
Remarks Timothy Lane Ottawa Board of Trade Ottawa, Ontario
Deputy Governor Timothy Lane talks about the different monetary policy paths taken by Canada and the United States over the last decade and reviews the Bank of Canada's latest interest rate decision.
Content Type(s): Press, Speeches Topic(s): Monetary Policy, Monetary policy framework, Recent economic and financial developments
Canadian economy resilient despite global uncertainty
Timothy Lane Ottawa Board of Trade and Ottawa Business Journal Ottawa, Ontario
Speaking a day after we decided to hold interest rates steady, Deputy Governor Timothy Lane explained that Canada's economy remains resilient.


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The Cost of Addiction vs Treatment
The direct and indirect costs of substance use disorders are massive.
Home » Resources » Addiction Articles » The Cost of Addiction vs Treatment
More than 20 million Americans have drug or alcohol problems severe enough to call for some form of substance use treatment[i]. However, less than four million Americans receive any kind of treatment. The direct and indirect costs of substance use disorders are massive. Wider use of effective addiction treatment programs would significantly cut these costs while making sure people get the help they need.
Who Needs Substance Treatment?
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) makes yearly estimates of the number of people in the U.S. who need substance treatment. The latest SAMHSA figures, covering the year 2016, show that roughly 21 million people over the age of 11 need help. That's the equivalent of almost 8 percent of the total population in this age range.
By percentage, the single largest group with a need for drug or alcohol treatment is young adults age 18 to 25. More than 15 percent of all Americans in this age range have a serious substance problem. By sheer numbers, the group most in need of treatment is adults over the age of 25. More than two-thirds of all people with serious drug or alcohol problems (14.5 million) fall into this category.
Who Receives Substance Treatment?
SAMHSA figures show that roughly 3.8 million Americans over the age of 11 enter some form of substance use treatment. This is less than one-fifth of the total population affected by drug or alcohol problems. By percentage, people between the ages of 18 and 25 receive help most often. By sheer numbers, people over the age of 25 receive help most often. Many people who reach out for help turn to a specialized addiction treatment facility. However, over a million and a half of those with a substance use disorder get help from a general physician or some other professional not focused on addiction treatment.
The Direct and Indirect Costs of Substance Abuse and Addiction
Several federal agencies — including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) — periodically estimate the social and financial drain of substance abuse and addiction in the United States. The CDC's most recent estimate of the cost of alcohol problems[ii] is nearly $250 billion a year. Loss of productivity in the workplace accounts for most of this total. In descending order of the amount of money spent annually, other alcohol-related costs include:
The need to provide healthcare for affected people
The need to prosecute and incarcerate people accused of alcohol-related crimes
The damage caused by alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents
Roughly 40 percent of the bill for these costs is picked up by local, state and federal governments. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' most recent estimates indicate that the cost of nicotine/tobacco addiction is roughly $300 billion a year.[iii] Over half of this total comes from the need to provide healthcare for people affected by tobacco-related illnesses.
The most recent estimates for the cost of problems related to the use of illicit and illegal drugs exceed $190 billion a year. Estimates for the cost of problems related to prescription painkiller abuse/addiction are just below $80 billion a year. A conservative estimate for the direct and indirect costs of substance abuse and addiction is $740 billion a year.
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Treatment As a Cheaper Alternative
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has analyzed the cost of substance treatment[iv] compared to the direct and indirect cost of untreated drug and alcohol problems. Researchers at the agency conclude that the social and health-related drain of untreated abuse and addiction far outweighs the amount of money it would take to treat all affected people.
The biggest savings appear in the amount of money it takes to meet the health needs of people with untreated substance use problems. NIDA estimates that every dollar spent on treatment programs reduces the nation's healthcare costs by $5 to $8, or even more. In addition, each dollar spent on treatment results in a roughly $4 to $7 dollar drop in the amount of money lost to:
The costs of theft and other substance-related crimes
The need to arrest, prosecute and incarcerate people for substance-related offenses
Other treatment cost savings include:
Reduced numbers of alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents
A reduction in the number of fatal and non-fatal overdoses
Increased productivity in the workplace
A reduction in the number of violent altercations
How to Increase Participation in Addiction Treatment
The only way to reap the full financial and social benefits of substance use treatment is to get more Americans enrolled in treatment programs. The National Institute on Drug Abuse identifies several steps which can help improve the rate of program participation[v]. These steps include:
Making it easier to for people with substance use disorders to gain access to proven treatments
Making it more socially acceptable to seek treatment for drug and alcohol problems
Providing wider access to insurance plans that cover the cost of substance treatment
Using public health campaigns and other efforts to make the general population, doctors and people with substance problems more aware of the positive personal and social outcomes of effective treatment
NIDA researchers note that these techniques must be combined and not used separately. To support the role of doctors who don't specialize in substance treatment, the National Institute on Drug Abuse is undertaking campaigns designed to ease the use of abuse/addiction screening procedures. The agency is also increasing its support for a substance abuse deterrent technique called brief intervention, as well as its support for effective referral systems for people who need to enroll in treatment.
Entering an Addiction Treatment Program
Transformations Treatment Center is dedicated to helping people from all walks of life receive the help they need for substance abuse and addiction. Our medical and therapeutic treatments are administered by addiction professionals in a safe and caring environment. Whether you or your loved one require inpatient care or outpatient care, our certified programs offer individualized plans designed to provide a solid pathway to sobriety.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: Key Substance Use and Mental Health Indicators in the United States – Results from the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health
https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUH-FFR1-2016/NSDUH-FFR1-2016.htm#tx2
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Excessive Drinking is Draining the U.S. Economy
https://www.cdc.gov/features/costsofdrinking/
National Institute on Drug Abuse/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Trends & Statistics – Costs of Substance Abuse
https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics#supplemental-references-for-economic-costs
National Institute on Drug Abuse: Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment – A Research-Based Guide (Third Edition): Is Drug Addiction Treatment Worth Its Cost? https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/principles-drug-addiction-treatment-research-based-guide-third-edition/frequently-asked-questions/drug-addiction-treatment-worth-its-cost
National Institute on Drug Abuse: Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment – A Research-Based Guide (Third Edition): How Do We Get More Substance-Abusing People Into Treatment?
https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/principles-drug-addiction-treatment-research-based-guide-third-edition/frequently-asked-questions/how-do-we-get-more-substance-abusing-people
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Tasmania will boost its wind power generation by almost 50% with the construction of a new $300 million turbine farm in the state's central highlands.
The 49-turbine Cattle Hill wind farm was announced earlier today, under a deal between state-owned power retailer Aurora Energy and wind farm developer Goldwind Australia.
Goldwind said construction of the 144 megawatt wind farm would begin in September, employing 150, while about 10 permanent staff would maintain the facility once fully operational in 2020.
The Tasmanian government hailed the announcement, which it hinted would be followed soon by another major wind farm at Granville Harbour, on the state's west coast.
Energy Minister Matthew Groom said it was "another significant step" towards the state government's vision of Tasmania as "the nation's renewable energy battery".
The increased wind generation, on top of existing wind farms in the north-east and north-west, will strengthen Tasmania's case for other states and the commonwealth to help fund a second power interconnector cable under Bass Strait, to allow exports of energy from the island interstate.
Tasmania suffered an energy crisis in 2016, when the existing single interconnector failed during an extended dry period, which depleted the state's main source of power, hydro-electricity.
While critics of wind generation say it does not provide reliable baseload energy, its use in conjunction with hydro can boost baseload hydro storages. "This project will help strengthen Tasmania's energy security," said Aurora Energy chief executive Rebecca Kardos.


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Cambridge University students in the UK piloting a fingerprint identification system for applications in global health, microfinance and fighting corruption have won £400,000 to commercialise the technology.
SimPrints has scooped $250,000 from winning a highly competitive seed grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Saving Lives at Birth competition. and the grant will be part-matched to the tune of $150,000) by Cambridge-based ARM Ltd, whose technology is incorporated in over 95 per cent of all the world's mobile phones.
SimPrints was one of 30 winners of the Grand Challenge competition at the annual Saving Lives at Birth DevelopmentXChange announced on Friday. The Challenge was a global call for groundbreaking, scalable solutions to infant and maternal mortality around the time of birth.
In partnership with the Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative (GmI), which works to improve global health by advancing the use of innovative mobile digital technologies, and with BRAC, the world's largest NGO, SimPrints will use Saving Lives at Birth and ARM funding to optimise their system and conduct a pilot study in Bangladesh. This study will assess the ability of SimPrints to improve healthcare for women and their children.
The Saving Lives at Birth partnership, launched in 2011, includes the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the Government of Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada (funded by the Government of Canada), and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID).
At the DevelopmentXChange nominees showcased innovative ideas to save the lives of mothers and newborns in developing countries and competed for funding to realise and scale their vision.
Cambridge students, including Gates Cambridge Scholars and a colleague from the Royal Holloway, developed SimPrints with support from Makespace community workshop. In May they field-tested their prototype at Johns Hopkins University – JiVitA and BRAC field sites in Bangladesh.
There, they also found their first client, the social enterprise mPower, who are currently integrating SimPrints into a rural healthcare initiative.
The portable Bluetooth-enabled fingerprint scanner will be carried by health workers to instantly connect an individual's fingerprint to their medical record, which is brought up onto the health worker's mobile.
Other Johns Hopkins projects, including a collaboration with the Government of Bangladesh Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to improve vaccination systems nationally, will be exploring the integration of SimPrints into their system.
Dr Alain Labrique, director of the JHU Global mHealth Initiative, expressed his enthusiasm for the collaboration saying: "This is a very exciting initial investment into a promising technology that addresses a key bottleneck in global health programmes.
Every year at least 340,000 women die in pregnancy and child birth. Antenatal visits by health workers, who are the main point of healthcare for many millions in developing countries, can identify the warning signs of dangerous pregnancies yet all too often mothers are lost to follow-up - over 62 per cent according to the WHO - leading to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths every year. In large part this is because patient identification and tracking remain extremely difficult, especially with poor, remote populations who often have no formal identification number or system.
To solve this, SimPrints has developed a low-cost, highly accurate mobile fingerprint scanner for low-resource settings, enabling a multitude of community health worker programmes to leverage the power of biometric identity to strengthen service delivery in even the most remote parts of the globe.


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Q: GLSL ES - Mapping texture from rectangular to polar coordinates with repeating I need to warp a rectangular texture to texture with polar coordinates. To spread the light on my problem, I am going to illustrate it:
I have the image:

and I have to deform it using shader to something like this:

then I'm going to map it to a plane.
How can I do this? Any help will be appreciated!

A: That is not particularly hard. You just need to convert your texture coordinates to polar coordinates, and use the radius for the texture's s direction, and the azimuth angle to the t direction.
Assuming you want to texture a quad that way, and also assuming you use standard texcoords for this, so the lower left vertex will have (0,0), the upper right one (1,1) as texture coords.
So in the fragment shader, you just need to convert the interpolated texcoords (using tc for this) to polar coordinates. SInce the center will be at (0.5, 0.5), we have to offset this first.
 vec2 x=tc - vec2(0.5,0.5);
 float radius=length(x);
 float angle=atan(x.y, x.x);

Now all you need to do is to map the range back to the [0,1] texture space. The maximum radius here will be 0.5, so you simply can use 2*radius as the s coordinate, and angle will be in [-pi,pi], so you should map that to [0,1] for the t coordinate.
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There are a few details I left out so far. From your image it is clear that you do not want the inner circle to be mapped to the texture. But this can easily be incorparated. I just assume two radii here: r_inner, which is the radius of the inner circle, and r_outer, which is the radius onto which you want to map the outer part. Let me sketch out a simple fragment shader for that:
#version ...
precision ...

varying vec2 tc; // texcoords from vertex shader
uniform sampler2D tex;

#define PI 3.14159265358979323844

void main ()
{
    const float r_inner=0.25;
    const float t_outer=0.5;

    vec2 x = v_tex - vec2(0.5);
    float radius = length(x);
    float angle = atan(x.y, x.x);

    vec2 tc_polar; // the new polar texcoords
    // map radius so that for r=r_inner -> 0 and r=r_outer -> 1
    tc_polar.s = ( radius - r_inner) / (r_outer - r_inner);

    // map angle from [-PI,PI] to [0,1]
    tc_polar.t = angle * 0.5 / PI + 0.5;

    // texture mapping
    gl_FragColor = texture2D(tex, tc_polar);
}

Now there is still one detail missing. The mapping generated above generates texcoords which are outside of the [0,1] range for any position where you have black in your image. But the texture sampling will not automatically give black here. The easiest solution would be to just use the GL_CLAMP_TO_BORDER mode for GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S (the default border color will be (0,0,0,0) so you might not need to specify it or you can set GL_TEXTURE_BORDER_COLOR explicitly to (0,0,0,1) if you work with alpha blending and don't want any transparency that way). That way, you will get the black color for free. Other options would be using GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE and adding a black pixel column both the left and right end of the texture. Another way would be to add a brach to the shader and check for tc_polar.s being below 0 or above 1, but I wouldn't recommend that for this use case.

A: For those who want a more flexible shader that does the same:
uniform float Angle; // range 2pi / 100000.0 to 1.0 (rounded down), exponential
uniform float AngleMin; // range -3.2 to 3.2
uniform float AngleWidth; // range 0.0 to 6.4
uniform float Radius; // range -10000.0 to 1.0
uniform float RadiusMin; // range 0.0 to 2.0
uniform float RadiusWidth; // range 0.0 to 2.0
uniform vec2 Center; // range: -1.0 to 3.0

uniform sampler2D Texture;

void main()
{
    // Normalised texture coords
    vec2 texCoord = gl_TexCoord[0].xy;
    // Shift origin to texture centre (with offset)
    vec2 normCoord;
    normCoord.x = 2.0 * texCoord.x – Center.x;
    normCoord.y = 2.0 * texCoord.y – Center.y;
    // Convert Cartesian to Polar coords
    float r = length(normCoord);
    float theta = atan(normCoord.y, normCoord.x);

    // The actual effect
    r = (r < RadiusMin) ? r : (r > RadiusMin + RadiusWidth) ? r : ceil(r / Radius) * Radius;
    theta = (theta < AngleMin) ? theta : (theta > AngleMin + AngleWidth) ? theta : floor(theta / Angle) * Angle;

    // Convert Polar back to Cartesian coords
    normCoord.x = r * cos(theta);
    normCoord.y = r * sin(theta);
    // Shift origin back to bottom-left (taking offset into account)
    texCoord.x = normCoord.x / 2.0 + (Center.x / 2.0);
    texCoord.y = normCoord.y / 2.0 + (Center.y / 2.0);

    // Output
    gl_FragColor = texture2D(Texture, texCoord);
}

Source: polarpixellate glsl.
Shadertoy example


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