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250 Cameras, A Day Of Soldering, Zero CGI: Party's Mind-Bending, Strobe-Animated Music Video
The creative collective made a video for the Japanese band Androp using 250 Canon still cameras. Their flashes were controlled via a potent DIY cocktail of arduino, openFrameworks, and Flash.
By Teressa Iezzi 2 minute Read
Individually, the founders of Tokyo- and New York-based Party have created some of the most interesting music-driven videos of the last few years. Collectively, the Japanese/ American creatives are continuing their streak with an inventive new video for the track "Bright Siren" from Japanese rock band Androp.
At first blush, the video might not seem so special: It's a band performing against a wall of strobe lights, after all. But, taken as a whole, the video's technical sleight of hand powers a rather compelling viewing experience.
Inspired by the song's lyrics, "not to make it a memory," Party created the video using 250 Canon still cameras; their flashes were controlled via a potent DIY cocktail of arduino, openFrameworks, and Flash. The effect is a "light animation" produced with no CGI at all.
The music video itself opens with a few shots that give a hint at how the effects were created, and then fades into the song and the performance. The band plays in the dark against a wall of cameras and strobes, which blink into words and shapes. Viewers also see the band's performance captured in frozen moment shots toward the end of the video.
The video appears on www.androp.jp/brightsiren
with a companion "Making Of" segment. Viewers can also create a customized version of the video by typing in a message to be spelled out in light, see photos of the band taken by the 250 cameras and, of course share via social media.
The premise sounds tempting for those of you who like nothing better than spending the day soldering circuit boards, but according to Party, only the deeply committed will want to try this at home. Party's Masashi Kawamura, who is no stranger to technically challenging videos, says Bright Siren was his toughest shoot yet; the process was staggeringly labor intensive, and hot.
Highlights included: "running around Tokyo collecting rental cameras and strobes," a whole day and night wiring up the bullet boards with the camera and PC,
and figuring out how to capture the strobes on camera. The Party team even solicited volunteers on Twitter to help with soldering (they got 20).
The shoot took place over 48 consecutive hours–day one alone involved building the set and shooting plates with the strobe wall alone; day two was for shooting the band.
"In theory, we knew it would work, but we never had a chance to test out the whole 250 cameras until the day of the shoot," says Kawamura, who directed the clip with Party's Qanta Shimizu. "All the teams were in tears when we saw the camera wall working."
The result is a video you want to spend some time with, which of course works well for Androp, whose poppy number, we warn you, will be in your head for a while.
Check out the Making Of video here:
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Teressa Iezzi is the editor of Co.Create. She was previously the editor of Advertising Age's Creativity, covering all things creative in the brand world
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Column selection is a neat feature in Visual Studio that have saved me some time since I learned about it a few months ago. In order to select a column, start by clicking at the place you want to start the selection, hold down the Alt key, and then drag the mouse vertically down. Once you've dragged it down as far as you'd like to go, then just drag the mouse left or right in order to select a "column" of text that spans one, or multiple rows.
I started learning about functional programming a few weeks ago. I'm currently looking at Kit Eason's Pluralsight course "F# Jumpstart", which is a quick watch at 1 hour and 25 minutes. I'm probably gonna watch a more in-depth course later, and I'll share the ones I've found in this post.
This course was created by Oliver Sturm. It's 4 hours and 17 minutes long, and it was released March 7th 2012. I'm sure the course is good, though the age of the course does scare me somewhat. F# is fairly new, so it's possible that some things might have changed since the course was released.
This course was made by Liam McLennan, and it was released the 10th of March 2016. This course is 5 hours and 40 minutes long. This is probably the course I'll be watching next because it's considerably newer than "Introduction to F#".
So why would you use F#? Anthony Lloyd has written a blog post that tries to answer that, which might be a good place to start.
Anthony's blog post is here.
The F# Software Foundation has been working hard to make F# the best tool for doing data science, not just on the .NET and Mono platforms. This video shows the recently announced F# libraries for interactive data analysis, for accessing data from a variety of sources including REST based services, CSV files and online data sources like WorldBank and Freebase.
Sounds interesting? The video is available for free at Channel9.
If that's not enough to get you started, then take a look at the stuff I linked to a few weeks ago in this post.
If you want to dig deeper then there's a blog post with a twenty minute video available at this link.


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Take a look at these neurons. Ignore the fact that several of the brain cells look like snowflakes and at least one looks like an avocado. Can you pick out the drawings done by experienced, professional neuroscientists? What about the ones made by undergraduate science students?
Researchers at King's College London gave a simple task to 232 people: "Draw a neuron." (Actually, being British, they said "Please draw a neuron.") Some of the subjects were undergraduates in a neurobiology lecture. A small group were experienced neuroscientists who led their own research labs at the college. And a third, in-between group included graduate students and postdocs.
The researchers saw marked differences in how the three groups drew their brain cells. To confirm what they saw, they also pooled the drawings together and asked a new batch of subjects to sort the drawings into categories. These subjects agreed: the drawings clustered into distinct styles. The results are in the journal Science Education.
Did you pick out the pictures in the top row as examples from undergrads? Student sketches had lots of detail and were often labeled. In fact, they mostly resembled this classic textbook drawing from 1899, which the authors describe as the "archetype" of brain cells.
The graduate students and postdocs, whose drawings are in the middle row, seemed to fall somewhere in between. They didn't label their drawings like undergrads did, and they didn't include quite so much detail. Their neurons were more likely to bend, and the nuclei of the cells were often hidden—in other words, the cells looked more like they would under a microscope, rather than on a textbook page. But they weren't quite as simplified and abstracted as the lab leaders'.
Lead author David Hay says that the three drawing styles represent "different cultures." Undergraduate students spit out textbook images; scientists in training draw on their own observations; and more experienced scientists make "highly conceptual" drawings that represent their personal judgment.
This matters because "learning to reproduce the textbook images is NOT learning science," Hay says. Even postdoctoral researchers didn't seem to have internalized the concept as much as the lab leaders had. However, Hay thinks there are ways that experienced scientists can help students gain perspective.
One way might be by physically acting out scientific ideas. After Hay and his coauthors had students try a couple such exercises—for example, walking on different paths through a laboratory to mimic how neurons grow—the students produced drawings that were more creative and less like the textbook.
Hay thinks students need to internalize scientific concepts before they can play around with them and make their own hypotheses. "Scientists do not simply know information," he says; "they put information to work to discover something new." Failing that, they can create formidable Pictionary teams.
At a McDonald's shareholder meeting last week, a nine-year-old girl accused CEO Don Thompson of sneaky advertising. Stop "tricking kids into eating your food," she demanded, saying that McDonald's ads tell kids to "keep bugging their parents" until they get that Happy Meal. In the world of fast-food chains, though, the golden arches may not be the sneakiest purveyor of excess calories. Diners in all kinds of fast-food restaurants underestimate the calories they're taking in—and the most dramatic underestimation happens at Subway.
Thompson may not have been swayed, but Jason Block of Harvard Medical School and a group of other researchers writing in BMJ do care what consumers think about their fast food. Specifically, they care how many calories people think they're eating. To find out, they went into the trenches: 80 fast-food restaurants in New England cities.
Researchers stood outside their chosen dining establishments (which included McDonald's, Burger King, Subway, Wendy's, KFC, and Dunkin' Donuts) in 2010 and 2011. They asked customers on their way in whether they'd be willing to save their receipts and answer a few questions when they came back out. (Only a few restaurants kicked the researchers off the premises.) At dinnertime, they targeted adults, either eating on their own or with kids. At lunchtime and after school let out, they went to fast-food places within a mile of a school and talked to adolescents.
In all, more than 3,000 people participated. Across all the restaurant chains, the average dinnertime meal for adults was 836 calories, and the average afternoon meal for adolescents was 756 calories. Yet when asked how many calories they thought their meals held, people consistently guessed too low. And the bigger their meals were, the more severely they underestimated.
The researchers also asked subjects whether they'd noticed any calorie information indoors. "All of [the chains] provide information in some way," says Block—"on a wall poster, on napkins/cups, on sandwich wrappers and tray liners, and on 'special menus' that might present items that are below a certain number of calories."
Yet less than a quarter of adults said they'd even noticed this information. Those people didn't do any better at estimating their calories than others. Did they use the information to help them make menu choices? Only five percent of all adults said yes. Of adolescents, two percent.
Block says it's easy for diners to miss the calorie information provided by fast-food chains today. But soon, as part of the Affordable Care Act, all chain restaurants with more than 20 locations will have to post calorie information in a standard format. "The menu labeling regulation will require the calories to be up front and highly recognizable," Block says.
Even this kind of prominent labeling has had mixed results in past studies. However, Block adds, the new law will also require menus to post an "anchoring statement" pointing out that people only need about 2000 calories a day. This might make, say, the 970 calories in a Wendy's Baconator more meaningful to a customer.
Anchoring was effective in at least one small study, Block says. Other studies have looked at "traffic light" labeling (in red, yellow, or green), or listing calories in terms of how much exercise you'd need to burn them back off. "We'll be in a position to know much more after the federal law is implemented," Block says. His group is collecting data this year and next year to see how well the new labeling works.
If people do start noticing how many calories their favorite chains are offering, they may be surprised. When researchers broke down their results by restaurant chain, they found that people underestimated their calories more dramatically at some restaurants than others. At McDonald's, adults guessed too low by an average of 100 calories, and adolescents by a little more than 200. The guesses were off by a bit more, on average, at Burger King and Wendy's. At Subway, the errors were most extreme: adults underestimated their calories by an average of about 350, adolescents by close to 500.
Five hundred calories is equivalent to all the bread in a 12-inch sub (or, if you opt for multigrain, all the bread plus four American-cheese triangles). It's a lot not to know you're eating. This mistake, the authors write, may happen because people view Subway with a "health halo." After seeing TV ads featuring fresh vegetables, smiling Olympians, and Jared's old pants, consumers may think they're making a healthier choice than they are.
The new calorie labeling could help most in places like this. A fast-food chain that brands itself as healthy is even sneakier than someplace like McDonald's, which even little girls know is bad for you.
It's hard to keep your footing in a steep tunnel made of loose dirt while others are scrambling around and over your body. Harder still in pitch blackness. That's why fire ants build tunnels that will catch them when they fall—a strategy human engineers might want to steal.
"Slips and missteps are likely a constant, recurring feature of life underground," says Nick Gravish, a graduate student in Daniel Goldman's rheology and biomechanics lab at Georgia Tech. Yet ants have to traverse their tunnels quickly, especially when there's a colony emergency like a flood or destruction by a gardener's spade.
To study how ants engineer their tunnels, Gravish brought the fire ant Solenopsis invicta into the lab. Invasive to countries around the world and packing a nasty sting, these South American ants deal out plenty of hardship. But Gravish was interested in how they handle adversity themselves.
First, the ants were put into "laboratory soil" (actually tiny glass balls) to dig. Researchers took x-ray CT scans of the resulting tunnels and found that no matter the moisture of the "soil" or the size of the glass beads, ants dug circular tunnels of approximately the same diameter. That diameter was just a little bit more than the length of their bodies, not counting legs or antennae.
This suggested that the diameter of the tunnel was crucial to the fire ants. To see how well the ants moved within these tunnels, the researchers recorded video of them climbing as fast as they could. ("We startled them into climbing at high speed by exhaling gently into the nest," Gravish says.) They saw that ants were able to navigate their tunnels quickly, reaching speeds of more than 9 body lengths per second. They also saw that sometimes the ants slipped and had to recover their footing.
Now the reason ants build tunnels so close in diameter to their own body length became clear. Ants responded to a fall by spreading all their appendages wide and waiting until they jammed to a stop. "One of the coolest things we found was that fire ants used their antennae to brace themselves," Gravish says. While falling, the ants turned these delicate sensors into extra load-bearing limbs.
When the glass tube width increased to 1.3 times the ants' body length, the strategy began to fail. The tunnels ants built themselves had an average diameter of just 1.06 times their body length, the authors report in PNAS. It seems fire ants put most of the responsibility for stopping falls on the tunnels themselves. After that, all a plummeting insect has to do is stretch out its limbs.
Gravish likens this strategy to the way humans build stairs. Steps are engineered to fit our bodies. If they're too tall or short, we struggle to use them (or maybe just fall down them). But with the right design, our environment works with us to get us where we're going.
This strategy could inspire how we design robots for confined spaces such as search-and-rescue zones, Gravish says. For instance, "falling is usually considered a failure mode for a robot." But fire ants seem to use little falls to descend more quickly through their tunnels. If engineers knew the size of the cracks and crevices in a disaster area, they might be able to send in many inexpensive robots designed to tumble through those spaces—rather than one very expensive robot built to keep its footing.
What about humans ourselves: would we benefit from building tunnels that were only as wide as our head-plus-torso length, like the ants? Gravish points out that fire ants often fall many body lengths before catching themselves, making this not such a great strategy for people. "Ants have a robust exoskeleton," he says. "We humans are quite soft in comparison."
Images: ant in tunnel by Laura Danielle Wagner; ants falling by Gravish et al.
"Simple" is often a compliment in the human world, used to describe low-fuss dinners or closet solutions. When scientists use "simple" to describe an animal, they mean something more like, "That sac of goo has no business acting clever." An especially simple creature—a sea slug—recently demonstrated that despite its humble resources, it can learn from experience and form new hunting strategies. Smaller goo sacs, beware.
Despite its squishy stature, the sea slug Pleurobranchaea californica is a killer. It roams the sea and swallows whatever appealing morsels are in its way. Being blind, it can't tell how tasty its prey looks—or doesn't.
It can't see, for example, the flashy coloration of the "Spanish shawl" nudibranch (Flabellina iodinea). If it could, it might guess that those bright pink and orange hues are a warning: Flabellina is not nice to eat. It steals stinging cells from its own prey (such as corals and anemones) and stores those stingers in its bristles.
Rhanor Gillette, a neuroscientist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, observed that not only do Pleurobranchaea slugs spit out Spanish shawls, but they seem to remember and avoid the animals in the future. To study how well the predatory sea slugs learn their lesson after tasting Flabellina, he and graduate student Vanessa Noboa set up a meet-and-greet between the two species.
On the first day, this interaction happened five times. By the end, most of the Pleurobranchaea slugs were much slower to take a taste of the Spanish shawls, or were ignoring them altogether. Twenty-four hours later, the sea slugs were still reluctant to approach Flabellina. Even after 72 hours, they remembered what they'd learned. Gillette and Noboa report their results in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
Since the predatory slugs seem to sniff something in the water that makes them turn away, the researchers think the noxious Spanish shawls give off a distinctive warning odor.
Learning from an unpleasant taste experience, then using that memory to change one's hunting strategy, is "a real cognitive trait," Gillette says—in other words, a "goal-directed use of knowledge." The Pleurobranchaea slugs learned to avoid the smell of Flabellina, although they continued to eat a related, non-stinging species without hesitation.
Being able to change their feeding strategy is a good thing, since these slugs are generalists. Everything in the path of their oozing is a potential meal. "More specialized animals, say sea-slugs that may munch on a particular kind of sponge, may not need to employ such learning abilities," Gillette says. For a hunter like Pleurobranchaea, the decisions aren't so simple.
All it takes is an antenna on a headband. If you've got a breathless video report on the dangers of wireless internet connections, that will help your case. It doesn't take much, though, to turn an ominous hint into a real headache.
There's no known scientific reason why a wireless signal might cause physical harm. And studies have found that even people who claim to be sensitive to electromagnetic fields can't actually sense them. Their symptoms are more likely due to nocebo, the evil twin of the placebo effect. The power of our expectation can cause real physical illness. In clinical drug trials, for example, subjects who take sugar pills report side effects ranging from an upset stomach to sexual dysfunction.
Psychologists Michael Witthöft and G. James Rubin of King's College London explored whether frightening TV reports can encourage a nocebo effect. They recruited a group of subjects and showed half of them a clip from a BBC documentary about the potential dangers of wireless internet. (The BBC later acknowledged that the 2007 program was "misleading.") The remaining subjects watched a video about the security of data transmissions over mobile phones.
After watching the videos, subjects put on headband-mounted antennas. They were told that the researchers were testing a "new kind of WiFi," and that once the signal started they should carefully monitor any symptoms in their bodies. Then the researchers left the room. For 15 minutes, the subjects watched a WiFi symbol flash on a laptop screen.
In reality, there was no WiFi switched on during the experiment, and the headband antenna was a sham. Yet 82 of the 147 subjects—more than half—reported symptoms. Two even asked for the experiment to be stopped early because the effects were too severe to stand.
Witthöft says he expected to see a greater effect in people who had watched the frightening documentary. This wasn't the case overall. Instead, the movie mainly increased symptoms in subjects who described themselves beforehand as more anxious.
"It suggests that sensational media reports especially in combination with personality factors (in this case anxiety) increase the likelihood for symptom reports," Witthöft says.
Plenty of symptoms were reported without the sensationalist TV show, though. The antenna on the head, the researchers' allusion to a "new kind of WiFi," and the instructions to monitor their bodies closely were enough to trigger symptoms in many people who watched the other video.
Witthöft points out that his study would have been stronger if there were a third group of subjects who didn't wear the "WiFi" headband at all, but were simply told to pay attention to their bodies for 15 minutes. This kind of attentiveness might trigger symptoms on its own.
Still, Witthöft says, "I think the high percentage of symptom reports nicely shows how powerful nocebo effects are."
Though the researchers set out to show how irresponsible reports in the media can trigger a nocebo effect, they ended up showing how easy it is to make a person feel sick with just a a prop and a few choice words. Even a National Radio Quiet Zone can't protect against that.
Inkfish is three years old today!
One great thing about blogs that doesn't apply to real three-year-olds is that you can change their name and appearance at will. I'm getting tired of "Inkfish"—too mysterious, too many creepy arms. Too much guilt about mistakenly calling octopus arms "tentacles" on occasion.
So I'd like to give the blog a new name and a new look. Below are several directions I'm considering. I hope that you, readers, will weigh in.
Banner art: a weeping woman with her feet in a small tub of brown water. Foregrounded, a glass of kale juice with a party umbrella.
Inspiration: juice cleanses, foot detox, everything else.
Banner art: a blogger on a couch in a dark room, gently lit by the glow of the laptop screen.
Alternate art: not penguins. Irony could increase my readership among hipsters.
Inspiration: penguins, penguins, penguins, penguins, penguins.
Banner art: portrait of Carl Zimmer.
Inspiration: trying to lure Bing users who are searching for Carl Zimmer's blog, The Loom.
Banner art would be a rotating selection of photos: crabs wearing GPS devices, pigeons carrying cameras, penguins with earmuffs, and this seal.
Banner art: a mouse that's quiet—too quiet.
Inspiration: unusual internet searches addressed at the help desk.
Banner art: the empty vanilla ice cream bowl I considered using to illustrate a story about sperm-eating flies.
Please leave your votes in the comments (or just say hello). Thanks for your help, and thanks as always for reading!
What's the Point of Making This Face When We're Scared?
If cartoonists ever pause in their sketching to ponder human evolution, they must feel grateful to the forces that shaped our fear expression. All it takes is a pair of extra-wide eyes to show that a character is freaking out. There may be a point to this expression beyond making artists' lives easier: widening our eyes expands our peripheral vision, and might even help other people spot the cause of our alarm.
"Our lab is interested in the evolutionary origins of emotional expressions," says Daniel Lee, a graduate student in psychology at the University of Toronto—in other words, "why they look the way they do." When we feel afraid, for example, is there a point to stretching out our eyelids and raising our eyebrows to the ceiling?
Subjects were tested with flashing images on the screen in their peripheral vision. Lee found that people making a disgusted expression—with the eyelids narrowed as in "Ew, get that out of my face"—scored the worst. People making a wide-eyed fear expression scored the best, with a useful field of vision 9% larger than that of people with a neutral expression.
Being afraid, then, may help us gather more visual information about whatever's threatening us in our environment. But does it also help us communicate that threat to our companions?
The researchers next used pictures of models' eyes expressing different emotions to create simplified, graphic eye images. (They didn't use real eyes because those might have conveyed extra emotional information, instead of only varying in wideness.) Subjects saw these eye images flash briefly on a screen, looking toward the right or left by varying degrees. Lee found that when the eyes were wider, subjects had an easier time telling which way they were looking. The results are reported in Psychological Science.
"We believe the widening eyes of fear...[are] a functional response for vigilance toward threat," Lee says. When we're scared, he thinks, widening our eyes helps us to see threats and to communicate their location to our group.
The researchers point out that human eyes are uniquely suited for this kind of communication: we're the only primate with a white sclera (the area outside the iris). In other apes and monkeys, this part of the eye is dark. It's yet another factor that cartoonists, no doubt, appreciate.
While male birds are singing elaborate arias and flashing their feathers, it's easy to imagine their female counterparts are unimportant actors. Duller and quieter, all a lady bird has to do is hold still and let one of these frantic performers mate with her. Yet in brown-headed cowbirds, at least, the quiet female keeps the whole society in order. Scientists discovered this by targeting a tiny portion of the female brain and frying it.
Males of the species Molothrus ater use their songs to compete with each other and to woo females. Once a a mating pair forms, they stay faithful to each other for the whole mating season, the male guarding his partner from rivals.
Near the top of the bird brain, a region called nucleus HVC controls females' choosiness toward their potential mates. Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and Wilfrid Laurier University performed brain surgery on female cowbirds, carefully destroying only this region. Then they put their lobotomized females back into the dating arena to see what would happen.
Normal females were choosy, only responding to the highest-quality male songs. Females who'd had brain surgery, though, responded positively to every song.
The researchers wanted to see what effect the females' new, lax attitude would have in cowbird society. So they put post-surgery females, normal females, and males in one big group together. Then they watched.
At first, it looked like nothing was different. Females missing their HVC seemed to act the same as females with intact brains; once they were all together in the aviary, there was no clear difference in how often females approached male birds or in how they "chattered" back at males to encourage their singing.
Nevertheless, something had changed. The other birds in the aviary treated post-surgery females differently. For one thing, females missing their HVC were serenaded by a greater variety of males, even once they'd chosen a mate. Normally, a female who's bonded with a male hears his song almost exclusively. This is a measure of how strong the bond between partners is, says study author David White. Now, with more males bending a female's ear, her pair bond was weaker.
There were other changes too. With the altered females introduced into the group, female birds competed more for mates. And the whole hierarchy of male birds, which is established before the breeding season starts, was disrupted. Male cowbirds sing at each other to show who's dominant. After the HVC-less females came to live with them, the rules about which males were dominant singers shifted significantly.
"The result in this paper turned everything around for us," White says.
Previously, it had seemed to be the male cowbird's responsibility to create a strong bond with his partner. Females appeared to be passive agents in the group. "They don't sing, they don't fight," White says. "They don't, to our eye, do much of anything." Yet when the choosiness was erased from females' brains, the whole group dynamic changed. "Now we could see that it was the female that was playing a much more active role in pair-bonding, and in all sorts of other roles within the social network," White says. Everything depended on her song preferences.
Incidentally, it's not clear why female cowbirds bond with males at all.
Females have likely evolved to pick mates whose songs demonstrate—somehow—that they have the best genes. Then the males keep singing to the females throughout the breeding season, strengthening the bond between them.
Usually, White says, bird couples only form strong bonds when both parents will need to care for the young. But cowbirds "are very bad parents overall" who abandon their eggs in the nests of other birds. The powerful bond between cowbird partners "really makes no sense," White says.
Yet once they're bonded, males direct almost all their singing to their partner and never try to mate with other birds. "They follow each other around, they eat together, he comes when she calls him," White says. If a female dies or disappears, he adds, "her pairmate just becomes a wreck. We call it the widowed male phenomenon."
After the loss of his mate, the male gives up for the season. "He flies around looking for her," White says. To him, at least, the quiet female never seemed unimportant.


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Q: Global alignment using affine gap penalty function I have to write a program that does global alignment between two sequences using affine gap penalty function. The dynamic algorithm (modified Needleman Wunsch) calculates similarity (maximum score that express how similar sequences are) of two given sequences, s and t. And it takes into account gaps,  blocks of consecutive spaces in a sequence, which are more likely to occur then isolated spaces, by building three 2d arrays. The arrays could be not so formally described as:
array C: keeps maximum score for blocks that end with a character of sequence s aligned with a character of sequence t;array BS: keeps maximum score for blocks that end with a character of sequence t aligned with a space in sequence s
array BT: keeps maximum score for blocks that end with a character of sequence s aligned with a space in sequence t;
The algorithm has the following recurrence relation:
C[i,j] = v(s[i],t[j]) + max{C[i-1][j-1], BS[i-1][j-1], BT[i-1][j-1]}
BS[i,j] = max{C[i][j-1]-(h+g), BS[i][j-1]-g, BT[i][j-1]-(h+g)}
BT[i,j] = max{C[i-1][j]-(h+g), BS[i-1][j]-(h+g), BT[i-1][j]-g}
** v(s[i],t[i]) = value of match(when both character are identical) or mismatch(when characters are not identical)
Similarity is the highest value among the last value of each array. The problem is when I run the program it has a strange behaviour:
For a given pair of sequences, my program gives different values for the same pair of sequences if I change which one is t or s. So, could you please help me to find out why the program has such behaviour? Do you have any idea of what I'm doing wrong? And about the code, here it goes:
    int main (void){

  int mat, mis, h, g,
      sim, i, j, m, n;
  /* mat = match, mis = mismatch, h = open gap penalty, g = extend gap penalty */

  string s, t;
  s = malloc(1500);
  t = malloc(1500);

    scanf("%d %d %d %d", &mat, &mis, &h, &g);
    scanf("%s", s);
    scanf("%s", t);

    m = strlen(s);
    n = strlen(t);
    int C[m][n], BS[m][n], BT[m][n];

    C[0][0] = 0;
    for(j = 1; j<= n; j++)
      C[0][j] = -32000;

    for(i = 1; i<= m; i++)
      C[i][0] = -32000;

    for(j = 1; j <= n; j++)
       BS[0][j] = -(h + g*j);

    for(i = 0; i <= m; i++)
      BS[i][0] = -32000;

      for(j = 0; j <= n; j++)
        BT[0][j] = -32000;

      for(i = 1; i <= m; i++)
        BT[i][0] = -(h + g*i);

for(i = 1; i <= m; i++){
    for(j = 1; j <= n; j++){
        C[i][j] = align(s[i-1],t[j-1],mat,mis) + max(C[i-1][j-1],BS[i-1][j-1],BT[i-1][j-1]);
        BS[i][j] = max((C[i][j-1]-(h+g)),(BS[i][j-1]-g),(BT[i][j-1])-(h+g));
        BT[i][j] = max((C[i-1][j]-(h+g)),(BS[i-1][j]-(h+g)),(BT[i-1][j]-g));
        }
    }
    printf("\n");
    printf("c[m][n]: %d bs[m][n]:%d bt[m][n]: %d\n", C[m][n], BS[m][n], BT[m][n]);
    sim = max(C[m][n], BS[m][n], BT[m][n]);
    printf("sim: %d\n", sim);
return 0;
}

A: Ok, I finally find out the problem after trying many printfs, since I don't know how to use debuggers.The first clue I had was the segmentation fault that gcc was telling me when I tryed to read the sequences (with a relatively big length) from files. It's true that segmentation fault can have several causes, but almost all the times I saw this error in my programs, it occured because I was trying to access a position that actually didn't exist in the array.
Then the many printfs showed some values in the initialization step, which were different from what the first row and first column of each array should have. I associated the segmentation fault with the strange values from initialization step, and decided to check the declaration step of the arrays as well as all loop conditions. There it was! I simply forgot a very basic feature of any array: if the array has size n, you can access from zero to n-1.  To solve my very newbie error, I added one position for row and column in each array (since the position (0,0) is not associated with any pair of aligned characters) so that each array has size [m][n], where m is the (length + 1) of sequence s, and n is the (length+1) of sequence t. Furthermore, I altered all loop conditions to access till [m-1][n-1] position. Now the program works fine.

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Брат е на Йохан Филип Франц фон Шьонборн († 1724), княжески епископ на Вюрцбург (1719 – 1724), Фридрих Карл фон Шьонборн, епископ на Бамберг и Вюрцбург († 1746), Франц Георг фон Шьонборн, архиепископ на Трир († 1756), и Рудолф Франц Ервайн фон Шьонборн († 1754), дипломат и композитор.

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Дамиан Хуго не бил предназначен за религиозна кариера. Той следва в университетите във Вюрцбург, Майнц, Рим, Лайден и Льовен. През 1699 г. е компани-водач във войската на император Леополд I. От 1699 до 1706 г. той е комтур на Тевтонския орден в "Св. Аегидиус" в Аахен и от 1707 до 1715 г. на балай Хесен в Алден-Бизен и Марбург, също посланик на Виенския двор и поема дипломатически мисии.

По предложение на полския крал Август Силния през 1715 г. е номиниран за кардинал от папа Климент XI, въпреки че още не е помазан. През 1719 г., чрез съдействието на чичо му Лотар Франц, е избран за княжески епископ на Шпайер. Едва тогава на 15 август 1720 г. е помазан за свещеник. За епископ е помазан на 24 февруари 1721 г. Кардинал фон Шьонборн участва в конклава през 1721 г., който избира папа Инокентий XIII; той се появява един ден преди края на конклава в Рим.

След конфликти със съвета на протестантския имперски град Шпайер той мести през 1723 г. резиденцията си в Брухзал, където построява разкошния дворец Брухзал. От 1724 и от 1737 г. той строи и други дворци.

Дамиан Хуго не присъства на конклава през 1724 г., който избира папа Бенедикт XIII. През 1730 г. кардинал Шьонборн участва в четиримесечния конклав в Рим, който избира папа Климент XII.

Хуго Дамиан фон Шьонборн умира на 19 август 1743 г. в Брухзал след боледуване от малария, с която е заразен по времето му в Рим. През 1755 г. той е преместен и погребан в епископската гробница, в построената от него църква "Св. Петър" в Брухзал. Въпреки голямата му строителна активност, той оставя за наследниците си 1,8 милиона гулдена в държавната каса.

През неговото време на живот и управление е върхът на влиянието на фамилията Шьонборн в историята на империята.

Строежи на княжеския епископ Дамиан Хуго

Литература
 Constantin von Wurzbach: Schönborn, Damian Hugo Graf. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (BLKÖ). 31. Theil. Kaiserlich-königliche Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, Wien 1876, S. 134.
 Anton Wetterer: Das religiös-aszetische Leben des Kardinals Damian Hugo von Schönborn, Fürstbischof von Speier (1719 – 1743) und Konstanz (1740 – 1743). In: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv, Band 43, 1915, S. S. 151 – 166.
 Ludwig Stamer: Damian Hugo Philipp Graf von Schönborn. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2, S. 500 (Digitalisat).
 Christof Dahm: Schönborn, Damian Hugo Philipp Reichsfreiherr (seit 1701 Reichsgraf) von. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Band 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1, Sp. 620 – 623.
 Hans Ammerich: Das Bistum Speyer und seine Geschichte. Band 3: Von der Reformationszeit bis zum Ende des alten Bistums. Kehl am Rhein 1999, ISBN 3-927095-49-4, S. 24 – 26.
 Stephan Mauelshagen: Ordensritter – Landesherr – Kirchenfürst. Damian Hugo von Schönborn (1676 – 1743) – Ein Leben im alten Reich. Ubstadt-Weiher 2001, ISBN 3-89735-173-0.
 Andreas Flurschütz da Cruz: Zwischen Reich und Revolte. Die habsburgischen Gesandten in Hamburg zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts. In: Zeitschrift des Vereins für Hamburgische Geschichte 99 (2013), S. 1 – 29.
 Constantin von Wurzbach: Schönborn, die Herren und Grafen, Genealogie. In: BLKÖ, Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. 31. Theil. Kaiserlich-königliche Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, Wien 1876, S. 131 – 136

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Външни препратки

 Schönborn, Damian Hugo Philipp von, In: Salvador Miranda: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. fiu.edu, Website der Florida International University
 Damian Hugo Philipp Cardinal von Schönborn Bushein, catholic-hierarchy.org
 Beschreibung des Schlosses Bruchsal und der dortigen Wappen von Bernhard Peter
 Damian Hugo Philipp von Schönborn-Buchheim als nicht anwesender Landkomtur der Ballei Hessen von Bernhard Peter
 Ehemaliges Jagdschloss Kislau
 Schloss Zeilitzheim (zeitweise Wohnort von Damian Hugo Philipp)
 Count of Schönborn, schoenborn.de

Епископи на Шпайер
Епископи на Констанц
Кардинали
Римокатолически епископи от 18 век
Епископи на Германия
Австрийски дипломати
Тевтонски орден
Шьонборни
Родени през 1676 година
Починали през 1743 година

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Paul's Serv-Rite Food Market is a cornerstone of community in the Central neighborhood
For nearly 65 years, the Arnold family has run Paul's Serv-Rite, a convenience store and community hub in the Central neighborhood.
By La Queta Worley & Sharon Holbrook ● Entrepreneurs ● December 6, 2022 December 5, 2022
Owner Phil Arnold poses with a photograph of his father, Paul Arnold, who founded Paul's Serv-Rite store in the Central neighborhood in 1957. (Photo by La Queta Worley)
My first memories of the store were when I was 3 years old, back in 1975. Paul's Serv-Rite Food Market at 4621 Central Avenue is the oldest corner store in our community and has been in the neighborhood for 65 years. Paul's was there before I was even thought of.
My grandmother lived not even a block away, and she'd have my dad go here to get little stuff she wanted. When I was a teenager, I used to stop there to buy snacks for myself before returning home after school at East Tech High School. Then I had an after-school job, and I would still stop there at Paul's to buy some snacks for myself before going to work. When I was in my thirties, I had two children of my own enrolled in George Washington Carver School, and we would have parent meetings and always needed refreshments. So I would take our flier to show Mr. Paul to ask for donations of juice, cookies, chips, pop, or doughnuts. At that time Mr. Paul was still living, God bless his soul.
Paul Arnold died in 2016. Phil Arnold, Paul's son, is the owner now. The customers are mostly neighborhood residents or people who used to live here. The Central community doesn't have a regular grocery store, so stores like Paul's are really valuable. But the store building is old and needs repairs, and people break in and steal food, drink, and money – even though Phil, like his dad Mr. Paul, would make arrangements with customers to barter or get them what they need even if they don't have money or food stamps. Phil and his family have had a really hard time getting funds to help repair the store, but that may change soon. I'm hopeful that Paul's Serv-Rite will continue to serve the community for many years to come.
Writer La Queta Worley in front of Paul's Serv-Rite, a Central neighborhood fixture that she's been shopping at since she was a small child. (Photo by Sharon Holbrook)
History of Paul's
I was told the store originally started in 1957 on East 37th and Central Avenue, and then it was moved to East 39th and Scovill (we call it Community College Avenue now). All in all, Paul Arnold ran his store at four different locations in Central over the years, but Paul's Serv-Rite has been at the current location since 1980, according to a 1994 Plain Dealer article about the store. Mr. Paul told the Plain Dealer that it all started when he left the Army in 1957, couldn't find a job, and didn't have any other experience besides working in grocery stores. So he bought one.
Back in 1994, when that article was published, Mr. Paul had recently been honored by the Friendly Inn Settlement House, a community support nonprofit up the street. He regularly provided food for baskets to share with those in need, and he was a "bright light" for the community but also very humble. He didn't especially want to be honored.
Mr. Paul's legacy lives on through his son Phil Arnold. Phil currently owns and runs the store, and he's been helping out since he was a kid. "I was 11 years old when I started learning how to stock up the shelves and do general cleaning and cashiering," said Phil. Phil helped at the store throughout his teenage years, had a career in IT, and then returned to the store in 2012 to help his aging father run the store. He's been there ever since, and he says that helping out his parents was the right thing to do.
Generations of Central neighbors have come to shop at Paul's. The store sells mostly snacks, beer, wine, juices, water, pop, a few fruits and vegetables, tobacco items, a couple of household cleaners, and a few hot foods: corned beef sandwiches, polish boys, and fried chicken wings. In the wintertime, you can also find hats and gloves here. So it's not a whole lot in this little cute corner store, but it feels like a lot to the community family.
Paul's Serv-Rite offers snacks, groceries, and a variety of other essentials. Overhead, winter hats and gloves are displayed for sale throughout the store. At the rear, baskets with a small selection of fresh produce are displayed in front of the hot food counter. (Photo by Sharon Holbrook)
A place for community
Some neighbors use the store for their regular shopping, and for others Paul's Serv-Rite is a place to stop for snacks, quick errands, and conversation. The store is like that friend we all need sometimes – there when we need it every day.
There's a sense of community here at Paul's. It's not just for shopping. I was part of an event with FARE which brought masks, hand sanitizer, and other Covid supplies to customers at Paul's. The bulletin board is where we find out about nearby community events, like things happening at the Friendly Inn up the street. People also hear about things by word of mouth at Paul's, because it's the kind of place where you run into neighbors and talk.
For example, last summer I was part of the city's Vision Zero team. That's the city's plan for reducing traffic accidents, especially accidents hurting pedestrians. I used to be a crossing guard for the kids walking to and from George Washington Carver Elementary, and that's how I got involved as a neighborhood advocate. Anyway, last summer we had an event right by Paul's, where community members could tell us about how safe (or not) the nearby roads are and whether it's safe to cross the street here. This is the kind of place where a lot of people in the community come, so it makes sense to have these kinds of community events at or near Paul's. And I really hope we can get some street changes, like a speed bump, to slow things down by the store – kids have been hit crossing the street here.
The shelves and cases at Paul's Serv-Rite are well-stocked and meticulously organized. Owner Phil Arnold, short on space, would like to expand his store to include at least one more aisle. (Photo by Sharon Holbrook)
Phil, like his dad Paul, also gives kindly and generously to the community. Like I said, he would donate snacks for parent meetings, and these gracious donations were so appreciated by us moms at the school, because we sometimes didn't have the money or food stamps to provide something to eat, and the school didn't always provide it.
Sometimes people can't afford to buy what they need at Paul's, and Phil will sometimes make a special arrangement. He doesn't want people to have to steal to eat. Instead, sometimes he lets people do a little work to earn what they need – kind of a barter system. A community member, Kaddo, currently does chores here in the store to earn what he wants. Phil does what he can to help people.
Posted near the front counter of Paul's is a photo of Phil Arnold's late parents, who started the store in 1957. (Photo by Sharon Holbrook)
Challenges, and what's next
If I had the money I would definitely give it to Phil to repair the front door windows. They're broken, because someone robbed the store. "I do not want to have a metal shutter for the doors," said Phil, "because the robbers will still break into them, too." Last spring, Phil says there were several break-ins right in a row. He kept replacing the glass of the front door, but after it was broken repeatedly, he left the makeshift wooden boards in place. He says it slows down burglars, and that together with his alarm system means he can know there's an issue before too much harm is done.
The Paul's Serv-Rite building is old and could use some repairs. Phil says he could really use another aisle for more goods – the tidy shelves are packed to the brim with items for sale – and he'd also like to upgrade the area where hot and cold fresh foods are served. The current cooler, which he says dates to the 40s or 50s, can't be used because it relies on a constant stream of cold water, which is too expensive at today's water utility rates. Right now, Phil doesn't know when he'll be able to make these improvements.
After repeated burglaries, owner Phil Arnold opted to repair his store's front entry with wood rather than glass. Arnold plans to apply to the city's Storefront Renovation Program in early 2023. (Photo by Sharon Holbrook)
Phil has talked to Councilman Richard Starr about making physical improvements to the store, and in early 2023 Phil is planning to apply to the city's Storefront Renovation Program for a grant to help upgrade the exterior of the store. The city is helping with suggesting new designs, like a glass storefront, but those details have yet to be worked out. If he gets approved, Phil will be eligible to get a 50% rebate of his expenses, up to a rebate of $50,000. So, Phil would have to finance it himself to start, but if he were to spend $100,000 on redesigning the store's exterior, the city would grant him a $50,000 rebate.
Meanwhile, Phil keeps on running this important little store, and I'm going to be a part of it as much as I can. One thing I want to work on is helping Phil make a new connection for bean and buttermilk pies. Before the pandemic, a brother from the mosque used to sell the most delicious bean and buttermilk pies through the store. Brother Ali got sick, though, and we'd need to make a new connection to bring this bit of happiness back to the store. That's the kind of little thing — delicious food made by a community member and enjoyed by other community members – that makes Paul's a place of special connection.
No matter what, the store keeps going, and it's a real cornerstone of the Central community, like it has been for generations. I recently saw an old friend of my two children who works at the store as a hot food chef, runner, stock person, and general cleaner. He's doing the same exact thing Phil started out doing, and I am so very glad Phil has someone he knows and loves – Andre' is his name. And he's from the community, too – and that's what it's all about.
La Queta Worley was a participant in The Land's community journalism program.
La Queta Worley
La Queta Worley loves community work and represents the Central community wherever she goes. She is the mother of two adult children and is a devoted member of Triedstone Missionary Baptist Church.
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Sharon Holbrook is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Cleveland Magazine, Preservation, Belt, and many other national and local publications. She is the managing editor of The Land.
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"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better man."
— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1739
Benjamin Franklin also said, "But on the whole; tho' I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it."
With Ben's thoughts in mind, I would come out about 50/50 on my New Year's Resolutions. The year I decided I would purchase no new thing for my wardrobe I was absolutely miserable. Instead of happily moving forward and being creative I spent more time moaning and groaning. This is not the point of a New Year's Resolution. A New Year's Resolution should move you to a place of achievement which is why so many resolutions fail. The resolution is far too vast, as mine was. I would have done better by shortening the goal. Not adding anything new to my wardrobe every other month. Perhaps seeing how many different ways I could use what I already had during the alternate months. O.K. That's starting to sound fun.
Another year's resolution was a regular exercise routine. That resolution was successful because I made a doable plan. I signed up for classes five days a week. Once you get into a regular routine it's just what you do. I was expected to be at the class and I paid to do so. I made myself accountable. Home exercise has never been very successful for me.
Lauren Cosby in the Reader's Digest agrees, "The wise idea and most satisfying is to lean toward becoming more the person you want to be. If your goal is doable, you're more likely to do it. By making a plan you are ten times more likely to achieve your goal."
In 1813 a Boston newspaper first used the phrasing "New Year's Resolution." "The idea was to redeem one's self from the bad habits of the previous year. A new year to start fresh."
Gunilla Norris wrote in "Embracing the Seasons" about geese, something we see often on the lake. She wrote, "Geese depend on one another. The lead goose does the most work, but when it is tired, it falls back and another takes its place. The leadership is shared. Being in charge for them is not about ego or control, but about what will serve the flock in the best way. All of us have gifts that can benefit others. How different our world would be if we all acted with the community in mind. Our strengths could be expressed for the benefit of the whole, and we could sense how necessary mutuality is in the handling of our challenges."
The past couple of years have been challenging for everyone. Since everyone has a gift, what if we resolved to use our gifts to help others? By making a plan to share our gifts, we are ten times more likely to achieve our goals.
Shannon Bardwell is a writer living quietly in the Prairie. Email reaches her at msdeltachild@msn.com.
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FIRST TRAILER FOR "ASTRO", FILMED IN ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO, FEATURING ENSEMBLE CAST HEADED UP BY GARY DANIELS
Sci-fi thriller Astro, featuring Gary Daniels (The Expendables), Dominique Swain (Boone: The Bounty Hunter) and Marshal Hilton (Primal Rage), bows at Cannes in May before hitting home ent platforms in July.
Film, directed by Asif Akbar and written by Akbar and Bernard Selling, tells of a billionaire's private space exploration program returning to Earth with an abducted extraterrestrial from a newly discovered alien planet.
Louis Mandylor, Max Wasa, Omi Vaidya, Luke G. Crosby, Orson Chaplin, Gianni Capaldi, Spice Williams-Crosby, Courtney Akbar, Christopher Showerman and Michael Pare also star.
Film receives a DVD release domestically in the U.S. and North America through eOne and ITN Distribution this July.
Astro is a Film Life Factory, LLC and XVIII Entertainment, LLC production. ITN Distribution is handling sales in all domestic and certain parts of the European territories with Avail Films and XVIII Entertainment handling the rest of the world-wide sales at the upcoming Cannes Film Market.
Brian Steele Medina of Gemini Syndrome, composed the music and sound fx for Astro's trailer, which also features an unreleased track "We Are the Fallen" written by the alternative metal band. The film's original score is composed by Erick Schroeder.
Asif Akbar and Bernard Selling are currently finishing the Astro book series based on the movie, it'll be released on Amazon in July.
"We are excited to create and introduce a new modern day science-fiction franchise to the world", says Akbar.
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