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By David Wildstein, October 06 2020 4:00 am
Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown) has launched a new TV ad featuring Tom disability advocate Tom Spadaro that touts the freshman congressman's assistance in obtaining personal protection equipment so that a home care attendant could come back to work.
The ad, "Andy and Tom," features Kim visiting with Spadaro and discussing the need to get PPE equipment for disabled residents of New Jersey's 3rd district. Spadaro had contacted Kim for help.
The 53-year-old Spadaro became a quadriplegic at age 11 when he was accidentally shot in the head by a friend who was displaying a gun, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Script: "Hi I'm Andy Kim. Come on, let's get to work. Tom is someone who knows the challenges that people with disabilities face. The biggest challenge that I have is getting care. My wife had to do it for six months on her own. Tom told me that there were a lot of people like him that couldn't get their home attendants to come because they didn't have masks or personal protection. Andy was able to get masks locally for people like me. I approve this message because now is the time to work together."
Kim faces Republican David Richter in his bid for re-election to a second term.
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VANC- Vertical Ancillary data.
VBR – Variable Bit Rate. An economical way to compress and encode video source material based on the algorithms' ability to detect changes in the amount of data most appropriate for a particular scene. For video, this saves space by using fewer bits for simple content, and more for complex material that contains lots of changing detail or motion. A method for compressing audio which does not always use the same number of bits to record the same duration of sound.
VC-1 – a video compression format originally developed by microsoft for the now defunct HD DVD standard, which was dropped in favor of Blu-Ray. VC-1 is one of the three mandated formats for use on Blu-Ray. It is an efficient codec, which can deliver very high quality.
VCA – Voltage-Controlled Amplifier. a device that responds to a change in voltage at its control input by altering the gain of a signal being passed through it. also, the digital equivalent of a VCA.
VCF – Voltage-Controlled Filter. A filter whose cutoff frequency can be changed by altering the amount of voltage being sent to its control input; modifies its cutoff frequency by shifting how much voltage is transmitted. Also, the digital equivalent of a VCF.
VCO – Voltage Controlled Oscillator. 1. An oscillating circuit controlled by an alternating analog voltage. This creates the sound in the synthesizer using basic waveform shapes like sine, sawtooth, square, triangle and PWM. Tuning can be unstable, synths can overheat and are often very heavy. 2. Oscillator that alters its frequency by how much voltage is transmitted to its control input. 3. Frequency modulation is a form of analog angle modulation in which the baseband information-carrying signal, typically called the message or information signal m(t), varies the frequency of a carrier wave. Audio signals transmitted by FM radio communications are the most common. However, FM radio can also transmit digital data with the low bandwidth digital information known as Radio Data System (RDS)in Europe and Radio Broadcast Data System (RBDS) in the U.S. The simplest approach to generating FM signals is to apply the message signal directly to a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO).
VHF – Very High Frequency. Radio frequencies from 30 to 300 megahertz.
VHS – a half inch videocassette format developed in 1976 by Matsushita and licensed by JVC, using the "m" wrap tape path. Not compatible with the Beta format. See Super-VHS.
VHS-C – VHS Compact. Scaled-down version of vhs using miniature cassettes compatible with full-size VHS equipment through use of adapter. See Super-VHS.
VIR – Vertical Interval Reference. Reference signal inserted into the vertical interval of source video. This signal is used further down the video chain to verify parameters and to automatically adjust gains and phase.
v.i.t.c. – also VITC, Vertical Interval Time Code, pronounced "vitsee". This type of time code is recorded in the vertical blanking interval above the active picture area. A time code recorded on videotape in two horizontal lines during each vertical blanking period of a video signal. Unlike LTC, VITC is recorded in the same tracks as the video information, so they can be read even while the tape is not moving, in the "still mode". It is a popular method for recording for recording timecode. a timecode-address for reach frame of video is inserted in the vertical interval of the video signal where it is invisible on-screen yet easy to retrieve. Professional videotape machines can read vitc in either the play or the jog (manual) mode, making it ideal for editing. See also time code, LTC.
VOB – Video Object File. The primary video container on DVDs and SVCDs. Can contain audio, video, subtitles, etc. all MUXed in.
voc – a file extension specifying the creative labs sound blaster audio format. Typically encountered as filename.voc.
VR – Vibration Reduction, a technology found in some lenses and cameras used to reduce blur and produce sharp images at slower shutter speeds. VR is also found in binoculars to reduce hand-held image shakiness.
VRML – Virtual Reality Modeling Language. Used to create navigable 3-D environments on InterNet. A VRML plug-in must be downloaded for a web browser to view VRML files.
VTR – Video Tape Recorder.
VU – Volume Units. a unit of measure for complex audio signals, usually in decibels (dB). The reference level of -20 dB is 0 VU.
v/oct – 1 volt per octave. A form of control voltage (cv) typically used in Roland, Arp, Oberheim, Sequential and Moog synthesizers.
v-trig – voltage trigger. Positive (+) gate trigger used in Roland, Arp, Oberheim and Sequential synthesizers.
variable contrast paper – photographic paper of differing grades of contrast when exposed through special contrast filters.
variable focus lens – a zoom lens, one in which focal length is variable. Elements inside a variable focus lens shift their positions, enabling the lens to change its focal length, in effect, providing one lens that has many focal lengths.
variable media glossary – this glossary does not pretend to provide an exhaustive overview of the jargon used in new media preservation, but simply an explanation for the technical terms used in this publication. All of the terms apply most directly to at least one of the following categories – 1. variable media behavior, one of several medium-independent traits an artwork can possess. 2. variable media strategy- one of several philosophical approaches to solving a particular preservation issue. 3. hardware, pertaining primarily to physical material or equipment. 4. software, pertaining primarily to computer programs or electronic signals. 5. format, pertaining primarily to a standard for storing electronic signals or data in a physical medium.
vectorscope- 1. a specialized oscilloscope designed to display the saturation and hue of chroma signals in a polar pattern, which demodulates the video signal and presents a display of r-y versus b-y. It allows for the accurate evaluation of the chrominance portion of a signal, plotting qualities in a compass-like graphic display. This device is essential in the evaluation of color signals when aligning color picture sources or matching and timing color sources in a television system. 2. A trademarked name that has become the generic description for a vector display unit which allows visual checking of the phase and amplitude of the color components of a video signal.
velocity- a type of midi data (range 1 to 127) that transmits or responds to the initial key attack, usually used to indicate how quickly a key was pushed down (attack velocity) or allowed to rise (release velocity), typically used to control the volume for a sound. A "note-on" message with a velocity value of 0 is equivalent to a "note-off" message.
velocity curve- a map that translates incoming velocity values into other velocities in order to alter the feel or response of a keyboard or tone module.
velocity sensitivity- a type of touch sensitivity in which the keyboard measures how fast each key is descending. Compare with pressure sensitivity.
versioning- also known as "version control" and "revision control". The management of different versions of a set of data. In digital video it can stand for a comparison of multiple revisions of an image or clip sequence.
vertex shader – a real-time shader application. Graphics processing function used to add special effects to objects in a 3D environment by performing mathematical operations on the objects' vertex data. Vertex shaders are applied for each vertex and run on a programmable vertex processor.
vertical blanking – the action of turning off the trace on an analog crt during vertical retrace.
vertical interval- 1. the vertical interval signals the picture monitor to go back to the top of the screen to begin another vertical scan. It is the portion of the video signal that occurs between the end of one field and the beginning of the next. During this time, the electron beams in the cameras and monitors are turned off (invisible) so that they can return from the bottom of the screen to the top to begin another scan. 2. indicates the vertical blanking period between each video field. Contains additional scan lines above the active picture area into which non-picture information (captioning, copy protection and other control signals) may be embedded.
vertical sync – the synchronizing pulses used to define the end of one television field and the start of the next occurring at a rate of approximately 59.94hz (color), and 60hz (black & white).
vertical sync pulse – the synchronizing pulse at the end of each field which signals the start of vertical retrace. See flyback.
vertigo effect – a camera technique created by Alfred Hitchcock during his film Vertigo that involves tracking backwards while simultaneously zooming in, making the person or object in the center of the image seem stationary while their surroundings change.
vibration reduction – often referred to as VR, an image stabilization feature in Nikon lenses that minimizes the effect of camera shake at slow shutter speeds, helping to prevent image blur.
vibrato- an effect created by small and fast changes in sound, a periodic change in frequency, often controlled by an LFO, with a period of less than 20hz. The sound ocillates between a high not and a low note. Compare with tremolo.
video – 1. in the context of podcasting, a video is a digital movie. This is a bit confusing because real video is not digital at all but analogue carried on a tape (video tape). For some reason we started to adopt the word 'video' from the moment is became possible to play moving images on a computer in the 90s. 2. An electrical signal that carries television picture information.
Video Assist – motion picture cameras often include a video camera that allows instant review of a scene to monitor framing, focus, and performance. Both this system and the person operating it are referred to as Video Assist.
Video Cassette Recorder – VCR. A common household appliance for recording and/or playing prerecorded video tapes. See VHS, NTSC and PAL.
video clip – in a non-linear editing environment, a clip indicates data of either video or audio that has been clipped out (copied) from a larger environment such as a reel or a video tape. in essence a video clip is a snippet of video. video clips usually are folders/directories that contain a great number of individual images files (the frames) which combined form the video sequence. the image files can be stored in a wide variety of picture file formats (e.g. bmp or TIFF). however, video clips can also be stored in a single file in a container file format such as quicktime or windows media.
video crosspoint module – in video switchers, a circuit board containing video switching crosspoints.
video dailies- synched videotapes with burn-in used for editing and confirming a day's shoot.
video format- determines the way video is transmitted or received. For example, for a record it determines how to receive a video signal at the inputs. Most notably the setting of a video format must detail the video raster (scanning pattern).
video gain – also white level, white bar, reference white. The range of light-to-dark values of the image which are proportional to the voltage difference between the black and white voltage levels of the video signal. Expressed on the waveform monitor by the voltage level of the whitest whites in the active picture signal. Video gain is related to the contrast of the video image. The amount of amplification for video signals, expressed in decibels (dB).
video home system – VHS. Video Home System is a popular format for VCR systems worldwide, devleoped by the Japan Victor Company (JVC) in the 1970s. It used helical scan, FM encoding on magnetic tape. See also DVD.
video mixer – european term for video production switcher.
video monitor – a high-quality television set (without RF circuits) that accepts video baseband inputs directly from a TV camera, videotape recorder, etc.
video path – the electronic path within the device that routes and processes the video signals. Video path length refers to the amount of time required for a signal to travel from input to output.
video processing amplifier – a device that stabilizes the composite video signal, regenerates the synchronizing signals, and allows other adjustments to the video signal parameters.
video prompter – a mechanical device that projects and advances text on a mirror directly in front of a camera lens, allowing talent to read lines while appearing to maintain eye contact with viewers.
video signal – an electrical signal that includes all of the information present in the television picture together with the necessary synchronizing signals.
video switcher – also production switcher, video mixer. Device that accepts inputs from a variety of video sources and allows the operator to select a particular source to be sent to the switcher's outputs. May also include circuits for video mixing, wiping, keying, and other special effects; may contain special effects generators.
video to audio crosstalk – a measurement, typically in dB, of the amount of unwanted video signal energy present in an audio signal.
video toaster – software & hardware developed by Newtek for the Amiga computer. Made special effects affordable for the low budget producer. Note: The Amiga was a personal computer sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s, based on the 68000 family of microprocessors – see also Apple MacIntosh.
videocassette – a container holding both the feed and take-up reels which is inserted into a videotape recorder and threaded automatically.
videocassette recorder – multifunction machine intended primarily for recording and playback of videotape stored in cassettes.
videocasting – a video cast is similar to a podcast but this indicates that it is video exclusively while a podcast is usually audio.
videographer – 1. a person who works in the video medium, recording moving images and sound onto linear analog or digital tape, non-linear digital disc, or any other digital recording media, such as memory cards. On a set, he or she may be responsible for the lighting as well as the audio and images captured by the video camera or camcorder. Videographers differ from cinematographers because they record using video cameras or camcorders while cinematographers use film cameras to shoot film footage onto motion picture film stock. The development of high definition digital cinematography, however, is quickly blurring this distinction. 2. a video photographer who specializes in social events.
videotape recorder – also video tape recorder, VTR. A device which permits audio and video signals to be recorded on magnetic tape.
view camera – a large format camera. Cameras that produce an individual image size of 5″ x 4″ or larger. It is most often found in a studio, and is sometimes called a "studio camera", although the view camera can be transported and set up in the field. The view camera is the largest of the basic camera types.
viewfinder – 1. a video monitor attached directly to a video camera. 2. a viewing device on a camera used by the photographer to see the field of view taken in by the camera's lens and the portion of the view that will be recorded on the image sensor or on film. Also known as a finder or projected frame. It may be a simple window that displays the actual image or an electronic view frame.
viewfinder camera – camera with a viewfinder that is separate from the lens used in taking the picture. A simple point-and-shoot disposable camera is an example of a viewfinder camera, but not all viewfinder cameras are simple. the viewfinder camera is the most popular type of camera.
viewfinder screen – the ground glass surface of some viewfinder cameras, such as a large-format field camera, on which the photographer views and composes the scene about to be photographed.
viewing angle – – the viewing angle determines how far off the axis (screen centerline) a viewer can still sit and still see a quality image. This is no greater than 45 degrees off the projection axis.
viewing cone – – the best viewing area for the audience. the term cone is used because there is width, height, and depth to the best viewing area, and this area emanates from the center of the screen.
viewpoint – location of the camera relative to the subject.
vignette mask – a special effects mask in front of the camera's lens that blocks the light around the scene's margins, producing a vignetted picture.
vignetting – 1. when unintentional, it is underexposure at the image's edges or corners caused by an unsuitable lens hood, filter or other attachment that partially blocks the field of view. 2. when intentional, it is an image printing technique where the central area is fully printed but its edges gradually fade. Vignetting can also be achieved when taking the picture by placing a vignette mask in front of the lens.
vignette – visual special effect whereby viewers see images through a perceived keyhole, heart shape, diamond, or whatever. In low-budget form, achieved by aiming camera through cutout of desired vignette.
vignetting – 1. undesirable darkening at the corners of a picture, as if viewer's peering through a telescope, due to improper matching of lens to camera; pickup's scope exceeds lens size. 2. The partial masking, or blocking or peripheral light rays either by intent, or by accident. In theatrical projection, the blockage of peripheral light rays in a projection lens due to a lens barrel that is too long, or to a lamphouse optical system that is not correctly matched to the limiting aperture of the projection lens.
vinegar syndrome – film or magnetic media. A deterioration process that affects acetate film base, characteristic of the breakdown of the acetate tape binding or backing layer. Vinegar syndrome is identifiable by the vinegar smell that becomes evident as the acetate base breaks down and acetic acid gas is released. Films with vinegar syndrome will deteriorate physically, shrinking and losing flexibility; the tape may become brittle and difficult to handle. In final stages, films with vinegar syndrome can become fused and resemble a hockey puck.
virtual- existing only in software.
vision mixer – european term for video production switcher.
visual density – spectral sensitivity of the receptor which approximates that of the human eye.
visual effects – alterations to a film's images during post-production. Contrast with special effects (except in UK television, where visual effects and special effects are sometimes the same).
Visual Effects Rigger – the person that prepares the miniature models, creature puppets, or whatever the camera subject is, to perform whatever the object is supposed to do during the shot.
Visual Effects Supervisor – also Visual Effects Director. The chief of a production's visual effects crew.
VOCODER – Voice Operated enCODER. A type of effect typically used with vocals for its unique sound. Vocoding splits audio signals into multiple frequency bands, analyzes them, and applies the frequency and envelope characteristics of one sound (the modulator, usually a vocal) onto the other sound (the carrier, usually a synth pad or drum loop), making your instruments appear to speak.
voice- 1. an element of synthesizer circuitry capable of producing a note. The polyphonic capability of a synthesizer is defined by how many voices it has. 2. In yamaha synthesizers, a patch (sound). 3. Refers to a specific musical line for voice or instrument. See polyphony.
voice channel – a signal path consisting of at least one oscillator and a VCA or digital equivalent, that can create notes. On a typical synthesizer, two or more voice channels, each with its own waveform and parameter settings, can be combined to form a single note.
voice-over – also voice over, VO. Indicates that dialogue or narration will be heard on a movie's soundtrack, above background sound or music, but the speaker will not be shown. The abbreviation is often used as an annotation in a script. Typically applied to edited visual during post-production.
voice-over artist – the unseen person who does the speaking necessary to create a voice-over.
voice stealing – when a synthesizer is programmed to play more sounds than the available voices, it shuts down some present voices so new tunes can be played, typically those that have been sounding longest or are at the lowest amplitude.
volt – the standard unit for measuring the difference of potential between two points in an electronic circuit. Also for measuring electromotive force; symbolized by an upper case V.
voltage – the electrical potential to create current flow in a circuit.
voltage regulator – a circuit used for controlling and maintaining a voltage at a constant level.
volume- an identifiable unit of data storage in computers or storage systems. it might be physically removable. In tape storage systems, a volume may be a tape cartridge (or in older systems, a tape reel). in mainframe storage systems, a volume may be a removable hard disk. each volume can be specified by the user via its system-unique name or number. In some systems, the physical unit may be divided into several separately identifiable volumes.
volumetric fog – in rendering, the simulation of light shining through fine particles (fog, smoke, or dust) in the air. Also known as light fog.
voxel – volume element. a cubic unit of 3D volume defined at a size appropriate to the required resolution, sometimes described as the 3D equivalent of a pixel.
vu meter – volume-unit meter, a type of meter used to indicate average audio amplitude.
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How Many Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE:AKR) Shares Have Insiders Sold, In The Last Year?
We've lost count of how many times insiders have accumulated shares in a company that goes on to improve markedly. Unfortunately, there are also plenty of examples of share prices declining precipitously after insiders have sold shares. So we'll take a look at whether insiders have been buying or selling shares in Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE:AKR).
What Is Insider Selling?
It's quite normal to see company insiders, such as board members, trading in company stock, from time to time. However, such insiders must disclose their trading activities, and not trade on inside information.
We would never suggest that investors should base their decisions solely on what the directors of a company have been doing. But logic dictates you should pay some attention to whether insiders are buying or selling shares. For example, a Harvard University study found that 'insider purchases earn abnormal returns of more than 6% per year'.
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The Last 12 Months Of Insider Transactions At Acadia Realty Trust
The Chief Accounting Officer & Senior VP, Richard Hartmann, made the biggest insider sale in the last 12 months. That single transaction was for US$186k worth of shares at a price of US$23.30 each. While insider selling is a negative, to us, it is more negative if the shares are sold at a lower price. The silver lining is that this sell-down took place above the latest price (US$10.21). So it is hard to draw any strong conclusion from it.
Acadia Realty Trust insiders didn't buy any shares over the last year. You can see the insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last year depicted in the chart below. If you want to know exactly who sold, for how much, and when, simply click on the graph below!
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It doesn't really mean much that no insider has traded Acadia Realty Trust shares in the last quarter. Our analysis of Acadia Realty Trust insider transactions leaves us unenthusiastic. And usually insiders own more stock in the company, according to our data. In addition to knowing about insider transactions going on, it's beneficial to identify the risks facing Acadia Realty Trust. When we did our research, we found 4 warning signs for Acadia Realty Trust (2 shouldn't be ignored!) that we believe deserve your full attention.
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Public Health Emergency Risk Communication and Social Media Reactions to an Errant Warning of a Ballistic Missile Threat — Hawaii, January 2018
Weekly / February 22, 2019 / 68(7);174–176
Bhavini Patel Murthy, MD1,2; Nevin Krishna, MPH2; Terrance Jones, MPH2; Amy Wolkin, DrPH3; Rachel Nonkin Avchen, PhD2; Sara J. Vagi, PhD2 (View author affiliations)
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What is already known about this topic?
Social media platforms are widely used to share information and disseminate alerts and warnings.
What is added by this report?
After an errant ballistic missile alert, social media reactions revealed how the public interprets, shares, and responds to information during an evolving threat. This knowledge can guide emergency risk communicators to develop timely and effective social media messages than can protect lives.
What are the implications for public health practice?
Social media can be an effective tool to send urgent messages during a public health emergency. Public health practitioners need to improve messaging during emergency risk communications to address the public's needs during each phase of an unfolding crisis to protect and save lives.
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On January 13, 2018, at 8:07 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time, an errant emergency alert was sent to persons in Hawaii. An employee at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (EMA) sent the errant alert via the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system and the Emergency Alert System (EAS) during a ballistic missile preparedness drill, advising persons to seek shelter from an incoming ballistic missile. WEA delivers location-based warnings to wireless carrier systems, and EAS sends alerts via television and radio (1). After 38 minutes, at 8:45 a.m., Hawaii EMA retracted the alert via WEA and EAS (2). To understand the impact of the alert, social media responses to the errant message were analyzed. Data were extracted from Twitter* using a Boolean search for tweets (Twitter postings) posted on January 13 regarding the false alert. Tweets were analyzed during two 38-minute periods: 1) early (8:07–8:45 a.m.), the elapsed time the errant alert circulated until the correction was issued and 2) late (8:46–9:24 a.m.), the same amount of elapsed time after issuance of the correction. A total of 5,880 tweets during the early period and 8,650 tweets during the late period met the search criteria. Four themes emerged during the early period: information processing, information sharing, authentication, and emotional reaction. During the late period, information sharing and emotional reaction themes persisted; denunciation, insufficient knowledge to act, and mistrust of authority also emerged as themes. Understanding public interpretation, sharing, and reaction to social media messages related to emergencies can inform development and dissemination of accurate public health messages to save lives during a crisis.
The rapid dissemination of public health messaging is a component of information management, one of the six core domains of public health preparedness (3). The information management domain addresses public health communication and includes two capabilities: 1) emergency public information and warning and 2) information sharing. Emergency public information and warning is an essential capability for state and local public health preparedness and consists of the ability to develop, coordinate, and disseminate information, alerts, warnings, and notifications to the public and incident management responders. The information sharing capability consists of the ability to conduct multijurisdictional, multidisciplinary exchange of health-related information and situational awareness data among all levels of the government and the private sector (3).
Using Sysomos† (version 1.47; Meltwater), an analysis of social media data from Twitter was performed by conducting a Boolean search to identify relevant tweets. The search used the terms "missile and Hawaii," "ballistic," "shelter," "drill," "threat," "alert," or "alarm" to identify tweets posted on the morning of January 13, 2018. Twitter data were used for this analysis because they are available in the public domain and easily accessible. Retweets (reposting the same tweet) and quote tweets (reposting the tweet with a comment at the top of the tweet) were excluded to limit the analysis to initial tweets.
All tweets were stratified into one of two periods. The early period consisted of tweets sent during the initial 38 minutes (8:07–8:45 a.m.), and the late period consisted of those sent in the 38 minutes after the false alarm retraction message was issued via EAS and WEA at 8:45 a.m. Tweets were coded using grounded theory, which is a systematic approach to analyze qualitative data and develop theories from those data (4). Themes were identified until theoretical saturation was reached. Atlas.ti§ software (version 8; Atlas.ti Scientific Software Development) was used for all exploratory qualitative analysis.
A total of 127,125 tweets were identified; after excluding 69,151 (54%) retweets and 43,444 (34%) quote tweets, 14,530 (11%) initial tweets remained for analysis. Among these, 5,880 (40%) were sent during the early period, and 8,650 (60%) were sent during the late period.
Four themes emerged from the Twitter data during the early period: 1) information processing; 2) information sharing; 3) authentication; and 4) emotional reaction. Information processing was defined as any indication of initial mental processing of the alert. Many information processing tweets dealt with coming to terms with the imminent missile threat (Table). Information sharing consisted of any attempt to disseminate the alert, often directed at other persons' Twitter handles (user names). One Twitter user shared a tweet with the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the White House National Security Council. Authentication involved any attempt to validate the alert. Finally, emotional reaction was the expression of shock, fear, panic, or terror.
During the late period, the information sharing and emotional reaction themes persisted, and three new themes emerged: 1) insufficient knowledge to act; 2) denunciation; and 3) mistrust of authority (Table). These new themes are fundamentally different from those expressed during the early period and reflect reactions and responses to misinformation. Insufficient knowledge to act involved reacting to the lack of a response plan, particularly not knowing how to properly take shelter. Denunciation consisted of blaming the emergency warning and response, particularly criticizing the time it took to correct the alert. Finally, mistrust of authority involved doubting the emergency alert system or governmental response.
Public health messaging during an emergency is complicated by how messages are perceived and interpreted by different persons. Emergency messages need to be coordinated across multiple platforms to ensure that accurate and timely information is appropriately disseminated to the target audience (5). Social media can be an effective tool to manage public health messaging during an emergency, and social media reactions to a perceived threat highlight the complexity of sharing critical information.
Reactions on social media reveal that some social media users lacked awareness about actions to take when faced with a nuclear threat. CDC developed guidance describing what persons in an affected area should do in response to a number of different types of emergencies, including a ballistic missile strike (6).
The Hawaii EMA's investigation of the errant emergency alert identified multiple contributing factors that led to the false alarm (7). The alarm notification occurred during a shift change, and there was a lack of understanding that the notification was meant to be a drill. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) report noted that "the employee who triggered the false alert believed that the missile threat was real… In other words, the employee intended to initiate a real-world emergency alert based on that employee's mistaken belief that Hawaii had come under a ballistic missile attack. This fundamental misunderstanding played a critical role in the initiation of the false alert." (8). Furthermore, the exercise plans did not document a process for disseminating an all clear message (7).
As the situation unfolded, several public authorities posted information on Twitter stating that the alert was a false alarm. However, according to the FCC report, the established ballistic missile alert checklist did not include a step to notify the Hawaii EMA's public information officer responsible for communicating information to the public, media, other agencies, and other stakeholders during an incident. Finally, the FCC report noted that there was no credentialed two-person requirement to separately log in and approve the transmission of a ballistic missile alert message (8).
Missile alert exercises have not been conducted regularly in decades (9). A large proportion of the U.S. population alive today did not experience, or are too young to recall, exercises conducted to defend against threats faced by the United States during the Cold War era. The lack of a collective memory of missile alert drills coupled with the present-day ability to instantaneously share information through social media can affect societal reactions. To improve risk communication, additional research is needed to understand human reactions to emergencies in the social media age so that timely public health messages can be developed and disseminated to save lives.
The findings in this report are subject to at least two limitations. First, because the qualitative coding could be subjective, the sincerity and tone of the tweets could have been misinterpreted. Second, although quote tweets add to the original content through framing, labeling, magnifying, and elaborating on an initial tweet, they were excluded from this analysis to focus on the initial tweets. It is likely, however, that themes in quote tweets are similar to those in initial tweets.
Public information officers, communication specialists, and others responsible for planning and creating urgent communications during an emergency incident should consider the behavioral themes identified in this report when creating messages for public dissemination. Social media provides public health authorities with the capability to convey timely messages, address societal reactions during each phase of a crisis, and establish credibility to avoid mistrust and denunciation of a public health message. Alerts should include clear instructions for persons in the affected area to carry out during an emergency.
Michelle Walker, Office of the Associate Director for Communication, CDC; Sarah Park, MD, Jonathan Hilts, Hawaii Department of Health.
Corresponding contributor: Bhavini Patel Murthy, bmurthy@cdc.gov, 404-718-5501.
1Epidemic Intelligence Service, CDC; 2Division of State and Local Readiness, Center for Preparedness and Response, CDC; 3Office of Science and Public Health Practice, Center for Preparedness and Response, CDC.
All authors have completed and submitted the ICMJE form for disclosure of potential conflicts of interest. No potential conflicts of interest were disclosed.
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TABLE. Selected Twitter posts, by theme from the early* and late† periods in response to an errant warning of a ballistic missile threat — Hawaii, January 13, 2018
Period/Theme
Information processing Indication of mental processing of the alert "Sirens going off in Hawaii, ballistic missile threat issued. What's happening?"
"Idk what's going on.. but there's a warning for a ballistic missile coming to Hawaii? [expletive deleted]"
Information sharing Disseminating alert to others "Just got an iPhone alert of inbound balistic [sic] missile in Hawaii. Said Not a Drill. @PacificCommand @DefenseIntel @WHNSC"
"@ananavarro @TheRickWilson @AC360 Hawaii we all got emergency sirens on our phones ballistic missile inbound to Hawaii"
Authentication Validating the alert "Is this missile threat real?"
"Where is news about the ballistic missile inbound to Hawaii?"
Emotional reaction Expressing shock, fear, panic, or terror "there's a missile threat here right now guys. I love you all and I'm scared as [expletive deleted]"
"Woke up and started crying after seeing the Hawaii missile alert. Called my parents and balled [sic] my eyes out because I was so worried."
Denunciation Blaming the emergency warning and response "How do you "accidentally" send out a whole [expletive deleted] emergency alert that says there's a missile coming to Hawaii and to take cover. AND TAKE THIRTY MINUTES TO CORRECT?!?"
"To the person in #Hawaii who sent out that false alarm alert message about missile attack TO EVERY [expletive deleted] CELL PHONE…MOVE TO ANTARCTICA NOW! [emojis deleted] #that[expletive deleted]scaredeveryone @Hawaii_EMA"
Insufficient knowledge to act Expressing lack of a response plan "my friend & i were running around the hotel room freaking out because HOW DO WE TAKE SHELTER FROM A [expletive deleted] MISSILE?!"
"Can you imagine waking up to an alert that says. "Take shelter there is a missile on the way" like Bruh. What shelter is there for a missile? That [expletive deleted] might as well say. "Aye Bruh. Missile on the way. Good luck"
Mistrust of authority Doubting the emergency alert system and/or governmental response "And now, should there be another ballistic missile threat, how can we trust it knowing the last one was a grave mistake???"
"@Hawaii_EMA We all need to know who is behind this!!! . This is not a joke. . How can we trust the emergency alarm now? #hawaii #missile"
* 8:07–8:45 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time.
† 8:46–9:24 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time (additional themes identified in addition to those in the early period).
Suggested citation for this article: Murthy BP, Krishna N, Jones T, Wolkin A, Avchen RN, Vagi SJ. Public Health Emergency Risk Communication and Social Media Reactions to an Errant Warning of a Ballistic Missile Threat — Hawaii, January 2018. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2019;68:174–176. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6807a2external icon.
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Q: Why does my ball not stop rolling in Pymunk? I am working with Pygame and Pymunk and my ball which is done with pymunk won't stop rolling
I think it has something to do with the friction but i do not know. Please help me. Thanks already. Is there a way to maybe set a rotation speed(but i think this would not fix it either since it is just glitching if i set the mass high up, and it still moves). I do not really know what to write here now since this is my first Question but just ask me and I will respond soon.
Also I know that there are not that many people that have experience with Pymunk but I hope I find some!
Here is my code:
import pymunk
import math
import pymunk.pygame_util

pygame.init()
pygame.display.init()

WIDTH, HEIGHT = 1500, 960
BLACK = (0, 0, 0)
window = pygame.display.set_mode((WIDTH, HEIGHT))

trys_left = 3
font1 = pygame.font.SysFont(None, 25)
font = pygame.font.Font('C:\\Users\\Admin\\Downloads\\Decay-M5RB.ttf', 10)

run = True

RED = (255, 0, 0)

def message_to_screen(msg, color):
    screen_text = font1.render(msg, True, color)
    window.blit(screen_text, (30, 30))

def message_to_screen2(msg, color):
    screen_text = font.render(msg, True, color)
    window.blit(screen_text, (20, 200))

def message_to_screen3(msg, color):
    screen_text = font.render(msg, True, color)
    window.blit(screen_text, (20, 200))

def calculate_distance(p1, p2):
    return math.sqrt((p2[1] - p1[1])**2 + (p2[0] - p1[0])**2)
def calculate_angle(p1, p2):
    return math.atan2(p2[1] - p1[1], p2[0] - p1[0])

def draw(space, window, draw_options, line):
    global run
    window.fill("white")
    message_to_screen(f"You got: {trys_left} tries", RED)
    message_to_screen2(f"You can only place balls in this field", RED)
    #if run == False:
     #   message_to_screen3()

    if line:
        pygame.draw.line(window, "black", line[0], line[1], 3)
    pygame.draw.rect(window, "black", pygame.Rect(0, 0, 300, 200),1)
    #pygame.draw.line(window, "black", (300, 0), (300, 200))
    #pygame.draw.line(window, "black", (0, 200), (300, 200))
    space.debug_draw(draw_options)

    pygame.display.update()

def level_rects(space, width, height):
    rects = [
        [(width / 3, height - 300), (width, 5)],
        [(width / 1, height - 200), (width / 1, 5)]

    ]

    for pos, size in rects:
        body = pymunk.Body(body_type=pymunk.Body.STATIC)
        body.position = pos

        shape = pymunk.Poly.create_box(body, size)
        shape.color = (255, 0, 0, 100)
        shape.elasticity = 0.1
        shape.friction = 2
        space.add(body, shape)

def create_boundaries(space, width, height):
        rects = [
            [(width / 4, height - 10), (width, 20)], [(width / 2, 10), (width, 20)], [(10,  height / 2), (20, height)], [(width - 10, height / 2), (20, height)]

        ]

        for pos, size in rects:

            body = pymunk.Body(body_type=pymunk.Body.STATIC)
            body.position = pos
            shape = pymunk.Poly.create_box(body, size)
            shape.elasticity = 0.8
            shape.friction = 0.5
            space.add(body, shape)

def create_structure(space, width, height):
    BROWN = (139, 69, 19,100)
    CYAN = (0, 100, 100, 100)
    rects = [
        [(300, height - 120), (40, 200), CYAN, 100],
        [(600, height - 120), (40, 200), BROWN, 100],
        [(450, height - 240), (340, 40), BROWN, 150],
        #[(1000, height - 600), (340, 40), BROWN, 150]#dieses Stäbchen

    ]
    for pos, size, color , mass in rects:
        body = pymunk.Body()
        body.position = pos
        shape = pymunk.Poly.create_box(body, size, radius = 2)
        shape.color = color
        shape.mass = mass
        shape.collision_type = 2
        shape.elasticity = 0.4
        shape.friction = 0.4
        space.add(body, shape)
        print("pos is: ",pos  )
        print("size is: " ,size)
        print("color is: " , color)
        print("mass is: " , mass)

def create_swinging_ball(space):
    rotation_center_body = pymunk.Body(body_type=pymunk.Body.STATIC)
    rotation_center_body.position = (500, 170)
    body = pymunk.Body()
    body.position = (500, 200 )
    line = pymunk.Segment(body, (0, 0), (255, 0), 5)
    circle = pymunk.Circle(body, 40, (255, 0))
    line.friction = 1
    circle.friction = 1
    line.mass = 8
    circle.mass = 30
    circle.elasticity = 0.95
    rotation_center_joint = pymunk.PinJoint(body, rotation_center_body, (0, 0))
    space.add(circle, line, body, rotation_center_joint)

def create_ball(space, radius, mass, pos):

    body = pymunk.Body(body_type=pymunk.Body.STATIC)
    body.position = pos

    shape = pymunk.Circle(body, radius)
    shape.mass = mass
    shape.collision_type = 1
    shape.elasticity = 0.9
    shape.friction = 0.4
    shape.color = (255, 0, 0, 100)
    space.add(body, shape)
    global trys_left
    trys_left -= 1
    #if body.is_sleeping:
       # pygame.quit()

    return shape  # warum?

def collide(arbiter, space, data):
    global run
    run = False
    print("GG U WON")

def run(window, width, height):
    global run
    run = True

    clock = pygame.time.Clock()
    fps = 60
    dt = 1 / fps
    space = pymunk.Space()
    space.gravity = (0, 981)
    create_boundaries(space, width, height)
    create_structure(space, width, height)
    create_swinging_ball(space)
    level_rects(space, width, height)
    handler = space.add_collision_handler(1, 2)
    handler.separate = collide

    draw_options = pymunk.pygame_util.DrawOptions(window)
    #ball = create_ball(space, 30, 10)
    pressed_pos = None
    ball = None

    while run:
        pygame.display.update()

        line = None
        if ball and pressed_pos:
            line = [pressed_pos, pygame.mouse.get_pos()]
        for event in pygame.event.get():
            if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
                run = False
                break
            if event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:

                if not ball:
                    pressed_pos = pygame.mouse.get_pos()
                    #if pressed_pos[0] <= 300 or pressed_pos[1] <= 200: keine ahnung was das ist
                    #if not pressed_pos[0] < 300 or not pressed_pos[1] < 200:
                    #if pressed_pos[0] >= 300 or pressed_pos[1] >= 200:
                    if pressed_pos[0] <= 300 and pressed_pos[1] <= 200:
                        #geht nicht zeichen
                        ball = create_ball(space, 30, 10, pressed_pos)

                #and is only true when both are true
                #or is true when at least one is true

                    #create_ball(space, 30, 10, pressed_pos)
                    if trys_left == -1:
                        return False
                        #return True

                elif pressed_pos:

                    ball.body.body_type=pymunk.Body.DYNAMIC
                    angle = calculate_angle(*line)
                    force = calculate_distance(*line) * 60
                    fx = math.cos(angle) * force
                    fy = math.sin(angle) * force

                    ball.body.apply_impulse_at_local_point((fx, fy), (0, 0))
                    pressed_pos = None

                else:
                    space.remove(ball, ball.body)
                    ball = None

        draw(space, window, draw_options, line)
        space.step(dt)
        clock.tick(fps)
    pygame.quit()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    run(window, WIDTH, HEIGHT)

A: Pymynk does not support "rolling" friction (because the underlying engine, Chipmunk does not support it). Its quite complicated which its why its not supported.
An easy way to make everything come to a stand-still after a while is to set damping on the Space, i.e. space.damping = 0.5 for a very aggressive damping. http://www.pymunk.org/en/latest/pymunk.html#pymunk.Space.damping
Another option which is more precise is to reduce the angular velocity of the ball each step. Like this: ball.body.angular_velocity *= 0.9 http://www.pymunk.org/en/latest/pymunk.html#pymunk.Body.angular_velocity
There's an old thread in the Chipmunk forum about the same issue here: https://chipmunk-physics.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=536

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Episodes

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References

External links

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Note: 7/12/2013 - I edited this post to replace the original Int32 implementation with a faster uint version.
8/8/2013 - added ulong (UInt64) and BigInteger versions of the algorithm described here, in the next post.
I'm working on a SparseArray class that doesn't use Dictionary under the covers, which allows much better space efficiency, with speeds comparable to Dictionary. I'll add it to this blog sometime in the near future, but first I'm going to post some of the pieces that went into it. One of the things it does is allow any capacity to be used, but optimizes its behavior when the capacity is a power of 2, or is a prime number. To support using prime capacities, I've written a NearestPrimeCeiling method which in turn relies on an IsPrime method. In the past, when I needed a primality test over the range of positive ints, I've used one of these quickie methods that uses trial division.
// precomputing the square root of the value.
The two methods above both do Primality testing by trial division. A minor difference between the two is that one uses the square of the loop variable to determine the terminal condition, and the other pre-computes the terminal loop value using the time expensive Sqrt method. For values up to around 10 million, the i*i version is faster. Beyond that, the Sqrt version is faster. The difference is only significant at the extreme ends of the range of positive integer values.
Although I was aware of the Miller-Rabin primality test, I put off using it because the trial division methods were 'good enough', and I didn't like the fact that Miller-Rabin is a probabilistic test. Both those reasons were very misguided. Compared to Miller-Rabin, trial division is not all that good, and within the ranges of int, uint, long and ulong integers, it's quite easy to slightly modify the Miller-Rabin algorithm so that it's deterministic (guaranteed to correctly determine primality). I initially searched for existing C# implementations, but found problems in them such as not operating over the entire range of values because of overflow in the PowMod portion of the algorithm. So, I ended up writing one.
The Miller-Rabin Wikipedia entry adequately describes the algorithm. A key component of the algorithm is randomly choosing witness values. The more witness values you use, the less likely it will return a false positive for primality. However, there are known sets of witness values that are guaranteed to correctly determine primality over limited ranges of values. For example, there are 3-witness sets that cover the entire range of unsigned 32-bit integers, and 7-witness sets that cover unsigned 64-bit integers. By replacing the random selection of witness values with code that uses pre-tested witness values, it's easy to make a deterministic version of the Miller-Rabin algorithm over these ranges of values. The speed of the algorithm is affected by the number of witness values that are used. So it's best to use the smallest set of witness values that will give a definitive primality result for the value you're testing. There is a great website devoted to discovering these witness sets, not just for 32 bit integers, but for 64 bit values as well. I found it very helpful.
The charts below show the speed comparison of trial division to Miller-Rabin. The first chart shows the times (in microseconds) to determine primality of the nearest prime number to the values displayed along the x-axis. This is where trial division is at its slowest, since it must exhaust the possible factors before it can declare the value as prime.
The second chart shows the time (in microseconds) to perform the primality test on 1000 consecutive values less than or equal to the values displayed along the x-axis. Since it takes much less time to determine composite values are not prime than it does to determine if a primes are prime, the average time for checking 1000 consecutive values is greatly affected by the prime values within that range.
As you can see, Miller-Rabin destroys trial division, outperforming it over almost the entire range of unsigned 32-bit integers. These benchmarks were done using a 32-bit build. When compiled for 64-bits, the difference becomes even greater. The trial division times remain about the same, but the Miller-Rabin times improve by around 33%, because there is some ulong operations in the ModPow function.
In both graphs you can see the small jog up in time where the Miller-Rabin algorithm has to switch from using 2 witnesses to 3 at around the 700,000,000 value. From that point to the max range of uint, the execution time is nearly linear, typically taking around 2.75 microseconds to determine that a prime number is prime, and averaging 230 nanoseconds per call to IsPrime when testing consecutive values that are a mix of composites and primes. I ran the tests on a not-new run of the mill computer (P8600 @ 2.4GHz).
The code below is my basic implementation of the Miller-Rabin algorithm. Also included is the ModPow function it needs, implemented in a way that's pretty fast, and safe from the danger of overflows.
/// Compute the mod of a number raised to the specified power.
The final IsPrime method selects the fastest underlying algorithm based on the value being tested.
/// Determines if the specified value is a prime number.
I did a similar implementation that works with Int32 values, but the uint version was faster, and operates over a larger range. So I scrapped the Int32 version and implemented a little int IsPrime method that just uses the uint version.