If you live in a small apartment, you know just how difficult even partial renovations can get: with everything crammed tight into place, any unwarranted hardware addition or item relocation can completely ruin the well put-together look or leave you screaming on the inside for a few inches more of storage space.
But that is not the only problem with tiny homes: some colors, or their combinations, can visually diminish the living area further, which is why people who dwell in mini-flats should not throw on random wall paints. But how do you know which tone will render the most flattering effect for your diminutive flat? Fret not – we have a few tips here to help you pick the right paint number that will visually expand your living space.
The color of the walls and ceilings matters so much because these surfaces take up most space in any home, which makes their tonal scheme all the more important in tiny flats. To achieve an airy, pleasant ambiance in a small room, pick neutral tones for walls and ceiling: unlike solid or bright colors, light shades reflect light which translates a roomier feel in even tiniest of homes. For maximum sense of spaciousness, you should also consider using a bright or muted-color rug.
Although white is one of the best shades to use for walls and ceilings in tight homes, it can create a sterile or cold feel, tell us Sydney-based providers of painting services. That is why you may want to introduce a touch of color to the rooms by adding a small portion of light blue, orange or yellow colorant to the paint bucket and redoing each room in a different hue. Another trick to visually expand your home, painting the ceiling in a creamy tone will additionally liven up the room.
When it comes to wall paint, some rules are not meant to be observed too rigidly: for instance, the classic two-tone scheme often featured in home design magazines may prove dull in the long run, so you can break the pattern and bring in a dash of vibrancy by using other colors as accents. On top of adding visual interest to the room, tertiary tones will warm up the atmosphere and make your small home feel cozy and tucked in.
Wise people say that if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. This is especially true of colors: with different illumination, the same wall paint may appear as either darker or brighter, depending on the intensity and type of light. To make sure you have chosen the ideal tone for your walls, test the paint on one wall and see how it looks during different periods of day. If you do not like what you see, it will be easier to repaint one wall than the entire room.
If you feel pressed for space in your home, perhaps it is time for a change. Until you save up enough money to get a roomier place, consider repainting your tiny flat. Colors have a major impact on both home décor and human mood, so pick up the brush and grab a bucket of paint – perhaps a fresh wall number is all your place needs to begin to feel like a cozy home again.


Academy Award winner Robert De Niro, Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood) and Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore give powerhouse performances in this compelling exploration of the unbreakable yet fragile bonds between and child, written and directed by Paul Weitz (About a Boy).
Nick Flynn (Dano) is a young writer seeking to define himself. His father Jonathan (De Niro), however, scrapes through life on his own terms and has not seen his son in 18 years. Taking a job at a homeless shelter, Nick finds purpose in his own life and work until one night Jonathan arrives seeking a bed.


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Jews of the Week: Matvei Blanter and Solomon Mikhoels
Matvei Isaakovich Blanter (1903-1990) was born in the Russian Empire in a small Ukrainian town. He studied music and became a master pianist and violinist. In the 1920s, Blanter became popular for his dance and jazz songs. After the rise of Stalin, he was "recruited" to write propaganda pieces and composed some of the Soviet Union's greatest hits. In 1938, he wrote the music for the internationally-acclaimed song "Katyusha", by far the most well-known Russian tune in the world. (Click here to listen.) It was so popular that it lent its name to one of Russia's most famous military weapons: the Katyusha rocket. A recent poll found that it is still the 13th most listened to song in Russia. Also in 1938, Blanter wrote "The Football March", which would be played before every Russian soccer game – and still is today! All in all, Blanter composed over 200 songs. He was awarded the Stalin Prize and the People's Artist of the USSR. In the last days of World War II, Stalin sent Blanter to Berlin to compose a victory symphony. He wound up with the Russian general right when a German delegation came to sue for a peace treaty. Blanter was quickly shoved into a tiny closet while the generals negotiated. Running out of air, he passed out and fell out of the closet, embarrassing everyone in the room. Some say this is the origin of the expression to "come out of the closet".
Mikhoels with Albert Einstein, during his 1943 fundraising tour
Blanter's uncle was Shlomo Mikhoels (1890-1948). Born in Latvia to a religious Jewish family, he studied law in St. Petersburg before joining a Jewish theatre group. In 1920, Mikhoels co-founded the first Jewish acting studio in Moscow, putting on plays in Yiddish. Lenin soon turned it into the official State Jewish Theatre. By 1928, Mikhoels had become the theatre's director, as well as its most famous actor. People came from around the world to see his legendary performances. One New York Times reviewer wrote that Mikhoels had put on "one of the most stirring performances of my theatre-going career." His 1935 role as King Lear (in Yiddish) drew another critic to write: "I do not recall a performance that stirred me as profoundly, to the core, as Mikhoels' performance of Lear." Mikhoels had become one of the world's best Shakespearean actors. He also played Rabbi Alter in Mazel-Tov, and Tevye in the Russian version of Fiddler on the Roof, among many other roles. In 1942, Mikhoels was made chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, and sent around the world to draw support from his fellow Jews for the Soviet war effort against the Nazis. This made him the first official Soviet representative to make such a trip, and he successfully raised millions. However, after the war ended Stalin became increasingly paranoid, and soon began another round of his purges, particularly of Jewish intellectuals. In 1948, he ordered Mikhoels assassinated, and made it look like a car accident. Nonetheless, Mikhoels was given a state funeral. Today, he is recognized as an important artist and pioneer of Russian theatre, and one of Moscow's main cultural centres is named after him.
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So I have this idea of creating a channel similar to those channels that share FL studio remakes of songs but specifically for Auxy. I think it would be a great way to show off the talent of this community! I would also like to manage this with other members so if anyone is interested in working with me on this please let me know!
I kind of feel like this is in the same vein?
I've used that technique in a ton of songs. I used it in every song in my Voxel City Orchestra & Songs About Rain EPs.
I know these wouldn't be a tutorial per se, but a healthy chunk of the community videos are posted here.
I'd just hate to see duplicate, fragmented threads is all.
Technically, they'd be cover versions, so you'd need to pay royalties, if you wanted to keep it legit.
The reason the tutorials vids recreating existing commercial tracks won't need to pay royalties is because they fall under the Fair Use exemption of 'educational purposes'.
@akabillposters pretty much said exactly what I was going to.
A lot of people don't allow remixes of their songs, and regardless of whether or not it's licensed properly they wouldn't be happy about someone covering their song and separately distributing it.
Obtaining permission for every Auxy track that you showcase would be rather tedious and not even close to guaranteed, especially for the purpose which you have described.
If you're going to stay super small with this channel you probably can get away without obtaining permission, but that'd kind of defeat the purpose of what I imagine you hope to achieve with this, in which case you would need to pay some royalties to the original artist in some shape or form.
That is true but we wouldn't be posting remixes just covers which are 100% allowed. And to be safe there are websites you can go to to get proper licensing for covers.
Depending on how the creator of the original track licensed their song (and if they did it properly), covers aren't allowed without permission from the creator. A cover and remix is splitting hairs in terms of infringing upon copyright.
Are you and those who want to have their covers/remakes posted prepared to pay the royalties?
It's not huge sums - e.g. Distrokid costs it at ~$12 per cover per year.
But still, many here can't/won't pay for something like Soundcloud Pro account, so I'm not sure how many will offer up covers for the channel.
As I understand it, it's more common for publishers* to give carte blanche permission to create cover versions.
i.e. they give broad, open permission. You just need to pay the royalties.
These days, you don't typically need to contact the publisher. Just register your cover version, pay the royalty fees (see above) and you're good to go.
It's uncommon for publishers to block a cover artist.
Posting it anywhere that's open to the public will constitute 'publishing' (also 'releasing'), including SoundCloud and, I would assume, this forum too.
True. However, for such a small project operating in a tightly knit community, I assume he doesn't think it's worth it to pay royalties in which case you can obtain explicit clearance from the original producer to cover it without the need of royalties.
I assume he doesn't think it's worth it to pay royalties in which case you can obtain explicit clearance from the original producer to cover it without the need of royalties.
Good luck getting any popular, commercially releasing artist publishing rights holders to respond to that kind of request, let alone waiving their usual rights.
Again, worth keeping in mind that the publishing rights holder (i.e. the one you'd need to ask) isn't always the recording/release artist.
I'm not sure how one would argue that the Auxy (remake/cover) community would deserve a special waiver.
'Small, tightly-knit' doesn't mean the music we're creating isn't being commercially released.
Still, ya don't know until ya try.
This sounds awesome! I think as long as you get definite permission from the people you would be remixing songs from then it should be fine.
Those distributing commercially (via distribution services like Amuse for example) would not be the best candidates to try to duck out of royalties for.
As a side note, tightly knit is largely referring to the fact that at in the best case scenario his project would reach maybe 25-75 people (generously gauging based on active disco users unless he has other means of Auxy outreach) which might not justify the royalties he'd have to pay on a per track basis. However, that's for @NightOwl to decide.
For sure, but as mentioned, even publicly posting on SC or YT (and possibly even here, as it's a public forum) qualifies as a commercial release, as the Auxy artist is potentially able to benefit commercially, either directly from monetisation, or indirectly, by advertising the (Auxy) artist.
Whether or not the (Auxy) cover is likely to actually generate revenue has no bearing on its classification as a commercial release.
Similarly, the number of people it might realistically reach, despite being publicly available, isn't really relevant.
If it's publicly available, then it's technically released.
If it's not offered as non-for-profit (e.g. released into public domain), then it's a commercial release.
which might not justify the royalties he'd have to pay on a per track basis. However, that's for NightOwl to decide.
It would be for the Auxy artist themselves to pay the royalties, not @NightOwl as the reposting channel owner.
All that said, the CDBaby/DIY Musician post linked earlier does a fairly good job of explaining what would actually happen for cover versions released without royalties – i.e. YT's Content ID algo might identify it, and the publisher would automatically take any monetisation.
One thing I'm not clear about is what happens when YT's Content ID algo identifies a cover track that does have a synch license and royalties paid up.
In those situations, the publisher wouldn't have the right to take the monetisation. I would assume the cover artist would need to counter-claim and show that they've got those things sorted.


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Alma came to prominence in this village when he became opening bowler for the cricket team in 1929. In his first season he took 56 wickets at 9.5 runs conceded per wicket which elevated him to fourth in the League averages.
In 1931 Methley reached the final of the Hepworth cup against the powerful Holbeck side, a game which they lost by 49 runs on a dead wicket affected by heavy rain. This was despite our opening bowler enjoying outstanding success with the scalps of their top three wickets down for only 13 runs. It has been claimed that the outcome would have been different had a catch been held off the bowling of our man against a fourth batsman, who went on to score 84, effectively winning the match.
Alma was prominent again in 1932 as the main strike bowler with a return of 48 wickets from 228 overs at an average of 14.2 runs/wicket. Outstanding was his feat of 7 for 20 against Rothwell that season.
Again the following season he took the first team bowlng averages with 61 wickets at an average of 13.7 runs /wicket in front of increasing numbers of spectators keen to view his exploits.
In 1935 he captured the bowling prize once more which included a seasons best of 7 for 22 including a hat-trick against the powerful Leeds team. This was to be his swansong for a distinguished career with Methley Cricket Club when he moved out of the area to take up new employment.
Alma had married local girl Rosena Horne whose family had kept in turn the Mexborough Arms and the United Kingdom public houses. No doubt adding their customers to his long list of admirers.
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Congress this week passed the Conference Report to the Farm Bill, H.R. 2. It now goes to the president's desk. The current Farm Bill expired in September. The Senate passed the Farm Bill 87-13 and it passed the U.S. House of Representatives 369-47.
The bill, among other things, amends the Environmental Quality Incentive Program to better work for Montana producers and increases the maximum acreage of the Conservation Reserve Program, protects crop insurance, a critical part of the safety net for Montana farmers, secures funding for land grant universities, specialty crops, and agriculture research stations across Montana and secures provisions to expand broadband access in rural Montana. It also removes hemp from the list of controlled substances, enabling it to be sold as a commodity, and reauthorizes critical USDA Rural Development Grants that are used to rebuild and construct water and wastewater infrastructure.
Nearly 500 agriculture groups supported H.R. 2, including the Montana Grain Growers Association and the Montana Farm Bureau Federation.


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Upcoming Supreme Court session "could be a real game-changer," gun rights lawyer says
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In this Jan. 13, 2014 file photo, former California State Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, displays a homemade rifle, confiscated by the Department of Justice, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif.
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PUBLISHED: August 10, 2019 at 3:49 pm | UPDATED: August 10, 2019 at 5:18 pm
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation, including a ban on the type of high-capacity ammunition magazines used in some of the nation's deadliest mass shootings.
How long those types of laws will stand is a growing concern among gun control advocates in California and elsewhere.
A federal judiciary that is becoming increasingly conservative under President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate has gun control advocates on edge. They worry that federal courts, especially if Trump wins a second term next year and Republicans hold the Senate, will take such an expansive view of Second Amendment rights that they might overturn strict gun control laws enacted in Democratic-leaning states.
The U.S. Supreme Court so far has left plenty of room for states to enact their own gun legislation, said Adam Winkler, a gun policy expert at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. But he said the success of the Trump administration in appointing federal judges, including to the high court, could alter that.
"Those judges are likely to be hostile to gun-control measures," Winkler said. "So I think the courts overall have made a shift to the right on guns. We'll just have to see how that plays out."
The legal tug-of-war already is playing out in California.
The state banned the sale of high-capacity ammunition magazines nearly two decades ago as one of its numerous responses to deadly mass shootings; a voter initiative passed three years ago expanded on that, banning all ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds even among gun owners who already possessed them.
Earlier this year, a Republican-appointed federal judge overturned the ban, triggering a weeklong bullet buying spree among California gun owners before he put his decision on hold pending appeal. The same judge is overseeing another lawsuit brought by gun-rights groups that seeks to repeal a state law requiring background checks for ammunition buyers.
Legal experts, lawmakers and advocates on both sides said the decision in the case over ammunition limits foreshadows more conflicts between Democratic-leaning states seeking to impose tighter gun laws and an increasingly conservative federal judiciary.
"What you're looking at in the Southern District of California is happening all over the country," said Frank Zimring, a University of California, Berkeley law professor who is an expert on gun laws.
Trump has the opportunity to fill a higher percentage of federal court vacancies than any president at this point in his first term since George H.W. Bush nearly three decades ago.
To date, he has nominated 194 candidates for federal judgeships and has had 146 confirmed, out of 860 total federal district court judicial seats, according to the conservative Heritage Foundation. Of 179 seats on the federal appellate courts, Trump has nominated 46 judges and had 43 confirmed. He is poised to fill 105 vacancies in the district courts and four in the appeals courts, according to the Heritage Foundation.
The changes to the federal judiciary could mean that even gun restrictions that were previously upheld by appointees of former Republican presidents may now be in jeopardy, said Hannah Shearer, litigation director at the San Francisco-based Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
"I think the judiciary is headed into a more extreme place on gun control issues because of President Trump's appointees," she said.
Even when gun and ammunition limits are upheld, those cases eventually could make their way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where Trump may already have tipped the balance.
The court is currently poised to take up its first Second Amendment case in about a decade. It's a challenge to a law New York City passed that prohibited people who have home handgun licenses from taking their guns outside the city for target practice or to a second home.
The city has told the court the case should be dropped, however, because it has relaxed its law.
Among other cases working their way through the courts are challenges to a California ban on certain handguns, other states' longstanding restrictions on carrying concealed weapons and limitations on interstate handgun sales.
Yet forecasting how the Supreme Court might act, or even whether it will take certain cases, is fraught with uncertainty. The court has steered clear of gun-rights cases since establishing an individual right to possess guns in 2008 2010, and has let stand a number of state gun restrictions.
Still, gun-rights supporters are excited by the changes brought by Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate. The upcoming Supreme Court session "could be a real game-changer" with Trump's appointments of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, said Chuck Michel, an attorney who represents both the National Rifle Association and the affiliated California Rifle & Pistol Association.
"To the extent that the composition of the court has changed and that it will give the Second Amendment back its teeth, it's very important," Michel said. "It looks like there's enough votes on the court right now to reset the standard."
His clients are challenging California's ammunition background check and extended magazine ban before U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, an appointee of former President George W. Bush.
Other states that limit ammunition magazines in some way, typically between 10 and 20 rounds, are Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Vermont, according to the Giffords Law Center.
Democrats said the prospect of four more years of Trump judicial appointments is helping energize their opposition to his re-election.
"This would be one of the lasting legacies of Donald Trump," said former California state Senate leader Kevin de Leon, a Democrat from Los Angeles who carried or supported many of the state's firearms restrictions, including limits on military-style assault weapons. "When Trump is gone, they will be there for lifetime appointments."
Democratic lawmakers said they will continue pushing more firearms restrictions even as some fear they could be thwarted in the federal courts.
State Sen. Anthony Portantino, a Democrat from Southern California, acknowledges the potential for state gun restrictions to be overturned by federal judges, but said the stakes are too high to back down.
He noted that the gunman who recently killed three people and himself in Gilroy, at an annual garlic festival, was 19 and legally bought his assault-style rifle in Nevada before illegally bringing it into California. The gunman also carried a 75-round drum magazine and multiple 40-round magazines, all banned under California law.
"That he could smuggle that across state lines and kill a 6-year-old, to me that's an example of why we need federal action and why California should continue to lead and tell our story," Portantino said.
He is proposing a ban on anyone buying more than one gun a month and prohibiting almost all gun sales to people under age 21.
Associated Press writer Curt Anderson in Miami contributed to this report.
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Concord is heating up!! According to STRAVA Labs, Portsmouth, Hanover, and Concordare the brightest spots in New Hampshire followed by Keene and Manchester. We always knew that we are bright and special. These images are according to the runners who run with their phones or gadgets strapped to their bodies and are tech geeks who love data. Well, we love them too because they are shining the way for the most popular loops in town. We can share these hot routes easily using another valuable tracking resource for runners - MapMyRun.com.
Let's take a closer look at Concord... You might think that Main Streetwould have made the list, but NO! It appears to be an averagely traveled running route for our STRAVA enthusiasts. Our runners tend to travel further off the beaten path and away from shoppers and traffic drawn to shops and restaurants and instead venture onto rolling, forested roads past lakes and ponds.
Silk Farm Road is a delightful one mile stretch by itself attracting runners and bicyclists who converge and depart in nearly every direction. It goes from Saint Paul's School Dunbarton Road to Clinton Street. Runners coming from Clinton Street can create a little extension through the Audubon Society's McLean Center trails by following the yellow blazes along the shores of Turkey Pond towards the West End Farm Trail. This takes you to the I-89 bike path. You will likely wave to friendly volunteers who are walking the energetic pups who take up residence at the Pope Memorial SPCA.
There are so many loop combinations that can be made using Silk Farm Road but it appears that Iron Works Road is a favorite pairing. Begin by parking at the Clinton Street Park & Ride by I-89 and start your run by leaving out of the lot towards the back onto Iron Works Road for 1.3 miles to South Street. Turn left onto South Street for 0.4 miles before turning left onto Conant Drive. Wind through this residential neighborhood on Conant to a right on Norwich Street which takes you to Clinton Street (about 1 mile total). You will stay left on Clinton for only 0.3 miles and then you will turn right onto Langley Parkway to the end (1 mile). Turn left onto Pleasant Street and run for 0.5 miles before entering into Saint Paul's School Dunbarton Road. Dunbarton will have a gradual uphill through the campus for 0.8 miles where you will then turn left onto Silk Farm Road. Run for another mile to return to Clinton Street. Turn left to go down the hill and under the highway back to the Park & Ride. This entire loop is roughly 6.5 miles.
Given that there is a lonely line of bright red on the heat map, either we have a Children of the Corn thing going on or many converge and disperse in this area with one commonality: Hutchins Street. This road is often run in conjunction with Fisherville Road towards Beaver Meadow Golf Course or up the West Parish Road massive hills or along the shores of Penacook Lake on Lakeview Drive. Hutchins itself is quite a hill that becomes Lake View Drive which leads to more hills. All that work is certainly not without reward. It is easy to be distracted by Concord's reservoir Penacook Lake peering through deeply wooded forests. The whole road with both Hutchins and Lake View Drive to where it merges onto Carter Hill Road is 2.2 miles one way.
Begin by parking at Carter Hill Apple Orchard. They have a plethora of trails to explore if you want a warm up or change your mind about doing an intense hill combo. If you don't chicken out, begin by turning left onto Carter Hill Road from the orchard and then run for 0.5 miles. Turn right onto West Parish Road and follow that road for about 1.2 miles to the end. Turn right on to Ferin Road for 0.2 miles and then turn right onto Lake View Drive. This is the point where Hutchins gets a new name. After running for just over a mile, you will meet back up with Carter Hill Road where you will take a right to return to the orchard.
Apparently, we have serious trainers prepping for our October 9th race! Our entire route is glowing red and orange and why wouldn't it be? Ample parking at NHTI, super easy access to the I-93 bike path, a stroll past the Governor's Mansion, and onto a rolling country road equipped with a private school and working farms. There are options to mix in some trails by detouring into the Oak Hill trailhead off of Shaker Road. Check out the course and view the course map here.
Begin by parking at the Oak Hill Trailhead lot off of Shaker Road. Turn right out of the parking lot onto Shaker Road and run for 0.7 miles before turning left onto Snow Pond Road. Run up the hill for about 0.6 miles and then turn right onto Graham Road and run about 1 mile to the end. Turn right onto Hoit Road and follow for 1.3 miles past the marsh for another 1.3 miles where you will cross over Shaker Road onto School Street then making a quick right onto Hot Hole Pond Road which is another 1.3 miles. You will then meet back up with Shaker Road and take a left to get back to the trailhead parking lot.
This loop is super neat so it is no surprise at all that it made the top 5 in Concord by STRAVA runners. There are certainly hills and there are certainly downhills so you will probably want to shorten your stride at times and soak in the scenery. These are country roads with beautiful panoramic views looking out at smaller mountain ranges at times. It seems like every mile or so you will come across intersecting snowmobile trails which navigating these are more like protected secrets held by the locals who are incredibly quick to wave "hello."
Park at the bottom of Fisk Road at the Winant Park Trailhead. You can opt to add a little by running the trails in Winant Park that parallel Pleasant Street and come out by the hospital or turn left out of the lot down the hill for 0.2 miles to Pleasant Street for another 0.5 miles. At the hospital entrance at Langley Parkway, turn left to enter the Concord Hospital campus up a decent 0.4 mile uphill to the very end where the road turns into a trail. Take the trail and run straight and veer a slight right to stay on the main trail for 0.7 miles where it ends at Auburn Street. Turn left for a quick 0.2 miles before the road veers left and becomes Little Pond Road (affectionately referred to as Rollercoaster Road as you will soon discover why). Continue up the hill and back down to Fisk Road for a total of 1.5 miles then turn left onto Fisk. Fisk will have a surprisingly steep downhill but it will bring you back to your car after 1.2 miles.
Should we be taking this personally? What reason could you possibly have for leaving Concord other than Hopkinton and Bow are totally entertaining neighboring towns for runners and bicyclists? Ok.. we understand. Our theory is that this is a common passage for super-athletes since Farrington Corner Road is also illuminated. Half and full marathon runners alike have likely pounded familiar paths through here because the connecting options for getting here usually involve some serious mileage and terrain. Jewett Road and then a left on Route 202 will open up an entire world of gentle country roads and adorable historic towns. Traveling in the other direction across Clinton Street into Bow would send you over some of the most intense hills in the area.
Since short loops are not easy to coordinate with this super route unless you have a strong familiarity with the West End Farm Trails, try this intro to the area instead. Park at the I89 bike path trailhead by the Saint Paul's School gate where Silk Farm Road ends for vehicles. Walk back up the road and under the overpass to the narrow bike path on your right and follow for 1.5 miles to the end and then keep going straight onto Stickney Hill Road for another 1.2 miles to a four way intersection where you will turn right onto Farrington Corner Road. Run about 0.5 miles and then turn left onto Brockway Road. Brockway turns for another 1.5 miles before ending onto Jewett Road. Turn right and run for only 0.5 miles before heading right back onto Farrington again. You will stay on Farrington for 2 mostly gentle downhill miles before heading back the way you came on Stickney again to the bike path.


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Q: Duplicate case is created after making changes in closed won stage I have created a process to create a case automatically after closed won, but I don't want to make another case if I go back in different stage in opportunity and select closed won again.

A: If, as part of the process, you were to set a flag, you could use that to prevent the record from being created again. Or, you could use a Flow or Apex to identify if the record has already been created, in order to avoid the duplicate. In other words, there are ways to avoid this, but you'll need to implement some additional logic.

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Charles Louis Fefferman (born April 18, 1949) is an American mathematician at Princeton University. His primary field of research is mathematical analysis.
A child prodigy, Fefferman entered college by the age of eleven and had written his first scientific paper by the age of 15 in German. After receiving his bachelor's degrees in physics and mathematics at the age of 17 from the University of Maryland and a PhD in mathematics at 20 from Princeton University under Elias Stein, Fefferman achieved a full professorship at the University of Chicago at the age of 22. This made him the youngest full professor ever appointed in the United States. At 24, he returned to Princeton to assume a full professorship there — a position he still holds. He won the Alan T. Waterman Award in 1976 (the first person to get the award) and the Fields medal in 1978 for his work in mathematical analysis. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1979. He was appointed the Herbert Jones Professor at Princeton in 1984.
In addition to the above, his honors include the Salem Prize, the Bôcher Memorial Prize, and the Bergman Prize, as well as election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Fefferman contributed several innovations that revised the study of multidimensional complex analysis by finding fruitful generalisations of classical low-dimensional results. Fefferman's work on partial differential equations, Fourier analysis, in particular convergence, multipliers, divergence, singular integrals and Hardy spaces earned him a Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Helsinki in 1978.
His early work included a study of the asymptotics of the Bergman kernel off the boundaries of pseudoconvex domains in <math>\mathbb C^n</math>. His research to date includes a vast number of key results in diverse areas: mathematical physics, harmonic analysis, fluid dynamics, neural networks, geometry, mathematical finance and spectral analysis, amongst others.
Charles Fefferman and his wife Julie have two daughters, Nina and Lainie. Lainie Fefferman is a nationally recognized composer, taught math at Saint Ann's School (New York City) and holds a degree in music from Yale University. She has an interest in Middle Eastern music. Nina is a computational biologist whose research is concerned with the application of mathematical models to complex biological systems. Charles Fefferman's brother, Robert Fefferman, is also an accomplished mathematician and former Dean of the Physical Sciences Division at the University of Chicago.
(with E. Stein) "Hp spaces of several variables", Acta Mathematica (1972).
(with R. Coifman) "Weighted norm inequalities for maximal functions and singular integrals", Studia Mathematica (1974).
(with E. Stein) "Some maximal inequalities", American Journal of Mathematics (1971).
"The Bergman kernel and biholomorphic mappings of pseudoconvex domains", Inventiones mathematicae (1974).
"Inequalities for strongly singular convolution operators", Acta Mathematica (1970).
(with P. Constantin and A. Majda) "Geometric constraints on potentially singular solutions for the 3-D Euler equations", Communications in Partial Differential Equations (1996).
"The multiplier problem for the ball", Annals of Mathematics (1971).
O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Charles Fefferman", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .


The ROK's plans for next-generation fighters could prove very costly indeed. The F-X project in South Korea was initially proposed in the early 1990s, to ultimately replace the country's F-4 and F-5 fleet and gain air supremacy over North Korea. Following the financial crisis of 1997, however, the project was scaled back from an initial plan for 120 fighters to just 40, with 40 F-15Ks being purchased in 2002 (phase 1). Then, in the second phase of the project, another 20 F-15Ks were purchased in 2007.
To reach its original target, the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) still needed another 60 next-generation fighters. Thus, the F-X Phase 3 (F-X III) project was launched, with the aim of procuring those 60 additional air fighters to supersede the aging F-4 and F-5 fleet. The plan is to introduce them between 2017 and 2021 at a cost of 8.3 trillion won ($7.3 billion).
But even though the ROK economy has grown steadily over the years and the country has continuously modernized its armed forces, such a rapid increase in military spending on its air force looks to be an almost impossible task, particularly given the major role that ground forces plan in ROK military and the need to prepare for the wartime command takeover in 2015. For this reason alone, the entire F-X III project cost, involving initial procurement and future maintenance, needs to be examined more closely.
Should the project proceed, then given the initial procurement budget and the astronomical maintenance costs, the F-X III could well lead to the structural disarmament of ROKAF. Structural disarmament – a concept first suggested by Thomas Callahan – has its roots in the increased technological sophistication of weapons systems. Technological improvements cost money, making each new generation of weapon system much more expensive. With higher unit costs, fewer systems can be produced and purchased.
Formal bids for the Boeing F-15 Silent Eagle, the Eurofighter Typhoon and the Lockheed Martin F-35 were submitted to the ROK in June 2012. With this project, the ROKAF is seeking to achieve a balance in both the quality and quantity of air power with North Korea and other regional powers by replacing its soon-to-be retired F-4 and F-5 fleet. The ROK Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) will choose the fighter that meets the ROKAF's Required Operation Capability (ROC) and ceiling cost (8.3 trillion won), and that offers a sound industrial spillover package.
In terms of cost, DAPA will try not to spend more than an initial procurement ceiling; however, since the second round of bidding ended unsuccessfully on June 28, various options have been discussed, such as increasing the budget, breaking up the purchase, or reducing the number of air fighters. DAPA is also interested in industrial spillover, through offsetting trade and technology transfer. In particular, it seeks to acquire relevant technology for the KFX (Korean Fighter eXperimental) project.
The ROC for the F-X project is classified and so it is hard to get concrete information. However, based on government leaks and the ROK's security threat assessment, one can speculate. First, to prepare for the wartime command takeover in 2015, ROKAF wants to be equipped with an independent deep and precise operational capability vis-à-vis the North Korean center of gravity and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) production and storage units.
Most North Korean WMD production units and storage facilities are situated in the mountainous areas near the Russian and Chinese borders. This is far enough away to be well protected from U.S.-South Korea alliance artillery and short- to mid-range missiles. A deep and precise operational capability that can paralyze the North Korean wartime command and neutralize key asymmetric warfare assets is thus highly desirable.
Second, the ROKAF would want sufficient operational range and high-performance fifth-generation air fighters that can compete with regional equivalents (Japan's F-35 and China's J-20) in remote disputed territories of Dokdo (Takeshima) and Ieodo (Suyan Rock). But this high standard comes at a cost. Moreover, if DAPA decides to choose stealth fighters, following the lead of Japan and China, the maintenance costs will climb even higher, given substantial stealth coating cost.
In fact, the ROKAF is already starting to struggle with the heavy maintenance costs of cutting-edge air fighters. According to a Korea Times report which cited a senior air force official (speaking on the condition of anonymity), maintenance costs for the F-15K rose 10-fold, from 9.7 billion won ($8.5 million) in 2008 to 95.82 billion won ($85 million) in 2011, about the price of a new F-15K. This is natural given that the ROKAF itself only repairs 60 avionics parts. Yet the maintenance costs associated with the potential F-X III partners will be even higher.
According to a parliamentary reply by Peter Luff dated September 14, 2010, the Royal Air Force (RAF) calculated that the cost per flight hour of operating the Tornado GR4 was £35,000, the Harrier GR9 £37,000 and the Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 £70,000, while the German Defense Ministry estimated last year that a one-hour flight in a Eurofighter would cost €76,000.
After the global financial crisis in 2008 and subsequent military budget cuts, Spain sold its 18 Tranche 1 Eurofighter combat aircraft to Peru, while those of the RAF are set for early retirement in 2015. Those decisions were made based on costs related to upgrades, but maintenance costs would surely also have played a role.
Maintenance for the F-35 would be similarly expensive. The international auditing firm KPMG estimated that the full life-cycle cost of the F-35s in Canada's Next Generation Fighter Capability project would be $44.8 billion. This estimate covers the period beginning in 2010, with the government's announcement of its intention to acquire the F35, and ends 42 years later with the disposal of the last aircraft in 2052. The report also estimated that $35.9 billion would be spent on future maintenance, which excludes development and acquisition cost.
The U.S. and South Korea reached an agreement on ROK war potential during a summit after the Korean War on July 30, 1954, which was codified in the Agreed Minute of Understanding (Appendix B). After further settlement in 1958, the ROK armed forces consisted of 565,000 soldiers, 16,600 sailors, 26,000 marines, and 22,000 air force personnel, for a total of 630,000 military personnel. Compared to the 450,000 troops just after the cease-fire, the number of ROK troops in fact expanded, and without question the mainstay of the ROK armed forces became the army.
In return, the United States pledged full-scale engagement in the event of a North Korean invasion, and offered a nuclear umbrella and strong air and information power support. This has contributed to successful deterrence on the Korean Peninsula, and compensated for the ROK's inability to develop costly air, nuclear, and information power during postwar reconstruction.
Even today, with the ROK armed forces viewing North Korea as its most likely opponent – one that shares a 155-mile land border – the army remains the most important element of the armed forces. Indeed, the army accounts for 50% of total ROK military spending, while the Navy and Air Force get 25% each.
In short, a steep increase in the air force budget is not possible, given the armed force's structure and its future spending priorities.
Yet it has been suggested that the initial procurement cost of 60 F-35s would be 12 trillion won ($10.8 billion) and, as the purchase would likely be through the U.S. government's Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program, there is very unlikely to be any scope for negotiating the price. Under FMS, the US government procures defense articles and services on behalf of the foreign customer.
The total budget for the ROK armed forces in 2013 is 34 trillion won ($36 billion), of which 10 trillion won has been allocated to defense build-up. One can infer that 2.5 trillion won ($2 billion) has thus been allocated to the ROKAF. Moreover, the ROK Ministry of Strategy and Finance insisted that DAPA did not add the infrastructure building budget when it estimated the project cost. It explained that, because of the size of the new air fighter, the ROKAF could not use the existing hangars housing the F-4 and F-5, and that it would have to expand its runways and build new maintenance facilities. All this would require an additional 2 trillion won ($1.6 billion). Meanwhile, according to the KPMG report, the lifetime maintenance costs would be $35.9 billion (40 trillion won).
This massive outlay could lead to the structural disarmament of the ROKAF. According to a military white paper in 2012, the ROKAF had 460 combat aircraft. However, if the F-X project is pursued as planned, the air force may have to scrap the contentious Korean Fighter eXperimental (KFX) project, which means it would not be able to replace the remaining 212 aging F-4 and F-5 air fighters. If the entire F-4 and F-5 fleet is retired and not replaced, then the ROKAF will possess only around 200 fighters.
All of which is quite alarming for South Korea given the increasingly challenging region it inhabits.
Dr. Soon Ho Lee recently completed his Ph.D. in Politics and International Studies at the University of Hull, United Kingdom. His thesis was titled "Military Transformation on the Korean Peninsula: Technology Versus Geography." Dr. Lee's research interests include Asia-Pacific regional security (the peaceful rise of China), conflict prevention and resolution, and the security of the Korean peninsula (peacebuilding between the North and South).


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By shash
It's been a while since I wrote about anything here, so what I'm going to do now is to write about nothing. Not just any old nothing that might be lying around, but THE nothing that is at the bottom of everything! No, I haven't suddenly decided to switch to Zen Buddhism; this is a continuation of the whole numbers thing from last time. What I talked about last time was the evolution of numbers, and how we ended up with the place-value system with a zero representing the concept of "nothing" in a particular location. I had left out was the use of a zero by itself, to represent nothing, as a real value. Because it is the most celebrated of Indian contributions to mathematics in pop culture, I want to try and find out where it actually comes from.
(Note: when I say "zero" here without elaboration, I mean a zero in its own right, not a place-value zero)
§ 1. Something becomes nothing
As far as we can see, the zero was invented and reinvented several times by different civilizations, which then promptly forgot about it. They each either got stuck with the place-value zero (when they did invent a place-value system, that is) or couldn't accept the concept of something being nothing. Quite often, they seem to have stumbled onto the right ideas, and then decided that it wasn't really correct, or worth it, or didn't fit into their philosophy. Each civilization kept, coming close to the point, but then shying away from the point, because of this philosophical problem they had with it. However, each one came a bit closer to what was necessary.
As late as the 16th century, the Italian Renaissance mathematician Gerolamo Cardano, wrote on an entire system for solving cubic and quartic equations; equations of the form without using the zero (he did this by taking the 'd' and putting it on the other size). Doing it in this fashion, he had to use something like 15 different cases to solve what is really only one case with the zero in there. Yet, by the time of Newton, barely a couple of centuries later, it had become accepted whole-heartedly, and Sir Issac doesn't hesitate to use it in his equations. But the story of this shift isn't one of two centuries. In fact, it spans more than ten times that number, stretching from before the Common Era to the days of the Enlightenment.
§ 2. A long time ago, on a Ziggurat far away
The tale starts with the Babylonians. They had a place-value system, which naturally had a zero. They marked it in their numerical notations using something equal to a double-quote-like mark in their cuneiform tablets. But they never used this notation at the end of a number (so they never distinguished between 2, 20 and 200). The context was supposed to imply which power of ten was to be used. With this limitation in their fundamental system, they worked out some pretty important results. However, they had some astonishing limitations in their science; for example, they never figured out how to perform long division. Instead, they used a large table of reciprocals of numbers, approximated to fractions. For example, to calculate 1/13, they would do something like
While comes out to approximately 0.769…, is 0.777… Not particularly accurate, but easier to calculate with.
Similarly, they knew the solution to quadratic equations of the form x² + bx = c, only when c is positive. They couldn't abstract the same equation to the form ax² + bx + c = 0.
Obviously, this was because they had no way of expressing the right-hand-side 0 in the first place!
The Babylonians (and other middle-Eastern civilizations that followed them) often taught other civilizations their sciences, or traded their knowledge with other civilizations. So, when they traded with Greece and India, they taught their system to both the Greeks and the Indians, creating a three-way link between east and west. Soon enough, the focus shifted from Mesopotamia to Greece and India.
§ 3. It was Greek to me
Take a look at a protractor; it always starts with Zero at the beginning of the scale, and goes on towards 180° or 360°. To mark an angle that doesn't vary from the reference line, you need to have a concept of 0°.
Ptolemy, the great mathematician/philosopher faced exactly this, when working on astronomy. So, abandoning the cumbersome Greek system, he picked the Babylonian base-60 system, and added a symbol, O, to represent a null value. This is probably the first known use of a circle to represent zero. But his use is grudging - he never allows the zero to become a real integer, and only uses it as a numerator in his fractions, which represent arc minutes and arc seconds in angles. Such angles are written as "Degree part | Minutes Seconds" so 2° 3' 10" would be 2 | 3 10. So, an angle such as 10° would become "10 | 0 0", and 0° would be " | 0 0" (i.e, he just put in a space to represent the integral zero, and calculated based on the minutes and seconds).
He had to allow it at least for zero degrees, because it would have been practically impossible to work without doing so, but even there, he just uses an empty space. In any case, such was the state of the art in Hellenic lands. He, and his successors, never really progressed beyond that point, either. They could work out some useful sine tables, but again, they couldn't express the other side of several equations, and had to resort to confusing circumlocutions to come to a solution for various forms. In such cases, a single solution escaped them.
§ 4. India, where things started making sense
In India, starting from about AD 200 or so, our mathematicians started working on the same problems. But their quick adoption of the zero proved to be their ace in the hole!
First came Aryabhata, a few centuries after Ptolemy. As I described in my last article, he was among the first to describe both the base-10 numeral system, and the zero within that system as a place-holder for "nothing in the nth place". But again, like Ptolemy, he doesn't give it a place by itself. It's only used in fractions and inside the place-value system.
But he was followed by Brahmagupta and the two Bhaskaras, I and II, who were three powerhouses of mathematics! The first Bhaskara and Brahmagupta were contemporaries, the former living in Maharashtra and the latter in Ujjain. Bhaskara was of Aryabhata's school, and was quite possibly his direct pupil (anyway, the dates match close enough to admit this possibility). Brahmagupta, on the other hand, seems to have been a total iconoclast, highly critical of Aryabhata. When he cites Aryabhata, it's almost always to say that he was wrong about this or that. Nevertheless, it's to Bhramagupta that we owe the introduction of the zero, and of negative integers to Aryabhata's system.
Brahmagupta gives us the first rules for using the zero. How to add a zero, how to subtract it, what happens when you multiply by a zero, or divide by it. While these may seem childish to us, having probably studied the rules in primary school, they that's because we're used to them, but someone had to write them down for the first time, and that someone was Brahmagupta of Bhinmal.
His rules for addition, subtraction and multiplication are the ones we understand easily enough:
"The sum of two positive quantities is positive, the sum of two negatives is a negative, the sum of a positive and negative is their difference, or if they're equal, zero. The sum of zero and the negative is negative, the sum of positive and zero is positive, and the sum of two zeros is zero". "The less has to be taken from the greater, positive from positive, negative from negative. If the greater is subtracted from the lesser, the difference has to be reversed (ie, positive made negative and negative made positive). Negative minus zero is (the same) negative, positive subtracted from zero is positive,and from zero yields zero." "The product of negative and positive is negative, the product of two negatives is positive, and that of two positives, positive. The product of zero and a negative, or zero, a positive and negative is zero, and two zeros is again zero."
But, he makes a slight mistake in division. "Positive divided by positive, or negative divided by negative is positive. Zero divided by zero is zero, Positive divided by negative or negative divided by positive is negative, and any number divided by zero is that number divided by zero"
Something doesn't square up with modern theories here - we don't define the division of zero by zero, which is one point where modern mathematics breaks down. But Brahmagupta just defines it as zero. Also, he decides to say that any number divided by zero is equal to n/0, which says very little.
So, here we have it - the first true zero, and it's by an Indian mathematician!
1 injamaven says...
gee, even I can almost understand this! Thanks, Shash.
Posted at 6:57 a.m. on November 11, 2011
2 Saurabh Saxena says...
I remember during my school days, we were told that it was Gritsamad who invented zero. However there is no known Indian mathematician with this name. I am not sure about this theory of Gritsamad.
Posted at 11:01 p.m. on November 22, 2011
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You want to look and feel your best as your create an ageless lifestyle after 50. But for a lot of women, their hormones don't make it easy. To add insult to injury, not only does it get harder for women to lose weight after menopause, some begin to gain weight. That's why it's so important to know the keys to losing weight after menopause.
Sadly, 30% of women who are 50 to 59 are not just overweight, they are obese.
It's not just about how you look. Your health is at stake.
Increased weight around the waist poses even more risks and belly fat is more likely to increase after menopause. Any waist measurement over 35 inches is of great concern.
Some women tend to exercise less as they age. In fact, 60% of all adults are not getting enough exercise, and this is more prevalent among the senior population. Women are also at a greater risk for hypothyroidism, which negatively affects their metabolism. The rate at which the body uses up energy during exercise declines with age. This means that an increase in both time of workouts and their intensity is required to achieve similar results.
Age-related muscle mass loss also lowers resting metabolism that contributes to weight gain.
Reduced estrogen may also lower metabolic rate. The lack of estrogen may play a role in the body using starches. The fact that the body uses blood sugar less effectively also increases fat storage in the body and makes weight loss more difficult.
All of these factors play a role in the difficulties post-menopausal women face when trying to lose weight or preventing weight gain.
The trick is to override your body's slow metabolism and to watch your caloric intake and exercise output. The more active you are, the less weight you're likely to gain. A National Institutes of Health review showed that people who did aerobic activities every day for 10 or more minutes had 6 fewer inches around the waistline compared to people who didn't exercise.
After menopause, women need to beef up their exercise in order to improve metabolism. This means getting out for a brisk walk every day for a half hour at a time, bicycling or taking up a low impact aerobic activity such as swim aerobics or simply swimming. Low impact aerobic exercises will be easier on arthritic joints and won't add to the wear and tear on joints.
Another good exercise for post-menopausal women is to start weight lifting or using weight machines. These are anaerobic exercises that build and tone muscles, exchanging fatty tissue for muscle tissue. Muscle has a higher metabolic rate when compared to fat so you burn calories faster and easier. Weight lifting is also good for bone health and can prevent osteoporosis.
After menopause, your dietary choices need to take into account the fact that you have a naturally lower metabolic rate then you had when you were younger (metabolic rate is directly related to age). A diet rich in whole fruits, vegetables, beans, legumes, whole grains, while avoiding dairy, meats, processed foods and high fat, high sugar foods, is the diet of choice when trying to lose weight after menopause.
The caloric content should generally be between 1250 and 2000 calories per day depending on your size. This amount of calories, along with exercise, is usually enough to help a person lose weight, even after menopause.
It's a good idea to get screened for hypothyroidism after going through menopause. Hypothyroidism can often have a few symptoms, such as low mood, dry skin, dry hair, and weight gain. Women with subclinical hypothyroidism have a particularly difficult time losing weight.
If low thyroid hormone content and elevated TSH is shown in laboratory studies, you can begin hormone supplementation in order to begin to improve your metabolism and you'll have an easier time losing weight. Usually, the thyroid hormone supplementation is necessary for life although adjustments in dosage may need to happen over time. Some are lucky enough to have success with homeopathic thyroid treatment and not need synthetics.
Post-menopausal women need to keep a normal body mass index/weight because you are at a greater risk for things like diabetes and heart disease after menopause. Before menopause you have a protected cardiovascular system by virtue of having estrogen and progesterone around to help prevent heart disease; however, when this is lost at the time of menopause, the risk of heart disease increases.
This is why other risk factors, such as obesity, diabetes, and high cholesterol need to be treated and managed to the fullest degree in post-menopausal women. Even if you have not attempted to lose weight or exercise before menopause, it's not too late to start exercising and eating healthy foods for a low cardiovascular risk profile. This is especially true if you have a family history of heart disease, including heart attacks, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease.
Additional exercise and reducing calories, changing to a healthier diet, can reduce the incidence of obesity, therefore reducing the risk of heart disease in post-menopausal women.
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Jennifer Aniston Might Be Adopting a Baby Girl
Please let this rumor be true!
By Brie Schwartz
A hot second after Justin and Jen's top-secret wedding, the tabloids are already reporting that the newlyweds are expanding their family. According to Life & Style, Jen and Justin have signed adoption papers and are anxious to meet their baby girl.
A "source" says "there's still a long way to go, [but they've been told they can adopt] and Jen's happier than ever!"
She was allegedly inspired by Sandra Bullock, who adopted her son Louis, and has "guided the couple through the process." I mean, Sandra Bullock often inspires me so this part could very well be true but it also sounds like a typical tabloid plug and play prose.
Last year, Life & Style reported that Jen was three months pregnant (with what turned out to be a food baby, by the way, because Jen is every woman) so we're not holding our breaths here.
Apparently Jen has already started calling Justin "Big Daddy," though so it must be true.
Something tells us that if Jen is in fact calling her hubby by that pet name, it has nothing to do with his father status. But hey, we're clearly not esteemed "insiders," so what do we know?
Brie Schwartz Deputy Editor, OprahDaily.com As deputy editor, Brie oversees OprahDaily.com's lifestyle content including beauty, style, health, and relationships.
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When my old Nikon digital camera broke, I was forced to get another one. The problem at that time was that, I did not have a lot of extra money. Actually, I did not have extra money and so I settled for a cheap Olympus camera. It was fine for the price. It has a lot of settings and I think it is durable.
However, it did not come with a memory card, unlike other brands, and so I was forced to buy its matching memory card. The Olympus memory card is not the regular SD card used in most cameras. Theirs is a specialized camera card called the Olympus xD picture card.
Well, for its price, I got a 2GB memory. Not bad. And it processes fast, too. So when I download pictures, even when I take big photos, it is quite fast. At least for my standards.
My problem lies though in the fact that the xD card is a specialized card. It is smaller than the SD Card and so it does not fit most card readers. Not my separate card reader nor the reader in my laptop. I will need to have a cord to attach the camera to the laptop. So if I don't have the cord with me, I can't download pictures anywhere. This is a problem when we take photos with the group in another place and they want to download the photos to their device. As I usually don't bring along the cord with me, I have to download the photos at home and email the photos to my friends. It's tough.
If given the choice, I would have bought a Canon camera. It has a free SD card with it. Although it is more expensive, the photo and video quality are so much better.


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HomeWinograd Schema Challenge 2016: Results
Winograd Schema Challenge 2016: Results
31 July 2016 25 August 2020 Don Patrick Arckon, artificial intelligence, language processing, Winograd Schema Challengeambiguity
This wasn't quite the Winograd Schema Challenge that I had set out on. Originally this language comprehension contest for A.I. was announced in July 2014, to be run in October 2015, but was postponed to February 2016, and then again to July 2016. I was just about to ship my program overseas, three weeks before the last-accepted arrival date of postal entries, when the contest announced changes to the rules and technical format.
Some universities had been training with ambiguous pronouns like this:
The birds ate the seeds because they were hungry.
I had been practising on the official Winograd schemas like this:
The foxes are getting in at night and attacking the chickens. I shall have to guard them.
Whereas the final test featured this:
Mark became absorbed in Blaze, the white horse. He was afraid the stable boys at the Burlington Stables struck at him and bullied him because he was timid, so he took upon himself the feeding and care of the animal.
The programs were now faced with any number of consecutively ambiguous pronouns in passages from 1940's children's novels, which made quite a difference. It turns out the organisers had already decided on this last year, as appears from their sensible enough explanation in a members-only AI magazine (Winograd schemas are too hard to compose). Unfortunately they somehow did not see fit to share these changes on the contest website until too late. While the benchmark of 65% had previously been feasible, it now quickly became unlikely that anyone would win anything this year. A number of would-been participants backed out.
The contest finally took place at the IJCAI conference in New York with four contestants: the Open University of Cyprus, the University of Science and Technology of China, the independent Denis Robert from France, and myself from the Netherlands. Curiously absent were a number of American universities who had previously reported successes of over 70% for solving Winograd schemas. The absence of Google, IBM, and other commercial powerhouses was less strange, if you consider that the winner was obligated to publish their methods so that others could reproduce them, and that anything below human level would be portrayed as a failure in the media.
The glass is half full
The A.I. programs were asked to figure out 60 multiple choice pronouns, with such ambiguity that they were to be solved through an understanding of the context. Given two to five potential answers per pronoun, the baseline score for guesswork was 45%. $1000 would be awarded for a 65% score, $25000 for a 90% score, human level.
(Note: these are the scores after recount. There was some confusion as my program had omitted two answers)
Contestant Correct answers out of 60 Method
Quan Liu 35 / 35 / 29 (58% – 48%) deep neural network & ConceptNet
Nikos Isaak 29 (48%) probabilistic engine & knowledge extraction
Patrick Dhondt 29 (48%) logical axioms
Denis Robert 19 (32%) logical inferences
Quan Liu's group entered three programs, which is a little unorthodox for contests. But if you see this as a scientific test then it makes sense to test which configuration of a neural network works best. Their machine learning approach gathered pairs of events (mainly verbs) that are commonly associated, e.g. "rob -> be arrested", and then applied their probability of co-occurring. Two of their versions scored the highest, 58%, which is consistent with the track record of similar approaches.
The unusual score of Denis Robert's system, below the 45% guesswork baseline, can largely be explained by the fact that his system was not designed for cases with more than two possible answers, as this was only changed on short notice. However, he also indicated that his algorithm didn't apply to most of the cases.
There were nevertheless no winners that reached the 65% threshold. On the one hand one could say that technology is literally halfway human ability, on the other hand the programs did only a little better than one might by chance. Any conclusion drawn from just the scores would be premature. If this test is to be a meaningful measure of progress, we should look at which areas the programs were better or worse in. For this I can at least answer about my own approach.
Winograd schemas vs prose
The ambiguity in the new prose form was actually not so bad compared to previously published Winograd schemas. But the phrasing was often excessively long-threaded with all sorts of interjected tangents. Although I built my program for reading articles and dialogue alike, I had not covered the grammar of interrupting phrases that break up the main thread of a sentence. Such sentence structures are abundant in story novels but do not occur in Winograd schemas, and I wasn't planning on having my A.I. read novels any time soon. The inclusion of some 1940's vocabulary also complicated matters: "cook-shanty", "red-letter days", "a pallid young dandy"? Maybe it's because I'm Dutch, but I can only guess what these are.
Compared to the wide variety of common sense axioms that I had programmed (see How to teach a computer common sense*), many solutions to the pronouns were ordinary cases of continuity. E.g. a pronoun with an active role typically refers to the last noun with an active role (You won't find this rule in a grammar book, because ambiguous pronouns are grammatically "incorrect" to begin with).
Always before, Larry had helped Dad with his work. But he could not help him now […]
The donkey wished a wart on its hind leg would disappear, and it did.
Mark was close to Mr. Singer's heels. He heard him calling for the captain […]
This makes sense when you're testing on novels: No storyteller wants to write in such a counter-intuitive way that the reader has to stop and think about it, contrary to Winograd schemas which are designed for exactly that purpose.
Where no particular common sense axiom applied, rules of continuity and grammar chose 21 of my 29 correct answers. Thus two thirds of my success seemed not due to the application of common sense, but due to conventional writing. Curious, I ran the test again with all axioms disabled except continuity. The result was an equal amount of correct answers, but much more randomly distributed and obviously chosen for the wrong reasons. The common sense axioms were clearly contributing by fencing off the exceptions to continuity, so the cause of the mistakes lay elsewhere.
A closer look at the results
The table below show which of the 60 pronouns my program resolved correctly (highlighted green), which axioms were applicable, and/or which problems hindered their conclusion. When a problem occurred or no axiom applied, the program defaulted to the grammatically correct choice: The noun closest to the pronoun. Only 1/3rd of all pronouns actually conformed with this grammar rule, which explains why whenever a problem occurred, the answer was typically wrong.
The dotted lines in the table mean that the same sentence was given, but a different pronoun was asked about.
I will highlight the most prominent mistakes:
2 & 3. Always before, Larry had helped Dad with his work. But he could not help him now […]
Logic could expect Dad to return the favour, were it not that "always" and "now" suggest a continuity, which the program did not pick up on. Consequently, the answers to both "he" and "him" were switched around. This also illustrates why this test was more difficult than chance: The more ambiguous pronouns a passage contained, the more likely a mistake in one would carry over to the others.
9. What about the time you cut up tulip bulbs in the hamburgers because you thought they were onions?
For this the program compared the similarities of bulbs, hamburgers and onions, but of course knowledge of onions was lacking in the database, so the inference fell flat. Retrieving such knowledge from the internet would slow things down, and though speed is no issue in a contest, in daily practice I want my program to read one page per second, not one sentence per second.
13. […] Antonio, takes Larry under his wing.
People aren't known to have wings, otherwise the bodypart location paradox would have excluded Larry from being taken under his own wing. Alternatively one would have to know figurative meanings of English idioms, an added layer of difficulty.
18. [Maude…] had left poor little Dora to do the best she could, alone.
The program considered "to…" to indicate Maude's reason for leaving "in order to" do something. The pronoun wasn't the only ambiguous word in this case.
30. […] Mr. Moncrieff has decided to cancel Edward's allowance on the ground that he no longer requires his financial support.
"Backward" = "back", "Southward" = "south", therefore "Edward" = "Ed". Although the pronoun was interpreted correctly, "Ed" was of course not found among the multiple choice answers.
40. Every day after dinner Mr. Schmidt took a long nap. Mark would let him sleep for an hour, then wake him up, scold him, and get him to work. He needed to get him to finish his work, because his work was beautiful.
As I mentioned in my previous post*, the "what goes around comes around" karma axiom was the least reliable, causing five misinterpretations in this test. Sometimes it triggered on trivial events, other times the events did not make sense this way (scolding to get someone to do something positive). It had better be limited to events that are direct cause and result, as they had been in most Winograd schemas.
49. Of one thing Mark was sure. Harry knew much less than he did.
Consecutive mental activities are typically by the same person, but of course not when it's a comparison. Though the context system does distinguish comparisons, the axioms did not.
56. Tatyana managed two guitars and a bag, and still could point out the Freemans: "Isn't it nice that they have come, Mama!"
While the pronoun was interpreted correctly, there was a technical hitch with selecting "freemans" from the multiple choice answers, due to the name having a plural -s.
59. Grant worked hard to harvest his beans so he and his family would have enough to eat that winter, His friend Henry let him stack them […]
"enough" was internally translated to "enough beans" but lost its plural status in the translation, after which the beans were no longer considered a candidate for plural "them".
Most of these problems are easily fixed and are not inherent to the common sense axioms, apart from the "karma" axiom. The majority of problems were instead linguistic: Small flaws in the grammar rules, difficulty with long-threaded phrasing, limited range of the context system, and problems with the contest's XML-format interface. It just goes to show how perfect every part of the system has to be before it pays off, and how little one can tell about a program's abilities from the surface.
Patterns in the test
You may have noticed some things in the table of results. First, many more linguistic problems appear in the first third of the test than after. This is partly because sentences 22 to 33 were more brief and thus easier to process. Though I can not well account for the rest, it suggests the order of the sentences was not random, but that perhaps standards were lowered after listing their best shots.
Second, 32 of 60 times the correct answer was "A": The referent furthest from the pronoun. It seems the most ambiguous sentences were thought to be the ones where the answer was the furthest out of sight. This makes that the test is not aligned with conventional writing practices, and that it is susceptible to reverse psychology.
Let me pose a very stupid scenario:
Suppose one makes a program that answers the least likely choice "A" in all cases, except when the same sentence is given repeatedly (see the dotted lines in the table), then it increments to B and C as one asks about each next pronoun in the sentence. The result of this zero-effort approach would be 57%, just about the highest score.
I am not suggesting that this actually happened, I read the winner's paper and their method definitely has merit. I am however suggesting that machine learning AI would pick up on exactly this sort of statistical pattern born from human psychological tendencies. For that reason, test scores should never be taken at face value.
The language barrier
As a test of common sense I found this setup less suitable than the original plan with Winograd schemas, which were more concise and profound in which areas of common sense they tested (e.g. spatial relations, physics, social interactions). Had I known from the start that the qualifying round would mainly feature novel prose, I would probably not have embarked on this challenge, knowing that my grammar parser wasn't up for it. Now the prose passages contained too many variables to tell whether results were due to language or common sense, and it never got to the Winograd schema round. This puts us back at the Turing Test where it's either everything or nothing, and that is not a useful measure of progress. Swapping the rounds would be a good idea for next time.
It was nice to see serious competitors with a wide variety of technology tackling the problem, and although the overall results are unimpressive, I am pleased that my partial solution did as well as some academic efforts, with a minimum of resources at that. I am not disappointed in my common sense axioms as many of them were well applicable in this test, including for pronouns that weren't graded. I will broaden their application to ambiguous locations and indirect object relations, where I have greater need for them.
However, my main interest is the development of intelligent processes and I do not intend to linger on this aspect of language processing more than necessary. It is worth remembering that much can be said without ambiguity. Though common sense has widespread application, it ultimately serves to filter and limit possibilities, while the possibilities in areas like problem solving and planning have yet to expand. For that reason I do not expect human levels of common sense to be reached within ten years either, but we can certainly make strides towards.
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In these words of comfort, we are given glimpses of how God uses His heavenly hosts – the angels – to guide, comfort, and protect.
These promises become even more real when believers step out of our comfort zone and share God's Word with others.
Evangelism may appear like an immovable mountain – and that is the picture the devil wants a believer to see. The only way to remove them is by faith. By trusting in God's promises, we place the work of moving mountains into God's hands. The majesty of a mountain peak gives us a glimpse of God's majesty and power. It's faith that takes the emphasis off of our self-absorbing pride and squarely on God where it belongs.
The same power of God that moves mountains also equips the believer steps out in faith and into a spiritual battle. When a Christian shares God's Word with an unbeliever, they are placing themselves on the front lines of a fierce, spiritual battle. God calls on us to not be afraid, but to engage to engage the enemy. He provides us with the arsenal of His grace which includes the shield of faith, the breastplate of righteousness, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit. (Ephesians 6) All of these come from God's arsenal and are readily distributed according to His wisdom and grace.
But I think there is something more profound that God provides for believers who share God's Word with others.
I enjoy watching an action movie when the lead character is trapped under heavy fire. He will ask his partners to "cover" him while he moves to a better strategic position. While running out into the open, his partners will open fire and empty their weapons to distract the enemy or keep them from firing back. Without providing cover, our hero becomes an easy target.
There are times in the Bible where God opens up another dimension for his servants to see a legion of angels who are providing cover for them. They are engaging the enemy in a spiritual battle. They are resisting the attempts by the demonic forces so the believer can be placed in strategic position to share God's Word. They are given that divine opportunity to share God's Word and the Lord is providing "cover" for them.
We can take to heart the words from God, "Do not be afraid, for I am with you." That not only does God provide us with the armor of protection, but also cover from His heavenly hosts to carry out His commission to share the gospel.
Love this, Dave! Oh, if only I could always remember it! You do such a good job of reminding me of those important truths. Thank you!
Thank you, Norma. These are important reminders for me as well. Blessings!


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The Milledgeville, Georgia community of dance is a beautiful thing. With so many different personalities and backgrounds, the people who love dance find meaning in another's arms as they rhythmically move across the dance floor of life.
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Auditions for 'Southern Hospitality'
Kings Mountain Little Theatre will hold auditions for this comedy by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten (the same playwrights who penned "The Red Velvet Cake War") on Jan. 5 and 6 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Joy Performance Center, 202 S. Railroad Avenue. There are roles for five men and eight women. Directed by Teresa Williams, performance dates are scheduled for Feb. 27 and 28, and March 1, 6, and 7. Further details about auditions are available by sending an email to jim@kmlt.org or by calling 704-730-9408, or visit www.kmlt.org.


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UK four-piece Holiday Ghosts began molding their sound on their eponymous debut, but they've cemented it on the follow-up, West Bay Playroom. Named after their recording and rehearsal space, an actual playroom in guitarist's Sam Stacpoole's childhood home, the album has an appropriate feeling of playfulness and a loose-slung ease that feels less like a band nailing takes and more like a band simply enjoying themselves with luck keeping the tape rolling. Antithetical to many of their UK counterparts, the record is shaggy, loose and jangled in a way that's more akin to Aussie exports, Athens indie-pop purveyors, and downstream Boston jangle-punks hung on Jonathan Richman now and forever.
The songwriting bounces nicely between Stacpoole and the equal charms of drummer Katja Rackin, but the band's got a knack for sunny-sky harmonies that make every song feel like a family affair. They cycle through their jangles with an egalitarian ear – bouncing from the paisley popped blues of the '60s through Go-Betweens sleekness of the '80s. Yet they push beyond the sometimes high-buttoned affectations of the style, instead injecting a jocularity, humor and twang that feels like they have a few copies of Violent Femmes, Camper Van Beethoven, and Meat Puppets knocking around their personal collections as well. Ultimately, the record coheres into a fun rumble through racks that never feels cobbled together, but rather cherry picked with an eclectic love for bittersweet pop and four conduits built to pull it off without a hitch.


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Q: Running Nativescript app as a desktop app on Windows Is it possible to somehow run nativescript app as a desktop app on Windows? I'm also interested if there is a possibility to use Windows API in the app (for example to create a file).

A: Currently it's not possible, since you can't build a {NS} project for desktop.
However, Windows 10 will add a support of running Android apps on desktop (codename Project Latte).