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MATTHEW TOMPKINS INTERVIEW
Matthew Tompkins, an action-movie staple whose credits include Machete, Sicario and TV's Prison Break, fills us in on his latest film – as star and producer – the killer thriller The Harrowing, out December 25 from Film Mode Entertainment.
Who is Ryan Calhoun and what makes him tick?
When the narrative really reveals him, Ryan is a Vice Cop working under a cloud of suspicion and disgrace from the death of a former partner on a sting operation gone bad. He's married, but the relationship with his wife, Anne, is strained from the risks he takes, and from the burden of guilt he carries. Ryan is a good man, a man of action, but suffering from the trauma of terrible things beyond his control. His quest to find the truth about what happened, and, essentially, his own identity, is at the very core of the film itself.
Any similarities?
Not really, no. Only that we are both married to extraordinary women, I suppose.
Is this the first time you've played a cop?
No, I've played a number of different kinds of cops, Sheriffs, FBI, Secret Service guys, Special Forces, etc over the years. Getting the procedural language down, feeling natural with it, is the key. Also getting used to carrying guns and having them be part of any potential equation…not something that is a part of my own life day to day, obviously.
Do you find it easy to 'switch off' at the end of the day after filming a movie like this?
Well, I come from a 30 year backgound of professional Theater as well, where you may be doing up to 8-10 shows a week onstage for 3 hours at a time in roles that rip your soul apart…you develop a facility for leaving the character behind when the work is done…or the alternative is slight insanity. Lol. So, no-no trouble shutting it off at the end of the day or off camera.
You've done some amazing work in your time – how different was it working on The Harrowing to say, some of the big studio fare you've done like Machete, Sicario and Bad Ass 2?
Working on the bigger Studio films is rewarding for the exposure and for some of the top flight talent you have a chance to work with, but in the end, unless you are at the epicentre of it, you're just a cog in a VERY big machine. For me as an actor and producer, THE HARROWING is a much more satisfying experience from beginning to end because I AM in the eye of the storm on a number of different levels, driving the narrative, with enormous responsibility to stay true to my character's arc and through line, and in true collaboration with the Director…it demands a kind of focus and energy that the "hired gun" gigs on other things simply don't, grateful as I am to have them.
Can you talk about your experience working on Friday Night Lights? I imagine that would've been quite something…
My experience on FNL was a good one, but nothing stands out about it for me. Just a solid few days on the set with some very driven and talented people. Fun story though…Peter Berg, who directed the film and was behind the TV series, and I were in a film together WAY back in the early 90's called RISE AND WALK: THE DENNIS BYRD STORY about the former New York Jet defensive end who broke his neck. Peter was just an actor then, but was a fantastic dude, very high energy, and we had a fun couple of days together. I played his best friend from his days as a Tulsa Hurricane, Eddie.
TV has been good for you. Has all that small-screen work led to movie work?
They are such different disciplines, TV and Film, that there really hasn't been much cross pollination from one to the other. That is changing a bit with so much AMAZING stuff happening on HBO, NETFLIX, etc but one hasn't necessarily led to the other for me.
Do you have a favorite series that you've worked on?
LONGMIRE has been my best overall experience so far…the show is done now with it's 6 season run, but I got to guest star in Season 3 and spent a fantastic 10 days in the Santa Fe, NM area. GREAST cast and crew, very skilled, very humble, first class all the way.
What about a film?
Any of the films we have produced have been sublime experiences in one way or another…and THE HARROWING is at the top of that list.
And if you had to name two films that The Harrowing resembles, what might they be?
Jacob's Ladder, Angel Heart, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest.


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Read First, Watch After: George Orwell's Animal Farm
By Staci Layne Wilson
Since its publication in 1945, George Orwell's Animal Farm has become one of the most controversial books ever written and to this day it remains as compulsory reading in most classrooms.
The fable uses barnyard animals as political pawns in a metaphorical tale of the rise of communism, which was a real hot-button topic back then. Since it's set on a farm and it has talking animals, it was thought to be a palatable way of introducing politics to teens.
One of the four-legged characters in the book says, "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself." This sets the stage for an animal revolt.
A hand-drawn film adaptation of Animal Farm came out in 1954 and it has the distinction of being the very first feature-length animated film made in Britain – it was directed by filmmakers and animators John Halas and Joy Batchelor.
The basic storyline stays true to the tome – it's about how absolute power absolutely corrupts. Farmer Jones is a no-good sort who often passes out before he remembers to feed his hard-working animals. They get fed up with this treatment and one of the pigs, Old Major, encourages the barnyard animals to revolt. The creatures do as they're told, ousting the farmer and taking over the house and land. Mirroring Russian oppressive history, counter-revolutionary farmers try to take control of Animal Farm, but they fail.
A boar named Snowball tries to spread mutiny to other farms but is he is assassinated by Napoleon who wants to strengthen his unqualified might within the barnyard. The animal utopia crumbles and the lazy, greedy pigs begin taking advantage of the other animals' labors… just like Farmer Jones did. It's the old vicious circle, chasing its tail.
These aren't cute little Disney characters who get all twitterpated or break into song — a pig is murdered in cold blood; vicious attack dogs are shown ripping a cat to pieces; and when Boxer the horse gets shot, vivid blood spurts from his wound. All comrades great and small are subject to terrible fates.
Orwell wrote his book as a condemnation of communism and fascist dictatorships, and that message still remains in the movie, but it is more talky than touching. Also, many important aspects of the story — like the pigs beginning to walk on two legs — are only quickly touched upon while the filmmakers apparently tried to fit everything from a landmark novel into a 72-minute movie.
While the film doesn't quite live up to the its source material, it's still an interesting thing for children to watch either as a companion piece to the book, or as a Cliff's Notes version of fictionalized historical events.
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VOL. 131 | NO. 258 | Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Memphis Newsmakers
Reid Inaugurated as President Of WestTNHBA Board
By Kate Simone
James Reid
James Reid, president of Memphis-based homebuilder Reid Homes Inc., has been inaugurated as board president of the West Tennessee Home Builders Association. Reid previously served as the 2016 vice president of the WestTNHBA executive committee and chairman of the 2016 VESTA Home Show.
Hometown: Memphis
Experience: I graduated from Christian Brothers University with a Bachelor of Science in business administration.
I started working odd jobs in construction during the summers of my high school years. I worked with cleanup, landscaping and painting crews each summer. When I finished high school, I wanted to remain in the housing business and decided to become an architect. However, low math scores caused me to switch majors to business administration. After taking a fundamentals of real estate course, I took the state licensing exam and after graduation was hired by a local firm, John R. Thompson Co. I sold real estate for three years.
Then in 1983, I began working for Reid Homes. My first project was a home addition in East Memphis, followed by new homes in Cordova. About 16 years ago, I moved into the office, handling the permitting, budgeting, pricing and contract negotiations.
Who has had the greatest influence on you and why? I would say my dad had the greatest influence on me. He started out pumping gas at Sears before landing a job at DuPont and then gave homebuilding a try. He taught me to always try to better yourself, take care of your family and treat people with respect.
What are your goals for the West Tennessee Home Builders Association? My goal is to continue to make the West Tennessee Home Builders Association stronger both in numbers and also by our presence in the industry as we advance homeownership in West Tennessee. Equally important is addressing the labor shortage our industry is facing.
What's the outlook for Shelby County/West Tennessee real estate in 2017? I believe we will continue our slow climb back to more normal levels of starts and sales. On the positive side, the incoming administration has indicated his willingness to look at excessive regulations strangling the market. But on the negative side, we will see higher interest rates and probably higher material and labor costs. Housing starts are still lower than normal, so there is still some pent-up demand. Overall, I see continued improvement, but affordability is a concern.
WestTNHBA executive director Don Glays says the association plans to focus on addressing ongoing labor shortage issues in 2017. What caused the shortage, and how do you plan on addressing it? We, as an industry, need to let young people know that the construction industry can be very rewarding for skilled tradespeople and they won't have to be burdened with mountains of college debt to learn the skills they need. Of course, the shortage was made worse during the Great Recession when so many people left for lack of work. WestTNHBA can work with schools and city governments to make sure we have a place at the table with their programs such as Memphis Employ and the workforce development aspects of the Memphis 3.0 initiative.
What do you consider your greatest accomplishment? Steering my company through the recession, when sales fell 90 percent, was my greatest accomplishment to date.
What do you most enjoy about your work? I like that the product we provide typically has about a 100-year life span. People will be living in and enjoying homes that I built long after I'm gone.
If you could give one piece of advice to young people, what would it be? Be prepared for unforeseen circumstances and obstacles; be flexible enough to change paths if new opportunities arise.
Anthony Norris
Anthony Norris, senior vice president, Information Technology, FedEx Services, has been named a 2017 Premier 100 Technology Leaders honoree by IDG's Computerworld. The Premier 100 spotlights 100 leaders from both the technology and business sides of companies for their exceptional technology leadership and innovative approaches to business challenges. Norris was recognized for his leadership and collaboration with internal business partners throughout FedEx's Digital Transformation initiative.
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The Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis has added two new members to its 2016-2017 board of directors: Lisa Geater, chief of staff for the city of Memphis, and Leslie Lynn Smith, president of EPIcenter. Both Geater and Smith will serve on the Education, Research and Advocacy, and Grants and Programs Committees.
Jonathan Davis has joined the Memphis office of Cordell & Cordell law firm as an associate attorney. Cordell & Cordell, the nation's largest domestic litigation firm focusing on representing men in family law cases, has more than 200 attorneys working in more than 100 offices across the United States.
Danielle Dudding Irvine has joined the Memphis office of Bass, Berry & Sims PLC. Irvine, who earned her law degree from Vanderbilt Law School in 2016, is part of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice Group, which represents clients in business disputes and breach of contract disputes.


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Winding Road Reviews Tesla Model S P85 - Video product 2014-12-20 15:00:57 https://insideevs.com/reviews/323780/winding-road-reviews-tesla-model-s-p85-video/ Tesla Model S Test Drives, winding road
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Over at Winding Road, there's a new point-of-view format for video test drives, like this one conducted in the Tesla Model S.
The entertainment value is lacking in this format, but fortunately there's a Winding Road written review of the Model S P85 too.
Basically, Winding Road concludes that the P85 Model S has effortless performance, a spetacular touchscreen display and is very much on par with luxury German sedans from the likes of BMW and Mercedes-Benz.
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Popingo's Upgrades Digital Signage with Origin Displays
October 9, 2013 By Origin Display Group
Origin Display Group Inc., a leading supplier of indoor, outdoor, and digital menu boards announced today that they have completed the design and integration of their Origin Elite menu board system, powered by SmarterSign, for Popingo's Convenience Stores.
What will start as a new four screen set-up at a single location, it will conclude as a roll-out to their subsequent locations. Origin Elite was selected by Slade Klack, Popingo's Vice President of Operations, after he viewed demonstrations of three other companies. With a digital system already in position Slade had clear objectives when searching for its replacement.
Origin Displays' VP of Sales & Marketing, Vic Pereira, digests the journey of the project. "When we were approached by Slade, he made it clear that he was looking for a solution that would be easily managed and that was also backed by a support infrastructure should any questions arise. At the time, they were using a proprietary solution that was managed by a single individual. When it came time to make any sort of changes it became an arduous task. After the demonstration of the software and the thorough fact finding of our business done by Slade, we engaged in business. Wanting to make sure that their brand was accurately represented, Popingo's had professional food photography done. These images replaced our placeholder and really added another level of "wow" to the end result. We look forward to seeing this solution grow their business and implemented in to their other locations. "
More about Popingo's: With customer service as their focus, Patrick J. Richard, Inc. (a full-line wholesale petroleum distributor), opened its first "Popingo's" convenience store in 1987 in Napoleonville, LA. Two additional stores were opened in 1988, one at the foot of the Sunshine Bridge in Donaldsonville, LA and the other in Gonzales, LA. Since then, the Popingo's convenience store chain has grown to ten stores strong. On July 1, 1998, the parent company changed its name to Richard Oil and Fuel, LLC. to better represent the products and services it offered in the wholesale segment of its business, however the Popingo's name has not changed.
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A history of bold appeals
HAN AE-RAN
The author is the head of the financial planning teamof the JoongAng Ilbo.
The manuscript of an appeal from a family in Chungcheong was released to the media in December 1972. The appeal was written by Chowol, a 15-year-old gisaeng — the Korean equivalent of geisha — in Pyongyang in 1846 during the reign of King Heonjong, during the late Joseon Dynasty.
The 20,000-word appeal was unreserved. "The court is filled with thieves with friendly faces who confuse the state administration, and vassals become robbers, and subjects are in despair." She also condemned the king, saying "The king drinks until late at night and cannot keep the balance." She also listed instances of corruption by high-level officials, designating them by their real names, "I am disclosing the conduct of the three prime ministers, six ministers and other civil and military officials to the lowest government officials."
When the content of the appeal was reported by the media, the intelligence agency visited the owner of the copy of the appeal and demanded he hand it over. Why did the spy agency try to acquire the appeal by a plain courtesan from the Joseon Dynasty?
Because its content was so harsh that it seemed to be criticizing the Park Chung Hee regime, not just the Joseon court. In October 1972, the government declared emergency martial law to establish the October Yushin (Restoration) system, and enforced the Yushin Constitution in December.
Harsh appeals written by ordinary citizens often appealed to the hearts of the people. In 1992, before the presidential election, a bank branch manager in his 50s published a book titled "Shinmungo: An appeal to the Seventh Republic," a compilation of 80-point appeals. In 2000, an incumbent civil servant in his 30s published a post on the Blue House website titled "New Danseongso." Danseongso refers to the resignation letter written by renowned scholar Cho Sik (1501-72) during the reign of King Myeongjo during the Joseon Dynasty. In the appeal mimicking Danseongso, the civil servant harshly censured President Kim Dae-jung. "You are an old man in the deep palace surrounded by curtains and blocked from outside news," he wrote.
The post on the Blue House petition site also created a stir, and led to satires and parodies. I am interested in how the Blue House would have responded to the petition.
The old format of an appeal is still valid — not simply because of the author's outstanding writing skills. Famous appeals in the Joseon Dynasty were also bold; the authors risked their lives to speak out against the king. The art of scholarly argument may still be valid today.
The Blue House petition site Joseon Dynasty Risked their lives to speak out
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It's crazy that the original GameBoy debuted in 1989, I wasn't around then but I certainly put enough hours into once I worked out how to use my fingers. Paying tribute to the great handheld, German freelance designer and illustrator Florian Renner has designed an exciting redesign that blends its old-school aesthetic with modern function.
Florian has named his redesign the GameBoy 1UP, it features a rectangular interface and subtle changes to all the buttons.
Check out the concept below, and view the whole project here.


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Q: ToString() method culture-based in web application For instance:
double d = 2.24;

If Culture is 'fr'
d.ToString() -> "2,24"

If culture is 'en'
d.ToString() -> "2.24"

This implicit culture-based cast can generate lot of mistakes.
In aspx.cs
<script>
var n = <% Response.Write(d.ToString()); %> // if 'fr' n = 2,24 -> js syntax error
</script>

We can avoid that with
Convert.ToString(d, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Is there any option to made this InvariantCulture by default for ToString()?
Any idea why it is done by Default?

A: You could use the <globalization> element of your web.config and set a culture and a UI culture. For example:
<system.web>
    <globalization culture="en-US" uiCulture="en-US">
</system.web>

By the way instead of:
<script>
    var n = <% Response.Write(d.ToString()); %> // if 'fr' n = 2,24 -> js syntax error
</script>

I would recommend you to always use JavaScriptSerializer in order to JSON serialize the value when passing data to javascript:
<script>
    var n = <%= new JavaScriptSerializer.Serialize(d) %>;
</script>

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The 15th of August 1947 is a red letter day in the history of India. On this day India achieved her independence after centuries of slavery, it was an historic event. India became free after a long struggle and countless sacrifices. The National Tri-colour flag was hoisted on the Red Fort. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the Prime Minister of India, hoisted the National Flag in 1947. Since, then the 15th of August has been celebrated as Independence Day every year.
The Independence Day is celebrated all over the country with great joy and pride. This day has a special significance for Delhi the capital of India. In Delhi it is celebrated in a big way. The Red Fort is the center of attraction. Elaborate arrangements are made for the flag hoisting ceremony. The main function starts at 7.30 a.m..
People in their thousands zero-in towards the Red Fort to witness the event of the year not only from Delhi but from outside as well. School children gather in big numbers. Ministers, ambassadors and other foreign dignitaries also arrive. A running commentary of the programme is also telecast for the convenience of T.V viewers.
The Prime Minister unfurls the National Flag and as he does so, the National Anthem is sung by the school children. 21 gun shots are fired in honour of the solemn occasion. The Prime Minister, then addresses the National reminding the people of the great sacrifices made by the countless men and women to help win India her freedom. He exhorts the people to protect the freedom at all costs appealing to them to be united all the time.
It is my sincere belief that we the people of India should pledge to preserve our hard-won freedom every year on this auspicious day. we should also make up our minds to remain united and do everything within our power to make the country prosperous in all directions.


On February 28, 2007, New Horizons finally encountered Jupiter 13 months after its launch. This was incredibly fast - 5 times sooner than Galileo and 3 times sooner than Cassini. NASA turned on New Horizons instruments and began to look at Jupiter and its moons while taking pictures as well. Even though the gravity assist occurred the next day, New Horizons continued to observe Jupiter until June of 2007. After the assist, New Horizons now travels 35,000 miles per hour on its 3 billion mile trip (Stern "The New" 1, 11; Dunbar "NASA," Stern "NASA" 24).
Only 2 months of every year saw New Horizons turn on its instruments to ensure that they were operational as it moved to Pluto. Because it took 9 hours for signals to travel from New Horizons to us and back, the probe had to do most of the science automatically. The actual flyby was quick, and the total amount of observational time amounted to a few months. Also, because New Horizons transmited data at 1000 bits (not bytes!) per second, it took over a year for the full results to even reach NASA (Stern "The New" 11, Fountain 2, Guterl 55).
In January of 2015, New Horizons was woken up to begin its 6-month long mission on Pluto, which was 135 million miles away when the probe was turned on. Using its LORRI equipment, New Horizons began taking pictures of Pluto to help triangulate its position and maintain its course. As the probe neared Pluto, it was also taking data telemetry on particles including solar wind and interstellar dust and taking additional pictures of Pluto. Pictures from mid-April of 2015 began to show surface details, including a potential polar ice cap. The resolution improved and improved until the best pictures of Pluto ever were taken during the flyby (Johns Hopkins 16 Jan). A brief scare was encountered by all when the probe entered safe mode 9 days before the flyby, preventing science from being collected. Fortunately, the problem (a timing error in preparation of the flyby) was resolved quickly and everything was back on track (Thompson "New Horizons Enters").
The days passed by quickly and New Horizons was already beginning to see features which would not be visible as the flyby occurred due to the hemisphere proximity. This included four spots which seem to be connected to each other and spaced at a seemingly regular manner. They are about 300 miles wide all together and have sharply defined boundaries of light and dark, according to New Horizons program scientists Curt Niebur. Another interesting find prior to the flyby was the size of Pluto was finally determined to be 1,474 plus or minus 4 miles wide. Previous efforts had been thwarted because of Pluto's atmosphere obstructing a definite reading. The official Mission specialist Bill McKinnon of the Washington University in St. Louis and the team came to this conclusion based off readings from the LORRI instrument which were also looking out for Nix and Hydra. This makes it the largest KBO known to scientists at this time and also revises its volume and therefore density, having further implications as to its composition. The official value is now 1.86 +/- 0.01 grams per cubic centimeter., pointing to a 60% rock, 40% ice make-up. And if this wasn't exciting enough more details emerged about the side that New Horizons would get to image in high-resolution, including what seemed to be a giant heart! The anticipation was killer (John Hopkins 11 Jul, John Hopkins 13 Jul, Chang, Stern "The Pluto" 26).
As New Horizons flew past Pluto and Charon at 30,800 miles per hour on July 14, 2015, its closest approach was at 7:49 am eastern time at 7,690 miles, just 74 seconds early and only 45 miles off! Of course, to ensure that the flyby was a maximum gain event the New Horizons probe did not transmit any data until the flyby was well over. Scientists like Alan Stern had to wait over 13 hours post-Pluto flyby to know if New Horizons had even survived or had fallen victim to a possible space collision. But it had indeed made it through and started to send some amazing pictures that blew scientists away. A heart-shape feature was indeed on Pluto and Charon did have a dark red pole, just as preliminary data suggested (Boyle "Its", Chang).
Despite the long download time for the data, scientists have had plenty to sink their teeth into. Within the initial download on the same day as the flyby many discoveries were made. The 3-filter color images that the RALPH instrument was able to capture shows differentiations in the surfaces not visible in the visible spectrum. Interestingly it shows that Pluto's "heart" is not a whole feature but rather two distinct halves made of different materials with one side being smooth and made of carbon monoxide ice (possibly indicating a young age) and the other full of craters (possibly indicating an old age) (Stern "The Pluto" 25, Boyle "New From," Talcott "Pluto", Hupres).
The next day offered even more surprises, including mountains. Located along the western edge of the heart-shape feature on Pluto (informally known as the Tombaugh Regio), they offered some tantalizing and shocking clues about what does on geologically. Some of them are higher than the Himilayas at over 11,000 feet and instead of being made of rock are composed of water ice. The images showed no signs of impact craters, leading scientists to think that the mountains are young, probably no more than 100 million years old. But as to what could have allowed much of Pluto to have this youthful appearance was unknown but the best theory was radiological decay causing the interior to be warm enough for resurfacing. What caused this heat? Well, tidal heating caused by gravitational pull cannot be occurring here because nothing is pulling hard enough because of a lack of mass. To put it short: We don't know the source of the heat. In another part of the Regio, small pits next to mountains in Sputnik Planum seem to have arisen from sublimation of carbon monoxide/nitrogen ice of the plain into gas (Freeman, Yuhas, Stromberg, Calderone "The Biggest", Thompson "First," Powell).
Also found on the surface of Pluto were these huge mountains named the Norgay Montes and the Hillary Montes. As tall as the American Rockies, the Montes are too big for them to be made of the ice seen in Tombaugh, for that material is weak on Pluto and cannot withstand the 0.06 g environment. The nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide ices seen on the surface just can't bear the structural load the mountains require. So what can they be made of? Maybe if they were composed of water ice, we would be in luck. If true, it would hint at a water ice mantle with a rocky core, based on those density readings. In fact, as much as a third of Pluto could be water ice based off the density readings seen. Another mountain range seen on Pluto was the al-Idrisi Montes which hinted at some layering on Pluto's surface, and nestled in it is Alcyonia Lacus, a potentially frozen liquid nitrogen lake (Stern "The Pluto" 27, Stern "Hot" 32-3, Stern "Puzzled" 26).
Shortly after the first image of Hydra was released, a methane map of Pluto was displayed from infrared measurements. The different colors refer to the different types of methane ice present on the dwarf planet. Other surface measurements indicate that it is all ice and is 90% nitrogen and 10% methane. The different colors seen could be due to particulates like tholin (which absorb blue light and reflect red like most organic materials), age of the ice, or concentrations of the nitrogen and methane (Freeman, Yuhas, Stromberg, Betz "Pluto's Bright", Thompson "First," Hupres).
Scientists have known about the atmosphere of Pluto thanks to many occultations but the size of it was unknown until now. Measuring in at 1,650 miles above the surface, it was not only larger than expected but also colder and more dense than anticipated (see the section on haze for more on that). But what was even more surprising was what the SWAP instrument detected behind Pluto: a comet-like tail spanning 48,000 to 68,000 miles! The low gravity of Pluto means it cannot hang onto any gases for long so its escapes the surface, being deflected by the solar wind into a tail. It is made of ionized nitrogen and forms a plasma which allows the solar wind to carry away up to 500 tons of it each hour. Despite all of this, Pluto maintains a 7-10 microbar surface pressure (about 0.001% that of Earth's) and only has lost half a foot of total atmosphere depth to space since the formation of the solar system (as opposed to the old-school though of a half mile) (Thompson "First," Calderone "NASA," Betz "Pluto's Icy," Stern "The Pluto" 26, Talcott "New").
July 24 of that year, just 10 days post flyby, saw NASA release a picture of Pluto backlit by the Sun. The outlined dwarf planet shows two haze layers with one 30 miles above the surface and the other 50 miles above, going up to 80 miles high. These layers are not that dense - just 100,000 times less than Earth's atmosphere. The production of the haze is a little complicated, so buckle up. Methane gases in the atmosphere of Pluto get broken down by UV light and converts it to ethylene, acetylene, and other complex hydrocarbons called tholins which are red in color, produce a blue appearance similar to what nitrogen and oxygen in our atmosphere scatters, and are 0.1 to 0.5 microns in size. This also releases heat via infrared rays and cool the haze to about 70 Kelvin. The tholins settle to the lower levels of the atmosphere below 125 miles in altitude where they freeze into icy particles and become haze. It is possible that these can be broken down further by UV light into even more tholins which help give a red tint to the dwarf planet. Some clouds were even spotted, somehow correlated in their movement to the start and ends of a Pluto day (NASA "New Horizons Finds," Thompson "New Horizons Data," Powell, Betz "Pluto Surprises," Stern "The Pluto" 26, Stern "Hot" 30, Wenz "Pluto's Hazy," Stephens).
Also released that day was evidence of ice flows on the surface of Pluto. Located in Sputnik Planum (which is over 350,000 square miles in area), the image shows nitrogen ice and the possible migration it makes through the soft ice, like glaciers on Earth. It is another sign of a geologically active world despite the -390 degree Fahrenheit temperature found there. In fact, images of the lower portion of the Tombaugh Regio possible show ice moving over into the dark area known as the Cthulhu Regio. It seems to be a large place where not much activity occurs and combining that with the large craters seen points to an old age (maybe 4 billion years old). Images of Tombaugh and Cthulhu along with other newly named features are on the right (NASA "New Horizons Team," Thompson "New Horizons Data," Stern "The Pluto" 27, Stern "Hot" 32).
Alright, so what is the deal with all this nitrogen? Where does it come from? Comets are unlikely to collide enough to constantly replenish the 100's of tons lost hourly. It seems as though the geologically active dwarf planet viewpoint has gained more ground. Somehow, an internal mechanism is bringing nitrogen to the surface. Stern thinks that cryovolcanoes could be a possible delivery system. He also pointed out that for Pluto to be pumping as much nitrogen as it currently is suggests that it is much younger than anyone thought it was, possibly denting Kuiper Belt theories (Lewin).
The talk of cyrovolcanoes in the Pluto system heated up when Wright Mons, Kubrick Mons and Piccard Mons on Pluto were identified as being similar to shield volcano-like structures on Mars and Earth. The 100 kilometer wide rim around shallow but gentle depression slopes points to a collapse of the surface once material from below vacated it. That material could be driven by convection of some sort. The likely material of the cryovolcano based on those convection models would be a mix of nitrogen (as theorized before), ammonia, methane, or even water ice. And with a lack of craters in Sputnik Planum and a general lack of old craters anywhere on Pluto hints at both an active surface but also at a lack of small objects colliding with the dwarf planet. In fact, the Tombaugh Regio seems to be 1 billion years old while Sputnik Planum is 10-30 million years old! It hints at a shocking picture: that KBO's did not form through accumulation of smaller objects but rather formed as large objects near their current orbit. Solar system formation theories will need potential revising if further data confirms this (NASA "Pluto May Have," Berger "Volcanoes," Talcott "New," Stern "Hot" 32, Purdue, Stern "Puzzled" 26).
December of 2015 saw more information being released as well as new images. Amongst the findings released as continuing evidence for past and present geological activity on Pluto and with this the formation of interesting valleys that result from erosion. Sputnik Planum had its temperature readings released also, and they paint a picture for the nitrogen ices seen there. The way the heat flows in the 620-mile wide region causes the interesting polygon formations seen, and also how certain features travel around. Based on the heat, the plain is likely a few miles deep. Also mentioned was the lack of any new moons despite New Horizons looking for objects 20-30 times fainter than Nix (NASA "New Findings," Stern "The Pluto" 28).
Near the end of January 2016, the New Horizons team released a false-color map of Pluto's surface uncovered by LEISA to show how water is distributed. The image on the right shows all the water on the surface while the map on the left shows where the water is from bedrock, known due to the gases like methane obscuring material. While the map shows more water than scientists suspected there was, it also points out an interesting absence of the material in Sputnik Planum and Lowell Regio, perhaps indicating how their age plays a role in the surface of Pluto. Also, water levels on this map corresponded to the red areas on the dwarf planet, perhaps indicating a correspondence to tholins and water production (NASA "Pluto's Widespread," Betz "Pluto Surprises").
In March of 2016, a connection was found between the mountains of Pluto and its atmosphere. Turns out the dwarf planet has another parallel to Earth: snow on mountains. Yes, mountains in the Cthulhu region seem to have brighter tops than the rest of the tholin-covered terrain. And when we compare these tips to methane ice distributions around the mountains, we have a match. And where does that methane come from? The atmosphere, where the methane condensed and fell back to the surface. At the altitudes of the mountains it remains in its frozen form (Berger "NASA May").
Remember those nitrogen ice flows in Sputnik Planum? Scientists suspect that it acts like a giant "lava lamp." In a June 2016 press release, William B. McKinnon (from Washington University in St. Louis) and colleagues laid out their theory, which was based off imagery and computer simulations. Whatever is heating Pluto internally (likely a radioactive material) gets things hot enough to melt the nitrogen (which normally would be at 35 K) into a liquid, which rises because of buyoncy. As it nears the surface, it cools off until becoming solid again and sinking back down. In addition, this ice easily changes shape because of the lack of strong bonds between nitrogen atoms. All of this creates flow patterns like an uprising convection cell, which matches what images we have of up to 50 meter height differences between cells. But according to the simulations, the flow is slow, about a few centimeters a year. That means it would take over 500,000 years to fully circulate the surface and explain its youthful appearance. But as for why most of the nitrogen on Pluto exists solely in this region, the simulations offer no answers. Simply amazing (John Hopkins 02 Jun, Timmer "Pluto's Sputnik").
And in a rather interesting trend, Pluto joined the ranks of possible ocean worlds in our solar system. Yes, our distant dwarf planet may have a subsurface liquid ocean, based off New Horizon's tectonics data. The shape of the region indicates that a roughly 124 mile long object impacted Pluto there. But this presents a problem: The Sputnik Planitia is the heaviest part of the dwarf planet's surface and is opposite Charon, something that a crater should not be as its mass should be less than the surrounding region. But if Pluto has a free floating surface, then it would solve multiple problems. Density readings indicate that water is on Pluto, but any that is below the surface should have cooled and become ice, causing surface expansions and contractions. Yet we cannot see this, indicating that if water is present then it is liquid and likely more than 62 miles deep. Plus if such a system were present, then the crater from the impact would have been filled with the salty water and help explain the lopsided distribution of Pluto's surface. The question now becomes what could heat the water still after so many years. The signs point to radioactive decay. But another theory that takes the tectonics and density into account is a thinner crust, which leads to different forms of ice that could exist under seen conditions and eliminate the liquid ocean theory (Wenz "Pluto Becomes", Klotz "Pluto Has," Wenz "Pluto's Icy," Wenz "Pluto's Slushy Heart").
And while an underground ocean helps explain the features of Sputnik Planitia, it is not the only theory to do so. Under the runaway albedo effect, small pockets of ice reflected light and allowed more ice to accumulate as time went on. Eventually, enough was present to apply sufficient pressure to the surface and a basin formed, much like we see today (Klotz "Pluto's Heavy").
In another first, Pluto became the first Kuiper Belt object to emit x-rays! Yes, as unlikely as it seems like it should be the dwarf planet is sending them out, but how? No one knows, for nothing energetic enough to produce them should happen that far out in the solar system. Why? Not enough solar wind nor a strong magnetic field (Hrala).
However, dune-like activity was spotted near the al-Idrisi Montes. Based on some perpendicular patterns in the dunes, scientists suspect that they form with winds blowing in that direction rather than along the direction of the dunes. Turns out, when at -230 degrees Celsius nitrogen and methane ice is at a great density to be a particulate and winds can blow snow down from the mountains near the dunes, and simulations show the average size of each grain to be 0.2 to 0.3 millimeters or roughly equivalent to their Earth brethren. Sublimation at the mountains gives the ice particles the kick they need to start moving and the winds take over from there, with gravity finally recapturing them once away from the mountains (Johnson, Parks).
At the end of August of 2015 NASA announced that the follow-up to Pluto would be 2014 MU69, an object over 1 billion miles past Pluto, so long as it passed inspection and review. That was achieved on July 1, 2016. At a little under 30 miles long, it was one of 5 objects spotted by Hubble in 2014 as the New Horizons team was searching for the next phase of the mission. Targeted fuel burns got New Horizons to MU69 by January 1, 2019. Another window into the mysterious Kuiper Belt was revealed. To learn more, check out my follow-up (NASA "New Horizons Selects," Wenz "New Horizons," NASA "NASA Releases").
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What Was the MESSENGER Spacecraft and Its Mission to Planet Mercury?
By all means. I never mind someone citing a hub of mine.
I am definitely going to look for that Hub, I may even reference it in the one I am currently writing, if that is okay?
I have a hub on the Nice Model which discusses a bit of how that period may have arose. It will be nice to see a hub that goes into the whole story!
I'm currently composing a new hub. This topic will be on the Late Heavy Bombardment, as well as other impacts that greatly affected and shaped our solar system.
I don't know about more knowledgeable but certainly enthusiastic!
I do have a Google Plus website promoting this site but other than that this is it. It would be great though!
Thanks Ruth. I am even more excited for the data we haven't seen yet.
Excellent work. The New Horizon's was revolutionary to our outer planetary research, I was thrilled to see high definition photo's of Pluto for the first time when the probe arrived.


The 2008-09 crash seemed to be The End of the World because the entire banking system (with knock-on effects worldwide) was in meltdown mode. If you put extra cash into the US market in 2008-09 then you made out like a bandit. But most investors didn't have the nerve or extra cash to add to existing investments, so they either 1) DID NOTHING ("stayed the course") OR 2) they bailed and locked in severe losses. The best way to respond to market pullbacks is to "stay the course." Investors who bailed and locked in losses often ended up in cash for years, insuring that their re-entry would be at far higher prices. Admittedly, it took years to recover to pre-crash levels but "staying the course" is the best option.
Once the market bottomed in 2009, it made sense to continue to dollar cost average into markets if you still were working and saving for retirement. Dollar-cost averaging remains a great way to smooth market entry. Timing markets is an illusion (e.g. thinking they'll go higher or lower due to some event) doesn't work. Every year data show that investors do worse than the market due to market timing as a response to market volatility. In 2018, US investors lost twice as much (nearly 10%) as the S&P 500 (-4.4%)! Investors who chase past performance get their fingers burned. Example: if a mutual fund outperforms its benchmark based on 3 years of annualized returns, only a fraction will go on to outperform (data from 2012-18).
Depending upon your time horizon it's smart to retain at least 6 months of cash reserves if you're working, and 1-2 years of cash reserves if you're retired. The exact amount depends upon your core living expenses net of streams of income (pensions, Social Security, Required Minimum Distributions [RMDs] from IRAs, etc). And speaking of cash for RMDs, it's a good idea to retain some cash reserve in IRA accounts if you're over 70 ½ so RMDs can be executed without selling in a down market.
Astute advisors and investors pay attention to the underlying expense ratio levied on mutual funds and ETFs. Investors typically ignore these fees when the market is rising. Mutual funds and ETFs provide excellent diversification well worth the price, if fees typically don't exceed e.g. 1/3 of 1% (0.3%). However, the average active mutual fund charges over 1% per year. This fee isn't visible to the investor – it simply is subtracted from the total return.
We Americans are unprepared to fund lengthy retirements that can last 30 years or more. We're living longer than ever and medical costs are mounting. If you unexpectedly need to help family members or you don't have long-term care insurance, your risk of outliving your assets increases further. The best way to reduce these risks is to work with a Fee-Only advisor who has a Fiduciary obligation to put your interests before his/own.
Many of these "lessons" are timeless and equally relevant in up or down markets. A good advisor will observe and practice them. And with all due respect, "Caveat Emptor" (buyer beware) if you're getting piecemeal financial planning advice from a broker who earns his/her keep by selling you commissioned mutual funds and other products!
(C) Copyright 2019 by Eve Kaplan. All Rights Reserved.


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Q: How can I get the boost numeric bindings? I have a file that needs to use boost numeric bindings's library. How can I get that binding library?
The following link seems not able to work anymore. The zipped file is corrupted.
http://mathema.tician.de/dl/software/boost-numeric-bindings/
And I hope I could use it in Window and Visual Studio tool.

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I have a file that needs to use boost numeric bindings's library. How can I get that binding library?

You can grab the sources of the current version via
svn co http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/numeric_bindings
The version from http://mathema.tician.de/dl/software/boost-numeric-bindings/ is an older version with a different interface. You can grab the sources of that older version via
svn co http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/numeric_bindings-v1

And I hope I could use it in Window and Visual Studio tool.

You need a blas/lapack library in addition to the bindings. For windows, Intel MKL, AMD's ACML, clapack and atlas used to work, last time I checked. (You only need one of these, but note that atlas only implements blas and a small subset of lapack). These libraries have widely different performance and license conditions, but they all implement the same interface (more or less).
In general, the people at http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ublas seem to be helpful, if you try to use the bindings (or ublas) and run into problems. But I'm not sure if any of them checks here at stackoverflow for potential users that ran into problems.


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Q: Speeded-Up Robust Features SURF I'm implementing SURF algorithm and I'm referring to the Chris Evan's OpenSURF .
In OpenSURF and in almost all the other SURF implementations I see that when Dxx and Dyy are computed a multiplying factor 3 is used(look at the code below). No where in the SURF paper or OpenSURF paper is it mentioned why they do it. I have no problem in doing the same but I'm curious to know why this multiplication is being carried out. If it is important for the Dxx and Dyy computations then why is it not mentioned anywhere? Am I missing it?
Can anyone having experience with this give me some explanation?
Regards
Dxx and Dyy along with Dxy are used to calculate the Determinant
Dxx = BoxIntegral(img, r - l + 1, c - b, 2*l - 1, w)
          - BoxIntegral(img, r - l + 1, c - l / 2, 2*l - 1, l)*3; // Why 3 here?

Dyy = BoxIntegral(img, r - b, c - l + 1, w, 2*l - 1)
          - BoxIntegral(img, r - l / 2, c - l + 1, l, 2*l - 1)*3; // Why 3 here?

A: You should refer to the updated paper published in 2008 that provides additional details, in particular regarding the box filter lobes properties.
If you refer to section 3.2 and figure 2, you can see that the central lobe (black one) of the box filter has a negative factor of -2 while the white lateral lobes have a positive factor of +1.
With the above formulas the factor 3 is simply related to the fact that, thanks to the integral image:

*

*you sum +1 over the whole area,

*then you perform a subtraction (with -3) over the central lobe only

This gives you the -2 expected factor for the central lobe (1 - 3).