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Black Lake (Season 1)
A modern Scandinavian interpretation of the classical cozy mystery.
Feb 3, 2020 | by Dimitris Passas | 0 Comments
Black Lake is a Nordic series (Danish, Swedish and Norwegian co-production) that attempts to mingle a classic mystery whodunit plot with supernatural horror elements and the result, though not thoroughly satisfying, is decent. The show casts an all-Scandinavian cast with actors from Denmark, Sweden, and Norway and each character speaks in his mother tongue, thus in some scenes, we are witnessing the paradox of people talking to each other all using different languages. The story involves the visit to an abandoned ski resort by a group of young Danish and Swedish people, to repair and reopen it. But the place has its own secrets and soon sinister phenomena begin to affect the visitors who will have to unearth the secrets of the past in order to stay alive and get out of there in one piece. The first season casts some genuinely talented Scandinavian actors with Sarah-Sofie Boussnina's (Bron/Broen, The Absent Ones) exquisite beauty shining in the eight episodes of the first cycle. Apart from her, the show casts Filip Berg (Evil, Blue Eyes), Nils Ole Oftebro (Mammon, Acquitted), and Aliette Opheim (Thicker Than Water, Johan Falk). It should also be mentioned that the second season of the show has been aired in 2018, but I think that the first season was better in terms of both plotting and characterization while the second had a rather weak story with uneven pacing and lack of climax in the ending.
The first season is playing with notions of supernatural interference and as I was watching the first few episodes I was afraid that I was witnessing another cliched haunted house thriller. Fortunately, that was not the case here as there is a strong plot unfolding throughout the eight episodes which involve a secret cannabis growing hothouse, morally questionable experiments on kids of the indigenous Sami minority, a romantic story, and characters becoming raving mad after living a few days in the premises of the ski resort. Hanne (S. Sofie Boussnina) is the character who leads an investigation to the history of the building and soon she finds out that it was used as a sanatorium for children twenty years ago. At the same time, she becomes convinced that a dead boy, Mikkel, is trying to contact her through some sketches that Hanne finds in the resort. Hanne also learns that a whole family was butchered there by the man who owned the building and she also steals some videotapes with him confessing his crimes. Meanwhile, the little group of people starts gradually to lose its cohesion as it seems that some of them are severely affected by the curse that haunts the place and when Jessan (A. Opheim) attempts to strangle her boyfriend for no apparent reason, the group of friends will realize that things might be a bit more serious than they initially thought. In the second half of the season, the body count increases dramatically and there is, perhaps, some reference to classic mystery novels of the "Golden Age" era as the show exudes a feeling that is close to Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians". There are plenty of questions open to the viewer's suggestions and interpretations, but in the end, all pieces are falling into place. The main flaw of Black Lake is its uneven pacing that derails specifically in the last four episodes. Even though the story is absorbing enough, the plot doesn't flow smoothly and there is an absence of a substantial, final climax to give a sense of closure to the audience.
Black Lake attempts to blend a variety of genres and it is one of the few Nordic television shows that can be categorized in the horror genre. I think that the show will appeal more to the readers who love Yrsa Sigurðardóttir's and John Lindqvist's novels. It also shares many similarities with another Swedish TV show, titled Rig 45 (2018) that unravels in a secluded setting, an oil-drilling site somewhere up north. It is certainly not the hottest Nordic Noir television production of the last few years, nevertheless, it offers some thrilling and chilling moments, especially in this first season. Keep in mind that both seasons consist of 8 episodes of 45 minutes each, so it makes for a rather quick watch. It is recommended for the fans of the genre and it is worth a shot especially if you enjoy contemporary spooky ghost stories and horror fiction works.
You can find the first season of Black Lake on Amazon.com:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
Sweden Denmark Norway Ski Resort Secluded House Cozy Mystery Supernatural Phenomena Curse Sami Cannabis Deception Snow Snowmobile Haunted House Filip Berg Sarah-Sofie Boussnina Nils Ole Oftebro Ghost Story Revenge Mental Illness
Svartsjön
Danish/Swedish
D. Berron, J. Sjöberg, R. Jarnhed, P. Simonsson
Episodes/Runtime
8 episodes/42 min


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// Capture support for WinRT

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#include "precomp.hpp"
#include "cap_winrt_capture.hpp"
#include "cap_winrt_bridge.hpp"
#include "cap_winrt_video.hpp"
#include <opencv2\videoio\cap_winrt.hpp>

using namespace Windows::Foundation;
using namespace Windows::Media::Capture;
using namespace Windows::Media::MediaProperties;
using namespace Windows::Devices::Enumeration;

using namespace Platform;

using namespace Windows::UI::Xaml::Media::Imaging;
using namespace Microsoft::WRL;

using namespace ::std;

namespace cv {

    /******************************* exported API functions **************************************/

    template <typename ...Args>
    void winrt_startMessageLoop(std::function<void(Args...)>&& callback, Args... args)
    {
        auto asyncTask = ::concurrency::create_async([=](::concurrency::progress_reporter<int> reporter)
        {
            VideoioBridge::getInstance().setReporter(reporter);

            // frame reading loop
            callback(args...);
        });

        asyncTask->Progress = ref new AsyncActionProgressHandler<int>([=](IAsyncActionWithProgress<int>^ act, int progress)
        {
            int action = progress;

            // these actions will be processed on the UI thread asynchronously
            switch (action)
            {
            case OPEN_CAMERA:
                VideoioBridge::getInstance().openCamera();
                break;
            case CLOSE_CAMERA:
                Video::getInstance().closeGrabber();
                break;
            case UPDATE_IMAGE_ELEMENT:
                VideoioBridge::getInstance().updateFrameContainer();
                break;
            }
        });
    }

    template <typename ...Args>
    void winrt_startMessageLoop(void callback(Args...), Args... args)
    {
        winrt_startMessageLoop(std::function<void(Args...)>(callback), args...);
    }

    void winrt_onVisibilityChanged(bool visible)
    {
        if (visible)
        {
            VideoioBridge& bridge = VideoioBridge::getInstance();

            // only start the grabber if the camera was opened in OpenCV
            if (bridge.backInputPtr != nullptr)
            {
                if (Video::getInstance().isStarted()) return;

                int device = bridge.getDeviceIndex();
                int width = bridge.getWidth();
                int height = bridge.getHeight();

                Video::getInstance().initGrabber(device, width, height);
            }
        } else
        {
            //grabberStarted = false;
            Video::getInstance().closeGrabber();
        }
    }

    void winrt_imshow()
    {
        VideoioBridge::getInstance().imshow();
    }

    void winrt_setFrameContainer(::Windows::UI::Xaml::Controls::Image^ image)
    {
        VideoioBridge::getInstance().cvImage = image;
    }

    /********************************* VideoCapture_WinRT class ****************************/

    VideoCapture_WinRT::VideoCapture_WinRT(int device) : started(false)
    {
        VideoioBridge::getInstance().setDeviceIndex(device);
    }

    bool VideoCapture_WinRT::isOpened() const
    {
        return true; // started;
    }

    // grab a frame:
    // this will NOT block per spec
    // should be called on the image processing thread, not the UI thread
    bool VideoCapture_WinRT::grabFrame()
    {
        // if device is not started we must return true so retrieveFrame() is called to start device
        // nb. we cannot start the device here because we do not know the size of the input Mat
        if (!started) return true;

        if (VideoioBridge::getInstance().bIsFrameNew)
        {
            return true;
        }

        // nb. if blocking is to be added:
        // unique_lock<mutex> lock(VideoioBridge::getInstance().frameReadyMutex);
        // VideoioBridge::getInstance().frameReadyEvent.wait(lock);
        return false;
    }

    // should be called on the image processing thread after grabFrame
    // see VideoCapture::read
    bool VideoCapture_WinRT::retrieveFrame(int channel, cv::OutputArray outArray)
    {
        if (!started) {

            int width, height;
            width = outArray.size().width;
            height = outArray.size().height;
            if (width == 0) width = 640;
            if (height == 0) height = 480;

            VideoioBridge::getInstance().setWidth(width);
            VideoioBridge::getInstance().setHeight(height);

            // nb. Mats will be alloc'd on UI thread

            // request device init on UI thread - this does not block, and is async
            VideoioBridge::getInstance().requestForUIthreadAsync(OPEN_CAMERA);

            started = true;
            return false;
        }

        if (!started) return false;

        return VideoioBridge::getInstance().bIsFrameNew;
    }

    bool VideoCapture_WinRT::setProperty(int property_id, double value)
    {
        switch (property_id)
        {
        case CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH:
            size.width = (int)value;
            break;
        case CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT:
            size.height = (int)value;
            break;
        default:
            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }

Ptr<IVideoCapture> create_WRT_capture(int device)
{
    return makePtr<VideoCapture_WinRT>(device);
}

}

// end

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A lighthouse, countless lifetimes gone, spark as great beams sweep across sight line discharge and disappear only to eternally reappear. Pulsars pulse power 'cross a sparkling firmament.
A blood moon before sight as ears perk for Coyote's lunar call. Early morning and snow curves to white silver and interwoven shadows of leafless limbs and long trunks stand between the moon and ground touch. Black road now white, a gentle declination from community's frontage, down the gentle hill. Cold and bright stars spot sky beyond rooftops and brighter just as moonlight slips closer to the earth.
They evoke the 'Time of Councils'. They remember the countless deliberations, the wine and beer, the emotive currents of parallel and divergence. The Elders appreciate the strength of unanimity in both directions and in the thrill of indirection. Good to be an idealist and better to implement, then to watch struggles decrease and die without formal intent or the informal ventures of a straightforward mind. Shriek and speak and peak and realize the up-down issues of a United People or a Distant Society or listen to murmured fabrications in the dark.
Words are vascular and alive. Life flows thru vein-to-brain then ink flows and magic often flat is smooth and…And! Mind speaks simplicity with force combined to shout future verse with yesterday's sweet silence. To listen! To so softly pronounce and become choir sing-song's harmonious visions. Is truth found here? Is in communities 'cross land and seaside channels a fact that each community found discovers itself on the verge of losing every part and every parcel of any fortune or any chance of regaining any semblance of harmony, love and joy?
Are we caught in that consistent struggle to maintain perpetual conflict with one-another and to protect ourselves from each other? Why? We accept these 'all the time' situations as unalterable and unavoidable and 'so it must be true,' this way of life's life. Wow! We are effective at destroying 'the enemy'; so proficient, that we are unable to identify an adversary from a 'maybe or almost' the same blood-red animation we want or desire to embrace—not race but begin and end with a sometimes or almost never-ever or requiring an absolute maybe?
Erecting partitions between Mexico/South America and the United States is without intelligence. Walls are pointless; as are, hollow gestures and additional reasons to disconnect. 'Donnie T' is just another 'Poser' of this country's betrayed unity and direction? Global reasons to exist will conclude as divisions increase hate and ignorance and vacuous nationalism and abject failure of new realities, as greed continues its evil. Attempts to control thought are attempts to control America? Constant learning is another form of survival's attempts to animate. We provide the poise required to afford physical sustenance, covering and haven. What is the sacrifice for this equilibrium?
Being afraid to exist is the notion of moving through a barely recollected time of future's fate and prior to another trip-in-time. Government is controlling an alienated society and the anterior faith in promises and desires. The elected ones cannot move toward either truth or nonfiction due to the simple reasons that lying is the easiest form of communication. And! None seem to care.
Is Dancing-in-the-dark a prudent practice or is unawareness as idyllic as lingering to trace flowers with eyes-to-face-to-ground and then to drift away into silence. Principles determine how to restrain shares of humanity's essentials, desires, hopes and fears. While the Constitution of America is noble, it is an impractical paradigm. Its structures are impossible to apply, since values adjust swiftly. Standards amend and are either normally just or abnormally unjust. We are conscious of the 'Military Industrial Complex.' Will the current actions of 2019, imply the termination of any hopes to continue our righteous and upright and ethical Freedoms? Freedom's endurance or America's Dreams-of-Direction is its independent spirit. Justice be a damnable notion to quantify, to identify and to practice properly. This Republic may not be clever enough to follow this fragile and undoubtedly corruptible Representative Democracy.
To seek and destroy others due to divergences in shape, in scope, in tint, in notions or faith is intention with no 'assonance or intelligence'. The colored fibers of an arras must be many and without reason for life has no meaning if lacking variety and noise and without sing-song choirs and time.
Sighted! Righted to see the shadows' tuck—inside textures—ghosts and inside shadows—inside—reflected swirls of star light—and—lighted night. Is it true that—if we build a shelving unit—created with shelves—structurally made to sustain—heavier weights—than the object we just purchased—should we—avoid putting that object on that unit? Is a waste of strength practical?
Reach and then—portion and scatter across understanding simplicity—and the variances in relativity—either linguistically determined—or silenced by rain—loud—gentle beginnings or the whispers of fire-fly wings and lighting…Wait! Eyes—tightly closed—to hear thunder—rolling across separated skies—as unseen flashes—knight the ocean—and crashes boom into the silent space—between raindrops and life…'Plant your flag on—truth…' Science eternally dances with superstition…Once and often either—momentarily wins something-of-else or another choice-to-follow…Crossroads to matter—chances to spark—and destiny always flirts with other up-and-about—perhaps…Real Sea—we'll see—and another and another—of water-ships and places far away…This is here and between landings another beach—reach and as quickly discovered then thrown away…Dragging the lines of surf's fall and rise—as waves dash high into moonless sky and crash along miles of sand and shoreline. Sea inhale and exhale and breathe again and time marks nothing—when endless and everlasting.
Sand and leaves—together speak—rustle—whisper—murmur and moan of death—not found—of life—not known. And! Still—now notions of her away sounds and her quietude. Feathers and Leaves and Sand and Ashes and Seas—silence sees—and thunder be—peels across sky and rolls onto shoreline—and skylines—and time. The share of poet-touch and story-spin—of exile's faith—of disaster's private pain—as speech native—fails—creative spirit—often maims—creature-speak and often confuses the never-place-of-everywhere.
Grass—carpet floors of high to sky mountain flats—red sand shifts—when raining seasons begin—the fall of liquids both silver-clear and diamond-splash—across the drinking desert of sand and sea—as jungle sleeps. Once heart fears—did not exist—within the laughing times of fearless pursuit and the unrequited necessities of being—the beginning of—being the life of long summer moments and winter shorts—when snow covers the dreaming spaces of—sands and purple seas. Shift into the object of another day with—accepted expectations—extraordinary moments—original thought and lights of splendidly created—creations through perceptions of flashing— preconceived originality and overloaded repeaters across a wondrous land of sugar and cinnamon-spiced tea or coffee or me or you or us or…in the becoming of a notion—immortally important and into legacy's realm—repeated and recalled and repeated… Ashes-to-ashes and dust-to-dust-new-ways-to-win—we must be us?
We—live only—along this stretch of sand and—along with the catching up of tide flow—believe the ice and water before and behind us are—our ground—our chapter of seasons lived and written against the sands of shifting grain and the wind. Care for life and alive and steeped in the reality of earth-beat and washed in the eternity of spirit and—even alone—never lonely or forgotten with passing days or endless years of grooved space and the distance between here and there and everywhere.
May we all become beings of balance and love? Remember we are creations of creative folk—never alone. We are spirits and joined to every living thing—seen and not observed. We are animals and fish and reptiles and trees and flowers and skies and moons and suns and stars and planets across many miles inside universes of many smiles. Forget to breathe. Fog horns moan and moan again just within cones of hearing—an evening rare—without fog or mist. Held inside—air rushes into throat and through nose and mouth. Sea odor—eyes tear. Bridge time is fine and darkness safe…Search Sea. The Line moves closer to shore…Ships soon pass and are quickly gone.
'Where bound you?'—Ask voices 'cross way—from night—day—shift twice—tune-memory-forgotten and answer—Remember? Side-way Space—touch—three star-shines' length plus—planet spin and just beyond Forgotten Moon…Remember? In the Glide-way Hall of Twirl-world—take off skyward in wig-waggle soft—time and match speed—beyond light drag—dream-match daring—space into bits of byte-chunk—tunnel wide—touches heaven's length—heart-beat time and blood vein long….Just a little 'meant-to-be'…Remember?
Push from Witch Magnificent—Creation's womb—just in time—long before—sky fall touch—Earth-spin west—then—east again and seas to south beyond—where—lines slant deep—just as—round circle top—world light-night—is long—is short—depends on—view points—open minds—north winds and times of day…And! We do ride sea—boards of light 'cross—back-lit waves from shoreline to ocean—lines—where sky touch—water fine then—back to sand again—again and again—begin—to end again…Drown now—in Water deep—or Heaven's tracks—between the Stars-and-Mars…Remember?
It is OK—when scented moments—mind trick memories from start-to-stop and pause—cause light-years ago—to present places and races—to mind front—almost touch—tease slight—flight-of-forms known—love-touch-spirit—twirl—when love is mind's eye strong and after-kisses tastes—last long—then form-is-warm and need less—than want is long and lingers—until night cease-crease softens into sleep-sweet…Remember?
Taste of you—in mind rhyme—time and ever-dream—moments deep—twilight keep and never-ever traces of—endless touch—no rush—just together—'us' and the harmony of 'We'…Remember? Walk-talk—now us—hand reach and fingers clasp—inside Needles Park—beneath Bent Bridge—brown hedge and ridge where green grass—gone brown—cooled and the waves below—Lake Shine—bounce moonlight…Remember? Yeah! We do—OK?
Sky-Light Ribbon is a river of stars and just a slip-slide from—Ideal death…When plague wars and gun wars and drone wars and political wars and the war-of-use-to-be-still-is-always-will-be—Imperialism—Capitalism—Colonialism—Socialism—Communism—a hoping breeze of cool choice—choosing—and just a slip-slide from that Ideal Death… Carbon Based beings are born capable of immediate—friendly attitudes—a survival mechanism or just a simple 'reach-touch-out'— to other eternal spirits?
Grass—carpet floors of high to sky mountain flats—red sand shifts—when raining seasons begin—the fall of liquids both silver-clear and diamond-splash—across the drinking desert of sand and sea—as jungle sleeps. Once hearted fears—did not exist—within the laughing times of fearless pursuit and the unrequited necessities of being—the beginning of—being the life of long summer moments and winter shorts—when snow covers the dreaming spaces of—sands and purple seas.
Do believe—from windows—and across the bay— dancers' stage and cage—beyond believers of dawn—cross—these water-gates in boat crafts and—do anchor—along the sandy shoreline. In these model times—love push—swings without color desires—save to be and swing those roped contraptions—higher and higher and higher and to fly—among white billowed clouds and raindrops—dew-dropped in those spaces along these places.
Shift into the object of another day with—accepted expectations—extraordinary moments—original thought and lights of splendidly created—creations through perceptions of flashing— preconceived originality and overloaded repeaters across a wondrous land of sugar and cinnamon-spiced tea or coffee or me or you or us or…in the becoming of a notion—immortally important and into legacy's realm—repeated and recalled and repeated…Amen! Ashes-to-ashes and dust-to-dust-new-ways-to-win—we must be us?
The where-in-the-world—to—appear is no irritation to the matter-of-the-matter. The 'I' of us has never survived without the everywhere of everyone in everyplace—across the sky and below and above the lights of moon—stars and suns' dances—beyond the imagined realms of universal distance and the figures of figures wrapped around a third planet from here-to-there and again to another planet of wondering folks alive in both spaces and places and time.
Lion's sandy paws follow our fading footsteps washed away by gentle surf and the settle of a constant settlement of earth and sky. We—you and I are—instantly together and drawn by this moment and the notion—of the simplicity—of knowing—we are beings beneath the fading light of moon and the coming of dawn-light and shadow. Those fading prints—of sandy paws disappear—and Lion call echoes—somewhere across the bay. It is the music of this night and the rhythm of today.
I'll tell you what I'll do – What will you do?
Why go to learn the words of fools?
The prodigious size and the age of a universe is eternal-speak…Rage and range and contractual—contracts—of contractions—expansions—as endless as day-night and mind-time—rewind—refine—and that sense of rhythm or rhyme…Planets and Stars and Nebulae and Space are creations of countless moments of being—ceasing and again being—for minutes of seconds—or the ever—being of forever hours in times'—mind. Special is this contract—of life's contractions—expansions—of being—of ending—and of Life's—purposed—Life's—meaning or—Lives of just—Living…Now and then—won't that be cool?
Angels fly in starship to scout where next to stop-land-wait-end-and begin again-begin. In star-ships the folds of space shortens the distance between star-light and star-bright and the day of night. In starship—galaxy edge and galaxy center matters only to the standing one at waters' edge on planet-fall. Small is a matter of size and nothing less than sky-lights and heaven's length. We dance Universe…you and I—hand-to-hand-shoulder-touched-lips-to-eyes and never tears. Eternal Spirits cannot cry and never Universes' end and we—Spirit—and—Spirits never die. Robot once—then again and again and… Now and then—won't that be cool?
But Love! Is the spirit of heart and soul—does not require name or title or reason or permission or through the grace of… No! Things called government nor religious-named or senate or congress or court or king or country has right or reason to legislate or forbid the strength of Love between anyone…And! Stop the builders of weapons! Too late? For—sword grow as shield grows—as bomb-to-drone-to—the shrieks of madness—drown-too—silence the gentle swish and swoon of love and touch and care and taste and the sweetness of dove's morning cry and the living sound of baby cries and gurgles and… Now or then—won't that be cool?
Plague—begins and ends as folks—end and begin…Robot death or death of substrate or the walkers that carry—Eternal Spirits at—Spirit—pass—a world or ten or a thousand places 'cross— birthing—universes. Warmed—to the form of you and me—the us and them of this—here and this—now. And! Time is damned—except by those tellers—of time and those singers of timed songs. When futures' laugh…Moments—span the days of—does not matter minutes and dances twirling into relief… Now or then—won't that be cool?
Instead—let us again—dance across these universe—as we wish to dance. We—you and I—and spirit-dance—when the flesh of non-interchangeability sheds substances and gains sustenance. Life spark-sparkles forever–then lends light to darkness—knowing this—is good—is sweet. Now or then—won't that be cool?
And nothing else matters…" from 'Nothing Else Matters' by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett of Metallica.
We are Children of the same Verses of these Universes—We have the Right-to-be-Everywhere… Now and then—won't that be cool?
But I couldn't let go of L.A.
How sweet word sounds—worlds—as every utterance touches rhyme and rhythm speak—unlike—gathered watches of waiting and watching—a sky-speak of whispers—into the air of night—another spot of raindrop flight—landing 'gainst—warming sands and salty seas…Riches flow about the words of sound—tongues known and tasted—treasured—accepted and often heard in other spaces-places seen—felled or yelled against gloom—gathers where sunlight is wishing—spaces scattered among stars of reaches—stretches across skies of night and spaces between word sound—and light. Trilingual editions both same or exiled—silence long and the knowing word—of these places—away from the sounds—of her and the notions of—her quietude. Sand and Leaves—together speak—rustle—whisper—murmur and moan of death—not found—of life—not known. And! Still—now notions of her away sounds and her quietude. Feathers and Leaves and Sand and Ashes and Seas—silence see—and thunder be—peels across sky and rolls onto shoreline—and skylines—and time.
Touch now…And! Feel the intimacy of rhythm or rhyme as touch–speak hides deep— inside—the formality of syntax creep and syntax crawl—where ear-here—hears echoes buried—an idiom—not conveyed by any dictionary's spaces between word-speak and why…The share of poet-touch and story-spin—of exile's faith—of disaster's private pain—as speech native—fails—creative spirit—often maims—creature-speak and often confuses the never-place-of-everywhere.
Word—whirl and shoulder-speak—between things and folks—now world twirled and swirled—communicated—debated and always—translated…Why? When silence of touch—the space of race—cross the beast—of peace—and whispers of dare—chance the softest face to love—gain—lost and gained again. Word whirl…The masters-of-idiomatic usage-of-etymological-implications-of-an untranslatable language-discovered-said-remembered-to-be-forgotten-translated and written another way at another day-in-time. Samuel Beckett's—'Waiting for Godot', 'Endgame', 'Molloy', 'Malone Dies', 'The Unnamable' and 'Tetes Mortes'—first in French…Were then translated by the writer…Did Beckett first thrill-to-the-spill—the conception of these writings in English?
Mumble-Tumbles across Swindle Park—'cross go—skies ago—as together and custom and life and speech and reason to think and thought and living and dying immediately stop…Reverses gone! Visions—homeward motions and little lights in windows at world's ends or beginnings—extinguish and lost to never-light. Flashes light never-sky and star twinkle beyond layered sheets of gray-grayer and darkness without the twin-of-moons disappear—above earth-spin-sky-hide and die. Strip bare–ground and devour-quick ways around the planet one or two or three or… We—Worlders destroy our own—too many and our own—slaughter mother-world and failing to protect becomes insignificant. Mumble-Tumbles and Swindle Park is 'falling down'.
Layers often diminish and the going inside wounds—cry for sweet peace. Peace—is never-last and leaves the day and by life's end—flits ghost-shaped quickly across dream-side. Just before the worn die—worn smiles and body sighs—silence—more time and more and more and…Concert ends after air-breeder-body-stops then—ready Guide—Soul Breeder leaves behind damage—places of many names and Nemo travels 'cross skies toward—-anywhere. Long sky visits or short sky freedoms—then trapped by anything and bang—bang—Sky-spirit drops and body stirs in good places. Then—born—star traveler sleeps in safe arms. And! Infant loved—is robbed of star knowledge and memories of past life and the future—memory of sleep and again… Primal-side begins in Mumble-Tumbles 'cross Swindle Park.
The circle safely closed—the web building starts—the markers of builders old and builders new. Star Guide—folded into original shape— until it is—again required and opened to read and follow—'cross sky-bridge….Bang-Bang-Bang and let the game begin—again…'Tis' good this Loving Rhyme. So! Follow this Time—this Twine—Re-wind.
Flash-Dash and Streaks touch world along these places called 'Swindle Park' and across those places tucked down-low between and below Triple Viaducts—twin ruined and one complete. Flash-Dash and Streaks ground to rounding shapes and sparks crash-burn among twin faced-tumble-rumble—crumbled slabs of once concrete-shapes and marbled disks and granite stones—marking graves of those more or less and always flesh-dead and flash gone.
Flash—Fear stir hearts and images dash among the ruins of loss-increase or additional decrease—not instructs of constructs-destructs—simply here and gone and back again. Way-of–life-facts-matter-more-less-import-export-unimportant—matters-little or lessons-less-scar—hearts stir—breathe—catch and release…Still—Animate-imitated life as the silent sounds of folk-scurry-hurry-worry cause days of notions known—and the motion of future wig-waggle prayer and intimate—initiate Life—mute-points—of stop-to-go and back-again. Wig-waggled stars—wig-waggled bars and scars of wig-waggled hope and strangled-wrangled strength.
To hell with Lies-of-Government—and we really know these lies—don't we Now? Leave those Lies-of-Religion 'cause—if the Goddess had written a true Bible of Books—She would never have walked steps behind men…Paternal—Maternal..WTF? Everyday—She and He stand side-by-side—before the mouth-of-caves and die protecting their little ones? God created 'first' Man…WTF? 'Religions first created God…There are many—first or last…Must be written by Governments to control—to kill—to rule and Governments—Religions do create hellish creations—donchathink? Oh Yeah! Around this wig-waggle-world—We 'scurry-hurry'-folk do—Love-our-Children-So…Religions of Governments—Are 'Never-Ever' Required.


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An independent panel of international experts selected only three organizations worldwide for this top honor in energy management. The CEM award honored recipients of this prestigious award at a ceremony during the annual CEM meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark on May 24.
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The new book by Piketty is causing quite a stir. No I haven't read it.
But neither have many others, it seems.
Some mistakes: Piketty isn't a Marxist. However, he is data driven, unlike many others who thrive in mathematical obscurantism.
What conservative critics don't seem to understand is that Piketty isn't advocating a classless society or public ownership of the means of production. Like Marx, his immediate problem is defining how capital works. Any good economist is going to spend some time defining what capital is and where it goes.
What Piketty has shown, according to his interviews and reviewers, is that unregulated markets do not distribute wealth equitably. Capital flows to the top. It does not trickle down. Government has been the engine that protects capital flow for the middle class.
This is not a moral argument. It's a descriptive one. Except when it comes to the corollary that people who have a lot more money have a lot more political power. In the end, as one libertarian economist sheepishly admitted to me, one cannot have both the sort of markets that create income inequality, and the traditional, republican, community virtues. One must have an oligarchy, or a republic, and capital by and large leans toward the former.
Efficiency and economies of scale still produce hierarchies. But that's not the primary point. He's not arguing against income inequality, social stratification or corporate organization. He's saying something about capital flow. But in some conversations he's remarked that A CEO making 20-25 times the lowest paid worker will be no less productive than a CEO making 500 times that. He asserts that level of income inequality is simply not necessary for a market to function productively. And this is what has some conservatives hopping mad: it seems that they want it all.
So unregulated wealth flows upward. Now what? Well, I can't affirm much about policy at this point. Our faith requires realism about wealth and a distinguishing between things and people. It takes a subtle conscience to acknowledge each financial misery, one's own riches, how one's own wealth is through grace. That kind of sophistication is rare: the eye of the needle, perhaps.
Our communities, however, can provide spaces where people are invited to be generous with each other. For we think it's all God's, and we should not be afraid of loss, not afraid of sharing, resentful of the prosperous, or judgmental of the poor. At least, however, Piketty has called us to pay attention and face the truth: capital flows toward the top, unless our public institutions ensure that it flows freely for all.
The people of Israel forget and remember God.
They live when they remember.
The church has its bones.
But it didn't believe what it said.
King Jesus has wakened you.
It said very little. It was consumed in its causes, rummage sales and dinners.
or that Jesus is King Zombie.
Instead, Jesus is like the Hulk.
Mary and Martha got mad at Jesus.
but he wanted to show people he was a superhero.
and I'm sure Lazarus just needed a bath. Even though that part isn't in the scriptures.
Perhaps Jesus modeled what life could be in church.
We bring our frustrations and anger, and just let them be.
We don't hide them, but focus them.
where others can simply be unburdened.
They don't have to worry about being contained.
We don't wag our fingers.
We don't give them a list of rules.
We don't ask them to be in the vestry or hand over their wallet.
And we'll feel the living God flow through us again.
But we're just sleepwalking through it.


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G Eazy Net Worth: Gerald Earl Gillum better known by his stage name G-Eazy, is an American rapper and record producer from Oakland, California. His first major-label album, These Things Happen, was released on June 23, 2014. The album peaked at number 3 on the US Billboard 200. His second studio album, When It's Dark Out, was released on December 4, 2015. He has a net worth of $9 Million.
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G Eazy, also known as Gerald Earl Gillum, was born in Oakland, California, and began making music when he was in his early teens. He founded the group, Bay Boyz, and they began recording and releasing their tracks independently via MySpace. He went on to attend Loyola University in Louisiana, and began producing tracks for other artists while he was in college.
His mixtapes began to attract more and more attention, and in 2009, he won the NAACP Best Music on Campus award. The award, combined with the increasing popularity of his tracks on MySpace, led to him opening for such acts as Drake, Lil' Wayne, and Snoop Dogg. He graduated from Loyola with a degree in Music Industry Studies in 2011, and has been touring almost constantly ever since.
He has appeared on the Summer Warped Tour and the "These Things Happen" Tour, while continuing to release tracks. G-Eazy's song "Me, Myself & I" was a smash hit on the Billboard charts, peaking at #7 on the Hot 100. The music video for the song has over 200 million views.
G-Eazy released his debut studio album The Epidemic LP in 2009. He released the album Must Be Nice in 2012. G-Eazy's album These Things Happen was released in 2014 and reached #1 on the US Rap and US R&B charts and #3 on the Billboard 200 chart.
His album When It's Dark Out was released in 2015 and reached #1 on the US Rap and US R&B charts and #5 on the Billboard 200 chart. G-Eazy also had success with the single "Good Life" (with Kehlani) and was featured on the single "You Don't Own Me" by Grace which reached #1 in Australia.
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Steve Cohen isn't only Mets hurdle in finding president
The biggest decision for the Mets this offseason is not whether to sign Max Scherzer, trade Edwin Diaz or put Brett Baty on a fast track to the majors.
It is about hiring the right person to make those choices.
Steve Cohen has to see now what the wrong people or a void will create. Because in many ways, 2021 felt like Year 41 of the Wilpons — dysfunction off the field and underperformance on it — rather than Year 1 of something refreshingly better.
One potential candidate to be the next Mets president of baseball operations recently ticked off Jared Porter, Zack Scott, Kumar Rocker, Jacob deGrom's health. Francisco Lindor's contract, public complaints about players not following medical protocols, two thumbs down, failing to play to the talent level again and the context of several Cohen tweets, then asked, "Do you think this job got more or less attractive in the last 12 months?"
I have asked that question of any executive with whom I have spoken in the past two weeks and they unanimously agreed it is less attractive. And it isn't as if the two reasons that kept the Mets from hiring the job last offseason have vanished: 1. Concern to work for Cohen based on non-flattering portrayals from his hedge fund life and 2. opposing owners unwilling to let executives under contract even interview with the Mets.
Without access to the perceived best and brightest, Cohen did not want to fill the job just to fill it. He tabled hiring a president of baseball operations for a year and just went with a GM in Porter, the first raindrop in a storm of the all-too-familiar that has wiped away so much of the good feelings that came with Cohen's ascension.
Cohen, of course, needs time — to fumigate the old and learn the new. But clearly he is at a pivotal moment of his ownership already. The job must be filled this time. There cannot be another delayed handoff to Sandy Alderson.
Cohen is too smart not to know this. And too transactional not to make it happen. I suspect that the best and the brightest will recognize the leverage coming into any negotiation and leave the highest-paid executive in MLB history. I can't envision Cohen letting millions get in the way of such a vital decision when he is worth billions.
Still, there are hurdles. Let's drill down on two:
1. Cohen was frustrated last year that — unlike in his main business — that he simply could not talk to any job applicant he wanted. He needed permission to talk to anyone under contract. He did not, for example, get approval to speak to Milwaukee president of baseball operations David Stearns.
It is why of all the heavyweights being spoken about now such as Stearns, Billy Beane and — to a lesser extent Mike Chernoff and Derek Falvey — Theo Epstein is the easiest path. Epstein does not work for a team. So Cohen could reach out directly.
But I suspect this will not be an Epstein-only process. Stearns, for example, will be of great interest again. Born and raised in Manhattan. Like Cohen, he grew up a Mets fan, and actually was an intern for the team. He has the small-market Brewers in the playoffs for the fourth straight year (the Mets have never done more than two straight in their history).
Theo Epstein
Brewers owner Mark Attanasio is said to 1) be extremely fond of Stearns and 2) hate the concept that smaller teams should be executive training grounds for the bigger ones. So it is possible, he denies access. But the Bronx-born Attanasio also could decide, say, if this is legitimately a dream of Stearns' not to be obstructionist while also deriving something for his franchise.
Cohen, a fan of the 1969 Mets, should revisit history. After the 1967 season, the Mets traded pitcher Bill Denehy to the Washington Senators for their manager. That was Gil Hodges. The Mets won the 1969 World Series. In February 2012, the Cubs sent reliever Chris Carpenter to the Red Sox as compensation for hiring Boston's GM as their president of baseball operations. That was Theo Epstein, who constructed the 2016 champion Cubs.
So if the Brewers, say, ask for Jeff McNeil or Tylor Megill or something like that for Stearns or the A's do for Beane, what will Cohen do?
2. Cohen has admitted that owning the Mets has taken himself out of his more reclusive comfort zone. And that is intoxicating. How many knew Mark Cuban before he owned the Mavericks despite his business success. Or George Steinbrenner, the Yankees. Or even Cohen with the Mets.
So if Cuban wants to sit near the Mavericks bench and be a camera magnet or if Steinbrenner wanted to own the backpage with one outrageous statement after another or Cohen wants to set up a beachhead on Twitter, so be it. They bought the teams. It is their toy.
But Cohen also has to know from trying last offseason that today's top baseball executives are paid lavishly even in small markets. That they have created living environments with families with which they are comfortable. That they have accumulated power to run baseball operations in their vision. All of that means none will be desperate for a job, even one that comes with a great stadium, substantial, passionate fan base and perhaps unmatched in MLB resources. But it also comes with Cohen. So the top candidates will be interviewing Cohen as much as vice versa. It is part of the leverage.
Last week Cohen played "try to find a source" on my colleague Mike Puma's story that included an executive saying Cohen's tweeting will be an issue to candidates. That hunt is folly. Cohen might find that one person, but this is not a one-person complaint. These executives care about creating culture and controlling narrative and the one person they can't control is the owner; especially at an impulsive moment.
So Cohen should expect top candidates to use their leverage to, among other items, extract ground rules — perhaps even poison pills in their contract if there are violations — that would limit Cohen's Twitter presence.
And Cohen will have to think is it better to be witty, accessible or volcanic in 280 characters or less or find the right head of baseball operations?
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Mario vs Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars on the 3DS
Discuss Mario vs Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars in its official discussion thread!
Donkey Kong kidnaps Pauline yet again, and her only hope is... Uhh, that mini Mario figures make it safely into doors?
Yet another clever puzzle game in the Mario vs. DK series is available for both the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS.
Also, for the first time in Nintendo's history, purchasing one version of the game nets you the other for free.
Out of 3 user(s) who marked the game in their log:
33% (1) are playing it (marked with a star in owner list)
33% (1) have put it on hold
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Last week, I completed the seventh(and final) book in Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series. Nevermind the 30 or 40 hours I've invested in reading this series, King's masterful storytelling sucked me in once again with the best character development in modern American lit. Not unlike the story of the Hobbits crossing the foreign lands with the ring, King's characters are on the quest to find the Dark Tower, specifically Roland. Roland has crossed a multitude of lands and ages in his quest for the tower, but yet we never really learn what will happen -when- he reaches the tower.
As the seventh and final book drew to a close, we find Roland standing outside the tower, gazing up at the thing he has hungered for since the first word of the first volume. Then, in a way only King can, he breaks in with his own(King's) voice, basically saying, "Shame on you, reader…we all know it's the journey, not the destination. We've loved Roland and the crew since the first sentence, can't you just accept that he's here, but not desire to actually mount the tower with him?" Obviously, we readers cannot! Thus, King begrudgingly allows you/me, the reader, to follow Roland to his final quest. Since no one spilled the beans to me as to what happens from there, I won't spoil it for you either, MY faithful reader.
Still, this whole scenario made me think-Roland's entire life was spent in search of the Dark Tower. It motivated him, fed him, it became his number #1 desire and carried him through situations so dire that, even though we know are fiction, still scare the beejesus out of us.
What's your Dark Tower? What is that thing that drives you? What makes you put one foot in front of the other every morning? What makes you not give up, even when it feels like the earth is crumbling in on top of you?
Everyone has their own answer to this…and DT #7 made me do some soul searching for mine. What is that? Another time, faithful reader…another time.
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All the fine details aren't completely ironed out, but you can be one of the first to check out the space before the grand opening party on March 1.
By Tessa Yannone·	 1/31/2019, 2:22 p.m.
If you feel a little confused about what Brooklyn Boulders is up to at the Continuum in Allston, join the club. The climbing conglomerate's new training concept BKBX is almost ready to open, and now's your chance to find out how it works.
Starting this week, classes will be open to the public before their grand opening party on March 1. You'll also be able to walk through the recovery space and maybe dangle from a few of the neon bouldering holds on the massive climbing wall while you're at it. Not all of the final touches will be complete, but you'll get a pretty good sense of the concept, which blends together outdoor adventure with scientifically-backed and monitored programming. It's truly nothing short of flashy.
Everything from the lights on the ceiling to the countertops in the bathroom look like something from a futuristic world in a land far, far away. But what they're trying to do is get you to move better in all the things you like to do outside the four walls of the fancy, ultra-curated space, like hiking, skiing, climbing, or whatever suits your fancy.
And they're going about it with some innovative technology. They're using not only a heart rate monitor to track your progress and metrics, but also your rate of force development in what they're calling your adventure quotient. While wearing the technology in class on a strap around your chest, you'll be able to watch your metrics on a screen and be able to adjust your efforts in real time, with the idea being that you'll be training with maximum efficiency and without unnecessary over-exertion.
Not only that, but if you prefer to boulder you'll get to wear a wristband that will sync with cameras behind you recording your every move. When you're finished, you'll be able to play it back and watch what you might have missed, so you can adjust what you're doing on your next go. This is like a full on lab experiment, people.
Even more, the classes just sound fun. There's even an area called the monkey space—how could that not be fun? We got the chance to hang out with head trainer Whitney Meza and she showed us how to use the flashing lights that will be used in the skills-based class, which will help participants in processing information and coordination so you're better able to think on your feet in high stress situations—like scaling the side of the mountain. Other classes include the foundations class, which focus on building strength, cardio, and mobility endurance and the athletics class, which will put those abilities to the test.
Each of these classes will be available to participate in all month long, normal class programming will begin after the grand opening on March 1. And afterwards, it would be a mistake not to pop your head into the recovery room where you can lounge in recliners while sitting in Normatec sleeves (giant air compressed suits), or relax in the infrared sauna, and even hop in the cryotherapy chamber for a minute (literally). And hidden in the cabinets are every recovery tool imaginable, including therapy guns, vibrating balls and foam rollers, and bands for stretching.
And to get the full experience, you're really just going to have to try it out for yourself.
Drop-in classes are $33 or you can become a founding member, for more information and to sign-up: bkbx.fit.


Skoda has finally lifted the covers off its new Kodiaq RS performance SUV at the 2019 Paris motor show. As teased throughout this year, the 2019 Skoda Kodiaq RS is the brand's first performance SUV, the first higher-performance Kodiaq and the first application of the Volkswagen Group's twin-turbo four-cylinder diesel engine in a Skoda product.
Skoda Australia is yet to confirm the car for local sales however, with this country's status as a 'hot weather' market deemed to be unsafe for the new engine.
Giving clues as to the RS' supremacy in the Kodiaq lineup are upsized 20-inch alloy wheels taken from the Octavia RS245, which hide 17-inch brakes – again upsized from the regular Kodiaq. A number of other subtle design differences feature on the Kodiaq RS, including gloss black window and grille surrounds and sportier front and rear bumpers. In addition to that, the company's dynamic chassis control with adaptive dampers with six different modes (eco, comfort, normal, sport, individual and snow) and Skoda's digital dials with a race mode are both standard.
Inside, the Kodiaq RS debuts a new deeply-bolstered seat design with diamond stitching and alcantara trim. There's a leather-wrapped flat-bottomed steering wheel with paddle shifters, as well as diamond stitching on the doors. The RS also debuts dynamic sound boosting, which complements the car's natural engine noise to make it more audible and sportier.
The heart of the Skoda Kodiaq RS is a twin-turbocharged four-cylinder turbo diesel engine, which produces 176kW of power at 4,000rpm and a strong 500Nm of torque between 1,750rpm and 2,500rpm. This engine has been offered on the Volkswagen Tiguan and Passat in Europe since the current models were released, and is offered only with a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission and all-wheel drive.
Skoda claims a 0-100km/h sprint time of 7.0 seconds, a top speed of 220km/h and fuel consumption under the new WLTP testing of just 6.0L/100km. CO2 emissions are reported as 157g/km.
Unfortunately for local Skoda and performance SUV fans, the Kodiaq RS is yet to be confirmed for Australian sales – that's if it makes it here at all. Australia is deemed to be a 'hot weather' market, which according to the Volkswagen Group, could affect the engine if it were sold locally – the same reason it doesn't feature on either the Tiguan or Passat locally so far.
If it is sold here, it could be detuned like the Volkswagen Golf R and Audi S3's 2.0-litre turbo petrol engine to better withstand Australia's climate. If it is, don't expect it before the end of 2019 at the earliest.


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Journalists, if they are true to their vocation, naturally favor open government and as much access to information as possible. The more facts they can obtain, the better able they are to perform their task of informing the public and fostering the process of democracy. It is not surprising, therefore, that news organizations and media in the United States bristle at the thought of tightening up on the Freedom of Information Act. But the question needs asking: are they equally zealous in pursuing their own responsibility -- namely, maintaining the highest standards of integrity, objectivity, fairness?
* Western news photographers in Belfast were reportedly paying youngsters to pose with an IRA flag or otherwise fabricate scenes of violence while waiting for the death of Bobby Sands. Canadian, French, Australian, Finnish film crews are said to have been engaged in such reprehensible practices.
* Illicit tape recordings were made of telephone calls by Prince Charles while in Australia. The transcripts were then offered to news media, including a West German women's weekly which reportedly paid $50,000 for them. And injunction has stayed publication.
* Recently one of the leading US newspapers, the Washington Post, admitted that an article about an eight-year-old heroin user had been fabricated. It returned the Pulitzer Prize which the article had won.
the last event (and a multitude of others could be cited) rocked the entire world of American journalism. Newspaper and broadcast editors across the country hotly discussed the issue of press credibility. Debates were held, editorials written. Even the embarassed Washington Post ran a four-page explanation of how the notorious article, "Jimmy's World," came to be published -- a wordy explanation which nonetheless left questions unanswered.
The momentary surge of self-examination and soul-searching was no doubt salutary. Such an experience goads every publisher, editor, and reporter into pulling up his or her socks. But how deep does the chastening go and how long will it last? It is no secret that stiff competition in the news business and the pursuit of audience and profit sometimes lead to a distortion of the news. How determined is the profession to resist such distortion?
"The First Amendment, protecting freedom of expression from abridgment by any law, guarantees to the people through their press a constitutional right, and thereby places on newspaper people a particular responsibility. Thus journalism demands of its practitioners not only industry and knowledge but also the pursuit of a standard of integrity proportionate to the journalist's singular obligation."
Just so. Fulfilling that responsibil ity should be the goal of every newsman or woman valuing the profession of journalism.


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Q: Probabilty based on quicksort partition I have come across this question:
Let 0<α<.5 be some constant (independent of the input array length n). Recall the Partition subroutine employed by the QuickSort algorithm, as explained in lecture. What is the probability that, with a randomly chosen pivot element, the Partition subroutine produces a split in which the size of the smaller of the two subarrays is ≥α times the size of the original array?
Its answer is 1-2*α.

Can anyone explain me how has this answer come?Please Help.

A: The other answers didn't quite click with me so here's another take:
If at least one of the 2 subarrays must be   you can deduce that the pivot must also be in position . This is obvious by contradiction. If the pivot is  then there is a subarray smaller than . By the same reasoning the pivot must also be . Any larger value for the pivot will yield a smaller subarray than  on the "right hand side".
This means that , as shown by the diagram below:

What we want to calculate then is the probability of that event (call it A) i.e .
The way we calculate the probability of an event is to sum of the probability of the constituent outcomes i.e. that the pivot lands at .
That sum is expressed as:

Which easily simplifies to:

With some cancellation we get:

A: Just one more approach for solving the problem (for those who have uneasy time understanding it, like I have).
First.
Since we are talking about "the smaller of the two subarrays", then its length is less than 1/2 * n (n - the number of elements in original array).
Second.
If 0 < a < 0.5 it means the a * n is less than 1/2 * n either.
And thus we are talking from now about two randomly chosen integers bounded by 0 at lowest and 1/2 * n at highest.
Third.
Lets imagine the dice with numbers from 1 to 6 on it's sides. Lets choose a number from 1 to 6, for example 4. Now roll the dice. Each number has a probability 1/6 to be the outcome of this roll. Thus for event "outcome is less or equal to 4" we have probability equal to the sum of probabilities of each of this outcomes. And we have numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4. Altogether p(x <= 4) = 4 * 1/6 = 4/6 = 2/3. So the probability of event "output is bigger than 4" is p(x > 4) = 1 - p(x <= 4) = 1 - 2/3 = 1/3.
Fourth.
Lets go back to our problem. The "chosen number" is now a * n. And we are going to roll the dice with the numbers from 0 to (1/2 * n) on it to get k  - the number of elements in a smallest of subarrays. The probability that outcome is bounded by (a * n) at highest is equals to sum of the probabilities of all outcomes from 0 to (a * n). And the probability for any particular outcome k is p(k) = 1 / (1/2 * n).
Therefore p(k <= a * n) = (a * n) * (1 / (1/2 * n)) = 2 * a.
From this we can easily conclude that p(k > a * n) = 1 - p(k <= a * n) = 1 - 2 * a.

A: Array length is n.
For smaller array length >= αn pivot should be greater than αn number of elements. At the same time pivot should be  smaller than αn number of elements( else smaller array size will be less  than required)
So out of n element we have to select one among (n-2α)n elements.
required probability is n(1-2α)/n.
Hence 1-2α

A: The probability would be, the number of desired elements/Total number of elements.
In this case, ((1-αn)-(αn))/n
Since α lies between,0 and 0.5,(1-α) must be bigger than α.Hence the number of elements contained between them would be,
(1-α-α)n=(1-2α)n
and so,the probability would be,
(1-2α)n/n=1-2α

A: The choice of the pivot element is random, with uniform distribution.
There are N elements in the array, and we will assume that N is large (or we won't get the answer we want).
If 0≤α≤1, the probability that the number of elements smaller than the pivot is less than αN is α. The probability that the number of elements greater than the pivot is less than αN is the same. If α≤ 1/2, then these two possibilities are exclusive.
To say that the smaller subarray is of length ≥αN, is to say that neither of these conditions holds, therefore the probability is 1-2α.

A: Another approach:
List the "more balanced" options:
αn + 1 to (1 - α)n - 1

αn + 2 to (1 - α)n - 2

...

αn + k to (1 - α)n - k

So k in total. We know that the most balanced is n / 2 to n / 2, so:
 αn + k = n / 2 => k = n(1/2 - α)

Similarly, list the "less balanced" options:
αn - 1 to (1 - α)n + 1

αn - 2 to (1 - α)n + 2

...

αn - m to (1 - α)n + m

So m in total. We know that the least balanced is 0 to n so:
αn - m = 0 => m = αn

Since all these options happen with equal probability we can use the frequency definition of probability so:
Pr{More balanced} = (total # of more balanced) / (total # of options) =>
Pr{More balanced} = k / (k + m) = n(1/2 - α) / (n(1/2 - α) + αn) = 1 - 2α

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Evansville man arrested after chase in stolen Jeep ends in crash
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. — An Evansville man was arrested on multiple charges after he reportedly led an Indiana State Police trooper on a chase in a stolen Jeep and then fled the scene after crashing Monday morning.
The pursuit began at 8:35 a.m. on U.S. 41 southbound at Covert Avenue and ended when Matthew Dunn, 35, of Evansville, reportedly crashed the vehicle into a fence after driving north on the pedestrian-bicycle trail, which he turned onto from Riverside Drive, according to Indiana State Police.
An investigation revealed the 2019 Jeep had been reported stolen from Audubon Chrysler, in Henderson, Kentucky.
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Dunn is being held without bond in the Vanderburgh County Jail. He is facing preliminary charges of Resisting Law Enforcement with a Vehicle, a Level 6 Felony, Auto Theft, a Level 6 Felony, Resisting Law Enforcement, Class A Misdemeanor Operating a Vehicle while Intoxicated, Class C Misdemeanor, Driving While Suspended, Class A Misdemeanor, and a Leaving the Scene of a Crash, a Class B Misdemeanor.
Indiana State Police said a trooper saw Dunn, in a 2019 Jeep, improperly pass several vehicles and disregard the traffic light while traveling south on U.S. 41 at Covert Avenue. Although the trooper activated his emergency lights and siren, Dunn continued driving, turning west onto Riverside Drive and then north onto the trail. After a short distance, Dunn veered off the trail and struck a fence, according to police.
Dunn then climbed out of the vehicle through the window and fled west. Police said there were no pedestrians or bicyclists in the area. About 30 minutes after the crash, a neighbor saw Dunn knocking on a door at a nearby residence. Police were alerted, and Dunn was taken into custody.
When caught, Dunn was missing one of his shoes. Troopers found the matching shoe inside the Jeep, according to police. Dunn also appeared extremely incoherent and exhibited signs and behavior of someone under the influence of illegal narcotics, police said. Results of a blood test are pending.


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Groups for and against Jann-Michael Greenburg and his Scottsdale Unified Governing Board colleagues protested outside the board's meeting venue last week.
Photo by J. Graber/Progress Staff
Scottsdale PD clears Greenburg of any crime
By J. Graber, Progress Staff Writer
The Scottsdale Police Department has cleared Scottsdale Unified Governing Board member Jann-Michael Greenburg of any criminal conduct in connection with a controversial dossier his father allegedly created on district critics.
The department in an announcement said the dossier "contained opensource and/or public documents" and that "therefore, it has been determined that no criminal conduct has been committed at this time that would be under the jurisdiction of the Scottsdale Police Department.
"The Scottsdale portion of this investigation is now closed," the statement continued, adding detectives met with the FBI and state Attorney General's office and "provided them with a copy of our investigation for review in determining if any criminal acts might fall under their respective jurisdictions." Detectives also briefed the Maricopa County Attorney.
The district "is still conducting an internal investigation based on its policies," the statement added. SUSD is hiring an independent forensic investigator to ensure no district resources were improperly used to compile the dossier.
The announcement came two days after the board's regular meeting, at which calls for Greenburg to step down continued meeting amid competing rallies outside.
"I immediately call for your resignation," said John Arnold, a 22-year resident of the city of Scottsdale. "You've brought national shame to our great city. You have betrayed the trust of the city … Mr. Greenburg, I ask that you do the right thing. Eliminate distractions so that this school board, community, our great teachers, our great students can get back to the business of being a world-class educational system. You maintaining your position on this board distracts from that."
Emma Kate Bartels questioned Greenburg's commitment to the community.
"What is your vested interest in this community?" she asked. "I am genuinely curious. I want to know why you are still here, Jann-Michael Greenburg, because clearly you don't care about children's well being, not enough to let them breathe freely, not enough to let them feel safe from stalkers like you and your father … It is your job to be a positive advocate for students and you are failing. It's time to step down."
One woman went so far as to call Greenburg a "psychopathic cultural Marxist."
"In what world is an unmarried, childless 28-year-old man who lives with his parents and grandparents a natural fit to sit on a school board such as this?" asked Lilly Standley, adding:
"In what world does an individual proven to be so incompetent as to share a link to parents of a dossier full of names, addresses, divorce proceedings, vacation home records, social security numbers, professional licenses and photos of 8-year-olds allowed anywhere near a school … the answer: the very world that psychopathic cultural Marxists like Jann-Michael Greenburg and his kind are allowed to create."
Meanwhile outside the meeting room, two contingencies of protesters for and against Greenburg and the board in general vied for the attention of any passersby, many with signs advocating their positions.
"The public school district here in Scottsdale seems a little bit under fire recently," said Shane Gledhill, one of the pro-board rally participants.
"There seems to be a lot of people out here trying to follow an agenda to get rid of certain people," Gledhill said. "We just want to show support for the public school system. I am product of the public school system. My kids are products of public schools and I feel that supporting our public schools is important. Funding them and supporting them.
"Personally I feel there are too many people coming out and trying to weaken the public schools and get rid of the public schools and I am a proponent of public schools and I want to show my support," he continued.
Much of the public rage stems from a secret dossier that Greenburg's father apparently compiled and that Jann-Michael Greenburg had access too. According to those who have seen it, the dossier contained over 1,000 files on it, some with titles like "SUSD Wackos" and "The Crazies."
The files, which were kept on a Google drive, contained Social Security numbers, people's financial records, court documents like divorce records, students' school files and pictures of students, according to those who have seen it.
Its existence came to light in August when Greenburg emailed Kim Stafford, the mother of a former SUSD student.
Stafford had contacted Greenburg via email regarding her desire to see schools remain open during the pandemic. During the back and forth of that conversation, Greenburg sent Stafford a screenshot with a link to the dossier, which was public to anybody with a link to it. It was made private later as more people became aware of it – and angered by it.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich asked the U.S. Justice Department to order an FBI investigation of Greenburg and the dossier. He has also asked the school governing board to meet with him to discuss the situation.
That meeting has not yet been scheduled, SUSD spokeswoman Nancy Norman said.
During its Nov. 16 meeting, the board removed Greenburg as president and replaced him with board member Patty Beckman – who, along with board members Zach Lindsay and Libby-Hartwells, called for Greenburg's resignation at that time.
But furor at the district has preceded the discovery of the dossier and people with disparate causes have been speaking out at school board meetings since the beginning of the year. Some parents have criticized the district's mask mandate, which is set to end next month, and have railed against the governing board.
Other parents have condemned what they see as Critical Race Theory in the district's curriculum.
Patricia Pellet created a website to recall the board members because of how her special needs child was treated at school.
All those different factions were present at the board's meeting last week while new to the fray were parents who took exception with the anti-CRT crowd.
"I'm asking the school board to ignore the loud voices that are seeking to advance a Euro-centric, mythological, sanitized version of our history and instead do what you know is right," said Lisa Olsen, a mother of five and former educator. "Listen to the expert educators and students who are demanding the truth be taught in our classrooms.
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NFL Week 15's biggest tilt: League vs. Time Warner. Plus: Picks.
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2006/12/15/friday_232/
Salon Staff
December 15, 2006 10:00PM (UTC)
It's Week 15, and that means Saturday is the new Thursday, which you'll remember is the new Monday. Monday night is the new Sunday night and vice versa, in case you haven't been following along all year.
For the last three weeks of the season the NFL plays one game a week on Saturday night, part of the NFL Network package that also includes five Thursday night games. The NFL is battling Time Warner cable over carriage fees, which isn't very interesting unless you care about where the business is going in the coming years or you want to watch the game and you have Time Warner cable.
NFL rules put all games on broadcast TV in the home market as long as non-sellout blackout rules don't apply, but the NFL defines the Cowboys' home market as Dallas. Cowboys fans define it, conservatively, as Texas.
So, you're a Falcons fan in San Antonio? Congratulations on your iconoclasm. Good luck at the bar.
We have no such problems in these parts. The insight-free ruminations of this column are freely available to all, as long as you're willing to pay. Or watch an ad. Or wash my car.
Pull up a chair, stare at a blank screen if necessary and enjoy Week 15. Winners in caps, the picks of the coin-flippinest 3-year-old west of the Mississippi included as usual, by popular demand.
Saturday game
DALLAS (8-5) at Atlanta (7-6): Falcons running backs Warrick Dunn and Jerious Norwood are both questionable after getting hurt last week, and even if they play they won't be at full speed. And what are the Falcons without their running game? Just wait and see. Oh, wait. You probably can't. If Michael Vick can make like Drew Brees and light up the Cowboys defense, the Falcons will win big and stay alive in the playoff hunt. Then again, if Michael Vick could make like Drew Brees, the Falcons would be 10-3.
Buster's pick: Atlanta (coin)
Sunday early games
WASHINGTON (4-9) at New Orleans (9-4): Trap game! Trap! Trap! Trap! The Saints routed the Cowboys in a huge national TV game in Dallas Sunday night, they're in -- OK, near -- the Big Apple and the Giants circus next week. This week they get Washington, which can't get out of its own way. Trap! I'm picking it.
Buster's pick: New Orleans (9.5-point favorite)
Tampa Bay (3-10) at CHICAGO (11-2): This is a little trappy too, so I'll skip it as the What the Heck™ Pick on the grounds that I have to believe the WTH™ has virtually no chance to win. But I do think the Bears will be fine.
Buster's pick: Chicago (13.5-point favorite)
PITTSBURGH (6-7) at Carolina (6-7): The Panthers have lost three straight, the Steelers are hot and Jake Delhomme's thumb is still hurting. Of course Carolina will win, but I'll play it safe.
Buster's pick: Pittsburgh (coin)
MIAMI (6-7) at Buffalo (6-7): This is one of the most intriguing games between 6-7 teams in years. At least, not counting all those games between 6-7 NFC teams still in contention for home-field advantage. The Dolphins defense should be the difference.
Buster's pick: Miami (coin)
N.Y. JETS (7-6) at Minnesota (6-7): OK. My imagination, right? Every team isn't 7-6 or 6-7. Right? The Vikings are more like a 4-9 team that's benefited from an easy schedule. The only time they beat a good team that wasn't in a slump was their Oct. 22 win over Seattle, but that was the game in which Matt Hasselbeck got hurt, and the Vikes only took over after that. Since then Minnesota's gone 2-5, with wins over the Cardinals and, last week, the Lions.
The good news for the Vikings is that the Jets don't quite qualify as a good team not in a slump, coming off that shellacking by the Bills, and the Vikings run defense should give the Jets a problem, that problem being the need for Chad Pennington to win the game with his arm. The good news for the Jets is the Vikings will find a way to lose all the same.
Buster's pick: Minnesota (coin)
Jacksonville (8-5) at TENNESSEE (6-7): Here's my big prediction for this game. Ready? The Jaguars are not going to rush for 375 yards against the Titans, the way they did against the Colts. Here's another one, just as a throw-in: The Titans won't rush for 375 either. Beyond that, I'm at a loss, but I'll take the Titans to stay hot and the Jags to stay inscrutable.
Buster's pick: Tennessee (coin)
Houston (4-9) at NEW ENGLAND (9-4): The Patriots looked horrible in Miami last week -- certainly not the first nor last New England tour group to look horrible in Miami in December. They're back home this week and they get to play a team that, were it not for the inscrutable Jags, would be 2-11. The Pats benched their quarterback in the fourth quarter last week, but don't give up on the kid just yet. I think he might just amount to a little something.
Buster's pick: New England (11.5-point favorite)
Detroit (2-11) at GREEN BAY (5-8): See St. Louis at Oakland, below.
Buster's pick: Detroit (coin)
CLEVELAND (4-9) at Baltimore (10-3): What the Heck™ Pick of the week.
Buster's pick: Baltimore (11.5-point favorite)
Sunday late games
DENVER (7-6) at Arizona (4-9): Jay Cutler gets his first win and the future arrives for Denver. A pair of streaks will end and people will stop asking Cardinals coach Dennis Green why things are going well all of a sudden.
Buster's pick: Denver (coin)
Philadelphia (7-6) at N.Y. GIANTS (7-6): Remember how the Giants had a huge fourth-quarter lead but blew the game against the Titans? Well, remember even farther back to when the Eagles had a huge fourth-quarter lead and blew the game against the Giants? Yeah, seems like a long time ago. It was. They've both staggered to this point, and this game will go a long way in deciding the fate of each. The Eagles almost blew another huge lead against Washington last week. I'm just not buying 'em.
Buster's pick: New York (coin)
ST. LOUIS (5-8) at Oakland (2-11): Sometimes when a recipe calls for leeks I just use green onions. I know they're different, but they look the same, and leeks are a pain to get the dirt out of. What? Are you still reading? I figured everybody'd skip this paragraph.
Buster's pick: Oakland (coin)
Sunday night game
Kansas City (7-6) at SAN DIEGO (11-2): This looks like a nice game at first glance and maybe it will be, but while the Chiefs gave the tough Ravens a decent game last week, they really punted their season by losing to the Browns two weeks ago. The Chargers are Cadillackin' the AFC West, but they still have to play for home-field advantage. They have a one-game lead over Indy and Baltimore and they'd lose a tie-breaker to the Ravens. They don't want to go either place because it's cold in Baltimore and, for all their struggles, the Colts are undefeated at home, and the Chargers can be beaten deep. An easing up by the Chargers is the only way the Chiefs win this one, and the Chargers shouldn't ease up. Or choke. It's not the playoffs yet.
Buster's pick: San Diego (8.5-point favorite)
Monday night game
CINCINNATI (8-5) at Indianapolis (10-3): With Brandon Stokely and Dallas Clark hurt and the Bengals as the opponent, the Colts don't even have their usual advantage of the better offense. The Bengals seem to have recovered from their midseason slump, winning their last four, two of them over the Saints and Ravens. I'm not really going for this business of the Bengals being a good defensive team now, but they're better at it than the Colts.
Buster's pick: Cincinnati (coin)
Record so far this week: 0-1
Season record: 116-93
Last week: 10-6
What the Heck™ Picks: 2-11
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James Strickler
New Mexico State Representative
"Freight railroads play an important role in the economic development of New Mexico – investing over $725 million since 2010. These private infrastructure investments are critical to the future development of our state's natural resources and they support major industries like agriculture, mining, utilities, and oil."
A strong advocate of grassroots politics, James Strickler has been very active in politics for the past 30 years. He has served as a precinct chairman, party vice chair, and state delegate, in Texas and New Mexico. In November 2006, Strickler was elected to the New Mexico House of Representatives, where he currently serves on the Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee as well as the Ways and Means Committee. He was re-elected in November 2014 and is serving a fifth two-year term.
Strickler is President of JMJ Land and Minerals Co. (JMJ), an independent oil & gas producer involved in the promotion of drilling deals in the San Juan Basin, as well as actively acquiring oil and gas leases, minerals and royalties. Raised in Austin, Texas, he earned a BBA in Petroleum Land Management at the University of Texas.
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Готська війна. Правління Феодосія I у Східній Римській імперії. У Західній Римській імперії править Граціан. У Китаї правління династії Цзінь. В Індії правління імперії Гуптів. В Японії триває період Ямато. У Персії править династія Сассанідів.

На території лісостепової України Черняхівська культура. У Північному Причорномор'ї готи й сармати. Історики VI століття згадують плем'я антів, що мешкало на території сучасної України десь із IV сторіччя. З'явилися гуни, підкорили остготів та аланів й приєднали їх до себе.

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Імператор Граціан переніс свою столицю до Медіолану. Через християнські переконання він скасував сан Великого понтифіка, а також відмовлявся носити тогу імператора, чим обурював римських патриціїв.

Король готів Атанаріх першим із варварських вождів відвідав Константинополь для підписання угоди. Через два тижні він помер.

Розпочався Перший Константинопольський собор. Імператор Феодосій I закликав єпископів затвердити Нікейський символ віри й засудити аріанство й аполлінаризм.

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