Heck no we aren't doing "2015 Reasons," but if we take out the zero and add a decimal, then surely we can cover 21.5 reasons why 2015 is going to be explosive for you.
Heck, we might even round up to 22. Do you feel lucky, pal? Well? Do ya?
Thanks to all the work you've done in 2014, you've hopefully gathered a lot of data on your customers and what has worked the best to attract new customers.
Use that Lead Source field to make sure you're putting marketing dollars in the right places to attract more leads this year.
Just as you've been able to track where your leads came from, you should be able to track which ones closed and what helped them to close.
Use this data to help you hone your sales pipeline and close more leads in 2015.
With a better view of your pipeline and direct assignments available wherever you are, less jobs will slip through the cracks than ever before.
And when less jobs fall through the cracks, you complete more jobs, you close more sales, and you get more repeat business (the best kind of business).
Creating tasks and assigning them to your team is a great way to make sure that each detail of a job is getting addressed in the right order.
It helps you cover every part of the job and helps everyone involved know exactly what they need to do right when they open up the app on their phone.
If you're using tasks, you just have to open the calendar and – boom! – you've got everything you need to do each day.
And your employees? Boom! They have the same thing. Everyone gets they're task assignments, everyone gets notified, everyone gets everything done.
With JobNimbus email integration, you can send and receive emails right from your contact or job list in your CRM. JobNimbus will help you stay in contact with your customers and help them to know that you care.
Never again will you have to take notes on a clipboard that you take back to the office to build the estimate for the customer.
Get with the times and provide instant satisfaction to your customers by using the JobNimbus mobile app in the field using your existing products and services list, complete with pricing and details, and send it to your customer in a beautiful template for them to look over.
Hate filling out a complete invoice for an estimate you've already created? So do we.
That's why we make it possible for you to convert your estimates to invoices with just one click. Everything passes over automatically and you can make any changes necessary in order to bill your customers properly.
Once you have work to do, you need to make sure your crews know what they need to get done. Work Orders can be created in just one click from an estimate, just like the invoice, and you can create as many work orders as you need to get the job done.
Email them, print them out, and get them done.
Reports are easier and more versatile than ever in JobNimbus. You can create reports for Tasks, Contacts, Jobs, Estimates, Invoices, and more.
If you want to know how much you estimated this year, or how much invoiced money has yet to be collected, just create a report and you'll have the answer in seconds. It's a total time-saver.
Stop living in the dark. Get notified in the same instant you get assigned a contact, job, or task, or when contacts and jobs change types or statuses.
You're the boss, so make sure you're in-the-know with immediate email notifications.
We all forget things every now and then, or we just want to be able to forget things in order to concentrate on others that more urgently need our attention.
JobNimbus' automation is here to help you automatically generate and assign all the tasks you need along the way during your sales and production processes. It's a set-it-and-forget-it kind of deal that will have you saying, "phew".
If you're all working at the same company, it's time to start acting like it. No one should have to ask what they need to do, nor should they wait for anyone to tell them.
With JobNimbus, everyone has a task list, a set of work orders, contacts, jobs, and notes that help you keep everyone in contact and letting each other know what to do at all times.
Need materials from your supply house? JobNimbus can take your estimate plus one click and spit out a material order that's ready to email in seconds.
You'll have your materials faster and be able to move on a job sooner this year with JobNimbus.
Instead of typing out your proposals and replacing all the information one by one, you can create proposals for new potential customers by just creating the template and clicking to build the document from the web or mobile app.
JobNimbus will take all those extra steps out and will put in all your customer and job information automatically. Woah.
Remember that thing about proposal templates? Yeah, you can do that with any document you'd like.
That means one-click document creation for any and all customers, saving you more time than you'll know what to do with.
Remember those estimates, invoices, and templates? You can get them all signed right from the JobNimbus mobile app on your phone or tablet.
No more printing and hassling with trying to find the page someone signed. Here it's all stored and accessible to you any time you need it.
With all the other things that we've mentioned about the mobile app, it's worth another mentioning.
Few things are worse than an unorganized accounting setup. Chasing invoices, searching for checks, and knowing who still needs to pay for work done is a nightmare no one wants to deal with.
With integration with QuickBooks, JobNimbus helps you keep your accounting sanity and makes sure everything is where it should be, giving you perfect visibility.
Having a calendar is great, but having that calendar connected to the same one you use throughout your office and your day helps you organize your life and job better than ever.
Integration with Google Calendar allows you flexible scheduling that keeps all your appointments in sync, no matter what device you're using.
With map integration right in JobNimbus, you'll be able to see exactly where every team member is going to be during the day in one click. That way, you'll know who's closest to the next appointment and be able to dispatch without wasting time or resources.
With JobNimbus, you can make the year 2015 explosive in terms of sales and productivity.
The tools are at your fingertips to help you go further and do more in less time than ever before. It's up to you to take them and carry your business into the future.


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Narcos: Rise of the Cartels – EGX Hands On
October 22, 2019 Chris Evans Comments 0 Comment
I'm a big fan of the indie games that Curve Digital publish, and their area is normally one of my regular haunts at EGX. This year the layout of the Rezzed area was so expansive that Curve's games were spread out, not in one nice grouping like I've come to expect. It all meant that I missed the opportunity to take a look at Autonauts and Table Manners, but I was able to get some time with Narcos: Rise of the Cartels. Yes, this is a fully licenced take on the hit Netflix show which charts the fight between the DEA and Pablo Escobar's cartel. And you know what? It's damn good.
The full game, due out later this year across PC and all the consoles, will see two distinct campaigns taking you through the eyes of the DEA and protagonist Steve Murphy, or as the Narcos working to expand El Patrón's brutal empire. The demo at EGX was played through the eyes of the DEA, probably for the best with the number of kids wandering the halls, with the in-game action cleverly interspersed with clips from the first season of the show and mission briefings from Ambassador Noonan. While Narcos won't have the base building elements of the recent XCOM titles, the glimpses of "office" work I saw were solid enough to provide you with a sense of meaning to your work, and steeped in clichés like a massive pin-board plotting links between cartel members.
Aside from that you also get to manage your roster of DEA agents, Colombian cops, special forces and other leaders. The leaders, characters from the show like Murphy and Javier Peña have special abilities, but crucially only one leader can be taken into a mission as part of your squad at any one time. Looking after your leaders looks set to be important. While they may have special abilities, I tended to keep Murphy safely tucked away during the demo to avoid losing everything by foolishly getting him shot up.
The action itself takes place in artful surroundings in Colombian towns, cities and the jungle. The basic premise is different enough from XCOM or the turn-based elements of Age of Wonder: Planetfall to provoke interest in fans of the genre, let alone fans of the show. Rather than having control over all your units during a turn, in Narcos only one unit can take any action, but that action can be extensive. For example, I was able to take my demolition expert from the ground up a drainpipe towards a spot where I could fire my grenade launcher to take down a cartel member. Even after taking my shot, I was left with choices of reloading my grenade launcher or hunkering down and healing.
The flipside is that by moving my demolition expert, I'd left a fresh-faced Colombian cop in the open and ready to come under fire. Fortunately, he'd built up his counteract points. Replacing the classic overwatch ability of XCOM, counteract points are earned through limiting the actions you perform with a squad member. Once the ability kicks in when a bad guy approaches, you are thrust into a third-person mode where you can control the aim and timing of the shot, all while the enemy is moving in slow-mo towards you. It's an innovative feature, although one that I didn't fully get to grips with during the demo. I kind of glossed over that part during the tutorial level, too busy planning how to get Murphy out of a spot of bother I'd left him in.
There's more to Narcos than the licence, although it is that name recognition that drew me to the stand in the first place. It does mean that I will need to finish watching season one of the show, so as not to get spoilt by the game. It's a great marketing tie-in really, and one must expect that another game, or perhaps some DLC, will be released further down the line to cover the events of season two.
I came away from the stand pleased that I'd found a Curve title, especially one as potentially addictive as this.
EGX 2019, Microsoft, Narcos: Rise of the Cartels, Nintendo, PC, Sony
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Tuesday March 5, 2019
New Line Developing 'Hello Kitty' Movie
I just hope they find a way to include Aggretsuko.
Tom Hardy To Produce and Possible Star in 100 BULLETS Adaptation
This is pretty interesting as most fans think Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's graphic novel series is much better suited to the serial treatment.
'Human Target' Writers Hired To Create New Script For 'Y: The Last Man'
I'd love to see Y: The Last Man finally make it to the big screen, but who do you think would make the best Yorick?
Names of Peter Jackson's Hobbit Movies Discovered!
The movies will be called: 'The Hobbit: There and Back Again' and… the other one can be found right after the jump!
New Line's 'Gears of War' Adaptation Stalled
YBMW Staff
New Line's "Gears of War," adaptation based off the hit video game is in search of a new director and writer. But what's more of a concern is the report that its budget is being cut…
Get Ready For Another Final Destination
When the first Final Destination came out about a decade ago. Not only was it chock full of John Denver Goodness, but was the coolest Rube Goldberg machine of death ever!


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'''
Functions for handling AVIRIS image files.
'''

from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals

import numpy as np
import glob
import os

import spectral as spy
from ..spectral import BandInfo
from ..utilities.python23 import IS_PYTHON3
from .bipfile import BipFile
from .spyfile import find_file_path, InvalidFileError

if IS_PYTHON3:
    import builtins
else:
    import __builtin__ as builtins

def open(file, band_file=None):
    '''
    Returns a SpyFile object for an AVIRIS image file.

    Arguments:

        `file` (str):

            Name of the AVIRIS data file.

        `band_file` (str):

            Optional name of the AVIRIS spectral calibration file.

    Returns:

        A SpyFile object for the image file.

    Raises:

        spectral.io.spyfile.InvalidFileError
    '''
    class Params:
        pass
    p = Params()

    p.filename = find_file_path(file)
    p.nbands = 224
    p.ncols = 614
    fileSize = os.stat(p.filename)[6]
    if fileSize % 275072 != 0:
        raise InvalidFileError('File size not consistent with AVIRIS format.')
    p.nrows = int(fileSize / 275072)
    p.byte_order = 1
    p.dtype = np.dtype('i2').str
    if spy.byte_order != 1:
        p.dtype = np.dtype(p.dtype).newbyteorder().str
    metadata = {'default bands': ['29', '18', '8']}
    p.offset = 0

    img = BipFile(p, metadata)
    img.scale_factor = 10000.0

    if band_file:
        img.bands = read_aviris_bands(find_file_path(band_file))

    return img

def read_aviris_bands(cal_filename):
    '''
    Returns a BandInfo object for an AVIRIS spectral calibration file.

    Arguments:

        `cal_filename` (str):

            Name of the AVIRIS spectral calibration file.

    Returns:

        A :class:`spectral.BandInfo` object
    '''
    bands = BandInfo()
    bands.band_quantity = 'Wavelength'
    bands.band_unit = 'nm'

    fin = builtins.open(find_file_path(cal_filename))
    rows = [line.split() for line in fin]
    rows = [[float(x) for x in row] for row in rows if len(row) == 5]
    columns = list(zip(*rows))
    bands.centers = columns[0]
    bands.bandwidths = columns[1]
    bands.center_stdevs = columns[2]
    bands.bandwidth_stdevs = columns[3]
    bands.band_unit = 'nm'
    return bands

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This Holiday Season Your Best Gift Can Be a Donation to a Nonprofit
The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya rescues and rears orphaned elephants and rhinos. Wendy Stone / Corbis via Getty Images
If you care about the planet, you're probably thinking that the holidays are not a great time of year for the environment. There's more mail and package deliveries, homes and buildings are decorated with holiday lights, people travel more, and there's so much shopping as people buy presents for friends and family. So what's an environmentally conscious holiday-lover supposed to do?

Jordan Davidson, Freelance Reporter
Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust supports the conservation, preservation and protection of wildlife habitats in East Africa. The Kenya-based organization safeguards the natural habitat of elephants and rhinos while protecting them from poaching. It rescues and rears orphaned elephants and rhinos. In fact, it operates the most successful elephant orphan rescue and rehabilitation center in the world.

Every year, my kids scroll through the orphans, watch a video about their rescue and pick one to foster. In return, we receive monthly updates on the animal's rehabilitation, including their diet, medical needs, how they socialize and the other elephants they have made friends with.

Olivia Rosane, Freelance Reporter
Indigenous Environmental Network
I first became aware of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) during the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline, but the nonprofit dates back to 1990 and has been working for almost 30 years to resist environmental injustice and build sustainable indigenous communities. Sometimes, everything that's wrong with the dominant culture's relationship to the Earth feels overwhelming. IEN tackles all of it, from deforestation to toxic waste dumping to fossil fuel extraction, and it does so while centering an indigenous worldview that offers a real alternative.

This holiday season, I am giving a gift to the future and donating to support their work. "By attempting to fulfill our responsibility to defend our mother earth we are assuring the survival of our unborn generations," their Unifying Principles read.

Jordan Simmons, Associate Editor
Amazon Aid Foundation
The Amazon Aid Foundation is empowering individuals, NGOS and governments to protect and revitalize the Amazon rainforest. In projects such as the RIVER OF GOLD documentary, they risk their lives to enter the grounds of illegal gold mining in Peru's Amazon rainforest to provide a disturbing account of how illegal mining causes an increase in deforestation and wildfires. The foundation provides information and resources such as the Buyer's Guide that can be used to not only become more conscious consumers, but to spread this message far and wide.

To express my gratitude for having more of an open mind and an understanding of my role as a consumer of gold, I have begun a monthly donation to the Amazon Aid Foundation. I look forward to the day I take this gift to Earth a step further by traveling to Madre de Dios region of southeastern Peru to join their reforestation project.

Chris McDermott, News Editor
Back to Nature Wildlife Refuge
The Back to Nature Wildlife Refuge in Orlando, Florida helps injured, orphaned and abandoned wildlife to recover. They describe their goal as "rescue, raise, rehabilitate and release" and they save thousands of animals a year. They have been especially busy after Florida storms that disrupt so many habitats.

I've supported this organization and have brought injured birds and squirrels to the refuge. The people who work there always inspire confidence that they'll give them the best care.

Rating for Center for Biological Diversity - Charity Navigator ›
Rating for Greenpeace Fund - Charity Navigator ›
Rating for Environmental Defense Fund - Charity Navigator ›
Experts' Picks: Protecting the Environment : Charity Navigator ›
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Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer, and the greatest viking hero who ever lived. But it wasn't always like that. Hiccup's memoirs look back to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy, and finding it very hard to be a hero. Hiccup must battle Berserks, dodge Scarers, complete the Impossible Task and save Fishlegs from being fed to the Beast! And all while being hunted down by an old enemy with a dark secret about the Lost Throne. What's a hero to do?
We liked the part where hiccup was sent down in the cage.
Dragons versus humans: can Hiccup save the dragons? Find out in the epic finale to the How to Train Your Dragon series, read by David Tennant. It is the Doomsday of Yule. At the end of this day, either the humans or the dragons will face extinction. Alvin the Treacherous is about to be crowned the King of the Wilderwest on the island of Tomorrow. His reign of terror will begin with the destruction of dragons everywhere.
The magical story-telling and unforgettable characters in Bev Doyle and Richard Kurti's audio adaptation of this children's classic have been brought to life by many well known voices from film, TV, radio and comedy.
It is the best story ever told 💫 to us it is really really really awesome and really really really really great ☄🌟⭐✨. It is really fun and perfect for us it is really really recommended. It is really really really awesome read the book as we'll 😄it is really really really epic and it is really excellent for all of my family and friends for us.
Hiccup is lost in the Library Labyrinth and the Driller-Dragons, Madguts and Murderous, are on the prowl. Hiccup's birthday is not going to be the quiet affair he hoped for.... This book also contains a comprehensive Dragonese Dictionary for those who'd like to dragon-whisper themselves.


The 12th annual National Chinese Language Conference will bring together organizations and educators from K–16 communities dedicated to advancing the field of Chinese language and culture education in the U.S. The conference proudly features an exhibition area where educators and school leaders can meet product and service providers. Conference participants are interested in teaching materials and resources, innovative classroom technologies, as well as study abroad and exchange programs. Last year, the conference attracted approximately 1,300 attendees from across the U.S. and abroad.
If you have further questions regarding exhibiting at NCLC 2019, please contact Jenny Luo at jluo@collegeboard.org.


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GameObjectManager::GameObjectManager(TileMap map)
{
	m_tile_map = map;
	register_game_object<Player>();
	register_game_object<ThrowableObject>();
	register_game_object<Enemy>();

	#if defined GAME_SERVER
	clan::Contour contour;
	contour.get_points().push_back(clan::Pointf(0,0));
	contour.get_points().push_back(clan::Pointf(0,32));
	contour.get_points().push_back(clan::Pointf(32,32));
	contour.get_points().push_back(clan::Pointf(32,0));

	m_tile_outline.get_contours().push_back(contour);
	m_tile_outline.calculate_radius();
	m_tile_outline.calculate_smallest_enclosing_discs();
	m_tile_outline.enable_collision_info(true, true, false);
	#endif
}

GameObjectManager::~GameObjectManager()
{
	free();
}

void GameObjectManager::preload(clan::Canvas & canvas ,clan::ResourceManager & resources)
{
	for(auto it = m_go_create.begin(); it != m_go_create.end(); it++)
	{
		(*it).second.gp(canvas,resources);
	}
}

void GameObjectManager::free()
{
	for(auto it = m_go_create.begin(); it != m_go_create.end(); it++)
	{
		(*it).second.gf();
	}
}

std::vector<GameObject*> & GameObjectManager::get_game_objects()
{
	return m_game_object_list;
}

std::vector<GameObject*> & GameObjectManager::get_tmp_game_objects()
{
	return m_tmp_object_list;
}

#if defined GAME_SERVER
uint32_t GameObjectManager::generate_guid()
{
	m_current_guid++;
	return m_current_guid;
}

void GameObjectManager::set_start_guid(uint32_t guid)
{
	m_current_guid = guid;
}
#endif

GameObject * GameObjectManager::add_game_object(uint32_t type, uint32_t guid)
{
	GameObject * o = create_game_object(type,guid);
	switch(type)
	{
	case EGOT_THROWABLE_OBJECT:
		{
			m_tmp_object_list.push_back(o);
			break;
		}
	default:
			m_game_object_list.push_back(o);
			break;
	}

	if(!m_on_add_game_object.is_null())
		m_on_add_game_object.invoke(o);

	return o;
}

void GameObjectManager::remove_game_object(uint32_t guid)
{
	auto it = std::find_if(m_game_object_list.begin(), m_game_object_list.end(), [&guid](GameObject * o){return o->get_guid()==guid;});

	if(it==m_game_object_list.end())
	{
		it = std::find_if(m_tmp_object_list.begin(), m_tmp_object_list.end(), [&guid](GameObject * o){return o->get_guid()==guid;});

		if(it==m_tmp_object_list.end())
			return;

		if(!m_on_remove_game_object.is_null())
			m_on_remove_game_object.invoke(*it);

		m_tmp_object_list.erase(it);
	}
	else
	{
		if(!m_on_remove_game_object.is_null())
			m_on_remove_game_object.invoke(*it);

		m_game_object_list.erase(it);
	}
}

void GameObjectManager::remove_not_alive_objects()
{
	for(auto it = m_game_object_list.begin(); it!=m_game_object_list.end();)
	{
		if(!(*it)->is_alive())
		{
			if(!m_on_remove_game_object.is_null())
				m_on_remove_game_object.invoke(*it);

			it = m_game_object_list.erase(it);
		}
		else
			it++;
	}

	for(auto it = m_tmp_object_list.begin(); it!=m_tmp_object_list.end();)
	{
		if(!(*it)->is_alive())
		{
			if(!m_on_remove_game_object.is_null())
				m_on_remove_game_object.invoke(*it);

			it = m_tmp_object_list.erase(it);
		}
		else
			it++;
	}
}

GameObject * GameObjectManager::find_game_object_by_id(uint32_t id)
{
	auto it = std::find_if(m_game_object_list.begin(), m_game_object_list.end(), [&id](GameObject * o){return o->get_id()==id;});

	if(it==m_game_object_list.end())
	{
		it = std::find_if(m_tmp_object_list.begin(), m_tmp_object_list.end(), [&id](GameObject * o){return o->get_id()==id;});

		if(it==m_tmp_object_list.end())
			return nullptr;

		return (*it);
	}
	else
		return (*it);
}

GameObject * GameObjectManager::find_game_object_by_guid(uint32_t guid)
{
	auto it = std::find_if(m_game_object_list.begin(), m_game_object_list.end(), [&guid](GameObject * o){return o->get_guid()==guid;});

	if(it==m_game_object_list.end())
	{
		it = std::find_if(m_tmp_object_list.begin(), m_tmp_object_list.end(), [&guid](GameObject * o){return o->get_guid()==guid;});

		if(it==m_tmp_object_list.end())
			return nullptr;
	}

	return (*it);
}

void GameObjectManager::update_game_objects(const clan::GameTime & game_time)
{
	for(auto it = m_game_object_list.begin(); it!=m_game_object_list.end(); it++)
	{
		(*it)->update(game_time);

		if(!m_on_update_game_object.is_null())
			m_on_update_game_object.invoke(*it);

	}

	for(auto itg = m_tmp_object_list.begin(); itg!=m_tmp_object_list.end(); itg++)
	{
		(*itg)->update(game_time);

		if(!m_on_update_game_object.is_null())
			m_on_update_game_object.invoke(*itg);
	}
}

#if defined GAME_SERVER
void GameObjectManager::collide_game_object_with_map(GameObject * obj)
{
	clan::vec2 tl, br, tl2, br2;
	//pos = obj->get_pos().get();

	clan::vec2f bb1 = obj->get_outline().get_contours()[0].get_points()[0];
	clan::vec2f bb2 = obj->get_outline().get_contours()[0].get_points()[2];

	tl = bb1;
	br = bb2;

	tl=pixel_to_chunk_pos(tl);
	br=pixel_to_chunk_pos(br);

    TileChunk c;

	for(int y = tl.y; y <= br.y; y++)
	for(int x = tl.x; x <= br.x; x++)
	{
		c = m_tile_map.get_chunk(clan::vec2(x,y));

		if(!c.is_null())
		{
			tl2=bb1; ///FIX ME: skaiciai paimti is player constructor
			br2=bb2;

			tl2=pixel_to_tile_pos(tl2);
			br2=pixel_to_tile_pos(br2);

			for(int j = tl2.y; j <= br2.y; j++)
			for(int k = tl2.x; k <= br2.x; k++)
			{
				Tile t = c.get_tile(clan::vec2(k,j),GROUND_LAYER_COUNT);
				clan::vec2 tile_pos = chunk_to_pixel_pos(clan::vec2(x,y))+clan::vec2(k*32,j*32);

				if(t.type != ETT_NO_TILE)
				{
					m_tile_outline.set_translation(tile_pos.x,tile_pos.y);
					if(obj->get_outline().collide(m_tile_outline))
					{
						obj->on_tile_collide(t);
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}

}

void GameObjectManager::collide_game_objects(const clan::GameTime & game_time)
{
	for(uint32_t i = 0; i<m_game_object_list.size(); i++)
	{
		for(uint32_t j = 0; j<m_tmp_object_list.size(); j++)
		{
			clan::CollisionOutline & outline = m_game_object_list[i]->get_outline();
			clan::CollisionOutline & outline2 = m_tmp_object_list[j]->get_outline();

			outline.enable_collision_info(true, true, false);
			outline2.enable_collision_info(true, true, false);

			if(outline.collide(outline2))
			{
				m_game_object_list[i]->on_collide(m_tmp_object_list[j]);
			}
		}

		collide_game_object_with_map(m_game_object_list[i]);
	}

	for(uint32_t j = 0; j<m_tmp_object_list.size(); j++)
	{
		collide_game_object_with_map(m_tmp_object_list[j]);
	}
}
#endif

void GameObjectManager::render_game_objects(clan::Canvas & canvas, const clan::vec2 & offset)
{
	for(auto it = m_game_object_list.begin(); it!=m_game_object_list.end(); it++)
		(*it)->render(canvas,offset);

	for(auto it = m_tmp_object_list.begin(); it!=m_tmp_object_list.end(); it++)
		(*it)->render(canvas,offset);
}

clan::Callback_v1<GameObject*> & GameObjectManager::func_on_update_game_object()
{
	return m_on_update_game_object;
}

clan::Callback_v1<GameObject*> & GameObjectManager::func_on_remove_game_object()
{
	return m_on_remove_game_object;
}

clan::Callback_v1<GameObject*> & GameObjectManager::func_on_add_game_object()
{
	return m_on_add_game_object;
}

void GameObjectManager::on_net_event(const clan::NetGameEvent & e)
{
	uint32_t type = e.get_argument(0).to_uinteger();

	///messages that are only handled on server
	#if defined GAME_SERVER

	#endif

	///messages that are only handled on client
	#if defined GAME_CLIENT

	#endif
}

void GameObjectManager::on_game_object_sync_event(const clan::NetGameEvent & e)
{

}

///factory
GameObject * GameObjectManager::create_game_object(uint32_t type, uint32_t guid)
{
	auto it = m_go_create.find(type);

	if(it != m_go_create.end())
		return it->second.gc(guid);

	throw clan::Exception("Cannot create object of type " + clan::StringHelp::uint_to_text(type));
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Razique Mahroua is a young intellectual who sees his work as a necessity for the rejection of the status quo, as a catharsis of principle in a socially accepted form. His passion for sociology, anthropology, psychology and the history of religion allows him to untangle the social narratives that condition us all to some degree.
Born into the rebellion of social conflicts between two cultures, his work questions the architecture of society and its social determinism as an attempt to find new answers in a paradoxical predicament.
This book, more than a project of personal nature, is the result of years of reflection upon various themes that I hold close to my heart. Identity, evolution, culture, being, relationships... are all facets that we experience permanently, that we create and recreate over time. Paradoxically, if they constantly change, they are also the same.
The project started a few years ago, while I was contemplating various ideas and themes, and reflecting on my life. I thought about my parents, and unexpectedly, a wave of feelings struck a deep cord in me: I didn't fully understand my parent's history, and its impact on my life, as a son of immigrant. How curious. Born in France, I found myself to be in an interesting predicament: neither fully Algerian, nor fully French, I was sitting on an in-between, lost in the interstices of my own confusion. For I was born on France, how could I not relate to it fully? Ongoing conflicts between these two countries is something real, something which has been going on for 188 years. And if this conflict is not fully mine, how could I feel a need to understand it? Why did I need to grasp the meaning of an ideological battle that sublimated the will of the Algerian people, and the war waged in the hopes of putting an end to their rampant submissiveness?
This opened up a lot of questions, and a certain uneasiness in me. This profound malaise didn't leave me, it only started to make sense the moment I was able to articulate the very first lines of this current book. And these first lines opened on deeper questions, which were all previously locked in Pandora's Box. I wanted, first and foremost, quench that growing sadness and desolation, but also, to a certain degree make sense of my own narrative, and its influences.
Questions like Where do I belong? What is my place in the French culture? started to emerge and shaped much of my reflection. I found myself immersed in a quest for understanding, but most importantly, for closure. There was a deep grief in me, yet, I couldn't really name it, let alone approaching it fully. My life was imbued with the idea that I was "just fine" about all that, and there was no need to spend time thinking about my relationship to my parents, nor my life as it relates to the perception of cultural differences.
However, from the depths of my denial, as this grief emerged, I found alongside a void. With only a thread of hope was I able to understand the metaphysics of my being, and strangely, how much the language barrier between my parents and myself was the same barrier between me, son of immigrant, and myself, a human being.
I think in a way that the sense of loneliness related to this grief is, at any rate for me, a feeling of inner disconnect, as if there were a gaping hole in the centre of who I am. This feeling was one that I had been carrying around for most of my life, but had come to the centre of my experience as a result of such grief. I see this feeling of inner disconnect as a need to feel like I belong somewhere.
As the process of grief was taking place, it amplified a need to deconstruct my place and role in society, the ideological structures that pervade cultures, and the nature of the relationships between people.
This is not my story more than it is everyone's story, a voice for each individual who struggle to find their place in society, and have this forever longing for belonging.


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Chart: How the ABC Democratic Debate in New Hampshire Compared to the Last Republican Debate
By Ryan Bort On 12/19/15 at 10:56 PM EST
A comparison between the topics discussed during Democratic debate on Saturday, December 19 in New Hampshire (in blue) and the two Republican debates on Tuesday, December 15 (in red). Newsweek
U.S. ABC 2016 Presidential Debates Democrats Chart
On Saturday evening, the Democratic presidential candidates took the stage for the final debate of 2015. Unlike the crowded field of Republican candidates, who debated on Tuesday night in Las Vegas, only three Democrats remain: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley. The debate was held at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.
The debate began with Sanders addressing the recent news that his campaign sued the DNC for suspending its access to voting records. Sanders explained how a glitch allowed his campaign access to Clinton's voting data and that his staffer "did the wrong thing" by looking at the data instead of reporting the error. That staffer has been fired, Sanders said. ABC then asked Sanders if, because his campaign made the wrong decision, he owed Clinton an apology. "I apologize," Sanders responded.
The debate then turned to bringing down ISIS, with the candidates agreeing that the U.S. needs to work with Muslims and to form an international coalition. Gun control, healthcare, income inequality, and the war on drugs were also discussed at length.
Here is how what was discussed differed from the topics covered in the most recent Republican debate, which took place Tuesday, December 15, in Las Vegas, Nevada:
Chart: How the ABC Democratic Debate in New Hampshire Compared to the Last Republican Debate | U.S.
Chart: How the CNN Republican Debate in Las Vegas Compared to the Last Democratic Debate
Chart: What the Democrats Talked About at Their Debate Versus the Republican Debate
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Another Spin Around the Sun is the debut solo album by Canadian alternative rock musician Edwin. It was released on April 27, 1999, in Canada, and July 4, 2000, in the United States. The album marked a musical change in his career from his previous work with I Mother Earth, being more pop-oriented. It spawned five singles "Trippin'", "Hang Ten", "Alive", "And You", and "Rush". The album went Platinum in Canada and was nominated for a Juno Award for Best Rock album in 2000.

Track listing
 "Theories" (Edwin, David Martin) – 4:36
 "Trippin'" (Edwin, Martin, Ben Dunk) – 3:22
 "Hang Ten" (Edwin, Martin) – 3:32
 "And You" (Edwin, Jack Blades, Jim Huff) – 3:59
 "Screaming Kings" (Edwin, John Keller) – 4:22
 "Shotgun" (Edwin, Ruben Huizenga) – 2:38
 "Alive" (Edwin, Martin, Stephan Moccio) – 6:10
 "Rush" (Edwin, Matt DeMatteo, Martin) – 4:19
 "Amazing" (Edwin, Huizenga) – 4:09
 "Take Me Anywhere" (Edwin, Huizenga) – 4:29
 "Better Than This" (Edwin) – 5:06
 "Another Drink" (hidden track) (Edwin, DeMatteo) - 2:35

Chart positions

Album

Year-end

Singles

Personnel
 Edwin - Vocals, backing vocals
 Ruben Huizenga - Bass, Keyboards, backing vocals, Piano, Guitar, Producer, Engineer
 Matt DeMatteo - Guitar, Piano, Drums, Keyboards, Programming, backing vocals, Producer, Engineer
 Christian Szczesniak - Guitar, Keyboards
 Stephan Szczesniak - Drums
 Kenneth Cunningham - Bass, Keyboards, Piano
Additional:
 Blake Manning - Percussion, Drums
 Andrew Charters - Bass
 Chris Simpson - Drums
 Tanya Nagowski - Production Coordination
 George Marino - Mastering
 Anne Greenwood - Choir, Chorus
 Annalee Patipatanakoon - Strings
 Roberto Occhipinti - Strings
 Joe L. Britt - Choir, Chorus
 Daniel Mansilla - Percussion
 Mike Roth - A&R
 Melanie Campbell - Choir, Chorus
 Catherine McRae - Art Direction, Design
 Danny Couto - Photography, Animation
 Heather Barnes - Choir, Chorus
 Elizabeth Blastorah - Choir, Chorus
 Sharon Alexander - Choir, Chorus
 Lenny DeRose - Engineer, String Engineer
 Stephan Moccio - String Arrangements
 David Hetherington - Strings
 Fujice Imajishi - Strings
 Mel Mandel - Strings
 Jonathan Craig - Strings
 Roman Borys - Strings
 Marie Berard - Strings
 Douglas Perry - Strings
 Marc-Andre Savoie - Strings
 Mark Skazinetsky - Strings

References

1999 debut albums
Edwin (musician) albums
Sony Music Canada

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TensorFlow — открытая программная библиотека для машинного обучения, разработанная компанией Google для решения задач построения и тренировки нейронной сети с целью автоматического нахождения и классификации образов, достигая качества человеческого восприятия. Применяется как для исследований, так и для разработки собственных продуктов Google. Основной API для работы с библиотекой реализован для Python, также существуют реализации для R, C Sharp, C++, Haskell, Java, Go и Swift.

Является продолжением закрытого проекта DistBelief. Изначально TensorFlow была разработана командой Google Brain для внутреннего использования в Google, в 2015 году система была переведена в свободный доступ с открытой лицензией Apache 2.0.

История

DistBelief
Закрытая система машинного обучения DistBelief разрабатывалась Google Brain для внутренних проектов с 2011 года для работы с нейронными сетями глубокого обучения. Она стала использоваться во многих исследовательских и коммерческих проектах группы фирм холдинга Alphabet. После успеха DistBelief, фирма Google решила вывести проект на новый уровень, и для рефакторинга выделила группу из нескольких разработчиков, в которую вошёл Джефф Дин; целью группы было упрощение и оптимизация кодов библиотеки, увеличение надёжности и удобства пользования. Новая библиотека получила название TensorFlow. В 2013 году к проекту присоединился Джеффри Хинтон — учёный, под руководством которого в 2009 году был создан метод обобщённого обратного распространения ошибки и ряд других улучшений, позволившие существенно улучшить точность нейронных сетей (что привело, в частности, к снижению погрешности в распознавании речи на 25 %).

TensorFlow
TensorFlow 9 ноября 2015 года был открыт для свободного доступа. TensorFlow является системой машинного обучения Google Brain второго поколения. В то время как эталонная реализация работает на единичных устройствах, TensorFlow может работать на многих параллельных процессорах, как CPU, так и GPU, опираясь на архитектуру CUDA для поддержки вычислений общего назначения на графических процессорах. TensorFlow доступна для 64-разрядных Linux, macOS, Windows, и для мобильных вычислительных платформ, включая Android и iOS.

Вычисления TensorFlow выражаются в виде потоков данных через граф состояний. Название TensorFlow происходит от операций с многомерными массивами данных, которые также называются «тензорами». В июне 2016 года Джефф Дин из Google отметил, что к TensorFlow обращались 1500 репозиториев на GitHub, и только 5 из них были от Google.

Тензорный процессор

В мае 2016 года Google сообщила о применении для задач глубинного обучения аппаратного ускорителя собственной разработки — тензорного процессора (TPU) — специализированной интегральной схемы, адаптированной под задачи для TensorFlow, и обеспечивающей высокую производительность в арифметике пониженной точности (например, для 8-битных процессоров) и направленной скорее на применение моделей, чем на их обучение.

Сообщалось, что после использования TPU в собственных задачах Google по обработке данных удалось добиться на порядок лучших показателей продуктивности на ватт затраченной энергии.

TensorFlow 2.0
Поскольку доля рынка TensorFlow среди исследовательских работ сокращалась в пользу PyTorch, команда TensorFlow объявила о выпуске новой основной версии библиотеки в сентябре 2019 года. Изменил схему автоматического дифференцирования со статического вычислительного графа на схему «Определить-запуском», первоначально ставшую популярной благодаря Chainer, а затем PyTorch.

Применение
TensorFlow хорошо подходит для автоматизированной аннотации изображений в таких системах как . Также с 26 октября 2015 года Google использует систему RankBrain для увеличения релевантности ранжировки поисковой выдачи Google. RankBrain основан на TensorFlow.

TensorFlow позволяет проводить обучение генеративно-состязательных сетей (GAN).

Интеграция TensorFlow с Python обеспечивается дистрибутивом Anaconda.

См. также
 Сравнение программ глубинного обучения

Примечания

Литература

Ссылка

Прикладное машинное обучение
Свободное программное обеспечение, написанное на C++
Свободное программное обеспечение, написанное на Python
Применение искусственного интеллекта
Искусственные нейронные сети
Анализ данных
Цифровая обработка изображений
Машинное обучение
Библиотеки Python
Программное обеспечение с лицензией Apache Software License
Глубокое обучение


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The average 30 yr mortgage rate jumped to 4.51% for the seven-day period ending on July 10th. That is an increase from 4.29% a week earlier and 3.98% for the second week in June. The higher rates increased monthly principle and interest payments by roughly 6.5%. OMG the rates for 10 yr loans are the same as what 30 year loans used to be just a short time ago.
Rates have climbed over a full point in recent weeks mostly on speculation about when the Federal Reserve will end its purchases Treasuries. The 10 year treasury bond determines mortgage rates.
Applications for purchase mortgages fell 3.1% last week from the last week in June, the second consecutive decline. However, the impact on the refinance side was much stronger.
An increase in mortgage rates will impact affordability and cause some shoppers to think twice about buying. However, rates are still low by historical standards. Rates were well above 4.5% until mid-2011. I remember a loan in 2000 that was 8%. The good part about climbing rates is that the decline in refinance activity will push lenders to search out more potential borrowers and ease credit standards, allowing access to credit for many borrowers who have been shut out in recent years and unable to take advantage of low rates.


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Home Is The United Methodist Church Dysfunctional?
Is The United Methodist Church Dysfunctional?
by Jerry Eckert
UMNS Photo by Kathleen Barry
Gleaning at General Conference
Missions such as this gleaning project from the 2012 General Conference outweigh The United Methodist Church's deficiencies, writes the Rev. Jerry Eckert.
A UM Insight Exclusive
I'm a Packer fan and have been sad to see how dysfunctional the Packer offense has been the second half of the season that has just ended for them when Arizona beat them in overtime last Saturday.
As Packers Coach Mike McCarthy has said, "We still won ten games and got into the play offs, winning our first game there."
So when I read in a recent UMNS article of a colleague calling the UMC "dysfunctional," I had to laugh. Every institution, including families, football teams, and denominations, is dysfunctional in some respect, at some time, with respect to something, but as the Packers could do, continue to function pretty well, if not perfectly.
The UMC is not perfect. It has many aspects that are dysfunctional besides how it handles certain violations of some Discipline passages. Over the years I have pointed out several and my focus has been quite narrow, mostly with respect to personnel management. As large as we are as a denomination, we could easily spend the day pointing out other dysfunctions.
But I am a United Methodist because we are still a very strong mission-oriented institution, mobilizing millions of caring people to provide help where it is most needed. I am a United Methodist because we have an open theology which hangs on to tradition and Bible but lets experience and reason temper our expressions of faith. I am a United Methodist because it has been the source of my most enduring friendships, among whom I found my wife, and where my children were given support and encouragement to be the wonderful human beings that they are. I am a United Methodist because we have survived major shifts in culture, overcoming mistakes (the 1844 split among others), and have not usually fallen back into making them again.
Hardly any of that is in jeopardy because of the disagreement over the seriousness of issues related to homosexuality. We are all a part of many dysfunctional social units that bumble through life, some more successfully than others. We find ways to do better when we can. Like most fans of the many different sports leagues, maybe next year we'll get it right.
The Rev. Jerry Eckert of Port Charlotte, Fla., is a retired clergy member of the Wisconsin Annual Conference.
mission UMC future Jerry Eckert 2012 General Conference
What you present...
is a description of the UMC that probably describes every other declining mainline denomination in America. I find myself wondering that if the UMC can not make a unique contribution to the Christian landscape in America, why bother?
Ella Pauline more than 3 years ago
...something :functional." Institutions, like families, all possess a mix of functionality and the lack of it. We do better than many: look at the Catholics, Mormons, and Southern Baptists.
George Nixon Shuler more than 3 years ago
John Wesley would cringe at this statement
"I am a United Methodist because we have an open theology which hangs on to tradition and Bible but lets experience and reason temper our expressions of faith." And I can testify that this so-called open theology leaves the rank and file person in the pew learning a whole lot about nothing in particular. That is NOT what made early Methodism a vibrant and successful movement. And if you try to use John Wesley's sermon "Catholic Spirit" to defend this "open theology", then you need to make a careful study of the much ignored second half of that sermon that describes a person with a truly catholic spirit. He never intended for the catholic spirit to be used as an excuse for multiple theologies to exist within one denomination; he was very protective of what was taught in the Methodist Societies while respecting the beliefs of others who were not part of early Methodism under his supervision. The amount of messiness currently present in the UMC exceeds my expectations of messiness and dysfunctionality that I would expect to see in any organization that hopes to survive; and that messiness and dysfuntionality all centers around a lack of consensus when it come to who God is and who we are and what God expects of us in this lifetime as well as how the church functions. And that creates a toxic atmosphere for the person in the pew.


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Mukherjee Nagar incident: AAP MLA Jarnail Singh urges Amit Shah to take strict action against other cops seen 'assaulting' Delhi driver in video
India Press Trust of India Jun 19, 2019 18:52:33 IST
New Delhi (India): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Jarnail Singh on Wednesday wrote a letter to Home Minister Amit Shah urging him to take action against more cops allegedly involved in the Mukherjee Nagar police assault case.
"Several videos are available of the incident. There are 10 to 15 people seen in these videos whereas action has been taken against only three cops," Singh, an MLA from Tilak Nagar, said in the letter.
Singh urged Shah to take strict action against the remaining policemen who allegedly thrashed an auto driver after an accident in north-west Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar area on Sunday.
AAP leader Jarnail Singh. News18
"Such incidents raise questions on law and order (in the national capital). I hope that you would take cognizance of the incident and immediately take strict action against rest of the policemen," Singh said in the letter.
He also asked the Home Minister to issue directions to the police officials to tackle these issues with sensitivity while keeping in view the "deteriorating law and order situations" in Delhi.
"If we look at the whole episode, it is clear that Delhi police have failed to tackle the issue as expected from a civilized and sensitive police force," the letter reads.
The MLA also urged Shah, whose ministry controls the Delhi police, to ensure that no action is taken against the driver.
He said, "Initially, the police said that it would not take any action against the victim but, in a statement on 18 June, it vowed to lodge an FIR against him. Police are not providing a copy of the FIR despite repeated requests so that we can know the status of the case."
On Tuesday, Delhi Police submitted a report to the Home Affairs in the case.
Three cops – two assistant sub-inspectors and a constable – were suspended for misconduct by the police following a preliminary investigation into the case which took place following a cop being allegedly attacked by the auto driver with a kirpan.
Meanwhile, a petition has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking an independent CBI probe into the incident.
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Measles is hot again. First the good news: a recent World Health Organization report found that, worldwide, 9.6 million lives were saved in the last decade because of redoubled vaccine efforts.
But here in the Unites States, measles is on the rise. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. saw more measles in 2011 than at any time since 1995. Usually the U.S. has about 60 annual cases; last year it had 222.
While that number may seem inconsequential compared with colds (10 million new cases annually), salmonella (1.2 million), or HIV (50,000), the reasons for measles' mini-spike are particularly troubling. For measles, we have an effective vaccine, sufficient vaccine supplies, and an infrastructure in place to deliver the shots.
Measles is on the rise in the U.S. for the exact opposite reason it is dropping globally. Here, as well as in Europe and other resource-rich places, many people hate vaccination. Almost all of the 2011 U.S. cases developed in or were spread by unvaccinated Americans traveling to Europe and elsewhere, or about-to-be-sick travelers visiting the U.S. from abroad.
The number of vaccine-averse people is difficult to estimate, but only 90 percent of the U.S. population is vaccinated according to specification. In that other 10 percent is a mix of those who forgot, those whose doctor forgot, and those who spurned their shots outright. Many refuseniks cite side effects as their primary concern, yet their worry does not diminish when such connections are disproved, as with autism. Nor does the reappearance of a near-vanquished infection in under-vaccinated communities ring a reality-based bell.
For these folks, and their 200-year-old forebears, vaccines are bad because they are not "natural." This is true, but isn't the point of civilization to rise above the blunt cruelty of nature? To arrive at some higher ground where we, and not Mother Nature, can call a few shots? Those wanting pure nature might prefer to watch a lion shred a wildebeest for lunch, or chase a tornado as it levels mobile homes in Oklahoma. That's nature at its purest: disinterested, timeless, unfazed by suffering.
One of nature's charter members is measles, which, even with WHO's impressive efforts, still kills hundreds of thousands of children annually. Its victims die a slow, miserable, natural death as the virus overwhelms every organ within a few weeks, culminating in respiratory failure. Vaccination has saved tens of millions of lives, more than any other medical invention. It is one of the few health-care heroes out there. Wouldn't it be more natural for us to be thankful?


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\section{Introduction}
Palomar 5 (Pal 5) is an outer Milky Way globular
cluster (GC) which presents some peculiar characteristics: a very low mass, $M_{tot}$ = 5 $\times 10^3 {\rm M}_\odot$, a large core radius, $r_c=24.3$~pc, and low central concentration, $c$=0.66 \citep[see][]{oden02}.
Moreover, it is surrounded by two massive  tidal tails emanating from opposite sides of the cluster and populated by stars escaped from the system \citep{oden01, oden03, grill06, jordi10}.
With an overall detected extension of $22^{\circ}$  on the sky, corresponding to a projected spatial length of more than $10$~kpc, Pal 5's tails are so elongated and massive that they
contain more stellar mass than the one currently estimated to be in the system itself \citep{oden03}.
Pal 5's streams are characterized by the presence of inhomogeneities:
stellar density gaps (underdense regions) and clumps (overdense regions) are particularly visible in the trailing stream, with the most evident and massive overdensities found between $100$ and $120$~arcmin from the cluster center \citep{oden03}.
As \citet{capuzzo05} and \citet{dimatteo05} showed, the presence of similar
substructures in globular cluster tidal tails can be related to kinematic
effects and local decelerations in the motion of stars, later identified by \citet{kupper08,kupper10, kupper12} and  \citet{lane12} as ``epicyclic cusps'',  i.e. regions
where stars escaping from the cluster slow
down in their epicyclic motion, as seen in the
cluster reference frame.
However, while all these works were successful
in showing that complex morphological substructures can be formed in the
tidal streams of globular clusters, until now no simulation or model has
been able to reproduce convincingly the only stellar
clumps robustly observed in the tails of a
Galactic GC: those of Pal 5.  Even in the most
complete numerical study of Pal 5's stellar
streams realized in the last years, \citet{dehnen04}
have not succeeded in reproducing the clumpy
nature of the stream. This lead them to  propose that
the observed clumps may be the effect of
Galactic substructures (as giant molecular clouds or dark matter subhalos) not accounted to in
their simulations. The hypothesis that the gravitational effects of dark
subhalos can generate a complex morphology in tidal tails, with
overdensities and gaps, has been recently confirmed by
\citet{yoon11}.
However, in the results presented by \citet{ADMH12} and summarized in this paper, we show that the
inhomogeneous tails of Pal 5 can be reproduced also without invoking any
lumpy dark halo, just as an effect of epicyclic motion of stars.

\section{Models and initial conditions}\label{method}

\subsection{N-body simulations and restricted three-body methods}
We used N-body, direct summation simulations to investigate the formation and characteristics of Pal 5's tidal tails \citep[see][for more details]{ADMH12}.
To run the simulations we used a modified version of NBSymple \citep{cmm11}, a high performance  direct $N$-body code implemented on a hybrid CPU+GPU platform.
In this code, the effect of the external galactic field is taken into account by mean of an analytical representation of its gravitational potential (see Sect. \ref{gal_mod_tails}).
To smooth the mutual interaction between particles we adopted a softening length, $\varepsilon=0.03$~pc.
The time integration of the particles trajectories was done using the second-order leapfrog method. The average relative error per time step was less than $10^{-13}$
for the cluster both isolated or in the Galactic potential.
The result of the N-body simulations were compared to simplified, restricted three-body models, where  we used the same initial conditions adopted to run the simulation but, at each time step, instead of considering the mutual interactions, we evaluated the interaction with the global gravitational potential of the cluster and with the Galactic potential for each particle.
Finally, similar to \citet{lane12}, we produced streaklines to visualize in a more clear way the spatial distribution, at the present time, of stars that have escaped from Pal 5 in the last Gyrs.
To do so, we integrated the orbit of a point mass representing Pal 5 barycenter, and, at each time step, released two particles at distance $r_\mathrm{max}=120$ pc from it, along the instantaneous Galactic center and anticenter directions, and with a velocity equal to that of the cluster. The motion of these escapers is  integrated in time, taking both the effects of the GC and Galactic potential into account.

\subsection{Globular cluster and Galaxy models}\label{gal_mod_tails}
The Galactic potential is from  \citet{AS91}, whose model consists of a spherical central bulge
and a flattened disk, plus a massive \emph{smooth} spherical halo.
\begin{figure
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.395\textwidth, angle=270]{figures/Fig1a_AMB.ps}\\
\vspace{-1.3cm}
\includegraphics[width=0.345\textwidth, angle=270]{figures/Fig1b_AMB.ps}
\caption{Upper panel: The trailing  tail at the end of the N-body simulation. The contour lines in the tails refer to $740$,
$2200$, $4800$, $6300$ and $7400$~M$_\odot/\rm{deg}^2$.  Bottom panel: Linear density of the trailing tail shown in the upper panel, as a function of the right ascension $\alpha$.  The cluster is on the right of the panel. Error bars are Poisson errors. From \citet{ADMH12}.}
\label{all}
\end{figure}
For the GC we adopted the parameters of the ``model A'' described by \citet{dehnen04} which consists of a single-mass King model \citep{Ki66} with tidal radius $r_t=56~$pc, $W_0=2.75$, and $M_0=2\times 10^4~{\rm M}_\odot$; we used $N=15360$ particles for the N-body representation of this model.

To obtain the orbital initial conditions, we integrated a test particle with Pal 5's present position and velocity backward in time for the same time interval as chosen by \citet{dehnen04}, i.e. $2.95$~Gyr, in the Galactic potential.
Then we translated the positions and velocities of the King model to coincide with those of the cluster barycenter $2.95$~Gyr ago, and  we integrated the whole cluster $2.95$~Gyr forward in time.
\section{Results and discussion}\label{results}
During its evolution, the simulated cluster has lost the most of its initial mass ($88$\%), now redistributed into two long and narrow tidal tails.
This tails are only apparently smooth: as it becomes evident plotting the cluster isodensity contours, their structure is actually complex and the stellar distribution
is clearly inhomogeneous. In particular, as shown in the upper panel of Fig.~\ref{all}, the densest substructures  are all localized in the trailing tail.
In this tail, our N-body simulation predicts there are
two prominent density enhancements: the first located very close to the cluster ($\alpha<$ 230$\degr$) and the second starting at $\alpha$=230.5$\degr$  and ending at $\alpha$=232$\degr$. The second region shows an underdense region in it, whose extension is $\sim$ 0.5$\degr$.
All these characteristics, at the same location, are also found in the observed streams \citep[see Fig.~3 in][]{oden03}.
Not only does the position of these clumps closely resemble the location of those observed in Pal 5's tails, but their linear densities (bottom panel of Fig. \ref{all}) -- 2--3 times above the density of the surrounding streams -- and the presence of underdense regions, with sizes of 0.5$^\circ$-1$^\circ$, also agree with those measured for Pal 5 \citep[see Fig.~4,][]{oden03}.
As shown in Fig.~\ref{isod_mod}, these substructures are also  visible in the isodensity contours of the simplified numerical model,  at few degrees  from the cluster center.
\begin{figure
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.55\textwidth, angle=0]{figures/Fig2_AMB.eps}\\
\vspace{-0.3cm}
\caption{The trailing  tail of the cluster in the restricted three-body model.
The contour lines in the tails refer to $470$, $940$, $1410$, $1970$, $2500$ and $3300$~M$_\odot/\rm{deg}^2$. From \citet{ADMH12}.}
\label{isod_mod}
\end{figure}
These regions of over- and underdensities are due to the  epicyclic motion of stars escaping from the cluster: stars lost at different times redistribute along the tail following a complex path, as shown by the streaklines  in  Fig.~\ref{streak}.
This kinematic process, described and studied in a number of papers
\citep{kupper08, kupper10, kupper12, lane12}, is applied here for
the first time to reproduce observed stellar streams, including
both the position and the intensity of the observed stellar
inhomogeneities.
The epicyclic motion is thus able to form over- and underdensities in several regions of the tails, at a variety of distances from Pal 5. If the orbit is integrated over longer times ($\sim$8~Gyr), streaklines indeed show that epicycle loops also form at distances of several kpc from the center.
Moreover, since these substructures are also reproduced in models where the mutual gravity is neglected, it is possible to rule out Jeans instability as a possible mechanism responsible for their formation, as suggested by \citet{quillen10}.

\begin{figure
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.48\textwidth]{figures/Fig3_AMB.eps}
\caption{Streaklines which show the positions, at the present time, of stars that have escaped from Pal 5 in the last $2.95$~Gyrs. Different colors correspond to stars lost during different time intervals of $0.5$~Gyr. From \citet{ADMH12}.}
\label{streak}
\end{figure}

\section{Conclusions}\label{conclusions}
We have studied the formation and characteristics of the tidal tails of the GC Pal 5 along its orbit in a smooth Milky Way potential by means of N-body simulations and simplified numerical models.
For the first time, we were able to reproduce the observed inhomogeneous structure of Pal5's tidal tails using N-body simulations, without including any lumpiness in the Galactic halo. The epicyclic motion of stars along the tails is the main mechanism responsible for the formation of clumps. This result must be taken into account when using streams inhomogeneities to evaluate the granularity of the Milky Way dark halo.

\section*{Acknowledgments}
This work was carried out under the HPC-EUROPA2 project (project number: 228398) with the support of the European Commission Capacities Area-Research Infrastructures Initiative.

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I answered a question on limiting another's generosity on 6 July 2014. You can listen to or download the podcast of just this question below – or check out the whole episode of Philosophy in Action Radio.
How much generosity is too much? Generosity seems like a trait that would fit well into your theory of moral amplifiers. But how does one best deal with someone who is being overly generous? I recently relocated to a new city and one of my coworkers with whom I am friendly has really gone above and beyond trying to help me get settled. She is constantly offering to help, lend me things, or even give me things to make life easier. I appreciate her offers and turn down many of them as politely as I can. But I struggle to find the right balance of accepting her generosity in due proportion to our friendship. She seems to be fairly wealthy, so I don't think her offers are sacrificial in any way, my issue is that we are friends, but not close enough friends to justify the incessant barrage of motherly offerings. Through consistent communication about what I am willing to accept and what I won't – and also owing to actually getting settled in the new city – she's backed off a bit. More broadly, how would you recommend dealing with this sort of problem? How can a person make sure not to make this mistake of being overly generous?
My Answer, In Brief: The problem in this case isn't so much one of excess generosity, but rather boundary-crossing. Be cautious, and err on the side of refusing offered favors.


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I have a judgment awarding me custody of my child — can my former spouse object to me moving out of town?
Judgments awarding custody are intended to provide children with stability. Therefore, there must be proof of significant changes before a court will intervene to modify such judgments.
When you sign a residential lease with a landlord, your primary obligation as a tenant is to pay your rent in full when it is due. The law states that a tenant must pay his rent the first of every month, unless otherwise agreed upon with the landlord.(1) It is possible to agree with the landlord on different payment terms for the rent, but if you do so, it is important to include those terms in the lease.
In other words, if you pay the landlord the rent owed, the landlord's costs for his application to the Régie du logement as well as the interest, before the Régie has rendered its decision, the landlord will not be able to evict you from your dwelling. If, despite having paid the rent before the judgment, a bailiff serves you with an eviction order, consult a lawyer immediately in order to determine if there is a possibility of filing a motion in the Court of Québec to oppose the eviction order and have it annulled.
The landlord must wait until the expiry of the stipulated time limit before enforcing a judgment of the Régie du logement. If his prior notice of eviction is sent too early, the eviction order will be premature and there will be grounds for filing a motion to oppose in the Court of Québec.
Finally, if, after the judgment of the Régie du logement has been rendered, your landlord cashes a rent cheque, without any mention or reservation, but nevertheless serves you with an eviction order, go to the legal aid office nearest your home in order to meet with a lawyer who will be able to determine whether it is possible to oppose the eviction order.
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What exactly is the Social Security Tribunal?
I am a victim of spousal violence or sexual assault - can I terminate my residential lease?
Yes. Under the Civil Code of Québec,(1) a tenant can resiliate (terminate) his residential lease if, due to the violent behaviour of a spouse or former spouse, or due to sexual aggression, even by a third party, the safety of the tenant or a child living with the tenant is threatened.
You may be granted free legal aid if your income, property and liquid assets do not exceed the eligibility scale provided for in the Act respecting legal aid and the provision of certain other legal services and the Regulation respecting legal aid.
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Strange Face – Adventures With a Lost Nick Drake Recording
By Conor Matchett
Music has a way of providing the most honest portrait of a person, be it someone listening to an opera in the Royal Albert Hall or someone moshing in the belly of Bannerman's, music always manages to discover the most intimate aspects of anyone.
The lack of any actual Nick Drake may be a disappointment for some, but that would be missing the point of what is a fantastic show of photography, music, and above all else, people.
Michael Burdett's spoken word performance of Strange Face is similarly revealing. Despite the lack of any Nick Drake music in the show, the storytelling ability of Burdett alongside the terrific portrait photographs that are beamed onto the wall by a projector are more than enough to totally engage the audience with what is an exceptionally interesting story.
Honesty, however, is probably the best policy. I have history with Nick Drake, he's one of my all-time favourite musicians and I would wish, more than anything, to hear the lost recording that the photos personify the emotions of. But it doesn't matter if you have never heard of Nick Drake, Burdett's wordsmithery immediately draws you into the Nick Drake story, with his brief synopsis of Drake's life giving even the most passionate of Nick Drake fans an extra insight.
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The show is truly enthralling, despite the slightly cheesy music choice at the start and end, and offers a supremely mesmeric description and insight into the life of Nick Drake, and into the life of the people who listen to Nick Drake. For a free show, it is without doubt worth your time, and with the majority of the bucket contributions fundraising for musical therapy charity Nordoff Robbins, any money that is put towards it goes towards an excellent cause.
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North Pole International Private Limited is going to organize study in Malaysia exhibitions in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. It is the 13th Study in Malaysia exhibition by the same company. Consultancy firm claims that Malaysian High Commission in Islamabad has endorsed the exhibition. Delegations of many Malaysian universities will participate in the exhibitions to guide the students about visa and admission process.
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Greiner joined "Shark Tank" in 2012. She has invested nearly $10 million from appearing in 78 episodes of the show.
Some of her most impressive investments to date include Scrub Daddy, Simply Fit Board, Squatty Potty, Readerrest, Screenmend, Sleep Styler and Hold Your Haunches. She holds the record for the show's biggest success selling 2 million of the Scrub Daddy in one day on QVC. She also has a 90% success rate on the products she launches and invested in 10 of the top 20 most successful companies on "Shark Tank" to date.
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She earns $5 million or so from her business and $50,000 per episode of "Shark Tank."
Greiner's Other Ventures
Apart from being an integral part of "Shark Tank," Greiner has hosted her own show "Clever and Unique Creations by Lori Greiner" since 2000. QVC is where she makes the vast majority of her income.
Greiner has created and put forth more than 700 items to market and has more than 110 U.S. and international patents. The items range in price from $16 to $300.
The Shark is a published author, having penned the bestseller "Invent it, Sell it, Bank it! – Make Your Million Dollar Idea into a Reality."
She also owns a TV production company called Good Place Entertainment to bring feel-good videos to the public.
How She Got Her Start
Her initial claim to fame came in the form of a plastic earring organizer that she invented in 1996 which was sold by J.C. Penney's during the holiday season. The profits from this allowed her to pay off a $300,000 loan that she got to manufacture her organizer in record time. She ended up making her first million from this product alone.
By the end of the 1990s, her creations from For Your Ease Only Brand yielded more than $10 million in revenue. Twenty years later it had achieved more than $350 million from product sales.
She went on to invent and patent more than 300 products related to jewelry, cosmetic organization, household goods, travel and electronics.
Her products are so popular that they have appeared as one of Oprah's favorite things, as well as in many magazines and best-of lists. She often appears in the media and has been the subject of many high-profile finance pieces.
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Greiner was the second child born to a psychologist and real estate developer in Chicago, Illinois on December 9, 1969. Greiner grew up on the North side of Chicago, a place she still calls home. She graduated from Loyola University Chicago with a major in communications and journalism. While working to become a playwright, she began making and selling costume jewelry.
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She is involved in many philanthropic efforts and provides a number of women full scholarships to attend 4-year colleges.
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from chainer import distributions
from chainer import testing
import numpy

@testing.parameterize(*testing.product({
    'shape': [(2, 3), ()],
    'is_variable': [True, False],
    'sample_shape': [(3, 2), ()],
}))
@testing.fix_random()
@testing.with_requires('scipy')
class TestGeometric(testing.distribution_unittest):

    scipy_onebyone = True

    def setUp_configure(self):
        from scipy import stats
        self.dist = distributions.Geometric
        self.scipy_dist = stats.geom

        self.test_targets = set([
            "batch_shape", "event_shape", "log_prob", "mean", "sample",
            "support", "variance"])

        p = numpy.random.uniform(0, 1, self.shape).astype(numpy.float32)
        self.params = {"p": p}
        self.scipy_params = {"p": p}

        self.support = 'positive integer'
        self.continuous = False

    def sample_for_test(self):
        smp = numpy.random.randint(
            1, 10, self.sample_shape + self.shape).astype(numpy.int32)
        return smp

testing.run_module(__name__, __file__)


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Brandy Covers Bill Withers' Classic 'Ain't No Sunshine'
It's featured on ABC's "Queens" soundtrack.
Photo Credit: Gavin Bond/ABC
Brandy has released her cover of Bill Withers' 1971 classic "Ain't No Sunshine," which will be featured in Tuesday's (Nov. 9) episode of ABC's Queens.
Backed by an acoustic guitar, Brandy once again proves why she is the Vocal Bible with her effortless delivery. Brandy's rendition of "Ain't No Sunshine" follows her remake of Miley Cyrus' hit single "Wrecking Ball."
Other previously shared tracks include "Hear Me," "Girls Gonna Run That," "Belly Of The Bitch," "Heart of Queens" featuring Cam'ron and "Nasty Girl."
Brandy stars in Queens as Naomi aka Xplicit Lyrics. The drama series follows four women in their '40s who were once a part of a successful hip-hop group in the '90s. They reunite for another chance at fame. Eve (Brianna aka Professor Sex,) Naturi Naughton (Jill aka Da Thrill), and Nadine Velazquez (Valeria aka Butter Pecan) also star in the series.
Queens airs on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. EST on ABC.
Listen to Brandy's cover of Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine" below.
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