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Q: fill bound issue, low fps in 360 scene with stacked transparent textures I have a project with 360 scene - camera is inside the sphere and 360 photo is wrapped as texture around the sphere:
http://kitchen-360.herokuapp.com/
I added several smaller spheres with transparent textures and Im seeing sudden drop of performance. It is 'fill bound' issue as described in this link:
Debugging low FPS in Three.js
Im trying to solve this performance issue. Im thinking of having only one sphere with multiple textures on it. Is this gonna be faster then stacked spheres with one texture each?
I tried to create sphere mesh with array of MeshBasicMaterial but its not working. Only first texture in the array is visible:
// when texture is loaded I push it to array
var sphereMaterial = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({
  map: texture,
  side: THREE.DoubleSide
  })
sphereMaterial.transparent = true;
matArr.push(sphereMaterial);

//... then later when all textures loaded
roomMesh = new THREE.Mesh( sphereGeometryR, matArr );
roomMesh.name = 'great room';
scene.add( roomMesh );

I saw this example for custom shader but dont know how to add and change textures dynamically at later time:
Multiple transparent textures on the same mesh face in Three.js
Is there any other way to optimize this problem? Would geometry merge help here?

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Marmon history
In Finland since 1926
"By Marmon to town Porvoo", Moottori, August 1926
Oil purifier, device seen in the middle, was introduced in model E-75
Marshal Mannerheim in a parade 16th May 1928
Marmon pulling sailplanes up in the air.
Artukainen airfield 1938.
1st of May 1959 at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki.
Marmon garage "before"...
...and "after"
First Marmon had to be washed
60 years of mud and grease...
Trial start, 1991
First test drive!
Restoration work begins
Chassis dismantling
Specialist meeting
"Marmon brotherhood",
the mental and financial back rest of the project.
The first Marmons were imported to Finland in 1926 by "Autokeskus OY", the Finnish Marmon dealer. Technical magazine "Moottori" published a very flattering article of Marmons in August 1926. In the pictures one can clearly see that the Marmon model featured in the article is an E-75.
Marmon E-75, 7-passanger Speedster (body by Locke), id number 10RA84, was first used by Marshal of Finland, C.G.E. Mannerheim. He was the commander of the Finnish "white" army during the Finnish Independence war in 1918 and the military and political leader of Finland during the World War II. Between the two wars, at the end of '20s, Mannerheim was a civilian becuse he did not agree with the government politics and so he had no official car in his use. Even though he had no official position Mannerheim was very respected person between the wars. The owner of Autokeskus Oy, lieutenant Geitel, was very good friend of Marshal Mannerheim and he generously offered him a car and a driver when ever he wanted. It is somewhat unclear if the Marmon ever really belonged to Mannerheim, but at least he used it like his own car on his trips around the country and to the middle Europe.
The Marmon was specially customized for Marshal Mannerheim. He was a rather tall man and the dickey seats were moved forward in order to get more room for his legs (and less room for his adjutants...). Mannerheim was known as very accurate and strict person and he always wanted to be aware of the speed and schedule of the trip. This is the reason why an extra speedometer was assembled to the passanger compartement. If you wish to read more of Marshal Mannerheim, this is a good link: http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/mannerheim.html
After Mannerheim the car belonged to baron Aminoff. Ten years later, when Marmon actually was rather old car, it was donated to an aviation club. They used it to pull sailplanes up in the air. I can imagine why: a big and heavy car with a strong and slowly turning engine was ideal for that purpose. During the wartime it was stored in a hangar at the airport. We heard a rumour that during the war some german soldiers made boots and bags out of its leather interiors (there was some german troops in Finland because Germany and Finland were allied against the Russians).
After some years - in 1959 - a group of young students of Helsinki University of Technology bought the Marmon. Every year 1st of May an association of students of technology called SiMiLi publish a fun magazine called "ÄPY". The Marmon was used to arouse peoples interest when selling these magazines. A dark and big old car was really a head turning sight when roaring down the streets among the small european after-war cars like Fiats and Volkswagens. The Student Union used it also in different kind of student campaigns and festivals and for driving around just for fun.
Maintenance of an old car was rather difficult and time consuming. The radiator was leaking, the water pump had been corroded, the electricity system behaved oddly etc. The students who bought the Marmon graduated and moved away and after a while there was nobody left to take care of the car. The Marmon was just forgotten in a garage and it was removed from the Finnish vehicle register in 1967. Nothing was heard of the Marmon until 1980 when a yellow paper magazine "Ratto" published an article "Marshals car in a pile of junk!". That woke up the Espoo Car Museum and they offered Marmon a better place to stay.
Some ten years later I was the president of the Automobile Club (TAK) of the Helsinki University of Technology. One night at the end of 1980's we had a automobile club get-together (discussion about cars, Finnish sauna and, of course, lots of beer...) where the chief editor of a veteran car magazine gave us a presentation of antique cars. At the end of the presentation he asked us: "...by the way, how is the Marshal Mannerheims Marmon doing nowadays? The one that belongs to you students?". I had to admit that I had never even heard of the car and that annoyed me quite a lot. Then we found the Marmon in the Espoo Car Museum and we were really astonished of its majestic looks. For a few years we thought about the idea of restoring the Marmon and after we had found a suitable garage and some skillful people to do the job we got the Student Unions permission to restore the car.
The project begun by renewing the garage during the winter 1990-1991. The restoring itself started in spring 1991. Marmon was looking pretty good to us, but when the restoration went on, the thruth was revealed: the engine worked all right, but the water pump was corroded beyond reparation, the radiator had several leaks, distributor cap was cracked, and all moving parts were more or less worn out. When we opened the engine we found out that all bearings were cracked and worn and somebody had put the pistons in wrong order. The car had sometimes been in an accident and the front end of the chassis was twisted. As a consequence of the accident one of the running boards had been replaced. The interiors of the car were made of cheap imitation leather and the canvas top and the top mechanism and many of the smaller parts were missing. We realized that we had a lot bigger mission ahead of us than we thought when starting the project.
It has taken quite a long time to restore it, but we have gone totally through the car and renewed actually every piece of it. At the moment (March 2002) the car is almost ready for driving. The engine is totally restored and it runs nicely. Most of the restored parts have been assembled back to the car, but the upholstery and the instrument panel need some finishing. Several parts are still missing, e.g. the canvas top and its mechanism. It will still take quite a lot of time and work, but our goal is to meet the requirements of the Finnish National Automobile Historic Club and get the Marmon registered as a museum vehicle!
Marmon Marmon Suomessa Marmon ja Mannerheim Marmonin vaellusvuodet Marmon ja teekkarit Entisöinnin alku
Marmon history Historic pictures Marmon restoration Technical data Missing_parts

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Q: Importing flat file and Creating reports sql server I have a ragged right flat file  which has 168 columns.
I will get this type of flat file daily and need to create various reports and send these reports to various departments of my company.
My task is to load this flat file into sql server database for reporting purposes. The 168 columns should go to 22 different tables and when storing this in different ttables, it should be in the correct datatypes
Can anyone suggest a good process to do this.
I need to covert the column before loading to each table.
and from that table, i will create reports.
Thank you for your time help !

A: I worked for similar type of project and here is the scenario and what i did if it helps you.
Scenario
files were dumped via FTP at midnight, this file should be processed and generate report everyday [early first hour].
Solution
I fixed a  folder to dump file everyday and designed a SSIS to import into a large table [168 columns table on our case] i.e.Table ImportStaging, also I had column dateImported and filename to keep track for file and date imported.
and the I had a procedure to populated other tables. and SSRS report on place.
Now I designed a SQL job,
Step 1: Import using SSIS package
Step 2: SSIS package to move imported files into FileDumpYard drive
Step 3: Exec proc   --[populated into proper tables and generate summaries]
and scheduled this job for early morning.
that's it
My reports were ready before I get off my bed  :)


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Child abuse: when family courts get it wrong
Note: Cross posted from [wp angelfury] A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice.
States must reform a system that too often awards custody to the abusive parent.
By Kathleen Russell
from the October 14,http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1014/p09s02-coop.html 2009 edition
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SAN RAFAEL, CALIF - When a parent harms his or her own child, family courts are supposed to step in and safeguard the victim.
Can you imagine what a tragedy it would be if courts awarded custody to the wrong parent – the abuser?
Actually, according to one conservative estimate, more than 58,000 children per year are ordered by family courts into unsupervised contact with physically or sexually abusive parents following divorce in the United States.
The fact that this type of scandal is taking place in the American justice system defies the imagination. Not since the Roman Catholic Church pedophile scandal has the US seen this level of institutional harm inflicted on innocent children.
Consider the case of Jonea Rogers, a hairstylist from Marin County, Calif. During her costly divorce, she sought help from numerous law enforcement, child protection, and family court authorities to protect her daughter from what medical evidence and reports by the child and her baby sitter suggested could be ongoing neglect or sexual abuse or both by the girl's father or grandfather.
None of the authorities she approached would effectively intervene to protect her daughter. So in 2000, Ms. Rogers eventually felt that she had no choice but to flee with her child to protect her.
More than three years later, this protective mother was caught and jailed for five months, while her daughter was immediately handed over to her alleged abusers. Rogers faced criminal charges for violating a court order by fleeing with her child. After considering the evidence in her case, a jury of her peers completely exonerated her of all wrongdoing.
The very same evidence that exonerated her in the criminal court had been called "frivolous" by the family court judge and disregarded. Despite her acquittal, Rogers was never granted custody of her daughter, who lives with her alleged abusers to this day. She is now forced to pay a fee to visit with her daughter a few times a month in a supervised visitation facility.
As we see in many cases across the country, even when physical or sexual abuse of children is alleged during a divorce, American family courts routinely award custody to the parent with an established record of domestic violence restraining orders, child abuse, neglect, alcoholism, addiction, dangerous mental illness, or a combination.
Meanwhile, the child's other parent, commonly referred to as the "protective parent," is typically demonized by court professionals as an "alienator" for bringing evidence of child abuse to the court's attention.
This happens because the reigning paradigm in family courts across the country is an unscientific, discredited theory known as "Parental Alienation Syndrome," or PAS.
PAS and its many derivatives suggest that the parent who asks the court to protect his or her child by limiting the alleged abuser's access to that child is "alienating" the child from the other parent.
The theory suggests that a parent "coaches" a son or daughter to fabricate false abuse allegations, and the court's attention immediately shifts away from investigating an alleged crime and instead focuses on the "uncooperative parent" who refuses to share custody of the child with the alleged abuser or molester.
PAS is tricky for the courts because parents in heated custody battles often badmouth each other and sometimes exaggerate claims of neglect, and children overhear their parents complaints about each other. Though rare, false allegations of abuse do occur. Research on child sexual abuse indicates that close to 98 percent of children who claim sexual abuse in the context of a high conflict divorce are telling the truth, yet family courts routinely proceed as if the opposite were true.
Protective parents not only lose custody of the children they are trying to protect, but they lose their life savings, too. Many cannot even afford a lawyer to represent their interests, but are saddled with hefty supervised visitation fees and often threatened with a loss of custody if they object to paying the bevy of court-appointed experts that the judge assigns to their case.
Fees quickly add up to tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Many such parents go bankrupt, making court appeals impossible. The family law "machine" operates as Big Business, and a sophisticated cottage industry has sprung up that appears to be preying on desperate parents and children who are trying to escape family violence.
Four factors conspire against protective parents:
1. Family law judges are granted broad discretion in their decisionmaking;
2. Juries are nonexistent in most family law courtrooms;
3. Costly appeals are out of reach for most litigants; and
4. Children are not afforded a voice in these important proceedings that determine their future. As a result, nothing short of a major overhaul of the family court system will suffice.
Here in California, home to some of the most egregious cases, the Center for Judicial Excellence and its partner organizations in the Safe Child Coalition recently worked with State Sen. Mark Leno (D) of San Francisco to unanimously pass an audit request through the California legislature to address this growing problem.
The request asks the state auditor to investigate the procedures used by family courts to appoint, train, evaluate, and discipline the plethora of professionals they use in cases in Marin and Sacramento counties.
The legislature should also pass two sensible bills in 2010. Assemblyman Jim Beall (D) of San Jose has proposed a bill that would outlaw PAS in state family courts, and a bill by Assemblywoman Fiona Ma (D) of San Francisco would allow children to have a voice in family court proceedings.
Other states must open their eyes to this problem. Family courts are being manipulated in ways that tragically undermine their mission.
We must ensure access to justice for all who find themselves in our nation's family courts. There are at least 58,000 reasons to get serious about reform today.
Kathleen Russell is a cofounder and staff consultant to the Center for Judicial Excellence in Marin County, Calif.
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Home Celebrities Top 10 Most Handsome Taiwanese Actors
Top 10 Most Handsome Taiwanese Actors
Till date, Taiwan holds the renowned impression in producing few extremely talented actors in the last century. Several of them have gone on to become celebrity in area of dramas, comedies, horror movies, etc. Famous Taiwanese actors specify in film, tv or also in theatre, hence it is not that they are always a movie star.
You can perceive that these are few of the finest Taiwanese actors the nation has ever observed; hence if you're a citizen of Taiwan or an aspiring actor/actress then in that case, these are the celebrities you must look on. It is known that few of these celebrities began their career just by performing supporting roles in movies and dramas. Presently they have founded their names globally and have been the dream boy of every girl. You can get complete details of famous Taiwanese actors of 2019 after reading below sections:
10. Mike He
9. Aaron Yan
8. Ethan Juan
7. Wu Chun
6. Roy Chiu
5. Jiro Wang
4. Chen Bolin
3. Lan Cheng-Long
2. Joe Cheng
1. Vic Chou
Mike He is a Taiwanese actor who began his career in form of a model prior making career in acting. Till year 2010, the actor is coped by HIM International Music, while in year 2005, he was featured in two tv series namely Express Boy and Devil Beside You. In year 2006, Mike He was featured in TVBS-G's series entitled Marry Me! And it is known that year 2011 was a large comeback year for the actor after a comparatively low profile 2010. The actor's two tv series namely Sunny Happiness and Love Keeps Going that co-stars Taiwanese actresses, kept the back-to-back release on CTV's 10pm Idol Drama slot.
Aaron Yan is a well-known Taiwanese singer and actor, famed all over the world. Aaron is one of the associates of Taiwanese boy band named Fahrenheit, hence he started the career every young. When the actor was young, he and his family hot shifted to Connecticut, in US where he resided for period of five years, and later shifted to Taiwan in year 2004. It is known that Aaron started his acting debut in famous Taiwanese drama entitled I Love My Wife. In year 2015, Yan started his debut in Japan as well as released his initial Japanese single, entitled as Moisturizing.
Ethan Juan is a Taiwanese actor and model, who is occasionally accredited as Juan Ching-Tien or also as Ruan Jing-Tian. Ethan rose to fame in the Taiwanese drama entitled Fated to Love You, and he stayed as year 2010 Best Leading Actor winner for his role in Monga of the 47th Golden Horse Awards. It is known that Juan has started his career in the adult entertainment industry in combination with Catwalk Modelling Agency. Being a model, Ethan was featured in the music videos of many prevalent artists, comprising but not restricted to A-Mei, Stefanie Sun, and S.H.E. Ethan even started his debut in the threesome scene along with Michael the Archangel, featuring with Taiwanese boyfriend Energy.
Wu Chun is a famous and hot Bruneian actor, model, singer, entrepreneur, visionaries, ambassador, youth role model, as well as best health and sport fanatic. Being a model, Wu Chun has performed as well as presented in many international magazines, like Elle for Men, Esquire, Men's Health Magazine, GQ, Harper's BAZAAR Magazine, and Reader's Digest. Presently, Wu Chun emphases on operating his Brunei-based businesses motivated with fitness and health firm. It is known that in China, Wu Chun works as the director of TV profitable advertisements for InterContinental Hotel.
Roy Chiu is a well-known Taiwanese singer, actor, and racing driver. He started his debut in year 2002 with the tv series entitled Starry Starry Night, while in year 2006, the actor was recruited for his obligatory military service. Roy returned to acting career in year 2008 and rose to fame after three years when he performed in the dramas namely My Daughter, Waking Love Up, and Office Girls. It is known that for Roy Chiu, acting was not a leading preference for his career as he was even engaged into sports as well as worked as a star volleyball player. Later, Roy gave up his vision to work in acting in order to carry the gigantic debt suffered by his father's medical bills.
Jiro Wang initiated his career in form of a model and presently he is an associate of a band i.e. Taiwanese Mandopop vocal quartet boy band named as Fahrenheit. In order to pay off the huge debit, Wang operated in three jobs simultaneously, which included flyer distribution, preparing up as a amulet for Taipei's Zoo Mall, a fashion retail assistant, waiting tables at a bar, a part-time model, and also worked as a construction worker. After completing graduation from Arts College, Wang started to work in the commercial and modelling companies. In addition of sharing work and lifestyle photos, Wang applies his Weibo account to support various charitable causes.
Chen Bolin is a famous Taiwanese actor as he was awarded at the 47th Golden Bell Awards by Best Actor for In Time with You in year 2012. Bolin started his career in form of a model in his career growth in late teenage years. At early age of 19, Bolin had his initial leading role played in the Taiwanese film entitled Blue Gate Crossing in year 2002. While in year 2004, Bolin started filming movies in Hong Kong, Twins Effect 2: Blade of the Rose was Bolin's leading, in which he performed role of the money-mad Blockhead, who is actually the accepted brother of Charcoal Head.
Blue Cheng-Long Lan is a producer and actor and, identified for A ma de meng zhong qing ren, Fall… in Love and Police Et Vous. The actor is married one as he has been married to Yu-Ting Chou since year 2014 and the couple have one child. The actor started his acting debut in year 2001 and received consideration for one of his leading roles, a minor cameo in role of Dao Ming Si's older cousin in Meteor Garden. Till now, Blue Lan has performed in numerous prevalent dramas and films as well as he was featured in "Apple in Your Eye" (2014) and "Easy Fortune Happy Life".
Joe Cheng is a renowned Taiwanese actor, model, and singer, who initially began his career as model. Though he began his career in form of a model, Cheng is renowned for his character played as Zhishu in drama serial version of Japanese manga -Itazura Na Kiss, It Started with a Kiss. Apart from that, the actor has attained recognition as an actor in most regions of Asia, mainly Taiwan, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines and Japan. Cheng also launched his debut EP, named as Sing a Song, in year 2009. He also attained achievement in form of a model in one year of signing career.
Vic Chou is a talented and hot looking Taiwanese actor, singer as well as famous commercial model. The actor is an associate of the Taiwanese boy band named as F4, and has featured in many spectacular Taiwanese dramas. The series owned a variation only in the middle character from his birth name and it is considered that he rose to prominence for his character as Hua Ze Lei in the popular Taiwan tv series entitled Meteor Garden. Vic Chou was the leading F4 member to launch his album entitled Make a Wish in year 2002 and this was later followed by Remember, I Love You released in year 2004. Chou's third album entitled as I'm Not F4 was launched in year 2007 and outdid Taiwan's main charts for 3 weeks.
These Taiwanese celebrities are measured their oxygen in life and motivation to continue going up in their actin career. They are hot looking with unique eyes and nose that makes their fans to go crazy behind them.
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kimmy August 20, 2018 at 5:05 am
wow its so nice to know that vic zhou is in the no. 1 slot but why jerry yan is not listed?
Leigh July 11, 2018 at 10:59 am
Hi! I found your post and was wondering if you could help me find a drama. I've been trying to remember the name of it for weeks but I can't. Here's the storyline:
It's centered around a girl who just broke up with her boyfriend and discovers she's pregnant. She meets a doctor, an architect and an eccentric gang member who all fall for her and help in their own ways. Her mom owns a seaside hotel designed by a famous architect.
From what i remember of the opening song, the main guy also plays guitar/sings. It has a three men and a baby concept. Does it ring a bell? It's either a Chinese or Taiwanese drama. Thanks!
Phamtheminh November 12, 2018 at 12:07 pm
that is "Fated to love you" film taiwan !


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This is how your vote is stolen
Published: May 7, 2019 - 18:43
At the time of writing this analysis, three rounds of the staggered seven-phase general election have been completed. However, much of what was feared from the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) seems to be playing out in different voting booths in diverse parts of the country. Hundreds of thousands of voters have found their names deleted, EVMs have malfunctioned, and the Voter Verified Paper Trail (VVPAT), meant to preserve the EVM's integrity, has not just stumbled, but also fallen short on its promised seven-second display after the casting of vote. Users report that it is never more than a fleeting three seconds.
In short, the uncanny fear that the votes of Indian citizens in a democracy could be stolen en masse, have got aggravated. The big question is will the final result on May 23, 2019, capture the anger and anxieties of a restive nation or will the mandate be hijacked by an evil cabal of technology influencers, right-wing populists and rabble-rousers, crooked businessmen, and old-fashioned goons and experts at booth-capturing who know how to prevent ordinary people, opposition parties and dissenters from voting.
Arvind Kejriwal complained of the deletion of voters belonging to minority communities and lower castes – all those who are expected to vote against the BJP. Instead of inviting the scrutiny of ethical hackers to fight misgivings, the EC has obfuscated every time flaws have been found in the machines
Many towns in western Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Chennai and scores of cities in other parts of the country have witnessed this sickening phenomenon. It has been seen on TV how inconsolable voters are displaying their ID cards, complaining that their names were removed from the voters' list. For instance, in Telangana, 30 lakh voters were removed from the electoral list before the assembly polls last November. The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of the state-owned up to the unprecedented mass deletion, but, except for saying sorry, no amends were made.
Other states showed a similar infirmity in the voters' list. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also complained of the deletion of voters belonging to minority communities and lower castes – all those who are expected to vote against the BJP.
There have been unending complaints of EVMs not working. In Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu claimed that 4,000 EVMs stopped working. There were allegations of EVM manipulation of every vote – irrespective of which button was pressed in the list of candidates, the vote was going to the BJP.
The Election Commission (EC) has also owned up to the fact that voting was rigged in the first phase in Tripura. This admission flies in the face of its votaries who have been claiming that the voting machines cannot be rigged.
The dogged resistance to free, fair and clean polls is coming from certain EC officials and those who are in power. They seem to be in a hurry to get on with the polling process and thereby return to office.
Some machines were showing a proclivity to transfer all the votes in favour of one party – mostly the BJP
Ever since the BJP defied opinion polls and ground reports to register runaway wins in the assembly elections to Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat – 20 election petitions were filed after the results in 2017 – there has been trenchant criticism of the EVMs and how they can be subjected to mass manipulation to steal the people's mandate. BSP leader Mayawati went to court to petition against the EVMs and so did scores of other opposition leaders, but the EC browbeat them into silence.
Instead of inviting the scrutiny of ethical hackers to fight doubts and misgivings of the growing legion of sceptics, the EC has prevaricated and obfuscated every time flaws have been found in the machines or their processes. They have ready explanations when EVMs tactically fail in areas that are preponderantly that of minorities and lower castes or when VVPAT pack up due to heat. EC officials come up with absurd explanations when votes polled on EVMs and votes counted do not match – as happened in many of the seats in the recent assembly elections held in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
Apart from technology issues, there are other disturbing happenings that lower the credibility of the EC. This includes deletion of voters as in Telangana and Maharashtra. Most of those who have suffered include members of the minority community.
The integrity of India's most revered institution, the bedrock of Indian democracy, is being challenged, but for some strange reason it is mired in opacity and bureaucratic cussedness aided and abetted by a section of the media and intelligentsia that sees technology as a panacea for all ills.
At the centre of this controversy that hurts the integrity of the EC is the EVMs which are like black boxes where voters have no clarity whether their votes have got logged or not. This failing of EVMs was brought to the fore by campaigners like Subramanian Swamy who convinced the Supreme Court in 2013 to introduce a paper trail. The VVPAT was the answer to EVMs and all the fears associated with them. The technology entailed a paper slip showing up for seven seconds after each press of a button on the EVM before dropping into a box. Contrary to its commitment to have 50 percent audit, the EC has, bizarrely, allowed audit of only one VVPAT in each constituency.
In a recent Supreme Court order, it has now been raised to random audit of five VVPATs in each assembly segment, which means about 40 VVPATs will be checked in each parliament seat. This is an improvement, but the opposition parties, after absorbing the lessons of the first few phases of polling, want the VVPAT audit to be raised to 50 percent of the EVMs in each parliamentary constituency to increase the chances of catching a contaminated one.
The Supreme Court's new order is a response to a petition of 21 political parties and 73 civil servants who aired their misgivings before the SC and EC about the fallibility of EVMs and also the statistically farcical audit of one per constituency. They wanted a return to paper ballots as has been done in other advanced democracies. In the interim, they wanted more numbers of VVPATs to be audited – a fact that no one denies; but, inexplicably, the matter has been kept hanging by the EC for quite some time.
Also, there has been no proven data in the public domain about the outcome of these single VVPAT audits that may have taken place in the last few elections. There is no protocol on what would be accepted as the vote of an EVM or of the VVPAT. A lot of its claims are anecdotal or based on the testimony of former CECs, including one that 1,500 VVPATs had shown 100 percent match with EVM votes.
In Telangana, 30 lakh voters were removed from the electoral list before the assembly polls last November
In these times, when the hacking of elections is perceived as an invasion by a foreign nation, as happened in the case of alleged Russian interference with the US presidential election, the VVPAT corroboration was inadequate and disquieting.
Resistance to 50 percent VVPAT audit has fuelled scepticism among many who believe that EVMs are not as foolproof as they are made out to be. As pointed out by researchers and hackers, EVMs can be manipulated at different levels – mostly by those who service these 17.5 lakh machines.
It has been proved, for instance, by Aam Aadmi Party leader Saurabh Bharadwaj that if a contaminated motherboard is implanted during the servicing then the machine will ensure that all the votes go to a single political party. It takes less than a minute to mess with the integrity of the EVMs.
This demonstration was meant to corroborate reports from different parts of the country – sometimes endorsed by returning officers – that some machines were showing a proclivity to transfer all the votes in favour of one party, mostly the BJP. This is a highly disturbing revelation.
Ideally, only one such incident should have been enough for the EC to take a harder look at the machines; but, the EC has a problem. It just does not have the source code of the chip embedded in the control unit of the EVM. As India does not have the capability, the chip is imported from Microchip of the US and Renesas of Japan. The US company is owned by a billionaire Indian, Sanghi, who benefited from a bail-out of a company doing business with the Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC). In an RTI reply to a question that was asked about the source code of EVMs, the EC stated that it does not have the information and this information should be with the Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), the makers of EVMs.
In other words, the EC is blind about what goes into the EVMs.
Surely, the men who currently run the country and who are desperate to return to power at all costs would not be oblivious to the interventions that they should make to control the elections. At a time when the fate of the nation depends on the purity of the democratic electoral process, it is important that not just the Election Commission but also the Supreme Court and all the political parties ensure that the constitutional votes of ordinary Indians is not stolen by a dubious and dictatorial mafia addicted to power for reasons as transparent as their politics.
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Eleven Provider Organizations Support Proposed ACO Changes Groups Commend Policies to Grow ACO Participation
Posted in Press Release.
In comments submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in response to the proposed 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, 11 leading national healthcare associations and stakeholder groups applauded the agency's work to grow participation in accountable care organizations (ACOs) in Medicare. The regulation, if finalized, would bring several positive changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), Medicare's largest value-based payment model, including giving ACOs more time before advancing to the highest levels of risk, providing fairer, more accurate financial benchmarks, making positive changes to quality scoring approaches, and providing advance shared savings payments to smaller ACOs that serve underserved populations.
"We appreciate that many of the proposed changes in this rule are responsive to recommendations we have made for improving the MSSP," the letter states. "Ultimately, many of these proposals will help grow participation in ACOs and realize CMS's stated goal to have all Medicare beneficiaries in a relationship with a provider who is responsible for quality and total cost of care."
Specifically, the letter calls for CMS to:
Expand the types of ACOs who can receive advanced investment payments being proposed in MSSP. Advanced payments should be available to all ACOs who are working to achieve health equity.
Refocus the high and low revenue distinction of ACOs to address the characteristics of beneficiaries served by an ACO. While the groups appreciate proposed changes to ACOs' progression through risk, ACOs that include certain providers like safety net hospitals and rural health clinics generally won't benefit from the proposed changes, undermining the agency's work to address health disparities.
Allow existing ACOs to opt-in to proposed benchmarking and risk adjustment policies. The vast majority of existing ACOs will not have access to these improved policies for several years, excluding them from their benefits.
Engage stakeholders in designing benchmarks for the future. The groups applaud CMS for recognizing the need for a long-term solution to the benchmarking "ratchet effect" with administrative benchmarks, but the agency needs a robust dialogue with stakeholders to avoid any unintended consequences.
Reconsider the timeline and other ACO requirements for requiring electronic quality reporting. While many of the proposed changes are a step in the right direction, more work is needed to ensure a smooth transition to electronic clinical quality measure reporting.
Support an extension of the Advanced APM bonuses. While it's ultimately up to Congress to extend the important 5 percent incentive payments, CMS leadership could work with Capitol Hill to ensure adequate incentives for APMs.
Utilize MSSP as an innovation platform. CMS could leverage ACOs to test new concepts typically reserved for CMS Innovation Center models such as a full-risk track, primary care capitation, and other public health emergency-era waivers.
The letter was signed by America's Essential Hospitals, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Medical Association, AMGA, Association of American Medical Colleges, Federation of American Hospitals, Health Care Transformation Task Force, Medical Group Management Association, National Association of ACOs, National Rural Health Association, and Premier Inc.
Since 2012, ACOs have saved Medicare $13.3 billion in gross savings and $4.7 billion in net savings. Importantly, data show these ACOs continued to provide high-quality care and yield satisfied patients. Data also show these ACOs continued to provide high-quality care and yield satisfied patients. Today, ACOs care for nearly 20 percent of all Medicare patients and nearly a third of traditional Medicare patients. Importantly in Medicare, ACOs allow patients to maintain their choice of provider, and there are no network restrictions or use of prior authorization.
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Westwood's Burroughs steps down
May 11, 2017 By Blake Wooten Leave a Comment
BLYTHEWOOD- Westwood's head baseball coach, Jonathan Burroughs, has stepped down, after four seasons at the helm.
"It was an emotional and tough decision," Burroughs said. "The bond built here over the past four years is very strong. Stepping away is hard, but I know I am doing the right thing for my family. The program is moving in the right direction and has a lot of talent returning. I am looking forward to following them next season."
Burroughs took the reins for the Redhawks ahead of the 2013-2014 season, and he notched the first two-regional victories in school history. Last year three Westwood baseball players committed to play at the collegiate level; Before that no Westwood baseball player had received a scholarship to play college ball.
In 2017 Burroughs guided the Redhawks to the school's first playoff berth, and for his work he earned Region Co-Coach of the Year. Burroughs will not seek other coaching opportunities, instead, he plans to stay in the Westwood community with his family and continue to further his education.
"My wife and I had many talks about the direction our family is going. We have a 14-month old daughter and we're looking at possibly more," Burroughs said. "Working towards my administration degree, all that factored in. I never ask the guys to go less than 100 percent and to always give max effort. I feel at this point in my life giving 100 percent to the program was going to be difficult for me, and the guys deserve better. All of these factors went into my decision."
"I would like to thank all currently involved in the program, as well as those in past years for making the experience a memorable one. Once a Redhawk, always a Redhawk. #ringthebell"
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Obesity is on a rampage. The World Health Organization pegs the number of those affected at more than 300 million worldwide, with a billion more overweight. With obesity comes an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and hypertension.
Now there is more discouraging news.
In a study published in the current online edition of the journal Human Brain Mapping, senior author Paul Thompson, a UCLA professor of neurology, lead author Cyrus A. Raji, a medical student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and their colleagues compared the brains of elderly people who were obese, overweight and of normal weight to see if they had differences in brain structure — that is, if their brains looked equally healthy.
They found that obese individuals had, on average, 8 percent less brain tissue than people of normal weight, while overweight people had 4 percent less tissue. According to Thompson, who is also a member of UCLA's Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, this is the first time anyone has established a link between being overweight and having what he describes as "severe brain degeneration."
"That's a big loss of tissue, and it depletes your cognitive reserves, putting you at much greater risk of Alzheimer's and other diseases that attack the brain," he said. "But you can greatly reduce your risk for Alzheimer's if you can eat healthily and keep your weight under control."
For the study, researchers used brain images from an earlier study called the Cardiovascular Health Cognition Study. Scans were selected of 94 elderly people in their 70s who were healthy — not cognitively impaired — five years after the scan was taken. To define the weight categories, they used the body mass index (BMI), the most widely used measurement for obesity. Normal-weight people were defined as having a BMI between 18.5 and 25; overweight people between 25 and 30, and obese people more than 30. The researchers then converted the scans into detailed three-dimensional images using tensor-based morphometry, a neuroimaging method that offers high-resolution mapping of anatomical differences in the brain.
In looking at both the gray matter and white matter of the brain, researchers found that the people defined as obese had lost brain tissue in the frontal and temporal lobes, areas of the brain critical for planning and memory, as well as in the anterior cingulate gyrus (attention and executive functions), hippocampus (long-term memory) and basal ganglia (movement). Overweight people showed brain loss in the basal ganglia, the corona radiata, the white matter comprised of axons, and the parietal lobe (sensory lobe).
"The brains of obese people looked 16 years older than the brains of those who were lean, and in overweight people looked eight years older," Thompson said.
"It seems that along with increased risk for health problems such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease, obesity is bad for your brain: We have linked it to shrinkage of brain areas that are also targeted by Alzheimer's," said the University of Pittsburgh's Raji. "But that could mean exercising, eating right and keeping weight under control can maintain brain health with aging and potentially lower the risk for Alzheimer's and other dementias."
The research was funded by the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, the National Center for Research Resources, and the American Heart Association.
Other authors included April J. Ho, Neelroop N. Parikshak, Xue Hua, Alex D. Leow and Arthur W. Toga, all of UCLA; and James T. Becker, Oscar L. Lopez and Lewis H. Kuller, all of the University of Pittsburgh.
The UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, which seeks to improve understanding of the brain in health and disease, is a leader in the development of advanced computational algorithms and scientific approaches for the comprehensive and quantitative mapping of brain structure and function. The lab is part of the UCLA Department of Neurology, which encompasses more than a dozen research, clinical and teaching programs. The department ranks first among its peers nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding.


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News Breaking News Emma Stowell seriously injured in Walla Walla pedestrian accident
Emma Stowell seriously injured in Walla Walla pedestrian accident
By MICHAEL HUSSAIN
Updated: January 09, 2023 12:39 AM EDT
Crash was at Clinton Street and Isaacs Avenue
WALLA WALLA, WA, (January 05, 2023) - A pedestrian was seriously injured Thursday afternoon in Walla Walla after being hit by a vehicle whose driver officials say "failed to yield the right-of-way."
A pedestrian was seriously injured Thursday afternoon in Walla Walla after being hit by a vehicle whose driver officials say "failed to yield the right-of-way."
Investigators said a 38-year-old SUV driver struck Emma Stowell shortly before 5 p.m. at North Clinton Street and East Isaacs Avenue. Following the crash, Stowell was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Investigation into the crash is ongoing, and no charges have been filed as of yet.
PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION
Many people choose walking to travel from one place to another; however, preliminary data from the Governors Highway Safety Association shows that this mode of transportation has become increasingly risky in recent years and has caused so much loss and pain to individuals and families.
According to the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), the number of serious traffic injuries involving pedestrians has increased by 12%, from 360 to 403.
"Having the proper resources is extremely important to investigate a pedestrian accident case and prove negligence," said Candice Bond, an experienced pedestrian accident attorney and a Managing Partner with Bond Legal.
"It is almost always a driver's duty to yield to any pedestrian."
Emma Stowell may have the right to pursue a personal injury claim, pending the results of the investigation.
Stefano Formica, Of Counsel at Bond Legal, said, "Injured victims involved in a collision often seek a personal injury claim to cover the cost of medical bills, future medical care, loss of income, emotional trauma, and pain and suffering."
"Insurance companies can be notoriously unconcerned with the mounting costs that an injured party may accrue. That's where an attorney can help. We protect the victims of these tragedies daily, forcing the insurance companies to pay for their mistakes," Formica added.
The Legal Advocate's national legal analysts Candice Bond and Stefano Formica are experienced in serious injury pedestrian accidents, and if you or a family member need help they are available for a free consultation to guide you
Tags: Pedestrian Injured, Walla Walla, North Clinton Street and East Isaacs Avenue
The staff of The Legal Advocate would like to extend our thoughts and prayers to Emma Stowell and family
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Apple needs to fix its privacy issues, and fast
by Matthew Hussey — in Apple
Yesterday Apple announced it had acquired a small startup focused on artificial intelligence. While the purchase of Perceptio is hardly earth shattering news, it does shed some light on how Apple is trying to get around the tricky problem of making more personalized services without harvesting vast amounts of your data.
Perceptio was working on technology that would allow smartphone manufacturers to develop artificial intelligence systems that didn't need to share your data with the cloud.
Google and Microsoft have made huge leaps forward in offering up timely information to their users via personal assistants such as Cortana and Google Now by doing just that. Apple and its Siri equivalent on the other hand, has been hampered by the company's reluctance to extract confidential information that lives on our phones.
Tim Cook even went so far as to say that, "our customers are not our products. We don't collect a lot of your data and understand every detail about your life."
While many see that as a way for Apple to distance itself from tech companies that continually stray into murky waters when it comes to selling your data, it has put it at a commercial disadvantage.
Google Now mines your inbox to find out things like if you're leaving town so it can conveniently offer you discounts on hotels, car rentals, and even nudge you when to leave so you don't miss your flight. Siri on the other hand, can offer little more than people you might want to contact or apps you most commonly use.
While these differences are relatively small for now, and Apple has explicitly said that your data is not a source of revenue for the company, the tech giant also understands that the future success of mobile operating systems is in their ability to seamlessly mesh with the most intimate parts of our lives.
Apple Maps is a case in point. When it launched Maps in 2012, a rushed release to try and counter Google's march into iOS, it was universally loathed. In the battle for users' fickle hearts and minds, it spent most of 2013 buying mapping companies to make amends. The app only added public transport options with its iOS 9 release, something Google Maps has done for years.
Meanwhile, Google is already moving on to the next phase of its plan to surface contextual information with the roll out of its Nexus products and Marshmallow operating system.
If Apple wants to avoid another epic fail, and avoid the now constant jibes that it just steals from Android, it needs to find a way round its privacy problem, and fast.
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The historic house-museums were originally personal family homes, however, thanks to the foresight of their inhabitants/collectors - who were famous or unknown, noble or poor - they become precious museums. These aptly named house-museums narrate the personal, social, economic, dynastic, collecting and entrepreneurial stories of their inhabitants and, therefore, also the history, culture, society and the landscape of the territory to which they are closely rooted.
The Network of Historic House Museums of Milano was created in 2008: a city museum network with the aim of promoting the historical, cultural and artistic Milanese heritage through its protagonists' past lives. The house museums comprised in the circuit, Poldi Pezzoli, Bagatti Valsecchi, Boschi Di Stefano and Villa Necchi Campiglio are historic houses belonging to Lombard families. The evocative interiors re-enact the past with traditional furnishings of the era; they showcase precious treasures such as paintings, pottery, furniture and gold and silver objects. Inimitable collections of cultural heritage which the inhabitants amassed during their lives and that have been generously donated to the city.
The Poldi Pezzoli Museum may seem like a museum of long tradition, considering the wealth of its collections. In actual fact, it began life as a private home. A highly original home: all the interiors were crowded with decoration, works of art and furniture, with all sorts of shapes and colours, creating very unusual visual effect.
Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi decided to build their house on the pattern of 16th-century Italian mansions. A curious ambition for two lawyers of Milano living in the 19th century.
Discover the Milano of the first half of the nineteenth century - its customs, its high society, its etiquette. This is Villa Necchi Campiglio.
The Boschi Di Stefano House Museum possesses masterpieces by Carrà, Fontana, De Chirico, Sironi, De Pisis and Boccioni.
Inside the house where Alessandro Manzoni, author of The Bethroted, once lived, everything seems to be frozen in time. There is an evocative atmosphere inside the rooms where the author wrote some of the most influential works in Italian literature.
Alda Merini was one of the most important and prolific Italian poets of the twentieth century; she was born and raised in Milan in the working class area of the Navigli and, thus, was one of the most important exponents of the language and culture of our times.
A unique museum designed by the Milanese real-estate entrepreneur Emilio Mangini, who described himself "an inquisitive and tireless collector". He designed it to salvage and bequeath evidence of how man lived in the past with knowledge of his private life, his work and his entertainment.
The Studio Museum houses 80 sculptures and 26 artworks on paper chosen among the most beautiful works made by the Sicilian artist. These works of art were created during the whole career of the artist and testify his great technical ability and his interest for realism. The Museum houses exhibitions and activities linked to contemporary art all year long.


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Trump Calls Women Protesting Kavanaugh 'Rude Elevator Screamers'
In an early-morning tweet, Trump accused the women confronting senators over their votes on Brett Kavanaugh of being paid protesters.
by Marie Solis
October 5, 2018, 2:44pm
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President Donald Trump called the women who, over the last week, have confronted senators entering the Hart Senate Office Building elevators of being "rude elevator screamers" likely paid by philanthropist George Soros.
"The very rude elevator screamers are paid professionals only looking to make Senators look bad," the president wrote early Friday morning. "Don't fall for it! Also, look at all of those professionally made identical signs. Paid for by Soros and others."
Since last week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, women protesting in the Capitol have taken advantage of any face time with senators supporting Brett Kavanaugh or undecided on him to try and swing their votes.
Ana Maria Archila and Maria Gallagher, two sexual assault survivors, were the first to make news by confronting a senator face-to-face when they intercepted Arizona Senator Jeff Flake as he was stepping into an elevator last Friday.
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"I was sexually assaulted and nobody believed me," Archila told Flake. "I didn't tell anyone, and you're telling all women they don't matter."
When Flake bowed his head, Archila said: "Don't look away from me. Look at me and tell me that it doesn't matter what happened to me, that you will let people like that go into the highest court of the land and tell everyone what they can do to their bodies."
Mere hours after the exchange, Flake, during a procedural vote on Kavanaugh, requested an FBI investigation into Christine Blasey Ford's sexual assault allegations against the Supreme Court nominee.
"I have been speaking with a number of people on the other side," Flake said at the time. "I think it would be proper to delay the floor vote up to—but not more than—one week in order to let the FBI do an investigation limited in time and scope to the current allegations that are there."
Seeing Archila and Gallagher's success in swaying Flake, other protesters adopted their strategy.
On Thursday, another protester confronted West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin—a Democrat who often votes with Republicans and who, as of Friday morning, remained undecided on his Kavanaugh vote—as he tried to board an elevator.
"As a survivor, I don't understand how you can't look me in the eye," the woman told him.
"I can," Manchin said. "I'm looking right at you."
"Why are you going to vote yes on this?" she asked him.
Manchin replied: "How do you know I'm going to?"
Utah Senator Orrin Hatch found himself in a similar position as Manchin that same day, finding himself in a throng of women protesters by the Senate elevators whom he told to "grow up."
"Why aren't you brave enough to talk to us?" one woman asked him.
When Hatch waved her away with his hand, she said: "Don't you wave your hand at me. I wave my hand at you."
"When you grow up I'll be glad to," Hatch replied.
The Capitol has been flooded with protesters amid Kavanaugh's still-pending confirmation process. On Thursday, 302 demonstrators—most of them women—were arrested for protesting in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building and charged with "crowding, obstructing or incommoding under the D.C. code," according to a DCist report.
In an op-ed for the New York Times, Gallagher, who'd confronted Flake along with Archila, said it's important for survivors of sexual assault to do whatever they can to make their voices heard.
"Those four minutes in the elevator with Mr. Flake were a whirlwind, but I will never forget his eyes after I pleaded with him to look at me, to not look away," Gallagher wrote Thursday. "When he looked up, I didn't see a senator. I saw a man, torn between his conscience and his party. And he saw me, a young woman trying to make a difference in the way that we can in a democracy: by using her voice."
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We were excited to be invited by CBBC's Dengineers to participate in a project to make a little girl's dreams come true by helping to install electric cable to a purpose built 'den' at a property in Dumfries, Scotland. Watch the show here to see our team in action.
Helena in Dunfries, Scotland, is 11 years old and an only child. She loves star-gazing and wants to be an astrophysicist when she grows up. Helena's mum and dad run a bookshop which is open 7 days a week so she doesn't often get the chance to get out and look at the night sky.
In early 2017, Helena's mum and dad contacted BBC television's "Dengineers" to help Helena to fulfil her science dreams by creating a safe, purpose built observatory in the garden. The Dengineers specialise in building dens for children where they can engage in activities that they love and wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to participate in.
The Dengineers is presented by Lauren Layfield and Joe Tracini and airs on CBBC on Saturday mornings. Each week the team transform spaces to create amazing and unique dens in this makeover show.
In order to connect electricity to the observatory to power Helena's illuminated star chart and brand new state of the art telescope, 30m of cable needed to be installed from the house across the garden. To minimise impact on the garden (which would look unslightly on TV with a 30m trench across it!) as well as complete the work quickly to fit in with the tight timescales of the project, our specialist Mole Engineer Mark Lennon and Kevin Hamill visited site at the beginning of the project.
Using our impact moling equipment, Mark (with a little help from Helena!) laid the cable quickly and effectively, allowing the rest of the team to continue with the build. Check out Mark and our moling machine "Dixie" in action at around 10 minutes in!
Helena is passionate about girls getting into science and also had the opportunity to visit scientists in a working observatory to find out what she will be looking out for from her den.
We were delighted to work with the team on this project and as part of our contribution to Helen's wish come true we were able to waive our fee for the work. Watch a clip of the show above or check out the full episode here.
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In the intermediate term, the utilities sector could benefit from the end of the rate hikes.
After reaching a high of 418 in 2000, the Dow Jones Utilities Index ($UTIL) hit a low of 162 in 2002. In the three years since, however, the index has performed well, reaching the present 406 level. The 2002 low was hit with a positive divergence (point A) of the stochastic slow and the moving average convergence/divergence (MACD) red histogram. In three years, prices more than doubled, but after hitting new highs in September 2005, the index plunged the following month. This wide-ranging bar indicates at least a pause in the uptrend. You can see this situation displayed clearly (Figure 1). The stochastic left the overbought area after two years. The MACD red histogram is turning down, although the MACD has not yet crossed its moving average.
FIGURE 1: UTILITIES INDEX, MONTHLY. The index managed to return to the levels of the 2000 top.
Figure 2 displays the tremendous uptrend that started in 2002. This trend developed smoothly without deep corrections. The stochastic managed to reach the oversold area only in May 2004 and during the still-ongoing correction last October. Prices are now consolidating to new support levels, however. They have lost directionality and are now moving sideways. Both the stochastic and MACD are negatively inclined, confirming the ongoing consolidation phase (Figure 3).
FIGURE 2: UTILITIES INDEX, WEEKLY. In this time frame, a smooth and stable uptrend brought prices to new highs.
FIGURE 3: UTILITIES INDEX, WEEKLY. Prices are consolidating from recent highs.
The daily time frame in Figure 4 displays how prices on November 25 printed a relative low, correctly signaled by the stochastic (point A). Since then, the prices moved up and printed the December 16th reversal top (point B) when the ongoing correction started. The stochastic has now reached the oversold area (point C) while the MACD is still moving down.
In the long term, the utilities index is a valid alternative to growth strategies. The end of the interest rate hike series in 2006 could favor this sector. When the hikes will actually end, however, is still a mystery; analysts believe this will happen some time in 2006. Technically, the index is still in a correction/consolidation mode, and this is evident in all time frames. In the medium term, this phase could still last several weeks. It could be premature to fully commit to an upside movement at this stage. I would look to identify short-term reversal formations to accumulate long positions during the next months.
FIGURE 4: UTILITIES INDEX, DAILY. The index is moving into a correction phase in search of a support level.


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One Finger Death Punch – Review!
This game is simply brilliant mainly due to it being brilliantly simple. All you need is a mouse, the only buttons you press are the left and right mouse buttons. That's it. However this allows the game to be so much more than if they had decided to give you long lists of button combos, It's enjoyable and accessible to pretty much anyone.
The game itself is a kung-fu beat em' up type game with stickmen as the characters reminiscent of old flash animations. The game itself isn't a button masher as you might think and actually penalises you for doing so, instead it slowly introduces new enemies that require different order combinations of the same 2 buttons you've been using the whole time. Honestly when I bought this game I never would of imagined how dynamic the fighting actually is whether it's a different level type of new enemies this game keeps you engaged. What they have done with the difficulty is quite frankly genius I think and I would love to see it incorporated in all games that involve any form of fighting. It take the stats from how you play and works out your skill level and then adjusts the enemy speed and difficulty of the level accordingly, in other words the better you do the harder it gets. This makes for really balanced gameplay as there are no crazy difficulty spikes but every level does poses a challenge.
Mortal Kombat eat your heart out.
For £3.99 on PC this game is also a bargain! It s great bit of fun especially if you need something you can play for a few minutes while you take a break from revision or work that will give you a real sense of enjoyment. I honour of such a simple game I'll keep this review simple also. One finger death punch gets a 7/10 and a 10/10 for value!
For those of you who don't know Early-Access games are games that aren't finished or even in beta testing stage that you can buy and play while they are being developed. Some of you are thinking why the hell would I pay full price for an unfinished game? But there are a few perks for instance some developers might give extra incentive and content like concept art or soundtrack downloads etc. while there is still the obvious reason which is to help support the team making the game. Because of the huge growth of the Indie game genre more and more developers are looking to making their game early access to help not only cover cost but to get as much community feedback as possible so that fans can actively take a part in shaping a game.
I have always felt that reviewing early access games is a little unfair because game builds change so often and the developers even admit themselves that their games aren't finished so instead of reviewing an Early-Access game I'm going to give you a list of 5 of them to keep a watch out for.
*Disclaimer: This isn't a top 5 or my favourite 5 this is just a short list of potentially good games that I am excited to see when they are finished. I have not personally played/own all of the games listed but have done my fair share of research on each one.
1) Prison Architect. Prison architect does exactly what it says on the tin, you build and managed a simulated prison. Simple enough? Nope! There is so much to this game that is continually being added too that you will be kept entertained for hours. Not only re they always adding new features but it is also integrated with the Steam Workshop so there are also lots of mods available from already built prisons to re-skins and community bug fixes. For anyone who enjoys simulator games or management games this is the game for you.
2) Overgrowth. Overgrowth is a game that in premise sounds ridiculous but in practice plays amazing. It is currently an open sandbox game where players create their own levels and play and share them but it is scheduled to have a full campaign and many more features added before it is finished. You play as a ninja rabbit, yes a NINJA-RABBIT! Where you can free run, explore and fight either hand to hand or with weapons. Now even though the game is visually very appealing the real gold is in the combat system, it flows brilliantly and the impacts feel weighted and control very fluid.
3) Starbound. Now a lot of people have criticised Starbound for just copying Terraria but the game itself is a lot more than just that. The exploration and customization even in such an early stage is very good and I can't wait to see it once they have fully fleshed out the story and added the features they have gone on record to say they are going to. They are currently overhauling the majority of the farming and building mechanics though so I can't say that the final game will be anything like the current build but if its anything to go by it could be the next big indie game.
4) Pixel Piracy. Re-Logic, the creators of Terraria, are currently helping produce the game which looks set to forever change the face of pirate games. From fully customizable ships, pirate battles and even parrots this game tries to give the player the full pirate experience. With features like perma-death playing a major part in the game it seems reminiscent of other indie games such as FTL and rogue legacy but with a pirate theme. Currently the game is rather bare but still with enough features and content to keep you entertained but the reason this game makes my list is because of the mechanics they are trying to introduce in the future such as being able to find and loot your previous characters ship once they have died.
5) BroForce. Last but by no means least is the game that is in a rather finished state. BroForce looks to take everything we love about macho action movies and combine it all in to a game. Taking characters from all areas of Bro-dom, such as Brobo-Cop and Indiana Brones, and has players fight together to liberate each level from a devil type villain. Each Bro comes with his own weapons and style and the amount of characters and level of detail put into this game is truly astonishing. This is the kind of game that you and your friends can play while you drink a beer and just bond. It perfectly encapsulates the era of 80's action movies even down to the kind of campness only the most muscle bound men could pull off.
Anyway that was my list of games to watch out for! Thanks for stopping by make sure to like, comment and subscribe and tell me what games you're keeping an eye out for?
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Keeping up the trend of QUICKPICKLE week I've decided to make my own focusing on the amazingly funky zombie horde Indie game fest "I MAED A GAM3 W1TH ZOMBIES 1N IT!!!1. " It can be yours for only the price of one shiny pound coin, and at such a reasonable price this small simple game delivers.
Essentially, it is a platform game played using only the joysticks of your controller and nothing more- one to move the character, the other to fire weapons. New weapons are easily acquired throughout the game, by simply walking over them as they appear on the battlefield; these include such things as laser guns, flamethrowers (my favourite), rocket launchers and Gatling guns.
The real strength in this game becomes apparent as you continue to survive against your brain-eating counterparts. As you play, the whole setting of the game rapidly begins to change. At first your fighting in a simple green field but the next moment you find yourself doing battle on a psychedelic disco floor, then in space, then on a chessboard, the list goes on and on. Play this game sober you'll have fun, play this game drunk or high and you'll be mesmerised. Not only does the world change, but the enemies change also, from zombies to spaceships to blobs ect. The game also pays clever homage to classic games such as "Snake" and "Space Invaders" by making them iconic characters within the game that try their very best to kill you.
This game also has a great original soundtrack that fits appropriately into the game's colourful personality. Featuring a heavy metal number with vocals, it's sure to keep edging you on as you try to kill exploding diamonds.
The only real pitfall of this game is the fact that it has an ending; it is possible to survive against the increasingly tougher waves of enemies only to be sent packing back to the main menu. This does somewhat undermine the replay ability of a game that would've been almost perfect, had it been a never ending endurance run in the same way the "Nazi Zombies" series from Call of Duty had. However, at the low price of just a pound it most certainly isn't penny pinching.


What can you do here? There's a free tutorial on starting clowning, articles on topics such as the Clown Commandments, biographies of famous clowns (including Charlie Chaplin, Red Skelton, Bob Bell, WGN-TV's Bozo the Clown, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Emmett Kelly, Bob Keeshan,The Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges, Danny Kaye, Lucille Ball, Jerry Lewis, and many others), reviews of books and movies on clowning, and much more.
Clowning Resources – books, videos and more for the beginning, intermediate and advanced clown — learn how to make a bigger fool of yourself, and make the audience remember you!
Clown History – from the days of Shakespeare and before, clowns have been making their mark on history. Find out about it here.
Pie throwing – part 2.
Clown Skits – What will you do in front of the audience? A collection of clown skits, free to use in your performances.
Clowning Reviews – Read reviews of biographies, movies, television shows and live performances of your favorite clowns.
Welcome to FamousClowns.org, a website dedicated to the history and performance of clowning. Famous Clowns is run by Tom Raymond, who performs at a professional clown as Raynbow the Clown in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
I am one of your Facebook friends. I also love clowns. I tried to follow this blog but have not figured it out yet. Would like to link my blog to yours if you don't mind.
Hi Tom, I love your site., especially the clown biographies and your information on the great Charlie Chaplin. I actually perform as a Chaplin impersonator in Chicago. I've been doing 'The Little Tramp' for the past 30 years at many different venues including the Chicago International Film Festival. I noticed one small error under 'The Music of Charlie Chaplin'. It incorrectly lists 'Smile' as being from 'City Lights' It is actually from "Modern Times".
Again, a wonderful site. So educational and fun. Thank you!
Thank you for the correction and the kind words!


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Regionals Predictions
Super Regionals Predictions
College World Series Predictions
Miami (FL) Hurricanes (41-20)
ACC (18-12)
SUN, JUN 26th
Miami-(FL) 15
2019 Miami (FL) Hurricanes Schedule
Last 10 / Streaks
(20-31) RPI: 190
Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field
W 19 - 3
Rutgers 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 3 5 3
Miami (FL) 1 6 5 0 0 2 5 0 0 19 20 1
Location: Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field
Stadium: Coral Gables, FL
Box Score | Recap
Miami (FL) 0 0 0 2 5 0 0 0 X 7 9 2
Rutgers 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 11 1
Miami (FL) 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 4 0 9 10 1
(41-21) RPI: 37
FAU 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 4 8 1
Alfred A. McKethan Stadium
Florida 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 5 2
Location: Alfred A. McKethan Stadium
Stadium: Gainesville, FL
L 3 - 9
Miami (FL) 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 6 0
Florida 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 4 0 9 11 0
FIU Baseball Stadium
FIU 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 2 8 13 1
Location: FIU Baseball Stadium
Stadium: Miami, FL
UMBC
UMBC 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 2
Appalachian State 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 6 2
(10 Innings)
Georgia Tech 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 10 0
Miami (FL) 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 10 2
Georgia Tech 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 5 11 1
Jackson State 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 4 0
Boshamer Stadium
North Carolina 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 4 7 1
Location: Boshamer Stadium
Stadium: Chapel Hill, NC
North Carolina 0 0 3 0 3 0 1 2 X 9 10 0
Evans Diamond
Miami (FL) 0
Location: Evans Diamond
Stadium: Berkeley, CA
Columbia 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 4 9 3
North Carolina State 0 0 0 0 5 0 1 0 0 6 13 0
FAU Baseball Stadium
Location: FAU Baseball Stadium
Stadium: Boca Raton, FL
Charles L. Cost Field
Pittsburgh 0 1 0 0 3 1 0 2 3 10 15 1
Location: Charles L. Cost Field
Stadium: Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh 1 1 1 3 1 0 4 0 X 11 12 2
Pittsburgh 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 7 1
FAU 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 1 6 11 1
Florida State 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1
Miami (FL) 0 0 0 0 4 0 6 1 0 11 8 0
Florida State 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 2 0 6 10 0
FGCU 3 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 0 9 13 0
Swanson Stadium
FGCU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0
Location: Swanson Stadium
Stadium: Fort Myers, FL
Davenport Field
Virginia 0 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 6 11 0
Location: Davenport Field
Stadium: Charlottesville, VA
Virginia 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 0
(51-18) RPI: 5
Jim Patterson Stadium
Louisville 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 0 7 11 1
Location: Jim Patterson Stadium
Stadium: Louisville, KY
Louisville 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 1 11 17 2
FIU 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 4 1 10 13 2
Virginia Tech 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 6 0
Bethune-Cookman 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 4 1
Bethune-Cookman 0 0 2 0 0 4 1 0 0 7 10 2
UCF 0 0 0 0 6 0 2 0 0 8 9 1
David F. Couch Ballpark
Wake Forest 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 8 1
Location: David F. Couch Ballpark
Stadium: Winston-Salem, NC
Wake Forest 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 5 X 9 12 0
Duke 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 8 0
L 3 - 12
Duke 0 0 0 5 0 1 1 5 0 12 12 0
ACC Tournament - Game 8
Durham Bulls Athletic Park
Location: Durham Bulls Athletic Park
Stadium: Durham, NC
ACC Tournament - Game 11
North Carolina 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 7 8 3
Miami (FL) 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 9 1
Starkville Regional - Game 2
Dudy Noble Field, Polk?DeMent Stadium
Starkville, MS
Central Michigan 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 1 6 13 2
Location: Dudy Noble Field, Polk?DeMent Stadium
Stadium: Starkville, MS
Southern 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 0
Central Michigan 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 3 8 2
Mississippi State 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 5 8 1


I happen to be a Dim sum maniac, so when my aunt mentioned Dim sum for lunch, I couldn't hide my excitement. My aunt took me to a restaurant called Top Gun in Bellevue (near Seattle). Ladies with carts full of goodies bustled by and I ended up eating way too much. Let's just say EVERYTHING was good! We also ordered Chow fun from the menu and that was excellent too. If you're in the area, check out Top Gun!! Get there early, because parking can be a problem.
What's your favorite dim sum? Mine has to be anything with shrimp.