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Best places for wild camping around the UK
Pack your sense of adventure and experience the joy of wild camping with our expert guide on best places to wild camp in the UK.
By Phoebe Smith
Visiting a beautiful place by day is wonderful, but to really understand it, to connect with it in a deeper way, to witness it at its most unfamiliar, you can't beat sleeping out within the landscape, says Phoebe Smith, author of Extreme Sleeps.
So pack your tent or bivvy bag, remember a wilderness lover's simple rules (arrive late, leave early, pack out all rubbish with you, go to the toilet at least 50m clear of any streams and leave no trace of your visit) and prepare to go camp in the wild.
Here are 10 of the best places for wild camping in the UK
Sandwood Bay, Sutherland
Enjoy a relaxing break taking in these amazing views right from the door of your tent
Wedged in between the cliffs at the rugged west end of Scotland is a stretch of golden sand. Fringed by silty dunes so soft they could give a mattress a run for its money, edged by weather-sculpted granite cliffs so well cut you'd think they were sculpted by a giant artist and hemmed by a sea so deeply turquoise you can justifiably use the term 'azure' without anyone scoffing, you'd be forgiven for thinking you'd been transported to the Caribbean. If it were anywhere else in the UK they'd be a giant car parking lot, deck chair kiosks and donkey rides quicker than you could say Promenade. However, what Sandwood has going for it, that other places can't rival, is its remoteness. It takes effort to reach it, but once you do, the dunes are yours for the picking, with nothing but the sound of waves to lull you to sleep.
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Loch Enoch, Galloway Forest
River Cree winds through Galloway Forest
The Southern Uplands are an area often ignored by mountain lovers – but they're missing out. The Galloway National Park not only offers hills punctuated by lochans just over the Scottish border, but it was also the first place in the UK to be designated a Dark Sky Reserve, meaning that it's distance from light pollution makes it the perfect place to go star gazing. Head to Loch Enoch beneath the slopes of The Merrick a place where little spits of sand line the water at its southern edges. Choose the perfect one and you could enjoy views of the stars come out to play.
Peppercombe Beach, North Devon
Peppercombe Beach in Devon in backed with impressive cliffs
Along the northern reaches of the South West Coast Path is one of the most beautifully secluded shingle beaches in England. Surrounded by rising cliffs of burnt crimson on one side, the rhythmic lapping of the waves on the other, and a pebbled shore made smooth by the sea at your feet – there are fewer better places to spend the night. Check the tide before you head out and look above you for any loose overhangs, then climb in your bivvy and watch the sun set.
Black Mountains, Brecon Beacons
Enjoy a star gazing night in the depths of the welsh mountains
The Brecon Beacons National Park offers a multitude of wild and dramatic spots – from the central mountain range that takes the Brecon Beacons moniker, to mountain bike friendly Fforest Fawr and Black Mountain in the west. However, spread out to the east and into the English border the Black Mountains (plural – just to confuse you) is often cast in the shadow of the rest. But that's good news for wilderness lovers. Thanks to the vast appeal of the other three it's actually the perfect place to find a little patch of seclusion to spend the night watching the stars. Head up onto Rhos Dirion for a summit sleep, or pitch up riverside alongside Myndd Bychan.
Carneddau, Snowdonia
From the Mid to the North these breath taking views do not stop across Wales
Formed over 400million years ago when volcanoes were in full flow and land was rising up from the ocean, the rounded and smooth undulations of the Carneddau range were finished off courtesy of an ice sheet retreating which left many cwms and their associated lakes pock-marking the landscape. Now this stretch of high land, which boasts seven of the highest hills in the country, is a mix of grass and heather covered soil, a smattering of boulders and slithering rivers offering an abundance of places to pitch a tent away from the crowds of Snowdon. Head to the shores of the Melynllyn for a lakeside sleep beneath an impressive amphitheatre of rock.
Ugborough Moor, Dartmoor
The rolling moors of Dartmoor National Park
Rising above the towns on the fringes of southwest England is the vast and rough granite moorland of Dartmoor National Park. Snaking rivers cut through the landscape, while peregrine falcons circle above the weather scoured tors. Thanks to an ancient bylaw wild camping is permitted in most parts meaning endless possibilities for tent-assisted exploration. A great option is the high ground above Ivybridge where you can climb fast using the Two Moors Way right from the centre and set up camp with views over the town and countryside below. Bliss.
Ennerdale Valley, Lake District
The soothing water running through the Ennerdale valley is the perfect place to camp
Over on the far side of the western fells something big stirs in the forest. It's not one of the many sheep that chomp their way over the hillsides in the rest of the National Park. No, this is an altogether different beast munching the cud then moving on slowly, nonchalantly. These are Galloway cattle and they're not just here by accident. They are all part of a bigger scheme, one to re-wild the Ennerdale Valley. Here, slowly, the trees are allowed to break free of their man made enclosures and grow higgledy piggledy, native, slow-growing saplings have been planted among the conifer plantations and the river has been allowed to cut its own path. Here also, walkers are encouraged to leave paths to explore, making it an place for a wild night out in the woods.
Camasunary, Isle of Skye
Pitch up anywhere on the Isle of Skye for a perfect view
Ostensibly guarded by the peaks of Blaven, Sgurr na Stri and their bigger infamous Cuillin brothers, is the beachside estate of Camasunary. Walking in from the tiny hamlet of Kilmarie, you'd be forgiven for questioning just where these great mountains and so-called wild land are hiding, but, then you reach Am Mam. Here the route takes what feels like a secret passageway to a remote beach where mountain and sea combine in spectacular fashion. Here you can pitch a tent or sleep in a perfectly positioned bothy and wake to watch dawn break over the isles of Eigg and Rum.
Cairngorms, Scotland
Pop a tent by a Cairngorms river in Scotland
The Cairngorms National Park is a very special place. Home to clusters of proper mountains – with a capital M – you can leave the comely town of Aviemore and within minutes be ascending peaks that frequently top the 4000ft mark. This sprawling mass of giants can catch out even the most well-equipped mountaineers – so care is definitely needed, but pick the right weather and you will be rewarded with views where the mountains seem to stretch on unending for miles. As with all of Scotland, you are allowed to wild camp pretty much anywhere so the peaks are quite literally your oyster. Try the sparkling water of Loch A'an deep in the belly of the mountains where the only way in or out is by boot.
The Cheviots, Borderlands, Northumberland
Sun breaks through the cloud at Simonside in the Cheviot Hills
Way up in the far northern reaches of England, before the land morphs seamlessly into Scotland, is the least populated National Park in the UK – Northumberland. Not only do fewer people live within its boundaries than anywhere else, but – perhaps even better – fewer visitors come here than they do other parks. Head up onto the rounded Cheviots using the Pennine Way from Byrness to the south or from Kirk Yetholm to the north. Here you can tread the fine line between Scotland and England (do check the map as the path runs in part along the boundary of the Otterburn Military Training Zone) as this part of the path walks for a while on the Border Ridge, betwixt the two. Here you can set up a camp that spans the the two countries.
Check whether you can legally camp – or get permission
Before heading to the wilderness to wild camp, it's important to check the rules in your region. The majority of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, campers have no legal rights so check before you camp or get the landowner's permission. Some sites in Scotland, including Loch Lomond now require campers to get a permit so do your research before you go.
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Keren Cytter, who lives in Berlin, pulls from film history for her work, usually in service to video, the medium for which she is best known (though she redirected the practice to text in her novel from last year, The seven most exciting hours of Mr. Trier's life in twenty-four chapters, which draws from Lars von Trier's The Kingdom). The two short videos in her exhibition at Thierry Goldberg refer most directly to Blowup and Dial M for Murder, though they also bring to mind a range of other subjects: soap operas, reality television, Godard, Fassbinder. But while Cytter's videos explore particular and historic threads, they also, at times, appear irreverent of the past, showing the artist to be invested solely in ravenous experimentation.
Loosely based on the Julio Cortázar short story that inspired Blowup, Cytter's video Les Ruissellements du Diable (The Devil's Streams), 2008, opens with the image of a translator and amateur photographer, named Michèlle, on television, telling the viewers that a man looking at the screen is in love with her. From there, we see Michèlle in what appears to be a living room, and then the man in the same room, without her. He watches her on the television and looks at a photograph of a park, with a lustful gaze that suggests he is day-dreaming about her. The pursuit becomes increasingly unclear (who is desiring whom? Who is real?), as ambient melodies, reminiscent of those in Wong Kar-wai's films, play over slow and gracious shots—a cigarette here, a penis there—that give way to scenic views of the couple in a park, in the apartment, together, alone. A meditation on desire and longing, truth and fiction, the video unfolds like a daydream, but is also more coolly detached and contemplative than Cytter's previous works.
An adjacent room offered her distressing yet humorous video Dial G for Murder, 2008, which recalled Dreamtalk, 2005, the love-triangle tale in which she first showed her penchant for interwoven voice-overs and interior monologues, and demonstrated her script-writing skills. In the new work, a man fantasizes about a woman (his pregnant neighbor) and appears crazed with desire. Two men wearing white golfing gloves, like the menacing duo in Michael Haneke's Funny Games, duel as his conscience and provide fleeting comic relief through absurd lines and gestures. The action occurs entirely inside one apartment, primarily in the kitchen and dining room, while Japanese text fades in and out, perhaps offering context or additional complications for the fluent viewer. In the end (spoiler alert!) the lovestruck man kills her—a splash of blood on the wall, a hand grasping for help—in scenes that recall Hitchcock, though whether this is meant in homage or parody, or as a reference at all, is unclear.
Since 2001, Cytter has explored and sampled cinematic structures, yet she has continued to make videos rather than films. Even so, many critics and the artist herself have called her work "film" (as Barry Schwabsky noted in these pages a few years ago) and she has recently begun participating in film festivals. But Cytter's work itself moves beyond genres and speaks to a postmedium condition, suggesting that film, while it remains her primary fixation, is nearly exhausted, increasingly obsolete.
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O Pentium Dual Core foi o modelo intermediário de microprocessador da empresa de hardware Intel entre 2006 e 2009.

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Os micro-processadores Pentium Dual Core conhecidos atualmente possuem o núcleo baseado na arquitetura Core 2 Duo fabricada pela Intel. A Intel achou necessário "reviver" a marca Pentium novamente. Um modelo de processador, que de 2002 a 2006 foi fabricado, possuia a mesma nomenclatura, sendo o Pentium D, com núcleo duplo, mas diferenciando-se dos atuais por utilizar a arquitetura Netburst, demasiadamente lenta se comparada com a atual, a Core 2. A maior diferença é a dissipação térmica, ou aquecimento, que na Netburst, a mais primitiva das duas, iam a altos 135 watts, fato que se deve ao processo de fabricação dos processadores, de 150 nanômetros a 90 nanômetros, destacando-se os Core 2 são, fabricados em 65 e 45 nanômetros, sendo este último valor pertencente ao núcleo Wolfdale, e possui cache L2 de 2MB, 800 MHz de FSB e diferencia-se do topo de linha dos Pentium-D que possuiam até 4MB de cache, mas o mesmo barramento FSB (freqüência).  (Para mais informações consulte ambas seções que possuem um maior detalhamento sobre a arquitetura eletrônica dos chips de processador: Netburst ou Core 2).

Em sua essência os Pentium Dual Core eram apenas processadores que saiam de fábrica como meros Pentium tradicionais, conforme já foi citado, os Pentium D, que eram dois núcleos também. A necessidade foi vista pela Intel em 2006 para jogar novamente o nome do Pentium no mercado, lançando os processadores que incluiam no mínimo uma freqüência mínima de 1.6 GHz, introduzindo em junho de 2006 o primeiro modelo da marca, o Pentium Dual Core E2140. Ao empregar então o núcleo duplo, diversas revisões foram feitas em relação aos antigos Pentium D Dual Core, introduzindo-se novos comandos para os processadores e incluindo um aparente ganho de performance em relação a geração anterior, não sendo "tão bom quanto um Athlon 64 FX, e nem ao menos os Core 2 Duo, devido ao cache L2 capado a 1MB em relação aos 2MB mínimos (na época os processadores Core 2 Duo com núcleo Conroe, lançados também em 2006)". Os Dual core possuiam um FSB, ou Front Side Bus, de 533 MHz a 800 MHz efetivos, diferenciando-se dos Core 2 Duo que vão de 800 MHz à até mesmo 1333 MHz efetivos, que não são os modelos de entrada da Intel.

Após algum tempo os Dual Core passaram a ser fabricados sobre a nomenclatura E2xxx, o que representa que a arquitetura Netburst dos antigos Pentium 4 empregadas, o que chamamos então de sobra-de-estoque, não mais foram empregadas na fabricação dos Dual Core (os Pentium Dual Core) e passaram a se chamar Pentium Dual Core E21xx, sendo o modelo de entrada o E2140 com freqüência de 1.6 GHz em ambos os núcleos e uma capacidade de cache-L2 de apenas 1MB que utiliza o mesmo núcleo que o Celeron mais barato da categoria Intel, só que com a diferença de que possui dois núcleos, o Dual Core, ao invés de apenas um.

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For our economy to grow, for employers to find employees and for the entrepreneurial spirit to flourish, Canada needs immigrants. Simply put, native-born Canadians aren't producing enough kids.
Last year, 9,000 immigrants and new Canadians received domestic ESL training, often for free or at a subsidized rate, through $17 million in "flow-through" money from Citizenship and Immigration Canada to the B.C. Ministry of Advanced Education, which allocated it to schools like Camosun College here in Victoria.
But in three and a half months, funding for domestic ESL will end, and Citizenship and Immigration Canada will pick up the ball and organize and run domestic ESL programs itself.
Perhaps the feds will come to their senses before April and find some face-saving way to funnel domestic ESL cash to B.C. In the meantime, schools like Camosun are planning for a future absent of teaching English to new people to our nation.


More than 350 delegates are participating in the ninth Play the Game conference, taking place in Aarhus, Denmark. The conference opened with calls for more reforms and stronger dialogue in international sport.
With this appeal, Play the Game's director, Jens Sejer Andersen, welcomed the participants at the ninth Play the Game conference at the opening in the City Hall of Aarhus, Denmark.
More than 350 journalists, researchers, sports politicians and other stakeholders from 45 countries have come to Aarhus, Denmark to help answer the overarching conference question 'Global sport: reform or revolution?' Apart from participants coming from most of Europe, also overseas countries such as Japan, Pakistan, Nigeria, Australia and the US are represented, demonstrating that sport's problems are truly international.
Delegates were welcomed by the chairman of Play the Game and Danish Institute for Sports Studies, Johs Poulsen, stressing that the conference agenda is gaining support.
"Play the Game has moved from being considered an assembly of provocateurs and political extremists into being a valued partner and a valued forum for discussing 'The homeless questions in sport' – as we like to put it. More and more stakeholders agree with us that an informed public debate on challenges and potentials of sport, based on independent analysis and involvement of all stakeholders is not an evil – but a necessity to bring sport forward," Poulsen said.
Although more attention has been directed towards the governance in sport, sport leaders still do not sufficiently meet the same expectations that they demand from athletes, said Danish Minister of Culture, Bertel Haarder.
"How can we expect athletes to say no to doping, when we hear the stories of the leaders of the sports organisations and of governments covering up doping cases? How can we expect the athletes to refrain from match-fixing and corruption on the field when the leaders are arrested for corruption in the board room? How can we expect the athletes to report whereabouts and undergo financial scrutiny when the sports organisations can be criticised for lack of financial and democratic transparency and the lack of good governance?," Haarder asked and called on leaders in sport to stand up and prove worthy of the trust vested in them.
"The leaders must necessarily take the lead," the Minister of Culture underlined.
Mayor of Aarhus, Jacob Bundsgaard also deplored the state of leadership in sport organisations and especially in FIFA.
"Sport and perhaps especially football has the wonderful ability to bring people together. Nothing else but sports are able to break down the barriers in the way that sports can do," Bundsgaard said.
"So it hurts every fibre of my body when I see this mismanagement of leadership in sporting organisations. There is need for a democratic spring in some of these organisations and this makes this conference very, very relevant and perhaps more relevant than before."
While approving of the autonomy of the sports movement, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council, Anne Brasseur, argued that transparency and accountability must be in place. If the organisations do not live up to this, public authorities must step in, she said.
"I am attached to the autonomy of the sports movement but I just refuse the idea that some leaders of major sports organisations could act as monarchs who rule outside the rule of law and abuse powers and resources, which are entrusted to them," Brasseur said and directed a punch at FIFA.
"In football a player gets a yellow card as a warning and then a red card and is send off. FIFA has been stacking up the yellow cards for too long, now it is time for red. [..] It is time to blow the final whistle on it. Game over," Brasseur said, something that caused the audience to burst into applause.
In his opening speech, Jens Sejer Andersen addressed a lack of response from the established sports organisations like the IOC when it comes to answering the hard questions that sport faces today concerning corruption, doping and other forms of foul play.
Using the example of Marius Vizer and his fateful opening speech of the SportAccord Convention in April this year, in which he questioned key politics of the IOC, Andersen pointed to the dangers involved in highlighting problematic issues in organised sport.
"Those were the dangerous questions that ended the influence of Marius Vizer in international sport – apart from his position as judo president," Andersen said.
"Most of SportAccord's staff has been fired, and the ruins have been taken over by people of undisputed loyalty to the IOC without any intentions of rebuilding them. […] And the questions? As it happens so often in sport, they are left unanswered."
Via a Skype connection, two who have dared to talk about issues that are often left unsaid in fear of the repercussions, joined the delegates in the City Hall.
Yuliya and Vitali Stepanov have stepped forward and openly shared their experiences with systematic doping in Russian athletics. They are now living outside of their country and have been advised to keep doing so for safety concerns.
Asked of how sports could better protect whistle blowers like themselves, Vitaly Stepanov called for the establishment of witness assistance programmes, which would make the national federations more inclined to work responsibly.
In spite of the price the couple has had to pay, they do not regret their participation in the documentary made by German documentarist, Hajo Seppelt, who will be speaking later at the conference.
"We have no regrets and obviously we are hoping that by doing our small part maybe we can help make sport competitions a little more fair and honest so clean athletes have more chance," the Russian couple said.
In no less than 44 sessions, conference delegates will be able to ask the much needed questions that may help bring forward a change in the way sport is governed today.
Some of the governance discussions will be supported by new evidence from the Play the Game report 'Sports Governance Observer 2015' benchmarking all 35 international Olympic federations on how they perform on selected principles of good governance. Moreover, issue like doping in sport, match-fixing, sport for all, trafficking and mega-events are among the themes to be discussed the next four days.
"Raise your voice, stand up for your expertise and opinions and be ready to get moved by your fellow conference delegates […]It is now time to Play the Game."
Download Jens Sejer Andersen's opening speech.


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Klax for Sega Genesis allows you to take control of a paddle at the end of a conveyer belt, while colored tiles flip toward you down the conveyer belt. You must collect and arrange the tiles into horizontal, vertical, or diagonal groups of three referred to as klaxes. To a clear a stage, you must meet certain goals, which can include obtaining a certain number of klaxes, creating a particular arrangement of tiles, or collecting a certain number of tiles on your paddle.


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Well, the day is winding down and a lovely day it has been! The weather was beautiful. especially after all this rain. I opened the windows so we could air out the house. The children enjoyed being outside again although, surprise, surprise they needed a bath when we were ready to come in!
The FisherMan got out to do some visiting. Our little nursing home folks were not doing well. We have one man that fell and broke his hip. Two days later his wife fell and broke her hip and her shoulder! They are in very bad shape now. We need to all remember to be thankful for our health!


text:
\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}
\vspace{-0.1cm}

We present ForwardDiff, a Julia package for forward-mode automatic differentiation (AD) featuring performance competitive with low-level languages like C++. Unlike recently developed AD tools in other popular high-level languages such as Python and MATLAB \cite{autograd,algopy,adigator}, ForwardDiff takes advantage of just-in-time (JIT) compilation~\cite{julia} to transparently recompile AD-unaware user code, enabling efficient support for higher-order differentiation and differentiation using custom number types (including complex numbers). For gradient and Jacobian calculations, ForwardDiff provides a variant of vector-forward mode that avoids expensive heap allocation and makes better use of memory bandwidth than traditional vector mode.

In our numerical experiments, we demonstrate that for nontrivially large dimensions, ForwardDiff's gradient computations can be faster than a reverse-mode implementation from the Python-based autograd package. We also illustrate how ForwardDiff is used effectively within JuMP \cite{JuMP}, a modeling language for optimization. According to our usage statistics, 41 unique repositories on GitHub depend on ForwardDiff, with users from diverse fields such as astronomy, optimization, finite element analysis, and statistics.

\vspace{-0.4cm}
\section{Methodology}
\label{sec:methodology}

ForwardDiff implements a Julia representation of a \textit{multidimensional dual number}, whose behavior on scalar functions is defined as:

\begin{equation}\label{eq:univariate}
    f(x + \sum\nolimits_{i=1}^{k} y_i \epsilon_i ) = f(x) + f^{\prime}(x) \sum\nolimits_{i=1}^{k} y_i \epsilon_i,
\end{equation}

where $\epsilon_{i}\epsilon_{j} = 0$ for all indices $i$ and $j$. Storing additional $\epsilon$ components allows for a vector forward-mode implementation of the sort developed by Kahn and Barton \cite{vecmode}. In our formulation, orthogonal $\epsilon$ components are appended to input vector components to track their individual directional derivatives:

\begin{equation}
\vec{x} =
\begin{bmatrix}
x_1 \\
\vdots \\
x_i \\
\vdots \\
x_k
\end{bmatrix} \to
\vec{x}_{\epsilon} =
\begin{bmatrix}
x_1 + \epsilon_1 + 0 \sum_{n=2}^k \epsilon_n \\
\vdots \\
x_i + \epsilon_i + 0 \sum_{n\neq i} \epsilon_n\\
\vdots \\
x_k + \epsilon_k + 0 \sum_{n=1}^{k-1} \epsilon_n
\end{bmatrix}  =
\begin{bmatrix}
x_1 + \epsilon_1 \\
\vdots \\
x_i + \epsilon_i \\
\vdots \\
x_k + \epsilon_k
\end{bmatrix}
\to
f(\vec{x}_{\epsilon}) =
f(\vec{x}) + \sum_{i=1}^k \frac{\partial f(\vec{x})}{\partial x_i} \epsilon_i
\end{equation}

Vector forward mode enables the calculation of entire gradients in a single pass of the program defining $f$, but at the cost of additional memory and operations. Specifically, every dual number must allocate an $\epsilon$ vector of equal size to the input vector, and the number of operations required for derivative propagation scales linearly with the input dimension. In practice, especially in memory-managed languages like Julia, the cost of rapidly allocating and deallocating large $\epsilon$ vectors on the heap can lead to slowdowns that practically outweigh the advantage of fewer passes through $f$.

ForwardDiff's implementation works around this pitfall by stack-allocating the $\epsilon$ vectors, as well as permitting their size to be tunable at runtime relative to the input dimension and performance characteristics of the target function. We call ForwardDiff's strategy \textit{chunk mode}, since it allows us to compute the gradient in bigger or smaller chunks of the input vector. The $\epsilon$ vector length is then the \textit{chunk size} of the computation. For a chunk size $N$ and an input vector of length $k$, it takes $\lceil\frac{k}{N}\rceil$ passes through $f$ to compute $\nabla f(\vec{x})$. For example, it takes two passes through $f$ to evaluate the gradient at a vector of length $k = 4$ and chunk size $N = 2$:

\begin{equation}
\vec{x}_{\epsilon_{1,2}} =
\begin{bmatrix}
x_1 + \epsilon_1 \\
x_2 + \epsilon_2 \\
x_3 \\
x_4
\end{bmatrix} \to
f(\vec{x}_{\epsilon_{1,2}}) = f(\vec{x}) + \frac{\partial f(\vec{x})}{\partial x_1} \epsilon_1 + \frac{\partial f(\vec{x})}{\partial x_2} \epsilon_2
\end{equation}

\begin{equation*}
\vec{x}_{\epsilon_{3,4}} =
\begin{bmatrix}
x_1 \\
x_2 \\
x_3 + \epsilon_1\\
x_4 + \epsilon_2
\end{bmatrix} \to
f(\vec{x}_{\epsilon_{3,4}}) = f(\vec{x}) + \frac{\partial f(\vec{x})}{\partial x_3} \epsilon_1 + \frac{\partial f(\vec{x})}{\partial x_4} \epsilon_2
\end{equation*}

ForwardDiff implements a multidimensional dual number as the type \texttt{Dual\{N,T\}}, where the type parameter \texttt{N} denotes the length of the $\epsilon$ vector and the type parameter \texttt{T} denotes the element type (e.g. \texttt{Dual\{2,Float64\}} has two \texttt{Float64} $\epsilon$ components). This type has two fields: \texttt{value}, which stores the $x$ component, and \texttt{partials}, which stores the stack-allocated $\epsilon$ vector. It's straightforward to overload base Julia methods on the \texttt{Dual} type; here's an example using \texttt{sin}, \texttt{cos}, and \texttt{-} (univariate negation):

\vspace{0.2cm}
\begin{lstlisting}[frame=tb,basicstyle=\small]
import Base: sin, cos, -
sin(d::Dual) = Dual(sin(d.value), cos(d.value) * d.partials)
cos(d::Dual) = Dual(cos(d.value), -(sin(d.value)) * d.partials)
(-)(d::Dual) = Dual(-(d.value), -(d.partials))
\end{lstlisting}

These method definitions are \textit{all} that is required to support the following features:

\begin{itemize}
    \item $n^{th}$-order derivative of \texttt{sin} or \texttt{cos} (through nesting \texttt{Dual} types)
    \item derivative of complex \texttt{sin} or \texttt{cos} via types of the form \texttt{Complex\{Dual\{N,T\}\}}
    \item derivative of \texttt{sin} or \texttt{cos} over custom types, e.g. \texttt{Custom\{Dual\{N,T\}\}} or \texttt{Dual\{N,Custom\}}
\end{itemize}

We unfortunately do not have room in this abstract to adequately cover the latter two items; a proper discussion would require a more thorough exposition of Julia's multiple dispatch and JIT-compilation facilities.

Instead, we discuss how instances of the \texttt{Dual} type can be nested to enable the use of vector-mode AD for higher-order derivatives. For example, the type \texttt{Dual\{M,Dual\{N,T\}\}} can be used to compute \texttt{M x N} $2^{nd}$-order derivatives. As a simple demonstration of the scalar case, we use an instance of the type \texttt{Dual\{1,Dual\{1,Float64\}\}} to take the second derivative of \texttt{sin} at the Julia prompt (The notation \texttt{$\epsilon$[d,k]} is used to denote the $k^{th}$ partial nested at level $d$):

\vspace{0.2cm}
\begin{lstlisting}[frame=tb,basicstyle=\small]
julia> d = Dual(Dual(1.0, 1.0), Dual(1.0, 0.0))
((1.0 + 1.0*$\epsilon$[1,1]) + (1.0 + 0.0*$\epsilon$[1,1])*$\epsilon$[2,1])

julia> d2 = sin(d)
((0.84147 + 0.54030*$\epsilon$[1,1]) + (0.54030 - 0.84147*$\epsilon$[1,1])*$\epsilon$[2,1])

julia> partials(partials(d2, 1), 1)
-0.8414709848078965
\end{lstlisting}

Algebraically, the above example is equivalent to the use of hyper-dual numbers described by Fike and Alonso~\cite{hyperduals}. In fact, a \texttt{Dual} instance with $d$ levels of nesting implements a $d^{th}$-order hyper-dual number, with the added advantage of scaling to arbitrary dimensions. For example, an instance of \texttt{Dual\{M,Dual\{N,Dual\{L,T\}\}\}} can be used to take \texttt{M x N x L} third-order derivatives in a single pass of the target function.

\vspace{-0.4cm}
\section{Performance Analysis}
\label{sec:performance}
In this section, we present timing results for gradient calculations of the Rosenbrock~\eqref{eq:rosenbrock} and Ackley~\eqref{eq:ackley} functions. Recalling~\eqref{eq:univariate} and the discussion in Section~\ref{sec:methodology}, increasing chunk size reduces the number of evaluations of the univariate functions within $f$. We choose Ackley and Rosenbrock as our target functions in order to provide a contrast between the relative gains of increasing chunk sizes when the target function contains many and few expensive univariate functions, respectively.

\begin{equation}\label{eq:rosenbrock}
\text{Rosenbrock}(\vec{x}) = \sum\nolimits_{i=1}^{k-1} 100 (x_{i+1} - x_{i}^2)^2 + (1 - x_i)^2
\end{equation}

\begin{equation}\label{eq:ackley}
\text{Ackley}(\vec{x}) = -a \exp\left( -b \sqrt{\frac{1}{k} \sum\nolimits_{i=1}^k x^{2}_{i}} \right) - \exp\left(\frac{1}{k} \sum\nolimits_{i=1}^k \cos(cx_{i})\right) + a + \exp(1)
\end{equation}

Table~\ref{tab:cpp} shows evaluation times for calculating gradients of our two target functions using ForwardDiff versus a naive equivalent C++ implementation. Various chunk sizes were tested, while the input size was fixed at $12000$ elements. For the sake of simplicity, ForwardDiff's \texttt{Dual\{N,T\}} type was translated into a hardcoded C++ class for each $N$.

\vspace{-0.3cm}
\begin{table}[htb]
\begin{center}
\subfloat[$\nabla(\text{Rosenbrock})$]{\begin{tabular}{lll}
chunk size $N$ & C++ Time (s) & ForwardDiff Time (s)\\ \hline
1              & 2.66744      & 0.62760 \\
2              & 2.71184      & 0.45541 \\
3              & 1.92713      & 0.44469 \\
4              & 1.45306      & 0.42354 \\
5              & 1.24949      & 0.44045
\end{tabular}}
\hfil
\subfloat[$\nabla(\text{Ackley})$]{\begin{tabular}{lll}
chunk size $N$ & C++ Time (s) & ForwardDiff Time (s)\\ \hline
1              & 4.02078      & 5.12890 \\
2              & 4.35398      & 2.72003 \\
3              & 3.05532      & 1.86055 \\
4              & 2.26095      & 1.47578 \\
5              & 1.91985      & 1.23500
\end{tabular}}
\end{center}
\caption{Time to evaluate gradients using C++ vs. ForwardDiff, input size $k = 12000$}
\label{tab:cpp}
\end{table}

Table~\ref{tab:cpp} helps illustrate that the optimal chunk size for a given problem is a result of a trade-off between memory bandwidth, memory alignment, cache performance, and function evaluation cost. For example, note that ForwardDiff's $\nabla(\text{Rosenbrock})$ performance worsens when going from $N=4$ to $N=5$, and that the C++ implementation's performance with both functions worsens when going from $N=1$ to $N=2$. The former observation is likely due to the large memory bandwidth cost relative to the cost of the arithmetic operations, while the latter observation is likely due to poor alignment of input vector (since each 2-dimensional dual number is essentially a struct of three \texttt{double} values - one for the instance value, and two for the partial components).

\begin{table}[htb]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{lllll}
Function        &  Input Size $k$  & autograd Time (s) & ForwardDiff Time (s) & ForwardDiff Multithreaded Time (s)\\ \hline
Ackley          &  10              & 0.001204          & 0.000007             & 0.000007 \\
Ackley          &  100             & 0.008472          & 0.000058             & 0.000056 \\
Ackley          &  1000            & 0.081499          & 0.006351             & 0.002620 \\
Ackley          &  10000           & 0.835441          & 0.564828             & 0.253798 \\
Ackley          &  100000          & 8.361769          & 56.850198            & 24.394373 \\
Rosenbrock      &  10              & 0.000866          & 0.000003             & 0.000003 \\
Rosenbrock      &  100             & 0.004395          & 0.000034             & 0.000041 \\
Rosenbrock      &  1000            & 0.040702          & 0.003010             & 0.001582 \\
Rosenbrock      &  10000           & 0.411095          & 0.302277             & 0.159703 \\
Rosenbrock      &  100000          & 4.173851          & 30.365882            & 14.111776
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\caption{Time to evaluate gradients using autograd (reverse mode) vs. ForwardDiff, chunk size $N = 10$}
\label{tab:autograd}
\end{table}

Table~\ref{tab:autograd} compares the gradient computation time of the \textit{reverse-mode} implementation of the Python-based autograd package versus the forward-mode implementation of ForwardDiff for varying input sizes. We also include results obtained using our experimental multithreaded implementation, which show a $\sim$2x speed-up using 4 threads compared to our single-threaded implementation.

Both functions have linear complexity in the input dimension $k$; therefore reverse mode, which requires $O(1)$ passes through each function, scales linearly, while our forward mode, which requires $O(k)$ passes through each function (with fixed $N$), scales quadratically. The results in Table~\ref{tab:autograd} agree with this complexity analysis. Nevertheless, there is a huge performance gap between these two implementations such that autograd is slower on these examples when $k \le 10000$, despite reverse mode being a superior algorithm in principle for computing gradients.

The code used to generate the timings in this section can be found at \url{https://github.com/JuliaDiff/ForwardDiff.jl/tree/jr/benchmarks/benchmark}. Julia benchmarks were run using Julia version 0.5.0-dev+3200, C++ benchmarks were compiled with clang-600.0.57 using \texttt{-O2}, and Python benchmarks were run using Python version 2.7.9.

\vspace{-0.5cm}
\section{ForwardDiff within JuMP}

Effective use of ForwardDiff has brought improvements to JuMP~\cite{JuMP}, a domain-specific language for optimization embedded in Julia where users provide closed-form algebraic expressions using a specialized syntax. JuMP, and similar commercial tools like AMPL \cite{AMPLbook}, compute derivatives of user models as input to nonlinear optimization solvers, which is quite different from ForwardDiff's original target case of differentiating general user-defined code.

JuMP computes sparse Hessians by using the graph coloring approach of~\cite{GebIjoc}, which requires computing a small number of Hessian-vector products in order to recover the full Hessian. JuMP's forward-over-reverse mode implementation for Hessian-vector products makes use of ForwardDiff's chunk mode, essentially computing Hessian-matrix products instead of independent Hessian-vector products. This use of chunk mode yielded speedups of 30\% on benchmarks presented in \cite{JuMP} (under review). The results in \cite{JuMP} include this speedup but are not accompanied by a discussion of the methodology of chunk mode.

On the user-facing side, ForwardDiff has enabled JuMP to be the first AML to our knowledge which performs automatic differentiation of user-defined functions embedded within closed-form expressions. We reproduce an example from~\cite{JuMP} illustrating a user-defined square root function within a JuMP optimization model:

\noindent\makebox[\linewidth]{\rule{\textwidth}{0.4pt}}
\vspace{-0.7cm}
\begin{lstlisting}[multicols=2,basicstyle=\small]
function squareroot(x)
    # Start Newton's method at x
    z = x
    while abs(z*z - x) > 1e-13
        z = z - (z*z-x)/(2z)
    end
    return z
end
JuMP.register(:squareroot, 1,
               squareroot, autodiff=true)
m = Model()
@variable(m, x[1:2], start=0.5)
@objective(m, Max, sum(x))
@NLconstraint(m,
     squareroot(x[1]^2+x[2]^2) <= 1)
solve(m)
\end{lstlisting}
\vspace{-0.7cm}
\noindent\makebox[\linewidth]{\rule{\textwidth}{0.4pt}}

JuMP computes gradients of \texttt{squareroot} with ForwardDiff which are then integrated within the reverse-mode computations of JuMP. We do not yet support $2^{nd}$-order derivatives of user-defined functions. While this functionality is immature and leaves room for improvement (we could attempt to tape the user-defined functions and calculate their gradients in reverse mode), it already creates a new and useful way for JuMP users to seamlessly interact with AD when small parts of their model cannot easily be expressed in closed algebraic form.

\label{sec:jump}

\vspace{-0.5cm}
\section{Future Work}

We are currently investigating several avenues of research that could improve ForwardDiff's performance and usability. We are in the preliminary phases of implementing SIMD vectorization of derivative propagation. We intend to address perturbation confusion \cite{pertubationconfusion} by intercepting unwanted pertubations at compile time using Julia's metaprogramming capabilities. Finally, we wish to improve our support for matrix operations such as eigenvalue computations by directly overloading linear algebra functions, a technique which has already seen use in \cite{algopy}.

\vspace{-0.5cm}
\bibliographystyle{unsrt}

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"Violence against shop workers must be stamped out" – Christina Rees MP
Welsh Labour and Cooperative MP for Neath, Christina Rees MP, is calling on the UK Government to take decisive action to curb the startling levels of abuse and violence shop workers are exposed to.
In a recent study by the Union of Shop, Distributive, and Allied Workers, Usdaw, a staggering 80 per cent of retail staff said that violence, threats, and abuse against shop workers are getting worse.
Christina recently wrote to the Home Secretary to call for action to be taken on this issue and has stated her disappointment at the department's response to date. The UK Government has previously consulted on this issue but, 12 months on, ministers are yet to publish the findings of this research or implement any recommendations.
Christina will be supporting Alex Norris MP's Bill in Parliament on this issue when it returns to the Commons in September.
Christina Rees MP said:
"It's shameful that although the UK Government has consulted on this issue because they recognise it is a problem, thus far, ministers have completely failed to take action.
"I'm deeply concerned about the apparent rise in abuse and violence shop workers have faced since the coronavirus pandemic began. Shop workers have been working tirelessly to help to ensure we all have the essential items we all need at this unsettling time. They deserve our respect and should not be subjected to abuse, threats, or violence.
"I will be continuing to pursue this issue in Parliament until shop workers get the protections they need and deserve."
Usdaw is currently calling on the UK Government to implement:
· Tougher sentences for those who attack shop workers.
· Changes to the out of court disposals system (e.g. fixed penalty notices) which is failing to have an impact on re-offending.
· A full review into the response of police forces to incidents of violence in the retail sector.


It was June 2015. There they were , on a real adventure. Sharing their love for the outdoors, the water, the trees, the hills. It was warm and the air was sweet. A perfect day to be on a boat. The experience was being shared by Esther and her 5 year old granddaughter Selina. Alone fishing and trolling in the beautiful waters of upstate NY. Selina her olive skin, big brown eyes, and long thick brown hair. Her smile is always so full of fun. Selina is so bright and happy. Esther wanted her to cherish and remember this time always. Never thinking these waters would take them on an adventure beyond their wildest dreams. A place where family history is of utmost importance.
After a few hours they spot a dock in the distance, a quaint little fishing town. The more time they spend there the stranger people seem. Everything seems way out of place. Old fashioned, cobblestone streets , automobiles from the 30's, horse and wagons.Women wear petticoats, men hats, and children knickers with button up leather shoes. It reminds Esther of a place she went to as a child; an old 1800s working farm. A tourist attraction where everything was set up to reflect those times right down the speech patten of old English. This must be that kind of place, Esther thinks. Yet she wonders why she has never heard about it. The difference is when she asked a local fisherman , where she is, he replies why Binghamton of course. Esther had been to Binghamton a lot while growing up and it was nothing like this place at all.
She begins to feel uncomfortable, out of place, homesick. So back on the boat they go, heading back to Greene. After a few hours as dusk falls they finally spot the dock, where Esther's parents are supposed to be waiting for her Selina. Except the closer they get she realizes it's the same dock she left…in Binghamton. Again she docks and decides to spend the night. Picking some newspapers blowing around on the ground, she begins to read..The headline speaks of how the president was from the state of NY. President Franklin D Roosevelt, and is June 1934. She wonders if this is a prop or..Are these people out of their minds?... Or is she?
Is Esther stuck in the past? Or a vision for the future ?
Join in her adventure, and you decide. Twisty and intriguing, a place where The Twilight Zone meets Shutter Island.
THERE I WAS ON a real adventure, sharing my love for the outdoors with my five year old granddaughter Selina. It was a warm June morning and the air was sweet.
Selina was such a beautiful girl—olive skin, big brown eyes, and thick curly long brown hair, a smile full of fun. She was a bright and happy child. I wanted her to remember this time always.
It was my grandfather who taught me to 'read' the water, the trees, the breezes and the sky.
We had our little rented boat with our fishing poles, packed lunches, and cooler of bottled water and yoohoos. Just us two girls, no boys. Just us, the fish, the water.
It seemed like days but in all reality it was only a few hours. In the river, in our little rented boat how proud I felt and in total control of the situation. Selina was depending on me, and only me. According to Selina I knew everything.
Isn't it amazing how a young child can make you feel so confident and smart? She doesn't know I have a horrible sense of direction, or that I'm completely relying on my 'smart phone' to find our way back.
We left about nine thirty in the morning and it was noon now. The boat was to be back by six in the evening when my parents would be waiting to pick us up in a small town called Greene at the foothills of the Catskill Mountains.
I saw a port ahead with docks and fishing boats. People seemed busy and it looked like a nice place to stop for lunch. I hoped we could find a bench, or a nice grassy spot to picnic on and find a restroom for Selina of course.
"Ahoy!" called a funny looking man from the dock, as he waved us in. The man wore rubber overalls and you could see his chubby sunburned face. He offered a warm smile and a hand as he welcomed us and helped us off our boat. He then tied it to the dock, and assured us it would be safe there.
There were old looking buildings and shacks, old trucks and boats. Just very old fashioned.
Fishermen were slicing and weighing fish. Others were emptying big nets onto wooden tables.
Selina's eyes got even bigger as she absorbed our surroundings. I grabbed our lunches and we found a nice grassy spot to picnic on near the river where we could also keep an eye on our boat.
The place was like a town from a fairy tale. There were Cobblestone streets and automobiles from the 30s. Horses and wagons, a small post office, a general store, and even a blacksmith! The people were even dressed like they did in the 'old days': Women in dresses, hats, and petticoats, while men were in suits and hats and little boys in knickers. What an awesome little tourist place!
We finished our lunch and it was time to find a restroom.
Selina and I walked across the little cobblestone street to the general store. A nice woman stood behind the counter and directed us to the back of the store. We found the restroom which had an old fashioned toilet, with a chain to pull to flush. The sink was a pedestal with claw feet; beautiful antiques. The woman gave Selina some rock candy on a string as we left.
We walked hand in hand down to the riverfront. When Selina asked, where we were.
No response. My phone was blank. The moisture must have messed with the battery. Don't panic, I told myself, we'll be fine.
He looked a bit puzzled but said okay and skipped away. What an odd question I thought.
"He's a silly boy," said Selina.
"Yes he is," I agreed. This has to be some tourist place, I thought.


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I'm trying to retrieve a simple string of text from a PHP file using jQuery and AJAX as shown below:
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I googled around for a bit and apparently this happens because of the Same-origin Policy, however I'm sure that isn't the case here because the HTML and PHP file are stored in the exact same folder on the server.

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Budimac, Z. ,	Putnik, Z. ,	Ivanović, M. ,	Bothe, K.
In this paper, a successful and fruitful joint project will be presented. The project joins participants from 9 countries and from 15 universities. Since it started in 2001, this project entitled "Software Engineering: Computer Science Education and Research Cooperation" helped participants to gain excellent, up to date educational material, apply modern teaching methods, exchange experiences with other participants, and work jointly on the further development of lectures, case-studies, assignments, examination questions, and other necessary elements of a course. Project works under auspices of Stability Pact of South-Eastern Europe, and is supported by DAAD. The project started with the creation of a common beginning course in "Software Engineering", but over time it grew and the number of other courses was developed. Finished almost completely are the courses in "Object-oriented programming", "Software Project Management", "Advanced Compiler Construction", and "Data Structures and Algorithms", and some other courses are under development. Aside from the educational collaboration, project members also developed good scientific cooperation, and published several research papers.
 "Bringing curriculums and equipment up to date," DAAD, Sep 2002, issue 3.
 E.-E. Doberkat, C. Kopka, and G. Engels,"MuSofT – multimedia in der softwaretechnik,"Softwaretechnik-Trends, Vol. Volume 24, No. 1,2004.
 K. Modesitt, "International software engineering university consortium (iseuc), a glimpse into the future of university and industry collaboration,"in Proceedings of 15th CSEET, Covington, Kentucky, USA, 2002, pp. 32–41.
 T. Hilburn, G. Hislop, M. Lutz, S. Mengel, and M. Sebern, "Software engineering course materials workshop," in Proceedings of 16th CSEET, Madrid, Spain, 2003.
 H. Balzert, Lehrbuch der Software-Technik.Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 1998, Vol. 1 and 2.
 "Computing curricula 2001, ACM and the computer society of the IEEE," http://www.acm.org, 2011.
 "Guide to the software engineering body of knowledge SWEBOK," IEEE Computer Science Press, 2001, eds. Bourque, P. and Dupuis, R.
 K. Bothe, K. Schuetzler, Z. Budimac, and K. Zdravkova, "Collaborative development of a multi-lingual software engineering course across countries," in Proceedings of 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Indianapolis,USA, 2005, pp. T1A–1 – T1A–5.
 K. Bothe and S. Joachim, "Tool support for developing multi-lingual course materials," in Proceedings of ONLINE EDUCA Berlin, 10th Intl. Conference on Technology Supported Learning & Training, Berlin, Germany, 2004.
 Z. Budimac, Z. Putnik, M. Ivanovic, K. Bothe, and K. Schuetzler, "On the assessment and self-assessment in a students teamwork based course on software engineering," Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Vol. Volume 19, No. 1, pp. 1–9, 2011.
 "Behavioral specification (requirements) of XCTL-control program," http://www2.A View on a Successful International Educational Project in Software Engineering 59 informatik.hu-berlin.de/swt/intkoop/jcse/case_studies/xctl/XCTL-Man-Adj.html, 2011.
 "Java course home page," http://perun.pmf.uns.ac.rs/java, 2011.
 "Course home page," http://perun.pmf.uns.ac.rs/moodle, 2011.
 K. Bothe, K. Schützler, Z. Budimac, Z. Putnik,M. Ivanovic, S. Stoyanov, A. Stoyanova-Doyceva,K. Zdravkova, B. Jakimovski, D. Bojic, I. Jurca, D. Kalpic, and B. ico, "Experience with shared teaching materials for software engineering across countries," in Proceedings of Informatics Education Europe IV, Freiburg, Germany, 2009, pp. 57–62.
 K. Bothe, K. Schuetzler, Z. Budimac, K. Zdravkova, D. Bojic, and S. Stoyanov, "Technical and managerial principles of a distributed cooperative development of a multi-lingual educational course," in Proceedings of The 1st Balkan Conference in Informatics, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2003, pp. 112–120.
 K. Bothe and S. Joachim, "Interactive tool-based production of multilingual teaching and learning materials," in Proceedings of The 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Techniques, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2005, pp.516–518.
 Z. Budimac, Z. Putnik, M. Ivanovic, and K. Bothe, "Common software engineering course: Experiences from different countries," in Proceedings of The 1st International Conference on Computer Supported Education, Lisboa, Portugal, 2009, pp. 375–378.
 M. Ivanovic, Z. Budimac, Z. Putnik, and K. Bothe, "Short comparison of tasks and achievements of different groups of students with the common software engineering course," in Proceedings of The International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice, Orlando, USA, 2009, pp. 84–91.
 K. Zdravkova, K. Bothe, and Z. Budimac, "SETT-net: A network for software engineering training and teaching," in Proceedings of The Information Technology Interfaces, Cavtat, Croatia, 2003, pp. 281–286.
 'The structure of SETT-net," in Proceedings of The Eurocon, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2003,pp. 126–129.


By now, we have been back home for two and a half weeks, so maybe I should start showing a few pictures. We have been at the west coast of Jutland, enjoying the landscape, visiting a few towns, and of course being lazy.
It has been nice, and dark, and cold. Oh well, not that dark; but nonetheless you do notice when the day is shorter by a quarter of an hour at each end. Around here, it won't be that short until Christmas. It has not been really cold, either: not as cold as Scandinavia should be. Truth be told, it has been quite warm, almost ten degrees centigrade. However, the wind blowing ceaselessly from the North Sea made us feel much colder.
A few years ago (I seem to be getting old: it has been some ten years), I travelled to Finland via Zealand. This year, I got the same impression as back then: the landscape and the buildings pose an interesting mixture of Sweden or Finland on the one hand and Northern Germany on the other.
Last time, I did not have the chance to hear much Danish; but this time, I noticed something quite similar: if someone with Low German background speaks Swedish, I should expect something quite similar to Danish.
I enjoyed the week very much, and the only thing a may complain about is just that: two weeks would have been better.
 Around here means central Germany, at the latitude of Calgary.


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My City (Game Review by Chris Wray)
Posted on May 8, 2020 by Chris Wray
Designer: Reiner Knizia
Publisher: Kosmos
Players: 2 – 4
Ages: 10 and up
Times Played: 28 (Full 24 Game Campaign, 4 "Eternal" Games)
My City is a legacy game designed by Reiner Knizia. Released this spring, the game is about placing buildings in a city through generations, watching the community grow from its earliest days through industrialization. The buildings you construct are represented by polyominoes, those tetris-like shapes we're all familiar with, so the game has a bit of a puzzle feel.
The campaign is 24 games, split into 8 chapters of 3 games each. Depending on your in-game decisions, you'll be adding new features (generally via stickers) to your city that alters the course of future games. On the reverse of your board is an "eternal" game that can be replayed anytime.
My City, designed for 2-4 players, has been receiving significant critical praise for the family-friendly and easy-to-learn gameplay. My family played through the campaign recently, and we fell in love with My City.
The game is currently released in Germany, and an English-language version is expected this summer.
The Gameplay (Spoiler Free)
Note: This is spoiler free, but I do discuss the first three games, which are part of the initial "Chapter" in the game. I don't think this can be considered a spoiler given that this is handed to you right out of the box. I'm not going to discuss the specifics of later chapters though.
Each player has a board where they'll be constructing their city. As the campaign begins, it has a few different features — empty fields, rocks, trees, etc. — and you have 24 polyominoes of three different colors.
A deck of cards sits between the players, and a card showing one of the polyominoes is flipped. Players must build that in their city. The first piece must be placed along the river — and pieces can never cross the river — and future pieces must adjoin previously-built pieces. Players can refuse to play a piece, but they take a step backwards on the point track (and the game begins with each player having 10 turns). Players can drop out of the game at any time, and the game ends when all players do so, or when the deck of cards runs out.
Each tree showing is worth one point, each rock is minus a point, and each empty field is minus a point. Starting in the second game, a new scoring mechanic is introduced: you get a point for each building in your biggest group of each color. Starting in the third game, you get a new landmark: a fountain that, if completely surrounded, can score you four extra points.
There is generally a rule change between games, and the rules are revealed after each "Chapter" (i.e. each third game).
The winner of each game earns progress points for the campaign, and as the campaign progresses, there become a few others ways to earn progress points. These are documented via filling in little circles at the top of your player board.
The winner also receives certain stickers (rocks in the early games) that set them back a little, and the losers receive a boost for future games (by receiving trees), so there is a bit of a catch up mechanic. Our campaign ended with the top three players having very similar scores (although the fourth player was quite a bit behind).
Advice For Your Campaign
I'd recommend playing with 3-4 players. Though the game will work with 2-players, it seems to me that the in-game legacy aspects would work better with 3-4, since rewards are often given out on a first, second, and then everybody-else basis, but with two players, it is all-or-nothing.
If you're going to play, I'd play a chapter at a time, or maybe two at a time. There's nothing wrong with stopping mid-chapter — we did it once — but we found this quite enjoyable in three-game settings. Though the box says 30 minutes, we were playing this in 15-20 minutes.
You can have players drop out. Each game is simple enough that you could substitute players and they wouldn't be at a big disadvantage. You could even give them an introductory game via the "Eternal" side of the board.
My thoughts on the game…
I loved My City, and so did my family. Reiner Knizia has created something truly special. I could see this game winning the Spiel des Jahres or Kennerspiel des Jahres. My City is the right combination of engaging, innovative, and family, so it is a natural contender for gaming's highest honor.
We were fascinated from the first game of the campaign. My family and I love polyominoes games (Cottage Garden, Patchwork, Etc.), so we were always going to like this. But this actually compared favorably to others in the genre, really going to the core of what makes gameplay fun. My City is remarkably simple in terms of the rules, but from that simplicity emerges engaging and tense little puzzles.
The artwork (done by Michael Menzel) is attractive, and the components were well produced. The rulebook is well written, and the player aids included in each chapter remind you of the steps you need to take at the beginning of each game.
The first few games are easily grasped, and we were off and playing in a few minutes. The campaign does become a bit more complicated towards the end, but even then it was still approachable and family-friendly. It might be too heavy for the Spiel des Jahres by game 15 or so, but the first dozen games are decidedly lightweight, such that anybody could play them.
The best part of the campaign was that no one game had a burdensome rule teach, but through minor changes, they did each have a distinct flavor. And there was a story emerging as you watched your city progress from its earliest days through industrialization. The only drawback of this impermanence is that a couple of the games were very cool, and I do wish I had the chance to go back and replay them, but that would be difficult giving how much the game changes via stickering.
Not only was the campaign fun, but we've played the "Eternal" side of the boards a few times. These are permanently playable, and they roughly correspond to game 10 of the campaign. This chapter of the campaign was our favorite, so the designer did a good job of highlighting the best part of the campaign in the permanent part of the product.
Overall, I'm highly impressed. If you like legacy games or polyominoes puzzles, I think this will be a big hit with your game group.
Ratings from the Opinionated Gamers
I love it! Chris Wray
I like it. Eric M.
Neutral.
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Q: Redis - scaling over different ec2 regions as I understand it's technically possible to have redis cluster with nodes spreaded by different regions in amazon cloud (EC2) - so I will be able to obtain the same data in machines in each region.
But here is 2 questions I am not sure:

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*how it would impact on redis' speed? As guys measured (Speed from Different EC2 Regions) - there is about 4 times difference. What should it mean for redis?

*how much would it cost for me? Or in other words - how much service traffic does reddis generate when work in cluster (for example, by one node in both of two regions)?

I have no any practical experience with redis, but seems it can be very useful for my purposes.
thanks a lot for help.

A: Costing to you will be the cost of bandwidth and instance hours.


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Anthony Weiner's Mother-In-Law, Saleha Abedin, Is Connected With Muslim Brotherhood
by 1389 on June 16, 2011
in 1389 (blog admin), Barack Hussein Obama, Huma Abedin/Anthony Weiner, Islam, leftist-jihadist convergence, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Brotherhood moles, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, stealth jihad, the Clintons, treason, Turkey, U.S. State Department
I have already warned everyone who would listen that the real story behind Weinergate was not Anthony Weiner having tweeted photos of his private parts, but the role played by his wife, Huma Abedin. (See Weinergate: Sleeping with the Enemy.) It certainly appears that Huma is in a long-term lesbian relationship with Hillary Clinton, and possibly is in a relationship of another sort with Bill Clinton.
Be that as it may, the real problem is that Huma Abedin has been peddling the pro-Pakistani, pro-Saudi, and pro-Islamic agendas through Hillary Clinton, first during the Clinton Administration, and now through the State Department in the Obama Administration.
Now it turns out that Huma Abedin's mother, Saleha Abedin, is associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. In addition, Huma's brother, Hassan Abedin, has been working with Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal on the project of promoting the Muslim agenda in the West.
Obviously, the Clintons will never be willing to abandon their emotional and physical ties to the Muslim mole, Huma Abedin.
What we, as American citizens, must do is to demand that Hillary Clinton resign from her position as Secretary of State, and to ensure that neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton ever again play any role in public life.
BOMBSHELL: Weiner's In-Laws and the Muslim Brotherhood
I teased this story a bit on my June 12th program. For those of you who listened, you know what this is about. For the rest, former PLO member and ex-Muslim Brotherhood activist Walid Shoebat has unearthed some shocking discoveries. Among them is that Anthony Weiner's mother-in-law is a card-carrying member of the Muslim Brotherhood. What makes this a national security issue is the fact that Weiner's wife is also Hillary Clinton's closest adviser.
Weiner's In-Laws and the Muslim Brotherhood Connected
Walid Shoebat and Ben Barrack
According to translated Arab sources, it has been learned that the mother of Huma Abedin – Huma is Anthony Weiner's wife and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Deputy Chief of Staff – is an official member of the Muslim Brotherhood; Saleha Abedin belongs to the women's division known as the Muslim Sisterhood.
What has not been validated by western media – which has been confirmed by Arab sources – is that Huma has a brother named Hassan Abedin who is a fellow with the Oxford Centre For Islamic Studies (OCIS). This adds to strong evidence that an extremely reputable British institution has been infiltrated.
The OCIS consists of an increasing number of Muslim Brotherhood members who sit on the Board. OCIS has Al-Qaeda godfather, Omar Naseef as well as the notorious Muslim Brotherhood leader and suicide bombing supporter – Sheikh Youssef Qaradawi listed as OCIS Trustees. Naseef continues to serve as Board Chairman.
In 2009, Qaradawi's role within Oxford and the Muslim Brotherhood was championed by the notorious Sheikh Rached Ghannouchi. OCIS has even presented an award for great scholarly achievement to Muslim Brotherhood member Shaykh Abd Al-Fattah Abu Gudda, who was an associate of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna. Even the Sunday Times acknowledges that the cradle of Islamic Jihad – Al-Azhar University – actively attempts to establish links with OCIS.
These Arab sources have been researched and translated by former Muslim and ex-PLO member Walid Shoebat, who successfully translated and exposed the words of Ground Zero Mosque Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf in 2010; these discoveries helped to derail Rauf's efforts to build the mosque. Shoebat also uncovered the Arabic statements of Mosab Hassan Yousef, the Son of Hamas author who allegedly converted to Christianity. Shoebat's work revealed Mosab to have very unsavory and deceptive motives.
Now, back to the Abedins. As Hillary Clinton's Deputy Chief of Staff, Huma accompanied the Secretary of State to the Dar El-Hekma women's college in Saudi Arabia. Huma's mother is the co-founder and a Vice Dean at the college.
The Shoebat Foundation has also translated Arab sources that identify Huma's mother – Saleha Mahmoud Abdeen (aka Abedin) as a member of the woman's arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. This information was obtained via Al-Liwa Al-Arabi, which released the entire list on the investigation done by Egyptian security, showing Saleha as a member. This arm is also known as the International Women's Organization (IWO) or "Muslim Sisterhood."
The 'Dostor' Egyptian newspaper confirms 63 International Missionaries from the Muslim Brotherhood's "Sisterhood" branch that spans 16 different countries; it's also confirmed by the Arab Centre for Studies, headed by researcher Abdul Rahim Ali.
This "Womens Division" of the Muslim Brotherhood can be found at the Muslim Brotherhood's official website. Shoebat translates the relevant excerpt thusly:
"The Womens Organization's goal in accordance with the Muslim Brotherhood rules, is to gain and acquire a unified global perception in every nation in the world regarding the position of women, and the necessity of advocacy work at all levels in accordance to the message of the Brotherhood as written in Women in Muslim Society, and the rearing of women throughout the different stages of life."
True to this cause, another member of the Sisterhood – as confirmed by the list – is Suheir Qureshi. She spoke alongside Saleha Abedin as well as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was brought in due to the connection to Saleha's daughter. All three women spoke on issues of Women in Muslim Society. An Arabic news report of what happened during Hillary's visit is translated by Shoebat. In that report "Suheir Qureshi spoke of how elated she was of Hillary's historic visit." Translating further, Shoebat reveals in English what was reported about the words of Huma's mother as well as those of Hillary:
"Saleha Abedin spoke after Shuheir Qureshi and beamed in the presence of Secretary Clinton. Saleha's speech preceded the former First Lady's. Then Hillary stood. She donned a broad smile as she approached the podium… Clinton started with a strong word and she spent a long time complimenting Dr. Saleha Abedin regarding her daughter. Hillary explained that Huma holds an important and sensitive position in her office. She ended her speech by speaking of Saleha Abedin's daughter (Huma), that a person must be happy if mentioned in a positive light but there is no happiness that equals the compliment given to children in front of a parent."
Exposed to State secrets, Huma's marriage to Weiner also gives her inside access to the inner workings of Congress. It is sacrilege in Islam for Huma's mother to accept the reality that her daughter is married to a Jew, a marriage that is considered null and void by the highest authorities in Islam
Huma's brother has been key in furthering the Islamic agenda in the west. He is seen meeting with Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal on an agenda of "spreading Islam to the west." He is well linked to Omar Naseef, a notorious associate of Al-Qaeda. According to a very detailed report from 2007, Naseef was identified as the likely force behind the Abedin family's departure from Kalamazoo, MI to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia circa 1977.
Whether coincidentally, ironically, or both the Muslim Sisterhood was established in 1977.
In still another significant translation by Shoebat, in 2008, Dr. Mumen Muhammad wrote about why Huma vowed to stay with Hillary even if the latter were to lose the presidential nomination to Obama:
"Abedin assures in press releases her continuance on the path with Hillary Clinton, even if Clinton failed as a candidate. The candidate's aids and other influential figures in the Democratic Party assure that they do not disregard Abedin running for election or taking her position in the political arena by the help in successive political administrations with the aid of the Clinton family itself."
Indeed, the "Clinton family" played a key role in promoting the extremely powerful Turkish Imam and notorious Islamist Fethullah Gülen. In 2008, the former president heaped praise on Gülen, giving him a clean slate at the Turkish Cultural Center Friendship Dinner.
Gülen fled Turkey for the United States in 1998 – during the Clinton administration – after attempting to overthrow Turkey's secular government, a charge over which he was indicted in 2000; the Turkish Imam still lives in the U.S.
More than a little sympathetic to Muslim Brotherhood's goals, Gülen explained in a sermon that aired on Turkish television how his followers could best seize power from the Turkish government:
"You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers… until the conditions are ripe… Until that time, any step taken would be too early—like breaking an egg without waiting the full forty days for it to hatch. It would be like killing the chick inside."
Gülen expressed this sentiment in another sermon as well:
The philosophy of our service is that we open a house somewhere and, with the patience of a spider, we lay our web to wait for people to get caught in the web; and we teach those who do.
Turkey's president – Abdullah Gül – considers himself a follower of Fethullah Gülen (Gülenist) according to Wikileaks and also serves with Huma's brother as an Oxford Centre Trustee.
It was also Hillary Clinton who signed a document less than one month prior to her trip to Saudi Arabia with Huma that lifted the ban on Tariq Ramadan, allowing him entry into the United States. Ramadan is the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hasan al-Banna and has ties to Islamic terrorist groups.
Huma Abedin is a practicing Muslim and is still well-connected to her family. She also has access to highly sensitive State secrets – admitted by Hillary herself – as well as significant influence in the Obama administration.
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Bill Clinton: Fethullah Gulen's Contribution to the World, Turkish Cultural Center Friendship Dinner
Saleha Abedin, Huma Abedin's mother:
Will Huma look like her in twenty years?
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1 carl June 21, 2011 at 10:59 pm
americans had better wake up and stand or soon there will be no america left!
2 1389 June 21, 2011 at 11:03 pm
There is not much left, at the moment.
I'm more thinking about how we can RESTORE America as it was intended to be under the Constitution.
3 Norm October 13, 2011 at 1:54 am
http://normanhooben.blogspot.com/2011/07/mrs-anthony-weiner-has-higher-calling.html
http://normanhooben.blogspot.com/2011/06/weiner-hillary-and-muslim-connection.html
Weinergate: Sleeping with the Enemy — 1389 Blog – Counterjihad!
Have you forgotten what it was like before Obama and what it will be like again after Obama? — 1389 Blog - Counterjihad!
Anthony Weiner's wife Huma Abedin failed to disclose outside consulting while working at State Dept. — 1389 Blog - Counterjihad!
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