On Saturday, the city hosted two events to draw people to contentious downtown projects — the bike lane network, and the Experience Jasper Avenue pilot project.
Declan Sheridan is a six-year-old daredevil constantly looking for outdoor adventures.
Cycling over a bike teeter-totter and weaving around plungers in a downtown Edmonton parking lot Saturday didn't faze him a bit, and neither did Edmonton's newest bike lanes.
On Saturday, Declan was at Bike Party, one of two city events to draw people to contentious downtown projects — the bike lane network, and the Experience Jasper Avenue pilot project.
It was one of the first times Declan's mom, Coreen Sheridan, used the 7.8-kilometre network of protected bike lanes that stretch from Oliver to Boyle Street after opening mid-June.
"I think it's very important to have it, for safety for everybody. I think cars don't know how to deal with bikes half the time," she said.
Her friend, Amanda Pennell, said the protected lanes are essential to bring new life downtown. Otherwise, families who live in Edmonton's core might not feel safe biking down the street with children, she said.
Cycling down the lanes can still be a bit of an adventure, as drivers, cyclists and pedestrians learn how bikes are supposed to move around the network.
One man has posted a series of videos on Twitter showing vehicles cutting him off or stopping in the middle of the bike lanes.
A city count done June 30 found more than 4,700 people used the lanes that day. The number jumped to 5,500 on Canada Day, said Olga Messinis, project manager for the bike network.
The city's next steps will depend on the outcome of an 18-month study of the current lanes.
Saturday's Bike Party featured five stations along the network offering bike decorating, a photo booth, advice on using the network, games, food trucks, music and conditioning classes.
A few blocks west, city officials hoped to draw people to the Experience Jasper Avenue design demonstration with buskers and street performers, artists, live music, and a scavenger hunt.
Since mid-July, the curb lanes of Jasper Avenue between 115 and 109 Streets have been blocked with yellow pillars and fencing, with raised bus stops, picnic benches and even a ping-pong table now lining the street in an attempt to improve the pedestrian experience.
Roberta Kaban, who lives in the area, likes the streetscaping. She doesn't think it will revitalize Jasper Avenue to its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s.
Waiting at a red light at 112th Street, driver Alex Mus said he doesn't like the new bike lanes or the lane reduction on Jasper, which have limited right turns.
A city evaluation found the pilot project delays vehicle traffic by an average of one minute along the stretch of road.
Project manager Satya Gadidasu said the city has listened to feedback from drivers and will look at adding a right turn bay at 109 Street to improve traffic flow.
The demonstration, which runs until the end of October, is supposed to give residents and businesses a feel of what Jasper Avenue will be like when the sidewalks are permanently widened in 2019, he said.
The city needs to do a better job explaining its long-term plan for Jasper, Woo said. He also questioned how narrowing the road reconciled with plans to increase transit.
Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct some details about road changes for the Experience Jasper Avenue project and potential future additions of right turn bays.


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Discussion in 'General Freemasonry Discussion' started by Blake Bowden, Mar 17, 2009.
On a personal level, what does the Brotherhood mean to you and why?
Wow, this is a tough question. I guess I would say that masonry is a place where I can go and recharge my batteries. In everyday normal life your guard is up constantly because you always have to watch your back. At the Lodge you should be surrounded by people that are more worried about helping yourself than themselves. It is a place where I can on occasion ask a question on how I can do something in my life and get an answer without having to feel judged. It is a way for me to find my true self and fix any areas I may be troubled with the assistance of others. I guess in a round about way it is my therapy. Masonry allows me to do what I enjoy and allows me to become a better person during the same time.
If I may, it is the miracle grow to my spiritual growth. I would have always grown spiritualy in life but without the Craft I suspect I would be no where near the level I am now.
Masonry allows me to have a "friend" where ever I go. I am always met with sincere friendship and brotherly love when I visit Brothers I don't know. It gives me a feeling of security knowing that I have millions of Brothers all over the world.


The Harlem Globetrotters will no longer be beating the Washington Generals game after glorious fake game. A ''rivalry'' that dates to the Eisenhower administration is coming to an end now that the Trotters have decided to dump their longtime punching bag of an opponent, presumably for business reasons.
Farewell to the team that stoically took buckets of water to the face, allowed pants to be pulled to their ankles, and always made sure to score at least one less point than the team everyone paid to see.
Well, except for the single game the Generals won in 1971, when team founder Louis ''Red'' Klotz threw up the winning shot at the buzzer after Globetrotters star Meadowlark Lemon, losing track of the score, turned over the ball to do one last comic skit.
Too bad, because the Generals were a team worth celebrating, even if their record over the last 63 years was one win and ''something more than 16,000'' losses, in Ferrari's estimation.
This got us to thinking about other sporting traditions that have gone away over the years.
WHEN STARS WERE STARS: Joe Frazier nearly drowning while trying to swim? Johnny Unitas laboring to pedal a bike? Those were some of the highlights when the world's greatest athletes competed on the made-for-TV ''Superstars,'' the 1970s competition that showed these guys weren't any better than the rest of us when they got out of their comfort zone. Honorable mention goes to ''Battle of the Network Stars,'' which gave us Arte Johnson in a dunking tank.
MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL: It was much more than a prime-time football game when Frank Gifford, Howard Cosell and Dandy Don Meredith came into our homes; it was a cultural phenomenon. We cursed the acerbic Cosell (especially when he left our favorite team off his much-anticipated halftime highlights), cheered Meredith's folksy comebacks, and marveled at Gifford holding it all together. They still call it Monday Night Football, but now it's just a game or two they play on Mondays.
GAMES THAT MATTERED: The NCAA Tournament was once limited to one basketball team from each conference. That meant the Atlantic Coast Conference representative had to win the league's season-ending tournament to get in. Talk about pressure and drama. In 1970, South Carolina went 14-0 during the regular season but lost the final to North Carolina State. That ended the Gamecocks' season.
HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE FIGHTS: They still have these, apparently, but there hasn't been anyone worth watching since Mike Tyson. Ahh, to return to an era when ''Heavyweight Champion'' made you one of the most recognized people on the planet.
RIVALRIES BURIED: Conference realignment has cost us such great matchups as Oklahoma-Nebraska, Texas-Texas A&M, and Penn State-Pittsburgh. What a pity. We also wish the Iron Bowl was still played in Birmingham, before an evenly divided crowd, not on the campuses of Alabama and Auburn. Then again, at least they still play every year.
PENNANT RACES: They no longer exist in baseball, not when there are six divisions and four teams that get into the playoffs without winning their division. The last great pennant race came in 1993, when the San Francisco Giants went 103-59 and didn't even make the playoffs. They lost the NL West to the Atlanta Braves, who were 104-58.
U.S.-SOVIET RIVALRY: The Olympics haven't been quite the same since the Soviet Union went out of business. Every four years, we all got pumped for the good-vs.-evil matchup between our pure, amateur Americans and those hated athletes with the ''CCCP'' across their chests. (Or, as they viewed it from the other side of the Iron Curtain: the glorious proletariat against the money-grubbing capitalists.) Never again will see epics such as the disputed Soviet gold medal in basketball at the Munich Games, or the U.S. hockey team pulling off the ''Miracle on Ice'' in Lake Placid.
And now, we've lost the ultimate losers, the Washington Generals.
That's a loss for us all.


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General Motors Misled Grieving Families on a Lethal Flaw
Michelle and Neil Kosilla with their daughter Lisa. Their other daughter, Amy, 23, was killed in a Chevy Cobalt accident.CreditCreditSusan Stava for The New York Times
By Hilary Stout, Bill Vlasic, Danielle Ivory and Rebecca R. Ruiz
It was nearly five years ago that any doubts were laid to rest among engineers at General Motors about a dangerous and faulty ignition switch. At a meeting on May 15, 2009, they learned that data in the black boxes of Chevrolet Cobalts confirmed a potentially fatal defect existed in hundreds of thousands of cars.
But in the months and years that followed, as a trove of internal documents and studies mounted, G.M. told the families of accident victims and other customers that it did not have enough evidence of any defect in their cars, interviews, letters and legal documents show. Last month, G.M. recalled 1.6 million Cobalts and other small cars, saying that if the switch was bumped or weighed down it could shut off the engine's power and disable air bags.
In one case, G.M. threatened to come after the family of an accident victim for reimbursement of legal fees if the family did not withdraw its lawsuit. In another instance, it dismissed a family with a terse, formulaic letter, saying there was no basis for claims.
"We sent the paperwork for the car to them and they said there's nothing to this," said Neil Kosilla, whose 23-year-old daughter, Amy, died in a Cobalt accident in March 2010 after the air bags failed to deploy. "They said we had nothing."
Since the engineers' meeting in May 2009, at least 23 fatal crashes have involved the recalled models, resulting in 26 deaths. G.M. reported the accidents to the government under a system called Early Warning Reporting, which requires automakers to disclose claims they receive blaming vehicle defects for serious injuries or deaths.
A New York Times review of 19 of those accidents — where victims were identified through interviews with survivors, family members, lawyers and law enforcement officials — found that G.M. pushed back against families in at least two of the accidents, and reached settlements that required the victims to keep the discussions confidential.
Amy Kosilla died in a Cobalt accident in March 2010.CreditKosilla Family
In one of those cases, the company settled a lawsuit brought by the family of Hasaya Chansuthus, 25, who crashed her 2006 Cobalt in Murfreesboro, Tenn. After resisting, the company negotiated a deal even though Ms. Chansuthus's blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit. Data from the black box — which records vehicle systems information — showed that the key was in the accessory or off position, according to court documents, and the air bags did not deploy. (The accessory position turns off the car, disabling the air bags, but allows certain electronics, like the radio, to run.) The terms of the settlement are confidential.
In other instances, G.M. ignored repeated calls, families said. "We did call G.M.," said Leslie Dueno, whose 18-year-old son, Christopher Hamberg, was killed on June 12, 2009 — not quite a month after the critical May 15 meeting of G.M. engineers about the ignition data — driving his 2007 Cobalt home before dawn in Houston. He lost control at 45 miles per hour and hit a curb, then a tree, the police report said. "Nobody ever called me. They never followed up. Ever."
Last month's recalls of the Cobalt and five other models encompassed model years 2003 through 2007. G.M. faces numerous investigations, including one by the Justice Department looking into the company's disclosures in its 2009 bankruptcy filing as well as what it told regulators.
In the bankruptcy agreement, G.M. was shielded from liability for accidents that occurred before July 10, 2009.
"We are conducting an unsparing, comprehensive review of the circumstances leading to the ignition switch recall," G.M. said in a statement on Monday. "As part of that review we are examining previous claims and our response to them. If anything changes as a result of our review, we will promptly bring that to the attention of regulators."
G.M. has said it has evidence of 12 deaths tied to the switch problem, but it has declined to give details other than to say that they all occurred in 2009 or earlier. It says it has no conclusive evidence of more recent deaths tied to the switch.
Christopher Hamberg, 18, died in a Cobalt accident in June 2009.CreditHamberg Family
"We are doing our best to get this right, which means reviewing the data with care," the company said in its statement. "Not every Cobalt accident is a result of a faulty ignition switch. Accident claims and E.W.R." — Early Warning Reporting — "data are unique, with their own set of facts and other relevant factors. It is wrong to use this information on a speculative basis. Each requires additional analysis and this will be a part of our review."
It was unclear how many of the 26 deaths since the 2009 meeting were related to the faulty ignition, but some appeared to fit patterns that reflected the problem, such as an inexplicable loss of control or air bags that did not deploy. In some cases, the drivers had put themselves at risk, including having high blood-alcohol levels or texting.
Still, by the time Benjamin Hair, 20, crashed into a tree in Charlottesville, Va., on Dec. 13, 2009, while driving a Pontiac G5 home, G.M. had conducted five internal studies about the ignition problem, its records indicate.
Though Mr. Hair used his seatbelt, he died after the car's air bags failed to deploy. His parents were baffled. "The police couldn't tell us what caused the accident," said Brenda Hair, his mother. The Hairs contacted G.M., providing accident reports but no vehicle data, because the car's black box had been destroyed. "They came back and said they'd presented it to their board of engineers, and they couldn't say it was related" to a defect, Ms. Hair said.
By then, employees who knew about the switch problems ranged across the company, from its legal offices at headquarters in Detroit to its test tracks and research labs outside the city. G.M. lawyers had known of one fatal Cobalt accident in 2005, and had settled or worked on several cases. G.M.'s sales department had issued two service bulletins to dealers related to faulty switches, advising them to tell customers to drive without heavy key chains that could jostle the ignition and shut down the car.
On the manufacturing side, the ignition switch as well as the key had been modified for new cars in the middle of model production in late 2006 or early 2007, — an unusual move for such a high-volume part.
G.M.'s Own Findings vs. Drivers' Experiences
A timeline maps internal findings by General Motors and driver experiences.
By the summer of 2010, G.M. had ended production of Cobalts. Around the same time, three company representatives traveled to a scrapyard in Scranton, Pa., to remove the black box from a 2005 Cobalt that crashed in January 2010, killing Kelly Erin Ruddy, 21. Her mother, Mary, accompanied them. A few days later, on Aug. 4, Mrs. Ruddy received a voice mail message from a G.M. claims administrator named Jemeia Price. In the message, which Mary Ruddy played for a reporter, Ms. Price said that though she had spoken with Ms. Ruddy before, she would not be able to speak again.
"Unfortunately, if you happen to leave me any more messages I won't be returning those calls," said the voice mail. "All communication needs to go through your attorney."
The Ruddys never sued the company, Ms. Ruddy said, because their lawyer advised them that it would be an expensive and ultimately futile battle.
In the fall of 2013, months after an eighth internal study on the ignition issue had been issued, G.M. moved to cut off the flow of damaging depositions related to one accident by settling a wrongful-death suit. The suit had been brought by the family of Jennifer Brooke Melton, 29, who lost control of her 2005 Cobalt on a Georgia highway in March 2010 when the key moved to the accessory position, shutting down power and air bags.
When Lance Cooper, a lawyer for the Melton family, deposed Victor Hakim, a senior manager at G.M., Mr. Cooper read more than 80 customer complaints into the official record that were filed with G.M. beginning in 2005 about Cobalts that had unexpectedly stopped and stalled.
G.M. settled the case on Sept. 13. Under the terms of the settlement, the details are confidential.
That same month, lawyers representing G.M. wrote to the lawyer in another wrongful-death case demanding that the lawsuit be withdrawn. The family of Allen Ray Floyd had sued G.M. after Mr. Floyd lost control of a 2006 Cobalt in daylight near Loris, S.C. Two weeks earlier, his sister had lost control of the same vehicle on the same road; she had it towed. The company contended the suit was "frivolous" because the accident occurred on July 3, 2009, a week before the company's bankruptcy agreement took effect, which meant G.M. was not liable for damages.
Samantha Rowback lost control of the 2006 Cobalt that her brother, Allen Ray Floyd, died in two weeks later in 2009.CreditMark Courtney for The New York Times
"They sent us a letter in September telling us to drop our case or else they'd come after us," said William Jordan, the family's lawyer. "They were going to come after me for sanctions, to pay their attorneys' fees."
Mr. Jordan added: "We looked at the prospect of going into bankruptcy court and duking it out with them and looking at the language of the bankruptcy legislation, and it just seemed to be such a big undertaking. We decided to capitulate."
Consumer complaints and claims came to the company in a variety of ways — through lawsuits, calls, letters and emails, warranty claims, or insurance claims. G.M.'s legal staff was the recipient of lawsuits, insurance information, accident reports and any other litigation-related paperwork. But warranty claims and customer calls were routed through the sales and service division — a vast bureaucracy that occupies most of one tower at G.M.'s headquarters in Detroit. Because the legal staff reports to the chief executive, and the sales department to the head of G.M. North America, it is unclear whether they share information related to a specific car, like the Cobalt.
And an even bigger communication gap on the Cobalt appeared to exist between the engineers in Warren, Mich., and the company lawyers in downtown Detroit. The most glaring example was that G.M. officials meeting with federal regulators in March 2007 did not know about a fatal Cobalt wreck in 2005 — even though G.M.'s legal department had had an open file on the case for almost two years.
Within the product development system was an isolated, subgroup of engineers assigned to Cobalt safety tests. According to the chronology G.M. has submitted to federal safety regulators, an unknown number of engineers were involved in opening — and closing — four separate inquiries on the Cobalt between 2004 and 2009. Engineers also performed four other analyses.
By the end of 2007, G.M. had examined data from nine "sensing and diagnostic modules" of crashed vehicles. In four cases, the ignition was in the accessory position. But it was not until May 15, 2009, that G.M. engineers verified the data. That day, they met with officials from its supplier Continental, which manufactured the Cobalt's diagnostic modules, or black boxes. By then G.M. had recovered 14 modules, and according to Continental, the ignition was in the accessory position on seven of the 14 cases. This appears to be the first proven link between a faulty switch and deactivated air bags.
Samantha Rowback's brother, Allen Ray Floyd, died in a Cobalt accident in July 2009.CreditCourtesy Samantha Rowback
There is no indication that the engineers shared this finding with supervisors or executives. One reason may have been distraction: Two weeks later, the company filed for bankruptcy.
After more study, by Oct. 29, 2013, G.M. could no longer ignore that something was very wrong with the switches.
G.M. officials met that day with the supplier Delphi. Records showed beyond any doubt that substandard ignition switches had been made for the Cobalt at a Delphi plant from 2004 to late 2006. The part had been changed, and every switch made before the change was potentially a fatal accident waiting to happen.
Confirmation of the change was presented on Dec. 17 to the senior Field Performance Evaluation Review Committee, a group so powerful that Mary T. Barra, the head of global product development who was named chief executive a month later, knew of the meeting.
Yet it was not for another six weeks, on Jan. 31, that the review committee directed a recall. And still another two weeks, Feb. 13, before G.M. announced that it was recalling 778,000 vehicles for a safety defect. The number of vehicles was more than doubled to 1.6 million on Feb. 24.
In recent weeks, the parents of Benjamin Hair, the 20-year-old from Virginia killed in December 2009, received a postcard from G.M. announcing the recall. It was one of dozens of letters about their son's car that the company has sent since the crash.
"How many times do I have to tell them?" his mother said. "We don't have the car, and we don't have our son."
Rachel Abrams and Kitty Bennett contributed reporting.
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Q: Evaluating the joint density of U=X and V=X+Y where X and Y are U~(0,1) I'm trying to solve a joint distribution problem with $X$ and $Y$ being distributed uniformly on $[0,1.]$ Then, $U=X$ and $V=X+Y$.
I know that $f_{(U,V)}(u,v)= \text{Jacobian} \cdot f_X(u)\cdot f_Y(v-u)$
My question is how to evaluate $f_Y(v-u)$. For a normal, exponential, poisson distribution the intuition on where to plug in is clear. I'm guessing for the uniform, it doesn't matter what value is plugged into $f_Y$, because the pdf is flat?
EDIT: I've figured out the domain of the joint distribution, being $0{\leq}u{\leq}v{\leq}u+1{\leq}2$
This gives rise to a parallelogram on $(U,V)$ bounded by $0{\leq}v{\leq}2$ and $0{\leq}u{\leq}1$, and more specifically bounded by lines $v{\leq}u+1$ and $u{\leq}v$.
I worked out the Jacobian to be 1.
But still, for evaluating $f_Y(v-u)$ and $f_X(u)$, I don't see the connection. I know that in the end,  $f_{(U,V)}(u,v)= 1$ on the domain I defined above, but still not quite sure how to get there.

A: In the problem statement, it seems that the independence of $X$ and $Y$ is assumed. Therefore, the joint density $f_{(X,Y)}$ of $(X,Y)$ is the product of the marginal densities $f_{X}$ and $f_{Y}$, i.e.
\begin{aligned}
f_{(X,Y)}(x,y) &= f_{X}(x)\, f_{Y}(y) \\
&= \boldsymbol{1}_{[0,1]}(x) \, \boldsymbol{1}_{[0,1]}(y) \, .
\end{aligned}
The random variable $(X,Y)$ is uniformly distributed over the square $[0,1]\times [0,1]$.
Since the Jacobian of the transformation $(X,Y) \mapsto (X,X+Y)$ is equal to one, the change of variable formula writes
\begin{aligned}
f_{(U,V)}(u,v) &= f_{(X,Y)}(u,v-u)\\
&= \boldsymbol{1}_{[0,1]}(u) \, \boldsymbol{1}_{[0,1]}(v-u) \, .
\end{aligned}
The random variable $(U,V)$ is uniformly distributed over a parallelogram $(\mathcal {P})$, defined by
$$
(\mathcal{P}):\qquad 0\leq u\leq 1 \quad\text{and} \quad u\leq v \leq 1+u \, .
$$

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Amherst protest demands end to U.S. occupation of Iraq
by Bryan G. Pfeifer
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Phone: (413) 549-3545	 10 Nov 2004
AMHERST, MA -- Beginning at UMass Amherst's Haigis Mall over 100 students and allies marched to the downton Common Nov. 9 for an anti-war, anti-racist march demanding the progressive struggle continue after the presidential election and that the ongoing U.S. massacre in Falluja and occupation of Iraq end immediately.
Amherst protest demands end to U.S. occuaption of Iraq
Continue the struggle after the election say protesters
This protest was one of dozens around the U.S. Nov. 9 to demand an end to the horrendous U.S. attacks (war crimes) on Iraq civilians and guerilla fighters in Falluja and throughout Iraq.
Marching through downtown Amherst the protesters carried placards such as "Bring the troops home now," chanted "Money for Jobs and not for war," "Occupation is a crime: From Iraq to Palestine" and other slogans. After a speakout at the Common, which included a call to support the Jan. 20 counterinaugural in Washington D.C., the protesters decided to take over the main town intersection for over half an hour hoisting banners and placards and chanting loudly from a bullhorn passed through the crowd. Many passersby supported the anti-war message beeping horns and shouting words of encouragement.
The protest was sponsored by Hampshire College's Student Action and included members of Food Not Bombs, the Graduate Employee Organziation, UAW Local 2322, the International Socialist Organization-UMass Amherst, the Socialist Party, Take Back UMass, the UMass Anti-War Coalition, Western Mass International Action Center, Workers World Party and various anarchist organizations.
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Re: Amherst protest demands end to U.S. occupation of Iraq
by Richard Maciaszczyk
richardmaci (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified)	 10 Nov 2004
Where is the public outcry against this barbaric war? Why are we not marching in the streets of the major cities, let alone 100 brave souls in Amherst, to voice our collective outrage against a government that no longer represents our beliefs and ideals? We can longer sit idle in our comfortable suburban homes, waiting for our neighbor's children, or our own, to be sacrificed for the greed of others. Until we march, and shout, we are the true cowards. Wake up America!
slaughterhouse discovered
by bet
(No verified email address)	 10 Nov 2004
NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - Iraqi troops have found "hostage slaughterhouses" in Fallujah where foreign captives were held and killed, the commander of Iraqi forces in the city said Wednesday.
Troops found CDs and records of people taken captive in houses in the northern part of Fallujah, Maj. Gen. Abdul Qader Mohammed Jassem Mohan told reporters.
"We have found hostage slaughterhouses in Fallujah that were used by these people and the black clothing that they used to wear to identify themselves, hundreds of CDs and whole records with names of hostages," the general said at a military camp near Fallujah.
He was unsure if the hostage records included the names of any of the at least nine foreigners still in the hands of kidnappers — most notably, British aid worker Margaret Hassan, French journalists Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot and an unidentified American worker for a Saudi company.
Liberate Fallujah from its Foreign Occupiers!
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"Iraqi troops have found 'hostage slaughterhouses' in Fallujah where foreign captives were held and killed"
I see. Like Guantanamo. Or Abu Ghraib. Or a Texas prison. These Iraqis learn the tactics of their occupiers pretty quickly.
Good luck to Iraq's freedom fighters.
Viva la Fallujah!
"Mr. President. A hundred people are protesting in Amherst."
"Amherst? Not Amherst! You must be joking? Get me Rumsfeld on the phone. We'll have our boys back by Christmas."


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During the mid-1950s, thirty-six obsolescent B-50Ds were stripped of their armament and equipped for long-range weather reconnaissance missions using meteorological equipment such as high-altitude atmospheric samplers, doppler radar, and weather radar. A bomb bay fuel tank was provided for extended range. These conversions were designated WB-50D. They were intended to replace weary WB-29s which were beginning to suffer from extensive corrosion.
The modification contract was assigned to the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. The WB-50D carried improved equipment and instrumentation to adapt it to the weather mission. This included the AN/APN-82 Automatic Navigator, which was a radar navigation device capable of measuring drift and ground speed, the ANQ-7 temperature humidity indicator, the ML-313 Psychrometer, and improved altimeters and flight indicators. The new equipment proved more difficult to install than expected, and Lockheed could not meet the original schedules.
The first modified WB-50D flew on August 20, 1955, and the first example was delivered to the Air Weather Service in November of that year. Many WB-50Ds also had an air sampling system installed with a distinctive scoop mounted on the top aft part of the fuselage. This was used for weather data gathering, but it was also used to measure airboarne radioactive fallout after above-ground nuclear tests conducted by other countries.
The WB-50Ds served for a much longer period than expected. In 1960, after several fuel cells failed in flight, 28 WB-50Ds were temporarily grounded until the problem could be corrected. In the event, most WB-50Ds were retrofitted with new or surplus fuel cells. One WB-50D (49-310) was given the temporary designation of JB-50D while being used for experimental work.
WB-50Ds continued to serve into the 1960s. Phaseout of the WB-50D began in late 1963. The last WB-50D (49-310) was retired in 1967.
Serials of WB-50D:
48-073/082	Boeing B-50D-85-BO Superfortress
c/n 15882/15891
073 modified as WB-50D weather recon aircraft.
48-0103/0112	Boeing B-50D-100-BO Superfortress
105,108 modified as WB-50D weather recon
aircraft.
113,116,121,124 modified as WB-50D weather
recon aircraft.
260,261,264,266,281,284/288,291 converted to
WB-50D weather recon aircraft.
296,298,300,302,304,310,311,313,324 converted
to WB-50D weather recon aircraft.
WB-50D #49-310 temporarily designated JB-50D
while used for experimental work.
49-0310 is on display at WPAFB Museum.
0332,0333,0337,0341,0345,0351 converted to
0371 and 0375 converted to WB-50D weather recon
Boeing Aircraft Since 1916, Peter M. Bowers, Naval Institute Press, 1989.
E-mail from Pat Hanavan on AN/APN-82.
USAF Museum website, http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=2651


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Erik den Breejen's paintings have been exhibited internationally and are in collections throughout the world, including the Kistefos Collection in Norway. Den Breejen's public projects include a two-story mural commission for Atlantic Records' New York City headquarters and a commission for Public Art for Public Schools to be installed at PS24Q in Flushing, Queens in August, 2018. While at MacDowell, Erik continued work on his "Subliminal Message"s and "Stereo Paintings" series for his next solo show. He is a 2015 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Painting.
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Mistakes of 2021 being repeated, unnecessary medication should be avoided: Doctors write to govt
"Most prescriptions we have reviewed in the past two weeks include several COVID-19 "kits" and cocktails. The prescribing of vitamin combinations, azithromycin, doxycycline, hydroxychloroquine, favipiravir and ivermectin for treating COVID-19 is irrational practice," said the doctors.
As many as 32 prominent doctors from India and abroad have written a letter to the Union as well as state governments and warned about "inappropriate" diagnostic methods and medications being used to deal with the current wave of the coronavirus pandemic. "Wanton use of drugs" can be harmful, as seen during the earlier two waves of the pandemic, they warned in the open letter. "Despite the weight of available evidence and the crushing death toll of the delta wave, we find the mistakes of the 2021 response being repeated in 2022 during the clinical management of COVID-19. We urge you to intervene to stop the use of medications and diagnostics that are inappropriate for clinical management of COVID-19," the letter said.
The "vast majority of patients" who are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms will require little or no medication, it said. "Most prescriptions we have reviewed in the past two weeks include several COVID-19 "kits" and cocktails. The prescribing of vitamin combinations, azithromycin, doxycycline, hydroxychloroquine, favipiravir and ivermectin for treating COVID-19 is irrational practice," said the doctors. Outbreaks of fungal infections like mucormycosis in India and aspergillosis in Brazil were attributed to the widespread abuse of inappropriate medications, the letter pointed out. It also said that most COVID-19 patients will need no additional tests after the initial positive rapid antigen or PCR test, except, in some cases, home monitoring of oxygen levels.
The Omicron variant can infect even those who had contracted the infection earlier or who are vaccinated, but the "mortality" will be lower among these patients, it said. "However, CT scans and a battery of laboratory tests like d-dimer and IL-6 are routinely being prescribed by practitioners across the country in asymptomatic and mild cases, placing undue financial burden on families," the letter said. Patients are being admitted to hospitals "without clinical justification," which adds to such burden and also leads to non-COVID patients not getting hospital bed in emergency, it warned. The government as well as medical associations must put an end to such practises, the letter said. The signatories to the letter included Dr Sanjay Nagral of Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai; Dr Cyriac Abby Phillips, the Liver Institute, Rajagiri Hospital, Kerala; Dr Rajani Bhat, Bengaluru; Dr Bharat Gopal, Delhi and Dr Richa Gupta, Christian Medical College, Vellore. The group also included some Indian-origin doctors living in the US and Canada.
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Q: ActiveRecord::QueryCache#call slow on Heroku with pg:backups Lately we've had trouble on our Rais 4.2.7.1 app every night, we start seeing a bunch of really slow ActiveRecord::QueryCache#call calls even though our traffic is relatively low in the middle of the night:

We're running on Heroku using Puma and the app is very job heavy, for which we use Sidekiq. During the day it works fine but every night we get these spikes of extremely slow response times via the API that seem to originate with ActiveRecord::QueryCache#call.
The only thing I can find from our app that might be causing this is we have heroku pg:backups enabled, and the night of the above image the backup began running at 3:06 which is the exact time you see that first ActiveRecord::QueryCache#call spike in the newrelic graph. The backup finished an hour later, however (around the biggest spike), but as you can see the spikes continued until around 5am.
Could this be caused by pg:backups? (Our database is about 19GB), or could it be something else entirely? Is there a good way to avoid this cache call or speed it up? I don't fully understand WHY it would be so slow or exist at all in the transaction list. Any recommendations?

A: Funnily enough, we've been investigating this lately after seeing similar behaviour. There is a definite performance hit caused by pg:backups on large databases. Notice the big spike just after 1am, when backup kicks in:

DB size is >100GB
It's not that surprising, and in fact Heroku do have documentation on this, which suggests that you should only use pg:backups for databases under 20GB.
For larger databases, creating a follower and taking the backup from that is preferable. Annoyingly for high availability databases, it doesn't appear that you can read from the standby.

I can't shed much light on ActiveRecord::QueryCache though, so the rest of this post is speculation, and maybe the starting point for further investigation. Happy to delete/amend if someone more knowledgable can weigh in :-)
Heroku's docs do say that the backup process will evict well cached data from non-Postgres caches, so this could represent your workers repopulating that cache many times over.
It may also be worth having a look at this. Could your workers be reusing connections and receiving dirty query caches?


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Jansky and her team of 35 registered nurses, therapists, social workers and home health aides make about 1,600 home visits each month to those who need skilled nursing or physical therapy in their home.
"It's very sad to see patients receive gifts of expensive perfume or cardigans that they may never enjoy because they can't open the bottle or unbutton the buttons," Jansky said. "These are the items I recommend regularly and are used and appreciated every day," she said.
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Rollator - $160. A luxurious walker with high-quality wheels and brakes, a basket for shopping and a handy bench to stop and rest.
Accessible bathroom aids - $27-$100. Hand-held water sprayers, toilet-seat benches and bathtub safety rails may look insignificant in their box but install them in the bathroom and you have created a safe haven that will be used, well, regularly.
"You might also ask a caregiver or health professional who cares for them to suggest something," Jansky said. "Hearing aids, special compression stockings and orthotic shoe inserts may not sound glamorous. However, they may really need these things and many people are reluctant to spend money on items that their insurance might not fully cover."
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A floresta estacional semidecidual constitui uma vegetação pertencente ao bioma da Mata Atlântica (Mata Atlântica do Interior), ocasionalmente também no Cerrado, sendo típica do Brasil Central e condicionada a dupla estacionalidade climática: uma estação com chuvas intensas de verão, seguidas por um período de estiagem. É constituída por fanerófitos com gemas foliares protegidas da seca por escamas (catáfilos ou pelos), tendo folhas adultas esclerófilas ou membranáceas deciduais. O grau de decidualidade, ou seja, a perda das folhas é dependente da intensidade e duração de basicamente duas razões: as temperaturas mínimas máximas e a deficiência do balanço hídrico. A porcentagem das árvores caducifólias no conjunto florestal, é de 20-50%.

Localiza-se no norte e oeste do Paraná, região do terceiro planalto, onde apresenta neossolo, argissolo, latossolo e cambissolo.

Também está amplamente distribuída na porção Sul do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul, entremeada entre campos até o paralelo 21º, em que aparece nas matas ciliares, sendo chamada Floresta Estacional Semidecidual Aluvial.

Terminologia

De acordo com Rodrigues (1999), a floresta estacional semidecidual (IBGE, 1993) corresponde aproximadamente às designações:
 floresta pluvial subtropical (Wettstein, 1904)
 matas pluviais do interior (Campos, 1912)
 floresta latifoliada semidecídua tropical (Kuhlmann, 1956)
 floresta pluvial estacional tropical do planalto centro-sul (Veloso, 1962)
 floresta mesófila semidecídua (Rizzini, 1963)
 floresta estacional sub-caducifolia ou tropical (Andrade-Lima, 1966)
 floresta semidecídua de planalto (Eiten, 1970)
 matas foliadas subtropicais (Hueck, 1972)
 floresta estacional semidecídua submontana (Veloso e Góes Filho, 1982)
 floresta latifolia semicaducifólia ou mata de planalto (Leitão Filho, 1982)
 Mata de Cipó.

Tipos
Para fins apenas de delimitar regiões de estudo há uma divisão altimétrica do IBGE (2012):
 floresta estacional semidecidual aluvional: mais freqüente no Pantanal
 floresta estacional semidecidual de terras baixas: do Rio Grande do Norte ao rio de Janeiro, caracteriza-se pelo gênero africano Caesalpinia, inclusive o pau-brasil
 floresta estacional semidecidual submontana: do Espírito Santo ao Paraná, entrando pelos estados do interior, nos planaltos e nas serras da Mantiqueira e dos Órgãos
 floresta estacional semidecidual montana; pouca área, como em Itatiaia e Roraima

Algumas autores indicam ainda um quinto tipo, a floresta estacional semidecidual costeira (ou Mata dos Tabuleiros), presente ao longo da costa leste do Brasil, principalmente entre os estados da Bahia e Rio de Janeiro.

Flora
Dominam os gêneros amazônicos de distribuição brasileira:

 Astronium
 Cariniana
 Lecythis
 Parapiptadenia
 Peltophorum

Conservação

A Mata Atlântica do Interior é das ecorregiões da Mata Atlântica que se encontra em pior estado de conservação. O maior trecho (cerca de 471.204km²) de floresta estacional semidecidual fazia parte da ecorregião da Floresta Atlântica do Alto Paraná (ou Selva Paranaense). Ela se estendia desde o Noroeste Paulista até o sudeste do Paraguai e província argentina de Misiones. É notável que o grau de fragmentação dessa floresta foi tamanho, que no Brasil resta apenas 2,7% da cobertura original (cerca de 7.716km²), que tem no Parque Estadual Morro do Diabo, no Parque Nacional do Iguaçu e no Parque Estadual do Turvo, seus maiores trechos bem conservados. Na realidade, a maior parte dos remanescentes dessa floresta, se localiza na província argentina de Misiones, com cerca de 11.230km². No Paraguai, existem 11.523km², que representam apenas 13,5% da cobertura original.
Deve-se salientar, que a situação das florestas no Brasil é a mais crítica. A maior parte dos remanescentes de floresta do interior paulista, por exemplo, não ultrapassa 10hectares. Para que um fragmento seja considerado grande, e que abrigue espécies significativas do bioma, como grandes mamíferos (como a onça-pintada), ele precisa ter no mínimo 10.000hectares (100km²). No interior de São Paulo, o único fragmento que tem área maior de 10.000hectares é o Parque Estadual Morro do Diabo. No estado do Rio Grande do Sul, esse tipo de vegetação foi reduzido 4,26% (cerca de 2.102,75km²) da cobertura original.

Ver também
 Floresta estacional

Bibliografia
 Ramos, V. S.; Durigan, G.; Franco, G. A. D. C.; Siqueira, M. F. Árvores da floresta estacional semidecidual: guia de identificação de espécies. São Paulo: EDUSP; Biota/FAPESP, 2008. 320 p., .

Florestas do Brasil
Mata Atlântica
Amazônia

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"I am trying not to think about the final too much, so I don't get nervous"
BENJAMIN URQUIZA WITH POLOLINE
The prestigious Queen's Cup, played at Guards Polo Club, comes to an end on Sunday. Eight players have the chance of winning the title and accepting the trophy from Her Majesty The Queen—one of them is Argentine Benjamín Uquiza, who has represented Park Place since he played the Prince of Wales Trophy with them.
"The team is in good shape," says twenty-nine year old Urquiza. "We want to win, which I think is very important. Hopefully we will be able to play our best on the day. I still can't believe that we have made the final of such an important tournament. I am trying not to think about the final too much, so I don't get nervous."
Urquiza, in the days running up to his first English high goal final, shared with PoloLine that his earliest memories of the Queen's Cup always revolved around the fact that "Cambiaso or Facundo almost always ended up winning it."
Andrey Borodin's organisation had originally announced that South African Byron Watson would complete their line-up, but in the end Urquiza was put in at Back instead. The Argentine was already in England playing the medium goal. "I got a call at the start of the season to see if I would fit in the team, and luckily it worked out," explains Urquiza. "I have ten horses in England, and I play the 18-goal with Four Quarters. This is my sixth year with them. In Argentina, I get a lot of help from my father and my brothers. They work hard to help me out with the horses."
What can you tell us about the organisation at Park Place?
Park Place is one of the best organisations in the high goal. They really work to make sure that every person on the team can give their best. That was what surprised me the most.
How did you feel after winning the semifinal against La Indiana, and receiving so many positive messages?
I have always watched the best players in the world playing these types of finals, and I can't believe that now I get to share the field with them. I have received so much support, and knowing that I have so many friends cheering me on in Argentina makes me very happy.
It was on Wednesday that Park Place beat last year's rivals La Indiana, the team that stole the 2018 Queen's Cup title from right under their nose. It was a tough match, but thanks to their personality and well thought-out plays, Park Place managed to secure a solid advantage in the fourth. La Indiana started to make a comeback in the final two chukkas, but Park Place held their ground. Now, only Scone stands before them and the title. "I think the final will be determined by the team that has the most discipline, that will be the key to the game," says Urquiza.
Both Park Place and Scone boast several advantages, beyond their pony power and the talent of their players. Park Place has three of the 2018 Queen's Cup finalists in their line-up, while Scone has the dynamic Beim-Harper duo, winners of last year's Gold Cup. "The match really could go either way," affirms Urquiza.
He concludes: "Obviously this is the best moment of my career so far. I hope to be able to continue improving and have the chance to play at this level more often. But now I am focused on Sunday; I'll have time to think about the future later."


There are three different ways through which you can become a forex trader. You can trade your own money, leverage your money through proprietary trading firms, or you can go work for an institutional money manager and work in trading other investors' money.
One of the most common methods for becoming a forex trader is to trade your own money with your own equipment and with your own strategies, often in your own home. Going it alone has many advantages in that you're not held down by a daily schedule, and free to trade your own money as you see fit, since any loss comes out of your own pile of cash.
Unfortunately, going it alone is one of the worst ways to jump into making a living with forex. In fact, most people who enter the forex market end up losing significant amounts of money anyway, but those who enter the market without the support of a firm rarely have the resources or time to invest in understanding the market. However, that said, many other investors find that going it alone means they can invest after working a forty-hour workweek for someone else, and trade after market closing times in the United States.
Proprietary firms, or prop firms, are those in which the company hires new members to invest their own capital after learning how to trade the markets using a "proprietary" trading system or technique owned by the firm. This method for becoming a forex trader has benefits in that you'll learn how to trade profitably and be enabled to trade with far more than your own finances could allow you to trade.
Often, those who successfully pass the entrance tests and interview rounds are given accounts with as much as $10 million in buying power. The applicant will then put up a small amount of his or her own money so as to show the firm that he is as invested into the concept as the firm is. Generally, profits on the larger amount of money are returned on commission to the trader. Traders have downside risk in that there isn't much to lose in the firm putting up much of the starting amount. However, traders do have risk in that poor performance is sure to cut any trader's time on the markets short. Having provided poor returns, the prospect for future hiring as a trader is very limited.
Forex traders often work for money managers, where they use their own insight and knowledge to produce profits for a firm. The firm they work for often solicits investor capital from high net worth individuals before allocating it among the many forex traders who work at the firm. The idea here is that each trader is allowed to trade how they see fit, using their own techniques and knowledge, and the firm's risk management professionals help decide how investment dollars are spread among the trading talent.
It is not unheard of for forex traders to make millions of dollars per year working in direct relationship with money managers who raise capital on their behalf. These trading jobs are the best one can find, and often require years of experience and a solid track record in consistent, market-beating returns before being hired. You can reasonably expect to receive an annual salary in the low six-figures with an annual bonus equal to a share of the returns over and beyond the benchmark performance. One very successful trader is George Soros, who used some of his companies own funds to make more than $1 billion in a series of forex trades.


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Special kudos to Rob Ida, Mike Tucker, Sean Tucker, Bob Ida, John Tucker Jr., the Ida Automotive Tucker Team (Russ Montelbano, Artie Zygnerski and Gerard Moringiello) and Bruce Devlin and his upholstery crew (Bob Reese and Phil Tuey).
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Congratulations on the completion of your Tucker. Just, absolutely, fantastic!
Good luck at Pebble Beach! All your friends at Newsday are routing for you!
I just wanted to say Thank You from the Tucker fans across the United States for supporting this project that is now heading west. The combination of the Ida's and Tucker's talents are simply amazing, the partnership is pretty special in the Tucker world. We are sure there are many other talented folks that have been involved too, as the length of time of this restoration has been rather short. Howard you chose a great group, we are grateful for your support of the Tucker cause. Enjoy Pebble Beach.


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News 14 April 2021, 16:24
Ukrainian airlines' passenger volumes reduced by 44% during this period.
The volume of passenger traffic through Ukrainian airports reduced by 54.3% to 1.840 million in the first three months of 2021, compared with the corresponding period of 2020.
This is stated in the latest data from the State Aviation Service of Ukraine, the CFTS portal reports.
According to the data, Ukrainian airports handled 1.617 million passengers on international flights during the first three months of 2021, a 55.4% reduction compared with the corresponding period of 2020.
Ukrainian airlines carried 1.089 million passengers in the first three months of 2021 (43.9% fewer than they carried in the corresponding period of 2020). They carried 0.980 million passengers on international flights (43.9% fewer compared with the corresponding period of 2020).
Ukrainian airlines operated 10,300 commercial flights in the first three months of 2021 (a 37.6% reduction compared with the corresponding period of 2020), including 7,900 international flights (42.7% reduction).
As reported earlier, the Kharkiv airport recorded an increase in passenger traffic in March, the first increase since the beginning of the quarantine. The Boryspil international airport handled 1,206,411 passengers in the first three months of 2021, a 50% reduction compared with 2,436,875 in the corresponding period of 2020.
Tags: avia, airport, passenger
UIA Announces Dates Of Resumption Of Direct Flights To New York And Toronto
Antonov To Supply An-32P Firefighting Aircraft To State Emergency Service
Kyiv Airport Reports Passenger Traffic Volume For 2021


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Fukuzawa Yukichi (, Osaka, 10 de gener de 1835- Tòquio, 3 de febrer de 1901) fou un escriptor i filòsof polític japonès, les idees del qual sobre el govern i les institucions socials van ser de gran influència al Japó durant l'Era Meiji.

Biografia

Pertanyia a una família samurai de rang modest. La seva mare va enviudar quan ell era un bebè i van haver de viure en la pobresa. Als catorze anys, va ingressar a l'Escola d'estudis neerlandesos (Rangaku), i en 1853, poc després de l'arribada del comodor Matthew Perry al Japó, el seu germà (el patriarca de la família) li va demanar que viatgés a Nagasaki, on es trobava la colònia neerlandesa a Dejima. Se li va indicar que aprengués el neerlandès a fi i efecte d'estudiar el disseny dels canons europeus i les tècniques d'artilleria.

Si bé Fukuzawa va viatjar a Nagasaki, la seva estada va ser curta, ja que va descobrir que els erudits neerlandesos que hi havia allà treballaven amb informació antiquada. Va planejar viatjar a Edo per continuar amb els seus estudis allà, però tot just retornat a Osaka el seu germà el va persuadir perquè s'hi quedés i ingressés a l'escola Tekijuku, dirigida pel metge i erudit rangaku Ogata Koan. Va estudiar a l'Escola Tekijuku durant tres anys, i va arribar a dominar el neerlandès. En 1858, va ser designat professor oficial de neerlandès al domini de la seva família, (Nakatsu, Ōita) i va ser enviat a Edo per ensenyar als vassalls de la família residents allà.

L'any següent, Japó va obrir tres dels seus ports perquè fossin utilitzats per vaixells europeus i nord-americans, i Fukuzawa, intrigat per la cultura occidental, va viatjar a Kanagawa només per veure'ls. Quan va arribar, es va adonar que gairebé tots els mercaders europeus aquí presents parlaven anglès i no neerlandès. Va començar a estudiar l'anglès, una iniciativa força meritòria, ja que en aquella època els intèrprets d'anglès eren escassos i els diccionaris no existien. En conseqüència, el seu progrés va ser bastant lent.

El Shogunat Tokugawa va decidir enviar emissaris estatals del shogun als Estats Units, i Fukuzawa es va oferir com a voluntari a l'Almirall Kimura Yoshitake. Van arribar a San Francisco, Califòrnia en 1860, a bord del Kanrin Maru. La delegació es va quedar a la ciutat durant un mes. Mentre estava allà, Fukuzawa va trobar un exemplar del Diccionari Webster, amb el qual va començar a estudiar seriosament l'anglès. En tornar al Japó, el 1860, va esdevenir el traductor oficial del shogunat, i poc temps després va publicar el seu primer llibre, un diccionari anglès- japonès, que rebé el títol de "Kaei Tsūgo", i amb el qual va començar una sèrie de publicacions.

En 1862 va visitar Europa, com un dels dos traductors que van acompanyar la delegació de 40 homes enviada pel shōgun Tokugawa, i en 1867 va visitar de nou els Estats Units. Es va dedicar a recopilar informació durant aquells viatges, que més tard va usar per redactar la seva famosa obra Seiyo Jijo (Condicions a Occident), publicada en deu volums entre 1867 i 1870. Els llibres descrivien la cultura i institucions mitjançant termes senzills i fàcils d'entendre, raó per la qual va vendre molts exemplars. En poc temps, Fukuzawa va ser considerat com un preeminent expert sobre tot allò relacionat amb Occident, motiu pel qual va decidir que la seva missió en la vida era ensenyar als seus compatriotes noves formes de pensar, que al seu torn, enfortirien al Japó i li permetrien resistir l'amenaça de l'imperialisme europeu.

Obres
Entre 1872 i 1876 va publicar en 17 volums la seva obra Gakumon no Susume. En aquests textos, Fukuzawa ressalta tant la importància de comprendre el principi d'igualtat com la importància de l'estudi (segons ell, l'estudi era la clau de la grandesa). Va ser un àvid defensor d'aquest últim aspecte, i conseqüentment va fundar la Universitat de Keiō.

També a Gakumon no Susume va expressar el seu principi més durador: la "independència nacional a través de la independència personal". Segons Fukuzawa, mitjançant la independència personal es creava una moral social autodeterminada, que inspiraria un sentit de fortalesa personal al poble japonès, i donaria lloc a la construcció d'una nació capaç de rivalitzar amb les altres. A més, sempre va predicar la revolució espiritual en lloc d'una vana imitació d'Occident.

Fukuzawa també va publicar molts assajos influents i treballs crítics, entre ells Bunmeiron no Gairyaku, un compendi publicat a 1875, en el qual detalla la seva pròpia teoria de la civilització. En ell afirmava que la civilització és relativa al temps i les circumstàncies, per mitjà de comparacions. Així, per exemple, la Xina era relativament civilitzada en comparació amb algunes colònies africanes, mentre que les nacions europees eren les més avançades, però, en aquella època.

Va ser criticat temps després per donar suport l'imperialisme japonès, fonamentalment per la seva actitud favorable cap a la Primera Guerra Sinojaponesa i pel seu assaig Datsu-A Ron, publicat el 1885. El fet que Fukuzawa adoptés aquestes postures fou per causa de les seves opinions sobre la modernització. Com molts dels seus amics del govern, ell creia que la modernització a l'Àsia només podia aconseguir-se a través de la força. Considerava tant a la Xina com a Corea països antiquats, amb principis arcaics i immutables que mai no podrien canviar pels seus propis mitjans, i que inevitablement no podrien suportar el poder de les nacions occidentals. Per això, Fukuzawa, que no volia que el Japó tingués una sort similar, els veia com a països decadents.

Llegat

Les idees de Fukuzawa sobre la fortalesa individual i el seu coneixement de la teoria política occidental, plasmades en els seus llibres, van ser determinants a l'hora de motivar al poble japonès perquè adoptés la modernització. Mai no va acceptar una posició governamental, i es va mantenir com un ciutadà comú durant tota la seva vida, i quan va morir, va ser reverenciat com un dels fundadors del Japó modern. També és considerat com un dels líders del moviment d'Il·lustració Meiji.

A més, la imatge de Fukuzawa Yukichi apareix en el bitllet de 10.000 iens. La seva antiga residència situada a Nakatsu, en la Prefectura d'Ōita, va ser designada com a patrimoni nacional, i és en l'actualitat una atracció turística.

Enllaços externs

 Història detallada Publicada per la UNESCO.

Filòsofs japonesos
Escriptors japonesos en japonès
Professors de filologia
Professors de la Universitat de Keiō
Escriptors d'Osaka
Morts a Tòquio
Morts d'hemorràgia intracranial
Filòlegs asiàtics


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So, it's not only S912 problem… Can it be "fixed" like in S912 via advancedsettings.xml?
I ask because if not, it's pretty useless to me since I depend on the subtitles.
Does it stutter only with hardware decoding, like S912, or is it manifested also with software decoding?
I was the one who brought this issue up, and we haven't had time to really look at this subs problem yet. We hope it's something we can fix in Kodi.
Didn't know this was an issue when I ordered the N2, I also have subtitles on everything I watch, really hope you could move this issue up the list. Crossing fingers it can be done.
We are not sure whether or not it is a pebkac issue or a problem with certain encodes as not everybody has come across this issue.
You can see from the video I have posted that no such issue exists.
Those look like image based subs, TheCoolest mention those might not have issues.
99% of my library is .srt text subs.
We are talking about a completely new device and kernel.
The team works around the clock to solve all problems, and I'm very sure, that the subtitle problem will be adressed, too.
But always keep in mind, that these are still alpha builds. You can't expect it to work without any problems at this stage, although most of the devs already use it as their daily driver.
No @TheCoolest is having issues with image/picture based subs, the above video was srt/text based subs.
We will know more when more people start receiving their orders and can help us with debugging as we are likely to see many more issues arise in the coming days.
I'd also like to add that I'm using subs 99% of the time and I don't have stutters with subs either. I'm using mkv embedded subs and also external subs. Still there is also the chance that there is some issue with certain content. We will fix it like we always do if there is an issue so there is no need to panic.
I was going to ask whether it makes a difference if they are embedded. I use mkvmerge to mux all mine then everything is in one file.
Subs are always on here(both internal and external depending on content), since the girlfriend has some issues hearing, and I have yet to see issues with sub titles on the N2 with any of my test builds.
I did a clean install of the latest image and it seems that the subs issue is not that severe and perhaps even normal now (I rarely use subs) for CE and other JEOS platforms.
Can you try this sample?
I can try it tomorrow night.
There's a very slight stutter when subs disappear, only saw it on text sub, PGS seemed fine to me.
If you don't pay attention, or aren't sensitive to this, you'll probably not even notice.
With the debug OSD open, there's no stutter at all. We'll investigate it further, but currently I think my original statement was more than a bit exaggerated.
This was not an issue with my NVIDIA Shield UNTIL LEIA update.
Bringing up OSD is shocking momentary stutter and so is subtitles.
Let's all remember that Leia still has issues in its current releases.
Everything that may seem a CoreELEC issue may actually be a Kodi Issue.
Just tried your sample file on N2,I didn't see noticeable stutter.
Live tv, When I brought out channel list, and selecting channels, I saw the noticeable micro stutter on odroid N2.
With the debug OSD open, there's no stutter at all.


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Q: convert factor to numeric shows coercion after using gsub The numbers the I have just don't add up correctly compared to excel and it is still showing NAs introduced by coercion after removing the commas and converting it to numeric. The numbers are way less than what it is in excel.
data$bigNumber <- as.numeric(gsub(",","",data$bigNumber ))
where
data$bigNumber <- c("552","513","1,512","1296","1,683","2,172","314","690","923","1,870","602","583","456","760","88","504","477","317","1,453","1,527")
Btw this is uploaded via a csv file if that matters

A: You should look at what is causing the error, probably some "funky numbers" in the data, as you say. You can do this by running the conversion, and then looking back at which values produced NA results. You should see clearly then what's causing the problem.
Here's your example dataset, with an intentional "funky number" thrown in.
data <- data.frame( bigNumber = c("552","513","1,512","12-96","1,683","2,172","314","690","923","1,870","602","583","456","760","88","504","477","317","1,453","1,527") )

Now we can create a vector in the same way as you've done, but without replacing the one we have on input:
bigNumTest <- as.numeric( gsub( ",", "", data$bigNumber ) )

Now, since there were NAs introduced, we can look at which values produced them.
data[ is.na( bigNumTest ), "bigNumber" ]

In this case, the output here is [1] "12-96", so we can see clearly that there's a hyphen causing the issue. We can fix that one issue or, if there's a common issue amongst the data (eg: lots of hyphens thrown in randomly where they shouldn't be), we can run an extra clarifying step to make sure the common issue is resolved before the numeric conversion (in this case it can be built into your existing gsub step):
data$bigNumber <- as.numeric( gsub( ",|-", "", data$bigNumber ) )

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NOTE: since you're doing a gsub conversion on your factor column before converting to numeric, you're coercing a character vector from the factors you had to begin with (based on your question title). As long as you're aware that this is a necessary step you're OK, but for anyone having trouble converting factors to numeric, please heed the warning in ?factor:

Warning
The interpretation of a factor depends on both the codes and the "levels" attribute. Be careful only to compare factors with the same set of levels (in the same order). In particular, as.numeric applied to a factor is meaningless, and may happen by implicit coercion. To transform a factor f to approximately its original numeric values, as.numeric(levels(f))[f] is recommended and slightly more efficient than as.numeric(as.character(f)).


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Scott and Maureen live high on a hill in a gated community. So much in their palatial home is overwrought, as if to compensate by excess for impoverishments nonmaterial. The children's room is jampacked with exquisite toys — an Art Deco mobile dangles planets of colored glass, pop-up books produce dragons and castles — but nowhere is their affluence more vividly displayed than in the tropical garden, the book's central, potent image. Here, banana trees and lush ferns thrive. Such profusion in the arid air of Southern California, a climate better suited to cactuses, owes its survival to Pepe, the Mexican gardener responsible for its maintenance. A foot-wide stream gushes forth with a flick of a switch. "La petite rain forest," Maureen has taken to calling it, a formulation that carries the whiff of cultural snobbery (Pepe would say pequeña).
No novel that purports to tell the truth about Los Angeles can avoid the theme of artifice. How fitting it is that the house with a fake stream in its fake tropical garden is situated on a street with a fake Spanish name. Paseo Linda Bonita is, we learn, a redundancy. (Translation: Beautiful Pretty Street.) Scott and Maureen don't speak much Spanish, and their employees don't speak much English. Communication between employer and employee is limited to facial expressions, hand signals and a crude Spanglish that fails to express all but the most rudimentary notions. Communication between Maureen and Scott is strained, too. Maureen can't comprehend why her mild-mannered husband would punch a wall, and he resolutely declines to explain. Scott is given to moody silences, and encourages the attentions of a junior programmer at an outfit called Elysian Systems.
The moment passes, the party resumes. The expression Araceli wears is as buttoned-up as her filipina, a boxy uniform that renders her silhouette shapeless. She remains, in the eyes of her employers and their friends, inscrutable, unknowable.
Social and racial conflict assume a larger dimension when Araceli is accused of a crime, setting into motion a plot that brings about the collision of people from radically different worlds. The charge is child endangerment, child abuse or kidnapping, depending on whose opinion is solicited in Child Protective Services, law enforcement or the network news, and media frenzy feeds an institutional overreaction that culminates in an Amber Alert.
What did Araceli do? Let it only be said that it was una mala comunicación.
Tobar, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at The Los Angeles Times, writes with authority about the machinations of Orange County-versus-Los Angeles municipal politics, and exhibits a seismographic sensitivity to the tensions along the fault lines of his cultural terrain. A story of scandal in a metropolis fraught with racial friction may elicit comparisons with Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities," and though both may be classified as social novels, aiming to depict how contemporary society shapes our consciousness, the kinship is superficial. Both authors are alert to the absurdities of American culture, but the characters in Tobar's metropolis do not yield readily to caricature.


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Q: Can I use Grunt with TFS? My new project needs me to work with TFS + Git.
Confession: I know nothing about TFS.
I want to setup a build for my JavaScript project. I want to use Grunt.
Is this possible? Has anybody used Grunt with TFS?

A: I use grunt with TFS when I have to use TFS. I've tried grunt-tfs-unlock, but ran into this issue. I solved the problem using grunt-shell, which works and leaves you more in charge of the configuration. This gist shows how I use TFS with grunt. It demonstrates the 'tf checkout' command, but you could easily create any tf command with this pattern.

A: I tried all the answers listed here and wasn't able to get a successful automated build and deploy with TFS until I used NCapsulate. It removes the need for NodeJs to be installed separately on build agents or dev machines. Just a NuGet package.
Just make sure you set up your build targets properly and it works very well.

A: On our current project, we're using Grunt and TFS. I've integrated Grunt with TFS by caling it from a bat file which you can hook up in the Pre- or Post-BuildEvents section of your project file.
However, because TFS will execute your builds with specific environment variables, you need to use absolute paths.
A list of the things we've done

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*Install node.js on your build machine (as well as on your development machine(s) ofcourse)

*Add a package.jsonfile on the root of your JavaScript project.

*Use npm to install grunt-cli locally (!). Use the --save-dev flag to add this package to the development dependencies section in package.json

*For all other packages you need, use npm with the same flag as in step 3

*Write a bat file (see example below) in which you'll

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*make use of absolute paths

*use npm to install all the packages listed in the packages.json file

*call grunt

*In your Pre- or PostBuildEvents, call this bat file

bat file example
rem use call to execute other bat files
echo npm install
call "C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm" install

rem because we have listed grunt-cli as a dev dependency,
rem the executable will be located in the node_modules folder
echo grunt
call "./node_modules/.bin/grunt"

A: You can find a full example scenario on how to use grunt on the build server:
http://www.codit.eu/blog/2015/03/18/continuous-integration-with-javascript-nunit-on-tfsbuild-(part-23)/

A: After installing node etc... on your build server, you could also modify your build template and add a step to call grunt etc.... This would prevent you from having to modify your csproj file and allow you to use the environmental variables created by TFS instead.


Dutch photographer Niki Feijen has criss-crossed the world looking for crumbling beauty lurking beneath a thick layer of dust inside long-forgotten buildings.
Feijen, who made headlines last year with his first self-published book of photographs titled Disciple of Decay, is now preparing to unveil to the world his latest project titled Frozen.
The new book, which is due to be released on September 17 at the Berliner Liste art fair in Berlin, features 184 pages of stunning interiors of abandoned mansions, mental institutions and churches from around the world.