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The website was down for about half a week, my server (provided by LVCS.net, check them out) had apparently corrupted its hard drive. My website and information was moved over to western USA.
I worked more on the physics, solving the issue with a solution I thought up of while in the shower. It didn't hit me until then that 'speed is relative' involved getting the differences in velocity and not just speed. So now the physics collision are surprisingly accurate, well as accurate as I can muster. I've also made the brain dead NPC actually do something now, to test the physics calculations I've had the NPC constantly angle toward the player and move at 50% throttle. It's pretty entertaining.
I've come across an issue, however; it appears that occasionally, something occurs and forces either one or both ships to fly at ridiculous speeds. I'm not sure what the problem is, but I should create a maximum speed either way.
I managed to force myself to do some work today. I've included a throttle control to the game, an issue that took much longer than I anticipated. As difficult as certain physics mathematics might be, they really are the most enjoyable part for me. I love that I've gotten the feel of the ship to be exactly how I wanted it. I'm thinking I'll do some sort of a level next, a light blue planet to explore. I want it to be pretty big, but I'm worried that if I make the game too big you'll have a hard to seeing what's coming at you. Either way I'm going to go ahead and design a world for testing, see if maybe once everything's in place if the ship is moving too fast.
I have separated pilots from the birds, making them two different entities, this pretty much makes it possible for pilots to switch ships, but also makes it easier for pilots to be classified differently (Players, Traders, etc). I've had to place a limitation on the amount of pilots and birds, mostly to make identification easier. When objects are in a 'Vector' (a long, adjustable list), they move up and down the list which changes their ID. When objects are in a standard index, their location is static so when I delete one the ones above it don't move down. Issue is, I have to give a fixed limit on the amount of pilots and birds, so I've made the limit 32 pilots and 128 birds.
The birds act very accordingly when there are two or more of them in the game simultaneously, which just means I'm not as lost of a programmer as one might think. I'll try to add some elementary collision before finishing off today.
Today I worked a few hours on 'animations', or rather animated entities. It took me so long because I was making them extremely adaptable, much like the animations of the ships. Essentially, a single function initiates the animation and can be started in 4 different ways. Using a ship id (for it to attach to) or a static coordinate and give an animation id, or ship id/static coordinate with a string. The string will search for the name of the animation in the animation library.
All this adaptability is going to cost a fair amount of RAM when all's done, but I feel it'll be worth it in the end. It'll be quite the game platform when I'm finished. What's surprising me about my code is that it's only about 800 lines. Planes is currently at 2855 and Tricorn just short of 4000. I'm not sure if this means I'm getting less work done than usual, or if maybe I'm just becoming a more efficient programmer. Whatevs, yo.
Oh yeah, I added a shield. It flashes from the direction the ship was hit and can change colors. I'm thinking the alpha will fade as it becomes weaker, then either shields that are stronger will result in different colors or just have customizable shield colors for preference. Maybe both? Some shield colors could be more rare than others, but will have different stages of shield strength. With ideas of both hardware and software upgrades for you ship, I know I want them both to have different effects on different aspects of your ship and maybe create a limiter. This will keep one ship from being the end-all design.


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Château de Francs
Château de Francs Photo - Mairie de Bègles — Archives de Bègles - Wikipedia - lic. under Public Domain
Location: Bègles, Gironde departement of France (Aquitaine Region).
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Ownership / Access: Bastard Crisnay Family.
Notes: Château de Francs, located in Bègles (Gironde) is classified in the supplementary inventory of monuments historiques1 and its park and its surroundings. In the twelfth century, the Castle of Francs feudal fortifications surrounded by fences, ditches, gardens, ponds and a mill on the Estey (small streams that empty directly into the Garonne) was known "La Motte Bègles." November 18, 1965, the prefecture of the Gironde confirms the ranking of the site, its park and its surroundings. In June 1969, the main tower of the castle Franks is struck by lightning, causing a spectacular fire. In 1970, the amiable small pavilion "The Twelve Gates" disappeared, carried away by the urban layout of the Bordeaux ring road. Maurice Bastard, heir and owner of the castle, decided to undertake a major restoration in close collaboration with the architect of France chief building to maintain this beautiful historic house Gironde. Thus, January 27th, 1975, Castle Franks was officially registered in the inventory of historiques1 monuments and environment of listed site, the area is open to the public once a year for the Heritage Days. Castle Franks still belongs to the family Bastard Crisnay, descendant of Charles Balaresque.
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A Tribute to Ray Harryhausen: Creatures of Clay | Lighttrain
Posted byThe Conductor March 27, 2021 March 27, 2021 Posted inArticles, Editorials, Movie Reviews, RetrospectivesTags:Creatures, LightTrain, Practical effects, Ray Harryhausen, review, Stop Motion, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Hello, great to see you! Newcomers and longtime passengers alike, welcome to the Train; I'm your conductor this evening. If you went to any cinema lover and questioned why they have such an adoration for film, many would probably pinpoint specific directors, visionaries, and scenes that left that person enchantingly spellbound. The greats such as Scorsese, Spielberg, Allen, Tarantino, Kurosawa, and Kubrick are commonly upon these lists, but I feel that another creator deserves his name in this category as well: the great Ray Harryhausen.
Who was this fellow, and what kind of legacy did he leave behind? Ray was a stop-motion animator, meaning that he designed clay figures and animated their movements. In this case, they were whimsical beasts unlike anything you've ever seen. Living skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts, a cyclops and two-headed vulture (insert a shameless reference to my novel here) in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, a colossal crustacean in Mysterious Island, and rampaging dinosaurs in The Valley of Gwangi. Oh, and Harryhausen never called his projects "monsters", but instead the more respectful "creatures". Hence why this post's subtitle is "Creatures of Clay".
Now that I have informed you on Harryhausen's background in practical effects, let's get this how on the road and take a closer look at one of his most acclaimed works, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. The swashbuckling adventure was released in 1958; isn't that a blast from the past! Even a duo of sequels, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger — to my dismay, not a nod to the Survivor song — came from the springboard though neither fared as successfully.
Though Harryhausen's stunning creatures would have been enticing enough, 7th Voyage was implemented with yet another gimmick to magnetize audiences to their local theater. The technique was called Dynamation, the so-called "new miracle of the screen". Call it what you will, either way it still encapsulated Harryhausen's trademark style. A decent promotional short subject, shown above, declared that using new technological advances and color they opened "vast new vistas in motion picture entertainment". Dynamation was used all the way until 1981 with Clash of the Titans, then afterwards Ray retired from the profession. In a original review by Time magazine for Clash of the Titans, they quipped that "The real titan is Ray Harryhausen".
On May 7, 2013, it was announced publicly that Ray has passed away at the age of 92. Many statements from filmmakers who were inspired by his work were made; Edgar Wright (the Three Flavors Cornetto trilogy, Baby Driver) said that "He was the man who made me believe in monsters", Peter Lord (Aardman Animations) wrote that Harryhausen was "a one-man industry and a one-man genre", and even George Lucas admitted that "Without Harryhausen, there would have likely been no Star Wars". Wow. Allow that to sink in for a second.
We'll return to review 7th Voyage after these messages…
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The daring seafarer Sinbad is soon to be newlywed to Princess Parisa and bind together two kingdoms. However, the princess is shrunken to miniature stature by a dastardly sorcerer in search for a lost genie lamp. This encourages Sinbad to return to the island of Colassa to retrieve a shell, which is needed to return the princess to her regular size. The sorcerer only comes along so he can take the lamp back for himself, battling against the intrepid sailor when he finds it in his possession. Can Sinbad defeat the sorcerer and his monsters, while in the process saving his bride?
Perhaps where this movie's personality most shines through is in its stop-motion magic. Computer generated graphics, or CGI, is practically omnipresent in Hollywood films today, but it always feels a bit lifeless. Simply put, not a single time has CGI in a live-action blockbuster ever felt like it had genuine heart and soul poured into the work. I applaud you if you do love working on CGI in films, if any folks like that are reading this post in the first place. Despite how rudimentary and uncouth it can be by modern standards, Harryhausen's work literally was made by hand.
Of course, not every film is without its flaws. For 7th Voyage, at times the story can become bogged down as it drags its feet, particularly with overlong scenes without any creatures. The childlike fantasy of the whole thing, comparable to that of a bedtime story of sorts, connotes that the acting and overall storyline is very tedious. An antagonistic magician, the one-dimensional princess, a hazardous journey. I'm sure we've all seen this before in other media, perhaps slightly better. Thankfully, the creatures on display elevate this Sinbad film into more recognizable esteem.
Although The 7th Voyage of Sinbad can tread rough waters in some moments, it might be Ray's most important movie. This was the very first feature he worked on that was filmed in color, and it influenced a bunch of young kids at the time who would grow into phenomenal filmmakers. With sword and sandal swordfights and a bombastic score by Bernard Herrmann, this iconic motion picture won't impress today's moviegoers, but you cannot deny the footprint left by the magnificent Ray Harryhausen. I recommend viewing it for yourself, if only to see the magnificent effects of the time!
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How do I publish my contents to reach my students more effectively?
Can I make my contents more interactive using recent advancements of technologies?
How can I enhance the experience of learners for my contents?
Though there are many publishing options but ePub has emerged as the chosen one for the eLearning industry. ePub is supported across all major platforms and is rapidly evolving to keep itself up-to-date with current technology. Some of the major features of ePub are showcased in the adjacent diagram.
It is thus evident that ePub has absorbed the recent advancements in technology and therefore is an ideal choice to publish your contents.While ePub is advancing and is gaining support from several corporate, it leaves much to be desired to be compatible format for Learning Management Systems. Web based LMS systems are based on the principles of pedagogy and are best practiced by frameworks like SCORM.ePub in its current form provides a good presentation platform for stories and novels or some other informative texts but to become a channel for learning material over LMS systems it needs to be modified or extended.
Inclusion of tests at the end of modules: Beside the progress of content delivery, the ePub could also be improved to provide tests interfaces so as to track the progress of learner. Some visual cue to show the progress will help in improved planning of further learning.
Annotation Migration: ePub provides good support for content annotations. But the support for migration of these annotations when the content is updated is missing. This kind of support will improve user's experience and trust with ePub based systems.
The eLearning industry has to take a pragmatic approach for enhancing learning effectiveness and the user experience by extending and adapting ePub for publishing contents for LMS systems.
Hey Asheesh, nice post . You mentioned ePub is an alternative to various publishing options, could you throw some more light on those options?
Mobipocket .mobi and .prc on Kindle became very popular as it was widely supported on Kindle devices and over several platforms through Kindle Apps for PC, Mac, iOS and Android. This popularity run ended abruptly in December 2011 as Amazon stopped the support for Mobipocket. I guess the reason for this break up could be that .mobi was based on a binary format and is that of standard Palm Database format file. The content access information was stored in the header of that format and the overall structure became very complex.
Please clarify me, does EPUB3 will support for LMS? Means, can we store the user's information into a server. For example: the interactive answers which is entered by users/students can be stored in a Server?
Hi Veera, thank you for your question.
Would ePub3 support LMS? Yes, it is completely possible.
ePub is a file format, just like pdf or docx. And it can be supported by a LMS server. We may have to write an additional server side component for it, so that it can be opened in the user's browser.
The server side component can also be enhanced to to save user's comment and may also be shared with other user(s).
your article so I can come back and ready it . You have a great collection of articles to refer to.


On the afternoon of March 9, 1855, Henry David Thoreau roamed the woods looking for signs of spring. It was a cloudy, rain-threatening day in Concord, Mass.
So far it had been a mild winter. Snow hadn't whitened the ground since Feb. 9.
Thoreau catalogued his observations in his journal., published as The Writings Of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Ed. By B. Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-nov. 3, 1861.
On that March afternoon in 1855, Thoreau took a hike to the Andromeda Ponds, kettle hole bogs on the border of Concord and Lincoln. There he saw the minute seeds of the Andromeda calyculata scattered over the melting ice.
He scared up a rabbit chewing sumac. He tasted a few drops of the sweet red maple juice that ran down the stem of the trunk where a rabbit nibbled off a twig.
Thoreau also clambered over great white pine masts where the woods had been laid waste, and remarked on the jewel-like brilliancy of the sawed ends thickly bedewed with crystal drops of turpentine.
You are always surprised by the sight of the first spring bird or insect; they seem premature, and there is no such evidence of spring as themselves, so that they literally fetch the year about. It is thus when I hear the first robin or bluebird or, looking along the brooks, see the first waterbugs out circling. But you think, They have come, and Nature cannot recede.
It snowed the next day.


There's nothing quite like building S'Mores around the campfire with your friends. When I was a little girl, summer evenings at our cabin in the Whiteshell, Manitoba often included roasting marshmallows under the stars. That moment when you press your 'mallow in between your graham wafers and chocolate was a sacred one! I've really been looking forward to our son Wyatt sinking his teeth (all 12 of them now!) into his first-ever S'More.
We recently spent a weekend in Sylvan Lake with our friends Amy and Dustin, their daughter Georgia, and son Luca. (Amy and I met 17 years ago while working at Moxie's restaurant, and now our kids are playing together on the beach. That's pretty wild.) We decided to cap off a Sunday BBQ with a S'Mores indulgence by the lake. Chocolate before the kids go to bed is always a good idea, right?!
Keeping your ingredients from turning into a huge mess can be a challenge. I like to put everything in a Tupperware container before packing up to hit the road. This way, it's nice and neat instead of graham wafer boxes getting ripped, chocolate melting everywhere, and your marshmallows getting smooshed.
I picked up this food storage container at The Dollar Store. I love that its big enough to allow for multiple chocolate options, has clips on each side, and a handle at the top for easy carrying, packing, and transport.
I prefer to keep it simple with the graham wafers, but have a little fun with the marshmallows and chocolate. However, every so often we'll use big, delicious, freshly-baked cookies instead of wafers. I included regular marshmallows and rainbow-coloured ones for the kids. I found S'Mores Bar chocolate from one of my favourite spots: Jacek Chocolate in Edmonton (buy them online here). I also love to use Lindt Chocolates because they fit so perfectly in your kit and in your wafer. Both aesthetically-pleasing and delicious!
Which Smores combos do you love?


For some reason, Kenya's new Standard Guage Railway (SGR) train launched without an online platform to allow for bookings and payments.
Even worse, they did not accept M-Pesa or even card payments, just cash. Like seriously? Anyway, before this turns into a rant, the news is, Kenya Railways has announced that an online platform will be launched on 12 June, 2017.
According to Kenya Railways, over seven thousand passengers have used the Madaraka Express train for the one week that it has been operational. The organization notes that this is highest number ever recorded in rail travel in Kenya over a period of one week.
The announcement of the online payments and booking platform comes after passengers complained of the inconveniences brought about by the cash-only option. This meant that passenger could only buy tickets from the train stations which are located in the outskirts of both Nairobi and Mombasa CBD.
However, one still needs to be at the station to do this, for purpose of booking a seat, until the online playform is officially launched.
At the moment, the company only has one trip departing both Mombasa and Nairobi at 9am, daily. The company said that they are looking at adding more schedules to accommodate the growing number of passengers.


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Blog: Los Angeles Teachers to Strike in January If Union Doesn't Get 'a Dramatically Different Approach' From School District – The 74
United Teachers Los Angeles will strike Jan. 10 if L.A. Unified doesn't take "a dramatically different approach" to negotiations, the union announced Wednesday.
"[By] refusing to invest in our schools, the district has disrespected our students and disrespected us," Alex Caputo-Pearl, the union's president, said at a morning news conference. "We've reached the point where enough is enough."
The announcement came the same day a state board issued a complaint against UTLA for "refusing to bargain in good faith," and one day after the release of a third-party fact-finding report — the last step in the labor negotiations process before the union can legally strike.
The non-binding report by neutral state-appointed mediator David Weinberg recommended that the district's 6 percent raise proposal be adopted: 3 percent retroactive for 2017-18 and 3 percent for 2018-19. The two other members of the fact-finding panel — a union and a district representative — both agreed with Weinberg's salary recommendation.
Weinberg also validated that L.A. Unified "does have financial limitations that must be balanced" and advised the two parties to drop or scale back most of the 21 unresolved contract disputes.
The report did, however, support some of the union's demands, including designating funding to lower class sizes and to hire more nurses, counselors, and librarians. These demands have been central talking points for UTLA, along with restrictions on charter schools and standardized testing.
Though meant to help L.A. Unified and the teachers union resolve nearly two years of embattled contract negotiations, the report's release added fuel to the fire, with the union saying that L.A. Unified had manipulated the findings and lied about UTLA agreeing to a 6 percent raise. The union is filing another unfair-labor-practice charge in relation to that statement.
"We'll need to see [a] willingness to engage the issues that are fundamental to building a thriving school district, like class size, staffing, regulation of charters" in order to avert a strike, Caputo-Pearl said.
L.A. Unified emphasized in a statement Wednesday that it "does not want a strike — which only UTLA can authorize — because a strike would harm students, families, and communities most in need." Superintendent Austin Beutner had told reporters at a Tuesday briefing that the district "really want[s] to reach a resolution" with its labor partner.
"It's time that we have an honest conversation, authentic bargaining … because our students aren't waiting. Our families aren't waiting," Beutner said. "This is not some Netflix show [or] drama, this is about real people who we have to serve each and every day."
District officials have claimed for months that Caputo-Pearl has sabotaged negotiations and denied the district's grim financial projections in favor of a strike. The State of California Public Employment Relations Board, which appointed Weinberg, issued a formal complaint Wednesday against UTLA for "refusing to bargain in good faith" with L.A. Unified and for reportedly "retract[ing] its support for a 6 percent salary increase."
Key points of the mediator's report include:
1 Salary
The three panel members agreed that the district's 6 percent raise is appropriate. But Caputo-Pearl said Wednesday that UTLA is still calling for a 6.5 percent salary raise retroactive to July 2016.
The average teacher salary package is $105,000, including health and other benefits, according to the district. Teachers are assigned 182 days a year.
In line with salaries, the report also recommended L.A. Unified's proposal for new incoming teachers to wait longer to be eligible for retiree health benefits. The district wants to add two years for new teachers, so that a teacher's age plus his or her years of district service would total 87 years — a "Rule of 87" compared to the current "Rule of 85." Retiree health benefits represent "an ongoing balance sheet problem" for L.A. Unified, according to the report.
The UTLA panelist, Vern Gates, opposed this suggestion, claiming that L.A. Unified hadn't added the Rule of 87 until its Sept. 25 contract offer — after bargaining sessions had ended. Adding "something as contentious as health benefits" late in the game "is at least an indication of bad faith bargaining, and certainly a recipe to prevent a settlement," he wrote.
2 Class sizes
The report called class size "essential to the resolution of this dispute," and all three panelists supported deleting a contract provision that lets the district increase class sizes as a cost-saving measure. The report also advised the district to designate the equivalent of a 1 percent to 3 percent salary increase "to recruit additional teachers and staff to reduce class size and increase access to other professional services."
The district and UTLA would still have to settle on a new framework for navigating class sizes, however. Each 1 percent equates to about $29 million, a district spokeswoman told LA School Report in an email Wednesday. She added that the district previously allocated $30 million in the contract for class size reduction and "remains willing" to do so as part of a resolution.
District representative Adam Fiss warned that if the provision is deleted, "it will be important to negotiate safeguards that allow for deviation … during times of economic duress." He also referenced data from the California Department of Education showing that L.A. Unified has the second-lowest average class size — about 26 students — among the state's 10 largest districts.
LAUSD chart based on California Department of Education data
Under the current agreement, though, class sizes for middle schoolers and high schoolers can creep into the 40s.
3 Shared decision making
The neutral report recommended tabling UTLA's request for local school leadership councils, which would wield significant influence in professional development for employees and the spending of school-based discretionary funds. UTLA "is unlikely to convince the district at this time to develop a shared decision making model given the lack of trust between the parties," the report stated.
Weinberg also advised dropping the union's demand that teachers get a vote on converting schools to magnets.
Gates, the union representative, opposed both of those recommendations, noting that the district's "claims to be a proponent of local control" contrast with its rejection of these kinds of demands. Beutner is preparing to release a "Reimagining" plan, which reportedly would split L.A. Unified into about 32 autonomous districts to empower local leaders, teachers, and parents. The fact-finding report's release delayed the plan's announcement, initially slated for this week.
The union has already called the coming plan by Beutner a ploy to expand charter schools. Beutner "isn't moving" on negotiations "because there's a bigger [privatization] agenda for him," Caputo-Pearl said Wednesday.
The district has denied this, stating that "at no time has the Board of Education or Superintendent mentioned any support for 'privatization.'"
4 State testing
The report didn't fully back UTLA's proposal to give teachers "academic freedom" to decide whether to administer standardized tests beyond what state and federal law requires. It instead recommended a pilot program at an "appropriate number of schools at each [school] level."
Limiting the district's discretion with testing "should be carefully circumscribed," district representative Fiss wrote. UTLA panelist Gates pushed for the full implementation of UTLA's demand, writing, "Every hour spent on a needless District required test is an hour that could've been spent on instruction." UTLA has stated previously that L.A. Unified spends millions annually on non-mandated state testing.
Pilot program recommendations were peppered throughout the neutral report. Weinberg also proposed piloting L.A. Unified's wish for a "highly effective" category in teacher evaluations at "an appropriate number of schools at each level, total of 5-10."
A strike in the making
A teacher strike was already looking imminent before this week.
On Dec. 4, UTLA handed out strike kits to its chapter chairs at more than 800 school sites and boycotted staff meetings at schools. Protesters shut down a school board meeting on Dec. 11, and thousands of people participated in the "March for Public Education" in downtown Los Angeles last weekend. UTLA cited more than 50,000 marchers, though a formal count hasn't been confirmed.
The district, meanwhile, has distributed at least 115,000 copies of a parents guide titled "Preparing for a potential strike" to schools. It has also encouraged parents to volunteer.
If the union — which has more than 30,000 members — strikes Jan. 10, it would come after just three days of class after the winter break.
The work stoppage would affect about 480,000 K-12 students across more than 1,000 schools. L.A. Unified has emphasized that schools would remain open with instruction from "qualified L.A. Unified staff," such as administrators.
Parents' reactions varied on news of the strike. "We will stand firm with our teachers," Accelerated Schools parent Hilda Rodriguez-Guzman said at UTLA's news briefing Wednesday. "Because our kids deserve the best-quality public education here in Los Angeles."
Parent Kathy Kantner, however, told LA School Report on Wednesday that she was "very disappointed" with UTLA's announcement. The fact-finding report had given her hope that negotiations were possible.
"I'm not sure how meaningful the time will be if my child goes to school" during a strike, she said. "I'm still going to wait and see. I'll see what that first day would look like and take it from there."
There were 22 bargaining sessions between April 2017 and July, when the union declared an impasse. There were then three mediation sessions between September and October. During that span of time, "almost no progress" was made in negotiations, the neutral report stated. The fact-finding panel was seated in November.
At the heart of the contract disputes have been two competing narratives on the district's financial ability to meet the union's demands. On one hand, the county has called L.A. Unified's finances "alarming," projecting its reserves to drop from $700 million next fall to $76.5 million in 2020-21 — barely over the 1 percent reserve required to stave off a county takeover.
The district has maintained that accepting UTLA's contract would "immediately bankrupt" it. Beutner has proposed that the two sides rally for more funding in Sacramento, which provides 90 percent of the district's annual budget, which is about $7.5 billion this school year.
Caputo-Pearl countered Wednesday that "UTLA has been relentless" in pursuing state money. The union claims that L.A. Unified is hoarding a "record-breaking" $1.8 billion in reserves while class sizes balloon and about 40 percent of schools have a nurse only once a week.
This week's fact-finding report could not resolve the discrepancies in reserve estimates.
The fact that the two sides haven't been able to agree on L.A. Unified's fiscal reality "is very problematic," Aaron Garth Smith, an education policy analyst for the right-leaning Reason Foundation, told LA School Report this week. "At the end of the day, everyone is going to suffer, including teachers and students. Having more obligations and spending more money is only going to make that [fiscal] hole even deeper."
Esmeralda Fabían Romero contributed to this report.
Source: "Los Angeles" – Google News


Amazing day as much for its unexpected-ness as its near-perfect conditions. You really can't ask for much better out there, other than being able to go wetsuit-less. Sand was very soft so driving you had to be careful.


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Q: Calculate momentum as weighted average by recency I have a subscriptions table with an associated feed_id and creation timestamp. A feed has N subscriptions.
It's easy enough to show the most popular feeds using a group query to count the number of records with each feed_id. But I want to calculate momentum to show most trending feeds.
A simplified algorithm would be:
momentum of feed_id =
    10 * (count of subscriptions with created_at in past day)
  + 5 *  (count of subscriptions with created_at from 2-7 days ago)
  + 1 *  (count of subscriptions with created_at from 7-28 days ago)

How can something like this be done in a single (My)SQL query instead of doing it with 3 queries and programmatically summing the results?

A: You can use conditional aggregation for this.  MySQL treats booleans as integers, with true being "1", so you can just sum the expression for time.
I am guessing it looks something like this:
select feedid,
       (10 * sum(createdat >= date_sub(now(), interval 1 day)) +
         5 * sum(createdat >= date_sub(now(), interval 7 day) and
                 createdat < date_sub(now(), interval 1 day)) +
         1 * sum(createdat >= date_sub(now(), interval 28 day) and
                 createdat < date_sub(now(), interval 7 day))
       ) as momentum
from subscriptions
group by feedid

A: SELECT 10*COUNT(IF(created_at >= CURDATE(), 1, 0)) +
       5*COUNT(IF(created_at BETWEEN DATE_ADD(CURDATE(), - INTERVAL 7 days) AND DATE_ADD(CURDATE(), - INTERVAL 1 day), 1, 0) +
       1*COUNT(IF(created_at BETWEEN DATE_ADD(CURDATE(), - INTERVAL 28 days) AND DATE_ADD(CURDATE(), - INTERVAL 8 day), 1, 0)
FROM ...

I'm not 100% sure I've caught the edge conditions (yesterday or 8 days ago) to get exactly the right count.  You'll want to test that.
If you're interested in 24-hour periods then just substitute NOW() for CURDATE() and everything will go to DATETIME.

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Trading standards: powers, enforcement & penalties
How trading standards officers ensure that businesses comply with trading standards law, including their powers to visit businesses and to take formal enforcement action
Why are they visiting me?
What powers do they have?
How will I know that they are genuine?
Can they close businesses down?
What can trading standards services do to stop businesses that break the law?
Formal enforcement & penalties
Simple caution
Enforcement orders
Undertaking
Administrative penalties
Can trading standards services intervene to get redress for a consumer?
Aren't trading standards services just there to protect consumers rather than businesses?
Primary Authority
People working for trading standards services are employees of your local authority (council) and are authorised to carry out their functions to enforce trading standards laws. Job titles and qualifications vary between different local authorities and between different functions, but for the purposes of this guide they are referred to as trading standards officers, or TSOs.
Trading standards services enforce the law across a range of subject areas, including:
fair trading, which includes:
descriptions of goods, digital content and services
food standards and safety (some types of trading standards services, including London boroughs, do not enforce food law)
petrol and fireworks storage
intellectual property (for example, counterfeiting)
Trading standards services visit business premises for a number of reasons, but the underlying purpose of a visit is generally to check and ensure that the business is complying with the law as well as to address or investigate any non-compliance. Trading standards services follow an intelligence-led approach, where the decisions about enforcement activities are informed by the analysis of information from many sources, including complaints and a business's previous history. Trading standards officers can also carry out inspections of premises on a routine basis - for example, in accordance with an annual programme of inspections.
In most cases, TSOs have powers under Schedule 5 to the Consumer Rights Act 2015. Depending on the legislation they are enforcing, they may have additional powers or powers that are slightly different. A TSO's main powers include the power to enter premises, powers of inspection and powers to secure or seize material that might be required in evidence:
a TSO can at any reasonable time enter premises to observe the carrying on of a business, to inspect goods or documents, to test weighing or measuring equipment, or to make a test purchase. Refusal of entry could be viewed as obstructing an officer, which is a criminal offence
a TSO can enter your home, or any other premises used solely or mainly as a dwelling, but only with a warrant issued by a court. A TSO can also obtain a warrant to enter any premises by force if necessary, and this might be done, for example, where it is expected that entry will be refused or obstructed
if the entry is for a routine inspection then the TSO must give you two days' written notice of the inspection before entering your premises. However, notice is not needed if:
you have waived the need for it to be given to you
the TSO has reasonable suspicion that you have broken the law
giving notice would defeat the purpose of the visit
it is not practicable to give you notice (for example, there is an imminent risk to public health or safety)
the entry is for the purposes of market surveillance activities under certain European safety legislation
where a breach of trading standards law is suspected, a TSO can seize goods and documents
Genuine TSOs will always carry photographic identification, which will usually show their name, department and the local authority they work for. If you have any doubts then call your local authority right away.
No. Trading standards services have no direct powers to order you to stop trading. However, they can apply to the courts for orders, which may restrict your activities.
There are a wide range of options available, although the precise options vary depending on the nature of the breach of trading standards law.
In most cases, businesses are keen to comply with the law and to avoid the risks and expenses of formal enforcement action. Many breaches of trading standards law are resolved through advice and agreed remedial actions by the business (which might include changing products, systems, labelling or advertising and/or arranging redress for customers who have been affected by a breach).
However, trading standards services always have formal enforcement options available to them. The decision to take formal action lies with the local authority, but it is likely that formal action will be taken in cases where there is a serious breach (in terms of the detriment to customers or to other businesses through unfair competitive advantage) or where the business has failed to respond to or engage with informal attempts to secure compliance.
Each trading standards service has an enforcement policy, which explains how they seek to ensure that the action they take is fair and proportionate. This can be requested from your local authority.
The main formal enforcement options include the following.
Many breaches of trading standards law are criminal offences and can be prosecuted in the Magistrates' Court or Crown Court. A successful prosecution may have a range of consequences, including the following:
the trader will have a criminal record
a punishment or sentence. Trading standards offences can usually be punished with a fine, and in many cases the amount is unlimited. For the most serious cases imprisonment is an option, with maximum periods of up to two years for some trading standards offences. Where a business is prosecuted for fraud, theft or money laundering in addition to or instead of trading standards offences, or for offences under intellectual property law (trade marks and copyright), maximum penalties can be very high indeed (up to 14 years' imprisonment)
an order to pay compensation to victims
an order to pay the costs of the investigation and prosecution
a 'criminal behaviour order' restricting future conduct (for example, a ban on making contracts in consumers' homes)
disqualification as a company director (where the offence was connected with a company) or from driving (where there is a good reason - for example, where the offence included bad driving or was facilitated by the use of a vehicle)
confiscation of assets and money under proceeds-of-crime legislation
forfeiture of any illegal or infringing goods and any equipment used in committing the offence
This is a formal warning, which may be offered as an alternative to prosecution, where it is in the public interest to do so.
There is no obligation on trading standards services to offer a caution, but it might be offered for relatively minor first-time offending.
For a range of breaches, trading standards services can apply to the County Court or High Court for an enforcement order requiring the business to comply with the law. This may include the following consequences:
the order itself. A breach of the order is contempt of court, which carries a maximum penalty of a fine and two years' imprisonment
an order to take 'enhanced consumer measures', including changes to business processes and paying compensation to victims
an order to pay the costs of the investigation and the court proceedings
a requirement to publicise the order
This is a formal promise by the business to comply with the law and, where appropriate, to take enhanced consumer measures.
There is no obligation on trading standards services to accept an undertaking, but it may be accepted if the business genuinely appears to be committed to making amends.
In some cases, trading standards services can issue a notice requiring the business to take action or to stop doing something, without the need to apply to court for an order. These notices have different names and different conditions depending on the law they are made under.
In general there will be a deadline to comply with the notice. If a business fails to comply with a notice, this can lead to court action; if the business disagrees with the use of the notice, it usually has the opportunity to apply to the court or a tribunal to appeal against it.
Compliance notices are available under a range of laws, including food standards, animal health, product safety, weights and measures, and fair trading.
In some cases, trading standards services can issue a penalty notice, in effect imposing a fine directly on a business without the need for court proceedings.
Such notices are available under a range of legislation, including laws relating to letting agents, secondary ticketing, single-use carrier bags and (in some areas) underage sales of alcohol.
The business can usually appeal to the court or a tribunal against the use of such a notice or against the level of penalty imposed.
Trading standards services cannot order redress for individual consumers or take court action on their behalf, although they may offer advice and assistance to consumers making their own claims in court or through an alternative dispute resolution service (see 'Alternative dispute resolution').
However, in the event of prosecution or an application for an enforcement order, trading standards services can ask for a court order requiring compensation to be paid.
No. Although most trading standards law is intended to protect consumers, breaches of trading standards law put honest, reputable, compliant businesses at a disadvantage. In addition, trading standards services enforce legislation that protects businesses (such as the Business Protection from Misleading Marketing Regulations 2008, covered in the 'Business-to-business marketing' guide) and give advice to businesses. Local authorities have a statutory duty to have regard to the desirability of promoting economic growth in their area, and trading standards services are therefore keen to promote successful, compliant business.
Primary Authority is a scheme run by local authorities to offer advice to businesses. For more information see 'Primary Authority'.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS, which was known as the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills at the time) has produced detailed guidance on how the Consumer Rights Act 2015 affects trading standards officers' powers: Investigatory Powers of Consumer law Enforcers: Guidance for Businesses on the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
BEIS has also published guidance on the 'enhanced consumer measures' brought in by the Consumer Rights Act 2015: Enhanced Consumer Measures: Guidance for Enforcers of Consumer Law. As the document's title suggests, it is primarily aimed at TSOs but it may also be of interest to businesses in their dealings with trading standards services.
Last reviewed / updated: December 2019


Abstract Web applications divide their state between the client and the server. The frequent and highly dynamic client-server communication that is characteristic of modern web applications leaves them vulnerable to side-channel leaks, even over encrypted connections. We describe a black-box tool for detecting and quantifying the severity of side-channel vulnerabilities by analyzing network traffic over repeated crawls of a web application. By viewing the adversary as a multi-dimensional classifier, we develop a methodology to more thoroughly measure the distinguishably of network traffic for a variety of classification metrics. We evaluate our detection system on several deployed web applications, accounting for proposed client and server-side defenses. Our results illustrate the limitations of entropy measurements used in previous work and show how our new metric based on the Fisher criterion can be used to more robustly reveal side-channels in web applications.


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Article from SFGate.
It's suddenly a lot harder for venture capitalists and startups to raise funds, as investors fed up with low returns turn their backs on the sector.
Most industry observers agree that lots of young firms will simply not be able to raise their next round of funding, commencing a period of belt tightening, consolidation and closures. At a minimum, it seems to mark the beginning of a more level-headed investment climate in Silicon Valley, after years of insatiable lust for all things mobile and social.
But if the drop-off is too sudden and steep, this new austerity could spill over into an economy highly dependent on the tech sector. Indeed, as The Chronicle reported last week, the industry has an enormous impact, with each tech job creating 4.3 indirect jobs in the community, according to a Bay Area Council Economic Institute report.
The investors and venture capitalists I spoke to insisted that we're not on the verge of anything like the dot-com meltdown, characterizing the shift as a minor and healthy correction, or a "rationalization." One suggested it was little more than the usual process of separating good and bad ideas in the marketplace.
But the numbers suggest something new is afoot. In the third quarter, the amount that U.S. companies raised in venture capital dropped 32 percent from the prior year, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Venture capital funds themselves raised 17 percent fewer dollars from the second to third quarter, even as the number of funds grew, according to a joint report from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association.
Economic uncertainty
Some partially blame the economic uncertainty surrounding the outcome of the election and the "fiscal cliff." But the main problem seems to be that many of the "limited partners" that fund venture capital are pulling back after years of frustration.
Ever since a brief period in the late 1990s when venture capital burned bright, the industry has been delivering consistently weak returns on the whole.
In fact, despite requiring greater risks and larger capital outlays, venture capital has been underperforming the stock market over the past decade, according to a report this year by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Joe Dear, chief investment officer for CalPERS, told Reuters this summer that venture capital "has been the most disappointing asset class over the past 10 years as far as returns." The huge pension fund for California's public employees didn't return repeated calls from The Chronicle.
Investment horizons have steadily spread out, from five to 10 to sometimes 15 years, as exit opportunities like acquisitions and initial public offerings fail to materialize. This has sometimes forced investors to put in more money to protect their initial funds.
'Pretty grumpy'
"The industry definitely, for the last decade, has been a tough place to be," said Ray Rothrock of Palo Alto venture capital firm Venrock. "We're all pretty grumpy right now."
Some of this is due to macroeconomic conditions outside the control of venture capitalists, notably the housing and banking crises. But at least some of it has to do with poor picks and herd mentality, funding companies with few real prospects and driving up the entry price for legitimately promising companies beyond what they could pay off.
"The market overfunded the number of companies in the system," said Hans Swildens, founder of Industry Ventures in San Francisco. "There's a glut."
Even the grand promise of Web 2.0 companies that lured so much recent money hasn't generated the hoped-for returns. The ones that managed to go public were often disappointments, including Facebook, Zynga and Groupon, in some cases leaving late-stage investors underwater on their holdings.
That was a final straw for some.
Last week, Forbes dug up figures from CB Insights that highlighted a wide and growing gap between the number of companies that raised initial funding and companies securing the follow-on investments, known as a Series A, generally necessary to keep going. This year, there have been 1,747 seed or angel rounds but only 688 Series A deals, underscoring the coming crunch.
Bad businesses
Based on as scientific a survey as the PR pitches in my inbox, there's a tremendous number of silly, redundant and poorly executed companies out there that don't warrant additional funding. The real problem isn't that many of these companies won't raise more money; it's that they raised money in the first place.
For the venture capital industry to get back on track, it needs to embrace a renewed sense of discipline – on company picks, deal terms and total spending.
But hope springs eternal in Silicon Valley.
Rothrock stresses that the industry's trend-line averages mask very strong results and ongoing investment at top firms, as well as growing venture capital activity among corporations like Google. Companies are just being more selective and looking beyond consumer Internet opportunities.
"We're steady as she goes in terms of funding enterprise," he said.
Secondary opportunity
Swildens oversees a secondary fund that buys shares from limited partners and venture firms looking to liquidate part of their holdings. He sees this period as a ripe opportunity for bold investors to get into promising companies at suddenly reasonable rates.
"Ours is one of the few firms aggressively putting money into these funds," he said.
Mark Heesen, president of National Venture Capital Association, is similarly optimistic. He says the industry could be primed for a strong comeback in 2013, as long as the broader economy strengthens.
Above all, what the industry needs are some wins – acquisitions or initial public offerings that put investors clearly in the black and start to restore some lost confidence.
"If we see these exit markets start to generate good returns, I think you'll see limited partners look at this asset class again," he said.
James Temple is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist. E-mail: jtemple@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @jtemple
The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail
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Article from WSJ Online.
It looks so easy from the outside. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s.
But now there is evidence that venture-backed start-ups fail at far higher numbers than the rate the industry usually cites.
About three-quarters of venture-backed firms in the U.S. don't return investors' capital, according to recent research by Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School.
The Wall Street Journal reveals its third annual ranking of the top 50 start-ups in the U.S. backed by venture capitalists.
Compare that with the figures that venture capitalists toss around. The common rule of thumb is that of 10 start-ups, only three or four fail completely. Another three or four return the original investment, and one or two produce substantial returns. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail.
Mr. Ghosh chalks up the discrepancy in part to a dearth of in-depth research into failures. "We're just getting more light on the entrepreneurial process," he says.
His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says.
Venture capitalists "bury their dead very quietly," Mr. Ghosh says. "They emphasize the successes but they don't talk about the failures at all."
There are also different definitions of failure. If failure means liquidating all assets, with investors losing all their money, an estimated 30% to 40% of high potential U.S. start-ups fail, he says. If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghosh's research.
Failure often is harder on entrepreneurs who lose money that they've borrowed on credit cards or from friends and relatives than it is on those who raised venture capital.
"When you've bootstrapped a business where you're not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, that's one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Venture capitalists make high-risk investments and expect some of them to fail, and entrepreneurs who raise venture capital often draw salaries, he says.
Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., a service for minimizing spam. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., the previous year. The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc., Comcast Corp., and Verizon Communications Inc. At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees.
But the company began to struggle after its relationship with Yahoo Inc. fell apart early that year, Mr. Dreymann says. A Yahoo spokeswoman declined to comment.
In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Soon after, Mr. Dreymann turned over his Goodmail keys to a corporate liquidator.
All Goodmail investors incurred "substantial losses," Mr. Dreymann says. He helped the liquidator return whatever he could to Goodmail's investors, he says. "Those people believed in me and supported me."
Daniel Dreymann's antispam service Goodmail failed, despite getting $45 million in venture capital.
How well a failed entrepreneur has managed his company, and how well he worked with his previous investors, makes a difference in his ability to persuade U.S. venture capitalists to back his future start-ups, says Charles Holloway, director of Stanford University's Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.
David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. The 20-year venture capitalist is an "angel" investor in Mr. Dreymann's new start-up, Mowingo Inc., which makes a mobile app that rewards shoppers for creating a personal shopping mall and following their favorite stores.
"People are embarrassed to talk about their failures, but the truth is that if you don't have a lot of failures, then you're just not doing it right, because that means that you're not investing in risky ventures," Mr. Cowan says. "I believe failure is an option for entrepreneurs and if you don't believe that, then you can bang your head against the wall trying to make it work."
Overall, nonventure-backed companies fail more often than venture-backed companies in the first four years of existence, typically because they don't have the capital to keep going if the business model doesn't work, Harvard's Mr. Ghosh says. Venture-backed companies tend to fail following their fourth years—after investors stop injecting more capital, he says.
Of all companies, about 60% of start-ups survive to age three and roughly 35% survive to age 10, according to separate studies by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes U.S. entrepreneurship. Both studies counted only incorporated companies with employees. And companies that didn't survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects. Languishing businesses were counted as survivors.
Of the 6,613 U.S.-based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Less than 1% are currently in IPO registration.
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£32 NLHE MTT Rebuy: £32 NLHE MTT Rebuy: £32 NLHE MTT Rebuy: Decision on the turn.
£32 NLHE MTT Rebuy: £32 NLHE MTT Rebuy: £32 NLHE MTT Rebuy: Decision on the turn.
Hand from a local tournament at the weekend. Blinds 50/100, 10 handed. EP limps, Utg+3 (20k, no reads) raises to 300. HJ (25k, very loose, can play any 2) calls. I have 9s8s in CO(15k) and call. SB and BB call, EP limper calls. Pot 1800.
Turn 2c. Utg+3 leads for 2500, HJ raises to 5000. What's my play?
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I think this is an easy fold for me on the turn given UTG+3 acting behind and there would be better spots to play at this level of buyin.
There could be times UTG+3 leading with A9 and HJ min-raising with TJ but I think more often either one would have overpair/A2/88/99.
I would fold bc the HJ is an any 2 player. UTG+3 could also have an overpair to the board. Multiway pots are the worst. Maybe reraise more preflop or on the flop to avoid this situation in the future.
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Assuming this is a loose type of game.
There's an argument for raising preflop here.
preflop: calling is fine because we are deep but there are very specific types of flops we are looking for and we can't put in very much money until we see one of those flops (for instance if the EP limper squeezes preflop we might just have to fold). Depending on my table I will sometimes raise smallish here (like 850-1,000) to try and get HU in position with a lot of dead money. At some tables only a huge raise will accomplish that and so I'll call along.
FLOP: this is one of those flops I was talking about. we essentially have the nuts in a very multiway pot and players are betting into us. THIS IS GOOD. however, our hand is vulnerable so we need to charge the draws and narrow the field with a hand that we are trying to get stacks in against. I would raise much bigger on the flop; with a 400 lead and 3 callers it presumes nobody is super strong but the pot is getting very big. we need to make about a pot sized raise which would be 1800+400+400+400+400 = 3,400. I think any raise 3,000-4,000 is OK here.
Turn: As played every overpair now beats us and facing the action of a lead and a raise on the flop I guess we fold. It's gross but we have new info now and we only beat bluffs. Time to sigh fold. money saved is as good as money earned.
I did fold. Utg+3 called. River was 3s. Goes check, check. Utg+3 shows Ad9d, HJ shows KsJs. Safe to say I wasn't pleased.
I think overs are unlikely considering the preflop and flop action.
Preflop is completely fine, you are getting good odds, and considering you are suited I belive it gives you quite enough chances to connect with the board and continue.
On the flop you made it way to small of a raise. You have to consider that if one player on the blinds for example call, then the next to act has great odds to call too, which then gives even better odds for every other player. Considering this is sort of a deepstack tournament (noticed you all have 150-250 BB stacks) another 1400 or 14 BB is not that much to call.
Once you did get called, and considering the action on the turn, it is probably a fold. Maybe you could call once in a while there, just to make sure you are not folding too much. Because, when I take into consideration the action pre flop, it is not likely anyone has QQ+ , probably not even JJ, however TT is a likely hand, but so are all the 9x hands, especially for HJ who is a loose player as you say.
Another reason I wouldn't rush and put anyone on an overpair is the flop action. You made it too small of a raise, and gave great price for K9 to call or A8 or something similar. Don't forget that straight draws are also in there staying till the river, especially considering it is a rebuy tournament.
As I write this post, I kinda feel as if I am talking myself into calling, and it becomes, in my mind, a better decision. If the hand went to the showdown, mind saying what they had?