BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – In a bizarre set of circumstances on Saturday, the famed Beverly Hilton Hotel was bustling with the annual Clive Davis Pre-Grammy party - all while an investigation into the death of Davis's own protégé and musical legend, Whitney Houston, was being conducted a few floors above.
The multi-award winning singer, 48, was discovered by her bodyguard in the bathtub of her fourth floor room late Saturday afternoon.
The Beverly Hills Police Department received a 911 call at around 3.43pm to respond to a medical emergency, and the fire department was already on the scene in preparation for the star-studded Davis party. Despite paramedics attempts to revive Houston via CPR, she was pronounced dead at 3.55pm. She was positively identified by members of her team, and her daughter Bobbi Kristina, 19, and mother Cissy were notified of her death.
According to TMZ, Houston had spoken to her mom by phone less than half-an-hour before she died, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. A few hours prior to that, Houston's cousin Dionne Warwick had also called and again, everything appeared fine. The pop queen, who is listed as residing in New Jersey, had apparently been staying at the well-known Beverly Hills hotel for several days with the intention of attending Davis's Grammy bash.
Houston had walked the red carpet Thursday night and performed at the "Kelly Price & Friends Unplugged: For the Love of R&B Grammy Party," at L.A.'s Tru Hollywood nightclub, but left the event looking particularly worse for wear with blood stains on her legs and hair over her face. According to multiple reports, she seemed upset, was acting erratically and yelling at people in the club.
TMZ reported that Houston had yet another boisterous evening with her entourage on Friday, filled with heavy partying at the Beverly Hilton bar that raised quite a few eyebrows.
However, that very bar was a scene of chaos in quite a different fashion on Saturday night. Despite speculation that the 800-person Davis party would be canceled following the tragic news, it was business-as-usual as droves of onlookers, media and high-profile guests including Britney Spears, NeYo, Tom Hanks, Matthew Morrison, Dr. Dre, Tony Bennett, Diana Ross and Jon Voight stepped out for the swanky affair.
"A few hours ago they were thinking of canceling (tonight)," party guest and music big-wig, Richard Branson, said ahead of the party. "But Clive said Whitney would have wanted the show to go on."
Yet in among the black chauffeured SUVs rolling in to drop off talent was the "Crime Lab" police van parked near the valet circle, although it was later moved to the hotel's back loading dock. Calls to the Coroner confirmed that they had not yet been notified of Houston's death, and as of late Saturday night, police were still in the process of seeking a search warrant to the room where she died to conduct a full investigation.
"This is just wrong. Her body is still right here in the building, and yet here everyone is out partying and playing her tribute music," said one onlooker, as news of Houston's death flashed across a television in the hotel lobby. "It's so eerie."
"It's surreal. I can't believe the body is still here and this is all going on," he said. "I don't know if its disrespectful, or a celebration of her life."
Some were learning of Houston's death for the first time, expressing shock and confusion, and almost everyone was whispering among themselves or phoning a friend to commiserate the news.
Away from the flurry of posing celebrities, extremely loud music and sponsored ads (there was even a car on display accompanied by colorful flashing lights) there was action behind the building. News crews, paparazzi, security personnel and police vehicles took over the back entrance, under speculation that Houston's body would be taken from the hotel amid the madness.
A small vigil of a few fans also formed at one side entrance by the hotel, however anyone who wasn't a hotel or party guest/employee most likely wouldn't have made it past security and inside the Hilton in the wake of the news.
The cause of death remains unknown, however foul play is not suspected.
Grammy president Neil Portnow confirmed at the Davis party that Jennifer Hudson will perform a Houston tribute at the awards ceremony on Sunday, and L.A. Reid told us that the late singer was in premature negotiations to take a role of the judging panel of next season's "The X-Factor."
"Whitney's people reached out about her being on 'X-Factor' and if she would have been on she would have been an amazing mentor," he said.


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"As we've seen in the last 10 years, distracted driving in my opinion has overtaken alcohol," Master Sgt. Bryan Falat said, according to WGN.
Troopers say they're on the look out for drivers who are texting or driving erratically, among other violations, according to NBC Chicago.
"It's day and night that people are doing it, so many people are getting hurt so many people are dying because of it," Falat said, according to WGN.
Illinois is not the only state putting its troopers in semis. Nebraska has its own Trooper in a Truck program and both Tennessee and Florida have semi-trucks in their fleet.
Monster gator struck on I-10 by semi truck. It only made him mad
A routine traffic stop ended with a Florida highway trooper dragged 100 feet
Illinois State Troopers are using semis to spot distracted drivers. Screengrab: NBC Chicago
Dawson White
Dawson covers goings-on across the central region, from breaking to bizarre. She is an MSt candidate at the University of Cambridge and lives in Kansas City.

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When I made my faux window, I needed an extra mirror (cause I kept breaking them). This frame held a mirror until I snatched it.
By now you know I have tons of small little pieces of scraps. I cut this little back with my table saw. You could use foam core or cardboard if you don't have a saw to cut a piece of wood.
I got these vinyl letters on clearance at Meijer. I only got one set. The word I choose to use can only have 1 of each letter. I could have googled it I guess, but I knew which word I wanted to use. You can find similar stick on letters on Amazon.
Jamie had given me a quart yellow "oops" paint for Christmas. I sort of dry brushed it on, because I wanted it to look old. I like to do a dry brush technique with a chip brush.
Luckily my letters fit perfectly from left to right!
After I applied the letters, I used some watered down yellow and painted over the letters.
I left the letters on, but if you used a two step paint technique, you could peel the letters off revealing the base coat of paint underneath.
You don't have to own an electronic cutting machine to make easy DIY signs.
It looks great & I'm impressed you came up with a word that only uses each letter once & a GREAT WORD TOO! I love it!
Yes, that did turn out nice!
Cool idea! I'm a signaholic and am always looking for new creative ways to produce them. Thanks for your idea and linking it up to SNS!
Nice post. Greta tutorial. Thank you.
You always come up with such great projects.
I love oops paint- to me oops paint is almost always meant to be —someone else's little treasure.
Oh so cute and endless sign sayings, thanks for sharing.
You make me feel like a slacker. 🙂 You always have the most adorable little projects going on. Oh I am so jealous. I am DONE painting…actually it is better to say I am DONE cutting wood, gluing, nailing, measuring, caulking, priming, AND painting. I really have to rethink redoing a room I can't work on at night. Oh well…at least I can not work on my FAVORITE part — accessorizing.


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package com.praetoriandroid.cameraremote.rpc;

import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
import com.google.gson.JsonArray;
import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializationContext;
import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializer;
import com.google.gson.JsonElement;
import com.google.gson.JsonParseException;
import com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException;

import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

public class GetMethodTypesRequest extends BaseRequest<String, GetMethodTypesResponse> {

    private static Gson customGson;

    public GetMethodTypesRequest() {
        this("");
    }

    public GetMethodTypesRequest(String version) {
        super(GetMethodTypesResponse.class, RpcMethod.getMethodTypes, version);
    }

    @Override
    public GetMethodTypesResponse parseResponse(Gson gson, String data) throws JsonSyntaxException {
        synchronized (GetMethodTypesRequest.class) {
            if (customGson == null) {
                customGson = createGson();
            }
        }
        return super.parseResponse(customGson, data);
    }

    private Gson createGson() {
        return new GsonBuilder()
                .registerTypeAdapter(MethodTypesEntity.class, new MethodTypesEntityDeserializer())
                .create();
    }

    private static class MethodTypesEntityDeserializer implements JsonDeserializer<MethodTypesEntity> {
        @Override
        public MethodTypesEntity deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT, JsonDeserializationContext context)
                throws JsonParseException {
            try {
                if (!json.isJsonArray()) {
                    throw new JsonParseException("The entity must be an array");
                }
                JsonArray entities = json.getAsJsonArray();
                if (entities.size() != 4) {
                    throw new JsonParseException("The entity must be of size 4");
                }
                if (!entities.get(1).isJsonArray() || !entities.get(2).isJsonArray()) {
                    throw new JsonParseException("Both [1] and [2] elements must be string-arrays");
                }
                String name = entities.get(0).getAsString();
                List<MethodTypesEntity.AbstractClass> parameterTypes = new ArrayList<MethodTypesEntity.AbstractClass>();
                for (JsonElement element : entities.get(1).getAsJsonArray()) {
                    String className = element.getAsString();
                    parameterTypes.add(getClassByName(className));
                }
                List<MethodTypesEntity.AbstractClass> responseTypes = new ArrayList<MethodTypesEntity.AbstractClass>();
                for (JsonElement element : entities.get(2).getAsJsonArray()) {
                    String className = element.getAsString();
                    responseTypes.add(getClassByName(className));
                }
                String version = entities.get(3).getAsString();
                return new MethodTypesEntity(name, parameterTypes, responseTypes, version);
            } catch (RuntimeException e) {
                throw new JsonParseException(e);
            }
        }

        private MethodTypesEntity.AbstractClass getClassByName(String name) throws JsonParseException {
            MethodTypesEntity.AbstractClass result = classNames.get(name);
            if (result == null) {
                if (isCompoundObject(name)) {
                    return parseClassDescription(name);
                } else {
                    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown type: '" + name + "'");
                }
            }
            return result;
        }

        private boolean isCompoundObject(String description) {
            return description.startsWith("{") && (description.endsWith("}") || description.endsWith("}*"));
        }

        private MethodTypesEntity.ClassDescription parseClassDescription(String descriptionText) {
            MethodTypesEntity.ClassDescription description;
            int tail;
            if (descriptionText.endsWith("*")) {
                description = new MethodTypesEntity.ClassDescriptionArray();
                tail = 1;
            } else {
                description = new MethodTypesEntity.ClassDescription();
                tail = 0;
            }

            String[] fields = descriptionText.substring(1, descriptionText.length() - 1 - tail).split(", ?");
            for (String field : fields) {
                String[] pair = field.split(":");
                if (pair.length != 2) {
                    throw new IllegalArgumentException();
                }
                String name = pair[0];
                String type = pair[1];
                MethodTypesEntity.AbstractClass clazz = classNames.get(type.substring(1, type.length() - 1));
                if (clazz == null) {
                    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown type: " + type);
                }
                description.put(name.substring(1, name.length() - 1), clazz.getSimpleClass());
            }
            return description;
        }

        private static final Map<String, MethodTypesEntity.AbstractClass> classNames = new HashMap<String, MethodTypesEntity.AbstractClass>();
        static {
            classNames.put("bool", new MethodTypesEntity.SimpleClass(boolean.class));
            classNames.put("bool*", new MethodTypesEntity.SimpleClass(boolean[].class));
            classNames.put("int", new MethodTypesEntity.SimpleClass(int.class));
            classNames.put("int*", new MethodTypesEntity.SimpleClass(int[].class));
            classNames.put("double", new MethodTypesEntity.SimpleClass(double.class));
            classNames.put("double*", new MethodTypesEntity.SimpleClass(double[].class));
            classNames.put("string", new MethodTypesEntity.SimpleClass(String.class));
            classNames.put("string*", new MethodTypesEntity.SimpleClass(String[].class));
        }

    }

}

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cometbus · interview · zines · 7 comments · Sep 22, 2016
Interview with Zine Publisher Aaron Cometbus
Opening up the digest sized zine, Cometbus, you'll often see handwritten text within the obscured cover art. The insides appear to be undoubtedly created without the use of a computer, yet Cometbus heavily inspired the publication of Giant Robot. The...
carsick cars · cometbus · moshpit · Music · MW · News · perpetually 12 · perpetually twelve · the gar · Mar 14, 2013
Show Review: Carsick Cars at the Redwood Bar; Zine Reviews: Cometbus, Radon, Moshpit, Perpetually 12
On Sunday night, the Maybe Mars crew from Beijing made a stop in Downtown L.A.'s Redwood Bar with their flagship band Carsick Cars. I got there just in time to catch White + (featuring Carsick's guitarist and singer Shouwang Zhang with drummer Wang Xu from The Gar). Their last song had a cool Krautrock-style drone that I'd like to hear more of. Carsick Cars has a new bass player and drummer but played the great, melodic, Sonic Youth-informed old stuff and snuck in some new, more rocking sounds as well. Shouwang is still an axe master, mixing the minimal technique of Steve Reich with the hooks of Pavement and making Carsick Cars the best gateway band to the Chinese indie scene. Rounding out the show was The Gar, whose most jangly song kinda reminded me of Libertines. What do you think? It was good to see Charles Saliba, one of the guys behind Beijing's Maybe Mars record label. He facilitated the coverage of Carsick Cars, PK14, and other great bands from Beijing in Giant Robot mag as well as an in-store at GR2 years ago. Charles said that this year's tour was scaled back some, with just a handful of shows in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Austin, and New York City. If you get a chance to catch the tour in the Big Apple, don't miss it. Who knows when they'll return? ZINE REVIEWS Moshpit (52 pages, 4 or 5 bucks) This isn't new, but I picked it up from the Hamburger Eyes table at the Los Angeles Art Book Fair a last month. Ray Potes's zine of SF Giants riot pictures was sold out, so I got this instead. In Moshpit, photographer Josie Raymondetta collects nothing but hyper contrasting images of hardcore punk and metal shows, directing her lens at the crowd as often as the stage. Who are the bands? Where are the venues? Who cares! The energy and images totally rip, and convey the power of heavy music silently and brutally. [www.hamburgereyes.com] Perpetually 12 9 (68 pages, 5 bucks) I'm a big fan of this San Diego based-zine, which boasts an adolescent name and format but is fully informed when it comes to indie punk, art, and life. I dig how McHank loves the old bands (RFTC's John Reis contributes an essay about The Ramones) but celebrates newer ones as well (Q&As with Mary Animoux from White Murder and Brandon Welchez from Crocodiles). The interviews, which are often hand-written, are separated by art contributed by the likes of Bwana Spoons, Skinner, Tim Kerr, Travis Millard, and McHank himself. Very cool and totally unfiltered, with a touching essay on the passing of Tony Sly (NUFAN) by Joey Cape (Lagwagon). [heymchank[at]gmail.com] Cometbus 55 (72 pages, 3 bucks) Two decades (and then some) is a long time to read about a guy's relationship with the scene and his crushes, girlfriends, and bands that pass through it. But Aaron Cometbus's view of radical politics in Berkeley goes well beyond the...


Hello loyal blog readers… Can you believe it? No post in 4 days? It's unheard of! Saying I was "busy" in Utah is an understatement, but here is the review of my trip. You be the judge.
The scariest part of my Saturday airport fiasco was finding out that the all the MSP-DTW flights until Tuesday were full, including connections at Chicago, Grand Rapids and Indianapolis. Even with the airline discount, confirmed seats for Rosie and I would be $750 each!!! We had prepared for the worst, including a rental car and a 14 hour drive back to Detroit. Luckily, we got on that last flight and didn't have to drive. And it's a good thing, because I'm running a fever again today with swollen tonsils, and I start my new job tomorrow. Never a dull moment!
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Denver Route Business for Sale – Huge Growth Opp.
Huge growth opportunity wholesale distribution business with accounts primarily in Denver and Aurora, CO. The business owner has the exclusive sales rights for Voortman Cookie products in this territory. Full training and support provided by the company. The route consists of major accounts including Walmart, Safeway and King Soopers. This route has the distribution rights to large grocery retailers that are already established.
Over the last 52 weeks the sales average is $2,913 per week. The owner is paid 20% commission which generates approximately $583 per week in gross income. Expenses will vary from owner to owner but are generally $100-$125 per week. This route is currently being operated by a fill-in driver and there is huge growth potential for a motivated owner. This route is being maintained by the company but has huge upside for a motivated owner.
Schedule is flexible but generally requires hours that start and end between 4am-2pm. Owner will need a cargo/delivery van, box truck or truck+trailer combination.


Most generally, to obtain child support, you must request an order for support from a state family court. The court will use a set of guidelines to set the amount of child support paid if the parties are not in agreement of the amount. There are different worksheets used in the calculation depending on the custodial arrangement. The worksheets are available at the Clerk of Court.
Contact a Iowa family law lawyer representing clients in Iowa City, Iowa today to schedule your initial consultation.


First up is VersionMaster. I needed a simple way to manage a version number (eg. "v1.0.8" etc) for the site, in order to keep track of minor and major updates as I changed things around and added new features. More importantly, I wanted to have this happen automatically whenever I deployed a new release using Capistrano. I first took a look at toland's app_version but it didn't quite do what I needed so I came up with my own little implementation.
You can then use the constant APP_VERSION in your views or elsewhere to display the current version.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace _03._Decimal_to_Binary_Converter
{
    class DecimalToBinary
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var inputDecimal = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
            var binaryStack = new Stack<int>();
            if (inputDecimal > 0)
            {
                while (inputDecimal > 0)
                {
                    binaryStack.Push(inputDecimal % 2);
                    inputDecimal /= 2;
                }

                while (binaryStack.Count > 0)
                {
                    Console.Write(binaryStack.Pop());
                }
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine(0);
            }

        }
    }
}


Our online World Book Day survey included: 'If I had to recommend one book it would be...' We've been blogging these responses for some weeks. Now here's an online magazine of them all, via Issuu- 79 recommendations from all over the world, covering all sorts of books. Enjoy!
Click for a closer view, and click again for an even closer one. You can also download it to your own computer or print it out.


I love shopping around for new newborn photography props to add to my collection. I tend to lean towards neutrals with color accents and always keep it simple! I have found over the years that too much frill can sometimes overshadow the cuteness of the baby. I love items that almost have a vintage look-n-feel to them. Here are the most recent newborn boy outfits, sleep caps and newsboy hat that I have in my collection. I can't wait to photograph your little bundle of joy wearing one or more of these!
If you are interested in scheduling a newborn consultation, please visit me here today to learn more about my services!


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On March 28th 2019, CHANEL celebrated the opening of its first flagship boutique in Seoul. Since March 22nd the spacious seven-floor entirely new building offers the most luxurious retail experience to its clients on Apgujeong-ro. Cementing CHANEL's long-standing presence in South Korea, this is the legendary House's 10th boutique across the country.


We have recently published the analytical research that outlines the price niches in the 3D GPU sector. It shows that the High-End products take almost 0.1% of the whole video card market in Russia (it makes 7-9% in Europe and USA because of the higher standard of life and lower prices).
I've already expressed what I think about the pricing. High-End products have become too expensive, and they only morally hold the gaming 3D crown.
Are such products priced at $500 worth our attention? Well, all new technologies are tested on such cards that is why it's better to describe them using powerful accelerators. Besides, if users pay such sum of money they have the right to get as detailed information on performance of such cards as possible because in most cases all such functions (like AA, anisotropy) are going to be enabled. Owners of Low-end and some Middle-end cards hardly need such functions because of a relatively low speed. After all, most low-end cards are actually designed only for 2D and they just optionally offer 3D functions. That is why we carefully test every High-End product. We have sifted a lot of cards of such class (some of them stepped down to the Middle-end sector, some became dated, some simply died). Some of the cards listed below sometimes crowned the 3D top.
However, it doesn't turn us away from problems of the low- and middle-end sectors. Some of such cards are highlighted in our 3Digest, others are reviewed separately. Today it's high time to make a kind of a general review like that we made for sub-$100 cards. I hope by the New Year we will manage to cover all sub-$80 accelerators in one review.
And today we are testing one more High-End card based on the RADEON 9800 XT and made by Hercules. This is Guillemot's subdepartment that produces all cards under the 3D Prophet trade mark on ATI's GPUs.
The card has AGP x8/x4 interface, 256MB DDR SDRAM in 8 chips on both PCB sides.
Hynix 2.5ns memory chips, HY5DU573222 (corresponds to 400 (800) MHz), memory clocked at 365 (730) MHz, GPU at 412 MHz. 256-bit memory bus.
This is obviously a copy of the reference card. Although earlier all RADEON 9800 PRO based cards were made at the same factory, released with ATI's part number and then sent to ATI's partners, Hercules's cards had their own peculiarities (blue textolite, copper coolers on GPU and memory chips). Now all RADEON 9800 XT based cards except those for ASUS are produced at the same factory, and the partners only attach their stickers.
The cooler was already discussed in the basic RADEON 9800 XT review. Let me just briefly repeat it.
This beautiful cooler is also very efficient. Moreover, its dimensions let the card take only one AGP slot.
On the back it has a copper plate that is reliably pressed against the memory chips with two buckles (both sinks are screwed to the card). A special jut on the plate is attached to the PCB in the place where the core is located.
The fan is pretty quiet (but it starts buzzing when the card overheats). Some owners of the 9800XT based cards say that the reference system is not that quiet but we didn't come across such cards.
The card supports VIVO provided that the Rage Theater 200 chip is installed (there is space for for it).
Have a look at the box and accessories.
The box is made of thick cardboard and traditionally pictures a monster. The clock speeds are indicated as well.
The box contains a user guide, software CD (including Hercules overclocker), PowerDVD, coupon for Half-Life2, TV extension cords, DVI-to-d-Sub and SVideo-to-RCA adapters, external power supply adapter.
ATI drivers v6.396 (CATALYST 3.9).
ATI RADEON 9800 XT (412/365 (730) MHz, 256 MB DDR).
NVIDIA GeForce Fx 5950 Ultra (475/475 (950) MHz, 256 MB DDR, driver 52.16).
Let me explain you why this card is considered the most powerful one among RADEON 9800 XT based ones. The matter is that starting from the CATALYST version 3.8 such cards possess the OverDrive function which allows increasing the GPU clock at certain temperatures.
When overclocked, the card reached 470/760 MHz.
Some time ago we decided not to compare anymore ATI's maximum anisotropic quality of 16x to two NVIDIA's modes. The ANISO 8x Quality mode delivered the real maximum quality with both trilinear filtering and anisotropy working to their full capacity. The ATI 16x Quality showed sharper images due to the 16th degree but on some surfaces the filtering quality was lower. That's the way ATI's anisotropy works. That is why we thought it was more correct to compare this ATI's mode with NVIDIA's Performance and Quality.
Apart from testing the performance we'll also check quality of the RADEON 9800 XT and GeForce FX 5950 Ultra based cards in some benchmarks. First of all, the rumor has it that ATI's drivers have some cheats that reduce quality, and secondly, the developers released a new driver version (3.9) which should be tested as well. But it will be thoroughly tested in our 3Digest.
The bit-per-bit comparison shows the difference only for moving objects (sky, weapon, shadows). I didn't resort to the AutoContrast not to distinguish the pixels that have slight color difference. Gamers won't notice it.
I don't know how the guys from NVIDIA managed to reveal such difference between the RADEON and GeForce at their conference, but our benchmarks don't show such a great difference. By the way, earlier we analyzed quality in this test and found out that NVIDIA simplified the trilinear filtering in some modes.
I don't understand why NVIDIA used exactly this benchmark to discredit ATI if they are not stainless themselves?
The Hercules card wins in all modes.
Again, there is no much difference except for the moving objects.
Well, this test uses a lot of shaders, and the Hercules R9800XT easily wins the battle.
The scenes with a great number of shaders make the RADEON 9800 XT a victor.
This scene uses much fewer shaders that is why the NV38 comes very close to the 9800XT, though the is still faster.
Anisotropy enabled: Hercules R9800XT win this round!
Light modes without AA and anisotropy: parity.
Anisotropy enabled: Hercules is a little ahead.
As you can see, the competitors don't differ much in quality. Let's also have a look at the game the shader quality in which much depends on the driver version. I mean the Morrowind.
Attention! The large screenshots are made in BMP and RAR packed, each measuring over 2 MB.
There's difference again only for moving objects (well, it's impossible to make a screenshot at the same moment). The screenshots are also a response to those who blame ATI's anisotropy on sloping surfaces: its anisotropy doesn't differ from NVIDIA's "true" one.
The last comes the AquaMark3.
The mist made from small polygons and the multipoligonal explosion that demonstrates Overdraw make ATI look inferior. What's that?
NVIDIA's fans publicly point at the shortcomings in ATI's realization, and do it primarily at seminars and conferences.
The example of the UT2003 demonstrates that if a company has problems with a certain benchmark, it also indicates its competitors' flaws in the same test. In the AquaMark3 the RADEON has an evident defect. On the other hand, ATI assures that there are no cheats in this benchmark, and this is the programmers who are to be blamed (though I don't understand whose programmers are faulty: either the AquaMark3 has some peculiar ways of realization of the DX functions, or the programmers at ATI use their own ones and the AquaMark3 doesn't detect it).
ATI seems to have forgotten about quality and keeps on making mistakes. If it really is just a mistake in the AquaMark3, they will correct it soon, because cheats usually live forever... But if it's a cheat, it will soon become clear that ATI doesn't play a fair game, like NVIDIA.
The Hercules RADEON 9800 XT graphics card is the fastest accelerator today provided that all such cards have the clock speed of 445 MHz (i.e. not only this sample).
If you are ready to pay $500 for a 3D accelerator the Hercules 3D Prophet 9800 XT can become the best choice (provided that the price is not too higher compared to other 9800 XT based cards).
Its quality has both advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, the RADEON 9800 XT never loses and even sometimes looks superior (for example, in Yager). On the other hand, the quality degrades in some benchmarks, and it happens mostly through the programmers' fault.


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Putting the Cost of COVID-19 in Perspective
Avery Koop
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Putting the Economic Cost of COVID-19 in Perspective
When it comes to the toll on human life, mental well-being, and any long-term complications, the true cost of COVID-19 can be difficult to quantify.
That said, from a purely economic angle, researchers can and do examine these things—as well as economic data like unemployment and lost GDP, to assign dollar figures to the pandemic.
Using data from a study out of Harvard University, these visualizations focus on putting the economic cost of COVID-19 in the U.S. in perspective. To help us understand the immense price associated with a pandemic, the study looked at other comparables like the costs of running America's longstanding war on terror.
The Cost of COVID-19
Since the pandemic took hold in the U.S. in March 2020, job loss has been one of the most significant consequences. Unemployment claims in the U.S. have recently reached a total of 60 million, while lost GDP is estimated to be around $7.6 trillion.
Unemployment, uncertainty, lost loved ones, and lost social connections, have led to spikes in depression and anxiety. In April 2020, around 40% of U.S. adults reported having at least one of these mental illnesses. Based on the sheer number of people struggling, the cost of mental health impairment could be as high as $1.6 trillion, according to these researchers.
Cost (Billions)
Lost Gross Domestic Product (GDP) $7,592
Premature Death $4,375
Long-Term Health Impairment $2,572
Mental Health Impairment $1,581
The economic value of a human life can be put in terms of 'statistical lives', a notion used in both American and global health policy. While human life is priceless, the value tied to one using this metric sits between $7-$10 million. Even when using the lower end of the scale, the cost of premature death due to COVID-19 is estimated to be $4.4 trillion.
Finally, when looking at the long-term healthcare costs that could impact people who contract COVID-19, the price comes out to almost $2.6 trillion. These costs will go on for decades as certain lifelong conditions can emerge out of COVID-19, like respiratory and cardiovascular issues.
Many of these conditions could also end up causing premature deaths, drawing out the total cost of COVID-19 even further.
The Cost of War
Both a global pandemic and a war have long-term health consequences and are extremely pricey.
The estimated cost of the post-9/11 wars rises to over $6 trillion. This is measured by the spending of the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and USAID. The estimate also takes into consideration current and future spending on medical and disability care for veterans, the cost of war appropriations and spending, the estimated interest on borrowing for different departments, and the spending the Department of Homeland Security has done in order to prevent and respond to terrorism.
Department of Defense $1,959
State Department/USAID $131
Estimated Interest on Borrowing for DOD and State Dept OCO Spending $925
Estimated Increases to DOD Base Budget Due to Post-9-11 Wars $803
"OCO for Base" a new category of spending in FY2019 and FY2020 $100
Medical and Disability Care for Post-9/11 Veterans $437
Homeland Security Spending for Prevention and Response to Terrorism $1,054
Total War Appropriations and War-Related Spending through FY 2020 $5,409
Estimated Future Obligations for Veterans Medical and Disability FY2020 –FY2059 $1,000
Total War-Related Spending through FY2020 and Obligations for Veterans
Medical and disability care for veterans from the post-9/11 wars specifically comes out to $437 billion, with estimated future obligations for their care going up to $1 trillion.
The increases to the Department of Defense's budget was $803 billion thanks to the post 9/11 wars, and the Department of Homeland Security has spent more $1.05 trillion on terrorism prevention and response.
While the costs associated with war are immense, and while the consequences of fighting in a war are usually lifelong, the estimated price is still about $10 trillion cheaper than the cost of COVID-19 in the United States.
Throwing Money at the Problem?
The short-term solution to COVID-19 seems to be vaccine investment, with the U.S. currently purchasing more than one billion doses. Vaccines could spell the return to a more normal life, both in terms of physical health and the health of the economy.
While economic recovery is on the horizon, the U.S—and other nations around the globe—will continue to pay the cost of COVID-19 for years to come.
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This chart plots polarization for various countries based on the Edelman Trust Institute's annual survey of 32,000+ people.
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How do you measure something that's made headlines for half a decade but is still difficult to quantify? We're talking about polarization.
Even within the social sciences, polarization covers everything from racial segregation, to labor skill levels, to class divide, to political ideology.
How Do You Quantify Polarization?
Edelman's data on which countries are the most polarized comes from survey results asking respondents two very simple questions:
How divided is their country?
How entrenched is the divide?
The questions help bring to light the social issues a particular country is facing and the lack of consensus on those issues.
Plotted against each other, a chart emerges. A country in the top–right corner of the chart is "severely polarized." Countries located closer to the lower–left are considered less polarized.
In the report, Edelman identifies four metrics to watch for and measure which help quantify polarization.
Economic Anxieties Will my family be better off in five years?
Institutional Imbalance Government is viewed as unethical and incompetent.
Class Divide People with higher incomes have a higher trust in institutions.
Battle for Truth Echo chambers, and a low trust in media.
Following Edelman's metrics, countries with economic uncertainty and inequality as well as institutional distrust are more likely to be polarized. Below, we look at key highlights from the chart.
Severely Polarized Countries
Despite being one of the largest economies in Latin America, Argentina is the most polarized country surveyed by a large margin. Foreign loan defaults, a high fiscal deficit, and now surging inflation have created a perfect storm in the country.
43% of the Argentinian respondents said they will be better off in five years, down 17 percentage points from last year.
Along with fiscal upheaval, Argentinians are also dealing with enduring corruption in the public sector and abrupt policy reversals between governments. Only 20% of those surveyed in Argentina said they trusted the government—the least of all surveyed countries.
Here are all six of the countries considered to be severely polarized:
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In the U.S., heightened political upheaval between Democrats and Republicans over the last few years has led to strengthening ideological stances and to an abundance of headlines about polarization. Only 42% of respondents in the country trust the government.
And in South Africa, persistent inequality and falling trust in the African National Congress also check off Edelman's metrics. It's also second after Argentina with the least trust in government (22%) per the survey.
Moderately Polarized Countries
The biggest cluster of 15 countries are in moderately polarized section of the chart, with all continents represented.
Some are on the cusp of being severely polarized, including economic heavyweights like Japan, the UK, France, and Germany. On the other hand, smaller economies like Thailand, Kenya, and Nigeria, are doing comparatively better on the polarization chart.
Less Polarized Countries
Countries with fair economic outlook and high trust in institutions including China, Singapore, and India are in the bottom left sector of the chart.
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It's interesting to note that of the seven countries in that sector, three are not democracies. That said, there are also more developing countries on this list as well, which could also be a factor.
Edelman notes that polarization is both "cause and consequence of distrust," creating a self-fulfilling cycle. Aside from the four metrics stated above, concerns about the erosion of civility and weakening social fabric also lead to polarization.
As global events unfold in 2023—including looming worries of a recession—it will be fascinating to see how countries might switch positions in the year to come.
Where does this data come from?
Source: The 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer
Data note: Survey conducted: Nov 1 – Nov 28, 2022. Survey included 32,000+ respondents in 28 countries. Russia was omitted from this year's survey. See page 2 of the report for more details.
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We Are One Step Closer in Getting to Know the Cosmos Better
By Anna C. Mackinno , in News Sci/Tech on July 17, 2018 . Tagged width: Cosmos
We, as human beings, need to be challenged constantly. We also need to make the most out of our opportunities and happiness every day. Sometimes, between all the political and personal problem, a little cosmic perspective never hurt anyone. Sometimes, we just need to look at the sky and think about our situation – we might see it from another perspective.
We don't know everything about our Galaxy. We always ask questions, but the answers never come. However, we did find something. IceCube is the observatory that was built in 2010 and that helped in finding a neutrino to a galaxy which has a big black hole in its center.
Why are neutrinos important?
Neutrinos are those subatomic particles that have no mass and no electrical charge. Meaning that it's very rare to find proof of their existence. This does not, however, entail that they're rare – as trillions pass through us each second and leave no trace behind.
It doesn't happen so often, but a neutrino will hit another particle and will create a marker. IceCube caught that moment, and scientists announced the other observatories of it. It's good to remember that neutrinos go in a straight line at *almost* the speed of light, regardless of that they meet on their way.
Scientists still work to find out details about black holes and dark matter. Neutrinos are the ones which can give the researchers a tool for studying the cosmos. We should also mention the fact that there is a parallel international and intergalactic project which will give us the strongest radio telescope ever – it will be called Square Kilometre Array and it will have more than a million antennas.
We may not find the answers to fundamental questions, but we do have something: one step closer to getting to know the cosmos better.
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The Only Role Of Government Should Be To Promote The Economic Life Of The Community, Not To Save Lives.
May 14, 2020 / by Michael Accad via mises.org
It is tempting to oppose the harmful effects of COVID-related lockdowns with arguments couched in terms of tradeoffs.
We may contend that when public authorities promote the benefits of "flattening the curve," they fail to properly take into account the actual costs of imposing business closures and of forced social distancing: the coming economic depression will lead to mass unemployment, rising poverty, suicides, domestic abuse, alcoholism, and myriad other potential causes of death and suffering which could be considerably worse than the harms of the pandemic itself, especially if we consider the spontaneous mitigation that people normally apply under the circumstances.
While I have no doubt that lockdown policies can and will have serious deleterious consequences, I believe that the emphasis on tradeoffs is misguided and counterproductive. It immediately invites a utilitarian calculus: How many deaths and how much suffering will be caused by lockdowns? How many deaths and how much suffering would occur without the lockdowns? How exactly are we to measure the total harm? What time frame should we consider when we ponder the costs of one option versus the other?
It's easy to see that no one can have any firm answers to those questions. No one can convincingly make the case that one policy is better than the other on utilitarian grounds, which is what tradeoff language encourages us to do. That is especially true if we consider that lockdown policies are invariably modified in response to changing circumstances and aim toward ever shifting goalposts.
This goes to the heart of Ludwig von Mises's criticism of the empiricists and behaviorists of his day: they could only conceive of social phenomena in mechanical terms and failed to see that human action makes the planning of human affairs irreducible to predictive calculus. Things have not changed. Ludicrous presumptions hide behind mathematical wizardry and statistical modeling continues to rule.
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE ECONOMY
On what grounds, then, should we oppose lockdowns if not by calling attention to the great harms that will ensue?
It seems to me that lockdowns should be opposed not by arguing in terms of "quantity of harm," but by pointing out that the only role for government—whether in pandemic times or not—is actually to promote the economy.
But we need to understand what the economy is to begin with.
In its broader, original meaning, the economy is not simply a sum total of exchanges of material goods and services among consumers, businesses, and governments, to be measured as a "GDP." That is the concept that the utilitarians are accustomed to, and it's how mainstream political philosophy conceives of the economy. Originally, however, the Greek term Oîkonomia meant "household affairs" and came to refer, by extension, to the entire life of the community as such.
The reason to consider the life of the community as such is that the human being is, by nature, a social animal who depends essentially on the division of labor that takes place within an integrated and wholly interconnected society. We depend on the division of labor from the moment we are born: we need parents who can feed us, and our parents themselves need the specialized work of others to survive—specialized work that invariably crosses different generations. The division of labor forms a more or less tight-knit "political" community that promotes and defends the interests of its own members. That community may be a small primitive tribe or a huge nation-state, it is nevertheless one community engaged in the division of labor in its own unique way.
The division of labor, then, is not a matter of personal choice. Being connected to a community is not an option that one can choose to either engage in or refrain from. No one can live as an outcast. Even the hermit depends on others, and therefore on society. True ostracism is a death sentence, and involuntary partial ostracism (imprisonment) is a most severe punishment. The economy is as necessary to human life as oxygen or water are.
For that reason, the famous evolutionary sociobiologist E.O. Wilson has changed his perspective on the human race. He has taken the position that human beings are a "eusocial species," whose members are totally dependent on a complex, intergenerational division of labor in much the same way that bees are dependent on other bees. Man is indeed a very social animal.
THE TRUE COMMON GOOD
The broad division of labor on which we all essentially depend amounts to far more than the accounting transactions that occupy the attention of professional econometricians. It includes the myriad ways in which we depend on others, ways which may be at once measurable yet uncountable, self-interested yet gratuitous. Understood properly, the economy points to the true common good, the good that unites us as the eusocial animals that we are. That true common good does not distinguish between "essential" and "nonessential" worker or activity.
That understanding of the common good is a far cry from the perverted notion of it that dominates modern political thought: a stock of material goods or services to be taken from some and redistributed to others by the government according to "shared interests" and "rights." We should be especially fearful of that notion given that the same government determines what those shared interests and rights are based on mechanistic, utilitarian norms—norms that invariably garner votes.
If the government's role is to safeguard the true common good, then it should do so primarily by safeguarding the integrity of the society, in which the division of labor naturally takes place. Government acts properly when that integrity is threatened, either from within (by criminal activity) or from without (by outside invaders or aggressors). Its role is to deter or defend from those threats when private efforts cannot prevail. The role of government is not to defend or promote the particular goods of certain individuals. That's an abomination!
Even individual lives are not for the government to "save," because efforts by the government to save the lives of some invariably infringe on the goods and sometimes on the lives of others. The saving of individual lives cannot possibly be a promotion of the true common good.
But does not the saving of lives help safeguard the integrity of society?
Not really. To see this we must distinguish secondary effects from primary ones. For example, imagine that the police successfully intervene to stop Smith from murdering Jones. Did they act because the police has a mission to save Jones's life? No. The primary effect of the police action is to protect the integrity of the community by putting Smith and his sociopathic behavior out of commission. It is not, per se, to save Jones' life—even if he should be so lucky.
Likewise, when soldiers are deployed against an invading army, the primary aim is to defend the integrity of society. Military defense is not carried out primarily to save individual lives or reduce individual suffering: more lives might conceivably be lost and more individual suffering occasioned in the process of defending the country than if the country were to capitulate and allow the invader to take over.
BEWARE OF METAPHORS
Might one argue that a pandemic threatens the integrity of society precisely as a foreign invader would? Doesn't the COVID-19, then, warrant government action for that very reason?
I don't believe so. Such an argument falls into the metaphorical trap of considering the COVID-19 virus in martial terms. The virus is not an invader. It has no intention of destroying or taking over society. In fact, as Jörg Guido Hüllsman recently pointed out, it has no intention whatsoever. It is not even alive! To be sure, SARS-CoV-2 is a very dangerous and transmissible pollutant that can cause much harm and many deaths. But it is not, as such, a threat to the integrity of society.
It is the true economy and the integrity of society that the government should protect or promote. Lockdowns do the exact opposite. They fracture us, harm us, and weaken us all. If maintained long enough, they will disintegrate us. In the meantime, they undoubtedly obstruct our efforts to find the best way to respond to pandemics. They should be opposed—not because of tradeoffs—but because they are antithetical to the economy, that is, to the good of society.
Michel Accad, MD, practices cardiology and internal medicine in San Francisco, offering individualized care in a free-market setting. His blog about health care and medicine is AlertandOriented.com. He also co-hosts the Accad And Koa Report podcast.
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N.H. man faces license charge
FRANKLIN - A Nashua, N.H., man was arrested Thursday on Fisher Street around 1 a.m., police said.
Jonathan E. Rodriguez, 18, of 62 Monroe St., was charged with driving without a license, police said.
Upton woman arrested on warrants
UPTON - An Upton woman was arrested yesterdayon Main Street at 12:01 a.m., police said.
Stephanie Avis, 30, of 144 Main St., Apt. 2A, was arrested on two default warrants, police said.
Bellingham woman arrested on warrant
BELLINGHAM - A Bellingham woman was arrested Wednesday on Pulaski Boulevard at 3 p.m., police said.
Jennifer L. Driscoll, 27, of 1315 Jefferson Place, was arrested on a warrant, police said.
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FRAMINGHAM - A 39-year-old man was arrested yesterday after waving around a pocketknife in the parking lot of the Waverley Street Tedeschi Food Shops, police said.
John Nevarez, of 3A Massasoit St., Medway, was charged with disorderly conduct, police said.
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What's the Best Deal on a Mid-Size SUV in February 2020?
In addition to our monthly report on the best new-car deals industrywide, we're also focusing this month on deals for mid-size SUVs — vehicles for shoppers who want more space, quality and drivability than what most popular compact SUVs deliver, but not the family-hauling size of big three-row SUVs. Mid-size SUVs tend to cater to couples and small families: Excluding luxury brands, this class includes such sportier two-row SUVs as the Chevrolet Blazer, Ford Edge, Hyundai Santa Fe, Jeep Grand Cherokee and Nissan Murano, as well as a handful with a small third row, such as the Kia Sorento and Mitsubishi Outlander.
Related: What's the Best Mid-Size SUV of 2019?
Which of these mid-size SUVs have the biggest discounts off the sticker price in February 2020? From our survey of six major U.S. markets, here are prominent deals we spotted. All deals expire March 2 except for the Ford deals, which expire March 31.
Factory cash discounts on the 2020 Nissan Murano amount to some 7-15% off depending on your region and the trim level you want. Nissan is offering from $3,000 cash back to as much as $6,250 on the higher SL or Platinum trim levels. Those higher trim levels account for just over half of new 2020 model-year Murano SUVs on Cars.com as of this writing. Alternately, creditworthy shoppers in some markets can get 0% financing for 36 months through Nissan's finance unit, plus a $2,250 cash discount on SL or Platinum trim levels.
This one is a little complicated, as it varies both by region and the equipment on Kia's mid-size SUV. The brand is discounting all 2020 Sorentos by some 6-11%. The offers range from $2,500 off a four-cylinder Sorento (L and LX trim levels) to $3,500 off a Sorento with the available V-6 (S, EX and LX trim levels). Some regions offer an additional $500 off if you opt to add all-wheel drive (a $1,800 option). The lower-level four-cylinder Sorento should be easier to find: Of the 10,475 Sorentos currently listed nationwide on Cars.com, about three-fourths have the four-cylinder engine, and about a third of the four-cylinder examples also have AWD.
Alternately, creditworthy shoppers can get 0% financing for up to 66 months through Kia's finance unit and — in some regions — still get a $500 cash discount on a Sorento AWD. Heavy discounts on the 2020 Sorento discounting come because a redesigned 2021 Sorento arrives soon.
Factory cash discounts on the 2020 Ford Edge amount to some 3-6% off depending on your region and the trim level you want. Ford is offering from $1,250 to $2,000 cash back on the Edge's lower trim levels, SE and SEL, and $1,750 to $2,500 off the higher ones — Titanium or the high-performance ST.
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An honorable mention this month goes to the Mitsubishi Outlander for a $3,000 factory rebate that applies through March 31 to the 2019 models still on dealer lots. There are quite a few — accounting for about a fourth of the new Outlanders listed on Cars.com — but you'll miss out on the Outlander's additional standard safety features and revised multimedia system, among other changes, for 2020.
Remember, our numbers are current as of publication for the markets we survey (generally Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles and New York). They reflect advertised customer discounts, not unadvertised factory-to-dealer cash. Incentives may vary by region, trim level or equipment; automakers may also change them later in the month. In sum: Your discounts may vary, so check the automaker's consumer website under your ZIP code and also check with your local dealer for specifics.
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'The Captive': Cannes Review
4:21 AM PDT 5/16/2014 by David Rooney
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Ryan Reynolds and Mireille Enos in "The Captive"
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Ryan Reynolds and Mireille Enos play parents whose daughter is abducted while Scott Speedman and Rosario Dawson are the cops on their case in Atom Egoyan's thriller.
CANNES – "It's not a bad idea for a reality show." So says one of the geniuses in a spectacularly inept detective unit investigating a pedophile ring in The Captive. The criminal masterminds run a sideline in emotional porn by tormenting the parents of abducted children with reminders of their loss while filming them on hidden cameras. Sadly, the wiseass cop may have a point, since Atom Egoyan's lumbering thriller is otherwise of minimal use. The director renders an already bogus story more preposterous by lathering it in portentous solemnity; misguided loyalty to competition alumni is the only explanation for this film's presence in the Cannes lineup.
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Egoyan won the Special Jury Prize in Cannes in 1997 for arguably his best film, The Sweet Hereafter, based on the Russell Banks novel about grief, anger and guilt in the aftermath of a tragedy involving children. A more sinister variation on that scenario unfolds, again in a snowbound small town, in what may be his worst film, written by Egoyan and David Fraser from the director's story.
The other inevitable comparison here is with Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners, which also saw a Canadian director putting a somber, arty gloss on a Hollywood-style story of child abduction. While not without heavy-handed touches, that grittier film was nonetheless vastly superior, particularly in its acting and visuals, and its enveloping mood.
Structured in Egoyan's familiar time-shuffling mosaic style, The Captive is drowned from its earliest scenes in composer Mychael Danna's lugubrious score, unsuccessfully attempting to create suspense, atmosphere, or – God forbid – an emotional connection to this gelid account of a horrific crime and the years of family trauma that it sparks.
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A landscape contractor whose business is in trouble, Matthew Lane (Ryan Reynolds) is driving his 9-year-old daughter Cass (Peyton Kennedy) home from ice-skating practice. They stop to pick up pie at a highway diner during a heavy snowfall, and in the few minutes he's inside, Cass disappears from her dad's pickup. Working late at her job as a hotel cleaner when the incident happened, Matt's wife, Tina (Mireille Enos), settles instantly into blame mode, shutting out her husband and making her the most unsympathetic grieving screen mother in recent memory.
Before any of this has been divulged, Egoyan has already exposed us to the kidnapper, Mika (Kevin Durand), an icily elegant aesthete with a thing for Mozart's "Queen of the Night" aria. (Clearly, John Malkovich or Julian Sands weren't available.) It's eight years later and the teenage Cass (Alexia Fast) has been kept in confinement by Mika. He has her narrate childhood memories to accompany closed-circuit streaming of Tina as she finds objects associated with her missing daughter that have been planted in the rooms she cleans.
Meanwhile, we learn of the disappearance of Det. Nicole Dunlop (Rosario Dawson) after a charity ball where she was being honored as the public face of the police force's anti-pedophilia crackdown. That leaves her holed up in squalor in a mullet dress for much of the action, but given the ludicrous behavior of the police, that might be the least of her problems. This is the kind of movie in which a dumb cop makes a connection to online child predators and then leaves his webcam on to give the criminals a useful assist.
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That model detective would be Jeff Cornwall, played by Scott Speedman with so little gravitas that you wonder how he even passed the exams. Like Nicole, Jeff is drawn to work with the child-related crime unit by some dark episode in his past, but Egoyan somehow forgets to delve into that.
The plotting here is so hopelessly tangled, clichéd, and bereft of psychological complexity that it's difficult to care what happens to any of these people. That goes even for poor Cass, who seems at times to have a touch of Stockholm syndrome but otherwise just looks bored sitting around on the pink princess bed she's outgrown. As Mika's antics become more bizarre and her distraught dad out of nowhere starts outsmarting her tormentors, the movie goes from uninvolving to risible.
Given the nature of the crimes portrayed, it's curious how thoroughly this film bypasses any moments that could be called unsettling. And Egoyan's drowsy handling of the accelerated action as his denouement approaches is on par with the methods of his cop characters.
If his name weren't on the mess of a screenplay it might be easy to assume Egoyan took The Captive as a job for hire. There's no evidence of a personal investment in any of the characters or in the standard-issue dramatic themes, despite echoes of his earlier work. That leaves zero room for anyone in the cast to give a halfway interesting performance, though Reynolds is as solid as the inconsistently drawn role allows.
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Director: Atom Egoyan
Screenwriters: Atom Egoyan, David Fraser
Producers: Atom Egoyan, Simone Urdl, Jennifer Weiss, Stephen Traynor
Executive producers: Michele and Laurent Petin, Patrice Theroux, Bryan Gliserman
Director of photography: Paul Sarossy
Production designer: Phillip Barker
Costume designer: Debra Hanson
Editor: Susan Shipton
Music: Mychael Danna
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\section{\label{sec:mot}Motivation}

Our understanding of the light scalar meson sector (quantum numbers $J^P = 0^+$) is still incomplete \cite{Pelaez:2013jp,Pelaez:2014rla,pdg:sep2014}. The observed mass ordering of $\sigma$, $\kappa$, $f_0(980)$ and $a_0(980)$ is inverted compared to expectations from conventional $q \bar q$ quark model calculations. Moreover, when assuming a $q \bar q$ structure, it is hard to explain the mass degeneracy of $f_0(980)$ and $a_0(980)$. However, the interpretation of this meson sector assuming a four-quark structure is rather straightforward. The expected mass ordering is consistent with experimental results and due to an additional $s \bar s$ pair the degeneracy of $f_0(980)$ and $a_0(980)$ is not surprising (cf.\ Figure~\ref{fig:lightscalarspectrum}).

Several lattice QCD studies of the light scalar mesons have been published in the last couple of years \cite{Bernard:2007qf,Gattringer:2008be,Prelovsek:2008qu,Liu:2008ee,Wakayama:2012ne,
Prelovsek:2013ela,Wakayama:2014gpa}. In this work we continue our investigation of the $a_0(980)$ meson \cite{Daldrop:2012sr,Alexandrou:2012rm,Wagner:2012ay,
Wagner:2013nta,Wagner:2013jda,Wagner:2013vaa,Abdel-Rehim:2014zwa} and briefly discuss the applicability of our methods and codes to other systems, the $D_{s0}^\ast$ meson and some of the charged $c \bar{c}$ $X$ states. In particular the investigation of tetraquark candidates with two heavy
and two light quarks seems promising, since recent computations in the
static limit predict a bound state \cite{Bicudo:2015vta,Peters:2015tra}.

\section{\label{sec:operators}Interpolating operators and the correlation matrix}

Our investigations are based on a $6 \times 6$ correlation matrix
\begin{align}
\label{EQN100} C_{j k}(t) = \Big\langle \mathcal{O}^j(t_2) \mathcal{O}^{k \dag}(t_1) \Big\rangle \quad , \quad t = t_2 - t_1 .
\end{align}
The interpolating operators $\mathcal{O}^j$ generate quantum numbers $I(J^P) = 1(0^+)$,
\begin{align}
\mathcal{O}^1 = \mathcal{O}^{q\bar q} =& \sum_{\bf{x}} \Big( {\bar d}_{\bf x} {u}_{\bf x} \Big) \label{eq:operatorone}
 \\
\mathcal{O}^2 = \mathcal{O}^{K \bar{K} \text{, point}} =& \sum_{\bf{x}} \Big( {\bar s}_{\bf x} \gamma_5 {u}_{\bf x} \Big) \Big( {\bar d}_{\bf x} \gamma_5 {s}_{\bf x} \Big) \label{eq:operatortwo}
\\
\mathcal{O}^3 = \mathcal{O}^{\eta_s \pi \text{, point}} =& \sum_{\bf{x}} \Big( {\bar s}_{{\bf x}} \gamma_5 {s}_{{\bf x}} \Big) \Big( {\bar d}_{{\bf x}} \gamma_5 {u}_{{\bf x}} \Big) \label{eq:operatorthree}
 \\
\mathcal{O}^4 = \mathcal{O}^{Q \bar Q} =& \sum_{\bf{x}} \epsilon_{abc} \Big( {\bar s}_{{\bf x}, b} {(C \gamma_5)} {\bar d}^T_{{\bf x}, c} \Big) \epsilon_{ade} \Big( {u}^T_{{\bf x}, d} {(C \gamma_5)} s_{{\bf x}, e} \Big) \label{eq:operatorfour}
\\
\mathcal{O}^5 = \mathcal{O}^{K\bar{K} \text{, 2-part}} =& \sum_{{\bf x,y}} \Big( {\bar s}_{{\bf x}} \gamma_5 {u}_{{\bf x}} \Big) \Big( {\bar d}_{{\bf y}} \gamma_5 {s}_{{\bf y}} \Big) \label{eq:operatorfive}
\\
\mathcal{O}^6 = \mathcal{O}^{\eta_s \pi \text{, 2-part}} =& \sum_{\bf{x,y}} \Big( {\bar s}_{{\bf x}} \gamma_5 {s}_{{\bf x}} \Big) \Big( {\bar d}_{{\bf y}} \gamma_5 {u}_{{\bf y}} \Big) , \label{eq:operatorsix}
\end{align}
where $C$ is the charge conjugation matrix. The operator $\mathcal{O}^{q\bar q}$ generates a standard quark-antiquark state, while all other operators generate four-quark states. $\mathcal{O}^{K \bar{K} \text{, point}}$ and $\mathcal{O}^{\eta_s \pi \text{, point}}$ are of mesonic molecule structure ($K \bar{K}$ and $\eta_s \pi$), while $\mathcal{O}^{Q \bar Q}$ corresponds to a diquark-antidiquark pair (we use the lightest (anti)diquarks with spin structure $C \gamma_5$ \cite{Jaffe:2004ph,Alexandrou:2006cq,Wagner:2011fs}). These three operators are intended to model the expected structures of possibly existing four-quark bound states, i.e.\ of tetraquarks. The remaining two operators $\mathcal{O}^{K\bar{K} \text{, 2-part}}$ and $\mathcal{O}^{\eta_s \pi \text{, 2-part}}$ independently generate two mesons ($K + \bar{K}$ and $\eta_s + \pi$) and, hence, should be suited to resolve low-lying two-particle scattering states.

\begin{figure}[t]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=4.95cm,page=2]{0plusbelow1GeV}
\includegraphics[width=4.95cm,page=4]{0plusbelow1GeV}
\includegraphics[width=4.95cm,page=3]{0plusbelow1GeV}
\end{center}
\caption{\label{fig:lightscalarspectrum}Spectrum of light scalar mesons $(J^P = 0^+)$. Experimental results ~\textbf{(left)}; Theoretical expectation within the conventional quark model ($q \bar q$ structure) ~\textbf{(center)}; Theoretical expectation assuming a four-quark structure ~\textbf{(right)}.}
\end{figure}

In Figure~\ref{fig:diagrammatrix} the correlation matrix $C_{j k}$ is shown in a graphical way in terms of diagrams, where each line represents a quark propagator. Clearly there are disconnected diagrams and diagrams, where quarks propagate within a timeslice. Computing these diagrams precisely is very challenging (cf.\ section~\ref{sec:techniques} and \cite{Abdel-Rehim:2014zwa}).

\begin{figure}[htb]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=15.cm,page=1]{diagram_matrix}
\end{center}
\caption{\label{fig:diagrammatrix}Diagrammatic representation of the $6 \times 6$ correlation matrix $C_{j k}$ containing the interpolating operators \protect\eqref{eq:operatorone} to \protect\eqref{eq:operatorsix}. The diagrams only reflect the spatial quark propagation. Even though elements with $j,k \in \{ 2, 3, 4 \}$ appear to be identical, they differ in their spin and color structures.}
\end{figure}

Note that the correlation matrix given in Eq. (\ref{EQN100}) is also suited to studying the $D_{s0}^\ast$ meson, when replacing the quark flavors according to $u \rightarrow s$, $d \rightarrow c$ and $s \rightarrow u, d$. Similarly, one can explore certain charged charmed tetraquarks, when replacing $s \rightarrow c$.

\section{\label{sec:techniques} Techniques to compute the correlation matrix elements}

A number of diagrams of the correlation matrix shown in Figure~\ref{fig:diagrammatrix} are challenging to compute, in particular disconnected diagrams or diagrams, where quarks propagate within a timeslice. Our strategy is to combine several standard techniques including (a)~fixed-source propagators, (b)~stochastic timeslice-to-all propagators, (c)~the one-end trick and (d)~sequential propagators (cf.\ \cite{Abdel-Rehim:2014zwa} and references therein). For most diagrams there are a couple of possibilities, where in many cases the most efficient combination with respect to the required HPC resources and the obtained statistical accuracy can only be identified after extensive numerical tests and/or analytical considerations. Examples dealing with $C_{1 1}$ and the disconnected diagram of $C_{4 6}$ can be found in \cite{Abdel-Rehim:2014zwa}. Below we briefly discuss another example, $C_{1 5}$. A complete and detailed discussion of the full correlation matrix will be part of an upcoming publication.

The matrix element
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eq:correxample} C_{1 5}(t) = -\bigg\langle \sum_{\mathbf{x},\mathbf{y},\mathbf{z}} \mathrm{tr}\Big(G^s({\bf z},t_1;{\bf y},t_1)^\dag \gamma_5 G^u({\bf x},t_2;{\bf z},t_1)^\dag\gamma_5 G^d({\bf x},t_2;{\bf y},t_1)\Big) \bigg\rangle
\end{eqnarray}
(quark propagators are denoted by $G^q$) can e.g.\ be computed by combining the one-end trick and the technique of sequential inversions. The one-end trick realizes an implicit summation over a timeslice, which can be either at $t_1$ (case~(a)) or at $t_2$ (case (b)),
\begin{eqnarray}
\hspace{-0.7cm} \text{(a):}&
- \langle \sum_{\bf x,z} \mathrm{tr}\Big(
\underbracket{\textcolor{blue}{[\phi^s(z) \delta_{z_0,t_1}]^\dag \gamma_5 G^u({\bf x}, t_2;{\bf z},t_1)^\dag}}_\text{seq. inversion} \gamma_5 \textcolor{red}{\phi^d(x)}
\Big)\Big\rangle
\hspace{.2cm} &\rightarrow
- \Big\langle \sum_{\bf x} \mathrm{tr}\Big(
\textcolor{blue}{\psi^{u/s}(x)^\dag} \gamma_5 \textcolor{red}{\phi^d(x)}
\Big)\Big\rangle
\\
\hspace{-0.7cm} \text{(b):}&
- \Big\langle \sum_{\bf y,z} \mathrm{tr}\Big(
\textcolor{red}{\phi^d(y)^\dag} \gamma_5 \underbracket{\textcolor{blue}{G^s({\bf y}, t_1;{\bf z},t_1) \gamma_5  \phi^u(z)} }_\text{seq. inversion}
\Big)\Big\rangle
&\rightarrow
- \Big\langle \sum_{\bf y} \mathrm{tr}\Big(
\textcolor{red}{\phi^{d}(y)^\dag} \gamma_5 \textcolor{blue}{\psi^{s/u}(y)}
\Big)\Big\rangle
\end{eqnarray}
(cf.\ also Figure~\ref{fig:triangulardiagram}). At first glance both options seem to be equivalent. Note, however, that the computation of the sequential propagator (the blue lines in Figure~\ref{fig:triangulardiagram}), requires for case~(a) only $2$ inversions of the Dirac matrix, while for case~(b) $t_\textrm{max}/a + 1$ inversions are necessary to obtain $C_{1 5}(t)$ for $1 \leq t \leq t_\textrm{max}$. Clearly, proceeding as in (a) is more efficient than proceeding as in (b).

\begin{figure}[htb]
\begin{center}
\begin{minipage}{0.48\textwidth}
\hspace{-1cm}\includegraphics[width=9cm,page=1]{seq_prop}\vspace{.5cm}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.48\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=7.5cm,page=3]{pos_relevant}
\end{minipage}
\end{center}
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\caption{\label{fig:triangulardiagram}Two possibilities to compute $C_{1 5}$ using the one-end trick and sequential propagators. Both methods show comparable errors, but method (b) requires with $t/a+1$ inversions a more computational effort.}
\end{figure}

\section{\label{sec:results}Numerical results}

\begin{figure}[h!]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=14cm,page=4]{pos_relevant}\\
\vspace{-2.8cm}
\hspace{-2.7cm}\includegraphics[width=14cm,page=5]{pos_relevant}
\end{center}
\vspace{-4.cm}
\caption{\label{fig:results}\textbf{(top left)}~Effective masses from the $2\times2$ correlation matrix containing $\mathcal{O}^{K\bar K\text{,point}}$ and $\mathcal{O}^{\eta_s \pi \text{,point}}$. \textbf{(top right)}~Effective masses from the $4\times4$ correlation matrix containing additionally $\mathcal{O}^{K\bar K\text{,2-part}}$ and $\mathcal{O}^{\eta_s \pi\text{,2-part}}$. (The horizontal lines correspond to expected energies of the two-meson states $K + \bar{K}$ and $\eta_s + \pi$, where both mesons are at rest and with one relative quantum of momentum.) \textbf{(center left and right)}~Squared eigenvector components obtained from the $4 \times 4$ correlation matrix. \textbf{(bottom)}~Effective masses from the $5 \times 5$ correlation matrix containing additionally $\mathcal{O}^{Q \bar Q}$.}
\end{figure}

At the moment we are performing computations as described in section~\ref{sec:operators}, section~\ref{sec:techniques} and Ref.~\cite{Abdel-Rehim:2014zwa} using around 500 Wilson clover gauge link configurations with 2+1 dynamical quark flavors generated by the PACS-CS collaboration \cite{Aoki:2008sm}. The lattice size is $32^3 \times 64$, the lattice spacing $a \approx 0.09 \, \textrm{fm}$ and the light $u/d$ quark mass corresponds to $m_\pi \approx 300 \, \textrm{MeV}$. Since computations are ongoing and statistical accuracy is currently rather limited, we neglect in a first analysis diagrams of the correlation matrix, where quarks propagate within a timeslice, e.g.\ the diagram shown in Figure~\ref{fig:triangulardiagram} and all diagrams with closed quark loops. Consequently, $C_{1 j} = C_{j 1} = 0$ for $j = 2, \ldots , 6$, i.e.\ the correlation matrix shown in Figure~\ref{fig:diagrammatrix} is reduced to a $5 \times 5$ matrix containing the interpolating operators $\mathcal{O}^2 , \ldots , \mathcal{O}^6$.

We determine effective masses $E_n^\textrm{eff}$ and corresponding eigenvectors $\mathbf{v}_n$ by solving the standard generalized eigenvalue problem
\begin{eqnarray}
C(t) \mathbf{v}_n(t,t_r) = \lambda_n(t,t_r) C(t_r) \mathbf{v}_n(t,t_r) \quad , \quad E_n \overset{t \textrm{ large}}{=} E_n^\textrm{eff}(t,t_r) = \frac{1}{a} \ln\bigg(\frac{\lambda_n(t,t_r)}{\lambda_n(t+a, t_r)}\bigg)
\end{eqnarray}
with $t_r = a$.

Effective masses from the $2 \times 2$ correlation matrix containing only the mesonic molecule operators $\mathcal{O}^{K\bar K\text{,point}}$ and $\mathcal{O}^{\eta_s \pi \text{,point}}$ are shown in Figure~\ref{fig:results} (top left). There are two states at around $1 \, \textrm{GeV}$, i.e.\ roughly consistent with the expected mass of the $a_0(980)$ meson \cite{PDG} as well as with the two-meson states $K + \bar{K}$ and $\eta_s + \pi$ in our lattice setup.

Similarly, effective masses from the $4 \times 4$ correlation matrix containing additionally the two-meson operators $\mathcal{O}^{K\bar K\text{,2-part}}$ and $\mathcal{O}^{\eta_s \pi\text{,2-part}}$ are shown in Figure~\ref{fig:results} (top right). The same two low-lying states around $1 \, \textrm{GeV}$ are obtained, but the corresponding plateaus are reached at smaller temporal separations $t$ and exhibit less statistical fluctuations. The energies of the second and third excitations are significantly larger, consistent with the expected energies of two-meson states with one relative quantum of momentum. This indicates that the two low-lying states are of two-meson type, i.e.\ neither of the two corresponds to a bound four-quark state, which can be identified with the $a_0(980)$ meson. This is further supported by the squared eigenvector components of $\mathbf{v}_0$ and $\mathbf{v}_1$ obtained from the $4 \times 4$ correlation matrix, which are also shown in Figure~\ref{fig:results} (center left and right).

Results of an analogous analysis of a $5 \times 5$ correlation matrix containing also the diquark-antidiquark operator $\mathcal{O}^{Q \bar Q}$ are shown in Figure~\ref{fig:results} (bottom). Since no additional state at around $1 \, \textrm{GeV}$ appears, the conclusions are essentially the same as for the $4 \times 4$ correlation matrix: \textit{It thus seems that when neglecting quark propagation within a timeslice, and given the unphysical value of the pion mass we are investigating, the $a_0(980)$ meson is not a rather stable four-quark state of mesonic molecule or diquark-antidiquark type.} (Cf.\ also \cite{Alexandrou:2012rm} for a more detailed very similar discussion.)

\begin{acknowledgments}

M.W.\ and J.B.\ acknowledge support by the Emmy Noether Programme of the DFG (German Research Foundation), grant WA 3000/1-1.
The work of M.G.\ was supported by the European Commission, European Social Fund and Calabria Region, that disclaim any liability for the use that can be done of the information provided in this paper.

This work was supported in part by the Helmholtz International Center for FAIR within the framework of the LOEWE program launched by the State of Hesse.

Computations have been performed using the Chroma software library \cite{Edwards:2004sx}. Calculations on the LOEWE-CSC high-performance computer of Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main were conducted for this research. We would like to thank HPC-Hessen, funded by the State Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts, for programming advice.

\end{acknowledgments}

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