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By Egena Sunday Ode
The federal government on Monday said it was ready to give necessary support to the newspaper subsector of the media industry.
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this in an interview with State House Correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The Minister who disclosed that government had already intervened in the broadcast subsector of the industry, added that government was waiting for the the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) to come forward with a submission on how government could help.
He said: "Government has done a lot the media, especially the broadcast industry, during this pandemic. The first thing we did was to give a waiver of two months payment of license fees to all broadcast houses, between May and July, after which we gave an amnesty as 60% discount or debt forgiveness, for all broadcast houses, except the Pay TVs, and also slashed by 30% the licensing fees because of the COVID-19.
"I also met with the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria, we met virtually and I'm still waiting for them to come and make their submissions.
"Definitely, the government is willing to look into the hardships and the challenges the media is facing and within our means to see how best we can intervene. I'm still waiting for the NPAN to come back to us to see what we can do to ameliorate the situation".
Alhaji Mohammed also noted that the federal government was serious about developing the entire creative industry, especially because of the huge job opportunity potential it had, adding that President Buhari was particularly interested in the industry.
"This government is putting a lot of emphasis and promoting the creative industry, which is tourism, which is hospitality industry, which is the music industry, which is the film industry, which is publishing, which is broadcasting.
"We'll continue to support this industry and have the Mr President's support. He was quite excited about the portrait because he's able to see what kind of jobs can be created through this cultural festivals", he said.
On why he met with President Buhari, the Minister said "I came today to make a presentation of a portrait of the Argungu Festival to Mr President.
"You'll recall that sometimes in February this year, after almost ten years of hiatus, the Argungu Festival made a comeback. The Argungu Festival is one of the two UNESCO recognised festivals and it's on the UNESCO list of heritages", he said.
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from openstack.cloud import exc
from openstack.tests.unit import base

class TestDomainParams(base.TestCase):

    def test_identity_params_v3(self):
        project_data = self._get_project_data(v3=True)
        self.register_uris([
            dict(method='GET',
                 uri='https://identity.example.com/v3/projects',
                 json=dict(projects=[project_data.json_response['project']]))
        ])

        ret = self.cloud._get_identity_params(
            domain_id='5678', project=project_data.project_name)
        self.assertIn('default_project_id', ret)
        self.assertEqual(ret['default_project_id'], project_data.project_id)
        self.assertIn('domain_id', ret)
        self.assertEqual(ret['domain_id'], '5678')

        self.assert_calls()

    def test_identity_params_v3_no_domain(self):
        project_data = self._get_project_data(v3=True)

        self.assertRaises(
            exc.OpenStackCloudException,
            self.cloud._get_identity_params,
            domain_id=None, project=project_data.project_name)

        self.assert_calls()

    def test_identity_params_v2(self):
        self.use_keystone_v2()
        project_data = self._get_project_data(v3=False)
        self.register_uris([
            dict(method='GET',
                 uri='https://identity.example.com/v2.0/tenants',
                 json=dict(tenants=[project_data.json_response['tenant']]))
        ])

        ret = self.cloud._get_identity_params(
            domain_id='foo', project=project_data.project_name)
        self.assertIn('tenant_id', ret)
        self.assertEqual(ret['tenant_id'], project_data.project_id)
        self.assertNotIn('domain', ret)

        self.assert_calls()

    def test_identity_params_v2_no_domain(self):
        self.use_keystone_v2()
        project_data = self._get_project_data(v3=False)
        self.register_uris([
            dict(method='GET',
                 uri='https://identity.example.com/v2.0/tenants',
                 json=dict(tenants=[project_data.json_response['tenant']]))
        ])

        ret = self.cloud._get_identity_params(
            domain_id=None, project=project_data.project_name)
        self.assertIn('tenant_id', ret)
        self.assertEqual(ret['tenant_id'], project_data.project_id)
        self.assertNotIn('domain', ret)

        self.assert_calls()

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A record bowl is a classic project where you can reuse an outdated item: a vinyl record. With CDs even on their way out it's safe to say that many records can be safely molded into something new without the world losing any of its music.
In this Instructable, I will be showing off two versions of this bowl. The classic style and a newer one.
Reshaping the vinyl requires getting the record a little hot. Not too hot, though.
The easiest way of doing this is to set your over for 220F/100C and tossing the record in there for a few minutes. When it's completely warmed up it will have the texture and floppiness of a fruit roll-up. You can now shape it any way you want.
Other methods include dipping the record in boiling water or heating it up with a heat gun.
- drape the record on top of a bowl. Once the record cools it will have a similar interior shape as to the bowl.
- drop the record into a bowl. The outside of the record bowl will then have the same shape as the bowl.
- drape the record on top of a cylinder such as a can of soup.
Once the record cools, it will harden into place and stay that way. If you're not happy with it, just toss it back in the oven for a bit and start over.
This variation starts with some cuts in the record to help guide the shape. The cuts here were made with a rotary tool like a Dremel.
The cuts here are lines that begin at one circle and end at another. Each cut ends 30 degrees off from where it began. So if one cut were to begin at 12 o'clock on the inner circle, it ends at 1 o'clock on the outer circle.
Set the oven to 200 degrees and drop the cut up record in for a few minutes. If you set it up on a beer can (photo from lamp shade instructable) you can see the vinyl begin to sag when it gets warm enough.
Working with the vinyl is a funny thing. When it gets hot the vinyl is floppy and feels almost like fruit leather. After a few seconds you can shape the vinyl and it will begin to hold its shape. At this point, start working the material as fast as you can. Even with just 12 bends to make on the record I didn't have enough time to get everything right.
The good news is that you can hit the reset button by putting the record back in the oven. If you want to completely start over, heat it until it gets back to the floppy stage.
To just finesse a couple parts of the piece you will have to be much more attentive. Turn the light on in the oven if you can and watch carefully. Once the record starts to sag just slightly, open it up and take it out. This should give you enough time to fix a couple of bends. Repeat as necessary.
If you have a heat gun you can heat up a localized area to make specific fixes.
If you're going to put some food in the bowl you should wash it with some warm soapy water first.
Great instructable, going to pick up some records at a thrift soon that no one cares about any more (very outdated music) and aren't valuable to do this. I can't stress it enough, but people, please don't do this to good artist's vinyl that people still enjoy! Give 'em to friends with turntables, or hell, sell them, they'll still fetch cash if they're not abused. With that cash you can buy unloved records at thrift shops, and still have money left over!
A perfect use for my old Hall and Oates, and Huey Lewis and The News records. Thanks so much!!
Please tell me you didn't do that to those records. Hall & Oates and Huey Lewis & The News are great artists, their records should not be wrecked!
It is utterly appalling that people are doing this to these pieces of history. It's like taking old books and making them in into toilet paper. You all should be ashamed.
Trust me, there are plenty of records that really no one appreciates anymore. Go to a thrift shop that has records, go through the selection, and see how many folk music, classic music, gospel music, organ music, and other unpopular genre music vinyl records you can find. Go back in a few weeks, and you'll see, they still haven't sold them. Those record make fine subjects for these reuse projects, else they will just be trashed and no one ever appreciates them in any shape or form then. I agree that more popular and wanted vinyl should not face this faith, but these kinds of records can have a second life this way.
I use scratched and otherwise unplayable records. There are enough of em out there.
Not all music is a beautiful piece of history. I can think of quite a few bad records. Besides, I think you should appreciate that the records aren't going in the garbage. There is no need to get hostile on instructables. I love the idea of making the cuts supamoto.
anyone know if the vinyl can be handled with bare skin after the heating process? or is it too hot, because like some materials IE aluminum foil, it is safe.
When I first made them I did handle and shape them with my hands. It got to be uncomfortable if I handled them too long but if you can shape quickly you will be fine.
Have you tried this process with CDs ?
I love this! I would use scratched records.
I really want to try making but our oven isn't working so I was wondering if I could make this a heat gun. Thanks.
Yes you can. You need to be more careful about it to get it evenly heated and not overheat it, but definitely doable.
Nice! Never tried this on a single so glad to hear that worked. Would be even better with color vinyl.
I'd feel so bad! but there is this guy always trying to sell his old records!
do u have any ideas what to make out of VHS movies?
Can I coat the vinyl with some sort of protective layer? Like a varnish or something like that?
AFTER being fired in the oven, I wouldn't see why not.....just test it first, if it is solvent based, to make sure it doesn't end up melting/dulling the surface of the vinyl.


1. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa.
2. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa.
3. Department of Pathology, Kanazawa Medical University Hospital, Ishikawa.
4. Division of Molecular Cell Biology, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Saga University Faculty of Medicine, Saga, Japan.
Background: Oxidative stress plays pivotal roles in the progression of lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) through cell signaling related closely to cancer growth. We previously reported that peroxiredoxin 4 (PRDX4), a secretory-type antioxidant enzyme, can protect against the development of various diseases, including potential malignancies. Since many patients with early-stage LUAD develop recurrence, even after curative complete resection, we investigated the association of the PRDX4 expression with the clinicopathological features and recurrence/prognosis using post-surgical samples of stage I-LUAD.
Methods: The expression of PRDX4 and MIB-1, a widely accepted Ki67 protein, was immunohistochemically analysed in 206 paraffin-embedded tumour specimens of patients with stage I-LUAD. The PRDX4 expression was considered to be weak when less than 25% of the adenocarcinoma cells showed positive staining.
Results: A weak PRDX4+ expression demonstrated a significantly close relationship with pathologically poor differentiation, highly invasive characteristics and recurrence. The decrease in PRDX4-positivity potentially induced cell growth in LUAD, which was correlated significantly with a very high MIB-1 labelling index (≥17.3%). Univariate/multivariate analyses revealed that the subjects with both weak PRDX4+ expression and a very high MIB-1 index had significantly worse disease-free survival rates than other subjects.
Conclusions: The combination of weak PRDX4 expression and a very high MIB-1 index can predict high proliferating activity and recurrence with a potential poor prognosis, especially in post-operative stage I-LUAD patients.
Keywords: lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), stage I, PRDX4, MIB-1, recurrence.


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The DfE to increase protections for excluded children in light of children's rights concerns
Perhaps one of the most visible impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the massive disruption to education, with school closures and exam cancellations at the forefront. But there have also been less high-profile changes that have still had a huge impact on children such as changes to the guidance and regulations for school exclusions reviews.
What changes were there to the school exclusions guidance and regulations?
When someone is excluded from school, they often have a right to have that exclusion reviewed by the school's governors and an independent panel (IRP). This process is vital. Statistics show, consistently, that a significant number of reviews find that the exclusion was unlawful. This means that children rely on the system working to protect them from unjust, unfair exclusions which can go on to affect their whole lives.
Of course, for a child whose exclusion is found to be legally flawed, the timing of their review is critical to ensure they can return to school quickly and minimise disruption to their education. This is why panels usually have to be held within strict time limits. However, in response to Covid-19 these time limits were increased by the Department for Education (DfE). The potential extension for both stages of review is 25 school days up from 15 for each stage.
Luckily, there was a safeguard included in these rules - under the changes brought in in May, video hearings (those held over a service like Skype or Zoom, rather than in person) must happen within the original time limits. This means the extensions only apply to in-person meetings. However, there are four conditions that must be met before a video hearing can go ahead. We were concerned that each of these could potentially be open to abuse by a school or local authority looking to slow the process down.
Why does this matter to children excluded from school?
For the few young people who have another school to go to, a delayed hearing might not be such a big problem, but delays will inevitably impact most significantly on those most vulnerable to exclusion in the first place, and potentially with the most to lose. For example, children with significant special educational needs (SEN) might not have another suitable school to go to in the area. They might have a highly tailored package of support that is difficult to replicate and, without which, they will not be able to access their education. The time spent awaiting review will therefore be time spent missing out on education.
With specialist advice from Steve Broach and Rachel Sullivan, barristers at 39 Essex Chambers, we raised our concerns with the DfE, drawing on evidence from our casework. We made the DfE aware that we were ready to take legal action if necessary, to challenge these measures. Fortunately, after we outlined our concerns, the DfE agreed to make the vast majority of the changes we wanted.
What changes have been made to the school exclusions guidance and regulations?
The changes we achieved ensure that if families want a video hearing, rather than a face-to-face one, then the school should not refuse them one. Additionally, if the family does not have the technology to take part in a video hearing, then the school must take steps to facilitate their access to it. This means that the time limit extensions should no longer kick in over the family's objections.
In addition to these changes to the guidance, the new regulations brought in from 25 September onwards have dropped the 10-day extension to governors hearings and IRP hearing deadlines. Instead, panels can only delay for the shortest time possible in order to hold a hearing. These regulations are set to last for 6 months to 24 April 2021.
We are delighted to have secured these changes, which will go a long way to protect children fighting for their right to an education during these challenging times. However, with widespread concerns about a spike in school exclusions as children return to school after six months off, we will be closely monitoring schools' use of the guidance and regulations through our case work.
You can read about our other work on school exclusions here.
You can read the new guidance here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-exclusion/changes-to-the-school-exclusion-process-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak
Just for Kids Law will be adding pages to the School Exclusions Hub next week, which will explain these and other important changes and provide resources to engage with schools and local authorities. Keep watching the Just for Kids Law Twitter or Facebook pages for updates.
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Buzzer is a new customer feedback platform that allows you to leave anonymous reviews about your restaurant experience while you're still at the table.
The server presents the bill with a small tablet computer, which asks you questions on your experience in a smooth WhatsApp style chat flow. It takes less than a minute to complete, so it's not like the boring online surveys! This allows the restaurant to collect feedback from those who might not be bothered to review them online at home, and it helps them understand their customers better.
Buzzer properly launched their tablet service in December 2016, and there are now 5 sites using Buzzer's feedback platform across London. They are also in talks with some well-known chains.
The most recent development incentivises good reviewers to publicly post their review online, which will help give restaurants back some control over their TripAdvisor and Google reviews. The ultimate goal, however, is to drag the mystery-dining industry kicking and screaming into the technological age!


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Miles Heizer Just Shut Down This Major Fan Theory About 13 Reasons Why
8 May 2017, 11:40 | Updated: 18 January 2018, 16:35
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Things with Alex Standall may be a bit more complicated.
If 13 Reasons Why's success has taught us anything about television, it's that fan theories are a dime a dozen. There are a few fan theories floating around that truly have us stumped, but Miles Heizer just gave us cause to cross off a big one.
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As you probably know, Miles Heizer plays Alex Standall on 13 Reasons Why.
Throughout the season we see Alex becoming increasingly distressed about the tapes. In the end, we learn that Alex has been rushed to the hospital with a gunshot wound. The prevailing theory was that Tyler Down shot Alex in order to advance a potential season 2 school shooting narrative.
via eonline
The circumstances surrounding Tyler's gun and Alex's abrupt hospitalization leaves the door open for a number of different outcomes. Miles Heizer has, however, put a pin in the theory that Tyler shot Alex. The actor delved a bit deeper into the truly mysterious circumstances of his character's potential suicide attempt.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Miles points out how alike Alex and Hannah are. "It was interesting to see similarities between Alex and Hannah, because there are a lot of warning signs throughout the season," the actor said.
On whether or not Alex survives, Heizer noted that surviving a suicide attempt is a topic that remains largely unexplored on TV.
"That's another subject that's very rarely shown onscreen and is probably a lot more common than people think it is. People attempting to take their lives and it not happening, I'm sure that will bring a crazy set of issues. It would be interesting to go into that."
With Season 2 of 13 Reasons Why being confirmed and slated for a 2018 release, the odds of Alex's survival just got bumped up. If Alex Standall lives, it would serve to draw a sharp parallel to Hannah's situation.
That being said, a school shooting plot can't be entirely ruled out. Tyler Down was definitely up to something but we might just have to wait until 2018 to figure it out.
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Zero clearance table saw inserts help tame tear-out on the table saw. Unlike most stock inserts the zero clearance insert supports the work piece right at the blade. This eliminates or greatly reduces tear-out on the bottom of the sheet. With a good blade and a zero clearance insert it is possible to cut plywood without tear-out on both sides.
You can buy inserts for almost all table saws. A shop made insert will be a lot cheaper and of equal quality.
So, how do I make zero clearance inserts in my shop?
1) Start with a scrap of MDF a little bigger than the stock insert. 1/2" or 3/4" material works well. The only requirement is that the MDF be slightly thinner than the stock insert. Otherwise the insert will protrude above the table's surface. Leveling screws take care of thinner inserts.
Attach the stock insert to the MDF using double sided tape.
2) Trim and excessive overhang on the table saw or band saw. Be careful not to cut into the insert.
3) Mount a flush trim bit in your router. Set the depth of the bit such that the collar rides on the stock insert. Trim the MDF flush with the insert.
This task came be a bit challenging when the stock insert has holes, mounting clips or other irregularities. Rout around these as close as you can. Finish up with sandpaper and/or other tools. You only have to mind the irregularities once. In the future use the zero clearance insert you just made as the template instead of the stock insert. Your insert is smooth.
3) Cut a hole for your finger such that the insert can be removed. Make sure the hole is out of the way of the blade.
4) Drive very short screws into the bottom of the insert in such a way that the heads of the screws ride on the lip around the insert opening on your saw. The screws act as leveling screws. Sink them into the insert until the insert is flush with the table when installed.
5) Install the insert and the blade you want use with the insert. Lower the blade all the way down. Hold the insert down with a piece of wood you don't mind losing. Turn the saw on and slowly raise the blade until it cuts through the insert and stars to emerge. Keep your fingers out of the the way of the blade. Once the blade is raised all the way, the insert will stay in place on its own.
Zero clearance inserts are made for each blade. If you change the blade, you must also change the insert. The same goes for the angle of the blade. Each angle requires a new insert.


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Bride & Prejudice
Bollywood meets Hollywood... And it's a perfect match.
Directed by: Gurinder Chadha
Aishwarya Rai, as
Lalita Bakshi
Martin Henderson, as
Will Darcy
Daniel Gillies, as
Mr. Wickham
Naveen Andrews, as
Balraj Bingley
Namrata Shirodkar, as
Jaya Bakshi
Indira Varma, as
Kiran Bingley
Nadira Babbar, as
Mrs. Bakshi
Anupam Kher, as
Mr. Bakshi
Marsha Mason as
Catherine Darcy
Reviewed on: January 30th, 2005
Aishwarya Rai in Bride and Prejudice.
A Bollywood musical remake of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice might not seem like a winner, and yet thanks to the direction of Gurinder Chadha (Bend It like Beckham) and its talented and likable cast, this is a movie that grabs a hold of you and doesn't let go until there's a smile on your face.
The plot, apart from being transplanted to India and moved into modern times, remains fairly loyal to its source material. Aishwarya Rai plays Lalita Bakshi, this movie's version of Elizabeth Bennett. She's the strong-willed second daughter in a family of four girls. Her mother wants nothing more than to see all of her daughters married off to rich, eligible young men. And when a rich young Indian from London comes to town, she sees her chance to marry off her oldest daughter. It is the American, Darcy (Henderson), who sparks with Lalita however. And although at first they do nothing but argue, it's obvious that there are sparks between them.
It is in the comedy where this movie most excels. The mother is both hilarious and infuriating at the same time. When the rich Indian offers to take her oldest daughter on a trip to the beach, her husband at first objects, but she cuts him off by saying, "This could be her chance, plus he'll get to see her in a bathing suit!" And Nitin Chandra Ganatra as Mr. Kholi, is quite funny as the hideous suitor in pursuit of Lalita.
Rai, already a huge star in India, gives a star turn with her multi-talented performance as Lalita. She sings, she dances, and possesses an onscreen beauty and charm that translates into any language. Unfortunately, Martin Henderson is as dull as she is charming. Stiff and awkward, it's difficult to see what it is that she sees in him.
The songs, while catchy at times, are light and forgettable. While they're appropriate to the scenes in which they appear, the movie could just as easily done without them or with less of them. They're somewhere below a Disney musical, a sort of Broadway-lite. The dancing however, is colorful and beautiful.
Although the story has obviously been made with a Western audience in mind, the movie does retain the typical elements of a Bollywood movie. The most striking difference from a typical Hollywood movie being that kissing is considered taboo, despite the quite often suggestive dancing and revealing costumes. This movie follows that tradition and the only kissing that is done, is to hands and foreheads.
Following Bend it Like Beckham and now this movie, Chadha is quickly becoming a master of girl-power, feel good movies. And so long as they all remain as charming as these two, I say keep them coming.
Reviewed on: March 4th, 2006
This movies a delight. I love the fact that it is a true old fashioned musical. Imagine characters just breaking into song whenever the fancy strikes to advance the plot and develop character. What a radical idea. And though the melody and lyric to the songs may seem rather simple, rhythmically they are much more adventurous and infectious than your typical Broadway or Disney tunes. The dancing is also inspired. My favorite was The Cobra Dance.
Scott's right about Martin Henderson. He's completely average and forgettable. To be fair this is a difficult role to pull off. Since Darcy is not nearly as finely drawn as Lalita he must be given an ineffable quality that intrigues the audience and makes them root for the guy. If it ain't in the script the only way to achieve it is with incredible acting and smoldering screen intensity. Without that the character will seem bland and empty. Marlon Brando in Streetcar is the greatest example of this when it works. On paper Blanche is the far greater character, after all Stanley's most famous line is simply yelling his wife's name. It is all in the performance. It goes without saying, of course, that Martin Henderson is no Brando. But, quite frankly, he's not even a Steve Guttenberg.
Bride and Prejudice is a colorful funny tapestry covered with music and romance. Why can't Hollywood make movies like this anymore?
Aishwarya Rai and some irrelevant co-stars.
Bride and Prejudice is a chick flick with big bright musical numbers. The cast, for the most part, is likable and often humorous. The two male white suitors are as bland as dust. They're audition must not have gone any further than, "Take off your shirt." The rest of the cast keeps the movie moving along. The Americanized, Indian suitor with the annoying laugh was one of my favorite characters.
Aishwarya Rai is the real attraction though. She is a very, very beautiful woman. As Scott mentioned, there is no lip on lip kissing. It is a nice change of pace from most western movies and Rai comes across as none the less sexy. Because of the puritan approach to sex in this movie, the scene where Will reveals the pregnancy seems all the more shocking.
I was not looking forward to the musical numbers as I know none of these songs, but they are so rhythmic, and the dancing so lively, that I enjoyed most of them well enough. Ashanti does a cameo appearance as a performer on beach. Her song, like the rest of the movie, tries to combine Indian flavors with American tastes. This is not a movie I will likely ever make a point to watch again, but it is a great introduction to Bollywood films and a joy for anyone who loves musicals.
Photos © Copyright Miramax Films (2005)


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NPA PRO retires
By Oluwakemi Dauda On Mar 14, 2017
THE General Manager, Public Affairs, Nigerian Port Authority (NPA), Chief Michael Kayode Ajayi, has bowed out of office after reaching the mandatory 60 years.
Ajayi, The Nation learnt, retired in a blaze of glory, because of his high level of commitment and dedication to duty. He was said to be a detribalised Nigerian, which endeared him to all that worked with him. A farewell ceremony organised in his honour in Lagos, last week, spoke volumes of his virtues.
The event was attended by the NPA's Managing Director, Ms Hadiza Bala Usman, the Executive Director, Finance Mohammed Bello-Koko and other top officials of the authority.
The management and staff said they would have loved him to continue because of his dedication to duty, deep knowledge of administration and his enviable human relations.
The General Manager, Monitoring and Enforcement (M&E), Western Ports, Capt. Ebubeogu Ihenacho, said he was not happy to announce Ajayi's retirement.
Remarks from top officials of NPA showed Ajayi as a man that used his position to promote career excellence among the staff and brought to the front burner issues relating to their welfare.
In her remark, the Managing Director said she had a very good working relationship with him and happy over his disposition to work.
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"During the period we were together, we had a very robust working relationship and very robust interaction.
"What is important is that he has been able to discuss openly with me issues on what we need to do to move the authority forward.
"He makes his suggestions very clear and he has been very candid in conveying some of his messages and I appreciate him for that.
"Over the period, I have also learnt to listen to his advice as regards the challenges facing the public affairs because the media turns positive and negative against us. He has been there to guide and assist. I appreciate the contributions he has brought to the public affairs.
"As Ajayi would be going, I will always call on him to provide support. I will always call on him to provide guidance and I think he will always be part of us in the Public Affairs and in the authority," the NPA chief said.
Families, friends and other officials at the event spoke well of Ajayi.
Ajayi told The Nation that as a GM for 10 years, "I tried to focus on letting the staff do what they were paid to do. I put a lot of trust in them, and tutored them on selfless service to NPA and the nation.''
Ajayi spent 24 years with the NPA working in various capacities.
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Q: How to execute AJAX request after succeeding previous AJAX request for printing request via thermal printing I've some problem with AJAX request. As the title said, I want to execute an AJAX request after succeeding previous AJAX, for printing via thermal printer.
So far, I have some buttons with 3 different IDs. Every IDs will execute an AJAX request to query an update into database, and it's succeeded. But then I want to execute another AJAX request for printing via thermal printer (QPOS Q58M) via escpos-php. The result think it's success but no printing done. Then I tried to execute the printing script without AJAX and it's succeeded.
Here's the HTML view

    <button class="btn btn-app btn-purple">

Certificate

    </button>
    <button id="simpan_antrian1" class="btn btn-app btn-purple print">

    </button>
    <button class="btn btn-app btn-purple">

    </button>

    <button class="btn btn-app btn-purple">

Test

    </button>
    <button id="simpan_antrian2" class="btn btn-app btn-purple print">

     </button>
     <button class="btn btn-app btn-purple">

     </button>

     <button class="btn btn-app btn-purple">

Course

     </button>
     <button id="simpan_antrian3" class="btn btn-app btn-purple print">

     </button>
     <button class="btn btn-app btn-purple">

     </button>

And here is the script for calling the request

UPDATE

Well I've tried to make a new button for printing so it won't make a nested AJAX request, but unfortunately still can't do the trick...
Here's my last change
HTML

     <button class="btn btn-app btn-purple">

Certificate

     </button>
     <button id="simpan_antrian1" class="btn btn-app btn-purple print">

     </button>
     <button class="btn btn-app btn-purple">

     </button>

     <button class="btn btn-app btn-purple">

Test

     </button>
     <button id="simpan_antrian2" class="btn btn-app btn-purple print">

     </button>
     <button class="btn btn-app btn-purple">

     </button>

     <button class="btn btn-app btn-purple">

Course

     </button>
     <button id="simpan_antrian3" class="btn btn-app btn-purple print">

     </button>
     <button class="btn btn-app btn-purple">

     </button>

      <button class="btn btn-app btn-purple" id="print">
         Print your ticket
      </button>

Javascript
$(document).ready(function(){
        $('#load_antrian1').load('pages/beranda/getAntrian1.php');
        $('#load_antrian2').load('pages/beranda/getAntrian2.php');
        $('#load_antrian3').load('pages/beranda/getAntrian3.php');
        // antrian sertifikat
        $("#simpan_antrian1").on('click',function(){
            $.ajax({
                url   : "pages/beranda/proses1.php",
                type  : "POST",
                cache : false,
                success: function(msg){

                    if(msg=="Sukses"){
                        $('#load_antrian1').load('pages/beranda/getAntrian1.php').fadeIn("slow");
                        $('#load_antrian2').load('pages/beranda/getAntrian2.php').fadeIn("slow");
                        $('#load_antrian3').load('pages/beranda/getAntrian3.php').fadeIn("slow");
                    }

                }

            });
        });

        // antrian Test
        $("#simpan_antrian2").on('click',function(){
            $.ajax({
                url   : "pages/beranda/proses2.php",
                type  : "POST",
                cache : false,
                success: function(msg)
                {
                    if(msg=="Sukses"){
                        $('#load_antrian1').load('pages/beranda/getAntrian1.php').fadeIn("slow");
                        $('#load_antrian2').load('pages/beranda/getAntrian2.php').fadeIn("slow");
                        $('#load_antrian3').load('pages/beranda/getAntrian3.php').fadeIn("slow");

                    }
                }

            });
        });

        // antrian Test
        $("#simpan_antrian3").on('click',function(){
            $.ajax({
                url   : "pages/beranda/proses3.php",
                type  : "POST",
                cache : false,
                success: function(msg)
                {
                    if(msg=="Sukses"){
                        $('#load_antrian1').load('pages/beranda/getAntrian1.php').fadeIn("slow");
                        $('#load_antrian2').load('pages/beranda/getAntrian2.php').fadeIn("slow");
                        $('#load_antrian3').load('pages/beranda/getAntrian3.php').fadeIn("slow");
                    }
                }
            });
        });
        $("#print").on('click',function () {
            $.ajax({
                url : "pages/beranda/print.php",
                type: "POST",
                cache: false,
                //success: function(data, textStatus, jqXHR)
                success: function()
                {

                    alert('Please take your ticket');

                },
                error:function (){
                    alert("There is an error when printing");
                }

            });
        })
    });

well still can't do the printing, but the AJAX response it as success

UPDATE

For documentation purpose, I put the print script below
<?php
//date_default_timezone_set("ASIA/JAKARTA");

// panggil file config.php untuk koneksi ke database
require_once "../../../config/config.php";
// panggil file fungsi nama hari
require_once "../../../config/fungsi_nama_hari.php";

require 'pengunjung/vendor/autoload.php';
use Mike42\Escpos\Printer;
use Mike42\Escpos\PrintConnectors\WindowsPrintConnector;

$hari_ini = date("Y-m-d");

$configID = "1";
// fungsi query untuk menampilkan data dari tabel sys_config
$result = $mysqli->query("SELECT nama_instansi FROM sys_config WHERE configID='$configID'") or die('Ada kesalahan pada query tampil data config: '.$mysqli->error);
$data_config = $result->fetch_assoc();

// fungsi query untuk menampilkan data dari tabel antrian
$result = $mysqli->query("SELECT max(no_antrian) as nomor, loket FROM antrian WHERE tanggal='$hari_ini' ORDER BY no_antrian DESC LIMIT 1") or die('Ada kesalahan pada query tampil nomor antrian: '.$mysqli->error);
$data = $result->fetch_assoc();

$nama_instansi  = $data_config['nama_instansi'];
$loket          = $data['loket'];
$no_antrian     = $data['nomor'];
$hari           = date("l");
$tanggal        = date("d-m-Y");
$jam            = date("H:i:s");

$connector = new WindowsPrintConnector("POS-58");
$printer = new Printer($connector);

    $printer->setJustification(Printer::JUSTIFY_CENTER);

    /* Name of shop */
    $printer -> selectPrintMode(Printer::MODE_DOUBLE_WIDTH);
    $printer -> text($nama_instansi."\n");
    $printer -> selectPrintMode();
    $printer -> text($hari." ".$tanggal." ".$jam."\n");
    $printer -> feed();

    /* Title of receipt */
    $printer -> setEmphasis(true);
    $printer -> text("YOUR QUEUE\n");
    $printer -> setEmphasis(false);
    $printer -> feed();
//
    $printer -> setJustification(Printer::JUSTIFY_CENTER);
    $printer -> setTextSize(8, 8);
    $printer -> text($no_antrian."\n");
    $printer -> setTextSize(4, 4);
    $printer -> text($loket."\n");
    $printer -> feed();
    $printer -> cut();
    $printer -> pulse();

    $printer -> close();
    echo 'sukses';
?>

A:
You have some mistakes in your js code. Check below code..

A: You should try to use promises and callback functions like the example above:
    //an ajax call to return some data from the server, in this case is dynamic based on the action I want to perform
function _ajaxObtenerInfo(action,data){
    return $.ajax({
     url: 'ajsources/file.php',
     type: 'POST',
     dataType: 'html',
     data: {action: action, data:data}
    })
}

//a function to append the content returned on my ajax success
function cargarElement (response1,response2){//pass the responses
  //in my case i need to load with data the first tab from a tab list so i have to loop the panels
  //to find the id of the current active tab cause the ids where generated randomly
  //if you know the id you would not need the loop i use under this comment
  var href = $("#listData").children("li.ui-tabs-active").find('a').attr('href');
  var div = $("#panels").children('div');
  $.each(div, function(index, value) {
    //console.log(index,value);
   if ($(value).attr('id') == href.substring(1,href.length)) {
    $(value).append(response1[0]+response2[0]); //note : my responses are html content so you should manage your response as you needed
    }
  });
}
//a when callback to manage all promises
$.when(_ajaxObtenerInfo('TPROGRAMADOS',data2),_ajaxObtenerInfo('TSEGUIMIENTO',data2))
//what happends here is that my when will wait 'til all my ajax calls are done and then
//it will execute a function to append my content
.then(function(response1,response2){
  cargarElement(response1,response2);
  })

Hope it helps =)

A: First I'm sorry, this is a mistake from my print.php code...
I've tried to run this script without AJAX, and found an error that can't find a file
require 'pengunjung/vendor/autoload.php';

So I guess it's a small mistake from this thing, and I change it to
require '../../vendor/autoload.php';
// you should know where this file located

And it works!
Once again, I'm sorry...

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She Married John Doe circa June 1939 at Coventry, Warwickshire.
She Married John Doe circa June 1939 in Coventry, Warwickshire.
She Married John Doe on 13th June 1939 at St. Mary's Church, Coventry, Warwickshire.
Is it possible to have this kind of combined sentence structure for each event?
The key part is the location variables. If [L2] is used in the sentence, then the value of [L] will not include the detail (L2) field, and so the sentence above uses the preposition "at" before the detail field value and the preposition "in" before the rest of the place display.
when you don't. Some people use other, very involved systems for managing place prepositions but I prefer the methods above.
Location:Stanley, Co. Durham UK. "Land of the Prince Bishops"
Thanks for this. It's a very good way to handle these and I changed my sentences straight away.
I use place styles and put the preposition in the place output template.
One reason I don't use a custom Place Style similar to the above is some ambiguity about how the literal "in" will be handled. As far as I know, WG has not specified when "in" will appear if other variables are empty. So, for example, if [Church] is empty, I presume that "in" will still appear. But what happens if all the subfields except [Church] are empty? Does "in" appear or not? If it does, then you'll get incorrect output; "in" will be at the end of the place output.
In general, using literal text in style templates can be tricky. If you test the method you use, and you are consistent when you use the method, you should be fine. Given there are some ambiguities in the rules, however, the current behavior is not assured and so things could change in the future.
I use a preposition place style. L10 becomes my preposition. I place in it whatever preposition I want for this sentence. Then I also set Second Site (which is my primary output source) to not use a prepositon.
The only downside (and I don't really see it as a downside) is that the preposition becomes part of the location.
Usually if I know the detail like church, then I know the city and state.
If you use place styles, then the preposition becomes part of the place as well. But there are times when that's not a bad thing. Near Bedford County, TN is different than In Bedford County, TN or Of Bedford County, TN.
The difference may be subtle, but if you want your reader to see the subtlety, then having the preposition as part of the place is a good thing. John and I discussed ways to not make the preposition hyperlinked in SS, but there's not a good way to do it for him to program. For instance do you want the comma's hyperlinked? (Most of use would say yes) Do you want the County or Province part hyperlinked? Most would say yes. So if it's part of the place style, like your example or mine, SS will hyperlink it. Place styles work so good for me, and give me such control over reports and how data is listed in the master place list, (I put the style name in L10) that I am willing to have the Near part of Near Bedford County, TN hyperlinked.


text:
\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}
With the growth of 3D sensing technologies, one can now use a large number of 3D points to precisely represent objects' surfaces and surrounding environments. We call those 3D points a~\emph{3D point cloud}; it has a growing impact on various applications, including autonomous driving, virtual reality and scanning of historical artifacts~\cite{PCL}.  In this paper, we consider the setting of autonomous driving. A self-driving car could use multiple sensors to observe the world, such as LiDARs, cameras and RADARs~\cite{GeigerLU:12}. Among those, LiDARs produce two types of 3D point clouds, real-time LiDAR sweeps and high-precision maps. Both include accurate range information, which are critical to perception and localization systems. We consider both types of point clouds~\emph{large-scale point clouds} because they contain a large number of 3D points and record outdoor environments.

\begin{figure}[thb]
  \begin{center}
    \begin{tabular}{cc}
    \includegraphics[width=0.36\columnwidth]{figures/original-min.png}     & \includegraphics[width=0.36\columnwidth]{figures/random-min.png}
    \\
    {\small (a) Original LiDAR sweep.} &  {\small (b) Globally  uniform resampling.}
    \\
        \includegraphics[width=0.36\columnwidth]{figures/octree-min.png}     & \includegraphics[width=0.36\columnwidth]{figures/inception-min.png}
    \\
    {\small (c) Octree.} &  {\small (d) PCT: GIN.}
  \end{tabular}
\end{center}
\caption{\label{fig:crown}  Comparison between an original sweep and its reconstructions. All reconstructions use $2.78\%$ of original data. }
\end{figure}

To fully exploit real-time LiDAR sweeps and high-precision maps, we need advanced techniques to handle a series of challenges, including 3D point cloud compression, 3D localization and 3D object detection. A common task shared in those challenges is~\emph{3D point cloud representations}; that is, representing a 3D point cloud in a compact format, such that it is easy to conduct subsequent processing procedures. For 1D time-series, the basic representation is the Fourier transform; for 2D images, it is the discrete cosine transform and 2D wavelet transform~\cite{VetterliKG:12}; for 3D point clouds, Octree partitions the 3D space adaptively and has been an effective representation tool~\cite{SchnabelK:06}; however, Octree represents a 3D point cloud only in the 3D spatial domain and does not fully exploit shapes formed by 3D points.

To represent large-scale 3D point clouds, we propose a novel graph-neural-network-based system, called the~\emph{point cloud neural transform} (PCT). The PCT includes two phases: voxelization, which adopts the standard Octree-like partition  and splits a large-scale space into a series of small-scale spaces (voxels), and voxel-level encoding, which adopts graph neural networks to capture the complicated underlying distributions of 3D points within each voxel. In the phase of voxel-level encoding, we propose novel graph inception networks, which transform 3D points in a voxel to a low-dimensional feature vector and extend to the translation-invariant graph convolution~\cite{NiuCGTSK:18} to the 3D space. Because of the two-phase design, PCT can be considered as the 3D counterpart of the windowed Fourier transform for 1D time series and the blocked discrete cosine transform for 2D images. We further apply the PCT to represent real-time LiDAR sweeps collected by self-driving cars and compare it with the standard Octree-based representations. As a general tool, the PCT can be potentially used to 3D compression, 3D object detection and many others in autonomous driving.  The main contributions of the paper include: (i) we propose the PCT to represent large-scale 3D point clouds; (ii) we propose novel graph inception networks to implement the voxel-level encoding;  (iii) the proposed PCT is applied to represent real-time LiDAR sweeps produced by self-driving cars and outperforms its competitors.

\mypar{Related works}
3D point cloud processing has become important in various 3D imaging and autonomous systems. The topic broadly includes
  compression~\cite{SchwarzPBBCCCKL:19,ThanouCF:16,AnisCO:16}, denoising~\cite{DuanCK:18, ZengCNPY:18},  surface  reconstruction~\cite{GregorskiHJ:00}, feature  extraction~\cite{FengTK:14}, localization~\cite{SpangenbergGR:16}, 3D object detection~\cite{LiangYWU:18} and many others. Here we consider 3D point cloud representations, which mainly based on three approaches, including resampling, voxelization and learning. Resampling represents a 3D point cloud by selecting a subset of 3D points~\cite{ChenTFVK:18}. In many applications, resampling can enhance key geometry information and make subsequent processing both cheaper and more accurate~\cite{GelfandIRL:2003}. Voxelization represents a 3D point cloud by partitioning the 3D space into a series of voxels and use the corresponding voxel center as the proxy for each 3D point, such as regular voxels~\cite{Loop:13}  and Octree~\cite{HornungWBSB:13}; however, they all suffer from discretization errors.  Learning-based models can also be trained to capture the underlying distribution of 3D points. For example,~\cite{EckartKTKK:16}
proposed a probabilistic generative model to model the distribution of 3D point clouds; however, such model is inefficient in inferring parameters; ~\cite{AchlioptasDMG:17} proposed a deep  autoencoder  that directly handles 3D point clouds; ~\cite{YangFST:18, GroueixFKRM:18} introduced a 2D lattice to help decoding.
\section{Methodology}
\label{sec:method}
Similarly to many standard representation problems, the overall goal is to use a low-dimensional feature vector to represent a large-scale 3D point cloud; however, a large-scale 3D point cloud has its own challenges:
(i) variations. 3D points captured in a outdoor environment have huge variations, while the available training data are limited. The representations need to learn rich variations from limited amount of 3D point clouds; (ii) irregularity. 3D points are irregularly and sparsely scattered in the 3D space. The representations need to go beyond  the regular lattices and capture irregular and nonuniform distributions of 3D points; (iii) invariances and equivalences. The representations need to promote basic geometric properties, including permutation-invariance, translation-invariance, scale-equivalent and rotation-equivalence. We propose the point cloud neural transform (PCT) to handle these challenges.

\begin{figure}
  \begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.75\columnwidth]{figures/two_stage_pipeline.png}
  \end{center}
  \caption{\label{fig:two_stage_pipeline}  Proposed point cloud neural transform (PCT). }
\end{figure}

\mypar{Point cloud neural transform}
To handle large variations, we propose a two-stage framework. In the first stage, we partition the 3D space into a series of voxels; in the second stage,  we encode 3D points in each voxel to a few codes; see the entire system in Figure~\ref{fig:two_stage_pipeline}. The intuitions are (i) since the representations in each individual voxel is much more constraint, we are able to specifically and effectively  learn local shapes and patterns; and (ii) since each 3D point cloud produces multiple voxels, we are able to increase the number of training data and potentially train strong voxel-level representations. This two-stage representation is similar to the windowed Fourier transform for 1D time series and the blocked discrete cosine transform for 2D images. To handle irregularity, we propose graph inception networks, which use a graph to capture the underlying distribution of 3D points. We treat 3D points as nodes and connects each point to its neighboring points to formulate a spatial graph. The edge weights reflect irregular and nonuniform distribution of 3D points.  The graph inception networks also ensure permutation and translation-invariances. To handle equivalences, we propose normalization networks to ensure scale and rotation-equivalences.

Mathematically, let $\Pj \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{R}}^{N \times 3}$ be the matrix representation of this 3D point cloud, whose $i$th row $\mathbf{p}_i = [x_i, y_i, z_i] \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{R}}^3$ represents the 3D coordinate of the $i$th point. The overall procedures of the PCT are
\begin{subequations}
\label{eq:PCT}
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eq:partition}
 \{ \Pj^{(i)} \}_{i=1}^M & = &   \rm{partition} \left( \Pj \right),
\\
\label{eq:voxel_encoder}
	\mathbf{c}^{(i)}   & = &  \Psi_w \left( \Pj^{(i)} \right) \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{R}}^\ell,
\\
\label{eq:voxel_decoder}
	\widehat{\Pj}^{(i)}  & = &  \Phi_w \left( \mathbf{c}^{(i)} \right)
\\
\label{eq:synthesis}
   \widehat{\Pj}   & = & {\rm synthesis} \left(  \{ \widehat{\Pj}^{(i)} \}_{i=1}^M \right).
\end{eqnarray}
\end{subequations}
In~\eqref{eq:partition}, we partition a 3D space into a series of nonoverlapping voxels based on the spatial structure; correspondingly, a large-scale 3D point cloud is partitioned into a series of small-scale 3D point clouds, where $\Pj^{(i)}$ represents the 3D point cloud in the $i$th voxel. In~\eqref{eq:voxel_encoder}, we encode the 3D points in each voxel to a low-dimensional feature vector. In~\eqref{eq:voxel_decoder}, we decode a low-dimensional feature vector back to the 3D coordinates. In~\eqref{eq:synthesis}, we concatenate the 3D coordinates in all the voxels and reconstruct a 3D point cloud.

\mypar{Partition}
We simply partition the 3D space into equally-spaced nonoverlapping voxels from each of three dimensions. Let each voxel is of size $H, W, D$ along the $X, Y, Z$ axes respectively.  The $(h, w, d)$th voxel represents a 3D space,
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eq:voxelization}
\mathcal{V}_{h,w, d}  \ = \ \{ (x, y, z)  |  & (h-1) H   \leq x < h H, &
\\ \nonumber
& (w-1) W \leq y < w W, &
\\ \nonumber
& (d - 1 )D  \leq z < d D \}.
\end{eqnarray}
The points inside $\mathcal{V}_{h,w, d}$ form a point cloud  $\Pj_{h,w, d}$. The partition~\eqref{eq:voxelization} contributes to the implement of~\eqref{eq:partition} and~\eqref{eq:synthesis}. The PCT is also compatible to multiscale voxels, such as Octree.

\mypar{Graph inception networks as voxel-level encoder}  We use the graph inception networks (GIN) to implement the voxel-level encoding~\eqref{eq:voxel_encoder}. The operations and weights of GIN are shared across all the voxels. To handle the irregularity, we introduce a spatial graph to capture the distribution of 3D points. For the simplicity, here we consider a $K$-nearest-neighbor graph, where each 3D points connects to its $K$ closest 3D points. We denote the neighboring set for of $i$-th point as $\mathcal{N}^{(K)}_i$. We then use an adjacency matrix $\Adj^{(K)} \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{R}}^{n \times n}$ to reflect the pairwise connectivity, where $n$ is the number of 3D points in the corresponding voxel. The edge weight between two points $\mathbf{p}_i$ and $\mathbf{p}_j$ is
\begin{equation*}
  \label{eq:adj}
  \Adj^{(K)}_{i,j} =
  \left\{
    \begin{array}{rl}
      e^{- \left\| \mathbf{p}_i - \mathbf{p}_j \right\|_2^2 }, & j \in \mathcal{N}^{(K)}_i;\\
      0, & \mbox{otherwise}.
    \end{array} \right.
\end{equation*}

A key issue raised by a graph-based approach is how to choose the number of neighbors $K$. Especially, the point density could vary a lot in various voxels. A fixed $K$ could either capture  limited information or irrelevant information. To solve this issue, we adopt an inceptive-like structure, where we construct a series of $K$-nearest-neighbor graphs with multiple $K$ values. This $K$ value is equivalent to the kernel size of the classical 2D convolution: a larger $K$ indicates a larger reception field.  We thus consider a graph inception convolution to extract features from 3D points. Let $\mathbf{x}_i \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{R}}^\ell$ be the features of the $i$-th point (the initial feature is $\mathbf{p}_i \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{R}}^3$). The response is
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eq:graph_inception_convolution_point}
 \mathbf{x}'_i & = &  g_{w} \left( \Big[ \mathbf{y}^{(k)}_i \Big]_{k \in \mathcal{K}}  \right)
 \\
 & = &  g_{w} \left( \Big[ \sum_{j \in \mathcal{N}^{(k)}_i} h_{w} \left( \Adj^{(k)}_{i,j},  \mathbf{x}_j - \mathbf{x}_i \right)   \Big]_{k \in \mathcal{K}}  \right) \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{R}}^{\ell'},
\end{eqnarray}
where $h_{w} (\cdot)$ is a standard multilayer perceptron with parameters $w$, $\mathcal{K} $ is a set of $K$ values, $[\cdot]_{k \in \mathcal{K}}$ denotes the concatenation and $g_{w}(\cdot)$ is the inception network that combine responses from multiple graph convolutions. The edge weight $\Adj^{(K)}_{i,j}$ and the difference $\mathbf{x}_j - \mathbf{x}_i$  reflects the relative difference of two points in the original 3D space and the feature space, respectively.  The corresponding matrix representation is
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eq:graph_inception_convolution}
 \X' = {\rm conv_{gin}}  (\big[ \Adj^{(k)} \big]_{k \in \mathcal{K}} , \X) \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{R}}^{n \times \ell'},
\end{eqnarray}
where $\X \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{R}}^{n \times \ell}$ is the input feature matrix with the $i$th row vector $\mathbf{x}_i$ in~\eqref{eq:graph_inception_convolution_point} and $\X'$ is the output feature matrix with the $i$th row vector $\mathbf{x}'_i$.  Since we only consider relative differences, the graph convolution is translation-invariant; that is,
$$
 {\rm conv_{gin}}  (\X + {\bf 1}_n \mathbf{a}^T) \ = \  {\rm conv_{gin}}  (\X),
$$
holds for arbitrary $\mathbf{a} \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{R}}^\ell$, where ${\bf 1}_n \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{R}}^n$ is a all-one vector. We call~\eqref{eq:graph_inception_convolution}~\emph{graph inception convolution}; see Figure~\ref{fig:gin}.
\begin{figure}
  \begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.55\columnwidth]{figures/gin.png}
  \end{center}
  \caption{\label{fig:gin}  Proposed graph inception convolution: ${\rm conv_{gin}}(\cdot)$. }
\end{figure}

After a series of graph inception convolution, we obtain deep point-wise features. To produce voxel-level features, we average the features across all the points.  Let $\X \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{R}}^{n \times \ell}$ be the final point-wise feature matrix, $\mathbf{c} \ = \   {\rm agg_{mean}} (\X) =   {\X^T {\bf 1}_{n}}/{n}    \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{R}}^\ell$. Since we aggregate along the point dimension, the final voxel-level features are permutation invariant. Comparing to the max-aggregation~\cite{AchlioptasDMG:17}, the mean-aggregation allows all points contributes to the code, which preserves richer information for reconstruction.

The voxel-level encoder $\Psi_{w}(\cdot)$ is thus a combination of graph inception convolutions and a mean aggregation. For example, the encoder of the $i$th voxel with a single layer graph inception convolution is
\begin{equation*}
\mathbf{c}^{(i)}  \ = \  \Psi_{w}(\Pj^{(i)}) =  {\rm agg_{mean}} \left( \rho( {\rm conv_{gin}}  (\big[ \Adj^{(k)} \big]_{k \in \mathcal{K}} , \Pj^{(i)}) ) \right),
\end{equation*}
where $\rho(\cdot)$ is the nonlinear activation, such as ReLU. In our experiments, we use $3$-layer graph inception convolutions.

\mypar{Graph inception convolution is a 3D convolution}
Here we consider graph inception convolution from a different perspective. We can represent each 3D point as a delta function in the 3D space. A 3D point cloud is then a train of delta functions; that is,
$$
\mathbf{s}(\mathbf{p}) = \sum_{j}\delta (\mathbf{p} - \mathbf{p}_j),
$$
where $\mathbf{p}, \mathbf{p}_j \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{R}}^3$. Let a 3D convolution be $h(\cdot): \ensuremath{\mathbb{R}}^3 \rightarrow \ensuremath{\mathbb{R}}$. The response is then
\begin{eqnarray*}
y(\mathbf{p}) & = & \int_\tau h(\mathbf{p} - \tau) \mathbf{s}(\tau) d \tau
\\
& = &  \int_\tau h(\mathbf{p} - \tau) \sum_{j}\delta (\tau - \mathbf{p}_j) d \tau
\\
& = &  \sum_{j} h(\mathbf{p} - \mathbf{p}_j).
\end{eqnarray*}
This is equivalent to the graph inception convolution in~\eqref{eq:graph_inception_convolution_point}. In other words, we aim to learn a kernel function $h(\cdot)$ through neural networks. The number of neighbors in the graph reflects the size of the reception field of a kernel function. This kernel function is learnt in the 3D continuous space and operates in the graph domain. The nature of a 3D convolution indicates the properties of translation invariance and weight sharing in the 3D space; it also ensures that the same kernel function works for various graph topologies. Once the neighboring points form a same shape pattern, we will construct the same local graph topology and obtain the same response.

\mypar{Fully connected layers as voxel-level decoder}
To design a voxel-level decoder $\Phi_{w}(\cdot)$ in~\eqref{eq:voxel_decoder}, we cannot use graph-based approaches, because the only information that decoder can access is the code given by the encoder and the graph information no longer exists. We consider two approaches to design a voxel-level decoder. The first approach is based on fully-connected layers, which use more trainable parameters and work better in practice~\cite{AchlioptasDMG:17}; the second approach is based on FoldingNet~\cite{YangFST:18, GroueixFKRM:18}, which considers that points are warped from a 2D map.

\begin{table*}
  \footnotesize
  \begin{center}
   \begin{tabular}{@{}
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      \toprule
      \multicolumn{3}{>{\columncolor[RGB]{242,229,229}}c}{\bf  Encoder: GIN}  &
      \multicolumn{2}{>{\columncolor[RGB]{229,229,242}}c}{\bf Decoder}
&
	   \multicolumn{5}{>{\columncolor[RGB]{229,242,229}}c}{\bf Metrics}
 \\
         \midrule \addlinespace[1mm]
\multicolumn{1}{>{\columncolor[RGB]{242,229,229}}c}{\bf Inception}    &
       \multicolumn{1}{>{\columncolor[RGB]{242,229,229}}c}{\bf Mean-Agg}
&
       \multicolumn{1}{>{\columncolor[RGB]{242,229,229}}c}{\bf Norm}
&
       \multicolumn{1}{>{\columncolor[RGB]{229,229,242}}c}{\bf FC}
&
      \multicolumn{1}{>{\columncolor[RGB]{229,229,242}}c}{\bf FoldingNet}
&       {\bf EMD}
&       {\bf CD}
&       {\bf Mean}
&       {\bf Variance}
&       {\bf MSE}
       \\
      \midrule \addlinespace[1mm]
  &    & & $\pmb{\checkmark}$ &  & $2.947 \times 10^{1}$ & $2.689 \times 10^{-2}$ &  $4.531 \times 10^{-2}$ & $1.832 \times 10^{-3}$ & $3.933 \times 10^{-3}$
\\
$\pmb{\checkmark}$  &    & & $\pmb{\checkmark}$ &  & $2.552 \times 10^{1}$ & $2.342 \times 10^{-2}$ &  $4.220 \times 10^{-2}$ & $1.842 \times 10^{-3}$ & $3.668 \times 10^{-3}$
\\
$\pmb{\checkmark}$  &    & &  & $\pmb{\checkmark}$  & $2.707 \times 10^{1}$ & $2.489 \times 10^{-2}$ &  $4.354 \times 10^{-2}$ & $1.930 \times 10^{-3}$ & $3.871 \times 10^{-3}$
\\
$\pmb{\checkmark}$ &  $\pmb{\checkmark}$   & & $\pmb{\checkmark}$ &  & $2.429 \times 10^{1}$ & $2.296 \times 10^{-2}$ &  $4.164 \times 10^{-2}$ & $1.716 \times 10^{-3}$ & $3.489 \times 10^{-3}$
\\
$\pmb{\checkmark}$ &  $\pmb{\checkmark}$   & &  & $\pmb{\checkmark}$  & $2.606 \times 10^{1}$ & $2.464 \times 10^{-2}$ &  $4.321 \times 10^{-2}$ & $1.792 \times 10^{-3}$ & $3.699 \times 10^{-3}$
\\
$\pmb{\checkmark}$ &  $\pmb{\checkmark}$   & $\pmb{\checkmark}$ & $\pmb{\checkmark}$ &  &${\bf 2.237 \times 10^{1}}$ & ${\bf 1.88 \times 10^{-2}}$ &  ${\bf 3.982 \times 10^{-2}}$ & ${\bf 1.706 \times 10^{-3}}$ & ${\bf 3.335 \times 10^{-3}}$
\\
$\pmb{\checkmark}$ &  $\pmb{\checkmark}$   & $\pmb{\checkmark}$ &  & $\pmb{\checkmark}$  & $2.328 \times 10^{1}$ & $1.936 \times 10^{-2}$ &  $4.051 \times 10^{-2}$ & $1.784 \times 10^{-3}$ & $3.468 \times 10^{-3}$
\\
  \addlinespace[1mm]     \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
  \end{center}
  \caption{\label{table:ablation_study_voxel_level_bev_view_kitti} Ablation study in the dataset of KITTI. The code length is $18$, corresponding to the compression ratio $3.19\%$.}
\end{table*}

\mypar{Normalization networks}
To handle equivalences, the voxel-level representation also needs to capture the scale and rotation variances. Here we use normalization networks to explicitly learn the scale and rotation. Before we feed the points to the voxel-level encoder, we use multilayer perceptions to lean the $3 \times 1$ scale vector and the $3 \times 3$ rotation matrix.  We keep those geometric information to the code and apply to the reconstructed points after the decoder. In this way,
we promote scale and rotation equivalences:  the 3D point cloud in each voxel is distributed in the unit space and has a similar orientation. The voxel-level encoder and decoder can thus focus on learning local shapes.

\mypar{Training implementations}
The encoder $\Phi_w \left(\cdot\right)$ and decoder $\Psi_w \left(\cdot\right)$ is implemented by using deep-neural-networks with trainable weights. To train the networks, we consider the following
optimization problem:
\begin{eqnarray*}
O(\ell) = & {\rm minimize}_{\Psi_w \left( \cdot \right), \Phi_w \left( \cdot \right)} &  \sum_{i=1}^M {\rm CD} \left(\Pj^{(i)}, \widehat{\Pj}^{(i)} \right),
\\ \nonumber
&{\rm subject~to~}&  \mathbf{c}  = \Psi_w \left( \Pj \right) , \widehat{\Pj}  =  \Phi_w \left( \mathbf{c} \right),
\\ \nonumber
&&  {\rm dim}(\mathbf{c}) \leq \ell,
\end{eqnarray*}
where  ${\rm CD} (\Pj, \widehat{\Pj})  = \sum_{j=1}^{N}  \min_{i \in \{1,  2, \cdots N \}} \left\|   \widehat{\mathbf{p}}_j - \mathbf{p}_i \right\|_2^2 /N  + \sum_{i=1}^{N}  \min_{j \in \{1,  2, \cdots N \}} \left\| \mathbf{p}_i  - \widehat{\mathbf{p}}_j  \right\|_2^2/N$ is the Chamfer distance~\cite{AchlioptasDMG:17}. An effective representation should be $\ell M \ll 3N$, $O(\ell) \rightarrow 0$.

\section{Experimental results}
\label{sec:experiments}
\mypar{Dataset} We validate the proposed PCT in a standard autonomous-driving dataset,  KITTI~\cite{GeigerLU:12}, which has been recorded from a moving platform while driving in and around Karlsruhe. Real-time LiDAR sweeps  are collected by a Velodyne HDL-64E rotating 3D laser scanner, with 10 Hz, 64 beams, 0.09 degree angular resolution, around 1.3 million points/second, 360 horizontal, 26.8 vertical field of view.

\mypar{Experimental Setup}  For each real-time sweep in KITTI, we partition the space into voxels with the size of $1 \times 1 \times 10$ meter$^3$. We train $400$ LiDAR sweeps and test $100$ LiDAR sweeps. We select training sweeps and testing sweeps from separate logsets to avoid data snooping. For GIN, $\mathcal{K} = \{1, 4, 8, 16\}$. To evaluate the performance, we compare the reconstruction based on the codes  to the original LiDAR sweep.

\begin{figure}
  \begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.7\columnwidth]{figures/ratio_distortion.png}
  \end{center}
  \caption{\label{fig:ratio_distortion}  Mean square errors as a function of the compression ratio in the dataset of KITTI.}
\end{figure}
\mypar{Results} We validate the proposed PCT from two aspects. In the ablation study, we add each component at a time to validate the effectiveness of each component; in the ratio-distortion analysis, we compare the PCT with other competitors. Due to the limited space, we only show the quantitative results for KITTI. Table~\ref{table:ablation_study_voxel_level_bev_view_kitti}
shows the ablation study in the dataset of KITTI. For the encoder, we consider three components: graph inception convolution (inception), mean-aggregation  (mean-agg), normalization (norm).  When the graph inception convolution is not checked, we consider a single $K=1$; when the mean-aggregation is not checked, we consider the maximum-aggregation; when the normalization is not checked, we do not use normalization networks. For the decoder, we consider two components: fully-connected layers and FoldingNet. We use five metrics to evaluate the performance: earth-mover distance (EMD), Chamfer distance (CD), mean square error (MSE), mean and variance~\cite{AchlioptasDMG:17}. For MSE, we consider the difference between each original 3D point and its closest correspondence in the reconstruction. For all the metrics, lower values indicate better results. We see that  each component of graph inception convolution improves the reconstruction performance; fully-connected layers consistently outperform FoldingNet.

Figure~\ref{fig:ratio_distortion} shows the mean square error as a function of compression ratios. We vary the code length in each voxel as $9, 18, 36, 72$, leading to various compression ratios. The $x$-axis is the compression ratio; the $y$-axis is the logarithm-scale mean square error.  We consider give comparison methods. Uniform resampling randomly selects a few 3D points and use this subset to represent the overall 3D point clouds. We consider resampling based on either  the entire 3D spatial space (G-Random) or the voxels (V-Random). For voxel-based resampling, we select the same number of 3D points in each voxel to promote spatial uniformity; kmeans-based representation (V-Kmeans) adaptively selects cluster centers in each voxel and we select the same number of 3D points in each voxel. Kmeans is computationally expensive and cannot afford global optimization.  These three approaches preserve information based on the spatial domain. We also consider two learning-based approaches to implement the voxel-level encoding in the framework of PCT. PointNet encodes the 3D points in each voxel into a few features by using deep neural networks~\cite{AchlioptasDMG:17}; dynamic graph convolutional neural networks (DGCNN) are the extension of PointNet by introducing a graph structure~\cite{WangSLSMS:18}. Compared to DGCNN, GIN ensures translation invariance and adopts inception structures, mean-aggregation and the normalization networks. We ensure all methods preserves the same number of data from the original sweeps. We see that PCT with GIN outperforms its competitors.  The advantage of the PCT is to transform the 3D points from the spatial domain to a feature domain, which is similar to the mechanism of the classical Fourier transform.

\section{Conclusions}
We propose the PCT to provide compact representations for large-scale 3D point clouds. The PCT includes two phases: 3D partition and voxel-level representations, which makes it acts like the blocked discrete cosine transform for 2D images. We propose GIN to improve voxel-level representations. The proposed PCT is applied to represent real-time LiDAR sweeps and significantly outperforms its competitors.

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Big Boys Gone Bananas!* makes for gripping viewing and you can only admire the stance taken by Gertten and Jangard as they refuse to bend to pressure.
In additon, they also published this background story entitled "Banana-gate"...
Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten was ballsy enough to make a film, Bananas!*, that inspired Dole Foods to sue him. And then he was crazy (brave?) enough to then make a whole other film about what it was like being sued by Dole.
That second film, Big Boys Gone Bananas, has just had its world premiere at IDFA. And so far nobody from Dole is feeling litigious, Gertten says, although he doesn't know if they've seen this one yet.
The saga started when Gertten made the 2009 documentary Bananas!*, which was about the lawsuit that Nicraraguan workers brought against the food giant over side effects from pesticides.
Before the film could even have its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival, Dole issued the director and his three colleagues with a cease and desist letter to stop the film's premiere. They put pressure on LAFF and its big sponsors, and LAFF eventually demoted the film to screen out of competition and with a hefty Dole-friendly disclaimer read out before the screening.
Several days later, Dole officially sued Gertten and his team. And he had the foresight to record everything that ensued.
The new documentary feels like a corporate thriller, as Dole, a company that makes $7bn per year, takes on the struggling Swedish production outfit WG Films. [I won't offer any spoilers to how this thriller ends.] It's a powerful film for anyone interested in freedom of speech in the 21st century, the influence of multinational corporations [hello, Occupy Wall Street!], and the struggles facing independent filmmakers.
"Our job [as filmmakers] is to look for the cracks in the facades of anyone in power," the filmmaker told a packed screening at IDFA on Wednesday night. "That's our role in democracy. A film like Bananas!* and many other films here at IDFA have a role in changing society."
Gertten was also collecting supporters' emails at the screening. He said: "When you fight mighty people, you need friends."
And remember, real friends buy fairtrade bananas.
Source: Wendy Mitchell in Screen Daily
@FredrikGertten mentioned @ link to this page. 2011-11-25 19:12:58 +0100
"Banana-gate" on Screen Daily - Big Boys Gone Bananas!* http://t.co/RKAS3U4T via @bananasmovie
Ben Kempas commented 2011-11-25 15:25:22 +0100
Two more screenings at IDFA this weekend: See http://www.bigboysgonebananas.com/calendar
Ben Kempas published this page in THE BLOG 2011-11-25 13:40:00 +0100
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Kids need to know that you support them, Mumbai-based Psychologist tells parents
The Mumbai-based Psychologist says it is minute gestures of support that will help add to the kid's esteem as well as help relieve them of stress
It's imperative that parents create a 'we are there for you' feeling in the kids, says Arati Suryavanshi (representative image)
Amid the ongoing exam season, a city-based psychologist has cautioned parents against burdening their children with unrealistic expectations, adding that imbibing the 'we are there for you' feeling in them will work wonders for their self-esteem and overall growth.
"Listen to your kids carefully and non-judgmentally. Try to be there for them when they need your support. This is the time that they need your support and people around them who can share their concerns," psychologist Arati Suryawanshi said.
It is imperative that parents create a 'we are there for you always' feeling in their children, she said, adding kids tend to perform better when they know that they have full support of their family.
"Parents can't help their kids directly with the kid's studies and allow them to do it own their own.
However, taking care of their needs also goes a long way, For example, even fetching them a glass of water or fruit juice, when they are engrossed in study helps," she said.
"Empathising with children doesn't mean that parents should let them do whatever they want, but rather understand their emotions," Suryawanshi, director of the Mindful Heart Consultancy, an organisation working in the emotional wellness sector, said.
"Avoid reacting immediately to your child's actions. Take a pause and rethink before responding. Please remember that your child is trying his best to tackle situations created by people around him," she said.


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