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Canadian government invests in VR training technology
February 17, 2018 February 17, 2018 Reece Sellin
The Government of Canada announced this week that it has awarded a $1.1 million contract to Halifax, Nova Scotia-based IT firm Bluedrop Training and Simulation Inc. The funds are being used to procure the company's virtual reality Rescue Hoist Simulator product. The contract comes as part of the Canadian government's Build in Canada Innovation Program, which has seen over $126 million invested in 285 contracts since 2010. Bluedrop is currently the country's largest provider of courseware. "Bluedrop is extremely happy that the Build in Canada Innovation Program recognizes and supports the innovative capabilities of our company," said Jean-Claude Siew, Vice President, Technology & Simulation at
Artificial Intelligence, Military, News, Technology Security, Wearables
China starts with AI facial recognition in fighting terrorism
February 13, 2018 Teuta Franjkovic Valich
Just a few weeks before Chinese Lunar New Year festivities starts, Chinese authorities decided to take even more precaution measures. The Chinese will be making around 3 billion trips during these days and there is a new high-tech law enforcement tool that will help them feel secure. Facial recognition eyeglasses have already been tested and proven useful in Zhengzhou's East Railway Station when they helped local police capture seven people connected to major criminal cases, and a further 26 traveling on false documents. The station, one of the busiest in China, has its own police force but it can be hard for an individual policeman to
Apple, Augmented Reality (AR), Business, Companies, Google, Hardware, Microsoft, Military, News, VR World, Wearables
Apple Manufacturer Quanta Partners With Lumus For AR Displays
December 7, 2017 Christopher Harper
Quanta Computer Inc. is a manufacturing partner for Apple and many other hardware manufacturers in the PC/smartphone space. They're one of the most important companies that consumers have never heard of. Recently, they reached out to Lumus, an Israel-based business that designs displays for AR glasses and headsets. If you recall Google's "Glass" project from a few years back (which included very limited shipments of Google Glasses), Lumus works on similar hardware and has been doing so for quite a while. In 2008, they sold the PD-18, one of the first AR glasses of its kind, and just a few years later they started producing hardware
Augmented Reality (AR), Breaking, Business, Military, News, startups, Virtual Reality (VR), VR World, Wearables, Wearables
ODG Launches Heavy Duty Mixed Reality, VR AR Combo Glasses
April 6, 2017 April 6, 2017 Theo Valich
Osterhaut Design Group, or ODG for short is expanding its lineup of combined AR/VR glasses targeting the heavy duty use in industrial markets. After a successful launch of R-7, the company is expanding the product family with R-7HL, short for Hazardous Location. This headset comes with a complete eye protection, shielding its wearers from the most hazardous environments. "ODG built the R-7HL to answer the demands and needs of customers who operate in extreme environments," said Ralph Osterhout, ODG CEO. "R-7HL brings a durable, hands-free, wearable computing platform to professionals in oil exploration and production, energy, mining, utilities, chemical production and pharmaceuticals and enables heads-up, hands-free checklists, guided
April 6, 2017 April 6, 2017 0
Business, CPU, Hardware, Internet of Things (IoT), Military, Mobile, News, Virtual Reality (VR), VR World, Wearables, Wearables
Lattice just announced iCE40 UltraPlus
December 14, 2016 December 15, 2016 Kresimir Zelenika
After launching Ultra family in 2014, and the UltraLite Family in early 2015 – Lattice just announced a new member of the iCE40 FPGA family. ICE40 Ultra Plus delivers eight times more memory (1.1 Mbit RAM), twice the digital signal processors (8x DSPs), and improved I/Os over previous generations. Available in multiple package sizes, the programmable nature of the iCE40 UltraPlus device is ideal for smartphones, wearable tech, drones, 360 cameras, human-machine interfaces (HMIs) and industrial automation, as well as security and surveillance products. The variety of sensors needed to implement innovative HMI solutions are rapidly changing the I/O landscape. Today's mobile devices require ever
AMD, Analysis, ARM, Breaking, Business, Enterprise, Exclusive, Hardware, HP, Intel, Military, Nvidia, Qualcomm, VR World
China Now Leads the Server Race: Meet the Phytium MARS Processor
August 29, 2016 August 30, 2016 Nebojsa Novakovic
Two decades ago, the US high end microprocessor industry was a lively, diverse market where about five various instruction set architectures battled it out across the workstation and server fields. You had choices like DEC's Alpha – the speed leader; MIPS – the Silicon Graphics heart; SPARC from Sun Microsystems, IBM POWER, HP PA, the nascent X86, and a few custom architectures for MPP massive parallel processing, for instance. The rest of the world pretty much had nothing – British Transputer and German Hyperstone platforms died out due to lack of funding, while ARM was still keeping to the low end embedded arena after the end of the
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Augmented Reality (AR), Breaking, Business, Hardware, Military, Mobile, News, Virtual Reality (VR), Wearables, Wearables
OTOY and ODG: Look Into the Future of Virtual Reality
June 6, 2016 Theo Valich
Hot on heels of last week's announcement that OTOY is teaming with Osterhaut Design Group to deliver a consumer version of their Augmented / Virtual Reality glasses, Jules Urbach Founder, Chairman and CEO of OTOY came on CNBC's SquakBox. In a two minute, thirty second video Jules described the work they are doing with ODG in bringing this new and exciting product to market. We reached to Jules for comment and here's what he said: "Video of live Light field streaming working on a Samsung Galaxy S6 is really a milestone we've been working on for a while. But the ODG glasses are pretty amazing as
Augmented Reality (AR), Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Gaming, Hardware, Military, News, Virtual Reality (VR), Wearables
Vuzix Launches New AR and VR Products
January 7, 2016 Theo Valich
While there is a lot of focus on companies that are announcing their VR and AR products, the realities are that those 'loud' announcements serve to hide the fact that those companies are not shipping. On the other hand, there are companies such as Vuzix Corporation, which ship AR/VR products for years now – just not in the limelight. "Augmented and Virtual Reality are no longer concepts from science fiction movies, and we are at the forefront of bringing that technology to the world," says Paul Travers, President and Chief Executive Officer at Vuzix. "Our award-winning lineup of AR/VR solutions and patented technologies reflect our extensive experience
aerospace, Auto, Military, News, Space and Science, VR World
HRL's 3D Printed Ceramic could Change Everything
3D printing is slowly, but certainly becoming an evolution or even a revolution of manufacturing. Every week we receive news pitches from companies claiming they're the next big thing in the world of 3D printing, but there are innovations which are really making you think we're changing for the better. From 3D printed vertebrae and skin in medicine to airplanes and rockets, 3D printing or 'additive manufacturing' is becoming an everyday reality for mission critical tasks. One company known for its innovation since inception – Hughes Research Laboratories (known today as HRL Laboratories, LLC – a joint-venture of General Motors and Boeing) just announced a technological breakthrough in
Military, VR World
Inaugural Deployment In Europe For F-22 Raptor
August 29, 2015 August 29, 2015 Vanja Kljaic
In its inaugural deployment, the F-22 Raptor has arrived in Europe earlier last week. There are be four F-22 Raptors, one C-17 Globemaster III, and approximately 60 Airmen who have arrived at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, to train with allied air forces and U.S. services through mid-September. This marks the first time the F-22 Raptor has been deployed overseas, namely Europe and bases there. This first-ever F-22 training deployment to Europe is funded by the European Reassurance Initiative, and provides support to bolster the security of our NATO Allies and partners in Europe. The F-22s and Airmen are from the 95th Fighter Squadron, Tyndall AFB,
Business, Military, News, Space and Science, VR World
Who Will Buy Airbus Defense Business?
When EADS, the crown company mostly known for Airbus commercial planes and Eurocopter planes, as well as booming Satellite business -renamed itself Airbus Group SE, information start to leak from the company – sale of unwanted, non-core assets. It started with selling shares of private jet / military jet maker Dassault Aviation, evaluating exit from ATR, its joint venture with Finmeccanica etc. Now, Airbus Group wants to focus on commercial sector, and a spin-off of its core defense business is under way. While the buyout companies are prominent and mostly attracted to various parts of the Airbus Defense overall, there are a few specialty companies in the defense
Watch The Sky Get Painted By Military Airplanes At Red Flag
Exercise Red Flag is an advanced aerial combat training exercise hosted at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. It's an event that gathers American, alongside other nation's pilots, preferably allied ones and friendly countries. In the series of air combat simulations, the pilots are tested through various and daunting challenges like dogfighting, reconnaissance and ground attack for example, all while enjoying the full open spaces of the scorching desert below. Under the aegis of the United States Air Force Warfare Center (USAFWC) at Nellis, the Red Flag exercises, conducted in four to six cycles a year by the 414th Combat Training Squadron (414 CTS) of the
A Block 50 F-16CM from the U.S. Air Force Crashes In Germany
A Block 50 F-16CM from the USAF crashed in Germany earlier today, with the pilot ejecting and safely landing in the nearby area. The crashed airplane was found headed for a dense Bavarian forest, leaving the plane in a heap of smoke and ruble at the scene of the crash as well. The jet in question is an F-16CM from the U.S. Air Force 480th Fighter Squadron, named the "Warhawks," which is based at Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany. According to the 52nd Fighter Wing, the aircraft was on a training mission and it was carrying a set of six 25 pound Mk-76 training bombs.
Top Five Best Looking Jet Fighters
For as long as there are military jets, there was a heated debate running about the best looking jet fighters ever made. The usual internet discussion participants always have their own particular favorites. For the most part, particular choices are subjective. However, common sense and the general feeling of what's good looking, can help us yield some rather viable candidates for the top five looking jets ever made. We've kept this short for the sole purpose of adding just what we feel is best looking. Some will argue a few of these planes shouldn't have a place on this list, while some will vocally support them. On
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Possible Cheaper Fighter Attack Airplane for U.S. and its Allies?
August 4, 2015 August 4, 2015 Theo Valich
As the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter finally receives active combat clearance, and enters the Air Force as a battle-ready aircraft, we saw a lot of caveats of the troubled Lockheed Martin's fighter program. In a nutshell, it's over budget, over the planned timeframe and over the much needed operational limit for current USAF and NAVY fighters as well. Sadly for the program, it is also weaker in combat than a 40 year old F-16, yet alone F-15 and F-18 fighters. This means, that in true facts and reality the F-35 is so much delayed, that current F/A-18 and F-16 fighters are nearing their operational limit. It also
Video: Watch A B-1B Refuel From A Stratotanker
August 2, 2015 August 3, 2015 Vanja Kljaic
There are several phenomenal looking airplanes in the USAF's inventory and the B-1B Lancer is definitely a part of that group. Featuring a swept-wing design, it has been the designated bomb truck for many of the USA's recent and past conflicts worldwide. With impressive four big GE-F101 turbofans pointing out the back, the aircraft is capable of producing some gorgeous images and videos thanks to its often used afterburners. This means that the B-1B often produces that bluish smoke coming out of the four engines and entertaining the airplane geeks inside of pretty much anyone interested in flying military hardware. In the video below, you
A B-52 Had A Daunting Landing At Oskosh Airfield
July 27, 2015 Vanja Kljaic
America's biggest air show, EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh Wisconsin, finally had their biggest visitor yet! It's a B-52 Stratofortress bomber, visiting one of the most appealing air shows held in the territory of United States and it made a big impression. The reason why BUFF (Big Ugly Fat Fucker – an affectionate term used for this awesome aircraft) never visited this airfield is its sheer size! The B-52 is pretty much as wide as airfield's main runway, making landings a daunting challenge for even the most experienced pilots. The occasion for the big airplane's visit was a celebratory one for both the show and the
Israel Sent Cobra Attack Helicopters To Jordan To Fight The Islamic State
According to Foxtrot Alpha, Israel has just sent sixteen AH-1 Cobra helicopter gunships to Jordan, to fight the Islamic State and the growing threat of terrorism in that area. This is a rather daunting showcase of how much the neighboring states are actually perplexed by the issue of attacks within their borders, thus once sworn enemies are now helping each other in ways like this. The deal was set and done months ago, with the reveal for the public happening right now. The helicopters have been refurbished, upgrades were made, done by U.S. contractors on site according to the source in question. The AH-1 "Tzefa"served
The Navy's 9th Littoral Combat Ship, the USS Little Rock Gets Launched
July 23, 2015 July 23, 2015 Vanja Kljaic
The USS Little Rock (LCS-9) is the ninth Littoral Combat Ship made for the US Navy. It features all the goodies, or better yet, lacks all the goodies, headed for this ship class overall. If the F-35 is the air force bottomless pit, it seems the Littoral Combat Ship is the Navy version of the money draining program, destined to be more expensive and to do less than their peers in various missions. While its role still isn't decided, these ships are being churn out at a steady rate and some of them are waiting for retrofitting, as will be the case with USS Little
China, CPU, Enterprise, Global Politics, Intel, Military, News, Technology Security, US
USA Embargo Cannot Stop China: Tianhe-2 Supercomputer Keeps #1
July 16, 2015 Theo Valich
Couple of months ago, we exclusively reported that the U.S. government blocked Intel from selling its products to Chinese supercomputer firms such as Inspur, responsible for building the Tianhe-2 supercomputer. Originally, Tianhe-2 was planned to expand all the way to almost 100,000 Xeon processors and Xeon Phi co-processors, targeting to beat the 100 PFLOPS barrier. Initial deployment included 4,096 Chinese Galaxy FT-1500 processors (Chinese SPARC) and 16,000 processor nodes with two 12-core Xeon E2692 processors and three Xeon Phi 31S1P co-processors for a grand total of 3.12 million cores. Full installation of Tianhe-2 was scheduled to feature 48,000 processor nodes, or 9.93 million cores. However, those


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Home Eat & Drink Foodie Founder/Owner of Indeed Brewing Speaks Out About Toxic Culture
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Founder/Owner of Indeed Brewing Speaks Out About Toxic Culture
Rachel Anderson claims she was ousted from the company she helped create because of a toxic culture.
Photograph by Eliesa Johnson
Indeed Brewing
* See below for updates
There's been a #MeToo reckoning in the craft beer world over the last two weeks. It has hit globally, with claims of sexism and assault touching breweries in all parts of the world, and it has hit locally, at Indeed Brewing.
It started with a few posts on Brienne Allan's @ratmagnet personal page, but gained momentum as women in the beer industry all over the world chimed in. Hundreds of stories have poured in over the weeks. Some of the accusations have been powerful enough to affect change in certain breweries, as the CEO of Modern Times Brewery in California has stepped down. Others are denying the veracity of the claims, and Allan has stated that she is just sharing the stories and not vetting them.
With hundreds of claims posted on Instagram stories, it can be hard to locate a brewery you might patronize, but we do know that Indeed Brewing was called out by several posts. Late last week the company posted a letter from Kelly Moritz, the COO, saying they are trying to learn from this and be better:
"I should first say that I firmly and unwaveringly support these stories being told, collected, and shared widely. The sheer number of them should be eye-opening to those who think the beer industry is blameless or above criticism when it comes to issues like sexist, racist, and classist behavior. … We, at Indeed, are not blameless or above criticism. I know we're not doing everything perfectly. But I can tell you that we are trying. I am trying."
In the letter, Moritz shares her phone number and email and says her door is wide open, that she doesn't want to let women down by brushing it under the rug.
A notable comment on the Instagram post came from Rachel Anderson, one of the original founders of the company. She found the sentiment curious, as no one had reached out to her, and her story told another side of the culture at Indeed.
Anderson posted her story, I AM A CRAFT BEER CASUALTY, on her own site. I found it yesterday. In it, she tells of how she was one of the original founders of the brewery in 2011, on the team from the beginning setting the brand's logo and handpicking the local illustrator that would help define the tone of the brewery. "My goal was to create a brand that was inclusive and fun, with the intention of inviting a new type of craft beer drinker in. I wanted Indeed to be a brand I and others like me could get behind."
But as the company was taking off and becoming a huge local player, Anderson says it was not the same behind the scenes:
"Questioning inappropriate behavior was seen as a buzzkill. Establishing paid maternity leave was not a priority. When I welcomed my second child in 2014, I returned to work after six (unpaid weeks), strapping my little girl to my chest to carry on. As a mom of two young children, when I expressed the need for a better work/life balance, it was seen as a lack of commitment to the business. Advocating for fair compensation was an annoyance. Expressing the need for help in my ever-expanding job responsibilities was a weakness. 'You're not acting like an owner,' is what I was told over and over and over."
"Despite the hostile environment I tried to work hard and push forward. I promised myself I would not quit. I convinced myself that if I worked hard enough, things would get better. That I still had room to create meaningful change. Meanwhile, female employees started to confide that they too felt bullied, undervalued and marginalized."
Anderson recounts that as tensions grew, things got worse. In October of 2015, the group handed her a letter of termination and forced her to leave the brewery on the spot, "My email, computer and key card were immediately disabled. Next I was voted off the Board of Directors of the company. I was in a state of shock and panic. How could I, as an owner, be forced out of my own company without reason?"
During that same time, she was also going through a divorce and facing the realities of becoming a single mother to two kids. She asserts that the company knew of her financial difficulties due to this, and took advantage of her at her most vulnerable moment.
Anderson believes that the toxic masculinity that fostered her removal is "baked into the DNA of the company":
"When leadership acts in a hostile way toward fellow employees, an example is set of what acceptable behavior looks like. When employees are not compensated and promoted fairly, an example is set of what acceptable behavior looks like. When female employees are made to feel uncomfortable sharing a pregnancy announcement, an example is set of what acceptable behavior looks like. When people in leadership positions are involved in inappropriate sexual relationships with subordinates, an example is set of what acceptable behavior looks like. When people get jobs at the company because they are friends with someone in a position of authority, an example is set of what acceptable behavior looks like. When employees feel empowered to make offensive 'jokes' that make others uncomfortable, an example is set of what acceptable behavior looks like. When racist and misogynistic beer names are freely floated around as suggestions for new products, an example is set of what acceptable behavior looks like."
It was the Moritz statement that led Anderson to tell her story, because it felt like false sentiment to her. She states that no one has attempted to reach out to her since early 2016, "when they were certain I no longer had the resources to wage a legal battle," and no acknowledgment of apology has ever been given.
For her part, Anderson has regrets, "I look back now, and wish I had done so many things differently. I wish I had been able to stand up to the bullying and gaslighting. I wish I had been able to create a better and more inclusive environment. I wish the amazing female employees who ultimately quit working for Indeed would have been better supported, compensated and valued. But most of all, I look back and feel compassion for the woman that ever questioned whether she was good enough to exist in this industry. I was, and I am."
I reached out to Indeed for a reaction to Anderson's post, and this morning I received this quote from Tom Whisenand, co-founder and CEO:
"Indeed is not the same brewery it was six years ago. We believe this, but to make absolutely sure that statement is true, we'll be hiring an external firm to do an unbiased workplace audit. They'll help check our remaining blind spots, and assess whether we harbor any systemic problems in our leadership, processes, or procedures. We plan to share those results openly, and immediately address any identified issues."
A few women in the industry who I've talked to personally, who don't want to go on the record for fear of retribution, have all repeated the same sentiment: it's not words, it's action, nobody cares about your apology if it's just dudebro chatter.
More action, less posts.
* UPDATE: As of around 6:30 p.m. on the day this article was published, Tom Whisenand posted this public statement and apology to Rachel Anderson. Definitely read it.
* The original headline of this article mis-identified Anderson as a "former" owner, when she still retains ownership in the company.
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Q: c# Problem with my Xpath? Parsing Xml from a DocX file using Package.GetPart I have a class called Reader
public class Reader

Here is the constructor
public Reader(string fileName)
        {
            using (Package package = Package.Open(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "\\" + fileName + ".docx"))
            {
                Document = new XmlDocument();
                Document.Load(package.GetPart(new Uri("/word/document.xml", UriKind.Relative)).GetStream());
                xmlNamespaceManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(Document.NameTable);
                xmlNamespaceManager.AddNamespace("w", @"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml");
            }
        }

There's also a public method called ReadTextNodes, which I have set up to test.
public void ReadTextNodes()
        {
            var nodes = Document.SelectNodes("//w:t", xmlNamespaceManager);
            Console.WriteLine(nodes.Count);
            foreach (XmlNode node in nodes)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(node.InnerText);
            }
        }

The Xpath I have used is "//w:t" - I have linked this up to the XML Namespace "w" used by Word ( "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml" )
Yet, this query gives me zero nodes.
When I replace with "//*" , the Console fills up very quickly with text.
So what's wrong with the first query?

A: I figured out I was using the wrong Schema.
I saved the docx file as an XML file and opened up in Visual Studio to find that "w" is actually mapped to "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main"
And not to "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml"

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In these times its hard not to hear about the new sorts of allergies that science researchers find, however, all of us are aware that a lot of us have allergies for animals such as dogs or cats. Imagine having a pet in your house and avoiding it because the second you start to get near it or try to cuddle you start having allergy attacks. Well, all your problems will now be solved, Pet Gear Lab has posted an article about the top ten rated air purifiers that remove airborne allergens so that we can breathe easier. Pet Gear Lab has provided the descriptions of the machines, with the pros and cons and reviews from different clients, allowing us to make research and figure out which purifier is good for ourselves or family members.


Wickedly brilliant vocals with a range full of emotion, passion, a powerful seductive and stunning performance SMASHBY is making a huge impact on the Dance Music Scene! Standing out from the rest of the musical pack with his merger of Dance, Pop with a dash of Rock all smashed into one lyrical experience. SMASHBY's sound takes you back to the core of icons he idolised growing up, the influences of George Michael, Prince, Freddie Mercury, MJ and GaGa can be heard in his vocal prowess, seen in stage and in his music videos.
His new song WILD ONE off the new EP of the same name is poignant to so many situations, it will draw you into an experience so many have encountered. The accompanying music video will immerse you a flood of emotional responses. The new EP and each of the 4 tracks will get you movin'!
A bit about this amazing artist: Hailing from the UK, Smashby has never been one for sitting in the back, as from a young age he has always been on stage. Since being 8 years old he was in some kind of performing arts school/group. But it wasn't until he was 13 that he decided to take more of an interest in music, he started going into recording studios working on demos and covers. By the time he was 16 he had left school and had begun work on his original material, by February 2015 he had successfully crowdfunded his debut EP 'Bite Me' on Kickstarter, the EP was later released on Soundcloud. Since then Smashby has toured & even headlined numerous Pride festivals all over the UK. Shortly after the release of his EP 'Bite Me' Smashby entered the online Swiss selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with his debut single 'Pharaoh', the song quickly reached the top 5 most popular entries for that year and garnered Smashby much online attention from Eurovision bloggers and forums all over the world.
He also led his own Anti Bullying Campaign in 2016, touring schools across England he encouraged the students to follow their dreams and to always be themselves. In 2017 Smashby won the National Student Pride Talent Competition. On 3rd September he released his second single "Birthday Suit" which peaked at #29 on the Gay Music Charts and remained in the chart for 5 weeks.
On 19th December he released his third single "Ringleader" which peaked at #13 on the Gay Music Charts and remained in the chart for 8 weeks. Smashby took the LGBTQ Music Vote 2017 title with his single "Birthday Suit" earning 32% of the votes.


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Toadwater | Toadwater Inn | Information Ministry | Topic: Patch Notes April 6th Alchemy Release 0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
For the first patch in Wednesday, Alchemy gets the spotlight.
5 Brand new Tonics have been added, bring up the total recipes to 15. Tonics range from Age Negation bonuses to Tomato buffs without poo. To the clever alchemist, Toadee is giving out hints for the recipes for Lemon Basil Herbs.
When making tonics, many special events can happen. If the alchemist is skillful, extra secrets can be discovered adding more uses to the recipe. Also ingredients can be saved and occasionally a skilled action will happen, making two tonics with one set of ingredients. The Alchemy skill determines how many uses a recipe is made with, so a higher level will be to the advantage.
Herb spawns have a nasty habit of moving when picked to thin. Make sure to be careful about watching your health when moving around collect herbs.


Discussion in 'Dynasty' started by nolanmillercollector, Feb 13, 2017.
I don't remember such a beautiful gown ! Maybe Joan wore it in a cut scene ?
She never wore that on the show but it looks like one of the big dresses she wore that was definitely by Nolan Miller. I think she worse something like that in grey or silver with roses on it.
Recent additions to my collection. Can you guess who and when?
Alexis. Umm... S5... in Moldavia with King Galen?
Yes those are both right!
I'm still amazed other Dynasty fans online don't have costumes or sketches.
I wonder would some of Miller's stuff be held in studio costume houses? Things like suits and separates, skirts, jackets, blouses could have been used in films and TV shows and not been as recognisable as those DYNASTY gowns. I know some stuff from DYNASTY made it's way on to HOTEL and THE LOVE BOAT.


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Q: mysqli_fetch_assoc($result) not show all of the results I am trying to access my query table using the php code below. Currently I have two entries in my mysql database. I am trying to use mysqli_fetch_assoc to print all the entries in my table into my webpage, but all the method I tried is either printing the second entry and not the first one. When I use a while loop while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result), it prints the second entry instead of both entries. If i use print_r($posts); it will print the first entry and the second entry is not printed. I am new to php and trying to learn how to print all the entries in my database onto php page and I am not understanding what I am doing wrong. Any help would be great! Thanks!
$sql = 'SELECT * FROM myTable ORDER BY created_at';
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);
$posts = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);
while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)){
    print_r($row);
}
//if I do this I see the first entry title only
echo 'testing title: '. $posts['title'];

mysqli_free_result($result);
mysqli_close($conn);

output:
Array ( [id] => 2 [title] => SecondTitle [content] => Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur
adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. [created_at] =>
2020-07-17 12:32:04 ) testing title: First Title

output from print_r($posts):
Array ( [id] => 1 [title] => First Title [content] => First Content. [created_at] => 2020-07-17
12:31:42 )

in  tag:

    <?php foreach ($posts as $post): ?>

<?php echo $post['title'] ?>

<?php echo $post['created_at'] ?>

 <?php echo $post['content'] ?>

    <?php endforeach; ?>

output of the divs is for some reason:
1
1
1

F
F
F

F
F
F

2
2
2

Not sure if these info helps but if I used mysqli_fetch_all instead of mysqli_fetch_assoc the file crashes, not sure if it something to do with the database or something else. PHP version 7.3.6
$posts = mysqli_fetch_all($result, MYSQLI_ASSOC);

A: each call of mysqli_fetch_assoc() of a mysqli result, return an assoc array of the next result line.
for example:
you have table named user have 3 records:
id          name

1           Mark
2           Sebastian
3           Smith

after select all of these records:
$result = mysqli_query("SELECT * FROM user");

the first fetching will return assoc array of the first result line
$posts = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);
// $posts["id] = 1 -- $posts["id] = "Mark"

the seconde call of mysqli_fetch_assoc of the $result will return assoc array of the seconde result line:
$posts = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);
    // $posts["id] = 2 -- $posts["id] = "Sebastian"

so each call, will return the next result line until there is no record, the function will return null. document
so if you want your code work as you want i suggest you to delete the first mysqli_fetch_assoc call that out of the while loop:
// delete this line
$posts = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);


Knysna's trendiest hotel, The Turbine, is hidden away behind the shops and restaurants on the main road of Thesen Harbour Town.
We recently strolled across to try breakfast at the hotel on a Sunday morning, having discovered that our regular favourite, ile de pain, was closed.
Breakfast was served on the attractive sunny wooden pool deck overlooking the canals of the upmarket Thesen Islands residential development. The food was delicious, the prices very competitive by any standards, and the service prompt and friendly.
Don't leave without exploring the interesting public areas of the hotel, which was once Knysna's power station and housed a wood fired turbine. Most of the original components have been refurbished to form an integral part of the decor, which is at once industrial and contemporary. The lofty dimensions of the entrance area, provide a perfect gallery space for local artists.


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February 7, 2019 -- In her State of the City Address Wednsday night -- "Shaping a Changing World" -- Mayor Gleam Davis looked at Santa Monica's immediate and long-term future.
Good evening Santa Monica! I'm so pleased to be here tonight to speak with you about how our City's doing and how, by working together, we can shape Santa Monica's future.
So I want to resist the temptation to focus on our past, both good and bad, and, instead, I'd like to spend a few moments to talk about Santa Monica's future– both the obstacles we face and our plans to overcome them and build a thriving and resilient Santa Monica.
As we consider our ten-year financial forecast, we see that we are going to have to focus on maintaining a diverse and robust local economy while we rethink the way we the City allocates resources and deals with the looming pension liability that threatens every city in California.
We must transition from being a government mired in the old ways of doing things and evolve to become a customer-centered, agile, and accessible 21st Century Government.
We also elected to adopt overarching city values that will inform all the work we do. They are: Accountability, Equity, Inclusion, Resilience, Safety and Stewardship.
Let's briefly discuss these Budget Framework priorities one by one.
Today, we find ourselves in a situation where the California Dream is beyond the financial reach of too many people.
California is in the midst of a housing crisis.
This is the major driver for rising rents and soaring housing prices.
Santa Monica is not immune from the pernicious effects of this housing crisis and we are doing everything we can to address it.
Santa Monica protects current renters with one of the most aggressive Rent Control laws in the state. We also recently increased the relocation fees that must be paid to renters who are being forced out of their homes.
We are incentivizing the construction of new housing, especially deed-restricted affordable housing.
We are using a variety of measures, including direct housing subsidies, to support our most vulnerable populations, particularly our seniors, who deserve to age in place with dignity. We also are creating specialized zoning rules for the Pico neighborhood to protect that neighborhood's diverse character.
Are these measures enough? Absolutely not. As we enter the new year, we plan to look for more ways to protect existing residents, build more housing near transit, and look for innovative ways to retain our diverse population.
Crime is a very real issue in our community. As mayor, I believe that every member of our community should feel safe while they are in their homes, at their place of work or enjoying our public spaces.
While Santa Monica remains a relatively safe city, we know that crime was up 8.8% in 2018. I'm pleased to share that we began 2019 with a 12.5% dip in crime – and we are committed to maintaining this momentum.
* Our police are working closely with community groups and businesses to create a safer, more crime-resistant environment.
We know this issue is important to everybody and, in the spirit of accountability, Chief Renaud will continue to share the results of these and other measures throughout the year.
We know that almost 1000 people in Santa Monica are experiencing homelessness. And we know it is a concern to you all.
* Launching a team of experts that engage with unsheltered residents in our city and work to get them the services so they need.
* Piloting several get togethers in our Public Library to connect people to services. This worked so well that soon, we will have a full-time social worker in our Libraries who will be a reliable, accessible resource that will connect people with resources.
* Creating We Are Santa Monica. As you saw in the video, this outreach initiative uses real stories of real people who are making a difference in Santa Monica to raise awareness about the challenge of homelessness and encourage public involvement in solutions that will move the dial and ultimately help those in our community that need it the most.
Climate change is real. From the ravages of fires in California to the Polar Vortex in the east, the evidence that we are threatened by shifts in our climate is undeniable.
Here in Santa Monica, the threat is to our very identity as a beach city -- without a dramatic decline in greenhouse gas emissions, 2/3rds of Santa Monica's beaches will disappear by 2100.
We now require new single-family construction to be energy neutral.
But we can do more. One of the most effective things any community can do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is build housing so that people can walk, bike, scooter, or take affordable and efficient transit to their jobs.
So, as we think about future development, we need to ask ourselves, will it reduce our dependence on the automobile?
We also are stewards of our environment in other ways: through our expanded plastics ban, our commitment to being water self-sufficient, and our intent to divert 90% of our waste from landfills. With these and other pro-environment efforts we are demonstrating that a city can protect the environment and still be economically successful.
We know traffic and pedestrian safety are problem that vex Santa Monicans. Solving traffic will require that we make public transit a better alternative to the personal auto and that we make our streets safer for other modes of transit such as walking.
I am pleased to report that, last year, we had no pedestrian fatalities. And we increased the visibility of our green lanes with vibrant paint and other improvements. But this is not enough.
In the future, we will continue to cultivate a culture of using transit, walking, and & biking amongst our youth and their parents through Safe Routes to School programming.
We are in the midst of a shared mobility pilot program that includes both education and enforcement and that is encouraging safer use of scooters. We also have made great strides in creating designated spaces where dockless mobility devices can be rented and dropped off.
But we still need to look for innovative ways to move around our city and the region. Traffic is a regional problem. We have to work with our regional partners to make transit more convenient and more accessible. We need to build more protected green lanes where people can feel safe riding bikes or scooters.
Let me be clear. Our goal is not to take away anyone's automobile. But when we drive, we need to admit that we are the traffic we hate so much. That is why we want everyone to have multiple mobility options that will allow each of us to reduce or eliminate our dependence on traffic-causing automobiles.
What does an engaged and thriving community look like?
It's a place where residents feel connected to each other and to their local institutions. We clearly need to work on this.
Engagement is crucial. We know that there is a widespread mistrust of government. If we are to rebuild this trust, we need to do a better job of meeting our constituents where they are. We must provide better opportunities for the exchange of ideas and concerns between City Hall and you.
We also need to do a better job of communicating not just what we are doing but why we are doing it. You may not agree with all our decisions, but you have a right to know the basis for those decisions.
In the coming year, with the much-needed revamp of the City's website, I hope we can improve constituent interaction, demonstrate greater transparency, and provide an opportunity for everyone to see for herself what the City is doing. We also intend to have more community conversations which will give you all an opportunity to have in-depth discussions about what's happening in Santa Monica.
Thriving certainly depends on economic and educational opportunity. But all the research shows that it also means that we must connect to each other and our community in more meaningful ways.
Santa Monica is recognized throughout the world as a Sustainable City of Wellbeing. This is not just a pie in the sky idea about a vague notion of happiness. As Santa Monica demonstrated when it won the Bloomberg Philanthropies grant for creating our Wellbeing Index, wellbeing can be measured.
What can be measured, can be improved. And the world is noticing. Just this week, Santa Monica was named a finalist for the 2019 Wellbeing City Award.
Our Wellbeing index is showing some improvements including gains in kindergarten readiness and a reduction in the sense of isolation among our older residents. But we are committed to doing more.
Last year, we awarded our first series of microgrants--$500 to community members who were interested in creating opportunities to build connections in their communities. These microgrants brought a neighborhood together around a pop-up playground on a vacant lot and introduced members of different generations and ethnic groups to each other.
We also began the Pico Wellbeing Project which is focusing efforts and resources in the areas that the data indicates the greatest need.
In the coming year, we will continue this work and look for more innovative ways to improve our collective and individual wellbeing so we can thrive.
Thank you for letting me share with you our priorities and plans for the next few years. Before I go, I want to let you know that embedded in these budget framework priorities is a lofty vision of our city. And realizing this vision will be a team effort and each and every one of you are part of the team.
So, team Santa Monica, what can you do? Stay connected, and not just online. Our resident survey shows that many people get their news from social media. But as I hope we all know, not everything on Facebook, Twitter, or many websites is true. And much of what we see there is meant to appeal to our worst instincts, not our better angels.
Instead, make a personal connection. Turn to the person sitting beside you and appreciate the effort that you all made to come here tonight.
Create opportunities and space for constructive dialogue. Curiosity and listening with an open mind are key to understanding and progress.
Embrace change. ou may not like it, but you cannot avoid it. We cannot reconstruct the Santa Monica of 1950; we need to plan for the Santa Monica of 2050 and beyond.
And finally, let's be solution oriented. It's OK to complain. I know things aren't perfect. But complaining only identifies the problem. Help us do the harder but more satisfying work of bringing real solutions to the difficult problems we all face.
If we work together, it's within our power to make 2019 a productive year that sees profound and positive change. We truly will be a sustainable city of wellbeing.


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Coffee connoisseur are basically people who are interested in coffee. These people are coffee expert and usually have knowledge that other people lack about coffee. Connoisseurs of coffee study the history of coffee, origin, types of coffee and the brewing of it in attempt to gather the full understanding of the beverage. A single cup of coffee from either Speedway or McDonald cannot satisfy the coffee connoisseurs. They treasure quality of coffee and can do anything to prepare a great cup.
Everyone who wants to be a coffee connoisseur needs to know few things about its history. Coffee originated from Ethiopia in the 15th century. The popularity of coffee moved from Ethiopia to Peninsula where it became known and coffee houses were opened. Later the beverage made its way to Europe and it was there that it was first known as a breakfast drink.
Coffee is first roasted to bring out the color, taste, and smell of coffee beans. Before the roasting of coffee, it is usually in form of coffee beans which are green and lack taste. The types of coffee roasts include light-medium and medium-dark.
you will realize that the Light roasted coffee is light brown in color and do not have oil. It has an inviting taste described as mellow.
Medium roast coffee is oily brown coffee that is well rounded in terms of flavor with an almost sweet taste and fairly low on acid. The mild onion offensive taste of medium roast coffee is what attracted those that love it. You will realize that those that drink it shy away from the bitterness of dark coffee and the acidity of light coffee.
The dark roast coffee has been described by many people like coffee with a bitter taste. The coffee has a bitter taste because it has been roasted over a long period of time. You stop roasting the dark roast coffee when the beans start becoming dark. Over roasting effect of the dark coffee is at times too strong for some people. Depending on what you want, you can serve the dark roasted coffee with other beverages or by itself. Mixing your coffee with chocolate or caramel will give you sought-after tastes.
Coffee beans are packaged and also distributed as either whole or ground. going for the whole beans is better. Ground beans are formerly the whole beans which were ground for easy consumption and use. If you want beans that hold their flavor and aroma for long, you should go for whole beans. Espresso, cappuccino, latte, and macchiato are some of the most popular coffee beverages.
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HOTPANTS (High Order Transform of PSF ANd Template Subtraction) implements the Alard 1999 algorithm for image subtraction. It photometrically aligns one input image with another after they have been astrometrically aligned.
Hrothgar is a parallel minimizer and Markov Chain Monte Carlo generator. It has been used to solve optimization problems in astrophysics (galaxy cluster mass profiles) as well as in experimental particle physics (hadronic tau decays).
HydraLens generates gravitational lens model files for Lenstool, PixeLens, glafic and Lensmodel and can also translate lens model files among these four lens model codes. Through a GUI, the user enters a new model by specifying the type of model and is then led through screens to collect the data. Written in MS Visual Basic, the code can also translate an existing model from any of the four supported codes to any of the other three.
Hyperion is a three-dimensional dust continuum Monte-Carlo radiative transfer code that is designed to be as generic as possible, allowing radiative transfer to be computed through a variety of three-dimensional grids. The main part of the code is problem-independent, and only requires an arbitrary three-dimensional density structure, dust properties, the position and properties of the illuminating sources, and parameters controlling the running and output of the code. Hyperion is parallelized, and is shown to scale well to thousands of processes. Two common benchmark models for protoplanetary disks were computed, and the results are found to be in excellent agreement with those from other codes. Finally, to demonstrate the capabilities of the code, dust temperatures, SEDs, and synthetic multi-wavelength images were computed for a dynamical simulation of a low-mass star formation region.
From a photometric catalogue, hyperz finds the redshift of each object by means of a standard SED fitting procedure, i.e. comparing the observed magnitudes with the expected ones, computed from template Spectral Energy Distributions. The set of templates used in the minimization procedure (age, metallicity, reddening, absorption in the Lyman forest, ...) is studied in detail, through both real and simulated data. The expected accuracy of photometric redshifts, as well as the fraction of catastrophic identifications and wrong detections, is given as a function of the redshift range, the set of filters considered, and the photometric accuracy. Special attention is paid to the results expected from real data.
This IDL library is designed to be used on astronomical images. Its main aim is to stack data to allow a statistical detection of faint signal, using a prior. For instance, you can stack 160um data using the positions of galaxies detected at 24um or 3.6um, or use WMAP sources to stack Planck data. It can estimate error bars using bootstrap, and it can perform photometry (aperture photometry, or PSF fitting, or other that you can plug). The IAS Stacking Library works with gnomonic projections (RA---TAN), and also with HEALPIX projection.
Icarus is a stellar binary light curve synthesis tool that generates a star, given some basic binary parameters, by solving the gravitational potential equation, creating a discretized stellar grid, and populating the stellar grid with physical parameters, including temperature and surface gravity. Icarus also evaluates the outcoming flux from the star given an observer's point of view (i.e., orbital phase and orbital orientation).
ICORE is a command-line driven co-addition, mosaicking, and resolution enhancement (HiRes) tool for creating science quality products from image data in FITS format and with World Coordinate System information following the FITS-WCS standard. It includes preparatory steps such as image background matching, photometric gain-matching, and pixel-outlier rejection. Co-addition and/or HiRes'ing can be performed in either the inertial WCS or in the rest frame of a moving object. Three interpolation methods are supported: overlap-area weighting, drizzle, and weighting by the detector Point Response Function (PRF). The latter enables the creation of matched-filtered products for optimal point-source detection, but most importantly allows for resolution enhancement using a spatially-dependent deconvolution method. This is a variant of the classic Richardson-Lucy algorithm with the added benefit to simultaneously register and co-add multiple images to optimize signal-to-noise and sampling of the instrumental PSF. It can assume real (or otherwise "flat") image priors, mitigate "ringing" artifacts, and assess the quality of image solutions using statistically-motivated convergence criteria. Uncertainties are also estimated and internally validated for all products. The software supports multithreading that can be configured for different architectures. Numerous example scripts are included (with test data) to co-add and/or HiRes image data from Spitzer-IRAC/MIPS, WISE, and Herschel-SPIRE.
What is the best way to pixelize a sphere? This question occurs in many practical applications, for instance when making maps (of the earth or the celestial sphere) and when doing numerical integrals over the sphere. This package consists of source code and documentation for a method which involves inscribing the sphere in a regular icosahedron and then equalizing the pixel areas.
iCosmo is a software package to perform interactive cosmological calculations for the low redshift universe. The computation of distance measures, the matter power spectrum, and the growth factor is supported for any values of the cosmological parameters. It also performs the computation of observables for several cosmological probes such as weak gravitational lensing, baryon acoustic oscillations and supernovae. The associated errors for these observables can be derived for customised surveys, or for pre-set values corresponding to current or planned instruments. The code also allows for the calculation of cosmological forecasts with Fisher matrices which can be manipulated to combine different surveys and cosmological probes. The code is written in the IDL language and thus benefits from the convenient interactive features and scientific library available in this language. iCosmo can also be used as an engine to perform cosmological calculations in batch mode, and forms a convenient evolutive platform for the development of further cosmological modules. With its extensive documentation, it may also serve as a useful resource for teaching and for newcomers in the field of cosmology.
ICSF (Intensity Conserving Spectral Fitting) "corrects" (x,y) data in which the ordinate represents the average of a quantity over a finite interval in the abscissa. A typical example is spectral data, where the average intensity over a wavelength bin (the measured quantity) is assigned to the center of the bin. If the profile is curved, the average will be different from the discrete value at the bin center location. ICSF, written in IDL and available separately and as part of SolarSoft (ascl:1208.013), corrects the intensity using an iterative procedure and cubic spline. The corrected intensity equals the "true" intensity at bin center, rather than the average over the bin. Unlike other methods that are restricted to a single fitting function, typically a spline, ICSF can be used with any function, such as a cubic spline or a Gaussian, with slight changes to the code.
iDealCam is an IDL GUI toolkit for processing multi-extension FITS file produced by CanariCam, the facility mid-IR instrument of Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC). iDealCam is optimized for CanariCam data, but is also compatible with data generated by other instruments using similar detectors and data format (e.g., Michelle and T-ReCS at Gemini). iDealCam provides essential capabilities to examine, reduce, and analyze data obtained in the standard imaging or polarimetric imaging mode of CanariCam.
Barnes, Joshua E.; Hibbard, John E.
By combining test-particle and self-consistent techniques, we have developed a method to rapidly explore the parameter space of galactic encounters. Our method, implemented in an interactive graphics program, can be used to find the parameters required to reproduce the observed morphology and kinematics of interacting disk galaxies. We test this system on an artificial data-set of 36 equal-mass merging encounters, and show that it is usually possible to reproduce the morphology and kinematics of these encounters and that a good match strongly constrains the encounter parameters.
Spectrum created by energy release in the early Universe, before recombination, creates distortions which are a superposition of μ-type, y-type and intermediate-type distortions. The final spectrum can thus be constructed from the templates, once energy injection rate as a function of redshift is known. This package contains the templates spaced at dy=0.001 for y<1 and dy=0.01 for y>1 covering a range 0.001 < y < 10. Also included is a Mathematica code which can combine these templates for user-defined rate of energy injection as a function of redshift. Silk damping, particle decay and annihilation examples are also included.
IEHI, written in Fortran, outputs a simple "coronal" ionization equilibrium (i.e., collisional ionization and auto-ionization balanced by radiative and dielectronic recombination) for a plasma at a given electron temperature.
IFrIT (Ionization FRont Interactive Tool) is a powerful general purpose visualization tool that can be used to visualize 3-dimensional data sets. IFrIT is written in C++ and is based on the Visualization ToolKit (VTK) and, optionally, uses a GUI toolkit Qt. IFrIT can visualize scalar, vector field, tensor, and particle data. Several visualization windows can exist at the same time, each one having a full set of visualization objects. Some visualization windows can share the data between them, while other windows can be fully independent. Images from several visualization windows can be combined into one image file on the disk, tiling some windows together, and inserting reduced versions of some windows into larger other windows. A large array of features is also available, including highly advanced animation capabilities, a complex set of lights, markers to label various points in space, and a capability to "pick" a point in the scene and retrieve information about the data at this location.
IFSFIT is a general-purpose IDL library for fitting the continuum, emission lines, and absorption lines in integral field spectra. It uses PPXF (ascl:1210.002) to find the best fit stellar continuum (using a user-defined library of stellar templates and including additive polynomials), or optionally a user-defined method to find the best fit continuum. It uses MPFIT (ascl:1208.019) to simultaneously fit Gaussians to any number of emission lines and emission line velocity components. It will also fit the NaI D feature using analytic absorption and/or emission-line profiles.
IFSRED is a general-purpose library for reducing data from integral field spectrographs (IFSs). For a general IFS data cube, it contains IDL routines to: (1) find and apply a zero-point shift in a wavelength solution on a spaxel-by-spaxel basis, using sky lines; (2) find the spatial coordinates of a flux peak; (3) empirically correct for differential atmospheric refraction; (4) mosaic dithered exposures; (5) (integer) rebin; and (6) apply a telluric correction. A sky-subtraction routine for data from the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph and Imager (GMOS) that can be easily modified for any instrument is also included. IFSRED also contains additional software specific to reducing data from GMOS and the Gemini Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS).
We present a suite of IDL routines to interactively run GALFIT whereby the various surface brightness profiles (and their associated parameters) are represented by regions, which the User is expected to place. The regions may be saved and/or loaded from the ASCII format used by ds9 or in the Hierarchical Data Format (version 5). The software has been tested to run stably on Mac OS X and Linux with IDL 7.0.4. In addition to its primary purpose of modeling galaxy images with GALFIT, this package has several ancillary uses, including a flexible image display routines, several basic photometry functions, and qualitatively assessing Source Extractor. We distribute the package freely and without any implicit or explicit warranties, guarantees, or assurance of any kind. We kindly ask users to report any bugs, errors, or suggestions to us directly (as opposed to fixing them themselves) to ensure version control and uniformity.
IIPImage is an advanced high-performance feature-rich image server system that enables online access to full resolution floating point (as well as other bit depth) images at terabyte scales. Paired with the VisiOmatic (ascl:1408.010) celestial image viewer, the system can comfortably handle gigapixel size images as well as advanced image features such as both 8, 16 and 32 bit depths, CIELAB colorimetric images and scientific imagery such as multispectral images. Streaming is tile-based, which enables viewing, navigating and zooming in real-time around gigapixel size images. Source images can be in either TIFF or JPEG2000 format. Whole images or regions within images can also be rapidly and dynamically resized and exported by the server from a single source image without the need to store multiple files in various sizes.
Im3shape forward-fits a galaxy model to each data image it is supplied with and reports the parameters of the best fitting model, including the ellipticity components. It uses the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) to render images of convolved galaxy profiles, calculates the maximum likelihood parameter values, and corrects for noise bias. IM3SHAPE is a modular C code with a significant amount of Python glue code to enable setting up new models and their options automatically.
ImageHealth (IH) is a c program that makes use of standard CFITSIO routines to examine, in an automated fashion, .FITS images with any number of extensions, find objects within those images, and determine basic parameters of those images (stellar flux, background counts, FWHM, and ellipticity, along with sky background counts) in order to provide a snapshot of the quality of those images. A variety of python wrappers have also been written to test large numbers of such images and compare the results of ImageHealth to other image analysis programs, such as SourceExtractor. Additional IH-related tools will be made available in the future.
Efforts are now focused on an implementation of IH specifically for the Dark Energy Camera; we do not envision providing support for the instrument-independent version of the code offered here though comments, questions, and feedback are welcome.
ImageJ is a public domain Java image processing program inspired by NIH Image. It can display, edit, analyze, process, save and print 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit images. It can read many image formats including TIFF, GIF, JPEG, BMP, DICOM, FITS and "raw". It supports "stacks", a series of images that share a single window. It is multithreaded, so time-consuming operations such as image file reading can be performed in parallel with other operations.
IMAGINE (Interstellar MAGnetic field INference Engine) performs inference on generic parametric models of the Galaxy. The modular open source framework uses highly optimized tools and technology such as the MultiNest sampler (ascl:1109.006) and the information field theory framework NIFTy (ascl:1302.013) to create an instance of the Milky Way based on a set of parameters for physical observables, using Bayesian statistics to judge the mismatch between measured data and model prediction. The flexibility of the IMAGINE framework allows for simple refitting for newly available data sets and makes state-of-the-art Bayesian methods easily accessible particularly for random components of the Galactic magnetic field.
The IMCAT software was developed initially to do faint galaxy photometry for weak lensing studies, and provides a fairly complete set of tools for this kind of work. Unlike most packages for doing data analysis, the tools are standalone unix commands which you can invoke from the shell, via shell scripts or from perl scripts. The tools are arranges in a tree of directories. One main branch is the 'imtools'. These deal only with fits files. The most important imtool is the 'image calculator' 'ic' which allows one to do rather general operations on fits images. A second branch is the 'catools' which operate only on catalogues. The key cattool is 'lc'; this effectively defines the format of IMCAT catalogues, and allows one to do very general operations on and filtering of such catalogues. A third branch is the 'imcattools'. These tend to be much more specialised than the cattools and imcattools and are focussed on faint galaxy photometry.
IMCOM allows for careful treatment of aliasing in undersampled imaging data and can be used to test the feasibility of multi-exposure observing strategies for space-based survey missions. IMCOM can also been used to explore focal plane undersampling for an optical space mission such as Euclid.
Imift is an open-source astronomical image-fitting program specialized for galaxies but potentially useful for other sources, which is fast, flexible, and highly extensible. Its object-oriented design allows new types of image components (2D surface-brightness functions) to be easily written and added to the program. Image functions provided with Imfit include Sersic, exponential, and Gaussian galaxy decompositions along with Core-Sersic and broken-exponential profiles, elliptical rings, and three components that perform line-of-sight integration through 3D luminosity-density models of disks and rings seen at arbitrary inclinations.
Available minimization algorithms include Levenberg-Marquardt, Nelder-Mead simplex, and Differential Evolution, allowing trade-offs between speed and decreased sensitivity to local minima in the fit landscape. Minimization can be done using the standard chi^2 statistic (using either data or model values to estimate per-pixel Gaussian errors, or else user-supplied error images) or the Cash statistic; the latter is particularly appropriate for cases of Poisson data in the low-count regime.
The C++ source code for Imfit is available under the GNU Public License.
Charnock, Tom; Lavaux, Guilhem; Wandelt, Benjamin D.
This software trains artificial neural networks to find non-linear functionals of data that maximize Fisher information: information maximizing neural networks (IMNNs). As compressing large data sets vastly simplifies both frequentist and Bayesian inference, important information may be inadvertently missed. Likelihood-free inference based on automatically derived IMNN summaries produces summaries that are good approximations to sufficient statistics. IMNNs are robustly capable of automatically finding optimal, non-linear summaries of the data even in cases where linear compression fails: inferring the variance of Gaussian signal in the presence of noise, inferring cosmological parameters from mock simulations of the Lyman-α forest in quasar spectra, and inferring frequency-domain parameters from LISA-like detections of gravitational waveforms. In this final case, the IMNN summary outperforms linear data compression by avoiding the introduction of spurious likelihood maxima.
This program measures line-strength indices in fully calibrated FITS spectra. By "fully calibrated" one should understand wavelength and relative flux-calibrated data. Note that the different types of line-strength indices that can be measured with indexf (see below) do not require absolute flux calibration. If even a relative flux-calibration is absent (or deficient), the derived indices should be transformed to an appropriate spectrophotometric system. The program can also compute index errors resulting from the propagation of random errors (e.g. photon statistics, read-out noise). This option is only available if the user provides the error spectrum as an additional input FITS file to indexf. The error spectrum must contain the unbiased standard deviation (and not the variance!) for each pixel of the data spectrum. In addition, indexf also estimates the effect of errors on radial velocity. For this purpose, the program performs Monte Carlo simulations by measuring each index using randomly drawn radial velocities (following a Gaussian distribution of a given standard deviation). If no error file is employed, the program can perform numerical simulations with synthetic error spectra, the latter generated from the original data spectra and assuming randomly generated S/N ratios.
Indri models the population of single (not in binary or hierarchical systems) neutron stars. Given a starting distribution of parameters (birth place, velocity, magnetic field, and period), the code moves a set of stars through the time (by evolving spin period and magnetic field) and the space (by propagating through the Galactic potential). Upon completion of the evolution, a set of observables is computed (radio flux, position, dispersion measure) and compared with a radio survey such as the Parkes Multibeam Survey. The models' parameters are optimised by using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique.
The efficiency of thin disk accretion onto black holes depends on the inner boundary condition, specifically the torque applied to the disk at the last stable orbit. This is usually assumed to vanish. This code estimates the torque on a magnetized disk using a steady magnetohydrodynamic inflow model originally developed by Takahashi et al. The efficiency e can depart significantly from the classical thin disk value. In some cases e > 1, i.e., energy is extracted from the black hole.
Infall is a code for calculating the mean initial and final density profiles around a virialized dark matter halo. The initial profile is derived from the statistics of the initial Gaussian random field, accounting for the problem of peaks within peaks using the extended Press-Schechter model. Spherical collapse then yields the typical density and velocity profiles of the gas and dark matter that surrounds the final, virialized halo. In additional to the mean profile, ±1-σ profiles are calculated and can be used as an estimate of the scatter.
Inflation is a numerical code to generate power spectra and other observables through numerical solutions to flow equations. The code generates tensor and scalar power spectra as a function of wavenumber and various other parameters at specific wavenumbers of interest (such as for CMB, scalar perturbations at smaller scales, gravitational wave detection at direct detection frequencies). The output can be easily ported to publicly available Markov Chain codes to constrain cosmological parameters with data.
The inhomog library provides Raychaudhuri integration of cosmological domain-wise average scale factor evolution using an analytical formula for kinematical backreaction Q_D evolution. The inhomog main program illustrates biscale examples. The library routine lib/Omega_D_precalc.c is callable by RAMSES (ascl:1011.007) using the RAMSES extension ramses-scalav.
InitialConditions finds the initial series solutions for perturbations in our Universe. This includes all scalar (1 adiabatic, 4 isocurvature and 2 magnetic modes), vector (1 vorticity mode, 1 magnetic mode), and tensor (1 gravitational wave mode and 1 magnetic mode) perturbations including terms up to second order in the neutrino mass. It can handle the standard species (cdm, baryons, photons), and two neutrino mass eigenstates (1 light, 1 heavy).
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Arab Oil Sheikh
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A man who owns a lot of oil, horses and big buildings. And a lot of debt.
They're from Arabia and they're accumulators.
The Arab oil sheikh is a rich Arab man with big investments in oil. He is typically seen in Arab dress, complete with keffiyeh, sometimes wearing dark aviator sunglasses when traveling abroad, or in a fine western suit and the keffiyeh and sunglasses. He will sometimes attempt to purchase the services of local prostitutes.
Often referred as the source of various pictures of excess luxury in Snopes.com's photography section, claiming they have, for example, cars made of solid silver, or coated in diamonds.
This character type is often brought in to teach a character An Aesop about putting his friends before monetary gain. This often involves the Sheikh innocently offering said character a large reward for a task that involves stepping on the character's friends in order to succeed.
A common outcome is that the character fulfills the requirement while managing to help his friends as well, but he then turns down the reward because he's learned that money isn't the only thing in the world.
In the present climate, they might be involved in financing terrorism. Sometimes The Con will involve someone using this trope and posing as a rich Arab to help explain a source of abundant but eccentric money for the mark.
They also turn up a lot in Romance Novels along with older depictions of the Arab Sheikh where they are dark, brooding, passionate and ruling everything he surveys in his desert kingdom with the same tenacity as he takes the woman. Sheikh romance actually gave us the term "bodice ripper" due to the common kidnap-rape-love plots where the Arab can get away with being beyond normal constraints in how he treats the heroine due to his exoticness. He'll still have the education of Lord Nelson though and the manners of a prince which is kind of the point: these books want someone who lives in the closest thing to a modern lavish royal court and acts like the Black Death hasn't gone out of fashion. He will also turn up as a villain trying to buy or kidnap the female lead for his harem.
An indispensable addition to any (generally evil) Cosmopolitan Council. In more comedic works, he is almost inevitably a Funny Foreigner.
Examples of Arab Oil Sheikh include:
One of Princess Flora's suitors in old school shoujo manga Honey Honey no Suteki na Bouken ("Honey Honey's Amazing Adventures") was an older version of this.
Lupin III as a disguise.
In a bizarre comic book example, a sheik apparently named Fasaud was transformed into an electromagnetic energy being and promptly began trying to take over the world. The Fantastic Four stopped him.
In Land of Black Gold, Sheik Bab El Ehr is trying to depose Emir Ben Kalish Ezab so that Skoil Petroleum can take over Arabex's oil concessions.
Fat Freddy of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers dresses up as one to get his friends out of jail. He doesn't look Middle Eastern at all, nor does he speak any Arabic, but he lets money do the talking.
The Sheik is a film from 1921 with Rudolf Valentino in the title role.
The Sheik from The Cannonball Run movies.
In the Norwegian cult classic puppet-movie, Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, visiting Oil Sheikh Ben Redic Phyfasan (a name which in the original Norwegian would rougly translate akin to something like "Sheik Ben Radish Gawd Damn Eet") ends up sponsoring both the construction of the protagonist's Cool Car, El Tempo Gigante, and the titular Grand Prix. What, exactly, an Arab Oil Sheikh was doing in a tiny Norwegian village on the far edge of nowhere, is never really explored.
He even speaks Broken Norwegian, so maybe he takes a special interest in Norway.
The exact same plot (Arab oil sheik sponsoring race) shows up in the Swedish movie G?Kanal. Except it's a boat race. And he ends up not paying because his brother launches a coup as he is gone. In the end the Norwegian navy saves the day.
The end of Secondhand Lions.
Remember, that good-looking young rich fellow was the sheik's grandson. The sheik himself is shown in flashbacks of Hub and Garth's adventures and fits this trope to a T.
In the alternate ending, the sheik of the flashbacks makes an appearance himself (obviously VERY old) at Hub and Garth's joint funeral in the cornfield.
The US government attempts to trade Goldie Hawn to one in exchange for being allowed to construct a military base in his nation in Protocol.
Condorman disguised himself as one.
The Blues Brothers don't dress up, but it is implied.
One of these fellows ultimately purchased Bryan Mills' daughter in Taken. He doesn't have much time for buyer's remorse to set in after Bryan comes looking to kick ass.
Ben Kingsley plays a reclusive Arab sheik who abducts a New York woman in Harem.
One of the subplots of Syriana focuses on the conflict between two sons who are the scions of a Gulf ruling family: a well-meaning Internal Reformist and his playboy younger brother.
Charles Stross's Merchant Princes series continually compares the titular family of worldwalkers to Arab oil sheiks: they're members of a medieval society who've used a natural resource (in their case, the ability to travel between universes) to become wealthy in the modern world.
Iconic as the stereotypical love interest in pulp romantic fiction. Even today, Mills And Boon (Harlequin in the US) pump out at least one Sheik romance a month.
Sheikh omnibuses are easily found.
Live Action TV
Hotel Babylon, where a group are seen as enjoying the services of one of the prostitutes that the hotel will get for clients who ask.
An Arab billionaire tried to buy British Airways in one episode of Absolute Power, although he was dressed in more of the way of a traditional businessman. He needed a PR team because he was related to Bin Laden.
One appeared on Alice, offering to marry the sassiest waitress--she was impressed by the over-sized real diamond ring, but was unwilling to be his fourth wife.
A subversion or aversion- in one episode of Minder, the character to be guarded is a wealthy Arab politician who is a rather noble good guy who doesn't show any of the stereotypical love of excess associated with the character. Amusingly, one character in the episode is hired as a temporary butler and believes the stereotype and thus thinks that hiring a white prostitute for his boss is the first thing he should do.
In an episode of America's Next Top Model, a contestant admitted that before the show she had once gone to what she thought was a modelling casting, but turned out to be a dinner with rich middle eastern men trying to solicit young girls to take home as wives.
On Thirty Rock, Floyd is up for a big promotion at General Electric. He and Liz Lemon are looking at what must be a multi-million dollar apartment with a river view. Before Floyd works up the courage to commit to it, an Arab Oil Sheikh enters and agrees to buy it on the spot so that his son can store motorcycles in it.
The Muppet Show. One episode has a subplot of Arabs drilling for oil in the guest star dressing room.
In the Omid Djalili show a recurring sketch has a parody of this trope, with a sheikh who keeps striking oil everywhere. Including in a golf course sand bunker and somehow in the middle of a park bench
One comes to John Beresford Tipton's rescue in SCTV's parody of The Millionaire.
A stock character in several episodes of Mission Impossible.
The Small Wonder episode "Vicki Goodwrench" features one, played by an Israeli actor.
In the season six opener of Hustle the grifters con an oil sheikh out of £250,000 by having Emma pretend to be KylieMinogue.
Another British show, The Real Hustle, used this to get US$80,000 of jewellery from a Las Vegas jeweller. They gave it back.
They used it to steal two cars as well.
Leverage had Hardison do something closely akin to this in "The First David Job".
In the second episode of Round the Twist, Mr Gribble tries to sell Nell's land (which is a day or two away from foreclosure) to a group of Arab sheiks, with the promise of the Twists' lighthouse to follow. When Mr Gribble bad-mouths the sculptures Tony makes, saying "You wouldn't give it to your mother-in-law", one of the sheiks corrects him "mothers-in-law". Later, the sheik sees the sculptures and buys a statue on impulse, seemingly producing $500 from nowhere (when Mr Gribble expresses disbelief, the sheik smiles and says "Give me a hand, Mr Grobble", patting him on the back).
The music video for The Clash's "Rock the Casbah" (which got a lot of play on MTV in the early 1980s) has some fun with this trope as a man who appears to be an Arab Oil Shiekh ends up hanging around with a man who looks like an Orthodox Jew, and the video ends with the two attending a concert The Clash were putting on.
One attempts to buy Doreau in an episode of Sledge Hammer.
In one episode of Are You Being Served, an Arab Oil Sheikh visits the store and attempts to buy a pair of trousers in exchange for a goat...When the goat is refused by the sales assistants, the sheik then tries to trade a beautiful woman.
In Highway to Heaven, Mark Gordon (played by Victor French), temporarily pretends to be one of these to fool corrupt businessmen to help Johnathan Smith and Mark Gordon's equally corrupt, but good-natured friends.
In an episode of The Nanny, the titular character visits a Sheikh at his palace in his home country. He of course falls in love with her, and tries to convince her to stay as his wife. The decision Fran has to make isn't exactly made easier by the fact that the Sheikh looks a lot like Mr. Sheffield.
"The Sheik of Araby" is a hit song from 1921.
Covered by The Beatles for their Decca Records audition. Included on The Beatles Anthology 1.
One of these recently appeared in Gasoline Alley, named Sultan Pepper, buying an invention that would theoretically improve gas mileage.
Ali Shaheed from Alpha Protocol.
The Hashishin from Gothic III fit this trope well, although they don't deal with oil, but rather artifacts from excavating ancient ruins.
Fassad aka Yokuba aka Locria in Mother 3. (Well, he looks like one, in any case.)
Doesn't help the fact that the first time you see him, he's in the desert. It also doesn't help with the fact that his shell is located in the Empire Pork Building, with a desert theme.
Maken X and the remake Maken Shao had one. He was one of the villains, and was short and fat, with his stomach stuffed with grotesque mutant tentacles. Did we mention these games were by the same people as Shin Megami Tensei?
On a similar note, a sheik shows up if you initiate a certain line of rumors in Persona 2 and gives you a side-quest dealing with filling out dungeon maps.
In Hitman: Blood Money, one of Agent 47's targets, Mohammad Bin Faisal Al-Khalifa, could be described as an Arab Oil Sheikh. He actually runs a pharmaceutical company, but he's still filthy rich, influential, and dresses in the appropriate manner for such a Trope. For good measure, he owns the Arabian-themed casino where the mission takes place. One of the customers confuses him for one of the wait staff.
Yusuf in Grand Theft Auto IV. Though Yusuf is a nice guy from the start.
Yusuf is the son of one, but unlike most other examples, he shows an infatuation with American popular culture.
Mega Man 6's Flame Man is designed to look like one.
Hakan from Street Fighter IV, though not the same kind of oil.
Hakan is Turkish, not Arab
The episode "Harem Cat" of Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats had Orville, a pet cat of one of these, try to kidnap Cleo for his next wife.
Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, ruler of Dubai, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates. He's the guy in the picture.
Clever enough to realize that his oil deposits won't last forever, and has been using his money for last two decades to make his country into Middle-East's leading tourist spot.
British tabloid The News of the World reporter known as the "Fake Sheikh".
Despite what is commonly believed the Bin Laden family did not get rich off of oil, but construction projects...many of which were commissioned by princes who had made their money from oil.
ABSCAM was a famous sting operation in the The Seventies where FBI agents posing as rich Arabs offered bribes to US politicians.
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EGLIN AFB
Eglin AFB, FL 32542, USA
EOD gets a one of a kind robot
Story by Ilka Cole on 04/23/2018
Pride and excitement were in the air at the 96th Civil Engineer Group's explosive ordnance disposal robotics section as Airmen worked with contractors to assemble their newly designed robot here April 9.
The new, more powerful robot, currently dubbed Brokk after the Norse blacksmith who forged Thor's hammer, replaces Stewie, an aging first-generation technology robot.
The custom robot will support Eglin's Test and Training Complex missions. This robotic system gives EOD technicians the ability to recover and dismantle munitions, which is key in aiding test engineers in weapons development.
"This one [Stewie] has exceeded its life expectancy. It's on its last leg and we need this capability," said Maj. Kelly Mattie, EOD flight commander. "We put our heads together to work out an acquisition strategy and here we are, not quite a year and a half later and it [robot] rolled out."
The $1.3 million acquisition is the only one of its kind in the world due to the various technological platforms incorporated into something new, the Brokk, according to Mattie.
Eglin's EOD unit is also unique. It's the only EOD unit in the Air Force with a test mission directive. They must have the capability to remotely remove weapon fuzes and data packages from live munitions to support the research, development, test and evaluation conducted here.
Seventh-generation telerobotic technologies from Kraft and Brokk machinery were combined to create the new platform. These machines are typically used for construction and in the demolition of the interior of small buildings.
"Nobody has adapted it to do what we plan to use it for," said Mattie. "It's smoother, faster and gives a lot of time back to the range users," he said. "Instead of takings days to recover a test item it may only take us four hours."
On the range, when munitions hit the target towers, there is concrete, steel and debris in the area. To gain access to the bomb, a robot with a grapple attachment must remove the debris.
"Imagine something dropping from the sky and hitting the grass. With that kind of force and speed, it's going to go into the ground 10, 20 or 30 feet, some times more," said Mattie.
When that happens, EOD technicians use the robot to recover the test item.
To help EOD in these situations, one of the new additions is a concrete breaker with the ability to break through concrete-reinforced test targets to gain access to the munitions. Other attachments include giant shears that can cut through steel I-beams and rebar, a jack hammer and an excavator, which will double their digging capacity.
Another capability is the human-like dexterity of the force feedback manipulator arms that perform maneuvers for the delicate and risky task of rendering ordnance safe more smoothly with seamless transitions.
"The new arms can pickup an egg without crushing it. It's human-like when it grabs an object," said Mattie. "The old robot was jerky and bounced around a bit."
The robotics section's Airmen predicted their future capability needs and incorporated them into the new design. They worked closely with the two companies to tailor the robot's design to meet their needs and identified what worked and what didn't.
"I'm very proud of my section. It wasn't an easy task," said Master Sgt. J. Adam Burke, EOD robotics section chief, about the set up and design of the new robot. "Those folks had a huge hand in the development and delivery of the new platform."
Mattie expects the new robot to be in its early operational stages within the next six months.
Because the new robot incorporates the latest technology, it requires little maintenance and saves an average of $145,000 a year in maintenance, range expenses and services costs, according to Mattie.
"Less time performing maintenance on upwards of 12-year-old legacy items will free up our time for more training and give us more time to support the test mission," said Burke.
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