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import matplotlib.pylab as plt
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

from ggplot import *

np.random.seed(314)

def sigmoid(x, y):
    """
    :param x:
    :param y:
    x.shape[-1] should be equal to y.shape[0].
    Otherwise, a the dot product can't be computed.
    :returns:  an array
    """
    try:
        return 1 / (1 + np.exp(-np.dot(x, y)))
    except ValueError:
        return None

def main():

    # Generate random data and store it in a pandas data frame
    random_data = 2 * np.random.random((100, 2)) - 1
    data = pd.DataFrame(data=random_data, columns=['x', 'y'])

    # Add the sigmoid function output applied to the x and y columns
    data['z'] = sigmoid(data['x'], data['y'])
    print(data.head())

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

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The Mitford Vanishing (Kobo eBook)
By Jessica Fellowes
A mystery with the fascinating Mitford sisters at its heart, Jessica Fellowes's The Mitford Vanishing is the fifth installment in the Mitford Murders series, inspired by a real-life murder in a story full of intrigue…
"Downton Abbey meets Agatha Christie in this witty and twisty mystery." —In Touch Weekly on The Mitford Murders
War with Germany is dawning, and a civil war already rages in Spain. Split across political lines, the six Mitford sisters are more divided than ever. Meanwhile their former maid Louisa Cannon is now a private detective, working with her policeman husband Guy Sullivan.
Louisa and Guy are surprised when a call comes in from novelist Nancy Mitford requesting that they look into the disappearance of her Communist sister Jessica in Spain. But one case leads to another as they are also asked to investigate the mysterious vanishing of a soldier.
As the two cases come together, Louisa and Guy discover that every marriage has its secrets—but some are more deadly than others. Suddenly home feels a long way away...
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Hardcover (January 18th, 2022): $28.99
Library Binding, Large Print (March 1st, 2022): $43.95
CD-Audio (January 18th, 2022): $44.99

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The hotels near Puerto Cortes Honduras and those that can be found in Puerto Cortes proper are rather popular among tourists. This has something to do with the fact that Puerto Cortes is a major seaport. It is also related to activity options that can be enjoyed in the area. These activities include spending time at the beach, attending annual events such as the Feria Juniana, visiting the Mayan site of Copan, and hopping on a boat that is bound for the Bay Islands.
Examples of hotels near Puerto Cortes Honduras are those hotels that are found in the city of San Pedro Sula. Visitors to the area might also consider the hotels in Tela. As for hotels that are found in Puerto Cortes proper, they include the Hotel Playa. Found on the beach, this hotel obviously provides excellent beach access, and guests also have access to a swimming pool and an air conditioned restaurant. As for the rooms, they include twelve relatively simple units, ten double rooms, and six cottages. Things such as a private bathroom, cable TV, a small refrigerator, air conditioning, and internet access figure among the standard in-room amenities, and continental breakfasts are included in the Hotel Playa rates.
Other hotels that visitors to the Puerto Cortes area are encouraged to consider are the Hotel Costa Azul, the Palmeras Beach Hotel, and the Coco Bay Resort. The Hotel Costa Azul might just be the best hotel in the area when it comes down to it, and both the Palmeras Beach Hotel and the Coco Bay Resort do well to keep their guests happy. As for one more lodging option to add to the mix, the nearby Caribbean Cliffs Marine Club can make for an excellent Puerto Cortes base. You can find this beach resort just minutes from town, and its rooms offer similar amenities to those that are available at the Hotel Playa.


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Preview: M52 - KXIP vs KKR
The winner of the match between Kings XI Punjab and Kolkata Knight Riders will take a step closer to the VIVO IPL 2019 Playoffs.
The winner of the match between Kings XI Punjab and Kolkata Knight Riders will take a step closer to the VIVO IPL 2019 Playoffs. Both teams have five wins from 12 matches; hosts KXIP are seventh in the eight-team table with a net run rate of -0.296, while their opponents KKR are one place above with a net run rate of 0.100.
It's been a season of two distinct halves for both teams. Kings XI Punjab won four of their first six matches, but have managed only one win in their next six matches. The Knight Riders were table-toppers after winning four of their first five matches. But they then hit a slippery patch, lost six matches on the bounce, and fell out of the top half of the table. KKR put the brakes on their losing streak in their previous match when they defeated the Mumbai Indians.
KXIP have lost their last three matches, but they will be delighted to return to their home ground where they have a 4-1 win-loss record this season. KKR meanwhile haven't travelled well this season – they've won only two of their five matches on the road – and therefore face a huge challenge to stay alive in the competition.
Given how the table has taken shape, both teams will be aware that the fourth qualifier could be well be decided on the basis of net run rate. Hence, both teams will be eyeing a win first, and a big one at that so as to boost their NRR.
3 May 2019, 8pm IST
IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali
Previous Match XIs:
Kings XI Punjab: Chris Gayle, KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Nicholas Pooran, David Miller, Ravichandran Ashwin, Prabhsimran Singh, Murugan Ashwin, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shubman Gill, Chris Lynn, Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik, Sunil Narine, Nitish Rana, Robbie Uthappa, Rinku Singh, Piyush Chawla, Harry Gurney, Sandeep Warrier.
Kings XI Punjab play with only five specialist batsmen; therefore it is up those five – Chris Gayle, KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Nicholas Pooran and David Miller – to do the bulk of the run-scoring. Rahul has come in for criticism for taking his time and not batting aggressively early; it could well be the team management's plan that one of the top-order batsmen bats deep into the innings. Gayle has often set the tone at the top, while Mayank Agarwal – who has had his best IPL season ever – has ensured the momentum has been carried forward with impressive cameos.
KKR have finally taken the long overdue decision to promote Shubman Gill to the top of the line-up; the teenager is a quality batsman and was a resource being wasted down the order. Batting at the top gives him the opportunity to set his own pace, and bat long as well. Andre Russell has destroyed many a bowling attacks this season; the Jamaican has a strike-rate of 207.69, and has already hit 50 sixes – one every 4.7 deliveries on an average. It must please the Knight Riders management that Russell applied himself well when he was sent out to bat at number three; in the match against Mumbai Indians, Russell was 6 from 12 balls at one stage, before he went on to score 74 from the next 28 balls.
Chris Lynn's last seven scores read: 50, 0, 82, 1, 51, 0, 54. KKR will hope the opener can break the pattern of half-centuries followed by poor scores.
Among the bowlers, the Ashwins have been outstanding for Kings XI Punjab; while the off-spinner Ravichandran has picked up several wickets, the leg-spinner Murugan has helped keep the runs down. The Knight Riders will expect Sunil Narine to get stuck into his favourite opponent; the Trinidadian has picked up more wickets against KXIP than against any other opponent.
Head to Head in Indian Premier League
Overall: Matches – 24, Kings XI Punjab – 8, Kolkata Knight Riders – 16.
Since May 2014: Kings XI Punjab – 2, Kolkata Knight Riders – 10.
Last League-stage Fixture:
For Kings XI Punjab: 5 May - v Chennai Super Kings in Mohali.
For Kolkata Knight Riders: 5 May – v Mumbai Indians in Mumbai.
Current Article Preview: M52 - KXIP vs KKR


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A wine and cheese party can be a great way to get together with friends or for a special bridal or wedding shower, birthday party or other celebration. It be easy to put together with a minimum of work even if you don't know much about wine or cheese! You can throw together a simple but elegant party without a lot of fuss and have an interesting theme to boot.
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You'll want to make sure to use the right type of wine glass with each wine. Red wine should be poured into a round ball shaped glass and white wine is more fluted but not as narrow as a champagne flute. Keep a bunch of each type of glass out so your guests can be sure to have the right glass at all times. For dishes you could get wine themed plates or go with an eclectic mix of little antique plates. Make sure you have plenty of little plates around to encourage quests to try small samples of cheese with each wine.
A wine and cheese party needs more than just wine and cheese! You'll also want to provide lots of interesting breads and crackers. Maybe some caviar? And don't forget dessert – a cheesecake would be in keeping with the theme but any dessert will do! And finally, some coffee might be in order after all that wine and please make sure that no one drives after having too much wine.


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'The camera is the most powerful weapon we've ever invented, so we had to utilize that weapon. That's why we created the (reality) show,' Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson, shown in 2012, said.
(Q24N) Shielded from extradition requests by Costa Rica and Japan, controversial Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson is now living as international fugitive in France, granting him political asylum.
On Interpol's Red List, Watson is a marine vigilante who's done jail time for extradition requests. Yet to many, he's also a heroic marine conservationist who risks his life and those of his crew to save countless endangered whales, turtles, dolphins and sharks from slaughter.
Love him or loathe him, Paul Watson, the 65-year-old, silver-haired founder of Sea Shepherd and co-founder of Greenpeace is now a celebrity because of his job: ramming whaling boats for a living.
Watson has a hit U.S. reality TV series, Whale Wars, that has aired on the Discovery Channel since 2008 about his organization's fight against Japanese whalers. And his influence reached new heights with the award-winning documentary Sharkwater, which conservationists say resulted in shark finning being banned worldwide.
The tactics have landed him in the legal hot water even as they boost his renown. During an interview with The Associated Press in Paris, Watson — a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen — was stopped four times in the street by fans of all nationalities who asked for autographs.
"The camera is the most powerful weapon we've ever invented, so we had to utilize that weapon. That's why we created the (reality) show," he said.
Watson asserts that the charges are trumped up. Watson now lives as an international fugitive in a luxurious 18th-century chateau near Bordeaux.
"It's not bad," he said with a smile to Associated Press.
Japan says Watson allegedly masterminded Sea Shepherd's disruption of Japanese whale hunts in the Antarctic Ocean and thus put whalers' lives at risk during the hunt.
Watson says the Costa Rica request is also trumped up and is linked to the Japanese charges.
Isn't he forgetting Robert Redford, who is also on the board?
"Robert Redford wasn't a superhero in Captain America, he was a villain," he laughed.
Read the original article at the Calgary Herald.


This Valentine's Day, grab your sweetheart — or tinder date — and come on down for a romantic time at the brewery. Listen to love songs, played by Anne Carpenter and Ben Zebelman from 8-10pm.
In addition, we will be offering a very special beer and chocolate pairing. Alongside a flight of four selected SSKB brews, there will be specially chosen chocolate offerings crafted by Hudson Valley chocolatier Oliver Kita.
Anne Carpenter is a vocalist and songwriter who has lived here in the Hudson Valley for the past 20 years. She and Ben have been friends for a long time. They love playing together and are ready to get you in the Valentine's Day spirit with love songs from the 60s, 70s and 80s, from Al Greene to Elvis to Patti Smith.
Come on down to get your fill of sweet love!


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Daily Walk – Daily Pursuit: Pursuing Jesus Together!
Everyone loves exercise. Wait. What? That might be true for some, but it is not true for me. I like what exercise does for me, but the act itself is painful and requires discipline! I try to go running a couple of times a week, but if I'm being honest (and I try to always be honest in my writing) I usually end up walking more than running. I am encouraged that I have yet to find a scripture encouraging my daily jog with Jesus, but there are many verses about our walk with God!
Psalm 81:13 (ESV) Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
True confession, I hate running. I'm sorry exercise people, you may now cast your head down in shame of my discretion. I don't like it. It's ok in small spurts, but I can't imagine trying to run everywhere all the time. I'm no Forest Gump.
It is my experience that when people run, they are usually running for a specific purpose or to a specific destination, but when people walk it is often more about the journey. It's enjoyable to bring someone along for a walk, because you can have a great conversation while walking! It's more challenging to converse in mid run. Being out of breath makes it a pain to communicate without long, breathy pauses.
Walking with the Spirit enables us to please God. Everywhere we go we should walk with the Spirit. Too often we give into temptation because we walked over to a place where the Spirit of God did not lead us to go and so we left Him behind. We must make every effort to follow God's leading in every area of our life. Is the Spirit of God going to that party on Friday night? If not then why are you going?
Growing in God is not a sprint, but a marathon. A walk takes longer. Spiritual growth is not sprung over night, but over time. A walk implies slow and steady progress. Too often we try to run ahead, get out of breath and then we have stop and catch our breath. God's design is to walk with us, and to help us steadily grow to become more like Him. He also usually takes it one step at a time. Every morning when we get up we should ask the Lord, what step would you have me take today?
Now, I am not saying there isn't a destination in our walking. God has intention for us, but His first priority is always our relationship with Him. We must have Spiritual health ourselves, before we can lead others to obtain Spiritual health. Walking with the Lord makes us healthy, because it is spiritual exercise and discipline.
You know what doesn't make us healthy? Sitting in a church pew, but never exercising our faith. Just like in life if all we do is sit, never getting up to move, we will get fat and unhealthy. Sadly, there are many spiritually unhealthy people in our world who need to get up and stretch their legs and begin walking with Jesus.
As we walk through this life, let us keep the end in mind. Heaven awaits! When I get there I will be face to face with a God whom I have been walking with my entire life. Wouldn't it be horrible to get to Heaven and meet God and it's like meeting a stranger? That isn't God's plan for us. He longs to reveal Himself to us now.
Through our daily walk with Him we can grow in relationship with our amazing God. We can get to know His character. We can move past the image of a distant God, to a deep close personal intimate relationship that will last through eternity.


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Half of France now on alert as mercury hits 40C
UPDATED: France's weather agency has issued further warnings across the country as temperatures topped 40C in some parts.
Updated: 1 July 2015 17:00 CEST
The heatwave continues to scorch most of France. Photo: AFP
Heatwave latest:
Weather warnings increased to cover 47 départements
The heatwave in France continues to get stronger, with France's weather agency Météo France upping the total number of départements on orange alert warning from 40 to 47 on Wednesday afternoon.
An Orange warning is the second highest warning level and asks the public to be "very vigilant".
The agency added the départements of Alsace, Ardennes, Isère, Moselle, Savoie, and Haute-Savoie to the 40-strong list, which includes all the départements within Bourgogne, Ile-de-France, Franche-Comté and Limousin, as well as Ain, Allier, Cher, Dordogne, Indre, Loire, Loiret, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Puy-de-Dôme, Aisne, Aube, Marne, Haute-Marne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Nord, Vosges, Cantal, Haute-Loire and Rhône.
Wednesday afternoon has been a scorcher across the entire country, with Paris recording temperatures of 39C, as well as 38C in Limoges, 37C in Nantes and over 40C in Gironde, Le Parisien newspaper reported.
France's weather agency Météo France has dubbed the heatwave as one of the strongest in the last ten years, the kind of which hasn't been seen for more than six decades.
Below are weather maps showing Wednesday afternoon, followed by Wednesday night. Most of the country won't see the temperatures drop below 20C during the night.
The heat even saw electrical problems at the Saint-Lazare train station in the capital, leaving passengers with no option but to walk along the tracks (see picture below).
#saintlazare transbordement #securite @LIGNEL_sncf pic.twitter.com/xRabNyGzhr
— Nicolas MELY (@nicolas_mely) July 1, 2015
The rising temperatures remain a worry for electrical network company RTE, which saw one of its electricity transformer overheated on Tuesday night leaving 800,000 homes in western France without power.
The first power cut occurred at around 8.30pm and saw lights go out in St Malo, Dinan and Dinard before a second outage occurred further south near Vannes, that left hundreds of thousands without electricity in Brittany and parts of the Vendée.
As well as homes turning dark, cinemas screens turned off and restaurants were emptied, reported newspaper Le Parisien.
On Wednesday morning the town of Vannes was still struggling with traffic lights not working and reported queues for bank machines.
"These incidents are without a doubt related to the hot weather," Didier Bény at RTE told France Info radio.
"To have an impact like this on the customers is quite exceptional."
While the problem was fixed by Wednesday morning – network company RTE warned that similar outcomes may occur again.
However, half of France can look forward to a brief respite as storms in the north west on Thursday are predicted to cool down the western half of the country, but the temperatures will rise again on Friday and stay high over the weekend.
After 15,000 mostly elderly people died in a heatwave back in August 2003, the government launched an emergency response programme in which authorities can raise a three-tiered alarm system to ensure there won't be a repeat.
People are advised to drink water regularly, even when not thirsty, in order to remain hydrated. It is also wise to avoid any physical exertion and try to cool down as often as possible by taking cold showers.
The general advice is to keep the air conditioning on during the day and get the windows open at night.
SEE ALSO: How to keep cool in this week's heatwave
(Parisians cool off in the summer sun. Photo: AFP)
Below is a map showing the weather for Thursday afternoon.
AFP [email protected] @thelocalfrance
WEATHERHEATWAVE
Snow latest: Have France's ski resorts reopened?
South and east of France on weather alert for storms and flooding
Scorching summer was France's second hottest on record
Three heatwaves since June produced France's second-hottest summer since records began in 1900, the Météo France weather service said on Tuesday, warning that scorching temperatures will be increasingly common as the climate crisis intensifies.
With 33 days of extreme heat overall, average temperatures for June, July and August were 2.3C above normal for the period of 1991-2020.
It was surpassed only by the 2003 heatwave that caught much of France unprepared for prolonged scorching conditions, leading to nearly 15,000 heat-related deaths, mainly among the elderly.
Data is not yet available for heat-related deaths this summer, but it is likely to be significantly lower than 15,000 thanks to preventative measures taken by local and national authorities.
Most experts attribute the rising temperatures to the climate crisis, with Météo France noting that over the past eight summers in France, six have been among the 10-hottest ever.
By 2050, "we expect that around half of summer seasons will be at comparable temperatures, if not higher," even if greenhouse gas emissions are contained, the agency's research director Samuel Morin said at a press conference.
The heat helped drive a series of wildfires across France this summer, in particular a huge blaze in the southwest that burned for more than a month and blackened 20,000 hectares.
Unusually, wildfires also broke out even in the normally cooler north of the country, and in total an area five times the size of Paris burned over the summer.
Adding to the misery was a record drought that required widespread limits on water use, with July the driest month since 1961 – many areas still have water restrictions in place.
MAP: Where in France are there water restrictions and what do they mean?
Forecasters have also warned that autumn storms around the Mediterranean – a regular event as air temperatures cool – will be unusually intense this year because of the very high summer temperatures. A storm that hit the island of Corsica in mid August claimed six lives.
"The summer we've just been through is a powerful call to order," Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Monday, laying out her priorities for an "ecological planning" programme to guide France's efforts against climate change.
AFP/The Local [email protected] @thelocalfrance
Weather warnings for Paris and northern France as Storm Gérard batters country
Avalanche in French Alps kills British woman


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I know about that, and I can't fix it, I don't know how .
That's great, I never knew you could do that with mods .
Sorry, this mod is only on Steam for a good reason .
Well, it is not a Saints Row game . So that makes sense .
I believe, but with the development of AOM, they don't get enough time to include these (If anyone saw this) .
I can't do it now . I don't have access to the models . I would need volition to release the models .
I think he means without superpowers .
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SockMan March 2, 2017, 3:58am #1
I had started a thread months ago seeing if anyone knew of Joshua Robinson a man who was travelling around Asia promoting people during seminars he was giving. He blocked communication when asked about his lineage and no one could provide any answers and oddly enough the threads I had started have disappeared from the forum much like any public postings I had made online concerning this man.
Well he is now in prison on charges of sexual assualt and peadophilia. So to those of you who helped try to uncover his lineage thank you, to those who blocked this enquiry you you helped a child molestor.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/mma-instructor-jailed-4-years-for-sexually-assaulting-2-teenage/3561744.html
Must March 2, 2017, 8:38am #2
I have a vague memory of such a thread. What a disgusting POS.
Rams_Scored_3_Points_in_SBLIII March 2, 2017, 3:43pm #3
Shame if the threads were intentionally deleted by mods here. Some kids could have possibly been saved if more new about him being a fake as they may have been more apprehensive about taking teens to him. Never know how many other kids were affected
ticker March 2, 2017, 6:44pm #5
Curious to see who this guy was. Looked at some of his videos. How the hell did this guys knee not explode at 1:06???
HotSteppa March 2, 2017, 7:18pm #6
SockMan -
It's say teenagers, not pedophilia.
bartatua March 2, 2017, 10:41pm #7
HotSteppa -
He showed porn to a 6 year old daughter of a uger
HotSteppa March 2, 2017, 10:45pm #8
bartatua -
Yeah, sounds like he is a complete POS.
triforce March 2, 2017, 10:50pm #9
Glad he's being exposed. If he's ever released he can't go back to BJJ
carcaju March 2, 2017, 11:51pm #10
Did you miss this part?
"When Joshua Robinson's apartment was raided, officers seized 5,902 obscene films, including 321 films of child pornography."
And this part?
"Robinson, 39, pleaded guilty to nine charges: Three for sexually assaulting the girls, five for making and possessing obscene films and one for showing an obscene film to a six-year-old girl. Another 20 charges, including four more for sexual assault, were taken into consideration during sentencing."
Jesus christ. Sorry to hear for whichever UGer it was. Hope the daughter is doing ok now. That is fucked up.
Rams_Scored_3_Points_in_SBLIII March 2, 2017, 11:58pm #12
Death deserved
SockMan March 3, 2017, 6:01am #13
Reading hard for you?
Must March 3, 2017, 4:04pm #14
Dr Zaius -
i just clicked on this thread to make sure it wasnt me.
No worries Dave
HotSteppa March 3, 2017, 5:53pm #15
Rhymenoceros -
He's one of these guys who wants to make the point that perving a 13 year old is totally cool, and doesn't make you a pedophile. Creepy as fuck.
Fuck off. creeping 7 years olds if different than creeping 15 year olds. Paedolphila is attraction to young children.
Didn't read most of the article so didn't know about the other stuff.
shen March 3, 2017, 6:23pm #16
I don't know anything about this guy, but I would bet money that he was probably descibed on here --at least once-- as, "A good dude. Tough & technical".


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Simon Kalouche posits a new form of robotic leg, one designed for maximum range of motion and, more importantly, an easily control method for force reduction. In other words, this is the kind of leg you want on your robot when you send it to Mars.
GOAT stands for Gearless Omni-directional Acceleration-vectoring Topology and uses a single motor and planetary gear to create a highly dynamic range of motion. The GOAT system allows for each leg to move dynamically – if it splats down hard the entire leg will take the brunt of the fall and if it needs to move sideways or on a sheer cliff face like a goat it can modify its legs accordingly. I think the best way to think about this leg is as one of those expanding and contracting plastic balls made of various vertices you buy at science museums – it can shrink, grown, and handle all sorts of positioning problems in real time.
Extra-terrestrial landscapes or a collapsed rubble environment, ubiquitous to war and disaster zones, will contain regions of highly rugged yet relatively level ground. In these environments using high bandwidth virtual compliance, made possible by low impedance actuators, will allow the robot's legs to actively conform to the terrain producing a more efficient and swift mode of locomotion as compared to a statically stable crawling gait which requires accurate terrain mapping and explicit foot step planning.
To achieve mobility over such a broad set of terrain topographies – spanning structured and unstructured environments – an ideal robot will employ both static, highly stable motions (e.g. dexterous crawling, climbing, walking), as well as highly dynamic agility maneuvers (e.g. leaping, inertial reorientation, controlled landing; running; etc.) to optimally traverse the terrain at hand. Therefore, a capable legged robot must be both dexterous, for precise footstep placement, and dynamic, for running and jumping when obstacles are insurmountable by static gaits alone.
The video shows only one leg in action but Spectrum has an image of a quadrupedal robot with four goat legs that can handle almost any terrain. The robot may not be as fast as Big Dog or Cheetah but it's still pretty cool.


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Council retract plans to "criminalise" rough sleeping in city centre
21st May 2015 Cason Reily1 Comment on Council retract plans to "criminalise" rough sleeping in city centre
Oxford City Council have retracted a proposal to allow the police to penalize rough sleeping in the City Centre.
This move comes in reaction to an online petition hosted by On Your Doorstep, the OUSU homeless campaign, in protest of this proposal received over 70,000 signatures.
In a new draft of a proposed city centre Public Spaces Protection Order, released on Monday, the Council announced that it had removed any plans to tackle homelessness through a ban on rough sleeping.
Council Leader Bob Price said: "We have discussed the proposal with our partners in dealing with homelessness and have concluded that there are more effective ways of tackling this problem."
The original proposal, first announced over the Easter vacation, suggested giving additional powers to local authorities to outlaw rough sleeping in the city centre. This proposal drew condemnation from the student community and beyond.
As part of their opposition to this proposal, On Your Doorstep opened a petition on Change.org entitled "Don't make life harder on Oxford's rough sleepers". This petition attracted 72,380 signatures over three months, with help from publicity given by national homelessness groups.
In addition to the petition, students and Oxford residents engaged in public consultation with the Council during the period after the March release of the original proposal.
On Your Doorstep Chairman Freya Turner lauded the petition's success, telling OxStu: "I'm sure that the sheer number of signatures and attention it got in local and national media were key."
"Our views were supported by a range of homelessness organisations in Oxford," she continued. "I'm sure their expert opinion which backed up our concerns was an important factor."
Oxford City Councillor Bob Price commented: "Councillors had a series of discussions with the officers and the agencies involved in this work and concluded that the inclusion of that section of the proposed Order would not be very effective in improving the success rate in getting this group to use their accommodation."
In his statement, Price did not reference either local publicity or internet activism in connection with the Council's final decision.
Rough sleepers remain a problem in Oxford. The council had said the original proposal intended to target "a small number of people [who] continue to beg and sleep on the city's streets despite receiving support and having been allocated accommodation". Asked how best to provide help for these individuals without criminalisation, the Chief of Oxford Homelessness Pathways told OxStu "there are no magic bullets". A variety of outreach approaches may be needed, along with a nuanced understanding of the health and situations of homeless individuals.
"Sadly," she continued, "some individuals continue to fall out of accommodation even when a lot of effort is made to help them secure and maintain it… whilst we do not think a criminalising approach should be taken in these instances, action from the police is sometimes necessary."
The Oxford City Council currently spends about £1.4m annually on homelessness services and outreach.
Turner, speaking on behalf of On Your Doorstep, pointed out that the Council relies solely on St. Mungo's Broadway, who "take quite a hardline approach," for their homelessness outreach. She told OxStu that Council should "work with the whole of the homelessness sector in Oxford to discuss a better way to help entrenched rough sleepers".
The new draft of the Protection Order, while dropping the focus on homelessness, does allow some new enforcement powers. It gives police additional authority to tackle, among other things, aggressive begging, sleeping in toilets, out-of-control dogs, and busking in breach of the council's code of conduct.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 18033758:MV8xOTAwMzkwXzIxNUU3RjJF] [b]Breivik: How I met 'Richard the Lionheart' in London cafe to plot 'how to seize power in Western Europe'[/b] A meeting between Anders Breivik and an English anti-Islamic militant calling himself 'Richard the Lionheart' was outlined in court yesterday. Nine years before his killing spree left 77 dead, the Norwegian said he was sitting in a London cafe with members of an extremist group called Knights Templar, to plot 'how to seize power in Western Europe'. As well as 'Richard the Lionheart', Breivik was also 'ordained' by the group and given the name of the 12th-century Norwegian king, Sigurd 'the Crusader'. Under cross-examination on the third day of his trial yesterday, the right-wing extremist initially refused to discuss meetings in Liberia and London in April and May 2002 as he joined a network of 'like-minded' militant anti-Muslim nationalists. But after repeated questioning by prosecutor Inga Bejer Engh, who told him she was trying to shed doubt on the network's existence, he conceded he had travelled to Africa and London ten years ago to help set up his Knights Templar (KT) movement. For the first time Breivik, 33, appeared rattled as it emerged he left Oslo on April 17, 2002, to fly to the Ivory Coast before entering Liberia, posing as an aid worker. Breivik said that once there he met an exiled Serbian 'war hero', but refused to identify the man. Breivik became agitated and claimed Norwegian police had not been clever enough to uncover the KT movement's members. He said: 'Exactly what is it you're getting at? Are you trying to sow doubt over whether the KT network exists? It does.' The court heard that Breivik flew to London in late April 2002 where he attended a founding session of the KT movement but he refused to give exact details of his co-conspirators. As images of Breivik's 1,800-page manifesto were flashed on to screens, the court heard that he met three other founding members of the Knights Templar during his London visit. At 23, he was the youngest member of the group. There were two Englishmen – including his 'mentor', Richard the Lionheart – and a French nationalist at the founding meeting. Breivik told the court: 'It is not in my interest here to discuss what went on. What I will say is that Richard was responsible for calling the meeting.' In his manifesto, Breivik said: 'It was basically a long-term plan on how to seize power in Western Europe.' He told the court that the people he had met in London had 'great integrity' and how his codename of 'Crusader' was taken from Sigurd Magnusson, a 12th-century Viking king. Asked if he felt he had met some 'like-minded friends' in London, he said: 'I felt I was a foot soldier associated with the others. Now I feel I have managed to do what I wanted to do.' Breivik also said he should face the death penalty – describing the 21 years he faces in prison as 'pathetic'. When asked if he thought Norway should introduce the death penalty, he replied: 'It would be the right thing.' Breivik: How I met 'Richard the Lionheart' in London cafe to plot 'how to seize power in Western Europe' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2131468/Anders-Behring-Breivik-trial-Norway-killer-says-I-dont-fear-death-execute-let-go.html Breivik planned to be a King of Norway http://translate.google.fi/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=fi&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iltalehti.fi%2Fulkomaat%2F2012061515711850_ul.shtml [/quote]
Original Message Breivik: How I met 'Richard the Lionheart' in London cafe to plot 'how to seize power in Western Europe'
A meeting between Anders Breivik and an English anti-Islamic militant calling himself 'Richard the Lionheart' was outlined in court yesterday.
Nine years before his killing spree left 77 dead, the Norwegian said he was sitting in a London cafe with members of an extremist group called Knights Templar, to plot 'how to seize power in Western Europe'.
As well as 'Richard the Lionheart', Breivik was also 'ordained' by the group and given the name of the 12th-century Norwegian king, Sigurd 'the Crusader'.
Under cross-examination on the third day of his trial yesterday, the right-wing extremist initially refused to discuss meetings in Liberia and London in April and May 2002 as he joined a network of 'like-minded' militant anti-Muslim nationalists.
But after repeated questioning by prosecutor Inga Bejer Engh, who told him she was trying to shed doubt on the network's existence, he conceded he had travelled to Africa and London ten years ago to help set up his Knights Templar (KT) movement.
For the first time Breivik, 33, appeared rattled as it emerged he left Oslo on April 17, 2002, to fly to the Ivory Coast before entering Liberia, posing as an aid worker. Breivik said that once there he met an exiled Serbian 'war hero', but refused to identify the man.
Breivik became agitated and claimed Norwegian police had not been clever enough to uncover the KT movement's members. He said: 'Exactly what is it you're getting at? Are you trying to sow doubt over whether the KT network exists? It does.'
The court heard that Breivik flew to London in late April 2002 where he attended a founding session of the KT movement but he refused to give exact details of his co-conspirators.
As images of Breivik's 1,800-page manifesto were flashed on to screens, the court heard that he met three other founding members of the Knights Templar during his London visit. At 23, he was the youngest member of the group.
There were two Englishmen – including his 'mentor', Richard the Lionheart – and a French nationalist at the founding meeting. Breivik told the court: 'It is not in my interest here to discuss what went on.
What I will say is that Richard was responsible for calling the meeting.'
In his manifesto, Breivik said: 'It was basically a long-term plan on how to seize power in Western Europe.'
He told the court that the people he had met in London had 'great integrity' and how his codename of 'Crusader' was taken from Sigurd Magnusson, a 12th-century Viking king.
Asked if he felt he had met some 'like-minded friends' in London, he said: 'I felt I was a foot soldier associated with the others. Now I feel I have managed to do what I wanted to do.'
Breivik also said he should face the death penalty – describing the 21 years he faces in prison as 'pathetic'.
When asked if he thought Norway should introduce the death penalty, he replied: 'It would be the right thing.'
Breivik: How I met 'Richard the Lionheart' in London cafe to plot 'how to seize power in Western Europe'
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Home News The village that sank beneath sewage: Romanian settlement lies hidden beneath rising toxic sludge with just occasional rooftops still visible
The village that sank beneath sewage: Romanian settlement lies hidden beneath rising toxic sludge with just occasional rooftops still visible
These haunting new pictures show a Romanian ghost village that lies hidden beneath rising toxic sludge, with just the occasional rooftops still visible, over four decades after its residents were forced to evacuate.
All that remains of Geamana in Western Romania is a church spire protruding from the toxic lake that has hardened over time, a spattering of ruined houses in the shallower waters and abandoned farm equipment.
Incredible drone footage of Geamana has shown the devastation after the villagers were forced out of their homes in 1978 to make way for a deluge of toxic slurry from a nearby copper mine.
The new pictures - which come at a time of increasing awareness of the human impact on the environment - show all that now remains of the village, which was once inhabited by around 400 families.
The multi-coloured toxic sludge rises by around three feet each year and soon the church - along with all of the other buildings in the village - will be completely submerged.
Pictured: An abandoned house and out-house are shown mostly submerged in a toxic lake. They are two of the last structures that remain of Geamana in Western Romania after it was flooded by toxic waste from a copper mine in 1978
All that remains of Geamana is a church spire protruding from the toxic lake that has hardened over time (pictured), along with a spattering of ruined houses in the shallower waters and abandoned farm equipment
Pictured: Aerial drone footage shows the scale of the water pollution from a nearby copper mine. The villagers were forced out of their homes in 1978 to make way for a deluge of toxic slurry that filled the valley
The multi-coloured toxic sludge (pictured) rises by around three feet each year and soon the church - along with all of the other buildings in the village - will be completely submerged
In 1977, communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu announced plans to build the Roșia Poieni super mine and offered affected residents around £1,500 each to leave their homes - some of which had been there for generations - to make way for the toxic waste.
A year later the Apuseni Mountain village was under the polluted, metallic water.
At it's peak the mine was producing over 11,000 tons of copper a year, making it the biggest mine in Romania.
A black and white picture of how Geamana, housed in the Apuseni Mountains, used to look, with it's distinctive church spire that now pokes out of the man-made lake
Pictured: A photo from the village before it was flooded shows happy residents with a cow, surrounded by small homes. The village was once inhabited by around 400 families, but were forced to evacuate by Romania's then-communist government
But the waste products from the mine were washed into the man-made valley, which spelled the end for the remote community, which was built in what became a catch-basin for the toxic waste.
As a steady supply of acidic grey-and-red liquid filled Geamana's valley following the mine's opening, 20 villagers refused to leave and simply moved to higher ground.
Some of the villagers thought they would be made rich by agreeing to move. They were supposed to be relocated just a matter of miles away, but they were instead moved over 60 miles from their devastated home.
Iron, sulphur and copper residues from a the copper mine cause the sickly patterns in the lake. Orange mixes with purple, green and yellow to create the hypnotic ripples. Pictured: An aerial view of the lake shows the environmental damage
Pictured: The church spire as seen on February 16, 2021. In this photo, the bricks of the church are just about visible under the spire. In the latest images, they are completely submerged, showing the speed of the rising toxic sludge
Locals were also furious at officials after the broke their promise to relocate the graves, which still lie around the slowly disappearing church, and under the toxic sludge.
As the mining continued, the 'lake' of contaminated waste continued to rise with it, creating the surreal landscape shown in the latest photographs, with nothing but the church steeple and a few abandoned houses to show for the town.
The acidic lake contains cyanide, used in the extraction process, which is highly toxic and can have a devastating environmental impact on a surrounding area should it leak, such as poisoning rivers and killing animals.
Pictured: A view over the toxic lake with some of the few remaining homes in the foreground. As a steady supply of acidic grey-and-red liquid filled Geamana's valley following the mine's opening, 20 villagers refused to leave and simply moved to higher ground. They, too, will be forced to move as the water level rises
Pictured: Abandoned farming equipment and two farm buildings that remain near the lake
Speaking in 2019, Romanian photographer and urban explorer Cristian Lipovan, 36, - who frequently visits the lake and witnessed year on year how the village has sank below the poisonous water - spoke of his experiences capturing the slow and devastating process.
'Geamana is a missing village, a ghost village, swallowed by a lake that has vivid, unreal living colours,' Mr Lipovan said at the time. 'The water that surrounds the hill is red in colour, it shows that everything is poisoned, from water, grass, trees, fruits, vegetables, animals and ultimately man.
'The lake is growing rapidly, and there are still people living in the area who live with the threat of poisonous water encroaching on their homes.'
Pictured: A image taken from drone footage showing the church's spire, that is one of the only remaining structures visible above the rising toxic sludge
Pictured: The church in a photograph from September 2011, demonstrating how high the water has risen since
He added: 'The atmosphere is bleak and gloomy because of the psychedelic, unnatural colours and because of the poor, unfortunate people who spend their days eating, drinking, smelling and breathing poison.'
'The sad story began in 1977, when Nicolae Ceausescu moved the population from Geamana village to make a waste disposal site for the Rosia Poieni copper mine,' said Mr Lipovan in 2019.
'It is the largest copper mine in Romania and at that time it was the largest in Europe.
'It's now creating a real 'ecological bomb' in the Apuseni Mountains,' he said.
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David Johnston, Don Van Natta Jr., and Judith Miller, three of the Times' most senior reporters, recently filed this front-page lead:
"A group of midlevel operatives has assumed a more prominent role in Al Qaeda and is working in tandem with Middle Eastern extremists across the Islamic world, senior government officials say. They say the alliance, which extends from North Africa to Southeast Asia, now poses the most serious terrorist threat to the United States."
In other words, a shadowy, diffuse group has, ominously, mutated into an even more shadowy and diffuse affair.
The three reporters go on to note that, according to their government sources, "this new alliance of terrorists, though loosely knit, is as fully capable of planning and carrying out potent attacks on American targets as the more centralized network once led by Osama bin Laden."
In other words, even though the U.S. has, for the past ten months, focused all of its military and intelligence might on Muslim-fundamentalist radicals, the threat, apparently, has not at all dimmed.
Indeed, investigators at the FBI and CIA tell Johnston, Van Natta, and Miller that "the war in Afghanistan failed to diminish the threat to the United States," and in fact, "the war might have complicated counterterrorism efforts by dispersing potential attackers across a wider geographic area."
The Times story then names seven men – all of whom have previously been identified as having been involved in terror acts – as the key operatives in this worldwide network of "decentralized terror cells" (what analysts are calling, the story says, "the international jihad") that "has emerged from the scattered remains of Al Qaeda."
Meanwhile, in its most public action to date to thwart terrorism and protect the U.S. from further attacks, the FBI has arrested a Puerto Rican former Chicago gang member who converted to Islam and who is said to have been plotting to set off a dirty bomb – or at least to have downloaded a plan for such a bomb from the Internet. The other most prominent suspect in the resilient new Al Qaeda network now in custody is Richard Reid, that shoe-bomber guy.
So what's wrong with this picture? Not just with the Times' portrait of a resurgent Al Qaeda, but with virtually all the breathless media accounts of the international jihad, as well as with the more and more detailed presentations by the White House, FBI, CIA, and Homeland Security representatives depicting this elusive threat.
For one thing, everything fits. If connecting the dots was a problem before 9/11, now everything is part of a carefully drawn schematic. All elements are easily, almost lovingly, incorporated into the story, even the oddest elements – Jose Padilla, the gangbanger turned Islamic revolutionary, being among the oddest.
For another, we've built a major black-is-white logic reversal into the very nature of the threat: Although we've killed countless members of the enemy group, including much of its leadership, disrupted its infrastructure, captured reams of intelligence on its activities, it's suddenly stronger than ever before. Likewise, we ascribe substantial organizational talents to what we also describe as uniquely disorganized. This new group has become, the Times story implies, a threat not least of all because it is less a group than the former group, which itself was notable for its loose-knitness (although, in comparison with the new group, the former group was apparently a model of central governance). By the logic we are applying to Al Qaeda and its offspring, we can never prevail. Whatever we do to thwart the enemy just makes it stronger. We are always, because of our size and power and resources, necessarily weaker. (Al Qaeda has something similar, perhaps, to the ghostly powers the Vietnam-era guerrillas were credited with having over conventional military forces.)
Then there is the suspiciously high level of serendipity. In the Times story, the seven men who are named as the new kingpins are men law-enforcement agencies just happened to have substantial dossiers on. All, in fact, are already under indictment for past terror attacks: the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, for instance, or the attack on U.S. soldiers in Somalia in 1993, or the truck bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi. (What's more, these seven men, the Times story notes, all also happen to "possess the managerial skill and authority to carry out attacks.") The cast of characters, in other words, has not been enlarged; rather, in some sense, the new story, or the new version of the old story, seems just to have been written around the existing cast.
Certainly, the sources of information referred to in most accounts of the Al Qaeda goings-on raise all sorts of wait-a-minute questions.
The government keeps crediting its intelligence to "the chatter," or, as the Times story attributes it, to "Internet traffic," which is either a euphemism for the usual vague police and quasi-police reports that pass between intelligence organizations, or some really inept notion of what the Internet is about. What exactly does Internet traffic mean? Are they intercepting e-mail (then why don't we just start spamming the Al Qaeda network)? Are there specific Websites that the terrorists frequent? Chat rooms? Porn sites? Of course, it may be that this invoking of the Internet, the new mother of all knowledge, is merely an effort to mask the fact that what we know, we know from people who are being tortured in Pakistan (itself not normally the best source of information), but as unsettling is the reasonable suspicion that these doughy euphemisms are meant to dignify the fact that the government is as dependent on Google as the rest of us.
Then, perhaps most disconcertingly, the overall narrative itself is patently a dumbed-down rehash. It's Cold War stuff. There is the ubiquitous and yet unknown and unknowable enemy. There's the international jihad, which, with only minor adjustments, replaces the international communist conspiracy. There's the sudden purported hegemony of the Muslim world – a new Soviet-bloc-style ideological monolith. There is the otherworldly dedication of operatives bent on overthrowing the West. There are the cells. There is the myth of superhuman discipline. There is now, even, the developing Kremlinology of the next tier of men who replace Osama. And at the center of the story, of course, is the bomb. Whether in massive retaliatory form or as a dirty-bomb package, it serves the same effect.
Helpfully, and synergistically, the creation of this new narrative of international shadows and intrigue unfolds against a backdrop of summer spy movies.
Now, having been through the Cold War, we do, actually, understand – even if we do not necessarily catch ourselves in the act – why we let a none-too-plausible narrative supersede reality.
There's the existential-void issue: People just can't stand being without a clear plot. They just don't want to hear (likewise, nobody really trusts them to hear) that the threat is scattered, inchoate, and random (the point about spy fiction is to reveal that the scattered, inchoate, and random are part of a greater, devilish design), that there is no script, that men act and conspire inexactly and ineptly and mostly unsuccessfully.
Hence, there's strong pressure to bluff it – to claim a gimlet-eyed expertise. The bluffers are in high demand (the Times story was a classic in bluffing it – or, as they say in the newsroom, "packaging what you've got").
Then, of course, for the president, a hard-hitting narrative has lots of political advantages. And having gotten the narrative in place, with a set of accusations and a list of evil men, the White House will invariably milk it. This is not just dishonest. It's also natural reflex. Because what if something bad does happen again? As president, you do want to anticipate a threat. But the corollary is that if you anticipate, you invent.
There is, too, the bureaucracy and how it shapes the narrative. The bureaucracy reflexively minimizes any new challenges that come its way because those challenges require resources it's already allocated. But if those new challenges come to create resources (more funding and better career prospects), the bureaucracy embraces them. The threat becomes all-consuming: international communism, the war on drugs, organized crime. Naturally, the bureaucracy will never make the threat lesser or more nuanced or complex. Rather, it will belabor it and institutionalize it – as it now, in the form of the proposed 170,000-strong, $40 billion Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security, institutionalizes itself.
And there's the media.
We aren't just passive receivers of the narrative; we're writing it. It really doesn't exist without us. Johnston, Van Natta, and Miller (along with pretty much everybody else covering the Al Qaeda beat) are grabbing up all the tidbits of half-information and recycled stuff offered to them by the White House and the intelligence services and are putting together the construct – the confection.
How come? Why do we get onboard? Why no greater skepticism?
Well, the Times is as worried as the president about "What if?" It's safer to assume the worst than to dispute it.
Then, too, we don't, not unlike the intelligence agencies, really know anything firsthand. Hardly anyone in the media has any experience covering the Muslim world. This whole business got sprung on us as suddenly as on everyone else. Lack of knowledge together with the substantial cost of getting smart is a big hurdle. You can't be too critical of the sources who are willing to dish – you don't know enough to question them. It's a hermetic information loop.
And, not insignificantly, we who have been entrusted with writing the narrative are bad writers. We embrace clichés, we slight emotions, we get impatient with complexity, we don't know how to express conflicting ideas or impulses. And, in the conventions of bad narrative, we hang the story on the dirtiest-looking person available to hang it on (Osama or Saddam or Khalid Shaikh Muhammad or Mustafa Muhammad Fadhil or Saif al-Adel or Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah or, however unlikely, Jose Padilla).
We know the danger of bad narrative. We write it and then find the world getting made in its image. Everybody, writers and politicians and operatives, starts to pick and choose the information bits to support the story line: There are lethal forces in this world moving inexorably and with remarkable agility and with a depth of resources and an amoral, sociopathic dedication and near-supernatural resilience, in our direction. We and everything we love will die unless we transform ourselves in the face of it. The narrative then becomes the conventional wisdom and the basis for national policy (politicians will be elected because of their obeisance to it). While the narrative is thrown together and of poor quality and obviously bogus in so many respects, at least it's ours. It lets us feel like we're in control.
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We are often approached by athletic directors of all divisions to talk about some of the real challenges that they face with players and synthetic turf protection. Coaches and directors face unique challenges from germs and harmful diseases which can cause lasting harm to their players and themselves. We recently wrote a blog about athlete's foot prevention in answer to one of those questions we often get about keeping players healthy while in the locker rooms. Today we want to address keeping them safe while on the field. Here are the 4 most commonly overlooked athletic disease risks that could put your athletes at risk.
Most athletic directors would tell you that the artificial turf care falls squarely in the maintenance department's hands.The problem with that view is that viral and bacterial loads are, on average, five times higher on the sidelines due to blood, spit, and sweat. This creates a major issue for coaches by exposing athletes to germs while sitting on the sidelines and not even playing. Not only is the artificial turf a breeding ground for a host of viruses and infections, but things like benches, cups, gear, towels, and drinking containers can now be deemed as contaminated through even the slightest contact, allowing for the spread of common athletic related diseases with just one sweaty towel.
Most of the time athletic programs will specifically choose artificial turf because of its easy maintenance and ability to help keep players safe; however, the bigger issue lies in proper maintenance. Athletic programs can forget to factor in the cost of upkeep for the artificial turf. When neglecting this upkeep you expose your coaches, players, and even fans to harmful bacteria that could cause them to become sick. Most athletic directors never invest the needed time and due diligence in research regarding how to properly maintain and clean artificial turf. We found these articles from the Synthetic Turf Council website extremely helpful in understanding proper turf care.
3. MRSA and Staff Can be Prevented Using "The 5 C's"
When it comes to cleaning your artificial turf, many people want to approach it like most people approach cleaning their home. Unfortunately, it is not that easy. Artificial turf requires delicate care to preserve it's ability to last for years to come. If you treat your turf with improper or harsh chemicals it can cause you to have to replace the turf years before the actual lifespan of the turf has run out. On the other hand, if you do not treat the germs aggressively enough, it can lead to serious health issues amongst your players and coaches alike.
Here at MonoFoil we have developed solution to these issues. Our antimicrobial agent is safe for turf and is labeled by the FDA as a "bactericidal". This means that it actively kills bacteria to keep your players safe without harming or damaging your beautiful and expensive turf. This is the same technology that is currently being used by countless other athletic departments and businesses all over the United States including, Auburn University, The Indiana Pacers, The Walt Disney Company, MGM Grand, and more.
If you're interested in seeing the power of MonoFoil in action, check out this short 8 minute video on how we are solving these problems and others for athletic departments across the United States.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez/APGuard Chasson Randle leads Stanford in scoring at 18.7 points per game and is shooting 43.4 percent from 3-point range. Pac-12 play begins Thursday.
Stanford hitting its stride as Pac-12 opener against Cal nears
With the Pac-12 Conference men's basketball opener looming on Thursday, Stanford shouldn't have any problem getting amped up for it.
After wrapping up its nonconference schedule Sunday with a 79-62 thumping of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Stanford (9-3) hosts rival Cal (9-4) to kick things off.
Stanford has rolled out the same starting five for each of its games, which has helped the Cardinal's solid start to the season. Junior point guard Chasson Randle shook off his rough sophomore season and has started the season off hot, averaging a team-high 18.7 points a game, while shooting 51 percent from the field.
"He had a tough sophomore year and he wanted to bounce back from that," said Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins, who is in his sixth year at Stanford. "He had a chance to tryout for the USA basketball team, and he was the last cut, which I really think helped motivate him that much more."
Randle hasn't done it alone this year as 6-foot-11 center Dwight Powell has provided Stanford with plenty of muscle in the paint. The senior is averaging 7.7 rebounds per game, while adding 14.7 points, but most impressively has been a de facto facilitator, averaging a team-high 4.2 assists.
"It's by design," Dawkins said. "We've changed our offense from what we were doing the past few years, and we have guards who like to attack, so we wanted to put the ball in Powell's hands more because he's been good at finding guys."
Despite giving up 112 points to BYU in the second game of the season, Stanford has tightened things up defensively, forcing opponents to shoot 39 percent from the floor.
Stanford has seemed to turn the corner, as it upset then-No. 10 UConn in Hartford, Conn., on
Dec. 18 and gave Big Ten Conference power Michigan all it could handle in a 68-65 loss in Brooklyn, N.Y.
"We were very disappointed in our outing [against BYU], and our guys went back to practice with a new focus and a new commitment to what we needed to do on the defensive end of the court," Dawkins said.
Cal, fresh off a 90-60 rout of Furman on Saturday, is battling some key injuries. Junior guard Ricky Kreklow broke his right hand during a practice before Christmas and will be out anywhere from four to six weeks, and Jabari Bird, a freshman guard out of Salesian High School in Richmond who averages 11.9 points a game, suffered a sprained ankle in the Bears' 68-54 loss at Creighton on Dec. 22. It is unknown whether Bird will suit up Thursday.
Still, Cal will have senior point guard Justin Cobb in its lineup. The two-time All-Pac-12 selection leads the Golden Bears in scoring (14.2 points per game) and assists (5.6 per game).
"Cal is a very good team, they have an experienced frontline, and a very experienced point guard who is one of the best guards in the conference," Dawkins said.
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Docker TechCenter [What's new] Infrastructure Services 2017.3 - Container Linux by CoreOS Support [Howto] - Securing Containers with the Centrify Identity Platform [What's new] Infrastructure Services 2017.3 - Windows Self-Service Password Reset and MDM Enrollment Centrify 18.7 Release Notes KB-6073: How to join the Linux/Unix Centrify Server to Active Directory with specific Computer Role? KB-6041: How to show current license type in use by adclient [AWS] Shared Responsibility - Securing Linux Systems using Centrify's new Identity Broker KB-6040: How to change the license type in use after adclient successful joined to the AD?
Container Linux (CoreOS) is an exciting new Linux implementation that is designed for high performance/low overhead environments.
Many Centrify customers are adopting CoreOS and containers as a standard for deploying applications.
When I installed a Container Linux OS in my environment, the first thing I noticed is that the account normally called "root" is called "core". Normally you log in with an SSH key.
1) Log in to your Container Linux as "core" using the SSH key.
2) Set the password for the "core" user.
3) Now create a Resource record in Centrify for this CoreOS Instance. Register the IP address and save the record.
Now register the "core" account, enter the password and select 'Manage this password'.
After this, you can check out the "core" account and log in directly to your instance without seeing the password.
Example of an SSH session to a Continer Linux server.


Welcome to another installment of our troubleshooting series where we aim to help our readers who own the #Apple #iPhone7 fix the issues that they are experiencing with their phone. Today we will tackle the iPhone 7 calls can't be heard issue & other related problems. What happens in this case is that whenever a call is made nothing can be heard on the line. We will be addressing this and other issues today.
Solution: The first thing that you will need to do in this particular case is to make sure that the volume is set to the maximum level. Press the volume up key and make sure that you see the volume indicator in the screen increase.
You should also make sure that the phone is not connected to any audio device. Turn off the Bluetooth switch of the phone. Make sure that nothing is connected to the lightning port of the phone.
To check if the problem is carrier related try making a voice memo. If you can hear the voice memo when it is played back then this could be a carrier issue.
One last troubleshooting step that you should consider is a factory reset. Make sure to backup your phone data before doing the reset.
If the above steps fails to fix the problem then you will need to bring the phone to a service center and have it checked.
Problem: I am no longer able to connect to my WiFi. When I enter my password the message says "incorrect password for network". The internet is connected to WiFi and is working. The password has not been changed and was working fine until today.
Solution: Try forgetting the Wi-Fi network from your phone then connect to it again. In case the issue persists then try restarting your phone and your router. Once both devices have started try connecting the phone to the router again.
If the above steps fails to fix the problem then you should try accessing the admin panel of the router and change its password.
Solution: If the issue still occurs even after performing a hard reset then this is most likely caused by a hardware component that is failing to work properly. I recommend that you have this checked at a service center.
Solution: What you will want to do first in this case is to make sure that the home button is dry. Wipe it with a cloth if necessary. Next, perform the steps listed below.
Check if the Touch ID is working.
Go to Settings > Touch ID & Passcode > Enter your Passcode. Then turn off iTunes & App Store. Reboot your phone . Go back to Touch ID & Passcode in Settings and turn iTunes & App Store back on. Tap on Add a Fingerprint to add another fingerprint.
Try to remove and re-add fingerprints: Settings > Touch ID & Passcode > Enter the passcode of your device > Scroll down to find fingerprints. Tap on the fingerprint, which you want to delete and then Tap on Delete.
Force restart your phone by pressing and holding both the Sleep/Wake and Volume Down buttons for at least ten seconds.
In case the above steps fails to work then you should bring the phone to a service center and have it checked.