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Q: Regression with neural network I tried to create a neural network for regression. In order to test the concept, I created a dataset the following way:
x1 = random('Normal',0,5,500,1);
x2 = random('Normal',0,5,500,1);
y = x1 + 2*x2;
X = [x1 x2];

So x1 and x2 are vectors of random numbers with mean value 0 and standard deviation 5.
The neural network therefore had 2 inputs, 2 or 3 units in hidden layer and one output unit. In hidden layer units I implemented sigmoid activation function and in the output layer linear function:
h(y) = 1*k20 + a1*k21+ a2*k22 + a3*k23

and for hidden layer outputs are calculated the following way:
a1 = sigmoid(1*k10 + x1*k11 + x2*k12)
(and similarly a2 = sigmoid(1*l10 + x1*l11 + x2*l12)

Edit:
The Backpropagation algorithm is implemented the following way:
Delta_1=0;
Delta_2=0;

for t=1:m
    currentSampleSize = sampleSize(t,:);
    for i = 1 : currentSampleSize
        % Step 1
        a_1 = X(t,:)';
        z_2 = Theta1*a_1;
        a_2 = sigmoid(z_2);
        a_2 = [1; a_2];
        z_3 = Theta2*a_2;
        a_3 = z_3;

        % Step 2
        delta_3 = (a_3 - y_new(t,:)');

        % Step 3
        grad = m^(-1) * X' * (a_3-y);
        delta_2 = Theta2'*delta_3.*[1;sigmoidGradient(z_2)];
        delta_2 = delta_2(2:end);

        %Step 4
        Delta_2 = Delta_2 + delta_3*a_2';
        Delta_1 = Delta_1 + delta_2*a_1';
    end
end

Theta1_grad = Delta_1/m;
Theta2_grad = Delta_2/m;

reg_1 = lambda/m.*Theta1(:,2:end);
reg_2 = lambda/m.*Theta2(:,2:end);

Theta1_grad(:,2:end) = Theta1_grad(:,2:end) + reg_1;
Theta2_grad(:,2:end) = Theta2_grad(:,2:end) + reg_2;

As the predictions are not accurate I wonder what could be done in order to improve the regression performance. I tried to change the combinations of number of neurons in hidden layer and different regularization parameter values but the performance wasn't good enough.
I would be very thankful if anyone could describe the appropriate design of neural network for regression problems - which activation functions are most appropriate and how to diagnose training and test error for choosing the optimal number of hidden units.

A: Unless you restrict the range of your inputs, the sigmoid may be giving you a problem. You won't even be able to learn the function $y=x$ if you have a sigmoid in the middle.
If you have a restricted range, then the input-hidden weights could scale the input values so that they hit the sigmoid at the part of the graph which looks like a line i.e. the part around 0:

Once you have the linear behavior, the hidden-output weights could re-scale the values back. The training process will take care of all this for you - but to test this hypothesis you could just train (and validate) with input values in $[-1,1]$.
Do you know what the network's function looks like? If you plot $(x_1, x_2) \rightarrow y$, does it look anything like a plane? At least in parts?
You could also try training with more data and seeing if the graph gets closer to $x_1+2x_2$.

A: Assuming you wrote the implementation yourself, you may simply have a bug in your backpropagation algorithm. Some bugs can be quite subtle and leave the algorithm partially working with poor performance. You might try adding some gradient checking code to your implementation to verify the calculated gradients. Here's an excellent video by Andrew Ng on how to do this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12a9fsLyFes
Note that I'm assuming you're getting poor performance on the training set, rather than the test set. You should be able to get near perfect results on the training set, at which point your implementation is likely correct and you can start dealing with overfitting by adding regularization, etc. I would disable regularization until you get to that point.
As a side note, since you're dataset has a linear relationships between the inputs and the outputs you'll likely get a better result with NO hidden neurons (i.e. a single layer perceptron), but then an MLP should work too, and you can then test it on a non-linear dataset.

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There's another hat being tossed into the ring for the St. Joseph City Commission in this year's election. Shawn Hill made his candidacy official on Monday, and says he's been asked why he's running. His response is he feels "it is my responsibility to give back to the community which has provided my family and I with so many blessings.". ...Read Full Story
Dowagiac Man Busted After Short Chase
A Dowagiac man is facing charges after a brief chase with police on Friday night. The Dowagiac Police Department tells us an officer spotted a vehicle parked suspiciously on East Wayne Street near West Railroad Street just before 11:40 p.m. As he approached it, the vehicle took off. It started going faster, and when it ran a stop sign, the officer turned on his lights to pull the vehicle over. The vehicle fled northbound on West Railroad Street, but the driver lost control and crashed into a utility pole when he tried to make a turn. The officer got the 19-year-old driver into custody, and a search turned up a pipe that tested positive for meth. Police say the driver also had a warrant out for an assault case. He's now facing charges that include fleeing and eluding, possession of meth, and having no operator's license. A 22-year-old woman who was also in the car was taken to a hospital for injuries she received in the crash. She isn't being charged.. ...Read Full Story
Consumers Energy Announces Earth Day Donations
Consumers Energy marked Earth Day on Monday by donating $500,000 to conservation projects around Michigan. Spokesperson Brian Wheeler tells WSJM News the money is going to three organizations. The biggest donation is $250,000 for the Michigan Nature Association.. ...Read Full Story
Repaving On I-94 Near New Buffalo Starts Next Week
The Michigan Department of Transportation will start work on a repaving project on I-94 near New Buffalo next week. Spokesperson Nick Schirripa tells WSJM News the work is both eastbound and westbound.. ...Read Full Story
Michigan Adoption Agency Flips LGBTQ Policy
From the Associated Press — A major faith-based foster care and adoption contractor for the state of Michigan is reversing its policy and will place children with same-sex couples to comply with a legal settlement. Bethany Christian Services and the state confirmed the change Monday. Bethany Christian Services says while it is "disappointed" with how the settlement has been implemented, it will nonetheless reverse its policy so it continues foster care and adoption work for the state. As of February, Bethany Christian Services was responsible for 1,159 – or more than 8% – of cases of children under state supervision. Democratic Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's recent settlement prevents faith-based agencies from refusing to put children in LGBT homes for religious reasons. St. Vincent Catholic Charities sued last week to challenge the deal.. ...Read Full Story
A Win For People Who Park Too Long: Tire Chalking Thrown Out
In a ruling which will be felt by local governments in several states, Saginaw's policy of chalking tires to enforce parking restrictions has been declared unconstitutional. A federal court says chalking tires in that city to keep track of parked cars is an unreasonable search and has no role in maintaining public safety. The decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals created a new legal precedent Monday in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.. ...Read Full Story
Indiana Man Charged In Connection With Threat Against President In Grand Rapids
Posting anything on social media threatening the life of the President is bound to get you in trouble, and it did for a 20-year-old northwest Indiana man. Steffon Gonzalez of Hobart is accused of posting a photo of himself holding a rifle on his Facebook page from outside Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids on March 28, writing he had a "bullet chambered to blow his head off." President Trump was holding a rally at the downtown venue that evening. Gonzalez then tried to delete his Facebook account, thinking that would wipe out any evidence. Doing so has led to an obstruction of justice charge, carrying a potential 20-year sentence in federal prison. He's also charged with two counts of making threats against the President's life, which would put him away for five years. Gonzalez was arrested at his home in Hobart on March 30, and the federal grand jury indictment was just recently unsealed.. ...Read Full Story
NWS, DNR Warn Of Wildfire Danger In Lower Peninsula
The state Department of Natural Resources is warning about the danger of wildfires all over the state's southern lower peninsula. The National Weather Service in Grand Rapids has now issued a Red Flag Warning until 8 pm Monday, meaning that critical fire weather conditions are occurring now or will shortly. DNR wildfire prevention specialist Paul Rogers says dry weather has caused the warning to be extended to the entire Lower Peninsula.. ...Read Full Story
Dowagiac Woman Crashes Truck While Allegedly Trying To Run Over Ex
A 35-year-old Dowagiac woman is in the Cass County Jail awaiting arraignment on a charges of assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly trying to run over her ex-boyfriend with her pickup truck. He was walking along Main Street near Pennsylvania Avenue when he told police he saw the woman coming toward him, and he got behind a light pole. She crashed into and broke that, while the 39-year-old ex wasn't hurt. The woman was treated and released into police custody from Ascension/Borgess Lee Memorial Hospital after complaining of wrist pain from the wreck. The man said the couple had just broken up on Saturday. The crash happened shortly after noon on Sunday.. ...Read Full Story
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Thell, Arne Crespo, Ana Divakar, Pradeep K. Kärnefelt, Ingvar Leavitt, Steven D. Lumbsch, H. Thorsten and Seaward, Mark R. D. 2012. A review of the lichen family Parmeliaceae - history, phylogeny and current taxonomy. Nordic Journal of Botany, Vol. 30, Issue. 6, p. 641.
Thell, Arne Feuerer, Tassilo Kärnefelt, Ingvar Myllys, Leena and Stenroos, Soili 2004. Monophyletic groups within the Parmeliaceae identified by ITS rDNA, β-tubulin and GAPDH sequences. Mycological Progress, Vol. 3, Issue. 4, p. 297.
Esslinger, Theodore L. 2003. Recent Literature on Lichens—190*. The Bryologist, Vol. 106, Issue. 3, p. 476.
Lichenology Laboratory, National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow-226001, Uttar Pradesh, India.
The paper deals with six species of Parmotrema from India. Parmotrema awasthii Divakar & Upreti and Parmotrema upretii Divakar are described as new to science. Parmotrema defectum (Hale) Hale, P. ravum (Krog & Swinscow) Sérus., P. stuhlmannii (C.W. Dodge) Krog & Swinscow and P. tsavoense (Krog & Swinscow) Krog & Swinscow, are new records for the Indian lichen flora.


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On Teenage Punk Tabletop RPG Design
Posted by Brent on October 25, 2017
James Raggi IV (designer of Lamentations of the Flame Princess) posted this on Google+ a few days ago (this is just the middle part):
I ask you: When did innovation and pissing off the establishment become something that smelly old farts did?
I think about the history of heavy metal, and how the groundbreaking acts, the ones who really pushed the boundaries of what noise could be made, and what do I find…
Venom members were just 19-21 years old when their first album came out.
Slayer were 18-22.
Possessed were 18-20.
Death members were 19 and 20.
Napalm Death, 18-22.
Carcass' members were 18 and 19.
Sodom was 17-21.
Everyone in Entombed was a teenager, 17-19, when Left Hand Path came out.
Emperor members were 19-20 years old when their first record came out.
Mayhem, 18-19.
The Darkthrone guys were 18-19.
Hellhammer, 17-21.
Sepultura 16-18.
And figure the recording contracts were signed some time before, not to mention when the demos that got them signed would have been made. These fuckers were young. Making noise like no one before them because they wanted to be heavier, they wanted to be faster, they wanted to push things farther than they'd ever been pushed before. And the established music industry didn't want to touch them, so their peers founded record labels just so this stuff could get out there and change the world. In many cases their mommies had to co-sign their record deals with them because they were minors.
And in gaming we've got… old, old fucks. The new noise is very often made by some crusty geriatric flexing his creative freedom after leaving his old company. Startup publishing companies are formed by people who have been gaming forever in order to release books by people who have been gaming forever because they too need to release their album of standards. Just like in metal, where the sickest shit today is made by the same people who were playing the sickest shit 25 years ago. It's disgraceful.
Not quite as disgraceful as the kids getting together to ape their granddads. "Oh, how cute, these guys are 20 years old and playing just like Iron Maiden's early stuff." Timelinewise, that is just like Iron Maiden forming (in the 70s) and deciding instead of doing metal to base their sound on The Wizard of Oz's musical numbers.
Who are the young rebels not obeying the laws of decorum and trying to piss off The Man with all our profanity? Well… me, Chandler, and Venger are all in our early forties. Alex "dicks dicks dicks" Mayo is even older. fuuuuuuuuuuuck. And our whippersnapper Kiel is 29. 29! Remember when you were young enough to think you could conquer the world? 29 is just a couple months away from being 30 and ANCIENT DEATH!
On the one hand, I totally agree that I'd like to see more young blood in the hobby.
On the other, Gary Gygax was 36 when he first published D&D, and Dave Arneson was 25. Mark Rein-Hagen published Vampire: The Masquerade when he was 27.
This has never been a hobby of teenagers publishing tabletop RPGs.
Moreover, if you want to see teenagers designing games, go to https://www.reddit.com/r/rpgdesign and check out the designs there. It's not all 18-year-olds, of course, but it's a pretty useful indication of what it looks like when teenagers design games.
I'm not being salty; I was like that at that age. Writing useful games is hard.
Now, I have no experience in writing music, but it seems to me that getting instruments together and composing a rock or punk song is something you can hack together. You don't need a plan; you can be very lizard brained about it. The drummer lays down a beat, the bass player tries a few things, and the guitarists work out a chord progression. And as long as the four of you in the band know how to play it, once you've experimented enough to get a song, you're done.
Tabletop RPGs have to be fixed in written language that your audience can grok. You have to use your left brain a lot when writing a game, while punk and rock are gloriously right brained. Sure, there's some crossover, and there's plenty of right brained work in making a game, but it seems to me there's a lot more left brained work in making a game other people can understand how to play than there is in hashing out a 3-minute punk song.
Which leads us to an interesting question: How can we help 18-year-olds to write cool games?
If you're a teenager reading this, here's my advice:
Read your favorite RPG specifically for how it explains its rules. If you want to make songs like Iron Maiden, you have to listen deeper, to how an Iron Maiden song is constructed of its various parts. Same thing here.
In your game, be gloriously creative and imaginative when describing your world. Create a cool, weird environment for the game.
When it comes to describing how players actually roll dice and interpret the results, be clear. Use your experience in the first point above. Change tone if you have to, so someone reading your game will totally understand what you're saying.
Find people outside of your friends to read and play your game. You'll get a lot of bad feedback, but you'll get some good suggestions, too, especially about what isn't clear. If the feedback would change the fundamentals of your game, ignore it, but if it would help, definitely try it out.
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By UrbanDaddy Staff · May 14, 2019
21 Photos A Visual Retrospective of the Cannes Film Festival
They say those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it.
We say those who don't learn history are doomed to not repeat it.
Ergo, this slideshow-borne history lesson: A Visual Retrospective of the Cannes Film Festival.
The festival gets under way today, with new movies from directors Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch and Terrence Malick. The slideshow (which is right here) gets under way as soon as you enter it.
So prepare to study 72 years' worth of antics by the likes of Brigitte Bardot, Michael Caine and Blake Lively.
Study very carefully.
This article has been updated from the original, which ran in May 2016.
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So far this winter, the school system has closed nine days due to inclement weather. We have made up five of those days, but have four remaining make-up days to meet the state's 180-day school year requirement.
Today, I sent a request to the State Superintendent of Schools requesting a four-day waiver to the state's requirement. Pending a waiver decision, we are opening schools four days during spring break, April 14, 15, 16 and 17. If the state grants the waiver, spring break will remain intact.
Additionally, I am changing four two-hour early dismissal days to full days of instruction in order to make up for lost time. Two-hour early dismissal days converted to full days are March 19, April 25, May 7 and May 21. Remaining two-hour early dismissal days are April 1 and the last four days of school, June 13, 16, 17 and 18. April 1 will remain as a two-hour early dismissal day in order to provide time for report card preparation. The waiver will not affect this change.
We will keep you informed as we learn more about our waiver request.
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Amber Portwood Opens Up About Plans to Marry Her Baby Daddy!
Apr 4, 2018 at1:30 pm | By Dru Marie Allen
When are they going to make it official?!
When you're old fashioned, getting pregnant with someone means an immediate shotgun wedding before your pregnancy even starts to show. Thank god none of the Teen Mom stars are old fashioned! The cast dodged some serious bullets by not marrying their baby daddies while they were still teenagers, since some of them just weren't a good match. Now that Amber Portwood is older, she's learned enough about relationships to know that rushing into things doesn't always end very well.
There's no pressure on Amber to get married just because she's pregnant, but that doesn't mean a marriage isn't in the cards for her and her man. With her due date swiftly approaching, will Amber Portwood soon become Amber Glennon?
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New Lovebirds
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Even though Amber Portwood has been pregnant nearly this entire season of Teen Mom OG, sometimes it feels like we still don't know enough about her baby daddy, Andrew Glennon. But the two of them seem to have a healthy, happy relationship, and he seems to be there for her when she really needs him. He's earned the approval of many fans, and even Amber's family seems to be warming up to him. Now Amber is revealing her plans for her next step after she delivers their son.
According to reports by E! Online, Amber and Andrew already know what they're doing after the baby comes. They'll be jetting off to California! Andrew will be producing a show that films from June to August, and he's taking his baby mama and newborn child along with him.
Put a Ring On It
As for wedding bells, it's not clear whether those are in the future. "We're not talking about that," Amber spilled to E!. "Right now, we're happily living together and seeing where everything goes. Obviously, we jumped the gun and we're having a baby, but I don't know."
But it seems like the m-word is on Andrew's mind! "He drops little hints here and there about things," Amber confessed. "But we haven't necessarily talked about it." Maybe he'll be putting a ring on it soon!
In the meantime, Amber is trucking along with her pregnancy. "I'm eight months pregnant, so I'm really tired right now," she told E! "We're getting the house ready for the baby. We've got new carpet, new flooring, everything."
Healthy Relationship
She's also clearly ready to leave the past in the past when it comes to her ex Matt Baier and the way she appeared on Marriage Boot Camp. "I think it was a different time in my life. I was going through the lowest of lows," she said. "There's no excuse for how I acted, but all I know is I was an unhappy person and today I'm happy and things are so much better." Of course, that show wasn't all bad!
"The best thing that came out of [the show was] meeting Andrew," gushed. "He makes me the happiest."
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How to Create a Leadership Culture that Really Achieves Company Vision
The Extraordinary Trainer System- September 2019
Back to the Future of Feedback
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
– John Quincy Adams
Leading is not dependent on title or placement on an organizational chart. Nor is it confined to office walls. ERDMAN's Integrative Thinking. Healthier Communities.™ occurs when our technical experts realize the importance of developing our leadership excellence is even more vital. ERDMAN's culture journey has focused on developing a culture of leadership in which people at any level can grow into leaders, support each other's development, achieve goals, and fulfill shared purpose.
As we embarked on our change journey at ERDMAN, we kept the roles of culture and leadership closely intertwined, starting with our strategic plan. With this post, we are pleased to share some of the things we're learning about leadership at all organization levels and how it has been essential to the progress of our culture journey.
Begin with clarity and intention
We started our journey by ensuring that we had a clear and intentional leadership philosophy and that leaders understood the importance of creating a Constructive culture to achieving our mission. That meant clearly defining what leadership looks like; utilizing a common, Constructive language; and identifying effective leadership behaviors to start a dialogue rooted in a growth mindset. While it was and still can be challenging, we learned through our experience that our most senior leaders needed to be keenly self-aware of leadership growth opportunities before embarking on this work.
Assess at the top
We took our first Leadership/Impact® (L/I)i assessment in 2016 with 10 senior leaders. A composite profile helped us to understand what leadership strategies we were embodying and the impact they were having. Our profile reflected some strengths we wanted to grow in the Constructive styles; we also realized we had a culture of blame, with extensions in the Defensive styles of Oppositional and Avoidance. The impact we were having on others had room to be more effective.
In addition to the L/I results, we had data from pre-employment assessments, round-robin feedback from various meetings, and employee engagement and satisfaction survey data. We had a whole lot of data ("words") and a desire for a whole lot more results ("behaviors"). It's cliché, but so true: We needed to walk the talk. And so, we did.
It's cliché, but so true: We needed to walk the talk. And so, we did.
Invite leadership for active involvement
To enhance our impact, we invited senior leaders to the future with crystal-clear expectations for what leading in a Constructive culture looks like. We previously didn't clearly know what "effective" or "less effective" looked like and we had a variety of interpretations. For ERDMAN, it involved defining what our values and related behaviors were, especially around leadership at the appropriate competency level by role.
After defining what leadership looks and feels like at ERDMAN, we measured ourselves against it in monthly 1:1 meetings, senior leadership team meetings, and annual performance reviews. We talked about why this was important from a role-modeling and envisioning perspective. Whether we were in a senior leadership team meeting or in our check-ins with each other, we started to set behavioral standards to which we agreed to adhere and cascade to the group of leaders we had the responsibility for developing. The only way for us to be credible leaders was by taking the time and modeling and setting the priority for leadership development with our people.
We agreed to build leadership development plans for ourselves with feedback from each other, led from a position of vulnerability and opennessii by our CEO. And then, we agreed to report out on progress and ask for help at every senior leadership team meeting, which was approximately every 4-6 weeks. The change was gradual, but real. The "soft" stuff is now welcomed in our meetings knowing that leadership affects change, and we would argue that it's the only thing that can. We are strong as a team of leaders committed to developing each other, employees, and future leaders.
Encourage open discussion, early and often
Our journey hasn't been without challenges, including some that were painful. Some leaders chose not to, or were unable to, make the commitment to the journey. In hindsight, we should have been swifter about identifying any misalignment. We didn't quite know what we didn't know, which was the regular presence of Aggressive/Defensive and Passive/Defensive styles being mistaken for leadership. It was limiting everyone's growth, as well as that of the overall company. We are still learning and problem-solving real business and leadership challenges together as they surface. We set aside time for leadership development and problem solving both individually and as valued and respected team members.
Get serious and intentional about looking at your organization as a system or team of wonderful human beings who want to be a part of something bigger and of great importance. Nurture that team and they will help you move mountains.
Reassessment is essential for growth
In spring 2019, we formally assessed our progress by using Leadership/Impact with seven leaders, four of whom joined the team in the last two years. We were proud and excited to see the shift to the Constructive styles. While we have work to do individually and as a team, the beauty is that we can identify challenges quickly in ourselves and others and strive to improve. We can give constructive feedback to help each other grow while understanding that development is the goal — and not an attempt for control or power.
Get serious about culture and be open to learning
I encourage other organizations to measure culture — really measure culture, not just do a fly-by with an employee engagement survey. Get serious and intentional about looking at your organization as a system or team of wonderful human beings who want to be a part of something bigger and of greater importance. Nurture that team and they will help you move mountains.
The Culture Roadmap (included in Human Synergistics' complimentary Culture Toolkit) and Causal Factors (from the How Culture Works model) were essential tools in helping us establish tactical plans to support a strategic plan focused on leadership and culture. We looked at everything and understood that significant changes were necessary in order to advance our progress as an established organization. We soon learned that it wasn't so much about an advancement as it was a transformation of all our systems and supporting infrastructure.
Our work on culture is three years in the making, and we can confirm improvement in our Organizational Culture Inventory® (OCI®) scores. Our financial results are also on the rise — most notably with pipeline growth, revenue, and earnings. While we are just beginning our journey of growth and improvement, our team has worked hard and is starting to "feel" and "hear" the difference a Constructive culture can bring to individual, team, and overall company effectiveness.
We have learned life-changing lessons about leadership and look forward to continuing to grow and starting to develop our next level of leaders. Our healthcare and senior living design solutions make a difference in the lives of patients, residents, communities, and families. We are realizing ERDMAN's vision by and through the nurturing of our culture: a unified family celebrating diversity, creativity, and love of people with a shared purpose to improve lives.
i Cooke, R. A. (1996). Leadership/Impact® (L/I). Plymouth, MI: Human Synergistics International.
ii Brown, Brené. (2012). Daring Greatly: How the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead. New York: Penguin Random House.
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Q: Exiting the current chain of middleware without throwing error I'm looking for a way to exit a chain of middleware without calling next().
Here's an example below. This works but I have to check for req.filter every time to ensure it's set to false. Does express have any way of exiting the current chain of middleware (moving to the next route) without throwing an error (next(new Error("will exit and move to error handler"))?
What I really want is a nextRoute() handler that will exit the stack of middleware for this route and move to the next.
function queryExists(query){
  return function(req, res, next){
    if(!dotty.exists(req, "query."+query)) req.filter = true
    return next()
  }
}

app.get("/", queryExists("foo"), queryExists("bar"), function(req, res, next){
  if(req.filter) return next()
  return res.send(req.query.foo + " | " + req.query.bar)
})

app.get("/", function(req, res, next){
  return res.send("hi")
})

I'd love some framework or library that solves this problem in any standard way.

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If you need to skip the rest of the middleware from a router
  middleware stack, call next('route') to pass on the control to the
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Q: Getting string length for morse code convertor keeps looping working on one of my first programming assignments, a text to morse (and back) convertor, but for whatever reason when I introduce a piece of text with a space between words my programme goes into an endless loop and crashes. Any ideas? Sorry if this description sucks, still getting my head around programming lingo.
this is the piece of the program that isn't functioning properly:
    {

        string user_input;
        cout << "----------------------------------------" <<endl
        << "Text to Morse Mode" << endl
        << "Enter text for conversion : "<<endl;
        cin >> user_input;
        cout << endl << endl << user_input << " converts to : ";
        unsigned int str_lenght;
        str_lenght=user_input.size();
        cout << endl;

        for (i=0;i<str_lenght;i++)
        {

            find_string=0;

            while (find_string < stop_string)
            {

                if (user_input[i]==text[find_string][0])
                {
                    count=1;
                    cout << morse[find_string] << " ";
                    break;

                }

                find_string = find_string+1;
            }

        }

        cout << endl << endl << endl;

        if (count==0)
            cout << endl << " an error was encountered " << "\a" << endl ;
    }

A: stop_string isn't defined anywhere from what I see. In order to break the loop via incrementing you need to define stop_string. Also find_string = find_string+1; could be shortened to find_string++

A: First you haven't defined stop_string variable anywhere. First define it or use another variable. If it is string length intent to use here, use the str_length you have created.
Secondly if you want to input spaces in between your words, use getline instead of cin. cin delimits space character.


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Q: Hahn Banach extensions. Consider the normed linear space $R^2$ equipped with the norm given by $||(x,y)||=|x|+|y|$ and the subspace $X=\{(x,y)\in R^2 : x=y\}.$ Let $f(x,y)=3x$ on $X$. Then what is the Hahn Banach extension of $f$.?
I have gone through different books and dufferent methods and idea of how to find such extensions. But stil not comfortable with it. Could you please help me understand a general method? Is there any general idea? Is the norm of $f \ 3?$. A similar question is there in one book but there norm of $f$ is $\frac{1}{\sqrt 5}$.


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Q: Put forward a chart with matplotlib Below script create a chart and an array at the upper left corner.
How can we put forward the array so we can't see the Y axis through it?
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

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During the 90's, it wasnt uncommon to go to a show and see kids wearing Tulasi neck beads, usually wrapped around as few as once or covering the entire neck (come on, you know that one kid who did this). Hare Krishna's most vocal supporters came in the form of the two biggest Krishnacore bands in the 90s, Shelter and 108. While both of these bands could arguably be called the first Krishnacore bands, members of the NYHC scene in the 80s were preaching the ways of the Bhagavad-gita including Keith Burkhardt of Cause for Alarm, members of Antidote and John Joseph and Harley Flanagan of the Cro Mags. Eventually Ray Cappo discovered Hare Krishna and started the band Shelter which could be considered the first Krishnacore band. Vic DiCara also discovered spirituality and quit Inside Out to join Shelter. When he quit the band, he formed 108. Ray also started Equal Vision Records with Steve Reddy to release Shelter's record. The label would function as the only (to my knowledge) all Krishna label before releasing non-Krishna bands in the mid to late 90s. Shelter eventually signed to Roadrunner/Supersoul while 108 went to Equal Vision and Lost & Found before disbanding. The idea of Krishnacore spread throughout the scene domesitcally and globally. More and more bands began to spring up though many went undocumented. Equal Vision did release records for some of the bands including Prema, Refuse to Fall, and Project Kate but many bands usually just included a member who followed the beliefs so the band was not a full Krishnacore band. Shelter continued touring and are still somewhat active at the time of this writing. 108 is very much active having j ust recorded a new record and playing a US tour as well as a European tour. If you would like more info on Krishnacore check out the Krishnacore homepage:
Krishnacore on the internetz
108 on Myspace
Shelter on Myspace
XhcnoirX said...
I guess I'm still 'that kid', hahaha... Still wear several strands of tulasi beads around my neck, they've become as much part of my daily 'look' as wearing a band-shirt, love 'em. My first strand was given to me by an old Polish friend who was Krishna at the time, have a shitload of broken strands in my desk, 'to be repaired someday'. Not Krishna myself, the Bhagavad-Gita rocks tho.
Some more bands/persons: Baby Gopal (and Sri Kesava's solo-project Sri), Agni Hotra (Poland, good stuff, should post their stuff someday), Dharma (Denmark I believe), Nrsimhadeva (Netherlands, shortlived band with members of Mainstrike and Reaching Forward), JR Glass of Next Step Up/Wake Up Cold/Bet The Devil.
I know what you mean...I wore beads till they broke. I went a few years ago to buy some more and they just dont fit my neck anymore...awesome mention of Baby Gopal. I love that full length on Victory
Guav said...
Hell, I'm an atheist and always wore 2-3 double strands at a time. Which is probably why any old shirts I still have from the 90's have brown stains around the neck haha
Cool, I do the Krishnacore site so nice to see this. I remember everyone wearing Tulasi beads in the 90's... shame it was taken somewhat superficially as a fashion, as the philosophy of the Vedas is much deeper and longer lasting than a passing phase.
Check out the cuurent bands in the Philippines FriendshipXSeva, Mihara and xHis Divine Gracex, xDar La Vidax in South America, and Traces of You in Italy. Krsnacore certainly lives...
Thanks for writing. Shoot me an email at xstuckinthepastx@gmail.com
Can we get a write-up on Refuse to Fall? I loved that 7inch as soon as I heard it, but never thought there was much about that band in 'zines back then. Never got to see them.
And yes, I rocked krishna beads.
Oh, 108 fucking rocked!
Nice posting. Do you know about this edition of the Gita?
http://www.YogaVidya.com/gita.html
I remember seeing One King Down in 1997 and Fusco was wearing the most beads I've ever seen one person wear. His whole neck from shoulder to chin was covered.
How he managed to keep them on with all that jumping and screaming I'll never understand.
I never wore them myself, but still know a fossil or two that rocks them to this day.
Posted the Agni Hotra discography yesterday. At least, all of their releases I'm aware of, haha...
http://onexpath.blogspot.com/2009/04/agni-hotra.html
BloodyGuts said...
Man, Shelter was my fav hardcore band back then. Dec of 95 I saw them when they were touring with Earth Crisis (EC didnt play bec of their bus crashing or something). It still stands as one of the defining shows in my life! I even ended up meeting some krshna dudes and chanting with them a few days later, ha. I'm pretty glad I never dove in further than that. I def had quite a bit of "neck armor" though.
Krishnas rule.
http://www.ibtimes.com/swami-prabhupada-founder-hare-krishna-movement-virulent-racist-anti-semite-1412102
One thing that always bugged the shit out of me about Krishnacore was Vic and Ray's cult guru. A creepy fuck named "Dhanurdhara". Supposedly, a former amateur boxer. He was at one time a teacher in a Krishna cult school, a place where horrors abounded. He did stuff like break a little kid's ribs. I'm not making this up. If you don't know the back-story, or don't believe me, you'll find the following quote on Vic Dicara dot com: "I met my guru, Sripad Dhanurdhara Swami, who initiated me into the maha-mantra in 1992..." Or copy-paste the search terms "raghunath" and "dhanurdhara" into Youtube. Erik Davis' 1995 article from SPIN magazine about Krishnacore also mentions Dhanurdhara, and some of the cast of characters orbiting the mosh 4 Krishna scene. If memory serves, Norman Brannon also had some connection to Dhanurdhara. Quite possibly, he was Norm's "guru" as well. I'm a little fuzzy on those details...at the moment. And Google isn't really cooperating. All I get is a Scanner Zine interview, where Norm (post-Krishna) says: "I mean, I would still count the guru that initiated me into the movement as one of the most important people in my life."
In the mid-to-late-ish-90s, I remember coming across a fairly-extensive, and genuinely disturbing, website by people who had grown up in, and been abused in, Hare Krishna cult schools. Telling their stories. Really sad stuff. I have a hard time imagining how I would have turned out, had I gone through what they went through. Really heart-stomping and soul-crushing shit. One name that kept coming up repeatedly as one of the abusers was "DDS". It took me a while to make the connection that DDS was Dhanurdhara Swami.
Anyway, below is a link to a webpage from the Krishna cult. There's some HK gobbledygook to wade through, but if you just scroll about half-way down the page, you'll find a 12-item list of some of what this Dhanurdhara guy did to kids. Throwing kids into marble walls, and kicking them after they hit the ground. Sometimes beating kids until they passed out. Etc. Dude def gives off a psychopathic vibe. Seemingly unrepentant to this day. Apart from a few insincere-sounding and face-saving apologies. All for show. So culty that even the main Krishna cult kicked him out. He now lives on the fringes of the Krishna cult scene, financially supported by disciples, giving talks with Cappo at yoga studios and similar events. Just blows my mind.
I remember, also some time in the 90s, coming across a tape of a talk that Dhanurdhara gave, where he name-drops Mikey Prema, and talks about Krishnacore. Also, sorta look like Richard Gere in some pics.
http://www.chakra.org/discussions/succApr28_07.html
Snippet from the Franklin Rhi interview from issue 7 of Conversations with Punx zine:
"The first band I joined was 108. That band had a lot of spirit. You felt that on stage. Everyone in the band was a devotee. The more people you have that follow the exact same thing makes things a lot stronger on stage. Visually people feel it. Vic [DiCara] was living in the temple, Rob [Fish] was living in the temple, and I was living in the temple. Same thing with Shelter. People can see straight up if you're following what you are preaching. I don't really want to spill dirt on any body's lap but, some of the things I saw in those bands also drove me away from the whole spirituality thing."
http://conversationswithbianca.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Conversations-With-Punx-Zine-7-Gratitude-by-Bianca-Valentino-+-Franklin-Rhi-interview.jpg
"...Dhanurdhara Swami is one of the worst child abusers within the Hare Krishna Movement. He is responsible for ruining the lives of many children who were under his care when he was a teacher in one of the movement's boarding schools. He was never brought to justice."
- Priya Wells
"By his own admission, Dhanurdhara swami is guilty of abusing young boys by severely beating them. The young man Ananda had his nose broken when Dhanurdhara swami smashed his face into a brick wall. This was witnessed by several boys who were his students at the time."
- S. Carolan
"Dhanudhara Swami crimes were recorder and he confessed most of them to Child Protection Office of ISKCON."
- D. Mainieri
"...was responsible for serious physical abuse of the children placed in the Hare Krsna religious school known as Gurukula. Recently one of those children, grown to adulthood, comitted suicide in large part due to his difficulty in dealing with the aftermath. While Dhanurdhara was initially censured by ISKCON he has since been reinstated as if nothing ever happened, much as Catholic priests are shipped to a new parish and allowed to resume their activities."
- T. McDaniels
"Unfortunately for the victims of Dhanurdhara swami, there will be no trial by judge or jury because the crimes were committed in India, outside the jurisdiction of US law."
"One might ask why I will not provide this evidence here? That is because the original censure was conducted by an impotent office within the institution that had no power to enforce its rulings, and the Higher Governing Body that chartered the impotent 'Child Protection Office' is documented to have assisted the Swami in circumventing the conditions of punishment issued by the CPO itself!!
"Thus barring the involvement of an impartial Judiciary authorized by the State in which the crime took place, the whole affair of 'trial' and 'punishment' was merely a face saving Charade, and has no teeth.
"Anyway, one can read the testimony of the many people who testified on the 'unofficial' public record and among friends by doing a google search. The dastardly nature of this particular case has prompted many people to document their outcry over the years on dozens of internet sites."
- Bala Dasa
"If you are really think that it is OK for 40 year old man to beat 8 year old in the face with the fist until blood start to come out of his ears, than there is something wrong with you too."
http://books.google.ca/books?id=wcE0AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA139&lpg=PA139&dq=%22The+Strange+Tale+of+How+the+Hare+Krishnas+Came+To+Play+Hardcore+Punk%22&source=bl&ots=4JciIMCPD0&sig=_ISw-kpfV6tF9AiiRMx-PCLXz2c&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wxM-VPDWJNKZyATLxIHICw&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Strange%20Tale%20of%20How%20the%20Hare%20Krishnas%20Came%20To%20Play%20Hardcore%20Punk%22&f=false
there is also the suicide of ananda mcclure. former student of dhanurdhara's. gunshot to the head. thanks, dhanurdhara
words taken from a krsna cult website:
"It can be a bit difficult to discuss Dhanurdhara objectively with his disciples, since they are trained up to view him as perfect and to develop a strong emotional attachment – but we shall do our best. (…)
"Actually, we really believe that Dhanurdhara's disciples should also separate from him because we believe their attraction to him is actually unhealthy. It is somewhat well-known that Dhanurdhara's following comes primarily from the Krishnacore music scene, which is a sub-genre of hardcore punk music. This genre of music is known for passion and volume, slam dancing, mosh pits, and generally rebelling against society. It is a truism that people attracted to this scene have actually experienced a lot of repression or abuse, and the music and dancing is a way of expressing their anger at what has been done to them. Just look at some of the names of the Krishnacore bands, their albums, and their songs. There are names such as:
"Opposition, Request Denied, Slave, Killer of the Soul, Threefold Misery, Break the Flow, Cause for Alarm, Beneath the Wheel, Shattered, Deceived, Enemy, Force-fed Reality, Lord of Wrath, and best of all, Screaming for Change.
"So if we may speak to Dhanurdhara's disciples in their own language, the gurukulis see Dhanurdhara as a 'Killer of the Soul' and a 'Lord of Wrath' who 'Shattered' and 'Deceived' and ground his students 'Beneath the Wheel,' and we are now 'Screaming for Change.' In truth, we believe that Dhanurdhara's disciples and the abused gurukulis actually have something in common and have been through similar experiences.
"Actually, we believe that the attraction to Dhanurdhara is probably based on abusive relationships from the past; and maintaining relationships with persons who are abusive or who cause pain is called 'masochism.' That is why we said the relationship with Dhanurdhara is unhealthy. In effect, it is really maintaining a relationship with the very thing that is being rebelled against. So this is something for Dhanurdhara's disciples to think about, and to see if what we have written here resonates with their own personal truths."
vic dicara writes, in 'i was a teenage hare krishna':
"A local straightedge kid spent the night at the temple so he could experience the self-realization effects of the early-morning Hare Krishna ceremonies. He never made it to the morning services, because he experienced the self-realization effects of an anal rape from a devotee in the ashram."
Madhusudani Radha's article "The Dhanurdhara Swami Case" used to be available on Chakra.org. But no longer. Here's an excerpt:
"One former student describes them as follows: 'Dhanurdhara would call them up in front of the kids during the assembly... Position the kid in front of him so that they would both be facing the other children. Pull him by the ears, twist the ears and then smack him with both open hands on the ears and cheeks... And he wouldn't only smack once or twice. You never knew how much it would be. It seemed to me, that the more and longer he could talk about it, the more he would smack while talking. During the whole scene, everybody had to stare straight ahead and see what was happening to this boy. And the boy had to just stand there with his hands folded, just like all the others. And if he dared to put his hands up to the side of his head to protect himself, DDS would scream 'put your hands down!' And smack him even more...
"Needless to say, the kid would be crying, and after some smacking would be shuffled towards the other kids and told 'go stand back in line!' The only feelings I can remember from such times is extreme fear, and my heart was pounding. I remember feeling pressure and heat rise to my head where I would feel like my eyes would pop out. Sweat would sometimes break out. I would fight back tears. There was an extreme feeling of vulnerability... Nowhere to turn for help, no way to defend yourself. Being all alone in this environment with no end in sight. I would push back memories of these events as soon as the assembly was over. It was the only thing I could do. Anything to take my mind off it... I had my favorite spot towards the middle of the line which was along the right wall, close to where the gong was suspended. I didn't want to be up front, because that would make you the first target in case someone like [ ] got out of control. I can still feel what it was like to have or to witness this..."
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