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Pacers do it again: Start fast with double-digit lead, lose it quicker vs. Blazers
J. Michael
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PORTLAND -- Another early double-digit lead for the Indiana Pacers. Another loss, this time to the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday.
Darren Collison's obvious disgust with himself told the story. He had a breakaway layup early in the third quarter to get his team back in it.
Uncontested. He missed.
The Pacers (44-27), who were hit with a 25-7 run to end the first half, squandered an 11-point lead and collapsed under a 3-point barrage 106-98 at Moda Center.
"We allowed them to make a run towards the end of that first quarter and the same thing happened in the second quarter," coach Nate McMillan said.
The Pacers are 0-2 to begin the Western trip with a Tuesday game at the surging L.A. Clippers.
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Myles Turner (season-high 28 points, 10 rebounds, two steals) got Indiana out to a 31-point first quarter, resembling how they led the Denver Nuggets by 18 on Saturday, only to lose that first-half lead and the game 102-100.
"The problem used to be we weren't getting off to good starts," said Turner, who had 13 points in the first quarter as Indiana led 23-12 and 29-18. "Now we're getting off to better starts and we still got to find a way to close out halves better."
The Blazers were relentless even though they didn't have starting shooting guard C.J. McCollum (left knee strain). Portland started the game with Jake Layman and slotted Rondey Hood in his place to begin the third quarter.
The Blazers took a 55-48 halftime lead and put it away soon after by making 8 of 10 3s.
Turner didn't have much help after the start as the Blazers let him roam. Bojan Bogdanovic (15 points) didn't make a 3 for the second game in a row, getting just two attempts.
"I've been struggling shooting the ball a bit lately," said Turner, who shot 9-for-17 overall. "Teammates were feeding me."
When Collison (nine points, seven assists) botched the layup it led to a 3 from Al-Farouq Aminu (16 points). What followed was a steady diet of 3s as the Blazers heated up with Aminu scoring all but two of his points in the third.
Damian Lillard (30 points, season-high 15 assists) drilled 3s from far beyond the arc which included a stepback from 32 feet.
The Pacers were aggressive in trapping the ball which created open shots off the correct reads. Moe Harkless (10 points), who shoots 27 percent from 3, even made his open look during the flurry.
Seth Curry (11 points) opened the fourth with an open 3. The Pacers cut the deficit to 93-80 on a 3 from Doug McDermott (14 points).
"Damian Lillard got hot. Sometimes there's not much you can do," McDermott said. "He's such a good player he can pull up from anywhere. Sometimes, you just got to pat him on the back."
Tyreke Evans (nine points, three assists) had his best game since Feb. 22, the Pacers' first after the All-Star break. He took advantage of mismatches against Evan Turner and Curry.
Evans' three-point play cut the deficit to 98-88 midway through the fourth and the Pacers eventually trimmed it to 102-97 in the final minute on a layup from Wesley Matthews (14 points).
"We just got to stay consistent with what we're doing to get those leads," Matthews said. "Control the ball, finish the possessions with rebounds, limit the momentum plays and just keep attacking."
Like their comeback in Denver, the hole they'd put themselves in was just too deep. The Nuggets got hot in the second quarter when they made 6 of 11 3s to come from behind.
"You got to tip your hat sometimes. We had a game plan," Turner said of their defense vs. Lillard. "He's an NBA player. He made some good plays. Our guards did the best they could."
The Pacers only have had one trip of more than two games in which they had a losing record.
A loss to the Clippers or Golden State Warriors on Thursday will make that two and put them in danger of dropping to fifth in the East and out of homecourt advantage for the playoffs.
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Introduction: This study investigated the effects of a piano training intervention on neural and cognitive functioning in healthy older adults. Method: 20 healthy older adults (age 65-85) who had no prior musical experience were recruited. Participants were either randomized into an experimental group that underwent six months of piano training or into a music listening control group. In order to evaluate the effects of training, behavioral cognition testing and high-density electroencephalography (based on evaluating the mismatch negativity, MMN) were conducted. Results: Between-subjects analyses at six months found that the piano group exhibited better performance on tasks of inhibition and verbal memory. Within subjects analyses revealed that the piano group improved in verbal memory and reasoning. The piano group also had a greater response to pitch changes as reflected by the MMN. Conclusion: Short-term piano training influences verbal memory, executive functioning, and pre-attentive processing of sounds in older adults.


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Q: AngularJs API Gateway Calls Multiple Microservices I am creating an an Angular2 application that will call an API Gateway (Web API) that will call one or multiple microservices (Web API) and it will aggregate the data and return one payload back to the application.
Before I created the API Gateway I just had the Angular2 application call each microservice API endpoint independently within several components. E.g. The customer component called /api/customers, the order component called /api/orders etc.
My question is what is the best way for an Angular2 application to call the API Gateway to make one single call to build a page instead of each component making separate calls?
Will I have to make the one api call upfront and store the data somewhere e.g. localstorage, and then when each component's service requests it's data it will then get it from the storage instead of making the call to the API?

A: I think there are two scenarios here.

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*The Customer's Component is the parent of the Orders view. In this case, it might be valid to make one big request and pass it on to your orders view. However, just calling the two endpoints in parallel would be faster.

*The Customer's Component and the Orders view are completely separate. In this case, it isn't beneficial to make one large request. You can make two separate requests upon each page load. If the user doesn't want to see Orders, then it's not useful.
In general, I think it is better to practice if you have two separate requests and call them in parallel. This lets you break your models to be smaller and have better structure.
Hope that helps. Cheers

A: This one is a bit old, but I want to clarify why having a Big request instead of multiple requests is a better idea...
Some years ago I used the approach driven by jquery patterns that created something like this:

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*Request the page content in json

*Draw the content using templates, if there's any dropdown or grids then call rest endpoints to request for the options or rows.

The good thing about this pattern is that I can create simple services that can be reused across different pages, allowing developers to extend the functionally easily.
At the beginning this looked like a good idea, it make sense to parallelize the work, as @MangoBoy mentioned in his reply, but the problem with this approach is the limitations of the browsers and javascript, basically there are no parallel work in javascript, there are some streams that are working in parallel, but ultimately the code in javascript is single threaded by design, the end result... if you have 10-20 async elements (like dropdowns) users will see that after rendering the page some dropdowns are still loading, it does not matter how fast your server side works it will happen anyway, hundreds of ajax calls cannot not be executed in parallel as the browser limits to few calls in parallel, I think the number I got was like 10.
One of the many jobs of the API gateway pattern is to aggregate requests and results to avoid exactly this problem. (a.k.a as Chatty requests)
My suggestion to @user1180223 is to create a service in angular an call it in the NgInit or load, and request as much information as possible about the page that might be required by the user as soon as the page is loaded, and then leave async other tabs or elements that will not be required immediately by the user. In the angular class process the result of the ajax call and put them in variables that can be accessed by the components later.
More information about API Gateways here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/microservices/architect-microservice-container-applications/direct-client-to-microservice-communication-versus-the-api-gateway-pattern
Hope this helps

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Speed/Short Track Skating - 04. February 2008.
Essent ISU World Cup Speed Skating –Baselga di Pinè (ITA)
The allround skaters gathered this weekend at the outdoor rink in Baselga di Piné in the Italian Dolomites for the seventh of nine Essent ISU World Cup Speed Skating events . This event took place at a crucial time, just a week ahead of the ISU World Allround Speed Skating Championships 2008 in Berlin (GER).
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On Saturday, true to the spirit of outdoor racing, it was snowing. The snow even at one point turned into rain which added an additional challenge for the competitors. During the B-races in the morning, it was quite exciting and Jan Bloemen (NED) won the Men's B-division in a good time of 6:35.43.
In the A-division 1500m ladies, the continuous snow did present a challenge for Anni Friesinger (GER) and Cindy Klassen (CAN), starting in the final pair. Friesinger started out well, with a beautiful first turn and a 26 flat opener, but after about 500m, lost ground and finished in ninth place. Kristina Groves from Canada won with 2.01.06. Czech Martina Sablikova, who has proven before to be a good outdoor skater, finished in second place with 2.02,93 and ahead of Canadian Christine Nesbitt (2.02,98). Nesbitt skated in pair 9, Groves in pair 8 and Sablikova in pair 7. Jorien Voorhuis in pair 6 finished with 2.03,10 in fourth place. Catherine Raney in pair 5 in fifth (2.03,16). Christine Nesbitt keeps the lead in the World Cup ranking with 490 points. Kristina Groves has improved her position with 450 points. They will have a show-off in Heerenveen (NED) to decide the final World Cup winner on this distance. Friesinger with 312 is still in third place. Anni Friesinger: "… Groves skated super, she deserved to win."
During the first four pairs in the 5000m men, in the first pair, Mark Ooijevaar had the fastest time of 6:49.76, but in the fourth pair times got close to 8 minutes and the referees decided to cancel the distance, which meant that there were no points given for the B-division race.
Because of Saturday's weather , Sunday's races started with the A-division as early as 9.30h. The weather cooperated nicely, it was dry and consistent all day.
In the 3000m ladies, Martina Sablikova skated in the last pair. She knew what she needed to do to secure the overall World Cup win already this weekend. German Claudia Pechstein had to defend her second place in the ranking, helped nonetheless by the fact that Hughes was third and had withdrawn for the day. With 160 points behind the leader Sablikova, there was little manoeuvrability. She skated a very decent race, starting with 2.0 and 2.7, 3.1, 3.6, faster than her countrywoman Katrin Mattscherodt who was at that point leading with 4:15.03. Pechstein took over the lead with 4.14,20.
Sablikova was light-footed on the ice. She was the only one who seemed to glide on the earlier 1500 distance where she finished second, now she managed to start with a series of four 32 laps, before finishing with 3.3, 3.3 and 3.2. 4.11,08 was not a track record, but it was certainly enough, not just to win here, but also to have a 180 point lead in the ranking, which was a good gap. The Czech skater Sablikova has 580 points. Pechstein has 400, Hughes 285.

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Ford F-150 Hybrid Pickup Truck By 2020 Reconfirmed, But Diesel Too?
Stephen Edelstein December 18, 2015 Comment Now!
A hybrid version of the Ford F-150 full-size pickup truck is still in the works, the Dearborn carmaker's CEO confirmed this week.
And it appears there may be a diesel version as well.
Ford product chief Raj Nair had confirmed two years ago that the company was working on a hybrid F-150, but little has been heard about it since.
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Now Ford CEO Mark Fields has reconfirmed that the truck will arrive in showrooms by 2020.
Ford has plans to launch a "rear-wheel drive hybrid truck" by the end of the decade, Fields said in an interview with NPR (via Autoblog).
The truck was only briefly mentioned in an interview that mainly focused on Ford's recently-announced $4.5 billion spending commitment for electrified vehicles, and plans to enter the ride-sharing business, competing with companies like Uber and Lyft.
Fields said that greater numbers of hybrids and plug-in electric cars will become "necessary" over the next decade or so, both because of "consumer demand" and regulatory requirements.
The F-150 hybrid was originally supposed to be co-developed with Toyota, which would then build a hybrid version of its own Tundra full-size truck.
But after about two years of collaboration, the two companies ended their partnership in 2013.
At the time, Ford said it would proceed with the development of a hybrid truck independently, and that hybrid SUVs could eventually be added to its lineup as well.
In addition to a hybrid powertrain, Ford may also eventually offer the F-150 with a diesel engine.
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Spy shots of a lightly-camouflaged F-150 sporting a diesel-style Venturi exhaust tip were recently published by Autoblog. The photographer reported hearing the trademark diesel clatter from the truck.
Autoblog speculates that the prototype was fitted with the same 3.0-liter V-6 now offered in the Land Rover Range Rover and Range Rover Sport Td6 models--Land Rover being a former possession of Ford.
In developing the current-generation F-150, Ford took great pains to improve fuel economy.
It equipped the F-150 with an aluminum body, improved aerodynamics, and added a 2.7-liter turbocharged EcoBoost V-6 to the lineup.
But in the half-ton truck category, the F-150 has so far been bested by the Ram 1500 EcoDiesel.
2014 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel, Bear Mountain, May 2014
In its most fuel-efficient, rear-wheel drive HFE form, the Ram gets an EPA-rated 24 mpg combined (21 mpg city, 29 mpg highway) from its 3.0-liter V-6.
Yet the most efficient F-150--using the 2.7-liter V-6 and rear-wheel drive--is slightly behind at 22 mpg combined (19 mpg city, 26 mpg highway).
And both trucks are outdone by the smaller, mid-size Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon Duramax diesel twins.
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TPSMEA Trip Strikes Chords with Students
By Jenny Zhu
It's an ordinary Friday night at the San Marcos outlet shopping mall. Giggles fill the cool night air as eight girls, singing some offbeat melody, pile out of a vehicle next to the curb. But these girls are not just any rowdy group of friends looking to go shopping: they're talented Hockaday musicians, selected by audition to participate in an yearly trip and perform in a special honor orchestra and choir at the Evans Auditorium.
Sponsored by the Texas Private School Music Educators' Association, this annual event has brought together talented choir and orchestra students from all over Texas, including senior Vivian Zhou and alumna Jessica Kong '14, to rehearse and perform advanced music and repertoire together. Some students remember the San Marcos trip fondly not only for the music they made, but for the nostalgic traditions and memories they had.
One is the shopping visit after a full day of rehearsals to the aforementioned San Marcos outlet, where high-end vendors sell wares at discounted prices. "We always have fun running around by ourselves," Zhou said, "We have to get all our shopping done to be back on the bus by 10 p.m."
Another are memories with the same teachers who go on the trip every year: Fine Arts department chair Ed Long and former TPSMEA Vice President and Middle School orchestra director, Yung-Fang Ludford.
"I got to really bond with [teachers]. I definitely wouldn't have known Mr. Green if it wasn't for TPSMEA," Kong said.
Food also plays an important role in memories made during the trip. After the first hours-long bus ride down south, students stop at a certain Panda Express next to the hotel. On the second day, Ludford reserves spots for the group at a Mexican-Asian fusion restaurant. Taco Cabana is on the menu for the third day, after the final performance.
"Mrs. Ludford always get the sopapillas," Kong said, laughing.
But Panda Express, the San Marcos outlet shopping malls and the sopapillas of Taco Cabana will no longer be recounted and revisited by students. The trip this year has relocated to the Dallas-Richardson area, where the Charles W. Eisemann Center for Performing Arts presented the final performance.
The event has seen a huge growth in number of participants, and the previous auditorium did not have the space necessary to host such large concerts. The desire for a better sound quality in performance space also drove the move to the Eisemann."When you come to the Eismann, you gotta know, that's the place that holds world-class performances," Ludford said. "They have state-of-the-art sound. Everything is just totally different."
Both Zhou and Kong, however, believe the move may damper the adventure of discovering a town far away from the DFW area.
"It's a place that we already know. When we do have free time to go out and do whatever, it's sort of, 'Been there, done that,'" Zhou said. Kong echoed her sentiment: "It's not the same experience as taking the bus down."
But with the drawbacks of the relocation, come some benefits. Zhou talks about her family, who will no longer have to drive for hours on end to watch the performance. "It's a show that's much more accessible for friends and family to come watch and support, so they can actually see what you've been working on the whole weekend," Zhou said.
Though returning veterans who have gone on the trip in the past years may lose some of their fondly-remembered traditions, new ones may form.
"I guess there's a sense of familiarity," Kong said. "You can be proud to say this is your home."
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Even some of the biggest and most prominent technology companies can make costly user experience (UX) mistakes and might benefit from some UX courses. Bad UX is at the core of problems that brought Amazon, Apple, and Google into the cross-hairs of the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Apple and Google resolved the dispute, and fixed the UX problems, refunding customers millions in billings. The cost of poorly implemented UX to Apple was $32.5 million in refunds, while Google agreed to refund $19 million. Amazon refused to settle and forced the FTC to take the issue to court. Last week a federal judge found that Amazon's UX mislead consumers, and the cost of bad UX is likely to extend into the tens of millions of dollars in both penalties and mandatory refunds.
According to the judgment against Amazon, the company received complaints from thousands of consumers' in-app charges they didn't authorized but were instead purchased by children. In some cases the charges incurred by children extended into the hundreds of dollars. Amazon attempted to claim that they made sufficient disclosures about in-app purchases being available inside of apps that were free. Yet the judge indicated that a disclosure was not enough, and that in-app purchasing within free children's games should not have been allowed. All three companies have since taken steps that prevent children from making purchases.
The exact cost of this UX mistake for Amazon isn't yet final. The judge has ordered the FTC and Amazon to determine the exact amount of refunds that are owed for practices that have been found to be unlawful.
While a court ordering Amazon to refund millions might typically be cause for alarm on Wall Street, the financial markets have been upbeat on Amazon this week. Shares of Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) surged more than 10 percent in the days following this court order, as the company reported profitable quarter – the fourth quarter in a row in which they have been profitable. In the first quarter of 2016 Amazon indicated they earned $513 million in profits and had total revenue of $29.1 billion. These numbers are up by 28 percent year over year and exceeded analyst's expectations.
The in-app purchasing issue appears to be of little concern, as Amazon is generating revenue from it's traditional sales of products along with cloud computing. The cloud computing will expand to $10 billion in sales this year alone according to CEO Jeff Bezos.


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Walls of R. C. Harris Treatment Plant to be lit up with outdoor art projections tonight through Saturday as part of BigArtTO
BigArtTO brings outdoor art projections to the walls of the R. C. Harris Treatment Plant on the nights of Oct. 13 to 16.
Starting tonight and continuing until the end of the week, art projections will be displayed on the wall of the R. C. Harris Treatment Plant on Queen Street East.
The display is part of the BigArtTO initiative which brings large outdoor art displays to the exteriors of local landmarks.
This week's projections are set for Wednesday, Oct. 13 through to Saturday, Oct. 16, and will take place nightly at the R.C. Harris Treatment Plant which is located at the foot of Victoria Park Avenue.
This is the second year in the Beach area for BigArtTO, and earlier projections were shown at the Ashbridges Bay Pumping Station and the Donald D. Summerville Olympic Pool.
The works of OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design) students will be featured on the walls of the R.C. Harris plant this week.
"This custom and site-specific artwork will take into consideration the building's history, purpose, and art deco designs," said the BigArtTO press release.
When BigArtTO took place in November of 2020, the projections at the R.C. Harris plant were the best attended in all of Toronto.
This year's BigArtTO also includes upcoming projections at Scarborough's Chinese Cultural Centre; the Etobicoke Civic Centre; the Agha Khan Museum; and Guildwood Park and Gardens.
For more information, please go to https://www.artworxto.ca/page/bigartto
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By the ordinance of 15th November 1885, the Bishop was designated as "The Titular Roman Catholic Bishop of Malacca resident in the Straits Settlements" and the Catholic Church was incorporated as a legal entity. The first Bishop to be thus recognised was Bishop Edouard Gasnier.
In 1885, the colonial government granted the Church a piece of land at Ophir Road. The Church of Our Lady of Lourdes was opened in 1888 to serve the Tamil speaking Catholics.
In 1885, the IJ Sisters also assumed administration of the General Hospital (later Singapore General Hospital). The Straits Government's intention to recruit trained European nurses coincided with Bishop Edward Gasnier's intention to have the Sisters establish an alternative hospital.
The Portuguese parish of St Joseph in Victoria Street is placed under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Macau, together with the parish of St Peter in Malacca.
The Canossian Daughters of Charity arrived in 1894 to work with the Portuguese Mission at the Church of St Joseph. They took over St Anthony's Girls School in 1895.
The Church of the Good Shepherd was consecrated and raised to the status of a Cathedral.
Land was acquired in 1901 in Tank Road to build a church that would cater to the Cantonese and Hakka Catholics. The Church of the Sacred Heart was eventually completed and blessed in 1910.
The first local Catholic priest, Father Michael Seet, was ordained.
Two More Local Priests are Ordained.
Two more local priests, Father Stephen Lee and Father Rudolf de Souza, were ordained.
Bishop Emile Barillon also reported anti-Christian feelings and open acts of hostility such as vandalism and assaults of Christians by anti-Christian secret societies. This persecution may have been due to anti-foreigner sentiment after the fall of the Qing Dynasty in China in 1911.
A small chapel was built in Katong and dedicated to the Holy Family. It was later demolished and the Church of the Holy Family was later built in 1932 to minister to Eurasian families in the area.
100 Chinese refugees from Swatow arrived in Singapore. Fr Stephen Lee wrote to the Government for a grant of land so that these settlers could set up homes and cultivate crops. After repeated applications, 100 acres of hilly terrain was made available. The village came to be known as the Catholic Village.
A chapel was also built to attend to the spiritual needs of these Catholics. This was the beginning of the Church of St Anthony.
Fr Stephen Lee also oversaw and completed the construction of the Church of St Teresa in Kampong Bahru. The land had previously been acquired in 1902 for the Hokkien Catholic community. The church was blessed on 7 April 1929.
At the invitation of Archbishop Adrien Devals, the Carmel of Bangkok sent Mother Therese des Anges with three Sisters to start a Carmelite monastery in Singapore. It was blessed and opened in 1938.
The Redemptorist Fathers were also invited to start a Foundation in Singapore, they arrived on 30th July 1935.
Bishop Devals also introduced the precursor to today's Catholic News, the Malay Catholic Leader, beginning with a modest circulation of 3000 copies.
The first Gabrielite Brothers arrived on 20th November 1936. They took charge of Holy Innocent English School (later on known as Montfort School) in 1937.
Again at the invitation of Archbishop Devals, four Irish Good Shepherd Sisters arrived in December 1939 to set up a house for girls in need.
Singapore fell to Japanese forces in 1943. About 300 Eurasian families and 400 Chinese Catholic families were sent to Bahau. Archbishop A Devals went along with them, but eventually died there. The Church under the Japanese Occupation suffered a great deal but emerged stronger and well-placed to serve Singapore after the war.
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Q: Lager log line truncated I'm working on modifying some ejabberd code, and I'm coming across an error printed via lager:
2014-04-25 18:29:39.380 [error] emulator Error in process <0.652.0> on node 'ejabberd@localhost' with exit value: {function_clause,[{lists,zip,[[transport,connection,pid,method,version,peer,host,host_info,port,path,path_info,qs,qs_vals,bindings,headers,p_headers,cookies,meta,body_state,multipart,buffer,resp_compress...
Unfortunately the line is truncated and I can't see the rest of the stack trace. How do I view the whole error message?

A: I think the lager's trunc size can be adjusted as follows:
In the lager.erl source file
%% @doc Manually log a message into lager without using the parse transform.
-spec log(log_level(), pid() | atom() | [tuple(),...], list()) -> ok | {error, lager_not_running}.
log(Level, Pid, Message) when is_pid(Pid); is_atom(Pid) ->
    dispatch_log(Level, [{pid,Pid}], Message, [], ?DEFAULT_TRUNCATION);
log(Level, Metadata, Message) when is_list(Metadata) ->
    dispatch_log(Level, Metadata, Message, [], ?DEFAULT_TRUNCATION).

%% @doc Manually log a message into lager without using the parse transform.
-spec log(log_level(), pid() | atom() | [tuple(),...], string(), list()) -> ok | {error, lager_not_running}.
log(Level, Pid, Format, Args) when is_pid(Pid); is_atom(Pid) ->
    dispatch_log(Level, [{pid,Pid}], Format, Args, ?DEFAULT_TRUNCATION);
log(Level, Metadata, Format, Args) when is_list(Metadata) ->
    dispatch_log(Level, Metadata, Format, Args, ?DEFAULT_TRUNCATION).

The ?DEFAULT_TRUNCATION is defined in the lager.hrl file.
-define(DEFAULT_TRUNCATION, 4096).
-define(DEFAULT_TRACER, lager_default_tracer).

I think you could increase the above default value and then compile the lager again for use.
But your log's not as long as 4096, and the log's not from lager,but from lager's redirect (error_logger). The following question may be related to your problem:
Truncated error report in erlang

A: There are two possibilities.  The first is to add the following compilation option to the erlc options in rebar/erlang.mk:
+'{lager_truncation_size, 20480}'

This will set the maximum allowed size of the total log to 20kb for all modules that are compiled by erlc, probably all of them in the project if you are not handing crafting a make file.  The is a reason for the truncate limit is to not overload the lager processes so doing this across the whole project could be dangerous.
Note that adding this on a per module basis using the -compile attribute does not work, see this issue.
The other way is to call lager:dispatch_log youself, and bypass the transform:
lager:dispatch_log(info, [{pid, self()}], "hello ~s|", [lists:duplicate(1000, "hello")], 20480).

Both methods require that you make modifications to the code or build process.


"He was a giant of humanity," Neeson said. "As a people, we are all in bereavement."
Actor Liam Neeson says Muhammad Ali was his "hero."
Liam Neeson is the latest star to pay tribute to Muhammad Ali, who died on Friday at the age of 74.
In an interview with Irish Central, Neeson, who was once an aspiring boxer, spoke about his love and admiration for "The Greatest," calling him "a giant of humanity."
"He was my hero from when I was a young amateur boxer, and schoolboy, back in Ireland. I'll never forget hearing that he had beaten the unbeatable Sonny Liston. It was 1964 and it was a cold, wet February in Ballymena," Neeson said. "As I walked to school that morning, my feet didn't seem to touch the ground: my mind was an excited blur, because somehow the world had changed with that victory."
The actor also shared stories about meeting Ali.
"I got to meet him before he had his last fight in 1981. Not knowing what to say and with my knees shaking, I said 'Muhammad, I love you.' He gave me a hug and then signed an autograph for my father," Neeson said.
He continued, "I met him again in 2011. He was unable to speak with his advanced Parkinson's. I put my hand over his and whispered 'I love you.' His wife said to me, 'He knows who you are.'"
Neeson then said that there's not one movie star whose charisma could ever compare to Ali's.
"He was a giant of humanity," he said. "As a people, we are all in bereavement."
After news of Ali's death, other stars, including Madonna, Chris Rock and Jennifer Hudson, took to social media to express their sadness and share touching tributes.
Ali, who had Parkinson's disease, died at a hospital in Arizona, where he had been treated for respiratory issues. The cause of death was septic shock from unspecified natural causes, Reuters reported Saturday.


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Dodgers 4, D-backs 0: Kenta Maeda delivers 7 shutout frames
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After yesterday's annoying extra-inning loss, the Dodgers rebounded to tie the series against the Diamondbacks by a 4-0 score behind a nice rebound start from Kenta Maeda and the offense totaling more than two hits.
Maeda came into today's start struggling. He lasted less than five innings in his previous three starts, giving up a total of 14 runs in his just 11 innings. Tonight he bounced back in a big way, going six shutout innings on 83 pitches, striking out five batters and walking none while surrendering just three singles.
The bats had some bouncing back to do as well. Things got started early in the 2nd after Max Muncy smashed his 28th ding dong of the year off Alex Young for a 1-0 lead.
They tacked on to that in the 3rd with as many hits as they had last night. Russell Martin started things with a double, and got quite the reaction from Alex Verdugo after face planting a bit.
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After two outs, Justin Turner was intentionally walked. However, future NL MVP winner Kristopher Negron did his thing with a single to center to make it 2-0.
The Dodgers doubled their lead again in the 4th. Muncy started things with a walk, advanced to second on a ground out and then got to third on a wild pitch. Corey Seager then got a walk of his own, and Martin followed with another hit, this time a single to drive in Muncy.
With runners on the corners, Maeda successfully executed a safety squeeze to contribute to his own cause as Seager beat the flip home to make it 4-0.
Back to the shutout, Caleb Ferguson took over in the 8th, getting two outs and walking a batter. Joe Kelly was summoned to close things out and he did exactly that.
After Kenley Jansen blew the save last night, they got him right back out there tonight with a four-run lead. Jansen started by getting a softly-hit ground out, but then surrendered a clean single on a slider. He rebounded to get the win without much other fuss, getting two routine fly outs to end it.
The Dodgers improve to 78-41 on the season with the victory, which maintains their 106-win pace. They now lead the NL West by 18 games over the Diamondbacks, the NL by 9 games over the Braves, and are tied with the Astros in the MLB.
They go for the series win in the rubber match at 10:10 AM HST/1:10 PM PST/4:10 PM EST with Hyun-Jin Ryu facing Mike Leake.
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Over 450 people attended the 2016 FWA Conference this month, many of them from the NE Florida area. If you missed it, you missed a good one, but you can make up for it by attending one of the FWA Focus Days, formerly known as mini-conferences. The first one is scheduled for April 29 in Altamonte Springs, and the focus is on Character-Driven Stories. But definitely put the 2017 Conference on your calendar, October 19 - 22, as the new Faculty Chair is planning a bunch of innovative sessions and new features.
Congratulations to all the RPLA winners. I hope you were one of them, but be sure to congratulate any of the writers you may know as these are the best of the best.
The River City Writers offers the perfect prescription for ridding yourself of the election blues since the meeting falls on Election Day, Tuesday, November 8 at 7:00 p.m. at the SE Branch Library. Linda Schilling Mitchell tells the story of how she developed her popular coloring book, Colorful Florida in a talk she calls, "Thinking Outside the Box for Writers." And maybe outside the lines as well.
Laura Lee Smith knows a thing or two about rejections and what it takes to catch the attention of editors and agents. Laura's acclaimed novel Heart of Palm came after a series of rejections, and many short stories published in literary magazines. Laura will discuss her writing and publishing process and lay out a step-by-step strategy for "Breaking In" to the publishing scene. She's the special guest speaker at the Ponte Vedra Writers meeting on Saturday, November 12 at the Ponte Vedra Library. The meeting starts at 10:30 a.m.
Wondering what a writing platform is and how to build one? Nancy Quatrano will tell you to put away the hammer and nails, and start thinking about your brand and reputation. Nancy is the guest speaker/author/editor at the Wednesday, November 16 meeting of the Clay County Writers to discuss "How to Build a Writing Platform." The meeting starts at 6:15 p.m. at the Orange Park Library.
Writers by the Sea meets on Thursday, November 17 at the Amelia Island Museum of History at 6:00 p.m. The topic is "First Aid for High Risk Writing," and editor Heather Whitaker can help writers not only improve their writing, but also their chances of success. She's a developmental editor and writing coach and has worked with bestselling authors Julianna Baggott, Jon Jefferson and Laura Lascarso.
The Ancient City Writers chapter of FWA will gather together Saturday, November 19 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Augustine's Main Library. Heather Ashby is an award-winning military romance writer who served in the U.S. Navy. Heather tells us "The First Draft is Supposed to Stink," and advises writers to "turn off your internal editor while you're writing."
FWA affiliate First Coast Christian Writers meets each Thursday at 6:45 p.m. at the Oakleaf Christian Fellowship on Lake Gray Boulevard.
The Okefenokee Heritage Center in Waycross, GA is looking for 5 or 6 writers for a book signing this Sunday following the presentation of awards and a reception honoring winners of the Writer's Guild Contest. If interested, please contact Elizabeth Welch at okeheritage@gmail.com, or phone 912-285-4260.
Florida Sisters in Crime meets Saturday, November 5 at 10:00 a.m. at the Bartram Trail Branch Library. The guest speaker is Candace Gerding, retired State Probation/Parole Officer.
A gathering of Poets meets on the first and third Thursday of each month at 2:00 p.m. at the Ponte Vedra Library. Bring four extra copies of your work to be critiqued by the group.
The Friends of the Ponte Vedra Library will present noted author Les Standiford at the Monday, November 14 Book Talk Cafe program. Les will talk about and sign his latest nonfiction book, Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles. The program starts at 6:30 p.m.
November is National Novel Writing Month. Can you write a novel in a month? If you'd like to give it a try, visit the official website for all the details, from how it works to tracking your progress to getting daily pep talks. Good luck, and let us know how you did.
That's all folks. Have a great writing month, and enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday.


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A big part of one year's end is planning for the following year's beginning; and in doing so, it's important to look back and clearly understand what happened in eDiscovery in 2017.
In 2017, some of the major, forward-thinking law firms continued use of eDiscovery partnerships and legal project management technology to increase efficiency and get a better grip on what Matters actually cost. Some firms even further along that spectrum developed their own software and began selling their expertise in the area to make their clients' legal departments more efficient.
A recent Gartner report forecasts that revenue in the eDiscovery software market will grow to $3.1 billion in 2018, and that annual revenue growth of approximately 15 percent is expected because of increasing volumes of litigation and regulatory investigation.
There is a disconnection between IT and legal and, as a result, each eDiscovery case is often an isolated event and handled as a project. This project-based approach means that organizations lose money and efficiency by investing in multiple tools and providers for their eDiscovery technology needs.
So, if the eDiscovery software market is projected to continue growing so rapidly, what should traditional legal and corporate counsel do to resolve the issues faced in 2017?
In a perfect world, firms and corporations would proactively create an eDiscovery stakeholder group which consists of IT, legal counsel, legal operations, risk and security leaders to oversee projects, seek to identify eDiscovery tools and/or manual processes now in use by both IT & legal and consolidate solutions where overlapping capabilities may exist.
Legal can take advantage of complete visibility, process efficiency, proactive intelligence, streamlined communications and regulatory compliance.
IT teams benefit from advanced integrations, efficient collections, clear instructions, and flexible deployment options.
By 2018, at least 30% of the data reviewed in eDiscovery will be stored in the cloud with expected 5 percent increase year over year.
What's ahead for 2018? It is a given that law firms are being forced into a wheel-and-deal business model that is moving toward value pricing with real market forces at play. The traditional law firm now has to understand its data and its business in a way that it never has before.
To that end, the use of more cohesive eDiscovery and legal project management technology is expected to increase 13 percent over the next two years. Firms will shop more aggressively for support technology and partnerships to obtain better pricing and tools. Firms will begin to unitize, track and report internal activities under more precise categories and have a more exacting grasp on overhead and partnerships.
Legal operations staff will gain more power inside legal departments and the traditional competition for Big Law work will be upended by firms who can offer more certain fees. Firms that have integrated better technology to understand their actual unit costs rather than all-encompassing, fluctuating billable hours.
That won't happen everywhere all at once next year. But better technology will make the change begin to gather speed.
Delivering the necessary control and insight into critical information that drive smarter decisions while ensuring enterprise IT investments are leveraged to their fullest capabilities is the name of the game.
In step, legal technology providers will continue to make the connection between IT and legal teams easier and easier. eDiscovery providers like IST Discover-E create a single solution to use in concert with IT and information management. IST Discover-E also provides a business dashboard with real-time, data-driven insight into eDiscovery costs, trends and efficiencies. Integrating eDiscovery with IT protocols will save significant costs and reduce risks associated with litigation exposure, compliance and internal investigations as a standardized, repeatable and defensible processes are put into place.
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In a magic garden of stories, songs and imagination, two eternally sweet women hosted a beloved children's programme. The Magic Garden combined folk-style children's songs, silly jokes, dramatised stories and life lessons, all provided by co-hosts Carole and Paula.
The garden itself was a park-like area with a large tree as its centrepiece. The tree had a little magic of its own, dropping written messages for Carole and Paula and lowering a pair of vines on which they could swing.
Inside the tree lived one of the show's puppet friends, a pink squirrel named Sherlock. The deep-voiced Sherlock was a bit of a troublemaker, but the hosts could always ply him with a bribe of peanuts, his favourite.
The rest of the puppet cast included a bird named Flapper and the Chuckle Patch, a patch of daisies that delivered a new joke in each episode. When Carole or Paula read the joke, the Patch would shake and giggle with high-pitched glee.
One of the show's most fondly remembered segments was "The Story Box". When story time rolled around, Carole and Paula would open up an old steamer trunk and pull out props, costumes and masks to put on a staged version of a children's story.
Every aspect of the show revolved around the winning personalities of its hosts. Carole Demas and Paula Janis were the kind-hearted friends every kid wanted, and their two-part harmonies and guitar accompaniment were like chicken soup for the hyperactive soul.
The Magic Garden only aired in local syndication, primarily in New York on WPIX, but it left a lasting impression on those lucky enough to watch it and became the most successful regional show in the history of American children's television.
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Carole Demas continued her distinguished career as an actress and singer in theatre, television and film. On Broadway, she created the leading role of Sandy in the hit musical Grease. She guest-starred on numerous television shows, including Kojak, Mannix, Barnaby Jones, Edge of Night and As The World Turns.
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July 31, 2013 by Paradox in "Adichie", "Africa", "African Literature", "Americanah", "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie", "Half of a Yellow Sun", "Kambili", "Literature", "Nigeria", "Purple Hibiscus", "book review"
I reviewed Adichie's second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, last year when I was working at the BAM book/merch kiosk (review HERE). I picked it up on one of those days when I was working a double and had finished the book I was reading and needed something to pass the time. As you can see from my review, I fell in love with the story and her prose, and couldn't wait to read her first novel and her collection of short stories. It took me a year to get back to her, because I am terrible with keeping up to date on my reading lists (if you saw the pile of books waiting to be read next to my bed you would understand), and because I only remembered to buy her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, when I read a review on the release of her third novel, Americanah.
I don't usually start a book with the feeling that it may not be as good as I am hoping it to be, but I did with this one, seeing as I had read her second novel before her first, and how much of a mark it had left on my brain and my heart. I couldn't have been more wrong. Adichie had definitely already found her voice before she started writing Purple Hibiscus, and the prose is just as stunning and sublime as it was in Half of a Yellow Sun. From here on out I shall stop comparing, as although both novels are set in Nigeria, that is where the resemblances end.
Purple Hibiscus is set in post-colonial Nigeria, and revolves around the home of Kambili, the narrator, a quiet, shy and studious 15 year old girl, her older brother Jaja, her father Eugene and her mother Beatrice. With the backdrop of a military coup and military crackdowns and the beginnings of uprisings in the country, we see Kambili's small world grow while she herself comes to terms with her problems at home, and those of the country she lives in. Eugene is wealthy and well-respected in the community, aiming to give his family the best education and life that he can, as well as helping those around him. But he is also a religious zealot and a tyrant at home, with a violent temper and prone to doling out harrowing punishments that make your heart hurt. When Eugene's sister, Ifeoma, persuades him to let her take Kambili and Jaja to stay with her in her town for a week, the children both learn of a world outside of theirs that is bigger and more complicated than they can ever expect, which in turn leads them both to question their own lives and how their father wants them to live them.
At times beautiful, at times horrific, Purple Hibiscus draws you into a world that is so different, but at the same time so similar, and wraps itself around you tightly. Once you have Kambili's voice inside your head you are loathe to let her go, even after you have turned the last page and there are no more words. There are times where I just wanted to shake her and say "speak up, let your voice be heard!", and then would remember myself at her age, and how I often found it impossible to say anything out of fear of being heard. I love Adichie's character development skills - her characters are always so real and so human, never black or white or one-sided, but colourful and full of emotion. This novel is so harrowing and so beautiful it will remain with you well after you have finished it.
After chatting to one of my friends about how I loved Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's work last night, she sent me an interview she had come across not so long ago in the New York Times. I can't wait to read Americanah (and will do once it is out in paperback - I find hardbacks too heavy to carry around and too annoying to bulky in bed), and this interview just really emphasized why I love this amazingly talented author so much.
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The Medieval Somme: forgotten battle that was the bloodiest fought on British soil
Posted on 13th Jul, 2016 by eh348
This article originally appeared on The Conversation. It was written by James Clark, Professor of Medieval History.
Richard Caton Woodville's The Battle of Towton.
A Battle of the Somme on British soil? It happened on Palm Sunday, 1461: a day of fierce fighting in the mud that felled a generation, leaving a longer litany of the dead than any other engagement in the islands' history – reputed in some contemporary reports to be between 19,000 – the same number killed or missing in France on July 1 1916 – and a staggering 38,000.
The battle of Towton, fought near a tiny village standing on the old road between Leeds and York, on the brink of the North York Moors, is far less known than many other medieval clashes such as Hastings or Bosworth. Many will never have heard of it.
But here, in a blizzard on an icy cold March 29 1461, the forces of the warring factions of Lancaster and York met in a planned pitched battle that soon descended into a mayhem known as the Bloody Meadow. It ran into dusk, and through the fields and byways far from the battlefield. To the few on either side that carried their weapon to the day's end, the result was by no means clear. But York in fact prevailed and within a month (almost to the day), the towering figure of Duke Edward, who stood nearly six-feet-five-inches tall, had reached London and seized the English crown as Edward IV. The Lancastrian king, Henry VI, fled into exile.
Victor: the Yorkist Edward IV. The National Portrait Gallery
Towton was not merely a bloody moment in military history. It was also a turning-point in the long struggle for the throne between these two dynasties whose rivalry has provided – since the 16th century – a compelling overture to the grand opera of the Tudor legend, from Shakespeare to the White Queen. But this summer, as national attention focuses on the 100th anniversary of The Battle of the Somme, we might also take the opportunity to recall a day in our history when total war tore up a landscape that was much closer to home.
An English Doomsday
First, the historian's caveats. While we know a remarkable amount about this bloody day in Yorkshire more than 550 years ago, we do not have the benefits granted to historians of World War I. Towton left behind no battle plans, memoranda, maps, aerial photographs, nor – above all other in value – first-hand accounts of those who were there. We cannot be certain of the size of the forces on either side, nor of the numbers of their dead.
A death toll of 28,000 was reported as early as April 1461 in one of the circulating newssheets that were not uncommon in the 15th century – and was taken up by a number of the chroniclers writing in the months and years following. This was soon scaled up to nearly 40,000 – about 1% of England's entire male population – by others, a figure which also came to be cemented in the accounts of some chroniclers.
This shift points to the absence of any authoritative recollection of the battle – but almost certainly the numbers were larger than were usually seen, even in the period's biggest clashes. Recently, historians have curbed the claims but the latest estimate suggests that 40,000 men took to the field, and that casualties may have been closer to 10,000.
Lethal: an armour-piercing bodkin arrow, as used at Towton. by Boneshaker
But as with the Somme, it is not just the roll-call, or death-toll, that matters, but also the scar which the battle cut across the collective psychology. Towton became a byword for the horrors of the battlefield. Just as July 1 1916 has become the template for the cultural representation of the 1914-18 war, so Towton pressed itself into the popular image of war in the 15th and 16th centuries.
When Sir Thomas Malory re-imagined King Arthur for the rising generation of literate layfolk at the beginning of the Tudor age, it was at Towton – or at least a battlefield very much like it – that he set the final fight-to-the-death between Arthur and Mordred (Morte d'Arthur, Book XXI, Chapter 4). Writing less than ten years after the Yorkist victory, Malory's Arthurian battleground raged, like Towton, from first light until evening, and laid waste a generation:
… and thus they fought all the long day, and never stinted till the noble knights were laid to the cold earth and ever they fought still till it was near night, and by that time there was there an hundred thousand laid dead upon the ground.
Lions and lambs
In his history plays, Shakespeare also presents Towton as an expression of all the terrible pain of the years of struggle that lasted over a century, from Richard II to Henry VIII. He describes it in Henry VI, Part 3, Act 2, Scene 5:
O piteous spectacle! O bloody times! While lions war and battle for their dens, poor harmless lambs abide their enmity. Weep, wretched man, I'll aid thee tear for tear.
Both the Somme and Towton saw a generation fall. But while it was a young, volunteer army of "Pals" that was annihilated in 1916, osteo-analysis suggests that Towton was fought by grizzled older veterans. But in the small society of the 15th century, this was no less of a demographic shock. Most would have protected and provided for households. Their loss on such a scale would have been devastating for communities. And the slaughter went on and on. The Lancastrians were not only defeated, they were hunted down with a determination to see them, if not wiped out, then diminished to the point of no return.
Battle of Towton: initial deployment. by Jappalang, CC BY-SA
For its time, this was also warfare on an unprecedented scale. There was no be no surrender, no prisoners. The armies were strafed with vast volleys of arrows, and new and, in a certain sense, industrial technologies were deployed, just as they were at the Somme. Recent archaeology confirmed the presence of handguns on the battlefield, evidently devastating if not quite in the same league as the German's Maschinengewehr 08 in 1916.
These firearm fragments are among the earliest known to have been in used in northern European warfare and perhaps the very first witnessed in England. Primitive in their casting, they presented as great a threat to the man that fired them as to their target. Surely these new arrivals would have added considerably to the horror.
Fragments of the past
Towton is a rare example in England of a site largely spared from major development, and vital clues to its violent past remain. In the past 20 years, archaeological excavations have not only extended our understanding of the events of that day but of medieval English society in general.
The same is true of the Somme. That battlefield has a global significance as a place of commemoration and reconciliation, especially as Word War I passes out of even secondhand memory. But it also has significance as a site for "live" research. Its ploughed fields and pastures are still offering up new discoveries which likewise can carry us back not only to the last moments of those lost regiments but also to the lost world they left behind them, of Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
It is essential that these battlefields continue to hold our attention. For not only do they deepen our understanding of the experience and mechanics of war, they can also broaden our understanding of the societies from which such terrible conflict springs.
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Larry Nance, Jr. scores on his own basket (VIDEO)
By Sean HighkinDec 26, 2015, 2:00 PM EST
What Larry Nance did here actually takes some skill. He tipped a rebound from nearly the free-throw line into the basket, and if it was the right basket, it would have been impressive. But it wasn't, so now instead of making the SportsCenter Top 10, it's going to be a staple on the Not Top 10 and "Shaqtin' a Fool."
Lakers coach Byron Scott summed it up:
Larry Nance Jr. scores in wrong basket. Byron Scott: "I thought that was indicative of how this season has gone." https://t.co/4IgN9o4cce
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Penn State's Integrity Crisis
July 14, 2010, The Daily Caller
Penn State University just exonerated Professor Michael Mann for wrongdoing related to Climategate. While that good news for Mann is no surprise, it came at a dear cost to Penn State – its integrity.
Soon after Climategate broke last November, Penn State convened an internal committee to investigate Mann, the primary author of the now-infamous and discredited "hockey stick" global warming graph.
Hopes for a bona fide investigation were dashed when the preliminary results were released in February. To the joy of climate alarmists, Penn State announced via press release that Mann was cleared of three of the four allegations against him (regarding falsification/suppression of data, deletion of e-mails/data and misuse of confidential information). But if one looks past the release and reads the committee's report, it becomes obvious the fix was in.
The preliminary review included the Climategate e-mails themselves, an interview with Mann, and documents submitted by Mann. While one committee member did informally endeavor to get external views on Mann, they only came from Texas A&M's Gerald North and Stanford University's Donald Kennedy.
North had earlier dismissed Climategate in a Washington Post interview only a few days after the scandal broke. He also assisted with a futile 2006 effort to rehabilitate Mann's debunked hockey stick. As editor of Science magazine, Kennedy was an outspoken advocate of climate alarmism.
The committee went to great lengths to defuse the money line from the Climategate e-mails – i.e., "Mike's Nature trick… to hide the decline." While explaining how "trick" could merely refer to a "clever device," the committee failed to even mention "hide the decline," a phrase referring to Mann's still-unexplained deletion of temperature data contradicting the climate alarmism hypothesis.
Based on Mann's denial, the preliminary report concluded that there was no evidence to indicate that Mann intended to delete e-mails – even though that conclusion is contradicted by the plain language and circumstances of the relevant e-mail exchange. No inquiry beyond Mann's denial was made.
Finally, the preliminary report dismissed the accusation that Mann conspired to silence skeptics by stating, "one finds enormous confusion has been caused by interpretations of the e-mails and their content" – but shouldn't the committee have attempted to eliminate that confusion?
It's unclear why the committee didn't immediately exonerate Mann of the fourth allegation — seriously deviating from accepted practices within the academic community — except that by leaving it open, the committee apparently hoped to rebuild "public trust in science in general and climate science specifically."
Four months later, the committee's investigation charade has concluded. Most shocking, however, is that Penn State remains openly unabashed by the investigation's shoddiness.
As before, a media release clearing Mann of "any wrongdoing" is making alarmists giddy. But once again, the investigation's disturbing reality is revealed in the report.
The committee again excluded from consideration any document or point of view that might incriminate Mann's conduct.
Other than the Climategate e-mails, the committee only examined:
(1) undescribed "documents collected by the [committee];" (2) "documents provided by Dr. Mann…"; (3) the committee's preliminary report; (4) a May British House of Commons whitewash of Climategate; (5) a recent letter published in Science magazine deploring climate skepticism from 255 climate alarmists; (6) a document about the National Science Foundation peer review process; (7) the Department of Energy Guide to Financial Assistance; (8) information on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's peer review process; (9) information regarding the percentage of NSF proposals funded; and (10) Mann's curriculum vitae.
The committee apparently made no effort to obtain, much less consider, the volumes of available news reports, analyses (including from Congress) and commentary about Mann, the hockey stick and/or Climategate.
More than see no evil, the committee maintained its policy of hear no evil. Of the five additional interviews conducted, four were of Mann's fellow alarmists. The lone climate skeptic interviewed was MIT professor Richard Lindzen. But the report makes clear that the committee conducted Lindzen's interview in the finest traditions of a kangaroo court.
Here's how the report describes the interview:
… When told that the first three allegations against Dr. Mann were dismissed at the inquiry stage… Dr. Lindzen's response was: 'It's thoroughly amazing. I mean these issues that he explicitly stated in the e-mails. I'm wondering what's going on?' The Investigatory Committee members did not respond to Dr. Lindzen's statement. Instead, Dr. Lindzen's attention was directed to the fourth allegation, and it was explained to him that this is the allegation which the Investigatory Committee is charged to address…
Amazed that the committee would treat a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT and an IPCC lead author with such disrespect and disregard, I contacted Dr. Lindzen. He told me, "They also basically ignored what I said. I suppose they interviewed me in order to say that they had interviewed someone who was skeptical of warming alarm."
The committee asked Mann about e-mails that mention Dr. Stephen McIntyre, one of the scientists credited with debunking Mann's hockey stick. While Mann told the committee that there was "no merit whatsoever to Mr. [sic] McIntyre's claims here…," the committee didn't interview McIntyre.
The committee also pointed to several awards given to Mann for his research including Scientific American's naming Mann as one of the "50 leading visionaries in science and technology" and its selection of a web site co-founded by Mann as one of the top 25 "science and technology" web sites in 2005. The committee then wrote, "had Dr. Mann's conduct of his research been outside the respected practices, it would have been impossible for him to receive so many awards and recognitions…"
The Committee also credited Mann with the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore. "This would have been impossible had his activities in reporting his work been outside accepted practices in his field," the committee observed. MIT's Lindzen was also a co-Nobelist, but apparently the award didn't help his credibility.
Global warming and Mann have been worth millions of grant dollars and lots of publicity for Penn State. But one would think the institution's integrity is worth more.
This entry was posted on July 14, 2010 at 1:32 pm and is filed under New Social Order.
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bobrgeologist Says:
Beside the disputed proxy data, there are historic records of Viking settlements on the ice free margins of Greenland where farming and animal husbandry were conducted during the middle ages warm period and of cultivation of wine grapes in the British Isles. The Maunder minimum,aka Little Ice Age, a time of sparse sunspot activity, froze out the Viking settlements on Greenland, Iced up the Thames river in London and winter carnivals are known to have been held on it. Our present warmup began about 700 years ago with occasional small reversals, peaking in 1940, declining
until 1970, increasing to late 90's and flat
ever since (public admission by Dr. Phil Jones, head honcho of CRU). The total temp. increase since man began releasing copious amounts of CO2 (1850) has been determined as
only 0.7 deg C! And, that is the proof of the massive fraud perpetuated by a small number of climate scientists to keep the gravy train of Government climate research Grants coming (over $30 billion to date and no scientific proof that CO2 is harmful. I am of the opinion after 10 years of study of our situation is that using heroic measures to curtail greenhouse gases could be counterproductive. We are in a glacial climate as long as we have ice in our polar regions and we are more likely to have another ice age than become too warm.
Mann's excuse for ignoring proxy data in producing the "hockey Stick" climate graph is thin indeed. There is abundant historical data on the Middle Ages warm period that he brazenly omitted. He conveniently forgot the
"Maunder Minimum aka Little Ice Age that bottomed out around 1300 that has been attributed to lack of sunspots (inactive sun)
This egregious straightening of the handle of the hockey stick graph is just one of the more obvious embarassments to AGW policy presented by the entire graph of the Holocene interglacial period. It shows the dishonesty of the small group of climate sci-entists, desperate to preserve the gravy train of public funds generated by phoney climate alarmist claims.
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republicantreehugger Says:
I'm no fan of Mr. Mann's approach to the law or scientific transparency, but the song in your junkscience article link seems to miss the major point: "hide the decline" is about a decline in hypothetical-temperatures predicted by proxy data (tree rings), not about the actual temperature record. Regarding thermometers (and most of us use those more than tree bores) there is no decline to hide.
What Mann "hid" is not insignificant, but professional skeptics are not being clear about its impact. Dare I say that some are "hiding" the truth.
ditelhead Says:
Power, Politics and Money, what else is new?
http://ditelhead.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/climate-change-politics/
tarpon Says:
government money for the answers government wants … corrupts everybody.
artesian1 Says:
Hence the obvious quality difference between MIT and Penn State! I have written President Spanier a number of times, but it seems that there is a lot of oil on the Penn State Nittany Lion's back. They cannot reply, because there is no reply. Happy Valley indeed. Shame on them.
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"""

  Photo problem in Google CP Solver.

  Problem statement from Mozart/Oz tutorial:
  http://www.mozart-oz.org/home/doc/fdt/node37.html#section.reified.photo
  '''
  Betty, Chris, Donald, Fred, Gary, Mary, and Paul want to align in one
  row for taking a photo. Some of them have preferences next to whom
  they want to stand:

     1. Betty wants to stand next to Gary and Mary.
     2. Chris wants to stand next to Betty and Gary.
     3. Fred wants to stand next to Mary and Donald.
     4. Paul wants to stand next to Fred and Donald.

  Obviously, it is impossible to satisfy all preferences. Can you find
  an alignment that maximizes the number of satisfied preferences?
  '''

  Oz solution:
    6 # alignment(betty:5  chris:6  donald:1  fred:3  gary:7   mary:4   paul:2)
  [5, 6, 1, 3, 7, 4, 2]

  Compare with the following models:
  * MiniZinc: http://www.hakank.org/minizinc/photo_hkj.mzn
  * Comet: http://hakank.org/comet/photo_problem.co
  * SICStus: http://hakank.org/sicstus/photo_problem.pl

  This model was created by Hakan Kjellerstrand (hakank@gmail.com)
  Also see my other Google CP Solver models:
  http://www.hakank.org/google_or_tools/
"""
import sys

from ortools.constraint_solver import pywrapcp

def main(show_all_max=0):

  # Create the solver.
  solver = pywrapcp.Solver("Photo problem")

  #
  # data
  #
  persons = ["Betty", "Chris", "Donald", "Fred", "Gary", "Mary", "Paul"]
  n = len(persons)
  preferences = [
      # 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
      # B C D F G M P
      [0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0],  # Betty  0
      [1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0],  # Chris  1
      [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],  # Donald 2
      [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0],  # Fred   3
      [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],  # Gary   4
      [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],  # Mary   5
      [0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0]  # Paul   6
  ]

  print("""Preferences:
     1. Betty wants to stand next to Gary and Mary.
     2. Chris wants to stand next to Betty and Gary.
     3. Fred wants to stand next to Mary and Donald.
     4. Paul wants to stand next to Fred and Donald.
    """)

  #
  # declare variables
  #
  positions = [solver.IntVar(0, n - 1, "positions[%i]" % i) for i in range(n)]

  # successful preferences
  z = solver.IntVar(0, n * n, "z")

  #
  # constraints
  #
  solver.Add(solver.AllDifferent(positions))

  # calculate all the successful preferences
  b = [
      solver.IsEqualCstVar(abs(positions[i] - positions[j]), 1)
      for i in range(n)
      for j in range(n)
      if preferences[i][j] == 1
  ]
  solver.Add(z == solver.Sum(b))

  #
  # Symmetry breaking (from the Oz page):
  #   Fred is somewhere left of Betty
  solver.Add(positions[3] < positions[0])

  # objective
  objective = solver.Maximize(z, 1)
  if show_all_max != 0:
    print("Showing all maximum solutions (z == 6).\n")
    solver.Add(z == 6)

  #
  # search and result
  #
  db = solver.Phase(positions, solver.CHOOSE_FIRST_UNBOUND,
                    solver.ASSIGN_MAX_VALUE)

  if show_all_max == 0:
    solver.NewSearch(db, [objective])
  else:
    solver.NewSearch(db)

  num_solutions = 0
  while solver.NextSolution():
    print("z:", z.Value())
    p = [positions[i].Value() for i in range(n)]

    print(" ".join(
        [persons[j] for i in range(n) for j in range(n) if p[j] == i]))
    print("Successful preferences:")
    for i in range(n):
      for j in range(n):
        if preferences[i][j] == 1 and abs(p[i] - p[j]) == 1:
          print("\t", persons[i], persons[j])
    print()
    num_solutions += 1

  solver.EndSearch()

  print()
  print("num_solutions:", num_solutions)
  print("failures:", solver.Failures())
  print("branches:", solver.Branches())
  print("WallTime:", solver.WallTime())

show_all_max = 0  # show all maximal solutions
if __name__ == "__main__":
  if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    show_all_max = 1
  main(show_all_max)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Retropolis
Haiti paid reparations to enslavers. So did Washington, D.C.
By Gillian Brockell
May 24, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EDT
This abolitionist illustration depicts slavery in Washington, with the Capitol building in the background. (Library of Congress)
The New York Times published an ambitious series last week about payments that Haiti, the first nation founded by formerly enslaved people, was forced to make for decades to the descendants of the people who had enslaved them.
Those who were previously unaware of "reparations" payments made to enslavers, and their far-reaching consequences for Haiti, may be surprised to learn that something like this happened in the United States, too.
In 1862, more than 900 enslavers living in the nation's capital received money compensating them for the immediate emancipation of the more than 3,000 people they enslaved. The payments — averaging about $300 per enslaved person, equal to $8,587 in today's money — came from the federal budget.
The enslaved people themselves, whose wages had been stolen from them for their entire lives, received nothing. There was one exception: If they agreed to leave the country for Liberia or Haiti, then they could get up to $100.
Lincoln tried to free the enslaved in D.C. years before he succeeded
It's the only example in the United States of "compensated emancipation" — which, again, compensated the enslavers, not the enslaved — but this was a popular form of emancipation in the British and Spanish empires.
The D.C. Compensated Emancipation Act preceded President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation by nine months and was the culmination of the capital city's slow walk toward freedom — one that Lincoln himself had tried to push forward years earlier.
A little history: The capital of the young nation was moved from Philadelphia to the new District of Columbia, sandwiched between two slaveholding states, as a result of the Compromise of 1790. Geographically, it was part of the South, but since it was the seat of government, it also attracted abolitionists, who called for an end to slavery in the capital as early as the 1820s.
In 1835, White residents rioted over an alleged plan by an enslaved man and an abolitionist to incite a rebellion. And in 1848, 77 enslaved Black Washingtonians attempted to escape aboard a ship called the Pearl, the single largest nonviolent escape attempt in American history. Unfortunately, weather slowed their escape and they were recaptured.
Desperate for freedom, 77 enslaved people tried to escape aboard the Pearl. They almost made it.
Two years before the escape attempt, about a third of the District had retroceded, once again becoming part of Virginia. The city of Alexandria, which was part of the retroceded area, was a significant port in the domestic slave trade. Many of the attempted escapees aboard the Pearl were sent to Alexandria and sold south. Two years later, as part of the Compromise of 1850, the slave trade was banned in the District, though slaveholding was still permitted.
In 1849, Lincoln, a little-known congressman, proposed a compensated emancipation deal for the District, but it failed. Thirteen years later, with all the senators and representatives from Confederate states having skipped town, Congress passed a similar proposal. Lincoln, as president, signed it into law in April 1862, allowing enslavers in Washington to receive reparations for the economic loss that freedom for others caused them.
A list of recipients of these payments reads like a who's who of Washington society. Multiple members of the prominent Carr, Naylor, Throckmorton, Fenwick and Scott families received payments. The founders of the Willard Hotel, Henry Augustus Willard and Joseph Clapp Willard, received $2,430.90 for six enslaved people. William Thomas Carroll, a descendant of a wealthy Maryland slaveholding family and clerk of the Supreme Court, received $1,182.60 for three people. Francis Preston Blair Sr., an adviser to Lincoln, got a payment; so did the Sisters of Visitation of Georgetown. One person, George W. Young, received nearly $18,000 — about half a million in today's dollars — for 69 people he enslaved.
Some names conspicuously do not appear, because one had to take a loyalty oath to receive the funds. So, for example, Rose Greenhow, an important Washington society woman who was also working as a Confederate spy, doesn't appear to have gotten a penny.
There are a few payments to people noted as "colored." This reflects one of the strange pathways to freedom many African Americans had carved. People who were born free or became free would often save up and purchase other family members. Some Black Washingtonians, who technically held the deeds to family members, may have seen an opportunity by also applying for compensation. Their payments were generally smaller than those given to White enslavers; for example, a Black man named Gabriel Coakley received $1,489.20 for eight people with the same surname, probably his wife and children.
It is unclear how many, if any, newly freed people took the $100 payment to leave.
A century ago, Mississippi's Senate voted to send all the state's Black people to Africa
In the end, about $1 million was given to Washington enslavers, the vast majority of whom were already wealthy. Since there was no income tax at the time and the federal budget was largely composed of customs duties, it isn't really accurate to say this came from taxpayer dollars, but it certainly came from public money collected to benefit the nation.
These days, that $1 million given to 966 people would be worth $28.6 million — to say nothing of the wealth produced by investments of that money over generations. April 16, the day the Compensated Emancipation Act went into effect, is now celebrated as Emancipation Day in the District.
The word "compensated" is mysteriously missing.
More on the history of slavery
HAND CURATED
She sued her enslaver for reparations and won. Her descendants never knew.
He became the nation's ninth vice president. She was his enslaved wife.
The painful, cutting and brilliant letters Black people wrote to their former enslavers
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Ethiopia's President Abiy Ahmed at a U.N. sponsored event not that long ago in Africa
Ethiopia May Have Just Made A Powerful Enemy In The United States
That's because Ethiopia's President just won the Nobel Peace Prize, which Trump won't be happy about, since he believes it's something he alone deserves…
And, as we've said before, Trump really really wants a Nobel Prize.
Abiy Ahmed got it for holding out his hand to Eritrea's President, or more specifically, as the Nobel Committee puts it:
"For his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea."
The Nobel Peace Prize medal, which is a bit different in design than all the other Noble Prize medals
Trump thinks he should get it for holding out his hand to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, a relationship that seems to be centered around a regular exchange of "beautiful letters", and which so far has climaxed with Trump taking a step into North Korea. (Even though talks with Kim Jong-un have gone nowhere, and North Korea has begun testing missiles again, though only shortish range missiles, which Trump seems to think are O.K.) He also thought he had his Nobel nearly in the bag when he invited a bunch of Taliban leaders from Afghanistan over to Camp David, but then the terrorists started acting like terrorists, and he rescinded the invitation, but not until he bragged about it on Twitter.
Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a peace agreement last year after addressing a border dispute that lasted for decades. In order to do so, Abiy agreed to give control of a contested border city to Eritrea, so Trump would probably call him "weak" for that alone.
Map showing the proximity between Eritrea and Ethiopia
Plus Eritrea wasn't fighting alongside the U.S. during World War II at the beaches of Normandy, which seems to be a strike against anybody these days in Trump's book. In case you missed it, Trump partly justified abandoning Kurdish allies in Northern Syria by arguing they did not fight alongside the U.S. at Normandy. (An argument he cribbed from a far-Right wing commentator.) Of course, Germany didn't help the U.S. during the Normandy landing either.
Eritrea actually did have an interesting World War II history: starting out as an Italian colony, it was eventually taken over by the British, who kept it a colony. Then the U.S. was instrumental in making it semi-merged with Ethiopa, which is where a lot of the disputes between the two countries were born. Eritrea became fully independent in 1993.
But back to Ethiopia's President Abiy. We looked into his history a bit and he seems to be the real deal. First of all, he is the child of a Muslim father and Christian mother. There are a lot of mixed religion families in parts of the mid-East, and it's a shame more leaders don't share this type of background. (Although part of the reason many people become politicians, we think, is that they want to prove their lifestyle and the ideas that come with it is superior, and then work to impose it on everyone. And very often those lifestyle choices and ideas involve religion.) Still, many African countries have huge populations of both Muslims and Christians, so promoting politicians who come from this type of background would seem to make some kind of sense.
Abiy, upon coming into office, freed tons of political prisoners lifted a state of emergency, and unblocked hundreds of websites and TV channels. He also — noted the Nobel Committee — expanded the role of women in government. He is also, as the Nobel Committee notes, a fresh and emerging new kind of leader in Africa. And he's got to be extremely charismatic to pull of the type of high-wire balancing act we're talking about here. Of pushing ahead without offending too many too much. Even so, he's already survived a major attempt on his life.
Trump, if he's got wind of this yet, has got to be fuming. We're still waiting on his Tweets on the subject. Maybe it's just he got caught off guard by the fact that this years Nobel Peace Prize Winner wasn't Greta Thunberg, the young environmental advocate (whom Trump loves to trash), who was the odds-on favorite. Perhaps Trump had some Tweets "locked and loaded" for that eventuality and now he's caught off guard by the Nobel Committee's curve ball. But rest assured, those Tweets will come. Trump won't be able to resist, and his base responds mightily to any strong injustice that comes the Presidents way. And this would certainly fit the bill, in their eyes. Though the Nobel, likely, will continue to prove elusive.
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Marching for Peace: From Helmand to Hiroshima
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Three years after murder, one of the killers of Mexican journalist Javier Valdez has been sentenced
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For Women in Politics Globally, the Job Can Mean Abuse, Jail or Death
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How The UK's Biggest Political Parties Stopped Being Broad Churches
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China can no longer cover up its Uighur Muslim oppression
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The Ruthless Soliloquy: Bullfighting in Contemporary Society.
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William Jackson Harper net worth 2022: Who plays Reed Richards in new Fantastic Four
'The Good Place' star William Jackson Harper was earlier announced as Reed Richards for the MCU's 'Fantastic Four'.
However, Harper was recently cast in a major role in next year's 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania'.
At the moment, it has not been revealed what role he will be playing in the Ant-Man movie.
Meanwhile, John Krasinski played Reed in 'Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness'.
It remains to be seen if William Jackson Harper will play Reed Richards.
Villain Doctor Doom is also rumored to appear in a post-credits scene for 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever'.
There is a lot of excitement over the 'Fantastic Four' finally appearing in the MCU in 2025.
William Jackson Harper's net worth is $4 million in 2022.


Tamil Jains have been a part of the regional history of south India for over two millennia. From an omnipresent community a millennium ago to a marginalised one in the 21st century, they are today in the predicament of trying to find place for themselves in a world that has forgotten them. My main article will focus on the site of Kazhugumalai, and its significance and relevance as a Tamil Jain site, the challenges it poses, and the solutions it provides.


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I am emailing to thank you, and Donna Carrigan for writing and publishing "Improving Learning Through Dynamic Assessment." I have been an advocate of DA since qualifying as an EP in 2000. I have found that your book provides great accessibility to practitioners. I am working with a number of schools who are using learning principles to underpin their and the pupils own assessment of learning.
I currently work part time as a Specialist EP in Suffolk and I set up my own company in 2014 where I offer bespoke educational psychology, SEN-D training and inclusive school improvement services. As part of this I host a SENCO network which has 350 members. I promoted your book with the network and explored some of the resources with Colleagues, which was incredibly well received. I have also been asked to lead a practice innovation group for Suffolk EPs in DA, and they again hugely valued the resources in the book. I use your checklists to aid my professional evaluation of learning strengths and needs, and I remain a huge advocate of your work.
I wish you continued success in your career and I hope that our professional paths link at some point in the future.
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