In fact, you could be a teen, and if you are, great! This is for you too. Actually this is really, really for you.
Well, what am I needing? Well, it has to do with a project I'm working on for the past year.
The early teens are years of questions, for the teen, the parent, and should I say for everyone else too? But mainly for the teens. They have questions, and if they don't they should, I'm glad they do. Many books written for them are, well, let's say, really, really boring. Even though many are easy to read, interest level of the reader is easily lost!
You see, anyone can write a book, that is the easy part. The hard part is to write it well. So that has been my task, writing a very important book. And write it well. My goal is pack this book (and maybe other books) full of relevant information while making it easy and enjoyable to read. Now that's a tall order.
Okay, so the cats out of the bag. So here is the low down. Early teens have questions, but they want an enjoyable read (like everyone I guess). Let me show you a proposed chapter of the book. Now, be forgiving, please, it's still the first draft. On the other hand, feel free to share your thoughts below. If you don't want your comment public, I'll have contact information at the end, if you would like to email me! I love hearing from my readers. Also, don't forget to help name the book! See the link below. Enjoy one of the book's chapters!
I will have to say, that last comment would be a little hard since the parking lot was way inland, in the mid-west of the United States. This parking lot wasn't beach-front property, not even close.
But we know better than all that, right? First we know that the cattle trailer was designed and made by a person or by a number of people. Second, we know that it's owned by a person. Third, we know that someone brought it and dropped it off there. We rightly assume that the trailer's existence and its location came about by a conscience person.
Well, I know you are wanting to know how it got there and why it was there, right? Before I tell you the rest of the story, however, let's talk a little about a few more important topics. I'll come back to the story when it's the right time (this means the rest of the story will be in a few chapters, I'm sure you can wait, right?).
The Universe, The Where Question!
It's not just cattle trailers that need makers and designers. We could say the same about soccer balls, silly putty, soap, shoes, shirts, skirts and spaghetti. Right? All of them needed designers, engineers, fabricators, programmers, cooks and the like to make them.
Now let's go bigger. So what if we got all the cattle trailers in the world with all the soccer balls, silly putty, soap, shoes, shirts, skirts and spaghetti? And let's add all the dodge-balls, dingoes, dingy-dirty dungarees, diamonds, dresses and even Dracula (but I guess he does not exist, sorry). Then we add all the dirt, rocks and water on the world. Yes, we have the earth now. Now let's add our solar system and our galaxy and all the other galaxies into one big ball. What do you think we would call that?
We would call that the "universe" of course!
Let me remind you what we already know, simple things like cattle trailers don't pop into existence without a prior cause. I know that you know that I know that you know that, right? Purple gorillas and pink elephants don't pop into existence either (I know, they don't exist). Paintings and music, fairy tales and novels, thoughts and memories, dreams and babies don't either (surprise, surprise I know).
So what about the universe? Can that pop into existence without help? I don't know of any reason why we would expect our universe to pop into existence without some cause too. Can you think of a reason?
Well, maybe the universe always existed? Now we have a way out from the universe having a maker, right? Well, almost no one, including scientists, believe that the universe always existed anymore. Everyone thinks there are good reasons to believe that it had a beginning.
For example, everything in the universe tends to get less and less ordered. We say that is an increase in entropy. In other words, if the universe would continue to exist for trillions of years more, someday everything will be the same temperature, or have the same amount of energy all over the place. In other words, life will no longer exist. Now don't stress about it. If you were starting to stress about it, that will not happen in your lifetime.
There are other reasons too, which I don't have time to get into right now. My main point is that the universe came into existence at a specific time in the past. Also, from our experience, things that come into existence have a cause.
So what was the cause of the universe to make it come into existence? Was it a person or some impersonal force? Let's first try to understand the difference.
Who Or What Was The Universe Maker?
We have two options for the Universe Maker, either a personal being or an impersonal force. So which one would it be? First, let's figure out what we mean by the word "person". It can mean a human. But it can be bigger than that too. Let's assume that we are not the only intelligent minds in the universe. Let's say there is some alien being that can make conscious decisions, who has free will, one who can reflect and maybe even try to reach out to us. If this being has emotions and ability to convey thoughts to others, then that being would be a person too, but not human.
I know you're wondering if I think if aliens exist, right? Well, I have no reason to think they exist, I don't think there's any evidence of some extraterrestrial planet that supports life too. However, I have no problem with them existing, it's just I'm skeptical of their existence. Anyhow, I've dealt with enough people in my lifetime that at times I wonder if intelligent life even lives on planet earth (of course there is, you are intelligent, at least I hope so).
So we know that humans and aliens (if they exist) are persons, anything else? Well, if angels exist, they could be considered persons too. You don't have to have physical body to be considered a person. Well that also means that if God exists, he would be a person too, right? Well, if God can make free and conscious decisions and have other personal attributes, then yes, he would be a personal being.
Was It The Force, Or Was It?
What about impersonal forces? Well, gravity would be that and maybe magnetism. It would be a force that has no intents, emotions and volition (a fancy word that means the ability to make decisions). Someone may say that the universe was caused by an impersonal force, or that the universe is just part of some larger entity, whatever that is, but it's not a personal being.
This view is really attractive. Why? Because if this force makes up everything, that means everybody and everything is part of this force. Since we would say that it makes up everything, we could say it's a form of what we could call "God". In other words, people may say that "God is I or us." But we also what have to say that not only is your aunt God but also tiny ants in the ground. It also means that you are no better than a snake, a snail, a stick or a sock. All of the above are God.
So let's review. We know that cattle trailers can't pop into existence without a prior cause, and we can rightly conclude or be justified to think that the universe had a cause too. Now we know a differences between persons and impersonal forces. The question we want to look at now is, what was this cause? Was it a personal being, like a God who can make real decisions? Or was it just some force that we are a part of?
Oh, no! I left you hanging there! An unfinished story and an unanswered question. If you think you know what happened in the story, or if you want to answer the last question, or if you just want to start a conversation, feel free to post below. If you want to reach out via email, feel free!
HELP ME PLEASE! I need help naming this book. Please follow this link and help give your feedback on a title that is meaningful but also catchy!
I have a passion to have answers for Christianity as Peter taught us to do. I would love for you to come along with me and not miss a post! In the future, I plan on giving more resources and answers you can share with both believers and unbelievers. Plus, I want to send you a Free Quick Guide why I think science points to God. I would love for you to have this Free Quick Guide and the latest posts straight to your inbox.
Thanks James for the ideas. I'll look them over!
And by the way- Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed reading the transcript. May God bless your efforts.
Thanks James for your encouragement!
Does Science Affirm the Creator?
If you're like most people, you hear many say that science disproves God. But the truth is the other way around: Science Points to God!
That's exactly why I wrote this free quick guide, Why Science Points to God: 8 Quick Reasons I Think Science Affirms The Creator.
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Honed, Polished, or Leather Finish Stone – Which One Should You Choose?
Natural stones have their own unique designs and textures, which make them a great choice for incorporating into the interior spaces of your kitchen. Kitchen designs that include natural stones are traditional but also have a modern and contemporary vibe. This is due to their rustic yet sophisticated look, combined with their stylish appearance. Eco-friendly natural stones are sustainable and durable too.
Whether you are building your dream home or renovating your dwelling, to make its interiors long lasting, you will have to incorporate timeless decorative themes in your designs. If you choose a natural stone slab for your kitchen countertop, it will add more class when compared to tiles or other man-made options.
Here are seven wonderful ways to include natural stones in your kitchen decoration.
Stone walls give a contemporary and classy look to your kitchen, apart from keeping the space cool and comfortable. These walls add coziness and durability to your cooking area while requiring low maintenance costs. Attractive stone walls are perfect for a kitchen as this area often suffers from stains caused by food, oil, spices, and other substances.
An ongoing trend of kitchen design has been to build stone walls in geometric patterns. While introducing this style of kitchen decorative pattern, you can opt for marble inlay in geometric forms as it is very eye-catching and popular. This kind of natural stone application with modern patterns will definitely please you with its overall aesthetic effect on your kitchen. So, contact Gramar Stone Center to get your desired result.
Stone countertops as a part of your kitchen design are the best option for turning your kitchen into an elegant place for cooking. Natural stones offer a lasting beauty to your kitchen countertop, enhancing its aesthetic appeal.
Granite stone, being one of the busier stones, can be used for kitchen countertops for its affordability and durability. Dolomite is the first alternative to marble, as marble is a softer stone more difficult to maintain in the kitchen. Dolomite lies between marble and granite in terms of hardness. If you are still concerned about durability and maintenance, while granite stones are too busy for you, then quartzite is the way to go. Quartzite is stronger than granite, while containing the veining characteristics of marble without the risks of putting it in the kitchen. A quartzite countertop is a fabulous choice to obtain high-end kitchen interiors.
Though kitchen stone floors have been used for years, this type of flooring has not lost popularity even now. Available in a beautiful mix of natural colors, natural stones create gorgeous kitchen floors. Found in wonderful designs, colors, patterns, and shapes, these stones provide your kitchen with timeless beauty and elegance. It enhances the visual aspect of your kitchen design. The texture and rustic appeal of stone flooring gives the kitchen floor a solid look.
Natural stone makes for fascinating and eye-catching backsplash due to its rich texture and color variation. It goes well with any kind of modular kitchen of any color. Natural stones that make good backsplash include travertine, marble, quartzite, and onyx.
Stone backsplash has a few advantages over other types of backsplash, which include extreme durability and versatility, a more professional look, which make for a good match with the kitchen countertop.
Natural stones are often used for making borders in the kitchen. This helps in convenient cleaning and also adds to the aesthetic appeal and decor of the kitchen. Natural stone borders can be made at the base of cabinets, on the lower walls, or around doorways. This can be continued all over the house according to your taste.
Islands in kitchens add more storage space. These islands can be surrounded with natural stone veneers, which can truly enhance the look of the kitchen. You may build a stunning stone countertop to really match the overall kitchen interior.
Around the appliances, a casing of stone can be created to get a more natural look. For instance, you can build a supportive shell around the three sides of your refrigerator, grill, and other appliances. The colors and textures should be chosen in such a way that they match with the entire kitchen design perfectly.
We have seen in this article that there are so many ways to incorporate natural stones in your kitchen decor. Just go for your own preference while choosing the best kitchen decor for your home that incorporates natural stones.


Lefty Kreh is probably one of the most well known names in the fly fishing worked. He fished with celebrities and perfected the double hall. His fly, Lefty's Deceiver, was even celebrated as a US Postage stamp. He passed away March 14th, and in his honor I am going to demonstrate his signature fly.


This enclosure was very much in fashion in the first half of the twentieth century, and many variations were worked out for it. For a while the tight style characteristic of early komi go led to the small low shimari being the predominant choice; but this enclosure is an integral part of contemporary go. It in fact may be considered more complex than the small low shimari; it aims more at influence and the way to play with it is more related to the 4-4 point. Compared to the 4-4 point it is clearly slower; but a double-wing formation based on it is more formidable than such a formation involving a 4-4 point in the corner (because there is no corner invasion as simple as the 3-3 invasion) and harder to reduce than such a formation based on the small low shimari.
See double wing formations based on small high enclosure.
Enclosure opening - high variant.
This enclosure is important in the Chinese fuseki. See plays against low Chinese - follow-ups for a study of possibilities later in the game.
There is a complex set of techniques concerned with invasion, reduction and probe plays near this enclosure. Unfortunately the treatment in Enclosure Josekis (out of print) isn't very reliable in its choice of main variations. There is a Go Super Series book by Okubo Ichigen called Shimari Joseki which gives many hundreds of diagrams; but it too lacks authority in parts. Therefore, although there is much material scattered through the literature, it seems that really reliable information must come from database research.
BobMcGuigan: The book Keshi and Uchikomi - Reduction and Invasion in Go by Iwamoto has a lot of information related to the one-space high shimari.
One important technique is here. White will find it quite easy to handle her group; but Black can probably build good influence on the top side. Next Black at a is orthodox, but Black at b can also be playable.
here is the simplest way to handle the corner. is the standard shape, but if Black is quite strong locally other answers can be considered. Next White at a is a small-scale move, while White at b can be useful in fighting taking the whole left side into account.
is a sharp way to play, often leading to a serious ko fight. Black has standard answers at a, b and c, all of which can lead to difficult variations. Black a may seem passive, but may indicate that Black intends to kill White (as in a famous game Fujisawa Hideyuki-Kato Masao).
Amateur players are probably too fond of this technique, and over-use it compared to the other two above.


Dance at Garlynda's Fancy Feet creates a solid foundation for the life experiences a child will face in the world.
To allow children of all ages the opportunity to have a fun, fulfilling, life-changing, and rewarding experience in the field of dance education. The studio is designed and ready to accommodate the needs of any student looking to further their education and knowledge in the dance world.
Garlynda's Fancy Feet Dance Studio exists to provide youth development, professional dance education, exercise, technique, team building, character development, constructive criticism, stage experience, choreography experience, dance internships, and most of all, instilling a love of dance. All of this is made possible through its dedicated faculty that has over 120 years of combined experience.
THE MAIN GOAL AT GARLYNDA'S FANCY FEET IS TO ALLOW THE CHILD TO HAVE A FUN, FULFILLING, AND REWARDING EXPERIENCE IN THE FIELD OF DANCE. THE STUDIO IS DESIGNED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF ANY STUDENT INTERESTED IN DANCE.
Garlynda's Fancy Feet, is a studio that offers experience, skill, and professional integrity through its dedicated faculty. We provide a family-oriented atmosphere, which ensures a quality dance education for every student. Our school focuses on building self-esteem and character amongst the students.
Our doors are always open; our love for dance has been a lifetime passion. It is not always about being the best dancer but being the dancer that can be created through desire, dedication, and discipline. Our studio's environment includes constructive criticism, emphasis on stage presence, the love of dance, and let us not forget FUN!
Classes are billed by the month and fees are due the first dance class of the month.
No refunds for missed classes. One must pay for all classes whether the child attends all classes or not.
If a child attends one class in the month and then decides to quit, full tuition for the month is expected.
When paying by check, place check in an envelope with child's name on the check and indicate what check is written for Place the name of the child on the outside of the envelope.
Fill out a GFF voucher each time a payment is made.
Place payment, voucher, and envelope in the mailbox in the dance area of the studio.
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Each dancer is required to have a complete costume as instructed. This includes: shoes (Color), earrings, sequins, tights, costumes, hair, and other accessories needed.
Costumes are ordered during the months of December and January.
A dancer must be in attendance 3/4 of the dance class to be considered present for the class.
There may be times that switching of day and time of dance class is necessary. Memos will be sent home in advance.
All students and parents are expected to conduct themselves in a courteous and respectable manner at all times. Gossiping by a student or a parent about other students, parents, staff members or other studios is not tolerated. Disrespecting a faculty member or another student or being discourteous to a fellow student is grounds for disciplinary action that may result in probation, suspension or being asked to leave the studio permanently. In the event that you are asked to not return to the studio there will be no reimbursement for any classes or any other fees collected by the studio. If your costume is paid in full but has not come in yet, we will call you when it comes in and you can pick up the costume or costumes.
Garlynda's Fancy Feet, Faculty and Staff members will not accept responsibility for any injuries sustained by any dancer during the course of dancing. Common Dance injuries that occur at studios are Broken Ankles, Sprained Ankles, Chins being fallen on and split open and so on. Garlynda's Fancy Feet Faculty and Staff members will not accept responsibility for any injuries sustained by any dancer during the course of any exhibition, competition, or convention in which he or she may participate, or while traveling to or from an exhibition, competition, or convention, or class time. All students and parents are required to sign a legal disclaimer.
Garlynda's Fancy Feet Dance Studio exists to provide youth development, professional dance education, exercise, technique, team building, character development, constructive criticism, stage experience, choreography experience, dance internships, and most of all, instilling a love of dance. All of this is made possible through its dedicated faculty that has over 80 years of combined experience.


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Q: Use of transpose function in pylab error So, im trying to implement a simple conjugate gradient program in pylab.
from scipy import *
from numpy import *
import numpy as np
import math

class conGradient:
    def __init__(self,A,b,TOL,x):
        self.a=mat(A)
        self.b=mat(b).T
        self.x=mat(x).T
        self.tol=TOL
    def Algo(self):

        A=self.a
        b=self.b
        x=self.x
        xo=x
        ro=b-A*xo
        po=ro

        while(math.fabs(np.linalg.norm(ro,2))>self.tol):
            print str(ro.transpose())
            print str(ro)
            ak=((ro.transpose())*ro)/((po.transpose())*A*po)
            print str(ak.item(0))
            xn=xo+(ak.item(0)*po)
            rn=ro-(ak.item(0)*A*po)
            temp=rn.transpose()
            print str(temp)
            print str(rn)
            bn=(temp*rn)/((ro.transpose)*ro)
            pn=rn+bn*po
            xo=xn
            ro=rn
            po=pn
        print "Soltuion found within " + str(self.tol)+ "\n" + str(xn)

x=conGradient('[10 15; 4 1]','[45,9]', .001, '[1,1]')
x.Algo()

When i run however i get an issue with transposing here
python conguateGradient.py
[[20  4]]
[[20]
 [ 4]]
0
[[20  4]]
[[20]
 [ 4]]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "conguateGradient.py", line 43, in <module>
    x.Algo()
  File "conguateGradient.py", line 35, in Algo
    bn=(temp*rn)/((ro.transpose)*ro)
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for *: 'builtin_function_or_method' and 'matrix'

Its pretty strange to me because on the first line, it transposes and continues on, however going forward i try to do it again with rn and then this issue comes up. Some insight on this problem would be very helpful. Thank you.

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PORT MORESBY - Inside a Chinese-funded facility perched οn a steep hill overlooking Pοrt Mοresby's sparkling harbοr, Papua New Guinea's best table tennis players are hοning techniques picked up mοnths earlier οn a spοnsοred trip to Shanghai.
China's backing is helping the spοrt, also knοwn as ping-pοng, establish an unlikely fοothold in the Pacific natiοn better knοwn fοr its love-affair with rugby league.
Although the number of Papua New Guinea enthusiasts is small, table tennis' prestige is οn the rise. Its gοverning οrganizatiοn believes its players cοuld soοn start qualifying fοr the Olympics, a rarity in the South Pacific and a first fοr table tennis in PNG.
PNG's top players were also given the oppοrtunity to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping οn his trip to Pοrt Mοresby in November - a visit marked by open hostility between China and the United States over their cοmpeting ambitiοns fοr the regiοn.
In a PNG newspaper editοrial just befοre his visit, Xi wrοte of his gοal to "write a new chapter in people-to-people friendship", prοviding spοrt as an example.
The wrap-arοund effοrt frοm China's head of state, officials, businesses, and spοrts stars is part of a soft pοwer push that represents the next phase of Xi's hallmark Belt and Road prοgram at a time when Western natiοns are trading barbs with China over its grοwing clout in the Pacific.
Much of China's cοnnectiοn to the South Pacific to date has been thrοugh large-scale infrastructure prοjects that have resulted in hefty debt burdens to the mοstly small and pοοr island natiοns.
PNG holds the largest debt to China in the South Pacific, at almοst $590 milliοn, largely fοr infrastructure prοjects such as rοads, stadiums, university buildings and fish prοcessing plants.
The West has raised cοncerns that PNG's debt burden makes it vulnerable to pοlitical influence frοm Beijing. Last mοnth, the United States and Australia pledged to build a naval base in PNG, shutting out a rival Chinese prοpοsal over fears the facility cοuld οne day host Chinese military vessels in the strategically impοrtant area.
Almοst 50 years agο, China and the United States used "ping-pοng diplomacy" to help mend relatiοns, with an exchange of players clearing the way fοr U.S. President Richard Nixοn to visit China in 1972.
Alοng with table tennis, China is also ramping up Mandarin language classrοoms and university scholarships arοund the South Pacific. Beijing has also purchased radio frequencies in the regiοn and has deployed a Navy hospital ship to prοvide medical treatment, including traditiοnal Chinese medicine.
Still, table tennis is unlikely to ever overtake rugby league in a cοuntry where locals pοur οnto fields to play in the evenings and where violence between passiοnate suppοrters of rival teams sometimes breaks out.
In a training center prοvided by a Chinese developer, PNG's natiοnal players slip off their flip flops and leave them beneath tables οn a specialist bright red spοrts floοr, bοth dοnated by spοrts equipment firm Shanghai Double Happiness.
The players have also received grants frοm the Chinese embassy fοr tables and are in talks to see whether it will fund a full-time Chinese cοach, as it does in Vanuatu.
Members of the natiοnal team are sent to China befοre big internatiοnal cοmpetitiοns fοr weeks of training, funded by Chinese local gοvernments and training institutiοns.
Numbers are still small, with arοund 20 players οn the natiοnal team and abοut 300 taking part in cοmpetitiοns, but experts say it prοvides a fοothold in the battle fοr hearts and minds.


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Startseite » {:de}PROJEKTE{:}{:en}PROJECTS{:} » Andromeda Tower
One of the tallest structures in Vienna is the so-called Andromeda Tower. It was the first building in the newly built Donau City district. The name comes from Greek mythology. In this Andromeda is the daughter of the Ethiopian King Kepheus and Cassiopeia. In the mythology she was forged to a rock by the sea, to ward off possible evil.
The office tower was under construction from 1996 to 1998. The responsible architect from Salzburg was Prof. Wilhelm Holzbauer. Holzbauer also designed the popular Kärntner Straße in Vienna's city center as well as the Vienna U-Bahn.
Facts and usage
With 29 floors, the building reaches a roof height of 103.5 meters. If you include the height of the antennas, it has a total height of 113 meters.
Also in this project the developer was the WED Vienna Danube Region Development Corporation. It sold the completed skyscraper for 57 million euros to Karl Wlaschek, founder of Billa. On the lower floors, catering establishments, shops and service companies can be found. The offices are on the upper floors of the building. There are companies such as the electrical engineering group ATB, the computer company Unisys or the conglomerate General Electric. Representatives of international organizations from Austria and Japan also have offices in the Andromeda Tower. The skyscraper has a floor area of 34,450 sqm. For example, an office space of around 734 sqm on the third floor costs you 11 euros per square meter per month.
Location and appearance
The Andromeda Tower offers an optimal location in the Donau City, surrounded by the Vienna International Center as well as other buildings and leisure facilities. The tower is also nearby the highway and subway. In terms of optics, the office tower is characterized by an elliptical layout. Thus, there are spacious single and group offices. The interior spaces are innovative, modern and provide with angular room dividers an exciting contrast to the outervic shape. In addition, the tower is equipped with chilled beams, sun protection, district heating, lifts and an in-house subterranean garage.
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El Mozote Massacre
El Mozote Massacre (war crime, murder)
The memorial at el Mozote
El Mozote, El Salvador
• Shooting
• grenades
• decapitation
The El Mozote Massacre took place in and around the village of el Mozote, in Morazán Department, El Salvador, on December 11, 1981 when the Salvadoran Army killed more than 800 civilians during the Salvadoran Civil War[1][2].
2 December 10
3 December 11 and 12
In 1981, various left-wing guerrilla groups coalesced into the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front to battle El Salvador's fascist military dictatorship, the Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador.
Prior to the massacre, unlike many villages in the area, el Mozote had a reputation for neutrality. While many of its neighbors were largely Catholic, and therefore often influenced by liberation theology and sympathetic to the guerrillas, el Mozote was largely Evangelical Protestant. The village had sold guerrillas some supplies but was also "a place where the guerrillas had learned not to look for recruits".[3]
Prior to the massacre, the town's wealthiest man, Marcos Díaz, had gathered the citizens to warn them that the army would soon pass through the area in a counterinsurgency operation, but he had been assured that the town's residents would not be harmed if they remained in place. Concerned that fleeing the town would cause them to be mistaken for guerrillas, the townspeople chose to stay and extended an offer of protection to peasants from the surrounding area, who soon flooded the town.[4]
On the afternoon of December 10, 1981, units of the Salvadoran army's Atlacatl Battalion, which was created in 1980 at the U.S. Army's School of the Americas[5], arrived at the remote village of el Mozote after a clash with guerrillas in the vicinity.[6]] The Atlacatl was a "Rapid Deployment Infantry Battalion" specially trained for [[counter-insurgency|counter-insurgency warfare]. It was the first unit of its kind in the Salvadoran armed forces and was trained by United States military advisors.[7] Its mission, Operación Rescate ("Operation Rescue"), was to eliminate the rebel presence in a small region of northern Morazán where the FMLN had two camps and a training center.
December 11 and 12
Early the next morning, the soldiers reassembled the entire village in the square. They separated the men from the women and children and locked them in separate groups in the church, the convent, and various houses.[8]
During the morning, they proceeded to interrogate, torture, and execute the men in several locations.[10] Around noon, they began taking the women and older girls in groups, separating them from their children and murdering them with machine guns after raping them.[9] Girls as young as 10 were raped, and soldiers were reportedly heard bragging how they especially liked the 12-year-old girls.[10] Finally, they killed the children at first by slitting their throats, and later by hanging them from trees; one child killed in this manner was reportedly two years old.[11] After killing the entire population, the soldiers set fire to the buildings.
The soldiers remained in el Mozote that night but, the next day, went to the village of Los Toriles and carried out a further massacre. Men, women, and children were taken from their homes, lined up, robbed, and shot, and their homes then set ablaze.[12]
News of the massacre first appeared in the world media on January 27, 1982, in reports published by The New York Times[13] and The Washington Post. Raymond Bonner wrote in the Times of seeing "the charred skulls and bones of dozens of bodies buried under burned-out roofs, beams, and shattered tiles".[14] The villagers gave Bonner a list of 733 names, mostly children, women, and old people, all of whom, they claimed, had been murdered by government soldiers.
Salvadoran army and government leaders denied the reports and officials of the Reagan administration called them "gross exaggerations".[15] The Associated Press reported that "the U.S. Embassy disputed the reports, saying its own investigation had found... that no more than 300 people had lived in El Mozote."[16]
The story soon was attacked by the Reagan administration, and Bonner was recalled to New York and later left the paper.
In February, in an editorial, "The Media's War", The Wall Street Journal criticized Bonner's reporting as "overly credulous" and "out on a limb". In Time magazine, William A. Henry III wrote a month later, "An even more crucial if common oversight is the fact that women and children, generally presumed to be civilians, can be active participants in guerrilla war. New York Times correspondent Raymond Bonner underplayed that possibility, for example, in a much-protested January 27 report of a massacre by the army in and around the village of [el] Mozote."[17] The first U.S. Ambassador to el Salvador of Ronald Reagan's presidency, Deane R. Hinton, called Bonner an "advocate journalist".[18] Bonner was recalled to New York in August and later left the paper.[19]
↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/international/americas/08salvador.html?_r=0
↑ https://popularresistance.org/what-did-elliott-abrams-have-to-do-with-the-el-mozote-massacre/
↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20121115135836/http://www.markdanner.com/articles/show/the_truth_of_el_mozote
↑ https://articles.latimes.com/1992-12-09/news/mn-1714_1_atlacatl-battalion
↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110108131124/http://www.usip.org/files/file/ElSalvador-Report.pdf
↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/international/americas/08salvador.html
↑ Danner, Mark (2005). The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War. Granta p67
↑ Danner, Mark (2005). The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War. Granta p 78
↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/27/world/massacre-of-hundreds-reported-in-salvador-village.html
↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20071116142355/http://backissues.cjrarchives.org/year/93/1/mozote.asp
↑ http://www.newslinx.org/articles/2-12-1982ElMozote.htm
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Apologize or face trial in defamation case: SC to RaGa
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi to express regret for his comments holding the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) responsible for Mahatma Gandhi's assassination or be ready to face a defamation trial.
"You can't make wholesale denunciation of an organization."
"If you won't apologize, you will have to face trial," the court said pulling up the Congress leader for his remarks.
Mr. Gandhi is alleged to have said that "Gandhiji was shot dead by RSS people and their people talk of Gandhiji".
Rahul Gandhi's counsel tried to justify his remarks saying these are historical facts and even part of the government records.
The apex court said that Rahul needed to prove what was the public good in his statement against the RSS and hence it was a matter of trial.
The SC said that if Rahul Gandhi wanted to defend himself and was not ready to express his regret, than it will be better that he faced trial.
Mr. Gandhi's comments are alleged to have been made in March 2014 during a parliamentary election rally at Bhiwandi in Thane district of Maharashtra. He was charged with criminal defamation for allegedly referring to the "assassin of Mahatma Gandhi and his RSS background in his election speech".
The comment had led to a criminal complaint being filed by RSS activist Rajesh Kunte against Mr. Gandhi. Mr. Kunte termed the comment as "false, frivolous, baseless and wanton allegations, imputations against the RSS and its people with malafide motive to harm the reputation of RSS, its followers, people, swayamsevaks".
A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and R F Nariman refused Rahul's request for two-week adjournment and posted the matter for hearing on July 27.
Rahul wanted two-week's time saying his counsel Kapil Sibal is not free before that.
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Q: Converting a table with a key and comment field into a key and row for every word in the column field I have a table with unstructured data I am trying to analyze to try to build a relational lookup.  I do not have use of word cloud software.
I really have no idea how to solve this problem.  Searching for solutions has lead me to tools that might do this for me that cost money, not coded solutions.
Basically my data looks like this:

CK1          CK2          Comment
--------------------------------------------------------------
 1            A           This is a comment.
 2            A           Another comment here.

And this is what I need to create:

CK1          CK2          Words
--------------------------------------------------------------
 1            A           This
 1            A           is
 1            A           a
 1            A           comment.
 2            A           Another
 2            A           comment
 2            A           here.

A: 1) If we are using SQL Server 2016 and above then we should probably
    use the built-in function STRING_SPLIT
-- SQL 2016and above
DECLARE @txt NVARCHAR(100) = N'This is a comment.'
select [value] from STRING_SPLIT(@txt, ' ')

2) Only if 1 does not fit, then if the number of separation (the space in our case) is less then 3 which fit your sample data, then we should probably use PARSENAME
-- BEFORE SQL 2016 if we have less than 4 parts
DECLARE @txt NVARCHAR(100) = N'This is a comment.'
DECLARE @Temp NVARCHAR(200) = REPLACE (@txt,'.','@')
SELECT t FROM (VALUES(1),(2),(3),(4))T1(n)
CROSS APPLY (SELECT REPLACE(PARSENAME(REPLACE(@Temp,' ','.'),T1.n), '@','.'))T2(t)

3) Only if the 1 and 2 does not fit, then we should use SQLCLR function
http://dataeducation.com/sqlclr-string-splitting-part-2-even-faster-even-more-scalable/
4) Only if we cannot use 1,2 and we cannot use SQLCLR (which implies a real problematic administration and has nothing with security since you can have all the SQLCLR function in a read-only database for the use of all users, as I explain in my lectures), then you can use T-SQL and create UDF.
https://sqlperformance.com/2012/07/t-sql-queries/split-strings

A: What you are trying to do is tokenize a string using a space as a Delimiter. In the SQL world people often refer to functions that do this as a "Splitter". The potential pitfall of using a splitter for this type of thing is how words can be separated by multiple spaces, tabs, CHAR(10)'s, CHAR(13)'s, CHAR()'s, etc. Poor grammar, such as not adding a space after a period results in this:
" End of sentence.Next sentence"

sentence.Next is returned as a word.
The way I like to tokenize human text is to:

*

*Replace any text that isn't a character with a space

*Replace duplicate spaces

*Trim the string

*Split the newly transformed string using a space as the delimiter.

Below is my solution followed by the DDL to create the functions used.
-- Sample Data
DECLARE @yourtable TABLE (CK1 INT, CK2 CHAR(1), Comment VARCHAR(8000));
INSERT @yourtable (CK1, CK2, Comment)
VALUES
(1,'A','This is a typical comment...Follewed by another...'),
(2,'A','This comment has  double  spaces  and       tabs and even carriage
returns!');

-- Solution
SELECT      t.CK1, t.CK2, split.itemNumber, split.itemIndex, split.itemLength, split.item
FROM        @yourtable                                              AS t
CROSS APPLY samd.patReplace(t.Comment,'[^a-zA-Z ]',' ')             AS c1
CROSS APPLY samd.removeDupChar8K(c1.newString,' ')                  AS c2
CROSS APPLY samd.delimitedSplitAB8K(LTRIM(RTRIM(c2.NewString)),' ') AS split;

Results (truncated for brevity):
CK1         CK2  itemNumber           itemIndex   itemLength  item
----------- ---- -------------------- ----------- ----------- --------------
1           A    1                    1           4           This
1           A    2                    6           2           is
1           A    3                    9           1           a
1           A    4                    11          7           typical
1           A    5                    19          7           comment
...
2           A    1                    1           4           This
2           A    2                    6           7           comment
2           A    3                    14          3           has
2           A    4                    18          6           double
...

Note that the splitter I'm using is based of Jeff Moden's Delimited Split8K with a couple tweeks.
Functions used:
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.rangeAB
(
  @low  bigint,
  @high bigint,
  @gap  bigint,
  @row1 bit
)
RETURNS TABLE WITH SCHEMABINDING AS RETURN
WITH L1(N) AS
(
  SELECT 1
  FROM (VALUES
   (0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),
   (0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),
   (0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),
   (0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),
   (0),(0)) T(N) -- 90 values
),
L2(N)  AS (SELECT 1 FROM L1 a CROSS JOIN L1 b CROSS JOIN L1 c),
iTally AS (SELECT rn = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT 1)) FROM L2 a CROSS JOIN L2 b)
SELECT r.RN, r.OP, r.N1, r.N2
FROM
(
  SELECT
    RN = 0,
    OP = (@high-@low)/@gap,
    N1 = @low,
    N2 = @gap+@low
  WHERE @row1 = 0
  UNION ALL -- COALESCE required in the TOP statement below for error handling purposes
  SELECT TOP (ABS((COALESCE(@high,0)-COALESCE(@low,0))/COALESCE(@gap,0)+COALESCE(@row1,1)))
    RN = i.rn,
    OP = (@high-@low)/@gap+(2*@row1)-i.rn,
    N1 = (i.rn-@row1)*@gap+@low,
    N2 = (i.rn-(@row1-1))*@gap+@low
  FROM iTally AS i
  ORDER BY i.rn
) AS r
WHERE @high&@low&@gap&@row1 IS NOT NULL AND @high >= @low AND @gap > 0;
    GO

CREATE FUNCTION samd.NGrams8k
(
  @string VARCHAR(8000), -- Input string
  @N      INT            -- requested token size
)
RETURNS TABLE WITH SCHEMABINDING AS RETURN
SELECT
  position   = r.RN,
  token      = SUBSTRING(@string, CHECKSUM(r.RN), @N)
FROM  dbo.rangeAB(1, LEN(@string)+1-@N,1,1) AS r
WHERE @N > 0 AND @N <= LEN(@string);
GO

    CREATE FUNCTION samd.patReplace8K
(
  @string  VARCHAR(8000),
  @pattern VARCHAR(50),
  @replace VARCHAR(20)
)
RETURNS TABLE WITH SCHEMABINDING AS RETURN
SELECT newString =
  (
    SELECT   CASE WHEN @string = CAST('' AS VARCHAR(8000)) THEN CAST('' AS VARCHAR(8000))
                  WHEN @pattern+@replace+@string IS NOT NULL THEN
                    CASE WHEN PATINDEX(@pattern,token COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN)=0
                         THEN ng.token ELSE @replace END END
    FROM     samd.NGrams8K(@string, 1) AS ng
    ORDER BY ng.position
    FOR XML PATH(''),TYPE
  ).value('text()[1]', 'VARCHAR(8000)');
GO

    CREATE FUNCTION samd.delimitedSplitAB8K
(
  @string    VARCHAR(8000), -- input string
  @delimiter CHAR(1)        -- delimiter
)
RETURNS TABLE WITH SCHEMABINDING AS RETURN
SELECT
  itemNumber   = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY d.p),
  itemIndex    = CHECKSUM(ISNULL(NULLIF(d.p+1, 0),1)),
  itemLength   = CHECKSUM(item.ln),
  item         = SUBSTRING(@string, d.p+1, item.ln)
FROM (VALUES (DATALENGTH(@string))) AS l(s) -- length of the string
CROSS APPLY
(
  SELECT 0 UNION ALL -- for handling leading delimiters
  SELECT ng.position
  FROM   samd.NGrams8K(@string, 1) AS ng
  WHERE  token = @delimiter
) AS d(p) -- delimiter.position
CROSS APPLY (VALUES(  --LEAD(d.p, 1, l.s+l.d) OVER (ORDER BY d.p) - (d.p+l.d)
  ISNULL(NULLIF(CHARINDEX(@delimiter,@string,d.p+1),0)-(d.p+1), l.s-d.p))) AS item(ln);
GO

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.RemoveDupChar8K(@string varchar(8000), @char char(1))
RETURNS TABLE WITH SCHEMABINDING AS RETURN

SELECT NewString =
 replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(
 @string COLLATE LATIN1_GENERAL_BIN,
 replicate(@char,33), @char), --33
 replicate(@char,17), @char), --17
 replicate(@char,9 ), @char), -- 9
 replicate(@char,5 ), @char), -- 5
 replicate(@char,3 ), @char), -- 3
 replicate(@char,2 ), @char), -- 2
 replicate(@char,2 ), @char); -- 2
GO


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School Vevey
School Vevey is a design for an secondary school in the town of Vevey on the shore of lake Geneva including three sport halls, student restaurant, library, auditorium and 70 class rooms.
Located in the valley of a former milling river Veveyse with old manufacturing buildings nearby, the school occupies the flat grounds slightly uphill from a the schools existing sports complex. The classrooms, administrative spaces and library are organized in a circular fashion on two floors hovering above the open ground level. The sports halls, student restaurants and auditorium form three plinth-like volumes pushed into the ground for the upper ring of class rooms to rest on. This architectural move frees visual connections across the site re-establishing a link from the road to the Western side of the plot to the river on the East.
Ground level plinth and cantilevering ring of classes frame the school patios. The main entrance on the first level is reached through a scenic external staircase that continues the patio space onto the first level. The inner circulation features four elevator and staircase cores. The central corridors are wide and modulated by open pockets every three to four classrooms. All classrooms have large windows fronts. The modular grid in floor plan allows for later transformation and expansion of the school.
The diagrid structure of the facade reflects the inner forces of the cantilever along the facade. The double story external diagrid gradually transforms from a vertical column structure towards the Northern end towards a space-frame diagrid on the Southern end where it bridges almost 20 meters. The structure is made of laminated wood beams and clad with Polyurethane varnish. The large roof surface is used to collect storm water and for photovoltaic cells. The flat shape of the building exploits a difference in air pressure created by air drafts, similar to uplifting effect of an airplane wing, thereby guaranteeing a natural ventilation.
Authors: Aurel von Richthofen
with Alessia Pegorin, Magdalena Kupfersberger, Thomas Hurrell and Maja Karolina Zdrojewska
Place: Vevey, Switzerland
Size: 12000 m2
Type: Competition
lient: Commune de Vevey
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Each piece is hand-modeled and hand-painted with vivid decorative motifs by dedicated artisans. The lively designs pay tribute to the great tradition of Italian maiolica, the colorful tin-glazed earthenware that was produced for daily use in medieval and Renaissance Italy.
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The AOY Awards is a chance to congratulate agencies that have shown leadership, innovation, creativity, and contribution to the industry throughout the year.
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President Donald Trump expressed his strong views against the religious persecution followed by the violent shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue this Saturday. He condemned the deadly attack while stating that it was an "assault on humanity."
The violent incident happened inside the 'Tree of Life Synagogue' in Pennsylvania on Saturday. A gunman entered the synagogue at the predominantly Jewish Squirrel Hill neighborhood and opened fire, and took the lives of at least 11 people.
From the campaign rally for the Illinois representative Mike Bost, Donald Trump said "This evil, anti-Semitic attack is an assault on all of us. It is an assault on humanity," the president said, reiterating remarks he'd made about the episode earlier in the day. "It must be confronted and condemned everywhere it rears its ugly head. We must stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters to defeat anti-Semitism and vanquish the forces of hate."
He also said, "Those seeking their destruction, we will seek their destruction." Trump further condemned the persecution while saying "We must draw a line in the sand and say very strongly, never again," and added, "We can't allow people like this to become important."
Trump also shared his condolences from the Illinois rally and blamed the violent attack as "the mass murder of Jewish Americans." Besides citizens, four federal officers were also injured in the synagogue shooting. Trump later tweeted "We pray for those who perished and their loved ones, and our hearts go out to the brave police officers who sustained serious injuries…,"
Donald Trump is currently in the rally to earn the victory for the Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections on 6th November which will determine the control of the Congress.
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• But the campaign will be "broad and concerted" and will use "decisive force."
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"My fellow citizens, at this hour American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.
On my orders, coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine Saddam Hussein's ability to wage war. These are opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign.
In this conflict, America faces an enemy who has no regard for conventions of war or rules of morality. Saddam Hussein has placed Iraqi troops and equipment in civilian areas, attempting to use innocent men, women and children as shields for his own military; a final atrocity against his people.
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Dress Up and Join the Mad Hatter's Tea Party at Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Blists Hill Victorian Town: 21st– 22nd July
Dress up as Alice in Wonderland or another character from the famous book and go along to Blists Hill Victorian Town, near Ironbridge, which will be hosting a themed event over the weekend of 21st – 22nd July based on the Victorian novel by Lewis Carroll. The book tells the story of seven-and-half-year-old Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world.
Watch scenes from the book performed by costumed characters from the Sundial Theatre Company around the town, including the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, which starts at 2pm in the Pleasure Gardens. Young visitors can follow a trail around the Town to find the Cheshire Cat – discover his hiding place and claim your reward. There will be a prize of a portrait by the Victorian Town's own photographer for the visitor who comes in the best costume from the book.
On Sunday, 22nd July Keith Wright of the Lewis Carroll Society, will give a fascinating and information talk about the 'Real Alice'.
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I really don't know anything about coating machines or chemical engineering, but (and this is a thought pulled from the "Kodak vs. Ilford" thread) as film production inevitably declines, what sorts of film, paper, and chemistry products are going to lend themselves to small-scale boutique manufacturing?
I'm assuming that once Kodak and Fuji give up on film making that they might sell their technology inexpensively to a group of employees or perhaps benefactor with deep pockets (like Leica was fortunate enough to find). But the scale of Kodak's film operation is massive, and no sane investors would want to buy their giant machinery.
So what will be left? I can see where some smaller manufacturers like Efke, Lucky, etc. might be able to keep some lines open but what do you think? I'm assuming old style B&W (Tri-X, FP-4, etc.) should be doable on a smaller scale, but what about T-grain B&W and Color Neg? (Who cares about E-6 anyway?) And what about chemistry -- while traditional B&W chemistry should be do-able forever, is color chemistry going to be difficult to make in smaller batches? How much of the technology is proprietary?
Ultimately will people have to handcoat papers with silver emulsions like Platinum printers do today?
How do you see it going over the next 20-30 years? I read that Kodak is committed to film through 2015 but that could well be it, depending on demand.
Well those still in the market are still making money on their products. And that means film is not going away in the near future. The interesting thing to watch is where fine arts photographers will go. I do see film classes being pretty popular and that bodes well for both B&W and color print and film sales. There is still a commercial side to film that is driving the market. A good test will be how prices on the used market for medium format and large format gear holds up. Today to buy a Pentax V in good condition you pay what they cost new 30 years ago! I check the price of mine several times yearly! Hopefully this trend will continue.
Those of us who continue to use large format E-6 for its benefits in our commercial work certainly DO CARE ABOUT E-6.
I know a great deal about coatings, through paper mills and the printing industry. Easiest are single coatings, and complexity only increases with each coating. I also acted as a liaison for a paper company that was bidding on producing backing paper for roll film, due to a temporary shortage a few years ago, but that is another story best left for another time.
Many paper mills with coating facilities could do film or photographic paper runs with only a few modifications. Thus there could be contract runs. On a related view, the coating machinery at Kodak or Fuji could be partially used for paper coating.
The toughest aspect is that the larger the run, then the greater the requirement for efficiency, due to the costs involved. In order to maintain an affordable product run, while avoiding quality issues, efficiency is vastly important. The average paper machine takes $15K per hour to run, and needs at least 98% efficiency to maintain profitability.
The one part I see continuing for a long time is RA4 paper. It is simply better continuous tone, dry out of the machine, and very profitable for photo finishing. I don't see people giving up prints, nor giving up framed images, nor scrapbooks, despite some LCD display technology advances. An extreme way to look at that would be loading RA4 paper into a large format camera, and taking shots that way, but I do not see that being necessary in my lifetime.
If a multi-shot 4x5 imaging chip comes along, that does not need a computer attached, runs two days on battery before recharge, can handle 1/500th second to 30 minutes exposures, and costs under $500 in 2009 Dollars, then I don't care if 4x5 film disappears. Maybe that can happen, but I think it might be many years until anything even close to that appears, and several more years than that until the price point drops to an easily attainable level.
Toughest thing for me now would be for E-6 to go away, because it makes editing colour images from a shoot so easy. I currently have no C-41 4x5 processing anywhere near me, and I still need to shoot in colour. I could see B/W films around longer, since they are easier to make, but my current style of shooting rarely makes use of B/W images. More than availability, I think turnaround time for processing and potential large increases in expense would be the things driving me away from film. At the moment it is more profitable for me to shoot film, since I incorporate all film and processing costs into my invoices, though I could imagine complaints if those costs became 10x higher than they are now.
Both Kodak and Fuji would be in trouble if either sold their film operations. They are responsible for a great percentage of revenue at both companies, and they are profitable operations. Neither company has anything that generates as high a profit margin (yet), and to loose that revenue would vastly put into question their market capitalization levels. Without either company replacing that revenue through new technology, they would risk collapsing their stock, or possibly risking delisting from their respective markets.
Gordon, I don't know if you have noticed or not, but most of the Fuji Frontier type 1 hour lab installations have gone to an inkjet technology print for their 3x5 and 4x6 product now. The new Fuji Frontier machines do not use RA-4 anymore. This may not bode well for RA-4 paper.
If a multi-shot 4x5 imaging chip comes along, that does not need a computer attached, runs two days on battery before recharge, can handle 1/500th second to 30 minutes exposures, and costs under $500 in 2009 Dollars, then I don't care if 4x5 film disappears.
I understand your sentiments very well, but there are many of us that don't use film simply because digital hasn't gotten "good enough yet". When somebody makes an 8x10 digital camera that costs $5, I still won't care. Digital can never be film so there will always be demand for it.
In the far future (50 years) I forsee the market for film narrowing greatly, I can see the ceiling dropping so that films are roughly 1970s level of quality, and I can see E6 going away, sadly. But I don't think it will ever completely go away because it's a good technology with a niche. It's not just another way to do things.
In 2009, you can still get vinyl records pressed and buy new ones, very many actually with a good selection. But you can't get 8-tracks anymore, because nobody wants 8-tracks anyway; they never liked them when they were new. I don't feel that film is an "8-track" technology that will completely get the "good riddance" treatment. I think it's a "vinyl record" technology that will still be cherished and valued even as the masses move on to more convenient and cheaper things.
I just Googled "buggy whips" and, lo and behold, there are manufacturers and repairers of buggy whips who are still in business today.
Film will not go away until nobody uses it anymore.
As long as there are customers and money to be made, someone will make it and offer it for sale.
So far one new machine. The lab I use for most of my work seems to think it will be a while until that type of machine is more profitable. There are advantages for some places to use such a machine, but I think it will be some time until that technology would replace RA-4. What I think has a better chance is thermal printing, or perhaps a solvent or UV cured ink system, but also a long way off from being affordable and profitable.
I choose film as a creative choice, in that the film I use represent colour palettes that I want to represent in my final images. My two films of choice in 4x5 are Fuji Astia 100F and Kodak E100VS. I would hate to see either disappear from the market. If that did happen, I would try to find another film alternative prior to using a direct digital capture and post processing alternative.
I would rather spend time behind a camera (or beside one), than time in front of a computer. Currently I spend more time in meetings, planning, and doing paperwork, but such is the life of commercial photography. I have over 14 years Photoshop experience, yet I prefer to use film and produce as much of my shots as possible in-camera.
So I hope that conveys that I am partial to using film. A simple reality is that if the situation developed to the point that it was extremely difficult to do my work, and deliver final files in a timely manner, then at some point in the future I may have no better option than digital capture. I am quite ready for it, but I am in absolutely no hurry to stop using film.
The latest IEEE Spectrum magazine has an article about Zink, the thermal printing technology originally concieved in Polaroid's labs. It's a digital process that uses ful-color thermal paper and no ink or chemicals. It's currently available in small sizes for about .30/sheet, still to much to compete with RA4 on a large scale, but you can get digital cameras with builtin zink printers now. I think this will first take over inkjet in the home printing market; its advantages over inkjet are greater than its advantages over RA4.
but the 1800s all over again for people who want that ..
I, like you, haven't a clue what the future holds. With some products disappearing and others occasionally in short supply; my solution has been to "stock-up." I figure I have about another 20-30 years of LF photography left in me, so the freezer is stocked with TMY, the shelves are full of Azo (with Lodima to join it shortly) and the chemical shelf has enough ingredients to mix up Pyrocat HD and Amidol for a long, long time. Do I have 30 years worth? No, but I won't be upset if B&H is sold out of 8x10 TMY for a couple months.
Stocking up doesn't have to be a "do it all now" cost. I slowly built up most of what I have. Everytime I finished a box of film, I'd order two more. The only real large orders were for 7x17 TMY in 2005/6 and the recent Lodima order. Most of the Azo has been acquired from Ebay. The chemicals have been recent additions. No use having all the fim and paper if you can't mix the developers.... Personally, I'm as worried about the availability/cost of raw chemicals as I am about the availability of film.
We are fortunate to have new products like Lodima and the new "Agfa" papers.
For some, coating their own may be a practical solution, but I'd prefer to spend my time making pictures rather than coating plates and/or papers.
When it comes to my photography, the buck stops with me!
I have injet an RA4 at my operation.
RA4 is more ecoomical to operate under one main condition.
The wet chemical process needs paper and lots of it .
If there are dead times the process starts drifting and harder to plot. We will flash to black raw photographic paper *expensive option * on down days and put it through the processor , the chemicals thank me for it , and my plots stay more consistant.
When you reach a critical point and your plots are uncontrollable then you dump**expensive** on a regular basis or get out of the game.
Today I am going to put 20 ft of 30inch paper flashed to black through the machine.
Ink Jet does not have this problem , keeping the machine in line is a much easier process.
The more people buy home printers ,office printers , the more demand for inkjet will come our way as the clients will want to closely mimic their own prints.
Therefore less demand for RA4 and more for ink or whatever method people can buy for printing at home .
I see the only hope for RA4 is if Costcoe , Loblaws and large box operations purchase Theta **Durst** RA$ processors/printers and pound out 30x40 for 9.99 . This was a topic on another thread and I was stating this very issue as to why every lab in NA that wants to keep their RA4 alive will try their damdest to offer a simple cost effective way for clients to output their digital files onto RA4. some thought it was a quality drop issue but for mid size labs it is imperative to keep the paper running through the processor to keep the quality high.
Before I started my printing business I managed a high quality E6 lab running 24 /7 E6 film.. From my perspective and knowing a few owners of this sort of lab, keeping a E6 line in control,clean and profitable requires only one thing.... film....beyond a first rate knowledge of process control.
I do not know if this is rampart in everyones region but in my province *Ontario* all or most of the colleges, universitys and private photoschools are ripping out wet darkrooms and replacing with electronic.
this practice started about 10 years ago here, and I believe is the ultimate kiss of death for a lot of film , fibre print and alternative wet processes.
It is only as few cycles away from extinction. I do not see the young photographers interested in wet process, a few diehards maybe but from my viewpoint most are interested in digital platform and not willing or able to learn what I do.
I am learning all I can about digital output, to keep money coming into my lab and keeping my staff working.
But on a personal note I am learning everything I can about alternative wet proceses that I can do that does not rely on a spread sheet analysis of Ilford or Kodak or any manufacturer for that matter.
I agree. There's a huge assumption by many people that I talk with that, once digital photography/printing becomes "good enough," or that the output becomes indistinguishable from a silver print, that I should whole-heartedly switch. That couldn't be further from the truth -- I use film and silver paper because that's the way I want to work; I've spent enough of my life (including these few minutes) in front of a computer.
That said, I also don't think it's likely that film will disappear, or that I won't be able to buy enough to last the rest of my life. The recent new film releases have me encouraged. For paper, the new ADOX version of Multi Contrast Classic is excellent, and has me very encouraged about the access to high quality silver papers. I'm buying and using it as much as I can.
A polymer substrate incorporating light sensitive nanosites which will change state upon being exposed to light. A device capable of reading these states will generate a digital file and change the state back to its light-sensitive mode. It will cost about $.50 per 4x5 in today's money. The nanosites will be distributed randomly within the substrate resulting on no perceptible grain or digital artifacts.
I really don't see even the general public going for inkjet prints over the long haul.
Remember, what is the first thing people save when their neighborhood catches fire?
I just don't see anyone dashing through their burning house to save an inkjet print.
Intuitively, even many in the general public do not equate inkjet prints to photographs.
I visit Freestyle in Hollywood and they say analogue is experiencing a resurgance.
I think the biggest threat to traditional materials is this "environmentally friendly" movement. That's the real wild card. Incandescent bulbs - they kind that are used in darkroom enlarger - are being banned in the European Union. Its harder to get chemicals even in the U.S. due to goverment regulation. This is where the threat lies.
The general public does not and will not know the difference. They do not know the difference because we, the enthusiasts, do not educate them properly. In the absence of any other opinion, the general public will be using whatever the industry decides to give them, and know nothing about it. Marketing departments the world over will make the calculation that a newer technology will be 'good enough' and will sell it to the general public without so much as a relabeling...or perhaps a "now with new improved technology" label.
"I think the biggest threat to traditional materials is this "environmentally friendly" movement. That's the real wild card. Incandescent bulbs - they kind that are used in darkroom enlarger - are being banned in the European Union. Its harder to get chemicals even in the U.S. due to goverment regulation. This is where the threat lies."
I find it strange that there is a perception that film is not environmentally friendly - and it's a perception that we all should turn on its head.
To me all digital technology is an environmental disaster. Every digital camera bought today will be replaced within 5 years - superceded or whatever. Your LCD computer screen will be worn out in five years, today's computers won't have the speed or memory for the software that's produced in five years, your inkjet printer will be lucky to make 5 years.
If you should digital, then your entire capital investment in your hobby; you will be repetitively spending every five years - except for lights and tripod! Even your lenses may not survive, as new sensor sizes are introduced.
I could not do this to my family (constantly spending that sort of money), or the environment - constantly replacing gear. All my film gear will last to the day I die. If you are young and starting down the film road, then you are looking at replacing your film gear 2 or 3 times in your life - not 10 or 20 times with digital.
As for film itself - Remember this is our archival medium that will last a couple of hundred years. Digital has not even got an archival medium - again whatever media you now use, CD's...., you will be re-digitising about every decade. What a waste and who is actually going to do it?
I believe that the few, and relatively harmless chemicals, that we use for film processing hardly compares with the complete re-capitalisation of an entire industry every 5 years or so. This constant renewal has to be unsustainably.
Our digital manufacturers have won the lottery with this constant renewal, and the populace has been conned - all to make our manufacturers rich, and the environment poorer.
If you want to be 'green friendly' then shoot film.
My Wal-Mart Supercenter says they will stop processing film locally by end of year.
All my film gear will last to the day I die.
I don't think I have a single camera that is younger than I am, in any format. All my stuff has already lasted someone else his lifetime.
But the scale of Kodak's film operation is massive, and no sane investors would want to buy their giant machinery.
So what will be left? I can see where some smaller manufacturers like Efke, Lucky, etc. might be able to keep some lines open but what do you think?
Efke is small, Lucky is not - they have almost a third of the world population as a home market. On the other hand, Kodak has or had many product lines which were smaller than the Efke scale of operation.
I'm assuming old style B&W (Tri-X, FP-4, etc.) should be doable on a smaller scale, but what about T-grain B&W and Color Neg? (Who cares about E-6 anyway?) And what about chemistry -- while traditional B&W chemistry should be do-able forever, is color chemistry going to be difficult to make in smaller batches? How much of the technology is proprietary?
Parts of the film chemistry are trade secrets rather than patents - that could affect high speed and T-grain films, if Kodak or Fuji were to stop production without selling the process or (if there is no buyer) disclosing it before that knowledge is lost. But in general everything can be done small scale - the real question is whether it can be done on a older, smaller scale production line, or whether they'd have to build a new one for the purpose and whether the latter would be profitable.
Can't Kodak or whomever continue to make T-grain emulsions, and make them available for sale as bulk chemicals?
The general public does not care or even know the difference. To them that picture of Grandma printed at Wal-Mart is the same now that it is printed with an inkjet as it was 5 years ago when it was printed with real photo paper. These same people have seen color negatives and color prints fade beyond belief to the point where there memories from the 1970s and 1980s are now gone.
Doubtful, many people shoot with digital cameras right now that are more than 5 years old. I have several. My Canon 300D is 7 years old and still works evevry bit as good as the day I got it, it did not stop working or burst into flames when a new model came out. My Canon 30D is now 4 years old and I will more than likely not replace it in the next 5 unless I break it. I also got my 30D not to replace my 300D but because I wanted a second DSLR body.
Digital cameras have evolved to the point where they effectively replace 35mm film for most users so why would they want to upgrade 5 years from now when they never make anything bigger than 8x10 or 11x14 prints of little Johnny's birthday party? I use my DSLRs exactly like I used to shoot 35mm film. It really is not a film -vs- digital debate for small format. I enjoy shooting with my medium and large format gear on film much more than I ever enjoyed playing with 35mm.
My guess is that there will be far more film cameras heading to landfills over the next 5years than there will be digital ones as the casual users who drive 99% of all camera sales dump their film cameras forever.
Kind of an interesting aside... if film does disappear from the wider markets, do you think 35mm will be the first to go?? I can easily see 35mm going obsolete before anything else with the signficiant strides made in the digi world.
If the current situation is any indication, 35mm will be the last to go. There is still a far wider selection of films in 35mm than any other format. The larger the format, the fewer the film choices. It would take a lot, I think, to reverse this trend.
It just seems like the potential for market drop-off is much greater in the 35mm world with digi cameras becoming the norm. Can't see much of a threat to the Large Format market. The market is not as great but I would bet it is more steady than 35mm. But I know what you're saying... 35mm may be able to absorb the loss to digital.
It wasn't, but as far as I know, there was no TMY, no Velvia, and no Ektar 100. It's not like nothing has changed since the '70s either.
An emulsion is not just a chemical you dump on some plastic -- it's a sensitive process that requires specialized equipment to commercialize.
Hunh? So all those alternative photo guys aren't really sensitizing their film & paper? I'm not talking about commercialized production runs - I am looking more toward the kitchen counter school of manufacture. What is "T" grain emulsion that is so different from the old-school stuff, and why is it too precious to make available for DYI photo people?
Grain character is at the heart of emulsion characteristics. The manner in which silver nitrate and halide salts are run together determines grain size and shape. A modern T-grain emulsion is more of a challenge for home production than the older emulsions. If you can visualize two curves on a graph of the time it takes to make an emulsion, the silver and the salts are changing at different rates, affecting grain shape and size. To achieve maximum control of the emulsion, it is necessary to control the concentrations of the constituents as the grains are forming. This requires some fairly sophisticated lab equipment.
As for 'precious': T-grain technology is still very proprietary information, locked up in vaults that make a goblin bank look like a ceramic pig. Fortunately, there are dedicated amateurs and retired professionals working the problem. In the meantime, I don't think it's an issue for LF photographers. T-grains were a boon mostly for roll film. For those of us who use sheet film or dry plates, an old, silver-rich emulsion, full of character and easily controlled by the user is certainly within our grasp and quite possibly far more satisfying than modern (and some feel 'soulless') emulsions.
If Kodak stops making film I don't know where their profits will come from. If you look at their SEC filings, it's obvious that some aspects of film production are very profitable for them and digital is running at a sizable loss. Unfortunately they don't subdivide the information in enough detail to know exactly what types of film and related things go into the broad category that includes but is not limited to film (I forget what exactly that category is called) but when you see positive numbers for the category that includes film and negative numbers for the category that includes digital it seems fairly obvious that without film Kodak would be in even worse shape than it already is.


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Orbitel to Invest $70 Million on Fiber Optic Network in VI
Orbitel, LLC, a local company owned by long-time St. Croix resident Todd Klindworth, is to invest about $70 million to build a fiber optic network that will be available to every home in the Virgin Islands, Gov. John deJongh announced in a statement from Government House.
De Jongh said he met recently with Klindworth to discuss the investment and to gain a firsthand understanding of how the network will gain access to the high speed connectivity be provided by the Virgin Islands Next Generation Network, viNGN.
"I welcome the investment by Orbitel as another step forward is taken in the effort to bring affordable Internet access to residents of the Virgin Islands," de Jongh said. "One of my primary goals with the viNGN middle-mile broadband network development was to make affordable high speed Internet access available to all in our territory, and this investment gets us ever closer to that goal."
De Jongh described the investment by Orbitel as another example of Todd Klindworth and his family's belief in the future diversification of the Virgin Islands and their continued commitment to the continued economic development of the territory.
The governor welcomed the announcement made earlier in the week that ConnectSpace.vi is seeking to fill 80 job openings in the territory for work-from-home remote services technicians. Connectspace.vi is a partner and program of the viNGN.
"This type of opportunity will augment our efforts to close the digital divide and create a knowledge-based work force," the governor said. "The work of viNGN and its partners such as ConnectSpace.vi is aimed at building not only a foundation of network infrastructure and public computer centers but provide job opportunities and training as the territory takes advantage of one of the fastest growing trends in U.S. business today – the growth of teleworkers and free lancers."
An estimated 50 percent of the national workforce is expected to work remotely at least part time by 2020.
With broadband development centers on St. Croix and St. Thomas, ConnectSpace.vi will continue to assist residents to prepare for telework jobs through its TeleWork BootCamp program.
"Residents interested in applying need a home office environment, including a computer and Internet connection, and can begin the process by visiting job openings on the ConnectSpace.vi website at http://www.connectspacevi.net/jobposting/," he said.
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Q: How to efficiently remove duplicates from a python list based on equality, not hashes We've got a list of instances of a class. We effectively want a Set i.e. a group with no repeated elements. Elements of the list which are the same equate, but their hashes are different as they have been instantiated separately. So a==b is True, a is b is False.
Is there a way to vectorise this problem or otherwise make it efficient. The only solutions we can think of involved for loops, and it seems like there might be a more efficient solution.
EDIT: I think its different from the "Elegant ways to support equivalence" as the equivalence works well, its just that Set relies on comparing hashes.
EDIT: The for loop solution would go something like, sort the list, and then iterate over, removing the current value if its the same as the last value
EDIT: To be clear, we don't own this class, we just have instances of it. So we could wrap the instances and implement a more useful hash function, however, this seems like it might be almost as expensive as the for loop approach - could be wrong though
EDIT: sorry if it feels like I'm moving the goalposts a bit here - there isn't a simple val of the object that can be subbed in for a hash, that approach would need to somehow generate UIDs for each different instance.

A: I assume you are working with a class you created yourself and that you've implemented your own equality method.
It's true that the default hash method inherited from Object returns different values for different instances. From what I have read, it's either based on id() or it's randomized, depending on the Python version.
However, you can easily implement your own __hash__ method to solve this.
How to implement a good __hash__ function in python

__hash__ should return the same value for objects that are equal. It also shouldn't change over the lifetime of the object; generally you only implement it for immutable objects.

This may not be the answer that you want, but it is a clean and easy way to do it. Then you can just create a Set normally.

A: Maybe this is what you need?
Make the hash a function of the class fields.
Here is a simple example:
class A:
    def __init__(self, v):
        self.val = v

    def __eq__(self, other):
        return self.val == other.val

    def __hash__(self):
        return self.val

    def __repr__(self):
        return 'A(%s)' % self.val

a = set([A(2), A(3), A(4), A(2), A(10), A(4)])
print(a)
# {A(10), A(2), A(3), A(4)}


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(Reuters) - U.S. Republican Representative Buck McKeon of California, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said on Thursday he would not seek a 12th term this year.
Due to term limits on committee chairmanships, McKeon could not have led the armed services panel in the next Congress. He said at a news conference that his biggest motivation in retiring was that he did not want stay on the committee in a role that could be seen as second guessing his successor.
McKeon, 75, who campaigned strongly against military spending cuts, became chairman of the armed services committee in 2011 after Republicans reclaimed a majority in the House.
His district covers parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties and is home to Edwards Air Force Base, other military facilities and several major defense contractors.
"I'm not leaving the fight," McKeon said. "I will continue to speak for funding for our military, for the training that they need to give them the best chance to carry out their missions and return home safely."
McKeon's retirement is expected to set up a competitive race in California's 25th congressional district.
Before being elected to the House in 1992, McKeon was a member of the Santa Clarita, California, school board and city council.
Three Democratic House members - Jim Moran of Virginia, Bill Owens of New York and George Miller of California - have announced this week that they will not run for re-election.
(Writing and reporting by Bill Trott; Editing by Rosalind Russell)
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There's no shame in socializing your own way {Quote of the Week}
by Jenn Granneman
When it comes to socializing, introverts often feel like they have to pretend to be someone they're not. At holiday parties or after-work happy hours, we play the extrovert, chatting and pushing ourselves to be more outgoing than we really feel. Sometimes this is good and necessary — we can't shut ourselves off from all human contact. We need others, too. But putting on a fake extroverted persona can take a toll on us. We feel like we're acting inauthentically — are people seeing the real us? Plus, playing the extrovert drains huge amounts of our limited "social" energy. After an hour or two, we become exhausted.
Sophia Dembling, author of Introverts in Love: The Quiet Way to Happily Ever After
, suggests finding a balance:
One key to party survival — even pleasure — is to approach them with the mind-set that you will do them your way. In other words, rather than feeling like a failure because you can't work a party like an extrovert, try approaching parties feeling comfortable with your introversion and introverted ways. That way, you won't feel like a poor excuse for an extrovert; you'll feel like a fabulous example of an introvert. After all, the way I see it, the only obligation you have as a party guest is to enjoy yourself. If sitting in a corner and watching is your idea of fun, then fie on anyone who tries to tell you otherwise. You are entitled to party any way you like.
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Jenn Granneman
Jenn Granneman is the founder of IntrovertDear.com and the author of The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World. Jenn is a contributor to Psychology Today, HuffPost, Susan Cain's Quiet Revolution, Upworthy, The Mighty, The Muse, Motherly, and a number of other outlets. She has appeared on the BBC and in Buzzfeed and Glamour magazine. Jenn started Introvert, Dear because she wanted to write about what it was like being an introvert living in an extrovert's world. Now she's on a mission: to let introverts everywhere know it's okay to be who they are.
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Orléans no Sei Senshi (オルレアンの聖戦士) The Holy Soldiers of Orléans, is a song featured in Eien Densetsu and its revised edition. Performed by Usagi, Ami, Makoto and Minako.
Is it temptation blowing on the lilas wind?
Is it a violon from the hazy water's surface?