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The Raconteurs: do it our way
Paul MacInnes
Tuesday, 18 Mar 2008
# Jack White
# The Raconteurs
Jack White's other band rage against the promotional machine - and offer some helpful listening tips for their new album
As Radiohead sought to revolutionise the record industry with the pay-what-you-like release of In Rainbows, so the Raconteurs are hoping to change the face of music journalism by announcing the release of a new album only a week in advance.
Consolers of the Lonely is the second album from the group that brought together long-time friends Jack White and Brendan Benson in what is often described, much to the members' chagrin, as a supergroup. The album will hit shops both physical and virtual next Tuesday, March 25, after its existence was revealed today in a press release. The band's debut album Broken Boy Soldiers was released in 2006 to a blizzard of hype, something they appear keen to avoid this time around.
"The Raconteurs are happy to announce that in one week's time their second album, entitled 'Consolers Of The Lonely', will be available EVERYWHERE", the statement read.
"With this release, The Raconteurs are forgoing the usual months of lead time for press and radio set up, as well as forgoing the all-important 'first week sales'. We wanted to explore the idea of releasing an album everywhere at once and THEN marketing and promoting it thereafter. The Raconteurs would rather this release not be defined by it's [sic] first weeks sales, pre-release promotion, or by someone defining it FOR YOU before you get to hear it."
"March 25th became the soonest date to have it available in EVERY FORMAT AT ONCE", the statment went on in a mixture of cases. " The band have done no interviews or advertisements for this record before this announcement."
Elsewhere in the release, which you can read in full on the official Raconteurs site, the band make further suggestions as to how they wish their new product to be consumed. Included amongst the list are that the album be bought and listened to in its entirety, and that it would be best if it were bought on vinyl.
Paul MacInnes is a reporter for the Guardian
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NEW YORK – Investors are scrutinizing the stock market's narrowing breadth and other signs of ebbing risk appetite, as markets digest a hawkish pivot from the Federal Reserve, soaring inflation and concern over a fresh wave of COVID-19 cases.
Only 31% of stocks in the tech-heavy Nasdaq are trading above their 200-day simple moving average despite the index's 18% year-to-date gain, according to Refinitiv data, the lowest level in at least a year. That number stands at 36% for the small-cap-focused Russell 2000.
Stocks in the S&P 500 are faring better, with 68% of constituents trading above that moving-average mark. Still, just five stocks – Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Tesla and Alphabet – have accounted for about half of the index's gain since April, data published by Goldman Sachs earlier this week showed. The S&P is up about 24% for the year and stands near record highs.
Narrowing breadth can presage a period of rocky trading, with deeper-than-average drawdowns and weaker overall returns, Goldman's data showed. The bank's analysts said declines may be limited this time around by factors such as strong corporate earnings and a market that may have already priced in a more hawkish Fed.
Others are less sanguine. Tom Siomades, chief investment officer of AE Wealth Management, believes investors should brace for more market volatility.
"If you can't live with that, you should definitely dial back a little bit of risk," Siomades said.
The S&P is up 1.2% and the Nasdaq is off 2.4% this month, as the focus on an increasingly hawkish Fed has dried up risk appetite in some corners of the market. The central bank on Wednesday said it would accelerate the unwind of its asset purchases and it paved the way for three quarter-percentage-point rate increases in 2022, as it fights persistent inflation.
Frazzled nerves have also been apparent in the Cboe Volatility Index, known as Wall Street's fear gauge, which stands about 5 points higher than its long-term median. High-growth stocks that thrived in 2020 have tumbled, along with many of the so-called meme stocks that have rallied this year.
The percentage of investors with a bullish short-term outlook for the U.S. stock market slid to the lowest level in three months in the latest American Association of Individual Investors Sentiment Survey (AAII), released Friday.
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Investors next week will be watching U.S. consumer confidence numbers for a read on whether buyers are changing their purchasing habits in the face of worries of high inflation and COVID-19.
Narrowing breadth poses several potential risks for stocks, investors said.
"In order for the market to continue its advance, it becomes … reliant on fewer and fewer names," said Peter Cecchini, director of research at Axonic Capital. "Any reversal in the performance of the names carrying the market won't be met by strength in any of the other parts of the market."
Concentrated positioning can also exacerbate volatility if risk appetite dries up suddenly, sending investors to the exits all at once.
"The door might not be wide enough to accommodate everybody that wants to rush out," said Siomades, of AE Wealth Management.
There are signs that recently elevated volatility may be contained. Derivatives markets show volatility expectations falling between Christmas and New Years, said Garrett DeSimone, head quant at OptionMetrics.
That roughly coincides with a historically strong period for markets. Since 1945, the S&P has gained an average of 1.2% in the last five days of December and the first two days of January, according to data from CFRA, a phenomenon some investors have dubbed the Santa Claus rally.
Meanwhile, a survey of global fund managers by BoFA Global Research's showed cash allocations at their highest level since May 2020. High levels of cash have in the past been a bullish sign for stocks, the bank said.
Narrow stock market breadth can continue for long periods and does not necessarily mean a sharp decline is coming.
Breadth in the S&P 500 narrowed for most of the second half of the 1990s, before the dot-com bubble burst around the turn of the century and during the latter part of the last decade, analysts at Capital Economics wrote.
Andrew Thrasher, a portfolio manager at Financial Enhancement Group, believes market breadth reveals the condition of the market but does not consider it a trading signal.
The past year "has been a poster child example of a market that can bend due to narrow breadth but not break as a result of it," he said.
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An uprising in April 1919 on ships of the French Navy, which had been taking part in the intervention against Soviet
Russia; the most important revolutionary uprising among the interventionist forces.
A major role in preparing the mutiny was played by underground Communist organizations, which carried on
revolutionary propaganda among the foreign forces; of
particular importance was the work of the French group of
the Foreign Board (including J. Labourbe) of the Odessa
oblast committee of the Bolshevik Party.
After several French ground-troop units refused to fight a against Soviet power, disturbances broke out on French ships on April 16. On April 19 the sailors of the battleship France andthe flagship Jean Barre mutinied; they were joined by the sailors of the battleship Justice and other vessels lying near Sevastopol'.
After running up red flags on the ships, the sailors went ashore and organized a demonstration with the workers of
Sevastopol'.
The uprising spread to other French ships in the Black Sea.
On April 27 a mutiny broke out on the cruiser Waldeck-Rousseau,anchored in the outer roads of Odessa's harbor.
The sailors and soldiers demanded that they be sent home and that anti-Soviet intervention cease.
The French government was forced to announce the
evacuation of its armed forces from Soviet Russia.
By early May 1919 the French Navy had left the Black Sea.
The French command dealt harshly with the insurgents,
many of whom were arrested and imprisoned.
The uprising was a clear expression of the solidarity of the
international proletariat with Soviet Russia.
Amnesty for those who took part in the Black Sea mutiny constituted a demand of the French
working-class movement in the 1920's.
13 years of Mutiny in British Navy to Invergordon
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Mutiny in the German Navy at Kiel and Wilhemshaven
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Michael Y. Bennett is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, where he teaches courses in modern drama. He is the author of Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd (2011); Words, Space, and the Audience (2012); and Narrating the Past through Theatre (2012). He is also the editor of Refiguring Oscar Wilde's Salome (2011) and the co-editor of Eugene O'Neill's One-Act Plays: New Critical Perspectives (2012). Currently he is under contract to write The Cambridge Introduction to the Absurd.
Patrick Chura is an associate professor of English at the University of Akron, where he teaches courses in American literature. His recent book, Thoreau the Land Surveyor, won the College English Association of Ohio's 2012 Dasher Award for literary scholarship. He has been a Peace Corps volunteer in the Republic of Lithuania and is a two-time Fulbright lecturer, teaching in Lithuania in 2009 and in the UK in 2012.
Jeanine A. Defalco is a doctoral fellow in cognitive studies at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she is working with Dr. Ryan S.J.d. Baker and the Army Research Lab on the effect of affect and explicit feedback on game-based learning and computer tutors. Her other research interests include embodied/grounded cognition and role-play, narrative disruption and creative problem solving, and drama as an epistemology for preservice teachers. She holds a master's in educational theatre from NYU, a master's in drama studies from Johns Hopkins University, and a BA in history and theatre from C. W. Post, Long Island University. Jeanine is artistic director [End Page 280] of Falcon Repertory Company, a nonprofit theatre and film company in Connecticut. She completed a professional directing internship under Jon Jory at the Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Kurt Eisen is a professor of English and associate dean of arts and sciences at Tennessee Tech University, where he teaches courses in world literature and drama. He holds a PhD from Boston University and published his dissertation in 1994 as The Inner Strength of Opposites: O'Neill's Novelistic Drama and the Melodramatic Imagination. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill and in journals such as Modern Drama, Comparative Drama, American Literature, Studies in the American Renaissance, South Central Review, among others, and in the Eugene O'Neill Review, of which he has been book editor since 2004. He is president of the Eugene O'Neill Society for 2012–13.
Elizabeth Fifer is a professor of English at Lehigh University, where she has been teaching contemporary world and American multicultural literature since 1973. She has published a book titled Rescued Readings: A Reconstruction of Gertrude Stein's Difficult Texts (Wayne State University Press), and has published essays on world literature and American drama. She is currently working on the twentieth-century heirs of Scheherazade in literature by women and on the representation of marginalized communities in fiction.
Glenda E. Gill is a professor emerita of drama at Michigan Technological University, living in active retirement in Huntsville, Alabama. She is the author of White Grease Paint on Black Performers: A Study of the Federal Theatre, 1935–1939 (Peter Lang, 1988) and No Surrender! No Retreat! African-American Pioneer Performers of Twentieth-Century American Theater (St. Martin's, 2000), as well as numerous articles in Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, Journal of American Drama and Theatre, African-American Review, Eugene O'Neill Review, and The Drama Review. She has interviewed a number of personalities in theater, including Morgan Freeman and James Earl Jones.
Eileen J. Herrmann, recipient of three Fulbright awards, has lectured as an associate adjunct professor at Dominican University of California and as a visiting professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She has taught at the University of California at Davis, San Francisco State University, Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz, Germany), and Jagellonian University (Krakow, Poland). Author of several articles on the theater of [End Page 281] Eugene O'Neill, she is the co-editor (with Robert M. Dowling) of Eugene O'Neill and His Contemporaries: Bohemians, Radicals, Progressives and the Avant Garde. Dr. Herrmann serves on the boards of...
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Is Facebook Still Relevant?
Expected to lose nearly 2 million users younger than 25 in 2018 to growing social platform Snapchat, many are wondering whether Facebook will remain a prominent business partner beyond 2018.
Interestingly, Snapchat, a photo-sharing platform, has established itself as a lucrative business partner for building strong consumer connections that grow ecommerce. In fact, you may have recently heard of Snapchat's latest update; a controversial algorithm said to personalize user content with more precision than any other platform.
With 187 million daily users, this initiative establishes Snapchat as a prominent advertiser for products and services. Take, for example, Snapchat's beta testing of a virtual one-night pop-up shop with Jordan sneakers. The sneakers sold out overnight, and the campaign showcased the platform's ability to use augmented reality to maximize app-integrated sales.
So, what does this mean for Facebook and its competence in growing your ecommerce influence? Well, Facebook still has a membership reach of 2.1 billion, an indicator for the platform's overall success and expertise in both organic and paid advertising tactics.
Let's review where Facebook shines as a business partner:
Influencer Marketing. Simply put, consumers are looking to those they trust for buying decisions. Influencer marketing was on the rise in 2017, and businesses can no longer afford to ignore the spending influence of organic consumer content – and no platform allows for this experience more natively than Facebook.
Community. A good product is no longer enough to comprise your marketing strategy. Instead consumers want to buy into a community. Managing your brand identity has never been easier with Facebook Business Manager, Groups and Pages, where consumers are welcome to interact, share content and provide feedback.
Tools. More than any other platform, Facebook houses a myriad of marketing tools – from boosted posts, follower polls, form-driven ads with gated content, interactive Canvas ads and adaptive video – there's very little chance Facebook won't have something for your brand to leverage.
Search Engine Optimization. It is a fact that Facebook increases your SEO. In fact, Facebook collaborates with SEO like no other social platform because it drives traffic to your website, thus increasing visibility through keywords, lowering bounce rates and manufacturing click-through rates.
If you're still questioning Facebook's continued longevity, don't forget that the platform launched over a dozen new features in 2017 alone – such as Facebook Live, Facebook Shopping Tabs, and Facebook @ Work. Facebook even introduced Snapchat-like face filters for Facebook Live, proving again the platform's agility and eagerness to adapt to user preferences.
Though we recommend diversifying your brand across many social platforms where you may find an audience, we wholeheartedly do not recommend forfeiting Facebook as a strategic digital marketing partner, nor do we see a successor coming soon.
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All of this is putting bariatric surgeons in a peculiar position. For starters, hospitals altogether are starting to take on elective surgeries again. But they are still trying to figure out which procedures need to be done sooner rather than later. This provides an unexpected platform for weight loss surgeons to categorize which weight loss procedures are more essential.
How is that a benefit? What consequences are coming from this type of discussion? What changes are surgeons and hospitals are going to make in the world of weight loss surgery? Let's find out.
One of the common complaints from weight loss surgeons who have to deal with insurance companies, is the use of BMI solely determining surgery criteria. In a publication, Francesco Rubio MD, a professor of metabolic and bariatric surgery in Kings College, London, stated the following:
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Basically, general practitioners are not referring patients to weight loss surgery and insurance companies are not granting coverage on the basis of prejudice and old standards.
This has been a common frustration for a lot of weight loss surgeons and endocrinology specialists. There has even been publications pointing out just how useless the standard of BMI was back in 2012.
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Predictably, the moment when a disease with no cure began to spread rapidly throughout the country, hospitals quickly shut down to exclusively deal with the problem. They still are dealing with the problem today, by mitigating space and man power to manage a sudden influx of people that needed treatment.
Now, things starting to slow down in parts of the country. This leads to hospitals discussing and planning for the return of patients for elective procedures. However, elective procedures, as we discussed before, means procedures that can be scheduled ahead of time, not superfluous ones. By that logic a cancerous tumor removal, depending on the stage could count as an elective procedure.
When a hospital and patients postpone surgeries for month, it creates a backlog of procedures. Meaning that if hospitals are not careful enough to anticipate it, there would be a flood of people clamoring to get a spot first. Despite of how severe or benign the condition they are suffering is. This puts doctors and surgeons in the position of examining the criteria for what elective procedures should come first. This puts weight loss surgeons and endocrinologists in a position that they haven't had before. The chance to prioritize.
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Weight loss surgery and obesity experts are given an opportunity to showcase what they know, with a backlog of confirmed information to change the criteria of who should get weight loss surgery treatment first. And, they are aware of it. Francisco Rubieo MD, along with multiple collegues who worked on the publication beside him, have proposed a new metric.
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Uncertainty over election results in May is the biggest trigger for market in near term.
According to technical analysts, Nifty has next hurdle near to 11,760-11,800 zones while on the downside support exists at 11,550 then 11,333 and 11,118 zones.
Analysts are advising clients to go for the 'protective put' strategy as an insurance against the risk of an unfavourable outcome in the upcoming General Elections.
A protective put is a hedging strategy wherein the owner of the underlying asset buys a 'put' option to safeguard against a drop in the price of the underlying asset.
"The protective put strategy is used when the options trader is bullish on a portfolio that he holds but wants to safeguard against near-term uncertainties," said Jayesh Bhanushali, analyst, IIFL.
"Let's consider a hypothetical equal-weighted portfolio of 10 stocks worth Rs 8.62 lakh with a portfolio beta of 0.97x. As the portfolio comprises many stocks, creating a hedge on all of them would be cumbersome. Instead, an investor can simply buy one lot of Nifty 11,600 Put (May 30, 2019) at Rs 317 to approximately get his downside risk covered," said Bhanushali. "The insurance does come with a cost of 2.7 per cent, but remember, it is worth taking a marginal hit to avoid a bigger plunge" he added.
Uncertainty over the election results in May is the biggest trigger for the market in the near term. Historically, markets have swung wildly around the elections like in 2004 and 2009.
The Nifty has gained 8 per cent in March on expectations that the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance would win the elections. Analysts said as market expectations are high, any disappointment would cause a sharp drop in the market.
"Portfolio hedging is an investment hedging strategy that can help you avoid losses or cut them if the market falls as it involves buying stocks in the cash market and put option," said Rajesh Palviya, head technical & derivatives research, Axis Securities. "So, if there's a rise in the stock price, you will gain from it and, if the price starts falling, you can exercise your put option to sell stocks at the strike price, thus limiting your losses".
According to technical analysts, Nifty has next hurdle near to 11,760-11,800 zones while on the downside support exists at 11,550 then 11,333 and 11,118 zones. It is always advised to go for protection or hedging by option when no one marks a negative mood and the market gets stretched to much higher zones in a short span of time, they said.
Chandan Taparia, head -derivatives research, Motilal Oswal Financial Service said one can either directly buy 11,500 Put or a Bear Put Spread to hedge the position till 11,000. "One could buy one lot of 11500 Put and Selling 1 lot of 11000 Put at the net premium cost of around 70 points," said Taparia.


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Q: How can I delete trailing contiguous records in a partition with a particular value? I'm using the latest version of SQL Server and have the following problem. Given the table below, the requirement, quite simply, is to delete "trailing" records in each _category partition that have _value = 0. Trailing in this context means, when the records are placed in _date order, any series or contiguous block of records with _value = 0 at the end of the list should be deleted. Records with _value = 0 that have subsequent records in the partition with some non-zero value should stay.
create table #x (_id int identity, _category int, _date date, _value int)

insert into #x values (1, '2022-10-01', 12)
insert into #x values (1, '2022-10-03', 0)
insert into #x values (1, '2022-10-04', 10)
insert into #x values (1, '2022-10-06', 11)
insert into #x values (1, '2022-10-07', 10)

insert into #x values (2, '2022-10-01', 1)
insert into #x values (2, '2022-10-02', 0)
insert into #x values (2, '2022-10-05', 19)
insert into #x values (2, '2022-10-10', 18)
insert into #x values (2, '2022-10-12', 0)
insert into #x values (2, '2022-10-13', 0)
insert into #x values (2, '2022-10-15', 0)

insert into #x values (3, '2022-10-02', 10)
insert into #x values (3, '2022-10-03', 0)
insert into #x values (3, '2022-10-05', 0)
insert into #x values (3, '2022-10-06', 12)
insert into #x values (3, '2022-10-08', 0)

I see a few ways to do it. The brute force way is to to run the records through a cursor in date order, and grab the ID of any record where _value = 0 and see if it holds until the category changes. I'm trying to avoid T-SQL though if I can do it in a query.
To that end, I thought I could apply some gaps and islands trickery and do something with window functions. I feel like there might be a way to leverage last_value() for this, but so far I only see it useful in identifying partitions that have the criteria, not so much in helping me get the ID's of the records to delete.
The desired result is the deletion of records 10, 11, 12 and 17.
Appreciate any help.

A: I'm not sure that your requirement requires a gaps and islands approach.  Simple exists logic should work.
SELECT _id, _catrgory, _date, _value
FROM #x x1
WHERE _value <> 0 OR
    EXISTS (
        SELECT 1
        FROM #x x2
        WHERE x2._category = x1._category AND
              x2._date > x1._date AND
              x2._value <> 0
    );

A: Assuming that all _values are greater than or equal to 0 you can use MAX() window function in an updatable CTE:
WITH cte AS (
  SELECT *,
         MAX(_value) OVER (
           PARTITION BY _category
           ORDER BY _date
           ROWS BETWEEN CURRENT ROW AND UNBOUNDED FOLLOWING
         ) max
  FROM #x
)
DELETE FROM cte
WHERE max = 0;

If there are negative _values use MAX(ABS(_value)) instead of MAX(_value).
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A: Using common table expressions, you can use:
WITH CTE_NumberedRows AS (
    SELECT *, rn = ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY _category ORDER BY _date)
    FROM #x
),
CTE_Keepers AS (
    SELECT _category, rnLastKeeper = MAX(rn)
    FROM CTE_NumberedRows
    WHERE _value <> 0
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EDIT: My original post did not handle the all-zero's edge case. This has been corrected above, together with some naming tweaks. (The original can still be found here.
Tim Biegeleisen's post may be the simpler approach.

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Calling Castlevania experts of Doomworld
By MFG38, June 3 in Everything Else
MFG38
I'm going to confess something: I've never played a single Castlevania game. And as someone who loves Metroidvania, I sort of hate to admit that. That said, I have been meaning to get into the Castlevania series, in particular the Metroidvania-style titles.
Now, the exact question is as follows: out of the GBA and DS Castlevanias, which one would you people say is the best entry point into the series? Why only the GBA and DS games, that's because I don't own a lot of consoles, and those two platforms are pretty much the only choices I have. I don't want to emulate the games either, mostly because I prefer to play console games on the actual hardware (unless less favorable circumstances force me to emulate them), but also because I have concerns about the legality of emulating games I don't own physical copies of.
I do have a PS1 as well, but Symphony of the Night is not an option for the reasons stated above, as well as the utterly ludicrous prices it commands on the second-hand market.
ScreechingBoner
Can only speak for GBA 'Vanias:
Aria of Sorrow is the best one of the bunch, and is still considered among the best in the series, highly recommended
Circle of the Moon was the first Castlevania on the system with gameplay akin to Classicvanias, toughest out of the three. Has some interesting ideas, but might not click with everyone
Lastly, Harmony of Dissonance. It just is. There's nothing too special about it, the graphics are weirdly saturated and thus quite unpleasant, but it's a passable option if you just want some more Metroidvania
xttl
Aria of Sorrow is the best GBA Castlevania game, though none of them have as good music or graphics as SOTN.
The Xbox360 version of SOTN is okay, though I think at least the life max up effect looks and sounds better on PS1, it's almost like they designed it with the slowdown in mind (the PS1 version starts running slow sometimes when there are a lot of sprites or certain effects on screen, doesn't happen on X360). I don't remember how good the graphics scaling looked, I don't have it on X360 myself (or even a functioning X360 right now...) so it's been a while since I've seen that version.
Checked eBay and seems that the regular PAL version has went for about 250 euros twice now in an auction format listing, LOL :D
Really glad I got the PAL limited edition (w/ audio CD and artbook) for less years ago... wish I would've bought some other stuff back then too, impossible to get now unless I suddenly become rich somehow.
If you don't mind modding your console (or getting a premodded console and assuming you don't have a modded console already), the American NTSC version and especially the Greatest Hits release should be a bit cheaper (still expensive for an old PS1 game, but it's possible to get it under 100 euros, maybe around 70 or even less if you're not in a hurry?). It's just as legit as playing the PAL version and you don't have to suffer 50Hz and a squished picture, though trying to resell it sucks (especially from here where the cost of mailing anything with tracking to outside the borders of the country is just ridiculous...).
Mednafen should be able to do pretty accurate PS1 emulation (not the easiest to use emulator though unless you like the command line and editing textfiles by hand, I'm sure there are frontends that use the same emulation core though). With ePSXe the accuracy depends on plugins and plugin config, I couldn't get the default software GPU plugin (which otherwise should be the most accurate choice) to do scaling that looks the same as the NTSC version of the game running on real hardware on a SDTV CRT video monitor (picture was always too wide or too thin, the wide look was quite similar to the PAL version though).
edit: Oh yeah I forgot, there's also Dracula X Chronicles for PSP which includes ports of SOTN and Rondo of Blood and isn't very expensive. These versions are pretty accurate to the originals (though IIRC once again there's no slowdown in SOTN in many places where there would be originally) and at least SOTN comes with some little extra features. The scaling looks really, really bad though due to the PSPs limited screen resolution, and you have to unlock the original 2D games by playing a remake of Rondo of Blood with crappy 3D graphics unless you can put a save file downloaded from the Internet to your PSP or PSVita somehow.
edit2: Well I just checked and the PAL version on real hardware is even slightly more squished vertically than NTSC in ePSXe with stretch-to-4:3 scaling, which actually looks about the same as the Xbox360 version:
(minus the terrible upscaling filter that person is using which I sure hope can be disabled from the Xbox version's settings)
This is how the NTSC version looks on real hardware:
edit3: apparently the Xbox360 version also has some audio compression issues... I guess it's still a not too terrible option if you insist on not acquiring the PS1 version by not strictly legit means. One solution (if you can accept using an emulator or a modded console) could be to buy the Japanese PS1 version and use the unofficial translation patch. I just checked Yahoo auctions and the re-release prices seem sane (search 悪魔城ドラキュラX 月下の夜想曲), perhaps once in a while somebody will pop up to sell one on eBay with similar prices. The translation itself is original, not ripped from the official English version.
edit4: You can most likely also purchase it on PSN if you happen to have a PS3 or PS4. On PS3 it is just going to be the PS1 version running in Sony's software PS1 emulator (including a crappy PAL "conversion" if you get it from European PSN). I am not sure how well it fares there, I cannot test with my original discs because I don't have a working PS3 right now and the downloaded games don't run on the exact the same version of the emulator as disc-based games anyway. The PS4 version I know nothing about.
...you can probably guess I really like this game and wish you'd play it first instead of any of the handheld games :)
Edited June 3 by xttl
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Darth Jrrr
Everyone who says Aria Of Sorrow is a person of good taste and you should heed their recommendation.
leodoom85
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No love for Castlevania: Lament of Innocence and Curse of Darkness????
I really like both games regarding the 3D Castlevanias and one of them is pretty important just for the lore because it shows the origins of the Belmont clan and the start of the "night hunting". Both games have a fine replayability with a nice music.
Now, for the 2D Castlevanias, obviously the most famous is SOTN, but the others are pretty nice with tons of fun and secrets to discover. I played Circle of the Moon, Aria of Sorrow and Portrait of Ruin the most. And people say that Order of Ecclesia (this is one of few that I didn't played) is also great.
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All of the GBA Castlevanias are incredible, but Aria of Sorrow is easily the best.
WH-Wilou84
Order of Ecclesia on DS is one of my favorite Metroidvania titles.
Don't pass this one up, particularly if you like a good challenge.
GarrettChan
Argh, I thought you may talk about the NES ones. (sad face)
It's on the PS2, but Castlevania: Lament Of Innocence is better than Symphony Of The Night as far as fun factor goes.
deepthaw
Aria of Sorrow. I never liked Circle of the Moon, Harmony of Dissonance feels oddly incomplete or hackish at times. Aria of Sorrow benefits greatly from lots of refinement.
Pegg
Aria is the most liked by players among the GBA titles. If you are looking for the "Harder" gameplay people usually associate with casltevania games I'd start with Circle of the Moon since it is the only one among those three with anything resembling challenge. Aria has a lot of cool stuff to do and Harmony is either terrible or amazing, depending on if you like the weird graphic style and all the exploration it needs. Then again both circle and harmony have really stupid stuff you can find that make them extremely easy, but that's the case with every single castlevania game so holding it against Aria is kinda goofy. (Infact some would argue Circle suddenly becomes the easiest of the three if you know what to exploit)
Personally I'd say play the first level of the three (Until the first save point -Well in circle this will end your run in like 2 minutes lol- or the first boss) and see which one holds your interest the most first.
Sporku
Of the GBA/DS games I think I enjoy Dawn of Sorrow the most, but I'm not sure if that's for purely nostalgic reasons or what. Aria of Sorrow is also great but unfortunately I never had that game growing up so it wasn't until several years later that I finally had a chance to play it.
Unrelated side note: I unironically think Castlevania 64 is a good game. Please direct all hate messages to my inbox. :)
4 hours ago, Sporku said:
I mentioned this in the unpopular retro opinions thread. I've never played the original, but I have played through the director's cut, and I had a good time with it.
Devalaous
I'd start with Symphony of the Night on PS4, official port on current hardware, bundled with Rondo of Blood, and features a third playable character.
After that you've got three GBA and three DS games iirc. The GBA stuff SHOULD still be available on the Wii U's virtual console.
6 hours ago, Devalaous said:
That would be an option...
...if I had a PS4.
Super Castlevania IV. It is as much the pinnacle of platforming as SotN is to Metroidvania. Fun fact: the lead developers were actually asked by Konami to use pseudonyms in the credits because the game was so good, they were afraid they'd get poached by rivals.
Legally, you can play it in Konami's Castlevania anniversary collection for the major consoles. Otherwise, I think it's fairly affordable second hand.
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An Alarmist Reaction: Distortions in the Name of Political Correctness
J K Bajaj
The Census Organisation of India has been carrying out a rigorous and systematic count of the Indian population since at least 1881. In the thirteen synchronous censuses held since then, a question regarding the religious affiliation has always been asked. Before Independence, religion was also used in tabulating census data, so that an account could be had of the vital statistics and the social and economic parameters of India's various religious groups. Since 1951, tabulation of census data on the basis of religion has been discontinued, though the census still provides basic data on the numbers of adherents of different religions. Religious Demography of India presents this time-series data on the religionwise distribution of Indian population generated by the census of India.
For the purposes of this compilation, the authors have divided the Indian population into three large groups: Indian Religionists, Muslims and Christians. In most of the book, "Indian Religionists" is used as a residual category; the numbers for this category are obtained by subtracting the numbers of Muslims and Christians from the total.
Indian Religionists thus defined include: Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and what the census refers to as followers of other religions and persuasions (ORPs). This last category consists mainly of adherents of communityspecific religions prevalent especially in regions where the formerly forest-dwelling, so-called "tribal" communities form a fair proportion of the population. The census counts Jews, Parsis and Bahais also among the ORPs, but they form a negligibly small proportion of the total population. In 1991 the total numbers counted for Jews, Parsis and Bahais together add to only about eighty-seven thousand in a total population of 838 million. Thus the term Indian Religionists as defined and used in the book basically includes the adherents of religions of native Indian origin.
The data in the book has been compiled at different levels of geographical aggregation. At the first level the data is compiled for the region that has been geographically and historically known as India and that is now divided into three separate political entities: the Indian Union, Pakistan and Bangladesh. At the second level, data has been disaggregated for these three entities and for their states, provinces and divisions respectively. At the third level data has been disaggregated up to the level of the district for almost all districts of the Indian Union.
At the India level, the data shows that the percentage of Indian Religionists has declined from more than seventy-nine percent in 1881 to sixty-eight percent in 1991. The authors' analysis of the trends indicated by the data suggests that the proportion of Indian Religionists within the geographical land mass known as India is likely to reach below the fifty percent mark sometime in the latter half of the twenty-first century.
At the level of the Indian Union, the data shows a decline in the proportion of Indian Religionists from 86.64 percent in 1901 to 84.44 percent in 1941, followed by a rise to 87.24 percent in 1951 as a consequence of the Partition, and again a decline to 85.09 percent in the four decades between 1951 and 1991.
For Pakistan, the data shows a rise in the proportion of Indian Religionists from 15.93 percent in 1901 to 19.69 percent in 1941, and then a sharp decline to 1.60 percent in 1951 following Partition. The proportion of Indian Religionists in Pakistan has remained around the 1951 level ever since.
For Bangladesh, the data shows a decline in the proportion of Indian Religionists from 33.93 percent in 1901 to 29.61 percent in 1941, then a fall to 22.89 in 1951 as a consequence of Partition, and a further decline to 11.37 percent in 1991.
Disaggregated data for the states and districts of Indian Union indicates that in the course of the twentieth century the proportion of Indian Religionists has declined by a percentage point or two in every part. In large areas of the country, the decline has remained limited to this average level, and consequently Indian Religionists have continued to retain their predominance. But, in certain parts of Indian Union the decline has been much sharper.
Amongst the areas of such sharp decline, there is a long and contiguous northern border belt that begins in eastern Uttar Pradesh, runs along the border districts of Bihar and West Bengal, passes through Bangladesh and takes in all the districts of lower Assam. The belt encompasses undivided Baharaich, Gonda, Basti, Gorakhpur and Deoria districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh; Champaran, Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga, Saharsa, Purnia and Santhal Pargana districts of Bihar; West Dinajpur, Maldah, Birbhum and Murshidabad districts of West Bengal; and Goalpara, Kamrup, Darrang and Nagaon districts of Assam. The proportion of Indian Religionists in this belt has declined by seven percentage points in the four decades between 1951 and 1991, with a corresponding rise in the proportion of Muslims. In several of the component districts and police-station areas of this belt Indian Religionists are in a minority now.
The north-eastern region of India constitutes another fairly large and contiguous area where there has been a precipitous decline in the proportion of Indian Religionists. The gainers in this region are mainly Christians. In Nagaland and Mizoram, Indian Religionists today form small minorities restricted to urban pockets. In Meghalaya, their proportion was about thirty-five percent in 1991 and is declining sharply from decade to decade. In Manipur they form a significant sixty-five percent of the population, but are restricted mainly to the Imphal, Thoubal and Bishnupur districts of the Manipur valley; in other districts of Manipur that form the predominant part of the geographical area of the state, the presence of Indian Religionists is insignificant. Much of the decline in the proportion of Indian Religionists in these states of the northeast has taken place in the four decades since Independence. In Arunachal Pradesh a similar decline in their share seems to have begun since 1971.
The western coastal state of Kerala is the third important region where the proportion of Indian Religionists has declined sharply in the course of the twentieth century. Their proportion in the state has declined from sixtynine percent in 1901 to fifty-seven percent in 1991. While they have thus lost twelve percentage points of their share, the Christians and Muslims have both gained by six percentage points each. Interestingly, the Christian gain has occurred in the decades up to 1961 and almost all of the Muslim gain has been in the three decades since then.
Finally the authors have compiled data on the changes that have taken place in the religious profile of the world in the course of the twentieth century. That data indicates that though the proportion of Christians in the population of the world has remained unchanged at around thirtyfive percent, yet the geographical reach of Christianity in the world has become considerably greater. Nearly a quarter of the Christians in the world in 1990 were from Africa and Asia; in 1900, ninety-five percent of the Christians were of European origin. The spread of Christianity has been especially spectacular in Africa, where Christians now form nearly forty-five percent of the population, and have a dominating presence in South, Central and Eastern Africa. Within Asia, South Korea has seen the greatest rise in Christian presence.
The proportion of Muslims in the world has risen from about twelve percent in 1900 to nearly nineteen percent in 1990. They have increased their presence in every part of the world, but the rise in their proportion has been especially spectacular in several countries of Africa, in India and Indonesia, and in a few countries of Western Europe.
Indian Religionists as a whole have more or less retained their share in the population of the world. The share of East Asian Religionists has seen a decline from thirty-two to twenty-five percent. Southeast Asian Religionists have slightly improved their presence. And the proportion of Native African Religionists and Jews in the population of the world has declined sharply.
We have provided above a somewhat long summary of the basic data and conclusions of the book because several of the reviewers, and perhaps most grossly the current reviewer, have tended to raise objections without specifying what the book contains and what they are objecting to. A reader of such reviews probably gets the idea that the book contains something ideologically unacceptable and outside the pale of what the reviewers find politically correct; but he gets no idea of the contents and conclusions of the book.
The first and foremost objection of several of the reviewers, including the present one, is to our use of the categories of "India" and "Indian Religionists". Part of the objection to the latter term is that by implication it defines Muslims and Christians as "non-Indian Religionists". This is a deliberate misreading of the term. We have clearly and repeatedly defined Indian Religionists as adherents of religions of native Indian origin. This definition of course means that Islam and Christianity are religions of nonIndian origin; but it has to be considerably stretched to make it imply that the Muslims and Christians of India are not Indian, or are of nonIndian origin.
The second objection to our use of the term Indian Religionists is that by doing so we have included Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists and adherents of locality and community specific native religions in the same group as Hindus; and this in itself, according to the reviewers, is a cardinal sin. It is a given of current social-science theory in India that Hindus must not ever be counted with any other group of Indian people; in fact, as the current reviewer also insists, one should not even refer to Hindus as a single group and should always point out distinctions of caste and community within them.
We do not wish to argue that such distinctions within Hindus, and between Hindus and adherents of other religions of Indian origin, do not exist. But we do believe that there is a sense in which Hindus and adherents of other religions of Indian origin belong to a group, and to which adherents of religions of non-Indian origin do not belong. We believe that such a grouping does represent some significant aspect of the social reality of India today, though it certainly does not exhaust that reality. There are of course differences between Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists and followers of local community-specific religions. These differences can at times lead to acute rivalries between them and might have done so even more acutely in the past. Notwithstanding all this, there are still significant similarities that these groups share not only in religious beliefs and practices, but also in social, religious, political and historical experiences and perceptions.
We believe that there is a sense in which Hindus and adherents of other religions of Indian origin belong to a group, and that such a grouping does represent some significant aspect of the social reality of India today, though it certainly does not exhaust that reality
Incidentally, we have devoted a separate chapter of the book to disaggregating the data for the groups that we have otherwise aggregated under the category of Indian Religionists. Thus the book contains detailed information and tables on the numbers and growth of Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists and others in the different parts of the Indian Union. We must also point out that the major conclusions of our analysis, which have been summarised earlier in this essay, shall change little if we keep only Hindus amongst Indian Religionists and remove all others. Though almost all other religious groups, except the Jains, have grown at a rate higher than that of the Hindus, the latter still constitute more than 95 percent of what we have termed Indian Religionists. In 1991, there were 717 million people counted as Indian Religionists in the Indian Union; of them 687 million are Hindus.
In the convoluted frame of mind that the social sciences in India have propagated, efforts to split Indian society, and especially Hindu society, into smaller and smaller fragments are inherently to be lauded, and any effort to bring together similar groups, even for the sake of mere compilation and analysis of data, is inherently flawed, if not devilish.
The objection to the term therefore is not that the data for Sikhs, Jains etcetera has been ignored, or that grouping them together with Hindus distorts our conclusions. The objection is that such grouping of Hindus with others ought never to have been done. In the convoluted frame of mind that the social sciences in India have propagated, efforts to split Indian society, and especially Hindu society, into smaller and smaller fragments are inherently to be lauded, and any effort to bring together similar groups, even for the sake of mere compilation and analysis of data, is inherently flawed, if not devilish.
The objection to our use of the term "India" is even more bizarre. "India" is a well-defined geographic, civilisational and historic entity. This entity was split into three separate and sovereign political units in the course of the twentieth century. We have referred to the undivided entity as "India" and the three units as Indian Union, Pakistan and Bangladesh. We have used the terms consistently and taken care to repeatedly define ourselves so as to eliminate any possibility of confusion. What can be the objection to this?
Several reviewers, and most strongly the present reviewer, insist that by using the term "India" for the larger entity and "Indian Union" for the current Republic of India, we are harking back to the times when India was not partitioned, and this is somehow illegitimate in their eyes. We find such objections to be extraordinarily cussed. Just because India has been politically partitioned, should we refrain from using the name "India" forever? Just because there are three sovereign states existing on the geographical territory of India should we forget the geographic, historic and civilisational unity of India? Other ancient countries have undergone partitions. Have they given up memories of their civilisational unity? Has the term "China" become vacuous because Taiwan, Hong Kong and other smaller units have been separated from it? Was "Germany" as an entity extinguished when it was split into two for a few decades? Does the idea of "Britain" and "British" depend upon the political unity of the United Kingdom? We feel repelled by the thought that there are scholars in India, who have objections to using the term "India" the way we have used. What kind of times have we arrived at when serious Indian scholars earnestly object to the use of a term merely because it is likely to evoke the memory of the geographic, historic and civilisational unity of India?
Besides these terminological objections, it has been claimed that our projections for the proportion of Indian Religionists in India are seriously flawed; and that we have indulged in panic mongering. Such accusatory comments mainly relate to our projections that the proportion of Indian Religionists in India is likely to go below fifty percent sometime in the second half of the twenty-first century. The facts are: The proportion of Indian Religionists in the population of India was sixtyeight percent in 1991; in the 110 years since 1881 this proportion has declined by more than eleven percentage points; the decline has proceeded from decade to decade for the eleven decades for which we have data; and, the quantum of decline in each decade has been higher than the previous decade. From these facts, it is difficult to surmise that suggesting a decline to below fifty percent in the latter half of the twenty-first century is panic mongering. The objection of the experts is not so much to our procedures but to our temerity in compiling and analysing the data that the demographers and socialscientists of India had more or less put in quarantine.
The current reviewer has also raised a serious question. He has pointed out that, besides their religious identities, people also have other significant social, economic and political attributes. We are in complete agreement with him. We have nowhere claimed that the religious identity of people is their only important attribute. However, we do not believe that this is a socially or historically vacuous category, just as the economic, political or social conditions of the people are not vacuous categories. We shall certainly be interested in learning how the religious affiliation of different groups correlates with their demographic, economic, social and political attributes. This is a matter of detailed, micro-level sociological study. We hope that since several of the expert reviewers of our book have been so keenly concerned about these aspects, they shall begin a serious effort to understand these. Given the paucity of information on these aspects, we have refrained from commenting on these in our book. As the reviewers, even those who harbour serious doubts about our motives and integrity, would have noticed, we have only compiled the data on the changing religious profile of Indian population. We have conscientiously restrained ourselves from speculating on the social and economic causes or consequences of such change.
One final objection of the reviewers that we wish to take note of is their accusation that none of the authors is a demographer. We do admit to having ventured into an area to which we cannot rightfully claim to belong. We are certainly not trained as demographers; yet as students and practitioners of exact sciences we are no novices in dealing with numbers, or in systematic analysis. But perhaps we ought to apologise for first encroaching upon the sacrosanct business domain of the demographers, and then refusing to stick to what the social scientists have so assiduously defined to be the politically-correct discourse in the India of today.
Some of the other reviews that have been taken note of in this essay are: Partha Chatterjee, Demonising Demography, The Telegraph, 10 July 2004; review by Ashis Bose, The Hindu, 11 November 2004; D. Jayaraj and S. Subramanian, "Abusing Demography", Economic and Political Weekly, 20 March 2004, pp.1227-1236, These and other reviews and notices of the book may be accessed at www.cpsindia.org.
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Faced with sourcing a birthday cake to cater for two vegans (no eggs or dairy), someone who cannot eat gluten or refined sugar (so flour and sugar are out) plus an oven-less campervan kitchen, I was a bit stumped. So, I looked up, "no cook, vegan, sugar free, gluten-free cake" online and incredibly such a thing exists. You can even make it in your campervan kitchen. The biggest challenge was how to decorate it without using sugar – just about anything you can buy to put on a cake contains it. Looks pretty good with fresh fruit embellishing it though, eh?
It really didn't take long and the end result was nothing like any cake I have ever tasted before. But nonetheless it was thoroughly appreciated and enjoyed by all.
Why choose one cake for five people when you can choose five cakes instead?!
Gluten Free, Vegan, Refined Sugar Free. Serves 6.
*Note: The figs and dates in this recipe need to be very moist so you can chop and blend them easily into the other ingredients. They should be pre-soaked and then strained. You can either place them in a bowl and pour boiling, or very hot, water over them and let them sit for 30 mins, or if you want to keep the recipe totally raw, then just place them in a bowl and cover with water and let them sit for a few hours until they are nice and soft. Make sure you remove any hard stems and stones prior to soaking.
Chop the figs and dates very finely until they look pureed (if you happen to have a hand blender use that).
Transfer all ingredients into any suitably shaped and lined container** and press down firmly and evenly to form the cake into shape.
Place in the fridge for at least 3 hours to let it set and chill or in the freezer for at least 1 hour (freezing it makes it easier to turn out).
Remove from container by turning out onto a plate – carefully, as it can stick to the sides a bit (careful loosening will prevent any cracks appearing in the cake).
Before serving, dust cake with some additional cacao powder and decorate however you like.
** The best container to use would be a 6″ spring-form cake tin but you can make it in any similar size dish (like a Tupperware container or mixing bowl). Whatever you use, just make sure you line it well with cooking paper first so that you can remove it easily when ready.
I'm working on a blog all about how to celebrate a birthday on a campervan trip and will add it within a couple of weeks – just like anything else you choose to do on an RV trip there are lots of options.
We are happy to help guide the way to planning a great birthday surprise if someone in your hire party has a big day to celebrate during your motorhome trip.
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This is a new pattern using Sublime designed by Doohikey Designs. I love the fabric. It's so unique. You can buy this kit at The Quilting Cottage in American Fork, Utah.
I used velvet ric rac by Riley Blake Designs on the center of the basket handle.
Here is the center of the block close up. The button in the middle is a self covered button. It you haven't used those self covered buttons. Try them. They are very easy to make. This is a view of the whole quilt. The scalloped corners make this quilt charming and are very easy using the instructions and template in the pattern. The center of the quilt is ironed on and appliqued using a button hole stitch but you could also needle turn applique if you love to do that.
Here is a sneak peak at the quilt I am finishing for "That Alpine Quilt Group" It is our 20 year anniversary of when we first started teaching each other to quilt. Several women were picked to design a quilt block that represented our 20 years together. I chose 20 blocks and have assembled them. I just need to put a border on. I think that will finish it. I'm designing the border right now and when I have that on the quilt I will show you. It's very nostalgic.
Wow! 20 years of quilting has just flown by!
I chose black as my background with varied reds, greens and pinks.
Can you see a hint of my cute sewing room in the window of my house that Nanette Merrill designed. I think it is so cute.
Up in the corner you can see a hint of the sewing machine I designed. When we first started meeting together at the little red church 20 years ago, we all brought our sewing machines. We really were the blind leading the blind when it came to quilting.
Every year the Village Dry Goods Quilting Store sponsors a trunk show and classes. I like to attend the trunk show and dinner at Maddox with my quilting friends. This year Sue Garman was to be the speaker and couldn't attend because her husband has been diagnosed with cancer. A friend came instead and did a fabulous job of showing the quilts and explaining the expertise behind her fabulous handwork.
The following are quilts from some of the ladies at Village Dry Goods and Sue.
This Christmas Quilt of Sue's is spectacular and each sashing block is different.
Her eye for detail is evident .
Everything is stitched by hand and so neat and tidy.
This is the border to the ship quilt which was my favorite.
Each block is a different ship with the flowers that represent the ships port.


'Vfx Graph' is an implementation of a node-based system for making visuals. It includes the VfxGraph data structure and many VfxNode type implementations. It comes with a real-time editing interface for use with 'AV Graph'. Together, the AV Graph editor and Vfx Graph create a real-time synthesis environment for visuals. Vfx Graph is the result of a personal on-going process of explorations and collaborations with media artists and a desire to create a powerful tool for creative coders for use in their practice. A primary focus for Vfx Graph and the AV Graph project in general is to let coders harness the power of the data flow paradigm directly from within their apps. As such, Vfx Graph is designed in a way that the coder has full control over when and how graphs are used and instanced. Another focus for Vfx Graph is the attention being paid to the performance and quality of the implementations of both the various algortihms it embeds and the drawing of the visuals.
Vfx Graph defines many node types representing the basic ingredients for making visuals. Broadly speaking, nodes can be categorized as either math, logic, media, drawing, vision or communication types. Examples of math nodes are nodes which perform basic operations like adding two numbers together or oscillator nodes such as the sinewave, sawtooth or triangle generators. Examples of logic nodes are the sample and hold node and the various trigger nodes. Media is represented primarily by the picture and video nodes. The drawing subset contains various nodes for drawing primitives, working with surfaces and running shaders. Vision nodes encapsulate algorithms to perform for instance dot detection within images. Finally, communication is handled by event nodes to communicate with C++ and OSC send and receive nodes to communicate with external processes and apps.
The bool, int, float, string and color types pretty much speak for themselves. The trigger type is used to connect a node generating events to nodes reacting to events. Examples of trigger inputs are play!, pause! and resume! on the sound node and switch! on the logic.switch node. Examples of trigger outputs are the event! and beat! triggers on a timeline node and wentUp! and wentDown! on a trigger.treshold node.
The image type represents a GPU-accessible image (a texture) and is output by the picture, video, image.downsample and various other nodes.
The image_cpu type represents a CPU-accessible image (a bitmap) and is output by the picture.cpu, video, spectrum.1d, spectrum.2d and various other nodes.
The channels type represents one or more arrays of floating point data. The channels type is used to share for instance the results of the dot detector (x, y, radius) and pointcloud (x, y, z) nodes.
One of the main ingredients for making visuals are, of course, images. Images may come from a variety of sources; they may be static images, loaded from for instance jpegs or pngs. They may be a still from a video, streamed from an mpeg or mp4 file. Or they may be captured in real-time using a webcam or a kinect sensor.
The distinction between these two types of images is made for performance reasons. CPU-accessible images are ideal for use in visions algorithms or other tasks which require the CPU to access its pixels. GPU-accessible images are suited for drawing and access from within shaders.
For vision algorithms it's enticing to use video or real-time capture data as input. Nodes which output images, suchs as the video and webcam nodes, will typically expose both a CPU-accessible image as well as a GPU-accessible image as outputs.
The flow of data is considered one-way between CPU and GPU. Data is generated and processed on the CPU and streamed to the GPU, which in turn will process pixels and run shaders and output the results to the screen. To stream CPU-accessible images to the GPU, the image.toGpu node is used. The flow of data from the GPU back to the CPU is explicitly denied for now, as it typically causes the CPU to stall as it waits for the GPU to flush its drawing, causing the frame rate to drop significantly.


WEST POINT, N.Y. ─ Following the decision of the South Carolina government to remove the Confederate flag from a state memorial, and the subsequent nation-wide uproar over all things Confederate, West Point has announced that it will posthumously revoke the diplomas of all cadets who graduated from the Academy and fought for the South during the Civil War.
"This sends a clear message to slave owners and those who would fight for such a horrific cause that 150 years after most of them died we will not tolerate such atrocities on American soil," said Lt. Col. Thomas Jackson, a spokesman for the school.
When asked if this decision signaled a change in the Army's stance on not changing the names of bases named after Confederate officers, most of whom graduated from West Point, Jackson replied that it did not. The cost of altering the signs, street names, maps, military shipping inventories, and other changes necessary to implement the removal just so people wouldn't be offended would be astronomical, he explained.
The ceremony will be held next week, when cadets will symbolically burn hundreds of recreated, historically accurate diplomas in a bonfire at the cadet monument. After the diplomas are consumed in the blaze, the monument will be torn down, since it was built to honor Vincent Lowe, a cadet who died in an 1817 artillery misfire and had an uncle who once owned a slave, explained a source familiar with the event.
Jackson also said that USMA leaders are debating the merits of removing Gen. Robert E. Lee's half of the Appomattox surrender document that ended the Civil War, currently stored in the Cadet Library.
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Ahh Duffel Blog. They do this stuff so well.
Maybe a little too well sometimes. I heard a radio interview with one of DB's founders, and apparently they've touched off some major incidents when unsuspecting readers were unaware that it's a satire site.
Funny…I love the Duffel Blog.
Would not surprise me if this became a reality. Thanks for making me smile though.
Great satire, though alas, one could well see such a thing happening.


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As a 1st Line Support Analyst you will be providing 1st point of contact support for our UK customers, by email, telephone and via our ITSM Web Portal. Working in a team of 1st and 2nd Line Support Analysts, supporting a range of technologies including, Windows XP/7 desktop users, IP telephony, networks, computer hardware, peripherals and bespoke developed applications.
As part of this role you will be required to participate in the Out of Hours support rota once full training has been provided. Additional payments will be made for shifts on this rota.
To provide and receive quality feedback to/from peers and team members to aid personal development.
To ensure delivery to (and exceeding of) agreed service level agreements for performance and availability of all our IT services.
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Silicon Valley IDEA
Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation Partners with the SJSV Chamber on its silicon valley IDEA
The Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), through its United States affiliate MDeC Americas Inc., and the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce today announced a partnership involving the SJSV Chamber's regional development program silicon valley IDEA(Initiative to Drive Economic Advancement).
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"Silicon Valley has long been the world's leading digital innovation ecosystem, and therefore one that Malaysia, with its far-reaching strategic objective to become one of the world's leading digitally-driven economies, must be a part of," said Yasmin Mahmood, MDEC CEO. "Our relationship with the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce and partnership in silicon valley IDEA builds upon the establishment of the MDeC Americas Silicon Valley presence in 2015 and the many valuable programs and collaborations already underway. Deepening our involvement in this dynamic region will accelerate the success of innovative Malaysian and ASEAN tech companies as well as the achievement of a key national objective."
MDeC Americas President Dan E. Khoo and SJSV Chamber President and CEO Matthew Mahood signed the agreement today at the MDeC Americas offices in Palo Alto. Dignitaries present at the signing included MDEC Chairman Tan Sidek Hassan and MDEC CEO Yasmin Mahmood, and Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors President David Cortese and SJSV Chamber Vice Chair of Economic Advancement Cosmo Fagundo.
"For our region to remain the center of innovation, we must collaborate with others, across industries, across jurisdictions—both regionally as well as globally," said Dave Cortese, Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors President. "This partnership with MDec Americas, MDEC and the SJSV Chamber is the type of unified effort that will offer our region a better chance at success."
The strategic objectives of the partnership are to grow the bi-directional flow of talent, capital, ideas and innovation between the two regions relating to the digital economy, information and communications technology, leveraging silicon valley IDEA as well as the broader development and collaboration platforms afforded by the SJSV Chamber, MDeC Americas and MDEC.
"Silicon Valley's unique ecosystem brings together the best and brightest entrepreneurs, innovators and technical talent from all around the globe," said Matthew Mahood, SJSV Chamber President & CEO. "While we occupy a distinct region within Northern California, we truly are a global community tied together by a common yearning to innovate. We welcome MDEC and the Malaysian entrepreneurs and innovators it represents as members of the Silicon Valley community, and look forward to their unique infusion of ideas, collaborations and business opportunities into our regional economy."
Anticipated outcomes include growing the trade of digital products and services between Silicon Valley and Malaysia, expanding the use of Malaysia as Silicon Valley's strategic gateway to the multinational ASEAN region, and connecting Malaysian and ASEAN region entrepreneurs and companies to Silicon Valley financial, intellectual and relational capital.
The SJSV Chamber's regional economic development program — silicon valley IDEA — reflects the innovative thinking of the Silicon Valley region to advance the SJSV Chamber's economic development goals of sustaining an environment where businesses can thrive, regardless of industry or size, and improving the quality of life for the people that live in its municipalities.
About Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) and MDeC Americas
MDeC Americas, Inc., based in Palo Alto, California, is the entity under the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation Sdn. Bhd. or MDEC, tasked with spearheading MDEC's presence in the Americas. An agency under the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia Malaysia, MDEC has been entrusted to develop, coordinate, and promote Malaysia's digital economy, information and communications technology (ICT) industry, and the adoption of digital technology amongst Malaysians. Incorporated on 5th June 1996, MDEC was officially established to strategically advise the Malaysian Government on legislation, policies and standards for ICT and multimedia operations. Additionally, MDEC is also entrusted to oversee the development and nurture the growth of local tech companies whilst attracting foreign direct investments (FDIs) and domestic direct investments (DDIs) from global multinational companies to invest and develop cutting-edge digital and creative solutions in Malaysia. In 2011, MDEC's mandate was broadened to drive Malaysia's transition towards a developed digital economy, built upon a vibrant domestic tech industry, transformative adoption of digital solutions by government, businesses and citizens, as well as a robust enabling ecosystem.
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The monitoring team found more than ten whale sharks on today.
They found seve whale sharks on7-9AM and Found Ten whale shark on 10-12 noon.
One of whale shark swam in front of elysia beach resrot, only 100 meters a way.


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HomeDairySix Chefs Selected For Competition Spotlighting Globally Inspired Dishes Featuring Real California Cheese And Dairy
Six Chefs Selected For Competition Spotlighting Globally Inspired Dishes Featuring Real California Cheese And Dairy
California Milk Advisory Board Dairy, Retail & FoodService October 21, 2022
Tracy, Calif. – The California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB) today announced the inaugural Global Flavors Culinary Competition, a foodservice event that celebrates the broad application of Real California cheese and dairy products in global cuisines. This year's competition will provide "A Taste of Italy," with a focus on developing classic and innovative recipes highlighting Italian-style cheese and dairy products from California.
Six professional chefs will compete for $27,000 in cash prizes and recognition as a global culinary leader in a cook-off event at the Culinary Institute of America at Copia in Napa, Calif. November 9, 2022.
"The diversity of California cheese and dairy items lend themselves well to global flavors and regional cuisines from around the world. California's leadership in Mozzarella and Italian-style cheese production makes Italian cuisine an important area of focus for CMAB," said Mike Gallagher, Business and Market Development Consultant for the CMAB. "We appreciate the innovation and passion of our chef community and are excited to see how these acclaimed chefs use California cheeses to bring their recipes to life."
The chefs for this year's inaugural competition are:
Jay Adams, Local Kitchen, San Francisco, Calif.
Jose Gutierrez, Herbs & Rye; Cleaver, Las Vegas, Nev.
Giuseppe Musso, Michael's Downtown Italian Kitchen & Café, Long Beach, Calif.
Freedom Rains, a Mano, San Francisco, Calif.
Gustavo Rios, Solage Calistoga, Sonoma, Calif.
Ismaele Romano, Via Focaccia, Las Vegas, Nev.
Each chef will compete in two categories: Il Classico and Il Fresco. The Il Classico category will require chefs to develop an original entrée inspired by classic Italian cuisine commonly found on restaurant menus nationwide. The Il Fresco category will ask chefs to provide a fresh, new take on Italian cuisine, crafting an original appetizer or dessert that demonstrates creativity and innovation.
The six chefs will use Real California cheese and dairy products as central ingredients in their two recipes and present their dishes side-by-side to an esteemed panel of professional judges for evaluation, including:
Nick Barrington, Executive Chef, East Lake Golf Club, and President of the American Culinary Federation, Atlanta Chefs Association
Neil Doherty, Corporate Executive Chef – Sr. Director of Culinary Development, Sysco
David Kamen, Former Executive Chef, and Director – Client Engagement, Culinary Institute of America (CIA)
The judges will score each recipe and name a winner and runner-up in each category based on established criteria which includes:
Emphasis on Real California Cheese and Dairy
Commercial viability of the dish
Recipe innovation and creativity
Overall flavor profile and texture
Each category winner will receive a trophy and $5,000 prize. Category runners-up will receive $2,500, and each remaining finalist will earn $1,500, per category. CMAB will feature chefs and recipe content in ongoing promotion of California cheese and dairy at foodservice.
Details and updates about the chefs, competition, categories, and winning recipes are available at: https://caglobalcompetition.realcaliforniamilk.com.
California is a reliable, consistent source of sustainable dairy products used by chefs throughout the world. As the nation's largest dairy state, California boasts an impressive lineup of award-winning cheesemakers and dairy processors who are helping to drive dining innovation. California is the leading producer of fluid milk, butter, and ice cream as well as Mozzarella, the premier Italian-style cheese for foodservice. California milk and dairy foods can be identified by the Real California Milk seal, which certifies they are made exclusively with milk from the state's dairy farm families.
About Real California Milk/the California Milk Advisory Board
The California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB), an instrumentality of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, is funded by the state's dairy farm families who lead the nation in sustainable dairy farming practices. With a vision to nourish the world with the wholesome goodness of Real California Milk, the CMAB's programs focus on increasing demand for California's sustainable dairy products in the state, across the U.S. and around the world through advertising, public relations, research, and retail and foodservice promotional programs.
The Foodservice Division of the CMAB supports foodservice operators and distributors that use Real California dairy products. The CMAB offers marketing and promotional support for foodservice operators that purchase dairy products with the Real California Milk seal, which means they are made with 100 percent milk from California's more than 1,100 family dairy farms, using some of the most sustainable dairy practices in the nation.
For more information on sourcing cheese from California, contact the foodservice team at 209.883.6455 (MILK), businessdevelopment@cmab.net or RealCaliforniaMilk.com/Foodservice, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
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Real California Milk Excelerator Announces Semi-Finalists in Personal Health & Wellness Product Innovation Competition
Real California Milk/California Milk Advisory Board Dairy July 29, 2021
The California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB) announced today the twelve (12) semi-finalists in the Real California Milk Excelerator, the 3rd edition of the CMAB's dairy product innovation competition in partnership with innovation consultancy VentureFuel. The companies will compete for over $650,000 in prizing for their emerging dairy products that promote personal performance and recovery benefits. …
Chefs Contend for "Champion Pizza Chef" Glory in $30,000 Search for Original Pizza Recipes Showcasing California Cheese
Real California Milk/the California Milk Advisory Board Retail & FoodService March 25, 2022
The California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB) today announced the launch of the 2022 Real California Pizza Contest, the fourth annual search for the best pizza recipes using Real California Cheese. The contest, which will award …
California Dairy Industry Comes Together to Teach Ag Literacy to Support Distance Learning
California Milk Advisory Board Dairy May 20, 2020
The California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB) has partnered with Dairy Council of California to teach ag literacy in an exciting and innovative way that brings the farm experience to students as they learn from home. …


Soon after Episode II: Attack of the Clones was released and the Supreme Chancellor Palpatine figure was released, I started to think about what we were going to see in Episode III. I knew it was supposed to be three more years after the events of AOTC, during which time the Clone Wars would escalate. As the secret orchestrator of the Clone Wars, I figured Palpatine would continue to subtly wield Dark Side powers, but that he might have to use them more overtly in order to make sure the war was going the way he wanted. So, I decided to arrempt a custom that showed Palpatine aging rapidly. My inspiration was actually pretty benign--Jimmy Carter! Carter looked great going into his presidency, but his four years in office left him looking like he'd aged a decade. With Palpatine, I also wanted to suggest that his aging was due to the malignant nature of the Dark Side. I made his skin jaundiced, made his eyes more sunken, and gave him more wrinkles. As for his costume, I figured he'd be moving to a more overtly Sith look as he continues to cement his grip on the galaxy. I painted his costume a licorice black, then added silver trim. I made his hair whiter, and started him on the way to those yellowish eyes seen in ROTJ. It's an unsettling look, but still not the spectre we will all come know and loathe! Of course, based on photos released from the set, we now know that, apart from shorter hair, Palpatine won't really look all that much different in Episode III ... at least, not until the end!
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Q: Connect Snowflake to Azure analysis services to build cube I need to build cube on Azure analysis services by connecting to Snowflake DB.
Seems Azure analysis services does not provide a connector to snowflake. Can anyone suggest how to overcome this.

A: First, on your laptop install both the 32-bit and 64-bit ODBC driver for Snowflake. Then open the "ODBC Data Sources (32-bit)" and create a new system DSN called "Snowflake" using the Snowflake ODBC driver. Repeat in the "ODBC Data Sources (64-bit)" app creating another system DSN named identically as the 32-bit one. Make sure you set tracing=0 in both 32-bit and 64-bit ODBC connection dialog properties as it kills cube processing performance to set tracing=6.
Next, on an appropriate VM (preferably an Azure VM in the same Azure region as Snowflake) ensure the On-premises Data Gateway is setup for Azure Analysis Services. (Though Snowflake is not on-premises, it's not a supported cloud data source, so it must use the gateway.) On that VM, repeat the above ODBC steps.
In Visual Studio, choose File... New... Project... Analysis Services... Tabular... Analysis Services Tabular Project. Choose compatibility mode "SQL Server 2017/Azure Analysis Services (1400)" and choose "Integrated workspace".
Then in Tabular Model Explorer right click the Data Sources folder and choose "Add Data Source". Choose ODBC as the data source and then choose your DSN name from the dropdown.
Choose which tables you wish to import. Once the model is ready to deploy, deploy to Azure Analysis Services and it should use the ODBC driver on the gateway VM to connect to Snowflake.


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