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What 'Smart Fabrics' Mean for the Future of Health
Written by Julia Haskins — Updated on April 5, 2019
Wearable technology, from T-shirt heart monitors to water-wicking socks, has major implications for the health sector.
The age of wearable technology is upon us, and the field isn't totally dominated by big-name players like Google and Sony. The 2014 Consumer Electronics Show, which took place Jan. 7 though 10, featured up-and-coming technological innovations, including smart bracelets, shirts, socks, and even onesies.
Wearable technology encompasses a wide variety of products, from novelty toys to lifesaving devices. Many of these products rely on micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) to detect bodily movements, temperature, and other changes.
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While some of the technologies may be out of reach for the average consumer, others show real-world promise.
Many products are targeted toward athletes, including the Sensoria line of fitness gear from Heapsylon. The line includes a smart sock that coaches runners in real time via a mobile app, and both a bra and a T-shirt with heart-monitoring capabilities.
Sports enthusiasts could also benefit from the CheckLight mesh cap. Developed by Reebok and electronics company MC10, the cap assesses the severity of blows to the head and alerts people nearby to check the wearer for serious injury.
Runners might enjoy the new water-whisking fabric created by biomedical engineers at the University of California, Davis that mimics the way human skin perspires by whisking away excess sweat.
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And parents can rest easier with the help of products for infants, including the Mimo baby monitor onesie, which tracks a baby's breathing, movement, and temperature with a built-in sensor to help prevent sudden infant death syndrome.
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He developed the SENSUS Pain Management System, which uses electrical stimulation in a band-like device to ease suffering caused by diabetic neuropathy.
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"Eventually they will be on board as the prices of these items plummet as the roll-to-roll manufacturing that makes most of these devices will be of much lower cost than the silicon based electronics," he said. And his university is making the most of this opportunity.
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Q: mapreduce job is not running with LocalJobRunner Hey guys it might sound a little childish question but i am a newbie to mapreduce
I was implementing a mapreduce job and i have some sysout statements in map and reduce sides just to see what is coming in map and reduce sides but after completion of job job.waitForCompletion() returns false and job failed
I tried to debug it but did not found anything fishy so posting the code here
CustomKey.java

package com.example.secondarysort;

import org.apache.hadoop.io.IntWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;

public class CustomKey {
    Text key = new Text();
    IntWritable value = new IntWritable();

    public void set(Text key,IntWritable value){
        this.key = key;
        this.value = value;
    }

    public Text getKey(){
        return this.key;
    }

    public IntWritable getValue(){
        return this.value;
    }
}

SSDriver.java

package com.example.secondarysort;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.IntWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.NullWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Reducer;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.TextInputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.TextOutputFormat;

public class SSDriver {

    private static class SSMapper extends Mapper<LongWritable, Text, CustomKey,NullWritable>{

        CustomKey customKey = new CustomKey();
        @Override
        public void map(LongWritable key, Text value,Context context)
                throws IOException, InterruptedException {
            System.out.println(value);
            StringTokenizer tokens = new StringTokenizer(value.toString());
            customKey.set(new Text(tokens.nextToken()), new IntWritable(Integer.parseInt(tokens.nextToken())));
            context.write(customKey, NullWritable.get());
        }

    }

    private static class SSReducer extends Reducer<CustomKey, NullWritable, Text, IntWritable>{

        @Override
        public void reduce(CustomKey key, Iterable<NullWritable> values,Context context)
                throws IOException, InterruptedException {
            System.out.println(key.getKey()+" "+key.getValue());
            context.write(key.getKey(), key.getValue());
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        Configuration conf = new Configuration();
        Job job = Job.getInstance(conf, "secondary_sort");

        job.setJarByClass(SSDriver.class);

        job.setMapperClass(SSMapper.class);
        job.setReducerClass(SSReducer.class);

        job.setMapOutputKeyClass(CustomKey.class);
        job.setMapOutputValueClass(NullWritable.class);

        job.setOutputKeyClass(Text.class);
        job.setOutputValueClass(IntWritable.class);

        TextInputFormat.addInputPath(job, new Path("data/data.txt"));
        TextOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path("data/output"));

        try {
            System.out.println(job.waitForCompletion(true));
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

A: The problem is you are using custom key CustomKey which is not implementing WritableComparable interface.
It's mandatory that your custom key should implement it and provide the definition for two methods such as write() and readFields().It is important to override hashCode() as well.
You can refer this for a piece of code for your reference here
Hope it helps!

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By Veronica Lopez
Bachelor Nation has been anxiously awaiting Tayshia Adams' Bachelorette debut, and it definitely did not disappoint. On the Nov. 10 episode, Adams met the guys Clare Crawley left behind, plus four new candidates brought in just for her. From the batch of dudes she interacted with during her first dates as the season's new lead, a few definitely stood out, but Adams formed a special bond with one in particular. Tayshia Adams and Brendan Morais' body language proves the two are slowly forming a strong connection, and for the most part, they seem to be on the same page.
Morais, 30, is a commercial roofer from Milford, MA. According to Us Weekly, he also models. His bio on ABC's official website says he describes himself as a "true romantic" who "loves some good true crime, working out and hanging out with his friends." While he's mostly been in the background this season, Adams' arrival is a clear turning point. After a flirty conversation on night one, Adams chose Morais as her very first one-on-one date, taking him horseback riding around the resort where the cast is filming, then to an intimate pool hang, followed by dinner and a private fireworks show. The two got to know each other better and bonded over both having been married and divorced at a young age. It was so special, Morais called it "the best night of my life," and their body language proves this rings especially true.
Traci Brown, body language expert and author of Persuasion Point: Body Language and Speech For Influence, took a look at snapshots of Adams and Morais' first date. Here's what she had to say.
The Pool Hang
Adams and Morais cooled off in a private pool where Morais told Tayshia there was "something" he'd been wanting to do since meeting on night one. He leaned in for a kiss, and Adams reciprocated. According to Brown, this screams "cozy." "See how their bodies are 100% together?" says Brown. "That shows they're really into each other."
Their Dinner Date
Even though they're only on their first date, these two are exhibiting the kind of body language shown by long-term, well-established couples that shows they're totally aligned. "They are walking in step and have their fingers woven together," notes Brown. "That's the sign of people who are in sync. Great couples naturally do this."
In this still, Morais is telling Adams about the divorce he went through in his early 20s. He was nervous about opening up to her and afraid she would want to send him home, but she surprised him by confessing she had been through a divorce in her early 20s as well. But even though this difficult conversation helped them bond on a deeper level, it was still a little uncomfortable. "They both seem pretty stiff here," says Brown. "If one of them is talking about their divorce, that would make sense that they're uncomfortable."
After opening up to each other, they shared a sweet kiss where Adams took the lead. "They're both leaning in here but she's still put herself in control gently pulling his face in," says Brown.
Post-Dinner Fireworks
In this shot of Adams and Morais watching a private fireworks show, the two seem to be on the same page yet again. "They're pressed together and they appear to have about the same grip strength on each other, pulling each other in," says Brown. Between watching the fireworks and holding each other close, the two also snuck in several intimate smooches. If that's not romantic, I don't know what is.
Here's hoping Morais makes it far. I don't know about you, but if their early body language is any indication, I have a feeling he's going to do just fine.
Traci Brown, body language expert and author of Persuasion Point: Body Language and Speech For Influence
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Tronzano Vercellese est une commune de la province de Verceil dans le Piémont en Italie.

Histoire

Personnalités liées à la commune
 Alessandro De Rege di Gifflenga (1774-1842), général des armées de l'Empire y est né.
 Carlo Naya (1816-1882), photographe, né à Tronzano Vercellese

Administration

Hameaux
Salomino

Communes limitrophes
Alice Castello, Bianzè, Borgo d'Ale, Crova, Ronsecco, San Germano Vercellese, Santhià

Jumelage

Notes et références

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Q: Lower semicontinuity and closedness equivalence. I am not able to finalize the proof of this statement, and it seems something is always omitted in textbooks. Here there is what I got so far.
(I'm trying to find the proof for a classical real-valued function, not for extended real-valued functions, I hope this is not an obstacle).
A function $f: \text{dom}f \subseteq X \to \mathbb{R} $ ( $X$ is a topological space) is said to be closed if its epigraph is closed:
$$\text{epi}f = \{(x,y) \in \text{dom}f \times \mathbb{R}: y \ge f(x)\} = \{(x,y) \in \text{dom}f \times \mathbb{R}: f(x) \le y \} = \{(x,y) \in \text{dom}f \times \mathbb{R}: x \in S_yf\}$$ where $ S_cf = \{x \in \text{dom}f : f(x) \le c\}$ is the $c$ sublevel set of $f$.
For a certain $y\in\mathbb{R}$, then $(x,y) \in \text{epi}f \Leftrightarrow x \in S_yf $ so $\text{epi}f$ is closed iff $S_yf $ is closed.
Now, everywhere it is said that a necessary and sufficient condition for a function to be closed, is that lower semi-continuity holds for each points in the domain:
$$\forall x_0 \in \text{dom}f, \forall \epsilon >0, \exists \delta > 0: f(x)\ge f(x_0) - \epsilon, \forall x \in B_\delta(x_0)$$
where $B_\delta(x_0)$ is the open ball centered in $x_0$ with radius $\delta$.
I'm already stuck with the sufficiency part.
Let's consider a point $\bar x \in \partial S_yf $, then from the definition of boundary of $S_yf$:
$$\exists R>0: f(x) \le y, \forall x \in S_yf  \cap B_R(\bar x) \setminus \{\bar x\}$$
where $S_yf  \cap B_R(\bar x) \setminus \{\bar x\}$ is non empty.
If $\bar x \in \text{dom}f$, using the lower semicontinuity of $f$ in $\bar x$:
$$\forall \epsilon >0, \exists \delta > 0: f(\bar x)\le f(x) + \epsilon, \forall x \in B_\delta(\bar x)$$
Since $f(x) \le y, \forall x \in B_R(\bar x) \cap S_yf \Longrightarrow f(x) + \epsilon \le y + \epsilon , \forall x \in S_yf \cap B_\delta(\bar x) \cap  B_R(\bar x) \setminus \{\bar x\}  $
where $ S_yf \cap B_\delta(\bar x) \cap  B_R(\bar x) \setminus \{\bar x\} $ is again non empty.
Then $f(\bar x)\le f(x) + \epsilon \le c + \epsilon > 0, \forall \epsilon$ therefore, necessarily $f(\bar x)\le c \Rightarrow \bar x \in S_yf$.
If instead the point does not belong to the domain:  $\bar x \notin \text{dom}f$, and, of course, $\bar x \notin S_yf $, so one must prove that this point cannot exist.
The only thing I can prove is that, the function cannot have limit $+\infty$ in $\bar x$.
Again, $\exists R>0: f(x) \le y, \forall x \in S_yf  \cap B_R(\bar x) \setminus \{\bar x\}$.
Let us consider any sequence $x_k \in \text{dom}f$ such that $x_k \in S_yf  \cap B_R(\bar x) \setminus \{\bar x\}, \forall k \ge k_0$ such that:
$$\lim_{k\to \infty} x_k = \bar x$$
then, since $f(x_k)\le y, \forall k \ge k_0$, this limit, if existing, can be $y$ at most.
Apparently I'm struggling to prove something that is not even true.
As these slides(pages 5-7) from a MIT course state, the equivalence holds for functions having all $\mathbb{R}^n$ as their domain (or, in general, all $X$ topological space) and also:
"If $f$ is lower semicontinuous at all $x \in \text{dom}f$, it is not necessarily closed".
I am stil a bit confused by the last paragraph in "Formal definition" of semicontinuity Wikipedia page
EDIT:
I said "from definition of boundary", meaning simply I can always find some points in any neighborhood of a boundary point that belong to the set, so I used the intersection between a ball around a boundary point and the set itself, claiming that such a set is non empty (thanks to the definition of boundary). Only now I figure out that this statement is not so clear to read.
As regards the structure of the set $X = \mathrm{dom} f$, I don't understand which properties have to be satisfied in order to consider it a topological space (maybe my topology background is not so thick, I'm sorry, I'm just attending a Convex analysis and optimization master course).
The proof of the first implication is clear enough for me, whereas in the second one ($2 \Rightarrow 1$) I don't get why the set $\{(x,y)\colon x\in X\}\subset X\times\Bbb R$ should be closed for each $y$: if $X$ is open how can this set be closed. Moreover the set $\{(x,y)\colon x\in X,f(x)\le y\}$ seems to me the epigraph itself.
Regarding the next statement about the projection of this set over the set $X$ I think I'm missing the property that lets us infer the closedness after the projection.
As you pointed out, I guess the key point lies in the statement "$f$ is closed in $X$", that I think it is supposed to mean that even if $X$ is open it doesn't matter because the property must hold in any closed set inside it, but I am not sure to get this point.
Even if I have already enough problems in properly understanding your explaination (sorry about that), I would like to make a very naive example which maybe could clarify better my not so clever perplexity.
Let us consider the function $f\colon B_{R}(0) \subset \Bbb R^{2} \to \Bbb R, f(x) = \| x \| ^2$. This function is lower semicontinuous (actually even continuous over the open ball $B_{R}(0)$) but it is not closed, because for instance any sublevel set $S_c$  with $c \ge R^2$ is an open set.

A: This definition of the boundary of $S_yf$ that you use
$$
\exists R>0: f(x) \le y, \forall x \in S_yf  \cap B_R(\bar x) \setminus \{\bar x\}
$$
looks strange to me. It says that locally near $\bar x$ all $x$ from $S_yf$ should satisfy $f(x)\le y$, but this is true for all $x\in S_yf$ globally (by definition of the sublevel set), and it has nothing to do with the boundary.
Since you prefer to work with the finite values of $f$ we take $X=\operatorname{dom}f$. If $\operatorname{dom}f$ is a subset of a larger topological space then it becomes a topological space itself when equipped with the induced topology. Assuming $X$ to be Hausdorff we prove that the following statements are equivalent:

*

*$f\colon X\to\Bbb R$ is lower semicontinuous,

*$\operatorname{epi}f$ is closed in $X\times\Bbb R$.

Proof:
$\fbox{$1\Rightarrow 2$}$
Let $(x_\alpha,y_\alpha)_{\alpha\in A}$ be a net in $\operatorname{epi}f$ that converges to $(\bar x,\bar y)\in X\times\Bbb R$. We need to prove that $(\bar x,\bar y)\in\operatorname{epi}f$. But it is easily true because
$$
f(\bar x)\le\liminf f(x_\alpha)\le\liminf y_\alpha=\bar y.
$$
The first inequality is due to $f$ being lower semicontinuous, the second one comes from $(x_\alpha,y_\alpha)\in\operatorname{epi}f$.
$\fbox{$2\Rightarrow 1$}$
The set $\{(x,y)\colon x\in X\}\subset X\times\Bbb R$ is closed for each $y\in\Bbb R$. Hence, since $\operatorname{epi}f$ is closed, the intersection
$$
\operatorname{epi}f\cap\{(x,y)\colon x\in X\}=\{(x,y)\colon x\in X,f(x)\le y\}
$$
is closed too for each $y\in\Bbb R$. It follows that for each $y\in\Bbb R$ the projection on $X$
$$
S_y=\{x\colon x\in X,f(x)\le y\}
$$
is closed.
Now take a net $(x_\alpha)_{\alpha\in A}$ in $X$ that converges to $\bar x\in X$ and denote $\bar y=\liminf f(x_\alpha)$. This limit cannot be $-\infty$, because it would mean that $\bar x\in\operatorname{closure}(S_y)=S_y$ for every $y\in\Bbb R$, which is impossible (as $f(\bar x)\in\Bbb R$). Hence, $\bar y>-\infty$ and $\bar x\in\operatorname{closure}(S_{\bar y+\epsilon})=S_{\bar y+\epsilon}$ for all $\epsilon>0$. Taking $\epsilon\to 0$ gives that $f(\bar x)\le \bar y$. Hence, the function is lower semicontinuous.


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Matthew Ostrander, co-founder, majority owner, chairman and CEO of national wholesale and correspondent lender Parkside Lending, has been elected chairman of the California Mortgage Bankers Association (CMBA) for the 2016-2017 term.
The head of Parkside Lending has been elected to as chairman of the California Mortgage Bankers Association.
Parkside Lending LLC, San Francisco, said Matthew Ostrander, co-founder, majority owner, Chairman and CEO, was elected chairman of the California Mortgage Bankers Association for the 2016-2017 term. He was inducted into the role at the recent Western Secondary Conference in July hosted by CMBA.


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On the charming & irreverent poetry of childhood
In Beyond The Pleasure Principle Sigmund Freud describes how he observed his young grandson playing a game in which he would throw his toys, or any little thing, away into the corner of the room or under the bed, uttering a forlorn or angry cry as he did so, which Freud took to mean "gone" or "away" (fort in the original German).
Later the toddler, Ernst was observed playing a more developed version of the game; he would repeatedly throw a wooden reel with string attached into his cot, crying his small expressions of command or consternation when the reel disappeared from sight. Then with some delight, and another rudimentary cry, (this time an approximation of Da! – meaning "There!" or "Here!"), he would reel it in again.
The game was played as a response to the absence of the child's mother. To Freud the Fort/Da! game demonstrates how pleasure and pain are inextricably linked in the psyche, how early we learn to take such measures, to make such gestures, to gain a semblance of control, of understanding, from loss, from absence and need, of how one person or object can stand as a substitute for someone else, and indeed through symbolic gestures, how we will repeatedly recall or re-enact a painful experience by such exertion in order to engender a pleasurable one.
The French philosopher and linguist Jacques Lacan, analysing Freud's Fort/Da! game, saw not only an entry into the symbolic, but the destruction of the real. The grief experienced by the child at the mother's absence is denuded of its power, of its effects, by turning her into a symbol, by controlling her, by destroying her, through the interplay of presence and absence; as the object of need, she can never quite return to that pre-linguistic, pre-symbolic, ultimate real, that according to Lacan is destroyed by word and symbol.
While through this performance of an act, of a spell, rather like the primitive mimesis of sympathetic magic, though pain is temporarily allayed (or perhaps, alloyed), we can only conclude that the pleasure of the presence of the object of desire, now no longer quite as real, is also lessened. So the child cries, clutching at his mother's skirts, even when she returns.
In this tantrum, in this petulance, we not only begin to see the necessary first becomings of the individuated self, but also the first formations of poetry. In the rhythmic cries, in the conflict of desires, in the play and transformation, in the creation and control of the symbolic, in the outpouring demand and the inpouring need, in utterances that embody the contradictions of need and want, in the way we deform the real to create objects of amusement, of rancour and delight.
Philosophy and psychoanalysis, at their best, are largely works of language and the imagination. A Fort/Da! game in search of the meaning of presence and absence, of pleasure and pain, of being and non-being, of nonsense and significance, of desire and despair, rather like the continual inquiry of the poetic.
Of course philosophers and psychologists find prodigies and marvels in what seems readily apparent to poets; that in a realm where symbols are filtered through the idiosyncrasies and significances of the self, we enter an arena of transformation and interchangeability.
In children's poetry, whether in the fabrications of the young, the boasts and taunts of the playground, or in the strange and divinational chants that count who is out and who is in, there is a ruthless kind of measure. In the raucous expressions of amusing rhymes and nonsense, or in the raw and dreamlike anxieties of nursery rhymes and folklore, though we may think they are composed by adults, by the search for essence, the act of simplification and reverie itself, we are reaching back into the primal symbols and desires of that first savage and formative game.
A cotton reel easily becomes an absent mother, and with a string, an obedient puppet. A toy becomes the self, the self the dream. In broken boughs and broken crowns we have other primal metaphors. It is easy to forget that the playground has its own defiance, born of a primordial Darwinian politics, until we remember, perhaps, that;
Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin ran away, (Traditional; – circa 1967).
It also has ways of emphasizing that acts of defiance must have consequences;
My momma told me, If I was goodee, She would give me, A rubber dolly, But Sally told her, I kissed a soldier, And now she won't give me, A rubber dolly, (Traditional; – circa 1930).
Childhood also has its essential tragedy;
Ladybird Ladybird fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children alone, All but one, and that's little John, And he lies under the grindle stone, (Traditional; – circa 1770).
Between the doggerel of mockery and obedience, beyond the charming melancholy of untrammeled tragedy, we can perhaps find another way, beyond authority or moral didacticism, where tomfoolery and beauty meet, in a spell of wild divination, and see again as children;
Intery mintery cuttery corn,
Brambly briar and brambly thorn,
Wire and briar and barrel and lock,
Three fat geese in a flock,
One flew east and one few west,
And one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
(Traditional; – circa 1888).
Intrigued? For further reading I highly recommend;
Cinderella Dressed In Yella; The first attempt at a definitive study of Australian children's play rhymes.
1969, Heinemann Educational, Melbourne.
Edited and selected by Ian Turner, June Factor and Wendy Lowenstein
Or, The Book of Bird & Bear, 2019, Maximum Felix Media, Korumburra, which features a selection of my poems inspired by the rhymes, fantasies, nonsense and folklore of childhood, available now from Amazon in the link below, and the usual other online venues.
Published February 24, 2021 By C S Hughes
Categorized as Commentary Tagged childhood, freud, lacan, poetry
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Full Count: The honest truth about the 2022 Diamondbacks and what it means for 2023
By Jesse Friedman December 15, 2022
For the first time since early 2020, there is a palpable buzz around the Diamondbacks.
It's not that the Diamondbacks are favored to win the NL West. Heck, the San Francisco Giants just signed Carlos Correa — the latest addition to a long list of obstacles in what is arguably baseball's best division. It's that there is an increasing sense among fans that the next generation of Diamondbacks — including Corbin Carroll, Daulton Varsho, Jake McCarthy, Alek Thomas and a plethora of young pitchers in Drey Jameson, Ryne Nelson and eventually Brandon Pfaadt — could usher in a new era of Diamondbacks baseball that is not only good, but sustainable.
In many respects, that hype is justified. The emerging core of young players might be the best collection of home-grown talent the franchise has ever assembled. Some of them, such as Varsho, have already had multiple productive seasons. Carroll, Jameson and Nelson have only played a month in the big leagues, but have already shown flashes of brilliance.
Moving into 2023, however, every fan ought to come to terms with an undeniable reality about the 2022 Diamondbacks: For many of their key contributors, what the surface level stats said the advanced stats did not buy. Put simply, the Diamondbacks' 22-win improvement in 2022 appears to have been propped up by a team-wide trend of good luck. And expecting that luck to continue into 2023 might be just as foolish as denying that it existed.
Before we dive in, I'll explain the two primary stats that we will use for our analysis. The first is weighted on-base average (wOBA) — an all-encompassing offense statistic that reads like an on-base percentage. The league average wOBA in 2022 was .310. The second is expected wOBA (xwOBA), which is the exact same idea but is based on expected batted ball outcomes (using exit velocities, launch angles, etc.) rather than actual batted ball outcomes.
Neither stat is perfect, but in general, if a player's wOBA and xwOBA are roughly even, that player is probably not over-performing or underperforming significantly. However, a large gap between them — say, more than 15 points or so — is, at minimum, worth investigating.
As a team, the Diamondbacks had a .303 wOBA compared to a .297 xwOBA. A six-point difference is unremarkable for an individual player, but on a team-wide basis, it does suggest some degree of over-performance. That doesn't mean every Diamondbacks hitter outperformed his expected stats, but it is somewhat troubling when we consider which players, in particular, appear to have over-performed the most.
Player wOBA xwOBA Difference
Corbin Carroll .358 .293 .065
Jake McCarthy .337 .298 .039
Daulton Varsho .323 .298 .025
Josh Rojas .326 .308 .018
Diamondbacks position player wOBA vs. xwOBA, 2022 (via Baseball Savant)
Once again, when looking at wOBA, think on-base percentage. The difference between a .337 on-base percentage and a .298 on-base percentage, for example, is not insignificant. Over a long period of time, that is the difference between a major-league regular and a depth piece that bounces from one organization to another.
With that in mind, McCarthy's .298 xwOBA does not necessarily mean his wOBA should been .298 instead of .337, but it's a big enough difference to warrant investigating. A look at his batted ball data should help us understand why the gap is so large.
In 2022, McCarthy's average exit velocity of 87.4 MPH was in the 20th percentile — meaning it was better than only 20 percent of other major league hitters. His whiff rate was in the 31st percentile. His walk rate was below average. From a batted ball perspective, there are actually no indicators that McCarthy is an above-average offensive player.
What McCarthy does have is speed — 98th percentile sprint speed, in fact. That speed helps him turn infield rollers into singles and singles into doubles, and essentially means he is bound to outperform other hitters with similar batted ball data. In theory, xwOBA already accounts for that due to a 2019 update that added sprint speed to the xwOBA recipe for certain types of ground balls.
According to one study, though, that update did not entirely mitigate the problem. Based on data from 2015-19, the study found that players with a sprint speed of 29 feet per second or higher (McCarthy's was 30.1 in 2022) still outperform their xwOBA by an average of 12 points.
That is significant, but still not enough to explain the 39-point disparity between McCarthy's wOBA and xwOBA. To be fair, McCarthy only had 354 plate appearances in 2022, which really is too small a sample to draw any firm conclusions. What we can say about McCarthy is that, despite his impressive breakout in the second half of 2022, he still has a lot to prove. And fans should at least consider the possibility that his underlying offensive ability is much closer to league average than his lofty 2022 numbers would suggest.
Varsho and Rojas had less extreme disparities between their wOBA and xwOBA in 2022, but a look at the batted ball data still raises some red flags. Varsho, in particular, had an above-average strikeout rate, a below-average walk rate and a 25th-percentile average exit velocity. His expected batting average (xBA) – another Baseball Savant stat that is exactly what it sounds like — came in quite low at .214 . Again, Varsho has above-average sprint speed, which means that a small difference between his wOBA and xwOBA is unremarkable. However, his 25-point disparity is too large to explain by that alone.
As for Carroll, his 65-point difference between wOBA and xwOBA is hard to ignore. Frankly, 115 plate appearances are not nearly enough to put much stock in his wOBA, much less his xwOBA. The point here is not that Carroll was actually bad in his first month in the big leagues. It is just that his batted ball data was not indicative of a .250/.330/.500 hitter. Anyone penciling in an .800 or .850 OPS for next year as if it's a mere continuation of what he already showed in 2022 should tap the breaks.
Before moving on to the pitching, the D-backs did have several hitters whose wOBA was actually lower their xwOBA, suggesting some positive regression could be in store moving forward. The clearest example of this is Christian Walker, whose .346 wOBA lagged 13 points behind his .359 xwOBA. Walker was arguably baseball's unluckiest hitter in the first half of the season, so it comes as no shock that his final numbers still fell short of his expected stats. Still, he could be in for better fortunes in 2023.
The other notable under-performers from 2022 were Geraldo Perdomo and Carson Kelly, both of whom saw their wOBA lag 13 points behind their xwOBA. Even based on expected stats, though, neither had a great season offensively. Perdomo's xwOBA was .269 and Kelly was .288. Even with some help from the batted ball gods, Kelly and Perdomo were still well below league average.
Heading into 2023, it's worth noting that MLB's new shift restrictions could help D-backs hitters significantly. Considering that all of the team's biggest over-performers on offense bat left-handed, it's not unreasonable to think that the new shift rules could help that group as much as regression to the mean might hurt them next year.
Before diving in, let's introduce two new stats: xERA and xFIP. Both are ERA-estimators (read them like an ERA), but they operate differently. In essence, xERA is based on batted ball data while xFIP is based on strikeout rate, walk rate and reducing noise from excessively high or low home run rates that are likely to correct naturally in the future.
As a team, the D-backs outperformed slightly both in xERA and xFIP, but once again, the primary story here is which players in particular outperformed their expected stats. The list includes several of the D-backs' most important pitchers moving forward.
Player ERA xERA xFIP
Zac Gallen 2.54 3.17 3.31
Merrill Kelly 3.37 3.62 3.86
Madison Bumgarner 4.88 5.53 4.83
Drey Jameson 1.48 4.49 2.98
Kyle Nelson 2.19 3.22 4.39
Diamondbacks pitcher ERA, xERA and xFIP (via FanGraphs)
Zac Gallen, of course, stands out most. His 2.54 ERA was significantly lower than both his 3.17 xERA and his 3.31 xFIP. Based on how xERA and xFIP are calculated, we can explain why these disparities exist.
First, the primary reason Gallen's xERA was a half-run higher than his ERA is that he fared extremely well on batted balls. In fact, Gallen's .237 BABIP (batting average on balls in play) in 2022 was the the second lowest in baseball among qualified starters, and the lowest ever by a qualified Diamondbacks starting pitcher. The league-average BABIP in 2022 was .289.
Despite the fact that pitchers do have some control over BABIP, hitters generally have more control over BABIP more than pitchers do. In Gallen's case, having one of baseball's best defenses behind him certainly helped keep his BABIP low, and that benefit that should continue into next year. Nonetheless, it will be nearly impossible to replicate a .237 BABIP again.
Switching to xFIP, the reason that Gallen's mark of 3.31 — again, very good — was so far north of his 2.54 ERA was primarily because his strikeout and walk rates were good, but not elite in 2022. Gallen's 26.9-percent strikeout rate in 2022 was actually the second lowest of his career. He had strikeout rates north of 28 percent in each of his first two big league seasons. Getting that strikeout rate back into the 28-29 percent range would go a long way toward making a mid-twos ERA sustainable in the future.
Like Gallen, Merrill Kelly also benefitted from a relatively low .269 BABIP in 2022, but the primary reason for his 3.86 xFIP was that he gave up only 21 homers in 200.1 innings. Kelly's 0.94 home-runs-per-nine-innings (HR/9) is not necessarily unsustainable, but it's hard to bet on, considering his career HR/9 is 1.19. What is certainly unsustainable is the 0.67 HR/9 Kelly had through Sep. 1. He gave up 11 of his 21 home runs in the final month of the season.
As for Madison Bumgarner, his ERA and xFIP were in nearly perfect harmony in 2022, but his xERA came in much higher at 5.53. That suggests that Bumgarner's batted ball data — in particular, a 90.3 average exit velocity that was better than only eight percent of major league pitchers — was indicative of a pitcher with a much higher ERA than the 4.88 mark he had at the end of the year.
Drey Jameson's story is similar to that of Corbin Carroll: The sample size is way too small to draw any definitive conclusions, but advanced stats suggest he might not have been quite as excellent as the surface numbers show in his four big league starts. (And, frankly, no pitcher can actually maintain a 1.48 ERA.)
In 24.1 innings, Jameson's strikeout and walk rates were promising, but it's worth noting that he gave up a lot of hard contact. Opposing hitters really got ahold of his four-seam fastball, in particular, with an average exit velocity of 93.9 MPH. Despite that, they somehow batted only .235 against it. Again, the sample is so small that there are no firm conclusions to be drawn about Jameson's actual talent level — just that he won't be able to dominate for long with that much hard contact on his heater.
As with the hitting side of things, it is worth mentioning that several D-backs pitchers actually underperformed their expected stats. On that front, Kevin Ginkel stands out most. Ginkel's 2.90 xERA suggests his 3.38 ERA in 2022 might have undersold how good he actually was. (Again, insert obligatory small sample size warning here.) Moving forward, it's not all that hard to see Ginkel developing into a backend weapon for the D-backs. His slider generated whiffs at an elite rate, and his four-seam fastball averaged 96 MPH and did not get hit particularly hard.
Outside of Ginkel, the only D-backs pitchers who meaningfully underperformed their expected stats in 2022 are no longer with the organization, including Caleb Smith, Sean Poppen, Reyes Moronta and Noé Ramirez.
That fact underscores a key takeaway: Many D-backs players outperformed their expected stats in 2022, and a handful underperformed, but almost all of the players who over-performed are being counted on in a big way next year, while most of the players who underperformed are either low on the depth chart or no longer in the organization.
Heading into 2023, we are left with a somewhat troubling picture for the D-backs. It's not that they are doomed to fail, but they do have a lot to prove. On the positive side, many of the players who could be due for some sort of regression in 2023 are young and still on the upswing of their careers. No, they probably won't have as many balls bounce their way in 2023, but also, maybe they'll be just plain better and it won't matter much.
Considering how talented the D-backs' young core is, it's not the type of group to bet against.
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Author Jesse Friedman
Born and raised in Phoenix metro, Jesse's sports broadcasting career began at the age of 12 when he impersonated D-backs radio voice Greg Schulte on FOX Sports Arizona as the Arizona Diamondbacks Kidkaster. He started writing and podcasting about the Diamondbacks shortly thereafter, and has been doing it ever since. Now, Jesse is a podcast host and writer for PHNX Diamondbacks. Jesse has a math degree and a journalism minor from Azusa Pacific University in Southern California.
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When you have spent 35 years believing that you're not good enough, you're damaged, broken and unlovable, changing that mindset can prove rather challenging.
Impatience and frustration sets in, one day I'm up and my mood reflects what I feel inwardly, which is unstoppable, I can do all things and proceed to do the most on those days, even with continual hip pains (aseptic necrosis), on such days I tend to live my little cousins motto (have fun now, feel pain later) and I just do. Then, there're those days I awake in what seems like a cloud of doom and gloom floating overhead and I'm clutched securely within its clasps. I've been experiencing a few of those days lately. I'm annoyed and discontented, because some days I still feel that little girl within reaching, that child that needs to be pampered, loved on and reassured, and I at times don't know how to help her.
I no longer carry the shame, blame and guilt of being sexually abused as a child, nor do I feel ashamed about living with a chronic illness (I did for years) however, the stained residue of self-hatred and disdain remains, the mental damage was done and sometimes seems unshakable and unbearable. Over the past few weeks, I found myself having to fight extremely hard to escape falling back into old habits. I've been restless and wrestling with self-worth, self-love, life's meaning, and battling to elude the clasps of depression. Since I began doing my work, (journeying to free) I understood that at any given moment feelings like this will/can emerge unexpectedly and unexplainably. Other times the feeling of despair and hopelessness is brought on by a sense of losing control/not having control over a given situation and may give rise to responses of fear and despondency.
A broken bone requires time to heal, so does a broken heart, but healing a broken mind requires continual work, habitual patience and unconditional love. Self-love is of the utmost importance, but what happens in the case that one still endeavors to love-self? Your efforts and attitude towards your life-change is indicative of your state of mind. You must be persistence, consistence and determine to persevere, all these qualities and more are requisite for change of any kind but, a transition of this magnitude is monotonous. Embarking on this journey, journeying to your mental freedom may sound simple to some, Iv'e heard it being said, "Just change your thinking, think positively and all will be well" it sounds great in theory, but changing your mindset after decades of rehearsing and believing lies proves more formidable. It Is Hard! The turnaround/change doesn't happen instantly, which is why so many people retreat or remain stuck in destructive patterns, behaviors and habits, change/changing your mindset, your way of thinking, your life is extremely difficult for some, I completely understand and am sincerely empathetic to those that struggles to find the strength, courage, bravery, wherewithal and discipline to ride this ride. It Is Hard!
Journeying to my mental freedom humbles me. Doing this work have taught me so much. One of the lessons I have learned is one I've heard repeatedly through my faith, and that is "thou shalt not judge." Those words now breathe new life to me, and the meaning have never been clearer. I completely understand and am now able to be even more compassionate to people I speak to or come in contact with. In times like these I combat the added pressure of rising self-pity, warding off the shoulda, coulda, woulda's, the why's and why not's as the mind wonders and ponders what would life have been like had my daddy loved me (another post), had I not been sexually abused, had I been born free of this god forsaken, awfully dreadful disease… it would be so simply for me to remain complacent, surviving an unhappy and uncomfortable existence, quickened by fear and unwilling to fight, or alternatively, end it all had it not been for my faith and my "I'll be damned if this thing pulls me under after so many years of pain" attitude, BUT I fight and I will continue to fight, because I am too damn stubborn to quit!
Journey with me as I/we journey to free. From my heart to yours, with love, Larissa.
Thank you for this post. I have saved it to my bookmarks and any time I feel the despair this I will reach for. Give thanks, keep your faith and know under your wings we journey with you!!!
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Latisipho aphelus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

Description
(Description as Chrysodomus aphelus) The small shell has a bucciuiform shape and measures 30 mm. It contains six smooth whorls, covered with a greenish-gray epidermis The minute protoconch is eroded. The whorls are full and well rounded. The suture is distinct, not deep nor channeled. The sculpture consists only of taint incremental lines and a few obscure spiral traces. The aperture is moderate. The outer lip is thin and is very slightly reflected, flexuous. The body and the columella lips are white, polished and without callus. The columella is short, strong, curved, truncate anteriorly and well recurved. The siphonal canal is short, wide, well defined, and recurved. The white throat is smooth. The axis is not pervious. The operculum is normal.

Distribution
This marine species was found off the coast of Santa Barbara, California.

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Gastropods described in 1921


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Morchies ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand:  ) im Département Pas-de-Calais in der Region Hauts-de-France. Sie gehört zum Arrondissement Arras und zum Kanton Bapaume (bis 2015: Kanton Bertincourt). Morchies grenzt im Norden an Lagnicourt-Marcel, im Osten und im Südosten an Beaumetz-lès-Cambrai, im Südwesten an Beugny und im Westen an Vaulx-Vraucourt.

Wappen
Wappenbeschreibung: In Rot ein silberner Balken mit drei roten Merletten belegt.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

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Ort in Hauts-de-France
Träger des Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (Ort in Frankreich)


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Sunday, March 12, 2006 | 7:24 a.m.
It was quite a week in the Las Vegas casino business. Steve Wynn sold his Macau casino sub-concession for $900 million, Station Casinos showed off its spectacular Red Rock Resort and the state reported yet another record month of gambling revenue in January.
Wynn is really in his element right now. He's operating Wynn Las Vegas, getting ready to open Wynn Macau in September, preparing to break ground April 28 on Encore and strategizing future development in Las Vegas, Macau and elsewhere.
In an 80-minute interview on Friday, Wynn told me that he loves the activity - that juggling the operating, designing, planning and opening activities of his resort company is what makes him happy.
On the Strip, Wynn said Wynn Las Vegas is performing incredibly well, a performance he said is reflected in the January gaming numbers and baccarat win totals that wowed Wall Street.
"It's an old story: The top two or three places do all the business," he said.
The $1.6 billion-plus Encore will be an even higher-end property than Wynn Las Vegas, he promised, with "a very big use of atriums and gardens." Encore will also have a "hook" - such as Wynn Las Vegas' mountain/lagoon, Bellagio's lake/fountains and Mirage's volcano - but the developer isn't quite ready to share his hook with the public (or competitors).
Encore's rooms will be large: 734 square feet. "It will feel like a huge studio suite," Wynn said. "Giving people extra room is not expensive but it makes a big difference."
He said Wynn Macau's opening is on track, with the builder slated to hand over the property on July 27. The casino ceiling is in, the rooms are carpeted and suites are now being decorated. When Wynn last visited a couple of weeks ago he helped with the selection of music that will accompany Wynn Macau's Bellagio-style fountains.
Fifty-five thousand applicants are vying for 4,300 jobs there. Wynn expects the new property to be a quantum leap over the existing Macau properties. The change is like the difference between the Plaza in downtown Las Vegas and the Mirage, he said. "We haven't seen true destination resorts in Macau yet," he said. "Now we're going to see the Real McCoy."
Wynn said the deal to sell his sub-concession to Australia-based Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd. was a good deal for Wynn Resorts, Macau and for PBL and its chairman James Packer.
Frank Fertitta III and Lorenzo Fertitta took Sun gaming reporter Liz Benston and me on a tour of their newest baby last week, and Station's top duo are rightfully proud.
Red Rock Resort will clearly be the sweetest locals' casino in Las Vegas, and I think it will immediately rank among the best casino resorts in the world.
Sounding an awful lot like Wynn, Frank Fertitta III said of the rationale behind putting $925 million and beautiful design elements in every corner of Red Rock: "When you build a nice product you appeal to a nicer group of people."
Among the property's coolest features are incredible views, with rooms on one side of the hotel tower facing the Strip and the rooms on the other side facing Red Rock National Conservation Area. The pool area is the property's central focus, with a number of restaurants, clubs and the spa circling it.
The Fertittas have given Summerlin-area residents a property they'll be proud of, and I bet Summerlin and Las Vegas folks are about to give the Fertittas a generous return on their hefty investment.


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I love it when Easter and my birthday fall on the same day! Early this morning, I received some beautiful roses in a tea cup from my niece, Whitney (very Eva, I must say), and an Easter basket (with a special wind up chick) from my brother, Mark . We had a lovely family brunch at the Lyceum in Salem. For dessert, as is my family's tradition, I bit the head off of a small chocolate bunny and surreptitiously slipped the headless carcass back into someone else's Easter basket.
Also, my article on Salem was published today in the Sunday London Times travel section. You can read it by clicking here.
And the ads for The Lace Reader have gone up around London as well.
I have taken an oath not to do any writing today even though the deadline for turning in my new book is looming. It's a difficult promise to keep, addictions and work ethic being what they are. This little post doesn't count as writing and to help me avoid any real work today, Gary and I are going to take a ride up the coast. Fun times! Have a wonderful Sunday everyone. Details on my recent trip to Mobile, Alabama next.


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Matt Hackett makes 34 saves to win his NHL debut, Wild beats Sharks, 2-1
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Not bad for an emergency goalie.
Minnesota was without starting goalkeeper Niklas Backstrom because of a lingering groin problem and Josh Harding was forced out of the game less than two minutes in.
Enter Matt Hackett, who recorded 34 saves to win in his NHL debut in the Wild's 2-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday night.
"Really impressive," Wild coach Mike Yeo said. "It's not as easy team to play against in your first game and it's not an easy situation to go in and play your first game. The way he handled it, he was in control all night."
Mikko Koivu and Pierre-Marc Bouchard scored late in the first period in support of Hackett, who replaced Harding 71 seconds into the game as the Wild won their fifth straight on the road. Minnesota won for the 12th time after giving up the game's first goal.
"I didn't know it was that bad," Hackett said. "I just jumped in there and tried to stop pucks. I'm still shaking. I was shaking the whole time. It's an unbelievable feeling. It's a tough building to play in but it's a fun one too."
Hackett's uncle, Jeff Hackett, was the Sharks' original goalie and he's been taking lessons from him all his life.
"It was awesome," Wild centre Kyle Brodziak said. "He made some unbelievable saves. There's nothing else you can say. He was just awesome."
Joe Pavelski scored for the Sharks, who have lost four of their last five games.
Harding left with an apparent neck injury 11 seconds after allowing goal in the first minute of play. He was hit in the face by teammate Nick Schultz, who was trying to block Pavelski from the net.
Bouchard's power-play goal, with 12 seconds left in the first period, was set up by Koivu's perfectly placed pass from off the right board. Bouchard fired a wrist shot inside the near post for the go-ahead score.
Koivu tied the game with 2:19 left in the first period after Dany Heatley's shot bounced off Niemi's pads to Koivu's stick.
"Our special teams let us down a little but tonight," Pavelski said. "We got the start we wanted and we had enough good looks to put in more than one."
The Sharks did not convert on three power-play opportunities, which included a four-minute stretch.
"There were a lot of missed opportunities," Sharks defender Dan Boyle said. "We had a ton of chances but our execution ... that's a word we're going to hear a lot ... we're just not putting the puck in the net right now."
Wild forward Casey Wellman, who grew up an hour from San Jose, recorded a point while playing in front of family and friends for the first time. His father, Brad Wellman, was a major-league infielder and played five years with the San Francisco Giants.
Wellman tipped the puck forward during a line change that led to Koivu's goal for his fourth point in three games.
The Sharks took the lead in the first minute of play off a face-off. Pavelski won the drop, with Boyle slapping a spot off the pads of Harding. Pavelski was all alone and found a hole along the ice.
NOTES: The Sharks had 16 shots before the Wild took their first shot of the game. ... Boyle snapped a nine-game scoreless streak with his first period assist. ... Pavelski has three goals in his last 12 games after scoring nine in his first 12. ... Sharks D Doug Murray missed the game with a hand injury. ... Wild F Devin Setoguchi (lower body) left the game early in the first period and did not return. ... Bouchard scored his first power-play goal in three years. ... The Wild improved to 10-0-3 when leading after two periods. ... The Sharks fell to 1-8 when trailing after two periods. ... The Wild are one of five NHL teams not to be shut out this season


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Little Blak Dress
How a Local Boutique Produces Sustainable Fashions From Start to Finish
By Kellie Doligale | Fashion & Beauty
The American fashion industry is the most lucrative in the world, valued at approximately $359 billion in 2015. While the majority of designers and retailers focus on carving out the biggest slice possible of the profit pie, a select few are instead turning their attention to ethical, sustainable practices that buyers can feel good about as well. One such wunderkind is Amanda Dare Dougherty, owner and operator of The New Blak.
Beyond selling conscientious styles, Dougherty also designs the garments available at her storefront in the Oxmoor Mall. Together with a small team of seamstresses, she carefully assembles little black dresses and figure-flattering separates in the store's back room, thereby removing the sequence of middlemen all too prevalent and often unfair in the fashion industry.
"We embrace slow fashion, which is about higher quality pieces that you keep in your wardrobe for a long time," says Dougherty. "It's all hand-cut in the creative studio in the back of our store. I have no back stock. After the seamstresses make a garment, it goes straight out onto the floor after it's been cleaned and ironed. We're part of every process. We have a massive connection to the clothing, and we want that for our customer."
As a former retail manager at a fast-fashion store, Dougherty says she received 30 to 50 boxes of inventory a day. With no idea who designed or produced the garments and therefore no personal connection to them, she found herself quickly running through paychecks just to keep up with trends. The result was a closet full of inexpensive, poorly-made and likely wasteful clothes.
"When I came out of those jobs, I didn't have a lot of extra cash," she explains. "I had just worked two years of my life and so much of my income was gone. When I started this business, I was my own target customer. None of our garments are over $112, and we have stuff in our store that's as little as $2.50. We want to be open to every price point and age."
Dougherty's hands-on business began as a blog three years ago with a mission to "support, empower and encourage women through a sustainable and ethical wardrobe." In early 2015, Dougherty and her then-partners launched a Kickstarter to raise a launch budget of $5,000 for their first sample styles and start-up costs. A year after they first went into production, she bought out her partners and embarked on a "mobile boutique."
Working out of a 1991 Ford E350 shuttle bus affectionately named "Betty," Dougherty brought her fashions to events such as festivals and private parties starting in April 2016. A year later, she transitioned to the current storefront in Oxmoor while Betty rested on the sideline. "I'm not sure if I'll go back to the bus or not, but I loved the experience and feel like it was the best way for me to get my name out there. Driving a massive billboard is really useful for marketing."
Clever advertising aside, garments from The New Blak need little explanation. Dougherty's smart, breezy designs prove that modern fashion can still be timeless. Because the dresses, tops, jumpsuits and skirts mostly stick to a solid grayscale pallet, they're easy to style countless ways. Made from 95% bamboo, they're also intensely comfortable. Further, each piece is made thoughtfully right there in the store, eschewing the unfair labor practices often adopted by overseas manufacturers.
"The entire store look and the clothing line is from my imagination. Once the design is sketched out, we'll draft a paper pattern as a guide to cut the fabric and grade them in each size. We work on the pattern-making process while we wait for the fabric to arrive, so we spend probably 20 or 30 hours on a piece before the fabric is even cut."
Dougherty points out that with social media driving the pressure to not only look good but also look unique in photos, consumers have an opportunity to reconcile their budgets with their appearance by purchasing investment pieces like her versatile styles. "Clothing has a life cycle of two to five wears when you buy it from a fast fashion company," she explains. "You can wear a dress like mine 365 times, and that saves so much money per wear. If you buy quality pieces that you can mix and match, you won't need as much and don't spend as much."
To extend the life of such pieces, she stresses the importance of washing instructions: "People over-wash their clothes, and the washing and drying process really puts the fabric to the test. We do really stress this at The New Blak. We always want you to wash it in cold and then hang it dry. Read the care instructions, pay attention to them, and follow them. Whoever made your clothing has thought about it."
It seems there is no facet of her business Dougherty hasn't given due consideration, which would be impressive on its own not accounting that she's self-taught. Having found such success with no formal fashion or business education, she now hopes to empower other women with useful skills and a supportive network. The New Blak recently began hosting sewing classes and private tutorials or parties, which Dougherty plans to build upon as she simultaneously develops the Fall 2017 line called "Go Getter."
The New Blak's mission of empowerment runs deep and far beyond a great LBD. The store represents the idea that doing the right thing can lead to a creative and fulfilling career. "We have so many facets to our business," Dougherty says, "but I really just want our girl gang to feel the same amazing feelings I have when I'm around the seamstresses and stylists here. We can make a big impact." VT
The New Blak
thenewblak.com
shopthenewblak@gmail.com
7900 Shelbyville Rd.


This post is about website backup. A WordPress site was used for example, but principle is the same for websites made in any other tool (and CMS). I'll explain how to do backups, how often to backup and how to save backup data.
Terms "folder" and "directory" are synonyms and will be used as such, interchangeably, in the remainder of this article.
All the usernames, passwords and addresses shown in pictures and used in examples are just for demonstration purposes – use your own, correct and existing data instead of these.
How often should backup be made?
Websites are generally made of files and database. "Ordinary" ("static") sites are made of files only (.html files and images mostly), while "modern" websites usually rely on a database as well i.e. content shown to visitors is dynamically generated.
Here I'll explain the procedure for websites using database. Of course, for static (.html) websites, the parts about database backup can simply be skipped – they're not needed.
All the files, directories ("folders"), pictures – everything.
Database (or databases, if there are several).
For WordPress websites, plugin BackWPup can be used. In the free version, it allows full backups of all the files and database to be made. It can be set to place the entire backup within one zipped file and store that file on a hosting server directory that you choose/make and/or send the file to DropBox (affiliate link).
Downside of this plugin is that it places a lot of load on the server while making backups, while the free version doesn't allow scheduling backups to start at a certain time (when the website traffic is low). Also, if you use shared, or reseller hosting, it is possible that the hosting provider will set the server to "kill" applications that overload the server, so the plugin might not work. In that case, you might have to see with the provider's technical support how exactly to configure the plugin and if an exception can be made.
Besides this one, there are many other backup plugins, but I didn't like the way any of them worked in the free version – and I wasn't willing to pay for a backup plugin if I can make backups for free. If you have many websites and need many backups (and made often), your priorities and choices may differ, of course.
I won't go into details of how to install a plugin, nor how to set up any particular backup plugin – that calls for a separate post, for each plugin. It's usually not complicated and plugin authors offer good tutorials. An example of BackWPup manuals on the plugin author's website.
Plugins can also be used for WordPress website database backup, as I mentioned in chapter 3.1.
For all I know, cPanel is now a hosting industry standard. In other words: over 90% of hosting providers will set up users with a cPanel (while users who set up and manage their own servers probably know a lot more than I do and don't need to read this backup manual). Here I'll explain how to do backups using cPanel's File Manager.
First login to your cPanel. Either using hosting provider's website, or, if it is set up that way, using: cpanel.your-website-domain (less secure solution in my opinion).
Then choose "File Manager" from cPanel's main menu (picture 2).
Click on public_html directory (1a in picture 3), or on the home directory (1b). First option is for the website files, while the second option (1b) selects all the account files – choose whichever you prefer, though 1a is enough for backing up the website.
Click "Select All" button (2) to select all the files under the selected directory.
Choosing Zip Archive (1) and scrolling all the way down using the arrow (2).
All that's left now is to wait for the download to finish, copy the file to an external disc (second copy), and upload it to DropBox, or similar service (third copy on the "cloud").
There are numerous automated backup tools. Most allow backup scheduling at a certain interval (daily, weekly, monthly…), at a certain time (3 AM when there's little website traffic, for example), saving backups directly to a cloud storage etc. These tools usually cost money (let me know if there's a good free one in the comment section below).
Good hosting providers usually offer some sort of backup tools. These tools usually don't allow scheduled backups and you usually have to download the files to your computer (there's not sending a copy directly to "the cloud"), but it's still more practical than using cPanel (as explained in chapter 2.2.).
Pictures below show the use of "Backup Wizzard" that my current hosting provider (Veerotech) has set up. If you read the previous chapter (2.2.) you won't need any explanation and pictures will be clear.
Practically all the backup plugins allow database backup. I already wrote about backup plugins in chapter 2.1. and there's not much to add – just select database backup as well, when choosing backup options from a plugin setup menu.
PhpMyAdmin is a good tool for database exporting (and backup) and importing.
It is usually installed and set up within the cPanel. If that's not the case, it can be installed from cPanel (especially if there is a Softaculous installer set up). Other option is to download phpMyAdmin installation from the official website, upload to the hosting server using FTP (or cPanel "File Manager") and set it up. Instructions for installing and configuring phpMyAdmin calls for a separate post, I will not deal with it here, but will just explain how to do a database export and backup using the tool. Let's start.
If phpMyAdmin is installed within the domain, or a sub-domain, type the appropriate address and enter database username and password to log in.
In the menu that is then presented, it is usually fine to just leave all the options as default, and just press "Go" – picture 16. Though there are custom options to export the database to a directory on the server, zip-pack it etc.
Click "Go" and export starts!
Then database export can be saved like any other download from the Internet.
Basically, it is the same story as with file backup – see chapter 2.3. If using software like the one from that example, the only difference is you should choose option 3 in the menu shown in picture 11. Beside that, entire procedure is exactly the same – from start to finish.
Many hosting providers offer daily backups, with keeping the copies of the previous fifteen days, or so. That is very nice and good – seriously. But don't rely on that! Have your own backups at the ready and safe (educational experience of very good hosting company MDDhosting) – and do read the next two short chapters.
4. How often should backup be made?
The only real answer to this question is: "At time intervals that you are comfortable with loosing data". That is: failure will happen just before the next planned backup. If you make backups weekly, you can expect that in case of a problem, you might loose the previous 6 days of work.
I make backups after each published post.
There is a probability of each backup media to be damaged/lost/stolen/corrupt… Let us say that the probability of that happening is 1%. Not very high, but hardly impossible. 10 days in a 1,000.
If we take that probability of one backup's malfunction is 1%, then the probability of two separate backups being lost at the same time is 1% of 1%, that is 0.01%.
What is the probability if there are three backups? 1% of 0.01% = 0.0001%. That is one day in a million. Better? Now imagine using good quality backup mediums and methods so that the probability of one backup filing gets much lower than 1%.
This is an (over)simplified story used just to demonstrate the principle: everything that is backed up with only one backup is (practically) not backed up!
Original version – at a working server, regularly checked if functioning.
Reserve copy hosting server doesn't harm definitely.
Copy on your computer's hard disk.
Copy on an external medium (external HDD, or DVD).
Copy on an external medium stored in a remote place (so not all the backups burn in case of a fire for example).
Cloud based copy – DropBox, Google Drive, Backblaze, or similar.
On top of all that, it is good to have at least two previous backup versions. In case anything is done wrongly on the website, there should be backups taken at the time before the "deadly changes saving".


You are an awesome, amazing and wonderful woman and I'm proud to call you my life partner and wife. I can't thank you enough for taking this journey with me. And yes, may 2012 be far less crazy!
Thanks and happy new year! Hope it is a the best one yet. I have wished we could get a drink at the local pub several times since we have been here. I miss that.
I'm glad you're settling into Baltimore life, Lori. It was nice to visit last Spring and finally meet you and Karen in person. I remember eating lunch at your local pub – it's a great place. Happy New Year to you and Karen!
Thanks Sharon 🙂 It was great to meet you too. Hopefully we will meet again soon. Happy New Year to you and the family!


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Music in Corrales volunteer Jannie Dusseau recently described the organization's pandemically truncated season as "a significant learning experience and undertaking for our small volunteer organization, as we navigated what for us have been the unknown waters of obtaining and presenting online concerts."
And still they persisted. The schedule already was set for September 2020 through April 2021, when COVID-19 blew everything up. The president of Corrales Cultural Arts Council's Music in Corrales, Lance Ozier, along with Mike Foris and Deb Dapson took a deep dive into how to switch from in-person to online concerts.
They sought a new platform vendor who could support video on demand, and their usual ticket sales platform using brownpapertickets was no longer viable. They decided to offer the first online presentation for free. It featured Russian pianist Arsentiy Kharitonov, and ran through January 3, 2021.
Kharitonov, working from the University of North Texas, had quickly sent Music in Corrales an elegant concert video in 4G, which sadly had to be converted to 1080 in order to flow online. According to Ozier, about 67 people registered for 89 tickets, with the cost covered by funds from New Mexico Arts, as well as donors to Music in Corrales.
They contacted every artist already committed to its Corrales season, and slowly made renegotiated deals. Next up, running from January 23 through January 31 is a concert featuring Celtic fiddle and cellist duo, Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas, making their fifth appearance with Music in Corrales. For this one, music lovers will pay $15 per ticket.
Following the first viewing opportunity on January 23, Fraser and Haas will participate in a live question-and-answer session right after the concert, beginning at approximately 8:15 p.m. Tickets are available at http://www.musicincorrales.org/concert/fraser-and-haas-concert/
The vast repertoire the Scottish fiddler and the American cellist have developed over a 20-year partnership spans several centuries of Scottish music as well as Fraser's own compositions, and blends the Scottish tradition with cutting-edge musical explorations. And their work has helped revive and reinvigorate the Scottish tradition of playing dance music on violin and cello.
One critic suggested that what makes their music soar is its "tonal variation and attack to spare," along with "the responsiveness each shows to the other."
They tell stories as well, sharing the lore surrounding Scotland's musical heritage. And, in addition to performing, when not constrained pandemically, they both teach at fiddle camps across the globe.
Fraser, described as "the Michael Jordan of Scottish fiddling," was inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame in 2011. Haas, a Juilliard graduate, has performed with most of the fiddle world's greats. Begun in January 2020, the pair's latest CD, "SYZYGY," is finally rolling out. The title apparently references "the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies, such as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse, in a gravitational system." The duo says to "Make sure you check the livestream page for album release shows coming to a computer screen near you." See https://culburnie.com/alasdairandnatalie.html
Ozier thinks the live streaming online video platform Music in Corrales selected, Dacast, based in San Francisco and London, is meeting its needs. A few glitches here and there may well pop up, as concert venues and performers reinvent ways to reach their audiences. Look for Boyd Meets Girl online come February. Australian classical guitarist Rupert Boyd and American cellist Laura Metcalf, based in New York, will serve up an "eclectic and engaging range of repertoire, from Bach to Beyoncé."


I reheated after casing to nearly steaming when I loaded up the press. I couldn't resist cutting off a hunk of it and lighting it up... it is magical. It's somewhere in between Lane and Sutliff RR. I am really glad I added the molasses, as it really makes this taste nice and rich. I think pressing probably cut the burn rate in half too, which I am happy about.
I think next on the list is going to be a 50/50 mix of White Burley/ and home toasted white burley maybe with a little anise seed added to the boil when I make the casing. This is seriously fun.
I'm a fan of anise too. Great flavor with a burley. I need to get my casing game on track instead of just throwing the dice on everything.
I figured out a few things when I was doing mine. I chose to only make a pint, as even that will stretch to about 25 lbs of tobacco.. I also figured out that if you are mixing sugar and water at a 1:1 ratio by weight, it comes out pretty easy. A pint of water weighs ~1 lb, and 2 cups of granulated white sugar is also ~1lb. It also helps to have a syringe in ml to measure casing, and one of those tiny little travel misters, so you aren't foolin around trying to spray 4ml of casing out of a full sized spray bottle. I ended up adding a little extra water to the mister once I had pumped it dry to get all the casing out and compensate for moisture loss in my second heating before going to the press. It seemed like it worked out pretty well.
I was going to wait until tomorrow to take this one out of the press but I wanted to clean up the mess it was making. Impatience played a role as well.
Holy moly.. that thing looks like a charcoal briquette!
Looks like plug chewing tobacco of old . . .
The Houtencake did slacken a little over night. I could still cut a flake off of it, but it is not a total brick. I kinda hope it slackens a tad bit more so I can tear chunks off like a proper crumble cake.


On Feb. 29, many users of Microsoft cloud computing service Windows Azure found their systems unavailable, and, for some, the outage continued into the next day. Microsoft has apologized, issued refunds to affected customers and promised to learn from the incident.
The company says the problems were the result of a "Leap Day bug," an error related to date/time values. In a blog post, Bill Laing, vice president of Microsoft's Server and Cloud Division, wrote that the problem emerged from the system's attempt to create "valid-to" dates one year in the future, which Azure figured would be February 29, 2013. Since that day doesn't exist, the certification creation failed, and users ended up being shut out of their cloud systems.
Then, Laing wrote, Microsoft inadvertently sent out an update package that wasn't compatible with some companies' host agents, which meant a delay in getting back to business.
The issue occurred at a time when many businesses are considering whether to go the cloud computing route, and for what operations. Azure is a prominent name in the space, along with products from Amazon, Google and other companies.
It may not be surprising that there would be bugs in cloud systems. They're complicated, and pretty new. Windows Azure only became generally available in 2010. Then again, there are also plenty of potential pitfalls in storing data and software on-site. Keeping multiple computers updated with new software and security systems isn't easy, and local servers—not to mention employees' laptops—are vulnerable to all sorts of disasters. IT support firms can clarify these issues and help businesses choose the best tools—whether local or virtual—for their needs.
In response to the Leap Day problems, Microsoft has promised a number of improvements to its methods. Among other things, Laing wrote, the company will test its offerings better to avoid problems related to time and date values, work to detect errors more quickly and make customers' dashboard interfaces more consistently available. The company also pledged to improve customer support and communications tools so that, in the event of an incident, those affected will have quicker access to better information about what's going on.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is giving a 33 percent credit for the affected billing months for all users of the affected services—Azure Compute, Access Control, Service Bus and Caching—even if their service wasn't interrupted.
Microsoft must be hoping the slip-up won't hurt Azure, especially since cloud computing is more and more on the minds of businesses that are choosing how to deal with their data most simply and affordably. In its quest to win over those potential customers, the company also recently cut the price of Azure, following Google and Amazon, which have done the same for their cloud offerings.
It's pretty annoying when these problems crop up, and like you mentioned there are a lot of potential pitfalls here.
I'm sure customers will take this in one of two ways, firstly as a mistake that Microsoft can learn by and use to focus their future efforts in regards to the wonders of the cloud.
Or possibly customers who have been using microsoft products for a long time may see it as an extra reason to jump ship.
Personally I've had my own share of issues with microsoft in the past, usually relating to bringing out software before it's ready etc.
Thanks for the comment, Todd. Do you think Microsoft has a worse track record than other companies, or does it just get more negative attention because it's such a huge presence?


Teacher candidates are expected to watch and help in a grade 7-12 classroom while taking this course. Alternatively, some states certify academics in numerous curricular areas (equivalent to math or historical past) to show secondary training. To me, that has made teaching on the secondary faculty degree much more engaging.
You may be eligible to use for teacher registration by way of the Queensland Faculty of Academics and shall be able for to show from Years 7 to 12 in secondary colleges in Queensland, elsewhere in Australia and potentially abroad. To start coursework in a instructor preparation program sometimes requires the completion of specified conditions and acceptance into the school of schooling.
Third, due to hire/fireplace/rent/fireplace/rent/fire sample of working for public schools, an individual might work 20 years, and have their salary basically caught at beginning salary degree. In 4 years, a pupil can graduate with a major in both content and pedagogy.