the championship match is coming up.
If you haven´t heard about it yet, then be invited to join all communites who created a mission banner in their region.
For exmaple, my home town is joining the event by inviting all Ingress players to town to have a nice day walking the mission banner.
As you already noticed the welcome page https://liga.erleuchte.de/ of the EBL offers more information at first sight. This is the beginning of upcoming changes. Rules will also be adjusted from the 1st to the 2nd of June between the seasons. Beta Season 8 has already been prepared and will switch back to the league mode, https://liga.erleuchte.de/seasons/8. League mode will see relegated and promoted teams between the divisions and the best teams of the season will go to the playoffs. The output of points will effect more teams and make the season more competitive.


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Times continue to change as roles for women in commercial tire, trucking keep growing Protections now in place
Peggy Fisher
Do you remember the 1964 Bob Dylan song, "The Times They Are a-Changin'"? It does seem to me that this sentiment is true today as I look around the commercial truck tire and trucking industries and see women in roles that traditionally have long been held by men.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) most recent data book on women in the labor force, it is a good time to be a female professional in the U.S. The number of women in the workforce has grown significantly since 1970. It peaked at 60 percent in 1999 and has remained at a steady 58 percent since.
In 2012—the most recent data—the unemployment rate for women was lower than it was for men. Women have taken advantage of education opportunities and 38 percent of employed women aged 25 to 64 earned college degrees that year. That's up from just 11 percent in 1970. In fact, in 2013 more than half of all associate's, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees were awarded to women.
This greatly benefited women, as 28 percent of wives in dual-income families made more than their husbands, which was a marked increase of more than 10 percent since 1987.
However, women still face problems according to the data. Employed women work fewer hours than men and more working women than working men live below the poverty line. Across all professions, women are estimated to earn only 82 percent of what men earn. Of all female military veterans, 8.3 percent were unemployed in 2012 compared with only 6.9 percent of male veterans.
The tire manufacturing industry has been identified as one of six industries that has strong growth in revenue and employment of female workers. As we all know, tire manufacturing capacity has expanded since the Great Recession and has also benefited from tariffs placed on Chinese consumer tire imports.
Domestic tire shipments rose an annualized 3.3 percent over the 2009-2014 period. Due to the growth in this industry, tire companies are now facing a shortage of skilled and educated workers and are already tapping into the education and expertise the female talent pool provides. As a result the number of women working in the tire manufacturing industry grew an annualized 16.8 percent from 2009 to 2013.
Some tire companies have R&D development training programs that work recent engineering and science graduates through different areas of R&D, production and marketing. The number of new female recruits has been rising for most of these companies. For instance, last year at Continental Tire the Americas L.L.C. more than one-third of the new appointments in tire development were women, which shows just how well qualified women are in technical areas now.
Sing it again: "The times they are a-changin'."
When I started working at the old Roadway Express—now YRC Worldwide Inc.—in 1977 at the height of the "Sexual Revolution," the only women in the field outside of the clerical support staff were in sales. I was the only woman manager in the equipment maintenance department. By the 1980s there were only two or three female terminal managers in a Fortune 500 company with more than 600 terminals.
There were no laws regarding sexual harassment and sexual discrimination. You could walk into a terminal and see more women in the mechanics' calendars that you did in trucks or in the maintenance facility. There were only men's restrooms and showers. There were no accommodations for women and women were not welcomed.
I remember when I completed my training to learn to conduct a DOT inspection on a tractor and trailer, my test was to inspect a unit parked in the ready line, which could be viewed from the drivers' lounge on the second floor over the garage. I passed my test with flying colors and while being congratulated by the garage supervisor, a driver walked by and said, "You don't even look like a woman!"
Obviously, he had watched me crawling under, around and through the tractor and trailer and was not happy that a (fairly dirty) woman had penetrated this all-male bastion.
While some men disliked women in the workplace, others were delighted. The first time I met one of the company's maintenance directors, he said to me, "Boy, I'd sure like to hump you!" I had to decide quickly whether to belt him or just laugh. As it turned out, having a good sense of humor really paid off.
I still hated the guy, but at least I had a job and what turned out to be a great 19-year career with Roadway.
My job as manager of tire maintenance was to take a neglected tire maintenance program, revamp it, and then implement it in the field in order to reduce tire costs. I knew nothing about tires when I took this job except that they were black and round and required air, but fortunately Roadway Express was the largest user of 11R24.5 radial tires in the country at the time and was based in Akron, which was still the "Rubber Capital of the World."
Back in those days, most fleets were still on bias tires. Goodyear and the former Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. were happy to take me under their wings and provide me with the tire education I needed. Roadway also was Bandag Inc.'s largest customer, so I learned a lot about retreading by working in a Bandag shop for a couple of weeks.
But it took several years and a lot of very hard work to acquire the knowledge I needed as well as earn the respect of the men I had to work with both in the headquarters office and in the field. I found that whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this was not difficult.
As part of my job, I spent a lot of time traveling to Roadway's 11 garage locations, training technicians, supervisors and garage managers in all aspects of tire maintenance including scrap-tire analysis, tire repairing and on-vehicle tire and wheel inspection. I then evaluated and graded each garage on the level of maintenance it was performing along with the retreader it was using.
Since the garage was responsible for inspecting its retread facility monthly, a bad retread grade was included in the overall garage grade as well. This work was physically tiring, dirty and nasty—especially in the pouring rain, freezing snow and blazing heat. But, you know, it was the best job I ever had. I could see the great improvement in tire maintenance with both the tires and wheels as well as the company's bottom line.
In addition, it was rewarding to see the level of pride personnel had when a garage earned a good grade from me.
Fortunately, women entering the tire and trucking industries today are protected by sexual harassment and sexual discrimination laws. Having said that though, sexual discrimination and harassment can still be found in both the tire and trucking industries.
Managers, technicians, salesmen and other men can give women a helluva time if they want—and they often do. They can make a woman supervisor's life hell unless she learns to become as tough as they are, and they can be equally hard on a woman turning a wrench or doing some other traditional male task.
The thinking seems to be that you're "taking a job away from another man."
Today the tire industry labor force as a whole is just 17 percent female. Why would a company want more women on its staff? Well, women generally have perspectives that are different than those of men and bring different approaches to problem solving.
They have some skills that are better, such as completing paperwork, taking better care of their equipment and handling details. In addition, I think women are better listeners and can handle irate customers and often diffuse an ugly situation much more quickly than a man can. They show greater empathy for customers' problems and provide them with greater assurance that their problems will be handled correctly.
As someone once told me, it's better to have employees with good people skills and train them in the technical areas of their jobs, than to hire technically oriented people and have to train them in good people-handling skills. People skills are much harder to learn.
So how do you attract women to your company? First, look at your job ads—do they always show men? Include female employees in your career brochures and on your website.
Focus your search engine optimization (SEO) marketing toward females. Are there women visible in management roles in your company? If so, women will feel welcomed and valued by the company when they see other women in leadership roles.
The most important thing to do is create a culture that values and appreciates women in nontraditional roles. Bring more attention to their successes and show that there is nothing holding women back in your company.
Women in non-traditional roles also can benefit greatly by having a mentor. Often women tend to be more passive when considering managerial opportunities—not because they aren't capable but because they don't feel ready to take that next step. That is why it is invaluable for a woman to have a mentor who emboldens her to take the next step and while providing the encouragement and support to help her succeed.
I had a wonderful mentor who not only recognized my abilities but encouraged me to overcome the obstacles I encountered in the workplace and gave me the confidence I needed in myself to climb the corporate ladder.
The times they are a-changin'. Isn't it time your company changed, too?

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Who would have believed that before Ozoz was 9, she hated food? Sounds pretty strange right? Everything changed when she attended the summer festival in Edinburgh with her family and she had a meal of burger and Mirinda which sparked a new love for food.
Ozoz's love and interest in food has only grown since that experience. The renowned chef has built a career and an army of loyal foodies who follow her on social media with her mouth watering and creative dishes.
She is known by her loyal followers as Kitchen Butterfly and there is a story behind the name. Since the story of her journey with food has evolved over the years just like the butterfly, Ozoz believes that it only makes sense for her to use the butterfly as a metaphor to describe herself and her craft.
Through her work as a culinary chef, Ozoz is able to fuse the three things she loves most; food, writing and photography. Not only does she make delicious meals, Ozoz also takes beautiful pictures of ingredients and food art for her teeming social media followers.
We love that she always has a new and refreshing approach to Nigerian food. She doesn't take her job lightly at all. She constantly looks for new ways to use ingredients and she delights in taking fruits and vegetables out of their comfort zone.


No having s_x will not harm the baby. It's not advised the weeks before you are due but up until then there is nothing wrong with it. Some people don't like to do it after a while; however, no this earlier (I'm guessing it's early as you only figured out you were pregnant) it will not harm your child.
You can have s_x up until the day you give birth unless you have had with pre-term labor in earlier weeks and your doctor has advised you not to. Other than that, you can have all the s_x you want. I had s_x the night before my daughter was born.....you'll be fine.


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Chief Development Officer
The Innocence Project works to free the innocent, prevent wrongful convictions, and create fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone. Founded in 1992, the nonprofit organization's work is guided by science and grounded in anti-racism.
Since its inception, the Innocence Project has used DNA and other social and forensic science advancements to prove innocence. The organization has helped free or exonerate more than 200 people. Collectively, Innocence Project clients have spent more than 3,600 years behind bars.
The Innocence Project is committed to helping each person it represents rebuild their life. The organization provides holistic re-entry support, working closely with clients to ensure they have safe and comfortable housing, access to healthcare, and meaningful employment opportunities. It also provides one year of financial support to each exonerated client.
The Innocence Project is equally dedicated to addressing the inequities and failings that lead to wrongful convictions and disproportionately harm communities of color, especially Black people. The Innocence Project spearheads federal and state-based legislative changes that promote greater police and prosecutor accountability; improve access to justice, including through post-conviction DNA testing; and meaningfully compensate the wrongfully convicted. Its efforts have led to the passage of more than 200 transformative state laws and federal reforms. The Innocence Project also works to strengthen the standards governing the use of science in criminal legal systems and urges system actors – including judges, forensic experts, and prosecutors – to examine evidence for scientific accuracy and reliability, as well as to consider the broader social implications of emerging technologies.
The Innocence Project fights to advance the innocence movement and serves as the headquarters of the Innocence Network, a coalition of 71 organizations that provide investigative support and legal representation to people with claims of innocence in 50 states and 12 countries outside of the U.S.
The past few years have marked a steadily changing landscape for the Innocence Project. Donors' response to the need for urgent racial and criminal legal system reform resulted in unprecedented philanthropic support to the organization from both individual and institutional sources. A massive influx of giving ranged from broad-based annual support to substantial gifts from philanthropists such as Mackenzie Scott. As a result, the Innocence Project is better financially positioned and empowered to meet the challenges of the moment. Driven by staff growth, new programs, and a recently approved five-year strategic plan, the Innocence Project's operating budget — over 90% of which is funded with philanthropic revenue — has grown to $29 million in FY23, a $4 million increase over FY22.
Amid this positive backdrop of increased exposure and remarkable growth, the Innocence Project seeks an experienced, passionate, and mission-driven Chief Development Officer (CDO) to lead continued expansion of the organization's philanthropic revenue. This pivotal leadership role is responsible for setting and executing the vision for a long-term fundraising plan that ensures the strategic identification, cultivation, engagement, solicitation, and stewardship of individual, corporate, and foundation donors and managing a team of fundraising experts who will deliver on ambitious goals in their specific revenue areas.
The CDO, working closely with the Executive Director, will provide the vision, strategy, and direction to ensure that the Innocence Project's fundraising operations meet its ambitious agenda. The individual will be responsible for actively marketing the organization to external stakeholders and increasing its capacity to raise money, expand its funding base, reach new constituencies, and identify and develop volunteer leadership.
The CDO reports to the Executive Director and works closely with the Board of Directors, staff, donors, and strategic partners on diverse fundraising initiatives. They will lead and expertly manage a department of approximately 10 development professionals to achieve optimal performance in a culture of equity, cooperation, and passionate commitment to the mission. The team is poised for further expansion in the near future, particularly in its major gifts and digital fundraising programs.
The Innocence Project's new CDO will be an inspirational fundraising leader, and an effective and involved manager, with experience successfully discovering and engaging new constituencies. The CDO will be intellectually curious, have a passion for, and an understanding of, criminal legal system reform and a demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
While the Innocence Project will consider a broad range of backgrounds, the ideal candidate will have the following qualifications/experience:
Passion for the work of the Innocence Project and for social justice, including a demonstrated commitment to public interest. An understanding of criminal legal system reform and comfortable in discussing topics related to race and justice.
15+ years in nonprofit fundraising with increasingly responsible experience in the creation and execution of development strategy and programs, and an established track record of increasing philanthropic revenue. Broad knowledge of all functional areas comprising a comprehensive development program (e.g., individual, institutional, major, and annual giving; digital fundraising; stewardship; operations); leadership in a major fundraising campaign; and at least five years of experience identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding major gifts from individual and institutional donors at the level of six to seven-figures or greater. Prior experience working with nonprofit organizations engaged in legal and policy work will be considered a plus.
Knowledge of and fundamental adherence to the principles, ethics, and best practices of modern fundraising.
5+ years of experience managing a team of development professionals. Ability to recruit, lead, evaluate, and develop staff and contribute to the ongoing fostering of a results-oriented, multiracial/multicultural workforce. Experience managing budgets and revenue forecasts.
Demonstrated commitment to and understanding of how to build diversity, equity, and inclusion in the development function; culturally competent with respect to issues such as racial, cultural, religious, sexual, and gender identity. Skilled at delivering solutions in evolving, multi-cultural environments.
Demonstrated success in developing the case for support and strategic, innovative fundraising plans, and executing those plans to grow fundraising and exceed goals. Experience collaborating with executives, senior staff, and board and other volunteer leaders on development-related activities.
Track record of managing complex projects.
A forward thinker with a track record of utilizing new methods of constituent engagement and connectivity.
Demonstrated ability to integrate data into decision-making and strategy development.
Working knowledge of modern data management practices and innovations that can streamline development processes and contribute to the integration of related functions.
CFRE Certification or similar fundraising-specific training would be a plus.
Ability to travel on a national scale, as needed, consistent with public health guidelines.
The Innocence Project considers the diversity of its workforce to be vital to our organization's success in meeting its mission. We strongly encourage applicants from all cultures, races, educational backgrounds, life experiences, socioeconomic classes, sexual orientations, age, gender, and physical abilities to apply. Individuals with personal connections to the criminal legal system are strongly encouraged to apply.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, it is our policy not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, familial status, marital status, predisposing genetic characteristics, actual or perceived domestic violence victim status, unemployment status, caregiver status, or any other category protected by law.
The Innocence Project has retained the DSG Fundraising & Advancement Practice of the Diversified Search Group to assist in this confidential search process. Inquiries, nominations, and applications (current resumes and cover letters) should be directed electronically to:
Gerard F. Cattie, Jr.
Managing Director and DSG Fundraising & Advancement Practice Leader
Diversified Search Group
The Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Avenue, 49th Floor, New York, New York 10174
[email protected] | 212.542.2587


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New Spider-Man IMAX Spot and Oscorp Featurette
Check Out: New THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Images
XOXO! Ed Westwick In Talks To Play Vampire In THE KITCHEN SINK
Denis Leary Boards THE KITCHEN SINK, Vanessa Hudgens (Still) In Talks
Andrew Garfield Boards Indie Drama 99 HOMES
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Sony Pictures has released a new IMAX sport and an Oscorp featurette from director Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man, opening in 3D, 2D and IMAX 3D theaters on July 3rd. Check them out below. In this one, director Marc Webb speaks about the IMAX technique helping them make 'the totally larger than life' Spider-Man for the fans: [youtube]http://youtu.be/gG27lo2yAhQ[/youtube] Here, director talks about creating the Oscorp laboratory to be seen in a movie: [youtube]http://youtu.be/ytwBMLUxJOY[/youtube] The Amazing Spider-Man will be released in a week – on July 3rd, 2012 and it stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen, Irrfan Khan, Sally Field and others.
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Q: How to report the parameter learning results from dynamic Bayesian network for test and control groups in a research paper? I have a Dynamic Bayesian Network which I used in my research. Network is shown below:

It was employed in an educational video game and I ran the experiment for test and control groups separately. Parameter learning for the two groups resulted in different conditional probabilities and I could explain the differences that occurred. Below is an example of the learned probabilities for the test group:

I have a lot more tables for the param learning results and have two questions in this regard. First, is there a better way to report these results instead of using so many tables? Second, similar to what we do in classical ANOVA statistics where we compare the results from test and control group, is there a good way to compare the differences in Bayesian statistics? Is there a better way to interpret the results?

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Dead or Alive 5 on Xbox One X is a Pleasant Surprise
Team Ninja has a history of great games under its belt but they are most famous for the Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden series. With Itagaki in the driver's seat, they were pushing console hardware to its very limits achieving graphics that few other companies could.
Unfortunately, since Itagaki left the company, the team has been making one sub-par game after another. We sure all want to forget the disgrace Ninja Gaiden 3 was.
Unfortunately, Dead or Alive 5 in my mind was another example of a team having lost its way. The team made some questionable choices when it came to graphical choices for the game to the point that it sometimes looked worse than the xbox 360 launch title: Dead or Alive 4. There were a few reasons for this:
Lack of anti-aliasing
Lack of texture filtering – DOA 3 and 4 had better!
What looked like atrocious texture work all round
The buttery-smooth 60fps from previous games was replaced by glitchy framerates and freezes.
Well, imagine my surprise when I started Dead or Alive 5 Last Round on Xbox One X. The console's 4K upscaling, forced 16x texture filtering and higher compute power allows the game to run smoothly, the texture work to shine through finally (although it still leaves something to be desired at times) and the game runs at 1080p continuously without the dynamic scaler kicking in with what looks like proper AA in most of the levels. It does look like the game applies AA based on GPU load, and only when there is GPU overhead left. The transformation is massive in my eyes: the game now looks to be worthy of the Dead or Alive name. It's worth checking it out on the Xbox One X. The previous low quality presentation gives way to a sharp smooth look. Awesome!
Now if only Team Ninja could be fixed so easily. Their recent showings don't give us much hope and it's unfortunate, because unless Tecmo takes some radical action, they will waste and possibly ruin two of the best gaming IPs: Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden. My advice to Tecmo:
Allow Microsoft to make all previous games available on Xbox One X in 4K – and get some more life out of those games.
Time to sack whoever was responsible for Ninja Gaiden 3 and DOA 5!
Consider building a new more capable team around these two IPs.
I would like to see Team Ninja pushing console hardware to its limits once again with the crazy attention to detail they were once renowned for. It's not enough to do well enough to kind of meet what other developers do! We want to be amazed once again with what you can do other developers only dream of…
Author Roland JutaiPosted on December 23, 2017 December 23, 2017 Categories EditorialTags 4K, Backwards Compatibility, Dead or Alive 5, Dear or Alive, Itagaki, Ninja Gaiden, Tecmo, Xbox, Xbox Backwards Compatibility, Xbox One XLeave a comment on Dead or Alive 5 on Xbox One X is a Pleasant Surprise
Redout Lightspeed Edition – Xbox One X 4K Patch Review
The 4K patch for Redout Lightspeed Edition, a futuristic anti-gravity racer by an Italian studio, just dropped a few days ago. The patch notes promised native 4K rendering, 300+ bug fixes, major performance improvement and a 60fps lock due to the dynamic scaler. Has the Italian studio 34BigThings, achieved their goal?
Upon playing just the first level of the game, it became obvious that something is not quite right with this patch. While the visuals are absolutely gorgeous and look to be rendering at 4K natively, something seems to be broken with the dynamic scaler: it doesn't actually look like it's kicking in at all! There are major major performance drops in certain sections to what looks like below 30fps refresh! It's pretty clear something isn't quite right. The rest of the first 4 levels all seem to have similar slowdowns in places.
We have had patch issues with games on the Xbox One X, such as with Titanfall 2, that the developers miscalculated and then fixed quickly. Let's hope they can do the same with this one.
Interestingly, the slowdowns don't really affect the gameplay as you can still steer the ship easily and response is good. But of course screen refresh isn't great in places.
However, only around 10% of a level is affected, the rest of the level plays out at an almost locked 60fps. It's interesting that even slowing down and rotating the camera around the problem area, the slowdown still happens and it doesn't look like there is any dynamic scaler kicking in or the lower bounds of the scaler are way too high. It also mostly happens when lots of the track is in view all at once so clearly they are overloading the GPU by trying to draw too many things at once without either properly scaling back Level of Detail settings or dropping the resolution.
Anyway, I have contacted 34BigThings to have a look at the issue. Let's hope for a fix soon.
Author Roland JutaiPosted on December 19, 2017 December 19, 2017 Categories EditorialTags 4K, 4K game, 4K patch, Gaming, redout, redout lightspeed edition, Xbox, Xbox One XLeave a comment on Redout Lightspeed Edition – Xbox One X 4K Patch Review
Fake 4K – When 4K is not Really 4K
UHD Blu Ray is oftentimes made from a source only 6% higher in resolution than a normal Blu Ray. Be aware of this when buying…
How Movies are Prepared for the Cinema and the Home
Movies are normally shot on film or digital cameras. In either case, the usable resolution is between 4K and 10K depending on the medium. However, even movies shot on optical need to be converted to something called the Digital Intermediate (DI) to do digital effects, colour grading and other digital manipulation to the image before released to cinemas including being printed back onto optical print for older cinemas as well as release onto home video. Therefore the Digital Intermediate limits the final resolution and picture quality attainable from the source.
Unfortunately, most of the movies even now are finished using a 2K DI. Did you know that 2K has a resolution of 2048×1080? Compare that to Full HD (1080p) with a resolution of 1920×1080 and you are only getting an increase of 128 vertical lines which amounts to 6% of a resolution boost over 1080p. It is in fact so small that you are unlikely to notice it.
Enter UHD Blu Ray
For any movie finished with a 2K DI, what the movie studios do is upscale the 2K DI to a 4K image, which is almost 4x the resolution of the original creating extra pixels in the process. They cannot add any more detail, they simply use algorithms to guess the extra information. This can work to some degree just like the upscaling of your TV can work well with 1080p material. But then why not save the money, buy the Blu Ray and let your TV upscale – or something super-capable like Panasonic's UHD players.
To add insult to injury, they then put it on a disk that's almost the same size as your standard Blu Ray: 66GB versus 50GB disks as the 100GB disks are not really used, only for longer movies. They then compress using an algorithm that actually produces a slightly softer picture if not given enough bandwidth so really you arrive at a picture that's not really better than 1080p for a price much higher than the standard Blu Ray. This is why reviewers are sometimes hard pressed to find much difference in detail between the Blu Ray and UHD versions. This is atrocious in my opinion.
Now granted, there are UHD disks that have been produced from a higher quality DI such as 3.2K, 4K and very rarely 8K. Those are the disks worthy of your attention. Always check before buying. 4K is not always 4K. Unfortunately, the format isn't going to shine until they start using the 100GB disks as standard to give the bitrate room to breathe and start using 6K and 8K DIs. Then we will see what the format is really capable of. The current state of the format is sub-standard compared to what it could be.
To understand if a movie is real 4K or fake 4K, check out www.RealOrFake4K.com, which keeps tabs on the resolution of the DIs for each release, and even whether the release was put on a 100GB disk or not.
Now of course, there is more to UHD than just resolution, there is (the messy world of) HDR and also Wide Color Gamut (WCG). But that's for another article.
Author Roland JutaiPosted on December 9, 2017 December 9, 2017 Categories EditorialTags 100GB, 2K, 2K DI, 4K, 4K Blu Ray, 4K DI, 66GB, 6K DI, Digital Intermediate, HEVC, Movies, Optical Print, UHD, UHD Blu Ray2 Comments on Fake 4K – When 4K is not Really 4K
Ninja Gaiden Black on Xbox One X is Tremendously Handsome
The First Wave of Original Xbox Titles
I consider Ninja Gaiden on the original Xbox as still one of the best action games of all times. So when Microsoft announced that they would be bringing Original Xbox games to the Xbox One and that Ninja Gaiden would be in the first wave of titles, I was excited!
Upscaling – Not Just Any Upscaling
Emulating the original Xbox is no small engineering achievement, but little did we know that Microsoft wasn't done there. Microsoft's backward compatibility team figured out a way to upscale these titles to 1080p on Xbox One and 4K on Xbox One X at the emulator level. It isn't just a simple video output upscaling, but the actual game on the emulator is rendering out 4x (on Xbox One) or 16x (on Xbox One X) the resolution of the original game with antialiasing thrown in for a super smooth image that is an awe to behold on the Xbox One X especially.
Xbox Graphics
People like to throw figures out: these days it's teraflops, back in the day we were talking about vertices or triangles a second. However, I think those numbers are pretty meaningless with regards to the kind of image quality a machine is able to produce.
I was never drawn into the Playstation world of games because I found their graphical quality lacking in major areas: objects were too angular, textures were blurry and lacked detail and jaggies were all over the image. This is because Sony make some rather poor design choices when it came to their machines, with the exception of the PS4. With PS1 and PS2, they didn't have much of a choice due to the available technology to them, however, with PS3 they had only themselves to blame. The machine may have had enough power to complete with the Xbox 360, but the truth is that the machine is not even capable to surpass the original Xbox with regards to graphics and here is why:
From the original Xbox, Microsoft built features into the GPUs to allow for shortcuts in rendering. One of these techniques in the original Xbox was called bump mapping (or DOT3 mapping). Bump mapping allowed the machine to simulate more detail in its textures and more details in the character models than would have been possible otherwise. The Xbox GPU also had pretty sophisticated pixel and vertex shading for the time.
Ninja Gaiden on Xbox One X
So how does Ninja Gaiden hold up after so many years upscaled to 4K with the original assets? Quite simply stunning! I have the PS3 copy of the game as well and running through the same areas in the game, my PS3 copy looks flat and outright horrible in some areas. The Xbox One X image is jaggy-free, has better lighting (except for the first chapter which was re-mastered on the PS3) and beautiful running at 60fps. The original assets hold up remarkably well and the original art really shines through. It is clear the original Xbox was capable of some awesome graphics, just the low resolution was holding the image quality back.
Tremendous job! The Wizards at Microsoft have done it. Now I can't wait to play some of my favourite games on the platform such as:
Outrun 2 – although there may be licensing issues with this game because it had to be pulled off retail years ago – Microsoft, sort out a way to replace music in games so this isn't an issue!!
House of the Dead III – the original Xbox was an arcade powerhouse! This was so much fun.
Dead or Alive 3 and Dear or Alive Ultimate (DOA 1 and DOA 2) – come on! Make Xbox One the first platform to have all Dear or Alive games, please. Also bring DOA 4 from Xbox 360! While you are at it, bring DOA Beach Volleyball 1, 2 and 3 so the spin-offs are also on one console. The only thing holding this back might be Tecmo, however, now that they are finished milking DOA 5, they might allow it. Come on, guys!
Rallisport Challenge 1 and 2 – they are classics!
Top Spin – I still love the original. Awesome!
MotoGP 1, 2 and 3 – the original games were some of the best motorcycle racing games on any platform. Still haven't found any that compares – MotoGP 07 on Xbox 360 comes close.
Dino Crisis 3 – this game got some beating from the reviewers, but it is one of the best Sci Fi puzzle shooters on the platform with beautiful graphics and cut-scenes to die for. It is a personal favourite of mine!
Brute Force – why not!
Unreal Championship 2 – oh yes!
The Future of Xbox Backwards Compatibility
Now that Microsoft has figured out how to upscale original and Xbox 360 games to 1080p and 4K, I can see a future where they enable this for all backward compatible games (400+ and counting). Enabling it and testing it game by game might be tedious, so it would be great if the feature could be switched on and off for titles that have not been tested with the feature yet so the full library can benefit straight away- and we can turn it off per game if the game has glitches because of it until MS gets around to manually updating it. Maybe add some options for upscaling such as 1440p / 1800p / 4K so we can configure it and see what works for now. I know it's a lot to ask for but dare to dream!
What's more, this opens the possibility of Xbox One games that were not patched with 4K support for the Xbox One X to actually be upscaled to 4K using an emulation layer / swapping out render targets at run-time. Some of those games currently run at 900p with lack of AA. Even if 4K isn't possible, 1800p (note I didn't write 1080p!!) should be easily possible for older Xbox One titles.
One more thing: if they could enable this for all OG Xbox and Xbox 360 games WITH at least 2x AA (preferably 4x where possible), then Xbox One X would be THE PLATFORM to play 3 generations of Xbox games at the best image quality possible. Please make it happen!
Author Roland JutaiPosted on December 6, 2017 December 6, 2017 Categories EditorialTags 4K, Backwards Compatibility, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden Black, OG Xbox, UHD, Upscaling, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox Backwards Compatibility, Xbox One, Xbox One X1 Comment on Ninja Gaiden Black on Xbox One X is Tremendously Handsome
UHD 4K Blu Ray – a year on
Reflecting on UHD Blu Ray as a format a year after its introduction…
Any video disc standard of past has taken time to shine. Both DVD and Blu Ray in fact took a year to start producing content that was better than the previous standards – VHS and DVD respectively. I remember the first round of Blu Ray discs: barely better than DVDs when the DVDs were played on top of the range hardware having the best chips for cleaning, filtering and sharpening the image. What I have seen with UHD Blu Ray is déjà vu all over again.
UHD Blu Ray – the Theoretical Benefits
There are three major benefits of the new UHD standard that should theoretically overshoot Blu Ray by a large margin:
4K Resolution: 4x the pixel density of Blu Ray resulting in a much sharper image.
Wide Colour Gamut (BT.2020): a much wider range of colours that can be displayed on screen resulting in more realistic colours when used correctly.
High Dynamic Range (HDR): giving the image more contrast, more depth, and a much higher range of brightness variations depending on the display the disc is played on. The brightness variation is not only in the highlights – for those in the know – as that is only the recommendation for use. However, HDR is already being used in more creative ways.
The Reality Today
Unfortunately, a year on we are still waiting to be amazed by the new standard and here is why:
Standard Blu Ray is a very mature technology. In fact, the video compression technology (AVC or H.264) for standard Blu Ray has had more than 10 years to mature to ensure image quality, integrity and sharpness are at their optimum. The compression technology for UHD Blu Ray (HEVC or H.265) on the other hand is still in its infancy by comparison. It has not reached the same level of efficiency in its ability to keep all the detail in the picture as AVC has, nowhere near in fact. [note: HEVC is more efficient than AVC but comparatively looking at its own life-cycle it isn't at the same maturity!] There is a lot more to come from HEVC in the coming years. However, we are now at a point where HEVC is starting to shine.
The Blu Ray players, upscaling chips and upscaling technologies we have for standard Blu Ray have also had 10 years to mature and have they matured alright! We have image enhancement technologies using contrast enhancement (Darbee) as well as Super Resolution algorithms (e.g. JVC's Eshift, Sony's Reality Creation) that when used together easily rival UHD 4K images by analysing information on pixel by pixel and frame by frame basis to fill in the missing pixels.
The data-rate used for the first round of UHD Blu Rays is still only at just above standard Blu Ray levels. This is because only the 50GB and 66GB UHD Blu Rays have been efficient enough to manufacture. The promised 100GB discs are not yet standard. This is a huge drawback.
The compression (or authoring) software used to make UHD Blu Rays is nowhere near as mature as it is for Blu Ray. This means compressionists have had less control over where bits are allocated for the most optimal picture quality for these first year discs.
However, even if they used the new 100GB discs, the images wouldn't be sharper. In fact, around 95% of movies released on UHD Blu Ray in the first year were sourced from 2K masters upscaled to 4K as opposed to proper 4K images. This is partly because most films – especially that need heavy CGI – upto now have been finished at 2K resolution. To go back and re-do the CGI at 4K would be very costly. However, the trend is now changing due to the 4K push.
Even if a movie is finished at 4K, we know from working with standard 1080p Blu Ray that the best examples of the format are those discs that have been sourced from imagery 4x the resolution: in this case 4K. This is because there is more information to work with when cleaning up the picture for digital storage. Also, more high-frequency information – and therefore finer detail – can be captured by downscaling an image from a higher resolution digital source. So it stands to conclude that the best UHD discs will come from digital intermediates (DIs) that are at least 6K or higher resolution. In fact this is what we see as the best examples of the format. More on that in a moment.
If the difficulty of getting the imagery captured, prepared and compressed wasn't enough, there are a few design and few teething issues with the format as well:
HDR as designed for UHD Blu Ray only takes into consideration flat panel TVs and not projection. This is an oversight of massive proportions. It isn't even that the cinema HDR standard wasn't ready, as Dolby Vision (one of the HDR standards) is used for Cinema HDR in the US. Even Dolby didn't push for this to be in the standard, as Dolby Vision for UHD Blu Ray and in the cinema are two different standards. Having said that, a year on we have ways to calibrate projectors that emulate Dolby Vision or HDR10 (the most commonly used HDR standard), but it is not fully accurate to what the director intended. In fact, we have no way of getting fully accurate imagery for projection for HDR at this point.
HDR10, the most commonly used standard, has had no dynamic meta-data until recently. Dynamic meta-data is required for HDR as the mastering displays that UHD Blu Rays are created on have vastly different performance characteristics than our TVs and projectors in the home. Our TVs and projectors have a fraction of the colour palette or brightness to play with when displaying the images, therefore we need a way to tell the display how to interpret the data to be accurate to what the director intended. Dolby Vision has this information but HDR10 is now catching up, slowly.
The Wide Colour Gamut should be something that allows a more accurate representation of what we see in the cinema. The cinema standard colour gamut, DCI P3, fits into the colour gamut of UHD Blu Ray (Bt.2020). However, instead what has been happening in some cases is movie studios thinking they should differentiate the UHD Blu Rays by "turning colour up to 10" and using a palette that at times does not look natural, or faithful to the cinema presentation. They do this to give you more of a "thrill", however, this is where immaturity of using the format shows. It destroys the original creative intent.
The Future Starts Now
I believe the future is here. We are now starting to see UHD Blu Rays that are in fact bettering Blu Rays by a wide margin due to some of the above issues having been addressed. I will mention two that have just come out, almost exactly a year after launching the first round of UHD Blu Rays:
Planet Earth II: this BBC series was captured at mostly 6K resolution using some of the best cameras and downscaled to UHD Blu Ray. It really shows what the format can do today.
Passengers (2016): this heart-warming Sci Fi was also captured at over 6K resolution and downscaled for capture onto UHD Blu Ray. What's more, the movie's colour palette is faithful to the original cinema presentation. This is how UHD Blu Ray should be done, ladies and gentlemen. The presentation is a nice cut above Blu Ray.
What's Next for the Format?
As we have seen with Blu Ray and with DVD before it, UHD Blu Ray is just coming into its teenage years. The format still has a lot of road to travel and we can expect the following as it matures:
Compression technology, HEVC, will improve further over the next couple of years to be more efficient and also to produce sharper and more nuanced images.
Authoring software will improve to provide optimal bitrate to the right places in the bitstream.
100GB discs will become the norm providing almost twice the bitrate of today's disks.
Image enhancement technologies such as Darbee and Super Resolution algorithms will be adopted for 4K images, bringing out even more detail in the picture.
The majority of movies will be scanned and then finished at 6K and even 8K resolutions, providing the best starting point for retaining high-frequency detail and therefore image sharpness.
HDR technology will continue to mature both in its implementation and in its use by movie studios.
Movie studios will stop playing with Wide Colour Gamut as a new toy and will respect the creative intent and integrity of the original works.
So in conclusion, we haven't yet seen the best this format will be able to do. The format has a lot of headroom to improve – in fact more than previous technologies – and we will see some phenomenal picture quality from this format over time.
Author Roland JutaiPosted on March 30, 2017 August 14, 2017 Categories EditorialTags 100GB blu ray, 4K, Blu Ray, BT.2020, Dolby Vision, Featured, HDR, HDR10, High Dynamic Range, UHD, UHD Blu Ray, Wide Color Gamut, Wide Colour Gamut2 Comments on UHD 4K Blu Ray – a year on
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Once again it's time for my usual look back at the shows I watched this season in order to see how my early impressions and my midway views have held up. While I do these writeups partly to be honest about how things came out, I've also found them useful for looking back at what my past views were, to see what I thought about shows more or less at the time.
Concrete Revolutio: In some ways this was not subtle and in others it was hard to follow (to get the most of it you had to keep track of what had happened when in the timeline, which GuyShalev's Concrete Revolutio episodes posts help with). But as the show went on, I became more and more taken with all of the various things it was doing and the story it was telling and, yes, the characters involved. The whole thing has wound up as a quite enjoyable show and I'm looking forward to the continuation in the spring.
Concrete Revolutio has a relatively distinctive animation style and aesthetic, which I enjoyed but other people may not. I think that it fit the story it was telling and it was probably chosen for that reason.
One-Punch Man: This is here not because it's a great show but because I consistently found it funny and enjoyable. I'm aware that finding OPM funny is a minority position (at least in the Twitter anime circles I follow), but then anime humour rarely works for me in the first place. In addition to being funny, OPM also had some decent storytelling in spots; it pulled off one reasonably dramatic storyline involving Mumen Rider and a few other nice dramatic moments. I did some OPM takes on Twitter.
A lot of people love OPM for its fight animation, but I'm more ambivalent. A fair number of its fights were visually spectacular without being what I consider good fights, including the climactic fight in the last episode.
Gakusen Toshi Asterisk: This remained a well constructed and well made show all the way through to the resolution of the first cour's plotline (it continues in the spring season). It's not exactly deep, since this is a LN action show, but it's well done with surprisingly good writing and a good couple. I'm really looking forward to the next season.
Subete ga F ni Naru - The Perfect Insider: The great thing about the show was Moe and her interactions with everyone, especially Saikawa. The mystery was okay and the process of revealing it was interesting and often very tense, atmospheric, and quietly horrific. Where the show falls down badly is that it fails to challenge the absurd character positions and philosophy that get espoused throughout and especially at the ending. Since all of them are basically garbage, this lack of challenge makes much of the ending into an eye-rolling experience where I had no investment in any of the events and characters.
In short, when the show was good it was great, with Moe sparking off people, things about her history and Saikawa being revealed, and so on. But when it was not good it was pretty much a disappointing more or less stinker, and the ending was a serious letdown; the last episode was basically worthless apart from a few bits with Moe.
K - Return of Kings: I have a great deal of affection for K as a result of the first season but this season tried my patience by being kind of slow. In the end it came through with some great final episodes, character bits, and a definite resolution (even if it was a bit hokey). I enjoyed the whole thing but mostly not anywhere near as much as the first season. In my view, Fushimi really stole the season from everyone else by being clearly the best and most interesting character.
The conclusion to this season basically rules out any further K, and I find that I'm perfectly okay with that. K has had its run and told its stories, and I'm content to stop there (although I might be a bit sad if this season had been stronger; this season and the movie make it look like the first season was pretty much a fluke where everything clicked just right).
Owarimonogatari: As I put it on Twitter, people who are into Monogatari probably loved the resolution to the Shinobu Mail storyline. I liked some aspects of it and some moments in it, but on the whole I wasn't really set on fire by anything in this season the way I loved, say, Hanamonogatari.
Utawarerumono - Itsuwari no Kamen: The show has spent almost all of this season derping around. Its only saving grace is that it manages to be very, very charming during this derping around, charming enough that I've kept watching when I would have dropped any other show that pulled this stuff off.
Mobile Suit Gundam - Iron-Blooded Orphans: For various reasons I wound up dropping this shortly after I wrote up my midway views. Ultimately I just didn't really care about the characters and their struggles and I felt the show was going in directions I generally dislike.
I fully enjoyed three shows this season and was reasonably fond of everything else I watched, even if Perfect Insider wound up letting me down after a very strong start (and really, it was pretty strong for most of its run; only the ending was a real nose dive).
Written on 28 December 2015.


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IAEA chief in Japan to discuss North Korea and Iran
Global nuclear non-proliferation efforts are in the limelight, as the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Dr Mohamed ElBaradei arrives in the Japanese capital Tokyo for talks with the country's officials.
They'll be discussing the nuclear disputes with North Korea and Iran, as well as issues concerning the strengthening of the international nuclear non-proliferation regime.
El Baradei is scheduled to stay in Tokyo until next Monday. It's been reported that one of the main aims of his visit is consolidating cooperation between the IAEA and Japan.
Daniil Kobyakov, an analyst from the Centre for Political studies in Russia, discussed Dr Mohamed ElBaradei's visit with Russia Today.
Mr Kobyakov said North Korea's decision to test a nuclear bomb in October came about because of U.S. foreign policy.
The expert said that the non-proliferation treaty is facing challenges on some fronts in the world today.
"It is fair to say that now it is deep crisis. On the other hand, one should also understand that regionally the non-proliferation treaty was a sort of a bargain when non-nuclear states promised not to develop nuclear weapons, but in return they were promised to be transferred with the peaceful nuclear technologies from nuclear weapons states and they were also promised to have security on their borders and non-interference in their affairs basically. Therefore, the nuclear factor today plays such an important role probably because certain states feel insecure and global powers provide not enough assurance, and do not provide enough peaceful technologies. So this problem should be addressed in a very complex manner. On the one hand the sanctions regime has to be in place in the IAEA, and UN Security Council has such mechanisms. But on the other hand it is also important to maintain this system of non-proliferation treaty which was originally set up," he mentioned


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Q: How to get the exact bending of curve I want to get the following figure:

What I have done is given below:
\documentclass[tikz, margin=3mm]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
    \begin{document}
         \begin{tikzpicture}[%x=2cm,y=2cm
        dot/.style = {circle, fill,
                      inner sep=.3ex,
                      }
                            ]
    \draw[-latex, thick, draw=black] (-1,0)--(4,0) node [right] {$x$};
    \draw[-latex, thick, draw=black] (0,-4)--(0,4) node [above] {$y$};
    \draw[scale=1,red,fill=red] (0, 0) circle (.3ex);
        \draw[scale=1] (0, 0) node[anchor=north east]{$O$} ;
        \draw[scale=1,red,fill=red] (3,3.25) circle (.3ex);
        \draw[scale=1,red,fill=red] (0,3.25) circle (.3ex);
        %right direction below x axis
        \draw[thin, draw=black,dashed] (0,3.25)--(3,3.25) node [right] {$A$};
        \draw[scale=1,blue!90!blue,thick,rounded corners] (3,3.25) to[bend right=10] (.1,2.75) to (.1,-2.75)  to[bend right=10] (3,-3.25);
         \end{tikzpicture}
    \end{document}

How to get the exact bending as the figure above together with the arrows?
Please help.

A: Here's my best effort, using the function $x=y^6+0.1$ (a higher order polynomial will produce something more "square"). I've changed your coordinates so that the node A is at (1.1,1), which makes plotting the curve a bit easier.
\documentclass[tikz, margin=3mm]{standalone}
    \begin{document}
         \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=3,%x=2cm,y=2cm
        dot/.style = {circle, fill,
                      inner sep=.3ex,
                      }
                            ]
    \draw[-latex, thick, draw=black] (-0.1,0)--(1.25,0) node [right] {$x$};
    \draw[-latex, thick, draw=black] (0,-1.25)--(0,1.25) node [above] {$y$};
    \draw[scale=1,red,fill=red] (0, 0) circle (.3ex);
        \draw[scale=1] (0, 0) node[anchor=north east]{$O$} ;
        \draw[thin, draw=black,dashed] (0,1)--(1.1,1) node [right] {$A$};
        \draw[thin, draw=black,dashed] (0,-1)--(1.1,-1);
        \draw[scale=1,red,fill=red] (1.1,1) circle (.3ex);
        \draw[scale=1,red,fill=red] (0,1) circle (.3ex);
        \draw[scale=1,red,fill=red] (0,-1) circle (.3ex);
        %right direction below x axis
        \draw[domain=-1:1,smooth,variable=\y,blue,thick]  plot ({pow(\y, 6)+0.1},{\y});
         \end{tikzpicture}
    \end{document}

I also changed the order of some of the elements, so that the red circles are on top of the dashed lines. Ideally you'd probably also have the red circles drawn after the blue curve, but I'll leave that to you to fix.

A: Another way is to increase the radius of the rounded corners. I'd also use the dots which you define, also in order to prevent curve from entering the dots.
\documentclass[tikz, margin=3mm]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta,decorations.markings}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[%x=2cm,y=2cm
    dot/.style = {circle, fill=red,
                  inner sep=.3ex,node contents={}
                  }
                        ]
    \draw[-latex, thick, draw=black] (-1,0)--(4,0) node [right] {$x$};
    \draw[-latex, thick, draw=black] (0,-4)--(0,4) node [above] {$y$};
    %right direction below x axis
    \path    (0,0) node[dot,label=below left:{$O$}];
    \draw[thin, draw=black,dashed] (0,3.25) node[dot]
         --(3,3.25) node(A)[dot,label=right:{$A$}]
         (0,-3.25) node[dot] -- (3,-3.25)node(B)[dot] ;
    \draw[blue!90!blue,thick,rounded corners=25pt,
        >={Stealth[length=3mm]},postaction=decorate,
    decoration={markings,
    mark=at position 0.2 with {\arrow{>}},
    mark=at position 0.4 with {\arrow{>}},
    mark=at position 0.6 with {\arrow{>}},
    mark=at position 0.85 with {\arrow{>}},
    }]
     (A) to[bend right=10] (.2,2.5) -- (.2,-2.5)
     to[bend right=10] (B);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}


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Category 4 Hurricane Irma bearing down on the Florida Keys
By TAMARA LUSH and JAY REEVES, Associated Press
Sep 10, 2017 at 6:56 AM Sep 10, 2017 at 11:14 AM
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Hurricane Irma regained strength as it closed in on the Florida Keys early Sunday and forecasters monitored a crucial shift in its trajectory — just a few more miles to the west — that could keep its ferocious eye off the southwest Florida coast and over warm Gulf water.
The hurricane re-strengthened to Category 4 status with maximum sustained winds near 130 mph (210 kph). The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Irma was expected to weaken but would remain a powerful storm as it moved through the Florida Keys and near the state's west coast.
As of 5 a.m. EDT Sunday, the hurricane was centered about 40 miles (65 kilometers) south-southeast of Key West, Florida, and had sped up slightly, moving northwest at 8 mph (13 kph).
Tens of thousands of people huddling in shelters watched for updates as the storm swung to the west, now potentially sparing Tampa as well Miami the catastrophic head-on blow forecasters had been warning about for days.
But those few miles meant St. Petersburg could get a direct hit, rather than its more populous twin across Tampa Bay. Neither city has suffered a major hurricane in nearly a century. Access to all of Pinellas County's barrier islands, including the popular spring break destination of Clearwater Beach, was shut off.
The leading edge of the immense storm bent palm trees and spit rain across South Florida, knocking out power to more than 170,000 homes and businesses, as the eye approached Key West.
As the hurricane's eye approached the Florida Keys early Sunday, 60-year-old Carol Walterson Stroud and her family were huddled in a third floor apartment at a senior center in Key West.
"We are good so far," she said in a text message just before 5:30 a.m. "It's blowing hard."
Stroud was with her husband, Tim Stroud, and granddaughter, Sierra Costello. Their dog Rocky was also riding out the storm.
Stroud said she planned to step outside once the eye of the hurricane passed over. She said she has stood in the eye of a hurricane before and it's "total peace and quiet."
Florida Gov. Rick Scott had warned residents in the state's evacuation zones Saturday that "this is your last chance to make a good decision." About 6.4 million people were told to flee.
But because the storm is 350 to 400 miles wide, the entire Florida peninsula was exposed. Forecasters said the greater Miami area of 6 million people could still get life-threatening hurricane winds and storm surge of 4 to 6 feet.
Irma was at one time the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the open Atlantic with a peak wind speed of 185 mph (300 kph) last week. It left more than 20 people dead across the Caribbean and as it moved north over the Gulf of Mexico's bathtub-warm water of nearly 90 degrees, it was expected to regain strength.
Meteorologists predicted Irma would plow into the Tampa Bay area Monday morning. The area has not been struck by a major hurricane since 1921, when its population was about 10,000, National Hurricane Center spokesman Dennis Feltgen said. Now around 3 million people live there.
The latest course also still threatens Naples' mansion- and yacht-lined canals, Sun City Center's retirement homes, and Sanibel Island's shell-filled beaches.
Irma's course change caught many off guard and triggered a major round of last-minute evacuations in the Tampa area. Many businesses had yet to protect windows with plywood or hurricane shutters. Some locals grumbled about the forecast, even though Florida's west coast had long been included in the zone of probability.
"For five days, we were told it was going to be on the east coast, and then 24 hours before it hits, we're now told it's coming up the west coast," said Jeff Beerbohm, a 52-year-old entrepreneur in St. Petersburg. "As usual, the weatherman, I don't know why they're paid."
Nearly the entire Florida coastline remained under hurricane watches and warnings, and the latest projections could shift again, sparing or savaging other parts of the state.
Forecasters warned of storm surge as high as 15 feet (4.5 meters).
"This is going to sneak up on people," said Jamie Rhome, head of the hurricane center's storm surge unit.
The westward shift prompted Pinellas County, home to St. Petersburg, to order 260,000 people to leave, while Georgia scaled back evacuation orders for some coastal residents. Motorists heading inland from the Tampa area were allowed to drive on the shoulders.
At Germain Arena not far from Fort Myers, on Florida's southwestern corner, thousands waited in a snaking line for hours to gain a spot in the hockey venue-turned-shelter.
"We'll never get in," Jamilla Bartley lamented in the parking lot.
The governor activated all 7,000 members of the Florida National Guard, and 30,000 guardsmen from elsewhere were on standby.
In the Orlando area, Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and Sea World all were closing Saturday. The Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Tampa and Orlando airports shut down.
Given its mammoth size and strength and its course up the peninsula, it could prove one of the most devastating hurricanes ever to hit Florida, and inflict damage on a scale not seen here in 25 years.
Hurricane Andrew smashed into suburban Miami in 1992 with winds topping 165 mph (265 kph), damaging or blowing apart over 125,000 homes. The damage in Florida totaled $26 billion, and at least 40 people died.
Reeves reported from Naples. Associated Press writers Seth Borenstein in Washington; Terry Spencer in Palm Beach County; Gary Fineout in Tallahassee; Terrance Harris and Claire Galofaro in Orlando; and Jason Dearen, Jennifer Kay and David Fischer in Miami contributed to this report.


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Lake Upsilon is a lake in Rolette County, North Dakota, in the United States.

This lake was so named on account of its shape, upsilon meaning Y in Greek.

See also
List of lakes in North Dakota

References

Lakes of North Dakota
Bodies of water of Rolette County, North Dakota

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Twitter removes 140 Character Limit on Direct Messages
|In Digital Experiences
|By Corey-Jan Albert
Last month, this announcement from Twitter appeared in its community forums:
Sachin Agarwal, the DM Product Manager @ Twitter announced:
The change is due to occur on an undisclosed date sometime later this month, but already, people are excited. This is what Phil Blum, Time Warner Cable's Senior Manager of Social Media Customer Care, said in response:
Here's why this will matter to businesses: Twitter remains on the forefront of real-time communication within social media. But even in real-time, distractions, connection issues, and myriad other things delay the delivery and consumption of each 140 character morsel. So, a quick, four message exchange can potentially take upwards of five to seven minutes…an eternity in the world of Social Media.
The exchange could take even longer when you consider that prior to this past April, the business would first have to ask the user to follow the brand before a DM exchange could take place.
Without that hurdle – and with 10,000 characters available for each DM – (more than 170 times the old limit !), a customer issue that once would be resolved in a 20-minute exchange could potentially be resolved in half the time.
For brands, this change rounds out a series of changes that help position Twitter as an even better solution for brand interaction with consumers, especially in the customer service arena. No longer will frustrated customers need to send three or four messages to communicate their frustration. In short, this will be a win for brands, looking to improve their overall perception on social media, and for consumers, wanting things to happen immediately so they can get back to their days.
Today, 51% of consumers perceive brands that engage with them on social media for customer service issues more favorably overall.* Add in the fact that just under 50% of consumers expect a response from a brand within one hour,** and the implication is clear: every opportunity to optimize each interaction has the potential to lead to a happier customer and a potential brand advocate.
* 2014 State of MultiChannel Customer Service Report, Parature
** Edison Research


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package org.apache.directory.api.ldap.model.entry;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import org.apache.directory.api.ldap.model.exception.LdapException;
import org.apache.directory.api.ldap.model.name.Dn;
import org.junit.Test;

/**
 * Test the Entry class
 *
 * @author Apache Directory Project
 */
public class EntryTest
{
    @Test
    public void testEntryCreation() throws LdapException
    {
        Entry entry = new DefaultEntry();

        entry.setDn( "dc=example, dc=com" );
        entry.add( "objectClass", "top", "domain" );
        entry.add( "dc", "example" );

        assertNotNull( entry.getDn() );
        assertEquals( new Dn( "dc=example, dc=com" ), entry.getDn() );
        assertNotNull( entry.getAttributes() );
        assertEquals( 2, entry.size() );
        assertTrue( entry.contains( "objectClass", "top", "domain" ) );
        assertTrue( entry.contains( "dc", "example" ) );
        assertFalse( entry.isSchemaAware() );

        Entry entry2 = new DefaultEntry( "dc=example, dc=com" );
        entry2.add( "objectClass", "top", "domain" );
        entry2.add( "dc", "example" );

        assertEquals( entry, entry2 );
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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=====================================================
Verification and validation for air/water flow models
=====================================================

https://github.com/erdc-cm/air-water-vv

Organization of the test set
----------------------------

The tests are divided into two-dimensional and three-dimensional
tests, with additional subdivisions of those directores as needed. A
test consists of a single directory including

- A README file giving a brief overview of the problem and references
  to published work
- All data files describing the geometry and physical parameters of
  the problem
- A set of input files for a code
  (e.g. https://github.com/erdc-cm/proteus)
- A script for results postprocessing (Optional)
- A script for running regression tests

Checklist for adding new test problems
------------------------

- Clone or fork this repository
- Create a new branch
- Add a new subdirectory with the contents of your test case
- Fit the new test case in the existing folder structure, by creating a new category if applicable
- Document the case by creating a README file, and preferably include appropriate sketches
- Make your case modular by including in the context any parameters subject to change
- Carefully document the context parameters and other parts of the code
- Create a test to check that the case runs without errors
- Create test to check that results compare well with some reference results (e.g. experiments)
- Include the path of the test script in .travis.yaml file
- Push the branch to the remote repository
- Make a pull request, preferebly by recommending a reviewer
- The reviewer will ensure that all steps above have been followed
- Once accepted, include your name in contributors

Contributors
------------
- Chris Kees, Aggelos Dimakopoulos, Eleni Zve, Matthew Farthing, Aron Ahmadia, Ido Akkerman, Matt Malej, Roham Bakhtyar, Giovanni Cozzuto, Tristan de Lataillade, Giorgos Makrygiannis, Louis Maurel


Radio New Zealand has used an official information request to expose serious unrest among scientists this week over the way the government is handling its NationalScienceChallenges project.
The station has obtained emails between scientists and the Ministry for Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) outlining 19 complaints in the last half a year. The complaints included claims the challenges were too broad, too rigid and would not produce high-quality research.
"In one, Callaghan Innovation's then-group manager Bob Buckley said there was a complete lack of challenging science and it was going to waste valuable and limited resources," Radio NZ reported.
The National Science Challenges project aims to focus science funding on specific issues that the government has identified as fundamental to the future of the country.
New Zealand Association of Scientists President Dr Nicola Gaston told Radio NZ the problems with the programme were widespread and scientists felt disillusioned and frustrated. She called for the government to invest the money elsewhere.
TEU's Jack Heinemann supported her call, saying governments all over the world are attempting to micromanage the process of scientific discovery by "dictating ever more narrow funding specifications often overlain with ideological aspirations".
"There is absolutely no evidence that such practices lead to more or even more useful outcomes from science. The best way that our Government could invest the money is to expand the Marsden Fund and increase opportunity for the small research groups with good ideas," he said.


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/**
 * Interface for the definition of the 'room' concept (from GameMaker)
 */
package graphics.rooms;

import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;

import graphics.effects.Visual;
import kuusisto.tinysound.Music;
import logic.Input.KEY;
import logic.Objeto;
import logic.Sprite;
import logic.misc.ObjetoComparator;
import main.Game;

/**
 * @author Patricia Lazaro Tello (554309)
 * @author Jaime Ruiz-Borau Vizarraga (546751)
 */
public abstract class Room {

	public Game g;
	public int width;
	public int height;
	public String name;
	public List<Objeto> objetos;

	public Visual loadSymbol;

	private Music music;
	public Sprite background;

	private Timer timerInit;
	private long seconds;

	protected Thread loader = null;

	/**
	 * @param w
	 *            width
	 * @param h
	 *            height
	 * @param n
	 *            name
	 */
	public Room(int w, int h, String n) {
		width = w;
		height = h;

		background = null;

		name = n;
		objetos = new LinkedList<Objeto>();

		seconds = 0;
		timerInit = new Timer();
		timerInit.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask() {

			@Override
			public void run() {
				seconds++;
			}
		}, 0, (1 * 1000));

		loader = null;
		loadResources();
	}

	/**
	 * @param music
	 *            music to play
	 * @param replay
	 *            replay or sound just once
	 */
	public void setMusic(Music music, boolean replay) {
		this.music = music;
		this.music.play(replay);
	}

	/**
	 * Stops the music
	 */
	public void stopMusic() {
		this.music.stop();
	}

	/**
	 * Adds an object to the room
	 *
	 * @param o
	 *            object to add
	 */
	public void addObjeto(Objeto o) {
		objetos.add(o);
		Collections.sort(objetos, new ObjetoComparator());
	}

	/**
	 * Destroy and object
	 *
	 * @param o
	 *            object to destroy
	 */
	public void destroy(Objeto o) {
		objetos.remove(o);
		Collections.sort(objetos, new ObjetoComparator());
	}

	/**
	 * Load resources
	 */
	public void loadResources() {
		if (loader == null) {
			LoaderRepository.load();
			loadSymbol = new Visual(width / 2, height / 2, this,
					LoaderRepository.loading);

			loader = new Thread(new Loader(this));
			loader.start();
		}
	}

	public abstract void load();

	/**
	 * @return true if the loading is complete
	 */
	public boolean loadComplete() {
		if (loader != null) {
			return !loader.isAlive();
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Method to paint the screen
	 *
	 * @param g
	 *            graphics section to paint
	 */
	public void render(Graphics g) {
		if (loadComplete()) {
			drawBackground(g);
			Collections.sort(objetos, new ObjetoComparator());
			for (int i = 0; i < objetos.size(); i++) {
				Objeto o = objetos.get(i);
				o.render(g);
			}
		} else {
			if(seconds > 0){
				timerInit.cancel();
				g.clearRect(0, 0, width, height);
				loadSymbol.render(g);
			}
		}
	}

	public abstract void drawBackground(Graphics g);

	/**
	 * Method to process a step in the actual room
	 *
	 * @param key
	 *            key
	 * @param direction
	 *            direction
	 */
	public void step(KEY key, KEY direction) {
		if (!loadComplete()) {
			return;
		}
		for (int i = 0; i < objetos.size(); i++) {
			objetos.get(i).step(key, direction);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Destroy the room
	 */
	public void destroy() {
		if (music != null) {
			music.stop();
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Pause the room
	 */
	public void pause() {
		if (music != null) {
			music.pause();
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Resume the room
	 */
	public void resume() {
		if (music != null) {
			music.resume();
		}
	}

}


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From Israeli citizens to CanaDanse Festival sponsors and participants - Please do not legitimize Israel's apartheid!
The Government of Canada and the Cities of Vancouver and Montreal,
Shay Kuebler-Radical System Art, Vancouver
Ballet BC, Vancouver
Le Carré des Lombes/Danièle Desnoyers, Montreal
We are a group of Israeli citizens, opposed to our government's policies of oppression, occupation, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing against the indigenous Palestinian people. We support the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli institutions until Israel complies with international law and universal principles of human rights [1].
We note that you are officially sponsoring the CanaDanse Festival, to be held in Jaffa in January 2019. This act would ignore an important call for solidarity issued by a broad coalition representing Palestinian civil society. [2]
The Israeli government and the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa work hard to market Israel as an enlightened democracy, whitewashing the nature of the Israeli regime. In particular, an ongoing special campaign seeks to "Brand Tel Aviv" as a cool city for people to visit, as explained by the municipality's spokesperson: "We are the means of public relations for the whole state." [3].
However, the story of Tel Aviv-Jaffa itself is the story of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948, a catastrophe known as the Nakba: Jaffa was the largest city in historical Palestine during the years of the British mandate, with more than 80,000 Palestinian inhabitants. In 1948, when the State of Israel was established, Zionist military forces displaced 95 percent of Jaffa's indigenous Palestinian population. At that time, Jaffa's refugees accounted for 15 percent of Palestinian refugees, and today they are dispersed across the globe, still banned from returning by the state of Israel, which is responsible for their displacement [4].
Many of the Palestinian refugees of Yaffa (Jaffa) fled to the Gaza strip, which is now an open air prison under Israeli control, siege and occupation, and a man-made humanitarian disaster area. The descendants of these refugees, civilians marching for their freedom and right of return on the border of the Gaza strip, are being systematically shot, maimed and killed by the Israeli army. [5]
In view of these facts, we note the grave error of judgment in a statement by representatives of Ballet BC that "We are honoured to be a part of this festival (in Israel)". To this we say that there is no honour in whitewashing Israel's racism, occupation, colonialism and apartheid.
We thank and support concerned Canadian citizens and human rights activists who are increasingly standing up to official Canadian support of Israel's violations of human rights and international law.
We join their call for the cancellation of Canadian participation in the planned festival in Jaffa next month.
Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within (aka Boycott from Within)
[1] http://boycottisrael.info
[2] http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1047
[3] http://pulsemedia.org/2012/07/24/boycotting-the-white-city-good-for-tel-avivians/
[4] http://electronicintifada.net/content/jaffa-eminence-ethnic-cleansing/8088
[5] https://www.btselem.org/gaza_strip/2018_unlawful_gunfire_against_protesters_in_return_marches


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This Week In Music: Adele Releases '30,' Kanye & Drake Squash Longstanding Feud
And all the other news you may have missed this week.
by Gabby Sgherri
If you're anything like us, we see an interesting headline during our daily scroll—pause to read it—but then keep scrolling without reading the actual story. So at the end of each week, we're rounding up all the buzziest, news-worthy headlines you might have missed. Think of it like the "saved" feature on Instagram but for news instead of aesthetically pleasing photos. Adele releases 30, Drake and Kanye squash their beef, and Charli XCX announces documentary—this is what you missed this week.
The Defining Voice Of Heartbreak AKA Adele Returns With '30'
I'm not crying, you're crying listening to Adele's new album. Kidding, I am totally crying because Adele's music is just as gut-wrenching as it was six years ago. Many things brought me to tears like the voice notes to her son Angelo and the opening verse "I'll be taking flowers to the cemetery of my heart." Listening to 30 is akin to an intense session with your therapist, it's emotional, cathartic, and deeply relatable. Adele truly outdid herself with this album and it might be her best album yet.
Kaytranada Shares 'Intimidated' EP Feat. H.E.R & Thundercat
Kaytranada is back with a three-song EP, Intimidated, his first project since 2019. The EP features H.E.R., Thundercat, and Mach-Hommy. He took to Twitter to say a few words about his collaborators "really blessed to work w/ amazing vocalists. Most of my beats can't simply be instrumentals so to be where I am now, would've been nothing without them or maybe different." He's currently wrapping a North American tour and hopefully working on new music.
Charli XCX's 'Alone Together' Documentary Coming To Theatres In January
Along with Charli XCX's forthcoming album How I'm Feeling Now, fans are getting an in-depth look at how the album came together in a documentary. Titled Alone Together, the film is 107 minutes long pulling over 5000 clips from different cameras. Described as "a love letter to her fans who are co-stars of the movie" the film is set to hit theatres and Video On Demand on January 28th. It also marks the feature-length directorial debut for Bradley&Pablo, well known for their music videos for Harry Styles, Saweetie, and Lil Nas X.
Kanye Reached His Bridle Path Destination & Ended Feud With Drake
Looks like Kanye gave Drake's address to his driver and made it his destination. Both artists took to Instagram this week posting photos together at Drake's Bridle Path home and seemingly announced the end of their longstanding beef. Earlier this month, Kanye offered an olive branch to Drake inviting him to perform at an L.A. show advocating for the freedom of Larry Hoover. Their Toronto link-up suggests the two might perform together on stage for the first time in years. Has anyone checked in on Pusha T? You know, the rapper who infamously outed the existence of Drake's child Adonis. His feud with Drake is ongoing and his 2018 song "Infrared" made comments about Kanye and Drake's frenemy behavior. All eyes are on Pusha and his upcoming album for diss tracks. Forget Real Housewives, these three artists have enough drama for a Real Rappers of Hip-Hop show.
Mother Mother Releases Music Video For "Life"
Rock band Mother Mother released the music video for their latest song "Life." The song is about the trials and tribulations of life and a reminder for the band that wherever they are, they're right where they belong. The colorful visual shows the band partying at a house party with trippy visual effects. This is the first new music since the release of their album Inside in June and there will likely be more to come in the new year.


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var fs = require("fs");
var mime = require("mime");
var timeEpoch = new Date(0); // Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT

// Accepts an Array, returns a new Array that contains only
// the unique items of the input Array.
// http://www.shamasis.net/2009/09/fast-algorithm-to-find-unique-items-in-javascript-array/
function arrayUniq(array) {
  var o = {}, i, l = array.length, r = [];
  for(i=0; i<l;i++) o[array[i]] = array[i];
  for(i in o) r.push(o[i]);
  return r;
}

// Accepts an Array, and returns an Array with only the deepest Arrays (that
// is, Arrays containing Strings, not other Arrays) uniquified.
function arrayUniqDeep(array) {
  if (Array.isArray(array[0])) {
    array.forEach(function(item, i) {
      array[i] = arrayUniqDeep(item);
    });
    return array;
  } else {
    return arrayUniq(array);
  }
}

// Serve a standard static file to an HTTP client.
// Respectfully borrowed and modified from:
//   http://github.com/biggie/biggie-router/blob/f31711ae7d8c3a10b0ff658d1ec5b3d02225b575/lib/biggie-router/modules/static.js
function serveStaticFile(request, response, filename) {

  fs.stat(filename, function(error, stat) {

    if (error || !stat.isFile()) {
      console.error(error.stack);
      return;
    }

    // Prepare for streaming file to client
    var responseCode = 200;
    var responseHeaders = {
      'Content-Type': mime.lookup(filename.indexOf(".") != -1 ? filename.substring(filename.lastIndexOf(".")+1) : filename),
      'Content-Length': stat.size,
      'Last-Modified': stat.mtime.toUTCString(),
      'Expires': timeEpoch.toUTCString(),
      'Cache-Control': 'no-cache'
    };
    var readOpts = {};

    // If the client requested a "Range", then prepare the headers
    // and set the read stream options to read the specified range.
    // Range is implemented for HTML5 <audio> and <video>. See note here:
    //    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995589/html5-audio-safari-live-broadcast-vs-not
    if (request.headers['range']) {
      var range = request.headers['range'].substring(6).split('-');
      //console.log(range);
      readOpts.start = Number(range[0]);
      readOpts.end = Number(range[1]);
      if (range[1].length === 0) {
        readOpts.end = stat.size - 1;
      } else if (range[0].length === 0) {
        readOpts.end = stat.size - 1;
        readOpts.start = readOpts.end - range[1] + 1;
      }
      var contentLength = readOpts.end - readOpts.start + 1;
      responseCode = 206;
      responseHeaders['Accept-Ranges'] = "bytes";
      responseHeaders['Content-Length'] = contentLength;
      responseHeaders['Content-Range'] = "bytes " + readOpts.start + "-" + readOpts.end + "/" + stat.size;
    }

    // Stream the file
    response.writeHead(responseCode, responseHeaders);
    var file_stream = fs.createReadStream(filename, readOpts);
    // Detect if the connection is prematurely closed, and manually close the
    // file descriptor when it is. We have it be a named function because we
    // have to unbind it in the "pump" callback.
    function onClose() {
      file_stream.destroy();
    }
    request.connection.on("close", onClose);
    // Listen for "error" events on the read stream, in case anything goes
    // wrong (though this is not likely).
    file_stream.addListener('error', function(error) {
      console.error(error, error.stack);
      response.end();
    });
    pump(file_stream, response, function() {
      request.connection.removeListener("close", onClose);
      response.end();
    });
  });

}

// A stripped down "pump" function that only pumps the readable
// into the writable, but doesn't call .end() on the writable at
// the end. This allows to pump more streams, or whatever before closing.
function pump(readable, writable, cb) {
  readable.on('data', function(data) {
    if (!writable.write(data)) {
      readable.pause();
    }
  });
  writable.on('drain', function() {
    readable.resume();
  });
  if (cb) {
    readable.on('end', function() {
      cb();
    });
  }
};

// Export everything as a messy module...
module.exports = {
  arrayUniq: arrayUniq,
  arrayUniqDeep: arrayUniqDeep,
  mime: mime.lookup,
  pump: pump,
  serveStaticFile: serveStaticFile
}


Constant assessments are carried out to make sure Lancashire has 'adequate' coverage by specialist firearms officers, police said.
The force moved to reassure residents after a Police Federation branch chairman claimed rural officers fear they are 'sitting ducks' in the event of an armed terrorist attack.
John Apter, head of the Hampshire branch, said a national shortage of armed officers could leave police in isolated areas, including coastal regions, 'unarmed and vulnerable'.
The force did not reveal numbers of location for security reasons.