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Bariatric Divorce
How losing weight can strain a marriage
By Andrew Francis Wallace,Torstar News Service
Jim Crosby and his wife Lorraine Charland pose at their Oshawa home. The couple talk about their emotional roller coaster when Jim went from close to 400 to180 pounds:
For Jim Crosby, at 370 pounds, there was no epiphany, no "aha!" moment. He heard the weight loss ad on the radio, as he had so often before, and just thought: "It's time."
He registered that day, plunking down $4,000 for a year's membership plus personal coaching. Then he went home and told his wife.
What followed would tip the scales of their marriage, testing its mettle.
She was furious he spent so much money without discussing it. He had a history of yo-yo dieting and not following through on commitments. "I thought, oh my God, here we go again," says Lorraine Charland
Then, as he dropped 170 pounds over 15 months, she watched her shy, couch potato husband transform into an extrovert and fitness fiend. He took up ultimate Frisbee, whitewater rafting, even sky-diving. He attracted the attentions of flirtatious women.
"I'm not going to candy-coat it. We fight. We argue," explains Charland. "He's on a quest and it's really hard for me to keep up."
He was angry at her for always being mad at him. "I felt she was trying to hold me back," says Crosby, 54.
While many marriages flourish when a spouse sheds weight, others can flounder. "Massive weight loss, and maintaining it, is life-changing," says Dr. Valerie Taylor, the mental health chair of the Canadian Obesity Network. "Suddenly couples can find they don't have as much in common."
In blogs and websites, the term "bariatric divorce" is bandied about, meaning a failed marriage after weight-loss surgery. But obesity experts don't yet know how common that might be. "I wouldn't say it's the norm or majority of cases," says Dr. Sanjeev Sockalingam, director of the bariatric surgery psychosocial program at Toronto Western Hospital.
Researchers are currently investigating the marriage repercussions, since emotional support is crucial to a patient's success. At Toronto Western, social workers are interviewing spouses about marital issues that emerged. And at St. Joseph's Healthcare in Hamilton, a study of 250 bariatric surgery patients is looking at long-term effects, including what happened to patients' relationships.
"People are concerned and ask before a partner's surgery, 'Should I worry my spouse will leave me?'" says Taylor, head of St. Joseph's bariatric surgery psychiatry program. "We don't have a lot of good data for them."
She suspects the clue lies in the quality of the marriage pre-weight reduction. "I don't think massive weight loss creates serious problems in a healthy marriage," says the psychiatrist. "But it can cause difficulties in a relationship that's already strained. It could precipitate the beginning of the end."
Before Crosby's extreme weight loss, he and Charland had been working to improve their relationship frayed from difficult years raising their daughter and autistic son. The boy was finally starting to flourish, and Crosby was more available on the home front. He'd switched to a new job as a project manager for a nearby company, so he was no longer commuting four hours each day.
During their stressful years, the Oshawa couple packed on pounds. "We're both emotional eaters," says Charland, who hit 300 pounds at one point. "I wouldn't eat for six hours, then I'd binge on garbage," recalls Crosby, who reached 400 at his largest.
Then in April 2012, he impulsively joined Harvey Brooker Weight Loss for Men. "Lorraine thought, 'How dare you, without consulting me,' but I knew if I didn't do it right then, I never would," he explains.
He cleared out the house of junk food. She brought more in. "I was so angry," Charland explains. "We were trying to work things out together and here he goes off on his own."
At a session for spouses offered by the Harvey Brooker program, she watched as one wife berated her obese husband, humiliating him in front of everyone. "It made me look at myself: Am I that bad?" recalls Charland. "That was a huge turning point."
Following her husband's lead, Charland started eating simple, healthy meals. But her weight loss has been slower. In a year she shed 50 pounds. Diagnosed with a genetic heart defect, she has not been able to exercise much, she says. She had a pacemaker implanted last year and went through cardiac rehabilitation.
Meanwhile, slimmed-down Crosby has been working out at a fitness club nearly every day and greedily grabbing at new experiences. He belly danced for a charity fundraiser. He went skydiving. That one stunned Charland. "Here I am with a pacemaker and two kids and he wants to jump out of a plane."
"I was having so much fun. I felt like I was 30 again," says the husband. "I was like a kid in a candy shop."
Of the duo, Crosby had always been the introvert, and Charland the outgoing one. "My personality was morphing into hers," he says.
"The man I married was reserved, and I was the centre of the world," laughs Charland.
As a marriage and family therapist, Shyamala Kiru sees similar couples who struggle after one partner loses weight. It's not always the main issue that brings them in, but it comes up during therapy — the conflicts over time, the insecurities the other spouse feels.
"Weight loss isn't just physical," says the Markham therapist. "So much of it is mental, the boost in self-esteem and confidence. When you feel different about yourself, you make different choices."
That newfound confidence can be reflected in the bedroom. One wife who lost 80 pounds started buying lingerie and initiating sex. Her husband, says Kiru, enjoyed her enlivened sexuality but also felt intimidated. "It was like being with a different woman. He'd always been the initiator, the pursuer. Their roles shifted."
The wife had also become fanatic about her fitness regimen, to the exclusion of spending time with him. In therapy, says Kiru, he was pleased when his wife invited him to work out with her.
"What's fascinating as a therapist is that when couples marry, they never know where it'll end up. People change," says Kiru. "It's how you navigate the changes together."
That's where Crosby and Charland stand now, trying to navigate together.
They talked about the attention he was getting from other women. He assured his wife that while it was flattering, it meant nothing to him.
"In all my pushing the envelope," says Crosby, "I completely missed one central fact: Lorraine felt left out."
The couple now shares more activities, such as guitar lessons. Their first duet will take place at a recital next month. She has joined his fitness club and he's promised to help her get started.
"For all the anger along the way, I'm also very proud of him. You have to be, dammit," Charland laughs, rolling her eyes.
"The reward," says her now healthy husband, "you get me for another 30 years."
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Dr. Teo Ngee graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1989. He completed qualifying exams in both surgery and radiology. Subsequently, he underwent further training in Interventional Radiology training at Guys' and St Thomas Hospitals in London in 2000, under a Government sponsorship. Currently, Dr. Teo is a visiting consultant for both Tan Tock Seng Hospital and Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. He is also a Fellow of the Cardiovascular Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE).
With more than a decade's experience in Interventional Radiology, Dr. Teo is conversant with the interpretation of X-rays, Ultrasounds, Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). His special interests lie in performing image guided procedures including Ultrasound-guided, CT-guided and Fluoroscopic-guided procedures. His sub-specialty is Interventional Radiology.
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Thus in order for a protein that did not have a disulfide bond to evolve one, several changes in the same gene have to occur. Thus in a sense, the disulfide bond is irreducibly complex, although not really to the same degree of complexity as systems made of multiple proteins.
This paper has been lauded by ID advocates as an excellent example of ID-stimulated research. The DI has listed it as an example of genuine peer reviewed research that supports ID. William Dembski has declared that Behe and Snoke's research "may well be the nail in the coffin [and] the crumbling of the Berlin wall of Darwinian evolution." Unfortunately for them, this paper didn't hold up well under questioning during the Dover trial.
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Opposing Party:
Barbara Allgeier
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Western District of Kentucky
Complaint:
ALLGEIER v. ACE AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY Complaint
Docket:
ALLGEIER v. ACE AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY Docket
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ALLGEIER v. ACE AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY ACE Corporate Statement
"12. On or about December 8, 2006 at or near 205 Liverton Court, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 40222, an employee-driver of MV, acting within the course and scope of her employment, assisted Ms. Allgeier's unloading and exit from an MV paratransit bus in a careless, reckless, willful, wanton, negligent and/or grossly negligent manner and in violation of MV company policies (hereinafter referred to as the "incident").
13. THe incident caused severe injuries to Ms. Allgeier.
14. MV was clearly liable for Ms. Allgeier's injuries, yet, it made no meaningful attempt to investigate the incident...
...20. Defendant ACE was or-with a reasonable, timely, and unbiased investigation- would have been aware of the extent of Ms. Allgeier's inuries and MV's liability for several years before any effort was made to settle Ms. Allgeier's claim.
21. On numerous occasions well before trial, ACE was given due and timely notice of the breadth of Ms. allgeier's liability claim against its insured, MV, arising out of the incident...
...24. In fact, ACE made no effort to settle Ms. Allgeier's claims against its insured until shortly before trial, nearly four years after the incident."
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Washington State's Cross Country State Meet took place on Saturday at the Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco WA. Five members of Woodinville High School's team competed in the meet: seniors Luke Houser and Melissa Phung, junior Jordan Kauffman, sophomore Elyn Lee, and freshman Nell O'Hara.
Houser finished in 6th place in a very challenging race. Phung finished top among the Woodinville girls in 49th place overall. She ran a strong race and had a good sprint at the finish. The Woodinville runners agreed that the course was much harder than it looks. It seems flat but there are undulating hills throughout the course.
Coach Frank Shuck, who is retiring at the end of the season, can go out in style with these results. We can expect to see him officiating at USATF events in the future.
Luke Houser has had a great cross country season, and it is not over yet. He will compete in post-season races starting next weekend in Boise for the Nike Cross Regional race, and the following weekend in Portland for the Nike Border Clash, an invitational race for the top runners from Washington and Oregon.


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A New Root For Y-DNA P
Y-DNA haplogroup P (a.k.a. K2b2) whose subclade P1 is the parent haplogroup of Y-DNA Q and Y-DNA R and a descendant of Y-DNA K2, has a new and older root.
It probably emerged in Southeast Asia and then ends up in Northern Asia and Europe through a counter-clockwise across Asia during the Upper Paleolithic era (and hence, prior to the Holocene era).
Y-DNA Q is the predominant pre-Columbian male lineages in indigenous peoples of the Americas and is also found across Eurasia, with the highest frequencies in Northern and Central Asia.
Y-DNA R is the most common Y-DNA haplogroup Europe and is also common in South Asia.
With almost 35,000 branches comprised of 316,000 SNPs, branches on the Y DNA tree are split every day. In fact, roughly 1000 branches are being added to the Y DNA tree of mankind at Family Tree DNA each month. I wrote about how to navigate their public tree, here, and you can view the tree, here. You can also read about Y DNA terminology, here.
Splitting a deep, very old branch into subclades is unusual – and exciting. Finding a new root, taking the entire haplogroup back another notch in time is even more amazing, especially when that root is 46,000 years old. . . .
Recently, Goran Runfeldt who heads the R&D team at FamilyTreeDNA was reading the paper titled Ancient migrations in Southeast Asia and noticed that in the supplementary material, several genomic files from ancient samples were available to download. Of course, that was just the beginning, because the files had to be aligned and processed – then the accuracy verified – requiring input from other team members including Michael Sager who maintains the Y DNA haplotree.
Additionally, the paper's authors sequenced the whole genomes of two present-day Jehai people from Northern Parak State, West Malaysia, a small group of traditional hunter-gatherers, many of whom still live in isolation. One of those samples was the individual whose Y DNA provided the new root SNP, P-PF5850, that is located above the previous root of haplogroup P, P-P295.
Until this sample was analyzed by Goran, Michael and team, three SNPs, PF5850, P295 and F115, were considered to be equivalent, because no tie-breaker had surfaced to indicate which SNPs occurred in what order. Now we know that PF5850 happened first and is the root of haplogroup P.
I asked Michael Sager, the phylogeneticist at FamilyTreeDNA, better-known as "Mr. Big Y," due to his many-years-long Godfather relationship with the Y DNA tree, how he knew where to place PF5850, and how it became a new root.
Michael explained that we know that P-PF5850 is the new root because the three SNPs that indicated the previous root, P295, PF5850 and F115 are present in all previous samples, but mutations at both P295 and F115 are absent in the new sample, indicating that PF5850 preceded what is now the old P root.
The two SNPs, P295 and F115 occurred some time later.
This sample also included more than 300 additional unique mutations that may become branches in the future. As more people test and more ancient samples are found and sequenced, there's lots of potential for further branching. Even with more than 50,000 NGS Big-Y DNA tests in the Family Tree DNA database, there's still so much we don't know, yet to be discovered. . . .
Goran was kind enough to provide additional information as well, including the estimated "Time to Most Recent Common Ancestor," or TMRCA, a feature currently in development for all haplogroups. You can see that P-PF5850 is estimated to be approximately 46,000 years old, "ca 46 kybp," meaning "circa 46 thousand years before present."
The founding ancestor of haplogroup Q lived approximately 31,000 years ago, and ancestral R lived about 28,000 years ago, someplace in Asia. Their common ancestor, P-P226, lived about 33,000 years ago.
From here.
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Darayvus said...
"from here" link just goes to Blogger
Northern Parak State
Perak.
@Darayvus Thanks. Fixed.
Acknowledging the error, but won't change as it is in quoted material.
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From improv that feels like theatre to Royals playoff of hockey, here are five events happening in Victoria this April 9th.
To celebrate its fourth year, instead of bringing in four companies, the Paper Street Theatre Improv Festival is bringing in four directors. This year's festival features the Four Corners Collective: artistic directors from improv companies in Calgary, Red Deer, Victoria and Portland. Plus, a powerhouse ensemble of improvisers from around the Pacific Northwest including Calgary, Red Deer, Vancouver, Bellingham, and Portland!
Each night audiences will enjoy ensemble shows directed by the Four Corners as well as feature sets by these accomplished artistic directors.
Where: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Dress up in your favorite striped attire for an extra special stripe themed Speakeasy night on April 9th, 1920. There will be a beginner swing dance lesson [8pm], live swing jazz band [The Capital City Syncopators], the sweet ragtime sounds of Rotten Apple Ruckus, a performance by the Seaside Swing Dance company, and of course some great cocktails and ambiance!
When: 8:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.
The 10th Annual Victorious Voices Festival is the island's biggest youth spoken word poetry event of the year! Featuring the High School Slam Championships, workshops and feature performances by award-winning poets, it is three days of mind blowing spoken word art.
This fun and competitive quiz night is on at the Sticky Wicket tonight!
Sixty Watt Trivia is hosting the quiz, which is designed for teams of 8 people or less. The quiz has 4 hard hitting rounds of questions, and is completely free. There's also prizes for the winning team!
The scintillating series between Victoria and Vancouver continues this evening at the Save On Foods Memorial Centre. The second round series between the two clubs is now at 2-0 for the Giants. Let's fill the barn and let's get loud, Victoria!


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'This Is Us' Season 6: What Billy Joel's Song, 'And So It Goes,' Means for Miguel
NBC's This Is Us Season 6 Episode 15 brought Miguel's past to life. Fans got a glimpse into what his family was like, and they also saw more of how his romance with Rebecca began and progressed. Sadly, Miguel's death marked the end of the episode. And Billy Joel's song, "And So It Goes," left a mark on fans as it played. Here's what the song means in terms of the episode and Miguel's ending.
[Spoiler alert: This Is Us Season 6 Episode 15 spoilers ahead.]
'This Is Us' Season 6 Episode 15 featured Billy Joel's song, 'And So It Goes'
This Is Us Season 6 Episode 15 featured everything fans ever wanted to know about Miguel. It began with a very young Miguel in Puerto Rico with his mother and father, Beatriz and Risto. The family decides to move to Pennsylvania, and the story continues to show Miguel getting a bit older and finding a job in the states.
Later on in the episode, Miguel's relationship with his first wife, Shelly, is shown. The couple has two children together, and Miguel wasn't on good terms with them throughout most of his adult years. After Miguel and Shelly divorced, Miguel reached out to Rebecca in 2008 via Facebook. So begins their romantic connection.
The episode then comes back to the present day. Miguel has a number of health problems including hip issues and high blood pressure. He slips and falls one night while retrieving Rebecca from the outdoors — but the fall initiates him getting sicker and sicker. Eventually, he dies.
Billy Joel's song, "And So It Goes," plays in This Is Us Season 6 Episode 15 as the Pearsons gather in black for the funeral, Distractify mentions.
What does 'And So It Goes' mean for Miguel?
Why is Billy Joel's "And So It Goes" significant to Miguel in This Is Us Season 6 Episode 15? It seems to signify his difficult relationship with the Pearsons and his own children through the years. While he loves his kids and Rebecca's family, they all had trouble accepting him until the very end. Finally, Miguel was able to die peacefully knowing the Pearsons fully accepted him, and his son loved him.
"In every heart there is a room / A sanctuary safe and strong / To heal the wounds from lovers past / Until a new one comes along," the lyrics state, according to Genius.
The song may also reference Rebecca's upcoming death. The lyrics state, "And every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns, And so it goes, and so it goes, And so will you soon I suppose."
One Final Serenade reports Joel wrote the song in 1983 while briefly dating Elle McPherson. Joel allegedly stated he knew the relationship wouldn't last, and the song relates to that feeling. In terms of This Is Us, Miguel knew all along that both his and Rebecca's health was declining. It was only a matter of time before one of them would die before the other.
Will Miguel return in the 'This Is Us' Season 6 finale?
While Billy Joel's "And So It Goes" added an extra gut punch to This Is Us Season 6 Episode 15, fans could possibly see Miguel again in the This Is Us Season 6 finale.
"I've said the whole time I've been on this show, Miguel is a time traveler," Miguel actor Jon Huertas told Variety. "He's the one that goes from the '50s to present day. So, you can never count Miguel out. He might make an appearance."
Huertas also talked to People about Miguel's potential to reappear. "First of all, you may or may not have seen the last of Miguel," he noted. "I think the big question is once that primary caregiver goes, what happens with Rebecca? What happens with the Pearson kids, the Big Three? How does that affect them?"
This Is Us Season 6 airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. EST on NBC.
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Even in the UK where the temperature rarely creeps over a reasonable mid-teen it can get sticky and irritating when trying to sleep through warmer months, and there's nothing less motivating than a poor nights' sleep.
I have a few tips today for getting a better nights sleep even when it feels like your bedroom has slipped into the bowels of hell at 3am – and you'll be pleased to know they're inexpensive and quick.
I'm talking airflow, lighting and fabric here – the holy trinity. Obviously lights give off heat, so keeping them off wherever possible will help. The same goes for televisions and computers – keep them out of the bedroom!
Fans are handy for cooling a room, but try to use natural ventilation wherever possible – an open window will let in fresh air and limit the amount of dust circling, meaning skin irritations will be less likely.
Finally, choosing natural fabrics for bedlinen and sleepwear is one of the most effective ways to guarantee a peaceful sleep because they let your skin breathe and thus release heat. Any excuse to buy new PJs!
It's psychological – if your bedroom is decorated or accessorised with light and airy colours, you will feel cooler and more relaxed. Our bedroom is completely neutral on the walls (3 white, one slate grey) and we add seasonal colours with blankets, flowers and cushions. This time I'm going for very pale colours with a citrus pop here and there.
This will either sound pointless (you sweat in the night, duh!) or obvious (who gets in bed dirty?) but having a quick shower before bed, on a cool-not-cold setting can reduce your body temperature for long enough to fall asleep. If you're doing this, don't wash your hair – drying it will only heat you and the room back up again!
Heat escapes your body quickest through your extremities, so keeping your socks off will cool you down really effectively. Plus, it'll remind you to finally remove that nail polish you applied in 1999 that somehow hasn't chipped even once.
Turn your bedroom into a serene dreamland – keep it meticulously neat and tidy. Clean often, and invest in a calming but gentle room fragrance (I use a sweet pea fragrance). Make your bed every morning, and change your bedding every couple of days in the warm weather. It's more hygienic, plus everyone knows you sleep better in clean sheets.
I also like to layer up sheets instead of having a duvet in summer – some nights 1 thin sheet is too much, while other, chillier nights require 3 or 4 layers for comfort.
Studies show that staying in bed when you're struggling to sleep just makes drifting off harder. If you've been trying for a while, get up and walk around, perhaps get yourself a cool drink or wash your face. When I do this, I make the bed before I go downstairs so getting back in is a fresh start. When you return to bed your body will have cooled and your subconscious will recognise the routine of going to bed, hopefully triggering a better descent into dreamland!
I hope this helps you get off to the land of nod more easily if/when the humidity rises – what are your tips for golden slumbers?
Love these tips! I can't stand sleeping with my socks on, so I definitely agree with that- can't even do it in winter!
Thanks! I actually made the dream catcher myself last year – I don't normally like them either but I couldn't figure out how to do a proper crochet weave type of thing and thats the closest I could get!
I hope the lavender scents work! I sometimes struggle to stay asleep, I heard liquorice tea helps with feeling more rested. Unfortunately it tastes atrocious!
Oh that's so cool! I don't think I could ever crochet with my toes! I've tried sewing and that wasn't the smartest idea ever!


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Q: UndefinedMetricWarning: F-score is ill-defined and being set to 0.0 in labels with no predicted samples I'm getting this weird error:
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but then it also prints the f-score the first time I run:
metrics.f1_score(y_test, y_pred, average='weighted')

The second time I run, it provides the score without error. Why is that?
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>>> y_test
array([ 1, 10, 35,  9,  7, 29, 26,  3,  8, 23, 39, 11, 20,  2,  5, 23, 28,
       30, 32, 18,  5, 34,  4, 25, 12, 24, 13, 21, 38, 19, 33, 33, 16, 20,
       18, 27, 39, 20, 37, 17, 31, 29, 36,  7,  6, 24, 37, 22, 30,  0, 22,
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       25,  8, 30,  3, 12,  7,  4, 10, 15, 12, 34, 25, 26, 29, 14, 37, 23,
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        6, 34, 33,  2, 37, 17, 30, 24,  2, 36,  9, 36, 19, 33, 35,  0,  4,
        1])
>>> y_pred
array([ 1, 10, 35,  7,  7, 29, 26,  3,  8, 23, 39, 11, 20,  4,  5, 23, 28,
       30, 32, 18,  5, 39,  4, 25,  0, 24, 13, 21, 38, 19, 33, 33, 16, 20,
       18, 27, 39, 20, 37, 17, 31, 29, 36,  7,  6, 24, 37, 22, 30,  0, 22,
       11, 35, 30, 31, 14, 32, 21, 34, 38,  5, 11, 10,  6,  1, 14, 30, 36,
       25,  8, 30,  3, 12,  7,  4, 10, 15, 12,  4, 22, 26, 29, 14, 37, 23,
       12, 19, 19,  3, 25, 31, 30, 11, 25, 24, 19, 27, 22, 13,  6, 18, 20,
        6, 39, 33,  9, 37, 17, 30, 24,  9, 36, 39, 36, 19, 33, 35,  0,  4,
        1])
>>> metrics.f1_score(y_test, y_pred, average='weighted')
C:\Users\Michael\Miniconda3\envs\snowflakes\lib\site-packages\sklearn\metrics\classification.py:1113: UndefinedMetricWarning: F-score is ill-defined and being set to 0.0 in labels with no predicted samples.
  'precision', 'predicted', average, warn_for)
0.87282051282051276
>>> metrics.f1_score(y_test, y_pred, average='weighted')
0.87282051282051276
>>> metrics.f1_score(y_test, y_pred, average='weighted')
0.87282051282051276

Also, why is there a trailing 'precision', 'predicted', average, warn_for) error message? There is no open parenthesis so why does it end with a closing parenthesis? I am running sklearn 0.18.1 using Python 3.6.0 in a conda environment on Windows 10.
I also looked at here and I don't know if it's the same bug. This SO post doesn't have solution either.

A: I ended up here with the same error but after reading @Shovalt's answer, I realized I was quite low in my test/train split. I had a large data set to start with but had split it down and one group was quite small. By making the sample size bigger, this warning went away and I got my f1 score.
From this
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split

X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.1, random_state=0)

to this
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split

X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.2, random_state=0)

A: As I have noticed this error occurs under two circumstances,

*

*If you have used train_test_split() to split your data, you have to make sure that you reset the index of the data (specially when taken using a pandas series object): y_train, y_test indices should be resetted. The problem is when you try to use one of the scores from sklearn.metrics such as; precision_score, this will try to match the shuffled indices of the y_test that you got from train_test_split().

so, either use np.array(y_test) for y_true in scores or y_test.reset_index(drop=True)

*Then again you can still have this error if your predicted 'True Positives' is 0, which is used for precision, recall and f1_scores. You can visualize this using a confusion_matrix. If the classification is multilabel and you set param: average='weighted'/micro/macro you will get an answer as long as the diagonal line in the matrix is not 0

Hope this helps.

A: The accepted answer explains already well why the warning occurs. If you simply want to control the warnings, one could use precision_recall_fscore_support. It offers a (semi-official) argument warn_for that could be used to mute the warnings.
(_, _, f1, _) = metrics.precision_recall_fscore_support(y_test, y_pred,
                                                        average='weighted',
                                                        warn_for=tuple())

As mentioned already in some comments, use this with care.

A: As mentioned in the comments, some labels in y_test don't appear in y_pred. Specifically in this case, label '2' is never predicted:
>>> set(y_test) - set(y_pred)
{2}

This means that there is no F-score to calculate for this label, and thus the F-score for this case is considered to be 0.0. Since you requested an average of the score, you must take into account that a score of 0 was included in the calculation, and this is why scikit-learn is showing you that warning.
This brings me to you not seeing the error a second time. As I mentioned, this is a warning, which is treated differently from an error in python. The default behavior in most environments is to show a specific warning only once. This behavior can be changed:
import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings('always')  # "error", "ignore", "always", "default", "module" or "once"

If you set this before importing the other modules, you will see the warning every time you run the code.
There is no way to avoid seeing this warning the first time, aside for setting warnings.filterwarnings('ignore'). What you can do, is decide that you are not interested in the scores of labels that were not predicted, and then explicitly specify the labels you are interested in (which are labels that were predicted at least once):
>>> metrics.f1_score(y_test, y_pred, average='weighted', labels=np.unique(y_pred))
0.91076923076923078

The warning will be gone.

A: the same problem also happened to me when i training my classification model.
the reason caused this problem is as what the warning message said "in labels with no predicated samples", it will caused the zero-division when compute f1-score.
I found another solution when i read sklearn.metrics.f1_score doc, there is a note as follows:

When true positive + false positive == 0, precision is undefined; When true positive + false negative == 0, recall is undefined. In such cases, by default the metric will be set to 0, as will f-score, and UndefinedMetricWarning will be raised. This behavior can be modified with zero_division

the zero_division default value is "warn", you could set it to 0 or 1 to avoid UndefinedMetricWarning.
it works for me ;) oh wait, there is another problem when i using zero_division, my sklearn report that no such keyword argument by using scikit-learn 0.21.3. Just update your sklearn to the latest version by running pip install scikit-learn -U

A: As the error message states, the method used to get the F score is from the "Classification" part of sklearn - thus the talking about "labels".
Do you have a regression problem? Sklearn provides a "F score" method for regression under the "feature selection" group: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.feature_selection.f_regression.html
In case you do have a classification problem, @Shovalt's answer seems correct to me.

A: I checked, as Shovalt suggested, the difference between the sets of truth values and predictions in a multilabel case but it did not help me to solve my problem.
So, I searched into sklearn.metrics.precision_recall_fscore_support source code (which is called by f1_score) to check how it works.
The code triggering the warning is the following :
precision = _prf_divide(
    tp_sum, pred_sum, "precision", "predicted", average, warn_for, zero_division
)
recall = _prf_divide(
    tp_sum, true_sum, "recall", "true", average, warn_for, zero_division
)

*

*tpsum corresponds to TP (True Positives)

*pred_sum corresponds to TP + FP (False Positives)

*true_sum corresponds to TP + FN (False Negatives)

*first parameter of _prf_divide is numerator of division

*second parameter of _prf_divide is denominator of division

As soon as pred_sum or true_sum is equal to 0, it triggers the warning because division by 0 is not allowed.
In order to get these different values, use sklearn.metrics.multilabel_confusion_matrix. The result is a 3-dimensional array. You can see it as a list of 2x2 matrixes where each matrix represents the True Negatives (TN), False Positives (FP), False Negatives (FP) and the True Positives (TP) for each of your labels, structured as follow :

In my opinion, the problem should come from the model unability to predict some labels due to bad training or lack of samples.

A: This command works for me
sklearn.metrics.f1_score(y_true, y_pred,average='weighted',zero_division=0)

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Q: Based on number of days get start date and end date Here is my code,
function getDateonperiod(elem)
{
    var periodval=$("#period"+elem).val();
    var days = periodval * 30;
    var startDate=new Date();
    var endDate = new Date();
    endDate.setDate(endDate.getDate() + days);
    var strDate = startDate.getFullYear() + "-" + (startDate.getMonth()+1) + "-" + startDate.getDate();
    $("#from_date"+elem).val(strDate);
    $("#to_date"+elem).val((endDate.getFullYear()+'-'+endDate.getMonth() + 1)+'-'+endDate.getDate());
}

Onchange input field value getting number of days days. I'm getting start date correctly but end date if input value 1 its working fine but its more than one its returning like this 2016-11-27 2016-21-28 from current date. How to fix this?

A: You missed a parenthesis:
endDate.getFullYear()+'-'+(endDate.getMonth() + 1)+'-'+endDate.getDate();

Try this:

$( "#period" ).change(function() {
    var periodval=$("#period").val();
    var days = periodval * 30;
    var startDate=new Date();
    var endDate = new Date();
    endDate.setDate(endDate.getDate() + days);
    var strDate = startDate.getFullYear() + "-" + (startDate.getMonth()+1) + "-" + startDate.getDate();
    $("#from_date").val(strDate);
    $("#to_date").val(endDate.getFullYear()+'-'+(endDate.getMonth() + 1)+'-'+endDate.getDate());
  });
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="number" id="period"  />
<input type="text" id="from_date" />
<input type="text" id="to_date" />

A: you can use moment.js here

var days = 10;
var dateFormat = 'YYYY-MM-DD';
var startFormatted = moment().format(dateFormat);
var endFormatted = moment().add(days, 'day').format(dateFormat);
console.log(startFormatted)
console.log(endFormatted)
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.10.6/moment.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://getfirebug.com/firebug-lite-debug.js"></script>

A: You are not adding days correctly.
function getDateonperiod(elem)
{
    var periodval=$("#period"+elem).val();
    var days = periodval * 30;
    var startDate=new Date();
    var endDate = new Date(startDate.getFullYear(),startDate.getMonth(),startDate.getDate()+n);
    var strDate = startDate.getFullYear() + "-" + (startDate.getMonth()+1) + "-" + startDate.getDate();
    $("#from_date"+elem).val(strDate);
    $("#to_date"+elem).val((endDate.getFullYear()+'-'+endDate.getMonth() + 1)+'-'+endDate.getDate());
}

A: Simply use this library
http://momentjs.com/
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.10.6/moment.min.js">

Your code with momentjs
function getDateonperiod(elem)
{
   var periodval=$("#period"+elem).val();
   var days = periodval * 30;
   var startDate = new moment();
   var endDate = new moment();
   endDate.add(days,'days');
   var strStartDate = startDate.format("YYYY - MM - DD");
   var strEndDate = endDate.format("YYYY - MM - DD");
   $("#from_date"+elem).val(strDate);
   $("#to_date"+elem).val(strEndDate);
 }

A: I just extended Date function for adding days. This may help you:
Date.prototype.addDays = function(days) {
    this.setDate(this.getDate() + parseInt(days));
    return this;
};
$("#period").change(function() {
    var periodval = $("#period").val();
    var days = periodval;
    var startDate = new Date();
    var endDate = new Date();
    endDate.addDays(days);
    //endDate.setDate(endDate.getDate() + days);
    var strDate = startDate.getFullYear() + "-" + (startDate.getMonth() + 1) + "-" + startDate.getDate();
    $("#from_date").val(strDate);
    $("#to_date").val(endDate.getFullYear() + '-' + (endDate.getMonth() + 1) + '-' + endDate.getDate());
});


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Este asteroide foi descoberto no dia 24 de setembro de 2000 por LINEAR em Socorro.

Ver também

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"And you were dead in your trespasses and sins…" Ephesians 2:11
I don't think there's ever been a time in history when people have been as fearful, anxious, and uncertain about the state of the world as they are today. We are not the first generation to face difficulty. These feelings may be due to the fact that technology allows us to see so much more of it. Problems with the economy, with unstable foreign powers, with racism — none of these are new. And what's more disconcerting from a purely human standpoint, is that legislation can solve none of these issues. People cannot solve these problems, mainly because our twisted nature is the problem.
The letter to the Ephesians from Paul the apostle stands in stark contrast to our present situation of grace. The second chapter begins by delving into the dark, scary regions of the heart, and it's quite a negative assessment. But Paul quickly moves to the positive message of a sovereign, loving God who has intervened in our hopelessness and transformed us from the inside out. Paul paints a picture in black and white of what mankind is by nature and what we can become by God's grace.
In an earlier time when prison guards would lead a condemned prisoner down the hallway to his execution, they would call out, "Dead man walking!" The reason why is debated. Some say it was a warning to others that this prisoner was desperate and therefore unpredictable, so watch out. Others say they were letting everybody know a severe case of bad luck was coming down the hallway that they didn't want to touch. In any case, the symbolism was clear; the condemned man, in the eyes of the law, was already dead. It was no doubt a somber, sobering announcement. In the same way, any person without the grace of God, without the certainty of salvation, stands condemned and dead, even though he or she is breathing air. Without the new life only God can give us, we're all dead men walking.
We don't like to think of ourselves as being in this condition, or having ever been in this condition. We'd prefer to think of ourselves as only needing a tweak here and there. I'm a pretty good guy, if I could only get rid of this one bad habit.
It stings less to say, "I have a few issues", rather than, "I have a sinful heart."
"I have a negative personality trait" sounds a little better than saying, "My soul is cold and dead before God." The human heart without God's influence is a very dark place.
Thank God for the word "were." It makes the sentence quoted above past tense. The surrounding verses make it clear that this is an implication of the work of Jesus and attribute the change to his gospel. Jesus came and lived the only perfect life, but then He died the death I was condemned to die. In my place, he absorbed my sin and condemnation. Because he was an innocent man who died a cursed death, we are released from our curse. Because he shared in our death we can share in his resurrection. Because he died for us we can live with him.
Theology often seems cold and dusty and heady, until you realize how thoroughly God's salvation is bathed in the truest of all love. John Piper has said, "Jesus didn't come to make bad people good, He came to make dead people alive." In trusting Him, we move from dead men walking to live men walking in new life.
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title:  "¿Por que no funciona?"
date:   2015-09-21 17:00:00
author: Francisco Montoto, Carolina Hernandez
categories: turtlebot teleop gazebo topico acertijo
---

# ¿Por qué no funciona?
Problema: El comando teleop no funciona para la primera versión del turtlebot.

Como lo solucionamos?
Inicializamos gazebo con la versión 1 del turtlebot y en paralelo lanzamos rqt_graph. Al analizar el grafo de los servicios en ejecución notamos que:

  1.- Teleop publica en /cmd_vel_mux/input/teleop

  2.- El nodo mobile_base_nodelet_manager recibe desde teleop y publica en /turtlebot_node/cmd_vel.

  3.- cmd_vel_mux no está suscrito a el tópico donde se publica la velocidad (/turtlebot_node/cmd_vel).

Por lo que concluimos que a pesar de que teleop estaba funcionando, el turtlebot no estaba suscrito a lo que se publicaba, implicando esto que el turtlebot no recibiera las instrucciones para moverse.

Problemas con las herramientas que notamos mientras se desarrollaba el chequeo:

  1.- Es difícil recordar cuando se debe usar rosrun y cuando roslaunch.

  2.- En algunas ocasiones, si gazebo era lanzado sin lanzar el core de ROS, éste fallaba. Esto ocurría de manera no determinística.

  3.- Hay ocasiones en que la vista de rqt_graph tiene muchos elementos, por lo que se superponen textos y figuras, es imposible acomodar los elementos en la vista.

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The Life and Death of Richard Bachman
Column by Max Booth III	September 8, 2017
the dark half
Photo via Pinguino
For a period of eight years in the late '70s and early '80s, a writer named Richard Bachman existed. His novels, the first four published exclusively in paperback, did not find themselves placed at the top of any bestseller lists. Steadily, Bachman managed to attract a small fanbase. Rumors of a conspiracy didn't take long to surface. Early on in Bachman's career, readers wrote letters addressed to horror icon Stephen King with one simple question: "Yo, is this motherfucker really you? If not, he's totally ripping you off." King was quick to deny these rumors, although the writing styles of both authors were inarguably similar. Of course, any fan of the horror genre today should already be well aware of the accuracy of these suspicions. Richard "Dicky" Bachman was, indeed, King's pseudonym. But was he more than just a clever disguise? Was he, perhaps, Stephen King's darker half?
According to King, Richard Bachman started as an outlet to release a couple early books written before Carrie that he felt readers might enjoy, but the pseudonym soon become something much more meaningful. Bachman took on a voice of his own and found the type of career King himself often craved. Bachman was a recluse. He did not make special appearances. He did not accept interview invitations. He wrote the books he wanted to write and he moved on. He didn't sell enough copies for the media to hound him but he did sell enough for a man to make a living on.
From King's essay, "The Importance of Bachman":
"[Richard Bachman] began to grow and come alive, as the creatures of a writer's imagination so frequently do. I began to imagine his life as a dairy farmer…his wife, the beautiful Claudia Inez Bachman…his solitary New Hampshire mornings, spent milking the cows, getting in the wood, and thinking about his stories…his evenings spent writing these stories, always with a glass of whiskey beside his Olivetti typewriter."
King created an entire backstory for Bachman, details leaked in publicity dispatches and the short author bios found at the end of his books. He gave Bachman life. He gave him his own tragedies. He gave him a son and he took that son away by making him drown in a well. He gave Bachman a brain tumor and then he cured him. A god manic with power.
Of course, Richard Bachman was not King's first choice for a name. Originally, his pseudonym was going to be "Guy Pillsbury"—after King's own grandfather—but at the very last minute before Rage's release someone caught wind of the shenanigans, so King quickly came up with a new name. At the time, he was reading a Richard Stark novel (another famous case of pseudonymitis) and listening to Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Easy peasy.
Bachman first came onto the scene in 1977 with Rage, a short novel about a school shooting. Like the majority of the titles released under Bachman's name, the writing was tight with little-to-no padding. His prose didn't beat around the bush with its assault. It came directly for you like a countdown clock seconds from expiration. One punch after another until you were too weak to stand and crumbled to the ground. Rage, originally titled Getting It On (lol), is perhaps one of King's earliest works. He started on the manuscript in 1966 while still a high school senior. He would later stumble across it again four years later and finally complete it in 1971. It was released in 1977 under the aforementioned pseudonym, only a mere three years after the publication of Carrie. Much like King when he first started the novel, Rage focused on a high school senior named Charlie Decker. After receiving word that he's been expelled, Decker retrieves a handgun from his locker, then shoots his algebra teacher. While the rest of the school evacuates, Decker holds his math class hostage as he fucks with police negotiators outside the school. Rage does not mess around. It's flawed and unforgiving. There has never been a more accurate title for a book. The title not only describes the story, but the author's style as well. Richard Bachman read like a man perpetually pissed off and desperate for a way to set the whole goddamn planet on fire.
It's understandable then that many other high school seniors might have been able to relate to the angst found in Rage's Charlie Decker. Which is why, in the final years of the twentieth century, King requested for the novel to be removed from print. In 1988, eleven years after Rage's publication and four years after Bachman's outing, a senior at a California high school held his humanities class hostage for a half hour with a semi-automatic. It was reported by the kid's friend that he'd been obsessed with Rage, having read it over and over. Then, one year later, a Kentucky high school senior took a history classroom hostage for nine hours with a shotgun and two pistols. Police later found a copy of Rage in the perpetrator's bedroom. In 1993, another Kentucky high school student wrote an essay about Bachman's novel. His teacher gave the essay a poor grade. A few days later, the student killed both his teacher and a custodian with a revolver, then held his class hostage for a short time before releasing them. Then, in 1997, a fourteen-year-old boy killed and injured multiple students involved in a youth prayer group. A copy of Rage was discovered in his locker. After this last incident, King pulled the plug and allowed it to go out of print. Of course, it's argued that King made the wrong decision and should not have blamed himself. Others praise him for attempting to prevent further shootings. In any case, nobody is more troubled by the book than King himself.
From "The Importance of Bachman":
"If there is anyone out there reading this who feels an urge to pick up a gun and emulate Charlie Decker, don't be an asshole. Pick up a pen, instead. Or a pick and shovel. Or any damned thing. Violence is like poison ivy—the more you scratch it, the more it spreads."
I recommend this article by Peter Derk for a more in-depth debate on the matter.
Bachman's sophomore release arrived in 1979, although it was the first novel Stephen King had ever written (that was ever published, at least). A freshman in college, King submitted his recently finished manuscript to Random House's first-novel competition. Sent in return was a standard form rejection. Depressed, King stashed the novel away and didn't bother sending it out again until, over a decade later, New American Library asked for a follow-up to Rage.
The Long Walk might be my favorite book King ever wrote. I could spend a lot of time here explaining my reasons, but George Cotronis kind of already did exactly that in his LitReactor article. I agree with everything he says here. The Long Walk is perfect in every possible way.
Written between 'Salem's Lot and The Shining, Roadwork was King's attempt at writing "a straight novel." He was young and feared hypothetical cocktail partygoers asking him when he planned on getting serious. At this point, Richard Bachman didn't technically exist yet. Rage wouldn't be published for another year or two. Roadwork's intentions consisted of showing the world that King could write more than horror, that he was a man of many talents. He also wrote it in response to his mother's slow, painful death from cancer the previous year. King has stated he suspects Roadwork is the worst of the Bachman books because "it tries so hard to be good and to find some answers to the conundrum of human pain." It has probably also sold the least of any of his novels.
Most people see the above title and think of the 1987 film adaptation starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Like The Shawshank Redemption, not everybody initially believes this is based on a work by Stephen King—or Richard Bachman, for that matter. Although the novel is very different from the film, the same basic story remains in place. A gameshow called The Running Man exists in a dystopian society. The show's contestants are chased by mercenaries employed to kill them.
The writing here is frantic and insane. It is perhaps most famous for having been written in a period of seventy-two hours, and serves as the best example of the differences between Stephen King and Richard Bachman. Bachman's writing is significantly darker than the majority of King's titles, and that's truly saying something considering who we're talking about here. In a Stephen King novel, yes, bad things happen, but usually the good guy wins in the end. Evil rarely prevails. But in a Richard Bachman novel, all the rules go straight out the fucking window.
"Ben Richards, the scrawny, pre-tubercular protagonist of The Running Man, crashes his hijacked plane into the Games Authority skyscraper, killing himself but taking hundreds (maybe thousands) of FreeVee executives with him; this is the Richard Bachman version of a happy ending."
The previous four novels were written before King brought Bachman into this world. Until Thinner, he'd never started a first draft with the name "Richard Bachman" typed below the title. The idea for Thinner came to him during a low point in his life when he weighed well over two hundred pounds. His doctor ordered him to lose weight and cut out the smoking or face severe health consequences—such as a heart attack. King left the office pissed off, upset with the fact that it wasn't his choice to lose the weight but someone else's. This downward spiral led to Bachman's fifth novel.
King was so confident about this new book, he suggested to the publisher that they release it in hardback instead of paperback. They even came up with a phony author photo to slap on the dust jacket, which actually turned out to be the insurance agent of King's literary agent. Thinner's initial run sold a total of 28,000 copies. (After Bachman was outed, it unsurprisingly sold an additional 280,000.)
THE DEATH OF BACHMAN
While many had suspected Bachman's true identity for years, they finally knew with certainty: Richard Bachman was Stephen King. But they didn't seem to realize that Stephen King was also Richard Bachman.
King became convinced he could push Bachman onto the bestsellers list and started working on a novel titled Misery. This is the one, he thought. Misery would be Bachman's much-deserved breakout success. And, if you think about it, Misery is totally a Bachman novel. The writing styles of King and Bachman each possess their own quirks, and Misery has Dicky written all over it.
However, it was during the writing of Misery that everything fell apart. King received a letter from a bookstore clerk named Steve Brown claiming to have discovered quite the bombshell while snooping around the Library of Congress: Stephen King's own name was still listed as the copyright holder for Bachman's debut novel, Rage. King could longer continue denying the truth. The jig was up. He agreed to an exclusive interview with the bookstore clerk, and the interview was eventually published in The Washington Post. While many had suspected Bachman's true identity for years, they finally knew with certainty:
Richard Bachman was Stephen King.
But they didn't seem to realize that Stephen King was also Richard Bachman.
So King did what he did best: He killed him. Claimed he died from "cancer of the pseudonym, a rare form of schizonomia."
But that wasn't enough. Bachman deserved a better death than some half-assed joke. If King was going to really kill him, he was going to do it with style.
Thus: The Dark Half. Published in 1989, not under Bachman's name, but King's. A novel about a writer killing off his pseudonym and the pseudonym resurrecting as a physical presence. It is by far one of the coolest of King's works, and a fitting end to the legacy of Bachman.
Or, at least, until 1996.
While working on a new novel, Desperation, King kept returning to a single word: "REGULATORS." He wrote it down on a piece of scratch paper and taped it to his printer. The early signs of a new novel began seeping through: something about toys, guns, and suburbia. Then, one rainy day while backing out of his driveway, King was hit with an epiphany. He suddenly knew exactly what to do.
"The idea was to take characters from Desperation and put them into The Regulators. In some cases, I thought, they could play the same people; in others, they would change; in neither would they do the same things or react in the same ways, because the different stories would dictate different courses of action. It would be, I thought, like the members of a repertory company acting in two different ways."
He also realized it would be even more exciting to write The Regulators under Bachman's name and Desperation under his own. Sure, Bachman was dead, but when did that ever stop anybody? King claimed Bachman's widow discovered this new book from the mythical "trunk" and released both Desperation and The Regulators simultaneously, both jacket covers connecting to form one large image. New novels by two different authors, mirroring each other.
After Carrie was published in 1974, King offered Doubleday two new manuscripts: a vampire novel titled Second Coming and another one reminiscent of the Lindbergh kidnapping. His publishers eventually decided to go with Second Coming, which would go on to be called Jerusalem's Lot, which would then be shortened to Salem's Lot. Afterward, King stated in various interviews how relieved he felt since, looking back, he realized just how fucking terrible the other novel actually was. He vowed it would never see the light of day. So, of course, it makes sense that in 2007 he broke that vow and released it anyway. To be fair, he claimed to have heavily rewritten the manuscript beforehand.
Since the release of Blaze, no other manuscripts have turned up in King's attic, and sometimes I fear we've seen the last of Dicky. Anyone familiar with Stephen King's massive bibliography is probably aware of his many unfinished or unpublished manuscripts. Obviously there are reasons they were never released to the public, but one can hope someday a couple of them might peak King's interest again. Perhaps some might fall under Bachman territory. I can't help but think about an unfinished book attempted around the time of Carrie's publication, titled The House on Value Street.
From Danse Macabre:
"It was going to be a roman a clef about the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, her brainwashing, her participation in the bank robbery, the shootout at the SLA hideout in Los Angeles, the fugitive run across the country, the whole ball of wax."
Tell me that doesn't sound like a goddamn Richard Bachman novel. Unfortunately, King had trouble finding the right angle into the narrative, and before he could figure it out he became obsessed with a different project: The Stand.
I still have hope that one day he'll return to it. I need The House on Value Street in my life, and so do you, even if you don't realize it yet.
A BACHMAN STATE OF MIND
According to King, a Bachman state of mind consists of "low rage and simmering despair." You can almost feel King punching his typewriter in Bachman's prose. These novels come from an angry and frustrated place—two of the necessary ingredients required for creating raw, emotional fiction. When you open up a Richard Bachman novel, you aren't just reading something Stephen King wrote and slapped someone else's name on. Bachman is not simply another pseudonym. He's something much darker.
For further conversation about King's pseudonymous history, I recommend tuning into my Richard Bachman episode of Castle Rock Radio (A Stephen King Podcast).
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Flipkart Group Partners Nautica To Manage Online-Offline Business
As Part Of The Agreement, Flipkart Group Will Manage Nautica's Online And Offline Business, Through A Network Of Franchise Partners, Helping To Strengthen The Brand And Its Business In India.
PTI | Updated on: 29 Aug 2019, 09:51:43 AM
Flipkart Group will manage Nautica's online and offline business.
Nautica will be first global brand to be managed by Flipkart.
Jamie Salter said partnership will help engage more customers.
Flipkart Group on Wednesday said it has inked a pact with Authentic Brands Group that grants the Walmart-owned company licensing and distribution rights in India for global lifestyle brand Nautica.
As part of the agreement, Flipkart Group will manage Nautica's online and offline business, through a network of franchise partners, helping to strengthen the brand and its business in India, a statement said.
This will open new avenues with the combined strength of Flipkart and Myntra, it added.
The specialty teams at Flipkart Group will bring their expertise in design, product development, merchandising and more to address unique consumer demands of the market, it said.
"The integrated approach across channels will lead to a refined shopping experience and bring industry-first practices including Endless Aisle, a technology solution that allows shoppers to virtually browse additional product offerings and self-checkout capabilities for convenience to Nautica stores," it added.
Nautica will be the first global brand of such size and scale to be managed by Flipkart end-to-end with the aim of growing its existing customer base across India, the statement said.
"We aim to grow Nautica's business in India and offer consumers the best shopping experience by integrating our technology expertise across various consumer touch points," Flipkart Senior Vice President and Group Head - Fashion (Flipkart, Myntra, Jabong) Rishi Vasudev said.
Jamie Salter, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Authentic Brands Group said Flipkart Group brings a high degree of technological capabilities, making them an ideal partner for Nautica.
"We are confident that this partnership will help us engage more customers and we look forward to growing Nautica's presence in India, an important growth market for the brand," he added.
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Speed limiters
Home » Uncategorized » Speed limiters
John Stewart (who is a key campaigner for the Stop Heathrow's 3rd runway campaign) became RoadPeace Chair in late 1996. He has written a thought piece on speed limiters. He's a fantastic campaigner, and now an advisor – his input is immensely valuable to RoadPeace. Many thanks John for writing this piece.
Speed Limiters: the face masks for cars
One of the frightening features of lockdown has been the way far too many people have used the empty streets to drive at reckless speeds. Some of them will have been the very same people who just before lockdown had rushed headlong into the supermarkets to snatch as many reams of toilet roll as they could their hands on, frightened that their families might be the victims of the terrible pandemic.
'Double standards' is the phrase which comes to mind. People who went to almost comical lengths to stay alive through lockdown were blasé about the possibility of others dying on the streets under the wheels of their speeding vehicles.
But wasn't there behaviour just a reflection of the way society has traditionally viewed death and serious injury on the roads? Although policies have been introduced which have cut casualty numbers, no pandemic-type measures have ever put in place even in years when the annual death toll rose to above 7,000.
However a critical new measure is on its way. It's been called one of big leaps forward for road safety in Europe in the last 50 years. From 2022 all new cars sold in the UK and the EU will be fitted with devices to automatically stop drivers exceeding the speed limit. Although Britain may no longer be part of the EU when the rules come into effect, the UK regulator, the Vehicle Certification Agency, has said it will mirror the European safety standards for vehicles.
'if it is face masks for humans then it should be speed limiters for cars'
The speed limiter device, called intelligent speed assistance (ISA), uses GPS data and sign recognition cameras to detect speed limits where the car is travelling, and then will sound a warning and automatically slow the vehicle down if it is exceeding the limit. However, drivers will be able to override the device simply by pushing hard on the accelerator, reassuring some motoring groups that have argued that in certain situations – such as when trying to swiftly overtake a vehicle in front – speeding up could be safer.
According to ROSPA inappropriate speed is a contributory factor in 24% of collisions which result in death. Just think how many lives could have been saved if speed limiters had been introduced decades ago. In the late 1990s I chaired an umbrella group called The Slower Speeds Initiative of which RoadPeace was a leading member. Our call for speed limiters was simply not taken seriously.
But if speed limiters are coming in, isn't this also the time to lower speed limits. On a growing number of urban roads 20mph, rather than 30mph, is the limit. 20mph should be mandatory on all roads in built-up areas. After all lives are at risk. And in my view 60mph is too high for single carriageways. By reducing speed limits we can get the best out of speed limiters.
Let's put inappropriate speeds into lockdown…for good. And replace them with lower limits enforced by speed limiters. Let's make it the new normal.


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package com.github.rvesse.airline.help.common;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

import org.apache.commons.collections4.ListUtils;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;

import com.github.rvesse.airline.help.UsageHelper;
import com.github.rvesse.airline.help.sections.HelpHint;
import com.github.rvesse.airline.model.ArgumentsMetadata;
import com.github.rvesse.airline.model.CommandMetadata;
import com.github.rvesse.airline.model.OptionMetadata;
import com.github.rvesse.airline.restrictions.ArgumentsRestriction;
import com.github.rvesse.airline.restrictions.OptionRestriction;

public class AbstractUsageGenerator {

    public static final int DEFAULT_COLUMNS = 79;
    private final Comparator<? super HelpHint> hintComparator;
    private final Comparator<? super OptionMetadata> optionComparator;
    private final Comparator<? super CommandMetadata> commandComparator;
    private final boolean includeHidden;

    public AbstractUsageGenerator() {
        this(UsageHelper.DEFAULT_HINT_COMPARATOR, UsageHelper.DEFAULT_OPTION_COMPARATOR,
                UsageHelper.DEFAULT_COMMAND_COMPARATOR, false);
    }

    public AbstractUsageGenerator(Comparator<? super HelpHint> hintComparator,
            Comparator<? super OptionMetadata> optionComparator, Comparator<? super CommandMetadata> commandComparator,
            boolean includeHidden) {
        this.hintComparator = hintComparator;
        this.optionComparator = optionComparator;
        this.commandComparator = commandComparator;
        this.includeHidden = includeHidden;
    }

    /**
     * Gets whether hidden commands and options should be included in the output
     *
     * @return True if hidden commands/options should be included
     */
    protected boolean includeHidden() {
        return this.includeHidden;
    }

    protected final Comparator<? super OptionMetadata> getOptionComparator() {
        return this.optionComparator;
    }

    protected final Comparator<? super CommandMetadata> getCommandComparator() {
        return this.commandComparator;
    }

    /**
     * Sorts the options assuming a non-null comparator was provided at
     * instantiation time
     *
     * @param options
     *            Options
     * @return Sorted options
     */
    protected List<OptionMetadata> sortOptions(List<OptionMetadata> options) {
        if (optionComparator != null) {
            options = new ArrayList<OptionMetadata>(options);
            Collections.sort(options, optionComparator);
        }
        return options;
    }

    protected List<HelpHint> sortOptionRestrictions(List<OptionRestriction> restrictions) {
        List<HelpHint> hints = new ArrayList<>();
        for (OptionRestriction restriction : restrictions) {
            if (restriction instanceof HelpHint) {
                hints.add((HelpHint)restriction);
            }
        }
        if (hintComparator != null) {
            Collections.sort(hints, hintComparator);
        }
        return hints;
    }

    protected List<HelpHint> sortArgumentsRestrictions(List<ArgumentsRestriction> restrictions) {
        List<HelpHint> hints = new ArrayList<>();
        for (ArgumentsRestriction restriction : restrictions) {
            if (restriction instanceof HelpHint) {
                hints.add((HelpHint)restriction);
            }
        }
        if (hintComparator != null) {
            Collections.sort(hints, hintComparator);
        }
        return hints;
    }

    /**
     * Sorts the commands assuming a non-null comparator was provided at
     * instantiation time
     *
     * @param commands
     *            Commands
     * @return Sorted commands
     */
    protected List<CommandMetadata> sortCommands(List<CommandMetadata> commands) {
        if (commandComparator != null) {
            commands = new ArrayList<>(commands);
            Collections.sort(commands, commandComparator);
        }
        return commands;
    }

    /**
     * HTMLizes a string i.e. escapes HTML special characters into HTML entities
     * and new lines into HTML line breaks
     *
     * @param value
     *            String to HTMLize
     * @return HTMLized string
     */
    protected final String htmlize(final String value) {
        if (StringUtils.isEmpty(value))
            return "";
        return value.replaceAll("<", "<").replaceAll(">", ">").replaceAll("\n", "<br/>");
    }

    /**
     * Converts a command into the default command representation for the usage
     * documentation
     *
     * @param command
     *            Default command name
     * @return Command representation
     */
    protected String toDefaultCommand(String command) {
        if (StringUtils.isEmpty(command)) {
            return "";
        }
        StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        stringBuilder.append("[ ");
        stringBuilder.append(command);
        stringBuilder.append(" ]");

        return stringBuilder.toString();
    }

    /**
     * Converts the options into their synopsis representation for the usage
     * documentation
     *
     * @param options
     *            Options
     * @return Option synopses
     */
    protected List<String> toSynopsisUsage(List<OptionMetadata> options) {
        List<String> synopsisOptions = new ArrayList<String>();
        for (OptionMetadata option : options) {
            if (option.isHidden() && !includeHidden)
                continue;
            synopsisOptions.add(toUsage(option));
        }
        return ListUtils.unmodifiableList(synopsisOptions);
    }

    protected String toUsage(ArgumentsMetadata arguments) {
        boolean required = arguments.isRequired();
        StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        if (!required) {
            // TODO: be able to handle required arguments individually, like
            // arity for the options
            stringBuilder.append("[ ");
        }

        stringBuilder.append(toDescription(arguments));

        if (arguments.isMultiValued()) {
            stringBuilder.append("...");
        }

        if (!required) {
            stringBuilder.append(" ]");
        }
        return stringBuilder.toString();
    }

    protected String toUsage(OptionMetadata option) {
        Set<String> options = option.getOptions();
        boolean required = option.isRequired();
        StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        if (!required) {
            stringBuilder.append("[ ");
        }

        if (options.size() > 1) {
            stringBuilder.append('{');
        }

        boolean first = true;
        for (String name : options) {
            if (!first) {
                stringBuilder.append(" | ");
            } else {
                first = false;
            }
            stringBuilder.append(name);
        }

        if (options.size() > 1) {
            stringBuilder.append('}');
        }

        if (option.getArity() > 0) {
            for (int i = 0; i < option.getArity(); i++) {
                stringBuilder.append(" <").append(option.getTitle(i)).append('>');
            }
        }

        if (option.isMultiValued()) {
            stringBuilder.append("...");
        }

        if (!required) {
            stringBuilder.append(" ]");
        }
        return stringBuilder.toString();
    }

    protected String toDescription(ArgumentsMetadata arguments) {
        List<String> descriptionTitles = arguments.getTitle();
        StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        for (String title : descriptionTitles) {
            if (stringBuilder.length() > 0) {
                stringBuilder.append(" ");
            }
            stringBuilder.append("<");
            stringBuilder.append(title);
            stringBuilder.append(">");
        }

        return stringBuilder.toString();
    }

    protected String toDescription(OptionMetadata option) {
        Set<String> options = option.getOptions();
        StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();

        boolean first = true;
        for (String name : options) {
            if (!first) {
                stringBuilder.append(", ");
            } else {
                first = false;
            }
            stringBuilder.append(name);
            if (option.getArity() > 0) {
                for (int i = 0; i < option.getArity(); i++) {
                    stringBuilder.append(" <").append(option.getTitle(i)).append('>');
                }
            }
        }

        return stringBuilder.toString();
    }
}


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The LG SJ9500 makes an excellent for every current-generation gaming console because of it's excellent motion handling capabilities and high responsiveness.
The motion appears smooth and blur-free thanks to the TV's fast full pixel response time that measures at around 15.6 milliseconds. Because of that, the pixel color change happens fast, and no artificial motion blur is introduced.
This TV works very well in rooms where people sit on the side of the TV and view it at an angle because of the wide viewing angles of the LG SJ9500. The colors and brightness levels of the TV start to shift only when the viewing angle reaches 30 degrees, which is a by far better result than what the majority of LED TVs in this price range offer.
It gets bright enough for SDR content with a peak brightness level of ~350 nits, which is sufficient for making colors pop.
The LG SJ9500 is not the best option for those looking for a home theater TV because of its sub-par blacks that look washed-out when the TV is placed in a dark room. The TV's overall black uniformity measures at the standard deviation of around 2%; this is a weak result considering that some of the current-generation competitors offer up to four times more uniform, blacks.
The MU7000's colors might look off to some viewers out of the box due to its high white balance. Switching to the "Movie" option in "Picture Mode" should be enough to remedy this for most, but only calibration can fix this for some viewers.


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Reduce Knockdown by 30 when hit by [Cycle Projectile].
Create [Cycle Circle] at the max reach (Last for 7 Seconds).
[Cycle Circle] burns and absorbs 10 MP of the hit target.
Duration of [Cycle Projectile] increased by 1.5 times.
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Personal bests are motivators for most athletes, but for the University of Indianapolis men's and women's track and field teams, there is a bigger one: Throwing Coach Randy Ziraldo.
Ziraldo spent four seasons with the Greyhounds before he passed away on Feb. 12.
While Ziraldo was in and out of the hospital, graduate assistant Tatiana Zhuravleva and volunteer assistant Matt Royer, both alums, took over coaching the throwers. Head Track and Field Coach Scott Fangman said that while Ziraldo had not been physically present, he was still able to participate and lead the team up until the day he passed away.
Ziraldo passed away at 1 p.m., and the team was in the Athletics and Recreation Center practicing by 2:30 p.m. Fangman said that is the way Ziraldo would have wanted it.
On Feb. 19-20 the Greyhounds were in three different states. The majority of the team was in Columbus, Ohio for the Buckeye Tune-Up. A group of the distance runners traveled to the University of Illinois for the Orange & Blue Open, and a handful of field athletes traveled to DePauw University for the DePauw Indoor Classic.
For the men at the Buckeye Tune-Up, junior Eli Stidd earned second in the 60 meter hurdles. Freshman DeAndre Bluitt found himself in third place for the high jump.
Headlining the DePauw Indoor Classic was freshman Antwan Martin who took first in the 600 meter run. Junior Vincent Ziraldo also took first in the weight throw. Fellow junior Shaquelle Lewis earned runner up in the shot put with junior Stavros Stavrou taking third. Junior Collin Craft took third in the triple jump.
On Feb. 12, the men's and women's teams competed at the Indiana Hoosier Hills in Bloomington. The following day, the teams competed at the UIndy Tom Hathaway Distance Carnival. Senior thrower Andrew Archer said that while Ziraldo was on his mind during the meet, he made sure to follow what his coach would have wanted.
"All of us had a very heavy heart going into that meet, for sure. But you know, our coach really left a legacy for us, and with that legacy we have to move on. So with conference coming up, we need to continue to follow that and our path towards success. We've got to continue what he wanted us to do and just give our absolute best," Archer said.
The teams are heading into the Great Lakes Valley Conference Indoor Championship meet next week, and Archer said that as a senior, he hopes to lead the team and himself to finish well.
The Greyhounds will travel to Kenosha, Wisc., for the GLVC Indoor Championships from Feb. 27-28.


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Published September 12, 2020 12:55pm EDT
US Open all about location on Winged Foot and on calendar
Only 74 of the 750 players in the last 5 U.S. Opens held at the club completed 72 holes under par
Dustin Johnson capped off a torrid stretch of golf at just the right time. He had at least a share of the 54-hole lead in four straight tournaments, turned two of them into victories, returned to No. 1 in the world and ended the PGA Tour season by winning the FedEx Cup.
It was worthy of a big celebration and time to relax, except there was no time for that.
The U.S. Open was right around the corner.
"Get back to grinding," said Johnson, who was expected at Winged Foot six days later to start preparing for what figures to be the toughest test of the year.
Dustin Johnson hits from the fairway on the eighth hole during the third round of the Tour Championship golf tournament at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
The U.S. Open is all about location, and the history of Winged Foot says plenty.
Of the 750 players in the five previous U.S. Opens at Winged Foot, only two of them completed 72 holes under par. That was in 1984, when Fuzzy Zoeller and Greg Norman each finished at 4-under 276 — Curtis Strange was five shots behind — and Zoeller beat him in an 18-hole playoff the next day.
The 1974 U.S. Open became known as the "Massacre at Winged Foot" when Hale Irwin won at 7-over par. Geoff Ogilvy won the most recent U.S. Open on the A.W. Tillinghast design at 5-over par, and most remarkable is that hardly anyone complained.
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This year, however, location has just as much to do with the calendar.
Evidence of a year gone amok from the COVID-19 pandemic is a U.S. Open moving to September. Golf was shut down on March 13 and didn't resume until one week before the U.S. Open was supposed to be played. Instead, the USGA found a suitable date on Sept. 17-20 in Mamaroneck, New York, about 5 miles from one of the early hot spots of the coronavirus.
There will be no spectators. Golf is used to that by now, though it will be no less eerie. There are U.S. Open fans and U.S. Open fans in New York. There will be no hospitality tents to spare a wild Phil Mickelson tee shot on the 72nd hole.
And for players, there is no letting up.
Phil Mickelson and Kenneth Ferrie are shown on the ninth green during the final round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
Players like Johnson, Jon Rahm and Justin Thomas — the top three players in the world going into the 120th U.S. Open — will be playing for the sixth time in eight weeks, all big events, all against the strongest fields.
"This is weird for every one of us," said Tiger Woods, who at least was allowed two weeks off from not making it to the Tour Championship.
The last time the U.S. Open was played in September, it turned out to be one of the most significant moments in American golf. Francis Ouimet, a 20-year-old amateur, beat British greats Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in a playoff and put golf on the front of U.S. newspapers for the first time.
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What does this U.S. Open have in store?
Mickelson has the most scar tissue of the 14 players who were at Winged Foot for the 2006 U.S. Open.
He had a one-shot lead playing the final hole when he tried to hit 3-iron over a tree, struck the tree, caught a plugged lie in the bunker and made double bogey to lose by one. He wasn't alone in his misfortunes. Colin Montgomerie made double bogey from the fairway and was runner-up, while Jim Furyk missed a 5-foot par putt to also finish one behind.
Mickelson stands out because of his six silver medals as runner-up, when a gold medal is what he needs to complete the career Grand Slam. Now he's 50, still good enough that William Hill said one bettor has placed $45,000 on Lefty to win at 75-1 odds, a potential payout of $3,375,000.
Tiger Woods tees off on the 10th hole during the second round of the Genesis Invitational golf tournament at Riviera Country Club in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Kang, File)
Johnson comes in as the betting favorite based on recent form and overwhelming talent. His only major was four years ago in the U.S. Open at Oakmont, reputed to be among the toughest courses in America.
"Those are the courses that I like," Johnson said, already brimming with confidence. "The harder the better. All my wins come on the hardest golf courses I've ever played."
That he has only one major stands out. But for all his mishaps, Johnson is in the mix more often than most at the U.S. Open.
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He had a three-shot lead in 2010 at Pebble Beach until that disappeared in one hole and he shot 82. He was a 12-foot eagle putt away from winning at Chambers Bay in 2015 until he three-putted on the bare green and finished one shot behind Jordan Spieth. And then two years ago at Shinnecock Hills, he had a four-shot lead going into the weekend until he shot 77 on Saturday to fall into a four-way tie for the lead and Brooks Koepka wound up winning.
Koepka won't be around to extend his amazing run — victories at Erin Hills in 2017 and Shinnecock Hills in 2018, and pushing Gary Woodland to the finish line at Pebble Beach last year before finishing second. Koepka's left knee hasn't been right all year, and he finally decided to take enough time off until it heals. That led to him withdrawing last week.
A U.S. Open without Koepka isn't nearly as bizarre as a U.S. Open without qualifiers.
Brooks Koepka gets treated for an injury on the 12th hole during the second round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at TPC Harding Park Friday, Aug. 7, 2020, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
Having to move the U.S. Open from Father's Day to the start of the NFL season was bad enough. The greater effect of the pandemic on the U.S. Open was having to eliminate qualifying, a staple of this major for nearly a century. The USGA is proud to say every year that roughly half the field had to go through qualifying. Because of more than 100 courses involved in two stages of qualifying, those were scrapped in favor of an all-exempt field.
It still has 13 amateurs, and plenty of non-PGA Tour players, typical of any U.S. Open. The field has been reduced from 156 to 144 because of the September date that provides about three fewer hours of daylight.
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But the shutdown came one month after the USGA rolled out a new brand campaign called, "From Many, One." The idea was that more than 9,000 players enter the U.S. Open, and after local qualifying around the country, sectional qualifying around the world, a 36-hole cut, enormous pressure on Sunday, one champion emerges.
The last two elements are still in place.
Still to be determined is what kind of test the winner will have to pass. Woods and Justin Thomas took a scouting trip to Winged Foot a month ago and while it was soft that day, Woods said it was ready for a U.S. Open. Rahm went two weeks ago and it didn't take long to figure out what he would be facing.
Tiger Woods hits from the rough on the fifth hole during a practice round for the U.S. Open golf tournament at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
"I'm not shocked that the winning score last time was 5-over par," Rahm said. "And if it gets firm like some of the USGA guys told me they want it to be, I don't see how any of us shoot under par -- or if we shoot under par, it would be somebody winning by a lot."
Also getting some attention were the words of Steve Radibeau, the director of golf courses at Winged Foot. According to The Journal News, he kept saying, "Plus 8, plus 8, plus 8," indicating an ideal winning score to "cap a very difficult summer."
Such a score would fit the reputation of Winged Foot. This is where the late Sandy Tatus of the USGA so famously said in 1974, "Our intention is not to embarrass the greatest players in the world but to identify them."
At Winged Foot, it's usually a little of both.
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