Announcing Admiralty Models Fall workshop! "Constructing the Elements of the Stern" October 6 to 7, 2018 This workshop, run by David Antscherl and Greg Herbert, will focus on the intricate construction of an 18th century stern. We will provide a 1:48 scale laser-cut kit for you to assemble ahead of the workshop. At the workshop you will learn how to make card patterns, plan, cut and fit a set of lights (window frames) across the stern, understand the geometry and construction of quarter galleries as well as interpret contemporary plans. The cost of the workshop will be $290. This will include the cost of a laser-cut kit sent to you in advance with an instructional guide. The workshop also includes a guide book. We will conduct our workshop in Baltimore, MD on Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and on Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Previous workshops have filled up fast, so we recommend you register soon as space is limited. Please contact Dr. Greg Herbert at dvm27@comcast.net to guarantee your kit and workshop space. Special hotel rates have been negotiated at the Marriott courtyard, Hunt Valley MD.
There's no heat or AC in my shop/garage, so over the winter nothing of substance got done and the garage served more as an extension to the refrigerator. With warmer weather here the focus is on getting the garage cleared up and usable as a shop. The bandsaw got casters, the tablesaw's casters got repaired, and small cabinet with a bunch of shallow drawers found at a thrift store was added for all my little tools. It requires moving a lot of stuff out onto the driveway to work on the shop and then it started to rain - a lot. During the monsoon I was playing around in my old 3D drawing program with an old idea for a 4 foot by 6 foot work-table on casters and I think I finally nailed a mechanism that will work. There's a lot of folks here that suffer from work-area space issues and a need tools and tables to be mobile - so I thought I'd share this with you. A lot of it was inspired by a fellow on YouTube and this video: Here's some images of the 3D model (drawn in free software called Anim8or) Please pardon Posin' Paul, he's just there for scale. With some internal bits removed so you can see; the brown arms are L iron from a bed frame. The 6 casters are mounted on a 3/4" thick white pine board and levered against a strip of wood. Lowering the end of the bed-frame sticking out of the right of the table, levers the wheels down and lifts the table an inch off the floor. No hinges are used saving $20 at least. The whole caster set-up will slide right out if you want to remove them for some reason. The top is 4' x 6' with hardboard (Masonite) work surface that can be replaced if it gets too gnarly. The body is basically two 5 foot by 21.5" boxes built of OSB (Oriented Strand Board) which is running about $12 for a 3/4" x 4' x 8' sheet. The caster levers operate in a 2" gap between the boxes making the body 45" wide and 60" long. A pair of drawers will go into one of the pigeon holes; a vice get mounted in one end, and electrical outlets will be installed on all four sides There will probably be hooks and such on the ends to hang things. The skirting around the base will have relief cut in (not show in pics) so the table will essentially have four feet to sit on; and the lever will have a latching system to hold it down in the deployed position. The height of the table is designed for it to also act as an out-feed table for my table-saw. Obviously a 4 x 6 table may be a bit much for some of you, but it's the caster set-up I'm mainly showing you here - which can be adapted to nearly any size bench or table, as shown in Carl's video above. When I get to building this beast, I'll add it to this thread.
I recently had the pleasure of attending another Admiralty Models workshop, this time it was a two day workshop on painting friezes and flags. This was my fourth Admiralty Models workshop and as with all the others I came away with knowledge and skills that could immediately be applied. There were a total of 8 attendees, some of whom I knew from previous workshops and several new faces. This workshop was held in scenic Niagara-On-The-Lake, ON at David's house. The Friday session began with David giving a really informative demonstration on color theory. We all know that mountains in the distance look bluish even though we know they are covered with green trees. Many ship modelers don't take this color shift into consideration when painting flags and friezes for their models. David explained how to select the correct colors to mix in order to arrive at a color that looks correct. I think everyone came away from this demo with a much better understanding of color and how it impacts our models. Next we did a hands-on exercise painting a ball. If you paint a circle on a piece of paper all you have is a circle. If you are trying to represent an object that is three dimensional there are some techniques that can be employed to arrive at the effect. David walked us through these steps and I for one was very pleasantly surprised at how well my very first attempt turned out. With a better understanding of how to represent 3D objects we moved on. We talked about how to prepare paper for painting so that it doesn't curl up when it dries. There is nothing worse than spending time painting something only to have it curl when you are done (and we all know once that happens there is no undoing it). Next we talked about how to transfer a design to the paper that will be painted. With that done we moved on to actually painting some elements of a frieze. For our exercise we used some of the ornamentation from the stern of the Minerva of 1780 which is on display at the USNA Museum. We took our time with this exercise and at the end of the day I had started to master the skills needed to paint a more than passable frieze. It was a very productive day. One of my samples is displayed at the top of this post, much magnified. Saturday started with coffee and a discussion of the previous day's lessons. I think everyone was happy with what they had learned and the knowledge that they could apply what they learned to actual practice. We talked a bit about the subject each of us would use for today's flag exercise. For mine I selected a US flag from 1815 which I then modified by adding the words "Don't Tread On Me" on one of the white bars. David commented that this was an ambitious first project because each of the 15 stars was only approximately 1/8" high. With drawing in hand we moved down to the work area and got busy. Our flags would be painted on SilkSpan so that after they were painted we could drape them. David circulated as we worked and gave us tips as we painted and explained common mistakes people make when painting flags. By early afternoon my flag was painted and I was impressed. By using the color theory David had given us the day before I was able to paint a flag that really did look authentic. Once the painting part of the lesson was done David went into detail how to mount the flag to a staff. Many people simply glue the edge of the flag to the staff and leave it at that. Left this way the flag is very unrealistic; it is flat and sticks straight out from the staff. Our last exercise was to drape our flag to give it a much more realistic look. This is the first flag I've painted and for a first effort I think it came out very well. Every year as modelers many of us spend time and money trying to learn new skills that will allow us to better represent the ships our models portray. I'm a member of The NRG and the Ship Model Society of New Jersey and through these groups I get to rub elbows with some of the best modelers out there. I post here on Model Ship World but more importantly for me, I read the build logs of modelers far more skilled than me and I learn from each and every one of them. Over time I've built up a library of books and magazines and I spend countless hours every year reading them. All of this is done in the hope of improving the quality of the models I build. When trying to learn technical skills I have always done best when I work with a professional who can guide me personally. It's for this reason that I consider the money I spend on workshops by Admiralty Models to be a very wise investment. Greg and David are some of the best in the business and working with them in very small friendly groups is an ideal way to learn. In the two years since I attended my first Admiralty Models workshop David and Greg have gone from being skilled mentors to friends that I can count on for advice.


Last spring I wrote about a photographic exhibit Live for the Moment. The exhibit, based on a study by Dr. Genevieve Creighton at the University of British Columbia, showed how young men used photography to deal with the death of a friend. The study continues with an exhibit this month in Whistler, BC, with photographs taken by a group of men aged 19-25 who each lost a friend to accidental death in the past year.
What Dr. Creighton found was that even in the broad category of "accidental" deaths, there was a wide range of circumstances as well as responses.
The community responds differently to accidental deaths "on the mountain" (skiing or snowboarding) than to those off the mountain. The latter, at least in these examples, tended to be drug or alcohol-related.
So, a young man could mourn his friend who died in an avalanche and be proud of him. But if he died of hypothermia, passed out in a snowdrift after leaving a bar…well, that evokes a very different type of grief.
Some of the men in the study were addressing their grief for the first time. A few had already been lucky enough to reach out and accept support from those around them.
But as I found in my own research, it's not just that men tend to be instrumental grievers: focusing on "doing" something rather than talking about it. That's the stereotype because most men are not encouraged to talk about their grief. So this was a unique opportunity that they embraced.
Matt Gore, whose friend died in that snowdrift, used the study as a chance to give back, to help others dealing with the same type of grief. That friend's death made him quit drinking and try to help others avoid the same fate as his friend.
A separate group of young men – who did not participate in the exhibit – lost friends long ago. Long-term, they handled it in different ways. Some saw that death as a wake-up call to focus and appreciate their own lives, friends and relationships. Others seemed permanently stuck, unable to "grow up" past the time when their friend died.
Creighton's study points out the need for informal grief support services for young men. One of her most fascinating suggestions is for health care providers to train coaches, instructors, bar and restaurant managers to recognize and counsel those who are grieving.
Granted, her subjects live in a ski resort town, the type of community that does not like to discuss anything as negative as a young man's death – particular if it's related to their major industry.
But I think the idea of training those in closest contact to these young men is one worth discussing in a larger forum.


According to the National Institute of Health, Infertility is the term health care providers use for women who are unable to get pregnant, and for men who are unable to impregnate a woman, after at least one year of trying. In women, the term is used to describe those who are of normal childbearing age, not those who can't get pregnant because they are near or past menopause. Women who are able to get pregnant but who cannot carry a pregnancy to term (birth) may also be considered infertile.
What causes infertility?: Infertility does not have a single cause because successful pregnancy is a multi-step chain of events. Simply described, pregnancy includes the following steps: A woman's ovaries must be able to release a viable egg, which then must be able to travel down the fallopian tube. The man must be able to ejaculate, and his sperm must be able to travel to the fallopian tube. The sperm and egg must unite to fertilize the egg. The fertilized egg must attach to the inside of a receptive uterus (or implant) and be nurtured by the body. This allows the fetus to develop and grow until it is ready for birth.
Problems with any of these steps can lead to infertility. The cause of infertility can rest in the woman or the man. In addition it can be from unknown factors or a combination of factors. In some cases, environmental factors can contribute to infertility. Finally, genetic conditions or other health problems are the main cause of infertility.
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Man wanted by FBI for sexually abusing young girls turns himself in after 23 years
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Wayne Arthur Silsbee eluded authorities for 23 years.
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CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore. (WGHP) -- Wayne Arthur Silsbee eluded authorities for 23 years.
He was wanted by the FBI for "multiple incidents of sexual assault" between September 1995 and April 1996 involving girls between 8 and 10 years old. The FBI said Silsbee knew each of the victims through babysitting for them or taking them to events.
Friday, the now-62-year-old man walked into the Oregon City Police Department and turned himself in, the FBI said. It is not clear why, after 23 years, Silsbee decided to stop running.
Silsbee faces charges of first degree sodomy, first degree sexual abuse, endangering the welfare of a minor and first degree unlawful sexual penetration, according to a local arrest warrant the FBI said was obtained in Clackamas County, Oregon, near Portland, in July 1996.
The FBI said it obtained a federal arrest warrant charging him with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution that was issued on September 1996.
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Indianapolis woman sentenced to 7 years after 2-month-old daughter starves to death
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The living legend once played a general in a "Laser Cats" sketch on "Saturday Night Live" -- but his love for cats goes way beyond that. In 2001, he wrote the forward to the "K.I.S.S. Guide to Cat Care" where he described the creatures as "fearless." But wait -- it gets better: "And what about that purr?" he wrote, sharing a story of his now dearly departed cat Pookie (he and his wife currently have a cat named Bowtie). "No one knows the mechanism of it. It is as mysterious as human laughter."


The New Moon begins in Capricorn on the 8th February at 14:40 pm and in the 9th house - London.
The Moon in Capricorn is a highly ambitious and hardworking Moon with a cautious and reserved nature; this is a serious Moon who identifies with the material, rather than spiritual values. Although this Moon holds great wisdom, she can also come across as quite selfish and calculating, as the concentrated effort tends to be focused on benefitting the home and family rather than the organization or circle involved. This Moon is capable of achieving a great deal of success and status through hard work and shrewd assessment.
In London the New Moon takes place in the 9th house of religion and philosophy, there can be a deep emotional attachment towards traditional values, or a religious upbringing instilled in early childhood. This rigidity can block the growth of true spiritual understanding especially since the New Moon is also in Capricorn. Dogmatic social or religious beliefs can hinder our progress towards a better way of life. But, if we are able to expand our minds and consciousness, towards other cultures and societies we not only give ourselves the ability to embrace new ethical approaches, but give ourselves a true understanding of Universal Consciousness.
In trine to Uranus this New Moon can help us to let go of past conditionings, so that we can take advantage of the new opportunities coming in and create new original insights by applying them in unique ways. This is an exciting time for humanity, if we can accept that the world is changing and that mankind must change with it.
In square to Mars the New Moon brings in an emotional and volatile nature, oversensitivity and taking things too personally could be the theme this month as tensions run high. This is a time where we can 'cut our nose to spite our face'. This aspect shows that we must work as a whole rather than independently, no man is an island and this month shows that sharing our hearts peacefully may just be a hard thing to do.
Our New Moon is also in quincunx to Jupiter who is in retrograde! Jupiter in Retrograde is on a high spiritual journey for good or bad, it brings in 'truth' but also 'conflict'. Idealism takes precedence over practicality, our introspection of religious or spiritual values seem to be violated, we must take care in this Jupiter retrograde cycle of not being over judgmental, or rigid in our belief structures. Watch out for déjà vous experiences. In quincunx to our New Moon there is a tendency for us to over stretch ourselves; we need to beware of not spending too much time in chasing rainbows. Let's not be afraid of stepping outside of our comfort zones and awaken the courage within, let us all pick up the sword of truth and justice.
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo has a deep fear of failure and a judgmental nature, we must recognize that nothing is 'absolutely' right or wrong; all levels of ability have something to contribute.
As our New Moon begins so does the Chinese New Year, which enters into the sign of the Fire Monkey. This Chinese New Year brings in an enthusiastic and adventurous energy; great rewards can be gained by taking risks, as this is a year when anything can happen! The Fire Monkey year is all about passion, creativity and joy, but also of action and opportunity, as long as we can get a grip on the unpredictable nervous energy that the Year of the Fire Monkey brings in.


Uncertainty is in part about variability in relation to the physical characteristics of water resources systems. But uncertainty is also about ambiguity (Simonovic, 2009). Both variability and ambiguity are associated with a lack of clarity because of the behaviour of all system components, a lack of data, a lack of detail, a lack of structure to consider water resources management problems, working and framing assumptions being used to consider the problems, known and unknown sources of bias, and ignorance about how much effort it is worth expending to clarify the management situation. Climate change, addressed in this research project (CFCAS, 2008), is another important source of uncertainty that contributes to the variability in the input variables for water resources management.
This report presents a set of examples that illustrate (a) probabilistic and (b) fuzzy set approaches for solving various water resources management problems. The main goal of this report is to demonstrate how information provided to water resources decision makers can be improved by using the tools that incorporate risk and uncertainty. The uncertainty associated with water resources decision making problems is quantified using probabilistic and fuzzy set approaches. A set of selected examples are presented to illustrate the application of probabilistic and fuzzy simulation, optimization, and multi-objective analysis to water resources design, planning and operations. Selected examples include dike design, sewer pipe design, optimal operations of a single purpose reservoir, and planning of a multi-purpose reservoir system. Demonstrated probabilistic and fuzzy tools can be easily adapted to many other water resources decision making problems.
Vucetic, Dejan and Simonovic, Slobodan P., "Water Resources Decision Making Under Uncertainty" (2011). Water Resources Research Report. 37.


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1937 1½d booklet pane, wmk upright, with advertising labels No.2, Cylinder 18 dot, fine M (top stamp hinged), good perfs. Cat. £250.
1936 ½d green UM booklet pane of six, wmk upright, perfs a little trimmed along top, Spec.PB1.
1936 1½d red-brown UM booklet panes of six (2) - one wmk upright, the other wmk inverted, perfs trimmed right side, Spec.PB3 & PB3a. SG.459.
1936 1½d red-brown UM Control block of six (A36) from Cyl. 2, SG.459. Scarce. Cat. £80.
1937 envelope from Edinburgh to Glasgow, franked ½d green (SG.457) vertical coil strip of three with good perfs, tied by 'EDINBURGH/10PM/24 SEPT/1937/A/POSTE EARLY IN THE DAY' slogan cancel.
1946 Victory 2½d ultramarine pair of fine M Control blocks of six (S46), Cyl. 15 & 15 dot, SG.491, Spec.£150.
1948 Olympic Games set in UM marginal blocks of twelve, SG.495/8.
1946 Victory 2½d ultramarine pair of fine M Control blocks of six (S46), Cyl. 9 & 9 dot, SG.491, Spec.£140.
1946 Victory 2½d ultramarine pair of fine M Control blocks of six (S46), Cyl. 8 & 8 dot, SG.491, Spec.£90.
1936 ½d green - two booklet panes of six, Cyl. E4 dot (hinge marks on two), Cyl. E4 dot (hinge mark on one), both panes with trimmed perfs in places. Cat. £170.
1936 ½d green pair of Control blocks of six (A36), Cyl. 12, UM & Cyl. 12 dot, fine M (4x UM), Cyl. 12 dot incl. variety 'pearl beside crown' (UM), Spec.P1b.
1936 ½d green UM Control block of six (A36) Cyl. 10 dot, incl. variety 'pearl beside crown' (R20/2), Spec.P1b.
1936 ½d green UM Control block of six (A36) Cyl. 7 dot, incl. variety 'pearl beside crown' (R20/2), Spec.P1b.
1946 Victory 2½d ultramarine pair of UM Control blocks of six (S46), Cyl. 10 & 10 dot, SG.491, Spec. £25.
1946 Victory 3d violet pair of UM Control blocks of six (S46), Cyl. 4 & 4 dot, SG.491, Spec.£20.
1946 Victory 3d UM Control blocks of six, Cyl.5 & 5 dot, SG.492. Spec. £40.


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Barclays awards recognises region's top businesswomen
The awards were launched in March this year for the first time.
Shelina Begum
Winner - Barclays' Celebrating Women in Business Awards
The region's entrepreneurial women were honoured at Barclays' Celebrating Women in Business Awards.
The awards, which were launched in March this year for the first time, were aimed at senior business women and businesses operating across all sectors and sizes in the north west and attracted over 100 nominations which were shortlisted to 23 finalists.
Clare Roberts, CEO, Kids Planet Day Nurseries was named as North West Woman of the Year SME for her role in growing a hugely successful business and inspiring other women.
Janet Thornton, CEO at Inspired Energy, a market leading energy advisory service based in Preston, was named as North West Woman of the Year Medium Business recognising her achievements for growing a business from scratch in a traditionally male dominated sector.
Marnie Millard, CEO at Nichols , the international soft drinks business based in Newton-Le Willows, was named as North West Woman of the Year Larger Business recognising her exceptional leadership and commitment to staff development.
Victoria Molyneux, managing director at Want That Trend, an online fashion company based in Stockport was named as North West Woman of the Year Rising Star recognising her tenacity and perseverance in making her business the success it is today.
Karen Jackson, CEO, Roberts Jackson , a law firm based in Wilmslow, was named as Professional North West Woman of the Year recognising her as a true role model for women coming from a working class background, building up a successful law firm.
Jo McGrath, founder & managing director, Enterprise Stuff, an agency for social change, supporting people with ideas for new social enterprises was named as Woman of the Year for her contribution to diversity and citizenship.
Karen Johnston, Barclays Head of Larger Business in the North West said: "Women from all sectors across the North West are securing key roles in businesses and we wanted to recognise exceptional achievements for the contribution they are making.
"The applications were all exceptionally good and the judges had a tough job drawing up the short list and selecting the finalists.
"Congratulations for all our finalists today who are role models for business women and have significantly contributed to the North West economy."
Guests attending the awards lunch heard from guest speakers including Dena Brumpton, CEO Wealth And Investment Management, Barclays; Diana Hunter, CEO, Conviviality Retail; and motivational speaker, professional adventurer and serial entrepreneur, Debra Searle, MVO, MBE.


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A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD (2013)
BRUCE WILLIS, JAI COURTNEY
An old, pissed off cop goes on a vacation to Russia, only to run into his estranged, shithead, good for nothing son, in this heart warming family film. Bruce Willis is a dad who just doesn't play by the rules: instead of teaching his kid values or whatever when he was growing up, Willis would brag about the different ways he'd offed people in the past, which probably didn't make for very good bedtime stories. So, it's no wonder this brat turned out the way he did here.
His son's got a real chip on his shoulder too. He refuses to call BW "Dad", gives him a lot of smart-ass backtalk, and he's always trying to one-up him. Like, Willis drives a truck off a rooftop, and lands it right smack onto this helicopter's hangar ramp, while it's still in mid-air! So awesome. But then, the kid's gotta try and show him up by throwing some dude straight into the copter's rotors, and he's laughing his ass off while the guy explodes all over the chopper's windscreen. This kid can't let BW enjoy one second of his vacation, he's just gotta be in the spotlight all the time!
Also, this jerkoff of a son won't let Willis get any of his classic one liners in there. Like, BW sees that asshole get ripped to shreds by the chopper blades, and he's all "Man, that guy was a real cut up.." and the kid just interrupts him with "sorry, Bruce, had to cut you off there. Hahahaha." So fucking lame.
Anyway, BW hopes his son will turn into more of a man on this trip, maybe get a little balder and buffer, and that he'll learn to stop riding other people's coat tails, but none of that happens – the kid's a lost cause. Even though they get to murder a ton of people together, Willis' heart's not in it this time. Cause right when he's starting to get back into character, his dickwad of a son goes and says some stupid crap that makes him feel like a huge failure of a dad. And BW's finally gotta pull him aside, and tell him quietly "look, I'm the Die Hard here, you little jerk."
In one scene, the kid grabs BW's iPhone and smashes it to pieces! Bruce Willis just learned how to take photos with that shit, and he was making calls without dialing, just by yelling people's names into the speaker. Also, he was macking it to some lady named Siri, and he really thought he had a chance of banging her someday, and the kid totally screws it all up. So, in the end, he takes his loser son back to the US, and signs him up for Military Academy – cause he's just had it with this fucking brat.
On the plus side, BW teams up with another cab driver in this movie. This guy's not as awesome as Samuel L Jackson, cause he blasts shitty Euro-trash techno music while they're driving around, and tells a bunch dumbass Russian jokes that Willis just fucking hates. He does show up later with a trunk full of weapons, so Bruce starts to think the guy's alright after all. But then the cabbie ruins the moment by telling one of his Yakov Smirnoff jokes, with "In Soviet Union, we have no prostitute. Russian women have trouble giving it away for free, so who gonna pay?" And Willis just silently glares at him for a while. His stupid fucking kid thinks this shit is hilarious though, he's laughing like a goddamn howler monkey, and screaming at the cabbie to "tell another one, Yuri!" and that's when Willis really starts to get bummed out. He stares off into the distance, remembering the good old days, back when he had a funny, wise-cracking, cabbie-turned-partner, and no stupid, spoiled, shit talking kid. Good times, gone now…
2 Bullets: Die Hard with Children is not an awesome concept for a movie. Not at all.
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Can A Forex Broker Avoid Sending Trades Directly To The Interbank Market?
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Whether a broker sends trades to the Interbank Market is the question of interest to many traders. Fewer than all understand, what the Interbank Market is, why trades should be sent there and how traders benefit from it, as well as whether a Forex broker can avoid sending trades directly to the Interbank Market and why it is important to know this. In this article, we will give answers to these questions.
The Interbank Market is a global network, where banks and other major participants trade currencies. However, traders have a little changed this term and the Interbank Market means not only the network, but its participants – banks, investment exchanges, large brokers and other large financial organizations. Nevertheless, it's more accurate to say that they are the liquidity providers.
The liquidity providers have enough capital and can process almost any number of orders. Due to this, trades are processed quite quickly and executed at the price, which is closest to the market price, that is to say with the high liquidity.
Why does a broker send trades to the Interbank Market?
We know now, who the liquidity providers are, so let's proceed. Why does the broker need to use liquidity provider services and what would be the point for a trader?
Honest brokers trading in the Forex market earn exclusively on spreads and commissions, so they are most interested in traders dealing with them more and longer. That's why brokers strive to offer the best trading conditions for traders.
To do this by own forces is almost impossible. If only because when accepting orders of traders, the broker has to make the same order to the Interbank Market, wait for an answer and then transmit it to a client. This causes delays in opening transactions and not just that. By sending a trade directly to the liquidity providers, the broker avoids all these problems.
As a result, everyone gets a boost. Brokers retain and increase a customer base, and customers have favorable trading conditions.
How can we check, whether a broker sends trades to the Interbank Market?
The main problem is that almost all companies say that they send orders from traders to liquidity providers. Nevertheless, it is quite difficult to determine whether it is true with the help of the request for data concerning a counterparty of the trade.
Firstly, brokers can say that this information is a trade secret. Secondly, they can provide such information if they want but it doesn't mean that trades were actually sent to the Interbank Market.
Therefore, it's important to choose a reliable broker such as AMarkets that does not hide its liquidity providers and furnishes information needed without any problems. Moreover, such brokers have official documents that confirm their cooperation with specified suppliers or liquidity providers and certify that all trades are actually sent to the Interbank Market rather than moved around the company.
If the company cannot provide such data for any reason, it is possible to determine whether the broker sends trades to the Interbank Market by indirect indications.
If the broker has a license of a serious regulatory authority, all orders must be sent to the Interbank Market unconditionally. It is written in the Annex to the Conflict of Interest Agreement. But it is worth considering that there may be the license, for example from Mauritius, where a regulatory authority does not control companies in any way and they can do anything they like. Therefore, pay attention not only to availability of the license but also to its quality. For example, there are regulators like the Financial Commission, which, due to its impeccable reputation, regulates the activities of only those brokers who are responsible for sending trades on the interbank market.
Often, traders complain that broker prices are very different and the point said to be in a supplier of quotes. But chances are better than even that quotes are cheated as companies using the ECN technology do not have such problem.
The ECN brokers provide quotes and spreads to their users without any changes. Moreover, they give the best buying and selling quotes to traders from the entire stream of quotes from liquidity providers. For example, the bid price can be provided by one bank and the ask price by another one. As a result, the client has the best prices and a minimum spread.
As a rule, normal companies have no requotes and slippages. The ECN brokers process orders at very high speed, which completely excludes slippages and deals are made instantly.
As cliché as it may sound, bucket shops usually keep withdrawals, which are higher than certain amounts, they gather money for payout or may not pay anything at all. A broker sending trades to liquidity providers does not have such problems. As mentioned above, if there is imbalance against the company in the market, the difference is covered by a liquidity provider and there is no problems to pay out both $1000 and $100 000 within the period of time prescribed on the website.
This item includes the above mentioned facts and more. For example, the AMarkets Company not only sends trades to the Interbank Market but it has also developed the orders' routing technology to provide successful trading for its clients. Thus, the Company clients get quotes more quickly and by 10-30 points better than competitors.
In addition, AMarkets offers many additional opportunities to its customers, which help them trade better, for instance, AutoChartist system signals, unique financial indicators, high-quality VPS service and much more. As a result, AMarkets is in top-3 international brokers with the highest percentage of successful customers.
If a broker does not meet at least one point, one should entertain doubts about opening an account. And if a broker hides liquidity providers and does not have any licenses, then he should not be contacted at all as trades are not sent to the Interbank Market.
These companies not only send trades to the Interbank Market but also fully comply with the above-mentioned characteristics. Assuming long years of work and quality proven by thousands of traders, we can confidently say that they are really best companies.
Can Forex brokers avoid sending trades to the Interbank Market?
As has become clear from the above, there are two types of brokers in the Forex market – those, who work honestly and send trades to the Interbank Market, and that ones, who keep all trades in a company and usually act in bad faith with traders.
Working where trades are not sent to the liquidity providers, traders actually deal against brokers as they company has no money to cover income if most traders make a profit, or they just don't want to do this and then start cheating.
Receiving a request for opening an order at the specified price, such brokers make the same request to their liquidity provider. After getting an answer, they cheat quotes for own benefit and real prices are not sent to traders.
Subsequently, the last ones have problems. Since the dishonest broker has an extensive set of tools for manipulation (for example, requotes and slippages), orders are waived, not opened for a long time or opened by few points worse. And during the news, a gap against the trader can reach 30-50 points for four-digit quotes. For five-digit quotes, this number reaches 300-500 points.
Spreads can expand to 9-12 points for four-digit quotes, which disadvantages a trader at once. Even worse, the so-called "tails" can appear, when the candlestick shadow comes and cuts stop-loss traders.
Is it so important to send trades to the Interbank Market?
Taking into account the difference between an ECN-broker and consequences of trade with companies, which do not send trades to the Interbank Market, it becomes clear - it is important to choose a trading floor, where one can be calm for own funds and can get the best trading conditions.
Unfortunately, many traders take it carelessly. They think that all brokers are similar and send trades to the Interbank Market (if they do) only as a collective position of many traders for an amount less than $1 mln. Consequently, they take the problematic trading for granted and say that the normal execution and timely money withdrawal are more important.
This approach is wrong. The companies, which do not send trades to the Interbank Market, have normal execution only as long as the number of loss traders is high. The money withdrawal is normal only as long as a trader withdraws small amounts. Challenges appear if amounts become more than $3.000 and there is no guarantee that the trader gets his money. That is why we strongly encourage choosing only those brokers, who send trades to liquidity providers.


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Networking Technology: NTP
NTP stands for Network Time Protocol and it is a standard internet protocol. NTP was developed at the University of Delaware by Professor David L Mills. The first official specification of NTP as a member of the internet protocol family came out in 1985. In essence, NTP is a protocol which synchronizes multiple internet clocks. It synchronizes the time of different servers and systems at accuracy of 1 nanosecond, while also looking out for possible lags in the local system clock. Previously, the protocols used for this function were ICMP and the time protocol. Based on the user datagram protocol (UDP), NTP enables data transport in a connectionless manner.
How Does NTP Work?
Network Time Protocol uses the coordinated universal time (UTC), a standard set since 1972. Various sources like radio and satellites are used to coordinate the UTC. The global positioning system (GPS) is also fully equipped to receive and transmit signals. Then there are primary time servers created as a cost-reduction measure. These servers work actively to sync the clocks on computers present on their network.
Synchronization is a complex function simplified by creating hierarchies or 'strata', based on the distance from the closest UTC source. Many algorithms also come into place to reduce short and long-term fluctuations in clock syncing. Troubleshooting algorithms also play a major part in finding delays and updating clocks as soon as possible.
The process begins when an NTP client initiates a request of time exchange from the NTP server. Then the client can calculate link delay and adjust their clock with the server's computer. Six such exchanges are required (as a rule) over 5 to 10 minutes to sync the clock. When the clock is synchronized, the client will keep updating it every 10 minutes. You can also run broadcast sync of peer computer clocks through NTP. All these functions occur through the user datagram protocol on port 123.
Important Features of NTP
Here is a list of the common features of the network time protocol:
NTP always requires a reference clock to define the true time of any computer. All clocks will point towards that true time as defined by standards. UTC is that standard true clock in most cases.
NTP tolerates fault by selecting the best and most relevant time to sync all clocks. When there are multiple results, NTP will combine them to minimize system errors.
NTP is scalable with several reference clocks and hierarchies
NTP has several resources at its disposal to select the best candidate for the most relevant time. This feature makes NTP a highly accurate protocol
When the network connection is unavailable, NTP will gather previous data to project current time with minimal error
How Many Versions of NTP are there?
The answer to this question is not simple because various implementations of NTP are available. Currently, version three and four are under use while experiments are running on version four. However, the internet's official standard is version three NTPv3. If you are concerned about compatibility issues, you should know that older clients can also communicate with newer clients, but this communication requires manual assistance. NTPv4 aims to cover most modern operating systems and provide revised drivers for reference clocks.
Which OS is Compatible with NTP?
NTP was initially created for UNIX devices, and the protocol is still present in these systems in the shape of a background process titled 'ntpd." This acts as an NTP server for systems as well as a client that synchronizes the local system. ntpd has also been the preferred choice for deployed NTP inn Linux environments. timesyncd is what the new systems rely on, and it's a part of the system manage. Today, NTP is also used for Windows and Mac devices to get UTC through internet.
As you can see, NTP delivers basic protocol mechanisms for synchronize time between systems to a nanosecond accuracy. Plus, it provides users with regulations to define the probable sources of error as well as the accuracy of local clock system. NTP only defines the message format and data representation type. It does not filer algorithms or synchronize those. It can maintain time within "tens of milliseconds" under normal circumstances.


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Above and Beyond is a 1952 American World War II film about Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr., the pilot of the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945.

Directed by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, it stars Robert Taylor as Tibbets and features a love story with Eleanor Parker as his wife. James Whitmore plays security officer Major Bill Uanna. The story of the dropping of the atomic bomb is treated as a docudrama with an effort to recreate the training and operational aspects of the military units involved in the Hiroshima mission.

Plot
Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr. (Robert Taylor) is assigned to a dangerous mission in testing a new bomber, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The perilous assignment has caused his wife Lucy (Eleanor Parker) to worry for his life and whether their marriage can survive the constant separations.

After a year of scrutiny, Maj. Gen. Vernon C. Brent (Larry Keating) who championed Tibbets as a test pilot, selects him to lead a new unit in the Pacific war, flying the B-29, armed with a new secret weapon. Scientists of the "Manhattan Project" explain what is "the best-kept secret of the war," the atomic bomb. Along with Maj. Bill Uanna (James Whitmore), the only other person who knows what the mission will entail, Tibbets is expected to keep strict discipline over the personnel assigned to a B-29 conversion unit at Wendover Field, Utah.

When families of crew members are brought to Wendover, tensions erupt in the Tibbets family due to Lucy's attitude towards her husband's secrecy concerning the mission, as the decision to use the atomic bomb has been made. Flying out to the Pacific island base of Tinian, the B-29 designated for the Hiroshima bombing is named the Enola Gay.  Although the mission is a success, as he wrests the aircraft around to escape the aftershock, the realization of the devastation is brought home as Tibbets sees the flash of the bomb and the subsequent atomic blast.  Back on Tinian, the crew is mobbed and although a second mission is mounted, the war has been decided by the actions of the B-29 bombers. Tibbets finally returns home, flying first to Washington where he has a joyous reunion with his wife.

Cast
 Robert Taylor as ColonelPaul W. Tibbets, 509th Composite Group Commanding Officer and pilot of the Enola Gay
 Eleanor Parker as Lucy Tibbets
 James Whitmore as Major Bill Uanna (Security Officer, Operation Silverplate)
 Larry Keating as Major General Vernon C. Brent (fictional stand-in for Major General Uzal Girard Ent)
 Larry Gates as Captain William "Deak"' Parsons, USN
 Marilyn Erskine as Marge Bratton
 Stephen Dunne as Major Harry Bratton, (fictional) co-pilot during B-29 tests
 Robert Burton as Brigadier General Samuel E. Roberts (Tibbets' fictional CO in Africa)
 Hayden Rorke as Dr. Norman Ramsey
 Lawrence Dobkin as Dr. Van Dyke (as Larry Dobkin)
 Jim Backus as Major General Curtis E. LeMay
 Christopher Olsen as Paul Tibbets Jr. (son) (as Christie Olsen)
 Sidney and Ernest Sittig as Baby Tibbets (son)

Production
The film was suggested by screenwriter Beirne Lay Jr., a Colonel in the Air Force Reserve, to General Curtis LeMay, then commander of the Strategic Air Command (SAC), who had discussed with Lay the problem of the high rate of divorce among flight crews. A film depicting the problems might help raise morale.

Lay suggested a film based on the experiences of Colonel Paul Tibbets, commander of the 509th Composite Group during World War II. LeMay approved, and after writing an outline, Lay handed over scriptwriting duties to Melvin Frank and Norman Panama. Although Tibbets gave his full approval and support to the film, he felt he was too closely involved to be objective, and suggested Lt. Col. Charles F.H. Begg, commander of the nuclear ordnance squadron, and Charles Sweeney, pilot on the follow-up Nagasaki mission, as technical advisors. Ultimately, Begg, Major Norman W. Ray (ret'd.) and Major James B. Bean served as USAF technical advisors.

Dore Schary of MGM said "It wasn't the yarn that intrigued me but the people and their problems in it."

It was originally called Eagle on His Cap.

Principal photography began on February 5, 1952, at the Culver City studios before transferring to Davis–Monthan Air Force Base that was predominantly utilized for the airfield scenes of Wendover Air Force Base, Boeing's Wichita testing area and even Tinian Island. The production wound up on March 26, 1952. For dramatic effect, some incidents were somewhat exaggerated, such as the scene in which the Hiroshima bomb is armed in mid-flight. The filmmakers added some turbulence to increase tension, although in fact the flight was perfectly smooth throughout. In addition, the entire mission was filmed in daylight, although actual takeoff from Tinian was in full darkness at 2:45 in the morning. However, the scene in which Tibbet's wife calls over one of the men in white coats that she was told by her husband were "sanitary engineers", but were in fact nuclear scientists from Los Alamos, to help her repair a drain, was true.

Promotion
When initial reviews came in, Taylor's performance in Above and Beyond was considered the "finest performance of his career to date". Taylor was also proud of his accomplishments in the film and urged MGM to allow him to promote the film on television. Taylor and Tibbets appeared together on Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town show in order to promote the film, an unusual step at a time when the major Hollywood studios disapproved of its stars appearing on television, which they saw as a threat. Although the studio was hesitant about the television appearance, the publicity gained was important to the film's initial success.

Reception
Above and Beyond received generally favorable reviews. The New York Times critic Bosley Crowther found the military elements of the film superior to its focus on the relationship between Tibbets and his wife. He liked Taylor in the military scenes, but not in the scenes concerning his  marriage and found Parker to be "utterly theatrical." Reviewer Robert Parish considered the film a comprehensive if lengthy account that was a "too meticulous detail-by-detail presentation," and considered Parker's performance "overwrought". Although considered an aviation classic due to its subject matter focusing on the mission of the "Enola Gay", aviation film historians considered the flying sequences to be limited, and that the romance scenes "got in the way".

Above and Beyond was named one of the year's 10 best films by the National Board of Review, and celebrity and film columnist Louella Parsons, chose it as the "Best Drama of the Month" in Cosmopolitan. Leonard Maltin considered the film, "a meaningful account" of an important event. A more tepid later review by Alun Evans, noted the film was "pretty boring fare, but the right kind of Hollywood fodder for the days of McCarthy and Stalin".

Box office
According to MGM records, the film earned $2,647,000 in the US and Canada and $1,333,000 overseas, resulting in a profit of $1,037,000.

Awards
Above and Beyond was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Original Motion Picture Story for Beirne Lay Jr. and Best Scoring of a Dramatic Picture for Hugo Friedhofer.

References

Notes

Citations

Bibliography

 Evans, Alun. Brassey's Guide to War Films. Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books, 2000. .
 Hardwick, Jack and Ed Schnepf. "A Viewer's Guide to Aviation Movies". The Making of the Great Aviation Films, General Aviation Series, Volume 2, 1989.
 Maltin, Leonard. Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2009. New York: New American Library, 2009 (originally published as TV Movies, then Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide), First edition 1969, published annually since 1988. .
 Orriss, Bruce. When Hollywood Ruled the Skies: The Aviation Film Classics of World War II. Hawthorne, California: Aero Associates Inc., 1984. .
 Parish, James Robert. The Great Combat Pictures: Twentieth-Century Warfare on the Screen. Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1990. .
 Tibbets, Paul W. Mission: Hiroshima. New York: Stein & Day, 1985. .
 Tibbets, Paul Warfield, Clair C. Stebbins and Harry Franken. The Tibbets Story. New York: Stein & Day, 1982. .
 Wayne, Jane Ellen. Robert Taylor. New York: Manor Books Inc., 1973. .

External links
 DVD review

 About the RCA811-K radio that gives Mrs. Tibbets the news about Hiroshima

1952 films
1950s biographical drama films
1950s war drama films
American aviation films
American biographical drama films
American black-and-white films
American war drama films
Biographical films about military personnel
1950s English-language films
Films about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Films directed by Melvin Frank
Films directed by Norman Panama
Films scored by Hugo Friedhofer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
Science docudramas
Films about the United States Air Force
World War II aviation films
1952 drama films
Japan in non-Japanese culture
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Glamour and the Crater
By Nick Brooke
April 29, 2020 in Glorantha
Nick Brooke
Illuminated Master
Now our Rough Guide to Glamour has gone Electrum, I thought it might be nice to share the first notes I sent Glorantha's master cartographer Colin Driver while he was working on the map that ended up on p.60 of the book:
The thing I really want to get across with this map is is the relief. I did it very crudely with that grey gradient (steep upward slope) and black bar (Crater Rim), but it's got to be possible to draw those more attractively. This is about showing the relationship between the Walls (the black outer wall of chunkiness, the white inner wall of Disney) and the terrain (the human-occupied city on the flat lowlands, the magical pleasure palaces and noble estates rising up the rumpled mountainside, with the Imperial Palace of Moonson at the lip of the Crater, and the white Silver Road / Bridge as a connecting thread running through the picture).
Essentially, the top half of the map above is on a constantly upwards gradient (inc. relief features: knolls and crags and ridges, etc.), with Moonson's Palace as the very highest point in the City, a couple of thousand metres above ground level. Once we rotate it 45 degrees it should be easier to show that just beyond the Crater Wall is a bottomless pit
The lower half of this map is essentially flat lowlands. The ground becomes rumpled and hilly as you move upwards (into the grey zone), and rapidly rises to the Crater's peaks (the black zone). The City of Dreams and the Old City (the darker red semicircle) are on a raised ridge that sticks out from the Crater – they're much lower than its crags and peaks, but significantly higher than the ground below (you have to go up staircases to get to the highest parts of the old city).
Silver Road / Silver Bridge: the grey line from the top to bottom of the map is the main route through the city: entering at the Gate of Four Beasts, it rises (via what's essentially a magical suspension bridge) to the Old City, passes through the Citadel of Halfway, and then becomes a silver arc rising in a parabola towards the Imperial Palace – it actually keeps going beyond the Palace, stretching up to the Red Moon itself, but we don't need to go that far. I wonder if a cross-section showing the relative heights of things would be useful?
Outer Walls, Gates and Towers: the thick black circle around Glamour is the main city wall, and the 18 red diamonds are its gates. These are big, thick, chunky, impressive fortifications: think of the Ishtar Gate of Babylon, or the Gates of Nineveh. Equally impressive is the Inner Wall that separates Inner Glamour (the green semicircle) from Outer Glamour (the pink semicircle), that has a couple of its own gates. The Gate of Four Beasts is the biggest and most impressive of these gates, and should stand out as such.
Inside the green semicircle of Inner Glamour, there's another circular wall around the City of Dreams, which we call the Wall of Sleep. This is more delicate, fairytale, Disney, Arabian Nights, Mad King Ludwig architecture: the six white dots mark its towers, tall slim minarets. This shines like silver, white marble or moonlight. I think ideally it'd be drawn in white unless that gets confusing with roads (which could be grey instead) (it is still in black on the map above, please correct this).
The City of Dreams is a magical pleasure garden/palace complex for the ruler of the world's greatest Empire: it's a Forbidden City, Xanadu, Versailles, Vegas Adult Disneyland for the Emperor's pleasure. There are palaces dotted around its terraced grounds – some parts are wild grottoes and mountain glades, other parts are terraced hanging gardens with beautiful waterfalls streaming down from the crags.
Outside the City of Dreams are the two green "horns" on the map. (Ignore the waxing & waning labels). The one on the left is the Silver Horn, which is a weird wilderness containing a mix of picturesque ruins, isolated sorcerers' towers, research observatories, secluded estates where folk be strange, follies, and dark woods haunted by magical creatures. There are no roads through the Silver Horn, or none that you can trust: if you set off into this Forbidden Forest, all those magical creatures, werewolves, wild women and the like are going to lure you off the path and do unspeakable things to you.
The one on the right, the Ivory Horn, contains stately homes, formal planned estates and small palaces owned by the seriously wealthy, all set among landscaped parkland and terraced gardens. These are private gated communities: you could ride between them along well-maintained scenic roads, take picnics on beautiful hilltops, etc. Where the Silver Horn is wild and dangerous, the Ivory Horn has been tamed.
(The City of Dreams is a mix of both, reflecting the Red Emperor's schizophrenic tendencies and lapses into insanity: if you're invited to one of Moonson's parties, you're never quite sure whether it'll be a formal togas-and-frocks dinner, an anything-goes pansexual orgy, or a terrifying experience where unlucky guests will be chased across a private hunting preserve by baying packs of the Imperial Family (and their deformed ancestors and descendants), all dressed in animal skins and wielding sharp sickles)
That leaves two significant places on the map.
The Citadel of Halfway is the gateway between Outer and Inner Glamour. It's a walled citadel, a city-within-a-city that looks kinda like the Kremlin or the Vatican City. St Basil's Cathedral is actually a feature, as is a Red Square called "Red Square" (which is marked on the map as a red, er, rectangle). The gateway the Silver Road passes through is, of course, the Silver Gate, and it's possibly a hybrid between the clunky/ chunky/ functional architecture of the other city gates and the Disney fantasy minarets inside the City of Dreams – this is the place where those two styles collide.
And Moonson's Palace is amazing. It's all white or silver curtain-walls and towers and lattices and minarets, straight up the mountainside, with waterfalls raining down from the Crater (somehow, don't ask me, it's magic), and the Emperor's House is at the very tip-top of a Crater-rim peak, where the Silver Bridge touches it and then goes hyperbolic up to the Moon itself (I know, it's just a white line of light on the map, but it's all kinds of awesome)…
Edited April 29, 2020 by Nick Brooke
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One thing I was thinking of adding during the late stages of pulling our book A Rough Guide to Glamour together was a sequence of stick-figure technical drawings, like XKCD comics or IKEA assembly instructions, showing how the Goddess "danced her last dream" and rose into the Middle Air, leaving the Crater behind her. These would have accompanied the map of Glamour and the Crater. I've attached my notes below, but in the end we decided it was unrealistic to get this done to an adequate standard in the time available, and they were never commissioned.
This may be crazy, but I think I know what we need to show how Glamour relates to the Crater, and it begins by showing how the Crater relates to the Red Moon.
Essentially, while the illustration by Jakob Rebelka is all well and good, it fails to capture the topography of what occurred when the Red Moon Goddess famously "danced her last dream upon the face of the earth." (It's superb as an example of devotional art; but it's not so useful for us urban planners)
So let's think instead about a set of cartoons, technical drawings of stick-figure simplicity.
[1] The first frame shows a woman dancing on a flat plain (posture as per Rebelka, only as a red stick figure), with dotted arrows indicating her direction of rotation (clockwise) and direction of ascent (vertical). Here's what we're illustrating from Lunar holy scripture:
Then the Goddess danced her last dream upon the face of the Earth, sketching out the plans for her heavenly and temporal domains, revealing the secrets of her inner soul to the High Initiates of her Lunar cult.
If we want to make this more complicated, there's a crowd of other stick figures watching her dance. They're standing all around her, but their leader is a red stick man with a three-pointed crown and he's standing to the south-east.
[2] In the second frame, she wraps the earth she's dancing on around her, forming what will become a perfect sphere (the Red Moon), but at this stage she's still connected to the ground. She's swirling the ground up around her as she dances, like it's a conical cloak, or one of those huge Mexican folk-dancer's skirts, or maybe it looks something like twirling pasta up from a plate? So you have a conical shape rising from the ground towards a sphere that's coalescing around our dancing stick-figure girl. She's still spinning clockwise, and rising vertically – both the arrows are the same.
Then she took the ground she had danced upon, and wrapping it about her like a cloak or a cuirass, clinging her secrets close to herself, she ascended into the sky, rising higher and higher until she reached the Middle Air. There she took her seat and began turning slowly, watching over her domains in history and myth from the heavens.
That crowd's still watching her rise; many are prostrating themselves towards her (down on their knees, praying). But they're a minor detail. The red stick man with the crown isn't grovelling: he knows the score.
[3] In the third frame the geography is all set up. There's now a solid red sphere hanging in mid-air, rotating clockwise (same arrow), but no longer ascending: it's the Red Moon. We can't see the stick-figure girl any more: she is the moon now. (If it's convenient for the moon to have a "Man in the Moon" face, it looks like her; but that may be an unnecessary detail)
The conical bits of ground that had been rising with her have kinda snapped, and where the Moon broke loose from the ground is a circular crater. I'll describe that in a bit. It might look a bit like the splashback when a drop of water lands – in fact, looking at some high-speed photos of water droplets might be inspiring: imagine them played backwards.
There is nothing in the interior of the crater. Inside that ring of crags is a bottomless pit, 25 miles across. Rotating in the air above it is a sphere of earth, the Red Moon, which is logically also 25 miles across (although as a heavenly body she now plays by different rules of scale).
Where the Goddess had taken the Earth for herself was left a great gaping hole, whose bottom no mortal knows. Its sides were lined with steep impassable walls with but a single entrance. This entrance is protected by Glamour, the capital city of the Lunar Empire, and also the First Inspiration of Moonson. From there the Red Emperor, Son of the Moon, rules over the Empire, while his scarlet mother watches from overhead.
Here are those descriptions of the Crater I promised you:
Guide to Glorantha p.141: "Gathering the very earth from about her the Red Goddess ascended into the sky, leaving behind a great empty spot called The Crater, into which no mortal may look or think without going mad, which is surrounded by a ring of impossibly tall crags."
Guide to Glorantha p.317: The Crater did not exist before 0/27 (1247). That year the Red Goddess danced her Dance of Memory and Promise, revealing her inner secrets to her companions and followers. Then she took the ground she had danced upon, clutched it closely about her like a cloak, and ascended into the sky. As she rose the earth reached vainly for her child, raising a ring of steep and impenetrable mountains which rise for miles into the air and form the walls of the Crater.
The Crater is approximately 25 miles in diameter and its peaks are 2 to 3 miles high, creating a tall ring resembling a crown. Climbing the mountains is impossible for humans. Nor would anyone want to, for inside the ring of mountains lies nothing but a slick-sided drop-off pit into the Underworld.
Now, I think this is still part of frame three: on the ground, on what will turn out to be the south-east side of the Crater (we could show compass directions to make this clear, in which case we should have showed them all along?), the red stick man with the crown is drawing a red circle on the ground (it'll be an oval, as this is a perspective view) to define the circular walls of his city, Glamour. It's going to be on the edge of the Crater, so the ground isn't flat – while the lower half of the city is on what was still flat ground after that twisty cone started rising, the other half rises stupidly steeply up the craggy ring of the Crater's outer wall.
Upon the Surface World, the Red Emperor was left behind to fill in the void left by the Goddess' departure. He summoned the first of his Inspirations. With the other High Initiates, he led them in the Dance of Returns, and drew upon the world the plans and dreams where they would live, giving strength and comfort to those who had made the dance, and making secret doors for reaching the Goddess and other Lunar realms.
@Jeff drew us a quick cross-section through Glamour while we were finalising details, to make sure we were all on the same page:
Jeff: Vertical scale of the city is exaggerated, and the Crater Wall is reduced. Sunbirds and firebirds are there because I was listening to Station to Station. And yes, the Silver Bridge is architecturally impossible. That's fine because the City of Dreams is not in the mundane world. Also the architecture in the City of Dreams should be impossible.
Nick: I concur. It's insane. Mad King Ludwig designing video game levels.
Mike: This is why we've never tried to show it before.
Nick: This is why we need some overt vagueness within the "City of Dreams" circle - clouds or rainbows or snowflake shapes or fractals or some such nonsense. My own take would have half of Outer Glamour kinda flat, and then the steep rise of the Old City (former Diadem of Towers).
Jeff: I imagine the whole thing is plopped on the foothill of the Crater like a coin. I just want to get in that I don't think that the City of Dreams is level. I imagine it like Lombard Street
Nick: Canon accepted. If you can draw contour lines to match, I will instruct the magnificent Colin to turn your dreams into virtual reality.
Mike: Yes. Sorry, I didn't notice the contours might imply the City of Dreams was on a plateau. It is really almost vertical.
Jeff: I particularly like imagining Moonson's Palace looming two miles above the city, like a vast and luxurious version of Blofeld's Piz Gloria. More proof that the Red Emperor is Telly Savalas.
Nick (humouring him, because the Red Emperor is Elvis) That is, to be frank, your best argument yet.
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Fed funds rate left unchanged, what now?
Posted on December 14, 2010 by Ray Williams (NMLS #216267).
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Replacing Steve
By Stephen Green Dec 11, 2013 4:02 PM ET
No, not me. When it comes to VodkaPundit, this site is run on The Highlander Principle: There can be only one! But it's been months since Steve Ballmer announced his imminentish departure from Microsoft, yet Redmond still hasn't announced his successor. Jean-Louis Gassée has a theory:
So where does Microsoft turn, and why are they taking so long? Once you put aside the Mr./Ms. Perfect fantasy, there's no dearth of capable executives with the brains and guts to run Microsoft. These are people who already run large corporations, or are next-in-line to do so. Exec recruiters worth the pound of flesh they get for their services have e-Rolodexes full of such people — some inside the company itself.
Now, place yourself inside the heart and mind of this intelligent candidate:
'Do I want to work with that Board? In particular, do I want Bill Gates and his pal Steve Ballmer hovering over everything I do? I know I'll have to make unpopular decisions and upset more than a few people. What's in it for me – and for Microsoft – in a situation where unhappy members of the old guard would be tempted to go over my head and whine to Bill and Steve? How long would I last before I get fired or, worse, neutered and lose my mind?'
Consider it a litmus test: Any candidate willing to accept this road to failure is automatically disqualified as being too weak. A worthy contender makes it clear that he or she needs an unfettered mandate with no Office Of The Second Guessing in the back of the boardroom. Bill and Steve would have to go — but the Old Duo doesn't want to leave.
How does a board replace or sideline the company's two largest shareholders? Short of a shareholder revolt, it just isn't possible. But if Gassée is right, Microsoft's necessary reforms can't happen while Steve & Bill still sit on the board.
The company can soldier on for years, with its enterprise cash cows to keep on milking. But without any growth markets to exploit, the company will remain ripe for disruption until and unless it gets real leadership.
Steve launched VodkaPundit on a well-planned whim in 2002, and has been with PJ Media since its launch in 2005. He served as one of the hosts of PJTV, a pioneer in internet broadcasting. He also cohosts "Right Angle" with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott at BillWhittle.com. He lives with his wife and sons in the wooded hills of Monument, Colorado, where he enjoys the occasional adult beverage.
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If you are upgrading from one minor version to the next (for example, 2.4.9 to 2.4.10), please skip down to the upgrading section.
Make sure you have APR and APR-Util already installed on your system. If you don't, or prefer to not use the system-provided versions, download the latest versions of both APR and APR-Util from Apache APR, unpack them into /httpd_source_tree_root/srclib/apr and /httpd_source_tree_root/srclib/apr-util (be sure the directory names do not have version numbers; for example, the APR distribution must be under /httpd_source_tree_root/srclib/apr/) and use ./configure's --with-included-apr option. On some platforms, you may have to install the corresponding -dev packages to allow httpd to build against your installed copy of APR and APR-Util.
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Quantifiers are very simple from the first sight, but in fact they can be tricky.
We should understand how the search works very well if we plan to look for something more complex than /\d+/.
Let's take the following task as an example.
We have a text and need to replace all quotes "..." with guillemet marks: «...». They are preferred for typography in many countries.
For instance: "Hello, world" should become «Hello, world». Some countries prefer other quotes, like "Witam, świat!" (Polish) or 「你好,世界」 (Chinese), but for our task let's choose «...».
The first thing to do is to locate quoted strings, and then we can replace them.
A regular expression like /".+"/g (a quote, then something, then the other quote) may seem like a good fit, but it isn't!
alert( str.match(reg) ); // "witch" and her "broom"
…We can see that it works not as intended!
Instead of finding two matches "witch" and "broom", it finds one: "witch" and her "broom".
That can be described as "greediness is the cause of all evil".
Match the pattern at that position.
If there's no match, go to the next position.
These common words do not make it obvious why the regexp fails, so let's elaborate how the search works for the pattern ".+".
The first pattern character is a quote ".
The regular expression engine tries to find it at the zero position of the source string a "witch" and her "broom" is one, but there's a there, so there's immediately no match.
The quote is detected, and then the engine tries to find a match for the rest of the pattern. It tries to see if the rest of the subject string conforms to .+".
Then the dot repeats because of the quantifier .+. The regular expression engine builds the match by taking characters one by one while it is possible.
Now the engine finished repeating for .+ and tries to find the next character of the pattern. It's the quote ". But there's a problem: the string has finished, there are no more characters!
The regular expression engine understands that it took too many .+ and starts to backtrack.
Now it assumes that .+ ends one character before the end and tries to match the rest of the pattern from that position.
If there were a quote there, then that would be the end, but the last character is 'e', so there's no match.
The quote '"' does not match 'n'.
So the first match is "witch" and her "broom". The further search starts where the first match ends, but there are no more quotes in the rest of the string is one, so no more results.
That's probably not what we expected, but that's how it works.
In the greedy mode (by default) the quantifier is repeated as many times as possible.
The regexp engine tries to fetch as many characters as it can by .+, and then shortens that one by one.
For our task we want another thing. That's what the lazy quantifier mode is for.
The lazy mode of quantifier is an opposite to the greedy mode. It means: "repeat minimal number of times".
We can enable it by putting a question mark '?' after the quantifier, so that it becomes *? or +? or even ?? for '?'.
To make things clear: usually a question mark ? is a quantifier by itself (zero or one), but if added after another quantifier (or even itself) it gets another meaning – it switches the matching mode from greedy to lazy.
To clearly understand the change, let's trace the search step by step.
If there were a quote there, then the search would end, but there's 'i', so there's no match.
In this example we saw how the lazy mode works for +?. Quantifiers +? and ?? work the similar way – the regexp engine increases the number of repetitions only if the rest of the pattern can't match on the given position.
Laziness is only enabled for the quantifier with ?.
The pattern \d+ tries to match as many numbers as it can (greedy mode), so it finds 123 and stops, because the next character is a space ' '.
Then there's a space in pattern, it matches.
Then there's \d+?. The quantifier is in lazy mode, so it finds one digit 4 and tries to check if the rest of the pattern matches from there.
…But there's nothing in the pattern after \d+?.
The lazy mode doesn't repeat anything without a need. The pattern finished, so we're done. We have a match 123 4.
The next search starts from the character 5.
Modern regular expression engines can optimize internal algorithms to work faster. So they may work a bit different from the described algorithm.
But to understand how regular expressions work and to build regular expressions, we don't need to know about that. They are only used internally to optimize things.
Complex regular expressions are hard to optimize, so the search may work exactly as described as well.
With regexps, there's often more than one way to do the same thing.
The regexp "[^"]+" gives correct results, because it looks for a quote '"' followed by one or more non-quotes [^"], and then the closing quote.
When the regexp engine looks for [^"]+ it stops the repetitions when it meets the closing quote, and we're done.
Please note, that this logic does not replace lazy quantifiers!
It is just different. There are times when we need one or another.
Let's see an example where lazy quantifiers fail and this variant works right.
For instance, we want to find links of the form , with any href.
Which regular expression to use?
The first idea might be: //g.
It worked. But let's see what happens if there are many links in the text?
// Whoops! Two links in one match!
Now the result is wrong for the same reason as our "witches" example. The quantifier .* took too many characters.
Now it fails. The match includes not just a link, but also a lot of text after it, including
.
First the regexp finds a link start  (none).
Then takes another character into .*?, and so on… until it finally reaches " class="doc">.
But the problem is: that's already beyound the link, in another tag
. Not what we want.
So the laziness did not work for us here.
We need the pattern to look for , but both greedy and lazy variants have problems.
The correct variant would be: href="[^"]*". It will take all characters inside the href attribute till the nearest quote, just what we need.
By default the regular expression engine tries to repeat the quantifier as many times as possible. For instance, \d+ consumes all possible digits. When it becomes impossible to consume more (no more digits or string end), then it continues to match the rest of the pattern. If there's no match then it decreases the number of repetitions (backtracks) and tries again.
Enabled by the question mark ? after the quantifier. The regexp engine tries to match the rest of the pattern before each repetition of the quantifier.
As we've seen, the lazy mode is not a "panacea" from the greedy search. An alternative is a "fine-tuned" greedy search, with exclusions. Soon we'll see more examples of it.
"123 456".match(/\d+? \d+?/g) ); // ?
The result is: 123 4.
First the lazy \d+? tries to take as little digits as it can, but it has to reach the space, so it takes 123.
Then the second \d+? takes only one digit, because that's enough.
We need to find the beginning of the comment .
The first idea could be  – the lazy quantifier makes the dot stop right before -->.


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