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"In 1995 we had about 15 pieces of legislation and you could list them on one piece of paper. Now the list covers 15 pages."
Simon Humar has been an environmental inspector in the Slovenian municipality of Novo Mesto since 1991. Over the past decade Humar, responsible for monitoring a large swathe of South Eastern Slovenia, has helped tackle one of the biggest challenges on his country's path to European Union membership: environmental protection. Today, he and 53 other inspectors at Slovenia's Inspectorate for the Environment and Spatial Planning continue to contain the country's pollution black spots.
In December 2007 Simon Humar stood in the middle of a forest clearing looking at a mass of rusting cars and leaking chemical containers. As one of Novo Mesto's three environmental inspectors he had just been called up to help oversee the cleanup effort and to prosecute the scrap metal merchant who had illicitly set up the site. It was a pretty straightforward case until the owner's mother decided to intervene.
As the tow trucks began to move in, the woman threw herself to the ground in front of them in a last minute effort to stop the operation.
"There was a lot of shouting. She was screaming, 'These cars are all my son has!' It was very emotional," said Humar. The family could not believe that the government was closing down their business, he said. But with the police standing by the cleanup went ahead and the cars were towed away.
Such a scene would have been unthinkable as recently as the mid-nineties, before the introduction of EU-wide environmental legislation in Slovenia. Before that, Humar said, he and his colleagues were virtually powerless. The scrap metal dealer would have had every reason to expect that he could operate without any interference from the state.
"We didn't regulate this. You just needed a permit for working. It was about collecting taxes, not about environmental protection."
Today, however, Slovenia's environmental regulations have been radically transformed. Humar and his colleagues have been given new powers, enabling them to implement the law effectively.
The first phase began in 1995 with a raft of new laws that updated Slovenia's Yugoslav-era legislation. During negotiations for European Union membership, as well as after the 2004 accession, further change has taken place.
After agriculture and the free movement of goods, environment is the third most comprehensive chapter of the EU acquis (see also ESI's detailed background paper Bulgaria's quest to meet the environmental acquis on the transformation of the environmental sector in Bulgaria). It is also one of the most expensive to implement.
The environmental acquis consists of more than 200 regulations and directives that set very specific standards for air, water, waste management, nature protection, industrial pollution control, chemicals, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), noise, nuclear safety and radiation protection.
As in other EU states, an agency issues licenses and sets standards for businesses and state institutions such as hospitals and prisons and establishes monitoring systems for pollution levels. Inspectors then ensure proper implementation. Slovenia has been given extra time to implement EU legislation in a number of areas of the environmental acquis, such as the use and construction of land fills (Slovenia has until 2012 to implement legislation in this area).
To help implement these changes Humar has had to expand his expertise from water and waste management, which he monitored in the early 1990's, to nature protection, industrial pollution control, noise and chemicals. His office, the Inspectorate for the Environment and Spatial Planning, also deals with GMOs. A separate inspectorate is responsible for nuclear safety.
Sitting in his office, a recently converted Austro-Hungarian barracks in the centre of Novo Mesto, Humar holds up an A4 sheet of paper to illustrate the extent of the changes that have taken place since the first reforms were introduced.
"In 1995 we had about 15 pieces of legislation and you could list them on one piece of paper. Now the list of legislation covers 15 pages. This means much more work, but also it's much more systematic. Previously you had to improvise. Often the inspector might think that something was not good, but the legislation did not cover it. If it wasn't covered, then you could not act."
Even in cases where licenses were required, there was little expectation that inspectors would be able to act.
"There were laws on waste management, air pollution and noise. But there was no real possibility of enforcing them. For example, everybody who used water in large quantities needed a license, but very few people had it."
This has changed dramatically. The new laws now give very precise guidance on how Humar should act. His inspectorate has the power to immediately impose fines of up to 75,000 Euros on polluting industries.
"The fine can be implemented very quickly, as soon as you find something is wrong. Previously, when we had to go through the courts, it was very, very slow. You would get a verdict perhaps two years after the initial inspection, and then everybody would have forgotten about the case. [The current system] is much more effective because it means things take effect immediately. But unfortunately it also means a lot more paperwork! The paperwork has increased a lot."
It has taken time to change attitudes, Humar explains. As recently as 1998, farmers were happily letting an iron foundry in the nearby town of Crnomelj use their fields to get rid of highly carcinogenic waste. "The land owners liked it because it flattened the fields!" says Humar.
The factory paid the farmers to bury the sand-like waste, which contained highly toxic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). No measures were taken to prevent the material from seeping into the groundwater, says Humar.
When Humar and his colleagues tried to challenge the legality of the process for the first time in 1995, managers at the factory received a special dispensation from the government to continue until 1998.
Nowadays, says Humar, laws are enforced effectively and dispensations are no longer possible. It has also become much harder for polluters to avoid detection. Pollution levels are closely monitored and companies have to keep records available in case of random inspections.
"I don't think people would hide anything from us now, because it is easy to detect pollution. Things can be analysed. It's hard to hide these things."
Of course, Humar still comes across more routine methods of disregarding environmental laws. "Fly tipping", the act of dumping building material or household waste illegally on open ground, remains a common problem, he complains. But among the big industries that used to be the region's major polluters there is greater awareness of the new legal framework. Pollution levels are falling substantially.
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Unreleased, cancelled and prototype video games for the Commodore 64.
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DDT: Dynamic Debugger
1989 Imageworks
Status: No Download, Findability: 2/5
Coding: John Knox
Graphics: Unknown
Sound: Unknown
Last updated: September 19, 2021 by fgasking
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Our next game seems to be a title which just didn't work out for Imageworks. DDT: Dynamic Debugger was a game planned for release on both C64 and Amiga, and the game was never to appear on either machine.
A news snippet from CU magazine mentioned the following about the game…
"You are an apprentice dynamic debugger on the 'toon' style world of Shogglewoggle and to qualify as a Licensed Debugger, you must eradicate as many insects and furry small animals as possible. There are dozens of levels in this crazed game, so it must be very difficult indeed to get your license. Imageworks' game will be out on the Amiga and 64 this month, but the Amiga version will feature HAM colouring, which means your monitor will be resplendent in the technicolour dazzle of up to 4000 colours."
A scan also kindly submitted by someone who's name we have lost (please get in touch!) also reveals more details about the game thanks to a catalogue entry:
"DDT combines zany humour, the most colourful graphics ever to appear in a computer program and plenty of arcade action.
Set in a strange cartoon style world, known as ShoggleWaggle, the hero of the action is cast as an apprentice Dynamic Debugger who has just one final test to undergo before he can qualify as a practicing Licensed Dynamic Debugger. This is a much sought after and highly profitable profession as ShoggleWaggle is infested with bugs in the form of insects, small furry animals and other spiteful beings that must be disposed of.
So the apprentice sets out on his last epic debugging exercise and must cover no less than 10 worlds, which in turn are subdivided into different lands. The Dynamic Debugger sets out on his quest with some novel tools of trade these include a deadly champagne bottle which fires lethal corks, a vacuum cleaner which sucks all these nasties up, a DDT gun and a battery.
DDT is a bi-directional horizontally scrolling platform game with shoot-em-up and arcade adventure overtones. The program majors on the cartoon style humour which is prevalent throughout and manifests itself in a host of humorous, fun touches. Graphically the program is superb, the Amiga version utilises the large screen scrolling HAM (Hold and Modify) mode which means that over 4000 colours can be used on screen. Imageworks believe that this is the first time this technique has been implemented throughout a computer program and it means the range of colours used is breath-taking.
The ST version also incorporates technical innovations in that the scrolling is extremely smooth as all scrolling is performed at 50hz and at rates that correspond to the players walk and run speeds. Amazingly the C64 version will contain all the levels of the 16 bit version due to the use of a multi-load function.
DDT puts the fun back into computer games and at the same time features exciting visual developments which, at one time, were considered impossible to achieve.
DDT will be published on the Imageworks label for the Amiga, Atari ST, C64 and PC."
But sadly all this wonderful stuff was never to be, and the game never surfaced. We never even got to see a C64 screenshot of the game, so we can't comment how far it would have got.
It seems like the game just wasn't working out, and perhaps got too complicated. We don't know at this stage without input from the developer. Imageworks went on for around another 2 years before it went under, so it is not to do with that.
Richard Hewison used to work at Imageworks, and mentioned that John Knox was behind the game for around 2 years, but not much progress was ever made. The demo shown in magazines for the Amiga was a very simple HAM mode demo with a few sprites flowing around. It was nowhere near finished at that time. Eventually it was pulled before Mirrorsoft went into administration at the end of 1991.
Richard did not recall anything being started on the C64, and would be surprised if anything existed.
We have learnt that the game was a pretty painful experience for everyone involved, so the likelihood of ever seeing anything of the game is pretty slim. We believe it was only the 16-bit editions that had got anywhere. We'll update things if we are sent anything through – but it is looking like a case closed!
Contributions: Brendan Phoenix, Richard Hewison, Ross Sillifant, Korekutaa
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Korekutaa says:
".. the liklihood of ever seeing anything of the game is pretty non-existant."
So many errors here. Doesn't anyone proofread this stuff?
For example, "likelihood", not "liklihood". "non-existent", not "non-existant".
However, the bigger error here is thinking that a 'likelihood' can be 'existant' or 'non-existant'. Likelihood is either big or small, it doesn't have degrees of existence. How would this sound: "Likelihood doesn't exist". At best, it'd be very cumbersome english, other word choices would be better.
fgasking says:
Hi Korekutaa, thank you very much for the feedback. My apologies for the issues encountered on the page, which I have now gone in and tidied up.
I'll be the first to admit that often I'll find old posts and will be quite embarrassed at just how poor I had written something. However, I hope that subsequent years have seen vast improvements with more experience, and gradually I'll keep fixing pages like this over time. Contributors have been kind to flag up issues, and I'm happy to go in and make improvements/fixes and acknowledge in the credits as soon as possible.
Ultimately, it is just me updating the site within very limited spare time these days and without any kind of funding. Although I strive to contribute towards preservation in a meaningful way, personally it is first and foremost a hobby done out of passion and for fun. I'll always expect errors to creep in occasionally, but then we're all just human, and so I won't lose sleep over them happening from time to time. Life is too short. The main thing is that we try and preserve our gaming history as much and as best as we can given our time and resources.
Ross Sillifant says:
Just forwarded over a page from C.U which had the 'official' Mirrorsoft statement concerning game at the time of people asking what had become of it.
Just for reasons of getting all the Press coverage point of view.
Cheers Ross! Adding now! :)
I can shed some light on the Amiga version for you:
http://www.grumpyoldgamers.co.uk/index.php?/topic/3937-the-pete-lyon-interview/
Brendan Phoenix says:
Ad on page 4 of CU Amiga / 64 January 1990 – only lists Amiga though
Cheers Brendan, added to the gallery :)
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Q: How to get MD5 hash from string in SWIFT and make bridge-header i dont even expect this problem, but it appears. I try to get md5 hash from string in swift. I search about that on SO and assume that i need to import library like that:
#import <CommonCrypto/CommonCrypto.h>

First of all compiler said that '#' is not okay. Then i removed and compiler said that '<' is not okay.
I tried to figure out that and find recommendations to add folder named "CommonCrypto" and create a file named "module.map". I cant understand how to create file with this extension. Okay, i create swift file and replace its extension. Then write code there:
module CommonCrypto [system] {
    header "/usr/include/CommonCrypto/CommonCrypto.h"
    export *
}

and again its not okay
Then in recommendations was adding the new module to Import Paths under Swift Compiler – Search Paths in your project settings ${SRCROOT}/CommonCrypto).
and its again not okay.
i cant belive that its so difficult to do that. i think i misunderstand some steps or something. if you know step by step answer please help))

A: You need to add a bridging header and add the #import <CommonCrypto/CommonCrypto.h> statement to it.
The easiest way to add a bridging header is to add an Objective-C file to the project, you will be aked ig you want to add a bridging header, reply yes. After that you can delete the Objective-C file file that was added.
Example code:
func md5(#string: String) -> NSData {
    var digest = NSMutableData(length: Int(CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH))!
    if let data :NSData = string.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding) {
        CC_MD5(data.bytes, CC_LONG(data.length),
            UnsafeMutablePointer<UInt8>(digest.mutableBytes))
    }
    return digest
}

//Test:
let digest = md5(string:"Here is the test string")
println("digest: \(digest)")

Output:

digest: 8f833933 03a151ea 33bf6e3e bbc28594

Here is a more Swift 2.0 version returning an array of UInt8:
func md5(string string: String) -> [UInt8] {
    var digest = [UInt8](count: Int(CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH), repeatedValue: 0)
    if let data = string.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding) {
        CC_MD5(data.bytes, CC_LONG(data.length), &digest)
    }

    return digest
}

A: A solution for Swift 4.1:
import CommonCrypto

extension Data
{
    func md5() -> Data
    {
        var digest = Data(count: Int(CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH))

        self.withUnsafeBytes { (bytes : UnsafePointer<UInt8>) -> Void in
            digest.withUnsafeMutableBytes { (mutableBytes : UnsafeMutablePointer<UInt8>) -> Void in
                CC_MD5(bytes, CC_LONG(self.count), mutableBytes)
            }
        }

        return digest
    }
}

See Importing CommonCrypto in a Swift framework for the CommonCrypto part.

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People report the same, strange encounters with certain entities. And also dragons.
A study has taken a look at the real-life experiences of people using N,N-Dimethyltryptamine, more commonly referred to as DMT.
Study author Stephen Kagan explained that while more research was needed into dosing and the brain on DMT, closer study of the experiences of DMT is needed as growing movements push for legalization.
"People who smoke DMT, and can recall their experiences in detail, frequently describe seeing vivid and detailed geometric structures, experienced synesthesia, visions of alternate worlds," Kagan wrote in the study, "encounters with strange autonomous entities and divine beings, interactions with complex technological objects, profound emotional and mystical experiences, and being transported to unusual and complex hyperdimensional places."
Kagan looked at 100 trip reports from various DMT users that are already available, based on real-world experiences. These came from sources including YouTube and drug education site Erowid, where people report their experiences of different drugs under titles ranging from "very dreamlike" to "into the mind of God".
The experiences were transcribed (where in video format) and the contents were analyzed and categorized, based on the types of experiences described.
The experiences were broken down into the categories of Places, Objects, Entities, Feelings, and Attributes, which were further broken down (for instance, the Places category contains experiences of domes, caves, space, and hyperdimensional places).
"In the majority of reports, people who encountered complex visual and synaesthetic phenomena and had the experience of entering alternate realities did not describe their experiences as being manifestations of their own minds and frequently described what they encountered as being autonomous of themselves and independent of their influence," the study reads.
"Some people also described the content of their experiences as being more real than real. This often meant that what they experienced was more vibrant, complex, varied or detailed than what they normally experienced in their daily lives. In most cases the ability to perceive their normal surrounding reality did not remain intact and if it did, then the content and structure of their DMT experiences were superimposed upon and within the external world."
Some of the more interesting "entities" seen by DMT users included "gods:mythic", "jester:clown", "elves:goblins" and a rather sinister category of "disembodied". Humanoids were the most-encountered of the reported entities at 36 percent, with more unusual "living machines" appearing in 16 percent of experiences, narrowly beating snakes and dragons on 15 percent. As reassuring as "humanoid" sounds, the experiences were far from usual than regular humanoid humans.
"Sometimes they appear as aliens, family members, have strange shaped bodies or heads, limbs with extra joints or that separate in unusual ways," the study reads. "Their clothing varied from spacesuits to tribal to that of ancient Egyptians or Greeks and their skin varied in color, sometimes blue, red or golden. Their language was usually telepathic or easily understood."
In many of the experiences, the hallucinated entities acted as guides, imparting wisdom whether they were an insectoid or a simple geometric shape.
Kagan had originally intended for the research to explore the relationship between reported entities and reported spaces where these "encounters" occurred. However, during the research, he realized that this could only be achieved through categorization, which revealed a greater diversity of experiences of places and entities.
"With the categories and content found here, we can now build a mature survey for gathering more comprehensive data and we may be able to develop better models of the psychedelic experience in general that can help therapists and clients as well as guides and explorers," he added in the discussion.
"This may especially be useful as there could be similarities between DMT and high dose Psilocybin experiences. In numerous reports subjects claimed that their DMT experiences were some of the most profound and transformative experiences of their lives. Further investigation of this is certainly warranted and if this is true, because DMT is faster acting it may be more manageable as a clinical treatment than psilocybin."
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Home News The Beaverton, Lapine and Syrup Trap race to own Canadian satire
The Beaverton, Lapine and Syrup Trap race to own Canadian satire
Three digital humour publications eye expansion as they discover page views don't pay the bills
by Chris Webster
When it comes to comedy, Canada can produce the talent for the screen and the stage, but a certain question remains: who is our Onion?
Three satirical Canadian publications – The Beaverton, The Syrup Trap and The Lapine – are jockeying for fans, sponsors and that undisputed title, referring of course to the famous American outfit which has been publishing parody to global acclaim since 1988. The contender with perhaps the strongest resumé is The Beaverton, with an estimated monthly readership of half a million page views and offices in Toronto, Montreal and Whitehorse.
A sampling of The Beaverton.
"I think our [readership] ceiling is closer to three million," says Jacob Duarte Spiel, one of The Beaverton's Toronto editors. "I'm not bragging when I say that. I just think that there's an appetite for this kind of humour in Canada."
Spiel has been with the publication for four years, and can testify to the surge of interest in sites like his during our viral age. In 2013, a pair of articles about astronaut Chris Hadfield – in which the Canadian icon was alternately purported to have been shocked at a million-dollar Rogers phone bill rung up whilst in orbit and removed from a theatre showing of the movie Gravity for his commentary on the film's shortcomings – were shared by hundreds of thousands, many readers unaware of their satirical nature.
Spiel claims that, while no single article has since been as successful, their monthly numbers doubled just two years later, and the staff no longer have to rely on audience confusion for social media shares. Having established a consistent online audience, a growing number of people are conscious of The Beaverton as a publication that follows a familiar model with a Canadian focus, a vital designation in a nation that seems more and more capable of appreciating its own art. It's not that the market for Canadian satire hasn't always been there, but word has travelled with the help of omnipresent social media. Spiel also theorizes that Canadian interests and priorities appear to be edging away from our neighbours to the south.
"One guess is because the USA and Canada are starting to diverge more and more," he says. "A lot of Canadians saw the October election as an opportunity to say, 'We are not Americans.'"
Yet the fact remains that if we were Americans, our comedians would have a lot more to work with. "People try and compare Canadian and American show business, and really, they're incomparable," says Nick Zarzycki, founder and editor-in-chief at The Syrup Trap, another beloved satirical publication based out of Vancouver with a monthly readership that's just over half of The Beaverton's. "Imagine if we looked at the entertainment industry in Texas, alone – that's about how big our industry is."
Zarzycki launched The Syrup Trap in the spring of 2013, and while its business model certainly emulated The Onion's in the early going, the self-branded humour magazine has since worked to branch out from fake news, producing pranks, videos and even a Christmas album composed entirely of the phrase O Christmas Tree.
Over at The Lapine, which features a more eclectic mix of satire parodying issues at home and abroad, editor Steve Boyd expresses doubts about Canada and America's divergence.
"For content creators, the internet means the Canada/US border largely means zippo and there is an ever-increasing cross-breeding of the markets," says Boyd, a declaration reflected in The Lapine's impressive monthly page views (which reach north of one million), which are no doubt aided by its wider scope of site material and willingness to ignore said border.
The Lapine's first article was published in 2012, and since then the publication has stayed committed to poking fun at the absurd without losing sight of satire's importance. "Good satire takes on the dangerous, and I think that's pretty damn important, no matter the state of things," confides Boyd. With control-hungry Harper out of office, the "dangerous" immediately seems a little less so, though that hasn't stopped Boyd from lampooning our leaders; The Lapine's "particles" (articles that are "partly true") about Justin Trudeau actually draw more American page views than Canadian ones, reflecting Boyd's statements about our disappearing border.
All three editors identify a need for expansion because page views don't pay the bills.
"There's always room for more good comedy writers," continues Zarzycki, conceding that that space doesn't come with payment. "But I think there's a fake news saturation going on," alluding to its widespread presence on major US television shows, such as those hosted by Trevor Noah and John Oliver, and Canada's This Hour Has 22 Minutes, among others.
The Beaverton's editors hope not: they're in the midst of producing an eponymous television show which, if picked up for a full season, will air on the Comedy Network (although it will present formats other than satirical news, like sketch comedy and more). The hope is that, with a wider presence and a greater cash flow, a platform can be created upon which more comedic talents can strut their stuff.
"We need stars to prop up our comedy industry, but we need a comedy industry to prop up those stars. It's a chicken-and-egg situation," claims Spiel. The Syrup Trap has had some mild success with a Patreon page, where readers can pledge monthly donations to the publication, but real growth requires greater investment. That's why the staff is looking into podcasts (likely sketch comedy based), which tend to generate the highest ratio of monetization dollars to audience numbers of any kind of online media. Expanding past fake news is not just a creative urge, but a financial strategy as well, which makes the decision a no-brainer for these publications.
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Thread: Need Long Arm quilting ideas - It's not talking to me!
I made this quilt after seeing it posted on here by another member, I am sorry I don't remember who. I knew when I saw it I was going to make it because it is so happy and beautiful. So now the top is made and I have satin stitched around the pieces - which I don't like to go over when I long arm, personal preference. The problem I have now is how to quilt it. I want to do custom to accent the top and I know there will be a lot of starts and stops that way but I am open to any suggestions - even if it is different from what I am thinking cause this top is really not talking to me! Thanks in advance!
Not into long arm quilting, but it would need something special I think.
beautiful top but not help with the quilting.
You could put either stars or flowers in the center of the circles and then maybe echo around the points. If you like tight quilting on your quilts you could just do a meander stitch around the rest. Its a beautiful quilt.
I would do some sort of special design in each circle section- then just echo the points- or a small stipple around the points would 'pop' them out...turned out very nice.
I don't long arm, but I would love to see straight stitches from your points to the center of each block and then a pebbling around outside of the points..... same "radiant" stitching in the small circles too. Please post your finished quilt. It is beautiful. How much thread did it take to satin stitch all those pieces?
This is such a strong geometric quilt I would go for geometric patterns: concentric circles, points to echo the stars or just straight lines through the centers within each large square. Or wheel spokes maybe?
Or to give it a more organic feel, just meander loosely all over.
Not into long arm so these ideas might not be easy...In any case, I like the colors, design and would love to see what you finally decide!
If the batting you choose is such that it will allow you to SITD around only the colored pieces ... then I would do that and choose various small fillers for the white sections. I'm seeing small ripple lines, pebbling, and stipling in various areas of the white. The outer white border perhaps a simple vine.
I would SITD around the whole sun shape in each square. Then I would stitch 1/4 inch out from the outline until it reached the circle. I would straight stitch the circle at the edge of the sun shape. I would do concentric circles in the inner circle shape and in the 1/4 circles on the corners.
coachmatthewsvhs - I will put it up when it is done. It took a small thing of thread for each color and a whole lot of time but it sure came out nice. Thanks for your input!
Thanks everyone - Lots of great ideas and some that were along the lines of what I was toying with. I appreciate all the great ideas!
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I think it would be best to follow the patterns you have there. Make circles within the circles by going inside maybe every 1/2 inch. Lots of circles or overlap various size circles in the middle. For the outside points of the stars I would echo those also. Maybe again every 1/2 inch. I don't do long arm but use my home machine to quilt all my quilts.
I think it would be best to follow the patterns you have there. Make circles within the circles by going inside maybe every 1/2 inch. Lots of circles or overlap various size circles in the middle. For the outside points of the stars I would echo those also. Maybe again every 1/2 inch. I don't do long arm but use my home machine to quilt all my quilts.Pops I'm just now looking at the date. I guess you have quilted already!
I love how happy your quilt looks. You have put a lot of work into the piecing. It is a busy quilt and I would not put intricate quilting on it.
No idea here because I too am not a long armer, but please show us when it is done. It is a very happy, bright quilt.
I like Tartan's idea. #9. Good luck. It's a very bright and cheery quilt. I like it alot.
Make sure you can come in close some of the details of the quilting is pretty amazing.
One quilting class I had showed how different lines create a peaceful look--horizontal lines-where diagonal lines tend to be more exciting. I think the centers, I would think about horizontal lines, separate to each quadrant. The points maybe a flame type stitch. The outside quadrant circles you could do like the center, or make them like sun rays coming from the center with a s like curve. The outer areas of the points you could do echo stitching, with some type of meander on the outside negative areas. Personally I think it is easier to try to figure out each area, then to just say, make a flame meander throughout.
Try taking a piece of vinyl that you might put over something--it is sold at fabric stores, or even a clear piece of overhead projector sheet and using a vis a vis marker mark how you might do the quilting. If you like it keep it until you quilt it, as a reminder, otherwise windex it off and on to the next idea.
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Q: Alternate definition for cyclic group Let's consider $\phi :G\rightarrow G$ an isomorphism such that $\phi (g)=ga$ for some $g\in G$ and $\forall g\in G$, and such that $\phi $ is a cycle including all elements of $G$. Is it then true that $G$ is cyclic?
$\phi$ is a cycle means that it can be expressed in just one cycle in "cycle form."
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A: If $\phi(g)=ga$ is a group homomorphism $G\to G$ then $\phi(e)=a$ implies $a=e$ and $\phi$ is the identity automorphism. If, further, its disjoint cycle representation as a permutation of $G$ is a single cycle containing all of $G$'s elements, then $G$ is the trivial group, since the identity automorphism is a product of $1$-cycles $(g)$ as $g$ runs over all elements of $G$.
However, if you're letting $G$ act on itself by left-multiplication, then $\phi(g)=ga$ will be a $G$-set automorphism for any $a\in G$, and its cycles will be the left cosets of $\langle a\rangle$. Then if $\phi$ is a single cycle, that implies $G=\langle a\rangle$.


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Q: Batch Script - Create directory and copy files into that directory I need to make a directory with a time stamp and then copy files into that created directory. I am unsure how to copy files into a directory this created directory.
When I attempt to create the directory with xcopy, it asks me to choose file or directory; I would like to automate this process for a Task.
Is there a way to "dynamically" insert the destination path or tell it to make it a directory?
Here is what I have so far...
@echo off
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This asks if I want a file or directory and once I insert d it populates the directory correctly. I want to automate this.
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Google's chief economist says executives in wired organizations need a sharper understanding of how technology empowers innovation.
More than ten years into the widespread business adoption of the Web, some managers still fail to grasp the economic implications of cheap and ubiquitous information on and about their business. Hal Varian, professor of information sciences, business, and economics at the University of California at Berkeley, says it's imperative for managers to gain a keener understanding of the potential for technology to reconfigure their industries. Varian, currently serving as Google's chief economist, compares the current period to previous times of industrialization when new technologies combined to create ever more complex and valuable systems—and thus reshaped the economy.
Varian spoke with McKinsey's James Manyika, a director in the San Francisco office, in Napa, California, in October 2008. Watch the video or read the transcript of his comments below.
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On flexible innovation
We're in the middle of a period that I refer to as a period of "combinatorial innovation." So if you look historically, you'll find periods in history where there would be the availability of a different component parts that innovators could combine or recombine to create new inventions. In the 1800s, it was interchangeable parts. In 1920, it was electronics. In the 1970s, it was integrated circuits.
Now what we see is a period where you have Internet components, where you have software, protocols, languages, and capabilities to combine these component parts in ways that create totally new innovations. The great thing about the current period is that component parts are all bits. That means you never run out of them. You can reproduce them, you can duplicate them, you can spread them around the world, and you can have thousands and tens of thousands of innovators combining or recombining the same component parts to create new innovation. So there's no shortage. There are no inventory delays. It's a situation where the components are available for everyone, and so we get this tremendous burst of innovation that we're seeing.
On corporations and work
The question is, "What are other periods where we saw technology influence the way organizations work?" One nice example comes from the works of Alfred Chandler, where he describes how the telegraph and the railroad had a big impact on the development of the modern corporation. And this was a synergistic operation: one, you had to have a large organization to manage these technologies, and two, you had to have the communications and transportation infrastructure to enable the management at a distance.
So I think now, with what we're seeing with mobility, we're going to have a totally different concept of what it means to go to work. The work goes to you, and you're able to deal with your work at any time and any place, using the infrastructure that's now become available.
At the base, there's the innovation infrastructure making better, faster, cheaper networks. There's the improvement in the human–computer interface because the big challenge in mobile communication has always been dealing with this—quite limited—interface. But then, the kinds of innovations I think will arise on top of that will be innovations in how work is done. And that's going to be one of the most exciting aspects, in my opinion.
If you look at the beginning of the 20th century, we saw the rise of mass production. Henry Ford and the entire team were down on the factory floor raising this, lowering that, speeding up the assembly line, changing the way things were built, and were able to extract far more efficiencies than were available before. I think the same thing is happening now with digital technology. When we're all networked, we all have access to the same documents, to the same capabilities, to this common infrastructure, and we can improve the way work—intellectual work, knowledge work—flows through the organization. And again, in my opinion, that will lead to a substantial advantage in terms of productivity.
On free goods and value
Back in the early days of the Web, every document had at the bottom, "Copyright 1997. Do not redistribute." Now every document has at the bottom, "Copyright 2008. Click here to send to your friends." So there's already been a big revolution in how we view intellectual property. So it's not so much the question of what's owned or what's not owned. It's a question of how can you leverage the assets you have to realize the most value.
I think that the availability of these very inexpensive platforms you're creating, in disseminating content, means that it's become intensely competitive. The content is as valuable as it ever was, it's just the competition that's pushed the prices down to something that approximates zero. So it's not something that the content producers necessarily embrace, but it's something they're forced into by the nature of the technological change.
In these models, there is typically a revenue-generating component somewhere in the value chain. And most commonly today we're seeing it on the advertising side. To look at this from a historical perspective, it's really not so new. If you look at the 1920s, the technological question in the '20s was, "How can we build a business model around broadcast radio?" And nobody really had a good idea. And back in the mid-1990s we asked, "How can we build a business model around the Internet?" And the preferred model at the time was a micropayments system. That never happened, for some reasons, but what did happen instead is we moved into the advertising model, and the advertising's model been phenomenally successful.
We have to look at today's economy and say, "What is it that's really scarce in the Internet economy?" And the answer is attention. [Psychologist] Herb Simon recognized this many years ago. He said, "A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." So being able to capture someone's attention at the right time is a very valuable asset. And Google really has built an entire business around this, because we're capturing your attention when you're doing a search for something you're interested in. That's the ideal time to show you an advertisement for a product that may be related or complimentary to what your search is all about.
On workers and managers
I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s? The ability to take data—to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it—that's going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades, not only at the professional level but even at the educational level for elementary school kids, for high school kids, for college kids. Because now we really do have essentially free and ubiquitous data. So the complimentary scarce factor is the ability to understand that data and extract value from it.
I think statisticians are part of it, but it's just a part. You also want to be able to visualize the data, communicate the data, and utilize it effectively. But I do think those skills—of being able to access, understand, and communicate the insights you get from data analysis—are going to be extremely important. Managers need to be able to access and understand the data themselves.
You always have this problem of being surrounded by "yes men" and people who want to predigest everything for you. In the old organization, you had to have this whole army of people digesting information to be able to feed it to the decision maker at the top. But that's not the way it works anymore: the information can be available across the ranks, to everyone in the organization. And what you need to ensure is that people have access to the data they need to make their day-to-day decisions. And this can be done much more easily than it could be done in the past. And it really empowers the knowledge workers to work more effectively.
On computer monitoring and risks
One of the really interesting phenomena that's been going on in the last 20 years is what I call "computer-mediated transactions." So now, in the middle of almost every transaction from person to person or organization to organization, there's a computer. And the computer can monitor that transaction, record the information, collect the data, and assure that the transaction is carried out the way it was intended to be carried out. So one of the subtle implications of this is you can now write contracts and make contracts enforceable that simply weren't enforceable before.
Let me give you an example. Suppose you go rent a car and they say, "Hey, we'll give you $10 off if you don't go over the speed limit." Well, that might sound like a good deal, but what's to keep you from going over the speed limit? Well, the answer is now they've got a transponder in the trunk and it will monitor your behavior and charge you accordingly. And the same thing happens with semitrucks: virtually every semi on the road today has a computer in it. And that computer improves the logistics. It monitors the performance of the driver and it helps things get to the consumer more quickly. So there are a lot of capabilities of that sort that allow you to contract on terms that were just not available to you before.
[At the same time,] you get a new technology in and people are excited about the positive sides of it. Then you see there are also some negative aspects. And you'll have a regulatory infrastructure that arises to deal with those. I think everybody is very excited about the intended aspects of this technology—the fact that you can personalize, the fact that you can monitor, the fact that you can provide products that are more closely suited to a consumer's interests and needs. What people are worried about are the unintended consequences, the downsides, the negative sides, the security, the identity theft, the possibility of extortion or embarrassment. These are the problems: not what people want to do but what could happen if these technologies weren't appropriately managed.
On reshaping industries
We're obviously going to see enormous change in the traditional marketing industry. You look at TV, you look at print, you look at radio and other media of that sort. On the Internet, we've learned to measure advertising effectiveness, and the challenge now is to move those same effectiveness measures over to the offline media.
That can be done. I think we're going to see vast improvements in how those industries function in the future. And in general, if we look at service industries—well, everybody I think is in agreement that we're going to see lots of efficiency improvements in services, because we do have this network capability. We have the technological infrastructure. We can improve communication flows. The second beneficiaries of that will be with service industries who've already seen a lot of advances in manufacturing productivity. And the tough nut is the one we're working on cracking now.
What I actually work on to a large extent is a current feeding of the auction model that we have at Google. As you know, all of our ads are sold by auction. That's a relatively novel pricing mechanism in the ad world. And there're a lot of intricacies that involve how you manage that. We'd like to extend that model to the offline world: to radio, TV, print, and other media. It's a model that was enabled by the Internet. It's not something you could've done without that information technology there. And it's a great model for all sorts of resource allocation issues.
I think the people who originally designed the model way back in 2001 had a very, very useful insight. They recognized that the content provider has impressions to sell. So you've got some space in your TV show. You've got some space on your page. You've got some space that's available to put an ad. But what the advertiser wants to pay for is clicks or conversions or visits. So they don't really care how many impressions they show. Normally, what they care about is getting people into their store and, ultimately, getting people to purchase. So you have to build a system that allows the publisher to sell impressions but the advertiser to buy clicks. And I think we've managed to accomplish that in a nice, elegant way.


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Q: Find closest match for misspelled city names? I have a list of cities that have numerous incorrect spelling for the same city.  One city is misspelled 18 times!  I am trying to clean this up but its taking hours.  Is there some algorithm that might "guess" at the valid city name for each of these misspelled ones?  Some form of weighting?  The data is in MySQL and I do have a table of the correct spelling as well to compare against.
Any ideas on this? A PHP example would help if possible.

A: you could use a damerau-levenstein function to get the string distance between two strings. (This also checks for transposition)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damerau%E2%80%93Levenshtein_distance
If your tables are big then you might need to optimise the algo a bit to break once the string distance exceeds a threashold.
Also if you can assume that the first letter of the city is typed correctly that should reduce the number of comparisons to.
Its not PHP, but if its of any help heres a java version I wrote:
class LevinshteinDistance{
    public static void main(String args[]){
        if(args.length != 2){
            System.out.println("Displays the Levenshtein distance between 2 strings");
            System.out.println("Usage: LevenshteinDistance stringA stringB");
        }else{
            int distance = getLevenshteinDistance(args[0], args[1]);
            System.out.print(getLevenshteinMatrix(args[0], args[1]));
            System.out.println("Distance: "+distance);
        }
    }

    /**
     * @param a first string for comparison
     * @param b second string for comparison
     * @param caseSensitive whether or not to use case sensitive matching
     * @return a levenshtein string distance
     */
    public static int getLevenshteinDistance(String a, String b, boolean caseSensitive){
        if(! caseSensitive){
        a = a.toUpperCase();
        b = b.toUpperCase();
        }
        int[][] matrix = generateLevenshteinMatrix(a, b);
        return matrix[a.length()][b.length()];
    }

    /**
     * @param a first string for comparison
     * @param b second string for comparison
     * @return a case sensitive levenshtein string distance
     */
    public static int getLevenshteinDistance(String a, String b){
        int[][] matrix = generateLevenshteinMatrix(a, b);
        return matrix[a.length()][b.length()];
    }

    /**
     * @param a first string for comparison
     * @param b second string for comparison
     * @return a  case sensitive string representation of the search matrix
     */
    public static String getLevenshteinMatrix(String a, String b){
        int[][] matrix = generateLevenshteinMatrix(a, b);
        StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
        final int ROWS = a.length()+1;
        final int COLS = b.length()+1;

        result.append(rowSeperator(COLS-1, false));
        result.append("|    "+b+" |\n");
        result.append(rowSeperator(COLS-1, true));

        for(int r=0; r<ROWS; r++){
            result.append('|');
            if(r > 0){
                result.append(a.charAt(r-1));
            }else{
                result.append(' ');
            }
            result.append(" |");
            for(int c=0; c<COLS; c++){
                result.append(matrix[r][c]);
            }
            result.append(" |\n");
        }
        result.append(rowSeperator(COLS-1, false));
        return result.toString();
    }

    private static String rowSeperator(final int LEN, boolean hasGap){
        StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
        if(hasGap){
            result.append("+  +-");
        }else{
            result.append("+----");
        }
        for(int i=0; i<LEN; i++)
            result.append('-');
        result.append("-+\n");
        return result.toString();
    }

    private static int[][] generateLevenshteinMatrix(String a, String b){
        final int ROWS = a.length()+1;
        final int COLS = b.length()+1;
        int matrix[][] = new int[ROWS][COLS];

        for(int r=0; r<ROWS; r++){
            matrix[r][0]=r;
        }
        for(int c=0; c<COLS; c++){
            matrix[0][c]=c;
        }

        for(int r=1; r<ROWS; r++){
            char cA = a.charAt(r-1);
            for(int c=1; c<COLS; c++){
                    char cB = b.charAt(c-1);
                int cost = (cA == cB)?0:1;

                int deletion =  matrix[r-1][c]+1;
                int insertion = matrix[r][c-1]+1;
                int substitution = matrix[r-1][c-1]+cost;
                int minimum = Math.min(Math.min(deletion, insertion), substitution);

                if( (r > 1 && c > 1) && a.charAt(r-2) == cB && cA == b.charAt(c-2) ){
                    int transposition = matrix[r-2][c-2]+cost;
                    minimum = Math.min(minimum, transposition);
                }
                matrix[r][c] = minimum;
            }
        }
        return matrix;
    }
}

A: *

*Read about Levenshtein distance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance.

*Find an implementation or write your own.  It's not that complex.

*Use it to locate near-miss spelling errors.

A: As the infamous "Bariteney Spears" suggests, and as most us know from experience, Google, through it's crawling, has gotten pretty good at correctly spell checking popular names. City are the things it usually corrects well. You might thus try to write a PHP function that parses a Googlse search page to see what correction Google suggests, or, more complicated (because the page is more complex), you might even try to parse the options given to you by Google Maps.


Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Molly began working professionally at age thirteen at Philadelphia's Prince Music Theater in a production of "The Snow Queen." Soon after she played Little Red Ridinghood in the Arden Theater's production of "Into the Woods," for which she was nominated for a Barrymore Award. She went on to reprise this role when she made her Broadway debut at 15 in "Into the Woods" on Broadway in 2002, and was nominated for a Drama League Award. Molly also performed in the Broadway revival of "Fiddler on the Roof" in 2004. She then attended Princeton University where she was a member of the Triangle Club, and graduated in 2008 with a B.A. in Religion. During this time she also made her film debut in Disney's "College Road Trip" as Wendy Greenhut. After graduating, Molly performed in several Off-Broadway plays including "End Days" at Ensemble Studio Theater, and in some television work including "Royal Pains" and an HBO Pilot, "The Wonderful Maladys." Molly has starred in several regional productions, including the "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" at Barrington Stage Company and North Shore Music Theatre in 2008, and Westport Country Playhouse's 2010 production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" in which she played Anne. Molly is best known for her role in the 2010 movie "Paranormal Activity 2" in which she plays teenage daughter, Ali and the ABC comedy written by Jack Burditt and starring Tim Allen, entitled "Last Man Standing"


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Top 10 High Level Beasts for Alphas
Over the past few months we looked at the best low-level beasts for your alpha pack and druid wild shapes, and then we looked at the best mid-range beasts (and the highest level wild shapes you can get for most druids). Today we're closing out by looking at the best high-end beasts, going from CR2-4.
We opted not to look at CR5-6, as 1) it's a very small list, 2) most games won't go high enough for even a moon druid to use them, and 3) they are very niche and some game masters may not even allow you to use them, so we opted to keep to relatively common beasts that you would have a good chance of encountering. You could also have a pack of five CR4 beasts as a 20th level alpha, so the list would meet most of your needs in and out of combat.
Top CR2-4 Beasts for Alphas
Honorable Mentions: The following beasts are great, but not good enough to make the top ten: Giant Boar (only one attack, which holds it back, but Relentless and its charge damage make it tougher than it looks), Saber-Toothed Tiger (this is just a more powerful tiger: same abilities, just higher rolls), and Rhinoceros (a big creature with a big attack that only gets bigger if it has time and space to run up to you).
#10: Giant Scorpion (CR3)
For a CR3 creature, the Giant Scorpion has a low hit modifier at a +4. It gets three attacks, so there's a good chance it can hit with at least one of them, and if it hits with a claw it can grapple a target and insure that it has the reach to strike with its stinger which is the real damage dealer. It also has an AC15, which is the highest of the creatures on this list. And with 60ft of blindsight, finding your target is reliable.
What holds back the Giant Scorpion is a modest hit point pool, the low Attack modifier, and the fact that on average its attacks could only do 6 damage.
#9: Plesiosaurus (CR2)
While admittedly not a lot of attacks occur in the water, but when they do (or if only having 20ft of movement on land is good enough), a plesiosaurus is a great choice. It only has one attack, but for having only one attack it as 1) a good Attack modifier at a +6 (so you will probably hit) and 2) good damage (3d6+4, for an average of 14). Add onto this 68 hit points past an AC13 (which is respectable for this level), and you have a good attacker on land or sea.
#8: Auroch (CR2)
The auroch is a cow-like creature, but boy does it hit hard. I feel bad that it does better as a profile than the rhinoceros, as I feel like it shouldn't, but here we are. Its AC is only 11, which is below average, and its hit points are only 38, which is average for this level, but in all other respects this thing is a beast in more than just tag. It hits with a +7 to its Attack, making it a very reliable attacker at CR2. It deals around 14-25 damage on average (depending on whether or not it charges), and at a DC15 Strength save to avoid being knocked prone, this creature has one of the highest save DCs of any beast period, dinosaurs and mammoths included.
And, since it needs to get a 20ft running start to get that charge, having 50ft of movement sure helps to setup the attack. If you're looking for something that will blunt an oncoming attacker, this is a good choice.
#7: Polar Bear/Cave Bear (CR2)
I've lumped polar bears and cave bears together as the only difference between the two is whether they have a swim speed or darkvision: everything else about their profiles is the same. This is an upgrade to the Brown Bear at CR1: bigger damage, more hit points, and a slightly better AC.
There's nothing really to say here that we didn't say in our last post: multiattack is good, the hit points is about average at 42, and has good senses. So this bear will serve multiple functions for you, whatever the situation.
#6: Allosaurus (CR2)
We get our first land-based dinosaur here with the allosaurus: a fast-moving attacker that is much like a tiger, lion, goat, or elk in that it has a weak attack that can allow you to perform a stronger attack if you knock the target prone, but this one comes with a twist. While the rules are the same (and the DC13 is only decent), both attacks have a +6 to the Attack roll, which means your chance of forcing the saving throw is actually quite good. And when you're doing 8-23 damage on average in a single round after setting up your attack with 60ft of movement, you have a fighting chance to land that second attack.
The big thing about the allosaurus that puts it at #6 is that it combines a very good offensive set of attacks with resilience: at 51 hit points you have a lot of hit points for this level, and while an AC13 isn't great it's not half bad either (especially if you can purchase barding armor).
#5: Giant Elk (CR2)
Ah yes, the mighty elk: this thing hits like a train if you're not careful, and is quite survivable considering it's a mammal (as reptiles tend to be higher in hit points and AC in this game). With an AC14 and 42 hit points it's very sturdy for the level of play, and with a hoof attack dealing 22 damage on average, if you can get in that attack you will devastate the target.
The elk would be in the top three if you had the ability to perform a Hoof attack as a bonus action after knocking a target prone, but it does not have that ability. This means that giant elk are most dangerous when paired with other creatures that can knock a target prone. The ideal, if you haven't guessed from this list, is to take an Auroch (which has a DC15 Strength Save and a good charge attack in its own right), knock down a target, and then run them over with an elk or two. If you pull that off, boy oh boy they're in for a world of hurt.
#4: Ankylosaurus (CR3)
Here's a great option for you: an AC15 creature with almost 70 hit points, rocking a +7 Attack modifier to deal 18 damage on average and then a chance to knock you prone? This thing is a walking tank, and if you are looking for an off-tank or substitute tank for a party, this is your man.
It doesn't do as much damage as the giant elk or the allosaurus, but it has two distinct advantages. First, it's more reliable, as you don't need the target to fail a saving throw to get your more powerful attack. But two and more than that, you get Reach on this attack (10ft), so your threat range is actually quite dangerous with this guy even though he only has 30ft of movement. This means that he can move into base contact with someone to hold them down, and then reach out and bash a target beyond that person, all while presenting a huge body to block access to softer targets behind him. And with a good AC and a lot of hit points, even a paladin or barbarian at this level would be held up for a few turns.
Fantastic beast, one of the best, but not good enough to break the top three, mostly because it only gets one attack, so while a +7 modifier is good, if you miss you do nothing.
#3: Awakened White Moose (CR3)
Imagine a healthier giant elk with multiattack, 22-31 damage on average per turn, and better resilience to being knocked prone, and you have this moose. Brought to us as part of the Rime of the Frostmaiden adventure, this moose hurts a lot, running over creatures with its fast movement and big charge attack.
Unlike elk, though, the hoof attack is actually the weaker attack for the moose, which is part of what makes this creature so much more dangerous. Elk are only a serious threat if they can attack you while you are prone, but this creature is most dangerous when it charges (which it has far more control over). It can also take advantage of its ability to knock you prone, as the multiattack feature allows it to charge you with its antlers, knock you prone, and then get advantage on its hoof attack against you. So if you're looking for a good beast of burden who can bring the pain and suffer its fair share of damage, this is a good option.
#2: Killer Whale (CR3)
We come to the largest of the sea creatures at this level, and it's a doozy. At 90 hit points good luck killing this thing, as it can easily swim away 120ft on a Dash action if it feels like it is in over its head. It only gets one attack, but that one attack does an average of 21 damage, which is more than enough to place it in the top three. It has a 120ft blindsight, so no hiding against this thing, and with keen hearing it will find you.
As an all around creature this whale is incredible. Sure, it's situational to a water scenario, but the stats are just too good to pass up at this level. A person with a killer whale or two would be very hard to stop, and you could easily transport a party wherever you need to go with 1-2 of these.
And finally...
#1: Elephant (CR4)
There are a lot of creatures with a "if you hit with X attack, you can knock people prone and perform your stronger attack as a bonus action" ability, but the elephant's is the best that there is for a few reasons. First, you've got a +8 to your attack, which is a lot. So hitting with the Gore attack is not hard. Second, your DC for knocking someone prone is a DC12, which is not great, but even if you don't get it off, your Gore attack does 19 damage on average, which is basically as good if not better than basically every other creature's total damage from 2-3 attacks with multiattack. So even if you only attack once you're doing more damage than basically any other.
And then if you do knock the target prone, you get to do an even bigger attack that on average does 22 damage. That's 41 points of damage on average in one turn, and that assumes no critical hit.
Add onto this good hit points (albeit at only AC12) and a good speed, and you've got yourself a truck that is hard to stop.
The game could use higher level beasts so that they are more prevalent at mid-level play, let alone high-level play. But for what we have, we have a lot of good options for beasts. I think there should be more options present (Giant Bear? Awakened Mammoth? Heck, a Red Ant Swarm at lower levels), but more on that in the coming months as we build out more beasts for you, along with another project we are working on.
Top 10 Utility Cantrips in D&D
Top 10 Attack Cantrips


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Q: React router -  does not render when  not in same component im trying to format my HTML like so within the body tag:

reason why is so that i have my navigation out of  and in
Im also rendering the corresponding React component individually i.e: document.getElementById("header"), document.getElementById("app") ...:
ReactDOM.render(
  ,
  document.getElementById("header")
);

When clicking <Link to="/log-in"></Link> in  it breaks out of SPA and jumps to /log-in page.
What am i missing here?

A: Using ReactDOM.render multiple times will create separate instances unaware of each other source.
Let's go on about restructuring that a bit to make your app feel better:
App.js
import React from 'react';
import { Main } from './components';
const App = () => (

)

ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById("app"));

Main.js
import React from 'react';
import { Router, Route } from 'react-router-dom';
import { Header, Login, Register, Home } from './components'

const Main = () => (
 <Router>
    <React.Fragment>

      <Route exact path="/" component={Home} />
      <Route path="/login" component={Login} />
      <Route path="/register" component={Register} />

    </React.Fragment>
  </Router>
)

export { Main };

So this way, we're ever only really rendering one instance. Your header/footer would be placed outside of the router, so whenever the route changes, they remain unaffected. Keep in mind that this will present a challenge, eg if you want your Header to highlight which route is active, the simples way, since it's outside of router and doesn't receive props from it, is to check the url. Also note that we're using <React.Fragment> here, but you're free to use a
 or anything else you like. Router expect one child only, so if you don't want additional html elements, you can use a fragment!


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Seriously....It REALLY tastes like cucumber!
Borage (Borago officinalis) is an herbaceous edible flowering plant. Also known as "starflower," it has beautiful blueish-purple flowers and is a beneficial addition to any home garden. This year, I direct-sowed borage seed at the time I transplanted my tomato seedlings in two of my garden beds. (They can safely be sown after the last frost date.) I chose those beds as borage has a reputation for repelling tomato hornworm (and cabbage worms) as well as leaving trace minerals that assist tomato plant growth. Like many gardening recommendations, it's hard to find solid science behind those claims, but borage is considered a beneficial companion to most plants including squash and strawberries.
Some of its beneficial properties likely stem from the fact that it attracts bees and wasps that will kill unwanted insects in the garden. This year, I stepped up my game on pollinator-friendly plants, so I was happy to add borage to the mix along with salvia, swamp milkweed, butterfly milkweed, purple cone flower, calendula, and sunflowers.
BONUS: Borage is DEER-RESISTANT, which is a great quality for plants in the northeastern U.S.
Borage is an herb that's been around for a long time. This ancient herb, which originates in the Mediterranean, was enjoyed by many ancient civilizations. The Romans thought borage had the reputation to make a person "merry" or "glad" when added to wine. (Although maybe it was the wine that made them feel that way.) It's often referred to as a stress-reliever and anti-inflammatory and makes a delicious tea.
Borage can grow up to 2 feet tall.
The entire plant is edible (well, I wouldn't eat the roots). Nibble on the leaves and you'll taste refreshing cucumber. I love the taste of cucumber-infused water. Now, instead of using cucumber skins, I just cut up a borage leaf and add it to a pitcher of water I keep in the refrigerator. Saute borage leaves with other greens for an added refreshing flavor.
The flowers emerge about 1 1/2 months after planting the seed. The flowers first start as small bunches of buds that expand outward before those beautiful starflowers appear. Toss the flowers in salads, cocktails or freeze them in ice cubes for that extra-special splash of freshness and color in your drink.
Flowers first appear in small clusters before expanding.
Borage is an annual plant that grows about 2 feet tall. It's "furry" leaves may be off-putting at first, but as soon as those flowers appear, the whole plant takes on a new look. If you're direct sowing borage seed, plant a few seeds together only about 1/4 - 1/2 inch deep. As they grow, thin the plants to about 1 foot apart. Because it is an annual, it won't come back the following year. However, it is self-seeding, so it should drop some seeds that will emerge as plants the following year.
Borage is a beautiful and beneficial plant that makes a good companion plant and its edible nature provides both beauty and purpose in your garden.