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Celebrate "Baseball Italian Style" in San Francisco on April 26 and San Diego on April 28, 2018
April 11, 2018 Roberto AngottiLeave a comment
The Museo Italo Americano and the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club as well as the San Diego Little Italy's Amici House and Convivio are proud to co-present exciting nights in San Francisco (April 26) and San Diego (April 28) celebrating "Baseball Italian Style". Special guests include renowned author Lawrence Baldassaro (Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball and Baseball Italian Style) and award-winning filmmaker Roberto Angotti (Italian American Baseball Family). Professor Lawrence Baldassaro will sign all books purchased at these once-in-a-lifetime events. Lovers of history and baseball alike will be mesmerized with the newfound knowledge exchanged in San Francisco and San Diego.
"Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball" by Professor Lawrence Baldassaro was originally published in 2011.
Engaging critically-acclaimed author Lawrence Baldassaro will present his new book Baseball Italian Style: Great Stories Told by Italian American Major Leaguers from Crosetti to Piazza, which brings together the memories of major leaguers of Italian heritage whose collective careers span almost a century from the 1930s until today. The men who speak in this collection, which includes eight Hall of Famers (Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto, Ron Santo, Craig Biggio, Mike Piazza, Tommy Lasorda, Tony La Russa, and Joe Torre), go beyond statistics to provide an inside look at life in the big leagues. Their stories provide a time capsule that documents not only the evolution of Italian American participation in the national pastime but also the continuity of the game and the many changes that have taken place, on and off the field. University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Professor Emeritus Lawrence Baldassaro will donate all royalties from his book, Baseball Italian Style, to the Jimmy Fund in Boston, which supports the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, raising funds for adult and pediatric cancer care and research. Purchase the book now by clicking HERE.
Baseball Hall of Famer Tommy Lasorda and Lawrence Baldassaro, who served as interpreter for Team Italy during the 2016 World Baseball Classic
Immediately following Professor Baldassaro's lecture, the award-winning documentary, Italian American Baseball Family, will be shown. Director Roberto Angotti will introduce the film and author Lawrence Baldassaro will be available for book signings immediately following the movie. Recipient of a grant from the National Italian American Foundation, the Italian Sons and Daughters of America and the Russo Brothers, Angotti documented the Italian American experience on how Italians assimilated into popular culture through America's favorite pastime, and how Italian Americans have circled back to Italy to help grow the game abroad by playing for Team Italy in the Olympics and the World Baseball Classic. He is excited to bring the movie to San Francisco, hometown of Ping Bodie, Tony Lazzeri, Frank Crosetti, the DiMaggio brothers and so many others. Italian American Baseball Family traverses the U.S. cultural landscape and documents an ethnic group's rise from adversity by celebrating its triumphs in breaking into a sport originally dominated by English, Irish and German immigrants. The film showcases both the hardships and accomplishments of legendary Italian American baseball players.
Director Roberto Angotti and author Lawrence Baldassaro at the National Italian American Foundation 42nd Anniversary Gala on November 4, 2017 in Washington, D.C.
The San Francisco Italian Athletic Club has served the Italian American community for over 100 years.
To reserve tickets for the Thursday, April 26 event at the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club, 1630 Stockton Street in San Francisco's North Beach, call Museo Italo Americano at 415-673-2200 or click HERE. The fun begins promptly at 6 pm with complimentary antipasti and a no-host bar.
Tickets for the Saturday, April 28 event at Amici House, located at Amici Park (250 Date Street at the corner of Union and Date Streets) in San Diego's Little Italy can be reserved HERE. The welcome reception begins at 6 pm. Guests will be escorted to the lecture and film screening at nearby Washington Elementary Auditorium.
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Team Italy players in Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball
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PITCHERS: Team Italy switch-pitcher Pat Venditte, who has proved himself worthy of playing in Major League Baseball after stints with the Oakland Athletics and Seattle Mariners, signed a minor league deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers in late November with an invite to 2018 Spring Training. The 32-year-old fan favorite was lights out in Arizona, where he appeared in more games than any Dodger pitcher (nine), threw more innings than any other Dodger reliever (10.1), and posted the lowest ERA (1.74) of any reliever who pitched more than eight innings this spring. The Omaha, Nebraska native allowed only two earned runs on seven hits, while walking three and striking out 13. Despite his remarkable statistics and stellar performance, Pat Venditte will have to wait patiently and pitch for the Triple-A Oklahoma City Dodgers before he makes his debut at Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles.
MLB veteran Tommy Layne made 19 appearances out of the New York Yankees bullpen in 2017. The lefty reliever specialist signed a minor league contract with the Boston Red Sox in February and appeared in eight 2018 Spring Training games. He pitched seven inning in relief and picked up one save with a 2.57 ERA and six strikeouts. The 33-year-old seasoned professional will start out the 2018 season playing for Triple-A affiliate Pawtucket Red Sox with hopes of being brought back to Boston, where he spent most of his MLB career from 2014-2016.
In 2017 Sam Gaviglio made 12 appearances (11 starts) with the Seattle Mariners before being claimed off waivers by the Kansas City Royals, where he made another four appearances which included two starts. Overall, he went 4-5 with a 4.36 ERA. The Pacific Northwest right-hander was recently traded to the Toronto Blue Jays and assigned to Triple-A affiliate Buffalo Bisons. It won't be long before Sam Gaviglio makes his debut at Rogers Centre to give the Blue Jays added pitching depth.
Blue Jays prospect Jordan Romano was named 2017 MiLB Organizational All-Star after pitching for the Single-A Advanced Dunedin Blue Jays and playing with future MLB stars Cavan Biggio, Bo Bichette, and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. He amassed 138 strikeouts in 138 innings of pitching during the 2017 season, which included 26 starts (7-5, 3.39 ERA). Jordan Romano was invited to 2018 Blue Jays Spring Training, where he appeared in three games and pitched 2.2 inning of relief with a 3.38 ERA. Although he was assigned to Double-A affiliate New Hampshire Fisher Cats, it would not be a stretch of the imagination to see Jordan Romano join fellow Team Italy pitcher Sam Gaviglio in Buffalo en route to Toronto in 2018.
After spending seven years in the Cleveland Indians organization and pitching for Double-A affiliate Akron RubberDucks in 2017, Luis Lugo signed a minor league contract with the Baltimore Orioles in December. The crafty 24-year-old Team Italy left-hander, who was born in Venezuela, went 8-7 in 25 starts with a 4.35 ERA in 2017. He will be forwardly placed in the Orioles minor league system in anticipation of a breakout season to catapult him into MLB.
Philadelphia Phillies pitching prospect Nick Fanti was outstanding during his 2017 season with Single-A affiliate Lakewood BlueClaws, where he was involved in two no-hitters. The former 31st-round 2015 Phillies draft pick threw a no-hitter with 12 strikeouts on July 17, 2017, just two months after he pitched 8.2 hitless innings with nine strikeouts on May 6, 2017.The 21-year-old Baseball America Low Class A All-Star ended his 2017 campaign with an outstanding 9-2 record with 2.54 ERA and 121 strikeouts in 120.1 innings of work. In 2018 expect Nick Fanti to make his way from the Single-A Advanced Clearwater Threshers up the ladder to MLB.
CATCHERS: Team Italy is led by a dynamic duo of MLB veteran catchers, Francisco Cervelli of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Drew Butera of the Kansas City Royals, both known for being winners after calling quality games and coming through in the clutch. Francisco Cervelli was the hero on Pirates opening day at Detroit's Comerica Park on March 30, 2018. Home-plate umpire Tony Randazzo called Tigers' Nicholas Castellanos safe in a close play at the plate for a walk-off win in the 10th inning. While his fellow Pirates headed straight to dugout with their heads down conceding defeat in extra-innings, Francisco Cervelli knew he had tagged the runner out before Castellanos had touched the plate so he appealed to the umpires for a "courtesy review". In what became MLB's first controversial ruling of the 2018 regular season, the call was reversed and the game resumed. Detroit manager Ron Gardenhire went nuts, kicking dirt and getting ejected from his first game as Tigers skipper. Cervelli kept his cool and said, "In the past, we used to celebrate. Now, you've got to wait, especially on plays like that. It's tough because they were celebrating. But I won, again." The marathon contest lasted a Pirates opening day-record 5 hours and 27 minutes before Pittsburgh eventually beat the Tigers 13-10 in 13 innings. Francisco Cervelli orchestrated the barrage of pitchers from behind the plate while going 2-for-6 with 3 RBI. Pirates manager Clint Hurdle praised the Italian-Venezuelan catcher and said, "We're a better team with Cervelli in the lineup and behind the plate. Truthfully, you have a pitching coach on the field. He and Yadier Molina are the two best I've seen. They have a good touch and feel for the pitchers, and they also have a Plan B or Plan C they can go to when Plan A doesn't show up."
With MLB All-Star Salvador Perez on the disabled list for four-to-six weeks, Drew Butera was in the 2018 opening day lineup as the primary catcher for the Kansas City Royals. He went 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored in the Royals 14-7 loss to the Chicago White Sox on March 29. 2018. Nick Leto, Manager of Arizona Operations for the Kansas City Royals is a believer in Team Italy catcher Drew Butera. He said, "I think he is great. I am a big Butera fan. I think he helps us win on a nightly basis." A proven winner with a 2015 World Series ring to his credit, 34-year-old Drew Butera has caught two no-hitters in his career so far. Being able to handle pitches with grace rarely seen at the Major League level while producing a calming effect on his pitching staff, catcher Drew Butera kept lefty Francisco Liriano focused on every pitch which led him to a no-hitter while playing for the Minnesota Twins against the Chicago White Sox on May 3, 2011. Three years later as the Los Angeles Dodgers backup catcher Butera caught Josh Beckett's no-hitter against the Philadelphia Phillies on May 25, 2014. As a result of the monumental accomplishments, he became only the fifth catcher in Major League Baseball history to catch a no-hitter in both leagues.
Italian-born and developed catcher Alberto Mineo was claimed by the Toronto Blue Jays (Triple-A affiliate Buffalo Bisons) in the minor-league portion of the Rule 5 draft from the Chicago Cubs (Single-A affiliate South Bend Cubs) on December 14, 2017. The Federazione Italiana Baseball Softball (FIBS) Academy graduate played in a Chicago Cubs Spring Training game against Team Italy at Sloan Park in Mesa, Arizona on March 7, 2017. He entered the contest in the fifth inning as a pinch-runner for Kyle Schwarber and made one plate appearance later in the game for the Cubs. Alberto Mineo was assigned to Single-A Advanced affiliate Dunedin Blue Jays on April 1, 2018.
Cesarre Astorri, a 19-year-old FIBS Academy graduate, signed a minor league contract with the Oakland Athletics on January 8, 2018. The Italian catcher from Parma was assigned to the Arizona Rookie League Athletics. With two MLB veteran catchers and two up-and-coming MLB prospects on the horizon prepared to go to battle for Team Italy in the 2020 Olympics, the Azzurri have the potential to make an impact in Tokyo. Let's wish Francisco Cervelli, Drew Butera, Alberto Mineo and Cesarre Astorri the best so that they remain healthy and committed to the future of the game abroad.
INFIELDERS: Sending a pitch from Los Angeles Dodgers' ace Clayton Kershaw over the swimming pool in right field at Chase Field in Phoenix, Team Italy infielder Daniel Descalso gave the Arizona Diamondbacks an early 1-0 lead with his homer in the second inning on April 3, 2018. The D-backs went on to beat the 2017 National League Champions 6-1, and 31-year-old second baseman Daniel Descalso could not have been happier to have taken the three-time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher deep. "I think lefties are still allowed to get hits off him," said Descalso. Last year in the World Baseball Classic (WBC) at Estadio Charros de Jalisco in Guadalajara, infielder Daniel Descalso was also an early catalyst for the Team Italy offense as he drove in each of the Italians' first three runs against Venezuela on March 11, 2017. Two days later in the WBC tiebreaker rematch game against Venezuela, Daniel Descalso was once again responsible for Team Italy's go-ahead run with his RBI single in the first inning. Having been on the same 2011 World Series Champion St. Louis Cardinals team that Team Italy coach Nick Punto played on under the leadership of Italian American manager Tony La Russa, Daniel Descalso is a proven winner and a consistent run producer. He can be effective off the bench as a pinch-hitter under pressure and come through in the clutch. In 35 pinch-hit plate appearances during the 2017 season, Daniel Descalso hit .231 (6-for-26)/.429 OBP/.462 SLG with two home runs and nine RBI, ranking fifth in the National League in on-base percentage and sixth in OPS (.890). At Chase Field, he hit .271 (49-for-181)/.371 OBP/.453 SLG with 7 home runs and 29 RBI in 69 games. Daniel Descalso had 2 walk-off hits, including his first career game-ending homer against his former team the Colorado Rockies on April 30, 2017. He also logged his first career inside-the-park home run against eventual World Series Champion Houston Astros on August 17, 2017. The nine-year MLB veteran is a tough out for pitchers in do-or-die situations because he is able to keep his at-bats alive by being patient at the plate until he gets a pitch he can do some damage with. As a dependable utility position player with versatility, Daniel Descalso can be put in the starting lineup as a second baseman, shortstop, third baseman, or left fielder. He can even be called upon for mop-up duty as a relief pitcher when a game is out of reach, and the team wants to rest its bullpen. During the course of his three career appearances on the mound, Daniel Descalso has retired all seven MLB hitters he has faced. In fact, he is about to set the record for the most career batters faced without allowing a baserunner. Only four other pitchers in major league history have faced more batters without allowing a hit or walk than Daniel Descalso. With a career 0.000 WHIP (walks plus hits per innings pitched), he needs one more out to tie the record and two more outs to become the most perfect pitcher in baseball history.
Opting to get a major league baseball contract instead of returning to the minor leagues, Team Italy first baseman Chris Colabello remains an unsigned free agent. After being invited by the Chicago Cubs and the Texas Rangers for pro ball try outs, 34-year-old slugger Chris Colabello joined the 2018 Major League Baseball Players Association Free Agent Spring Training at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. The proud Italian American has since authored a new book with hitting instructor Bobby Tewksbary entitled Be A Hitter. Should Chris Colabello not sign a major league contract in the near future, he will reunite with Team Italy pitcher Alessandro Maestri and play for T&A San Marino. Both players spent their formative years competing against each other in the Emilia-Romagna region. While Chris Colabello returned to his native Massachusetts to play high school baseball, Alessandro Maestri remained in Italy to attend the Federazione Italiana Baseball Softball (FIBS) Academy and later became the first Italian-born and developed pitcher to sign a professional contract with the Chicago Cubs in 2006. Although Alessandro Maestri never pitched in the major leagues, Chris Colabello made his MLB debut (Minnesota Twins, 2013) and two years later led the Toronto Blue Jays to the 2015 American League postseason.
Azzurri third baseman Alex Liddi is the face of Italian baseball. With the opportunity to spur the growth of the game in Europe by competing at the sport's highest level, he has inspired young Italian players including Marten Gasparini, who begins 2018 with Kansas City Royals Single-A affiliate Lexington Legends. Alex Liddi traveled to New England during the offseason to work with Bobby Tewksbary on his swing, and it paid off as the first Italian-born and developed player to play in MLB (Seattle Mariners, 2011). The 29-year-old Italian hero was recently offered a minor league contact with the Kansas City Royals. In five 2018 Royals Spring Training games in Arizona, he hit .333 (2-for-6) with one home run. Alex Liddi will begin at Double-A affiliate Northwest Arkansas Naturals with hopes of returning to the Big Leagues in September when the 40-man roster kicks in.
Versatile Team Italy utility player Rob Segedin can handle first and third base as well as left and right field. Acquired by the Los Angeles Dodgers from the New York Yankees in 2016, Rob Segedin performed well for Team Italy in the 2017 WBC. He displayed excellent defense in right field and hit .375 with a double, home run and two RBI in the international competition. Due to injuries which plagued him in 2017, Rob Segedin played in only 27 games between his short time for a quick espresso in Los Angeles and his limited stint with Triple-A affiliate Oklahoma City. He and Team Italy switch-pitcher Pat Venditte will both wear Oklahoma City Dodgers uniforms at the start of the 2018 season as they patiently await for Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts to call them up to the major league level.
Team Italy shortstop Gavin Cecchini played second base for the New York Mets during 2018 Mets Spring Training. He also learned how to become a third baseman so that he would be more valuable to the team while working to improve his swing. Based on his two home runs and two extra-base hits at 2018 Spring Training, it appears Gavin Cecchini has added some pop to his stroke. He will continue to make progress under the guidance and supervision of Triple-A affiliate Las Vegas 51s hitting coach Joel Chimelis at the start of the 2018 season. There is no doubt Gavin Cecchini will make his way back into MLB soon and join Team Italy outfielder Brandon Nimmo on the New York Mets roster.
Drew Maggi signed a minor league contract with the Cleveland Indians last November and never looked back. Hitting at a remarkable .342 clip (13-for-38) with 11 runs and four RBI during 2018 Indians Spring Training in Arizona, the 28-year-old Team Italy utility player with eight seasons under his belt in the minor leagues made a favorable impression on manager Terry Francona. With a stacked lineup and an all-star cast infield, the Tribe's skipper has no room on his Big League roster for third baseman Drew Maggi at this time. He was placed on the restricted list for the Triple-A affiliate Columbus Clippers on April 4, 2018.
During a Spring Training minor league game against the Chicago White Sox at the Cincinnati Reds minor league training facility in Goodyear, Arizona on March 17, 2018, Team Italy's Leonardo Seminati went 2-for-4 with a single and a double, "Grande Leo" Seminati lived up to his name. "He's going to be big," said Billy Hamilton when asked about the promising 19-year-old Cincinnati Reds prospect. Fast forward from the moment FIBS Academy graduate Leo Seminati signed a professional contract with the Cincinnati Reds on July 2, 2017, and most would agree that "Grande Leo" has traveled light years ahead of expectations. Just ask MLBPipeline.com reporter Jonathan Mayo, who wrote "Italy's Seminati exceeding expectations at Reds instructs". MLB scouts scratched their heads in disbelief when Team Italy first baseman Leonardo Seminati stole the show by hitting several bombs over the Marlins Park wall in the 2016 Power Showcase Home Run Derby. It was not long after his command performance in Miami that scout Sal Varriale made the call to the Cincinnati Reds front office. Baseball Hall of Famer Barry Larkin, who served as MLB International Ambassador and currently works in player development for the Cincinnati Reds, was well aware of Seminati's power potential and approved of the signing of "Grande Leo". Working with Cincinnati Reds minor league coach and former MLB first baseman Donald Lutz, Team Italy slugger Leo Seminati looks to become the complete ballplayer offensively and defensively in the 2018 Arizona Rookie League.
OUTFIELDERS: When New York Mets manager Mickey Callaway pulled Team Italy outfielder Brandon Nimmo aside and told him he would be the leadoff man for the Mets on 2018 Opening Day, the 25-year-old Wyoming native could not have been afforded a better opportunity to make a name for himself in Major League Baseball. "He's a worker. He's so prepared, and he works," said NY Mets skipper Mickey Callaway. "You get a player like that and the results are going to come. I'm really proud of him for the way he goes about his business. Very impressive. He's locked in every pitch. Those are the type of players you need to win." Brandon Nimmo has certainly paid his dues to gain entry to compete with the game's elite in MLB. Last year he hit .260 with five home runs and 21 RBI in 177 at-bats for the New York Mets. During 2018 Mets Spring Training in Florida, Brandon Nimmo auditioned for the leadoff hitter position and made the strong case for an Opening Day roster spot. Batting .306 with 11 extra-base hits, three home runs and 11 RBI in Grapefruit League play, he earned the right to be the first name listed on the New York Mets lineup card. Brandon Nimmo has not disappointed so far this young 2018 regular season. He is currently htting .375 (3-for-8) with one double, three walks and four runs scored. Brandon Nimmo was a first-round draft pick by the New York Mets in 2011. Scouts admired him for being a very patient hitter at the plate and for rarely swinging outside the strike zone. His selective approach to hitting continues to this day in MLB as witnessed by his 15.3% walk rate and .379 OBP in 2017. The Team Italy outfielder fits the mold of a perfect leadoff hitter candidate, and he should relish in that spot should he be given the chance to play every day.
Chicago Cubs Italian American manager Joe Maddon knows how special a player Team Italy outfielder John Andreoli truly is. Despite successful campaigns at the upper level of the Chicago Cubs minor leagues from 2013-2017, he was always cut short of making the Big League club as a result of being overshadowed by a star-studded Cubbie outfield and eclipsed by up-and-coming prospects. John Andreoli spent his final three years playing for Triple-A affiliate Iowa, where he hit .258 with 65 doubles, 21 triples, 31 homers, 142 RBI and an incredible 101 stolen bases. Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon praised John Andreoli in the 2017 World Baseball Classic (WBC) after Team Italy scored five runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat host Mexico, 10-9, at Estadio de Beisbol Charros de Jalisco. John Andreoli was the difference in the game as he drove in the winning run with a walk-off single and hit a home run earlier in the first inning. Maddon said, "I'm so happy for him, he's such a good kid. He works so hard, he cares so much. A few days before the WBC I saw him bear down in front of one of our video computers looking at pitchers he might face in the tournament. So I give him a lot of credit. It's absolutely great." Playing for Team Italy in the 2017 WBC, John Andreoli went 6-for-16 with five runs, seven RBI and three home runs. With little chance of making the MLB roster in the Cubs organization, the 2011 Chicago Cubs 17th-round draft pick elected free agency on November 6, 2017. Despite having to leave the team that drafted him out of the University of Connecticut, John Andreoli enjoyed his time talking with veterans Ben Zobrist and Anthony Rizzo about hitting with two strikes and playing with the likes of Kris Bryant, Kyle Schwarber and Addison Russell. Cubs manager Joe Maddon told the team's TV broadcasters that John Andreoli "plays with his hair on fire." No doubt the Chicago skipper hated to see him leave the organization, but in the end it was the best thing for the Italian American grinder. In January the Seattle Mariners signed John Andreoli to a minor league contract with an invite to 2018 Spring Training. He played in 19 Cactus League games before being assigned to Triple-A affiliate Tacoma Rainiers. John Andreoli was the leadoff hitter in his first game playing for the Tacoma Rainiers on April 5, 2018. The 27-year-old prospect stands to have a chance for a promotion to the Seattle Mariners for his MLB debut when the 40-man roster takes effect on September 1, 2018.
Team Italy switch-hitter Marten Gasparini, who signed for $1.3 million with the Kansas City Royals in 2013, is the key player baseball insiders believe will follow in Alex Liddi's footsteps as the second Italian-born and developed player in the Big Leagues. He is still heralded as Europe's top MLB prospect and is progressing every day up the ladder in the minor leagues. Nick Leto, Manager of Arizona Operations for the Kansas City Royals, was instrumental in the Royals' signing of Marten Gasparini. Leto said, "There's great belief in Marten's ability. It's a process. All players develop differently. There's no question about Marten's ability, it's just time and reps. Switch-hitting is a really difficult skill to develop. Marten has experienced a lot of things for the first time since signing a professional contract. His intelligence, maturity, and awareness are going to allow these lessons to stick and be applied. There's no doubt Marten will be a major league player, not a just a player, a special major league player, a championship player." Adapting to his new position in the outfield from shortstop, Marten Gasparini played for Single-A affiliate Lexington Legends in 2017. He got a taste of the Big Leagues when he made two appearances in 2018 Royals Spring Training games alongside Team Italy slugger Alex Liddi, who homered against the San Francisco Giants on March 23, 2018. Marten Gasparini began the 2018 season playing Single-A ball in Lexington, where he was sandwiched between Kansas City Royals top prospects Michael Gigliotti and Nick Pratto in the lineup on April 5, 2018. As the team's designated hitter in the two-hole, Marten Gasparini went 1-for-4 with a triple. Look for big things to come for the talented and promising Team Italy outfielder.
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Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant resumes operation after two-week maintenance to fix 'technical fault'
The deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) has confirmed that the country's Bushehr nuclear power plant is back online after two weeks of maintenance, following a "technical fault" that has now been "fixed."
The Bushehr nuclear power facility, located south of Tehran, was forced to shut down towards the end of June, with officials initially suggesting it would remain offline for "three to four days," marking the first time it would pause operations since its construction.
Management at the power plant had warned Iranians that the temporary closure of the facility could lead to rolling blackouts throughout the country while officials "overhaul" the site over several days to address a "technical fault," with higher summer demand exceeding production levels.
On Monday, Mahmoud Jafari, the deputy head of the AEOI, confirmed that the problems at the plant have been "fixed" and the facility could now resume production and be reconnected to the national power grid, returning energy supplies to normal levels.
Iran hasn't elaborated on the nature of the "technical fault" beyond stating that it had been an issue affecting the "power generator," describing it as a "routine" procedure that would occur "once or twice each year."
Prior to the shutdown in late June, Jafari had accused US sanctions of making it difficult for officials to run the nuclear power plant, as it's increasingly difficult to obtain supplies, and suggesting the facility could halt operations "if no solution is found."
Emergency shutdown reported at Iranian nuclear plant, officials say power facility offline for 'technical overhaul'
The issues Iranian officials have had with Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant come amid talks in Vienna with Western nations over reviving the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal in return for alleviating international sanctions on Tehran.
Addressing the progress in the Vienna talks, Iran stated on June 28 that it had n't decided on extending its monitoring agreement with the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, which had been put in place under the original term of the 2015 nuclear deal. Both Iran and Western nations have stated that "significant disagreements persist" between the two sides of the terms of the nuclear deal, with no time frame for reaching an agreement.
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J Street off-ramp in downtown Sacramento reopened
Off-ramp reopened as of 5:15 a.m.
Updated: 5:39 AM PDT Jun 23, 2015
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The off-ramp at J Street in downtown Sacramento has reopened after it was blocked earlier in the morning by a stuck big rig.At about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, the big rig became stuck on a median while trying to make a turn, according to the California Highway Patrol.The off-ramp was reopened as of 5:15 a.m. The big rig was stuck on a median and at least two tow trucks were called to the scene.Stay with KCRA 3 News for more on this developing story.
The off-ramp at J Street in downtown Sacramento has reopened after it was blocked earlier in the morning by a stuck big rig.
At about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, the big rig became stuck on a median while trying to make a turn, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The off-ramp was reopened as of 5:15 a.m.
The big rig was stuck on a median and at least two tow trucks were called to the scene.
Stay with KCRA 3 News for more on this developing story.


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Q: Sieve of Eratosthenes Optimization I've made my own program that finds primes from 2 - n, using the Sieve of Eratosthenes. Is there any way I can implement a more efficient way to remove composite numbers?
Link to project: https://github.com/Gurran/Sieve-of-Eratosthenes
class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        int max;

        Console.Write("Enter max number: ");
        max = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
        FindPrimes(max);
        Console.ReadLine();
    }

    // Prints numbers.
    public static void PrintMap(List<int> List)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < List.Count; i++)
        {
            if (i % 10 == 0)
                Console.WriteLine();
            Console.Write(List.ElementAt(i) + ", ");
        }
    }

    // Generates list containing 2 - max
    // Removes non-primes
    // Calls PrintMap method
    public static void FindPrimes(int max)
    {
        int x = 2;
        List<int> NrRange = new List<int>();

        for (int i = 2; i < max; i++)
            NrRange.Add(i);
        for (int i = 0; i < NrRange.Count; i++)

            for (int j = x; j < NrRange.Count; j++)
                if (NrRange.ElementAt(j) % x == 0)
                    NrRange.RemoveAt(j);
            x++;
        PrintMap(NrRange);
    }
}

A: I've run your routine FindPrimes(100) and I've got wrong outcome:

2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25,
  27, .. 95, 97, 99

Let's write it in some different way:
// If we put "FindPrimes", let's return them: List<int> instead of void
public static List<int> FindPrimes(int max) {
  if (max < 2)
    return new List<int>();

  // Try avoid explict adding .Add(), but generating
  List<int> result = Enumerable
    .Range(2, max - 1)
    .ToList();

  // sieving composite numbers out the initial list
  for (int i = 1; i < result.Count; ++i) {
    int prime = result[i - 1];

    // removing all numbers that can be divided by prime found
    // when removing we should loop backward
    for (int j = result.Count - 1; j > i; --j)
      if (result[j] % prime == 0)
        result.RemoveAt(j);
  }

  return result;
}

Test
 Console.Write(String.Join(", ", FindPrimes(100)));

Outcome:

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, ..., 83, 89, 97

A: There are many optimizations to the basic Sieve of Eratosthenes you can make in C#, which becomes important for larger ranges such as billions to trillions, including the techniques of segmentation to reduce memory use and increase cache locality, multiprocessing, wheel factorization to reduce number of composite number  culls, and sieving patterns of composites to reduce culling loop complexity, many of which I cover in my answer at:  How do I implement the Sieve Of Eratosthenes using multithreaded C#?.  These techniques reduce the number of calls per composite number to much less than the ratio of the ideal of one per composite (about a quarter of the range to Sieve to a billion) due to elimination of composites on the wheel factors, and the time is split evenly between the number of cores used.
There is an alternate means of filtering composites by an alternate pattern that speeds that up by about a factor of two, but I've not published that yet.  It is faster due to reduced complexity without table lookups of the innermost culling loop(s).
Using another language such as C/C++, Rust, Nim, Haskell, etc. that produces more efficient machine code and allows major unrolling of the composite number culling loop(s) in addition to all of the other techniques is faster yet again, as it can reduce the time required per composite number culling to just above one clock cycle from about 10 clock cycles on a modern desktop CPU.  Thus, the time required to cull the composite numbers to a range of a billion can be reduced to about 63 milliseconds on a 3.5 GHz/4 core CPU such as the Intel i7-2700 I used.  If you want more than a count of the number of primed, the time will be increased of course.
The techniques used are similar to Kim Walich's open sourced C++ primesieve (https://primesieve.org) except for the new pattern which will make it just slightly faster due to increased wheel factorization and slightly less complexity, but you may find his source code difficult to read and understand (you may find my code difficult to understand as to the wheel factorization patterns unless you are somewhat of a mathematician).  However, you should be able to run his program to see what is possible.
As pointed out, your program is not a true Sieve of Eratosthenes but rather an inefficient version of Trial by Division (when corrected).  As you will likely not appreciate the complexity of my other solutions (walk before you can run), please have a look at the last of the C# unbounded sieves at:. rosettacode.org/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes#Unbounded, which is somewhat functionally the same as your code but uses the segmented Sieve of Eratosthenes with bit packing (one bit per odd trial number) using odds only numbers as 2 is the only even prime.
Any of the programs to which I have linked will be many many times faster than your program even when fixed other than perhaps for very small ranges.

A: my code: https://github.com/ktprime/ktprime/blob/master/PrimeNumber.cpp
benchmark as fllows:
                          i3-350M,i5-3470,i7-7500u,i7-6700,r7-1700
Pi(0,    1e10) = 455052511    3.10   1.84    1.55     1.32    1.65
Pi(1e11, 1e10) = 394050419    4.35   2.50    2.02     1.78    2.00
Pi(1e12, 1e10) = 361840208    5.30   3.00    2.40     2.04    2.25
Pi(1e13, 1e10) = 334067230    6.52   3.50    2.85     2.39    2.67
Pi(1e14, 1e10) = 310208140    7.90   4.20    3.50     2.87    3.20
Pi(1e15, 1e10) = 289531946    9.90   5.10    4.32     3.49    3.91
Pi(1e16, 1e10) = 271425366    11.7   6.10    5.11     4.12    4.73
Pi(1e17, 1e10) = 255481287    13.9   7.09    5.95     4.84    5.63
Pi(1e18, 1e10) = 241272176    17.2   8.58    7.17     5.82    6.88
Pi(1e19, 1e10) = 228568014    24.0   11.6    9.86     8.00    9.50
Pi(0-1e9,10^9) = 22537866     8.15   4.28    3.92     3.02    3.64
Pi(1e18, 10^6) = 24280        0.65   0.46    0.34     0.48    0.60
Pi(1e18, 10^8) = 2414886      1.30   0.81    0.70     0.60    0.70
Pi(1e18, 10^9) = 24217085     3.50   1.80    1.58     1.26    1.50
Pi(0,    1e12) = 37607912018  500    270     224      200     220
Pi(1e14, 1e12) = 31016203073  790    420     354      295     320
Pi(1e16, 1e12) = 27143405794  1160   600     512      420     485
Pi(1e18, 1e12) = 24127637783  1500   760     622      520     640
Pi(1e19, 1e12) = 22857444126  1700   830     702      600     665

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My Top Ten Vocaloid Songs (On YouTube)
by Andrew Monkelban — May 3, 2010 in Top Ten
I had previously mentioned the musical voice synthesizer, Vocaloid. However, you didn't get to see, or rather hear, the full extent of what you can do with the program, because I focused on the March 9 concert. I plan to rectify that with this post though. The Vocaloid program is so versatile that it can be used to produce or reproduce any number of songs, including "Fleeting Moon Flower"/"Setsugetsuka", "Fate: Rebirth", GACKT's "RETURNER ~Yami no Shuuen~", and "Phantom of the Opera".
I've heard many a Vocaloid song within the last 2 months or so, some good, some bad. The one thing that still surprises me though, about the good and even the mediocre songs, is how professional they sound. For the most part, I even forget the voices are synthesized.
Last March, Japanese newspaper, Asahi Shimbun uploaded a 13:35 news special about the Vocaloid, Hatsune Miku, to its YouTube channel. Much like my previous article, this special, which I just found while working on the list below, explains what Vocaloid and Miku is, how popular "she" is, as well as Miku Miku Dance and other video programs.
Narrowing the list down to these 10 (or 12) was very difficult, because there are so many good songs. In addition, I tried to find English subtitled versions so you can understand the lyrics (I even found an English subtitled version of the news special), but I digress. Here are my top ten Vocaloid songs, that are on YouTube:
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The song that started it all. This cover of the song of the same name, originally by the Finnish quartet, Loituma, is arguably the one that made Vocaloid such a hit.
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The lyrics and video are a bit scary but I really like the song. The young girl is the childish side of Rin, while the older one is her mature side. The composer says the lyrics and video represent conflicts of inner psychological world.
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A beautiful, yet heart-wrenching song. Its upbeat and danceable tempo is a stark contrast to the heartbreaking lyrics. The music itself, I'd say is on the same level as Daft Punk, which is a plus. I really like this song, and I'm not the only one. There's a live-action cosplay version of the above video.
7. "Magnet" (Megurine Luka & Hatsune Miku)
A love song unlike the norm for us Americans. This one is about forbidden love, and given that it's a duet with 2 female Vocaloids, yeeeah… Personally, I applaud this decision, because while what's implied is a touchy subject, it does need to be put out there.
6. "When the First Love Ends" (Hatsune Miku)
A song I can really relate to, having given unrequited love on a number of occasions. Listening to this song brings back so many sad memories of when (in my case) the girls left.
5. "Black*Rock Shooter" (Hatsune Miku)
This song inspired an anime of the same name, which was scheduled to start airing, this Spring. More info here.
4. "World Is Mine" (Hatsune Miku)
A really cute song about a rather demanding "princess" telling you how to treat her, with just a pinch of affection. The ending of the video also makes me giggle.
3. "Last Night, Good Night" (Hatsune Miku)
A really beautiful song. There's just something about it that makes me really like it so much, but I don't know what. However, I do know that this is one of my favorite Vocaloid ballads that I have heard. Because the quality of the subtitled version isn't all that great, here's the link to a better version (sans subs), and as an added bonus, here's a version by GACKT's Vocaloid, Kamui Gakupo.
2. "Double Lariat" (Megurine Luka)
A powerful song about the trials and tribulations that an auditioning/up-and-coming singer has to face. I like the song so much that when I first heard it, I made a playlist on my iPod, with nothing but this one song, 15 times.
1. "Love Is War"/"Koi wa Sensou" (Hatsune Miku)
Another powerful song, this time about trying to make someone you have a crush on notice you. After failing a few times, you finally decide to buckle down, and try harder, maybe even resorting to drastic measures. The video is pretty awesome too, it's cel-shaded. This song has its own playlist on my iPod too. Here's a different version of the song with the male Vocaloid, KAITO.
"Umbrella" (Hatsune Miku)
This is a cover of the song of the same name made famous by Rihanna. While the video itself is kinda pointless, the song's very good. The creator says it's hard to get Miku to sing in English (so we end up getting Engrish lol), but still in my opinion it's well done.
"Caramelldansen" (Caramell)
Not even a Vocaloid song, but this is from the first Vocaloid video game for PSP, Hatsune Miku -Project DIVA-. The song is arguably 2008's catchiest song among anime fans. This is also the first time I've seen the full dance.
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Lookerpie says:
aww what about Alice in Human Sacrifice
GeekyGeek says:
Great choices! I love that you put Meltdown and Just Be Friends in the top ten list, although I wouldn't choose Love Is War as my first choice, i still really like this Top Ten!
Kelchehkins says:
really good choices (: but one of my fav that no one ever puts on their top ten lists is "Circle you, Circle you" by Miku and Luka its such a good song lol and their voices are so pretty in it , same with gemini by Rin and Len, both songs no one seems to put as any of the top ten lol
Nutz says:
LOL. its Ievan Polkka, btw xD (Not Levan, Ievan 🙂 )
Andrew Monkelban says:
Thanks for the correction, Nutz!. Yes I know I absurdly late… Sorry
fanta says:
can u also put nico singers? world's end dancehall and the boys vers. of matryoshka is what i liked the most.
The Ana says:
Y U NO PUT GAKUPO!? …at least one of his songs? …pwease? ;__;
(well, i guess that gakupo's technically not a vocaloid…)
I like all of these songs, but I personally do not like Miku's "World Is Mine".
Technically, although not numbered, I did put Gakupo songs
LUNA says:
HOW COME U DID NOT PUT "BUTTERFLY ON YOUR RIGHT SHOULDER" BY LEN AND RIN KAGAMINE?! THAT IS THE BEST VOCALOID SONG I HAVE EVER HEARD!!!!!!!!!!!!
Otakuloid says:
Too bad you didn't put Matryoshka by Miku and Gumi.. I love that song… XD
tadase says:
YES! world is mine is there!
SakurahimexVocaloid says:
Can you tell me how you got
Double Lariat on your IPod?
Oh and how i could get
Just be Friends
Thank you:)
NamdYaIllust says:
Where is Spice! ? =(
aitai ?
there are many any great songs of vocaloid you missed to put in your list =D
Zahra_Annisa says:
Heeyyy, where's A proof of Life/Soundless Voice?? Love those songs and they made me cry as hell too ;-;
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The Science & Technology Committee visited the Large Hadron Collider at the research facility in Cern.
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Q: Perl taint mode with domain name input for CGI resulting in "Insecure dependency in eval" Given the following in a CGI script with Perl and taint mode I have not been able to get past the following.

tail /etc/httpd/logs/error_log
        /usr/local/share/perl5/Net/DNS/Dig.pm line 906 (#1)
    (F) You tried to do something that the tainting mechanism didn't like.
    The tainting mechanism is turned on when you're running setuid or
    setgid, or when you specify -T to turn it on explicitly.  The
    tainting mechanism labels all data that's derived directly or indirectly
    from the user, who is considered to be unworthy of your trust.  If any
    such data is used in a "dangerous" operation, you get this error.  See
    perlsec for more information.

[Mon Jan  6 16:24:21 2014] dig.cgi: Insecure dependency in eval while running with -T switch at /usr/local/share/perl5/Net/DNS/Dig.pm line 906.

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use warnings;
use strict;
use IO::Socket::INET;
use Net::DNS::Dig;
use CGI;

$ENV{"PATH"} = ""; # Latest attempted fix

my $q      = CGI->new;
my $domain = $q->param('domain');

if ( $domain =~ /(^\w+)\.(\w+\.?\w+\.?\w+)$/ ) {
    $domain = "$1\.$2";
}
else {
    warn("TAINTED DATA SENT BY $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}: $domain: $!");
    $domain = "";    # successful match did not occur
}

my $dig = new Net::DNS::Dig(
    Timeout   => 15,        # default
    Class     => 'IN',      # default
    PeerAddr  => $domain,
    PeerPort  => 53,        # default
    Proto     => 'UDP',     # default
    Recursion => 1,         # default
);

my @result = $dig->for( $domain, 'NS' )->to_text->rdata();
@result = sort @result;
print @result;

I normally use Data::Validate::Domain to do checking for a "valid" domain name, but could not deploy it in a way in which the tainted variable error would not occur.
I read that in order to untaint a variable you have to pass it through a regex with capture groups and then join the capture groups to sanitize it. So I deployed $domain =~ /(^\w+)\.(\w+\.?\w+\.?\w+)$/. As  shown here it is not the best regex for the purpose of untainting a domain name and covering all possible domains but it meets my needs. Unfortunately my script is still producing tainted failures and I can not figure out how.
Regexp-Common does not provide a domain regex and modules don't seem to work with untainting variable so I am at a loss now.
How to get this thing to pass taint checking?

A: $domain is not tainted
I verified that your $domain is not tainted. This is the only variable you use that could be tainted, in my opinion.
perl -T <(cat <<'EOF'
use Scalar::Util qw(tainted);
sub p_t($) {
    if (tainted $_[0]) {
        print "Tainted\n";
    } else {
        print "Not tainted\n";
    }
}
my $domain = shift;
p_t($domain);
if ($domain =~ /(^\w+)\.(\w+\.?\w+\.?\w+)$/) {
    $domain = "$1\.$2";
} else {
    warn("$domain\n");
    $domain = "";
}
p_t($domain);
EOF
) abc.def

It prints
Tainted
Not tainted

What Net::DNS::Dig does
See Net::DNS::Dig line 906. It is the beginning of to_text method.
sub to_text {
    my $self = shift;
    my $d = Data::Dumper->new([$self],['tobj']);
    $d->Purity(1)->Deepcopy(1)->Indent(1);
    my $tobj;
    eval $d->Dump; # line 906
    …

From new definition I know that $self is just hashref containing values from new parameters and several other filled in the constructor. The evaled code produced by $d->Dump is setting $tobj to a deep copy of $self (Deepcopy(1)), with correctly set self-references (Purity(1)) and basic pretty-printing (Indent(1)).
Where is the problem, how to debug
From what I found out about &Net::DNS::Dig::to_text, it is clear that the problem is at least one tainted item inside $self. So you have a straightforward way to debug your problem further: after constructing the $dig object in your script, check which of its items is tainted. You can dump the whole structure to stdout using print Data::Dumper::Dump($dig);, which is roughly the same as the evaled code, and check suspicious items using &Scalar::Util::tainted.
I have no idea how far this is from making Net::DNS::Dig work in taint mode. I do not use it, I was just curious and wanted to find out, where the problem is. As you managed to solve your problem otherwise, I leave it at this stage, allowing others to continue debugging the issue.

A: As resolution to this question if anyone comes across it in the future it was indeed the module I was using which caused the taint checks to fail. Teaching me an important lesson on trusting modules in a CGI environment. I switched to Net::DNS as I figured it would not encounter this issue and sure enough it does not. My code is provided below for reference in case anyone wants to accomplish the same thing I set out to do which is: locate the nameservers defined for a domain within its own zone file.
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use warnings;
use strict;
use IO::Socket::INET;
use Net::DNS;
use CGI;

$ENV{"PATH"} = ""; // Latest attempted fix

my $q      = CGI->new;
my $domain = $q->param('domain');
my @result;

if ( $domain =~ /(^\w+)\.(\w+\.?\w+\.?\w+)$/ ) {
    $domain = "$1\.$2";
}
else {
    warn("TAINTED DATA SENT BY $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}: $domain: $!");
    $domain = "";    # successful match did not occur
}

my $ip = inet_ntoa(inet_aton($domain));

my $res   = Net::DNS::Resolver->new(
    nameservers => [($ip)],
);
                        my $query = $res->query($domain, "NS");

                        if ($query) {
                                foreach my $rr (grep { $_->type eq 'NS' } $query->answer) {
                                push(@result, $rr->nsdname);
                                }
                        }
                        else {
                                warn "query failed: ", $res->errorstring, "\n";
                        }

@result = sort @result;
print @result;

Thanks for the comments assisting me in this matter, and SO for teaching more then any other resource I have come across.


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Die Xin-Dynastie () war die kürzeste Herrschaftsperiode im Kaiserreich China und dauerte 14 Jahre von 9 bis 23 n. Chr. Sie stellte ein Intermezzo innerhalb der Han-Dynastie dar, die dadurch in eine westliche und eine östliche Periode (so benannt wegen der Lage ihrer Hauptstädte) geschieden wird. Die Dynastie bestand nur aus einem einzigen Herrscher, Kaiser Wang Mang.

Überblick

Infolge seiner ungünstigen Politik sowohl innen- (missglückte Reformen, schwere Missernten und Hungersnöte infolge Überschwemmungen des Huang He) als auch außenpolitisch beschwor Wang Mang einen Bauernaufstand herauf, der als "Aufstand der Roten Augenbrauen" in die Geschichte einging. Während dieser Revolte ging die Dynastie im Herbst 23 mit dem Tod des Kaisers bei der Erstürmung der Hauptstadt Chang'an bereits wieder zu Ende, noch bevor die Armee Liu Xuans, eines Nachkommen des Kaiserhauses, Chang'an erreichte.

Liu Xuan regierte als Kaiser Gengshi, bis er im Jahre 25 durch Liu Xiu gestürzt wurde. Der bestieg als Kaiser Han Guangwudi den Thron und verlegte die Hauptstadt in den Osten des Landes nach Luoyang. Mehr als 15 Jahre dauerte es, bis er sein Reich wieder kontrollieren und befrieden konnte. So wurde die Han-Dynastie durch einen Vertreter der ursprünglichen Familie Liu wiederhergestellt.

Literatur
 Jacques Gernet: Die chinesische Welt. Die Geschichte Chinas von den Anfängen bis zur Jetztzeit (= Suhrkamp Taschenbuch. Band 1505). 2. Auflage. Aus dem Französischen von Regine Kappeler. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1994, ISBN 3-518-38005-2 (Originaltitel: Le monde chinois).

Weblinks

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Q: How to Batch Multiple Videoframes before run Tensorflow Inference Session I made a project that basically uses googles object detection api with tensorflow.
All i am doing is inference with a pre-trained model: Which means realtime object detection where the Input is the Videostream of a webcam or something similar using OpenCV.
Right now i got pretty decent performance results, but i want to further increase the FPS.
Because what i experience is that Tensorflow uses my whole Memory while Inference but the GPU Usage is not maxed out at all (around 40% with a NVIDIA GTX 1050 Laptop, and 6% on a NVIDIA Jetson Tx2).
So my idea was to increase the GPU Usage by increasing the image batch size which is fed in each session run.
So my question is: How can i Batch multiple Frames of the Input-Videostream together before i feed them to sess.run()?
Have a look at my code object_detetection.py on my github repo: (https://github.com/GustavZ/realtime_object_detection).
I would be very thankful if you come up with some Hints or Code Implementations!
import numpy as np
import os
import six.moves.urllib as urllib
import tarfile
import tensorflow as tf
import cv2

# Protobuf Compilation (once necessary)
os.system('protoc object_detection/protos/*.proto --python_out=.')

from object_detection.utils import label_map_util
from object_detection.utils import visualization_utils as vis_util
from stuff.helper import FPS2, WebcamVideoStream

# INPUT PARAMS
# Must be OpenCV readable
# 0 = Default Camera
video_input = 0
visualize = True
max_frames = 300 #only used if visualize==False
width = 640
height = 480
fps_interval = 3
bbox_thickness = 8

# Model preparation
# What model to download.
MODEL_NAME = 'ssd_mobilenet_v1_coco_2017_11_17'
MODEL_FILE = MODEL_NAME + '.tar.gz'
DOWNLOAD_BASE = 'http://download.tensorflow.org/models/object_detection/'
# Path to frozen detection graph. This is the actual model that is used for the object detection.
PATH_TO_CKPT = 'models/' + MODEL_NAME + '/frozen_inference_graph.pb'
# List of the strings that is used to add correct label for each box.
LABEL_MAP = 'mscoco_label_map.pbtxt'
PATH_TO_LABELS = 'object_detection/data/' + LABEL_MAP
NUM_CLASSES = 90

# Download Model
if not os.path.isfile(PATH_TO_CKPT):
    print('Model not found. Downloading it now.')
    opener = urllib.request.URLopener()
    opener.retrieve(DOWNLOAD_BASE + MODEL_FILE, MODEL_FILE)
    tar_file = tarfile.open(MODEL_FILE)
    for file in tar_file.getmembers():
      file_name = os.path.basename(file.name)
      if 'frozen_inference_graph.pb' in file_name:
        tar_file.extract(file, os.getcwd())
    os.remove('../' + MODEL_FILE)
else:
    print('Model found. Proceed.')

# Load a (frozen) Tensorflow model into memory.
detection_graph = tf.Graph()
with detection_graph.as_default():
  od_graph_def = tf.GraphDef()
  with tf.gfile.GFile(PATH_TO_CKPT, 'rb') as fid:
    serialized_graph = fid.read()
    od_graph_def.ParseFromString(serialized_graph)
    tf.import_graph_def(od_graph_def, name='')

# Loading label map
label_map = label_map_util.load_labelmap(PATH_TO_LABELS)
categories = label_map_util.convert_label_map_to_categories(label_map, max_num_classes=NUM_CLASSES, use_display_name=True)
category_index = label_map_util.create_category_index(categories)

# Start Video Stream
video_stream = WebcamVideoStream(video_input,width,height).start()
cur_frames = 0
# Detection
with detection_graph.as_default():
  with tf.Session(graph=detection_graph) as sess:
    # Definite input and output Tensors for detection_graph
    image_tensor = detection_graph.get_tensor_by_name('image_tensor:0')
    # Each box represents a part of the image where a particular object was detected.
    detection_boxes = detection_graph.get_tensor_by_name('detection_boxes:0')
    # Each score represent how level of confidence for each of the objects.
    # Score is shown on the result image, together with the class label.
    detection_scores = detection_graph.get_tensor_by_name('detection_scores:0')
    detection_classes = detection_graph.get_tensor_by_name('detection_classes:0')
    num_detections = detection_graph.get_tensor_by_name('num_detections:0')
    # fps calculation
    fps = FPS2(fps_interval).start()
    print ("Press 'q' to Exit")
    while video_stream.isActive():
      image_np = video_stream.read()
      # Expand dimensions since the model expects images to have shape: [1, None, None, 3]
      image_np_expanded = np.expand_dims(image_np, axis=0)
      # Actual detection.
      (boxes, scores, classes, num) = sess.run(
          [detection_boxes, detection_scores, detection_classes, num_detections],
          feed_dict={image_tensor: image_np_expanded})
      # Visualization of the results of a detection.
      vis_util.visualize_boxes_and_labels_on_image_array(
          image_np,
          np.squeeze(boxes),
          np.squeeze(classes).astype(np.int32),
          np.squeeze(scores),
          category_index,
          use_normalized_coordinates=True,
          line_thickness=bbox_thickness)
      if visualize:
          cv2.imshow('object_detection', image_np)
          # Exit Option
          if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
              break
      else:
          cur_frames += 1
          if cur_frames >= max_frames:
              break
      # fps calculation
      fps.update()

# End everything
fps.stop()
video_stream.stop()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
print('[INFO] elapsed time (total): {:.2f}'.format(fps.elapsed()))
print('[INFO] approx. FPS: {:.2f}'.format(fps.fps()))

A: Well, I'd just collect batch_size frames and feed them:
batch_size = 5
while video_stream.isActive():
  image_np_list = []
  for _ in range(batch_size):
      image_np_list.append(video_stream.read())
      fps.update()
  # Expand dimensions since the model expects images to have shape: [1, None, None, 3]
  image_np_expanded = np.asarray(image_np_list)
  # Actual detection.
  (boxes, scores, classes, num) = sess.run(
      [detection_boxes, detection_scores, detection_classes, num_detections],
      feed_dict={image_tensor: image_np_expanded})

  # Visualization of the results of a detection.
  for i in range(batch_size):
      vis_util.visualize_boxes_and_labels_on_image_array(
          image_np_expanded[i],
          boxes[i],
          classes[i].astype(np.int32),
          scores[i],
          category_index,
          use_normalized_coordinates=True,
          line_thickness=bbox_thickness)
          if visualize:
              cv2.imshow('object_detection', image_np_expanded[i])
              # Exit Option
              if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
                  break

Of course you'll have to make the relevant changes after that if you're reading the results from the detection, since they will now have batch_size rows.
Be careful though: before tensorflow 1.4 (I think), the object detection API only supports batch size of 1 in image_tensor, so this will not work unless you upgrade your tensorflow.
Also note that your resulting FPS will be an average, but that the frames in a same batch will actually be closer in time than between different batches (since you'll still need to wait for the sess.run() to finish). The average should still be significantly better than your current FPS, although the max time between two consecutive frames should increase.
If you want your frames to all have roughly the same interval between them, I guess you'll need more sophisticated tools like multithreading and queueing: one thread would read the images from the stream and store them in a queue, the other one would take them from the queue and call sess.run() on them asynchronously; it could also tell the 1st thread to hurry up or slow down depending on its own computing capacity. This is trickier to implement.


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Q: automatically change the gnome-terminal "title" for the window Trying to change the title of a current gnome-terminal (similar to the "set title" that you can do manually")
The system is running Fedora 9. The HowTo Xterm-Title discusses how to set the prompt, for an xterm. Tried to implement the escape sequences with no luck. (might be something weird..)
Tried to use the gconftool to dump/change/load the changed conf attributes, and again, no luck. Also, set the PROMPT_COMMAND just in case the prompt command was somehow changing the title back (which is highly doubtful)
Searching the 'net indicates that a few people have tried to solve this with no luck...
I'd also like to figure out how to create a new gnome-terminal with a unique specified title...
once this is solved, i'l gladly create a quick writeup/post onn how to accomplish this for others...
thanks

A: Take a look at your /etc/bashrc (or equivalent). Modern Linux distributions have this already in place - you just may have to enable it.
For instance,  on openSuSE, it's handled by a bash function:
ppwd ()
{
    local _t="$1" _w _x _u="$USER" _h="$HOST";
    test -n "$_t" || return;
    test "${_t#tty}" = $_t && _t=pts/$_t;
    test -O /dev/$_t || return;
    _w="$(dirs +0)";
    _x=$((${#_w}-18));
    test ${#_w} -le 18 || _w="...${_w#$(printf "%.*s" $_x "$_w")}";
    printf "\e]2;%s@%s:%s\007\e]1;%s\007" "$_u" "$_h" "$_w" "$_h" > /dev/$_t
}

and my PS1 is:
$(ppwd \l)\u@\h:\w>

This causes my xterm & gnome-terminal title to be set to user@host:/smartpath every time the prompt is displayed.
If you're read this far, you should know that the easy way to set the title one time is:
echo -e '\e]2;Title Text\007\e]1;\007'

A: To change the title of the current window :
wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -N "MyWindowTitle"

A: I got the title changing working in a script with the help of xtitle. When returning from the script, the gnome-terminal prompt changes the title back to what it was.
Here's the command line for changing the prompt (and the title):
PS1="\[\e]0;NewTitleHere\a\]\u@\h:\w\$ "

and here's the script I use:
#!/bin/bash
xtitle ServerName
ssh user@server.doma.in

A: Based on MikeyB's answer above, I created this brief csh script, title to change the title:
#!/bin/csh
echo -n "\e]2;$1\007\e]1;\007"

This can be invoked as: ./title "My New Title"

A: gnome-terminal --title="My New Terminal" &

Can launch into an infinite spawning of terminal processes which will take your machine down. Remove that users post.
Try this instead
printf '\033]0;SOME TITLE HERE\007' #set Terminal title

A: The xterm sequences work fine for gnome-terminal.  What shell are you using and what did you put in your shell config file?

A: To create a new gnome-terminal with a unique specified title, you can specify the title on the command line:
gnome-terminal --title="My New Terminal" &

A: Argh, so many answers...
I tried wmctrl, which almost worked, except I couldnt get it to change the icon title, at least not permanently.
The solution is that PS1 in ubuntu sets the title.
The default PS1 is
\[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a\]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$

... which sets the title in the first escape sequence.
Thus, there are two solutions:
Solution 1: simplify PS1, then use PROMPT_COMMAND
Change PS1 to something simpler:
PS1="\u@\h:\w\$ "

... then use the PROMPT_COMMAND:
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;SOME TITLE HERE\007"'

Solution 2: directly modify PS1
Simply modify PS1 with new title:
PS1='\[\e]0;newtitle\a\]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '