It's requiring a user login to see the page when I'm on my phone :( but the title sounds interesting.
Yes, I see it fine also.
Oh, wait, no I don't. It came up fine at first, but then a login box popped up and blocked the screen. Stinkers.
This is Shezza. Greetings from Canada!!!
I heard somewhere that Sherlock was diagnosed as a psychopath, didn't like it and changed said diagnosis to sociopathy. It'll also be helpful to know that the world of psychology no longer uses the words, "psychopath" and "sociopath." What they use now--I have no clue.
You must admit that Sherlock is a bit more human than Moriarty; always has been and always will be. Think of Moriarty as a shark. He's always looking for his next victim and has no remorse what so ever about whom he kills and what method he uses or the reason he did it. Sherlock, on the other hand, is willing to keep said shark from its prey, and that prey is the citizens of his beloved city of London.
Yes, they do have mental disorders,but they're nothing that your local shrink can't handle.
Welcome, Shezza!! That's my understanding too ... "psychopath and sociopath" are no longer considered valid terms, so why they keep using it in Sherlock is a bit of a mystery in itself. Personally, I just think it's an example of "Moftiss-speak" -- using grandiose words to convey rather normal things. Because it's funnier and more dramatic that way!
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/psychopath-who-studies-psychopaths-2015-7 From brain-scan to corresponding gene. Think Jim and Sherlock possibly have it too?
The problem with 'feelings' and 'empathy' is, the first is created by our own biochemistry and therefore completely unique and non-transferable. Since the whole idea of 'empathy' is about the so called ability to feel what other people feel, it is a nebulous concept at best. Unique result of personal biochem processes means unless two people shared a body then it is impossible to actually feel what other feel. The most that is possible is to pick up physical cues from the other party then we created our own simulation of the so called feeling internally. Because the personal nature on this process, the result could not be the same and thus the whole concept of 'empathy' itself looks like an empty jargon based on logical fallacy.
I had chance to observe an occurrence of mass-hysteria at the past. It started with someone who is under great psychological stress crying and trashing like mad. It doesn't take long before a crying fest of about fifteen females to commence, all are people who work closely with her. 'Empathy'? I did not experience an urge to bawl my eyes out that time and definitely not because I don't want to 'feel' sad and or distressed.
Was that empathy? I don't know. I don't think empathy exactly means feeling what the other person feels; it's more like understanding what the other person feels. But understanding something doesn't dictate your response to it.
I wouldn't have cried either in that circumstance; but I don't think it's because I can't or won't empathize. I think it's because I tend to be more rational than emotional; more of an observer than a participant; more focused on solutions than the event; stuff like that. I've stepped into situations like that, because I was the only one available or I thought I could help; but I've also walked away from situations like that, because I didn't feel my presence was useful or welcome. If other people think that's cold of me, that's their problem.
But that's me; I don't deny that some people have genuine difficulty connecting with other people. I'm just saying a lack of "warmth" is not necessarily a sign of psychopathy. Humans are really, really complex, there's often more than one factor influencing their behavior. Genetics plays a role, but is it the only thing that matters? Not in my opinion.
Difficulty to understand what other people feel is exactly described Sherlock. On the other hand, Moriarty played his cards nicely most of the time, means he understand how his chess pieces tends to feel and what their probable reaction is. If that's empathy then Sherlock will rank higher on the psychopathy score than Jim.
I think he does understand what people feel, though ... I don't think he could be a very good detective if he didn't understand the human heart. He understood that the cabbie missed his children, that Connie Prince's houseboy jealously wanted to maintain his lifestyle, that John might be upset after killing a man. He said he didn't understand why the innkeepers kept their ferocious dog, but he actually did once he thought about it. He may not share those feelings, or understand why people have them, but I think he's usually pretty accurate at understanding what the feelings are. He's very observant, after all.
Blame Mycroft, by all means, but I think Sherlock's attitude towards emotion, caring, "getting involved" etc is actually pretty reasonable. After all, his job revolves around human beings committing terrible crimes and / or becoming the victims of terrible crimes. If he felt for everybody involved, if he let the horrible things he sees daily and concerns himself with get to him, he would not be able to go on with his work. He'd be an emotional wreck in a hospital, and wouldn't do anybody any good any more. Also, to be as good at his profession as he is, he has to rely on his observational and deductive skills, and those can, and as we have seen with Mary, will be negatively affected by the bias of affection.
Sherlock Holmes can only be Sherlock Holmes if he is somewhat detached from other human beings and keeps his human emotions well under control. It's the price he pays for being so exceptionally good at what he does. Like he says, he is "married to his work". It makes the character at once remarkable and tragic. But you can't have everything.
-,- Poor Mycie, get blamed for a younger brother's shortcoming. Sherlock should know better already than trying to imitate Mycroft. You are an adult and smart, think for yourself, Sherlock.
I agree with that, T.o.b.y. It is not necessarily tragic that a person is emotionally detached from the subject of his work while being dedicated to the work itself. It is in fact quite an advantage to be able to do that, which is one of the reasons I and so many others admire the character of Sherlock Holmes.
But don't you think he's taken it too far? It's one thing to be emotionally detached from your work, but to reject emotions as a flaw altogether .... I don't know, that doesn't sound like an advantage to me, it sounds like a blind spot.
He is taken too far in BBC Sherlock, but not, I think, in the original stories. It is one of the few things I dislike about BBC Sherlock, that they've reduced him to being just a stubborn child, who is a genius but weak nevertheless, and whom everyone has to indulge. BBC Sherlock's emotional calibration is inconsistent, not only with the original, but even within individual episodes. In Series 3 for example, we are expected to believe that Sherlock has emotionally 'matured', as an explanation for all the open affection he's shown indulging in, right from TEH to HLV. And yet, they give him childish, unnecessarily 'cute' scenes like the one where he goes "Did I do it wrong?" and the one where he treats his parents with not even basic civility.
Change always come in increments, Boswell. Unless you got a complete memory & personality transplant like in the Dollhouse TV series, lol.
And in any case I don't think he is intentionally rude or does things calculated to make others feel bad. He just avoids sugarcoating his opinions or being hypocritical in any way. Come to think of it, that's what I like best about Sherlock, his absolute lack of hypocrisy.
I would agree about the "stubborn child," -- except that I think they exaggerate it for the laugh, which I'm fine with. The whole show is stylistically exaggerated anyway, might as well do it for humor as well as drama.


The Glorious Cause for Liberty not only divided the colonies from England, but those within the colonies from each other. Often times neighbors were at war with neighbors, and even in some cases, as in this one, sons were divided against their fathers.
Especially early on in 1775 and 1776, before the Declaration of Independence made it clear that the Americans were not seeking reconciliation with Parliament or King George III, the wealthier land owners in some places were reluctant to take sides because they were unsure how it would affect them economically, or because they were loyalists to their King. In the case of the Allis family of Whately, Massachusetts, it is hard to discern if the patriarch of numerous patriots was being economically shrewd, or if he was just a Tory, loyal to King George III. Either way, he held out too long with choosing a side.
In 1775 the Committee of Safety came through Whately, Massachusetts, and went to the wealthier land owners who were suspected Tories. This list included Captain Elisha Allis, who had gained his rank of Captain in the French and Indian War. While quite a few members have gotten their membership in the DAR through Capt. Allis' children, he himself is not on the patriot rolls.
When the Committee of Safety rolled through his town, he was forced along with some of his other suspected neighbors to sign an oath, "freely and voluntarily," pledging his support for the then rebels, denouncing General Thomas Gage as Governor of Massachusetts, Parliament, and, of course, King George III. The oath also allowed him to graciously lend men and money to the new rebellion.
I came across this story while doing some quick genealogy research during lunch. I started a half hour looking to see if the father of numerous patriots was a possible patriot himself, and ended the half hour knowing that while his sons served and became Patriots, Capt. Elisha Allis was named a Tory. Amazing what a short catalog search can find you at the DAR Library!


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The Little Shepherds
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Worldwide Spiritual Bouquet In Honor of Our Lady of Fatima
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School of the Immaculate Heart
School of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Children's Eucharistic Adoration
Historical Pontifical perspective on the miraculous power of our children's prayer
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My Promise Card
Step One – Morning Offering
Step Two – Visits with Jesus
Step Three – Entrustment
Step Four – Sign of Entrustment
Step Five – Most Holy Rosary
Our Lady of Fatima 'CALLS' to Educators and Families – to help children become missionaries
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Our Lady of Fatima 'CALLS' to Educators and Families – to help Sacrifice
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Message of Fatima
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Angel of Peace – First Apparition
Angel of Peace – Second Apparition
Angel of Peace – Third Apparition
Our Lady of Fatima – First Apparition
Our Lady of Fatima – Second Apparition
Our Lady of Fatima – Third Apparition
Our Lady of Fatima – Fourth Apparition
Our Lady of Fatima – Fifth Apparition
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"MY IMMACULATE HEART WILL BE YOUR REFUGE AND THE WAY THAT WILL LEAD YOU TO GOD."
As soon as Jacinta, Francisco and I had finished praying the Rosary, with a number of other people who were present, we saw once more the flash reflecting the light which was approaching (which we called lightning.) The next moment, Our Lady was there on the holm oak, exactly the same as in May,
"What do you want of me?" I asked.
"I wish you to come here on the 13th of next month, to pray the Rosary every day, and to learn to read. Later, I will tell you what I want."
I asked for the cure of a sick person. "If he is converted, he will be cured during the year."
"I would like to ask you to take us to Heaven."
"Yes, I will take Jacinta and Francisco soon. But you are to stay here some time longer, Jesus wishes to make use of you to make me known and loved. He wants to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart."
"Am I to stay here alone?" I asked, sadly. "No, my daughter. Are you suffering a great deal? Do not lose heart. I will never forsake you. My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God."
As Our Lady spoke these last words, she opened her hands and for the second time, she communicated to us the rays of that immense light. We saw ourselves in this light, as it were, immersed in God. Jacinta and Francisco seemed to be in that part of the light which rose towards Heaven, and I in that which was poured out on the earth.
In front of the palm of Our Lady's right hand was a heart encircled by thorns which pierced it..
We understood that this was the Immaculate Heart of Mary, outraged by the sins of humanity, and seeking reparation.
You know now, Your Excellency, what we referred to when we said that Our Lady had revealed a secret to us in June. At the time, Our Lady did not tell us to keep it a secret, but we felt moved to do so by God.
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Mother nature provides and sustains our life. It is our responsibility to take care of Her, not just for us, but for future generations to come on this planet.
Environment destruction has been happening across the world in the name of business and development. Though we need development, only development at the cost of nature which is necessary for our survival is suicidal. Many peopler across the world are fighting for the cause.
NY-based artist Alison Moritsugu is one such activist and she is unique in her ways. Basically a painter, she paints idyllic, pastoral landscapes on logs and stumps as part of her beautiful commentary on how we look at and treat the environment.
Moritsugu's paintings emulate the optimistic style of the 18th and 19th centuries, but "by viewing the painting's surface, the cross section of a tree, any sense of nostalgia or celebration of nature is countered by the evidence of its destruction," she writes in her artist's statement.
She uses this beautiful but jarring juxtaposition to critique how we portray the environment in media. "Today, photoshopped images of verdant forests and unspoiled beaches invite us to vacation and sightsee, providing a false sense of assurance that the wilderness will always exist. By exploring idealized views of nature, my work acknowledges our more complex and precarious relationship with the environment." Naturally, Moritsugu paints on naturally-fallen lumber.
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Ventura lets people decide stadium's fate
Gov. Ventura is issuing a challenge to Minnesotans to show their support for Minnesota professional sports teams' stadiums. Ventura is organizing a fund into which Minnesotans can choose to put their tax rebates toward funding the stadiums. If everyone who receives a rebate participates, there will be a sum of about $1.2 billion to $1.3 billion. There are skeptics who are concerned most people will choose not to give money, but the point of the fund is to leave the choice of support up to individuals.
There are still many details to be worked out regarding the fund, but Ventura has been quick to reassure critics he is very serious about this plan. The biggest question still unanswered is how the money will be divided between the Twins and the Vikings. Ventura has not set a date when he would be ready to receive donations, but rebates are expected to be released late this summer.
Since the beginning of his campaign, Ventura has stated his preference for hands-off governing. For example, his support for legalizing marijuana is another instance where Ventura wants to let the people, rather than the government, make decisions. In this case Ventura has already stated he would not donate his rebate to help build pro sports team stadiums, although he might later change his mind. Whether or not Ventura himself supports the fund monetarily, he has given the control back to the people. "Now you can (spend tax rebates on the stadiums) of your own free choice… This is democracy at its finest," said Ventura.
A Voter News Service exit poll conducted in 1998 tells the feelings of Minnesotans about pro sports stadiums. Fifteen percent of the 797 voters interviewed favored using taxes or public funds for pro sports stadiums. The fund would give these voters and other sports fans a chance to show their support. The money given to the fund will demonstrate the real value that Minnesotans place on pro sports stadiums.
Although the VNS exit poll revealed 15 percent in-favor, 83 percent of the voters interviewed were against using taxes or public funds for the stadiums. A study done by Roger Noll and Andrew Zimbalist, "Sports, Jobs and Taxes," proves that most new stadiums and arenas bring few full-time jobs while undercutting existing entertainment venues in the area. This is a valid argument against professional sports stadiums that has been part of the debate.
Although the basic intention of the fund is good, there are many questions surrounding the new idea. Does Ventura plan to propose his idea to the Minnesota Legislature? Are our state taxes going to pay for the publicity for the fund? Where exactly will the money go? Is the money earmarked for stadiums, or can the teams spend it however they want? Ventura needs to answer these questions before advocating it any further.
The fund is a good example of Ventura's political philosophy — giving people the control to govern themselves. This fund is a refreshing solution to the long-standing debate about funding for pro sports stadiums. By putting the decision back into the hands of the people, the level of support for stadiums can be gauged, while those not in favor of the stadiums can choose to spend their rebates as they choose.


Every Flash module in IntelliJ IDEA includes one or more build configurations. A build configuration defines how the module source files are transformed into the target output type (SWF or SWC) and then packaged.
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For those who see success as a team challenge.
There's no substitute for experience. A leading company such as Bayer needs experts and specialists in all disciplines who really know their jobs inside out, which generally takes several years of work experience to achieve. If you're among the best in your profession and are seeking an exciting challenge, we'd very much like to hear from you.
Bayer offers excellent career development prospects for professionals. The qualifications and abilities that future employees should bring to the table depend on the requirements of each job. After all, at Bayer hardly any two jobs are the same.
In general, the best applicants from Bayer's point of view are those offering proven expertise in the form of an above-average education / university degree.
With applications from specialists, we also place great importance on evidence of specific accomplishments, experience and success in previous professional endeavors. You should also possess the ability to think independently and laterally, along with good management skills, customer orientation, ability to communicate and a good knowledge of languages.
Your personality is of crucial importance too. We expect applicants to be able to work independently and display flexibility, mobility, high motivation and enthusiasm for new challenges. If you are not satisfied with what you have achieved so far, Bayer offers you excellent opportunities to realize your career goals within a true global player.
Hereafter you will find an overview of some of our department structures of the subgroups that would give you a hint about which structure could be the most suitable and matching your fields of experience.


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Our Royal Patron - HRH the Duchess of Cambridge
Our Royal Patron
Our Royal Patron is Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Cambridge.
"It is a great honour to begin what I am sure will be a long association with a member of the Royal Family with whom we already have a relationship following visits to some of our services in 2015."
"The Duchess has an interest in many of the issues our teams deal with across the UK, particularly emotional well-being and mental health. On behalf of the 390,000 children and families we help, our supporters, trustees and staff, I offer a warm welcome to the Duchess of Cambridge as our new Royal Patron."
- Sir Tony Hawkhead, Action for Children Chief Executive
Your support will help us make life better for the UK's most vulnerable children and young people.
With friends, with children, at home, at work - however you fundraise your efforts will help children in urgent need.
You'll learn new skills, have fun and feel good about what you've done.
You can help us campaign for changes that will make life better for vulnerable children and young people.


Presbyterian worship is known for its balance between form and freedom, seeking to be faithful to the leading of God's Word and open to the movement of God's spirit. For those who plan, lead, and participate in worship, living within this tension can be a creative challenge, one that poses many questions for our liturgical theology and practice.
Presbyterian Worship Questions and Answers draws on the author's scholarly insights, pastoral instincts, and decade of experience in the Presbyterian denomination's Office of Theology and Worship to provide accessible answers to the questions people frequently ask about Presbyterian worship along with a few we ought to ask more frequently. From the philosophical—What is worship and what does it have to do with real life?—to the practical—Why is there a pink candle and when do we light it?—Presbyterian Worship Questions and Answers seeks to shed new light on the meaning and mystery of worship in the Reformed tradition.
David Gambrell is Associate for Worship in the Office of Theology and Worship of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), author of Breathing Spirit into Dust: Fifty Hymn Texts, and coeditor of the 2018 Book of Common Worship.


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Last night was the first (and probably the last) time I ever watched the Tony Awards. Amy and I fast-forwarded through the "play" honors - but watched and rooted for "the musical" awards...
We rooted for "In the Heights" to win any/all of it's 13 nominations. (They won 4)
We saw the show Off-Broadway and loved it. We are actually going to see it on Broadway this Friday (buying tix pre-Tonys = smart)... ;)
Is that why we were rooting for it? - not really...You see, Amy and I are pseudo wanna-be friends with Lin Manuel and crew... I've been going (as has Amy) to FLS shows since early 2005 (or late 2004 - not sure). I introduced the show to a lot of my friends - including one friend who's been working with the guys for the past few years on various projects and is legitimate friends with them. We've kept up on their success on our own, but it's nice to hear that as people and friends - the members of the cast are cool, down-to-earth people...Totally randomly - I found out last week that the director of the play is actually my second cousin...
It's also nice to see "Broadway entertainment" that is geared towards my tastes. I've probably been to 15+ Broadway shows in my life -- and I've only liked 2 (Avenue Q and 700 Sundays). While I can acknowledge the extreme talent it takes to be a Broadway star -- I'm not a fan of the standard musical - where people break-out in a song and dance at every turn...or the standard drama "play" - where I can find something more relevant to me on the television or movie screen.
In The Heights mixes truly modern music of my tastes (hip-hop, R&B), modern dancing (no ballet or jazz-hands-Broadway), with a meaty plot and like-able characters.
I'm so happy for the people involved in the show, who took home 4 Tony Awards last night - including Best Musical (the crowned jewel of the night)...
UPDATED - Check out Lin's FREESTYLE acceptance speech at The Tonys:
I was shocked to see that I had never wrote a blog post on Freestyle Love Supreme or In the Heights. If you're friends with me, though, you've definitely heard about them both - and probably gone to see them. If not - it may be too late - as winning the Tony for best musical tends to make getting tickets for the show very difficult.
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UPSC Mains GS 2 Paper 2022 PDF [General Studies Paper-2]
UPSC GS 2 Paper 2022 PDF: The UPSC Mains 2022 is scheduled to be conducted on the 16th, 17th, 18th, 24th, and 25th of September 2022. The GS 2 (General Studies 2) paper was conducted on 17th September 2022 in the Afternoon Session 2.00 P.M. to 5.00 P.M.
General Studies Question Paper 2 covers topics like Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice, and International relations. This question paper consists of a total of 20 questions and the paper is allotted a total of 250 marks and a duration of 3 hours. The thing to keep in mind in this question paper is that all the questions are compulsory.
UPSC Mains 2022 GS 2 Question Paper
"The most significant achievement of modern law in India is the constitutionalization of environmental problems by the Supreme Court." Discuss this statement with the help of relevant case laws
"Right of movement and residence throughout the territory of India are freely available to the Indian citizens, but these rights are not absolute." Comment
To what extent, in your opinion, has the decentralisation of power in India changed the governance landscape at the grassroots
Discuss the role of the Vice-President of India as the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha
Discuss the role of the National Commission for Backward Classes in the wake of its transformation from a statutory body to a constitutional body
The Gati-Shakti Yojana needs meticulous coordination between the government and the private sector to achieve the goal of connectivity. Discuss
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Q: How to use a ServiceBus Trigger with a topic/subscription in an Azure Function I'd like to create an Azure Function that is triggered when a new message is added to a topic/subscription.
For the moment I've created an Azure Function using the  ServiceBusQueueTrigger C# Template and I've set the Queue Name to
topicPath + "/Subscriptions/" + subscriptionName

But I've got this exception:

Microsoft.ServiceBus: Cannot get entity 'topic-test/Subscriptions/subscription-test' because it is not of type QueueDescription. Check that you are using method(s) with the correct entity type. System.Runtime.Serialization: Error in line 1 position 1762. Expecting element 'QueueDescription' from namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/netservices/2010/10/servicebus/connect'.. Encountered 'None' with name '', namespace ''. .

I thought the Azure Function was using the MessagingFactory.CreateMessageReceiver to initialize the message pump but not.
Is there any support for topic/subscription for the moment ?

A: Yes topics are supported, but our UI and templates are behind on that unfortunately - we'll be releasing some updates soon addressing these issues.
For now, you can use the Advanced Editor to edit your trigger binding directly. There you can specify your subscriptionName and topicName values. Here's an example:
{
  "bindings": [
    {
      "type": "serviceBusTrigger",
      "name": "message",
      "direction": "in",
      "subscriptionName": "subscription-test",
      "topicName": "topic-test",
    }
  ]
}

In general, since Azure Functions is build atop the WebJobs SDK, our various bindings are mapped directly to their SDK counterparts. For example serviceBusTrigger maps to ServiceBusTriggerAttribute which has SubscriptionName/TopicName properties. Therefore, expect to see the same properties in the Function metadata model.

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\section{Introduction}
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation \cite{domain_survey}, with generalization bounds stated by Ganin et al. \cite{domain_adaptation_representation}, \cite{domain_adaptation_theorem} is a type of transfer learning \cite{transfer_survey} where the task remains the same while the domains are different (transductive transfer learning). Formally, the learner has access to a labeled source dataset $S = \{(x_i^s, y_i^s)\}_{i=1}^{n_s}$ and an unlabeled target dataset $T = \{(x_i^t)\}_{i=1}^{n_t}$, where $\{x_i^s\}_{i=1}^{n_s}$ follow a probability distribution $P_s$ and $\{x_i^t\}_{i=1}^{n_t}$ follow a target distribution $P_t$.

We seek to build a domain-invariant feature representation, to ensure good performance on both source and target domain. We apply the unsupervised DA method to an industrial turbo-machinery context providing practical results on a complex timeseries application, even in presence of a non-independently and identically distributed assumption.

\subsection{Related works}
Several lines of research address the unsupervised domain adaptation task. One line aims to learn a
\textit{domain-invariant feature representation}, typically in the form of a feature extractor neural network \cite{domain_invariant,domain_invariant2,domain_invariant3,domain_invariant4,Li_2020}. Another one aims to learn a \textit{mapping} from one domain to another. The line of \textit{normalization statistics} exploits the batch normalization layer \cite{batch_layer} to learn domain knowledge \cite{domain_batch}. The line of \textit{ensemble methods} consists of using multiple models \cite{domain_ensemble} averaging their output to keep domains separated.

\subsection{Use case}
A turbo-machinery is a system that transfers energy between a rotor and a fluid, including both turbines and compressors. While a turbine transfers energy from a fluid to a rotor, a compressor transfers energy from a rotor to a fluid.

The turbo-machinery application described in this work consists in building a virtual sensor (ie: a regression model) using data collected from a prototype unit during winter-time and applying it to data collected from the same prototype, during summer-time. The domain shift we are facing is thus mainly related to different ambient conditions, influencing the distribution of the input features.

\subsection{Dataset}

The dataset \footnotetext{At the moment, dataset cannot be published under open content license due to confidential information.}used to validate the approach is a collection of timeseries acquired from 30 sensors installed on a gas turbine prototype.
Data collected in winter (from December to February) are used as labelled source dataset, while data collected in summer (from June to July) as unlabelled target dataset.
In Fig.~\ref{fig:feature_dist} the distribution shift (in source and target datasets) of some features inputting the model is shown, as examples.

\begin{figure}[h]
    \captionsetup{justification=centering}
    \centering
    {\includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{images/Tag3.png}}
    {\includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{images/Tag4.png}}
    {\includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{images/Tag5.png}}
    \caption{Distribution of some input features from source (light green) and target (dark green) dataset.}
    \label{fig:feature_dist}
\end{figure}

\section{The implemented library}
\subsection{Model}
We base our solution of the seminal work of Domain-Adversarial Neural Networks (DANN) by Ganin et al. \cite{ganin2016domain}. The idea behind DANN focuses on learning features that combine discriminativeness and domain invariance. This is achieved by jointly optimizing the underlying features as well as two
discriminative classifiers operating on these features. While the
parameters of the classifiers are optimized in order to minimize their error on the training set,
the parameters of the underlying deep feature mapping are optimized in order to minimize the loss of the label classifier and to maximize the loss of the domain classifier. The latter update thus works adversarially to the domain classifier, and it encourages domain-invariant features to emerge in the course of the optimization.

Our proposal is based on DANN but focused on a regression task (\textbf{D}omain-\textbf{A}dversarial \textbf{N}eural \textbf{N}etworks applied to \textbf{T}imeseri\textbf{e}s, DANNTe). The architecture is composed of a feature extractor recurrent network feeding a two-headed network (see Fig.~\ref{fig:dann}). The first head is a task solver, in our case a regressor (previously "label predictor") whose goal is to minimize the reconstruction loss for the source domain, where $y$ is available. Its loss is not affected by target domain examples, which are skipped thanks to a target mask layer. The second head is a domain classifier, whose goal is to discriminate examples coming from source from those coming from target domain, exploiting the $x$ information, the only one available in both domains. To train this discriminator, a new dataset $U = \{(x_i, 0)\}_{i=1}^{n_s} \cup \{(x_i, 1)\}_{i=1}^{n_t}$ is built, where 0 and 1 are the domain labels assigned to samples from source domain and target domain respectively.

\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
  \includegraphics[scale=0.35]{images/dann.png}
  \caption{Architecture of our proposed approach (DANNTe), based on Ganin et al. \cite{ganin2016domain}.  Feature extractor weights are modified by both the task solver (in our case, a regressor trying to minimize the reconstruction loss) and the domain classifier (trying to minimize the source vs target domain classification loss). The gradient reversal layer acts so that a minimization problem is solved (instead of a min-max one), just reversing the sign of the domain classifier gradient during backpropagation.}
  \label{fig:dann}
\end{figure}
The task predictor loss $L_y$ is the mean squared error (MSE), while the domain classifier loss $L_d$ is the negative log loss defined as:
\begin{equation}
    L_d = - \frac{1}{n}\ \sum_{i=1}^n\ [\ y_i\ log(p(y_i)) + (1-y_i)\ log(1-p(y_i))\ ]
\end{equation}

where $y_i$ denotes the domain label for the i-th sample.
\\The total loss then combines the contribution of the losses of the two heads:
\begin{equation}
    L_{tot} = L_y - \lambda L_d  \label{eq:loss}
\end{equation}
where $\lambda$, the domain loss multiplier, influences the contribution of the domain classifier loss during backpropagation.\\ Once trained, only the task solver head (stacked on the feature extractor) is kept and used for inference.

\subsection{Model adaptation}
At training time, Ganin et al.~\cite{ganin2016domain} propose to prepare two datasets: $\{(x_i^s, y_i^s)\}_{i=1}^{n_s}$ to train the \textit{task solver} and  $\{(x_i^s, 0)\}_{i=1}^{n_s} \cup \{(x_i^t, 1)\}_{i=1}^{n_t}$ to train the \textit{domain classifier}. Using two different datasets to train the model, though, causes the need to perform multiple forward and backward passes and thus makes training computationally demanding. To reduce the computational complexity we propose a solution based on the addition of a \textbf{target mask} layer. This layer sets to zero the contribution of the target domain samples to the task solver loss $L_y$. This approach is equivalent to computing the loss $L_y$ first using only samples from the source domain, and then computing the loss $L_d$ using the combined domain batches.

Another proposal by Ganin et al.~\cite{ganin2016domain} is to build the datasets by i.i.d from $P_s$ and $P_t$. In our specific use case, though, the i.i.d. assumption does not hold since we are dealing with timeseries and we use an RNN (LSTM) as a \textit{feature extractor}, so we do not want to lose the time correlation in our dataset. The solution we propose is to train the model by creating \textbf{equally divided batches} where half of each batch is filled with samples from the source domain, and half with samples from the target domain, maintaining the time ordering.

\section{Results}
\subsection{Performance assessment strategy}
Model performance has been evaluated by exploiting the variable $y$ which is available in both domains, in this simplified use case. We remind once again that this ground truth will not be available, instead, in our future and more realistic use case.

The DANNTe regression performance has been compared to:
\begin{itemize}
\item the \textit{constant mean} regressor, where output is always the mean of the source data
\item the \textit{baseline} model to estimate the lower-bound performance, given by a supervised model trained only using source domain data and then directly applied to target domain data.
\item the \textit{fully-supervised} model to estimate the upper-bound performance, given by a supervised model where both source and target domains are labelled and available
\item the original \textit{DANN} method that doesn't take into account the temporal structure of the data, to see if accounting for temporal correlations is helping.
\end{itemize}

\subsection{Model performance and comparison}
Performance comparison summarized in Tab.~\ref{tab:results} shows the results of our experiments with related uncertainties that refer to the variance obtained with k-fold cross-validation. Mean Squared Errors are computed with the y scaled to have zero mean and unit variance. MAPE is computed without scaling the y variable. The last column, where is present the KL-divergence, is computed with the embedding of the two distributions (Source and Target) obtained from the second last layer of each model.
\begin{table}[h]

  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{lrrrr}

    Model & MSE (Source) & MSE (Target) & MAPE (Target)  & KL\textit{-divergence} \\
    \midrule
    Constant (mean) & 99.9 \scriptsize{$\pm$ 0.0} & 77.5 \scriptsize{$\pm$ 0.0} & 12.0 & - \\
    Baseline & \textbf{0.7} \scriptsize{$\pm$ 0.1} & 5.1 \scriptsize{$\pm$ 0.9} & 3.4 & 6.1\\
    Fully-supervised & 0.9 \scriptsize{$\pm$ 0.7} & \textbf{1.8} \scriptsize{$\pm$ 0.8} & \textbf{0.9} & \textbf{1.2} \\
    \midrule
    DANN & 0.8 \scriptsize{$\pm$ 0.3} & 3.6 \scriptsize{$\pm$ 0.6} & 2.5 & 2.7 \\
    \textbf{DANNTe} & 0.8 \scriptsize{$\pm$ 0.4} & 2.3 \scriptsize{$\pm$ 0.4} & 1.5 & 2.5\\ [0.05cm]
    \hline
    \hline
    \vspace{\baselineskip}
  \end{tabular}
  \vspace{\baselineskip}
  \caption{DANNTe performance compared to baseline and fully-supervised models. MSE (Source) and MSE (Target) are both in the $10^{-2}$ format. MAPE (Target) is in the $10^{-1}$ format. KL\textit{-divergence} is in the $10^{-1}$ format.}
  \label{tab:results}
\end{table}

DANNte performs worse on source domain (MSE Source) compared to the beseline model, but improves performance in the target domain (MSE Target and MAPE Target) with respect to baseline and DANN models. This is mainly due to its ability to manage temporal dependencies.

We found that the hyperparameter $\lambda$ (see Eq.~\ref{eq:loss}) plays a key role in feature extraction. The larger its value, the higher is the domain classifier importance in the feature extractor training.
In our experiments, for our use case we found that $\lambda=1.5$ yields the best performance.

\subsection{Features encoding}
To get a graphic insight about how the feature embedding changes with DANNTe, we use the UMAP method \cite{umap} to visualize it (see Fig.~\ref{fig:umaps}).
In the fully supervised model (Fig.~\ref{fig:best_case_umap}) a scattered separation between source and target domains can be seen with respect to the baseline model (Fig.~\ref{fig:worst_case_umap}), verified by the KL divergence in Tab.~\ref{tab:results}.
Moreover, the proposed DANNTe approach shows an higher ability to superimpose different domains (Fig.~\ref{fig:DARN_umap}) with respect the baseline model.
\begin{figure}[h]
    \captionsetup{justification=centering}
    \centering
    \subfloat[Baseline]{\includegraphics[width=0.30\textwidth]{images/encoding_baseline.png}\label{fig:worst_case_umap}}
    \subfloat[Fully supervised]{\includegraphics[width=0.30\textwidth]{images/encoding_fully_supervised.png}\label{fig:best_case_umap}}

    \subfloat[DANNte]{\includegraphics[width=0.30\textwidth]{images/encoding_dannte.png}\label{fig:DARN_umap}}
    \caption{Two-dimensional data representation using UMAP. We can observe a clear separation between the two domains (light green and dark green, source and target respectively) using the baseline model (a). Both Fully Supervised (b) and DANNTe (c) construct a less discriminative feature representation.}
    \label{fig:umaps}
\end{figure}

\section{Conclusions and Future work}
We have shown a domain adaptation method applied to a regression task for an industrial use case.
The described technique allows a signal virtualization based on embedded features that combine good performance on task and domain invariance.
The results are promising and allow us to improve the reliability of a model on a target domain. With respect to a baseline model trained using only data sampled from a source domain and the DANN model, it achieves better performance on the target domain. Despite there is still room for improvement to obtain results as close as possible to the fully-supervised approach, our approach brings valuable results which can be relied upon in real applications.
Our future use case will develop a virtual sensor from a prototype unit and applying it to a fleet unit installed at Customer site. Therefore, domain shift will be due not only to different ambient conditions but also to different operative conditions of the machines.

\section*{Acknowledgement}
Special thanks to Andrea Panizza, Giacomo Monaci, Marzia Sepe and Valeria Ballarini for the valuable discussion.

\printbibliography

\end{document}

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Meg Whitman Refutes Allegations by Former Housekeeper
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Barbbtx
W'Ford TX
jamesrage said:
It looks like Whitman was hoping the former housekeeper would keep her mouth shut.
I watched her whole press conference. I believe her and I believe she thought of Nicki as part of the family. She was not required by law to turn her in. Nicki has children and a husband here. However, she absolutely had to fire her. She did everything right in my opinion. By opening her mouth, and lying (according to Whitman) she has opened herself up to prosecution. Aldred must have offered her something really good.
j-mac
Barbbtx said:
Yeah, protection from prosecution should Brown win.
jamesrage
I watched her whole press conference. I believe her and I believe she thought of Nicki as part of the family. She was not required by law to turn her in. Nicki has children and a husband here. However, she absolutely had to fire her. She did everything right in my opinion.
Politicians lie,deceive, scam and cheat all the time. Yeah its possible She may have not known her employee was an illegal and was torn, its also possible that she did not care her employee was an illegal and did an Obama by throwing her under the bus when it became politically inconvenient to keep employing her.
By opening her mouth, and lying (according to Whitman) she has opened herself up to prosecution. Aldred must have offered her something really good.
If it was in a state that did not tolerate illegal immigration then yes Aldred would have royally screwed her client, she would have been the equivalent of a defense lawyer handing the prosecutor a confession tape, some videos and other evidence implicating her client. California loves illegals so they will not do anything and I seriously doubt the feds will do anything.
Considering Whitman was paying an above average wage for the services and was paying social security taxes, what do you think was the benefit for Meg to knowingly hire an illegal? It just doesn't make any sense. If I were going to hire an illegal, I would certainly not be paying Social Security, and would never pay a wage equivalent to what I would pay for a legitimate worker.
goldengirl
buck said:
Exactly...it doesn't make sense. Meg did nothing wrong and some want to make her the scape goat. It is the maid who forged documents and lied about her status.
Why haven't we heard all this about Colin Powell who openly admitted to hiring illegals...In my book he should be prosecuted.
You kids get off my lawn!
get out the Nutella. This chick's toast.
The problem is, of course, that one of Ms. Whitman's big rah-rah rallying cries is her determination that EMPLOYERS SHOULD BE PUNISHED/MADE LIABLE for hiring illegal immigrants.
From her website:
Meg will oppose any attempt by the Legislature to weaken employer verification requirements.
From a speech at UC Davis:
We do have to hold employers accountable for hiring only documented workers, and we do have to enforce that law.
From her campaign brochure:
[To] institute a system where state and local law enforcement agencies conduct inspections of workplaces suspected of employing undocumented workers.
At the Cal State Fresno debate:
If we don't hold employers accountable, we will never get our arms around this [illegal immigration] problem.
Of course, when challenged by Jerry Brown to own up to her own massive personal hypocrisy of being the employer of an illegal immigrant for NINE YEARS.... suddenly, her "As your governor I promise to go after people who employ illegals!" battle cry turns into:
"Jerry, you should be ashamed [putting] her deportation at risk."
As if, you know, she actually gave a **** about this woman. :roll:
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The Prof
Re: get out the Nutella. This chick's toast.
and we can all see how much moonbeam and his all red surrogates care about naughty nicky who's been exposed as lying to her employers
I don't think it's very possible that she didn't know, or at least suspect.
sure, that's why meg paid social security and payroll taxes for 9 years
Councilman
Riverside, County, CA.
The Prof said:
Good point and if she was being such a bitch why did she pay over $20 and hour when less than minimum wage is the norm for some who knowingly hire Illegal aliens.
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Glinda said:
Ok, so what has changed that you libs see so damning that Whitman is such a hypocrite that she just shouldn't go on? hmmmm?
The woman was hired through an employment service that is supposed to have all that in order when they refer her to the prospective employer.
The woman had fake id, ssn, and documentation that was convincing enough to have the federal government not question it for some 9 years. Then as soon as she gets into a race for Gov. against the states AG it get's uncovered...Yeah, no coincidence there....:roll:
As if, you know, she actually gave a **** about this woman.
How pathetic is this, you want to paint Whitman as some kind of monster, when it is your own party, and the Brown campaign that will use this woman, then cast her aside to fend off the Federal charges she will face now that Brown's friend, Gloria Allred has botched this case for her client. Nice going libs, this is just another example of how libs could really care less about the people that they claim to have in best interest.
j-mac said:
Ok, so what has changed that you libs* see so damning that Whitman is such a hypocrite that she just shouldn't go on?
Nothing's changed. Being an unapologetic hypocrite is worthy of criticism regardless of political leaning.
The woman had fake id, ssn, and documentation that was convincing enough to have the federal government not question it for some 9 years.
This is all true. What's your point?
Here's Meg's:
Meg Whitman was the woman's employer. Notice how she's not taking responsibility OR holding herself accountable?
:doh
* You can drop the "you libs" whitewash crap; it rarely works and not at all in my case. You should know by now that I lean as far right as I do left, depending on the issue. How many liberals have you met who think we don't use the death penalty nearly enough? :roll:
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Could the thread title be edited for accuracy? Mrs Whitman may have denied the accusations but she certainly has not refuted them. Perhaps the OP meant "refudiate", which can mean anything you want it to.
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Whitman when confronted with the situation acted in the appropriate manner. now you will continue to pillory her for it instead of getting mad at the person doing the real damage to this illegal, and that is Brown.
Ok, so you're not crazy, bat**** , far left communist....so?
Whitman when confronted with the situation acted in the appropriate manner.
Really? How do you figure? Why didn't she turn her housekeeper over to immigration authorities for deportation as soon as she "found out" the woman was here illegally? Isn't that what she should have done if she believes so strongly that illegal immigrants don't belong in the country and that employers have an obligation to help enforce that law?
Further, did she man up and say:
You know, I've been going on and on about how I want to punish employers for hiring illegal immigrants (whether the employee lies about their true legal status or not), but now I see that my solution to the problem is entirely lacking, because there are many employers - JUST LIKE ME - who did everything right by going through a professional agency that did carefully check the employee's documents and believed them to be legitimate.
But I was wrong. Through no fault of my own. The agency was wrong, too. Through no fault of their own. And my desire to simply prosecute any employer of an illegal immigrant is wrong, as well, because - as we've seen in my case - in spite of trying to do all the right things, I ended up doing the wrong thing, anyway.
So, we're left with the question of how to prevent prosecuting those who actually HAVE done all they could to avoid employing illegals. My solution to the problem of developing immigration documentation that cannot be faked or forged is... blah blah blah
Anything less is unapologetic hypocrisy. Additionally, the above is the ONLY way she'll wiggle out of this politically, and she's not budging.
now you will continue to pillory her for it
Well, her and her PR people. They must be complete idiots. :doh
Really? How do you figure?
Did she man up and say:
No, see what you look for are words meant to fuel your attacks against her, what her actions were are what matters, and her actions were absolutely correct.
so Brown has no responsibility in this trash eh? Beautiful. Talk about hypocritical thinking.
Well, her and her PR people. They must be complete idiots.
We'll see, so you're voting Brown then?
You also wouldn't be out their talking about getting tough on those who employ illegal aliens if you knew you were doing that yourself.
I don't think Whitman or the agency did anything wrong. Nicky had all the documents including a Ca. drivers license.
I don't think employers should be held accountable for hiring illegals who have all the required documents. Do you?
If so, that may cause employers to be very leary of hiring anyone with brown skin or who didn't speak perfect english, no matter what proof of citizanship they had.
No, see what you look for are words meant to fuel your attacks against her, what her actions were are what matters
I've already said as much. She didn't turn the woman in, as she insists other employers must do or risk prosecution, did she? Furthermore, she refuses to accept her own responsibility in the matter.
Oh, her actions speak VOLUMES. :roll:
and her actions were absolutely correct.
Pre-hire, yeah. I've already said as much.
The problem is that her "solution" is to prosecute the employer - whether or not the employer legitimately did everything possible to avoid hiring an illegal. She/the agency apparently DID do everything they could to avoid it, but they still failed. This shows that the problem goes FAR deeper than simply prosecuting those who hire illegals, because sometimes there's just no way to KNOW; there is a much larger problem with legitimate documentation.
And she's ignoring it at her own peril. To refuse to address this aspect of the problem, she's essentially saying "Well, I did everything I could and they TRICKED ME!!! Those OTHER people who hire illegals should be prosecuted, but not me." The height of hypocrisy.
I'm afraid this isn't a thread about Jerry Brown. It's about Meg Whitman's employing an illegal immigrant for nine years and not taking ANY kind of responsibility for her actions. The fact that she's running on a platform of "BUST ILLEGAL EMPLOYERS" is simply the icing on the hypocrisy cake.
DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!
You actually figured this out on your own!? :doh
So Whitman did nothing wrong.
Employers who knowingly hire illegals should be prosecuted.
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Gee, and I thought there might be some hope for you...
Here, I'll spell it out nice and simple for you:
Meg Whitman isn't campaigning to prosecute only those who KNOWINGLY hiring illegals.
She wants to prosecute ANYONE that hires an illegal for ANY reason; whether they knew the person was illegal or not. You know, JUST LIKE HER. :doh
NOW do you get it? She's a hypocrite, and an ignorant one, at that.
Sure there is, a national ID.
But Jerry Brown is exactly who this should be about. Unless you consider lying to the hispanic community to garner votes, and his utter hypocrisy to by ok? He, and his campaign including Gloria Allred opened this woman and her family up to a mess legally just so he could launch this negative attack for political gain....You condone that?
Nothing I can see that you posted so far has Whitman saying anything close to that, only your own misrepresentation of her position.
I can't find any law that says employers can be prosecuted or fined if they were supplied with all the proper documents.
Are you saying Whitman wants them pay even if they did everything according to the law?
Seems to me any employer who had all the documents but was lied to by the employee could sue somebody over it if they got fined.
I believe the ones we want to prosecute are those who intentionally hire illegals for cheap labor.
Otherwise, hispanics would have a very difficult time finding any kind of work.


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Javier Cercas (Ibahernando, Cáceres, 1962) es un escritor español, que además trabaja como columnista en el diario El País. Ejerció durante años como docente universitario de filología.

Su obra es fundamentalmente narrativa y se caracteriza por la mezcla de géneros literarios, el uso de la novela testimonio y la mezcla de crónica y ensayo con ficción. A partir de su exitosa novela Soldados de Salamina (2001), su obra ha sido traducida en más de veinte países y a más de treinta idiomas.

Biografía

Infancia y adolescencia
José Javier Cercas Mena es hijo de un veterinario rural y primo carnal del político Alejandro Cercas. Nació en Ibahernando, un pequeño municipio español de la provincia de Cáceres, Extremadura. En 1966, a los cuatro años de edad, se trasladó con su familia a Gerona. Hasta los quince años viajó todos los veranos a su pueblo natal, manteniendo con Ibahernando una estrecha relación que sostiene hasta la actualidad.

Durante su adolescencia se interesó por la literatura y el cine. Algunos miembros de su familia cercana, incluyendo a su padre, eran falangistas, pero él comenzó a hacerse una opinión propia de la Guerra civil española leyendo sobre el tema.

Juventud y edad adulta

En 1985 se licenció en Filología hispánica en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona y más tarde se doctoró en la misma especialidad en la Universidad de Barcelona. Trabajó durante dos años en la Universidad de Illinois en Urbana, época en que escribió su primera novela. Desde 1989 comenzó a ejercer como profesor de literatura española en la Universidad de Gerona, y escribió artículos y reseñas para diversos periódicos. Hasta la actualidad es colaborador habitual de la edición catalana y del suplemento dominical del diario El País.

Luego de vivir varios años en Barcelona, Cercas regresó con su esposa y su hijo a Gerona en 1999. Hasta el año 2000, Javier Cercas era un escritor muy poco conocido. Esto se aprecia en el hecho que en una antología de autores españoles publicada ese año, titulada Páginas amarillas, no es incluido en una lista de varios escritores de su misma generación. Pese a lo anterior, su amigo, el reconocido escritor chileno Roberto Bolaño, reconocía en él a un escritor talentoso y lo estimuló a continuar escribiendo.

Consolidación literaria

En 2001 Cercas publicó su novela Soldados de Salamina, que lo convirtió en un escritor mundialmente reconocido, recibiendo excelentes críticas por parte de prestigiosos escritores tales como Mario Vargas Llosa, J. M. Coetzee, Doris Lessing, Susan Sontag y George Steiner. Las numerosas ventas de esta obra permitieron al escritor dedicarse exclusivamente a escribir, dejando su oficio como profesor de filología. Una versión cinematográfica de esta novela se estrenó dos años después, bajo la dirección de David Trueba.

Su siguiente novela, La velocidad de la luz, que apareció en 2005, fue considerada como libro del año por el periódico La Vanguardia y Qué Leer, y obtuvo distintos premios. En sus novelas siguientes, Anatomía de un instante (2009), Las leyes de la frontera (2012), El impostor (2014) y El monarca de las sombras (2017), el autor ha mantenido un fuerte interés por los períodos históricos de la Guerra Civil Española y la Transición española posterior al Franquismo.

En la actualidad su obra ha sido traducida a más de veinte lenguas. Por su parte él mismo ha traducido a autores catalanes contemporáneos y a H. G. Wells.

Estilo e influencias

La narrativa de Cercas se caracteriza por hacer uso de la novela testimonio, en que se entremezclan hechos verídicos y ficticios, sin quedar claros los límites de los unos y los otros. Para el escritor, toda novela es autobiográfica, si bien además debe conllevar una catarsis, una forma de salvación. Esta forma de ver la literatura, que aplica a la estructura y forma de relatar sus historias, ha sido celebrada por muchos, pero también ha generado algunas críticas en otros, tales como el escritor Félix de Azúa o el periodista Arcadi Espada, quienes defienden una mayor nitidez en los límites entre ficción y realidad. Sus obras suelen estar sobre todo ambientadas en entornos urbanos, abarcar periodos del tiempo presente o del pasado cercano, y poseer un tono amable y en ocasiones humorístico.

En cuanto al proceso de escritura, según el propio autor, pese a que sus novelas son todas muy diferentes, todas ellas comienzan con una pregunta, y el libro corresponde a una búsqueda de su respuesta, que finalmente no se consigue, o bien la respuesta es la pregunta en sí misma. El escritor afirma que al momento de comenzar una nueva novela, solo tiene una vaga idea sobre ella, y esta se va definiendo a medida que se va desarrollando. Ha dicho que su ideal son las «novelas fáciles de leer y difíciles de entender», como es el caso de Don Quijote de la Mancha, su novela favorita.

El mismo autor reconoce en el cuentista argentino Jorge Luis Borges una de sus mayores influencias y estímulos para escribir, habiéndolo comenzado a leer a los catorce años de edad. Asimismo reconoce que para él los dos autores más importantes en la literatura son Borges y Franz Kafka.

Para Cercas, el rol del articulista es casi opuesto al rol del novelista, si bien una misma persona puede ser capaz de ejercer ambos sin problemas.

Ideología política
La novelas y crónicas de Javier Cercas suelen poseer un fuerte contenido político, por el que se manifiesta como autor de tendencia izquierdista, si bien también un crítico del discurso y estado actual de la izquierda en su país. Es además un ferviente opositor a la dictadura de Francisco Franco, que ha polemizado con diversos intelectuales, periodistas y políticos acerca de las responsabilidades durante la Guerra Civil Española, la dictadura y la Transición Española. Entre otros, ha debatido con José Ignacio Wert y Gregorio Morán.

Ha vivido casi toda su vida en Cataluña, pero se considera, en sus palabras, un «extremeño catalanizado o un catalán que no acierta a dejar de ser extremeño (o al revés)». Cercas rehúye en general los nacionalismos, que considera cuestión pasional. Este antinacionalismo le ha acarreado disputas con otros escritores e historiadores, tales como Joan B. Culla, y le ha llevado a criticar abiertamente a manifestantes simpatizantes de ETA. También se ha mostrado a favor de una Europa federada o confederada.

El escritor se declara ateo y anticlerical, y está muy interesado en la política de Ciudad del Vaticano.

Obras

Novelas
 1987 - El móvil (reeditada solo con la novela corta homónima en 2003 por Tusquets y en 2017 por Literatura Random House, con prólogo del autor)
 1989 - El inquilino (reeditada en 2000 por Acantilado y en 2019 por Literatura Random House, con prólogo del autor)
 1997 - El vientre de la ballena (reescrita y reeditada en 2014 por Literatura Random House, con prólogo del autor)
 2001 - Soldados de Salamina (reeditada con correcciones en 2015 por Literatura Random House, con epílogo del autor, y en 2017 en la colección Letras Hispánicas, de Cátedra)
 2005 - La velocidad de la luz (reeditada en 2013 por Literatura Random House, con prólogo del autor)
 2009 - Anatomía de un instante
 2012 - Las leyes de la frontera
 2014 - El impostor
 2017 - El monarca de las sombras
 2019 - Terra Alta
 2021 - Independencia
 2022 - El castillo de Barbazul

Artículos
 1998 - Una buena temporada
 2000 - Relatos reales (reeditado en 2020 por Literratura Random House, con prólogo del autor)
 2006 - La verdad de Agamenón (reeditado en 2013 por Literatura Random House con algunos cambios en el prólogo y dos artículos menos)
 2016 - Formas de ocultarse

Ensayos
 1993 - La obra literaria de Gonzalo Suárez
 2016 - El punto ciego

Otros
 2002 - Una oración por Nora
 2003 - Diálogos de Salamina: un paseo por el cine y la literatura (con David Trueba; Luis Alegre, ed.; David Airob, fot.)
 2013 - Cartes entre Sant Jordi & el Drac (correspondencia con Sergi Pàmies)

Traducciones
 1992 - Francesc Trabal, El hombre que se perdió
 1997 - H. G. Wells, El país de los ciegos y otros relatos (reeditado en 2005)
 1997 - Quim Monzó, Guadalajara
 1998 - Sergi Pàmies, La gran novela sobre Barcelona
 2002 - Ponç Puigdevall, Àlbum Galmés
 2003 - Quim Monzó, Ochenta y seis cuentos
 2004 - Quim Monzó, Splassshf

Prólogos
 2012 - Felipe Alaiz, El arte de escribir sin arte

 2022 - Ramón de España, Barcelona fantasma, Vegueta Ediciones (Barcelona)

Premios

Por Soldados de Salamina
 Premio Salambó de Narrativa 2001
 Premio Qué Leer
 Premio Crisol
 Premio Llibreter
 Premio Cálamo 2001
 The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (Reino Unido)
 Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italia)
 Premio de la Crítica de Chile (Chile)
 Premi Ciutat de Barcelona
 Premio Ciudad de Cartagena
 Medalla de Extremadura 2005
Por La velocidad de la luz
 Premio Arzobispo Juan de San Clemente
 Cartelera Turia
 Athens Prize for Literature

Por Anatomía de un instante
 Premio Nacional de Narrativa 2010
 Premio Internacional Terenci Moix 2010
 Premio Mondello 2011 (Italia)
Por Las leyes de la frontera
 Premio Mandarache 2014
Por Terra Alta
 Premio Planeta 2019
Otros
 Grinzane Cavour de narrativa 2003
 Premio de la Crítica de Chile
 Prix Jean Monnet
 Premio Fundación Fernando Lara
 Premio Internazionale del Salone del Libro di Torino 2011
 Premio Lara de la prensa especializada
 Premio de Periodismo Francisco Cerecedo 2019
 Premio Mariano de Cavia 2021

Referencias

Bibliografía sobre la obra de Javier Cercas
 Bermúdez Montes, María Teresa. "Unha aproximación á pragmática textual en Soldados de Salamina (2001), de Javier Cercas". Revista de investigación en educación, N.º 8, 2010, pp. 117-127.
 Cervera Salinas, Vicente. "Javier Cercas, El Impostor. Barcelona, Penguin Random House, 2014". Cartaphilus: Revista de Investigación y Crítica Estética, ISSN-e 1887-5238, Vol. 12, 2014, pp. 312-314.
 Dolgin Casado, Stacey. "Ficción y realidad en Javier Cercas". Cuadernos hispanoamericanos, ISSN 0011-250X, N.º 719, 2010, pp. 89-104.
 Eusebio, Carmen de. "Javier Cercas: El pasado no es ajeno al presente, es una dimensión del presente". Cuadernos hispanoamericanos, ISSN 0011-250X, N.º 753, 2013, pp. 105-116
 García Nespereria, Sofía. "El "relato real" de Javier Cercas: la realidad de la literatura". Confluencia: Revista hispánica de cultura y literatura, ISSN 0888-6091, Vol. 24, N.º 1, 2008, pp. 117-128.
 Gómez Trueba, Teresa. ""Esa bestia omnívora que es el yo": el uso de la "autoficción" en la obra narrativa de Javier Cercas". Bulletin of Spanish Studies: Hispanic Studies and Research on Spain, Portugal and Latin America, ISSN 1475-3820, Vol. 86, N.º 1, 2009, pp. 67-83.
 González Sainz, José Ángel. "La obsesión y el secreto. Los aciertos de Javier Cercas". Letra internacional, ISSN 0213-4721, N.º 75, 2002, pp. 69-71.
 Lucas Chorro, Miguel Ángel. Anatomía de un escritor: El espacio del silencio, la dimensión fantástica y el compromiso con la historia en la obra literaria de Javier Cercas, Sevilla, Universidad de Sevilla, 2017 (Tesis doctoral).
 Mallorquí Ruscalleda, Enric. "Responsabilidad, memoria y testimonio en Soldados de Salamina de Javier Cercas". Hispanic Research Journal: Iberian and Latin American Studies, ISSN 1468-2737, Vol. 15, N.º 3, 2014, pp- 256-270.
 Marr, Matthew J. "Stepping Westward from Spain: Literary and Cultural Reversal in Recent Transatlantic Academic Novels by Josefina Aldecoa, Javier Cercas and Antonio Muñoz Molina". Anales de la literatura española contemporánea, ALEC, ISSN 0272-1635, Vol. 33, N.º 1, 2008, pp. 105-126.
 Martín, Rebeca. ""El pacto" y La verdad de Agamenón, de Javier Cercas: de dobles, tratos diabólicos y escritores frustrados". Salina: revista de lletres, ISSN 1137-6651, N.º. 20, 2006, pp. 209-216.
 Martínez Góngora, Mar. "Los héroes del 23F en Anatomía de un instante, de Javier Cercas: masculinidades en transición de Rosa Chacel". Crítica hispánica, ISSN 0278-7261, Vol. 36, N.º 2, 2014, pp. 5-29.
 Pino, José M. del. "Autobiografía y metanovela de Javier Cercas". Riff Raff: revista de pensamiento y cultura, ISSN 1135-8106, N.º 29, 2005, pp. 49-52.
 Richmond Ellis, Robert. "Memory, Masculinity, and Mourning in Javier Cercas's Soldados de Salamina". Revista de estudios hispánicos, ISSN 0034-818X, Vol. 39, N.º 3, 2005, pp. 515-535.
 Ródenas de Moya, Domingo. "Introducción a Soldados de Salamina", en J. Cercas, Soldados de Salamina, Madrid, Cátedra, 2018, pp. 9-188.
 Rodríguez de Arce, Ignacio. El gesto postmoderno en la narrativa de Javier Cercas. De 1987 a 2012, Roma, Aracne Editore, 2021.
 Rubinat Perellada, Ramón. Crítica de la obra literaria de Javier Cercas: Una execración razonada de la figura del intelectual, Vigo, Editorial Academia del Hispanismo, 2014.
 Silva, Manuel. Javier Cercas en la búsqueda de la verdad narrativa de El móvil a Terra alta, Cáceres, Universidad de Extremadura, 2021 (Tesis doctoral).
 Valdés, Enrique. "Héroes y villanos en Soldados de Salamina de Javier Cercas". Alpha: revista de artes, letras y filosofía, ISSN 0716-4254, N.º 25, 2007, pp. 193-204.
 Viestenz, William. "Anatomía de un instante by Javier Cercas: The Novel in its Embryonic State". Hispanic Research Journal: Iberian and Latin American Studies, ISSN 1468-2737, Vol. 15, N.º 6, 2014, pp. 547-564.
 Zhu, Jierong. La autoficción. Una investigación teórica y un ejemplo en las narraciones de Javier Cercas, Granada, Universidad de Granada, 2020 (Tesis doctoral).

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I did have high hopes of getting out and about to find somewhere pretty and beautiful for our pictures this month, but despite, or perhaps because of the bank holiday this week has been busy busy busy, with birthdays and parties and the everyday ordinary of family life. And so our pictures are last minute. The sort of last minute when you get up on a Saturday morning thinking that it'll be a piece of cake to take a picture today, and it's sunny too. But then I took Kitty to a birthday party (she has the best social life of all of us), and when we got home it was time for Pip to take a nap, and then by the time he'd woken up, Kitty was having a snooze, and then it was time for supper and the light was fading.
So I did what anyone would do, I bribed them with Chinese for supper and set the camera up in the garden.
But for a little bit of variety, and because we had cloud cover and fairly ambient light, we went for another bit of the garden that's currently in full bloom.
And for the first few photos all was well, we were calm, we were mostly smiling, and occasionally we were even looking at the camera.
Pip looks rather worried at all this outpouring of affection doesn't he.
But then came the inevitable moment when supper kicked in and the giggles started. Oh the giggles. It's a good job we take pictures in our own back garden because anyone seeing us would think we were loosing the plot.
Although this month I have to take some responsibility for the collapse of our normally staid and sensible personalities, and not just in the matter of the provision of sesame prawn toast. I've been trying to think of ways to get Pip and the girls to look at the camera; they're mostly interested in each other and us and there's nothing on the camera and no one jumping up and down and making silly noises to attract their attention or make them laugh. So as we piled out of the house I reached into the dressing up box and at the last minute added a little something to my camera.
Which might just have proved a little irresistible to a certain young lady.
H, me, Kitty, Pip – and Ariel of course.
And for this month's outtake I present to you what happens when you mildly suggest that the family might like to smile while you're doing a few setting up shots.
Maybe I should have taken the photos before the Chinese!


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Worshippers attending an event at a mosque in Cricklewood, North West London, were targeted in the early hours of the 19th September, with three people injured after being hit by a car.[1] It is reported that a group of volunteer stewards noticed a group of three men and a woman parked in the centre's private car park whilst behaving anti-socially, and were hence asked to leave.
The group, who were said to be consuming alcohol and drugs, responded with "a tirade of Islamophobic and racist abuse" before eventually getting back into their car.[2] However rather than leaving, they allegedly drove towards the large numbers of worshippers and confronted them, taunting them with racist abuse before hitting a number of people and speeding away.[3]
Speaking after the incident, Chief Superintendent Simon Rose said:
"At around half past midnight volunteer stewards challenged a small group of individuals.
"They were subjected to a tirade of Islamophobic and racist abuse and an altercation then took place. The people who had been challenged then drove at members of the community in a car.
"The car mounted the pavement twice and two people have been seriously hurt. Their injuries are not believed to be life threatening. The vehicle then drove off and was involved in a fail-to-stop accident.
"It is being dealt with as a critical incident. It is being dealt with as an Islamophobic hate crime and it is being dealt with as a racist hate crime." [4]
The targeted centre, The Hussaini Association, also released a statement on social media:
"Patrons attending the annual Al Hussaini Majlis in Cricklewood were indiscriminately mown down in a suspected premeditated Islamophobic attack last night."
"They were heard shouting anti Islamic taunts at the crowd before they started their attack. Fortunately, a number of volunteers bravely stood between the speeding vehicle and patrons heading home.
"These acts of bravery potentially saved the lives of dozens of innocent people from being taken." [5]
No arrests have been made yet, as police continue to seek the suspects. The attack comes at a time of growing far-right and anti-Muslim sentiment in the UK and Europe as a whole. The incident once again highlights the discrepancy between media reaction to cases with Muslim perpetrators versus those carried out by non-Muslims on Muslims. Indeed, hate towards Muslims is only fuelled further by the mainstream media's hysteric reporting on issues facing the Muslim community.
The Muslim Council of Britain commented: "Our prayers are with those who have been injured and all those affected, and urge all those who have any information about the incident to speak to the police."[6]
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[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-45570907
[3] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/cricklewood-mosque-crash-latest-updates-met-police-anti-islamic-slogans-injured-muslim-brent-a8544246.html
[4] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/19/cricklewood-mosque-hate-crime-crash-three-hurt-car-swerves-crowd/
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Q: Why git pull is not pulling the newly created branch that was pushed to remote? I thought git pull  = git fetch + git merge
This is good for sometime to pull the changes in remote branches, until encountering a situation where in git pull is not pulling the newly created branch. By newly created branch, what I meant is that "someone else"
just created a new branch and pushed to remote, and I tried to do a git pull, but I am not getting the new branch onto my list of remote branches.
I was able to get this newly created branch only after I did a git fetch and then git merge.
Question:
So does this mean, always do a git pull only when you want to pull changes of an existing branch,
and do a git fetch + git merge when you want to pull a newly created branch?
Edit:
Thanks to @uDaY . Now I understand how to do this in git bash. But wondering if we want to do this from Eclipse IDE, how can we make aware to Eclipse git pull utility to execute a git pull -all instead of the default git pull? Any thoughts?
Update1 : Ignore it, I will post as new question.
Update2: 09/23/2015 Well, Another question is not needed, I figured it out. Here it is,

Pull is basically fetch + merge

So unless you define what fetch has to really fetch, you cant expect a pull to pull what you intend to pull!
What this means is , In eclipse Since you cannot configure a pull, you must have to configure 'Fetch'.
ie: Right click on

project->Team->Remote->Configure Fetch from Upstream

.
See if some mapping is defined under 'refmappings'. Whatever, go to Advanced, and a new window will popup
which says 'Configure Fetch' - Fetch Ref Specifications-Select refs to fetch
Make sure you have Source Ref as "refs/heads/"  and Destination Ref as "refs/remotes/origin/" , and Force Update checkbox as checked.
I also did one extra step, by selecting the dropdown for 'Source ref:' and picked up the new branch name eg: newbranch,
selecting the dropdown for 'Destination ref:' and picked up the new branch name eg: origin/newbranch, and clicked on "+ Add Spec",
and click on "Finish". Now Save it.
Finally do a pull.

A: Git pull by default doesn't fetch all the branches. If you want to pull all the branches using git pull you need to do
$ git pull --all
see the documentation

git pull [options] [<repository> [<refspec>…]]
Default values for <repository> and <branch> are read from the
  "remote" and "merge" configuration for the current branch as set by
  git-branch[1] --track.