Dunsparce (Japanese: ノコッチ Nokocchi) is a major character in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity.
Dunsparce is a supporting character throughout the game. His best friend is Emolga. He is known to be a coward but despite that, he goes off into dungeons without his friend's consent. Dunsparce first appears as a client on the request board who needs to be rescued from Stompstump Peak. The partner and partner give a crystal they found while in the dungeon to him. When Virizion arrives into town, he uses the crystal as a proposal for Virizion to be his friend. Virizion refuses, and Dunsparce flees.
Two Pawniard appear saying that they can help him become stronger when in reality they just want to rip him off of everything he's got. Dunsparce buys into their scam and they head off into the Desolate Canyon dungeon together. The player and partner follow. When they get to a clearing, Dunsparce realizes that something isn't right and tries to flee but Pawniard trap him and make demands. The player and partner arrive just in time. Pawniard, realizing that they are outmatched and outnumbered call upon two Galvantula and Venipede to back them up. When looks like it is the end for the team, Emolga, Gurdurr, Timburr, and Virizion all suddenly arrive and with their help they defeat the gang who then flees further into the canyon. It is after this heroic feat that Dunsparce and his friend Emolga decide to join the player and partner's exploration team and are accepted as the first two members. When Umbreon and Espeon arrive in Post Town and explain their mission, the player, partner, and friends decide they want to help. Quagsire says that one of them will have to stay behind because it is a rule of HAPPI.
After Scraggy makes a suggestion that the weakest member should stay behind, Dunsparce gets worried that he might be the one who ends up staying behind. The night before the expedition, Dunsparce takes time to reflect on top of the hill in Post Town, when Virizion suddenly comes up to it. Dunsparce tells Virizion it's goals and the two have a heart to heart conversation. The next morning, Virizion volunteers to stay behind. It, Emolga, and the player and partner become upset with the decision and Emolga decides that the only way they can be fair is to draw straws. The next day, the team draws straws and whoever gets the shortest one ends up staying behind. Thinking that he influenced Virizion's decision to stay behind, Dunsparce volunteers to be the one to stay back in Pokémon Paradise.
As they are about to depart via the Magnagate, Dunsparce and the team say their farewells and Emolga decides that Dunsparce should go and pushes him into the Magnagate and stays behind willingly. After getting teleported to the front entrance to Telluric Path, Dunsparce regrets that Emolga can't go but decides to move forward and that Emolga wouldn't want him moping around. Early during their trek through the Glacier Palace, Dunsparce comments that he is having trouble breathing. He decides to ignore the feeling and go on with this teammates. When the team gets deep into the palace and enters a long hallway, soon everyone begins to have trouble breathing and collapses. Only the player is unaffected and left to watch his comrades slowly dying. Thankfully, Kyurem foresaw their arrival and saves them from their fate. He says that the part of the palace they were in was surrounded by a mysterious energy and that not even Kyurem has been able to enter past there. Kyurem says that the rest of the palace is off limits and that they should turn back now, but not before rewarding them with its great treasure.
A Dunsparce in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon who is likely to be the same one is connected to Emolga, who is also likely to be the same Emolga. In order to connect with Dunsparce, the player must fulfill Emolga's request, which is to reunite him with Dunsparce.
"Ohhh... What am I going to do... Ah!"
"Th-thank you! Thank you so much! I really...appreciate...it... WAAAHHHHHH!!!"
"<player>! <partner>! Thank you so much for rescuing me!"
"Ugh... I know... I really want to be the kind of Pokémon who does the rescuing, you know... But I'm not strong... And I get afraid... and then I always lose my nerve when the big moment arrives... I always mess up, and then I have to be the one who gets rescued in the end... I guess I'm just really not cut out to be an adventurer..."
"Yes! It's my dream to become a first-rate adventurer. It would be nice to explore all kinds of different places on adventures, of course... But really...I'd just like to help Pokémon around the world who are in trouble! I want to be able to give coureage and hope to Pokémon that are suffering! I just want to be useful--even a little! ...Th-that's my dream anyway. But... There's a huge gap between dreams and reality...and no matter what I do, I can't..."
"I wanted a crystal. I'd heard that the crystals in Stompstump Peak are really beautiful..."
"Ahh! That's it! This is it! This is the crystal I wanted! Wow, it really is beautiful!"
"Oh! I... Um, that's--I--! You see... Hoho..."
"What?! I...I can't do that!!! I really, really want to be friends with Virizion! But... How could I ever be brave enough to talk to someone like her? There's no way she'd even notice someone like me..."
"Umm... Well... Th-this is... This crystal is for you, Miss Virizion!"
"Yes! That's right! P-please! Please be my friend!"
"I-I think... I think I'd better go home after all..."
"I...I was really upset back in town... When I heard what you two were saying, I thought, "I want to be strong right away!" And that's why I came this far, but... But... I'm not sure just getting stronger...is what I really want..."
"A-and besides... When I really think about it...no one can become strong just like that, right?"
"So I-I...I'm going home. Good-bye!"
"Emolga! Everybody! I'm going to fight! You don't need to protect me! I will fight and I won't be afraid! I promise! So you should all--!"
"Yeah... I guess I got rescued again, huh? But I...was actually gullible enough to believe I could be strong just like that... It was all because of me that you all... Ahh, I really am useless...aren't I..."
"A-are you sure? I mean, I'm not..."
"Then I...I definitely want to join you!"
"<player>! <partner>! I'm going to do my best! Let's make a real paradise together!"
"We're going to form a team?"
"OK, then we should start thinking of a team name!"
"I think it's good, too!"
"You're right... Where did he go? He was definitely with us a minute ago..."
"What was it? That strange wind just now? It didn't really feel like a normal breeze..."
"Ah! Emolga! Where did you run off to?"
"What is it? This thing?"
"I get it! And since today is a Fighting-type wave... Fighting-type Pokémon have an advantage. Since I'm a Normal type, I'm always weak to Fighting types. That means that if I want to go out adventuring today... I guess I'd better be extra careful around Fighting-type enemies."
"<partner>! <player>! Please come with me to Post Town right now! You can see the mirage from up on the hill!"
"That's right. Apparently this one can be seen from Post Town from time to time... ...but I heard from the others that it's really clear this time! The clearest it's ever been! Everyone else is already up on the hill."
"That's amazing! I want to go see it, too!"
"I'm glad nothing happened to Swadloon."
"We're <team name>, after all!"
"When everything's ready, let's set out at once!"
"--going with Umbreon and Espeon--"
"Oh, you will agree, won't you? <player>?"
"N-not...not a bit! Hah... Hah..."
"... ... ... i...I wanted to try to remember the mirage we saw from here before... The mirage of the Great Glacier... So... I thought that maybe if I came back here to the same spot, I'd remember it better."
"...Yeah, I really do. I want to become a first-rate adventurer. Then I want to go all around the world helping out Pokémon in need! I want to be able to give hope and courage to Pokémon who are suffering! That's my dream. Ah...I-I-I-I mean... S-sorry... D-does that...sound strange?"
"And that's why... I have a dream like that. But the gap between dreams and reality is huge... No matter what I do, it just always seems to go wrong... But since I joined <team name>... And after meeting everybody... I feel like that's finally beginning to change. But that's not--I mean--I'm still bad at all kinds of things, of course! But... Well, it's not exactly confidence, but... I feel like I can try harder these days without losing heart. And now that I started feeling like this, it turns out we're off to the Great Glacier..."
"You know what, Virizion? When I first heard we were going, I thought... "I definitely want to go there!" I really did. I feel like I'll be able to have all kinds of new experiences there. I feel like I'll be able to break out of my shell at last. And that's why... That's why I definitely want to go to the Great Glacier! There's no way I'll miss it!"
"I...I will! I really will! I'm gonna give it my all! It's gonna be like nothing you've ever seen! ...Hoho..."
"(The weakest member will stay behind...) (I knew it...) (I should...be the one to stay behind...)"
"(So Virizion really wanted to go to the Great Glacier as well...) (But she went and insisted on staying behind like that...) (It's gotta be...because of that talk we had...) (If only I hadn't...said that...) (Virizion probably volunteered to stay...) (...just so I'd get to go.) (But... Virizion is really the one who should go to the Great Glacier.)"
"Hey, everyone... I-I think Umbreon is right. I think Virizion should go to the Great Glacier after all."
"A-and that's why--! I'll st--!"
"And if Virizion happens to be the one who draws the short straw..."
"I-It's me! My paper has a red mark!"
"Virizion... You're the one who should go to the Great Glacier. That's the way it should be. We heard it all from Umbreon. You have to go to the Great Glacier. You can't stay behind. Not when you have reasons like that. And it's just like someone said yesterday... The weakest member should stay behind. I think that's exactly right. And more than anything, the fact that we drew straws... We all had a fair chance and I still drew the short straw. So I'm OK with it. I need you all to be OK with it, too. Leave Paradise to me! And you all take care out there!"
"That's OK. I'll have Quagsire and Victini and everyone here. I won't be lonely or anything. Be careful at the Great Glacier and come back safe, OK? And bring me some good souvenirs!"
"Everyone... Be careful out there!"
"I'm looking forward to seeing what you bring back for me! When you get back...please tell me all about the Great Glacier! Huh? Wh-why am I crying? Th-that's...strange... I was planning to see you all off with a smile...so why am I..."
"No, Emolga! You can't do this! Emolgaaaaaaaaa!!!"
"Yes... I know... If he wants... He wants me...well, all of us...to have a good adventure...from back in Paradise. We have to respect that wish of his... And look forward now, not back."
"Yeah, that's right! Now that you've left Post Town, they might come after you again!"
"Whoa! Everything's covered in ice!"
"It's a mountain...of ice, isn't it?"
"OH! The glacier is--! The glacier is so close now!"
"You're right! There are huge crevasses here, too!"
"Umm... Doesn't the light disappear after a certain amount of time?"
"Hey, everybody! There's a light coming from over there!"
"Wh-what's with this place? At first I thought we'd made it outside, but... When you look carefully, this doesn't seem to be..."
"Well, it's almost like... It's almost like a big...palace of ice..."
"There could still be tons of treasures to be found! Let's get moving!"
"Yeah, I'm fine. It seems a little hard to breathe in here, but..."
"They're floating?! The chunks of ice are floating in the air!"
"There are more of them this way, too! They're so clear and beautiful..."
"Isn't this great, <partner>?! We're surrounded by all this treasure!!!"
"Oooh! And now the clear part turned cloudy white! What is that? That white part?"
"Let's take a bunch of them home!"
"Can I do it this time?"
"A-and me! I felt like it was blowing from the path ahead..."
"Yeah... I'll... be fine... Sorry for... holding everyone up."
"I was so sure Keldeo made it here..."
"I got to see a castle made of ice! I guess they called it the Glacier Palace, huh?"
"And we're gonna give one to Emolga, too!"
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Dunsparce.
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Q: Kubernetes heapster - Grafana doesn't display influxdb data I deployed heapster with influxdb and grafana by following heapster-influxDB guide. When accessing the grafana instance I couldn't see any data in graphs(grafana service exposed to outside from NodePort). There are no errors in heapster and influxdb logs as attached below.
What could be the issue here? Really appreciate a positive feedback.
$ kubectl version
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"1", GitVersion:"v1.1.3", GitCommit:"6a81b50c7e97bbe0ade075de55ab4fa34f049dc2", GitTreeState:"clean"}

Grafana dashboard

Grafana Datasource settings

heapster logs
I0510 10:33:12.556974       1 heapster.go:60] /heapster --source=kubernetes:https://kubernetes.default --sink=influxdb:http://monitoring-influxdb:8086
I0510 10:33:12.557111       1 heapster.go:61] Heapster version 1.1.0-beta1
I0510 10:33:12.557394       1 configs.go:60] Using Kubernetes client with master "https://kubernetes.default" and version "v1"
I0510 10:33:12.557414       1 configs.go:61] Using kubelet port 10255
I0510 10:33:12.619309       1 influxdb.go:199] created influxdb sink with options: host:monitoring-influxdb:8086 user:root db:k8s
I0510 10:33:12.619546       1 heapster.go:87] Starting with InfluxDB Sink
I0510 10:33:12.619601       1 heapster.go:87] Starting with Metric Sink
I0510 10:33:12.637683       1 heapster.go:166] Starting heapster on port 8082
I0510 10:33:35.000319       1 manager.go:79] Scraping metrics start: 2016-05-10 10:33:00 +0000 UTC, end: 2016-05-10 10:33:30 +0000 UTC
I0510 10:33:35.292539       1 manager.go:152] ScrapeMetrics: time: 292.067849ms size: 78
I0510 10:33:35.300239       1 influxdb.go:177] Created database "k8s" on influxDB server at "monitoring-influxdb:8086"

I0510 10:34:05.000270       1 manager.go:79] Scraping metrics start: 2016-05-10 10:33:30 +0000 UTC, end: 2016-05-10 10:34:00 +0000 UTC
I0510 10:34:05.274965       1 manager.go:152] ScrapeMetrics: time: 274.615057ms size: 78
I0510 10:34:35.000246       1 manager.go:79] Scraping metrics start: 2016-05-10 10:34:00 +0000 UTC, end: 2016-05-10 10:34:30 +0000 UTC
I0510 10:34:35.247562       1 manager.go:152] ScrapeMetrics: time: 247.236807ms size: 78
I0510 10:35:05.000265       1 manager.go:79] Scraping metrics start: 2016-05-10 10:34:30 +0000 UTC, end: 2016-05-10 10:35:00 +0000 UTC

Influxdb logs
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4f4RNm4mfqWZGtqbVBnWUJ2QjA
Refer the yaml files I used.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4f4RNm4mfqWY2pZRmViWHFuMFk
InfluxDB data
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4f4RNm4mfqWQTFxcFVhdko2Vms
Heapster api data
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4f4RNm4mfqWQVhEZ3oxdEs1VTA

A: It happens to be the Heapster master branch version is not compatible with some Kubernetes clusters. I tried following latest beta version and it works.
https://github.com/kubernetes/heapster/releases/tag/v1.2.0-beta.0

A: But are you sure you know how to use Grafana?
I have the same problem with you  first.Everything  seem to be working without error.But I just didn't see any graph。
However, I finally find out that it is because i don't know how to use Grafana to add a Panel.
See this video and learn how to use grafana. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKNZMtoSHN4&index=7&list=PLDGkOdUX1Ujo3wHw9-z5Vo12YLqXRjzg2
That's my opinion.

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December 1, 2008 September 18, 2018 WDCSA BoardNewsletter
WDCSA Newsletter – December 2008
Sun 12/7 Writer's Series Event: Christopher Sorrentino – POSTPONED – NO NEW DATE SET
Various dates Stanford Basketball
Sat 12/13 WDCSA Holiday Community Service Project
Sun 12/14 Stanford Book Club Meeting
Mon 12/15 WDCSA Holiday Party
Sun 1/25 WDCSA 2009 Welcome Event
Sat 2/7 Ivy Alumni Tennis
Spring 2009 Stanford at the Opera
*Request for Inauguration Housing and Tickets Assistance*
*WDCSA Member Profile*
WDCSA Holiday Community Service Project Saturday, Dec. 13	9am-12pm Capital Area Food Bank, 645 Taylor Street NE, Washington, DC 20017
Stanford Book Club Meeting Sunday, Dec. 14 5:00pm
WDCSA Holiday Party Monday, Dec. 15	7-10pm DACOR-Bacon House, 1801 F Street NW, Washington DC 20006
New Year, New Members, New Ideas: Welcome to WDCSA 2009! Sunday, Jan. 25 1-4pm
Ivy Winter Indoor Tennis Saturday, Feb. 7 6:45-11:00pm Arlington Y Tennis & Squash Club, 3400 N 13th Street, Arlington, VA 22201
Stanford at the Opera Spring 2009
Request for Inauguration Housing and Tickets Assistance
WDCSA Member Profile: Rhonda J. Moore, PhD
Are you ready for some Stanford basketball?
Come and join Stanford fans as we watch the following men's games at the Penn Quarter Sports Tavern, 639 Indiana Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 2004 (202-347-6886). Nearest metro stop is Gallery Place or Archives/Navy Memorial. Admission is free and food and drink specials will be available. Please contact Chris Shinkman at c.shinkman@verizon.net, (301) 229-4427 for more information.
Sunday, December 14 vs. Colorado State 7:00pm
Sunday, December 28 vs. Texas Tech 10:00pm
Thursday, January 8 vs. Washington 10:30pm
Saturday, January 17 vs. Cal 10:00pm
Saturday, January 24 vs. Oregon State 10:00pm
Sunday, February 8 vs. Washington 5:30pm
Saturday, February 14 vs. Cal 5:00pm
WDCSA Holiday Community Service Project
Saturday, Dec. 13	9am-12pm
Capital Area Food Bank,
645 Taylor Street NE,
Been hankering for a volunteer opportunity? Now's your chance! WDCSA will be volunteering at the Capital Area Food Bank, which is a 10-minute walk from Brookland-CUA metro stop. Come join Stanford alums in sorting and preparing food for distribution to local families and programs. Last year, the Capital Area Food Bank distributed over 20 million pounds of food and fresh produce in the Washington Metro Area. For more information or to sign up, please contact Christina Russell (carussell17@comcast.net) or Tracy Williams (tracyw@gmail.com). It'll be a great way to meet fellow alums, and to get on Santa's good side!
Stanford Book Club Meeting
Sunday, Dec. 14 5:00pm
The group will meet at the home of Connie and Terence Barrett to discuss "Another Life" and "The House on the Embankment" by Yuri Trifonov. Titles for discussion for the next 6 months will be posted by mid December and will be sent to members of the group's yahoo site. Join at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wdcsabooks. For other information, email Alison Cole Westfall at alisoncolew@hotmail.com.
WDCSA Holiday Party
Monday, Dec. 15	7-10pm
DACOR-Bacon House,
1801 F Street NW,
Looking to add some cardinal red to your holiday? Please join your fellow Stanford alums to celebrate the festive season at the DACOR-Bacon House. The venue (built 1824-25) is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The DACOR-Bacon House will be decorated for the holiday season and complimentary hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar will be provided. The venue is located 4 blocks from the Farragut-West Metro station (Orange and Blue lines).
The advanced registration price is $5 for WDCSA members, young alumni ('04 – '08), and guests; $8 for non-WDCSA members and guests. Please RSVP and pay online at http://pgnet.stanford.edu/goto/event5023reg by December 10. Checks made out to WDCSA may be sent to Kevin Coyne, 900 Army-Navy Drive, #1523, Arlington, VA 22202.
Walk-ins are welcome, however advance reservations (by December 10) are requested as space is limited. Price at the door (cash and check only) is $10 for WDCSA members, young alumni ('04 to '08), and guests; $15 for non-WDCSA members and guests. Please email reservations and questions to Kevin Coyne at kevin.coyne@stanfordalumni.org. You may see who is coming at http://pgnet.stanford.edu/goto/event5023who
New Year, New Members, New Ideas: Welcome to WDCSA 2009!
Sunday, Jan. 25 1-4pm
Did you just join WDCSA and want to get involved? Have you been a member and want to provide your feedback on past events or the club's future direction? Mark your calendars to join the Washington, D.C. Stanford Association's board of directors for our annual welcome event to kick off a new year of service to local alumni. The event will be graciously hosted by Vice President, Kevin Coyne '02.
More details to follow in the January newsletter! Please e-mail John Smithson at jsmithson@gmail.com for any questions.
Ivy Winter Indoor Tennis
Saturday, Feb. 7 6:45-11:00pm
Arlington Y Tennis & Squash Club,
3400 N 13th Street,
The Harvard and Yale Clubs of Washington DC invite you to join them for a popular Ivy alumni tennis party. It will be an enjoyable way to socialize and network with other Ivy alumni members and their guests.
This event is open to players of all ages and levels. Advanced registration is $25 per player and registration at the door will be $30. Non-playing guests must pay $10. The fees will cover court rentals, tennis balls, snacks and sodas. The deadline for cancellations is February 6 at 3pm.
Please make checks payable to Yale Club of Washington D.C. and mail to: Sheila Summers, 4227 46th Street NW, Washington, DC 20016. For credit card payments, log on to www.yaleclubdc.org. All questions should be directed to David Federbush at 301-657-4691 (h), 301-657-4680 (w), federbus@erols.com.
Stanford at the Opera
Peter Grimes – Britten
Monday, March 23 @ 7 pm
Alan Held and Patricia Racette star in the acclaimed Santa Fe production.
Deadline for ordering is February 23. Tickets will be mailed week of March 9.
Prime Orchestra $141.50. 2nd Tier 1 $69.50.
Siegfried – Wagner
Saturday, May 2 @ 6 pm
Your only chance this year to hear Wagner in Washington – the third in Francesca Zambello's American Ring Cycle with Alan Held (The Wanderer) and Heinz Fricke (conducting). Very few tickets remain.
Deadline for ordering is April 3. Tickets will be mailed week of April 13.
1st Tier and Orchestra $111.50. 2nd Tier 1 $76.50.
For tickets Send a check payable to WDCSA to Betty Byrne, 1822 Ingleside Terrace NW, Washington DC 20010. Please contact Betty Byrne with any questions at bettybyrne@stanfordalumni.org or 202.483.4048.
I am a Stanford alum who is planning to visit D.C. for the inauguration with two friends and wonder if any alumni in the area have any rooms to rent. We plan to arrive on Friday, January 16 and leave on Wednesday, January 21. We are willing to spend up to $300 total per night. We would like to be in D.C. within walking distance of the Metro. Also, separate from housing, we are interested in tickets to the inauguration or associated daytime or evening events if anyone has access to tickets. If you know of rooms to rent or have access to tickets, please contact me at my email address (lauriegca@yahoo.com) or my cell at (510) 551-8322. If you call me, please note that I am in California. Thank you very much! Regards, Laurie Gould '81
A Chicago native, Rhonda received her BS in Communication and Performance Studies from Northwestern in 1988. An MA and PhD in Anthropology from Stanford followed, with Condoleeza Rice as one of her Advisors for a dissertation on pain, emotion and injury among US Marines. Rhonda came to Washington to work as a Project Officer for a drug program for DOT/NHTSA and then moved to the National Cancer Institute at NIH where she is Health Science Administrator. Her main areas of interest include chronic pain, including pain from post-chemotherapeutic treatment. She has an article on chemotherapy scheduled to appear in the Oncology Nursing Journal and is hard at work on a book on pain and cancer survivorship. Rhonda is a member of SAA and heard about WDCSA through our Book Club. She is organizing for the Club a series of health-related talks, the first one to be on repetitive stress injury.
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CHICAGO — Austin Meadows homered and set a career high with four hits, Avisail Garcia connected against his former team and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Chicago White Sox 10-5 on Tuesday.
Meadows helped break open a game that lasted 3 hours, 56 minutes. He singled and scored in the first, hit a two-run drive in the second and added an RBI single during a two-run fourth in which Tampa Bay chased Santana. He also walked with the bases loaded in the ninth.
Garcia smacked a solo homer in the second and finished with three hits, giving him five in the past two games. The White Sox opted not to offer him a contract in the offseason, parting ways after 5½ years, and he signed with Tampa Bay.
Brandon Lowe chipped in with a sacrifice fly in the first and a solo homer in the third. Charlie Morton (2-0) went five innings, allowing two runs and three hits.
Santana got tagged for seven runs and seven hits in 3 2/3 innings after the White Sox purchased his contract from Triple-A Charlotte. The two-time All-Star missed most of last season with Minnesota because of an injured right middle finger. He signed a minor league contract in February.
Yoan Moncada knocked a two-run homer in the third. Tim Anderson had two hits, including an RBI single in a three-run eighth. But with Chicago trailing by three, pinch-hitter Adam Engel struck out swinging at a 3-2 pitch with the bases loaded to end that rally.
Rays: 2B Joey Wendle (strained left hamstring) ran on a treadmill for the second straight day, manager Kevin Cash said. Cash also said 3B Matt Duffy (back/left hamstring) has been ramping up his rehab.
White Sox: Manager Rick Renteria had no timetable on when OF Jon Jay will return and said it's a "safe bet" Jay will go on a rehab assignment before he is activated. Jay has been sidelined since last month because of a strained right hip that has caused pain in the groin area.
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About your date [Demi Moore]—did you dress her tonight?
Of course! She's the first person in a look from my [spring] runway.
What's it like to dress her?
She's the best, and she knows. She's a fashion and clothing expert. She always has been. We met first shooting for American Vogue.
As a TV personality and designer, what's one tip you would give the designers as they filmed The Fashion Fund?
As you grow from a creator into a brand, you need to learn how to be a good leader, and to do that you need to know how to delegate, how to collaborate, and how to know when and where your hand goes into a process.
What are you most excited for tonight?
The chicken pot pie! And to have a girls' night out. Especially on a Monday. I feel like Monday is the new Saturday!
What has this four-month experience been like?
It's been amazing. It's been an intense four months, and I met a lot of amazing people, got great advice from the judges, and made a lot of great friends in the other designers.
Will you be nervous seeing yourself on TV?
Yeah, I'm not so much of a big personality so I am a little nervous to see myself on TV! But it's exciting and it's great for me to talk about the brand in a bigger way.
What's it like being on the other end of this awards dinner tonight?
I am so happy to be on the other end of this…I'm a big fan of many of the designers who are in the top 10 and I know how hard they've worked, so I'm really happy to be here to support them.
Any tips to share with the finalists in this moment? How to handle this evening, for instance?
I spoke to a few of them beforehand. This is such an unbelievable opportunity. It's about trying to embrace and enjoy being in this room at this time, and taking advantage of being able to talk to the people who are here. This is sort of the beginning of the next part of their experience—it doesn't end today. Mostly just try to have fun and don't let the nerves drive you crazy!
Is it fun for you, attending a big event for fashion?
Yeah! I mean this isn't my world, so it's super fun and exciting to be involved. I love fashion so it's exciting to be a part of it.
How was working with Annie Leibovitz for her latest project?
I love, love, love working with her. She wants everything to be super organic and intimate and for you to feel your most beautiful. I think we're going to have many more shoots together.
So did you and Karen [Craig] coordinate tonight?
We did! We coordinate every day.
What's one piece of advice you can offer tonight for the finalists?
To enjoy the evening and just know that it's the process, it's just about about being nominated, don't worry about winning. You know what, we didn't win. And we got so much out of it and it really was probably one of the most important things that happened to us when we first came to America. So it's to enjoy; you've come so far.
Who are you here to support tonight?
Jennifer Fisher! I feel very lucky to be sort of dripping in Jennifer Fisher jewels, and also Calvin Klein. We are both Calvin Klein girls tonight.
How does it feel to be back for the Fashion Fund Awards?
It feels sort of nostalgic, but it's also really nice to not have the focus on me so much tonight. Being a finalist, it was really stressful! It was an amazing experience, but it's really nice not to be wondering if I'm going to lose!
Tell us, who are you wearing tonight?
I'm wearing Thakoon and Brother Vellies. I'm excited to be walking in [Aurora James'] shoes because of everything that she stands for in fashion.
Is it easy to create your bun?
Usually I do my own buns! But someone helped me. I did my own face, though!
Is it easy to dress Lake Bell?
Oh my God, yes! She's a total beauty!
We move so fast, the way we do fashion, so just be very open and go with the flow. The greatest thing, though, is that the opportunities are so amazing, and being a part of what Fashion Fund is. It's a genius thing.
Who do you take your fashion advice from?
Oh man, I take it from a multitude of guys, like John Elliott, Riccardo Tisci, Maxwell [Osborne] and Dao-Yi [Chow], Thom Browne—a lot of different people influence me, fashion-wise.


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Son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Chapman) Larche of Kazabazua, Quebec. Cst. Larche is originally from Saint John, New Brunswick. He served in Doaktown and Codiac Detachments in New Brunswick. He was killed in the line of duty while responding to a call of an armed and dangerous man on June 4, 2014 in Moncton, New Brunswick.
In 2008, Cst. Larche received a Commander's Commendation for saving the life of an unconscious baby in Moncton. Cst. Larche was an avid runner and lived for his family. He enjoyed doing presentations at his daughters' school and daycare and had a great sense of humour. Cst. Larche was married to Nadine and they had three daughters: Mia, Lauren and Alexa.
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"But more importantly, it's about expanding diversity within the fashion industry because I want to continue to represent those women who have been underrepresented." The 5-foot-10-inch model is one of six finalists who made it through the first and most drastic round of cuts from the more than 5,000 applicants to 35; through the interviews in New York City and into the next cut, to 15; through a visit to Miami to model for SI's Swim Week show and into this last cohort.
Her fellow finalists are Haley Kalil, 24, from Victoria, Minnesota, a former Miss Minnesota who is married to Matt Kalil of the Carolina Panthers; Olivia Jordan, 28, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, who was crowned Miss USA 2015; Camille Kostek, 25, from Killingworth, Connecticut, a former New England Patriots cheerleader; Iyonna Fairbanks, 25, from Cincinnati, a night security guard; and Allie Ayers, 23, from Snyder, Oklahoma, who SI describes as a "midsize" model.
To see if the women would go for short guys who were successful, ABCNEWS' Lynn Sherr created extraordinary résumés for the shorter men. Sherr asked whether there'd be anything she could say that would make the shortest of the men, who was 5 feet, irresistible. And although you can feel free to substitute "older women", "older men", "heavier women", or "Asian men", I honestly feel that nobody gets a rawer deal than short guys.
The day before Sports Illustrated announced its six finalists, Majors posted a video tribute playing a favorite song she had learned from her music teacher, who had recently passed away."I would love to serve as a role model to young girls to show them they can do anything they put their mind to.


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Judicial Watch: Court Agrees that Newsom Plan to Give Tax Dollars to Illegal Aliens Likely Illegal But Allows it to Proceed
[Originally published by judicialwatch.org I May 5, 2020]
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton issued a statement on a California's court's denial of Judicial Watch request temporary restraining order (TRO) against California Governor Gavin Newsom and his Director of the California Department of Social Services Kim Johnson to restrain them from spending $79.8 million dollars of taxpayers' money to provide direct cash benefits to unlawfully present aliens. Though the court found that Judicial Watch was likely to succeed on the merits (that Governor Newsom had no authority under law to spend the money), the court found that there was a public interest in sending tax money to illegal aliens during the coronavirus crisis:
It is astonishing that a court would allow a public official to ignore the law and spend tax money with no legal authority. Simply put, as the court seems to acknowledge, the governor has no independent legal authority to spend state taxpayer money for cash payments to illegal aliens. We will appeal the court's manifest error.
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WHAT THE BLOODY HELL'S ALL THIS ABOUT THEN, EH?
ARBITRARY GUFF
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Arbitrary Guff: running in London & the collapse of society
In Arbitrary Guff by All This Running Around March 4, 2014 1 Comment
I was in London this weekend. I like London a lot, always have. When I was a boy, the majority of my paternal grandmother's family lived in the capital, and we'd travel up regularly from where we lived in Kent. Those visits became a lot less frequent when we moved up to Warwickshire, a life changing event that every single person that knows me has had to listen to me talk about in punishing detail, often when I've been drunk. I'm really, really great company.
We were down there this weekend visiting my sister-in-law and family, and we spent a very pleasant afternoon on Saturday walking east along the South Bank. The sun was shining, and the street performers were mostly excellent. But not the crusty pillock making bubbles. Bubbles! A fucking monkey could do it. And there was a bloke doing – well, I'm not quite sure what he was doing but he had an ancient Korg analogue synth that he appeared to be abusing. He certainly looked the part (in that he looked like a scruffy twat), and the resulting sound was like an abattoir where all the animals have had kazoos jammed up their arses and grown men are bashing bin lids together. But let's not be negative. It was lovely.
No, actually, let's be negative. Because there was one specific thing that gave me the right arse, and that was people running. If you've ever walked along the Thames on a nice day, then you will know that it attracts a lot of people. It's not quite 'coming out of a gig' crowded, but it's crowded enough to make progress fairly slow. The pavements are pretty narrow in places, and tourists are not the fastest moving demographic in the world. But it's ok; you're out for a stroll, you're taking it all in. No need to rush. Go with the flow and allow for the fact that people will occasionally stop in front of you, or walk across your path without realising. It's all perfectly fine.
Except for the runners. The fucking, fucking, FUCKING runners. When I saw the first one (about thirty seconds after we got down to the London Eye and started walking along the river), I said to my wife "what a stupid place to go for a run". Within a few minutes, and having seen probably ten or more people run past, I realised that it's obviously a very popular location for runners. Why? It's crowded (particularly at 2pm on a Saturday), it's completely flat, and you're in more or less constant danger of colliding with somebody. Why would it appeal to anybody? It doesn't make any sense. Except, of course, it does.
The showy runner. The "look at me runner". You've seen them. They've got every conceivable bit of gear. Big headphones. Overpriced shitty shoes. What makes it infinitely worse is that, in most cases, these runners are crap. Big stupid feet slapping down on the pavement, chests stuck out, smug expression slapped on their idiotic faces because they think lots of lycra and ten minute miles along the South Bank marks them out as some kind of superhuman.
Wankers!
If you run along in a seriously crowded place like that, you're a huge pain in the arse. That's it. Your self righteous expression of annoyance when you are forced to take action to avoid a tourist just makes me want to smash your face in with a cricket bat. Want to run somewhere flat? Any idea how many miles of tow path there are in London? Want to run along the South Bank? GET OUT OF BED EARLY AND DO IT WHEN THERE'S NOBODY ABOUT. Want to run somewhere else that's nice? Ever been to Regent's Park? Don't live near Regent's Park or any of the other parks in London? Then fuck off and live somewhere else, because the next time I'm down there I'm throwing people in the fucking river.
I need to calm down, so let's talk about the total collapse of society instead. A week or two ago, I watched 'Threads' for maybe the fifth or sixth time. For the uninitiated, Threads is a television drama made by the BBC in 1984 that deals with the build up and aftermath of a nuclear war. (Coincidentally, the first scene takes place almost exactly thirty years ago; March 5th 1984.) It's based in Sheffield, and tells the story from the perspective of several characters from different backgrounds, all of whom will be affected by events in different ways. The first hour is incredibly tense, as the threat of nuclear attack builds slowly in the background while the characters go about their lives, seemingly untroubled by events until it's too late. It's a terrifying and hugely impressive piece of television, with the kind of writing and understated performances that you could take for granted thirty years ago, but which seem depressingly rare now. I first watched it with my sister as a ten-year-old, when it was repeated by the BBC in 1985. We were on holiday in Cornwall, and it scared the living shit out of me. I made it up to the part where the bombs actually start to fall, at which point I basically went to pieces. My parents had gone out for a drink, leaving me and my sister on our own. They returned to find me sobbing in my bedroom. Nuclear war: it was actually quite a scary thing back then.
Since some kind soul put the whole thing on YouTube, I watch it occasionally. It's still as chilling as it was back then, although the ending now seems a little bit far fetched. A day or two after my most recent viewing, I read an article in the Guardian about something called 'prepping'. Prepping is essentially preparing for either a temporary or permanent breakdown in society. I'm not going to attempt to cover every aspect of it here, but perhaps the simplest way to think of it is by asking yourself some of the following questions. What would you do if there was no electricity, nationwide, for a week, or two weeks? Or if there was a serious pandemic that meant you didn't want to leave the house? It's not necessarily about nuclear war or huge natural disasters. Infrastructure can at times be alarmingly fragile, and it really comes down to this: if there was a problem, would you be able to keep yourself and your family warm, dry and fed?
Having read up on it a bit, it's clear that there are wildly different levels of prepping. Some people are not just stockpiling food and water, but also training themselves to be self sufficient and keeping weapons (albeit legal weapons). It's easy to write people off as nutters, preparing for an apocalypse that never comes. But as I said, if there was a state of unrest and people were desperate for food, the first thing I would want to do would be to lock the door and wait it out. We've seen what happens when there are rumours of potential fuel shortages, and how supermarkets are cleared if there's a bit of snow forecast.
It's something I'm seriously looking at, and no doubt I'll be writing about it again in future. Which is actually a pretty fucking stupid thing to do, since the one vital thing about prepping is that you don't tell anyone you're doing it. But nobody reads this blog so HA!
Running is going reasonably well. I had an annoying few days break when I caught a cold. I was recently given a Garmin Forerunner, so am developing an unhealthy obsession with numbers and times. This runs contrary to what I laughably call my philosophy on running. On the other hand, it's entirely consistent with my status as a massive hypocrite. I ran a new route this morning, and made the mistake of not really looking at it properly first. Thought it would be about eight miles, turned out it was just over eleven. But it's nice to be in a situation where that isn't a big deal. My plan was to take it easy and try and keep the pace somewhere around 8.45 minute miles. I'm steadily trying to up my mileage, so pace isn't all that important. But still, I prefer not to crawl around too much. Aching slightly but nothing that will stop me running tomorrow.
I've been moaning about having to do my running on the road thanks to all the wet weather we've had, but it struck me today as I ran towards Pebworth with the Cotswolds in the background that I'm a pretty lucky bastard. All things considered. Apparently there's nothing they can do about the face.
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Awesome cant wait to see what you did for Game of Thrones, and should be nice indeed to see some new posts on this blog.
Gratz buddy. Sounds like you're finally having a blast.
Congrat's mr. Robi, this is a very good news for the fans of your work and the HBO show. I really can wait the show to start this year and thinking that i am going to see some of your great work in the movie.
I am still yet to get into Game of thrones. I've only seen one episode and that was the very first one. I think that I will finally begin to watch them.


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Q: How can I detect an ellipse in a photo? I tried to detect the rim of the following cup as an ellipse.

I've tried the solutions given in How to find circular objects in an image? to detect the ellipse, but the detection result was not quite what I wanted. The reason might be that ChanVeseBinarize function can't separate the rim from the body. Therefore SelectComponents will view the whole cup as one component and consequently detect nothing.
Then I tried to use edge detection. After manipulating the parameters, I can detect the edge of the rim like this:

But I can't find an algorithm that detect the line of an ellipse. How might I do that?

A: Here's another approach that uses some of the built-in morphological (image processing) functions. Begin by reading in the figure, detecting the edges, and then making them thick:
i = Import["http://dailycoffeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/disposable-coffee-cup.jpeg"];
fat = Dilation[EdgeDetect[i], 20]

Get just the outline of the cup:
thin = Dilation[Thinning[fat], 1]

(it's actually connected when looking at it full size). Now use MorphologicalComponents to get the different pieces of the image
components = MorphologicalComponents[ColorNegate[thin]];
components // Colorize

And finally ask for some relevant properties of the two regions. The centroids of the two regions are:
ComponentMeasurements[components, "Centroid", BorderComponents -> False]

{2 -> {701.478, 783.066}, 3 -> {696.272, 454.265}}

So region number 2 is the purplish cup rim and region 3 is the greenish side of the cup. A variety of other measurements can be easily extracted:
ComponentMeasurements[components, {"Length", "Width", "SemiAxes",
      "Orientation", "Elongation", "Eccentricity"}, BorderComponents -> False]

{2 -> {619.841, 179.126, {309.921, 89.5632}, -3.14045, 0.711013, 0.957333},
 3 -> {619.414, 556.459, {309.707, 278.229}, -1.39043, 0.101637, 0.439253}}

The best ellipsoidal fit for the rim has the given length, width, semiaxes, orientation, elongation, and eccentricity. The other is the best ellipsoidal fit for the cup sides (which is not a good fit at all).

A: Basically, you want to fit a shape to a set of points with outliers. One common algorithm to do this is RANSAC (random sample consensus). The basic outline of this algorithm is:

*

*Select N points at random (where N is the minimum number of points required for fitting the shape, i.e. 2 for a line, 3 for a circle and so on)

*Fit the shape to these points

*Repeat 1&2, pick the "best" shape (where "best" usually means closest to a randomly sampled test point - I'll use a simpler criterion below.)

*Select the points close to that shape and fit an improved estimate to those points

Let's try this. (Or a slight modification of it, anyway.)
First, I perform standard edge extraction:
img = Import["http://i.stack.imgur.com/H63BK.jpg"];
edges = DeleteBorderComponents[EdgeDetect[img,5]];
edgePos = N[PixelValuePositions[edges, 1]];

Next, I define the shape I want to fit - in this case, a conic:
conic[{x_, y_}] :=  a[1] + a[2]*x + a[3]*y + a[4]*x*y + (1 + a[5])*x^2 + (1 - a[5])*y^2
conicNormal[{x_, y_}] = D[conic[{x, y}], {{x, y}}]
isValidEllipse[solution_] := Abs[a[4] /. solution[[2]]] < 0.1

isValidEllipse is a simple ad-hoc criterion to filter out completely deformed conics.
Normally, we'd need 5 points to fit a conic. The image contains about 50% outliers, so the chance to randomly select 5 points on the ellipse we're looking for is about $0.5^5$, which is not good. We'd need a lot of samples to be reasonably sure that at least one 5-tuple of points contains only non-outlier points.
But fortunately, the location of the edge is not the only information we have: We also know the local orientation at each pixel, which should be perpendicular to the conic's normal vector.
orientation = GradientOrientationFilter[img, 3];

Now 3 points and their orientations give us 6 equations, so we have an overdetermined equation system:
fitEllipse[samplePoints_] := Quiet[FindMinimum[
   Total[
    Flatten[
     {
      (conic /@ samplePoints)^2,
      With[{\[Alpha] = PixelValue[orientation, #]},
          (conicNormal[#].{Cos[\[Alpha]], Sin[\[Alpha]]})^2] & /@ samplePoints
      }]], Array[a, 5]]]

This function returns not only the best-fit conic's coefficients, but also the residual error, which is a cheap way to compare between different fitted conics. The assumption is: If randomly sampled 3 points are all parts of the ellipse, the residual error will be low. If the points don't belong to one conic, the residual error will be much higher.
potentialSolutions =
  SortBy[Select[Table[fitEllipse[RandomSample[edgePos, 3]], {n, 100}],
     isValidEllipse], First];

result = potentialSolutions[[1]];

(There is room for improvement here: the ellipse you're looking for might not be contained in these 100 samples, or it might not be the one with the lowest residual error. A smarter algorithm would take e.g. 50 samples, take the best one or two of these and count the number of nearby points. If enough points are close to it, keep that ellipse, otherwise, take 50 new samples. But that's just a straightforward programming exercise left to the reader ;-) .)
Next step: Find points nearest to the conic. I've tried to calculate the geometric distance exactly (using FindMinimumValue) but that's very slow. A simple, fast approximation is to find N points on the ellipse and simply use Nearest to estimate the distance:
ellipsePts =
  Select[Flatten[
    Table[{i, y} /.
      Solve[conic[{x, y}] == 0 /. result[[2]] /. x -> i, y], {i, 0, w,
       10}], 1], Total[Abs[Im[#]]] == 0 &];
nf = Nearest[ellipsePts];

Now, we can calculate the distance of every edge pixel to this conic and pick the ones that are closer than some threshold:
distances = Norm[nf[#][[1]] - #] & /@ edgePos;
closestPoints = Pick[edgePos, # < 10 & /@ distances];

...and improve the ellipse estimate based on these points:
result = fitEllipse[closestPoints];

Repeat the last steps until convergence. (Possible improvements: You could try to reduce the distance threshold in each iteration. Or you could add a "weight" to the curve fitting and give points closer to the current estimate a higher weight when calculating the next estimate.)
The result (after 5 iterations) looks like this:
Show[
 img,
 ContourPlot[
  Evaluate[conic[{x, y}] == 0 /. result[[2]]], {x, 0, w}, {y, 0, h},
  ContourStyle -> {Red, Thick}],
 ListPlot[closestPoints]]

Disclaimer: The result will not always look like this, as the algorithm is randomized and the algorithm can get stuck in local minima.

A: My approach to to similar, but somewhat fuzzier, problem, finding an ellipse as a border of galaxy
binarized = MorphologicalBinarize[galaxy, {0.165, 0.93}]

Finding the parameters for binarize can be tricky, these values do well for this specific case.

components = MorphologicalComponents[binarized];
params = ComponentMeasurements[
    components, {"Centroid", "SemiAxes", "Orientation"}] // Values;
HighlightImage[galaxy,
 Graphics[{Red, {
      Point[#[[1]]],
      Rotate[Circle[#[[1]], #[[2]]], #[[3]]]
   } & /@ params}]
 ]

The result:

A: Too late and not so general as @Nikie but I will still like to answer in order to highlight a method involving generalized Eigen values! Lets take the image.
img = Import["http://i.stack.imgur.com/H63BK.jpg"];
(* Detecting ellipsoidal edges and removing the straight line component *)
i = ImageSubtract @@ {EdgeDetect[img, 10],EdgeDetect[img, 10, "StraightEdges" -> .2]};
{wid, hig} = ImageDimensions[i];
(* Taking control of the two straight line segments *)
lines = ImageLines[EdgeDetect[img, 10, 0.025], .15,"Segmented" -> True];
(* Find the mid point of longest line and its hight *)
clip = Ceiling@Abs@Mean[Last@Flatten@Differences@
          First@Sort[#,(EuclideanDistance @@@ #1 >EuclideanDistance @@@ #2)&]&/@lines];
(*Trim the bottom content using above clip and extract the points*)
padim = ImagePad[ImageTake[i, clip], {{0, 0}, {hig - clip, 0}}, Black];
list = Position[Transpose@ImageData[padim, "Bit", DataReversed -> True], 1];

Lets see the above steps of image processing results clockwise starting from top left.
image = Show[img, Graphics[{Thick, Blue, Line /@ lines}],ImageSize -> 300];
GraphicsGrid[{{img, ColorNegate@i}, {image, ColorNegate@padim}},ImageSize -> 800,
Frame -> All, Spacings -> 0]

At this point we can use EigenSystem efficiently as very simplistically discussed in here!
{X, Y} = Transpose[list];
(* design matrix *)
d = Transpose@{X^2, X Y, Y^2, X , Y, ConstantArray[1, Length@X]};
s = Transpose@d . d;
(* constraints *)
c = ConstantArray[0, {6, 6}];
c[[1, 3]] = -2;
c[[2, 2]] = 1;
c[[3, 1]] = -2;
{val, vec} = Eigensystem[{N[s, 200], c}];
(* parameter for a general conic*)
{a, b, c, d, e, f} = vec // Last;

Now we are ready to check out the fitting.
(* Visualize fit *)
ptEig = Show[img,
ContourPlot[
a x^2 + b x y + c y^2 + d x + e y + f == 0, {x, 0, 1385}, {y, 0,1023},
ContourStyle -> {Thickness[0.004], Blue},
PlotPoints -> 200, MaxRecursion -> 4, PlotRange -> All,
Frame -> None, Background -> None],
Graphics[{PointSize[0.001], Red, Point[#] & /@ list}],
ImageSize -> 400]

A: This didn't work as well as I'd hoped, but it's quite interesting to see what went wrong.
i = Import["http://dailycoffeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/disposable-coffee-cup.jpeg"];

j = ColorConvert[i, "GrayScale"];
k = Thinning[
      DeleteBorderComponents[
       DeleteSmallComponents[
         Opening[
           Dilation[
             EdgeDetect[j], 1], 1]]]

which gives us a trace of the cup:

(Aargh, I've lost the rim. Pressing on anyway:)
pts = PixelValuePositions[k, "Max"];

left = First@Sort[pts, #1[[1]] < #2[[1]] &];
right = Last@Sort[pts, #1[[1]] < #2[[1]] &];
top = First@Sort[pts, #1[[2]] > #2[[2]] &];
centre = Mean[{left, right}];
rim = Disk[centre, {First[centre - left], Last[top - centre]}];

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It's close, but not close enough. And now I can see where I went wrong - I've assumed the cup is aligned with the camera and geometrically accurate, but I don't think it is. (And what exactly is the rim anyway?) I wonder whether this method would work if the cup was aligned.


The feng shui of a property is determined by factors both inside and outside the house. Creating good outside feng shui can be the starting point for anyone looking to improve the overall feng shui of their home, as if a house has a seemingly challenging exterior feng shui it can be very difficult to achieve positive feng shui inside the house. A good feng shui garden will help attract nourishing, high quality energy to your home. Big or small your garden is the space that surrounds your home and therefore your life, creating a positive, nourishing, welcoming environment is the very beginning on the journey to achieving a good feng shui for your home.
Once the outside space of your home is full of positive energy it is important to keep this energy flowing into the home. The entry door to a house is said to represent how 'chi' (which in Chinese philosophy means circulating life force) enters your home and life, so it is important to ensure that there is a good energy flow to your front door, without unnecessary blockages or clutter.
Water is known to be associated with wealth and prosperity and so in order to let wealth pour into your life why not include a water element such as a water fountain or feature at the entry of your home, remember though to direct the flow of the water to the centre of the home in order to encourage prosperity to flow towards your life rather than away from it.
There are various feng shui considerations for every room when designing your home some of these include; ensuring that there is no space above kitchen cabinets, as space can attract dust and stagnant energy. If there is space above kitchen cabinets then consider adding a few plants to break up the negative energy. And in a bedroom it is important to place a bed in the 'commanding position' ideally facing the door. In feng shui the command position of a room places you in the best place to deal with whatever comes into your life, this can also be true for other large items of furniture such as a sofa in the living room and even a kitchen or dining room table.
Homeowners looking to create the best feng shui for their home will need to consider how to make the best use of natural elements such as light & air to purify and clean their home and therefore their lives. Large floor to ceiling windows and doors can help to brighten and ventilate the home, releasing any negative energy. It is also very important to keep windows clean to allow the opportunity for the maximum amount of light to be able to flow into the home.
Another important element of creating a positive home feng shui is to create a clutter free environment which will signify a clutter free life. Busy millennials quite often can get easily distracted with materialistic clutter which distracts the mind and creates a negative feng shui. Having a regular spring clean, clearing out all items in the property that do not serve a purpose can help focus the mind and create positive energy.


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Dr. Marx earned undergraduate and masters degrees at the University of California, Berkeley before attending the national University of San Carlos of Guatemala, earning his medical degree in 1983. He completed his Family Medicine residency at East Carolina University of Greenville, N.C. and then a special Fellowship in General Surgery at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.
In 1988 he joined the missionary medical staff at the Moravian Hospital in Ahuas, Honduras, with its heavy surgical demands. Then, in 1994, he began full spectrum Family Medicine at the Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic in Grandview. Except for an 18 month return to Honduras in 2012, he has continued working at YVFWC's Grandview clinic, now focusing on obstetrical practice. Dr. Marx is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine.


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The killboard recorded 520 ship losses and 3 pod losses, but most of them are just miner drones getting on the Concord mail. I can't tell how many of them are actual kills (when the gank was prevented), let's guess 10%, if you want a more exact figure, go and dig into my killboard and find the losses which aren't paired with ganks. As a Catalysts can be a 3M meta fit or a 10M T2 and fittings are often recovered, let's go with 6M losses. That's 300M from the 50 Catas, + 350M from the three pods (I thought you can't lose pods and went crazy on the second pod, my new pod is much cheaper). This is 73% ISK efficiency.
If I was a hypocrite like most, I could tell that I'm not a ganker, just reinforcing belts to get good fights from the owner. But since I don't give this good fights nonsense, the consensus is I don't know anything about "real PvP". Considering my lack of PvP skills, my solo PvP ISK ratio is pretty high, especially all these kills were against people who willingly engaged me, knowing what I fly and having Concord and faction police on their side. How could I win instead of being massacred by any "real PvP-er" who cared to hunt me? Because they trusted in "skill". Sirlin wrote long ago how scrubs worship the unmeasurable skill: "The scrub has still more crutches. He talks a great deal about skill and how he has skill whereas other players—very much including the ones who beat him flat out—do not have skill. The confusion here is what skill actually is. In Street Fighter, scrubs often cling to combos as a measure of skill. A combo is a sequence of moves that is unblockable if the first move hits. Combos can be very elaborate and very difficult to pull off. But single moves can also take skill, according to the scrub. The dragon punch or uppercut in Street Fighter is performed by holding the joystick toward the opponent, then down, then diagonally down and toward as the player presses a punch button. This movement must be completed within a fraction of a second, and though there is leeway, it must be executed fairly accurately. Ask any scrub and they will tell you that a dragon punch is a skill move.".
Actually this magical "skill" is "human effort" or "precision of moves". To catch a Catalyst, you have to camp and then perform the necessary moves fast and accurately. If it's done perfectly, you win. This is how scrubs imagine winning. How play-to-win people do win is simply "getting the results". Once upon a time in EVE there were "elite alliances" which demanded good killboard from their members and were proud of their "skill". They were smashed by F1 pushing self-declared bad players in Drakes.
What did these "bad players" have? A doctrine of ships. "Doctrine" can be explained as non-human power source. A typical doctrine ship needs no more "skill" than anchoring up and pressing F1 on the broadcast target. No human perfection needed, the ship does the job by its superior power/ISK ratio. The suicide gank doctrine ship is a Catalyst. It's perfect for it's job, it's easy to fly and most importantly it's very cheap to lose. If we go back to my PvP stats, I lost approximately 50 ships to my enemies and got only 8 kills. Yet I came on top on the measurable objectives because my ship is so cheap. You might say that my kills were inflated by the too expensive pods of the enemy, but that's the very point: they willingly engaged in their expensive pod because they trusted their "skill". I don't. After I was proven to be not "skilled" enough to keep my pod safe, I changed my doctrine to work with a much cheaper pod. I know that I will lose it again and mitigated the damage. They didn't - because they have skill and don't need such "cheap" moves.
Of course every doctrine has a counter (unless the game is unbalanced). The Catalyst has a very easy counter: the Procurer, the Skiff and the empty-pod 18K+ EHP Retriever. These cannot be profitably defeated by Catalysts, no matter how "skilled" one is. Winners adapt their doctrines when faced with problems. Losers just try harder, believing that with enough practice they can get enough "skill" to overcome. Sure, you can teach your whole fleet how to fly their Rokhs to never be bombed. Or you can just switch to Megas. Guess which option worked on the field.
Instead of anti-tears, today I post why I need other people in my corp: because I can't gank it all by myself. And we can agree that this thing (and the 5 similarly fit Macks) must die: I've seen them in Gamis, Delerik if you are interested. While I'm sure this bunch will be slaughtered by someone soon, there must be lot of others! Join and let's kill them all!
I think you oversimplify doctrines. Perhaps in TEST they only had simple doctrines. A doctrine is simply a set of pre-fitted ships designed to work well together as a team (oh, and it's not always cheap to lose). The use of the doctrine as well as the individual ships have varying levels of difficulty. Sure there are some ships in doctrines, such as the Megathron in baltecfleet that is simply "1. Jump to Location, 2. Lock Target, 3. F1, 4. Goto step 2".
But that's not all ships in the doctrine, and it's not the only doctrine. In that fleet there are logistics ships, tackle, mid range high speed dps, etc. Sure, you can boil everything down to Press F1, but then that's simple EVEs combat system. In a 1 on 1 fight, it's practically the same. I push the same buttons on my Megathron as I do on a frigate. I MWD if I need to go faster, I swap scripts if I want more range, I hit F1 if I want my target to die. EVE combat isn't exactly varied. Pretty much the only thing outside of target selection that's needed is for speed tankers, and that's a simple as "go fast at an angle to your enemy".
Even the "elite" small gangs have doctrines. You see a vagabond and an interceptor running about together all the time. You think that's by accident? They just happen to like those particular ships? No, it's because they complement each other.
You have to get away from this idea that skill and doctrines are mutually exclusive terms. There are plenty of skilled players flying in blobs, and plenty of unskilled players flying solo. And there's no clear way of measuring the level of skill in players. The best PvPer in the game can be caught off guard, and the day 1 noob can get a good kill.
You also need to realise that it's not a numerical measurement. The only real measure of skill is others perceptions. Even if your KB reaches 1000 miner kills per day, there's very few people that would call that skill, yet you could literally pop out into low sec and score a couple of good kills, and you'd already be considered better than a ganker.
"Doctrine" can be explained as non-human power source.
It can be. And I can also explain an automobile as a "non-human teleportation device".
What is military doctrine? Wiki: "an established procedure to a complex operation in warfare."
Doctrine is not a power source. Doctrine can be powerful, or not, according to whether it is good or bad doctrine, and according to the abilities of the men that are implementing it. Doctrine is never "non-human". Doctrine is invented by men for the use of men; it acts only within men's minds and is implemented by men. Without men, not only is there no doctrine, there is no need for doctrine.
This article decidedly lacks an answer to "so what" question.
So there are doctrined and they are better than willy-nilly individuals.
So there is not much room for skill-based gameplay an Eve (heck, there is no individual action in Eve as complex in execution as Dragon Punch).
However, overcoming a material/efficiency disadvantage with skill (be it in chess, MMO PvP, sports against a younger, fitter opponent) does happen, and when it does, it is immensely satisfying.
Remind me, what was the 'blue Ulduar' project about, again? The safe winning doctrine, after all, would have been to overgear.
@Maxim For once I mostly agree with Gevlon, though I don't agree with the label of doctrine. EVE is very much a game where you can and often will lose even if you execute everything perfectly. A good player will recognize this and adapt what he brings to a fight, while many players will just keep trying to do the same thing better, with no hope of winning. Gevlon is on a mission to get a particular group of people, in this case miners, to recognize this and improve what they bring to the field in the first place. We may disagree on some of the details, but the overall argument is a good one. You may say so what, but there's clearly lots of people who don't fit their ships well at all, and who are being directed to this blog through Gevlon's actions.
@Gevlon Despite the above, your ISK efficiency argument still basically boils down to you having more skill than them. Most of their pods should have gotten away, but they didn't because they weren't skilled enough. Your pods mostly escaped because you have quite a bit of experience doing exactly what you're doing. Sometimes they won't, and you recognized that and changed your pod fitting to reflect the added risk, but in general you kill a lot more pods than you would if your victims were better.
I also agree with Lucas that the ideas of doctrine and skill are in no way exclusive, but like I said, I also agree with your general premise that a lot of your victims, especially the white knights, feel that they lost simply because you out maneouvered them, when in fact they lost before undocking.
@Michael: their pods don't get away because they are mostly AFK. Being an "AFK miner" is a doctrinal choice.


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Voices Echo Down the Years
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To consider the importance of learning lessons from the past.
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You will need one leader and three readers. The readers will need time to practise the poems prior to the assembly.
You will also need the following poems:
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- 'Reconciliation' by Siegfried Sassoon, available at: http://tinyurl.com/jqqmc8m
- 'The Bright Field' by R. S. Thomas, available at: http://tinyurl.com/jxjghfh
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Leader: We all learn in different ways. We all express ourselves in different ways. Some people express the way they are feeling with words, actions, music and dance. Some people find it easier to express themselves in poetry. Today, we are going to listen to voices from the past that hand on to us a warning about the world in which we live. There are three poems. The first two date from the First World War and the last was written in the second half of the last century. So we are using the voices of the past to bring us into the present and onward into the future.
Reader 1: The first poem was written by a soldier during the First World War. It is about a yearning to be back home in England. The writer believes that heaven is home and on his death, this is where he will go.
Reader 2: Read 'Sportsmen in Paradise' by T. P. Cameron Wilson, available at: http://tinyurl.com/jkdbqxe
Reader 3: The next poem was also written during the First World War, but invites readers to listen to the voices of their enemies. It asks them to think of the families on the other side who suffered, too, and to forgive.
Reader 1: Read 'Reconciliation' by Siegfried Sassoon, available at: http://tinyurl.com/jqqmc8m
Reader 2: R. S. Thomas was a poet and Anglican priest who died in 2000. His poem 'The Bright Field' leads us to think about the present. Thomas wants us to enjoy every moment, wringing everything out of our lives that we can. His voice is the voice of the prophet: put away darkness, turn aside into the bright field, live dangerously and, like Moses when he was called by God to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt, have the courage to respond to the opportunities that life offers.
Reader 3: Read 'The Bright Field' by R. S. Thomas, available at: http://tinyurl.com/jxjghfh
Leader: Let us think in silence of those who have offered us their wisdom. Let us think about the 'bright fields' that lie ahead and the chances we have to build on the experiences of those who have gone before us. Let's decide to be people of forgiveness who seek to bring peace.
Please help us to listen to the voices of the past that have so much to teach us.
Help us to seek to bring peace to those around us.
Help us to seek to bring peace to the world.
Please give us the patience and skills we need to share the anxieties of others so that we can help to bring peace to them.
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At the end of March, Trump slapped $50 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese imports. China retaliated with tariffs of its own on about $3 billion worth of U.S. imports.
If both countries follow through, on the surface it may seem that China is getting the short end of the stick.
Like the Japanese, the Chinese tend to think in the long term with regards to infrastructure and business planning.
And back in 2011, the manufacturing of electric vehicles was one of the nascent industries that China began planning for. China's big cities were all choking on diesel and gas fumes from fossil fuel-powered cars, trucks and buses.
China decided a switch to EVs would help reduce that pollution. In order to eventually produce EVs, the Chinese began to identify all the strategic raw materials its manufacturers would need.
China already had a monopoly on rare earths. In 2016, it produced more than 80% of all rare earth metals in the world.
Those elements are used in many of today's hottest products and technologies. These include LED bulbs, computers, smartphones, cruise missiles, stealth fighters and wind turbines.
Rare earths are also used in EV motors. But China knew it needed another critical element to manufacture high-power-density EV batteries.
Chinese firms refine about 77% of the world's raw cobalt supply into battery-ready chemicals. But China has to import nearly all of the raw cobalt it needs.
You see, China has almost no cobalt reserves of its own. But about 65% of global cobalt reserves are located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)… which is not the most friendly place to do business.
Environmental concerns abound. And much of the DRC's cobalt is produced using child labor.
None of that bothers the Chinese. So over the last few years, they have quietly gone about locking down as much of the world's raw cobalt production as possible.
In March, Glencore PLC (OTC: GLCNF), the world's largest cobalt producer, agreed to sell a third of its output to Chinese metal recycling company GEM.
GEM processes raw cobalt into battery-grade cobalt chemicals. It then sells those to battery manufacturers. Up until the Glencore deal, GEM got most of its cobalt feedstock by recycling lithium-ion batteries.
This year, GEM will receive 13,800 metric tons of cobalt. That will increase to 18,000 metric tons in 2019 and 21,000 metric tons the following year.
It would seem that Western EV battery and vehicle manufacturers have been caught with their pants down. Because now they have to deal with China.
How is it that the Chinese are ahead of the West? It's simple: They understand EV raw material requirements.
More importantly, they started to lock up strategic materials well ahead of Western companies. It is those same Western companies that are scrambling to lock up sources of raw cobalt.
Prices are up more than 18% over the last month alone. In the past 12 months, prices have climbed about 90%.
If China really wants to play hardball, it could begin restricting exports of processed cobalt. Much of that goes to Japanese and South Korean technology companies that use lithium-ion batteries in laptops and smartphones.
So what is rapidly ramping EV demand going to do to cobalt prices?
Demand could easily jump from 2017's 9,000-metric-ton market to 107,000 metric tons by 2026. Prices could double or even triple from here. That would move some planned projects rapidly forward into production.
Investors who are concerned about the volatility in today's markets might want to consider a few up-and-coming cobalt producers. Their share prices are headed in only one direction: up.


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The 16th of November, Project MARTA met the Rector of the University of Turin, prof. Gianmaria Ajani, expert in contemporary art rights, member of the Scientific Commitee of the First International Summer School (scheduled for July 2017, in partnership with the Centro di Conservazione e Restauto "La Venaria Reale", sponsored by the University of Milan Bicocca, Piedmont Region, City of Turin and with the valuable support of Intesa Sanpaolo).
The deepening of legal issues dealt with by Project MARTA has met the interest of Prof. Ajani,in the past author and editor of several dedicated texts, who has invited us to the study day organized by the colleague prof. Alessandra Donati, lawyer experienced in contract law and legal issues related to contemporary art.
Monday, November 28th. Project MARTA participates at the conference "Archivi d'Artista" at the University of Milano-Bicocca. The issues of common interest concerning the management, protection and promotion of the cultural heritage and the balance of an artist are at the heart of the historical debate, artistic and legal of the art world.
Project MARTA was confronted once again with the actuality of the topic, a crucial theme for artists, art historians and increasingly discussed among institutions, also through the involvement of various actors on a national and international level.
The conference gave us the opportunity to face a moment of renovation and important debate about the problems of authenticity certification of artworks, to identify guidelines and principles of best practices for the protection and enhancement of the artist and his works. With the participation of speakers of great interest and high profile, representatives of museums, legal experts of the art and international art market law, artists, foundations and artist's archives, the conference has been a very special and valuable occasion to deepen and broaden the legal aspects related to the project.
Specifically, Project MARTA has got to broaden its ideas with Promemoria, a company developed around the idea of making use of historical archives for companies, institutions, big brands in order to turn them into digital tools of strategic and cultural innovation.


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Q: Prove that $\sum_{U\in \mathcal{C}}\left(\sum_{s\in U}|f(s)|\right)$ converges if and only if $\sum_{s\in U}|f(s)|$ converges. Let $f:S\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$, then
$\sum_{s\in S} f(s)=\infty$ means For all $M\in\mathbb{R}$, there is a finite set $T\subseteq S$ such that, for all finite sets $T'\subseteq S$ that contain $T$ one has $\sum_{s\in T'} f(s)>M$
$\sum_{s\in S} f(s)=a$ means For all $\epsilon>0$, there is a finite set $T\subseteq S$ such that, for all finite sets $T'\subseteq S$ that contain $T$, one has $|a-\sum_{s\in T'} f(s)|<\epsilon$
Let $C$ be a collection of pairwise-disjoint subsets $U \subseteq S$ whose union is $S$. Prove that $\sum_{U\in C}\left(\sum_{s\in U}|f(s)|\right)$ converges if and only if $\sum_{s\in U}|f(s)|$ converges.
$\Rightarrow$
Assume $\sum_{U\in C}\left(\sum_{s\in U}|f(s)|\right)$ converges. Then $\sum_{s\in U_1}|f(s)|+\sum_{s\in U_2}|f(s)|+\dots +\sum_{s\in U_n}|f(s)|$ converges. So no $\sum_{s\in U_i}|f(s)|=\infty$, thus $\sum_{s\in U}|f(s)|$ converges.
Is this portion of the proof valid?
$\Leftarrow $
Assume $\sum_{s\in U}|f(s)|$ converges.
I'm not sure where to go with this part. This seems intuitive to me if I'm understanding correctly. I'm basically trying to prove that it doesn't matter how $S$ is partitioned, it will still converge. But I am not sure how to prove that.


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If you're thinking of planting fruit trees, have a look here so you'll know how to do it right.
"Heel in" your new tree—if you can't plant it right away—by placing it in a 45 degree angle trough. Cover the roots with soil to prevent them from drying out.
Put a little topsoil in the bottom of the hold and place the tree on the mound.
If gophers, moles, and other subterranean vertebrate pests are a problem, line the hole with chicken wire.
Dig a hole that slightly exceeds the width and depth of your tree's root cluster. Place topsoil and subsoil in separate piles.
Apply white interior latex paint to the trunk to a point below first branch.
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Finish filling the hold with subsoil. Build up a mound around the trunk and a shallow trench around the perimeter.
Tie the tree to a stake for support if it has been grafted to dwarf or semi-dwarf rootstock.
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Surround the base of the tree with mulch - crushed rock, leaf mold, wood chips, or freshly cut grass if its free of herbicides.
Following these steps when planting fruit trees and with any luck your labors will bear fruit.
1. HEELING IN: If you aren't able to plant your tree as soon as you buy or receive it, you should "heel in" the newcomer. To do so, dig a trough—at a 45° angle—that's deep enough at its lower end to completely contain the tree's roots. Put the fruit-bearer-to-be in the trench, and cover its roots with soil. (This step isn't necessary if your tree has a wrapped soil ball around its roots when purchased.) The important thing is not to let the roots dry out!
2. PREWATERING: A full day prior to planting, thoroughly soak the area where the tree's hole is to be dug.
3. DIGGING: Measure the depth and width of the root cluster, then—separating the top soil and subsoil as you go—dig a hole that exceeds (slightly) those dimensions. When the pit is dug, rough up its sides with your shovel or fork (to give the plant places to grip as it spreads underground ... if this isn't done, the new growth may simply circle in the hole causing the plant to become rootbound).
4. VERTEBRATE PEST CONTROL: If gophers, moles, or the like are a problem in your area, you can line the pit—on its sides and bottom—with a "basket" made from chicken wire.
5. PLACING THE TREE: Build a small mound of loose topsoil in the bottom of the pit, and drape the spreading root structure over the hill. Turn the tree so that the bud union (if your tree has been grafted to a different, usually dwarf, rootstock) will be facing toward your area's prevailing winds ... and—if your locale is often visited by really hearty gusts—position the trunk to lean slightly into the wind.
6. FILLING THE HOLE: Then, making sure the graft (if your tree has one) will be above the ground after planting, put the rest of the topsoil in the bottom of the hole and fill the pit—to about the three-quarter mark—with subsoil. (The purpose of this "earth reversal", of course, is to place the richer topsoil where the roots can reach it right away.) With that done, flood the remainder of the hole with water, wait until the liquid soaks in, and tamp the earth down well.
8. FILLING: Finish placing the subsoil in the hole, and—while doing so—build the earth up to form a mound in the center around the tree's trunk and a shallow trench along the perimeter of the dug-up area.
9. STAKING: If your tree has been grafted to dwarf or semi-dwarf rootstock, you'll want to stake it ... as its shallow roots could be ripped from the ground in a heavy wind. To do so, simply position a sturdy support stick—which, after it's driven into the ground, should stand at least as high as the tree's first limb—at a point just beyond the outer edges of the root ball. (Don't, however, use a newly creosoted stake.) Then fasten the tree to the support with strips of cloth or lengths of rubber hose, looping them around the plant about two-thirds of the way up its trunk.
10. ABOVE GROUND VERTEBRATE PROTECTION: Protect the tree's trunk from nibbling rabbits, hungry deer, scratching cats, playful puppies, and so forth by giving it a 24" (approximately) collar of hardware cloth, chicken wire, or the prefabricated tubing available at nurseries.
11. PRUNING: MOTHER EARTH NEWS' tree culturists feel that it's not usually necessary to prune fall-planted trees ... unless limbs have been damaged. In that case, the branches should be cut off below (that is, to the "tree" side of) the break.