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Uncommon Sense with Wong Chin Huat: Can PAS and DAP survive hudud law dispute?
By Ding Jo-Ann | September 20, 2010 4 Comments
MALAYSIANS have been seeing PAS and DAP cooperate on a level not thought possible before. When DAP Member of Parliament Teo Nie Ching received brickbats from Umno for speaking in a surau's prayer room, PAS leaders spoke up in her defence, saying non-Muslims are allowed in Muslim houses of worship. Earlier this year, Umno leaders argued that sports betting should be legalised. PAS and DAP begged to differ. Umno said Christians should be banned from using "Allah" to refer to God. PAS leaders said otherwise.
But what about the ultimate bones of contention — hudud law and an Islamic state — both of which DAP opposes? Can PAS and DAP really put aside their differences on this to form a lasting coalition in Pakatan Rakyat (PR)? The Nut Graph asks political scientist Wong Chin Huat in the latest installation of Uncommon Sense.
TNG: PAS and DAP disagree over the implementation of hudud laws every so often. The most recent incident involved DAP chairperson Karpal Singh reminding PAS that hudud and the Islamic state are not within PR's policy. How will this play out if PR manages to form the next federal government? Will either side have to compromise and if so, will those compromises alienate their respective voter bases?
Karpal Singh
Wong Chin Huat : The issue will disappear once they form the next federal government provided Umno is sufficiently weakened but not completely wiped out.
While their ideological commitments are real, DAP and PAS have always been strategic in the issues they highlight. There are many ways to showcase PAS's contribution in promoting Islam other than implementing hudud. DAP won't have problems with Islamisation if it involves islamising the financial system or expanding social welfare as long as non-Muslims are not discriminated against or forced to follow Islamic laws.
Before 8 March 2008, you would expect DAP to stand up to defend the right of non-Muslims to gamble, a position now ironically taken over by Umno on the sports betting issue. Instead, DAP supported the anti-gambling position and packaged it with a strongly non-Muslim flavour by announcing Penang's state-level ban on sports gambling outlets on Wesak Day.
All things are possible in politics. What we should be concerned about is how to divert attention away from the divisive issue of hudud or at least not make it a priority. The answer lies in giving PAS and DAP enough power so that they appreciate that forsaking such power over hudud is suicidal. This rests more on non-Muslim voters than on Muslim voters. Imagine if PAS won 40 parliamentary seats, with half of those won in mixed seats due to crucial non-Muslim support. Would they harp on hudud if they risked losing these 20 seats in the following elections?
However, if Umno/Barisan Nasional (BN) is completely destroyed in the next elections and PR starts to feel it is unbeatable, there will be some who will want to play hero again within Pakatan Rakyat on the issue of hudud. So the issue will come back.
PAS leaders have said they will adhere to PR's Common Policy Framework (CPF) and called a truce for now on the hudud issue. How binding is this document and do you foresee PR parties sticking to it on principle, even at times when it may hurt them politically?
If the prospect of PR coming into power is real, the CPF will be binding. They will definitely stick to it before the next elections even if it hurts. What happens after the next elections will depend on who survives and who triumphs.
Siti Mariah Mahmud (source: parlimen.gov.my)
If people like Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad, Khalid Samad and Siti Mariah Mahmud lose in the next general election, then they can stick to the CPF all they like, but it won't matter anymore. Collectively, politicians are opportunists. It's part of their job requirement. So, don't test them on their principles more than you want to deliberately test your partner on their fidelity. All we should aim for is a good outcome, not a heroic but tragic ending.
Does the CPF bind PAS's actions in the states where they hold a majority such as Kedah and Kelantan? Have they been abiding by the CPF's principles so far?
There are clearly sins of omissions to say the least. Kelantan and Kedah have shown no interest in local democracy. Kedah's policy of reserving 50% of housing lots for Bumiputeras certainly does not fit well with PR's vision of an inclusive and colour-blind Malaysia.
Why is the CPF not being followed religiously? The simple answer is that it is not being indoctrinated effectively. It remains an official document, not an ideological guide. If you tested DAP and PKR's party election candidates and asked them to list out five specific issues in the CPF, I don't know how many would pass.
Is this a problem? Yes, the lack of interests and seriousness in CPF means that we can't expect a clear picture of how this country will be run. The CPF is rather vague to begin with. But this is not a serious issue, and it is not one that will break the Pakatan Rakyat.
Taib Mahmud
As long as federal power is still within sight, DAP and PAS will love each other. By the same logic, the moment the prospect of power fades, Umno will bid farewell to MCA, MIC and other member parties. For example, in Sarawak, because Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud is increasingly unpopular, his once-loyalists in SUPP have hinted they might leave BN.
At the end of the day, all political coalitions are marriages of convenience. We don't have to ask whether there will be true love at the time of adversity. We should just make sure that the marriage works out well when they are in power or on the road to power. This is the problem with BN — their marriage is not even working when they are still in power.
Have PAS and DAP leaders been saying different things to different constituencies in order not to ruffle any feathers? How consistent have both their stands been on hudud and the Islamic state issue since March 2008?
Nik Aziz
No. The exchange of words between Karpal and PAS spiritual leader Datuk Seri Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat over hudud is the case in point. With the increasingly multilingual population, double-speak or dog-whistling has no chance of success but will backfire.
The challenge for PAS and DAP is exactly how to remain consistent and reconcilable with each other at the same time. It's how to persuade their members that some issues just need to be left to time and they just need to agree to disagree for now.
Will one way of compromise be that PAS implement its Islamic state model only in states where they hold a majority? Will this result in creeping Islamisation state by state?
Islamisation has two approaches in general.
The first is Islamisation of the state, using state power to impose Islamic values and institutions, as understood and interpreted by the ruling elites, on the rest of population. This is basically Islamisation by coercion — even though its advocates would call it part of believers' duty or even that of residing minority groups. The fact remains that those who refuse to follow cannot opt out. Such Islamisation will not work even if carried out only at the state level because citizenship and civil rights should not be differentiated by region.
The second approach is Islamisation of the society and economy through persuasion and incentives. People are encouraged to adopt Islamic values and practices because such values and practices benefit them. The best example is of course Islamic finance, where non-Muslim Chinese are said to be one of the most enthusiastic groups. Halal standards are also adopted by many non-Muslim restaurants because they want Muslim business. Surely Islam has more to contribute to the society, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, on a voluntarily basis. If state governments are competing to Islamise in a non-compelling way, such competition is only good for making Malaysia more diversified.
So the key is really not how Islamised Malaysia should be, but how Malaysia is to be Islamised, by persuasion or by force.
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"Collectively, politicians are opportunists. It's part of their job requirement. So, don't test them on their principles more than you want to deliberately test your partner on their fidelity. All we should aim for is a good outcome, not a heroic but tragic ending."
Well, isn't that the truth.
Kong Kek Kuat says
@ Andrew I
@ Wong Chin Huat
No, that´s absolutely not the truth.
Ok, I´ve got to go now. Someone is getting too close to my dog. I wonder if that stranger is going to feed my dog some treats. You can´t trust your dogs too much these days… you never know when they are going start wagging their tails at strangers or bite the hands that feed them.
mnz says
Should have asked him –
If PAS and DAP control the government:
1) How will foreign policy be like? What's PAS policy in relation to the Taliban, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, etc.?
2) How the rest of the world will view Malaysia if PAS is in the government?
3) Will PAS's fight end once PR is in power? Have to remember that PAS eventual goal is an Islamic state.
There are so many practical issues at stake, when secularists and Islamists share the governing of a country. Unless PAS is dominated by the Erdogans…
Bad Rabbit says
Dear MNZ,
Why on earth would it be necessary to ask those questions?
1) Neither the Taliban, Muslim brotherhood nor Hamas forms a national government. The Taliban did, but they visited and interacted with the US far more than with Malaysia (before 9/11). As such, the question is irrelevant. You may as well ask how a PAS government's relationship with the Girl Guides would work.
2) The rest of the world ignores Malaysia except for two key instances: when Malaysia embarrasses itself yet again, and when the Malaysian palm oil industry causes more environmental mayhem.
If the Pakatan Rakyat comes to power you may see one or two more articles just after the election, but the rest of the world will view Malaysia in exactly the same way as before.
3) According to one contributor of this site […] Malaysia is a de facto Islamic state already… though what percentage of the population already believes this?
As for the implementation of syariah law and hudud, I'm all for it. The only question I have is where is the syariah-compliant codification covering maritime law in Malaysia? Likewise the syariah code covering cyber-crime, identity theft, electronic fund transfers and insurance fraud? If we're going to implement syariah law, all of these areas have to be covered. How can there be hudud if there is no codified law? Or are these issues covered and codified in the Hadith? There's mention of them in the Quran – I double-checked just to avoid embarrassment…

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The New 3GB GeForce GTX 1050: Good Product or Misleading Product?
Why Nvidia, Why?
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There's a new budget GPU in town, the 3GB version of the GeForce GTX 1050, and boy is this one a strange animal.
Recently we checked out the disaster that is the DDR4 version of the GT 1030, a horribly misleading product that shouldn't exist. We expect that to go down as one of the worst graphics card released in history.
We don't expect this GTX 1050 3GB version to be nowhere near as bad, in fact it might not even be bad at all. However we bring up the GT 1030 to memory because it's an unnecessary odd release and a bit misleading.
Prior to May 2018 there was only one version of the GTX 1050 (code-named GP107-300) and it came with a 2GB memory buffer. That's the same GPU we've seen on retail since October 2016 when we first tested it. However, on May Nvidia quietly updated the GTX 1050 page on their website to include a 3GB model that looked to slot-in between the existing 2GB 1050 and the 4GB 1050 Ti, though it's a bit more complicated than that.
The 3GB 1050 isn't merely a 1050 with an extra gigabyte of VRAM. Instead it features 768 CUDA cores but on a smaller 96-bit memory bus and this is due to a change in the backend configuration. Ok, so it's a GTX 1050 Ti with a gigabyte less VRAM... nope not that either.
In this table you can see that while it has the same CUDA core count as the 1050 Ti it has 25% less ROPs and that means it has 25% less than the original 1050 as well. Although you get the same 7 Gbps GDDR5 memory, the memory bus is now just 96-bit due to the reduction in ROPs which sees one of the 4 memory controllers disabled. The result is just 84 GB/s of memory bandwidth, down from the 112 GB/s of the 2GB 1050 and 4GB 1050 Ti.
Additionally, this also means the L2 cache capacity has been reduced down from 1MB to 768KB. Nvidia is clocking the cores higher to compensate, but we expect that in some cases this won't help overcome the 25% reduction in memory bandwidth, ROPs and cache.
So why is Nvidia selling a 3GB version of the GTX 1050 that likely won't perform like a 1050 with an extra gigabyte of VRAM?
Given the specs we expect that for the most part it will sit between the 2GB 1050 and 1050 Ti, but there will no doubt be instances where it's actually slower than even the 2GB 1050. The most likely explanation is that they had a stockpile of defective GP107 dies that had one faulty memory controller, for example. So Nvidia is salvaging those parts by creating the 3GB 1050. It's a bit odd to see this so late in the product cycle but that's not really the issue here. What we see as an issue once again is offering multiple GPU configurations under the same name.
At the very least the 3GB version should have been called the 1050 SE, or LE, or anything other than just the 1050 3GB. It's not unlike the 3GB and 6GB GTX 1060 situation and I'm expecting to find a similar result.
On hand for testing we have the EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 SC Gaming. It comes with a small 5% factory overclock and right now it's selling for $140 which is basically what you can expect to pay for a 2GB model, making it around $30 cheaper than the GTX 1050 Ti. Our test consists of 23 games, all of which have been tested at 1080p using various quality settings. However we're only going to discuss the highlights for 8 of the games and then jump into our performance breakdown, which looks at the whole picture.
Our test bed build around Corsair's Crystal Series 570X was used. Inside we have a Core i7-8700K clocked at 5 GHz with 32GB of DDR4-3200 memory. We realize this hardware configuration is overkill for these GPUs, but as usual the idea is to remove any potential system bottleneck that might mask GPU performance. Onto the good stuff...
Starting with the Battlefield 1 results we see that the 3GB 1050 is 9% faster than the 2GB version and 16% slower than the 1050 Ti. So that's a great result for the 3GB version as it is indeed faster than the original 1050 in this title. That said it is still quite a bit slower than the 1050 Ti due to the downgrades I spoke of earlier.
Despite the positive performance just seen, when testing with Wreckfest we find a very different picture. Here the 3GB 1050 was actually slower than the original 1050, 13% slower in fact and that meant it was 21% slower than the 1050 Ti. A troubling result there so let's move on.
Now when testing with Rainbow Six Siege we see that the 3GB 1050 is 22% faster than the original 2GB model and just 11% slower than the 1050 Ti. So like Battlefield 1 this is a very good result for the new 3GB model.
Okay so we're certainly looking at very mixed results here, this time when testing with Far Cry 5 the 3GB 1050 was a few frames slower than the 2GB model, making it 5% slower. This also meant it was 15% slower than the 1050 Ti.
Testing with Fortnite shows similar performance between the 2GB and 3GB 1050 models making them both only slightly slower than the 1050 Ti.
We also see comparable performance when testing with Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia, here the 3GB model was 3% faster than the original 2GB version.
Interestingly we see an 11% reduction in performance for the 3GB 1050 when playing ARMA 3 and as a result the 1% low result dropped below 60 fps. So another poor result for the new 3GB model.
Finally we're going to look at the Warhammer Vermintide 2 results and here we see a tie between the 2GB and 3GB versions of the 1050, making them 13% slower than the 1050 Ti.
On the next page we'll be looking at power consumption and the full game benchmark results across 23 games to get a fuller picture as well as our analysis of where the 3GB GeForce GTX 1050 stands.
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Thursday update: "He knows what he wants…"
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Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Baltimore Ravens November 27th, 2022
JACKSONVILLE – The numbers improve seemingly by the week.
When it comes to Trevor Lawrence, Jaguars offensive coordinator Press Taylor said what else has improved steadily in recent weeks are the moments when the second-year quarterback looks absolutely confident and in control.
Those moments matter, and Taylor said they're happening more consistently.
"Part of that is just conviction," Taylor said Thursday as the Jaguars (4-7) prepared to play the Detroit Lions (4-7) at Ford Field in Detroit, Mich., Sunday at 1 p.m.
"He knows what he wants. He knows what he's looking at from the defense. He knows where his guys are going to be – just that chemistry built up over time with his guys. You see that from Trevor, but that's kind of what you expect going into the season, continuing to work together and spend time together."
Lawrence, the No. 1 overall selection in the 2021 NFL Draft, has registered a passer rating of more than 100 in each of his last three games with the NFL's highest completion percentage during that span. He completed 29 of 37 passes for 321 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions in a 28-27 come-from-behind victory over the Baltimore Ravens this past Sunday.
Taylor, asked if Sunday was the best performance of Lawrence's career, focused on a fourth quarter in which Lawrence completed 13 of 17 passes for 173 yards and two touchdowns.
"Really, that last drive he just got hot," Taylor said of Lawrence completing seven of nine passes for 91 yards on a drive that ended with Lawrence's 10-yard pass to wide receiver Marvin Jones Jr. with :10 remaining.
Lawrence completed passes of 16, 10, 17, eight, one, 29, and 10 yards on the drive – which culminated with a two-point conversion pass to wide receiver Zay Jones. Taylor said the confidence could be seen in how Lawrence set up and threw during that time – i.e., "the conviction he had, his back foot, letting the ball rip, putting it to a spot …"
"There were a lot of throws that seemed like handoffs," Taylor said. "You saw that confidence just pouring out in the way he played and the way he let the ball rip and the belief in what he was doing at the line."
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Jaguars running back Travis Etienne Jr. practiced limited for a second consecutive day with a foot injury sustained against the Ravens this past Sunday. "He certainly insists he's playing," Taylor said of Etienne. Zay Jones (chest) and safety Andre Cisco (shoulder) also practiced limited for a second consecutive day Thursday, with defensive lineman Roy Robertson-Harris returning to practice after missing practice Wednesday with an illness.
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b ACC - You will be tested later in the course by written on this period of instruction and by performance evaluations during the cliff assault.
d SMO - You will be tested by a verbal and performance evaluation on T- 11.
TRANSITION: Are there any questions over the purpose, learning objectives, how the class will be taught, or how you will be evaluated? First, let's discuss why rappelling is dangerous and site selection.
Q (2 Min) INHERENT DANGER OF RAPPELLING. Rappelling is inherently dangerous because rappellers rely totally on the equipment.
9 To ensure a safe training evolution, two ropes will be utilized at MWTC.
b All the rappels taught at MWTC can be completed with a single rope if the situation arises.
3 If utilizing a one-rope system with the carabiner wrap, the rope will be attached to the carabiner with two wraps vice one.
TRANSITION: Are there any questions over the inherent dangers of rappelling? If not, let's discuss the criteria's involved in site selection.
2| (5 Min) SITE SELECTION. When selecting a rappel site consider these three factors.
a There must be a good anchor. As previously taught in NATURAL and ARTIFICIAL ANCHORS, natural anchors are preferred.
b The rappel route down should be as free of obstacles (i.e., vegetation, debris) as possible.
NCOIC, who should be the most experienced rappeller in the unit.
TRANSITION: Are there any questions over site selection? Once an area has been found that meets these requirements, a rappel site may now be established. Let us now talk about duties of the rappel point NCOIC.
Ensures that the anchor points are sound and that the knots are properly tied.
9 Ensures that loose rock and debris is cleared from the loading platform.
d Allows only one man on the loading platform at a time and ensures that the rappel point is run in an orderly manner.
d Ensures that each man is properly prepared for the particular rappel; i.e. gloves on, sleeves down, helmet secured, rappel seat tied correctly and secured properly.
9 Attaches the rappeller to the rope and ensures the rappeller knows the proper braking position for that particular rappel.
f Ensures that the proper commands or signals are used.
g. Dispatches each man down the rope.
h The rappel point NCOIC will be the last man down the rope.
9 The rappel point NCOIC will ensure that the ropes are inspected after every 50 rappels.
j The rappel point NCOIC will maintain a rope log.
TRANSITION: Before we go any further are there any questions over the duties of the rappel point NCOIC? We will now discuss the different types of rappels taught here at MWTC.
3 Hasty Rappel. It is used when carrying loads down moderate slopes.
¡9 Seat-Shoulder Rappel. It is used for heavily laden troops over vertical to near vertical cliff faces.
3 Seat-Hip Rappel. It is used when carrying loads over vertical to near vertical faces. TRANSITION: Are there any questions on the different types of rappels? Next we will discuss how each of these rappels are used.
5 (5 Min) HASTY RAPPEL. The hasty rappel is the easiest type of rappel to prepare for. It requires no equipment other than a rope and gloves.
H^Sleeves will be rolled down and gloves will be put on.
lace the rappel rope across your back, grasping it with both hands, palms forward, and arms extended.
)The hand nearest the anchor is the guide hand. The hand farthest from the anchor is the brake hand.
ean out at a moderate angle to the slope.
escend down the hill facing half sideways, taking small steps and continually looking downhill while leading with the brake hand.
»ring the lower (brake) hand across the front of the chest to brake. At the same time, turn to face up toward the anchor point.
TRANSITION: Are there any questions about the technique of the hasty rappel? Now let us discuss the seat-shoulder rappel.
6 (5 Min) SEAT-SHOULDER RAPPEL. The seat-shoulder rappel relies on friction as the main effort of controlling the descent. It is very efficient for men with heavy packs because it provides support for heavy loads on the back.
ut on your rappel-seat, roll down your sleeves and put on your gloves.
NOTE: To avoid causing a possible injury, it is advised that the rappel seat be constructed at the rear of the rappel site loading platform. If the rappel seat is worn for too long, the rappel seat could loosen up enough to cause you to slip out of your seat while rappelling.
^^Taking slack from the standing (anchor) end of the rope, make one wrap with the rope around the body of the carabiner and back through the gate.
nsure that the locking nut of the carabiner is fastened to lock the carabiner closed.
NOTE: If you are using only one rope to rappel with due to the tactical situation or equipment availability, the procedures are the same, EXCEPT the individual will make two wraps around the body of the carabiner instead of one.
Take the rope across your chest, over your left shoulder, diagonally across your pack and down to the right (brake) hand.
[^^Descend by walking down the cliff using the braking procedure to control the rate of descent. Look under your brake arm for possible obstacles to avoid.
ace directly uphill while bringing the brake hand across the chest.
TRANSITION: Are there any questions concerning the seat-shoulder rappel? If not, let us discuss the seat-hip rappel.
)Ensure that the locking nut of the carabiner is fastened to lock the carabiner closed.
^^The rappeller will grasp the running end of the rope with the brake (right) hand, palm down and turned slightly inboard, near the hip.
|Grasp the rope tightly with the brake hand.
Take the brake hand and place it in the small of the back. This will create enough friction to stop all momentum.
NOTE: At no time will you bound or jump while you are descending. You "walk down" the cliff face using the proper braking procedure to control your rate of descent.
TRANSITION: Now that we have discussed the hasty rappel, seat- shoulder rappel and the seat-hip rappel, are there any questions? Let's now talk about the safety factors of the first man down.
a. Before deploying the ropes, tie the two ends of the ropes together with an overhand knot. 3 Tie a friction knot on the standing end of the rappel rope with a Prusik cord.
Attach the rappel ropes to the harness's hard point with a locking carabiner.
Attach the Prusik cord to the harness's hard point with a locking carabiner. This cord is also referred to as a safety Prusik.
NOTE; If the Safety Prusik is too short, it can be extended with a web runner.
TRANSITION: We've just discussed the safety of the first man down, are there any questions? Now let's talk about the duties of the first man down.
y Selects a smooth route down for the ropes.
b Clears the route of loose rocks and debris.
Q The first man down will untie the overhand knot and straighten the ropes out once he reaches the bottom.
d The first man down belays the next man down the rope. There are two methods of belaying the next man down. The method used will be decided upon the restriction of the unloading platform.
WflThe belay man will stand facing the cliff face, arms up with palms facing upward and over lapping. The rope will pass through the opening of the over lapping hand's thumb and index fingers.
¡¡To stop a fallen rappeller, the belay man will grab the rope with closed fists and pull straight down bringing the forearms parallel to the deck.
holding the ropes firmly as in a standing hip belay.
e. Take charge of personnel as they arrive at the bottom to include appointing a belay man.
TRANSITION: Now that we have discussed the duties of the first man down, are there any questions? Next we will discuss the individual rappelling commands.
TRANSITION: Are there any questions about the rappelling commands or rope tugs? If not, let us discuss the possibility of tying off.
over the standing end. He then takes up a bight from the running end about two feet long and pulls it over the standing end and under the running end, forming a half hitch.
8EHe pulls the half hitch tightly against the guide hand.
^^¡He works the half hitch down snugly against the carabiner while maintaining contact with the guide hand as long as possible.
NOTE: A loose half hitch could bind into the carabiner causing difficulties in clearing the knot out. Make sure that the first half hitch is dressed down tightly before moving it against the carabiner.
lace another half hitch above the one already tied.
Q^iTo untie, reverse the steps. Remove the safety half hitch, then shrink the first half hitch down to a small loop by grabbing the running end of both ropes and pulling them straight out to the left. Place your right hand in the middle of the two bights until they are snug on all four fingers. Then remove one finger and make the bights snug on three fingers. Repeat this process until it's down to one finger and both the bights are equal.
fl^^Now, grasp the running end with both hands and smartly jerk the running end of the ropes upward to pop the small loop out from the first half hitch. From this position, keep the guide hand around both of the ropes next to the carabiner; step back over the rope so that the running end is to your right side. Grab just the running end with your brake hand and quickly set the brake behind the small of your back then, readjust you guide hand onto the standing end. You now should be in the seat-hip rappel position.
NOTE: The wraps may bind up some after untying, where no further movement down is possible. To alleviate this, keep the brake on and force your body weight down to pop the wraps in the carabiner back to their intended position and then continue on with the rappel.
The rappeller gives the command "Lane #, on rappel."
The belayer takes up the slack and gives the command "Lane #, on belay."
The rappeller resumes to rappel down.
TRANSITION: Are there any questions over tying off? We will now discuss how to perform different types of rescues during rappelling operations.
QQ| (5 Min) RESCUE TECHNIQUES. When conducting rappelling operations, the possibility of a rappeller getting caught on the rope due to either his clothing or equipment can occur. There are two types of rescues that can be performed to free the rappeller from this situation.
^^After realizing that you are caught up on the rope, check with your belay man to ensure that he has a solid brake set.
flUsing a safety Prusik, tie a friction knot onto the rappel rope approximately an arms length above the area that is fouled. Anchor the other end of your safety Prusik to your rappel seats hard point. This is the same technique used as discussed earlier with the first man down the rope.
^^Work the friction knot up until there is no tension on the rappel device. This will give you the necessary slack to free the malfunction.
^^Once you have corrected the problem, continue to rappel down using the first man down method.
3 The Buddy Rescue Technique. This method is used when the rappeller is unable to correct the problem by himself.
rescuer will rappel down on another rope to the disabled rappeller and tie-off.
^^The rescuer will then establish a safety Prusik onto the victim as taught in the self-rescue technique.
^^After clearing the malfunction, continue with rappelling operations.
Q Rappelling Casualty Rescue. There are three different methods in which to get an injured rappeller to the bottom.
^^The first method is to allow the belay man to lower the casualty by slowly releasing the tension on the rappel rope.
)The rescuer will rappel down using another rope. Once the rescuer gets to the casualty, the rescuer will have his belay man brake him off, enabling the rescuer to use both hands.
L^^If necessary, the rescuer will perform the basic first aid needed. Once the casualty is ready to be lowered, the rescuer will call down to both of the belay men to simultaneously lower both men. The rescuer will hold onto the casualty the entire way down so that he doesn't bounce off the rock face.
^The third method is called a tandem rappel. Its used to rescue a casualty who has sustained an injury serious enough that he cannot operate the rappel device himself and requires the assistance of a second rappeller. This type of rescue can be conducted from the top of the cliff face or while on rappel, depending on where the injury occurred.
Q Take either a long sling rope or Prusik cord and tie a figure-eight knot offset so that one length of the cord is longer then the other.
21 Tie a figure-eight knot at each end.
3 Take a rappel device and attach it to the offset figure-eight loop with a carabiner and attach it to the rappel rope.
4 Next, attach the casualty's hard point to the short end of the sling rope/Prusik cord and the rescuer to the other end.
5 The rescuer will then utilize a safety Prusik in the same method as the first man down technique, except that the friction knot will be tied below the rappelling device and controlled with the brake hand.
The rescuer will then maneuver himself under the casualty to provide assistance and support.
Q At this point you are ready to rappel both rescuer and casualty at the same time.
NOTE: Your rappel device should be far enough in front of you so that the casualty will not be able to reach it.
Q The rescuer will preset the same system on a separate rappel rope and rappel down to the casualty.
2 The rescuer will then take the short end of the sling rope and attach it to the casualty's hard point.
With a knife, the rescuer will cut the casualty's rappel rope away. Rappel down to the bottom of the cliff face.
NOTE: THIS IS THE ONLY TIME THAT A KNIFE WILL BE USED DURING A RAPPEL. EXTREME CAUTION SHOULD BE USED. IT IS NOT TO BE DONE IN TRAINING, BUT ONLY DURING AN ACTUAL RESCUE AND AS A LAST RESORT.
TRANSITION: Are there any question over rescue techniques? Let's now discuss how to make our rappel installation retrievable.
Q2 (10 Min) RETRIEVABLE RAPPELS. Once a unit has rappelled down a vertical obstacle, it may be necessary to retrieve the rope(s). Depending on the height of the obstacle either one or two ropes will used to construct the rappel lane.
^^Find the middle of the rope and place it directly behind a suitable anchor point.
middle of the rope is directly behind the anchor point, rappel down the rope. If point NCO is an assault climber, use the stitch plate/ATC-type belay device to straighten the ropes.
^^The rope is then retrieved by pulling on either end of the rope.
b Two-Rope Retrievable Rappel. This type of system is identical to the one rope retrievable rappel except for a few considerations.
knot will be placed out of the system when securing the carabiner to the ropes. This will prevent total failure of the system if the knot should fail.
joining knot as close to the vertical obstacle's edge as possible. This will prevent the knot from possibly getting caught up while retrieving.
b^^The last man down will then place a carabiner on the rope below the knot. This will enable him to know which line to pull for retrieval. If the last man down is an assault climber, use the stitch plate/ATC-type belay device to straighten the ropes.
TRANSITION: Now that we have covered retrievable rappels, are there any questions? As Marines we are required to carry a variety of weapons and equipment into combat. Let us discuss considerations for our equipment so that it doesn't enable our rappelling efforts.
H (3 Min) EQUIPMENT. Equipment should be worn in accordance with unit SOP. The unit has the responsibility to determine which methods it feels are most beneficial to the mission.
Weapons should be worn across shoulder; muzzle down and away from the brake hand with a tight sling securely attached to the weapon. Weapons should also be dummy corded to the individuals.
TRANSITION: Are there any questions over equipment at this time? If you have none for me, then I have some for you.
Q What are the three criteria involved in site selection for a rappel site?
(2) The route down the cliff face should be as free of obstacles as possible.
(3) There must be suitable loading and unloading platforms.
Q| What are the three types of rappels?
Q| When would the hasty rappel be the desired type of rappel to use? A When carrying loads down a moderate slope.
3 During this period of instruction we have covered site selection, how to establish a rappel site and how it should be run, which included duties of the rappel point NCOIC and duties of the first man down a rope. We've also covered how to establish a retrievable rappel and the three types of rappels, as well as how to tie-off.
a Those of you with IRF's please fill them out at this time and turn them in to the instructor.
We will now take a short break.


Gone are the days of preparing for a single-country career and the days of being a one-country company, as employees and organizations now live in the wake of globalization and are not bound by geographical borders.
Dr. Tommy's chapter, aids organizations with understanding the implications of the contemporary practices of global leadership development and will recommend what should be practiced when developing leaders in global organizations, highlighting the importance of grafting local identity with the global organization's culture.
"Why is so much invested in developing leaders, yet we don't have them?" The short answer is that there needs to be a high degree of localization when it comes to the practice of leader development.


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Anthony Edwards Player Prop Bets: Timberwolves vs. Clippers | January 6
January 6, 2023 9:23 pm ET
Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves will face the Los Angeles Clippers at 9:00 PM ET on Friday. In this piece, we'll dig into Edwards' stats and trends to help you find the best picks among his prop bets for this matchup.
Edwards paces the Timberwolves at 24.2 points per contest, while also averaging 4.4 assists and 6.3 rebounds.
Anthony Edwards Prop Lines and Game Time
Matchup: Minnesota Timberwolves vs. Los Angeles Clippers
TV Channel: BSN, BSSC
Anthony Edwards vs. Los Angeles Clippers
Edwards' scoring average against the Clippers (19.9) is 5.6 less than his over/under for this game.
His 4.2 rebounds per game against the Clippers are 2.3 fewer than his prop bet total.
Edwards puts up an average of three assists versus the Clippers, 1.5 fewer than his prop bet over/under for this game.
When playing versus the Clippers, Edwards averages 0.6 more made three-pointers (3.1) than his over/under in this game (2.5).
Anthony Edwards Prop Insights
The 25.5-point prop bet for Edwards on Friday is 1.3 higher than his season scoring average (24.2).
He collects 6.3 rebounds per game, 0.2 less than his prop bet on Friday.
Edwards has picked up 4.4 assists per game, 0.1 less than his prop bet on Friday (4.5).
He has knocked down 2.6 three-pointers per game, 0.1 more than his over/under on Friday (2.5).


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Q: Is there a way to test if all the numbers in an array are bigger than A, and if so replace it by an array of the same length I'm trying to build something that analyse my webcam to highlight the pixel that aren't black (to do some tracking autonomously)
i've tried with OpenCV to test like so : np.where(np.all(img>150,2),255,0) where img is the camera feed, but i'd like to do that:
np.where(np.all(img>150,2),np.array(0,255,0),img)
so only the picture that where found as 'not black' are green and the other are the same as before and not white or black.
import numpy as np
import cv2

camera = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
while 1:
    ret_val, image = camera.read()
    if not ret_val:
        cv2.destroyAllWindows()
        camera.release()
        break
    img=image[len(image)//2:len(image)]
    A=np.where(np.all(img>150,2),255,0)
    cv2.imshow("output", np.uint8(A))

I'd like to have A as an array(n,m,3) and not array(n,m) where n,m are length and width
Thanks in advance.

A: If I understand correctly, you would like to convert the "not black" pixels to green (where "not black" means the R, G, and B values are all above 150).
The simple answer to your question would be to replace this:
A=np.where(np.all(img>150,2),255,0)
with
A = img.copy()
A[np.where(np.all(A > 150, 2))] = np.array([0, 255, 0])

The np.where(np.all(A > 150, 2)) returns the indices of all "not black" pixels, so you are assigning the value [0, 255, 0] to these indices. All other pixels are left the same.
You can also do this in-place to avoid creating another array if you can modify img:
img[np.where(np.all(img > 150, 2))] = np.array([0, 255, 0])

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function __testcolLimitSetting(title, value, expected) {
	test("Set colLimit from " + title, function() {
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		var cal = createCalendar({ colLimit: value });
		deepEqual(cal.options.colLimit, expected, "colLimit is set to " + expected);
	});
}

__testcolLimitSetting("null will disable colLimit", null, null);
__testcolLimitSetting("false will disable colLimit", false, null);
__testcolLimitSetting("an invalid value (string) will disable colLimit", false, null);
__testcolLimitSetting("a valid empty integer will disable colLimit", 0, null);
__testcolLimitSetting("a valid non-empty integer will set colLimit", 2, 2);

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function __testRowLimitSetting(title, value, expected) {
	test("Set rowLimit from " + title, function() {
		expect(1);

		var cal = createCalendar({ rowLimit: value });
		deepEqual(cal.options.rowLimit, expected, "rowLimit is set to " + expected);
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__testRowLimitSetting("a valid empty integer will disable rowLimit", 0, null);
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The UK-wide Home Front Legacy project, coordinated by the Council for British Archaeology, is calling on volunteers to help track down a series of lesser-known 'National' munitions factories created to kickstart the war effort. These sites can often be difficult to pinpoint, as existing factories tended to be repurposed for war work, rather than being purpose built.
Often, very little of the original fabric of the building survives so company records and, critically, local knowledge are likely to be the most useful source of information. Can you help?
Hall's Mill in Whaley Bridge.


So much for a company that once ruled this part of the world's mobile industry. There's reason their market share is declining.
I think the heads at Nokia thought that they'll just describe in words about how excited they are about their new Nokia Lumia 620 smarthphone running Windows Phone 8. But just because they added the word "Review" in the title, criticisms are coming from all directions on the Internet.
Next Shahbag, Dhaka: The Beginning of Another Tahrir Square?
You people doing awami agenda. Idiots, why not saying anything about Govt. Corruption. Also Why not saying against Abul Hussain(former minister).
Do something which is good for country.


blowUP media, one of the UK's leading premium large format out of home companies, is launching a breakthrough in digital Giant Posters - the first digital screen that can be placed on temporary building wraps.
Using the latest technology, the screen is light enough to be placed on scaffoldings or wraps, can be customised to any size and can also be adapted to fit any building or scaffolding structures.
The screen being unveiled is 'The Stage,' a 36 sqm digital screen on the Victory House building on the north side of London's Leicester Square. This is the first time a digital screen has been placed on a building wrap in the UK and demonstrates blowUP media's commitment to leading edge innovation and providing customized solutions for all of its individual sites.
With 8mm pitch pixellation, this new generation of screens offers advertisers and agencies a far crisper image than has previously been possible.
The pedestrianised area of Leicester Square is heavily populated day and night and provides a constant stream of office workers, tourists and shoppers, with a weekly pedestrian footfall of 1,941,464 visitors.
'The Stage' is part of blowUP media's Super Motion network, which offers some of the UK's biggest digital screens including prime sites in Cardiff and Birmingham.


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Are we really in the middle of a property market crash?
Are we living through the longest property market crash in history? It certainly doesn't feel like it. There are no tales of repossession, no sign in estate agents' windows that prices are being slashed, no sign of vast amounts of property being disposed of at auction for bargain basement prices.
Yet on one measure we are in the middle of slump which has outlasted both those of 2008/09 and the early 1990s.
Prices in Mayfair, Knightsbridge and Belgravia have now been falling more or less continuously for half a decade. In October 2014 the Knight Frank Prime Central London Index – which covers those areas – stood at 6343. This October it was at 5547. And there is little sign of the picture changing in the near future; in the year to October prices fell by 3.4 percent.
The reason that no-one is talking of a property crash is that the fall is not reflected across the country, or even across London. According to the Nationwide, average property values in Greater London have depreciated by 14.8 percent in the past five years – almost exactly the same as across the UK as a whole. And who cares about billionaires anyway? I would guess that there are rather few distressed homeowners in Mayfair. Most will be able to cope with the reality that one or two of their homes have plunged in value by a million or two.
What the divergent story between Prime Central London and the rest of the country does show is just how different these markets have become. Property slumps have often begun at the top before rippling downwards and outwards to the land of flats and semis which most of the population inhabits. Yet this time around there has been little or no sign of that rippling effect. Prices in the poshest addresses have continued their stately slide without anyone else really being aware of it.
For many years the Prime Central London market has been an international investment market, driven more by exchange rates and other asset prices as by the need for people to find a place to live. The turning point came not with Brexit but with changes in stamp duty brought in by George Osborne, deliberately designed to prevent international speculators from monopolising London's prime housing stock.
Those changes appear to have achieved their objective: Britain has become a lot more like other housing markets around the world, where speculation is generally discouraged through the tax system – even if we don't have, like Switzerland or Jersey, residency restrictions on who can and can't own property. As for the rest of the housing market, it continues to be driven mostly by interest rates, job security and the availability of credit – conditions in all of which remain benign.
None of this means, of course, that the general housing market is protected from a slump – just that it no longer has much of a relationship with the Prime Central London market. What happens in the Nash terraces now pretty well stays there.
the new policy might seem attractive but it comes with hidden catches that could hamper first time buyers when it's time for them to sell up.
What will happen to the markets in 2020?
From British infrastructure to companies that trade heavily with the US, would-be investors should be led by geopolitics this year.
Expected reforms to the tax on doctors' pensions may well trigger a better deal for other workers.


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On Not Growing Weary in Well-Doing
Devra Torres | Dec 21, 2016 | 1 cmt
Last month, we had what my sister Simcha aptly described as an extended crisis in the extended family. (Don't worry, any relatives who may be reading this, I won't be getting specific!) For a sampling of related emergencies, you can read my sister Rosie's account of her recovery from electric shock therapy here and my own account of our mother's Alzheimer's here.)
A bunch of us stopped what we were doing and drove, or bussed, or flew in to the epicenter of the catastrophe, sat down together, and mapped out a plan. We congratulated ourselves on our teamwork, felt genuinely happy that we were all so genuinely happy to see one another, and flew or drove or bussed back to carry on with our own separate lives and ongoing everyday crises.
But after we all went home, it all fell through. Helpers failed to show up, promising signs evaporated, and apparent improvements vanished into thin air. On top of that, new emergencies kept popping up. People close at hand (everybody but me) continued to stand by and "be there" for each other, in the most concrete and self-giving of ways.
Well, just like the politicians, I never like to let a crisis go to waste. This one reminded me of something important that I ran into a few years ago when I was helping translate a book of Pope Francis' homilies and addresses, right after he got elected. I noticed he kept using the word acompañar. The English cognate, as any grade-schooler can guess, is "accompany"--but I sensed how little that captured it. It meant being there for someone, standing by him, not only at the moment of crisis, but before, during and after: continually, affectionately, unstintingly, perseveringly. He talked about accompanying women with crisis pregnancies, and he clearly didn't mean just labor and delivery.
When I was growing up, we had a family friend, "Beverly," who was always needing help. Her family lived in a snooty, prosperity-gospel-ridden area, and neighbors did bring them casseroles for a while, but after a certain amount of this, one of the snooty ladies took her aside and asked her searchingly, "Beverly, when does the need END?"
The snooty lady had grown weary in well-doing (Gal. 6:9).
(To be clear, this is an actual person we're talking about, and that these weren't self-inflicted crises borne of recklessness or laziness. "Beverly" would have liked nothing better than to be no longer needy, and the assistance in question was not of the "enabling" variety.)
Maybe this weariness is an American thing. We're can-do; we're inventive; we like to think that for every problem there's a solution. And yes, this expectation leads us to discover solutions that might escape more fatalistic peoples. But the mystery of suffering and the enigma of insoluble problems are lost on us sometimes.
We can all agree about the kind of accompaniment that just meekly stands by, I'm-OK-you're-OK'ing as someone trudges into a pit of quicksand. Some people think "accompaniment" means that what matters is not whether somebody ends up in Heaven or Hell, but whether his ineffectual buddies were by his side all the way there.
But we could all stand to ask ourselves if the accompanying we do is limited to random acts of emergency assistance or moves on to the kind of sustained, thick-and-thin self-giving--the kind my relatives kept on providing after I'd hopped back on my plane and flown back home.
#1, Dec 21, 2016 11:51am
I love this post, even though it gives me pangs of conscience. I fear I very easily weary of doing good.
The point reminds me of what I learned early on about marriage from reading von Hildebrand. The romantic lover loves to display his ardor in grand, heroic acts and gestures, but it's the patient, continual day-by-day sacrifices of married life across years and decades, ups and downs, that fully embodies and reveals the absolute self-donation of conjugal love.
Grand acts and gestures in the early flush of passion are small in comparison.

I love this post, even though it gives me pangs of conscience. I fear I very easily weary of doing good.

The point reminds me of what I learned early on about marriage from reading von Hildebrand. The romantic lover loves to display his ardor in grand, heroic acts and gestures, but it's the patient, continual day-by-day sacrifices of married life across years and decades, ups and downs, that fully embodies and reveals the absolute self-donation of conjugal love.

Grand acts and gestures in the early flush of passion are small in comparison.


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Appointment of Chairman – Perth Convention Bureau
By Business Events Perth, 20 December, 2016
HIGH profile Western Australian, Mr Kevin Skipworth CVO, has been appointed Chairman of the Perth Convention Bureau (PCB). Kevin is replacing outgoing Chairman, Mr Ian Laurance AM, who, after seven outstanding years at the helm of PCB's Board of Directors, has elected to retire.
Kevin, who was until late 2015 the Agent General for Western Australia in London, accepted an invitation to join PCB's Board as a Consultative Director and take on the role of Chairman for two years effective 21 November 2016. PCB's Chief Executive Officer, Paul Beeson, said the Board was delighted that Kevin had accepted its invitation to take on the chairmanship. "Someone of Kevin's stature and standing both locally and internationally will help to profile the role of the PCB and the significant contribution the business events sector makes to the Western Australian economy." "His involvement with a variety of Government and private sector organisations, Kevin brings a wealth of relevant experience to PCB," Paul said.
Prior to his appointment in February 2012, Mr Skipworth served the last five Governors of Western Australia as Official Secretary and Chief Executive Officer, Governor's Establishment, since January 1991. Kevin has had a distinguished career in the Western Australian public sector since joining the Public Works Department in 1964. He has served successive State Governments as Private Secretary to four Ministers of the Crown in the portfolios of Lands, Forest, Works, Water Supply, Housing, Tourism, Regional Development, the North West, Conservation and the Environment. Kevin has direct experience also of the important work of the European Office having held the position of Director of Administration from 1986 to 1988.
On returning to Western Australia from London, he was appointed as Chief of Protocol in the Department of the Premier and Cabinet. Kevin's service to successive Governors and the Governments of Western Australia was recognised in April 2000 with Her Majesty The Queen appointing him as a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO). In 2011, during the Royal Visit and CHOGM in Perth, Her Majesty The Queen promoted Kevin to Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO).
Mr Skipworth said PCB had a reputation as a well-managed and soundly structured organisation that was delivering excellent results for the State. "It is particularly pleasing to be joining PCB at a time when the business events sector is seen by Governments as a key economic driver for their destinations, particularly in developing strong global trading, cultural and social links," Mr Skipworth said. Funded by the West Australian Government through Tourism WA and by the City of Perth, the Perth Convention Bureau drives the business events sector in Perth and Western Australia by securing large, high yield conference events and marketing the City and State as a premium conference destination
Source: Perth
PERTH TO HOST WORLD'S LARGEST CONFERENCE DEVOTED TO THE FIELD OF ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY ELECTRONICS AND APPLICATIONS
Business Events Perth extends Event Here Now funding
BUSINESS EVENTS PERTH UNVEILS NEW DIGITAL TOURS OF ICONIC WESTERN AUSTRALIAN VENUES
BUSINESS EVENTS PERTH SECURES AUSTRALIA'S LEADING BIOTECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIA IN 2022


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Ecuador participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 6 October to 18 October 2018.

Medalists
Medals awarded to participants of mixed-NOC teams are represented in italics. These medals are not counted towards the individual NOC medal tally.

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Athletics

Boys
Track and road events

Field events

Girls
Track and road events

Field events

Beach volleyball

Ecuador qualified a boys' team based on their overall ranking from the South American Youth Tour.

Cycling

Ecuador qualified a mixed BMX racing team based on its ranking in the Youth Olympic Games BMX Junior Nation Rankings.

 Mixed BMX racing team - 1 team of 2 athletes

BMX racing

Gymnastics

Artistic
Ecuador qualified one gymnast based on its performance at the 2018 European Junior Championship.

 Boys' artistic individual all-around - 1 quota

Boys

Multidiscipline

Judo

Individual

Team

Roller speed skating

Sport climbing

Ecuador qualified one sport climber based on its performance at the 2017 Pan American Youth Sport Climbing Championships.

 Boys' combined - 1 quota (Galo Hernandez)

Swimming

Taekwondo

Triathlon

Ecuador qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2018 American Youth Olympic Games Qualifier.

Individual

Relay

Weightlifting

Ecuador qualified one athlete based on its performance at the 2017 World Youth Championships.

Boy

Girl

Wrestling

Key:
  – Victory by Fall
  – Without any points scored by the opponent
  – With point(s) scored by the opponent
  – Without any points scored by the opponent
  – With point(s) scored by the opponent

References

2018 in Ecuadorian sport
Nations at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Ecuador at the Youth Olympics

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