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Woodland's water quality is cleaner than it's ever been
Surface-water treatment program has almost-all but eliminated cancer-causing chemicals
Woodland's water quality is cleaner than ever now that that the switch has been made to using treated Sacramento River water. DAILY DEMOCRAT ARCHIVES
By Jim Smith | jsmith@dailydemocrat.com | Woodland Daily Democrat
PUBLISHED: June 5, 2019 at 11:05 am | UPDATED: June 6, 2019 at 1:27 pm
Woodland's water is cleaner and safer to drink than in the past, according to the just-released 2018 Water Quality Report.
The report, presented to the City Council this week, shows minimal levels of cancer-causing chemicals that were present years ago when the city still relied on well water. Today the city obtains its water from the Sacramento River after which is treated and delivered to homes and businesses.
The 2018 Annual Water Quality Report is required by state law to provide information on test results and sources for both regulated and unregulated substances along with identifying problem areas for water system reliability.
During a presentation to the council Tuesday night, Matt Cohen, senior engineering assistant with the Utilities Engineering Department, said since the conversion to surface water in 2016, water hardness has fallen 85 percent from when the city used only well water.
Meanwhile, the level of Chromium 6 is down 98 percent while nitrates are not even detectable among the 2,500 water quality samples taken and analyzed for the report.
According to a report prepared by Principal Utilities Civil Engineer Tim Busch, the results from the 2018 testing and analysis reflect that Woodland water "continues to meet or exceed all current primary and secondary quality standards without violations."
That's in contrast to about five years ago when the state threatened heavy fines on the city unless it improved water quality. Those fines were never enforced because the city was building its new surface-water treatment system.
Today that system along with the pumping facilities and surplus water recharge system have been recognized by the state and across the nation for their engineering.
Meanwhile, in contrast to previous years when a formal report was mailed to around 16,000 utility customers in their billing statements, this year's report will only be available at a few select locations. A web link will be provided in an upcoming utility bill so people can look at it for themselves.
Paper copies of the report will be available through city facilities such as the Municipal Services Center, Library and Woodland Community & Senior Center as well as City Hall. A Spanish-language version is also being prepared.
The money to print and distribute the report comes to $3,000, a pittance compared to the more than $160 million it took to build the city's new water capture and purification system, and its necessary underground pipes and above-ground water tanks.
The Woodland-Davis Clean Water Agency began delivery of treated Sacramento River water on June 1, 2016 to Woodland along with the city of Davis and UC Davis.
Busch reported that when the new system was installed, there were 189 water quality complaints as adjustments were made for the different chemistry between surface and well water.
But by 2018, the city received only 78 water quality complaints, a 59% reduction from 2017 as the adjustments continued, which Cohen said for a community of 60,000 is a very small number.
In 2018, the city was also getting 98% of its water from the Sacramento River with the remaining 2% coming from groundwater to meet high summer demands.
The primary problem with Woodland's groundwater, as with many other communities that rely on wells, were nitrate and Chromium 6. Nitrate-contaminated groundwater comes from fertilizers, industrial waste chemicals, seepage from septic systems, and animal manure.
Nitrate concentration levels have varied throughout the city and within each well site and the trends showed — and continue to show — that nitrate levels are, on average, rising at a number of wells as greater pressure is placed on the aquifer under the city by surrounding farmers.
Using treated surface water created virtually no detectable levels of nitrates, according to the report.
Chromium 6 is naturally occurring in the groundwater from erosion of mineral deposits. The State Water Resource Control Board passed a California Maximum Contaminant Limit of 10 parts per billion in 2014 for hexavalent chromium.
Busch reported that Woodland water now has near zero levels Chromium 6. The report indicates there are 0.33 parts per billion of Chromium 6, which is below the 10 ppb allowed by the state.
Other chemicals detected — or not as the case may be — none of which were in state violation, include barium, which comes from oil drilling waste (0.022 ppb); bromate (0.1 ppb), which is a byproduct of drinking water disinfection; chlorine (0.8 ppb, which the minimum allowed by the state) that is used as a drinking water disinfectant; and "total trihalomethanes" (24.8 ppb, which falls between state mandates of 6.6-26 ppb) and is a byproduct of drinking water disinfection.
There were no detectable levels of lead in city water — which is tested for every three years with the next test set for this summer — while the amount of copper (which comes from internal corrosion of home plumbing systems) was at 0.07 ppb.
Turbidity (basically soil runoff that made its way into the water system) was another frequent problem with city well water before the switchover to surface water. However, the 2018 report showed turbidity was 0.03 ppb while the state allows between 0.03-0.07 ppb.
Finally, Cohen said that the surplus amount of water coming from the Sacramento River has allowed the city to pump 1 billion gallons back into the underground aquifer through the city's water-recharge and storage systems. That means additional water will be available in the future for emergencies if needed.
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Jim Smith is an award winning news and editorial writer and photographer who has been editor of The Daily Democrat since 1994. He has more than 37 years of professional newspaper experience as a reporter and editor for weekly and small daily newspapers. He has won numerous writing awards over his career as well as awards for photography and newspaper pagination as well as public service.


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\section{Introduction}
The term bot is a shortening of robot and refers to a software agent, or software robot device.
It is gaining more attention very recently due to the prominence and influence
of social media networks, as well as the ability to influence large groups through
coordinated information operations.  The potential of deploying large influence
campaigns has already been realized, most notably during the 2016 U.S. election
or the preceding Bexit vote.  However, the influence of political (twitter) bots
has been observed for years in several elections globally, including Turkey, Mexico and India.
During the 2014 elections in India, Narendra Modi reached nearly 4 million twitter followers.
However, when {\it Time} started monitoring Twitter for its Person of the Year award,
the local media soon spotted a pattern.  Thousands of Modi's followers were tweeting
the same phrase: ``I think Narendra Modi should be \#TIMEPOY'' at regular intervals,
24 hours a day - while a rival army of bots tweeted the opposite \cite{Wool14}.

While social bots and specifically Twitter bots have demonstrated influence
in political elections, and at the same time, in other areas (i.e., marketing),
these bots are not known to show the sophistication that is quickly becoming
a possibility.  As social media has grown, pushing out the impact of traditional
print journalism, there has been tremendous growth and effort on new technological
advances related to machine learning.  This change has been fueled by the
availability of commodity-based distributed computing, a trend toward open source
software development, and collection/curation of large-scale datasets.  This has enabled
major advances in machine learning where just about any competition
in human language technologies (speech, language, visual) is dominated
by ``black box'' deep neural network architectures.

\subsection*{Why now?}
Deep neural networks
are not new to machine learning.  Frank Rosenblatt's original publication
on the perceptron appeared in 1958 \cite{Rose58}.
The first work detailing a learning algorithm for supervised deep feedforward
multilayer perceptrons was developed by Ivakhnenko and Lapa in 1965 \cite{Ivak65}.
Other deep networks date back to 1971 \cite{Ivak71}, 1979 \cite{Fuku79} and 1989 \cite{LeCu89}.
An effective backpropagation apparently first appeared in 1970 \cite{Linn70}.
Recurrent neural networks have also been studied such as the Boltzmann machine,
and in 1997, the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network of Hochreiter and Schmidhuber \cite{Hoch97}.
LSTM is the basis for many current state of the art machine learning
algorithms.  What changed the equation is not that deep neural networks
didn't exist or weren't studied.  Instead, computing (e.g., GPGPU) and the creation
of large-scale labeled datasets could be used to effectively train
deep neural networks and learn a rich non-linear mapping
from raw data (e.g., 224x224 images) to a low-dimensional representation and output layer
(e.g., cat/not cat).

\section{A Brief History of Bots}
According to \textit{Botnets: The Killer Web Applications} \cite{Schi11},
``bots were originally developed as a virtual individual that could sit on an IRC channel
and do things for its owner while the owner was busy elsewhere''.
The first IRC bot called GM was developed in 1989, as a benevolent bot that would play
a game of Hunt the Wumpus with IRC users.

It was a decade later that the first botnets became known.
A botnet is a potentially large collection of bots that communicate with each other
or communicate with a single botmaster.
Pretty Park was first seen in March 1999, and introduced many of the features
that were used for more than a decade after being introduced.  It had
the ability to report computer specifications, search email addresses,
retrieve passwords, update its functionality, transfer files, redirect traffic,
perform DoS attacks and communicate with an IRC server.
SubSeven (May 1999) was the first remote controlled malware.
The SubSeven trojan created a backdoor on the victim machine (zombie)
by running the SubSeven server.  IRC remote control started in a later version,
when the SubSeven server was able to receive commands via IRC.
Many more botnets have been deployed over the years, including
GTBot, SDBot, SpyBot, AgoBot, Rbot and Polybot.

Botnets have continued to evolve to avoid detection, now using alternate
communication channels, http protocol (web pages or email sites that serve up commands),
or peer-to-peer (P2P) protocols.  They can modify DNS records and incorporate
increasingly sophisticated techniques for command and control (C\&C).
Botnets exhibit new forms of malicious activity, including ransomware, instant message spam,
blog spam and distribution of disinformation and fake news.

\section{Types of Bots}
The website botnerds.com \cite{botnerds} lists several types of bots, broken down into good and bad bots:
\begin{multicols}{2}
\begin{itemize}
\item Chatbots
\item Crawlers
\item Transactional bots
\item Informational bots
\item Etertainment bots
\item Hackers
\item Spammers
\item Scrapers
\item Impersonators
\end{itemize}
\end{multicols}
Chatbots or chatterbots are bots that can communicate, generally through text messages,
with humans.  It is the type of bot typically associated with two of the best known
Turing tests (Loebner Prize, University of Reading competition).  Possibly, the earliest
chatbot was ELIZA which was created by Joseph Weizenbaum of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
from 1964 - 1966.
Other well known chatbots include Cleverbot and Tay.

Intelligent personal assistants such as Siri and Alexa act in a manner similar
to a chatbot, but are typically much more sophisticated, communicate through audio/speech,
and are presented as a service to users.  These digital personal assistants
may be considered the closest broadly available artificial intelligence (AI)
technology for providing
human-like or human-friendly information delivery.  There continues
to be a strong effort to teach these assistants personal skills
(e.g., whispers, pauses, emotion \cite{Pere17}).
IBM Watson was originally developed as a distributed question-and-answering system, but more recently
is being tailored to act as a chatterbot for children's toys.  Other chatterbots such as
Eugene Goostman saw ``15 minutes of fame'' for winning the 2014 University of Reading competition.
However, this bot, which acted the part of a 13-year old Ukranian boy, was quickly dismissed
when exposed to the public through an Amazon Web Service.  Figure ~\ref{fig:EGbot}
shows conversations conducted by Goostman.
Note that Figure ~\ref{fig:EGbot} was created by G. Fariello for his 2017 course
on comparisons between natural intelligence, artificial intelligence,
and the potential wide-ranging implications of rapidly advancing AI \cite{Gab17}.

User friendly applications and APIs are being developed
for integrated delivery of chatbot services \cite{API17, slackbot}.
Also, on the bright side, a non-profit research company,
OpenAI, was established
for ``discovering and enacting'' a path to safe artificial intelligence
\cite{openAI}.  Other self-proclaimed developers of friendly bots
come from the Botwiki community \cite{botwiki, botmakers}.  Also,
Microsoft offers an open source bot builder SDK \cite{botframework}.

\begin{figure}
\animategraphics[height=1.9in]{.2}{goostman-}{1}{6}
\caption{\cite{Gab17} Eugene Goostman bot posing as 13-year old Ukranian boy}
\label{fig:EGbot}
\end{figure}

In this paper, we are most concerned with social bots that interact
with social media platforms, and have the ability to impersonate users,
while deceiving real users.  As social bots adopt
greater levels of AI, their behaviors become increasingly difficult
to separate from actions of real human users.

\section{Information Operations}
There is a growing concern over the ability to unleash
strategically mapped out and well coordinated influence campaigns
using social bots.  In particular, Facebook appears to be responding
to this threat (in panic mode).
On 27 April 2017, Facebook released version 1.0 of \textit{Information Operations and Facebook} \cite{Face17}.
This guide starts by quoting founder Mark Zuckerberg (Feb 2017):
\begin{displayquote}
It is our responsibility to amplify the good effects and mitigate the bad -- to continue
increasing diversity while strengthening our common understanding so our community can
create the greatest positive impact on the world.
\end{displayquote}
The document continues to define several terms bandied in the media such as:
false news, false amplifiers, disinformation, misinformation, intent, medium, amplification.
The article lists three major features of online information operations that
Facebook assesses have been attempted on Facebook.
\begin{itemize}
\item Targeted Data Collection
\item Content Creation
\item False Amplification
\end{itemize}
The article primarily focuses on the first and third items.  It is the second item
which has the potential to advance rapidly based on new machine learning breakthroughs,
and we focus on this topic in later sections.

While information operations are gaining an increased concern globally,
it is believed by many that this is a global threat that is taken far
too lightly.
Also, on 27 April 2017, the US Senate Committee on Armed Services, subcommittee on cybersecurity,
held a hearing on cyber-enabled information operations.
Presenting at this meeting were John C. Inglis (Former Deputy Director, NSA),
Honorable Michael D. Lumpkin (Principal at Neptune Computer Inc and former
Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy), Dr. Rand Waltzman (Senior Information Scientist, RAND Corp)
and Mr. Clint Watts (Robert A. Fox Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute).
The testimony is too long to present here, but contains alarming facts demonstrating
the extent of information operations directed against the US and other nations.
It calls for major changes to the US effort defending against information operations,
and the influence campaigns conducted against our citizens.

\subsection*{Twitter Bot Challenge}
In February/March 2015, DARPA held a 4-week competition to identify
a set of previously identified ``influence bots'' serving as ground truth
on a specific topic within Twitter \cite{Walt17, TBC16}.  The topic was
pro-vaccination/anti-vaccination.  The company Sentimetrix scored at the top
when considering the metric,
\[
FinalScore = Hits - 0.25 * Misses + Speed.
\]
There were a total of 39 ground truth influence bots, and Sentimetrix
had only 1 false hit.  Participant USC correctly guessed all 39 bots
with no false hits.  There were some clear indicators of bots
(e.g., the variation of sentiment from the bots tends
to be lower than the variation from humans).  Humans run more hot-and-cold.
In a paper summarizing the results of the challenge,
the following types of features were shown to be of interest \cite{TBC16}:
\begin{itemize}
\item Tweet Syntax
\item Tweet Semantics
\item Temporal Behavior
\item User Profile
\item Network
\end{itemize}
The Twitter Bot Challenge laid ground-work for future
evaluations of bot detection in social media.  We think
it's important to consider much more sophisticated
bots that are active across multiple media platforms.

\section{Deep Learning}
The scary part of this story is that there is no evidence that today's influence
campaigns are tapping into the rapidly advancing machine learning or AI technologies.
The amount of research into generating signals that mimic human behavior, as well as,
complex deep neural netowrk architectures that digest, understand and continually update
based on human interaction, is staggering.

It was only in 2012 that Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Hinton published
\textit{ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks}
\cite{Kriz12} that presented a ground-breaking leap in image recognition using
a neural network with 60 million parameters and 500,000 neurons.
Since then, performance has continued to improve steadily, using
increasingly complex networks, and increasingly larger datasets.
As an example, MSRA won the ImageNet challenge in 2015 using
a network with 154 layers.  Google admitted to utilizing a database
of 500 million facial images to train their face recognizer for Megaface.
More recently, Google has announced a significant leap
in machine translation using stacked recurrent neural networks (LSTMs)
with both bi-drectional and uni-directional layers, as well as
residual connections between layers \cite{Wu16}.

\subsection{Reinforcement Learning}
The deep learning improvements highlighted above
are supervised techniques depending on huge amounts
of labeled data (text, image, speech or video).
However, there have been significant advances in unsupervised
or semi-supervised machine learning.  Techniques that utilize
reinforcement learning accept goal oriented responses,
and learn to optimize their decisions in complex environments.
Probably the most recent success reported along these lines,
is the ability of a Google DeepMind AlphaGo system to beat
a 9-dan professional without handicaps.
Initially, the system was developed using supervised learning
from human play, but then it was optimized using reinforcement
learning, by being set to play against other instances
of itself.
Duplicating this success does not appear very easy.
Facebook's Darkforest system has not defeated a professional human
Go player.  Also, Dwango and the University of Tokyo developed
DeepZenGo which has not yet demonstrated dominance over
top human players.

\subsection{Generative Adversarial Networks}
A new deep learning architecture known as generative adversarial networks (GANs)
\cite{Good14} has the potential to improve recognition in multiple domains, and at the same
time deliver systems which can generate non-human output that resembles
human-like characteristics.
GANs are constructed from two multilayer perceptrons G and D.
The network $G=G(z; \theta_g)$ will take input parameters and map to the data space.
The network $D = D(x; \theta_d)$ takes parameters and input from the data space
and outputs a single scalar.  $D$ is trained to maximize the probability
of assigning the correct label to both training examples and samples
from $G$.  Simultaneously, $G$ is trained to minimize  $\log{(1 - D(G(z)))}$,
or alternatively, maximize $\log{D(G(z))}$.

While the discriminating network $D$ is learned, the network $G$ is improved
to produce data that resembles the initial labeled data fed into $D$, and
its probability distribution.
See \cite{Radf16} and \cite{Ho16} for interesting output from some trained
generative networks.

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[height=1.7in]{generatedBedrooms}
\caption{Synthetically generated bedrooms taken from \cite{Radf16}}
\label{fig:Beds}
\end{figure}

\section{Multimodal Personas \& Scary Bots}
Deep neural networks are being applied in just about every human language technology
to achieve state of the art for recognition.
With companion generative networks, it will (or is already) possible
to generate output that mimics human behavior, as well as human environments \cite{Radf16}.
For instance, a Montreal based company Lyrebird \cite{tc042517} recently demonstrated
the ability to take any user's voice and create a speechbot that talks
in a similar manner to the given voice.
Today, it is still possible for most
human ears to detect anomalies with the bot voice that separate
it from the real human voice, but it's uncannily close.
With more collected data, and a larger neural network,
it will only get better.
Also, Google DeepMind produced a similar capability called WaveNet \cite{Wav_link}.

It is becoming commonplace for Hollywood movies to modify facial
gestures of actors after shooting has completed, and without
the participation of the actual actors.  It can be done synthetically,
and movie goers have no idea any changes were made.
Also, there are efforts to synthetically produce digital actors/actresses
which are amazingly close to real-life performers \cite{USC1}.

With the ability to generate text (i.e., chatterbot), speech or imagery,
it is a matter of time before someone puts these capabilities
together to build full walking, talking, texting social bots.
While the replication of physical robots will be limited initially
by the ability to manufacture material resources (e.g., metal),
the proliferation of various social bots will only be limited
by storage and compute power.

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Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia and its proven success at recruiting Canadians
By Lama Nicolas	, Hannah James	and Megan Rowney	16x9
Updated June 25, 2014 11:36 am
WATCH ABOVE: 16X9's report "Terrorist Recruits"
Canada's top spy says he's concerned about home grown terrorism as a key risk to Canadian security.
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"The radicalization of Canadians continues to be of concern to the service," reported CSIS director, Richard Fadden to the Senate on February 11th of this year.
"CSIS is currently aware of dozens of Canadians – many in their early 20s who have travelled or who have attempted to travel overseas to engage in terrorism- related activities."
READ MORE: Canadian allegedly killed in Al-Shabaab terrorist attack
One terrorist organization that has been notably successful at recruiting young Canadians is called "Al-Shabaab". It's an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia, mainly comprised of young men.
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READ MORE: Young Canadians are at risk of being recruited, says former Al-Shabaab member
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University of Waterloo professor, Lorne Dawson says Al-Shabaab uses the internet to recruit through social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
"They purposefully adopted a much more public front," he says. "They very effectively utilized individuals that know how to use the internet to reach out throughout the world create special forums and chat forums in order to contact people."
One of the most popular recruiters is said to be Omar Hammami, a native of Alabama who radicalized in his twenties and joined Al-Shabaab in Somalia. Hammami has been called the "Jihadi Rapper" by some for the rap videos he would make and post on YouTube. In those videos he would call for Jihad.
"He's joined a foreign terrorist organization designated by the United States," says former FBI agent, Clinton Watts. "He claims in his own biography that he has attacked aid forces. He claims to in his biography to have killed people."
Watts blogs about counterterrorism and national security. He says stories like that of Omar Hammami should serve as a cautionary tale.
"This notion that there was a defined victory in countering terrorism …we shouldn't be naive and think there's a deliberate end to this. There will be people that are part of Al-Qaeda or whatever group Al-Qaeda becomes that will always want to attack the west," says Watts.
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Mark Isaacs: "How Sibelius has changed my composing life"
April 1, 2010 April 3, 2010 | by Daniel Spreadbury
Composer Mark Isaacs
Mark Isaacs is a renowned jazz pianist and composer of both jazz and classical music. The nephew of legendary British jazz guitarist Ike Isaacs, Mark showed considerable talent from an early age, and in his adult life he has toured all over the world as a pianist.
In common with many composers, Mark developed his own working methods for writing music that involved paper and pencils, but he says:
While I loved my computers it just didn't seem right to involve these machines in producing my scores. I clung to my rituals: they seemed honourable and organic. I did have the luxury of copyists producing the instrumental parts from the score. Initially they worked by hand and later with music notation software. When they started using the software it seemed like their tool, not mine. It made sense for copyists to use the programs, but for me to work with my traditional tools. Or that's what I thought then.
Now my life has changed: I am a dedicated and passionate user of Sibelius.
Mark lists a whole bunch of reasons why he's glad he took the leap from writing long-hand to using Sibelius, and I invite you to check them out. If you'd like to hear some of Mark's music, check out the Mark Isaacs Resurgence Band on MySpace for some of his jazz works, or his individual MySpace page for some of his classical works.
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Q: Is it a bad idea to have a TeamCity webserver instance also act as a build agent? I'm building an Amazon EC-2 cloud-based build server for my personal development projects using Team City Professional. I only intend to use it of an evening and my project builds are going to be quite small.
At this stage, is there a good reason why I should go for two servers:

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*one hosting the Team City website

*another configured as the build agent

A: How many servers you need or which instance type to use heavily depends on the nature of your projects and the number of resources they utilize during the build -- add to that how fast you want your builds to be done and how much money you want to spend.
Generally, it sounds like you want a EBS-based instance so you can stop and resume at any time. I don't see how two servers right from the start would do you any good and start with one and scale up by going to a larger instance size before adding a second server to the mix.
If you keep the server online only for a few hours a day, then the cost should be reasonable anyway.

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The Breaking Point (1950)
Anybody who's a fan of movies from the studio era probably has a soft spot for Howard Hawks' To Have and Have Not. It's hard to beat for sheer entertainment, taking full advantage of its charismatic stars and a top-notch supporting cast. It's also totally superficial. We know from the start that the good guys are going to win and that Bogart is going to walk off with Bacall. It's a classic example of the way the studios would take a book and transform it into something almost unrecognizable. In the case of Hemingway's novel To Have and Have Not, Hawks took the premise of a guy on a boat in the Carribean and dumped everything else.
Really, he had to, because the original novel is extremely unusual and brutally cynical. Actually, I think the book is pretty interesting, but its fragmented narrative and strange digressions pretty much defy all the conventions of commercial filmmaking. On top of that, it was wartime, and the studios were determined to keep everything upbeat and positive.
But by nineteen fifty things had changed. There was a strong undercurrent of cynicism running beneath Hollywood's glamorous surface. People were making films that not only questioned the status quo, but suggested that we were living in a world where the deck was stacked against us. That's pretty much the thrust of Hemingway's novel. The book is about those who have money and those who don't. And the conclusion that the main character reaches by the end is "A man don't stand a chance."
According to Eddie Muller, it was John Garfield who suggested doing a remake. Screenwriter Ranald MacDougall was brought on board to do the adaptation. Though he moved the story into the present and changed the location to Long Beach, it's much closer to both to the letter and the spirit of the book than the Hawks version. Harry Morgan is a fisherman struggling to support his family and hang on to his boat. The story shows how he's driven to ever more desperate measures to make money, finally agreeing to take part in a robbery.
Juano Hernandez and John Garfield
Garfield's gripping, lively performance is the heart of the movie. Harry starts out as a fairly easygoing guy who just wants to make a living, but as he feels the screws tighten we can feel him tighten up as well. Garfield had a gift for playing average guys, and did it without sentimentalizing his characters. He doesn't ask for our sympathy, he just plays the role as honestly as he can.
Harry loves his wife, and he works hard to provide for her and the kids. Lucy Morgan loves her husband but she's slowly getting ground down by the stress of making do with almost nothing. Phyllis Thaxter plays the part with admirable simplicity and sublety. The one character that's borrowed from the Hawks version is the sexy drifter, who in this case tests Harry's commitment to his wife. The role was probably created to make the movie more commercial, but Patricia Neal is so good that it's hard to complain. She's tough, smooth, cynical, and still vulnerable in a way that makes her seem human.
Those who are mostly familiar with Curtiz' polished films of the forties might be surprised by the gritty intensity of The Breaking Point. It has the energy and the tension you can find in some of his thirties melodramas, but here the characters are more complex. Curtiz keeps his camera close to the actors, and MacDougall's script allows them to dig into their roles. We have no trouble believing that they inhabit this world, that their lives are rooted in this small seaside town. Cinematographer Ted McCord is amazingly sensitive to the ways in which light can define a location and the subtle nuances of mood it creates. He makes a working class kitchen and a waterfront bar equally real and vivid. Whether he's shooting on location or on a soundstage the images have the same attention to texture and the same vibrant immediacy.
At the end of the film Harry has survived a shootout with the robbers, but it looks like he's going to lose his arm. Delirious, he rambles on about how "a man don't stand a chance", but calms down when his wife arrives. She convinces Harry to let the doctor amputate, and she's with him as they carry him to the ambulance. Not the happiest of endings, but we feel a sense of hope. Then the camera pulls back and we're left with the final startling image. Harry's sometime partner Wesley was killed in the shootout. As Harry and his wife, the police and the doctors exit the frame, we're left with a shot of Wesley's young son standing by himself on the pier. This image of a child, alone and forgotten, is the film's most powerful moment. It's totally unexpected, and the movie is over before we can absorb it, but it lingers in the memory. Hollywood movies generally end with the promise that everything's going to be all right. The Breaking Point does not, and it's all the more powerful because of its honesty. It tells us that everything is not going to be all right.
Posted on April 26, 2013, in Adaptation, Film Noir, Studio Era and tagged adaptation, film noir, Michael Curtiz, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Ranald MacDougall, Ted McCord. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.


The VRTEX® 360 stand and table can be used in the same manner as a traditional welding table. In this tip we will investigate some creative ways to use the table and useful tips to teach students how to set up the table and stand.
The VRTEX® 360 was designed to be a valuable tool for welding training and as realistic as possible. During traditional welding training, many coupons are used before a student feels comfortable with their setup. Using the VRTEX® products, a student can establish a good setup equipment process before entering the welding shop. The less time a student spends establishing an appropriate setup, the more time can be spent focusing on perfecting the weld.
The versatility of the coupon arm allows the user to maneuver the coupon into position by swinging the arm to the left, right or center. The VRTEX® software will simulate the arm in the virtual environment exactly where you identify it, so make sure to check the settings in the system against the physical setup of the table and arm position. The table can be used in conjunction with or without the arm. If the table is physically moved out of the way but the system setup has the table in place, the VRTEX® software is going to simulate the table in the virtual environment; therefore, the user may try to lean on something that is only there in the virtual world.
If the table looks further away than it actually is, the settings on the machine will show to be different from the actual table. The numbers on the side of the stand pole indicates where the setting in the program should be. During the machine setup, simply input the number of the peg hole to identify table height and do the same for the coupon arm.
Getting creative with the table and stand can add some very valuable and exciting additions to a welding education program. For instance, a manufacturing company wants you to train using their welds and welding procedures. One of the welds is an overhead weld on the bottom of a piece of equipment that requires the welder to lie on the ground to perform the weld. By completely removing the table from the VRTEX® 360 stand and dropping the coupon arm down to position number 1 an overhead weld simulation can be taught exactly the same way the manufacturer requires. Being creative and having an open mind can expand the uses of your VRTEX® 360.


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'Westworld' Season Finale Recap: A Journey Inward
The following post contains SPOILERS for the season finale of Westworld.
Okay, so I guess William got that mole of his taken off at some point? If he was so into cosmetic surgery, he should have gotten some plugs for that bald head of his while he was at it.
It was guessed on Reddit almost immediately, but Westworld only confirmed it on tonight's season finale, "The Bicameral Mind." William (Jimmi Simpson), who entered the park wearing a white hat and finally picked up a black one in this episode, is indeed the younger version of Ed Harris' previously nameless Man in Black. The path taken by Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood), a host with one screwed up robotic brain, was largely one of retraced steps, spurred on by her creator, Arnold (Jeffrey Wright), to seek the center of some mythic maze hidden within the Westworld theme park.
Tonight, Dolores found the Maze (again), and when she did, the Man in Black was there; he, too, has spent the season searching for the Maze. In his quest, he's repeatedly been told that the maze "isn't meant for him," i.e. a human rather than a robotic host. Previously, that sounded like a teasing come-on, but in fact, it was the truth. The maze isn't a literal place (although the path to it did have a minotaur). It was Arnold's final understanding of consciousness. Here's how he explains it to Dolores in a key scene from the finale:
"When I was first working on your mind, I had a theory of consciousness. I thought it was a pyramid you needed to scale. So I gave you a voice, my voice, to guide you along the way. Memory, improvisation, each step harder to reach than the last. And you never got there. I couldn't understand what was holding you back. Then, one day, I realized I had made a mistake. Consciousness isn't a journey upward, but a journey inward. Not a pyramid, but a maze. Every choice could bring you closer to the center or send you spiraling to the edges, to madness. Do you understand now, Dolores, what the center represents? Whose voices I've been wanting you to hear?"
"The Bicameral Mind" was all about journeys, both inwards and outwards, successful and thwarted. Perpetually ineffective hero host Teddy (James Marsden) raced to rescue Dolores. Conscious host Maeve (Thandie Newton) engineered a daring escape from the park, only to get off her train bound for parts unknown at the last moment in the hopes of finding her daughter (or at least the host who played her daughter in a previous life in Westworld). And it couldn't be a coincidence that Westworld creator Dr. Ford's new narrative, which he unveiled in dramatic fashion to the park's corporate board in the season's final scene, is called "Journey into Night."
Ford (Anthony Hopkins) promises this new narrative will offer a "new beginning" and hints at all kinds of things that could happen in Westworld Season 2 now that he has unleashed chaos by giving the hosts their memories and the ability to harm the human guests. My guess is, in an ironic twist, it will now be the humans who try to escape the park, while the hosts gleefully lord over their kingdom, exacting revenge on the meat sacks who made their lives so miserable for decades. (Not the Man in Black, though, who got exactly what he wanted from Ford's new narratively, namely a game with true life-or-death stakes.)
The reveal of the Man in Black's true identity, though a long time coming and a tad anticlimactic, reinforced the theme of loops and lives moving in circles that's recurred (as loops tend to) through this season on Westworld. "The Bicameral Mind," written by series creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan (and directed by Nolan), was filled with loops, like Dolores' constant journey to find the center of the Maze. Dolores was also involved in one of the episode's most unsettling loops, the "suicide by host" (as I'm calling it) of both of Westworld's two fathers in the same frontier town: Arnold (who ordered Dolores to kill him as part of a failed effort to prevent Westworld from opening some 35 years ago) and Ford (who has Dolores kill him in front of the assembled Delos Corporation board as part of a grand theatrical gesture to kick off his new narrative).
"The Bicameral Mind" wasn't the best episode of Westworld this season (I'd probably give that award to "The Adversary" or "Dissonance Theory") but it might have been the most Westworld episode of this season, and not just because it more than 90 minutes long. Tonight's finale had everything Westworld did well — beautiful and complex performances, sharp dialogue, compelling questions about the nature of existence — and everything Westworld did not-so-well, namely a continuing emphasis on puzzles and mythology at the expense of clear drama with easily understandable stakes.
The show backloaded so many of its biggest secrets that the results were either predictable or heavily reliant on lengthy (so lengthy) exposition dumps. There were at least three long speeches tonight (one by the Man in Black, one by Ford, and one by Dolores) dedicated to wrapping up the loose ends the show left hanging since its premiere. Even with some graphic violence during Maeve's escape through the Westworld offices, long stretches of "The Bicameral Mind" were awfully slow and talky. In the end, Westworld felt a little like its hosts; trapped in loops it couldn't escape.
Even trapped in a loop, though, this episode of Westworld delivered some provocative sequences and ideas. One of the most effective plots tonight (and most of the season) was Maeve's clandestine attempt to sneak out of the park, which took a turn after Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright) revealed that Maeve's programming had been altered without her knowledge prior to her commencing this elaborate scheme, which was supposedly all about her reclaiming her life and power from the despicable humans who had enslaved her. Maeve's story and dilemmas were classic Westworld in the best sense. Of all the stories that can continue into Season 2, Maeve's is the one I'm most personally invested in.
Even though she had an enormous role in "The Bicameral Mind," and even though Evan Rachel Wood is the top-billed star in the cast, I'm not sure I can say the same about Dolores. The Westworld pilot positioned her as the central figure in its story, but then she spent much of the season literally walking in circles. The revelation that she's actually the Big Bad named Wyatt that's been mentioned throughout the season (or at least possesses a "Wyatt" personality upload from Arnold) didn't seem particularly shocking (since we've known for a while that Dolores killed a whole bunch of people) or enticing as a part of a Westworld second season. Frankly, her "arc" (or loop) was as frustrating as it was fascinating.
"Frustrating but fascinating" is sort of where I fall on Westworld's first season overall. Did the payoff live up to the setup? For me, not entirely, and I have to say the promise of a second season set in a truly wild Westworld park doesn't thrill me. (My favorite stuff this year was mostly the behind-the-scenes corporate drama, which will likely be dialed way back, if not phased out completely, now that the inmates are running the asylum.) There were some strong characters and some absolutely brilliant concepts, but they often took a back seat to underwhelming twists. This show never met an interesting character it couldn't make less interesting by obsessing over ways to hide information about them from the audience for the sake of a surprise.
Now that Westworld's violent delights have been brought to a violent end, one scene stands out from tonight's episode. Ford is giving his 800th speech this season about storytelling, art, and life. He shows Dolores and Bernard part of Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam, which he uses to illustrate a point about gods and men (always a complicated dynamic in Westworld). After some more dialogue, Ford returns to the painting to note that it held a secret that it took 500 years for someone to notice: The red cloak behind God in the fresco is shaped like the human brain, which is to say that "the divine gift does not come from a higher power, but from our own minds."
No scene says more about Westworld, and about what Nolan and Joy want their art to express. It's not enough to be beautiful or to convey an idea. One must also provide a puzzle to scour and decipher. It's not enough to admire or consider the characters in the foreground. One must also pay absurdly close attention to the background as well. Who knows what the people of 500 years from now will discover in Westworld that we all missed — provided we haven't all been replaced by artificial intelligence by then.
EPISODE RATING: 7/10
SEASON RATING: 7/10
Additional Thoughts:
-Samurai World? Samurai World!
-Although series creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy claimed the finale would answer all our questions, there are still at least a couple dangling mysteries out there. Most obviously; Where the hell is Westworld located? Maeve's escape teased us with the possibility of seeing life beyond this massive compound, but at the last minute she canceled her trip. So we'll have to keep waiting and wondering about that one.
-In telling his backstory, the Man in Black explains that as William he could never find Dolores until he returned to Westworld's main hub, Sweetwater. But William's a pretty smart guy by this point, and he understands how the park works. When the hosts reset they go back to their loops. Wouldn't it just have been easier to go back to Sweetwater immediately and wait for her to show up?
-And another thing that bugged me: Arnold tells Dolores she's alive, and that as a result he can't let Ford open the park. To stop him, Arnold gives Dolores the Wyatt personality update and tells her to kill all the other hosts (and, later, himself). But if the hosts are alive (or can be made alive with whatever robot brain technology Dolores has inside her), and Arnold wants to protect them, why would he kill them? Isn't that almost as bad (or maybe worse) than torturing them with existence in Westworld?
-I'm not sure I understand Ford's final act, either. He always seemed deeply opposed to what Arnold had been doing, or at least to letting the hosts remember their past lives or be treated like living beings in any way. Was all of it an act to disguise his true motives? If so, then Ford's entire storyline is a bit like William and the Man in Black's; rather than letting us see his motivations and understand them, it was all played close to the vest for the benefit of a shocking reveal. And it was shocking! But it was also confusing. I suspect (or at least hope) his motivations will be dealt with on the show's second season.
-A nice touch: When Maeve boards that train bound for who knows where, the conductor says it will leave in 15 minutes — with almost exactly 15 minutes left in the episode and the season finale. It's a clever real-time touch and a nice metaphor: You thought you were leaving this place, because the season was over. But then Maeve gets off the train, and we're still here, along with all the guests who are about to be slaughtered by Dolores.
-Westworld tends to be a pretty humorless show. But a character named Armistice ripping her own arm off (in the post-credits scene to the episode) is pretty damn funny.
-I hope Ed Harris wears a tux for the entire next season so we can call him the Man in Black Tie.
Source: 'Westworld' Season Finale Recap: A Journey Inward
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Palo Alto College is helping low-income students better afford their education thanks to the S.H.A.R.E. center that helps with food, clothing, and other essential services.
More than half of the students at Palo Alto College are low-income, first-generation students. Some are also struggling and can't afford food or clothes for interviews.
But the S.H.A.R.E center is helping to close the gap.
It's home to a food pantry, clothing closet, and other services students can access for free to help ensure their success both on and off campus.
Miranda Rasche is a student worker at the center and says that it's been her saving grace.
"If you are in need of social services, this place is the place to be," Rasche said. "To get something to eat or having somebody to talk to about financial situations."
The S.H.A.R.E center, which has only been open for a year, has proven to be vital on a campus where more than half the students need that kind of help to continue their education. Some also have children to support.
"I have two siblings that were going to be home right before Thanksgiving," Rasche said. "I shopped here in the pantry and it helped to save a lot of money in my pocket as well as my parents'."
In the course of a year, more than 900 students have benefited from the food, clothing, and resources at the center.
"When you take the grocery bag home and you realize how much you have in the grocery bag, it helps a lot," Rasche said.
School officials say that it helps retain students who might otherwise drop out or skip class to work full time just to make ends meet.


This fresh cocktail may be cooked for a breakfast or even late at night.
This drink may be cooked for a big party. All your guests will love it! You may cook it both in summer and before Christmas holidays. In this case, it will evoke your happy memoirs.
This is the best combination of sweetness and sour flavor. Such a drink is a great snack for all the sweet-lovers.


Wow! Two things worked out well that I didn't think were going to at all. I got Android Studio for OS X running AND Processing for Android running. There was a blocker that I didn't expect to figure out. Here it is!
and I luckily figured out how to get the issue resolved.
You need to go to Preferences in Android Studio on OS X, and then click on "Android 8.0 (Oreo)" — that will force the download. It will also force more things to get downloaded as you progress forward. Phew. That felt good to see this thing work.
Then, you need to point Processing for Android to the right directory, which is going to be Library/Android and stop there. That'll let your Processing for Android run okay.
I needed to turn on debug mode for my Android phone — which was rather fun because it involved a few fast taps. That was new to me — depending upon your model you'll have to look around for how to do it. I have a Pixel One and this article did it for me.
And it OMG worked on my phone! But I couldn't get the cool-looking simulator thing to work. I'll save that hunt for 2018.
Yay, I found the Sketch > Run in Emulator command that let me figure that part of the journey out. Works fine. Woah, I don't want to push my luck any more in 2017 so I'll stop now.
Also if you're interested, I tried out a variety of Android simulators on OS X and the one that worked for me best was Nox Player. It's running an older version of Android, but it emulated everything quite fine.


My nephew Wesley Klassen and two other young men dove into the waters to help retrieve the young women.
I was reading a recent front-page article in The NEWS ('Searchers Kept Busy') regarding the different search and rescue calls that previous weekend including the car that went into Cameron Lake.
The article states that "the female driver, the lone occupant of the vehicle, got out on her own" when in fact my nephew Wesley Klassen and two other young men (from England) dove into the waters to help retrieve the young women yelling at her to open the window and unbuckle her seatbelt so they could get her out.
It was my nephew who went under water and reached into the vehicle to extract her and pull her to safety. He and his wife Heather were at the scene attending to the lady until medics arrived.
Somehow, this information was not related to your paper from the authorities.
My nephew and his wife and the two young men should be commended for their immediate reaction, fast thinking and bravery in a situation like this. It is these kinds of acts that make us thankful to be alive. And I'm sure that woman would want to express her thanks, too.


koo koo for coconut oil!
Every time I go to the grocery store, I see coconut oil. It seems to be everywhere in some form in every aisle. I like coconut, and although I know nothing about coconut oil, I was interested. The marketing gimmicks seemed to get the best of me. I broke down and purchased some coconut oil without even knowing how I was going to use it. It's been setting on my counter for a few weeks now, and I decided it was time to research how to use this new fad food.
After much reading and research on many different sites, I copied and pasted (and came up with a few of my own) ways that I can use coconut oil in the kitchen and elsewhere.
Two tablespoons per day taken orally are proven to rev up metabolism.
Replace vegetable oil with coconut oil when baking - it's a different taste, but it's not bad. The sweetness adds to a cookie recipe, brownie recipe, etc., and it's healthy.
Add a tablespoon of coconut oil into morning smoothies. It's a great compliment to 1st Step Pro Wellness vanilla whey protein powder.
One teaspoon taken in the afternoon can provide a burst of energy instead of drinking a caffeinated energy drink.
Use coconut oil when shaving - this will provide a moisturizer at the same time.
Replace butter, cooking spray, vegetable oil, etc. with coconut oil.
Coconut oil is safe to use on a baby, and is helpful in treating diaper rash.
Coconut oil also helps fade age spots. Rub on hands or other areas affected by age spots.
Coconut oil will help relieve the burn of a sunburn after too much sun.
It also works as a suntan lotion by keeping skin moisturized during a day at the beach.
And my personal favorite, which I have tested and found to be true. . .coconut oil helps clear eczema spots on the skin. I've tried all kinds of expensive creams to treat my eczema and nothing has worked as well as good ol' coconut oil.
I hope this information helps you and that you are able to try some of the suggested uses for coconut oil. This oil is inexpensive and can be found at the grocery store.
Tagged: coconut oil, give it a try!
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With you saying your music is mainly English, does it limit you in reaching out, say, to non-English speaking crowds? – I don't think it does, English is a universal language; music is a universal language look at the world, china for example: there they are in love with karaoke and most if not all karaoke songs are English songs.
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Would you get in the car and start driving without any particular destination in mind?
You'd end up spinning your wheels, completely wasting your time, and not getting anywhere. That's why it's so important to think about your desired destinations in your life in order to make the right choices today on how to get there.
The world's best lawyers decide what they want to say at closing arguments at the start of a case and then develop facts to support their argument.
Experienced business leaders approach a new challenge by considering their desired outcome and then creating measurable steps to achieve their goal.
And guess what? The same thought process works in life.
Imagine you are at the end of your life, looking back.
What would you like to have accomplished in life?
What kind of person would you like to have been?
What interesting things would you like to have done?
What mark did you want to leave on the world?
Considering these questions will help you begin thinking on a conceptual level the direction you may want to take in your life.
Next week we will go over exercises that will help you achieve this.
If you want to get a jump-start you can always download my Simple Guide to Discovering Your Passions and Live a More Fulfilling Life.


@sirspudd is there a way to get this working with clang-svn?
@Hazzl It looks like your qbs is ill configured.
No build graph exists yet for this configuration.
/home/hazzl/tmp/qtcreator-prerelease/src/qt-creator-opensource-src-4.4.0-beta1/src/shared/qbs/qbs-resources/imports/QbsProduct.qbs:6:5 Dependency 'Qt.core' not found for product 'qbs-setup-android'.
I have added the debug args to the pkgbuild, just uncomment the _qmake_args line to get a debug build.
Needless to say I do not see this locally. The illegal instruction failing does not give me much hope of you seeing much in the way of a meaningful stack trace. You can see the instruction in question and manually research why it is making your machine barf, but I have primarily seen this kind of thing on ARM devices which are infinitely more heterogeneous.
Are you running the package on the machine you are building on? And if so, are you setting any env specific compiler flags which might build for a different target?
Yep, now i can build a pkg. I've posted this bug https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/49348. I hoped that if i build from aur things will be different. But it's still the same.
Message: Process 15066 (qtcreator) of user 1000 dumped core.
How can I build qtcreator with debug symbols?
Just updated to final 4.0.0 Qt creator release, build appears to succeed so hopefully the reported issue is no longer manifest. Let me know accordingly.


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"""Sets environment variables needed to run a chromium unit test."""

import os
import stat
import subprocess
import sys

# This is hardcoded to be src/ relative to this script.
ROOT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))

CHROME_SANDBOX_ENV = 'CHROME_DEVEL_SANDBOX'
CHROME_SANDBOX_PATH = '/opt/chromium/chrome_sandbox'

def should_enable_sandbox(sandbox_path):
  """Return a boolean indicating that the current slave is capable of using the
  sandbox and should enable it.  This should return True iff the slave is a
  Linux host with the sandbox file present and configured correctly."""
  if not (sys.platform.startswith('linux') and
          os.path.exists(sandbox_path)):
    return False
  sandbox_stat = os.stat(sandbox_path)
  if ((sandbox_stat.st_mode & stat.S_ISUID) and
      (sandbox_stat.st_mode & stat.S_IRUSR) and
      (sandbox_stat.st_mode & stat.S_IXUSR) and
      (sandbox_stat.st_uid == 0)):
    return True
  return False

def enable_sandbox_if_required(env, verbose=False):
  """Checks enables the sandbox if it is required, otherwise it disables it."""
  chrome_sandbox_path = env.get(CHROME_SANDBOX_ENV, CHROME_SANDBOX_PATH)

  if should_enable_sandbox(chrome_sandbox_path):
    if verbose:
      print 'Enabling sandbox. Setting environment variable:'
      print '  %s="%s"' % (CHROME_SANDBOX_ENV, chrome_sandbox_path)
    env[CHROME_SANDBOX_ENV] = chrome_sandbox_path
  else:
    if verbose:
      print 'Disabling sandbox. Setting environment variable:'
      print '  %s=""' % CHROME_SANDBOX_ENV
    env[CHROME_SANDBOX_ENV] = ''

def fix_python_path(cmd):
  """Returns the fixed command line to call the right python executable."""
  out = cmd[:]
  if out[0] == 'python':
    out[0] = sys.executable
  elif out[0].endswith('.py'):
    out.insert(0, sys.executable)
  return out

def run_executable(cmd, env):
  """Runs an executable with:
    - environment variable CR_SOURCE_ROOT set to the root directory.
    - environment variable LANGUAGE to en_US.UTF-8.
    - environment variable CHROME_DEVEL_SANDBOX set if need
    - Reuses sys.executable automatically.
  """
  # Many tests assume a English interface...
  env['LANG'] = 'en_US.UTF-8'
  # Used by base/base_paths_linux.cc as an override. Just make sure the default
  # logic is used.
  env.pop('CR_SOURCE_ROOT', None)
  enable_sandbox_if_required(env)
  # Ensure paths are correctly separated on windows.
  cmd[0] = cmd[0].replace('/', os.path.sep)
  cmd = fix_python_path(cmd)
  try:
    return subprocess.call(cmd, env=env)
  except OSError:
    print >> sys.stderr, 'Failed to start %s' % cmd
    raise

def main():
  return run_executable(sys.argv[1:], os.environ.copy())

if __name__ == '__main__':
  sys.exit(main())


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Making Inclusion Work
Edited by Saija Katila, Susan Meriläinen, Janne Tienari
This innovative book explores how inclusion can be enhanced in academia by considering the strategic work of expert academics from around the world. It offers a new look at academic work through the accounts of passionate practitioners who have each, in their own ways, made inclusion work. Learn More
Higher Education in a Global Society
Edited by D. Bruce Johnstone, Madeleine B. d'Ambrosio, Paul J. Yakoboski
Higher education functions in a global environment of consumers, employees, competitors, and partners. It has been a force for globalization and a model for adaptation, but nonetheless faces challenges. This volume of essays examines emerging issues and opportunities for advancing education across borders. Learn More
Governing Universities Globally
Roger King
The comprehensive coverage of global university governance includes conceptual, theoretical and empirical analyses that will be invaluable to higher education researchers and students, and to public policy academics, students and practitioners. Global governance analysts, global business and management postgraduates, as well as regulation theorists and practitioners will also find this book to be of great interest. Learn More
Towards the Third Generation University
J. G. Wissema
Universities are undergoing massive change, evolving from science-based, government-funded institutions into 'international know-how hubs' dubbed third generation universities, or 3GUs. J.G. Wissema explores this dramatic change, tracing the historic development of universities, and exploring the technology-based enterprises, technostarters and financiers for start-ups and young enterprises that are the main partners of these 3GUs. He goes on to illustrate that universities play a new role as incubators of new science or technology based commercial activities and take an active role in the exploitation of the knowledge they create. The book concludes with suggestions regarding the way in which changes in the university's mission should be reflected in subsequent organisational changes. Learn More
The Dynamics between Entrepreneurship, Environment and Education
Edited by Alain Fayolle, Paula Kyrö
This book introduces the expanding European dialogue between entrepreneurship, environment and education. It considers the shape, dimensions and horizon of this multidisciplinary landscape in entrepreneurship research. The striking differences and contradictions in entrepreneurial activities, readiness and innovativeness within European countries and the proactive attitude and activities of European competitors impose a demand for a better understanding of the complex dynamics. Learn More
Teaching in the Global Business Classroom
Carol Dalglish, Peter Evans
Teaching in the Global Business Classroom presents an educational framework for effective teaching and learning in the global classroom. It provides practical tools for teachers through suggestions for innovative curriculum design, lecture techniques, group work and participation activities, as well as the use of case studies and assessment methods. Learn More
Innovation in Public Sector Services
Edited by Paul Windrum, Per Koch
This groundbreaking book provides new key insights and opens up an important research agenda. The book develops a new taxonomy of the different types of innovation found in public sector services, and investigates the key features and drivers of public sector entrepreneurship. The book contains new statistical studies and a set of six international case studies in health and social services. Learn More
European Universities in Transition
Edited by Carmelo Mazza, Paolo Quattrone, Angelo Riccaboni
This timely and important book provides a critical analysis of the changes and challenges that currently affect European universities. Using both theoretical contributions and applied case studies, leading experts argue that universities as institutions are in need of change – although the routes that the process may take are heterogeneous. Learn More
Transformational Change in Higher Education
Edited by Madeleine B. d' Ambrosio, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
This unique volume discusses the management of transformational change in higher education as a key element of success. With input from researchers, presidents, provosts, and other senior leaders of the higher education community, this edited volume explores transformational change in a range of institutions from small teaching and community colleges to large comprehensive research universities. Learn More
Universities and Strategic Knowledge Creation
Edited by Andrea Bonaccorsi, Cinzia Daraio
Although the role of universities in the knowledge society is increasingly significant, there remains a severe lack of systematic quantitative evidence at the micro-level, with virtually all policy discussion based on country level statistics or case studies. This book redresses the balance by examining original data from universities in six European countries – Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. Learn More
The New Balancing Act in the Business of Higher Education
Edited by Robert L. Clark, Madeleine d'Ambrosio
In this volume, higher education leaders explore the challenges facing colleges and universities operating in today's environment with constrained budgets and discuss a variety of strategies and solutions being employed to help ensure the ongoing vitality of America's colleges and universities. Learn More
Management Education and Humanities
Edited by Pasquale Gagliardi, Barbara Czarniawska
Management Education and Humanities argues that management teachers and researchers seem to be increasingly dissatisfied with the way managers are usually educated in western countries. It claims that educational practices and methods would greatly benefit from reflection on the implicit assumptions and paradigms behind those practices, and debates the role that humanism and humanities might play in the formation of new managerial élites. Learn More
Ranking Business Schools
Linda Wedlin
International comparisons and rankings of universities and business schools have proliferated in recent years. Ranking Business Schools provides a welcome analysis of this development and its implications for the field of management education, theorizing the role of classifications such as rankings in forming and structuring organizational fields. Learn More
Academic Entrepreneurship
Scott Shane
In this unique and timely volume, Scott Shane systematically explains the formation of university spinoff companies and their role in the commercialization of university technology and wealth creation in the United States and elsewhere. The importance of university spinoff activity is discussed and the historical development of university spinoff ventures is traced over time. Learn More


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  url "https://secure.logmein.com/LogMeInClientMac.dmg"
  name "LogMeIn Client"
  homepage "https://secure.logmein.com/products/pro/learnmore/desktopapp.aspx"

  app "LogMeIn Client.app"
end


Demonstrates how to upload a file to Google Cloud Storage.
//  Send a POST equivalent to this curl command.
//  The content of the file is contained in the request body.
//  Indicate the file to be streamed in the request body when the HTTP POST is sent.


The spoils were shared as Town and Southampton served up an entertaining 1-1 draw on the final away-day of 2017.
Laurent Depoitre's 64th minute header earned Town a creditable point on the South coast after Charlie Austin's first-half opener, but Town will certainly enjoy the journey back to the North having turned out a magnificent second-half outing.
The starting side witnessed three changes from the victory at Watford, two of which enforced. Jonathan Hogg (suspended) and Elias Kachunga (knee) were replaced by Danny Williams and Tom Ince respectively. Scott Malone in for Chris Löwe at left-back rounded off the Head Coach's alterations.
Lee Probert took charge of a Town fixture for the second time this season having previously held the whistle along the coast in the November clash with Bournemouth. Probert would have to keep a sturdy eye on proceedings in the initial passages as both sides started off very firmly in the tackle department; skipper for the day Christopher Schindler instantly making his solid mark by stepping in swiftly to halt clinical striker Charlie Austin.
The first real chance of the encounter arrived in the favour of the hungry Terriers. As a result of excellent front-line pressing from Laurent Depoitre, Collin Quaner continued where he left off last week in Hertfordshire by excelling down the right to produce a cross. That cross squirmed its way to Tom Ince who miscued an attempted side-footed effort from the penalty mark.
Depoitre's persistence to latch onto the loose ball nearly paid off as the Belgian fell inches short of reaching Ince's effort after Japanese International Maya Yoshida had a wild airshot whilst in the process of clearing his lines.
Once more a Town chance brewed from the right, with Steven Davis heroically throwing his body towards Aaron Mooy's shot as a result of great wing-play from Quaner. Town's Australian found himself in acres of space on the edge of the area with red and white shirts standing off, but failed to make an adequate connection to therefore let Mauricio Pellegrino's men off the hook on successively shaky occasions.
The pattern of Town chances rolled on.
Captain Schindler saw a delicate glancing header athletically tipped onto the bar by the tall figure of Fraser Forster, with Collin Quaner's half-volley on the rebound ultimately denied by Wesley Hoedt for the Saints.
'Zanka got the beers in' echoed around the away end where 2,000 hardy Town souls were as vocal as ever on one of the longest road trips of the campaign ahead of Christmas. On the pitch, their team were going impressive lengths in a bid to come away from Hampshire with a festive reward through tidy spells of possession and the usual dogged tenacity without the ball.
However, that hard work was unravelled as Charlie Austin headed Southampton into a 25th minute lead. Wesley Hoedt knocked down Steven Davis' corner towards the far post and Austin was perfectly placed to nod home and hand the Saints an advantage.
Town immediately set about levelling the scores. The same combination of Hadergjonaj and Schindler linked up as the Swiss right-back delivered a perfect cross, but Schindler this time powered his header wide of Forster's goal.
Southampton responded with threats of their own to double the lead. Firstly Nathan Redmond's advance into space down the left resulted in Jonas Lössl having to pull off a smart reaction save, before the unlikely source of Rajiv van La Parra came to the rescue by acting as a defensive shield to thwart Steven Davis from thundering home a loose rebound on the edge of the box.
Town certainly weren't disheartened, but Southampton had begun to find gaps with the creativity of Redmond and Tadic within the playmaker roles and the men in navy were scrambling back to defend the territory in an effective manner.
Fresh from the reaction save to deny Redmond, Jonas Lössl had a scary moment by misjudging a clearance off the deck which Austin pounced on. Luckily the opening goal-scorer failed to produce the right amount of power to deceive the Danish shot-stopper, and Town escaped further disappointment.
Lössl's recovery ensured the Terriers headed in at the break with confidence in hope of overhauling the Saints' slender advantage. A half where un-converted chances resulted in punishment, but a half from which Town could take many positives to boost the morale ahead of a big second period.
After a dominating spell of possession to open that latter period, van La Parra fell millimetres short of connecting with a diving header after flinging himself at Aaron Mooy's dinked cross from an acute angle inside the area.
Hoedt received a yellow card for bringing down a lively Tom Ince as the former Derby man gave pursuit to Florent Hadergjonaj low through ball. Aaron Mooy came close, but not close enough from the resulting free-kick and watched his curling right-footed strike sail harmlessly over Forster's crossbar.
Saints countered to no effect, which Town would put to use. Quaner used his pace to exploit space in between the red and white lines, before Aaron Mooy sprayed wide to an un-marked Scott Malone. Scott fizzed in a left-footed cross, but the target of Depoitre fell short as Yoshida did well to head away from danger.
The home side were on their haunches playing like they were the ones away from home, and Austin would spurn a golden chance to gift the Saints a second. Nathan Redmond led a lightning break and danced past Zanka to square for Austin, and as an open goal gaped at his mercy, the opposite number 10 fired the wrong side of the post- huge sigh of relief by all involved with Huddersfield Town.
That relief would soon turn to delight. Laurent Depoitre had a simple header at the far post to head home substitute Tommy Smith's deep cross- a first assist for the Club Captain. Although Town had rather rode their luck from Austin's miss, the persistence and drive to peg the Saints back was marvellously rewarded- a thoroughly deserved equaliser.
It didn't stop there; Scott Malone just couldn't catch his volley sweet enough to trouble Forster, and no navy and pink shirt was in the vicinity to possibly nip in and tap home.
Town supporters had been tremendous all afternoon, and all the noise was belting out of one corner at St Mary's as their side continued to probe the hosts whilst dominating large swathes of offensive possession.
Tom Ince's had a chance to give Town the advantage. Collin Quaner's deceptively curved low cross missed Tom's outstretched boot; half a yard closer and Tom's drought would've been over in an instant as Fraser Forster left half of his goal open for business.
Saints did a pose a threat from corners nonetheless. Ward-Prowse's wicked delivery evaded all of the congregation party in the six-yard box even with poacher Austin lurking free at the back stick.
Jonas Lössl seemed to lose his footing from the goal-kick which allowed Austin to bear down on goal, but Zanka recovered well in order to put the striker off. Lössl still had to be alert in order to palm away his powerful strike, which Malone mopped up with a no-nonsense headed clearance.
Southampton rallied after making a number of changes with livewires Boufal, Gabbiadini and Hojbjerg joining the action to freshen up the attack. But in the face of fresh, skilful legs, Town's backline stood firm and repelled more or less everything that the talented front-line had to offer.
As the time duration approached, Joe Lolley's relentless drive at the heart of the Saints' defence signalled intentions that Town weren't just going to settle for a point. The second-half performance had been of a superbly high calibre. Town had displayed steely credentials to raise the performance levels away from home and had much the better of the play against a Southampton outfit who were up for the battle having been winless in the previous five matches.
Maya Yoshida could well have snatched it at the end for the South Coast Club, but the Japanese defender smacked the post with his downward header. An accomplished point on the board away from home- and the first ever point at this stadium- which could easily have been turned into all three points. A great festive treat for the travelling contingent from West Yorkshire, and the matches are coming thick and fast with the Boxing Day visit of Stoke City up next.


I am a positive, passionate and loyal person.
I love travelling, meeting new people and exploring new places but also enjoy spending time at home with my family.
I enjoy eating out with friends, going to the theatre and to the cinema. I love the outdoors and one of my favourite pastimes is walking along the coast with my dog – especially if there is a pub with a roaring log fire and a cold glass of wine at the end of it!!
I am looking for a long term relationship with someone genuine, caring and who can make me laugh. Laughter is good for the soul……..
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Events > SIG > Military > Government Contractor M&A In Era of Budget Uncertainty
Government Contractor M&A In Era of Budget Uncertainty
The Military SIG Presents…
An era of widely anticipated budget cuts for defense, intelligence and civilian agencies, changing priorities in the defense sector resulting from draw-downs Iraq and Afghanistan combined with increased attention to the Pacific, and uncertainty over the imposition of temporary de-allocation of contract funding as a result of possible sequestration of funds present an uncertain future for valuations of government contractors. These uncertainties are changing the structure of mergers and acquisitions for these suppliers of goods and services to federal agencies. Other policy changes, including expanded opportunities for small business in federal procurements.
This seminar will address the procurement changes that are being experienced and are likely to be experienced as a result of these changes affecting government contractors business prospects, how these changes are affecting valuations of federal contractors and the M&A environment for these transactions.
You will hear from executives, investment bankers and legal counsel that have recently completed transactions in this environment, and how the federal budget and policy uncertainty is playing out in those deals.
Some other topics that will be explored are:
The acquisition process
The unique features of buying a government contractor
The pricing factors
Douglas Burke
Co-Founder and President, Cognitive Medical Systems
Mr. Burke is co-founder and President of Cognitive Medical Systems. Mr. Burke drives the strategic vision for the Company and manages the Company's Sales, Marketing, and Business Development. Prior to Cognitive Medical Systems, Mr. Burke was the CEO of DefenseWeb Technologies, Inc. from 2003 – 2011. Under Mr. Burke's leadership, after assuming control from the founder in 2003, the company grew dramatically with a cumulative annual growth rate of more than 50 percent in sales and revenues and 100 percent in profit. In 2007, Mr. Burke successfully sold the company to Humana, Inc. (NYSE: HUM), a Fortune 100 healthcare insurance provider.Karen Miles
Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey
Ms. Miles is a Managing Director and heads Houlihan Lokey's Financial Advisory Services business for Southern California. She also heads the firm's Aerospace•Defense•Government Group's financial advisory services business and co-chairs the firm's Technical Standards Committee, which determines the appropriate methodologies for dealing with valuation issues. She is a leader in the firm's West Coast Tax & Financial Reporting Valuation practice. Ms. Miles has over 20 years of experience in valuation and financial consulting, with emphasis on the valuation of businesses, securities and intangible assets. Her experience includes fairness opinions, solvency opinions, purchase price allocations, goodwill impairment analyses, valuations for transactions, financings, gift & estate tax planning, ESOPs, dissolutions and litigation. She has consulted on ownership transition issues and liquidity alternatives.
Ronald Gorda
COO and Vice Chairman of the Board, LinQuest Corporation
Mr. Gorda is the Chief Operating Officer of the LinQuest Corporation and the Vice Chairman of the company's Board of Directors. LinQuest is an employee owned company focused on the engineering development, integration, deployment and operation of state of the art communications and network systems. The company's annual revenue is approximately $115M. Prior to joining LinQuest Mr. Gorda worked for the Titan Corporation from 1991 thru 2005. Mr. Gorda joined Titan as the Vice President of the Linkabit Division and was later promoted to Division President. He was elected a Corporate Senior Vice President in 1993 and President of the company's Information Products Sector in 1999. The Sector's focus was on the design, development and production of state of the art communication systems. The Sector's six Divisions aggregate annual revenue exceeded $250M. Mr. Gorda, and the other members of the corporate management team at Titan, implemented an acquisition and organic growth strategy that resulted in an annual revenue increase from approximately $110M in 1991 to over $2.3B in 2005. Titan's employee count during this period grew from approximately 200 to over 13,000 when Titan was sold in 2005 to the L3 Corporation for over $2.5B.
Partner, Mintz Levin
Mr. Cain is a Partner at the law firm of Mintz Levin has more than 20 years of experience in representing domestic and foreign companies, public-private partnerships, and quasi-government agencies in transactions and litigation involving federal government grants and contracts. Mr. Cain has broad experience in all aspects of government procurement law, including requirements development, design of requests for proposals, contract bidding and negotiation procedures, offer evaluation procedures, intellectual property protection, subcontracting, contract financing, affirmative action, cost accounting standards and audits, procurement integrity, security clearances and classified matters, export controls, and foreign ownership and control of U.S. government contractors. He also has litigated numerous government contract protests and claims before administrative tribunals and the federal courts.
Vice Admiral Walter Davis, USN (Ret.), Board Director, CommNexus
Dan Taylor, Director, BAE Systems, Reserve Officer, United States Marine Corps & Aviator, USMC
Michael Lapadula, Fmr. VP of Strategic Business Development, Qualcomm Inc. Government Technologies Division
Bruce Roberts, Fmr. Sr. VP Security Programs, Cubic Corporation (ret)
October 23rd 2012
3580 Carmel Mountain Road Suite 300
Pre-Registration: (Please pre-register by noon on 10/22/12)
Students, Military & Press: FREE


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package xworker.dataObject;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

import org.xmeta.ActionContext;
import org.xmeta.Thing;

import xworker.dataObject.utils.DataObjectUtil;

public class AbstractDataObject {
	public static List<DataObject> doQuery(ActionContext actionContext){
		Thing self = actionContext.getObject("self");

		List<DataObject> datas = self.doAction("getQueryDataObjects", actionContext);
		if(datas != null) {
			return DataObjectUtil.query(datas, actionContext);
		}else {
			return Collections.emptyList();
		}
	}
}


The paper focuses on domain specific use of MT with a special focus on SMT in the workflow of a Language Service Provider (LSP). We report on the feedback of post-editors using fluency/adequacy evaluation and the evaluation metric 'Usability', understood in this context as where users on a three point scale evaluate the sentence from the point of view of the post-editor. The post-editor profile defined by the LSP is based on the experiences of introducing MT in the LSP workflow. The relation between the Translation Edit Rate (TER) scores and "Usability" scores is tested. We find TER a candidate for an automatic metric simulating the post-editors' usability judgements. LSP tests show 67% saved time in post-editing for the tested domain. Finally, the use of weighted sub-domain phrase tables in a SMT system is shown to improve translation quality.


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Q: How do I clear file if the image size is greater than what i want?  <script type="text/javascript">
    function ValidateSize(file) {
            var FileSize = file.files[0].size / 1024 / 1024; // in MB
            if (FileSize > 2) {
                alert('File size exceeds 2 MB');
                $(file).val(''); //for clearing with Jquery
            } else {

            }
        }
        </script>
     <input onchange="ValidateSize(this)" type="file" id="file">

Here is the code. I desire that if the image size is greater than 2 mb, the image should not append but clear from file. Any help please.