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The twenty-five greatest Cardinals of the last twenty-five years: #12–Edgar Renteria
Our recurring list of the twenty-five greatest Cardinals of the last twenty-five years will run daily leading up to Opening Day 2021. In case you missed it, here are the prior entries.
25. Todd Stottlemyre
24. David Freese
23. Andy Benes
22. Lance Lynn
21. Paul DeJong
20. Tommy Pham
19. Darryl Kile
18. Ryan Ludwick
17. Kolten Wong
16. Carlos Martínez
15. Woody Williams
14. J.D. Drew
13. Brian Jordan
Royce Clayton was a perfectly okay Major League Baseball shortstop. As was typical of the era, he wasn't a great hitter, but he was reliable defensively. In that sense, he was the perfect candidate to replace Ozzie Smith as the starting shortstop of the St. Louis Cardinals. But, like literally every shortstop in history, he wasn't quite Ozzie defensively, and the pressure of being that guy meant he only spent 2 1/2 years with the Cardinals before being traded to the Texas Rangers.
Luis Ordaz was the primary shortstop following Clayton's departure, but the long-term replacement came in late 1998, when the Cardinals acquired Florida Marlins shortstop Edgar Renteria. Unlike Clayton, who could be neatly compared, however inevitably unfavorably, to Ozzie Smith, Renteria was more of an offensive threat. At the time just twenty-two years old, Renteria was an above-average hitter in his age-19 rookie season and whose greatest MLB highlight came when, at 21, he hit a World Series-winning walk-off single to defeat the Cleveland Indians in the 1997 World Series. The season before the Cardinals had acquired him, Renteria was an All-Star.
A player such as Edgar Renteria did not come cheap. The prospect package sent to the Marlins included Braden Looper, two years removed from being drafted third overall by the Cardinals, future MLB reliever Armando Almanza, and future MLB utility player Pablo Ozuna. That Looper became a semi-bust, relegated to relief duty until he was 32 years old, made this trade look like a giveaway in retrospect, but in the moment, it was clear that the Cardinals must have believed in Edgar Renteria.
In 1999, Renteria did see a jump in his power numbers, reaching double-digit home runs for the first time in his career. A .734 OPS is a bit tricky to evaluate when weighing two extenuating factors–the fact that he was doing this while playing shortstop (an offensive suppressor) and the fact that he was doing this while playing in 1999 (an offensive inflator). He made it to his second All-Star Game in 2000, but by and large, Renteria spent his first three seasons in St. Louis treading water. He was fine–mostly good defensively, mostly adequate offensively–but in a generation of superb offensive shortstops (albeit mostly in the American League, with Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, Nomar Garciaparra, and Miguel Tejada), the Edgar Renteria Experience was, if you were feeling greedy, a bit underwhelming.
In 2002, however, Edgar Renteria took a step forward. His walk rate jumped above his career mark and his strikeout rate fell into the single digits. He did so without losing power or speed, and defensively, Renteria was as good as ever. He won a Gold Glove, a Silver Slugger, and received his first career MVP votes. And in 2003, across the board, Renteria was even better. The 2003 Cardinals were arguably the best offensive Cardinals team of the last twenty-five years–they rank second in runs scored, and by Offensive Runs Above Average, which helps weigh for era, they rank first–and Renteria was a huge part of why. No, he wasn't Albert Pujols, Jim Edmonds, Scott Rolen, or even J.D. Drew, but for your Gold Glove-winning shortstop to hit 28% above league average almost feels like cheating. There are legitimately great baseball teams that are perfectly content to play shortstops who hit terribly but can field like Renteria; the Cardinals got the luxury of playing a shortstop who could draw more walks than strikeouts. For the 2002-2003 two-year stretch, the best shortstops in baseball by FanGraphs Wins Above Replacement were Alex Rodriguez, Nomar Garciaparra, and Edgar Renteria.
2004 was a down year for Renteria, if few other Cardinals. His walks went down and his strikeouts went up without any sort of power bump. He was still certainly worth playing–he was good defensively and his offense, while lesser, was around what you might expect from a shortstop. But this would be his final season in St. Louis–a now-28 year-old free agent, Renteria signed with the Boston Red Sox and he began what became something of a transient MLB career. He spent just one season with the Red Sox before being traded to the Atlanta Braves, after which he had stints with the Detroit Tigers, San Francisco Giants, and Cincinnati Reds.
The Cardinals did get a pair of compensation picks for Edgar Renteria–Mark McCormick, a college pitcher who topped out at AA and was out of profesional baseball altogether within three years, and more notably, Colby Rasmus, who was covered in the Honorable Mentions. Rasmus alone likely provided more value for the Cardinals than what the three players traded in 1998 for Renteria ever would have garnered in St. Louis. Edgar Renteria has been a Cardinals Hall of Fame finalist but has not been enshrined, and I suspect probably won't be any time soon. While Renteria is remembered more positively than negatively in St. Louis, he has the disadvantage of never having been all that close to the best player on his team. But I suppose getting to play in a bunch of playoff games was probably a sufficient consolation prize.
Two things summarize Edgar Renteria's career, and despite spending more time and producing more value with the Cardinals than any other team by far, neither happened in St. Louis. One was his aforementioned walk-off hit for the Florida Marlins in Game 7 of the 1997 World Series; the other happened six years after the conclusion of Renteria's Cardinals career, when he made an astonishing run with the San Francisco Giants, with two home runs and a 1.209 OPS on his way to winning 2010 World Series MVP. The World Series highlight of Renteria's Cardinals career is grounding out to Keith Foulke to end the 2004 World Series, a month and a half before he would sign with the team that had just defeated him. Despite his accomplishments, Edgar Renteria will always mean more to fans of other teams than he does to the Cardinals, and that's fine–this just makes him more beloved on the whole. But he will always have a spot in the hearts of fans of the early 2000s Cardinals, some of the most dominant teams in franchise history.
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The MST-CAN International Research Workgroup recently held its annual meeting in London. The purpose of the group is to collaborate across sites on research related to MST-CAN. The meeting had representation from England, Switzerland, Sweden, Holland, and the United States. A number of exciting projects are underway.
MST-CAN sites hold a very high standard to exhibit feasibility of the program, acceptability by workers and families, and clinical outcomes.
This initial research is generally conducted in the first 2 to 4 years of a project when the model is infused into a new culture. The work is intense and comprehensive and the families have complex situations. We want to continue to establish evidence that we are helping.


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Q: Hidden Field Value Blank Thymeleaf I have a thymeleaf form which has 2 hidden fields. I specify the value of the hidden fields using th:value, and I bind these fields to an object.

                <form class="w-clearfix" id="email-form" name="email-form" data-name="Email Form" action="#" th:action="@{/quiz/question}" th:object="${userResponseVO}" method="post">

                        <input class="w-radio-input" id="radio" type="radio" name="answer_sc" th:field="*{answerID}" th:value="${option}"/>

                    <input type="hidden" name="sequenceNo" th:field="*{sequenceNo}" th:value="${sequenceNo}" ></input>
                    <input type="hidden" name="quizID"  th:field="*{quizID}" th:value="${quizID}"></input>
                    <button class="button submit_answr" type="submit">Next Question</button>
                </form>

I want to bind the quizID and sequenceNo fields with the respective fields in the object. Line 6 and 7 correctly resolve the value of sequence number/quiz id and display it. However, the same value is not resolved in the th:value tag inside the form. The value is empty and nothing gets bound to the object fields.

Request your help here.
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The code works when I remove the th:field attribute from the hidden element. But I want to bind it to an object variable, so that the server can process it. `

A: For me helped setting th:field (or actually name) using th:attr
th:value="${question.id}"
th:attr="name='questionIds[' + ${iter.index} + ']'"

In my example I wanted to have value from ${question} but the target in input is questionIDs[i]
In simple problem like your name=answerId should be enough.

A: We can resolve your scenario in 2 ways
1st way:
<input type="hidden" th:value="${question.id}" th:attr="name='quizID'" />

2nd way:
<input type="hidden" th:value="${question.id}" name="quizID" />

If you used thymeleaf th:field="*{sequenceNo}", internal code of thymeleaf works like,

*

*It will check is there any name attribute to particular element, if it is available th:field value overrides on name attribute.
name="sequenceNo"

*It will check is there any id attribute to particular element, if it is not available with the name of th:field value new attribute added on i.e)id.
id="sequenceNo"

A: it seems Thymeleaf does not recognize the hidden fields. in order to fix it, try this:

*

*define the input as text (not as hidden).

*define an the style tag like "display:none" in order to hide the elements from the screen.

The result should be something like this:
<input type="text" th:field="*{parameters[${stat.index}].field}" style="display:none;">

Hope it helps.

A: Supposing you have to collect a comment to a page. Then you must transmit to the controller, besides the comment, the name of the page. Ofcourse, the user don't have to re-enter the name of this page. This information must be passed to controller, but th:field only map the values entered by the user, not the values generated by default.
But you can transmit the name of this page to controller as parameter in URL.
In html, you have something like that:
<form  th:action="@{/saveComment(lastPage=${lastPage})}" th:object="${comments}" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">

 .................................................................................

Enter your comment

            <textarea  th:field="${comments.comment}" rows="10" cols="100" name="comment" id="comment"></textarea>
            Your comment here

            <input type="submit" name ="submit" value="Submit" />

    </form>

In controller, you put stuff like this:

   @PostMapping("/saveComment")
    public String saveComment(Comments comments, String lastPage) {
        comments.setPage_commented(lastPage);
        commentsRepository.save(comments);
        return "redirect:/";
    }

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1- Most Silverlight 4 applications will work with Silverlight 5 without any changes.
2- When breaking changes are required, Silverlight will try to maintain support for the old behavior, as well as the new behavior, by using a quirks mode.
Nevertheless, some changes made to Silverlight components can potentially cause your older Silverlight-based applications to fail (compile time, XAML load time, or possibly design time) or to behave differently.
There are no known breaking changes between Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 5 in the Silverlight core runtime. Applications that were originally compiled using Silverlight 4 tools, and that continue to target the Silverlight 4 runtime, should work without issues on a client that has the Silverlight 5 runtime.
To retarget an existing Silverlight 4 project for the Silverlight 5 runtime specifically, you should change the project targeting in Visual Studio, using the Silverlight Build Options / Target Silverlight Version section of the Visual Studio project configuration dialog. Then, recompile the project.
The latest Silverlight templates are available in Silverlight Toolkit December 2011. This toolkit is the 9th release which is targeting the Silverlight 5's new 3D features.
Microsoft has delivered a new release candidate (RC) of Silverlight 5, a tool for creating and delivering rich Internet media and applications. C# 4 and C# 5 are still the most effective languages for writing the Silverlight 5 RC applications.
Pete Brown, the leader of Microsoft's Developer Guidance Community Team in September 2011, said the Silverlight 5 RC is now available as a developer-only release, and is preparing developers for the final release later this year.
Silverlight 5 builds on the foundation of Silverlight 4 for building business applications and rich media experiences. Among other capabilities, the Silverlight 5 RC has modified video quality and performance, along with other features that improve developer productivity.
These include reduced network latency by using a background thread for networking; XAML parser improvements that speed up start-up and run-time performance; support for 64-bit operating systems; and reduced network latency by using a background thread for networking.
Does the Async CTP work with Silverlight 5 RC?
The Async CTP may work with Silverlight 5 RC, but according to Microsoft's Stephen Toub, works effectively with Slivelight 5 Beta. The recommended procedure is to up a system with Visual Studio 2010 SP1, and install Silverlight 5 Beta and the Async CTP. After all of these installations are completed successfully, you will be able to successfully create and run new SL5 projects that uses Async CTP.


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Better Homes and Gardens Rand Realty Honors Top Agents at Awards Gala
Real Estate In-Depth | April 2019
Better Homes and Gardens Rand Realty recently honored its top agents and celebrated the company's achievements at its Awards Gala. This year's Gala also celebrated the 35th anniversary of Rand Realty, founded in 1984.
"This is the event that our top performers look forward to every year – with each year, bigger and more exciting than the year before," said Matt Rand, CEO of Better Homes and Gardens Rand Realty. "It's a wonderful way to celebrate each of our agents and to recognize the truly amazing accomplishments of our award winners in the world of residential real estate. We are proud to honor the best in the industry for their exceptional talent and skill, along with their tireless efforts, passion and enthusiasm and the outstanding service they give to all clients."
More than 270 of the 1,200 agents in 28 offices were the recipients of the company's prestigious awards. The Legend Award, the highest honor given to a Rand Realty agent, was awarded to two top producers in the White Plains office: Nick Wolff and Dan Luckner. This year's Lifetime Award went to Roberta Bangs and Nancy Lombardo, both from the New City office. Yvonne Regan, Relocation Director in the Nanuet Corporate Office and Melissa Grillo, in the Goshen office, took home this year's Spirit Award.
The top producing agents in their respective regions were also presented with awards, among others:
Rockland County: Margo Bohlin, Top Producer; Terry May and Linda DeFillippo, Outstanding Accomplishment Award.
Westchester County: Top Producers — Trudi Iglesias, Jeanne Beckley and Sherry Wiggs
Orange County: Donna Gennaro, Top Producer; Marion Bruhns, Outstanding Accomplishment Award; Ann Hanson and Debbie Goldstein, Excellence in Sales Award.
New Jersey: Attilio Adamo, Top Producer; Joseph Simone, Outstanding Accomplishment Award; Gene Lowe, Excellence in Sales Award.
Rookie of the Year Award: Nicole Pontebbi (New City, Rockland Co.); James Hogan (Wayne, New Jersey); Jason Dillon (Central Valley, Orange Co); Kimona Hanson (White Plains, Westchester Co.) and Anna Hawley (Yorktown, Westchester Co.).

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Mangaluru Mar 25, 2016: Former Chairman of Syndicate Bank NK Thingalaya inaugurated a workshop on "Social Business in India: Opportunities and Challenges" held at Nitte Education International, Pumpwell Circle on March 25, Friday.
Speaking on the occasion he said social entrepreneurship was already becoming an important branch of social science research and that many business schools across the world have started offering courses on social entrepreneurship.
President of Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry Ram Mohan Pai said that, Globalisation and the consequent liberalization of economy has brought market forces to the centre stage all over the world and created economies dominated by private corporate sectors. Chamber of commerce is involved in social works and it also needs to concentrate in inclusion of Social Business too, he added..
Registrar Nitte University MS Moodithaya said that many plans that are put in paper are not practical. Citing an example, he said though LPG is provided even to households in rural areas, whether some such areas are approachable by road, also needs to be given much attention.
Chairman of SBAN India Dr. Yashwantha Dongre also spoke. Professor Prabhakar and others were present.


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Q: TypeScript implicit any error with Superagent I am using superagent in a TypeScript project and have installed @types/superagent but am seeing a type error I don't understand. Given the following...
const myRequest = request
  .get('/path/to/api')
  .end((err, res) => {
    // Do stuff with err and res
  })

I get these errors for err and res:
Parameter 'err' implicitly has an 'any' type.ts(7006)
Parameter 'res' implicitly has an 'any' type.ts(7006)
But at the same time TypeScript does seem to know the types of these variables because when I hover on them in VSCode it shows the correct types from @types/superagent, as can be seen in the below image.

In the image it shows that it is correctly getting the type of res as request.Response from @types/superagent.
Therefore I don't understand why I am getting these implicit type errors. Is anybody able to explain this to a TypeScript newbie? Thanks :)

A: You are not specifying the type of the parameters. Try the following:
const myRequest = request
  .get('/path/to/api')
  .end((err, res: request.Response) => {
    // Do stuff with err and res
  })


When Lauren Redniss took the stage on Monday night, I wasn't sure what to expect. Not that my expectations were low; I just wasn't sure how, exactly, an hour-long talk could incorporate all of the interesting things about Radioactive. Unlike many other authors, Redniss was charged with the task of discussing not only the process of researching and writing, but also the process of creating the unique artwork and aesthetic that is as integral to the book as the narrative. Redniss explained that she wanted Radioactive to be a "complete object, with every aspect carefully considered." Nothing about the book, she said, is "set on a default setting." She even put in the work of designing her own typeface, in addition to experimenting with a new method of artistic printing, arranging the text to fit the moods and shapes of each individual page, and, of course, actually writing the whole thing. Now she just had to tell us how she did all of it.
It's not often that an author giving a lecture is faced with such a tall order, but Redniss carried it off with aplomb. She began by giving a short summary of the book, and then took us back into the work's very beginnings: her drawings for the New York Times and her first book, Century Girl. From there, she moved into Radioactive itself, beginning with the research and writing and following it up with a discussion of the book's visual elements: not only the cyanotype process itself, but the various sketches and inspirations that eventually found their way into the pages, as well as those that didn't.
If you've been following us on Twitter, you'll have seen that I live-tweeted a few of my favorite lines during the event itself (as often as I could without bugging the people around me!). But there is one line that particularly stood out to me, which I live-tweeted in paraphrase but want to bring up here in its entirety.
There is a kind of cliche about writing, a kind of mantra that's repeated to aspiring writers: write what you know. I'm sure you've heard this. I think about that. I think it could be fine advice, as long as it's not interpreted as, "Don't bother writing anything new, just write about whatever you happen to know already." So I think maybe another way that that advice could be interpreted is, "Go out, pursue what interests you, learn about it, be absorbed in it and immersed in it, and then come back and then write about what you now know."
This, I think, is such a refreshing and useful way to look at writing. Certainly, as Redniss herself pointed out, a great deal of the work that went into Radioactive was learning: being no scientist herself, Redniss had a lot of reading and exploring and thinking to do as she chronicled the life of one of the world's greatest scientists. And I also think that this quote speaks particularly well to the University's Year of Innovation. That's what we're all here for, isn't it?--to innovate, to go out and learn things and immerse ourselves in learning. That was what the Curies did, and it was what Lauren Redniss did, as well. And we should all follow in those footsteps.
If you weren't able to make it to the talk, you can watch a video on our homepage (the link is under "Features"). Unfortunately, the video is not yet captioned, but a captioned version should be available soon. A transcript of the event is also on its way, so please let us know if you are interested in receiving a copy.
For those of you who did come: we hope you enjoyed it, and we'd love to hear your reactions to Redniss's discussion! Let us know what you thought on Twitter, Facebook or in the comments below.


Speaking of Buckyballs, fullerenes, impact craters, and NASA: There is an impact crater lake in Karelia, Russia that is the source of shungite. Shungite is a known source of C-60 fullerenes-in the news lately for nearly tripling the lifespan of rats in a peer reviewed study. NASA recently acquired one or more of the labs manufacturing synthetic C-60 fullerenes, including the one that made the material used in the study. C-60 fullerenes are radio-protective for both ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, and seems to be able to transmute elements. If there is a connection here, am confident you guy's will sleuth it out….
Speaking of buckyballs, fullerenes, impact craters, meteors, and NASA…could not help but to connect a dot or two: NASA's recent purchase of multiple C60 manufacturing facilities, the shungite (natural C-60) bearing crater lake in Karelia, Russia, and the recent peer reviewed research (rat study) showing significantly increased lifespans and radioprotective aspects of C-60 fullerenes.
All of the above is rather plausible, and I applaud it – yet, perhaps there is a nother explanation for NASA's odd wording. When it comes to public announcements, NASA primarily wants to sell itself and draw attention. Nowadays it is victimstories, that draw attention, and so is the wording. Perhaps the sloppy variations in the parenthesis is explained, by what Dr. Farrel calls modern edgykayshun.
Suspicious Observers has been running a series about "micronovas" from our Sun, and how they could produce almost exactly the same signature as asteroid bombardment.
They appear to happen on roughly 12,000 year cycles, and when really bad, can be extinction level events. What if one of the results of the destruction of Tiamat was not only the bombardment of Earth by fragments, but also creating a harmonic imbalance which causes micronova eruptions from the Sun at regular intervals due to the unbalancing of the solar system harmonics inducing and energy buildup which must release on a regular basis – like the geyser Old Faithful?
Part of their research is based on recently declassified intelligence documents from the 50s and 60s which, among other things, suggest that our trips to the Moon were at least partially about checking on this theory and the threat it posed.
The push for massive amounts of wealth and population to generate even more wealth could be to build up a strong enough technology base to allow a more significant number to survive and start up again with more technological advantage. They would want to keep the majority of people in the dark to prevent mass hysteria.
Blaming the evidence on occasional bombardments would be a way to pull attention away from people thinking about a cyclical event.
If we can assume, for a moment, that the Cosmic War hypothesis has merit and at least one planet was exploded in that war (or series of wars) thus creating the current version of our Solar System in place. There may well be some reason to think your cyclical argument is indeed valid.
From what I remember in my readings our solar system orbits the Milky Way galaxy in the distant suburbs in a rather uneven and variable orbit. In other words, if drifts along the orbital plane in such as way that sometimes its orbit is above, whereas at other times its orbit is below imaginary line defining the galaxy's equator. When this(these) planet(s) exploded it would have created a massive debris field in all directions–with the possibility that some of the kinetic energy released would shove some of them beyond the gravitational pull of the Sun but not the galaxy itself. The angular momentum of their galactic orbit would eventually cause the debris to stabilize in new orbits around its core in zones that would be reachable as the solar system completes one of its circuits back into the field as it bobs along the cosmic ocean of space. When the solar system drifts into the path of these objects they may well indeed become locked into new orbits with the planets, wander back into the solar system, and collide with the remaining bodies present in our solar system. Again, the idea of the ocean is summoned since all drift wood eventually reaches the shore by tides as long as it drifts near the top of the ocean's surface. In other words, the literary tradition doesn't force us to embrace the war or catastrophist model–but forces us to consider them as a related. The literary tradition doesn't just imply the same–but practically makes the case that the latter is a consequence of cosmic war raged in local space. One even has to consider this linkage as a future warning to those survivors and their progeny to think twice about attempting this again.
If one takes this speculation seriously one also has to acknowledge that the progeny of these survivors have long forgotten the lessons they were once taught and are just as determined to follow the path of destruction as their forebears. In eternity others may observe that the progeny of the human races always commits atrocities of greater significance than their fathers as the fruits of spiritual decay accelerate with each passing generation. Because of their secrecy the PTB have long abandoned the path of reason. If love of money is the root of all evil, the desire to traffic secrets in pursuit of deity is the heart of all sin. This present lot of the PTB are among homo sapiens sapiens chiefest of sinners. Unlike those of Hitler, Mao and Stalin, we just haven't had the chance to tally their body count. The current lot's body count is rising and should soon eclipse the numbers for the former. Though I am genuinely no pessimist the signs for predicting future historical weather do not look favorable.
Thanks, goshawks. By your comments you understand the premise, though I cannot take credit for it. I'm not sure to whom to bestow that credit.
If our solar system oscillates, was this a product of a natural occurrence? Or, is it the wave-form, a signature, that might describe what type of event created it? If planet(s) were exploded with sufficient energy output would it essentially "thump" the fabric of space time enough to create an oscillating effect? After all, if you thump the gravitational wave forms along the orbital plane within the local system it would affect every other body in that system to some degree, causing it to oscillate also. Having the largest mass and greatest gravitational influence the sun would eventually stabilize the oscillation rates of bodies within the local system, but not the system itself. It would continue to oscillate. I believe this is one of the observations made in ancient times through the discovery, and the recording, of the procession of our solar system against the galaxy. That waveform would be traceable by astronomical methods and measurements. These would be the type of things that Marduk would want to examine if the ancient literature represents a war epic and he was interested in determining the short-term and long-term effects of their decision to blow up one (or more) planets.
has anyone heard of douglas vogt and diehold foundation?
my friends at gootube felt i need to see it. seems like douglas' impending cyclical polar and rotational reversal is the super top secret our cog is prepping and prepped for – with our resources past present and future. that would splain the bald frantic nature of their in our face lies. why not start banning books and mandating genocidal medical procedures?
No doubt the reversal's coming.
Wonder how CERN interfaces w/this polar shift?
Y'all better chock your feet. The headline on the latest National Geographic magazine (Rupert Murdoch) says, "We Are Not Alone".
A shift in topic here……South Africa. Sarah Westall did an excellent interview with Dr. Harry Booyens about his book, "AmaBhulu"; kind of a first hand account of what happened in his country. White Farmers are still being killed & their land confiscated by the gov't.
After a 376 year history, their land is simply being taken & the white farmers are having to form vigilante groups to protect themselves. White Lives matter too, don't they?????
yep. watched that too. odd to think of whites from somewhere else than europe.
feels like more than a few details are being left out of whatever narratives are being trickled to us. asteroids seem misleading coming and going. especially since 99.95% of those craters ever sited anywhere (moon earth anywhere) are round. what are the odds of all perpendicular hits by incoming objects all the time everywhere? especially on the side of the moon facing earth.
so another mechanism (electric discharge machining) might indicate a different history. either natural forces acting interplanetarily or weaponized energy acting on thinks like vaporized building scaled up a bit larger. more than a few magnitudes bigger of a rod of a deity. bigger than what left silverstein's smoking holes in ny or that bigger hole in that millitary research city in china.
something that electromagnetically harnesses the power of the earth's molten metal rotating core and the plasma flow from the sun. something that might help violently equalizing gapped electric charges.
Wasn't that The Cosmic War To End All Cosmic Wars?
That one certainly did a better job than WWI.
They've already been planting alien-invasion seeds.
Don't tell me criminals are coming to take over other criminal operations. Which mafia's going to win. Maybe they'll all gang up on the public, steel whatever they got. Murder them in mass. Then divide up the spoils. But, could they trust themselves? Let alone others?
The PKD story that was used as the basis for Total Recall?
At the very end of that story, Douglas Quail turns out to have been intimately connected to an advance alien civilization. In fact, it's learned, that as soon as Douglas dies; a signal will be sent, and the invasion will commence.
Now there's an insurance policy!
Hey, has anybody checked on any recent double indemnity insurance policies for Silverstein Properties?
This Island Earth anyone I know it's a mid-fifties film the weapons of choice in the film are comets.
"ancient cosmic war" paradigm, in order to get prepared for a future one … preparation ? or prime the pump for budget $$$$$$ ?? There may be no "there" there, but if we think there is a "they", much easier to entrain the masses. Natural processes, not so much a boogie man.
Under (1), humanity is purely the victim of a cold, uncaring universe. An asteroid/comet could rain down on us at any time (although infrequently). Under (2), we begin to see the possibility of a Samson Option in space. Suppose that 99942 Apophis – a near-earth asteroid that has a near-intersecting orbit so close to Earth that a 2036 collision was feared for a time – is a Samson Option. If you were a SSP/BC wanting to keep Earth-bound 'vassals' under control, having the ability to drop an asteroid on them would be handy.
Under (3), we begin to sample the fruits of the universe – good and bad. Remember that 'hit' of 250 million-years-ago that wiped out 90% of life on Earth? One entity's catastrophe is another entity's terraforming. Remember that 'hit' of 65 million-years-ago that led to the extinction of roughly 3/4 of species that existed at that time, including the dinosaurs? One entity's catastrophe is another entity's terraforming.
I tend to lean towards the "it's a big universe" scenario of (3). The fact that NASA is possibly 'hinting' toward the same is intriguing.
This story reminds me of what John Brandenburg said about Mars.
The story here from 5 years ago.
Revelation tells us Jesus will return to "harvest" the blood of mankind (Rev 14). This is eerily similar to the plot of "Jupiter Jones". Jesus says he will flatten the mountains and kill one third of mankind.
Is the Space Force preparations for this war? Is this why there has been no "alien disclosure". That, the elite fear the repercussions it would have among Muslims, Jews, & Christians if it were disclosed that they are preparing a defense against GOD.
If God is who He says He is, there is no adequate defense. What He can create with a word, He can just as easily make disappear with a word.
If they are not God and his Angels, they might be able to put up a good showing; but I have my doubts that they would win. While any aliens might not be a million years ahead of us technologically, they wouldn't have to be much ahead of us to make a huge difference. You simply cannot travel the distance with a mother ship large enough to hold an invasion force without better technology.
We have no concrete proof that we have solved the problems which prevent us from visiting our neighbor in the Solar System. All we have is speculation and conjecture.
WD your comments are spot-on. Perhaps lore is more history than imagination and there really WERE "gods" on Earth for a time. Maybe they're still here but not visible to us for any reason. I've often mused about who is really pulling the strings around the world.
BTW Farsight's 2nd installment in their RVing 9/11 has now been made public. It's a whopper!


One day in 1983, my dad asked me a question over dinner after a long day at work.
He wanted to know what I knew about a little computer company called Microsoft. It was the brainchild of the son of one of his partners at Bogle & Gates, William H. Gates, Sr.
But I did tell my dad that I loved using MS-DOS in the computer lab with my friends. I was a card-carrying member of the nerd herd back in the day, so I spent a lot of time there and knew Microsoft's fledgling PC-based software pretty well.
My grandmother Mimi, though, had a different point of view. You've heard me mention her before.
She's the one who was widowed at an early age and became a savvy global investor long before people ever thought to look at the bigger picture.
Mimi didn't care that the buzz was about the MS-DOS language or even about computers. Having grown up in the Depression, she believed that what people would do with the technology was far more valuable.
She said she had confidence that Sr.'s son, Bill Gates Jr., understood this — which is why she invested heavily in the Microsoft IPO in 1986. Enough said.
Ballmer took over Microsoft 12 years ago when the stock was about $60. Now it struggles to maintain $30. Microsoft has $58.16 billion in cash and this is the best Steve Ballmer can do?
Office and Windows are dying. Once the business world's de facto standard, both are being replaced by cheap, easy-to-operate software, much of which is actually free as well as compatible. This is a big problem considering that, according to the Wall Street Journal, roughly 85% of Microsoft's revenue is coming from just two products: Windows and Office.
The company isn't innovating fast enough or aggressively enough. What's more, it's attempting to compensate for its own shortcomings with increasingly ill-conceived acquisitions. For instance, Microsoft forked over $605 million for 18% of the Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader and still has no real ability to compete with Amazon's Kindle. It also couldn't seal the deal with Yahoo. Despite a sizable head start using Yahoo's core search technology, Bing has a mere 15% of the search market today. Ballmer waited nearly four years to respond to the iPad and his "Surface" tablet was ho-hum when it could have been jaw dropping. One more: Microsoft paid $8.5 billion in cash for Skype. Apparently the fact that Skype was not profitable didn't matter. Ballmer's track record suggests to me that he buys businesses that nobody else "must have."
Microsoft's Internet offerings remain wannabes and are highly priced at that. Take Yammer. Microsoft just paid $1.2 billion through the nose to acquire a company that was valued at $600 million last fall when it raised $85 million in a venture offering. Team Ballmer plans to integrate it into Office on the assumption that somehow the Microsoft marriage will endear the brand to customers anxious to socialize business. I think they're delusional. Most Microsoft users I know, including myself, are actively planning to move away from the legacy software we've used for years the first instant we can in favor of software we actually like to use!
Microsoft spent $26 billion on research over the last three years. Meanwhile, Apple spent $5.54 billion and managed to crank out products light years better than anything Microsoft has come up with. No question which group of shareholders is getting the most bang for the buck.
Windows 8 is a wreck. Versions I have played with are so unintuitive as to defy belief. There is neither a Control Panel nor a Start menu. It seems to me that very few people actually love their Windows anymore the way Apple users love their Mac OS.
Ballmer can't do a product launch without jumping around the stage like a Planet of the Apes extra according to Joel Hruska of ExtremeTech. No doubt an apt description if you've ever seen him do his thing– albeit not a very flattering one. That's a problem. Ballmer doesn't appear to do anything without appearing sweaty and uncomposed. His competitors look calm, cool and collected. The late Steve Jobs wrote the book on creating real excitement for users, not just inwardly-focused developers who give birth to successive generations of questionable products. Who would you trust is the question posed at the end of this video. Not a tough call in my mind.
Spellbound nerds, once the company's backbone, appear to be an endangered species. If you want to see the future, look at what teens are using and writing. Apple now allows teens as young as 13 to participate in its developer's conference, where thousands of people learn about upcoming offerings (and help take the company to new heights).
A child of the Depression, Mimi knew how to cut to the chase. She was acutely aware of the need to identify companies that did too.
Those who weren't acting in the best interests of their shareholders and maximizing their investments had no place in her portfolio.
Nor mine…which is why I don't own Microsoft today and haven't for years.
Mimi's sage advice has appeared in Keith's columns before. In this article, she reasoned that when an investment or a trend began making the rounds over drinks, it was time to move on. In fact, she used to call it the "country club" test.
I agree with all eight of your points, and I think you could have ended point 6 with an even more general statement that 'Nobody likes Microsoft'. Yes we were all hooked on Microsoft for years when they were the only game in town, but we didn't love them for it – we felt exploited and trapped. And now even if we haven't yet managed to kick the Windows and Internet Explorer habit, we really don't want to let our abuser get an even bigger hold on us.
So what's your point Keith? It's been apparent for years what a looser monkey boy is, at this stage, in my opinion, it's to late for Microsoft to recover.
The intro of the Surface product defies belief. They might as well have shown everyone a painted wooden slab. They wouldn't hardly even let the journalists touch the devices and they wouldn't let ANYONE use the keyboard/cover which blathered about for the whole 45 minute presentation.
And of course, no price, no battery life and no delivery date. 30 months after the iPad was announced.
I stopped using all Microsoft products in 1999. It was the best I-T decision I ever made. Since then, I have had zero viruses, zero malware, ran zero anti-virus, bought no additional utility or security software, paid zero I-T consultant fees, had almost no downtime, was more productive, and enjoyed computing very much. In fact, using Apple gear from 1999–2009 was like watching my home baseball team win the pennant 4 out of 5 years, including 2 World Series wins (which actually happened to me.) Not only were the products great and paid for themselves almost immediately, but the clinic of genius that Apple put on was just plain entertaining!
These days, I carry an iPhone and iPad everywhere, and I use them to write music and lyrics on the road. I get more and better work done than if I had a giant Windows PC with me, and I carry only 700 grams of tech. I'm in the 21st century the whole time. Over 10 years of Mac OS X and over 5 years of iOS at this point. I'm drinking the milkshakes of my Microsoft-using colleagues and competitors. I did a freelance job at a company and I brought my own Mac and did so much more work than they were expecting (at an all-Microsoft shop) that they started letting some Windows users go. That was like 2007. These days, I easily do 10x the work of a Windows user. It's a SCANDAL. When you watch RIMM and Nokia go out of business, remember they are Windows users all the way. That contributed greatly to them not just being too far behind, but not even knowing it.
I'm in complete agreement about moving to another O/S away from windows. Microsoft is forcing me to make the move. There was a time when I liked windows simply because I was used to the windows system and had no desire to learn a new system. Well it seems Microsoft comes out with a new O/S every couple years now forcing me to learn the system all over again…. so why not move to a free O/S? Microsoft is pushing their customers right out the window. Do I own MSFT? NEVER….
Just to clarify one point you made – Windows 8 does in fact have a control panel. Actually, it has 2 of them – the usual Windows one, accessible in exactly the same place it always was – and a new Metro version, supporting a more limited set of configuration in a more intuitive way directly from Metro. Not sure where you got the idea that control panel is gone?
Yes, controversially, the Start menu as it previously existed is removed, and replaced with the Metro screen (which is now what you see when you use the "start" button on your keyboard or device).
When users move to Windows 8, they will need to either get familiar with the new Metro changes, or use tweaks to restore the old Windows 7 way of doing things such as getting the Start menu back. But don't dismiss it until you really give it a try – sometimes change is good!
WHAT OFTEN HAPPENS WHEN A STAR FADES (and the lights go out).
Microsoft and countless other tech darlings of the go-go nineties and some large S&P companies such as GE have never recovered anything close to the valuations of their former glory days. Similarly, stellar mutual funds like Fidelity Magellan have not regained their performance once held under star portfolio manager Peter Lynch (who coined the investment method called: " Buy What You Know").
Companies whose founder was the primary driver of growth and success often become very mediocre when the "star" leaves the scene. Steve Ballmer simply could not possibly fill the shoes of founder Bill Gates. According to the late, former Chairman of the Board of the former Atlantic Richfield Company, Mr. Thorton Bradshaw, " once a company attains a certain size, the job of the CEO becomes largely one of maintanence").
Anotherwords, successful companies who become very large eventually take-on bureaucratic characteristics. Therefore, Steve Ballmer is a private sector corporate bureaucrat. ( I think Steve Ballmer looks like a dead-ringer for Uncle Fester of the Addams Family).
"Anotherwords"?, did you mean "In other words"?


As light pollution impacts are many and affect various aspects, solutions to reduce this nuisance are just as varied. The idea of reducing light pollution is often interpreted as a need to stop lighting our environment at night, which is far from reality: Reducing light pollution simply means to better light our environment.
Large scale dark sky protection will be achieved by concerted efforts in an area, like it was done in dark sky reserves and parks around the world. In this case, awareness-raising of officials and communities, implementation of regulation relevant to lighting and proper luminaire installation are desirable for the purpose of preserving the darkness of the night.
However, everyone can easily help this cause, first by being aware of the negative effects of light pollution and also by adopting sound lighting practices at home, whether in rural or urban areas.
Choose luminaires that produce low-keyed and constant lighting, with not too excessive light intensity. This will let the eye better adapt to ambient brightness while ensuring necessary visibility and site security.
Choose luminaires whose luminous flux is oriented towards the area to be lighted. Don't forget that light emitted towards the sky does not help to see better and that light emitted towards the horizon contributes to glare.
Time and length of use of light fixtures must also be considered. Install a timer, a motion detector, or simply always turn off the lights before going to bed... the idea is to use only the lighting you need.
Give preference to amber light sources over white ones, which are more harmful to sky glow and health, due to their large proportion of blue light.
All these solutions have been put in place with the creation of Mont-Mégantic International Dark Sky Reserve. For example, Cobrahead type street luminaires, with protruding diffusing lens were replaced with Helios type fixtures with flat lens, allowing for elimination of light spills towards the sky or the horizon.
Moreover, intensities initially used were often way above real needs. Lighting power was generally reduced by half, producing less glaring and more constant light, favouring security while realizing important savings.
In all cases, high pressure sodium lamps (HPS) were used as opposed to halogen metal vapour and mercury lamps for a better luminous efficacy and a lower proportion of blue light. Blue light is the one that diffuses the most in atmosphere and compromises the most star gazing. Therefore, all sources of white lights are to be avoided in order to reduce the impacts of light pollution. In the MMIDSR territory, many farm mercury security lights and industry halogen metal vapour lamps were replaced by sodium lamps.
The impact on a village like La Patrie was astounding! Seen from a distance, the amount of visible light and the impact on the dark starry sky has enormously diminished, but in the village itself, streets are better lighted by more secure lighting, less glaring, and less intrusive for villagers. Moreover, the use of a timer on church fixtures allows it to keep adequate heritage lighting early in the night, but to turn off the lights when there is no further need.
With these solutions, today the whole region benefits from significant energy savings, warmly lighted nights and a sky with thousands of stars.


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On the complexity of LR(k) testing
By Harry B. Hunt, Thomas G. Szymanski, Jeffrey D. Ullman
Communications of the ACM, December 1975, Vol. 18 No. 12, Pages 707-716
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The problem of determining whether an arbitrary context-free grammar is a member of some easily parsed subclass of grammars such as the LR(k) grammars is considered. The time complexity of this problem is analyzed both when k is considered to be a fixed integer and when k is considered to be a parameter of the test. In the first case, it is shown that for every k there exists an O(nk+2) algorithm for testing the LR(k) property, where n is the size of the grammar in question. On the other hand, if both k and the subject grammar are problem parameters, then the complexity of the problem depends very strongly on the representation chosen for k. More specifically, it is shown that this problem is NP-complete when k is expressed in unary. When k is expressed in binary the problem is complete for nondeterministic exponential time. These results carry over to many other parameterized classes of grammars, such as the LL(k), strong LL(k), SLR(k), LC(k), and strong LC(k) grammars.
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The Ithaca College Cheerleading Team and Pulse took turns auctioning off their members, and most women went up onstage in groups of two and three.
By Yena Seo — Contributing Writer
Donning dresses and skirts and sporting high-heeled shoes, members of the Ithaca College Cheerleading Team and Pulse, the college's only exclusive hip-hop team, hosted a joint date auction in IC Square on Feb. 6. The auction was held as a fundraiser for both teams to attend the National Cheerleaders Association & National Dance Alliance Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championship from April 8–12 in Daytona Beach, Florida.
The auction was the second fundraiser hosted by the teams this week, with a previous fundraising event held at The Moonshadow Tavern on Feb. 4. Senior twin sisters Jasmine and Jennifer Spearman, members of the cheerleading team and Pulse, respectively, served as emcees for the event and came up with the idea for the auction after watching the television show, "Hellcats," a cheerleading television show that used to air on the CW network.
"They were raising money for Nationals, just like we are," Jasmine, who serves as the vice president of the cheerleading team, said. "I knew then that I wanted to participate in something like that, so we finally made it happen."
The two teams took turns auctioning off their members, and most women went up onstage in groups of two and three. Mini-biographies were read for each woman, to the amusement of team and audience members. The biographies included each woman's interests, hobbies and what kind of date she would take the highest bidder on.
"The girls' bios were more humorous and less serious, and it was fun hearing the audience's reactions to them," freshman Nicolette Tigno, a member of the cheerleading team, said. "But it was awkward when a girl would be up there and no one would say anything or bid on her because her friends hadn't come yet."
While the first few women were auctioned off for bids in the single digits, both bids and energy increased throughout the course of the event, with several "bidding wars" occurring throughout the night. Several dozen people were in the audience and many of the winning bids came from friends of team members.
"I know I, along with many of my teammates, felt uncomfortable with the idea of being auctioned off to a random stranger, so a lot of the team brought roommates and friends to bid on them," freshman Kaitlyn Crobar, a member of the cheerleading team, said.
Each team auctioned off 14 women. At the end of the event, Ithaca College Cheerleading raised $310, while Pulse made $363. The highest bidder was freshman Demi Philibert, who bid $60 for a date with freshman Pulse member Shalice Hunt.
Despite most of the audience members being friends of the women being auctioned, several audience members voiced their concerns about the auction both before and after the event, feeling uncomfortable with the nature of the event and believing that the auction contributed to the objectification of women.
"As a concept, the auction was basically the closest thing to slavery that you could pass off as a fundraiser," freshman Tyler Sapp, who attended the auction, said. "You could make the argument that it was 'all in good fun' or 'for a cause,' but the girls didn't really have a choice."
Members of the cheerleading team and Pulse disagreed with such sentiments, and said male students from Ithaca College athletic teams could also host such an event, and that team members tried to ensure that the women felt comfortable with the bids being made on them. Last February, VIC Radio hosted a "Find a Friend" speed dating auction, which included male and female participants.
"I don't think that the date auction was objectifying women, because it could have just as easily been one of the men's teams at our school auctioning off its players for dates," Crobar said. "In a couple cases, random people bid on some of my teammates, so we tried to outbid them so that they were not forced to go on a date with a complete stranger."
At the end of the event, members from both the cheerleading team and Pulse were excited about the money they had raised through the event, which will go toward uniforms, transportation and other costs associated with attending Nationals.
"At first, I wasn't sure if we would raise enough because college students don't have a lot of money," Tigno said. "Afterwards, I thought it was a good idea, and we raised more money than I thought we would get."
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Spanish ports meet Ecoports' PERS standard
Port of Ceuta. Credit: HrAd [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]
European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO)
EcoPorts
Spain's Port of Ceuta has achieved EcoPorts' environmental management standard, PERS, for the first time as it aims to improve its environmental transparency.
Port of Melilla in Spain and Shannon Foynes Port Company in Ireland have also renewed their PERS certification. Isabelle Ryckbost, ESPO's secretary general; Eamonn O'Reilly, ESPO's chairman; and Sotiris Raptis, EcoPorts coordinator, handed over the PERS certificates to the ports' representatives during the annual ESPO conference in Livorno.
"I would like to congratulate Port of Ceuta for getting EcoPort's environmental standard and Shannon Foynes Port Company and Port of Melilla for renewing it," said Ms Ryckbost. "European ports are clearly stepping up their efforts to communicate about their environmental policies and to engage with the surrounding citizens and community."
She added: "The 2019 citizen wants to be better informed and is more engaged. Ports have to respond with more transparency regarding both externalities and environmental performance, but also have to show how the port in its different functions and responsibilities can contribute to the well-being of the city, the region and the citizen."
Compliance with the PERS standard is independently assessed by Lloyd's Register and the certificate has a validity of two years. PERS is revised after the two-year period to make sure that the port continues to meet the requirements.
Two Tallink Grupp ships have become the first vessels to be supplied with electricity by the new shore power facility at the Port of Stockholm to reduce the air pollution they generate....
First ships connect to Stockho... 27/06/19
A project to lengthen the tracks at the Port of Southampton's Solent Rail Terminal has been completed and aims to reduce lorry movements in the city by 180,000 each year....
Rail extension takes trucks of... 25/06/19
ABP South Wales has rescued a swarm of bees and rehomed them in the Port of Cardiff's apiary as part of its commitment to biodiversity....
ABP rescues bees in Cardiff 10/06/19


Trees Of Eternity came into being when Juha Raivio (Swallow The Sun) and Sweden based singer Aleah got together in the latter part of 2008 to work on a song for the upcoming Swallow The Sun album New Moon. The plan was to to feature Aleah's vocals on part of a song already prepared by Juha, but when they instead began to experiment with a vocal line Aleah had written for the occasion the session quickly headed off in a new direction and the project took on a life on its own.
During summer and autumn 2009 the band worked on completing the demo productions for a four song promo, now available for listening on the band's MySpace page.
While label negotiations take place, work on songs for the album will continue, and samples will be added to this page as work progresses.
The full line-up for the final version of Trees Of Eternity is not yet in place, but so far plans are to include Tobias Sidegård (Necrophobic) on bass and Mike Hellmaker (Maleficio) as second guitarist. Current drums are programmed only for demo purposes!
It sounds like something that I would be interested in. I enjoy the band Swallow the Sun.


Photograph depicts two men purchasing items in foreground, facing away from photographer. Unknown woman stands at till behind counter in midground, wearing long white professional jacket. Stocked shelves on wall in background. Store appears to be stocked with groceries and general supplies.
Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "-2".


You can buy a black blazer at Men's Warehouse. You can probably find a couple of little white Westies on adoptapet.com. The beard? Just grow one. But to get them all in one place and then go home in a new or used Mark Jacobson Toyota, your only option is Mark Jacobson Toyota. The INDY's favorite hatchback huckster has starred in so many nutty commercials for his Durham dealership that we can't even. They run the gamut from mildly hokey to clinically insane (there's one where he springs from hiding in the backseat of a woman's car, to illustrate how he's always there for you). He knows it, playing up a noisy, slick-talking character seemingly cast adrift from the Wild West days of local-access cable. Just know that you can Google "Mark Jacobson bobbleheads," "Mark Jacobson A Few Good Men parody," and "Mark Jacobson washing dogs" and expect amusing, annoying results.


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When Shoes For Crews was the corporate/presenting sponsor of the the local JDRF walk, the CEO asked me personally to create his teams walk t-shirts. Not only did I say "yes!", I designed the charity walk t-shirts pro bono.
Below are my two award-winning designs for the years in which Shoes For Crews was the corporate/presenting sponsor of the West Palm Beach walk to cure juvenile diabetes. Each design won first place in the Corporate Walk design category.
For this year's sports-related theme, I illustrated a vintage baseball look with the corporate colors of Shoes For Crews. My tagline of "bring home the cure" completes the baseball theme. The CEO liked it so much, he paid the printer to upgrade to the classic ringer tee.
This year's shirt was a music theme. My concept was a silhoutte of iconic Beatles Abbey Road in the JDRF official colors. My tagline of "Imagine a world without diabetes" ties back into the Beatles theme.
The JDRF host liked the design so much that she requested one for herself!
Shirt back side with the JDRF colors.


These male Snow Leopard cubs are the latest success story in the Bronx Zoo's participation in the Snow Leopard Species Survival Plan, overseen by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. 99% of my reasons for posting these baby animals are related to factors like cuteness, adorability, and other important things, but the truth is that many of these animals' wild populations are under threat, and the Species Survival Plan contributes in many ways to slow the extinction of some amazing animals. So at least 47% of my reasons for posting about these animals are intended to educate and promote conservation, which gives us 146% percent of good reasons. That's a lot more % than you'll get anywhere else!
The cubs and their mother made their public debut in their state-of-the-art, award-winning exhibit, which closely resembles the Himalayan habitat of their wild relatives. I have written about Snow Leopards in my Caturday series.


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Q: Supremum of Partial Sum of Normal Variables Suppose $\{X_n\}$ is a sequence of independent standard normal distributions. $\alpha,\lambda>1$ is a fixed real numbers. Let $S_n = \sum_{i=1}^n X_i$, and $f(x) = \sqrt{2x\log(\log(x))}$ (many of the werid setup has to do with other parts of the problem). I would like to show that
$$P((\sup_{\lambda^k\leq j\leq\lambda^{k+1}} S_{j-\lfloor\lambda^k\rfloor})\geq\alpha f(\lambda^k))\sim_{k\to\infty}2P(S_{\lfloor\lambda\rfloor^{k+1}-\lfloor\lambda^k\rfloor}\geq\alpha f(\lambda^k))$$
Through imitation of Etemadi's inequality, I have shown that
$$P((\sup_{\lambda^k\leq j\leq\lambda^{k+1}} S_{j-\lfloor\lambda^k\rfloor})\geq\alpha f(\lambda^k))\leq2P(S_{\lfloor\lambda^{k+1}\rfloor-\lfloor\lambda^k\rfloor}\geq\alpha f(\lambda^k))$$
Here is what I did: let
$$A_j=\{\sup_{\lambda^k\leq i<j}S_{j-\lfloor\lambda^k\rfloor}<\alpha f(\lambda^k)\cap S_{j-\lfloor\lambda^k\rfloor}\geq \alpha f(\lambda^k)\}$$
Then there is $$\{\sup_{\lambda^k\leq j\leq\lambda^{k+1}} S_{j-\lfloor\lambda^k\rfloor}\geq\alpha f(\lambda^k)\} = \cup_{\lambda^k\leq j\leq \lambda^{k+1}}A_j$$
And additionally $\{A_j\}$ are disjoint. Thus
\begin{align}
&P((\sup_{\lambda^k\leq j\leq\lambda^{k+1}} S_{j-\lfloor\lambda^k\rfloor})\geq\alpha f(\lambda^k))\\
&=P(\cup_{\lambda^k\leq j\leq \lambda^{k+1}}A_j)=\sum_{\lambda^k\leq j\leq \lambda^{k+1}}P(A_j)\\
&=P((\cup_{\lambda^k\leq j\leq \lambda^{k+1}}A_j)\cap S_{\lfloor\lambda^{k+1}\rfloor-\lfloor\lambda^k\rfloor}\geq\alpha f(\lambda^k))+P((\cup_{\lambda^k\leq j\leq \lambda^{k+1}}A_j)\cap S_{\lfloor\lambda^{k+1}\rfloor-\lfloor\lambda^k\rfloor}<\alpha f(\lambda^k))\\
&\leq P(S_{\lfloor\lambda^{k+1}\rfloor-\lfloor\lambda^k\rfloor}\geq\alpha f(\lambda^k))+P(\cup_{\lambda^k\leq j\leq \lambda^{k+1}}(A_j\cap S_{\lfloor\lambda^{k+1}\rfloor-\lfloor\lambda^k\rfloor}<\alpha f(\lambda^k)))\\
&\leq P(S_{\lfloor\lambda^{k+1}\rfloor-\lfloor\lambda^k\rfloor}\geq\alpha f(\lambda^k))+P(\cup_{\lambda^k\leq j\leq \lambda^{k+1}}(A_j\cap S_{\lfloor\lambda^{k+1}\rfloor-\lfloor\lambda^k\rfloor}-S_{j-\lfloor\lambda^k\rfloor}<0))\\
&=P(S_{\lfloor\lambda^{k+1}\rfloor-\lfloor\lambda^k\rfloor}\geq\alpha f(\lambda^k))+\sum_{\lambda^k\leq j\leq \lambda^{k+1}}P(A_j)P(S_{\lfloor\lambda^{k+1}\rfloor-j}<0)\\
&=P(S_{\lfloor\lambda^{k+1}\rfloor-\lfloor\lambda^k\rfloor}\geq\alpha f(\lambda^k))+\frac{1}{2}\sum_{\lambda^k\leq j\leq \lambda^{k+1}}P(A_j)
\end{align}
This is very similar to the standard proof of Etemadi's inequality, the only difference is that since $S_{j-\lfloor\lambda^k\rfloor}$ is normal, the probability of it being less than $0$ is $\frac{1}{2}$, which gives the last equality. But I don't know how to estimate in the other direction. Any help is appreciated. Many thanks in advance!