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Occasionally accurate. Always wrong.
Note (12/2015): Hi there! I'm taking some time off here to focus on other projects for a bit. As of October 2016, those other projects include a science book series for kids titled Things That Make You Go Yuck! -- available at Barnes and Noble, Amazon and (hopefully) a bookstore near you!
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Relativity: you can't choose your family, but you can pick your physics.
I've learned a little about the theory — actually, theories — of relativity.
(Obviously only "a little"; I've never learned a lot about anything.)
Of course, I got a little confused about the word "relativity". Seeing as how it sounds like "relatives", I initially thought the physics professor was talking about my family. The parallels are so strong, in fact, it took me three lectures to figure out the problem. Maybe your relatives are different. Judge for yourself:
First, there are two kinds. You've got "general" relativity, and then there's relativity that's… "special". Like Aunt Eunice, who leaves her girdle by the table after family dinners. Or cousin Gene, whose clan has watched "A Christmas Story" several thousand too many times.
(Apparently, there's now a new-ish thing called "doubly special relativity" or "extra-special relativity". Some physicists must have talked to Nana after her three helpings of rum fruitcake.)
Just as families make no sense, neither do the two names for types of relativity. "General" relativity actually only covers one specific thing: gravity. I thought this meant the gravitation of parents and grandparents around you when you visit for Christmas, asking things like, "You're not wearing that, are you?" And "When are you going to find a job?" And "Who ate all my damned fruitcake?"
I found out later it was a different kind of gravitation, and apparently it doesn't work the way Isaac Newton or anyone else thought it did. The way Einstein figured gravity led to some pretty oddball predictions about the universe: spacetime must be curved rather than consistent, gravity can slow time and bend light, and black holes could exist that suck up all matter and light nearby.
These were all pretty outlandish notions when they were hypothesized back in the early 20th century. But as we've sorted out ways to precisely measure and explore such things, they've all turned out to be real. Who's loopy on fruitcake now, classical physicists?
Of course, that leaves "special" relativity to explain everything else — a common occurrence at my family's holiday parties. If you want to hear what's wrong with kids today, where you ought to put your money or how the "gubment" ought to be run, just pull up a chair (and a tall stiff eggnog) and listen to the "special" relatives dish out a dose of "wisdom".
(Naturally, they know as much about these topics as I know about… well, science. Which is scary. I'm surprised most of them manage to put on their pants in the morning.)
As I've mentioned before, special relativity isn't about such things, though. (Thank goodness.) Instead, it's a description of how spacetime — the woven-together fabric of time and three-dimensional space — works, and how things we used to believe were fundamental actually change based on perspective. Like an event happening at the same time according to two people, but sometime else to an observer in relative motion. Time slows down and objects seem shorter, the faster they go. And the big one that ties mass and energy and the speed of light (squared) all together: E = mc2.
Physicists glommed onto special relativity soon after Einstein first proposed it in 1905, because it fit with certain experimental observations better than Newton's old laws — and it was useful in the bizarro, whacked-out, very "special relative" worlds of nuclear physics and quantum mechanics. General relativity took longer, but finding black holes and pulsars and other weird cosmic schmutz it predicted helped to solidify it, too.
So relativity isn't about relatives, really. But a lot of it is strange, much of it is "special", and most of it is, like, a hundred years old. So it's really not that different. And it's all around us in the form of spacetime and gravitation, so keep an eye out for relativity at your family gatherings over the holidays.
Just watch out for Nana. She's a mean fruitcake drunk.
Actual Science:
PBS / Nova – The theory behind the equation
LiveScience – 8 ways you can see Einstein's theory of relativity in real life
Science Daily – More proof of Einstein's general theory of relativity
Science News – General relativity caught in action around black hole
New York Times – A century ago, Einstein's theory of relativity changed everything
Image sources: Science News (relativity clocks), Southern Belle View (the family that Ralphies together…), Daily Mail UK (drunk grandma), Sur Fisika (Einstein v. Newton)
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· Tags: Einstein, family, fruitcake, general relativity, gravitation, holidays, Nana, relatives, spacetime, special relativity Charlie Hatton December 20, 2015
Homeobox
· Categories: Biology, Genetics
Homeobox: when it comes to transcriptional regulation, it's not clowning around.
A lot of my confusion about science isn't really my fault. For instance, when I was in college, In Living Color was on Sunday nights, and a must-watch every week.
So when I stumbled into genetics class at ass-early Monday morning, I still had Homey D. Clown on the brain. Can I be blamed for thinking "Homey O'Box" was Clown's Irish cousin? It's a mistake anyone could make, if they were a fan of sketch comedy. And it was before nine AM. And they weren't very bright.
Eventually I learned that a homeobox isn't a clown, but a conserved DNA sequence. With very little variation, you can find the 180-base pair stretch in the genomes of most every eukaryotic species, from single-celled fungi to duck-billed platypi all the way up to humans. Including clowns.
When a homeobox gene is expressed, the 180-base stretch translates into a 60-amino acid structure in the resulting protein. Those amino acids form a three-helix structure, which is just the right shape to hook onto the double-helix structure of DNA. So the proteins containing this structure, called homeodomain proteins, are able to bind directly to DNA, which comes in very handy.
That's because binding to DNA near a gene is a good start to controlling whether or not that gene gets translated into proteins. Some homeodomain proteins, like those in the Hox family, are "master regulators" of transcription, turning genes on and off like an old-timey switchboard operator. This regulation can be triggered in all sorts of ways, but it's especially important during early development.
As an example, consider the fruit fly — where the homeobox sequence was first identified, back in the 1980s. Scientists found a bunch of Hox-family homeobox genes in flies, and discovered that when one or more of them were mutated, the flies grew in wild and freaky ways. Scramble one gene, and the flies made four wings instead of two. Hork up another, and they grow mouths on the outside of their face, rather than the inside. And a famous Hox mutation makes flies grow legs on their heads, where the antennae should be.
This may be similar to a mutation I assume Abe Vigoda has, which caused him to grow woolly caterpillars where his eyebrows should have been.
Homeobox genes appear to have been with us for a very long time — since before there was an "us", in fact. They're found in organisms as simple as yeast and sea anemones, suggesting that the homeobox sequence first evolved in some ancestor common to all the species where it's seen today; that ancestor would be around 600 million years old, or way before humans made the party. Or clowns. Hell, even Abe Vigoda might not have been born yet.
There's also a chance we swiped our homeobox tricks from some ancient pre-dinosaur Cryogenian-era virus. No modern bacteria or simpler species have homeobox genes themselves, but one bacterial virus called lambda phage does have DNA-binding proteins that look an awful lot like homeobox genes. So maybe some prehistoric proto-sponge yoinked this precious and valuable sequence that every animal, plant and fungus relies on today.
Now that sounds like a heist worthy of Homey O'Box. Maybe Homey do play that, after all.
Genetics Home Reference – Homeobox gene family
The Embryo Project Encyclopedia – Homeobox genes and the homeobox
PLoS Blogs – When an arm is really a leg
Science Daily – Gene for dissected leaves: lost gene leads to simple leaves
Medical XPress – A master gene determines whether cells become pancreatic or liver cells
Image sources: StudyBlue, Genius.com (Homey, not playing that), People in White Coats (antenna-people-pedia), Roscoe Reports (Abe's bushy brows)
· Tags: Abe Vigoda, Damon Wayans, development, Drosophila, homeotic gene, Homey D. Clown, Hox, In Living Color Charlie Hatton December 13, 2015
· Categories: Astronomy, Physics
"Oort cloud: Go way, way Oort — then Oort a little further."
If you've ever played pinball — which you've probably only done ironically, if you're under the age of thirty — then you're familiar with the concept of "multiball". You lock balls by making certain shots, and then there's some way to unlock them, so a bunch of balls all come flying out at once. Sometimes there's more than you locked. Often, they come from different places than you put them. They fly around higgledy-piggledy from all directions, until you lose them or you tilt the machine or you get bored and remember that video games and the internet and Netflix exist.
But maybe you've wondered, while the multiball madness ensues: where are all of these balls coming from? I always assumed there were some nifty mechanics inside the machine, pulling balls from a reservoir and gliding them around. Either that, or gnomes. Very small hippie gnomes. But then I learned something about astronomy, and found there's another place those balls might be coming from: the Oort cloud.
Mind you, the Oort cloud is purely theoretical. But its existence has been predicted based on questions about our solar system's own version of multiball — namely, comets. Some comets swing past the sun every few years. The orbits of these "short-period" comets aren't so large, and most of them originate in either the Kuiper belt, around 30-50 AU (astronomical units; 1 AU is roughly the distance from the earth to the sun) or the overlapping "scattered disc", which extends from around 30-100 AU.
These regions begin right around the distance of Neptune from the sun, and they're not so mysterious. Definitely not "multiball mysterious". Astronomers see Kuiper Belt objects all the time — probably with a decent pair of opera glasses. New Horizons, the space probe that buzzed Pluto a while back, is swooping through the Kuiper Belt right now. It's practically down the block.
The Oort cloud is a leeeeetle cooler than that. First, it's just slightly further away, occupying the space somewhere between around 2,000 – 100,000 AU, give or take a light year. (Which, as it happens, is about 50,000 AU. So it's true!)
For perspective, that Voyager I probe launched back in 1977? You know, back when people actually played pinball (because it was either that or Pong, those poor primitive saps)? That craft has traveled further than any other we've made, it's technically in interstellar space, and is traveling at around 38,000 miles per hour (a shade faster than New Horizons; don't tell the Space Highway Patrol). Voyager is expected to enter the Oort cloud in roughly 300 years — or about 290 years after its radioisotope-powered generators are expected to fail, leaving it a silent hunk of space rubble.
So the Oort Cloud is a big ol' faraway ball of space, is what I'm saying. Inside it are theorized to be trillions — that's trillions, with a 'truh-' — of objects at least one kilometer across. Most of these are icy bodies, but there are few (meaning few billion) rocky asteroids sprinkled in, just for fun. It's thought that Oort cloud objects mostly come from debris left over from the formation of the solar system, when the original "protoplanetary disc" swirled into Saturn and Jupiter and Earth and the rest of the planetary gang. Some even theorize that part of the Oort cloud — up to 90%, at the upper end — comes from "sister stars" that were closer by during the sun's early days, and spewing pre-planetary spittle all over the cosmos themselves.
But if we've never seen the Oort cloud, then why would we think it's out there? Why don't we just assume there's nothing there, or space gnomes, and be done with it? Because of long-period comets, that's why. When astronomers track the orbits of these comets, they see some that make a circuit in hundreds or even thousands of years. And unlike comets from the Kuiper belt or scattered disc, which lie flat in the same plane as the planets, these long-period take-your-time-grandpa comets come from everywhere.
So that's the Oort cloud. Further out than we can see, surrounding our whole solar system and occasionally raining some of its trillions of balls of ice and rocks down on our pinball machines. Ding ding ding. Multiball, indeed.
Universe Today – What is the Oort cloud?
Space.com – Oort cloud: the outer solar system's icy shell
Sky and Telescope – Eight billion asteroids in the Oort cloud?
Planetary Society – A second Sedna! What does it mean?
Nature – Astronomers spy most distant solar system object ever
Image sources: Universe Today (Oort cloud), Zazzle (MULTIBAAAAAAALL!), French Vocabulary Illustrated (opera-glassed stargazing), Drawception (space gnome [artist's rendering])
· Tags: asteroids, comet, gnomes, Kuiper Belt, multiball, opera glasses, pinball, Pong, Voyager Charlie Hatton December 6, 2015
Nude Mouse
· Categories: Biology
"Nude mouse: Taking it ALL off for science."
This being the internet, you might think "nude mouse" is the title of a Mickey and Minnie fan erotica script.
And probably it is. Rule 34, after all.
But for biologists — regardless of any disturbing Disney peccadilloes they might harbor — a nude mouse is something else, and something tremendously useful for research. Nude mice have genetic mutations in the FOXN1 gene, an important transcription factor highly conserved among mice, rats and humans, among others.
Knocking out FOXN1 function has two main effects. First, it prevents the proper growth of hair and nails. That's the "nude" part of "nude mouse", as FOXN1-deficient mice are a bunch of hairless, wrinkly pink monstrosities. It's like watching a four-legged horde of that old guy from the Six Flags commercials a while back. Only with less dancing, probably.
That's because the other effect of disrupting FOXN1 is an underdeveloped or absent thymus. The thymus is the organ where T cells develop, so missing a thymus leaves a nude mouse severely immunodeficient. They're susceptible to virus infections and tumors, can't mount cell-mediated immune responses and are unable to reject transplanted tissues.
That's no picnic, if you're a nude mouse. But if you're a researcher studying infections diseases, cancer, immunodeficiency or treatment of human cells in an animal model, then it's pretty sweet. Nude mice have been used extensively in studies using xenografts, or tissue from one species implanted into another. Human tumor cells, for instance, might be xenotransplanted into a nude mouse, which is then treated with an anti-cancer compound to see how well it works in a live animal.
Which is to say, a live nude animal. Sexay.
The first naturally-occurring nude mouse was discovered in the 1960s. I assume it was easy to spot back then, as it would have been the only lab mouse without an afro. Because there are many possible mutations that can disrupt FOXN1, several distinct strains of nude mouse have been described.
(Described as "wrinkly little E.T.-looking freaks", I imagine. But still.)
Most nude mouse strains are "leaky", which is significantly less icky than it sounds. Here, it just means that the mice retain some thymic function, and often low levels of T cells. Because we humans think we always know the best way to do everything, we've now developed knockout mice, where genes important for T cell development are completely scrambled, and there's no pesky leaking.
So the nude mouse isn't used as often these days in lab research, but these bald mutant rodents have helped make breakthroughs in immunology, oncology, parasitology, pharmaceutical research and more.
But NOT Disney-inspired fan erotica. Get those minds out of the gutter, people.
Christus Stehlin – Nude mice
Nature – Regenerative medicine repairs mice from top to toe
AnimalResearch.info – Mouse (immunodeficient)
Science Daily – The nude mouse tale: omega-3 fats save the life of a terminal cancer patient
Image sources: Scanbur Research (nude mouse), Left Wing Libertarian (Mickey and Minnie, bow-chicka-mouse-mouse), Reddit (Six Flags guy gang), Pinterest (He's a bad mutha mouse… Shaft!)
· Tags: afro, Disney, FOXN1, immunodeficient, knockout, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Mr. Six, Six Flags, xenograft Charlie Hatton November 29, 2015
Fast Radio Burst
"Fast radio burst: and you thought Sex Pistols songs were short and confusing."
If you're like Fox Mulder, you believe the truth is out there.
That's great and all, but what happens if you're not fast enough to read it when "the truth" finally whizzes by?
That's the sort of problem astronomers have faced since 2006, when the first "fast radio burst" (or FRB) was detected in radio telescope data recorded five years earlier. Poring over archived pulsar survey data, they found a brief spike in the signal across a range of wavelengths. It lasted less than five milliseconds, quick as a Ruby Rhod *bzzzzzz*. And then it was gone.
That may seem weird. But pulsar-hunting astronomers are used to this sort of now-you-see-it, now-you-don't radio signal Whack-a-Mole. Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars that emit radio signals, and their twirling makes the detectable signal come and go at regular intervals. Only with this particular fast radio burst, it came once… and it never came back.
Kind of like Jesus. Or Nelson Muntz's dad.
Oh, no, wait. Nelson's dad did come back eventually. Scratch him.
That was just the beginning of the mystery, though. The spread of the signal across wavelengths suggested that this fast radio burst had traveled across space and through interstellar gas, which can spread signal out, the way a prism does with light. Based on the spread, astronomers calculated that the signal had come from more than five billion light years away. Which meant whatever had created it must have been ginormously powerful, for the signal to make it so far through the cosmos.
That opened up a whole new can of WTFs. So far as we can tell — meaning as far as we can see with our various telescoping gadgets — there's nothing in the region where the fast radio burst came from. No stars. No black holes. No outposts with Marvin the Martian plotting our destruction. Nada. If there's something — or somethings — there, we're not able to see it with our equipment. And we have no idea why it would scream at volume 11 for an instant, and then stop seemingly forever.
I mean, sure — Obi-Wan would tell you it was Alderaan. But what does he know? He doesn't have an astrophysics degree.
The first fast radio burst was weird enough to make people skeptical. When we didn't see another one for a few years — and when one team discovered they could make similar signals by opening a microwave door just right — astronomers wondered whether it was a technical glitch. Flying bird farts. Space voodoo. Something.
But in the past few years, ten more fast radio bursts have been detected. Now, there's corroboration from a second radio telescope — and the last one, in 2014, was detected live as it happened. Now, scientists calculate that if we could point radio telescopes at the entire sky, full-time, we'd see hundreds — maybe even ten thousand — of these fast radio bursts per day.
That still doesn't tell us what causes them — but there are some pretty cool theories. Each source is calculated to be no more than a few hundred kilometers wide, so these big (and quick) things are coming from some pretty celestially small packages. Some think it might be colliding black holes, or neutron stars collapsing together. Or black holes exploding, if that can even happen. Others blame them on blitzars — though why we have to bring Santa's reindeer into this, I don't know. We're trying to do real science over here.
Whatever it is making fast radio bursts, astronomers are now agreed that they exist and are doggedly looking for more. Someday, with enough evidence, no doubt they'll finally find "the truth" behind these weird astronomical aberrations.
Or they'll find the Death Star. And I'm pretty sure Mulder wasn't looking for that.
Space.com – 'Fast radio burst' spotted live in space for 1st time
Discover Magazine – The mysterious origins of fast radio bursts
Popular Science – Mysterious radio bursts are indeed coming from a galaxy far, far away
National Geographic – Mathematical pattern found in enigmatic radio bursts, but it's not E.T.
UBC Science – Could fast radio bursts help astronomers chart the cosmos in 3D?
Image sources: PBS (fast radio burst [artist's rendition, apparently]), QuickMeme (truthy Fox), Simpsons Wiki (Nelson and papa, haw haw!), Giant Bomb (Alderaan, we hardly knew ye)
· Tags: Alderaan, blitzar, Death Star, Fifth Element Ruby Rhod, Fox Mulder, Nelson Muntz, Obi-Wan Kenobi, pulsars, radio astronomy, radio source, Sex Pistols, Simpsons, Star Wars, X-Files Charlie Hatton November 22, 2015
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The "flatnose" Morris Oxford is a series of motor car models produced by Morris of the United Kingdom from 1926 until 1930. Introduced as a replacement for the Morris Oxford bullnose, the "flatnose" Oxford models featured more traditional styling.

Oxford flatnose 1926–30

The distinctive bullnose radiator was dropped in 1926 in an updated version of the car. The engines remained the same but a new range of bodies was offered including all-steel saloons.

The frame was changed to allow half-elliptic springs to be fitted in place of the old three-quarter elliptic springs. The back end of the frame was given a deeper channel section, it now sweeps up over the rear axle. The frame also receives bracing from the running board brackets and cross hangers.

The radiator cooling surface has been increased sixty per cent and the whole assembly given the flat-fronted shape which would lead to this car's popular name.

A new all-steel dash or bulkhead now creates a firm location for bodywork and a solid support for the petrol tank. As part of that redesign a new instrument panel is provided with neatly grouped meters and glove boxes either side. The hand controls on the steering column have been upgraded. There is now a dash-operated ventilator.

Equipment now includes:

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Q: Adding rows to a numpy array without losing previous data stored I am reading data from a file and extracting the information that I want from it, as floats. I am then storing this data into a temporary list and using vstack to try and put the data into an array with each row being new data that is being processed.
for line in lines:
    if line.find('GPS')!=-1:
        funcGPS(line)
    if line.find('-----')!=-1:
        MasterArray = numpy.vstack(temp)
        temp = []
        #print MasterArray
    if line.find('SERVO')!=-1:
        funcSERVO(line)

This is how I am trying to copy the data to the array. I am successfully extracting the data and after extracting the data obtained I want to add the data to the array. Currently, it is copying the data over the previous data when I build onto MasterArray. Is there anyway to do this without specifically stating what the size of MasterArray is? I don't want to limit the amount of data that can be obtained.
Thanks!

A: Growing an array in a loop is considered bad practice. If you know the final size, or a reasonable upper limit, of the array it's best to pre-allocate the array and then fill it. If you don't know the final size you can often use a temporary list and convert it to an array after the loop. This is not unique to numpy, you'll see similar usage patterns in matlab and c programs.
Do something like this if you know the final size of the array or a reasonable upper limit.
N = 100
array = np.zeros(100)
count = 0
for line in file:
    array[count] = ...
    count += 1
 array = array[:count] # Or maybe array[:count].copy()

or something like this if you don't.
temp = []
for line in file:
    temp.append(...)
array = np.array(temp)

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# Invocation URLs

Port is usually 8080 unless over-ridden by `jetty.http.port`.

|What|Where|Notes|
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|Service RESCRIPT endpoint|`http://localhost:8080/<interfacePath>/v<x>/<operationPath>[?<queryString>]`|`port` is usually 8080 unless overridden (`jetty.http.port`)
`interfacePath` is defined in RESCRIPT extensions document, and may be omitted entirely
`x` is the major version number of the interface
`operationPath` is defined in the RESCRIPT extensions document |
| SOAP Servive WSDL | `http://localhost:8080/wsdl/<nameOfServiceBSIDLFile>.wsdl` | {color:red}This should be changed to the name of the service and be version-qualified{color} |
| SOAP Service Endpoint | `http://localhost:8080/<serviceName>Service/vX` | \- |

# Monitoring URLs

What	Where	Notes

 JMX Html Adapter
 [http://localhost:9999/](http://localhost:9999/)
 For use by humans

 Batch query
 [http://localhost:9999/administration/batchquery.jsp] | For use by programs such as Nagios scripts, matches the format exposed by [Tornjak](http://localhost:9999/administration/batchquery.jsp] | For use by programs such as Nagios scripts, matches the format exposed by [Tornjak)(http://github.com/betfair/tornjak)

 Thread dump
 [http://localhost:9999/administration/threaddump.jsp](http://localhost:9999/administration/threaddump.jsp)
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Read [related documentation](Cougar_Monitoring.html).

# Health Service URLs

Port is usually 8080 unless over-ridden by `jetty.http.port`.

What	Where	Notes

 Health check summary (RESCRIPT)
 [http://localhost:8080/healthcheck/v2/summary](http://localhost:8080/healthcheck/v2/summary)
 Use this for webping style checks

 Health check detail (RESCRIPT)
 [http://localhost:8080/healthcheck/v2/detailed](http://localhost:8080/healthcheck/v2/detailed)

 Health check WSDL
 [http://localhost:8080/wsdl/CougarHealthService.wsdl](http://localhost:8080/wsdl/CougarHealthService.wsdl)

 Health check SOAP Endpoint
 [http://localhost:8080/HealthService/v2](http://localhost:8080/HealthService/v2)

Read [related documentation](Cougar_Monitoring.html)

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Jan Potocki, född 8 mars 1761 i Pików, död 23 december 1815 i Uladivka, var en polsk greve, historiker och reseskildrare.

Potocki lämnade tidigt den österrikiska krigstjänsten, gjorde längre studieresor 1788–1803 och deltog 1805 i den stora ryska beskickningen till Kina. Han författade historiska, arkeologiska och etnografiska skrifter och utgav i Sankt Petersburg en tid "Le conservateur impérial".

Potocki är mest ihågkommen för sin roman Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse ("Manuskript hittat i Saragossa"), en avancerad pastisch på pikareskromaner och orientaliska sagor. Boken filmatiserades 1965 av Wojciech J. Has som Saragossamanuskripten.

Bibliografi i urval
Recherches sur la Sarmatie (1788)
Voyage en Turquie et en Égypte (1788)
Voyage dans l'empire de Maroc (1792)
Chroniques, mémoires et recherches pour servir à l'histoire de tous les peuples slaves (1796)
Histoire primitive des peuples de la Russie (1802)
Atlas archéologique de la Russie européenne (1800)
Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse (1805-1815)

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Födda 1761
Avlidna 1815
Män
Polsk adel
Polska historiker
Reseskildrare
Polska författare under 1700-talet
Polska författare under 1800-talet
Författare som begått självmord
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This Doomsday Clock doesn't look so scary to me. You think they'd put flames around it, or have it dripping with blood or something.


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La Resurrezione è un affresco (300x300 cm) attribuito al giovane Giotto, databile al 1291-1295 circa e situato nella fascia superiore della parete sinistra della Basilica superiore di Assisi.

Descrizione e stile
La scena, nella quarta campata, è molto danneggiata e ne restano solo alcune porzioni nella parte inferiore, che mostrano i soldati addormentati ai piedi del sepolcro di Cristo, del quale si intravede la base architettonica. Più in alto inoltre sono sopravvissuti alcuni frammenti del panneggio di Cristo risorto. Pur nella scarsità di resti colpisce l'alta qualità della composizione, con l'intreccio dei corpi dei soldati risolto brillantemente nella scansione spaziale, con l'uso di modernissimi scorci. Su queste figure la luce si posa chiara accentuando la plasticità dei volumi.

Molto curati sono i dettagli, come le decorazioni sull'armatura del soldato di spalle, elegantemente graffita.

In una piccola porzione della parete, all'avvicinarsi alla controfacciata, si incontra per la prima volta la decorazione delle finte mensole dipinte, un motivo illusionistico che ricorrerà poi nelle Storie di san Francesco.

Bibliografia
Edi Baccheschi, L'opera completa di Giotto, Rizzoli, Milano 1977.
Luciano Bellosi, Giotto, in Dal Gotico al Rinascimento, Scala, Firenze 2003. ISBN 88-8117-092-2

Altri progetti

Dipinti di Giotto
Dipinti sulla resurrezione di Gesù
Affreschi nella basilica superiore di Assisi


The world wide web is a crazy place and well, I love it as I am sure you do. But there are some small disadvantages that the web has created and one of those is the effect it can have on publications that you can hold in your hand. I am a self admitted magazine junky! I love magazines. They are a way to get real insight and current up to date information on a pursuit, whatever the pursuit may be. Magazines are a place where people who love a certain topic can find a lot of information about their topic.
It has experienced a revival over the past couple of years and it has been invigorated with new life - it even has a website!
If you play classical guitar and you want some solid stuff that you can actually hold in your hands I recommend you look into subscribing to BMG. You will get a regular dose of real sheet music right in your mailbox.
What is BMG Really all about? It is very simple. This company (Clifford Essex) and BMG Magazine is about a love for the fretted instrument. How often do you get that nowadays? If you love the Classical guitar you might want to check out this company and consider subscribing to their magazine. . The magazine is filled with all kinds of terrific stuff about fretted instruments and in any one issue you are going to get articles about the history of the instruments, how they are made, world wide variations and of course sheet music.
Here is a picture of some of the recent materials including four issues of the magazine and some added sheet music pieces.
What's Inside: Lots of articles about fretted instruments and sheet music for them.
When this tutor was first published over fifty years ago there were few modern books available to the would-be student, who had to rely on the old-fashioned 'Methods' of players such as Carcassi, Carulli and Sor. The Clifford Essex Spanish Guitar Tutor paved the way for others which have been published over the intervening years, and now it has been re-written and completely brought up to date by the author.
Even the title has been changed to be in line with modern usage ! This book will help the absolute beginner to acquire techniques and background knowledge vital to the mastery of the instrument.


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Q: How to determine if DLL is COM or .NET? I have an updater program, the pulled files from server has mixed vb6 dll and .net DLLs in one directory.
How to determine if a dll is a COM one? (so i can invoke regsvr32 to it from the updater program)

A: I guess one way to do it would be to try load the file with System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFile() (more info). If you get a BadImageFormatException, it's not a valid .NET assembly. There's probably a neater way of doing this, but this should work.

A: To do this formally you could inspect the PE to find out more about what type of stuff each dll is exporting. There is a pretty interesting article on MSDN which talks about the structure. If you understand the setup, you can identify links to .Net (and thereby the lack indicating a pure COM dll).

A: Why not just call regsvr on all of them.  If they register then ok, if not no big deal.
It is probably best though to write an installer that has the knowledge of which ones are which and does the right thing for each.
EDIT
If you are worried about "emitting errors", don't fret.
See this usage
You can suppress messages.  (/s)

A: You can turn it around and figure out all .NET assemblies very quickly by doing the following:
private bool IsDotNetAssembly(string path)
{
  var sb = new StringBuilder(256);
  var hr = NativeMethods.GetFileVersion(path, sb, sb.Capacity, out var _);
  return hr == 0;
}

private static class NativeMethods
{
  [DllImport("mscoree.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
  public static extern int GetFileVersion(string path, StringBuilder buffer, int buflen, out int written);
}

With that solution you dont have to load the assembly itself, which has some advantages (speed, no exceptions).
You can simply just skip the .NET assemblies for COM registration.


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Q: How do I build a Linq Expression Tree that compares against a generic object? I have an IQueryable and an object of type T.
I want to do IQueryable().Where(o => o.GetProperty(fieldName) == objectOfTypeT.GetProperty(fieldName))
so ...
public IQueryable<T> DoWork<T>(string fieldName)
        where T : EntityObject
{
   ...
   T objectOfTypeT = ...;
   ....
   return SomeIQueryable<T>().Where(o => o.GetProperty(fieldName) == objectOfTypeT.GetProperty(fieldName));
}

Fyi, GetProperty isn't a valid function. I need something which performs this function.
Am I having a Friday afternoon brain melt or is this a complex thing to do?

objectOfTypeT I can do the following ...
var matchToValue = Expression.Lambda(ParameterExpression
.Property(ParameterExpression.Constant(item), "CustomerKey"))
.Compile().DynamicInvoke();

Which works perfectly,now I just need the second part:
return  SomeIQueryable().Where(o => o.GetProperty(fieldName) == matchValue);

A: Like so:
    var param = Expression.Parameter(typeof(T), "o");
    var fixedItem = Expression.Constant(objectOfTypeT, typeof(T));
    var body = Expression.Equal(
        Expression.PropertyOrField(param, fieldName),
        Expression.PropertyOrField(fixedItem, fieldName));
    var lambda = Expression.Lambda<Func<T,bool>>(body,param);
    return source.Where(lambda);

I have started a blog which will cover a number of expression topics, here.
If you get any problems, another option is to extract the value from objectOfTypeT first (using reflection) and then use that value in the Expression.Constant, but I suspect it'll be fine "as is".

A: From what I can see so far it's going to have to be something like ...
IQueryable<T>().Where(t =>
MemberExpression.Property(MemberExpression.Constant(t), fieldName) ==
ParameterExpression.Property(ParameterExpression.Constant(item), fieldName));

While I can get this to compile it's not quite executing the way it is required.

A: What about:
    public class Person
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public int Age { get; set; }

    }

    public Func<T, TRes> GetPropertyFunc<T, TRes>(string propertyName)
    {
        // get the propertyinfo of that property.
        PropertyInfo propInfo = typeof(T).GetProperty(propertyName);

        // reference the propertyinfo to get the value directly.
        return (obj) => { return (TRes)propInfo.GetValue(obj, null); };
    }

    public void Run()
    {
        List<Person> personList = new List<Person>();

        // fill with some data
        personList.Add(new Person { Name = "John", Age = 45 });
        personList.Add(new Person { Name = "Michael", Age = 31 });
        personList.Add(new Person { Name = "Rose", Age = 63 });

        // create a lookup functions  (should be executed ones)
        Func<Person, string> GetNameValue = GetPropertyFunc<Person, string>("Name");
        Func<Person, int> GetAgeValue = GetPropertyFunc<Person, int>("Age");

        // filter the list on name
        IEnumerable<Person> filteredOnName = personList.Where(item => GetNameValue(item) == "Michael");
        // filter the list on age > 35
        IEnumerable<Person> filteredOnAge = personList.Where(item => GetAgeValue(item) > 35);
    }

This is a way to get values of a properties by string without using of dynamic queries. The downside is al values will be boxed/unboxed.


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Based on the original Pilot Pocket, this expanded model accommodates today's larger smartphones or Bluetooth GPS units. Additionally, The Pilot Pocket PLUS features two slots for pens and a unique holder for your sunglasses, keeping everything you need close at hand.
• Secures firmly to any smooth plastic or glass window surface with its 3 suction cup design. Each suction cup has a pull-off tab, making it easy to detach and reattach. It's perfect for airplane renters.
• Built in pen slots for added convenience plus a holder for your sunglasses.
• A precision-cut opening on the bottom of The Pilot Pocket PLUS easily allows for connecting power cables and chargers to a variety of Bluetooth GPS units and cell phones while keeping the cockpit organized.
• Constructed of high quality, transparent acrylic that is strong, resistant to scratches and won't discolor in sunlight. Additionally, a convenient temperature conversion chart is printed on the face.
Measures 4"h x 6"w x 1.25"d.
Can hold a cell phone or GPS up to 3 1/16" wide and 1" thick.


Perform stunts to score as many points as possible. The most important thing is to try to win the game!
Try to be as careful as possible in order to go through all the levels without damaging the bike.
Use the up and down arrow keys to accelerate or brake with your bike. Use the left and right arrows to lean back and forth.
Motorbike lovers unite! Please come together to play this game because it will give you a satisfying feeling.
n Race Choppers you have to race with these choppers that are normally made for racing. So go ahead, put the pedal to the medal and try to win this chopper race!
Pump your adrenaline levels through the ceiling while performing somersaults, corkscrews, superman's and all kinds of other stunts as you speed down the mountain slope.
This game features four tracks, each track has five checkpoints. You get thrity seconds for each checkpoint, don't run out of time!
Race bikes across a junkyard. First past the flag wins…or destroy you enemy for victory.


Neighborhood based design process for the India Basin Shoreline Neighborhood. The last shoreline in San Francisco, The potential to come up with something amazing is real. our association needs help in visually communicating our ideas and in dealing with the realities of Planning and Redevelopment.


The live performance of Face to Face by Armin van Buuren on the 2008 version of Armin Only, Imagine. It is the first track traken from the DVD Armin Only Imagine (Utrecht 19/04/2008).
Will go down as a legend of trance music.
no inventes amo esta cancion k mas puedo decir x esto y mas armin es una legenda es el dj no 1 del mundox excelencia, wow wow pero k talento , no no inventes la amo es x esto k me encanta la electro , el trance all about! es padrisimo, wow k padre!
ASOT 600 MEXICO VALIO LLA PENA ES´PERO UN TOUR DE UNIVERSAL RELIGION OIGAN SERIA PADRE NO CREEN!
universal religion tour in the world!
Armin – THE GOD OF TRANCE!!!!
Its 2013 and I have never seen such work till now!
One of most perfect 2 minutes of any intro song ever.
I love Face to face!!!


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Kelly Ripa reveals her intense workout routine, says her body 'looks like Peter Pan no matter what' she does
By Mariah Haas | Fox News
Kelly Ripa dubbed 'Clap back queen of Instagram'
TV host Kelly Ripa named 'clap back queen of Instagram,' following an interview with InStyle where she explains her usage of social media and why she interacts.
Kelly Ripa is all about body positivity.
The "Live with Kelly and Ryan" host, 48, recently opened up about her intense fitness routine — working out nearly every day — explaining that she does it to stay healthy.
"I was talking to a cardiologist and he said to make sure your heart beats out of your chest every day. The more you exercise, the healthier it is," Ripa told The Cut in a new interview published on Tuesday.
"And I can be honest: My body looks like Peter Pan no matter what I do," she continued, noting "I've never been a va-va-voom woman."
Kelly Ripa shared her intense workout routine in a new interview with The Cut published on Tuesday. (Gilbert Carrasquillo/WireImage)
The TV personality went on to explain her workout schedule, which includes taking cardio-based danced classes called AKT at least four to five times per week for two hours, as well as spinning at SoulCyle on the weekend.
"In the summer, I like to run in Central Park because I think it's so gorgeous," Ripa added.
Aside from working out on the weekends, Ripa enjoys spending as much time as possible with husband Mark Consuelos — when he's not filming his show "Riverdale" in Vancouver — and their three kids.
"If he is, I tend to stay in bed longer," Ripa shared. "I make a nice big breakfast. We have stuff we don't normally eat — pancakes, bagels, that kind of stuff. If Mark isn't home, I tend to go to exercise class in the morning before the kids get up and then spend the day trying to declutter. Or I'm reading and hanging out with my friends."
Mariah Haas is an entertainment editor for Fox News Digital.
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Dodge Demon vs Hennessey's Exorcist Full Race
By FastMuscle | January 22, 2019
By Dave Ashton
When the Dodge Challenger Demon was first announced it pushed the limits of what a muscle car could be. 808bhp and 717lb.ft. from its 6.2L supercharged V8 engine, the world's fastest production vehicle 0-60mph time, fastest-ever production car over a quarter mile, highest production car acceleration G-force and first production car to fully lift its front wheels while accelerating. It's even 200lb lighter than the Hellcat.
However, Hennessey Performance(HPE) decided that the Demon was taking up too much of the limelight. Thus they produce the Exorcist, a 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 with its LT4 V8 engine boosted to 1000 bhp and 966 lb.ft. Stats. come in around the same as the Demon with a 0-60 mph time under three seconds and a quarter mile time in less than 10 seconds.
The vehicle was clearly built to directly take on the Demon, not to be just another souped up Chevy. Hints to this come from their website, with strapline is like, 'Hennessy's answer to the Demon', 'Team Hennessey's Latest Creation is Built to Cast Out The Demon.' You can take this as a great marketing ploy or even Hennessey's way of saying they produce the most powerful muscle car, equally capable on the road, dragstrip or street. In any case, it's definitely aligned both vehicles as competitors.
Anyways, the guys from the Grand Tour have the budget and size of film crew to put on a fully featured drag race between these two heavyweights to see which comes out on top. Like the guys or not from the Grand Tour, the video gives you a nice insight into both vehicles and what they are capable of.
The race itself and the result can be taken with a pinch of salt, simply because the drivers of James May and Richard Hammond are not professional drag races. Swap out those factors and the race may have had a different outcome.
No spoilers here for the results, you'll have to watch the video, but it's enough to say the video is a great way to check out both these monster cars and how some friendly rivalry can push the boundaries in the right direction.
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Washington, DC—Consumer Action conducted an online poll in late April to gauge consumer attitudes about the use of alternative data (non-loan-related information) in lending decisions. More than 80 percent of respondents agreed that certain payment records—namely rent and utility records—held promise for widening availability of credit if used to evaluate loan applications.
Conversely, 96 percent of respondents balked at the use of social media or video-watching habits to help assess a consumer's propensity to repay.
While there's no clear definition for the term "alternative data," survey respondents were clear that they want companies to get their permission before sharing their behavioral or personal information with others.
An overwhelming majority of consumers surveyed—95 percent—told Consumer Action that companies should ask permission prior to accessing nontraditional, behavioral data for credit analysis.
The results were released in the latest issue of Consumer Action News, examining the benefits and risks of using unconventional data to evaluate consumers in an evolving lending environment.
New sources of information are being eyed to help qualify a broader group of potential borrowers interested in owning homes and qualifying for credit cards and auto loans. This "alternative data" can include rent, cable, cellphone and gas or electric payment histories, typically not found on traditional credit reports.
These nontraditional data sources could show a record of timely, regular payments and hold promise in widening access to credit for those with little or no credit record—so-called "credit invisibles." LexisNexis estimates that using some alternative data in credit evaluations could give 15 to 20 million additional consumers access to auto loans, credit cards and other bank products.
Other sources of alternative data, such as occupational licenses, bankruptcies, collections activity and property values, are drawn from public records. More than half (55%) of respondents agreed that public records data (property ownership, lawsuits, etc.) could be fairly used to evaluate potential borrowers.
More questionable is the use of alternative data from far more unconventional sources. Now being used in emerging markets and by some U.S. start-ups, these data sources include social media habits, online purchases, payday loan usage, bank account balances and cellphone data, such as how you organize your contacts or how you punctuate text messages.
In its April poll, Consumer Action allowed respondents to freely comment on the use of alternative data to gauge creditworthiness. The responses were clear about what sort of data crossed the line.
• "It's no one's business but my own how much TV I watch, how often I use social media or what I do on my cell phone," said one survey participant.
Sherry pointed out that consumers don't have the ability to see and correct some of the more esoteric alternative data being scraped from their digital footprints. "Current financial regulations, such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act, will need to be re-evaluated to ensure that they sufficiently address accuracy and fairness when controversial data sources are being used," noted Sherry.
2,410 consumers took Consumer Action's online poll between April 6-21, 2017. The poll used the online surveying tool SurveyMonkey. For more results see Survey: Don't use behavioral data to assess credit risk.
For more on how alternative data may affect access to credit for consumers with limited credit options, see our latest issue of Consumer Action News.
Consumer Action has been a champion of underrepresented consumers nationwide since 1971. A non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, Consumer Action focuses on consumer education that empowers low- and moderate-income and limited-English-speaking consumers to financially prosper. It also advocates for consumers in the media and before lawmakers to advance consumer rights and promote industry-wide change.
By providing consumer education materials in multiple languages, a free national hotline, a comprehensive website (www.consumer-action.org) and annual surveys of financial and consumer services, Consumer Action helps consumers assert their rights in the marketplace and make financially savvy choices. Nearly 7,000 community and grassroots organizations benefit annually from its extensive outreach programs, training materials and support.