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A collection of stories curated from different subreddits, adapted for NAR.
The Purple-Haired Plot Thickens!
Funny, Grocery Store, I Don't Work Here, Ignoring & Inattentive, Reddit, UK | Right | CREDIT: Why_Not_Two | January 25, 2023
I went to my nearby supermarket to grab a few things since I had a few days off work. While I was there, a lady came storming up to me. At first, I didn't notice that she was staring me down as I saw her out of the corner of my eye, so I stepped forward to let her pass. Of course, she didn't want to get past me; she wanted me.
She was clearly annoyed about something.
Lady: *Abruptly* "Why has this gone up to £10?"
She was holding up some sort of cleaning product.
Me: *Puzzled* "I'm not sure. I guess the store felt like raising the price?"
She huffed at me, not happy with my answer.
Lady: "Can you check the back of the store for the [specific scent] [Cleaning Product]?"
I was a bit oblivious to the fact that she thought I worked there.
Me: *Sheepishly* "Like, in the store room? I don't think I can just walk in there."
Her mouth dropped open.
Lady: "Why can't you? I'm asking you to do something; I expect you to do it!"
I finally clocked on to the idea that she thought I was an employee, despite the fact that I was wearing a galaxy-print snapback hat over my purple hair, green jeans, and a hoodie.
Me: "Oh. I don't work here."
This made her even angrier.
Lady: "So, it's your day off? Can't you just do this for me quickly?"
Me: "It is indeed my day off, but it's my day off from [Pub] down the road."
Now she looked as puzzled as I did.
Me: "I don't actually work for this supermarket."
She turned around and stormed off, looking a bit embarrassed, and I didn't think much of it.
As I went down a different aisle to grab my last few bits, I spotted an actual employee… who was more or less the spitting image of me (if a bit taller and skinnier) with almost the exact same shade of purple hair! At that moment, it all made sense.
I rarely go to this particular shop, so I didn't know my apparent doppelganger worked there. I spoke with him, and he told me that this lady was a somewhat frequent customer before heading to help her. She must have been used to seeing a purple-haired guy working there and assumed I was him off-shift.
Un-Beaver-lievable Bigotry
Ignoring & Inattentive, Reddit, Texas, USA | Right | CREDIT: silver_she | January 25, 2023
I'm from India. My close friend's cousin lives in Texas, and my friend wanted to attend college there, so he thought he would go there and spend some time and get to know the place. Mind you, this was just before the lockdowns in 2020.
[Friend] flew to Texas and they imposed the lockdown. He decided that he would stay there and return once the situation got better. This is where the brown mindset comes into play. If someone you know is going to a foreign country, then they have to bring you back something as a souvenir, even if you could get the exact same thing in your local supermarket, because it is "foreign".
[Friend] went to a very well-known store with a beaver for its mascot while on a video call with me, and we were happily shopping when this woman came up to him and asked where something was. He was not wearing anything similar to the uniform.
Friend: *Politely* "I don't work here, ma'am."
Woman: "You're Black; you must work here."
At that point, I started recording the call.
Woman: "You are helping a customer do her online shopping via video conference, so you are obviously an employee."
(Is that even a thing?)
[Friend] didn't know what to say and just stood there without saying anything. Then, the manager arrived.
Manager: "What is the problem here?"
Woman: "Your employee is not helping me and is prioritizing an online customer over me."
Manager: "I'm sorry, ma'am, but he does not work here."
Woman: "But—"
Manager: "You should have realized that when HE DIDN'T HAVE A GIANT BEAVER UP HIS BACK!"
The look on the woman's face — oh, my God. I laughed so hard that people from India, Texas, and everywhere in between could've heard it.
Careful! He Might Give You A Lethally Ugly Haircut!
Criminal & Illegal, Money, Reddit, Retail, Smoke Shop | Right | CREDIT: andrewkelly87 | January 24, 2023
This happened back in 2014 when I managed a small, locally-owned vape shop.
It's been a long day, and my employee and I are cleaning up to close when the door opens. In walks this guy with a swagger the likes of which I will never forget. He's clutching a brown paper bag and a small pair of pruning shears, holding these tight to his chest as if his life depends on their safety. As soon as he approaches the glass display cases, my employee and I both look at each other. We know that swagger: meth.
It's hard to describe to someone who hasn't been face-to-face with someone like this, but there's this specific crab-walk they do when looking at things lower than torso height — dramatically bent knees, legs out to the sides, bouncing from side to side like a crustacean on a lethal dose of caffeine. [Guy] is looking through our product cases, crab-walking across them, pointing at random items, and repeating, "WAZZAT?! WAZZAT?! HOWMUCHIZZAT?! GIMMEDAT!"
I know better than to confront these people; they're volatile and unpredictable. I keep my business face on and try to get through this ordeal as professionally as possible. He chooses a lanyard (for an old-style vape pen, clearly useless for him), and we go to the register. We're watching this guy's every little movement. My employee (relatively recently released from prison for, of all things, drug charges) is tense; he's ready to fight.
And then, the reason for the visit was revealed. I know the hundred-dollar bill is a fake as soon as he pulls it out of the brown paper bag, but I play along and don't immediately call him out. I do my normal big bill check, holding it up against the light to see a missing watermark and security strip. (We didn't use counterfeit pens; that's another story). Of course, it's a fake.
Me: "Sorry, I can't take this." *Hands back the bill*
Guy: "WHY NOT?!"
Me: "It's a fake."
Guy: *Visibly enraged* "HOW DO YOU KNOW?!"
Me: "No security features; it's fake."
The guy points the pruning shears at me like a knife.
Guy: "YOU WANNA SHOW ME A REAL ONE?!"
And that's when I drop the mask. I break; this is too absurd. I can't help but laugh in the face of this clearly deranged person. What is he going to do? Trim me and enter me into his neighborhood's prettiest lawn contest?
Me: *Snorting with laughter* "No?"
He waves the pruning shears around… threateningly?
Guy: "WELL, YOU'RE A F****** LIAR, THEN!"
He stomped away like a petulant child, kicking over an innocent trash can on his way out the door. We never saw him again, but legends say he's still trying to get change for that fake Benjamin.
To Quote Gene Belcher, "IT'S NOT OKAY"
Holidays, Jerk, Reddit, Restaurant, Siblings, Time | Right | CREDIT: hellicks | January 24, 2023
I've been working as a server or bartender since I was sixteen years old. I've gotten used to plenty of rude customers over the eight years I've been in this worksphere, but this one takes first place.
I recently quit working as a server — yay! — and started working from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm as a store clerk. The position is better paid and works better for me. I live in a small tourist town where most people know each other and there are A LOT of tourists during the summer. My brother has a restaurant that is open from mid-spring until early autumn. I help out whenever he needs it after I finish my other job at 7:00 pm.
Monday is a national holiday in my country, and the weekend is expected to be very busy. And it is. I can barely keep up with the tables I have, things are getting hectic in the kitchen, and it is really slow there.
I bring menus to two guys who have just been seated, and as I'm leaving their table to get to some other customers, one of the guys stops me and, with no intention of reading the menu, asks me:
Guy: "What beers do you have?"
Me: "They are all listed in the menu; you can see them there. I'll be right back with you, sir, just one mo—"
Guy: "I ain't reading that. JUST TELL ME WHAT BEERS YOU HAVE!"
Used to this kind of customer, I just explain what we have.
Guy: "Was it so hard to tell me? Bring me this one, and some fish and some fries."
Me: "Sir, it's very busy right now, and it'll take at least forty minutes for the fries and the fish to be ready. Can I offer you some salads or something on the barbecue while the rest gets ready?"
Guy: "DO I LOOK LIKE SOMEONE WHO IS GONNA WAIT? My child will be here in ten minutes, and if the fish isn't here, I WILL NOT BE PAYING!"
Me: *Getting irritated* "Sir, there are tons of other orders before you, and we cannot bring yours before that."
Guy: "I DON'T CARE! WHO ARE YOU TO TELL ME THAT I HAVE TO WAIT?! BRING IT OR ELSE—"
Already fed up with everything, I cut him off.
Me: "Dude, first of all, you have no right to speak to me like that. Second, your order will not be ready in less than forty minutes because there are other customers before you and because I'm not going to serve you! Get out of here!"
I go to my other tables as I have three who are waiting to order, get their orders, and continue to do my job. I stop by the kitchen and let my brother know what's going on.
Five minutes pass by, and this guy comes to the bar and asks to see the boss; my brother works as a chef every day, and this guy clearly knows him but not me.
Guy: "[Brother]! Your server says he doesn't want to serve me! What is this?!"
Brother: "Yeah, that server is my brother, and you were in the wrong, acting like a jacka**."
The guy's mouth drops open wide.
Guy: "This is your brother, [Brother]? I'm so sorry. I didn't know!" *To me* "Accept my apologies. I didn't know you were his brother!"
Me: "Whatever. Just know you were in the wrong, no matter whether I was the owner's brother or not."
He stayed, and I had to serve him anyway. He was all apologetic for the rest of the night and left a decent tip.
I was fuming for the rest of the night because of that. Why does he think that it's okay to be rude to the servers as long as they aren't related to the owner? What the heck?
Too Bad Her Brain Isn't At Maximum Occupancy
Hotel, Jerk, Reddit, USA | Right | CREDIT: MingTheKing97 | January 23, 2023
I've been working in the hotel industry for about four years now, and due to a good program and performance, I am already a duty manager. I've been interacting with a lot of fussy guests over the years who know that crying for the simplest things will get you freebies. But this one lady really got on our nerves.
It's one of those days when we are almost sold out, and the upcoming days are either sold out or very tight, especially on the higher-category rooms. I'm there in the lobby in the late evening with just one arrival left for the day. It's booked under the name of [Guest] and made for a basic-category room with an occupancy of two adults.
A car pulls up to the main porch, so I think, "Yay, the final arrival is here! I can just finish this off and chill for the rest of the shift."
Oh, how wrong I am about to be.
Out of the car come two adults, three kids, a nanny, and a toddler, and — I am not exaggerating — eleven pieces of luggage.
I think this has to be some sort of canceled reservation and I am about to deal with telling a person who didn't check his mail that we can't honor his reservation. Nope, it's [Guest].
Guest: "Hi. We would like to check-in. We are very tired."
Me: "Of course, ma'am. Could you help me with your name and your reservations?"
Guest: "It's just one reservation — under [Guest]."
Me: *Visibly confused* "But ma'am, this reservation is booked for only two people, and I can see that you are traveling with more than that."
Guest: "Well, I spoke to your colleague, Mr. [Person], and he confirmed that I can just take your Prime Luxury Suite in the hotel on arrival. I see on the website that it can accommodate six people, so I want that. I spoke to Mr. [Person] working for you, and I want your Prime Suite as he said we can all fit in that. Go ahead and upgrade me."
Me: "We have only one Prime Luxury Suite in the hotel, and it's already sold out for the entire length of your stay, as this is the busy season. Also, we do not have anyone named Mr. [Person] that works for us."
[Guest] explodes and starts screaming.
Guest: "You are so uncoordinated! Mr. [Person] does work for you, and he promised me that suite! I demand to speak to your duty manager!"
You are looking at him, crazy lady.
I finally told her basically that there was no way the room she'd booked could accommodate her entire clan and that she needed to book an extra room. Even doing this would mean that we'd have to oversell the hotel by a room for one of the days because of her, but I'd speak to higher management and get that done. After a lot of arguing and showing her the room, she finally reluctantly agreed, scoffing the entire time about how she was going to leave a bad review and so on.
Still, doing my job, I processed the new reservation and even gave her an interconnected set of rooms — two rooms with a door in between.
Over the course of her stay, she complained multiple times about laundry, food, and services to try and get as many freebies as possible, and as soon as she checked out, we decided to add her straight to the Do Not Rent list. We never got that bad review that she talked about, only bad vibes from her throughout the stay.
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At daylight, 1st June, the battle fleet, being then to the southward and westward of the Horn Reef, turned to the northward in search of enemy vessels and for the purpose of collecting our own cruisers and torpedo-boat destroyers. At 2.30 a.m. Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Burney transferred his flag from Marlborough to Revenge, as the former ship had some difficulty in keeping up the speed of the squadron. Marlborough was detached by my direction to a base, successfully driving off an enemy submarine attack en route. The visibility early on 1st June (three to four miles) was less than on 31st May, and the torpedo-boat destroyers, being out of visual touch, did not rejoin until 9 a.m. The British Fleet remained in the proximity of the battlefield and near the line of approach to German ports until 11 a.m. on 1st June, in spite of the disadvantage of long distances from fleet bases and the danger incurred in waters adjacent to enemy coasts from submarined and torpedo craft. The enemy, however, made no sign, and I was reluctantly compelled to the conclusion that the High Sea fleet had returned into port. Subsequent events proved this assumption to have been correct. Our position must have been known to the enemy, as at 4 a.m. the fleet engaged a Zeppelin for about five minutes, during which time she had ample opportunity to note and subsequently report the position and course of the British Fleet.
The waters from the latitude of the Horn Reef to the scene of the action were thoroughly searched, and some survivors from the destroyers Ardent (Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Marsden), Fortune (Lieutenant-Commander Frank G. Terry), and Tipperary (Captain (D) Charles J. Wintour), were picked up, and the Sparrowhawk (Lieutenant-Commander Sydney Hopkins), which had been in a collision and was no longer seaworthy, was sunk after her crew has been taken off. A large amount of wreckage was seen, but no enemy ships, and at 1.15 p.m., it being evident that the German Fleet has succeeded in returning to port, course was shaped for our bases, which were reached without further incident on Friday, 2nd June. A cruiser squadron was detached to search for Warrior, which vessel had been abandoned whilst in tow of Engadine on her way to the base owing to bad weather setting in and the vessel becoming unseaworthy, but no trace of her was discovered, and a further subsequent search by a light cruiser squadron having failed to locate her, it is evident that she foundered.
I fully endorse his remarks.
The Fleet fuelled and replenished with ammunition, and at 9.30 p.m. on 2nd June was reported ready for further action.
The conditions of low visibility under which the day action took place and the approach of darkness to enhance the difficulty of giving an accurate report of the damage inflicted or the names of the ships sunk by our forces, but after a most careful examination of the evidence of all officers, who testified to seeing enemy vessels actually sink, and personal interviews with a large number of these officers. I am of opinion that the list shown in the enclosure gives the minimum in regard to numbers, though it is possibly not entirely accurate as regards the particular class of vessel, especially those which were sunk during the night attacks. In addition to the vessels sunk, it is unquestionable that many other ships were very seriously damaged by gunfire and by torpedo attack.
I deeply regret to report the loss of H.M. ships Queen Mary, Indefatigable, Invincible, Defence, Black Prince, Warrior, and of H.M. T.B.D.�s Tipperary, Ardent, Fortune, Shark, Sparrowhawk, Nestor, Nomad, and Turbulent, and still more do I regret the resultant heavy loss of life. The death of such gallant and distinguished officers as Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Arbuthnot, Bart., Rear-Admiral The Hon. Horace Hood, Captain Charles F. Sowerby, Captain Cecil I. Prowse, Captain Arthur L. Cay, Captain Thomas P. Bonham, Captain Charles J. Wintour, and Captain Stanley V. Ellis, and those who perished with them, is a serious loss to the Navy and to the country. They led officers and men who were equally gallant, and whose death is mourned by their comrades in the Grand Fleet. They fell doing their duty nobly, a death which they would have been the first to desire.
The enemy fought with the gallantry that was expected of him. We particularly admired the conduct of those on board a disabled German light cruiser which passed down the British line shortly after deployment, under a heavy fire, which was returned by the only gun left in action.
The conduct of officer and men throughout the day and night actions was entirely beyond praise. No words of mine could do them justice. On all sides it is reported to me that the glorious traditions of the past were most worthily upheld � whether in heavy ships, cruisers, light cruisers, or destroyers � the same admirable spirit prevailed. Officers and men were cool and determined, with a cheeriness that would have carried them through anything. The heroism of the wounded was the admiration of all.
I cannot adequately express the pride with which the sprit of the Fleet filled me.
Details of the work of the various ships during action have now been given. It must never be forgotten, however, that the prelude to action is the work of the engine-room department, and that during action the officers and men of that department perform their most important duties without the incentive which a knowledge of the course of the action gives to those on deck. The qualities of discipline and endurance are taxed to the utmost under these conditions, and they were, as always, most fully maintained throughout the operations under review. Several ships attained speeds that had never before been reached, thus showing very clearly their high state of steaming efficiency. Failures in material were conspicuous by their absence, and several instances are reported of magnificent work on the part of the engine-room departments of injured ships.
The artisan ratings also carried out much valuable work during and after the action; they could not have done better.
The work of the medical officers of the Fleet, carried out very largely under the most difficult conditions, was entirely admirable and invaluable. Lacking in many cases all the essentials for performing critical operations, and with their staff seriously depleted by casualties, they worked untiringly and with the greatest success. To them we owe a deep debt of gratitude.
It will be seen that the hardest fighting fell to the lot of the Battle Cruiser Fleet (the units of which were less heavily armoured than their opponents), the fifth Battle Squadron, the First Cruiser Squadron, Fourth Light Cruiser Squadron and the Flotillas. This was inevitable under the conditions, and the squadrons and flotillas mentioned, as well as the individual vessels composing them, were handled with conspicuous ability, as were also the 1st, 2nd and 4th Squadrons of the Battle Fleet and the 2nd Cruiser Squadron.
I desire to place on record my high appreciation of the manner in which all the vessels were handled. The conditions were such as to call for great skill and ability, quick judgement and decisions, and this was conspicuous throughout the day.
I beg also to draw special attention to the services rendered by Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Burney (Second in Command of the Grand Fleet) Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Jerram, Vice-Admiral Sir Doveton Sturdee, Rear-Admiral Hugh Evan-Thomas, Rear-Admiral Alexander L. Duff, Rear-Admiral Arthur C. Leveson and Rear-Admiral Ernest F. A. Gaunt, commanding squadrons or divisions in the Battle Fleet. They acted throughout with skill and judgement. Sir Cecil Burney�s Squadron owing to its position was able to see more of the enemy Battle Fleet than the other battle squadrons, and under a leader who has rendered me most valuable and loyal assistance at all times the squadron did excellent work. The magnificent squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Evan-Thomas formed a support of great value to Sir David Beatty during the afternoon, and was brought into action in rear of the Battle Fleet in most judicious manner in the evening.
Sir David Beatty once again showed his fine qualities of gallant leadership, firm determination and correct strategic insight. He appreciated the situations at once on sighting first the enemy�s lighter forces, then his battle cruisers and finally his battle fleet. I can fully sympathise with his feelings when the evening mist and fading light robbed the Fleet of that complete victory for which he had manoeuvred, and for which the vessels in company with him had striven so hard. The services rendered by him, not only on this, but on two previous occasions, have been of the very greatest value.
Sir David Beatty brings to my notice the brilliant support afforded him by Rear-Admiral Hugh Evan-Thomas; the magnificent manner in which Rear-Admiral the Hon. Horace Hood brought his squadron into action, the able support afforded him by Rear-Admiral William C. Pakenham and Rear-Admiral Osmond de B. Brock, and the good work performed by the Light Cruiser Squadrons under the command respectively of Rear-Admiral Trevylyan D. W. Napier, Commodore William E. Goodenough and Commodore Edwyn S. Alexander-Sinclair. He states that on every occasion these officers anticipated his wishes and used their forces to the best possible effect.
I cannot close this despatch without recording the brilliant work of my Chief of the Staff, Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Madden, K.C.B., C.V.O. Throughout a period of 21 months of war his services have been of inestimable value. His good judgement, his long experience in fleets, special gift for organisation, and his capacity for unlimited work, have all been of the greatest assistance to me, and have relieved me of much of the anxiety inseparable from the conduct of the Fleet during the war. In the stages leading up to the Fleet Action and during and after the action he was always at hand to assist, and his judgement never at fault. I owe him more than I can say.
My special thanks are due also to Commodore Lionel Halsey C.M.G., the Captain of the Fleet, who also assists me in the working of the Fleet at sea, and to whose good organisation is largely due the rapidity with which the fleet was fuelled and replenished with ammunition on return to its bases. He was of much assistance to me during the action.
M. Bellairs, of my staff, plotted the movements of the two fleets with rapidity and accuracy as reports were received; Commander the Hon. Matthew R. Best, M.V.O., of my Staff, acted as observer aloft throughout the action, and his services were of value. These officers carried out their duties with much efficiency during the action.
R. W. Woods, assisted by the other signal officers, and all ships responded remarkably well under difficult conditions. The signal departments in all ships deserve credit for their work. My Flag-Lieutenant, Lieutenant-Commander Herbert Fitzherbert, was also of much service to me throughout the action.
The high state of efficiency of the W.T. arrangements of the fleet, and the facility with which they were worked before, during and after the action, is a great testimony to the indefatigable work carried out by commander Richard L. Nicholson. His services have been invaluable throughout the war.
A special work of praise is due to the wireless departments in all ships.
My Secretaries, Fleet Paymaster Hamnet H. Share, C.B., and Victor H. T. Weekes, recorded with accuracy salient features of the action. Their records have been of much assistance.
To the Master of the Fleet, Captain Oliver E. Leggett, I am indebted for the accuracy with which he kept the reckoning throughout the operations.
In a separate despatch I propose to bring to the notice of their Lordships the names of officers and men all of whom did not come under my personal observation, but who had the opportunity of specially distinguishing themselves.
* NOTE � The list of ships and commanding officers which took part in the action has been withheld from publication for the present in accordance with practice.
List of enemy Vessels put out of action, 31 May � 1 June, 1916.


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Coast Guard cutter catches fire at Virginia base
Click here to view the press release issued by the U.S. Coast Guard:
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard and Portsmouth Fire Department responded Thursday to a fire aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Bear, while moored at Coast Guard Base Portsmouth.
The fire was reported at 11:58 a.m. in the damage control shop aboard the cutter.
Personnel aboard the Bear, the Coast Guard Cutter Forward and Base Portsmouth responded to the fire. Portsmouth Fire Department personnel arrived on scene to assist at 12:02 p.m.
The fire was extinguished at 12:48 p.m. and was contained within the damage control shop.
"I was on the pier when the fire started and personally observed the rapid response of Portsmouth emergency services," said Cmdr. James "Brett" Millican, the executive officer of Base Portsmouth. "I appreciate their professionalism and support for the Coast Guard."
There are no reports of injuries and the cause of the fire is under investigation.
The Coast Guard Cutter Bear is a 270-foot medium-endurance cutter homeported in Portsmouth.
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The first part of this blog discussed the use of muscle classification models so as to aid the management of human movement. A thorough understanding of the model proposed by Comerford & Mottram (2001), is seen to significantly increase the effectiveness of the use of The Performance Matrix movement management system.
The roles of the body's muscles, local or global, stabiliser or mobiliser, supply many options as to how a task may be achieved. Indeed, in everyday life, both simple and complex tasks will be performed in different ways, by different people.
Which way is best? The question of 'what is the best way to move?' might just be best answered, 'with choices and options, as opposed to only in one way'.
The possession of a wide range of functional and interactive units (muscles), that span the entirety of the body, supplies the individual with a highly versatile, adaptable tool (the body), allowing the realisation of both intention and instinct.
This is highly beneficial, as challenges can be met and overcome, yet, the daily necessities of function can sometimes demand structures architecturally or neurophysiologically advantaged towards some actions to be employed for others. This is normal, such as in the presence of fatigue. When people get tired, they use different movement strategies, to keep going. However, whilst ensuring a task may still attempted and achieved in the short term, the body's ability to 'find a solution' may come at a long term cost. For example, always moving as if fatigued, and therefore employing back up strategies usually saved for times of necessity as a first and only choice, seems to imply other strategies may be absent. Also, always moving in the same way, without the ability to vary 'the how' in the achievement of 'the what' may be a significant risk for overuse injuries. If we know how and where to look, we can find the strategies that are lost and restore them. Aiding this process is a consideration of muscle synergies and the balance between global mobilisers and stabilisers.
Within any one movement at a joint region, numerous muscles are seen to contribute to concentric, eccentric or isometric force production. Those muscles producing force in the same contraction profile (i.e. concentric), so as to produce a movement can be filed under the heading of 'synergists'. The same classification can be applied to eccentric or isometric contractions. In the next instant, any one grouping of synergists may be converted in to antagonists, as their combined role in one plane now becomes an antagonistic role in another; the medial and lateral hamstrings are sagittal plane synergists, but antagonists in the transverse plane.
Within synergistic groupings, contributions of any one particular muscle can vary depending on a multitude of factors to include, the intensity of the activity, the presence of fatigue, previous injury, training history, in addition to others. Applying the global stabiliser, global mobiliser classification to this situation allows a pattern to emerge of which structures are high likely to be contribute less and those which may contribute more. In the presence of pain and fatigue, there appears to be an increasing employment of the multi-articular global mobilisers and lessening of the involvement of their global stabiliser synergists. There is an imbalance in contribution, as one does more, and the other does less. Again, this can be a normal response when evident in the short term, such as in the presence of fatigue; it is a strategy to keep going. But, if this strategy is an individual's normal, background state (non-fatigued/no pain) there is inefficiency, in terms of the architectural and neurophysiological qualities of the mobilisers and stabilisers. Additionally, it would imply movement options have been lost; if we are already employing our back-up state, where do we go from here when we are actually fatigued?
Assessing the synergistic contributions to an activity, the balance between mobiliser and stabiliser employment, supplies insight on the individual's current state; are they at a place in which they have choices, and still possess options once fatigue or pain emerges? Or not?
Testing movement with The Performance Matrix requires the ability to identify the kinematic markers that infer which synergies are out of balance. Spotting the 'calling card' of the inefficient mono-articular structures is a skill of observation, palpation and the application of muscle classifications system. A knowledge of the muscle classifications system also allows the report this process generates to be used for clinical or synergistic reasoning- which stabilisers need targeting, which mobilisers need calming down.
Once exercises are selected, synergies can be rebalanced. Movement options can be restored, back up strategies are now accessible in the reserve tank as opposed to always on call. We heading back to a place of choice, a place of an optimal number of movement strategies.
Models of muscle classification aid the management of movement by partitioning musculature into workable groupings based on a number of characteristics. Within synergistic groupings, contributions are seen to alter depending on a range of factors. Whilst this ability supplies huge variety to ongoing task achievement, assessing muscles synergies informs on the individual's current strategy status; one in which they possess back up strategies or one in which they are operating on the reserve tank mode.


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Bibliodiversität ist ein Konzept, das in den 1990er Jahren in Lateinamerika (, ) von unabhängigen Verlagen entwickelt wurde, um die Vielfalt der Buchkultur zu beschreiben und zu schützen. Der 21. September wurde inzwischen zum weltweiten "Tag der Bibliodiversität" erklärt.

Der Begriff
Der Begriff Bibliodiversität bezeichnet die kulturelle Vielfalt innerhalb des Verlags- und Buchhandelswesens – und er begründet, warum es unabhängig denkende und unabhängig handelnde Menschen in Buchhandlungen und Verlagen geben muss.

Der Begriff ist inspiriert vom strukturell verwandten Begriff der Biodiversität. Wie diese das gesunde Funktionieren eines Ökosystems misst, so ist die Bibliodiversität ein Indikator für ein funktionierendes Buchwesen. Britta Jürgs, die Verlegerin des Aviva Verlags,  definiert die Bibliodiversität folgendermaßen: "Bibliodiversität steht für eine Literatur, die nicht kurzfristige Trends bedient, sondern neue Denkansätze und Sichtweisen hervorbringt." Die Lyrikerin und Verlegerin Susan Hawthorne etwa kritisiert in ihrem Manifest "Bibliodiversität", dass viele Großverlage und Großbuchhandlungen ihren Fokus mittlerweile allein auf hohe Verkaufszahlen legen, weswegen die Bibliodiversität aus dem Gleichgewicht gerate. Gerade Bücher von und über Minderheiten sowie Werke aus kleineren Sprachgemeinschaften oder auch anspruchsvolle literarische Texte, wie etwa Lyrik, fänden so kaum noch eine Verbreitung. Jürgs empfiehlt, "das Konzept der Biodiversität als Vorbild für ein 'organisches' Konzept des Verlegens zu nehmen, das auch langsam wachsenden, kleinen Pflänzchen, seltenen Gewächsen und wilden Kräutern einen Raum gibt, statt eine stromlinienförmige Massenproduktion zu unterstützen, bei der der Profit das höchste Ziel ist".

Der Berliner Kultursenator Klaus Lederer wies darauf hin, dass es nicht genüge, Bibliodiversität "im kleinen Ökosystem der Verlage zu erhalten", es müsse darum gehen, allen Menschen Zugang zur Buchkultur zu verschaffen. In der Bundestagsdebatte über den Erhalt der Buchpreisbindung vom 14. Dezember 2018 berief sich der Abgeordnete der Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Erhard Grundl, explizit auf das Manifest von Hawthorne, und betonte, wie wichtig es für seine Fraktion sei, dass die Bibliodiversität erhalten bleibe.

Begriffsgeschichte
Der genaue Zeitpunkt, wann der Begriff Bibliodiversität erstmals auftauchte, ist nicht festzumachen. Chilenische unabhängige Verlage reklamieren seit Ende der 1990er Jahre die Autorschaft an diesem Konzept für sich. Der Verlag RIL Editores spielte dabei eine große Rolle. Rasch verbreitete sich der Begriff über ganz Lateinamerika. Aber auch spanische unabhängige Verlage reklamieren die Erfindung des Begriffes für sich.

1999 übernahmen die Leiter der "Bibliothèque Interculturelle pour le Futur" (Interkulturelle Bibliothek der Zukunft) den Terminus und etablierten ein Programm bei der Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation in Paris, das von Michel Sauquet und Étienne Galliand geleitet wurde.

Im Mai 2002 entstand hieraus die International Alliance of Independent Publishers, die seit 2016 auch mit der deutschen Kurt Wolff Stiftung, die sich für unabhängige Verlage einsetzt, und dem schweizerischen Pendant Swips zusammenarbeitet. Seither findet er auch im deutschen Sprachraum immer mehr Verbreitung.

Seit der Gründung der Alliance wurde der Begriff auf diversen Buchmessen überall auf der Welt diskutiert.

Im November 2010 publizierte das Parlament der Europäischen Autoren die Deklaration von Istanbul, in der es hieß: "Strategien sollen gefunden werden, die helfen, die Standardisierung des künstlerischen Ausdrucks zu vermeiden, und Bibliodiversität fördern."

Das Manifest "Bibliodiversity" der australischen Autorin Susan Hawthorne, die lange Jahre Sprecherin der englischsprachigen Sektion in der Alliance war, ist in bislang fünf Sprachen übersetzt worden.

Literatur
 Susan Hawthorne: Bibliodiversität. Manifest für unabhängiges Publizieren. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95732-238-8

Weblinks
 Website Bibliodiversity
 Website International Alliance of Independent Publishers

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Clinton-McRaven in 2016?
By Bernie Quigley - 07/07/14 02:40 PM EDT
I am one of the people who always disliked Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonCan Biden encompass the opposition he embodied? Disney silent on Trump status in Hall of Presidents at Magic Kingdom Biden has an opportunity to win over conservative Christians MORE. It has seemed a conundrum these past two decades as so many other people appear to have felt the same. I've given it a good deal of thought and have come to the conclusion that it comes down to one specific item: Bill.
Why I dislike Bill is still crystal clear. From my review of Carol Felsanthal's masterful Clinton in Exile: " ... an odyssey of gold watches and billionaire friends; bimbos, bling and a private airplane bigger than a doublewide; and cash-raising speeches, end on end — three in a day at up to $800,000 a pop, bringing in $46 million in just a few years."
Hillary remains in his shadow. The people who like Bill want Hillary because they think they will get Bill again. But suppose Hillary is headed back to the White House as P.O.T.U.S. this time with a different Bill in tow. And suppose it was Admiral William McRaven, an American hero of the highest caliber, who led the deadly assault on Osama bin Laden.
The Tampa Tribune reports that McRaven, who has served as commander of Joint Special Operations Command since Aug. 8. 2011, is leaving his job. There are rumors that he could be positioning himself to be Hillary Clinton's vice president.
"'I've heard all the rumors,'" Vice Admiral Joe McGuire, a close friend of McRaven for almost 40 years, told The Tampa Tribune, which the newspaper notes "[range] from being named the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to running for office as either governor of Texas or even Hillary Clinton's veep."
I could never have imagined voting for Hillary Clinton but began to go to the river after reading Robert M. Gates's Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War. To my surprise, it showed Hillary out of Bill's shadow, in teamwork as an equal colleague with Gates. Gates brought stability and honor back to the forces and even to foreign policy and it is a job not yet completed. Of Secretary of State Clinton, he says: "She was a terrific colleague and a highly valued one — not least for her sense of humor."
This is the "other Hillary"; the Hillary that is not a subset of Bill. This is heartland Hillary, high school "Goldwater Girl" spawned from real people in the Midwest, the kind of people I'd associate with Gates and company. Working with Gates, she shows a more original and authentic "self" than she does with Bill's entourage. It is Bill's decadent entourage that brings people to despise Hillary. My guess after reading Gates's commentary is that the "Hillary" seen in Bill's reflected aura is not her truest self; possibly even something foreign to her.
When I imagine President Hillary Clinton as a continuing aspect of Bill's bloated and obsessive Leviathan complex, I see a spiraling descent and have been among the first to warn of drastic reaction in America similar to Britain's "bloodless revolution" in 1688, which will drive the heartland away from Washington.
With Gates as the prominent better friend (for instance, chief of staff), possibly America could find a better self there as well. And it is that better America which comes to mind with the thought of McRaven as Hillary's vice president or as governor of Texas.
It would not be a contentious Hillaryland burdened with baggage since 1992 and before into the Sixties. It would be a new America born free in the millenium on May 2, 2011, the day that Admiral McRaven took down Osama bin Laden.
Quigley is a prize-winning writer who has worked more than 35 years as a book and magazine editor, political commentator and reviewer. For 20 years he has been an amateur farmer, raising Tunis sheep and organic vegetables. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife and four children. Contact him at quigley1985@gmail.com.
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Nearly 22,000 Nigerians have been reported missing in the country's North-East region due to a decade of conflict in the area, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
The figure is the highest number of missing persons registered with the ICRC in any country, the humanitarian agency said in a press release posted on its website on Thursday.
An insurgency in Nigeria's North-East, led by Boko Haram, a Jihadist group which seeks to establish an Islamic state in the country, has caused tens of thousands of deaths in the region and a huge disruption to the political, economic, and social activities in the area.
Millions of people have also been displaced due to the conflict.
In 2018, Nigeria was ranked as the third most terrorised country in the world, for the fourth consecutive year, by the Global Terrorism Index.
ICRC in its press release said nearly 60 per cent of the missing Nigerians were minors at the time they went missing.
"Every parent's worst nightmare is not knowing where their child is. This is the tragic reality for thousands of Nigerian parents, leaving them with the anguish of a constant search.
"People have the right to know the fate of their loved ones, and more needs to be done to prevent families from being separated in the first place," the release quoted the ICRC President, Peter Maurer, as having said after a five-day visit to Nigeria.
Mr Maurer, during his visit to the country, was said to have met with President Muhammadu Buhari, and other top government officials.
He also met with civil society organisations, business leaders, and spoke with families affected by the conflict in Maiduguri and Monguno, many of whom are said to have missing relatives.
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Abuja (ICRC) – Nearly 22,000 Nigerians have been reported as missing to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) during a decade of conflict in northeast Nigeria, the highest number of missing persons registered with the ICRC in any country.
"Every parent's worst nightmare is not knowing where their child is. This is the tragic reality for thousands of Nigerian parents, leaving them with the anguish of a constant search. People have the right to know the fate of their loved ones, and more needs to be done to prevent families from being separated in the first place," said ICRC President Peter Maurer today at the end of his five-day visit to the country.
During his time in Nigeria, Maurer met with Nigerian President Buhari and high-level government, civil society and business leaders and spoke with families who have been affected by conflict in Maiduguri and Monguno, many of whom have missing relatives.
Families in northeast Nigeria are often separated while fleeing attacks. Others have had loved ones abducted or detained and do not know their whereabouts. The ICRC works with the Nigeria Red Cross and other Red Cross and Red Crescent societies in the region to trace missing people by showing photographs, calling out names, and going door-to-door in camps and communities.
So far, 367 cases have been solved since ICRC received its first cases in 2013, underscoring the immense challenges that come with finding missing people and reconnecting them with their families in Nigeria. Large swathes of the northeast of the country remain completely inaccessible to humanitarian organisations. People have also been displaced by fighting many times, making them harder to find.
"What troubles me is that I haven't heard whether he is dead or alive. I just don't know. Whenever I cook food for his siblings, I think about him," Falmata Amodu, the mother of a boy who went missing in 2013 at age 10 while fleeing an attack, told us. "For the three years that we stayed in Maiduguri, my husband was very distressed and would repeatedly have nightmares. He would call the name of our abducted son, 'Alkali, Alkali, Alkali' all the time."
Two million people are estimated to be displaced from their homes in northeast Nigeria. In Monguno, internally displaced Nigerians outnumber residents nearly two to one. Health care is also a major concern, as health workers and medical facilities continue to come under fire. Nearly a year ago, two ICRC health workers, Hawa Mohammed Liman and Saifura Hussaini Ahmed Khorsa, were deliberately killed after they were abducted from a clinic in Rann in Borno State. These attacks on health care are not only a violation of international humanitarian law, but also an assault on people's basic right to receive health care.
"Families are the greatest casualty of 10 years of war in northeast Nigeria. They have been torn apart. Children have been killed and maimed in bomb blasts. Their health facilities have been ruthlessly attacked and their homes and belongings destroyed. Families belong together and above all, civilians must be spared in war" Maurer said.
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Home Arts & Culture Sports What's in a Rollergirl?
What's in a Rollergirl?
by Arianna Hoffmann
The next Carolina Rollergirls home event is Saturday, May 15, at Dorton Arena in Raleigh. It will be a doubleheader, with the Carolina Bootleggers taking on the Cape Fear Rollergirls at 6 p.m., followed by the Carolina All-Stars against the Detroit All-Stars at 7:30 p.m. Visit the Carolina Rollergirls website.
In recent months, I've been making trips to watch the Carolina Rollergirls. While roller derby has begun to go mainstreamindeed, a city without a roller derby club is a city falling behind the timesI wanted to find out more about the culture and technique of women's flat track roller derby. The Carolina Rollergirls is a club with two teams: the elite All-Stars and the Bootleggers, a squad of up-and-coming players.
Last month's game between the Carolina All-Stars and Montreal's New Skids on the Block was the first-ever international match for the Rollergirls. Their first international victory will have to wait, though, as the Canadian visitors won by an astounding score of 135-29.
The run of play is complex, but the teams are composed of five players each, with four assigned as defenders. These four circle the track in a pack, while each team's outlier, or "jammer," is charged with pursuing and fighting through the other team's defenders. Points are tallied for each defender passed. The winning combination seems to be the union of speed, stealthy footwork and a good defense, and as I watched this match unfold it got me wondering about the alchemy of the sport itself.
The tights
Maybe the first thing you notice about a Rollergirland certainly one of the most iconic elements of derby in generalis the tights. They may be fishnets, they may sport skulls and crossbones, they may be glittery or animal print, but they are almost certainly ripped.
A novice to derby might assume that the wearer ripped her tights intentionally to add a rough-and-tumble je ne sais quoi to her ensemble. This could not be further from the truth. Tights are protection, and the goal is to keep them whole as long as possibleand that isn't very long.
There's even a strategy for how to wear those holes. Since you're more likely to fall on your left side in the counterclockwise circumnavigation of the track, acquiring holes on the left side is counteracted by flipping your tights around. Putting tights on backward moves intact fabric to the left side, protecting scraped skin and shifting vulnerabilities to a less threatened location. As you might expect, girls on the team compare notes about where to buy tights and which tights to buy; but it's not because they found a killer pattern and they want to match, it's to get tights that withstand the strain and that run as little as possible once they've taken a trip across the surface of the track.
The names
Derby is a complex sport, but the names are easy to grasp. Mostly sinister, often retro, always clever, a Derby name is a point of pride. When you look at the roster on the Carolina Rollergirls' website, it is easy to be impressed by how many entendres will fit on the back of one jersey. Names like Celia Fate and Trudy Struction can inspire you to come up with your own derby moniker. Even the referees have derby names.
Be creative and bewarea derby name is an identity, and these girls don't share. That means there is a master roster (www.twoevils.org/rollergirls) of all roller derby names in usecurrently totaling 19,498complete with rights associated with each name and rules for how to add new ones. Spellings or pronunciations that are too close to existing names are rejected. The roster is even outfitted with a search tool that lets you check a name's uniqueness. This makes picking a name part of the rite of passage of joining a derby team.
After the match, I met a skater named A. Fox, one of the newly recruited skaters from January's open tryouts, and she turns out to be the perfect person to tell me about a new trend in derby alias selectionusing your real name. While she happens to have a name that already lends itself perfectly to derby, she says going without a nom de wheels is gaining in popularity. Her take: It may be a matter of staking a claim to the legitimacy of the sport itself.
The fury
This ain't no skate in the park. The Carolina Rollergirls take their sport seriously. For some, derby is their life; for others, derby is their "other" life. For all, their involvement signifies a serious commitment. The list of skills it takes to try out is intimidating: crossovers, jump turns, a speed test and squats (on skates, of course). Even then, some of the new additions to the team get there only after repeated trips to tryouts.
Once you are a Rollergirl, there's still no telling how long it may be before you can compete as a Carolina Bootlegger or a Carolina All-Star, the Rollergirls' two interleague teams. The All-Stars are the elite squad, a 20-member subset of the more than 60 active Rollergirls. To be an All-Star, you have to meet a number of skills criteria and you must be a familiar face. Ten practices per month is the minimum required, although with five practices per week (totaling 7.5 hours) there are many opportunities to make it happen.
Once you've secured your spot, you've got to hold on to it. The rosters are reviewed regularly, and All-Stars have to make the grade every time, helping the Rollergirls put their best skate forward against opponents who are becoming more and more competitive in the growing realm of derby.
The pageantry
Fans going to see the Rollergirls for the first time may get more than they bargained for. Due to the open floor format in Dorton Arena, there is plenty of room to sit trackside, close enough to the action that if sparks flew from the wheels of passing skaters, they would set your T-shirt on fire.
As with an honest-to-goodness roller coaster, there is a warning in the program that pregnant women and those under the age of 18 cannot sit in the front row. Everyone else should try viewing the game from this vantage. For the squeamish, it may be advisable to move back far enough that the crack of bones or the snap of tendons isn't clearly audible, because chances are it's going to happen at least once during the night.
The Rollergirls have a fervent fan base. Handmade signs, black and red pom-poms and derby-themed outfits abound. Audience members always get the chance to participate in their own high jinkshalftimes and breaks between games are opportunities for events like the hot wing-eating contest that occurred last month. A tie for first place resulted in an impromptu settlement by arm wrestling, the strongest man leaving the track with a full belly and a gift certificate.
The antics and the athletes unite after the match. Whether you were being chased around the arena by a man in a bacon costume, or on the rink getting leveled by Deviled Legs, everybody's bringing sexy back once they pull up a beer and a corner on the dance floor. After the bout, the Berkeley Cafe in downtown Raleigh went from empty to instant party as Bootleggers, All-Stars and their victorious Canadian opponents filed in. You can tell a derby lady at an after-party because even if she's changed out of her fishnets and jersey, she'll still have her number written in grease pen just below her deltoidsif you can make it out on top of the tattoo, that is.
One truth about the women of roller derby is that they love to talk derby. It's not hard to learn about the intricacies of the sport and the culture from women who love what they do and have fun telling you about it.
Anybody drawn to a pastime this physical can't stay still for too long though, and before you know it, the dancing starts. Dancing Rollergirl-style is bound to have its own flair, and it didn't take long for a circle to form on the dance floor around Princess America, one of the All-Stars' MVPs of the night, as she dropped to the floor to do one-armed pushups. The mixture of fierceness and camaraderie is essential to this squad, which is why watching the Rollergirls may even come close to the fun of being one.
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The Tax Court held that the IRS had properly taken into account events that occurred after the decedent's death in determining the value of property for purposes of an estate's charitable deduction.
Practitioners who assist clients with preparing estate tax returns should make sure that they know the very real danger they face if distributions are made from the estate before all the federal estate taxes are paid.
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Final rules govern the requirements for electing portability of a deceased spouse's unused exclusion amount to the surviving spouse and the rules for the surviving spouse's use of that amount.
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Maryland swimmers Kalisz and Ledecky, Towson's Saunderson named to U.S. Swimming 2018-19 national team
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Towson swimmer Jack Saunderson at the 2017-18 CAA Swimming & Diving Championships. (CAASports.com / HANDOUT)
On Tuesday, USA Swimming released the roster for its 2018-19 national team, listing 111 of the country's top swimmers based off of their accomplishments both at home and abroad this year.
Towson University senior Jack Saunderson made the cut with the third-fastest time in the 100-meter butterfly, 51.48 seconds, which he posted in the preliminary round at the Phillips 66 Nationals this summer. He is one of 26 first-time national-team members, per Swimming World Magazine.
Towson swimmer Jack Saunderson has a chance to be an Olympian — he's just not sure he wants to be
Olympic silver medalist and Fallston alum Chase Kalisz earned his spot for three events, the 200- and 400-meter individual medleys, with top times set at the 2018 Pan Pacific Games last month, and the 200-meter butterfly.
Bethesda's Katie Ledecky, a five-time Olympic gold medalist, qualified for the national team in four events, the women's 200-, 400-, 800- and 1,500-meter freestyle events. The same four that elevated her to the team in 2017, too, as well as the 100-meter freestyle, which she did not qualify for this year. Three of the four times were set in Tokyo last month as well, and all four were the fastest in the nation this year.
Both Kalisz and Ledecky have made the national roster every year since 2012.
Swimmers named to the national team reap benefits inaccessible to most, including funding for travel to certain events and health insurance.
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Q: monocular slam initial world coordinate system transformation The monocular slam's initial coordinate system is random and scale-unknown.
But i want to know how to transform the initial coordinate system to another coordinate system(from a marker,like chessboard).
Is there has any papers or blogs.
Thanks a lot!

A: This is a difficult problem in the monocular setting, for which IMUs give pretty good results (e.g here). But it appears that you currenlty do not have any sensors except for the camera. In that case, estimating the scale using a chessboard or markers is not an ideal solution since it will require you to have a lot of control on the motion of your camera at initialization. For example, one simple way that comes to mind is this: keep the chessboard exactly vertical, and fix your camera at a distance N, with its axis orthogonal to the board. Now, make sure you move the the camera exactly parallel to the board for a time t. In this time interval, every feature that you detect on the board will be at distance N from the camera. This means that, if their depth in your SLAM coordinates is s, then your scale will be N/s. However, keeping the movement exactly parallel is awkward. I expect (feel free to correct me) that other marker based approaches will be equally bad.
A better but considerably more time-consuming (from a development point of view) option is to use a model-based tracker (rich litterature, a very old example that comes to mind is pwp3D). Take a known object in your environment (a simple one for which you can easily obtain at CAD model, in which the scale is the true scale). Now, your problem is that of the alignment of your SLAM referential to the referential of object space. For that, you can use contour detection in the original image, project the CAD model and try to align them as best as possible (note that you have to align these contours in a sufficient number of images, using different view-points, in a bundle adjustment-like manner).
Another possibility is to use a neural network to predict depth (rich literature on the subject), but the estimation will usually be less precise.
Addressing alignment with ground truth coordinates:
I understand from your comment that you want to align your SLAM coordinates to a previously known referential. I think that looking into SLAM systems that are georeferenced can be beneficial for you, since they face the same problem as you at initialization. Now, to come back to the problem at hand, here is how I'd do it:

Let's note G your desired coordinates system, and let S be the SLAM referential. Your SLAM algorithm will reconstruct features from the marker, that we will call f'_1,f'_2,f'_3. Those will correspond to features f_1,f_2,f_3 on your marker. It is important that you can correctly match those features based on their appearance (texture or color, etc). Once you have those matches, the problem is to find the similarity sim=[sR sT;0 1] (using matlab/octave-like notations) where R is the rotation, T is the translation and s is the scale parameter. You should now be able to formulate your problem as some sort of
argmin_{R,T,s} sum(d(f'_i, sim*f_i))
where the sum runs for indexes 1,...,N (in the figure N=3), and  d denotes a distance (I'd say, Euclidian) between features in referential G and their matches in referential S. Of course, this is a broad formulation, but I think it can serve as a general basis for your solution. Note, however, that it will be a lot better if you can have a prior on R,T,s before minimizing such a cost function, since minimization algorithms for those kinds of problems tend to get stuck in local minima.

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Is the Australian Government Crossing the Line into a Totalitarian State?
August 13, 2017 Geopolitics101	11 Comments
Behind the Curtain, there seems to be no government going completely nuts more so than Australia. They are doubling taxes on all foreigners who own a property, which is a violation of international law, and then they made it a crime for a foreigner to even buy a house undisclosed.
by Martin Armstrong, Aug 11, 2017
On top of all of this insanity, they are planning to strip consumers of their legal protections if they pay in cash and fail to get a receipt. If an Australian pays for anything in cash, they suspect he is hiding money. This outrageous proposal is clearly exposing the Australian government as a leftist goose-stepping authoritarian regime going completely insane hunting Australians for taxes.
They are even stalking children on their way to school and then check the school as to how they are being paid. This is real Hitler stuff. That is why the Swiss created numbered accounts because Hitler made it illegal for a German to have any account outside of Germany.
This anti-free society the Australian government is establishing is just off the charts. They have set up a Black Economy Taskforce to hunt down their own citizens. This is becoming very dangerous. Can you imagine a government staking your children?
This gestapo agency is indeed spying on its own citizens in every aspect just as did the NAZI government in Germany. They have put forth 35 recommendations contained in the interim report where they are arguing the need for "consumer-focused action" to crack down on cash payments.
The Black Economy Taskforce has turned its attention from the businesses to consumers they now say are "part of the problem" adding that "[w]e intend to examine the merits of consumer focused sanctions, including the loss of consumer protections, warranties and legal rights for people who make cash payments without obtaining a valid receipt."
They are out to change the entire culture of Australia because the government refuses to see itself as the spendthrift causing the entire problem. They wrote:
"This is not simply of matter of imposing new penalties, but part of a wider cultural change agenda."
The Australian government is looking to impose penalties if a consumer pays cash and FAILS to get a receipt so they can end the underground economy. They are expecting to change the culture by forcing consumers to ask for a fiscal receipts when paying cash for anything.
Now the Australian government has moved beyond eliminating cash, they seek to punish people who pay in cash. Obviously, Australia turned their own people into a hunt for taxes. Can you imagine stalking your children is legal?
What is human rights? Australia is hunting its own people as if this were a fox hunt.
Those who are looking to adopt children should consider adopting from Australia to save them from a government that is going down the path of a totalitarian regime. This is always a dangerous historical path to proceed down.
It has never ended nicely.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/taxes/is-australian-government-crossing-the-line-into-a-totalitarian-state/
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HOWARD E. says:
"Paper Lion" – GCR/RV Intel SITREP – Sunday – August 13, 2017
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Very hard to impeach a sitting US President during a potential time of war?
Even harder to RV though 🙁
Isn't it interesting how two "potential wars" suddenly arose in both North Korea and Venezuela at exactly the same time Special Prosecutor Bob Mueller is closing his investigative noose around President Trump's closest confidants?
Hard to RV without the Republic's global flash bang… interesting strategy by the cabal to stay relevant by destroying its remaining perceived legitimacy faster.
Remember, the more chaotic American political events are in the news, the closer we are to the global financial reforms unleashing their philanthropic fury.
The Trump political madness we are all subjected to daily is the cabal's old "break the glass" strategy for starting WW3 — someplace, anyplace and yesterday.
Also keep in mind all back-of-the-bank global banking reforms structurally have long completed and all redemption bases and off site centers are simply awaiting final release authorization instruction.
So there is no legitimate monetary drama anymore, and there is no legitimate military drama in terms of going to war, as Trump has no nuke codes because he's not Republic President per Republic & military sources.
This makes Primma Donna a paper lion at best. Digging his own grave tweet by tweet, radical comment by radical comment.
And because China long ago disabled the North Korean nuclear program in exchange for keeping the country solvent monetarily, where is this insanity coming from?
Answer: desperation. Forcing the Pentagon to launch a preemptive first strike to "protect an ally" is the cabal last, best chaotic chance to stave off the RV.
But Dunford ain't having any of it–and why today he is physically "inside the hot zone," to reassure the world there is no legitimate threat posed by the US military (by the guy who does have the nuke launch codes) against the Korean Peninsula.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-13/top-u-s-general-jets-into-asia-as-north-korea-tensions-run-high
Meaning, the remaining cabal minions are now taking their last collective breath before death, including those die hard agents who create needless violence by in-sighting fake "white supremacist hate" in Virginia yesterday.
Absolutely anything to gin up enough chaos to stop the RV. Can you imagine a world without such man-made generated hell on earth?
The cabal sure can, and why they are throwing the kitchen sink at the good guys here at the bitter end.
So stay strong way-seers. The light at the end of the GCR/RV tunnel is both blinding and growing every hour and straight into our tired but resilient third eye.
God is with us
gina g says:
The very article link you reference has this quote:
"The Roman Emperor Maximus sacked the city to pay his troops. Maximinus would offer rewards to anyone who had info on assets hidden by those who dared to resist his decree that everything belonged to the state."
Yet this website has numerous times called the evil bankers "CAPITLIST" and the solution being socialism (which means the expansion of the government welfare/tax state and regulations by an "official" body), when Maximus/Obama is the embodiment of socialism.
So maybe you need to clue yourself up on the concept of free markets, milton friedman, the success of capitalist hong kong, the failure of socialist EU, and the concept of FREE SPEECH no matter whether you like whats said or not?
kznwatch says:
I see from comments all over that Aussie's and Kiwi's have become pretty disillusioned with their PTB — but then, all the global top dogs belong to the same club and we all know who they are and what their plans are for the planet. But resistance is growing worldwide and just hope it becomes a massive global tsunami soon. Thank heavens people are getting ever more sharp too– aware that the global controllers always play the game ALL sides and know full well today, that many calling for genuine change are often undercover agents for the globalist few and which we as the many– know, we can defeat– are already doing.
Cash began to be outlawed in India– now it seems to be spreading globally– all going to biometrics. When I was in the US in 1990– my brother gave me a credit card, made me a co-signatory on his account– whatever you do, he said– don't pay cash for a rental car or a hotel stay… At that time traveller's cheques could be exchanged for dollars which were accepted by stores and gas stations.
Possibly still acceptable as of now. What does the cabal say– no matter how people resist– they will have their NWO and OWG.
geoffg says:
If you dig deeper you will find the NWO and OWG are near the end and there is much happening to replace it with an economics of abundance.
The Cabal, or Illusionazis, are so desperate they are showing their hand all over the place which helps the sheeple begin to wake up. Those in the know refer to them as the powers that were.
Everything is on the net for those with intuition and discernment to search, follow links and grope their way to sites that know, then a whole new world opens up. Beginners could try Googling 9/11 inside job, and see where that leads.
regensordo says:
I'm all for taxing foreigners who own property in my country. They drive prices up. And I can't afford to buy in their country. Tax them too.
If you don't like it get out.
"Leftists" don't take away civil liberties. That's more of a Conservative hobby.
I Shears says:
Tax is a justification for surveillance. The Australian Government is only condemning itself to the Lake of Fire because the people who tithe will have made government-accessible data available. The Government will be condemned for, therefore, not keeping the seventh-day Sabbath, also a part of the New Testament law..
Bernard Rossi says:
Does the author actually live in Australia? If he does then he knows that the issue of foreign ownership of domestic residential real estate has been thoroughly abused and mis-used in the last 10 or so years. Homes are so grossly inflated in value today that in 'rust-belt' towns a house in what was a blue collar suburb is beyond the means of most locals.
Instead foreign ownership, in contradiction to national Foreign Investment laws, has been a boon for foreigners buying, speculating and developing multi-story sites and selling them almost exclusively to foreign investors. At the same time, established residential real estate was fantastically over-bid by the same speculators. So, overall values have sky-rocketed, leaving local with families effectively homeless for the rest of their working lives. Is this an international scheme to create a ground-lease?
Regardless, now it is revealed that money from criminal proceeds is awash in this country as the biggest bank is sued for laundering dirty money on a truly massive scale. Has criminal proceeds fuelled an unlawful and cruel plan to denude the ordinary citizen from home ownership, while the banks get fat and stay propped-up from values underpinned by dirty money, from drugs, guns and people trade?
Australia is also experiencing huge wages stagflation due to the number of foreign owned business' using foreign and unregistered and uncontrolled workers – 457 visa abuses. This feeds into home unaffordability problems, exacerbating the crisis, and creating potential massive social and political problems. the business owners get the right to apply for citizenship as part of these programs.
So further taxing capital gains on residentially owned foreign property is logical in this context, and is simply following other jurisdictions on the same issue. Personally, FIRB rules preclude such ownership and all such interests should be declared null and void ab initio. Citizenship, as the current politico-legal system maintains, is actually a reference point for participation in the democratic process that is Australia – why should only some be able to circumvent those rules?
The article, in light of these matters, appears unjustified and reactionary.
dayvaux says:
The current Prime Minister (CEO) is ex Goldman Suxx. He siezed power from the elected CEO in a partyroom coup. Draw your own conclusions.
Bernard E Rossi says:
Yes Turnbull is Goldman Sachs, Hawke was Rhodes Scholar and Fabian Society crony, Keating was linked to the wall street banks (Rivkin?), Abbott was another Rhodes scholar but also a Jesuit, Theresa May is a Banker etc. While your point is relevant, it must be added that western leaders' loyalty crosses political lines (as the Hegelian Dialectic is supposed to), meaning the left wing and the right are simply part of the same bird. Accordingly, the conclusion that needs to be drawn is not one based on fake party political lines, but runs much deeper. Hence, what is the point you seemingly do not want to espouse dayvaux?
Australia is often a testing ground for the US, like when they turned from the land of the long weekend to the lost weekend and later tried to destroy the herbal medicine industry.
Australians too often pride themselves on their ignorance, like what other country practices Ockerism, and then degenerates it to Boganism?
Whenever an industry builds up it gets destroyed, generally by the right-wing mob, so Australia is still only a farming and mining country, and nothing imposed raises much comment.
Feminists have far more power in Oz than the US, are dominant in most bureaucracies, and have successfully banned the "Red Pill", and are the driving force behind compulsory weaponised vaccines for children, and drove people out of the country who have come over to expose it. Feminism destroyed the nuclear family, and is dominated by Radical Lesbians who subscribe to childlessness in their own lives.
It is the most racist country on the planet, and keeps traditional indigenous people in abject poverty and squalor and makes out they do it to themselves.
If it wasn't for the crash of 87-91, the Gold Coast would have been fully owned by the Japanese, and all land prices would now be sky high.
Australia is an Illusionazi experiment in keeping people evolutionary primitive, and it's people have not begun to wake up.
I found the article to be waffly, and not up to their normal standards.
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