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Nets' LeVert Has Nothing To Prove in NBA's Orlando Bubble
By Steve Lichtenstein, WFAN Sports Radio 101.9 FM/66AM New York
As reinforcements trickled in for Brooklyn during their first week of practice in the Orlando bubble, all eyes were still focused on one incumbent player: Caris LeVert.
The fourth-year guard is by far the best of a handful of remaining core pieces on a team that has seen eight players test positive for the coronavirus and required four substitute roster spots. The decimation hit a new low on Tuesday when the Nets needed to sign a replacement (Lance Thomas) for a positive-tested replacement (Michael Beasley).
When the eight-game conclusion to the regular season gets under way in two weeks, LeVert might be interim coach Jacque Vaughn's only legitimate offensive facilitator – remember, recently-signed Jamal Crawford hasn't taken an NBA court all season, and he's 40 years old to boot.
The prevailing wisdom, then, is that this will be LeVert's opportunity to shine, to prove that he is capable of being the Nets' third star next to KD and Kyrie so they won't have to break the bank to trade for one in the offseason. LeVert might even need to be part of the consideration to get one, and if LeVert-led Brooklyn can give Milwaukee or Toronto a scare in the first round of the playoffs, the theory goes that said performance would answer all the questions.
I have multiple issues with that take. First, the Nets would need LeVert to be superhuman just to win a game in a first-round series. Have you seen their front line? TNT studio analyst Shaquille O'Neal declined to name anyone when challenged after absurdly predicting that Brooklyn would advance.
The Nets have young center Jarrett Allen, who is at best unproven on this stage, and…? Maybe if forward Rodions Kurucs has his head on straight after a rough year on and off the court, he can provide some quality minutes. But wing Joe Harris indicated that he might have to play some power forward and Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot was also given reps there at a recent practice, and it could be real fun watching those guys guard Serge Ibaka or Pascal Siakam or Giannis Antetokounmpo. Yikes.
As for LeVert, he has NOTHING to prove in Orlando. He's already shown that if you run your offense through him, he can deliver results, and his issues are all health-related – he's been riddled with varying injuries since his college days at Michigan, and has missed a third of Brooklyn's games since he was selected 20th overall in the 2016 NBA Draft.
However, there's no denying that LeVert, 25, seemed to be putting it all together at the beginning of last season. In the Nets' first 13 games, he averaged 19 points per game while shooting 48/33/72 percent from the field, three-point range, and the foul line, respectively. He was clutch, too, hitting game-winners against the Knicks and Nuggets. He was surely All-Star bound.
Then came Game 14 in Minnesota. A horrific fall resulted in an ankle injury that cost him the next 42 games. Upon his return, LeVert struggled to find his rhythm. His averages over his first 14 games back plummeted to 8.6 points on 34/25.5/68 percent shooting.
But LeVert eventually rebounded, and by playoff time, he seemed to be the only Net who wasn't cowed by the moment. In the Nets' five-game loss to the Sixers, he notched 21 points per game on 49/46/72 percent shooting.
In that series, it became clear that LeVert and the Nets were at their best when the offense flowed through him, even if it meant that D'Angelo Russell and Spencer Dinwiddie had to play more off the ball. That's because unlike the other two fine players, LeVert, when his long-range shot is dialed in, is a three-level scorer, with the ability to finish from the paint, mid-range areas, and three-point land.
It was a similar story this season, with a very good start, a 25-game recovery from a broken thumb, an additional 15-game struggle to return to form, and, finally, a torrid home stretch before the league shut down on March 11.
Over his last 16 games, LeVert went off for per-game averages of 24 points, 5 assists, and 5 rebounds with a 45/41/79.5 percent shooting split. The Nets went 9-7 in those contests, all without Irving, who was limited to just 20 games this season. The highlight was an epic 51-point performance (26 in the fourth quarter) to lead a bench mob to a miraculous comeback victory in Boston on March 3.
No, LeVert doesn't need to prove he can be trusted with the ball in his hands. If there is an on-court question, it is whether he can play as well without it, since Durant and Irving are both ball-dominant players. Can LeVert adjust to being a third wheel, someone who gets fewer isolation/pick-and-roll opportunities and becomes a spot-up option in crunch time? It's a question of fit, not talent.
Alas, we won't get a sneak preview in the Orlando bubble, because neither Durant (Achilles) nor Irving (shoulder) were deemed healthy enough to participate. And, with Dinwiddie also unavailable after contracting COVID-19 while practicing in Brooklyn, it's all now on LeVert's slightly bulked-up shoulders.
Given the state of the Nets, you could argue that the wiser course would be to hold him out, too, so he's not subjected to further injury risk before a crucial offseason. And maybe that's true, because anything LeVert does or doesn't do in this makeshift tournament won't determine his future in Brooklyn. We're not going to learn anything we didn't already know.
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Q: Display WinForms object properties in Out-GridView While testing I frequently want to check the properties of a WinForms object by piping the variable to Out-GridView, but it's not displaying properly. Each property is showing up as a separate column.
I was able to sort of get what I'm looking for by using a calculated property, but I have to reference the object by name within the calculation. It also feels like maybe I'm making this harder than it needs to be. I'm pretty new with Powershell so please forgive my ineptitude.
Here's what I have at the moment:
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
$Form = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form
$Form | Get-Member -MemberType Property | Select-Object Name, @{Name='Value';Expression={$Form.($_.Name)}} | Out-GridView

A: It sounds like you want each property of the form to be shown on its own row in the grid view, instead of showing all properties in the columns of a single row, which happens by default. To put it differently, you're looking for Format-List-like display instead of Format-Table-like display.
A simple solution is to use the intrinsic psobject property to reflect on an object's properties:
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms

$form = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form

$form.psobject.Properties |
  Select-Object Name, Value |
  Out-GridView

Sample output - note how each property name-value pair is on its own row:

A: function Show-ObjectProperties([Parameter(ValueFromPipeline)]$F){
    ($F|Get-Member -M Property).Name|ForEach{@{$_=$F.$_}}|
    OGV -Title ($MyInvocation.Line -replace '^\$|\s*\|.+')
}

$MainForm = [Windows.Forms.Form]::new()
$SecondaryForm = [Windows.Forms.Form]::new()

$MainForm|Show-ObjectProperties
$SecondaryForm|Show-ObjectProperties

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China's stock market intervention: Are government efforts hindering recovery?
Western analysts say that the Chinese government's heavy-handed intervention is to blame for hindering the market's recovery and could hinder market reforms in the long-run.
China Daily/Reuters
Investors have lunch in front of an electronic board showing stock information at a brokerage house in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, August 3, 2015. Shanghai shares fell on Monday as a survey showed weak factory activity and some investors stayed on the sidelines after mainland stocks suffered their worst monthly loss in six years in July.
By Cristina Maza Staff writer
@crisleemaza
As China's stocks continue to tumble, the country's authorities have alternated between implementing far-reaching measures to keep the market afloat to seeking out scapegoats for why their attempts aren't working.
On Monday, the Chinese stock market slid around 1 percent, a moderate drop compared to the 8 percent decline of the previous week. But analysts are not seeing a sustained upturn happening anytime soon and government officials and market watchers are struggling to pinpoint exactly what went wrong and what they can do about it. While Chinese authorities have pointed a finger at foreign investors, launching an investigation into whether algorithmic traders are influencing prices by offering and retracting bids at whim, many Western analysts say that the Chinese government's heavy-handed intervention is to blame for hindering the market's recovery.
"The biggest drop in Chinese stocks in eight years Monday is another sign that Beijing's efforts to prop up prices have failed," wrote Burton Malkiel for the Wall Street Journal last week. "Moreover, the interventions themselves have made China's equity markets more volatile and damaged their credibility in the long run."
The Chinese stock market reached its peak in mid-June when the bull-run that began in the summer of 2014 came to an abrupt halt. Since then, the stock market has continued to plunge as the government pulled out all the stops to prop it up. Over the last few months, Beijing eased borrowing measures to encourage investors to buy back stocks and permitted Chinese speculators to use their homes as collateral for borrowing to buy more. Meanwhile, due to an exchange rule that imposes a daily up and down limit of 10 percent for stocks, trading was suspended for over half of all shares. Numerous funds were also created to assist some of the country's largest brokerage firms to buy stock funds themselves and the central bank cut interest rates to record lows. But perhaps the most criticized measure was the government's decision to prohibit major shareholders from selling and to ban short sales and new initial public offerings.
Now analysts say that these measures will have long-term repercussions by damaging investors' faith in the market and encumbering much-needed market reforms.
"All of these interventions show that the government is willing to jump in with a bunch of ad hoc measures, so that could make people think that the government is willing to prop things up," says David Dollar, senior fellow with the Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development programs at the Brookings Institute.
"But it hasn't worked very well. So for many investors, it should make them nervous that it's not really a fair stock market, that it's something where the government might come in and try to push prices one way or the other. And that undermines a general sense that the stock market is the right place to invest," he concludes.
Writing for Forbes, Junheng Li, an expert on China's economy, agrees that the measures will drive away investors.
"Many Chinese and foreign investors will hesitate to go back into a market where you may not be able to get out when you want to (even when the daily 10% limit on individual stock price declines has not been reached), where you can be forced to buy more stock than you want to and where the authorities can compel private participants to put their money at risk by having to create a stabilization fund," Ms. Li wrote.
And Heather Long, who compared China's stock market woes to the United States' 1929 "Black Thursday" in a piece for CNN Money, agrees that the moves do little to inspire confidence.
"Part of the problem is that when there's a big intervention like what the bankers tried to do in 1929 or what China's government is doing now, it's akin to several fire engines showing up with their lights and sirens blaring. It looks bad to outsiders (or, in this case, to investors). After checking out what's going on, they typically want to get away," Ms. Long wrote.
Now many investors say they fear the recent policy changes could jeopardize some of the market reforms many had expected would bolster the Chinese economy in the near future.
"The key question being asked by investors in Chinese stocks – especially those offshore – right now seems to be whether the administrative intervention will impact critically needed market reforms," Li wrote, adding that most of the investors she has spoken with say they believe it will.
And Mr. Dollar agrees that the current situation could hinder the removal of some red tape for companies that planned to enter the stock market.
"They had been heading towards a very important reform. Up until now, to be listed on the stock market, you need to get all kinds of government approvals and it was quite bureaucratic and it's rumored to be pretty corrupt. But they were moving more towards a system like the US, where if you meet certain standards, like three years of audited statements and you've been profitable, then you can make your own decisions, you can go public or not go public," explains Dollar. "I'm pretty sure this whole experience is going to slow down the reform of China's stock market in that direction."
"That would be a healthy direction in the long run because it would allow a lot of new, mostly private companies to come into the market to create a more diversified stock market that has more of a real connection to the real economy," he continues.
For now, however, analysts are not predicting that the stock market crash, which many say is really just the correction of 2014's spike, will have a serious impact on the rest of the economy.
"The country's stock market plays a smaller role in its economy than the U.S. stock market does in ours and has fewer linkages to the rest of the economy," Bill Adams, PNC Financial's senior international economist in Pittsburgh, told Forbes.
Still, the real danger lies in the fact that the government's failure to save the stock market could undermine people's confidence, says Dollar.
"If people start to feel that this is not such a competent group of technocrats overall, then that can affect their sentiment, their confidence. And that can start to affect real investment and real consumption and can contribute to further slow-down."
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\section*{The Coulomb Interaction between
 Pion-Wavepackets:\\ The $\pi^+$--$\pi^-$ Puzzle}

\vspace{0.5cm}

H. Merlitz$^{a,b}$ and D. Pelte$^{a,c}$\\
\end{center}

\vspace{0.5cm}

  $a$: Physikalisches Institut der Universit\"at Heidelberg,
  D-69120 Heidelberg\\

  $b$: Gesellschaft f\"ur Schwerionenforschung (GSI) Darmstadt, Germany\\

  $c$: Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Kernphysik, D-69117 Heidelberg\\

\begin{abstract}
 The time dependent Schr\"odinger equation for $\pi^+$--$\pi^-$
 pairs, which are emitted from the interaction zone in
 relativistic nuclear collisions, is solved using wavepacket states.
 It is shown that the Coulomb enhancement in the momentum correlation
 function of such pairs is smaller than obtained in earlier
 calculations based on Coulomb distorted plane waves. These results
 suggest that the experimentally observed positive correlation signal
 cannot be caused by the Coulomb interaction between pions emitted
 from the interaction zone. But other processes which involve
 long-lived resonances and the related extended source dimensions
 could provide a possible explanation for the observed signal.\\
 PACS: 25.70.-z\\
\end{abstract}
\end{titlepage}

\section{Introduction}
 \label{intro}

 Originally, the method of intensity-interferometry (``Hanbury-Brown and
 Twiss interferometry'', HBT) was developed in astronomy and applied
 to determine the angular radii of stars, which were
 too small to be resolved in ordinary optical instruments \cite{hbt57}.
 Shortly afterwards it was recognized that a similar procedure
 could also be applied to pions emitted in high energy reactions,
 whereby the size of the pion-production volume becomes a measurable
 quantity \cite{gol60}. However, it is clear that the different physical
 environment in high energy- or heavy ion reactions
 asks for certain modifications of the original formalism. The following
 facts have to be taken into account:
 \begin{enumerate}
  \item The wavelength $\lambda$ of visible light is about $500$ nm and
    the coherence length of a photon
    $\Lambda \approx \tau \, c$ with a typical emission
    time of $\tau \approx 10^{-8}$ s is about $7$ orders of magnitude larger.
    Therefore, the photon can be  well described as a plane wave.
    A typical pion, produced via $\Delta$(1232)-decay
    with a momentum $p_{\rm o} = 150$ MeV/c has the de Broglie
    wavelength $\lambda_{\rm o} \approx 8$ fm, and the coherence length
    is defined as (\cite{hol95}, p.\ 158)
    $\Lambda = \lambda_{\rm o}^2/\Delta \lambda \approx 6$ fm.
    Here, $\Delta \lambda$
    is the uncertainty in the wavelength, related to the energy width
    $\Delta E \approx 120$ MeV of the $\Delta$(1232)
    resonance via $\Delta \lambda
    = 2\pi\,\hbar/\Delta E$. Since $\lambda_{\rm o}$ and $\Lambda$ are of
    the same size, the pion cannot be described as a plane wave.
 \item The radius $R$ of a star is typically $8$ orders of magnitude larger than
    the coherence length of the emitted light, and therefore coherence
    effects at emission time can be neglected: The star is a chaotic
    radiator. The pion source has a typical size of a few fm which is
    of the same order as the coherence length of the pion.
    Therefore, interference
    effects in the source have to be taken into account, as it is
    consistently done in the wavepacket model [4-6].
 \item Photons are neutral, whereas the pion correlations
    (with exception of $\pi^{\rm o}$) are modified by the Coulomb interaction.
 \end{enumerate}
 The Coulomb distortion of the correlation function and the corresponding
 correction has been the topic of many recent publications [7-10],
 where the pions where described either as plane waves or as classical
 particles. The several existing theoretical approaches all have in
 common that they do not consider the zero point energy which emerges
 as a consequence of the finite size of the pion source. However,
 in a recent wavepacket calculation of identical and Coulomb
 interacting pions
 it was found that the correlation function does not exhibit any significant
 distortion, a fact which was explained by the strong momentum uncertainty
 of the wavepackets \cite{mer97}. This argument, if valid, should also
 apply to the correlations of $\pi^+$--$\pi^-$ pairs. Here, positive
 correlations were found experimentally \cite{bar97}, which are
 interpreted as caused by the Coulomb attraction between both pions and
 equivalently used to Coulomb-correct the correlation functions
 for like-charge pions.

 It is therefore of crucial importance to verify the conclusions of
 Ref.\ \cite{mer97} also for the $\pi^+$--$\pi^-$ system of non-identical
 mesons, where the wavefunction does not have to be symmetric with respect
 to particle exchange. This system therefore displays the consequences
 of the quantum behaviour, and in particular those of the Heisenberg
 uncertainty principle, most purely, and it allows to study the
 modifications when the system approaches the classical limit.
 To this end, we compute the correlation function of $\pi^+$--$\pi^-$ pairs
 using wavepackets for the pion-states. We again discuss the important role
 of the dispersion which determines
 the size of the Coulomb distortion. We compare
 the results with experimental data and finally discuss the implications.

\section{The multiconfigurational procedure}
 \label{multi}
 The method to solve the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation
 for $\pi^+$--$\pi^-$ pairs,
 \begin{equation}
  \label{eq10}
  \hat{H} \Psi({\bf r}_1, {\bf r}_2,t) =
  i\hbar \partial_t \Psi({\bf r}_1, {\bf r}_2,t)\;,
 \end{equation}
 with the Hamiltonian
 \begin{equation}
  \label{eq20}
   \hat{H} = -\frac{\hbar^2}{2m}(\Delta_1 + \Delta_2) + \frac{-e^2}{
   |{\bf r}_1 - {\bf r}_2|}
 \end{equation}
 is similar to the method used in \cite{mer97}. For the
 initial $2$-particle wavefunction we use the product state
 \begin{equation}
  \label{eq30}
  \Psi({\bf r}_1, {\bf r}_2,t=0) =
  \psi_1({\bf r}_1,t=0)\cdot \psi_2({\bf r}_2,t=0)\;,
 \end{equation}
 where the single particle states are Gaussians, i.\,e.\
  \begin{equation}
   \label{eq40}
   \psi_j({\bf r}_j,t=0) = (2\pi\sigma_{\rm o}^2)^{-3/4}\,
   \exp \left(\frac{i}{\hbar}{\bf P}_j\cdot{\bf r}_j
    -\frac{\left({\bf r}_j - {\bf R}_j\right)^2}
        {4\sigma_{\rm o}^2}\right)
 \end{equation}
 with $j \in \{1,2\}$. ${\bf R}_j$ is the initial position of
 the $j$'th wavepacket-centre, ${\bf P}_j$ the initial momentum
 and $\sigma_{\rm o}$ the initial
 wavepacket-width. Transforming into center of mass (com) and
 relative (rel) coordinates, the state is rewritten as
 \begin{equation}
  \label{eq50}
  \Psi({\bf r}_{\rm c}, {\bf r},t=0) = \Psi_{\rm com}
  ({\bf r}_{\rm c})\cdot \Psi_{\rm rel}
  ({\bf r})\,
 \end{equation}
 with ${\bf r}_{\rm c} =
 ({\bf r}_1 + {\bf r}_2)/2$ and ${\bf r} = {\bf r}_1 - {\bf
 r}_2$,
 \begin{equation}
   \label{eq60}
   \Psi_{\rm com}({\bf r}_{\rm c}) = (\pi\sigma_{\rm o}^2)^{-3/4}\,
   \exp\left(\frac{i}{\hbar} {\bf P}_{\rm c}\cdot{\bf r}_{\rm c}
   -\frac{\left({\bf r}_{\rm c} -
    {\bf R}_{\rm c}\right)^2}
        {2\sigma_{\rm o}^2}\right)\;,
 \end{equation}
 and
 \begin{equation}
   \label{eq70}
   \Psi_{\rm rel}({\bf r}) = (4\pi\sigma_{\rm o}^2)^{-3/4}\,
   \exp\left(\frac{i}{\hbar}{\bf P}\cdot{\bf r}
    -\frac{\left({\bf r} - {\bf R}\right)^2}
        {8\sigma_{\rm o}^2}\right)\;.
 \end{equation}
 Here, ${\bf R}_{\rm c} = ({\bf R}_1 + {\bf R}_2)/2$, ${\bf R} =
 {\bf R}_1 - {\bf R}_2$, ${\bf P}_{\rm c} = {\bf P}_1 + {\bf P}_2$
 and ${\bf P} = ({\bf P}_1 - {\bf P}_2)/2$.
 Since there are no external forces, the time dependent solution
 for $\Psi_{\rm com}$ is the solution for a free wavepacket, i.\,e.\
 \begin{equation}
   \label{eq80}
   \Psi_{\rm com}({\bf r}_{\rm c},t) = (\pi s_{\rm c}(t)^2)^{-3/4}\,
   \exp\left(\frac{i}{\hbar}\left({\bf P}_{\rm c}\cdot{\bf r}_{\rm c}
   - E_{\rm c} t\right)
    -\frac{\left({\bf r}_{\rm c} - {\bf R}_{\rm c}\right)^2}
        {2 s_{\rm c}(t)\sigma_{\rm o}}\right)\;.
 \end{equation}
 Here, $E_{\rm c} = P_{\rm c}^2/(2M)$ with $M = 2m$ and the pion mass
 $m = 140$ MeV, finally
 \begin{equation}
   \label{eq90}
   s_{\rm c}(t) = \sigma_{\rm o}\left(1 + \frac{i\hbar t}
   {M\sigma_{\rm o}^2}\right)\;.
 \end{equation}
 In order to evaluate the time dependent solution for
 $\Psi_{\rm rel}({\bf r},t)$, an expansion into a set of basis
 functions is required. As basic components for our basis we use
 the same time dependent wavefunctions as in \cite{mer97}, i.\,e.\
  \begin{eqnarray}
   &&\psi_{l,m,n}({\bf r},t) = \nonumber \\
   &&\sqrt{{\cal N}_{l,m,n}}\,
   x^{l}\, y^{m}\, z^{n}
   \exp\left(
   \frac{i}{\hbar} \left({\bf P}(t)\cdot
   {\bf r} - \theta_{l,m,n}(t) \right) -
   \frac{\left({\bf r} - {\bf R}(t)\right)^2}
        {8s(t)\sigma_{\rm o}}\right)
   \label{eq100}
 \end{eqnarray}
 with the phase
 \begin{equation}
  \label{eq110}
  \theta_{l,m,n}(t) = \int_{0}^{t}E (\tau) \, d\tau +
  \hbar\, (l + m + n + 3/2)\,
  \arctan\left(\frac{\hbar t}{2\mu\sigma_o^2}\right)
 \end{equation}
 and $x^{l} = ({\bf r}_x - {\bf R}_{x})^{l}$, and similar
 for the $y$- and $z$ coordinates. Further, ${\bf P} =
 ({\bf P}_1 - {\bf P}_2)/2$, $\mu$ is the reduced mass,
 $l$, $m$ and $n$
 are positive integers,
 \begin{equation}
   \label{eq120}
   s(t) = \sigma_{\rm o}\left(1 + \frac{i\hbar t}
   {4\mu\sigma_{\rm o}^2}\right)
 \end{equation}
 and the norm is
 \begin{equation}
  \label{eq130}
  {\cal N}_{l,m,n} = \frac{(4\pi \sigma^2)^{-3/2}\,
                     (\sqrt{2}\,\sigma)^{-2(l + m + n)}}
                     {(2l - 1)!!\, (2m -1)!!\, (2n -1)!!}
 \end{equation}
 with $\sigma = |s|$ and $j!! = j\, (j-2)\, (j-4)\cdots$.
 We may call a state with
 $k = l + m + n = 0$ ``s-state'', similar ``p-state''
 for $k = 1$, ``d-state'' for $k = 2$ and ``f-state'' for $k = 3$.
 The basis functions $\psi_{l,m,n}({\bf r},t)$ are not orthogonal
 for different sets $\{l,m,n\}$, but linear combinations
 of them can be found which are orthogonal \cite{cle89}.
 We use the following orthogonal basis:
\begin{eqnarray} \nonumber
s:\hspace{1.0cm} && \psi_{000}\\ \nonumber
p:\hspace{1.0cm} && \psi_{100},\;
                    \psi_{010},\;
                    \psi_{001}\\ \nonumber
d:\hspace{1.0cm} && \psi_{200} - \psi_{020},\;
                    \psi_{011},\;
                    2\psi_{002} - \psi_{200} - \psi_{020},\;
                    \psi_{101},\;
                    \psi_{110}\\ \nonumber
f:\hspace{1.0cm} && \psi_{300} - 3\psi_{120},\;
                    \psi_{201} - \psi_{021},\;
                   4\psi_{102} - \psi_{300} - \psi_{120},\;
                   \psi_{030} - 3\psi_{210}, \nonumber \\
                 &&   2\psi_{003} - 3\psi_{201} - 3\psi_{021},\;
                     4\psi_{012} - \psi_{210} - \psi_{030},\;
                    \psi_{111}. \label{eq140}
\end{eqnarray}
 The expansion of $\Psi_{\rm rel}$ now reads
 \begin{equation}
  \label{eq150}
  \Psi_{\rm rel}({\bf r},t) =
  \sum c_k(t) \, \psi_{\vec{l}_k}({\bf r},t)
 \end{equation}
 with the c-valued coefficients
 \begin{equation}
  \label{eq160}
  c_k(t) = \langle \psi_{\vec{l}_k}({\bf r},t)|\Psi_{\rm rel}
  ({\bf r},t)\rangle
 \end{equation}
 and the index-vectors $\vec{l}_k = (l_k,m_k,n_k)$.
 The equation of motion for the expansion coefficients is
 \begin{equation}
  \label{eq170}
  i\hbar\, {\bf \dot{c}} = \left(\tilde{H} -
  \tilde{D}\right)\, {\bf c}
 \end{equation}
 with the time dependent coefficient vector ${\bf c}$, the
 Hamilton matrix
 $\tilde{H}_{ij} = \langle \psi_{\vec{l}_i} | \hat{H} |
 \psi_{\vec{l}_j} \rangle$, and the time evolution matrix
 $\tilde{D}_{ij} = \langle \psi_{\vec{l}_i} | i\hbar \partial_t |
                   \psi_{\vec{l}_j} \rangle$.

 Equation (\ref{eq170}) can be regarded as the quantum mechanical part
 of the time evolution, which is necessary to account for the deformation
 of the wavepacket. A second, classical contribution is given by the
 motion of the wavepacket-centre. The corresponding equation of motion
 is defined as
 \begin{equation}
  \label{eq180}
  {\bf \dot{P}} =
  - \nabla_{\bf R} \langle \Psi_{\rm rel}({\bf r}) | V({\bf r}) |
                 \Psi_{\rm rel}({\bf r}) \rangle
 \end{equation}
 with $V({\bf r}) = -e^2/|{\bf r}|$. The evaluation of the
 matrix-elements is described in \cite{cle89}. The numerical solution
 of the equation of motion was done the same way as described in \cite{mer97},
 i.\,e.\ a second order integrator was used for the integration, the
 simulation was stopped after the Coulomb-potential has dropped to 2\%
 of its original value,
 and the final state was Fourier-transformed into momentum space. In order
 to evaluate the $2$-particle correlation function of the relative
 momentum $q = |{\bf p}_1-{\bf p}_2|$,
 \begin{equation}
   \label{eq190}
   {\cal C}_{2}(q) = \frac{{\cal P}_{2}({\bf p}_1, {\bf
   p}_2)}{ {\cal P}({\bf p}_1)\, {\cal P}({\bf p}_2)}\;,
\end{equation}
a Monte-Carlo procedure \cite{mer96}
was used to sample the $2$-particle probability
density ${\cal P}_{2}({\bf p}_1, {\bf p}_2)$, and event-mixing was
used to obtain the denominator of Eq.\ (\ref{eq190}).
As described in \cite{mer97}, it is possible to generate a large number
$N_s$ of pairs from one single momentum state. After a number of $N_e$
independent events are calculated, the total number of pairs equals
$N_p = N_e\cdot N_s$.

\section{Results}
\label{results}
 As source function, i.\,e.\ the initial phase space distribution
 of the wavepackets, we applied the following simple parametrization:
 \begin{eqnarray}
 \label{eq200}
  \rho ({\bf R})&=&(\pi R_s^2)^{-3/2}
  \exp\left( \frac{-{\bf R}^2}{R_s^2} \right)\;,\\
   f({\bf P}) &=& (2\pi m T)^{-3/2}\, \exp\left(\frac{-{\bf P}^{2}}{2 m
   T}\right)\;, \label{eq210}
 \end{eqnarray}
 i.\,e.\ the source was a static Gaussian with rms- radius $\sqrt{3/2}R_s$
 and temperature $T$. The initial width $\sigma_o$ of the wavepackets
 is to some extent arbitrary, but there exist certain upper and lower
 limits. Since any localization of a quantum state is accompanied with
 the corresponding zero point energy
 \begin{equation}
 \label{eq220}
  E_o = \frac{3\hbar^2}{8m\sigma_o^2}\;,
 \end{equation}
 the observed pion energies \cite{pel97a,pel97b}
 do not allow the localization to be well
 below $\approx 1$ fm, which already
 yields $E_o(\sigma_o = 1 \mbox{fm}) \approx 100$ MeV.
 On the other hand, the correlation radii which are observed
 in correlations of identical pions also depend
 on $\sigma_o$, because the effective radius of the source
 is given in 1.\ order by
 \begin{equation}
 \label{eq225}
 R_{\rm eff} = \sqrt{R_s^2 + 2 \sigma_o^2}\;.
 \end{equation}
 Since the measured radii have a typical size
 $R_{\rm corr} \approx 6$ fm \cite{bar97}, the upper limit
 for $\sigma_o$ may not significantly exceed $\approx 4$ fm.

 In Fig.\ \ref{fig1}  the correlation functions are shown for
 3 different initial wavepacket widths. In one of the
 cases ($\sigma_o = 4$ fm, $R_s = 0$ fm) the width of the
 wavepacket determines the source size. In a second
 case, $\sigma_o = 1.8$ fm and $R_s = 5$ fm yield the
 same effective source size $R_{\rm eff} \approx 5.7$ fm
 as in the first case.
 The simulation with $\sigma_o = 20$ fm corresponds to the
 effective source size $R_{\rm eff} = 28$ fm, it is therefore
 not compatible
 with the measured radii in like-charge pion interferometry
 and should be considered as a pure exercise to study the
 dependence of the Coulomb effect on $\sigma_o$.
 In all cases the source temperature was set to $T = 50$ MeV.
 The states were evaluated
 using the $spd$-basis, in test simulations it was checked
 that the increase to the larger $spdf$-basis did not change
 the results in any observable way. The following facts are
 important:
 \begin{enumerate}
 \item The enhancement in the correlation function for small
  relative momenta $q$ is much weaker than obtained in the
  classical trajectory calculation (solid curve).
 \item The enhancement becomes more pronounced with an
 increasing value for the initial width $\sigma_o$ of the states.
 \end{enumerate}
 These results confirm the observations made in simulations of
 identical pions \cite{mer97}. There, the
 factual disappearance of the Coulomb signal was explained by the
 dominance of the zero point energy over the Coulomb energy.
 The maximum Coulomb energy in a system of 2 Gaussian states
 is reached when both completely overlap, yielding
 (without interference, i.\,e.\ for nonidentical particles)
 \begin{equation}
 \label{eq230}
 E_{\rm coul}^{\rm max} = \frac{Z^2e^2}{\sqrt{\pi}\sigma_o}\;.
 \end{equation}
 We define the ratio
  \begin{equation}
 \label{eq240}
 \xi \equiv \frac{E_{\rm coul}^{\rm max}}{E_o} =
 \frac{8 e^2}{3\sqrt{\pi} \hbar^2} \cdot Z^2 m \sigma_o
 \end{equation}
 as the {\it relative Coulomb strength} of the system. We
 obtain $\xi = 1.4\cdot 10^{-2}$ for the $\sigma_o = 1.8$ fm case,
 $\xi = 3.1\cdot 10^{-2}$ for $\sigma_o = 4$ fm
 and $\xi = 0.16$ for $\sigma_o = 20$ fm.
 Due to the smallness of $\xi$, in all cases
 the system is dominated by the quantum dispersion.
 As a crosscheck, the fundamental constant $\hbar$ was reduced
 to $1/10$ of its real value. This implies a reduction of
 $E_o$ by a factor of 100 and, for $\sigma_o = 1.8$ fm, a
 relative Coulomb strength $\xi = 1.4$, which is now in the
 classical domain. The simulation results
 (with source size $R_s = 5$ fm, stars) are
 already in good agreement with the corresponding classical
 trajectory-calculation for pointlike particles
 ($R_s = 5.7$ fm, solid curve).

 Similary, an increase in particle mass and/or charge
 can shift the ratio $\xi$ towards the classical domain.
 For example, protons with $\sigma_o = 4$ fm correspond
 to $\xi = 0.2$, $\alpha$-particles with $\sigma_o = 4$ fm
 correspond to $\xi = 3.4$. In simulations, a strong
 Coulomb signal was observed for these particles.
 Nevertheless, for small relative
 momenta, a deviation from the classical results remains,
 since the momentum uncertainty $\sigma_p =
 \hbar/(2\sigma_o) = 25$ MeV/c does not depend
 on the particle mass, but reduces the momentum
 resolution which becomes significant for the rapid rise of
 the Coulomb signal when $q$ approaches zero.

 \section{Discussion}
 In proton- \cite{afa97} or nucleus- \cite{bar97} induced
 reactions with energies above $10$ AGeV,
 rather strong positive correlations
 in $\pi^+$--$\pi^-$ pairs have been observed.
 These are interpreted as a
 Coulomb effect --- a conclusion which is
 supported by classical trajectory
 and/or plane-wave scattering calculations. In this work and in
 \cite{mer97}
 we have tried to argue that both assumptions are not applicable for
 particles which are emitted from a source, the size of which is
 2 orders of magnitude smaller than the Bohr-radius of $\pi^+$--$\pi^-$
 pairs. Because of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle a spatial
 uncertainty of size $\sigma_o$ transforms into a momentum uncertainty
 which allows the mutual particle interactions to become discernible
 in momentum correlations only when the parameter $\xi$ in Eq.\
 (\ref{eq240}) is of order 1. The value of $\xi$ can increase
 by either increasing the interaction strength, the delocalization
 of the states or the reduced system mass. For the $\pi^+$--$\pi^-$
 system, the corresponding parameters under normal conditions are too
 small. Therefore, it is highly desirable to
 find an interpretation of the $\pi^+$--$\pi^-$ signal.
 Obviously, there are two ways out of the dilemma:
 \begin{enumerate}
 \item The observed correlations {\it are} of Coulomb origin,
 and there is a yet unknown inconsistency in the wavepacket
 model and/or its interpretation. For example,
 if the pion-states could be initiated with an
  arbitrary large wavepacket width
 $\sigma_o$, then the ratio $\xi$ in Eq.\ (\ref{eq240}) easily
 could reach values above 1 and hence the classical (plane-wave)
 assumption would be justified.
 \item The observed correlations have another origin,
 for example strong interactions, or residual dynamical
 correlations which could not be eliminated in the event
 mixing procedure during data analysis.
 \end{enumerate}
 With respect to the first point, i.\,e.\ the wavepacket
 size, one has to bear in mind
 that the pion wavefunction is interpreted as the
 probability amplitude to detect the pion at position ${\bf r}$
 in case of a measurement, and there is no physical reason
 to assume that the pion can be found far out of the source
 already at emission time. Additionally, the short lifetime
 of the $\Delta(1232)$-resonance, the scattering and
 reabsorption by the surrounding nuclear matter and, particulary,
 the experimentally observed small values for
 the effective source sizes
 do not suggest the description of the pion state by
 a widely extented coherent wavefunction.
 Consequently, $\sigma_o$ cannot
 exceed the size of the source, especially since that size
 is to be determined in the interferometry of like-charge pions.
 In order to measure an object with a given spatial extent $R_s$,
 one unavoidably has to cope with the corresponding momentum
 uncertainty.

 But there exists a third and to some extent speculative
 possibility, which has also been discussed in \cite{afa97}:
 With increasing energies, more and more long-living
 resonances are formed, which do not decay within a small volume.
 Pions which are produced under such circumstances
 do not necessarily fall under the above considerations,
 i.\,e.\ they may approximately be described as plane
 waves. These pions could contribute to the observed
 $\pi^+$--$\pi^-$ peak, but this process would not work
 for $\pi^+$--$\pi^+$ and $\pi^-$--$\pi^-$ pairs emitted from the
 short lived and smaller interaction zone formed in heavy ion
 collisions.
 Consequently, the measured correlation function
 of like-charge pions should be corrected by a Coulomb factor
 which is weighted with the fraction of pions produced by
 long-living resonances. This hypothesis does not
 explain why the observed $\pi^+$--$\pi^-$ correlations are
 of the observed strength, since evidently not all pions
 could have been produced far outside the interaction zone
  --- otherwise,
 there wouldn't be any visible Bose-Einstein signal in the
 like-charge data. It seems that low energy data, which exclude
 the influence of long-living resonances, could help to
 solve the $\pi^+$--$\pi^-$ puzzle.

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My grandson Landon has developed a fascination with puzzles lately—well, mostly carrying around the pieces and depositing them where he likes. I thought I would help cultivate this interest and skill by purchasing him a new puzzle, so I looked on Amazon and ordered him one. It was a chunky wooden block puzzle for toddlers that allows a child to create 6 different puzzles by the way he positions the blocks. The completed puzzles each featured a brightly colored vehicle like a fire truck or bus. When I presented Landon with the new toy, he picked up all 9 blocks, carried them over to the magazine rack, and dumped them inside. I sat him down on the floor and started showing him how to make a picture from the pieces. He laughed, gathered up the blocks again, and tossed them in the air. Okay, I thought to myself, he's not ready for this yet.
The truth is, we all encounter puzzles in our lives. Sometimes, like my grandson, we just can't seem to make all the pieces fit together, to get a clear picture of God's design for our lives. Right now, all 4 of my children are dealing with different puzzles in their lives, trying to figure out how everything fits together. I've been praying for them, and here's what the Lord has shown me.
When I look at just one piece of the block puzzle I got for Landon, it doesn't make sense. The colors and patterns don't seem right on their own, but when I put them all together, I can see the grand design. It's that way with our lives. God sees the bigger picture. He possesses the best plan, the best design, for our lives. We have to choose to trust Him when we don't see how things fit together.
The Lord tells us, ""For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts'" (Isaiah 55:9, NASB). Our all-wise, all-loving Father has everything under control.
I looked at the packaging for the puzzle I got Landon and realized the puzzle was made for 4-year-olds. Landon is two. He doesn't have the capacity to understand the puzzle design at this point. It's the same for us. Our finite minds cannot comprehend the limitless wisdom, infinite grace, and all-surpassing love of our Father in heaven. We have to believe He sees the bigger picture and is working out all things for our good and His glory (Romans 8:28-29).
He tells us in His Word, "Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely" (1 Corinthians 13:12, NLT). Mirrors in Biblical times were made of metal, so reflections in them were blurred and unclear (kind of like looking at your face in a polished metal pot, where the reflection is distorted and fuzzy). In other words, life can be uncertain, confusing, and cloudy this side of heaven, but we are promised we will understand everything once we see the Lord face to face. Our job now is to trust the Lord with the big picture of our lives.
We can proclaim, "When I am afraid, I will put my trust in You" (Psalm 56:3, NLT). We can say in our hearts, "When anxiety is great within me, I am going to rely on Your consolations Lord to bring me joy" (based on Psalm 94:19, NIV). That word trust means to hide for refuge, to trust, be confident, or sure. Other words for consolation are comfort, compassion, empathy, help, encouragement, reassurance, and relief. In other words, we can give the puzzles in our lives to the Lord and expect Him to take care of them in His caring way. He knows how all the parts fit together for the greater good.
Since I am older and wiser than my grandson at this point, I am going to continue working with him to show him how the block puzzle fits together. I am going to put it together with him.
On a much higher lever, the Lord knows how everything fits together in our lives, and He is the One who makes it all align. "The Lord says, 'I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you'" (Psalm 32:8, NLT).
We are wise when we allow Him to lead us in joining the pieces, in putting the puzzle together. We experience a deep intimacy and connection with Him when we do, a prize far greater than even the completed puzzle. Again, trust serves as the key to unlocking this gift. Proverbs 3:5-6, NLT, says, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take." The best part is you will be walking that path with Him.
Through it all, we can rely on what He tells us: "'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future'" (Jeremiah 29:11, NIV).
The puzzling circumstances in each of our lives have come from the hand of One who loves us beyond measure. They are meant to refine and shape us to take on the image of Jesus for the world to see (2 Corinthians 3:18).
"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them," (Ephesians 2:10, NASB). That word workmanship means a fabric, as woven together like a tapestry; a masterpiece.
Yes, all the pieces of our lives come together in the Master Craftsman's hands to create a beautiful work of art. When others gaze upon our lives, may they ultimately see the overwhelming beauty of the Lord Himself (Psalm 27:4).
I'm hoping my grandson will soon get to experience the thrill of seeing his puzzle come together and realizing an amazing picture lies within it. May the Lord do the same for all of us as we entrust our puzzles to Him.
Question: How has the Lord shown up in the puzzles of your life? Comment at the link below.


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Q: How add Water Mark to complete sheet of Excel using Aspose library in C# I'm using Aspose library to generate Excel report in this I'm facing issue to generate watermark to complete excel.I can able to generate watermark for only some cells but here I need to do for complete WorkSheet enter image description here
I'm using below code to generate watermark in some part
// Instantiate a new Workbook
Workbook workbook = new Workbook("Excel.xlsx");

// Get the first default sheet
Worksheet sheet = workbook.Worksheets[0];

// Add watermark
Aspose.Cells.Drawing.Shape wordart = sheet.Shapes.AddTextEffect(MsoPresetTextEffect.TextEffect1,
"CONFIDENTIAL", "Arial Black", 50, false, true
, 18, 8, 1, 1, 130, 800);

// Lock shape aspects
wordart.IsLocked = true;
wordart.SetLockedProperty(ShapeLockType.Selection, true);
wordart.SetLockedProperty(ShapeLockType.ShapeType, true);
wordart.SetLockedProperty(ShapeLockType.Move, true);
wordart.SetLockedProperty(ShapeLockType.Resize, true);
wordart.SetLockedProperty(ShapeLockType.Text, true);

// Get the fill format of the word art
FillFormat wordArtFormat = wordart.Fill;

// Set the transparency
wordArtFormat.Transparency = 0.9;

// Save the watermarked Excel file
workbook.Save("Watermarked-locked.xlsx");

A: Your code will insert word art watermark one time and at your sepcified location in the worksheet. I think you want the watermarks should be pasted multiple times automatically at different places regularly in the worksheet. If so, you have to place watermarks multiple times at your desired locations in code accordingly. Please note, even in MS Excel you got to copy/paste wordarts and pictures manually at your desired places, so these shapes would not be inserted multiple times in MS Excel either. Another option can be, you can set the background picture for the sheet as watermark (this will be pasted multiple times automatically). First you may create an image for your desired watermark/wordart and save to image format. See the following sample code on how to set background (watermark) for the worksheet:
e.g.
Sample code:
// Instantiate a new Workbook
Workbook workbook = new Workbook("Excel.xlsx");
// Get the first default sheet
Worksheet sheet = workbook.Worksheets[0];

// Define a string variable to store the (word-art, you have already created the picture of your watermark) image path.
// Set the background image for the worksheet.
sheet.BackgroundImage = File.ReadAllBytes("mywatermark.jpg");

// Save the Excel file
workbook.Save("outputWatermark.xlsx");

You can also post your queries in the dedicated forum.
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Really more of a monologue than a novel, That Smell is the first-person story of a man who has just been released from prison. Ibrahim himself spent most of his twenties as a political prisoner under Nasser, and he felt that in order to capture the daze of reentry into regular society he needed a new style, which he later called "telegraphic," influenced by the newspaper copy he had written as a journalist.
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Die Region Lateinamerika ist eine der fünf internationale Regionen welche Teilnehmer an die Junior League Baseball World Series entsendeten.

Ab dem Jahr 2001 wurden die Regionen Puerto Rico und Mexiko zusammen mit weiteren Staaten zur Region Lateinamerika zusammengefasst. Seit 2004 haben Puerto Rico und Mexiko wieder eigene Gruppen. In den geraden Jahren bekommt Mexiko einen festen Startplatz in den ungeraden Puerto Rico. In den Jahren in welchen diese keinen direkten Startplatz haben können sie sich über die Region Lateinamerika qualifizieren.

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Folgende 20 Staaten sind in dieser Region organisiert:

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Resultate an den Junior League World Series

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 Stand nach den Junior League World Series 2014

Nach Staat

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 Region Mexiko
 Region Puerto Rico

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I've had the pleasure of working with Erin and it's so great to see her featured here. I couldn't agree more with her advice to 'take care of yourself first, then take care of your business.' Congrats on your success, Erin!
I love hearing that you, too, feel personally disappointed when something that you have proudly created has not seen as much success in the marketplace as you would have anticipated. It is a nice reminder that it does not have to be all or nothing- that there is a balance somewhere in the middle.
love your work Erin and some great advice in there!
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I really appreciate the point about taking care of yourself, thought it's definitely easier said than done! It's frightfully easy as a maker to fall into a schedule that just burns you out. Remembering to be good to our bodies is so important.
Its amazing how all of us , with new creative businesses , go through the sames ups and downs, questions and joys.
I really loved this interview! Erin, thanks for sharing your thoughts and some resources. I love your work and I'm off to your website!
I love Cotton & Flax! Erin's designs are whimsical and she chooses great felt and cottons – so nice to have in the house.
"Work brain!" I love that and I HAVE that. All the time. It's so true that you have to take care of yourself because, really, there are so many things we need to be doing all the frickin time to keep up. Ya gotta get that downtime. Owning a business is great, but it's a balance. I'm a Libra so I'm actually fairly comfortable with that intersection of self/work.
Great article, such a good read! Thank you for sharing it.
Who makes that stove/oven? It's gorgeous.
Greetings from India, very inspiring thoughts and very motivated.
Your designs are so concise and sweet. Thank you for showing us that simplicity is also beautiful.
Great to see you on here Erin! Very inspiring and I love your work!


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Q: Does quantization go from quantum $\to$ classical or the other way around? I was thinking about the relationship of classical mechanics to quantum mechanics, as I just took my first course in quantum mechanics. My specific question was about quantization. For a harmonic oscillator, the way to "quantize" it is to take classical observables to operators, and using the Hamiltonian operator to solve for the wavefunction using Schrodinger's equation.
The problem I am having is I'm not clear on interpretation. Are we quantizing a classical harmonic oscillator to get an idea of what a quantum harmonic oscillator would behave like? Or, are we quantizing a classical harmonic oscillator to see how a classical harmonic oscillator works at microscopic/quantum scales?

A: While "quantizing" a classical theory (such as that of a harmonic oscillator), what we do is that we try to find (in particular, guess) a consistent quantum theory whose (one) classical limit would be the classical theory with which we started out.
I don't think there is a distinction between "a quantum harmonic oscillator" and "a classical harmonic oscillator at a quantum scale". In particular, because, the only thing one can possibly mean with "a classical harmonic oscillator at a quantum scale" would be a quantum theory which looks like the classical harmonic oscillator in (one of) its classical limit(s)--and that is precisely what we mean by "a quantum harmonic oscillator" as well because we invented the word "harmonic oscillator" in a classical context and when we say "a quantum harmonic oscillator", we precisely mean a quantum theory which looks like a classical harmonic oscillator in (one of) its classical limit(s).
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A: You are doing both the things: if you would be able to deal with so small energies to distinguish between the different energy levels, then you could take a look at the usual harmonic oscillator in a quantum context. Also, of course when you quantize a system you get an idea of its quantum nature, of which behaviors emerge when you are at extremely low energies.
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Reply #75 on: January 30, 2004, 10:46:19 PM
don't buy it,. unless ur into buying things u only watch once.
snake eyes has sum replay value at least for the start.. mission to mars is just wack. but not as atrocious as the critics say, i saw it once when i was really hung over and it made me feel better. whatever that's worth.
under the paving stones.
Cory Everett
i havent seen it since the theatre, but i seem to remember that there is cool camerawork and some long takes and such, but its pretty bad. but, if you REALLY love depalma, maybe its 'good bad' where its watchable.
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.
Stefen
The Master of Two Worlds
I just watched casualties of war for the first time tonight. I never kenw this had so many people in it at easrly stages of their careers, C. Reilly, Leguizamo, David Keith (or is it Keith David, i know im not the only one who gets these two guys names confused). I liked it, but I didn't like Michael J Fox, he seemed very out of place. Plus I think I enjoyed it more because I bought it for $5.50 in the wal-mart bargain bin (along with Seinfelds Comedian) It didn't seem like Depalma at all for some reason, I can't pinpoint why though. Overall I give it a B-
Let's go to a motel. We don't have to do anything -- we could just swim.
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stefen...no mention of sean penn? its my favorite role of his.
I just skimmed over the rest of this thread, because i started my De Palma week a few nights ago, and realized that somewhere between then and now i've been somewhat of a convert to the De Palma church.
first we watched BODY DOUBLE, which was a shameless rip-off (combination) of VERTIGO and REAR WINDOW, but with tons of sex thrown in and an extremely 80's look. but it was sort of good. because some of the themes of the film like 'real vs artiface' that was set up in the first five minutes and returned at the end in the ditch, made you think maybe this piece of trash had a point? and it was stylish as hell, and it was kind of cool.
next up was OBSESSION, which was a shameless rip-off (combination) of VERTIGO and REBECCA, but with Uncle Ben from Spider-Man and a pretty cool twist ending. at this point i sort of realized that the feel of these movies isnt strictly a hip hitchcock update for the 70's or 80's, but somehow combined the feel of the more arty foreign films like BlowUp, etc. with hitchcocks suspense (and story ideas) and a modern (for the time) feel. which was sort of cool, i thought.
then it was time for THE FURY, which unfortunately wasnt a hitchcock rip-off, but a muddled storytelling combination of Carrie and a govt conspiracy. the movie couldnt decide if it wanted to be with Kurt Douglas or Amy Irving. it wasnt very suspenseful and i would say it was almost not worth watching had it not been for the AMAZING full body explosion at the end that happened at (i counted) THIRTEEN (thats right 13) different camera angles! the last two minutes of the film should be shown as its own short film, and i would say 'brilliant!'
i guess, as i said to my girlfriend if you didnt know better, it might seem like his movies are terrible. but somehow, if you happen to like what he does THE SHAMELESS HITCHCOCK STEALING EROTIC THRILLER, then you'll have a lot more fun. i used to only like his more non-depalma movies like Untouchables, Mission Impossible, Carlitos Way etc. but ever since Femme Fatale sort of clicked with me i've been finding his movies a whole lot more interesting. next up is Phantom of the Paradise and Bonfire of the Vanities.
okay, we finished off our DePalma week on quite a painful stretch with Bonfire of the Vanities, which was just...not good at all. and Phantom of the Paradise which was ridiculously awful to the point of being almost watchable. BOTV was just disatrous all around, bad overacting from everybody in the film, characters you couldnt give a shit about, etc. i had heard what a disaster it was but still couldnt believe it might have something worthwhile about it. it doesnt. POTP might be good if you like camp like this, but i really dont.
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okay, we finished off our DePalma week on quite a painful stretch with Bonfire of the Vanities, which was just...not good at all.
Now that you've seen it, I highly recommend this book and you'll know why it was failed production right from the start:
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol
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could someone please tell me specifically why i also hate that movie?
Nobody should EVER see Raising Cain. EVER!
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i'm watching it right now!
Reply #85 on: August 01, 2004, 12:20:23 AM
no but they should, if they enjoy having fun. intentional cheese to the max, just splendid.
"Do you laugh at jealousy?"
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Reply #86 on: January 15, 2005, 02:24:19 AM
so yeah, anyway, i just watched blow out again and i felt like posting here because that classic is keeping me from sleep. De Palma is a master. ive seen almost all of his films with the exceptions of mission to mars and snake eyes, but im in no hurry to pick em up. the few i dont like are scarface, body double, wise guys and bonfire. blow out, carrie, the fury, untouchables i love beyond belief, and the rest are, at the very least, just great masterful bits of entertainment. i love depalma.
SHAFTR
You brought two too many
I don't think I've ever seen a movie that was such a combination of great and bad. There are many sequences in this film that are just great, Hitchcock inspired, but great. Than there are sequences that are pretty bad and the writing is pretty bad at points but I still loved it. I was either having fun watching it due to it's craft or to it's cheesy 80s parts.
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Blanketing opinions that i'll probably regret soon"
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Reply #88 on: February 16, 2005, 02:45:04 PM
I voted for Blow Up... and Carrie is a favorite of mine. A lot of his films are nicely shot and entertaining, but I would never say they are good films.
I have to agree with adolfwolfli on Femme. It really is laughable as are many of his films. I think he's so revered because most of the filmmakers who make a b-movies do so by accident, attempting something better. Where De Palma's purpose from the beginning is to make a b-movie. I always think of Tarantino as being another De Palma...he makes b-movies on purpose.
B-movies are a genere now and some directors actually try to make them.
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Q: Change existing file type from standard file "-" to directory "d" as shown with Unix ls -l In summary, if I use ls -l it yields something for a directory like...
drwxr-xr-x
and the reported error for a directory with files in it, is it shows as a standard file and ls -l yields...
-rwxr-xr-x
My goal is to find a way to manually change file type from "-" to "d" on existing files or directories.
My first post here.  For days I've been trying to find a way to change file type for a file in Apple OSX (BSD Unix).  This may be so much easier than I am making it.  Original problem was the tool that comes with OSX to check your hard disk is Disk Utility (DU) and it shows file permissions errors it cannot repair.  Sometimes it is a couple hundred.  Most are the kind where a directory file is showing as a standard file, and should be changed to directory.  If I navigate there with Terminal, the expected files are in the directory.  These errors may occur from Passive Hack attack over the last year.  One fix that works is wipe and install OSX.  It is a new good HDD.
The first method I had planned to use, is to find file header information on the disk sectors with a hex editor like R-Studio for Mac, and simply do my hex math if necessary and change the data.  It will take extensive time to learn enough R-Studio to do this.  Plus I think I need a map of how BSD Unix lays information onto HDD sectors, so that I can locate the bits that label file as directory or standard file, or pipe, or socket.  The map would resemble this but with logical data layout for a BSD file.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format
Been to several forums and Apple support and R-Studio support.  Stopped short of paying $99 to join Apple Developers to get this information.  I think it is open anyway since BSD Unix.
Other tools I explored were Apple's IDE Xcode, Unix dd command, and emacs.  Because I'm new with Unix it takes me a very long time, and I still see no method to accomplish this.  In the tutorial for Xcode, it mentions that recommended tools show up when hovering over menu icons.  When I hovered over the file type it showed emacs, but after reading, I think it means whether it is a text file or executable file type.  Not directory and such.
At this point I'm back to looking for the logical file layout that BSD Unix puts onto the disk sectors, and then use R-Studio.
Any ideas?

A: That is impossible to change. Files cannot be changed into directories and vice versa. It is not just some flag that can be changed. If this is some kind of corruption, your best bet is to run an fsck on the filesystem.