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Insect Arithmetic--Pure Genius!
by Frank Sherwin, M.A., & Brian Thomas, M.S. *
As entomologists study insects and spiders, they regularly discover examples of mathematical genius hardwired into the tiny-brained arthropods. These amazing insect algorithms light the path of insect origins.
Some insects precisely count years. Residents of the United States' East Coast anticipated an insect invasion—at least in the more rural areas—in the spring of 2013, which marks 17 years since a particular brood of a unique kind of red-eyed cicada last emerged en masse. They are called "magicicada" for the way these insects seem to magically appear at the same time after 17 years of living as larvae underground. People often mistakenly call them locusts.
According to a recent Associated Press (AP) article that warned New Englanders of the cicadas' impending romp, some estimate that the mass emergence will produce a trillion cicadas. When the ground temperature reaches precisely 64 degrees Fahrenheit, magicicadas in "Brood II" will tunnel upward and then crawl up the side of a nearby tree or structure. The males emerge first, squeezing out of their molted exoskeletons to fly around and join a half-trillion others searching for mates.
Of course, their onboard precision equipment enables their simultaneous emergence from the soil. Somehow the cicadas count the passage of years, and they also each clearly possess a thermometer to measure the soil temperature while napping underground. Counters and thermometers are useless unless they can communicate—according to appropriately written software—with a central processor. Only then can the organism attach meaning to the data input and act accordingly.
Since similar devices are available at hardware stores, mankind has obviously achieved this technology—machines that send a thermometer's temperature signal to a central processor. But no human inventor has approached the scale of miniaturization found in insects. No wonder University of Illinois entomologist May Berenbaum told the AP, "It's just an amazing accomplishment. How can anyone not be impressed?" Similarly, Mike Raupp, an entomologist at the University of Maryland, said, "These guys are geniuses with little tiny brains."1
So, even secular scientists recognize the genius inside insect instincts. But unfortunately, they wrongly identify the origin of that genius. Even young students understand that genius programming always arises from a genius programmer. Nevertheless, Raupp said, "These guys have evolved several mathematically clever tricks."1
Why would anyone conclude that evolution, which supposedly involves natural processes that know nothing about prime numbers, counting, or anything mathematical, somehow implanted math skills into insects? Why not a more realistic source, such as a real-live intelligent mathematician?2
Even secular textbooks teach that one way to recognize a clear signal from an extraterrestrial intelligence would be to track the prime number signals it might transmit if it existed.3 Like most magicicada broods, Brood II will wait exactly 17 years. Others wait 13, and both are prime numbers. If secularists discovered prime-number signals coming from outer space, they would base their proclamations of intelligent alien life as the signal's source on the fact that mere natural processes don't generate prime-number sequences. But for some reason, inference-making skills lapse when the same prime-number algorithms occur in creatures right at the secularists' feet.
No, evolution is not responsible—God is. The Lord Jesus is the original mathematician. He infused His mathematical signature into the counting cicada and many other insects, too.
While some count years, other insects count steps. Ants walk at an amazing speed for such tiny feet and legs. Voluntary muscles contracting that fast is impressive enough, but researchers have discovered that ants actually count each rapid step to aid in finding their way as they search. "Essentially, when the ant leaves its nest to go foraging, it counts the steps and keeps a record of how many steps it is away from home at any given time, like a pedometer," wrote evolutionist and biochemist Michael Gross.4
"The biggest challenge is to find out how the insects store complex geographical information in their very small brains." Amazingly, "certain parts of the brain of insects reconfigure themselves when exposed to information related to navigation," according to Gross.5
Evolutionist and biologist Jochen Zeil of the Australian National University at Canberra summarized his considered opinion:
I think that every animal we look at [including the ant] is a more competent, more robust, more flexible, more miniaturized and a more energy-, material-, sensor- and computation-efficient agent than anything we have ever built.6
What a great, albeit unwitting, testimony to our great Creator! Every animal is a signpost pointing to His excellence. Reconfiguring a brain when exposed to information and computational efficiency both require high-order math. Writing for Discovery News online, Jennifer Viegas reported that scientists might learn even more useful math from insects.
[Ants can] perform simple arithmetic operations with small numbers. We suggest that applying ideas of information theory and using the natural communication systems of highly social animals can open new horizons in studying numerical cognition.7
And insect math goes beyond just counting. A group of researchers recently witnessed ants solving the "towers of Hanoi" puzzle.8 The game involves transferring disks of tapering size from one of three stacks to another without placing a larger disk on top of a smaller one. For the ants, though, researchers transposed the different stacking options onto a maze of hexagons, where the shortest route to food corresponded to the best solution to the puzzle. Of course, the ants solved it. They even reworked new solutions to overcome blocked tunnels. In addition, the pioneer ants that solved the puzzles somehow explained the correct route to their relatives.
Harvester ants access another algorithm to solve a different critical problem. If the ant foragers gather too much food, they clog pathways and food storage chambers, as well as waste time and energy. If they forage too little, the ant colony starves. A balance is required, and an ant algorithm supplies it. Stored somewhere in the ant, this data-processing software governs their foraging frequency. The algorithm relates at least three critical variables: the rate of outgoing foragers, the amount that the rate increases with each returning ant, and the amount that the rate decreases with each outgoing ant. Researchers discovered that this ant algorithm closely matches the one that programmers wrote to regulate Internet traffic. The algorithm uses two formulae:9
αn = max(αn-1-qDn-1+cAn-d,α), α0 = 0
Dn~Poisson (αn)
Who knew ants were so smart?
Insects like cicadas and ants possess enough "genius" to impress smart scientists. Those who constantly attribute that genius to chance, time, and natural processes probably wallow in frustration, since "nature" is far from a genius. Satisfaction, not frustration, awaits those who ascribe insect math to a real live Mathematician. "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth" (Colossians 1:16).
Borenstein, S. 2013. East about to be overrun by billions of cicadas. Associated Press. Posted on hosted.ap.org May 7, 2013, accessed May 9, 2013.
"It's not a problem for the biblical creationist to have conceptual entities existing before human minds because human minds are not the only minds that exist in the Christian worldview. Numbers are a reflection of God's thoughts. Numbers existed before people because God's thoughts existed before people." Lisle, J. 2012. Evolutionary Math? Acts & Facts. 41 (12): 11-13.
Pomerance, C. 2004. Prime Numbers and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Mathematical Adventures for Students and Amateurs. Washington, D.C.: Mathematical Association of America.
Gross, M. 2012. How ants find their way. Current Biology. 22 (16): R615.
Ibid, R616.
Viegas, J. 2011. Are Ants Smarter Than Fifth-Graders at Math? Discovery News. Posted on discovery.com April 11, 2011, accessed May 10, 2013.
Reid, C. R., D. J. T. Sumpter and M. Beekman. 2011. Optimisation in a natural system: Argentine ants solve the Towers of Hanoi. Journal of Experimental Biology. 214 (1): 50-58.
Prabhakar, B., K. N. Dektar, and D. M. Gordon. 2012. The Regulation of Ant Colony Foraging Activity without Spatial Information. PLoS Computational Biology. 8 (8): e1002670.
* Mr. Sherwin is Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Creation Research and Mr. Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research.
Cite this article: Sherwin F. and B. Thomas. 2013. Insect Arithmetic—Pure Genius! Acts & Facts. 42 (7): 16-17.
Plants Use Math to Ration Food Use
A new study came out showing how plants utilize an efficient form of mathematics to precisely calculate how much starch to consume as food during the...
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Hollywood is hoping that a movie focusing on restoring faith will make big bucks at the box office this weekend when the adaptation of the best-selling New York Times best-selling novel "The Shack" opens countrywide. Starring Octavia Spencer, Sam Worthington and country singer Tim McGraw, "The Shack" shows a father (Mr. Worthington) on a spiritual journey after suffering an immense family tragedy.
The Christian novel by Canadian author William P. Young has seen its share of controversy as well as fostered discussion about the nature of what part God may play in life's tragedies. Furthermore, the film casts African-American actress and Oscar-winner Miss Spencer as God, Jesus is portrayed by Israeli actor Avraham Aviv Alush Also, and the Holy Spirit — called "Sarayu" in the film — is portrayed by Asian actress Sumire Matsubara.
Miss Spencer and Mr. McGraw — who also recorded a song with his wife, Faith Hill, for the movie called "Keep Your Eyes On Me" — discussed the faith-based film bowing this weekend in the District.
Question: Are you drawn to roles that have a spiritual angle?
Octavia Spencer: This is actually my first one. It has to resonate with me on some level.
I love the message [of "The Shack"], I loved the fact that [William] Paul wrote this book where a regular man has a conversation with God and asks him some very hard-hitting questions. I like the way God answered them.
I thought it was a unique way to look at religion and for regular people to look at their role and how they influence their [own] environment.
Q: Had you read the book?
Tim McGraw: When I read the script, I hadn't read the book. My wife actually had the book on her nightstand, and we had heard about it and knew what the story was.
About a week later I got the phone call that they were sending me a script to read. I was completely [in] emotional meltdown after reading it. I told Faith about it, and we had a lot of conversations about whether I had time to be involved as they were shooting in Vancouver.
Q: What did you take away from the book when you read it?
OS: My friend gave me a copy and told me it had forensic thriller aspects to it — with a big surprise. I thought I was going to be reading something very different than the life lesson I was bound to get. I was deeply moved because it felt organic.
The questions asked of God somehow felt like every man's journey, including my own. I have experienced loss in my life, but the thing that brings you back is your faith, so I understood Mack's journey in a lot of ways.
Q: What about the representation of the divine in the story?
OS: What I like about this presentation is that it dispenses with the conventional images of God and what we have in our minds as God. It also represents this time in Mack's life where the only person that showed him any kindness was a woman like myself. She is pure love and wisdom, and she is trying to impart that in him while he's trying to reconcile all his grief, his anger and all the losses in his life.
It's only when he walks back and asks those questions and confronts all those issues in the shack that he's able to find redemption and fill that hole that loss has created within him.
For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.
Q: It seems like you have done many family and faith-based films. What kinds of movies do you like to make?
TM: Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things — ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.
I have always been very family-oriented. I came from a dysfunctional, broken family growing up, and it's probably instilled in me the need and the want to have a strong family and a great foundation. So I think that is something that I naturally gravitate toward.
Q: What drew you to "Shack" specifically?
TM: I was looking for a great story that moves and inspires [people]. Music, movies, books — when you see [or] read through it, you want to be literally moved.
I do everything in a way that I want to be impacted viscerally.
I don't think you learn as much about yourself when you are moving forwards as when you have fallen backwards. That's when you really learn who you are. And reach for the things that have propelled you forward and made you a better person.
TM: The universal themes of love, compassion, forgiveness, constantly searching for the next level of your spirituality, the next consciousness of who you are as a human being, what you contribute to society and what God means to you. I think it's always a search that everyone goes on.
What I think this movie does — regardless of what your belief system is — is offer a view and a perspective that can open the door a little bit to think about what in your life has broken you, propels you forward and what allows you to forgive other people and accept forgiveness.
Next articleTo fellow Christians who are boycotting 'The Shack' (and those who are loving it!) – here's how God can use you.


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Q: Save models predictions inside for loop with different names I'm using scikit learn in roder to run random forest model on 3 different dataframes (aa,bb,cc) that I have.
in order to do that I use for-loop and generate for each model confusion matrix.
the problem is that I would like to save the presdictions of each model so I can later on use it for ROC analysis.
this is the original script of the loop:

todrop=['name','code','date','nitrogen','Hour','growth_day']
col='test'

dfs=[aa,bb,cc]

for h in dfs:
    h.drop(todrop,axis=1,inplace=True)
    y=h[col]
    X=h.drop(col,axis=1)
    X_train,X_test,y_train,y_test=train_test_split(X,y,test_size=0.2,stratify=y,random_state=42)

    rfc = RandomForestClassifier()
    rfc.fit(X_train,y_train)
    predictions = rfc.predict(X_test)
    conf_mat = confusion_matrix(y_test, predictions)
    df_conf_norm = conf_mat / conf_mat.sum(axis=0)

    index = ['healthy','sick']
    columns = ['healthy','sick']
    cm_df = pd.DataFrame(df_conf_norm,columns,index)

    seaborn.heatmap(cm_df,annot=True, annot_kws={"size": 15},linewidths=.5, cmap='YlOrRd')

    plt.title('Random Forest', fontsize = 20) # title with fontsize 20
    plt.xlabel('True Labels', fontsize = 17) # x-axis label with fontsize 15
    plt.ylabel('Prediction', fontsize = 17) # y-axis label with fontsize 15
    plt.show()

    print('Accuracy'+'{}'.format(accuracy_score(y_test,predictions)))

I have tried to save the model by this:
  predictions[h] = rfc.predict(X_test)

but then I get the error:

IndexError: only integers, slices (:), ellipsis (...),
numpy.newaxis (None) and integer or boolean arrays are valid indices

I have tried also to use zip and then to save it as names:
names=['aa','bb','cc']

for h,n in (zip(dfs,names)):
...
    predictions[n] = rfc.predict(X_test)

but got the same error.
My end goal here is to save those predictions (of each model) in order to create in the end ROC graph.

A: In each iteration of the loop you are creating a np.array variable called predictions:
predictions = rfc.predict(X_test)

So if you want to save each model in a variable such as a dict you need to declare it with a different name outside the loop:
all_predictions = dict()

Then modifying the code from your second example should work:
names=['aa','bb','cc']

for h,n in (zip(dfs,names)):
...
    all_predictions[n] = rfc.predict(X_test)

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Home » Blog » other » KR-860
Sukhoi aircraft KR-860. A photo. History. Characteristics.
KR-860 - project double-deck wide-body aircraft, which was developed by the Sukhoi Design Bureau in the cargo-and passenger version. The first acquaintance with him was held at the Air Show "Le Bourget-99».
The history of the development of the CD-860
The development of KR-860 "Wings of Russia" began at Sukhoi Design Bureau in 1997. The project was led by A.Kh. Karimov, Chief Designer. General leadership fell on M.P. Simonov. In the development process, the latest achievements in aerodynamics, automatics, and structural materials were applied. In order to achieve the optimum degree of technical risk and the cost of development, they completely abandoned unverified technical solutions and concepts, exotic aerodynamic schemes. Aircraft aerodynamics were worked out jointly with TsAGI. They managed to achieve a high aerodynamic quality, the indicator of which was 19,5. For the first time on the domestic aircraft to achieve parking dimensions were used folding console wing. For the first time the project was demonstrated at 1999 in Le Bourget at the Aerospace Show. The Kazan aircraft plant is expected to be mass-produced.
The KR-860 airplane is nothing more than a free-carrying low-planer. The vitreous wing is folded in the parking lot. The chassis is multi-bearing, retractable. The power plant consists of four General Electric turbojets CF6-80E1, located on the pylons under the wing. However, there is a variant with eight engines NK-93 or PS-90. The control system is digital, electro-remote with multiple redundancy. In the basic version, the aircraft is intended for 860 passengers in salons of three classes, which are located on two decks. For landing and landing, the aircraft has built-in descending ramps. In the cargo version, the KR-860 has a stern ramp and a forward fuselage that can be lifted. There is also a cargo-and-passenger variant.
The company for the development of aviation technology OKB. BY. Sukhoi led the design work on passenger aircraft super-large sizes to 860-950 passengers in the frame of the program entitled "Civil Aircraft". KR-860 intended for high-speed flight, he developed a speed 1000 km / h on intercontinental and transcontinental flights.
KR-860 - airliner normal aerodynamic scheme with cheyrmya American engines that are on the pylons under the wing.
Two deck design will be used in the cabin. This is directly related to the fact that the airplane has to fit into the existing airport buildings and runways around the world.
Like other "air heavyweights" airliner KR-860 should be based on the ground of the first class. But it worked out measures aimed at improving its takeoff and landing characteristics, that for transport and military transport versions is especially important.
To date, prospective variants of the power unit KR-860 are being studied. Negotiations were conducted with the company "General Electric", which created the TRDD SR6-80E1 (it is planned to equip them with Western European ACWR). Experts assumed that in the future Russia will receive engines, as well as a license for their development at one of the country's enterprises. Soon, the variants of the power plant were considered, which consisted of four "sparks" of domestic engines NK-93 or PS-90. It is assumed that the more economical, despite the higher weight, eight-engine power plant will appear on cargo variants of the aircraft, which will primarily focus on domestic transportation. Perhaps the equipment of the aircraft and the Pratt-Whitney PW4168 and the TRLS "Rolls-Royce" of the type "Trent".
For aircraft KR-860, which is used for the transport of liquefied natural gas, the best option seems to equipment by its engine, which runs on gas transported (in our country there is quite a big technological advance for the development of such engines). Using the latest advances in avionics has made it possible to reduce the crew to 2-3 people. KR-860 offered to equip a digital wire control system (do not forget that Sukhoi is considered one of the leaders in the creation of FBWCS worldwide).
In the development of the CD-860 special attention is paid to ensuring the survival and safety of passengers. In this direction it is planned to carry out a whole range of research.
It is worth noting that the program is the creation of "Wings of Russia" has just started to take the first steps. But it is already possible to note its support for large regional leaders and politicians, such as Vyakhirev (Head concert "Gazprom) and Mintimer Shaimiev (president of Tatarstan).
The creation of the "Wings of Russia" is a complex and ambitious task that can be effectively solved only with the support of the State Duma, the Government of the Russian Federation, the national capital, the Federation Council. But its successful decision will positively affect the economic situation in Russia, open a "second wind" for the gas and oil industry, will solve the crisis with the supply of energy to various remote regions of the country and the problems of "northern deliveries". KR-860 - a new vehicle that is necessary for domestic freight. They can bring tangible profits to the country.
Construction KR-860 - it still support the domestic aviation industry, which is suffocating without a "real" work, and large orders. It is hoped that the new airliner, no matter what the difficulties, able to climb into the sky, to prove to everyone that Russia, as before, there's wings.
KR-860 characteristics:
Wingspan - 88 m
Wingspan folded consoles - 64 m
Length - 80 m
Wing area - 700 m²
Maximum takeoff weight - 620-650 tons
Maximum payload - 300 tons
Passenger - 860 people
Cruising speed - 1000 km / h
Practical range - 12-15 thousand km.
Aerodynamic quality - 19,5
KR-860. Gallery.
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Wild Goose Filling Systems Announces Ready-Ship Program for Canning Lines
Wild Goose Filling Systems, pioneers in canning and bottling lines for craft brewers and specialty beverage makers, has released a new program called "Ready-Ship" to service customers with tight deadlines to set up a proprietary canning line.
With thousands of canning and bottling lines across the globe, an order for a Wild Goose canning system can sometimes take weeks to build according to customer specifications. With the "Ready-Ship" program, brewers and specialty beverage makers can order a two-head canning line that is ready to ship in one week, or two weeks for customers outside the U.S.
The canning line for the "Ready-Ship" program is an automated system, hand-built at Wild Goose's facility in Louisville, Colorado using American-made parts. It utilizes a patented two-head filling station, automated lid dropper and proprietary seaming station, capable of producing between 24 and 30 cans per minute. In addition, the company offers a number of ancillary modules that include: depalletizers, rinse tunnels, inlet pressure and temperature monitoring and a compressed air package to create a complete packaging line.
"With the craft beverage industry growing so rapidly, many of our customers have asked for a standardized canning line that allows them to sell pre-packaged beverages quickly," said Chris Fergen, chief executive officer at Wild Goose Filling Systems. "The two-head system allows them to build their own canning capabilities and is flexible enough to grow with their business. Like all Wild Goose systems, it is engineered for craft customers."
Wild Goose designs a range of canning lines to fill up to 100+ cans per minute and 250+ cases per hour. The two-head "Ready-Ship" system can be upgraded with additional fill heads to provide more cans per minute or fitted to accommodate a wider range of can sizes. The system is designed to grow with customers' needs.


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Leptin: Definition And Function Of This Fat-Burning Hormone
The leptin hormone regulates fat levels and signals the brain to suppress the feeling of hunger.
Jordi Cumplido
Leptin is a peptide known as the fat-burning hormone. |
Leptin comes from the Greek word "leptos", which means "thin". As you may think, this is a hormone that regulates body weight by controlling hunger and burning fat.
The wonder diets have seen in the modification of this hormone a useful tool and a great hope to lose weight. But, is this fat-burning hormone actually so effective? How does leptin function?
What is leptin?
Leptin is a peptide, i.e. a substance made of amino acids, and produced by various types of tissue, but mainly by adipose tissue, which is body fat. That is to say, it is a mixture of amino acids produced by fat cells. Its main function is to report the levels of fat.
However, the importance of leptin was discovered a few years ago, when a study of a Dallas institute, in the United States, showed that injecting animals with this hormone reduced their appetite and burned high amounts of fat.
LBody weight regulation and body capacity are related to energy balance. Hence, researchers found that the guinea pigs used for the experiment had reduced a quarter of their body weight, decreasing adipocytes and increasing mitochondria, which are known as the powerhouses of the cells.
That is, when it comes to weight imbalances, this hormone reduces the unnecessary fat but maintains, and even increases, the energy stores.
Not only that, but other studies have shown that mice injected with leptin from birth grow up with a resolution in their brains to regulate hunger. It sounds like a magic remedy, but let's see if it is that easy.
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How does leptin function?
The human body is a very intelligent structure, and there are things that will never cease to surprise us. For example, the way in which leptin, this fat-burning hormone, manages to regulate hunger is really amazing.
In order to understand it better, you have to think of leptin as a fat regulator which constantly sends signals to the brain about the levels of body fat. When these levels are about to become saturated, this hormone informs the central nervous system that you have already eaten enough, so it suppresses the feeling of hunger.
Since obesity has become one of the main concerns in Western countries, the studies on body metabolism regulation have increased. One of the conclusions drawn is that, when there is an increase of body fat, leptin acts on the hypothalamus, in the central nervous system, to reduce appetite. That is why it is known as the fat-burning hormone.
Leptin is secreted in the blood stream by the adipose tissue, the stomach and some liver cell. In fact, it is not only found in these tissues, but also in peripheral organs, which is why its functions increase.
Leptin regulates body weight by controlling hunger and burning fat. |
Is leptin actually a magic remedy?
The studies carried out by several medical centres seem to follow an overwhelming logic: if great amounts of this hormone are injected, hunger will be reduced and fat will be burnt, reaching a perfect balance without suppressing energy stores. More leptin means less hunger.
However, there are quite a few experts who deny such argument. They point out that there is no conclusive study that shows the effectiveness of injecting human beings with leptin, and they indicate that there are still many questions to be answered. For example, what are the dangers involved in the increased levels of this fat-burning hormone in the body?
What has been demonstrated are the dangers of hyperleptinemia, which is an excess of leptin in the body that creates the opposite effect, i.e. obesity. For many experts, the use of leptin as a magic remedy for weight loss is nothing more than a commercial strategy for selling dietary products.
Leptin acts as a natural regulator of the body suppressing the feeling of hunger when the fat stores become saturated. Therefore, it would be inappropriate to change artificially the levels of leptin. According to those who oppose its medical use, weight loss should be done naturally and taking into account the energy balance.
Intermittent Fasting: What It Is, Benefits And The 16/8 Type
Apart from the functions that have already been explained, the leptin hormone performs other tasks in the human body. Among its fun facts, you will find out why it lies at the root of some obesity problems.
1. Is leptin resistance the cause of obesity?
As it has been mentioned before, an excess of this hormone in your body can have the opposite effect. When leptin levels are very high, the central nervous system stops responding to its signals and the brain understands that, far from losing appetite, the body demands more energy stores, and increases the feeling of hunger.
Studies show that obese people have four times more leptin than the non-obese, which indicates that leptin resistance is one of the causes of morbid obesity.
An excess of leptin in the body creates the opposite effect and increases the feeling of hunger. |
2. Leptin levels increase during pregnancy
Apart from the adipose tissue, stomach and liver, leptin is also synthesised by the placenta during pregnancy and it is secreted into the maternal circulation. This means that leptin levels increase during pregnancy, especially in the second and third trimester.
3. Does leptin causes hypertension?
It has been showed that this hormone stimulates the antiangiogenic function of the body, which forms new blood vessels. This happens during the embryonic stage, the growth or when you have a wound, as a regenerative healing factor. Leptin can also increase blood pressure.
Another issue to be demonstrated is whether the excess of leptin in obese people is also the cause of blood pressure.
4. Can leptin stop blindness caused by diabetes?
This has not been demonstrated yet, but there is the hypothesis that leptin can be an effective remedy for slowing down vision disorders caused by diabetes mellitus. What has been demonstrated is that leptin changes some functions of the eye. Therefore, its ability to form new blood vessels could help the regenerative process.
In this case, it would always be a therapeutic support, not a final solution.
5. The importance of leptin during puberty
At a sexual level, the close connection between leptin and the hypothalamus is essential for the beginning of the puberty process and sexual maturity. That is to say, leptin signals the brain that there are enough fat levels to begin the female puberty process and reproduction.
It has also been discovered that it participates in the production of testosterone and that, in obese women, it can be the cause of amenorrhoea (menstrual pain).
Cell Metabolism: Definition, Processes And Types
Check out the original article: Leptina: qué es y cómo funciona esta hormona quema grasa at viviendolasalud.com
Brennan, A. M. & Mantzoros, C. S. (2006). Drug Insight: the role of leptin in human physiology and pathophysiology – emerging clinical applications. Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab, 2(6): 318–327.
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Pan, H., Guo, J., Su, Z. (2014). Advances in understanding the interrelations between leptin resistance and obesity. Physiology & Behavior, 130: 157–169.
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Home Trucking News 'Heroic work of truck drivers' to be celebrated through virtual truck showcase
'Heroic work of truck drivers' to be celebrated through virtual truck showcase
Despite the unique circumstances of this year's show, organizers still want it to celebrate the difficult, essential work truck drivers do for this country every day.
Wimberly Patton
The 38th annual Shell Rotella SuperRigs truck beauty contest is going online this year thanks to the pandemic.
Despite the unique circumstances of this year's show, organizers still want it to celebrate the difficult, essential work truck drivers do for this country every day. Enter this year's theme: "Legends of the Road."
The show was originally scheduled to be held at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas on June 4th-6th, but will now take place exclusively online through photo and video submissions.
Truck drivers may enter their rigs, and even themselves, in the following categories:
Most Hardworking Trucker – Drivers are encouraged to share their personal story of hard work and perseverance over the last year.
People's Choice – All viewers are encouraged to browse all truck entries and pick their favorite.
The judging panel of trucking industry professionals will also pick a Best of Show winner, giving the winning truck and driver the opportunity to be featured in the 2022 Shell Rotella SuperRigs calendar.
Entries can be submitted from August 10th – 21st, with up to 10 photos and two videos no longer than two minutes each per entry. Winners will be announced during National Truck Driver Appreciation Week September 14th-18th.
"North American truck drivers have faced unprecedented challenges on the road this year and we appreciate the essential work they do every day," said Annie Peter, North American marketing manager for Shell Rotella.
"We believe it is important to hold Shell Rotella SuperRigs in order to celebrate and highlight their hard work and to showcase many of the amazing looking trucks that are on the road," she continued. "Drivers will be able to post photos and videos to highlight their truck and share its story with the trucking community."
For more information on the truck show, and how to vote or register, click here.
Trucker recognized for heroism, skill, for avoiding catastrophe with wrong way driver while hauling methanol
Two perish after being impaled by rebar when minivan rear ended truck
Indiana trooper helps trucker's wife make a special roadside delivery
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Q: Conditionally Display Element in Angular 7 I have a <select> element in my Angular component that, based on the selected item, returns the identifier of that item.
I want to know how I would be able to conditionally display a
 when the identifier is either not undefinded or 0.
I have the following code

However, it still display's the element even though the condition should theoretically be satisfied as, at the point of the <select> not having a value, should be undefined.
Are there any suggestions that would conditionally display an element using the *ngIf directive based on an id returned from a <select>?

A: It depends on how the select is set up. For eg., if it's of the following form
<select #sel (change)="change(sel.value)" [(ngModel)]="id">
  <option [ngValue]="undefined">Undefined</option>
  <option *ngFor="let option of options" [ngValue]="option">{{ option }}</option>
</select>

with options = [ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ];
And if id is declared as id: any; in the controller, then explicit checks to undefined and null isn't required. You could do null check just with the following

  ID is defined: {{ id }}

<ng-template #undefinedBlock>
  ID is undefined
</ng-template>

A:
I want to know how I would be able to conditionally display a

when the identifier is either undefinded or 0.

First of all make sure this is not undefined in all cases. then you can use sth like this :

Look at this fiddle which you can manually set id to null or remove it (e.g undefined)

A: Use ng-template when you want to show something depending on some condition. See example
Instead of:

Item 1

Item 2

You can do this:

Item 1

<ng-template #showItem2>
Item 2
</ng-template>


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As I mentioned before I meet regularly with some friends from the Big Bug Collection to make awesome art together. Lately we have been inviting a lot of other creative people to join in the fun. After a relaxed meal in the garden, we decided to doodle some more on the inside of my friend's house (same house where I made my rainbow zebra unicorn painting on the wall).
I like the picture of three of us sitting on the floor. Not so much because it is that aesthetically pleasing (never mind the mess and bad light conditions), but moreover because it illustrates so well the spirit of our evenings together. One guy is making a drawing on the lid of the trashcan, while another one is sketching up some ideas for an illustration on the door, while I just got started on a floor painting.
I will never be able to get over your incredible talent, I LOVE this design and the colors!
It's a fantastic start! I love it as it is already but am super anxious to see where you go with it : ] Awesome work!
I will definitely share when it is finished!
That is a good start indeed.
I am a theatre maker and i mostly work with a group of people. I have just started doing a piece on my own, and i have to say,it is much more fun doing it with like minded people than on your own.
Keep creating, your stuff looks really good.
That is so awesome! And you are right, it is more fun to make things together. Technically everyone was working on their own that night, but still simply having other people around already is more fun!
This is gorgeous! I love the evenings that result from a group of like-minded friends just getting together and doing what they do. Can't wait to see it finished!
Beautiful :) Such a brilliant idea. And even nicer for being a group project!


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Thu, Jan 11, 2018 - Page 1 News List
US House passes Taiwan Travel Act
HELPING HAND:The US House of Representatives also passed a bill that directs the US secretary of state to help Taiwan regain its observer status at the WHO
Staff writer, with CNA
The US House of Representatives has unanimously passed the Taiwan Travel Act, legislation that encourages visits between Taiwan and the US at all levels, including high-ranking officials.
The bill, a follow-up to the Taiwan Relations Act, was introduced by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce and others in January last year and was passed by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs in October before being submitted for a vote by the full House.
The legislation still has to be passed by the US Senate to become law.
"The US and Taiwan share a commitment to democracy, rule of law and human rights... We should be supporting countries that have achieved democracy to serve as inspiration for these values across the Asia-Pacific [region]," Royce said following the passage of the bill.
The bill says that ties between Taiwan and the US have suffered from insufficient high-level communication since the enactment of the Taiwan Relations Act in 1979 because of self-imposed restrictions by the US on visits by top officials to Taiwan.
"The United States government should encourage visits between the United States and Taiwan at all levels," the bill says.
If the bill becomes law, high-level Taiwanese officials would be able to travel to the US and meet with US officials, including officials from the US Department of State, as well as conduct business in the US.
High-ranking Taiwanese officials have been barred from direct diplomatic engagement in Washington and senior US officials have not visited Taiwan since the US severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan in 1979.
US-Taiwan Business Council president Rupert Hammond-Chambers said that the council supports the bill.
"We believe it will improve communication between Taiwan and the United States, specifically expanding the understanding of Taiwan's situation to decisionmakers in Washington," he said.
The US House yesterday also passed a bill that directs the US secretary of state to help Taiwan regain observer status at the WHO and increases reporting requirements.
Royce said the passage of the two bills sent a strong message of support for Taiwan.
The WHO bill says that the 108th US Congress in 2004 passed legislation directing the US secretary of state to establish a strategy for, and to report annually to the US Congress on, efforts to obtain observer status for Taiwan at the World Health Assembly, the decisionmaking body of the WHO.
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Washington expressed gratitude to the US Congress for the goodwill and high level of support it has shown to Taiwan during the legislative process.
Taiwan's digital diplomacy gets a kickstart


The fact that online degree programs are… well… online means students participating in them tend to log in to learn rather than party, row crew, or take part in any of the life-transition experiences traditionally associated with time spent at a residential college.
But unless you are one of those who just wants a credential and doesn't care how much or how little you learn on the way to obtaining one, getting the most from any online learning experience requires an important set of skills and virtues that enable genuine education via the Web.
Learning college-level material is hard. If it's not, you're either a genius or just looking to coast to a diploma by taking un-challenging classes. And really learning (vs. just passing) requires dedicating time to (1) listening to lectures while taking careful notes; (2) processing that material after class ends to make sure you understand what you were taught; (3) reading (not just skimming) everything assigned by the professor; and (4) giving tests and written assignments your all.
We live in a time when many things compete for our time and attention. But if you find yourself skipping lectures, neglecting readings, or cutting corners in classes where you know you can pass by doing the minimum, perhaps a residential program that provides more social scaffolding for success is a better choice for you.
Because of the workload associated with any substantial college degree program (online or off), you will need to juggle lecture time, reading time, and time set aside for participation and assignments for multiple classes simultaneously. And if your online degree is being earned in parallel with working full time or taking care of kids, the ability to create and stick to a structured academic schedule becomes paramount.
Online degree programs have the advantage of letting you pace yourself based on the amount of time you have to commit to studies any given semester. But if you are someone who falls behind on commitments if no one is looking over your shoulder, you might want to consider a different path than online education. That said, if you excel in time management, online courses allow you to accelerate your learning, giving you the opportunity to earn a diploma at whatever pace you can handle.
Think you're a master at juggling multiple tasks simultaneously, like listening to a lecture while checking your e-mail, posting to Facebook, and downloading the latest from Bastille? Guess what? You're wrong! Studies show that while people think they can do several things at once, what we really do when we multitask is dedicate ever smaller slices of time to individual tasks that our brains still handle one at a time.
Why is this important? Because learning requires sustained concentration, not just many tiny moments of concentration spread out over time. So if you have maintained the ability to listen intently through an entire 45-60 minute lecture, read a book from beginning to end, and write a paper without stopping to Tweet, you are not only a candidate for success with genuine online learning but are likely to outcompete those whose attention spans are shriveling from minutes to seconds.
Research also shows that cheating is no more prevalent in online than residential classes. Unfortunately, that's because academic integrity problems are at an all-time high regardless of where learning is (allegedly) taking place. Now those research findings have been challenged. But suffice to say that if you want to cheat your way to a degree, there are ways to accomplish that odious goal, whether in a classroom or logged into an online learning management system.
Despite parental wisdom that says that cheaters only cheat themselves, cheating actually harms others by diminishing the value of all degrees (including those obtained honestly). But that wisdom does hold in that passing a course by doing something other than the assigned work means you will be entering life without the knowledge you supposedly spent time and paid money to learn. Which means anyone with a degree obtained via cheating has successfully credentialized both their dishonesty and foolishness.
If you are a disciplined and patient student, one who can postpone texting until after class and homework is completed, one who welcomes each course as the chance to discover a new world and each assignment as an challenge to put that learning to work, then you have the right stuff to be a successful online learner.
For everyone else, fear not! Even those of us who occasionally Alt-Tab while writing can develop, nurture, and sustain those virtues needed to master the art of successful independent online education.
Jonathan Haber is a writer/researcher who has worked in the fields of professional assessment, employment, curriculum development and educational technology. His Degree of Freedom project (degreeoffreedom.org) chronicled his attempt to learn everything you would get from being enrolled in a four-year, liberal arts degree program in just twelve months using only Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and other free educational resources. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at HarvardX and has just completed a book on MOOCs for MIT Press.


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Teen Titans Go! Nominated For 2019 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award In The "Favourite Cartoon" Category, Teen Titans Go! To The Movies Receives "Favourite Female Voice From An Animated Movie" Nomination
February 27, 2019 February 27, 2019 by RegularCapital
Warner Bros. Animation's and Cartoon Network's Teen Titans Go! has been nominated in the "Favourite Cartoon" category for Nickelodeon's 2019 Kids' Choice Awards, also the movie that's based on the animated series – Teen Titans Go! To The Movies has also received a "Favourite Female Voice from an Animated Movie" nomination for Kristen Bell's voice acting performance as Jade Wilson. In the Favourite Cartoon category, Teen Titans Go! will compete against Nickelodeon's ALVINNN!!! and The Chipmunks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Loud House and SpongeBob SquarePants and also DreamWorks Animation's and Netflix's – The Boss Baby: Back in Business.
In the "Favourite Female Voice from an Animated Movie" category Kristen Bell will compete against Gal Gadot (Shank, Ralph Breaks the Internet), Hailee Steinfeld (Gwen Stacy/Spider-Gwen, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse), Selena Gomez (Mavis, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation), Yara Shahidi (Brenda, WB's Smallfoot) and Zendaya (Meechee, WB's Smallfoot).
Warner Bros. Pictures' and DC Comics' movie – Aquaman has been nominated in the "Favourite Movie" category, with Jason Momoa (portrayed as Aquaman in the movie) also being nominated as "Favourite Superhero". Warner Bros's Interactive Entertainment's LEGO The Incredibles video game has been nominated in the "Favourite Video Game" category. Warner Bros. Television's and DC Comics' The Flash has also been nominated in the "Favourite TV Drama" category.
The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards is an annual awards ceremony event where children from around the world can vote for their favourite TV shows, video games, movies, music and much more. This year's awards ceremony will be held at the Galen Center in Los Angeles, on Saturday 23rd March 2019 and will be broadcasting live on the Nickelodeon TV channel from 8pm ET/PT. The awards ceremony will be hosted by hip hop DJ and record producer – DJ Khaled.
You can now VOTE for #KCA Fav Cartoon! Make sure to use the proper hashtags to make your vote count! pic.twitter.com/rHUXmowgyZ
— Nickelodeon (@Nickelodeon) February 27, 2019
Special thanks to The Daily Nick for the information:
http://nickalive.blogspot.com/2019/02/music-mogul-dj-khaled-to-host.html
Vote now for your favourite TV shows, movies, music, video games and celebrities on the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards website! Kids can cast their vote through social media on Twitter, and also for the first time ever, Nickelodeon will be enabling voting on specific posts on Instagram.
http://www.kidschoiceawards.com/
Categories CN Asia-Pacific, CN Canada/Teletoon, CN EMEA, CN Latin America, CN USATags Aquaman, Awards Ceremony, CN USA, DC Comics, Jason Momoa, Lego The Incredibles Video Game, Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards 2019, Nickelodeon UK, Nickelodeon UK and Ireland, Nickelodeon USA, Nominations, Smallfoot, Teen Titans Go!, Teen Titans Go! To The Movies, Warner Animation Group, Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television, Yara Shahidi, ZendayaLeave a comment
Cartoon Network And Adult Swim Annie Awards 2019 Nominations
December 3, 2018 December 3, 2018 by RegularCapital
Today (3rd December), ASIFA-Hollywood has released their nominations list for the 46th annual Annie Awards which will be held on Saturday 2nd February 2019, at Royce Hall at UCLA in Los Angeles. The Annie Awards is an annual awards ceremony to honor exceptional animated productions and also honor individuals who have made significant contributions to the art of animation, an Annie Award is a highly regarded accolade for excellence in the field of animation.
Cartoon Network Studios' sci-fi animated show – Ben 10 has received a nomination in the "Outstanding Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production" category, specifically for the storyboarding work by Will Patrick. In the "Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production", Cartoon Network Studios has received two nominations, one for Craig of the Creek and the other for We Bare Bears. For the Craig of the Creek nomination, Matt Burnett (show creator), Ben Levin (show creator), Shauna McGarry, Jeff Trammell and Tiffany Ford have been specifically listed for their scriptwriting on the show. For We Bare Bears, Mikey Heller, Sang Yup Lee and Louie Zong have been listed as writers for the nomination.
Warner Bros. Animation's animated movie, in association with Cartoon Network – Teen Titans Go! To The Movies has also received a nomination in the "Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production" category, the nomination has been given to the show's concept developers – Michael Jelenic and Aaron Horvath. Warner Bros. Animation's Unikitty!, produced for Cartoon Network has received an nomination in the "Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production" category for Unikitty's voice actress – Tara Strong. The Tom and Jerry Show has received a nomination in the "Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production" for music by Vivek Maddala. Warner Animation Group's motion picture – Smallfoot has received a nomination for "Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production" credited to Heitor Pereira, Karey Kirkpatrick and Wayne Kirkpatrick.
Cartoon Network's young adult nightly programming block – Adult Swim has received one nomination in the "Best General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production" category for an animated comedy-drama series that returned to the programming block this August – The Venture Bros.
Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation And Adult Swim Annie Awards 2019 Nominations
Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
Cartoon Network Studios
Nominees: Will Patrick
Big Hero 6: The Series Walt Disney Television Animation
Nominees: Trey Buongiorno
Disney Mickey Mouse Disney Television Animation
Nominees: Ramirez Ramos Alonso
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Nickelodeon Animation Studio
Nominees: Kevin Molina-Ortiz
Star vs. The Forces of Evil Walt Disney Television Animation
Nominees: Sabrina Cotugno
Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production
Nominees: Emily Altman
Nominees: Matt Burnett, Ben Levin, Shauna McGarry, Jeff Trammell, Tiffany Ford
Hilda Productions Limited, a Silvergate Media Company, Netflix Inc. and Mercury Filmworks
Nominees: Stephanie Simpson
Nominees: Dominic Bisignano, Aaron Hammersley, Amy Higgins, John Infantino, Daron Nefcy
Cartoon Network Animation Studios
Nominees: Mikey Heller, Sang Yup Lee, Louie Zong
Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production
Tornante Productions, LLC for Netflix
Nominees: Will Arnett
Wild West Television in association with Gaumont Television for Netflix
Nominees: Debi Derryberry
Amazon Studios, Alcon Television Group, LLC
Nominees: Juliette Donenfeld
Skylanders Academy
Activision Blizzard Studios
Nominees: Patrick Warburton
Warner Bros. Animation
Nominees: Tara Strong
Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production
Nominees: Danny Elfman, Tyler, The Creator
Nominees: Harry Gregson-Williams, Tom Howe, Harry Gregson-Williams, Tom Howe
#Nominees: Michael Giacchino
Nominees: Henry Jackman, Alan Menken, Phil Johnston, Tom MacDougall, Dan Reynolds
Warner Bros. Pictures/Warner Animation Group
Nominees: Heitor Pereira, Karey Kirkpatrick, Wayne Kirkpatrick
Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production
Back to the Moon Google Spotlight Stories,
Google Doodles, Nexus Studios
Nominees: Mathieu Alvado
Disney Television Animation
Nominees: Christopher Willis
Nominees: Tony Morales, John Kavanaugh, Craig Gerber, Silvia Olivas, Rachel Ruderman
Nominees: Alan Menken, Glenn Slater, Kevin Kliesch
The Tom and Jerry Show
Nominees: Vivek Maddala
Annie Award for Best General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production
20th Century FOX Television/Bento Box Entertainment
Human Kind Of Cartuna,
The Venture Bros.
Adult Swim/Titmouse, Inc.
A full list of all the 46th Annie Awards nominations can be viewed on the link below:
http://annieawards.org/nominees/
Categories CN USATags Aaron Horvath, Annie Awards, Annie Awards 2019, ASIFA-Hollywood, Awards Ceremony, Ben 10, Ben Levin, Cartoon Network Studios, CN USA, Craig of the Creek, Heitor Pereira, Jeff Trammell, Karey Kirkpatrick, Matt Burnett, Michael Jelenic, Shauna McGarry, Smallfoot, Tara Strong, Teen Titans Go! To The Movies, The Tom and Jerry Show, The Venture Bros, Tiffany Ford, Unikitty, Vivek Maddala, Warner Animation Group, Warner Bros. Animation, We Bare Bears, Will PatrickLeave a comment
Warner Bros. Animation's Get Animated: Invasion Exhibit At The Grammy Museum In Los Angeles
August 19, 2018 August 19, 2018 by RegularCapital
Warner Bros. Animation's Get Animated: Invasion Exhibit At The Grammy Museum
The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles has opened a special exhibit yesterday (18th August) about the music in Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera cartoons, the special pop-up exhibit is called "Get Animated: Warner Bros. Presents The Invasion". The exhibit offers an immersive experience complete with props and sets which makes visitors feel that they're in a cartoon. Warner Bros. animated shows have been influential in pop-culture not only for its animation but also for the use of music, it has popularised classical music and even created mainstream hits. This is the second pop-up "Get Animated Invasion" exhibit that has been taken place, the first one was held as a side event to New York Comic Con last October.
Visitors will journey though the classical pieces heard in Looney Tunes, the 1960's psychedelic rock of Scooby-Doo, the 1990's R&B hits from the movie – Space Jam, the musical numbers in Animaniacs and much more. For the exhibit, The Grammy Museum and Warner Bros. have invited a bunch of artists and designers to interpret and reimagine the music from the cartoons through their own unique lens. Also there will be a section for Warner Animation Group's upcoming feature film – Smallfoot, which features a new song by Niall Horan.
Visitors will be able to share their experiences on social media using the hashtag #GetAnimatedInvasion. The exhibit will be open until Sunday 9th September, and tickets can now be purchased on the Grammy Museum's website.
Ready to rock and roll? 落秊論
Then check out #GetAnimatedInvasion at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles! We're celebrating the music of our favorite classic cartoons in this larger-than-life immersive experience. pic.twitter.com/7pTqAiPYow
— Boomerang (@BoomerangToons) August 18, 2018
Ever wondered what it's like inside your fav cartoons? Wonder no more! The #GetAnimatedInvasion at the @GRAMMYMuseum in Los Angeles is celebrating cartoons and pop music moments, creating a one-of-a-kind experience. Check it out!
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https://www.getanimatedinvasion.com/
https://www.regularcapital.com/2017/09/warner-bros-get-animated-invasion-pop-up-store-opens-6th-october/
https://www.grammymuseum.org/exhibits/current-exhibits/get-animated-invasion
Categories CN USATags Animaniacs, Boomerang USA, Exhibition, Get Animated Invasion, Grammy, Grammy Museum, Hanna-Barbera, Looney Tunes, New York Comic Con 2017, Niall Horan, Scooby Doo, Smallfoot, Space Jam, Special Event, Warner Animation Group, Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Bros. MuseumLeave a comment


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Themes2.7.4.1 - Generalclose2.2.5 - Protection and managementclose2.2.2 - World Heritage criteriaclose2.2.1 - Outstanding Universal Value: definition and attributesclose2.6 - Comparative studiesclose2.4 - Upstream Processclose2.2 - Outstanding Universal Valueclose
"Outstanding Universal Value means cultural and/or natural significance which is so exceptional as to transcend national boundaries and to be of common importance for present and future generations of all humanity. As such, the permanent protection of this heritage is of the highest importance to the international community as a whole. The Committee defines the criteria for the inscription of properties on the World Heritage List."
"To be deemed of Outstanding Universal Value, a property must also meet the conditions of integrity and/or authenticity and must have an adequate protection and management system to ensure its safeguarding."
3. Justification for Inscription
"[For a nomination to be considered as "complete", the following requirements (see format in Annex 5) are to be met:] (…) In section 3.2, a comparative analysis of the nominated property in relation to similar properties, whether or not on the World Heritage List, both at the national and international levels, shall be provided. The comparative analysis shall explain the importance of the nominated property in its national and international context."
Theme: 2.6 - Comparative studies
(ii) "In its justification of the outstanding universal value of the property nominated, each State should, whenever possible, undertake a sufficiently wide comparison."
Decision of the World Heritage Committee 7 EXT.COM 4A
III. COMPARATIVE ANALYSES
7. "[The World Heritage Committee] decides that comparative analyses by States Parties as part of the nomination dossier shall be undertaken in relation to similar properties, whether or not on the World Heritage List, both at the national and international levels."
Decision: 7 EXT.COM 4A
The World Heritage Committee recommends undertaking a deep comparative analysis in order to demonstrate the Outstanding Universal Value of the property by fully assessing the relative values of the nominated property against other sites (based on Case law on decisions on Nominations).
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'Committed violent extremist' in alleged governor kidnap plot remains jailed
by: Susan Samples
A booking photo of Barry Croft. (Oct. 9, 2020)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A federal judge denied bond for one of the men charged with plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Magistrate Judge Sally Berens ordered Barry Croft Jr., 45, be held without bond pending trial on a charge of conspiracy to kidnap the governor.
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Croft, a single father and truck driver from Delaware, could face up to life in prison if convicted.
In Grand Rapids' federal courthouse Wednesday afternoon, an FBI agent testified Croft surveilled the governor's vacation home in northern Michigan, brought improvised explosive devices to field training exercises and attended an Ohio meeting at which alleged plotters discussed plans.
Federal Prosecutor Nils Kessler told the court that Croft was "probably the most committed violent extremist of the whole group."
Kessler also played several audio recordings — made by undercover informants — of Croft discussing the alleged plot.
"We've heard him talking about wanting to kill people. I'm sure he has in his head that a life sentence is very likely for him, which gives him a lot of motivation to flee," Kessler said.
Croft's defense attorney argued the government's confidential informants encouraged the alleged plotters.
"The government is funding the (Ohio) meeting and inviting people into this meeting …. the government's the driving force behind it," said defense attorney Joshua Blanchard.
But the judge ultimately sided with the government.
"The defense argues that it's simply a matter of 'big talk,'" noted Berens, referring to the suspects' alleged plan.
"But the (undercover) recordings the government has introduced are chilling … Mr. Croft said things … like 'I'm gonna hurt people, I'm gonna hurt people so f—ing bad, and I'm going to burn motherf—ing houses down and blow sh-t up,'" Berens told the court.
"He talks about levelling buildings. He talks about burning people's houses down with them inside it and terrorizing people," Berens continued.
Berens determined Croft presented a danger to the community as well as a flight risk.
His criminal history includes 15 arrests and multiple instances of failing to appear in court.
U.S. Marshals transported Croft to West Michigan this week from federal prison in Philadelphia.
He's being held in the Newaygo County Jail, which houses federal inmates.
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WASHINGTON (WLNS)---A running post of Michigan lawmakers reacting and sharing their thoughts today as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris take the oath of office, and become the President and Vice President of the United States. Also their reaction to the departure of President Trump, who has officially left the nation's capital, en route to Florida.
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This year is already off to a very busy start! Our musical outreach programs are in full swing and the kids are working hard to meet their goals. In fact, many of the students we serve were even working over the holidays to prepare for competitions, concerts and more. We are in awe of the talent and dedication in the children we serve. Here are just a few updates.
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Last week, Music Doing Good with Instruments surprised Fernando with a new violin! Fernando began studying music at KIPP SHARP College Prep Lower School – Fine Arts with Ms. Herdeman, and now he plays with Mr. Rivera in the orchestra at Kipp Sharpstown College Preparatory! Mr. Rivera told us Fernando is one of his most dedicated orchestra members, and we're overjoyed we could provide him with a new violin!
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The Greatest Steampunk Exhibition is the largest exhibition of Steampunk art, craft and engineering in the UK. It opened last weekend, on Saturday 4th June, at the Kew Bridge Steam Museum in West London. The includes Steampunk exhibits from all over the world, ranging from paintings and artworks through costumes and fabrics to machines and engines, together with sound installations and short films. Many of the exhibits have been specially created for the exhibition and have never been seen before.
The exhibition is running until Monday 29th August, and visitors to the exhibition will be able to enjoy all the other attractions of the Kew Bridge Steam Museum, including the giant Victorian pumping engines which will be operating most weekends. These will all be complemented by a range of Steampunk books and other products which will be available in the Museum shop during the exhibition.
And I'll be there, as part of a Steampunk creators' day, in a fortnight's time, on Saturday 25th June, selling, signing and reading from my Pax Britannia books, which will be available to buy from the museum bookshop.
So if you live anywhere near Brentford, why not pop along and check it out? More details about the exhibition can be found here.


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Grieving Well - Grief comes as a natural part of life. When you lose someone you love, navigating the grieving process can be difficult. Through this reading plan, Tony Evans speaks from his heart based on the recent, sudden loss of his niece. These principles can help you to learn how to grieve well and embrace healing.
Grief comes as a natural part of life. When you lose someone you love, navigating the grieving process can be difficult. Through this reading plan, Tony Evans speaks from his heart based on the recent, sudden loss of his niece. These principles can help you to learn how to grieve well and embrace healing.


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In the "Security Court," Double Jeopardy is Dead
In the criminal courts double jeopardy prohibits anyone from being tried twice for the same crime. Innocent or guilty, the verdict stands. Prosecutors are forced to gather as much evidence as they can and determine if they have a case for conviction. They only get one chance.
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Until recently, that's how "security courts" worked as well. Relying on a conviction paradigm that provided a single point in time to get a conviction right, like blocking and prevention technologies and policy-based controls, security professionals had one shot to pass judgment on files and either identify them as safe and allow them through or determine they are guilty and block them. During a time when threats were less sophisticated and less stealthy these defenses were mostly adequate. But attacks have evolved and relying exclusively on point-in-time defenses is no longer sufficient.
Modern attackers have honed their strategies, frequently using tools that have been developed specifically to circumvent the target's chosen security infrastructure. They go to great lengths to remain undetected, using technologies and methods that result in nearly imperceptible indicators of compromise. Once advanced malware, zero-day attacks, and advanced persistent threats (APTs) enter a network, most security professionals have no way to continue to monitor these files and take action when the files later exhibit malicious behavior.
In order to be effective, our security courts must evolve so that security professionals can continue to gather evidence and retry files after the initial acquittal. This requires a security model that combines a big data architecture with a continuous approach to provide protection and visibility along the full attack continuum – from point of entry, through propagation, and post-infection remediation.
One of the innovations this model enables is called retrospection and it provides the ability to continuously monitor files, communication, and process activity against the latest intelligence and advanced algorithms over an extended period of time, not just at an initial point in time. It also offers significant advantages over event-driven data collection or scheduled scans for new data, as it captures attacks as they happen. In effect, unknown, suspicious, and previously deemed 'innocent' files can be tried again. Here's how it works:
● After initial detection analysis, file retrospection continues to interrogate files over an extended period of time with the latest detection capabilities and collective threat intelligence, allowing for an updated disposition to be rendered and further analysis to be conducted well beyond the initial point-in-time it was first seen.
● Communication retrospection continuously captures communication to and from an endpoint and the associated application and process that initiated or received the communication for added contextual data.
● Similar to file retrospection, process retrospection continuously captures and analyzes system process input-output over an extended period of time.
File, communication, and process data is continuously woven together to create a lineage of activity to gain unprecedented insights into an attack as it happens. With this information security professionals can quickly pivot from detection to a full understanding of the scope of the outbreak and take action to head off wider compromises. Protections can be automatically updated so that security professionals can make the right verdict up front to prevent similar, future attacks.
Double jeopardy has a long history in the criminal courts. But it has no place in the security courts. Technologies have advanced to the point where security professionals can have more than one opportunity to detect and stop attacks. Retrospection is one of the latest techniques security professionals can use to deliver the right verdict and the right sentence, at the right time, any time.
Written By Marc Solomon
Marc Solomon is Chief Marketing Officer at ThreatQuotient. He has a strong track record driving growth and building teams for fast growing security companies, resulting in several successful liquidity events. Prior to ThreatQuotient he served as VP of Security Marketing for Cisco following its $2.7 billion acquisition of Sourcefire. While at Sourcefire, Marc served as CMO and SVP of Products. He has also held leadership positions at Fiberlink MaaS360 (acquired by IBM), McAfee (acquired by Intel), Everdream (acquired by Dell), Deloitte Consulting and HP. Marc also serves as an Advisor to a number of technology companies, including Valtix.
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Q: Intersection of parabola and circle Is it possible to place circle and a parabola on the plane so that their intersection consist of exactly two points, one point being a point of tangency, and the other point a transversal intersection?

A: First, thanks to Rahul Narain for finding a weak spot (aka error) in an earlier answer of mine.
Consider the standard parabola $y=x^2$, and the circle
$$(x+4)^2 +(y-7/2)^2 =125/4.$$
Substituting $x^2$ for $y$, we find that the resulting quartic has a triple root at $x=1$, and a third root at $x=-3$. So the parabola and the circle are tangent at $(1,1)$.
It is easy to check that we indeed have a triple root at $1$. The example was found in an  attempt to refute Rahul Narain's objection. Again, thanks.

A: Let the circle be the unit circle, and take the parabola to have the equation $y-k=a(x-h)^2$, with $a\neq 0$. Note that the slope of the line tangent to the parabola at $(x,y)$ is given by $m = 2 a (x-h)$.
Let $T(\cos\theta,\sin\theta)$ be the point of tangency. (We may assume throughout that $\sin\theta \neq 0$, since our (presumably non-degenerate) parabola has no vertical tangents. Note also that distinct points of intersection must correspond to distinct $x$ coordinates.) Then, as $T$ must satisfy the parabola equation, we have
$$\sin\theta - k = a ( \cos\theta - h )^2 \qquad (1)$$
Now, the line tangent to the circle at $T$ necessarily has slope $-\cot\theta$; equating this with the slope relative to the parabola gives
$$\cos\theta = -2 a \sin\theta (\cos\theta - h ) \qquad (2)$$
We can solve $(2)$ for $h$, and then $(1)$ for $k$:
$$
h = \frac{\cos\theta \left( 1 + 2 a \sin\theta \right)}{2a\sin\theta}
\qquad
k = \frac{ 4 a \sin^3\theta - \cos^2\theta }{4a\sin\theta^2}$$
whence the parabola equation becomes
$$y \sin\theta = a x^2 \sin\theta - x \cos\theta \left( 1 + 2 a \sin\theta \right) + 1 + a \cos^2\theta \sin\theta $$
Using that equation to eliminate $y$ in $x^2+y^2=1$ gives this polynomial equation in $x$:
$$\left( x - \cos\theta \right)^2 \left(
 \left( a \left( x - \cos\theta \right)\sin\theta - \cos\theta\right)^2
 + \sin^2\theta \left( 1 + 2 a \sin\theta \right)\right) = 0 \qquad (3) $$
For the second factor of $(3)$ to have any roots requires the quantity $b := 1+2a\sin\theta$ to be non-positive. If $b$ vanishes, we get the double root $x=-\cos\theta$ (the mirror image of $x=\cos\theta$) corresponding to a second point of circle-parabola tangency. For us to have a point of non-tangent intersection, we require $b$ to be strictly negative, and $x=\cos\theta$ to be a root of that second factor. The latter condition implies, by substitution:
$$2a\sin^3\theta=-1$$
giving $b=-\cot^2\theta$, which is strictly negative (and defined) for $\theta \neq n \pi/2$. Moreover, equation $(3)$ reduces nicely to
$$0 = (x-\cos\theta)^3\left(x-4\cos^3\theta+3\cos\theta\right) = (x-\cos\theta)^3(x-\cos 3\theta)$$
providing the root $x=\cos3\theta$. Double-checking with the parabola equation, we see that the corresponding $y$ value should be $-\sin3\theta$; thus, we can write the second point of intersection as $S(\cos(-3\theta), \sin(-3\theta))$.
The final parabola equation itself is
$$ 2 y \sin^3\theta = - \left( x - \cos^3\theta \right)^2 + \sin^4\theta\left( 3 - \sin^2\theta \right)$$
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(Animation, and interstitial symbol-crunching, courtesy of Mathematica.)

A: Just on a different flavour. Let the parabola be the standard $Y=X^2$ (which you can always assume by properly chosing coordinates).
Fix a point $P$ on this parabola.
By using complex projective coordinates you can generate the linear system of conics which are:

*

*tangent to the parabola in $P$;

*passing through the cyclic (improper) points $(1,\imath,0)$, $(1,,-\imath,0)$;

Such linear system is generated by two degenerate conics (pairs of lines).
Each conic (apart from degenerate ones) in this linear system is a circle. The condition of passing through an arbitary point in the plane, in particular a point lying on the parabola, picks one.
This implies that for any parabola and any pair of distinct points on it there is a solution to the problem. Algebraic computations are easy


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Tulsa artist Rena Detrixhe shipped 250 pounds of red Oklahoma soil to Boston. Then last week she spread it on the floor of Abigail Ogilvy Gallery.
It's not just any soil. Detrixhe has ground and sifted it, and it's almost as fine as flour. She covered 120 square feet in the middle of the gallery, and went to work stamping it with the cut-up soles of discarded shoes.
The piece, "Red Dirt Rug," is her ninth soil rug and has the branching pattern and borders of a Persian carpet. The symbol-laden designs are purely Oklahoman, with oak leaves, vortexes of wind, and spouting oil wells revolving inside circles of pump jacks. Intricate, soft, and easily disrupted, it's an admonition against heedless use of the land.
"I talk about Oklahoma as a place drastically altered by human presence," Detrixhe said last Friday, when she was putting finishing touches on the piece. The past century has seen a sharp rise in the state's population. Repercussions on the land and its inhabitants include the environmental disaster of the Depression-era Dust Bowl, oil drilling, and fracking.
There's also been a rise in real estate development.
Gallery owner Abigail Ogilvy sees parallels between human intervention in the Oklahoma landscape and historic development in Boston.
When the show closes at the end of the month, there will be a ceremony and "Red Dirt" will be swept up like a Tibetan sand mandala.
"Red Dirt" is not the artist's last carpet. The soil will be shipped home and made into more installations.
Sand from the Tibetan mandalas is spilled into riverbeds. When Detrixhe has made her last dirt carpet, she, too, will return her material to its source. Earth to earth, dust to dust.


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Is it possible to delete customized published reports and report groups from the server? We have created a handful of custom proposal reports that we use exclusively now, but we have several customized reports and report groups that are no longer necessary and I want to get rid of them entirely so that there is no confusion. I have deleted the custom reports in Report Explorer and I have deleted the unnecessary report groupings, but when I restart d-Tools, it prompts me to download the reports again. It wouldn't surprise me a bit to find out I'm just missing one simple step in the process.
Now you can see all of the reports on the server and you can choose to delete the ones that are no longer required at the top of the window.
This will delete them from the server but any downloaded reports will stay on your PC which is annoying. If you have multiple users you may want to clean up the server, then delete all your local reports and restart D-Tools to download the relevant ones from the server.
Hope this gets you out of trouble!