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Film Review: 'A Cure For Wellness' Provides a Much-Needed Temporary Fix
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CHICAGO – Gore Verbinski is no stranger to the spooky. He always creates these tense, terror-filled scenes that effectively frighten us. His films, from "Ring" to "Rango", each are compelling enough to keep our attention, not matter how absurd they transform into. Boy, does he ever deliver in the gorgeously grotesque "A Cure for Wellness."
Film Review: 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' Can't Find Its Swing
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CHICAGO – "The Amazing Spider-man 2" continues what has become the J.V. Team of super-hero film franchises. The building blocks are there for success, but the talent on the field isn't capable of pulling it off. Like it's predecessor, this sequel does not aim to entertain and create a lasting impression, instead it aims to stave off boredom for just long enough.
Film Review: Big Spectacle, Small Heart in 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2'
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 2, 2014 - 4:22am
CHICAGO – For a film with so much eye candy that it threatens ocular diabetes, "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" is decidedly low in story rhythm and energy – even with a villain named Electro. The story also has the "three villain syndrome," which allows for a lack of focus and heart.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 Pairs of Passes to 'Metallica Through the Never' with Dane DeHaan
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Film Review: Crime, Fatherhood Intersect in 'The Place Beyond the Pines'
Submitted by BrianTT on April 5, 2013 - 7:49am
The Place Beyond the Pines
CHICAGO – Derek Cianfrance's masterful "The Place Beyond the Pines" is a complex, epic piece of storytelling about the ripple effect of crime through families and across generations. Drastic action does not exist in a vacuum. It influences generations below and those impacted by their parent's decisions.
Film Review: Tom Hardy Leads Great Cast in Disappointing 'Lawless'
Submitted by BrianTT on August 29, 2012 - 9:37am
CHICAGO – John Hillcoat's "Lawless," based on Matt Bondurant's "The Wettest County in the World," is one of the most high profile disappointments of 2012, a film with an amazing cast that suffocates under the weight of an inconsistent script, a boring lead, and a complete lack of narrative drive.
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DVD Review: Surprising Hit 'Chronicle' Cleverly Plays with Timeless Themes
Submitted by BrianTT on May 18, 2012 - 12:18pm
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CHICAGO – With great power comes great responsibility. Since the invention of the written word, authors have been playing with the idea that power leads to problems as it is man's inherent nature to use that power to satisfy his own needs. Superhero fiction is based on it (good guys use their power for good, villains use it for evil). A lot of sci-fi is based on it. And the smash hit "Chronicle" (over $120 million worldwide with 10% of that as its budget), recently released on DVD and Blu-ray, cleverly plays with these themes in a way that feels new. The DVD offers nothing notable in terms of special features so one should probably expect a special edition to be released to coincide with the in-production "Chronicle 2."
Film Review: Found-Footage Fanboy Film 'Chronicle' is Aimlessly Lost
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Grant Powell
CHICAGO – "Chronicle," which stars blah, blah and blah with a special appearance by blah (you wouldn't know these unknowns any way), is the latest found-footage film to find itself lost, lacking purpose and devoid of a cohesive plot. This film's fanboy ejaculate loves you short time as it spews the buildup of what could be interpreted as a "story" and ultimately ends without one.


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Q: Understanding the motivation for the answer in Generalizing ODEs to Banach Spaces I am trying to understand this Answer: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/2366187/597047 as I am curious about it.

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*I do not fully understand what $\Phi$ represents. What is the analogue of $\Phi$ in the finite-dimensional case? What is meant by "solution mapping"?

*I do not know what the motivation is for setting $||A||_k$, $||B||_k$, and $l_1, \; l_2$ the way they are written. Why does /u/fourierwho write them this way? What is the motivation?

I greatly appreciate any help.

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*This is the map of the Picard iteration, for $\dot x(t)=f(t,x(t))$ it is
$$ \Phi(x)(t)=x(t_0)+\int_{t_0}^tf(s, x(s))\,ds $$

*$\|\cdot\|_K$ indicates that the norm is the supremum/maximum over the time segment $K$. $$\|F\|_K=\sup_{t\in K}\|F(t)\|$$ where $\|F(t)\|$ is the norm of the space that $F(t)$ belongs to.
As solutions of linear ODE and also their differences may grow exponentially in time, this might be an obstacle in the proof that $\Phi$ is a contraction mapping. Thus this kind of proof needs a restriction of the time domain of the function space it considers $\Phi$ over. The introduction of $R$ is unnecessary, there is no need for the metric space to be bounded in the Banach fixed-point theorem.

Another kind of proof counters the (potentially) exponential growth of the solutions (as predicted by the bound of the Grönwall lemma) by a faster falling exponential weight factor in a modified maximum norm, $$\|x\|_L=\max_{t\in K}e^{-2L|t-t_0|}\|x(t)\|,~~~L=\|A\|_K.$$ In this norm $\Phi$ has contraction factor $\frac12$ over the space ${\scr C}=C(K,E)$ and thus a fixed point in that space that the same way then turns out to also be both in $C^1(K,E)$ and a solution of the ODE, no further assembly necessary.

Why does the modified norm work: For prior detailed computations see https://math.stackexchange.com/a/838568/115115 or Inequality in the proof of unique solution of an ODE.
More generally using the Lipschitz property in the localized form, here $L(t)=\|A(t)\|$, you get for the local differences of the Picard iteration the inequality
$$\|Φ(z)(t)-Φ(y)(t)\|\le\int_{t_0}^t L(s)\|z(s)-y(s)\|.$$
To bound the local differences in the integrand on the right side against a global constant use some weighted sup norm $$\|x\|_w=\sup_{t\in I}\frac{\|x(t)\|}{w(t)}.$$ Then the right side is further bounded by
$$...\le\int_{t_0}^t L(s)w(s)\,ds\;\|z-y\|_w.$$
Now the norm estimate would be complete if the last expression were just smaller than $q\,w(t)\;\|z-y\|_w$ with some $0<q<1$, as then $$\|Φ(z)-Φ(y)\|_w\le q\;\|z-y\|_w.$$ Make $w$ the solution to $q\dot w(t)=L(t)w(t)$, $w(t_0)=1$, so that $w(t)=\exp(\int_{t_0}^tL(s)ds/q)$. Then the integral value is $$\int_{t_0}^t L(s)w(s)\,ds=q(w(t)-1)<qw(t)$$ as required.
Usually one would take $L$ a constant maximizing the individual $L(t)$ values over bounded sub-intervals. However, this is often not necessary, see https://math.stackexchange.com/a/2973201/115115 where a non-constant $L(t)$ is used to get a different, better adapted weight function.

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Wrong-way crashes can be among the most injurious and devastating of all accidents. Wrong-way drivers often cause head-on collisions, which generate significant force - and can therefore cause significant injuries. Victims of wrong-way collision injuries have important legal rights. With the legal advice of a Wichita car accident attorney, accident victims will be better able to access the compensation to which they are legally entitled.
The community of Sabetha, Kansas learned just how tragic the consequences of wrong-way drivers can be. The Wichita Eagle reports that the Ukele family was driving home from the state football championship, where they had watched two Ukele brothers help bring the Sabetha High School football team a state championship title over Marysville. The boys' parents, younger sister, and uncle were driving home from the championship game when a wrong-way driver attempted to pass a vehicle in the opposite lane. Their mother, who was driving, swerved to avoid a head-on collision. She was killed in the ensuing accident, along with the boys' younger sister and uncle. Their father was in stable condition after having multiple surgeries.
This horrible accident demonstrates how dangerous wrong-way drivers can be, even when they do not hit another vehicle directly. The unpredictable actions of a wrong-way driver can cause other road users to act unpredictably, as well. This is particularly dangerous when ice or snow makes the roads even more slippery, or when nighttime driving or weather conditions decrease visibility.
Wrong-way driving can be attributed to dangerous driving behavior, such as not paying attention to road signs or driving while impaired. This is what happened in one fatal accident on the Kansas Turnpike. According to The Wichita Eagle, four people were killed when an SUV traveled northbound in the southbound lanes of traffic. Its driver was found to have a blood alcohol level of .22. This is nearly three times the legal limit set forth by Section 8-1567 of the Kansas Statutes.
In another wrong-way crash in Wichita, an 81-year-old driver became caught in the wrong lanes of traffic on an exit of Interstate 135. KAKE reports that another car was unable to avoid a head-on collision with the wrong-way driver. Both drivers were taken to a nearby medical center for treatment. Senior drivers have additional medical and vision requirements in order to obtain a driver's license, and these are explained by the Kansas Department of Revenue. While many senior drivers are perfectly capable of safe driving, it is important to understand the physical changes of age which can affect driving abilities, potentially leading to wrong-way driving.
These and many other causes contribute to wrong-way accidents in the Wichita area. It is important to determine the legal cause of a wrong-way accident in order to determine who was legally negligent and thus obligated to compensate victims for their injuries. A Wichita car accident attorney can help you determine all potential contributing factors to a wrong-way accident.


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Tiger Woods could play Phoenix Open
Tiger Woods is contemplating a return to the Phoenix Open, according to a report, but his agent said on Wednesday that no decision had been made about where Woods will play his first tournament of the new year.
Golf.com has reported that Woods is making plans to play in the event called the Waste Management Phoenix Open, which takes place from January 29 to February 1 in Scottsdale, Arizona by making car arrangements and hotel plans. Woods last played in this event long back in 2001 which is almost 15 years back.
Tournament officials have said there has been no official commitment from Woods, which is not required until the Friday before tournament week till January 23.
"There is no commitment," Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg, said in a text message. "When we have the early schedule finalized, we will advise."
There has been a lot of conjecture about where Woods will make his 2015 debut following his worst season as a pro in which he played just nine times and finished only four tournaments because of back issues and subsequent surgery.
Woods tied for last in December at his annual Hero World Challenge event, his first competition in four months, since missing the cut at the PGA Championship in August. He is supposed to play next month in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, where he has won eight times as a pro.
Phoenix has the largest galleries on the PGA Tour, typically enticing weekly crowds which reach over 500,000 spectators for the week. The par-3 16th hole, where Woods made a hole-in-one in 1997, is particularly loud, and the tournament enjoys its party atmosphere.
Adding to the event is that the Super Bowl XLIX will also be held in Arizona in the city of Glendale the same week, which is set to start from February 1.
"We're hearing the rumors, but he hasn't committed," said Rob Myers, a spokesman for the Thunderbirds organization, which runs the Waste Management Phoenix Open.
Woods' 1997 hole-in-one at the 16th hole remains engraved in tournament lore, given the size of the stage.
He also had a famous ruling at the 1999 event in which spectators were allowed to remove a huge boulder that was considered to be a loose impediment. That same year, a spectator who was harassing Woods was confronted by tournament security and found to be in possession of a gun. Woods finished third that year.
Two years later, Woods tied for fifth, but during the tournament, a spectator threw an orange onto the green while he was putting. Unfortunately he hasn't returned since.
Although Woods has rarely returned to tournaments he stopped playing, he did say last month that he was looking at playing some different tournaments this year.
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Bradford's Tong Medical Practice is rated 'outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found the quality of care provided by Tong Medical Practice to be Outstanding following an inspection carried out in February 2015.
Inspectors found that the practice was providing an innovative, safe, caring, effective, responsive and well led service that is dedicated to improving outcomes for its patients. The practice was rated as Outstanding for the care and treatment provided to all population groups.
Tong Medical Practice provides a primary care service to patients living in and around Bradford. The practice also provides services one morning a week at Holme Wood Health Centre also in Bradford.
A full report of the inspection has been published today: https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-587967049
Under CQC's new programme of inspections, all England's GP practices are being given a rating according to whether they are safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led.
The report on Tong Medical Practice highlights a number of areas of good and outstanding practice, including:
The practice had a dedicated member of staff in a patient liaison role. Their role included working with the patient participation group (PPG) and the community interest company (CIC) to improve services for patients.
One GP had a specific interest to improve care for patients with mental ill health and learning disabilities. This GP provided extended appointments for patients with mental health problems, and was a resource for other clinicians.
Working closely with the local secondary school, the practice established weekly drop in clinics for young people to discuss health concerns and we saw that there was a good level of take up of this service.
The practice worked very closely with other health professionals, community and voluntary services, and were focused on using every opportunity for health promotion. A community interest company, Healthy Lifestyle, had been initiated at the practice and provided a wide range of additional clinics and services for patients.
The majority of patients spoke positively about the care and treatment they received. Patients also told inspectors that staff at the practice were very good at signposting them to services offering support and that the practice had set up a number of support groups for patients.
There was a clear leadership structure and staff felt supported by management. The practice proactively sought feedback from staff and patients, which it acted on.
Sue McMillan, deputy chief inspector of General Practice in the North said:
"It is clear that Tong Medical Practice is providing an effective, highly responsive and caring service which is a real asset to the people living in this part of Bradford.
"I was particularly impressed with practice's proactive work to encourage patient engagement amongst the younger population and initiate positive service improvements.
"We found that staff demonstrated a sound understanding of the differing needs of their patients and acted on these needs in the planning and delivery of its services
"The GPs and staff have demonstrated a real commitment to their patient's wellbeing.
"All of this hard work and dedication pays off in making a real difference for their patients – which is why we have found this practice to be Outstanding."
Dr Angela Moulson, senior GP partner at Tong Medical Practice, said: "We are delighted that the CQC has recognised our practice as 'outstanding'. We are the first in Bradford – and the first in Yorkshire and Humber - to be rated at such a high level and puts the practice among the best in the country, which makes us extremely proud.
"We have a fantastic skilled team of staff who work hard and really care about our patients, their health and how we can help them improve their overall wellbeing. The report highlights the strong links we have with the local community and how this enhances our relationship with patients by better understanding of their lifestyles and the challenges, both medical and social, that many of them face.
"By working closely with voluntary and community sector partners, we're able to offer a wider service by signposting people to help and advice which can have a positive impact on their health and wellbeing. We have over 8,000 patients but we treat them all as individuals, engage with them and listen to their feedback, and always try to offer the very best care we can."
Dr Andy Withers, clinical chair of NHS Bradford Districts CCG, added: "This CQC report is great news; it shows how strong leadership, coupled with the engagement of staff and patients alike, makes for a very effective GP practice, which delivers care tailored to the needs of the local community.
"Staff at the practice should be rightly proud of their achievement as it reflects the commitment they have to their patients and their drive to help people live healthier lifestyles, whatever their background and circumstances, by offering high quality care and working closely with other support services."


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Michael Bräuninger (* 1960 in Bremerhaven) ist ein deutscher Ökonom.

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Bräuninger studierte Volkswirtschaftslehre an den Universitäten Münster, Edinburgh und Hamburg. Nach seiner Promotion mit einer empirischen Arbeit an der Universität Hamburg wechselte er an die Helmut-Schmidt-Universität und habilitierte dort 1999. Zwischen 2006 und 2014 war er am Hamburgischen Weltwirtschaftsinstitut (HWWI) als Leiter der Konjunkturprognose tätig und wirkte als Forschungsdirektor an zahlreichen Studien zu langfristigen globalen Zukunftstrends und deren ökonomischen Auswirkungen auf die deutsche Volkswirtschaft mit.

Er ist Inhaber und Leiter von Economic Trends Research und Professor an der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität. Sein Forschungsbereich umfasst konjunkturelle und langfristige wirtschaftliche Analysen. Dabei beschäftigt er sich sowohl mit globalen wie auch mit nationalen und regionalen Entwicklungen.

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Tech Employees Agree to Be Microchipped Like Dogs
By Tom Knighton Jul 25, 2017 8:06 PM ET
It was bound to happen sooner or later. A tech company has introduced a plan to implant microchips into its employees that will allow building and computer access among other possibilities. These chips aren't unlike the kind you may get in your dog or cat that will help identify them should they go missing. Of course, that doesn't mean there aren't concerns. However, owner Todd Westby isn't worried about those concerns.
Todd Westby, the CEO of tech company Three Square Market, told ABC News today that of the 80 employees at the company's River Falls headquarters, more than 50 had agreed to get implants. Westby said, however, that participation was not required.
The microchip uses RFID — radio frequency identification — technology and was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2004. It is the size of a grain of rice and will be placed between the thumb and forefinger.
Westby said that when his team was initially approached with the idea, there was some reluctance mixed with excitement.
Westby said the chip is not a GPS, does not allow for tracking workers and does not require passwords.
"There's really nothing to hack in it because it is encrypted just like credit cards are. … The chances of hacking into it are almost nonexistent because it's not connected to the internet," he said. "The only way for somebody to get connectivity to it is to basically chop off your hand."
It's not really surprising that a tech company's employees would be in favor of something like this. People who work in this sector tend to be the kind of people who become "early adopters" anyway. With the right assurances, any cynicism about the misuse of technology can be alleviated somewhat easily.
Unfortunately, there should be far more concerns than the employees are expressing. For one, this is taking a foreign object and placing it into an employee for as long as they work there. While the FDA may have approved the technology, that doesn't mean there's no risk of infection or other complications.
Additionally, while the chips can be removed — it's described as being similar to removing a splinter — it's still not a pleasant process and I find it highly unlikely that terminated employees are going to consent to the procedure without holding wages hostage in some way.
It's good that it's optional, and I can see some serious advantages for it. After all, it's easy to forget an ID badge, but kind of difficult to leave your hand at home. However, what if this technology becomes so common as to become a work requirement?
Let's also not forget the deeper concerns regarding technology like this. It's not hard to imagine a world where chipping is required and the government knows where you are due to the ubiquity of RFID readers throughout the nation that will permit tracking, despite Westby's arguments that such chips won't allow that kind of activity.
Still, it's an interesting development and warrants observation on how the technology works. Let me just add, though, it's better those folks than me.
Tom Knighton is a Navy veteran, a former newspaperman, a novelist, and a blogger. He lives with his family in Southwest Georgia.
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Store manager runs half marathon to make wishes of Bethnal Green girl come true
Uche Amako
Published: 7:00 AM October 12, 2013 Updated: 8:38 AM October 14, 2020
Christelle Delbart after her half marathon run - Credit: Archant
A store manager has completed a half marathon to raise money for a charity that gives once in a lifetime wishes to sick children.
Christelle Delbart, of Colliers Wood, Merton, ran the Royal Parks Foundation half marathon on Sunday, October 6 for Starlight Children's Foundation, who grant wishes for seriously and terminally ill children and provides entertainment in hospitals and hospices across the UK.
Christelle went round the 13.1 mile course in two hours and two minutes, raising £140.
The money raised from Christelle's effort will go to Mia George, from Bethnal Green, whose wish is to swim with dolphins.
The six-year-old was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in August 2011 and is undergoing intensive treatment to fight the disease.
To sponsor Christelle, visit her sponsorship page www.virginmoneygiving.com/christelledelbart


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Staff Writer October 20, 2020 380 Views
New facts have emerged in the fatal accident in San Bernardino, California, involving Luis Angel Gonzalez, a 21-year-old city resident. In a press release on Monday, October 19th, the San Bernardino Police Department said the suspect might have been racing another vehicle when the crash happened.
The Friday, October 16th, collision claimed the life of Alexander Barrientos, 25, and sent a female driver and two minors to the hospital. The release disclosed that the police took Gonzalez into custody at Loma Linda University Medical Center; he received treatment at the hospital since the incident.
The SBPD booked him on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and placed his bail bond at $250,000. The investigators believe that the suspect, who would need a car accident lawyer's expertise, was street racing in a black Scion FR-S.
He was westbound on Highland Avenue when he moved into the eastbound lane and collided head-on with a Nissan Sentra near Macy Street. He went on to collide with another vehicle at about 4:02 p.m.
The police said Barrientos, who traveled as a front right-side seat passenger in the Nissan, suffered severe wounds and died at the scene. Medics took the 26-year-old female driver, a 5-year-old child, and a 1-year-old infant to the hospital to receive treatment; they are expected to survive.
There is no additional information on the crash at the time of this report. The SBPD asked anyone who witnessed the occurrence to contact either Detective Dan Acosta or Sgt. Jeff Harvey on the listed line.
Previous Fatal Victim of a Hit-and-Run Accident in Fresno Identified as Albert Johnson
Alexander Barrientos Killed in a Head-On Collision in San Bernardino
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Q: ubuntu-gnome 16.04 32 bit invalid encoding file automatically generated in home directory
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automatic generate empty file in my home directory.If i delete this file then automatic regenerate again.
thanks

A: My best guess is that this file gets generated when you open/run a few particular programs. This is because of the mismatch in type of OS and the software being opened/run.
Type in the command
uname -m

If you get i686, you have a 32-bit version of Linux.
If you get x86_64, you have a 64-bit version of Linux.
So now install the same version of the software that you want to use. Or also check the dependencies that the software uses.
For instance you have a 32bit OS. And you should use PHPStorm 32 bit, and PHPStorm needs jvm, then you need to install java 32 bit.


This is a cartoonish vectorial background pattern. The colors can be easily changed and we also included 4 backgrounds with some color combinations but you can easily change these and make your own.
The backgrounds can be scaled as you wish and in addition we included the pattern vector in a separate PSD File. It doesn't come as a pattern file but it's tileable in the sense that it's designed to fit perfectly if you duplicate the shape and move it to the sides.


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Jan: This was the first Go book I read after Go for Beginners. I liked it a lot then, because I was hopelessly confused by the sheer size of a 19x19 goban, especially in the opening - any help was welcome!
As I write this (18 months later) I've finally bought it and I don't really like it anymore. Why? Well, there are a number of reasons. First of all, the subject matter is not difficult for me now but I think the treatment is going to leave a beginner confused due to lack of examples. The explanation of the various points in the corner only talks a bit about claiming territory versus taking influence - I like the approach in The Second Book of Go a lot more where actual sequences are shown which makes the discussion more concrete.
The 'nine concepts' in the second chapter are covered, clearer or more extensively, by a lot of other sources, such as The Second Book of Go, Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go, Attack and Defense - the book and of course Sensei's Library. This actually goes for a lot of material in the first chapter as well.
Finally, I think the ten whole board problems at the end are not enough: they should have been covered more thoroughly (since they are quite hard if you've only read this book). If problems are what you want, read Get Strong at the Opening instead.
All in all, I don't think this is a really bad book but if you read some more about the subject, this book will probably end up redundant.
TaoVegan: For what it's worth, I would like to add my two cents here. This was my first book dedicated to the opening fuseki. My knowledge of the opening was very simplistic at the time and I decided to focus on this area of my game for a while. After reading many reviews, on SL and other sites, I decided on this book. I found this book to be a great learning experience. As a weaker player working hard to improve, I found the simply stated concepts and techniques to be very useful and enlightening. To be sure, I had encountered some of these concepts and techniques in other material but never presented in such a clear, concise, and most importantly synergistically structured approach. I'm not qualified to state if this is the best book available or to dispute any of the above comments, but I am qualified (as a weaker player once new to the study of the opening) to say that it can be very helpful in developing an understanding of the opening. See my /Study Notes.
Samiroopo: Most people I've talked to say mainly bad things about this book and recommend alternatives. Similarly to TaoVegan, for me this was the first book dealing with fundamental go concepts like influence, opening theory, light/heavy, efficiency, thickness, and all those interesting things. I can say without regrets that it's much better than trying to study without any material. The lack of examples didn't really bother me back then, as Internet Go is open every day and it has both high and low level games going on all the time. Afterwards I bought 501 Opening Problems to go along with In the Beginning, and they were a really neat combo.
I've found it very helpful to have a book devoted to the opening because it's hard to get good beginner's information on the subject. Game reviewers usually only touch on it lightly because it's a bit abstract and hard to explain to beginners (and perhaps, hard even for the reviewer to have a strong grip on.) Perhaps if I were a stronger it might be less useful, but at my skill level it's perfect. It's not particularly expensive, so I feel like I've already gotten my money's worth even if it ends up collecting dust in a few months.
Shaydwyrm: I've had this book and Opening Theory Made Easy for a while (I've just reached mid-kyu level), and I think together they have made the biggest contribution of any reading I've done thus far. That said, I found that Opening Theory Made Easy was much easier to understand at first, and the concepts were broader and easier to apply in general. Having read that first, In The Beginning was much easier to understand. There is a lot of overlap between the two, and I wish there was one book that covered both of these, but I'd say Opening Theory Made Easy is probably more suitable for lower level players, and In The Beginning is probably good for stronger players who still feel that they are weak on the fundamentals of the opening.
wad: As a relatively new player, I would say that this book raised my strength by about 3 stones, in and of itself. This is mainly because there were a couple of basic concepts that I hadn't figured out, that were explained here. As an example: which side of the shimari is best to extend along an edge. Where before there was confusion, there is now some light.


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Here's my top 10 as it ran in the Boston Globe last Sunday.
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane, "At Carnegie Hall" Blue Note. The archival find of the year documents one night toward the end of Coltrane's short, legendary tenure with Monk. And the sound quality from this 1957 concert is surprisingly good.
Sonny Rollins, "Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert" Milestone. Rollins was in top form for this emotional concert, which took place here in Boston four days after the attack on the World Trade Center towers.
Bob Brookmeyer, Benny Golson, Hank Jones, James Moody, et al, "One More: Music of Thad Jones" IPO . Thad Joneswas one of jazz's greatest composer-arrangers, and half of the octet reprising his music here - including his brother Hank on piano - are certified NEA Jazz Masters.
Bill Charlap, "Bill Charlap Plays George Gershwin: The American Soul" Blue Note. Charlap has established himself as a foremost interpreter of the Great American Songbook. Here his stellar trio takes on Gershwin, augmented by four horn heavyweights.
Herlin Riley, "Cream of the Crescent" Criss Cross. Wynton Marsalis's longtime drummer strikes off on his own with a tribute to his hometown, New Orleans, recorded well ahead of Hurricane Katrina. Sidemen include Marsalis and Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra stars.
Joe Lovano, "Joyous Encounter" Blue Note. Last year's "I'm All for You" by this same quartet - Lovano, Hank Jones, George Mraz, Paul Motian - was one of the best discs of 2004. Now they're back with another batch of standards.
Wynton Marsalis, "Live at the House of Tribes" Blue Note. When he's not being self-consciously serious, jazz's leading proselytizer can make music that's downright earthy and fun. Here's proof.
Jason Moran, "Same Mother" Blue Note. Moran adds a guitarist to his longtime trio and plays off the notion of
jazz and the blues coming from the same source, while maintaining his distinctive approach to the piano.
Charles Lloyd, "Jumping the Creek" ECM. Lloyd and a quartet featuring pianist Geri Allen offer up melodic spirituality with an occasional World Music accent.
Tie:
Brad Mehldau, "Day Is Done" Nonesuch. Mehldau introduces Jeff Ballard as his trio's new drummer and continues mining recent pop material in search of new standards. The Beatles, Paul Simon, Burt Bacharach, Radiohead, and Nick Drake are all covered here.
Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra, "Not in Our Name" Verve. More finely honed orchestral protest music from Haden and Carla Bley, this time aimed at the Bush administration and the war in Iraq.
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NOTE: We won't be able to handle events on November 1st due to an internal maintenance, know that we will have a weekend boost as compensation for this inconvenience.
Note that because of the end of daylight saving time, since November 4th, the server time will move back to 1 hour less. All the events will be handled in PST time.
Hey could you add information about the jumbled, bounty hunter and GM kiosk event so we know what they are about?
The GM will provide scrambled letters of something Rohan related and the first player to figure it out and whisper the correct word or name to the GM wins.
So all the times are gmt?


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require 'pl_cities/city'
require 'pl_cities/county'
require 'pl_cities/community'
require 'pl_cities/region'

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Bioretention is an upland water quality and water quantity control practice that uses the chemical, biological and physical properties of plants, microbes and soils for removal of pollutants from storm water runoff. Some of the processes that may take place in a bioretention facility include: sedimentation, adsorption, filtration, volatilization, ion exchange, decomposition, phytoremediation, bioremediation, and storage capacity. This same principle of utilizing biological systems has been widely used in the retention and the transformation of pollutants and nutrients found in agricultural and wastewater treatment practices.
Unlike various other practices that control only peak discharge, bioretention can be designed to mimic the pre-existing hydrologic conditions by treating the associated volumes of runoff (from bioretention.com).
A rain garden is a bowl-like depression in the ground, used to collect stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces, such as roofs and pavement, in order to infiltrate the ground rather than runoff into the stormwater system. Commonly, native plants are used to not only beautify this process, but also in combination with the mulch and soil, will assist in the natural processes to filter pollutants from runoff and break down in the soil over time (from Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service).


Students use creative tools in the Seesaw app or website to complete classroom activities like "Skip Counting by 10s…"
Fill out the skip counting by 10s puzzle! 1. Tap the button 2. Try to figure out how to go from the START to the END, counting by 10s! 3. Tap the button and draw your line from the START to the END. 4. Tap the to add it to your journal.


This is a wise saying. Some people see the positive in a situation, and others see the negative. It is all about the point of view. For one person, something might be pleasant, but for the other, it is annoying.
The question is how to focus on the positive and avoid the negative?
The short answer is very simple. See the positive in everything and focus on it. Pretty simple! However, for most people this is not enough. Negativity is often too embedded, and one needs various methods and time to uproot it.
The magical tools that change your attitude and point of view are inner work and persistence. These are the very things most people, especially at this period of time in history, don't like. They want instant results without, much effort. If there are no immediate results, they don't want even to try.
Do you want make real changes in your life? You will need patience and persistence. This also includes focusing on the positive and avoiding the negative.
If you really want to learn how to focus on the positive and avoid the negative, I suggest you read the article "How to Stop Negative Thinking", which also includes 10 tips to stop negative thinking.
Another article, on this topic is 'The Power of Negative Thinking and How to Overcome It'. Here, too, you will find tips to overcome negative thinking.
It is always best to conclude with a positive note. So, I will recommend to you another two articles to help you learn how to focus on the positive and avoid the negative. These are very popular articles, read by a great number of people every day.
It is not so difficult to focus on the positive, avoid the negative. All you need is to try to be more aware of your mental states, and do something about them when they are too negative.
If you follow the tips in the articles listed above, you will see a gradual change in your life, you will feel happier, people would like you more, and life would start smiling at you.
You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.


11,000 Irish fans packed into the SSE Arena, Belfast, for an enthralling night of World Championship boxing courtesy of Frank Warren – with Zolani Tete, Jamie Conlan, Paddy Barnes and Carl Frampton on the card it's hard to tell who the main headlining act was but, boy , was it a brilliant night in Belfast.
The returning Jackal was in his first bout under MTK-management and in his new promotional agreement with Frank Warren and his homecoming featherweight (technically catchweight; 1lb above the featherweight limit) contest was against, Mexican, Horacio Garcia – a 33-3 fighter looking to cause a major upset.
Coming off the back of a majority-decision loss against Leo Santa Cruz (the rematch to their first bout that Frampton one), Frampton was hoping to get back into World Title contention with a convincing win over his 27 year old opponent whereas Violento was seeking to propel his name into the spotlight.
A two-weight World Champion, it's in the balance as to whether Frampton continues in the featherweight division or jumps up to Super-Feather in an attempt to become Northern Ireland's first ever three-weight world champion – first though, he'd need to get through Horacio Garcia.
There was a reception befitting royalty that greated Frampton to the ring for his 25th fight – his 24 previously yielding just the single loss – and both fighters entered the contest at 9st 1lb with Garcia possessing the 3inch reach advantage.
With 10 rounds scheduled The Jackal was looking to put to work the old adage that you don't get paid for overtime and finish his opponent in emphatic fashion.
Taking to the centre of the ring Frampton, the shorter fighter, eased himself into the round before landing with a crouched left hook to signal his intent to both his opponent and the capacity crowd in the SSE Arena.
Starting off on the back foot – but without Garcia pressing anything of note – he appeared to be measuring out his opponent before swinging with quality shots round the guard of Garcia, slamming in the right hand to the cheek with split-second timing.
Fast, fleeting, footwork combined with lucid upper-body movement saw him evade the infrequent jabs coming his way, much to the delight of the crowd.
Packing a real crisp jab, The Jackal kept it popping into the body of Violento to distract from the overhand left that landed with alarming regularity to the Mexican's head. Garcia failed to land anything without coming forward and, when he did, Frampton hit back by leaping onto the front foot and lading with sharp combinations to the inside body.
Looking confident yet not cocky, Frampton really was moving through the motions during the opening stanza of the bout with a high tempo forcing his 36-fight opponent into sloppy mistakes, slipping back onto the ropes and inviting the pressure from Frampton.
Opening up in the third by leaving his left hand hanging in front of Garcia's face, the EU Amateur silver medallist, landed a cracking shot in the middle of the round to snap the neck back of his 27 year old opponent.
Despite all the artillery coming the Mexican's way he seemed undeterred from staying true to his fighting style, keeping a high guard whilst occasionally dropping down to throw body shots at Frampton.
A durable fighter his three defeats have all been on points with one of them avenged a mere two months later and his 24 knockout victories out of 33 show that he's not to be taken with a pinch of salt.
Wild, swinging, left hands started off his 4th round as Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez sat front row cheering his fellow national on and he landed his first shot of note about 45 seconds into the round with a firm right hook to the body, swiftly followed with further clubbing shots to head and body.
Frampton decided to stay and trade with his opponent, holding his feet in a style which probably favoured the Mexican but nonetheless the Jackal was determined to go toe-to-toe with his opponent.
Garcia landed with consistency and pushed the two-weight champion onto the ropes, firing in with slamming shots to both sides of the Irishman before the tables turned and Frampton shimmied his way back to the centre with a stylish flurry to the head, backing Garcia away.
Into the second half of the fight we went and it seemed to follow a similar script to the first with Frampton staying in control, working on that straight right followed by blindside left which was deployed to significant effect. Garcia would continue to fire back occasionally with a shot to remind the blue, white and gold wearing fighter of his presence but you'd be hard pushed to suggest he was troubling the pre-fight favorite.
A minor cut emerged to the side of Frampton's right eye but nothing worthy of anything other than a brief mention and Garcia seemed to gain confidence from this, taking the sixth round with eye-catching flurries to the body before taking a ramrod right hook flush to the temple, shrugging it off.
The 7th round saw drama abound as The Jackal was floored in what was a blatant slip but Victor Loughlin counted it as a knockdown, getting up off the canvas he seemed bitter and enraged, throwing leather Garcia's way with scant regard for the consequences. 10-8 for Garcia, presumably, the fight was in the balance.
For a fight of this nature to be overshadowed by a display of sub-par refereeing of this magnitude would be unjust and Frampton set out with a point to prove in the 8th, going back to basics but slipping in almost the exact same spot again. He stayed on his feet and stood square in front of the Mexican, landing solid right hands to the body of the granite Garcia.
The fatiguing face of Frampton painted a thousand words that preferably wouldn't be uttered come the final bell but his work-rate and punch-quality was looking like enough to secure him victory in his first fight since January.
Frampton's footwear saw him come unstuck for a third time in the fight, slipping again, but with only one of those slips counting as a knockdown it was a rectifiable issue; Garcia proved to be the aggressor in the final two rounds, throwing all sorts of shots at his opponent in order to get ahead on the judges' scorecards.
Come the final bell there was a tangible sense of trepidation in the crowd as we went to the scorecards – 98-93, 97-93, 96-93 ; Carl Frampton beat Horacio Garcia in what has to be one of the greatest non-title fights you will ever see, guts, grit, glory, THE LOT.
Jamie Conlan, the pride of Belfast, featured in his 20th professional fight as he took on Jerwin Ancajas for the IBF World Super Flyweight title – coming in as the long-odds challenger, Conlan was confident in his game plan against the cagey Filipino champion.
Ancajas has the odd notoriety of being one of the most avoided champions in all of world boxing – despite the fact everyone wants his belt – and 13 knockouts out of his last 14 goes some way to demonstrating just why that is.
The 27-1 man looked to make his third defence of the IBF title he took off McJoe Arroyo back in September 2016 and, in The Mexican, he was facing quite possibly his most gung-ho fighter in the whole of his career.
Conlan was relishing this opportunity on the world stage and refused to let Ancajas' reputation faze him during the build-up, insisting instead that the packed SSE Arena would be enough to see him over the line.
Fighting his first southpaw opponent in 5 years, the 31 year old seemed to struggle to adapt to the style of Pretty Boy and looked quite uncomfortable in the opening stages of the first round with Ancajas staying at length and prompting Conlan to open himself up if he wanted to land shots of any real meaning.
Unexpectedly after 90 seconds in the first round the Irishman shot down to the canvas with everyone in the arena bemused – no shots came in as he fell but as he got up it appeared to be something wrong with the lead leg.
The crowd voiced their support to create a spine-tingling atmosphere that carried Conlan to his corner – a 10-8 round certainly not the start they would have been hoping for.
Ancajas, wearing the red and white shorts, stuck to his deliberately cagey blueprint but failed to land any significant punches to trouble the maiden title challenger. Attempted roughhouse from the Filipino drew the ire of, referee, Steve Gray and caused a cut to the left-eye of The Mexican, prompting a stream of blood to gush to his eye.
The 6-time All-Ireland champion (junior and senior) doesn't have quitting in his vocabulary, however, and mustered up the spirit to draw him his corner and attempt to bring himself back into the fight.
Patient, probing jabs provided little threat to Conlan but a straight right hand lead followed by a power left had the challenger rattled. A body shot sent him stumbling back but typical flamboyance saw him wave the attack on.
Body shot after body shot had him tucking up, curling into a ball almost. Three successive right hands to the body followed flush by a left to the livers dropped Jamie for the second time in the fight.
Momentum firmly in the defending champion's corner, Pretty Boy know where to target and looked to exploit it as the fight entered the second third of the fight. Big right hands winded Conlan, the Filipino had him against the ropes and landed dozens of sharp, sustained punches to the body, inflicting maximum physical and psychological damage to the ever fatiguing Irishman.
Down in the last 15 seconds of the round as a result of yet more body shots, a fist punched the canvas in frustration at the quality of fighter he was facing – Ancajas proving to be a class above but Conlan giving it his all.
Finding spirit from no conceivable place, success was found with punches evading the guard of Ancajas but ultimately being nothing other than sighting shots as opposed to anything packing power.
A point was deducted from the champion in the fifth round as he floored the black-and-gold wearing Irishman thanks to a third low-blow of the fight, if anything was to be the point at which Conlan got back into the fight then surely this would be it.
Jabs aplenty found themselves rammed right down the throat of Conlan before he went down for a fourth time thanks to, in truth, a relatively nothing punch but when fatigue sets in, it's a killer. Despite getting up and protesting the legality of the shot, the fight was ultimately waved off with the challenger looking dazed and distraught.
Although unlucky to be stopped by a punch which replays showed to be to the back of the head, he was exhausted and didn't realistically look like winning the fight so perhaps it was a case of pulling him out before any major damage had been caused.
If bravery won you world titles then Conlan would have bags of them but, unfortunately for him, the fight went to Jerwin Ancajas owing to a 6th round knockout that took him to 28-1, stamping his mark as, arguably, the number one super-flyweight in the world.
Paddy Barnes' defence of his WBO European title failed to materialize and instead the flyweight fighter fought Eliecer Quezada (21-6) from Nicaragua for the WBO Inter-Continental title.
Looking to his extend his record to 5-0, The Leprechaun knew he'd have to put in a better performance than the one he showed against Juan Hinostroza – a fight in which he admits he was less than impressive – if he were to get past the much underrated 26 year old in the opposing corner.
Scheduled for 10 rounds Quezada looked light on his feet despite being the heavier of the two fighters – weighing in 2.5lbs over the flyweight limit – bouncing around the ring with the first minute seeing very little in way of punches landed.
The taller, rangier fighter kept Barnes at bay for much of the first round with a constant switch from southpaw to orthodox stance but Quezada lay open to the faster hands, as opposed to feet, of his opponent who connected with successive flurries of jabs to the body.
Just as the bell came in to signal the end of the first round a clash of heads between the boxers left the Nicaraguan biting the inside of his mouth and holding his mouth guard but, other than that, no damage caused.
A somewhat stop-start round followed with Barnes attempting to suss out the experienced man opposite him but keeping busy with adept footwork before rocking Quezada with a good right hand; the legs wobbled and The Leprechaun pounced on the opportunity to land hard with speed and accuracy to fatigue the former WBA Fedecentro Light Flyweight champion.
In the final 15 seconds of the round, a short chopping right hand came cascading into the cheek of Quezada as Barnes recorded his first professional knockdown, the fighter made the count rather laboriously but started the next round looking groggy.
And the Irish Olympic and Commonwealth medallist showed his full range of capabilities as he stood in the middle of the ring trading with his man, reigning shots in with a degree of controlled recklessness; unsteady legs set in for Quezada in the concluding 30 seconds of round three but despite this landed a successful right hand of his own that kept Barnes in check.
Square feet and punching fresh air sapped the energy out of the travelling fighter as the Belfast man maintained his patience in waiting for a natural opening as opposed to forcing the cause. Both fighters took a relative breather in the fourth round but it was Barnes who maintained in control of the bout before unleashing some passionate punches towards the backend.
A performance that appeared exponentially more mature than any we'd previously seen, this fifth professional fight seemed to be an opportunity to showcase his skills for a potential world title challenge but in the middle round he was given his last warning for a low-blow, although a minor infringement it must be said.
Following that the Nicaraguan connected with his best shots of the fight, leaning in with his whole body and jumping into some shots with real venom – a good spell of sustained pressure saw Quezada land with headshots and garner a foothold in the fight, was momentum shifting in his favour?
A rallying Quezada managed to survive a furious onslaught of punches from his opponent four years older than him but the agony on his face was plain to see as Barnes managed to regain his composure and landed a sensational left hook cracking the ribs of the Nicaraguan.
Sinking to the canvas in a manner more like he'd been shot by a sniper, the writing was on the wall as he hit the floor for the second time in the fight. Set up by a left hook to the head, the quick change down to the body proved to be the end of the fight as, referee, Steve Grey counted out The Huricane in the 6th round as Paddy Barnes recorded his first ever knockout from his 5-0 record.
An ever burgeoning army of fans, the WBO Inter-Continental Flyweight title and a Top 10 ranking for The Leprechaun, it's fair to say the future is looking pretty bright for this amateur-turned-pro sensation.
In the other World Title bout on the show, Zolani Tete was defending his WBO Bantamweight title against Siboniso Gonya and during the build-up had vowed to give his fellow South African a maximum of four rounds before knocking him out.
At 25-3, the two-weight World Champion went into the ring, on the back of a Unanimous Decision win against Arthur Villanueva, at 8st 5.5lbs whilst the challenger, who's last win was against Immanuel Naidjala, was slightly lighter weighing in at 8st 4lbs.
On paper Tete was the heavy favourite, possessing the greater knockout power with 20 of 25 victories finishing early as well as a 3inch reach advantage to help dictate the pace of the bout.
Looking for a unification scrap with Ryan Burnett, Tete wasted no time in storming out of the blocks, leaping into the centre of the canvas. Gonya had no time to settle himself into any sort of game plan and Tete landed a flush right hook around he guard to the chin of the challenger on the six second mark.
Down went Gonya in what initially looked like a flash knockdown and, indeed, Phil Edwards began the count before the sudden realisation that the, previously, 11-1 fighter was out cold upon impact; the fight was waved off and concern grew as to the welfare of the KwaZulu-Natal resident who laid motionless for about 40 seconds.
Having displayed such explosive, raw, ability in the short 11 seconds that this fight lived it's clear to see why Tete remains such an avoided boxer with very few men willing to get into the ring with such a risky fighter who can turn it on in an instant.
Subject to confirmation, the one-fight punch goes down in history as the shortest (in terms of time) World title fight of all time and Zolani Last Born Tete moved to 26-3 before remaining humble in his post-fight interview, even in his call-out of Burnett, as he sets up a potential Bantamweight unification showdown in 2018.
An honourable mention for Jono Carroll who was given a late setback when Declan Geraghty pulled out of their rematch and, instead, he fought (15-4) Humberto de Santiago for the IBF Inter-Continental Super Featherweight title.
Keeping the pressure high from the beginning it was an absolute brawl from Carroll who was twice warned for low blows but went for the kill as soon as the first bell went and a gritty, gutsy, display earned himself only his second ever professional knockout victory to move to 15-0 courtesy of a 3rd round stoppage.
Also on the card former ABA Champion Alex Dickinson looked lacklustre as he advanced to 3-0 in the heavyweight division thanks to an scrappy points decision against, a journeyman who came to trade, Milen Paunov to make it 3 knockouts from 3 fights; Marco McCullogh beat Josh Baillie (5-3) in his first fight since losing in a British title fight against Ryan Walsh as the featherweight made it 18 and 4; and cruiserweight up-and-comer Tommy McCarthy successfully broke down Blaise Mendouo over 6 rounds to improve his record to 11-1.
A brilliant Belfast barnstormer filled with pure boxing beauty saw 11,000 Irish fans singing loud and proud at the return of an Irish hero, the birth of another and one brave brother who gave it all but came up just short.
Conlan will come back stronger though, don't doubt that and Ireland is THE place to watch going into 2018 – Frampton, Barnes, both Conlan's and, of course, the potential for a unification between Zolani Tete and Ryan Burnett.
No-one does it better than the Irish, why did we ever doubt it?


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package com.github.TKnudsen.DMandML.model.unsupervised.clustering.impl;

import java.util.List;

import com.github.TKnudsen.ComplexDataObject.data.features.numericalData.NumericalFeatureVector;
import com.github.TKnudsen.ComplexDataObject.model.tools.WekaConversion;
import com.github.TKnudsen.DMandML.model.unsupervised.clustering.WekaClusteringAlgorithm;

public class DBScan extends WekaClusteringAlgorithm {

	/**
	 * the relative radius around an instance. WEKA default = 0.9. Best practice:
	 * 0.15
	 */
	private double epsilonRelative;

	/**
	 * the number of minPoints of a potential dense (distances <= epsilon) cluster
	 * structure to be a valid cluster. Default suggestion: n/(k*3).
	 */
	private int minPoints;

	protected DBScan() {
	}

	public DBScan(double epsilon, int minPoints) {
		setEpsilonRelative(epsilon);
		setMinPoints(minPoints);
	}

	public DBScan(List<? extends NumericalFeatureVector> featureVectors, double epsilon, int minPoints) {
		this(epsilon, minPoints);

		setFeatureVectors(featureVectors);
	}

	@Override
	public String getName() {
		return "DBScan";
	}

	@Override
	public String getDescription() {
		return getName();
	}

	@Override
	protected void initializeClusteringAlgorithm() {
		if (data == null)
			data = WekaConversion.getInstances(featureVectors, false);

		wekaClusterer = new weka.clusterers.DBSCAN();
		String[] options = new String[5];
		options[0] = "-E";
		options[1] = "" + getEpsilonRelative();
		options[2] = "-M";
		options[3] = "" + getMinPoints();
		options[4] = "-no-gui";

		try {
			wekaClusterer.setOptions(options);
		} catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

	public double getEpsilonRelative() {
		return epsilonRelative;
	}

	public void setEpsilonRelative(double epsilonRelative) {
		this.epsilonRelative = epsilonRelative;

		initializeClusteringAlgorithm();
	}

	public int getMinPoints() {
		return minPoints;
	}

	public void setMinPoints(int minPoints) {
		this.minPoints = minPoints;

		initializeClusteringAlgorithm();
	}
}


The music icon and the Recording Academy held their 2013 pre-Grammys gala Saturday at the Beverly Hilton.
The annual pre-Grammy gala known as the Clive Davis party is an A-list showbiz summit — "the invite everybody wants," as CBS boss Les Moonves put it — masquerading as an intimate hang. This year's event Saturday at the Beverly Hilton was no exception.
That's why Usher, R&B's crown prince, admitted to the packed ballroom that he once planned to use the stage name Cha Cha. He was doing his part to make the star-studded audience feel like family.
But he was aiming to keep the mood light too: Saturday's party came days away from the anniversary of Whitney Houston's death, which last year transformed the gala — held mere hours after Houston was found dead in a room at the hotel — into a somber tribute to the artist Davis called "the greatest singer of our lifetime."
For the most part, though, Saturday's three-hour bash — attended by Sting, Miley Cyrus, Joni Mitchell, Magic Johnson, Katy Perry, Johnny Depp and Frank Ocean, among many others — seemed designed for uplift, not reflection.
That's what you had to assume, anyway, when Afrojack turned up to blast the black-tie crowd with throbbing electro-house beats, including "Titanium," the Dutch DJ's fist-pumping collaboration with David Guetta and Sia.
"I wanted the culture of [electronic dance music] to be represented tonight," Davis said, and so it was — even if the sound proved a strange match for the ballroom setting.
Usher's performance of "U Got It Bad" and "Climax" doubled as a toast to this year's recipient of the so-called Industry Icon award, Epic Records chairman (and "X Factor" judge) Antonio "L.A." Reid. Known for his work with OutKast, Justin Bieber and Avril Lavigne, among others, he's also the guy who advised Usher not to go by Cha Cha.
"Thank you for that," the singer said, getting laughs from the well-lubricated room.
Did it sound like Knight had ridden that train about a billion times before? It most certainly did. But that didn't stop the assembled glitterati from happily joining her anyway.
<b>Update, 9:30 p.m.</b> An earlier version of this post identified Saturday as the anniversary of Whitney Houston's death. The anniversary actually falls on Monday.
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28/06/2020 - France / Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur / Marseille - Spectators on the terrace of the Vieux Port in Marseille for the Euro 2021 round of 16. France will be eliminated after a penalty shoot-out 5-4. Paris, France. 29 June 2021.
Euro France-Switzerland
28/06/2021 - France / Ile-de-France (region) / Paris - Deception of a French team supporter at the first goal of the Swiss selection. France will be eliminated after a penalty shoot-out 5-4. Paris, France. 29 June 2021.
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21/6/2021 - France / Ile-de-France (region) / Paris - Despite the government's restrictions, Parisians will meet in the parks on the banks of the Seine or in the squares to celebrate the end of the curfew and the fête de la musique, in Paris on 21 June 2021.
fête de la musique 2021 in Paris
21/6/2021 - France / Ile-de-France (region) / Paris - On the Place de la République, police use tear gas to disperse the crowd. Despite government restrictions, Parisians gather in parks along the Seine or in squares to celebrate the end of the curfew and the fête de la musique, in Paris on 21 June 2021.
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03/03/2021 - France / Seine-Saint-Denis / bondy - A tribute was paid by the city of Bondy this Wednesday to Aymane, the 15-year-old killed by gunfire Friday at the Nelson-Mandela space. Several hundred people walked from the Nelson-Mandela space to the town hall of Bondy in the calm.
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Samoa "on track" to achieving debt threshold
Leasiosiofa'asisina Oscar Malielegaoi, Ministry of Finance Chief Executive Officer. (Photo: Samoa observer)
By Soli Wilson, 10/01/2021
Samoa is "on track" to achieving its 40 per cent debt to G.D.P. threshold, despite the challenges brought on by the global pandemic, says the Ministry of Finance Chief Executive Officer, Leasiosiofa'asisina Oscar Malielegaoi.
He said the Government is a "responsible borrower" and keeping in mind that the COVID-19 pandemic is not the only crisis that Samoa will face.
"The principle of the loan is that the smaller your loan the bigger the space there is for you to manoeuvre in the case of a crisis," he told the Samoa Observer in an interview. "The target is 40 per cent to G.D.P. and right now we are about 47 per cent, so we are on track to meeting that goal of 40 per cent to G.D.P."
Leasiosio added that it is a medium-term goal, meaning that it is expected to be reached in about three years.
"Then we will try to maintain it below that because the lower the loans the more the money we can spend elsewhere," he said. "Not necessarily to massively decrease it but ensuring there is balance and with 47 per cent (to G.D.P.), in our view, it is still very high."
In the most recent quarterly report released by the Ministry of Finance, the official Government debt for June quarter 2019/20 stood at $786.22 million, which is a $257.41 million decrease when compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous financial year.
An analysis by Dr. Robert Kirkby, a macroeconomist from Victoria University of Wellington, says that while that places Samoa well in terms of the future government finances, conventional wisdom is that the recession is not the best time to be improving finances, which he argued could be better done during periods of economic growth.
But the Ministry of Finance Chief thinks otherwise, saying Samoa is taking action based on experience.
"Like I said before, after the disasters in the past including the Global Financial Crisis which hit its peak in 2007, not long after it was the 2009 tsunami, 2012 was Cyclone Evan, and through all of this, we did not rest," Leasiosio said.
"After the global crisis we did so many projects including our large buildings and road works with the hope to inject our economy. After the tsunami, we injected more and after Cyclone Evan, we injected again.
"But what is happening? All we hear is complaints that our loan has hit a billion, without knowing and understanding that all that money was to assist the economy at the time."
Though the C.E.O. could not say for sure if the Government will not increase its debt this year, Leasiosio says the Government is standing by the principle of loaning, only when needed and "not if we want."
"And now that we have completed most of our major projects, including our hospital, the airport, the courthouse [...] because we cannot just sing that these have improved when the environment where the service is provided has not.
"We aim to improve the public services because once they have improved the rest of the country improves and grows along with it."
F.A.S.T to host youth-focused rally: Laauli
The leader of Fa'atuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (F.A.S.T.) party, La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt, has appealed to young eligible voters to be objective in how they vote.


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The story of the creator of the first Latin American picosatellite
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It all started with a blackboard. Alejandro Cordero remembers the day in 2019 when he returned to being a teacher, this time at the Technical School No. 5 in Mar del Plata, with the intention of generating in his students an enthusiasm that seemed lost in the corridors of the school. "The first thing I did when I got to the classroom was throw away the chalk board, I really hate it, and I put a fiberboard on. I also painted the walls, cut the tables, put a coffee maker and modified the whole environment. After that, I did ask my students if they wanted to build a satellite".
Not only almost three years passed from that germ, but also an internationally validated student project, the creation of the company Innova Space -Valued at 40 million dollars- and the launch, this Thursday from Cape Canaveral, of the first picosatellite in Latin America, called San Martín Al Espacio. "The main objective is that the launch of a constellation of miniature satellites allow connectivity in the most remote areas, not only in the country, but globally"Says Cordero enthusiastically.
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The technical teacher received the call from Page 12 few hours before the picosatellite takes off MDQubeSAT-1 from SpaceX, the area designed by Elon Musk at NASA.
"I have not enough time to continue doing things," said Cordero, who in addition to taking care of the last details of the launch had to face an additional problem: the third wave of infections that the country is experiencing. Of the fourteen Innova Space employees, half are isolated by the coronavirus. "I believe that even COVID-19 is not going to stop us. We are very expectant and all we think about is at noon on Thursday ". The launch was successful.
San Martín Al Espacio weighs less than 500 grams, and measures 10x5x5 centimeters, which will allow an aerospace launch at a very low cost.
What can this satellite that is less than the length of a pen achieve? Lamb, how could it be otherwise, he explained it fluently. "We seek to provide Internet of Things (IOT) information where there is none. Today 70 percent of our country does not have coverage. Worldwide, the figure rises to 80 percent, "he reflected.
This OIT technology allows connecting different devices to be controlled from a concentrated command. For example, both in Agriculture and Mining, the sensors could be linked to measure the level of the crops, the volume of irrigation or the level of extraction. Cordero's project is to send a constellation of 120 satellites – called Libertadores de América – to achieve the goal of global connectivity.
Joint private – state
All the picosatellites made by Innova Space were manufactured entirely in the Neutron workshops, a company that supported the creation of the startup designed by Cordero. But in addition to the support of the private company, the MDQubeSAT-1 It had the support of the Ministry of Productive Development, which through ARN financing (Non-Refundable Contribution), exceeded an investment of 50 million pesos.
"Without the private – state articulation we would not have been able to get to the place where we are," said the "Peronist innovator" – as defined on Twitter – although he insists that the state has to take "one more step." "The State must be part of the business, it does not have to be a bad word for the State to take shares in the company, for example in Innova Space. Because in the end, if the company is successful, that money returns to the State and is reinvested in other companies or SMEs. I strongly believe in this growth of the State, to become linked, but I think that I should take one more step and take actions in these companies, "he added.
Cordero, with Santiago Cafiero, months before the takeoff of the picosatellite
The value of the national
The first part of the picosatellite project arose entirely from the classrooms of the Mar del Plata Technical School, located several kilometers from the central Plaza Colón.
In less than three months, Cordero and his students put together the prototype and a formal document ("which has nothing to envy to the scientific papers of a doctorate", says the Teacher) for presentation at the Satellite Congress in Scotland.
"The project was not only approved, but six students and two teachers were invited to travel," he explained, adding that many of the boys not only had never traveled by plane. but they had not left the seaside town either.
"That this took place in a public school fills me with pride. Most of the students came from the periphery, from the poorest and most humble neighborhoods of Mar del Plata. But there were also children of wealthy families, who were not there in winter because they traveled to Miami. But there was never a difference between them. That amalgamation of public school is unmatched", He commented.
Shortly before returning to teaching, Cordero led a metallurgical SME. But in 2018, in full opening of imports, They must have lowered the blinds of the company. Today he claims that the picosatellite is a product made one hundred percent national. "That is why the name of San Martín. He is the man who closes the gap in our country ", he told this newspaper, proud of the name used to baptize the miniature ship that will go from pole to pole and will take 92 minutes to go around the world.
One more "patriotic" detail. The Picosatellite it will also have the logo of the Falkland Islands. "Another sample of sovereignty," he completed, about the San Martín that will orbit 600 kilometers from Earth.
At the end of the interview, Cordero talks about his origins. A native of José C. Paz, deep in the suburbs, he recalled the days when he used to eat from the neighborhood's popular pots and highlighted the efforts of his parents, who insisted on their academic training, "despite the fact that neither of them had even finished elementary school."
"None of my friends were able to continue after high school. I was the only one in the whole neighborhood who could have had a higher education ", he recalled, while commenting, in passing, what his first job was: street sweeper for the multinational Pepsico.
When consulted about the conception of meritocracy, the creator of the first picosatellite Latin American orbiting the Earth, did not hesitate to highlight the value of personal effort, although he stressed and pondered the need for education to be accessible to all social strata.
"I once read (Daniel) Filmus saying that the springboard for the jump from the lower class to the middle class is the studio. This stuck with me very much. I hope all the most marginalized people have that possibility ", he concludes.
How to watch the launch of the picosatellite
The launch of the first Argentine microsatellite MDQubeSAT1 Mission 1 San Martín It can be followed together with its creators, who will be in Tecnópolis accompanied by officials of the national government, the January 13 from 12 on the Innova Space YouTube channel.
The date and time may vary if the necessary meteorological conditions are not met on the day of the original appointment.


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package mr.reviews.fsstruct.avro;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.avro.Schema;
import org.apache.avro.file.CodecFactory;
import org.apache.avro.mapred.AvroKey;
import org.apache.avro.mapred.AvroValue;
import org.apache.avro.mapreduce.AvroJob;
import org.apache.avro.mapreduce.AvroKeyInputFormat;
import org.apache.avro.mapreduce.AvroKeyOutputFormat;
import org.apache.commons.lang.Validate;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configured;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.NullWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Reducer;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.FileOutputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.util.Tool;
import org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

public class AvroSorter extends Configured implements Tool {
    private static Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(AvroSorter.class);

    static class AvroSortMapper<K> extends Mapper<AvroKey<K>, NullWritable, AvroKey<K>, AvroValue<K>> {
        private final AvroValue<K> value = new AvroValue<K>();
        @Override
        protected void map(AvroKey<K> keyIn, NullWritable ignore, Context context) throws IOException,
                InterruptedException {
            value.datum(keyIn.datum());
            context.write(keyIn, value);
        }
    }

    static class AvroSortReducer<K> extends Reducer<AvroKey<K>, AvroValue<K>, AvroKey<K>, NullWritable> {
        private final AvroKey<K> key = new AvroKey<K>();
        @Override
        protected void reduce(AvroKey<K> inputKey, Iterable<AvroValue<K>> values, Context context) throws IOException,
                InterruptedException {
            for (AvroValue<K> val : values) {
                key.datum(val.datum());
                context.write(key, NullWritable.get());
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    public int run(String[] args) throws Exception {
        validateArgs(args);

        Path from = new Path(args[0]);
        Path to = new Path(args[1]);
        File schemaFile = new File(args[2]);
        validate(from,to,schemaFile);

        Job job = Job.getInstance(getConf(), this.getClass().getName());
        job.setJarByClass(getClass());

        Schema schema = new Schema.Parser().parse(schemaFile);

        Configuration jobConf = job.getConfiguration();

        job.setInputFormatClass(AvroKeyInputFormat.class);
        AvroKeyInputFormat.addInputPath(job, from);

        // configure keys used between mappers and reducers
        AvroJob.setMapOutputKeySchema(job, schema);
        AvroJob.setMapOutputValueSchema(job, schema);

        job.setOutputFormatClass(AvroKeyOutputFormat.class);
        AvroKeyOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, to);

        AvroKeyOutputFormat.setCompressOutput(job, true);
        jobConf.set(AvroJob.CONF_OUTPUT_CODEC, CodecFactory.snappyCodec().toString());
        AvroJob.setOutputKeySchema(job, schema);

        // sort mapper and reducer
        job.setMapperClass(AvroSortMapper.class);
        job.setReducerClass(AvroSortReducer.class);

        return job.waitForCompletion(true) ? 0 : 1;
    }

    private void validateArgs(String[] args) {
        if (args.length != 3) {
            System.err.printf("Use: [options] <input_path> <output_path> <schema_file>\n", getClass()
                    .getSimpleName());
            ToolRunner.printGenericCommandUsage(System.err);
            System.exit(-1);
        }
    }

    private void validate(Path from, Path to, File schema) throws IOException {
        FileSystem fs = FileSystem.get(getConf());
        Validate.isTrue(fs.exists(from), "From [" + from + "] location must exist");
        Validate.isTrue(from.getName().endsWith(".avro"), "From [" + from + "] location must be an avro file");
        if ( fs.exists(to)){
            LOG.info("Removing desitncation directory [{}]", to);
            fs.delete(to, true);
        }

        Validate.isTrue(schema.exists(), "Schema [" + schema + "] location must exist");
        Validate.isTrue(schema.getName().endsWith(".avsc"), "[" + schema + "] must be an avro schema");
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        int exitCode = ToolRunner.run(new AvroSorter(), args);
        System.exit(exitCode);
    }
}


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Then the user will see the route in Google maps and the costs for using the highways.
If the route suggested by Google goes through Austria on a highway (indicated by any A or S letter in the highway name), the user will get the information, that he needs to pay 14.99 Euro fee for a Vignette.
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My article Beware of Men Counting Pennies was featured in the Carnival of Personal Finance #284hosted by Sweating the Big Stuff ,and it was one of the editor's picks!
It took me a while to catch up with my work. Sometimes I think it is better not to go on vacation. But I am all caught up now – more or less, and I am back to blogging, writing and reading.
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welcome back from vacation! Glad to see you improving so well. Thanks for including my Thanksgiving post. I've never liked Turkey so we are working our way through different meat products. So far we've had a pork shoulder, crown rack of lamb, leg of lamb, rabbit, goat and various fish. I'd really love to try reindeer or some bigger game but it's too expensive. Maybe a pot roast this year for us.
Oh, I love lamb! I can eat it every day! My husband learned how to cook authentic Russian beef Stroganoff. It is quite different from the American version (no pasta, but potatoes). He really perfected it. Now, it is our favorite holiday meal.
Oooh, I can't wait to see your summary too. I love me a good finance story.
I hope you will enjoy mine as much as I enjoyed yours.
"Beware of men counting pennies" was an enjoyable read… glad to see it was the editor's pick. Thanks for the mention.


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Most people struggle with balancing life demands with work commitments. But for entrepreneurs, finding balance can seem near impossible. The pressure of getting everything done can be overwhelming. And, if left unchecked, that stress can lead to other issues, including high blood pressure and depression.
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The Bloch Cancer Foundation has funded construction and maintenance of Cancer Survivor Parks across the country in an effort to communicate a message of hope in dealing with cancer. The Kansas City park, in a high-traffic location on the Country Club Plaza, is the original and flagship location. The 2008 project to refurbish the park combines architecture, landscaping, public art and other elements to create a living tribute to cancer survival. In transforming the park, the design team brought a fresh, new look and functionality to this high-density neighborhood and advanced the main purpose of the park as a place that comforts and inspires. The design blends a more open layout, in-ground lighting, LED plaques and signing that reinforces the park's themes of comfort and encouragement.


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90th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting
Author Addendum
Field, Laboratory, and Modeling Studies of Air Quality
- Indicates paper has been withdrawn from meeting
- Indicates an Award Winner
Monday, 18 January 2010: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Exhibit Hall B2 (GWCC)
Host: 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs: Yang Zhang, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC and B. K. Lamb, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Papers:
Development of the adjoint of ISORROPIA II
Shannon L. Capps, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and A. G. Russell and A. Nenes
Use of the CMAQ and WRF-Chem models to investigate tropospheric ozone in the El Paso-Juarez airshed
Juan Gustavo Arias, Univ. of Texas, El Paso, TX; and R. M. Fitzgerald, D. Lu, and W. R. Stockwell
A Comparative Evaluation of Box Models for Simulating Ammonium Fluxes between Atmosphere and Biosphere
Influence of Lightning NOx on Upper Tropospheric Ozone Concentration
Lihua Wang, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and M. Newchurch, A. Biazar, and W. J. Koshak
Handout (141.2 kB)
Understanding of Regional Air Pollution over China using CMAQ: Model Evaluation and Process Analysis
Xiaohuan Liu, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China; and Y. Zhang, S. Cheng, Y. Chen, and W. Wang
An evaluation of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Models's performance in the planetary boundary layer and free troposphere using ozonesondes
Brian K. Eder, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and J. Godowitch, A. Torian, and T. Pierce
Handout (87.3 kB)
The effects of smoke plumes on global air quality
Lauren Powers, NASA, Grove City, PA; and T. Wang, E. Gould, M. Waller, and C. Webb
A sensitivity study of energy fluxes and evaporation from a waste lagoon to different stability model formulations
William N. Rodgers, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY; and A. I. Quintanar, R. Mahmood, J. Loughrin, and N. Lovanh
Retrieval of Carbon Monoxide in Troposphere with Satellite Infrared Radiometer
Fumie Kataoka, Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, Tsukuba, Japan; and Y. Mitomi
Handout (2.6 MB)
Response of organochlorine pesticides over the Great Lakes to climatic fluctuations
Sreerama M. Daggupaty, EC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and J. Ma and A. Dove
The Decoupled Direct Method for Higher-Order Sensitivity Analysis for Particulate Matter in Multidimensional Air Quality Models
Wenxian Zhang, Gerogia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and A. G. Russell
Modeling formaldehyde sources in the Houston-Galveston area during the Texas Air Quality Study 2006
Beata Czader, University of Houston, Houston, TX; and B. Rappengl�ck, S. Kim, and D. W. Byun
10-min Variations in PBL/FT Ozone from DIAL Measurement in Huntsville
Shi Kuang, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and M. Newchurch and J. Burris
The analyses of satellite-derived HCHO measurements with statistical approaches
Jae H. Kim, Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea; and S. M. Kim and M. Newchurch
Assessing multi-year changes in modeled and observed daily maximum 8-hour ozone with a dynamic evaluation approach
James M. Godowitch, US EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and S. T. Rao
Measurement of ammonia fluxes at a cattle feedlot using micrometeorological and spectroscopic techniques
Shelley Pressley, Washington State Univesity, Pullman, WA; and B. Lamb, G. Mount, P. O'Keefe, E. Allwine, K. Johnson, J. Michael, and S. Spogen
Characterization of Soluble Iron in Urban and Rural Aerosols Using Synchrotron Technology and Online Measurements
Michelle Oakes, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and R. Weber, E. Ingall, B. Lai, and A. G. Russell
Application of OMI ozone profiles in CMAQ
Michael Newchurch, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and L. Wang, A. P. Biazar, M. Khan, X. Liu, D. W. Byun, and B. Pierce
Evaluation of nucleation algorithms and their impacts on simulated aerosol number and size distributions and cloud properties
Evaluation of the AIRPACT forecast system for Boise, ID during stagnant wintertime conditions
Measurement of HONO Flux using Relaxed Eddy Accumulation during SHARP
Xinrong Ren, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and A. Rajendran, B. Rappenglueck, B. Lefer, J. Golovko, and J. Flynn
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