BiblioMinistry is a religious organization. Our educational model, Missional Faith Learning, integrates faith, intellect, and action, helping people and communities of faith more fruitfully live out their faith convictions and commitments, some of which are involved in community justice and organizing movements. To that end we offer the following resources for proactively living your faith in the midst of whatever storms may come. As a progressive Christian activist, you're in good company with a number of liberation theologians, including Oscar Romero, Paulo Freire, Dorothy Day, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Rosemary Radford Ruether, James Cone, Katie Geneva Cannon, Delores S. Williams, Elsa Tamez, and so many others. Let us never forget, of course, forget that Jesus himself, Mary Magdalene, and many other named and unnamed people in the Bible were faithful to God even when the powers and principalities surrounding them were inhospitable to their ideas of God and God's realm.
BiblioMinistry is in the process of developing a curriculum for churches who are interested in more formally or overtly integrating faith, intellect, and activism in the form of faith-based community organizing work in their congregations. While there has been much good work done with the major FBCO networks, it appears as if much of their training focuses very much on the practical, tactical ways by which this work gets done, rather than integrating this with the spiritual and intellectual/educational dimensions of this important, necessary, and Christian work. On the other hand, people and communities of faith often seem to be better at understanding the spiritual dimensions and necessities of God's justice, while not necessarily being educated and trained up in the concrete realities of faith-based community activism. It is time to truly integrate these perspectives, so that people of faith can not only believe in, but "proactivistly" do the work of building and shaping God's realm of love and justice. As Bonhoeffer entreats in his sermon on II Corinthians, 12:9, "Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness, and pride of power, and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear … Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now." While this post is by no means an exhaustive guide to FBCO resources, it introduces you and your faith community to several current resources on the journey toward God's love and justice.
The rise of fake and deliberately misleading news is troubling, and has led to some particularly nasty consequences. It is difficult to measure the impact that fake news has on our society, but it clearly impacted the 2016 presidential election. Freedom of speech operates on the assumption that those who speak are acting in good faith; free speech is threatened and undermined when bad actors put forth deliberately false or misleading news. Concepts such as media literacy, information literacy, and metaliteracy provide us with incredibly valuable frameworks in which to find, access, evaluate, integrate, and create information. Accurate information leads to more and better-informed people, an essential part of both vibrant faith and secular communities!
One of the things that has enabled these information frameworks to become so prevalent is an open Internet. All people, including people of faith, who value intellectual freedom, must be prepared to robustly defend net neutrality: the concept that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) cannot make web sites or customers pay more for internet fast lanes (thus creating internet slow lanes). That is it. Net Neutrality is a cornerstone of 21st century intellectual freedom and equality, and those who wish you to believe otherwise probably would like you to pay more for fast lane internet service as described above.
All things (including religion) should be compelling enough on their own merits that there is no need to try to argue, manipulate, or mislead anyone into believing untruths, half-truths, or twisted truths about something in order to embrace it or be a part of it. This is why freedom of information and intellectual curiosity is such an important part of learning and something that BiblioMinistry encourages. No question is stupid or unworthy of being asked; curiosity leads us down the sacred path of learning into new revelation.
There are several reassuring similarities between many of these books. Key themes include: the importance of relationship-building both in and outside of congregations; building and analyzing power structures in one's community context; deciding what is an issue versus what is a problem; and implementing community organizing concepts and structures within one's local faith community. You can't go wrong with reading any of these – so please, get whatever you can and give it some deep and attentive reading. Read one as a Bible study!
Our current broader societal context may be a time in which faith wears thin. While all Christians need to pray and read their Bibles regularly, religious progressives (who have on the whole tended to do these less than our more conservative sisters and brothers in Christ) need these spiritual practices to sustain us through difficult spiritual times. It can be helpful, now, more than ever, to begin or maintain these as regular spiritual practices such as daily prayer and Bible reading to begin, maintain, or deepen your relationship with God. Find yourself a theologically moderate/progressive daily devotional resource and read it and your Bible daily. Find a prayer partner or group if it helps. The work of social justice (including faith-based social justice) can be heartening and frustrating by turns – but it is always necessary. Daily prayer and Bible/devotional reading is a sure form of self-care, and is even more necessary when you are engaged in the work of social justice.
People of the Books (BiblioMinistry book club/Bible reading group) A group of progressive Christians coming together to read books that impact God's realm in this world and within our spirits.
I don't know about your, but personally, I find it annoying that we need to spend our valuable, precious lives debating and defending what I have considered until now very normal, core beliefs. In other words, "I can't believe I still have to protest this sh*t!" However, know that your love of and work toward God's justice is never a waste of time. On this journey, find ways to connect with God, yourself, others, and the world around you. Remember that this is your life – that life is finite, that this one life right here is all that we know we have on earth, regardless of what comes next – which will take care of itself. Use your time wisely. Time spent protesting and protecting this stuff is never wasted, but if we didn't have to defend it could be spent, you know, advancing humanity instead of defending the most basic of human rights.
Especially as of late several great books have come out detailing faith-based community organizing (FBCO). These all cover various aspects of what it means to do the work of God's justice in this world as people and communities of faith. There are of course several great secular community organizations working to organize people to act powerfully together on their self-interest in communities. There are subtle shifts, though, when people and communities of faith do this work. There are a few key points that must be addressed when people of faith do this work. Alinsky-based models of organizing are agitational in nature, and help a person engage their and others' self-interest when doing this work. That's important, but Christians involved in this work cannot only work in their self-interest in commonly-understood definition; we believe that when we die to the self we are all the more free to live in Christ, and so need to broaden the concept of self-interest to our neighbor's self-interest, getting to the theological concept of mutuality – or mutual interest. Most of the above networks address issues of training. We tend to be better at sitting down and shutting up than standing up and speaking out. Many activists are not born activists. Some of the most persuasive activists are those who have seen something they don't agree with, decide they want to change it, and go about finding how to do that. In time, with education and training, they become better at speaking out, and working constructively with people to engage power.
As for Jesus? We know even in the midst of the many different versions of him floating around out there, that he was a special kind of community organizer – one who was both very good at loving people AND holding them accountable. In that regard, he's an amazing model and community organizer, even to this day.
Building Bridges, Building Power: Developments in Institution-Based Community Organizing – "Community organizing in America is alive and well and being vigorously practiced in the version we call "institution-based community organizing." This national study shows that in the last decade institution-based community organizing has significantly increased its power base as it continues to bridge divides that deeply bedevil American politics–-divides of racial and ethnic identity, religion, socio-economic status, geography, and immigrant-native background. This executive summary details the dynamic expansion of the field over the last decade, outlines the impressive "bridging social capital" it generates, discusses ways it has overcome the strategic limitations that previously undermined the field, and identifies some of the ongoing challenges that remain. We argue throughout that institution-based community organizing is poised to be an important strategic partner in the democratic renewal of America"–From Executive Summary, p. I.
"Devotion to Justice: A Series of Devotions from the Justice Table on the Topics of Women and Children, Hunger and Poverty, Creation Care, and Immigration" Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) This 66 page document offers 34 biblically-based reflections on the topics in its title.
"Emboldened and Empowered" by Susan Engh in Lutheran Woman Today, March 2009, p. 22-25. Engh, the ELCA Director for Congregation-Based Organizing, makes a Christian case for embracing one's God-given power of the Holy Spirit to act faithfully and powerfully, particularly in one's public life.
"Good for the Soul, Good for the Whole: Faith-Based Community Organizing and the Renewal of Congregations" by Interfaith Funders, 2011. This 16-page document provides a brief but powerful introduction to FBCO via a study conducted by the University of New Mexico and Interfaith Funders. "A recent study by Interfaith Funders and the University of New Mexico reveals a potent antidote to both the worst inequities of the new economic order and the institutional ills of decline and contraction. It introduces us to 45 of the more than 3,500 faith communities across America that have decided to venture beyond their walls through faith-based community organizing (FBCO) to address the larger causes of the pressures they confront every day"–p. 3.
"Hope at Work: First Steps in Congregation-based Community Organizing" is a comic book by the ELCA that helps churches learn the basic concepts around FBCO. "A comic book that's serious about drawing people of faith into deeper engagement with their neighborhoods and broader communities. This whimsical resource follows the lives of two Hope Church lay leaders and their pastor as they listen to the joys and concerns of church members and neighbors and then explore ways to respond with public action. Along the way, they join forces with the fictional interfaith community organizing group MISHPAT (Metropolitan Initiative for Strong, Hopeful People Acting Together). Through these characters' courage, as well as their clumsiness, readers are compelled to consider their own congregation's opportunities for more effective public witness and community ministry" (ELCA bookstore site.) It has a Discussion/Action Guide, a Single House Meeting Guide, and a Six House Meetings Guide that can be used with it, which seem like they could be easily adapted for use in more typical adult education / Sunday School settings.
Many denominations have taken public positions, both on particular issues, as well as have done the work of creating structures within their denomination for doing the work of God's justice in the world.
African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) has a Department of Global Witness and Ministry web site.
These provide a broadly-based theological understanding of justice in the biblical and theological senseswithout necessarily engaging the world of FBCO.
ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) From their site: "ELCA congregations involved in this work employ the principles and tools of community organizing, combined with a commitment to the prophetic traditions of Scripture. Using these tools and traditions builds vitality in congregations and puts faith values into action in neighborhoods, communities and the broader world. At the heart of organizing are leadership development and empowerment, along with an emphasis on relationship-building and a fostering of the 'Beloved Community' that Martin Luther King Jr. advocated. Interfaith collaboration is also a characteristic of the movement, as is working together with other institutions and organizations to build more equitable access, influence and effectiveness." They have a number of resources available for people and communities of faith looking to act powerfully in the world.
In short, love Jesus? Feel a deep desire to change the world? You are truly not alone. You should not, cannot, and don't have to do it on your own. Wherever you are, find those who also thirst for God's justice. Let's learn together what it means to do God's work in the world, building and revealing God's just and loving realm here and now!


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Q: Filter on a foreign key which is the current class I have a tree structure model which is :
class XMLStruct(models.model):
    parent = models.ForeignKey('XMLStruct')
    # other attributes

My aim is to get the leaves of the tree, it means that this is all entries which can't be found in the parent attribute. I tried to do this with Queryset but I don't know how to do something like :
leaves = XMLStruct.objects.filter(parent__not_in = XMLStruct.objects.all().parent)

Does anyone have a clue ? I could build the tree by giving the children instead of the parent but I found this representation better.
Thanks !

A: I found a way to do this :
parents = XMLStruct.objects.all().values_list('parent',flat=True)
all = XMLStruct.objects.all()
result = list(set(all) - set(parents))

It's not elegant but it works. If anyone have a better solution, please feel free to answer !

A: This will do exactly what you want in a single query:
class XMLStruct(models.model):
    parent = models.ForeignKey('XMLStruct', related_name='children')
    # other attributes

leaves = XMLStruct.objects.filter(children=None)

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More operating leeway seen as spurring local improvement.
The push to give school districts greater operating flexibility—a grassroots rallying cry eclipsed in recent years by the charter school movement—is seeing a resurgence, as states seek to spur innovation that will help raise student achievement.
In Georgia, Gov. Sonny Perdue is proposing "performance contracts" that would free administrators in 15 districts from some regulatory strictures as early as next fall, if they agreed to meet achievement targets in the next three years.
California is granting significant operating leeway to two large districts, Fresno Unified and Long Beach Unified, in exchange for their agreeing to work toward student-achievement goals in three areas. And Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons envisions "empowerment schools" statewide—if the state can find the money.
In seeking such changes, however, states must cope with budget pressures, wariness on the part of some districts, and questions about the right balance between state and local control.
Case in point: Georgia, where some school leaders are disappointed by what they see as something less than a major policy shift.
"We have a task force that was charged to come up with a new method of financing public education, and this is what we've got?" said Herb Garrett, the executive director of the Georgia School Superintendents Association.
Others, though, say they would welcome the chance to use state aid in ways that they think are more appropriate for their districts.
"We've been saying all along that we're in the school business, and we should know best how to provide instruction," said J. Alvin Wilbanks, the superintendent of the 160,000-student Gwinnett County schools in suburban Atlanta.
The concept of deregulation in education certainly is not new, said Kathy Christie, a senior vice president at the Denver-based Education Commission of the States.
For example, site-based management , a trend in the late 1980s and early 1990s, aimed to give teachers, and sometimes parents and community members, more authority over school-level decisions. In Chicago, decentralization even led to local school councils that were given the power to hire and fire principals.
But in most cases, school leaders didn't really gain control over education spending. And many of the efforts to give local schools freedom from strict requirements were scaled back as the charter school movement took off, Ms. Christie added. Charter schools are publicly funded but largely independent in how they operate.
Even as they press school districts to improve student performance, states are looking for ways to loosen the regulatory reins and give districts more leeway in making decisions on how to meet those goals.
Gov. Sonny Perdue, a Republican, is proposing "performance contracts" that would free school districts from certain statutes and education regulations in exchange for meeting achievement goals over a three-year period. Up to 15 districts could participate next fall if the legislature approves the bill.
The Fresno Unified and Long Beach Unified school districts have entered into a "partnership for improved student success" with the state, giving them flexibility in spending certain categories of state funding. The aim is to focus money on improvements in three areas: the push for a 100 percent graduation rate, preparing all graduates for success in higher education or a career with "economic growth potential," and helping all students, especially English-language learners, reach the proficient level on California's academic standards.
"They're saying: 'We've got so much compliance to do. Let us out of some of that,' " she said.
Donald R. McAdams, the president of the Center for the Reform of School Systems, a Houston-based group working with districts on governance, said that "the pendulum" in education has for years been swinging between centralization and decentralization.
"Where a lot of states go wrong is that they begin to micromanage district operations," said Mr. McAdams, a former member of the Houston Independent School District board. States and districts should instead determine "at what level in the organization should certain decisions be made," he said.
Mr. McAdams added that states should set academic standards, assess performance, and "shine a spotlight on performance" through an accountability system. But they don't need to tell districts which professional-development program to use or where to buy materials.
"You won't stimulate innovation, and you won't have much impact, when you're too prescriptive," Mr. McAdams said.
The states are well aware of the risks from overregulation.
"The state holds schools accountable for the results of pupil performance, but schools are not given the resources and flexibility to allocate them to achieve those results," Thomas Timar, an education professor at the University of California, Davis, wrote in that paper.
So even though a mounting budget deficit is preventing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, from making major changes to the state's education system this year, he is working with Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell to respond in some way to the issues exposed by the "Getting Down to Facts" report.
The state has entered into a partnership with two school districts—Fresno Unified and Long Beach Unified—that will free administrators there from some restrictions attached to school funding, with the understanding that they are working on three specific priorities. They are: achieving a 100 percent graduation rate, preparing all graduates for success in higher education or a career, and helping all students, but especially English-language learners, to reach the proficient level on state standards.
"If we're going to go after these three big areas, we're going to need some relief and flexibility," said Michael E. Hanson, the superintendent of the 77,000-student Fresno district.
Mr. Hanson and Christopher J. Steinhauser, the superintendent of the 90,000-student Long Beach district, have been working with the state education department's "waivers" office to identify programs that might allow for flexibility.
For example, the state has a supplemental-counseling program targeting students in grades 7-12. Seventh and 8th graders, however, often attend middle schools with 6th graders, especially in Long Beach, which has mostly middle schools and K-8 schools.
A more logical approach for a district like that would be to also make use of those funds in 6th grade, "when those kids first hit secondary school," Mr. Hanson said.
In Georgia, Gov. Perdue, a Republican, is taking a page from the charter school movement in his proposal.
The proposal, which the governor has said would redefine "the relationship between the state and local school systems," was the chief recommendation from his Education Finance Task Force.
Districts that chose to enter into performance contracts would be held to higher achievement standards and could face serious consequences, such as restructuring or sanctions, if they didn't meet performance targets over a three-year period. Although districts would not receive extra funding at this point, added flexibility could come in such areas as class size and curriculum.
While Gov. Perdue wants to start with 15 school districts next school year, he eventually would like to extend it as an option to all 180 districts in the state, which has a public school enrollment of 1.6 million.
Many observers—especially those in districts involved in an education adequacy lawsuit in the state—had hoped the task force would devise a new funding formula for the state.
"We're not going to start adding a lot of students to a class," said Mr. Wilbanks, the Gwinnett County superintendent, who added that he knows teacher groups in the state are opposed to such a move. "But we think if you increase class size by just one student," he said, "there are significant dollars there" in savings.
The concept of using freedom and flexibility to improve performance is also at the center of the "empowerment schools" plan that Gov. Gibbons, a Republican, has championed in Nevada.
Although a budget crunch is preventing the $10 million approved last year for the program from being spent this school year, some districts are moving ahead with giving the designation to one or more of their schools anyway.
"An advantage to doing so is the possibility of getting waivers from the state board of education for certain statutes or regulations," Keith Rheault, the Nevada state schools superintendent, said in an e-mail.
The governor's plan is modeled in part on a program that started in fall 2006 in the state's 303,000-student Clark County school district, which includes Las Vegas. In the district's eight empowerment schools, the staffs were given more time and money to use as they decided as long as the freedom led to improved student achievement and school climate. A pay-for-performance program was also added at those schools.
Now—in another example of negotiating for flexibility—the district is working with Mr. Rheault and the governor to gain access to some of the money that has been held back this year in exchange for other state education aid intended for remedial instruction.
"Governors Enter Fray Over NCLB," April 6, 2007.


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Genesis Plus GX Sega CD bios questions
By Wolf_, May 7, 2016 in Troubleshooting
SentaiBrad 665
128-Bit Self Aware
Make sure you games are named the same in LaunchBox and Associated Platforms. It sounds like an RA core is off, settings or the BIOS. Double check and make sure you have the core names correctly and you're not using the -c command to load a custom config afterwards.
Lordmonkus 2,510
Bios are not optional for Sega CD in Retroarch (or any other Sega CD emu that I know of) and he is running into the problem when just loading the game through RA itself and not Launchbox. (At least that's how I am interpreting what he is saying so far. It's always possible I am mis-reading). It's one of 4 things at this point. Bad bios, bad cd image, incorrect setup in RA, or a corrupted RA core cfg file. I have seen the cfg files get corrupted and cause crashes before. I have had them happen to me when I was learning to setup RA and had it happen to a friend while helping him and deleting the cfg file and letting RA create a new one has fixed it.
Yep pretty much, you got it right.
Wolf_ 0
16-Bit Artificial Intelligence
HOOO I did it! Here was the problem: I set the retroarch system file as my dir folder and would then either exit retroarch or try to open a game. Turns out for the setting to stay you need to save config exit and then relaunch. Simple step. So every time I went to play a rom it would go look for the bios without the path to the bios being saved and crash on me. DAMN YOU SATAN
Hehe yeah when I first started using Retroarch with version 1.2 I had troubles with my bios and the folder being set right in the Directories settings. By the time I got to 1.3 and got used to setting everything up I was able to just dump my bios right in the /system folder and its been good since. Glad you got it sorted out. On a side note I was reminded of one extra small but cool reason to use the Genesis GX core for Sega CD games. Keep in mind this is a very situational reason but it is one none the less. The game Pier Solar is a game that utilizes both cartridge and CD, it runs the game from the cart but plays music off the CD and Retroarch is the only emulator that will replicate this functionality. Like I said very much a situational since as far as I know it is the only game to have this feature.
Grab the PS4 or PC versions to get all of the graphics and audio options. Plus Trophies and Achievements. :P That is a fun game I really really need to go back to. I would suggest buying that from their site or one of those services though, it is a modern developed game with full support still so it should still be purchase I think.
I agree you should buy it. I have the PC version but I honestly hate the way they mixed the high rez graphics with the 16bit graphics. To me the best look overall is through Retroarch with the CRT-Royale shader, it really looks the best this way.
On PS4 there's an option for just 16 bit I thought.
There is 3 styles of graphics choices they put it. A pure 16-bit, a hybrid of 16-bit and HD and then there is an HD+ but it's just the hybrid but with an extra smoothing shader over it. All 3 look like ass to me compared to the 16-bit + CRT-Royale shader. Personal preference thing.
Here is a raw PNG screen shot what it looks like with the CRT-Royale (Kurozumi Edit) shader. View it in its full 1440 resoluion if possible to get the full effect and not have the scanlines looking funky.
SentaiBrad said Zelda historically doesn't sell great actually, it doesn't move the needle in that way. Zelda sold great on Wii (Twilight Princess), but on Gamecube it was low. Granted 1m isn't low, but for a series like this where everyone assumes it sells consoles... that's low. 2014 was the year of kick ass games on the Wii U, Smash always being called a System seller, and none of those games helped sell more Wii U's sadly. I love my Wii U, the games on it are great, but it was a shit storm coming from the Blue Ocean strategy that killed the Wii U, and the fact that it was outdated a year later. Nintendo's unwillingness to go towards Internet based stuff also has not helped. Wii U eShop sales of games only accounts for 8% of their sales, and it's not because people don't want to, it's because it sucks. I have an external drive plugged in to my 32GB Wii U because 32GB is a joke. Xenoblade Chronicles X, assuming the Wii U had nothing else on it, would fill the entire system. Nintendo lost 3rd party at Gamecube, only had some 3rd party support in Wii because of the gigantic install base but NO ONE talks about the Wii ports of anything and we obviously ignore all the shovel ware, so they didn't retain them for the Wii U.
I would say... Zelda clearly sells as well as I feel it should. It is the number 1 game at E3 and responsible for slightly under half of the overall interest in Nintendo (Not really a good thing considering Nintendo is in last place, but hey, at least Zelda gets the love) (Posted as a joke not an insult, no ban plz)
Zelda sells well when compared within it's own franchise, but no Zelda doesn't sell well as a whole. Interest and hype does not amount to sales. It's not concrete one way or the other but the best reference I found is this: http://www.zeldainformer.com/articles/zelda-sales-numbers-in-context. When you compare that to other franchises or even Mario, these numbers are good but they're not as hyped up as everyone assumes they are. In our circle, Zelda is king. It is my favorite series of all time and I want the new Legend of Zelda to sell millions and millions. The fairest comparison is it broken down per console, as it's not exactly fair to lump them all in together. They're still valid sales, but valid on the system they were released on. It's also no denying the effect and impact it has on us all, and as a franchise has sold really well. People compare this to the best of the best of the best and there are single games that out pace multiple of these titles combined. Zelda is an important series, it's my most favorite series but our wants are stronger than the reality. For the comparison to Mario, http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Mario. Even Mario has made a down turn. I think the Zelda graph fluctuates more than the Mario one. One thing for me true regardless though, I want Nintendo to win and I really hope the new Zelda was a wake up call for them. This looks like literally nothing else they've ever ever made, but it still feels to have the Zelda and Nintendo charm. I hope this sells the NX, because nothing made the Wii U or GameCube sell and the Wii was an anomaly. Even with the insane sales of the Wii, Zelda series didn't necessarily get a huge boon in sales. Twilight Princess vs New Super Mario Bros. is a good example. Mario got a gigantic spike, and Zelda did a bit too, just not as severe. It's funny too because even though the Gamecube version of Twilight Princess is missing 16:9, people still called it the better of the two. Thankfully the HD remake trumps both. :P
SentaiBrad said Zelda sells well when compared within it's own franchise, but no Zelda doesn't sell well as a whole. Interest and hype does not amount to sales. It's not concrete one way or the other but the best reference I found is this: http://www.zeldainformer.com/articles/zelda-sales-numbers-in-context. When you compare that to other franchises or even Mario, these numbers are good but they're not as hyped up as everyone assumes they are. In our circle, Zelda is king. It is my favorite series of all time and I want the new Legend of Zelda to sell millions and millions. The fairest comparison is it broken down per console, as it's not exactly fair to lump them all in together. They're still valid sales, but valid on the system they were released on. It's also no denying the effect and impact it has on us all, and as a franchise has sold really well. People compare this to the best of the best of the best and there are single games that out pace multiple of these titles combined. Zelda is an important series, it's my most favorite series but our wants are stronger than the reality. For the comparison to Mario, http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Mario. Even Mario has made a down turn. I think the Zelda graph fluctuates more than the Mario one. One thing for me true regardless though, I want Nintendo to win and I really hope the new Zelda was a wake up call for them. This looks like literally nothing else they've ever ever made, but it still feels to have the Zelda and Nintendo charm. I hope this sells the NX, because nothing made the Wii U or GameCube sell and the Wii was an anomaly. Even with the insane sales of the Wii, Zelda series didn't necessarily get a huge boon in sales. Twilight Princess vs New Super Mario Bros. is a good example. Mario got a gigantic spike, and Zelda did a bit too, just not as severe. It's funny too because even though the Gamecube version of Twilight Princess is missing 16:9, people still called it the better of the two. Thankfully the HD remake trumps both. :P
I really enjoyed the wii version because while motion controls for some games were strange punching with the nunchuck to shieldbash and swinging the wiimote at different angles to slash/stab with the sword was an amazing experience imo.
On 6/19/2016 at 11:36 PM, SentaiBrad said:
Zelda sells well when compared within it's own franchise, but no Zelda doesn't sell well as a whole. Interest and hype does not amount to sales. It's not concrete one way or the other but the best reference I found is this: http://www.zeldainformer.com/articles/zelda-sales-numbers-in-context. When you compare that to other franchises or even Mario, these numbers are good but they're not as hyped up as everyone assumes they are. In our circle, Zelda is king. It is my favorite series of all time and I want the new Legend of Zelda to sell millions and millions. The fairest comparison is it broken down per console, as it's not exactly fair to lump them all in together. They're still valid sales, but valid on the system they were released on. It's also no denying the effect and impact it has on us all, and as a franchise has sold really well. People compare this to the best of the best of the best and there are single games that out pace multiple of these titles combined. Zelda is an important series, it's my most favorite series but our wants are stronger than the reality. For the comparison to Mario, http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Mario. Even Mario has made a down turn. I think the Zelda graph fluctuates more than the Mario one. One thing for me true regardless though, I want Nintendo to win and I really hope the new Zelda was a wake up call for them. This looks like literally nothing else they've ever ever made, but it still feels to have the Zelda and Nintendo charm. I hope this sells the NX, because nothing made the Wii U or GameCube sell and the Wii was an anomaly. Even with the insane sales of the Wii, Zelda series didn't necessarily get a huge boon in sales. Twilight Princess vs New Super Mario Bros. is a good example. Mario got a gigantic spike, and Zelda did a bit too, just not as severe. It's funny too because even though the Gamecube version of Twilight Princess is missing 16:9, people still called it the better of the two. Thankfully the HD remake trumps both.
Just returning to this topic now that Breath of the Wild is out and it has sold more copies than switches exist and that statistically enough people bought a switch with a copy of BotW that it rounds to every switch sold with 1 copy of BotW to tell you that I was right. Zelda sells systems.
Edited April 22, 2017 by Wolf_
Yea, hindsight is 20/20. Actually, more copies of Zelda sold than there are Switch's out in the wild! I would be willing to guess it's selling systems now though because of how different it is. The Switch and Zelda both broke Nintendo's own sales records. They might have even broken some industry records for console and game sales.
Just now, SentaiBrad said:
Yup, but I said it in advance so it is futuresight not hindsight. Went full Nostradamus on you. To be fair I said it would be a system seller but I didn't predict it being "the" system seller. I wonder if this is how people felt about Ocarina of Time when it released? "Wow this is a fantastic, breathtaking, touching game, but man the console it runs on is pretty underpowered."
I was worried with it not even doing native 1080p despite coming out years after the Ps4 and Xbox1.
Just like I'm sure people were worried about the N64 still using cartridges when everyone else had moved on to cds.
Funny how the Switch is the first console back to cartridges now that cds are outdated. Anyways just wanted to bask in the glow of Zelda. I still have 70 more pictures to take and like 750 Korok seeds to find but I can say this is easily the most fun and most time I've sunk into any game that isn't a mmorpg.
No, "powerful consoles" were not a thing back then. Sure, when the SNES came out people were like "oh this is much better than the NES, I want to play everything here now". That sort of thing was always there, hasn't gone away, but "powerful hardware" and PC culture was not in the console culture at the time.
I don't care about the graphics per se, as long as it's an amazing game. Lo and behold, it looks great and it's still a fantastically polished Nintendo game.
Well the fact that it still used cartridges actually did matter to a lot of people because they cost more to produce than cds so game developers didn't want to produce for the system as they would get smaller markups. I'm unsure if that spilled over to the consumer end as well or not and resulted in inflated game prices because I wasn't buying my own games yet.
Oh people did care about power back then. It started with Sega pushing the 16-bit Genesis, then it went on from there and at that time the N64 was actually the most powerful system at 64-bit (no the Jaguar wasn't a real 64-bit system.
But bits and power were a thing back then.
Sure, the Bit Wars, but... it was just about a farcical number on the box, not about resolutions and frame rates, not like it is today.

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These Portsmouth, New Hampshire, homeowners purchased their house in the Little Harbor Neighborhood knowing that it needed a lot of love. Since it was in a state of disrepair, they dove into the renovations themselves before calling us in to do the more extensive renovations and additions. Adding a 26'x26′ living space to both the first and second floor required working with the city to receive a lot coverage variance. Accommodating their transitional style, our goal was to create a space that is casual and functional for daily family life (including their many animals) while still being open and welcoming for their many guests. Our work involved creating a mudroom, kitchen, walk-in pantry, laundry room, powder room, and family room on the first floor, and on the second floor we renovated the kid's bathroom and added a master bedroom suite complete with a full bath, office, and walk-in closet. It was fun to work with homeowners who were handy themselves and enjoyed design projects, like using old wood to make the pantry barn door, and incorporating a reclaimed lighting fixture from Germany. We complemented these unique elements with inset Shaker style cabinetry, White Dove paint from Benjamin Moore, soapstone countertops, and Jacobean pre-finished oak flooring.


In several medical reports, the survival function is graphed along with the confidence intervals. The endpoints of the confidence intervals are usually connected to draw an area where the entire survival curve is contained with a given confidence.
Confidence intervals are pointwise, i.e., they refer to the survival probability at a single time, but they are not valid for all the estimates of the entire survival curve. To this aim, the appropriate measure is confidence bands, not yet available within Stata.
Two methods are usually employed to construct these confidence bands. The first was proposed by Hall and Wellner (1980), and the second was proposed by Nair (1984). The latter produces the so-called equal precision (EP) confidence bands. For both methods, log-minus-log and arcsine square-root transformed versions have been proposed.
stcband is a new Stata command that allows the user to graph the survival function, together with the confidence bands constructed according to the Hall–Wellner and EP methodologies. The available options allow the user to a) specify the lower and upper limits of the time where the bands are to be estimated; b) choose the linear, log, or arcsine transformation; c) set the confidence level at 90, 95, or 99%; d) save the estimates; and e) manage the aspect of the graph. A further option allows the user to estimate the confidence bands of the cumulative hazard function.
the use of the command and the differences of the estimates of its confidence bands versus the usual pointwise confidence intervals.
Finally, I will compare the coverage probabilities of the confidence bands estimated according to the above mentioned approaches by using simulated data with various survival distributions. I will perform simulations using Stata's bootstrap command.
The new command also has an accompanying help file in which the user is able to run an example, taken from the second edition of Klein and Moeschberger's Survival Analysis Techniques for Censored and Truncated Data (p. 109–117), by clicking on the Viewer window. stcband is available for download from the SSC Archives.
I am grateful to Maarten Buis for his advice in constructing the simulations comparing the coverage probabilities of the confidence bands.
Tobacco smoking and obesity greatly contribute to premature death and disease in developed countries. In order to measure the extent to which these risk factors affect a population, as well as to describe the progression of these epidemics over time, routine surveillance of the prevalence of obesity and smoking is carried out by international organizations, national departments of health, and statistical offices. To this end, summary measures—like age-standardized rates, and tabular and graphical representations, such as maps—are used.
In this study, we argue that population pyramids, a widely used demographic tool, may be easily adapted to provide relevant visual information for public health purposes. By means of two juxtaposed histograms, one for each gender, population pyramids show either the proportion or the actual number of subjects in each age and gender subgroup. We suggest that stratifying each bar of the two histograms according to ordinal categories of the health condition or risk factor examined may provide useful details on the relationship between this condition or factor and key demographic variables like age and gender. In addition, the actual number of exposed subjects can be immediately read from the graph.
We therefore built a statistical routine with Stata to create modified population-pyramid plots separately for overweight/obese and current/former smoker. Data were derived from five National Health Interview Surveys carried out in Italy between 1983 and 2005. For each survey, data on age, gender, smoking status, height, and weight were extracted for subjects aged 20–99. Age and gender-specific prevalence rates of overweight/obese, and of current/former/never smoker were computed and applied to population estimates performed by the Italian national statistical institute (ISTAT). The resulting estimated numbers of underweight/normal weight/overweight/obese individuals and of former/current/never smokers were used to create the modified population pyramids.
In conclusion, modified population pyramids may contribute to assessing the impact of risk factors on a population in absolute terms, to evaluating how these risk factors are distributed by age and gender, and to assessing how the age and gender distribution of these risk factors changes over time.
This paper presents a new Stata command for the estimation of ordered probit models with individual-specific thresholds, where anchoring vignettes are used to correct for differences in response scales. The analysis of ordered response data is very common in many research areas. Surveys in the social sciences very often have questions on individuals' subjective evaluations of their own situation or what they think about a certain aspect of society. Nevertheless, when respondents use the ordinal response categories of standard survey questions in different ways, the validity of analyses based on the resulting data can be biased. Anchoring vignettes is a survey design technique that may be used to position self-reported responses on a common, interpersonally comparable scale. The model I present here is a parametric ordered probit model for the self-assessments, where the individual-specific thresholds depend on the same set of covariates as in the ordered probit model for the responses to the vignettes (King et al. 2004). Furthermore, I allow for the possibility of controlling for unobserved heterogeneity in response scales by including a random individual effect in the thresholds. The model is estimated by maximum likelihood. The new Stata command presented here takes advantage of the new technology available in Stata 10. Specifically, the maximization routine is written in Mata, the matrix programming language of Stata, and the new Mata function optimize() is employed to maximize the likelihood function; this results in very fast convergence. After a brief description of the ordered probit models with individual specific thresholds and anchoring vignettes, I describe the new Stata command for fitting such models and present an empirical application.
Reproducible research is one of many names for the same concept: writing a single report document that contains both the report and the commands needed to produce the results and graphics contained in the report. It is called reproducible research because any interested researcher can then reproduce the entire report from the one document. (Programmers call this same concept "literate programming".) The utility of reproducible research documents extends far beyond research or programming. They allow rapid updates should there be additional data. They can also be used in teaching for generating differing examples or test questions, because different parameters will generate different examples. In this presentation, I will show you how to use a third-party application to embed Stata code, as well as its output, in either LaTeX or OpenOffice documents. I will also use example documents (including the talk itself) to show how you can update a report, its results, and its graphics by using new data or changing parameters.
This paper provides a set of new Stata commands for parametric and semiparametric estimation of an extended version of ordered response models that accounts for both sample selection problems and heterogeneity in the thresholds for the latent variable. The standard estimator of ordered response models is therefore generalized along three directions. First, we account for the presence of endogenous selectivity effects that may lead to inconsistent estimates of the model parameters. Second, we control for both observed and unobserved heterogeneity in response scales by allowing the thresholds to depend on a set of covariates and a random individual effect. Finally, we consider two alternative specifications of the model, one parametric and one semiparametric. In the former, the error terms are assumed to follow a multivariate Gaussian distribution and the model parameters are estimated via maximum likelihood. In the latter, the distribution function of the error terms is instead approximated by following Gallant and Nychka (1997), and the model parameters are estimated via pseudo–maximum likelihood. After discussing identification and estimation issues, we present an empirical application using the second wave of the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Specifically, we estimate an ordered response model for self-reported health on different domains by accounting for both sample selection bias due to survey nonresponse and reporting bias in the self-assessments of health.
In this paper, I present a Stata program (sensatt) that implements the sensitivity analysis for matching estimators proposed by Ichino, Mealli, and Nannicini (2008). The analysis simulates a potential confounder to assess the robustness of the estimated treatment effects with respect to deviations from the Conditional Independence Assumption (CIA). The program uses the commands for propensity-score matching (att*) developed by Becker and Ichino (2002). I provide an example using the National Supported Work (NSW) demonstration, widely known in the program evaluation literature.
Becker, S. O. and A. Ichino. (2002). Estimation of average treatment effects based on propensity scores. The Stata Journal 2: 358–377.
Ichino, A., F. Mealli, and T. Nannicini. (2008). From temporary help jobs to permanent employment: What can we learn from matching estimators and their sensitivity? Journal of Applied Econometrics 23: 305–327.
I derive new estimators and tests of correlated effects for the (possibly) unbalanced multiway error component model (ECM), extending existing results in various aspects. The results by Kang (1985) on specification tests, who extended Hausman and Taylor (1981) and Mundlak (1978) to the two-way balanced model, emerge as particular cases of the present analysis. Davis (2002), who extends the analysis of Wansbeek and Kaptein (1989) to the multiway unbalanced model does not consider the cases of either correlated effects or specification tests. I also uncover new algebraic properties of the multiway ECM covariance matrix that prove useful for both computational and analytical purposes. Finally, I provide some examples using Stata.
Davis, P. (2002). Estimating multi-way error components models with unbalanced data structures. Journal of Econometrics 106: 67–95.
Hausman, J. A. and W. E. Taylor. (1981). Panel data and unobservable individual effects. Econometrica 49: 1377–1398.
Kang, S. (1985). A note on the equivalence of specification tests in the two-factor multivariate variance components model. Journal of Econometrics 28: 193–203.
Mundlak, Y. (1978). On the pooling of time series and cross section data. Econometrica 46: 69–85.
Wansbeek, T. and A. Kapteyn. (1989). Estimation of the error-components model with incomplete panels. Journal of Econometrics 41: 341–361.
Many economic time series exhibit important systematic fluctuations within the year, i.e., seasonality. Differently from usual practice, we argue that using original data should always be considered, although an unadjusted data process is more complicated than that of seasonally adjusted data. Motivations to use not-adjusted data come from the information contained in their peak and trough and from economic theory. One major complication is the unit root at seasonal frequencies. In this paper, we tackle this complication by implementing a test to identify the source of seasonality. In particular, we follow Hylleberg et al. (1993) for quarterly data. A practical example from Permanent Income Hypothesis emphasizes the utility of the command with macroeconomic time series.
Stata is a software package that is currently widely used, and its utility is being recognized. This is leading to its increasing use worldwide in major departments of epidemiology and biostatistics, for both research and teaching purposes. The ability to use it at various levels of sophistication makes it an ideal package for introductory courses, where one is most likely to experience naïve users, as well as for researchers who tend to be more experienced and demanding in their requests for more esoteric calculations.
The purpose of this talk is to describe how teaching at basic and intermediate levels of biostatistics, especially in epidemiological courses, has been facilitated during the years through the use of Stata, both how the package has grown and how this has impacted what can reasonably be taught in these courses. That is not to say that there is not room for improvement; I will also discuss some potential areas for progress and expansion.


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Now available again on tape, Nasum's only demo is probably the noisiest and most abrasive of their releases, though it still sounds very much like Nasum. Ten songs were written in a rush, and together with two re-recordings from the first two recordings and two covers, the songs were recorded as the "Domedagen" demo in November 1994. The recording took place in Studio Ferger, Fjugesta and "Stalemate" of Napalm Death and "Dom styr vara liv" of Mob 47 are the two cover songs. The guitars are a bit crunchier and the snare and cymbals ring out in the higher end a bit more. There's a lot of grinding, the vocals are mostly gruff grunts, and there's room for a few of the heavy grooves that really make the music. "Think" reappears from the split with Agathocles, starting with a simple-but-heavy groove that I'll never forget. The strength of the demo is in the parts that intersperse the fantastic grindy bits - call and response between the low and high vocals, deathgrind grooving, and occasionally a bit of a lead or solo. The grinding parts are split between the noisier, grindier parts, and blasting with tremolo-picked grooves that is part of Nasum's signature style. The slower parts in the slightly longer songs, which are still fast and short, help the music breathe and expand upon the simple formulas of grindcore. While it seems like a bit of a blur, the demo is quite varied and fits an impressive amount of material into eleven minutes. The lyrics aren't constructed very well. While they have the messages that Nasum have always advocated, they're poorly written and choppy. Rather than feeling like a composition, they seem like they're a bunch of words and phrases thrown together and shouted over grindcore. For a Swedish band, they certainly have some leeway early in their career to improve their grasp on the English language.


Digital fabric printing is perfected for small orders.
The ink used in digital printing fabric has been improved.
The color by digital printing is better.
For quite some time, the silkscreen was the technology used to apply color to the fabric. This process was suitable for medium and large races. On the other hand, the rotating screen printing has been tested for large volumes. The installation costs for recording and producing screens were quite high, but due to the size of the races, they were the cheapest.
Whatever the techniques used, it is not cheap for a small series. This has made small print runs extremely expensive due to the high configuration costs. In the market of flags and banners, small prints were printed by hand or with embroidery.
This technique was applied before the introduction of the custom print fabric. The digital printing fabric offers a new concept for printing fabrics making small print runs can be economical. Due to the constant research of fabric manufacturers, there is now a different level for digital fabric printing.
This provides excellent tissue results and can be proven in a wide range of applications. However, it is necessary to continuously develop and analyze the printing on this fabric. Therefore, you can be sure that the performance of the fabric will be good if it is applied to different digital printing machines that use different types of inks.
To make the most of your ink and your machine, you need a lot of chemicals before you can print fabrics with the use of dye-based and water-based polyester fabrics. For this reason, you can get full-color high definition printing on any type of fabric.
Most likely, the fabric will produce the best results. Advances in UV inks mean that the results have improved significantly in recent years.
Now you can use inks for textile printing. In addition, the technology of latex inks allows us to know that there are now links that can be useful for textiles. This is further evidence of the importance of fabrics for digital printing in which textiles replace traditional media, such as PVC. As a result, the manufacturers of machines and inks have favored this change.
The current development has witnessed the creation of two biodegradable compostable and ecological fabrics called Gossip (cotton) and Chorus (jute). Custom-made, compostable and biodegradable fabric contain an increasing number of essential elements as landfill taxes increase and it should be remembered that polyester fabrics can be reused. This is particularly important for companies aware of the growing need for organic products.
If you want to print your fabrics, digital fabric printing is the best way to do it. Try it today and you will see how wonderful it will be. Many people have tried, why not you?
Digital fabric printing, also called "direct on clothing" printing, is virtually the most preferred technology in the printing industry today. Indeed, it offers significant advantages over its predecessors. These are listed as in: Speed, Constant high quality, The profitability, The versatility of the color finish, Relatively ecological, There is no minimum order.


The final four game between the Virginia Cavaliers and Auburn Tigers was one of the best in recent history. Virginia defeated No. 5 seed Auburn by a final score of 63-62 at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. This game will be remembered as one of the most controversial endings in NCAA tournament history.
The Cavaliers were just seconds away from being knocked out of the tournament and Auburn were on their way to advance to the national championship game. Virginia had built a 10 point lead over Auburn in the final minutes, but quickly erased the deficit with their own 12-0 run. Virginia's Kyle Guy attempted a 3 over Samir Doughty which led to a foul call with just 0.6 seconds left in the game. Guy converted all three free throws to lead Virginia to their first national championship game.
Although, it wasn't the foul that appeared to upset the Tigers but the missed call just moments before. As Virginia inbounded the ball with seven seconds left, Ty Jerome lost control of the ball off his leg and grabbed the ball with both hands as he resumed dribbling. This should have resulted as a double dribble and gave possession to the Tigers. The Cavaliers will play in the title game on Monday, one year after being upset by No.16 seed UMBC.
As Virginia awaited their opponent for the championship game, Texas Tech and Michigan State battled to earn the chance to play in the title game. Texas Tech defeated No.2 seed Michigan State by a final score of 61-51.
Texas Tech who were led by Matt Mooney have a rare shot to compete for the national championship on Monday. The defense by Texas Tech was the headline of the game as they held the Spartans to just 15 made shots. At the end of the first half, the Red Raiders led Michigan State 23 to 21.
As Big 12 player of the year Jarrett Culver was held to just 10 points, Mooney led the Red Raiders with 22 points. Texas Tech have knocked out Michigan and Gonzaga with their stellar defense. The Red Raiders made it very difficult for Michigan State on offense and forced many turnovers.
Texas Tech will face the Virginia Cavaliers for the National Championship on Monday. This is the first appearance in a title game for both teams. The Red Raiders and Cavaliers are two of the best defensive teams in the country.
Virginia will look for redemption after being eliminated in the first round by UMBC last year. They will be led by their stellar guards Ty Jerome and Kyle Guy. Texas Tech has been one of the best teams in this year's tournament. The Red Raiders previously beat Gonzaga and Michigan. The Red Raiders will look for Jarrett Culver, who is the Big 12 player of the year to spark their offense. The championship game will be a very exciting matchup to watch.


This working note describes how to install and test version 1.7 of ScaLAPACK . This release of ScaLAPACK extends the functionality of the package by providing new routines for the nonsymmetric eigenproblem, divide and conquer symmetric eigenproblem, and improved routines for generalized symmetric eigenproblem and the reduction to tridiagonal form. It also includes PBLAS v2.0. For a detailed explanation of the design and contents of the ScaLAPACK library, please refer to the ScaLAPACK Users' Guide.
ScaLAPACK is freely available on netlib and can be obtained via the World Wide Web or anonymous ftp.
Prebuilt ScaLAPACK libraries are available on netlib for a variety of architectures.
However, if a prebuilt library does not exist for your architecture, you will need to download the distribution tar file and build the library as instructed in this guide.
To install and test ScaLAPACK, the user must have the BLACS, BLAS[9,6,5], and MPI  or PVM  available on his machine.
Section 2 contains step-by-step installation and testing/timing instructions. For users desiring additional information, Section 3 gives details on the testing/timing programs for the ScaLAPACK codes and their input files. Appendices A and B describe the ScaLAPACK driver, computational, and auxiliary routines currently available.


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Paite é uma língua kuki-chin (zomá-chin)] falada pelo povo do mesmo nome. A língua exibe inteligibilidade mútua com as outras línguas da região, incluindo  Thadou,  Hmar,  Vaiphei,  Simte,  Kom,  Gangte e outras. O nome Paite significa literalmente 'Povo que vai' e pode ser traduzido como 'Caminhantes', 'Emigrantes' ou 'simplesmente as pessoas que foram'.

Geografia
Paite é falado principalmente nos seguintes locais (Ethnologue).
Manipur: C.Cpur Bazar(Lamka Bazar), vale de Khuga (Lamka phaizang), distrito Churachandpur
Mizoram: 20 vias na subdivisão Champhai subdivision, Aizawl
Tripura
Assam
Meghalaya
Nagaland
Chin , Myanmar

Dialetos
Existem dois dialetos principais de Paite em Manipur: Lamjang e Dapjal.

Alfabeto Paite (Paite laimal)
O alfabeto foi proposto por Shri T Vialphung em 1903 e foi extraído dos alfabeto romano, tendo 18 consoantes e 6 vogais. Das 18 fonemas consonantais em Paite, 11 são oclusivas glotais, 4 fricativas, 2 nasais e 1 lateral.

Esta versão do alfabeto Paite é chamada 'Paite Laimal'. Este alfabeto é usado desde 1903 até hoje.

Ditongos

'iai'(yai) e 'uau'(wao) são os Tritongos da língua.

Números

Gramática
A gramática de Paite é bastante complexa por causa da série de modificações de palavras e de uma estrutura de substantivos um pouco complexa.

Ordem das palavras
A estrutura da ordem de palavras declarativas de Paite é Objeto – Sujeito – Verbo.

Mas, mesmo que a ordem das palavras e a gramática não sejam seguidas, frases e orações não perdem seu significado.

Exemplo: "Lai a gelh", que significa "Ele escreve", também pode ser escrito como "Gelh a Lai" sem perder o significado.

Os 5 tons proeminentes em Paite são crescendo (Tungkal) (á), crescendo-decaindo (Tungkal-niamkiak) ()), decaindo (Niamkiak) (à), decaindo-crescendo (Niamkiak-tungkal) (ã), e plano  (Pheipai) (ā). A quantidade de tons varia com as variações de região e de dialeto.

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Bibliografia
Singh, Naorem Saratchandra. 2006. A grammar of Paite. New Delhi: Mittal Publications.
Muivah, Esther T. 1993. English-Paite dictionary. Lamka, Manipur: Paite Tribe Council.
Tualkhothang, Naulak. 2003. English-Paite dictionary. Lamka, Manipur: The Tualkhothang Naulak Memorial Trust.
Tawmbing, Chinzam. 2014. English-Paite dictionary. Lamka, Manipur: Hornbill Publication.
Paite Tribe Council. 2013. Paite customary law & practices / Paite pupa ngeina dan leh a kizatnate. Lamka, Manipur: Paite Tribe Council.
Thuamkhopau, T. 2009. Paite paunaak leh pau upate. Manipur: Tribal Research Institute.

Ligações externas
Paite em Ethnologe
Paite em Endangered Languages
Paite em Glottolog
Paite em Omniglot.com

Paite
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(Parsippany, New Jersey) – 24 July 2018 – Acrow Bridge, a leading international bridge engineering and supply company, recently furnished 10 modular steel bridges to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) in support of the agency's peacekeeping work throughout the country. Acrow also provided in-country training to MINUSCA personnel on the assembly, installation and maintenance of the critical infrastructure assets.
Acrow's bridges were sold to MINUSCA and will be used in various locations throughout the country where quality bridge infrastructure solutions are particularly critical. Upon receipt of the purchase order, it was required that Acrow have the bridges on-site within 90 days. Owing to the modular nature of Acrow's bridges, the components of the structure were able to be shipped in standard 20' (6.1 meters) containers and transferred to trucks for the final shipping destination, the capital city of Bangui.


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Rice politics ignores Asian socio cultural base
THE SUB-TITLE of the book: Research Strategies and IRRI's Technologies Confront Asian Diversity (1950-1980) says what the book is all about.
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), set up near Manila in 1960, was conceived and financed by the Rockefeller and Ford foundations. This book is about IRRI's planning and development; the interplay of IRRI technology, rice scientists and national research strategies, and the persuasion of Asian governments to adopt a style of rice research and a concept of agriculture that matches IRRI's objectives -- to manipulate rice varieties genetically so as to multiply yields many times. The material is drawn from experiences in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
IRRI's mission is based on Norman Borlaug's successful experiments with wheat in Mexico in the 1940s, and the expectation is that similar success with rice can be achieved in Asia.
This book isn't concerned with issues relating to the green revolution, probably because was there really such a revolution and who gained from it? Instead, it focusses only on IRRI.
New rice varieties as well as the means of developing new technology for their cultivation were to be transferred and developed in Asia. IRRI's guiding philosophy was that plant genetics was the answer to Asia's food problems. The authors contend this philosophy is simplistic and does not take into account the physical and cultural diversity of Asian agriculture or the existence of lateral linkages in Asian agricultural systems. Nor does it consider the diverse and conflicting goals of various actors in this Asian drama.
Economic rationale Crops, socio-economic stratification, landholding size and farming practices differ immensely from region to region and their cultural context varies. The economic rationale for the rice farmer is not a narrow market-oriented one. Property-holding laws, taxation and inheritance laws, the markets for land, inputs and products and transportation services in rural areas also differ from region to region, as does the relative power of farming communities in political systems. Ignoring all this doomed IRRI's model of applied and basic research.
Even the significance of rice varies: the Rockefeller foundation considers rice a high-profile product that would ward off economic stagnation, political instability and the spread of communism in Asia. For the Ford Foundation, it is a prestigious agrarian undertaking in Asia. For IRRI's professionals, rice represents an opportunity to advance their careers. For national governments, it signifies a method of supplying cheap food to the cities and reducing dependence on food imports. And, for the small cultivator, rice means supplementing household income and strengthening resources for supporting children or for old-age security.
These differing significance of rice have shaped the values innate in rice production and distribution.
---Bibek Debroy is a professor of economics at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.
Author(s): Bibek Debroy
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Son of Cold War U-2 Pilot to Speak at Wilder School
Francis Gary Powers Jr., is the author of "Spy Pilot," a new book that examines the life and experiences of his father, a famous Cold War pilot who was shot down by the Soviets and subsequently interrogated, tried and imprisoned.
The son of the most famous Cold War pilot, Francis Gary Powers, Sr., who was shot down in a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union, will address students during a live talk at the VCU Wilder School at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 11.
In 1960, Francis Gary Powers, Sr. was shot down by the Soviets and subsequently interrogated, tried and imprisoned. The incident famously raised tensions between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev days before a summit between the two was set in Paris.
Powers was eventually released in a spy swap that was the subject of the Steven Spielberg film, "Bridge of Spies." His son, Francis Gary Powers, Jr., is the author of "Spy Pilot," a new book that attempts to dispel the misinformation surrounding Powers and the U-2 incident.
Powers, who is the founder and chairman emeritus of The Cold War Museum in Warrenton, Va., will present as a guest lecturer for students in a course led by Maureen Moslow-Benway, an assistant professor in the Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness program at the VCU Wilder School and the faculty advisor for the VCU Chapter of Eta Lambda Sigma, the official sponsor of this event.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Raleigh Building, B001, located at 1001 W. Broad St.
This is the second book for Powers who is also the author of "Letters from a Soviet Prison." He is a board member of the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum and an honorary board member of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. Powers lectures internationally and has appeared frequently on C-SPAN, the History, Discovery and A&E Channels.


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Review: Real potential in foldable screen on Lenovo laptop
Lenovo's new "foldable" laptop will be a part of its ThinkPad line when it comes out sometime in 2020. (AP File Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Geoffrey A. Fowler
The folding-screen trend just leaped from phones to laptops.
On Monday, Lenovo unveiled what it's calling the world's first "foldable" laptop, and I got to spend a little time with a prototype in advance. My take-away: This new design direction for computers may have more potential than the folding phones we've been hearing about lately.
Watching a laptop fold in the middle of its screen makes you do a double-take. Laid flat, Lenovo's device is a 13.3-inch tablet running Microsoft Windows. Fold it halfway and you can set it upright on a table like a tiny clamshell laptop. Hold it folded in your hands and it's like an electronic book. Fold it all the way and it's the shape of an old-timey folio, the kind people have long used as a work calendar or diary -- covered in leather, to boot.
Lenovo hasn't given a name to the product yet, which will be a part of its ThinkPad line when it comes out sometime in 2020. Lenovo also hasn't announced a price yet -- but like all first-generation tech, it probably won't come cheap.
Here's why I'm a bit more bullish on folding laptops than folding phones like Samsung's Galaxy Fold. It's not just because Samsung had to yank that $2,000 device before it even started shipping last month. In my brief time with the Fold before Samsung recalled it, I felt like it was trying to be two things at once -- tablet and phone -- and risked doing both less well. The phone part of the Fold has a very small screen, and unfolded to a tablet that wasn't quite big enough to do serious work.
The folding laptop is trying to do just one thing: make a laptop less awkward to carry around. This one weighs just under 2 pounds, which is pretty standard for a small laptop. But it's more convenient when it folds down to 9.3 inches (measured diagonally). It's probably still too big for a pocket, but you might tuck it into a purse or under your arm when you're running between meetings or heading to a working lunch.
Typing poses a bit of a challenge. When the laptop is sitting upright at a 90-degree angle, you could type on the part of the screen that's flat, but screen typing isn't a very pleasurable experience. Lenovo plans to sell the laptop with a wireless keyboard and pen you could carry with you. It also has two USB-C ports you can use to plug it into a workstation with a standard laptop and mouse.
Lenovo says the laptop, which it has been working on for three years, uses a flexible OLED screen made by LG Display with a 2K resolution. (At CES in January, LG Electronics, a sister company to LG Display, unveiled the Signature OLED TV R, a 4K TV that rolls up like a yoga mat.)
The biggest question is how a folding-screen laptop will hold up in real-world use. Samsung says the issue with its Galaxy Fold appeared to be the phone's hinge, and it hasn't said when it will bring the device back to market.
Lenovo says it won't ship the laptop until it can pass ThinkPad quality control testing, and some of its design choices address the problems that emerged with Samsung's Fold. The laptop's back hinge is covered by leather, which keeps detritus from entering it. The edges on the screen are also sealed to keep a protective film from peeling up. The prototype laptop had a crease on the screen where it folds, but it didn't feel as noticeable as the one on the Galaxy Fold.
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Modern data analysis platforms all too often rely on the fact that the application and underlying data flow are static. That is, such platforms generally do not implement the capabilities to update individual components of running pipelines without restarting the pipeline, and they rely on data sources to remain unchanged while they are being used. However, in reality these assumptions do not hold: data scientists come up with new methods to analyze data all the time, and data sources are almost by definition dynamic. Companies performing data science analyses either need to accept the fact that their pipeline goes down during an update, or they should run a duplicate setup of their often costly infrastructure that continues the pipeline operations.
In this research we present the Evolutionary Changes in Data Analysis (ECiDA) platform, with which we show how evolution and data science can go hand in hand. ECiDA aims to bridge the gap that is present between engineers that build large scale computation platforms on the one hand, and data scientists that perform analyses on large quantities of data on the other, while making change a first-class citizen. ECiDA allows data scientists to build their data science pipelines on scalable infrastructures, and make changes to them while they remain up and running. Such changes can range from parameter changes in individual pipeline components to general changes in network topology. Changes may also be initiated by an ECiDA pipeline itself as part of a diagnostic response: for instance, it may dynamically replace a data source that has become unavailable with one that is available. To make sure the platform remains in a consistent state while performing these updates, ECiDA uses a set of automatic formal verification methods, such as constraint programming and AI planning, to transparently check the validity of updates and prevent undesired behavior.
In earlier work, we showed that an initial implementation of ECiDA on top of the Apache Spark ecosystem performed well and introduced an acceptable amount of overhead to the data pipeline [@Lazovik2016; @Albers2018]. The platform is built in collaboration with a large, Dutch water company and is developed with their use cases in mind. ECiDA will, for example, be used to (i) improve water distribution monitoring and automation, (ii) enable the prediction of water quality, and (iii) determine structural reliability of pipes in order to perform predictive maintenance. These use cases emphasize different aspects and a variety of issues that might arise in a practical setting, and ensure ECiDA is built as a generic data science solution, which should therefore be applicable to any data science project.


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AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 WX CPU Pricing Revealed, Brace Yourself
by Paul Lilly — Friday, July 01, 2022, 10:06 AM EDT
AMD's latest round of high-end desktop (HEDT) processors based on its Zen 3 architecture were never going to be cheap, but exactly how much will they cost? We didn't know the answer when AMD announced its Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 WX series CPUs last week. Now we do, though, and it bears repeating—they're not cheap.
To be more specific, at the top end of the stack AMD's Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995WX officially carries a suggested e-tailer price (SEP) of $6,499. To put that into perspective, the previous generation Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3995WX launched at $5,489, so AMD tacked on more than a grand to its latest generation model.
The real gut punch for enthusiasts is that AMD has done away with non-Pro SKUs for its Threadripper family, now and forever. So if you're an enthusiast looking to build an HEDT system around AMD's flagship consumer-slash-workstation processor, you're basically paying extra for features you might not even care about. A lot more—the non-Pro Ryzen Threadripper 3990X debuted for $3,990.
Here's how pricing breaks down, with previous generation models included for reference...
AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995WX (64C/128T): $6,499
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X (64C/128T): $3,990
AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5975WX (32C/64T): $3,299
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X (32C/64T): $1,999
AMD never launched a 24-core/64-thread Ryzen Threadripper 3000 Pro series CPU, but it did make one available for the standard HEDT segment. Compared to that one, the latest-gen Pro edition chip is $1,000 more. It's also $400 more than the non-Pro 32-core/64-thread Ryzen Threadripper 3970X.
These are not leaked prices, either, but official SEPs that AMD shared with Tom's Hardware. There are multiple takeaways here. One is that the HEDT market as it once was no longer exists in Threadripper land. It's either go Pro or bust, with higher prices to boot. Another takeaway is that AMD probably isn't looking to move a ton of these chips. By the time these release to the DIY market, Zen 4 will either be here (in mainstream form), or close to it.
It's no coincidence, then, that pricing is closer in line to Intel's Xeon W-3300 series for the workstation. Intel's MSRPs are set at $4,499 for the Xeon W-3375 (38C/76T), $3,499 for the Xeon W-3365 (32C/64T), and $2,499 for the Xeon W-3345 (24C/48T). Compared to those, AMD is charging a little less per core/thread.
The lack of cheaper non-Pro Threadripper models is going to disappoint some users, and primarily those who want to assemble a workstation-class system for less than Pro money. Enthusiasts in general shouldn't be too bummed, though, because let's face it—pitching another Zen 3 line when Zen 4 is right around the corner is a tough sell.
Tags: AMD, CPU, (nasdaq:amd), workstations, hedt, ryzen threadripper pro 5000


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Garth Crooks' team of the week: Coady, De Bruyne, Cavani, Jota
Tottenham ended the weekend back at the top of the Premier League after a goalless draw with London rivals Chelsea.
Elsewhere, reigning champions Liverpool drew 1-1 at Brighton as a controversial refereeing decision went against them, with the hosts awarded a last-minute penalty.
Manchester City returned to winning ways in the league with a 5-0 defeat of Burnley, while Manchester United came from 2-0 down to beat Southampton 3-2, and Wolves won 2-1 at Arsenal.
Everton were beaten by a relentless Leeds, and West Brom broke their winless run with victory over bottom-of-the-table Sheffield United, who remain without a victory.
Fulham won at Leicester to move out of the bottom three, while West Ham climb to fifth with victory over Aston Villa.
But who impressed me in the Premier League this week? Here's my team. Read about why I selected them below and choose your best XI at the bottom.
Goalkeeper – Hugo Lloris (Tottenham Hotspur)
Hugo Lloris: I was torn between Edouard Mendy and Hugo Lloris. Both keepers handled the occasion well with neither having a great deal to do, but what they did was exceptional. The shot from Serge Aurier need two strong hands from Mendy and the Senegal international made sure the ball was palmed far enough away not to create any follow-up problem. However it was the save from Mason Mount at full stretch by Lloris that provided a clean sheet and a point for Spurs that took them to the top of the table.
Defenders – Benjamin Mendy (Manchester City), Eric Dier (Tottenham), Conor Coady (Wolves)
Benjamin Mendy: This lad has been a conundrum to me for some time. He's quick, built like Samson, but often makes poor decisions when the game becomes intense.
However, I had to include the Manchester City full-back in my TOTW because of his brilliant finish against a Burnley side who looked resigned to a beating the moment the referee blew his whistle. It wasn't just the quality of Mendy's volley that impressed me but the way he checked his run, not once but twice, to ensure he wasn't caught offside. I've seen strikers mess that up.
He made the best of the most glorious pass from Kevin de Bruyne and then finished accordingly. Very impressive.
Eric Dier: Spurs' draw at Chelsea was a typical Jose Mourinho performance. No frills, no risks, and he went away with a point for his trouble.
It was also a desperately dull affair, especially in the second half. Just the way the Spurs boss would have liked it away from home.
However, it's the second consecutive week Eric Dier has made my TOTW. It wasn't easy for Dier, as he had Joe Rodon making his full debut beside him, and on a different day two mistakes by Rodon might have been exploited.
What is most interesting is the point won at Stamford Bridge, as dull as it was, takes Spurs back to the top of the table. Something very strange is going on at Spurs when Dier is their star performer two weeks in a row, Spurs keep another clean sheet, and are top of the league again.
Conor Coady: It was an excellent performance by Wolves in the win at Arsenal. Having lost Raul Jimenez following an awful clash of heads with David Luiz, they recovered extremely well and outplayed Arsenal in the end.
At the heart of the performance was their captain Conor Coady. In a new-look back four, the England defender marshalled his troops brilliantly.
Once again, Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta left his best striker – Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang – isolated for much of the match and brought on Alexandre Lacazette (a proven goalscorer) with only 10 minutes remaining.
So let me get this straight – the Gunners were playing at home against Wolves and played with only one recognised goalscorer up front?
Midfielders – Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United), Kalvin Phillips (Leeds United), Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City), Pedro Neto (Wolves)
Bruno Fernandes: Had it not been for the determination of Bruno Fernandes, Manchester United would be licking their wounds. The Portugal international was yet again United's inspiration, leading an impressive comeback at Southampton.
With five minutes left there was only one team that was going to win this match, and it wasn't the home side. The more the Saints started to run out of steam, the more United began to pile on the pressure.
If United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer can get Paul Pogba in the right frame of mind and playing with Fernandes and Edinson Cavani, anything is possible.
Kalvin Phillips: Leeds missed Kalvin Phillips against Leicester and Crystal Palace, but not against Everton. The England international is making a name for himself, and was far too sharp for the Toffees.
This kid reminds me of a young Bryan Robson, when the former Manchester United and England captain played for West Brom. Phillips can cover the ground, he's not afraid to stick his foot in, and sees the pass. He doesn't immediately grab your attention but given time you begin to realise the enormous contribution he's making to the game.
I think he's the perfect replacement for Jordan Henderson and I don't mean just for England.
Kevin de Bruyne: There is something slightly unfair, if not inevitable, about putting Kevin de Bruyne in my TOTW for his performance against Burnley.
Without being too unkind to the famous Lancashire club, they were lambs to the slaughter. The absence of fans wasn't the only reason this game seemed like a training match, but the way De Bruyne carved his way through the visitors made the fixture look even less authentic than normal.
City played Olympiakos in the Champions League in midweek but changed their line-up so as not to overburden their players against a less demanding outfit and it paid off.
Read more about my thoughts on the five substitutes row in the Crooks of the Matter, below.
Pedro Neto: Not since Andy Gray and Kenny Hibbitt were in the team in 1979 have Wolves won at Arsenal.
Daniel Podence may have got the winner but it was the goal and the assist by Neto that stole the show. The Portugal international was involved in everything good about a Wolves performance that contained bite, guile and professionalism.
Arsenal, meanwhile, seem to have lost their way. In the last minutes of added time they had four opportunities to put the ball in the penalty area from wide positions and on each occasion the player on the ball couldn't beat the first man. It rather summed up their performance.
Forwards – Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City), Diogo Jota (Liverpool), Edinson Cavani (Manchester United)
Riyad Mahrez: No change here then. Manchester City seem to batter Burnley every time they play them in the Premier League and this was no different.
Riyad Mahrez was given a taste a football in City's Champions League victory over Olympiakos in midweek, then let loose on Burnley three days later and absolutely destroyed them.
His first two goals, bent into the far corner of the net with his left foot – a feature fast becoming a trademark for the Algeria international – were sublime. His third – a far-post header – was routine but enough to give the striker his hat-trick and a fitting way to finish what was no more demanding than an afternoon training session for City.
Diogo Jota: Regular readers will know what I think of VAR, and I have been saying so in this column since the infernal contraption was first introduced to the game.
Know-it-alls and snake-oil salesmen convinced the football public the video assistant referee would rid the game of controversy and disputes. Well, give me a moment while I try to compose myself from hysterical laughter.
Even Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson has joined the chorus demanding the technology has only a limited role to play in the modern game. I wish there were a few more like him. It's about time the players found their voice on this issue.
Fortunately, Liverpool have recently signed Diogo Jota and everything he touches at the moment seems to turn to goals – and not even VAR can stop him.
Edinson Cavani: Whatever your thoughts about United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, he's quite decisive about his substitutes.
The introduction of Edinson Cavani against Southampton was decisive. From the moment Mason Greenwood left the field and Cavani came on, United looked a different proposition up front.
The link-up play between Marcus Rashford and the former Napoli and Paris St-Germain forward sealed an impressive comeback for United. Southampton paid the price for their lack of ruthlessness.
The Crooks of the Matter
What's going on? Is the League Managers' Association losing control of its members?
Last week we had Jose Mourinho pointing the finger at Pep Guardiola and suggesting the Manchester City coach was encouraging Raheem Sterling to miss England matches in order to rest his player prior to City's European and domestic programme.
This week it was Jurgen Klopp who threw Chris Wilder under the bus with his "selfish" jibe, because the Sheffield United coach spoke his mind in a recent Premier League meeting and refused to accept five substitutes, instead of the current three, giving the top clubs another advantage on top of the ones they already have.
It would appear the big clubs are no longer satisfied having the best players, the most money and the best resources; they now want adequate recovery time, having played in the most financially lucrative European competitions, so they can return to their domestic leagues fresh enough to give their opposition a damned good hiding.
Why should Wilder agree to that? And why a rule change 10 games into the season?
Wilder's team are already fighting for their lives. He's not playing in the Champions League or any other European competition for that matter. He simply wants to remain in the best league in the world and to do that he needs to take advantage of those teams who want the glory and the money associated with European success. It's what gives teams like Sheffield United a chance in the Premier League.
What's more, television companies have paid a king's ransom to broadcast live football matches on our screens and are perfectly entitled to set game times to suit their audiences. To complain about the TV scheduling now, having taken the money, is rather like complaining about the five-course meal having just scoffed the lot.
If Klopp is genuinely concerned about his players' wellbeing, don't wait for them to get injured – simply manage your resources and rotate your players. You had enough of them at the start of the season.
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