Create your own adventure on this tour as you escape from the crowds! Our Jeep Renegade rental allows you to chart your own path as you set out into the wilderness. You get to explore Denali on your own terms; stop when and where you want without feeling rushed. Adventure awaits you in the Denali region! From glacier fed whitewater rivers to tremendous mountains that reach for the sky and to lush valleys carved during the last Ice Age, you will have plenty to explore during your day.
Our 4 door, 5 seat Jeep's will be the perfect vehicle as you and your group take off in search of wonderment and wildlife. Your Jeep will be equipped with a GPS to help you navigate the backcountry byways during your journey. Designed for safety and comfort, not only will you have fun driving these around, but you can rest assured you'll be prepared for whatever roads you find.
From your courtesy pick-up at your Denali hotel, our team will provide your with a local map and souvenir guide book which details the historic roadways, unique points of interest and local attractions. Based on your personal interests, we can suggest several different routes for you to help you plan your adventure.
TO BOOK: Jeep can seat up to 5 guests. Please choose the number of vehicles you would like to rent.
- This tour is intended to allow guests to experience seldom-visited locations and backcountry byways, but traveling off established roadways is not permitted.
- Drivers must be 25+ years of age and have a valid driver's license.
- A liability waiver, rental contract, and "full coverage" insurance are required.
- Combining multiple itineraries and/or creating your itinerary is permitted.
- Due to federal regulations by the National Park Service, vehicles on the Denali Park Road itinerary are only permitted to drive the first 15 miles of the National Park Road.
Guests should dress in layers to plan for Alaskan weather.
All drivers must be 25+ years of age and present a valid driver's license.
A liability waiver, rental contract, and "full coverage" insurance are required.
Guests must provide credit card in same name as driver's license.
10% Alaska Vehicle Rental Tax is payable on the day of your tour.
Proof of full coverage auto insurance is required. Guest must show or purchase insurance coverage to cover damage and have a vehicle policy that covers liability.
This tour meets at your hotel. Fully detailed instructions are included on your finalized ticket vouchers.
This tour is limited mobility and wheelchair accessible. This tour is a self-guided adventure. Driver's must be able to operate a standard passenger vehicle and have a valid driver's license. Guests participating as passengers have no restrictions and there is space for collapsible wheelchairs and walkers. Please leave a comment during checkout if accommodations for collapsible equipment will be required on tour.
Do you provide transportation to and from our hotel?
To request a pickup please contact the local contact number on your ticket voucher 48 hours prior departure.
What is the policy for bad weather?
We run this tour rain or shine.


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5-star athlete feels somebody is recruiting him better right now than both Kirby Smart and Nick Saban
UGA early enrollee Jacob Eason has really made a connection with a potential teammate in San Antonio this week.
Nate Gettleman / Special
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Sorry, Kirby Smart. Too bad, Nick Saban. David Shaw and Stanford also have some competition.
There's someone else doing a better job of recruiting 5-star athlete Demetris Robertson right now than the head coach at each of his top schools. Smart and UGA are contenders. The Crimson Tide and Saban are definitely in the mix. Robertson said earlier this week he feels Shaw and Stanford are still his top school at this time.
They will all have to try to keep pace with some guy named Eason. That's Jacob Eason. The 5-star UGA signee is currently rated as the nation's No. 1 quarterback.
"Jacob and I are talking a lot lately," Robertson said. "I talk a lot to Julian Rochester as well, but Jacob is recruiting me very well right now to join him at Georgia."
Eason's firing it in there. Robertson said that the UGA early enrollee is recruiting him as hard and as well as any coach right now.
"He just tells me that we should both come to Georgia and we can ball together," Robertson said. "He said I can be his No. 1 target and stuff like that."
The 6-foot, 175-pounder gave an honest answer of whether the camaraderie of playing alongside his potential future teammates at the U.S. Army All-American Bowl could be a factor in his decision.
Some recruits downplay that. They state they have to find the fit that's best for them regardless of who they will play with.
Robertson chooses to see that as another big piece in how he will fit into a campus culture.
"It influences me a lot," Robertson said. "Just being around them and trying to see how they are. It is not just about going to the college and being around the coaches. You have to be around those guys. Your teammates. I really know those guys well and that's a big thing. Getting to know all those guys is a big step for me as well."
If the Savannah Christian standout was to sign with UGA, the roles that at least four future teammates on the East roster might have played a big part. UGA is also a finalist for another four Army All-Americans who are playing with Roberston this week.
Jeff Sentell covers UGA football and UGA recruiting for AJC.com and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Follow him on Twitter for the latest on who's on their way to play Between the Hedges.
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Mauricio Pochettino resisted the temptation to throw Christian Eriksen and Dele Alli back in against Manchester City on Monday night.
That was slightly perplexing in Eriksen's case, as he had performed impressively against PSV in midweek, but it did show a patience that was lacking in Harry Kane's rushed return from injury last season; which some may say he is still recovering from.
But the playmaking duo were unleashed on West Ham in the EFL Cup on Wednesday night as Spurs breezed past their bitter rivals on their own patch for the second time in a matter of days.
One of the Hammers' lingering issues is a lack of a top-drawer holding midfielder, and the pair were able to help exploit that on Wednesday.
Tomorrow's opponents Wolves have a similar issue. Ruben Neves and Joao Moutinho are exceptional passers, but neither is a specialist holding player.
The Old Gold backline may be struggling with confidence after a couple of defeats and the Portuguese duo are not the most robust defensive shield.
The artistry of Eriksen and Alli is ideal to get in the space between the backline and the midfield and their return from injury has come at exactly the wrong time for Nuno Santo's side.


This private venue features a festive setting with a boardroom and a conference room.
Odyssey combines venue flexibility with ideal location in the heart of Epcot.
The atmosphere of the China Pavilion creates a unique setting for your reception.
A colonial theme creates a nostalgic atmosphere and celebrates our nation's glorious past.
Classic American setting located upstairs in the American Adventure Pavilion.
Buffet station featuring fresh baked pastries and breads as Guests enjoy the Parisian plaza.
This 40,000 sqft Pavilion is the world's largest indoor facility located in a theme park.
The Canada Terrace is an open-air veranda that is ideal for an elaborate plated or buffet dinner.
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Overlooking the lagoon across from the Canada Pavilion.
Found on the lagoon between Future World and World Showcase.
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Canada's tech stocks are reaccelerating, Canaccord Genuity says
June 4, 2018 by Jayson MacLean
Look for equity markets to rally into July, says analyst Javed Mirza with Canaccord Genuity, whose technical comment on Monday calls for weakening in bank stocks like Bank of Montreal and Royal Bank, while predicting tailwinds for info tech stocks such as OpenText (TSX:OTEX) and CGI Group (TSX:GIB.A).
Mirza points out that the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, TSX Composite and Russell 2000 are all above their 50- and 200-day moving averages, a strong technical positive that suggests that markets are now pushing out of a choppy short-term corrective phase and confirming that short- and intermediate-term trends are up.
"The S&P 500 appears poised to trigger a new weekly 'mechanical buy' signal," says Mirza. "This would be a strong technical positive and support a retest of the January highs."
Over the long-term, the analyst is viewing weakness as an opportunity to add exposure to the ongoing secular bull market.
An analysis of the TSX Composite by sector suggests that Telcos, Utilities, Financials and Energy are all showing signs of weakening relative performance compared to the TSX Composite.
Montreal-based CGI Group saw its stock hit an all-time high last Friday, closing at $80.04. Mirza says that CGI's on-balance volume is showing signs of buying pressure, which is a technical positive. "GIB.A is trading above the 50/200-day moving averages, confirming that short- and intermediate-term trends are up, a strong technical positive," he says.
For OpenText, its relative performance versus the TSX Composite is reaccelerating, seen as a technical positive, while the stock has just triggered a new daily "mechanical buy" signal, another technical positive.
As a whole, Mirza says that the Information Technology sector recently triggered a new weekly "mechanical buy" signal while the sector is also seen to be reaccelerating in performance relative to the TSX Composite, both technical positives.
Filed Under: Analysts, Economy
About Jayson MacLean
Jayson is a writer, researcher and educator with a PhD in political philosophy from the University of Ottawa. His interests range from bioethics and innovations in the health sciences to governance, social justice and the history of ideas.


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Probation Tail for Sex Offenders - Previous HB 446
Inmates who are released from prison because they have served the maximum sentence imposed by the court are not normally subject to any supervision by state parole or the court. Even if paroled before maxing out, the period of parole supervision may be short, depending on how close to their maximum term they were released. According to data from the PA Sentencing Commission, sex offenders are the most likely inmates to serve the full maximum term or close to it before being released. There are various reasons for this but a significant percentage of maxed-out sex offenders remain incarcerated until the end of their term because they have refused to take responsibility for their crimes or have failed to cooperate with treatment and other rehabilitation programs during confinement. These people pose a serious risk to public safety when they are released back into the community without a level of supervision to monitor their transition.
Megan's Law, which requires registration as a sex offender, may provide law enforcement and the community with information about their residence, work and school locations. But without parole or probation supervision there is little way of knowing whether a serious sex offender is making an appropriate adjustment from incarceration to freedom and there are no consequences for failing to engage in positive efforts to turn their life around unless the person commits another crime.
To address this problem, I plan to introduce the attached legislation which will require the court to impose a mandatory three year probation period consecutive to any term of total confinement for a person convicted of a Tier III sex offense under Pennsylvania's Adam Walsh Act. Under existing law, the court will have the flexibility to order supervision by the PA Board of Probation and Parole, or county probation. If a person is paroled and adequately adjusts to freedom under parole supervision, current law would permit the court to modify or even terminate probation supervision.
I believe that mandatory supervision either by the court or the Board of Probation and Parole will enhance public safety by permitting better monitoring a convicted sex offender's daily activities. If the person does not comply with the terms of supervised release, of course, he may be found in violation and returned to prison for the balance of the period of supervision.
This bill was introduced last session as HB 446, and passed the House unanimously by a vote of 198-0. I hope you will join me in cosponsoring this legislation.
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ActiveRecord-JDBC-Adapter (AR-JDBC) is the main database adapter for Rails'
*ActiveRecord* component that can be used with [JRuby][0].
ActiveRecord-JDBC-Adapter provides full or nearly full support for:
**MySQL**, **PostgreSQL**, **SQLite3**.  In the near future there are plans to
add support **MSSQL**. Unless we get more contributions we will not be going
beyond these four adapters.  Note that the amount of work needed to get
another adapter is not huge but the amount of testing required to make sure
that adapter continues to work is not something we can do with the resources
we currently have.

For Oracle database users you are encouraged to use
https://github.com/rsim/oracle-enhanced.

Versions are targeted at certain versions of Rails and live on their own branches.

| Gem Version | Rails Version | Branch |
| ----------- | ------------- | ------ |
| 50.x        | 5.0.x         | 50-stable |
| 51.x        | 5.1.x         | 51-stable |
| 52.x        | 5.2.x         | 52-stable |
| future      | latest        | master    |

The minimum version of JRuby for 50+ is JRuby **9.1.x** and
JRuby 9.1+ requires Java 7 or newer (we recommend Java 8 at minimum).

## Using ActiveRecord JDBC

### Inside Rails

To use AR-JDBC with JRuby on Rails:

1. Choose the adapter you wish to gem install. The following pre-packaged
adapters are available:

  - MySQL (`activerecord-jdbcmysql-adapter`)
  - PostgreSQL (`activerecord-jdbcpostgresql-adapter`)
  - SQLite3 (`activerecord-jdbcsqlite3-adapter`)

2. If you're generating a new Rails application, use the following command:

    jruby -S rails new sweetapp

3. Configure your *database.yml* in the normal Rails style:

```yml
development:
  adapter: mysql2 # or mysql
  database: blog_development
  username: blog
  password: 1234
```

For JNDI data sources, you may simply specify the JNDI location as follows, it's
recommended to use the same adapter: setting as one would configure when using
"bare" (JDBC) connections e.g. :

```yml
production:
  adapter: postgresql
  jndi: jdbc/PostgreDS
```

**NOTE:** any other settings such as *database:*, *username:*, *properties:* make
no difference since everything is already configured on the JNDI DataSource end.

JDBC driver specific properties might be set if you use an URL to specify the DB
or preferably using the *properties:* syntax:

```yml
production:
  adapter: mysql
  username: blog
  password: blog
  url: "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/blog?profileSQL=true"
  properties: # specific to com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
    socketTimeout:  60000
    connectTimeout: 60000
```

### Standalone with ActiveRecord

Once the setup is made (see below) you can establish a JDBC connection like this
(e.g. for `activerecord-jdbcderby-adapter`):

```ruby
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
  adapter: 'sqlite3',
  database: 'db/my-database'
)
```

#### Using Bundler

Proceed as with Rails; specify `ActiveRecord` in your Bundle along with the
chosen JDBC adapter(s), this time sample *Gemfile* for MySQL:

```ruby
gem 'activerecord', '~> 5.0.6'
gem 'activerecord-jdbcmysql-adapter', :platform => :jruby
```

When you `require 'bundler/setup'` everything will be set up for you as expected.

#### Without Bundler

Install the needed gems with JRuby, for example:

    gem install activerecord -v "~> 5.0.6"
    gem install activerecord-jdbc-adapter --ignore-dependencies

If you wish to use the adapter for a specific database, you can install it
directly and the (jdbc-) driver gem (dependency) will be installed as well:

    jruby -S gem install activerecord-jdbcmysql-adapter

Your program should include:

```ruby
require 'active_record'
require 'activerecord-jdbc-adapter' if defined? JRUBY_VERSION
```

## Source

The source for activerecord-jdbc-adapter is available using git:

    git clone git://github.com/jruby/activerecord-jdbc-adapter.git

Please note that the project manages multiple gems from a single repository,
if you're using *Bundler* >= 1.2 it should be able to locate all gemspecs from
the git repository. Sample *Gemfile* for running with (MySQL) master:

```ruby
gem 'activerecord-jdbc-adapter', :github => 'jruby/activerecord-jdbc-adapter'
gem 'activerecord-jdbcmysql-adapter', :github => 'jruby/activerecord-jdbc-adapter'
```

## Getting Involved

Please read our [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) & [RUNNING_TESTS](RUNNING_TESTS.md)
guides for starters. You can always help us by maintaining AR-JDBC's [wiki][5].

## Feedback

Please report bugs at our [issue tracker][3]. If you're not sure if
something's a bug, feel free to pre-report it on the [mailing lists][1] or
ask on the #JRuby IRC channel on http://freenode.net/ (try [web-chat][6]).

## Authors

This project was originally written by [Nick Sieger](http://github.com/nicksieger)
and [Ola Bini](http://github.com/olabini) with lots of help from the JRuby community.
Polished 3.x compatibility and 4.x support (for AR-JDBC >= 1.3.0) was managed by
[Karol Bucek](http://github.com/kares) among others.

## License

ActiveRecord-JDBC-Adapter is open-source released under the BSD/MIT license.
See [LICENSE.txt](LICENSE.txt) included with the distribution for details.

Open-source driver gems within AR-JDBC's sources are licensed under the same
license the database's drivers are licensed. See each driver gem's LICENSE.txt.

[0]: http://www.jruby.org/
[1]: http://jruby.org/community
[2]: http://github.com/jruby/activerecord-jdbc-adapter/blob/master/activerecord-jdbcmssql-adapter
[3]: https://github.com/jruby/activerecord-jdbc-adapter/issues
[4]: http://github.com/nicksieger/activerecord-cachedb-adapter
[5]: https://github.com/jruby/activerecord-jdbc-adapter/wiki
[6]: https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#jruby
[7]: http://badge.fury.io/rb/activerecord-jdbc-adapter
[8]: https://github.com/jruby/activerecord-jdbc-adapter/wiki/Migrating-from-1.2.x-to-1.3.0


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The Dalmore 14 Scotch whisky – exclusively in Chicago
June 29, 2022 Barbara Payne, Editor
To be labeled Scotch whisky your creation must be made in Scotland and be part of a broad category that embraces a wide array of flavors – from the smoked-peat versions from Islay and the Glenlivets of Speyside, to the Highland malt whiskies like those from The Dalmore.
What makes a great Scotch whisky? Time, more than anything else, says Gregg Glass, Master Whisky Maker & Blender at Whyte & Mackay. He came to Chicago recently to introduce the latest expression from The Dalmore distillery: The Dalmore 14 – a beautiful whisky with cocoa, candied citrus, nutty, and slight cinnamon flavors. It's a new expression of how the Mackenzie family continues to exercise its passion for creating old-school Highland malt spirits in styles and flavors even non-expert consumers can really appreciate.
We Chicagoans are privileged to be the first – and right now, the only – place in the U.S. where you can buy this particular expression. Contact Binny's for help buying a bottle of The Dalmore 14.
The Dalmore was a pioneer in using age statements to differentiate Scotch whiskies from each other – a new way to indicate quality. Generally, the longer a whisky is aged, the more complex and rich its flavor can become. The Dalmore sources its barley from right around the distillery, far north and east of Highland. Gregg says he grew up 5 miles from the distillery, so it's like home for him. He talks about how barley varieties and water can change the ultimate flavor of whiskies, but it's how the combination is aged that makes all the difference.
To start with, the first stuff right off the still is pure spirit – theirs is clear in color with notes of citrus and cocoa and a staggering 68% alcohol content. You don't want to drink this by itself. But it is the beginning of the journey to becoming a fine aged whisky. In fact, says Gregg, 60-80% of a whisky's flavor comes from the type of casks used to age it and the time and conditions under which it matures.
Scotch whisky caramel, chocolate, citrus
The Dalmore Scotch whiskies enhance fine Japanese food
Once they've distilled the pure spirit, they put it into bourbon casks that give touches of vanilla and honey. For The Dalmore 14, the next stop is hand-selected casks from Pedro Ximenez sherry. I can tell you for sure that the Old Fashioned cocktail they sampled for media, made with The Dalmore 12, was excellent – just a hint of sweetness, and the handsome chocolate truffle-on-a-pick that garnished it was a rich, creamy surprise. How did chocolate happen here?
The Distillery staff, Gregg said, receive from 60 to 600 items to assess each year from companies that want to pursue a partnership with them. Recently they found a company they quickly recognized shared The Dalmore philosophy of using the finest ingredients to make a superior product that's then showcased with the finest packaging. And now they have a strong relationship with Vosges Haut-Chocolat, a Chicago company that makes extra-rich, creamy chocolate truffles – the dark chocolate and orange are remarkable and the pairing with the whisky is genius.
The chocolate makers went back and forth on which characteristics of the whisky they wanted to bring out in the truffles they include in The Dalmore 14 Collection. The only way for you to find out what they decided is to buy a bottle and a box and sit down with no agenda other than to taste and enjoy all that lusciousness blending together in your mouth.
And for a great place to pair your whisky with food, you can start by ordering your whisky at Momotaro in Chicago's West Loop. Even if you didn't already like Japanese cuisine, you're likely to become a fan after eating here. Gregg's team collaborated with the chefs at the restaurant to build the delicious Old Fashioned cocktail and to choose just the right dishes to go with the flight of Scotch whiskies. From the delicious sea-salted edamame, the salad of crisp baby greens with sparkling citrus dressing, and the generous cuts of very fresh sashimi, to the super-juicy grilled strip steak with crispy edges, they put on a feast worth indulging in. Altogether, some pairings are made in heaven. Enjoy.
The Dalmore 14 Pedro Jimenez Cask Aged Scotch whisky. ~$90.
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Siepi Chianti Classico wines shine
Sieti Chianti Classico 2012 (photo: Mazzei Winery)
Luxury wines are in a category outside the experience of the average person in America, and perhaps in most countries. Chicago did get a chance back in 2021 to taste a few of these elegant wines, thanks to Palm Bay importers. Winemaker Francesco Mazzei brought some of his Siepi winery's Chianti Classico treasures here to Chicago. The vertical tasting, with vintages from 2005 through 2012, was a remarkable experience..And I started this blog post a long time ago and never finished. So even though Acadia (see below) is closed, these wonderful wines are still worth writing about.
All the Siepi vintages were made with Merlot and Sangiovese grapes, yet all were different. He said Merlot is bigger than Sangiovese and produces less acid, but growing in the Chianti region of Tuscany it acquires the character of Chianti. He talked about the season and the harvest for each of the Siepi vintages – fascinating stories of battling frost, drought, storms and global warming rising temperatures.
Francesco said Mazzei's farming is 99% organic because conditions naturally permit that, and their bigger concern is using sustainable growing practices. "It is about trust," he said, "and respecting nature. Wines are moody." Time and oxygen change wines as they age and, in Siepi's case, makes for wonderful results. He said in a way, it's unfair to compare vintages to each other since that is not the way people traditionally enjoy wine.
He also pointed out the difference between an intellectual versus a physiological appreciation of wine. Perhaps saying, in effect, people are moody, too. How and where and under what circumstances you taste a wine can have a powerful effect on how you perceive it.
The venue for the tasting was the former two-Michelin-starred Acadia Restaurant, 1629 S. Wabash, now closed, in an out-of-the-way area of South Loop. I remember how remarkable the setting was: Flower boxes on stands marked the site of the restaurant (dinner-only service Tuesday through Sunday) on the otherwise-semi-empty street. Not promising, but once inside, you basked in the rich but sleek-and-simple decor. The cuisine, paired with three additional non-Siepi wines from Mazzei, was a delightful surprise. Sad to know this restaurant gem is no longer with us.
The green garlic/ramp soup was delicately flavorful, rich and creamy and served with flowers and flourish. Tasting the perfectly cooked farm egg yolk as it spilled over the truffled crispy potato basket was a distinct pleasure. The wines paired beautifully with the dishes, and the service was unobtrusively excellent.
Read more about all the Siepi vintages here. Read about the many other Mazzei wines here, some as affordable as $15 (e.g., Belguardo Rose 2015 – light and easy to drink).
A couple of the standout Siepi vintages include:
Siepi 2007 – an outstanding vintage that produced excellent quality grapes, well-balanced with soft tannins and concentrated antioxidants and anothcyanins (which contribute to color and stability in a wine – good for aging).
Siepi 2011 – a difficult year with good rainfall but extreme heat and sun. Even the oak leaves were turning from green to brown in the summer. The fight they put up ended up producing a lovely wine.
Siepi 2012 – a challenging year with late frost and snow and a dry summer. Production overall was down by nearly 30%, but the quality is high with just a touch of sweetness. This is a good one to age if you have a cellar.
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First, and most importantly, they taste delicious! Second, check this out. All clean ingredients. No raw eggs – yes, it's safe to eat raw! and that's half the fun of it. You open the package and in it are four rolls of stuck-together dough balls. You break off as many as you want to bake, put them on a tray and bake. OR – even more exciting – you break off a 110-calorie ball (or half a ball if you just want a taste) and eat it right out of your hand. These doughs are so tasty, you may never actually bake them.
Exciting, too, is the fact that they keep well in the fridge for at least a couple of weeks and, as long as the package is not opened, they will keep a couple of months in there. I'm guessing that's because there's no dairy to spoil. And according to their discussion with a dietician, "Sweet Loren's Cookie Dough products contain whole grain within their Gluten Free Flour Blend, so you are getting some vitamins and minerals."
I'm a huge fan of their Oatmeal Cranberry dough. My granddaughter loves the texture of the chocolate chunks in the Fudgy Brownie double-chocolate dough. Mostly we don't want to actually bake the cookies, though they're very good when you do. It's so easy to pull off a hunk and enjoy that luscious shot of sweetness and rich flavor. Just delicious. This is an idea whose time has come. Find it stores at certain Whole Foods, Jewel/Osco, Target and other stores.
Thanks, Sweet Loren's. Your doughs are now going to be always in my fridge.
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South Jersey Times is reporting today that Burlington Coat Factory is moving into the mostly vacant center on Almonesson Rd, where Sam's Club, Sports Authority and Circuit City used to be featured tenants.
This is another in a series of big wins for Deptford, and one that will really help solidify the future of this area of Almonesson around the Red Lobster and Olive Garden pairing.
As previously reported here, across the street HomeGoods and a relocated Ulta are nearing completion, which are 100s of feet away from the all new 4 store Christmas Tree Shop Center.
Stores like to take advantage of other's successes and when they see good things happening they want into the same area to capitalize… Helping to create a shopping destination.
Just when it seemed the new Walmart/Sam's location at Rt 42 was going to wipe out these older centers, they come back with a strong right hook.
Another consideration is… Does this location have any impact on the Washington Two location which is only a few miles up Rt 42.
Where do you think Burlington Coat Factory should locate?
The long beloved Geets Diner in Williamstown NJ has reopened for limited hours this week, ahead of their Saturday March 24th Official Grand Opening!
Pet Valu is moving into the Court of Deptford II on Almonesson Road, in the same center as Bob's Discount Furniture, Old Navy, and Barnes and Noble.


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The North Bend Theatre opened its doors on April 9, 1941 and has been in continuous operation since that time. The classic single screen Theatre underwent an extensive renovation in 2000 that upgraded systems and structure while highlighting the original art-deco design features. In 2013 the Theatre raised over $100,000 from our generous community to upgrade projection and sound to a digital format that will allow the Theatre to remain a vital part of the Snoqualmie Valley for years to come.
The Theatre presents a first run film 52 weeks a year as well as many special events each year. Annual events include The Twin Peaks Festival Movie Night in August, the North Bend Mountain Film Series on Sundays in October and November, the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour in December, the North Bend Amateur Outdoor Film Challenge, Warren Miller, Fly Fishing Film Festivals and other special events celebrating the outdoor experience.
The Theatre also serves as a venue for many private events including birthday parties, corporate outings and presentations, school field trips, and community fundraisers. We are proud to be an active partner in the community working to bring quality entertainment and economic vibrancy to the Snoqualmie Valley.


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package oracle.apps.uikit.hcm.performance.bean;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import javax.faces.event.ActionEvent;
import oracle.adf.view.rich.component.rich.layout.RichDeck;
import oracle.adf.view.rich.component.rich.layout.RichPanelGroupLayout;
import oracle.adf.view.rich.component.rich.nav.RichCommandButton;
import oracle.apps.uikit.common.bean.InfoTile;
import oracle.apps.uikit.common.bean.UtilsBean;
import oracle.apps.uikit.common.declarativeComponents.InfotilesDCComponent;
import oracle.apps.uikit.data.Evaluation;
import oracle.apps.uikit.data.Person;
import oracle.apps.uikit.memoryCache.SessionState;

public class PerformanceBean {
    private static String _CLOSED = "CLOSED";
    private static String _ANNUAL = "ANNUAL REVIEW";
    private static String _MIDYEAR = "MID-YEAR REVIEW";
    private static String _PROJECT = "PROJECT REVIEW";
    private UtilsBean _utils = new UtilsBean();
    private Person _selectedPerson;
    private Evaluation _selectedEvaluation;
    private List<InfoTile> _infoTilesList;
    private RichPanelGroupLayout _evaluationDetailContainer;
    private List<String> _competenciesList;
    private List<String> _goalsList;
    private RichDeck _tileDetailDeck;
    private InfotilesDCComponent _infotilesDC;

    public PerformanceBean(){
        if (_infoTilesList == null)
            _buildInfoTilesList();
        if (_competenciesList == null)
            _buildCompetenciesList();
        if (_goalsList == null)
            _buildGoalsList();
    }//constructor

    //==========================================================================
    // Statistics Dials Data
    //==========================================================================

    public int getTotalEvaluations(){
        return _countEvaluations(true, false, false, false, false, false, false, false);
    }//getTotalEvaluations

    public int getTotalClosedEvaluations(){
        return _countEvaluations(false, true, false, false, false, false, false, false);
    }//getTotalClosedEvaluations

    public int getAnnualEvaluations(){
        return _countEvaluations(false, false, true, false, false, false, false, false);
    }//getAnnualEvaluations

    public int getAnnualClosedEvaluations(){
        return _countEvaluations(false, false, false, true, false, false, false, false);
    }//getAnnualClosedEvaluations

    public int getMidyearEvaluations(){
        return _countEvaluations(false, false, false, false, true, false, false, false);
    }//getMidyearEvaluations

    public int getMidyearClosedEvaluations(){
        return _countEvaluations(false, false, false, false, false, true, false, false);
    }//getMidyearClosedEvaluations

    public int getProjectEvaluations(){
        return _countEvaluations(false, false, false, false, false, false, true, false);
    }//getProjectEvaluations

    public int getProjectClosedEvaluations(){
        return _countEvaluations(false, false, false, false, false, false, false, true);
    }//getProjectClosedEvaluations

    //==========================================================================
    // User Event Handlers
    //==========================================================================

    public void handleReviewClick(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
        Integer personId = (Integer)actionEvent.getComponent().getAttributes().get("PERSONID");
        Integer evaluationId = (Integer)actionEvent.getComponent().getAttributes().get("EVALUATIONID");
        SessionState sessionState = (SessionState)_utils.getSessionScope().get("SessionState");
        for (Person person : sessionState.getMyTeamList()){
            if (person.getId() == personId){
                _selectedPerson = person;
                for (Evaluation evaluation : person.getEvaluationsList()){
                    if (evaluation.getId() == evaluationId){
                        _selectedEvaluation = evaluation;
                        break;
                    }//check selected evaluation
                }//loop through evaluations
                break;
            }//check selected person
        }//loop through my team
        _switchInlineMode("ON");
    }//handleReviewClick

    public void handleReturnFromDetail(ActionEvent actionEvent){
        _switchInlineMode("OFF");
    }//handleReturnFromDetail

    public void handleTileSelection(ActionEvent actionEvent){
        Integer selectedTileIdx = (Integer)_utils.getPageFlowScope().get("selectedTileIdx");
        if (selectedTileIdx == 0)
            getTileDetailDeck().setDisplayedChild("r1");
        else if (selectedTileIdx == 1)
            getTileDetailDeck().setDisplayedChild("r2");
        else if (selectedTileIdx == 2)
            getTileDetailDeck().setDisplayedChild("r3");
        else if (selectedTileIdx == 3)
            getTileDetailDeck().setDisplayedChild("r4");
        _utils.refresh(getInfotilesDC());
    }//handleTileSelection

    //==========================================================================
    // Helpers
    //==========================================================================

    private void _switchInlineMode(String mode){
        SessionState sessionState = (SessionState)_utils.getSessionScope().get("SessionState");
        if (mode.equals("ON")){
            sessionState.setFilmStripShowHandle(false);
            sessionState.setFilmStripShowStrip("noShow");
        } else {
            sessionState.setFilmStripShowHandle(true);
            sessionState.setFilmStripShowStrip("");
        }//mode check
        //Initiate Refresh
        FacesContext fctx = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
        UIViewRoot vr = fctx.getViewRoot();
        RichCommandButton actionTrigger = (RichCommandButton)vr.findComponent("pt1:pt_refreshTrigger");
        ActionEvent actionEvent = new ActionEvent(actionTrigger);
        actionEvent.queue();
    }//_switchInlineMode

    private int _countEvaluations(boolean total, boolean totalClosed, boolean annual, boolean annualClosed,
                                  boolean midYear, boolean midYearClosed, boolean project, boolean projectClosed){
        int evaluationsCount = 0;
        SessionState sessionState = (SessionState)_utils.getSessionScope().get("SessionState");
        for (Person person : sessionState.getMyTeamList()){
            for (Evaluation evaluation : person.getEvaluationsList()){
                if (total){
                    evaluationsCount++;
                } else if (totalClosed){
                    if (_CLOSED.equals(evaluation.getStatus().toUpperCase()))
                        evaluationsCount++;
                } else if (annual){
                    if (_ANNUAL.equals(evaluation.getType().toUpperCase()))
                        evaluationsCount++;
                } else if (annualClosed){
                    if (_CLOSED.equals(evaluation.getStatus().toUpperCase()) && _ANNUAL.equals(evaluation.getType().toUpperCase()))
                        evaluationsCount++;
                } else if (midYear){
                    if (_MIDYEAR.equals(evaluation.getType().toUpperCase()))
                        evaluationsCount++;
                } else if (midYearClosed){
                    if (_CLOSED.equals(evaluation.getStatus().toUpperCase()) && _MIDYEAR.equals(evaluation.getType().toUpperCase()))
                        evaluationsCount++;
                } else if (project){
                    if (_PROJECT.equals(evaluation.getType().toUpperCase()))
                        evaluationsCount++;
                } else if (projectClosed){
                    if (_CLOSED.equals(evaluation.getStatus().toUpperCase()) && _PROJECT.equals(evaluation.getType().toUpperCase()))
                        evaluationsCount++;
                }//check type
            }//loop through evaluations
        }//loop through my team
        return evaluationsCount;
    }//_countEvaluations

    private void _buildInfoTilesList(){
        _infoTilesList = new ArrayList<InfoTile>();
        //taskflowName, taskflowId
        _infoTilesList.add(new InfoTile("WEB-INF/oracle/apps/uikit/hcm/performance/flow/CompetenciesTileFlow.xml", "CompetenciesTileFlow"));
        _infoTilesList.add(new InfoTile("WEB-INF/oracle/apps/uikit/hcm/performance/flow/GoalsTileFlow.xml", "GoalsTileFlow"));
        _infoTilesList.add(new InfoTile("WEB-INF/oracle/apps/uikit/hcm/performance/flow/QuestionnairesTileFlow.xml", "QuestionnairesTileFlow"));
        _infoTilesList.add(new InfoTile("WEB-INF/oracle/apps/uikit/hcm/performance/flow/OverallSummaryTileFlow.xml", "OverallSummaryTileFlow"));
    }//_buildInfoTilesList

    public void _buildCompetenciesList(){
        _competenciesList = new ArrayList<String>();
        _competenciesList.add("Adapting to Change");
        _competenciesList.add("Customer Focus");
        _competenciesList.add("Influencing and Negotiating");
        _competenciesList.add("Building Relationships");
    }//_buildCompetenciesList

    public void _buildGoalsList(){
        _goalsList = new ArrayList<String>();
        _goalsList.add("Design, develop and deliver three customer validations");
        _goalsList.add("Drive customer satisfaction score to 89 points");
        _goalsList.add("Execute 5% increase in Q1 and Q2 against NA competitors");
        _goalsList.add("Execute 10% increase in Q3 and Q4 against NA competitors");
    }//_buildGoalsList

    //==========================================================================
    // Accessors
    //==========================================================================

    public void setSelectedPerson(Person p) { _selectedPerson = p; }
    public Person getSelectedPerson() { return _selectedPerson; }
    public void setSelectedEvaluation(Evaluation e) { _selectedEvaluation = e; }
    public Evaluation getSelectedEvaluation() { return _selectedEvaluation; }
    public void setInfoTilesList(List<InfoTile> l) { _infoTilesList = l; }
    public List<InfoTile> getInfoTilesList() { return _infoTilesList; }
    public void setEvaluationDetailContainer(RichPanelGroupLayout l) { _evaluationDetailContainer = l; }
    public RichPanelGroupLayout getEvaluationDetailContainer() { return _evaluationDetailContainer; }
    public void setCompetenciesList(List<String> l) { _competenciesList = l; }
    public List<String> getCompetenciesList() { return _competenciesList; }
    public void setGoalsList(List<String> l) { _goalsList = l; }
    public List<String> getGoalsList() { return _goalsList; }
    public void setTileDetailDeck(RichDeck d) { _tileDetailDeck = d; }
    public RichDeck getTileDetailDeck() { return _tileDetailDeck; }
    public void setInfotilesDC(InfotilesDCComponent dc) { _infotilesDC = dc; }
    public InfotilesDCComponent getInfotilesDC() { return _infotilesDC; }
}//PerformanceBean


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Who are your child's best friends? According to research from the University of Cambridge, children get more satisfaction from relationships with their pets than with their brothers or sisters. Children also appear to get on even better with their animal companions than with siblings.
The research adds to increasing evidence that household pets may have a major influence on child development. Further, they could have a positive impact on children's social skills and emotional well-being.
This study, published in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. It was conducted in collaboration with the WALTHAM Centre for Pet Nutrition, part of Mars Petcare. Moreover, it is also co-funded by the Economic and Social Research Council as part of a larger study, later led by Prof Claire Hughes at the University of Cambridge Centre for Family Research. Researchers surveyed 12 year old children, they are from 77 families and more than one child at home. Most of them have one or more pets of any type. Children reported strong relationships with their pets relative to their siblings. In addition, they are also lower levels of conflict and greater satisfaction in owners of dogs than other kinds of pets.


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When "Public Service" Gets Crushed
Everybody is haunted by the images of this week.
The Nazi shirts…the Confederate flag…the man with zip ties in military gear…the wild-eyed looks of these insurrectionists.
But I've been deeply stirred by two images.
One, of this Capitol police officer being crushed.
The other, of Representative Andy Kim cleaning up the trash.
I know that this is a hard year to defend police in any way. I know…there are deep questions to be asked about the Capitol Police. (As somebody who once myself was arrested by them…I have a few questions about HOW the insurrectionists got in…)
But take a look at this officer being crushed. Whatever you think of law enforcement as a whole, they are —first and foremost— public servants.
And a PART of what's being CRUSHED in our world today is the whole idea of PUBLIC SERVICE itself.
The Trump era is the pinnacle of a fifty-year era of diminishment and demoralization those who serve the public.
From the time of Reagan onward, major portions of the Republican Party have told us that "government is the problem." That concept has been internalized into a political strategy of literally doing nothing. If government is the "problem," then the "solution" is for government to do as little as possible…or, as Grover Norquist once famously said…get it small enough to drown in the bathtub.
Think about that metaphor for a moment.
If you drowned the government, who gets drowned?
Members of Congress, sure. (I'm sure Norquist meant them…)
But also dog catchers and garbage collectors in your neighborhood.
Clerks, adminstrators and government scientists.
Yes, your local police too.
Military.
Judges, baliffs, court reporters.
Cashiers at the DMV.
Teachers and principals and social workers.
Public health workers.
Folks who keep the water on.
They drown….because the government is always US.
"The government" is not some strange, other-wordly cabal of mystically all-powerful humans.
WE are the government.
The "government" is real human beings.
Those doors that cop was defending were the doors to "The People's House."
And, somehow, things have gotten so twisted-up that some of our citizens believe they were called to take it by force.
Eventually, if you internalize the message of drowning government-workers in a bathtub deeply enough, it leads directly to a crushed cop and wild-eye insurrectionists hunting Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence with zip ties.
Since I am married to an elected public official, I spend far more time meditating on these issue than the average preacher. I see the dangers they face, first hand. Not every day, but some days, I worry about my wife's safety has she leaves the house.
We've dealt with harassment and stalkers, physical and virtual. We don't talk about those moments, publicly, very much. But pictures like that crushed cop bring them up. Understand, what we face is nothing like other public servants face on a daily basis. But, I see it.
So, today, I am not absolving all police, or inviting you to excuse inaction or malfeasance on the part of any public official. We should hold them accountable…all public officials.
We should also realize that there is a literal and spiritual cost to "otherizing" government workers as sub-human.
And we have all done that, far more than we should.
Many government workers see what they do to "serve the public" as a "calling."
I'm blessed to get to see them here in Dallas, first hand. We are blessed to personally know many city and county officials here…elected, appointed, and hired. I see how seriously they take their jobs, and their dedication is a constant source of inspiration to me.
I see the crap they put up with, from "We The People." How we all —regardless of party— tend to complain about them and very rarely praise them for anything. We are quick to critize them (I am too, understand. First among the hypocrites, am I…).
But we don't see them doing what Rep. Andy Kim is doing in this second photograph.
Does this second photo move you?
Of course it does. It's servant-leadership at its best.
But friends, you need to understand that every day there are hundreds of thousands of unsung Andy Kim's, always picking up the trash (some, literally) that "We The People" leave.
They serve us.
We must acknowlege that over these past fifty years, a basis respect for our institutions at all levels has faded.
BUT! We must admit that it has not just magically waned from weariness or cynicism. That fading respect for institutions has been NURSED, curated and encouraged…most explicitly by some portions of the Republican Party, but internalized by us all.
"Government is your problem," is a 50-year mantra of the Republican Party.
Eventually, that gets you a government of no ideas, and no desire to do anything except gum up the works so that nothing is ever accomplished.
Eventually, that means enough folks say "Why not elect the narcissistic businessman as President…what have you got to lose?"
Eventually, that gets you people who are so frustrated and angry (on all sides) that their government doesn't do more for them.
Eventually, that gets you a public that has a *profoundy cynical* view of public service.
Eventually, that gets you a crazed, radical fringe who will believe almost any conspiracy theory, mimic the narcissistic delusions of their leader, and decide they can just take over Congress if they feel like it…and murder or arrest anybody who gets in their way.
That is what 50 years of this message gets us.
If we're going to move to a new place, some new found respect for all those who serve us —even as we we still hold them accountable— will have to be a part of the solution. If not, we are in for not just more crushed officers, but more "crushed" DMV clerks and dog catchers too.
It's time for us to re-center our sense of not only accountability, but also respect, for all who serve us in the institution we call "the government."
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Dinosaurs – Species Encycolpedia
Atlascopcosaurus (meaning "Atlas Copco lizard") is a genus of herbivorous basal euornithopod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of the present Australia.
The type specimen, NMV P166409, was found in 1984 at the Dinosaur Cove East site at the coast of Victoria, in layers of the Eumeralla Formation dating from the early Cretaceous, Aptian-Albian. This holotype consists of a piece of the upper jaw, a partial maxilla with teeth. Nothing else is known about it; as the rest of the skeleton remains undiscovered it can only be inferred from closely related species that the genus represents a small bipedal herbivore. By extrapolation it has been estimated that it was about two to three metres (6.5–10 ft) long and weighed appoximately 125 kg. Because the teeth are not species-specific and the maxilla fragment is little informative, the taxon is today commonly seen as a nomen dubium.
The type species, Atlascopcosaurus loadsi, was named and described by Tom Rich and Patricia Vickers-Rich in 1988/1989. The generic name refers to the Atlas Copco Company who had provided equipment for the dig that discovered this dinosaur in 1984. The project revealed 85 fossil bone fragments of various species. This opened the door for more excavation and, along with other companies, Atlas Copco helped over ten years excavate about sixty metres of tunnel in a cliff wall at the sea shore. The specific name, loadsi, honours William Loads, the state manager for Atlas Copco at the time, who assisted during the dig.
Atlascopcosaurus was in 1988 assigned to the Hypsilophodontidae. These are today seen as an unnatural (paraphyletic) group and Atlascopcosaurus is now simply considered a basal member of the Ornithopoda.
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Unity AI – Reinforcement Learning with Q-Learning
Arthur Juliani, August 22, 2017
Welcome to the second entry in the Unity AI Blog series! For this post, I want to pick up where we left off last time, and talk about how to take a Contextual Bandit problem, and extend it into a full Reinforcement Learning problem. In the process, we will demonstrate how to use an agent which acts via a learned Q-function that estimates the long-term value of taking certain actions in certain circumstances. For this example we will only use a simple gridworld, and a tabular Q-representation. Fortunately, this, basic idea applies to almost all games. If you like to try out the Q-learning demo, follow the link here. For a deeper walkthrough of how Q-learning works, continue to the full text below.
The Q-Learning Algorithm
Contextual Bandit Recap
The goal when doing Reinforcement Learning is to train an agent which can learn to act in ways that maximizes future expected rewards within a given environment. In the last post in this series, that environment was relatively static. The state of the environment was simply which of the three possible rooms the agent was in, and the actions were choosing which chest within that room to open. Our algorithm learned the Q-function for each of these state-action pairs: Q(s, a). This Q-function corresponded to the expected future reward that would be acquired by taking that action within that state over time. We called this problem the "Contextual Bandit."
The Reinforcement Learning Problem
The lack of two things kept that Contextual Bandit example from being a proper Reinforcement Learning problem: sparse rewards, and state transitions. By sparse rewards, we refer to the fact that the agent does not receive a reward for every action it takes. Sometimes these rewards are "delayed," in that certain actions which may in fact be optimal, may not provide a payout until a series of optimal actions have been taken. To use a more concrete example, an agent may be following the correct path, but it will only receive a reward at the end of the path, not for every step along the way. Each of those actions may have been essential to getting the final reward, even if they didn't provide a reward at the time. We need a way to perform credit assignment, that is, allowing the agent to learn that earlier actions were valuable, even if only indirectly.
The second missing element is that in full reinforcement learning problems there are transitions between states. This way, our actions not only produce rewards according to a reward function: R(s, a) ⇨ r, but also produce new states, according to a state transition function: P(s, a) ⇨ s'. A concrete example here is that every step taken while walking along a path brings the agent to a new place in that path, hence a new state. Therefore we want our agent not only to learn to act to optimize the current possible reward, but act to move toward states we know provide even larger rewards.
Bellman Updates
While these two added elements of complexity may at first seem unrelated, they are in fact directly connected. Both imply a relationship between future states our agent might end up in, and future rewards our agent might receive. We can take advantage of this relationship to learn to take optimal actions under these circumstances with a simple insight. Namely, that under a "true" optimal Q-function (a theoretical one which we may or may not ever reach ourselves) the value of a current state and action can be decomposed into to the immediate reward r plus the discounted maximum future expected reward from the next state the agent will end up in for taking that action:
This is called the Bellman equation, and can be written as follows:
Here ? (gamma) is a discount term, which relates to how much we want our agent to care about future possible rewards. If we set ? to 1.0, our agent would value all possible future rewards equally, and in training episodes which never end, the value estimate might increase to infinity. For this reason, we set ? to something greater than 0 and less than 1. Typical values are between 0.7 and 0.99.
The Bellman equation is useful because it provides a way for us to think about updating our Q-function by bootstrapping from the Q-function itself. Q*(s, a) refers to an optimal Q-function, but even our current, sub-optimal Q value estimates of the next state can help push our estimates of the current state in a more accurate direction. Since we are relying primarily on the true rewards at each step, we can trust that the Q-value estimates themselves will slowly improve. We can use the Bellman equation to inform the following new Q-learning update:
This looks similar to our previous contextual bandit update algorithm, except that our Q-target now includes the discounted future expected reward at the next step.
In order to ensure that our agent properly explores the state space, we will utilize a form of exploration called epsilon-greedy. To use epsilon-greedy, we simply set an epsilon value ϵ to 1.0, and decrease it by a small amount every time the agent takes an action. When the agent chooses an action, it either picks argmax(Q(s, a)), the greedy action, or takes a random action with probability ϵ. The intuition is that at the beginning of training our agent's Q-value estimates are likely to be very poor, but as we learn about the world, and ϵ decreases, our Q-function will slowly correspond more to the true Q-function of the environment, and the actions we take using it will be increasingly accurate.
The Unity Gridworld
The blue block corresponds to the agent, the red blocks to the obstacles, and the green block to the goal position. The green and red spheres correspond to the value estimates for each of the states within the GridWorld.
To demonstrate a Q-learning agent, we have built a simple GridWorld environment using Unity. The environment consists of the following: 1- an agent placed randomly within the world, 2- a randomly placed goal location that we want our agent to learn to move toward, 3- and randomly placed obstacles that we want our agent to learn to avoid. The state (s) of the environment will be an integer which corresponds to the position on the grid. The four actions (a) will consist of (Up, Down, Left, and Right), and the rewards (r) will be: +1 for moving to the state with the goal, -1 for moving to the state with an obstacle, and -0.05 for each step, to encourage quick movement to the goal on the part of the agent. Each episode will end after 100 steps, or when the agent moves to a state with either a goal or obstacle. Like in the previous tutorial, the agent's Q values will be stored using a table, where the rows correspond to the state, and the columns to the possible actions. You can play with this environment and agent within your Web browser here, and download the Unity project to modify for use in your own games here. As the agent explores the environment, colored orbs will appear in each of the GridWorld states. These correspond to the agent's average Q-value estimate for that state. Once the agent learns an optimal policy, it will be visible as a direct value gradient from the start position to the goal.
The agent and environment presented here represent a classic tabular formulation of the Q-learning problem. If you are thinking that perhaps there is not much in common with this basic environment and the ones you find in contemporary games, do not worry. In the years since the algorithm's introduction in the 90s, there have been a number of important developments to allow Q-learning to be used in more varied and dynamic situations. One prime example is DeepMind's Deep Q-Network which was used to learn to play dozens of different ATARI games directly from pixels, a feat impossible using only a lookup table like the one here. In order to accomplish this, they utilized an agent which was controlled by a Deep Neural Network (DNN). By using a neural network it is possible to learn a generalized Q-function which can be applied to completely unseen states, such as novel combinations of pixels on a screen.
In the next few weeks we will release an interface with a set of algorithms and example projects to allow for the training of similar Deep Reinforcement Learning agent in Unity games and simulations. For a sneak peek of what these tools are capable of, you can check out the video link here. While this initial release will be limited, and aimed primarily at those working in research, industry, and game QA testing, we at Unity are excited about the possibilities opened up by using modern Deep Learning methods to learn game behavior. We hope that as this work matures, it will spark interest in using ML within game to control complex NPC behavior, game dynamics, and more. We are at the very beginning of exploring using Deep Learning in games, and we look forward to you continuing with us on this journey.
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15 replies on "Unity AI – Reinforcement Learning with Q-Learning"
Fredrik Chrislocksays:
Great initiative! I look forward to more posts in the future.
Are there any plans to integrate support for deep learning toolkits? I know the CNTK team is working on a C# wrapper. This could be a great possibility for Unity to be the first game engine to support next gen AI!
What a wonderful waste of time when you have major issues marked postponed for years.
Jacob Thornsays:
I'm not sure where you're major errors are, but why would ML people be fixing bugs in other parts of Unity? You're complaining in the wrong place mate ;)
Arowxsays:
Have you considered using AI to improve Unity's Garbage Collection or in other Management aspects of the game engine e.g. Job / Task / Thread Assignment.
Academic Article on ML running GC -> JVM 02′ : To Collect or Not To Collect? Machine Learning for Memory Management https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/javavm02/full_papers/andreasson/andreasson_html/index.html
SEFD Stuffsays:
Having a blast following this series thus far. I can't wait until you guys get to explore AI that is trained to react appropriately in dynamic environments ( I guess I am just begging for NNs lol)
Bastesays:
Thanks for these blog posts!
ML seems pretty scary from the outside, but the value is very apparent. The implementations you've published will be very helpful if we try to do something like this ourselves.
Trondsays:
Are there plans for implementing AI frameworks like openAI into Unity?
Petr Belasays:
OpenAI is not a framework. If you mean OpenAI's Gym (or Universe), their library of different training environments (games), it probably doesn't make much sense for Unity as the environments use the games' UI and only work with Python atm.
Then just stream the Unity UI to python.
Behramsays:
The example looks like a drunk A* so I wonder what this Q-Leaning is for.
A* finds the optimal path if the graph is known (you can describe exactly each state). Q-Learning (and Reinforcement Learning in general) tries to find the optimal path under unknown circumstances (part of the algorithm is to discover possible states, and often there are so many combinations that you can't learn all of them anyway) and in stochastic environments (action only leads to expected state with a certain probability). If you know the map of your country and want to navigate between cities, use A*. If you want to find the optimal order of steps (keystrokes) in a game, it's impossible to describe the problem as something A* could solve. Remember that A* uses heuristics to determine the next action. In games, you typically don't have any feedback (change in score) until much later, so you need to learn the "heuristic" over time, after playing the game over and over. You're right that once you know all the states in the world (which you'd get if you played the game an infinite number of times), you can come up with a policy that tells you what's the best action to take in each step, similar to A*'s policy of selecting the best (cost + heuristic) action. However, the whole process of learning the set of possible states and their costs is an integral part of Q-Learning, which A* doesn't deal with.
Some of the equations could use still or animated visuals.
Cheers and looking forward to more on this series.
Dansays:
How about breaking down those equations a little more and explain them step by step.
My father always told me: "There are two types of smart people in this world: Those who want to help people, and those who want to impress people with their intelligence. I hope you are the first kind!"
Dan the Mansays:
I totally agree, you've practically summed up most of the coders/ mathematicians, no offense y'all… But when will everyone understand that math is a language, very bad language because not a lot of people understand it, and those who do are generally not very friendly to… the most (with this weird nose up in the air behavior) . What Unity need is more template kinda stuff, simplify the saving system, most stuff that you see in gaming, make a simple template version of it so people can further customize it in their own way… If something is more needed beyond that, that's where the coding kicks in, and the big coders should be there to simplify it in general for the software, if there is a demand for it. I'm not talking about custom stuff that you buy, most of it is crap, you end up wasting your money…
Again, simplify, simplify, simplify or if you're too cool and too smart for that, you might start losing your user base (or at least not get a new one, while somebody else take the simple approach). Make it possible for the biggest doofus to make a Battlefield type game if he wants, very simply. That should be your goal.
Marco Pleinessays:
I guess the git repository is not made public yet (404) https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Q-GridWorld
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Wheat Investment
By SarahBell,
February 18, 2011 in House prices and the economy
Brief mention on bbc breakfast about some hedge fund/bankers raising money to do a huge investment in australian wheat.
So not content with breaking the banking system, now they're going for the baking system? ;-/
OnlyMe
Rolling riots worldwide, regime change, insurrection, break up of empire stuff. Carefully crafted and political alliances that form the backbone of the exisitng hierarchy swept aside in an orgy of inflation and discontent.
It's contained.
Endgame to the collapse of the dollar - toeghter with the loss of military, political and monetary influence around the world. Considering what the us has become as a financial influence, can't be a bad thing, their money system is rotten to the core.
There are HPCers on the same bandwagon. ETFs are the purest form of speculation. Google HPC for mention of "ETFs" in combination with terms such as Agriculture (or Agricultural), Wheat, Grain, etc, and you'll find some of the culprits for this.
As with so many things, there's a good and a bad side to profiting from food production. I have a few squid in an agricultural fund, but its focus is on investment in the infrastructure rather than speculation on the product. An ignorant commentator (most likely lefty-ish - the kind of idiot who thinks we should tax businesses and employment to death) might describe me as an evil capitalist for that, too.
LuckyOne
HPC Fundi
Location:British Columbia / Florida
From TMT's similar thread .....
There was a thread a while ago posing the question as to whether central bankers will ultimately be responsible for more deaths than any dictator in history because of the impact of their currency debasement on food prices. Personally, I would have added fiscal authorities to the question.
Hedge funds and wealthy households are only doing exactly what fiscal and monetary authorities have implicitly told them to do : "Buy things not promises".
I want a house!
On CME there are wheat futures along with a whole range of food types. This has been going on for a while. The markets don't move as fast as the bond markets.
sun n sea
As long as you're not the poor sap who can't afford to eat properly who gives a $hit... it's just markets and defensive financial planning. If a few thousand people starve then so be it... my pile of wonga is more important than some flyblown kid in Africa.... f*ck em.
RichB
The whole thing is ******ed. Not because of this, but because of the big players in retail and the government obsession with avoiding food riots.
But people so rarely seem to complain about that.


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I earned my A.B. in History from Vassar College, M.A. in History from the University of Connecticut, and Ph.D. in History from Temple University. I am currently Associate Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). I specialize in the history of U.S. foreign relations, with particular attention to the 20th century. My research focuses on U.S. relations with the Islamic world, U.S. relations with Iran, Muslim women's human rights, transnational history, and human rights and U.S. foreign policy.
My first book, U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018) was published in November 2017. It explored the integration of American concerns for women's human rights into U.S. policy towards the Islamic world since the Iranian Revolution. My other publications include book chapters and journal articles on President Harry Truman and the Middle East, the international movement to end female genital mutilation (FGM), U.S. encounters with Saudi gender relations during the first Gulf War, U.S. relations with Iran, and state of the field essays. I have also authored essays for Passport and Town Square 49, as well as several book reviews.
I was an inaugural faculty fellow with FAU's Peace, Justice, and Human Rights (PJHR) Initiative, and I am currently affiliated with PJHR and FAU's Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program. I am the recipient of several grants and honors, including a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend, the Samuel Flagg Bemis Research Grant from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), the SHAFR Summer Institute, and the Marvin Wachman Fellowship in Force and Diplomacy from the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy (CENFAD) at Temple University. I am an active member of SHAFR, as well as several other scholarly organizations.
I have presented papers at numerous scholarly venues, including the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Association for Iranian Studies, the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, the British Academy in London, the New England Historical Association, and the Temple University International History Workshop. My expertise has been called upon by the media, and I have given many public lectures.
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"Truman and the Middle East" in Blackwell Companion to Harry S. Truman, ed. Dan Margolies, 362-388. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2012.
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Article review of Jason Zeledon, "'As Proud as Lucifer': A Tunisian Diplomat in Thomas Jefferson's America," Diplomatic History 41:1 (January 2017): 155-183 for H-Diplo, July 14, 2017, https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/discussions/186277/h-diplo-article-review-709-"'-proud-lucifer'-tunisian-diplomat and http://tiny.cc/AR709.
Book review of Daniel Sargent, A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s (New York: Oxford, 2015) for Human Rights Quarterly 38, no. 2 (May 2016): 537-539.
Book review of Amy Motlagh, Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012) in "Book Notes," Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) website (June 2012): http://www.asmeascholars.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1502&catid=9&Itemid=64
Book review of Peter L. Hahn, Crisis and Crossfire: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945 (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, Inc., 2005) in Strategic Visions: Newsletter for the Center of the Study of Force and Diplomacy @ Temple University 8, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 7.
Book review of Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through 20th-Century Europe (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005) in Strategic Visions: Newsletter for the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy @ Temple University 6, no. 2 (Fall 2005): 9.
"The Rosenberg Espionage Trial and Engaged Learning Activities," online poster, Making Learning Visible, CAFÉ, University of Alaska Anchorage, April 2014, http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/cafe/portfolios/makinglearningvisible/reenacting-the-rosenbergs-engaged-learning-and-thinking-historically.cfm
"The Status of Women in Diplomatic and International History, 2008-2012: Five-Year Follow-Up Report, Prepared by the Committee on Women in SHAFR" by Kelly J. Shannon (co-chair), Laura Belmonte (co-chair), Walter Hixson, Katie Sibley, Kathy Rasmussen, and Shannon Fitzpatrick, Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review (January 2014): 61-65.
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"Persepolis and the Middle East Today," 2012 Anchorage Reads Program/Alaska World Affairs Council, February 16, 2012, electronic publication on Town Square 49, KSKA radio/NPR, http://www.alaskapublic.org/2012/02/16/"persepolis"-and-the-middle-east-today/
"India and the World: Michele Louro Organizes International Workshop at Temple," Strategic Visions: Newsletter for the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy @ Temple University 10, no. 2 (Fall 2009): 1-2.
"The Status of Women in Diplomatic and International History: A Report Prepared by the SHAFR Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Women," by Frank Costigliola, co-chair; Petra Goedde, co-chair Barbara Keys, Anna K. Nelson, Andrew Rotter, and Kelly Shannon, Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review (December 2008): http://www.shafr.org/passport/2008/december/Status of Women in SHAFR.pdf
"Inside the SHAFR Ad Hoc Committee on Women," Strategic Visions: Newsletter for the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy @ Temple University 9, no. 2 (Fall 2008): 2-4.
"On Suicide Bombing: Talal Asad's Visit to Temple," Strategic Visions: Newsletter for the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy @ Temple University 9, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 4-5.
The Ties of Good Harmony: U.S.-Iran Relations, 1905-1953 (monograph manuscript).
"'I Am Persia's': American Non-State Actors, Dollar Diplomacy, and Iran's Constitutional Revolution, 1905-1911" (journal article)
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