On-demand delivery startup Postmates has made it possible for customers to order from all their favorite restaurants, charging a small per-delivery fee for the service. Today, through a partnership with online clothing retailer Everlane, it's showing that it can reduce the time it takes for customers to get select apparel delivered from days down to within an hour.
To date, Postmates has primarily focused on the on-demand food delivery market, bringing lunch and dinner to hungry customers. Deliveries are made within an hour, with Postmates charging a $4.99 delivery fee for the service. But with the introduction of Everlane Now, the company is showing that its service can be used with a wider variety of partners.
Everlane, meanwhile, has operated mainly as a purely online retail brand with a rabid following of fans. Customers purchase items from its website and have them delivered a few days later. The Postmates partnership will drastically reduce the amount of time it will take for customers to get select items dropped off that their home or office.
Throughout September, customers in San Francisco will be able to shop from the Everlane Now site weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and have items delivered within an hour. At launch Everlane Now will have a pretty limited selection of items, including those from its T-shirts and Reverse Denim bag collection, but it will be adding more styles each week until October 3. While individual items will carry Postmates' usual $4.95 delivery fee, delivery will be free for any orders of two items or more.
The Everlane Now partnership shows how Postmates could open up and partner with other third-party retailers to power ever-faster deliveries. While the food vertical has been an obvious first starting point for the company, customers are increasingly looking to get other goods delivered quickly.
We're likely to see Postmates working with other brands over time as it integrates with more retailers to power their same-day delivery services. That said, there are a number of other players that are going after this market, with major companies like eBay and Google offering their own same-day delivery services for good purchased from nearby stores.


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Explanation. The main difference between this code and the previous tutorial is that I removed the comments.
I also bolded the code that we'll make into an object in the next section. Specifically, we will start off by making monster into an object. You should compare the code above, with the one below and make sure you understand the changes.
One thing to keep in mind for beginning programmers. Whenever you create a new object, it creates its own memory space, if you will, with its own variables. You access the objects variables by prefixing them with the keyword this. If you don't use it, your object will use the program's global variables.
Now omons is an object of type monster, and mons is a variable holding that object. Originally mons was a cylinder mesh created by Babylon, now it's an object of type monster. Remember that. We'll get to the object explanation last. For now, note that you pass the hero mesh (this is important, hero is a mesh, not an object) so that the monster's AI can point and move towards the hero properly.
There is one other important difference. The missile now checks for collision with the mons.mesh.position instead of just mons.position. This is because mons is now an object, and it's position is stored in a variable named mesh.
But where did all the code go? The answer is that it is now in the omons object.
So where did the code go? All the monster init code has been moved into the start of omons. And all the monster move code that used to be in the gameloop() has been moved to a function named move(). The gameloop simply needs to call mons.move() to access this code.
I added one another function draw(). This is for future enhancements. It will allow us to change the appearance of the monster real-time.
Next let's make an object out of the missile.
Explanation. Like the monster object, the missile object has been refactored into an object named oboom. The init() code for boom has been moved to the start of the oboom, and the gameloop() code for boom has been moved into the function move().
The function herocontrol() also has changes that reflect the fact that we are now accessing variables in the boom object. Hence, boom.dx versus boomdx, and boom.mesh.rotation.y versus boom.rotation.y.
Explanation. I saved the hero for last because the movement is controlled by the keyboard, and not automatic. Just like monster and missile, I created an object for the hero (ohero). I moved the old init() code to the start of ohero, and the old herocontrol() code to the function move() inside of ohero. Like monster and missile, I adjusted variable references to use the variables in the object (this.etc).
Here's why you need it. The key down event has it's own memory context, which gets stored in this, whenever move() is called back in response to a keydown. This callback context has none of your variables. So, you have to force the correct context to be put in this. That's what bind does.
Okay so let's do yet another refactoring to eliminate or minimize the use of globals and constants. The most obvious global in the objects is scene. The most obvious constant is the height of the cone. The positions of the objects are also hard coded. We can randomize position to some extent, but we will have to hardcode the range of random variables.
One problem with our game is that missiles fly on forever until the player hits the fire key (Enter). With objects, fixing this is easy.
Explanation. Instead of instantiating the missile in init(), we set boom to null, and in the gameloop(), boom.move is only called if boom is not null. The oboom object take a hero as input and remembers the starting position of the hero in new variables sx and sz. The distance the bullet travels will be controlled by maxd. If the missile is less than maxd units from sx and sz, it continues, otherwise the missile is disappears via dispose() and boom is set to null. The missile is now instantiated in the hero's move(), when the user hits the Enter key, but only if there is not currently a missile displayed (if (boom==null)…).
Thus, the player can only shoot one missile at a time, and must wait for the missile to disappear before shooting another one.


Eddie Dunstedter's CHRISTMAS CANDY: A Lost 'Lounge' Holiday Classic?
Title: Eddie Dunstedter's CHRISTMAS CANDY: A Lost 'Lounge' Holiday Classic?
I know I've talked about this album before, but out of the three Christmas LPs organist Eddie Dunstedter released, Christmas Candy is, in my humble opinion, a lost lounge holiday classic.
Released in 1965 on Capitol records, I first became aware of this album through the handful of songs that appeared on Capitol's own Ultra-Lounge: Christmas Cocktails compilations. Since then, I've sought out multiple copies of the album on vinyl and enjoy listening to them a few times each Christmas season. For those who might be averse to instrumental, organ-based, Christmas albums, rest assured: there are plenty of other instruments to round out the songs and keep the tone lighthearted and upbeat, rather than church-like or funereal. The whole affair was quite well recorded (Christmas Candy WAS released on Capitol records, afterall) and the arrangements have a distinctly "hip" Now Sound feel with tight rhythm sections, walking bass lines, and a slight bossa nova bent, all of which tends to be just shy of kitschy. But therein lies the charm of this overlooked album!
Although there's no connection between the two other than the original record label and release year, I think Eddie Dunstedter's Christmas Candy would make a wonderful twofer CD reissue with The Hollyridge Strings' Christmas Favorites LP. It's a darn shame that the Collectors' Choice CD of the latter has long since fallen out of print.
The cuts from Christmas Candy and Christmas Favorites that made their way onto the Christmas Cocktails CDs are among the best of the bunch and full album reissues of both would be a welcome addition to any Golden Age of Christmas Music afficionados' collection.
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That's correct, Peter, Eddie Dunstedter's third Christmas album, Christmas Candy, was indeed his best. It resides in the 2nd Tier of my Top 500, coming in at #220. His first and second Christmas albums are in the Bubbling Under section of my Top 500, coming in at #381 and #382, respectively.
The Eddie Dunstedter and Hollyridge Strings Christmas LPs, both being Capitol Records releases, unfortunately now fall under the jurisdiction of UMG, which won't make a release for either album very easy. When Collectors' Choice Music's Hollyridge Strings reissue CD was released in 2008, it was negotiated with Capitol's parent company EMI. In 2012, EMI was absorbed by UMG, thus, sadly, putting the entire Capitol Records library under their control.
That's truly disappointing that CD reissues of Christmas Candy and/or Christmas Favorites are a slim to none possibility. I'm glad I was able to purchase a copy of the latter when it was initially released by Collectors' Choice Music.
Thanks for the info, Chip. As always, it's very much appreciated.
I wouldn't qualify a release in the future as slim to none, Peter, but it would be exponentially more difficult.


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Q: What is the variance of `K >: T` and `K <: T` if `T` is covariant or contravariant? If T is covariant or contravariant, can I determine the variance of:
K >: T

or
K <: T

I ask this because I see in the book "programming in scala", it says, in the code:
trait Cat[T] {
   def meow[K]
}

The position of K is negative, it must be contravariant(Let's assume it's not a nonvariant type).
Since we can't just declare covariance or contravariance just with a single type K, we have to use upper bound or lower bound, so the K may be:
K >: T

or
K <: T

But how can I determine new type is covariant or contravariant?

A: As I already noted in a comment, type variance can only be talked of in relation to a type parameter. A type itself isn't covariant or contravariant or invariant. Since K does not appear in the type parameter list of Cat, Cat has no variance in relation to K. Consider:
trait Cat[T] {
  def meow[K]
}

class SiameseCat[T] extends Cat[T] {
  def meow[K] = println("loud meow")
}

class Foo
class Bar extends Foo
class Baz extends Bar

val barSiamese = new SiameseCat[Bar]

// COMPILATION ERROR: personality.analysis.demo.Bar <: personality.analysis.demo.Foo, but class SiameseCat is invariant in type T
val fooSiamese: SiameseCat[Foo] = barSiamese
// SAME
val bazSiamese: SiameseCat[Baz] = barSiamese

// NO ERROR
barSiamese.meow[Foo]
barSiamese.meow[Bar]
barSiamese.meow[Baz]
barSiamese.meow[Int]
barSiamese.meow[Unit]

Arguably, in more lax speech, you can say a type is *variant if it's obviously a container type and takes just one type parameter, such as List[T]; i.e. one can say List is covariant, but this actually expands to "List[T] is covariant with respect to T".
However, if K did in fact appear in the type parameter list of Cat, it would make it possible to declare Cat as covariant with respect to K by prepending a + to K: Cat[T, +K], which will be allowed by the compiler because K only appears in variance-neutral positions in the body of Cat:
def meow[K]  // <-- meow doesn't take any parameters and returns `Unit`, so `K` is irrelevant with respect to variance

if, however, you were returning K from meow, you'd only be able to mark Cat as invariant or covariant with respect to K:
def meow: K  // contravariance made impossible

conversely, this:
def meow(x: K)  // covariance made impossible

would force you to either go with Cat[T, -K] (contravariant) or just Cat[T, K] (invariant).
For the reason why, either google, or see a recent answer of mine @ why the first type parameter is defined as contravariant in Function1[-A, +B]?

A: The type parameters of methods such as K in def meow[K] can't be co- or contravariant. The notion can only apply to type parameters of types.

Since we can't just declare covariance or contravariance just with a single type K, we have to use upper bound or lower bound

This also doesn't make sense. We can declare that MyClass is covariant in K like this:
class MyClass[+K]

This is completely unrelated to lower/upper bounds: you can have a variant type parameter with or without a bound.

A: Two type of variance for:
class X1
class X2 extends X1
class X3 extends X2

1) Declaration-site variance:
// covariant type-constructor:
class Cat[+T]

var cat : Cat[X2] = new Cat[X2]
var cat = new Cat[X3]
// cat = new Cat[X1] // not compiled

2) Using-site variance (by upper or lower bound limitation):
//covariant variable for invariant type constructor:
class Cat[T]

var cat : Cat[_ <: X2] = new Cat[X2]
cat = new Cat[X3]
// cat = new Cat[X1] // not compiled

Decalration-site variance used in type-constructor(container) declaration and using-site variance commonly used in method or variavle declararion.

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Rolling Stones chronology – January 25
1963: The Stones' first show ever at the Ricky Tick Club at the Star and Garter Hotel, Windsor, Berkshire, England. Reportedly, all the walls in the club were painted black and the lighting was made out of old ice-cream tins.
1964: California Ballroom, Dunstable, England (extracurricular gig)
1964: Release of the SATURDAY CLUB compilation album (Decca LK 4583), incl. two Stones songs: 1. Fortune Teller/ 2. Poison Ivy
1965: City Hall, Brisbane, Australia (2 shows)
1983: Keith attends Tina Turner's show at The Ritz in New York, and then joins Tina, David Bowie, journalist Lisa Robinson and tennis player John McEnroe backstage (all photos by Bob Gruen)
1994: Re-release of Leon Russell's debut album 'LEON RUSSELL' on CD, with Mick and Bill as guests on one song (bonus track): 'Shine a Light' (under the title 'Get A Line On You')
1999: Oakland Arena, Oakland, CA, USA (first show of the No Security North American Tour)
Jumping Jack Flash/Live With Me/Respectable/You Got Me Rocking/Undercover Of The Night/Moonlight Mile/Shine A Light/Some Girls/Paint It Black/Band introduction/You Got The Silver/Before They Make Me Run/Out Of Control/Route 66/I Just Wanna Make Love To You/Honky Tonk Women/Saint Of Me/It's Only Rock'n Roll/Start Me Up/Brown Sugar/Midnight Rambler/Sympathy For The Devil
2002: Ronnie joins The Corrs at Ardmore Studios, in Bray, Ireland for 'Little Wing' and 'Ruby Tuesday'. The show was later released as both an album ('VH1 Presents: The Corrs, Live in Dublin) and a VH1 TV special.
2003: Reliant Stadium, Houston, TX, USA
Brown Sugar/Start Me Up/If You Can't Rock Me/Don't Stop/All Down The Line/Angie/You Can't Always Get What You Want/Monkey Man/Can't You Hear Me Knocking/Tumbling Dice/Band introduction/Slipping Away/Before They Make Me Run/Sympathy For The Devil/It's Only Rock'n Roll/Little Red Rooster/Midnight Rambler/Gimme Shelter/Honky Tonk Women*/Street Fighting Man/Jumping Jack Flash/Satisfaction
*With special guest Johnnie Johnson (piano)
2005: Release of HUBERT SUMLIN's CD 'About Them Shoes', with Keith as guest (guitar and vocals) on three tracks: 1. I Love The Life I Live/ 2. Little Girl, This Is The End/ 3. Still a Fool
2006: United Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Jumping Jack Flash/It's Only Rock'n Roll/Rough Justice/Love Is Strong/Memory Motel/Rain Fall Down/Ain't Too Proud To Beg/Midnight Rambler/Tumbling Dice/Band introduction/This Place Is Empty/Happy/Miss You/Respectable/Get Off Of My Cloud/Honky Tonk Women/Sympathy For The Devil/Start Me Up/Brown Sugar/You Can't Always Get What You Want/Satisfaction
2010: English newspaper The Sun reports Keith stopped drinking.
Read more: https://www.zimbio.com/Keith+Richards/articles/TWEG1O5kYIN/Keith+Richards+Says+Good+Bye+Booze
2013: Release of RONNIE LANE BAND's DVD 'Live At Rockpalast 1980', with Stu as guest
January 25, 2014: Keith attends Swingadelic's show at the Swing46 Jazz and Supper Club, in New York City.
Read more: https://pagesix.com/2014/01/27/keith-richards-dances-at-jazz-club/
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Theater in the River City.
The Lee Blessing play, Eleemosynary, is in production at the All Beaches Experimental Theatre through March 31. While you may not know the meaning of the word in its title or have heard of the play, don't miss seeing this powerful and moving show.
The definition of eleemosynary is relating to or dependent on charity; charitable, and is a central theme in the play. The story follows the complicated relationships of three generations of highly intelligent women in the Westbrook family: a young girl, her mother, and her grandmother.
The eldest character is Dorothea, a mature woman who has chosen to be eccentric. Her grown daughter is Artemis, who works as a biochemist and possesses a remarkable memory. Artie's equally brilliant daughter, Echo, has been abandoned by her mother and raised by Dorothea. As the story unfolds, Echo, who has a love of words, is a finalist in a spelling bee competition.
ABET's production is expertly directed by Christopher P. Farrell. The language is rich and the story unfolds beautifully during the one-act play, clearly releasing its messages about love. While there are some powerful scenes in this show, there are many humorous moments, too.
Farrell assembled an excellent cast and each member is believable in her role. Holly Gutshall is outstanding as Dorothea. Along with her character's dominance and eccentricity, Gutshall brings kindness and compassion to the role. Dorothea's grown daughter, Artemis, is skillfully portrayed by Karen Konzen, who subtly reveals her damaged character's frustration and fear. Brynne Tolentino, a sophomore at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, presents a remarkable performance as Echo, demonstrating the joy of a young child and the conviction of a young adult wise beyond her years.
The creative team is equally brilliant. Amanda Jackson served as assistant director, stage manager and light and sound operator. In addition to directing, Farrell is the scenic designer with Meganne McCawley Johnson as the scenic artist. Bryan Frank's lighting design complemented the action on stage. Farrell and Frank provide the sound design.
Performances continue March 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, and 31. Curtain is 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets $24 adults. Students 18 and under, $12 in advance, $15 at the door.
For reservations, go to http://www.abettheatre.com or call (904) 249-7177. ABET is located at 544 Atlantic Blvd. in Neptune Beach.
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Companies have the right to hire spin doctors — sorry, communication specialists — to argue their case. But what are the limits? In some ways, the situation is like a criminal accused having the right to an attorney. But there are no legally enforceable rules specific to spin … sorry, communications specialists. Often they are former journalists who provide good information, and journalists still in the profession rely on them more than they'd care to admit. But there are limits.
This week, at the Zondo commission on state capture, Angelo Agrizzi, former COO of facilities management company Bosasa, revealed that several journalists and communications specialists were on the payroll. He named three: Benedicta Dube (who has passed away), Pinky Khoabane and Stephen Laufer; and two whom he only knew as "Ntuli" from the Sunday Times or The Star and "Bongs" from the Eastern Cape. It seems members of the Bosasa spin team were expected to behave a bit like Mafia enforcers, chiefly against Adriaan Basson, now editor-in-chief of News24, who was then working on stories involving Bosasa for the Mail & Guardian.
Basson says people from Bosasa phoned to ask or demand that he stop writing about the company, pleading that their jobs were on the line. Most creepy was a call from someone who pretended to be on his side. She mentioned personal information such as where he was born. She said she would "kill" him if he revealed the call. It was artful but in the end an obvious attempt at doublespeak.
Basson googled her number and discovered it belonged to Dube, who was a "communication strategist" at Igagu Media at the time. Khoabane has denied on Twitter she ever met Agrizzi (he did not claim that she had) and has said she wants to cross-examine him.
Laufer, a former journalist and spin doctor for companies involved in the arms deal, told reporters that he fired his then client because he wasn't prepared to perform the "unethical activities" it demanded. How's that for spin doctoring?
Just as the Bosasa testimony has revealed that state capture was larger than the Gupta family, Agrizzi's testimony suggests the spin aspect of state capture was larger than Bell Pottinger. It goes to show that in every act of corruption there is always a parallel battle over the truth.


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HomeEntertainmentUpcoming Marathi film Bhirkit promises to be a family entertainer
Upcoming Marathi film Bhirkit promises to be a family entertainer
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 9: Are you a movie connoisseur who loves watching various genres of cinema? Then dark comedies will undoubtedly feature in your list of must-watch movies! There have been only a handful of cult black comedies like Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro in Hindi or the recent Jhatka: Atta Survat Gondhalachi in Marathi. It is being speculated that Anup Jagdale's Bhirkit is another such black comedy which has joined this bandwagon and promises to make the family audience bewildered with amazement and become tongue-tied with various shades of emotions.
The versatile and intense actor Girish Kulkarni plays Tatya's role in this film, and he is an integral part of every family in the village. His fans will now have another reason to celebrate. They will be thoroughly entertained by their favourite star in Bhirkit, which is anticipated to turn a new leaf in the glorious Marathi film industry. There are several other seasoned actors like Hrishikesh Joshi, Kushal Badrike, and Sagar Karande who also play pivotal roles. There is even a romantic angle between Tanaji Galgunde of Sairat fame and Monalisa Bagal, who has been cast again by Anup Jagdale after Zhalla Bobhata.
Director Anup Jagdale is upbeat and geared up regarding his forthcoming movie Bhirkit and expressed, "We have shot in real locations of Mahabaleshwar and Wai. We all were in perpetual splits shooting the above pathos happening. "The Director even spoke about the title Bhirkit and further added, "In rural Maharashtra, piercing implants called Bhirkit make racing bullocks go blazing. Similarly, in life, we all have a Bhirkit which keeps us galloping ahead, and those who stop get sliced through and through."
Girish Kulkarni poured his heart out as he spoke highly about the legends of Marathi cinema who have mesmerized us over the years. Girish expressed," Marathi actors like Sriram Lagoo, Ashok Saraf and Mohan Agashe have always been respected for their craft and acting prowess. What further adds to our profile is our theatrical background. The current cross over tickle might become a tide in times to come." Girish plays the central character in the narrative and says, "I have never played such a unique character; it was fun essaying the all-knowing village elder Tatya."
Monalisa is the female protagonist as she essays the role of village girl Reshma. She was elated to be a part of this ensemble star cast and brimming with confidence and excitement. Monalisa expressed," It was like a dream come true working with this cast and crew. I was intrigued by the concept and have never heard of this kind of movie ever made in the history of Marathi cinema."
Bhirkit will release at a theatre near you on June 17, 2022; Suresh Oswal and Bhagyavanti Oswal produced it, and it was Directed by Anup Jagdale. It is slated to release on more than 400 screens across Maharashtra.
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Take bronze and let it bleed complete. Flood the pupil with hues of copper and marigold to ignite the suns of her eyes. A silver shadow running just below the ball. We had been awake for hours; turtle-shelled with rucksacks and sweet American heat; our adventure doubling to a tour of the cheapest drive-ins and dives; the real American dream. I sip iced tea and drown somewhere between the rose of her lips and sleep-requesting smile. A vein pulses blue from her elbow, maps the interchange of routes from avenue to avenue. I dot-to-dot her freckles.


Take a stand! That's what Ricepaper Magazine is all about. For almost two decades, our publication has been a platform, nay a community, for those who have a voice to speak and a pen to write. Whether the message concerns political injustice or cultural misrepresentation, we will make every effort possible to amplify it. After a tumultuous year, we must not become idle. We must take the momentum of 2014 and carry it on to the next year and beyond.
Ricepaper Magazine honours all the efforts made by activists in the issue 19.4. Within you'll find fiction by Ivy Song and Lydia Kwa; a conversation with Fred Wah and Rita Wong; poetry by Janet Rogers, Janey Lew, and Rita Wong; and creative non-fiction by Hiromi Goto and many others.
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That's the defense ranked No. 18 nationally, atop C-USA in overall defense (302.2 yards per game) and pass defense (173.5); and the offense ranked No. 23 nationally (507.0), No. 1 in the conference in yards per completion (17.16).
"It's just like I told our defense – people put our film on, they'll say 'Wow. These guys play fast. We better come to play,' " FIU coach Ron Turner said. "I say the same thing about these guys. Both on offense and defense."
After blasting Troy 48-10, UAB (2-1) bombed its way to a measure of national respect against Mississippi State despite losing 47-34. It wasn't just that the Blazers scored on an SEC defense. It's that they did it in a way non-SEC teams aren't supposed to be able to against SEC defenses – touchdown passes of 88, 81 and 75 yards.
"They hit four or five deep balls on them. One was called back," Turner said. "They hit four posts on them, three for touchdowns. The impressive thing is it was three different receivers (JJ Nelson, Josh Magee, Quincy Perdue) and two different quarterbacks (Jeremi Briscoe, Cody Clements). They're very explosive, they can score a lot of points and they can score in a hurry."
UAB, FIU and Southern Miss formed last year's C-USA Tire Fire Trio. FIU got its only win of the season, 24-23, against Southern Miss. A week later, UAB got its only FBS win against FIU, 27-24. Southern Miss ended the season blasting UAB out of Legion Field 62-27 and UAB coach Garrick McGee all the way to Louisville, where he's offensive coordinator.
When Bill Clark came from Jacksonville State, UAB seemed to be where FIU and Southern Miss were a year earlier with their then-new coaches. And UAB football has long been treated like Cinderella by the powers that be in Alabama.
"We started with the infrastructure," Clark said at Conference USA Media Day. "Do you have enough people training your guys in the strength program? Are they good at what they do? What's your nutrition look like? We needed a new locker room, so we built us a locker room. A video system … just some basics.
"Then, we went about the process of coming together. Were we working hard? Were we training correctly? Trying to make them into a family. Then, we had to go out and find some older guys to mix in with our guys because we were so young. Offensive line, we were down to eight players in spring. Stuff that makes you say, 'No wonder.' "
UAB's coming off a bye week after needing a comeback to beat FCS team Alabama A&M 41-14.
"We talk about the fact that we can compete against anyone on our schedule," Clark said this week. "But we feel like anyone on our schedule can beat us. That's the scary thing about the conference play that we are approaching."
▪ The Panthers boarded the plane that was supposed to take them to Birmingham early Friday afternoon. The plane lacked air conditioning, prompting some players to take off their shirts. The plane also lacked more than one working engine, prompting FIU to deplane around 2:30. While a new plane was flown in, the team bused to a restaurant for dinner. They boarded the new plane around 9 p.m.
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Modular kitchens are preferred by people today as modular kitchens signify the modern décor in homes which makes the functioning easier and more organized. The modular kitchen is not that easy to design and at same time it is not that easy to maintain.
When getting modular kitchen don't go just by what is appearing on the store because the setup shown is designed such that it makes kitchen space look better. You must select as per your kitchen space and here you must work with an interior designer who will be able to help you plan well. Interior designer will be able to help you with the modular kitchen function, blend it with beauty and also in your budget.
This is basic factor which you must give thought too. There can be lot of confusion over wood, chipboard, plywood, or alternative materials if you want wood free kitchen such as glass, steel, coria, and stone. Give thought to thickness of materials as well. you don't want shelves coming unhinged. Go for high quality.
You can opt for bright colors as kitchen has to be bright and happy place.
Ensure your kitchen is well lit.
The overhead cabinets must not cash shadows on workspace and on countertop. For this you can install lighting fixtures under overhead cabinets to light the workspace.
Customize kitchen to suit your needs such as height of cabinets and the depth of countertops.
Appliances such as sink, faucet, racks, utensils, electrical sockets, and all such things need to be taken care of.
I agree with you that most people prefer modern designs on their homes. Hence, modular kitchen is almost a must. I love how easy it is to setup, making your kitchen ready sooner than the traditional setup.
I would so follow these tips – these are pretty interesting do's to set up a modular kitchen. I agree with these tips and would say that the look part is very important.
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Winning Drivers and Graceful Children Provide Daytona Speedway Smiles
Posted by Patrick Reynolds | Jan 27, 2017 | Patrick's Column | 1 |
Story and photo by Patrick Reynolds
Daytona Beach, FL- "Hang on a sec. I'll be right back!" shouted James Vance as he did a quick jog away from me.
Already suited up in his MINI JCW fireproof uniform for that afternoon's race at Daytona International Speedway, he navigated his way through a crowd of people with quick precision.
Vance's car was staged in the garage area with the rest of the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge field. Crew members were moving equipment onto pit road while fans milled about in search of driver autographs and their perfect selfie angle.
Vance danced in between the sea of wandering feet with his target in sight. He quickly ran up, squatted, and then embraced a little girl. The pair happily hugged each other in a reunion-style squeeze. The young lady's family was equally happy to see Vance.
"She's my little fan," said Vance.
His young friend is nine-year-old Grace Beck. She is an ambassador for Race Day Foundation which brings children and their families out to various racetracks and series. The Foundation operates in a similar manner as Make-A-Wish except that Race Day does exactly as the name implies and organizes speedway events.
Grace's mother Jill leads Race Day Foundation and said that her daughter is fortunately healthy and is able to work as a Foundation advocate.
Vance returned to where we were standing to speak about the race that was less than an hour away from the green flag. His excitement from seeing Grace carried over in his voice to address the BMW Endurance Challenge.
"I feel very, very lucky to be paired with someone who has a good head on his shoulders and knows what patience is in racing," said Vance in regards to his co-driver Mike LaMarra. "He knows what to do and knows what needs to be done for us to win a championship."
LaMarra was slated to begin the race's first stint with Vance set to finish the race for the checkered flag.
"The amateur starts and the pro finishes," said Vance. "For the last year-and-a half… two years, I've really been making a push to try and steer myself from amateur to pro driver. In the last year-and-a-half, I've made that jump by finishing races and by racing against the guys that I've looked up to my whole career.
"When the amateur is in the car he's usually about a second-and-a-half off of the pace of the pro. When the pro gets in, we're able to race against the other guys that are relative speed to other drivers around us. It's about managing the other drivers around you with the tools that you have available to you," Vance said. "We're all race car drivers and we want to go as fast as we can all of the time."
Vance humbly complimented LaMarra as having "no ego. He's easy going. He knows what's best for the team. He knows what needs to be done. A guy like that makes my life really easy. He's trying to do what's best for us, and what's best for us is to get the car to the end of his stint with four corners on it and me to get in and be able to do my job by finishing strong."
Vance and LaMarra qualified ninth in the Street Tuner class and finished the four-hour BMW Endurance Challenge in 12th.
Trent Hindman and Cameron Cassels won the race sharing driving duties in their Porsche Cayman GT4. They were thrilled in Victory Lane and then in the media center, but the happiness on Vance's face may still have been even a bit brighter than the winners when he finished his hug with Grace.
"A smile on the child's face is what it is all about," said Jill Beck about Race Day Foundation. "Then I know I've done my job."
Race Day Foundation works hard to put smiles on the faces of children and their families at race tracks. Amateur and professional drivers team up in the Continental Tire SportsCar Series and look to share smiles with their pit crew in Winner's Circle.
James Vance worked hard with a goal to raise a trophy at the end of the BMW Challenge but fell short. From the genuine feeling that was shared between he and Grace earlier in the afternoon, I don't know if the race win would have made his face beam any bright than his "little fan" did.
Patrick Reynolds is a former professional NASCAR mechanic who hosts Speedway Report Mondays 7:30 pm ET/ 4:30 pm PT on http://speedwayreport.wpengine.com/ . Follow on Twitter @SpeedwayPat.
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Patrick Reynolds watched his first auto race on June 5, 1976 at the age of seven, and instantly fell in love with the sport. His life has been deeply rooted in racing ever since. Reynolds' father took him to the Danbury Racearena in Connecticut for Saturday night stock car races. It was a one-third mile paved fairgrounds oval that featured modifieds sanctioned by the Southern New York Racing Association. This group was a private club that held a strong connection to the local community. A common weekly grandstand crowd was in the six-to-seven thousand range. The first NASCAR race Reynolds attended was in September of that same year. The Thompson 300 for modifieds was becoming very prestigious and also held in Connecticut. The five-eighths of a mile high-banked oval looked massive compared to the Danbury bullring. The event also gave him a good idea of auto racing's competition level. Big winners and track champions from the Racearena often gridded in the non-qualifier's race just to make the back of the 300's field. Geoff Bodine dominated and won that day driving for Dick Armstrong. Occasional trips to other New England and New York short tracks ensued, but Danbury remained Reynolds' home track. The Racearena sadly closed in 1981 to make way for a shopping mall. A mall he boycotts in support of auto racing. Trips to Stafford Springs, Riverside Park, Lebanon Valley and other area speedways for his racing fix now increased. He witnessed some of the best drivers from the Northeast. Richie Evans, Brett Hearn, Dave Dion, Bentley Warren, Maynard Troyer, Billy Pauch, Dick McCabe and so many others that several pages could be filled here. Reynolds' first NASCAR Grand National (now Cup) race in person was in July of 1984 at Pocono, Pennsylvania. Harry Gant won a late-race battle with Cale Yarborough and Bill Elliott to win on this day. Quite a few of stock car racing's best were in the field. State law allowed him into the Stafford pit area when he turned 16. His racing mechanic apprenticeship began with helping drivers Jimmy Broderick and Ed Flemke Jr. in the late 1980s. His dedication stretched to the point where he never attended any of his high school proms. They were held on race nights and race nights were not skipped. Reynolds went dirt racing in 1989 on Bobby Knipe's pit crew with a sportsman car at Lebanon Valley Speedway in New York. Asphalt racing was his first love but a new-found respect and appreciation for dirt racing developed. Reynolds drove his own street stock at the Orange County Fair Speedway in Middletown, NY during the early 1990s and raced a Northeast pavement late model in the later 90s. In 2001 he relocated to "Race City U.S.A." Mooresville North Carolina, planning to use his racing experience to launch a professional NASCAR career. Over the next seven seasons he worked for multiple NASCAR teams. Mechanic, fabricator, tire specialist, and over-the-wall pit crew member became new job titles. Among the drivers he worked with were Michael Waltrip, Kenny Wallace, Brian Vickers, and A.J. Allmendinger. Germain Racing and their Nationwide Series program with Mike Wallace in 2008 was the last race team job for Reynolds. The country's economic recession set in and many of his fellow Charlotte-area NASCAR professionals were downsized right out of their careers. This is what led him to the media side of the industry. The broadcasting and writing world of motorsports was always something Reynolds thought about for the future. Similar to when an ex-football player steps behind a microphone during a telecast, however his timetable was suddenly sped up. He began freelance writing for websites that covered auto racing. His radio career began with networking an opportunity onto a motorsports talk show with a local radio station. One step led to another and Speedway Report is now home. The program airs Mondays at 7:30 pm ET on RacersReunion Radio for the Zeus Radio Network and SpeedwayReport.com/TV/. The show and www.speedwayreport.com aim to keep racers and fans informed of the latest racing news while remembering and respecting the wonderful history of the sport. Since his media career began, Reynolds has won 22 awards from the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association. Their annual breakfast presents the honors at the Brickyard Crossing golf club on the morning prior to the Indianapolis 500. He also holds the Association's secretary position and is chairman of the AARWBA annual All-America Team award committee. His new home and place in the auto racing world is embraced. Relaying experiences from nearly a lifetime on both sides of the fence is thoroughly enjoyed by Reynolds. Gone are crew chief and sponsorship politics that bounce personnel from team to team. Now he takes it upon himself to express and discuss opinions, instead of hiding them for the sake of keeping a paycheck. The family's stress from NASCAR team instability is not missed. So, welcome to Speedway Report. The written or spoken word about anything in the auto racing world has a place there. Tune in to the weekly broadcasts, listen to the archives, and read Patrick's columns. The show and accompanying website are a place for his thoughts and yours. He is glad you are along for the ride!
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Wonderful doings, wonderful coverage of it, with great story!!
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Buddhist wisdom sharing platform TsemRinpoche.com is raising funds to translate works into Nepali and Tibetan
TsemRinpoche.com was started in March 2010 with an aim to spread ancient Buddhist teachings around the world that will help the people in achieving harmony and balance amidst the stressful modern lifestyle. Since its launch, the website has generated a total of 18 million views and currently, the average viewership is 355,236 per month.
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Sony "working closely" with Bethesda to bring 'Dawnguard' to PS3
Bethesda may have recently expressed doubt over the idea of Skyrim's "Dawnguard" DLC making its way to the PlayStation 3, but Sony hasn't given up quite yet. The company has assured fans of the franchise that its working closely with the top RPG developer to bring this massive chunk of content to its console.
"We work with all of our partners to try and solve their problems," Sony's Adam Boyes recently told Kotaku. "We have a big, broad dev support team that works closely with Bethesda—and with all of our partners—to work with them to solve that any sort of issues they have along the way."
Things aren't looking too hopeful, as Skyrim's second piece of DLC has already hit the Xbox 360, but it's not over until Sony gives up. Nothing's being promised, but it sounds as if both sides are getting more serious about the process than ever.
"Of course, I always want everything to work always for everyone. I can't promise any kind of resolution or timeline but can say that everyone involved is trying their best to get this stuff working."
It's just a strange situation, but are you still upset about the content's PlayStation 3 absence? Do you even care to play "Dawnguard" anymore? Sound off in the comments below!


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A: $\newcommand{Cov}{\operatorname{Cov}}$Covariance behaves like multiplication in that it distributes over linear combinations of random variables. Thus
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The link from nickekdevils are really good, maybe someone know similar clip or serial that had similarity stories with that?
I am sorry to disturb you all guys, but i really curious why this thread became so quiet in the past few months?? Because there is no new video or because somebody doesn't want to share it?
There's been a post about every 5 days with new stuff, how is that quiet? You know there is not an infinite supply of content out there, right?
There seems too be less content out there. We just have to wait for the new stuff. Hopefully new things will show up.
When someone brings this thread back five months from now, be sure to wish it a happy 5th birthday.
Where is disguise/impostor f/f? Post is confused. Thank you.
Please, someone would disguises / Indian impostor? The links are very confused. I thank you.
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post #253, not able to open the link. Please mention the name and episode no.
It's called Shapat 10 September episode.
Yeah it was Shapath episode 10. There is a show called Nagaarjun where am I waiting for possession and female transformation but the episodes are rather slow. Sasural Simar Ka has moved away from the supernatural theme and is soon coming to a end from what I heard. Hopefully new ones shall come up.
There are lots cropping up. Iccha pyari nagin(which will start soon), naa ninna bidalare, sarpa sambandha etc. but have to wait for the transformation scenes.
and Brahmarakshas which had female swap in episode 3 or 4 i think.
@guest(A) I couldn't find the female swap in Brahamaraskhas do you know time or characters?


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July 3, 2019 DisIsAfrica
Horror in world's rape capital: 8 month old baby raped in Cape Town
When is the horror of rape and abuse in South Africa going to stop? South Africa known as the rape capital of the world has now gone to a point of no return, a point where something drastic has to be done before victims and their family start taking laws into their hands.
An 8-month-old baby was raped in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town, a local councillor and police said on Tuesday. Police spokesperson Captain FC van Wyk said a case of rape was reported on Saturday at about 14:00.
Facts about 8 months old baby
"My level of nausea far [outweighs] my disgust at this case," said City of Cape Town ward Councillor Angus McKenzie.
McKenzie said in a Facebook post: "I was in tears at [the] sound of the voice of the family member who graphically replayed what is alleged to have taken place."
He said he would fight for bail to be opposed for anybody arrested and would do whatever he could to ensure that a heavy sentence was imposed.
"This young baby needs a united community to grow from this. We need to be in one voice, condemning this moral decay of our society in the strongest terms.
Rape has become business as usual in South Africa for a very long time, more than half of the women in the country have experienced rape or one form of sexual abuse or the other. Any type of rape is bad but nothing can compare with the rape of an innocent 8 months old baby, not eight years but eight months. Absolutely disgusting.
In the meantime, the City of Cape Town launched its second Neighbourhood Safety Team (NST) in Bonteheuwel on Tuesday.
One-hundred law enforcement officers would work in shifts to prevent crime and deal with by-law transgressions, the City said.
They would work with the City's metro police and traffic service, as well as the South African Police Service.
The first NST was launched in Delft in 2017.
Part of the motivation for launching another NST was due to Bonteheuwel not having its own police station and a need to curb gang violence, the City said in a statement.
The contributing factor to rape culture is South Africa has to do with the laziness of South African men, when we talk of lazy South African men we talk about the black men up and down the country. All they want to do is drink, drink and drink, their women go out to hustle while the men hangs around street corners looking for where and how to get drunk.
The lazy culture of the South African black men leads to being excessively jealous of other African immigrant making a headway or doing well in the country. They results into killing fellow black African migrants in their country, they kind of hate the fact that the immigrants works hard and have money to spend, SA women prefer to date immigrants which infuriates the men, rather than addressing their lazy nature, they results into violence and murder.
Before you say i'm racist, please note that i'm a black African man who just happen to have deep connection with South Africa and knows how things are.
If you live in the Western World then ask yourself why YOU ONLY FIND SOUTH AFRICAN BLACK WOMEN HUSTLING AND WORKING HARD IN THE BUT NOT BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN MEN. They are too busy drinking in SA and waiting for their women to go out, work and bring money home. Those hard working women in the west sends money down for those lazy men to feed their drink habit, this has to stop.
There is so much hard drug abuse culture springing up everywhere, now they share their blood in an attempt to get high. If someone takes drugs and is really high, the rest will do a blood transfusion from him, they believe the drug is in the blood stream so by sharing the blood they all can get high. sometimes they have to even pay they guy for tapping his blood to get high. This new madness is a recipe for disaster, an outbreak of diseases waiting to happen through this system of illegal and unconventional blood transfusion. Outbreak of infection waiting to happen which could be extremely difficult to control.
South African women please wake up… stop feeding the men, stop handing them your cash, let them go out and work like every other person in Africa/world to provide for their women and family.
Some South Africans were absolutely disgusted with the news today and below are few reactions from social media.
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Rufus works in his uncle's shop of antiquities. The place is fit to burst with curious objects from the past few thousand years, all shelved and labelled in display boxes. One of which is Kananga, an impish-looking stone monkey, to whom Rufus has always taken a shine — especially since Kananga has the ability to reanimate himself and take Rufus and Ling Ling (Rufus' best friend) on bizarre and madcap adventures, to unearth the true but downright peculiar stories behind every object in the shop.
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Currently there are 149 Hard Rock Cafés in 53 countries around the world. One of these cafés is located in Scotland's capital, Edinburgh.
Pretend that you have just been seated at one of the tables, are ready for a meal, and your waiter comes up to you. He is very friendly and asks where you come from. It is fairly quiet in the cafe right now, so he spends a few minutes telling you about himself and his background, Edinburgh Hard Rock Café and Scottish culture.
Your waiter walks away to prepare your order. In the meantime, two of your friends have just arrived and joined you at the table. When they came in, they saw that you were talking to the waiter, and they are now curious to know what you were talking about. Here are some of their questions, which you should now be able to answer.
Why has the waiter moved around a lot?
Mention some of the places he has lived.
Why did he choose to return to Edinburgh?
What does he think about his job at Hard Rock?
The Hard Rock Cafés are involved in charity projects. What is Edinburgh Hard Rock Café supporting?
In what way has "your" waiter contributed?
He recommends that you try a special dish. Which one?
What is his attitude to Scotch whisky?
What is your general impression of "your" waiter?
How would you characterize his language? Is it a typical Scottish variant? Why or why not, do you think?
In your classroom at high school, make an International English Café, where some are waiters and some are guests. Before you start, decide the profile of the café, the layout and the dishes you'd like to serve. The waiters should have different cultural backgrounds, e.g. from the Philippines, Singapore, a Caribbean island, the USA, Australia, South Africa and India and should spend a few minutes preparing for questions from the guests about their background. You can use articles from NDLA as preparation and/or the locations on this link, Hard Rock Cafe Official Website. The guests prepare questions for the waiters, using the audio recording as a basis.
Does the introduction provided about "your" location reflect local culture? If so, what is conveyed?
What is meant by "memorabilia"? How is this linked to the project idea behind the Hard Rock Café concept? What kind of memorabilia does "your" café offer?
Take a look at the menus. What do they offer - just American food or do they have local treats? Give examples.
What is your impression of the Hard Rock Café concept? What characterizes a typical Hard Rock Café?
On February 10, 2012, Jimi Hendrix was honored by Seattle Hard Rock Café. Jimi Hendrix honored at Hard Rock Café in Seattle. Use this arrangement as a source of inspiration and make a multimedia presentation where you honor your favorite artist.
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Shenton Slammers – School Sport WA Champions for 2015
Last week's buzzer beating effort by the Slammers was truly exhilarating and now it was time to seize the rare opportunity in the penultimate contest in order to finally be crowned School Sport WA Champions for 2015.
The Slammers took on private school Mazenod College this afternoon for the right to wear that crown. The Bendat Basketball Centre was full of buoyant and enthusiastic supporters for the Shenton boys from staff, parents and students alike. So many had turned up that the organizers must have contemplated bringing out spare chairs. The boys and I were overwhelmed with the extent of support and the players didn't let their army of fans down today.
The Slammers primed themselves for a good start and jumped to an early lead, outplaying Mazenod College with smart in and outside options and taking their chances at every opportunity. They more than matched up well against them, but the Slammers found themselves in foul trouble late in the second quarter and megastar captain Coops, who had been directing play with aplomb, had to sit down for a spell. The second half saw the boys come out firing again as the 'green machine' opened up a match winning 16 point lead as they turned for home. There were limited rotation options for this team of stars but the blend of youth and experience held it together and the team ran out comfortable 30-point winners in the end. It was this incredible mix of Year 9 talent with developing Year 11 players and then topped off with the reliable polish of the Year 12 stars that made for some incredible experiences this season.
Cooper Hamilton was named GF MVP and he proudly introduced his team to the waiting audience for them to receive their medallions at the Presentation Ceremony after the match.
What a way for this coach to bow out and what a fantastic group of young men to do it with!
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Slammers Win Thriller and Now in the Grand Final
Last week's quarter-final clash against Newman College was a highly skilful affair with the Slammers confronted at the home of the winners of the Catholic Schools division. The Slammers came away with a hard fought 3 point victory. Winning through to the semi-final of the All Schools division would've been a dream for this squad but they have been energised recently, playing with an undeniable chemistry and yesterday faced their nemesis Kingsway Christian College at the newly named Bendat Basketball Centre for the right to play in the Grand Final of this competition.
It was a tense affair and The Slammers started brilliantly to open up an unanswered 11-point lead.
A defensive front half blitz set by KCC after a time-out saw the Slammers make some errors and the tempo lifted considerably. The boys were then outscored by KCC and went into the half-time break with the score-line at 17 to 11 and Tim Gerschwitz in foul trouble with four against his name. The second half was an arm-wrestle and the young Slammers hot shot 'Tiny' Tim Gerschwitz was fouled out after a punishing charge.
The contest looked beyond the Slammers when the KCC lead blew out to 5 points with only a few minutes left. Some gritty defence and bold offence, particularly by young Year 9 guns Jamie Forsyth and Denzel Jackson kept Shenton in the game.
VC Yuval then found himself at the charity stripe with less than a minute to go with the score-line reading KCC 25 and Shenton 22. Yuval nailed the first shot but the clock was running down quickly. The second shot missed but the ball came off the rim to fall to Jack Simpson, who became the unlikely hero to nail a clutch 3-pointer right on the buzzer. Shenton win a thriller by one point (26 pts to 25 pts) to advance to next week's GF. The coach jumped from the bench to embrace the jubilant players who were jumping together joyously and the elation from the support staff was immeasurable.
GREAT NEWS: Australian Brain Bee Challenge
Five outstanding Year 10 students competed in the State Final of the Australian Brain Bee Challenge at UWA today. The ABBC involves learning and studying neuroscience (first year university level material) and competing in both a team and individual capacity. The ABBC is trying to engage and interest budding young scientists in the field of neuroscience, with the aim of inspiring them to conduct future research into the mechanism of and treatments for diseases like Alzheimers, Parkinsons Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and ALS.
The team of Holly Dear, Cheryne Hee, Manshi Rai, Anna Sharp and Shaun Yeoh placed first out of the 17 schools competing in the state final, winning a high performance LED microscope for the school.
The individual aspect of the competition saw Shenton highly successful again, with Cheryne Hee coming 3rd overall and a stupendous effort from Shaun Yeoh, who took out 1st place in the state. Shaun will be given the opportunity to represent Western Australia in the National Final of the ABBC in Sydney in December. Both of these students will also be given rare work experience opportunities in the neuroscience department at UWA.
All five students have worked tirelessly since the beginning of the year and should be very proud of their achievements.
Junior Boys AFL Eagles Cup
This past Monday the junior boys AFL team wrapped up a successful Eagles Cup campaign. The boys found some form in the second half of the season, winning 2 out of their last three games.
In round 4 we were beaten by a talented JTC team by only 9 points. The boys then played their best game of the season, linking up beautifully in the midfield to defeat Churchlands by 22 points. Against Perth Modern, Shenton finished with a decent 8 point win.
Shenton finished 2nd on the ladder behind JTC. It was an excellent result and the boys should be proud of the way they carried themselves through all 6 rounds.
Whilst the team play was fantastic, there are a few individual acts of brilliance which must be mentioned. Josh Gentle's banana from the boundary was exquisite, icing the game against Perth Modern. And Riley Torrijos kicked the greatest point ever seen in a junior AFL game. In a play highly reminiscent of Boomer Harvey's a few years back, Riley gathered the ball in the back line, weaved past numerous opposition, bounced the ball at least 5 times and kicked from 40 metres out, only to hit the post!
Win for the Senior Girls Soccer Team Against Churchlands
The senior girls team took on Churchlands at home last Wednesay and recorded an 8-0 victory. Goals from captain Isabel Rondoni, Amy Johnson and two each from Niamh Swingler, Mikayla Denney and Jess Butterworth sealed the win.
After a slow start the girls started passing the ball well and once they scored the first goal it became a one sided game. It was good to see four year 10's in the team to complement the more experienced girls. The girls have now had two wins out of two in the group with a final game against Mount Lawley next week. A win there and they should top their group.
Shenton Among The Top Five teams in the World Scholar's Cup
During weekend of the 6th and 7th of June over 150 students came to Shenton College to compete in the Perth Round of the World Scholar's Cup responding to the theme 'The World Unbound' across History, Science, Social Studies, Literature and the Arts. The students competed in Collaborative Writing, Scholar's Challenge, Team Debate and Scholar's Bowl. With students from a range of schools including Shenton College, Scotch, Iona, Trinity, Kelmscott, Perth Modern, Georgiana Molloy and Wesley. The competition has doubled in numbers since 2014!
Our students from Years 7 – 11 had a fantastic time and were also very successful. There were many awards recognising individual achievements in each of the areas: Literature, Science, The Arts, Social Studies and History and we also placed among the top five teams for each of the competition challenges.
We're pleased to report Shenton College teams were awarded Second Place overall in the Junior level of competition, as well as Third Place and First Place overall in the Seniors. Further, we saw a number of confident and highly skilled Shenton College musicians among the students who volunteered to perform at the Scholar's Show on Sunday.
Photos and the full list of awards will be published in the next issue of Shenton Highlights.
Junior Boys B Soccer Squad Go Down Fighting
We made our way to Wesley College to play our last match of the the round robin and hopefully get into the knockout round.
The boys got out to practice on the close cut cooch grass which the boys found interesting, and the balls ran true and fast.
We started well and kept them out of their half – made a few errors – whether it was nerves or something else… but the Wesley boys, somewhat a couple of feet taller than our boys, played their way to a goal that rocketed into the back of the net. 1 – nil down after 2 minutes.
Back to the restart, our game was losing its plan… Nevertheless Coach Hansen rang the changes to put some backbone into the attack and as a consequence we had a foray into the Wesley penalty area. Alas no goal resulted. More Wesley forays in to the Shenton half saw two more goals rocketed into the back of the net. (so far 3 – nil to Wesley).
Several more exchanges of possession ensued and a shot at goal by a Shenton striker finally put pressure on the Wesley goalkeeper, but alas no goal. In the counter attack by Wesley our boys put pressure on the midfielders but when the Wesley centremid handled the ball our boys stopped running, the ref called play on and as a consequence another shot rocketed into the net. (4 nil) After the restart Wesley forced a corner and another ball was rocketed into the back of our net. Half time – the score was 5 -nil.
At the restart Coach Hansen had reset her charges and things started to change. Was history going to be repeated (after half time Shenton A was 0- 2, and beat Wesley 6-3) but alas no. The Shenton boys played with more confidence keeping out the Wesley attacks and tackling with more purpose and as a consequence a couple of forays into the Wesley half and the Shenton boys found a few shots on goal which had the Wesley goalkeeper stretching. No goals, but against the run of play with some scrambles in front of goal found three second half goals to Wesley. Final Score was 8 – nil.
Not our best scoreline but a great effort from our boys- they did NOT give up. This group of boys is our developmental squad for 2016. More experience, more height and muscle will make them a team to be reckoned with.
Who are they? They were today – Ash Kluken (on loan from the A squad), Jonathan Huynh, Jackson Smith, Xavier Smith Tan, Jayden Lapsley Fowle, Lucien Maart, Nick Thatcher, Blake Falconer, Douglas Waite, Jibrail Kalim, Jordan Simpson, Sunil Rajan, Hawi Karaitiana, Conrad Eyers, Sanyiago Alverez and Cody Baker.
Thanks to all our boys and Collene Hansen for show casing the Shenton spirit and talent. This team has great promise.
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The growing proliferation of FPGAs and High-level Synthesis (HLS) tools has led to a large interest in designing hardware accelerators for complex operations and algorithms. However, existing HLS toolflows typically require a significant amount of user knowledge or training to be effective in both industrial and research applications. In this paper, we propose using the Julia language as the basis for an HLS tool. The Julia HLS tool aims to decrease the barrier to entry for hardware acceleration by taking advantage of the readability of the Julia language and by allowing the use of the existing large library of standard mathematical functions written in Julia. We present a prototype Julia HLS tool, written in Julia, that transforms Julia code to VHDL. We highlight how features of Julia and its compiler simplified the creation of this tool, and we discuss potential directions for future work.
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There is a growing need for high throughput, low latency, and energy efficient compute platforms, such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), by a wide selection of tasks, including machine learning and real-time control. These platforms often have a high barrier to entry for software developers and researchers who are unfamiliar with digital hardware development, creating what is known as the "two-language" problem. The "two-language" problem presents the typical hardware accelerator development workflow as first having a researcher develop and prototype the application algorithms in a high-level language, such as Python or MATLAB, that is simpler to code and is mathematics-friendly. Then the algorithm is passed to an engineer who translates it into a lower-level language, such as C/C++/VHDL/Verilog, to achieve the desired performance targets.
The Julia language (Jeff Bezanson, Alan Edelman, Stefan Karpinski, Viral Shah, 2015; Heath, 2018) aims to solve this "two-language" problem by providing a higher-level and human-readable language that compiles into performant machine code for CPUs. Extensions to Julia have also been developed to compile normal Julia code to accelerator hardware such as GPUs (Tim Besard, Christophe Foket, Bjorn De Sutter, 2019) , distributed processors (Tim Besard, Valentin Churavy, Alan Edelman, Bjorn De Sutter, 2019) , and TPUs (Fischer and Saba, 2018)
The goal of High-level Synthesis (HLS) tools for FPGAs is to solve the "two-language" problem by allowing FPGAs to be programmed using higher-level languages instead of VHDL/Verilog. However, the more mature toolflows like LegUp (Canis et al., 2013) or Vivado only move the accelerator implementation from VHDL/Verilog into languages like C and C++. Prototype toolflows have been made using higher-level languages, such as Python (Cieszewski et al., 2014; Quenon and Ramos, 2021) , but these usually require the creation of separate compilers/transpilers to translate the chosen language into an FPGA design.
In this paper, we propose to use Julia as a high-level language for FPGA accelerators, and that the HLS toolflow should be written in Julia as well. We start in Section 2 by describing the features Julia has that makes it an ideal language for FPGA HLS, and present a brief report on a prototype Julia HLS tool in Sections 3 and 4.
2. Advantages of the Julia Language
Julia was developed as a language for scientific computing that sought to provide both ease of programming and performant low-level machine code. The Julia ecosystem contains many mathematical packages, and unlike other higher-level languages, many of these packages are written in pure Julia instead of being a thin wrapper over an underlying C/C++ library. This means a Julia HLS toolflow could recurse into the packages and generate hardware for them using the HLS compiler instead of having to provide and substitute in hand-written function blocks.
The Julia compiler is also mainly written in Julia, and provides several places to hook into the compilation flow to modify/observe the compilation. This means that an HLS toolflow for Julia that is written in Julia can benefit by reusing existing compiler stages and optimisation passes used for the CPU compiler. This also allows for more easier CPU simulation of the desired algorithm, since the initial stages of the compiler flow can be shared between the CPU and HLS tools. Three other design features of Julia that provide benefits for an HLS toolflow are built-in data-flow type inference, multiple dispatch for method specialisation, and extensive metaprogramming features.
2.1. Data-flow type inference
In Julia, explicit type declarations of variables are not required for the code to successfully run because Julia executes a data-flow type inference pass in its compiler to infer these types. The type inference pass tries to produce "type-stable" code, where all the types in the code are known explicitly at compile time, by combining any known type information on a variable alongside a type lattice to propagate types to every variable. An HLS toolflow can then utilize the typed Intermediate Representation (IR) after the type inference compiler pass when generating the hardware.
2.2. Multiple dispatch
Julia utilizes multiple dispatch, where the compiler and/or run-time environment examines the types of all function inputs, and then chooses a version of the function that has been written for the specified input types. Using multiple dispatch allows the creation of more efficient and readable code by allowing developers to write functions that contain the generic operations, while also providing functions optimised for the provided input types. Multiple dispatch can also be used for built-in operators, like "+", allowing the HLS toolflow to provide FPGA-specific methods for the basic operators that can be automatically chosen by the Julia compiler when using the HLS toolflow, eliminating the need to modify the actual application source code to reference the HLS-specific basic operators instead of the normal CPU operators.
2.3. Meta-programming
Julia has an extensive metaprogramming capability provided in the language, allowing Julia code to modify and transform other Julia code before it is compiled. This is accomplished by writing Julia macros, which can be attached to variables, functions and control flow statements. Macros have direct access to the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) for the associated code blocks and are evaluated before the lowered IR is generated. The Julia AST includes information such as function calls, loops and conditional statements, allowing the macros to operate directly on the control flow operators. HLS analysis and optimization passes can be implemented using Julia macros to modify the AST and interact with the control flow directly, instead of having to infer the original control flow from the LLVM basic blocks and phi-nodes.
Figure 1. Overview of the Julia compiler & HLS flow.
3. Transforming Julia into Hardware
The Julia HLS toolflow takes a subset of the Julia source code and transforms it into synthesisable HDL that can be tested in simulation. The flow is contained inside two Julia packages, SSATools.jl and DynamicScheduling.jl, that convert the Julia code into a Control Data-Flow Graph (CDFG) made from elastic components detailed in the Dynamatics tool (Josipović et al., 2018) which then generates VHDL for synthesis with Vivado HLS, as shown in Figure 1.
3.1. Initial Experiments
The dynamic scheduling in Dynamatics formed the baseline for the initial results of the toolflow. The testcases used were chosen to test simple programmatic constructs like conditional statements and looping as well as the decomposition of mathematical functions by the Julia compiler.
The first testcase was an if-else conditional with three return statements based on the computation of the two input variables. This was chosen to test the processing of branching in the SSATools construction of the CDFG. Another testcase was a loop implementation of the power function, where the first input is raised to the power of the second through repeated multiplication in a while loop. The Julia compiler decomposes the loop into several basic blocks as part of the typed IR, and the CDFG generation determines the dependencies of the variables within those blocks. The final testcase implemented the Newton-Raphson method for determining the roots of a simple polynomial. This combined mathematical operations, conditionals and looping to fully explore the current version of the toolflow.
The results of these testcases are outlined in Table 1, and are compared to the Dynamatics baseline for the same testcases implemented in C++. The number of components directly corresponds to FPGA resource usage, since the programs are dynamically scheduled.
if_else
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Table 1. Synthesis results for the Julia HLS toolflow.
4. Evaluation and Future Work
The difference in resources between the Julia HLS toolflow and Dynamatics is due to the number of basic blocks generated for the IR. The Dynamatics flow initially had more basic blocks in the LLVM IR in each case, but the LLVM optimization passes consolidated blocks together. Equivalent versions of these passes should be created for the Julia flow. The main limitation of the current toolflow is the lack of data memory integration. Adding memory support requires the extraction of additional information from the typed IR, as well as component support for handling memory accesses on the FPGA. Additionally, static scheduling for the operations should be implemented to allow for more resource-efficient designs. Finally, Julia is designed to be an open-source language, so the HDL output of our tool should be usable in open-source tools like Yosys
(YosysHQ, ) as well as closed-source tools like Vivado. Any IP cores required should be generated using FloPoCo (Dinechin and Pasca, 2011) or other open-source HDL libraries.
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