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import utils
from neuralnetwork import NeuralNetworkModel
import autograd.numpy as np
import pickle
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from utils import plt_image

TRAINING_IMAGES_PATH = 'mnistset/train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz'
TRAINING_LABELS_PATH = 'mnistset/train-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz'
TESTING_IMAGES_PATH = 'mnistset/t10k-images-idx3-ubyte.gz'
TESTING_LABELS_PATH = 'mnistset/t10k-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz'
MODELS_PATH = 'mnistmodels/'

print 'Reading images from %s' % TRAINING_IMAGES_PATH
images = utils.read_images(TRAINING_IMAGES_PATH)
print 'Reading labels from %s' % TRAINING_LABELS_PATH
labels = utils.read_labels(TRAINING_LABELS_PATH)
print 'Reading images from %s' % TESTING_IMAGES_PATH
testing_images = utils.read_images(TESTING_IMAGES_PATH)
print 'Reading labels from %s' % TESTING_LABELS_PATH
testing_labels = utils.read_labels(TESTING_LABELS_PATH)
training_images = images[5000:-5000]
training_labels = labels[5000:-5000]
validating_images = np.concatenate([images[:5000], images[-5000:]])
validating_labels = np.concatenate([labels[:5000], labels[-5000:]])

np.set_printoptions(suppress=True)
nnm = None

def create(layers=[28*28, 100, 10], batch_size=32, dropout=0.1):
    print 'Creating neural network'
    global nnm
    nnm = NeuralNetworkModel(layers, batch_size, dropout)

def learn():
    print 'Learning'
    for no, _ in enumerate(nnm.epochs_learn(training_images, training_labels)):
        print 'Epoch {0}: {1}'.format(no, nnm.test(validating_images, validating_labels))

def save(name):
    print 'Saving neural network'
    with open(MODELS_PATH + name + '.pickle', 'wb') as f:
        pickle.dump(nnm, f)

def load(name):
    print 'Loading neural network'
    global nnm
    with open(MODELS_PATH + name + '.pickle', 'rb') as f:
        nnm = pickle.load(f)

def info():
    print nnm
    print 'Final result: {0}'.format(nnm.test(testing_images, testing_labels))

def best():
    ans = nnm.answer(testing_images)
    correct = (np.argmax(ans, 1) == np.argmax(testing_labels, 1))
    for digit in range(10):
        idx = np.argmax(ans[correct][:, digit])
        plt.subplot(2, 5, digit+1)
        plt_image(testing_images[correct][idx].reshape([28, 28]))
        print digit, ans[correct][idx][digit]
    plt.show()

def worst():
    ans = nnm.answer(testing_images)
    for digit in range(10):
        where = np.argmax(testing_labels, 1) == digit
        idx = np.argmin(ans[where, digit])
        plt.subplot(2, 5, digit+1)
        plt_image(testing_images[where][idx].reshape([28, 28]))
        print digit, ans[where][idx]
    plt.show()

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On Episode 327 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed CrossFit Driven owner Bruce Elsey, as well as Scott Stalling, who will compete at the South West Regional. This episode was webcast on April 23, 2014.
6:25 CrossFit Driven, located in Sanger, Texas, celebrated its five-year anniversary by hitting Fran on April 14. Owner Bruce Elsey talked about opening an affiliate in a small town and said he has about one percent of the population attending classes every day. Telling a story familiar to many, Elsey explained how his journey to affiliation started when people in the neighborhood saw him working out in his garage. While there are challenges to owning an affiliate in a small town, Elsey said the members of CrossFit Driven are a tightly knit group, and he works hard to keep it that way.
17:26 Scott Stalling qualified for the South West Regional after starting CrossFit about a year ago. Even more remarkable is the fact that he has no athletic background whatsoever—he didn't even play sports in high school. Stalling spoke about finding CrossFit and described how he trained hard to make it out of the Open. The athlete from CrossFit Dixie in Utah said he doesn't feel he has any catching up to do as he prepares to compete on May 30, but he makes a point of working on his weaknesses every day.
On Episode 334 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed Kevin Ogar. This episode was webcast on June 11, 2014.
Is there any chance that you have an RSS feed for CrossFit Radio? I would love to subscribe to it as a podcast, but can't find a feed.


The Apple Watch is still the best-selling smartwatch, despite Android offering far more options where watches are concerned.
What could Android watches be doing better? At this rate, Android is going to go extinct in the wearable field unless makers figure out just how to make an Android watch people want.
The Apple Watch is plenty distinctive; even with the many bands, people can tell what it is. No way anyone would mistake it for a regular watch.
In comparison, most Android smartwatches try too hard to pass off as a regular watch. Newsflash: if people wanted ordinary watches, they would have bought them.
To sell an Android smartwatch, you have to sell it as one and find people who would want it. If Apple can make iPhone users want Apple Watches, why can't Android phone users be sold smartwatches?
Right now, the Apple Watch has native fun fitness apps including the Breathe meditation app as well as the Activity fitness/movement tracker.
What unique app has any Android smartwatch shown yet? There has to be an app that people can't imagine living without or, at the very least, will say improved their quality of life somewhat.
Sure, there are fun games that work great on Android smartwatches - one particular standout being the Lifeline series. But they work on iOS too. With so many talented developers out there, it really shouldn't take so long to create something uniquely Android-only.
Let's be honest here: Android users generally are stingier about spending on everything besides their smartphone. The piracy problems and much lower sales returns from Android apps are evidence of that.
So maybe give the masses what they want: more affordable smartwatches. Sure, gamble on premium smartwatches if they want but make entry-level smartwatches too.
They don't have to be made of super materials - perhaps bundle them with phones, justify marking up prices slightly thanks to the added accessory.
Yes, another Apple comparison but see - Apple has managed to pair up with Nike, so why can't other Android smartwatch makers figure out other established brand names to work with.
If not fitness brands such as Adidas or Puma, why not fashion brands, celebrities or even apps (Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram)?
One lesson that technology makers should know by now is that it doesn't matter who does it first as much as it matters who does it best.
In the end, the best way for Android smartwatches is to either go somewhat decent and cheap, or amazing enough to justify a premium price. And from where things are looking, it seems Android will have to figure out one of those two soon or let Apple be the only smartwatch maker standing.


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William Frederick Rieflin (September 30, 1960 – March 24, 2020) was an American musician. Rieflin came to prominence in the 1990s mainly for his work as a drummer with groups (particularly in the industrial rock and industrial metal scenes) such as Ministry, the Revolting Cocks, Lard, KMFDM, Pigface, Swans, Chris Connelly, and Nine Inch Nails. He worked regularly with R.E.M. following the retirement of Bill Berry in 1997. He was a member of King Crimson from 2013 until his death in 2020.

Career
Rieflin was born on September 30, 1960 (some sources say September 29) and began his professional career in his hometown of Seattle. In 1975, he was in The Telepaths, a band which played backup for a couple of live gigs by the pre-The Screamers band The Tupperwares.
He played drums for The Blackouts starting in 1979.  His bandmates included Mike Davidson, Paul Barker, Roland Barker and Erich Werner.  Eventually that band dissolved and Paul Barker joined the nascent Ministry. His earliest collaboration with Al Jourgensen was on the second single by the Revolting Cocks, "You Often Forget".

Later, he participated in the creation of Ministry's album The Land of Rape and Honey, and was noted for his performance in the live video In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up (alongside fellow drummer Martin Atkins).  His work with Ministry and its side projects lasted through to the mid-nineties, though he noted that he was never credited as a member of Ministry proper, always as an "other" musician.  Therefore, when he parted ways with the band during the Filth Pig sessions, he did not really quit since he was never an official member.

Rieflin helped Atkins kick off Pigface, the industrial collective that would grow to incorporate hundreds of artists, formed a friendship with labelmate Chris Connelly and founded First World Music. Like Connelly, Rieflin's work grew beyond his industrial roots. They collaborated on several recordings; two in particular, The Ultimate Seaside Companion (as "The Bells") and Largo, showcase Rieflin's keyboard skills.

Rieflin's solo debut, Birth of a Giant, featured him singing in something other than a background role, and also featured Robert Fripp.  Improvisations from these sessions turned up later on the CD The Repercussions of Angelic Behavior, which was credited to Rieflin, Fripp and Trey Gunn.

Rieflin appeared on all KMFDM records released from 1995 to 2003 as a drummer, programmer, vocalist and keyboardist.  He toured with the band as a bassist in 2002 in support of its comeback album, Attak and performed on the 2011 KMFDM album, WTF?!. He also drummed for Scott McCaughey's band, The Minus 5, which occasionally included guitarist Peter Buck.  Eventually Buck offered Rieflin the opportunity to sit in with R.E.M., who were missing a permanent drummer since the 1997 departure of Bill Berry. The band gave him the live drummer slot in its 2003 tour.  They later announced that Rieflin would fill the role indefinitely, though once again as a hired musician rather than as an official member. In recordings, Rieflin also contributed bouzouki, keyboards and guitars to the group, serving as an auxiliary member until R.E.M. disbanded in 2011.

Rieflin was key to forming an experimental ensemble named Slow Music in 2005 with Fred Chalenor, Hector Zazou, Matt Chamberlain, Peter Buck, and Robert Fripp; in this sextet Rieflin played synthesizers rather than drums. The group played a small handful of live dates in 2005 and 2006 and became inactive until 2014, when they played a few shows as a quintet due to Zazou's passing in 2008.  He was also involved in a music collaboration project entitled The Humans, which consisted of him, Chris Wong, Fripp and Toyah Willcox. The band performed a series of live dates in Estonia in Autumn 2007 and 2009, and released their debut album We are the Humans in 2009. Hector Zazou's 2010 album Corps Electriques featured Rieflin, as well as KatieJane Garside, Lone Kent and nu-jazz trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær.

Rieflin was a regular contributor to Swans ever since the 1995 album The Great Annihilator, and played an array of instruments on all their studio recordings since the band reformed in 2010 and released My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky. Rieflin is listed as an "honorary Swan" on the band's 2012 album The Seer.

In 2012, Rieflin performed on drums for Robbie Williams's album Take the Crown. Later that year he produced the single Crush Vaccine for Atomic Bride.

In an online diary entry dated September 6, 2013, Robert Fripp announced a new lineup for King Crimson that included Rieflin as one of the band's three drummers. A few days after the first full-length live release of the band with Rieflin on board (Live in Toronto 2015), Fripp announced Rieflin's decision to take a sabbatical from the band, effective March 6, 2016, "a decision supported by all the Crimson Brothers."  In early 2017, Fripp announced that Rieflin would be returning alongside his replacement, Jeremy Stacey.  Due to Fripp's desire to stave off complacency after several years of touring, Rieflin "will be focusing on mellotron, keys and fairy dusting, rather than using drums as a main instrument" in the new Double Quartet configuration, thus becoming the band's first full-time keyboardist ever. For the US Autumn 2017 tour dates in October–November, he was replaced on keyboards by the Seattle-based guitarist Chris Gibson. He rejoined in 2018 before taking another indefinite sabbatical in 2019, he was replaced on keyboards by Soft Machine's sax player Theo Travis., who was fired after a few rehearsals. Fripp and the band made the decision to not replace Rieflin, thus reverting King Crimson to a seven-member band.

Personal life and death

Rieflin was married to painter Francesca Sundsten until her death in 2019. Rieflin died on March 24, 2020 from colon cancer at the age of 59.

Discography
Cells with thistle-colored daggers () indicate a live release

References

External links
 Bill Rieflin credits at AllMusic

 First World Music
 Bill Rieflin interview (March 2000) for QRD

1960 births
2020 deaths
American male singers
American rock drummers
American industrial musicians
KMFDM members
Musicians from Seattle
Singers from Washington (state)
Pigface members
Swans (band) members
Ministry (band) members
R.E.M. personnel
The Minus 5 members
Discipline Global Mobile artists
Revolting Cocks members
Lard (band) members
20th-century American drummers
American male drummers
21st-century American keyboardists
Deaths from cancer in the United States
Filthy Friends members
Deaths from colorectal cancer

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PUBG Corp. has announced that the new Vikendi Snow Map now available on the PTS (Public Test Server).
The previous PUBG update which released this week included not only for the new Vikendi snow map, but also has added for more weapons in the game and fixed some bug issues.
Followed that, recently, PUBG Corp. has announced for introducing Vikendi for PTS, which will be free for anyone who already owns a copy of PUBG. PUBG owners will find the PTS servers download as a separate product, once the download is complete, they can access the PTS client and try out the new Vikendi map.
Vikendi is now available for testing on console PTS! For instructions on how to access the PTS and the full update patch notes, see below.
The new Vikendi map and the other features which packed into the latest PTS update will stay on those console servers for sometime before they head to live servers, but PUBG owners already able to test them by navigating to the PTS client.


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The 2018 West Lancashire Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of West Lancashire Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. Labour retained control of the council, while gaining two seats from the Conservatives, with localist party Our West Lancashire gaining one seat in Derby from the Conservatives.

Election result

Ward results

Ashurst

Aughton and Downholland

Aughton Park

Burscough East

Burscough West

Derby

Hesketh-with-Becconsall

Knowsley

Moorside

Newburgh

North Meols

Parbold

Scarisbrick

Scott

Skelmersdale South

Tanhouse

Tarleton

Up Holland

References

West Lancashire
West Lancashire Borough Council elections


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How COVID-19 Can Drive Transformational Change in Cities | Corona Sustainability Compass
Corona Sustainability Compass
A Science Blog by Umweltbundesamt, Future Earth, International Science Council and Foundation 2°
How COVID-19 Can Drive Transformational Change in Cities
Aniruddha Dasgupta
Across the world, from Wuhan to New York City, cities are on the frontline of the unfolding COVID-19 crisis. Starting with overwhelmed heath care systems, cities are experiencing unprecedented strain across social, economic and environmental systems as economies grind to a standstill. Public transit systems are in a financial tailspin. Already a challenge at the best of times, the struggle to provide even basic access to water and sewerage is now especially acute in many growing cities across the global south. Daily wage earners and the urban poor of all stripes are suffering the most from the dual blows of lost income and a scarcity of city services and social safety nets that can protect them at a time of need.
We are witnessing, albeit at an unexpected scale, what research has been pointing to for quite some time: a startling lack of resilience in urban systems across the world and a disproportionate impact on the urban poor.
Even before the current pandemic we knew cities needed to change significantly to meet the global goals outlined in the Paris Agreement, Sustainable Development Goals, or New Urban Agenda. The IPCC's report on what it will take to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius argued that all cities need to be net zero carbon emitters by 2050. Today, not a single city is net zero.
To reach these goals will require major alterations to how we build, manage and live in cities – not just change, but transformational change. Such change may seem beyond reach, but from energy to housing to mobility, sustainable, cost-effective, more inclusive solutions are at hand. We simply need to have a vision bold enough to change people's understanding of what's possible in cities and the courage to make it happen at scale.
One of the unintended consequences of this crisis has been that we have seen, quite dramatically, that radical change to our everyday lives and systems is indeed possible. Amidst the fear and uncertainty, people are also seeing fragments of what a future city could look like. For example, people across the world are breathing better air than they have in decades due to a dramatic decline in vehicle traffic and factory output. In Jalandhar, an industrial northern city in India, people woke to see snowcapped Himalayan ranges 200 miles away, a sight not seen in generations. People are unwittingly enjoying "car-free street days" on a daily basis, finding that walking and biking are also viable and even preferred. Emergency workers are finding that cycling is simply the fastest and safest way to get around. Cities like Bogotá, Berlin and Mexico City have expanded pedestrianization efforts to encourage these activities.
When cities move from crisis management to recovery, how can we make sure these unexpected positive experiences and the large gaps in urban systems that the crisis has exposed translate into more resilient, more inclusive cities?
From what we have learned so far, national and city leaders should use this opportunity to focus on four key areas where transformational change is possible:
Generate More Actionable Data
The most immediate need is to work with partners to generate the data required at the city and neighborhood scales to better monitor and respond to changing conditions on the ground. Cities cannot fix what they do not understand, and this crisis has made clear just how little many municipal governments understand about what is happening in their cities, or the potential impact of different policy options. Creative partnerships with communities, NGOs, the private sector and universities are necessary to fill the gaps. Hong Kong and Singapore set up public health monitoring and response systems during the SARS outbreak, for example, that prepared them well to handle COVID-19 now.
Invest in Cities as Systems
We are seeing that social, economic and environmental resilience are all closely linked as three interconnected systems with significant dependencies on each other. Hence, the domino effect of concurrent failures. Cities function as systems, and this pandemic has created a major opportunity to build back better, more inclusively and with greater resilience to future shocks. We should focus on giving cities the technical support and data to create integrated social, economic and infrastructure strategies at the local level. And at the national level, we need to improve governance to allow more seamless national-local coordination for emergency response and recovery. What happens in cities, does not stay in cities. But cities cannot do it on their own. They often need help from regional and federal authorities, including fiscal transfers and national sectoral policies, to realize significant change.
Build Economic Resilience by Shoring Up Safety Nets
This pandemic shows the fragility of many of the jobs that underpin urban economies, in cities of all types. In the United States, more than 26 million new jobless claims have been filed so far. In India, more than half a million migrant workers have left cities since the announcement of a nationwide lockdown. Informal workers, from day laborers to Uber drivers, have no employment contracts, insurance or income at times like this, and now face the impossible choice of exposure to the coronavirus or hunger. These jobs in the informal sector, the gig economy and numerous low-wage formal sector jobs are crucial to urban economies. But workers in these sectors lack the fiscal and social safety nets necessary to ride out a crisis. Cities need to shore up urban economies with stronger social and fiscal safety nets for informal and low-wage workers, including targeted income support and increased access to social and economic services.
Ensure Access to Core Services for All
This pandemic is exposing existing fault lines with respect to poor physical infrastructure and inequalities in access to core urban services. It's also raised questions about healthy density in cities. The most successful cities are able to achieve livable density – a balance where benefits of agglomeration are significantly higher than the cost of congestion. This crisis should make cities rethink how they can achieve livable density. In fact, density is a precondition for effective urban service provision. It's the lack of access to essential services such as water, housing and health care, that has exacerbated the challenge of responding effectively to COVID-19. Large proportions of people don't have decent housing to self-isolate, basic water and sanitation to wash hands, access to health care or transport options to get help, or jobs they can do at home. These challenges, which they cope with every day, are now exacerbated.
We need to bring laser sharp focus on investing in infrastructure and housing for better health, wellbeing and resilience for the urban poor. This involves identifying and investing in high-risk locations, including poor and under-resourced communities. It means improving infrastructure in informal settlements across the developing world to bridge the urban services divide. And it means building infrastructure that is intentionally geared towards a low-carbon future.
Aniruddha (Ani) Dasgupta is the Global Director of WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, WRI's program that galvanizes action to help cities grow...
© 2020 Corona Sustainability Compass

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"Deathbound Train"
Bishop, Gambit & (Dark)Beast attempt to stop an out-of-control train filled with wildly-mutating humans.
Pencils: Pascual Ferry
Inkers: John Dell, Mark Morales, Vince Russell
Letterer: Richard Starkings & Comicraft
Colorist: Marie Javins
Separations: Malibu Hues
After finishing the repairs on Cerebro, Professor X detects a sudden surge of mutant energy in New Jersey. Bishop takes Gambit & Beast to investigate, and they find a commuter train out-of-control & overrun with mutates, humans infected with a disease that triggers mutations and is passed by physical contact. Meanwhile, Cyclops & Jean Grey are visiting Jean's parents when Graydon Creed announces his candidacy for president on TV. This prompts Xavier to contact Ambassador St. Croix and prepare him for the fact that the X-Men may need to take drastic action to stop Creed. Back on the train, Bishop & Gambit head for the engine while Beast cobbles together an anesthetic to knock out the mutates. After he does, Mr. Sinister appears on the train, claiming credit for the virus. At the head of the train, Bishop & Gambit are unable to stop the train, but Gambit comes up with an idea, and begins charging the train with kinetic energy, effectively turning it into a massive bomb heading right into Manhattan!
This is Mark Waid's first solo outing as the regular writer of the book, taking over for the long-departed Fabian Nicieza. It comes as Waid is riding his star high: he is in the midst of a defining run on Flash, took over Captain America from long-time writer Mark Gruenwald to much critical acclaim, and the first issue of Kingdom Come, with Alex Ross, launches a few months after this issue is published. Becoming the writer on one of comics' best-selling titles at the time was viewed by many (ie Wizard magazine) as the coronation of Waid as comics' biggest & best writer. Yet for all that, his run on X-Men is mostly remembered for its brevity (he is on the book only through issue #56, the series' last official "Onslaught" tie-in), and the circumstances of his departure, which found him in conflict with editorial & Scott Lobdell amid disagreements over the identity of Onslaught and the course of the story
Graydon Creed's presidential run, previously established in issue #45, is publicly unveiled in this issue via a press conference Creed throws.
This prompts a call from from Professor X to Ambassador St. Croix, the member of his Mutant Underground introduced in Uncanny X-Men #305 (and who will later be revealed to be Monet's grandfather). Xavier makes some cryptic comments about the X-Men possibly taking drastic action to stop Creed's presidency, but nothing ever really comes of this (the X-Men do move against his company by inserting Cannonball & Iceman into his campaign staff, but they don't ever do anything as ominous as what Xavier suggests here), and this is Ambassador St. Croix's final appearance to date.
Speaking of little-mentioned and oft-forgotten supporting characters, Jean Grey's niece and nephew Gailyn & Joey, appear in this issue as Scott & Jean visit Jean's parents. They last appeared at Scott & Jean's wedding, but no mention is made here of their recently-confirmed-dead mother, Sara. At one point, Cyclops seems to be testing them for mutant powers, but nothing comes of this, either (they will next appear in the X-Men vs. Brood miniseries, and then in X-Man of all places during "Operation: Zero Tolerance", before being killed many years later in the "End of Greys" story).
Creator Central
Pasqual Ferry fills in for Andy Kubert this issue; drawing in a Madureira-lite style, he'll pop up in a few places across the line in a similar capacity in the months ahead.
Cerebro, destroyed by Banshee at the opening of "Phalanx Covenant", is brought back online this issue.
Cyclops says he's twenty-five, which, as mentioned before, simply doesn't work if Beast is also meant to be thirty at this point (as Nicieza asserted earlier in the series).
One month (publication time) after assuming Beast's identity in order to hide himself from Mr. Sinister, this issue, Dark Beast comes face-to-face with...Mr. Sinister.
Mark Waid is aboard as the new series writer, but this issue nevertheless kicks off another little two-parter that seems mostly designed to kill time before Onslaught shows up (the third - and thankfully final - such story for this title in the last six months, after the X-Babies and Dark Beast/Fatale two-parters that preceded issue #50). And even by those standards, this is a quick, light read, with the main plot moving along seemingly at the same speed as its out-of-control train. The best part of the issue is when Dark Beast comes face-to-face with the very person he infiltrated the X-Men to hide from, in his very first adventure posing as Regular Beast. It's a hilarious plot turn, one which (presumably unintentionally) also makes Dark Beast's whole plan seem even more questionable/plot-mandated in retrospect. But aside from that? Next please.
Tomorrow. X-Force battles the X-Ternals in X-Force #53. Next week, Generation X #14 and Excalibur #96!
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Posted by Austin Gorton on October 07, 2020
Labels: "Road to Onslaught", April 1996, Comic Book reviews, comics, Mark Waid, Pascual Ferry, X-aminations, X-Men, X-Men (vol. 2)
Nathan P. Mahney October 11, 2020 at 8:36 PM
Well, Cyclops actually says he's "twenty-fi--" before being cut off. Lots of ways that sentence could end.
Really? Jean jokingly says he's forty, so Scott replies with his actual age and I'm not sure how "twenty-fi..." could possibly end with any other number in the twenties besides "five."
Might want to edit the credits for this issue. Kubert is incorrectly listed for pencil duties. Correctly, you mention that Pascual [SIC] Ferry fills in for Kubert in the Creator Central section of the article. First name is actually "Pasqual."
Austin Gorton October 12, 2020 at 1:24 PM
Thanks! Totally forgot to adjust the creators from the template.
Looks like he's credited as "Pascual" in the book itself so I spelled it as such in the credits, but updated the spelling in Creator Central to Pasqual.
Whil5tImD October 12, 2020 at 2:37 PM
wanted to pipe up and say Pasqual's Madureira-lite was a rousing success!
Matt October 13, 2020 at 11:06 PM
Yeah, I remember Waid taking over X-MEN being heralded as a Really Big Deal by
WIZARD. As far as debut issues go, this one is good. I hate when writers come onto a comic and immediately try to "make their mark" by going in their own direction — which basically is what Waid did when he took over CAP, immediately jettisoning all of Mark Gruenwald's plotlines and supporting characters (aside from addressing the fact that Cap was, uhh, dead when he came aboard, which sort of needed to be resolved in order to move forward).
But fortunately, you couldn't come onto a high profile, editorially-driven series like X-MEN in the mid-90s and expect to be able to do something like that. So rather than feeling like the first issue with a brand-new writer, this feels fairly seamlessly like "just another issue" of X-MEN, complete with a sub-plot (Grayson Creed) that I'm certain was dictated to Waid by editorial. Obviously, mileage varies by reader as to whether that's a good thing, but I consider it a positive. My preference in a long-running comic is always that you should be able to strip out the credits and never know from issue to issue whether the writer had changed. Of course that's rarely ever the case, though it was more common in the Silver and Bronze Ages — and here, it does work out that way. Waid doesn't script like Scott Lobdell, but he's versed enough in the 1990s X-Men "house style" that this still feels like a comic Lobdell could have written. The story may not be anything particularly special, but my recollection is that the two parts together make up a pretty good action story.
Speaking of the script, it also fits perfectly with what has come before, narration and all. I suppose it helps that Waid had already done a fair amount of scripting for the X-office by this point. The captions are just the right amount of melodramatic, and the dialogue feels "right". Plus there are things Waid throws in that I like, such as Bishop being the de facto leader of this little trio of X-Men (even though you'd expect it to be Beast), and Gambit's phonetic accent being just as over-the-top as when Scott Lobdell writes him.
And in my book, you can never go wrong with Mister Sinister. I distinctly remember being shocked when I read this issue that he was proactively going out and doing "villain things". It never occurred to me before this point that, much as I loved him and considered him my favorite X-villain, I'd rarely seen him do anything particularly villainous! He generally just lurked around making cryptic comics (which was how he won me over, but still — it was nice to see him "in action" here).
Cyclops describing himself as twenty-five has bothered me for (funnily enough) nearly 25 years, though. As I mentioned in my comment on UNLIMITED #10, Beast's classmate was identified as 30 there, which means Waid was acknowledging that Beast was 30 too, as established by Fabian Nicieza. So does that mean that, circa UNCANNY #1, when Beast was maybe 17, Cyclops was 12??? It's inane and I'm not sure what Waid was thinking. If Beast is 30, then Cyclops, Jean, and Angel are all 28/29, and Iceman is 26/27. End of story, impossible to debate.
Austin Gorton October 16, 2020 at 11:32 PM
It never occurred to me before this point that, much as I loved him and considered him my favorite X-villain, I'd rarely seen him do anything particularly villainous!
It's funny that you mention that, because I recently really came to appreciate just how much Apocalypse - for all that he's a tier 1 X-Men villain - generally tends to appear only in finite stories (at least after his earliest X-FACTOR appearances). So he's dies in X-FACTOR #68, then comes back (and dies again) in "X-Cutioner's Song", and is off the board until just before "Onslaught" (and, of course, "Age of Apocalypse, but that's a *different* Apocalypse). Then he's pretty much gone until "The Twelve", and so on. He pops up for a big story, does his thing, then is gone.
If Beast is 30, then Cyclops, Jean, and Angel are all 28/29, and Iceman is 26/27.
Right. I don't even have a problem if people want to argue with the age range (maybe Beast is 25. Maybe he's 40!), but the ratios of ages amongst the O5 is pretty locked in. Iceman is a little bit younger; someone wants to argue Beast or someone else is year or two older than the rest, fine. But they're all within a couple-three years of each other no matter what.
Matt October 19, 2020 at 4:55 PM
Yeah, Apocalypse was very sparingly used in the 90s. When you think about it, so was Magneto -- or at least the "real" Magneto. He's the villain (or, more accurately, antagonist) of X-MEN 1 - 3 in 1991, then "dead" until "Fatal Attractions" in 1993, and then he becomes a vegetable until 1995.
Yes, he's in AoA, but aside from the "Legion Quest" flashbacks where he's not yet become the Magneto we know, he, like Apocalypse, is an alternate version of the character.
And even when he comes back in '95, he's still not the "real" version. He's de-aged and amnesiac, and ultimately we're told that he's a clone. The actual, real Magneto doesn't return until UNCANNY 350 in 1997, and doesn't really factor into any stories until "Magneto War" in 1998.
So when you think about it, the actual, real, villainous/anti-hero Magneto only headlined three major stories from 1991 to 1998. Kind of crazy. Of course, after "Magneto War", Marvel kept him around a lot, with a couple of mini-series, being one of "The Twelve" in 1999, and so forth. But if you wanted the iconic, orange-and-purple Magneto through most of the 90s, you were out of luck except for a small handful of stories.
(I think most of us kids of that era had our major exposure to both Magneto and Apocalypse on the cartoon series -- outside of back issues and sporadic flashbacks, of course.)
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How Siblings Influence Your Health
By Tia Ghose 16 November 2012
For people in the Bolivian Amazon, having a younger brother is tied with higher blood pressure.
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Having a younger brother isn't just a drag in childhood, it may also raise your blood pressure into adulthood, suggests a new study on Bolivian adults.
The effect, detailed this month in the journal Economics and Human Biology, is only correlational and so the scientists can't say whether one causes the other. But they do offer a mechanism, suggesting that in this region, a younger sibling — particularly a younger brother — takes parental attention from older children while burdening the older kids with extra responsibility.
"If there are more siblings in the family, the parents' resources are limited. The older brother will see the younger brother as a competitor and it will kind of stress them out," Zeng said.
In wealthy, developed countries, the same link would likely not hold and may even go in the opposite direction, other research has suggested. [10 Scientific Tips for Raising Happy Kids]
Sizing up siblings
It's been well documented that birth order can affect personality, sexual maturation and several economic outcomes. In a previous study, Zeng's team found that adults with younger siblings tended to have higher total cholesterol than other children.
To see whether blood pressure was affected, too, Zeng and his colleagues measured the blood pressure of 374 adults living in 13 Bolivian villages in the Amazon. Many came from large broods of six or seven children, so the group included a mix of younger, older and middle children.
Younger brothers seemed to bring the biggest health risk: Those adults with younger brothers had blood pressures up to 6 percent higher than others in the study. Younger sisters were also a problem, but only for older girls, whose blood pressure increased by 3.8 percent for each younger sister.
But the blood pressure spike probably wasn't caused by sibling spats or by younger brothers' behaviors. Rather, having younger kids in the family may have drained parental attention. And looking out for the younger siblings requires a lot of work from elder children.
"In that area the older brothers have responsibility to help the younger brothers to find a job in the future or to find a wife or girlfriend," Zeng told LiveScience.
Perhaps because males are preferred over females in the region, baby sisters require fewer resources than baby brothers and so weren't tied to a jump in blood pressure as much, Zeng said.
Luckily, the stress of younger siblings wanes as people age.
"When people get older, they're not living with their brothers or sisters anymore," he said. They have more control over their lives and fewer burdens from younger sibs, he added.
People in developed countries can't blame younger brothers for their soaring blood pressure. With fewer siblings, many more resources, and fewer responsibilities to younger brothers, siblings in rich countries may actually lower blood pressure, according to a 1991 study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Instead, Americans can thank their sedentary, calorie-rich lifestyle for high blood pressure, Zeng said.
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LAS VEGAS (January 6, 2020) – Today at CES, Toyota revealed plans to build a prototype "city" of the future on a 175-acre site at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan.
Called the Woven City, it will be a fully connected ecosystem powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
Envisioned as a "living laboratory," the Woven City will serve as a home to full- time residents and researchers who will be able to test and develop technologies such as autonomy, robotics, personal mobility, smart homes and artificial intelligence in a real-world environment.
"Building a complete city from the ground up, even on a small scale like this, is a unique opportunity to develop future technologies, including a digital operating system for the city's infrastructure. With people, buildings and vehicles all connected and communicating with each other through data and sensors, we will be able to test connected AI technology… in both the virtual and the physical realms … maximizing its potential," said Akio Toyoda, president, Toyota Motor Corporation.
Toyota will extend an open invitation to collaborate with other commercial and academic partners and invite interested scientists and researchers from around the world to come work on their own projects in this one-of-a-kind, real-world incubator.
"We welcome all those inspired to improve the way we live in the future, to take advantage of this unique research ecosystem and join us in our quest to create an ever-better way of life and mobility for all," said Akio Toyoda, president, Toyota Motor Corporation.
For the design of Woven City, Toyota has commissioned Danish architect, Bjarke Ingels, founder and creative director, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). His team at BIG have designed many high-profile projects: from 2 World Trade Center in New York and Lego House in Denmark, to Google's Mountain View and London headquarters.
"A swarm of different technologies are beginning to radically change how we inhabit and navigate our cities. Connected, autonomous, emission-free and shared mobility solutions are bound to unleash a world of opportunities for new forms of urban life. With the breadth of technologies and industries that we have been able to access and collaborate with from the Toyota ecosystem of companies, we believe we have a unique opportunity to explore new forms of urbanity with the Woven City that could pave new paths for other cities to explore." Bjarke Ingels, founder and creative director, BIG.
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The masterplan of the city includes the designations for street usage into three types: for faster vehicles only, for a mix of lower speed, personal mobility and pedestrians, and for a park-like promenade for pedestrians only. These three street types weave together to form an organic grid pattern to help accelerate the testing of autonomy.
The city is planned to be fully sustainable, with buildings made mostly of wood to minimize the carbon footprint, using traditional Japanese wood joinery, combined with robotic production methods. The rooftops will be covered in photo-voltaic panels to generate solar power in addition to power generated by hydrogen fuel cells. Toyota plans to weave in the outdoors throughout the city, with native vegetation and hydroponics.
Residences will be equipped with the latest in human support technologies, such as in-home robotics to assist with daily living. The homes will use sensor-based AI to check occupants' health, take care of basic needs and enhance daily life, creating an opportunity to deploy connected technology with integrity and trust, securely and positively.
To move residents through the city, only fully-autonomous, zero-emission vehicles will be allowed on the main thoroughfares. In and throughout Woven City, autonomous Toyota e-Palettes will be used for transportation and deliveries, as well as for changeable mobile retail.
Both neighborhood parks and a large central park for recreation, as well as a central plaza for social gatherings, are designed to bring the community together. Toyota believes that encouraging human connection will be an equally important aspect of this experience.
Toyota plans to populate Woven City with Toyota Motor Corporation employees and their families, retired couples, retailers, visiting scientists, and industry partners. The plan is for 2000 people to start, adding more as the project evolves.
The groundbreaking for the site is planned for early 2021.
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Q: MySql Query to convert columns containing delimeter into rows Basically I need to write a query to select the below table
UID | Col A | Col B
123   x;y;z    v;b

into the below requirement format.
123 , Col A, X
123 , Col A, y
123 , Col A, z
123 , Col B, v
123 , Col B, b

Any suggestions are really appreciated.

A: This is a pain, but here is one method:
select uid, 'Col A' as col,
       substring_index(substring_index(colA, ';', n.n), ';', -1) as val,
from t cross join
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union all
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from t cross join
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LBF sketch: Kim Young-ha at the London Book Fair: always adapting to a new environment
by Philip Gowman posted 12 May 2014 13 Dec 2017 updated 13 Dec 2017
in Language & Learning | Events | Books. 8 minute read
Kim Young-ha attended three London events during the this year's London Book Fair: a conversation with writer Krys Lee on 8 April, a panel session with Kim In-suk and others on 9 April entitled Writing Home: Migrant Literature, and a discussion with Daniel Hahn at the London Review Bookshop on 11 April. The below is a digest of those sessions.
Kim Young-ha with Krys Lee (r) and interpreter Cho Yuna (l) on 8 April
Introduction, themes, motivation for writing
Kim Young-ha is known for the wide range of his material and imagination and the diversity of voices he is prepared to explore in his fiction. "As a writer you are never in the same place. You are constantly moving and constantly changing".
At the age of 10 he had an accident which made him lose his memory of earlier years and "hard to start all over again". In addition, he had what we would now call Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as a child, and has difficulty concentrating on one thing for a long time.
He came from a military household, and as such he was always moving house when his father got a new posting. "As a child, I was always having to reinvent myself when I moved to a new place, to survive and adapt to a new environment. I went to different primary schools, I had to learn a different dialect, and learn the new rules of the game, and I think that is reflected in my writing."
"When I started writing in 1995 one of the traditional themes in Korean literature was to write about your home town, your origins. But I didn't have one, so it was impossible for me to write about it – and increasingly as people move from the country to the town other people don't have one either." Kim themes thus resonated with a newer audience and he came to exemplify Korean writing in the 1990s.
Up to that time, other traditional themes for Korean literature had been political – eg, the division of the peninsula, the Korean War. But people were becoming tired of that discourse. The theme of I Have the Right to Destroy Myselfwas designed as a reaction to all that. I wanted to depict what Korean people felt: boredom – they had been through the time of economic construction and democratic change, and now there was less for them to do.
The first draft of I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (published in 1996) was written in 15 testosterone-fuelled days at the age of 26. "When I wrote it I was unemployed and sponging off my parents. I was writing about boredom in a frenzied way, in the heat of youth. I feel that the frantic pace of my writing suited the theme of the book well." It was his first novel, and also his first to be translated into English. "At the time I was in a much darker place than I am now, and I was thinking a lot about death and suicide – at the time the subjects of death and the meaninglessness of life were common themes in Korean society."
"After that it became harder. I had to do something new all the time. It got harder and harder. And slower and slower. My wife loved the book, but my parents were shocked at the subject matter."
"Korea has been through breakneck change – my father experienced Japanese colonialism, the Korean War, the onset of capitalism and modernity, all in the space of one lifetime … there is a diaspora inside Korea, we are like immigrants in our own country because it changes so fast."
Black Flower at first sight is different from other novels by Kim as it is an historical novel rather than exploring contemporary issues. It excavates a little-known part of Korean history, and explores historical issues rather than contemporary issues. Nevertheless, albeit in an historical context it is about forgotten migrants adapting to a strange and foreign environment: their new world in Mexico and Guatemala.
Similarly, Your Republic is Calling You is not a spy novel: it's about an immigrant (a North Korean spy) cut loose in an alien world (South Korea). "It's not Le Carre — it's Kafka and Ulysses".1
And Memory of a Murderer, currently being translated by Krys Lee, is a story of someone who is losing his memory, and thus has to learn to adapt to a new reality. He is a serial killer who, after a car crash, decides he doesn't want to commit murder any more. Towards the end of his life he gets Alzheimers and begins to forget how he used to kill and dispose of the body. But then he finds that his daughter is under threat, and he needs to do one last murder.
"I was also interested in writing a historical novel based on Sohyeon, but I heard Kim In-suk was already writing it. She beat me to it. This is a unique story of a migrant in the Joseon dynasty, a person who went to China and experienced modernity. Here he learned that the world was round, not flat. He had a hard time adapting, but he adapted."
Kim In-suk (L), Kim Young-ha and Xiaolu Guo (R) discuss migrant literature with Ellah Allfrey (2nd from L) 9 April 2014 (photo: LKL)
Relationship with films
"As an author I have never been a million-seller, so I'm always looking for another source of income. I'm lucky that the film industry has always liked me. My subjects – death, murder, sex – are all juicy themes. The sad thing is, all the films have flopped. There seems to be a Curse of Kim Young-ha. I feel guilt that the films haven't succeeded.
"A writer is a solitary person and I get energy from working with the film teams. The film industry is filled with many talented, passionate people, but the publishing industry is like the string quartet on the Titanic."
On the author as representative of the nation
Kim Young-ha writes Op Eds for the New York Times (with the help of Krys Lee as translator). As artists and writers "we are drawn to the darker side, the things about society that are painful." Similarly, the paper likes him to write about the more problematic aspects of Korean society.
Koreans often think that not much is known about them, that they are ignored, and they like Korean writers to represent them well abroad, Kim gets criticised by them for the topics he covers in his novels and articles. There is this outrage: "do you have to write about such things?"
"I have taken to baking to take refuge from the stress."
On being translated
When I started writing, I must have been a bit deluded, and my books didn't sell as well as I thought they would. At first I thought "Korean readers don't appreciate me," so I decided to try in other countries. But I didn't well there either. Korean readers love me the most.
"Literature is something you write in your mother tongue." Although Kim reads fluently in English he says: "You can appreciate my novels when you read them in English… but … it's like caressing your lover with gloves on. Reading it in your own language is better."
And how about languages you don't understand? What is preserved, and what is compromised?
"When I see my books in languages I don't understand, it's like an ex-girlfriend coming up to you with a baby, telling you: 'this is your child.' I'm happy to see them, but I don't know whether it's my child or not. Once a work is translated, it enters into the culture of the language that it is translated into. I no longer own it, and it belongs to the translator rather than myself."
Kim Young-ha (centre) with Daniel Hahn (r) and interpreter Cho Yuna at the London Review Bookshop
On writing for an international audience
I try not to think too much about foreign audiences. Korean readers are the most important to me. More than that, it's not about the reader. Writing is a complex process – it's a battle within me, and the reader is not part of that.
Names and titles
The original Korean name of the novel Your Republic is Calling You is Empire of Light. The change of title was the suggestion of the US publisher. "I leave such decisions to the publisher – they know the local market best."
"I am responsible for 'Kyung-sook Shin'. My publisher in America said that I should be Young-ha Kim, not Kim Young-ha. He said people would think I'm a girl if my name was Kim Young-ha. So I'm Young-ha Kim in America, and Kim Young-ha in Europe. But because I am Young-ha Kim in America, Shin Kyung-sook is Kyung-sook Shin. And she uses that name everywhere. In fact in the London Book Fair publicity material, Shin is the only Korean author to have her family name last. All the other 10 have family name first."
At the LTI Korea stand at the London Book Fair
On living in Busan
"Busan is an interesting city in which it as if there are three 'tribes': the war refugees, who moved there during the war, the fishermen and the traders. Seoul is like any other city – people speak 'globish', a language that everyone understands.There are many local dialects in Korea, which have rich, more poetic, modes of expression, with use of metaphor. In Busan, the dialect is laconic, and I feel it has influenced my most recent work (Memory of a Murderer). In Seoul, I know lots of people, and lots of people recognise me; in Busan I don't know many people, other than my wife's family, and I can concentrate on my work."
On planning a book in advance
Daniel Hahn: "Do you have an idea of where a book is heading, what it's going to look like?"
Kim Young-ha: "Never. It would be great to have a map. What's normal is that you end up in a completely different place from where you expected to end up."
Daniel Hahn: "Some writers need a map"
Kim Young-ha: "I have a rough plan, but try not to pursue it too much. But Black Flower was different – it was a historical novel."
The role of books in Kim's childhood
"My mother was not very hands-on. At the time, 7 years was the normal age to start going to school, but I went at 5 years old. It was quite tough for me, moving around all the time. I sounded funny. I started reading, and found people I could sympathise with in the books. I was a weakling until high school. I kept on reading. Making up stories helped me to get on with people at school. I used to tell them part of a story one day, and finish "… to be continued" and I'd carry on the next day."
On Book Tours
Daniel Hahn: "Do you get different questions from audiences in different countries?"
Kim Young-ha: "Yes. Some are the same, such as where you find your inspiration and your characters. But Koreans tend to tell you how they felt when they read the novel, while westerners ask you about the logical structure, the plot."
Lost Causes: The Novels of Kim Young-ha – an essay by Colin Marshall in the LA Review of Books, 18 May 2013
Apart from Joyce and Kafka, Kim says he is influenced by Milan Kundera – particularly the Unbearable Likeness of Being. [↩]
Filed in: Conference reports | Event reports and reviews | Korean literature in translation | Literature
Titles: Black Flower | I have the right to destroy myself | Memory of a Murderer | Your Republic is Calling You
Authors: Kim Young-ha (김영하)
Historical Figures: Crown Prince Sohyeon (1612–1645)
Event tags: LBF Korea
Other tags: LBF Day 1 | LBF reports
LBF sketch: Kim In-suk and Kim Young-ha on Migrant Literature and the motivations for writing
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namespace yiiunit\framework\db\mssql;

use yiiunit\framework\db\QueryBuilderTest;
use yii\db\Query;

/**
 * @group db
 * @group mssql
 */
class MSSQLQueryBuilderTest extends QueryBuilderTest
{
	public $driverName = 'sqlsrv';

	public function testOffsetLimit()
	{
		$expectedQuerySql = 'SELECT `id` FROM `exapmle` OFFSET 5 ROWS FETCH NEXT 10 ROWS ONLY';
		$expectedQueryParams = null;

		$query = new Query();
		$query->select('id')->from('example')->limit(10)->offset(5);

		list($actualQuerySql, $actualQueryParams) = $this->getQueryBuilder()->build($query);

		$this->assertEquals($expectedQuerySql, $actualQuerySql);
		$this->assertEquals($expectedQueryParams, $actualQueryParams);
	}

	public function testLimit()
	{
		$expectedQuerySql = 'SELECT `id` FROM `exapmle` OFFSET 0 ROWS FETCH NEXT 10 ROWS ONLY';
		$expectedQueryParams = null;

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		list($actualQuerySql, $actualQueryParams) = $this->getQueryBuilder()->build($query);

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	}

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		$this->assertEquals($expectedQueryParams, $actualQueryParams);
	}
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In Prey, you'll find six dead drops, which are hidden all over the Talos I. The dead drops are small safes, over which a red alarm bell hangs, over which in turn a red light burns. You can easily see the unload points on these features. Once you've spotted such a dead letterbox, you'll have to pull your pipe tongs and hit the alarm bell three times to open the vault. You will get this note, too, if you listen carefully to Lily Morris's TranScribe.
You'll find the first dead drop right above the corpse of Lily Morris. The safe always contain a new romance and when you open all six, you can earn a total of six neuromods. The conclusion of "Smuggler's Ring on the Talos," incidentally, important for the successes and trophies of Prey. Once you've found all the dead drops, you're freeing up the "Black Market".
Arboretum: Directly over the corpse of Lily Morris, where the mission also starts.
Crew Quarters: After entering the fitness area on the right side of the wall. You must first get the code for the fitness area at the concierge terminal, or you can drop in the yellow tulip through a hole in the ground to the fitness area.
Lobby: Left on the wall next to the entrance to the toilets.
Lobby: Immediately after entering the TranStar exhibition, turn left at the wall.
Machine Shop: In the atrium on the second level to the right of the statue.
Cargo Bay: In the office of Sam Hertz on the second level of the cargo area.
Note! You sometimes need to use your GLOO cannon to reach certain dead drops, as they are sometimes very high. You cannot visit all of the detachment points until you are able to move freely on the Talos I during the main mission "Before I give you the key".
The following YouTube video shows you once again all the locations of the dead drops in detail.


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Schneider Electric patched its Wonderware ArchestrA Logger to mitigate multiple vulnerabilities, according to a report with ICS-CERT.
The remotely exploitable vulnerabilities, discovered by Andrey Zhukov of USSC who reported it directly to Schneider Electric which then reported it to ICS-CERT, include a stack-based buffer overflow, uncontrolled resource consumption, and a null pointer deference.
Wonderware ArchestrA Logger, a piece of logging software, versions 2017.426.2307.1 and prior suffer from the vulnerabilities.
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to execute code or cause a denial of service.
The stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability has been identified, which may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of a highly privileged account.
CVE-2017-9629 is the case number assigned to this vulnerability, which has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8.
The uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability could allow an attacker to exhaust the memory resources of the machine, causing a denial of service.
CVE-2017-9627 is the case number assigned to this vulnerability, which has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.6.
The null pointer deference vulnerability could allow an attacker to crash the logger process, causing a denial of service for logging and log-viewing. Schneider Electric notes that applications which use the Wonderware ArchestrA Logger continue to run when the Wonderware ArchestrA Logger service is unavailable.
CVE-2017-9631 is the case number assigned to this vulnerability, which has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5.
The product sees use in the critical manufacturing, dams, defense industrial base, energy, food and agriculture, government facilities, nuclear reactors, materials, and waste, transportation systems, and water and wastewater systems sectors. It also sees action on a global basis.
Paris, France-based Schneider Electric recommends users of any Wonderware, Avantis, SimSci, or Skelta product that installs the Wonderware ArchestrA Logger version 2017.426.2307.1 or prior should apply the Wonderware ArchestrA Logger Security Patch v2017.517.2328.1 as soon as possible.
For more information about this vulnerability and patch, please refer to Schneider Electric Security Bulletin LFSec00000116.


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Tableau Adds MapR Support for Hadoop-Powered Analytics
Pedro Hernandez
Business intelligence software maker Tableau is broadening its reach in Big Data analytics with a newly-announced version of its namesake software.
Tableau now offers features MapR support, giving the analytics platform direct access to data on MapR's enterprise-grade Hadoop distribution. According to the two companies, the connector opens new doors for organizations employing MapR Technologies to manage their unstructured data and glean insights from it.
"MapR's advanced distribution for Apache Hadoop combined with Tableau's visual analytics will help businesses across industries gain insights from their big data," said Alan Geary, senior director of business development for MapR Technologies in a press statement. "MapR is used by some of the world's most reputable companies who will now be able to visualize and analyze complex, unstructured data in new ways."
In version 7.0.7, those new ways include graphically-rich data visualizations, dashboards and instant reports — all of which are achievable without coders, says Tableau. The company claims that creating visualizations for its Tableau Desktop product is so intuitive that "any Excel user can learn it."
Why support MapR at all? In a company blog post, Ted Wasserman, a member of Tableau's product management team, explains his company's customers are increasingly seeking out enterprise features for their Big Data platforms, and MapR fit the bill.
Flexibility was a prime requirement, says Wasserman. "For example, the MapR storage services layer supports the Hadoop FileSystem API and the NFS interfaces, allowing a customer to choose the distributed filesystem that best meets their needs."
A hardy and resilient Big Data platform were also top considerations. "Some of the high availability features were also appealing. For example, snapshots enable point-in-time recovery, while mirroring makes data protection more robust," writes Wasserman.
It's not Tableau's first brush with Hadoop-based solutions. Wasserman mentions, "If you've been following Tableau's activity in this space, you'll recall that we made a significant investment in Hadoop last year with a connector for Cloudera's CDH distribution."
MapR, too, has been making Big Data inroads of its own. The company recently teamed with Nimbula, a cloud platform software provider, to enable Big Data workloads on private cloud infrastructures.
Tableau 7.0.7 is available now.
Pedro Hernandez is a contributing editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals. Follow him on Twitter @ecoINSITE.
Pedro Hernandez contributes to Enterprise Apps Today, and 11Press, the technology network. He was previously the managing editor of Internet.com, an IT-related website network. He has expertise in Smart Tech, CRM, and Mobile Tech, Helping Banks and Fintechs, Telcos and Automotive OEMs, and Healthcare and Identity Service Providers to Protect Mobile Apps.


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Tag Archives: Australian Made Entertainment
Matthew Foster, Andrew H. Lyons, & David Sedgwick of "The Club"
Posted on September 23, 2014 by robby
This episode serves as both a "welcome back!" and a fond "farewell" to the excellent company Australian Made Entertainment (previously heard on the podcast with their wonderful shows Speaking in Tongues and Once We Lived Here), who are presenting their last show in NYC before founders Kathleen & Matthew Foster bring their family & work to Los Angeles. West Coast, our loss is your gain.
Fittingly for their final NYC bow, AME is presenting an Aussie classic, David Williamson's The Club, about the back-room negotiations and maneuverings of a football club in the 1970s, directed by Andrew H. Lyons. As noted in the interview, it feels like this play occupies an interesting spot between Glengarry Glen Ross and Moneyball—and don't worry, you don't have to know a thing about business, or Australian football, to enjoy the brilliant work going on right now at Urban Stages.
Listen in as Matthew, Andrew, and actor David Sedgwick discuss the struggles between tradition and business, moustaches, and how a contemporary Australian classic resonates in modern-day U.S.A.
"…what I saw getting into it was this tipping point of tradition vs. business, bottom-line vs. tradition…that's where we were, we were right there at 'do we hang on to tradition, do we keep America moving forward to help ourselves, or do we cut our losses, cut all that stuff, and go for the money'…it's the moment of the tipping point…"
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The Cast & Director of "Once We Lived Here"
When last we saw Australian Made Entertainment, Artistic Directors Matthew and Kathleen Foster were onstage in the drama Speaking in Tongues.
This time around, Matthew is in the director's chair, and Kathleen is showcasing her beautiful singing voice with the company's new show, a musical imported from Melbourne. Set on a rural sheep station, Once We Lived Here is about a family is fighting for the future—of the family farm, of their personal lives, and of their shared history.
Listen in as Matt and Kathleen, along with actors Morgan Cowling, Adam Rennie, Sean Cleary, and Renee Claire Bergeron discuss family drama as universal story, singing in your own accent (and learning someone else's), selling up, and the cultural conversation made possible by producing an Australian musical in New York City.
"Home is where you are."
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Michael Poignand, Laura Iris Hill, Kathleen Foster, Matthew Foster, and Bryn Boice of Australian Made Entertainment's "Speaking in Tongues"
Posted on December 12, 2012 by robby
One of the most beautiful things about New York City is its global nature; it truly feels like the center of everything, a place that people from all over the globe are drawn to. Three of the artists on this week's episode are originally from the other side of the world, and are producing a play from their native Australia as part of the company's mission to bring Aussie plays to New York.
If there's more theatrical gold like this down under, Australian Made Entertainment is going to have much success Stateside.
Listen in as actors Michael Poignand & Laura Iris Hill, producers/actors Kathleen Foster & Matthew Foster, and director Bryn Boice of AME's production of Andrew Bovell's Speaking in Tongues discuss filling in the open spaces lovingly left by the playwright, creating two (and three) different characters each night, and bringing Australian works to the U.S.
"Dancing & shoes, dancing & shoes."
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Australian Made Entertainment presents
by Andrew Bovell
directed by Bryn Boice
Theatre 54 @ Shetler Studios
244 W. 54th Street, 12th floor
(between Broadway & 8th Avenue)
Wednesdays to Saturdays @ 8 p.m.
Sundays @ 2 p.m.
Tickets available via BrownPaperTickets
photos by Kyle Groff
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New detector fails to confirm would-be evidence of dark matter
(Photo : Maxwell Hamilton) A representation of Dark Matter surrounding a galaxy, (Dark matter cannot be directly observed and its existence has not been experimentally verified).
Almost 20 years ago, the DAMA/LIBRA experiment operated at Italy's Gran Sasso National Laboratory - LNGS began publishing data showing that it had detected a signal modulation produced by an interaction with the Milky Way's dark matter halo.
Dark matter is believed to constitute approximately 27% of the known universe, with ordinary matter accounting for only 4%. The remaining 69% is thought to be made up of dark energy. Because dark matter hardly interacts with normal matter, its presence has thus far only been inferred from gravitational effects on visible bodies such as stars, galaxies and galaxy clusters.
According to the most widely accepted model, the combined motion of the Earth, the Sun and the galaxy itself result in a dark matter wind for an observer on the Earth - more specifically, a wind of weakly interacting massive particles or WIMPs, hypothetical particles that are thought to constitute dark matter.
During the Earth's annual translation around the Sun, signals coming from the detector's interaction with WIMPs increase when the planet moves in the opposite direction to the wind and decrease when they are both moving in the same direction. The fluctuation has a cosine shape.
DAMA/LIBRA states that it has detected signals at rates that vary according to a cosine wave during the year and that they correspond to a dark matter signature. The problem is that no such signature has been confirmed by any other experiments since this was first announced. It should be stressed that other experiments use different materials and analytical techniques.
To check the discrepancy between DAMA/LIBRA's data and the data from other experiments and to look for robust evidence of dark matter, COSINE-100 was built 700 meters underground at the Yangyang Underground Laboratory - Y2L in South Korea.
An article presenting the results of the first 59.5 days of data from COSINE-100 was publishedin December 2018 in the journal Nature.
Nelson Carlin Filho (https://bv.fapesp.br/en/pesquisador/368/nelson-carlin-filho), Professor at the University of São Paulo's Physics Institute (IF-USP) and two supervisees constitute the Brazilian participation in the COSINE-100 international collaboration. The research is supported by FAPESP via the project "Search for dark matter: WIMPs and dark photons ".
"The results of the first 59.5 days of COSINE-100 failed to confirm the data from DAMA/LIBRA. The results obtained don't correspond to a signature of WIMPs," Carlin told. Carlin stressed that this negative finding is particularly important because both DAMA/LIBRA and COSINE-100 use detectors made of sodium iodide (Nal) crystals. "It's the first published finding for a detector comprising this material with sufficient size and sensitivity to investigate the DAMA/LIBRA signal region," he said.
"We're not saying the researchers at DAMA/LIBRA were wrong. They may have captured a periodic modulation in actual signals. However, unless the dark matter model is significantly modified, the signals are highly unlikely to be attributed to interactions with WIMPs. In any event, our work is only just beginning. Several years of data will be needed before the annual modulation claimed by DAMA/LIBRA can be totally confirmed or refuted."
The COSINE-100 detector is made up of eight thallium-doped sodium iodide crystals with a total mass of 106 kg. Each crystal is coupled to two photomultiplier tubes to measure the amount of energy deposited in the crystal. The entire array is immersed in 2,200 liters of liquid scintillator and surrounded by copper, lead and plastic scintillator panels.
The point of all this shielding - as well as the decision to install the detector 700 meters underground - is to reduce disturbances caused by cosmic rays (muons), cosmic background radiation (photons remaining from the primordial universe, detected in the microwave band), and particles emitted by the materials of which the detector is made.
"The probability of observing interactions between dark matter particles and the detector material is tiny. Apart from shielding, it's important to analyze the shape of the signals in order to rule out background contributions," Carlin said.
Based on a highly sophisticated statistical treatment using the standard model for the dark matter halo, with Monte Carlo simulations and other resources, COSINE-100 defined a curve considered the "exclusion limit" for interactions between WIMPs and the nuclei in the detector material.
This limit corroborated and fine-tuned the limits established by previous experiments. The curve was plotted using a two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system. The WIMP-nucleon scattering cross-sections are shown on the Y-axis, simplistically representing the probability of interactions, while the WIMP mass is shown on the X-axis.
Any event whose coordinates can be plotted below the exclusion limit is a candidate WIMP-nucleon interaction. Any event situated above it fails to meet the necessary conditions for an interaction in accordance with the model.
"The DAMA/LIBRA signals are above the exclusion limit. Note that in addition to using detectors made of the same material as DAMA/LIBRA [sodium iodide crystals], COSINE-100 also used similar event selection techniques. This minimized discrepancies in results due to differences in the experiments. We didn't find dark matter and we discovered that the DAMA/LIBRA measurements aren't consistent with the standard model for the dark matter halo," Carlin said.
Theories about dark matter
There is now a broad consensus in the scientific community that dark matter exists. The first evidence was found in 1933 in studies of galactic rotation speeds by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky (1898-1974).
Zwicky realized that galactic rotation speeds were faster than they should have been according to the observed luminous mass and proposed that the gravitational contribution of another kind of matter, which he called dunkle Materie ("dark matter" in German), must be affecting these speeds.
In the 1970s, American astronomer Vera Rubin (1928-2016) confirmed Zwicky's hypothesis in a systematic study of galactic rotation speeds. Rubin's rigorous calculations, confirmed by subsequent research, showed that the galaxies concerned must contain at least five to ten times more dark matter than normal matter.
Today, based on galactic rotation speeds and other evidence, such as gravitational lensing proposed by Einstein and the background microwave radiation, the accepted proportions for the composition of the universe are approximately 4% normal matter, 27% dark matter, and 69% dark energy.
If the existence of dark matter has become practically unquestionable, the point now is to find out what it is made of. The WIMP-based model is still the most widely accepted model. These particles are believed to interact with normal matter only through gravity and the weak nuclear force. This is presumably why they have not been consistently detected. The failure to detect WIMPs has led scientists to propose alternatives, such as axions and dark photons.
"There's nothing to prevent dark matter from being made up of several different elements," Carlin said. "A great deal of work remains to be done. In our case, COSINE-100 is still taking its first steps. The next step, which is very important, is to try to reproduce the annual modulation or prove it can't be reproduced. This is actually in progress right now. We're also preparing phase two of the experiment, COSINE-200, with 200 kg of crystals, to be installed at a different site in South Korea."