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In a first for Awesome Wave, we were given a new car! For a few days anyway. The Hyundai PR team got in touch to see if we wanted to try out the new 2016 Hyundai Tucson and take it for an extended test-drive. With our trip to Devon with Holidaycottages.co.uk coming up, we thought it would be a great way to test the 4×4 in a realistic way and put it through its paces.
I am the driver in the team, and have driven a lot of different cars. The only 4×4's I have driven are Land Rover's, my favourite being a Defender so the Tucson was up against some serious pedigree. Or so I thought.
First Impressions (Size, Colour, Build)
When the car was delivered, it was parked up next to Deborah the Van and I was amazed to see very little size difference. This is a big car. There is nothing dainty about the Tucson, it looks solid and bold.
The colour, a vibrant blue was awesome – very likeable and a nice tone. It certainly stood out in our little cul-de-sac with its grey, black and white vehicles. I really liked it and it showed of the car's curves and lines well. I could see why this was the press vehicle. Initial impressions of the car were very good. Much more than I expected.
We started off with a little jolly around the village and then to get some food at a local country pub. The maneuverability was smooth but I was having a tough time working out everything that was available to me. The car was packed with a lot of features. Ignoring as much as I could, I wanted a feel for the basics. The driving position, the going forward, going backwards, parking and breaking.
Core driving (Seat Position, Controls)
The seating position is lower than I expected for a big vehicle. That said everything feels low compared to Deborah the van, but I was surprised. It wasn't a problem at all and the adjustable range of the seating more than made up for it. The controls on the chair were numerous and wide. We even worked out you can almost lie completely prostrate, perhaps to have a kip. There were all of the controls and options I would expect to find on much more expensive car. The seat was comfortable and covered with a good quality leather. As was the dash trim and interior, adding to premium feel of the car.
The throttle wasn't sluggish and a quick tap into Sport mode made it more nimble and responsive. The brakes were sharp as you would expect from a car that had done less than 1000 miles and the steering was unhindered. Personally I prefer some stiffness in a steering wheel but I can appreciate the technology in what seemed to be super power-steering.
Reversing was made all the easier with the reversing camera. These might be fairly standard in new cars but it doesn't take anything away from their inclusion being testament to Hyundai's vision for the this vehicle. One of quality, space and safety.
Town Driving
The Tucson, pronounced "toook-saan" (apparently!) is a large vehicle. But then it is meant to be. It is an SUV and should be treated as such. More space is needed when driving and cornering requires an adjustment if you are not used to large vehicles. This is easy to get used to though and the benefits of the space inside are great. As mentioned the steering is sensitive so driving around town is extremely easy. There wasn't a single situation where I felt I was in trouble of putting effort into turning. The car was solid and the everything worked very well together.
One big benefit when driving in town, is that when you need to park in small spaces, you have the aid of parking sensors. These are very useful to help with dimensions of the vehicle and with the rear facing camera, let you see the difference in what you perceive to be close and what is actually close. For me the difference was huge. We did the weekly shop on our second outing and I was about 3ft away from the bollard, using the camera helped me tuck the car away so the nose wasn't sticking out.
Where I stopped the car when reversing…
Where the Hyundai Tucson told me to stop when reversing! An extra 2ft?!
The Tucson has some impressive tech inside it. One feature that should warrant applaud is the auto parking features. Where the vehicle can park itself when parallel parking. It should be applauded but unfortunately not by me. It made me smile but also a bit scared. For some people this feature will be a god send but for me, I did not like the over-dependence on technology for basic driving skills. But more on this later. (You can see it in action in the video below)
We had lunch and it was a really nice feeling to walk up to car. It did have presence in the car park, even when parked next to a new Jaguar XF, perhaps it was the colour or the shiny new-ness, but it made us smile to say it was ours. The automatic boot release is a handy feature and I could throw my crutches in the back without a having to fumble to lift the boot and press a button again to engage the auto-close. The keyless entry system was also a nice touch but due to my old ways, I still feel uncomfortable with it. Keyless entry also meant keyless start, this was fun and a nice feature of the car.
Where to put the keys once you are in given that they are not in an ignition slot wasn't a problem either as there were tons of spaces and cubby-holes to put them in. There was plenty of room for everything and I think the interior space designers certainly had the busy adult or parent in mind when sketching the interior.
Motorway Driving
In the evening we took the 200 mile trip down to Devon from Birmingham. This was a lot of motorway driving but we are used to that and it was nice to do it in a different car. This is where some more fun happened, but first the basics.
The vehicle can handle speed, very very easily. The drive is smooth and solid. The heads up display shows you an array of data from your speed, mpg, average speed, miles to next petrol top-up, directions if using the inbuilt satnav, the radio station and more. The steering wheel felt premium and nicely moulded and proportioned. It reminded me of an Audi A3 S-line I had in 2010. All the required buttons were on the steering wheel but I didn't use them too often. It was even heated, which was a feature I thought of all by myself when I was 8 years old. I'm glad car companies decided to take it onboard!
The seats were comfortable but needed some adjusting for the long haul. I pushed the lumbar support forward so my back survived the journey. The biggest issue I had with the driving position for a long drive was the height of the arm rest on the door. I like to rest on the door or the window-ledge but I could find a comfortable position on it. The window ledge was a bit high but then the styling of the vehicle requires smaller, higher windows.
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Intelligent features
On the motorway I found some of the more interesting features of the vehicle and some were a first for me.
First was actually my favourite feature of the whole car, as daft as it is – it was the Speed Limiter. With how comfortably the car can go at speed, it was not long before I was cruising at a speed breaking the law, the drive was just too smooth. As I fiddled with the cruise control to try and mitigate this, I found the speed limiter. I've never had one of these and programming it to a law abiding speed, I found that no matter the increase throttle-creep, the speed did not increase. This was revolutionary for me. It meant I could relax and know I could not go above the speed limit by accident, which is easily done in newer more powerful cars. With my foot to the floor, it wouldn't increase.
As with some turbo's, there is a button at the very bottom of the throttle position. In a previous BMW this was the turbo-boost. On this car, using the speed limiter, this served as an override. It meant that if I needed to, all of a sudden, I could kick out of the limit and accelerate if needed.
The next thing I found was lane assist. I almost didn't believe what I thought lane-assist did until I tried it on some clear stretches of motor way. When turned on, lane-assist can read how close you are to the line either side of you and beep to tell you that you are too close. This was very interesting. Then my mind was absolutely blown when I was testing its sensitivity as the car moved! All by itself! The steering actually corrected itself a safe distance away from the line. This was nuts! I tried it some more and got to the point where I (safely) removed my hands entirely from the steering wheel, reduced my speed and let car drive itself – and it worked! My hands were hovering just over the wheel, but it was actually correcting itself as we drove forward. But what about when you overtake someone? It still works but is cleverly cut-out if you indicate, allowing you to take control and manoeuvre. Brilliant.
Blind Spot Detection
The next bit of interesting tech that has since had me staring at other vehicles' wing mirrors, is a Blind Spot Detection warning. As I found, if someone is in a position that the sensors consider your blind spot, a light appears in the wing mirror of the side the vehicle is hidden on. Again this was fascinating and I started to see a theme with this car and for all it's looks and glamour, started to understand the most compelling reason to own the car. Safety.
Country lanes
When we were in Devon, we had to contend with a lot of country lanes and in the dead of night, we were glad to be in this car. The collaboration with Hyundai couldn't have been more perfectly planned. There were a lot of turns and sudden dips but the car handled them with ease. We had been following the onboard satnav, powered by TomTom and were truly in the thick of it. It was on the country lanes I noticed the headlights changed when going around corners. The cornering lights were another first for me and I didn't see the point until I was taking corners in the pitch black with hedgerows 10ft high. They lit up the corners so I could manoeuvre better and I must say, given the further reach, warned some bunnies that we were coming and gave them time to go and hide, saving them from the 18" alloy wheels!
"Beams Save Bunnies"
The next day after staying in our cottage with HolidayCottages.co.uk which you can read about here and as part of out challenge to visit every county in the UK, we took to the roads again in search of some beach and adventure. Now it was day time, I could loosen up a bit and did so by loosening the car up and engaging Sport mode. This made the throttle more responsive and woke-up the suspension a bit. The car revved slightly higher than usual and the drive got more exciting.
Car or SUV?
I keep calling it car because that is what it felt like inside. Technically the Hyundai Tucson is a Sport Utility Vehicle but when driving, I felt like I was in any other hatchback or saloon. It felt like a car. So when I was driving around and going through puddles, driving up grassland to see some cows and mounting single track verges, it felt like I was in a normal car. You would think that was a good thing and I think for many people it is. To feel the comfort and safety of a car in a capable 4×4.
For me though, the experience was muffled a bit by the comfort and I wanted to feel more of it. The suspension cushioned everything, the nimble steering made no work of adverse camber and if anything the very light steering was almost dangerously light for traversing uneven ground. I would prefer to be able to feel the road a bit especially if I need to keep it in balance and come off the correct way. That said, technology has come a long way since the 4×4's I have owned and even then, this is versatile vehicle that is for town and country, not just one.
Economy – the fuel economy is good but not breathtaking. At about 36mpg for motorway driving, some fun on sports mode and some start stop town driving, it was about as expected.
Rear Seats & Boot – I've not said much about the rear seat or the boot. They are spacious and comfortable and could fit 2 adults or 3 kids. There was a drop down arm rest in the middle and iso-fix safety fixtures. The seats drop down to open up the boot space which made the vehicle akin to a small van.
Too much Tech? – I personally don't like the amount of tech in the car. It scares me how reliant some people could become on such technology and thus switch off to responsibility of driving a car. A counter-argument is that these features can be turned off. But their availability does concern me given the affordability to be a first car.
Safe – given the safety features, whether I like them or not, shouldn't take anything away from the fact that this car has a lot of them. The car has been designed for safety and if driven by someone who understands to still look for a blind spot, while supported by a warning or to keep their eye on the road while being supported by lane-assist, it is car I would happily see more of on the road.
Full Alloy Spare Wheel – under the boot space was a full size, identical spare alloy wheel. This was a good feature, no space-savers to be seen. Another useful inclusion in the car.
The sunroof – the panoramic sunroof was a nice feature and opened up the Devon countryside to us.
Gearbox – Our model had a dual-shift automatic gearbox and given it was new, couldn't be faulted. It was smooth and responsive. My only issue was that I would have like the gear change to be earlier in some instances to make the drive more economical and that throttle-shifting wasn't all that easy.
Favourite Features
This really brought home how my perspective of rear clearance is way over-cautious, which isn't bad but can clearly be improved upon.
In addition to the higher resting rev point, the caffeinated throttle and suspension, the sport mode is fun. On a straight I took the Tucson from idle to 60 in a very short amount of time and the sport mode let the revs redline before automatically changing gears. For a large car, it wasn't crazy fast, but a lot faster than I expected.
Perhaps strange given the previous favourite feature but the ability to drive safely and avoid throttle-creep on the motorway was a big feature for me. As someone who does a lot of motorway miles, this is something that would make my drives easier and less stressful.
There are a lot of features on this Hyundai Tucson, so much so that when I checked the price point for the vehicle I was amazed at how affordable it was. There is a lot of car, for a fraction of the cost of its premium brand rivals. I was out by about £15k on my estimations on cost.
The Hyundai Tucson for all of its 4×4 meatiness, is a vehicle designed for safety. With its blind spot detection, speed limiters, parking sensors, cameras, lane detection, size, build, parking aids and even an auto-breaking feature I didn't get the opportunity or inclination to try, it is a very safety orientated car, that I would and have recommended to people since this test drive.
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Rachel 23 August 2016
Thanks for sharing this! I've heard a lot about this new model, and it sounds like it's really living up to the hype! I'll definitely have to check the Tucson out.


How Can I Make Copies Of Commercial DVDs?
We own many cartoons DVDs that our young kid mishandles in his excitement. I would like to make exact copies to a blank DVD to play on a player and keep the original safe. What is the best method?
a. If possible I would like to get rid of annoying ads, previews, piracy warnings that are impossible to fast forward before getting to the main menu.
c. Some DVDs are copy protected. How can I override them?
e. Which programs are best for these tasks? I hear Handbrake but it can't do everything (override copy protection). Do I need 2 programs?
f. I own cartoons on iTunes and Amazon, can I create a DVD to play on a player?
You can do this, but you are on shaky legal ground. I'd like to think you can make a "backup" version of the DVD for your own use, but I'm not a lawyer so I can't say for sure.
You cannot copy a DVD easily because of the copy protections. But you can "rip" a DVD to a file with software like Handbrake (http://macmost.com/importing-dvd-video.html).
So that takes care of A and C for you, and E. Handbrake DOES override copy protection.
As for B, well that takes some extra work. You would have to use software like Toast to build a new DVD and then burn it. The whole process for ripping a DVD and then creating a new DVD is quite a long one. Weighing time and effort vs. money, it is probably better to let your kids break some DVDs and simply replace them with new copies (or NOT, and let them learn a lesson about caring for their things).
As for D, I suppose you can create a playlist in iTunes of videos. Or use some other video player software that lets you queue up several videos.
As for F, that's a no-go with iTunes as they are copy protected and you can't burn them to DVD. Not sure about Amazon.
Another money and time-saving idea might be to ditch the DVDs and all this time ripping and burning and simply get an Apple TV and Netflix subscription. I noticed there are tons of cartoons on there. And as your kids get older they can watch cartoons meant for older kids without having to buy anything new. Plus, you can watch and rent iTunes cartoons too. The future is in streaming content like this, not physical optical discs anyway.
What I do for my kids is rip movies with HandBrake (H.264 / MP4 files), put all the movies on one portable, self-powered hard drive that is just for the kids. We have Roku's on each TV (Roku XS has a USB port), we play them with the Roku. You could also use a Blu-Ray player that has a USB port instead of a Roku, just be sure the format is supported.
I use both DVD and stream (iTunes and Amazon)for flexibility. Sometimes our service provider crawls and the cartoon pauses, causing an uproar in the house.
I like Joe W's suggestion of a dedicated hard drive. I'm going to try a USB stick to the Panasonic DVD player to see if it works and take it from there.


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Interview with Amazon's 'Them' Creator, Showrunner, EP and Writer Little Marvin
Script's Editor, Sadie Dean, speaks one-on-one with Little Marvin, the creator, showrunner, EP and writer behind 'Them' Amazon's new horror anthology limited series. They tap into the storytelling tactics he used to create suspense, collaboration on set, his screenwriting journey and more.
Sadie Dean
You can't necessarily judge a book by its cover, and that's certainly the case with Amazon's new horror anthology limited series Them, created by the very affable Little Marvin. There are numerous complexities at play creating a stunning yet subtle piece of storytelling.
Them, Amazon Studios
A black family moves from North Carolina to an all-white Los Angeles neighborhood in 1953, where their idyllic home becomes ground zero for malevolent forces.
I had the great pleasure of speaking with Little Marvin about the many storytelling tactics he and his team used and the power of storytelling through collaboration.
This interview has been edited for content and clarity.
Sadie Dean: Tell us about your screenwriting journey. What was the spark that made you decide to become a storyteller?
Little Marvin: Where do I begin. I would say, well I wanted this for a long time. I mean I loved the theme of television, and I've been obsessed with it since I was a child, TV was an event in our household, I don't know what that says about me or my therapy bill [laughs]. So, I've always wanted this and when I graduated from college, you know, in my early 20s I pursued it with some vigor, but not enough, I think I got really beat down in my 20s and when the going got tough I ran, which is not the best way to have a career [laughs]. But fast forward to a few years and I was a marketing executive and a creative director for many years, I loved my life in the kind of corporate world, but there was always this nagging dream that I wanted to make television and I wanted to be a writer. So I did what I would suggest nobody do, I put myself up for a promotion and no one asked me to have, which bosses love by the way [laughs] and if I got the gig, I would forget about my dream of being a screenwriter and just do this because that was meant to be, or if I didn't get it, I would quit my job immediately, fly to Los Angeles and not put myself out of my room until I was a paid writer. Spoiler, I did not get the job. I did exactly that. [laughs]
Little Marvin
Sadie: [laughs]. Well, I'm happy that's the case. Are there any filmmakers or screenwriters that have inspired your work?
Little Marvin: There's so many to tell. I mean, I was the guy who would lock myself in the academy library, I would write from like 9am to noon. It's a fantastic resource for writers in Los Angeles. There's a tremendous resource and I would read, you know, Paddy Chayefsky's Network. Any day where I felt like I was actually good I would read Paddy Chayefsky. [laughs] 'Oh right, I'm a total hack' and then I would go back to work. But too many to count. Especially the directors Brian De Palma, Stanley Kubrick, William Friedkin, there are too many to name.
Sadie: Yeah, I can definitely sense with you just naming off those directors and Paddy Chayefsky, and I can see those influences in this anthology series. So, what inspired you to tell this story specifically?
Little Marvin: There was a few things that I was waking up to every morning and sort of opening my phone and seeing video after video of Black folks being terrorized in some way by the police, or surveils, or watched or harassed and I started to think about my own experiences with that kind of terror and with that gaze but also a history of that gaze that stretches all the way back to the dawn of this country. You know for Black folks, public spaces have been weaponized against Black folks since the dawn of this country. What I hadn't seen was the sort of tension between the public and the private, and that most private of spaces - the home. So, I wanted to focus on that and tell a terror tale but rooted in the homeownership story.
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Sadie: You do an incredible job and layering in those different real-life issues, the turmoil and racism, mental illness, PTSD, and then you still find a way to balance it with this very tight-knit family and the love that they have. But also, you managed to keep us on the edge of our seats with the suspense, which is also really greatly handled especially in that pilot. I think it's very rare that you watch a pilot that you're like, 'Okay I'm ready for the full ride.' Was suspense initially on the page or was that something you created on set and through post while editing?
Little Marvin: Oh, yeah, it evolves. And I think it always begins on the page of course. But other people get involved right and then your dream of the thing becomes even bigger. I mean, that's what kept happening like I thought my dream was big, and then suddenly the actors walk in and you're like, 'oh wait' there's their dreams and their collective vision and how what they bring to it, and then you realize that you're actually writing the show as a showrunner, the thing I love about this job is that you're writing the show with every single thing you touch, right? So, it's like the casting, you're writing a piece of it, the costume design, I have to say, I have to call out Mari-An Ceo our costume designer and Tom Hammock our production designer, both brilliant and insanely gifted and crazy and like they would work in tandem, you know, so if you see a frame, where it looks like a dress and a piece of wallpaper kind of connect, it's not by accident, we really sort of tried to write the show with every single frame. And then the edit is really just that next evolution, I think I enjoyed the edit process as much as a writing process because you get the opportunity to write the show again in the edit.
Sadie: I even have a note here about the costume design and the production design, it's very subtle, unless you're actually looking for it, but everything is so interconnected - I don't want to give away spoilers but for instance Vera's dress, the collar is like a book.
Little Marvin: Did you notice that or were you told that?
Sadie: No, I noticed that.
Little Marvin: Yes! [laughs] By the way, that's all Mari-An. I'm so glad you noticed that, it makes me so happy because Mari-An is insane and she would come up to me at the monitor and she's like, 'Psst, there's a spoiler in that dress' and I'm like, 'What are you – go away!' [laughs]. And then sure enough I would look at the dailies and I'm like, 'Oh my God, she's not kidding, the print of that dress is a spoiler in the prints of that skirt in the color of that dress.' Everywhere you look, there were spoilers and storytelling and it was so masterful but also subtle with what you're saying. And the fact that you saw it is just tremendous validation of her work and her eye.
Sadie: Little Marvin, this is like storytelling candy for us film geeks, so thank you.
Little Marvin: That means so much to me. I'm a geek too [laughs] so that means the most coming from a fellow geek.
Sadie: So, peeling back another layer – the music. I will never listen to The Wiz song "Home" the same way ever again.
Little Marvin: [laughs] Sorry about that.
Sadie: Was that initially also written on the page? Did you already have the songs picked out or is that something you worked on with your music supervisor?
Little Marvin: It was a mix of both. I mean, I do things that maybe you're not supposed to do, but I don't know what the rules are and by the way, there are no rules, let me just start there. But I certainly think that scripts are more than just suggestive, I think you're actually bringing someone into the world when you're on the page so if there is a piece of music I want to hear, I will not be afraid of writing it into the script because I think it gives the brain a feeling of texture and tone of what the world actually is. Now all screenwriters gonna read that and be like, 'What the fuck is he saying?' [laughs] 'That's not what you're supposed to do!' You know, take it with a bag of salt, but I will write in those things. The use of that song in particular, you know, I don't think most people would get this but the first 10 minutes of our show was so directly inspired by my love of the Wizard of Oz. In both cases it's a woman alone on a farm, with a terrier, sort of sepia colored world, who, after a run in with a wicked woman with some of the technical or dreamworld. And so that first 10 minutes of the show was really inspired by my love of Wizard of Oz and so it was no question to me that I would then take you know The Wiz and use that at the end of the pilot.
Sadie: I just love how you used each song as a storytelling device to juxtapose these emotional highs in a scene or each episode.
Little Marvin: I must call out Randall Poster and Meghan Currier, our intrepid and fantastic music supervisors. You know, it was a real collaboration, and it was also a discovery. I knew going in that I wanted to show to feel like a show about the 50s that we shot in the 70s, and so that affected the framing and affected the pace, affected the sort of methodical nature of it. What I hadn't really thought about was how that might affect the soundscape and also the music. And so in the edit there was a real sense of discovery. The fact that we actually got to take our soundscape and shred it through the 1970s as well, providing a tremendous, I mean just all the best music from the 60s and 70s.
Sadie: You definitely have a very poignant aesthetic running through the whole thing. I like how you never sway from it, even when you expect with modern-day storytelling that maybe you'll hyper stylize on this one thing, I like how you seemed to keep it contained.
Little Marvin: Thank you for saying that, because I'm not sure 'contained' is how my DP would describe it [laughs]. I'm in love with diopters by the way, it's a Brian De Palma saying and I'm obsessed with him and so there was a moment where Checco [Varese] pulled me aside, he's like, 'You know it's not cool when you use one in every shot.' [laughs] And I'm like, 'Oh, you're right. Yeah, we should pull it back.' So, thank you for 'contained'. [laughs]
Sadie: [laughs] On the directing side, exceptional cast by the way, specifically Melody Hurd, this kid can hold her own and the fact that you end the series on her, her look says it all. How were you able to communicate with her on set, especially during these really psychologically intense scenes without making her fearful of what she's getting into and still get these performances out of her?
[L-R] Melody Hurd as Gracie Emory and Deborah Ayorinde as Livia 'Lucky' Emory in Them, Amazon Studios
Little Marvin: She is the ultimate pro, it's actually really eerie and scary for a child to be so like pro, naturally gifted but she is. You know, when you're writing, I'm sure you've heard this like screenwriters hear this, don't write children into lead roles and don't write animals. [laughs] But it wasn't really a question that Gracie wasn't going to be beating heart within the show. In walks Melody, and she has this tremendous ability for like really, really being in it, when she's in the scene, and then the minute the cameras stop rolling she's doing a TikTok video in the corner [laughs]. And I'm like, 'I guess she didn't feel that, I was so worried for her.' So, she's just tremendously gifted and I have to call out all - Shahadi [Wright Joseph] and Ashley [Thomas] and Deborah [Ayorinde] and Alison Pill, I have to call them all out for just being tremendously fearless and amazing.
Sadie: Alison Pill, yeah, so great. The first note I wrote down while watching the pilot was, 'There's nothing scarier than a bored housewife'.
Little Marvin: [laughs] I want that on a t-shirt.
Sadie: I really liked how you were able to tackle all of these issues, especially in LA. A lot of people who aren't from LA, may not know our past or really know we had these issues especially in areas like Compton or Inglewood or Hawthorne. There's this historical context that we forget about, but you put it in a way that we could kind of digest it, maybe not quite comfortably, but I'm still thinking about it.
Little Marvin: I have to say it was a tremendous journey of discovery, even for myself you know I love history, I love particularly the history of Black folk in this country, and just immersing myself in our past, and I knew a lot about the Jim Crow South, I didn't know particularly a lot about what Black folks faced as they migrated to the cities of the East and the West and very much not at all what they experienced in Los Angeles. And it was an eye opener, an extremely sobering reality to realize that here were tactics that would have been quite at home in the Jim Crow South that were happening in these places you mentioned, and in Glendale, and Pacoima, and Hancock Park. You know, when Nat King Cole and his family moved into Hancock Park in '48, they were subjected to much of the same terror that the Emory's experienced. So that was definitely an enlightening and entirely sobering reality.
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Sadie: This is your first show as a showrunner. What was the staffing process like for filling your first writers' room?
Little Marvin: We were really just focused on finding folks who were rather fearless on the page and hyper intelligence, you know, there was this interesting combination of attributes, where they were able to deliver on the things that scared me. But they were also quite intelligent about it. I'm not a big fan of just sort of empty jump scares. I really like things that are kind of born out of the emotional and psychological, I think those things are infinitely terrifying. And so just finding folks that were able to deliver that feeling on the page was the ambition and we got a fantastic group of folks together to do it.
Sadie: What is your writing process like?
Little Marvin: A hot mess. What is it really like? It's like a lot of just sort of, 'Oh my god, I can't do this' until I do. [laughs] It's really, it. I mean, I think as all writers we're terrified before we get to the page, and then, you know, with some elbow grease, we get to a place where you begin to remember why you do it and why you love it. And there's a joy to be found in that elbow grease, it's fleeting, [laughs] but it's there.
Sadie: Little Marvin, thank you so much for your time. Looking forward to what you do next.
Little Marvin: I'm so honored to be in [Script] magazine, so thanks.
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Chinese search engine company Sogou announced today that COO Liyun Ru will leave his position on June 30th for personal reasons. Dr. Jingfang Xu will now lead the company's Search Division and oversee AI smart search development.
According to Sogou CEO Xiaochuan Wang's announcement, Ru will continue with the company as a consultant, and will likely start his own company in the near future. Wang had kind words for Ru and thanked him for his contributions. In 2010, Ru established a research team for Sogou Search and took charge of the Sogou Search Division, where he advanced the company's search technologies. Following his promotion to company COO in 2016, Ru also acted as an advisor to CEO Wang regarding Sogou's strategic blueprint.
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Elthea's Realm (The Story of Elthea's Realm Book 1)
Science fiction and fantasy novel Elthea's Realm is a land with islands held high above the ocean by a slender pillar and stars that float down from the heavens to bestow an amazing gift. It's a place where five friends involuntarily find themselves after they were attacked by a destructive computer virus turned corporeal.
The five companions are soon befriended by the Astari, a race of people who were once computer software programs on Earth. The deadly virus, called Bots, continue to pursue the five friends because of their participation in a college course called The Utopia Project. And the Bots will stop at nothing to kill or capture them, even as the virus begins to wage war on Earth's computer infrastructure.
The members of The Utopia Project and their Astari protectors band together and hatch a plan to stop the Bots before being killed by them first, and before the Earth is left in ruins.
What ensues is a harrowing tale of magic and survival, set against the backdrop of what makes us human. Ultimately, it's a story of friendship and brotherhood, without which none would survive.
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Aisuru (Hakodate Hearts, Book 1)
Party? Cake? Friends? No, for Sakura Takeshi, her eighteenth birthday was spent meticulously preparing for her coming death. But all of her planning didn't include meeting the star of her late guardian's fairy tales in her garden one night.
Now she has a handsome yokai now sharing her house and her bed, a jealous young tengu living in her cherry tree, a cheerful classmate determined to push past her walls to be her first friend, and a heart in danger of being stolen…
Aisuru is a young adult love story with a charming prince of hero, a sweetly conflicted heroine, a sprinkling of fantasy, a dash of family drama, and a little spice to warm the heart.
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The Corner Store Witch
Leone owns Pulp Magic (Comics, Books, Games, & More). Angry customers are her biggest concern—until a man from another world literally drops into her shop. And oni have followed him. Leone defends herself with a magical staff, which marks her with powerful runes. Her supernatural tattoo sleeves make her desperately thirsty, yet practically allergic to water—and oh, they foretell the fate of the realms of demons, gods, and men.
With her four friends and inter-dimensional guide, Leone travels to the realm of the gods, searching for magical cosmetic surgery. She doesn't want to carry the fate of the world literally on her arms. But the truth she finds—of a war raging between worlds—changes her, challenges her.
What's a nerd to do with the fate of all worlds at stake? Ah yes, kick some demon ass.
The Chronicles of Narnia but with more swearing, more katanas, and less allegory. It's nerdy, anime inspired fun for the whole family.
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Max Hamby and the Emerald Hunt
Max Hamby's story continues, but this time he is joined by Milo Jenkins.
The battle between good and evil has just begun.
Oxworth Pitt destroyed Max's home and trapped his mother in the Shadowstone with a three hundred year old witch.
Isolde is getting stronger.
Max must travel to Grimhold, a goblin slave market, to find the next stone before Oxworth or risk losing everything.
Milo Jenkins has always been a big believer in myth and magic, but he's left reeling from a nightmare filled with destruction and images of Max Hamby.
When he's given his grandfather's strange pendant, with a warning to never take it off, he becomes suspicious that there might be more to his nightmare than he thought.
His suspicions are confirmed when he learns that Pleasant Seas has been destroyed and an entire community lost.
Milo doesn't believe it and sets out on a quest to learn the truth.
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Deathsworn Arc: The Last Dragon Slayer
Action, Adventure and Dragon Slaying in this Sword and Sorcery themed, Epic Fantasy Novel:-
"First book was extremely engrossing. Had to force myself to put it down." – J. Swaim
Saul Karza, wizard of the Empire, has been given a quest by the Empress herself: To find and slay a mythical 'noble dragon' – said to be near invulnerable.
Instead of leading a large band of soldiers, archers and spell-casters; he sets out with two immigrant dock-workers and a homeless dwarf.
What Saul needs is the legendary 'Last Dragon Slayer' on his side, because on this deadly quest, it's not only Saul's favour with the Empress that's at stake – but also his life.
The Deathsworn Arc Series of Dark, Epic Fantasy Adventure Novels:-
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Deathsworn Arc 3 : The Blood Queen
Deathsworn Arc 4 : Rise of the Archmage
The Deathsworn Arc contains graphic violence and mature themes.
Recommended for readers 14+ only.
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Max Hamby and the Blood Diamond
The first book in the children's fantasy series – Max Hamby. It's the last week of school. With sunny days ahead and no more tests or bullies, life for Max Hamby is about to get alot better…..until he crashes into an odd exhibit at the local museum. Strange things begin to happen. When Max's mother disappears, he's left in the care of his eccentric neighbor where lawn gnomes come to life and a bird meows. Mrs. Pitt shows him that magic is real and not all like the fairytales he once knew. The discovery leads him to Merrihaven, where even stranger things await, including a dwarf, a troll and a couple of pixies. He quickly finds himself at the center of a battle between good and evil. Someone has resurrected the Shadowstone to free the evil imprisoned inside. Max must summon the courage to find seven magical stones to save his mother and stop the evil, before it's too late.
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The Almshouse
Come travel into the 1930's and through the doors of St. Margaret's School for Girls. The place used to be an almshouse, until its previous occupants burned to death thirteen years before. The townsfolk are at a loss as to what started the fire. Some said it was an act of the devil. Some said it was a resident who had too much to drink. The building, miraculously, survived.
When a bag of bones falls on twelve-year old Julia, she finds herself thrown into the spirit realm and face to face with house's past residents. Her new neighbors aren't so lively, and some can't even remember their own names. But as Julia soon discovers, there's more to these people than meets the eye. One of these ghosts is not like the others, and Julia must find out quickly why someone had been cut from the town records.
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The Human Apocalypse has Ended…
Within the destruction left from the fire that fell from the sky, only the animals remain. Prophesied by the Owl Queen and her loyal army for years, the Apocalypse has started a war of control between the various factions of animals left behind — revealing ancient magic passed down from generation to generation. From the noble woodland creatures led by a quiet and mysterious council, to the domesticated animals who were once companions for humankind everywhere.
The Animal Apocalypse Begins…
Outside of the warring factions of animals left behind, the owls who foretold of the Apocalypse have regrouped. With the return of magic, the war has grown into a struggle of power. Not only power over the arcane, but power over life… and death. The Owl Queen has foretold of a new prophecy. One where owls rule the land under her command. In order to grow her army, the Queen comes up with a painful curse. A curse that will transform anyone who ingests it into a bloodthirsty and frenetic owl, hellbent on destruction. A curse that will make this prophecy come true. The prophecy of Acorn 666.
Don't eat the acorns.
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The Keeper and the Rulership
Raneh has magic.
That's not a good thing.
In the Rulership, landowners are forbidden to use magic, on pains of death. She will get killed if she's caught, but she can't stop the stuff from growing. So she shoves it into weeds, hoping nobody will notice, and tries to maintain a typical lifestyle for an eighteen-year-old heir.
Hiding it is working just fine, until the Ruler comes to visit. The Ruler seems to have some ulterior motive . . . and she's the one who forbids magic. Raneh would do anything for her family, but it's impossible for her to stop growing the magic that will make them all a target.
Her options are shrinking fast . . .
(This book is 78,000 words long, or 256 pages in length.)
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Xoe Meyers had a normal life. So she was stuck going to high school, and she only had a few friends to call her own. She liked her normal life. Things were about to change though, because there's a new guy in her small town, and he is anything but normal. Before Xoe can say, "Werewolf," her best friend's life is in peril, and Xoe's world is turned upside-down. Then, of course, there's Jason. Xoe doesn't trust him as far as she can throw him, and given that he's a vampire, she'd have to be able to catch him first.
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The "Ratchet and Clank" series has always been a favorite of mine as well as many other gamers since their introduction on the PS2 in 2002. It's only natural for the Lombax and robot duo to make their appearance on Sony's portable machine. Instead of being a rush job to get a popular franchise onto the system, the developer, High Impact Games, created the PS2 experience wholly intact on the PSP.
Ratchet, the main hero of the games, is on a vacation with his partner and best friend, Clank. They are getting a well deserved rest after saving the universe three times when a young girl, named Luna, approaches them for a photo opportunity of seeing Ratchet in action. He agrees to show off his moves before his scheduled massage and thus the adventure begins.
The story, like all "Ratchet and Clank" games, is pretty strong and contains a fair number of twists. Not to spoil anything beyond the introduction but the plot involves an ancient alien race known as the Technomites who are responsible for creating all technological advancements as we know it. Also, some characters are not as they seem. Do not fret long time fans, the funny Commander Qwark is back. While Qwark doesn't play a big role this time in the story, he still provides some of the best comic relief.
The game is part shooter so it does involve using guns to defeat your enemies. There is no blood and no offensive violence. Most of your enemies are robots and they explode into a variety of metal pieces when they are defeated. The live enemies just simply vanish leaving nothing but the trademark currency, bolts, behind.
Unlike past games which had characters in drag and some sexual jokes, this game is quite tame. There is nothing that is outright offensive, although there are small instances that could be taken the wrong way.
The gameplay is solid. It's the entire Ratchet and Clank PS2 experience on the handheld. The developers sacrificed nothing in bringing the game to the PSP. That is to be expected as High Impact Games are made up of former Insomniac employees, who created the original PS2 games. The only mild annoyance is that the lack of dual shoulder buttons has caused them to switch around the strafe controls to using the d-pad to strafe and the analog nub to move. You do have the choice to switch the functions between the two if you so wish.
The characters are really well developed and do show a great sense of friendship. Ratchet is brash and never thinks before he jumps in and he usually ends up with Clank having to save his life. It's a friendship where the two characters play off of each other well and proves that as long as you have friends to help you out, you can overcome the most difficult of obstacles.
The graphics are fantastic. They really look like the PS2 game has been ported straight over. There is no slowdown whatsoever and usually has all sorts of particle effects and lighting going on everywhere. This is the game you use to prove what the PSP is capable of in terms of graphics. It's pretty, fluid and just fun to look at.
All in all, if you're a fan of the "Ratchet and Clank" series or a newcomer. I wholeheartedly recommend Size Matters as it's one of the best games in the PSP library.
when you hit these crab enemy's that when you hit them you see green blood splatter out.
It is just goo, and any ways its just a crab that doesn't even really exist. All violence is only commited to aliens, nobody else.
You would probably see more gore in killing a real life fly. So don't take the goo to extreme levels. Halo 2's first movie shown at the gaming convention was extreme in blood. I saw an online video and it covered an entire wall.


Niibe revised the design of Flying Stone Tiny (FST-01) for STM32F103TB, which is small enough.
It was not under consideration before, as he thought QFN soldering were very difficult. But now (for him), QFN soldering is not the thing to be avoided.
The photo is the one, it's built by DIY reflow soldering and hand soldering.


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Lifelong North Fork resident William Larry DePetris died March 11 at his home in Cutchogue. He was 81.
Born Oct. 2, 1930, at Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport to Vincenza and Harry DePetris, he was educated above college level and served in the U.S. Army from 1951 to 1953, ranked private first class. He married Anne M. Doroski on June 26, 1955, at Our Lady of Ostrabrama R.C. Church in Cutchogue.
Mr. DePetris was a pharmacist and worked at Barker's Pharmacy in Mattituck for 40 years and at Southold Pharmacy for eight years.
He was a parishioner of Our Lady of Ostrabrama R.C. Church and had been a member of the Mattituck Lions Club, Mattituck American Legion and Cutchogue Fire Department.
He is survived by his wife; his children, Mary Anne Newalis of Mattituck and Joanna O'Rourke of Riverhead; his brother, Dr. Joseph DePetris of Texas; and one granddaughter.
A funeral service will be held Thursday, March 15, at 11 a.m. at Our Lady of Ostrabrama R.C. Church. Interment will be at Sacred Heart Cemetery in Cutchogue. Arrangements were handled by DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Mattituck and Malverne Funeral Home in Malverne.
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Bears Use Wildlife Crossings to Find New Mates
By Tanya Lewis published 19 February 14
Grizzly bear family using metal culvert underpass. (Image credit: Banff Wildlife Crossings Project)
As more and more roads cut across the territories of wild animals, wildlife crossings are being built to bridge these barriers. But there has been little evidence that animals actually use the crossings.
Now, a team of researchers at Montana State University has compared the genetics of grizzly bears and black bears at road crossings in the Canadian Rockies, finding the bears do indeed move across the Trans-Canada Highway, and breed with mates on the other side.
The study provides the first proof that wildlife crossings maintain genetic diversity, the researchers say. [Photos of Grizzlies & Black Bears Crossing the Highway and Bear-Crossing Video]
"Roads connect human populations, but fragment wildlife populations," wrote the authors of the study, detailed today (Feb. 18) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Busy roads can lead to deaths or deter animals trying to cross the pathways. This prevents gene flow — the transfer of genes from one population to another — reducing genetic diversity and making it harder for the animals to adapt to a changing environment.
The effects will only worsen with climate change, the researchers added.
Wildlife biologist Michael Sawaya of Montana State University and his colleagues conducted a three-year study of grizzly (Ursus arctos) and black bears (Ursus americanus) at Banff National Park, Canada, to test how effectively wildlife crossing structures actually bridged bear populations.
The researchers set up barbed-wire hair traps on highway underpasses and overpasses, and sequenced the DNA from fur left behind by passing bears. The scientists compared genetic data from the wildlife crossings with data from bear populations in surrounding areas.
Results showed a genetic discontinuity — a division between two distinct populations — at the Trans-Canada Highway for grizzly bears, but not for black bears. Genetic tests revealed that 47 percent of black bears and 27 percent of grizzly bears that used the crossings (including males and females) bred successfully.
The findings are good news for bears and other animals whose territories are increasingly divided by highways. "It is clear that male and female individuals using crossing structures are successfully migrating, breeding and moving genes across the roadway," the researchers wrote.
The team noted that grizzlies have used crossings at a growing rate between 1996 and 2008, probably in part because bear cubs learned the behavior from their mothers.
The study also found that male bears that used the crossings most often had the highest reproductive success of males that crossed, suggesting crossings increased the number of opportunities for the bears to mate, though the researchers say more studies are needed.
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Health care industry exempt from DeSantis 'vaccination passport' ban
By Christine Sexton
TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed to block businesses from requiring customers to show proof of COVID-19 inoculations, but legislation he recently signed excludes the health care industry from his "vaccination passport" ban.
The measure approved by DeSantis' Republican legislative allies exempted hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, ambulatory surgical centers, physician offices and ambulance providers, among many other health care providers.
Lobbyists for nursing homes, hospitals and physicians said they didn't request the exemption and that the Legislature acted on its own.
But Mary Mayhew, president and chief executive officer of the Florida Hospital Association, called the exemption "obvious."
Mayhew, who formerly headed the state Agency for Health Care Administration under DeSantis, said hospitals need to know patients' medical information, including COVID-19 history.
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Q: doParallel (package) foreach does not work for big iterations in R I'm running the following code (extracted from doParallel's Vignettes) on a PC (OS Linux) with 4 and 8 physical and logical cores, respectively.
Running the code with iter=1e+6 or less, every thing is fine and I can see from CPU usage that all cores are employed for this computation. However, with larger number of iterations (e.g. iter=4e+6), it seems parallel computing does not work in which case. When I also monitor the CPU usage, just one core is involved in computations (100% usage).
Example1
require("doParallel")
require("foreach")
registerDoParallel(cores=8)
x <- iris[which(iris[,5] != "setosa"), c(1,5)]
iter=4e+6
ptime <- system.time({
    r <- foreach(i=1:iter, .combine=rbind) %dopar% {
        ind <- sample(100, 100, replace=TRUE)
        result1 <- glm(x[ind,2]~x[ind,1], family=binomial(logit))
        coefficients(result1)
    }
})[3]

Do you have any idea what could be the reason? Could memory be the cause?
I googled around and I found THIS relevant to my question but the point is that I'm not given any kind of error and the OP seemingly has came up with a solution by providing necessary packages inside foreach loop. But no package is used inside my loop, as can be seen.
UPDATE1
My problem still is not solved. As per my experiments, I don't think that memory could be the reason. I have 8GB of memory on the system on which I run the following simple parallel (over all 8 logical cores) iteration:
Example2
require("doParallel")
require("foreach")

registerDoParallel(cores=8)
iter=4e+6
ptime <- system.time({
    r <- foreach(i=1:iter, .combine=rbind) %dopar% {
        i
    }
})[3]

I do not have problem with running of this code but when I monitor the CPU usage, just one core (out of 8) is 100%.
UPDATE2
As for Example2, @SteveWeston (thanks for pointing this out) stated that (in comments) : "The example in your update is suffering from having tiny tasks. Only the master has any real work to do, which consists of sending tasks and processing results. That's fundamentally different than the problem with the original example which did use multiple cores on a smaller number of iterations."
However, Example1 still remains unsolved. When I run it and I monitor the processes with htop, here is what happens in more detail:
Let's name all 8 created processes p1 through p8. The status (column S in htop) for p1 is R meaning that it's running and remains unchanged. However, for p2 up to p8, after some minutes, the status changes to D (i.e. uninterruptible sleep) and, after some minutes, again changes to Z (i.e. terminated but not reaped by its parent). Do you have any idea why this happens?

A: I think you're running low on memory. Here's a modified version of that example that should work better when you have many tasks. It uses doSNOW rather than doParallel because doSNOW allows you to process the results with the combine function as they're returned by the workers. This example writes those results to a file in order to use less memory, however it reads the results back into memory at the end using a ".final" function, but you could skip that if you don't have enough memory.
library(doSNOW)
library(tcltk)
nw <- 4  # number of workers
cl <- makeSOCKcluster(nw)
registerDoSNOW(cl)

x <- iris[which(iris[,5] != 'setosa'), c(1,5)]
niter <- 15e+6
chunksize <- 4000  # may require tuning for your machine
maxcomb <- nw + 1  # this count includes fobj argument
totaltasks <- ceiling(niter / chunksize)

comb <- function(fobj, ...) {
  for(r in list(...))
    writeBin(r, fobj)
  fobj
}

final <- function(fobj) {
  close(fobj)
  t(matrix(readBin('temp.bin', what='double', n=niter*2), nrow=2))
}

mkprogress <- function(total) {
  pb <- tkProgressBar(max=total,
                      label=sprintf('total tasks: %d', total))
  function(n, tag) {
    setTkProgressBar(pb, n,
      label=sprintf('last completed task: %d of %d', tag, total))
  }
}
opts <- list(progress=mkprogress(totaltasks))
resultFile <- file('temp.bin', open='wb')

r <-
  foreach(n=idiv(niter, chunkSize=chunksize), .combine='comb',
          .maxcombine=maxcomb, .init=resultFile, .final=final,
          .inorder=FALSE, .options.snow=opts) %dopar% {
    do.call('c', lapply(seq_len(n), function(i) {
      ind <- sample(100, 100, replace=TRUE)
      result1 <- glm(x[ind,2]~x[ind,1], family=binomial(logit))
      coefficients(result1)
    }))
  }

I included a progress bar since this example takes several hours to execute.
Note that this example also uses the idiv function from the iterators package to increase the amount of work in each of the tasks. This technique is called chunking, and often improves the parallel performance. However, using idiv messes up the task indices, since the variable i is now a per-task index rather than a global index. For a global index, you can write a custom iterator that wraps idiv:
idivix <- function(n, chunkSize) {
  i <- 1
  it <- idiv(n, chunkSize=chunkSize)
  nextEl <- function() {
    m <- nextElem(it)  # may throw 'StopIterator'
    value <- list(i=i, m=m)
    i <<- i + m
    value
  }
  obj <- list(nextElem=nextEl)
  class(obj) <- c('abstractiter', 'iter')
  obj
}

The values emitted by this iterator are lists, each containing a starting index and a count. Here's a simple foreach loop that uses this custom iterator:
r <-
  foreach(a=idivix(10, chunkSize=3), .combine='c') %dopar% {
    do.call('c', lapply(seq(a$i, length.out=a$m), function(i) {
      i
    }))
  }

Of course, if the tasks are compute intensive enough, you may not need chunking and can use a simple foreach loop as in the original example.

A: At first I thought you were running into memory problems because submitting many tasks does use more memory, and that can eventually cause the master process to get bogged down, so my original answer shows several techniques for using less memory. However, now it sounds like there's a startup and shutdown phase where only the master process is busy, but the workers are busy for some period of time in the middle. I think the issue is that the tasks in this example aren't really very compute intensive, and so when you have a lot of tasks, you start to really notice the startup and shutdown times. I timed the actual computations and found that each task only takes about 3 milliseconds. In the past, you wouldn't get any benefit from parallel computing with tasks that small, but now, depending on your machine, you can get some benefit but the overhead is significant, so when you have a great many tasks you really notice that overhead.
I still think that my other answer works well for this problem, but since you have enough memory, it's overkill. The most important technique to use chunking. Here is an example that uses chunking with minimal changes to the original example:
require("doParallel")
nw <- 8
registerDoParallel(nw)
x <- iris[which(iris[,5] != "setosa"), c(1,5)]
niter <- 4e+6
r <- foreach(n=idiv(niter, chunks=nw), .combine='rbind') %dopar% {
  do.call('rbind', lapply(seq_len(n), function(i) {
    ind <- sample(100, 100, replace=TRUE)
    result1 <- glm(x[ind,2]~x[ind,1], family=binomial(logit))
    coefficients(result1)
  }))
}

Note that this does the chunking slightly differently than my other answer. It only uses one task per worker by using the idiv chunks option, rather than the chunkSize option. This reduces the amount of work done by the master and is a good strategy if you have enough memory.

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Japanese educator Shoji Kimori believes the time may be ripe for return of the cane. His revival of the old maxim, "Spare the rod, spoil the child," has added an emotional new element to the current national debate on classroom violence.
With teachers more and more often facing the threat of attack with baseball bats, knives, and even guns, Mr. Kimori, Kyoto superintendent of schools, recently told city assemblymen physical punishment of violent students was unavoidable.
He argued that the 1947 ban on corporal punishment, a reaction against stern prewar school discipline, was not relevant to the situation in today's schools.
The National Police Agency reported 1,558 cases of school violence last year, up 20 percent from the year before. There were 394 assaults on teachers -- up from 232 in 1979.
Almost all the violence occurs in junior high schools, and a survey of graduating elementary-school children found over 50 percent feared being attacked at school.
The figures may not look particularly bad when measured against some Western countries. A survey by the US National Education Association indicated one in 20 US schoolteachers was attacked in 1979. But they are causing alarm here because they are a relatively new phenomenom.
The NPA has recently agreed to maintain close contact with local education boards, individual schools, and parent-teacher organizations to work out countermeasures.
Calling in police to control student riots, as some schools have done, seems only to have fueled the discontent of the students. Their rebellion involves not just acts of violence, but using drugs, smoking, drinking, playing radios in the classroom, dyeing hair in bizarre shades (both boys and girls) and redesigning school uniforms in so-called "hoodlum style."
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Opposing the return of corporal punishment, Motofumi Makieda, chairman of the teachers' union, says the answer to classroom violence lies with teachers who must get rid of their indifference, and work hard with students to regain lost trust.


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There is still hope in America today as this story of a young man, used to sleeping on subway cars, tells us. Refusing to give in to cynicism about his condition, he seeks and finds help in a series of self-help programs. With a little bit of luck he believes he may achieve his dream—to be an architect, and actually design the roof over his head. Isn't this what America used to be like?
By JOHN OTIS Nov. 19, 2017 for The New York Times
Evening walks along the boardwalk in Coney Island brought Keith Ford a modicum of peace when he was homeless. The dulcet sounds of crashing waves, he said, countered his anxiety during that turbulent time.
After his meditative ambling, Mr. Ford would board an F train and ride it back and forth for the remainder of the night. He stole sleep in one-hour spurts, waking when the subway cars reached the end of the line, then hopping aboard a train going the opposite direction.
Mr. Ford's transience began in fall 2013 while he was a senior in high school. He and his mother were not getting along, Mr. Ford said recently, and he could no longer live in her home. Despite his precarious circumstances, he remained dedicated to his education.
"I knew I wanted to finish high school," Mr. Ford, now 23, said. "That was a top priority — get my diploma, keep moving."
One of his teachers at Voyages Preparatory High School in Queens took notice of his sullenness and encouraged him to open up about his troubles. Staff members at the school then helped Mr. Ford find housing. That November, he entered Safe Haven, now called Sheltering Arms, a transitional housing center in Queens.
Mr. Ford graduated from high school the following summer and began pursuing an associate degree in architectural technology, a subject that has always fascinated him, at Queensborough Community College.
In March 2015, he turned 21 and aged out of the shelter. Mr. Ford once again found himself unmoored. He resumed his erstwhile evening ritual, though not every night was spent by the ocean or in transit. He sometimes stayed with friends and lived briefly with his father. But the instability prompted him to drop out of college, Mr. Ford said.
Soon after, he learned about Green City Force, which prepares young people from low-income families for careers in the renewable energy industry. It is a partner of the Community Service Society, one of the eight organizations supported by The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund.
Green City Force is also an AmeriCorps program, which Mr. Ford said most appealed to him. "I thought that since it counted as national service, I could do something beyond myself," he said.
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During this time, Mr. Ford was still without a permanent home. He decided during his job training that having a driver's license would lead to better employment opportunities. His goal was to earn a salary that would allow him to afford a place of his own.
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Mr. Ford with a co-worker at BlocPower in Brooklyn. He began a new job last month. Credit Michael Noble Jr. for The New York Times
Mr. Ford continues to pursue work in energy efficiency. Late last month, he took a new job as a program coordinator at East New York Restoration Local Development Corporation.
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Mr. Ford said he would like to return to college someday. And his affinity for architecture has become more personal.
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Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus (Viena, 4 de octubre de 1723 - id. † 29 de abril de 1798) fue un entomólogo austríaco nacido en Viena y confesor del emperador Leopoldo II.

Cursó estudios en la «Akademische Gymnasium» y después en la Universidad de Viena desde 1739. Ingresó en la Compañía de Jesús el 22 de noviembre de 1740. Estudió matemáticas y teología desde 1742 hasta 1753 en Leoben, Klagenfurt, Judenburg y Viena.

Tras haber entrado en la Orden Tercera en Judenburg en 1754, comenzó a enseñar en 1755 en Klagenfurt y Linz. Dos años después se incorpora a la Universidad de la Compañía en Graz hasta 1765, donde creó una colección de historia natural de la que se ha perdido una colección de minerales y otra de insectos. De 1766 a 1771 fue profesor en la Academia de Minería de Banská Štiavnica en Hungría.

En 1761 publicó el libro Insecta Musei Graecensis, el primer trabajo entomológico en seguir la nomenclatura binomial de Carlos Linneo.

Se trasladó a Viena después de que el papa Clemente XIV ordenara la disolución de la Compañía de Jesús en 1773. Desde ese momento ya no publica bajo su nombre sino bajo el seudónimo de «Physiophilus». Junto con Ignaz von Born (1742-1791) escribió Monachologia, en 1783, una sátira escrita como una obra de historia natural.

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