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Symposium | Can Women Save America?
Black Women Candidates: Debunking the Historic Electability Myth
By Glynda C. Carr
from Summer, No. 57 – 12 MIN READ
Tagged politicsraceRacismsexismvotingWomen
Stacey Abrams at the Barbara Jordan Forum, 2012. Photo by LBJ School via CC 2.0
During her campaign for Georgia governor throughout 2017 and 2018, former Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, who became the first Black woman to win a major party gubernatorial nomination, could often be heard telling the story of her first visit to the governor's mansion. It was her senior year of high school, and the family car was out of commission, so after a lengthy bus ride, Abrams—who was class valedictorian—and her parents arrived on foot to the mansion for a ceremony celebrating the state's brightest minds. A guard at the gate took one look at the family, assumed they were tourists, and told them the mansion was closed for a private ceremony. He persisted in telling them they could not have access, even as the family informed him that the younger Abrams was among the honorees. Her parents—both ministers and civil rights activists—stood their ground, and after a few uncomfortable moments, the guard was forced to adjust his lens and concede that they in fact did belong in that place of power.
The story served as a powerful anecdote throughout Abrams's campaign, and it illustrated her determination to heed the call to leadership even when others communicated that the doors to power were closed to her simply because she does not meet an arbitrary and exclusionary definition of who is qualified to lead. Her story may have been a personal one, but her experience is hardly unique to Black women in politics. Questions of belonging wrapped in the coded word "electability" invariably surface in interviews, at campaign stops, and in voter polls when women—and particularly women of color—dare to seek elected offices that have been the exclusive purview of male leadership.
The electability question can imprint in an especially challenging way on Black women's political aspirations as they encounter it much earlier in their journey than their white female counterparts. This happens, in large part, because Black women are more likely to be the first of their kind to run for a particular office, especially on the executive level. But being a trailblazer does not negate qualifications, and, as data show, the electability bucket does not hold water when it comes to assessing Black women's success in winning races. Although white men continue to dominate the political field, the percentage winning their races over the past five years has dropped, while the percentage of women (both white and of color) winning their races has increased, according to a 2019 report from Reflective Democracy Campaign, an ongoing research and analysis project launched by the Women Donors Network. In particular, women of color have increased their presence in Congress by 40 percent and in state legislatures by 38 percent since 2015.
Data from the Black Women in American Politics report, issued annually by Higher Heights Leadership Fund and the Center for American Women and Politics, shows that Black women are a big driver of women of colors' increased representation. Although Black women account for just under 14 percent of all women in the United States, they are currently 18.3 percent of women in Congress and nearly 15 percent of women in state legislatures. Black women tripled the number of statewide elected offices they hold between 2015 and 2019, and they more than tripled their numbers as mayors of of the country's 100 largest cities between 2014 and 2019.
A Judgment Wrapped in a Question
One hobbling factor of "electability" assessment is that while the question is frequently included in polls, the term has never been defined. This creates a quagmire that forces candidates who are confronted with electability questions to guess at how voters define this mystical quality. The fact that white male candidates consistently land at the top of the electable pile in polling, even when stacked up against women with equal or more impressive credentials, provides a view onto the benefit-of-the-doubt privilege that candidates who are white and male are afforded when their qualities are being assessed. But when women "address the elephant in the room," as Senator Kamala Harris put it during a campaign stop in Iowa, it can cast them in a shadow of defensiveness that undermines their leadership stature with some voters. These conflicting dynamics intensify for Black women candidates, who, despite a documented, successful history of leadership in America, also have to grapple with harmful perceptions that conflate race and leadership ability.
At its base, the electability question is a dog whistle interrogation that serves to keep ears tuned into a narrow range of leadership. Recent races illustrate how this interrogation works to mire the campaigns of Black women candidates who, despite their competitive resumes and qualifications, find themselves being asked to swim through a dense sea of institutional gender and racial bias in order to be heard while their counterparts are allowed to spend their time selling the asserted benefits of their leadership plans and policies.
Given that the electability interrogation is largely focused on women and women of color who aim for offices not previously held by leaders who look like them, it comes as no surprise that this interrogation was a persistent theme dogging both Harris's recent presidential and Abrams's 2018 gubernatorial runs.
The rub is, both candidates have baseline credentials that equaled their opponents', and in some cases their training and experience was even more relevant than their competitors' preparation for the offices they were seeking. Abrams, for example, is an attorney who graduated from Yale Law School, and she also received a master's degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. She is a successful entrepreneur who founded NOW Account, a company that makes financing available to small Georgia-based businesses that are challenged to secure capital. She also has ten years of legislative experience—eight of which were spent as Georgia House minority leader—and she launched the New Georgia Project, a nonpartisan voter-engagement effort that registered over 200,000 eligible Georgians to vote between 2014 and 2018.
Abrams's gubernatorial opponent, then Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, had 12 years of elected office experience under his belt (four in the State Senate and eight as secretary of state) when he ran for governor. He was also an accomplished entrepreneur who owned and operated a small real estate investment company, among other business ventures, prior to becoming a state legislator. But unlike Abrams, Kemp has neither a law degree nor a master's in public affairs—knowledge and training that are extremely useful in crafting effective legislation and policy. Nor had he been active in independent voter engagement.
Four of the five Black women elected to Congress in 2018— Reps. McBath, Hayes, Omar, and Underwood—won in white- majority districts.
Despite Abrams's superior qualifications, she was the candidate pushed to answer questions about her electability throughout her primary race, which she won by about 52 percentage points, and the general election against Kemp, who in comparison bested his primary opponent by 39 points. One example occurred when information emerged that Abrams, like many Americans, was in debt due to educational loans, taxes, and credit cards. She incurred the $200,000 debt because of urgent family needs, but she had made repayment arrangements and was honoring those commitments. Still, the fervor and attacks from her opponent on this matter grew so intense that she felt compelled to write a commentary detailing why the financial burden should not disqualify her to be governor. Ironically, Kemp at the same moment was being sued for defaulting on a $500,000 business loan. Nevertheless, this information did not enter the conversation as a potential disqualifier of his gubernatorial run.
Harris faced similar challenges during her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. The field featured more than 20 competitors with a wide variety of backgrounds and experience levels. At the kick-off of her campaign, the former prosecutor had 15 years of elected office experience, including several "firsts" to her credit. In 2003, she became the first woman to be elected San Francisco district attorney, and then in 2010 the first Black woman and first Indian-American woman (her father is Jamaican by birth, and her mother from India) elected attorney general of California. In 2016, she became only the second Black woman, and first Indian-American woman, elected to the U.S. Senate. Before launching her presidential campaign in 2019, the senator, who serves on four Senate committees, had gained national recognition for her insightful and tough questioning of witnesses who came before her and other members of the Senate Judiciary and Senate Intelligence committees. Her legal acumen has prompted Intelligence committee members from both parties to seek her advice during hearings. In her three years in Congress, she has been the primary sponsor of four passed pieces of legislation—a significant accomplishment for a first-term senator—and in 2019 she was the eighth most active bill cosponsor in the Senate.
Still, electability perceptions dinged Harris (as well as other women on the presidential campaign trail) more substantially in voter polls than they did her male competitors who were inexperienced on the national level.
An Antiquated Question That We Must Reframe
Only recently has a polling organization attempted to even clarify what voters mean when they consider electability traits. Not surprisingly, gender appears to be the biggest determinant of whether voters view a candidate as electable. Race also plays a role. Not identified by the poll, however, are the factors that shape and reinforce voters' belief that women and women-of-color candidates are less electable than men—and in particular white men—regardless of their tangible, earned leadership achievements and qualifications.
Identifying what continues to drive the narrow view of who is electable is critical, because even pollsters who pose the question acknowledge that electability is an impression without form, and that propagation of the question in its current state likely helps to fuel the perception. In addition, it is the 1 percent of people who agree to participate in political polling who are driving the narrative about who is electable.
If progressives truly want to realize a more functional democracy with leaders whose policy priorities lift up everyone, one of our most urgent tasks is dissecting, understanding, and changing the tenor of the conversation about who is electable so that voters' primary considerations for choosing candidates are their leadership abilities, achievements, and commitment to driving effective policies.
The critical question is: How can allies in progressive democracy use what we know to be true about Black women's leadership, as well as the kind of leadership that makes for an effective democracy, to redirect the narrative and shift perceptions of electability?
We can begin with the understanding that the electability interrogation loses power every time Black women candidates win or mount unexpectedly competitive races. Creating a narrative that knits their long history of successful leadership into the country's fabric and exemplifies their governance as an indispensable part of the work that has pushed America forward can offer a sharp and powerful rebuttal to the idea that Black women aren't electable. There are plenty of recent examples to pull from, starting with the fact that progressive Black women candidates brought home significant wins in 2016 when progressives in general lost seats in Congress and in state legislatures. These included a gain in the number of Black women seated in the House of Representatives, the election of the second Black woman in history to the Senate, and an increase in the number of Black women state legislators.
The past few years have offered additional proof that Black women can win offices previously believed unavailable to them. Four of the five Black women elected to Congress in 2018 (Lucy McBath, GA-6; Jahana Hayes, CT-5; Ilhan Omar, MN-5; and Lauren Underwood, IL-14) won in districts where white voters were the majority, and last year saw Black women smash barriers to elected leadership of major cities when London Breed and Lori Lightfoot became the first Black women to serve as mayors of San Francisco and Chicago, respectively.
These examples are not isolated achievements, but part of the expanding presence of Black and other women of color at all levels of government across the country. During the 2018 election, for example, the win ratio for women of color candidates outpaced their white and/or male counterparts.
Still, in its current state, the electability conversation is succeeding in stifling efforts to expand and diversify the body politic so that the needs, concerns, and voices of all Americans are represented and addressed. It layers on top of actions such as the Supreme Court's striking down of the Voting Rights Act, which has ushered in an era of rampant voter suppression, raising the hurdles that Black women (as well as other candidates who are not white, male, heterosexual, and gender conforming) must clear to win elections.
Electability interrogation also hinders Black women candidates' efforts to raise funds and gain endorsements early on. Too often, regardless of their experience and achievements, they are put to a "viability" litmus test that other candidates do not encounter in order to gain support. This is exactly what Lauren Underwood experienced during her Illinois primary bid, which resulted in her beating out five white male competitors to win her party's nomination and, ultimately, her district's congressional seat. Despite Underwood's previous experience as a White House health policy advisor, it wasn't until after her victory in the primary that donors and political strategists began extending much needed resources.
Black women candidates (as well as Black women voters, who go to polls at a higher rate than other groups) have done an oversized portion of the heavy lifting to advance a progressive agenda and shape a democracy that is responsive to all needs; and they've done it on a shoestring budget in comparison to their counterparts. Data from the Center for Responsive Politics shows that despite their overperformance during the 2018 election, Black women who ran for the House of Representatives received fewer and smaller donations than any other group of candidates.
Progressive operatives must push for a fundamental cultural shift that dispenses with coded electability questions, which only serve to disadvantage Black women leaders. We must reframe the conversation to focus on achievement and relevance.
The Black women who are stepping off the sideline and into leadership come with unique experiences that should be at the root of their campaigns and ability to solve problems for the communities they are seeking to represent. The candidate landscape is changing dramatically, and it is time for a dialogue and a strategy that keeps pace with this reality.
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Glynda C. Carr is President and CEO of Higher Heights for America, the only national organization dedicated to expanding black women's elected representation and voting participation.


Give a deep look at the types of houses list. There are many types of houses with different architecture, design; each type of house has its unique characteristics. Some types of houses are characteristic for only one area or one country if it's a traditional one. Each type of house is built according to area requirements, architectural style of the country, maybe according to traditions of people, living in that area. Different types of houses list can include following names.
A bungalow has different meanings throughout the world. Bungalows can be either detached single story or detached one and half story building (dormer window). Usually they are small buildings. This type of house is great for relaxing, especially for old people, who might not be comfortable with moving up and down on stairs.
This type of house is a combinational building; a barn and a condominium are combined in Barndominium. This type of house is sheel metal building with big roll-up doors and inclosed areas. As you see this type of houses don't have standard house structure.
This type of houses is also called Conchs. Coanch house can be wooden one store or two storey building with metal or shingle roof. This type of house represents vernacular architectural style. It is set on piers' posts for air to circulate under the door floor of the house. Conch house has the very interesting history: this type of house was designed in Florida, in the 19th century under the name Conchs by the immigrants from the Bahamas. These immigrants were good boat-builders and so first Conch houses looked like boats.
The farmhouse, as it seems from the name of this type of house is built on the territory of a farm. It is a main house on the territory of a farm. As known from the history farmhouses were often combined with hauseban (''house'' for animals). You can see such ones today too. There were three types of farmhouses in German; these types exist in nowadays too. You can also find farmhouses in Italy, they are combined with courtyard.
The structure of this type of house is similar to a log cabin, house type made of logs that are not milled into lumber, mostly summer cottage. You can see log houses in the central Europe, some Asian countries, Russia and so on. There are 4 types of log house: handcrafted, milled, hewn logs, sawn logs. Handcrafted house is made of peeled logs. Milled house is built logs that are converted into timbers.
The I-house has come from the traditional type of house in Britain from the 17th century. It has become popular also in USA during the colonial period. This type of house got its name in the 30s, it was named by the architect called Fred Kniffen. He gave this type house the name "I-house", because it's frequent occurrence in the rural farm in Indiana.
This type of house is also called trailer house. You can such houses in USA. These are prefabricated houses built in a factory that are transported to the needful place.


I am going to tell you all about the StackStorm Exchange Index, a sacred tome holding detailed accounts of every StackStorm pack that the Order deemed worthy of the world to see.
The index is currently compiled into a single JSON object and stored as a file: v1/index.json. Packs are identified by names, and their metadata is copied as is from the pack.yaml files. repo_url is the only property that is stored in the index but not in pack.yaml; it contains, quite unsurprisingly, a URL for the git repository to clone the pack from.
Rebuilding of the StackStorm Exchange index is performed on every pack.yaml change in the master branch of a tracked StackStorm Exchange pack. The rebuild is automatic and rarely takes more than a couple minutes. If your PR has been merged for some time, and the index has not been updated, please raise an issue.
Our CI repository contains the necessary scripts, and you can take a peek to see how the rebuild works. The repository is public, so the whole process is fully transparent!
The index_urls parameter inside st2.conf supports a comma-separated list of index files. Building your own index might be useful if you have a bunch of internal packs: you would be able to keep track of them in a centralized way and make them easily discoverable in your StackStorm instances.
Additionally, if your StackStorm deployment is subject to a security policy or heavily firewalled, you can clone the necessary packs to an internal server and host your own index with modified repo_urls.


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The Night House, or: We Believe in Nothing
*Spoilers follow*
Is it possible for a month on the Blog Collab to focus on new adventures…and somehow not feature a single film contending with a demonic presence or other supernatural being?
Spoiler alert: no. And this week's pick has the added bonus of serving us back-to-back Rebecca Hall content, switching roles from director to actor this time around.
The Night House
After her husband dies by suicide, teacher Beth is increasingly disturbed by the secrets she uncovers about him and the house they shared.
Following her husband's death by suicide, Beth is left on her own in a beautiful but creepy house by a lake. To make matters worse, rather eerie & unexplained happenings are all around, starting with footprints emerging from the lake and sounds of shots sending flocks of birds off in a panic.
After returning to work as a teacher a bit too soon, Beth is alarmed to realize she's having trouble distinguishing between dream and reality. Unable to continue living in the house that her husband Owen built for her, Beth has her eye on new properties…only to drift off and realize she's been browsing handgun listings the whole time. Considering her husband's suicide occurred when he rowed out to the middle of the lake and shot himself, it's a disturbing development to say the least.
Things start to escalate quite quickly in the creep department as Beth finds strange architectural designs of her husband's of a literally flipped house, she experiences music playing unprompted, and she sees and hears Owen wandering around naked, seemingly calling & texting from beyond the grave. Most upsetting of all to Beth are the pictures of women on his phone…women who look so similar to Beth that it's difficult to tell the difference.
As Beth processes her grief, she reveals a tremendous amount of guilt related to his death. Frequently struggling with depression and dark thoughts, Beth fears she somehow infected Owen with her mental illness and caused his suicide. In the rather cryptic note he left behind, Owen revealed that Beth was right–there is nothing. His note is a response to an ongoing argument about the afterlife: a teenage Beth was legally dead for 4 minutes and concluded from the experience that there is nothing.
After piecing some of the clues together, Beth manages to track down one of the women who looks disturbingly like her. But was Owen having a series of affairs…or could he have been hiding an even darker secret?
I had fun with this one. There are some genuinely creepy moments, and Rebecca Hall is delivering all of the panic and paranoia simmering under the surface. I enjoy that many of the horror elements are related to disturbing things people have done, but there's a supernatural element that makes things extra unsettling. Though it's largely a slow unraveling, the brief, disorienting flashes are extremely effective in creating the sense of dread that will ultimately reach a tipping point. I think it's impossible to give Rebecca Hall enough credit here…or period, to be honest. We're firm fans here on the Collab.
As a parallel with depression and other forms of mental illness, the film works well. It's sometimes a bit frustrating that Beth doesn't have as much agency as a character as I'd like; she's sort of left to constantly react to things others have done, whether husband or demonic presence. This fits in with the way Beth experiences depression and grief, though it makes for a bit of an underwhelming finale. The "twist" is maybe not as clever as it thinks it is but still creepy enough to be unsettling.
Would my blog wife cherish the house built by this one or burn it to the ground without hesitation? Read her review to find out!
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I kept reading Beth as Berth!!!!
jilliansheilas says:
Idea for sequel/spin-off/beginning of a franchise???
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National Science Foundation funded Research Experience for Undergraduates Site on Partial Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems has been successfully established at Florida Institute of Technology. In the first summer session in 2014 10 undergraduate students representing University of Chicago, City University of New York, University of Michigan, Williams College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Auburn, University of Pennsylvania, California State University at Long Beach, University of Redlands and Florida Institute of Technology pursued research under my supervision.
Students worked in there groups working on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Optimal Control and Inverse Problems and Dynamical Systems and Chaos Theory. All 10 students are selected as presenters in YMC-2014 in Ohio State University, August 22-24, 2014. Here is the link to abstracts of all three presentations.
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Q: Extract data from Point2f I'm developing a code that needs to find a red piece. I'm using the function  minEnclosingCircle in order to get the center of the image.
The way that the function gives me the center is in a vector format vector<Point2f>center( contours.size() );. However I need this data to determine a region of interest (ROI). Is there any way I can extract the data from the point, so that I can have two coordinates in X and Y in an integer?
Thanks!
--update--
I'll post some code to try to explain better what i want to do:
vector<vector<Point> > contours_poly( contours.size() );
vector<Point2f>center( contours.size() );
vector<float>radius( contours.size() );

for( int i = 0; i < contours.size(); i++ )
{
    approxPolyDP( Mat(contours[i]), contours_poly[i], 3, true );
    minEnclosingCircle( (Mat)contours_poly[i], center[i], radius[i] );
 }

So once i get contours from my image I apply the function minEnclosingCicrle to determinate the center. I'm very new in OpenCV. I suppose that the center of the circles that it finds is saved in this vector of Point2f. The thing I want to do is to access to this points in order to get the position of my object to determinate a ROI around the object.

A: From your comments

Suppose I get 20 circles and I know that the circle 15 is the biggest. I want to know de X and Y position of center[15], which is a point2f but inside a vector.

without bounds checking:
float x = center[15].x;
float y = center[15].y;

with bounds checking:
float x = center.at(15).x;
float y = center.at(15).y;

Concerning the bounds of the vector, if the index is >= center.size(), you're out of bounds. So you can do the checking yourself:
 int idx = 15;
 if (idx < center.size())
 {
   // OK to access with index 15
 }

Note that the indexing starts at 0, so here you are accessing the 16th point.

A: If you use IDE then you can just type something like
Point2f p;
p.

and IDE will help you to complete the proper field of the class.
If you write you program without smart auto completion that you can just look in the source code of opencv to see (this parts of code are from opencv source and distributed under the license you can find in opencv website and source codes):
typedef Point_<float> Point2f;
....
template<typename _Tp> class CV_EXPORTS Point_{
....
    _Tp x, y; //< the point coordinates

A: minEnclosingCircle returns a centre as Point2f and a radius, not sure how you're getting a vector..?
In any case, you can access the coordinates of a Point2f directly as they are public members.
Point2f a;
int x = (int)a.x;
int y = (int)a.y;

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Tags: ILFORD, ILFORD GALERIE, Photo Paper.
The winner has been chosen for September in the ILFORD Monthly Flickr Competition. Swiss photographer Robert Beer gives us a paradoxical image that makes us want to look more closely at the photo. Visit Robert Beer's Flickr page to see more of his photography. Look for an interview with him later this month.


This citizen science project will help scientists collect data on Georgia pollinator populations. On August 23rd and 24th Georgians across the state will identify and count pollinators. Counts will be easily uploaded to a website. This initiative is designed for educators to do with their classes. Online training will be provided to educators and support through email and social media will be ongoing starting in early 2019. Also, the project coordinator is available to visit classrooms through the online Zoom platform prior to the event. This event can be done at the school's pollinator garden or a supporting local pollinator garden. Sign up at the website https://GGaPC.org to receive information.


Exotic Limousine fleet includes the best 20 passenger party bus for Belvedere. This Belvedere party bus offers a capacity of up to 20 passengers. These Exotic limo buses are the perfect vehicle to transport larger corporate or private parties and make the trip part of the event. It features limo style leather seating with high definition LCD screens and a 3000 watt surround sound system that will blow your mind. Our party buses feature extra wide aisles, strobe and laser lighting, and two bars, for your party adventure.


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Detection of moving targets from a moving ground platform
Author(s): Thomas B. Sebastian; Christopher M. Wynnyk; Peter H. Tu; Sabrina B. Barnes
Semi-autonomous operation of intelligent vehicles may require that such platforms maintain a basic situational awareness with respect to people, other vehicles and their intent. These vehicles should be able to operate safely among people and other vehicles, and be able to perceive threats and respond accordingly. A key requirement is the ability to detect people and vehicles from a moving platform. We have developed one such algorithm using video cameras mounted on the vehicle. Our person detection algorithms model the shape and appearance of the person instead of modeling the background. This algorithm uses histogram of oriented gradients (HOG), which model shape and appearance using image edge histograms. These HOG descriptors are computed on an exhaustive set of image windows, which are then classified as person/non-person using a support vector machine classifier. The image windows are computed using camera calibration, which provides approximate size of people with respect to their location in the imagery. The algorithm is flexible and has been trained for different domains such as urban, rural and wooded scenes. We have designed a sensor platform that can be mounted on a moving vehicle to collect video data of pedestrians. Using manually annotated ground-truth data we have evaluated the person detection algorithm in terms of true positive and false positive rates. This paper provides a detailed overview of the algorithm, describes the experiments conducted and reports on algorithmic performance.
Proc. SPIE 7332, Unmanned Systems Technology XI, 733217 (30 April 2009); doi: 10.1117/12.818193
Thomas B. Sebastian, GE Global Research (United States)
Christopher M. Wynnyk, GE Global Research (United States)
Peter H. Tu, GE Global Research (United States)
Sabrina B. Barnes, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control (United States)
Unmanned Systems Technology XI
Grant R. Gerhart; Douglas W. Gage; Charles M. Shoemaker, Editor(s)


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James Burke is former Police Chief in Suffolk County, New York. In May 2013 the FBI and the US Attorney's Office opened an investigation into alleged actions by Burke when employed as Chief of the Suffolk County Police Department: the alleged assault of a suspect in police custody, a subsequent cover-up, and coercion of witnesses. The former chief pleaded guilty to reduced charges in February 2016.

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Ubisoft have announced that For Honor Season Two, Shadow & Might, is now available. Shadow & Might will bring new content to For Honor, including two additional heroes, two extra maps, new customization items for all heroes and gameplay updates. Maps and gameplay updates will be free for all players at the start of Season Two. Available now for season pass holders, the new heroes, the lethal Shinobi and the fierce Centurion, will be available for all players on May 23 for 15,000 Steel each.
The For Honor team has made numerous improvements to hero balancing, gear, matchmaking, and network stability, and much more is planned for the coming weeks and months. The launch of Season Two is a great opportunity to return to the battlefield or experience For Honor for the first time.
Shinobi (Samurai Assassin): The Shinobi are experts at maneuvering around the battlefield. Equipped with backflip, front roll, dodge cancel and super sprint abilities, Shinobi are hyper agile and mobile heroes. While their low health and difficulty performing defensive counters can leave them vulnerable, their agility and long-range attacks more than make up for their lack of defense. They wield the traditional Japanese kusarigama, a weapon composed of a sickle with a chain attached. With the ability to throw and retract their kusarigama and grab at a distance, Shinobi have the longest range of any hero.
Centurion (Knight Hybrid): Centurions are close-quarters melee fighters that specialize in bypassing defenses and draining their opponent's stamina. Their short range necessitates getting up close and personal to knock opponents off balance. Once enemies are staggered, the Centurion can punish them with a charged heavy and high damage jump attack. Equipped with the reliable standard-issue gladius, the Centurion is perfectly suited for getting in close and executing short-range combination attacks.
New Maps: Season Two will also expand upon the selection of multiplayer maps with the inclusion of Forge and Temple Garden. Forge represents the might of Ashfeld and the brute force of the Knight war machine. The Temple Garden embodies the beauty and harmony of the Myre but has since been turned into a Samurai battlefield. Both maps are available in all multiplayer modes.
Gear Overhaul: Shadow & Might revamps the gear system by addressing stats that are not useful or made redundant by other stats, while ensuring that no one statistical category is too powerful and thereby eliminating overpowered builds. The presentation of gear stats will also change as players comparing gear can now see the specific percentage increases in individual categories.
Epic Level Gear: Coinciding with the gear system makeover comes an entirely new level of gear, Epic gear, which increases the maximum gear score from 108 to 144.
Expanded Faction War: With Season One of the Faction War coming down to the wire between the Vikings and Samurai, the Faction War map will see changes with the introduction of nine new territories into the cross-platform metagame. With honor, pride and exclusive in-game rewards on the line, the twelve-week Faction War decides which faction is truly superior.
So there you have it folks, all the details on the new content for season two.


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Home Play Makers: Hallucinating to the Midnight Sun
Play Makers: Hallucinating to the Midnight Sun
by George Maratos
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Last year's Yukon River Quest paddlers race for the start. You can follow the race at www.yukonriverquest.com. It starts Wednesday, June 24 at Rotary Peace Park.
Jean-Francois Latour has seen his fair share of strange things while participating in the Yukon River Quest.
From an oversized can of Campbell's soup, floating in the woods, to a giant moose just standing right smack in the middle of the river.
(As it turns out there was no can of soup and the moose was actually just a stump.)
Latour, who has been involved in the Yukon River Quest since 2004, admits the hallucinations are part of the fun associated with racing to the Midnight Sun, and par for the course considering the sleep deprivation competitors face.
"Everyone has a different story when it comes to hallucinations," says Latour, president of the Yukon River Marathon Paddling Association.
"There was a fellow from France who kept seeing the faces of First Nations elders in the mountains. He was fascinated by the history up here, so that probably had a lot to do with it."
In 2009, there will be no hallucinations for Latour.
After several years of competing, he has taken on the role of organizer.
And while it doesn't involve paddling the 740 kilometres from Whitehorse to Dawson City, it does still come with its challenges, including co-ordinating the 78 teams and 178 paddlers who range from former Olympians to breast cancer survivors.
"It's very exciting," explains the exuberant Latour over the phone. "Obviously it's quite a different perspective, but there always seems to be something to do and I'm fortunate that there is such good ground work in place from past races."
On June 24, at noon sharp, the epic race to Dawson will begin.
Already having the distinction of being easily the longest paddling race in the world (second-longest is less than 400 kilometres), the Yukon River Quest continues to garner interest from around the globe.
This year alone, there are participants from Australia, Latvia, Japan, Netherlands, Great Britain and Austria.
"We even have someone from Dubai," says Latour. "The reputation is definitely building and that has a lot to do with the growing media interest."
In 2004, the BBC followed the race and, more recently, NBC profiled the event just three weeks ago.
"There is so much appeal with this race," explains Latour. "For one, you are racing to the Midnight Sun and there is practically no night. Plus the fact it's in the Yukon, which is very appealing in its own right."
Latour says this year there are a few changes to the event, with the biggest being the new start area.
Rather than the traditional sprint down Main Street to the awaiting canoes and kayaks, instead, competitors will begin just steps from their boats at the Rotary Peace Park.
The change was based primarily on safety.
"In the past there have been a few minor accidents," says Latour. "Main Street is always busy this time of year, so the move just made sense."
The other big change is the increased prize pot with $36,000 now up for grabs.
"We're in good financial health."
The Yukon River Quest begins at noon on June 24 with the first paddlers expected in to the Klondike early Friday.
Fans are encouraged to welcome the paddlers in Dawson or follow the race online at www. yukonriverquest.com.
Play Makers


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Q: angularjs - how to evaluate value with internal $interpolated expression I'm looking for suggestions on how to do the following:
I have a 'translation' service to convert keys into a string (for localization). A directive 'local' calls this. It looks like this:
<local>key</local>

This looks up 'key' in the translation data and returns its value, then replaces itself with the value. so maybe the key 'username' returns the value 'User Name:' for inclusion in a page.
The problem: I want to support strings with "values", e.g. the key 'minLength' has the string value 'The minimum length is {0} characters'. I'd like something like the following:
<local>
  <key>minLength</key>
  <val>{{policy.minLength}}</val>
</local>

I hit an issue when the value of $scope.policy has not yet been set by the time the <local> tag is evaluated (in its link phase).
I assume that since I'm replacing the 'local' tag with a value, the actual tag is not sticking around to be evaluated again when $scope.policy.minLength actually has a value.
Can somebody give me an idea how to do this? I've looked up stuff on $interpolate, but I think the fact the <local> tag is replace:true is killing me here. Any ideas how to get around it?

A: You should set your directive to transclude and also use the built  directive to control the evaluation of the inner statement.
See if this helps:
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngTransclude

A: I figured out how to do this. Using the example above:

*

*Get the text content of the key and any <val> tags.

*Call the translation service to retrieve the format string (for the key) with the <val> contents added to it. That value will be "The minimum length is {{policy.minLength}} characters".

*Create a $watch. The 'current value function' part creates an $interpolate() on the value above, then evaluates it in the context of the current scope.

*Replace the original <local> tag with a <span> (i.e. the equivalent of 'replace:true')

*Whenever the value of the $watch changes, just replace the textContent of the <span> with the new value.


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"""WSGI Routers for the Trust service."""

import functools

from keystone.common import json_home
from keystone.common import wsgi
from keystone.trust import controllers

_build_resource_relation = functools.partial(
    json_home.build_v3_extension_resource_relation, extension_name='OS-TRUST',
    extension_version='1.0')

TRUST_ID_PARAMETER_RELATION = json_home.build_v3_extension_parameter_relation(
    'OS-TRUST', '1.0', 'trust_id')

class Routers(wsgi.RoutersBase):

    def append_v3_routers(self, mapper, routers):
        trust_controller = controllers.TrustV3()

        self._add_resource(
            mapper, trust_controller,
            path='/OS-TRUST/trusts',
            get_action='list_trusts',
            post_action='create_trust',
            rel=_build_resource_relation(resource_name='trusts'))

        self._add_resource(
            mapper, trust_controller,
            path='/OS-TRUST/trusts_for_admin',
            post_action='create_trust_for_admin',
            rel=_build_resource_relation(resource_name='trusts'))

        self._add_resource(
            mapper, trust_controller,
            path='/OS-TRUST/trusts/{trust_id}',
            get_action='get_trust',
            delete_action='delete_trust',
            rel=_build_resource_relation(resource_name='trust'),
            path_vars={
                'trust_id': TRUST_ID_PARAMETER_RELATION,
            })
        self._add_resource(
            mapper, trust_controller,
            path='/OS-TRUST/trusts/{trust_id}/roles',
            get_action='list_roles_for_trust',
            rel=_build_resource_relation(resource_name='trust_roles'),
            path_vars={
                'trust_id': TRUST_ID_PARAMETER_RELATION,
            })
        self._add_resource(
            mapper, trust_controller,
            path='/OS-TRUST/trusts/{trust_id}/roles/{role_id}',
            get_head_action='get_role_for_trust',
            rel=_build_resource_relation(resource_name='trust_role'),
            path_vars={
                'trust_id': TRUST_ID_PARAMETER_RELATION,
                'role_id': json_home.Parameters.ROLE_ID,
            })


Looking for things to do in Port Townsend? Every year they celebrate the Victorian Heritage Festival. This little seaport has over 20 buildings listed on the National Historic Register. Step back into the 1890's and enjoy the vibrant history of this charming town.


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Artemis has two experimental stations for condensed matter physics: one for time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) with a hemispherical electron analyser, and one for ultrafast demagnetisation.
The ARPES end station
ARPES end-station
The Artemis ARPES end-station is designed for time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. The end-station consists of a main mu-metal chamber for photoemission with a base pressure of 2x10-10mbar. This chamber is equipped with a hemispherical electron analyser (SPECS Phoibos 100). The energy- and angle-resolved measurements are performed with a two-dimensional CCD detector, achieving an ultimate energy resolution of ~10 meV and angular resolution of <1°. Our current energy resolution is 130 meV, limited by the bandwidth of the XUV harmonic generated with a 30 fs pulse.
A liquid-helium-cooled, five-axis manipulator (azimuthal and polar angles) enables us to orient the sample crystallographic axis with the measurement plane and to cool the sample to 14 K (in <45 minutes) or e-beam heat it to 1000 K. The sample temperature is stabilised with a PID controller with a precision of a few percent of the desired temperature over a period of a few weeks. The surface crystallographic order is checked using a low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) analyser. A helium discharge lamp emitting at 21.2 eV enables off-line characterisation of the sample surface. This chamber is also equipped with a wobble stick for in situ sample cleaving.
The main chamber is connected both to the beamline (with a window valve) and to a sample preparation chamber. This second UHV chamber is dedicated to Ar ion sputtering, e-beam heating and thin film growth. Further flanges are available for users' evaporators and sample storage capability is available. The sample is introduced to the preparation chamber through a fast load-lock chamber (sample turn-around time of 45 min) and then transferred to the experimental chamber with a transfer arm.
Time- and angle-resolved photoemission with XUV pulses
Time-resolved photoemission measurement on TaS2 with 17 eV photon energy.
Time and angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (tr-ARPES) enables the electronic structure of a material to be monitored as it responds to excitation by a laser pulse. The target material is irradiated by a short laser pulse, which induces structural changes and excitations. It is then probed at a series of time delays by a short wavelength pulse which generates photoelectrons that are then collected and analysed.
Until recently, tr-ARPES measurements with lasers have typically used only near UV radiation (<7 eV) and pulses of 100 fs or longer. The low photon energy meant that only the region close to Gamma was accessible. The long pulse length meant that it was impossible to see the fastest changes to the material.
The Artemis beamline was one of the first in the world to overcome these limitations by using XUV pulses from high-order laser harmonics, with 20 eV photon energy and 30 fs time resolution. XUV pulses are created through the technique of high harmonic generation. A short pulse laser is focused into a gas-jet and interacts with the gas, producing even shorter pulses of coherent radiation in the 10-100 nm wavelength range. The higher photon energy enables electrons with a much wider range of energy and momentum space to be detected, meaning that each snapshot of electronic structure has a much wider field of view.
Our first time-resolved photoemission measurement with XUV pulses was performed on TaS2 at low temperature. The sample was pumped with 1.55 eV (800 nm) photon energy and probed with the 11th harmonic from the beamline. At zero time delay a clear collapse of the Mott gap was observed, characteristic of a photo-induced insulator-to-metal transition. The rigid shift oscillation observed at positive time delay is an amplitude mode of the charge density wave corresponding to the breathing of the Ta cluster. This work was published in Physical Review Letters (link opens in a new window).
We have now demonstrated both time- and angle- resolved photoemission measurements with XUV pulses on a number of materials, including graphene and topological insulators - see our publication list for details.
Ultrafast demagnetisation end-station
This UHV chamber is dedicated to time-resolved photoemission experiments aiming to detect very small variations of photoemission features. The technique implemented here is electron time-of-flight, where the photoelectron kinetic energy is deduced from the arrival time of the electron on the detector. This analyser is more suited to studying systems with low angular dispersion of the photoemission features such as core levels, or valence bands in some cases. The experimental chamber is equipped with a sputter gun, e-beam heating and LEED/Auger analyser for sample preparation.
Due to the time-of-flight technique, the noise level of this analyser is extremely good. First, the background electron count above the Fermi level is up to 3 orders of magnitude lower than the intensity on the valence band. This is particularly interesting for detection of small features in the empty states. Secondly, the high efficiency of electron detection and the low dark count (10-3 electrons/second) means that the noise is limited by the statistical number of electrons. For example, on the top of the valence band a pump-probe signal as small as 1% of the signal can clearly be detected making this technique appropriate for the study of valence band or core level photo-induced effects.
The energy resolution and angular acceptance depend strongly on the energy of the electrons in the drift tube, which is controlled by the retarding potential and the settings of the input electron optics. The geometric acceptance angle is ±1.5° and, using the XUV beamline, the best energy resolution expected is a few hundred meV.
In standard photoemission mode, an electron detector (MCP) is positioned at the end of the ToF drift tube to measure the spin-integrated photoemission. Connected to the monochromatised XUV beamline, this gives access to the valence band electronic structure and to the Linear Magnetic Dichroism measured at the M-edge of the ferromagnetic 3d-transition metals (Ni, Co, Fe). In-situ Magneto Optic Kerr Effect (MOKE) is available as a reference to characterise the macroscopic magnetisation. The chamber is equipped with pulsed magnetic coils to reverse the sample magnetisation between measurements.
Alternatively, the electron detector can be replaced (without breaking the vacuum) by a cylindrical electrode to transport the electrons to a spin detector (Mott polarimeter) to perform Time- Spin- and Energy- resolved photoemission simultaneously. This configuration is called the ToF-Spin mode. The analyser has been successfully used with ultrafast laser sources at 250 kHz repetition rate [refs 1-4 below] and 6.2 eV photon energy. We have just demonstrated operation at higher photon energy with the XUV beamline, which is technically challenging due to the 1 kHz repetition rate.
1 - C. Cacho et al., Spin-resolved two-photon photoemission on Fe77B16Si5 alloy (link opens in a new window), J Elec Spec Rel Phenom 169 62-66 (2009)
2 - C. Cacho et al., Absolute spin calibration of an electron spin polarimeter by spin-resolved photoemission from the Au(111) surface states (link opens in a new window), Rev. Sci. Instrum. 80, 043904 (2009)
3 - W. Wang et al., Fe t2g band dispersion and spin polarization in thin films of Fe3O4(0 0 1)/MgO(0 0 1): Half-metallicity of magnetite revisited (link opens in a new window), Phys. Rev. B 87, 085118 (2013)
4 - C. Cacho, et al., Momentum-Resolved Spin Dynamics of Bulk and Surface Excited States in the Topological Insulator Bi2Se3 (link opens in a new window),Phys.Rev. Lett. 114, 097401 (2015)
Contact: Springate, Emma (STFC,RAL,CLF)


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Home Auto Cars Jeep Commander 7-seater SUV officially launched, may hit India soon
Jeep Commander 7-seater SUV officially launched, may hit India soon
Jeep Commander SUV, which is basically the three-row version of the Compass SUV, is likely to hit Indian shores soon by the name Meridian. It will rival the likes of upcoming Volkswagen Tiguan, MG Gloster and others.
| Updated on: 27 Aug 2021, 09:12 AM
Jeep Commander 7-seater SUV, which is likely to be called Meridian when brought to India, has been launched for the South American markets.
Jeep has officially launched the Commander, a three-row SUV based on the Compass, in the South American markets. Jeep Commander has been completely built at the carmaker's Pernambuco facility in Brazil and is based on the same platform used for Compass, Renegade and other Jeep models.
The Jeep Commander SUV is also slated to hit the Indian shores soon.
₹ 1.38 Cr*Onwards
1998 cc | Petrol | Automatic (Torque Converter)
₹ 53.9 Lakhs*Onwards
Though the carmaker has not shared any timeline, it is likely to be launched some time next year. When launched in India, the Jeep Commander SUV is likely to be called Meridian. It will rival the likes of upcoming Volkswagen Tiguan, MG Gloster and others.
For the South American markets, Jeep is offering Commander SUV in two trims called Limited and Overland. While the Limited variant gets a 4X2 wheel drive system, the Overland trim gets a 4X4 mode.
(Also see pics of the 2022 Jeep Commander SUV)
In size, Jeep Commander SUV is much larger than the Compass SUV. It stands 4,769 mm in length, about 36 cm longer than the Compass, 1,859 mm wide, 1,682 mm in height and gets a 2,794 mm of wheelbase.
The Commander's exterior is highlighted by a typical Jeep design, consisting of a grille with seven slats flanked on each sides by the full-LED headlamps. On the sides are the trapezoidal wheel arches, along with a much straighter sideline than on the Compass. The Commander SUV for the South American markets is offered with a standard 18-inch wheels. It can be upgraded to 19-inch wheels in the Overland variant.
The interior of the Jeep Commander SUV is dominated by a 10.1 inch Full HD wide touchscreen infotainment system and an even bigger 10.25 inch fully digital instrument cluster.
The Commander's interior is also quite similar to that of the Compass SUV. It gets a 10.1-inch Full HD wide touchscreen infotainment system and an even bigger 10.25-inch fully digital instrument cluster. There are nine Harman Kardon speakers with 450 watts capacity. The Overland version also comes with the Alexa virtual assistant.
Jeep Commander has a large boot space that can hold 233 litres at least with all seven seats up. However, it can be increased to up to 661 liters with the third row seats down. If the last two rows are folded, the luggage capacity jumps to an impressive 1,760 litres.
Jeep is offering the Commander SUV with two engine options. Both the Limited and Overland variants are powered by a 1.3-liter turbo Firefly petrol engine that can generate 185 hp of power and 270 Nm of peak torque. It is the same engine that has already been used in the Compass. The Overland 4X4 variant will also get the more well-known 2.0 Multijet Turbo diesel engine. It can deliver up to 170 hp of power and 380 Nm of peak torque.
There are two transmission options, the first being six-speed automatic for front-wheel drive editions. The second, with nine gears, is for diesel powered options.
The Commander SUV comes with seven airbags (two front, two side, two curtain and one for the driver's knee) and all the semi-autonomous systems of the ADAS, which translates to Advanced Driver Assistance Systems as some of the key safety features. The list includes adaptive cruise control (accelerate, brake to full and exit again, useful in traffic situations, for example), collision alert with automatic braking, blind spot and cross traffic detector, shift alert lane, emergency braking for pedestrians, cyclists or motorcyclists, fatigue detector, license plate recognition, automatic high beam and park assist.
The price of the Jeep Commander SUV starts at R$ 199,990 (roughly converted to ₹28.23 lakh).
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The Rindge family is an American family of British origin that was financially successful in real estate, natural resource development, and insurance.

History
The successes of the Rindge family began with the Cambridge, Massachusetts textile, shipping, and banking businesses of Mr. Samuel Baker Rindge (the father of Frederick Hastings Rindge). Ultimately the family expanded into various other areas of industry and philanthropy. Frederick Rindge, for example, built and donated parks, City Hall, and the Rindge Technical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Santa Monica, California; and was deeply involved in civic life, from writing meditative books to serving as vice president of Union Oil to serving as director of Edison Electric. The philanthropy continued through the family's lineage; for example, Rindge's daughter's family, the Adamsons, donated the first 138 acres of land for Pepperdine University's Malibu campus in 1968.

Mr. Samuel Baker Rindge's descendants, including his son Frederick Hastings Rindge, went on to build grand mansions in Malibu (the Rindge home that burned down in 1903 and the Rindge Castle that burned down in the 1970s), and in West Adams Heights, Los Angeles, California, (the Frederick Hastings Rindge House). Frederick and wife Rhoda May Knight Rindge's daughter, Rhoda Agatha, commissioned Malibu's Adamson House with her husband, Merritt Adamson.

The Rindge family fortune has been valued at US$700 million in 2016 dollars accounting for inflation and were close friends of the Roosevelt family.

Southern California
The Rindge family moved west to Los Angeles, California, in 1887. In 1892 the Rindges purchased the  Spanish land grant Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit or "Malibu Rancho"; which is now present day Malibu, California. They later expanded it to  as Rindge Ranch.

The Rindges founded the Conservative Life Insurance Company (now Pacific Life). The family patriarch, Frederick Hastings Rindge, was vice-president of Union Oil Company, and a director of the Los Angeles Edison Electric Company (later Southern California Edison Company). The Rindges' investments included land near Stockton, California, and real estate holdings in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, and the state of Sinaloa, Mexico.

Similarly, the family patriarch Frederick Hastings Rindge was president of the Harvard Club of Los Angeles and a member of many historical, archaeological, patriotic, and religious organizations which mirrored his interests. A supporter of the temperance movement, Frederick Hastings Rindge reimbursed the city of Santa Monica for the loss of license fees when Santa Monica abolished saloons. He established the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Santa Monica and wrote several self-published books which were spiritual and meditative in nature.

See also

Rindge Dam
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
Malibu Potteries
Rindge Co. v. County of Los Angeles 262 U.S. 700 (1923)
Adamson House (section Rindge-Adamson family)
Hueneme, Malibu and Port Los Angeles Railway (the railroad that the Rindges built through Malibu)
Rindge Towers
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School
Rhoda May Knight Rindge

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American families of British ancestry


Any reason to add or fight them?
Add them to strengthen your party. But it makes more sense when they are high level themselves. If they seem low, I usually dismiss them.
In the original first game you could only have six characters; the seventh (first, actually) slot was for a "Special" party member. Since you couldn't have a seventh player character, getting a good monster to improve your combat performance was important - this is where wandering monsters, magical figurines, and numerous spells had their relevance. And Doppleganger/Mimic monsters.
From BT II onwards, you had the option of taking a seventh proper character along, and the Remaster expands this back to part I.


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HomeCaptioning
Closed captioning has been a big part of my life. I've acted as a developer, writer, advocate, volunteer, and consultant in the field. My website will never be a definitive compilation of my captioning work (that's what the books are for), but this page will tie together some of the captioning resources I've had a hand in.
TEDx Captioning Talk
In this talk, titled "Does Closed Captioning Still Serve Deaf People," I addressed quality issues, caption law, and the mainstreaming of television captioning.
Captioning Books
I've written three books about closed captioning. The Closed Captioning Handbook is the most recent and the most comprehensive.
A good chunk of my career centered around designing closed captioning software and equipment. This is also where you can find my patents and TDI award information.
I've written over 50 articles and columns about captioning, covering law, technology, history, standards, and advocacy.
Thomas Clouser says:
8 Jan 2016 at 3:30 pm
I recently filed several complaints with the FCC on closed captioning of several television brands. My primary concern is with displays of fast dialog that is primarily found on talk shows, news and live sports. When dialog is fast, there are often three lines of display (but sometimes, only two lines). My Sony and Sanyo show the bottom line scrolling up from the bottom to the middle and then to the top–making reading comparatively easy to follow (also found on Vizio sets). I recently purchased a Sceptre (since returned) and a Toshiba. With these manufacturers, the captioning is much more difficult to follow because of the display. Unlike the "good" captioning sets, the Sceptre and Toshiba do not have captioning lines that scroll up from the bottom. Instead, the bottom line disappears and then reappears as the middle line. Then at some point, the middle line disappears and reappears as the top line. This provides kind of a jumpy motion where one must focus very hard on keeping up at all times, otherwise, one loses part of the dialog. And sometimes, a line may only flash one word (which happens when the word is followed by a period) and disappear very quickly before reappearing higher up. This means the caption reader has to focus a lot harder to keep up with the program. With a side by side comparison with my Sony and Toshiba, I found the Toshiba on a two line display (two lines display and then disappear with no rotating upwards) oftentimes cut off about 4 letters on the second line that the Sony did not have a problem with. The Toshiba put captions almost in the middle of a football game (CBS) causing what I would call blockage. The Sony kept them higher, but still they should have been a little bit more out of the way. The aging Sanyo kept the football captions at the very top where they were ideally located. The Sceptre was especially irritating. Their standard caption letters were tiny and just about useless. Their "large" letters only reached the size of standard letters found on other sets. So, from what I can see is that the cheaper sets out there are a bad investment for people needing closed captioning. Are there not standards out there to make the manufacturers of the cheaper set put in better captioning? How can we know what sets have good captioning and bad captioning? Best Buy is the only big company that I know of that can hook a television to an antenna to have the caption tested in the store. One cannot generally know anything helpful on the sets sold at Walmart and Target since they can only test the captioning on internet driven tapes that largely exclude fast-dialog shows where the big problems occur.
1 Oct 2015 at 5:59 pm
Can you just have a certification from a court reporting program or do you have to have a bachelor's degree?
Gary D. Robson says:
13 Oct 2015 at 11:09 pm
Everything is different based on where you are. Each country handles it differently, and if you're in the U.S., each state has different rules. In the states that require CSR certification, it's not the school you went to or the degree you earned that matter; it's whether you pass the state exam.
Brian Quass says:
Pardon me if this post is not a direct reply to the preceding comment, but at least it's very much on the same subject, and I'm struggling to find a surer way to get your (hopefully favorable) attention.
My name is Brian Quass, veteran captioner and founder of CaptionsForTheWeb.com.
I wanted to enlist your help — or at least that of your readers — in organizing a simple YouTube protest.
I have, over the past year, wasted my time (and money) attempting to get America's major non-profit organizations (and a few big for-profit companies like Pepsico and Walmart) to properly caption their Internet videos.
Every single one of them has stonewalled me. They not only refused to intelligibly caption their YouTube videos, but they refused to even TALK to me about doing so, this despite my repeated offers to meet with them in person and discuss funding options — not to mention the SEO value of the text-searchable video archives that I offered to create for them.
I also pointed out that many of their auto-generated YouTube captions were obscene.* A few organizations quietly removed the specific obscenities that I pointed out (like the "F" words in the auto-generated captioning for Habitat for Humanity, Red Cross, and United Way videos) — without thanking me, of course — but none of them bothered to check their other videos for more auto-captioned obscenities, of which there were plenty, let alone reconsider their policy of not providing intelligible Internet captioning for the deaf.
Result: 90% of major American non-profits had no intelligible Internet captioning a year ago and that number holds today.
It's no better in the for-profit world, either.
As recently as yesterday, I spoke to the Digital Content Sr. Manager at Walmart-U.S.A., a certain Emily Schmid, who very curtly informed me that Walmart-USA had no "current interest" in captioning (whereas the YouTube videos for Walmart-Canada appear to be totally captioned — with REAL captions — btw).
Such anti-captioning sentiments are not limited to the corporate world, either.
Several months ago, the PR Director of the SETI Institute told me that her organization had "much more important" things to do than caption their YouTube videos — this despite my effort to meet with them in person and create a corporate funding scheme to pay for my captioning services. (SETI videos would be so much more valuable, too, for all site visitors with the text-searchable video archive with which I could have provided them.)
I believe that this situation can be changed for the better, however, if deaf video viewers begin posting their displeasure with this status quo in the YouTube comment forms of any of these organizations' videos: those videos that are either not captioned at all or else are provided only with gibberish, punctuation-free, auto-generated captions.
So, if someone reads this post of mine and wants to get started protesting, why not post your complaints beneath the non-captioned (or else gibberish-captioned) YouTube videos of the following organizations, all of which (as of April 12, 2016, at least) have no intelligible captioning for their Internet videos and, what's more, refuse to even talk to me about providing any — and refuse to even acknowledge my emails and phone calls on the subject:
The AARP, SETI, WalMart, Pepsico, Habitat for Humanity, and the United Way.
The list goes on and on, but the above-mentioned organizations are some of the most notable offenders.
Meanwhile, I invite anyone interested in promoting such a YouTube protest (you, too, Gary!) to contact me at quass@quass.com with ideas that will help us get the protest ball rolling. It's an easy protest, in principle, though: no massing in the streets, no writing letters to editors. It just involves adding your protest comments to some of the many non-captioned (or gibberish auto-captioned) videos on YouTube.
I've spent a year trying to get these caption-hating organizations to listen to me. But they obviously will not. So now I think it's time for the deaf community itself to speak up. If enough of them do so, then these recalcitrant organizations may begin to reconsider their current deaf-unfriendly stance online.
Brian B. Quass
PS In a sense, I don't fully blame these companies. I believe captioning should be the responsibility of video producers, not their clients. These same producers who spend thousands on cinematography and voice-over will not even deign to spend so much as ONE SINGLE PENNY on captioning. Instead, they foist off the inevitable captioning requirements on their video clients.
But that's another story altogether. Given the current status quo for captioning in America, we can only complain to the video publishers and video owners when it comes to a lack of intelligible captioning online.
For those interested in my thoughts on a new captioning paradigm, however — one in which captioning is a real "production value" and hence a quality product — please visit my various caption-related websites online, starting at http://www.quass.com/caption_related_articles.php.
*Kids' YouTube videos, by the way, are loaded with obscenities in their auto-generated captions — but very few video publishers will even acknowledge — let alone act on — my requests to have those obscenities removed.
I have more than once seen videos in which the star of "Hello Kitty" uses the "F" word (according to the error-riddled auto-generated caption text). The sites that host such kids videos have millions of subscribers, but they will not even acknowledge (let alone act on) my request for them to remove such obscenities from their gibberish auto-captions (this despite the fact that such sites almost always profit off of their videos by showing Google ads both before and during them).
It's as if these YouTube video publishers don't think that deaf kids are real children and that they can therefore be subjected to all the words (and blatant sexual innuendo) that the video publisher wouldn't want his or her own hearing children to be subjected to.
Hello, Brian.
I haven't been working in the captioning field for quite a while now. I'm more than happy to leave your comment here so that people can see it and follow your links, but I'm not sure how much other help I can be.
-=- Gary -=-
Donna Ellis says:
Hi, I was wondering what schools are considered "credible" in the closed captioning field? I see a lot of online universities but wonder if they are taken seriously. Thank you in advance for any info!
Gary Robson says:
13 Jul 2014 at 1:16 pm
Donna, I have been out of the training side of captioning for quite a while, so I really can't speak about specific schools.
If you're talking about realtime stenocaptioning, contact NCRA (http://www.ncra.org/), as they work a lot with training programs.
If you're talking about speech-based realtime captioning ("voice writing"), contact NVRA (https://www.nvra.org/).
If you're interested in offline (studio) captioning, I don't know of any organization that rates or certifies training programs. If you have outstanding language skills, coupled with a degree in something like English or Journalism, most offline captioning companies will provide training on their specific tools.


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Going Direct: The End Of The Human Fighter Pilot And What It Means For The Rest Of Us
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Last week, groups that had built fighter pilot artificial intelligence profiles (how exactly to phrase that is problematic) went up against a human fighter pilot—in a simulator, of course. The question wasn't whether the computers would someday take over from us what we pilots think of as our irreplaceable spot in the universe of flight, but rather, when they would. The answer? Soon, if not already.
The trials pitted a top Air Force F-16 fighter pilot against artificial intelligence (AI) developed by the winner of a competition among AI developers. That top dog wasn't Lockheed Martin, as you might have expected, but Heron, a small tech company that's women- and minority-owned. In the battle against the human fighter pilot, which, to be fair was an old school one-on-one dogfight between high-tech and the USAF's best, Heron's AI beat the meat-based pilot five straight times. And remember that in real life you're out after you get tagged just once.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) put on the competition, and it made sure to say, after the human pilot got trounced, that this was just the beginning, that we were a long way from computers taking over from human pilots in the real theater of aerial combat. Are we?
It's impossible not to draw comparisons with the most famous AI-versus-human match in history, the 1996 stare down between IBMs Deep Blue and world human chess champ Gary Kasparov. Spoiler alert: HAL, um, I mean IBM, won convincingly. Twenty-five years later, it's not even a contest. Computers are better at chess than people are, a lot better. Deep Blue has been our daddy for a quarter of a century.
What will this mean for us pilots? That we'll be out of work as commercial flyers? That we'll be obsoleted as fighter jocks? That our favorite pastime will be over? Yes, yes, and, happily, no. The best news is that DARPA was right. This will take awhile. Just think of what it would take for a plane all by itself to figure out what to do, where to go, how to get there and how to land and get all buttoned up by itself. That's stuff of the far distant future.
Except, it isn't. Garmin has not only developed such stuff with its Autoland utility, but the AI has already been certificated by the two biggest aviation regulators in the world, the FAA and Europe's EASA. It's for emergency use, granted. But could Autoland be just be for regular use? The answer is one of two things: "yes" or, "soon." Parts of Garmin's AI are already certificated and at work every flight for many thousands of pilots in its envelope protection utility built into its integrated flight control (autopilot systems). Try to bank too steeply or descend too quickly and it'll help you, the pilot, to not do that. Does the system really need the "you, the pilot" part of it? I'll leave that for you to decide. (Hint: the answer is "no.")
This is going to be hard on a certain kind of pilot, you know, the kind for whom the image of the invincible hero is an integral part of their identity. "What does it mean, they might ask, when a computer can do everything they can do but only better, every time, too?" The answer is, of course, that it means exactly what they fear it means, that their remarkable skill and judgment are less than they had previously believed. They aren't that special. And they're replaceable. That's going to smart.
This isn't the first time that aviation has been through a thing like this. When autopilots became common in small planes 50 years ago, there was an enforced macho denial of their utility. An autopilot inarguably made flying, especially when in bad weather, much safer, so using one became "cheating," and some pilots made it clear what that implied, that unless you flew the plane yourself you weren't a real pilot. I was still hearing those dinosaurs hold forth on the subject by the mid-90s.
But whole-plane automation is much worse. With an autopilot, the human pilot still decides if and when to use it. Would an AI-controlled plane make us pilots no more? At least for that flight it really would. And I would argue that some kinds of flying will be really hard for AI to get any good at. Think dodging thunderstorms in the mid-teens along the Gulf Coast on an active convection day or putting down a taildragger on a postage-stamp sized strip along the side of the Snake River. Maybe I'm wrong about those things too, though. I probably am.
The good news is that even if the AI is ready or close to ready now, it will take a long time for it to get certified, produced and installed, and then even longer for an industry as huge as commercial aviation to adopt it. Five years? It's unlikely. Ten years? It's a sure bet that AI will have made inroads into commercial aviation by then. In fact, if airline management business planners aren't already working this stuff out, they're not very good at their job.
Back to chess. The question is, did IBM's domination of the best human chess player on the planet ruin the game for everyone else? Hardly. Despite Kasparov's loss to the Deep Cyber State, the game is more popular than ever, and that's because it's fun and challenging. You can't be good at chess right off the bat. It takes some work and skill and determination. Which is just like flying.
We pilots love what we do, and we have a lot of economic clout. We buy our own planes, or rent, share or borrow them, so we get to call the shots, at least so long as Big Brother doesn't start regulating us out of existence, and it has shown no sign of trying to do that. So barring that hopefully unlikely event, we private flyers will get to just keep on doing our aviating thing while making no excuses for doing it. People still ride horses a hundred years down the cobbled path from the introduction of the first mass-produced car, the Ford Model T, and they keep riding because they love doing it.
The good news is that word "pilot" isn't going anywhere, not because the technology won't get to the place where computers are better at flying than we are—that has already begun to happen. It will be because we will simply refuse to give up this weird and amazing thing we love to do, to be clear, with us actually being the ones doing it.
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Amaioua is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was first described by Jean Baptiste Aublet in 1775. The genus is native to tropical America from southern Mexico to Brazil, including Cuba and Trinidad.

Species
 Amaioua brevidentata Steyerm. - Venezuela, Guyana
 Amaioua contracta Standl. - Amazonas (state of Brazil)
 Amaioua corymbosa Kunth - southern Mexico to Brazil, including Cuba and Trinidad
 Amaioua guianensis Aubl. - Brazil, Perú, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana
 Amaioua intermedia Mart. ex Schult. & Schult.f. - Brazil, Perú, Bolivia
 Amaioua magnicarpa Dwyer - Panamá, Colombia
 Amaioua monteiroi Standl. - Pará
 Amaioua pedicellata Dwyer - Costa Rica, Panamá
 Amaioua pilosa K.Schum. - eastern Brazil

References

External links
 Amaioua in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae

Rubiaceae genera
Cordiereae
Flora of Central America
Flora of South America
Flora of the Caribbean
Neotropical realm flora
Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Christian Fusée-Aublet