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September 2005 National News Archive
Affordable Home Ownership Project Begins Construction
MARKHAM, Ontario, September 21, 2005 — The Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario, the Town of Markham and the non-profit development company Options for Homes held a sod-turning ceremony today to mark the start of construction of Old Kennedy Village, a project that will create 135 affordable condominium units in Markham for sale to low- to moderate-income families in need of affordable housing. The project is funded in part under the Canada-Ontario Affordable Housing Program.
The Honourable John McCallum, Minister of National Revenue and MP for Markham-Unionville, on behalf of the Honourable Joe Fontana, Minister of Labour and Housing, Tony Wong, MPP — Markham, on behalf of the Honourable John Gerretsen, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing and Markham Mayor Donald Cousens attended the ceremony.
The project will receive $810,000 from the federal and provincial governments under the Canada-Ontario Affordable Housing Program, to create 135 one- and two-bedroom townhomes and stacked townhomes. The developer, Options for Homes, a private, non-profit corporation that works with Home Ownership Alternatives, will be able to offer the units below the average-market selling price to low- to moderate-income households.
Announced in November 2004, the Home Ownership Alternatives Pilot Project received over $2.2 million in funding under the home ownership component of the Canada-Ontario Affordable Housing Program for 382 eligible units in 3 projects located in Toronto (Scarborough), Pickering and Markham. The objective of the pilot is to ease the demand for rental housing by assisting rental households to purchase newly built, affordable homes.
"Affordable housing is a priority for the Government of Canada and we are pleased that our provincial and municipal partnerships will assist Canadians in need to access quality affordable housing," said Minister McCallum. "The Options for Homes model is an excellent example of a creative way individuals with low- to moderate-incomes can realize their dream of owning an affordable home and represents a demonstration of our commitment to invest in affordable housing for Canadians in need."
"Our government recognizes the importance of making affordable homeownership a reality for Markham residents with low- to moderate-incomes," said MPP Wong. "The homes that will stand on this property will demonstrate to Markham residents that they belong to a community that values them, and I am so pleased to be here as we mark the beginning of construction."
"Markham Council is pleased to support this project which is helping to make housing available to low- to moderate-income households," said Markham Mayor Don Cousens. "It represents a new approach to affordable home ownership by providing a cost-effective, low capital cost to housing development, something that continues to be a need for all throughout the York Region. It is a way that Markham, as a character community, can provide support to our residents."
Options for Homes and Home Ownership Alternatives strive to make home ownership available to those in the Greater Toronto Area by providing affordable, quality housing. As part of the purchasing requirement, eligible families will require a down payment that will range from 0 to 5 per cent of the purchase price of the condominiums which will be at or lower than the market price of similar condominiums.
"Markham's willingness to participate in this innovative development and the support from their staff was inspirational," said Mike Labbé, President of Options for Homes. "Options for Homes looks forward to working with the Town of Markham, and the provincial and federal governments, to develop more affordable home ownership projects in the future."
The new Canada-Ontario Affordable Housing agreement, signed on April 29, 2005, comprises a commitment of $301 million from each of the two levels of government. With this commitment, the federal, provincial and municipal governments will have invested at least $734 million over the life of the Canada-Ontario Affordable Housing Program, to assist some 20,000 Ontario households.
Kathie Howes
CMHC
Patti Munce
Office of Minister Gerretsen
Mike Labbé
Options for Homes
www.mah.gov.on.ca
www.optionsforhomes.ca
The Canada-Ontario Affordable Housing Program
Home Ownership Component
In November 2004, the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario announced an agreement with Home Ownership Alternatives (HOA), a trust and non-profit corporation, to provide up to $2.3 million in funding to build 382 affordable condominium units in three developments located in Scarborough, Pickering, and Markham for sale to modest-income families in need of affordable housing.
The program's objective is to ease demand for rental housing by assisting rental households to purchase newly-built affordable homes. Project requirements include:
a selling price below the average-market selling price for a given area, and not higher than what is affordable to households with low- to moderate-incomes;
if the home is sold within a 10-year period, the full government funding must be repaid; and,
eligible projects will be located in neighbourhood revitalization areas.
Home Ownership Alternatives, a non-profit corporation with a 15-person board, acts as a trust organization by holding the regular second mortgages on units in projects that use the Options for Homes model, and provides start-up funds for marketing.
Options for Homes was launched in 1992 by Mike Labbé and structured to bring low- and moderate-income people into the condominium market. The corporation has developed and built six Toronto area housing communities providing home ownership opportunities for families and individuals with gross annual incomes as low as $40,000. Partnering with Deltera Construction Ltd., Options for Homes has a long-standing tradition of quality and cost-effectiveness in the Greater Toronto Area. Options for Homes is a private, non-profit corporation that finds residential land and designs, develops, and pre-sells low-priced condominiums to individuals of all income levels.
The Options for Homes model increases affordability by:
charging buyers only the cost of building the unit;
purchasing residential land that is cheaper than land used for private condo developments;
reducing advertising costs; and,
eliminating amenities, model suites and sales commissions.
Buyers are offered a payment-free second "regular" mortgage representing the difference between the cost of building the home and the home's market value.
Moderate and low-income people will be offered additional payment-free financing in the form of an additional "deferred" mortgage that provides further help with the down payment.
These mortgages are to be repaid when the home is sold, or at any time the owner can afford to do so.
HOA and Options for Homes will use any proceeds from regular and deferred second mortgage to start other Options for Homes affordable housing developments.
Option for Homes coordinates the development of condominiums and town homes. Initial purchasers of condominiums and town homes form a Co-operative Housing Corporation to serve as the developer of the buildings, retaining Options as their development consultant for a fee for its services that are included in the purchase price of the homes.
Condo unit costs Options $100,000 to build while market value is expressed at $110,000
Options sells for $100,000
The difference of $10,000 becomes the second mortgage. The down payment is based on the market value. So a minimum 5 per cent down based on the market value of $110,000 is $5,500
The down payment is taken off the cost price ($100,000) leaving the buyer with a mortgage of $94,500, $10,000 less than they would have had to pay at full market price
As the condos appreciate, so does the second mortgage, an amount buyers must repay only if they rent or resell. This money then goes into an equity pool that is used to develop similar projects.
To buy a Options for Homes condominium, individuals:
form a co-operative;
retain Options for Homes to coordinate the development;
obtain part of the financing as a bank mortgage; and,
access the remainder of the financing from Home Ownership Alternatives
Projects Under Construction
Old Kennedy Village, Markham — Expected Occupancy Spring 2006
Located at 90 Old Kennedy Road in Markham, this project of 204 units is under development within blocks of the Milliken GO Station, the Pacific Mall, grocery stores, schools and banks. Units start at $169,546 and range from 660 to 1,335 square feet. 60 per cent are sold.
McLevin, Pickering — Expected Occupancy Fall 2005
Located at 1200 The Esplanade North in Pickering, this 220-unit condominium is the final phase of Discovery Place. Highway 401 and GO Transit are just minutes away. Suites range in size from 540 sq. ft. up to 1,202 sq. ft., and each comes with a dishwasher and individual climate control. Units start at $90,332. 86 per cent are sold.
Pentland, Scarborough — Expected Occupancy March 2006
This new community consisting of 271 units in an apartment building at the corner of Eglinton Avenue East and Kingston Road, on the edge of the Guildwood area of Scarborough. Units range in size from 1,200 to 1,300 square feet and prices start at $91,400. 76 per cent are sold.


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Is It Time to Break Up Google?
Apr 25, 2017 Published under Innovation
In just 10 years, the world's five largest companies by market capitalization have all changed, save for one: Microsoft. Exxon Mobil, General Electric, Citigroup and Shell Oil are out and Apple, Alphabet (the parent company of Google), Amazon and Facebook have taken their place.
They're all tech companies, and each dominates its corner of the industry: Google has an 88 percent market share in search advertising, Facebook (and its subsidiaries Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger) owns 77 percent of mobile social traffic and Amazon has a 74 percent share in the e-book market. In classic economic terms, all three are monopolies.
We have been transported back to the early 20th century, when arguments about "the curse of bigness" were advanced by President Woodrow Wilson's counselor, Louis Brandeis, before Wilson appointed him to the Supreme Court. Brandeis wanted to eliminate monopolies, because (in the words of his biographer Melvin Urofsky) "in a democratic society the existence of large centers of private power is dangerous to the continuing vitality of a free people." We need look no further than the conduct of the largest banks in the 2008 financial crisis or the role that Facebook and Google play in the "fake news" business to know that Brandeis was right.
While Brandeis generally opposed regulation — which, he worried, inevitably led to the corruption of the regulator — and instead advocated breaking up "bigness," he made an exception for "natural" monopolies, like telephone, water and power companies and railroads, where it made sense to have one or a few companies in control of an industry.
Could it be that these companies — and Google in particular — have become natural monopolies by supplying an entire market's demand for a service, at a price lower than what would be offered by two competing firms? And if so, is it time to regulate them like public utilities?
Consider a historical analogy: the early days of telecommunications.
In 1895 a photograph of the business district of a large city might have shown 20 phone wires attached to most buildings. Each wire was owned by a different phone company, and none of them worked with the others. Without network effects, the networks themselves were almost useless.
The solution was for a single company, American Telephone and Telegraph, to consolidate the industry by buying up all the small operators and creating a single network — a natural monopoly. The government permitted it, but then regulated this monopoly through the Federal Communications Commission.
AT&T (also known as the Bell System) had its rates regulated, and was required to spend a fixed percentage of its profits on research and development. In 1925 AT&T set up Bell Labs as a separate subsidiary with the mandate to develop the next generation of communications technology, but also to do basic research in physics and other sciences. Over the next 50 years, the basics of the digital age — the transistor, the microchip, the solar cell, the microwave, the laser, cellular telephony — all came out of Bell Labs, along with eight Nobel Prizes.
In a 1956 consent decree in which the Justice Department allowed AT&T to maintain its phone monopoly, the government extracted a huge concession: All past patents were licensed (to any American company) royalty-free, and all future patents were to be licensed for a small fee. These licenses led to the creation of Texas Instruments, Motorola, Fairchild Semiconductor and many other start-ups.
True, the internet never had the same problems of interoperability. And Google's route to dominance is different from the Bell System's. Nevertheless it still has all of the characteristics of a public utility.
We are going to have to decide fairly soon whether Google, Facebook and Amazon are the kinds of natural monopolies that need to be regulated, or whether we allow the status quo to continue, pretending that unfettered monoliths don't inflict damage on our privacy and democracy.
It is impossible to deny that Facebook, Google and Amazon have stymied innovation on a broad scale. To begin with, the platforms of Google and Facebook are the point of access to all media for the majority of Americans. While profits at Google, Facebook and Amazon have soared, revenues in media businesses like newspaper publishing or the music business have, since 2001, fallen by 70 percent.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, newspaper publishers lost over half their employees between 2001 and 2016. Billions of dollars have been reallocated from creators of content to owners of monopoly platforms. All content creators dependent on advertising must negotiate with Google or Facebook as aggregator, the sole lifeline between themselves and the vast internet cloud.
It's not just newspapers that are hurting. In 2015 two Obama economic advisers, Peter Orszag and Jason Furman, published a paper arguing that the rise in "supernormal returns on capital" at firms with limited competition is leading to a rise in economic inequality. The M.I.T. economists Scott Stern and Jorge Guzman explained that in the presence of these giant firms, "it has become increasingly advantageous to be an incumbent, and less advantageous to be a new entrant."
There are a few obvious regulations to start with. Monopoly is made by acquisition — Google buying AdMob and DoubleClick, Facebook buying Instagram and WhatsApp, Amazon buying, to name just a few, Audible, Twitch, Zappos and Alexa. At a minimum, these companies should not be allowed to acquire other major firms, like Spotify or Snapchat.
The second alternative is to regulate a company like Google as a public utility, requiring it to license out patents, for a nominal fee, for its search algorithms, advertising exchanges and other key innovations.
The third alternative is to remove the "safe harbor" clause in the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which allows companies like Facebook and Google's YouTube to free ride on the content produced by others. The reason there are 40,000 Islamic State videos on YouTube, many with ads that yield revenue for those who posted them, is that YouTube does not have to take responsibility for the content on its network. Facebook, Google and Twitter claim that policing their networks would be too onerous. But that's preposterous: They already police their networks for pornography, and quite well.
Removing the safe harbor provision would also force social networks to pay for the content posted on their sites. A simple example: One million downloads of a song on iTunes would yield the performer and his record label about $900,000. One million streams of that same song on YouTube would earn them about $900.
I'm under no delusion that, with libertarian tech moguls like Peter Thiel in President Trump's inner circle, antitrust regulation of the internet monopolies will be a priority. Ultimately we may have to wait four years, at which time the monopolies will be so dominant that the only remedy will be to break them up. Force Google to sell DoubleClick. Force Facebook to sell WhatsApp and Instagram.
Woodrow Wilson was right when he said in 1913, "If monopoly persists, monopoly will always sit at the helm of the government." We ignore his words at our peril.
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Darya Shaikh, US Executive Director of the PeaceWorks Foundation, and Erin Pineda, International Communications Coordinator for the OneVoice Movement, just shared with me this draft that they are sending out tomorrow to our tens of thousands of signatories and friends – announcing a compelling new phase for the One Million Voices to End the Conflict [...]
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communications earth & environment
Post-publication careers: follow-up expeditions reveal avalanches at Dyatlov Pass
A dataset of publication records for Nobel laureates
Jichao Li, Yian Yin, … Dashun Wang
A Nobel opportunity for interdisciplinarity
Michael Szell, Yifang Ma & Roberta Sinatra
Publication pressures create knowledge silos
Sandra Obradović
Voices of the new generation: normalizing career choices outside academia
Erdinc Sezgin
Favourites after five
Changjun (Alex) Zhang, Elisa De Ranieri, … Giulia Tregnago
Jennifer Sardo Infirri 1942–2018
Christopher Holmgren & Patrizia Di Caccamo
Praseodymium unpaired
Adrian Dingle
A scientist by any other name
V. Bala Chaudhary
Reward PhDs' high-quality, slow science
Andrea H. Stoevenbelt
Alexander M. Puzrin ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-9566-88411 &
Johan Gaume ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-8931-752X2,3
Communications Earth & Environment volume 3, Article number: 63 (2022) Cite this article
Cryospheric science
An Author Correction to this article was published on 30 March 2022
Having shed new light on an old mystery—how nine Russian mountaineers perished in the Urals in 1959—Alexander Puzrin and Johan Gaume got hooked. Three expeditions later it is clear that avalanches are not exceptional at Dyatlov Pass.
Our 2021 study in Communications Earth & Environment1 shows that a snow slab avalanche is a plausible explanation of the 1959 Dyatlov Pass incident. It was published on 28 January 2021—exactly 62 years after a party of Russian mountaineers led by Igor Dyatlov set out on their skiing expedition from the abandoned North-2 mining settlement in Ural mountains, never to be seen again. The mystery had drawn much attention over the years; several investigations in Russia, stretching from 1959 to 2020, were not entirely conclusive.
The media echo to our article motivated us to continue investigating, and brought us in contact with some incredible people: a brilliant Swiss documentary director, a leading snow scientist from the Moscow State University and two heroic mountain guides from the Urals. In the year since publication of our article, we helped them to organize three successful expeditions to the Dyatlov Pass. The direct evidence from the Dyatlov Pass area obtained in those expeditions confirms that the region is avalanche prone and that slopes above the location where Igor Dyatlov and his group pitched their tent are steep enough for avalanches to release. Independent research by Russian snow and climate scientists supported assumptions and the main results of our slab avalanche modeling.
The mystery
The deaths of the mountaineers had variously been attributed to an infrasound-induced panic, animals, attacks by Yetis or local tribesmen, katabatic winds, a snow avalanche, a romantic dispute, KGB/CIA secret activities, ballistic rockets, or nuclear weapons tests. In our study1, we focused on the plausibility of a snow slab avalanche as the trigger. Using basic physics, we showed that in spite of a lower-than-usual apparent slope angle, scarcity of avalanche signs, uncertainties about the trigger, and unusual injuries of the victims, such an avalanche is indeed a possible explanation. One important ingredient of our proposed mechanism is the progressive wind-blown snow accumulation on the slope above the hikers' tent. Equally significantly, the topography of the slope is irregular, built of 4-to-6 m-high steps: although the average slope inclination (observed when the steps are covered by snow) is indeed too low for an avalanche to release, we assumed (based on the evidence available at that time), that a locally steeper slope above the tent had an inclination of at least 28 degrees. Such a high angle makes a slab avalanche possible, because a buried weak snow layer would follow this steep terrain.
The media response
The Nature press office and video team put together a press release and video, and disseminated them to journalists just before publication of the paper. The media response was overwhelming. During the first month, each of us was giving two to three interviews every day. This was not easy for our young families: because of pandemic restrictions, all the interviews took place in the home office. At least our children were partially compensated, when Latin American graphic design company PICTOLINE was inspired by an article covering our work in the National Geographic2, and turned their fathers into comic heroes (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1: Infographics inspired by the Dyatlov Pass Incident and our paper in Communications Earth & Environment.
The authors are depicted as comic heroes. Courtesy of PICTOLINE: www.pictoline.com.
The media reporting outside Russia was in general very favorable. Within Russia it was mixed, however. Whereas the popular science publications were supportive3, some tabloids were rather negative. Perhaps this is not surprising. Mysteries are more attractive while unsolved, or at least not solved with such a boring scientific explanation. However, as so often, it was the negative responses that turned out to be the most useful ones.
Follow-up work
The main objections to our conclusion of a snow avalanche were: (i) there was no snow cover on the slope, (ii) there was no wind that night, (iii) there is no significant snow transfer by wind in that area, (iv) the slope is flat (no steps), and (v) snow avalanches never happen in this area. This was worrying.
Fortunately, we found the names of two prominent Russian scientists, who had helped the local prosecutor after the Dyatlov Group criminal case was reopened in 2019. Professor Victor Popovnin at the Moscow State University, a leading snow avalanche researcher in Russia, confirmed that the assumptions on the snow properties that we used in our models are consistent with his measurements during a winter expedition to Dyatlov Pass in 2019. The second scientist, Professor Galina Pigol'tsina at the Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory in St Petersburg, reports4 that during the night of the incident, 1st–2nd of February 1959, the snow cover above the tent exceeded 150 cm, consistent with our assumptions. Moreover, the snow transfer by wind during winter in this area can reach 600–1000 m3/m, which would completely cover local topographic features such as the steps. Astonishingly, her best estimate of the wind velocity above the tent was 9 to 12 m/s, right in the range required to explain the observed delay in the slab avalanche release in our model.
The question of irregular topography, however, remained open. Luckily, Radiotelevisione Svizzera (RSI) decided to produce a documentary "The Dyatlov Mystery" focusing on our work. We helped them to organize two expeditions to Dyatlov Pass, one during the winter in March 2021 another at the end of summer in September 2021. Because of the snow cover, the winter expedition could not help us much with the terrain topography, but proved valuable later. The summer expedition, however, was equipped with a drone that allowed us to produce a high-resolution three-dimensional digital model of the terrain in the vicinity of the possible tent locations (Fig. 2). Clearly, the steps have inclinations exceeding 28 degrees, and many slopes are even steeper than 30 degrees. What's more, these slopes are not just local, they are continuous: no matter where you pitch your tent you are likely to be below one of them.
Fig. 2: Local topography.
a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) showing the local slope angle. The DEM was obtained based on a drone photogrammetry analysis (summer 2021 survey) and has a resolution of 9 cm. b A–A′ section showing that although the average slope angle is around 20°, locally steeper steps have indeed an inclination exceeding 30° (given as an indicator by white dashed line).
Finally, we had to investigate the objection that this area is not susceptible to avalanche hazard. In the Russian Federation Natural Hazards Handbook5 of 1997, the area of Dyatlov Pass is characterized as the avalanche risk zone of Category II, defined as at least one avalanche per kilometer every 10 years. January is flagged as the most dangerous month. However, the resolution of the hazard map was extremely low, allowing the critics to claim that the Category II risk refers to western slopes of the mountain chain and not to the eastern ones, where the Dyatlov group's tent was found.
And here the story takes an almost mysterious turn. In October 2021, we were contacted by a Russian mountain guide, Dmitriy Borisov, who had photographed on 29th of March 2021 a peculiar feature on the western slope of a nearby mountain (Fig. 3a, b), about 3 km away from the tent location. It looked like a local depression in the slope with probable avalanche traces. But we were concerned that it could also be a shadow from a cloud. Then the RSI film director Matteo Born went through the footage he took for the documentary during his own winter expedition and accidentally discovered the same features only in a higher resolution (Fig. 3c and Supplementary Movie 1)—taken during the following day, on the 30th of March! It is highly unlikely that a cloud would stay in the same place for close to 24 h. Although it is difficult to confirm the type of snow slope instability based on this picture's resolution, the dark shaded zone below the ridge could be a tensile crown fracture resulting from one or several slab avalanches. A dozen international avalanche scientists or practitioners whom we talked to suggested that these could be classified either as a snow cornice, cornice falls or small wind slab avalanches.
Fig. 3: Avalanches near Dyatlov Pass.
a Location of the area where avalanches were observed. Source: Google Earth © 2021 Maxar technologies Landsat/Copernicus. b Picture taken by Dmitriy Borisov on the 29th of March 2021 from the Dyatlov Pass. The zone highlighted in red is located ~3 km away from the tent. c Picture extracted from a video taken by Matteo Born (RSI movie director), the day later, i.e., 30th March 2021. d Picture of a crown tensile fracture on the left side of this slope taken by Dmitriy Borisov on 29th January 2022. e Picture of a small slab avalanche in the middle of the slope by Dmitriy Borisov on the same day (29th January 2022).
The avalanches
The uncertainty was, however, so unsettling that we decided to organize the third expedition, this time to study the particular area in Fig. 3b, c. On the 28th of January 2022, exactly 63 years after the Dyatlov group was seen alive for the last time, two professional mountain guides from Ekaterinburg, Oleg Demyanenko and Dmitriy Borisov, left for the Dyatlov Pass on two snowmobiles. The initially favorable weather conditions quickly deteriorated, with wind and temperatures becoming similar to those on the night of the 1959 tragedy. Several times, the 300 kg snowmobiles and their drivers were overturned by wind gusts. Visibility became extremely poor. And then, when after a few failed attempts the two mountain guides approached their destination, the visibility briefly improved and revealed traces of two snow slab avalanches (Fig. 3d, e and Supplementary Movie 2).
Contrary to multiple claims that snow avalanches have never been observed around this area, in two subsequent winter expeditions within the year since publication of our article, we can report several documented slab avalanches in an eastern slope <3 km away from the Dyatlov group tent. And while some doubts remain for the March 2021 instability type in Fig. 3b, c, the outcome of the January 2022 expedition is clear: the traces of two new snow slab avalanches were observed for weather conditions apparently similar to those on the night of the Dyatlov incident, during the same time of the year. The first slab avalanche (Fig. 3d) is located on the left side of the slope, and has a crown thickness of about 1 m. The second one (Fig. 3e and Supplementary Movie 2), which was observed in the middle of the slope, appeared to have a smaller crown thickness, close to the one predicted in our model1. It slid along a smooth weak interface with an older compacted snow and was very likely triggered by a local cornice fall. Oleg and Dmitriy report that this second avalanche was practically invisible after less than an hour, as it was covered by the wind-transported snow. They estimate that the avalanche released less than an hour before their arrival. No wonder then that the Dyatlov rescue team could not find signs of an avalanche 3 weeks after the incident. This also explains why no avalanches have been observed there before: in such severe weather conditions the Pass cannot be easily accessed by hikers, while traces of small slab avalanches disappear within few hours.
No final word
Some of the conditions leading to the avalanches observed on 29th January 2022 were very similar to those experienced by the Dyatlov group: eastern slope aspect, date in the year, low temperatures, strong winds and large amounts of wind-transported snow. Other conditions were different: the slab was softer, the slope was steeper, it was not undercut from below and the trigger was probably different, too. Nevertheless, the area is clearly avalanche prone, and the avalanche danger on the night of February 1st, 1959 was real.
Time and again, we were asked whether our article brings to an end our work on the case. We always responded that, although the case itself remains open, our part is closed: we did not want to spend the rest of our lives trying to solve the Dyatlov Pass mystery. One year later, we are no longer so sure. If someone asks, we will refrain from an answer.
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00425-6
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We would like to thank Matteo Born, Prof. Victor Popovnin, Oleg Demyanenko, and Dmitriy Borisov for their enormous effort in helping us to obtain field evidence in support of the slab avalanche hypothesis. We also acknowledge Dr. Alessandro Cicoira and Dr. Xingyue Li for making the digital elevation model and performing slope angle calculations.
Institute for Geotechnical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, Zürich, Switzerland
Alexander M. Puzrin
School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPFL, Route Cantonale, Lausanne, Switzerland
Johan Gaume
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland
A.M.P. conceived the idea of the article, co-organized expeditions and co-wrote the paper. J.G. co-organized expeditions and co-wrote the paper.
Correspondence to Alexander M. Puzrin.
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Puzrin, A.M., Gaume, J. Post-publication careers: follow-up expeditions reveal avalanches at Dyatlov Pass. Commun Earth Environ 3, 63 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00393-x
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package com.dremio.sabot.op.aggregate.vectorized;

import static com.dremio.sabot.op.aggregate.vectorized.VectorizedHashAggOperator.SKETCH_ACCURACY;
import static com.dremio.sabot.op.aggregate.vectorized.VectorizedHashAggOperator.SKETCH_SIZE;

import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.ByteOrder;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.arrow.memory.ArrowBuf;
import org.apache.arrow.memory.util.MemoryUtil;
import org.apache.arrow.vector.BaseValueVector;
import org.apache.arrow.vector.BaseVariableWidthVector;
import org.apache.arrow.vector.FieldVector;
import org.apache.datasketches.hll.HllSketch;
import org.apache.datasketches.hll.Union;
import org.apache.datasketches.memory.WritableMemory;

import com.dremio.exec.expr.TypeHelper;
import com.dremio.exec.proto.UserBitShared;
import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
import com.google.common.base.Throwables;

/**
 * A base accumulator for Union of HLL/NDV operator
 */
public abstract class BaseNdvUnionAccumulator implements Accumulator {
  private static final org.slf4j.Logger logger = org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(BaseNdvUnionAccumulator.class);

  private final int maxValuesPerBatch;
  private FieldVector input;
  private FieldVector transferVector;
  private int batches;
  protected HllAccumHolder[] accumBatches;
  private boolean resizeInProgress;
  private BaseVariableWidthVector tempAccumulatorHolder;

  public static class HllAccumHolder {
    private final int maxValuesPerBatch;
    private final ArrowBuf dataBuf;
    private final ByteBuffer accumAddress;

    public HllAccumHolder(final int maxValuesPerBatch, final ArrowBuf dataBuf) {
      this.maxValuesPerBatch = maxValuesPerBatch;

      this.dataBuf = dataBuf;
      Preconditions.checkArgument(dataBuf.capacity() >= (long) maxValuesPerBatch * SKETCH_SIZE);
      dataBuf.getReferenceManager().retain();

      accumAddress = MemoryUtil.directBuffer(dataBuf.memoryAddress(), (int)dataBuf.capacity());

      int sketchOffset = 0;
      for (int i = 0; i < maxValuesPerBatch; ++i, sketchOffset += SKETCH_SIZE) {
        accumAddress.limit(sketchOffset + SKETCH_SIZE);
        accumAddress.position(sketchOffset);
        ByteBuffer bb = accumAddress.slice();
        bb.order(ByteOrder.nativeOrder());

        /* Initialize backing memory for the sketch. HllSketch memset the first getMaxUpdatableSerializationBytes() bytes. */
        Union sketch = new Union(SKETCH_ACCURACY, WritableMemory.wrap(bb));
      }
    }

    private Union getAccumSketch(int accumIndex) {
      Preconditions.checkArgument(accumIndex < maxValuesPerBatch);

      final int sketchOffset = accumIndex * SKETCH_SIZE;
      accumAddress.limit(sketchOffset  + SKETCH_SIZE);
      accumAddress.position(sketchOffset);
      ByteBuffer bb = accumAddress.slice();
      bb.order(ByteOrder.nativeOrder());
      return Union.writableWrap(WritableMemory.wrap(bb));
    }

    public void close() {
      dataBuf.getReferenceManager().release();
    }

    public void reset(final int startIndex, final int numRecords) {
      Preconditions.checkArgument(startIndex + numRecords <= maxValuesPerBatch);
      int sketchOffset = startIndex * SKETCH_SIZE;

      for (int i = 0; i < numRecords; ++i, sketchOffset += SKETCH_SIZE) {
        accumAddress.limit(sketchOffset + SKETCH_SIZE);
        accumAddress.position(sketchOffset);
        ByteBuffer bb = accumAddress.slice();
        bb.order(ByteOrder.nativeOrder());

        /* Reinitialize backing memory for the sketch. HllSketch memset the first getMaxUpdatableSerializationBytes() bytes. */
        Union sketch = new Union(SKETCH_ACCURACY, WritableMemory.wrap(bb));
      }
    }

    public void reset() {
      reset(0, maxValuesPerBatch);
    }
  }

  public void update(final int batchIndex, final int accumIndex, final HllSketch hllSketch) {
    Union unionSketch = accumBatches[batchIndex].getAccumSketch(accumIndex);
    unionSketch.update(hllSketch);
  }

  public BaseNdvUnionAccumulator(FieldVector input, FieldVector transferVector, int maxValuesPerBatch,
                                 BaseValueVector tempAccumulatorHolder, final ArrowBuf dataBuf) {
    this.input = input;
    this.transferVector = transferVector;
    this.tempAccumulatorHolder = (BaseVariableWidthVector)tempAccumulatorHolder;
    this.maxValuesPerBatch = maxValuesPerBatch;
    Preconditions.checkArgument(this.tempAccumulatorHolder.getByteCapacity() >= maxValuesPerBatch * SKETCH_SIZE);
    if (dataBuf == null) {
      initArrs(0);
      batches = 0;
    } else {
      initArrs(1);
      accumBatches[0] = new HllAccumHolder(maxValuesPerBatch, dataBuf);
      batches = 1;
    }
    resizeInProgress = false;
  }

  /**
   * Get the input vector which has source data to be accumulated.
   *
   * @return input vector
   */
  @Override
  public FieldVector getInput() {
    return input;
  }

  @Override
  public void setInput(FieldVector input) {
    this.input = input;
  }

  private void initArrs(int size){
    this.accumBatches = new HllAccumHolder[size];
  }
  /**
   * Get the target vector that stores the computed
   * values for the accumulator.
   *
   * @return target vector
   */
  @Override
  public FieldVector getOutput() {
    return transferVector;
  }

  @Override
  public AccumulatorBuilder.AccumulatorType getType() {
    return AccumulatorBuilder.AccumulatorType.HLL_MERGE;
  }

  @Override
  public int getValidityBufferSize() {
    return 0;
  }

  @Override
  public int getDataBufferSize() {
    return maxValuesPerBatch * SKETCH_SIZE;
  }

  /**
   * HashTable and accumulator always run parallel -- when we add a block/batch to
   * hashtable, we also add new block/batch to accumulators. This function is used
   * to verify state is consistent across these data structures.
   * @param batches number of blocks/batches in hashtable
   */
  @Override
  public void verifyBatchCount(final int batches) {
    Preconditions.checkArgument(batches == this.batches,
      "Error: Detected incorrect batch count in accumulator");
  }

  /**
   * Used to get the size of target accumulator vector that stores the computed values.
   *
   * We use this method when computing the size of {@link VectorizedHashAggPartition}
   * as part of choosing a victim partition.
   *
   * @return size of vector (in bytes)
   */
  @Override
  public long getSizeInBytes() {
    return batches * (SKETCH_SIZE * maxValuesPerBatch + getValidityBufferSize());
  }

  @Override
  public void addBatch(final ArrowBuf dataBuffer, final ArrowBuf validityBuffer) {
    try {
      if (batches == accumBatches.length) {
        /* save old references */
        final HllAccumHolder[] oldAccumBatches = accumBatches;
        /* provision more to avoid copy in the next call to addBatch */
        initArrs((batches == 0) ? 1 : batches * 2);
        System.arraycopy(oldAccumBatches, 0, this.accumBatches, 0, batches);
      }
      /* add a single batch */
      accumBatches[batches] = new HllAccumHolder(maxValuesPerBatch, dataBuffer);
      ++batches;
      resizeInProgress = true;
    } catch (Exception e) {
      /* this will be caught by LBlockHashTable and subsequently handled by VectorizedHashAggOperator */
      Throwables.throwIfUnchecked(e);
    }
  }

  @Override
  public int getBatchCount() {
    return batches;
  }

  private void prepareTransferVector(BaseVariableWidthVector transferVector,
                                     final int batchIndex, final int numRecords, final int targetIndex) {
    for (int i = 0; i < numRecords; ++i) {
      Union sketch = accumBatches[batchIndex].getAccumSketch(i);
      byte[] ba = sketch.toCompactByteArray();
      transferVector.set(targetIndex + i, ba);
    }
    transferVector.setValueCount(targetIndex + numRecords);
  }

  @Override
  public List<ArrowBuf> getBuffers(final int batchIndex, final int numRecordsInChunk) {
    tempAccumulatorHolder.reset();
    prepareTransferVector(tempAccumulatorHolder, batchIndex, numRecordsInChunk, 0);
    return tempAccumulatorHolder.getFieldBuffers();
  }

  @Override
  public void compact(final int batchIndex, final int nextRecSize) { }

  /**
   * Take the accumulator vector (the vector that stores computed values)
   * for a particular batch (identified by batchIndex) and output its contents.
   * Output is done by copying the contents from accumulator vector to its
   * counterpart in outgoing container. Unlike fixed length accumulators, we
   * cannot transfer the contents as backing MutableVarcharVector does not
   * have the data stored in the index order. Even if requested to output multiple
   * batches, the process is same.
   *
   * We still want the memory associated with allocator of source vector because
   * of post-spill processing where this accumulator vector will still continue
   * to store the computed values as we start treating spilled batches as new
   * input into the operator. However we do this for a singe batch only as once
   * we are done outputting a partition, we anyway get rid of all but 1 batch.
   */
  @Override
  public void output(int startBatchIndex, int[] recordsInBatches) {
    int size = 0;
    int numRecords = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < recordsInBatches.length; ++i) {
      for (int k = 0; k < recordsInBatches[i]; ++k) {
        Union sketch = accumBatches[startBatchIndex + i].getAccumSketch(k);
        size += sketch.getCompactSerializationBytes();
      }
      numRecords += recordsInBatches[i];
    }

    ((BaseVariableWidthVector)transferVector).allocateNew(size, numRecords);
    transferVector.reset();

    numRecords = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < recordsInBatches.length; ++i) {
      prepareTransferVector((BaseVariableWidthVector) transferVector,
        startBatchIndex + i, recordsInBatches[i], numRecords);
      numRecords += recordsInBatches[i];
      releaseBatch(startBatchIndex + i);
    }
  }

  @Override
  public void resetToMinimumSize() throws Exception {
    assert accumBatches.length >= 1;

    accumBatches[0].reset();
    for (int i = 1; i < batches; ++i) {
      if (accumBatches[i] != null) {
        accumBatches[i].close();
        accumBatches[i] = null;
      }
    }
    batches = 1;
  }

  @Override
  public void commitResize() {
    resizeInProgress = false;
  }

  @Override
  public void revertResize() {
    if (!resizeInProgress) {
      /*
       * Because this is invoked for all accumulators under NestedAccumulator,
       * it will be a NO-OP for some accumulators if we failed in the middle
       * of NestedAccumulator.
       */
      return;
    }

    accumBatches[batches - 1].close();
    accumBatches[batches - 1] = null;
    --batches;

    resizeInProgress = false;
  }

  @Override
  public void releaseBatch(int batchIndex) {
    if (batchIndex == 0) {
      accumBatches[batchIndex].reset();
    } else {
      accumBatches[batchIndex].close();
      accumBatches[batchIndex] = null;
    }
  }

  @Override
  public UserBitShared.SerializedField getSerializedField(int batchIndex, int recordCount) {
    /*
     * HashAggPartitionWritableBatch.java:getNextWritableBatch() will call getBuffers()
     * followed by getSerializedField().
     * In the current context, the tempAccumulatorHolder already has the data saved,
     * especially the valueCount hence directly calling the TypeHelper.getMetadata()
     * is sufficient.
     */
    Preconditions.checkArgument(tempAccumulatorHolder.getValueCount() == recordCount);
    return TypeHelper.getMetadata(tempAccumulatorHolder);
  }

  @Override
  public void close() throws Exception {
    for (int i = 0; i < batches; i++) {
      if (accumBatches[i] != null) {
        accumBatches[i].close();
        accumBatches[i] = null;
      }
    }
  }

  @Override
  public void moveValuesAndFreeSpace(int srcBatchIndex, int dstBatchIndex,
                                     int srcStartIndex, int dstStartIndex, int numRecords) {
    Preconditions.checkArgument(srcStartIndex + numRecords <= maxValuesPerBatch);
    /* setBytes take absolute byte address */
    accumBatches[dstBatchIndex].dataBuf.setBytes(dstStartIndex * SKETCH_SIZE, accumBatches[srcBatchIndex].dataBuf,
      srcStartIndex * SKETCH_SIZE, numRecords * SKETCH_SIZE);

    /* Reset the original sketches */
    accumBatches[srcBatchIndex].reset(srcStartIndex, numRecords);
  }
}


Eppure si muove…or does it?
Just got an email reminder from the ICPSR data archive yesterday that the 2006 GSS data are out and ready to play with. Always curious to know what's happening with my favorite survey of the attitudes and behaviors of the American population I looked around the codebook to see what was new for 2006. Among the highlights, there is (1) a module designed to estimate global characteristics of the social networks of the American population using a cutting edge method based on asking people questions of the type: "How many people do you know…(named Jeff, in Prison, who can do a somersault, who eat hamburgers, etc. [see Zheng et al 2006] and see also a copy of the proposal of the GSS module designed to measure "network polarization" in the American population in order to see if it is related to "cultural polarization") and (2) a "science" module designed to measure the scientific knowledge of the American population. My guess is that (1) will produce the most fascinating and scientifically interesting results, and (2) will of course provide fodder for the constant complaints (and jokes) about the utter mental dullness of the population.
Now, does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth?
How long does it take for the Earth to go around the Sun: one day, one month, or one year?
Barring that guy who categorically refused to answer the question, we are again faced with the result that a full one-fifth of those in the American population who are aware that the earth revolves around the sun are in their turn unable to distinguish the earth's rotation around its axis from a full revolution around the sun. Poor Galileo; talk about reason to turn in your grave.
Posted in networks, omar, research, what does this have to do w/ org theory?
You and the GSS folks just made me more cynical than I already was. Thanks.
IQ is useless, yada yada, but still I'd be interested to see the correlation between IQ or some reasonable proxy, and anti-Galilean belief.
Who said that IQ is useless? Logit regression says that an error-ridden facsimile is still a reasonable predictor.
This is hard to believe. I might download this data also and play with it more. We'll see if your faith in the networks data being the larger contribution is borne out.
Jeremy, unfortunately true apparently. BTW, the predicted probabilities used to construct the graph above made possible by Long and Freese's spostado utility for Stata via the postgr3 wrapper. Thanks!
Depends on your view. Obviously the earth goes around the sun, from the larger perspective, in outer space or from the perspective of the sun. From the perspective of someone on earth (because the earth is spinning on an axis), however, it is also true that the sun goes around the earth. If you don't believe that, check what happens each morning, afternoon, evening, and next morning. What's that matter with everyone? Just because 18% said sun goes around the sun doesn't mean the all (or even most) were not aware that it's also true the other way around. Some or most (conceivably, almost all) may have figured the question was so simple (didn't see the whole set of questions so I don't know) that there was a trick, or wanted to toss in a monkey wrench. Both are true.
Actually, the Sun revolving around the Earth is not the same as the Earth rotating about it's axis with a "static" Sun. A simple analysis of centripetal forces reveals the difference.
Just as in the Relativistic "Twin Paradox", the younger one can be clearly identified as the one who accelerated and deccelerated to those velocities (According to your logic, from the point of view of the twin in the rocket, the other guy went for a trip, which is untrue). i suppose the safest way to choose an inertial frame of reference is to claim that both the Sun and the Earth revlove around their centre of mass. But then again, it's not a two body problem is it?!
Omar: I didn't mean to suggest you had done something wrong with the analysis. I'm sure that's correct, and fascinating of you to find. I meant looking in the data for whether there are signs of something odd with the fielding of this question, although GSS doesn't exactly make this easy to do. I have some mixed feelings about GSS/NORC.
I guess this darn earth around the sun thing is more interesting than I initially thought…Jeremy's numbers show a huge gender difference (ASRs and AJSs have been written about much smaller gender disparities) in the proportion Ptolemaic/DK. If you cross tab gender and education, you get an even more bizarre picture. The gender difference appears in high school, and is gigantic at the graduate level (Women: 13%; Men: 1.2%). The two cultures?
Do I see a Jeremy/Omar team up in the making? The first ever AJS/ASR written through inter-blog collaboration?
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Physics says both answers are actually correct, depending of the frame of reference. The sun and the earth appear to revolve around each other from each others point of view. However the other planets give sufficient data to say that the sun is (approximately) a common rotational point for all planets, when considered from a sun fixed reference frame.
Whee. I'm sure an astronomer can correct me on this one, but its all reference frame based. At least from a classical Newtonian perspective.
Ok, so I was right about one thing. This whole earth around the sun thing it's become another snobby excuse to talk about how dumb Americans are, how this explains how we elected Bush, etc. But before you get all high and mighty with your Europhilia, you should look here and see that Americans are actually smarter than Europeans (broadly defined as EU 25; yes, blame Eastern Europe) on this particular question. South Koreans are of course the smarter ones (subtext: turns out that the GSS science module it's been replicated in several countries, and that a similar module was run in the 2004 Survey of Consumer Attitudes out of the University of Michigan; they came up with the same low 70s number as the GSS, which makes me think that the finding is robust for the U.S.).
Another reason to homeschool. Our public school system is not even really teaching facts anymore, but is teaching "politically correct thinking" at the expense of real education.
See here for another look at these and related questions (e.g., on evolution) by religion.
Physics says both answers are actually correct, depending of the frame of reference. The sun and the earth appear to revolve around each other from each others point of view.
Yes, you can construct a reference frame where the entire universe revolves around the Earth… but the point of the Copernican revolution is that doing so doesn't make much sense! The center of mass of our solar system is clearly inside the sun, and understanding that is the key to understanding the motion of the planets.
I have some sympathy with the one tenth of one percent who selected "some other period". When the Earth revolves about it's primary, It completes the orbit in 365 days, 5 hours 48 minutes, and 46 seconds. Hence the need for leap years. Except in millennial years. Unless those millennial years are divisible by 400.
True. And since the actual system consists of the Sun, all the nine planets, their moons, the astroid belt, and several comets (at least), the orbit isn't exactly periodic, unlike in a two-body central forces problem. Hence the need for the ocassional leep seconds.
The option should have read: "some other period drastically different than 365 days".
Why is this surprising? My experience has been that to ask a protein chemist a quantum chemistry question, you might as well have asked a grad student. Ask them an astronomy question, and a freshman astronomy undergrad or good high school student would do you better. Ask a basic question about a subfield, but one which comes from an unusual perspective, one not part of the field's research thrust (so mistaken beliefs aren't pruned), and you get a mixed bag of answers from subfield profs, and trash from out-of-subfield profs.
With half the US apparently having a terminal high school degree or less, why is a grade-school view of astronomy surprising?
Okay, but I'm a grad student who likes to think I'm pretty smart, and I got the second one wrong… of course when I stop to THINK about it I understand, but that doesn't mean I answered it right.


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Revitalizing St. Louis Communities through Shakespeare
By Daniel Finney
But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is…St. Louis?
With no intention to misquote the great playwright William Shakespeare, we felt this was the best way to get your attention—and, more importantly, let you know about Shakespeare in the Streets, starting this month.
Shakespeare in the Streets is a grassroots theatrical experience across developing St. Louis communities. In each community, an appointed Shakespeare Festival St. Louis team will lead in the development of an original play based on Shakespeare's works. The spin on each play, however, reflects that community's specific social and economic character.
When all is put together, each neighborhood will perform three free, live, outdoor shows in the community.
Shakespeare in the Streets was originally created to address the cultural deficit found in many St. Louis urban neighborhoods. Dead streets, poverty, and limited community interaction has stunted the artistic growth of these neighborhoods. This is where Shakespeare Festival St. Louis saw an opportunity to empower people with the works of the most famous playwright in the world.
The program not only encourages people to attend Shakespeare Festival St. Louis in Forest Park but also gets all of St. Louis involved in the city's artistic scene.
I strongly encourage you to attend a Shakespeare in the Streets show. The next live performance is The Winter's Tale in the Grove neighborhood September 19-21. The opening act is at 8 p.m. each night, and admission is free.
The Winter's Tale is a story of loss and redemption, exploring themes of time, healing, and jealousy. It focuses on a king possessed by irrational jealousy, an attitude that ends up tearing his family apart. Through years and adventures, the family is reunited by forgiveness and magic.
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I can only imagine how much value this card will gain over time. This 1954 Bowman has beautiful colors. Ford's pose is on point. Classic.
Charlie Sheen gave the performance of his lifetime in the hit film, "Major League". As the erratic and wild relief pitcher for the Indiahs, Sheen etched his name in the halls of epic baseball badasses.
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Pablo Stifer Armero (ur. 2 listopada 1986 w Tumaco) – kolumbijski piłkarz występujący na pozycji obrońcy w brazylijskim klubie EC Bahia oraz w reprezentacji Kolumbii.

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Pablo Armero jest wychowankiem zespołu América Cali. Potem grał w brazylijskim SE Palmeiras, a w 2010 przeszedł do włoskiego Udinese Calcio. 9 stycznia 2013 został wypożyczony do końca sezonu do SSC Napoli.

Zawodnik w 2008 zadebiutował w reprezentacji Kolumbii.

31 stycznia 2014 został wypożyczony do końca sezonu 2013/2014 z SSC Napoli.

13 sierpnia 2014 został wypożyczony do 30 czerwca 2015 do AC Milan. Zespół z Mediolanu za wypożyczenie Armero zapłacił 0.5 miliona euro zapewniając sobie jednocześnie prawo jego wykupu za dodatkowe 3.5 mln euro.

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Uczestnicy Copa América 2011
Uczestnicy Mistrzostw Świata w Piłce Nożnej 2014
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Q: Converting Math functions from Python to c++ I am attempting to convert some opencv code from python to c++, and am a little lost. The python is:
if 0 < R[1,1] < 1:
    # If it gets here, the pose is flipped.

    # Flip the axes. E.g., Y axis becomes [-y0, -y1, y2].
    R *= np.array([
        [ 1, -1,  1],
        [ 1, -1,  1],
        [-1,  1, -1],
    ])

    # Fixup: rotate along the plane spanned by camera's forward (Z) axis and vector to marker's position
    forward = np.array([0, 0, 1])
    tnorm = T / np.linalg.norm(T)
    axis = np.cross(tnorm, forward)
    angle = -2*math.acos(tnorm @ forward)
    R = cv2.Rodrigues(angle * axis)[0] @ R

So far i have:
cv::Mat R;
if (0 < R.at<double>(1, 1) < 1) {

            // Flip the axes.E.g., Y axis becomes[-y0, -y1, y2].
            float mult[9] = { 1, -1, 1, 1, -1, 1,-1, 1, -1 };

            cv::Mat FlipAxes = cv::Mat(3, 3, CV_32F, mult);

            R *= FlipAxes;

                //# Fixup: rotate along the plane spanned by camera's forward (Z) axis and vector to marker's position
            cv::Vec3d forward(0, 0, 1);
            double tnorm = tvecBest / np.linalg.norm(T)
            axis = np.cross(tnorm, forward)
            angle = -2 * math.acos(tnorm @ forward)
            R = cv2.Rodrigues(angle * axis)[0] * R

        }

I am lost on these lines:
double tnorm = tvecBest / np.linalg.norm(T)
axis = np.cross(tnorm, forward)
angle = -2 * math.acos(tnorm @ forward)

what is the equivalent of np.linalg.norm in c++ opencv?

A: the np.linalg.norm(T) is just the L2 norm :
sqrt(T[0]*T[0]+T[1]*T[1]+T[2]*T[2])

np.cross(tnorm, forward) is the cross product:
axis[0] = tnorm[1]*forward[2]-tnorm[2]*forward[1]
axis[1] = -tnorm[0]*forward[2]+tnorm[2]*forward[0]
axis[2] = tnorm[0]*forward[1]-tnorm[1]*forward[0]

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Jamie Lopez, Super Sized Salon Star, Dead at 37
Tragic news this week out of the reality television universe:
Jamie Lopez, the star of WE tv's Super Sized Salon and the founder of Babydoll Beauty Couture, has passed away.
The official Instagram account of the beauty salon itself confirmed the awful development on Monday, uploading a carousel of photos of Lopez and cast members of the WE TV series.
May Jamie Lopez rest in peace. The fashion guru and long-time reality star is dead at the age of 37.
"On behalf of the Babydoll Beauty Couture team, we regretfully announce, with great pain, the passing of The Founder & Owner of Babydoll Beauty Couture, The Legendary Jamie Lopez," the company wrote in the caption.
"We ask, on behalf of the Babydoll family, that you allow us time to process this tremendous loss.
"Further details and arrangements will be announced soon.
"We have suffered an extraordinary loss and appreciate the time and space to grieve in peace. Please keep our Babydoll family & team lifted in your hearts and prayers."
No cause of death has been revealed.
The message concluded with an acknowledgment to the staff and crew of the production company behind the show as well as the cable network "for all their continuous support in this difficult time."
Super Sized Salon premiered earlier this year.
It chronicled the professional world of Lopez at Babydoll Beauty Couture, the beauty salon she founded after facing discrimination in the beauty industry for being plus-sized.
According to WE TV's network synopsis, the program also followed the women who work at the salon and "are determined to make everyone look and feel beautiful, no matter their size — but with their loud and diverse personalities, drama is always just around the corner."
Sources have told TMZ that the reality star suffered heart complications over the weekend.
The outlet also reported Lopez was preparing to film Season 2 at the time of her death.
Super Sized Salon tracked its weight loss and her journey of learning how to walk again after losing an astounding 400 pounds.
Lopez explained in the trailer of the show that she weighed 846 pounds at one point in her life.
Speaking to Yahoo Beauty in 2017, Lopez opened up about her reason to launch her business.
"I was inspired by there being no place I could get my nails or hair done in Vegas that would accommodate my needs as a plus-size woman, and I decided it was time to make some changes for the plus-size women of the world," she told the website at the time.
May Jamie Lopez rest in peace.
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Your eyes don't lie. I really hate how my eyes can look so terrible when there are certain events in my life that stress me out, or if I'm just not taking care of myself by not working out regularly, eating right or getting enough sleep. It all shows in your eyes eventually. Aging doesn't help either. As you age you could start to get crows feet, dark circles and even more under eye puffiness.
"More than any other facial feature, your eyes reveal the most about how you feel," says Dr. Gregory Nikolaidis, a board certified dermatologist in Austin. "My patients complain of puffy, swollen eyes all the time. We have the thinnest skin around our eyes, so it's the area that's most influenced by the in-and-out flow of fluids," notes Dr. Nikolaidis. "A salty diet or excessive crying can also cause morning-after puffiness." According to Dr. Nikolaidis the reason is osmosis. Water always travels from areas in the body where there's low salt concentration to tissues where there's more salt.
Thankfully there are many ways you can turn back the clock when it comes to taking care of the skin around your eyes.
Check out these tips to get rid of eye puffiness, crows feet, dark circles from dermatologists and makeup artists below! They also discuss makeup tips, and how to make sure your eyebrows and eyelashes don't give away your age as well!
Allergies. Itchy, swollen eyes are a common allergic reaction.
Fluid retention. Hormonal shifts, a lack of sleep, or even just eating salty foods can cause you to retain fluid, leading to puffy eyes.
Heredity. "If your parents had puffiness under their eyes, you may be more prone to developing the same condition," says Dr. Nikolaidis.
Dr. Nikolaidis recommends SkinMedica TNS Eye Repair as a great product option for patients looking to reduce puffiness around their eyes and hydrate the fragile skin around the eye. With a combination of growth factors, peptides, and antioxidants, it also provides great antioxidant protection.
What better way to make eyes look more youthful than with a luxury spa experience? The HydraFacialâ"¢ is a very effective treatment for clearing up surface skin issues, as it removes dead skin cells and extracts impurities while bathing new skin with cleansing, hydrating solutions. This leaves the area around the eyes supple and soft.
There are many ways to slow down the aging process such as wearing sunscreen religiously, eating lots of veggies, drinking a ton of water, using effective skin care products and sticking to a beauty daily regiment. But the hard truth is, we will age. So, if you're like most women who don't want to dish out tons of cash getting cosmetic surgery, your next best option is to fake it. How? With great makeup of course.
Another tip: make sure you do not choose concealer that is too light or too dark. "The best shade for the under eye area is one shade lighter than your skin tone. Only apply to the inner corner of the eye and make sure to blend," advises Shana. Rule of thumb: Concealer should always conceal and not draw attention to your eyes. Make sure to blend with a concealer brush to reduce any streakiness.
Dark Circles, Crow's Feet… Oh My!
Dermatologists agree on the importance of protecting the delicate area around the eye; and the goal to having younger, more vibrant looking eyes is diminishing the appearance of deep lines, lightening dark circles and repairing the damage time has left behind. Houston board certified dermatologist Dr. Paul Friedman reveals the latest beauty treatments to combat aging eyes.
How to get rid of dark circles? Dr. Friedman recommends the Pulsed Dye Laser for dark circles that are caused by broken blood vessels. For dark circles caused by excess pigment, Dr. Friedman recommends the Fraxel Laser for his patients.
How to get rid of wrinkles around eyes/crow's feet? "I utilize Botulinium toxins to relax muscle movement, fillers to restore volume loss, and laser peels such as the Fraxel Laser for resurfacing the skin and stimulating collagen. We also use radiofrequency and ultrasound devices such as Ultherapy and Thermage for skin tightening in this area," says Dr. Friedman.
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Reed Boardall revenue tops £61m
Posted By: Northern Financial Review January 3, 2019
Yorkshire-based cold storage and transport business The Reed Boardall Group Limited said on Thursday its turnover rose 2.3% to £61.6 million in its last financial year to March 31, 2018.
Reed Boardall saw adjusted EBITDA hold steady at £3.44 million.
Reed Boardall is one of the largest temperature controlled food distribution businesses in the UK, storing and delivering frozen food from manufacturers across Britain, Europe and further afield to all the UK's best-known supermarkets.
Operating 24/7, its 170- strong fleet of vehicles moves an average of 12,000 pallets a day and it stores around £100 million worth of products on behalf of its customers.
It employs over 750 staff at its single site in Boroughbridge, Yorkshire.
"As a trusted partner to many of the leading retailers and food manufacturers in the UK, remaining at the forefront of the sector and continuing to provide high levels of service, implement meticulous safety procedures and invest in the latest innovations remain a priority," said Marcus Boardall, deputy chief executive of The ReedBoardall Group.
"Given the fierce competition within the transport industry, along with rising fuel costs, this remains a challenging sector.
"However, with our long-established customer relationships and strong reputation, we are proving resilient and recently invested in a further 30 bespoke, aerodynamic trailers to complement our 300-strong fleet."
Sarah Roberts, finance director, adds: "Our strong results are testament to the efficiency of our single site model, giving customers a truly integrated cold storage and transport service, and establishing us as the largest consolidator of frozen food in the UK.
"Over the last financial year, we have not only been able to improve utilisation of our 142,000 pallet capacity cold storage facility, but also to win additional business on the strength of the ancillary services we offer including blast freezing, picking and packing.
"In such a dynamic and competitive market, customers need a logistics partner which consistently delivers on its promises.
"With our 25 year heritage serving the UK food industry, we have a depth of experience which sets us apart from competitors and alsothe vision and commitment to continue innovating for the future."
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New York City to sever ties with Trump Organization, de Blasio says
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city will be severing all contracts with the Trump Organization following the Jan. 6 siege at the Capitol.
De Blasio announced that the city would be severing ties to the Trump Organization on Wednesday morning. He had said a day earlier that the city was looking into ending the contracts "very, very carefully and very quickly."
"The city of New York is severing all contracts with the Trump organization," he said Wednesday on Morning Joe. "Our legal team has done an assessment, and the contracts make very clear, if a company, the leadership of that company is engaged in criminal activity, we have the right to sever the contract. Inciting an insurrection, let's be clear, I'll say these words again, inciting an insurrection against the United States government clearly constitutes criminal activity. So the city of New York will no longer have anything to do with the Trump Organization. They have profited from these contracts. They will profit no longer."
The mayor also explained that the Trump Organization profits "about $17 million" annually from four different contracts, which include three that are in Manhattan and one in the Bronx.
De Blasio's comments come as the president continues to receive condemnation for urging his supporters to pressure lawmakers into not certifying the Electoral College for President-elect Joe Biden. The siege of the Capitol left five people dead, and more than 70 have been arrested. Twitter and Facebook banned him from their platforms, citing concerns he would incite violence. Democrats have launched an impeachment effort, and organizations have cut ties with him and his administration.
De Blasio also said the decision to terminate the contracts were "clear as a bell," and said that the president's role in the siege was "grounds for severing these contracts and we're moving to do that right away."
The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner's request for comment regarding de Blasio's announcement.
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Wal-Mart has ruined me for others.
By its clout, it can buy in huge quantities and entice us by passing the savings on to us. As you and I know on our humdrum scale, the giant economy size often is cheaper.
Regular mom-and-pop or father-and-son stores, in fact entire downtowns across the country, say Wal-Mart is killing them.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. chooses to do what human-sized shops once did: Back the products. There's no back-talk, no suspicion on merchandise returns. Bringing that receipt makes matters smoother and faster (yes, the stores restrict returns on electronics, automotive and a very few other departments), but they flex to satisfy the customer. The customer is always right.
Wal-Mart makes lots more sales than refunds. It will make money. Kmart and Target make money with similar smiling return rules.
Dillard Department Stores makes money, too. Its refund policy is limited to 30 days, but they mean it. Last fall, the luggage sales clerk was understanding when I returned a suitcase bought two weeks earlier because pretend-packing showed it to be too big.
Lands' End and similar large mail-order houses allow you to change your mind with efficiency. L.L. Bean exchanged my umbrella six months after I bought it when a wind gust broke it.
The neighborhood office supply of yore infamously overcharged. Its customers were guys using their companies' money. Why be cost-conscious?
When repetitive computer stress struck my neck a dozen years ago, I set out for ergonomic chairs for work and home. A downtown office supply, in Little Rock, had them starting at $150; its clerk groused how the manufacturer, a trusted old brand, just signed with Sam's Wholesale Club. Thanks, buddy; see ya'. At Sam's I bought two for about $85 each. An arm wouldn't screw on right, and I exchanged it easily.
Last year, I found the perfect satchel for my iBook at bluelight.com. Its Internet policy allowed me to return purchases to any Kmart. That prevents having to fork out postage to mail something back. Yet this bag is ideal.
Weeks earlier, I went to a locally owned sporting goods store. The Macintosh iBook is a funny shape. The shopkeeper said I could buy two bags, take them home to try and bring back the one that was too small.
The next morning I returned. Where was the owner? Oh, he ran to the bank, I was told. He'll be right back. We don't take refunds. Oh, he said that? I've worked here six months, and they've never taught me how to run a credit-card credit; you'll have to wait. I waited 45 minutes and was late to work.
With a week of use, I realized the case would not hold more than the laptop, except pens and a couple of cords and cables. The name-brand bag was inexpensive yet sturdy and hung comfortably on my shoulder. Maybe I could find another use for it rather than take the time and embarrassment of haggling over a return.
The well-padded tote now securely carries my alto, soprano and tenor recorders in their cases, along with book and sheet music an inch thick. Acoustic, not electric!
Why revive these grudges? Because the trend continues.
Four months ago I bought four tires at Sam's. Week before last, one developed a 3-inch blister in the sidewall; a blowout was imminent. The Sam's garage replaced it on pro-rated warranty, at 34 percent of the original price. Installed in less than an hour.
Last week, my car hit 60,000 miles. For such occasions I treat cars to service at a dealer. Besides all the usual components of this "major" tune-up, my owner's manual calls for replacing the timing belt, which is costly.
Dealer A quoted me $300 and Dealer B $375. Both have good reputations, well, for dealer service departments, so the low bid won.
Two hours after it was dropped off, the guy at Dealer A phones to say that for my model the $300 standard tune-up should be $410. Plus an additional $400 for the belt replacement. I tell him to wait.
Would Dealer B have dealt me that? I called. There the belt would be $325 extra, which he, too, should have said when I first called with my model and year.
I had told both garages the year and model. Wouldn't their computers or binder of estimates have spit back the particulars?
Well, $700 is better than $810. I reported my research to Dealer A's service rep. He quickly agreed to match Dealer B.
Yet, if I wanted to haggle with dealers, I would have bought a whole damn car.
Wouldn't you like to favor the "little" guy? So would I. But business is not charity. If they can't be square, they deserve real competition.
Thank goodness there's still 142 shopping days until Christmas.


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All types but anything that is healthy and must be halal.
Not as much as i would have liked.
Good company, nice weather and some form of entertainment.
An angel with a beautiful soul.