Immediate management if a person or others are in danger or at risk!
o Remove distractions and secure all exits.
o Remove person/s from potential danger – includes all other people in the vicinity.
o If the issue is related to the attendance of another person, remove them immediately from view.
o Remain calm and relaxed – smile, be gentle.
o Establish non-threatening eye contact and do not break this contact.
o Use the person's name or their preferred title.
o Be respectful and reassure.
o Validate the persons reality at all times.
o Speak clearly in short sentences or use body language and gestures if the person is unable to comprehend verbal speech.
o Distract with favourite items if possible – food, cup of tea, go for a walk etc.
o Avoid the use of restraint/chemical restraint unless in case of catastrophic reactions ONLY!
Remember, no-one likes to feel they have lost control over their own lives, and most of us do not wish to be controlled by others who tell us we must act in a certain way or do things their way.
Many of us immediately jump into defence mode if this occurs, so why, when someone living with dementia does the very same, do we label them once again?
To make it worse, we may also become frustrated and angry with a person living with dementia when they are attempting to communicate through behavioural expression, hence we may at times create a catastrophic situation by exacerbating the current state of affairs by OUR own behaviour.
"It is our behaviour, mood and opinions that will regulate the behaviour, moods and opinions of others".
Purpose is central to our life in regard to how we perceive ourselves within the world, and how we maintain our sense of self.
This includes the need to be accepted and valued.
It may be argued, that by assisting a person living with dementia to survive in a world that is constantly changing, we should begin focusing on what they can do instead of what they can't.
This would involve understanding who they are and were, and what they need in life to maintain their spirit. Hence, we may then develop a more intuitive and accurate understanding of their individual needs.
Dementia damages brain cells, however it does not damage a person's humanity, nor the necessity to communicate, feel, continue relationships with others, and to feel appreciated and 'affirmed' as a complete being in the current moment.
Losing one's memory doesn't mean losing oneself or the people one cares for.
"Caregivers who understand a person's cognitive boundaries, and provide care respecting the preferences of the person living with dementia, in ways that least exhausts their capabilities, are best able to minimise or avert behavioural expression and the negativity associated with it".
Many stress related behaviours occur frequently because WE discount the differing reality of the people we are supposed to be caring for.
Advocating a solution, and providing a supportive community, may be the catalyst to those living with dementia living life with a greater sense of wellbeing.
Hence, the following strategies are general, and MUST be personalised to meet the individual and explicit needs of every single individual.
o Respect the person and his/her personal space, always ask permission from a person before entering his/her space and before carrying out any care.
o Approach in calm/non-confronting manner and maintain non-threatening eye contact.
o Provide adequate explanation regarding care procedures and avoid complex instruction.
o Speak clearly and in short sentences.
o Offer reassurance and validation.
o Offer choices whenever possible (promote autonomy) and respect the persons preference.
o Speak to the person in a gentle and low tone of voice.
o Do not continue with the care routine if this has contributed to stress; leave and come back later. o Listen to grievances respectfully and be aware of non-verbal body language.
o Discuss long term/past experiences that relive joy/share memories.
o Modify activities if too complex.
o Continuity of care and caregivers.
o Alleviate boredom and loneliness.
o DO NOT force or rush.
o Understand the type of dementia and the progression.
o Assess for, and rule out, acute delirium, depression, pain, and any other conditions that may be creating discomfort or despair and ensure this is well managed and treated.
o Ensure well hydrated; ensure intake satisfactory; ensure all clinical needs met.
o Avoid use of chemical restraint unless in catastrophic circumstances. This includes sedatives, anti-psychotics and other medications that are used for issues that do NOT require medicating.
NB: we do not medicate people to make our lives easier or because we do not understand their differences.
Resolution and/or effective management of these medical issues may successfully reduce/prevent behavioural expression.
o Eliminate physical cause for behaviour – e.g. boredom, lack of insight, medication, physical ailment.
o Cease doing whatever appears to be associated with the behaviour e.g. changing, dressing, rushing, activity disliked. o Remove any external distractions that seem irritating or causes anxiety.
o Provide appropriate activity program related to the persons choices and preferences.
o Rest and recuperation times in between activity so as not to overwhelm, create unfair expectation and cause overtiredness.
Imagine walking into a room where you are staying and not recognising anything at all, as well as not knowing where you are, why you are there and who all these strange faces are around you.
Getting used to living with a large group of people you don't know is quite a change for someone who may have only ever lived with their immediate family, or alone, for a long period of time.
New or changed environments can be extremely intimidating, overwhelming and frightening to a person living with dementia.
o Prior to admission bring in old furniture, and personal and sentimental items, that may immediately make a person feel at home. Family members can assist with this.
o Do not encourage family to purchase new clothing as this may confuse a person living with dementia.
Not only may they become confused in the new and alien environment, with all the strange people, but they may be more distressed if they don't recognise their clothes, may be resistive to wearing them, and may not believe that the clothes belong to them. If they do not recognise their own clothing they will not believe they are supposed to be there and want to leave.
o Avoid moving furniture around a person's room as this may be confusing or make it more difficult for the person to get used to their environment.
o Set the room up if possible in the same way the persons room may have been at home.
NB: A person who gets into someone else's bed may just be searching for the room that is as close to how their room and bed were placed at home, OR they may be used to sleeping with someone and are searching for that comfort and familiarity. It is not necessarily invasive.
o Avoid clutter, as this could be unsafe and distracting for a person. Chaos in an environment can be overstimulating as well.
o Ensure a person always has their own personal space and privacy, as removing this from anyone's life is disrespectful and can have a negative influence on how they perceive themselves.
o Ensure there is always decent lighting and no glare.
Darkness and glare can confuse and unsettle a person with dementia and they may not want to walk around if they do not feel comfortable, or the light confuses them. E.g. Slat blinds can look like stairs and cause falls. Shiny floors can look like puddles that cannot be navigated.
o Temperature control needs to be considered so a person is comfortable and not too hot or cold. We all get grumpy when we are too hot or cold.
o Never physically restrain any person – this is considered abuse.
Remember that shutting a door on someone who cannot open it is classified as environmental 'restraint'.
o Consistency and regularity of staff provides a more relaxing and secure environment.
o Provision of safe areas for 'happy' strolling and walking – going for a stroll is NOT considered a behaviour when a person is content.
o Keypads for areas of risk.
o Encourage going for a visit, or a walk to places that are familiar – parks/beaches/sitting under a favourite tree/going to places that are meaningful.
Staff need to ensure they do not push a person to always be amongst people all of the time, as it can be difficult adjusting to loads of people, or crowds, especially when you are unused to that amount of activity around you.
It can also be very frustrating, irritating, disconcerting and confusing.
Quiet time is something we all need, and we must always consider how exhausting it is to be around people all of the time. Remember, over stimulation, is just as destructive as too little stimulation.
Therefore, loud noises, clattering of dishes, TV's and radio's, conversation, staff rushing around, and increased activity, can overstimulate to the stage where a person can feel quite overwhelmed by all the additional input.
Over stimulation can cause people to completely shut down, because it is too excessive for a person to manage when they have cognitive changes. It may increase confusion, and precipitate restlessness, anxiety and agitation, and heighten stress.
Imagine yourself, going to the mall, during school holidays, surrounded by screaming kids, yelling mothers, people rushing, everything flashing, crowds pushing and shoving!
Personally, just the thought if that makes me want to scream and hold my head, or possibly punch something.
Now imagine living with dementia, having a lowered stress threshold, a sore knee maybe from your chronic arthritis; you may be a little breathless from exertion and the long walk from the car. But no one considers this because you always USED to like to go to the mall for a coffee!!!!!!
Now, consider the new insight provided about stress related responses, and lowered stress thresholds, and question the damage this crazy environment may cause?
I do believe I have made my point!
o Ensure noise levels are balanced with all combinations of sounds kept to a minimum. Remember that sensory stimulation is fabulous through hearing, but not when it's a hotchpotch of different sounds.
o Try and reduce rushing around and yelling across the room when caring for a person.
o Don't slam doors as it frightens a person.
o Don't raise your voice when someone has a hearing deficit – this distorts sound and, additionally APPEARS like you are yelling or even angry.
o Have only one appliance going at a time – so if the TV is on, don't confuse the fact by also having a radio going.
o If music is playing, then it needs to be the type of music that the person likes to listen to.
o If a person is used to eating with only their family, do not seat them on a large table with too many people, as this will cause confusion and increased stress levels, as well as become a distraction.
When distracted a person is likely to not eat, as there is too much going on around them. This can then impact intake.


Public Hearing before the Planning Commission on February 21, 7:00 pm at the Gordon Building - 112 West Main St. Orange, VA.
In 2006, Signature Series LLC proposed to rezone 75.8 acres from Agricultural (A) to multifamily residential (R-4) and general commercial (C-2), allowing for 230 townhomes and some 240,000 ft2 of commercial retail. The proffers associated with that proposal were $7,000 less than what our proffer policy calls for. Proffers are offered by a developer to a county to offset the costs for infrastructure (schools, fire, police, etc.). Now, some 6-1/2 years after being denied that request, they are proposing roughly the same speculative rezoning request. Only this time, they are asking the citizens to pony up and subsidize their potential profits at even a greater rate.
Relatively little has changed with the design offered from 2006. The proposal still includes 230 townhomes. At 220,000ft2 the commercial retail portion has shrunk a bit, down 20,000ft2 from the original proposal. But the layout and implications are pretty much the same.
In addition to the townhomes, the proposal includes 74,000ft2 of specialty retail, 120,000ft2 shopping center, 22,400ft2 of high turn-over sit down restaurants, and a 3,200ft2 dive-in bank. The applicant is proffering design standards, but with no real details. But we do see details regarding setbacks of structures - only 100 feet from Route 3 and 50 feet from Route 708. This type of design offers little in the way of meaningful contribution to the character of our growth area and falls outside of the focus area of the recent Wilderness Gateway Study.
The original proffers from 2006 included land for a 5,000ft2 county building, $2.3 million dollars or $9,819 per townhome and an additional $500,000 was proffered towards county schools. This proposal includes the land for the 5,000ft2 county building (shown on the design as a police station). But that is where the similarities in proffers stop. The applicant states the townhomes will produce 42 students and suggests the cost to the county is $4,590 per student. They offer $187,500 ($1,500 per unit for the first 125 units) as the total cash proffer for the impact. That is more than $4.2 million dollars short of the identified costs to the county. This cost would be borne by Orange County residents.
The County has been participating in the Wilderness Gateway Study and has recently embraced the study, at least in concept. The Study was an effort to seek balance on both the type and location of future development in the Route 3 growth area in a manner that was protective of the County's largest draw for tourism – the Wilderness Battlefield. It also offered information and guidance on the opportunities for commercial growth for the future. The study focused residential and commercial development in a town center. Though several concepts have been discussed in that arena, none demonstrated this level of growth at that end of the County. Furthermore, the study provided data on retail opportunities. It concluded that the new Walmart would soak up most of the future potential over the next twenty years, leaving less than 8,000ft2 of retail opportunity over that time. This proposal is for twenty times that number and of the type that would detract from the overall plan to strengthen the corridor by creating an environment that is attractive both to residents and new business. This type of development is a detriment to the existing community and the future of the growth area as a whole.
Please attend the hearing on the 21 st and urge the Planning Commission reject this speculative request. We will be following this application closely and will alert you of any changes.


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Exclusive: Warner Music Group Gets Back Together–Very Cautiously–With Imeem
June 15, 2009 at 11:58 am PT
Just a few weeks after a very public breakup, Warner Music Group and Imeem are getting back together again.
Warner, which told investors last month that it had written off the $16 million it had invested in the Web music start-up, plus another $4 million in debt, has made a new deal with the company and will get another slug of equity. The big difference: This time, Warner isn't cutting Imeem a check.
Instead, Warner will get more equity in Imeem in exchange for a renegotiated licensing deal that is supposed to 1) give Imeem a better chance of being able to pay Warner for use of its music and 2) reduce the amount of cash Imeem does pay out to Warner every quarter.
Both companies declined to comment. But multiple sources familiar with the transaction say it was tied to a funding round that Imeem just closed, a follow-up to the emergency money it took on earlier this spring. In total, I'm told, Imeem will have raised an additional $6.5 million this spring. No word on which investors ponied up cash.
But I do know that it wasn't Warner Music Group (WMG), which already had to tell investors that the $20 million it put into the company previously was worthless. Warner still holds the shares it has written off, but it wasn't going to pony up any more cash in the recapitalization.
So why make another deal with Imeem at all? The positive spin is that Warner's earlier write-down was simply an accounting requirement, and that Warner really does like the streaming music company. I'm not sure how much enthusiasm Warner really has for Imeem, but at this point, taking a flier on the company is a no-risk bet: Instead of throwing good money after bad, Warner only has to give it access to its digital music catalog, which doesn't cost the company a cent, and won't show up on its books.
Best case scenario: Imeem survives and Warner's stake is worth something again some day.
And if you want to be optimistic, the really good news here could be for the battered online music business in general, which has struggled to figure a model that works. Up to now, no one except Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN) has been able to figure out how to make a business out of providing music over the Web–in large part because of the music labels' insistence on unworkable payment structures.
You could argue that this isn't the labels' problem, it's the start-ups' problem, and they shouldn't have gotten into the business in the first place. But now that they're in it, the labels can try to keep them alive or pull the plug entirely. Looks like they think they're better off keeping them around.
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Lieutenant U.S.:If I Kill This Thing We're All Going To Eat For A Wee
Foos bassist goes it alone and treads a very different path.
By Hannah May Kilroy
Lieutenant might be a solo endeavour from Foo Fighters bassist Nate Mendel, but anyone expecting the bouncy rock associated with his day job may be disappointed. While the Foos are known for their zany humour, Mendel always gave the impression of being the wallflower of the band, and If I Kill This furthers this assumption.
The album has alt.rock guests from bands such as Modest Mouse and Mendel's now-defunct Sunny Day Real Estate, but the music is softer, more drawn to the airier end of the indie spectrum.
There are jangly twangs of folk and prog, and the songs occasionally veer into rockier territory with sunny vibes, and in particular, there are echoes of The Shins and The Alan Parsons Project. Mendel's soft vocals set the tone and tempo, but his voice is so unassuming that it veers on passive and sounds like it's presented almost with a shrug.
There is skill on display, but the album is unlikely to progress beyond background music./o:p
Hannah May Kilroy
Hannah May Kilroy has been writing about music professionally for over a decade, covering everything from extreme metal to country. She was deputy editor at Prog magazine for over five years, and previously worked on the editorial teams at Terrorizer and Kerrang!. She currently works as the production editor for The Art Newspaper, and also writes for the Guardian, Classic Rock and Metal Hammer.
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Posted on March 12, 2020 by Gerald Barnett
Famiya Masood, a columnist for The Nation, an English-language Pakistani newspaper and law student at Northwestern University, has published an article that argues that Pakistan needs more patents from its government-funded research. Well, perhaps. But she gets Bayh-Dole wrong on the law and doesn't consider the effects of the law in the United States. So let's do some of that for her.
Masood argues that the Higher Education Commission funds university faculty research but that research "hardly ever translates into inventions that are eventually patented." Is that true? I don't know. But let's say it is–that funded research does not result in inventions, and the inventions aren't patented. Is either thing necessarily bad? There's an argument that if basic scientific research results in patentable inventions, it isn't basic enough. That argument misses the point that even basic scientific research relies on the development of new research tools–instrumentation and apparatus and sensors and methods of analysis that may well be inventive. Even so, what's the point of seeking to exclude others in using new research tools? If a discovery is based on the use of such a tool, then won't its independent evaluation by other scientists also require the use of that same tool? Or must evaluation by others wait two decades or until someone can design around the tool–making its patent worthless?
Ah, but then we hit "dual use" thinking. Even if an invention is made freely available for research work, folks should be patenting these inventions for non-research applications. There's something to that argument. But what that something is depends on not whether there are patents but rather on what one does with the right to exclude all others from using the claimed inventions.
The purpose of government intervention, one would think, would be to promote use of new good things by Pakistani citizens and companies. Many things that are inventive, even patentable, are not necessarily good things. They may not work as claimed in the real world. They may not be any better than what is available already. They may be more expensive to make or less durable or harder to use or toxic or rely on proprietary rights no one can get permission to use. It's not good public policy for a government to demand that citizens use inventions simply because inventions! patents! That way lies bureaucratic madness. Folks use stuff because they find their own reasons to use it. A patent does not create a legal requirement that people use the claimed invention. Quite the opposite, a patent creates a legal requirement that people cannot use the claimed invention, but for the permission of the holder of the patent on that invention. Massood clearly understands this much. Here's her argument:
Getting a patent provides a negative right whereby it entitles the patent owner to exclude others i.e. it permits them to prevent the use of their inventions by third parties who have not paid for its use.
But preventing people from using is exactly the opposite of what the public policy would appear to put out as its objective. If the problem was that every time university researchers invented, people rushed in to use their inventions and the university researchers never got compensated for doing more research and the primary means for doing any more research was that compensation, then there would be a problem. But university researchers get compensated based on the new projects they propose. So no matter what they invent, and how it is used, their next bit of funding comes from their next proposed project. If an invention is popular, then perhaps their next proposed project will involve that invention. But if the Higher Education Commission doesn't fund projects based on the popularity of the results of past projects, then there's your policy disconnect. If the HEC focuses on "cutting-edge research," then building on past results is so much cutting edge any more. A researcher, having invented, then is faced with moving on to find some other cutting-edge research to do, or giving up on HEC funding and following the past results, maybe by jumping to industry or becoming an entrepreneur or working for consulting fees. Maybe a nonprofit steps in to fund more work involving those past inventions.
But Masood imagines that patent monopolies in Pakistan are the needed incentive:
Using the right to exclude[,] the patentee can commercialize their invention in return for monetary benefits.
If no one is using the invention anyway, there's no one to exclude and no need of a patent. If the patentee is the inventor, then perhaps the inventor gains some opportunity to work on the invention without anyone using it first. If the inventor works the invention, then presumably there is a public benefit–the invention produces something the public desires, or the invention is embedded in a product the public may purchase. Embedded in "commercialize" is this notion of working the patent. But if "commercialize" also includes "selling patent rights to speculators" or "trolling industry for fees after they have adopted," then again things are headed down the wrong policy road.
Surely Masood's argument is not that Pakistan lacks adequate speculation on the future value of its sponsored research outputs. It appears that Masood is concerned that publicly funded university research is not producing desired good things for the public. That is a worthy concern. But she mistakes the Bayh-Dole propaganda for fact, and thus argues that if university patent autocracy in the US results in massive innovation and public benefit (which is not Bayh-Dole and hasn't happened, despite the political spin), then Pakistan should do something similar:
Where the researchers have the incentive to have a patent over the eventual product of their research, only then they would be able to reap the commercial benefits of their invention otherwise the incentive to innovate would continue to lack despite the funding.
In the US, an inventor owns the invention he or she makes unless and until the inventor bargains away rights. The patent system itself is the incentive an inventor must consider with regard to whether to use the patent system and if so, how to use the patent system, and even if the inventor chooses not to use the patent system, how next to act with regard to anything inventive. Inventors might reap commercial benefits of their inventions merely be not publishing them and getting paid as consultants to disclose them to companies willing to pay.
The patent system is set up to act as a balance on such dealing in trade secrets. By publishing an invention for all, the patent system breaks down trade secret activity. In exchange for publication, the patentee gets a limited time to exclude others, subject to a working requirement (but not so in the US, where there is no working requirement, except for Bayh-Dole subject inventions, but even there the working requirements are not enforced). But if that right to exclude others isn't particularly useful, then a trade secret approach turns out to offer a greater incentive to inventors who are motivated to seek their compensation from commercial dealings.
But if university inventors are researchers who have chosen a university career, and they get compensated for their service via salary and government grants, then they may well have no interest in getting more compensation from commercializing in any form, whether with patents or trade secret or otherwise. Even if it were true, generally, that getting patents meant commercialization and that in turn meant getting paid significant money, we might find that university researchers would not necessarily think that getting paid that significant money was a worthy goal. All the more so, these researchers may find that chasing commercial dollars is a distraction, or even compromises their research, or creates conflicts of interests such that they come to distrust the motives and publications of other researchers, who they might suspect of hype or holding back key information or standing ready to steal and cheat and distort research working, all for extra dollars.
And if university researchers go about doing any examination of patent commercialization from universities in the US–say, by sending email to their research colleagues–they will find that mostly the idea of invention-patent-exclusive license-commercial product-significant money is a fantasy. It happens once a decade at elite and lucky universities, one invention in 1,000 maybe, and even then the big money does not necessarily flow in because a patent was obtained. The money may come from an equity position in a startup that was successful with something else, not within the claims of the patent on the licensed invention. Or the same money would have come in based on copyrights or rights in data or access to a distinctive expertise. Not necessarily a patent or an invention or exclusive control. With such information, a heads-up researcher based in Pakistan might well conclude that spending time on patents and excluding others and recruiting a company to take an exclusive license just isn't worth it. Hundreds to thousands of hours will be wasted chasing money that won't happen.
If the researchers have to pay for the patent work personally, then that's all the more reason to ignore the patent business. If the condition that a university pays for the patent work is that it must own and control the invention, then the researcher gives up personal access–not just control–of the invention in exchange for essentially nothing–for the idea that the university might, if it got its act together, or got unusually lucky, license the invention for money and share some portion of that money at some time down the road–likely years down the road, and unlikely to be much money. Why would anyone in their right mind make that deal? We might find, even, that if a university or government offered university inventors the full net present value of their invention upfront–that is, paid inventors at the time they assigned their share of what the university or government expected the invention was worth in commercial hands later, even then we might find university inventors rejecting the deal–either to publish the invention and preclude money grubbing or to deal the invention themselves rather than settle for a small portion of a big amount handled by university administrators who may or may not be bunglers.
We can put it this way. A patent might provide cover for investment in creating commercial product. But it also can prevent research use and prevent use by professionals and companies where the investment required for personal or internal company use is minimal. The cost to scale up mass production, to make a product with all the compromises of use, safety, durability, shelf-life, competitive price, features, compatibility, and the like are often much greater than the costs of personal or internal use. The cost to create a disease diagnostic kit as a commercial product is often much greater than the cost to a laboratory medicine clinic to implement the same diagnostic test based on a published account of the test. A patent used exclusively might enable the prospect of future effort toward commercialization but also block immediate use. That's a strange trade-off for public policy to want.
We must distinguish, then, making and using an invention from mass production sales. If the public policy goal is beneficial use, then this distinction is all the more important. There is nothing to argue, in the general case, that making and using an invention must be prevented if there is ever to be mass production. There are many cases in which mass production follows from local making and using. Local making and using–whether in research or for professional purposes or within companies but not for sale–is often a good sign that something is ripe for mass production. One moves through local use to establish the rationale for mass production. To prevent such local use raises the perceived risk of creating a mass market product, and that in turn selects for dealing with speculators willing to take the greater risk (or at least mouth words supporting greater risk environments, music to university administrators' ears). The risk of success increases as a direct response to the action to use a patent to exclude all immediate making and using. So much for "high risk, high reward" talk. That "high risk" is not a function of the invention but of the administrative behavior that uses patents to exclude early adoption and use without regard for mass production.
If the problem was that Pakistan-based university researchers were producing lots of inventions that were getting used by Pakistani researchers, professionals, and companies, but everyone had to make their own, as a craft industry, and no one was bothering to standardize or mass produce to lower cost and broaden availability to those who could not make their own, then we would see a very different public policy issue. It would not be inventing or public use, but something about destroying craft industry in favor of mass manufacturing. Or at least pushing craft industry to the top end, where it is with fashion, architecture, and high tech prototyping. That's a different–worthwhile–public policy discussion, but no one will get to it by treating patents and licenses and commercialization as abstractions without structure.
If the public policy goal is strictly the movement of research results directly into the hands of people dedicated to mass production, even if that means the research community is denied further access and no one is permitted to use the invention, even if they easily could, so that speculators might perceive a better market to exploit than otherwise, then we have the government using its power to create a tyranny of patent speculators.
Perhaps even a tyranny of patent speculators looks good to a country that believes it lacks a desired manufacturing base. Certainly patent speculators might welcome a move to use laws to force research results toward their hands–as has been the case in the US. While a government might reason that even patent speculators might be a means to develop more domestic industry, it should not for a moment think that doing so is plausible because they mistake US propaganda about patent speculation as fact. They will have to do their own thinking, based on the evidence they are willing to give credence.
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Los fundamentos de la aritmética () es un libro de Gottlob Frege, publicado en 1884, que investiga los fundamentos filosóficos de la aritmética. Frege refuta otras teorías de números y desarrolla su propia teoría. El libro también ayudó a motivar los trabajos posteriores de Frege en el logicismo. El libro no fue bien recibido y no fue muy leído cuando se publicó. Sin embargo, atrajo la atención de Bertrand Russell y Ludwig Wittgenstein, quienes estaban fuertemente influenciados por la filosofía de Frege.

Críticas de otras teorías de números

Psicologismo de las matemáticas.
Frege se opone a cualquier explicación de las matemáticas basada en el psicologismo, es decir, que las matemáticas y los números son relativos a los pensamientos subjetivos de las personas que piensan en ellos. Según Frege, los relatos psicológicos apelan a lo subjetivo, mientras que las matemáticas son puramente objetivas: las matemáticas son completamente independientes del pensamiento humano. Las entidades matemáticas, según Frege, tienen propiedades objetivas independientemente de que los humanos las piensen: no es posible pensar en las afirmaciones matemáticas como algo que evolucionó naturalmente a lo largo de la historia y la evolución de la humanidad. Ve una distinción fundamental entre la lógica (y su extensión, según Frege, matemáticas) y la psicología. La lógica explica los hechos necesarios, mientras que la psicología estudia ciertos procesos de pensamiento en las mentes individuales.

Immanuel Kant
Frege apreció mucho el trabajo de Immanuel Kant. Lo critica principalmente porque las afirmaciones numéricas no son juicios sintéticos a priori, sino analíticos a priori. Kant afirma que 7 + 5 = 12 es una declaración sintética no comprobable. No importa cuánto analicemos la idea de 7 + 5, no encontraremos allí la idea de 12. Debemos llegar a la idea de 12 mediante la aplicación a objetos en la intuición. Kant señala que esto se vuelve más claro con números más grandes. Frege, precisamente en este punto, argumenta en dirección opuesta. Kant asume erróneamente que en una proposición que contiene números "grandes" debemos contar puntos o algo así para afirmar su valor de verdad. Frege sostiene que sin tener intuición alguna hacia ninguno de los números en la siguiente ecuación: 654.768 + 436.382 = 1.091.150, sin embargo, podemos afirmar que es cierto. Esto se proporciona como evidencia de que tal proposición es analítica. Si bien Frege acepta que la geometría es sintética a priori, la aritmética debe ser analítica.

John Stuart Mill
Frege critica rotundamente el empirismo de John Stuart Mill. Afirma que la idea de Mill de que los números corresponden a las diversas formas de dividir colecciones de objetos en subcolecciones es inconsistente con la confianza en los cálculos que involucran números grandes. También niega que la filosofía de Mill trate adecuadamente el concepto de cero. Continúa argumentando que la operación de adición no puede entenderse como una referencia a cantidades físicas, y que la confusión de Mill en este punto es un síntoma de un problema mayor de confusión de las aplicaciones de la aritmética para la aritmética misma.

Desarrollo del punto de vista de Frege sobre los números.
Frege hace una distinción entre afirmaciones numéricas particulares como 1 + 1 = 2 y afirmaciones generales como a + b = b + a. Las últimas son afirmaciones verdaderas de los números tan bien como las primeras. Por lo tanto, es necesario solicitar una definición del concepto de número en sí. Frege investiga la posibilidad de que el número se determine en cosas externas. Demuestra cómo funcionan los números en el lenguaje natural como adjetivos. "Este escritorio tiene 5 cajones" tiene una forma similar a "Este escritorio tiene cajones verdes". El hecho de que los cajones sean verdes es un hecho objetivo, basado en el mundo externo. Pero este no es el caso con 5. Frege sostiene que cada cajón está en su propio color verde, pero no cada cajón es 5.  Frege nos urge a recordar que de esto no se sigue que los números puedan ser subjetivos. De hecho, los números son similares a los colores al menos en que ambos son completamente objetivos. Frege nos dice que podemos convertir declaraciones numéricas donde las palabras numéricas aparecen adjetivamente (por ejemplo, 'hay cuatro caballos') en declaraciones donde los términos numéricos aparecen como términos singulares ('el número de caballos es cuatro').  Frege recomienda tales traducciones porque toma los números como objetos. No tiene sentido preguntar si algún objeto está bajo 4. Después de que Frege da algunas razones para pensar que los números son objetos, concluye que las declaraciones de números son afirmaciones sobre conceptos.

Frege considera que esta observación es el pensamiento fundamental de Grundlagen . Por ejemplo, la frase "el número de caballos en el establo es cuatro" significa que cuatro objetos caen bajo el concepto de caballo en el establo . Frege intenta explicar nuestra comprensión de los números a través de una definición contextual de la operación de cardinalidad ('el número de ...', o   ). Intenta construir el contenido de un juicio que involucra identidad numérica basándose en el principio de Hume (que establece que el número de Fs es igual al número de Gs si y solo si F y G son equinuméricos, es decir, en una correspondencia uno a uno).  Rechaza esta definición porque no fija el valor de verdad de las declaraciones de identidad cuando un término singular que no tiene la forma 'el número de Fs' flanquea el signo de identidad. Frege continúa dando una definición explícita de número en términos de extensiones de conceptos, pero expresa algunas dudas.

La definición de Frege de un número.
Frege argumenta que los números son objetos y afirman algo acerca de un concepto. Frege define los números como extensiones de conceptos. 'El número de F''' se define como la extensión del concepto, G es un concepto que es equinumérico a F. El concepto en cuestión conduce a una clase de equivalencia de todos los conceptos que tienen el número de F (incluida F). Frege define 0 como la extensión del concepto que no es auto-idéntico . Entonces, el número de este concepto es la extensión del concepto de todos los conceptos que no tienen objetos que caigan debajo de ellos. El número 1 es la extensión de ser idéntico a 0.

 Legado
El libro fue fundamental en el desarrollo de dos disciplinas principales, los fundamentos de las matemáticas y la filosofía. Aunque Bertrand Russell más tarde encontró un defecto importante en el trabajo de Frege (este defecto se conoce como la paradoja de Russell, que se resuelve mediante la teoría de conjuntos axiomáticos ), el libro fue influyente en desarrollos posteriores, como Principia Mathematica. El libro también puede considerarse el punto de partida en la filosofía analítica, ya que gira principalmente en torno al análisis del lenguaje, con el objetivo de aclarar el concepto de número. Los puntos de vista de Frege sobre las matemáticas son también un punto de partida en la filosofía de las matemáticas, ya que presenta una cuenta innovadora sobre la epistemología de los números y las matemáticas en general, conocida como el lógismo.

 Contenidos
El texto se divide en cinco capítulos, que se dividen en ciertos encabezados o temas (enunciados como preguntas o afirmaciones), y luego en 109 secciones.

 Opiniones de ciertos escritores sobre la naturaleza de las proposiciones aritméticas.
 ¿Las fórmulas numéricas son demostrables? (§5-8)
 Son la ley de las verdades inductivas aritméticas (§9-11)
 ¿Las leyes de la aritmética son sintéticas a priori o analíticas? (§12-17)
 Opiniones de ciertos escritores sobre el concepto de Número. (§18-20)
 ¿Es el número una propiedad de cosas externas? (§21-25)
 ¿Es el número algo subjetivo? (§26-27)
 La teoría de conjuntos del número (§28)
 Opiniones sobre la unidad y uno.
 ¿Expresa la palabra "uno" una propiedad de los objetos? (§29-33)
 ¿Son las unidades idénticas entre sí? (§34-39)
 Intenta superar la dificultad. (§40-44)
 Solución de la dificultad. (§45-54)
 El concepto de número
 Cada número individual es un objeto auto-subsistente. (§55-61)
 Para obtener el concepto de Número, debemos arreglar el sentido de una identidad numérica. (§62-69)
 Nuestra definición completada y su valor comprobado (§71-83)
 Números infinitos. (§84-86)
 Conclusión (§87-91)
 Otros números. (§92-109)

 Véase también

 Ley Básica V
 Fundacionalismo
 Giro lingüístico

 Ediciones

 Gottlob Frege (1884).  Breslau: Verlage Wilhelm Koebner.

 Referencias

 Fuentes

 The Foundations of Arithmetic. A logico-mathematical enquiry into the concept of number'' (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1950) by Gottlob Frege, translated by J. L. Austin.

 On Frege's criticism of Mill:

Enlaces externos

 Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik en el Proyecto Gutenberg

 Edición gratuita en alemán del texto completo.

 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "Frege's Theorem and Foundations for Arithmetic" by Edward Zalta.

 Peter Suber, Geometry and Arithmetic are Synthetic, 2002.

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Christine Lagarde said more work to fix the financial system was still required, particularly on gender diversity. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
'If it was Lehman Sisters, it would be a different world' – Christine Lagarde
IMF head says the male domination of banking could lead to another financial crisis
Richard Partington
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Christine Lagarde has said male domination of the banking industry made the collapse of Lehman Brothers more likely, as she urged further reforms to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis triggered by its failure a decade ago.
Writing on the IMF blog ahead of the 10th anniversary of the US investment bank's collapse next week, the head of the International Monetary Fund said significant measures had been taken to fix the financial system, although she warned more work was still required, particularly on gender diversity.
"As I have said many times, if it had been Lehman Sisters rather than Lehman Brothers, the world might well look a lot different today," she said.
The chief executives and chairs of Britain's four biggest banks are all male, while the proportion of female board directors at companies across the wider FTSE-100 ranking of major British firms is in decline. There are, however, exceptions, such as at Santander UK, where Shriti Vadera is chair, and Virgin Money, where both the chair and chief executive are female.
Research from the IMF shows a higher proportion of women on the boards of banks and financial supervision agencies is associated with greater stability. Lagarde called the collapse of Lehman Brothers a "sobering lesson in groupthink" that many economists had failed to spot coming. In this context, she said a key ingredient of reform would be more female leadership in finance.
"Greater diversity always sharpens thinking, reducing the potential for groupthink," she said, adding: "This very diversity also leads to more prudence, and less of reckless decision-making that provoked the crisis."
The failure of Lehman Brothers, which was one of the oldest and biggest investment banks in the world before its humiliating demise, triggered a ripple effect in the global financial system as banks around the world stopped lending to one another for fear they might not get their money back.
"In the immediate aftermath of Lehman, we were really staring into the abyss," Lagarde said, calling the collapse a "holy cow" moment for the world economy.
Governments in the US and Europe stepped in with taxpayers' money to bailout struggling lenders, including RBS and Lloyds in the UK, to protect their economies from losing valuable access to finance. There have, however, been lasting effects, as the crisis triggered damaging recessions across the developed world, with severe consequences for living standards still being felt.
Lagarde said the heavy economic costs borne by ordinary people, combined with anger at the bank bailouts and bankers enjoying impunity, was among key factors behind the rise of populism and backlash against globalisation. Economists believe the recession in the UK, government austerity and weak wage growth, coupled with this anger, are among key reasons for the Brexit vote two years ago.
"We have come a long way, but not far enough. The system is safer, but not safe enough. Growth has rebounded but is not shared enough," she added.


DMT or N,N-dimethylTryptamine is a powerful hallucinogenic substance that occurs naturally in plants and animals around the world. It is also referred to as the Spirit Molecule given that it produces profound spiritual states. DMT is also found in the human brain as a neurotransmitter, our blood, urine, and spinal fluid.
You've heard the phrase "I watched my life flash before my eyes", right? Well, a group of researchers wanted to know what it felt like to get as close to death as possible-with the help of a psychedelic drug. DMT can also be ingested in crystal form and, when taken in this manner, can produce a powerful but short-lasting hallucinogenic state. According to new research, a DMT trip can mimic the feeling of almost-dying extremely accurately.
For the first time ever, scientists measured the similarities between a DMT trip and near-death experiences and published their results in the Frontiers in Psychology. The lead author of the study, Christopher Timmermann, and his team used the drug in a controlled research environment to safely induce "Radical shifts in consciousness" and record the experience of each volunteer. Once their trip was over, the 13 volunteers were quizzed on what they saw and felt.
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Album Review: Alcàntara – Solitaire
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Band: Alcàntara | Album: Solitaire | Genre: Progressive rock, Psychedelic rock | Year: 2020
From: Italy | Label: Progressive Gears
For fans of: Pink Floyd, Roger Waters
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Pink Floyd is one of those bands with no shortage of imitators and near-clones. Less-blatant aping and influence are nearly inescapable in modern psychedelia and prog. Pink Floyd had many distinct sounds throughout their career, though, giving modern acts plenty of material to draw inspiration from. Alcànatara—a quintet hailing from Italy—is one of those acts that doesn't try to hide their Floydian roots.
I tried to think of other acts to list in the "For fans of" section of the review header, but this band draws from late-70s Floyd so clearly, I couldn't think of a more apt recommendation. This is not to call the music here derivative or unoriginal, though. Pink Floyd is a heavy, heavy influence, but I'd never mistake any of these recordings as some discarded track from The Wall's recording sessions.
"Treefingers" opens the album in a slow-building fashion. The sparse percussion and stretched-out guitar lines of the first few minutes eventually give way to a big, Gilmouresque solo in the song's closing minute. In contrast, "Logan" has a more immediate intro. Rich organ tones and vaguely bluesy guitar licks are the focus on this track. The bridge of this composition switches things up in a refreshing manner that draws in some of the melodic tools of indie rock.
Alcàntara dial up the drama on "Bad Bones", where they channel the better moments of The Wall. It's slow-moving and weighty, and the second half features some interesting interplay between the bassist and drummer. Unfortunately, "After the Flood" follows this by opening with some of The Wall's monotony and torpidity. This song is full of obvious homages to the elements of latter-Waters-era Pink Floyd I'm unenthusiastic about; it's plodding, overwrought, and doesn't say or do anything particularly interesting. The weaknesses of The Wall are also covered in "The Resistance", which takes the atmosphere of that album's unspectacular interlude tracks but stretches them out to three minutes.
This record's title track is a brief instrumental which evokes Opeth's best gentle moments and acts as a fitting prelude to the slow, jazz-tinged "Faith". "Faith" features one of the most natural, satisfying build-ups on the record as it gradually escalates into something quite foreboding. The lyrics are trite, but that's forgivable.
The album-closing "Seasons" features another slow build, though it really takes its time to get going. In isolation, that's not much of an issue, but almost every song on Solitaire opens this way. By the midpoint of this song, it's gotten going into an engaging groove with a good guitar solo, though the fadeout is overlong.
Solitaire is an enjoyable record, if a bit too blatantly inspired by The Wall. Alcàntara have room to grow, especially in regard to how they structure their songs. Almost every song starts slow before building to a David Gilmour-style guitar solo, and that structure got predictable and tedious by the album's end. If you're a bigger fan of The Wall or Roger Waters's solo career than I am, this record should be right up your alley. And even if you share my reservations, I'd recommend giving Solitaire a chance.
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If you love these, you'll want to know that Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom have just released new tumblers this week in Walt Disney World. Disneyland and California Adventure debuted their new designs last week, making the collection officially complete.
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Crouching reduces hitlag and knockback by 1/3.
Crouching reduces kb (and therefore hitstun) of any hit regardless of it being set kb or growing kb.
If the move launches the victim into air (i.e it doesn't spike) and it does enough kb, but not too much so that it knocks down, the victim can hard land via ASDI down (which happens naturally when you're holding down for crouch), and all hitstun gets cancelled. So often when you successfully crouch cancel, you'll only have your regular landing lag instead of a considerable period of hitstun, and that is why cc + asdi down is so powerful.
Lasers happen to be so weak that hard landing doesn't occur, which is what SplitsOnTrees meant.
If the jumpsquat of the char is X and you input jump frame 0, then you should input airdodge on frame X.
Thanks for the explanation man. Would it be correct to say that if you're in hitstun but not in tumble in midair, and then while still in hitstun you stand on the ground, you will also be able to act the frame immediately after you land?
Most of the time when you land in hitstun while not in tumble, you'll impact land with only the regular landing lag (4 frames for most of the characters). However sometimes you transition from aerial hitstun into grounded hitstun, like in the case of being hit by falco's laser. I don't know exactly what's the requirement for impact land (@Magus420 ?) during hitstun, but it seems that either kb or overall speed needs to be bigger than some small threshold.
So for my research on the Ganon chaingrab, I am trying to figure out a way to find the maximum DI Falco would use at certain percents right before Ganon would have to start to dash jc grab. Basically, these are percents where if Falco were to fully DI away, Ganon would have to dash jc grab. But if he were to only slight DI Ganon would just grab.
The trouble is I am not sure how to quantify the DI. How many notches of DI are there? Is there a way for me to be 100% sure I'm getting the farthest DI possible for Ganon to be able to stand grab?
"Trajectory DI effect in degrees is the perpendicular distance, squared, then multiplied by 18. DIing Jigglypuff's u-throw [which ejects at 90°] at 0 damage with inputs of 0.7000,0.0000 or 0.7000,0.7000 both result in 0.62238, 4.01108 launch speed on 1st frame of KB, which is an angle change of 8.82 (0.7 * 0.7 * 18) from 90° -> 81.18°."
There are as many "notches" of DI as there are inputs on the control stick. The control stick inputs are all ordered pairs (x,y) such that x,y ∈ ℤ; -80 ≤ x,y ≤ 80; and x^2+y^2 ≤ 6400.
Schmooblidon's knockback calculator also has a DI calculator in it. You can use that to figure out what input would maximally influence your trajectory in a certain direction. The "strength" reading right below the control stick input circle tells you how much of the maximum possible 18° that DI input will cause your trajectory to deviate from the base trajectory, e.g. a strength of 50% would yield a 9° difference from the base trajectory.
Ok so in that calculator, you see how there's a square in the center? If I move the control stick to the right (let's say I'm Falco DIing Ganon's dthrow at 0 degrees) outside of that circle, x jumps from .275 to 1. Is there anything in between that? Because when I boot up an actual copy of Melee and DI with Falco, I'm finding that the amount I tilt my control stick past that little square seems to still affect the KB. It isn't just all or nothing past .275 the way that calculator makes it out to be.
Also, the amount of frames I DI and how far I am DIing on those frames also seems to affect KB.
Ok so in that calculator, you see how there's a square in the center? If I move the control stick to the right (let's say I'm Falco DIing Ganon's dthrow at 0 degrees) outside of that circle, x jumps from .275 to 1. Is there anything in between that?
Click "Simple" to change it to "Precise".
There is only 1 frame on which the game reads your DI, the last frame of hitlag. Further, while in hitstun, you have no control over your character's air drift.
DI doesn't affect KB, only trajectory. You always travel the same distance with the same amount of stun unless you crouch or charge a smash or change some variable that directly increases/decreases KB.
You always travel the same distance with the same amount of stun unless you crouch or charge a smash or change some variable that directly increases/decreases KB.
Except that launch angle does change distance traveled since fall acceleration and speed work against upwards kb, but there's no such effects against horizontal kb.
What about air friction and max air speed?
They do not alter kb velocity to my knowledge. Please let me know if I'm wrong. Kb decay I disregarded since that works against the kb regardless of direction.
Not really a question, but I've read in a few places that the game reads directional inputs in increments of 0.0125 (1/80th).
Nana's directional inputs are actually read in increments of 0.007874 (1/127th) in the positive direction, or 0.0078125 (1/128th) in the negative direction. They are superimposed over 80 degrees of movement, so all possible values end up being TRUNC(x/80*127)/127 for 0 ≤ x ≤ 80. Anybody have any theories for why this might be?
The importance of this are that Nana responds differently than Popo to inputs near the threshold between different actions (what we in the IC boards have been referring to as sensitivity desynchs) because her X/Y directional inputs are slightly different. She also has different movement velocities for walking/aerial drift/etc given the same set of inputs.
Wouldn't the different velocities be a result of her Popo magnet effect where she sort of magically drifts towards him? Or is it something different?
In this case, no. Her initial aerial drift, for example, is correctly predicted by (X directional value)*0.075, the same as Popo's, except that her X directional value is slightly different for any given input.
The force modifies her position on any given frame by 0.05*(Popo's position 6 frames ago - Nana's position on the last frame). It does affect how far she travels during those movement states, as she effectively targets his position 5 frames before (rather than 6 frames before like she should), but the change is calculated independently on every frame. I've found the hex values for her velocity, position, and directional inputs, and velocity is always just a function of initial velocity and acceleration; the force only seems to affect her position.
Is this because the force uses popo's position after movement 6 frames before, but is itself applied and therefore also uses nana's position before movement?
This is what I originally thought, and framed it as ''6 frames before - 1 frame before' for simplicity's sake. However, there is another possibility.
Just as Nana receives inputs and positional information from Popo, she also receives and imitates his direction. When Popo changes direction as the result of a hitbox interaction (which happens at the end of a frame), or an f-smash input, Nana copies his direction 6 frames later. The strange thing is that when Popo changes direction as the result of a turnaround (beginning of the frame), she copies his direction 5 frames later. To me, it almost seems like she's supposed to copy his direction 5 frames later, which means it's also plausible that she's supposed to drift towards his position (pre-movement) 5 frames later.
The strange thing is that when Popo changes direction as the result of a turnaround (beginning of the frame), she copies his direction 5 frames later. To me, it almost seems like she's supposed to copy his direction 5 frames later, which means it's also plausible that she's supposed to drift towards his position (pre-movement) 5 frames later.
Not strange at all to me, it's what I expected tbh. It sounds like popo's position and orientation is stored after movement is done in the frame procession, but before hitbox interactions. F-smash not turning nana 5 frames later seems bit weird, but it can still be explained in the model where position is stored somewhere in the middle of frame procession.
Whether this is all intended or not is a different question of course. To me the difference in orientation change when getting hit and when turning makes the 5 frame delay in drift sound even more like an error. Without knowing the details of how it's all coded, it shouldn't be very hard to make the orientation change to always be 5 or 6 frames. On the other hand, it's such a silly mistake to make that it's perhaps more plausible that it's actually a fix to some behaviour I cannot see. Then again, universal 6 frame delay would fix dd desynch and some other glitches.
Originally I thought all of these things were stored at the same time, and then passed to Nana at the beginning of the frame so that she could interpret the input. However, it makes less sense to me if turning doesn't happen at the end of a frame. In the scenario that you described, she would be receiving his position from 6 frames ago (albeit from a different part of the frame procession), but his orientation from 5 frames ago. To me, there doesn't seem to be more evidence that is the case than that Nana simply receives his position 5 frames earlier from the beginning of the frame as well.
To me, there doesn't seem to be more evidence that is the case than that Nana simply receives his position 5 frames earlier from the beginning of the frame as well.
But if Nana simply takes orientation 5 frames earlier, how do you then explain fsmash / getting hit turning her 6 frames later? My solution to that is that Turn turns popo before his orientation is stored, while hitboxes/attacks would turn popo after the storing.
That was my solution as well. I meant that position could just as well be taken before Popo's position is updated and passed to Nana 5 frames later. If all three attributes were taken 6 frames before, I would be inclined to accept the explanation that Popo's position is recorded after movement, but as we have one thing being passed 6 frames later (input) and another thing being passed 5 frames later (orientation), I see no reason to support one over the other.
Evidence for 1 before 2: I've found hex values for direction that read +1 when a character is facing right and -1 when a character is facing left. During a turning animation, a jump or shield input on any frame where the hex value reads -1 is interpreted as facing left. A jump or shield input on the first right-facing frame is interpreted as facing right. Weaker evidence: When Popo smash turns, Nana's orientation updates 5 frames later; she then interprets the input (what was a smash turn) as a dash because she is already facing in that direction (this evidence is weaker because Nana mechanics don't necessarily generalize to other characters).
Evidence for 2 before 3: Airdodge in place reduces velocity to 0 and freezes position on the same frame. Input on the frame you would slide of a platform/ledge is interpreted as if you were standing on the ground. There is one counterexample, though: Input on the first frame of a jump is interpreted as if you are airborne.
Evidence for 3 before 4: Pretty straightforward to test with hitboxes and moving targets. If a hitbox would connect before velocity is applied, but not after velocity is applied, it misses. When a moving target is hit, velocity is added to position on the first frame of hitlag, and subsequently reduced to 0.
Is it possible that getting hit would make you land where you wouldn't land otherwise? There is a claim on the ganon boards that if you stomp someone out of tumble right before they would land, he'll pop up as if he were grounded and is also unable to tech before getting hit. This seems unlikely to be true to me, just asking to make sure.
Here's what I found playing around. When you're hit by a move, you change animations (obviously) and when you change animations, so does your ECB. If the ECB change would cause you to collide with the ground, the game prevents that. Instead it shifts your character up, moving your TopN to be level with the ground/platform. It looks the same as when you SDI into the ground. The white ECB projection shows your ECB colliding with the ground, but the game doesn't allow that and instead generates the ECB higher off the ground with the TopN bone level with the ground.
This may be different for Jigglypuff, Kirby, and DK, who have the bottom of their ECBs permanently attached to their TopN bone. This means the shift of the TopN bone to be level with the ground would also put the character touching the ground (or maybe only right next to it and not technically a "collision"?). I can't find any setups for it so that I can test For the above paragraph, I tested it by dairing Captain Falcon right before he landed from doing a backwards fullhop NIL on Yoshi's Story. However, for Puff, Kirby, and DK, I can't find any way to have their ECB move downwards upon getting hit. It might not be possible for them with their weird ECBs.
Sycorax So I gather that if you spike a character that's not puff/kirby/dk before a ground collision, the opponent will get spiked onto ground normally instead of bouncing up like grounded characters do? And that it's impossible to take away tech opportunity in that manner.
Oops I forgot to include that. Yes, the opponent will be spiked into the ground normally. This applies for Puff, Kirby, and DK as well (unless someone can find an animation frame where the bottom of the ECB is higher than the Damage* 1 ECB). They will be able to tech (the long hitlag on Ganon's dair is probalby what's causing people to miss techs).
T tauKhan Although the question has already been answered, I've been researching a bunch of stuff related to this.
Doc's Upb for example: Frames 1-3 have doc move downward but he cannot land or grab ledge. Frames 4+ will only allow landing and ledge grabbing if he has downward char velocity. Even if a platform catches him during this phase, he still cannot land unless he has downward velocity.
Hitlag isn't what's preventing it as platform warps can allow the attacker to land during hitlag. It must be the Damage 1 disallowing it, probably to prevent forbidden DI.
In each character's forum, there is a pinned post name "[Character] Hitboxes and Frame Data".
MaxWalkVel, InitWalkVel and WalkAcc can be found on Crazy Hand.
DRAA/DRAB = Dash & Run Acceleration A/B, which can be found on Crazy Hand.
Mewtwo will always have a dash acceleration of 0.1, no matter his Xinput. This means his moonwalks are very reliable and easy to do perfectly.
This can't be right; surely you're missing a term somewhere since with that formula mewtwo couldn't even accelerate backwards at all during dash.
Also pause buffered full input moonwalk goes way further than buffered dash -> diagonal back input one with mewtwo.
Or woteva would give the same result.
What are buffered full input and buffer dash -> diagonal back?
Edit: Oh so you are holding diagonal back the whole time?
So this still applies, so you eventually have to move the stick all the way back to reach the max dash vel in the opposite direction.
That makes sense! So Mewtwo's moonwalk is easier because you have a lot of time to move stick back before your dash speed is close to MaxDashVel with diagonal input.
T tauKhan reminded me recently of this post by Achilles in which he reveals the exact code for the knockback formula. It's hard to read so here's a more legible version.
The formula on top shows the calculation as it appears in the code. The formula on bottom shows the calculation slightly simplified (just the weight term and the KBG are changed).
I'm a little slow to the party (the post is a kinda old), but there is one consequence that I wanted to make sure everyone was aware of. The floored percentage term is not accounted for in @Kadano's knockback calculator Excel spreadsheet. This is easily fixed by changing the formula in cell C8, titled Total Damage, on the Calculation & Data sheet to be "=FLOOR.MATH('Input & Output'!J6)+A8" instead of "='Input & Output'!J6+A8".
The effect this has on calculations is that fractional damage percentage values for the victim don't matter. A move will do the same knockback to a victim at 5% as it would do at 5.999% or 5.5%. This might matter for your calculator app schmooblidon but it seems you can only increment the percent by integer values so I guess it doesn't matter.
If you cancel the shield dropping animation, does that mean I can do whatever I want (like dash around) after? Or does the attack I used to cancel the shield get executed? eg if I just pressed A after shieldstun from powershielding, does that release shield and I can dash, or does it automatically jab?
Also does any have the original magus source for this?
Try looking in the Melee Library next time. It's in there. Ctrl+F for "powershield".
You can only cancel the GuardOff animation with an attack, not with movement, e.g. a dash. You can jump though. But you also have access to all your tilts, smash attacks, and special moves.
Worth mentioning that you can't do a jab / tilt BEHIND you, as that would require entering Turn first. But you can fsmash / sideB backwards.
So that means tilting backwards = # frame for tilt forward + 1 frame for the turnaround, but this doesn't apply to smash attacks?
Yes, the attack itself can turn your char with forward smashes. Turn -> smash is still of course possible.
The grounded A control stick map will show you why this is the case.


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Q: How to make a button that can change background color of a doucment? I would like to make a button that when it's clicked ,the background color of my webpage changes. I have tried already with Javascript & Css but no success! Here's my code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>
            Test
        </title>
        <style>
        .bgcolor1{
            background-color:black;
        }
        .bgcolor2{
            background-color:grey;
        }
        </style>
        <script type="text/javascript">

        </script>
    </head>
    <body class="bgcolor1">
        <button onclick="this.className = 'bgcolor2'">Change COLOUR</button>
    </body>
</html>

As you can see when the user click on the button it should change the class to "bgcolor2" so the background color would be grey but it just changes the background color of the button to grey & not the document!
So how can I change the background color of document with css or js or what's the problem with this code? thx ...

A: <button onclick="document.body.className = 'bgcolor2'">Change COLOUR</button>

this refers to the button and not the body. document.body.className = 'bgcolor2';

A: Simply target document.body.className instead of this; in this scenario, this is a reference to the button itself. Make your onclick attribute as below
onclick="document.body.className='myCustomBGColor'"

where myCustomBGColor is a CSS class.
Here's your final working fiddle

        .bgcolor1{
            background-color:black;
        }
        .bgcolor2{
            background-color:grey;
        }
<body class="bgcolor1">
        <button onclick="document.body.className = 'bgcolor2'">Change COLOUR</button>
</body>

A: use the document.body instead of this

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>
            Test
        </title>
        <style>
        .bgcolor1{
            background-color:black;
        }
        .bgcolor2{
            background-color:grey;
        }
        </style>
        <script type="text/javascript">

        </script>
    </head>
    <body class="bgcolor1">
        <button onclick="document.body.className = 'bgcolor2'">Change COLOUR</button>
    </body>
</html>

A: Try something like this:
HTML
<button onclick="myFunction()">Click me</button>

Javascript
function myFunction(){
    document.body.className = 'bgcolor';
}

CSS
.bgcolor{
    background:red;
}

DEMO

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