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With an overload of action, this movie proves that more is not always better, and that lots of violence without creative choreography makes for just an okay film.
Asian action movies arent' what they used to be. If The Raid 2 proves anything, it's that kung fu and real talent in martial arts is dead. gone are Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, and even Chow Yun Fat. If Tony Jaa is still around, he needs to start doing something fast. the raid 2 is an overload of stunts without creativity. There are many things that make good action including unique settings and creative moves. This movie offers none of that. It plays more like a gangster movie than a kung fu film, and is basically a riff on infernal affairs (the template for the departed.) only instead of just a police force organization and a mob organization, this film adds in even more. There are two gangs, plus the cops, and a whole slew of characters. It becomes very confusing. the action picks up in the second half, but not enough to keep this movie afloat. if it wasn't so hard to follow, the movie would have been more forgivable. the same goes for if the action had been more entertaining. it's not bad action, but just nothing special.
The Raid 2 is not the masterpiece of action that we've all been hearing it was. this is hardly one of the greatest action films of all time, as some critics have called it. perhaps the amazing amount of love that was shown for this movie comes from a younger generation that has not seen what true martial arts and kung fu action stars can do. the excitement doesn't come from how many people they can hit, or many glass walls they can slam through. it comes from the ways these stars use their bodies and also use weapons.
The greats in this genre are bruce lee, jet li, jackie chan, and chow yun fat. if there are more on the list than names like tony jaa and donny yen have to be included. and the one thing all of these stars have in common is that they can impress us with simply their physical movements alone. the raid 2 is not in the same ball-park as the better movies from these stars.
Instead of being a martial arts film, the movie is actually in the genre of organized crime. there are two gangs in the underworld, that are at odds with each other. there's also a team of cops running an undercover operation. this all sounds very familiar. it's infernal affairs (the chinese, and original version of the departed,) meets the election. when our hero, rama, goes into prison as an undercover agent to get in close with the bad guys and make them trust him for when he gets out, it really feels right out of infernal affairs.
But that movie was more about the thrills, and this one is more about the action. that's what they'd have you think anyway. the truth is the action doesn't really pick up until the second half. the first half is more story oriented. not that there's anything great happening in the story, however. rama gets released from prison and goes to work for the father of the man he protected while locked away.
When he was in prison, rama befriended uco, the son of the big crime boss, bangun. now bangun has hired rama, and everything is working out the same as in any other movie, except for one thing. uco doesn't want to keep working for his father. he feels that his father does not trust him or give him any real responsibility. if he is going to continue working for the man, than he needs to impress him first and earn his father's respect. so uco looks outside of his father's organization, and makes some behind the scenes deals with other mob families.
The action in the first half of the movie is very sporadic. there's a great prison riot scene, which builds slowly while a bunch of the prisoners are sitting in trenches surrounding an open yard. they stay under the roof protection because the rain is coming down hard, all around them. but then suddenly an attack breaks out, and before you can blink every prisoner has rushed the field like it's the end of a baseball game. the guards now come in to break things up and the prisoners attack the guards. it's a pretty cool scene, but really the only good action scene in the first half.
There's another pretty good action scene that comes at about the midpoint of the film. this one involves an assassin for one of the families. he's a lone assassin, and an older, long-haired man who is sitting upstairs in a nice lounge one night when he is suddenly attacked by an army of men. this lone assassin defends himself and fights off his attackers by using the entire space of the room, even changing levels by jumping from the balcony down to the first floor. the scene is pretty cool, but it really just reminds me of better scenes in other movies, like tony jaaa running around the ramp of a private restaurant in the protector, fighting off anyone who gets in his way. here, we don't even know who the assassin really is, and that confusion ends up hurting the scene by reducing our interest in the character.
Towards the end of the movie, the action finally does start to pick up. this is where we get two new assassins, each with unusual weapons. there's a guy who uses a baseball and bat, and there's a girl who uses two hammers, one in each hand. both attackers are pretty brutal. the guy walks around beating his targets with the bat. he hits the ball at them and then asks them to throw it back to him, while he is walking closer, ready to pounce.
The girl is far more scary. she has a subway scene where she walks from one end of a subway car to another and wrips apart anyone who comes at her with the two hammers in her hands. this girl often uses the back part of the hammer, meant for prying things up, as a weapon she can slam into her enemies. like the older assassin, it's not clear who exactly these two are working for, but their weapons are certainly cool.
The final action scenes are the best. that's the way most action movies go, but here, the very last fight between rama and one of the villains, seems to go on for an eternity. the two of them slam each other through everything under the sun in their kitchen showdown, and it seems as if they are superhuman, both continuing to fight through everything that the other has thrown at them. the scene may be ridiculously long, but it is still incredibly ambitious and a lot of fun. if there were more scenes like this, the raid 2 would have been a far better movie. instead, it's the usual asian gangster movie with a couple of cool action scenes every so often.


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Display: 27 in, AH-IPS, W-LED, 3840 x 2160 pixels
Viewing angles (H/V): 178 ° / 178 °
Brightness: 300 cd/m²
Static contrast: 1300 : 1, Dynamic contrast: 5000000 : 1
Refresh rate: 56 Hz - 61 Hz
sRGB: 99 %
Dimensions: 615 x 365.1 x 49 mm
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27UD69
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27UD69-B
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27 in (inches)
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684.7 mm (millimeters)
68.47 cm (centimeters)
26.9567 in (inches)
2.2464 ft (feet)
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596.16 mm (millimeters)
59.616 cm (centimeters)
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10 bits (8 bits + FRC)
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1073741824 colors
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Ultra HD (UHD) / 4K / 2160p
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0.155 mm (millimeters)
0.0155 cm (centimeters)
0.0061 in (inches)
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163 ppi (pixels per inch)
64 ppcm (pixels per centimeter)
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89.04 % (percent)
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W-LED
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99 % (percent)
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300 cd/m² (candela per square meter)
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5000000 : 1
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178 ° (degrees)
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0.0050 s (seconds)
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14 ms (milliseconds)
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30 kHz - 135 kHz (kilohertz)
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56 Hz - 61 Hz (hertz)
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100 V - 120 V (volts)
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2 A (amperes)
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0.3 W (watts)
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29.8 W (watts)
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40 W (watts)
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615 mm (millimeters)
61.5 cm (centimeters)
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14.374 in (inches)
Depth without stand in different measurement units.
49 mm (millimeters)
4.9 cm (centimeters)
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4.6 kg (kilograms)
10.14 lbs (pounds)
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2 ° (degrees)
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15 ° (degrees)
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1 x DisplayPort 1.2
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6-Axis Control
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Dynamic Action Sync
HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) 2.2
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0 °C - 40 °C (degrees Celsius)
32 °F - 104 °F (degrees Fahrenheit)
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10 % - 80 % (percent)
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-20 °C - 60 °C (degrees Celsius)
-4 °F - 140 °F (degrees Fahrenheit)
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5 % - 85 % (percent)
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Anti-theft stand lock slot - Kensington
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Q: Finding Y given X on a Cubic Bezier Curve? I need a method that allows me to find the Y-coordinate on a Cubic Bezier Curve, given an x-coordinate.
I've come across lots of places telling me to treat it as a cubic function then attempt to find the roots, which I understand. HOWEVER the equation for a Cubic Bezier curve is (for x-coords):
X(t) = (1-t)^3 * X0 + 3*(1-t)^2 * t * X1 + 3*(1-t) * t^2 * X2 + t^3 * X3
What confuses me is the addition of the (1-t) values. For instance, if I fill in the X values with some random numbers:
400 = (1-t)^3 * 100 + 3*(1-t)^2 * t * 600 + 3*(1-t) * t^2 * 800 + t^3 * 800
then rearrange it:
800t^3 + 3*(1-t)*800t^2 + 3*(1-t)^2*600t +  (1-t)^3*100 -400 = 0
I still don't know the value of the (1-t) coefficients. How I am I supposed to solve the equation when (1-t) is still unknown?

A: There are three common ways of expressing a cubic bezier curve.
First x as a function of t
x(t) = sum( f_i(t) x_i )
     = (1-t)^3 * x0 + 3*(1-t)^2 * t * x1 + 3*(1-t) * t^2 * x2 + t^3 * x3

Secondly y as a function of x
y(x) = sum( f_i(x) a_i )
     = (1-x)^3 * y0 + 3*(1-x)^2 * x * y1 + 3*(1-x) * x^2 * y2 + x^3 * y3

These first two are mathematically the same, just using different names for the variables.
Judging by your description "find the Y-coordinate on a Cubic Bezier Curve, given an x-coordinate on it." I'm guessing that you've got a question using the second equation are are trying to rearrange the first equation to help you solve it, where as you should be using the second equation. If thats the case, then no rearranging or solving is required - just plug your x value in and you have the solution.
Its possible that you have an equation of the third kind case, which is the ugly and hard case.
This is both the x and y parameters are cubic Beziers of a third variable t.
x(t) = sum( f_i(t) x_i )
y(t) = sum( f_i(t) y_i )

If this is your case. Let me know and I can detail what you need to do to solve it.

A: I think this is a fair CS question, so I'm going to attempt to show how I solved this. Note that a given x may have more than 1 y value associated with it. In the case where I needed this, that was guaranteed not to be the case, so you'll have to figure out how to determine which one you want.
I iterated over t generating an array of x and y values. I did it at a fairly high resolution for my purposes. (I was looking to generate an 8-bit look-up table, so I used ~1000 points.) I just plugged t into the bezier equation for the next x and the next y coordinates to store in the array. Once I had the entire thing generated, I scanned through the array to find the 2 nearest x values. (Or if there was an exact match, used that.) I then did a linear interpolation on that very small line segment to get the y-value I needed.

A: Developing the expression further should get you rid of the (1 - t) factors
If you run:
expand(800*t^3 + 3*(1-t)*800*t^2 + 3*(1-t)^2*600*t + (1-t)^3*100 -400 = 0);

In either wxMaxima or Maple (you have to add the parameter t in this one though), you get:
100*t^3 - 900*t^2 + 1500*t - 300 = 0

Solve the new cubic equation for t (you can use the cubic equation formula for that), after you got t, you can find x doing:
x = (x4 - x0) * t      (asuming x4 > x0)

A: Equation for Bezier curve (getting x value):
Bx = (-t^3 + 3*t^2 - 3*t + 1) * P0x +
     (3*t^3 - 6*t^2 + 3*t) * P1x +
     (-3*t^3 + 3*t^2) * P2x +
     (t^3) * P3x

Rearrange in the form of a cubic of t
0  = (-P0x + 3*P1x - 3*P2x + P3x) * t^3+
     (3*P0x - 6*P1x + 3*P2x) * t^2 +
     (-3*P0x + 3*P1x) * t +
     (P0x) * P3x - Bx

Solve this using the cubic formula to find values for t. There may be multiple real values of t (if your curve crosses the same x point twice). In my case I was dealing with a situation where there was only ever a single y value for any value of x. So I was able to just take the only real root as the value of t.
a = -P0x + 3.0 * P1x - 3.0 * P2x + P3x;
b = 3.0 * P0x - 6.0 * P1x + 3.0 * P2x;
c = -3.0 * P0x + 3.0 * P1x;
d = P0x;
t = CubicFormula(a, b, c, d);

Next put the value of t back into the Bezier curve for y
By = (1-t)^3 * P0x +
     3t(1-t)^2 * P1x +
     3t^2(1-t) * P2x +
     t^3 * P3x

A:
So I've been looking around for some sort of method to allow me to find the Y-coordinate on a Cubic Bezier Curve, given an x-coordinate on it.

Consider a cubic bezier curve between points (0, 0) and (0, 100), with control points at (0, 33) and (0, 66). There are an infinite number of Y's there for a given X. So there's no equation that's going to solve Y given X for an arbitrary cubic bezier.
For a robust solution, you'll likely want to start with De Casteljau's algorithm
Split the curve recursively until individual segments approximate a straight line. You can then detect whether and where these various line segments intercept your x or whether they are   vertical line segments whose x corresponds to the x you're looking for (my example above).

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Very stunning looking pose, I can see it in color in my head. Well done.
Solid work Dante. I may have missed the preamble, but is he to be edging up along a wall or sneaking around column structured scenery on the battle field?
@Tael - Yep, got it in one! He's going to have his back to a wall, sliding along towards a battered door.
A brilliant conversion again, Dante! But if he's going to have his back against a wall, shouldn't his cloak and especially the hood be pressed flat? Could you maybe post a pic of him leaning against some kind of wall, so we can get an idea of the exact positioning?
That is without a doubt the best Tanith I have ever seen. Actually the best guardsman I have ever seen. He has so much expression and conveys so much motion. He captures what makes Abnett's book so great, a personal, human element. I can't wait to see more!


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Home Science Agriculture Tools for Predicting Gully Erosion can Improve Land Management
Tools for Predicting Gully Erosion can Improve Land Management
The removal of soil along drainage lines by surface water runoff is known as gully erosion. Gullies will continue to move by headward erosion or slumping of the side walls unless steps are taken to stabilize the disturbance. Repair work is far easier and less expensive in the early stages of newly formed gullies. Large gullies that have grown unchecked are difficult and expensive to repair.
Soil erosion is a major issue for agricultural production, affecting soil quality and allowing pollutants into waterways. Gully erosion is the most severe stage of soil erosion, with large channels carved through the field. Once gullies form, they are difficult to manage with tiling; they necessitate a more comprehensive approach along the impacted area. Researchers have now created a modeling framework that uses remote sensing environmental data to accurately predict gully erosion susceptibility. Landowners and conservation organizations can use this predictive model to direct management resources to the most vulnerable areas.
Soil erosion is a major issue for agricultural production, affecting soil quality and allowing pollutants into waterways. Gully erosion is the most severe stage of soil erosion, with large channels carved through the field. Once gullies form, they are difficult to manage with tiling; they necessitate a more comprehensive approach along the impacted area.
Researchers at the University of Illinois created a modeling framework that uses remote sensing environmental data to accurately predict gully erosion susceptibility. Landowners and conservation organizations can use this predictive model to direct management resources to the most vulnerable areas.
We predict the geospatial location of gully erosion using high-resolution spatial and temporal data from satellite sensing. We used the maximum entropy model, or MaxEnt, to predict areas with a high probability of gully erosion.
Jeongho Han
"Erosion processes are complicated to predict, because there are so many factors at play, including farmer activity, climate, rainfall, temperature, vegetation development, topography, and many other variables that are always changing over time. We wanted to incorporate more of these variabilities in space and time in our model to decrease the uncertainty of the prediction," says Jorge Guzman, research assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE) at the U of I and co-author on the paper, published in the Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies.
The study was carried out in Jefferson County, Illinois, where agricultural production accounts for 59% of the land use, primarily corn and soybeans. The region is typical of Midwest row crop production.
"We predict the geospatial location of gully erosion using high-resolution spatial and temporal data from satellite sensing," says Jeongho Han, the paper's lead author and doctoral student in ABE.
Gully erosion prediction tools can lead to better land management
"We used the maximum entropy model, or MaxEnt, to predict areas with a high probability of gully erosion. Typically, researchers have focused on static variables like soil, elevation, and slope, but we added temporal variables like precipitation and vegetation because erosion is highly affected by crop growth, temperature, and rainfall intensity," Han says.
"For example, Illinois has a bimodal rain pattern, with heavier rainfall during the spring and fall seasons. We need to consider the temporal variability of these factors."
The addition of dynamic variables aided the researchers in developing a modeling framework that more accurately represents the complexity of factors influencing erosion.
Han and Guzman analyzed LiDAR data from the Illinois Geospatial Data Clearinghouse mapped at 2-meter spatial resolution, which provides airborne surface light detection for all of Illinois, to confirm their modeling results with actual gully locations. They were able to identify changes in surface elevation that could indicate the formation of gullies by comparing images from two different years. These identified locations were then filtered and processed to remove direct human intervention such as mining, construction, and other activities, as well as to narrow the gully inference to the LiDAR accuracy.
Overall, the researchers found 7.4% of the agricultural land in the study area had an elevated risk of developing gully erosion. Among all factors considered, the slope, land use, seasonal daily maximum precipitation, and organic matter indicated the highest contribution in predicting the presence of gullies. The researchers also found that spatiotemporal changes in land cover and precipitation were crucial in predicting gully formation in agricultural areas.
Their approach is applicable to agricultural areas in the Midwest of the United States that have similar land management and environmental variables.
"The main idea is that if we know where gullies are more likely to form, we can begin to implement land management practices," Guzman explains. "There are numerous tools and programs available to help with erosion and nutrient management. The challenge is determining how to optimize these efforts. Our tools can help landowners, communities, policymakers, and conservation organizations target programs and processes, directing resources where they are most needed."
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Q: Gluon View layout displaced after taking a picture When my app is resumed after taking a picture, the layout of the view is displaced:

This effect only occurs when an input node, e.g. TextField was focused and the layout had to be adjusted in order to not make the keyboard cover the input node. Even more interessting, I couldn't reproduce the issue while selecting a picture.
The error occurred when I updated Android 6.0 to 7.0
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Every now and then, there is a similar error, when the keyboard is hidden (see link):


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With last year heralding the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise's 35th anniversary, it's shouldn't be any surprise that Bandai and Sunrise had plenty of projects in store to celebrate. Gundam Build Fighters returned with a brand new sequel series (signalling a range of new custom model kits), and popular manga series Gundam: The Origin is also in process of being adapted into a series of OVA releases. But perhaps the biggest news for longtime fans was the arrival of a brand new series entitled Gundam: RecoNguista in G - written and directed by Gundam creator himself Yoshyuki Tomino. His first Gundam project since Turn A Gundam back in 1999, G-Reco returns fans to the main Gundam universe in a timeline that follows on from the original Universal Century.
Unless you've spent the last year or so living under a rock when it comes to otaku culture, chances are you'll have heard of or at least seen something do with Kantai Collection. What started out in 2013 as a free-to-play web browser game where you control moe girl anthropomorphisms of famous Japanese World War II battleships has now turned into a fully recognised franchise - storming Japan with figures, manga, light novels and of course more games. However 2015 marks the year KanColle (as it is often abbreviated to) takes the leap into animation, with a full 12-episode series from studio Diomedéa. With the game still currently only properly available to play in Japan, the show's simulcast streaming on Crunchyroll marks a big step in Kantai Collection's bid for a global takeover.
What do you do when you've released almost every Dalek variant in a particular scale? Release them all over again in another one of course! After kicking things off with a standard grey Dalek drone from Genesis of the Daleks (which other that the original 1963 version was definitely the right place to start), the 3.75" scale Doctor Who figures now have a whole paint chart of repaints to choose from. And to start things off Character Options have decided to go back in time a few years to 1972, releasing the Gold Supreme Dalek from the classic Third Doctor story Day of the Daleks. This particular variant also went on to appear in Frontier in Space the following year, and more recently graced the cover of the (spectacular) Eighth Doctor Dark Eyes 4 audio boxset from Big Finish.
The beginning of a new year - and arguably the most important time for the Super Sentai franchise. A years' worth of adventures for one team reaches it's explosive conclusion while a brand new ones' begin (along with all the wonderful new toys that come with it). But before either of those happen, it's time for the annual versus series team up movie. Ressha Sentai ToQger vs. Kyoryuger sees the cast of Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger return for one last roar, teaming up with the ToQgers against a rather large story thread left hanging from their own show.
It's a brand new year for the 66 Action range of candy toys from Bandai, and with the line going from strength to strength with each passing release I can't wait to see what 2015 brings. Despite humble beginnings as simple a range of cheap, poseable Kamen Rider figures it's now extended into a number of other franchises as well as growing a sizeable fanbase. January saw the launch of the 66 Action Ultraman line, and now the Riders return for an impressive fifth wave. This time the selection includes Kamen Rider Drive's Mashin Chaser, Kamen Rider OOO Tajador Combo, Kamen Rider Ryuki and Kamen Rider Black.
It's almost a given now that any Doctor Who figure wave is going to feature at least one Dalek, and as far as I'm concerned it's deservedly so. They're easy to produce as there's so many variants, and a sure seller to both children and collectors alike. Wave 3 of the relaunched 3.75" scale Doctor Who figures was even lucky to have two Daleks as part of it - one heralding from the classic era of the show, and one representing the relaunched version. Of course a standard bronze Dalek had already been released as part of wave 1, and both the BBC and Character Options seem quite easy to forget that the New Dalek Paradigm was even a thing. Cue a simple but effective repaint, battle-damaging things up to get an Asylum Dalek from the season seven opener Asylum of the Daleks. Which for the record I absolutely hated, but that's a different rant entirely.
S.H. Figuarts vehicles - one of those things I'm sure many collectors wish they owned more of, but often don't have the space or funds to buy them on top of the constant flow of figures. The recent Kamen Rider-1 & New Cyclone set was my first foray into the world of Figuarts bikes despite nearly four years of collecting, and while no means a regrettable purchase not quite enough to persuade me to add them to my constantly growing want list. When it comes to the Kikaider franchise though, that's a different story. Joining the Kikaider and Hakaider Figuarts are their respective vehicles - the Side Machine and White Crow, to round off the releases from the original Android Kikaider series before moving onto sequel Kikaider 01. This review takes a look at Kikaider's Side Machine, which was released as a Tamashii web exclusive at the end of November 2014.
After a prolonged period of silence following the Space Sheriff Gavan revival movie, Toei's Metal Heroes franchise has returned once again in a pair of V-Cinema (direct to video/DVD) releases breathing new life into the second and third entries in the Space Sheriff trilogy of shows. With Space Sheriff Sharivan: Next Generation sowing the seeds for a much bigger case, its time for Shaider to take the reigns in the second part of this new adventure - Space Sheriff Shaider: Next Generation. Like Sharivan, Shaider also has a new face behind the mask that many tokusatsu fans will surely recognise. This time it's actor Hiroaki Iwanaga, who previously portrayed fan favourite Date Akira/Kamen Rider Birth in Kamen Rider OOO. While this is technically Iwanaga's third outing as the new Shaider, it's the first time he's gotten top billing and a chance to really strut his stuff in the role.
The revival of the Space Sheriffs and Metal Heroes franchise hasn't been the smoothest of sailing. Although Gavan managed to crash two different Super Sentai series before going on to star in his own relaunch movie, things have been rather quiet for his immediate successors Sharivan and Shaider. Sure all three also appeared in Super Hero Taisen Z shortly afterward (along with a few other Metal Heroes cameos), but it was mostly about Gavan there as well. However now is the time of the other Space Sheriffs, with two V-cinema (aka direct to video) releases specifically dedicated to them. First up is Space Sheriff Sharivan: Next Generation, which sees Gekiranger star Riki Miura return once again the play the second generation Space Sheriff.
Movie REVIEW: Kamen Rider Gaim: Great Soccer Battle! Golden Fruits Cup!
There's always been two types of Heisei era Kamen Rider summer movies - those set in parallel worlds separate from the main canon, and those that actually tie into the series. The pre-Kamen Rider Decade films mostly fell into the former category, while the post-Decade ones fell into the latter. Kamen Rider Wizard cleverly tried to avoid these categories with a film that had the show's fall into a parallel universe, but Kamen Rider Gaim took it even further with a parallel universe movie which tied into the show itself - twice! But that's not all there is to Kamen Rider Gaim: Great Soccer Battle! Golden Fruits Cup! - in the summer of 2014 Japan (along with the rest of the world) was firmly in the grips of the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, prompting Gaim to do a very unlikely bit of cross-promotion. If you thought fruit-armour samurai was weird enough, this is a whole different ball game.
It's no secret that Bandai Tamashii Nations is running out of Kamen Rider figures to do. Despite having a plethora of movie-exclusive characters still to do as well as various other bits and pieces from across the franchise's 44 year history, in terms of titular Riders there's only a handful left to go. And so to draw out their main cash cow even further, the S.H. Figuarts line has turned its attention toward the numerous bikes that are still left - particularly those from the Showa era of the franchise. Most of these have come in form of web exclusive sets, but some of the more popular ones have managed to escape that and return to retail release once again (in the form of both two-packs and separate reissues). The end of 2014 saw Riders 1 and 2 receive this treatment, so it's no surprise to see their direct successor Kamen Rider V3 reissued to accompany his bike - the Hurricane.


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Author: Murray Kempton
The Briar Patch: The Trial of the Panther 21
Murray Kempton
1974 NBA–Current Interest winner
On April 2, 1969 five-man squads of New York policemen, armed with shotguns and wearing bulletproof vests, pounded on a succession of apartment doors throughout New York City, rounding up members of the Black Panther party. Thirteen of twenty-one suspects were charged and tried for attempted arson, attempted murder, and conspiracies to blow up various police stations, school buildings, a railroad yard, and the Bronx Botanical Gardens. But the forces of "law and order" behaved in a decidedly less lawful manner than the defendants. The Briar Patch brilliantly examines the proceedings, from the police undercover operations that first implicated the Panthers, to their acquittal on all charges. It remains a seminal book—not just about the Panther 21, but about the quality of justice in America.
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Q: c# append text to a rich text box from a thread using a delegate I would like to have my TcpListen thread update a rich text box in Form1 using a delegate.  The TcpListen thread is working and communicating via console.  However, I can't get the rich text box in Form1 to append the text.
public class MyTcpListener
{
    public void Server()
    {
        // Some code that produces a string named data
        SendText(data)
    }

    public delegate void TextDelegate(string message);

    public void SendText(string message)
    {
        //Not sure how to send the string to Form1 without removing void and using return string?
    }

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        MyTcpListener listen = new MyTcpListener();
        tserv = new Thread(listen.Server);
        //tserv.IsBackground = true;
        tserv.Start();

        //Where would I call the DisplayText method?
    }
    public void DisplayText(string message)
    {
        if (richTextBox1.InvokeRequired)
        {
            richTextBox1.Invoke(new MyTcpListener.CallBackDelegate(DisplayText),
            new object[] { message });

        }

A: I would put this in your Form1 class
public void AppendTextBox(string value)
{
    if (InvokeRequired)
    {
        this.Invoke(new Action<string>(AppendTextBox), new object[] {value});
        return;
    }
    richTextBox1.AppendText(value);
}

And then pass the instance of Form1 to the TCPListener constructor, and when it needs to update the Form, call the AppendTextBox method of the form instance.

A: It is working now.  The problem was that I was creating a new instance of Form1 in the MyTcpListener class (thread) instead of referencing the original Form1.  Thanks!
public class MyTcpListener
    {
        private Form1 form1;

        public MyTcpListener(Form1 form1)
        {
        this.form1 = form1;
        }

public partial class Form1 : Form
    { // Some code ...

    private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        //Start the thread ....
        //Originally I never instantiated an instance of MyTcpListener class
        MyTcpListener mytcplistener = new MyTcpListener(this);


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Douglas County Says It Will Drop Out Of Tri-County Health Department Over School Mask Mandate
By Jenny Brundin
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Douglas County's commissioners gave initial approval Wednesday to split from its public health department — and form their own — over opposition to a Tri-County Health Department requirement that all students wear masks in schools.
In a reversal from a previous position, Tri-County issued a directive earlier this week that required its counties — Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas — to comply with mask mandate orders in schools. The mandate started today.
Tri-County had initially allowed the counties to opt out of the mask mandates, and Adams and Douglas counties took them up on the offer. But Tri-County reversed course because of the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19.
The commissioners will decide next week on final approval of their split with Tri-County, according to Colorado Community Media.
In the meantime, the Douglas County School District said Wednesday it will follow the most recent public health order issued by the Tri-County Health Department requiring all students and staff in preschool through 12th grade to wear a mask while inside school.
COVID-19 And Kids, Schools, Masks and Vaccines — Here's What We Know
In a statement, the district said it continues to balance the challenges of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
"Additionally, we will work with our families and staff members who cannot tolerate a mask due to medical or mental health reasons. Our goal is to keep our students and staff in the classroom for in-person learning," the statement said.
The district said there are mask exemption forms available on the district website.
Protests against mask mandates among high school students were reported at several Douglas County high schools in Littleton this week. Colorado Community Media reported that students held signs that they will not comply with a mask mandate. Some signs read "I can't breathe" and "I can't do this again," reported CCM. Another sign read, "Listen to our voices, respect our choices."
The district confirmed that several schools were impacted, but that classes continued.
Nationwide, experts have said there are very few medical reasons that would exempt someone from wearing a mask. The Tri-County Health department Wednesday tweeted a University of Utah release dispelling the myths around masking. Experts there stated that there is no evidence that a child wearing a mask causes depression or anxiety. The release said that in settings of high mask use, in-school transmission of the coronavirus is less than 1 percent.
"Children and adolescents can spread SARS-CoV-2 to others when they do not have symptoms or have mild, non-specific symptoms and thus might not know that they are infected and infections," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
When Douglas County schools opened in early August, there was no mask order. On Aug. 17, however, it updated its mask policy to require students in preschool through sixth grade to wear masks beginning Aug. 23.
The district issued that directive to align with a new Tri-County Board of Health public health order requiring younger students and the adults who work with them to wear masks in schools and early childhood centers. The health department order, which said it aimed to protect in-person learning, was in response to rising cases of the highly transmissible Delta variant. Masks for youth in grades seven through 12 were strongly encouraged by the district. Now all students and staff in all schools must wear masks in the Douglas County School District.
"We realize this adjustment to our COVID protocols may spark a range of emotions in our community from relief to anxiety to anger," the district wrote in a letter to families.
More news about schools and COVID in Colorado:
Colorado Will Use $173 Million Of Federal Dollars To Fund A COVID Testing Program For School Districts
6 Questions To Ask Your Colorado School About COVID And The Air In Your Child's Classroom
Reading, Writing And COVID: Colorado's Return To School Immediately Led To The Virus Spreading
Survey: Most Democratic Colorado Parents Support Students Wearing Masks In Schools, While Most Republican Parents Do Not
Cherry Creek school district in Arapahoe County announced Tuesday that it will follow Tri-County's new universal masking requirement. It said it will work with students to address medical exemptions, and if families make the decision not to wear masks, the website lists several online and homeschool options.
COVID-19 cases among those ages 0 to 19 accounted for about 26 percent of cases last week, according to state health officials. Nineteen people under the age of 19 have died from COVID-19 in the state. Vaccines for children younger than 12 have yet to be approved by the FDA.
School has barely started for most districts, yet outbreaks and quarantines have already struck. Just among schools within Tri-County, there were 15 outbreaks during the month of August.
Gov. Jared Polis has stated there are no plans for a statewide mask mandate for students, despite concerns about the Delta variant's spread through unvaccinated populations.
CPR Reporter Paolo Zialcitacontributed to this report.


Moore's Law, which predicts that the scale of electronic components will halve every two years, is hitting headwinds as chipmakers reach the limits of physical possibility. So instead of trying to miniaturize further, experimental physicist Sander Otte and his colleagues started from the bottom up: building a digital data storage device in which one atom represents one bit. Otte describes the device as an atomic-scale abacus or sliding puzzle. The findings appear in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
Sander Otte is an experimental physicist at Delft University of Technology in Delft, Netherlands.
51 years ago Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel, made a bold prediction. He predicted that the computing power of computer chips, the number of transistors you could fit on a piece of silicon, would double every two years. In other words, advances in miniaturization would move very quickly at an exponential rate.
His prediction struck such a nerve that it became known as Moore's law. And yes, we're still talking about it decades later. But today we find ourselves in a bit of a conundrum. Chip-makers have done such a good job of miniaturizing technology that Moore's law has hit a headwind, because there's only so much smaller we can get before quantum hell breaks loose and the physics of these systems break down.
So my next guest decided, instead of miniaturizing, how about starting, just starting with the very smallest component possible and working your way back? And start with the atom. He and his team succeeded in building a data storage device that uses individual atoms for bits.
Sander Otte is an experimental physicist at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. His research is in this week's issue of Nature Nanotechnology. Welcome to Science Friday.
IRA FLATOW: Good afternoon. Tell us about what you built. You started with individual atoms, and how did you build it? How does it work?
SANDER OTTE: Right. Let's compare it to an ordinary hard disk. So on an ordinary hard disk you store bits. Those are information bits that can be either zero or one. And those are basically chunks of magnetic material on a disk that can magnetize either with their north pole one way or the other way. And that's the zero or the one.
But each of those bits still contains thousands or ten thousands of atoms. So if you want to increase the capacity of such a disk, you would have to make those bits much smaller, right? Now, we did exactly the same thing as that, except that we stored the bits in individual atoms. So you should compare its– you should see it as follows.
We have a crystal surface on which we have a perfect grid of chlorine atoms. It's a square grid, so it's perfectly smooth. However, there are some atoms missing from the grid, so they look like holes. And then just like it's a sliding puzzle, where one piece is missing, and you can slide a piece that is adjacent to a hole towards the hole. And that's how we store the zeros and the ones.
So on every site on that grid there is either an atom or not, so it's perfectly digital. And that's how we store the zeros and the ones.
IRA FLATOW: And you have to do this at very cold temperature, right?
SANDER OTTE: That's correct, yeah. So as a physicist, we gauge how stable a material is by how warm you can make it before the atoms start to move by themselves. Because if you heat something up, the atoms essentially start to move by themselves, and at some point they become so much that you lose the data. It becomes scrambled by that.
IRA FLATOW: This is not to be confused with a quantum computer, correct?
SANDER OTTE: That's a very good point. Yes. This is a classical storage of information. So each bit is either one or zero, and in a quantum bit it can be a combination of one and zero. That's not the case here.
IRA FLATOW: But you're working on the quantum level. Doesn't quantum stuff sneak in at that level?
SANDER OTTE: That's a very good question. So if you look at these atoms– so, if you think about what makes something quantum, right? In order for something to be quantum, it should be well isolated from its environment. So as soon as the environment kind of probes the quantum object, it forces it to choose either of the two states that it can be, and so it loses its quantum nature by interacting with the environment.
Now, these atoms that are in the surface, they are very tightly bound to their neighbors and to the substrate. So they are really very well in contact with their vicinity, and therefore they can absolutely not retain any quantum uncertainty for any serious amount of time. So it's really a classical bit of information.
IRA FLATOW: So you're not worried about sneaking in, getting to some level where you're going to be dealing with these quantum weirdness things.
SANDER OTTE: Well, I'm not sure worried is the right word. I would love to see quantum effects. Actually, my background research is in precisely these kind of quantum effects. So this whole research on the kilobyte that we now made, this memory storage, is kind of a sidestep for me. Normally what I'm interested in is to explore the transition from quantum effects to classical physics.
So if you think about it, a single magnetic atom– for example, an iron atom– is a quantum object. So it can have a superposition of having its magnetization pointing one way and the other. We call it a superposition of spin up and spin down.
Now, if you put a second iron atom adjacent to it and they couple together, they are still a quantum object. They are, for example, up-up, or down-down, or up-down, and down-up. Still quantum because they can be both at the same time.
But if you add more atoms to it, at some point the atoms collectively decide to form a classical system. So at some point– and this is a gradual process– at some point they collectively decide, hey, let's just force ourselves to point one way and be a classical thing. And exactly that transition is something that fascinates me a lot and I've been studying in recent years.
IRA FLATOW: So, when do we get a practical– what do you call this computer? A micro– what's the term you're using?
SANDER OTTE: I call it a memory. It's really a storage device. So it doesn't compute. It's not a transistor. A transistor would have to have an input, an output, and a gate, so that it has a certain functionality. Here it's just a storage of information.
IRA FLATOW: So you have a three-dimensional, like a crystalline structure, with the atoms and all the different parts of the crystal?
SANDER OTTE: Well, actually we only use the surface of the crystal. So yes, the crystal itself is a three-dimensional object, but then we cut that crystal at a perfectly flat edge. And it's actually a copper crystal, so it's copper atoms that we start with. And on top of this copper crystal we deposit, in vacuum, a layer of chlorine atoms.
And these chlorine atoms, they form together with the copper basically a salt, so it's an ionic bond. And that turns out to have very nice properties for this kind of data storage. It's a very reliable self-terminating coverage of chlorine atoms.
IRA FLATOW: And how much data can you store? What is the potential for this?
SANDER OTTE: So we went up to a kilobyte, which is a lot compared to previous attempts. So let's take a few steps back. So, the first time that atoms were moved was back in the early 1990s, by a team at IBM. And then they wrote this iconic picture, the letters IBM with 35 xenon atoms. That was a tremendous achievement for that time.
In the quarter century that follows, the technique didn't change that much. It was all the time, it was just a very manual, painstakingly slow labor to put all these atoms where you wanted. And so you could at most get a handful of atoms in place.
Now, what we figured out now, is with this particular surface, and with the particular techniques we're using, with these holes rather than the atoms, that we basically have the atomic-scale printing press. So all of a sudden we can scale this up to thousands of atoms, even ten thousands of atoms, and that's how we stored a kilobyte. So a kilobyte is 1,000 bytes, and a byte is eight bits, so these are 8,000 bits.
However, I think that there is no physical limitation that would disable us from going much bigger than this still.
IRA FLATOW: So you could make, in a tiny little space, you can store the equivalent of many volumes of books, or whatever you're storing.
SANDER OTTE: Right. So one estimation we made is that if you would scale this up still two-dimensionally to the size of a post stamp, the area of a postage stamp, that would be enough surface to keep all the books ever written by mankind written out.
Now, however, that is, of course kind of a silly comparison, because we are never actually going to make this to a postage stamp size. At least I don't think so, that we're going to do this in a short time. But it just shows you how tremendously small all this is, and what the capabilities of this technology can be.
IRA FLATOW: So what is, if you're not going to go in that direction, what direction do you want to take this, and what is the reason for constructing this?
SANDER OTTE: Yes. So, to be very honest, the data storage is of course an example that we made because it's something people can relate to and it's a beautiful image, and it's a story that's easy to tell. But to me personally, as a scientist, as a physicist, there's a much deeper message here, which is that for the first time in history, we are able to construct objects at a scale that was just inaccessible before.
If you look at the scan that we made of that full kilobyte, you see that we created order in a chaos at a level that we never were able to create order in chaos. And I think this really opens the door to all kinds of experiments and also technologies that involve playing with the positions of the atoms in a material. And in the end, that is also what determines how a material behaves.
So all the properties that a material has on the macroscopic scale, find their origin and how the atoms interact. And once we can start to play with that on the scale that we now did and with the level of reliability that we now did, I think there is a tremendous world of possibilities.
SANDER OTTE: Right. So, there is a saying among physicists that more is different. So, "more is different" means that even if you would know the exact laws of quantum physics that tell you how atoms behave, you still wouldn't be able to predict exactly how materials would behave if you would have thousands of these atoms.
The reason for this is that the number of constituents and the number of levels of freedom, degrees of freedom, is so huge that even the smartest people in the world that have access to the best computers in the world would not be able to predict what's going to happen.
So at this scale of thousands or ten thousands atoms, all kinds of properties emerge that you cannot predict out of quantum mechanics. And these phenomena that you study, they kind of require their own language, their own pictures. It's really a field of itself, a field of study of itself, where we can learn a lot.
IRA FLATOW: But you don't know yourself where it's going to end up or what you might come up with.
SANDER OTTE: Certainly not. I think I've got some examples though, right? So, a nice example is superconductivity. Superconductivity is an effect that happens in some materials when you cool them down to very low temperatures. And that is intrinsically a quantum effect.
So it's one of these quantum effects that do not die out, even though you go to larger scale. They just retain their quantum nature. And in superconductivity, a material basically loses all its electrical resistivity. So it's a very useful idea.
Now, we know to some extent how this arises, but in many materials, we actually don't know how it comes about. So if we can start to play, and build basically materials ourselves, rather than be limited to the materials that nature provides us, but you start to build the materials yourself– you choose yourself which atom goes where– you might learn about the emergence of these kind of phenomena like superconductivity.
I'm not saying necessarily superconductivity, of course. But that kind of stuff is what becomes available when you start to tinker with the material on the atomic scale.
IRA FLATOW: Dr. Otte, very fascinating. And we wish you great luck, and you'll come back on and tell us when you get your next step, OK?
SANDER OTTE: Thank you, I will.
IRA FLATOW: Sander Otte is an experimental physicist at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
We're going to take a break. When we come back, we're going to talk about, you know bubbles that people live in where politics are concerned? Well, what happens when you live outside the bubble among people that you disagree with? We discuss some new and interesting research.
It's all happening after the break, so come on back. We'll see you after the break. Stay with us.


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An entertaining or family room greets you as you enter from beneath the stoop. In the rear, you'll find a kitchen with a grand double-height ceiling, floor-to-ceiling windows with garden views, a wine refrigerator, top-of-the-line appliances (Subzero, Wolf, and Gaggenau), seating at a large Caesar Stone center island, and plentiful storage. This floor also enjoys a powder room, and a walk-in closet that could be used as a pantry. The kitchen leads to the garden, your own oasis and connection to the earth.
Parlour Level:
Enter a grand living room with eleven-foot ceilings from a newly restored, historically accurate stoop, and take note of the Eco Hearth ethanol-burning fireplace. In the rear, you'll find a light-filled dining room with its own back staircase down to the kitchen. The floor-to-ceiling windows that cover the back wall afford generous sunlight and beautiful garden views.
Third Floor:
This entire floor is devoted to the master suite. An enormous Bianco Carrara and Thassos marble master bath with a soaking tub occupies the front of this level, separated from the bedroom by two adjoining walk-in closets. The grand master bedroom features brand new white oak floors, a wet bar, and a secluded reading nook in the back, with copious sunlight flowing in through the glass that covers the back wall. French doors lead to your own private balcony overlooking the garden.
Fourth Floor:
Two bedrooms occupy this level, which could also be purposed as offices, studios, or dens. The front room has a wet bar, while the rear room leads out to a gorgeous private roof deck. Each room has its own closet and white oak floors. The two rooms share a Statuary marble full bath.
Fifth Floor:
This floor provides two more generous, full-sized bedrooms, each with white oak floors and their own full bath and closet. If you have children, there will be no arguing over who has a larger or better bedroom!
This glassed-in roof deck will make an exquisite space for entertaining or just getting away from it all. Enjoy a glass of wine as you take in the neighborhood from the top of your building. As a bonus, it's even accessible via the elevator!
Cellar Level:
With its high ceilings, this finished basement could easily be a rec room or a gym. It hosts a laundry room, a powder room, and brand-new mechanicals and electrics. Between the four inches of insulation and vapor barrier beneath the floor, and the multiple sump pumps, you have remarkable control of the climate and humidity; warmth stays in and moisture stays out.
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The Women's Safe House in St. Louis serves as a safe haven for women and children escaping domestic violence. With this in mind, Terry's inspiration for the Sacred Sewing Room was an enchanted forest. It represents a place the women and children can feel safe and inspired to create magical items with their new sewing skills.
Every makeover starts with new floors and fresh paint on the walls. The Floor Layers Local 1310 in St. Louis installed the floors in the Women's Safe House. The Painters and Allied Trades International Union repainted the entire room. Once the new floors and walls were done, Anita Roll started the mural. Anita painted the enchanted forest mural in the entire room, including the door, in just a few days. The door is painted like a tree with an entryway to the magical forest. When you enter the room, enchanting trees, pathways and beautiful giant mushrooms surround you.
While Anita was busy painting, Enchanted Makeovers and Baby Lock representatives were featured on various St. Louis news segments to help spread the word about the cause.
The "big reveal" day consisted of building shelves, arranging notions, and setting up sewing machines. Once everything was in its place, residents and shelter employees were invited to see the finished room for the first time. After everyone had a good look, local vocalist Kim Massie blessed the room with a song. Kim had the entire room in tears with her rendition of "Over the Rainbow" and then again with "Amazing Grace". The reveal brought smiles and hope to many in the room, residents and volunteers alike. Together we stood, proud to support each other in finding our places "over the rainbow".
Thank you to everyone involved with the St. Louis Women's Safe House Sacred Sewing Room.