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Q: Element-by-element vector multiplication with CUDA I have build a rudimentary kernel in CUDA to do an elementwise vector-vector multiplication of two complex vectors. The kernel code is inserted below (multiplyElementwise). It works fine, but since I noticed that other seemingly straightforward operations (like scaling a vector) are optimized in libraries like CUBLAS or CULA, I was wondering if it is possible to replace my code by a library call? To my surprise, neither CUBLAS nor CULA have this option, I tried to fake it by making one of the vectors the diagonal of a diagonal matrix-vector product, but the result was really slow.
As a matter of last resort I tried to optimize this code myself (see multiplyElementwiseFast below) by loading the two vectors in shared memory and then work from there, but that was slower than my original code.
So my questions:

*

*Is there library that does elementwise vector-vector multiplications?

*If not, can I accelerate my code (multiplyElementwise)?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
__global__ void multiplyElementwise(cufftComplex* f0, cufftComplex* f1, int size)
{
    const int i = blockIdx.x*blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;
    if (i < size)
    {
        float a, b, c, d;
        a = f0[i].x;
        b = f0[i].y;
        c = f1[i].x;
        d = f1[i].y;
        float k;
        k = a * (c + d);
        d =  d * (a + b);
        c =  c * (b - a);
        f0[i].x = k - d;
        f0[i].y = k + c;
    }
}

__global__ void multiplyElementwiseFast(cufftComplex* f0, cufftComplex* f1, int size)
{
    const int i = blockIdx.x*blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;
    if (i < 4*size)
    {
        const int N = 256;
        const int thId = threadIdx.x / 4;
        const int rem4 = threadIdx.x % 4;
        const int i4 = i / 4;

        __shared__ float a[N];
        __shared__ float b[N];
        __shared__ float c[N];
        __shared__ float d[N];
        __shared__ float Re[N];
        __shared__ float Im[N];

        if (rem4 == 0)
        {
            a[thId] = f0[i4].x;
            Re[thId] = 0.f;
        }
        if (rem4 == 1)
        {
            b[thId] = f0[i4].y;
            Im[thId] = 0.f;
        }
        if (rem4 == 2)
            c[thId] = f1[i4].x;
        if (rem4 == 0)
            d[thId] = f1[i4].y;
        __syncthreads();

        if (rem4 == 0)
            atomicAdd(&(Re[thId]), a[thId]*c[thId]);
        if (rem4 == 1)
            atomicAdd(&(Re[thId]), -b[thId]*d[thId]);
        if (rem4 == 2)
            atomicAdd(&(Im[thId]), b[thId]*c[thId]);
        if (rem4 == 3)
            atomicAdd(&(Im[thId]), a[thId]*d[thId]);
        __syncthreads();

        if (rem4 == 0)
            f0[i4].x = Re[thId];
        if (rem4 == 1)
            f0[i4].y = Im[thId];
    }
}

A: If what you are trying to achieve is a simple element-wise product with complex numbers, you do seem to be doing some extra steps in your multiplyElementwise kernel that increase register usage. What you try to compute is:
f0[i].x = a*c - b*d;
f0[i].y = a*d + b*c;

since (a + ib)*(c + id) = (a*c - b*d) + i(a*d + b*c). By using your improved complex multiplication, you're trading 1 multiplication for 3 additions and some extra registers. Whether this can be justified or not might depend on the hardware you're using. For instance, if your hardware supports FMA (Fused Multiply-Add), that kind of optimization may not be efficient. You should consider reading this document: "Precision & Performance:
Floating Point and IEEE 754 Compliance for NVIDIA GPUs" which also tackles the issue of floating-point precision.
Still, you should consider using Thrust. This library offers many high-level tools to operate on both host and device vectors. You can see a long list of examples here: https://github.com/thrust/thrust/tree/master/examples. This would make your life a lot easier.
UPDATED CODE
In your case, you could use this example and adapt it to something like this:
#include <thrust/host_vector.h>
#include <thrust/device_vector.h>
#include <time.h>

struct ElementWiseProductBasic : public thrust::binary_function<float2,float2,float2>
{
    __host__ __device__
    float2 operator()(const float2& v1, const float2& v2) const
    {
        float2 res;
        res.x = v1.x * v2.x - v1.y * v2.y;
        res.y = v1.x * v2.y + v1.y * v2.x;
        return res;
    }
};

/**
 * See: http://www.embedded.com/design/embedded/4007256/Digital-Signal-Processing-Tricks--Fast-multiplication-of-complex-numbers%5D
 */
struct ElementWiseProductModified : public thrust::binary_function<float2,float2,float2>
{
    __host__ __device__
    float2 operator()(const float2& v1, const float2& v2) const
    {
        float2 res;
        float a, b, c, d, k;
        a = v1.x;
        b = v1.y;
        c = v2.x;
        d = v2.y;
        k = a * (c + d);
        d =  d * (a + b);
        c =  c * (b - a);
        res.x = k -d;
        res.y = k + c;
        return res;
    }
};

int get_random_int(int min, int max)
{
    return min + (rand() % (int)(max - min + 1));
}

thrust::host_vector<float2> init_vector(const size_t N)
{
    thrust::host_vector<float2> temp(N);
    for(size_t i = 0; i < N; i++)
    {
        temp[i].x = get_random_int(0, 10);
        temp[i].y = get_random_int(0, 10);
    }
    return temp;
}

int main(void)
{
    const size_t N = 100000;
    const bool compute_basic_product    = true;
    const bool compute_modified_product = true;

    srand(time(NULL));

    thrust::host_vector<float2>   h_A = init_vector(N);
    thrust::host_vector<float2>   h_B = init_vector(N);
    thrust::device_vector<float2> d_A = h_A;
    thrust::device_vector<float2> d_B = h_B;

    thrust::host_vector<float2> h_result(N);
    thrust::host_vector<float2> h_result_modified(N);

    if (compute_basic_product)
    {
        thrust::device_vector<float2> d_result(N);

        thrust::transform(d_A.begin(), d_A.end(),
                          d_B.begin(), d_result.begin(),
                          ElementWiseProductBasic());
        h_result = d_result;
    }

    if (compute_modified_product)
    {
        thrust::device_vector<float2> d_result_modified(N);

        thrust::transform(d_A.begin(), d_A.end(),
                          d_B.begin(), d_result_modified.begin(),
                          ElementWiseProductModified());
        h_result_modified = d_result_modified;
    }

    std::cout << std::fixed;
    for (size_t i = 0; i < 4; i++)
    {
        float2 a = h_A[i];
        float2 b = h_B[i];

        std::cout << "(" << a.x << "," << a.y << ")";
        std::cout << " * ";
        std::cout << "(" << b.x << "," << b.y << ")";

        if (compute_basic_product)
        {
            float2 prod = h_result[i];
            std::cout << " = ";
            std::cout << "(" << prod.x << "," << prod.y << ")";
        }

        if (compute_modified_product)
        {
            float2 prod_modified = h_result_modified[i];
            std::cout << " = ";
            std::cout << "(" << prod_modified.x << "," << prod_modified.y << ")";
        }
        std::cout << std::endl;
    }

    return 0;
}

This returns:
(6.000000,5.000000)  * (0.000000,1.000000)  = (-5.000000,6.000000)
(3.000000,2.000000)  * (0.000000,4.000000)  = (-8.000000,12.000000)
(2.000000,10.000000) * (10.000000,4.000000) = (-20.000000,108.000000)
(4.000000,8.000000)  * (10.000000,9.000000) = (-32.000000,116.000000)

You can then compare the timings of the two different multiplication strategies and choose what's best with your hardware.

A: You can use cublasZdgmm.
cublasStatus_t cublasZdgmm(cublasHandle_t handle, cublasSideMode_t mode,
                      int m, int n,
                      const cuDoubleComplex *A, int lda,
                      const cuDoubleComplex *x, int incx,
                      cuDoubleComplex *C, int ldc)


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Q: Getting the title attribute using javascript
I am fairly new to JavaScript and I am working on a project the uses facial recognition to detect emotion. The facial recognition part is detecting emotion but I need to access the resulting emotion. There's constant feedback coming from the facial recognition API and the results constantly change under the "div" id= results tag

 Timestamp: 93.12

Number of faces found: 1

 Appearance: {"gender":"Male","glasses":"Yes","age":"25 - 34","ethnicity":"Black African"}
Emotions: {"joy":0,"sadness":0,"disgust":1,"contempt":0,"anger":0,"fear":0,"surprise":0,"valence":0,"engagement":0}

 Emoji:

The title "Neutral Face" or alt is one of the attributes of the dominant emotion needed
I tried using solutions from
Extract property of a tag in HTML using Javascript
and
How to get title attribute from link within a class with javascript
in my actual code I have

I tried to use the last two lines of code in this snippet in a JS file that produces the results:
detector.addEventListener("onImageResultsSuccess", function(faces, image, timestamp) {
  $('#results').html("");
  log('#results', "Timestamp: " + timestamp.toFixed(2));
  log('#results', "Number of faces found: " + faces.length);
  if (faces.length > 0) {
    log('#results', "Appearance: " + JSON.stringify(faces[0].appearance));
    log('#results', "Emotions: " + JSON.stringify(faces[0].emotions, function(key, val) {
      return val.toFixed ? Number(val.toFixed(0)) : val;
    }));
    log('#results', "Emoji: " + faces[0].emojis.dominantEmoji);
    drawFeaturePoints(image, faces[0].featurePoints);
    var motion =  faces[0].emojis.dominantEmoji;
    log('#results', motion);
  }
});

also on a separate time I added this to the JavaScript file that needs the feedback for the emotion recognition
var tag = document.getElementByTagName("img")
      var emotion= tag.getAttribute("title");
      console.log(emotion);

also on another separate trial I did this in the index html file

The main idea of the project is to detect a users emotion and play music based on that emotion

A: You can try this:

See demo here: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/vyVQBJ

A: In one of your comments, you said you tried
var emotion = document.getElementByTagName("img")[0].getAttributes("title");

Try instead using
var emotion = document.getElementsByTagName("img")[0].getAttribute("title");

The function getAttribute() has no s at the end, while the function getElementsByTagName has an s after elements. Also, in your script tag, declare it as javascript like,

Don't forget a semicolon after console.log(emotion);

A: Instead of using getAttributes("title") use getAttribute("title") as there is no function like getAttributes in JavaScript.
Working demo :

var emotion = document.getElementsByTagName("img")[0].getAttribute("title");
console.log(emotion);

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Cipollone did not rule out participation in further proceedings, but he signaled that Democrats would first have to make major procedural concessions.
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O rio Tigre ou Tígris (em árabe دجلة, Dijla, em turco: Dicle; na Bíblia Hiddekel) é o mais oriental dos dois grandes cursos de água que delineiam a Mesopotâmia, junto com o Eufrates, que corre desde as montanhas de Anatólia através do Iraque. De fato, o nome "Mesopotâmia" significa terra entre os rios.

O Tigre tem  de extensão. Nasce nos montes Tauro da Turquia oriental e corre geralmente para sudeste até unir-se ao rio Eufrates, próximo a Al Qurna no sul do Iraque. Os dois rios formam o canal de Xatalárabe, que desemboca no golfo Pérsico. Neste rio desembocam muitos afluentes, como o Diala e o Zab.

Bagdá, a capital iraquiana, situa-se na margem oeste do Tigre,  enquanto que a cidade portuária de Baçorá localiza-se junto ao rio Xatalárabe. Na antiguidade, muitas das grandes cidade da Mesopotâmia situavam-se junto a algum desses dois rios, ou pelo menos próximas a eles, aproveitando suas águas para irrigar a civilização suméria. Entre as cidades mais importantes do Tigre encontravam-se Nínive, Ctesifonte e Selêucia, enquanto que a cidade de Lagash estava irrigada pela água do Tigre através de um canal construído em  Ticrite também se encontra junto ao rio, tanto que seu nome está baseado no do próprio rio.

Ele é um dos chamados Quatro Rios do Paraíso resultantes da divisão do rio sagrado que passava pelo Jardim do Éden, sendo os demais o Phison, o Gehon e o Eufrates.

Forma, ao longo de cerca de 4 km, parte da fronteira Iraque-Síria, imediatamente a sul da tríplice fronteira Iraque-Síria-Turquia. A norte deste ponto define a fronteira Síria-Turquia, até à cidade de Cizre.

Entre as muitas cidades que banha estão Cizre (Turquia), Mossul, Tikrit, Samarra e Bagdade (Iraque).

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Yanquetruz (or Llanquetruz) (died 1838) was a famous Ranquel warrior who fought the Europeans in the pampas of what is now Argentina in the early nineteenth century.

Early years

Yanquetruz's family had ruled over the region from the cordillera to the Atlantic from around 1680 to 1856,
but his authority was confined to the Ranqueles.
The Ranquel people, a Mapuche tribe, were led by a chief named Máscara Verde (Green Mask) in 1812.
Yanquetruz came to these people from Chile in 1818.
He had a reputation as a great warrior, and taught them techniques of war, making the Ranquel warriors known throughout the pampas.
The men of fighting age were organized into bands of between ten and thirty people whose leader obeyed the command of the Ranquel chief.
When Máscara Verde died, Yanquetruz was elected to take his place.

His first major assault was made on the settlers in Salta Province, helped by Chilean allies under a leader named Carreras.
The Indian attacks were ferocious, and they gained considerable booty.
In August 1831 Yanquetruz laid siege to Villa Concepción (now Río Cuarto, Córdoba), apparently in a preemptive strike since he had heard that a large army was preparing to attack his people.
During the civil war in 1831 there were rumors that Yanquetruz was assisting the Unitiarian side,
and this may have been part of the motive for the campaign against the Indians launched soon after by Juan Manuel de Rosas.
The main reason was the Ranquels' desire to remain independent.

Desert War

In 1833 Rosas initiated the Desert Campaign (1833–34), an expedition against the desert Indians.
The columns led by José Félix Aldao from Mendoza Province and Ruiz Huidobro from San Luis Province were charged with exterminating the Ranquels.
Ruiz Huidobro's column had 1,000 men from the Division of the Andes and the Córdoba and La Rioja provincial forces.
He advanced at the start of March from the San Lorenzo fort towards the Quinto River in San Luis Province, intending to surprise the Ranquels at their settlement of Leubucó. However, the Indians had been forewarned.

On 16 March 1833 the troops under Huidobro clashed with the Ranquels at a location called Las Acollaradas.
It was a fight with swords, spears and knives because rain prevented the use of firearms. The result was inconclusive, and the Indians disappeared into the pampas. The Division continued its march to Leubucó, 25 leagues from the Trapal lagoon, which Yanquetruz had abandoned.  Huidobro suspected that Francisco Reinafé, chief of the troops from Córdoba, had been the one who warned Yanquetruz of the advance.  He had Reinafé relieved of his command.
Yanquetruz's men harassed the Argentine troops in a form of guerrilla warfare, disrupting their supplies and making it hard for them to get water.  Huidobro was forced to retreat from the desert in disarray.

Nazario Benavídez and Martín Yanzón, both later to be provincial governors, were on the staff of the second Auxiliary regiment of the Andes commanded by Aldao.
This column gained a partial victory over chief Yanquetruz two weeks after the Las Acollaradas action.
The regiment participated in fierce fighting on 31 March and 1 April 1833 in which the Spanish prevailed but suffered considerable losses.
Rosas was furious at the damage that Yanquetruz had inflicted on his forces.
In 1834 Yanquetruz returned to invade San Luis Province.  This was his last raid.

Legend

Yanquetruz died in 1838 and was succeeded by Painé Guor, who was later captured and made a prisoner of Rosas.
Yanquetruz became a legend, the most famous chief in the Pampas after Calfucurá.
One of the soldiers who fought Yanquetruz said it would be difficult to find anywhere in America a more prompt, intelligent and insightful approach than the predatory raids of these Indians, and at the same time more calm, brave and wise in making a stand against much better armed adversaries, always thinking quickly despite the noise and confusion.

Colonel Manuel Baigorria, a young officer, left the army and joined Yanquetruz.
He became a close friend of the leader, and Yanquetruz named his eldest son Baigorrita (little Baigorria).
Another son, José Maria Bulnes Yanquetruz, born in 1831, became a famous warrior in his own right.

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Not be confused with the sea-goddess Tethys (mythology), or Themis, the embodiment of law. For other uses, see Thetis (disambiguation) or Tethys (disambiguation).
"Thetys" redirects here. For the animal genus, see Thetys (tunicate).
Thetis (/ˈθiːtɪs/; Greek: Θέτις [tʰétis]), is a figure from Greek mythology with varying mythological roles. She mainly appears as a sea nymph, a goddess of water, or one of the 50 Nereids, daughters of the ancient sea god Nereus.[1]
Member of the Nereids
Head of Thetis from an Attic red-figure pelike, c. 510–500 BC, Louvre
Nereus and Doris
Nereids, Nerites
When described as a Nereid in Classical myths, Thetis was the daughter of Nereus and Doris,[2] and a granddaughter of Tethys with whom she sometimes shares characteristics. Often she seems to lead the Nereids as they attend to her tasks. Sometimes she also is identified with Metis.
Some sources argue that she was one of the earliest of deities worshipped in Archaic Greece, the oral traditions and records of which are lost. Only one written record, a fragment, exists attesting to her worship and an early Alcman hymn exists that identifies Thetis as the creator of the universe. Worship of Thetis as the goddess is documented to have persisted in some regions by historical writers such as Pausanias.
In the Trojan War cycle of myth, the wedding of Thetis and the Greek hero Peleus is one of the precipitating events in the war which also led to the birth of their child Achilles.
1 As goddess
2.1 Thetis and the other deities
2.2 Marriage to Peleus
2.3 Iliad and the Trojan War
3 Worship in Laconia and other places
4 In other works
5.1 Thetis, Peleus and Zeus
5.2 Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
5.3 Thetis and Achilles
As goddessEdit
Most extant material about Thetis concerns her role as mother of Achilles, but there is some evidence that as the sea-goddess she played a more central role in the religious beliefs and practices of Archaic Greece. The pre-modern etymology of her name, from tithemi (τίθημι), "to set up, establish," suggests a perception among Classical Greeks of an early political role. Walter Burkert[3] considers her name a transformed doublet of Tethys.
In Iliad I, Achilles recalls to his mother her role in defending, and thus legitimizing, the reign of Zeus against an incipient rebellion by three Olympians, each of whom has pre-Olympian roots:
You alone of all the gods saved Zeus the Darkener of the Skies from an inglorious fate, when some of the other Olympians – Hera, Poseidon, and Pallas Athene – had plotted to throw him into chains ... You, goddess, went and saved him from that indignity. You quickly summoned to high Olympus the monster of the hundred arms whom the gods call Briareus, but mankind Aegaeon,[4] a giant more powerful even than his father. He squatted by the Son of Cronos with such a show of force that the blessed gods slunk off in terror, leaving Zeus free
— E.V. Rieu translation
Quintus of Smyrna, recalling this passage, does write that Thetis once released Zeus from chains; but there is no other reference to this rebellion among the Olympians, and some readers, such as M. M. Willcock,[5] have understood the episode as an ad hoc invention of Homer's to support Achilles' request that his mother intervene with Zeus. Laura Slatkin explores the apparent contradiction, in that the immediate presentation of Thetis in the Iliad is as a helpless minor goddess overcome by grief and lamenting to her Nereid sisters, and links the goddess's present and past through her grief.[6] She draws comparisons with Eos' role in another work of the epic Cycle concerning Troy, the lost Aethiopis,[7] which presents a strikingly similar relationship – that of the divine Dawn, Eos, with her slain son Memnon; she supplements the parallels with images from the repertory of archaic vase-painters, where Eos and Thetis flank the symmetrically opposed heroes, Achilles and Memnon, with a theme that may have been derived from traditional epic songs.[8]
Thetis does not need to appeal to Zeus for immortality for her son, but snatches him away to the White Island Leuke in the Black Sea, an alternate Elysium[9] where he has transcended death, and where an Achilles cult lingered into historic times.
MythologyEdit
Thetis and the other deitiesEdit
Immortal Thetis with the mortal Peleus in the foreground, Boeotian black-figure dish, c. 500–475 BC - Louvre.
Pseudo-Apollodorus' Bibliotheke asserts that Thetis was courted by both Zeus and Poseidon, but she was married off to the mortal Peleus because of their fears about the prophecy by Themis[10] (or Prometheus, or Calchas, according to others) that her son would become greater than his father. Thus, she is revealed as a figure of cosmic capacity, quite capable of unsettling the divine order. (Slatkin 1986:12)
When Hephaestus was thrown from Olympus, whether cast out by Hera for his lameness or evicted by Zeus for taking Hera's side, the Oceanid Eurynome and the Nereid Thetis caught him and cared for him on the volcanic isle of Lemnos, while he labored for them as a smith, "working there in the hollow of the cave, and the stream of Okeanos around us went on forever with its foam and its murmur" (Iliad 18.369).
Thetis is not successful in her role protecting and nurturing a hero (the theme of kourotrophos), but her role in succoring deities is emphatically repeated by Homer, in three Iliad episodes: as well as her rescue of Zeus (1.396ff) and Hephaestus (18.369), Diomedes recalls that when Dionysus was expelled by Lycurgus with the Olympians' aid, he took refuge in the Erythraean Sea with Thetis in a bed of seaweed (6.123ff). These accounts associate Thetis with "a divine past—uninvolved with human events—with a level of divine invulnerability extraordinary by Olympian standards. Where within the framework of the Iliad the ultimate recourse is to Zeus for protection, here the poem seems to point to an alternative structure of cosmic relations."[11]
Once, Thetis and Medea argued in Thessaly over which was the most beautiful; they appointed the Cretan Idomeneus as the judge, who gave the victory to Thetis. In her anger, Medea called all Cretans liars, and cursed them to never say the truth.[12]
Marriage to PeleusEdit
Thetis changing into a lioness as she is attacked by Peleus, Attic red-figured kylix by Douris, c. 490 BC from Vulci, Etruria - Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris.
Main article: Judgement of Paris
Zeus had received a prophecy that Thetis's son would become greater than his father, as Zeus had dethroned his father to lead the succeeding pantheon. In order to ensure a mortal father for her eventual offspring, Zeus and his brother Poseidon made arrangements for her to marry a human, Peleus, son of Aeacus, but she refused him.
Proteus, an early sea-god, advised Peleus to find the sea nymph when she was asleep and bind her tightly to keep her from escaping by changing forms. She did shift shapes, becoming flame, water, a raging lioness, and a serpent.[13] Peleus held fast. Subdued, she then consented to marry him. Thetis is the mother of Achilles by Peleus, who became king of the Myrmidons.
According to classical mythology, the wedding of Thetis and Peleus was celebrated on Mount Pelion, outside the cave of Chiron, and attended by the deities: there they celebrated the marriage with feasting. Apollo played the lyre and the Muses sang. Pindar claimed, At the wedding, Chiron gave Peleus an ashen spear that had been polished by Athena and had a blade forged by Hephaestus. While the Olympian goddesses brought him gifts: from Aphrodite, a bowl with an embossed Eros, from Hera a chlamys while from Athena a flute. His father-in-law Nereus endowed him a basket of the salt called 'divine', which has an irresistible virtue for overeating, appetite and digestion, explaining the expression '...she poured the divine salt'. Zeus then bestowed the wings of Arce to the newly-wed couple which was later given by Thetis to her son, Achilles. Furthermore, the god of the sea, Poseidon gave Peleus the immortal horses, Balius and Xanthus.[14] Eris, the goddess of discord, had not been invited, however, and in spite, she threw a golden apple into the midst of the goddesses that was to be awarded only "to the fairest." In most interpretations, the award was made during the Judgement of Paris and eventually occasioned the Trojan War.
Thetis dips Achilles in the Styx by Peter Paul Rubens (between 1630 and 1635)
As is recounted in the Argonautica, written by the Hellenistic poet Apollonius of Rhodes, Thetis, in an attempt to make her son Achilles immortal, would burn away his mortality in a fire at night and during the day, she would anoint the child with ambrosia. When Peleus caught her searing the baby, he let out a cry.
Thetis heard him, and catching up the child threw him screaming to the ground, and she like a breath of wind passed swiftly from the hall as a dream and leapt into the sea, exceeding angry, and thereafter returned never again.
In a variant of the myth first recounted in the Achilleid, an unfinished epic written between 94–95 AD by the Roman poet Statius, Thetis tried to make Achilles invulnerable by dipping him in the River Styx (one of the five rivers that run through Hades, the realm of the dead). However, the heel by which she held him was not touched by the Styx's waters and failed to be protected. (A similar myth of immortalizing a child in fire is seen in the case of Demeter and the infant Demophoon). Some myths relate that because she had been interrupted by Peleus, Thetis had not made her son physically invulnerable. His heel, which she was about to burn away when her husband stopped her, had not been protected.
Peleus gave the boy to Chiron to raise. The prophecy said that the son of Thetis would have either a long but dull life or a glorious but brief one. When the Trojan War broke out, Thetis was anxious and concealed Achilles, disguised as a girl, at the court of Lycomedes, king of Skyros. Achilles was already famed for his speed and skill in battle. Calchas, a priest of Agamemnon, prophesied the need for the great soldier within their ranks. Odysseus was subsequently sent by Agamemnon to try and find Achilles. Skyros was relatively close to Achilles' home and Lycomedes was also a known friend of Thetis, so it was one of the first places that Odysseus looked. When Odysseus found that one of the girls at court was not a girl, he came up with a plan. Raising an alarm that they were under attack, Odysseus knew that the young Achilles would instinctively run for his weapons and armor, thereby revealing himself. Seeing that she could no longer prevent her son from realizing his destiny, Thetis then had Hephaestus make a shield and armor.
Thetis at Hephaestus' forge waiting to receive Achilles' new weapons. Fresco from Pompeii.
Iliad and the Trojan WarEdit
Thetis and attendants bring armor she had prepared for him to Achilles, an Attic black-figure hydria, c. 575–550 BC, Louvre.
Thetis played a key part in the events of the Trojan War. Beyond the fact that the Judgement of Paris, which essentially kicked off the war, occurred at her wedding, Thetis influenced the actions of the Olympians and her son, Achilles.
Jupiter and Thetis, Ingres: "She sank to the ground beside him, put her left arm round his knees, raised her right hand to touch his chin, and so made her petition to the Royal Son of Cronos" (Iliad, I.)
Nine years after the beginning of the Trojan War, Homer's Iliad starts with Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and the commander of the Achaeans, and Achilles, son of Thetis, arguing over Briseis, a war prize of Achilles. After initially refusing, Achilles relents and gives Briseis to Agamemnon. However, Achilles feels disrespect for having to give up Briseis and prays to Thetis, his mother, for restitution of his lost honor.[15] She urges Achilles to wait until she speaks with Zeus to rejoin the fighting, and Achilles listens.[16] When she finally speaks to Zeus, Thetis convinces him to do as she bids, and he seals his agreement with her by bowing his head, the strongest oath that he can make.[17]
Following the death of Patroclus, who wore Achilles' armor in the fighting, Thetis comes to Achilles to console him in his grief. She vows to return to him with armor forged by Hephaestus, the blacksmith of the gods, and tells him not to arm himself for battle until he sees her coming back. While Thetis is gone, Achilles is visited by Iris, the messenger of the gods, sent by Hera, who tells him to rejoin the fighting. He refuses, however, citing his mother's words and his promise to her to wait for her return.[18] Thetis, meanwhile, speaks with Hephaestus and begs him to make Achilles armor, which he does. First, he makes for Achilles a splendid shield, and having finished it, makes a breastplate, a helmet, and greaves.[19] When Thetis goes back to Achilles to deliver his new armor, she finds him still upset over Patroclus. Achilles fears that while he is off fighting the Trojans, Patroclus' body will decay and rot. Thetis, however, reassures him and places ambrosia and nectar in Patroclus' nose in order to protect his body against decay.[20]
After Achilles uses his new armor to defeat Hector in battle, he keeps Hector's body to mutilate and humiliate. However, after nine days, the gods call Thetis to Olympus and tell her that she must go to Achilles and pass him a message, that the gods are angry that Hector's body has not been returned. She does as she is bid, and convinces Achilles to return the body for ransom, thus avoiding the wrath of the gods.[21]
Worship in Laconia and other placesEdit
Thetis and the Nereids mourning Achilles, Corinthian black-figure hydria, 560–550 BC; note the Gorgon shield, Louvre
A noted exception to the general observation resulting from the existing historical records, that Thetis was not venerated as a goddess by cult, was in conservative Laconia, where Pausanias was informed that there had been priestesses of Thetis in archaic times, when a cult that was centered on a wooden cult image of Thetis (a xoanon), which preceded the building of the oldest temple; by the intervention of a highly placed woman, her cult had been re-founded with a temple; and in the second century AD she still was being worshipped with utmost reverence. The Lacedaemonians were at war with the Messenians, who had revolted, and their king Anaxander, having invaded Messenia, took as prisoners certain women, and among them Cleo, priestess of Thetis. The wife of Anaxander asked for this Cleo from her husband, and discovering that she had the wooden image of Thetis, she set up the woman Cleo in a temple for the goddess. This Leandris did because of a vision in a dream, but the wooden image of Thetis is guarded in secret.[22]
In one fragmentary hymn [23] by the seventh century Spartan poet, Alcman, Thetis appears as a demiurge, beginning her creation with poros (πόρος) "path, track" and tekmor (τέκμωρ) "marker, end-post". Third was skotos (σκότος) "darkness", and then the sun and moon. A close connection has been argued between Thetis and Metis, another shape-shifting sea-power later beloved by Zeus but prophesied bound to produce a son greater than his father because of her great strength.[24]
Herodotus noted that the Persians sacrificed to "Thetis" at Cape Sepias. By the process of interpretatio graeca, Herodotus identifies a sea-goddess of another culture (probably Anahita) as the familiar Hellenic "Thetis".[25]
In other worksEdit
Thetis depicted (left) on a CSA $10 bill in 1861-62.
Homer's Iliad makes many references to Thetis.
Euripides's Andromache, 1232-1272
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica IV, 770–879.
Bibliotheca 3.13.5.
Francesco Cavalli's first opera Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo, composed in 1639, concerned the marriage of Thetis and Peleus
WH Auden's poem The Shield of Achilles imagines Thetis's witnessing of the forging of Achilles's shield.
In 1939, HMS Thetis (N25) then a new design of submarine, sank on her trials in the River Mersey shortly after she left the dock in Liverpool. There were 103 people on board and 99 died. The cause of the accident was an inspection hole to allow a sailor to look into the torpedo tubes. A special closure for this inspection hole had been painted over. Once submerged the torpedo tube flooded and the bow of the vessel sank. The stern was still above water. Ninety-nine people, half of them dockyard workers, died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
In 1981, British actress Maggie Smith portrayed Thetis in the Ray Harryhausen film Clash of the Titans (for which she won a Saturn Award). In the film, she acts as the main antagonist to the hero Perseus for the mistreatment of her son Calibos.
In 1999, British poet Carol Ann Duffy published The World's Wife poetry collection, which included a poem based on Thetis
In 2004, British actress Julie Christie portrayed Thetis in the Wolfgang Petersen film Troy.
In 2011, American novelist Madeline Miller portrayed Thetis in The Song of Achilles as a harsh and remote deity. She does not approve of Patroclus and tries to separate the him and Achilles on multiple occasions.
The 2018 novel The Silence of the Girls focuses on the character of Briseis in the first person, with interjections giving Achilles' internal state of mind, including his tormented relationship with his mother.
In 2019, New Zealand graphic designer Rachel Smythe portrayed Thetis in "Lore: Olympus". She is Zeus' personal secretary whom she also has an affair with. She is also the toxic best friend of Minthe and works with her to bring down Persephone.
GalleryEdit
Thetis, Peleus and ZeusEdit
Wedding of Peleus and ThetisEdit
Thetis and AchillesEdit
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^ "Nereus: Sea-God, the Old Man of the Sea | Greek mythology, w/ pictures". Theoi.com. Retrieved 2013-05-04.
^ Hesiod, Theogony 240 ff.; her mother was Thalassa according to Lucian, Dialog of the Sea Gods, 11, 2."XANTHUS:O Thalassa, take me to you; see how horribly I have been treated; cool my wounds for me.Thalassa: What is this, Xanthus? who has burned you?XANTHUS:Hephaestus. Oh, I am burned to cinders! oh, oh, oh, I boil!Thalassa:What made him use his fire upon you?XANTHUS:Why, it was all that son of your Thetis. He was slaughtering the Phrygians; I tried entreaties, but he went raging on, damming my stream with their bodies; I was so sorry for the poor wretches, I poured down to see if I could make a flood and frighten him off them. But Hephaestus happened to be about, and he must have collected every particle of fire he had in Etna or anywhere else; on he came at me, scorched my elms and tamarisks, baked the poor fishes and eels, made me boil over, and very nearly dried me up altogether. You see what a state I am in with the burns.Thalassa:Indeed you are thick and hot, Xanthus, and no wonder; the dead men's blood accounts for one, and the fire for the other, according to your story. Well, and serve you right; assaulting my grandson, indeed! paying no more respect to the son of a Nereid than that!XANTHUS:Was I not to take compassion on the Phrygians? they are my neighbours.Thalassa:And was Hephaestus not to take compassion on Achilles? He is the son of Thetis."
^ Burkert, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age, 1993, pp 92-93.
^ The "goatish one"
^ M. M. Willcock, (1977), "Ad Hoc Invention in the Iliad", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 81 pp. 41-53.
^ Slatkin, "The Wrath of Thetis" Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974)116 (1986), pp. 1-24.
^ The summary by Proclus survives.
^ "When Achilles fights with Memnon, the two divine mothers, Thetis and Eos, rush to the scene – this was probably the subject of a pre-Iliad epic song, and it also appears on one of the earliest mythological vase paintings." (Walter Burkert, Greek Religion 1985, p 121.
^ Erwin Rohde calls the isle of Leuke a sonderelysion in Psyche: Seelen Unsterblickkeitsglaube der Grieche (1898) 3:371, noted by Slatkin 1986:4note.
^ Pindar, Eighth Isthmian Ode.
^ Slatkin 1986:10.
^ Ptolemaeus Chennus, New History Book 5, as epitomized by Patriarch Photius in Myriobiblon 190.36
^ Ovid:Metamorphoses xi, 221ff.; Sophocles: Troilus, quoted by scholiast on Pindar's Nemean Odes iii. 35; Apollodorus: iii, 13.5; Pindar: Nemean Odes iv .62; Pausanias: v.18.1
^ Photius, Bibliotheca 190.46. Translated by John Henry Freese, from the SPCK edition of 1920, now in the public domain, and other brief excerpts from subsequent sections translated by Roger Pearse (from the French translation by Rene Henry, ed. Les Belles Lettres)
^ Lattimore, Richmond (2011). The Iliad of Homer. Chicago, IL: University Of Chicago Press. pp. 59–70. ISBN 978-0226470498.
^ introduction, Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles; Knox, notes by Bernard (2001). The Iliad ([Repr. with revisions]. ed.). New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books. p. 91. ISBN 0140275363.
^ introduction, Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles; Knox, notes by Bernard (2001). The Iliad ([Repr. with revisions]. ed.). New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books. pp. 472–474. ISBN 0140275363.
^ introduction, Homer ; translated by Robert Fagles; Knox, notes by Bernard (2001). The Iliad ([Repr. with revisions]. ed.). New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books. p. 489. ISBN 0140275363.
^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.14.4–5
^ The papyrus fragment was found at Oxyrhynchus.
^ M. Detienne and J.-P. Vernant, Les Ruses de l'intelligence: la métis des Grecs (Paris, 1974) pp. 127–64, noted in Slatkin 1986:14note.
^ Herodotus, Histories 7.191.2.
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A lamp table, as the name suggests can be used for placing a lamp on as a feature in your living room and offers the option of ambient lighting when required. Alternatively and probably more often than not, lamp tables are used for occasional tables for placing drinks or snacks at the end of a sofa or chair. Furniture for modern living offer a variety of lamp tables with drawers and without and in various sizes styles and colour finishes. Whether you are looking for modern contemporary like the Windsor oak furniture or maybe a rustic oak lamp table with brass feature handles like our Mondri oak, you're sure to find something to suit your taste.


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UPDATE 1-Burger King to roll out Marfrig veggie burgers nationwide in Brazil in November
(Adds details on market research)
SAO PAULO, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Burger King restaurants in Brazil will begin selling plant-based burgers developed by meatpacker Marfrig Global Foods SA in Sao Paulo city on Sept. 10, with a countrywide launch set for November, Marfrig said in a statement on Tuesday.
Marfrig's non-meat hamburger, to be produced in partnership with Archer Daniels Midland Co., will sell for 29.90 reais ($7.26) in Brazil, the company said.
The burger has been dubbed the "Rebel Whopper" and responds to the fast-food chain's market research indicating there is demand for new vegetarian products, Iuri Miranda, chief executive of Burger King in Brazil, told a press briefing on Tuesday.
According to the restaurant chain, a poll showed 69% of interviewees in Brazil declaring they were "likely or very likely" to buy a plant-based burger if offered at a Burger King, what it says is the highest percentage in the world.
China ranked second with 41% of respondents saying they were likely or very likely to buy a vegetarian burger, the executive said.
Miranda said Brazil's fast food market is growing above the rate of inflation and is currently worth 400 billion reais. ($1 = 4.1196 reais) (Reporting by Ana Mano; Editing by Andrea Ricci)


A telescope with a spherical concave primary mirror in which the aberration produced by the spherical mirror is compensated for by a thin correcting lens placed at the opening of the telescope tube. Its very wide-field performance makes it suitable for surveys.
Named after Bernhard Woldemar Schmidt (1879-1935), a German optician of Estonian origin, who invented the telescope in 1930; → telescope.


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The Young Ones: Armed and Stupid
I am a writer/director/actor who for the past 7 years has become a moderately well known Youtuber thanks to my work as in Double Act Chrosstopher, as the creator of the popular Sherlock Holmes web drama comedy "No Place Like Holmes", and more recently for the comedy sketch show "The Faction of Farce."
Aside from my work on the web I have written for comic books, television, feature film, shorts, and published books.
In a nutshell, what am I doing here?
Making a fanfilm British version of the unseen and unsold American remake of a cult British 80's Sitcom "The Young Ones". Yes, that is right. A British show converted to an American show reconverted back to a British show.
Some of my earliest work as part of Chrosstopher was the web series "The Younger Ones", a fan tribute carry on show of the 80's cult sitcom "The Young Ones." Despite the super basic production values (first thing we ever really did on Youtube) it found an audience, and in itself got a cult following. The success of which led to myself and my double act partner taking the act and sketches live. Performing all around London in clubs, pubs, shows, and comedy clubs including The Comedy Store and Hackney Empire.
My love affair for the show really relates to my huge admiration for the late great actor Rik Mayall.
The show would go from strength to strength until my partner finally decided to call it quits before we really managed to fully take ourselves to the next level. A major shame to myself and fans alike.
So, what is this about an American version?
At the end of 2009, I was contacted by one of the crew who worked on the never aired pilot episode of "Oh No Not Them". The 1989 American Remake of The Young Ones.
The show was never bought, and never aired. Who knows if a copy even exists.
This crew member gave me the script he had for it. He had seen what we had been doing, and thought if anyone could bring the world the pilot at this point, it would be us. He asked if we could do an episode based upon the concept and show the world what was once planned.
Sadly, by this point, it was too late. My partner had since left his creative dreams and moved onto another area of work. But I promised I would one day make it.
6 years has passed, and that day is today.
I have more experience, more respect, more support, a reputation for getting things done, and more knowledge than ever before. So, one last time shall The Young Ones rise again.
This is not for profit. This is not for any film festival. This is purely entertainment for the web, purely for the fans, purely for Rik Mayall.
However, what I am not doing is just using the American script. It has since been rewritten by myself to bring it more in line with British humour and the spirit of the original.
I am pushing for a indiegogo campaign to raise money for the props and costumes, but also so that I can least give the girls and guys who give up their time for it some expenses for it if all goes as planned.
This is an abridged version of what I have put on the Indiegogo campaign. Please go there for the FULL story and info.
The main roles will be for 2-3 days spread across March-May likely.
Filming will take place in Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey.
Others will be small and shootable within 2 hours with flexible options for shooting if they are not character heavy scenes.
– Travel Expenses and Food on Set
– Imdb Credit
– Chance to be in something that will be alot of fun and likely attract a fair bit of attention for what it is.
You must be able to record an audition tape.
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Indonesia Country Studies index
Indonesia - Social Classes
The experiences of population mobility in the archipelago underscore the continuing importance of social stratification in Indonesia. In 1992 the definition and function of social classes in Indonesia, however, was a matter of considerable controversy. Scholars and policy analysts debated the degree to which social classes could be defined in ethnic, economic, religious, or political terms. Although few would dispute that Indonesia was a highly stratified society, it was nonetheless difficult to identify an "upper class." Hereditary ruling classes and traditional elites- -reinforced by their positions in the Dutch colonial bureaucracy-- no longer possessed unchallenged access to political power and wealth. Indeed, they could not even claim to be an elite culture in the late twentieth century. The powerful generals (mostly Javanese) and capitalists (mostly ethnic Chinese capitalists--cukong) of the postindependence period were newcomers to their positions, and, apart from extravagant conspicuous consumption, they demonstrated few clear institutional and cultural patterns that suggested they were a unitary group in the early 1990s.
Defining a lower class in Indonesia is equally difficult. Even before the banning of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) in 1965, Indonesia's poor formed alliances that had less to do with class than with economics, religion, and community ties. In some cases, the poor peasantry identified across class lines with orthodox Muslim (santri) landowners on the basis of their common religious affiliation. This alliance was particularly evident in lowland East Java. In other cases, small landowners united against both the Islamic right wing and Chinese entrepreneurs. There also were divisions between the indigenous, or long-settled peoples (pribumi) and later Chinese and Arab immigrants. The oil boom of the 1970s effected society and income distribution in ways that benefited the landed peasantry and the urban middle class. However, no independent social groups based on lower class affiliations emerged as a major political force. Although income disparities remained a major cause of concern, the number of poor Indonesians decreased in the 1970s and 1980s.
Between the nation's poor and privileged classes lay a complex mosaic of middle class groups. Although the very existence of a bourgeoisie in any traditional sense was questioned by some, others, like economist Howard W. Dick, argued that there was a middle class united not by any political vision, economic interests, ethnic identification, or even income levels, but by patterns of consumption. This group liked to buy television sets, motorcycles, newspapers, and video cassettes. What set this middle class apart in 1992 was not how much its members consumed, but how they did it. "Among the rakyat [lower class]," reported Dick, "consumer durables are shared: it is antisocial to restrict the access of one's neighbors. Middle class households, by contrast, confine the enjoyment of such goods to members of the household. Fences are raised, doors locked and windows barred." In this view, the middle class of the early 1990s defined itself in relation to lower (not upper) classes, and did so by the way it consumed goods. The role of Islam, women, and regional ethnic identifications in this developing national culture, however, was very poorly understood.
Indonesia SOCIAL CLASSES - photius.com
Social Classes/Life Under Colonial Rule - Indonesia
AllRefer.com - Indonesia - Social Classes | Indonesian
Priyayi | Indonesian social class | Britannica.com


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Q: Limit at infinity of a complex function If $f(z)$ is an entire function such that
$$  \lim_{x \rightarrow -\infty}\frac{f(x)}{|f(x)|}=1$$
where $|f(x)|$ is the modulus of $f$, and $f(x)$ is just evaluating $f$ at real $x$. What can we say about $f(x)$ (or $f(z)$)?


Tamar Braxton finally announced her baby boy's name in a super sweet Instagram post! We've all been anxiously awaiting any news about this sweet little man, so we were happy to see Tamar's sweet Father's Day post!
The Sweet Photo and News!
And it was revealed! Logan Vincent Herbert is the name of the sweet little man. What an adorable name, and we love that it pays homage to his daddy as well. So cute! We already know that Vince is going to be a wonderful daddy, he has waited for that little guy for so long.
While we haven't seen any close ups of the little man just yet, new mama Tamar announced on June 6th that she had given birth, when she posted an adorable photo of three blue teddy bears surrounded by balloons with the caption "He's Here!" Now, we've seen a cute photo of little Logan holding his daddy's hand, but still no close up of the little guy's face. We're still waiting! We know that when we get to see him, he is gonna be a little heartbreaker!
Even though she has a brand new baby boy, Miss Tamar doesn't have to worry about any money issues right now! That's because she just sold her LA mansion for $3.5 million of pure profit! Tamar bought the house back in 2011 for $3.4 million, and listed it in October of 2012.
She now just sold it for $6.9 million, which is over three million bucks in profit! The awesome mansion is just a hop skip and a jump away from Justin Bieber's gated community of Calabasas. Looks like not only is Miss Tamar great at being a new mom, she's also great at flipping houses!