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You've Come a Long Way, ThinkPad: Lenovo Unveils New Ultrabooks, Windows 8 Tablet
On the 20th anniversary of the ThinkPad line of laptops, China-based computer maker Lenovo has officially unveiled two new Ultrabooks alongside a tablet designed for the upcoming Windows 8 operating system.
One of the new laptops, the 14-inch ThinkPad X1 Carbon, was reviewed in full by AllThingsD's Walt Mossberg here. Walt described it as a "high-end, thin and light Ultrabook model with a high price tag."
The other Ultrabook is the ThinkPad T430u, geared more toward small business users. If you vaguely recall getting your geek on with a graphics-friendly Ultrabook at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year, this laptop was probably it. It boasts Nvidia discrete graphics with Intel third-gen processors and claims a battery life of seven hours. It has a 14-inch HD display, is .83 inch thick and weighs just over four pounds. Pricing on that model is $779 — much less than the X1 Carbon price of $1299 — and it is expected to hit the market sometime this month.
But let's talk tablets: When Microsoft launches its Surface tablet in October, Lenovo will be right there alongside it with its 10-inch Windows 8 ThinkPad Tablet 2. (The first version of the ThinkPad Tablet was running a Google Android OS.)
The Intel Atom Processor-based ThinkPad Tablet 2 weighs just over a pound and is a third of an inch thick. While the 10.1-inch screen supports multi-finger touch, Lenovo is also throwing in an optional digitizer and stylus, and will offer a keyboard and dock option for the touchscreen-averse. It has both rear and front-facing cameras and USB and HDMI ports. Lenovo says the tablet will get 10 hours of battery life.
Lenovo declined to put a price point on the ThinkPad Tablet 2, for now.
And in terms of connectivity, it's unclear right now which wireless carriers if any will support this 3G and 4G-compatible tablet. As AllThingsD's Ina Fried covered here, Lenovo in June began selling its own wireless broadband service, for consumers and business users constantly on the go, so it's likely the tablet will work with that service to start.

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Pfeffer Cell Apparatus
The Pfeffer Zelle (Pfeffer Cell Apparatus), invented by Wilhelm Pfeffer in 1877, measured the minimum pressure needed to prevent a pure solvent from passing into a solution across a semi-permeable membrane, called osmotic pressure. The apparatus provided Pfeffer with a way to quantitatively measure osmotic pressure. Pfeffer devised the apparatus in the 1870s at the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland, and he described the Pfeffer Cell Apparatus in his 1877 book Osmotische Untersuchungen: Studien Zur Zellmechanik (Osmotic Investigations: Studies on Cell Mechanics).
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The First Successful Cloning of a Gaur (2000), by Advanced Cell Technology
The first successful cloning of a gaur in 2000 by Advanced Cell Technology involved the cells of two animals: an egg cell from a domestic cow and a skin cell from a gaur. The researchers extracted the egg cell from the ovary of the domestic cow and the skin cell from the skin of the gaur. First, the researchers performed nuclear transplantation on the egg cell of the cow, during which they removed the nucleus of the egg cell. The mitochondria of the egg cell remained intact inside the cell.
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The Development of the Neural Crest and the Migration of Neural Crest Cells (NCCs) in the Embryos of Various Vertebrates
This diagram shows how NCCs migrate differently in rats, birds and amphibians. The arrows represent both chronology of NCCs migration and the differential paths that NCCs follow in different classes of animals. The solid black portion of each illustration represents the neural crest, and the large black dots in (c) and in (f) represent the neural crest cells. The speckled sections that at first form a basin in (a) and then close to form a tube in (f) represent the neural ectoderm. The solid white portions represent the epidermal ectoderm.
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Purkinje Cells
Purkinje cells, also called Purkinje neurons, are neurons in vertebrate animals located in the cerebellar cortex of the brain. Purkinje cell bodies are shaped like a flask and have many threadlike extensions called dendrites, which receive impulses from other neurons called granule cells. Each cell also has a single projection called an axon, which transmits impulses to the part of the brain that controls movement, the cerebellum. Purkinje cells are inhibitory neurons: they secrete neurotransmitters that bind to receptors that inhibit or reduce the firing of other neurons.
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Effect of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Radial Glial Cells
Prenatal alcohol (ethanol) exposure can have dramatic effects on the development of the central nervous system (CNS), including morphological abnormalities and an overall reduction in white matter of the brain. The impact of ethanol on neural stem cells such as radial glia (RG) has proven to be a significant cause of these defects, interfering with the creation and migration of neurons and glial cells during development.
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Neurocristopathies are a class of pathologies in vertebrates,
including humans, that result from abnormal expression, migration,
differentiation, or death of neural crest cells (NCCs) during embryonic development. NCCs are cells
derived from the embryonic cellular structure called the neural crest.
Abnormal NCCs can cause a neurocristopathy by chemically affecting the
development of the non-NCC tissues around them. They can also affect the
development of NCC tissues, causing defective migration or
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Stem Cell Tourism
When James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin announced in 1998 that he had derived and cultured human embryonic stem cells(hESCs), Americans widely believed-and accepted-that stem cells would one day be the basis of a multitude of regenerative medical techniques. Researchers promised that they would soon be able to cure a variety of diseases and injuries such as cancer, diabetes, Parkinson's, spinal cord injuries, severe burns, and many others. But it wasn't until January 2009 that the Food and Drug Administration approved the first human clinical trials using hESCs.
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"Cell Deaths in Normal Vertebrate Ontogeny" (1951), by Alfred Glücksmann
The review article "Cell Deaths in Normal Vertebrate Ontogeny" (abbreviated as "Cell Deaths") was published in Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophy Society in 1951. The author, Alfred Glücksmann, was a German developmental biologist then working at the Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, England. In "Cell Deaths," Glücksmann summarizes observations about cell death in normal vertebrate development that he had compiled from literature published during the first half of the twentieth century.
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Craig C. Mello (1960- )
Craig C. Mello is an American developmental biologist and Nobel Laureate, who helped discover RNA interference (RNAi). Along with his colleague Andrew Fire, he developed gene knockouts using RNAi. In 006 Mello won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contribution. Mello also contributed to developmental biology, focusing on gene regulation, cell signaling, cleavage formation, germline determination, cell migration, cell fate differentiation, and morphogenesis.
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Mesenchyme is a type of animal tissue comprised of loose cells embedded in a mesh of proteins and fluid, called the extracellular matrix. The loose, fluid nature of mesenchyme allows its cells to migrate easily and play a crucial role in the origin and development of morphological structures during the embryonic and fetal stages of animal life. Mesenchyme directly gives rise to most of the body's connective tissues, from bones and cartilage to the lymphatic and circulatory systems.
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Elizabeth Dexter Hay (1927–2007)
Elizabeth Dexter Hay studied the cellular processes that affect development of embryos in the US during the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In 1974, Hay showed that the extracellular matrix, a collection of structural molecules that surround cells, influences cell behavior. Cell growth, cell migration, and gene expression are influenced by the interaction between cells and their extracellular matrix.
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Nicole Le Douarin and Charles Ordahl's Experiments on the Developmental Lineages of Somites
Through various studies developmental biologists have been able to determine that the muscles of the back, ribs, and limbs derive from somites. Somites are blocks of cells that contain distinct sections that diverge into specific types (axial or limb) of musculature and are an essential part of early vertebrate development. For many years the musculature of vertebrates was known to derive from the somites, but the exact developmental lineage of axial and limb muscle progenitor cells remained a mystery until Nicole Le Douarin and Charles P.
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Fate Map
Early development occurs in a highly organized and orchestrated manner and has long attracted the interest of developmental biologists and embryologists. Cell lineage, or the study of the developmental differentiation of a blastomere, involves tracing a particular cell (blastomere) forward from its position in one of the three germ layers. Labeling individual cells within their germ layers allows for a pictorial interpretation of gastrulation. This chart or graphical representation detailing the fate of each part of an early embryo is referred to as a fate map.
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Cerebral Organoid as a Model System in the Study of Microcephaly
Scientists use cerebral organoids, which are artificially produced miniature organs that represent embryonic or fetal brains and have many properties similar to them, to help them study developmental disorders like microcephaly. In human embryos, cerebral tissue in the form of neuroectoderm appears within the first nine weeks of human development, and it gives rise to the brain and spinal cord.
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August Friedrich Leopold Weismann (1834-1914)
August Friedrich Leopold Weismann studied how the traits of organisms developed and evolved in a variety of organisms, mostly insects and aquatic animals, in Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Weismann proposed the theory of the continuity of germ-plasm, a theory of heredity. Weismann postulated that germ-plasm was the hereditary material in cells, and parents transmitted to their offspring only the germ-plasm present in germ-cells (sperm and egg cells) rather than somatic or body cells.
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John Philip Trinkaus (1918-2003)
John Philip Trinkaus studied the processes of cell migration and gastrulation, especially in teleost fish, in the US during the twentieth century. Called Trink by his friends, his social confidence and work ethic combined to make him a prolific and decorated developmental biologist. His scientific contributions included investigations of several different aspects of embryology.
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Fate Mapping Techniques
For more than 2000 years, embryologists, biologists, and philosophers have studied and detailed the processes that follow fertilization. The fertilized egg proliferates into cells that begin to separate into distinct, identifiable zones that will eventually become adult structures through the process of morphogenesis. As the cells continue to multiply, patterns form and cells begin to differentiate, and eventually commit to their fate.
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Process of Eukaryotic Embryonic Development
All sexually reproducing, multicellular diploid eukaryotes begin life as embryos. Understanding the stages of embryonic development is vital to explaining how eukaryotes form and how they are related on the tree of life. This understanding can also help answer questions related to morphology, ethics, medicine, and other pertinent fields of study. In particular, the field of comparative embryology is concerned with documenting the stages of ontogeny.
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Julia Barlow Platt's Embryological Observations on Salamanders' Cartilage (1893)
In 1893, Julia Barlow Platt published her research on the origins of cartilage in the developing head of the common mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus) embryo. The mudpuppy is an aquatic salamander commonly used by embryologists because its large embryonic cells and nuclei are easy to see. Platt followed the paths of cells in developing mudpuppy embryos to see how embryonic cells migrated during the formation of the head. With her research, Platt challenged then current theories about germ layers, the types of cells in an early embryo that develop into adult cells.
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"The Cell-Theory" (1853), by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Cell-Theory was written by Thomas Henry Huxley in Britain and published in 1853 by The British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review. The twenty-two page article reviews twelve works on cell theory, including those in Germany by Caspar Friedrich Wolff in the eighteenth century and by Karl Ernst von Baer in the nineteenth century. Huxley spends much of The Cell-Theory on a cell theory proposed in the late 1830s by Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann in Germany.
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Julia Barlow Platt (1857-1935)
Julia Barlow Platt studied neural crests in animal embryos and became involved in politics in the US during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She researched how body and head segments formed in chicks (Gallus gallus) and spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias). Platt observed that in the mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus), the coordinated migration of neural crest cells in the embryo produced parts of the nervous system, bones, and connective tissues in the head.
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Matthias Jacob Schleiden (1804–1881)
Matthias Jacob Schleiden helped develop the cell theory in Germany during the nineteenth century. Schleiden studied cells as the common element among all plants and animals. Schleiden contributed to the field of embryology through his introduction of the Zeiss microscope lens and via his work with cells and cell theory as an organizing principle of biology.
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Neural Crest
Early in the process of development, vertebrate embryos develop a fold on the neural plate where the neural and epidermal ectoderms meet, called the neural crest. The neural crest produces neural crest cells (NCCs), which become multiple different cell types and contribute to tissues and organs as an embryo develops. A few of the organs and tissues include peripheral and enteric (gastrointestinal) neurons and glia, pigment cells, cartilage and bone of the cranium and face, and smooth muscle.
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"Transplantation of Living Nuclei from Blastula Cells into Enucleated Frogs' Eggs" (1952), by Robert Briggs and Thomas J. King
In 1952 Robert Briggs and Thomas J. King published their article, "Transplantation of Living Nuclei from Blastula Cells into Enucleated Frogs' Eggs," in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the culmination of a series of experiments conducted at the Institute for Cancer Research and Lankenau Hospital Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In this paper Briggs and King examined whether nuclei of embryonic cells are differentiated, and by doing so, were the first to conduct a successful nuclear transplantation with amphibian embryos.
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"Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution" (1987), by Rebecca Louise Cann, Mark Stoneking, and Allan Charles Wilson
In 1987 Rebecca Louise Cann, Mark Stoneking, and Allan Charles Wilson published Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution in the journal Nature. The authors compared mitochondrial DNA from different human populations worldwide, and from those comparisons they argued that all human populations had a common ancestor in Africa around 200,000 years ago. Mitochondria DNA (mtDNA) is a small circular genome found in the subcellular organelles, called mitochondria.
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2013 Men's Golf Regional Information
BRISTOL, Tenn. – The King University men's golf may not have qualified for the NCAA Division II South-Southeast Regional, but senior Richard Powell qualified as an individual. Powell is the first King men's golfer to qualify for the NCAA Championships. Only four individuals from each region are selected.
In his senior season, Powell led the Tornado with a scoring average of 73.5 strokes per round. The Hixson, Tenn., native earned six top-10 finishes, including the first five tournaments of the season. His best finish of second came at the LMU State Farm Invitational on October 15-16 where he shot 72-70.
The NCAA Division II South-Southeast Regional will take place at Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla., at Mission Inn Resort & Club. The regional will consist of three rounds on Monday-Wednesday May 6-8. The top two individuals not from a qualifying team will advance to the NCAA Men's Golf Championship May 20-24 in Hershey, Pa.


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I m developing an application using kinect.The IDE I use is Visual studio 2012 and kinect SDK 1.8.I m developing using vc++
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Dubai Marina is a man-made Marina on the West side of Dubai and often referred to as the "New Dubai". The project consists of more than 100 Skyscrapers. Most of the towers are either finished or in the final stages of completion. However, it is likely that with the current financial crisis, some of the towers will not be built or will at least be delayed for a considerable time.
The one mile long sea-facing Jumeirah Beach Residences, is the largest single phase residential development in the world consisting of 40 towers. The project is sometimes also referred to as the "Concrete jungle"!
I shot some night cityscapes of the Marina project from a reclaimed piece of land next to the Al Habtoor hotel. More images can be found here.
The light turned out nice about 20 to 30 minutes after sunset. A few clouds would have made things perfect... but this is Dubai!
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Nikon D700 with Nikkor 24-70 2.8 on a Gitzo tripod, using a remote control
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Single Raw file, Fused three images (+1/0/-2EV) with Photomatix Pro
Noise reduction with Nik Software Dfine
Tomorrow, I'm planning to jump on an Airbus A380 to Paris and spend the next 10 days in Belgium. Taking quite a bit of camera gear with me, I should be able to shoot some Urban photography in my home country.
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Maya Angelou
As some of you may know Mike and I are preparing for a gig at The Crescent Brewery on the 29th of December. We are playing from 8-11 and are doing 3 sets. It has been my goal to make this set list the strongest we have done yet as an acoustic duo. We are playing many blues songs and songs from the 60's and 70's. Just for fun I added in a great song by the Violent Femmes. I have also added in a song I have wanted to do for the longest time, "If You Could Only See" By Tonic. As well as the usual suspects we are also doing a few Welsh folk songs that some are sung in Welsh, some are macaronic, 1/2 Welsh and 1/2 English, and some are in English. Probably the parts of the set list I am most happy about are the 3 originals that I wrote and the original that Mike and I wrote together. I finally finished up the last of the changes on "No Feeling" which is our joint compilation. First I transposed it and then I added a capo on the second fret to bring it up to the key I wanted the song in. I am really pleased with the originals. 2 of them, "Journey" and "Make You See" were songs I wrote over 12 years ago and the other 2 were written this last year. For me the song writing process is either really fast, or very painfully slow. It took me over 6 months to lock down "Empty" and "No Feeling". "Empty" has always been complete as far as the chord progressions went, what took so long was the vocal melody lines. It took over 6 months to find the vocal melody line that I was happy with and then I had to lock it in my head to where I could actually hear the melody line without actually hearing the music. I finally got it locked in this last week. So we are rehearsing every night and getting ready. Acoustic duos take much more work because every mistake is painfully obvious, you don't have a bunch of other background noise to cover up when you make a mistake, hence the extra rehearsal time. On that note the full 5 piece is back in rehearsals tonight getting ready for the New Year's Eve gig and life is very good…. 🙂
On that note I will leave you with The Violent Femmes…
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YouthRights necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 63 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
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The National Youth Rights Association (NYRA) is dedicated to defending the civil and human rights of young people in the United States. We believe certain basic rights are intrinsic parts of American citizenship and transcend age or status limits. As the world's leading democracy, the United States should not lag behind other nations in granting first-class citizenship to its young people. NYRA aims to achieve its goals through educating people about youth rights, empowering young people to work on their own behalf in defense of their rights, and taking positive steps to lessen the burden of ageism.
NYRA is a national youth-led organization with nearly 10,000 members and chapters in a dozen states. We support lowering the voting age, lowering the drinking age, repealing government curfews, protecting student rights and fighting age discrimination.
NYRA has been featured in the Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Parade Magazine, on Fox News, CNN, Fox Channel, and in numerous other newspapers, magazines and numerous other radio and tv stations.
We are largely young (13-30) and engage in grassroots advocacy. Personality-wise we are (or wish to be) young, hip, dynamic, but yet professional and serious. We want people to take us seriously as a force for positive change, but don't want to be boring either.
Our membership is generally aged 13-30. We currently skew male, but hope to balance that out. Our desired audience are intelligent, politically engaged teenagers. Individuals who are active in their schools and communities, classic high school over-achievers. But also individuals who are willing to stand up and challenge authority and the status quo.
Striking the balance between edgy, hip, dynamic, activisty and serious, professional, model-citizen, will be a challenge for this project.
While young people, our membership, are our target audience, we also have a secondary audience of their parents, law makers, the media, and funders. Going too far into the subversive, edgy direction may scare or alienate the adult interests we need to win over to make change.
Our current logo is the patriotic red, white & blue design in hirez_NYRA_color.jpg. Because of the multiple colors and busy-ness of it, it is kind of hard for us to use in many places/contexts. Plus while we like the patriotic feel internally, I think it doesn't send the right message outside of us. It makes us look conservative or like the NRA.
So we want something simpler and more versatile. We also want something that better captures the spirit of the organization and does a better job of selling ourselves to the outside.
One new color scheme we have been playing around with lately is based off of the design for our brochure. The blue & orange colors I think have a nice feel and are an improvement over the patriotic colors of our current logo and the blue, yellow & green of our current website: http://www.youthrights.org
For the TeamAction.gif button I made I took the colors from the brochure and turned the edge of the front circle into an arch, I used that theme for this page: http://www.youthrights.org/actionteams.php
I'm also hoping for a logo that can have a version or be easily moved into a square version. On Facebook profiles and Twitter and many other places online a horizontal, rectangular logo doesn't seem to fit. I'm totally fine with a rectangular logo as long as there is some element of it that can go square. But that isn't necessarily required.
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Bill would spur competition, lower energy rates for Michigan consumers who pay highest energy bills in the region
CHICAGO - Constellation Energy and its parent company Exelon today voiced strong support for legislation (HB 5503) introduced by Rep. Mike Shirkey (R-Clarklake) to expand competitive energy markets in Michigan and immediately address the pent up demand of more than 7,000 customers to choose their electricity supplier.
David Fein, Exelon vice president of state government affairs, East, said the bill offers a measured, phased approach to expanding electric competition and provides welcome relief to consumers who pay dramatically higher energy bills in Michigan's stifled energy marketplace.
"We believe this legislation will gradually restore much-needed competition to the state's energy marketplace, give consumers equal opportunity to pay less for their energy, and put an end to Michigan's distinction as the state with the highest energy rates in the Midwest," Fein said.
Rep. Shirkey's legislation would meet the demand for choice by eliminating the 10 percent cap on shopping for electric suppliers, allowing thousands of customers who are on a waiting list to benefit from Michigan's competitive energy marketplace. This step would give about 19 percent of customers immediate access to competitive options in the Consumers Energy and Detroit Edison service territories. For each successive year, the legislation would allow up to an additional 6 percent of customers to shop.
"We know from the growth of customer choice nationwide that energy competition works. For the past three years, Michiganders forced to take service from monopoly utilities have shouldered significant rate increases while customers in competitive markets have been enjoying savings from the major drop in wholesale electric rates," Fein said. "Constellation and Exelon heartily endorse this measure to expand electricity customer choice, lower consumer energy costs and help Michigan regain its competitive edge."
Exelon's Constellation business unit sells competitive energy products and services to business and residential customers in Michigan.


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For the second year in a row, Heat fans thronged to downtown Miami Monday to celebrate the team's 2013 NBA Championship with a victory parade and rally.
Players rode double-decker buses down the confetti-strewn streets that were packed with fans, many of whom had arrived before the sun was up to grab a front row seat.
LeBron James kept a cigar in his mouth as he waved to fans from atop one bus as the team made their way to AmericanAirlines Arena.
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"All the fans that we're seeing here who supported us throughout the whole season, this is the least we could do is ride through the city and show our appreciation," James said. "It hasn't hit me yet, this is unbelievable to be a part of such a great franchise and to be able to go back-to-back champions, it's unbelievable.
"It's the ultimate, this is why I came down here, to be able to have a parade at the end of the year, I'm extremely blessed man, it don't get no better than this."
Chris Bosh carried the Larry O'Brien NBA Championship Trophy on another bus. Dwyane Wade rode another with his children at his side. Other players used water guns to keep the crowd cool.
The parade, which was scheduled to begin at 11 a.m., was delayed about a half an hour due to a brief shower. By 8 a.m., fans had begun filling in along the parade route and traffic backups were reported in surrounding areas.
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Fan Vernon Martin grabbed a chair just before 5 a.m. to get in position for the parade.
"We're major Heat fans, we knew the crowd would be out here, I want to be out to support our Miami Heat," Martin said. "It's special to see them win, especially for a second time."
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Team president Pat Riley, who said it was his ninth parade, said it was a great day for the team and city.
"It never gets old, the parade really is about history and you chronicle it and 20 years from now you'll be able to look back on it and really enjoy it," Riley said. "They're all good, but just because I'm a year older it makes it special, so I appreciate it more than ever."
One man from Kendall said he had to wait in traffic for two hours to get to the parade.
"It took me about two hours to get here but it was well worth it. I'm here to support the Miami Heat. Go Heat!" he said.
With temperatures expected to be in the upper 80s, it was a hot day to be outside, but Martin said he didn't expect the weather would keep the fans away.
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"It's about the Miami Heat, it's gonna be hot, we can take the heat," he said.
The parade route began at Southwest 8th Street and 2nd Avenue heading west on 8th Street to Brickell Avenue. It'll head north on Brickell then left on Biscayne Boulevard to the AmericanAirlines Arena.
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Southwest 8th Street was closed to cars at 9 a.m. and will reopen as soon as the tail of the parade passes.
An estimated 400,000 fans attended last year's victory parade and similar numbers were expected this year. Security was tight for the parade and Miami Police said no backpacks would be allowed during the celebration this year as a safety measure.
A fan named Renee and her family came from Cutler Bay and booked a hotel room Sunday night to ensure a good spot along the parade route.
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"We booked our hotel at the Hyatt, we came up last night so we could enjoy the parade this morning," she said. "We've had so much fun witnessing the victory, we are proud now to be Miami citizens."
While there were no major incidents, police officers were preoccupied with fans who brought backpacks despite authorities' requests to leave them at home.
Fan Diamond Giddarie said she brought a clear backpack so she could carry her things, but still comply with safety measures.
"True Heat fans watch the news and know what to do," she said.
Officials said it was impossible to check each bag, but undercover officers were on scene to monitor suspicious situations.
"We did our best. However, we had droves of people here so we couldn't check each backpack on an individual basis," Miami Police spokesman Freddie Cruz said. "Rest assured our undercover officers were monitoring each and every situation."
There was damage to at least one police vehicle by fans who got carried away trying to catch a glimpse of the NBA champions, but no one was arrested.
PHOTOS: Fans Celebrate at Heat Parade
Police also asked fans climbing a railroad crossing to get down, but plenty were still climbing up even after the parade was over.
The parade wound up around 1 p.m. and was followed by a private, ticketed rally inside the arena with the team. Only season ticket holders were allowed inside.
Inside the arena, Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado and city commissioners honored the team.
"We want to thank the Miami Heat, because not only have you brought Miami another championship, you have united this community and for that we thank you," Regalado told Riley. "Next year, repeat, repeat!"
"We'd like to think about doing that sir," Riley replied.
Miami-Dade commissioners also declared Monday as "Miami Heat 2013 NBA Champions Day."
"Miami parties better than any city in the world," Head coach Erik Spoelstra said, as he praised his team and the fans for stricking by them as they battled the Indiana Pacers and San Antonio Spurs in their final two series.
"We could not have done those two Game 7s without your support here at home," Spoelstra said.
"This is a blessing just to share this moment with some of the greatest guys, greatest teammates and more importantly my brothers I'm honored to be in this position right now," Juwan Howard said. "Miami we couldn't have did it without you, thank you Miami."
PHOTOS: The Heat Rally Inside the AmericanAirlines Arena
"This is the hardest working team in sports, not just basketball in every sport," James Jones said. we're gonna come back next year better than we were this year, we're going for three in a row."
Chris "Birdman" Andersen was also thinking about taking things to the next level.
"Let's try to get a three-peat next year!" Andersen said.
"To be here celebrating my third championship, who woulda thought it?" Wade told the crowd inside the arena." This one is special obviously because I know the category that it puts me in, I know how hard it was to get to this point. We had a lot of ups and downs as a franchise since I been here so to now be here celebrating our third championship with you guys, it's just phenomenal."
Last to speak at the rally was LeBron, who talked about playing Game 6 against the Spurs without a headband.
"It was an out of body experience for me," he said.
He also talked about his famous comments after winning his second NBA title.
"Like I said, I ain't got no worries, we ain't got no worries," LeBron said, before he had the crowd say it along with him.
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You're not alone if you're still resorting to time-consuming manual event log searches and trial-and-error attempts to reproduce and diagnose intermittent problems, but you're probably also painfully aware that such an approach takes hours, sometimes days or weeks before you finally determine cause and fix it. Read this white paper and learn how technology advances in pinpointing intermittent networking problems give you the capability to "drill-down" to root causes in a process that typically only takes minutes.


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China has been a major driver of global investment flows into real estate in recent years. CBRE Research data show that Chinese outbound investment in real estate rose from around US$8 billion in 2013 to just over US$35 billion in 2017.
Following a government clampdown on debt-fueled offshore investment and tighter scrutiny of overseas real estate acquisitions, buying activity slowed significantly in H2 2017 and is expected to weaken further this year as additional restrictions take effect.
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Translation: an ear for voice
"Trying to convey Alain Mabanckou's work to English readers depends on recreating a 'voice', not exact linguistic equivalence," says the Guardian article Translators must read with their ears, which later points out that "The difficulty of translating fiction isn't finding the correct equivalent for each word. That would be like a pianist reading music and fumbling about for the right note on the keyboard each time: no music would ever be made."
Find out more about Alain Mabanckou on his website and listen to an interview with Dominique Antoine.
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Some time ago Marta Renau-Michavila published an article on incorporating Alexander Technique into interpreter training to combat psychological and physiological stress. "La propuesta que presento… pretende trabajar con un elemento que todavía no ha recibido la necesaria atención del mundo académico, pese a su repercusión: el uso del cuerpo en la interpretación." Go to Del discurso del cuerpo: La técnica Alexander en interpretación.
It's become commonplace to talk of the translation industry, but is the term appropriate? Jost Zetzsche tackles this thorny question in Industrious? Yes. Industry? Maybe Not.
A new monthly newsletter for and about interpreters
"The Interpreter's Launch Pad is a free monthly newsletter. It brings resources, tips, and a bit of fun to the lives of professional interpreters." The August issue has tidbits about the history of interpreting and interpreter personality types, as well as a note on AIIC's new Facebook page.
And speaking of AIIC on Facebook, check out the page of the AIIC project to help interpreters in conflict zones. The ICZ team has been collaborating with the nonprofit organisation Red T on a field guide for interpreters and users of their services in conflict zones. You can also follow Red T on Facebook.
Interpreting for survivors of torture
From Freedom from Torture: "Language can be a significant barrier for torture survivors who are navigating systems and procedures in unfamiliar environments… For Freedom from Torture interpreters, cultural interpretation complements linguistic interpretation. Interpreters use their background knowledge to explain what the client is saying. This is crucial for effective communication."
Interpreters outlive a filibuster
"Almost 40 interpreters from the (Canadian) Public Works translation bureau's Parliamentary interpretation group worked 56 four-to-six hour shifts during the recent House filibuster… 'It was a marathon, and people were pretty exhausted after that,' senior interpreter Peter Douglas told The Hill Times last week."
Interning at the European Commission
"To teach or to translate? That is the classic question that friends and relatives ask you on completion of your language degree, to which you reply 'no way' right? Don't fret; there is another way…Why not try interpreting!" Read Eve Elwell's account of her time in Brussels on thirdyearabroad.com.
What lurks behind pronouns?
"Are there hidden messages in your emails? Yes, and in everything you write or say, according to James Pennebaker, chair of the department of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Pennebaker has been a leader in the computer analysis of texts for their psychological content. And in his new book, 'The Secret Life of Pronouns,' he argues that how we use words like "I," "she," and "who" reveal secrets of our psychology."
Read the full interview with Pennebaker from Scientific American. You can also get more information about the book, exercises/tests, and links to videos on his website.
Video on translation
Tradurre: A 2008 documentary directed by Pier Paolo Giarolo (multilingual with subtitles, on Vimeo).
"Translators have to master not only a language but also what's behind it: an entire culture and an idea of the world; that's why we have asked ten translators to come with us in this journey through words and languages and take us to discover these worlds."
What happens when the subtitles are missing?
At the recent Telluride Film Festival "the Brazilian movie 'Passerby' started showing to about 150 festival attendees. As the audience quickly realized, the film's distributor had sent the wrong print to Colorado, with the entire film playing in Portuguese with no English subtitles." Find out what happened next in this LA Times article: Telluride 2011: Who needs the English language, anyway?
Examining language
You'll find many worthwhile podcasts on PRI's The World in Words. I found this one on Consciousness, Poetry and Bilingual Babies impelling. And here's a related blog post by Rhitu Chatterjee, one of the interviewees.
On a more topical note, ever wonder why a British band chose the name Gang of Four? Check out Pharaohs, Cantonese and the Gang of Four, where the band talks about phrases using the word "farm".
DNA of speech deciphered
Researchers from the Université de Lyon examined 8 languages and concluded, "A dense language will make use of fewer speech chunks than a sparser language for a given amount of semantic information." As Time's Slow Down! Why Some Language Sound So Fast adds, "In other words, your ears aren't deceiving you: Spaniards really do sprint and Chinese really do stroll, but they will tell you the same story in the same span of time."
That elusive link
"Nearly 100 years of linguistics research has been based on the assumption that words are just collections of sounds - an agreed acoustic representation that has little to do with their actual meaning… Yet a spate of recent studies challenge this idea. They suggest that we seem instinctively to link certain sounds with particular sensory perceptions." Get the details and take a test on sound/meaning associations in New Scientists' Kiki or bouba? In search of language's missing link.
Open culture
I recently came across a series of 10 animated videos on the history of the English language, starting with Anglo-Saxon times and proceeding to Global English. It was produced by the Open University, and is available on the Open Culture website, which also offers free downloads of audio books and links to 420 free movies online.
Internet use and memory
A team of scientists says that the "widespread use of search engines and online databases has affected the way people remember information." On the good side, less memorizing of details seems to free up space for thinking about what they mean. Read more from the NY Times and listen to an interview with lead researcher Betsy Sparrow on the Science website.
Mandarin rising
Everyone talks about Globish as the world's lingua franca for business, though we know it is not enough. Bloomberg ranks the most important languages for business and reports that "Mandarin, China's official tongue, is also the top language worldwide for business other than English." Behind it loom French, Arabic and Spanish. Read more from Bloomberg.
Latin Lives
It may be a dead language to the public at large, but Latin is still alive in some parts of the globe. "Xosé Antón Dobarro, profesor de Latín en el instituto compostelano Antonio Fraguas, obtuvo este año el título de traductor intérprete jurado de la lengua de Séneca." Read more in La Voz de Galicia.
From Japan Times
"The lay judge trial of accused rapist and murderer Tatsuya Ichihashi… has captured a lot of media attention since it started July 4, but one element that has escaped notice is the quality of the language translation," the paper claims in Ichihashi trial bares translation woes. "Experts say the problem starts with the lack of official professional training and proper certification criteria for court interpreters."
That's Why Hair Grows on the Heart
"Shinzo ni Ke ga Haeteiru Wake" could be translated as "That's Why Hair Grows on the Heart." Author Mari Yonehara (米原万里, 1950-2006) spent part of her childhood in Prague, where she studied Russian. She later worked as a simultaneous interpreter between Japanese and Russian, interpreting for both Yeltsin and Gorbachev. "The essay that lends the book its quirky title touches on the subtle differences in expression in different languages and how difficult it is for an interpreter, pressed for time, to do them justice. 'That's why it is said,' she wrote, 'that a simultaneous interpreter's heart is covered in bristles'." Read What a difference a friend's tales of 'hair on the heart' can still make.
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PHILADELPHIA – Atrophy in the hippocampus, the region of the brain known for memory formation and storage, is evident in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with cognitive impairment, including early decline known as mild cognitive impairment (MCI), according to a study by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The study is published in the December issue of the Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
First, using traditional imaging analyses, researchers found that Parkinson's patients with MCI had more atrophy in the hippocampus, basal ganglia, amygdala, and insula compared with Parkinson's patients with normal cognition, whereas Parkinson's patients with normal cognition showed no significant loss of brain volume compared with healthy controls. For Parkinson's patients with full-blown dementia, atrophy was present not only in the hippocampus but also the surrounding medial temporal lobe, also crucial to memory and other cognitive abilities.
Then researchers generated the first structural pattern of classifying brain atrophy associated with dementia in Parkinson's disease by analyzing the scans of PD with either dementia or normal cognition.
"When we layer different information gathered from structural MRIs and generate a structural pattern that weighs different brain regions on their ability to distinguish PD with dementia from those with normal cognition, we can see a pattern of diffuse gray matter and white matter atrophy in the brains of Parkinson's patients with cognitive decline," explains the study's lead author, Daniel Weintraub, MD, associate professor of Geriatric Psychiatry with Penn's Perelman School of Medicine and the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center. "This complex analysis of brain imaging data suggests that it is possible to detect a wide range of brain atrophy at the initial stages of cognitive decline in patients with Parkinson's disease, which has not been reported previously."
As Parkinson's-related mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI) is increasingly recognized as an important clinical syndrome of possible precursor of Parkinson's dementia, biomarkers with good screening or diagnostic validity can help categorize levels of cognitive impairment, may predict future cognitive decline, and may ultimately help inform treatment decisions.
The neurodegeneration that contributes to cognitive decline seen in Parkinson's, particularly in regions of the brain known to play a role in Alzheimer's disease, such as the hippocampus, is likely due to a "complex interaction of different disease pathologies," the researchers said. Approximately 80 percent of Parkinson's disease patients ultimately develop dementia.
Parkinson's patients with normal cognition showed no atrophy and had similar brain volumes to healthy controls without Parkinson's or cognitive impairment. Therefore, researchers believe that significant brain atrophy in areas subserving cognition does not occur in Parkinson's disease without a comorbid cognitive impairment.
Eighty-four Parkinson's patients from the Penn Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center and 23 healthy controls received MRIs of the brain. Of the 84 Parkinson's patients, 61 had normal cognition, 12 were classified as having mild cognitive impairment, and 11 were diagnosed with Parkinson's disease dementia.
The research team included Dr. Weintraub, Jimit Doshi, MS, Deepthi Koka, MS, Christos Davatzikos, PhD, Andrew Siderowf, MD, MSCE, John Duda, MD, David Wolk, MD, Paul Moberg, PhD, Sharon Xie, PhD, and Christopher Clark, MD, representing the Penn Udall Center for Parkinson's Research and the Perelman School of Medicine's departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, Radiology, Biostatistics and Epidemiology. Dr. Weintraub and Dr. Duda are also with Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Clark is with Avid Radiopharmaceuticals.
The study was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes and National Institute of Aging, as well as a grant awarded by Department of Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.
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In our last installment, we nailed down the weight factors we'll use for our smoothness metric. Today we're going to wrap it up by specifying normalization conditions for the histogram and formally defining the metric. To refresh your memory a bit (or if you've joined us mid-stream), to get to this point we've done the following:
1) Recorded a damage and healing (or "tank health change") timeline during a simulation. This is basically a list of every time you take damage or healing along with the timestamp at which that event occurred.
2) Calculated a moving sum of that timeline over 4 boss attacks, or equivalently over 6 seconds of real-time. This gives us a new array representing all of the potential 4-attack damage spikes we could take, and is the source data we use for the smoothness analysis tables we've been using for the past 6 months or more.
3) Generated a histogram of that moving sum data. Again, this is just like what we've presented in the smoothness analysis tables, just done graphically and with finer bins.
4) Developed a weight function that we can use with the histogram. Multiplying the histogram by the weight function will preferentially value high-damage spikes and devalue weak spikes.
5) Roughly defined the metric as this multiplication of histogram and weight function.
Now we want to refine the metric by considering the appropriate normalization conditions.
There are a few reasons for normalizing the histogram before computing TMI. The first and foremost is that it makes the number you get more consistent between different experimental setups. In the previous two posts, the data I provided was normalized only by player health (i.e., along the x-axis). Everything else was left as-is for a 4-attack moving sum. Note that I said sum, not average – I wasn't even normalizing with respect to time. That's why we got numbers that looked like this:
| Set | TMI | | C/Ha | 18332 | | C/St | 7895 | | C/Sg | 16102 | | C/Shm | 22631 | | C/Ma | 41994 | | C/Av | 63949 | | C/Bal | 40468 | | C/HM | 23096 | | Ha | 49835 | | Avoid | 231586 | | Av/Mas | 229068 | | Mas/Av | 190308 | | Ha/h | 31126 | | Ha/he | 27795 | | C/Str | 66023 |
However, that was with 10k minutes of simulation. If we had run for 20k minutes, they would be roughly double those values, and if we had run for 5k they would be half as large. It would be ideal if they all gave roughly the same ballpark TMI value within error since they're all simming the same setup, just to different levels of precision. So one additional variable we want to normalize with respect to is simulation length.
Similarly, if we decided to calculate TMI with a 5- or 6-attack moving average instead of a 4-attack moving average, it would be nice if the values came out relatively close. As we'll see, we can't make them perfect, but we can get them in the right ballpark. So that's another variable we want to include in our normalization: the time window over which we perform our moving average. In essence, this is really just saying that we want to perform a true moving average of the damage timeline rather than a moving sum.
The first of those two is very easy, so we'll save it for later. Let's instead look at the time window normalization. To illustrate the point a little more clearly, here are the histograms that you get if you perform a moving sum of the damage timeline from the repeatability data set I used in the last blog post for different numbers of attacks $N$ ranging from 2 to 7:
It should be obvious that the distribution is shifting upwards roughly linearly, because we're adding successively more attacks together in our moving sum. If we were to apply the weight function at this point, we'd get weighed histograms that look like this:
Of course this skews the TMI values you get pretty heavily. This is what the TMI looks like for those different plots:
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Remember that this is the same data, just averaged differently. Ideally we want this to be a little more stable.
The first step is the obvious one: use a moving average instead of a moving sum. In other words, divide each moving sum by the appropriate $N$. I'm going to add one wrinkle to that procedure: I'm also going to multiply by 4. Why? Because so far, we've been designing the metric around a 4-attack moving average, which nicely puts the bulk of the distribution's value around the 100% of our health mark. I wouldn't need to do this, of course – I'm just multiplying by an arbitrary constant, so it won't change the relative values of anything. But it will make the plots look nicer and keep consistency with what we've done already.
So if we multiply each moving sum by $4/N$, we get unweighted histograms that look like this:
That looks a lot better. The distributions all have the same mean value now (a little less than 0.5, or 50% player health), so that should fix up our TMI weightings, right? Well, not quite. Here's what you get for TMI in this case:
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We now have the opposite problem: TMI is going down as $N$ goes up. What's going on here? The answer lies in the histogram plots above. But as a hint, here are the associated weighted histograms. See if you can figure out what's wrong:
The problem we're seeing is actually caused by two factors. The first is that while the distribution may be centered at the same value, it's not the same width. A 7-attack moving average gives a much narrower distribution than a 2- or 3-attack moving average. The second factor is our exponential weight function, which magnifies that difference. Wider distributions include more values at higher percent-health values, which get weighted exponentially more.
If we wanted to model this exactly, we'd estimate the distribution as a Gaussian function of the form $e^{-a(x-1)^2}$ and then multiply by our weight function $w(x)=e^{10\ln(3)(x-1)}$. Treating these as continuous functions and making the change of variables $y=x-1$, we get the following integral:
$$TMI \propto \int e^{-ay^2+by}dy$$
where I've used $b=10\ln(3)$ to make it simpler. By completing the square we can show that this expression evaluates to
$$TMI \propto \sqrt{\frac{\pi}{a}}e^{b^2/4a}$$
Now, here's the important part. The constant $a$ is related to the width of the distribution – it's actually inversely proportional to the square of that width. And since the width seems to be inversely proportional to $N$, that means $a$ is directly proportional to $N$. Technically it's proportional to some function of $N$, because we don't know exactly how the two are related, but we can estimate it as a power-law effect. So given that $a \propto N^{2k}$ and throwing away all unnecessary constants, we have:
$$ TMI \propto \frac{e^{~c/N^{2k}}}{N^k} $$
where $c$ is a constant determined by the exact composition of $b$ and $a$. Thus, if we want to normalize our data properly, we'd want to multiply our current TMI metric by the inverse of this, namely $N^k e^{-c/N^{2k}}$. We could try to fit our data to this form and get a value for $c$ and $k$ (and I did), but in practice that's not so useful. First, because our histogram isn't really Gaussian to begin with, especially for lower $N$ values. Second, because the histogram shape changes from gear set to gear set, so even if we could nail down $c$ and $k$ for one gear set it may differ for another.
Instead, I'm going to take a less accurate but simpler approach. The point of this normalization was not to make the numbers uniform across all moving average lengths, just to bring them closer together. So we'll drop the exponential factor and just try multiplying by $N^k$ while calculating TMI. Fooling around a bit, $k=2$ seemed to be fairly effective; here's what we get if we do that:
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Much better! Now they're all within a moderately small range, from 250k to 290k, except for the 2-attack moving sum. The 2-attack moving average is too far gone to fix, to be honest. That part of the curve is where the exponential factor we dropped makes a big difference, and it's also the distribution that deviates most from Gaussian. Since a 2-attack moving average isn't something we ever worry about much anyway, it's reasonable to exclude it as irrelevant and focus on making the 3- to 7-attack moving averages better.
There's one more normalization step, which is the one I mentioned at the beginning: simulation length. This one is easy though, because we just end up dividing by a constant value. In this case, it's the number of attacks we've received, which is 400k. So we do that, which gives us:
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Pretty nice!
There's one final step I want to include though. While it doesn't make any difference in the results, I want to multiply by a constant factor of 10000. Why? Most people will have more trouble remembering and interpreting a decimal like 0.7208 than they will a rough estimate like 7000. Keep in mind that we expect to see smaller TMI values, and it will get unwieldy to try and describe TMIs of 0.02 vs. 0.03 vs. 0.04 when we could just be talking about 200, 300, and 400. It also gives a clearer impression of the amount of change, because going from 0.02 to 0.04 doesn't seem like a big difference, but 200 to 400 does.
That gives us values that look like this:
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We now have a complete definition of TMI. We're not quite done yet though, as we can make a fairly significant simplification.
Cutting out the middle man
Up until now I've framed everything in terms of analyzing histograms because that's what we do when we make our qualitative assessments. But it's not actually necessary for the numerical version – in fact, it decreases accuracy to use it in the process.
To illustrate why, here's a simple example. Let's say we have the data set:
{ 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 }
Let's also assume that we use coarse bins for the histogram of this data, perhaps 3 units wide centered at 0, 3, 6, 9, 12, etc. Our histogram would look like this:
0: 0
3: 3
6: 3
9: 2
12: 0
Now let's say we perform the weighted average of the histogram, but for simplicity we use a flat weighting rather than an exponential one. Averaging the histogram gives us:
$$ \frac{0*0 + 3*3 + 6*3 + 9*2 + 12*0}{3+3+2} = \frac{45}{8} = 5.625 $$
But if we just took the average of the source data, we'd get:
$$ \frac{2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9}{8} = \frac{44}{8} = 5.5 $$
Now of course, the result gets closer the more bins we use. If we used a bin width of one centered at 0, 1, 2, 3, etc., we'd get identical results. But at that point you're not really accomplishing anything with the histogram at all, because every data point has its own bin.
The same is true in our case. We have an array of moving average values, and while it's convenient to bin them and show them as a histogram for plots, it's not at all necessary for calculations. Rather than calculating a weight factor based on the bin center and multiplying by the number of elements in the bin to get our weighted result, we could just calculate the weight function based on each data point itself and sum the result.
So we can completely cut out the histogram and go directly from the moving average array to the final TMI calculation. With that simplification, we have the final process we'll use to calculate TMI. I'll reiterate that entire process below so that we have it all in one place.
Formal definition of the Theck-Meloree Index
Note: While I've done everything so far in MATLAB, eventually we'll want to do this all in Simcraft. So even though I've used boss melee attacks as my default time window (i.e. a 4-attack moving average), we're going to define the metric in terms of seconds here instead.
To calculate TMI from a damage (and healing) timline $D$ with time bins of width $dt$, we perform the following operations:
1) Calculate the 6-second equivalent moving average array of damage over $T$ seconds for the entire simulation length $\tau$ (also expressed in seconds). We will use $T_0=6$ to represent this standardized window size. This step can then be formally expressed for the $i^{th}$ element of the resulting moving average array as:
$$ MA_i = \frac{T_0}{T}\sum_{j=1}^{T / dt} D_{i+j-1} $$
which produces an array $MA$ of length $M=(\tau – T)/dt$. It is also acceptable to use an apodized moving average that produces an array of length $M=\tau/dt$ Note that this step includes normalization for the time window we're considering ($T_0/T$).
2) Calculate the exponentially-weighted average of the moving average array as follows
$$ \Large {\rm TMI} = \frac{10000 T^2}{M} \sum_{i=1}^M e^{10\ln(h)(MA_i/PH-1)} $$
where $PH$ is the player's health. Note that this step normalizes for player health, fight duration (through $M$), and includes the normalization factor for moving average length ($T^2$).
And that's it! At some point in the future I'll post a complete standardization reference that includes this information and more (including things like the standard boss settings), probably as a separate post. But for now that should work for us. Note that this is really a proto-definition; we've found numbers that work well in MATLAB with this particular standard boss, but when we implement this in Simcraft we may need to tweak the normalization factors slightly. For example, I changed $N^2$ to $T^2$ when it should really be $(T/1.5)^2$, which adds a multiplicative factor of 2.25. I'm not worrying about that level of detail just yet though, as we can just change 10000 to whatever we want to soak up those flat multiplicative variations.
The only thing I want to add at this point, because I'll be using it in the next section, is a nomenclature detail. The term TMI will properly refer to the metric as calculated using a 6-second (or 4-attack) moving average (i.e. $T=T_0 = 6$). If we want to refer to the metric as calculated using a different $T$, we will make that clear by calling it TMI-T, such as TMI-9 for a number calculated using a 9-second moving average. Note that it's still normalized to $T_0=6$, just like we've done in the histogram figures above. That also means that TMI-6 is the same thing as just saying TMI.
Comparing gear sets
Now that we've got the final form of TMI, let's see how this works for the gear sets we investigated in Part 2. Here's the full TMI matrix for TMI-4.5 (3 attacks) through TMI-10.5 (7 attacks) for all of the gear sets
pct=100.00, N=200, vary hdf | Set | TMI-4.5| TMI | TMI-7.5| TMI-9 | TMI-10.5| | C/Ha | 6510 | 7333 | 6448 | 5782 | 7308 | | C/St | 2579 | 3158 | 3186 | 3133 | 4032 | | C/Sg | 5595 | 6441 | 5956 | 5487 | 7027 | | C/Shm | 12329 | 9053 | 9317 | 8583 | 8681 | | C/Ma | 35402 | 16798 | 14027 | 12395 | 12189 | | C/Av | 69139 | 25579 | 23279 | 22235 | 21745 | | C/Bal | 26551 | 16187 | 15309 | 13198 | 12505 | | C/HM | 9400 | 9238 | 7226 | 6235 | 7706 | | Ha | 23534 | 19934 | 13139 | 12983 | 13479 | | Avoid | 293086 | 92635 | 74288 | 60576 | 49226 | | Av/Mas | 289307 | 91627 | 70596 | 53821 | 42384 | | Mas/Av | 198467 | 76123 | 58722 | 43421 | 34818 | | Ha/h | 14302 | 12451 | 9569 | 9155 | 9841 | | Ha/he | 10460 | 11118 | 9084 | 7801 | 9395 | | C/Str | 65271 | 26409 | 25203 | 22577 | 20106 |
Not bad. We no longer have crazy TMI values in the 200 thousands, though the avoidance sets do get up near 100k. But of the useful gear sets, the numbers are pretty reasonable. C/Ha comes in a little over 7k, and it's clear that C/St is a significant improvement at 3k while C/Sg is only a small improvement at a little over 6k. Just like our qualitative assessments suggested.
Comparing bosses
Before we quit for the day, I want to demonstrate another quirk of TMI. I mentioned a few paragraphs ago that I'll be defining a "standard boss" in a future post. I mentioned the reason why in passing in Parts 1 and 2, but now I want to formally explain why we need to do this.
First, consider what happens if we halved the size of the boss's melee attacks. The entire histogram would shift to the left because each spike just became half as large as it was before (if not smaller, thanks to absorb effects). That looks something like this, where we've reduced the boss's melees from 350k (after mitigation) to 200k:
And of course, if we then perform our weighted-average calculation on the histogram we get a much smaller number. For example, here's the TMI values we get with the above histogram:
pct=100.00, N=200, vary hdf | Set | TMI | | C/Ha | 113.2 | | C/St | 81.8 | | C/Sg | 109.9 | | C/Shm | 126.8 | | C/Ma | 176.4 | | C/Av | 217.0 | | C/Bal | 156.8 | | C/HM | 118.2 | | Ha | 154.8 | | Avoid | 301.1 | | Av/Mas | 286.0 | | Mas/Av | 280.2 | | Ha/h | 132.3 | | Ha/he | 129.3 | | C/Str | 153.3 |
The relative ordering is the same, of course – that's courtesy of our smart choice of an exponential weight function. But the values are much lower than they were in the first table. Now consider what happens if you compare the value for Av/Mas from this table to C/Ha from the first table. It looks like Av/Mas wins, doesn't it? But that's only because we cheated, and weren't comparing apples to apples.
In some sense, we were measuring using different scales. The lower table could be in feet and the upper table in centimeters, for example, and there's no doubt that 3 cm is less than 1 foot. But if you leave off the units, it looks like it's just 3 vs. 1.
We could normalize for this if we had to, just like we normalized out other factors. But this one is more complicated and less useful. First of all, what do we normalize by? Boss melee attack size? That's all well and good until we start introducing magic damage into the mix, at which point our normalization doesn't work correctly anyway.
We could normalized based on raw boss DPS from all sources before mitigation. That seems like it should work, but introduces another wrinkle. What if player A calculates their TMI with a boss doing 1 million raw DPS with only melee attacks and player B calculates their TMI with a boss that does 1 million raw DPS with only spells? Will it be valid to compare the two? Well, no, not really, because physical and spell damage function differently. So even this normalization doesn't make it any easier to compare TMI values across different situations. We'd still need to specify what the boss details are, so we may as well have not bothered with the normalization in the first place.
There's another reason I prefer not to normalize by boss DPS. If we compare the bosses doing 350k and 200k damage per swing, the differences between gear sets are much smaller. While the relative ordering is the same, it's clear that the impact of changing from a C/Ha gear set to Av/Mas is not that big. And that's actually useful information! It's telling you that for this boss, there isn't a huge advantage to any of the gear sets in terms of survivability. In other words, it suggests that you significantly overgear the boss, which is a hint that you can start shifting to DPS stats.
So that's why we have to specify a standard boss. Rather than doing that now, I'm going to wait until I can collect all of the relevant specifications into a single blog post (along with the SimC implementation, which I haven't finished yet at the time of this blog post's writing). But it will likely be primarily physical damage with a sprinkling of magic damage via a DoT effect.
There aren't really any "conclusions" to draw from today's post. We were mostly fine-tuning the details of the metric we've developed in the last two blog posts. But we can briefly summarize what we've done.
First, we discussed and developed normalization conditions for the metric. This doesn't actually change the results any, it just scales them to be more convenient. Rather than comparing numbers like 0.012 to 0.024, we can use normalization to turn those into more easily-interpretable numbers, like 1200 and 2400. The normalizations we've applied attempt to keep the value semi-reasonable under a wide range of simulation variables.
We also made note of the fact that the histograms we've been showing were an unnecessary middle-man in the calculation process, and removed them from the process when we provided the formal definition of the TMI metric.
Then, we tested the normalized function with a bunch of gear sets just to make sure the results still made sense and agreed with our previous results. Of course, since normalization factors don't change the relative values, there's no way anything we did could have changed the results unless we screwed something up (spoiler: we didn't).
Finally, we briefly touched on the reason that we need to define a "standard boss" for use with the metric. The metric will certainly work with any boss definition you like, but the values you get out will depend heavily on how that boss is configured. So if you want to be able to make comparisons (like between two different classes, for example), having a standard is really useful.
The next post on this topic probably won't be until next week. It will discuss the Simulationcraft implementation of the metric and any modifications we've had to make to get it working well. It will also formally define the metric, including details on the standard boss, and provide brief instructions on how to load your character in Simcraft and calculate your own scale factors.


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Feb. 24, 2011 Author Art Lander Jr.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. – With Kentucky's spring wild turkey season opening in less than two months, now is a good time to make sure your shotgun is on target. printable turkey targets help.
Sighting-in is especially important if you will be hunting with a shotgun you are unfamiliar with, or you've changed your shotgun's barrel choke or hunting load.
One key difference between turkey hunting and other upland game bird hunting is the shotgun, and how it performs.
The warmer weather of March is a good time to make sure your turkey gun shoots consistent patterns and delivers its payload where you aim it. Use these tips to help bag a tom turkey this spring. Spring turkey season opens April 16 and closes May 8 with a daily bag limit of 1 bird.
The turkey shotgun is carefully aimed like a rifle and must be able to deliver a tight swarm of hard-hitting pellets to a relatively small printable turkey targets. A turkey's vital area is its head and neck, which is about the size of an adult's clenched fist, wrist and forearm. Even the largest of gobblers will be instantly immobilized if shot pellets penetrate its bony skull or vertebrae.
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It's surprising how many shotgun barrels aren't straight, and as a result they throw shot patterns that may imprint high, low, left or right of the aiming point. (check the printable turkey targets impact) The problem can also be traced to improperly installed choke tubes.
"If the choke tubes aren't parallel to the bore, the point of impact will be off," said Mike Ezell, a gunsmith in Auburn, Ky. "I can also make a barrel adjustment, in which the barrel is actually bent (straightened) with the use of a jig."
One way to check a shotgun's point of impact is to shoot at a paper target at close range from a steady rest.
Chamber a low-powered target load (No. 6 or No. 7 1/2 shot) and shoot at a baseball-sized bullseye at about eight yards. In just one shot you'll be able to see if the shot pattern is centered on the bullseye.
The most economical way to correct a point of impact problem is to install moveable open sights on your shotgun's barrel. Several companies make fiber-optic sights that simply wrap around a shotgun's barrel or attach to its ventilated rib. Changes in windage and elevation, to center the pattern on the bullseye, are made with just a few turns of a screwdriver.
Another option is to replace a crooked barrel. Most brands of shotguns offer replacement barrels especially made for turkey hunting. They are typically shorter (20 to 24 inches) and may be equipped with sights and screw-in choke tubes. Hunters who need the advantage of better vision in low light or heavy cover might also consider installing a telescopic sight on their turkey shotgun. The increased magnification makes sighting-in faster and easier.
Once your shotgun's point of impact problem is solved, the next step is pattern density testing — to find the best load for your shotgun. This will involve shooting several brands of turkey loads, with different shot sizes, at a turkey head target.
"You get just one shot at a turkey, so you've got to make it count," said Peter Garrett, a gunsmith in Newport, Ky. "I recommend smaller shot for better (more uniform) patterns."
Another procedure a gunsmith can perform that will improve your shotgun's patterning ability is lengthening the barrel's forcing cone.
"This creates a more even transition after the shotshell opens up, and the shot string moves down the barrel," said Garrett.
There's been a quantum leap in turkey gun performance in the past decade. Today's off-the-shelf, high-performance turkey shotguns are capable of putting more than 100 No. 6 pellets into a 10-inch circle at 40 yards. Most turkeys are bagged at much closer ranges, so a high performance turkey gun isn't necessary to be a successful hunter.
Two popular chokes for 12-gauge shotguns used in turkey hunting are full (diameter .694), and extra full (diameter .689), but after-market chokes are available in much tighter constrictions, such as .675 or .670.
The most effective shot sizes for turkeys are No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6. Both lead and non-toxic shot are legal, but shot larger than No. 4 may not be used to hunt turkeys in Kentucky.
Generally, the smaller No. 6 shot requires a tighter choke for best results. When shooting larger shot, such as No. 4, loosen up the choke constriction, and you'll get more uniform patterns.
"The heavier payloads of shot in a shell (1 7/8-ounce or 2 ounces of shot) tend to blow holes in patterns if the choke is too tight," said Ezell. "For more consistent patterns, you've got to back off on the choke constriction."
There's also a trade-off with changes in shot size – the larger the pellet, the fewer per ounce. For example, one ounce of lead shot is equal to: 135 No. 4s, 170 No. 5s or 225 No. 6s. Smaller shot carries less energy downrange, but creates denser patterns. Larger shot carries more energy downrange, but shoots much less dense patterns.
What's a reasonable hunting distance for turkeys? Lots of gobblers are taken each spring under 30 yards, so don't get discouraged if your shotgun won't throw tight patterns farther out than that. Keep testing load and choke combinations until you find what works best.
Since turkey hunting shotshells are expensive, a good way to offset the cost is to buy several boxes of shells as a group, sharing among hunting buddies or club members. That way everyone gets to try several different brands to see what shoots best in their gun.
Once you've found the shot size and choke combination that yields the tightest, most uniform patterns, it's simply a matter of shooting at increasingly farther distances to determine your shotgun's effective range. (check your printable turkey targets impact)
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"Every gun is different," said Ezell, "but I recommend trying some of the heavier-than-lead shot that's on the market today. It will improve your patterns and penetration." (check your printable turkey targets impact)
Made from metal alloys, non-toxic shot has become increasingly popular with turkey hunters because it exhibits superior patterning — tighter groups at longer ranges. (check your printable turkey targets impact)
Use these printable turkey targets tips to put more turkeys in your bag this spring.
Author Art Lander Jr. has been writing about the outdoors since the 1970s. He is a staff writer for Kentucky Afield Magazine.
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Jessica Simpson is still hoping that someone will find her beloved missing pooch.
The sandy-colored malipoo has been Jess' companion for five years before she was snatched by a coyote in Los Angeles yesterday as the songstress stood and watched in horror.
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"My heart is broken because a coyote took my precious Daisy right in front of our eyes. HORROR!" she tweeted. "We are searching. Hoping. Please help!"
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May 15, 2013
When Amanda Jordan, who is earning her master's in counseling this spring, needed a topic for her action research project, she drew on her role as a counseling intern at Grant High School for inspiration.
"Kids I talked to told me they were missing class in order to hang out with their friends during free periods," Jordan told the Portland Tribune. Jordan also observed students getting poor grades in easy subjects because they skipped class if it was on the same day as a free period.
The resulting research question: Does a high selection of free periods (three or more) impact school engagement for juniors and seniors at Grant High School?
Jordan's semester-long study examined the attendance, behavior, performance, and attitudes of Grant's 1,548 students, 57 percent of whom were taking a full course load of seven classes. Grant's free periods are 75 or 90 minutes, Tuesday through Friday.
What Jordan found was that upperclass students with three or more free periods had more absences than those with fewer than three free periods. Juniors with three or more free periods saw a steeper decline in their grade point average than those with no free periods.
"There's a strong correlation between the students' decline and the free periods," Jordan said. "I can't say causation, but there are strong indicators."


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