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"Supercomputer simulations of colliding black holes", department colloquium, January 25, 2012, 10-11am
Geoffrey Lovelace, Cornell
Gravitational waves---ripples of spacetime curvature---are poised to open a new window on the universe: the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (Advanced LIGO), scheduled for completion in 2015, is expected to detect between 1 and 1000 gravitational waveforms per year. Among the most important sources for Advanced LIGO are colliding black holes, which can radiate as gravitational waves more energy than a supernova. Finding these waves in noisy LIGO data requires accurate predictions of the expected waveforms, but because all analytic approximations break down, the gravitational waves emitted by two colliding black holes can only be predicted using numerical simulations. In this talk, I will discuss recent progress and challenges in supercomputer simulations of colliding black holes and the application of these simulations to LIGO data analysis.


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A cold, rainy night. The gardens and meadows of an historic house are covered with carved pumpkins. Each glowing with a flickering candle, each unique, from menacing to beautiful. Tiffany stained glass, skeletal hands, skulls, faces of the famous, a garden of bugs and birds, boats, animals, the moon, a sea bed of fish, abstract art.
Three thousand pumpkins. The setting up, nightly candle lighting and the cleaning up when the display is over, done by volunteers.
Nearly as many visitors as pumpkins. Noisy, but orderly. We follow a path snaking through and around the displays, umbrellas up, trying to keep dry and not poke the person in front of us. My head spins. Left, right, up to the house top, along a raised bank. A pirate ship, a witch, Frankenstein, Dracula.
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Everybody interprets the world around them in their own unique way; it's what makes the human race so fascinating. Our experiences and relationships help shape us to be the individuals we are today and it is through such that we learn to interpret the world with unique perspectives.
The common expression 'Is the glass half empty or half full?' is a great example of perspective coming into place. From an optimist's perspective, the glass would be half full but from a pessimist's it would be half empty.
My underlying point is that only pessimists know which route other pessimists would go down, and the same can be applied to hackers.
Whitehat vs Blackhat
The history of the term Hacker is fascinating, with it originally meaning those who tinkered with early systems to get the most from them. However over the last several years, the term has unfortunately taken a wrong turn. With the power of social media and other internet communications, unlawful hacking has become more of a pop culture; encouraging more and more people to become one, all for the wrong reasons.
Automated tools are available to those who want to get into blackhat hacking, and although these hackers would be classed as 'script kiddies' by experienced hackers; they're still capable of serious damage.
Those sporting the whitehat are fighting back though, and they're slowly (but surely) taking the spotlight with their heroics in fighting cyber crime. In fact since tools such as the Raspberry Pi have become popular, the term hacker is often being used in its original context i.e. people tinkering with the pi to make it do a range of different things.
Although significant, this slight change doesn't alter the fact that cyber crime is the most commonly associated action with hackers.
Which hat do you need?
When looking to protect your organisation from blackhat hackers, it's beneficial to have the perspective of one. Of course, you're not going to give permission for a criminal to attack your networks (at least I hope you wouldn't).
Instead, you're going to need the experience of an ethical hacker who has a broader range of skills than a blackhat and the ability to report back to you with his findings. Which in other words is called a…
Vulnerability Assessment
A vulnerability Assessment is a combination of manual and automated testing and reports. It discovers vulnerabilities, classifies them and gives remediation activities. It defines the security posture of an organisation and the attack surface area.
A vulnerability assessment which is carried out by a certified ethical hacker will leave you with two things:
- A report detailing where you're vulnerable and what you need to do to fix it, and
- A wake up call
My reasoning for number 2 is explained by the the image below which demonstrates the average numbers of vulnerabilities across IT Governance's last 6 vulnerability assessments
19 high risk threats
You may believe that your organisation's network is impenetrable but without the perspective of an attacker, you'll never be able to know how vulnerable you are because you don't perceive a network in the same way an attacker would.
The ideal strategy is to do a vulnerability assessment on a frequent basis and then via risk assessment identify critical components which will, if compromised have a high impact on the organisation. These systems should then be penetration tested to identify if they are exploitable and what the impact would be.
Call in an expert
IT Governance offer a wide range of technical services including; vulnerability scans, vulnerability assessments and penetration tests.
For a detailed description of each of these services and how they'll benefit your organisation, you should take a look at IT Governance's Types of Penetration Tests Table


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The Energy Maps Project
Our Project
The Energy Maps project helps California residents become more involved in decisions about how energy infrastructure projects are built in their communities.
Directed by Hal Nelson, research associate professor in Claremont Graduate University's School of Social Science, Policy, and Evaluation, the map depicts proposed projects such as solar and wind power plants, transmission lines, and gas pipelines, providing an early warning system for citizens and municipal governments about what's being planned for their communities. This will help them to participate in the planning processes at an earlier stage, potentially reducing the legal gridlock and expensive delays that are straining the current system.
"Many of these projects are potentially disruptive to communities, and when they're developed in isolation it 's a lot harder for the communities to provide alternative ideas," Nelson said. "We think the map has the potential to lead to better outcomes and less litigation."
California's Energy Infrastructure
The region is experiencing a boom in energy infrastructure construction as California races to meet ambitious renewable energy goals. The queue to connect new electricity generation facilities to transmission and distribution stations currently contains 79 projects in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties alone. Many of these new generation facilities will require new transmission lines to deliver the electricity to urban areas. In addition, if extraction of natural gas in the Monterey Shale increases, there will be a need for new natural gas pipelines, crude–by–rail infrastructures, and gas processing facilities.
These types of projects create social dilemmas: They provide much–needed economic development and reliable oil, gas, and electricity supplies, but come with tradeoffs such as environmental degradation, health and safety risks, and property value declines for communities next to them. Under the current system, communities often do not know about the projects until proponents file plans with state regulators. This "decide, announce, defend" approach can result in disastrous battles between energy suppliers and citizens during the planning process.
For example, a $2.1 billion, 250–mile power line project that will deliver wind energy to the Los Angeles region was delayed for more than two years while residents in Chino Hills, California, fought against a five–mile section near their homes. The city spent more than $3 million in taxpayer revenue on the battle. The local opposition group Hope for the Hills convinced the California Public Utilities Commission to halt construction and eventually ordered the segment placed underground. Construction of the underground segment will take upwards of an additional two years, resulting in a four year delay in getting the power line operational.
"By reaching out to the project sponsors early in the design phase, communities have a better likelihood of having their concerns integrated into the project's development," Nelson said.
Understanding Energy Infrastructure Conflict
In a second element of the Energy Maps project, Dr. Nelson is leading research into the questions raised by communities about new energy infrastructure projects. Utilizing traditional data collection methods along side social network data collection and analysis, the project hopes to provide a deeper understanding of the complex factors driving new energy infrastructure conflicts in California.
"We believe that the project provides the foundation necessary to move beyond the gridlock created by contentious siting of infrastructure facilities," states Dr. Nelson, and one that "can help ensure that California will be able to build the energy infrastructure it requires for the region's continuing prosperity," and beyond that to ensure "it will be located and designed in a way that is acceptable to the communities in which it is located."
Building off previous research by Dr. Nelson on reducing conflict around energy infrastructure construction, the map and related research are funded by a two–year, $127,900 grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Our Team
Hal T. Nelson, PhD
Project Director
Hal Nelson is an Assistant Professor in the Hatfield School of Government, Department of Public Administration, Portland State University. His research interests include quantitative methods and research design, policy analysis, the policy process, energy policy, energy efficiency, policy and program evaluation, as well as social sustainability.
Jacopo Baggio, PhD
Social Network Analyst
Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University, specializing in the analysis and study of social–ecological networks, and cooperation.
John Emiliano–Urata, PhD
GIS Analyst & Developer
Doctoral candidate, Center for Information Systems & Technology, Claremont Graduate University, specializing in GIS solutions.
Richard H. Ross, MA
Project Management & Web Development
Program Coodinator, Transdisciplinary Studies Program, Claremont Graduate University, specializing in environmental and digital history.
Kris Wikstrom, MPPA
Project & Community Analyst
Doctoral candidate, Division of Politics & Economics, Claremont Graduate University, specializing in quantitative and computational analysis of international political economy, development and conflict.
Our Research
Journal Articles
Nelson, H., *Swanson, B., *Cain, N. (2017). "Close and Connected?: The Effects of Proximity and Social Ties on Citizen Opposition to Electricity Transmission Lines." Journal of Environment and Behavior. Vol 50, Issue 5, pp. 567 – 596 .
Nelson, H., *Cain, N., *Yang, Z. (2015). "All Politics are Spatial: Integrating an Agent–Based Decision Support Model with Spatially Explicit Landscape Data." In Campbell, H. et al, (Eds) Rethinking Environmental Justice in Sustainable Cities. Routledge Press. pp. 168-189.
Journal Articles
Abdollahian, M., Yang, Z., & Nelson, H. T. (2013). "Techno–Social Energy Infrastructure Siting: Sustainable Energy Modeling Programming (SEMPro)." Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 16 (3), 1–12.
Cain, N. L., & Nelson, H. T. (2013). "What Drives Opposition to High–Voltage Transmission Lines?" Land Use Policy, 33, 204–213.


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When most people heard that Baron Davis had signed a contract with the Delaware 87ers, the D-League affiliate for the 76ers, just one question came to their minds: Why? BD is 36 now and hasn't played in the NBA since 2012, so why in the world would he want to try and make a comeback now?
In a new New York Times piece, which opens with him trying to wrap his mind around the fact that D-League teams have to catch connecting flights when they travel, BD actually provides a very reasonable explanation for why he is trying to make a comeback. According to him, he doesn't want the last image that people have of him to be him getting carried off the court at Madison Square Garden on a stretcher after suffering a devastating knee injury during the 2012 NBA Playoffs.
"In the back of my mind, I always thought about how I went out, being carted off of the Garden on that stretcher," he told the NYT. "So eventually, it was just like: 'Man, I have to say my peace. I have to go and push myself.' And that's what led me here. I'm a believer in starting from the bottom.'"
Davis admits that he thought about starting in a place like Israel, Finland, or China where he wouldn't receive any criticism from skeptical NBA fans. But he ultimately decided on the D-League, since it will probably provide him with the best chance for making a return to the NBA. So Delaware it is.
"Delaware is not like Hollywood," Davis said. "But Delaware is cool. All you really need is a gym and a couple good places to eat and a movie theater."
And hey, if Elton Brand can play in the NBA in 2016, why not Baron Davis? He's currently dealing with a "tweak" that he sustained in the 87ers' game against the Bakersfield Jam on Friday, but he's not expecting it to keep him out for long. He's also been putting up some pretty decent numbers on the court so far, so it'll be interesting to see if any NBA team out there actually takes a chance on him.
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While you may think that reading this blog gives you all the 18th century British grenadier goodness you can stand, you really need your very own grenadier. Fortunately, the people over at Paper Replika have posted plans that let you create your very own. Looks really cool.
My latest time sink has been Turntable.fm. I am absolutely hooked. My most frequent haunt is a 'room' which specializes in rock and heavy metal music. One of my fellow metalheads recommended the movie Anvil! The Story of Anvil and I heartily pass along that recommendation. Even if you aren't a fan of heavy metal music (and Anvil isn't my particular cup of tea) you should check this out. It's all about friends, family and following your dreams. While it would have been quite easy to make a mocking, real-life Spinal Tap, the movie does a great job of showing the human faces of the band and their families. Quite possibly the best documentary I've seen in a very long time. Really, don't miss this.
I'm a bit skeptical of the 'Oh no! China will bury us!' meme but there are real consequences at the prospect of tens (hundreds?) of millions of people moving from poverty into the middle class. Some of those we can guess pretty easily like the increase in demand for consumer goods and energy which will make resources scarce and likely accelerate climate change. Others you might not readily think of. Take, for example, the boom in hunting mammoth tusks in Siberia to feed the ever increasing demand for ivory in China.
Nearly 90 percent of all mammoth tusks hauled out of Siberia—estimated at more than 60 tons a year, though the actual figure may be higher—end up in China, where legions of the newly rich are entranced by ivory. The spike in demand has worried some scientists, who lament the loss of valuable data; like the trunk of a tree, a tusk contains clues about diet, climate, and the environment. Even Yakutiyans wonder how quickly this nonrenewable resource will be depleted. Millions of mammoth tusks, perhaps more, are still locked in Siberia's permafrost, but already they're becoming harder to find.
Probably not a huge deal in the big picture but you never know what this might lead to.
The Swedes continue to astound the world. Recent low water levels have revealed the wrecks of two 17th century Danish warships. Pretty amazing when you consider it's a capital city and the waterways are heavily developed and used.
So, the economy is changing fast…manufacturing jobs are going overseas, technology is making old jobs obsolete, you know the deal. So, what happens to people lacking education, opportunity for reeducation or other reasons they can't keep up? Well, the U.S. government has (unintentionally) created a program to warehouse all these people in poverty.
It's called disability insurance. And in addition to poverty wages of about $1,000 a month you also get health insurance. Since that's a better deal than most low wage and/or part time jobs out there it basically incentivizes people to stay on the program until they are eligible for social security. And since 'disability' is a subjective evaluation rather than a medical diagnosis, this is a problem that won't get better on its own.
There's a whole lot more you should know about our disability system may not do what it was intended to. Check out this brilliant explainer from NPR.
The Washington Post apparently has an annual peep contest every year. Check out one of this year's finalist…Zero Peep Thirty.


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GUTS Ishijima is alive and wrestling in DDT.
March 9, 2019 Limitless Wrestling, Westbrook Maine. Teddy Hart vs Darby Allin
April 18, 2019, TNT Extreme Wrestling, Merseyside Liverpool England
PAC vs Pentagon Jr
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March 9, 2019 Limitless Wrestling, Westbrook Maine. Teddy Hart vs Darby Allin
March 9, 2019 Limitless Wrestling, Westbrook Maine. Teddy Hart vs Darby Allin
Two of my favourites going right now and it lived up to the hype. Classic Teddy at the end.
This is good.
This is great even though the finish is unnecessarily overbooked.
Bayou Independent Wrestling
Making History
May 18th 2019 Brookhaven Mississippi
Dirty Andy Dalton,son of Frank Dalton and long time TX indie star, vs The Amazing Danny Chance,newer TX and now MS indie star and 2018 BIW Rookie of the year.
First Womens Tag match in BIW history
Alex Garcia,TX based but has recently worked for Stardom and AIW in Cleveland,/Alejandro Lion,recently worked the first Lucha Libre show in Mississippi, VS Ali Bama,Deep South based rising star, and Reiza Clarke,Reminds me a bit of Jazz.
Apoc Adam Asher,LONG time TX vet, vs The Nightmare Known as Jeremiah,one of the best big man wrestlers in the Deep South,in a Dog Collar Match. These guys have been building to this match for 12 months. And the match is a Brutal Bloody Brawl. With them using wooden tables,chairs,garbage cans and a entire table of condiments from the concession stand. In the tradition of the Tupelo Concession Brawl here is another southern brawl in Mississippi.
Chuck Taylor vs. Wheeler YUTA
Rampage vs. Kyle Fletcher
Orange Cassidy vs. Gentleman Jervis
I need more Thunderkitty in my life.
I usually hate these kind of matches, but it's Sanshiro Takagi being the owner going over.
This is good. So traditional.
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Rampage vs. Kyle Fletcher
Rampage vs. Kyle Fletcher
In the pre-match interview, Rory Coyle gives Fletcher's partner a new gimmick. He calls him Mark 'For Himself' Davies.
The opener of this week's Loaded is a storming Robbie X vs Sean Kustom match. Defiant probably will post it as a single video around thursday, or you could just watch the whole show. It's a pretty good one. Has one of the more gratuitously violent contract signings I've seen.
Hey, Yoshinari Ogawa is still wrestling. Come for the NOAH stiffness, stay for the total slaughterification of Junto Miyawaki. God. they fucking kill him.
O man, one forgets how much fun the sleazy world of Ludark Shaitan is. La Magnifica is hardcore.
I was going to say LA PARK MAILING IT IN IS STILL PRETTY GOOD but then he hits his double-wide Ciclon Ramirez tope and you totally forgive the shitty booking.
This is fun. Natalie Markova kicks wee French lass Camille Grignon in the face a whole lot.
Eh, how about this from Beaumont, TX. I love Heather Monroe.
Jesus, I wish the 80s NWA had thought of this belt. Lee Scott would come out every week trying to unload this belt on Cougar Jay. or Snake Brown.
Hey, it's Minoru Tanaka again this week. Hmmmm. Maybe he should sign with MLW. Akitoshi Saito is still wrestling, it appears. Dig the stiffness of the other lumpy NOAH heavyweights/pretty boys.
This is from March and they don't totally destroy Junta Miyawaki but after a while this get's really stiff- an ode to WAR Main Events actually.
This match is motherfucking awesome.
I am too lazy to check and see if this was posted already
Shane Strickland vs. Mil Muertes
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The opener of this week's Loaded is a storming Robbie X vs Sean Kustom match.
The opener of this week's Loaded is a storming Robbie X vs Sean Kustom match.
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This match is motherfucking awesome.
This match is motherfucking awesome.
Great Minds, man...
Fricking Yoshiaki Yatsu wrestled in the 2019! Ahhhh, DDT.....
Shingo is great in this, matching the stiffness of Maybach and Yuji Hino.
This is pretty good Canadian indie wrestling. I dig the ref.
First it was two sudden Minoru Tanaka matches last week and then we get this sudden Masato Tanaka match. This should have been on WCW Pro.
I don't think I've ever paid attention to NOAH junior heavyweights, but this is really good. Yo-HEY does this crazy roll-up at 3:58 that I've never seen before in 47 years of watching wrestling. Which is a good thing to see for free on the internet. I am now working my way forward from January on the NOAH youtube account! YEAH! MY HEART HAS TO RECOVER AND I GOT TIME ON MY HANDS!
This Harada/ YO-HEY is also really great. I've ignored Harada's career to this point but his offense is all high impact and whatnot. Nigh perfect dropkick at 2:49.
Man, Minoru Tanaka brings the actual selling to the NOAH match. This is basically the match above but executed as a King's Road match. Note that Tanaka sells Harada's offence instead of just moving forward to the next spot, which I have not seen a junior heavyweight do since the 90's. And we would bitch about it at the time that they didn't sell enough. If we only knew then what we know now.
This is pretty good.
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At Silverline Executive Travels we would like to help by making it as perfect as possible without any hassle in our executive cars with suited chauffeurs, so that you arrive relaxed and in style. We have three options to suit your budget
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From holidays to business travels, Silverline Executive Travels will provide executive cars to all our customers with a reliable and hassle free service. We take into account potential delays such as road works and weather to ensure you reach your destination on time. Our services do not end there, on arrival we will greet you inside the airport to give you peace of mind knowing you have your own chauffeur accompanying you. All Silverline cars for the airport service have fresh water and mints available to make your journey as relaxed as possible.
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Whether it is your wedding day or prom night, it is an important day for you. At Silverline Executive Travels we would like to help by making it as perfect as possible without any hassle. Our service involves making your day extra special with ribbons of your choice, chocolate gifts, a bottle of Champagne and any other special requests.
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Wouldn't you love to travel in style around town or outside the city? With General Taxi Services we supply you with a fully valeted executive vehicle to multiple destinations. You enquire for a local pickup to any destination and we will do our best to accomadate you with our executive vehicles. Whatever the ocassion, you can count on us to be there. Prices are £40 per hour.
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Zee, our minibus driver was a true gentleman, helping me and my family in and out of the vehicle. Thank you for still keeping my booking when I had failed to respond in time. Highly recommended.
From initial contact the service received has been first class. We were fortunate to have secured a booking for Christmas Day. The vehicle a Mercedes was wonderful, the in car refreshments a lovely touch. And a bottle of champagne all for a very reasonable price. Our driver was helpful and courteous.
We highly recommend this company for all your travel requirements. We will definitely be using them again.
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- What's YOUR definition of success?
- Stop comparing yourself to others – because their definition of success is probably different than yours.
"Don't let your ladder of success lean on the building of others (or others' Facebook status updates!!!!!). Seriously. Comparing what you have or what you've done to that of others is the quickest way to de-motivate and sabotage yourself. Let their success stories inspire you, but don't go chasing after their dreams. Create and stay true to your own definition of success."


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We promised we would come back with a more detailed article and here it is. If you haven't seen the previous one about the WWDC2017 keynote's announcements, you can click here.
1. The new App Store
The App Store is changing soon with iOS11. As it is the main platform to download Apps on iOS, using all the capabilities of it can lead to better download rates of your apps. Let's have a look on the changes.
Overall design
First, the new App Store features a new "Today" tab that will presents exclusives and innovatives apps selected by Apple. Having your app displayed in the today tab comes with being interviewed in order to display a story about your app and how it was imagined and developed.
This App Store tends to display more selections of apps that have been chosen by Apple or have a great download growth. The "apps" tab doesn't display the complete app ranking list directly anymore, this historical ranking is still available but is a little bit harder to find as there is only a short version of it in this tab that can be expended.
Games now have their own tab as they represent a very important part of the App Store.
App Pages
Your app presentation page will soon change for the better.
With the new App Store, you will be able to add a subtitle below your app's title. A nice way to avoid using the title to give a micro description of your product, which will lead to make it's name more impactful.
You will also now be able to add up to three video previews of your app (only the first one will be displayed on devices that don't have iOS11 installed). Your app first preview will automatically play without sound on the search page of the app store.
The app description won't be editable anymore after a successful publication on the App Store. All promotional information can now be placed before this description in a dedicated section and can be updated at any time.
As for your in-app purchases, you can now make them available directly from the App Store though it will require a little update on your app to support it. For each in-app purchase, you can specify a name, an image and a description that will make it available directly in the search section of the AppStore. If a user wants to download an in-app purchase without owning the corresponding app on his device, he'll be invited to download it as well.
Another important change is about the app rating. It will now be calculated on the basis of all reviews of all versions of your app. But don't worry. If a version had an issue that led to a big decrease of your rate, you can reset it when updating your app.
App Store Rules
A few rules have changed with this update:
- 32 bit apps won't be supported anymore.
- Apple will refuse your application if it asks the user to rate the app without using the native popup introduced with iOS 10.3.
- Since iOS 10.3, you can reply to comments.
2. CoreML & Vision : Machine Learning for all
Nowadays, machine learning is a very important subject to be aware of. There are infinite possibilities that come with it and Apple is giving us the keys to make it easy to implement some of it in iOS apps.
If you don't know about Machine Learning yet, it's a way to work with data and process to discover patterns that can later be used to analyse new data and make predictions. ML usually relies on a specific data representation, a set of "features" that are understandable for a computer.
CoreML is a great way to use pre-trained Machine Learning models directly into your application for offline predictions. Apple gave a very large list of domains it can be used on :
As a demo of CoreML, we've been shown an application able to recognize the kind of flower from a picture.
Previously, using ML models in an iOS app was a very hard task. But the CoreML API is easy to use and can work with machine learning models generated from a bunch of existing ML libraries such as: Caffe, Keras, Turi, XGBoost, libSVM or scikit-learn. These models can be transformed into an Xcode compatible format with an open source tool provided by Apple (as it is open source, it might soon support models from more libraries). Importing this transformed model into your application automatically generates a code wrapper in order to use it really easily.
For exemple, let's say I trained with Keras library a ML model that can find the name of a car through a picture. I can transform the resulting model to be Xcode compliant and then use it in my project with a few lines of code by providing an image and retrieving the result as a string of characters.
Even though CoreML has a lot of pros, it also has some cons :
- You cannot train your model directly into your application.
- The model converter doesn't support models from famous libraries like TensorFlow yet.
- You cannot look at the output produced by intermediate layers of your model's network. You only get the predictions that comes out of the last layer.
On the top of CoreML, Apple now provides "Vision" API, allowing developers to create great experiences by providing several tools to analyse photos and videos.
In vision, there are tools to detect faces (and parts of them : eyes, mouth, ears…), detect emotions, detect and track objects, detect barcodes, detect text, etc… Associated with ARKit (cf: 3rd feature of this article) and you can create features like Snapchat's AR filters way faster then before.
3. ARKit : Augmented Reality made easy
Augmented reality is being more and more discussed. With Microsoft launching HoloLens, for exemple, the market appears to be slowly moving towards AR solutions for new user experiences. ARKit provides great solutions to add Augmented Reality capabilities to your iOS apps without having to care about using other proprietary tools than Apple's. ARKit doesn't need markers or calibration to work, it simply "works".
How does it work?
ARKit is a Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) system, which means it only detects 2D plans, that maps real world position from pixels of the camera's image and uses others sensors of the device to track its position in space. As most iPhones have only one camera and not a "depth camera", moving the phone allows it to take pictures from various angles and still knowing from where in space it has been taken by comparing to the previous pictures. With a lot of complexe calculations, that can only be carried by powerful phones (the iPhone 6S is the minimum configuration), this VIO system allows ARKit to create a real-time 3D mapping (world tracking) used in augmented reality.
What can you do with it?
The most famous use of augmented reality resides in adding 2D or 3D objects, animated or not, in a real-time capture of the real world. Thanks to the world tracking of ARKit, theses objects will remain where they belong. For exemple, if you add a 3D model of a lamp on a real table, moving around the table won't change the position of the lamp. Also, in ARKit, a light exposure filter is added to 3D objects so they can blend perfectly into the real world and its actual luminosity.
Augmented reality can also be used in sync with Machine Learning to display informations about real objects. For exemple, an AR langage translation application will detect text in the real world, read it and translate it thanks to machine learning. Then, with augmented reality, the application can display a replacement text at the exact position of the original one with the desired langage.
There can be unlimited possibilities with augmented reality for professional as well as for private use in a very large scale of domains.
Why using ARKit?
ARKit solved a lot of issues in coupling VIO Algorithms and Sensors as Apple only works with specific hardware they choose, making it a reliable technology for Augmented Reality.
You might want to try ARKit to make "proof of concept" apps, making your AR ideas real on iOS, deploying them on that plateform first as it is already widely available (on the contrary, Hololens or Tango on Android are not ready for mass distribution yet as they only work on really few devices). Of course, there are a lot of different AR solutions, and ARKit may not be technically much better. But its strength lies in its reliability on existing devices and the way Apple made it easy to use in the iOS SDK.
4. Drag and Drop : The iPad to the next level
Drag and drop is a feature all computer users are quite used to. Especially Mac users as it is an important part of the OSX user experience to be able to drag and drop almost anything anywhere (as long as it makes sense to do so, of course). With the iPad Pro, Apple has taken a step forward in making the iPad a viable replacement for a Mac (for standard usage at least).
But then, the iPad was still missing real interactions between apps. In iOS11, with Drag and Drop and a brand new multitasking system, the iPad is now reaching a new level. Making the multitouch capability of the device a real strength.
How does it work?
Just as you would expect, drag and drop on the iPad will work by long pressing an item. This item will then follow the finger that picked it until the user drops it somewhere. But that's not it! You can also select multiple items (even of different kinds) by using another finger to select them. With your other hand, you can navigate easily between apps to drop your items at the right place. As it is better to see it with your own eyes, here's the keynote demo of Drag and Drop:
Using it in your apps
With the new Drag and Drop API, you can make any visual item of your app draggable. Any view can receive dropped item as long as it is configured to do so. You can choose to receive some types of objects, even custom ones, that will only work between your very own apps.
About security
Drag and Drop is secured. Until the dragged items are dropped, the linked objects wont be exposed to the apps they fly over. When you drop an item, if the drop is valid (object type supported by the destination), the object is downloaded asynchronously to the target app if the source app allows it.
What about the iPhone?
Drag and Drop WILL be available on the iPhone too. Although it will only work inside a single application, which means you won't be able to drag and drop between apps. This decision makes sense as the iPhone can't display multiple applications at the same time, and using both hands to navigate while dragging would be a bad user experience on such a small screen.
5. Document based Applications
iOS11 (finally) includes a consistent system-provided user interface for opening and creating documents. Users can now explore files saved by apps or themselves from a new "Files" application as well as from third party applications.
What kind of applications?
To use Apple's exemple, let's say you want to develop an app that allows you to create and save 2d particules effects. Saving and loading a file containing a 2d particules effect can now be done by using the new interface provided by iOS11. This way, the user can choose where he wants the file to be saved, he can manage his files as he wants. This interface can be customised to fit the design of your application.
To give a nice appearance to your custom files, you can even provide a preview that will be generated by your application and displayed, instead of the standard file icon just as photos and pdf appears in this file browser.
To sum up, this new system looks a lot like the one you can experience on OSX, and every app that creates or modifies files should now be using this interface for the sake of consistency in the user experience on iOS.
We really enjoyed WWDC 2017 and we hope you now have a lot of new ideas to create applications or enhance existing ones.


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DIY Father's Day Gift Box
Time: 20 minutes
Materials: box, paint, brush. scissors, wood tape
Okay, so. I found this amazing self adhesive wood tape about a year ago, but haven't been able to use it in any projects until now. After typing that sentence, it seems that I may or may not be a hoarder of craft supplies. Alright, so I am. But not to worry, it's allllll a part of the job.
Since Father's day is next weekend, why not put some extra thought into the outside of his gift as well? It really takes no time at all to customize a cheap gift box. Here's how I gave mine a makeover:
Paint the outside of your box and let dry. You can even write a message to your dad on the inside of the lid if you don't want to get a card. Cut your wood tape into triangles, or whatever shape you prefer. Peel the back off the tape and stick on your box. It really couldn't get any easier than that!
Fill with colored tissue wrap, confetti, and anything you dad would like!


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Peru Passport Photo Requirements
Peru passport photo requirements can be overwhelming, yet they are important not to overlook.
According to the website of Citizen Services, one of the most requested services by Peruvians is applying for a passport.
One must follow the Peru passport photo requirements in order to not over complicate the application process.
Peru Passport Photo Requirements:
- Passport Pictures should be 2 x 2 inches
- Three photographs for your interview
- Photos should have a white background behind the person
- The person must have their face toward the camera
- In color
- Only recent photos will be accepted
- Nothing should obstruct the person's facial features in the photo, including glare
- No glasses are allowed in photos
- Hats and other head wear are prohibited
More information and data drawn for above can be found at the Consulate of Peru in Vancouver and Peruvian Consulate in Hungary.
Peru Passport Renewal:
Peruvian citizens renewing their passport must obtain new passport photos adhering to all the requirements above.
The exception however, that only two recent photographs are required in the renewal process.
Visiting the U.S.
All Peruvian citizens who plan to visit the United States will need a valid passport.
The passport should have a valid date that extends at least six months past the foreseen departure date from the United States.
In order to travel to the United States, a citizen of Peru will need to apply for and obtain a U.S. Visa.
There are specific photo requirements for Peruvian citizens to apply for a U.S. visa.
According the Peru U.S. Embassy, the photo is one of the most important parts of the visa application
process, so follow the requirements carefully.
U.S. Visa Photo Requirements for the Citizens of Peru:
- Photographs should be in color, in front of a plain, white or off white background
- All photos must be taken within the last six months and should reflect a current appearance
- The person should not smile, but instead, should have a neutral facial expression
- Both eyes must be open
- The photo should be taken in normal, every day clothing
- Head covering and hats are prohibited, except those worn for religious reasons
- Glasses without tinted lenses are permitted
- Any photos with glare from glasses will not be accepted
For more information about U.S. visa photo requirements for citizens of Peru, visit U.S. Embassy-Lima.
Citizens of Peru can choose from two types of visa to apply for when planning to travel to the Unites States:
- Nonimmigrant Visa (B-2)
- Immigrant Visa
A nonimmigrant visa is meant for a citizen of Peru who is intending to enter the U.S. for temporary reasons, such as tourism or business.
An immigrant visa is meant for citizens of Peru who are intending to move to the United States to live permanently.
For more information about visiting the United States as a citizen of Peru visit the U.S. Embassy of Lima, Peru.


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Earlier this year, the editors of V, a magazine so recherché it can make Vogue seem like Redbook, published an issue featuring large models in expensive body-baring clothes. In one photograph, a woman in a strapless bathing suit, cut to reveal three rolls of flesh, grabs at her platform stilettos. In another, Tara Lynn, a size 16 model, is clad in nothing but a pair of
Mainstream fashion magazines have always purported to embrace diverse images of the female body, publishing periodic "shape" issues that juxtapose the thin and very thin with the moderately fleshy. But only in the last year or so have notably larger women been released from the fringes, appearing not only in magazines and on television but also in the more rarefied world of the runway, including a Chanel show in St.-Tropez this spring. This shift dates, more or less, to last fall, when Glamour ran a small picture of a 5-foot-11, 180-pound model comfortably exposing her paunch. So unusual was the appearance of belly fat in this context that the magazine received thousands of letters and comments, most of them roaring with support. The model, Lizzie Miller, appeared on the
If defenders saw in these photographs a less-restrictive imagining of the female form, detractors perceived further instances of fetishistic extremism. "This is not a positive look at larger women in fashion
but a freak show,"one Internet poster wrote of the V shoot. Another pointed out that glorifying the other end of the weight spectrum did nothing to change fashion's essentially unhealthful message: "We are taunted daily by skeletal fashion models. . . . However, I defy any of you to idolize these women. Nobody wants to be this fat!"
Size is a subject of considerable controversy in fashion, but it is equally so in American life. What is big? What is too big? What is not big enough? The plus-size woman — to use the marketing-sanctioned term — exists in an increasingly populous and contested ghetto. In recent years the fat-acceptance movement, born in the '60s, has regained momentum online in what is known as the fatosphere, where much time is spent debunking the supposed benefits of dieting and the dangers of
Perhaps nowhere is the cultural confusion surrounding the larger woman more pronounced than in the clothing industry's efforts to dress her. According to a 2008 survey conducted by Mintel, a market-research firm, the most frequently worn size in
Even as more and more women get larger and larger, what is available to outfit them remains limited. Four months after the spread in V, the April issue of French Elle showed Tara Lynn undressed again — this time seated in a fan-back wicker chair as if she were waiting for a cocktail at a nudist colony. Could she find nothing to wear?
A venture through the fatosphere — sites like Brickhouse,
In recent years, new players have occasionally entered the game, as the designer Elie Tahari did not long ago; but just as many, or more, have exited or cut back. In 2005, H&M stopped selling plus-size clothes in the
The market for plus-size clothes is effectively a
The most formidable obstacle lies in creating a prototype. If you already have a line of clothing and a set system of sizing, you cannot simply make bigger sizes. You need whole new systems of pattern-making. "The proportions of the body change as you gain weight, but for women within a certain range of size, there is a predictability to how much, born out by research dating to the 1560s," explained Kathleen Fasanella, who has made patterns for women's coats and jackets for three decades. "We know pretty well what a size 6 woman will look like if she edges up to a 10; her bustline might increase an inch," Fasanella said. "But if a woman goes from a size 16 to a 20, you just can't say with any certainty how her dimensions will change."
Thin people are more like one another; heavier people are less like one another. With more weight comes more variation. "You'll have some people who gain weight entirely in their trunk, some people who will gain it in their hips," Fasanella continued. "As someone getting into plus-size, you can either make clothing that is shapeless and avoid the question altogether or target a segment of the market that, let's say, favors a woman who gets larger in the hip. You really have to narrow down your customer." A designer must then find a fit model who represents that type and develop a pattern around her. But even within the subcategories, there are levels of differentiation. "Armholes are an issue," Fasanella told me, by way of example. "If you have decided to go after the woman who is top-heavy, well, some gain weight in their upper arms and some do not. There are so many variables; you never win. It's like making computers and then deciding you want to make monitors; a monitor is still a computer product, but it's a whole new kind of engineering."
The few elite manufacturers who have spun off into the plus-size world prove that capital and patience are required in equal measure. Marina Rinaldi, a branch of Max Mara, sells three million pieces of plus-size clothing each year in 93 countries. To make these high-end plus-size clothes, Marina Rinaldi employs 50 people in the paper-pattern department alone. Three fit models are in the design studio every day. Because most of the fabric is stretch, its tensile strength must be tested: 80 percent is manipulated mechanically or by hand to measure resilience. Cutting a stretch fabric is more complicated, because it doesn't rest easily on the table; stitching it requires using a yarn with elasticity. By the time a Marina Rinaldi tunic-length, drawstring cardigan arrives for sale at $395, it can seem almost economical.
As anyone who has tried to outfit herself in an American shopping mall knows, sizing often seems utterly arbitrary. One manufacturer's size 4 can announce itself as an invitation to a StairMaster; another as an excuse for a soufflé. Still, as Americans have become bigger and bigger (though not necessarily taller), sizing has evolved to accommodate the shift. While researching old production manuals, Fasanella discovered that a postwar 10 was roughly the equivalent of a current size 2. The dimensions specified for it, in 1947, were a 32½-inch bust, a 25-inch waist and a 35-inch hip. This, as Fasanella points out, poses a challenge to the notion of hourglass voluptuousness as the midcentury emblem.
Oddly, the market for larger clothing was energized while the country was in the midst of one of its earliest
At the turn of the 20th century, a Lithuanian-born dressmaker named Lena Himmelstein Bryant, whose shop in New York became the basis for the Lane Bryant chain, was asked by one of her clients to make a dress she could wear out of the house while pregnant. Bryant quickly reproduced it, creating what is considered the first commercial maternity dress. By 1911, Bryant's maternity clothes were doing very well, but newspapers were reluctant to run advertisements for them. So Bryant, with her second husband, Albert Malsin, developed a mail-order catalog. When that proved a success, they decided to tackle ready-to-wear for the "stout figured" woman.
To establish just how larger women differed from average women, Malsin, an engineer with experience plotting curves on railroad tracks, devised a malleable yardstick to measure the figures of 4,500 Lane Bryant customers. Bryant compared those measurements with those of some 200,000 women culled from
As Lane Bryant's business was growing, one of the best-selling books in the country was a weight-loss instructional called "Diet and Health With Key to the
As the ideal of the elongated flapper took root, women were continually urged to mask their excess. A 1926 textbook on dressmaking cautioned "stout" women to avoid shiny surfaces because they "make the figure appear larger than do dull surfaces." Ballooning girth was the object of moral opprobrium in popular culture during the first decades of the 20th century, as the historian Peter N. Stearns outlines in his book "Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West." Tracing the genealogy of the phrase "fat slob," Stearns finds that it appears as early as 1910 in Owen Johnson's novel of prep-school life, "The Varmint." Four years later the magazine Living Age said, "Fat is now regarded as an indiscretion and almost a crime."
If a certain revulsion toward fat has characterized American life for more than 110 years, it is not so surprising that there is more than a little dissembling in selling plus-size clothing. Online and in print catalogs there is often little effort to reflect the realities of the customers' proportions. Neiman Marcus uses thin models to sell plus-size, as does Woman Within, a retailer devoted solely to this market. At Neiman Marcus, the plus-size department is called "women's," and the sizes range from an obfuscating 1x to 3x, as they do elsewhere. Lane Bryant, still a leader in the plus-size field, refers to the category devoted to sizes 28 to 36, handled by its sister-brand, Catherines, as "exclusives."
All this canny nomenclature seems predicated on the assumption that the larger a woman is, the more shame she experiences when shopping. Yet, as Jim Fogarty, the president and chief executive of
In April, Lane Bryant broadcast its first television ad for its lingerie line, Cacique. A bosomy, heavy-set model parades around a bedroom dressed first in a bright blue teddy and then a series of bra-and-panty sets. Settling on some lacy underwear in fuchsia, she checks the smartphone on her vanity table and takes note of a calendar reminder that says, "Lunch with Dan." Who is Dan? Apparently not her accountant — she merely throws on a short black trench coat and walks out the door.
Lane Bryant bought air time during
One complaint of the fat-acceptance movement is that the media deny the larger woman any semblance of appetite. Dove's famous "Campaign for Real Beauty," which shot women of varying shapes and sizes in their underwear, can hardly be said to resound with eroticism. In an essay titled "Fat Heroines in Chick Lit," the blogger and activist Lara Frater credits the best-selling author Jennifer Weiner's "Good in Bed" for prompting a series of novels over the past decade, known collectively as "bigger-girl lit," in which heavy young women make peace with their bodies and enjoy romantic fulfillment. What Frater laments is an absence of characters heavier than merely average-heavy. "Although it is good to see characters who are in the 9-16 range," she writes, "it would be beneficial to see characters above 16 and maybe even some that are supersized (i.e., way above size 20, or 300 pounds)."
Companies that market to young women in their teens and 20s are especially aware of how attitudes are changing.
Nine years ago, Torrid, a plus-size clothing chain aimed at teenagers and young women — and one named to counter a thousand misconceptions — began selling band T-shirts and jeans, a look that was mainly street-driven. Slowly, Torrid began to offer more feminine clothes and eventually grew to 155 stores. On its Web site, Torrid shows its leggings and pencil skirts and lace tights on unambiguously large models.
"You have a pretty interesting and self-assured group of young women now in our age group who don't come with some of the same baggage that was prevalent before," Chris Daniel, Torrid's president, told me. "The girl herself isn't waiting to be accepted. She says, 'I like that top
Torrid carries up to size 28, Daniel says, but it is bombarded with requests to go higher. Lycra is hugely popular, he told me. "The number of skinny jeans we sell would astound one. Can we call them skinny? I don't know. "Skinny" is a bad word. Our girl hates skinny."Continue reading the main story


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BPM software gaining steam in mobile sector
The bring-your-own-device movement is combining with the consumerization of IT and the rise of telework to create an environment in which many core business tasks are done on smartphones, tablets and other personal computing devices. This move away from company-owned end-user hardware is changing the way employees access data and applications. Business process management software is emerging as a key unifying technology that provides the integration and automation necessary to create a better mobile experience for a more flexible workforce.
BPM solutions gaining prevalence for mobile
According to a recent EnterpriseAppsToday report, the move toward using mobile for more advanced business functions, not just email operations, is becoming substantial enough that organizations have to respond. This is creating an environment in which more companies are showing an interest in business process management solutions that are capable of meeting their mobile needs.
Janelle Hill, vice president and distinguished analyst of business process management research at Gartner, told the news source that there is currently a gap in the mobile BPM industry because many business leaders only have broad ideas of what needs to get done and cannot provide clear guidance on how technology can better meet their needs. At the same time, most basic mobile BPM functionality is fairly simple.
The report said only a few leading vendors, such as Appian, are charging ahead to better mobile functionality with much of the BPM sector falling behind. Hill explained that positive momentum in mobile BPM is essential moving forward because a wider range of employee types are going mobile.
"Mobile is going way beyond so-called field workers or mobile workers," Hill told EnterpriseAppsToday. "Business professionals are all mobile workers now. On-call professionals – doctors, IT professionals, dispatchers, emergency personnel, lawyers, insurance claims personnel, utility workers, et cetera – are a big opportunity."
Understanding the benefits of mobile BPM services
BPM solutions designed specifically to support mobile device use can provide a powerful interface that aligns cloud and social data and applications to make them more interoperable with mobile systems. This is especially important because screen-size limitations and mobile operating systems provide a different architecture for running apps. This creates an environment in which integrating the data between cloud, desktop and mobile instances of an application is vital because the same interface cannot be commonly used across the board. BPM provides this kind of integration, ensuring that mobile employees can access the information they need and use it effectively.
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Two brewery openings on Saturday to highlight.
You'll find beers by Spellbound Brewing in the beer tent at Mount Holly's annual Witches Ball outdoor costume party in Mill Race Village.
It's a soft opening for Spellbound, a public debut by Mount Holly's second craft brewery to open in less than a year. (Spellbound's just under a mile away from Village Idiot Brewing. Look for Village Idiot to also be at the Witches Ball; Flying Fish will also be pouring there.) The brewery is also among sponsors of 5k charity race the next day.
Co-owner John Companick explains further in the video.
Elsewhere, Forgotten Boardwalk opens to the general public. The Cherry Hill brewery has been teasing its beers to a members-only club over the past couple of weeks. FB opens at noon.
After a parade of stainless steel-laden trucks to Spellbound Brewing's loading dock, the next delivery truck to pull up will most likely be loaded with malt and hops, yet another signal of "beer soon" from the Mount Holly craft brewery.
On Wednesday, a canning line was offloaded at Spellbound, the last of the equipment that co-owners John Companick, Mike Oliver and Scott Reading acquired to outfit their production brewery.
"All the equipment we need is in the building," John tells Beer-Stained Letter. "It's nice seeing it here, knowing that we don't have to wait for another (equipment) truck to back up. The next truck that backs up is going to have our ingredients."
On Wednesday evening, the Cask ACS line, capable of putting up 30 cans a minute, sat freshly uncrated, waiting to be tucked into its spot in the brewery floor plan.
The canner and depalletizer arrived a couple weeks after Spellbound's 20-barrel brewhouse was forklifted piece by piece off a flatbed trailer; in weeks prior, it was the brewery's fermenters.
There's still some crucial work ahead, i.e. electrical work and completing the coldboxes. But the finish line is very close, John says, and a summer opening with eight to 10 taps in the tasting room is within reach.
"Right now, we're just working on finishing up the electrical, getting the permits; same thing with the plumbing," John says. "Then we're down to getting our certificate of occupancy, getting our OK from the state after inspection, and then we're ready to go."
When that happens, Spellbound will become the second Mount Holly craft brewery to open its doors. Village Idiot Brewing opened late last year just three miles away along High Street, the main thoroughfare through the town, the county seat of Burlington County.
A quick update about Spellbound Brewing ...
Now that the trio of John Companick, Scott Reading and Mike Oliver (that's them in the photo) have the keys to a business park suite at 10 Lippincott Lane in Mount Holly, attention turns toward acquiring the brewing equipment that will ultimately make Spellbound's lineup of ales.
The 20-barrel brewhouse and related tanks will come from Premier Stainless, and the trio are about ready to push the button on placing the order.
Meanwhile, there's the matter of getting into shape the interior and grounds of the site they officially leased in late September. (The place was once a textile mill.)
Figure on a winter's worth of cleanup and renovation in Spellbound's immediate future.
Target date for opening? They're projecting mid-spring-ish.
If you're tracking Spellbound be flexible, though. There's generally an obstacle or two that needs to be cleared, and that can slow things.
The Spellbound folks hope all the research they've sunk into their planning will help keep the project moving along steadily, minimize the hiccups.
Have a beer, take home a glass, mug, snifter or tulip. Snifters and Glasses from your favorite local and non local Brewers: Brooklyn, SixPoint, 902, Ommergang, Kane, Allagash, Green Flash and many more. Every


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Slasher Complete UTV Axles for Yamaha Rhino 450, 660, 700 Models are fully assembled outboard and inboard joints installed on a 4340 chrome-moly steel axle bar. All internal precision ground components are assembled using high temperature, high load bearing moly grease to ensure maximum internal lubrication. Engineered to provide superior performance. Neoprene boots are manufactured to provide superior protection against ozone, which is the leading cause of boot failure.
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