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True Crime: New York City, sets you playing good cop/bad cop in the old big apple - whilst nothing original it should be pretty fun right? Well apart from the game breaking bugs, incredibly bland scenery, rubbish combat and inconsequential choices; the only fun I can see people having is laughing at the bad dialogue and pretending the main character is Snoop Dog, because if you kinda squint he does look a bit like him.
Sandbox games should be fun and this just isn't. Gamecube was a bit lacking in the sandbox department (and I can't think of an alternative) but there are some wonderful Sandbox games on the other consoles of that generation like Shenmue 2 (Xbox) and Grand Theft Auto (XBOX/PS2) so my advice would be to pick one of these and actually enjoy yourself because you won't with True Crime: New York City.
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Willem Dafoe-An Undetectable Mind Control Slave?
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Please if anyone has anything to add to this please add your own thoughts. I don't have the answers but I'm throwing out the questions so that we can start thinking about these newly discovered issues and start understanding Hollywood and the people in Hollywood. To help understand the people we look up, the people we want to model ourselves after. The people the Elite want to control in order to program us the sheeple.
This Thread doesn't have to be just about Dafoe. I don't mean to target him but this applies to any celebrity out there in the entertainment biz.
This thread can be used so we can make our own discoverys about our favorit celebs and share our thoughts, feelings, questions, and newly discovered finds. I'm doing Willem Dafoe cause he is my favorit celeb but please add your own stuff here if you want. It will be fun to read what people out there in the online community discover.
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Sorry, he gives me the heebie-jeebies. Don't know why, I can't even remember any roles he was in (I'm not much of a TV/movie fan, not putting him down)...he just does.Quoting: weegie
The Wild Bunch (in production)
Field Marshall (voice)
2012 Odd Thomas (pre-production)
Wyatt Porter
2012 John Carter of Mars (post-production)
Tars Tarkas
2011 The Hunter (completed)
Martin David
2010 A Woman
Max Oliver
2010 Miral
2009 Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Gavner Purl
2009 The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
Paul Smecker (uncredited)
2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox
Rat (voice)
2009 Daybreakers
Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac
2009 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Detective Hank Havenhurst
2009 Farewell
2009 Antichrist
2008 The Dust of Time
2008 Adam Resurrected
Commandant Klein
2008 Fireflies in the Garden
Charles Waechter
2007 Anamorph
Stan Aubray
2007 Go Go Tales
Ray Ruby
2007 Spider-Man 3
Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
2007 Mr. Bean's Vacation
Carson Clay
2007 The Walker
Larry Lockner
2007/I The Procedure (short)
2006 Tales from Earthsea
Cob (voice: English version)
2006 Paris, Je T'Aime
Le cow-boy (segment "Place des Victoires")
2006 Inside Man
Captain John Darius
2006 American Dreamz
Chief of Staff
2005 Ripley Under Ground
Neil Murchinson
2005 Before It Had a Name
2005 Manderlay
Grace's Father
2005 xXx: State of the Union
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2004 The Aviator
Roland Sweet
2004 Control
Dr. Michael Copeland
2004 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Klaus Daimler
2004 Spider-Man 2
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2004 The Clearing
Arnold Mack
2003 Camel Cricket City (short)
Camel Cricket (voice)
2003 James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (Video Game)
Nikolai Diavolo (voice)
2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003 Finding Nemo
Gill (voice)
2003/I The Reckoning
2002 Auto Focus
John Carpenter
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2001 Edges of the Lord
2001 Pavilion of Women
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2000 Bullfighter
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2000 Shadow of the Vampire
Max Schreck
2000 Animal Factory
Earl Copen
2000 American Psycho
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2000 Globehunters
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1999 The Boondock Saints
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1998 New Rose Hotel
1998 Lulu on the Bridge
Dr. Van Horn
1997 Affliction
Rolfe Whitehouse
1997 Speed 2: Cruise Control
John Geiger
1997 The Simpsons (TV series)
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1996 The English Patient
David Caravaggio
1996 Basquiat
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1995 The Night and the Moment
The Writer
1994 Clear and Present Danger
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1994 Tom & Viv
Tom Eliot
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1993 Body of Evidence
Frank Dulaney
1992 White Sands
Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal
1992 Light Sleeper
John LeTour
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1989 Born on the Fourth of July
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The Wooster Group is an experimental theater onsoble based in NYC. It was founded in the late 1970s by theater directer Elizabeth LaCompte and small group of actors, Willem Dafoe included. Dafoe and LaCompte started dating eachother in 1977 and long term boyfrind-girlfriend for 27 years until they broke up. I believe that LaCompte as one of Dafoe's handlers as well. The Wooster Group uses mix media such as video visuals and piped in sound and sound effects in there many theater productions pieces. The Wooster Group may or may not have played a part in Dafoe's programming, there is really no telling. LaCompte may or may not have been his handler but she may have had the keys to his alters so he could function in the world being a MPD.
Meet Dafoe's ex-girlfriend/handler (?) and get a feel for The Wooster Group in this YouTube clip:
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Agenda 21
Sustainable Living
Fear of Globle Warming
Carbon Taxs
Depopulation for population control
Green Living
Are all part of a Globlelist agenda to keep the population at a steady rate so there are less people to control under the NWO. ...And you'll never guess who's one and only son is (in my oppinion) suspiously programmed to be apart of this dievous plan. Yep, proud papa himself, Willem Dafoe. Dafoe's only child, Jack is an "envirmentalist". Sure Dafoe's offspring is cute (in my oppinion)but you should read the articles he has written for his colle [link to www.youtube.com] school paper (when he went to Yale)about the envirment and globle warming, with globlist ideas infused into it.
Here is Willem Dafoe's son Jack talking about working for a non-profit organization that he works for or used to work for deals with city green-sustainable living.
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His new "handler" is Giada Colagrande, "tantalizing"Italian director of lesbo satanic avante garde films, one in which husband Dafoe, as a character in the film, pulls a used tampon out of her.
Name of the film? Black Widow.
What is "Black Widow" code word for? It is code word for a woman who uses her sexuality to entrap high ranking men in order to get secrets for her superiors.
Is Colagrande getting secrets from Dafoe? Secrets about what he knows about what goes on in the film industry (pedophilia, murder, brainwashing of the public) to give to those who are controlling her?
Oh, and
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Oh, and Dafoe is also my favorite actor as well.
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Sorry, he gives me the heebie-jeebies. Don't know why, I can't even remember any roles he was in (I'm not much of a TV/movie fan, not putting him down)...he just does.Quoting: weegie
Uhh yeaaaaah! Me too! Creepy creepy creepy!
And Wisconsin? Guy has thickest NY accent in the biz. You sayin he picked that up AFTER he went to NYC? Means he's a chameleon, big time.
Saw him in a recent movie as an eccentric, reclusive cult writer. He did a lousy job at it.
It is what it is.
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He made a lot of weird performances with nudity while with the Wooster group, and the whole thing was untraditional andheebie jeebie, if you will.
I love Dafoe, but over the years especially, he has gotten weird and New Age occultish. First this marrying the Italian girl half his age who is a creepo, then he is in this Lars von Trier film called Antichrist in which the female character messes up his penis and cuts her cl*t off, and then all this stuff about him now being into yoga.
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The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) will hold its annual "Hold Their Feet To The Fire" event on April 17 and 18 in an effort to derail immigration reform and stop the passage of a recently-introduced comprehensive immigration reform bill.
The event -- which will host more than 60 talk radio hosts -- will allow the hosts to broadcast live and urge listeners to push lawmakers to oppose immigration reform.
Last year's event played host to many anti-immigrant radio commentators, including several who have announced that they will attend again this year. These hosts have used their platforms to attack immigrants for bringing diseases to America, committing a disproportionate amount of crime, and illegally voting in U.S. elections, and one host even called for the hanging of undocumented immigrants who commit crimes in the U.S. and sending their bodies back to their home countries:
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New to Hot Rodders site building 1966 Chevelle 310
I've read some post about the 383 stroker engine on this website and was hoping for some guidance.
I have a 350 block that was decked to zero that is .030 over. I'm going to have to go at least to .040 because the pistons currently slap.
So I have this block that is ready to go and another block that wasn't decked standing by.
I have the RHS racing heads 200 runner Pro action. I also have the RPM Performern Air Gap intake manifold, high flow oil pump and water pump. I will use an electric fuel pump.
I hope to use either the 383 kit from White Performance kit number 4340 with either flat top or domed pistons or a kit from Skip White part number P3832P-.040.
I talked with Lunati and they recommend a .600/.600 lift roller cam.
Its a lot of info but I am also trying to achieve over 500hp/tq and still don't have a recommended carb.
With the exception of the heads, no part has been bought so please substitute if it will help attain my goal.
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What are you thinking about for compression? You'll have to go decently high but i wouldn't take it past 10.5:1 if you want to stay on pump gas. I don't think you will hit 500hp. Not without using either race fuel of forced induction. I could be wrong, but 500 seems a bit wishful.
I wouldnt go much past 10.5:1 either,single plane might give more top end,600 lift cam is probably correct depending on the air flow of your heads? I would use an 850 holley double pumper and 1 3/4"
primary tubes headers. the engine will need to rev past 6000 so you will need transmission and gearing appropriate to your useage.
Op, if you really want 500hp i would go with a blown 355. You'll hit the 500 mark easily and driveability will be better since you wouldn't need a massive cam.
Thank you for the responses.
I don't want a blown motor because I want it to be a sleeper. I am looking into an AED 850, cam is .560/.565 and 243/251 at .050 duration. Compression is between 10.7 and 11.02. Will probably use Skip White's 383 stroker rotating kit but I can't get them to rerturn my calls so I started looking someplace else.
I have the TH400 and the 410 rear, intake manifold is currently a RPM Performer Air Gap but can be changed if necessary.
Thanks again,
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This lesson is part of a Photography Unit for eighth graders. After learning about the history of photography, the goal is to combine older photography processes with new digital processes. Students will make their own pinhole cameras, take pictures with them and develop their negative images in the darkroom. From there, students will use scanners and computers to invert their negative images into positives and create a digital image, manipulating the new image using image software.
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Title: Back in Time: Hieroglyphics in Ancient Egypt
There are over 500 ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Students will use the Internet to translate their names into hieroglyphs. They will use the translation to design a clay cartouche.
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In May of 2012, MacRostie Art Center partnered with the local chapter of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and Kielser House to offer free weekly art classes to adults living with mental illness as part of a holistic approach to recovery during Mental Health Month. The interest of the students sparked further collaboration, and MacRostie Art Center received a grant to offer weekly art classes from January – April 2013 for adults who have experienced mental illness. As a part of the 2013 Mental Health Month activities in the Grand Rapids area, the work of the Kiesler House members and participants in this art program as well as other community members who have experienced mental illness will be on display in the exhibition Outside Voices.
The exhibition features works in a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, and more. Instructor Lea Friesen worked with participants in the weekly classes to explore art as a therapeutic tool for recovery and self-expression.
"When doing art I have the ability to be free of myself," states Taneen Pacini, an artist involved in the program. "My art reflects freedom."
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Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 540861, 7 pages
A Novel Approach to Improve the Performance of Evolutionary Methods for Nonlinear Constrained Optimization
Center of Excellence on Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Processing (SCIIP), Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
Received 24 May 2012; Revised 16 July 2012; Accepted 16 July 2012
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Evolutionary methods are well-known techniques for solving nonlinear constrained optimization problems. Due to the exploration power of evolution-based optimizers, population usually converges to a region around global optimum after several generations. Although this convergence can be efficiently used to reduce search space, in most of the existing optimization methods, search is still continued over original space and considerable time is wasted for searching ineffective regions. This paper proposes a simple and general approach based on search space reduction to improve the exploitation power of the existing evolutionary methods without adding any significant computational complexity. After a number of generations when enough exploration is performed, search space is reduced to a small subspace around the best individual, and then search is continued over this reduced space. If the space reduction parameters (red_gen and red_factor) are adjusted properly, reduced space will include global optimum. The proposed scheme can help the existing evolutionary methods to find better near-optimal solutions in a shorter time. To demonstrate the power of the new approach, it is applied to a set of benchmark constrained optimization problems and the results are compared with a previous work in the literature.
1. Introduction
A significant part of today's engineering problems are constrained optimization problems (COP). Although there exist efficient methods like Simplex for solving linear COP, solving nonlinear COP (NCOP) is still open for novel investigations. Different methods have been proposed for solving NCOP. Among them, natural optimization and especially population-based schemes are the most general and promising ones. These methods can be applied to all types of COP including convex and nonconvex, analytical and non-analytical, real-, integer- and mixed-valued problems. One of the most applied techniques for solving NCOP are evolutionary methods.
Various techniques have been introduced for handling nonlinear constrains by evolutionary optimization (EO) methods. These approaches can be grouped in four major categories [1, 2]: (1) methods based on penalty functions that are also known as indirect constraint handling, (2) methods based on a search of feasible solutions including repairing unfeasible individuals [3, 4], superiority of feasible points [5], and behavioral memory [6], (3) methods based on preserving feasibility of solutions like preserving feasibility by designing special crossover and mutation operators [7], the GENOCOP system [8], searching the boundary of feasible region [9], and homomorphous mapping [10], and (4) Hybrid methods [11–13]. Also, decoding such as transforming the search space can be considered as the fifth category which is less common. None of these approaches are complete and each of them has both advantages and weak-points. For example, although the third method (preserving feasibility) might perform very well, it is usually problem dependent and designing such a method for a given problem may be difficult, computationally expensive, and sometimes impossible. Among these approaches, the most general one is the first technique.
Penalty-based constraint handling incorporates constraints into a penalty function that is added to the main fitness function. By this work, the main constrained problem is converted to an unconstrained problem. The main advantage of this method is its generality and simplicity (problem-independent penalty functions). Thus, this method is known as the most common approach for handling nonlinear constraints in EO.
Adding a penalty function to a fitness (objective) function creates a new unconstrained problem that might have further complexity. The introduction of penalties may transform a smooth objective function into a rugged one and the search may then become more easily trapped in local optimum [14]. Therefore, several penalty-based constraint handling methods have been proposed to improve the performance of penalty-based constrained evolutionary optimization. In [2], a survey has been performed on several types of these methods including death penalty [2, 15], static penalty [16, 17], dynamic penalty [18, 19], annealing penalty [20, 21], adaptive penalty [22–24], segregated GA [25], and coevolutionary penalty [26]. In addition to these types, other hybrid (e.g., niched-penalty approach [27]) and heuristic techniques (e.g., stochastic ranking [28]) could be found in the literature.
Due to its generality and applicability, this paper focuses on penalty-based constraint handling without loss of generality. However, the proposed approach is independent from the type of constraint handling and optimization technique. This paper demonstrates how the power of exploitation of constrained EO (CEO) can be increased by reducing the search space after enough exploration is performed. The proposed approach is simple and general and does not add any computational complexity to the original algorithm. Also, it could be applied to other optimization techniques like constrained PSO and hybrid methods.
This paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, the proposed approach is described and the details are explained and illustrated over a specific constrained optimization problem introduced in [29]. In Section 3, the performance of the proposed scheme is tested on eleven well-known test problems and the results are compared with [10].
2. Proposed Approach
A general constrained nonlinear programming problem is formulated as follows: where is the vector of decision variables, is a scalar lower-bounded objective function, is a set of inequality constraints, is a set of - equality constraints, and is the domain of the th variable. , , and are allowed to be either linear or nonlinear, convex or nonconvex, differentiable or nondifferentiable, continuous or discrete, and analytical or nonanalytical. Also, can be either discrete or continuous or mixed-valued. Without loss of generality, the problem is considered minimization since is equivalent to . As mentioned in [10], it is a common practice to replace equation by the inequality for some small . This replacement is considered in the rest of this paper, and, consequently, the above problem consists of inequality constraints. For simplicity, all of the constraints are shown by where . Note that bound constraints can be directly handled in most of the population-based optimization methods such as EO. Thus, only are considered as the constraints. Without loss of generality, to simplify the understanding of the proposed idea, its details are explained over a specific constrained optimization problem as an illustrative example chosen from the literature.
2.1. An Illustrative Example
Consider the following constrained nonlinear programming problem [29]:
The feasible space and the global minimum of this problem are displayed in Figure 1. In this paper, a simple constrained GA (CGA) has been used for solving constrained optimization problems. This CGA is composed of a simple real-valued GA introduced in [30] and a static penalty function that is added to the original objective (fitness) function as follows: In this equation, gives the violation value of the constraint , and is the penalty coefficient that must be determined by the designer. In some cases, assigning a proper value to is difficult and this is known as the main disadvantage of static penalty functions. As an alternative, adaptive [22–24] and dynamic [18, 19] penalty functions have been proposed. By defining , the constrained nonlinear programming problem of (2) is converted to the following unconstrained nonlinear programming problem:
This problem (4) is solved by the above-mentioned CGA. The CGA routine utilizes a simple real-valued GA introduced in [30] with population size of 50, selection rate of 0.5, elitism with elite rate of 0.05, single-point crossover, and uniform mutation with mutation rate of 0.2. The value of penalty coefficient is 10 and the maximum number of generations is allowed to be 10. Figure 2 indicates the best individuals (solutions) of 20 independent runs. Regarding this figure, all of these individuals have been converged to the global minimum through 10 generations. Figure 3 illustrates these individuals on the original search space. A new idea is emerged from considering these figures, that is, the best individual will converge to the global optimum after a number of generations. In other words, the global optimum will locate in a small neighborhood of the best individual after a number of generations. Consequently, after a number of generations when enough exploration has been performed, the search space can be reduced to a small subspace around the best individual, and then the search can be continued over this reduced space. The experimental study of the next section demonstrates that if the space reduction parameters (red_gen and red_factor) are adjusted properly, the reduced space will include the global optimum. Here, the reduced search space is defined as follows: In these equations, and are the original and reduced domains of variables, respectively. is the best individual of the generation . specifies the generation in which the reduction of search space is performed. Here, this search space reduction is done only one time at generation . The size of the reduced search space is determined by that varies between 0 and 1. Also, the value of mutation rate can be changed after this reduction.
Indeed, the value of determines the total number of generations in CGA (constrained GA) that are devoted to exploration in order to find a region around of the global minimum. The value of determines a tradeoff between exploration and exploitation and highly depends on the general characteristics of the given optimization problem. If the global minimum is inside a narrow (sharp) valley, CGA usually needs more time to find the global valley, and thus a large value of should be considered. Also, since the valley is narrow, could be set to a small value. In contrast, if the global minimum is inside a wide (flat) valley, CGA usually needs less time to find the global valley, and therefore smaller values can be used for . Also, since the valley is wide, should be large. The value of is usually increased by increasing the number of decision variables. In most of the optimization problems, since the general characteristics of the given problem can be approximately identified by the designer, some appropriate values for and can be heuristically guessed by the designer. In general, and should be large enough to guarantee that the global optimum is included in the reduced search space.
For this example, the reduced search space is shown in Figure 3 for . The value of must be determined by user. However, systematic or adaptive schemes can be developed in further investigations. The value of influences the power of exploration. This value should be large enough to guarantee that after number of generations, the best individual and the global optimum are close together. Moreover, the size of the reduced search space (the value of ) must be large enough to include the global optimum.
This example has been solved by the proposed approach using the above-mentioned CGA. Here, the value of penalty coefficient is 20, the maximum number of generations is 50, , and and = 5. The mutation rate is 0.2 for the first five generations and after Generation 5 , it is changed into 0.05. The results of 50 independent runs are displayed in Table 1. The same experiment has been also done by [22, 29] with the same number of function evaluations. Table 1 compares the results of the proposed approach with these two references where the best results are indicated in boldface.Although the proposed approach has been incorporated with a simple method of CEO which is trivial in contrast to the other existing techniques of CEO in the literature, it could get better results in this example for the same number of function evaluations in comparison with [22, 29].
According to the above-mentioned explanations, the proposed method and formulation of this paper can be directly applied to different continuous (real-valued) optimization problems and incorporated with different optimization methods. Moreover, since the main contribution of this paper is the notion of search space reduction, that is general and problem-independent, the proposed approach is flexible enough to be generalized (with minor changes) to discrete and mixed-valued optimization problems such as combinatorial optimization problems where the domain is not continuous. In the next section, the performance of the new scheme is examined by a set of eleven well-known continuous test problems.
3. Experimental Study
To demonstrate the power of the proposed approach to improve the performance of constrained evolutionary methods, it is incorporated with the simple CEO of the previous section and applied to a set of eleven well-known test problems introduced in [1, 10]. These test problems consist of objective functions of different types (linear, quadratic, cubic, polynomial, and nonlinear) and various types and numbers of constraints (linear inequalities, nonlinear equations, and inequalities). The ratio between the size of the feasible search space and the size of the whole search space for these test cases vary from 0% to almost 100% and the topologies of feasible search spaces are also quite different [10]. Table 2 summarizes the main characteristics of these test cases.
The CGA routine is the same as the previous section except for the following parameters. Here, population size is 70 and the maximum number of generations is 5000. The values of mutation rate, , and penalty coefficient are different for each test case as shown in Table 3. Equality constraints () were converted into inequality constraints by (). For each test case, 20 independent runs were performed. The same experiment has been done on this test set in [10]. It should be mentioned that the authors in [10] utilizes the third method of constraint handling (preserving feasibility by homomorphous mapping). Table 4 indicates the results of the proposed approach and its comparison with [10] for the same number of function evaluations. The best results are indicated in Boldface. For problem G5, we could not find any suitable static penalty coefficient for handling the constraints. This is due to the inadequacy of static penalty functions. However, this problem could not be solved by [10] too. It should be mentioned that this test case (G5) has been solved in some other references [22, 28].
According to comparative results of Table 4, although the proposed approach had been incorporated with a simple method of CEO which is trivial in contrast to the other existing techniques of CEO in the literature, its performance (finding a better near-optimal solution) is better than [10] in 70% of cases in this benchmark experimental study. Since the number of function evaluations is the same in this study and in the study of [10], it can be concluded that the proposed approach can also improve the efficiency (convergence speed) of the CEO in 70% of cases in contrast to [10].
4. Conclusions
This paper proposes a general and computationally simple approach to improve the performance of evolution-based optimization methods for solving nonlinear constrained optimization problems. After a number of generations when enough exploration is performed, the search space is reduced to a small subspace around the best individual, and the search is continued over this reduced space. If the reduction parameters ( and ) are adjusted properly, the reduced search space will include the global optimum. Here, this method was incorporated with a simple constrained GA and its performance was tested and compared with the method in [10] on a set of eleven benchmark test problems. The comparative results of the experimental study demonstrate that the proposed approach can considerably improve the performance (finding better near-optimal solutions) and efficiency (convergence speed) of the simple constrained GA in comparison with [10] without adding any considerable computational complexity to the original algorithm. The proposed scheme is general and can be incorporated with other population-based optimization methods for solving nonlinear programming problems.
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Wow, what an amazing analysis. Good stuff.
Almost makes me want to "learn" how to drive with SMG. However, I'd like to hear a couple other enthusiasts back this wacko up.
Either that or I need a 10k mile test drive too.
OK, goes. For background, I have never owned a car that had an automatic. I have never owned a car that was not performance oriented. I DO know how to double clutch and heel & toe. I have done driving schools from 125cc shifter karts to rally driving to Skip Barber in Formula Fords. And I own an '02 M3 SMG with over 5000 miles on it. I have put over 400,000 miles on manual transmission cars.
The long artilce is pretty much right one. SMG is not a manual and it is not an automatic. But like a maunal you have to learn how to drive it. I normally drive in S5 (actually I ONLY drive it in S5
). WIth some practice you can make perfectly smooth shifts in S5 at any load/throttle opening/RPM. If you just pull the paddle, some shifts are not as smooth as an EXPERIENCED driver can do a manual transmission. Just as this author says, you need to learn the subtleties of this transmission.
When I first drove if (with much trepidation as I was picking it up) I liked it. The more I drive it, the more I appreciate it. The factor of accelerating for a lane change is spot on. It is great to be able to tap the downshift paddle twice at cruise to do a perfect 6 - 4 downshift as you nail the load pedal and flat out accelerate. All while looking, steering, and signaling.
Even as long as that article is, it still doesn't fully convey the long term experience of SMG.
As for the post that they would not get it because they can control RPM by slippign the clutch, WHY? The only reason to do that is if you screw up your rev matching. And SMG doesn't screw it up. But anyway, if you just lift off the gas and coast, then downshift at low RPM with throttle closed, guess what? SMG will slip the clutch for a smooth deceleration, for every gear except 1 and 2. Why? I have no idea, but 3 - 2 downshifts and very slight or closed throttle always seem to cause a sharp deceleration, unless you feather the throttle as in article. Again, you just have to learn how to drive this transmission.
Bottom line, I love it and would not go back. If I had only one car, it would be SMG.
BTW one thing many people who have ot spent time with it seem to decide they are going to do is to use an A mode in traffic. There is no reason to. The reason an automatic is nice in trafic is no cltuch pedal. Since the SMG has no clutch pedal, and shifts just take a flick of the fingers, I find S5 works just as well in heavy traffic.
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Just took delivery of a couple of cans of the Mosin fodder on strippers that SOG had advertised. Real clean, good looking ammo.
I don't recognize the headstamp. It is a star at 12:00, number 10 at 3:00, 3 at 9:00 and manufac date "50" at 6:00.
I wanted to look this stamp up on the Mosin/Nagant.com Ammo site, but I have been gone for a while and I can't find it.
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The ammo is good, and the clips work perfectly.
It's '50 Bulgy light ball. I bought the same stuff a few weeks back. It shoots fine and seems to have a little extra punch to it. I reloaded some of my other Bulgy LB on the clips when they were empty. Plus, you can get your money's worth from reselling the clips
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I just ordered another tin of this ammo. They offered to open the can before shipping to verify it had stripper clips, since they ran out of the dark green tins.
I looked at SOG's website and didn't see this item. Is it Southern Ohio Gun? Also, what's the price on this?
You have to call them. Apparently the website is updated every solar eclipse, so if you want any of the ammo, I suggest you call them. The 50's Bulgarian light ball ammo quality is poor in my opinion (bad quality brass - case splits reported by many users), but the clips are very nice. If you don't need the clips, I'd pass on the ammo.
I got a bunch of it when it was 30 bucks a can what is the price now?
I only opened 8 cans (one from each case) to look for dates, split cases. It seems to be like all of the bulg 762X54R some have splits and some dont. And the clips are very good they work good.
Here's a few examples of the case splits after use. 1950 dated Bulgarian light ball (on strippers) fired out of 3 different Mosin Nagant rifles. Had a few nice blasts of hot air in my face when I used these. I'm sure the quality will vary from lot to lot and year to year. In this trip to the range I found the 10 split cases shown below out of the 50 rounds I fired.
This is copper washed steel cases isn't it? Too bad it isn't brass at least, the components would make it worth breaking down.
Dan in NC
The 50s bulg 762X54R has a brass case its the 1980s stuff that is CW its in the 440 rd cans and the packs are 20 rds not 10 per pack.
CIA has the 80s bulg 762X54R for 87.87 per 440 rds.
Does anyone still have the brass-cased stuff? I really prefer brass if I can find it.
Dan in NC
I took a look and wideners reloading has the best deal $45 per 300 rd cans of HB J&G has the LB for $50 same price at ammotogo. I think ammotogo has both LB and HB.
I was able to order a can of 250 rds of the Bulgarian light ball on stripper clips from S.O.G. this morning. $58 and change delivered to SoCal.
I not only emailed S.O.G. an ammunition statement & a picture of my driver's license, I also emailed them a picture of a signed copy of my C&R FFL. So, do you think they'll email me back with a password to get into their website, or do I have to call and bug them?
I think you have to send a copy (FFL) in the mail.
Actually, I guess they were satisfied with an email attachment. Today I sent an email asking if there was a tracking number for the ammo shipment. I also asked if I could have a password, since I'd emailed a signed copy of my C&R FFL.
They emailed right back with the tracking number, and a password.
Friends, this is some good-looking ammo.
My can was waiting for me on my doorstep when I returned from work late Thursday night. The delivery was delayed four days because of the wildfires here in San Diego.
The box the can came in was discreet. It didn't scream, "Be scared, neighbor, there's ammunition in this box."
The ammo can was pristine, with no dents, scuffing, or signs of rust. The can had a little metal tab sticking out, which I assume is there to open it up. I couldn't get it to work, and couldn't remember when I'd last had a tetanus shot, so I resorted to one of the trusty spam-can openers from a batch of Albanian. Obviously, there's no rim around the Bulgarian can, so I had to auger a hole in a weak spot, then kind of work the can-opener around to cut through enough metal to open a flap. I was careful, and didn't damage the ammo inside.
The ammo's wrapped in 20's in brown paper with twine securing it. I was greatly pleased when I actually saw the rounds. The brass is bright and shiny, and the bullets look well-seated, the primers well-sealed.
The stripper clips look to be blued ("blacked"?) in some fashion. I haven't had a chance (we're busy here in San Diego) yet to try it out in a rifle magazine, but, just by hand, the rounds seem to come out cleanly and easily. The strippers have crisp bends, so I'm betting they'll fit well in the indentations on my rifle receivers.
250 rounds just fit inside a U.S. .30 caliber ammo can.
Of course, I haven't yet shot any of this, but from what I've seen, I highly recommend this stuff. I you haven't already, call Southern Ohio Gun today, and order a can (or several) for yourself.
I have opened over 50 cans of the bulg 54R The stuff that is on clips and have never seen it come in 20 round packs. Is this ammo 1950s dated or 1980s? I have bulg from the 80s in 20 rd packs but it has no clips. What is the date on your new can lwaldron? And what is the count of the ammo in your is case is it 240 or 260? I would like to order some. And i need to know what to ask for. Thanks.
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lwaldron: good luck down there in San Diego, We're surrounded by fires here in L.A., but all are 20 or more miles away. Lots of ashes on the cars.
you'll love the stripper clips, they work great. I tried them out a few weeks ago out in the desert near Rosamond.
My bad. I meant TEN round packs, not 20. Sorry for the confusion.
I just dident want to miss out on something.
Anyone know what the lube on the stripper clips is.


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Green / Sustainable Property
This property participates in Green Key (nogle), a program that measures the property's impact on one or more of the following: environment, community, cultural-heritage, the local economy.
Fletcher Hotel-Restaurant De Zeegser Duinen, Zeegse's small print
Also known as
- Fletcher Hotel-Restaurant Duinen
- Fletcher Hotel-Restaurant Duinen Hotel
- Fletcher Hotel-Restaurant Duinen Hotel Zeegser
- Fletcher Hotel-Restaurant Zeegser Duinen
- Fletcher Zeegser Duinen
- Zeegser Duinen
- Zeegser Duinen Fletcher
- Fletcher Hotel-Restaurant Zeegser Duinen Hotel
- Fletcher Hotel-Restaurant De Zeegser Duinen Zeegse, Drenthe
Special cancellation policies or charges may apply for group reservations (more than 8 rooms for the same property / stay dates).
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 2 per person, per night
Pet deposit: EUR 15.00 per stay
Optional extras
Rollaway beds are available for EUR 25.00 per night
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of EUR 16 per person (approximately)
Cribs/Infant beds are available for EUR 10.00 per night
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of EUR 15 per pet, per night
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
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