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The traffic bureau has many functions in the Glendora Police Department, but our primary function is to reduce property damage and injuries by reducing traffic collisions. We do this by incorporating the three "E's" of traffic safety - Education, Enforcement and Engineering.
The traffic bureau is responsible for traffic safety EDUCATION classes in many of the schools in Glendora. The classes usually address topics such as driving under the influence, bicycle and pedestrian safety, and vehicle occupant safety.
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The last of my patches is queued up to land, so I figured I'd post an update about the performance improvements I've been working on. I'm also just excited about how well it has all come together.
There were essentially 3 changes that mattered for performance on large trees.
- Fixing iter_entries_by_dir() to preload the data in Repository- optimal ordering rather than by-request ordering. In large trees this was causing us to thrash and become pathologically slow. In the 70,000-file test tree, thrashing took about 3 minutes, the preloading version takes about 15s. This affected a lot of our commands, though I guess the next two fixes would actually reduce the number of commands affected by this.
- Fixing several code paths to use optimized iter_changes() rather than the generic iter_changes(). The generic path walks both inventories iter_entries_by_dir() and compares them. Our 2a format Repository can do iter_changes without loading the whole tree. (It internally uses a hash_trie to store the inventory, and so nodes with matching sub-trees can be skipped for comparison.) This generally shows up as something that was taking 15s (to load the whole inventory) dropping to <2s for the improved comparison. (bzr revert and bzr pull were both directly impacted here)
- Changing WT.set_parent_trees([one_tree]) to update itself using current_basis.iter_changes(one_tree), rather than setting the state from scratch. This basically adds another case where we can avoid reading the whole inventory state again, which is another 15s to <2s sort of change. This only showed up after fixing (2), because once the tree is loaded, the other actions are generally pretty quick. (bzr up, bzr pull)
This is the chart I put together for "whats-new-in-2.4.txt". bzr-2.3.2 will have fix (1), but not (2) or (3), to give a feel for how much of an impact different fixes have had.
bzr-2.3.1 bzr-2.3.2 bzr-2.4 action 3m39s 1m08s 1m03s bzr co --lightweight 38s 8s 2s bzr revert (in a clean tree) 4m47s 3m56s 15s bzr merge 4m45s 20s 3s bzr pull 4m58s 3m00s 2s bzr up 9m33s 21s 19s bzr uncommit (including a merge) 4m44s 17s 2s bzr uncommit (simple commit)
So yes, some operations that were taking almost 5 minutes have now dropped down to taking <3s.
You won't see that dramatic of an improvement for smaller trees, though most cases will have a pleasant improvement. Here is a short list for the 'Launchpad' tree (with ~8k items).
bzr-2.3.1 bzr-2.4 action 5.3s 5.2s bzr co --lightweight 0.9s 0.3s bzr revert 1.4s 0.4s bzr pull 3.9s 3.7s bzr uncommit (with merge) 0.9s 0.3s bzr uncommit (without merge)
Anyway, I'm quite happy about how much better bzr-2.4 will be in large trees.
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Kobe Bryant UnpluggedKobe Bryant returned to action on Friday night, producing 23 points, six assists and four rebounds in a 118-112 Los Angeles Lakers win over the Seattle SuperSonics. The Lakers are now 3-0 after winning their first two games without Bryant as he completed his recovery from offseason knee surgery. It's early, but the Lakers could surprise a lot of people this year--at least those who didn't read my Western Conference Preview, in which I predicted that the Lakers will finish fourth in the conference.
Recently, Fox Sports aired an interview that Chris Myers did with Bryant. Here are some choice excerpts:
>>>Asked his thoughts about last season, Bryant replied: "It was a great season for us. Being a young team, no one expected us to be in the playoffs, let alone make some noise in the playoffs.*"
>>>Bryant shared his thoughts about his relationship with Phil Jackson: "Our relationship is beyond great." Bryant added, "The relationship that we've always had when it came to the game is we knew what we had to do to get the job done, period. Now that relationship has gone beyond just the strategies and schematics of the game of basketball--it's a deeper respect that goes beyond our profession." Jackson wrote some negative things about Bryant in his book The Last Season but Bryant insists that all is forgiven and forgotten: "I didn't need an apology from him--coming back to the Lakers was enough."
Myers asked if it is necessary for a player to like his coach. Bryant answered, "No, I don't think that you necessarily have to like the coach...the relationship that we had previous to him coming back was rocky but we still won three championships. Now our relationship is great, so we look forward to making even more noise."
>>>Bryant said that he neither roots for nor against Shaquille O'Neal because he is focused on what the Lakers are doing. He is not surprised by what the Heat accomplished because Pat Riley put an excellent team together and then the emergence of Dwyane Wade created a powerful duo with Shaq.
>>>Myers asked Bryant if he thought that he should have finished higher than fourth in MVP voting. Bryant said, "I never thought about being an MVP. Coming into the season, I didn't even think about it. The two things that I wanted to accomplish--these were goals of mine--were to improve as a team and to get back to the First Team All-Defense. Those were the things I really focused on. The MVP stuff doesn't mean anything to me. At the end of the day, it's all about championships."
>>>Bryant told Myers that he has always been sociable but that the dynamics of the team were different when he came into the league because he was so much younger than his teammates. Now, he is the "big brother" based on "mileage" but the age difference is not that great. He added that by the time LeBron James came into the league straight out of high school "the playing field had levelled," meaning that the league itself had gotten so much younger that there was not the same generation gap between James and his teammates that there had been between Bryant and his teammates in Bryant's early seasons. Bryant has mixed feelings about the rule that prevents players from jumping straight from high school to the NBA, citing the success that he James, McGrady and others have enjoyed but also acknowledging that many players failed miserably when they tried to make the jump.
>>>Bryant does not believe that it will be possible for someone to duplicate Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point game but cannot rule it out, either. He said that, while he may make scoring look easy, such a feat would be "very difficult" and that a lot of things have to come together at once to produce such a performance. Bryant added that during his 81 point game everything seemed to slow down and he felt like he could see what would happen in advance. Bryant said that he sometimes has a feeling before a game that he could score a lot of points but that he tries to restrain that thought because "if you embrace that feeling too quickly, by the time game time rolls around it's gone."
>>>Myers noted that Bryant was criticized for not scoring more against Dallas (the game when he outscored the Mavericks 62-61 for three quarters and then sat out the fourth) and for scoring too much in his 81 point game versus Toronto. Myers asked Bryant what he thinks about that and Bryant replied, "I just do whatever is required, whatever is necessary." That is similar to the response that Bryant gave to me when I posed that question to him during the 2006 All-Star Weekend: "The object is always to win, so whatever that means for me to do is what I'm going to do."
>>>Bryant talked about his renowned work ethic: "I'm seeking to improve my level of play. I'm constantly asking questions about the game, trying to learn the game more."
>>>Bryant said, "Winning is the ultimate goal" and "The thing that I'm afraid of is not winning another championship. That really drives me."
>>>After he came to the United States from Italy, Bryant felt that other kids viewed him as soft and he used that as motivation to earn their respect.
>>>Bryant described some of his philanthropic endeavors, including working with the East L.A. Boys and Girls Club and the United Negro College Fund. He is providing the funding for a number of college scholarship winners to travel to Italy; he feels that growing up overseas broadened his horizons and opened his mind to many possibilities and he wants others to have a chance to experience such things. He said, "I've had a pretty good career, but I want to feel like my life has had more purpose besides putting a ball in the basket."
>>>His choice for most enjoyable teammate? A tie between Chucky Atkins and Caron Butler.
*--This is not entirely true: Before the 2005-06 season began, I wrote that the Lakers would win at least 45 games and make the playoffs.
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I am posting this publicly, primarily for Calvinus and Patch 1.08O for Oscar but it is usable for Patch N for November for anyone interested. As always, offered without warranty.
The readme.txt file is below:
La Grande Guerre/World War One Gold
Grand Campaign Scenarios Naval Mod
For 108N AND 108O as in Oscar
Back up the following files:
[color="Red"]World War One Gold\Data\DB\Gamerules.csv
World War One Gold\Data\DB\ProductionCosts.csv
World War One Gold\Data\DB\Units.csv
World War One Gold\Data\DB\WarPlanTurnRules.csv
World War One Gold\Data\DB\Leaders.csv
World War One Gold\Data\DB\GoldScenarios\GrandCampaignFour\Detachments.csv
World War One Gold\Data\DB\GoldScenarios\GrandCampaignFour\Fleets.csv
World War One Gold\Data\DB\GoldScenarios\GrandCampaignFour\Nations.csv
World War One Gold\Data\DB\GoldScenarios\GrandCampaignFour\Reinforcements.csv
World War One Gold\Data\DB\GoldScenarios\GrandCampaignFour\Shipyards.csv
World War One Gold\Data\DB\GoldScenarios\GrandCampaignFour\TurnRules.csv
World War One Gold\Data\DB\GoldScenarios\GrandCampaignTwo\Detachments.csv
World War One Gold\Data\DB\GoldScenarios\GrandCampaignTwo\Fleets.csv
World War One Gold\Data\DB\GoldScenarios\GrandCampaignTwo\Nations.csv
World War One Gold\Data\DB\GoldScenarios\GrandCampaignTwo\Reinforcements.csv
World War One Gold\Data\DB\GoldScenarios\GrandCampaignTwo\Shipyards.csv
World War One Gold\Data\DB\GoldScenarios\GrandCampaignTwo\TurnRules.csv
Unzip this folder into a temporary directory, cutting and pasting into the WW1G DB, GrandCampaignFour and GrandCampaignTwo Scenario folders, replacing the original files. Now go win the War. From scratch...
The enclosed Units.csv file contains a number of modifications and cannot be used with any other stock scenarios.
This mod should restore something resembling naval balance to WW1G and the British Royal Navy is unlikely to face annihilation after a mere ten or so combat rounds at the hands of an inferior High Seas Fleet. A number of values and modifiers have been changed to lessen the otherwise unstoppable power of the Kaiser's dreadnoughts. As a small offset for the taming of the uber-battleships however, Austria-Hungary may now build U-Boats to add to the tonnage war. Also the Japanese Navy has been adjusted to better reflect its 1914 OOB.
British Admiral Doveton Sturdee is no longer a paltroon. On his worst day he was a far better commander than Milne or Troubridge on their best and he led the RN to its only unambiguous naval victory of the Great War. Feel free to disagree and not install the modded Leaders.csv file.
German colonial garrisons are locked in place until July 1916. This prevents all manner of nasty AI behavours but if you don't agree, do not install the modded WarPlanTurnRules.csv file and have fun wiping out the Anglo-French colonys.
Reinforcements no longer need be placed in major cities and may by placed in any owned and supplied province. If you feel that this should not be possible given the scale of WW1G and one or two-month turns, do not install GameRules.csv
Other naval changes include:
British Royal Navy:
- Most ship names should now have correct spelling along with minor adjustments to the order of battle.
- Scout Fleet is renamed BCF for Battle Cruiser Fleet
- Home Fleet is renamed Grand Fleet as it was on 4 August 1914
- Atlantic Fleet is renamed Channel Fleet as the former was based at Gibraltar.
- There is a new SS fleet in the Med named E-24.
- Aircraft Carrier HMS Argus is now available for building in the Shipyard.
- The fourth Hood Class HMS Anson is now available for building in the Shipyard.
- The negative modifier to all RN combat rolls has been removed although the hard coded shell penalty remains.
French Navy:
- BB Jean Bart were omitted from stock and have been added.
Regina Marina
- Order of Battle has been adjusted so BB Dante Alighieri is with the Conte Cavour's.
- Both Andrea Doria's require completion via the Shipyards.
- B Squadrons have been adjusted so that the more modern ships are present.
- A CL Squadron of three fast light cruisers of the Marsala type has been added.
KuK Marine
- The 9-newest pre-dreadnoughts have been grouped into two B Squadrons. Obsolete ships have been deleted.
- A new AC Squadron contains the best Austrian large cruisers.
- A new CL Squadron contains four fast cruisers of the Saida type.
United States Navy
- Atlantic Fleet dreadnoughts and pre-dreadnoughts have been rearranged into homogenous BB and B Squadrons respectively.
- AC Squadrons have been added as the USN loved their large cruisers, fictional and incorrectly named ships have been deleted or changed.
- A fast CL Squadron containing three cruisers of the Chester type has been added.
- A submarine squadron "SUBLANT" is now available in the USA Box.
Imperial Russian Navy
- The Baltic Fleet now has its historical ships.
- The Black Sea Fleet now has its historical ships.
- AC Unit Bayan and DD Unit Novik have been added to the Baltic Fleet.
- SS Units Narval and Akula have been added at Rewal and Sevastopol respectively.
Imperial Japanese Navy
- 1st Fleet contains the dreadnoughts, newer battleships and faster armoured cruisers.
- Squadron of fast CL's of the Hirato type added to the 1st Fleet.
- 2nd Fleet contains older and slower vessels.
- A third DD unit has been added and is part of the First Fleet. Japan actually sent a DD flotilla to the Med in 1917 to help escort convoys.
- OOB now conforms to those ships historically available and ship names are spelled according to the conventions in the 1914 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships.
- BB Haruna and Kirishima arrive by reinforcement in the spring of 1915.
Minor Navies
- The Greek Navy is complete.
- The Dutch Navy is complete.


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Posted by Editoress on 07/16/09
UCI Management Committee accepts the lifting of radio ban for the Vittel-Colmar stage
To put an end to the controversy which is compromising the running of the Tour de France, the International Cycling Union (UCI) Management Committee has decided not to repeat the experiment of a stage without radio communication on Friday 17th July.
The UCI Management Committee, it should be remembered, had given its approval, at the request of the organisers, to ban radios during two stages of the French race (14th and 17th July) as a trial and with a view to evaluating such a measure.
This proposition was discussed and supported by representatives of the riders (CPA), teams (AIGCP) and organisers (AIOCC) who met in Geneva on June 3rd and decided to submit the proposition to the UCI Management Committee.
The UCI pursues the debate on the appropriateness of using radios during racing and will continue to consult all those involved in cycling as far as their use is concerned.
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Samsung inspires the world with innovation every day as a global leading brand and we set a high value on people and customer experience to achieve this. Our fantastic products are from the talent, creativeness, dedication, and commitment of our people who took our Samsung brand places and it made us who we are today.
Supporting our consumers to enjoy Samsung every step of their way, a Full Time opportunity for a 'Samsung Experience Consultant' has become available in their Fountain Gate store, providing a premium brand experience through best in class customer experience, product demonstrations and after sales support.
Reporting to Samsung Store Team Leader, your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
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As the successful candidate, you will have:
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Moderator: Dave Roberts
Stephen Fox wrote:The Moderator can do what he wants to do but you need go no further than Richard Land, Trey Gowdy, James Lankford or Texas Gohmert from Tyler same place as Fireside Chat's Recon buddy of Pressler who teamed up on Moyers to see how embedded Fox News and the Tea Party are with the leadership of the SBC. It aint rocket science, my friend
Ed Pettibone wrote:Ed: And Sandy what are your qualifications by which you diagnose S. Fox's comments as "paranoid" imaginations?
Sandy wrote:Ed Pettibone wrote:Ed: And Sandy what are your qualifications by which you diagnose S. Fox's comments as "paranoid" imaginations?
Apparently, like most of the other people on the board, you don't really read much of what he posts. He never ventures very far from the same conspiracy theories and guilt by association rhetoric. It goes into virtually every post on virtually every thread, regardless of the topic or how it relates. The definition of the term is a thought process or pattern that is influenced by a high level of anxiety, to the point of delusion and irrationality. Suggesting that groups of people get together and have dialogue or read books fits the definition of both.
Unless you have been completely unplugged from all forms of media for the last week, you've probably seen—or at least have heard or read about—the interview that religion scholar, Reza Aslan, gave on the FoxNews.com webcast
They may find it scandalous for someone to say so, but our secular liberal media are playing favorites with religion. They have a spoiled child, Islam. Journalists see Islam as a bullied, minority faith for brown people. Draw a cartoon of Mohammed with dynamite on his head, and you are the worst kind of trouble-making hater.
Haruo wrote:Oh dear. I think it's quite a fine idea for groups of people to get together and have dialogue or read books. Oh dear.
Sandy wrote:Haruo wrote:Oh dear. I think it's quite a fine idea for groups of people to get together and have dialogue or read books. Oh dear.
I do, too. But Stephen's suggestions and what you and I would consider a fine idea are two different things.
ET wrote:Unfortunately, almost none of the media in this country treat Christianity with anywhere near the respect that they do Islam. Or the other hand, drop a cross into a jar of urine and they'll champion you as a great "artist" or showing the courage to challenge the culture. However, don't you dare question anything or ask anything that someone, somewhere might perceive to be "slanderous" or disparaging to Islam. You're just a bigot if you do.
Sandy wrote:Journalists in this country, for the most part, are the product of our most secular educational institutions and for the most part they have no respect for anyone who holds a religious worldview, regardless of the religion. They are trained that way.
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text: A British genre crossover group best known for their hit single "Rather Be," Clean Bandit mash classical music and pop forms for an airy and dreamy yet driven sound that's like the chamber music version of house music. The group was formed by four core members -- Grace Chatto on cello, percussion, and vocals; Jack Patterson on bass, keys, piano, and vocals; Luke Patterson on drums; and Neil Amin-Smith on violin and piano -- who were also known as the Chatto Quartet. The classically trained string quartet performed J.S. Bach and cited Jacqueline du Pré as an influence, but their post-show, wind-down music often consisted of garage, 2-step, Craig David, and Arcade Fire tracks. The quartet members were aware of both producer Jon Wandeck and MC Ssegamic through the duo's work in photography, and when Wandeck suggested they play on one of his house music cuts, Clean Bandit were born. With MC Ssegamic on the mike, they released the classical-meets-house-meets-hip-hop-meets-heartbreak song "Telephone Banking" in the summer of 2011. Their Dance Armstrong mixtape followed in 2012, while 2013 saw the release of the Mozart's House EP. The "Mozart House" track also landed on their album New Eyes, which was released by major-label Atlantic in 2014. It wasn't until the release of New Eyes' fourth single, the Jess Glynne-featuring "Rather Be," that Clean Bandit truly entered the international mainstream. The song became the second best-selling track in the U.K. in 2014 and won a Grammy for Best Dance Recording in 2015. The success of "Rather Be" helped Clean Bandit ride New Eyes into 2016. Late that year, Amin-Smith parted ways with the band, days before they released the single "Rockabye," featuring Sean Paul and Anne-Marie on vocals. The track became their second U.K. number one and broke into the Billboard Top 40. They followed with additional collaborations like "Symphony" with Zara Larsson, "Disconnect" with Marina and the Diamonds, and "I Miss You" with Julia Michaels.


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|Feeding the three chicks on Tuesday 10th May. Dad looks on.
Well, we have three healthy-looking chicks! The first one hatched out sometime around 1am on 9th May, but by daylight it began to seem that there might in fact be two moist balls of feathers being kept warm by the female falcon. It was hard to tell, as she was dong her best to keep her new charges safe and warm.
The third chick hatched on Tuesday 10th May with one egg still intact.
I'm afraid we can't bring you any video clips of the egg-hatching moment as a trip up inside the cathedral tower today revealed that one DVD recorder had stopped recording on late on Friday afternoon. But they've all been turned back on in readiness for future eggsighting moments.
Tuesday also saw the return of the Project's ability to remotely control the video server and to zoom the cameras in and out..
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The Rev. Myron Ross, 82, the fi rst African-American ordained in the Evangelical and Reformed Church, who also served for many years in Japan, starting in 1954, as the E&R's fi rst African-American missionary, died of lung cancer on May 11 in St. George, Utah. Ross, an activist in the Civil Rights Movement entered Eden Theological Seminary as a Presbyterian, but later told an audience at the UCC-related seminary in St. Louis that he joined the Evangelical and Reformed Church (which would soon become the UCC) because he was inspired by the intellectual vigor of his seminary professors.
The Rev. Chester Terpstra, 89, former Hawaii Conference Minister from 1968 to 1978, died April 12 in Sequim, Wash., after a long illness. During his ministry, Terpstra also served several pastorates in Hawaii and was a missionary, along with his wife, Margery, in Pohnpei.
Conference Changes
The Rev. Robert Molsberry, UCC pastor in Grinnell, Iowa, is the candidate for Ohio Conference Minister and will be considered by the Conference on July 27-28. The Rev. Sheldon Culver, Missouri/Mid-South Associate Conference Minister, is the candidate for Illinois South Minister and will be considered when the Conference meets Sept. 7-8.
Pastoral Changes
Anderson, Paul N. to First Cong. UCC, East Troy, WI
Ashley, Timothy S. Spring Grove, PA to St. Paul"s UCC, Sheboygan, WI
Bracebridge, Shawn E. Clifton Park, NY to Cong. UCC, West Stockbridge, MA
Breedlove, Christopher J. San Antonio, TX to Trinity UCC, Jasper, IN
Brownell, Jennifer G. to Community UCC, Hillsdale, OR
Burd, James K. to Association Minister, Wauwatosa, WI
Clippinger, Arthur P. Massillon, OH to Trinity UCC and St. Peter"s UCC, Clinton, OH
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The Canadian dollar has dipped to 95 cents against the U.S. dollar, the lowest exchange rate for the loonie since November 2011, but that is not expected to hurt north country businesses catering to Canadian shoppers.
A lower exchange rate might cause a small reduction in Canadian traffic to the north country, said Gary S. DeYoung, executive director of the 1000 Islands International Tourism Council.
But he said the weaker loonie is still offset by savings Canadian shoppers realize from the lower sales tax, better shopping deals and lower gasoline prices on the U.S. side.
Through the eyes of a well-informed Canadian shopper, Mr. DeYoung said, shopping in the north country will still be considered economically favorable. Canada's dollar would need to drop another 5 to 10 cents, he said, to make staying home instead of crossing the border to shop the wisest choice for Canadians.
"At 95 cents, it's still an advantage for Canadians to shop here," Mr. DeYoung said. "It would have to be in the 80s to have an impact, when you factor in the sales tax and items that are less expensive here. Canadians know what the best deals are. Tires, shoes and dairy products tend to be at a better deal on the U.S. side of the border."
Sales tax in the province of Ontario is 13 percent, compared with 7.75 percent in Jefferson County. Also a boon for Canadians has been the new customs rule that took effect last year, increasing the amount of merchandise they can bring back duty-free. Before, Canadians could bring back only $50 per person in merchandise after an overnight visit and $200 after 48 hours.
Now the limits are $200 after 24 hours and $800 after 48.
"I think the average Canadian is much more aware of the economics than Americans are on this side," Mr. DeYoung said. "They're going to do the calculations. If they buy $1,000 in tires, it's going to cost you a little bit more in taxes there" even with the weaker Canadian dollar.
Even so, Mr. DeYoung said, there will likely still be a portion of Canadians deterred from making trips because the weaker loonie has changed their attitudes.
"Theoretically, you should start to see a little less traffic now," he said. "It's amazing how closely the exchange rate directly impacts the fluctuation of traffic."
The loonie was worth $1.03 in September 2012 before gradually sliding over the past nine months. But the Canadian dollar is expected to recoup losses in 2014 as the country's domestic economy improves, according to a foreign exchange outlook by Scotiabank, one of Canada's leading financial institutions.
"A broadly stronger U.S. dollar leaves the Canadian dollar vulnerable to near-term weakness," said Camilla C.B. Sutton, the bank's chief currency strategist, in the study. "But there is a lot of bad news priced into the Canadian dollar, which should contain the currency within a 95-cent-to-parity range (with the U.S. dollar) over the medium-term."
The weaker Canadian dollar isn't expected to affect summer occupancy at the Hilton Garden Inn, 1290 Arsenal St., said general manager Jody L. Petit. The hotel, which opened in 2011, charges an equal Canadian-U.S. exchange rate regardless of monetary fluctuations.
"I don't think this is scaring Canadians from traveling here," she said. "I think businesses in the community should continue to offer as much cash on par as it can. It will only benefit the region."
Despite the lower Canadian dollar, the Thousand Islands tourism council has beefed up its Canadian advertising campaign this year. On Monday, workers installed a new billboard promoting the Watertown International Airport on the northbound side of Interstate 81 near the Hilton Garden Inn. The council's six-month contract to rent the billboard cost $8,050, which was withdrawn from $50,000 in county funding earmarked for the promotion of the Watertown airport in eastern Ontario.
The council also garnered an $84,000 grant from Empire State Development to promote the I-81 corridor this year, Mr. DeYoung said, along with an extra $100,000 in county bed-tax revenue to promote fishing and historical sites in the region and the Thousand Islands Seaway Wine Trail.
-Ted Booker, Watertown Daily Times


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I guess since I participated in the poll, I should give an explanation. I marked Protestant, though I think of the term as non-Catholic and non-Orthodox. My parents met at the local Non-denominational Christian church, and I have since been raised and baptized in that particular church. I consider the Bible to be the final authority on morality, and the differences in denominations to be results of different interpretations on the Bible.
Has LOTR had influences on my beliefs? Surprisingly no. I'm still trying to find all those pieces that are considered to have Christian influence. I don't find LOTR to be as allegorical as say, C.S. Lewis's work.
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Having a day off post-Mooting has given me a deep dive into the Archives for interesting material, which is now coupled with a wake from my normal Huorn state into posting.
Rereading this thread, it occurs to me that while I answered the black and white question of which religious confession I call home, I did not really delve into the implicit question of "how does your faith (or lack thereof) affect your reading of Tolkien, or vice versa?"
Perhaps that's just as well--ten years ago I would have been even wordier than I am now, and I think my answer has probably changed. The black and white question hasn't: I remain a practicing, believing Roman Catholic; but I have grown a little bit in the intervening decade, both as a Catholic and as a Tolkien fan.
Ten years ago, although I was happy to note that I shared Tolkien's faith, I was actually rather bristly towards most arguments that tried to read anything religious into his work, a stance drawn largely from Tolkien's own cordial dislike of allegory. I started reading Tolkien when I was ten or eleven and I was neck-deep in fascination with his world before I discovered he was a Catholic and while I did eventually discover the Letters and was happy to discover he had been a Catholic too, I did not really change in my conviction that this had no implicit bearing on anything in his fiction. I was, after all, also discovering "On Fairy-stories" about that time, and my summation then of my response to Tolkien would have been to disavow anything overtly Catholic in Middle-earth as attempting to force upon the text an interpretation that did not allow the art of storytelling to be supreme.
To an extent, I still feel that way, though I might highlight the connection between good storytelling and my faith a bit more strongly. As I see it, the best storytelling has the quality of Truth to it, so what allows the story to excel as a story will make it more congruent with Truth itself, which as a believer of course means my faith. In the precise case of Tolkien, this is an easy transition to make, since his own worldview and thus his own tastes in storytelling, were formed and fed by his Catholicism.
Beyond that, in the last decade I have left seminary and the deliberate path of a life in the Church and gone on to a secular career. Tolkien has remained a major influence on my creative thought and has become even more of a rolemodel (or warning) of how to live as a practicing Catholic in a non-Catholic context. In some respects, he has been a model that has encouraged me to be a Catholic amongst non-Catholics rather than seeking to be within the company of other Catholics.
His works too, mainly The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion are read a little differently these days. They are well-worn pieces of mental furniture to me. Coupled with the breadth of their content and their beauty, this has made them a solace to me in hard times, not entirely unlike the Bible. Which is not to say that I think of them as Divinely Inspired, but I do incline--more than I used to--to see them as the products of a Catholic mind and thus to find the struggles within them as reflections by a mind with similar faith working through the great issues of life.
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This is a thread I've somehow missed all this time. Thanks Form, for unearthing it.
I selected the Christianity-Protestant option. I was born and reared in the Baptist denomination, though my parents weren't notably devout. We attended church fairly regularly, but throughout a good deal of my childhood faith wasn't a large part of my life.
I had read The Hobbit and LOTR well before my 'epiphany' in adolescence, the point at which I became a committed follower of Jesus Christ. Since that time, Tolkien's works have to me echoed many elements of my faith, and the meaning of the books is much deeper than when I read them in childhood.
Like Form, I too can find moral and spiritual solace in Tolkien sometimes. For example, there have been times when I was obliged for financial reasons to sell items that, while cherished, really served no purpose, and it was very unlikely I would ever actually use them. At those instances, I could almost hear the voice of (not Vigo!!) Aragorn saying to me "he who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters".
Other times I think of the mercy shown to Gollum by Bilbo and Frodo, and the way in which that worked to ultimate good that the hobbits never imagined. Tolkien helps me to keep a sense of perspective; a knowledge that my daily struggles and triumphs are part of a larger picture that may not become clear to me for a long time, or never on this earth. But as long as I persevere and keep the faith to my best ability, the great Playwright will work all ends for good.
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Since we're sharing, I thought I'd throw in my two cents. Hopefully it doesn't take us too far off topic.
I think it's great how although people come to Tolkien's works with different perspectives and worldviews, we all get something meaningful out of them. A writer's worldview can inform their storytelling without being overt about it, which makes it relatable to different groups/types of people. I don't care much for allegory myself -- high school studies of Orwell beat that thoroughly out of me -- and I don't think I would enjoy Tolkien's works nearly as much if his Catholicism was clearly front and center, because I don't share those beliefs. (And I don't think the writing would have been nearly as good. Take, for example, Pullman's His Dark Materials books -- while I share the author's atheism and generally like the plot, the writing is not what you would call subtle. )
Being nonreligious, I find inspiration in other things, including literature. The melancholic yet, at the end of the day, optimistic tone in LotR fits my attitudes about the world. "Above all shadows rides the Sun, and Stars forever dwell..."
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It is possible to use some USB hubs without a power supply, however, doing so may prevent the USB hub or certain high-power USB peripherals from operating. It is always recommended to use an included power supply with a USB hub when possible.
When a power adapter is not used on a hub that comes with a power adapter, power is drawn from the USB port on the computer and then divided between the ports on the hub. This reduces the power delivery to individual ports and high-powered USB peripherals, such as external hard drives, may not start.
On USB hubs that can use a power adapter, more power can be supplied to USB ports than what is possible with a single USB port.
If your USB peripherals require power adapters, they probably do not require power from the USB port and can be used on a USB hub without a power adapter. With USB peripherals that use power adapters, the USB ports on the hub are only used for data transfer and do not draw power from the hub.
USB peripherals that require low power (for example, keyboards and mice) can be used on hubs without a power adapter, in conjunction with other low-power USB peripherals. In this case, power is drawn from the computer's USB port, as described above.
USB-C is a type of USB connector that is capable of supporting the following:
- Data transfer speeds up to 10Gbps, if you use USB 3.1.
- Bi-directional power delivery up to 100W, if both the USB host connection and the device support it.
- Alternate modes, which deliver different types of data at different speeds. For example, DisplayPort Alternate Mode (DP Alt Mode).
If using Thunderbolt 3 over USB-C, the connection is capable of additional features. For example, Thunderbolt 3 is capable of 40Gbps of total bandwidth. For more information, refer to the following FAQ: https://www.startech.com/faq/thunderbolt-3-port-capabilities.
Not all USB-C ports or devices are capable of supporting all of the features listed above, or all of the features at the maximum capabilities. If you require a specific USB-C feature, your USB host connection, cables, and device must all support the feature that you require. For more information about whether your components support specific USB-C features, refer to the information provided by the manufacturers.
To use all of the features of this USB-C device, it is required that all of the following components support USB Power Delivery 2.0:
- The USB-C host connection.
- The USB-C cable.
- The USB-C device (for example, a hard drive docking station).
To check how much power this device requires, visit the product page, and look on the Technical Specifications tab.
For more information about the power delivery capabilities of your other components, refer to the information provided by the manufacturers.
When you troubleshoot issues with a USB hub, there are some quick tests that you can complete to rule out potential problems. You can test to make sure that the following components are working correctly and are not the source of the issue:
USB A-to-B cable
Computer USB port
USB peripheral(s)
To test your setup components, try the following:
Use the USB cable and USB peripheral(s) in another setup to see if the problem is with the components or the setup.
Use a different USB cable, USB port, and USB peripheral in your setup to see if the problem persists. Ideally, you should test a component that you know works in another setup.
When you test your cables, it is recommended that you do the following:
Test each cable individually.
Use short cables when you are testing.
When you test the hub, make sure that you do the following:
If a power adapter is included, provide power to the USB hub.
Attach a USB peripheral. The USB hub will not appear in any hardware listings on your system, but USB devices do appear when they are connected.
Install the drivers for the USB peripheral.
Install the latest drivers for the USB controller and motherboard chipset.
Note: No drivers or software are required for the USB hub to work with your operating system. The USB hub works independently of software and works with any operating system.
When testing your USB peripherals, make sure that you do the following:
If required, attach external power.
Confirm that the peripheral works on a standard USB port.
If the USB peripheral(s) can be detected on a standard USB port and not on the hub, do the following:
Use a new USB A-to-B cable.
Test your setup using basic USB peripherals, such as a keyboard or mouse.
Test using another USB port.
If the USB device does not work after your computer has been in extended hibernation, it is likely that Windows has automatically turned off the USB Root hub to save power.
The steps below outline how to configure the USB root hub to stay on during hibernation, to prevent this from happening.
Windows 10 / 8
- On your keyboard, press the Windows key + X and select Control Panel.
- Click Hardware and Sound, then click Power Options.
- Click Change plan settings for the plan you want to change.
- Click Change advanced power settings.
- Click the plus sign (+) next to "USB settings" and "USB selective suspend setting" to expand the options and change the setting to Disabled.
- Click OK to apply the setting.
Note: You may need to disconnect and re-connect your USB device after applying these settings to re-establish the connection.
Windows 7 / Vista
- Click the Start button and select Control Panel.
- Click Hardware and Sound, then click Power Options.
- Click Change plan settings for the plan you want to change.
- Click Change advanced power settings.
- Click the plus sign (+) next to "USB settings" and "USB selective suspend setting" to expand the options and change the setting to Disabled.
- Click OK to apply the setting.
Note: You may need to disconnect and re-connect your USB device after applying these settings to re-establish the connection.
Windows XP
- On your desktop, right-click the My Computer icon and select Properties.
- Click the Device Manager tab.
- Expand Universal Serial Bus controllers by clicking the arrow to the left of it.
- Right-click the first USB Root Hub device and select Properties.
- Click the Power Management tab.
- Clear the box next to Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power.
- Click OK to apply the setting.
- Repeat steps 4-7 for any remaining devices in the Universal Serial Bus Controllers section with "Root Hub" in the name.
Note: You may need to disconnect and re-connect your USB device after applying these settings to re-establish the connection.
Your laptop might not support Power Delivery or might have specific charging requirements. For example, if your laptop requires exactly 60W of power and an adapter consumes some of the 60W, your laptop might not recognize that it is getting enough power.
For more information about Power Delivery, refer to the manufacturer of your hardware.
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Historical:Hugin's OpenGL preview system overview
This page describes features in an experimental branch of Hugin, it is not in the stable versions, or the main trunk (yet). The information on this page may be outdated quickly. This page gives an overview of how the SoC 2008 Project OpenGL Preview works, for interested developers.
The OpenGL preview's window is a GLPreviewFrame class, similar to the PreviewFrame that the accurate preview uses. This class contains all the GUI controls in the window. The preview itself is a GLViewer widget, which is derived from wxWidget's wxGLCanvas.
There is a class called ViewState that is handles finding what has changed in the panorama, so that it can perform the necessary steps to update the preview. It updates automatically when the panorama changes, but changes to the preview can be made directly using the ViewState object, so that the preview is updated while the panorama is not. This is used for interactive updates, such as when adjusting the field of view using the sliders.
Displaying remapped images
The images in the preview are drawn using two components: the image, with or without photometric correction; and a set of faces that approximate the remapping performed.
The actual image content is managed by a TextureManager. It creates an OpenGL texture containing a scaled down version of the original image, in 8 bits per colour channel per pixel. The texture is then either a 24 bit RGB, or a 32 bit RGBA texture depending on the presence of a mask. With real time photometric correction, the original image has the same colours as the texture (unless it is an HDR image). With full photometric correction, photometric correction is performed on the texture before it is passed to OpenGL.
The remapping is approximated by a set of quadrilaterals. Each vertex of each quadrilateral has vertex coordinates (where it appears in the output) and texture coordinates (where in the texture that represents the image it should be map to). Using this information, the OpenGL renderer can display faces that show parts if the input image. The mapping of remapped images to image numbers is handled by a MeshManager object, but the transformations are performed by child classes of MeshRemapper. The MeshManager creates an OpenGL display list that contains the instructions for drawing the faces.
The MeshManager only uses ChoosyRemapper, a child of MeshRemapper. This picks between the other two MeshRemappers: VertexCoordRemapper and TexCoordRemapper. The VertexCoordRemapper transforms texture coordinates to the corresponding vertex coordinates. It uses an adaptive subdivision method: first the outer corners are transformed, then the single face that is produced is divided into four smaller faces, by splitting each edge exactly in half. The extra coordinates are then mapped to their correct positions. The process repeats on these smaller faces until the geometric difference created when splitting the face becomes negligible, or the face is too small to be worth doing anything with, or the face is significantly outside the panorama. To avoid certain situations where subdividing a face produces little extra detail but subdividing it more shows some, there is a minimum amount of subdivisions that occur. There is also a maximum subdivision level to limit memory usage. With the cylindrical projection types, an image that crosses the +/- 180° seam is not approximated well by this remapping. There will be faces that stretch across the width of the panorama, where the image actually goes off one end and comes on the other. To correct for this discontinuity in the projection, the remapper tries to find the stretched faces, and changes them into two faces that go off the edges instead of one that goes across the middle.
The TexCoordRemapper works the other way around, it specifies vertex coordinates in a grid over the panorama, and then projects these into the image coordinates which it uses for the texture coordinates. The faces are then clipped so they only contain the desired part of the image, and nothing outside of it. This projection is preferable where a point is stretched into a line or disk, such as the poles of an equirectangular projection, or the outside ring of a disk-like projection. In these circumstances, the VertexCoordRemapper would only see one point of the ring or line, so it does not perform so well. However the TexCoordRemapper does not in general handle curved images as neatly as the VertexCoordRemapper, and the TexCoordRemapper samples much of the panorama outside of the image, so the TexCoordRemapper sees limited use.
The ChoosyRemapper gets VertexCoordRemapper or a TexCoordRemapper to do all the remapping work, but it decides which one to use by detecting when an image crosses a pole or similar.
The textures and images are brought together to draw the preview. The actual drawing is managed by a GLRenderer object.
Interactive Tools
The interactive tools in the preview derive from the PreviewTool class. PreviewTools can change how the preview is drawn and respond to the user. There is a PreviewHelper object that each tool has access to, which provides common information to the tools and manages the events they use. An instance of each tool is created by the GLPreviewPanel, after GLViewer has created an OpenGL context. This is important as tools may wish to create OpenGL textures when they are created. The GLPreviewPanel panel then uses the PreviewToolHelper to "Activate" a tool when the user hits the button. The helper calls the Activate function of the tool, the tool requests any events it needs notification of, and the helper disables any other tool that needs notification only one tool should have (such as mouse clicks) and returns the list of disabled tools back to the GLPreviewPanel, which updates the preview window's buttons to reflect this. The GLViewer tells the helper when some wxWidgets events occur, it processes these as necessary (for example, converting mouse coordinates to panorama coordinates, finding if the images under the mouse have changed) and tells any tool that has registered for notification of any occurring events by calling the corresponding virtual function of PreviewTool.
See also
SoC 2008 Project OpenGL Preview


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|Xuedong Huang, Microsoft technical fellow of artificial intelligence, spoke at the AI NEXT conference in Bellevue, Wash., this weekend.
GeekWire Photo / Geof Wheelwright
This weekend, the company offered insights on the lessons learned from that experience, as well as the huge amount of artificial intelligence work Microsoft is now undertaking.
With encouragement from CEO Satya Nadella, the company's artificial intelligence team moved on from Tay and started offering a new chatbot aimed at millennials called Zo late last year. Zo is based on the company's popular XiaoIce Chinese-language bot (which Microsoft rolled out on WeChat in 2014).
"Tay is gone, Zo is the one we are embracing and supporting," said Xuedong Huang, Microsoft technical fellow of artificial intelligence, during a presentation on Saturday at the AI NEXT tech conference in Bellevue, Wash. "AI is (about) learning from data. We learned from what happened. (With Tay), we didn't do a super, super good job. With Zo, we are doing a much better job."
Microsoft doubled-down on artificial intelligence last fall with the formation of a new 5,000-person AI and Research Group.
Huang demonstrated a number of major applications of Microsoft's AI and chat technologies, including a new implementation Microsoft is now using on its company-wide support website. He showed how you can just click on the "Get started" button to start an immediate chatbot session. Once in the chat, you can ask questions such as "How do I upgrade from Windows 8?"
In the demonstration, not all the answers provided the best possible resolution to the question, but Huang says it is a work in progress and does demonstrate the promise of the technology — and the way Microsoft is committed to using bots to meet mainstream enterprise business requirements.
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|1337: Part 2
Title text: Trivia: Elaine is actually her middle name.
Donald Knuth is a computer science Professor Emeritus at Stanford University who is famous for writing The Art of Computer Programming and developing the TeX computerized typesetting system. He may not have a mountain hideaway (a reference to Kill Bill, by the way), but he would be one of the best mentors a budding hacker could have.
The A* search algorithm and Dijkstra's algorithm are graph search algorithms. And what study of algorithms would be complete without a healthy study about finding complexities? Time complexity is the amount of time an algorithm takes to execute. Upper and lower bounds for complexity is written in Big O notation. Best possible execution of an algorithm is constant time, or O(1), said in words, for any given data set no matter how large the algorithm will always return the answer in the same time. However, constant time is extremely difficult to achieve, linear time (O(n)) is also very good. For more complex algorithms, O( n*log(n) ) is good, but O( n*log(log(n)) ) is better. (Note that logarithms in different bases are proportional to each other. So this would hold true for any base >1.)
From the evidence that Mrs. Roberts has two children, a daughter named Elaine, and a younger son named Bobby, we can assume that she is the same mother from 327: Exploits of a Mom. Of course, the title text here explains that Elaine is only her middle name. In 327 we learned her first name is "Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory". Mrs. Roberts appears to have had fun naming her children.
All comics in "1337" series:
- 341: 1337: Part 1
- 342: 1337: Part 2 (this one)
- 343: 1337: Part 3
- 344: 1337: Part 4
- 345: 1337: Part 5
This series was released on 5 consecutive days (Monday-Friday) and not over the usual Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule.
- [Cueball standing near a friend, who is on the floor near the armchair.]
- Friend: So the greatest hacker of our era is a cookie-baking mom?
- Cueball: Second-greatest.
- Friend: Oh?
- [A young Elaine with a ponytail is laying on the floor looking at the screen of a computer that appears to have been pieced together. A younger Bobby is finger painting at an easel.]
- Mrs. Roberts had two children. Her son, Bobby, was never much for computers, but her daughter Elaine took to them like a ring in the bell.
- [The back of a car is in frame. Mrs. Roberts is waving goodbye to her daughter who is wearing a backpack and is holding a walking stick. She is about to begin climbing a staircase built into a mountain.]
- When Elaine turned 11, her mother sent her to train under Donald Knuth in his mountain hideaway.
- [Donald Knuth is standing with a pointing stick at a chalk board with graph traversal patterns on it.]
- For four years she studied algorithms.
- Knuth: Child—
- [Knuth whips around slashing the stick like a sword. Elaine jumps and lands on the stick.]
- Knuth: Why is A* search wrong in this situation?
- swish
- Elaine: Memory usage!
- Knuth: What would you use?
- Elaine: Dijkstra's algorithm!
- [They are outside both working on a chalkboard with a separator down the middle so they cannot look at each other's work. Elaine is no longer wearing her hair in a ponytail.]
- Until one day she bested her master
- Knuth: So our lower bound here is O(n log n)
- Elaine: Nope. Got it in O(n log (log n))
- And left.
- Mrs. Roberts' son Bobby, might be the
Robert'); DROP TABLE students;--a.k.a. "Little Bobby Tables" in 327: Exploits of a Mom, it certainly seems a little too close to call a coincidence.
- In this Google-speech Donald Knuth personally asked Randall what his n*log(log(n)) algorithm for searching was, and Randall referred him to Elaine.
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Well, imho the reference to the master in the mountain hideaway is clearly a reference to Kill Bill, but I am not skilled enough in English to write it myself... 22.214.171.124 13:06, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
- Next time, don't be so shy! Just do the best you can and someone else can help correct it. Alpha (talk) 00:21, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
I don't see why dijkstra's algorithm would use less memory than A*. Any ideas? 220.127.116.11 01:44, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
- Dijkstra's algorithm only needs to store one distance value per node, whereas A* needs at least an additional priority queue. Sometimes A* also precalculates and stores its heuristic. --Chtz (talk) 09:42, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
- Why can not be A* implemented exactly as Dijkstra's is with additional penalty (the optimistic distance) calculated at every update? That way it would be as memory efficient as Dijkstra's.
220.127.116.11 23:48, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
The mountain hideaway is a staple of Kung Fu movies. Kill Bill was effectively spoofing the genre, and so is this cartoon (rather than specifically spoofing Kill Bill). Mountain Hikes (talk) 04:17, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
Is that an ice pack he's holding in the first panel? 220.127.116.11 23:42, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
- That's something I was wondering too. It's either an ice pack or a towel of some kind. Why would he need an ice pack / towel? Either he's sweating because he's nervous, it's an author mistake, or something offscreen happened. But... what could have happened? --JayRulesXKCD (talk) 11:49, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
- He's holding the ice pack (or towel) because of how badly he got pwned. See the end of the last comic ("You may need to sit down").--Luke22.214.171.124 08:18, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
Anybody notice how her son is Bobby Roberts, or if we're going by the Exploits of a Mom comic, Robert Roberts? 22.214.171.124 20:27, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
I am very confused by "like a ring in a bell". That makes no sense. Pretty much obviously it should be "like ringing a bell" (enunciated in Chuck Berry's singing as "like-uh ringin' a bell") as in, ringing a bell is incredibly easy compared to playing guitar. Surely it's not just a mistake? Maybe it's a known Mondegreen and he put it in on purpose? AmbroseChapel (talk) 06:25, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
- According to all lyric sites it is indeed "(a-)ringing" and I've found no reference to the alternative other than this page [[1]] referencing xkcd. However when I saw the cartoon I did imagine the quote might be correct, and make sense. You don't have to teach a bell to ring, ringing is an inherent quality of the bell, just as guitar or computer skills are suggested to be of the respective characters.
What is Elaine's first name? What is the significance of the fact that Elaine is her middle name? Mcm (talk) 16:49, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
- According to 327:_Exploits_of_a_Mom, her "first" name is "Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory". Mathmannix (talk) 19:31, 18 December 2019 (UTC)


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Last year a "radical plus additional stroke" search using R9+7 yielded several characters, one of which was a character having the Internal Code C262936. This character fails to appear with the same search done today, and I am curious why.
C262936, known also as Morohashi 000059, was defined in CCDICT as an ancient form of U+9E97 ( 麗 ), and so far as I know, it is not available in Unicode.
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It's only one half of football. Things can change in a hurry in the NFL.
But have you been able to watch the Raiders game today?
Carson Palmer is looking pretty good. Yes, it's the Broncos. But his performance gives the lie to all the discussion about his weak arm.
Turns out, as Joe Montana has known all along, that good quarterbacks rely more on good timing, good reads and accurate throws than they do strong arms. And so far Palmer has shown all of the above. The pick I saw came because he hasn't yet developed the back shoulder throw with his receivers. I assume that will come with practice and familiarity. And yes, he's stepping into his throws in a tight pocket.
As it stands right now, I think I was right in believing that Palmer give the Raiders their first competent QB in a decade. If the team stays healthy, they could be a force in the post-season.


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