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Eccentric Beauty
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Unlike most big-wig jewelry makers who boast of centuries' old traditions, renegade designer Alex Sepkus holds on to none. It is what sets him apart from the rest of the crowd and he considers it his valuable asset. Outlandish and evocative, his creations draw to mind images of gold-laden oriental princesses and unheard-of sci-fi machines. This hat-wearing eccentric is also a fanatic, whose attention to details wows even the best of his contemporaries. His works are so decked out in minute and intricate features that his artists often have to work under a microscope, as he himself have mastered to do so. Instead of jewelry, Alex Septus prefers to call his gem-decked designs as "tiny, wearable art" and his extensive fan base couldn't agree more. For more of Alex Septus unique art, check out Shreve & Co. in Portland Oregon – authorized dealer for Alex Septus.
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Given a morphism $f:X\rightarrow Y$ between smooth complex varieties, one can define functors from the bounded derived category with holonomic cohomology on $Y$ to the same category on $X$. The easiest one is $Lf^{*}$ which can be obtained by putting a $D$-module structure on the inverse image of $\mathcal O$-modules and deriving it. From this one can get two more functors:
- $f^!:=D \circ Lf^{*} \circ D$, where $D$ is the duality functor and
- $f^{\dagger}:=Lf^{*}[dim X-dim Y] $
Now my question is, under what conditions are these two isomorphic?
Edit: These notations are bad/confusing/wrong, since they are not compatible with the formalism of six functors. See answers below for better notations.


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The Stage3D APIs in Flash Player and Adobe AIR offer a fully hardware-accelerated architecture that brings stunning visuals across desktop browsers and iOS and Android apps enabling advanced 2D and 3D capabilities.
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An entry-level DSLR from Canon, release in 2003. Also known as the Digital Rebel or Kiss Digital.
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Trojans Unable to Keep Up with No. 3 Lander, Fall 11-4April 16, 2014
GREENWOOD, S.C. – Unable to capitalize on five Lander miscues and leaving 13 runners on base, Anderson University baseball fell short of an upset bid against the nationally-ranked Bearcats, dropping an 11-4 decision Wednesday evening in nonconference action at Dolny Stadium.
The loss puts the Trojans at 18-27 for the season, as Lander claims the season-long two-game series win over AU, as the Bearcats claimed a 7-5 win on April 8 at Anderson Memorial Stadium. With the win, the nation's No. 3 ranked team improves to 36-6 overall.
For the first time this season, Anderson used the starting pitcher in the batting lineup as two-way player LJ Newman earned the start on the mound and in the seventh slot in the order. Newman made the most of his opportunity, tossing two shutout innings and allowing just two hits. At the plate, Newman finished 2-for-3 with an RBI while scoring a run.
Six other Trojans tallied a hit for the night, highlighted by doubles from senior Paul Como and sophomore Kyle Bailey. For Como, the two-bagger was his 15th double of the year, putting him two doubles behind the team's leader in the category, Steven Cooper. Como also led the team in runs scored for the evening, as he crossed the plate twice.
Lander shortstop, Erik Lunde, led the home side's offensive attack, closing the game 4-for-5 with two home runs, a double, three runs scored and two RBI. Entering the game as the nation's leader in home runs, Lunde added to the team's home run total, recording his 10th of the year and the team's 57th.
Lander's Connor Lewis, who entered the game in a tie with Anderson's Nathan Galliford for the nation's top home run hitter, pounded his only triple of the season in the sixth inning, as he concluded the contest with a 2-for-3 performance with two runs and an RBI.
With just one nonconference game remaining on the schedule, Anderson shifts its focus to its final South Atlantic Conference series of the season this weekend against Newberry. With a win on Friday and a Carson-Newman loss, the Trojans would clinch their first berth in the SAC Tournament in the program's history. First pitch from Anderson Memorial Stadium on Friday is scheduled for 6 p.m., while a series-ending doubleheader is set for Saturday at 1 p.m.


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Lymphosarcoma (lymphoma) is the third most common cancer diagnosed in dogs. It is a cancer of lymphocytes (a type of blood cell) and lymphoid tissues. Lymphoid tissue is normally present in many places in the body including lymph nodes, spleen, liver, gastrointestinal tract and bone marrow.
The average dog with lymphosarcoma is between 6-9 years although dogs of any age can be affected. Certain breeds (Boxer, German Shepherd, Golden Retrievers, Scotties, Westies and Pointers) may be more likely to develop this type of cancer. Males and females are equally at risk. In most cases, we cannot tell what causes lymphosarcoma.
Lymphosarcoma can be divided up into 5 different forms which depend upon the primary (predominant) site of the tumor.
A complete evaluation of a dog suspected of having lymphosarcoma involves obtaining a biopsy or aspirate of the affected tissues and a search for tumor in other locations (this is what we call staging). A complete blood count (CBC), a serum chemistry profile and urinalysis are always performed and provide important information regarding the effects of the cancer on body functions as well as the ability of the patient to handle chemotherapy. An abdominal ultrasound (sonogram) allows us to evaluate the liver, spleen, internal lymph nodes and intestinal tract for possible tumor involvement. Chest x-rays allow us to look for enlarged internal lymph nodes, lung involvement or an enlarged mediastinum. A bone marrow aspirate allows us to look for involvement of the bone marrow. Once we have these results, we can then decide upon the best treatment for an individual dog.
Chemotherapy is the mainstay of treatment for lymphosarcoma. Lymphosarcoma is very sensitive to chemotherapy and up to 80% of dogs treated will go into remission. The definition of remission is the complete disappearance of detectable cancer. A remission is NOT a cure but it does allow your pet to experience a good quality of life. It is important to remember this because chemotherapy should not discontinued when a remission is achieved. The length of remission depends upon many factors including the primary site, how sick an animal is at the start of treatment and the extent of disease. For those dogs that have the most common type (external lymph nodes enlargement), the average remission time is usually around 8-10 months with an overall survival time of about 1 year.
The exact drugs and schedule will depend upon how aggressive the cancer is behaving, how sick an animal is at the start of treatment and any abnormalities in organ function (especially important are changes in liver and kidney function). On a typical schedule, your dog will receive weekly treatments for the first 4-6 months. Several different drugs (L-asparaginase, vincristine, Cytoxan and Adriamycin) are alternated in order to reduce the chance that the tumor cells will become resistant and to reduce the risk of side effects. Some of the drugs are given as an injection and some are given orally (this can be done at home). If your dog remains in remission for 4-6 months, the interval between treatments is lengthened to every two weeks. After one year, treatments are given every three weeks for an additional 6 months. If a patient is still in remission at 1 1/2 years, treatment is discontinued. Only 10-15% of dogs will reach the point where we can consider discontinuing treatment.
If a patient comes out of remission, we can try to put them back into remission using either new combinations of the same drugs or different drugs. Unfortunately, the chances of obtaining a second remission are lower and the risk of side effects may be higher. However, there are some dogs that do respond and have extra time.
Most dogs will tolerate their chemotherapy well and have minimal side effects. Serious side effects are only seen in 5-10% of the patients treated. These include nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite, diarrhea, extreme tiredness or infection. Hair loss or slow hair growth may also occur in certain instances. Adriamycin can cause damage to the heart muscle if given multiple times, though most dogs do not receive enough of this drug to be a concern. Cytoxan can cause irritation to the bladder wall in a small percentage of dogs. If this occurs, you will see changes in urination (blood in the urine, straining to urinate, frequent urination). Please also see our handout "Chemotherapy in Small Animals" for further information.
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When there's nothing else to feel proud of, at least you can tell yourself, "Hey, I am an above-average American book reader, god damn it." Are you? Here are the latest stats, from the Pew Research Center:
- 75% of Americans 16 and older read a book last year.
- The median number of books read by readers last year was 6; the average, pushed up by those always-reading outliers, was 15.
- The percentage of readers declined steadily with age, from 90% of 16 year-olds to just 67% of those 65 and older. Likewise, the percentage of readers increased steadily as household income and education levels rose.
- 81% of women read a book last year, but only 70% of men.
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My world is represented by a 3D density field, where a positive density means solid ground and a negative (or zero) density means air. How can I generate a navmesh from that voxel data, with surfaces with a slope of 45 degrees or less being "walkable"?
If you're already building a triangle mesh for rendering these voxels, it shouldn't be too hard to do.
For each triangle, take (or calculate if you haven't) the normal vector, make sure this vector is normalized. Then take the dot product of your "up" direction (for example [0,0,1] if Z is up) and this normal vector. The result is the cosine of the angle between the X/Y plane and the plane the triangle lies in.
If the result is <= cos(degToRad(45)) it meets your criteria and can be added to the nav mesh.
Perhaps perform some pruning of islands of single triangles, or collections of triangles with a small area.
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I implemented something like this when I was still using python - it's the primary reason I moved to C++, the array work was getting too large. The solution is a little lost to time, but it went something along the lines of:
Find a value in the 3Grid that is > 0, and has (n) values above it that are < 0 and has not already been defined. This is the definition of "walkable" in a second 3Grid, add this point.
Find all adjacent spaces that meet the same criteria - and adjacent spaces up, and down one unit.
For each point, add a value to the original point to link, and add new point to second 3Grid with link back to original point (so the path goes both ways).
When no more consecutive points can be added, continue to scan through grid, and repeat.
This gives you a grid that you should be able to navigate without issue - my plan was to measure height at run-time.
The 45 degrees is implicit rather than explicit - an incline or decline of 1:1 is ~45 but if you're using a full marching cubes implementation you may encounter a bit of variation on this.
There are variations on this - you could generate the mesh based on the current location and ignore disconnected meshes. Or, select a range where the grid expires.
Edit: You could extend this to a nav-mesh using marching squares, if neighbouring node (including up or down) is valid, add it to the square's bitmask, otherwise leave it blank.


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11 March 2014
Situated at the heart of Romney Marsh to the North East of New Romney, The Warren Inn is a friendly and cosy traditional Victorian Pub. The pub's ideal location makes it the perfect place to grab some lunch or relax in the evening on a family day out.
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10 March 2014
Faversham and Mid Kent MP Hugh Robertson received a special award today, in recognition of his work to help secure last year's historic cut in beer duty in the Budget.
Jonathan Neame, chief executive of Faversham-based brewery Shepherd Neame, presented Mr Robertson with the new 'Beer Champion' award.
08 March 2014
Delicious alternative to pasta, this dish is wheat free and vegetarian. Serve it with a rocket salad.
05 March 2014
Shepherd Neame, the Kent-based brewer and pub operator, today announces results for the 26 weeks ended 28 December 2013.
Highlights include: Turnover up 4.7% to £72.5m (2012: £69.2m)
04 March 2014
The Tudor Rose, Borden, offers traditional food and cask ale in a relaxed, family-friendly atmosphere amid surroundings of great character. Originally two cottages, the building dates back to the 1750s and great care has been taken to preserve its warm, comfortable feel.
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Sleeping Beauty in DC, June 22-25reviews & comments
Posted 26 June 2006 - 08:05 AM
Posted 26 June 2006 - 08:22 AM
Perhaps Cojocaru impresses those least familiar with her dancing; I've been watching her as Aurora for some time now and although she makes a pretty little princess, I've yet to see any real development in the role.
Posted 26 June 2006 - 08:30 AM
Posted 26 June 2006 - 09:04 AM
p.s. I should have mentioned the 'fishdives' in the Act III Grand pdd. It was notable that the only couple to receive the instant-applause upon performing the fishdives -- indeed, after each and every dive on Thursday -- was the Cojo/Kobo pair. That's because they alone could 'snap' into the dive position in a split second & not waver.
I agree completely--the dives were showstoppers seen only from this pair.
Once more on sets: It wasn't just that the sets were underlit--there were some times when I thought the _dancers_ were under-lit.
Posted 26 June 2006 - 09:04 AM
I went to all casts -- every performance except for the Cojo/Kobo 'repeat' on Sunday.
Now that the shock of the costumes has passed, I conclude that this is a pretty-darn-good production. The costumes, while too jewel-encrusted & pale, would be quite stunning with new, brighter backdrops. However, the most important element in this new-old production -- the restoration of most of the 1946 steps and mime -- makes the overall staging a triumph.
Thank you, Royal Ballet. Just bring back the true Messel costumes next time!
Tons of stuff has been written and I'm still sort of groggy from getting home so late last night.
I have to agree with Natalia on the sets and costumes. The sets are SO drab and washed out looking and the costumes are such a weird mismash. The RB painted themselves into a corner touting this out to be such a big deal. The frustrating thing is that if the sets were.....not brighter....but just a little more color saturated it would look so much better. And it needs better costumes, that work together better.
The Baby Aurora doll in the prolog looked gross, but I'm nitpicking here.
I've always loved how the British danced Sleeping Beauty so I enjoyed the two performances I saw very much, even the odd weak performer. As a company they have a great sense of style in this. And they have a long tradition of doing mime and can execute it wonderfully.
I saw Saturday night with Nunez and Soares with McMeekan as Lilac. I liked Nunez a lot, she's a very strong performer. She seems a bit overly "cute" in Act 1 but this may be polished in time. Soares partnered her well although he's a bit faceless. McMeekan was only so-so in my book. Good with the mime but less strong with her dancing.
Then I saw the Sunday matinee with Cojocaru and Kobborg with Cuthbertson as Lilac. This is the fist time I saw Cojocaru/Kobburg in a substantial piece, previously I had only seen them in Ashton's Scenes de Ballet
and a couple of pdds at a gala.
Cojocaru was wonderful at projecting the innocence and charm of the Act 1 Aurora. Also though there were no super long balances in the Rose Adagio she danced with great strength but also great elegance. Wonderful.
I loved Act 2. Kobborg really pulled off the world weary prince, just the character the Lilac Fairy is looking for. He did his solo with fine polish and style.
Cojocaru was very remote, almost otherworldly here. The whole vision scene really just blew me away. It's really my favorite section of the whole ballet.
Act 3. Again I was blown away by the Aurora/Florimund pdd. They were so "charged" that I couldn't break my attention away. The Fish Dives(a guilty pleasure for me) were fabulous; Cojocaru spun SO fast and then really dove. Each one was applauded. Overwise this pair did much really beautiful dancing; the kind that stays clearly in memory.
Cuthbertson was a good Lilac Fairy, her dancing was good and her mime was beautiful.
This morning I realized that part of what made this performance so special is the partnership chemistry, discussed on a recent thread. And I thought, wow I saw Ferri and Bocca in Manon and Vishneva and Malakhov in Giselle all recently. This reminded me just what this kind of chemistry adds. What you end up with is a total greater than the sum of the parts. I saw three very, very special performances
What else? Even the less than ideal men and other odd negactives, the company knows this piece knows how it should go.
I was delighted to see Ansanelli, she seems to have picked up so much classical style since I saw her in the Corsair pdd early last year in NYC. Great to see her extend her range and also to see her dance so well.
So really, for me the negatives were the sets, costumes, and the Wheeldon Garland Dance (why did they keep that????)
I was so happy I had the opportunity to see this.
Posted 26 June 2006 - 09:20 AM
... the Wheeldon Garland Dance (why did they keep that????)
I guess that they kept it because it just premiered one month ago. Seriously, there's no reason why, in the next year or two, Ms Mason & the RB cannot restore the Ashton version of the Garland Waltz -- or even DeValois' 'Three Ivans' of Act III (to Nutcracker Trepak music), very much in the English tradition, yet strangely omitted here.
Like you & so many others, though, the nit-picking doesn't mean that we didn't have great fun this past weekend. It was a joy to have experienced the Royal Ballet in DC, especially in 'Beauty.'
Posted 26 June 2006 - 09:29 AM
Posted 26 June 2006 - 10:38 AM
Seriously, there's no reason why, in the next year or two, Ms Mason & the RB cannot restore the Ashton version of the Garland Waltz -- or even DeValois' 'Three Ivans' of Act III (to Nutcracker Trepak music), very much in the English tradition, yet strangely omitted here.
I think I could live without seeing the most over-played part of the Nutcracker polluting my favorite ballet, English tradition or not.
Posted 26 June 2006 - 12:11 PM
p.s. I should have mentioned the 'fishdives' in the Act III Grand pdd. It was notable that the only couple to receive the instant-applause upon performing the fishdives -- indeed, after each and every dive on Thursday -- was the Cojo/Kobo pair. That's because they alone could 'snap' into the dive position in a split second & not waver. The others were OK - no dive was aborted - but the Cojo/Kobo pairing must be commended for their incredibly snappy execution and flair. ALSO - the execution of the final 'swan pose' in the adagio belonged to Cojo/Kobo...I shall never forget how he literally threw her up like a feather & caught her at the hips, then instantly snapped her down into the 'no-hands' swan dive. Breathtaking! The audience went absolutely bonkers.
Ive seen so many unfamiliar dancers in the past 2 weeks that some details of the various SB casts are a little jumbled in my mind at the moment, but I recall that one pairing did the fish dives so deliberately that it felt like I was watching them in slow motion (Im pretty sure it was either Marquez/Bonelli or Lamb/Samodurov) and, in any case, the only couple who did them with that snap was Cojocaru/Kobborg- at both performances.
I really liked Lamb, even though she looked a little academic at times. She was very much a princess to the manor born, rather than young & coltish. Her dancing was beautiful - crisp & authoritative but she hasnt quite learned how to connect all the movements with that heavenly fluidity that Cojocaru displays. Lets give her a little time, the pressure must have been huge.
None of the Auroras really nailed the Rose Adagio. Cojocarus balances on Sunday were unbelievable - she really took her time and lowered her arm to take each princes hand with great flourish - but she overdid it with the pirouettes and came off point in all but the last series. Still, she brings so much to the role that this was inconsequential.
I loved Ansanelli as the Crystal Fairy but as the Lilac Fairy I thought it was very obvious that she did not blend into the RB style. Her solo was beautiful but too showy (compared to the company style) and she doesnt have that very open upper torso or the flow to her port de bras that the rest of the comany has. Among Lilac Faries I agree that Nunez was outstanding.
By the way - I dont have a long history of seeing different SB productions but when the Kirov brought the Sergeyev version to the West Coast last year I remember a lot of talk here about how all their Lilac Fairy did was bourre around the stage. While I love all the mime in this production I was surprised that the only real dancing this Lilac fairy did was the 1st act solo. She is certainly integral to the plot, but in this production it really is a mime role, as opposed to a dancing role.
Among the Bluebirds the Maloney/Morera pairing was the clear winner for me. I also liked Kenta Kura on Saturday afternoon. Though his elevation was not outstanding the stretch in his upper body during his solos was beautiful. I liked his Florine, too -Yuhui Choe. Her movements were a little birdlike for me in the beginning but her solos were beautiful, very light & delicate.
The only Florestan that I really liked was Makhatelli but from my barely legible scribblings I think I liked a couple of the sisters a lot - Deirdre Chapmen, Samantha Raines and Natasha Outred. And I loved Laura Morera in everything she did - over the course of the engagement I saw her in 2 of the prologue fairy variations (Golden Vine & Enchanted Garden), in the Florestan pas de trois and as Princess Florine - I thought she was really outstanding in all her roles. On Saturday night I particularly liked Victoria Hewitts Crystal Faity and Sian Murphys Woodland Glade.
I sat in 4 different locations for this run and it really made a big difference. Many of the effects were not visible from the orchestra but read perfectly from the 1st & 2nd tiers - the initial vision of Aurora in the 2nd act, Carabosse in the mirror above Auroras bed in the 3rd, even just the way the scenes became visible through the scrims worked really well from the balconies and really badly from the orchestra.
Posted 26 June 2006 - 12:49 PM
By the way - I dont have a long history of seeing different SB productions but when the Kirov brought the Sergeyev version to the West Coast last year I remember a lot of talk here about how all their Lilac Fairy did was bourre around the stage. While I love all the mime in this production I was surprised that the only real dancing this Lilac fairy did was the 1st act solo. She is certainly integral to the plot, but in this production it really is a mime role, as opposed to a dancing role.
I'm no scholar but from Peter Wright's comments on the Dutch Ballet Sleeping BeautyDVD with Sylve, he comments that the Lilac Fairy was originally really not considered a dance role. His version, in this set, has the Lilac Fairy in a flowing robe and heeled shoes, more or less a reverse image of Carabosse, as these are the two key characters which drive the plot. By the way Wright is WONDERFUL displaying how to do the mime
Wright also says that over the years, stagers wanted to give the LF more to do and gave her some dancing.
I'm not sure know if Wright is completely correct (I do think he must be mostly correct) as I've seen photo's
of early LF both in toe shoes and in heeled shoes. So a question here is did the original LF dance at all.
And if we want her to dance is there much authenic material to give her.
Nureyev, in his version for the POB goes the similar route, both Carabosse and the LF are in non dancing costumes and heeled shoes.
My early Sleeping Beauties, way before video, were all with the Royal Ballet , so although there have been changes over the years, they have been more in the way of adjustments. What I saw this weekend was not too, too different than my first one in 1969 (and I'll admit I was bored stiff. It took me a while to get the piece)
End of my non-scholarly comment, others can I'm sure be more concrete
Posted 26 June 2006 - 01:51 PM
Posted 26 June 2006 - 02:49 PM
The dancing was superb. To prep for the evening, I had watched Durante's Aurora a couple of times on video. I was amazed that, even from my not-too-close orchestra seat in audience left, Cojocaru was just as expressive while even more fluid with her arms and smile. Nunez was a strong and elegant Lilac Fairy and did a fine job with miming as well as dancing. That being said, the Bluebird was mildly disappointing for reasons mentioned above - in fact, my teenage son (undergoing mandatory ballet exposure) watched the Bluebird carefully and whispered "he didn't jump too high, did he?" Parental note: I was amused when my son nodded off at the start of the Grand Pas de Deux, roused himself a few moments later, and said "have they done the fish dives yet?" He was lucky to see them -- they were spectacular.
I like the pastels of this production's costuming. Beautiful. Indeed, I thought that the most jarring part of the costuming was Calabutte's rich green jacket and tall shock of white hair -- once or twice it overpowered the more muted tones of the other costumes. Perhaps in costuming, the RB should go with pastels or jewel colors but not mix them up.
I agree with the criticism of the ship in the Vision scene, although it reminded me of the Batmobile rather than a parade float. I also thought that the hunting party scene was unnecessarily truncated. These are quibbles, though. Overall Act II was very effective and suitably "Vision"ary.
The orchestra was decent but the Kennedy Center's acoustics emphasized the low end where we sitting, which was distracting. My daugher (formerly a dd but now a rather demanding musician) told me I was being too critical.
The audience came for an Occasion and they got one. The RB more than earned its ovations. Of course, this being Washington, a fair number of people streamed for the doors as soon as the curtain came down -- it was the shockingly late hour (for DC) of 10:40 on a Thursday. The sacrifices we make for art!
Posted 26 June 2006 - 04:14 PM
I was so thrilled by the restoration of a Real Sleeping Beauty that whatever design flaws existed (and they do), I was willing to overlook. EXCEPT -- the steps Aurora dances down on her first entrance. That may have been more a function of Ken Ctr's relatively shallow stage. Brits? Leigh?
Heresy, I know, but I never liked the Ashton Garland Waltz and prefer Wheeldon's -- although that isn't without "issues." I just hear the music more like Wheeldon does.
Cojocaru's indelible good moment: Vision scene. Her arms curled in a stylized fourth position, head turned sideways and down, looked to me like a cocoon. Indelible bad moments: extreme extensions, esp. in Rose Adagio. When we see that performance 5-7 years in the future, I hope this feature will be reconsidered. Not only did it look wrong, but it compromised her musicality.
Kobborg was an ideal prince. Loved Nunez's Lilac. Special mention to Natasha Oughtred, assigned not one but both of my least favorite roles -- Fairy of the Songbirds and White Cat -- and making them work for me. Brava for her underplaying of the lethal Cute Factor.
This production is the best Sleeping Beauty I've seen since -- well, the RB Ashton-deValois-Messel version. Cojocaru has the makings of a Great Aurora. Not quite there yet, but well on her way. Was it worth seventeen hours (as it turned out) on crowded Greyhounds? Do it again? Not this week, thanks.
Posted 26 June 2006 - 04:22 PM
It's just great to read all these detailed, perceptive, informed and well-written reviews that help me see better and remember what I did see.
The audience came for an Occasion and they got one. The RB more than earned its ovations.
Cojacaru and then Cojacaru and Kohborg received ovations as thunderous as any I've heard at the Kennedy Center. After her appearance in "Gloria" Tuesday night at least person yelled "Alina!," but it was for Beauty that she really revved us up and sent us home talking out of our heads.
We walked by the open Opera House scenery door yesterday afternoon and there was the silver-blue boat, looking smaller than it had onstage. For me it was the magical ferry it's meant to be, especially with its figure on the prow (and especially when it wasn't bumping into things). The Batmobile, Bill? I see what you mean. I guess it's the circular carvings, some of which could be taken for wheel wells.
I had never cared much cared for Bluebird before. What are the beaten steps in which the dancer repeatedly turns his upper body this way and then that? For some reason, although none were high flyers, the Royal's relatively shorter dancers looked better to me in this than the tall figures I associate with the role.
I understand how the sometimes low lighting and dusky sets combined with the pastel costumes could strike some people as drab. But I saw 2 performances quite close, one from the mid-orchestra, and most of a rehearsal from the first balcony, and I was able to see Aurora and Carobosse behind the scrims from each location. They could have been brighter lit, but the dimness seemed appropriate, as Aurora is only being glimpsed, and Carabosse at that point is being eclipsed, her power fading to inconsequentiality.
The Garland Dance seemd fussy to me as well, and for once the stage seemed crowded instead of occupied with individuals.
Posted 27 June 2006 - 05:32 AM
I had never cared much cared for Bluebird before. What are the beaten steps in which the dancer repeatedly turns his upper body this way and then that? For some reason, although none were high flyers, the Royal's relatively shorter dancers looked better to me in this than the tall figures I associate with the role.
The steps are brise voles--and I agree on the size of the dancer. My favorite Bluebird is (was?) Jean Babilee, an enigmatic dancer of short stature--resembled a young Brando. I enjoyed reading all the comments about the Messel production; it was my introduction to "Sleeping Beauty' at its first American appearance so many years ago. It was my favorite for years until that magnificent Kirov reproduction.
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This event happened nearly two weeks ago, yet the Times-Leader still has it on the "front page" of its website as if it is yet to occur. Can this newspaper be any more incompetent?
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capture-panel can grab the current screen, but not the entire scrollback.
How can I write all the scrollback in a tmux session to a file?
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To capture the entire scrollback, enter copy mode, select the entire scrollback, and yank it into the buffer, then paste it into your file.
How you accomplish this will depend on the
I have the following in my
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I had standard key bindings which appeared to be a bit different than in @jasonwryan's answer and didn't change anything in config.
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#6. The Media Accuse a Guy of Murder (Because He's Weird)
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Just before Christmas 2010 in Bristol, England, 25-year-old Joanna Yeates went missing from her home and was subsequently found murdered. The British media went crazy, which was predictable, since Yeates was young, attractive, popular, and successful, and there were many puzzling details. Her keys, phone, purse, and coat were still at her home, and there was no sign of a struggle or forced entry. Surely it must be someone known to her, but who? The media, however, thought they had busted this case wide open when they discovered that Yeates' landlord looked like this:
PA via The Independent
The kind of clue that could only come from shoddy, sensationalist journalism.
This is Chris Jefferies, a former teacher and, according to just about all of Britain's newspapers, "weird," "creepy," "a loner," and "a peeping Tom." Upon being arrested and questioned for a few days -- then released -- the tabloid press devoted themselves to proving to the British public that despite any evidence of wrongdoing whatsoever, this guy was just really weird, yo.
The problem was that everyone who actually knew him thought he was pretty damn cool, regarding him as a "pillar of society," his eccentricities not quite extreme enough to convict him of capital murder. The press were forced to dig deep, discovering that, although he had an unblemished record, his students had often given him funny nicknames, like "Professor Strange" and "Hannibal Lectern." In their increasingly desperate attempts to pin something on him, they even reported that a former colleague of his was a convicted pedophile, and also, Jefferies once had blue hair. Blue!
Jay Williams
"Blue, the same color of his balls when he doesn't get to murder someone!"
In the end, the entirely innocent Jefferies had all the charges dropped -- at which point he sued the hell out of the papers. Eight different newspapers awarded him substantial damages, and two were prosecuted and fined for contempt of court, with the judges describing the articles as "substantial risks to the course of justice" and a "very serious risk" that any future court defense would be damaged.
And the real murderer? Well, it turned out to be a different neighbor. A younger one who didn't look particularly weird. He didn't make any front pages.
Rex Features via The Guardian
"What a lovely young man. You know, I have a daughter about your age."
#5. A Facial Similarity Ruins an Iranian Woman's Life
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In 2009, a series of protests broke out in Iran in response to a presidential election that looked rigged as hell. The Iranian government decided they weren't going to let some peaceful activists make them look like pussies and made the dubious decision to shoot a few of them to show who was boss. Evidently, the team in charge of international PR had all taken the day off.
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"The worst that could happen is Neil Young writes a song about us."
One of those shot and killed was Neda Agha-Soltan, a woman who wasn't even participating in the protests, but had the bad luck to be getting out of a car nearby when the police opened fire. Her last moments were recorded by an onlooker with a camera phone, and her face suddenly became the symbol of international outrage when it spread all over the globe.
Well, not her face, exactly. See, when the Western media started trying to dig up some information on this woman, they turned to Facebook, where about a minute of searching led them to the profile of one Neda Soltani. After concluding that Soltani was indeed wearing a headscarf and was kind of good looking, they decided that she ticked all the boxes and, without a second of further research, spread her profile all over the globe as the martyred woman. The only problem was that Soltani was a different person, and in fact was still totally alive.
BBC News
Whereupon she was captured and tried for necromancy.
Soltani, an English teacher, was greeted by hundreds of friend requests from people around the world who thought she was the dead woman. This first of all hints at a profound misunderstanding by the population about dead people's ability to check their Facebook requests, but it was also Soltani's first clue that a major news story had gone down. It was only later when students and colleagues told her that her face had been plastered all over CNN that she began to piece together why her day had suddenly taken a left turn down into Crazyville.
By the time the media corrected their error, Soltani's face was already stuck to placards and billboards in protests and candlelight vigils all over the world. Soltani found herself hunted by the Iranian government, who seized upon an opportunity to use the fact of her survival as proof that the entire event had been fabricated by the Western media. In the end, she had to bribe her way out of Iran and wound up spending time in a German refugee camp, and the whole situation could have been avoided if a single journalist had sent her a private message asking "Hi, are you this dead chick?"
#4. Journalists Make a False Accusation Because They Don't Understand a Foreign Caption
Back in 2000, the Associated Press' Jerusalem office was hunting through freelance photographs of the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian violence when they struck newspaper gold. The shocking image showed a snarling Israeli policeman standing, baton raised, over a badly wounded man. Unfortunately, the image had arrived accompanied only by some confusing Hebrew text that failed to explain the exact situation being depicted.
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Since clarifying the matter would have taken costly minutes, the AP bypassed this tiny modicum of effort and ran the photo with their own caption reading "An Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on Temple Mount" and threw it out on the wires. The inference that the police were responsible for the man's injuries was pretty clear (hell, just look at it -- that's what you'd think even with no caption at all). Before long, the picture had been featured in major media outlets around the world, including the New York Times and the front page of the Boston Globe, showing this Israeli policeman brutally beating the shit out of an innocent Palestinian.
The unfortunate reality of the situation was that the injured man was actually a Jewish-American named Tuvia Grossman who had been passing through Jerusalem when he was attacked by an angry crowd of Palestinians. Far from being responsible for his injuries, the police officer had actually saved Grossman's life by single-handedly facing down the entire mob, forcing them to back off. He then bandaged Grossman's head and waited with him until an ambulance arrived.
Associated Press
During which time he filed Grossman's taxes and helped the man's daughter with her algebra homework.
But shit, it's an easy mistake to make, right? You don't need a caption to come to the reasonable conclusion that this screaming, baton-wielding man is in the middle of a head-smacking rampage. Well, there actually were a couple of clues that the AP caption might not have been quite as exhaustively researched as you would expect from a major news agency. For one thing, the Temple Mount is one of the most sacred sites in the world, revered by Muslims, Christians, and Jews alike. It does not, in fact, contain a gas station. Not even a 7-Eleven.
The mistake went unnoticed until Grossman's father discovered the photo and wrote to the New York Times to complain. The Times then published a short retraction, but not before it flared up the already tense Arab-Israeli conflict, which really should warrant more delicate journalism than a guesstimate about some funny-looking foreign words.


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A good title helps your question get the attention it deserves. What goes into a good title?
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1. Make the topic stand out.
The purpose of a title is to attract people interested in your topic or who can give you an answer. People scan web pages quickly. Make it easy for them to notice your question. Some people read via the RSS feed (Stack Overflow example), so they don't see tags.
2. Keep it short.
You don't have to put all the details in the title. There's plenty of space to expand your question in the body of the text.
Likewise, don't insist that your title be expressed as a perfectly formed English sentence.
3. Lead with the most important words.
These articles discuss how people read web pages, based on using an eye tracking system to monitor users. For Stack Overflow-like pages people read most of the first and second entries (the bars of the "F"), and then scan down the rest of the list, reading on average the first 16 characters of each line.
4. Don't start with "How do I..."
Writing in that style ensures that your title will fail criteria 1-3, and get less attention than it deserves.
This is a question site, and people will understand your titles are questions.
5. Don't sweat replicating a tag keyword.
The tags are orthogonal to the title. There's a good chance that if a question is about some particular topic, a good title for the question will include the topic name. Glance at the front page and you will see this is quite common.
6. "What is a ..." is fine
Since the "..." is usually just a couple of words, titles like this still capture the essence of the question very briefly.
Some Good Examples
Here are some good titles, taken from existing posts. They succinctly summarize the question and will catch readers' eyes whilst scanning down the list.
Some Bad Examples
These titles, also taken from existing posts, accurately present the question when read individually, but make it hard to pick out questions of interest when scanning the list.
Finally, be flexible
Different questions benefit from different styles of titles. Applying any single hard and fast rule is probably a mistake.
While this is overall an excellent set of advice, I have some issues with a few of the titles:
I am not sure the rigid format
Is a good one. The starts-with-tag-colon convention is a bit artificial and should be tweaked. Here's what I'd rather see:
(obviously all these questions would also be tagged with the right keywords)
To be clear, I think it is fine to duplicate the tags in the title, but only when they can be worked into the titles organically and conversationally.
If we're ritualistically appending tags to the front of the title, that doesn't feel like a tremendous improvement over a bunch of "How do I..." titles in the system, to me.
The Good
Your title should be, in order of greatest to least importance:
These points go together hand in hand. For example, a short and descriptive title is always searchable.
The Bad
Your title should not be/contain:
The Good
The Bad
The Ugly
(Jeff raises some good points. This is a followup to his note, since I can't edit his post, and I need a bit more formatting that what a comment provides.)
However, if you want people to pick out your post from a list of other titles all competing for reader attention, it pays to note that the people in the study were scanning on average the first 16 characters of the titles.
So, it's interesting to truncate your title to 16 characters and see how they hold up. If you put something that interests a reader in the first 16 characters, there's a pretty good chance the rest of your title will be read. Once someone has clicked through to your question it's almost assured your question will be read. The main job of the title on the questions page is to get the reader that far.
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Every now and then, an answer that got some upvotes when it was new and then nothing for days at a time will suddenly get a bunch of them in the course of a few minutes. I'm curious if that's a result of this algorithm that was mentioned on the podcast that puts old questions back on the default front page, or if there is some other social phenomenon in play? Anybody know?
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As best as I can tell, people only tend to look at the top 5 or so answers. I've seen evidence of this in several ways. First, there's this way where you get several upvotes at once. Getting that first one may put you in the critical region at the top such that you get more people reading it and thus (hopefully) more people upvoting it.
The other way I've seen this play out is that a post will get an upvote and then a downvote relatively soon after. There hasn't been any edits or new answers so it hasn't been bumped. I believe it is often due to the same phenomenon: the first upvote makes it far more likely it'll be read.
Also don't forget that bumping isn't the only thing that'll attract attention to a post. It may get linked from elsewhere such that a bunch of people read it in a short time period. There was some post about integer square roots that attracted 13k views all of a sudden. Someone thought this was a bug but it had just made it to the front page of reddit.
Yes that and the question being linked to by another new question.
IMO, the most likely reason is that you were linked from another recent question. A random blog link somewhere is also possible but less likely because the readers there may not have SO accounts.
There was a request earlier today to allow authors to somehow see referers.
One other possibility is that the Community user randomly bumped the question onto the front page. That leads to more views and thus votes for your answer.
This is possible even if you didn't see it getting bumped, because the front page may vary when people have favorited or ignored tags.


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If you followed the government-shutdown saga on Twitter last week, you might be forgiven for thinking the era of soft leaders and strong aides was here. In the days leading up to the standoff, President Obama and Republican bosses weren't talking to one another, but their staffers were duking it out on Twitter. On Thursday, White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer told his more than 53,000 followers: "What the House GOP wants is extortion not negotiation — ideological concessions that cant [sic] pass in exchange for not blowing up economy." The next day, as Obama briefed reporters at the White House, Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, tweeted to his 10,000 followers: "This Iranian news should make for an interesting pivot to talking about how he won't negotiate with Congress on budget issues." On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal, usually above chronicling minor Internet fracases, posted a story on the rise of "cyber slingers" — D.C. staffers fighting Washington's shutdown war on Twitter.
The conventional wisdom that staffers should remain behind the scenes is obsolete. It was dead at least as far back as the Clinton era, when the rise of cable news elevated D.C. perennials to familiar talking heads and The West Wing made the underlings seem as glamorous as the politicians themselves. The new paradigm accelerated during the early Obama years, when an obsessive, up-to-the-second news cycle rose to meet the intense interest in the new administration from Web-surfing political junkies. Five years in, everyone from the senior strategist to the lowliest body man has a Twitter feed that builds her public stature and (hopefully) enhances her boss's. Washington may be shut down, but this time anyone — anyone who can stomach it, that is — has a window into the real-time partisan bickering, not just between the White House and Congress but among all of those once-anonymous staffers, too.
It used to be that the top aides who moved legislative mountains — such as Harry Hopkins and Rexford Tugwell, two of the chief architects of FDR's New Deal — did so without the expectation of fame, even Washington fame. Now top aides do their work out front. "Back in my day, the White House chief of staff had a passion for anonymity," says Ken Duberstein, who held that position in the Reagan administration. The job has grown, Duberstein says, and while power still flows from proximity to the Oval Office, it has another source: media currency. When the White House wanted to sell the American people on a Syria intervention, Chief of Staff Denis McDonough made the rounds on the Sunday shows. On any given day, cable news programs are teeming with current and former Obama administration allies and Republican ur-strategists. Those not lucky enough to land a spot in the news cycle always have Twitter to make their case. Influence is not just derivative anymore; it can also be self-created.
There are obvious advantages for the celebrity staffers — the Jon Favreaus and the Reggie Loves and the Stephanie Cutters — who manage to transform high-profile political roles into successful post-administration careers. There are also perils, as in the case of Doug Band, the longtime Bill Clinton body man and the subject of a recent New Republic cover story detailing the ethically murky overlap between his business ties and the former president's global charity work. Band was the profilee, but it had implications for the political future of the Clinton dynasty — which points to a consequence of the new culture: Although the risks may be shared between the politician and his omnipresent underling, the downsides almost always fall on the boss.
The 1999 debut of The West Wing, near the end of the Clinton administration, had a singular impact on the public's perception of life in Washington. Already, staffers such as James Carville, David Gergen, and George Stephanopoulos were well-known within the D.C. political scene, but the show gave a new dimension to the apparatchiks — the Josh Lymans and Sam Seaborns — who previously kept out of public view. "You had a much greater lumping of the power class, and principals became synonymous with operatives around them," says Mark Leibovich, who chronicled the evolution of the role of aides in This Town. Even beyond the confines of the screen, the show blurred the lines between Washington and Hollywood, hiring writers and producers who had served in key government posts, such as former Senate staffer Lawrence O'Donnell and former White House spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers. Later, the George W. Bush administration would have Karl Rove, Nicole Wallace, and other high-profile aides. The West Wing's depiction of young staffers (earnest, idealistic, and able to influence big decisions) inspired a whole new generation of young people to come work in Washington.
But under Clinton and Bush, only a few aides near the top of the totem pole got glitzy Style-section profiles and Sunday talk-show gigs. Politico, founded in 2007, helped lower the barrier to entry. With its mission to break every bit of news happening in the capital, no matter how trivial, the newspaper deepened the link between sources and the journalists who desperately needed them for incremental coverage. Suddenly, every staff move, intra-office squabble, and birthday cupcake had a place in Politico.
It was a dramatic increase in attention, not just for major news events but for things that previously were thought to have no news value. "I've always been surprised when you read a story about a staffer or you see them in a photo, because I've always thought to myself, 'Oh, my God, that guy might get fired.' It felt to me on the campaign that that was sort of a fireable offense," says Jake Levine, who worked on Obama's first presidential campaign and is now at Opower, an energy consultancy. But when Levine became a policy analyst in the White House energy and climate-change office, the press shop gave him permission to participate in a New York Times Magazine profile of Obama twentysomethings written by Ashley Parker. "We knew that if we just told [the writer] the way that we felt about our time in the administration and what we were doing, that would reflect well on us," he explained. And the story did make Team Obama look hip and young — like the new Camelot.
The piece wasn't just good for Obama, though. It also lifted the subjects' cache. Herbie Ziskend, the blue-eyed, 28-year-old travel aide who led Parker's profile and once handled luggage for Obama's campaign, is currently chief of staff to Arianna Huffington. Reggie Love, Obama's charismatic former body man, left for an M.B.A. at Wharton and now gives motivational speeches. And speechwriter Jon Favreau, who departed with Hollywood aspirations, now runs a political-strategy firm and writes a column for The Daily Beast.
Social media further accelerated this phenomenon. At the beginning of the Obama administration, Twitter was still in its infancy. It became part of the political conversation just as relations between the White House and congressional Republicans frayed, making it an important space for the proxy debate. "What we're left with is a sort of tweet-a-thon, where staffers have new freedom to make wisecracks and pick fights or just retweet reporters' links as evidence of the other side's intransigence," says former Obama White House spokesman Reid Cherlin.
There are practical benefits here, says Ben LaBolt, a former spokesman for the Obama campaign. "There could be an accountability factor to it — it holds people's behavior more accountable and allows for more engagement between not only elected officials, but between staffers and government."
Still, tweet-a-thons are acts of public performance meant to advance political (or personal) narratives; they reward point-scoring and name-calling over policy debate. Earlier this summer, for example, Brad Dayspring, a strategist for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, suggested to his 10,000-plus followers that Justin Barasky, a press secretary for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, was mentally ill. Then Barasky's boss, Matt Canter, compared Dayspring to a rabid dog. Dayspring responded by calling Barasky a stalker. Barasky returned the "stalker" epithet a day later. Politico wrote 1,800 words on the spat. In September, Dayspring ignited another media frenzy when he called Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes an "empty dress." The ensuing outcry was loud enough that GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell's tea-party challenger, Matt Bevin, denounced the comments.
Now it's much easier for an aide to realize Levine's fear — of becoming the story himself. Kurt Bardella, a former flack for GOP Rep. Darrell Issa, was famously undone for leaking correspondence with reporters to Leibovich and bragging about his media-wrangling efforts. In other words, he became a distraction, and Issa fired him. "I made a decision that was based more on ego and vanity than what was in the best interest of my guy," Bardella says. "The foundational question you need to ask yourself is, 'Will this help my guy or not?' And if the answer is no, don't do it." It looked like a familiar kind of Washington sin: Icarus syndrome.
Yet instead of ending his career, the mini-scandal seemed to burnish Bardella's brand. Six months later, after a round of contrition and self-abnegation, he was back with Issa — now as an adviser to the chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. This summer, he was featured on the cover of The New York Times Magazine — alongside renderings of the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, and the Capitol, with the provocative headline, "Which One Defines Washington?" In September, he started his own PR firm, Endeavor Strategies, turning himself from a once-disgraced solipsist into a political super-consultant.
If celebrity status is a minefield, it turns out that stepping on a mine doesn't always end badly. In Washington, the self-styled brands always seem to come out ahead, even after disastrous errors. As an Obama campaign adviser in 2008, Samantha Power referred to Hillary Rodham Clinton as a "monster." Power went underground for a little while and emerged with a senior post on the National Security Council. Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen criticized Ann Romney during the 2012 presidential campaign for "never working a day in her life." It was bad enough that the Obama campaign had to publicly declare its disagreement with her remarks — but not so bad that she was invited to be on Meet The Press the following Sunday.
As for Bardella, his Icarus moment was real, but so too was his rehabilitation. "You ask yourself, how was it that this guy was at this point that he could have this fall," says Bardella, speaking of himself in the third person over a rib eye at McCormick & Schmick's. "It's because I was doing my job. Before any of this, nobody was complaining about that. I don't apologize for doing my job the way in which we decided was most effective to get the job done."
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I've just been looking through my Linear Algebra notes recently, and while revising the topic of change of basis matrices I've been trying something:
"Suppose that our coordinates are $x$ in the standard basis and $y$ in a different basis, so that $x = Fy$, where $F$ is our change of basis matrix, then any matrix $A$ acting on the $x$ variables by taking $x$ to $Ax$ is represented in $y$ variables as: $F^{-1}AF$ "
Now, I've attempted to prove the above, is my intuition right?
Proof: We want to write the matrix $A$ in terms of $y$ co-ordinates.
a) $Fy$ turns our y co-ordinates into $x$ co-ordinates.
b) pre multiply by $A$, resulting in $AFy$, which is performing our transformation on $x$ co-ordinates
c) Now, to convert back into $y$ co-ordinates, pre multiply by $F^{-1}$, resulting in $F^{-1}AFy$
d) We see that when we multiply $y$ by $F^{-1}AF$ we perform the equivalent of multiplying $A$ by $x$ to obtain $Ax$, thus proved.
Also, just to check, are the entries in the matrix $F^{-1}AF$ still written in terms of the standard basis?