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Will Schumer Stand Up?
New York's senior senator, Chuck Schumer, chair of the Senate's Judiciary Subcommittee, which oversees all federal court appointments, has had a home-baked hot potato in his lap for three weeks. It is a test of character and will.
At the end of January, the Bush White House sent him a nominee for the critical post of United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York, one of the country's premier prosecution offices. Based in Schumer's home county of Brooklyn, the office serves almost 8 million people, including Long Island, Queens, and Staten Island. Its star convictions over the years have ranged from the Abscam prosecutionswhich nabbed half a dozen congressmen and a U.S. senatorto the imprisonment of the city's two most notorious gangsters, John Gotti and Vincent "the Chin" Gigante.
The candidate, Roslyn Mauskopf, is so inappropriate that Schumer, the only man with the power to stop the sullying of this office, must say no. Bush took nine months to finally recommend the 44-year-old Mauskopfwho was handpicked in April by Governor George Pataki, her current bossa delay that sends its own message.
Pataki knows the importance of the officeit convicted four of his own supporters and aides in the most wide-ranging probe of the governor's campaign fundraising ever, putting one Pataki parole board appointee in jail. In sharp contrast, Mauskopf, who has been the Pataki-appointed state inspector general since 1995 and is charged with probing corruption within the administration, has not helped make a single significant case against a high-level Pataki official.
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She is in fact so chummy with the Pataki brass that the New York Post has reported her penchant for partying with them and even staying in the apartment of Zenia Mucha, the governor's longtime top aide until last year. In 1999, The New York Law Journal cited two unnamed legal sources familiar with her office who criticized her for being "too close to the officials she is charged with investigating and failing to bring probes aimed at the top levels of government."
Take the case of James Copeland, an obscure architect who runs a small firm in upstate Garrison, New York. Copeland is the next-door neighbor of George Pataki, the owner of a large, yellow Victorian home off the Hudson River in rural Putnam County. Copeland's brother is married to the sister of Pataki's wife. The two families go to the same church and dine together. Though Copeland unsuccessfully sought state architectural contracts before Pataki became governor, his firm, Hudson Design, has won eight contracts since, totaling $800,000.
Newsday, whose investigative teams have won Pulitzers, published a story about one contracta $102,000 state university construction fund award. The paper found that the agency had put Copeland to workdoing a study of a police academy at SUNY Old Westbury that was later scrappedalmost two months before it conducted the competitive selection process required by law. Newsday's coverage forced Mauskopf to launch a probe.
Copeland's retroactive selection was made by a screening panel so determined to pick him that it gave his firm, which had never designed a police academy, the same points in a "similar projects" rating as three firms that had designed such facilities. A senior fund official who played a key role in the Copeland selection was quoted in an internal e-mail that preceded the January 25, 1999, screening panel meeting as saying, "We want to select Hudson Design."
When Newsday asked about the strange juxtaposition of the pre-selection work and payments, SUNY gave them an even stranger document that purported to show that the selection had actually occurred in November 1998, long before the screening panel met. Newsday hired three forensic experts to analyze the document, all of whom concluded it had been fabricated. The alarms were so shrill that State Comptroller Carl McCall ordered an audit.
McCall publicly instructed his auditors to work with Mauskopf's investigators, but he clearly had little confidence in her. Back in July 2000, the comptroller had audited the IG, finding that half of her investigations weren't completed within the time limits set by her office, and that she had abandoned the long-standing practice of issuing annual reports documenting the office's work. The audit also blasted her for stonewalling his two-year review, and said that she'd ended the practice of including a representative from the comptroller's office in her monthly information-sharing executive meetings.
In November, McCall issued his Copeland findings, adding to the Newsday charges. The audit found "serious contracting irregularities and improprieties" that McCall said "adds up to a violation of the public trust," raising questions of "favoritism." Also reporting that "the validity" of the allegedly fabricated document was "questionable," McCall said the fund could produce no evidence of its authenticity. McCall referred his findings to Mauskopf, noting that though his auditors had attempted to "coordinate" their work with hers, the IG had declined to do so.
Mauskopf has been on the case for almost a year. McCall's audit, written by career civil servants, was finished three and a half months ago. State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who once worked with Mauskopf in Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's office, said through a spokesman that though he's "usually informed" about the "results of such a case," he has yet to hear from her on this one.
Brian Donovan, the head of the Newsday team, says Mauskopf never asked him which SUNY official gave him the fabricated document, nor did she seek the document itself, which investigators would need to advance any serious criminal inquiry. Key sources identified in the Newsday storiesfrom the forensic experts to an accountanthave yet to be contacted by the IG.
Copeland was contacted, however. He told the Voice: "I met with the IG and told them everything they wanted to know. I think they dropped it." Copeland said he was questioned under oath by Mauskopf investigators last summer, and received a phone call from them soon thereafter. "They were running down details. I got the sense they were wrapping it up. It was minutiae." Copeland said he also concluded the probe was over "because I haven't heard from them in so long." While not disputing any of the findings about the apparent rigging of the SUNY process or manufacturing of the document, Copeland described himself as "a political pawn" in this hunt.
So did Pataki's appointees at the SUNY fund, who wrote a hot-air response to McCall's findings, almost boasting that the comptroller "has no reason to assume that the IG will issue findings" about "the validity of the contract," or that it is "even part of their inquiry." The fund and Copeland attribute the audit to McCall's gubernatorial candidacy, though the comptroller has been anything but an aggressive overseer of the Pataki regime. McCall told the Voice that it's "outrageous that the governor would recommend Mauskopf to be U.S. attorney," adding that "she's failed to follow up" on the SUNY audit and that "she's not the type of person who should be in that position."
Maybe Chuck Schumer, like Pataki and Mauskopf, will dismiss McCall as politically motivated. Maybe Schumer would prefer to listen to Bob Morgenthau, the 82-year-old patriarch of New York law enforcement who's championing Mauskopf as one more notch on his mentoring belt. Maybe Schumer's willing to install precisely the same person that the man he defeated in 1998, Al D'Amato, would have put in this sensitive spot. Maybe Schumer, who should know better as a former target of an Eastern District grand jury himself, thinks some other deal with Bush or Pataki is more important than whether a hack gets an arsenal of federal prosecutorial power. This office has meant so much in the life of our city and state. It is crying out for a senator to have the courage to defend it.
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Does anyone know if the Republic Gunship is going to be released on the 23rd? I can't seem to find any reported sightings of this vehicle.
Does anyone know if the Republic Gunship is going to be released on the 23rd? I can't seem to find any reported sightings of this vehicle.
It's not coming out until this fall, along with the Arena Playset. I believe that the Acklay also has been pushed back to the fall to coincide with the release of the Playset.
MTFBWY and HH!!
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AGENTS OF ATLAS - Returns in Early 2009.
Thanks for the info Jar Jar
Talk Show Host Interviewing Joker: Your said to have only killed about 600 people Joker. Now dont take this the wrong way but I think youve been holding out on us.
Joker: I dont keep count. Im going to kill everyone in this room.
A shame too, it's one of the best E2 toys so far. The Acklay is pretty cool also, too bad the Reek is getting released instead of this.
"Hokey packaging and ancient gimmicks are no match for good detail on your figure, kid."
"I am a Klingot from Oklahoma in human boy form."
"We came, we saw, we conquered... We, woke up!"
Is this the Lego version or the Hasbro one. I've seen the Lego one at a Customer service booth at W-M. Boy, it's friggin huge! Probably $90 like the EP1 Pod Race set.
"I'm just a YES man trying to make my way in the universe." - Jango McCallum
"Good dialogue and smooth editing are no match for a good YES man by your side, kid." - George Lucas
The Hasbro Republic Gunship at Toy Fair was an unfinished prototype, I believe. We won't be seeing what it REALLY looks like for a while.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Still, the Toy Fair version looked really cool, IMO. I think I might get a few of these things, and have a full fledged squadron of Clonetroopers invade my shelves.
Definately one of the cooler vehicles I've seen in Star Wars for a while, IMO.
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text: The Bit.Trip Core wiki last edited by bobafettjm on 06/05/14 07:09PM View full history OverviewBit.Trip Core is the second game in the Bit.Trip series of rhythm games. This installment is much different from its predecessor, as instead of controlling a paddle, you control a plus shaped object and fire beams of light to hit pixels called "beats" -- which earn you points upon doing so. This is done by using the d-pad to decide the direction you wish to fire at, and the 2 button to fire. The goal of the game is to hit beats in order to produce additional music notes which play upon hitting 'em.StoryThe game starts off with Commander video seen from behind looking up to three other gigantic Commanders standing in front of him in a box like structure. Eventually the background changes from the initial darkish gray to dark blue and eventually to a vibrant light red, while the background is changing the 3 commanders start to distort in and slowly change shape in a wave like fashion. After this the first level named "Discovery" starts.After completing "Discovery" the Commander will be shown standing alone in front of a blue background, he looks sad. Shorty after he is joined by two other commanders, on at his left and one at his right. The two other commanders take Commander video with them up in the sky with a rainbow colored trail. The commander looks up and the second level, "Exploration", begins.GameplayThe basic gameplay consists of hitting small pixels called "beats," which earn you points upon doing so, by using the beams shot from the core -- the plus shaped object in the center of the screen. This starts off easy, with beats coming at a rather slow pace one at a time. But as you progress, the beats start to come at you from many different directions, at blistering speeds to make things much harder.Though, there is one thing that (slightly) helps lessen the difficult nature of the game, and that's...BombsFor every level one bomb is given to the player. When triggered all beats on screen will be destroyed, no points are rewarded for destroying them with a bomb though. Bombs are used by pressing the "1" button on the Wii-remote.Scoring mechanismBit.Trip Core has a nearly identical scoring mechanism as it predecessor does:(100 A(if A is superior to 10)) X BA represent the number of consecutive beats the player has managed to hit without missing one. B Stands for the "skill" mode the player is in. Would the player be in Mega mode (the standard skill mode) B stays at 1 however if the player does good enough to enter Hyper Mode B will gradually ramp up the longer the player manages to stay in Hyper Mode. If the player manages to chain up a long enough combo to enter Super Mode B will ramp up at an even faster rate then in Mega Mode. If the player does poorly enough to be in Nether mode no points at all are rewarded for every beat the player hits. Every mode allows the player to do a certain amount of misses before switching to the mode below, the higher up the mode the less misses it takes to be degraded. Would the player get degraded in Nether Mode it is game over.Other then influencing B the different modes also change the visual and audio of the game, the harder the mode the more crazy and disorienting everything becomes making it harder to keep a combo.Unlike Bit.Trip Beat the Nether Mode in Bit.Trip Core is actually more disorienting then the upper modes since the music degrades to a simple metronome and it becomes impossible to see what kind of behavior the incoming beat have since everything becomes black and white.Wii ControlIn order to play Bit.Trip Core the player has to hold the Wii-remote sideways like a regular controller. The D-pad is used to select which direction the player zaps the incoming Beats. 3minus brings up the pause menu and "Minus" allows the player to make random bit sounds just like in Bit.Trip Beat. The 1 button is used for releasing bombs, and the 2 button used to fire a beam from the Core.PC System RequirementsMinimum:OS:Windows XP SP3Processor:2.0+ GHzMemory:512 MB RAMGraphics:OpenGL 2.1 and shader model 3 with 128 MB of memoryDirectX®:9.0cHard Drive:100 MB HD spaceSound:Any sound card capable of stereo outputMac System RequirementsMinimum:OS:OS X version Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or later.Processor:2.0+ GHzMemory:512 MB RAMGraphics:OpenGL 2.1 and shader model 3 with 128 MB of memoryHard Drive:100 MB HD spaceSound:Any sound card capable of stereo output


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BasementFirst Floor Apartment in Row House
Location: Park Slope
Rent: $1575 (market)
Square Feet: 1200
Occupants: Jason Vernon (accounting cashier, Carlyle Hotel); Yeshwant Kulasekaran (chemistry teacher, Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn Heights); Nancy Schwartzman (temp, British Telecom; film producer; photographer)
I hear you're all leaving this huge two-story apartment soon because you've had to live like moles, since you hardly have any sunlight in your bedrooms. The situation is so bad that Nancy is going to leave the country. [Nancy] I'm going to Tel Aviv on the Mediterranean, where you can rent a Bauhaus apartment for $250 a month with three balconies and windows everywhere.
Your kitchen and living room are ok, but Jason has no window at all in his basement bedroom, even though it is big and looks like a party pad with the carpeting and the sound system. Jason can't get out of bed in the morning. [Jason] I open my eyes and I see nothing and I say, Oh, well, I'll sleep just a little bit longer. I've been here a year. I work 3:30 to ll:30 p.m. at the hotel, so I sleep till noon. The only time I see the sun is when I walk a few blocks to the subway. You do this five days a week and you see people who will get to go home at a normal time and . . . [Yesh] Jason, I had no idea how bad it was for you. [Jason] I had no idea either. [Nancy] I've been going craziest because I've been here the longest. [Yesh] Her bedroom's like a dungeon. [Nancy] My window's one by three feet.
Well, sun may be fine for some. But for others, it's not such a picnic the sun is too much, it presses in and forces cheerfulness and strangles a person. Like the light coming in the pink room in my Aunt Pearl's house in Alabama in the early '60s, pushing through the white nylon curtains, light like death, like the emptiness of nothing. Also, when the light lasts longer in the summer, like around six or seven, it is the most melancholy time, the sound of children laughing and the wop wop of a ball. Perhaps I was traumatized as a child, but do you really think Ibsen would have written Hedda Gabler sitting in a pool of sunlight in Ft. Lauderdale? Though maybe he would have, but it wouldn't be the same, and where do you think the greatest screenplay in the history of the cinema was written, yes in L.A., but in a darkened basement "my sister" (slap), "my daughter" (slap), "my sister" (slap) you know, Chinatown. And also, I can't stand all these people who like the light, those morons, the minute they see a bit of sun they throw their books away and go skipping off with beach balls. They're so stupid. But I guess that's mostly everybody. [Nancy] You'd like my friend Alan. He's like a bat. We lived to- gether at Columbia. There was one tiny room, a closet. He leapt for it.
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What does Alan do? Public health. No, he's not like a little mole. He's really handsome, but he has these big glasses and he'd hole up for hours. [Jason] I used to live on the 12th floor of the Pace dorm that's in the old St. George Hotel in Brooklyn Heights. I had to put tape around the closed curtain because there was too much light.
Maybe it's not about liking light or not liking light. [Yesh] It's about options. (Jason's friend Robert Magara, who's visiting, pipes up) I live south of Fulton in a studio with a small office area with two roommates. I live in the small part with no windows. [Nancy] No wonder you're always here. [Robert] Then I go to night school.[Nancy] In Israel the light rises golden and it sets rose. You get all these fanatics talking about the light and how it's God's land and I said sure, but then I was crossing the street in Jerusalem and I saw it, the light was reflecting the entire city and . . .
As we talk the room is getting dark. It's so calming. You and Alan.
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Here's a list of the top seven music videos of 2013. I picked them based on popularity, other end-of-the-year lists, what people talked about the most, and what I think was cool this year.
7. Miley Cyrus, Wrecking Ball
This video is predictably included in the list, in part because you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting Miley Cyrus this year, and in part because it's a pretty good representation of Miley's bizarre sense of sexuality. Her licking a sledgehammer and then riding a wrecking ball naked was just weird enough that it couldn't be a complete turn-on (that hammer probably tasted disgusting!), but that kind of gross/hot dichotomy is the key to her schtick.
That schtick is important — because it's launched a huge amount of conversation about what it means to be a young feminist in 2013. Should you like Miley and all that she stands for or should you hate her? The video for Wrecking Ball also spawned a bunch of hilarious parodies for endless hours of Internet entertainment.


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Steamboat Springs Local cross-country skiers who are marking old ski routes and changing existing trail markers on Rabbit Ears Pass are causing concern for the U.S. Forest Service.
Over the holidays, the Forest Service received phone calls from cross-country skiers who got lost while skiing on Rabbit Ears because someone moved trail markers, moved or damaged trail location signs and marked new routes off the backcountry trails they were on.
Ed Patalik, recreational planner for the Forest Service, said the Hogan Park Trail and the Fox Curve Trail have been fortified to mark older cross-country ski routes the Forest Service stopped maintaining 15 years ago.
The old V Shaped Trail, off the Fox Curve Trail, and the old A Shaped Trail, off the Hogan Park Trail, are the loops being marked.
Whoever is changing the ski routes has gotten so adamant about reviving the old trails, they drew the routes on the wooden trail maps at the trail heads of the areas, Patalik said.
Because the trails haven't been maintained in such a long time, the Forest Service is assuming the person doing it has been around the area for a while.
The Forest Service stopped maintaining the trails after numerous skiers got lost after they missed the sharp-angled turn-around points, which is how the old trails got their name.
Also, the V Shaped Trail leads skiers into the suggested motorized-use area on Rabbit Ears Pass, which makes it undesirable, according to the Forest Service.
Patalik said there may be some discontent about that with skiers, which could be the reason some of the signs are being damaged.
Just because the old trails aren't maintained by the Forest Service anymore doesn't mean people can't ski on them, Patalik said. Plus, cross-country skiers are allowed in motorized areas.
"You can ski anywhere you want," Patalik said. "Just don't disturb the marked trails."
The trail markers have been corrected and Patalik said he hopes whoever is behind the incident will get the hint their actions are not welcomed.
Besides creating more work for the Forest Service employees, who have to correct the trails and repair the signs, officials are concerned the false markers could get someone so lost they won't be able to make it back to where they started.
"First of all, it's wrong to do," Forest Service spokeswoman Denise Germann said. "But we also have a lot of people who follow those trails and they could get lost."
If someone did get hopelessly lost, and got hurt in the process, the person who changed the markers on the trails would be legally liable for any damages, Germann said.
Also, officials are interpreting the actions of these people as vandalism, which can result in a fine of up to $5,000 or six months in prison.
There have not been any major problems caused by the trails being changed, except for a few lost skiers who found their way back home without help, Germann said.


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So my girlfriend is going to graduate school, which means there is a whole fun curriculum of books she is reading that I can read and pretend that I am going to graduate school too! Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth is the first of these books, and it is kind of great.
Essentially The House of Mirth is a book about a dystopia such as one might read about in We, 1984, or Brave New World, a hellish world in which women have no power or agency, in which merely to be accused is to be tried, judged, and convicted in a swift, crippling blow, in which vast amounts of ingenuity must be expended in order to attach oneself to an available bachelor without one having one's own ability to earn money directly in the profane world of business, in which the simple attempt to like invest money in the stock market in order to earn enough to pay off gambling debts one is kind of forced to accrue must be done through the auspices of men who expect sex as their reward. Basically it is a horrible story about a grim alternate reality in which women have no power, except that it's just New York in the early 1900s.
Despite being kind of wicked smart, effective, and judicious within her circumstances, Lily Bart does not have either the courage to leave behind her society and class altogether or to like dutifully marry horrible men for the sake of their money, thus she dies in poverty. What bothers me a lot is how Wharton seems to join in condemning Lily, mostly through the alternately adoring and contemptuous eyes of Selden, the cool independent New York dude who does not mind living in a boarding house and having only moderate means, because it is more important to him to be True To Himself than it is to join all those rich jerks in their corrupt, evil social world. And Selden just can't understand why Lily is such a jerk, why she wants to hang out with those rich jerks so much, when she could be her REAL ACTUAL SELF . . . with him! He is one of the good ones! She could be SO HAPPY!
Yet Lily can't go off and be happy with Selden because she has to survive in a world where she's just like definitively not free. Why should she want to be happy with Selden, even? At the end of Part I, Selden is all "I <3 you Lily wait for me to call on you," but Lily is in the process of getting KINDA ALMOST RAPED by a friend of the family. He sees her coming out of this guy's house in the dead of night, after being ACTUALLY SEXUALLY ASSAULTED, and is like "How terrible, LILY IS A REAL WHORE," and storms away. And Edith Wharton kinda sides with him, one gets the impression. Appearances are everything!
I think The House of Mirth is pretty worth reading for a lot of reasons–the "tableaux vivants" scene is great and I want to have a tableaux vivants party at earliest opportunity, for example–but the author's relationship with her main character is, um, problematic. But the character is great, and the depiction of her Totally Awful World is frankly scary. (The class stuff in the book is kind of odious–everyone is Really Really rich–but it's interesting to see how much the author takes it as a given that no one actually deserves this wealth, or believes they deserve it. The American Dream is like in no way a part of this plot.) Fortunately I guess my characters are here to provide you all with the only truly correct, definitive interpretation of Lily Bart, through which you can better enjoy not only The House of Mirth, but perhaps all American literature ever.
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The 1999 New York Yankees MLB Team Set contains 31 New York Yankees baseball cards including Star Players like Derek Jeter, Paul O'Neill, Bernie Williams, Roger Clemens, Jorge Posada and Chuck Knoblauch. All cards in the set and their card numbers are listed below.
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Henry I am sorry to here of your Mom's Passing.
the information that I have is
Ann W. Crain was married to Robert Boone McMillian born March 20, 1818in Scott County, Kentucky and died in 1870 in California.
Mary Lavinia McMillian had a brother named Robert Beauchamp McMillian.
Robert Boone's father's name was also Robert Boone McMillian born in Ireland.
I have no information on either John Littleberry McMillen or Margaret (Peggy) Hinde.
Take Care hope this helps
Norma McMillian Baucom
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Mary Lavinia McMillian 40574241
There seems to be an error in her Fathers Name It should be ROBERT BOONE MCMILLIAN
Thank You
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I am not sure how to do this, but Madeline has passed away. Here is the # for her memorial if you would like to leave her a note. She was a wonderful contributor on Find-A-Grave.
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There are two identical memorials for him in Morgantown KY.. #119578652 in Riverview Cemetery and #22648271 in Hill Haven Memory Gardens. Which is correct?
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I added Military info in the bio that you had added in the virtual message section. Please submit bio info under "other" in the Edit section per findagrave policy. Thanks. Mem Pg # 108891962.
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How to apply a quaternion rotation to many objects ?
Hi there,
I need to apply a quaternion rotation to many objects.
Thus, I have to apply a quaternion rotation to a 3 planes (x,y,z) matrix containing objects positions
I need to :
– convert the quaternion to a rotation matrix ( this helps http://www.euclideanspace.com/maths/geometry/rotations/conversions/quaternionToMatrix/index.htm)
– multiply the rotation matrix by each triplets x,y,z
Basically, I'd prefer to use only 1 jit.gen to calculate the rotation matrix, then I'll apply the rotation outside of gen world, multiplying the rotation matrix by the positions one.
How can I create the 3×3 rotation matrix using jit.gen ?
I have all the calculations ready etc, but I don't know how to wire stuff or objects to use to pop out .. a 3×3 matrix.
Anyone would help here?
I tried to concatenate my 3 outputs, which provides a 3 triplets elements..
So I tried to glue, which provides a nice 3×3 matrices (afaik ?! :D)
but now, stuck in jit.gen….
nothing seems to be produced.
I restarted max, was thinking about a mess I did
Anyone would point me to my problem ..?
Any help would be much than appreciate :)
this wouldn't be complete without that.
Indeed, I tried to setup the jit.gen param as I thought but maybe the problem comes from here..
to apply the same quaternion rotation to several objects, you can simply apply the rotation to the parent node (jit.anim.node or jit.gl.node).
if this isn't clear, let me know and i'll show you an example.
it is pretty clear Robert.
I didn't explain why I wanted to make that.
Basically, I encountered the gimbal lock problem when I calculated azimuth/elevation for each object relatively to the cam. it happened for position when the object was up above, or under the cam (singularities of atan2 in the azimuth calculation)
Then, I wanted to go further and use quaternion.
The matrix to which I need to apply my quat rot is a global named matrix in which I have ALL my objects' coordinates.
I doubt I could simplify it.
I didn't even achieve this :-(
objects coordinates matrix is 3 planes 1xN (N number of objects)
rotation matrix is 1 plane 3×3
how can I … apply this rotation matrix to all my objects …?
I guess this can work:
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a little improvement that provides me the way to process the 3 planes resulting matrix in my same jit.gen
BUT … the last one is 4 planes… I expected 3.
I can unpack 4 to pack 3 .. but why does it contain 4 …?
here is the solution: use jit.pack correctly.
replacing the last [jit.pack] by [jit.pack 3] and it is okay.
if it seemed to work, I tested and my azimuths aren't correct :-(
I tested just by looking by the jit.window… 180° or 0° would mean the object projection on cam plane is "in front of me"..
With 2 objects only, in order to not mess all, it doesn't work.
Before to forget about that part and to work on another part because of own saturation, here is exactly what I'm trying to do.
I hope a comprehensive saint guru wise dude could push me into the right way…
I need to calculate azimuth & elevation of objects relatively to my camera direction/plane.
Using only the 3 Euler angles to do that doesn't seem to be enough because of gimbal lock/singularities.
So I decided to go to quaternions.
I attached a snapshot.
I'm requesting position & quaternion in the scheduler (global qmetro)
I'm sending both + the objects matrix to the jit.gen.
The codebox' code comes from this http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternions_et_rotation_dans_l'espace#M.C3.A9thodes_utilis.C3.A9es
I verified and indeed, the quaternion rotation for vector calculation is ok.
Then, I'm taking the resulting vector x and z component to calculate the azimuth via atan2.
Why am I thinking azimuth is wrong?
Whatever the position & rotation of my cam, if I keep the object in the center of my window, the azimuth should be the same, right ??
It doesn't seem to be the case here :-/
Where am I doing wrong ?
any ideas, leads, help, hands would be totally appreciate at this late hour or later of course :)
I'm almost despaired about this part.
I guess the quaternion I'm grabbing is not the good one … I don't have other explanations and I wouldn't have more (considering my fresh discovering of quaternion)
btw, I can add something which could sound like a clue.
if the cam is reset by anim_reset message, it came back to initial position BUT especially orientation.
In this orientation and if I stay in the plane of the cam (I mean if I don't go a bit up or down but only forward/backward/left & right/panning left right, then my system works perfectly : azimuths are relevant etc.
So, some statements.
Someone in gamedev.net forum answered me about Gimbal lock/quaternion/rotation.
First, I read this : http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/math-and-physics/quaternion-powers-r1095
Here is the process to make rotation with quaternions to avoid Gimbal Lock:
The main point you should take note (in the while loop) is
– The orientation of the camera is a quaternion.
– There are 3 angles corresponding to the keypress. Note the angles are meant to be an on/off switch (not accumulative). I reset them inside the while loop. Of course this is not the best way to do it but as I said, it is a quick job.
– I convert the 3 angles to a temporary quaternion.
– I multiply the temporary quaternion to the camera quaternion to obtain the combined orientation. Note the order of multiplication.
– The camera rotation is then converted to the Axis Angle representation for transforming the final matrix.
When a key is pressed, I generate a temporary quaternion corresponding to the key for a small rotation in that particular axis. I then multiply the temporary quaternion into the camera quaternion. This concatenation of rotations in 4D space will avoid gimbal lock. Try it and see for yourself.
In my system, as shown on the patch picture, I'm grabbing the cam quaternion and this is that one I convert to matrix and I apply it to all my objects coordinates.
This is that resulting vector I'm taking for my atan2 based azimuth calculation.
I don't use the temporary vector at all. Maybe my problem comes from here.
I don't use it because my system provides me directly the quaternion from the cam.
An user answered me about the fact I didn't use the temporary vector and it is very interesting for me :
That's the key to avoiding gimbal lock. You need to have some representation of the current attitude and modify it with incremental rotations around the axes. Whether you use quaternions or some other representation is secondary.
If you keep track of a cumulative roll, pitch and yaw and then compose them into an overall rotation, you'll run into gimbal lock regardless of what representation you use.
I'm not sure about "incremental rotations around axes"
Robert, how should I translate it into my system ?
I thought jit.anim.drive would do that.
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Needing to replace Johnny Damon in center field last year, the Red Sox thought they had found a suitable substitute in Crisp. But Crisp turned out not to be the same player he was for Cleveland the previous two years, when he batted .297 and .300 and had on-base percentages of .344 and .345. With Boston he hit .264 and had a .317 on-base percentage.
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byDespite the frenzy in initial public offerings, it's hard to be blase about the splash ESC Medical Systems (ESCMF) is making. ESC was taken public by Smith Barney and Montgomery Securities on Jan. 24 at 15 a share and closed that day at 27. Analyst Stephen Handley of Smith Barney quickly boosted his 12-month price target to a lofty 40. Montgomery's Leonard Yaffe set a target of 39. Those proved to be low: The stock hit 45 7/8 on Apr. 23.
What's so hot about Israel's ESC Medical? Analysts expect its PhotoDerm VL to soar: Using an intense, pulsed-light-source technology, PhotoDerm treats varicose veins, spider veins, and other vascular lesions.
ESC introduced PhotoDerm in Europe in late 1994. By August, 1995, the product got U.S. Food & Drug Administration approval. ESC has sold 80 PhotoDerm units so far in the U.S. Rival methods for treating veins exist, such as sclerotherapy injection, surgical ligation, and laser systems.
"PhotoDerm VL has distinct advantages over these alternatives," says Montgomery's Yaffe. Because it's noninvasive, he says, PhotoDerm does not cause the pain and scarring associated with surgical ligation and sclerotherapy. ESC is also more flexible: It can treat vessels too small or too big for other methods, he adds.
"First-quarter results exceeded expectations by a wide margin," notes Handley. So he has raised his earnings estimates to 94 cents a share for 1996 and $1.30 for 1997, up from 34 cents last year. Prospects for new products are bright, says Handley. These include Epilight, a hair-removal technology that could be sold in foreign markets soon. ESC Chairman Shimon Eckhouse says he expects to seek FDA approval of Epilight in the next few months.


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I made this recipe as written, and it was okay. Mind you, I love love LOVE blood oranges. Still, for whatever reason, I found this a bit bitter. Before cooling, I added a tiny pinch of dried ginger powder and just a dash of vanilla extract (all I had in my pantry) and that spiced things up really nicely. Serving it over vanilla frozen yogurt. Yum!
I made the sugar syrup (with the addition of some black peppercorns, which I later removed) and added some finely spiced blood oranges. Wow!
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IP Above All Else: WIPO Defies UN Sanctions To Give Computers To North Korea
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So why is WIPO giving computers to the North Korean government? Because, in its obsessively idiotic desire to expand intellectual property around the globe, the computers are supposed to help North Korea search foreign patent databases in order to abide by international patent law. Seriously. Why does NK need such computers? Because it bans the internet, so WIPO is concerned that people in North Korea can't use the internet to search through international patents. So, in an astoundingly stupidly short-sighted move, WIPO thinks that by giving North Korea computers to set up a local database of patents and trademarks, it can help the country obey international patents.
"As part of WIPO's technical assistance program -- and through a mandate from its member states -- the Organization has been supporting IP [intellectual property] offices in developing countries to facilitate the processing of patent and trademark applications since the 1990s," the spokesman said. "The assistance in question was part of this program."Of course, as plenty of people outside the IP-maximalist bubble realize, North Korea doesn't give a damn about foreign patent and trademark applications. The country is actually well known for being a key source of counterfeiting. Second, and perhaps more important, the very reason that there's a ban on sending technology to North Korea is the fact that the government has been making use of any tech it can get its hands on to further its nuclear ambitions. Third, does WIPO really want to be in the business of supporting North Korea's ban on internet access? Are those the kinds of projects that the UN and WIPO think are worthwhile these days?
The assistance "is intended to enhance the efficiency of the operation of registration for patents by replacing the current ICT equipment with more efficient ICT [information and communications technology] equipment," the spokesman continued.
There's a full project plan that lists out all of the computer equipment being supplied, and lots of talk about how it will be used for patent and trademark databases, but does anyone seriously believe that's how it's going to be used? North Korea even sent a letter to WIPO thanking it for its support in supplying these computers.
Part of the reason that this is now being investigated is because a lawyer at WIPO raised concerns about the project, noting that it appeared to be in violation of UN sanctions (yes, a UN organization is violating UN sanctions...). The lawyer points out that the proper channels of review were not used here, and that he's:
...extremely concerned by the fact that WIPO staff may be implementing a project in violation of two UN Security Council Resolutions... and possibly in violation of staff's own international obligations, and their national laws.WIPO, and its director, Francis Gurry, are insisting they've done nothing (nothing!) wrong at all in supplying computer equipment to North Korea -- despite not being particularly public with the normal communication channels about the deal, and trying to route the whole thing through China. Clearly worried about the criticism, though, WIPO had another WIPO lawyer send around a legal memorandum that reads like a court filing, defending the actions. The memo whines that the decision by Bank of America to block the payment was based on US law, and it's not subject to US law. Of course, that US law is based on those UN sanctions. As for the UN sanctions, the memorandum insists that these actions were all perfectly legal -- believing that as long as you don't say the computers will be used for nuclear efforts, then everything is fine and dandy. It's as if WIPO thinks everyone else in the world is completely stupid.
The project also raises serious ethical concerns, namely whether an International Organization should be funding a project that would not be required if the state concerned allowed its population to access the Internet.
That said, the very same lawyer, Edward Kwakwa, was also involved in a series of emails, in which he suggests that WIPO cancel the project, suggesting that it may violate the UN rules, and saying that:
I would suggest we go ahead ONLY if you think this arrangement is of crucial importance to WIPO. But given the sensitivities and the broad sweep of the sanctions language, I would prefer that WIPO simply desist from entering into any such arrangement, as it does not seem to be of any consequence or benefit to WIPO, and can bring more trouble than benefit ultimately.Yes, that's the same guy who wrote the legal memo defending the deal. That same email thread has someone from WIPO saying that perhaps they should cancel the deal... but also pointing out that canceling this particular deal with North Korea would have little impact, "if we take into consideration that similar operations have already been done in the past, and others should be done in the future." In other words, it appears that WIPO has already sent similar technology to North Korea in the past -- perhaps in violations of the sanctions, and appears prepared to do so again in the future.
The whole thing is really quite insane when you go through all the details. WIPO, the IP-maximalist organization that is a part of the UN, is, at the very least, aiding North Korea's plan to keep the internet illegal, by supplying an entire computer system so that people in North Korea can research international patents and trademarks that they will almost certainly ignore -- or use for the purpose of counterfeiting. All of this is almost certainly in violation of UN sanctions against North Korea, and it seems likely that the computing equipment will be repurposed for use by North Korea in its nuclear program, where they are desperate for computing power. On top of that, even as WIPO officials themselves suggest that the deal should be dropped (while admitting more are already planned...), they are also making the case publicly that this is all perfectly legal.
This should be a pretty big scandal, and absolutely calls into question the management of WIPO. Having an economically unsupportable IP maximalist position is one thing. Aiding the North Korean nuclear program is an entirely different issue...


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In the Weeknd's 2011 song "Rolling Stone" he croons over an acoustic guitar, while leaving listeners with lines like "Baby I got you/Until you're used to my face/And the mystery fades". Now, two years later, the mystery hasn't completely faded but much of the initial curiosity towards Abel Tesfaye's enigmatic persona is gone. Instead fans are interested in what direction Tesfaye's music will go, and how he will deal with this new found fame.
With the release of his proper debut album Kissland yesterday, The Weeknd decided to release the visuals for his single "Live For" which features a guest appearance by Drake. Much like "Rolling Stone", "Live For" contains acoustic strings that pleasantly meld with Tesfaye's voice. The video is dark, scattered, and hazy, placing flickering lights on both Tesfaye and Drake. While the song may not contain the potency of 'The Zone", the video is definitely still worth the watch.
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Obama Urges Europe to Adapt for Jobs at Meeting With Merkel
Patrick Donahue and Hans NicholsPresident Barack Obama said that European leaders facing a scourge of youth unemployment should adapt their policy response as Chancellor Angela Merkel defended her focus on cutting budgets and increasing competitiveness.
Both leaders reiterated a commitment to promoting employment and growth outlined at this week's Group of Eight summit. With Europe facing 24 percent youth joblessness, Obama said policy makers need to change course in the face of record unemployment.
"If, for example, we start seeing youth unemployment go too high, then at some point we have to modulate our approach to ensure that we don't just lose a generation that may never recover in terms of their careers," Obama told reporters at a press conference today in Berlin with Merkel.
In what Obama called a "four-year conversation" on how to resolve the European debt crisis, the U.S. administration has often been at odds with the German-led agenda of austerity to resolve the euro crisis.
"We want to work with you to make sure that every person can enjoy the dignity that comes from work, whether they live in Chicago or Cleveland or Belfast or Berlin, in Athens or Madrid, everybody deserves opportunity," Obama said in a speech after the press briefing at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. "We have to have economies that are working for all people, not just those at the very top."
Merkel underscored the slow shift away from a focus on budget cuts toward the urgency of unemployment voiced more recently by European leaders.
"The world has changed and Europe isn't competitive enough," Merkel said. "Budget consolidation is one part of that, but not the only one, rather structural reform."
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While Merkel said Europe needs to boost competitiveness so that products are "bought outside of Europe," Obama noted imbalances within the 17-member single currency, where member states have "different stages and levels of productivity."
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We've recently talked about a geek wedding, and now reader Sam_In_The_Hills writes in with news of his brother's geek funeral. "I've not seen this topic covered here before even though it's one that will concern us all at some time: what to do with our corporeal remains after we've left for that great data bank in the sky. For my recently departed brother (long illness, don't smoke!), I thought this nice SPARCstation would be a cool place to spend eternity. Yes, he's really in there (after cremation). I kept the floppy drive cover but for space reasons removed the floppy drive, hard drive, and most of the power supply. I left behind the motherboard and power switch and plugs to keep all openings covered. The case worked quite well at his memorial party. His friends and family were able to leave their final good-byes on post-notes. Anyone who wanted to keep their words private could just slip their note into the case through the floppy slot. All notes will be sealed in plastic and placed within the case. There has been one complication. His daughters like the look of it so much they aren't now sure if they want to bury him. One more thing: the words on the plaque really do capture one of the last things he ever said. Of course as kids we watched the show in its first run."


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What does peninsula mean?
- peninsula(noun)
- a large mass of land projecting into a body of water
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