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#2077 needs_information defect
Overwriting files can fail on Windows
|Reported by:
|Owned by:
|Tor: unspecified
|Core Tor/Tor
|windows tor-client
|special@…, shondoit@…
|Actual Points:
|Parent ID:
Using Firefox 3.6.10, Vista x64 hm prem, SP2.
Crashes w/ older Tor versions were rare for me. Since installing alpha ver listed, several crashes in 2 days. Doing nothing diff (except later ver of Firefox). No warning / signs of things going bad before get crash notice (Tor has stopped working).
These seem to be main warnings from log:
Vidala log errors:
Oct 15 12:59:21.741 [Warning] Error replacing "C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\tor\state": File exists
Oct 15 12:59:21.743 [Warning] Unable to write state to file "C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\tor\state"
Note: the user\AppData path is not protected - the acct I was running in Vista at time of Tor crash has full access to the paths \ files mentioned above.
The file: state.tmp DOES exist in the location mentioned.
I can open / read - state.tmp - (after Tor crash & Tor is shut down). Has no obvious errors msgs in the file.
There's another file: "lock" (w/ 0 bytes) in same folder as state.tmp (after crash & Tor / Vidalia are shut down).
Properties of the "lock" file show was created yesterday 10/14, & last mod 10/15. Its file attribs are "AN" - archived, not indexed? Other than that, no real info on it.
Err Rpt from Windows Vista x64 prepared to send to MS:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: tor.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4ca65e57
Fault Module Name: tor.exe
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4ca65e57
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000c3bf9
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
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Attachments (3)
Change History (53)
Changed 10 years ago by
|VidaliaLog_Tor Crash2_10.15.2010.txt added
Changed 10 years ago by
|Tor crash2_10-15-2010.txt added
comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by
|→ Tor: 0.2.2.x-final
We should fix if we can figure out how to diagnose it. This could be a variant of #1125, which is rumored to be especially prevalent on Win64. I don't think the warning bug about the state file is necessarily related, though it could be. Does the warning about the state file occur right before every crash, or only sometimes?
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by
0.2.2.19-alpha is out, and fixes a number of crash bugs since 0.2.2.17-alpha. Can you try again?
comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by
|new → needs_review
boboper traced this to a possible NULL return from gmtime. If that's the right diagnosis (and it's sure possible on Windows), then my branch gmtime_null may be a fix here. Moving this to "needs_review".
comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by
Looks good to me.
comment:5 Changed 9 years ago by
comment:6 follow-up: 7 Changed 9 years ago by
Do you have any kind of advice what exactly to look for there or what it is actually supposed to tell us?
comment:7 Changed 9 years ago by
Replying to Sebastian:
Do you have any kind of advice what exactly to look for there or what it is actually supposed to tell us?
That bug report describes a similar problem (a program tries to replace a file and fails), and it may have the same cause, possibly a big in Windows Vista and Windows 7.
The workaround for this bug is probably to change
replace_file (in
src/common/compat.c) to use
MoveFileEx on Windows, but I'll need to check to make sure that function is available on older versions of Windows.
comment:8 Changed 9 years ago by
Hm. Could be at least two bugs at work here then: the one responsible for the crash (still see my branch gmtime_null), and the one responsible for making the state file not get replaced.
rransom: I'm trying to understand the nature of the windows issue, and not getting it. Is it that file_status() fails and so we never try to unlink the old file, or is it that unlink() fails, or is it that even if we unlink the old file, the rename() might still fail?
comment:9 Changed 9 years ago by
See branch 2077_movefileex (as well as gmtime_null) in my public repository. It needs testing; it has gotten precisely none from me. It should apply cleanly to 0.2.1.
comment:10 Changed 9 years ago by
doors sayss:
19:40 < doorss> for record: branch gmtime_null failed.
Perhaps someday he will say more.
comment:11 Changed 9 years ago by
See also #2344 for further hints (or maybe just the same hint)
Changed 9 years ago by
|0001-Correct-the-logic-from-f14754fbd-for-tor_gmtime_r.patch added
Patch to correct gmtime_null (f1475fbd)
comment:12 Changed 9 years ago by
See #2346 for another bug uncovered while looking at this one.
comment:13 follow-up: 27 Changed 9 years ago by
The problem here appears to be in the line
global_state->LastWritten = -1;
added by git 29e0d708. special's backtrace is
or_state_save -> config_dump -> get_assigned_option (key="LastWritten") -> format_iso_time -> tor_gmtime_r -> crash
My first thought was "Mike meant to set LastWritten to 0".
My second thought was "wait, why are we using LastWritten to remember whether the last write had failed?"
My third thought was "The behavior of LastWritten in maint-0.2.1 is to put time(NULL) into the state file, so the state file tells you when it was written. The behavior of LastWritten in maint-0.2.2 is now to tell you when the *previous* state file was written. We should reconcile these. I rather like the behavior in maint-0.2.1."
If Mike wants to turn off circuit building when we're failing to write to our state file, it seems to me that we should have some wrapper functions like last_state_write_worked() and note_state_file_written() that he can call.
comment:14 Changed 9 years ago by
|special@… added
I can confirm that nickm/gmtime_null, after applying the attached patch, stops the crash. nickm/2077_movefileex (dd7ef9ac) builds, works correctly, and fails correctly, but I won't be able to confirm that it solves this bug without running it for awhile.
There is a small memory leak in 2077_movefileex:
diff --git a/src/or/routerlist.c b/src/or/routerlist.c index f85db08..0fa2a8f 100644 --- a/src/or/routerlist.c +++ b/src/or/routerlist.c @@ -747,6 +747,7 @@ router_rebuild_store(int flags, desc_store_t *store) char *errmsg=NULL; if (replace_file(fname_tmp, fname, &errmsg)<0) { log_warn(LD_FS, "Error replacing old router store: %s", errmsg); + tor_free(errmsg); goto done; } tor_free(errmsg);
That resolves everything other than arma's notes about the value of LastWritten. Note that with gmtime_null, LastWritten will be 1/1/1970 in the first successful state file after a write failure.
comment:15 Changed 9 years ago by
2077_movefileex does not appear to fix the bug - I just received the "Access is denied." error, and the next write (one second later) succeeded. The random file replace failures are still a problem.
comment:16 Changed 9 years ago by
doorss has been doing some interesting research here. There seem to be well-known issues related to bugs in Windows Vista and later:
17:57 < doorss> I think it's about http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363 858(v=vs.85).aspx 17:58 < doorss> missed FILE_SHARE_DELETE for CreateFile, thats how indexer or an other process can "lock" renaming of Tor's files.
comment:17 Changed 9 years ago by
See bug2077-not-indexed ( ssh://firstname.lastname@example.com/srv/git/tor/rransom.git bug2077-not-indexed ) for a (not-yet-tested) fix for the 'access denied' problem.
comment:18 Changed 9 years ago by
I just pushed a fix by special to bug2077-not-indexed; he is testing that version now.
comment:19 Changed 9 years ago by
Unfortunately, this doesn't seem like the right fix. I've verified that %APPDATA%\Tor and all of the files within have the NOT_CONTENT_INDEXED attribute set, but I've still gotten several more "Error replacing 'xxx\state': Access is denied." errors.
It's worth noting that the error occurs on the file being replaced (the old state file), rather than the newly created state.tmp. I'm out of ideas here.
comment:20 Changed 9 years ago by
So what's the status here? nickm/gmtime_null still works to fix the issue?
comment:21 Changed 9 years ago by
nickm/gmtime_null resolves the crash, but not the failed state file writes and the subsequent (but harmless) errors.
The changes in arma's comment regarding the LastWritten value may be worth making as well.
The underlying cause of the state file write failing is unknown.
comment:22 Changed 9 years ago by
Anyone can check behavior for disabled search service, for sure?
comment:23 Changed 9 years ago by
|normal → major
Looks like there are multiple bugs all going on here at once. We shouldn't wait on fixing all of them to merge the fixes we know about for some. The known good ideas are:
- merge the (fixed) gmtime fix
- Tolerate failure to write to files better.
- The LastWritten fix would be neat.
The unknown stuff to investigate more is:
- look into a more complicated incant to open files on windows
comment:24 Changed 9 years ago by
Also: investigate whether disabling the search service entirely makes this problem go away.
comment:25 Changed 9 years ago by
See also #1523.
comment:26 Changed 9 years ago by
rebased and merged gmtime_null with special's fix.
comment:27 Changed 9 years ago by
comment:28 Changed 9 years ago by
|set to nickm
|needs_review → accepted
comment:29 Changed 9 years ago by
Do we still want this for 0.2.2.x?
comment:30 Changed 9 years ago by
Well, we still want it: the underlying issue is still present. But I think we fixed the issues that made the underlying issue result in a crash. If that is so, then this can wait till 0.2.3.x.
comment:31 Changed 9 years ago by
|shondoit@… added
comment:32 Changed 9 years ago by
|Tor: 0.2.2.x-final → Tor: 0.2.3.x-final
comment:33 Changed 8 years ago by
|windows added; Tor removed
comment:34 Changed 8 years ago by
|major → normal
|Tor crashes in Vidalia 0.2.2.17a-0.2.10 → Overwriting files can fail on Windows
comment:35 Changed 8 years ago by
|Tor: 0.2.3.x-final → Tor: unspecified
moving to unspecified. It's an annoyance but it's no longer a crash.
comment:36 Changed 8 years ago by
|tor-client added
comment:37 Changed 8 years ago by
|Tor Client → Tor
comment:38 Changed 7 years ago by
|023-backport 024-deferrable added
|Tor: unspecified → Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
Based on a comment of rransom's on #8795, on the following parenthetical on MSDN, and some simple experiments, I think that a fix here could be as simple as using FILE_SHARE_DELETE when opening a Windows file for memory mapping. I added 4f4fc63fea0589a4fa03f3859dc27860cdde75af to maint-0.2.4 to test this theory.
comment:39 Changed 7 years ago by
Ah, I see doorss caught FILE_SHARE_DELETE above too. I guess I didn't understand what he was saying. :/
comment:40 Changed 7 years ago by
|accepted → needs_review
Branch "bug2077_share_delete" in my public repository . Roger and Andrea said that the basic idea seemed sane to them (modulo our mutual lack of window fu), so I'm going to call this "already reviewed" and merge it into 0.2.4 to see whether it makes that unit test pass again on windows.
comment:41 Changed 7 years ago by
|needs_review → needs_revision
Interesting. That didn't work.
comment:42 Changed 7 years ago by
(By which I mean, the new unit test on Windows 7 did not begin to pass.)
comment:43 Changed 7 years ago by
Okay, a little more testing shows that FILE_SHARE_DELETE is not the answer, or at least not a sufficient answer. On the other hand, unmap-before-delete totally works. So let's try that...
comment:44 Changed 7 years ago by
|023-backport 024-deferrable removed
And indeed, 0.2.3 currently does do unmap-before-delete. So the problem is in 0.2.4 now...
comment:45 Changed 7 years ago by
The problem occurred previously and we fixed it as bdff7e3299d78cd2f7aa4a31e5f57c1aeef5ffa1.
comment:46 Changed 7 years ago by
|Tor: 0.2.4.x-final → Tor: unspecified
|needs_revision → needs_information
The problem was reintroduced in 0.2.4.12-alpha by 6905c1f6. I'm calling it its own separate bug and reopening one of the tickets that we closed as a dup of this one.
comment:47 Changed 7 years ago by
I am encountering this issue with:
in Windows 7 64 bit
I was unable to reconnect to tor, so I checked the log and saw:
[Warning] Error replacing "C:/Tor Browser/Data/Tor\cached-microdescs"
So I deleted the file, and was able to restart tor. The next day, tor stopped and I had to repeat the procedure.
comment:48 Changed 2 years ago by
|→ Normal
Set all open tickets without a severity to "Normal"
comment:49 Changed 12 months ago by
|nickm deleted
|needs_information → assigned
I'm listed as the owner of these needs_information tickets, but I'm not currently doing anything with them. Reassigning to nobody, then putting back in needs_information.
comment:50 Changed 12 months ago by
|assigned → needs_information


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Transgender reality TV star and former Olympian athlete Bruce "Caitlyn" Jenner will pose nude with his 1976 gold medal for Sports Illustrated magazine.
The organizers of the Milwaukee Pride Parade have fired this year's lesbian Grand Marshall because she is critical of so-called "trans-women," that is, men who wear female clothes and think they are women.
Transgender reality TV star and former Olympian athlete Bruce "Caitlyn" Jenner used the women's restroom at Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York on Wednesday, and took a shot at Sen. Ted Cruz on the way out.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a GOP presidential candidate, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, slammed his chief rival and the party's frontrunner billionaire Donald Trump over Trump's comments on the bathroom law in North Carolina. Trump said he opposed
Olympic Gold medalist Bruce Jenner is now tackling arguably the most important and difficult step in his transition: learning how to fake a "gender free" orgasm.
Bruce Jenner is set to join the cast of Amazon's Emmy-winning show Transparent, the show's creator confirmed Saturday. In an interview at the GLAAD Media Awards over the weekend, showrunner Jill Soloway confirmed that the reality TV star and former Olympian
Transgender reality TV star Bruce "Caitlyn" Jenner is "surprised" that Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz has not contacted him over his proposal to act as Cruz's official ambassador to the transgender community.
On Tuesday's The View on ABC, co-host Joy Behar likened Bruce "Caitlyn" Jenner's support for Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz to "Jews for Hitler."
Transgender reality TV star Bruce Jenner is willing to take a second look at the candidacy of Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, who he recently described as a "f—king liar."
Transgender actor and reality TV personality Candis Cayne endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Saturday.
I Am Cait, the E! docu-series that chronicles Bruce "Caitlyn" Jenner's transition from a man to a woman, has lost almost two-thirds of its first season audience.


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If there is one word for my artistic style, it would be……………………………hmmmmmmmmmmmm……. is there one word for it? I dunno- Hot Mess? That's two words- work with me people!
Anyhow- whatever it is- here is the latest. The title is a shortened version of " The Lord works in mysterious ways–His wonders to behold!" And I am here to tell you-that is the TRUTH! You can't figure Him out no matter how much you think you have- something happens in your life and you just shake your head and wonder. Sometimes in sadness, but sometimes in absolute happiness. Here's to more happiness!!!
So, blah, blah, blah……get on with it! If you look closely you might see a few pieces of a phone book underneath everything 🙂 Personally I am loving the scribbles. I really should pay attention to my steps so I can describe them to you-but frankly I can't remember them all- I know I started with some Liquitex acrylic inks, then stenciled with the blazonery stencil, a multi circle stencil I got at Staples (or was it Michael's?) I even laid down a piece of string in a haphazard way and sprayed some pink Dylusion spray over it. There is also a clock stencil I put here and here with some purple madder Josonjas acrylic paint- and then smeared everything with some gesso. I hope that helps.


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A Hilltopper teammate flies straight into Japeth Aguilar during one of the school's scrimmages but the 6-9 Filipino simply doesn't budge, maintains his ground and assumes the full impact of the 200+ pound body coming into him. A year ago, the same scenario would have played out differently. He was weak, couldn't keep pace with his highly physical teammates, and couldn't make plays without visiting the floor. He has now gained an additional 10 pounds of strength and looks to have fully adjusted to basketball life in the US. He will play college ball for the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers this fall (the Hilltoppers is a division I team in the US NCAA competing in the Sunbelt conference that has produced the likes of ex-NBA players Chris Marcus, Johnny Givens, Tellis Frank and Chris Robinson).
Japeth sat out last year due to transfer rules. He has two years of varsity eligibility and hopes to make an impact to be able to make an impression on NBA scouts.
Not used to the physical brand of play in the US, Japeth locked himself up in the weight room and made earnest goals to improve on his strength. He's still a few pounds away from his target of 220 lbs. but he has gained considerable strength which will be necessary when he faces the conference's top big men.
Japeth figures to be a solid part of the Hilltopper's rotation this season. The team's inside game continues to be big hole, and Japeth hopes he can fill the void. One thing Japeth can bring to the table is an imposing post presence. In his last year with the Blue Eagles, Japeth led the field with 3.2 blocks a game. Hilltoppers' head coach Darrin Horn will no doubt, find some good use for Aguilar on the rotation.
"He's got things that are hard to teach – height and length and terrific athleticism,†Horn said. "He's a terrific shot blocker and rebounds well.â€
"He's a guy that's got good skill level – can pass and catch, shoots the ball well, puts the ball on the floor really well for a player his size. He's coming along nicely.â€
For Japeth, the one-year hiatus from active play has been a long wait. The intense preparations he made in the offseason will make him a ready body when coach Horn calls out his name for the Hilltoppers this fall. This is the beginning of a long career in basketball for Japeth. When he wears his jersey for WKU, he will make our country proud.
Go, Japeth! Show them what you got!


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USC alumna returns as speaker
Annabel Nava did not realize her life's purpose until she experienced the loss of her father. Now, Nava serves as a mentor for students who are eager to find a fulfilling career.
Though she has today nurtured her career in broadcast journalism for years, in retrospect, Nava was unaware of the sudden turn her life took. When she applied to USC as an undergraduate, Nava dreamed of entering the film industry, but she cautiously decided to choose a more stable career path by pursuing a degree in communication.
"I can pretty much do anything I want, but I still loved television broadcast," Nava said. "People across the nation are looking at my work … It was very rewarding for me to be able to do that."
Since she was already exposed to television production in high school, Nava felt she should pursue what she already knew how to do.
Nava graduated from USC with her bachelor's degree in communication arts and sciences in 1996. After entering the professional world, she worked her way up from an assistant position to writer to producer for end credits of shows at Fox Broadcasting Company. In three years, Nava changed her mindset from "at least I'm in the industry I want to be in" to "I'm getting to where I need to be."
During that period of time, Nava's personal life and career path appeared stable. She was happy with her marriage and her children and was developing a balance between her professional growth and family life — until disaster struck. Nava's greatest source of support, her father, was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer.
This moment inspired Nava to concentrate on present moments, on aspects that mattered in real life — not on a television screen. She left her position as operations manager at Fox, and Nava knew she needed to be the strong and supportive soldier to defend her father's faith in life.
"It all happens for a reason," Nava said.
She didn't feel an internal struggle after she quit her high position of overseeing the production process at Fox. In the National Latina Business Women Association, Nava found support in receiving the necessary skills to help her husband with his construction business. Through those moments, Nava realized she could combine her passion for empowerment with a mission to support family. As a board member for the organization, Nava now serves as an inspirational speaker, and hopes to impact the lives of Latina women in their self-development.
Charged by her change in life perspective, Nava made her way back to Fox, adding soul to production management as a connector between creative departments and executives. She has been through personal struggles, but those experiences allow Nava to help others balance their emotions and perceptions within the workspace.
She now coaches diverse groups of people and nurtures her gift to impact those in her audience.
"It feels like I'm a messenger," Nava said. "Everything starts feeling easy and natural. You know you're in the right place."
She acknowledged that her job requires soft skills and strong interpersonal communication, strengths she obtained while studying at USC.
"Sometimes when I have conversations with people, I get so in the zone that I don't even know where the words come from," Nava said, about hosting workshops with her favorite audience — students.
When asked to share her wisdom with those just beginning to form their life goals, she addressed students' common desire to perceive others' criticism as a personal attack.
"Don't take things personally," Nava said.
Nava learned that the real challenge is setting limits while being fully committed to work and being sensitive to others' feedback.
"Know that if you step away, they're going to survive without you," Nava said.


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A new WIP has entered the ring and it's just about driven me crazy! I have wanted to make Titch for a long time. It finally made its way to the cutting mat, and promptly confused the brain that was already struggling after a weekend visit from the Portia!
Are you about done with that sammich?
She was watching me while I ate. LOL!
A not so fully potty trained 9 month old
So, Titch. I think the pattern writing leaves a lot to be desired. It's just not very clear on a lot of things. But maybe that's just me. And just maybe there's an error in the cutting instructions. For the 2nd version, the gold sashing one, you create small 4 patches. I mean SMALL!! 1.5″ cut for .75″ finished. But there is a different way, to me, of constructing them, so cool. The next step is to add 4 HSTs to create a square in a square with the 4 patch. The pattern has you cut 144- 2″ squares in your background color for these to be cut into the HSTs. A 9 block layout with 4 of these SinS units per block means you need 2 X 4 units per block X 9 blocks = 72- 2″x2″ blocks. Did you see where they tell you to cut 144!!!
One of the first times I didn't just make a sample block before cutting!!! But I thought, it's such a small project. Oh well, it's not like I don't have use for 2" square background pieces. Plus, due to my own stupid mistake, I over cut the 2″ sqs for the 4 patches, so actually, I just might have to come up with a project to use up the 72 extra background sqs with the 54 extra print sqs!
OK, enough talk, here's a few of the bocks in action!
Cute huh? Except for bad contrast on the first one!
It might get redone
And then you realize they are 5″ in size!!!! 5 FREAKING INCHES!!
Maybe it won't be redone!!!!
Try this on for size!
8.5″ Fox and Geese block underneath
I just might not recover from this one
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Music news for the week…
– It appears that Radiohead's managers advised the band to end their career after their contract with Capitol Records expired. I mean, wow. I imagine the conversation went something like this: "Hey guys, you're producing incredibly creative and groundbreaking music time and time again… but now that you aren't owned by a huge corporation anymore… well, I don't know what to do… I guess you should just call it quits." Unbelievable. Pitchfork.com
– Believe it or not, the US Department of Homeland Security produced a handful of pop records in Spanish and recently distributed them to Central American radio stations. The albums contain songs that "warn of the danger of illegally crossing the US/Mexican border." Although the musicians on the project have remained anonymous, I think we all know that Toby Keith had at least something to do with it. guardian.co.uk
– In other US Government music news, the State Department has unveiled a new program called Musical Overtures, which sends musicians into the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan. The initiative intends to utilize the "universal" elements of music in an attempt to bridge cultures and improve relations. allaboutjazz.com
– It's only been two weeks since Joe Striani filed a suit against Coldplay for musical plagiarism against him in their song "Viva La Vida." Now, all of a sudden, Cat Stevens is doing the same thing. Meanwhile, Coldplay has announced a free live album, released digitally on the band's website on May 15. nme.com and Pitchfork.com
– The median age for viewers of this season's American Idol episodes is 43, a solid ten years higher than the shows previous seasons. Go figure. MTV.com
– Editorial item: We're doing a cover of Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" at the Jesse Langseth gig next week. We found the version on a cool Ike and Tina Turner album called Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter. Aside from being the best album title ever, Ike and Tina's version of the song is arguably superior to Zep's (gasp).


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Dynamical downscaling of ERA-40 in complex terrain using the WRF regional climate model
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Results from a first-time employment of the WRF regional climate model to climatological simulations in Europe are presented. The ERA-40 reanalysis (resolution 1 ) has been downscaled to a horizontal resolution of 30 ...
Recent and future changes of the Arctic sea-ice cover
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The present and future state of the Arctic sea ice cover is explored using new observations and a coupled one dimensional air–sea–ice model. Updated satellite observations of Fram Strait ice-area export show an increase ...
A dynamic model of some malaria-transmitting anopheline mosquitoes of the Afrotropical region. II. Validation of species distribution and seasonal variations
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Background: The first part of this study aimed to develop a model for Anopheles gambiae s.l. with separate parametrization schemes for Anopheles gambiae s.s. and Anopheles arabiensis. The characterizations were ...
A dynamic model of some malaria-transmitting anopheline mosquitoes of the Afrotropical region. I. Model description and sensitivity analysis
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Background: Most of the current biophysical models designed to address the large-scale distribution of malaria assume that transmission of the disease is independent of the vector involved. Another common assumption in ...


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All are welcome to the following CISBIO seminars – venues as listed:
Monday Feb 13th, 4.30pm
7th Floor common room
Sir Ernst Chain Building – Wolfson Laboratories (formerly Biochemistry)
Dr Guido Sanguinetti,
University of Edinburgh
Latent switching models of transcriptional regulation
Abstract: I will review the use of a class of continuous-time models of transcriptional regulation. This consist of a system of (ordinary or stochastic) differential equations whose coefficients depend on a latent, discrete state Markov Jump process. The interpretation we will propose is that the DEs describe the dynamics of expression of a set of genes, while the latent processes describe activation states of transcription factor proteins. I will describe the approach to inference, and present results on a number of real data sets.
Monday 5th March, 4 pm
G34 Lecture Theatre, SAF (Sir Alexander Fleming) building
Dr Nick Le Novère
EMBL – European Bioinformatics Institute
This or that – Allosteric Calcium Sensors and Synaptic Plasticity
Monday 12th March, 4pm
G34 Lecture Theatre, SAF (Sir Alexander Fleming) building
Dr Mario Caccamo
The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC)
Computational analysis of next generation sequencing (provisional title)
Monday 26th March, 4.30pm
Rm 122, SAF (Sir Alexander Fleming) building
Prof Jürg Bähler,
University College London
Quantitative Analysis of Fission Yeast Transcriptomes and Proteomes


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Monster Tattoos
. Monster tattoos are usually popular worldwide. Nowadays over thirty percents of people that will make a skin icon chose a monster tattoo style. Maybe the reason behind such amazing popularity is the fact that dragons are usually personages of numerous legends within nearly all civilizations. Dragons might have different personality, but they are usually certainly effective creatures. Another reason might be that there are numerous styles of monster tattoos that will differ within design and meaning. Yet there are 2 main sorts of dragon tattoo designs: Western monster and Far eastern dragon.
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Just about all dragon skin icon designs have always deep which means, more than which they always appearance original plus attractive. Monster tattoos are often quite huge and are frequently made vivid. They are utilized as back again tattoos compared to dragon is created on the dimension of the entire back. This kind of tattoo is fairly extreme plus extravagant naturally , but it appears great plus attracts interest. Such monster tattoo style reveals a solid will plus free personality of its proprietor. All monster tattoos appear stylish plus emphasize a great taste of the owners.


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POSLynx has been installing and supporting stock control systems linked to Sharp cash registers for over 15 years. We have put together a bundled package that provides a cost effective stock control solution.
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When I first saw the previews for a new show, Manifest on NBC, I immediately thought of one of my favorite shows, Lost! I was a fan of Lost from day one! I watched every episode and I even watched it again a few years ago! I really need to get my hands on the DVD sets! Manifest: The Complete First Season lands in stores on July 23rd, a day before my birthday!
Disclosure: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the DVD. The opinions I share are my own. This post contains affiliate links.
As a fan of Manifest, I just love that the first season is landing a day before my birthday! It's like an early birthday present to myself! As a single mom, I try to appreciate the little things! The only "gifts" I receive are from myself or through my blog! This is such an awesome gift to receive a copy of the first season of Manifest!
I watch all my shows on my laptop. My son takes over our television, so I watch on my computer. By the way, I ordered a small DVD player that I can connect to my laptop, just so I could watch Manifest! That's right, I don't have a DVD player and I ordered one just for this show!
Be sure to order your copy at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target!
Manifest: The Complete First Season includes:
Unclaimed Baggage
Connecting Flights
Off Radar
Point of No Return
Dead Reckoning
Vanishing Point
Cleared for Approach
Hard Landing
Estimated Time of Departure
What is Manifest about?
Flight 828 Disappeared in 2013. Today, it Came Home.
A plane inexplicably disappears on a trans-oceanic flight and returns five years later after being presumed lost at sea. While no time has passed for those on the flight, years have gone by for their loved ones who have learned to live with their loss. In addition to the outward mystery of what happened on that flight, there's also an inward mystery of what has happened to the passengers…and why. Nothing will ever be the same as you follow the unexpected journey full of hope, heart and destiny!
Manifest stars Melissa Roxburgh ("Valor," "Supernatural"), Josh Dallas ("Once Upon a Time"), Athena Karkanis ("House of Cards," "Zoo"), J.R. Ramirez ("Power"), Luna Blaise ("Fresh Off the Boat"), Jack Messina ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel") and Parveen Kaur ("The Strain," "Saving Hope"). The series is produced by Jeff Rake Productions and Compari Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television.
Manifest is full of mystery, suspense, secrets, and so much more. They keep us guessing, but also reveal secrets and tidbits along the way. The characters are relatable. We are trying to figure out what is happening right along with them.
If you haven't discovered Manifest, this is the perfect way to jump on the bandwagon! If you're a fan like I am, get the DVDs and binge watch whenever you want!


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A beautiful and elegant home is the dream of most people. People spend thousands of dollars to give their home a touch of personal look. They want their home to look best both in the interior and exterior. But the interior is the one that people spend most of the time refining so that not only you but people get envious of your home. They decorate their home with paintings, bronze sculptures, ceramics, blown glass and other forms of artistic pieces. Furniture is another aspect that is useful in both increasing the comfort and appeal of a home.
If you want to know more about home and interior designing, then follow the Artful Living Magazine. The magazine founded in 2008 publishes latest trends in style, food, travel, style, art, culture, and other lifestyle topics. You can also find tips on how to make your home more elegant and attractive with the many posts available on their website. From the tips available at their website, you would be able to give a more personal look at your home.
When it comes to interior design, there are many aspects to consider like furniture, floor, kitchen, living room designing, etc. Moreover, comfort is the thing that has to consider when rearranging or redesigning your home. People dream of owning their own house because they want a sense of peace and comfort. Home is the place where one feels the most comfortable. You may like to change the interior of your home, but not at the cost of comfort.
Choosing furniture is very exciting but you just shouldn't pay attention to only the design. Furniture is not something that you change frequently so buy the one that makes you feel the most comfortable. Everything else comes after comfort. To get more useful tips about interior design and living, follow the Artful Living Magazine.


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Hello everyone!
Been away quite too long, though it's not been wasted. As it turns out, Freedom From Rain, overall myself has been creating something special. My first video game!!
Guess what else? C'mon, you already know where the inspiration came about. *chuckles* Indeed my first published novel, "Is It Love or Insanity:Renewed Encouragement", will now be an interactive video game.
Of course! There will be included several portions of plot line that were never publicized, written, or even mentioned that occurred.
In two months, hopefully less, the demo will be available.
As for any writings, novels, stories. There might be something along the lines of erotica if not a animation video. That's all for now, Dorsen over and out.
The video game has been put on hold, while our first animation video is being assembled. Due next month to be shown, representing F.F.R. in it's seedy present form.
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Although bites by venomous snakes are relatively common, especially in rural areas of tropical and subtropical countries where access to health care and antivenoms is limited, the extent of the problem has been unclear. Now, researchers in Sri Lanka, Switzerland, and England, using the most comprehensive methods to date, estimate that annual number of deaths caused by snakebites ranges from at least 20 000 to as many as 94 000 (Kasturiratne A et al. PLoS Med. 2008;5[11]:e218).
Stephenson J. Snakebite Threat Probed. JAMA. 2008;300(23):2717. doi:10.1001/jama.2008.848
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Ocean City, Md. (DELMARVA NEWS NOW) — Ocean City Police are visibly increasing their enforcement, as hundreds of car enthusiasts flock to Ocean City for an event that officials have previously credited for "appalling behavior."
As this unsanctioned H20i-style event returns to Ocean City this weekend, town officials have issued a Special Events Zone, reducing speed limits and increasing fines for violations. Specifically, speeds along Coastal Highway have been reduced to 30 miles an hour, with fines increased. Going into effect Thursday morning, the Special Events Zone extends through the end of the weekend.
OCPD has been touting their enforcement efforts, with officers seen enforcing the speed limit with laser along Coastal Highway Thursday evening. On social media, the Police Department spreading the message "Love our community like you love your car." Police have also expressed an interest in working with event goers to prevent disturbances. When asked about setting up a "respectful" gathering with "no burnouts," Police urged an attendee to contact businesses and individual property owners to receive permission.
While the bulk of H20i attendees will be at the official, sanctioned event in Atlantic City, New Jersey, town officials are still expecting a decent amount of increased traffic. In years past, Officers responded to thousands of service calls, dealt with physical violence, vehicles doing "burnouts" and excessive speeding.


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Wow, what a fantastic year fly-fishing the Treasure Coast. We caught fish, I mean really brilliant fish, and created memories that will last a lifetime. Working and playing hard, learning, failing and succeeding is what fishing is about. Living my dream is what keeps me going every single day and I'm very grateful for my life.
I am writing this column while sitting on my couch, cup of coffee in hand and thinking about the long, but profitable day of fishing with my guests.
My recent Norway guests included nine boys ranging in age from 17 to 21, and their two teachers. If my memory serves me correctly, when I booked this group several months ago, I was thinking, as I often do, that all men are fly fishermen. Much to my surprise only two are serious fly fishermen. The remainder of the group were anywhere from just a little fishing experience to spinning gear and live bait fishermen. Can you imagine my face when I realized the challenges that lay ahead for me? Hey, life is a challenge and so was this week!
However, my guests (even the beginners) caught snook, bonefish, pompano, Spanish mackerel and jacks on fly! They lost monster sharks, jumped a big tarpon both on bait and got all kinds of fish on spin. My head was spinning as well just thinking about the upcoming days. I loved it. These boys were so excited just to be here, catching all these different fish in pristine water conditions. It is a challenge for me because I'm definitely better with the fly but I gave it my best and hey, I had a great time and enjoyed it as much as they did!
Have a great and successful 2019!
The Fly Fishing Column is written by Capt. Michael Mauri, www.mauriflyfishing.com, email@example.com, (772) 485-3321.


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Yokomo DP-DP8 - Drift Package Basic Chassis Kit
Yokomo Drift Package Basic. Perfect to start RC Drifting with a chassis with high potential!Yokomo Drift Package. The best allround RC drift chassis on the market. It combines a reasonable price with perfect performances.
Whether you start RC Drifting or you are a more professional driver with high demands. The Drift Package series chassis always offer something for your needs.
The Yokomo Drift Package Drift car platform offers almost unlimited options and upgrades.
Yokomo Driftpackage basic
The Drift Package Basic is a perfect chassis for beginners or drivers that want to switch to a Yokomo RC Drift Car.
This kit is a build kit so you can build your own car. The kit is easy to build even without any RC car experiences.
It has fixed upper arm links and tie rods. The shocks have dampers of friction type. So nothing can go wrong there.
It uses high quality materials only. The kit even provides a full set of 17 metal ball bearings. This improves driving time while the driving trains is more smooth and efficient.
Although the chassis is perfect for entry level its also offers a very wide range of options and upgrades. So it's very good to start with and start learning the fun of RC Drifting. And while you learn and improve your skills you also can upgrade your car.
Key features:
- High efficient 4WD shaft drive system
- High-rigidity composite chassis
- Double wishbone suspension
- Fixed tie-rods suitable for drift
- Rigid suspension components
- Front universal shaft and rear dog bone
- Resin friction shock absorber and coil spring
- Front urethane bumper and rear bumper
- Aluminum die-cast clamp motor mount
- Metal ball bearing (17 pieces)
*** This is an assembly kit, picture shows a finished car ***
What you need to get running: 2 channel radio set (transmitter, receiver); steering servo; speed controller and motor combo; battery and charger; wheels and tire set; finished body.
You can also choose to add the running set. This includes all electronics needed to start driving.


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Bathing in the holy river
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For millenniums bathing in the holy river has been the duty of every faithful believer in India. Three figures are taking bath in the evening. A sense of infinity is acquired by this picture with no beginning and no end.
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Incubation period seems to be 3 to 4 days for this strain (time of exposure to symptoms) not 1-2 as previously reported. People have the potential to infect others from a day before symptoms develop to seven days after they develop.
Environmental aspects: How you get it from surfaces and other objects. This is the result of some experiments carried out at a prominent lab in the U.K. 19 Viruses survived on hard non-porous surfaces (e.g., stainless steel counter, plastic washing-up bowl) for up to 72 hours but only small quantities were detectable beyond 48 hours. In contrast, virus was recovered from soft porous items (e.g., pajamas, handkerchiefs, tissues, magazines) for up to 24 hours, but only small quantities were detectable after 12 hours.
From contaminated surfaces onto hands: .19 Measurable viruses could be transferred to hands from hard stainless steel surfaces for up to 24 hours after the surface had been contaminated and from soft tissues for up to 2 hours after, albeit in very low quantities after 15 minutes. Of note" once virus was transferred to hands, it survived for only 5 minutes -- albeit long enough for self-inoculation of eyes or mucous membranes to theoretically occur. The biggest risk of course is someone coughing or sneezing right onto your face or shaking hands with someone right after they have touched their nose or eyes or sneezed or coughed onto their hands. This is why frequent hand washing is so important.


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Water parks are great places to cool off if the heat is too much to bear as well as good places to have fun with people you're close to. However, it's never fun to be kicked out of one for any reason. Read on if you want to avoid that.
1Know every rule of the park. Before your visit, study the rules of the park. Do they allow picnics in the park? Is alcohol allowed? Do babies have to wear swim diapers? When you visit, you should know the rules as if you are an employee at the water park, and follow them. The rules are there for a reason, and many of them are to regulate park safety.
2Wear appropriate clothing. This means nothing revealing, no logos that you would not want young kids to see, and nothing that violates park rules. And avoid wearing white swimsuits - when they get wet, you'll basically be exposed, and you'll be asked to leave the park.
- Make sure your clothing is secure. If you're wearing a swimsuit, you'll want to make sure that it's not loose on you, and that anything that needs to be tied is tied. Nobody wants to get kicked out of a water park after losing their swimsuit and getting humiliated in front of everyone.
3Be friendly towards other visitors. Being rude, annoying, stubborn, or violent will get you thrown out. If somebody asks you for directions, give them politely if you know, or if you don't know, tell them, "I'm sorry, I don't know where that is. I'm sure somebody else would, though."
- Don't fight with people, even if you're just play-fighting with your friend. Most, if not all, areas of water parks are quite wet and slippery. If you push someone, even as a joke, you may end up regretting it if they end up slipping and hitting their head.
- Avoid pulling out something that may be perceived as a weapon. Things like toy guns and knives, for example, are a definite no-no, especially if you point them at someone.
4Use the buddy system if you have a group. Never go anywhere alone, because some parks don't let people wander around with no buddy if the person is in a group. If you're under the age of thirteen, stay with an adult or with your friends at all times. It's smarter, and if you're with your friends, more fun!
5Don't be rude towards snack stand workers. They deserve lots of credit for their service. Use your manners; say "please" and "thank you", and if the employee makes a mistake, bring it up politely.
- Some people may think it's funny to taunt snack stand workers or try to extort money from them. If you see this happening, speak up! Say something like, "Hey, that's not cool! Knock it off!" or "Stop trying to get free food! People have to make money too, you know!" The employee will definitely appreciate it.
6Don't throw dirt or rocks at cars or other visitors. Snowballs thrown at people may not hurt, but rocks can hurt people and smash car windows. Dirt can distract a driver and make other visitors get cheesed off when they get covered in soil. Never throw a snowball at a car for the same reason you shouldn't throw dirt. And remember how the receiving end feels - it hurts to get sand in your eyes!
- In some parks, throwing things - even dirt - can be considered misconduct and get you removed from the park.
7Use kid-friendly language. Do not swear, use racist terms, make rude jokes, or threaten people. If you wouldn't want your grandmother to hear it, chances are, you shouldn't use it in front of a little kid.
- If you do end up accidentally offending somebody with bad language (for example, you slip and instinctively swear), apologize immediately and try not to use bad language again.
8Don't run near the pools. Obviously, the area around the pools, which is usually concrete, is typically wet. You could slip or ram into somebody. If a lifeguard keeps having to tell you to walk, you may be removed from the park.
9Don't cut in line or jump in rides when it is not your turn. It is rude, and it's risky. At best, somebody will stand there angrily at you; at worst, they'll cause a fight and get the both of you thrown out of the park. Additionally, if an employee catches you cutting in line, you'll be sent to the back of the line or prevented from going on the ride entirely.
10Try to avoid recording footage of you on rides with a video camera. You could drop or ruin your device, and it is usually against the rules. If you really, really want to record, though, try asking the ride employee for permission, but be prepared to be told that you can't.
11Be nice to everyone and smile! Be an all-around cheerful person. You didn't come to a water park to be grumpy - you came here to have fun, so let that reflect in your mood. And make sure you have fun yourself!Advertisement
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- Do the kid test when deciding what to wear. If you're wearing something you would not want a little child to see, change.Thanks!
- Different water parks have different rules. Big, corporate-owned water parks may have many more rules and more lifeguards than smaller parks. If you're at a smaller park, do not take advantage of the smaller amount of lifeguards there. They'll still catch you trying to do something wrong.Thanks!
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- Do not do anything perverted.Thanks!
- Some water parks are very strict and will throw you out if you even try to bend the rules. Look up the park online to hear from others how strict the park is.Thanks!
- You may yell when you are going down a slide, but avoid vulgar language.Thanks!
- Do not defecate or pee in the pools. It is revolting and very rude.Thanks!
- Some people just want to break the rules to prove they did so. Don't harass or fight with these patrons because you could be the one thrown out, and most of these people won't even listen to anybody who is not an employee. Just ignore these immature people if they mess with you. The park staff will get them.Thanks!
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Editorial: Gateway's Move to Covington Represents Net Loss of Students
Tue, 03/25/2014 - 07:47 RCN Newsdesk
There's a dark cloud in the recent announcement by Gateway Community and Technical College that it is moving more programs to the Urban Campus.
The 2-mile relocation of some programs from their current Covington (Amsterdam Road) location to downtown Covington actually represents a net loss of educational opportunities in Northern Kentucky's heavily populated urban core.
Because essential training programs such as HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) and Plumbing that produce employable graduates are being relocated to a campus in Boone County which is a 30-mile round-trip drive from the Covington campus.
Most urban students do not own a car, and without regular and reliable public transportation access from any of the river cities, this move slams the door shut on these students. Nor does this move expand opportunities to other essential parts of Gateway's service area in other river cities such as Newport, Bellevue and Dayton.
The main purpose of Gateway's urban campus is to provide accessible, affordable, and quality training programs for residents of Northern Kentucky's urban core, the part of our region with the greatest concentration of poverty. If the urban campus means a reduction in training programs its purpose is not being met.
The nation and this region are facing a skills gap in the middle skill jobs, the jobs that require some post-secondary education but less than a bachelor's degree. The middle skill jobs include maintenance and repair workers, industrial machinery mechanics, HVAC and refrigeration mechanics and installers, plumbers and electricians, to name but a few. These are the jobs that allow one to earn a wage sufficient to support a family. They also tend to be taught and learned best in a project based, applied learning environment as opposed to the lecture hall approach most common in the college environment.
If we want to deal with poverty through education you don't do it by moving the education programs further away.
44% of all job openings in the South through 2018 require middle skill employees. Employers across the nation and in this region rightfully complain about their inability to find and hire people with the requisite skills. Our education providers can't address the issues by relocating the training programs away from the population center.
One of the great challenges of this day is engaging young men in post-secondary training and the workforce. Young men have lower college going rates, their participation in the labor market has plummeted in the last decade, and for those in the labor market, their unemployment rate is the highest. There is a huge need for training programs that provide young men with a pathway to a decent job. The middle skill training programs being moved out of Covington are exactly the types of programs that give young men the best opportunity for meaningful economic participation.
You will hear Gateway argue that their interests are serviced by having these like-type programs on the Boone County campus. Access to the Boone campus is a problem that hasn't been addressed in any meaningful way. Bus access is infrequent, inconvenient and time consuming. One student said it takes as much as an hour and a half to get from Covington to Gateway with the routing and intervening stops.
You can drive to Louisville faster.
Last Saturday's events are a reminder of the cultural differences that make Boone County a less than welcoming environment for urban residents. The "Day of the White Man's March" - complaints that diversity equals white genocide, protests that feature KKK attire - all create a worrisome, hostile environment for the less well-to-do.
A Gateway Community and Technical College urban campus that focuses on general education and transfer courses and the liberal arts, but excludes training programs for the middle skill jobs, will not meet the needs of the populations nearest the school. Expand the urban campus to include middle skill job training opportunities. Unless we do, the Gateway Urban campus will fulfill neither its hope nor its promise.
Joseph U. Meyer (pictured) is former Secretary of the Kentucky's Education and Workforce Development Cabinet.


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I've been wrestling with this one for a day and got no further. From within a fragment shader, towards the end of the render pipeline (but not in OnRenderImage), I'm attempting to use sample the depth texture in order to calculate the location of a given pixel at a given point on the screen. This is in order to achieve localised volumetric effects.
The very simple code, that I'm sure I've used before outside of VR, and is used by the soft particles (a bit) is as follows:
sampler2D _CameraDepthTexture;
struct v2f {
float4 pos : SV_POSITION;
float3 view : TEXCOORD0;
float4 clippos : TEXCOORD1;
float3 world : TEXCOORD2;
v2f vert (appdata_base v) {
v2f o;
float4 wPos = mul(unity_ObjectToWorld, v.vertex);
o.pos = UnityObjectToClipPos(v.vertex);
o.view = wPos.xyz - _WorldSpaceCameraPos;
o.clippos = o.pos;
o.world = wPos.xyz;
return o;
half4 frag (v2f i) : COLOR
float4 screenpos = ComputeScreenPos(i.clippos);
float scenez = LinearEyeDepth(SAMPLE_DEPTH_TEXTURE_PROJ(_CameraDepthTexture, UNITY_PROJ_COORD(screenpos)));
float3 position = i.world + normalize(i.world - _WorldSpaceCameraPos)*scenez;
return half4(frac(abs(position*3)), 1);
On rendering the above, I would expect a sort of 'tiled' effect, as the fragment shader outputs a colour based on the world space position of the pixel it is rendering. However what I get is a warped output, that seems accurate in the center of the screen, but wrong towards the edges:
Rendering the scenez instead looks fairly sensible (though a bit of me thinks perhaps it should be curving out from the camera if it is correct?)
I am baffled. I've tried numerous different approaches, and placed all sorts of divide-by-w bits for the projection. I've had a go at passing different bits between vertex/fragment shader, or calculating the depth in different ways. However, all eventually end up doing the same dodgy effect.
I think it must have something to do with the fact that in VR the output is warped to match the lense, but how to compensate for this, and why a similar post-effect style approach works in OnRenderImage is beyond me.
Anybody any experience with this issue? Do I need to 'unwarp' somehow? Is a warp causing me to sample the wrong area of the depth texture perhaps?
Are you attempting this in Single or Multi Pass Stereo?
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Jul 13, 2017 at 05:27 PM
For posterity, I believe to have resolved the issue, at least in my case. Please see my Forum Post.
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'What I actually wish I'd been told before birth'
Don't be fooled by the book and the smile. That was the pre-birth me.
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An old friend of mine with a heavily pregnant wife called to arrange a drink last week. He was, he said, scheduling a series of "last suppers". My friend's wife couldn't make it to the pub. He'd left her on the couch mainlining raspberry tea. My friend said they were both pretty confident they had the whole birth plan in the bag - a misguided optimism with which I'm intimately familiar.
Did you know there is a way you can write a birth plan that actually works?
I had prepped so thoroughly for childbirth that my uterus knew the Boy Scout handsign. For months I had consumed annotated books on active birthing and I had the pelvic floor muscles to prove it. I attended courses on "finding power in the pain" and discovered postnatal uses for the placenta that I'm sure the original Last Supper host didn't approve of.
As it turned out, my birth plan was as flawed as the landing at Gallipoli, and ended up being almost as bloody.
So, what advice would I give to those about to extract a comically large object from a cruelly small orifice? This:
1. The hospital bag does nothing
The hospital bag has a mythic quality among expectant mothers. It represents order over chaos. We hope that by packing it with energy drinks and massage oil we can avoid a live stage version of The Scream.
I took my hospital bag seriously. When I heaved myself through the emergency doors I was carrying more gear than a Nepalese Sherpa.
Unfortunately it didn't contain anything actually useful. I had included hydrating energy gels, a pre-programmed iPod, essential oils for pain relief (LOL!) and even some scented candles for "atmosphere". The road to hell is paved with playlists.
So young. So optimistic. So foolish. Source: supplied.
2. Pain isn't weakness leaving the body, it's just pain
As my due date approached, my partner and I would lie in bed assuring each other that labour couldn't be that bad. As a youngest child I'd absorbed years of torment from my brother with the restraint of a Buddhist monk and as an adult I had completed at least three weeks of a twelve-week bikini body wellness program.
I now realise I knew as much about childbirth as your average houseplant. Women often resort to seismic weather events to describe labour. Contractions are "waves" or "surges" or "pressure". I felt like my body had had been atomized, placed in an aerosol can and sprayed across the hospital room walls. But hey, "waves" works too.
Which brings me to…
3. All hail the anesthetist
The argument is well worn between those who believe childbirth is a natural rite of passage and those who believe that maybe gas just wasn't around back then. I can only say that I too once believed that to ask for help was weakness but in the end I howled at the ceiling begging for an epidural. And by the time the anesthetist arrived my partner was ready to beg for one himself.
Now the idea of rejecting pain relief while my baby made origami from my reproductive organs is beyond absurd. Frankly, I wish I'd been hooked up to a drip since the moment of conception.
Believe what you will, but birth is a marathon and the pain is REAL. Source: supplied.
4. Your body is a wonderland
I knew that labour would involve nudity and indignity. Having been raised by hippies, I am on intimate terms with both. Even so, I wasn't prepared for the sheer number of people who dived into the deep end while I lay back and thought of England. By the time I left the hospital I had been probed by so many professionals my pelvis flinched at the sound of snapping gloves.
One of my favourites was a med student called Ming, who turned to the midwife with his arm still inside me and said: "I can feel something but I'm not sure what." Then the midwife pushed him aside and said: "Here, let me have a go!" as if I were a stubborn jar of pickles.
5. You can't touch this
The wonderful thing about labour is that once you return to the real world, the experience has made you utterly untouchable.
A doctor friend once told me: "The thing about women who've had babies is they just don't care anymore." One new mother had walked in to her appointment and said "Where do you want me?" before dropping her trousers — a somewhat unusual consultation for an ear, nose and throat specialist.
Likewise a delivery man knocked on my door last week and said "Sorry, did I wake you?" I gingerly touched my milk-encrusted hair, vomit-stained tracksuit pants and a T-shirt I now realised I was wearing inside-out.
"Oh no," I smiled. "This is my life now!"
Case in point. Source: supplied.
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If you are needing a project completed and you are searching for a contractor, you want to make sure you choose the right one for the job. After all, the success of the job depends on the contractor. Plus, we have all heard those horror stories about the contractor doing shoddy work and the building or structure collapsing or they just quit halfway through, take the money and leave the customer with an unfinished project. Here are a few tips for spotting a bad contractor, so you can avoid the cost and the headache that accompanies such problems.
- Ask the contractor to see examples of their work. Yes, everyone needs to start somewhere. Giving a new contractor a job might be beneficial because sometimes the newer contractors must prove themselves to establish a business, so they bring along innovation, creativity, and dedication. But there is a big difference in little work history because you are new on the scene and having no work history. Even if they are just starting off their own business as an independent contractor, they have done some work. If there are a limited work history and no portfolio, ask for references from the past companies or contractors they worked with.
- Licensing, registration, and insurance. We have heard this one time and time again, but it is important. While the laws regarding contractor licensing vary from one state to another and different cities have different laws, any legitimate contractor should have all the proper credentialing to work legally in their area. Make sure that the individual also has the proper liability and workers' compensation coverage to protect your project.
- Check for experience relevant to your specific project needs. If you need a kitchen remodeled, then you want a contractor experienced in kitchen projects. If a contractor is highly skilled in basement remodels but has not done a kitchen remodel, then this person might not be your best choice for your specific project.
- While at one time or another everyone has shown up late or had to cancel an appointment, a contractor requesting to reschedule an initial consultation isn't grounds for immediate disqualification. But, if the contractor repeatedly shows up late, cancels appointments with little warnings, or is a no-show for appointments, then you should just mark them off your list of possibilities.
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The aim is to highlight to the supply chain the scope for potential supply into the sector and a clear idea of what clients are seeking, not just from a product and service perspective, but also from a technology and innovation angle.
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Returning back to your home after a long spell of occupation by Islamic State (IS) militants is not always as straight forward as possible.
Adamant to cause as much chaos, strain and danger as possible for those returning to, often times, demolished and broken homes and neighborhoods, the IS continue to exert psychological and physical damage to the men, women and children of Raqqa by planting mines in areas it withdraws from.
This "post combat warfare" tactic represents not only a major obstacle for citizens who wish to return to a normal life but also one of the biggest dangers hindering the progress of forces fighting the terrorist organisation. Funding for the identification and clean-up efforts of these booby traps is low, especially in areas like Raqqa, where there is no government presence and thus little to no government funding. As a result, locals have to take the initiative to deal with these threats.
Roj Mine Control Organization, or RMCO as it is commonly called, is one such organisation. The organisation operates in former IS territories across the Raqqa countryside and has the goal of removing anti-personnel landmines, cluster bombs and remnants of war explosive mines left by the IS. Khawat, an RMCO representative says "we found that the lives of the civilians are in great danger, especially the mined areas. It was our duty to establish this organisation. In accordance with our available resources, we have been working since September."
But they are also suffering from a lack of funds, equipment and man power. With two teams consisting of five per team they cannot cover all the ground they need to remove all the mines. Things get even more difficult when considering that "Some of these mines explode remotely while others explode automatically when approached." Dozens of victims, most of whom are shepherds and villagers from Raqqa countryside, have already died in landmine explosions since returning home.
With this constant danger facing the people of Raqqa movement is severely limited, hindering farmers from working the land, children going to school and people from getting on with daily life as usual. What is bitter sweet about the situation is the fact that the IS slowly loses more ground in Syria and Iraq but as they retreat they leave behind them a trail of destruction, logistical nightmares, and continual psychological tyranny for the citizens and armed forces.
Nevertheless, community clean-up efforts thus far remain robust with 6300 mines already removed by RMCO and more specialist help is finding its way to the affected areas as need is becoming more apparent. The people of Raqqa still have a lot to face, but with a strong spirit and reliable post war aide, the pieces of their lives will slowly come back together.