The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
Chapter 5
Additional Information
- Year Published: 1895
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: United States of America
- Source: Crane, S. (1895) The Red Badge of Courage New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons
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- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 5.9
- Word Count: 2,367
- Genre: Realism
- Keywords: 19th century literature, american literature
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There were moments of waiting. The youth thought of the village street at home before the arrival of the circus parade on a day in the spring. He remembered how he had stood, a small, thrillful boy, prepared to follow the dingy lady upon the white horse, or the band in its faded chariot. He saw the yellow road, the lines of expectant people, and the sober houses.  A thousand details of color and form surged in his mind. The old fellow upon the cracker box appeared in middle prominence.
Some one cried, “Here they come!”
There was rustling and muttering among the men. They displayed a feverish desire to have every possible cartridge ready to their hands. The boxes were pulled around into various positions, and adjusted with great care. It was as if seven hundred new bonnets were being tried on.
The tall soldier, having prepared his rifle, produced a red handkerchief of some kind. He was engaged in knotting it about his throat with exquisite attention to its position, when the cry was repeated up and down the line in a muffled roar of sound.
“Here they come! Here they come!” Gun locks clicked.
Across the smoke-infested fields came a brown swarm of running men who were giving shrill yells. They came on, stooping and swinging their rifles at all angles. A flag, tilted forward, sped near the front.
As he caught sight of them the youth was momentarily startled by a thought that perhaps his gun was not loaded. He stood trying to rally his faltering intellect so that he might recollect the moment when he had loaded, but he could not.
A hatless general pulled his dripping horse to a stand near the colonel of the 304th. He shook his fist in the other’s face. “You’ve got to hold ‘em back!” he shouted, savagely; “you’ve got to hold ‘em back!”
In his agitation the colonel began to stammer. “A-all r-right, General, all right, by Gawd! We-we ‘ll do our—we-we ‘ll d-d-do-do our best, General.” The general made a passionate gesture and galloped away. The colonel, perchance to relieve his feelings, began to scold like a wet parrot. The youth, turning swiftly to make sure that the rear was unmolested, saw the commander regarding his men in a highly resentful manner, as if he regretted above everything his association with them.
The man at the youth’s elbow was mumbling, as if to himself: “Oh, we ‘re in for it now! oh, we ‘re in for it now!”
The captain of the company had been pacing excitedly to and fro in the rear. He coaxed in schoolmistress fashion, as to a congregation of boys with primers. His talk was an endless repetition.  He frequently, with a nervous movement, wiped his eyes with his coat sleeve.
He got the one glance at the foe-swarming field in front of him, and instantly ceased to debate the question of his piece being loaded. Before he was ready to begin—before he had announced to himself that he was about to fight—he threw the obedient well-balanced rifle into position and fired a first wild shot. Directly he was working at his weapon like an automatic affair.
He suddenly lost concern for himself, and forgot to look at a menacing fate. He became not a man but a member. He felt that something of which he was a part—a regiment, an army, a cause, or a country—was in crisis. He was welded into a common personality which was dominated by a single desire.
If he had thought the regiment was about to be annihilated perhaps he could have amputated himself from it. But its noise gave him assurance. The regiment was like a firework that, once ignited, proceeds superior to circumstances until its blazing vitality fades. It wheezed and banged with a mighty power. He pictured the ground before it as strewn with the discomfited.
There was a consciousness always of the presence of his comrades about him. He felt the subtle battle brotherhood more potent even than the cause for which they were fighting. It was a mysterious fraternity born of the smoke and danger of death.
He was at a task. He was like a carpenter who has made many boxes, making still another box, only there was furious haste in his movements. He, in his thoughts, was careering off in other places, even as the carpenter who as he works whistles and thinks of his friend or his enemy, his home or a saloon. And these jolted dreams were never perfect to him afterward, but remained a mass of blurred shapes.
 A burning roar filled his ears.
Following this came a red rage. He developed the acute exasperation of a pestered animal, a well-meaning cow worried by dogs. He had a mad feeling against his rifle, which could only be used against one life at a time. He wished to rush forward and strangle with his fingers. He craved a power that would enable him to make a world-sweeping gesture and brush all back. His impotency appeared to him, and made his rage into that of a driven beast.
Buried in the smoke of many rifles his anger was directed not so much against the men whom he knew were rushing toward him as against the swirling battle phantoms which were choking him, stuffing their smoke robes down his parched throat. He fought frantically for respite for his senses, for air, as a babe being smothered attacks the deadly blankets.
There was a blare of heated rage mingled with a certain expression of intentness on all faces. Many of the men were making low-toned noises with their mouths, and these subdued cheers, snarls, imprecations, prayers, made a wild, barbaric these subdued cheers, snarls, imprecations, prayers, made a wild, barbaric these subdued cheers, snarls, imprecations, prayers, made a wild, barbaric these subdued cheers, snarls, imprecations, prayers, made a wild, barbaric song that went as an undercurrent of sound, strange and chantlike with the resounding chords of the war march. The man at the youth’s elbow was babbling. In it there was something soft and tender like the monologue of a babe. The tall soldier was swearing in a loud voice. From his lips came a black procession of curious oaths. Of a sudden another broke out in a querulous way like a man who has mislaid his hat. “Well, why don’t they support us? Why don’t they send supports? Do they think—”
The youth in his battle sleep heard this as one who dozes hears.
There was a singular absence of heroic poses. The men bending and surging in their haste and rage were in every impossible attitude. The steel ramrods clanked and clanged with incessant din as the men pounded them furiously into the hot rifle barrels. The flaps of the cartridge boxes were all unfastened, and bobbed idiotically with each movement. The rifles, once loaded, were jerked to the shoulder and fired without apparent aim into the smoke or at one of the blurred and shifting forms which upon the field before the regiment had been growing larger and larger like puppets under a magician’s hand.
The officers, at their intervals, rearward, neglected to stand in picturesque attitudes. They were bobbing to and fro roaring directions and encouragements. The dimensions of their howls were extraordinary. They expended their lungs with prodigal wills. And often they nearly stood upon their heads in their anxiety to observe the enemy on the other side of the tumbling smoke.
The lieutenant of the youth’s company had encountered a soldier who had fled screaming at the first volley of his comrades. Behind the lines these two were acting a little isolated scene. The man was blubbering and staring with sheeplike eyes at the lieutenant, who had seized him by the collar and was pommeling him. He drove him back into the ranks with many blows. The soldier went mechanically, dully, with his animal-like eyes upon the officer. Perhaps there was to him a divinity expressed in the voice of the other—stern, hard, with no reflection of fear in it. He tried to reload his gun, but his shaking hands prevented. The lieutenant was obliged to assist him.
The men dropped here and there like bundles. The captain of the youth’s company had been killed in an early part of the action. His body lay stretched out in the position of a tired man resting, but upon his face there was an astonished and sorrowful look, as if he thought some friend had done him an ill turn. The babbling man was grazed by a shot that made the blood stream widely down his face. He clapped both hand to his head. “Oh!” he said, and ran. Another grunted suddenly as if he had been struck by a club in the stomach. He sat down and gazed ruefully. In his eyes there was mute, indefinite reproach.  Immediately he had dropped his rifle and gripped the tree with both arms. And there he remained, clinging desperately and crying for assistance that he might withdraw his hold upon the tree.
At last an exultant yell went along the quivering line. The firing dwindled from an uproar to a last vindictive popping. As the smoke slowly eddied away, the youth saw that the charge had been repulsed. The enemy were scattered into reluctant groups. He saw a man climb to the top of the fence, straddle the rail, and fire a parting shot. The waves had receded, leaving bits of dark “debris” upon the ground.
Some in the regiment began to whoop frenziedly. Many were silent. Apparently they were trying to contemplate themselves.
After the fever had left his veins, the youth thought that at last he was going to suffocate. He became aware of the foul atmosphere in which he had been struggling. He was grimy and dripping like a laborer in a foundry. He grasped his canteen and took a long swallow of the warmed water.
A sentence with variations went up and down the line. “Well, we ‘ve helt ‘em back. We ‘ve helt ‘em back; derned if we haven’t.” The men said it blissfully, leering at each other with dirty smiles.
The youth turned to look behind him and off to the right and off to the left. He experienced the joy of a man who at last finds leisure in which to look about him.
Under foot there were a few ghastly forms motionless. They lay twisted in fantastic contortions. Arms were bent and heads were turned in incredible ways. It seemed that the dead men must have fallen from some great height to get into such positions. They looked to be dumped out upon the ground from the sky.
From a position in the rear of the grove a battery was throwing shells over it. The flash of the guns startled the youth at first. He thought they were aimed directly at him. Through the trees he watched the black figures of the gunners as they worked swiftly and intently. Their labor seemed a complicated thing. He wondered how they could remember its formula in the midst of confusion.
The guns squatted in a row like savage chiefs. They argued with abrupt violence. It was a grim pow-wow. Their busy servants ran hither and thither.
A small procession of wounded men were going drearily toward the rear. It was a flow of blood from the torn body of the brigade.
To the right and to the left were the dark lines of other troops. Far in front he thought he could see lighter masses protruding in points from the forest. They were suggestive of unnumbered thousands.
Once he saw a tiny battery go dashing along the line of the horizon. The tiny riders were beating the tiny horses.
From a sloping hill came the sound of cheerings and clashes. Smoke welled slowly through the leaves.
Batteries were speaking with thunderous oratorical effort. Here and there were flags, the red in the stripes dominating. They splashed bits of warm color upon the dark lines of troops.
The youth felt the old thrill at the sight of the emblems. They were like beautiful birds strangely undaunted in a storm.
As he listened to the din from the hillside, to a deep pulsating thunder that came from afar to the left, and to the lesser clamors which came from many directions, it occurred to him that they were fighting, too, over there, and over there, and over there. Heretofore he had supposed that all the battle was directly under his nose.
As he gazed around him the youth felt a flash of astonishment at the blue, pure sky and the sun gleamings on the trees and fields. It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.


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Internet Explorer 7 (... yes, I know...) uses / a microsoft site where i need to download 600MB from advises to use the (Microsoft) ActiveX component "Microsoft File Transfer Manager"
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--- layout: post title: "盖茨谈为父之道 称子女13岁才有手机" date: 2013-02-11 23:26:51.000000000 +08:00 type: post published: true status: publish categories: [] tags: [] meta: views: '7' author: login: lanbing email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>display_name: lanbing first_name: '' last_name: '' excerpt: "微软公司创始人比尔·盖茨近日坦露了他的为父之道，他认为13岁是孩子拥有第一部手机的合适年龄。" ---
微软公司创始人比尔·盖茨近日坦露了他的为父之道，他认为13岁是孩子拥有第一部手机的合适年龄。Microsoft founder Bill Gates has opened up about being a parent, stating that 13 is an appropriate age for a child's first cell phone.
The 57-year-old, father-of-three revealed on the Today show that his children Jennifer and Rory were not allowed phones until their thirteenth birthday and his youngest daughter Phoebe is still waiting for one.
'We’ve chosen in our family that it’s 13 where you get a phone,' the self-made billionaire explained.
He said as a result his brood often return home from school complaining: 'All the other kids have it. I’m the only one without it, it’s so embarrassing.'
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It was previously reported that their youngsters have to complete household chores and are given a modest amount of pocket money.
And in 2010 Mr Gates said that he intends to give most of his $61billion fortune away rather than hand it down. 'That wouldn’t be good either for my kids or society,' he said.
Also during the Today interview with host Matt Lauer, Mr Gates, who stepped down from Microsoft in 2008 to concentrate on philanthropy, said that helping others gives him same buzz as creating software.
 If a piece of software gets out there and lots of people love it - it lets them get their work done in better ways - that’s exciting,' he explained.
Mr Gates was previously the richest man in the world, but he got shifted down a spot in 2010 after he decided to give away $28billion to good causes.
微软公司创始人比尔·盖茨近日坦露了他的为父之道，他认为13岁是孩子拥有第一部手机的合适年龄。
作为三个孩子的父亲，今年57岁的比尔·盖茨在《今日秀》节目上透露，他的长女珍妮弗和长子罗里直到他们13岁生日那天才获准拥有自己的第一部手机，而他最小的女儿菲比仍在等待中。
这个白手起家的亿万富翁解释道：“我们家的规定是直到13岁你才能拥有手机。”
盖茨说，由于这项规定，孩子们从学校回家后常抱怨说：“其他孩子都有手机，我是唯一一个没有手机的人，这很令人尴尬。”
当被问及是否保存儿女邮箱和脸谱网帐号的密码时，盖茨说他并没有保存16岁长女珍妮弗帐号的密码，因为他觉得她已经“独立”了。
盖茨承认监督子女的线上活动“对于现在的父母是一件非常棘手的事”。
盖茨一家住在华盛顿州西雅图市外的麦地那湖附近，尽管盖茨夫妇拥有巨额财产，但他们表示想尽量让自己的孩子像普通人一样成长。
先前有报道说，盖茨的三个小孩子在家中要做家务，零花钱也不多。
2010年盖茨曾提到他打算把他610亿美元财产中的大部分捐赠出去而不是留给自己的孩子。盖茨说，留遗产“既不利于孩子，也不利于社会”。
盖茨于2008年从微软公司辞职并专注于慈善事业。在《今日秀》的访谈中，他还告诉主持人马特·劳厄尔说，帮助他人和创造软件一样让他活力十足。
盖茨解释道：“你内心的真实感受就是你的成就。如果一款新开发出来的软件受到许多人的喜爱，还能让他们更好地完成工作——将是一件令人兴奋的事。”
比尔·盖茨曾经是全世界最富有的人，不过在他决定把280亿美元的资产捐赠给慈善事业后，他便失去了首富宝座，在全球富豪榜上排行第二。


DOUBLE PRECISION PMAT(3,3) : CALL sla_PREC(2000D0,1985.372D0,PMAT)
It is instructive to examine the resulting matrix:
+0.9999936402 +0.0032709208 +0.0014214694 -0.0032709208 +0.9999946505 -0.0000023247 -0.0014214694 -0.0000023248 +0.9999989897
Note that the diagonal elements are close to unity, and the other elements are small. This shows that over an interval as short as 15 years the precession isn't going to move a position vector very far (in this case about ).
For convenience, a direct to precession routine is also provided (sla_PRECES), suitable for either the old or the new system (but not a mixture of the two).
SLALIB provides only one nutation model, the new, IAU 1980 model, implemented in the routine sla_NUTC. This returns the components of nutation in longitude and latitude (and also provides the obliquity) from which a nutation matrix can be generated by calling sla_DEULER (and from which the equation of the equinoxes, described later, can be found). Alternatively, the nutation matrix can be generated in a single call by using sla_NUT.
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SLALIB --- Positional Astronomy Library


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“I don't even own a computer anymore, I don't need one,” Benioff revealed. “The phone has really become an extension of my office wherever I am.”


The outstanding features of our climate reconstructions are the distinct decoupled trends in summer (falling) and winter (rising) temperature across the Eemian, and the two abrupt events in the summer temperature reconstruction. Major features of these pollen-based reconstructions are supported by the aquatic proxy record from this sequence, including green microalgae (this study) and diatoms (ref. 24).
The diatom data corroborate the trend of increasing Tjan reconstructed from pollen. Changes in the diatom composition reflect a prolongation of the open-water period in early Zone V, mainly as an effect of milder winters and an earlier ice-out. Following this, decreasing continentality is further indicated by decreasing stability of summer stratification; this interpretation is however complicated by decreasing water depths (due to lake infilling) which has a similar effect on the stability of stratification 24. The Late-Eemian rise in reconstructed Tjan also coincides with occurrences of spores of Osmunda regalis (Fig. 2). In modern northern Europe, O. regalis has a distinctly oceanic distribution, with the most continental occurrences found in southern Sweden. Thus the Late-Eemian fossil occurrences at Sokli support the reconstructed, significantly warmer winters during this time. The heavy spores of O. regalis are less likely to be transported by wind compared to pollen, however long-distance transport cannot be ruled out 34. Although the Tjan reconstruction should be interpreted with caution, due to the comparatively weak signal of winter temperature in northern European pollen data (see Methods), here we regard the first-order trend towards warmer winters, validated by independent data, as the salient feature.
The two cooling events in the pollen-based reconstructions are also seen in the aquatic record, which also provides indications of dry climate during these intervals. The occurrences of the green algae Pediastrum integrum and Tetraëdron minimum, and algal-type T.225 35, at the end of Zone III (Fig. 2) suggest that cooling of the Tunturi event may have started before the strong response in the terrestrial record (from ca. 23.8 m) 24. Based on the combined multiproxy data, the Tunturi event appears to have two separate cold peaks, with sharp Tjul minima at the onset and about two thirds into the event (Fig. 3a). The terrestrial fossil sequence (Fig. 2) shows a sharp recovery phase halfway through the event, with the pollen of Pinus increasing at the expense of B. pubsescens/pendula, and with a Pinus stoma indicating local presence. The diatom data also suggest a mid-event recovery including warming and a rise in lake level 24. Juniper is known to be frost-susceptible and prefers a winter snow-cover 36, and its decreased values during the cooling peaks thus suggest relatively dry climate. This is further suggested by reduced values of Alnus pollen, expansion of the wetland zone (peak in Salix) and appearances of the shallow freshwater algae Spirogyra (Fig. 2) and of aerophilic and halophilic diatoms 24. While the Värriö event is seen as a sharp initial peak in the pollen-based reconstructions (Fig. 3a), in the aquatic proxies the Värriö event has a longer signature, and is even more distinct than the Tunturi event. Most importantly, peak values of Spirogyra green algae and littoral diatom taxa indicate sudden drops in lake level during peak cooling 24, while the cold-oligotrophic green algae P. integrum has a strong maximum (Fig. 2), paralleling the response during the Tunturi event.
An increasing body of data from the North Atlantic and the Nordic Seas shows prominent and widespread cold and freshwater events intersecting interglacial conditions during the Eemian 7, 15, 17– 20. Sea-surface temperature (SST) proxies from the Nordic Seas show a prominent cooling at ca. 125–126 ka (Fig. 4c). Records from the Eirik Drift, south of Greenland, show a concurrent cooling 17, together with reductions in North Atlantic Deep Water formation, inferred from low benthic δ 13C excursions, suggesting a weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC; Fig. 4d) 15. When comparing against the SST (Fig. 4c) and AMOC (Fig. 4d) proxies, the Tunturi event at Sokli (Fig. 4b) shows a similar duration and positioning between two warm periods with interglacial conditions, as well as a possible two-pronged structure of the cooling phase. At the East Greenland margin, two major glacial meltwater events have been identified at 128.5 and 126.5 ka, based on negative anomalies in planktic foraminifera δ 18O (Fig. 4e), with Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) melting implicated as the cause 19. The early warm period seen at Sokli (pollen zone III) would thus coincide with the period of high SST’s (Fig. 4c) and relatively strong AMOC (Fig. 4d) between the successive meltwater outbursts. Based on alignment of the East Greenland margin and Eirik Drift records, it has been speculated 19 that a further meltwater outburst from the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) 37 may have prolonged the event initiated by the 126.5 ka meltwater input from the GIS. At the East Greenland Margin, a further meltwater spike has been documented in the Late Eemian (ca. 118 ka; Fig. 4e) 19, while events of increasingly strong southward incursion of Arctic waters are seen in the subpolar North Atlantic over the Mid-to-Late Eemian 38. Continued Late-Eemian events are also seen in the Eirik Drift proxy data (e.g., 117 and 120 ka; Fig. 4d) 15, 18, possibly due to the effects of warm temperatures and the hydrological cycle on surface ocean buoyancy 15. However due to lack of absolute dating and the general ambiguity of chronological tie points within the Eemian 10, we cannot confidently correlate the Late-Eemian Värriö event with a specific marine event.
The numerous continental Eemian sequences from the mid-latitudes of Europe do not reveal a comparable sequence of abrupt climate events, although increasing instabilities are seen in some records towards the Late Eemian 39, 40, but with no distinct, consistently recorded events 39, 41– 43. Isolated pollen and speleothem sequences from mid-latitude Europe 30, 44– 46 have however suggested abrupt events within the Eemian. Transient ocean–atmosphere models of the Eemian do not reproduce comparable short-term climatic shifts, however these modelling efforts have focused on long-term trends and have not included possible forcings of abrupt climate events seen in the proxy data, such as meltwater pulses occurring after the major Early-Eemian deglaciation 4, 47.
In contrast with the mid-latitude data, the Eemian abrupt events have a strong and repeated expression in the emerging data from the high latitudes, including Sokli and the North Atlantic marine data, suggesting a northern distribution of the events. However, it is uncertain to what extent this distribution is affected by, e.g., resolution of datasets or differences in the seasonality of the events and the seasonal sensitivities of proxies in individual regions. We note that while the Eemian cooling events have proxy expressions lasting up to 2 ka (Fig. 4), they are both in our data and in the marine data 7, 15 characterised by sharp and strong maxima against a longer event complex. Given the variable resilience and possible threshold responses in individual climate proxies, it might thus require a high-resolution multi-proxy dataset to resolve the events. An illustration of these challenges is provided by the Värriö event in the Sokli data. Here, only the initial sharp maximum is resolved in the pollen record, possibly because the site was located further from the forest–tundra ecotone than during the well-resolved Tunturi event. Meanwhile the Värriö event has a longer and stronger expression in the aquatic proxies 24, likely due to already shallow conditions making the proxies sensitive to further shallowing. While the geographic and seasonal expression and the involved forcings and feedbacks remain to be fully resolved, in the context where the future evolution of the AMOC is poorly constrained (~0 to ~50% reduction by 2100 CE 48), but with indications of a recent slowdown 49, the Eemian abrupt events provide compelling evidence of repeated, realised instabilities against warmer than preindustrial background conditions 15, 19. Importantly, while the Early-Eemian freshwater and cold events (up to ca. 125 ka) may be tied to the main Saalian deglaciation and thus may not represent purely interglacial boundary conditions 19, the Värriö event and the Mid/Late-Eemian abrupt events identified in the Labrador 15, 17 and Nordic Seas 19 show that the instabilities persisted under warm interglacial conditions.
In long-term Eemian climate trends, summer temperature reconstructions from central and western Europe consistently show an Early-Eemian maximum and a following cooling 40, 42, 43, 50 (Fig. 4h). With the exception of the abrupt events, the first-order trend in our Tjul reconstruction (Fig. 4b) agrees with these findings. For winter temperature (Fig. 4g), the mid-latitude European reconstructions also generally show a falling trend 39– 43. Some disagreement concerns whether the distinct shift towards colder winters happens already at the start of the Mid Eemian 39, 40, 42 or later, over the Late Eemian 41, 43, 50. These discrepancies have been attributed to the abundant Carpinus pollen in Mid-Eemian deposits (pollen Zone V in Fig. 4g, h) and human impact or competition affecting the modern distribution of this taxon, possibly biasing the pollen–climate modelling underpinning palaeo-reconstructions 39, 41. In contrast with these data from the mid-latitudes, our data show a long rise of Tjan persisting through the Mid and Late Eemian, and generally running opposite to the falling Tjul trend. This follows the secular insolation forcing in the northern high latitudes (Fig. 4a, b).
In an ensemble of transient climate models of the Eemian 4, winter temperatures at 60–90 °N tend to fall in sync with summer insolation, due to the effect of summer temperature on sea ice formation during the following winter, thus locking winter temperature evolution with the summer forcing. By contrast, in northern mid-latitudes (30–60 °N) the modelled Tjan robustly follows the rising trend in winter insolation. Our study area is located roughly where the transition in the winter trend occurs 51, suggesting that cryosphere feedbacks should be pivotal in shaping winter climate in the region. However, current climate models have a generally poor robustness in regions affected by Arctic cryosphere feedbacks 4, 8, 51, underlining the need for high-latitude proxy data with distinct winter climate signals to constrain the modelling.
Our data, showing a persistent Tjan rise, suggest a limited effect of summer insolation and sea-ice feedbacks in driving Eemian winter temperature evolution in the European Arctic. While the Tjan rise parallels the trend in winter insolation forcing, the magnitude of winter warming is surprising considering the small absolute variation of winter insolation at high latitudes 4 (Fig. 4a). This discrepancy may be explained by the suggested increasingly vigorous AMOC 15, 52 (Fig. 4d), and proximally by the warm Nordic Seas 7, 19, 20, 52 in the Late Eemian. Late-Eemian maxima in AMOC strength 4, 47 and Nordic Seas surface temperature 52, 53 are also predicted by transient modelling when including prescribed Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet dynamics, due to an uptake of freshwater by the expanding ice sheets, with the first-order changes in modelled AMOC matching the proxy data 4, 15. A strong AMOC and oceanic heat transport would also help explain the apparent contradiction of warmer-than-present summers persisting into the Late Eemian, despite the low insolation (Fig. 4b). The winter warmth could be further induced by the strong westerlies suggested to have prevailed in the Late-Eemian northern Europe 52. In climate modelling, strong westerlies and localised sea-ice feedbacks in the Barents Sea have been found to produce a strong Tjan anomaly (+4–6 °C) centred over northeast Europe while only a minor anomaly (+0–2 °C) reaches the central and western European Eemian data sites 12, a pattern consistent with the deviating Late-Eemian winter climate evolution seen at Sokli. The Late-Eemian climate at Sokli lends support to the hypothesis 38, 52 of last glacial inception and nucleation of the Scandinavian ice sheet starting due to enhanced AMOC combined with low summer insolation and related feedbacks, resulting in increased winter precipitation and reduced summer snow melt. The cool summers but warm winters reconstructed at Sokli, suggesting a strong oceanic influence and increased precipitation, show climate conditions consistent with this hypothesis on the northern Fennoscandian continent, proximal to the site of glacial inception.
The Eemian climate evolution in northernmost continental Europe reveals a distinct mixed influence of oceanic and insolation forcings, producing a decoupled evolution of winter and summer climate which in Europe appears to be unique to the high latitudes. These long-term climate trends are further modified by repeated abrupt cooling events persisting through the Eemian, linked to disturbances in the North Atlantic circulation regime.


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The datepicker allows users to enter a date either through text input, or by choosing a date from the calendar. It is made up of several components and directives that work together.
A datepicker is composed of a text input and a calendar pop-up, connected via the matDatepicker
property on the text input.
<input [matDatepicker]="myDatepicker">
<mat-datepicker #myDatepicker></mat-datepicker>
An optional datepicker toggle button is available. A toggle can be added to the example above:
<input [matDatepicker]="myDatepicker">
<mat-datepicker-toggle [for]="myDatepicker"></mat-datepicker-toggle>
<mat-datepicker #myDatepicker></mat-datepicker>
This works exactly the same with an input that is part of an <mat-form-field>
and the toggle
can easily be used as a prefix or suffix on the material input:
<mat-form-field>
<input matInput [matDatepicker]="myDatepicker">
<mat-datepicker-toggle matSuffix [for]="myDatepicker"></mat-datepicker-toggle>
<mat-datepicker #myDatepicker></mat-datepicker>
</mat-form-field>
By default the calendar will open in month view, this can be changed by setting the startView
property of <mat-datepicker>
to year
. In year view the user will see all months of the year and
then proceed to month view after choosing a month.
The month or year that the calendar opens to is determined by first checking if any date is
currently selected, if so it will open to the month or year containing that date. Otherwise it will
open to the month or year containing today's date. This behavior can be overridden by using the
startAt
property of <mat-datepicker>
. In this case the calendar will open to the month or year
containing the startAt
date.
The type of values that the datepicker expects depends on the type of DateAdapter
provided in your
application. The NativeDateAdapter
, for example, works directly with plain JavaScript Date
objects. When using the MomentDateAdapter
, however, the values will all be Moment.js instances.
This use of the adapter pattern allows the datepicker component to work with any arbitrary date
representation with a custom DateAdapter
.
See Choosing a date implementation
for more information.
Depending on the DateAdapter
being used, the datepicker may automatically deserialize certain date
formats for you as well. For example, both the NativeDateAdapter
and MomentDateAdapter
allow
ISO 8601 strings to be passed to the datepicker and
automatically converted to the proper object type. This can be convenient when binding data directly
from your backend to the datepicker. However, the datepicker will not accept date strings formatted
in user format such as "1/2/2017"
as this is ambiguous and will mean different things depending on
the locale of the browser running the code.
As with other types of <input>
, the datepicker works with @angular/forms
directives such as
formGroup
, formControl
, ngModel
, etc.
There are three properties that add date validation to the datepicker input. The first two are the
min
and max
properties. In addition to enforcing validation on the input, these properties will
disable all dates on the calendar popup before or after the respective values and prevent the user
from advancing the calendar past the month
or year
(depending on current view) containing the
min
or max
date.
The second way to add date validation is using the matDatepickerFilter
property of the datepicker
input. This property accepts a function of <D> => boolean
(where <D>
is the date type used by
the datepicker, see
Choosing a date implementation).
A result of true
indicates that the date is valid and a result of false
indicates that it is
not. Again this will also disable the dates on the calendar that are invalid. However, one important
difference between using matDatepickerFilter
vs using min
or max
is that filtering out all
dates before or after a certain point, will not prevent the user from advancing the calendar past
that point.
In this example the user can back past 2005, but all of the dates before then will be unselectable. They will not be able to go further back in the calendar than 2000. If they manually type in a date that is before the min, after the max, or filtered out, the input will have validation errors.
Each validation property has a different error that can be checked:
min
property will have a matDatepickerMin
error.max
property will have a matDatepickerMax
error.matDatepickerFilter
property will have a matDatepickerFilter
error.The input's native (input)
and (change)
events will only trigger due to user interaction with
the input element; they will not fire when the user selects a date from the calendar popup.
Therefore, the datepicker input also has support for (dateInput)
and (dateChange)
events. These
trigger when the user interacts with either the input or the popup.
The (dateInput)
event will fire whenever the value changes due to the user typing or selecting a
date from the calendar. The (dateChange)
event will fire whenever the user finishes typing input
(on <input>
blur), or when the user chooses a date from the calendar.
As with any standard <input>
, it is possible to disable the datepicker input by adding the
disabled
property. By default, the <mat-datepicker>
and <mat-datepicker-toggle>
will inherit
their disabled state from the <input>
, but this can be overridden by setting the disabled
property on the datepicker or toggle elements. This can be useful if you want to disable text input
but allow selection via the calendar or vice-versa.
The datepicker normally opens as a popup under the input. However this is not ideal for touch
devices that don't have as much screen real estate and need bigger click targets. For this reason
<mat-datepicker>
has a touchUi
property that can be set to true
in order to enable a more
touch friendly UI where the calendar opens in a large dialog.
The calendar popup can be programmatically controlled using the open
and close
methods on the
<mat-datepicker>
. It also has an opened
property that reflects the status of the popup.
Internationalization of the datepicker is configured via four aspects:
By default, the MAT_DATE_LOCALE
injection token will use the existing LOCALE_ID
locale code
from @angular/core
. If you want to override it, you can provide a new value for the
MAT_DATE_LOCALE
token:
@NgModule({
providers: [
{provide: MAT_DATE_LOCALE, useValue: 'en-GB'},
],
})
export class MyApp {}
It's also possible to set the locale at runtime using the setLocale
method of the DateAdapter
.
The datepicker was built to be date implementation agnostic. This means that it can be made to work with a variety of different date implementations. However it also means that developers need to make sure to provide the appropriate pieces for the datepicker to work with their chosen implementation. The easiest way to ensure this is just to import one of the pre-made modules:
| Module | Date type | Supported locales | Dependencies | Import from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
MatNativeDateModule |
Date |
en-US | None | @angular/material |
MatMomentDateModule |
Moment |
See project | Moment.js | @angular/material-moment-adapter |
Please note: MatNativeDateModule
is based off of the functionality available in JavaScript's
native Date
object, and is thus not suitable for many locales. One of the biggest shortcomings of
the native Date
object is the inability to set the parse format. We highly recommend using the
MomentDateAdapter
or a custom DateAdapter
that works with the formatting/parsing library of your
choice.
These modules include providers for DateAdapter
and MAT_DATE_FORMATS
@NgModule({
imports: [MatDatepickerModule, MatNativeDateModule],
})
export class MyApp {}
Because DateAdapter
is a generic class, MatDatepicker
and MatDatepickerInput
also need to be
made generic. When working with these classes (for example as a ViewChild
) you should include the
appropriate generic type that corresponds to the DateAdapter
implementation you are using. For
example:
@Component({...})
export class MyComponent {
@ViewChild(MatDatepicker) datepicker: MatDatepicker<Date>;
}
It is also possible to create your own DateAdapter
that works with any date format your app
requires. This is accomplished by subclassing DateAdapter
and providing your subclass as the
DateAdapter
implementation. You will also want to make sure that the MAT_DATE_FORMATS
provided
in your app are formats that can be understood by your date implementation. See
Customizing the parse and display formatsfor more
information about MAT_DATE_FORMATS
.
@NgModule({
imports: [MatDatepickerModule],
providers: [
{provide: DateAdapter, useClass: MyDateAdapter},
{provide: MAT_DATE_FORMATS, useValue: MY_DATE_FORMATS},
],
})
export class MyApp {}
The MAT_DATE_FORMATS
object is just a collection of formats that the datepicker uses when parsing
and displaying dates. These formats are passed through to the DateAdapter
so you will want to make
sure that the format objects you're using are compatible with the DateAdapter
used in your app.
If you want use one of the DateAdapters
that ships with Angular Material, but use your own
MAT_DATE_FORMATS
, you can import the NativeDateModule
or MomentDateModule
. These modules are
identical to the "Mat"-prefixed versions (MatNativeDateModule
and MatMomentDateModule
) except
they do not include the default formats. For example:
@NgModule({
imports: [MatDatepickerModule, NativeDateModule],
providers: [
{provide: MAT_DATE_FORMATS, useValue: MY_NATIVE_DATE_FORMATS},
],
})
export class MyApp {}
The various text strings used by the datepicker are provided through MatDatepickerIntl
.
Localization of these messages can be done by providing a subclass with translated values in your
application root module.
@NgModule({
imports: [MatDatepickerModule, MatNativeDateModule],
providers: [
{provide: MatDatepickerIntl, useClass: MyIntl},
],
})
export class MyApp {}
The MatDatepickerInput
directive adds aria-haspopup
attribute to the native input element, and it
triggers a calendar dialog with role="dialog"
.
MatDatepickerIntl
includes strings that are used for aria-label
s. The datepicker input
should have a placeholder or be given a meaningful label via aria-label
, aria-labelledby
or
MatDatepickerIntl
.
The keyboard shortcuts to handle datepicker are:
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
ALT + DOWN_ARROW |
Open the calendar pop-up |
ESCAPE |
Close the calendar pop-up |
In month view:
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
LEFT_ARROW |
Go to previous day |
RIGHT_ARROW |
Go to next day |
UP_ARROW |
Go to same day in the previous week |
DOWN_ARROW |
Go to same day in the next week |
HOME |
Go to the first day of the month |
END |
Go to the last day of the month |
PAGE_UP |
Go to previous month |
ALT + PAGE_UP |
Go to previous year |
PAGE_DOWN |
Go to next month |
ALT + PAGE_DOWN |
Go to next year |
ENTER |
Select current date |
In year view:
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
LEFT_ARROW |
Go to previous month |
RIGHT_ARROW |
Go to next month |
UP_ARROW |
Go to previous 6 months |
DOWN_ARROW |
Go to next 6 months |
HOME |
Go to the first month of the year |
END |
Go to the last month of the year |
PAGE_UP |
Go to previous year |
ALT + PAGE_UP |
Go to previous 10 years |
PAGE_DOWN |
Go to next year |
ALT + PAGE_DOWN |
Go to next 10 years |
ENTER |
Select current month |
This error is thrown if you have not provided all of the injectables the datepicker needs to work.
The easiest way to resolve this is to import the MatNativeDateModule
or MatMomentDateModule
in
your application's root module. See
Choosing a date implementation) for
more information.
This error is thrown if more than one <input>
tries to claim ownership over the same
<mat-datepicker>
(via the matDatepicker
attribute on the input). A datepicker can only be
associated with a single input.
This error occurs if your <mat-datepicker>
is not associated with any <input>
. To associate an
input with your datepicker, create a template reference for the datepicker and assign it to the
matDatepicker
attribute on the input:
<input [matDatepicker]="picker">
<mat-datepicker #picker></mat-datepicker>


EU STRIKE FORCE A film review by Sherrie Lee Copyright 1997 Flying Inkpot
Director: ? Cast: Lau Ching-Wan, Jordan Chan. Rating: *** out of *****
BIG BULLET, SMALL WOUND
Action movies seem generally to have earned the epithet, "What plot?" While one bemoans the departure from a strong story line, the action movie continues to survive as long as kicks and punches and bombs and bullets get more sophisticated to satiate the public's hunger. But to what end?
EU STRIKE FORCE (better known as "BIG BULLET" in Hong Kong Cinemas) tries to be impressive in the area of heart-stopping action as well as plot. Sadly, both areas lose steam after 45 minutes into the movie. Once the plot becomes clearer and motives are established, there is nothing much to look forward to. This is forgivable if the action makes up for it. However, spoilt by the glut of Hollywood and the Jackie Chans of Hong Kong, one can't help but feel disappointed in this case.
Lau Ching-wan plays Sergeant Bill Zhu, a hot-tempered but dedicated crime-fighter. He assaults a superior officer Inspector Guan for Guan's misinformation leading to casualties of his colleagues, but suffers a disciplinary penalty for the offence and is transferred to the Emergency Unit (EU). Despite the blow, Bill is encouraged by superior and friend, Yang (Ng Chun-yu) to work hard to face his new duties. In the background, an international crime warlord, "Professor" (Yu Rong-quang) creates havoc after a successful jailbreak. Subsequently, Yang gets killed while pursuing the "Professor."
Heartbroken at the loss of his close friend, and fuelled by the need to stop "Professor," Bill goes all out to investigate the case. However, he is limited by his appointment as Team Leader in the EU. Without consent from his superiors, Bill manages to win over his team mates and together they attempt to stop "Professor."
The gripping scenes include power-packed shoot-outs and bomb sequences along the streets. The car chasing scenes appear promising in the beginning but begin to look typical by the fourth one or so. There are also one or two borrowed ideas. One may be reminded of DEMOLITION MAN when a severed hand is used to open a safe guarded by a palm-reading device. And while Tom Cruise fights his nemesis on top of a speeding train, Lau fights "Professor" on top of a plane speeding along the runway.
Even if the action may not have been thoroughly sustained throughout the movie, there are endearing moments. Lau's portrayal of the frustrated cop within imposed limits is compelling. One is quickly impressed with his keen deductive mind. Lau's character is challenged by straightlaced team member Jeff (Jordan Chan Siu-chun). Chan's first dramatic role is that of the potential novice uncomfortable with Lau's unorthodox methods. Both characters complement each other, working out the tension between them.
The sub-plots amount to trivialities except for the relationship between Jeff and his brother, a cop turned bad. Their reunion at the end makes a better cushioning effect than the little happy endings provided by the other team mates who celebrate their success with their loved ones. The resolution on the whole seems too easy, too typical of the countless of action movies. What is more of a sell-out is perhaps Lau's character, the lone man at the beginning and the lone man at the end. Everybody is celebrating with someone except him. Another dimension of his character could have been explored but an overall feel good factor was opted for instead.
Despite unspectacular stunts and easy resolutions, the movie doesn't sink into an abyss. In the beginning it is a vehicle for Lau's acting but ensemble acting soon takes over in typical Hong Kong style, making EU STRIKE FORCE rather enjoyable.
Sherrie Lee collects leather trinkets and secretly wishes that bellbottoms will become fasionable again.
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Databases are the bane of any critical application's existence. Most of the easily exploitable, catastrophic vulnerabilities in webapps are some form of SQL injection. Beyond that, you can quickly run into major performance issues by forming queries inefficiently.
SQLAlchemy is a Python framework that makes interaction with databases trivial.
Here's a model declaration (which is also a table schema declaration):
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class Guest(db.Model): """Model for guestbook API""" id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True, autoincrement=True) name = db.Column(db.String(32), unique=True) timestamp = db.Column(db.DateTime, default=datetime.datetime.now()){% endraw %} This isn't a whole lot simpler than just declaring it using SQL. However... {% raw %}
guest = Guest(name=name) db.session.add(guest) db.session.commit(){% endraw %} There's just no way to make it easier than this. I don't have to worry about string safety, forming queries dynamically, or anything.


Camila Cabello Announced For Dublin's 3Arena Next Summer
by Tara WalshCamila Cabello's coming to Dublin
Pop star Camila Cabello has announced she's taking her 'The Romance Tour' to the 3Arena on June 8th next year.
It'll follow the release of her brand new album Romance which is out December 6th.
Tickets go on sale Friday November 29th at 9am.
The singer announced today that she's taking 'The Romance Tour' around Europe starting from May 2020.
Fans can pre-order her upcoming album out December 6thvia SYCO/Epic Records now.
Camila has continued to tease the release of her new album by releasing the songs Shameless, Liar, Cry For Me, and Easy.
Her latest release came out last Thursday and it's called Living Proof.
Have a listen:
It's been an incredible year for Camila after she dropped her massive global hit Señorita with boyfriend Shawn Mendes.
The track has garnered over two billion streams to date and hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Watch the music video below:
Tickets from €49.50 go on sale Friday 29th November at 9am from Ticketmaster.


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Philipp Eisenhauer¶
I am an economist studying the economics and econometrics of human capital investments. My current research focuses on the effect of ambiguity on human capital investments in dynamic life-cycle models. I hope to gain a better understanding of the observed investment patterns and the effectiveness of human capital policies.
Please see my curriculum vitae for more details.
Publications¶
Eisenhauer, P., Heckman, J. J., & Vytlacil, E. (2015). The generalized Roy model and the cost-benefit analysis of social programs. Journal of Political Economy, 123(2), 413-443.
Eisenhauer, P., Heckman, J. J., & Mosso, S. (2015). Estimation of dynamic discrete choice models by maximum likelihood and the simulated method of moments. International Economic Review, 56(2), 331-357.
Eisenhauer, P. (in press). The approximate solution of finite-horizon discrete choice dynamic programming models: Revisiting Keane & Wolpin (1994). Journal of Applied Econometrics.
Working Papers¶
Eisenhauer, P. (2018). Robust human capital investment under risk and ambiguity. Revise and resubmit at the Journal of Econometrics.
Research in Progress¶
Bhuller, M., & Eisenhauer, P. (2018). The option value of human capital investment. Unpublished manuscript.
Eisenhauer, P. (2018). The robust career decisions of young men. Unpublished manuscript.
Eisenhauer, P., & Scheidegger, S. (2018). The risk of human capital investments. Unpublished manuscript.
Teaching¶
I organize my teaching efforts around the Analysis of Human Capital, Open Source Economics, and Software Engineering for Economists Initiatives.


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700 million trees; radical housing plans: The key points from the Green Party manifesto for the General Election 2019
The Green Party has published its plans ahead of the December 12 General Election
by Ruth MosalskiThe Green Party has published its manifesto for the 2020 General Election with plans to tax frequent flyers, create energy-efficient homes, decommission North Sea oil rigs and the phase out of the UK’s remaining coal plants and coal mines.
The party has entered into a remain pact with the Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru.
The manifesto is titled "If not now, when".
The party's key policies are:
Energy
- There will be new support for solar, geothermal, tidal, hydro and other renewable energies to provide much of the remainder of the UK’s energy supply by 2030
- The planning system will be "transformed" to support a massive increase in wind power
- Remove subsidies to the oil and gas industries.
- Apply a Carbon Tax on all fossil fuel imports and domestic extraction which will rise over a decade, rendering coal, oil and gas financially unviable as cheaper renewable energies rise up to take their place.
Housing
- Bringing empty homes back into use will create 100,000 council homes a year at an eco-standard
- Give councils funding to make more council homes and homes which are within 1km of a local rail, tube or tram station, or 500m of a high frequency bus service
- Make energy efficiency and elimination fuel poverty a national infrastructure priority
- Improve the insulation of every UK home that needs more insulation by 2030
- Reduce heating bills by improving one million existing homes and other buildings a year
- Roll out solar panels and other forms of renewable domestic energy generation
- Reduce the use of natural gas for heating homes through a programme, to replace polluting boilers with renewable heat from heat pumps, and solar thermal, geothermal, biomass and stored heat technologies
- Transform the planning system and building regulations, so that all new buildings built by private developers are built energy efficient standards and to incentivise renovation, extension and improvement of existing buildings, rather than relying on new build
- Update the fire safety regulations relating to the use of all types of insulation in buildings
Transport
- Spending £2.5 billion a year on new cycleways and footpaths, built using sustainable materials, such as woodchips and sawdust
- Make public transport cheaper than travelling by car
- Opening new rail connections and re-open, where possible, closed stations
- Cancel HS2 and electrify all railway lines that connect cities, improving punctuality
- Create a government-owned rolling stock company which would invest in a fleet of new electric trains
- Councils to take over running of short-distance passenger rail franchises to councils
- Give all council control over bus services as London currently has
- Add a tax to all fossil fuels which will increase the cost of petrol, diesel and shipping as well as on aviation fuel for domestic flights
- Domestic flights will also lose their VAT exemption and there will be an additional surcharge on domestic aviation fuel to account for the increased warming effect of emissions release at altitude
- Try discourage people from flying a "Frequent Flyer Levy" will be introduced to people who take more than one (return) flight a year
- End the sale of new petrol and diesel fuelled vehicles by 2030
- Make 20mph the norm for residential areas and 40mph the default speed limit in non-residential areas except on major roads
Industry
Support for businesses to decarbonise and the provision of training to give people skills to access millions of new green jobs.
- Set new clean technology standards and provide companies with grants to allow replacement of old high-emitting carbon equipment with newly developed low carbon equipment
- Decommission North Sea oil rigs and the phasing out of the UK’s remaining coal plants and coal mines
- Reduce the emission of polluting fluorinated gases (used in fridges, air conditioners and aerosols) in all manufactured goods by implementing the Committee on Climate Change recommendations in this area
- Require manufacturers to offer ten year warranties on white goods, to encourage repair and reuse
- Ban the production of single-use plastics for use in packaging and invest in research and development into alternatives to plastic and extend the successful tax on plastic bags to cover plastic bottles, single-use plastics and microplastics, and extend plastic bottle deposit schemes
- Develop a reformed waste strategy where manufacturers and retailers are required to pay the full cost of recycling and disposing of the packaging they produce
Food, Farming & Forestry
- Give farmers grants to replace carbon farming machinery with low carbon machinery
- Replant hedgerows
- Create thousands of new jobs in rural areas, through the shift away from intensive farming towards smaller-scale food production and land management
- More reliable broadband and mobile internet, delivered through councils
- Reduce pesticide and fungicide use by at least 50% by overall weight by 2022
- Plant 700 million new trees
- Incentivise changes in food consumption including "less but better" meat and dairy consumption
- Deploy environmentally friendly flood management measures to protect communities from flooding
Incomes
The creation of a Universal Basic Income, paid to all UK residents to tackle poverty and give financial security to everyone called Universal Basic Income (UBI) sufficient to cover an adult’s basic needs at a rate of £89 per week. Disabled people will receive an additional supplement to their UBI, as will lone parents and lone pensioners
On Brexit
They promise a people's vote and to work from within to reform the EU.
What else?
They would replace the First Past the Post system for parliamentary elections with a "fair and proportional voting system".
Create a fully elected House of Lords.
And give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote and have a say on their future.
Increase council funding and reform central Government.


--- layout: post status: publish published: true title: Ivy Envy Cubs @ Brewers Tailgate - July 23, 2016 author: display_name: Corey Fineran login: Corey email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>url: '' author_login: Corey author_email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>wordpress_id: 11625 wordpress_url: http://ivyenvy.com/?p=11625 date: '2016-01-31 13:14:53 +0000' date_gmt: '2016-01-31 19:14:53 +0000' categories: - Ivy Envy - Events tags: [] comments: - id: 23052 author: KevinWillems author_email: '' author_url: '' date: '2016-04-26 20:12:19 +0000' date_gmt: '2016-04-27 01:12:19 +0000' content: Just curious how ths is going to work. I bought 4 tickets to the tailgate back in February and all I have to show for it is my PayPal receipt. Should I have received some tickets or something? - id: 24026 author: Marc Ryan author_email: '' author_url: '' date: '2016-06-25 13:30:03 +0000' date_gmt: '2016-06-25 18:30:03 +0000' content: Any idea of when we will receive the tickets purchased? - id: 24204 author: KevinWillems author_email: '' author_url: '' date: '2016-07-09 14:34:49 +0000' date_gmt: '2016-07-09 19:34:49 +0000' content: KevinWillems Having heard nothing and th event is 2 weeks away. I was forced to open a dispute with PayPal. - id: 24217 author: IvyEnvy - Corey author_email: '' author_url: http://ivyenvy.com/ date: '2016-07-10 13:39:56 +0000' date_gmt: '2016-07-10 18:39:56 +0000' content: Marc Ryan You will be receiving an email tomorrow with all of the information. Tickets will be issued at the tailgate. - id: 24218 author: IvyEnvy - Corey author_email: '' author_url: http://ivyenvy.com/ date: '2016-07-10 13:41:53 +0000' date_gmt: '2016-07-10 18:41:53 +0000' content: KevinWillems Kevin, I responded to your message in Paypal. ---
Ivy Envy will be heading up to Wrigley North for the July 23rd Cubs @ Brewers game. This event will be replacing our bus trip to Wrigley in 2016.
Miller Park opens their parking lot 3 hours before first pitch and allows tailgating. We will have a reserved tailgating area.
Tickets must be purchased by Friday, February 12th. You can purchase yours through the Paypal button below. Your $30 purchase includes a ticket to the Cubs vs Brewers game.
While this event is replacing the Ivy Envy bus trip, we will not be renting a bus. You're responsible for your own transportation. And after the game, please transport yourself responsibly.


Working with Events: {{eventpanel.msg}}
The Calendar of Events is a feature that allows you to display upcoming events to your site visitors. Like all features, it can be linked to a menu item (button) or to a page area using the link button in the page area editor.
Feature Admin: Selecting a feature administrator from the drop list of your available feature administrators allows you to share the calendar maintenance duties with someone else. Use the drop-down menu to display a the list of feature administrators (Their User records are marked as Feature Administrators).
Categories: Categories allow you to organize your events- users of the site can then filter their calendar view by these categories when browsing the site. You can use the text box to enter categories you'd like to use- one category per line.
Allow User Submissions: If you would like your site visitors to be able to submit their own entries for the calendar, select “yes.” Otherwise, select “no.”
Automatically Accept User Submissions: Assuming you allow submissions (above), you can control whether those submissions are automatically added to the calendar (“yes”) or require review and approval before appearing on the calendar (“no”).
Require User Authentication: If you want only logged in users to be able to view the calendar, select “yes.” Otherwise, select “no.”
Keep Past Events For: You can choose how long the system will store a record of past events. Choose from the drop down list (the default will be “1 Year”- past events will not be deleted from the system).
Setting Up the Calendar
Select “Features” from the Admin panel, and “edit” next to the Events feature. You will see a screen similar to the one shown below.
Site Title: If you prefer to name the calendar something other than the default “Events” you can change the name here. This is the title that will be displayed when the Calendar of Events is displayed on the site.Feature Admin: Selecting a feature administrator from the drop list of your available feature administrators allows you to share the calendar maintenance duties with someone else. Use the drop-down menu to display a the list of feature administrators (Their User records are marked as Feature Administrators).
Categories: Categories allow you to organize your events- users of the site can then filter their calendar view by these categories when browsing the site. You can use the text box to enter categories you'd like to use- one category per line.
Allow User Submissions: If you would like your site visitors to be able to submit their own entries for the calendar, select “yes.” Otherwise, select “no.”
Automatically Accept User Submissions: Assuming you allow submissions (above), you can control whether those submissions are automatically added to the calendar (“yes”) or require review and approval before appearing on the calendar (“no”).
Require User Authentication: If you want only logged in users to be able to view the calendar, select “yes.” Otherwise, select “no.”
Keep Past Events For: You can choose how long the system will store a record of past events. Choose from the drop down list (the default will be “1 Year”- past events will not be deleted from the system).
This section (also on the calendar's 'edit' screen) works much like the main '”Look n Feel” tab on your admin panel, but this is specifically to control the colors of the calendar feature. You can select basic colors from the drop down list, or use specific color codes if you desire (contact your regional support manager for help if you need to find a specific color).
Be sure to click the 'save' button at the bottom of the screen to save your changes and you can move on to adding specific events to the calendar!
Be sure to click the 'save' button at the bottom of the screen to save your changes and you can move on to adding specific events to the calendar!
Once the calendar has been set up, adding events is the next step. Select “manage” next to the “Events” feature and you will see a screen similar to the one shown below.
To add a new event to the calendar, select the “Create New Event” link. If you allow user submissions and have selected the “Automatically Include…” option, those events will appear in the Current Events section of this screen. Click the 'edit' link for any event to edit the event's information, or click the 'delete' link to remove it. You can also use the selection checkbox (to the left of the exisitng events) to delete multiple events at once.
If you allow user submissions but have not selected the “Automatically Accept…” option, those events will appear in the “User Submitted Events Awaiting Approval” section (just below the Current Events).
The bottom section of this screen shows past events. You have the option to se the automatic deletion timeframe on the 'edit' screen as discussed above. Past events may also be deleted manually. This is the “Create New Event” form.
Note: If you have enabled the “Allow User Submissions” option, this is the form a user will see when submitting an event as well (with some slight changes) Event Date: Enter the date of the event. You can either manually enter the date in the format yyyy-mm-dd or click the small calendar icon to select from a pop up calendar.
Event Time: Select the starting time for the event by clicking on the hours and minutes dropdown menus. If you wish to display an event without a time, select “00” in the hours dropdown. Finally, select AM or PM for the start time.
Recurring Event: Select 'yes' to create a recurring event. Click the Recurring Events tag at left for details.
Event Organizer: You can choose from a drop down list of users, or enter contact info for the event organizer manually in the text fields. Note that each event will need a name and phone number and/or email address associated with it.
Event Reminder: Select 'yes' to enable an event reminder email. See below for details on this feature. Note that recurring events cannot have an event reminder (only single date events can use this feature).
Category: Choose from this drop down list if you want to assign this event to a category (see Setup tag for details on adding new category options). Title: Give your event a title. Click the small triangle just above to display the formatting toolbar.
Description: Enter the event's description. Your display will have the formatting toolbar available- you can add text effects, links, pictures, etc. Approved: This option will be set to 'yes' for all admin-entered events. If a user has submitted an event, and your calendar feature isn't set to automatically accept events, you will have the option to approve the event or not.
Additional Info Link – Normally not needed. It provides a way to link the ad to another page on your site or to an external URL, causing an “additional info” link to appear at the bottom of the event. You can also add links to the description field using the formatting toolbar (just as you would in any page area). Inserting links can be useful for board meeting event listings (you can link to a PDF agenda file, etc).
If you allow user submissions but have not selected the “Automatically Accept…” option, those events will appear in the “User Submitted Events Awaiting Approval” section (just below the Current Events).
The bottom section of this screen shows past events. You have the option to se the automatic deletion timeframe on the 'edit' screen as discussed above. Past events may also be deleted manually. This is the “Create New Event” form.
Note: If you have enabled the “Allow User Submissions” option, this is the form a user will see when submitting an event as well (with some slight changes) Event Date: Enter the date of the event. You can either manually enter the date in the format yyyy-mm-dd or click the small calendar icon to select from a pop up calendar.
Event Time: Select the starting time for the event by clicking on the hours and minutes dropdown menus. If you wish to display an event without a time, select “00” in the hours dropdown. Finally, select AM or PM for the start time.
Recurring Event: Select 'yes' to create a recurring event. Click the Recurring Events tag at left for details.
Event Organizer: You can choose from a drop down list of users, or enter contact info for the event organizer manually in the text fields. Note that each event will need a name and phone number and/or email address associated with it.
Event Reminder: Select 'yes' to enable an event reminder email. See below for details on this feature. Note that recurring events cannot have an event reminder (only single date events can use this feature).
Category: Choose from this drop down list if you want to assign this event to a category (see Setup tag for details on adding new category options). Title: Give your event a title. Click the small triangle just above to display the formatting toolbar.
Description: Enter the event's description. Your display will have the formatting toolbar available- you can add text effects, links, pictures, etc. Approved: This option will be set to 'yes' for all admin-entered events. If a user has submitted an event, and your calendar feature isn't set to automatically accept events, you will have the option to approve the event or not.
Additional Info Link – Normally not needed. It provides a way to link the ad to another page on your site or to an external URL, causing an “additional info” link to appear at the bottom of the event. You can also add links to the description field using the formatting toolbar (just as you would in any page area). Inserting links can be useful for board meeting event listings (you can link to a PDF agenda file, etc).
Select the 'yes' radio option for the Recurring event field and a few new options will appear:
Recurs On: Gives you a few options for how often you'd like the event to recur. You can choose a period from the drop down list (Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly), or you can choose certain days of the week.
Ends On: You can have your recurring event end on a specific date. Either enter the date in YYYY-MM-DD format, or click the calendar icon to choose a date.
Ends On: You can have your recurring event end on a specific date. Either enter the date in YYYY-MM-DD format, or click the calendar icon to choose a date.
Select the 'yes' radio option for the Event Reminder field and a few new options will appear (note that event reminders will not work with recurring events):
Send To: Choose the mailing list you want to use from this drop down list. You'll be able to select from any mailing list where you are set up as an administrator (to add new mailing lists, on your admin panel, click the 'features' tab, then click the 'manage' link for the Mailing List feature).
Send On: Choose when to send the message. You can send it on the event date, or on a set number of days before the event is scheduled to occur. The message will automatically be sent in the early morning of the date you choose.
-Something to note: When you set up an event reminder, the message text and title will be saved on this screen. If you'd like your reminder to be sent more than once, just edit this event and change the 'send on' number of days before. When you save the event after changing that number, you can effecitvely resend the same reminder.
Reminder Subject: Enter the title of the email that will be sent.
Reminder Email: Type the message you'd like to send. Using the formatting toolbar, so you can send images, links, and format the text however you'd like.
Remember to click the 'save' button at the very bottom of the event edit screen and your email will be saved and sent on the day you chose. If you need to edit the email, just choose to edit this event and you will have that option.
Send On: Choose when to send the message. You can send it on the event date, or on a set number of days before the event is scheduled to occur. The message will automatically be sent in the early morning of the date you choose.
-Something to note: When you set up an event reminder, the message text and title will be saved on this screen. If you'd like your reminder to be sent more than once, just edit this event and change the 'send on' number of days before. When you save the event after changing that number, you can effecitvely resend the same reminder.
Reminder Subject: Enter the title of the email that will be sent.
Reminder Email: Type the message you'd like to send. Using the formatting toolbar, so you can send images, links, and format the text however you'd like.
Remember to click the 'save' button at the very bottom of the event edit screen and your email will be saved and sent on the day you chose. If you need to edit the email, just choose to edit this event and you will have that option.
Site users will be able to choose their desired view (day/week/month). Clicking on an existing event will open a pop up window with the description of that event.
If they click on a blank day in the calendar display, a user can submit an event for the calendar (if you've chosen to allow user submitted events). Alternately, they can click the 'submit' button in the left hand menu.


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Address: 665 Peacock Ave, Pontiac, MI, 48340
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Seeking an internship for summer 2022 for anything IT.
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July 2018 - Current, Fishing Sales Associate, Bass Pro Shops, Auburn Hills, MI, 48326
Help guide customers find what they are looking for, merchandising, and stocking merchandise.
2017 - May 2018, Back of House, Panda Express, Auburn Hills, MI, 48326
Mastered all the entrees that are on the menu. Have experience in Front of House; helping and cashing customers out.
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On 10th May, Antenna & AAU in 4.5G Industry Summit was held in Kempinski Hotel Istanbul with the theme "Antenna Modernization, Inspiring the Giga Mobile Evolution".
Focusing on Central Asia operators' challenges and requirements in 4.5G and LTE deployment, Huawei show series of Antenna and AAU solutions, and conduct workshops with deep insight to customers’ needs.
On 17th April, Antenna & AAU in Egypt LTE Summit was held in JW Marriott® Hotel Cairo with the theme "Antenna Modernization, Leading to Better MBB".
Focusing on Egypt operators' challenges and requirements in LTE deployment, Huawei released full series of Antenna and AAU solutions, aiming to help Egypt operators build the best MBB network .


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Docker is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. Docker enables you to separate your applications from your infrastructure so you can deliver software quickly.
Docker provides the ability to package and run an application in a loosely isolated environment called a container. The isolation and security allow you to run many containers simultaneously on a given host. Because of the lightweight nature of containers, which run without the extra load of a hypervisor, you can run more containers on a given hardware combination than if you were using virtual machines.
Docker provides tooling and a platform to manage the lifecycle of your containers:
Fast, consistent delivery of your applications
Docker can streamline the development lifecycle by allowing developers to work in standardized environments using local containers which provide your applications and services. You can also integrate Docker into your continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflow.
Responsive deployment and scaling
Docker’s container-based platform allows for highly portable workloads. Docker containers can run on a developer’s local host, on physical or virtual machines in a data center, in the Cloud, or in a mixture of environments.
Docker’s portability and lightweight nature also make it easy to dynamically manage workloads, scaling up or tearing down applications and services as business needs dictate, in near real time.
Running more workloads on the same hardware
Docker is lightweight and fast. It provides a viable, cost-effective alternative to hypervisor-based virtual machines, allowing you to use more of your compute capacity to achieve your business goals.
Docker uses a client-server architecture. The Docker client talks to the Docker daemon, which does the heavy lifting of building, running, and distributing your Docker containers. The Docker client and daemon can run on the same system, or you can connect a Docker client to a remote Docker daemon.
The Docker daemon runs on a host machine. The user uses the Docker client to interact with the daemon.
The Docker client, in the form of the docker binary, is the primary user interface to Docker. It accepts commands and configuration flags from the user and communicates with a Docker daemon.
A Docker image is a read-only template with instructions for creating a Docker container. For example, an image might contain an Ubuntu operating system with Apache web server and your web application installed.
A docker image is described in text file called a Dockerfile, which has a simple, well-defined syntax.
A Docker container is a runnable instance of a Docker image. You can run, start, stop, move, or delete a container using Docker API or CLI commands. When you run a container, you can provide configuration metadata such as networking information or environment variables.
A docker registry is a library of images. A registry can be public or private.
A Docker service allows a swarm of Docker nodes to work together, running a defined number of instances of a replica task, which is itself a Docker image.
Docker images are read-only templates from which Docker containers are instantiated. Each image consists of a series of layers. Docker uses union file systems to combine these layers into a single image. Union file systems allow files and directories of separate file systems, known as branches, to be transparently overlaid, forming a single coherent file system.
These layers are one of the reasons Docker is so lightweight. When you change a Docker image, such as when you update an application to a new version, a new layer is built and replaces only the layer it updates. The other layers remain intact. To distribute the update, you only need to transfer the updated layer. Layering speeds up distribution of Docker images. Docker determines which layers need to be updated at runtime.
A Docker registry stores Docker images. After you build a Docker image, you can push it to a public registry such as Docker Hub or to a private registry running behind your firewall. You can also search for existing images and pull them from the registry to a host.
A container uses the host machine’s Linux kernel, and consists of any extra files you add when the image is created, along with metadata associated with the container at creation or when the container is started. Each container is built from an image. The image defines the container’s contents, which process to run when the container is launched, and a variety of other configuration details. The Docker image is read-only. When Docker runs a container from an image, it adds a read-write layer on top of the image (using a UnionFS as we saw earlier) in which your application runs.
When you use the docker run CLI command or the equivalent API, the Docker Engine client instructs the Docker daemon to run a container. This example tells the Docker daemon to run a container using the ubuntu Docker image, to remain in the foreground in interactive mode (-i), and to run the /bin/bash command.
$ docker run --name play-8080 -p 8080:9000 play-dockerized:1.0-SNAPSHOT


Mixer-TTS: Non-Autoregressive, Fast and Compact Text-To-Speech Model conditioned on Language Model embeddings
This paper describes Mixer-TTS, a non-autoregressive modelfor mel-spectrogram generation. The model is based on the MLP-Mixer architecture adapted for speech synthesis. The basic Mixer-TTS contains pitch and duration predictors, with the latter being trained with an unsupervised TTS alignment framework. Alongside the basic model, we propose the extended version which additionally uses token embeddingsfrom a pre-trained language model. Basic Mixer-TTS and its extended version achieve a mean opinion score (MOS) of 4.05 and 4.11, respectively, compared to a MOS of 4.27 of original LJSpeech samples. Both versions have a small number of parameters and enable much faster speech synthesis compared to the models with similar quality.
LJSpeech
| FastPitch | Mixer-TTS | Mixer-TTS-X | |
|---|---|---|---|
| LJ045-0096 | |||
| LJ049-0022 | |||
| LJ033-0042 | |||
| LJ016-0117 | |||
| LJ025-0157 |