Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir
Martin Fobes woke up to the sound of officers from the New Castle police department banging on his front door.
It was early on a January morning, still dark, and he was lying flat on his living room floor, where he had passed out a few hours previously. The police took him downtown and charged him with driving while intoxicated. They sat him in a chair against a white wall and slotted numbered tiles into a board behind him, to record the fact that he was the four thousand eight hundred and eighty-third person to have been processed in that room. They took a picture of his profile, then turned him to take a picture face-on. While he was held for questioning, the negatives were developed and printed on a small piece of photographic paper that had been cut with scissors from a larger sheet. The print was then taken to a room in police headquarters known as the rogues gallery, where it joined the ever-growing archive of twinned portraits of citizens unfortunate enough to have been caught breaking the law in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania.
Sixty-one years later, the photograph dropped through my letterbox in Edinburgh, Scotland, in an envelope containing half a dozen old mug shots that I’d bought for a few pounds from an eBay seller who specialized in historic ephemera.
I’d become interested in mug shots through a book called Least Wanted, by Mark Michaelson, which contains hundreds of these strange and beautiful little portraits, taken as a matter of routine by law enforcement agencies across America but made haunting by the passage of time. I was fascinated by the range of expressions, the haircuts, the clothes. Such faces. Who were they? What had they done? What were their lives like?
Almost all of the pictures in Least Wanted are anonymous, having become separated from their arrest information due to the carelessness of police departments, dealers, and collectors. Part of the reason why I bought the bundle from eBay was that the listing noted that they still had their police file cards attached, and I hoped it might be possible to use that information to find out more about the people in the photographs.
Each of the six cards listed various pieces of information, including, importantly, the person’s name and age, the crime with which they had been charged and the date and place of their arrest. All six people were from the same town: New Castle, Pennsylvania, a place I’d never heard of. I checked NewspaperArchive.com and saw that its database contained back issues of the local paper, the New Castle News, going back over a hundred years. A promising omen.
Martin’s mug shot was on top of the pile, so I ran a search on him first. His name appeared in the paper about thirty times over fifty years, from the announcement of the birth of his daughter in 1929 to his obituary in 1969. Most of the mentions were in the paper’s local events pages, where he appeared among lists of routine hospital admissions or as a pallbearer at the funerals of friends and relations—commonplace traces of a normal life.
The articles that came up for the month of his arrest, however, were a different matter: two front-page stories in one week, headlined, “Officers Probe Woman’s Death” and “Cause Of Girl’s Death Is Mystery.” I hope I can be forgiven for feeling a thrill of excitement as I scanned the pieces and saw Martin’s name emerge as part of a far more intriguing story than I’d been expecting. An unconscious eighteen-year-old girl named Anna Grace Robertson had been found lying in the middle of the street, battered and bleeding, in a residential part of town on the morning of 6 January, 1948. The police who woke Martin up from his drunken sleep and took his mug shot told him he had been seen with her that night. Martin said he remembered leaving the Rex Café with her and her sister sometime after midnight, but nothing after that. He had no recollection of how he ended up back home. He had blacked out. He didn’t know what had happened to the girl.
Anna Grace never regained consciousness. She died three days later, after being admitted to the hospital. A post-mortem found the cause of death to be hemorrhages of the brain. She also had a complete fracture of the left jaw, partial paralysis of the left arm and left leg, and friction burns on her face and right knee.
At the inquest, Martin said, again, that he had no recollection of what had happened that night. Others filled in some of the blanks.
Anna Grace’s sister, Eris, said that Martin had taken her and Anna Grace home from the Rex Café, where they had met him. Anna Grace knew Martin, it seemed, but Eris had never seen him before. When they got to the house, instead of coming in with Eris, Anna Grace went off with Martin. They said that they were going to a café called Jim’s Place on the east side, and were then going to the Square Deal café to meet Anna Grace’s mother, who worked there. It was half past midnight.
The bartender of the Rex Café, William Weidenhof, had gone over to the Square Deal after closing up his place, and saw Martin and Anna Grace there. Martin was drunk, and kept asking Anna Grace to leave with him. Eventually, just before two, Weidenhof saw Martin take Anna Grace’s arm and lead her to his truck.
 He called the police, and an officer took her to the hospital.
People who had met Martin in town the next night, back in the Rex Café again, told the inquest that he seemed “pretty well loaded” and had scratches on his face. A friend of Martin’s, Joseph McKee, asked him if he knew what had happened to Anna Grace, but Martin ducked the question, saying only that he had been in a wreck at the harbor at about half past four in the morning, but that everything was “on the up and up.” Later that evening, he passed out in the bar.
At the end of the inquest, the members declared that they were unable to determine how Anna Grace sustained the injuries that caused her death and recommended further investigation. There was none. Anna Grace had already been buried, the witnesses had said all that they could and Martin Fobes wasn’t saying anything else. The case appears to have been dropped. The paper doesn’t mention it, or Anna Grace, again after that day. Martin was charged only with leaving the scene of a crime.
No one seems to have been certain what happened in the missing twenty minutes between Martin and Anna Grace leaving the Square Deal and Louis Smith finding her in the street. Anna Grace’s injuries suggest that she jumped from Martin’s speeding truck, but why did she jump? The most likely scenario would seem to be that Martin made a move on her as they drove through town, they struggled (which would be when his face was scratched) and she jumped from the truck to escape. That must have been obvious to anyone involved in the case but, if it occurred to the inquest’s members—all men—they chose not to pursue it. Perhaps it struck them as just a tragic accident, and not the kind of thing over which they should ruin the life of a hard-working family man.
I realized, of course, that it was impossible to say for sure how culpable Martin was, and also—at this date—quite unnecessary to try. The story itself was enough for me. I wrote it up and posted it online. It was the start of a project that would end up occupying all of my creative energy for years to come, in the form of a website called Small Town Noir, which has evolved into an attempt to chronicle the history of one small American town through the criminal records of its citizens.
None of the other mug shots in the bundle matched Martin’s for dramatic incident, but I researched the subjects’ lives as fully as I could, with a growing sense that I’d stumbled on something unique and valuable. By the time I was done, I’d uncovered a good few compelling stories and read an awful lot of old copies of the New Castle News—enough to make me feel that I’d perhaps caught a glimpse of something that might be more interesting than the stories themselves: the town in which they took place.
Like me, you’ve probably never heard of New Castle. It sits midway between Lake Erie and Pittsburgh, over by the Ohio border. It was founded after the Revolutionary War, in a valley that had been settled by the Lenape people, before they were forced out. Its growth was phenomenal. In the 1890s, its population increased by 144 per cent, faster than any other town in the country. By the turn of the century, it was one of the most industrially productive cities in America, with the biggest tinplate mill in the world and thousands of immigrants from Europe arriving every year to work in its steel factories, ceramics plants, foundries and paper mills.
All that’s gone now, of course. The Great Depression hit it hard, and the disastrous collapse of industry in the Northeast in the latter half of the century all but finished it off. Its present population is around 23,000, down from a wartime peak of nearly 50,000. You can imagine what the depopulated parts of town look like these days.
Yet something about New Castle captured my imagination. The place names—Locust Street, Croton Avenue, Shenango, Neshannock—were powerfully evocative of a certain idea of America, although one that, in all honesty, probably exists only in the minds of Europeans like me, whose imaginations have been shaped by a love of B-movies, pulp novels and old crime stories. None of the people in the photographs would have looked out of place working in Robert Mitchum’s garage in Out of the Past or hiding out in the boarding house where Burt Lancaster is murdered in The Killers. The more I learned about their world, the more their lives began to feel like the back-stories of minor characters in a richly detailed film noir that Hollywood had somehow neglected to make.
There were more New Castle mug shots on eBay, all from the decades between 1930 and 1960, and I bought as many as I could. The pictures had ended up all over the world—San Francisco, Tokyo, even a small island off the coast of Scotland. I always asked the seller how they had originally come by the pictures. The usual answer was that they’d bought them from other collectors. No one knew for sure how the photographs had first ended up for sale, but I gradually worked out that, sometime in the 1990s, the police department had cleared out its files and thrown hundreds—maybe thousands—of old photographs in the trash. A few hundred images were surreptitiously saved from destruction by a police officer nearing retirement.
The ones he picked up happened to come from the middle decades of the century. If he had passed by earlier, he might have come away with a selection from around the First World War. Later, and he might not have found any at all.
My collection grew over the next few years. Each batch—still carrying the strong smell of the cigarettes smoked by New Castle detectives over the years—brought to light wonderful characters: a quarry worker who was arrested after losing his false teeth at a crime scene; a prohibition agent whose house was dynamited by bootleggers; an upstanding poultry fancier who turned bank robber; immigrant families; civil war veterans; local capitalists; and a lot of drunks. And each research expedition into the archives of the New Castle News revealed more about the town and its history.
During the period I was interested in, the New Castle News was one of those local newspapers that aimed to provide an indispensable daily record of the comings and goings in the communities that they served, along with a couple of pages of national and international news and opinion from the wire agencies.
Naturally, it reported on local politics and social events to an exhaustive degree. (It regularly included, for example, full descriptions of services in the town’s churches and synagogues.) Mixed in with those stories, however, are small impressions of everyday life that it’s hard to imagine finding in any other source. A few examples:
Over the week-end a couple of strange sights were seen on the streets of New Castle. One: a man was noticed mowing his lawn long after darkness had surrounded him. The other was a young girl running in the midst of a heavy downpour of rain with an unopened umbrella under her arm. (May 4, 1936)
Pa Newc saw a rather odd sight in the seventh ward yesterday. A man was driving a car which had a sign labelled ‘Funeral’ fastened on the wind-shield while fastened on the back end of the car was a trailer which had a large quantity of sheep’s wool loaded on it. (September 24, 1924)
The mystery of who it was who put the pigeons in one of the court house desks is still unsolved. The act is denied by all. (January 7, 1930)
Those details are gold, to me, and I make sure to include as many of them as I can when I write up the stories of the people in the mug shots. The fact that, on the night in 1943 when a man named Frank Heckathorn was arrested for indecent exposure, posses of youths were searching the town’s cemeteries for signs of a supposed half-man, half-beast mutant that they believed had been spotted waddling menacingly in the area strikes me as being just as relevant to the story as the country’s import/export balance for the year or what Patton was doing in North Africa.
What’s more, including that day-to-day perspective reduces the focus on crime. New Castle wasn’t a particularly crime-ridden place. And, although my point of entry into the townspeople’s lives is always, unavoidably, a criminal act that they’d been charged with, the majority of them couldn’t be described as criminals. They were ordinary people, by and large. Like Charles Cialella.
Charles played football for New Castle High and worked for his family’s florist business until he joined the Army Air Service, immediately after the attack on Pearl harbor. Two months after the end of the war, he was arrested for playing a numbers game. His mug shot was taken and put on file, but he was released without being charged.
He went to work with New Castle’s parks department and became supervisor of the Cascade Park swimming pool when it reopened in 1952, offering a pledge that, following a program of improvements, it would now be impossible for bathers to contract skin diseases or sinus trouble through use of the facility.
In 1968, Charles’s cousin, Carl, became mayor and appointed Charles superintendent of all the city’s parks. By the seventies, the administration had changed and Charles was made foreman of the city’s sewers. In 1976, he was working in a sewer in Winter Avenue when he found a 1942 class ring inscribed with the initials MAS hanging on a broken tree branch. He called New Castle High, whose staff checked their records and told him that it must have belonged to Mary Agnes Schetrom. Charles’s friend, Frank Gagliardo, had been the Schetrom’s paper boy and still knew some friends of the family, who told Charles that Mary Agnes was living on Kenneth street. Two hours after he had found the ring, Charles returned it to Mary Agnes, who told him she had accidentally dropped it down her toilet thirty years earlier and had not expected to see it again.
Charles was a Republican committeeman and president of the local lodge of the Sons of Italy. He played golf, went bowling and raised funds for charity. His wife bred exotic plants and worked as an Avon representative for fifty years. They raised five children and were both over eighty when they died.
Ordinary people.
Since I started researching and publishing the stories behind the mug shots on the Small Town Noir website, I’ve visited New Castle a couple of times, tracked down crime scenes, met relatives of the people I’ve written about—I’ve even attended the 95th birthday party of a man who had his mug shot taken at the age of seventeen, in 1935, when he was charged with stealing a car. (The return of his mug shot was my birthday gift to him.) Over those years, I’ve come to feel something like love for New Castle and the people whose lives I’ve tried to piece together.
The subjects of the mug shots were, for the most part, largely innocent of wrong-doing, aside from an occasional error of judgment or alcohol-induced indiscretion. They were citizens of a town—perhaps a nation—that was unaware it was experiencing its golden age. They worked in vast production lines. They shopped in crowded streets. They marched with their fraternal organizations to the music of faraway homelands. But they raised a generation of children who would grow up to find out that the place that had given their parents and grandparents everything they had in life was gone.
The steel mills have closed now, the downtown sidewalks are deserted. The men and women in these pictures saw things that none of us will ever see. All that we can do is look clearly at their faces, listen carefully to their stories and let them tell us what they can about their world, and what life was like in that long-gone town.


Before Change
// Unpack inputs
sweep = wing.sweep
taper = wing.taper
try:
ar = wing.extended.aspect_ratio
except:
ar = wing.aspect_ratio
//Convert sweep to leading edge sweep if it was not already so
if old_ref_chord_fraction == 0.0:
sweep_LE = sweep
else:
sweep_LE = np.arctan(np.tan(sweep)+4*old_ref_chord_fraction*
After Change
// Unpack inputs
sweep = wing.sweep
taper = wing.taper
if wing.has_key("effective_aspect_ratio"):
ar = wing.effective_aspect_ratio
elif wing.has_key("extended"):
if wing.extended.has_key("aspect_ratio"):
ar = wing.extended.aspect_ratio
else:
ar = wing.aspect_ratio
else:
ar = wing.aspect_ratio
//Convert sweep to leading edge sweep if it was not already so
if old_ref_chord_fraction == 0.0:
sweep_LE = sweep
else:
sweep_LE = np.arctan(np.tan(sweep)+4*old_ref_chord_fraction*


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What You’re Seeing:
You’re seeing exactly what the camera does. This demo simply takes what the camera sees and displays it on the screen. It’s not a very impressive demo visually. But you can modify the code for it to create computer vision demos of your own.
How it Works:
Every demo in this app was written using the OpenCV computer vision library and the CVFunhouse framework. The framework takes images from the camera, passes them to an object that transforms the image using the OpenCV library, and then returns the transformed image to display.
Note that
even doing “nothing” requires some work. The camera produces an image in BGRA (storing the blue, green, red, and alpha components of each pixel in that order). The screen wants the pixels in RGB (red, green, blue) order, so the code has to convert the image in order to do nothing.
What it’s Used For:
It’s used by people just like you to create their own computer vision demonstrations.
Try and Notice:
Check out the code from http://github.com/jeradesign/CVFunhouse and start building computer vision demos of your own. As a simple starter, in file CVPassThru.m, change the body of method processIplImage:
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Note that red and blue are reversed in the image. Everywhere in the image that was red shows up as blue, and vice-versa.
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tutorial_page: 4
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Kernel 2: Tiling in the local memory
The main reason the naive implementation doesn't perform so well is because we are accessing the GPU's off-chip memory way too much. Please count with me: to do the M*N*K multiplications and additions, we need M*N*K*2 loads and M*N stores. Since the multiplications and additions can actually be fused into a single hardware instruction (FMA), the computational intensity of the code is only 0.5 instructions per memory access (search for the "Roofline model" to find out why this is bad). Although the GPU's caches probably will help us out a bit, we can get much more performance by manually caching sub-blocks of the matrices (tiles) in the GPU's on-chip local memory (== shared memory in CUDA).
To compute a sub-block Csub of C (purple tile in the image below), we need A's corresponding rows (in green) and B's corresponding columns (in blue). Now, if we also divide A and B in sub-blocks Asub and Bsub, we can iteratively update the values in Csub by summing up the results of multiplications of Asub times Bsub.
Why is this useful? Well, if we take a closer look at the computation of a single element (in the image below), we see that there is lots of data re-use within a tile. For example, in the 3x3 tiles of the image below, all elements on the same row of the purple tile (Csub) are computed using the same data of the green tiles (Asub).
Let's translate this abstract image into actual OpenCL code. The trick here is to share the data of the Asub and Bsub tiles within a work-group (== threadblock in CUDA) via the local memory. To maximise the benefit of re-use, we'll make these tiles as large as possible.
To implement tiling, we'll leave our host code from the previous naive kernel intact. Note that it uses 2D work-groups of 32 by 32 (or TS x TS). This means that the purple Csub tile is also 32 by 32. For now, let's also take these dimensions for the Asub and Bsub tiles, we'll investigate rectangular tiles later on.
// Tiled and coalesced version
__kernel void myGEMM2(const int M, const int N, const int K,
const __global float* A,
const __global float* B,
__global float* C) {
// Thread identifiers
const int row = get_local_id(0); // Local row ID (max: TS)
const int col = get_local_id(1); // Local col ID (max: TS)
const int globalRow = TS*get_group_id(0) + row; // Row ID of C (0..M)
const int globalCol = TS*get_group_id(1) + col; // Col ID of C (0..N)
// Local memory to fit a tile of TS*TS elements of A and B
__local float Asub[TS][TS];
__local float Bsub[TS][TS];
// Initialise the accumulation register
float acc = 0.0f;
// Loop over all tiles
const int numTiles = K/TS;
for (int t=0; t<numTiles; t++) {
// Load one tile of A and B into local memory
const int tiledRow = TS*t + row;
const int tiledCol = TS*t + col;
Asub[col][row] = A[tiledCol*M + globalRow];
Bsub[col][row] = B[globalCol*K + tiledRow];
// Synchronise to make sure the tile is loaded
barrier(CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE);
// Perform the computation for a single tile
for (int k=0; k<TS; k++) {
acc += Asub[k][row] * Bsub[col][k];
}
// Synchronise before loading the next tile
barrier(CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE);
}
// Store the final result in C
C[globalCol*M + globalRow] = acc;
}
If we take a look at the code, we see that the original accumulation loop over K has been split into two new loops: one over all K/TS tiles and one over all TS elements within a tile. Within this loop over the tiles, we can identify two parts which are separated with synchronisation barriers: (1) loading from off-chip memory to local memory, and (2) computation based on local memory data. Note that each thread now performs only two global loads per tile (one element of A and B), whereas this used to be two times the tile-size (a row of A and a column of B). This gives us a reduction of a factor 32 in off-chip memory accesses!
There is one other thing to notice: since we are now loading tiles instead of columns from B, and since we are now sharing them within a work-group, we can replace un-coalesced memory accesses by coalesced counter-parts by loading them per row.
When we look at performance, we see a great improvement over the naive implementation. However, with ~370 GFLOPS we are still not at the level of clBLAS, so there is much more work to!


For a long time, many people thought that cracking one's knuckles causes arthritis. Now we know that this was a myth--something "everyone" thought was true, but which had no basis in fact.
Writing, too, has its own mythology. In writing, as in everything else, mythology is perpetuated for a reason. People use myths to explain phenomena they do not understand, or to deal with realities they do not wish to face, or to avoid confronting the fact that events are often random and unfair. Because myths have such powerful uses, myths are seldom questioned, and people become very upset when their cherished myths are challenged. But myths, because they are untrue, can cause people who believe in them to feel hurt or lost or confused when they rely on these myths to guide their actions.
That is why I believe that writers should become aware of the myths that exist in our profession. In my experience, I have discovered three myths which I believe are particularly misleading, and are worth further discussion.
Myth #1: If your writing is good, you will have no trouble selling your stories; if you are not selling your writing, it means your stories are no good.
This myth has a factual basis. A lot of writing does get rejected because it is poor. But the myth, as repeated by many experienced writers, is that good writing guarantees acceptance and, conversely, non-acceptance surely means that the writing is poor. To debunk this myth, researchers have recently taken classic novels--The Yearling comes to mind as an example--and submitted them as manuscripts to publishers. These were seldom recognized by the publishers, and almost universally rejected. The reason is that publishers nowadays are less interested in the quality of writing than they are in the commercial potential of the writing. If the publisher thinks the writing will sell, even if the manuscript is flawed, the publisher may be inclined to buy it. If the publisher thinks the manuscript will not sell, the publisher may not take it no matter how well it is written. This, for instance, explains rejection slips which say, "good writing, we just don't want to publish it."
Myth #2: Once you sell a book, or several short stories, you will not have any trouble getting an agent, and you will not have any trouble selling any more of your own writing.
I recently read an interview with an award-winning author who said that she was not able to get an agent until after she sold her fourth novel. Another author, a friend of mine, also worked out her fourth book contract without an agent, though she was able to get an agent for her fifth. I know a third author who has had five novels published, but for the past three years has not been able to find anyone interested in the two novels she has written since then. And I recently read an account from a writer whose first book sold tens of thousands of copies who reported that she did not have an agent for her first book, and has had trouble finding an agent for her second.
With so many counter-examples cropping up, this myth is beginning to lose its hold, though it still persists. My guess is that those who perpetuate this myth are the lucky authors who were able to find an agent after (or even before) their first book came out, and had no trouble finding a publisher for any novel they wrote thereafter. Such authors do exist, but I suspect they are not as numerous as mythology would have it.
Myth #3: If you follow the advice of experienced authors, you are certain to get published.
I recall the advice that the late science fiction author Robert Heinlein had for writers: write, finish what you write, and keep sending the manuscript to publishers until it sells. Experienced authors tend to add other advice: study the markets, improve your skills, and so forth. This third myth is very seductive because the advice is sound. But the fact is that novices can read and follow every word of advice that experienced writers print and still not get published. The problem is not simply that no method works for everyone, and to say that writers must find a method that works for their particular situation is too superficial. The problem is that many writers who give advice imply--if they do not say it outright--that any writer who follows their advice will absolutely, positively, get published....now, if not sooner.
This leaves novices who follow such advice beating their heads against the wall in frustration. ("But I did everything J. Doe said in the article 'How to Get Your Story Published' and I still have not placed my story.") Novices will be helped, instead, if they are told that writing is a complex task involving a lot of intangibles and random variables (or, in other words, luck). Authors need to be told that no one piece of advice will guarantee acceptance; at best, following good advice merely increases the probability of publication.
Writing, as a profession, is tough enough without well-intentioned authors passing along useless myths. A writer who has a stack of unpaid bills on one hand and a stack of rejection slips on the other is not helped by being told that if the writing is good, it will sell; or that once the first story is sold, there will be no problem selling the next one; or that if the writer just follows J. Doe's advice, the acceptances will start rolling in. Encouragement and reassurance need to be based on a realistic appraisal of the obstacles writers inevitably face. Writers can and do sell stories. Good writers can and do get rejected. Writers with track records can and do have problems placing succeeding stories. Advisors can and do fail to give suggestions that work.
I suspect there are other myths making the rounds, but either I have not yet come across them, or I have not yet found out that certain statements I have heard are myths. I am interested in hearing from anyone who has other myths to report (that is, myths that writers tell other writers, as opposed to myths that the public has about writers). Myths about writing may never disappear, even if exposed as falsehoods, but at least those who crack their knuckles shouldn't be afraid it will lead to arthritis.
© 1994 by Joan Marie Verba
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Free games: Vermintide 2 is free for the weekend
by Dustin BaileyIf your gaming options are looking a bit thin for the weekend – even with 2019’s bounty of excellent games to enjoy – Fatshark has got some good news for you. Warhammer: Vermintide II is currently gratis as part of a free weekend, offering all-you-can-eat rat-slaying for the duration of the promotion, and some deep discounts besides.
Vermintide 2’s free weekend has already begun on Steam, and will continue until Sunday, November 24 at 10:00 PST / 13:00 EST / 18:00 GMT. As you’d expect, any progress you make during the free weekend will carry over into the full game, and any progress you’ve made in previous free promotions will be here when you sign in.
If you want to keep playing, the game 75% off until Monday, November 25 at 10:00 PST / 13:00 EST / 18:00 GMT, which brings the price down to $7.49 / £5.94 / €6.99. You’ll find significant discounts on all the Vermintide II DLC for the duration of the promotion, as well.
If you’ve missed out on, er, everything with the Vermintide series up to this point, it’s basically a Warhammer-themed Left 4 Dead, but with more RPG-style progression. You and three co-op partners party up to slay a whole lot of monsters.
And if you’re looking for more free games to occupy the weekend, we’ve got you covered at that link, too. Loads of gaming options these days.


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You will see (on the Day of Resurrection), the Zalimun (polytheists and wrong-doers, etc.) fearful of that which they have earned, and it (Allah's Torment) will surely befall them, while those who believe (in the Oneness of Allah Islamic Monotheism) and do righteous deeds (will be) in the flowering meadows of the Gardens (Paradise), having what they wish from their Lord. That is the supreme Grace, (Paradise). |
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Thou seest the unjust fearing on account of what they have earned, and it must befall them. And those who believe and do good are in the meadows of the Gardens -- they have what they please with their Lord. That is the great grace. |
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Thou seest the wrong-doers fearful of that which they have earned, and it will surely befall them, while those who believe and do good works (will be) in flowering meadows of the Gardens, having what they wish from their Lord. This is the great preferment. |
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You will see the transgressors worried about everything they had committed; everything will come back and haunt them. As for those who believed and led a righteous life, they will be in the gardens of Paradise. They will receive whatever they wish from their Lord. This is the great blessing. |
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You can see that the unjust are afraid of the consequences of their deeds which will inevitably strike them. However, the righteously striving believers will live in the gardens wherein they will have whatever they want from their Lord. This is certainly the greatest reward. |
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You will see the unjust fearing on account of what they have earned, and it must befall them; and those who believe and do good shall be in the meadows of the gardens; they shall have what they please with their Lord: that is the great grace. |
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Thou wilt see the wrongdoers in fear on account of that which they have earned, and it is sure to befall them. But those who believe and do good works will be in meadows of the Gardens. They shall have with their Lord whatever they will desire. That is the great bounty of ALLAH. |
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Thou wilt see the Wrong-doers in fear on account of what they have earned, and (the burden of) that must (necessarily) fall on them. But those who believe and work righteous deeds will be in the luxuriant meads of the Gardens: they shall have, before their Lord, all that they wish for. That will indeed be the magnificent Bounty (of Allah). |
Concepts/Themes Covered: الإيمان > الإيمان بالله > الإيمان والعمل Faith> Belief In Allah> The Faith and the Action الإيمان > الغيب > الجنة > أسماءالجنة > روضات الجنات Faith> The Unseen World> The Paradise> Paradise Names> Paradise Meadows الإيمان > الغيب > الجنة > أصحاب الجنة Faith> The Unseen World> The Paradise> The Companions of the Garden الإيمان > المؤمنون > حياتهم في الدنيا والآخرة Faith> The Believers> Their Life in the World and the hereafter الإيمان > المؤمنون > ما أعده الله لهم Faith> The Believers> What has Allah Prepared for them الإيمان > المؤمنون > وعده إياهم Faith> The Believers> His Promise to them العمل > العمل الصالح > الدعوة إلى العمل الصالح Action(Work)> The Good Deeds>The Call for Good Deeds
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Cultural Blog
Identity, Values and Strengths
My top five core values are:
Empathy, Growth, Thoughtfulness, Honesty and Usefulness
My culture as a Zimbabwean has largely shaped my identity in terms of how I view the world, and people around me. The Zimbabwean people are very friendly, respectful and community focused, and this outlook has led to my core values of empathy, usefulness and thoughtfulness.
My strengths would be empathy, kindness and determination. Technically, my strengths are I am organised and intentional in my learning, I am resourceful - using google to help me find what I need. My limitations are anxiety and self-doubt which means I don’t always speak up when I can.
My identity has been influenced by growing up in a Zimbabwean minority group (shrinking from 0.6% when I was a child to roughly 0.1% of the total population now). This developed my values empathy, encouraged me to continually grow and be kind to those around me.
Another value that was influenced by my culture, is honesty. This was formed as the government in Zimbabwe was extremely corrupt, and I could see that this type of dishonesty ruined many of lives. As much as I can, I intent to treat others with openness and honesty. There were constant difficult ethical situations in Zimbabwe (many involving the police) and it is hard to say what the right or wrong answer would be in those conditions.
In my career and studies, my determination has developed as a strength. I used to struggle with setting goals and sticking to them but in making small continuous decisions for personal-growth, I found my determination has become something I can rely on if I am stuck on a difficult task or situation.
Expectations from Dev Academy and my Foundations facilitator: Genuine honest feedback on my progress both positive and constructive. Helpful and supportive in my learnning journey.


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This week's sets of classical pen and paper and computational exercises are tailored to the topic of two-body problems and central forces. It follows what was discussed during the lectures during week 12 (March 20-24) and week 12 (March 27-31).
The relevant reading background is
The equations of motion in the center-of-mass frame in two dimensions with \( x=r\cos{(\phi)} \) and \( y=r\sin{(\phi)} \) and \( r\in [0,\infty) \), \( \phi\in [0,2\pi] \) and \( r=\sqrt{x^2+y^2} \) are given by
$$
\mu \ddot{r}=-\frac{dV(r)}{dr}+\mu r\dot{\phi}^2,
$$
and
$$
\dot{\phi}=\frac{L}{\mu r^2}.
$$
Here \( V(r) \) is any central force which depends only on the relative coordinate.
See the lecture notes on central forces for a discussion of this problem. It is given as an example in the lecture notes (slides from March 20-24) and the lecture text at https://mhjensen.github.io/Physics321/doc/LectureNotes/_build/html/chapter6.html#effective-or-centrifugal-potential.
Consider a particle of mass \( m \) in a \( 2 \)-dimensional harmonic oscillator with potential
$$
V(r)=\frac{1}{2}kr^2=\frac{1}{2}k(x^2+y^2).
$$
We assume the orbit has a final non-zero angular momentum \( L \). The effective potential looks like that of a harmonic oscillator for large \( r \), but for small \( r \), the centrifugal potential repels the particle from the origin. The combination of the two potentials has a minimum for at some radius \( r_{\rm min} \).
$$
\begin{eqnarray*}
x&=&A\cos\omega_0 t+B\sin\omega_0 t,\\
y&=&C\cos\omega_0 t+D\sin\omega_0 t.
\end{eqnarray*}
$$
$$
r^2=\alpha+(\beta^2+\gamma^2)^{1/2}\cos(2\omega_0 t-\delta),
$$
with
$$
\delta=\arctan(\gamma/\beta),
$$
Using the code we developed in homework 5 or the first midterm (part b), we can solve the above harmonic oscillator problem in two dimensions using our code from this homework. We need however to change the acceleration from the gravitational force to the one given by the harmonic oscillator potential.
The code is given here for the Velocity-Verlet algorithm, with obvious elements to fill in.
# Common imports
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from math import *
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import os
# Where to save the figures and data files
PROJECT_ROOT_DIR = "Results"
FIGURE_ID = "Results/FigureFiles"
DATA_ID = "DataFiles/"
if not os.path.exists(PROJECT_ROOT_DIR):
os.mkdir(PROJECT_ROOT_DIR)
if not os.path.exists(FIGURE_ID):
os.makedirs(FIGURE_ID)
if not os.path.exists(DATA_ID):
os.makedirs(DATA_ID)
def image_path(fig_id):
return os.path.join(FIGURE_ID, fig_id)
def data_path(dat_id):
return os.path.join(DATA_ID, dat_id)
def save_fig(fig_id):
plt.savefig(image_path(fig_id) + ".png", format='png')
DeltaT = 0.01
#set up arrays
tfinal = 10.0
n = ceil(tfinal/DeltaT)
# set up arrays for t, a, v, and x
t = np.zeros(n)
v = np.zeros((n,2))
r = np.zeros((n,2))
# Initial conditions as compact 2-dimensional arrays
r0 = np.array([1.0,0.5]) # You need to change these to fit rmin
v0 = np.array([0.0,0.0]) # You need to change these to fit rmin
r[0] = r0
v[0] = v0
k = 1.0 # spring constant
m = 1.0 # mass, you can change these
omega02 = k/m
# Start integrating using the Velocity-Verlet method
for i in range(n-1):
# Set up forces, define acceleration first
a = -r[i]*omega02 # you may need to change this
# update velocity, time and position using the Velocity-Verlet method
r[i+1] = r[i] + DeltaT*v[i]+0.5*(DeltaT**2)*a
# new accelerationfor the Verlet method
anew = -r[i+1]*omega02
v[i+1] = v[i] + 0.5*DeltaT*(a+anew)
t[i+1] = t[i] + DeltaT
# Plot position as function of time
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.set_xlabel('t[s]')
ax.set_ylabel('x[m] and y[m]')
ax.plot(t,r[:,0])
ax.plot(t,r[:,1])
fig.tight_layout()
save_fig("2DimHOVV")
plt.show()
Instead of solving the equations in the cartesian frame we will now rewrite the above code in terms of the radial degrees of freedom only. Our differential equation is now
$$
\mu \ddot{r}=-\frac{dV(r)}{dr}+\mu r\dot{\phi}^2,
$$
and
$$
\dot{\phi}=\frac{L}{\mu r^2}.
$$
Consider an ellipse defined by the sum of the distances from the two foci being \( 2D \), which expressed in a Cartesian coordinates with the middle of the ellipse being at the origin becomes
$$
\sqrt{(x-a)^2+y^2}+\sqrt{(x+a)^2+y^2}=2D.
$$
Here the two foci are at \( (a,0) \) and \( (-a,0) \). Show that this form is can be written as
$$
\frac{x^2}{D^2}+\frac{y^2}{D^2-a^2}=1.
$$
This bonus exercise gives you an additional score of 20pt.
Make a class called Solvers which contains the following:
oAt least three class level variables
The class may also contain any other methods or class level variables that you think are needed.
Make then a function (outside of the class Solver) that solves the Earth-Sun problem using the Solvers class (Exercise 6 from Homework 5).
The following gives you an opportunity to earn five extra credit points on each of the remaining homeworks and ten extra credit points on the midterms and finals. This assignment also covers an aspect of the scientific process that is not taught in most undergraduate programs: scientific writing. Writing scientific reports is how scientist communicate their results to the rest of the field. Knowing how to assemble a well written scientific report will greatly benefit you in you upper level classes, in graduate school, and in the work place.
The full information on extra credits is found at https://github.com/mhjensen/Physics321/blob/master/doc/Homeworks/ExtraCredits/. There you will also find examples on how to write a scientific article. Below you can also find a description on how to gain extra credits by attending scientific talks.
This assignment allows you to gain extra credit points by practicing your scientific writing. For each of the remaining homeworks you can submit the specified section of a scientific report (written about the numerical aspect of the homework) for five extra credit points on the assignment. For the two midterms and the final, submitting a full scientific report covering the numerical analysis problem will be worth ten extra points. For credit the grader must be able to tell that you put effort into the assignment (i.e. well written, well formatted, etc.). If you are unfamiliar with writing scientific reports, see the information here
The following table explains what aspect of a scientific report is due with which homework. You can submit the assignment in any format you like, in the same document as your homework, or in a different one. Remember to cite any external references you use and include a reference list. There are no length requirements, but make sure what you turn in is complete and through. If you have any questions, please contact us.
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| HW 3 | 2-8 | Abstract |
| HW 4 | 2-15 | Introduction |
| HW 5 | 2-22 | Methods |
| HW 6 | 3-1 | Results and Discussion |
| Midterm 1 | 3-12 | Full Written Report |
| HW 7 | 3-22 | Abstract |
| HW 8 | 3-29 | Introduction |
| HW 9 | 4-5 | Results and Discussion |
| Midterm 2 | 4-16 | Full Written Report |
| HW 10 | 4-26 | Abstract |
| Final | 4-30 | Full Written Report |
You can also gain extra credits if you attend scientific talks. This is described here.
This opportunity will allow you to earn up to 5 extra credit points on a Homework per week. These points can push you above 100% or help make up for missed exercises. In order to earn all points you must:
Approved talks: Talks given by researchers through the following clubs:
All the material on extra credits is at https://github.com/mhjensen/Physics321/blob/master/doc/Homeworks/ExtraCredits/.


The map method is a very power enumberable in Ruby. Enumerables gives you many useful ways of doing something to every element of a collection of objects (arrays or hashes).This is necessary when you begin building programs, even those that are not very advanced.
Enumerable is a large bunch of methods, and there many to choose from. However, you will only use a dozen of them regularly. When you want to learn about more, there is a full list is available in the docs here.
#Map is a method that returns a new array filled with whatever gets returned by the block each time it runs.If no block is given, an enumerator is returned instead.
Below are some code samples that can illustrate the beauty of #map.
Above you will notice that there are that I have map and map! As you can see using map prints the original value of the array when it is called. However, when we used map! we changed the original value of the array. This difference is called destructive vs. non-destructive. While the destructive operations will modify the array they were called on, the non-destructive methods usually return a new array with the selected elements, but leave the original array unchanged.


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For the last 7 or 8 months I've made some seriously bad decisions. Posting this on a public forum might be one of them.
Before I really get started, I think a little background is in order. I have bipolar disorder and an extraordinarily addictive personality. Despite knowing both those things I succame to alcoholism, used copious amounts of illegal substances and abused over the counter sleeping pills. I've been throwing my life away. I stole from my friends, friends close enough to be family, to fund my vices. I'd like to say I feel terrible about it, but emotional numbing at the hands of SSRIs prevents that.
Two weeks ago I walked out on my job, just up and left. So I could go home and get drunk and high. I'm not in control of myself and I can't seem to get grab hold of my actions. I am psychologically addicted to a certain drug that is typically not associated with any amount of addiction. I've been throwing my life away, neglecting responsibility. I dropped out of school because I was getting stoned every day, though I may as well have flunked out for years before I started.
Well, on saturday I move back to my parents house where I physically can't get away with any of my vices. I need to get clean. I've told none but my parents about any of this. Well, my roommates as well. But they got to watch me spiral around the drain for almost the last year.
 I post this as a warning. Do not let yourself fall victim to your vices. OTC sleeping pills activate the same neural receptors that mood stabilizers inhibit. Same goes for the 2nd most prevalent compound in the most used drug in america. Alcohol negates their effects. Don't do it. Focus on your projects and your studies. Please learn from my mistakes.
Some people find making Let's Play series to be therapeutic, mainly because you're talking about your problems while playing a fun game. I hope you can get better.
I'd like to say I feel terrible about it, but emotional numbing at the hands of SSRIs prevents that.
It doesn't seem appropriate for me to say that it is a good thing that you want to feel bad, but it kind of is. This means that you aren't trying to justify those acts to yourself anymore. Speaking as someone who has been on the other side of a similar situation, don't keep beating yourself up over it. Once someone tells you that they forgive you, know that they probably do. That isn't the kind of thing that people lie about to be polite and you can't let something like paranoia stress you out into a relapse.
Keep an eye on the alcohol withdraw. If you start to shake don't just chalk it up to stress, go see a doctor that day. I've seen this firsthand and it can get bad fast. You may actually want to consult your doctor on a non-emergency basis anyway if for no other reason then to enumerate the risks and prepare yourself mentally for what your going to feel like for the next few weeks.
Glad to hear you're getting help. The important thing is that you are trying to make things better, even if it is hard to do it.
Tangentially relatedly, my brother-in-law just died on Wednesday from alcohol abuse. He had been clean for a month and his body just began to shut down. Drugs promise to help escape things, but all they do is chain people down and destroy them and hurt those who love them.
It would have if the hospital hadn't put him on the drugs necessary to survive it.
But, alas, the damage to his body was already done. His liver was so fractionated that there was no recovery.
I don't often post much on the forum anymore, but this is definitely deserving of a response.
I honestly and truly hope that you manage to recover from that addiction. I can see it being a difficult journey, but I'm glad that you're getting help. If you need someone to talk to and don't have anyone else, please drop me a PM. My PMs get forwarded to my email, which I check regularly, and I'll be happy to listen.
 Please don't even want to hate yourself. Sometimes, self-loathing can be a motivator to work harder at recovery. Most of what I've seen it do, however, is plunge someone who's already down into a further vicious circle. They feel they've done bad things, so they hate themselves for it, so to cope they succumb to their poison, and thus hate themselves even more.
-Albatross
P.S.  I hope your prescribed medications are helping.
Frankly you already have the best therapy for your problem(s). I've done just about every drug and vice there is and nothing, no high, trip, or experience comes anywhere near the rush you get out of seeing a project or program come together before your eyes. I don't know about everyone else, but I can easily stay up 48 hours straight on the excitement of designing some brand new creation. The mental stimulation alone should get you off depressants, and the need for clear thinking can certainly help with upper addiction (meth, coke, etc...) or coffee can serve as a replacement.
Who needs booze when you can take a little idea and grow it into a full blown project 20,000 lines strong? Who has time to get stoned day in and day out when every thought can be the next big thing? If you focus on getting your projects accomplished you'll find all thoughts of altering your mind fade (or at least I have).
Collaboration is also a wonderful thing. Others can help keep you motivated and on track as well as providing social interaction which goes a long way towards keeping you on the right path.
Frankly you already have the best therapy for your problem(s). I've done just about every drug and vice there is and nothing, no high, trip, or experience comes anywhere near the rush you get out of seeing a project or program come together before your eyes. I don't know about everyone else, but I can easily stay up 48 hours straight on the excitement of designing some brand new creation. The mental stimulation alone should get you off depressants, and the need for clear thinking can certainly help with upper addiction (meth, coke, etc...) or coffee can serve as a replacement.
Who needs booze when you can take a little idea and grow it into a full blown project 20,000 lines strong? Who has time to get stoned day in and day out when every thought can be the next big thing? If you focus on getting your projects accomplished you'll find all thoughts of altering your mind fade (or at least I have).
Collaboration is also a wonderful thing. Others can help keep you motivated and on track as well as providing social interaction which goes a long way towards keeping you on the right path.
This is all true to some extent, but there is a catch when factoring in the bi-polar. The periods of rush and excitement are offset by periods of dreadful feelings and emptiness.
In my experience, long excitement driven programming binges can lead to big lows, especially if you're isolating yourself while doing it.
Just thought I'd give you guys an update on my progress. Today marks half a month of sobriety.
I've smoked cigarettes for a while now, used to be able to make a pack last a month. Quitting my other vices has caused me to pick up on that. Used to have a mech mod vaporizer, which was working wonders for beating the cravings. Electric models don't vaporize as much nicotine and don't quite cut it. Then the battery shorted out on the mech mod and I haven't been able to replace it yet.


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by Donatus AnichukwuezeRivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has approved the inclusion of 2,673 additional retirees into the monthly pension payment scheme of the state government.
A statement by the Director-General, Rivers State Pension Board, Ijeoma Samuel, the approval followed the completion of biometric data capture of the new pensioners.
This is in addition to the 15,400 pensioners currently receiving monthly pensions, the statement said.
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It said that an ICT Department would soon start the biometric verification exercise for the next batch of retiring public servants.
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HackMerced is UC Merced’s second hackathon. Our group used 36 hours to think, design, build, and present a cool app of voice control
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- Q: What classes are recommended for a beginner?
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My name is Kenneth Prettman. Most people call me Kent. I currently live in Des Plaines, IL. I have lived there for 10 years and prior to that I lived in Schaumburg for 20 years. I recently took a trip to Germany where I got to see a castle for the first time. The picture of me standing in a doorway was taken at Burghausen Castle.
I enjoy riding my motorcycle. I have an SV650 but I want an Aprillia Tuono RSV4. Hopefully when I am making some of that sweet web developer money I can afford one and a place with a garage to store it. My poor SV650 has to sit outside under a cover during the summer but I keep it in a garage during the winter.


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Class FLAServiceOnt
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public static final OWLClass UPnPAtomicProcessGrounding
hasUPnPAtomicProcessGrounding
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upnpOutputMapping
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upnpInputMapping
public static final OWLObjectProperty upnpInputMapping
upnpParameter
public static final OWLDataProperty upnpParameter
upnpServiceID
public static final OWLDataProperty upnpServiceID
upnpDeviceURL
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upnpCommand
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UPnPMap
public static final OWLClass UPnPMap
restInvocation
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transformInputType
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useRandomInput
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textDescription
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serviceDescriptionURL
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serviceDescriptionText
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input
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inputCount
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output
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outputCount
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location
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coordinates
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controlUI
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owner
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discoveryTime
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serviceType
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groundingType
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groundingURL
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caName
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descriptionVersion
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I've managed to stumble into the Growth Mindset on accident (or maybe not?). I've had success jumping into phase-0 with this in mind and have been playing around with resources and tools ever since I applied. (it's really just treating study like play time) I'm also planning out the future in increments. The Toggl timer in conjunction with the Pomodoro technique was another one of those techniques that I tried out.
The Pomodoro technique has been pretty cool. (I'm loosey-goosey with the breaks, though. XD) Sometimes I get to the end of a 25 minute period and i'm relieved that I can feel good about taking a break to just mess around for a bit. Then there's those times that I eloquently discuss an alternative with the timer; "SHUTUPI'MNOTDONE"" and keep going. (don't hold that against me :P)
As mentioned, I've got a Growth Mindset going into this journey, but I think I like the idea of how Meditation and Mindfulness could also be nice supporting techniques to leverage. I've dabbled a bit in each and I am feeling Mindfulness > Meditation at the moment. I think there are ways I can apply Mindfulness such that I can support what i'm currently learning, but still lay the foundations to start focusing on developing other skills later on.
My version of Pomodoro, which I shall dub the Formaggio (because tomato and cheese sandwich, that's why!) technique, where I might sometimes play fast and loose with how I handle breaks. Also, having the mindset of do first then assess yourself has been very familiar to me. (It's very much a gaming mindset, I think)
Pomodoro has been really good. Not only for tracking time, but feeling great that I know for sure that when I think back to what I did during a particular day I can think: I was awesome today! And I have Toggl as proof! Of course I also wanna get back into doing Mindfulness training and maybe look into Meditation again.


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Could anyone help me with an apparently easy lemma:
lemma sub_add_eq_add_sub_of_le {a b c : ℕ} (h : b ≤ a) : (a - b) + c = (a + c) - b := by omega -- overkill!
lemma sub_add_eq_add_sub_of_le {a b c : ℕ} (h : b ≤ a) : (a - b) + c = (a + c) - b := begin symmetry, apply nat.sub_eq_of_eq_add, rw [←add_assoc, nat.add_sub_cancel' h], end
Seems like a candidate for addition to the library
lemma sub_add_eq_add_sub_of_le {a b c : ℕ} (h : b ≤ a) : (a - b) + c = (a + c) - b := by rw [add_comm a, nat.add_sub_assoc h, add_comm]
I suggest the name nat.sub_add_eq_add_sub
Thanks!
I have a bunch more lemmas about nat
(mostly about divisibility) that I would like to have in mathlib.
They are all proved, but I don't doubt my proofs are highly golfable.
(and maybe some are in the library, just library_search
and I failed to find them)
What is the best way to proceed?
Should I just make a PR with all the lemmas, with my proofs?
Or should I post just the statements here for someone to give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to each?
Or post the proofs here too?
post a PR, we can suggest improvements in the review comments if necessary
you are more likely to get an individual proof golfed if you post here, but don't overdo it
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SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998) A Film Review by Ted Prigge Copyright 1998 Ted Prigge
Director: Steven Spielberg Writer: Robert Rodat Starring: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Jeremy Davies, Adam Goldberg, Barry Pepper, Giovanni Ribisi, Van Diesel, Matt Damon, Dennis Farina, Harve Presnell, Ted Danson, Leland Orser, Paul Giamatti
There are two ways that a war film can go, both of them tragic mistakes: 1) they can glorify it and make it seem like everything the soldiers do is a great and heroic thing (see John Wayne's "The Green Berets" - a pro-Vietnam flick); and 2) they try to be totally political about it and ignore the fact that there's such a thing as heroism, even in the barbarism of war. The latter are usually made by people who never had to go through this and are just viewing from what they've seen on the news and heard from a couple people. There's a scene in "The Best Years of Our Lives" that illustrates what's wrong with the latter. In it, a soldier who was come back from World War II with no hands is told he is a "sucker" for going to war by an everyday schmoo activist, prompting the soldier to attack him in a fit of rage. What's wrong with the activist is he's never had to go into battle and fight for something he believed in, therefore he knows nothing.
And neither did I until about a week ago before I saw "Saving Private Ryan," perhaps the most realistic, gritty film ever put together by a major studio. In the film's opening half hour, we are "treated" to a long, accurate, and gory depiction of D-Day, namely the Normandy beach siege, which, from the looks of it, was almost a suicide mission. We're there in the boat when it's about to dock with soldiers acting nervous, throwing up, and the lot. When the doors open, the first couple rows of soldiers are gunned down immeadiately, and the remaining soldiers hide behind the blocks on the beach made so the boats wouldn't be able to drive up onto the beach any further.
With machine guns blaring all over the surround sound system, jerky camera movements, people dying left and right, and a group of soldiers trying to form a little plan at the last minute to complete their mission and stay alive, we are introduced to one soldier in particular: Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), who's hands were shaking before the boats docked, and who's job it is to command whatever men he can find to try and stop the opposing army from shooting. When hiding behind the blocks, the camera closes in on him, the sound drops, motion slows up, and he looks around as everyone is quickly and gruesomely being killed. He even notices one soldier in particular who, missing his arm, goes back to pick it up and carry it with him. Welcome to the inferno.
The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, one of the best directors still working today, although this film finds him in a career slump: following the wild successes of "Jurassic Park" and "Schindler's List," as well as a long hiatus from directing, he made three films in a row, two which opened last year - "The Lost World" and "Amistad" - and both which were big disappointments: The former was little more than a cheap way to make money, and it showed; the latter was too overly ambitious for its own good. Not many people realized how important it was that his third film in this trio really was. Luckily enough, "Saving Private Ryan" finds him more than back in his old form, but that he's still as powerful a director as he ever was.
You want to see how great a filmmaker he is? Look how intensely amazing the opening Normandy sequence is. It's probably the most unnerrving thirty minutes ever caught on film - so unnerrving that I couldn't wait for it to end, a damn good thing if you're trying to create a war sequence in all its "glory." Any other filmmaker, or at least most of them, would falter after this. It's such a strong sequence that it could all go down hill from there. But Spielberg decides that not only is he going to keep moving on, but that he's also going to expand his themes, and the result is an emotional rollar coaster through a realistic debate on duty versus humanity.
He does this by bringing up a fictitious composite: the Ryan boys, four brothers who went to war, and three who were found to be killed after D-Day, with one missing, either dead or alive. When discovering this, the heads of the military decide to take strict action: they will send a platoon to find the last Private Ryan (later played by Matt Damon, who made this long before he became a star) and bring him home alive. So following Normandy, we find that Miller and a group of his en have been chosen to find him, whether they like it or not (they don't).
 Our entry into this group is with one of the film's many masterstrokes, Corporal Upham (Jeremy Davies, from "Spanking the Monkey"), a French/German translator who is assigned to the platoon, and who's never stepped foot in battle before. Played to perfect comic nervousness, he becomes the viewpoint of the audience, wreaking of ignorance and pleading for a little humanity in some of the film's more frightening scenes, as well as sometimes the only guy who doesn't know the lingo and attitude that the soldiers have become accustomed to when being with eachother.
Lingering over all this is Captain Miller, who has the terrible burden of not only feeling exactly like these soldiers but having to convey a sense of leadership and emotional stature for the rest of the platoon. Watching Miller have to deal with the mighty paradox of commanding when he's as afraid as the rest of them becomes the film's most human aspect, and thank god he's played by Tom Hanks who gives what has got to be the best performance he's ever given. His is devoid of gloss or cliche; he makes him into a fully-developed character, worthy of our sympathy, and worried that his wife will not recognize him because he's been through so much hell while being in the army.
"Ryan" could easily be the most anti-war film ever made, what with its total gory depiction of war and sense of loss we get whenever one of the soldiers is killed (look at how saddening the scene where Giovanni Ribisi dies). But at the same time, this could have been an over-glorification of soldiers, with everyone gung ho about getting Private Ryan (this premise could have easily been another vehicle for John Wayne back in the hey day of war films). What it is, however, is much better than that: it's a realistic portrait of this situation that refuses to take sides. It merely asks us to look at it for what it is, and make our own conclusions. He does this not by having the characters speak the ideas of the filmmaker, as many films make the mistake of doing, but by showing it through action, prompting the audience to not see it as propaganda for some personal view, but to see it as totally and utterly emotionally devastating.
What can be said about the battle scenes in this movie that wouldn't seem redundant? What can be said about that shot of the Ryan mother seeing the army car pull up to her house and the priest getting out that can't be said just in emotions? It may not seem obvious right now, but Spielberg has done and said a lot more about war in this film than any other film in history ever has. He has not glamorized it or taken a side with it, and he has found a new way of hating war and a new way of honoring the men who risked their lives to fight for their country: these men weren't really fighting anyone in particular; they were fighting to defend their fellow men seflessly. But the most important thing about this film is that it defies explanation and becomes the one thing that so many films try to be but never become: cathartic.
MY RATING (out of 4): ****
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Post Malone Has The Time Of His Life Dancing To Shania Twain’s AMAs Performance
by Corey AtadShania Twain knows how to get people up on their feet.
In a video that went viral on Sunday, Post Malone is seen dancing and singing along to “Man I Feel Like a Woman” during Twain’s big AMAs performance.
Twain herself retweeted the video and even praised Post Malone’s dance moves.
In an interview with USA Today last week, Twain actually revealed her one AMAs wish involved meeting Post Malone.
“I hope I get a hug in with Post Malone – that would be really great,” she said. “Just a quick hug and ‘congratulations.’ I love him, and I’ve been such a big fan for a long time.”


GERMINAL A film review by James Berardinelli Copyright 1994 James Berardinelli
Rating (0 to 10): 9.0
Date Released: varies Running Length: 2:40 Rated: R (Violence, nudity, sex) Starring: Renaud, Miou-Miou, Gerard Depardieu, Judith Henry Director: Claude Berri Producer: Claude Berri Screenplay: Claude Berri and Arlette Langmann based on the novel by Emile Zola Music: Jean-Louis Roques Released by Sony Pictures Classics In French with subtitles
"Why is the price of justice so high?" - Maheude, GERMINAL
GERMINAL, based on the landmark novel by Emile Zola, presents a startlingly authentic and powerful look into the tumultuous, tragedy- riddled lives of 19th century French coal miners. Forced to endure hellish conditions, risk death and dismemberment, and work from before dawn until after dusk, these men and women had only one alternative to mining: starvation. GERMINAL is not a happy story, but it is impossible not to sense the realism that pervades the project.
The film opens with the arrival of Etienne Lantier (Renaud) at the Voreux coal mine. An out-of-work machinist, Etienne is willing to do almost anything to make money, including descending into the pit and taking pick-axe to coal. He is befriended by Maheu (Gerard Depardieu), who takes him onto his digging crew and invites him to lodge at his house. Once there, Etienne becomes enamored with Catherine (Judith Henry), Maheu's daughter, and she with him--although neither of them is willing to admit their feelings.
As the drudgery of working in the mine worsens, and pay is cut back, Etienne prods Maheu into organizing a strike. At first peaceful, it doesn't take long before the labor unrest explodes into violence, with predictable consequences.
Director/producer Claude Berri, who is perhaps best known for his films JEAN DE FLORETTE and MANON OF THE SPRING, has dedicated GERMINAL to his father, a furrier who toiled for most of his life in factories and died at the age of 58 from inhaling animal hairs. Actors Gerard Depardieu and Miou-Miou participated in this film as tributes to their own laborer parents.
In a movie that could easily have become little more than a platform for damning 19th-Century labor conditions, Berri has breathed life and vigor into both characters and script. We are drawn into GERMINAL, not only by the finely-realized people who inhabit this world, but by the ability of the cameras to evoke with claustrophobic authenticity the labyrinthine tunnels of the mines.
Berri refuses to gloss over the ugliness of what it was like to work underground, and, in vivid contrast to soot-coated, sweating, weary men and women trudging through candlelit darkness, he presents the pampered lives of those who run the mines. As a strike looms, one such woman hopes that this unfortunate turn of events won't disrupt her plans for a lunch party.
Berri's indictment of plight of the miners is at once simple and moving. While Zola's impassioned cry for social reform is at the heart of GERMINAL, the interactions of the individual characters represent the picture's soul, and lift it above other movies with similar messages.
There is the unconditional love of one man, Maheu, for his family, and the sacrifices he must endure for them. Maheu is a hard worker, and in his heart he believes in the innate goodness of man. He cannot accept, for example, that soldiers brought in to defend the mine would fire on their own countrymen.
GERMINAL, which cost $30 million to make, is a lavish production, and it's clear that the money was well-spent. The scenes in the mine are remarkable in conveying the desperate circumstances confronting the characters. How many members of the audience experienced an irrational desire to wash away the accumulating coal dust from their own skin?
Aided in no small part by an exemplary cast, Claude Berri has brought to the screen a masterpiece, interweaving personal tragedy and social upheaval against the background of a way of life that would not yield easily to change. There is much that is right about GERMINAL, and very little that is wrong. When released in France, this film went toe-to-toe with JURASSIC PARK. Financial considerations aside, take one look at this movie, and it will be clear which is the real winner.
- James Berardinelli<EMAIL_ADDRESS>.
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