The advertising partnership campaign for PGDay 2009 has just started. There are several opportunities for you to join the advertising partnership campaign directly promoted by PostgreSQL Europe. It is also possible to directly sponsor a speaker for the conference.
Any profits made by the conference through sponsorship or fees will be shared between PostgreSQL Europe and PostgreSQLFR, and used to expand community work in Europe.
As a Platinum Partner you will enjoy the most prominent exposure to the conference attendees. You will cement your reputation as a company with vision and integrity amongst the technical elite by your association with the conference at this level. The Platinum Partner is entitled to the following:
Your corporate logo printed prominently on the official PGDay 2009 Attendees t-shirts (deadline: October 1st);
Prominent acknowledgment on the pgday home page. Your corporate logo (web banner 120×60 pixels,
PNG format) will include a link back to your website;
Prominent acknowledgment on the pgday registration page. Your corporate logo (web banner 300×250 pixels,
PNG format) will include a link back to your website;
Prominent acknowledgment on the pgday partners and sponsors page. Your corporate logo (web banner 300×250 pixels,
PNG format) will include a link back to your website;
A desk in the Partners area of the conference;
The elite privilege of displaying your corporate signage in the main lecture theatre (one banner, maximum size 2mt x 0.80mt);
The exclusive opportunity to present a technical talk during PGDay;
XXL size of your corporate logo printed in the partners page of the conference booklet (note on the booklet size);
Permission to use the following endorsement: “Major Partner of European PGDay 2009” or “Platinum Partner of European PGDay 2009”;
Permission to use the “Platinum Partner of European PGDay 2009” logo on your site, according to the instructions that will be given.
Being listed as “PostgreSQL Europe's Partner” on PostgreSQL Europe website.
An investment of at least 8,000 € will secure this Partnership.
This opportunity is limited to one single partner.
As a Gold Partner you will enjoy one of the most prominent exposures to the conference attendees. You will cement your reputation as a company with vision and integrity amongst the technical elite by your association with the conference at this level. The Gold Partner is entitled to the following:
Your corporate logo printed on the official European PGDay 2009 Attendees t-shirts (deadline: September 10);
Prominent acknowledgment on the pgday home page. Your corporate logo (web banner 120×60 pixels,
PNG format) will include a link back to your website;
Prominent acknowledgment on the pgday registration page. Your corporate logo (web banner 234×60 pixels,
PNG format) will include a link back to your website;
Prominent acknowledgment on the pgday partners and sponsors page. Your corporate logo (web banner 300×250 pixels,
PNG format) will include a link back to your website;
A desk in the Partners area of the conference;
The elite privilege of displaying your corporate signage in the main lecture theatre (one banner, maximum size 2mt x 0.80mt);
An invitation to include promotional material in the conference bags for registered participants (with a maximum of two A4 or US letter size pages);
XL size of of corporate logo printed in the partners page of the conference booklet (note on the booklet size);
Permission to use the following endorsement: “Gold Partner of the European PGDay 2009”;
Permission to use the “Gold Partner of the European PGDay 2009” logo on your site, according to the instructions that will be given.
Being listed as “PostgreSQL Europe's Partner” on PostgreSQL Europe website.
An investment of at least 4,000 € will secure this Partnership.
As a Silver Partner you will enjoy a high degree of prominence. The Silver Partner is entitled to the following:
Prominent acknowledgment on the pgday registration page. Your corporate logo (web banner 120×60 pixels,
PNG format) will include a link back to your website;
Prominent acknowledgment on the pgday partners and sponsors page. Your corporate logo (web banner 234×60 pixels,
PNG format) will include a link back to your website;
An invitation to include promotional material in the conference bags for registered participants (with a maximum of one A4 or US letter size page);
L size of your corporate logo printed in the partners page of the conference booklet (note on the booklet size);
Permission to use the following endorsement: “Silver Partner of European PGDay 2009”;
Permission to use the “Silver Partner of European PGDay 2009” logo on your site, according to the instructions that will be given.
An investment of at least 1,500 € will secure this Partnership.
A Bronze Parter is entitled to the following:
Acknowledgment on the pgday partners and sponsors page. Your corporate logo (web banner 120×60 pixels,
PNG format) will include a link back to your website;
An invitation to include promotional material in the conference bags for registered participants (with a maximum of one A4 or US letter size page);
M size of your corporate logo printed in the partners page of the conference booklet (note on the booklet size);
Permission to use the following endorsement: “Bronze Partner of European PGDay 2009”;
Permission to use the “Bronze Partner of European PGDay 2009” logo on your site, according to the instructions that will be given.
An investment of at least 500 € will secure this Partnership.
The European PGDay 2009 is not only an event for the PostgreSQL community and for PostgreSQL promotion. It is also an incredible chance for core and major developers to catch up and have face to face meetings where the future of the PostgreSQL project can be modeled in a much more friendly and productive way. Developer rooms are open for PostgreSQL related projects as well.
Be a company that fosters PostgreSQL growth by joining the PostgreSQL Developer Room partnership. Enjoy all the benefits of Bronze partner plus the benefits of the developer room partnership of the selected day. In acknowledgment of your organization's partnership and significant support for the conference, a Developer Room partner is entitled to the following:
All the benefits of Bronze partnership;
The exclusive invitation to display corporate signage in the developer room for the the selected day (one banner, maximum size 2mt x 0.80mt);
Naming rights for your day's developer room and acknowledgment wherever the developer room is mentioned in the conference literature and website.
An investment of at least 1,500 € will secure this partnership. This opportunity is limited to two units, one per day.
Enjoy all the benefits of Bronze partner plus the benefits of the conference bags partnership. In acknowledgment of your organization's partnership and significant support for the conference, a Conference Bags partner is entitled to the following:
All the benefits of Bronze partnership;
The exclusive privilege of having your company logo on one side of the conference bag (maximum A5 size)
Acknowledgment wherever the conference bags partnership is mentioned in the conference literature and website.
An investment of at least 1,500 € will secure this partnership. This opportunity is limited to one unit. Deadline: October 1st.
Some companies may wish to independently sponsor one or more speakers to come to the European PGDay 2009 by paying for their travel directly. The speaker and the sponsor need to officially inform PGFR or PGEU about this private agreement if they intend to be acknowledged. However, if companies prefer to sponsor a speaker through the non profit organisation, PGFR or PGEU is happy to accommodate that request.
A list of all the speakers and their sponsors is advertised by PGFR or PGEU on the website and on the conference booklet.


Workflow optimizations & customizations
by Devon Zuegel23 September 2015
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I'm a huge sucker for workflow customization and optimization. I like to tell myself that I'm saving myself time and headaches in the long run, but the reality is I spend more time optimizing my work flow than I actually end up saving from it. But it's fun, and it's even more fun to share my customizations with other people!
## Posts ##
I've written several posts about my programming and writing workflow through terminal customizations, Sublime preferences, syntax-specific settings, and so on, including:
## Misc Tools ##
* Batch converting `.erb` files to `.slim` (requires `erb2slim` and `html2slim` gems) by recursing through all sub-directories:
```shell
$ for f in **/*.erb; do erb2slim $f ${f/\.erb/.slim}; done
$ rm **/*.erb
```
* A Ruby script to pretty-print 2D arrays:
```ruby
require 'colorize'
def print_table(table, with_header = true)
# Calculate widths
widths = []
table.each do |line|
line.each_with_index do |col, c|
widths[c] = (widths[c] && widths[c] > col.length) ? widths[c] : col.length
end
end
# Indent the last column left.
last = widths.pop()
format = widths.collect { |n| "%-#{n}s" }.join(" | ".black) + " #{'|'.black} %-#{last}s\n"
table.each_with_index do |line, i|
if i == 0 && with_header
printf(format.black, *line)
else
printf(format, *line)
end
end
end
```
Given a two-dimensional array, `print_table` pretty prints a table that looks a bit like this:
![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6979755/9891532/af277164-5bbb-11e5-8456-89fc69e2fdb7.png)
* [JSON Formatter](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/json-formatter/bcjindcccaagfpapjjmafapmmgkkhgoa?hl=en) enables syntax highlighting and collapsible trees with indent guides when working with raw JSON in your browser. One of my favorite features is that holding down `cmd` while collapsing a subtree collapses all of its siblings, too.
![](../../assets/workflow-optimizations-customizations/json-formatter-example.webp)
My Text Editor is Absolutely Sublime
27 November 2015
Pomodoro
03 August 2015
Automator Workflow to stitch PDFs into a single document
19 March 2015
My zsh aliases
17 March 2015
Batch installing fonts in multiple subdirectories
01 February 2015


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tests is a suite of tools for ease of use for standard testing tools. Things like "verify it exists and is not
null", that you'd want to test against every function, object and string you have.
Importing and Instantiation
Add @flippydisk/tools to your project.
@flippydisk/tools is in the npm registry, so it should be as simple as the
following:
npm i @flippydisk/tools --save-dev
However, if you run into any issues, or simply want a "main" branch version, you can alternatively add this manually
to your package.json under the dependencies{} section:
Once it's in your project, you can either import all of the lang methods, or pick and choose. lang utilities are
individual functions, so there is no instantiation needed.
import * as Tests from '@flippydisk/tools/tests'; // call with Tests.testDefaults()
or as individual items:
import * as Tests from '@flippydisk/tools/tests';
Use
Setup an object in your tests that maps out your class/suites list of modules by types. The Object key should be the
name of the type, and then it should be an array of the names of your modules.
Instantiate a class if need be, or simply use the Suite name as the instance param. Then, run the class or suite
through the Tests.testDefaults() method and it will ensure that all these items exist and are the type you say it
should be.
PASS src/debug/index.spec.js
Debug
√ will provide defaults on initialization (4 ms)
√ and its dependencies should be defined (3 ms)
An example using the Lang suite:
import * as Tests from '@flippydisk/tools/tests';
import * as Lang from '@flippydisk/tools/lang';
const allItems = {
function: [
Lang.filterHTMLTags,
Lang.getPropertySafely,
Lang.getStringSafely,
Lang.isEmptyString,
Lang.isEmptyObject,
Lang.isNull,
Lang.isNullish,
Lang.isNumber,
Lang.isObject,
Lang.isStringy,
Lang.isType,
Lang.isUndefined,
Lang.isValidObject,
],
};
describe('Lang', () => {
Tests.testDefaults(Lang, allItems);
});
Result:
PASS src/lang/index.spec.js
Lang
√ will provide defaults on initialization (4 ms)
√ and its dependencies should be defined (3 ms)
Tests:
There isn't a lot to test here yet, mostly because testDefaults actually runs tests itself, so it's harder to check
against a real 'result'. However, we can at least use it to test itself:
Overview
tests
is a suite of tools for ease of use for standard testing tools. Things like "verify it exists and is not null", that you'd want to test against every function, object and string you have.Importing and Instantiation
Add
@flippydisk/tools
to your project. @flippydisk/tools is in the npm registry, so it should be as simple as the following:npm i @flippydisk/tools --save-dev
However, if you run into any issues, or simply want a "main" branch version, you can alternatively add this manually to your
package.json
under thedependencies{}
section:"@flippydisk/tools": "git+ssh://git@github.com:flippydisk/tools.git"
Once it's in your project, you can either import all of the
lang
methods, or pick and choose.lang
utilities are individual functions, so there is no instantiation needed.import * as Tests from '@flippydisk/tools/tests';
// call with Tests.testDefaults()or as individual items:
Use
Setup an object in your tests that maps out your class/suites list of modules by types. The Object key should be the name of the type, and then it should be an array of the names of your modules.
Instantiate a class if need be, or simply use the Suite name as the
instance
param. Then, run the class or suite through theTests.testDefaults()
method and it will ensure that all these items exist and are thetype
you say it should be.An example using the Debug class:
Result:
An example using the Lang suite:
Result:
Tests:
There isn't a lot to test here yet, mostly because
testDefaults
actually runs tests itself, so it's harder to check against a real 'result'. However, we can at least use it to test itself:


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If you're seeing this, looks like the app is deployed! So, at least that's working. Shocking, huh?


Lazy loading Angular components can be tedious. I'm pretty sure you've
heard about ComponentFactoryResolver
😉.
ngx-lazy-el
makes lazy loading easy thanks to Angular
Elements.
Click the "lazy load" button to lazily load the components.
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This past year I successfully defending my Ph.D. dissertation Modeling Melodic Dictation. In a nutshell, I was interested in seeing how tools from computational musicology and cognitive psychology can help understand melodic dictation. In the research I was able to use all the domain expertise that comes along with doing a Ph.D. in Music Theory with the tools and techniques from music perception. Check out the dissertation here on the LSU Commons and I also have the whole thing (though not the canonical copy!) hosted as interactive book online thanks to bookdown. Find the online, mobile friendly copy here.
Dissertation Output
- First author on article accepted at Musicae Scientiae replicating the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index that offers additional commentary on the use of latent variables in music research. We argue for researchers to adopt a polymorphic view of musical ability when creating statistical models and question some of the assumptions that we as researchers make when we used latent variables in music psychology research.
- Sole author on book chapter with Routledge in Companion to Aural Training in Music Education scheduled for publication in 2020.
- First author on chapter in Scholarly Approaches to Mathematical Music Theory.
- Two First author International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition proceedings papers available on my Research Gate.


The cryosphere is a major component of the hydrosphere and interacts significantly with the global climate system, the geosphere, and the biosphere. Over 30 percent of the Earth's land surface is covered seasonally by snow, and about 10 percent is covered permanently with snow or ice.
Snow and ice play important interactive roles in regional climates, because snow has a higher albedo than any other natural surface. The earliest signs of global climate change are likely in the polar regions and in the seasonal snow cover and alpine glaciers. For investigations in hydrology and land-surface climatology, seasonal snow cover and alpine glaciers are critical to the radiation and water balances. Over major portions of the middle and high latitudes, and at high elevations in the tropical latitudes, snow and alpine glaciers are the largest contributors to runoff in rivers and to ground-water recharge. The dual problems of estimating both the quantity of water held by seasonal snow packs and timing of snowmelt confront snow hydrologists. Understanding the processes in the seasonal snow cover is also important for studies of the chemical balance of alpine drainage basins, because of translocation of anions and cations within the snow pack and possible concentrated release in the first phases of the melt season.
Soil moisture is an environmental descriptor that integrates much of the land surface hydrology and is the interface for interaction between the solid Earth surface and life. As central as this seems to man's existence and biogeochemical cycles, it is a descriptor that has not had wide spread application as a variable in any land process models. There are two primary reasons for this. It is a difficult variable to measure, not at one point in time, but in a consistent and spatially comprehensive basis. Also, it exhibits very large spatial and temporal variability; thus point measurements have had very little meaning. The practical result of this is that soil moisture has not been used as measurable variable in any of our current hydrologic, climatic, agricultural, or biogeochemical models.
Both passive microwave and active microwave (SAR) techniques have provided solid theoretical and experimental results that the top five cm of soil moisture can be measured from aircraft and space platforms under a variety of environmental conditions and through a moderate vegetation cover (Figures 3-1, 3-2). This section will define the science issues and application opportunities that can be addressed by microwave remote sensing of soil moisture and snow water equivalence, describe the capabilities and limitations of the passive and SAR systems, describe the progress to date and document the research still needed to take this technology to an operational status.
The scientific objectives related to snow and ice identified by the National Research Council are:
* To study the global hydrologic cycle to determine the distributions, dimensions, properties, and relevant dynamics of snow, sea and lake ice, ice sheets and shelves.
* To determine and understand the mechanisms for the transfers of water between the major global reservoirs (glacier flow, melting, and freezing).
* To predict on appropriate time scales the distributions, volumes, and fluxes associated with snow cover, sea ice, ice sheets and shelves, ground ice, and permafrost.
Although snow and ice phenomena play important roles in global processes, difficult access hampers data collection, and conventional studies of snow and ice cannot address the correct scales of most phenomena. In situ sampling methods have limited utility for capturing the spatial and temporal variability of snow and ice processes. Operational hydrology and climatology require timely measurement of snow-pack parameters.
The redistribution of solar energy over the globe is central to studies in climate. Water serves a fundamental role in this redistribution through the energy associated with evapotranspiration, the transport of atmospheric water vapor, and precipitation. Residence time for atmospheric water is on the order of a week, and for soil moisture, from a couple of days to months, which emphasize the active nature of the hydrologic cycle. Understanding the importance of the land-surface hydrology to climate has emerged as an important research area since the mid 1960s when researchers at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory placed a land hydrology component into their general circulation model (GCM) (see Manabe et al., 1965; Manabe, 1969).
As the sophistication of GCMs has increased, the role of the land surface component has become more and more important. However, a major weakness in the current GCMs is, according to the CES-89 report, "the adequate parameterization of variables representing the terrestrial phase of the hydrologic cycle..., which is primarily the result of totally inadequate information concerning the degree of spatial variability of precipitation, evapotranspiration, and other components of hydrology." This report goes further to say "the lack of regional-scale measurements introduces a severe shortcoming in the testing of GCM output."
Perhaps the most important role that the land surface component of a GCM performs is the partitioning of incoming radiative energy into sensible and latent heat fluxes. The major factor involved in determining the relative proportions of the two heat fluxes is the availability of water, generally in the form of soil moisture. A number of modeling studies have demonstrated the sensitivity of soil moisture anomalies to climate (Walker and Rowntree, 1977, Rowntree and Bolton, 1983, Rind, 1982, Shukla and Mintz, 1982, Delworth and Manabe, 1989). Researchers have reported, for instance, that soil moisture is the second most important forcing function, second only to the sea surface temperature in the mid latitudes, and it becomes the most important forcing function in the summer months.
The role of soil moisture is equally important at smaller scales. Recent studies with mesoscale atmospheric models have similarly demonstrated a sensitivity to spatial gradients of soil moisture. For example, Fast and McCorcle (1991) have shown that soil moisture gradients can induce thermally induced circulations similar to sea breezes. Chang and Wetzel (1991) have concluded that the spatial variations of vegetation and soil moisture affect the surface baroclinic structures through differential heating, which in turn indicate the location and intensity of surface dynamic and thermodynamic discontinuities necessary to develop severe storms. In yet another study, Lanicci et al., (1987) have shown that dry soil conditions over northern Mexico and variable soil moisture conditions over the southern Great Plains can dynamically interact to alter prestorm conditions and subsequent convective rainfall patterns.
It is still unclear whether the spatial distribution of soil moisture collected at regional scales is useful for GCM and mesoscale modeling. One indication in favor is the recent study by Betts et al., (1994) showing that initialization of ECMWF weather predictions on current soil moisture (during the summer of 1993 in the US Great Plains region) can lead to improved rainfall predictions. The extreme wetness conditions, in comparison to climatological average soil moisture, clearly was a factor in the effect. For more normal conditions, soil moisture anomalies will vary with the spatial and temporal scales of rain events--scales that may be meaningful to 4-dimensional data assimilations (4DDA) and mesoscale modeling.
Based on these studies and scales ranging from GCM to mesoscale, it appears that soil moisture will be an important hydrologic variable for hydrometeorological modeling and validation studies. Because of the ubiquitous nature of soil moisture in many disciplines, there are numerous potential science applications for frequent and spatially comprehensive measurements of soil moisture. However, most of these will fit under the umbrella of the following four science issues which are the highest priority:
* To understand the role of surface soil moisture in the partitioning of incoming radiant energy into latent and sensible heat fluxes at a variety of scales from mesoscale to GCM scale.
* To understand the relationship between the surface 5 cm of soil moisture observable by microwave techniques and the total profile (1 m or more) soil moisture that is accessible to plants and transpiration to the atmosphere.
* To understand how spatial and temporal patterns of soil moisture are related to the physical and hydrologic properties of soils.
* To understand how the spatial and temporal patterns of soil moisture can be used to improve our ability to model runoff at a variety of scales and adapt hydrologic models to areas of differing climate, biomes and soils, and geology.
With the potential for measuring soil moisture having been demonstrated, the obvious question to ask is how might society use such soil moisture measurements? As in the science issues, there are four general areas in which routine measurements of soil moisture could have major impacts on our day-to-day lives:
* Improvements in medium range weather forecasting by incorporating measured soil moisture on a 30-km grid on a daily basis.
* Agricultural applications would include on-farm uses for improving irrigation scheduling and efficiencies, to improving crop yield modeling for both domestic and foreign areas. The scales of interest here would be 100 m to 1 km and three to seven days.
* Water management applications require better quantification of water uses, storages and runoff to monitor existing resources and to assist decision makers in allocation of limited resources or coordination of relief efforts in times of flooding. The scales of interest here would also be 100 m to 1 km and three to seven days.
* Climate models, particularly for annual and inter annual variability, need to be able to represent the land surface hydrologic processes accurately. Measured soil moisture can be used as a state variable and as a validity measure for GCMs. The scales of interest here are 1 to 10 km and 7 to 30 days.
Satellite remote sensing has become increasingly important to hydrologists and climatologists because the data provide information on the spatial and temporal distributions of parameters of climatic and hydrologic importance: snow covered area, surface albedo, snow water equivalence, and snow wetness (liquid water content). For the seasonal snow cover, remote sensing improves the monitoring of existing conditions and has been incorporated into several runoff-forecasting and management systems. Visible and near-infrared sensors have been used extensively to measure snow-covered area. While the signal in this portion of the electromagnetic spectrum is sensitive to snow grain size and impurities, it is not sensitive to wetness and is sensitive to water equivalence only for shallow snow packs. In addition, cloud cover hampers data collection from these sensors, so the opportunities for obtaining suitable data can be infrequent. In addition to accurate measurements of snow extent and albedo, forecasting of melt (at both continental and drainage-basin scales) requires information about spatial and temporal distributions of snow water equivalence and free liquid-water content.
Passive microwave signals are sensitive to snow properties of hydrologic interest. However, the spatial resolution of spaceborne passive microwave sensors is much coarser than the natural scale of variation in mountainous areas. Active microwave remote sensing has long promised the advantages of: (1) all-weather day or night imaging capabilities; (2) high resolution suitable for alpine regions; (3) sensitivity to most snow properties of interest to snow hydrologists and climatologists. Over the last decade, major improvements in technology from data acquisition and processing to quantitative interpretation have put capabilities for advanced snow and ice measurements at our doorstep.
For snow, recent studies (using SIR-C/X-SAR, AIRSAR, and ERS-1 data) have shown a significant improvement in understanding and modeling the backscattering and polarization properties as a function of snow-pack parameters. An accurate algorithm to retrieve snow wetness, which indicates where and at what rate snow is melting, has been developed and tested using C-band SIR C and JPL AIRSAR data (Figures 3-3a, 3-3b). Thus, accurate information about the spatial and temporal distributions and melting status of snow cover can be provided for hydrological and climatic investigations and operations. Maps of snow-covered area derived from SIR-C/X-SAR and AIRSAR now compare reasonably well (85-90% accuracy) with those derived from visible imagery, which require clear weather and daylight.
For soil moisture, recent advances in remote sensing technology have demonstrated that soil moisture can be measured by a variety of techniques. However, only microwave technology has the ability to quantitatively measure soil moisture under a variety of topographic and vegetation cover conditions, so potentially it could be extended to routine measurements from a satellite system. A number of experiments using sensors mounted in trucks, aircraft, and spacecraft have shown that the moisture within a thin layer of soil, on the order of 5 cm, can be accurately measured for bare soil and thinly vegetated surfaces.
There are two basic microwave approaches that are typically used to measure soil moisture. One is passive (which is based on radiometry) and the other is active and uses radar. Both approaches utilize the large contrast between the dielectric constant of dry soil and water. At L-band, the dielectric constant can vary from about 3 for dry soil to about 20 for wet soil, which can result in a change in emissivity for passive systems from about 0.95 to 0.6 or lower and an increase in the radar backscatter approaching 10 dB. There are also major differences between the two systems in spatial resolution, swath width, data rate, and power requirements. However, almost without exception, the two systems are complementary; that
is, strengths in one are matched by weaknesses in the other, and vice versa. The advantages of passive microwave systems include frequent coverage, low data rates, and (relative to active microwave) simpler data processing. The disadvantages include poor resolution. In the case of the active microwave systems, the advantages include high resolution, but this comes at the expense of higher data rates and more complex processing.
Measurements show that the estimated soil moisture for L-band frequencies correlate best with soil moistures in the top 5 cm of the soil. The sensitivity of active microwave sensors to soil moisture was demonstrated with many ground, airborne, and even some spaceborne experiments ( Ulaby and Batlivala, 1976; Ulaby, et al., 1978; Chang et al., 1980; Jackson et al., 1981; Wang et al., 1986; Dobson and Ulaby, 1986; Lin et al., 1994a, b). Even though these experiments have documented the sensitivity of the radar signal to soil moisture, algorithms to invert radar measurements to infer soil moisture (Oh et al., 1992; Dubois et al., 1994) must still be further evaluated over a broader range of conditions.
Difficulties in Soil Moisture Remote Sensing
A significant difficulty in remotely sensing soil moisture, either with active and passive systems, is the effect of target characteristics other than the soil moisture; for example surface roughness, vegetation, and topography. The two most important target properties are surface roughness and those related to the vegetation canopy. Applying a backscattering model, Lin et al., (1994) have studied the sensitivity of radar signals to various land surface parameters; specifically for L-band (1.25 GHz) over a short grass canopy they found that the most important parameter appears to be the surface roughness. In most natural settings, the effect of roughness may be equal or greater than the effect of soil moisture on the radar backscatter. Thus, the soil moisture problem becomes one of determining the roughness effect independently so that a model can be inverted to yield a soil moisture estimate.
Surface Roughness Effects: Improved understanding of surface scattering processes is needed to further our understanding of the role of surface roughness in soil moisture estimation. Thus, theoretical surface backscattering models have been developed for this purpose; namely, the small perturbation model (SPM), the physical optics model (POM) and
geometrical optics model (GOM). In a broad sense, the geometrical optics model is best suited for very rough surface, the physical optics model is suitable for surfaces with intermediate scales of roughness, and the small perturbation model is suitable for smooth surfaces. In general, these models have not provided good predictive values in field-scale observed soil moisture, and more research is needed into surface scattering models. Examples of recent work are Fung et al. (1992) and Oh et al. (1992).
The approach adopted by Oh et al. (1992) is based on scattering behavior in limiting cases and on experimental data. They have developed an empirical model in terms of the root mean square (rms) roughness height, the wave number, and the relative dielectric constant. By using this model with multipolarized radar data, the soil moisture content and the surface roughness can be determined. The key to this approach is that the co-polarization ratios (HH/VV) and cross-polarization ratios (HV/VV) which are given explicitly in terms of the roughness and the soil dielectric constant. In more recent work (Dubois et al., 1995), an algorithm was derived that uses L-band HH and VV radar cross sections only to estimate surface roughness and soil moisture. In this case, the algorithm was tested with both airborne and spaceborne SAR data and accuracies of 3-4% absolute was found for surfaces with vegetation that has a normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) < 0.4. Thus, initial results look promising when applied to bare soil and sparse vegetation. But, current SAR satellite sensors (ERS-1/2 and RADARSAT) are both single-polarization instruments (C-VV and C-HH, respectively), and even when used together cannot provide cross-polarization ratios.
Vegetation Effects: The effect of vegetation is to attenuate the microwave emission from the soil; it also adds to the total radiative flux with its own emission. The degree to which vegetation affects the determination of soil moisture depends upon the wavelength, the mass and water content of vegetation, and the vegetation's structural characteristics as it influences its scattering properties. Thus, with radar the effect of the vegetation canopy adds more complexity to the problem. To infer soil moisture, one must determine the soil roughness effects and the effects of the vegetation canopy, which is a complex inference problem and may not be unique without high temporal resolution data in which only soil moisture is changing. As with the roughness case, the effect of vegetation on the active microwave sensing of soil moisture is greatly dependent upon the instrument incidence angle, frequency, and polarization. The vegetation contains water along and has plant structure. Radar backscatter is sensitive to both of these characteristics (Lin et al., 1994a). Therefore, the radar backscatter from a vegetated surface will have the integrated effect of the vegetation and underlying soil.
Two general approaches have been used to model the volume scattering, the wave approach and the intensity (or radiative transfer) approach. Both approaches have their constraints, especially in dealing with complex vegetation structures. Several groups are involved in research in the area of estimating soil moisture from active microwave data in the presence of vegetation. Few results have been presented or published, however. Saatchi et al. (1994) showed that by using C-band and L-band data, the canopy water content of grasses in the Konza Prairie could be estimated with an accuracy of about 20%, while Lin et al. (1994) reported an accuracy of about 6% when estimating soil moisture over grass covered areas in
England.
Assuming that the effects of vegetation could be accounted for in the case of active microwave sensors, and given the fact that the best resolution than could be expected from a spaceborne low frequency radiometer is on the order of tens of kilometers, it is clear that SAR can play an important role in providing remotely sensed surface soil moisture maps. The optimum radar parameters based on the demonstrated algorithms would be a polarimetric L- band radar system with a resolution on the order of 100 m. There is evidence that suggests that inferring soil moisture in vegetated areas would require some higher frequency SAR data, either C-band or X-band. Continued research is needed to help resolve the effectiveness of radar data for soil moisture under different vegetation types and densities. One approach is using multi- temporal data from a satellite platform, which may provide the long term data sets necessary to isolate the fast-changing soil moisture effects from the slowly changing vegetation and roughness effects. Another promising approach is combining the SAR radar measurements with a distributed hydrologic models to infer soil moisture (for example Lin et al., 1994b).
Field Measurements of Soil Moisture
When deciding the usefulness of the remote sensing instruments and the inferred soil moisture estimates, one has to take into account the natural spatial variability of soil moisture. Thus, when estimating the accuracy of a technique, estimated and in situ measured values are typically compared. In this way, areal averages from the remotely sensed data are compared to point measurements, and the natural variation in the measured quantity becomes a very important factor in judging the performance of a given technique.
In most countries, there are a number of in-situ soil moisture measurements taken in support of operational activities related to agriculture. Two examples of such measurements programs are the Illinois State (U.S.) Soil Moisture Program, an 18-site measurement network in operation since 1981; and the long term soil moisture measurements in the former Soviet Union and reported by Vinnikov and Yeserkepova (1991). Typically these measurements are taken using a neutron probe, Time Domain Reflectivity (TD) instrument, or through labor-intensive techniques such as gravimetric measurements. Also, typically these are made on a three-day, weekly, or longer basis and in some cases (for agricultural experiments) only during the growing season. For example the current Illinois network makes biweekly samples during the growing season and monthly samples at other times; the data reported by Vinnikov and Yeserkepova (1991) were sampled at a monthly time interval.
The in-situ measurements generally provide good definition with depth, usually consisting of measurements every 5 or 10 cm throughout the root zone to depths of one to two meters. Thus, the profile is well defined but there is usually not an extensive spatial sampling to detect soil moisture gradients in the horizontal plane. A number of investigators have looked into the spatial variability of soil properties. Rogowski (1972) found that over a range of soils that the coefficient of variation in the distribution of water content at 15 bars was in the range of 15 to 35%; and for experimental hydraulic conductivity was 5 to 68%. Hawley et al., (1982) investigated the effect of sample volume on estimated soil moisture content. Using a 2m square plot and 10 samples, the estimated CV was in the range of 5% for the three different soil moisture conditions investigated; implying a CV of 15-20% for a single sample, which is consistent with the other similar studies. In addition, they concluded that samples greater than 200g (50 cc) are needed for accurate estimates.
Field scale variability (16 ha, > 40 acres) was evaluated by Bell et al., (1980) using data collected in 57 fields in Arizona, Kansas, and South Dakota. The nominal standard deviation of all the data analyzed was between 2 and 3%, soil moisture. For remote sensing studies, this means that perfect correlations to ground observations are unlikely and that the inherent error due to field-scale variability is of the same order of magnitude as the demonstrated accuracies of the inversion results for both active and passive microwave instruments.
While there are direct uses for the surface soil moistures, a much wider range of research and applications would benefit from an estimate of the profile soil moisture. Although there is still much work to be done in this area, some basic concepts have been proven. Kostov and Jackson (Kostov, 1993) have identified four general approaches: statistical, knowledge-based (a priori information), radiometric inversion, and soil water modeling. Regional profile mapping using a straightforward regression approach was demonstrated in Jackson et al., (1987). Knowledge-based approaches have been used extensively by Reutov and Shutko (1986 and 1990) and also by Jackson (1980). Recent research has focused on a combination of the inversion and modeling approaches (Entekhabi et al., 1994). Each of these approaches needs to be considered in the development of large scale mapping programs because any one in particular may not be compatible due to limitations caused by ancillary data requirements or the temporal and spatial sampling.
Radar Observations for Soil Moisture
SAR satellites offer perhaps the best opportunity to measure soil moisture routinely at regional scales. Currently, the ERS-1 C-band (VV) and JERS-1 L-band SARs are operating, and the Canadian RADARSAT, also C-band (HH), will be launched in mid-1995. Although it is believed that an L-band polarimetric system would be optimal for soil moisture, the preliminary results from the ERS-1 demonstrate its capability as a soil moisture instrument under ideal conditions: bare soil, near saturation, constant roughness. The main drawback to the SAR systems is the lack of existing algorithms for the routine determination of soil moisture. However, through airborne and SIR-C remote sensing experiments, field observations are accumulating for a diverse set of sites. It is hoped that these data are sufficient for developing suitable algorithms. It is critical that these diverse data sets be brought together in a SAR soil moisture data base.
Experimental data sets can be grouped into three classes, of which only one is discussed in this report. These classes are: (i) In-situ operational soil moisture data sets, taken by water resources and agricultural agencies for a variety of reasons. Even though these data sets are important for hydrological research, the lack of simultaneous remote sensing data make these soil moisture measurements of limited value for the development of soil moisture remote sensing algorithms. (ii) Remote sensing experiments with passive microwave sensors. Examples of these include HAPEX-MOBILHY (Hydrologic Atmospheric Pilot Experiment and Modelisation du Bilan Hydrique) program in southern France in 1985; HAPEX-SAHEL in Niger (West Africa) in 1992; and the First ISLSCP Field Experiment (FIFE) in Kansas in 1987. (iii) Remote sensing experiments with SAR and in some cases passive microwave sensors. These experiments include:
Mac-Hydro-90 in the Mahantango catchment (central Pennsylvania) in 1990 which was a multi-sensor campaign (using the DC-8 with the three frequency polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ,and the C-130 carrying the PBMR L-band radiometer and the NS001 thematic mapper simulator.
Washita-92, conducted over the Little Washita catchment in Oklahoma in 1992, was another multi-sensor campaign (using the DC-8 with the three frequency polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and the C-130 carrying the NS001 thematic mapper simulator, the Thermal Imaging Mapper, the Electronically Steered Thinned Array Radiometer (ESTAR), a 37-GHz radiometer, and a USDA laser profiler.)
Mac-Europe-91, a multi-aircraft campaign DC-8 and EU-2 for remote sensing in Europe during 1991. Soil moisture data were collected at a number of sites including Slapton Wood, Devon, England; Montespertoli, Tuscony, Italy; EFEDA experiment in Spain.
Shuttle Imaging Radar, SIR-C, flights in April and October 1994. There were a number of sites for which radar data were collected for soil moisture studies. These sites included the Little Washita (OK, USA), Mahantango catchment (PA, USA), Alcona (Manitoba, Canada), Zwalm catchment (Belgium), and Montespertoli (Italy).
It is critical that these data be made available to provide algorithm developers a broader range of soil moisture data.
Several methods for mapping melting snow-covered regions have been developed and tested using AIRSAR and ERS-1 imagery. Mapping wet snow and glaciers in remote alpine regions using a conventional single-pass, single-polarization SAR imagery requires an accurate Digital Elevation Model (DEM), but analysis of time-series ERS-1 data sets showed significant improvement in mapping accuracy and corresponding decrease in the need for a DEM. However, the capability of a single-polarization SAR to study alpine snow is limited to map wet snow cover only. Furthermore, multi-frequency, multi-polarization SAR can effectively map the extent of wet-snow regions without requiring any topographic information. Numerical simulations show that a similar technique could map dry snow cover; verification is ongoing. Thus, a multi-frequency, polarized SAR provides snow mapping capability from small to large scales. SIR-C/X-SAR also can map firn regions, which indicates the regions of annual snow accumulation or of glacier growth. This capability provides an important tool for mass-balance studies of glaciers.
The most fundamental snow cover property, in terms of water supply forecasting, is the snow-water equivalence: the total amount of water the snow would yield at a point if it melted. This variable has been traditionally measured at several hundred snow courses throughout the mountainous regions of the western U.S. How to extrapolate these widely dispersed measurements remains a fundamental problem in estimating the total water volume in the mountains. Numerical simulations with multi-frequency, dual-polarization SAR have shown it can monitor the spatial and temporal distributions of snow-water equivalence. Data analysis with SIR-C/X-SAR is ongoing. With accurate estimates of snow-covered area, detection of melting snow, and the measurement of the spatial distribution of snow water equivalence, we will better understand the most fundamental problems in snow hydrology: the spatial and temporal distributions of snow properties in alpine regions.
To derive the maximum benefit in terms of research or application out of remotely sensed soil moisture, the remote sensing data must be integrated into a geographic information system and analyzed taking into account the soil properties and land characteristics. Therefore, the required resolution of the remotely sensed soil moisture data is related to the intended usage and the ancillary data bases available for interpretation. It makes little sense to collect data globally at a resolution much higher than that of the ancillary data. It therefore appears that based on the range of projected applications and the available ancillary data bases that a spatial resolution on the order of 100 m to 200 m may be advantageous for processing and interpretation. It is true that the detail offered in higher resolution SAR data is interesting, however, it does not seem to be really needed except for mapping and other less time critical analyses.
The timing and frequency of observation are very important in the valuation of the remote sensing data for application and analysis. Surface soil moisture is diurnal in nature, generally decreasing during the day and rising slightly at night (in the absence of precipitation). The time of the observation will most certainly be considered in its use. Certain times of the day may offer certain advantages. For instance, to extrapolate a surface observation to the profile using a physically based approach, Jackson (1980) has shown that a predawn observation is advantageous. In fact, late afternoon observations of surface soil moisture using shorter wavelengths may provide little to no information. An improvement in this single observation could be made by utilizing diurnal changes, an a.m. and a p.m. observation. For bare soils this could provide a good estimate of the total surface flux during the day. Frequency of coverage is a much more difficult subject. Of course, this too is dependent on the application. It seems that daily coverage would be of greatest value for all regions. There is a significant sacrifice in increasing this, however, the next plateau would be three days. Observations at lower frequencies might only be of selected value.
Given this sampling requirement and the previous experimental results, it is clear that the currently planned international SARs can provide little beyond change detection for changing moisture conditions and mapping of wet alpine snow cover only.
The recent results indicating that soil moisture and snow water equivalence could indeed be measured accurately with spaceborne multiparameter SARs bring the remote sensing one step closer to providing some important variables to help understand and routinely monitor the hydrologic cycle. However, even though the status of SAR for measuring these quantities is very promising, it is recognized that there are a number of logical steps to be taken in order for the general scientific and public communities to benefit from this research.
Given the previous experimental results, and the recent algorithms derived to infer soil moisture and snow water equivalence, it is clear that single frequency SARs can provide little beyond change detection for changing moisture conditions. It is highly doubtful whether even the magnitude of the change in the soil moisture could be quantified from these types of single parameter SAR measurements without a significant number of risky assumptions. Therefore, the logical conclusion is that the ultimate goal should certainly be an operational spaceborne multiparameter SAR for routine soil moisture and snow water equivalence mapping. Recognizing that this is not likely to happen soon, we therefore urge the continued support of the NASA multiparameter airborne SAR program as a vehicle to continue the development and validation of soil moisture, snow wetness, and snow water equivalence algorithms in the short term with the long term goal the definition and launch of an operational SAR to monitor these important variables of the hydrologic cycle. Below we outline a few steps we consider necessary to achieve this goal:
(1) Combine all data collected during AIRSAR and SIR-C/X-SAR campaigns and analyze their ability to determine soil moisture empirically (sigma 0 vs. measured soil moisture) and using all available algorithms. Develop statistics to define how large the errors are, what type of errors, and what conditions the analysis or algorithms work or do not work well. Using both US and foreign campaigns should provide data from more than twenty sites and numerous conditions.
(2) Continue a vigorous research program to extend current algorithms to infer soil moisture from vegetated surfaces and to refine the snow water equivalence algorithms. The emphasis should be on well coordinated campaigns involving both active and passive microwave instruments over a variety of different terrain types.
(3) Examine the relationship between surface measurements and profile measurements of soil moisture to evaluate the severity of the problem, if it exists. Data exist to address the following question: How well can the profile moisture be modeled if the surface 5 cm of soil moisture can be measured every 3 days at a precision of +4% by volume? What are the performances of various models including simple regression models?
(4) Encourage land process modelers (mesoscale, GCM and runoff) to attempt to use measured soil moisture and snow water equivalence from SIR-C/X and AIRSAR campaigns in their modeling.


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Leveraging Other Communities
Leveraging another community for your comments is an interesting idea. Sites like HackerNews and Reddit have already built communities around topics you may write about.
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If you enable comments on your blog though you create your own community. If someone wants to say something directly to you they can. With third-party sites if someone wants to write something to the author, the author may or may not see it. On HackerNews, I've seen responses that say things like, "The author should do this..." These are the types of comments that should be on their blog. In posting to a third-party site, there is no guarantee the author will ever see their comment.
The comments on your blog should be on your blog, not another site. The information should be kept together.
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I love seeing Disqus on blogs. I'm more likely to post a comment because I know there is an easy way for me to do it. If you host your own comments, through a WordPress instance, I probably won't comment.
I don't want to create credentials for a website or give personal information before I can comment. Although, these methods have been created to deter spam, they increase my barrier to comment on your thoughts, since I don't know if I'm going to contribute to your site more than once.
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So turn on comments and begin a conversation.


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Computer Science
North Dakota State University
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<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Per-pixel image classifications: Classifying each pixel of an image.
Useful for:
Land-Use Classification: Classifications of what a given tract of land is used for.
Potential uses:
Orthoimagery: An aerial photograph where corrections have been made for various displacements such as building tilt and scale variations caused by terrain relief.
Convolutional Neural Networl (CNN): a type of neural network where the connectivity pattern of it's neurons is inspired by the organization of the visual cortex of an animal.
Useful for:
Create a model which can efficiently produce higher resolution labeled orthoimagery .
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Kernel Size 7x7
Example with 3x3 kernel size
Kernel size impacts how fine of features will be recoagnized.
Resulting image is called a feature map or feature window.
Down samples the feature window
SegNet stores the indices of the maximum values for later
Max pool + Indice Unraveling
Kernel Size 3x3 and 5x5
Results: Not good?
| 3x3 Convolutional Kernel | 71.61% |
| 5x5 Convolutional Kernel | 73.33% |
Observed that the model often produces better representations of features than the NASS classifications


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Telangana MLA Ramesh Chennamaneni's citizenship cancelled, MHA says he’s German
The Union Home Ministry on Wednesday issued a fresh order cancelling the Indian citizenship of TRS MLA Ramesh Chennamaneni for concealing facts.
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- Centre cancels the Indian citizenship of TRS MLA Ramesh Chennamaneni for concealing facts
- Chennamaneni, who was re-elected from Vemulawada, said he would approach HC for relief
- Any misrepresentation or concealment of fact at that level not conducive to public good: MHA
The Ministry of Home Affairs has revoked the Indian citizenship of Telangana MLA Ramesh Chennamaneni saying the legislator concealed crucial facts and obtained the citizenship by fraud.
On Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MLA Ramesh Chennamaneni's citizenship, the MHA noted in a fresh order on Wednesday, "It is not conducive to the public good that Dr Ramesh Chennamaneni continues to be a citizen of Indiaunder Section 10 of the Citizenship Act, 1955 decides that Dr Ramesh Chennamaneni ceases to be a Citizen of India."
The government said Chennamaneni had German citizenship and did not fulfil the criteria for seeking Indian citizenship in 2009. A complaint was filed against him by Congress leader A Srinivas challenging his election as a legislator.
The order was issued in relation to his visits during the 12-month period immediately preceding his application seeking Indian citizenship.
In its 13-page order, the ministry said the competent authority has considered various aspects like Chennamaneni is a sitting MLA and has no criminal background or no criminal case has been filed against him. He has not been reportedly involved in any in any activity of terrorism, espionage, serious organised crime or war crime, it said.
"His misrepresentation/concealment of fact misled the government of India in making its decision initially. Had he revealed the fact that he had not resided in India for one year before making the application, the competent authority in this ministry would not have granted citizenship to him," a home ministry order said.
Why did Centre cancel Chennamaneni's citizenship
Chennamaneni, who was re-elected to Telangana Assembly from the Vemulawada constituency last year, said he would approach the high court for relief.
The order said as a public representative, greater responsibility is thrust on Chennamaneni to be fair in making his submissions.
"His conduct shall stand as an example to the people whom he represents," the order said. It said as a member of the esteemed Legislative Assembly, he is part of the august body which takes decisions affecting the fate of millions of citizens.
"Any misrepresentation or concealment of fact at that level would certainly be not conducive to the public good," the order said and quoted a Supreme Court order stating "...It is a well-known canon of law that 'Caesar's wife should be above suspicion'"
The ministry reasoned that if action was not taken against the MLA, it would become a precedent and many more such persons may obtain Indian citizenship by concealing the material facts and by misleading government of India.
What has Chennamaneni said
Reacting to the order, Chennamaneni said, the high court earlier gave a positive decision.
"But, Home Ministry did not consider that and again cancelled (citizenship). So, we will approach High Court again for safeguarding citizenship," he said, claiming the court gave him the option of approaching it again in case he failed to get a favourable decision from the ministry.
The Union government had cancelled Ramesh's citizenship on December 13, 2017, but Ramesh approached the high court which directed MHA a to re-examine.
(With inputs from Nolan Pinto and PTI)


BIG DADDY Reviewed by Jamie Peck
Rating: *** (out of four) TriStar / 1:34 / 1999 / PG-13 (language, crude humor) Cast: Adam Sandler; Cole & Dylan Sprouse; Joey Lauren Adams; Leslie Mann; Allen Covert; Peter Dante; Kristy Swanson; Jon Stewart; Rob Schneider; Steve Buscemi; Joseph Bologna Director: Dennis Dugan Screenplay: Steve Franks; Tim Herlihy; Adam Sandler
Late in the new Adam Sandler vehicle "Big Daddy," a character makes the observation that "Most critics are cynical a--holes." The line is played for a laugh, coming straight from the mouth of an adorable little boy, but given that Sandler co-wrote "Big Daddy"'s screenplay (with Steve Franks and frequent collaborator Tim Herlihy), perhaps it suggests some pointed hidden meaning. See, critics have never really been all that kind to Sandler, an ex-"Saturday Night Live" cast member whose constantly soaring popularity at the box office seems to be inversely related to their consistently declining opinion of his films.
But lo and behold: "Big Daddy" rates pretty good as a comedy and better as a Sandler opus - a silly, sappy concoction that, yes, probably only cynical a--holes will be able to out-and-out resist. Sandler tones his patented obnoxiousness down in favor of appealing to what could be his largest audience yet, meanwhile eliminating a lot of the irritating elements from past cinematic ventures. There's no smug inanity like in "Billy Madison." No fingernails-on-the-blackboard baby-voice like in "The Waterboy." No sugary sentiment like in "The Wedding Singer" - until an overwrought send-off piles it on thick, that is. But for the most part, "Big Daddy" taps Sandler highs unheard of since the randy golf farce "Happy Gilmore."
Sandler stars here as immature New York law school grad Sonny Koufax, but before you begin to ponder the notion of Sandler respectfully addressing a judge, please note that the guy lives off a huge insurance settlement from a taxi mishap and entertains himself by tossing tree branches in front of Central Park rollerbladers. All typical Sandler hijinks. It's an atypical Sandler plot revelation, though, when the abrasive actor grows a heart after taking an abandoned five-year-old (Cole and Dylan Sprouse) under his wing. The kid is not his son, but Sonny conveniently uses him to falsely flaunt fatherhood-esque responsibility in front of his frazzled girlfriend (Kristy Swanson).
Alas, a reconciliation ain't in the cards.  "Hey, Old Man River," Sonny retorts. "Zip it." Too late. The "Austin Powers" sequel beat "Big Daddy" to that punchline and racks up a more solid laugh quotient, but the plights of Sonny's so-called parenting evokes hefty yucks and yuks nonetheless. Let's just say that Dr. Spock he's not - Sonny's answer to every problem is newspaper, helpful for the absorption of spilled milk, wet beds and vomit. Yes, Virginia, bodily fluids and Sandler shtick still go together hand-in-hand.
But in "Big Daddy," the creative mind seems to be maturing - slowly but surely - even as it panders to lowbrow tastes. When two of Sonny's college buds (Allen Covert and Peter Dante) are introduced as gay lovers with a sudden liplock, the stage is set for homophobic humor which thankfully never arrives, using the pair to instead make light of public discomfort with same-sex affection. Elsewhere, Sandler's frat-boy sensibilities come into focus, especially in the portrayal of a dopey Eastern European delivery guy (fellow "SNL" alum Rob Schneider) who pals around with Sonny. Forget that Jar Jar Binks. Schneider makes for the season's most potentially offensive ethnic stereotyping.
"I keep hoping the kid'll change him," bemoaned a viewer to her companion after the umpteenth instance of Sonny's bad influence rubbing off on the tyke. Duh. Sandler's guaranteed reformation is strictly been-there, done-that as a story arc, so credit must be given to a colorful supporting ensemble for providing ample distraction - some of whom you might be surprised to find in a Sandler flick. They include glib Jon Stewart as Sonny's roommate, sweet Joey Lauren Adams as Sonny's new squeeze and witchy Leslie Mann as Sonny's longtime adversary. Those Sprouse brothers are promising as well. Let's hope they pass on the impending sitcom and home video deals.
Sandler, too, stays on par with his castmates until "Big Daddy"'s climactic courtroom trial sequence, which, in a Sandler film, feels as out of place as ... a climactic courtroom trial sequence. Here, our leading goofball sticks out like a sore thumb, his snarling-jester exterior shredded so that tears can run down his cheeks, his charged speechifying allegedly exposing vulnerability and emotion but delivered in a hurried monotone perhaps indicative of his own disbelief at the turn taken by his own script. Drama may never be Sandler's bag, which is why his movies are what they are so far. Following suit, "Big Daddy" won't melt your heart, but - when it steers clear of gavels and grovels - it'll tickle your funny bone.
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So I was trying to add a menu item to all web parts in a SharePoint 2007 site collection. Surely such a thing should be simple to achieve. I expected it to be implemented in a similar way to adding to the ECB drop downs in a document library or something like the site actions menu. However menu items on web parts are implemented by the base ASP.Net web part framework using a concept called verbs.
The verbs for a web part are stored on the System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPart
class in a read only property. From my research an posts on the MSFT developer forums there’s no good way to break into this collection. So basically I was left with a problem, how do I get my own menu item into this list. I thought of two basic ways to do this, firstly use reflection to write to the property or secondly use JavaScript to add the menu item to the page on the fly.
It turns out that the Verbs property on WebPart simply returns an empty collection. This makes it difficult, so it was down to the JavaScript option. It turns out that the default menu options on a web part aren’t returned from the verbs property. Instead there are other properties control the visibility of these default items. The defaults are written to the bottom of the page in a hidden section and conditionally rendered into the dropdown.
This can be done with JQuery and a couple of web services. I created a delegate control containing my script and injected it into the page head. Running the line below on page load will inject a custom menu item into all WebPart dropdowns on the page.
$('#MSOMenu_WebPartMenu').append('<ie:menuitem hello="" id="Menu_MyMenuItem" onclick="javascript:alert(" type="option" world");"=""> Hello World</ie:menuitem>');
There are however a few limitations to this, Firstly it only works in IE, other browsers render verbs in a completely different way (no dropdown even), and secondly it will only work with javascript enabled.
If anyone has any other approaches to this problem I would love to hear about them


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US: Oklahoma to release 462 inmates in historic commutation
The inmates granted release as part of largest single-day commutation were imprisoned for low-level, non-violent crimes.
Hundreds of Oklahoma inmates who served time for low-level, non-violent crimes will walk out of prison on Monday in the largest single-day commutation of criminal sentences in United States's history, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt said.
The Oklahoma Department of Corrections will release 462 inmates after the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted unanimously on Friday to recommend commutation of their sentences for crimes that would no longer be considered felonies if charged today.
"This event is another mark on our historic timeline as we move the needle in criminal justice reform," Stitt said in a statement after he signed off on the recommendations.
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Officials in the governor's office were not immediately available for comment on when the inmates were to be released.
Oklahoma's parole board, under a new state law that recently went into effect, accelerated the commutation review.
The inmates served three years on average, and will get out of prison 16 months before the completion of their sentences the governor said.
In recent years federal and state authorities across the United States have initiated policies to reduce the penalties for low-level, non-violent crimes and grant clemency for inmates who served time for those types of offences.
In 2016, voters in Oklahoma passed criminal justice reforms that made simple drug possession a misdemeanour instead of a felony. The reforms also increased the minimum dollar amount for a felony property crime from $500 to $1,000, the governor's office said.
During his last day in office, US President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentences of 330 federal inmates, particularly drug offenders. At the time it was the most commuted sentences in a single day, the White House said, and brought the total number of sentences reduced by Obama to 1,715.
The Oklahoma parole board considered the cases of 814 inmates and recommended commutation for 527 inmates. Sixty-five of them will remain in prison because of warrants against them in other cases.
The parole board said in a statement that the release of the inmates will save the state nearly $12m.
"Ecstatic! It's the great thing that the governor is doing so we can be home with our kids," Lana Lemus, who was released on Monday, told local television station KOCO 5 in Oklahoma City.
"Been out of her life for three years. But she's my hope. She's never given up on me," Lemus said.


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The node software is a full node software that runs the blockchain network. It is compatible with Bitcoin and utilized by other blockchains at the primary full node.
To build your own blockchain based on Blockcore you have two options; perform a fork of our primary source code, this is preferred if you need to radically modify the blockchain functionality.
The other way is to utilize our blockchain template, which is generated and relies on published on NuGet. This enables you to quickly and easily launch your own blockchain, and you will easily be able to get latest updates without messing with source code.
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Just a quick rundown, this website is bundled and built with Grunt, served with Node.js, and hosted on Heroku. Below in the Portfolio section, you'll notice I have a fascination with React/JSX. I plan on updating my Portfolio to run on React completely in the near future.
I can deploy apps on traditional servers or via cloud with heroku, aws, and openshift. I can build, bundle and automate with Grunt, Gulp, Webpack and know how to use them with Linux & Windows i.e using install hooks, ssh and filesystem etc. I know my way around HTML5/CSS3 & SVG. I am also comfortable with others CDN's, SAAS, PAAS, and cloud resources! As for data, I have working knowledge of MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis, and other enterprise types of data/app management like Firebase! On top of my technical abilities, I am also competent agile developer, XP (Extreme Programmer), TDDer & BDDer (in both Javascript and Python!) Feel free to email below, call, or otherwise get in touch using one of the social hooks so we can chat!


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