So, Iím getting ready for Basic Training, and Iím trying to get the THC out of my system. So I went for a light jog and returned home sweating. I have a plastic bag on underneath my shirt so that I sweat a lot more than usual. I go outside to my backyard, and itís about 99 degrees outside, but it feels like 110. Itís Smoldering, and the hottest place I can think of is a Plastic Shed in my backyard right in the middle of the sun. It was ideal for a sweathouse. So I go inside and find a towel and wrap myself in it, and sit inside the Shed (sweathouse). There is a dot of light on the ground, and this is where I began to notice myself hallucinating.
After about 10 mins, I have worked up a sweat to where I can wipe it off and not 5 seconds later I am sweating in the same area. So I began to watch this dot of light on the ground, and I am watching it slowly move. Sort of like a sun dial. It entrances me, and I began staring into its light, and I began having strange thoughts. I look around the shed at some product labels, which are by now extremely warped. It feels a little like when Shrooms begins to kick in, a strange bewildered feeling.
I had about 2 large cups of water while I attended this session. So after about 40 mins inside, and being completely soaked in my own sweat, I began saying things that made no sense. And I knew I wasnít making sense, but my mind kept telling me to say these things. I also prayed while I was inside the chamber, and had deep thoughts about just about everything. I closed my eyes, and I opened them, and the Light Dot had crawled almost halfway across the room. What seemed like seconds was actually around 20 mins.
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_Snake_Eyes_ (R) ** (out of ****)
_Snake_Eyes_ is less a description of the film it titles than the manner in which director Brian DePalma wields his camera--like a serpent, slithering its way through the halls and over the walls of an Atlantic City casino. The title takes its cue from the differences in people's visual perception from what really happens, and DePalma runs with the idea. A seamless 20-minute shot opens the film, following cop Rick Santoro (Nicolas Cage) through the labyrinthian walkways of the casino's arena before and during a championship boxing match. Later, there's a flashback where a subjective, point-of-view camera suddenly becomes objective without a jarring break. That's just one in a series of instances where DePalma uses a subjective camera to enable the audience to see through characters' eyes, which is a clever gimmick when assuming the fuzzy perspective of a woman who has lost her glasses. Then there's the use of a split screen to document simultaneous action, a trick DePalma used to great effect in _Dressed_to_Kill_.
I tend to meet a director's decision to juice up the visuals with a raised eyebrow, for it generally signifies that he or she is trying to distract the audience from a problematic script. And that is certainly the case with _Snake_Eyes_, a pro forma conspiracy whodunit written by David Koepp from a story he devised with DePalma. The U.S. Secretary of Defense is assassinated during a boxing match, and out to solve the crime is Santoro, along with best friend Kevin Dunne (Gary Sinise, in a role originally pegged for Will Smith), a Navy commander who was in charge of security. Somehow figuring into the mystery is a mysterious blonde-wigged woman (Carla Gugino) who took a seat in front of the Secretary seconds before the shooting and caught a bullet herself.
DePalma guides the audience through overlapping flashbacks and a flurry of plot points with a rapidly-paced yet clear-eyed finesse. But craftsmanship is all anyone will get a sense of, from the direction to the strong acting by Sinise and especially Cage, who adds another oddball characterization to his resume with the fast-talking, Hawaiian shirt-wearing, morally questionable Santoro. The twists are thoroughly predictable, but even if any tension and suspense were generated, it would all be squandered by the film's contrived fizzle of an anticlimax, which is not only disappointing but makes little sense.
For all its metaphoric meanings, the title _Snake_Eyes_ is derived from a line of dialogue. One character tells another, "You have nothing. Snake eyes." With his bottomless bag of stylish visual tricks, DePalma does have "something" to offer in _Snake_Eyes_, but, ironically, it is that "something" that points up just how much "nothing" lies underneath.
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About Me
I’m a Lecturer in Geospatial Engineering @ Newcastle University.
Research Interest
- Area of Expertise: Crustal Motion Geodesy
I use geodetic observations to study the active deformation of the Earth’s crust. Measurements of 3D crustal movements allow us to better understand modes of strain accumulation on major faults and the Earth’s rheology. My current research involves understanding how the solid Earth responds to changes in ice mass changes. I use GNSS measurements to yield knowledge about the present-day crustal deformation over time scales ranging from decades to thousands of years (such as glacial isostatic adjustment, GIA).
- Keywords: Geodesy, Geophysics, Tectonics
Recent highlights
- [Apr 2021] New paper on modelling quasi-periodic signals in geodetic time series using Gaussian Processes is published in Geophysical Journal International.
- [Mar 2021] I started a new role @ the Geospatial Engineering Group as a Lecturer in Geospatial data.
- [Aug 2020] Our paper about snow effects on GPS time series in Antarctica is accepted for Journal of Geodesy.
- [Jul 2020] Poster for SCAR meeting 2020.


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We are a group of enthusiastic gamers who created this server to ensure a stable play environment for ourselves in Conan Exiles. Our number one goal is to keep an open information flow so that our players can feel safe that the work they put into their characters and bases today won't disappear tomorrow.


networkx.algorithms.connectivity.edge_kcomponents.EdgeComponentAuxGraph¶
-
class
EdgeComponentAuxGraph
[source]¶ A simple algorithm to find all k-edge-connected components in a graph.
Constructing the AuxillaryGraph (which may take some time) allows for the k-edge-ccs to be found in linear time for arbitrary k.
Notes
This implementation is based on [1]. The idea is to construct an auxiliary graph from which the k-edge-ccs can be extracted in linear time. The auxiliary graph is constructed in \(O(|V|\cdot F)\) operations, where F is the complexity of max flow. Querying the components takes an additional \(O(|V|)\) operations. This algorithm can be slow for large graphs, but it handles an arbitrary k and works for both directed and undirected inputs.
The undirected case for k=1 is exactly connected components. The undirected case for k=2 is exactly bridge connected components. The directed case for k=1 is exactly strongly connected components.
References
[1] Wang, Tianhao, et al. (2015) A simple algorithm for finding all k-edge-connected components. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0136264 Example
>>> import itertools as it >>> from networkx.utils import pairwise >>> from networkx.algorithms.connectivity import EdgeComponentAuxGraph >>> # Build an interesting graph with multiple levels of k-edge-ccs >>> paths = [ ... (1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 3, 4, 2), # a 3-edge-cc (a 4 clique) ... (5, 6, 7, 5), # a 2-edge-cc (a 3 clique) ... (1, 5), # combine first two ccs into a 1-edge-cc ... (0,), # add an additional disconnected 1-edge-cc ... ] >>> G = nx.Graph() >>> G.add_nodes_from(it.chain(*paths)) >>> G.add_edges_from(it.chain(*[pairwise(path) for path in paths])) >>> # Constructing the AuxGraph takes about O(n ** 4) >>> aux_graph = EdgeComponentAuxGraph.construct(G) >>> # Once constructed, querying takes O(n) >>> sorted(map(sorted, aux_graph.k_edge_components(k=1))) [[0], [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]] >>> sorted(map(sorted, aux_graph.k_edge_components(k=2))) [[0], [1, 2, 3, 4], [5, 6, 7]] >>> sorted(map(sorted, aux_graph.k_edge_components(k=3))) [[0], [1, 2, 3, 4], [5], [6], [7]] >>> sorted(map(sorted, aux_graph.k_edge_components(k=4))) [[0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]]
Example
>>> # The auxiliary graph is primarilly used for k-edge-ccs but it >>> # can also speed up the queries of k-edge-subgraphs by refining the >>> # search space. >>> import itertools as it >>> from networkx.utils import pairwise >>> from networkx.algorithms.connectivity import EdgeComponentAuxGraph >>> paths = [ ... (1, 2, 4, 3, 1, 4), ... ] >>> G = nx.Graph() >>> G.add_nodes_from(it.chain(*paths)) >>> G.add_edges_from(it.chain(*[pairwise(path) for path in paths])) >>> aux_graph = EdgeComponentAuxGraph.construct(G) >>> sorted(map(sorted, aux_graph.k_edge_subgraphs(k=3))) [[1], [2], [3], [4]] >>> sorted(map(sorted, aux_graph.k_edge_components(k=3))) [[1, 4], [2], [3]]
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__init__
()¶ Initialize self. See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.
Methods
construct
(G)Builds an auxiliary graph encoding edge-connectivity between nodes. k_edge_components
(k)Queries the auxiliary graph for k-edge-connected components. k_edge_subgraphs
(k)Queries the auxiliary graph for k-edge-connected subgraphs. -


OsmAnd Online maps are an extensive addition to the already comprehensive base of OpenStreetMap data the application uses. With this plugin, you can add layers to your map with information from a different source, beginning with the satellite, or hiking routes view and ending with quite specific data like fire hydrants' locations. You can also change the main source of the map from vector maps to online tiles.
Many new useful map sources you can find in Anygis project.
Online map formats of OsmAnd:
First, turn on the Online maps plugin in the app menu-> Plugins-> Online maps.
To select an online map as your basic map, please go to Configure map-> Map source and select the preferable one from the list. If you do not see the desired map on the list, select Install more... to view the entire list of installs available. Also, you can define or edit your map source by clicking to Define/Edit....
When you select an online map as basic map (Overlay/Underlay map) all of map tiles of this map source will be cached. You can check the size of this cached file in the map menu-> Download maps-> Local (Online and cashed tile maps). Here, you can delete a map source, clear all tiles, edit or rename it.
You can download the selected area of the online map for offline usage (recorded to cache). To do this, you can choose online map as a basic map, after opening the app screen. The displayed piece of the map on your screen is a selected area. After that, make a long tap on your screen to display the available options where you can choose Actions-> Download map. Now you can select max/min zoom for your tiles and click to Download.
Not only can you use one map, you can also add up to two of the online tiles to the basic layer: open the app menu-> Configure map-> Underlay and an Overlay maps to combine three of them on the screen. For instance, you can open a basic OsmAnd offline vector maps, then add a satellite view for the overlay, and put cycling routes map underneath.
You can set the base map transparency for your layer and whether display the transparency slider on the main screen or not.
But how to view all thee maps without getting lost in the details? Simply adjust which information from the map you need and set the transparency of the layer. For example, combining Microsoft Earth map with the basic OsmAnd offline vector map can be very helpful. You can hide all the excessive data from the map and simply overlay roads over the satellite images. To set the features you would like to hide from the current map, just go to Configure map-> Hide and select buildings, polygons, boundaries or all of them together.
Please see full video guide below:
To select an online map as your basic map, please go to Map-> Map type-> Online maps and select the one you prefer from the list. If you do not see the desired map on the list, select Install more... to view the entire list of available installs.
When you select an online map as basic map (Overlay/Underlay map) all of map tiles of this map source will be cashed. You can check the size of the tiles in Maps & Resources-> Installed-> Online Raster Maps. You can delete this map source, clear all tiles, or edit them.
Online maps can be added with a special link. All of these online maps you can select in the General menu-> Map-> Map type-> Online maps.
Not only can you use one map (map type), you can also add up to two of them to the basic layer: open the app menu-> Map-> Overlay / Underlay maps to combine all three of them on the screen. For instance, you can open a basic OsmAnd offline vector map, then add a satellite view for the overlay, and then put cycling routes map underneath.
You can choose base map transparency for your layer, set the display of the transparency slider, and select whether display polygons on the map or not.
But how to view all thee maps without getting lost in the details? Simply adjust which information from the map you need and set the transparency of the layer. For example, combining the Microsoft Earth map with the basic OsmAnd online tile can be very helpful. You can hide all the excessive data from the map and simply overlay roads over the satellite images. To set the features you would like to hide from the current map, just go to Map-> Map style (Hide) and select buildings, polygons, boundaries or all of them together.
Please see full video guide below:
Despite the plugin being called 'Online Maps', you can use the maps without the internet, as well. You just need to save the parts of maps (often called tiles) to use them later. To do that, download a specific Map Creator tool developed by OsmAnd team.
Select the area you need to download, click on the Preload area, then set the smallest and the largest zoom levels you want to display and download the tiles.
For Android version you can copy them to your phone's osmand/tiles/*tile type* folder. You'll also need to open the Configure map-. Overlay map and choose OsmAnd online tiles.
For iOS version you can choose SQ Lite file in your phone (any messenger or dropbox), OsmAnd will suggest to add it. You'll also need to open Map-> Overlay / Underlay or Map type and choose new map source.
How to add SQ Lite file in Android and iOS version of OsmAnd you can read in Anygis project.
Online tiles can be helpful when you need just a small section of the map or a specific type of it to use in the limited area, but don't want to download the whole region. They can come in handy in endless situations.
You can also create your own map tiles using the Mobile Atlas Creator (MOBAC) software. It is a free open-source map creating tool you can use to make offline tile maps from different sources. Just download the program, then run it. In the format choosing dialogue pick OsmAnd SQ Lite or OsmAnd tile storage. SQ Lite is a single file with the selected area while tiles are separate pieces of the map gathered on your device. SQ Lite often happens to be more convenient as it is stored in one place and occupies less storage space. Select an area, then choose an 'atlas' option, press Add selection and then click Load to save your tiles. You can also pick the map source, zoom levels and other features before loading. How to add SQ Lite file in Android and iOS version of OsmAnd you can read in Anygis project.
Of course, you can use the tool - SASPlanet. There are many offline tile maps from different sources in SASPlanet. Just download the program, then run it. How to work with SASPlanet you can look here. In the format choosing dialogue pick OsmAnd SQ Lite or OsmAnd tile storage. SQ Lite is a single file with the selected area while tiles are separate pieces of the map gathered on your device. SQ Lite often happens to be more convenient as it is stored in one place and occupies less storage space. Select an area, then choose an 'atlas' option, press Add selection and then click Load to save your tiles. You can also pick the map source, zoom levels and other features before loading. How to add SQ Lite file in Android and iOS version of OsmAnd you can read in Anygis project.


Bespoke ski adventures that are about more than the slopes
- Iceland
LineUpExplorers, a travel agency based in Germany that specializes in surf and ski vacations, and Iceland-based tour operator Arctic Heli Skiing offer an ultra-private, ultra-lux heli-skiing tour in the Troll Peninsula in northern Iceland. A helicopter takes you and three friends to remote slopes, where you'll stay at a private lodge with your own chef. Prices for a four-day excursion start at $8,200 per person.
- Ski Safari in the Dolomites
This safari is about as far from a savanna as you can get. One possible itinerary offered by luxury tour operator Scott Dunn starts in Venice or Innsbruck, Austria. After a stay in five-star accommodations, you can ski from one family-run rifugio to another in the Dolomites, the mountain range in northern Italy that UNESCO has named a World Heritage site. En route you will enjoy breathtaking views and northern Italian cuisine. It's a good idea to book at least six months in advance. Prices start at $5,000 per person. For information, go to scottdunn.com.
- Niseko, Japan
Niseko, on Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, is famous for its powdery snow and gorgeous views of a nearby (dormant) volcano. The village itself has bars and restaurants serving the best in traditional Japanese cuisine. If that is not enough excitement, you can throw in a stop in Tokyo. A custom five-day Tokyo-Niseko tour by travel operator Scott Dunn starts at about $5,000 per person. For information, go to scottdunn.com.
- Deer Valley
Located in Utah's Wasatch Range, Deer Valley was a site for the 2002 Winter Olympics and still hosts major ski competitions. Serious skiiers looking for serious comfort can book a stay at the St. Regis Deer Valley Residences in Park City. It comes with a private elevator entrance, a kitchen with Sub-Zero and Wolf appliances, and butler services. After a long day on the slopes, you can head to the nearby spa for a body polish or a detox wrap, or even get your skin exfoliated with diamond dust. Rates start at $3,000 per night. For information, go to marriott.com.
For information, go to luex.com/snow or arcticheliskiing.com.
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At some point of your project youy will want to make your data available to the public. This often required to happen in the form of a submission to the Sequence Read Archive (SRA), which can be challenging. mbtools
includes helpers to prep a submission for you.
In order to create a submission you will need the following:
Number 1 is managed as in all other mbtools
steps in that it is a file list such as used in quality control etc. For instance for our example data:
library(mbtools)
## Also loading:
## - dada2=1.12.1
## - data.table=1.12.6
## - ggplot2=3.2.1
## - magrittr=1.5
## - phyloseq=1.28.0
## - ShortRead=1.42.0
## - yaml=2.2.0
## Found tools:
## - minimap2=2.17-r941
## - slimm=0.3.4
## - samtools=1.9
##
## Attaching package: 'mbtools'
## The following object is masked _by_ 'package:BiocGenerics':
##
## normalize
## The following object is masked from 'package:graphics':
##
## layout
fi <- system.file("extdata/shotgun", package = "mbtools") %>% find_read_files()
Which gives you:
The metadata is a data frame describing additional attributes for each of those samples. For instance you could use the sample_data()
slot of a phyloseq object. However, this table always needs to have a column specifying the sample ID as in the file manifest and a date column denoting the date of sample extraction. Let’s create one for the three samples in our example data:
metadata <- data.table(
id = fi$id,
date = rep("2019-01-01", 3),
diet = c("vegan", "vegitarian", "flexitarian"),
age = c(23, 38, 64)
)
For the additional study data mbtools
will use a set of presets that will set a lot of the information for you but you will still need to specify additional aspects of your study. This is again managed by configurations and you can see the set of configuration variables by creating one with config_sra
:
## $metadata
## NULL
##
## $id_col
## [1] "id"
##
## $date_col
## [1] "date"
##
## $country
## [1] "USA"
##
## $preset
## [1] "human gut 16S"
##
## $out_dir
## [1] "sra"
##
## $title
## NULL
##
## $platform
## [1] "ILLUMINA"
##
## $instrument_model
## [1] "Illumina MiSeq"
##
## $bioproject
## NULL
##
## $latitude
## [1] 42.36
##
## $longitude
## [1] -71.0941
##
## $make_package
## [1] TRUE
##
## attr(,"class")
## [1] "config"
Except for the bioproject
(fill only if you already have a BIOPROJECT ID) variable everything else needs to be specified (or the default values will be used). You can check the the list of available presets with:
names(mbtools:::presets)
## [1] "human gut 16S" "mouse gut 16S" "human gut metagenome"
## [4] "mouse gut metagenome" "human gut RNA-Seq" "mouse gut RNA-Seq"
Let’s fill in the data for the example study:
config <- config_sra(
title = "Sequencing of the gut metagenome: the effect of age on Bacteroides",
preset = "human gut metagenome",
platform = "ILLUMINA",
instrument = "Illumina HiSeq 2000",
metadata = metadata
)
You can now proceed building the subsmission data:
sra <- sra_submission(fi, config)
## INFO [2019-11-05 08:22:19] Packing submission files to sra/sra_files.tar.gz.
## INFO [2019-11-05 08:22:20] Writing biosample attributes to sra/05_biosample_attributes.tsv.
## INFO [2019-11-05 08:22:20] Writing file metadata to sra/06_sra_metadata.tsv.
## INFO [2019-11-05 08:22:20] You are now ready for submission. **Please make sure you only upload sequence files where human sequences have been removed and (you can use the `filter_reference` workflow for that)!**Go to https://submit.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/subs/sra/, log in and click on `New submission`. Fill in the general data for your project in steps 1 through 3. In step 4 choose `Genome, metagenome or marker sequences (MIxS compliant)` and `Environmental/Metagenome Genomic Sequences MIMS`. In step 5 and 6 upload the respective files in sra. In step 7 you can directly upload the `*.tar.gz` submission package. Just click on `continue` another time to have the archive unpacked as indicated.
This told us exactly how to submit the data. We urge you to first check all created files for correctness. This can be done by inspecting the return value. For insatnce:
When looking in the specified folder (./sra
by default) you will see the tables for step 5 and 6:
list.files("sra")
## [1] "05_biosample_attributes.tsv" "06_sra_metadata.tsv"
## [3] "sra_files.tar.gz"
For larger submission we recommend installing the Aspera client in your browser as this will speed up the upload significantly and allow for larger packages.