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Even though Hangzhou has a population of 9 million, chances are you haven't yet heard of it. Which is a shame, because being in this city is like walking through a fairy tale. Though a modern city, Hangzhou still contains its traditional Chinese roots. It is the "capital of green tea," has the naturally beautiful West Lake, and famous Buddhist temples.
If a picture's worth a thousand words, here are a few thousand reasons why you need to add Hangzhou to your China itinerary:
Book a place to stay - my all-time favorite booking website is the well-known Booking.com - I've used it for years all over the world.
It is the easiest way to search and find the best hotels (hostels too!), especially based on reviews. I always check the reviews on Booking, even if it's a name-brand hotel. You never know!


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WHEN: Out Now
Yawning Dog are a four piece band that looks to destroy your eardrums in a matter of seconds via making as much distorted noise as possible within the shortest of timeframes. At the end of the month they will be touring with Bi:Lingual and well, it's great to see British bands emerging from the shadows and into our inbox. These guys have released a video for their new song Don't Be Shy, Vlad and it is a doozy.
Don't Be Shy, Vlad is an intense mental breakdown of a track. Complete with crushing drums, heavily distorted riffs and speaker-blistering vocals Yawning Dog do not hold back on tearing your genitals apart. It sounds like Dinosaur Jr. in the crazier You're Living All Over Me days or Lou Barlow at his most mental, and honestly…it sounds fucking good. Here's hoping these guys release some more material for 2015 because some brand new British punk/stoner/grunge music would be very nice in our little musical library.
Check out the video for Don't Be Shy, Vlad below and for some dates on Yawning Dog's tour with Bi:Lingual then take a little look on their Facebook page too. For more music reviews, free downloads and spotlighting the best independent music around then check out Exploding Head Syndrome on Facebook and Twitter.

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Robotic Eyes: Worldwide launch of REX
REX was officially launched at the BIM-World Trade Show and Conference
For over one year, the Robotic Eyes Team has worked days and many nights to create REX, the Augmented Reality (AR) Platform for Architecture, Engineering and Construction. REX is so innovative and unlike anything else, the company had to commission a short movie to explain how REX works: https://vimeo.com/239223279
At the end of November, REX was officially launched to a worldwide audience at the BIM-World Trade Show and Conference in Munich where REX was met with great enthusiasm by the industry. Already customers like Siemens AG are using REX in exciting ways and many more will be announced in the coming months. Finishing its first year at the ESA BIC Austria with great successes, Robotic Eyes is in great shape for delivering many more success stories in 2018.


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A walk through Waterford City is considerably more colourful these days. For the past year the South East has been a riot of colour and vibrancy since the beginning of the Waterford Walls festival last August. The festival aims to unlock the city's potential to give abandoned and vacant architecture new life. Between unemployment and crime, Waterford has had its fair share of bad news, but the city appears to be on the rise, stronger than ever.
The Hammerhead Sharks in Barrack Street by London-based Artist Louis Masai. Photo by DigiCol Photography.
The injection of colour and charm is down to festival organiser Edel Tobin and curator Louise Flynn, with their extraordinary team, who have single-handedly started a revolution in the county through the medium of graffiti, or more appropriately, street art. With great support from the community, businesses and Waterford Council, the project has seen twenty derelict and vacant walls transformed over three days into an array of beautiful street art. Twenty-four renowned international, national and local artists came to Waterford to make the pioneering festival happen.
Two pieces by Roscommon native Joe Caslin in the Viking Triangle. Caslin creates temporary artwork using wheatpaste that eventually degrades leaving no trace. Photo by Michelle Brett, WCCC (L) and Aoife Grogan (R).
As the dynamic of our cities are constantly evolving, so is the growing reputation of street art. Once associated with vandalism, street art and architecture have come together as a wonderful pairing to thrill and delight the passer-by. A stroll through to the city has become infused with art on a massive scale, illuminating dark alleys and taking advantage of blank spaces. Nowhere else in Ireland has a whole city been taken over and transformed by street art.
Art work in Barronstrand Street by DMC (L) and Michael Street by James Earley. Photos by DigiCol Photography.
As what often happens with powerful initiatives, regeneration leads to redevelopment. The lifespan of many of these pieces may already be under threat, but that is the beauty of this ephemeral art. Some of the existing art may disappear for something different. Preparations for this year's festival are well under way, with hints and tasters of new pieces already appearing.
A peacock on Stephen Street by Anna Doran (L) and a kingfisher down Jenkins Lane by Danleo (R). Photos by Aoife Grogan.
The festival has captured the imagination and appeal of the public, providing an uplifting and refreshing boost for communities. It has brightened up daily commutes through the city and brought excitement in discovering art in an unexpected place. The city has become alive with colour as nearly each piece that has remained continues to be admired and appreciated. While most may be painted over or fade away, the beauty of the ephemeral city remains.
Waterford Walls runs 25th – 28th August 2016 with even more artists, workshops, live demos & food trails. For more information see waterfordwalls.ie.


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Articles and expert advice to help you guide your child to educational success.
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Maya Angelou. Susan B. Anthony. Frida Kahlo. Rosa Parks. Sandra Day O'Conner. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
Women. Leaders. Revolutionaries.
Each of these women's actions have impacted our lives in various ways. They have shaped America's history through artistic expression, by leading women's suffrage, by joining civil rights efforts, and by holding respected government offices once belonging only to men. Our lives and our families' lives are better because of their courage.
On International Women's Day and during National Women's History Month, it's especially important to remind women how valuable they are to this world. Every woman has qualities to become a great leader and should take inspiration from the aforementioned history makers and other women to impact their families and communities. How can you tap into those qualities to make a difference?
Respect Yourself and Your Family
You can't change others' lives until you take care of your own. Take stock of your commitments and ensure you're only doing what you can and what you want. You need to schedule time for rest and relaxation, both for you as an individual and for your family.
You're at your best when you are rested, without stress, and inspired. Take inspiration from your family, from your hobbies, or the causes that you care most about.
Set Goals and Plan for Them
Take a few moments to write down what you want for your life and for your family. How can you obtain those goals? Set small, incremental goals that contribute to larger goals.
For example, do you want to improve the arts offerings at your child's school? Sit down and think about the big picture needs: staff, funding, materials, and the school board's buy-in.
Then, set the small goals. By the end of the month, you will research how much the staff and materials will cost for the program and determine the final funding costs.
The next month, you can focus on a proposal for the school board. These are small goals you can set that will help you achieve your ultimate goal.
Take a Leadership Role in Your Child's School
The best way to make a difference in your child's education is to be involved. While you are your child's only teacher in the first few years of his or her life, you remain your child's first teacher for the rest of his or her life.
Join the PTA, volunteer as a parent leader, or volunteer as a classroom aide if you have a flexible schedule. Ask your child's teacher what opportunities are available to be more involved at school, like chaperoning a field trip. Those efforts demonstrate to your child that you care about his or her life at school.
Celebrate Others' Successes
It truly takes a village to raise a child and make positive changes. When you see another woman taking steps to better her family and community, congratulate her. Thank her for her work, her strength, and her efforts. Ask how you can help her.
Every woman who makes a difference starts as an ordinary person doing extraordinary things. Little steps lead to big changes. By respecting your needs and setting goals for you and your family, who knows what you can accomplish? Maybe we'll see your name in the history books 100 years from now.


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A$AP Rocky, A$AP Ferg, & A$AP Twelvy playing shows
by Andrew Sacher
A$AP Rocky at FFF Fest 2012 (more by Tim Griffin)
A$AP Rocky is teaming up with fellow A$AP Mob member, A$AP Ferg, in addition to Bodega Bamz, 4th Pyramid, and DJ Getlive! for a Scion A/V-presented NYC show on February 20 at Public Assembly. The only way to get in is to enter Scion's contest via Twitter or Instagram. Instructions on how to do so are below and more info is HERE.
Though entering the contest obviously won't guarantee admission and Rocky plays NYC a lot, the show is pretty exciting in that it's an intimate one for him before heading out on tour with Rihanna, and it's his first NYC show since the release of his new album, Long. Live. A$AP. As someone who's been a pretty big naysayer of A$AP Rocky's previous work (sorry, "Purple Swag"), the new album finally won me over as a fan. He raps more confidently than in the past, the songs are catchier, and production from Hit-Boy, 40, T-Minus, Clams Casino, Danger Mouse… and Skrillex (because, why not?) doesn't hurt. Neither do guests verses from everyone. If you haven't heard it yet, you can stream the album below.
Another A$AP Mob member, A$AP Twelvy is also teaming up with Bodega Bamz for their own show on March 6 at Santos Party House. Tickets for that one are on sale now.
And, as mentioned, A$AP Ferg also plays with Fat Trel on February 12 at SOB's. That show also includes Da$h & Retch and A$ton Matthews. Tickets for that one are still available.
An updated list of dates , that album stream, and contest details for the Scion A/V show below…
A$AP Rocky – Long. Live. A$AP Full Album Stream
1. "Long Live A$AP" 0:00
2. "Goldie" 04:50
3. "PMW (All I Really Need)" (featuring Schoolboy Q) 08:01
5. "Hell" (featuring Santigold) 15:35
6. "Pain" (featuring OverDoz) 19:30
7. "Fuckin' Problems" (featuring Drake, 2 Chainz & Kendrick Lamar)23:23
8. "Wild for the Night" (featuring Skrillex & Birdy Nam Nam) 27:23
9. "1 Train" (featuring Kendrick Lamar, Joey Bada$$, YelaWolf, Danny Brown, Action Bronson & Big K.R.I.T.) 30:49
10. "Fashion Killa" 36:58
11. "Phoenix" 40:59
12. "Suddenly" 44:52
13. "Jodye" 49:23
14. "Ghetto Symphony" (featuring Gunplay & A$AP Ferg) 54:00
15. "Angels" 57:41
Scion A/V Contest Details:
On Twitter the sweepstakes runs from January 28 to February 18, 2013. To enter, users must write a tweet that mentions "@ScionAV" and includes the hashtag "#ScionOpenMic". There is a limit of 1 entry per person. A total of 250 winners will be selected from Twitter to attend the event.
On Instagram the sweepstakes runs from January 4 to February 18, 2013. To enter, users have to repost the sweepstakes photo posted on the @ScionAV Instagram account, and include a mention of "@ScionAV" and the hashtag "#ScionOpenMic" in the caption. @ScionAV will be posting the image at 10am (Pacific Standard Time) on January 4 and a few other times during the entry period. There's a limit of 1 entry per person. A total of 250 winners will be selected from Instagram to attend the event.
A$AP Rocky — 2013 Tour Dates
02/20 Brooklyn, NY Public Assembly w/ A$AP Ferg, Bodega Bamz, 4th Pyramid
03/08 Buffalo, NY First Niagara Center *
03/10 Boston, MA TD Garden *
03/12 Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner Arena *
03/14 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center *
03/15 Hartford, CT XL Center *
03/17 Montreal, Quebec Bell Centre *
03/18 Toronto, Ontario Air Canada Centre *
03/21 Detroit, MI Joe Louis Arena *
03/22 Chicago, IL United Center *
03/24 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center *
03/25 Winnipeg, Manitoba MTS Centre *
03/27 Edmonton, Alberta Rexall Place *
03/30 Calgary, Alberta Scotiabank Saddledome *
04/01 Vancouver, British Columbia Rogers Arena *
04/03 Seattle, WA Key Arena *
04/06 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion *
04/08 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center *
04/09 Anaheim, CA Honda Center *
04/11 San Diego, CA Valley View Casino Center *
04/12 Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay *
04/15 Houston, TX Toyota Center *
04/16 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center *
04/19 Tampa, FL Tampa Bay Times Forum *
04/20 Ft. Lauderdale, FL BankAtlantic Center *
04/22 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena *
04/29 Washington, D.C Verizon Center *
05/02 Ottawa, Ontario Scotiabank Place *
05/04 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center *
05/05 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center *
* – w/ Rihanna


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Casualty is the Möbius strip of TV dramas, in that it's virtually impossible to tell where one bit ends and the next bit begins. Saturday's instalment was officially episode one of series 32 – though as it arrived a mere three weeks after the end of series 31, I wouldn't blame you for not noticing. It also explains why Derek Thompson, who plays steadfast staff nurse Charlie Fairhead, was recently named the BBC's best paid actor. You might think £350k is a lot of money for standing around looking mildly bemused, but Thompson has to do this 44 weeks of the year, rain or shine. He can't just flounce in and out every once in a blue moon like Cumberbatch.
There wasn't much call for his bemusement skills this week, mind, as most of the action took place in a Calais refugee camp, where grumpy Dr Dylan (William Beck) helped rescue a boatload of Sudanese migrants who'd sunk off the French coast, and learned a valuable lesson about humanity in the process. I can already feel several Daily Mail leader writers turning puce with fury, but it was really rather sweet, in a slightly earnest, theatre-in-education sort of way. Though it got progressively dafter as it went along, ending with a group of refugees dangling off an airborne shipping container like a low-budget Spider-Man remake.
Back in Holby, meanwhile, steely consultant Dr Connie (Amanda Mealing) accused a patient of wasting her time, and sent her packing. Inevitably, said patient then crashed back in five minutes later on a trolley and was rushed into emergency surgery. Who saw that coming, apart from literally everyone?
I was disappointed by the episode's lack of 'oooh, the wiring on that plug looks a bit dodgy' moments. But this one was really more about broken lives than broken bones. No doubt the usual suspects will accuse the BBC of playing politics. But let's not forget that, before it morphed into a weekly soap, Casualty was meant to be political – radical, even – and it's actually rather good to see it baring its teeth again.
TV extra:
Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes?
It's fair to say the 12 candidates hoping to launch a (literally) stellar career in this rocket-fuelled version of The Apprentice are not your typical reality TV wannabes: think surgeons, RAF pilots and physicists. The tasks are supercharged, too: forget knocking out jeans down the market, this lot had to fly an actual helicopter. It's good telly, and superstar astronaut Chris Hadfield certainly puts Lord Sugar in the shade – but surely the obvious title was Do You Have the Right Stuff?
Location, Location, Location
'We're back, and we know what you're thinking: have they, or haven't they?' Ah, good old Kirstie and Phil: 30 – yes THIRTY – series in, and still flirting outrageously in TV's most sexually charged property show. Elsewhere, it was business as usual, with much talk of 'the wow factor' and occasional waterworks as two couples tried to find a home on the Kent coast without breaking the bank or getting divorced. It's a bulletproof formula that shows no sign of flagging.
Published in Waitrose Weekend, August 24, 2017
(c) Waitrose Weekend


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Paths of Gaeda
House Naether was one of the Noble Houses of the Storm Elves. Their stronghold was Tor Naether, which is situated near the River Lahn in the Storm Reaches, north of Tor Embric and south of Tor Indradath.
The dragon roost at the top of the tower is infested with Pseudogragons, and the tower itself is largely held to be haunted, though the structure itself is in remarkably good shape. The place was shunned by local Giants & Orcs due to it's ill repute before the new Storm Reach Kingdom was established.
In the tower, the party discovered an ancient curse, a shadow demon, the corpse of Rhadec Malygris, and what appeared to be a bottomless pit. During their investigations, Mio-Jo-Joli went mad. Malygris later went missing from the tower. There are suspicions that the bespectacled man was involved in that.
Anthec has resumed occupation since the re-establishment of the Kingdom, but the place still has a bad reputation.


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The Avalon SteveJobsSchools offer truly holistic, three-dimensional and relevant education for the 21st century – epitomising the School of the Future.
We are transforming education to empower students with high-level skills, that equip them for the world of tomorrow. New technology has brought a variety of learning opportunities beyond the physical limits of school, while flexible, open learning environments enable contextual, real-time, interactive and personalised learning.
Avalon SJSchool engages the latest technologies in education to equip students with the skills they will need to thrive in 2020 and beyond.
Our Vision
The vision of Avalon SJS is to advance learners in South Africa and Africa through a new educational model of innovation, technology and creativity. The Avalon SJS aims to develop learners who are:
- New era citizens
- Leaders of tomorrow
- International competitors
- Socially responsible persons
- Entrepreneurs
- Makers & Creators
- Problem solvers
- Designers & Artists
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- Collaborators
- Are Flexible and Adaptable
- Reflective thinkers
- Lifelong learners
What makes the Avalon SteveJobsSchools unique?
Avalon SJS is unique in its focus to personalised learning for each student and to break away from the traditional one-size-fits-all' learning environments.
Avalon SJS software makes it possible to use technology effectively in a school set-up with adaptive learning programs, supporting educators and enabling learners to work at their own pace and to their own strengths.
Technology is used to enhance the learning experience eg. in maths, personalised adaptive programs, adjust to each learner's level and gives real time feedback to their teachers. While students work individually, teachers can assist individuals where needed.
Learners have choices of interest- and ability based workshops for certain periods of the day. Research shows that with choice, learner engagement is much enhanced.
We encourage and help our students to find their inner inventor, creator, artist and mathematician. We don't limit ourselves to STEM but believe in STREAMAC Science, Technology, Reading (Languages), Engineering, Arts, Mathematics, AI & Coding are all important study areas for the future.
We offer workshops in Coding, Robotics, early Engineering and Science to students as young as 7.
At the Avalon ELC our youngest learners are immersed in a unique learning culture, from the moment they arrive. We offer a challenging curriculum with inquiry-based learning and a strong focus on literacy, numeracy, physical development and creative arts.


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Work Step by Step
The decibel scale is logarithmic, based upon powers of 10. Adding 10 dB means the intensity is multiplied by a factor of 10. In other words, when the intensity of sound is increased by a factor of 10, the intensity level increases by 10 dB. A sound of 40 dB is ten times more intense than a sound of 30 dB. This is discussed on page 394, and shown in Table 21.1.


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I was looking for something on SPIKE TV's website of all places and ran across a link they had featuring Olivia Newton John. Remember her? As a 41 year old, let me tell you, she featured large in my childhood
The dripping sex appeal aside, I was amazed with her voice. (Amy Grant's voice does it for me too, as does Karen Carpenter's amazing vocal chords ). I was rebooting my attempts at the guitar and all her studio stuff had great strat sounds, the "Chucka Chucka" spanky skany comping stuff the studio rats do I'm still partial too this day.


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Okular is a very nice document viewer with many nice features. The main difference between Okular and other document viewers is that Okular is a universal document viewer which supports a lot of document formats like pdf, djuv, chm, epub, odt etc. where other document viewers support only one type of format. For example, Adobe and Foxit Reader supports pdf, WinDjview supports djvu and so on. Okular has a lot of features for document viewing and editing. For a detailed information about Okular, readers are referred here.
But, there is a feature that is in all the famous document readers like Adobe PDF Reader, Foxit Reader etc. that is text selection and copy. Though, Okular has this feature already it is pretty immature compared to its counterparts.
Current Selection System:
The current text selection(the release of July 27, 2011) gives very basic text selection feature. To use this feature user needs to open Okular and select Tools->Text Selection. The text selection is done by basic building blocks and then by line. For example, for pdf files the basic building blocks are characters. So, the user can select by characters. But, if the selection goes from one line to another it can be seen that the previous line is totally selected whether there is a column spacing in between the line or not. That means, Okular does not support multi-column text selection. So, if we have only one columned text, then this can be correctly selected by Okular right now. The text highlighting in case of annotation also suffers from the same problem. This problem can be visualized from the following figure:
There is also another problem regarding text selection. Before describing the problem, the reader need to know a little bit about the text generation system of Okular. Before running the text selection Okular need the texts to be generated from a generator. The generator class is a type of interface which need to be extended by every document generators. For example, Okular uses poppler for generating text from pdf document. The PDFgenerator class inherits the Generator class and use poppler to generate the texts. The generated texts are then stored in TextPage. For every page, there will be a TextPage. When text selection is done, the texts are extracted from the TextPage. There is a different generator for every document format.
Now we come to the second problem. Some generators do not consider spaces in between words(i.e. djvu). In this case, if we make a text selection, copy the text and paste it somewhere, as it has no spacing between words it will be nearly unreadable. The selection will not select the spaces in between words also and will be visually bad also. The following figure shows this problem:
Development Plan:
The initial plan was done in time of making the GSOC proposal. The plan was to study ocropus, the open source document layout and OCR system in detail and implement the techniques used there to support document layout analysis for text selection. It was necessary to study three algorithms: recursive XY cut, Voronoi segmentation and RAST Layout Analysis and develop an algorithm of our own taking those algorithms strengths. There was also a part of the plan that if there is time some work on statistical layout analysis might be done. The detailed initial plan can be found here.
The algorithms planned previously were used by ocropus on document image (image format like jpg, png). But, all our documents are digitally born document(pdf, djvu etc) where these algorithms cannot be used directly. As a result, not all algorithms I planned to work on was possible to implement in our case. Finally, I used a modified version of the famous recursive XY cut algorithm where statistical calculation is used for parameter selection based on global and local information.
The goal of this GSOC project was to implement the text selection so that it works with multi-column documents. The main target was technical journal and conference papers. Some issues were considered to keep the maximum possible flexibility. These are:
- The implementation should not be document or generator specific. As Okular supports different document formats, each of them needs to work with it. As Okular uses different generators for different file formats , the implementation was targeted to reside in the TextPage, not in the generators.
- The generators can return text of a document page as character(pdf), word(djvu), part of a word(odt) etc. How the selection will be done depends on the text generated by the document because the processing is done taking those as basic blocks. If some generator returns character, word or part of a word the selection procedure should work fine.
- The new implementation should not affect previous features anyway.
Implementation Details:
It can be assumed that the generator has already generated the texts and stored those in the corresponding textpage from where the text can be extracted easily. Taking the assumption true, the works is divided in two phase.
Phase 01:
The generator gives the texts of a page in some order. If the order were always true, there was no necessity to use Phase 01, Phase 02 alone was sufficient. So, as you can assume, this steps takes the texts from the textpage and make the ordering of the basic blocks correct whether or not they were previously. The job is done in seven steps. This is implemented in TextPage::correctTextOrder(). The steps are describe below:
Step 1: Removing the Spaces
Remove the spaces from the texts got from generator if there is any. If there is no space in the text(i.e djvu generator) nothing will be removed. The output of this step will be all texts without any space. This is a preprocessing which make texts from any generator(whether they give space or not) look somewhat alike.
Step 2: Construct word from characters
Here we create words from the basic blocks returned by the generator. Every basic block has a bounding rectangle. So, we merge some blocks until there is some space between their bounding rectangles. When we get a space, we can say that we have got a word. However, we store some additional information for future use. We map the basic blocks from which the word has been created. So, provided that we have the word, we can get the basic building blocks also. This information will be used in Step 7 to destruct basic blocks from words. Now, our basic block of calculation is a word. So, the computation significantly reduces.
Step 3: Create line from words
In this step, we will construct lines from words. We will first sort the words by their y coordinate. Then depending on the y-axis overlapping between the words we group them in a line. Finally, in every line, we sort the words by their x coordinate. The words in each line and the overall bounding rectangle of the line is stored.
Step 4: Generate statistical information
Now, we will generate some statistical information like word, column and line spacing. In step 3, we created lines where we stored words in each line and the bounding rectangle of the line. We can say that, words in every line is separated by horizontal spacings. So, we store all the spacings within those lines. From these spaces, we can find character spacing, word spacing, column spacing etc. We can also find line spacing by the vertical distance between two lines.
Step 5: Modified Recursive XY Cut Algorithm
Here, we implement the recursive XY Cut algorithm for page segmentation. As the normal version cannot be applied in our case directly, we use a modified version of the algorithm to determine the page layout of the page and segment the whole page in some regions. This algorithm requires the setup of two parameters which are initially setup from the value of word and line spacing got in step 4. This parameter setting is first done globally on the whole page, which is the first region. At every iteration, if it is possible to segment a region we segment it into two new regions and for every new region we will update the parameter values using the statistical information of that local region. Depending on the parameter selection, we continue to segment the page into regions until no new region can be created. All the regions are stored in a binary tree. Then, we traverse the tree in order and extract texts from all of these regions and merge them in order to make the complete texts in sorted order.
Step 6: Add Necessary Spaces
In this step, we will add spaces in between words. We will first make lines as we did in Step 3. Then for every two words we put a basic block of space in between them whose length is the difference between the words. Then, we combine all the space separated words from each region(as they are ordered by XY tree) and create the space separated word list.
Step 7: Extract characters from words
Finally, the words are destructed into characters or basic text blocks. This is now easy as we have stored the hash mapping between words and basic blocks in step 2. We remove every word from the word list and in its place put all the basic blocks that are used to make the word.
Phase 02:
Now we have all the texts in correct order. We have to make the selection depending on the user input. The user starts selection in a point and ends in another point which can be called startpoint and endpoint respectively. All the basic blocks of texts in the page are stored in a TinyTextEntity class. The TinyTextEntity class has two members: the text content as string and the bounding rectangle of the string in the page. There are two types of selection possible which are show in the following figure:
If the startpoint and endpoint in the selections are altered, we will make them look like what is in the figure. Now, it can be taken that there is just two types of selection available for the user.
The current selection systems traverses all TinyTextEntity tmp and selects those tmp which satisfies the following two condition:
- The top of tmp is under startpoint or the bottom of tmp is under startpoint but the right of tmp is right to startpoint.
- The bottom of tmp is above startpoint or the top of tmp is above endpoint but the left of tmp is left to endpoint.
Though this selection system works fine with one columned texts, if there are multi-column it will not work. The following Figures shows the basic text selection system currently used by Okular (The red texts are the texts selected):
The selection system proposed here is not so trivial as the current system. We first make the selection to see like type01 or type02 so that it can be assumed that we have just two types of selections. We also decide which type of selection has been made. Then there a lot of cases to consider, which is describe below one by one:
1. Both the startpoint and endpoint are at empty spaces and outside of the content bounding rectangle of the page. The content bounding rectangle is the bounding rectangle outside which there is only empty space. There can be two case here:
a. If both points are in some spaces, where the rectangle formed by these points do not contain any texts. In this case we end here and do not select any texts. The current selection selects texts in this case also.
b. The bounding rectangle formed by start and endpoints have texts inside them. In this case, we try to set the start and endpoints to the nearest point in bounding rectangle.
2. In this step, we try to find out which TinyTextEntity are our starting and ending TinyTextEntity. We search for every TinyTextEntity for that page texts and find out which TinyTextEntity contains startpoint and which contains endpoint. We have also different cases here:
a. We found two TinyTextEntity. Of them, the first one contains starpoint and second one endpoint. So, we select all TinyTextEntity from the one that contains startpoint to that contains endpoint.
b. Check if the rectangle formed by startpoint and endpoint contains any TinyTextEntity. If none is found, we have nothing to select and can end here. The difference of this with 1.a is in this case startpoint and endpoint are within content bounding rectangle.
3. If 2.a or 2.b do not work, we come in this step. It can be that we do not found TextEntity which contains startpoint or which contains endpoint or both. But, the fact is that rectangle formed by start and endpoint does contain text. So, our target is a find the nearest and likely TinyTextEntity for startpoint and endpoint so that we can make our text selection work. The two cases here will find start and end point respectively:
a. We search the nearest rectangle consisting of some TinyTextEntity right to or bottom of the startPoint for selection 01 and for selection 02, we have to search for right and top. So, we get our suitable TinyTextEntity from where we will start.
b. For endpoint, we have to find the point top of or left to endpoint if we have selection 01. Otherwise, the search will be left and bottom.
After the end of Step 3, we have two TinyTextEntity in our hand. So, we select all TinyTextEntity from the one that contains startpoint to that contains endpoint. The sample outputs for both of the selection cases are show below(red characters shows start and end TinyTextEntity):
Comparison with current Output:
After the algorithm is run, our previous pdf text selection works like below:
We can see now that the new selection method preserves column spacing and detect column in texts.
There was another problem we showed previously with djvu file formats where in generator output text no space is given. But, if we see the following figure the text selection is just like we did in pdf. That means, we have got spaces in between words this time which was present previously. This is due to the courtesy of step 6.
With the solution implemented, we can recognize and select multi-column texts. The following figure shows a four column document example to compare previous and current outputs:
Additional Additions:
During implementing text selection, some additional problems have been found. Some of them has been solved.
- Copy Text: Even if nothing is selected after text selection is activated, if we right click we can see a Copy Text Dialog which essentially copies whatever is in the system's copy buffer. In our implementation, we changed this to work only if something is selected. So, if somebody right clicks without selecting anything, he will not get any Copy Text option.
- Selection Problem with odt,epub: When we make text selection on odt or epub documents, the selection color gets black instead of the nice blue default selection color. This problem occurs because in case of odt or epub files the image we get is actually transparent. In our code, we changed to make the selection color blue.
Scope of Improvements:
Though the selection mechanism implemented here works pretty fine with technical journals and conference papers, they do not work fine with some of the complex and fancy layout used by newspapers and magazines. There are also some issues that can be improved. The issues are described as following:
1. The first one is about the text generated by the generator. Sometimes in the case of mathematical texts djvu returns text in a random manner which makes a problem in selection. The most problematic case is the chm files. The generator always gives text in random manner, sometimes by words, sometimes by several lines which is totally undefined. To remove this problem, we have to use a better generator, the changes need to be in the text generation phase.
2. We have not considered much complex layouts like column overlaying and column overlapping. This kind of layouts are often seen in newspapers and magazines. An example of column overlaying is given in the next figure:
Some recent work has been done on supporting column overlaying and overlapping in the XY Cut algorithm. If we can implement these algorithms, we can make text selection work for magazines and newspapers also.
3. The additional feature implemented in epub has still some problem. One is, the selected text gets bold when we make selection. There are also some previous problem where if we make a selection or annotation(that use buffering) and then scroll the page up and down, some random colored lines are created from nowhere. That seems to be a issue related with using back buffering.
So, I think the goal of this summer of code project has been fulfilled. Though there are still scope of improvements, I would like to implement those features myself in future aside of my academic studies. My mentor Albert Astals Cid helped me always when I faced with some problems or needed suggestion. Finally, I hope this project will benefit all Okular users and will establish Okular as a more powerful document viewer.


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Sun Myung Moon's Speeches from 2003
Happy Day of the Declaration of the Realm of the Cosmic Sabbath
Sun Myung Moon
August 4, 2003
North Garden
Kodiak, Alaska
Michael Jenkins
In Alaska the sun goes down at 11 pm at this time of the year therefore Father can go out much longer or at anytime. Suddenly he went for fishing at 5 pm on Sunday night the night before pledge service. Father and Mother came back at around 7:30 pm and the leaders from around the world had dinner and closed the evening.
7 am Pledge Service
We gathered for the main pledge service at 6:30 in preparation for the 7 am pledge service. Rev. Sun Jo Hwang International President of the FFWPUI and Dr. Yang, North American Continental director worked to make sure everything was prepared for our True Parents. Rev. Hwang went over the procedures for this holy day pledge service. Representatives from the three primary nations of Korea, Japan and America as well as all the major religions of the world are all represented by Blessed Couples. One unique aspect of pledge that began on May 31 with the True Day of All Things is that Dae Mo Nim (Represented by Hoon Mo Nim) now bows together with True Children. Today, Mrs. Chang (the bride of Jesus) also was asked to bow with True Children. This means that they are representatives of the True Family before heaven. Also representatives are chosen from the Cain world and the Abel world as well as the spirit world.
The offering table was a beautiful and rich offering before the Lord. All the fruits of creation are perfectly stacked in circular towers. In addition, candy, cookies and every imaginable representation of the creation is there as well as prepared dishes for God.
Father and Mother entered and the room was silent and holy. We wore Sunday dress for pledge with no holy robes. Father began with lighting the candles. First the one on the far right, then the left then back and forth toward the center. Some of the candles were not so easy to light so Father asked Dr. Yang to bring the far right candle that was burning. Then True Mother took that candle with Dr. Yang's help and continued to light the candles. True Parents stood side by side facing the altar and offered prayer before heaven. Then True Parents bowed. One interesting thing at this service was that Father and Mother together went to their places behind the altar. Then the True Family members came to bow with Dae Mo Nim and Jesus' bride. Then all blessed couples bowed. Then the three primary nations and then the representatives from each continent. Dr. Yang (North America) and many more. Rev. Eugene Harnet represented Europe and Rev. Ernie Ho represented Africa. Then the various representatives came and bowed.
Father is at 100% full power. Father wore a dark blue suit with light blue shirt and maroon tie, Mother wore a green knit suit with stripes of black and white trim on the cuffs and the front. Mother and Father are the Parents of Heaven and Earth and they are standing with such an air of dignity and heart. After the prayers True Parents cut the holiday cake and then Dr. Yang led three cheers of Ok Monsei. True Parents distributed the offering table to True Family, including Dae Mo Nim and Jesus' bride. Then to everyone through Rev. Hwang and Dr. Yang.
True Parents chairs were brought out to the right of the altar and we began our Hoon Dok Hae.
Mrs. Won Ju McDevitt read Hoon Dok Hae from the address of True Father at the 1997 ceremony for the Chil Pal Jeol. She read:
Father's prayer from 1997. "Today, it is the year 1997, July 7th, 7 o'clock, 7 minutes, 7 seconds. Your son, Moon Sun Myung, is age 77. These eight [recurrences] of the number seven signify that the number seven can connect to the number eight so that it becomes the time of the Sabbath and a new beginning day. ... Now all Unification members, centering on a family which inherits the tradition, heart and authority of Heaven, can attend God, can have God rest in a nation, the world and the cosmos, so that they can face the victorious time when Kingship in the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth and in Heaven are established at the same time. The Foundation of the Sabbath where God and True Parents can travel freely expands from a family level to a cosmic level."True Parents Declaration Day of The Realm of the Cosmic Sabbath of the Parents of Heaven and Earth
If God would be the mind of Adam the spirit world and physical world would be one. Due to the fall all was lost. God's body has to be restored. Therefore through True Parents God's individual body, family and children were reclaimed by God. The son and the Father must become one. Sons and daughters must unite.
Won Ju:
The history of restoration is the path of tears and difficulty for God. That's why this day of the Cosmic Sabbath came with great indemnity. Upon the foundation established by True Parents through the blessing could the Sabbath of God be declared.
There is no Father and Mother realm in the spirit world. That's why I've been indemnifying that role. You have to go to the spirit world centering on the True Love of True Parents. On the foundation of the Cheon Il Guk blessing that you received on February 6th you could then register your blessed couple in the heavenly kingdom. If you don't have a child, its not a family. It is very sad if someone doesn't have a child. The children receive milk from their mother's breast. If you don't have children you cannot complete the purpose of creation.
True Parents are the King and Queen of this world and Heavenly Father is the King of the Spirit world. You must become in a harmonious object position to True Parents. Then God will directly guide you. God is the center of the spirit world. God is meant to be the very center of Husband and Wife. If the substantial True Family cannot come then God cannot dwell upon this earth.
Without going through the liberation and blessing of your ancestors your family cannot stand. This is absolutely essential. True Love, True Life and True Lineage must be achieved on the foundation of Absolute Faith, Absolute Love and Absolute Obedience. Dr. Yang, do you understand? That's why I'm saying that the ancestors must be blessed. Without knowing this content you cannot establish your family as the dwelling of God. The key is True Love, True Life and True Lineage. These three are the essential foundations for the blessed family. True Mother had to overcome every imaginable trial to achieve this Cosmic Sabbath for God and True Parents. Every detail of history, every trial had to be overcome. You must seek to understand this course so that you can guide your family accordingly. You cannot be connected to the false lineage. You must cut it off. Because your mind and body is not united you have trouble. The sexual organs must become one between husband and wife so that there is no possibility of separation. Husband and wife must become one centering on God and the vertical line. When husband and wife become completely one in heart and body then God can descend and become one with this union. In the mothers womb through the child the man and woman become one. This centers on the Mother and Father. Absolute Faith, Absolute Love, Absolute Obedience and Absolute Investment will become the True Owner. Through this course we must inherit the realm of heart of God.
In the spirit world, if our mind and body are separated we cannot stand with God. Jesus prayed to God, "Please Father let this cup pass from me". Because if Jesus could not complete the blessing with his spouse there would be no base for God to dwell. That's why husbands and wives were brought here. Without your spouse you cannot stand as the dwelling place of God. I have to give out everything, and in the substantial realm is one in which everything is given for others. That's why we must educate everyone concerning the value of couples.
Dr. Yang, Mr. Joo, do you understand. Couples should pray together holding hands before heaven. (Shil Tak Kwon). Father spoke to Mrs. Chang (bride of Jesus), you must bless your relatives. Never think that others are the problem, only think that I am the problem. We find that Jesus came to bless humanity but he could not because he could not find his bride. Everyone without exception must be grafted into the True Olive Tree. You have to love each other and become one. Dr. Yang do you understand? Mrs. Yang are you becoming one with your husband? Is Neil Salonen here? (Dr. Yang - he could not come). Dr. Hendricks - Yes! The couples must become one.
You are resembling the substantial body of God. Therefore your couple must be one. This is the most important thing. This is the essence of why Mother and I could establish the Cosmic Sabbath. How must the Unification church go. It must go through formation, growth and perfection stage.
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Moroccan Meatballs With Couscous and Saffron-Harissa Sauce/
Meatballs. Let's just take a moment, shall we? (.......quiet moment of meatball contemplation...). So what came to mind during your moment of meatball meditation? Perhaps a perfectly tender, flavorful, moist and meaty orb of deliciousness? Possibly dunked in or drizzled with a tasty sauce? My own meatball fantasies span the globe and it matters not whether Asian, Mexican, Swedish, Italian, Middle Eastern or Canadian 🤔, as long it's ground meat in a round-ish sort of ball shape and tastes good, I'm in!
And while that may sound like my meatball standards are a bit low, that's not entirely the case. Yes, I will eat and enjoy just about any kind of meatball, but I know a good one when I meet one, and a great one really does make the sun shine a little brighter.
After we first tasted these meatballs, I used the word "beguiled" to described how I felt about the extraordinary flavors in this awesome little meatball. Cousin Katie made me promise to use that word in my blog post, so there it is, my girl. Yes, we were beguiled. And enchanted. They were delicious.
I will now refer you to the meatballs in the recipe below, but don't freak out! Yes, there are 84 ingredients, but it really does come together quickly. I just opened my spice drawer and pulled out every one of them (or maybe it just seemed like it) and proceeded to mix together this fragrant combination of scents and flavors that come through in every last bite. Be not afraid. You can do this.
And I haven't even mentioned the sauce! While it was good and provided a lovely bath in which our meatballs finished cooking, as a finishing sauce, it was a little too thin. To remedy this, I stirred Harissa into some Greek yogurt and whisked this into the broth, creating a seriously flavorful sauce for not only our meatballs, but for the couscous as well.
Just a word about Harissa, if you're unfamiliar... it's a North African (think Morocco) chili paste that's loaded with roasted red peppers and chiles and spices and herbs and is ever so amazingly flavorful and delicious. It turned our sauce into something quite special indeed. You can buy it full strength spicy or mild, so choose according to your preferences. I like getting the mild so I can use more of it - the flavors are amazing.
Alrighty then, folks. Enough talking. These meatballs aren't going to make themselves, so pull out your spice rack and get to it! You will be ever so glad you did. Here's the recipe...
Moroccan Meatballs with Saffron-Harissa Sauce
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First of all, I must encourage you to not freak out. Yes, that is a very long ingredient list, but it's all so do-able. Most of this stuff you probably already have in your pantry, except possibly the saffron and Harissa. If you can find it in your heart to spring for these two ingredients, you will be well rewarded. Oh my heavens, this is a very special, flavorful, festive dish and possibly the best meatballs I've had. Still, I did some major tweaking to the original recipe, which was delicious, but in my humble opinion, the sauce needed a bit of help. I used the yogurt to add some body and the Harissa for a lovely flavor punch. If you've not had Harissa, you're in for a treat. It's basically a sauce of roasted red peppers and spices and is ever so delicious. If you like spice, it can be spicy, but if you're preferring less spice, it comes in a mild version that's dialed back on the heat but retains its earthy spiciness.
Recipe Adapted from David Tanis, NY Times
For the Sauce…
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 and 1/2 cups finely diced onion
3 garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 inch piece cinnamon stick
Large pinch saffron, crumbled
Salt and pepper
3 cups chicken broth, vegetable broth or water
1/2 cup whole milk Greek yogurt
2 tablespoons Harissa
For the Meatballs
(I got out a small bowl and measured all of the spices into it and then stirred it well before adding it to the meatball mixture for even distribution)
1 and 1/2 cups cubed day old firm white bread
1 cup milk
1 pound ground beef, turkey or lamb
1 large egg, beaten
1 teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon black pepper
4 garlic cloves, minced
⅛ teaspoon grated nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon turmeric
2 teaspoons paprika
¼ teaspoon cayenne
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
¼ teaspoon ground coriander
½ teaspoon ground cumin
3 tablespoons chopped parsley
3 tablespoons chopped cilantro
3 tablespoons finely chopped scallion
All purpose flour, for dusting
Olive oil or vegetable oil
For the Couscous
1 cup couscous
2 tablespoons butter
½ cup golden raisins, soaked in hot water to soften, then drained (optional)
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Heat oil over medium-high heat in a wide, heavy bottomed saucepan. Add onion and cook without browning until softened, about 5-6 minutes. Add garlic, tomato paste, cinnamon and saffron, and stir well to incorporate. Season generously with salt and pepper, and allow to sizzle for 1 minute more. Add broth and simmer gently for 5 minutes. May be made several hours in advance, up to a day.
Place the bread cubes and milk in a small bowl. Leave this to soak until softened, about 5 minutes, then squeeze dry.
In a mixing bowl, beat the egg and add add salt, pepper, garlic, nutmeg, ginger, turmeric, paprika, cayenne, cloves, coriander and cumin. Mix well to distribute seasoning. Add 2 tablespoons each of parsley, cilantro and scallion, stir well and then add squeezed-out bread and the ground meat. Use your hands to mix it all really well. This may be prepared several hours in advance, up to a day.
With your hands, roll mixture into small round balls, a little smaller than a golf ball. You should get about 25 or so. Dip each ball into a bowl of flour, shaking off the excess.
Heat a few tablespoons of oil, or a quarter-inch depth, over medium-high heat and fry meatballs until barely browned, about 2 minutes per side and set on a rack over a baking sheet while you finish the rest.
Place the meatballs in the sauce and simmer, partially covered over medium low heat for about 20 to 25 minutes.
Remove the meatballs from the sauce and keep warm. Let the sauce cool for a few minutes. meanwhile, stir together the yogurt and Harissa. When the sauce has cooled somewhat, whisk the yogurt mixture into the sauce until well combined. Return the meatballs to the pan and warm through.
Cook the couscous according to package directions, fluff gently and stir in butter and raisins. Season with salt and cinnamon, and toss well.
Serve the meatballs over the couscous and pour some of the sauce over the meatballs. Garnish meatballs with remaining parsley, cilantro and scallion. Place the remaining sauce in a pitcher to pass at the table.


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"Described as the thinking man's M5 by BMW Car Club Gauteng Chairman Colin Van Son, the brand released a variant that was still dressed in the M athletic wear, but was positioned to be more liveable with daily," describes Bruce Ceprnich. "In South Africa only five were ever imported, this example being the last that BMW brought into the country in face-lifted guise, which formed part of Head Offices Executive company car fleet. The silver 2003 M540i, with its bullet proof, refined, powerful and muscular 4.4 litre V8, flexing a satisfying 217kW and 460Nm of torque, mated to the same drivetrain, most notable the six speed manual transmission, of the M5, possess the performance abilities of its M cousin, road presence through its pronounced and assertive look, yet was more economical to maintain and run."
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Alec Ceprnich has always lusted over this 5 series range and describes this example as, "An absolute machine! This is BMW at its finest hour, even in today's age of motor vehicle. The M540i may not be an M5, but it doesn't need to be, it has the performance, involving drive, yet is one of the most comfortable and luxurious vehicles on the road. When cruising the ride is silent, slot the manual gearbox into sixth, rely on the impressive torque and you glide along easily at the national highway speed limit, sipping 95 octane at an impressive 6.9 litres per 100km. However with a few down changes and a plod on the accelerator pedal, this beast launches an attack with immediacy, the engine note develops from a purr into an angry grumble, V8 primarily with an acoustically glorious sporty undertone. However the real party trick of this vehicle is the bullet proof engine, the cost effectiveness of parts, in comparison to the M5 and its 17 inch rims, which leads to affordability when replacing tyres, compared to the 18 inch M versions."
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Hrithik Roshan Dedicates His Madame Tussauds Statue To His Entire FamilyJanuary 20th, 2011 - 7:44 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
Bollywood superstar Hrithik Roshan is the latest addition in London's Madame Tussauds in the Bollywood category. The actor went to unveil his statue accompanied by his entire family.
Hrithik was excited to see his wax duplicate and said that it looked better than him. The actor added that it was a crazy moment with so much of happening around. The officials of Madame Tussauds made him to rehearse for the whole event and introduced him with his wax statue.
The actor said that he was stunned to see the wax figure. Today, he will enter from the back door along with his family members and the crowd will wait for them to unveil the wax figure. Hrithik said that he was excited more because he is sharing this grand moment with his family. He has dedicated the statue to his entire family, who according to him, have remained his support system throughout his growth in the industry.
He will cherish the emotions and pride his family is feeling for him today. Hrithik said that his parents, sister, grandparents and wife have made him what is today so they deserve to get the credit.
Hrithik also shared his first experience of visiting Madam Tussauds with his grandfather J Om Prakash when he was only nine years old. He was holidaying with his family in London then. He added that they had to wait for 45 minutes in line to get an entry to the museum and he jumped up and down impatiently while his grandfather waited patiently. Hrithik said that he can see the same level of excitement in his grandfather on this occasion.
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Draw a chart of your body, based on what you know about it. Use drawings, symbols and text to include as many details as you can. Compare and discuss your body chart with the rest of the group. How does your chart compare with others and how accurate does it appear to be? Where does you knowledge come from? Would you expect knowledge and understanding of the body to differ across age, gender, experience, and culture?
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Branding Plus Marketing Group has unique execution models for radio advertising that will drive your target consumers to your website, phone or place of business. If you are Coke or Budweiser, "branding" programs are sufficient. For the rest of us, however, we need to sell something…today! Branding Plus Marketing Group will design and implement an advertising strategy activate your radio investments to accomplish specific, defined objectives.
At Branding Plus Marketing Group...
results matter.