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I'm half Portuguese, did ya know they speak Portuguese in Brazil? Many people think that Brazilians speak some form of Spanish but Brazil was actually a Portuguese Colony which is where our influence on their language comes from. In my experience Brazilians articulate their words a bit more rhythmically than natives of Portugal but none the less the words and their meanings are the same. My father was born and raised in Portugal but I swear the man sounds Brazilian sometimes with the way he forms his words and speaks.
Fun fact of the day and utterly random but it does bring me to my review on Avon Brazil Beat Eau de Toilette.
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Commercial Expansion Program
Real estate tax reductions for commercial or industrial leases in targeted areas of the City.
FRESH promotes the establishment and retention of neighborhood grocery stores in underserved communities by providing zoning and financial incentives to eligible grocery store operators and developers.
The FRESH initiative comes as a response to a study conducted for the Mayor's Food Policy Taskforce by the New York Departments of Health and City Planning and NYCEDC, which showed that many low-income areas across the city are underserved by neighborhood grocery stores. The resulting lack of nutritious, affordable, fresh food in these neighborhoods has been linked to higher rates of diet-related diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, and obesity.
Since launching, a total of 18 FRESH projects have been approved—three of which have been approved for zoning benefits—and nine have completed construction. These supermarkets are expected to provide about 578,000 square feet of new or renovated space, are estimated to retain more than 500 jobs and create over 940 new jobs, and represent an investment of approximately $80 million across the City.
The FRESH program is open to grocery store operators renovating existing retail space or developers seeking to construct or renovate retail space that will be leased by a full-line grocery store operator. Stores that benefit from the program must be located in an eligible area and must provide:
FRESH benefits are available to stores within the designated FRESH-eligible areas, shown below. Tax incentives are discretionary and will be assessed on a per-case basis for eligibility.
Please visit www.nyc.gov/fresh to see a list of current projects.
The following financial incentives are available to eligible grocery store operators and developers through the New York City Industrial Development Agency (NYCIDA).
All NYCIDA benefits are discretionary. Companies requesting assistance from the NYCIDA will be evaluated by NYCIDA staff individually to determine specific eligibility. All benefits are, by statute, subject to the approval of the NYCIDA's Board of Directors. Companies must request NYCIDA assistance prior to entering into any property lease, acquisition or renovation contracts, unless such contracts are contingent upon NYCIDA assistance. Learn more about the Industrial Development Agency (NYCIDA).
An exemption from the 8.875% sales tax on materials to construct, renovate or equip facilities.
A one-time deferral of mortgage recording tax relating to the project's financing, equal to 2.05% of the mortgage amount for mortgages of $500,000 or less, and 2.80% for mortgages greater than $500,000.
The following zoning incentives are available to eligible grocery store developers through the New York City Department of City Planning:
One additional square foot of floor area in mixed residential development and commercial buildings for every square foot provided for a grocery store, up to a 20,000 square foot limit.
Grocery stores up to 30,000 square feet permitted in M1 districts.
Grocery store operators and developers in underserved communities may be eligible to apply for loan and grant financing for capital costs including real estate acquisition, construction, leasehold improvements, and equipment through the New York Healthy Food & Healthy Communities (HFHC) Fund.
The HFHC Fund is a public-private partnership established to promote healthy communities statewide and is managed by The Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) along with The Food Trust. For more information about the fund please visit http://www.liifund.org/programs/healthy-food/.
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PARSIPPANY, N.J., March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- It's a different era for pharmaceutical companies trying to remain on the forefront of an ever-changing industry while battling an uncertain economy. Now, more than ever, pharmaceutical competitive intelligence is the key to retaining market share and maintaining hard-earned industry relevancy. All decision makers need the powerful tools of pharmaceutical competitive intelligence.
The Pharma CI Conference & Exhibition is the industry's gold standard for senior level pharma, biotech, medical device, and diagnostics professionals who seek the latest in competitive intelligence/business intelligence. Last year's event sold out in record time! People packed rooms beyond capacity! And 2009 is on track for another banner year. Anticipation is growing for the 2009 Pharma CI Conference on September 15-16th; it's hands-down the premier event for networking with the industry's luminaries, and gaining insight from cutting edge speakers who are ahead of the curve.
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Abdul Aziz
1 portrait of Abdul Aziz
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Abdul Aziz
by Émile Desmaisons
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
3 3/8 in. x 2 1/4 in. (86 mm x 56 mm) image size
Given by an anonymous donor, 1939
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Fuji Lake hotel
We stayed at this Fuji Lake hotel which was fantastic. Our room was large with a lake view and the stay was including traditional dinner and breakfast. Not to mentioned an outdoor jacuzzi break in afternoon :)
Great location and high quality of services
- bradstow2
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Minshuku Fukumuro: Japan's Hidden Izu gem
A cozy, welcoming small family-run minshuku in Toi (whence you can get a ferry to Shimizu - fun place, full of good fish and great bars, e.g. O-hana...).
Minshuku Fukumuro is not difficult to find, plenty of parking. It is impeccably clean and well-run. It can accommodate a maximum of 25 guests (so book well in advance). We stayed during the "off" season (i.e. early Novmeber) and were offered a 10% discount by the local Tourist Office. We had three rooms, one family room for four, one triple and a double. With a simply excellent traditional Japanese evening meal, unlimited use of the two onsen in the building (including one with an outdoor section, so you can stargaze!), and a really tasty breafast the next morning, our TOTAL bill (after discount) was ¥70,000. Remarkable value!
TWO onsen baths. Especially the outdoor one! (not quite lobster heat...)
Quiet, clean place and relaxing atmosphere.
- machomikemd
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Hotel Regina: located in Kawagichiko Area
where most of the mount fuji day tourst with lunch included usually have their lunch set meals. Hotel Regina is a third class, resort hotel in the Lake Kawaguchiko Area of Yamanashi Prefecture (the fuji five lakes region). the hotel has been a favorite destination of local and foreign tourists as a stepping stone into the lake kawaguchi and the five lakes region since the accomodations here are ok and the price is not that much since a basic room rate starts at 8,000 yen (w/ out a mount fuji view and 10,000 yen for a mount fuji view) unlike the more expensive hotels in the area. the hotel also boasts views of mount fuji from the Lake Kawaguchi area if there is no cloudy weather.
Hotel Facilities
Japanese Restaurant (Kaiko, where we had our set Japanese Bento Lunch Menu).
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Budget Accomodation
We slept on tatami mats here. Clean and good facilities, including a big kitchen. There is internet access here too.
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Green Plaza Hotel: Best place to get away from the crowds...
You will get to see more Japanese guests here than overseas tourists. The staff here are very friendly. However, they speak little English and it maybe slightly more challenging to understand them. On the first night, we stayed in a Japanese styled room which has a fantastic view of Mt Fuji. On the second nite, we changed it to a room with attached onsen. In general, the hotel is well maintained but by 9pm, there is almost no or little activities... The only thing left to do is to either go soak in the onsen, play the jackpot on the basement level.... oh... err... watch TV (Japanese channels) in the room!
During the day time, if you like to do some shopping, you may want to venture to the Gotemba Factory Outlet. It has various labels and may probably be your shopping haven. (Tho' it was not for us.) The only advice is that you should check out the bus schedules before going... you will have difficulties getting back if you have missed the last bus... Good luck to you if you did miss it!
There are not many must-see sights in Gora or Hakone. You may want to take the train ride to Hakone Yumoto to walk around the area for half a day. :) All in all... it is place to cleanse your body and mind!!!
- victorwkf
- Reviews: 4529
Hakone Prince Hotel
Hakone Prince Hotel is a very big and luxurous hotel located on the banks of Lake Ashi on the foot of Mount Komagatake. There are normal hotel rooms, apartments, japanese style chalets to choose from and there are many facilities here including cable car ride up to Mount Komagatake (I think there is even an aquarium here). Also, the hotel has one of the best open air natural hot spring bath (onsen) in the Hakone area. I did not stay at this hotel but did manage to walk around and try the onsen (10,000 yen) and it was great. Also, there is a nice park area next to Lake Ashi which is both beautiful during the day and at night (the lighting here at night is really good). The only problem is that this hotel is relatively far from Moto-hakone town, where most of the attractions are located.
- victorwkf
- Reviews: 4529
Lakeside Inn Charlotte (Part 2)
I stayed at a Japanese style room facing Lake Ashi and it was great. The room was very comfortable with nice mattresses, clean and all the basic amenities. There is air-con and heater (good for cold weather). There is a can drink dispenser just outside my room so it is really very good :)
- victorwkf
- Reviews: 4529
Lakeside Inn Charlotte (Part 1)
The Lakeside Inn Charlotte is a very popular, good and cozy pension conveniently located at the waterfront area of Moto-hakone town (at the heart of the town area and very close to the ferry jetty and nearby attractions). You can choose either the Japanese style rooms or the normal rooms, either facing the lake (very good views) or the mountains. The rooms are very good, clean and with all the basic amenities. The restaurant has very good breakfast (included in price) as well as very good Japanese style dinner. Internet assess is free of charge. The staff are very friendly and the manager (Mr Hattori, please see photo) is a very nice man who is fluent in English. I stayed at this pension and really enjoyed myself. Cost of rooms range between 12,000 to 18,000 japanese yen per person and is about average compared to other surrounding accomodations. Check out the photos here as well as part 2 of this tip which I will show you photos of the Japanese style room which I stayed.
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Fuji Hakone Guest House: Fuji Hakone Guest House
Very cozy and clean guest house. The staff is very friendly and helpful. The rooms are very sweet, warm, clean and quiet. We enjoyed this guest house very much! We asked for a room with nice view and got it. The guest house is very near to the bus stop. There is a time table for busses and a list of the restaurants in the vicinity with the menus and prices. So you can easily choose the restaurant. On arrival the staff will give you a good local map where everything is indicated! What a service! The guest house does not serve dinner. The breakfast is not included in the room rate, but you can order it separate. The breakfast will be served in the living room.
-The guest house has its own onsen! Both outdoor and indoor. See more information and more pictures in my ?nightlife tips?. The price for onsen is included in room rate, but you need to book your half-an-hour. We booked 21.00 and get the most unforgettable experience! We enjoyed it so much that we booked again, 7.30 next morning! Wow! Fantastic! It is a real hot-spring water, with 18 minerals. In other places it can be just plain hot water, but not in Fuji Hakone Guest House!
-Great staff!
- vincentf
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Kai Resort
This is a quaint little inn located from viewing distance of Mount Fuji. The managers are very friendly and we actually took a picture with him in our yakutas.
It has both indoor and outdoor hot spring pools to soak.
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Philip Skinner
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Philip Skinner is an American bass-baritone who has sung leading roles in both North American and European opera houses. A veteran performer at San Francisco Opera, he made his debut there in 1985 and has gone on to sing over 35 roles with the company. In 2007, Skinner created the role of Edgar Ray Killen when San Francisco Opera staged the world premiere of the Philip Glass opera, Appomattox.[1] He is a graduate of Northwestern University and received his Master's Degree from Indiana University, where he sang in the American premiere of Janáček's The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon.[2][3]
- L'Africaine (1988) - San Francisco Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Maurizio Arena (conductor), Lotfi Mansouri (stage director) Plácido Domingo (Vasco da Gama), Ruth Ann Swenson (Inès), Shirley Verrett (Sélika), Justino Díaz (Nélusko), Michael Devlin (Don Pédro), Kevin Anderson (Don Alvar), Philip Skinner (Don Diego), Joseph Rouleau (The Grand Inquisitor), Mark Delavan (The High Priest of Brahma). Label: Kultur International Films, VHS (1989), DVD (2009)
- ^ Kosman, Joshua, "Philip Glass opera 'Appomattox' both impressive and inconsistent", San Francisco Chronicle, 8 October 2007
- ^ Williams, Marianne et al., Opera for All Seasons: 60 Years of Indiana University Opera Theater, Indiana University Press, 2009, p. 444. ISBN 0-253-35340-8
- ^ Los Angeles Philharmonic, About the Performer: Philip Skinner
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Yasmeen Khan
Yasmeen Khan is a reporter covering education. You can find her stories on the air and on SchoolBook.org, WNYC's education website.
The Bloomberg administration said it is inching closer to its goal of having 1,800 New York City schools by 2013, up from approximately 1,700 schools now.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott announced Tuesday that the Department of Education will open 54 new schools across the five boroughs this fall, spanning all grade levels. Thirty of them are district schools, 24 are charters. The new schools will bring the total number of schools opened under Mayor Bloomberg since 2002 to 589.
"These will be exciting new schools for our students," said Chancellor Walcott. "I and the mayor and all of us are big believers in choice."
Listen to a portion of the news conference with Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Walcott.
While opening new schools is cause for celebration for the mayor, it hits a nerve with others who see the process of opening, closing and co-locating schools as inextricably linked.
"We intend to fight to make sure these new schools get the support they need," said Michael Mulgrew, president of the teachers' union, in a statement.
The city and the teachers' union have been at odds over the philosophy of closing struggling schools and opening new ones, with the union calling the mayor "obsessed" with closing schools.
The mayor's announcement also came on the same day that mayoral hopefuls criticized the mayor's policies of closing schools.
The Bloomberg administration has closed or is in the process of closing 117 schools, not including an additional 23 schools proposed for phase out.
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School administrators not hurting
Letters to the editor for March 20, 2014: School salaries; school chiefs' expertise; foreign policy; China crime punishments; e-cigs; open government; obesity; San Diego roads
People every year are executed for crimes that are not considered capital in most of the rest of the world, (corruption, bribery, illegal money lending or borrowing).
Perhaps if we adopted China's attitude toward the death penalty, we could clear out our prison population as well.
Cynthia Hoover
San Marcos
Support for e-cig regulations
At a stop sign recently, I noticed a group of teens sharing an e-cigarette. I was stopped long enough to hear their conversation and a reference to the flavor of the e-cigarette as being "a good one." I immediately associated the availability and marketability of such products to our youth.
As an RN and mother, I see the potential for misuse and abuse. My concern is that e-cigarettes can be sold with nicotine, which remains a highly addictive drug. Additionally nicotine affects multiple body systems detrimentally. I agree that e-cigarettes should be treated under the same laws that govern tobacco sales and use in public areas until further research disproves harmful effects in any respect. I support restrictions imposed by local agencies and applaud their efforts.
Rocio G. Porras
Special districts welcome government openness
Sunshine week was created in 2002 by the American Society of News Editors to educate the public about the importance of local government and to increase the amount of civic engagement across the nation.
California's communities are served by just over 2,000 independent special districts–local governments–that provide our Golden State's core local services, such as fire protection, water, sanitation, parks and recreation, health care and libraries, which are among the many services provided by special districts.
The California Special Districts Association (CSDA) takes pride in promoting the highest levels of accountability and transparency in local government, and we encourage public participation. In honor of Sunshine Week, we invite you to get to know the special district leaders who provide essential services to your neighborhood.
To help, we created several tools to encourage the public to get to know their neighborhood's special districts and grow public participation in the local decision-making process.
CSDA's GIS Map tool provides an interactive database that maps special districts' service areas and headquarter locations.
CSDA partners with the Special District Leadership Foundation to recognize excellence in transparency and governance when special districts go above and beyond to provide exceptional public outreach and accessible services.
We've also partnered with California Forward to create the Special District Transparency Portal to visualize public information in a user-friendly site that allows Californians to better understand how their community's core local services are funded.
As the representative of special districts throughout California, we encourage the public to use these tools to join in the conversation and decisions being made in your community.
We like to treat every week like it's "Sunshine Week." It's our hope that these tools help you better understand your government and make it easier for you to get involved.
Neil McCormick
CSDA executive director
Hope for those with obesity
Regarding the March 13 front-page story "Reforms may open door to new role for experts in weight loss," I was pleasantly surprised to learn due to the Affordable Healthcare Act that all new health-care plans must cover obesity screening and counseling free of cost.


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Malaysia Airlines will bar kids under the age of 12 from the upper deck of its new Airbus A380. The ban applies to the business-class and economy-class sections. Other airlines have been considering a similar move to attract fliers seeking peace on longer flights.
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With thanks to Lucie Vincent of Environment Canada and the graphics team at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center versions in French are now available.
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Promotional flyers now available in French
With thanks to Lucie Vincent of Environment Canada and the graphics team at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center versions in French are now available.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Because the POSTman always delivers ...
The major news is that, after some discussions on the appropriate name for the group ISTI does, indeed, have a new group ... the Parallel Observations Science Team (or POST) led by Victor Venema and Renate Auchmann.
You may recall a number of posts on this subject over at Victor's place. We shall work with colleagues to help further this effort. By being part of the formal ISTI family we will ensure that benefits regarding data holdings, benchmarking, and lessons learnt from this effort are more broadly shared. We always look for win-wins!
We are still looking at populating the parallel measurements database so if you know of any coincident measurements using distinct techniques or looking at spatial variability at the local scale (or both) then please do get in contact. Victor and Renate are also still populating this group (terms of reference here) so if parallel measurements are of interest and you feel you could contribute drop them a line.
More details on this effort can be found at http://www.surfacetemperatures.org/databank/parallel_measurements
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Survey on national homogenised temperature data sets
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Thursday, December 11, 2014
Why we need max and min temperatures for all stations
So, for most stations in the databank we have data for maximum (Tx) and minimum (Tn) that we then average to get Tm. Now, that is not the only transform possible - there is also DTR which is Tx-Tn. Although that is not part of the databank archive its a trivial transform. In looking at results running NCDC's pairwise algorithm distinct differences in breakpoint detection efficacy and adjustment distribution arise, which have caused great author team angst.
This morning I constructed a simple toy box where I just played what if. More precisely what if I allowed seeded breaks in Tx and Tn in the bound -5 to 5 and considered the break size effects in Tx, Tn, Tm and DTR:
red: Break largest in Tx
blue: Break largest in Tn
purple: break largest in DTR
green: break largest in Tm (yes, there is precisely no green)
Cases with breaks equal in size are no colour (infintesimally small lines along diagonal and vertices at Tx and Tn =0)
So …
if we just randomly seeded Tx and Tn breaks in an entirely uncorrelated manner into the series then we would get 50% of breaks largest in DTR and 25% each in Tx and Tn. DTR should be broader in its overall distribution and Tm narrower with Tx and Tn intermediate.
if we put in correlated Tx and Tn breaks such that they were always same sign (but not magnitude) then they would always be largest in either Tx or Tn (or equal with Tm when Tx=Tn)
If we put in anti-correlated breaks then they would always be largest in DTR.
Perhaps most importantly, as alluded to above, breaks will only be equal largest for Tm in a very special set of cases where Tx break = Tn break. Breaks, on average will be smallest in Tm. If breakpoint detection and adjustment is a signal to noise problem its not sensible to look where the signal is smallest. This has potentially serious implications for our ability to detect and adjust for breakpoints if we limit ourselves to Tm and is why we should try to rescue Tx and Tn data for the large amount of early data for which we only have Tm in the archives.
Maybe in future we can consider this as an explicitly joint estimation problem of finding breaks in the two primary elements and two derived elements and then constructing physically consistent adjustment estimates from the element-wise CDFs. Okay, I'm losing you now I know so I'll shut up ... for now ...
Bonus version showing how much more frequently DTR is larger than Tm:
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
What has changed since the version 1 release of the Databank?
It has been nearly six months since we have released the first version of the databank. While this was a big achievement for the International Surface Temperature Initiative, our work is not done. We have taken on many different tasks since the release, and a brief description is below:
Monthly Update System
As described in this post, we have implemented a monthly update system appending near real time (NRT) data into the databank. On the 5th of each month 4 sources (ghcnd, climat-ncdc, climat-uk, mcdw-unpublished) update their Stage 1 data, and on the 11th, their common formatted data (Stage 2) are then updated. In addition, an algorithm is applied appending new data to the recommended merge, and that is updated on the 11th as well.
Bug Fixes
Users have submitted some minor issues with version 1. Some stations in Serbia were given a country code of "RB" when they should have been given "RI." These have been addressed, and a new version of the databank (v1.0.1) was released.
There have been concerns about how the station name is displayed. Non-ASCII characters pose problems with some text interpreters. A module has been created in the Stage 1 to Stage 2 conversion scripts where these characters are either changed or removed to avoid this problem in the future.
Of course issues could still exist, if you find any please let us know! As an open and transparent initiative, we encourage constructive criticism and will apply any reasonable suggestions to future versions.
New Sources
We have acquired new sources that will be added as Stage 1 and Stage 2 data soon, including
- 300 UK Stations from the Met Office
- German data released by DWD
- EPA's Oregon Crest to Coast Dataset
- LCA&D: Latin American Climate Assessment and Dataset
- Daily Chinese Data
- NCAR Surface Libraries
- Stations from Meteomet project
- Libya Stations sent by their NMS
- C3/EURO4M Stations
- Additional Digitized Stations from the University of Giessen
- Homogenized Iranian Data
Friday, December 5, 2014
Discovering NCDC's hard copy holdings
NOAA's National Climatic Data Center have undertaken an inventory of their substantial basement holdings of hard copy data. These include a rich mix of data types on varied media including paper, fiche and microfilm.
|One row of several dozen in the NCDC archive of hard copy paper holdings from around the world
|Microfilm holdings arising from Europe over the second world war
Some, but far from all, of this data has been imaged and / or digitized. NCDC have now released the catalogue online and made it searchable. The catalogue interface can be found at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo/f?p=222 (click on search records). The degree to which a given holding has been catalogued varies but this is a good place to at least begin to ascertain what holdings there are there and what their status is. For example searching on American Samoa as country provides a list of holdings most of which are hard copy only.
|Example search results for American Samoa
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
A set of flyers for promoting the initiative's aims and outcomes
We strongly encourage use of these flyers at appropriate venues to support the further advancement of our work.
The set of flyers can be found at http://www.surfacetemperatures.org/promotional_materials. There are flyers on:
- The overaching initative
- The databank first release
- The parallel measurements collection
- The benchmarking framework
Our more eagle eyed readers would have noted above a new strand to our work. I am delighted to say that we have, following the most recent steering committee call, formally recognized the efforts led by Victor Venema and Renate Auchmann to populate and exploit a database of parallel measurements by instigating a new expert team under the databank working group. We shall do all we can to support this important effort and in the first instanace we encourage readers to help us in the identification and collection of such holdings.
A stub page is available at http://www.surfacetemperatures.org/databank/parallel_measurements which we shall populate over the coming months. In the meantime more information on this effort can be found at http://variable-variability.blogspot.no/2014/08/database-with-parallel-climate-measurements.html.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Release of a daily benchmark dataset - version 1
|Figure 1 Station locations of the four benchmark regions. Blue stations are in all worlds. Red stations only appear in worlds 2 and 3.
These benchmarks have similar aims to the global benchmarks that are currently being produced by the ISTI working group, namely to:
- Assess the performance of current homogenisation algorithms and provide feedback to allow for their improvement
- Assess how realistic the created benchmarks are, to allow for improvements in future iterations
- Quantify the uncertainty that is present in data due to inhomogeneities both before and after homogenisation algorithms have been run on them
A perfect algorithm would return the inhomogeneous data to their clean form – correctly identifying the size and location of the inhomogeneities and adjusting the series accordingly. The inhomogeneities that have been added will not be made known to the testers until the completion of the assessment cycle – mid 2015. This is to ensure that the study is as fair as possible with no testers having prior knowledge of the added inhomogeneities.
The data are formed into three worlds, each consisting of the four regions shown in Figure 1. World 1 is the smallest and contains only those stations shown in blue in Figure 1, Worlds 2 and 3 are the same size as each other and contain all the stations shown.
Homogenisers are requested to prioritise running their algorithms on a single region across worlds instead of on all regions in a single world. This will hopefully maximise the usefulness of this study in assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the process. The order of prioritisation for the regions is Wyoming, South East, North East and finally the South West.
This study will be more effective the more participants it has and if you are interested in participating please contact Rachel Warren (rw307 AT exeter.ac.uk). The results will form part of a PhD thesis and therefore it is requested that they are returned no later than Friday 12th December 2014. However, interested parties who are unable to meet this deadline are also encouraged to contact Rachel.
There will be a further smaller release in the next week that is just focussed on Wyoming and will explore climate characteristics of data instead of just focusing on inhomogeneity characteristics.
Monday, October 6, 2014
A framework for benchmarking of homogenisation algorithm performance on the global scale - Paper now published
Willett, K., Williams, C., Jolliffe, I. T., Lund, R., Alexander, L. V., Brönnimann, S., Vincent, L. A., Easterbrook, S., Venema, V. K. C., Berry, D., Warren, R. E., Lopardo, G., Auchmann, R., Aguilar, E., Menne, M. J., Gallagher, C., Hausfather, Z., Thorarinsdottir, T., and Thorne, P. W.: A framework for benchmarking of homogenisation algorithm performance on the global scale, Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 3, 187-200, doi:10.5194/gi-3-187-2014, 2014.
Benchmarking, in this context, is the assessment of homogenisation algorithm performance against a set of realistic synthetic worlds of station data where the locations and size/shape of inhomogeneities are known a priori. Crucially, these inhomogeneities are not known to those performing the homogenisation, only those performing the assessment. Assessment of both the ability of algorithms to find changepoints and accurately return the synthetic data to its clean form (prior to addition of inhomogeneity) has three main purposes:
1) quantification of uncertainty remaining in the data due to inhomogeneity
2) inter-comparison of climate data products in terms of fitness for a specified purpose
3) providing a tool for further improvement in homogenisation algorithms
Here we describe what we believe would be a good approach to a comprehensive homogenisation algorithm benchmarking system. Thfis includes an overarching cycle of: benchmark development; release of formal benchmarks; assessment of homogenised benchmarks and an overview of where we can improve for next time around (Figure 1).
|Figure 1 Overview the ISTI comprehensive benchmarking system for assessing performance of homogenisation algorithms. (Fig. 3 of Willett et al., 2014)
There are four components to creating this benchmarking system.
Creation of realistic clean synthetic station dataFirstly, we must be able to synthetically recreate the 30000+ ISTI stations such that they have the correct variability, auto-correlation and interstation cross-correlations as the real data but are free from systematic error. In other words, they must contain a realistic seasonal cycle and features of natural variability (e.g., ENSO, volcanic eruptions etc.). There must be a realistic persistence month-to-month in each station and geographically across nearby stations.
Creation of realistic error models to add to the clean station dataThe added inhomogeneities should cover all known types of inhomogeneity in terms of their frequency, magnitude and seasonal behaviour. For example, inhomogeneities could be any or a combination of the following:
- geographically or temporally clustered due to events which affect entire networks or regions (e.g. change in observation time);
- close to end points of time series;
- gradual or sudden;
- variance-altering;
- combined with the presence of a long-term background trend;
- small or large;
- frequent;
- seasonally or diurnally varying.
Design of an assessment systemAssessment of the homogenised benchmarks should be designed with the three purposes of benchmarking in mind. Both the ability to correctly locate changepoints and to adjust the data back to its homogeneous state are important. It can be split into four different levels:
- Level 1: The ability of the algorithm to restore an inhomogeneous world to its clean world state in terms of climatology, variance and trends.
- Level 2: The ability of the algorithm to accurately locate changepoints and detect their size/shape.
- Level 3: The strengths and weaknesses of an algorithm against specific types of inhomogeneity and observing system issues.
- Level 4: A comparison of the benchmarks with the real world in terms of detected inhomogeneity both to measure algorithm performance in the real world and to enable future improvement to the benchmarks.
The benchmark cycleThis should all take place within a well laid out framework to encourage people to take part and make the results as useful as possible. Timing is important. Too long a cycle will mean that the benchmarks become outdated. Too short a cycle will reduce the number of groups able to participate.
Producing the clean synthetic station data on the global scale is a complicated task that has now taken several years but we are close to completion of a version 1. We have collected together a list of known regionwide inhomogeneities and a comprehensive understanding of the many many different types of inhomogeneities that can affect station data. We have also considered a number of assessment options and decided to focus on levels 1 and 2 for assessment within the benchmark cycle. Our benchmarking working group is aiming for release of the first benchmarks by January 2015.
Friday, September 12, 2014
The Databank Near Real Time Update System
So what data gets updated in our NRT system? We have determined four sources that have updated data within the first few days of the month. They are the CLIMAT streams from NCDC as well as the UK, the unpublished form of the monthly climatic data for the world (MCDW) and finally GHCN-D. Similar to the merge program, a hierarchy is placed determining which source its data appends to if there are conflicts. The hierarchy is here:
4) MCDW-Unpublished
An overview of the system is shown here in this flow diagram (Click on image to enlarge):
Friday, August 29, 2014
ccc-gistemp and ISTI
ccc-gistemp is Climate Code Foundation's rewrite of the NASA GISS Surface Temperature Analysis GISTEMP. It produces exactly the same result, but is written in clear Python.
I've recently modified ccc-gistemp so that it can use the dataset recently released by the International Surface Temperature Initiative. Normally ccc-gistemp uses GHCN-M, but the ISTI dataset is much larger. Since ISTI publish the Stage 3 dataset in the same format as GHCN-M v3 the required changes were relatively minor, and Climate Code Foundation appreciates the fact that ISTI is published in several formats, including GHCN-M v3.
The ISTI dataset is not quality controlled, so, after re-reading section 3.3 of Lawrimore et al 2011, I implemented an extremely simple quality control scheme, MADQC. In MADQC a data value is rejected if its distance from the median (for its station's named month) exceeds 5 times the median absolute deviation (MAD, hence MADQC); any series with fewer than 20 values (for each named month) is rejected.
So far I've found MADQC to be reasonable at rejecting the grossest non climatic errors.
Let's compare the ccc-gistemp analysis using the ISTI Stage 3 dataset versus using the GHCN-M QCU dataset. The analysis for each hemisphere:
the published error bounds.
Zooming in on the recent period:
The additional data that ISTI has gathered is most welcome, and this analysis shows that the warming trend in both hemispheres was not due to choosing a particular set of stations for GHCN-M. The much more comprehensive station network of ISTI shows the same trends.
Thursday, July 24, 2014
The WMO Commission for Climatology meeting and developments on the WMO front
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WASHINGTON - The Georgetown University women's soccer team was picked to finish in second place in the BIG EAST Preseason Coaches' poll, announced on Wednesday afternoon.
The Hoyas received 72 points, including one first place vote, and were tabbed to finish second in the 10-team league. Marquette, with 81 points and nine first place votes, was picked to finish in first place, while St. John's (64 points) was picked third and DePaul (56 points) was selected fourth.
Senior midfielder Daphne Corboz (Green Brook, N.J./Watchung Hills) was a unanimous selection to the All-BIG EAST Preseason Team, the lone Hoya representative.
Corboz, a two-time All-American, was one of 63 players selected to the 2014 MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List last week. The MAC Hermann Trophy is the most prestigious individual award in NCAA soccer presented annually to one male and one female athlete. This is the second-straight year that Corboz, who has trained with the U.S. U-23 team, has been selected to the preseason watch list.
She was named the BIG EAST Midfielder of the Year in 2013 and led the team with 27 points last season. Corboz, who was also a unanimous All-BIG EAST First Team selection, scored seven goals and had 13 assists.
Georgetown was one of two BIG EAST Conference schools ranked among the top-25 teams in the country in the preseason poll from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA), coming in ranked No. 20.
Georgetown closed out the 2013 season with a 16-3-2 record, tying the school single-season record for wins in a season, set during the 2012 season when the Hoyas went 16-4-3. The Hoyas were selected to the play in the NCAA Tournament for the third time in four years and reached the second round. The team set a school record with 58 goals scored and was ranked among the top three in the country in scoring offense.
The Hoyas opened the 2014 season up with an exhibition game on Tuesday, Aug. 12 against George Mason and then host Penn State on Saturday, Aug. 16 at 2 p.m. at Shaw Field.
The regular season starts on Friday, Aug. 22, when the Blue & Gray travel to California to play in a tournament at the University of San Diego. The first game of the season will be against the Toreros on Aug. 22 (10:30 p.m. ET). The weekend concludes on Sunday, Aug. 24 with a matchup against Long Beach State (2:30 p.m. ET).
Georgetown plays its home opener on Friday, Aug. 29 against North Carolina State. The game kicks off at 3 p.m. on Shaw Field.
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Scaling Linux to New Heights: the SGI Altix 3000 System
SGI recently debuted its new 64-bit, 64-processor, Linux system based on the Intel Itanium 2 processor—a significant announcement for the company and for Linux. This system marks the opening of a new frontier as scientists working on complex and demanding high-performance computing (HPC) problems can now use and deploy Linux in ways never before possible. HPC environments continually push the limits of the operating system by requiring larger numbers of CPUs, higher I/O bandwidth and faster and more efficient parallel programming support.
Early on in the system's development, SGI made the decision to use Linux exclusively as the operating system for this new platform. It proved to be a solid and very capable operating system for the technical compute environments that SGI targets. With the combination of SGI NUMAflex global shared-memory architecture, Intel Itanium 2 processors and Linux, we were breaking records long before the system was introduced.
The new system, called the SGI Altix 3000, has up to 64 processors and 512GB of memory. A future version will offer up to 512 processors and 4TB. In this article, we explore the hardware design behind the new SGI system, describe the software development involved to bring this new system to market and show how Linux can readily scale and be deployed in the most demanding HPC environments.
The SGI Altix 3000 system uses Intel Itanium 2 processors and is based on the SGI NUMAflex global shared-memory architecture, which is the company's implementation of a non-uniform memory access (NUMA) architecture. NUMAflex was introduced in 1996 and has since been used in the company's renowned SGI Origin family of servers and supercomputers based on the MIPS processor and the IRIX 64-bit operating system. The NUMAflex design enables the CPU, memory, I/O, interconnect, graphics and storage to be packaged into modular components, or bricks. These bricks can then be combined and configured with tremendous flexibility to match a customer's resource and workload requirements better. Leveraging this third-generation design, SGI was able to build the SGI Altix 3000 system using the same bricks for I/O (IX- and PX-bricks), storage (D-bricks) and interconnect (router bricks/R-bricks). The primary difference in this new system is the CPU brick (C-brick), which contains the Itanium 2 processors. Figure 1 shows the types of bricks used on the SGI Altix 3000 system. Figure 2 depicts how these bricks can be combined into two racks to make a single-system-image 64-processor system.
On a well-designed and balanced hardware architecture such as NUMAflex, it is the operating system's job to ensure that users and applications can fully exploit the hardware without being hindered due to inefficient resource management or bottlenecks. Achieving balanced hardware resource management on a large NUMA system requires starting kernel development long before the first Itanium 2 processors and hardware prototype systems arrive. In this case, we also used the first-generation Itanium processors for making the CPU scaling, I/O performance and other changes to Linux necessary for demanding HPC environments.
The first step in preparing the software before the prototype hardware arrives is identifying, as best you can, the necessary low-level hardware register and machine programming changes the kernel will need for system initialization and runtime. System manufacturers developing custom ASICs for highly advanced systems typically use simulation software and tools to test their hardware design. Before hardware was available, we developed and used simulators extensively for both the system firmware and kernel development to get the system-level software ready.
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After power-on, the fun really began with long hours and weekends in the hardware "bring-up" lab. This is where hardware, diagnostic and platform-software engineers worked together closely to debug the system and get the processor through a series of important milestones: PROM to boot prompt, Linux kernel through initialization, reading and mounting root, reaching single-user mode and then going into multi-user mode and then connecting to the network. After that, we did the same thing all over again with multiple processors and multiple nodes—typically pursued in parallel—with several other bring-up teams at other stations that trail closely behind the lead team's progress.
Once we had Linux running on the prototype systems with first-generation Itanium processors, software engineers could proceed with ensuring that Linux ran and, in particular, scaled well on large NUMA systems. We built and used numerous in-house, first-generation Itanium-based systems to help ensure that Linux performed well on large systems. By early 2001, we had succeeded in running a 32-processor Itanium-based system—the first of its kind.
These first-generation Itanium-based systems were key in having Linux ready for demanding HPC requirements. Well before the first Itanium 2 processors were available from Intel, the bulk of the scaling, I/O performance and other changes for Linux could be developed and tested.
As one group of SGI software engineers was busy working on performance, scaling and other issues, using prototypes with first-generation Itanium processors, another team of hardware and platform-software engineers was getting the next-generation SGI C-brick with Itanium 2 processors ready for power-on to repeat the bring-up process all over again.
By mid-2002, the bring-up team had made excellent progress, from power-on of a single processor to running a 64-processor system. The 64-processor system with Itanium 2 processors again marked the first of its kind. All this, of course, was with Linux running in a single-system image.
Throughout this whole process, we passed any changes in Linux or bugs found back to the kernel developers for inclusion in a future release of Linux.
Couple more questions for Steve on CPUs and the technology.
Why the process of choosing the Itanium 2 CPU? What are the benefits of this platform in your view? Would other CPUs have worked as well (PowerPC, MIPS, AMD/Hammer) or could there be processor module versions based on these models in the future? Can the traditional workstation market benefit from some of this technology (i.e. an small case with support for 4 modules only)?
Re: Scaling Linux to New Heights: the SGI Altix 3000 System
how many bogomips does this monster achieve 8-) ?
Re: BogoMIPS and Pricing
> how many bogomips does this monster achieve 8-) ?
First, please keep in mind that bogomips only times the cpu delay loop.
Thus, a bogomips value says nothing about memory bandwidth, parallel
instructions, cache sizes, etc. Thus, while it may be interesting to know
how fast a cpu spins while doing nothing, it doesn't say much about what
it can do with real work. :^)
Second, the method for calculating bogomips will be vary depending
on the processor, so this number should not be used to compare between
different processors types. For example, on the Intel Itanium processor,
it times the following loop (a single bundle using an instruction and loop
register that have been optimized for looping):
2e0: nop.m 0x0
2e6: nop.i 0x0
2ec: br.cloop.sptk.few 2e0 ;;
While on i386 with the rdtsc instruction (Pentium or better), bogomips
times the following loop (5 instructions, 3 registers and a read of the
hardware clock):
10: f3 90 repz nop
12: 0f 31 rdtsc
14: 29 c8 sub %ecx,%eax
16: 39 d8 cmp %ebx,%eax
18: 72 f6 jb 10
Given that comparing this number between different processors types is an apples to
oranges comparison, and FWIW, here's the info taken from a 64 processor (Intel Itanium 2),
SGI Altix(tm) system:
[root@parrot root]# grep processors /var/log/dmesg
Total of 64 processors activated (76359.40 BogoMIPS).
All processors have done init_idle
[root@parrot root]#
> And the price tag?
Please refer to the pricing and availability information in the
press release at:
Hope that helps.
Steve Neuner
Re: Scaling Linux to New Heights: the SGI Altix 3000 System
And the price tag?
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I never said supplements are a substitute for a healthy lifestyle. If you eat greasy fast food almost every day, you're making a choice to shorten your life.
There's plenty of research on supplements on the internet. I don't feel compelled to look for them, nor do I need proof beyond what I already observed myself. Some people saved their own lives by taking experimental cancer treatments. If something doesn't work for me, I stop taking it. We aren't talking about drugs here, these are natural supplements.
I would really love it if all my supplements were just placebos. Then all I'd have to do is think that I'm taking something healthy. Kinda like what a Christian Scientist thinks (those guys who say you shouldn't take medication because all conditions are mental). Nearly every serious bodybuilder and strength athlete takes Creatine. With all that support behind it I seriously doubt that you can argue it's a placebo effect.
There are some supplements I know I can get through diet. It's just too much of a pain to get some of them. I might have to catch some sharks to get joint supplements, and that could be dangerous! LOL
Don't go swimming with sharks.
Creatine does work but I personally have experienced no benefits beyond the "loading" phase. I also didn't experience any benefit on subsequent loading phases. It's also not great for endurance and since we're primarily concerned about tennis here (or squash, racquetball, trailrunning, skiing for me), it has limited benefit. Bodybuilding is a world I have ZERO interest in.
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By Frank Gonzalez: Kudos to the Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KOs), who put it all together in his match up against former IBF titlist, King Arthur Abraham in Showtimes Super Six Super Middleweight Tournament. We always hear that styles make fights and this fight was testimony to that. Dirrell has shown good boxing ability against all the scrubs he faced since he turned pro, fighting as a prospect, which he still was when he was selected as one of the six best Super Middleweights in boxing to be in this tournament.
Frankly, I dont understand how any of the three Americans in this tourney got their spots. This is no disrespect to any of them but lets be honest, Jermain Taylor, a fading former Middleweight titlist who lost two of his last three and two relatively untested prospects in Andre Dirrell and Andre Ward? Sure, Ward showed himself to be masterful in his beating of legit contender Mikkel Kessler but Dirrell was unimpressive and looked down right scared in his first fight against Carl Froch. With Jermain Taylors departure from the tournament, Allan Green (29-1, 20 KOs), whos won his last six fights, will be replacing him.
Had this tournament included IBF titlist Lucian Bute and his former nemesis Librado Andrade, then maybe add Andre Ward for his pedigree and impressive win over the always dangerous Edison Miranda, then the winner of this tournament would be the closest thing to the true Champion at Super Middleweight.
Consider that Lucian Bute is not in this tourney and hes arguably one of the best in the division. Librado Andrade of Mexico was a higher ranked fighter who also deserved invitation. In effect, whoever does win the Super Six Tournament will not be the Champion of the division unless he immediately fights and beats Bute (if Bute retains his title by then).
Initially, I had Dirrell pegged as the weakest among the six contestants of this tournament, particularly after the way he ran and slipped and ran and complained to the ref in his first bout against Carl Froch. I thought he lost a close one in that ugly fight against Froch, who didnt look so super himself that night. Froch is very much like Abraham in that hes not going to dance your dance but take you into the deep waters and then try to drown you late. Froch couldnt put the run, hold and run Dirrell down that night but was the better fighter and squeaked off with his first pair of points in the tourney.
If there were any doubts about Andre Dirrells qualifications for even being in this Super Six Super Middleweight TournamentId say he proved his worthiness Saturday night in his hometown of Detroit, where he faced the favorite to win the tournament in King Arthur Abraham. Dirrell easily won the first few rounds. In the fourth, Abraham managed to land a big shot that Dirrell countered with an equally big straight left that sent Abraham to the canvas for the first time in his career. Dirrell proceeded to put on a boxing clinic, shutting Abraham out until midway into the ninth round, where Abraham started landing more than just a few shots. In the tenth, Abraham finally landed one of his big power shots that sent Dirrell to the canvas.
But alas, Lawrence Cole was the referee and somehow, he didnt see it as a knockdown but as a slip from tangled feet. Upon further review, their feet didnt tangle and it was in fact, a clean punch that floored Dirrell. Officially, there was no knockdown. But anyone who saw the replay saw that there was. Boxing should use Instant Replay. Whats right is right. These fights are too important to be subject to a bad call by a referee, whos usually only human.
The discounted knockdown of Dirrell seemed the prelude to Abraham finally catching Dirrell, ending the fight and retaining his status and dignity after being battered, cut badly over his right eye and out worked by his under rated opponent all night.
At the start of the eleventh round Abraham was in search and destroy mode. He clearly needed a knockout to win and time was running out. As he pressed Dirrell towards the ropes, Dirrell slipped in the corner and while he was down, Abraham threw a right hand to Dirrells face while he was already down from the slip.
After that illegal punch connected, Dirrell looked fine but then suddenly, fell back, eyes closed and his legs seemed to jiggle in an eerie way. Dirrell appeared to be out cold and was unresponsive for a while. Thats a disqualification foul and referee Lawrence Cole did his job and disqualified Abraham on the spot.
After a moment of concern, Dirrell was conscious but crying and talking as if hed lost by knockout. He was informed by the ref that he had won because Abraham was disqualified for hitting him while he was down. It was shades of Roy Jones Jr. vs. Montell Griffin, where Jones threw two big shots that KOd Griffin while he was down on a knee.
This strange ending cast a strange shadow on the brightest outing of Andre Dirrells pro career. This was a fantastic performance by Dirrell, who showed no fear whatsoever against arguably the toughest man in the tournament. Dirrell used all his assets of speed, mobility and boxing ability to control the tempo of the fight while out working and out scoring Arthur Abraham round after round, making him miss and lose his composure. Abraham is a slow starter so I wasnt surprised to see him lose the first few rounds but as the rounds wore on, the situation remained as Dirrell controlled the show, landed the cleaner shots and made Abraham miss, rendering him ineffective.
It was a disappointing ending (a DQ) because Abraham is the kind of guy who tends to knock guys out at the end of a fight. But it was a great fight for Dirrell, who fought a fearlessly and was truly the better man overall Saturday night.
There were some interesting comments during the post fight interview with Abraham, who insisted that Dirrell was acting and wasnt really knocked out at all. Abraham even suggested that it was okay to hit a man who is down. Surely he knows better. Its always interesting to see how undefeated fighters behave after their first loss. Abraham saying Dirrell was acting like he was knocked out was a dumb accusation to make even if its true, because nobody told Abraham to hit a man while hes down in the first place. He mightve gotten away that in Germany but not when youre the visiting athlete here in the USA. An example being how Abraham got robbed for a knockdown in the tenth, compliments of American referee Coles possible lack of vision.
It was interesting how that nasty gash over Abrahams eye stopped bleeding after the doctor came to look at it and pressed a cloth over it for about ten seconds in the ninth round. What was on that cloth? Cole twice told the doc and his assistant they could look at it but not treat it. So much for technicalities.
Before last night, I suspected that Andre Dirrell was a talented, athletic boxer who was skittish and afraid to mix it up with punchers, as he demonstrated vs. Froch. After what I saw Saturday night against Abraham, Dirrell became a true contender when he gave all he had and showed no fear. If he continues to fight this way, things are going to get even more exiting as this tournament continues. Last week I cant imagine Id ever say this but this new fearless Dirrell is a fighter I cannot wait to see fight again.
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"The Challenge: to retrieve the Ancient Magic Scepter that has been stolen by a tyrant king. The Scepter is the Power Staff of the Empire, and a kingdom has been offered as reward for its return. The Scepter lies hidden in the Dark Tower, guarded by a fierce band of the tyrant's Brigands. Three magic keys will open the the tower to you. Find the keys in three foreign kingdoms, and you may lay siege to the Dark Tower.
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But don't despair! Visit the Bazaars to buy warriors and other supplies. Stop at the Tombs and Ruins to discover treasures of gold, dragonswords, magic keys, helpful wizards and the flying horse, Pegasus. The Sanctuaries are open to you, too, ready to outfit you with warriors, gold and food.
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A great site dedicated to all things Dark Tower - http://well-of-souls.com/tower
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My Tower just broke and this app saved my gaming session. However, there are a few issues. It's not really balanced with regards to MOVE results. Close to 75% of the moves were safe moves.Bazaar price ranges are too wide. Should be 18-24. Brigands totals range too high for normal fights at +5 at times. Rewards sometimes didn't give gold and gave more than 1 treasure at times. Dark Tower figh
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Pune: Addressing the media after three public rallies in Pune, Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan compared Gujarat CM Narendra Modi to Adolph Hitler suggesting that such dictatorial tendencies are a threat to democracy. While Chavan did admitted that Modi was posing a challenge to the Congress, but he made it clear that it was not a formidable one.
Pune LS candidate Vishwajeet Kadam, ministers Patangrao Kadam, Harshawardhan Patil, MLAs Ramesh Bagve, Vinayak Nimhan, Deepti Chavdhary, Sharad Ranpise, Mohan Joshi, NCP city unit president and Rajya Sabha MP Vandana Chavan, Balasaheb Shivarkar, Chandrakant Chhajed were also present at the event.
Chavan said that Hitler also entered the political system through the democratic process and then began his autocratic rule. Modi does not have any respect for democracy, Chavan said. He has gotten rid of party veterans including Jaswant Singh, MM Joshi and Advani, to hijack the party. Chavan pointed out that even though there is a tradition that after the governor's address to both houses of the state assembly and state legislative council, chief minister replies to this address. However, Modi has never done so. He does not bother for any democratic norms, and also avoids conducting assembly sessions, barring its budget session. He has hijacked the Bharatiya Janata Party, and will eventually hijack the country to bring autocracy to the Nation.
Chavan criticised Modi for his lack of knowledge in history and said, "This person does not have accurate information about the founder of Jansangh and also does not know about Nalanda and Takshasheela, which were the seat of learning not only in India, but in the World. He does not know about Chandragupta Maurya, and blatantly lies every now and then. He makes tall claims of development. I have been challenging him for public debate on developments of Gujarat and Maharshtra, but he is avoiding it. After our objections to his tall claims, he has stopped those claims at least for now."
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