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Reduction Along Given Dimensions
Reduction (e.g. sum, maximum, etc) along given dimensions are widely used in scientific computing. However, implementing a fast and generic function for such computation is not as trivial as some may consider. In the following, I would like to introduce such an implementation. Particularly, I would focus on implementing the
sum function. Most of the techniques, however, can be directly applied to implement other types of reduction.
The codes are provided in this gist.
Colwise and Rowwise Sum
Let's begin with simpler examples, namely, colwise reduction and rowwise sum. These are the most common computation routines and the discussion of their implementation may help to illustrate several key ideas.
Implementation of colwise sum is relatively straightforward -- you simply compute the sum of each column, as
function sum_colwise{T}(a::Array{T})
m, n = size(a)
dst = Array(T, 1, n)
oa = 0
for j = 1 : n
s = a[oa + 1]
for i = 2 : m
s += a[oa + i]
dst[j] = s
oa += m
return dst
However, simply using the same way to implement rowwise sum is not very efficient. In Julia, arrays are organized in a column-major order, which means that given an array of size
(m, n), adjacent elements along a row are
m positions away from each other in the underlying memory layout. Hence, scaning such an array in a rowwise manner, that is, scaning one row and then jumping to the begining of the next row, is likely to cause a lot of cache missing, especially when
m is large.
An efficient implementation of the rowwise sum should follow a different pattern: initialize the result using the first column, and then add the remaining columns of the input array in a colwise manner, as
function sum_rowwise{T}(a::Array{T})
m, n = size(a)
dst = Array(T, m, 1)
# initialize using the first column of a
for i = 1 : m
dst[i] = a[i]
# add remaining columns
oa = m
for j = 2 : n
dst[i] += a[oa+i]
oa += m
return dst
Vector Kernels as Building Blocks
From the codes above, we can see that there are three vector operations lying at the core:
- compute the sum of a subvector (here, subvector refers to a contiguous range of an array)
- use a subvector of the input to initialize a subvector of the output (here, the initialize is done by copying)
- accumulate a subvector of the input to a subvector of the output
For convenience, these operations are referred to as vector kernels in the following discussion. Particularly, for
sum, the first kernel is already available in the Julia base, that is
sum_seq, the other two kernels can be implemented as follows:
vcopy!(dst::Array, od::Int, a::Array, oa::Int, n::Int) = copy!(dst, od+1, a, oa+1, n)
function vadd!(dst::Array, od::Int, a::Array, oa::Int, n::Int)
for i = 1 : n
@inbounds dst[od+i] += a[oa+i]
With these kernels, the methods above can be rewritten as
function sum_colwise{T}(a::Array{T})
m, n = size(a)
dst = Array(T, 1, n)
oa = 0
for j = 1 : n
dst[j] = sum_seq(a, oa+1, oa+m)
oa += m
return dst
function sum_rowwise{T}(a::Array{T})
m, n = size(a)
dst = Array(T, m, 1)
vcopy!(dst, 0, a, 0, m)
oa = m
for j = 2:n
vadd!(dst, 0, a, oa, m)
oa += m
return dst
Using vector kernels as building blocks allows one to highly optimize the implementation without modifying the overall skeleton. For example, we already use
sum_seq and
copy! to improve the performance & accuracy of the computation. When SIMD support is ready, we can substantially improve the performance of these functions without modifying the higher level skeletons -- all what we need to do is to re-implement several vector kernels using SIMD instructions.
Actually, the idea of using vector kernels have been very successfully adopted in the BLAS system, where higher level functions rely on highly vector kernels (BLAS Level-1 routines) as building blocks.
Virtual Shape
Next, I will discuss how to generate these functions to arrays of higher rank and reduction along an arbitrary set of dimensions.
An important observation here is that reduction over arrays of higher ranks (e.g. cubes or 4D arrays) can often be reduced to equivalent computation over arrays of lower ranks.
For example, let's consider an array
a of size
(3, 4, 5, 2). Reduction of this array along the first dimension (e.g.
sum(a, 1)) is equivalent to the reduction over an array of size
(3, 40). So to implement
sum(a, 1) for this 4D array
a, we can do the following:
- construct a result array
dstof size
(1, 4, 5, 2), and consider it as a vector of length
- consider the input array
aas a matrix of size
(3, 40).
- perform the column-wise sum as above.
In other words, when doing reduction, we may consider two shapes for each array: the actual shape that you may obtain using
size(a) and the virtual shape that the algorithm utilizes to arrange the computation. These two shapes have the same number of elements, but may have different number of dimensions. For the example above, the actual shape of
a is
(3, 4, 5, 2), while its virtual shape is
(3, 40).
Derivation of the virtual shape from the actual shape can follow the procedure below:
Attach with each dimension of the actual shape with a boolean variable. Set it to true if the dimension is in the reduction region (i.e. there is reduction along this dimension), or false otherwise.
Compress consecutive dimensions with the same boolean tag into a single virtual dimension.
Take the example above for instance, the actual shape is
(3, 4, 5, 2), and when doing
sum(a, 1), the boolean values are
(true, false, false, false), so we can compress it into a virtual shape of lower rank as
(3, 40).
More examples: for
sum(a, (2, 3)), the virtual shape is
(3, 20, 2). The gist has a function named
rcompress_dims to compress the actual size tuple into a virtual shape of possible lower rank.
Recursive Slicing
Using virtual shape, some reduction computation for arrays of higher ranks can be reduced to two basic paradigms: colwise reduction and rowwise reduction. Yet, there remain some more complex cases where virtual shape itself is not enough. For example, if we do
sum(a, (1, 3)), the virtual shape remains the same as
size(a), which has four dimensions.
The strategy that I take to solve this problem is recursive slicing. The following example illustrates this approach. Consider an array with virtual shape
(m, n, k), the reduction over this array can be summarized by the following pseudo code
rlast = # whether the last dimension k is to be reduced
if rlast # the last dimension is reduced
# initialize the result using the first slice
sum!(dst, slice(a, 1))
for i = 2:k
# accumulate the reduction results from remaining slices
add_sum!(dst, slice(a, i))
else # the last dimension is preserved
# perform reduction for each slice independently
for i = 1 : k
sum!(slice(dst, i), slice(a, i))
Note: this is just a code skeleton mainly for conveying the basic idea, the actual code may look more complex than this. Here, the slices are with respect to the virtual shape. An array of virtual shape
(m, n, k) is considered to be comprised of
k slices of size
(m, n). Here,
slice(a, i) refers to the procedure of extracting such a slice. In the actual implementation, there is no such a function, I basically use offsets to maintain the position of each slice, increment the offset at each iteration, and pass the offset as well as the slice size as arguments in the recursive call. No copying is done throughout the entire procedure.
This entire procedure is very regular and therefore can be written as a code-generation macro as what I did in the gist. With such a macro, various reduction functions such as
prod, etc can be easily generated.


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Four small children, 4-year old twins Maria and Marialla Bowah, 1-year Taj Jacque, and 4-year old Patrick Sanyeah were killed when 8 row houses in South Philadelphia were destroyed by a fast moving fire that swept through them after beginning in a couch on the porch at around 2:40 Saturday morning. The children were found in a front bedroom of a house belonging to the twins' mother's Dewen Bowah. While she was able to save her two other daughters age 11, she could not reach the toddlers before being forced to jump out of a second story window according to witnesses. Both Bowah and the other girls were treated for smoke inhalation. Elenor Jacque, mother of the two little boys was not present when the fire broke out. One neighbor Jeff Boone, who lived five houses away from the Bowah house told the Philadelphia Inquirer that "the flames spread across porches so fast it looked like someone had used a flamethrower on them."
"This is a tragic, tragic day for the city of Philadelphia. Tragic. We lost four children today. And I want everybody to understand that fire is everyone's fight. Not just the fire department. It's everyone's fight," Fire Commissioner Derrick Sawyer said.
By the time firefighters arrived on the scene about 6 minutes after it was called in, four of the houses were already ablaze, and it quickly spread to the others by way of their wooded porch roofs. Sawyer stated. It was finally brought under control around two hours later, leaving at least 42 people homeless. Temporary shelter has been provided for them by the Red Cross at Bertram High School. Although there was one report that the fire began when a firecracker landed on the couch, Battalion Chief Tony Huggins said the cause is still being investigated.

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In case anyone is confused about what day it is, Carson drops the fact that it's Memorial Day about five times in the first two minutes of tonight's show. I'm hoping he came straight from a BBQ and is slightly buzzed and suffering from sun poisoning. Carson thrives when he's uncomfortable. There's some Spanish banter between Carson and Shakira, and it's just delightful.
Since we're down to only 8 performers, tonight is going to be filled with a lot of bonus performances and filler, I'm guessing. To kick things off, Blake is performing his new single "Boys Round Here." It's a ridiculous song with lyrics like "Well the boys 'round here, they're keeping it country / Ain't a damn one know how to do the dougie / (You don't do the dougie?) No, not in Kentucky." So, it's perfect, obviously.
After a lot of coach talk (Usher is sporting some giant hipster glasses to show his Michelle support), the first contestant to take the stage is Team Adam's Judith Hill. She is going to be singing the will.i.am/Justin Bieber song #thatPOWER. This was Judith's choice, and Adam seems a little concerned about taking such a huge risk. She is wearing an insane CeeLo-esque feathered number, and she's surrounded by men wearing skin tight blue turtlenecks dancing with trumpets, which is bizarre and kind of hilarious. Still, despite her band of dancers straight from the Lonely Island album cover, her performance is incredible. She's really made the song her own, and it's cool and fun and of course, she's technically wonderful.
Next up is Team Blake's Holly Tucker. She wants to show off a different side, so she's singing the sassy "Done" from The Band Perry. She's wearing the most amazing sparkly cowboy boots I've ever seen. They're so glorious that I am slightly distracted by visions of owning them myself, traveling to Nashville and line dancing on a bar wearing them. Back to reality – Holly sounds great, and she looks like she's having a ball. She sings the hell out of the song, and she lets loose in a way we haven't seen from her yet.
After some inane social media mumbo jumbo from Christina Millian, we are treated to a group performance from Michelle Chamuel, Sasha Allen, Judith Hill and Sarah Simmons. They are singing Rihanna's "Diamonds" and HOLY MOLY. These ladies are all powerhouses. I want this track on my iPod yesterday. Love love love.
Time to inject some testosterone into the night's festivities, with The Swon Brothers, the only men left in the competition. They are singing "Seven Bridges Road" by the Eagles. The stage has been set up like a campsite, with the boys sitting by a fire with their guitars. Man, the production people are really doing it tonight, aren't they? The entire song is sung in unison, and there are a few little tiny timing issues at the top, but overall the harmonies are right on, and they end with a really strong, beautiful a cappella chorus, as the fire slowly burns out. It's a little cheesy, but it works for me.
Team Shakira's Sasha Allen is performing the David Guetta/Usher jam "Without You." I like this song choice for her. Sasha gets emotional talking about her husband and her kids, and Shakira gets a little scary reminding her that she's her only hope in the competition. Sasha looks gorgeous. She's up on a platform, and there are some dancers doing some cool slow motion type stuff that works well for the performance. She sounds fantastic. This song is great for her voice, as she's able to really belt it out, plus its one of those tracks that is impossible not to feel something during. All the coaches love her, and Usher loved what she did with the song, which is huge for her, I'm sure.
Adam Levine has Sarah Simmons singing Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know." As usual with Sarah, it's all about emoting, and she has some relationship baggage that she's going to tap into for the performance. Again with the production value! There's fog on the ground, and the big string instruments and musicians are set up on platforms around the stage. Sarah looks gorgeous, and she sounds great. By the second chorus, she's practically screaming, but in a great, beautiful, raw way. Man, so many talented ladies this year, right?
Group performance from the Country Crew! Danielle, Holly, Amber and The Swon Brothers are singing "Something More" by Sugarland. It's a fun, solid performance, but it doesn't pack nearly the punch that the earlier group number did.
Team Usher's Michelle Chamuel is taking on Bruno Mars's "Grenade." Man, so much Bruno Mars this season! After some rehearsing, Usher decides to change it up and strip the song down to piano, so that Michelle's voice is the most powerful part of it. There are a million mirrors on the stage, and she starts by singing to herself. The choice to take out most the instruments and have her do a stripped down version of this song was so smart. It's just a crazy, emotional, technically insane performance, and the staging and the arrangement all work so well. Stunning.
Now it's time for Danielle Bradbery, the darling of Team Blake, to take the stage. Blake has her singing "Grandpa" by The Judds. The stage is set up with a front porch set, and Danielle starts the song sitting on a swing. Team Blake is really bringing it in the footwear department, as Danielle is rocking the hell out of some red sparkly boots. It's a very sweet performance, and she sounds great, but this isn't my favorite song choice. It's a little boring, and it doesn't really get vocally impressive until the last few bars, so she can't quite show off in the way she's been able to before. She's undeniably talented, it's just a weird song choice for me.
The last performance is from Team Adam's Amber Carrington. Adam has chosen Adele's "Skyfall" for her. It's a bold choice, and she's nervous about being compared to Adele's insane vocals, which is a fair concern to have. They've styled her similarly to Adele, which is maybe not the wisest move, since they're trying not to invite the comparison. Nonetheless, Amber has an amazing voice, and she certainly rises to the occasion on this super ambitious song. Amber has always impressed me, but it's great to see her taking on a song that is so insanely demanding. Her range is out of control, and she manages to nail every huge note in this song.
Tonight was a night filled with great performances. Whatever happens tomorrow, it's going to be a big ol' bummer.
Stand out performance: It's a tight race between Michelle and Amber, but based on the emotional aspect, I'm giving this one to Michelle's rendition of "Grenade."
Coach MVP: Watching Usher geek out so hard over Michelle's performance made my heart swell a little bit. Plus he showed he knows what he's doing with the stripped down arrangement of her song.


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5 Wacky Bike-Like Vehicles Powered by Humans!
BY: Laura K. Cowan
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- ElliptiGO 3C BikeWe used to think that those giant unicycles were the wackiest cycles around, but nowadays they have a whole pack of contenders. And since any kind of human-powered transportation is as renewable as it comes, we thought we would celebrate all of our favorite human-powered innovations by sharing five awesomely weird bike-like vehicles that have us wanting to get out there and put the pedal to the metal. Check out our gallery to see them all!1
- Sofa BikeHow can you go wrong with a sofa on wheels? The perfect transport for couch potatos, Jacek Holubowicz's sofa bike is pedaling perfection.2
- Sofa BikeSince you're too lazy to put on sunscreen, the sofa bike also comes with an optional awning to keep your fair skin from burning in the sun it so rarely sees--at least until you found this awesome way to get around without leaving the couch.3
- WISB Hand BikeThe WISB Hand Bike is for more than just fun. This innovative concept bike transforms from an all-terrain recumbent sport bike to a wheelchair with the push of a button.4
- WISB Hand BikeThe WISB Hand Bike works by pumping these two handles forward and backward, which powers the bike or wheelchair forward in either mode.5
- ElliptiGO 3C BikeThe ElliptiGO 3C Bike is an elliptical machine on wheels. Looks like an intense workout, if the legs of the models demonstrating the bikes are anything to go by.6
- Chris Malloy's Hover BikeAustralian man Chris Malloy invented this hover bike, which can reach up to 10,000 feet.7
- Chris Malloy's Hover BikeThe Hover Bike doesn't make it up to airplane altitudes by pedal power alone, but we love it just the same.8
- Florian Hausworth's Lawnmower BikeFinally, Florian Hausworth's lawnmower bike takes the cake as the most practical use of human power beyond getting from point A to point B.9
- Florian Hausworth's Lawnmower BikeThere is something nostalgic about winding your way around your lawn on a bike mower a la childhood tricycle ride.10


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Yorktown, a historic neighborhood in Philadelphia created in 1960 encompasses 635 homes all sold to first-time homebuyers. The original plan called for and delivered modern 3- and 4-bedroom homes marketed to and purchased by African-American homebuyers with children. Since that time, Yorktown has served as a model in urban redevelopment and set a precedent for homeownership by African-American families in Philadelphia who were largely locked-out of the real estate market in many segregated neighborhoods and by discriminatory real estate and lending practices at that time. It was the only community where the first owners were African-American, helping to demonstrate the economic power and home-buying potential of African-Americans and other minorities in the city.
50 years later, the Yorktown CDC recognized the need to create an updated plan grounded in today's challenges and opportunities. Working with V. Lamar Wilson Associates, our charge was to create a resident-driven strategic plan dedicated to organizing local voices and resources for the coming years. To ensure widespread resident engagement, meetings, focus groups and a survey was used to discuss the community's present and future. An integral component of the public outreach was an emphasis placed on local storytelling. The Yorktown Chatter Box was created as a mobile recording and listening booth where residents can record their stories about the neighborhood and their ideas for the future. The Chatter Box made its debut on Yorktown Day and was later housed in the Yorktown CDC offices.


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He who wants to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. Life is made up of little things. True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Charles Simmons (1924 -)
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No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
Charles Kendall Adams
Spanking Jack was so comely, so pleasant, so jolly, Though winds blew great guns, still he'd whistle and sing; Jack loved his friend, and was true to his Molly, And if honour gives greatness, was great as a king.
Charles Dibdin (1745 - 1814)
Source: The Sailor's Consolation.
If I had the power to organize higher education as I should wish it to be, I should seek to substitute for the old orthodox religions - which appeal to few among the young, and those as a rule the least intelligent and the most obscurantist - something which is perhaps hardly to be called religion, since it is merely a focusing of attention upon well-ascertained facts. I should seek to make young people vividly aware of the past, vividly realizing that the future of man will in all likelihood be immeasurably longer than his past, profoundly conscious of the minuteness of the planet upon which we live and of the fact that life on this planet is only a temporary incident; and at the same time with these facts which tend to emphasize the insignificance of the individual, I should present quite another set of facts designed to impress upon the mind of the young the greatness of which the individual is capable, and the knowledge that throughout all the depths of stellar space nothing of equal value is known to us. . . .
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. The man capable of greatness of soul will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe. He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great as the world. In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.
Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.
Ben Jonson
Source: Timber; or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter
The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to destruction all the greatness of the world, all that which was mine and yours, which was made by us and is still ours by right - because I cannot believe that men refuse to see, that they can remain blind and deaf to us forever, when the truth is ours and their lives depend on accepting it. . . . So long as men desire to live, I cannot lose my battle.
Source: (Atlas 744)
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
Source: The Deipnosophists. xiv. 6.
On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness The tusks that clashed in mighty brawls of mastodons , are billiard balls. The sword of Charlemagne the Just Is ferric oxide, known as rust. The grizzly bear whose potent hug Was feared by all, is now a rug. Great Caesar's bust is on the shelf, And I don't feel so well myself.
Arthur Guiterman (1871 - 1943)
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I almost have a homework problem solved but I've used a claim that might be dubious.
The setting is this: Let $(V,Q)$ be a locally convex space ($Q$ is the family of seminorms inducing the topology on $V$). And let $q\in Q$.
For any neighborhood $U$ of $0$ in $V$. There exists a sufficiently small $\epsilon > 0$ such that $q^{-1}([0,\epsilon))\subset U$.
The reason this claim helps me is that I need to prove something about all neighborhoods of $0$ in $V$, and it greatly simplifies things if I can simplify my situation to sets of the form $q^{-1}([0,\epsilon))$.


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The deputy minister says there is no truth to the text message which claims that he defended the controversial book during a BN meeting.
KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department SK Devamany has denied defending the controversial Interlok novel.
The MIC leader was responding to a widely circulated text message accusing him of being a traitor for condoning the use of the book in schools.
According to the text message, Devamany, while speaking at a Barisan Nasional (BN) meeting in Kuantan last month, said he found nothing wrong with the book.
"The book was published 20 years ago, why was the Indian community silent then? Why blow up the issue now? This is the work of Pakatan (Rakyat)," he was quoted as saying.
The text message also claimed that Devamany was then reprimanded by Pahang Menteri Besar Adnan Yaakob, who told the deputy minister not to insult his own race.
Below is the actual text message being circulated:
(Ucapan Dato SK Dewamani dlm Perhimpunan BN di Kuantan pada 30-01-2011, (Saya pun seorang Sasterawan India, bagi sy tiada apa2 Kesalahan dlm Buku Interlok,Buku ini Terbit 20tahun dulu, kenapa kaum India diam pd masa itu, tiba2 nak besarkan masalah, ini semua adalah kerja pakatan)inilah ucapan Troghi sk Dewamani. Walaupun MB Pahang seorang kaum Melayu tetapi beliau Marah SK Jangan Hina Kaum sendiri.)
'This is a malicious lie'
In a statement issued this afternoon, Devamany described the text message as a "malicious lie".
The deputy minister said that he was among the first to oppose the book as it contained disparaging and inaccurate information about the Indian community.
"There is absolutely no truth to the allegation and the rumours that have been spread by certain irresponsible people.
"I have repeatedly reiterated the Indian community's stand that the novel must not be used as a literature text," he said.
Devamany said that he had penned a letter to the director-general of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka on Dec 14 last year, stating his opposition to the book.
In the letter, the deputy minister had argued that the book would not help promote racial unity and contradicted Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak's 1Malaysia concept.
Copies of the letter were also sent to Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and MIC president G Palanivel.
MIC was among several Indian organisations which registered its protest against the book, authored by national laureate Abdullah Hussain.
Muhyiddin later announced that the book would be retained but a special panel would look into amending the offensive portions.
While MIC's protest went silent after this, certain groups such as Hindraf Makkal Sakti, continue to push for the complete withdrawal of Interlok.


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Back in the late 90's, with the commercial failure of the Sega Saturn, Sega was desperate to prove they were still relevant in the console market. And they decided to hedge their bets on their little blue hedgehog. Sonic Adventure was a day-one launch title for the Dreamcast. With its stellar soundtrack, impressive graphics (at the time) and trademark Sonic attitude, Sonic Adventure was the clear superstar of the Dreamcast's starting lineup, and the star of the Dreamcast itself. It's safe to say that more people bought the Dreamcast to play this game than any other game, and it later went on to spawn a successful sequel, and would eventually become the number-one best selling title for the Dreamcast.
Most people know what to expect from the story in a Sonic game. Dr. Eggman does a bad thing. Sonic and friends stop the bad thing. The end.
...OK, it's a little more involved than that.
The story takes place in the city of Station Square. Dr. Eggman has freed an ancient water monster called Chaos and released it upon the city. Chaos grows stronger each time it absorbs a Chaos Emerald, and to that end, Eggman is searching for all 7 emeralds in order to turn Chaos invincible and destroy Station Square so that he can build his own empire: Eggmanland, atop it's ruins. It's up to Sonic and his loyal sidekick Tails to find the Chaos Emeralds first and stop Eggman from making Chaos all-powerful and demolishing the city.
Along the way, Sonic encounters friends old and new, whose own adventures overlap with his. Everyone's stories are connected by Tikal, an Echidna princess from an ancient tribe who assists the characters in their journeys. Via a series of flashbacks, we learn that Chaos was once the protector of the Master Emerald and the Chao. But when Tikal's tribe decides to take the Master Emerald for their own selfish purposes, they enrage Chaos and it wipes out the tribe. Tikal, the lone survivor, begs the Master Emerald to stop Chaos, and is sealed inside the Master Emerald along with Chaos.
There are 6 different characters to choose from, and each one comes with its own set of moves, stages, and objectives. Sonic's story is by far the longest, and is focused on high-speed action, blazing through the stage as fast as humanly possibly (or in this case, hedgehog-ly possible?) and reaching the end of the stage. Tails' stages are similar, only this time you can fly round and you're also racing against Sonic to reach the goal before he does. Knuckles the Echidna can glide, climb walls and dig into the earth, all useful abilities for his goal of collecting the missing shards of the Master Emerald. Amy Rose is tasked with evading a large green robot in each of her stages, and can use her giant hammer to keep the bot at bay. E-102 Gamma, the rouge robot's stages are basically shooting galleries, where you destroy as many enemies as possible in order to free your compatriots from Eggman's control. Finally, there's Big the Cat, a huge purple cat looking for his best friend Froggy...by fishing for him. Yup, fishing. Needless to say, Big's stages are the least popular in the game, partly because they are so out of place in comparison to the fast pace of the game, partly because the fishing mechanic itself is broken and very frustrating, and partly because the character itself is very unpopular.
One of the things that made this game so fun was the sheer variety of different styles of gameplay. In addition to the 6 playable characters, there are also a large number of mini-games you can play. Everything from kart racing, to snowboard, to shooting down enemies from a plane, to playing pinball, there's even a whack-a-mole type game. The most involved mini-game, however, is the Chao gardens. Chao are cute little Pokemon-like creatures that you can train up by giving them various fruits and small animals and entering them in races. While it has no significance to the story, raising Chao is one of the most popular aspects of both Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2. And if you're looking to complete this game 100%, you'll be spending a lot of time in the gardens raising up a perfect Chao. But more on that later.
Gameplay takes place in two different stages: Adventure stages and Action stages. Adventure stages act as a hub world, containing story events as well as the entrances to the Action stages. The Action stages are the levels themselves, where you defeat enemies, collect rings and complete the goal. Throughout the game, the characters will also receive various power-ups that allow them to perform new abilities and attacks. In fact, many of the abilities introduced in this game, such as the Homing Attack and the Light Speed Dash, have now become "modern" Sonic's trademark abilities.
Sonic's first foray into a truly 3D environment was a beautiful one. At the time, the Dreamcast's cutting-edge graphics combined with the bright and colorful characters and realistic settings of the game won fans over. Needless to say, the graphics aren't quite as impressive today, but the game still looks good, especially with the vastly improved frame rate of the digital and DX releases of the game. Combined with the awesomely composed soundtrack by Jun Senoue that combined funk, techno and rock and roll, the game has a style that's all it's own, and was like nothing else on the market at the time.
But, it's not without its flaws. One of the most off-putting things about the graphics is the bizarre facial animations when the character are speaking, especially Sonic himself. It doesn't help matters that the English script and dubbing are way off-sync with the mouth animations. Since it was originally a Japanese game, you can't really expect a one-to-one match on the lip-syncing, but they could have at least made an effort.
Once you complete all 6 characters' stories, you can unlock the final story, where you play as the golden boy Super Sonic in one final face-off with Perfect Chaos. But that victory doesn't necessarily mean the end of the game. In the re-released DX version, there is an entirely new mode of play: Mission Mode, which has your character exploring the Adventure and Action stages in order to complete various objectives. The missions are enjoyable, but can sometimes be a bit vague as to what you actually have to do.
There's also emblem collecting, Each Action Stage has 3 emblems you can obtain: one for completing the stage successfully, one for beating the stage with a certain amount of rings, and one for completing the stage within a time limit. There are also emblems you can find in the Adventure Stages, emblems to earn in Mission Mode, and you can even earn emblems by winning the Chao races, which is why you'll want to spend time raising up a winning Chao. In the DX version, collecting a certain number of emblems would unlock various full versions of classic Sonic games for the Game Gear, such as Sonic 2 and Sonic Triple Trouble. However, these extra games have been removed from later versions of the game. Altogether, there are 130 emblems to collect, and collecting all of them will earn you a nice reward: the ability to play as Metal Sonic. The downside is that Metal Sonic plays exactly the same way as Sonic, with no new abilities or story elements. Basically, you're just playing as Sonic with a Metal Sonic skin over him, but at least it looks cool.
The Test of Time
I mentioned that, at the time, Sonic Adventure was considered one of the fastest and gorgeous games out there. But sadly, once the nostalgia blinders come off, there are a lot of problems that show just how poorly this game has aged. A wonky camera and spotty controls have always been a source of complaints in modern Sonic games, and this game is no exception. Ironically, it's when Sonic is at his fastest that the game seems to control the worst, and during those moments, one wrong, slight little flick of the Control Stick can send our little blue pincushion careening into the abyss. (Though in all honesty, Adventure controls far better than some of the later Sonic titles.) And as I already mentioned before, the controls for Big's levels in particular are extremely frustrating and borderline broken, and will definitely bring your fun to a screeching halt.
All of that being said, there's still a reason this game is the best-selling Dreamcast of all time. It's memorable, it's got a style all it's own and there is a lot of fun to be had with this game, despite its age and it's flaws. If you're a fan of 3D platformers, it's definitely worth your time to "Open Your Heart" and check this game out. If you don't have the original Dreamcast version, you can find the re-release Sonic Adventure DX on the Nintendo Gamecube. Sonic Adventure is also available via PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, and Steam.


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My FIL are glad the bombings ended, but no food, gas or petrol are allowed to come in to Gaza.
Israel do not want to end the occupation they also control the sea, so the fisher men can only go 50 meters out from the shore.
We all hope that president Obama will force Israel to end the blockade, but no one in Gaza believes hes has the guts to do it even he does have the power.
We all agree that Obama is very smart and that he is good at convincing people. So there are a tiny chance that he will change life to the better for the Gazans.
I was crying when I saw all the small kids at the hospital, wounded and barely alive. A 4 year old girl told that an Israeli soldier shot her while she stood just outside her home. She left her home after a bombing that killed her siblings. Her mother said that she didn't understand why they hit her home, no one in that family was fighting.
I don't know what other people call that, I do not call it war; I call it murder!
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It is better in Gaza now, there has "only" been a few attacks from Israel after the war. I guess they have been to busy with the election. Our hope is that Obama will force them to accept a 2-state solution.
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MARYAM-I was just reading some of your blogs, it is so hard for me to imagine what your FIL are going through I haven't heard much lately on the news about Gaza, are things better there?
I am on holidays this week and as the weather is still not great i am spending more time on the computer. As well we have started a "biggest looser" club at work, although I do not have alot of weight to loose I am trying again to be more aware of what I eat therefore I am visiting sparkpeople again. This is a great sight with lots of info. I have learned to blog as well. As I type this I am realizing that I am probably writing more info in an area where it was meant for a comment on what you blogged, sorry about that. I am going to have to check out where you live, my geography knowledge isn't the greatest. Have a great day.
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Maryam, I don't know if this will help, but I read this in a book regarding faith and woul like to share it with you: Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain; and only faith can do it.
By; Josiah Gilbert Holland Your family will be in my prayers
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yes you are right it is not always easy to understand. I know that if a neighboring country did occupy my country I would also fight like the people in Gaza. The problems started in Gaza when Israel took more land than they were given to live on after the ww. I personally have no idea why they were given land that belonged to other countries and surrounded by Muslim countries. Can you imagine what would happen if all the religions in the world would claim a country of their own?
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Maryam, living in relative peace in the US, all this seems so distant and foreign (no pun intended). I think it's very difficult for Americans to understand the conflict between groups of people based on centuries of strife when our country is only a little over 200 years old. U.S. politicians seem to have the idea that if they can "bring democracy" to a country, all the problems will be over. They never take into account the deep feelings (religious or otherwise) that have been present in societies for millenia.
I too hope that President Obama can help make progress in the Mideast. It's all so complicated, isn't it?
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Ever come to the end of a book and felt like you were still in the middle of the story? Maybe you were.
Some of the longer biblical writings were divided into parts over time. But the overall literary patterns remain. That's why we sometimes don't get a sense of an ending when we reach the end of a book. In order to get the book's full message, we to need read all the parts as a single work. Some editions of the Bible, like The Books of The Bible, actually put the pieces back together in the text.
Luke 1 and Acts 1 for example, are actually a two-volume historical study written by Luke. As Luke Timothy Johnson observes, Luke the evangelist "uses geography to structure his story and to advance his literary and theological goals... In the Gospel, the narrative moves toward Jerusalem... In Acts, the geographic movement is away from Jerusalem" (Luke Timothy Johnson, The Gospel of Luke (Sacra Pagina 3; Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1991), pgs. 14–15).
The journey to Jerusalem and subsequent journey from Jerusalem unites Luke and Acts into a single work. If John were not between Luke and Acts in modern bibles, we would have no problem seeing this progression.
Luke-Acts is a history of the Christian community—from its origins in the life and ministry of Jesus to its arrival on the world stage in Rome. The prologue and genealogy (Luke 1) serve as an overture to the main text—anticipating the book's structural motif by describing four journeys from Galilee down to Jerusalem or Judaea.
Luke's narrative about Jesus' adult life takes place in Galilee (Luke 4:14-44). This first part of the main body primarily consists of miracle stories and discussions about these miracles being signs of Jesus' true identity (7:18–23; 9:7–9, 18–22). The next part of the book (9:51–19:27) describes a long journey to Jerusalem. People come up to Jesus with questions and challenges; He demonstrates divine wisdom by informing and correcting them. Luke ends in Jerusalem (19:28–24:53), where Jesus teaches in the temple before suffering beatings and execution on the cross. Jesus is then raised from the dead.
In each location, Luke pursues successive aspects of his theological program: To show that Jesus is the Savior the whole world needs. The signs in Galilee represent the gospel witness to Jews; the dialogues along the journey to Jerusalem witness to the philosophically-minded Gentiles; and the story of Jesus' suffering and death in Jerusalem show how He became the Savior of both groups in a way neither expected. The whole program can be summarized by what Paul, Luke's co-worker, wrote to the Corinthians: "Jews demand signs, and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified" (1 Cor 1:22 NIV).
Acts completes the grand narrative by describing the journey of the Christian community from Jerusalem to the "end of the earth" (Acts 1:8). This second volume of Luke's study has six parts. The transitions between them are marked by variations on the phrase "the word of God grew and multiplied" (6:7; 9:31; 12:24; 16:5 and 19:20)—a summary of the overall message of Acts.
The community of Jesus' followers establishes its base in Jerusalem in the first part of the book (1:1–6:7). It breaks through a language barrier—symbolized early in the section by the events of Pentecost in Acts 2—as it includes Greek speakers among its members and leaders. Jesus' followers will now be able to proclaim the gospel throughout the empire.


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This is the latest installment of our monthly feature called, "Ask the AD." If you have questions for Saluki Director of Athletics Mario Moccia, feel free to submit them by e-mail.
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Would it ever be possible that SIU would schedule a home game against a FBS opponent ?
While not impossible, I would say this is highly improbable. FBS schools just don't have to travel to an FCS opponent. It might be possible to enter into a two for one agreement with a Mid-American Conference or Sun Belt Conference school, however those schools appear more interested in playing FBS money games on the road, where they can earn upward of $1 million. They would prefer to take a huge payday versus saving some money with two home games and having to go on the road to an FCS opponent. We are finding it very difficult to even schedule a regional FCS team for a home-and-home in the years that a 12th game is permitted.
Why are we continually recruiting JUCO players in men's basketball and do you feel that is a good way to build a program?
When you are dealing with the departures and transfers of student-athletes, there becomes a need to re-balance the classes, and one way to do that is by bringing in junior college players. As an example, if you had an original class of four freshmen and after their sophomore year, two depart from the program for whatever reason, you could recruit two additional junior college players so that their graduating class remains at four. Junior college players also help a coach supplement the roster in an area of need.
I have a unique perspective on this method of building a program, since I came from a junior college background in the sport of baseball. Ultimately, I think you need a steady flow of fourth and fifth-year players to be successful at our level in the sport of men's basketball. Junior college players and transfers can make huge impacts, such as Mamadou Seck and Rolan Roberts have for the Salukis, but many times it seems it takes one semester of Division I basketball to get used to the speed of the game and transition fully to this level of basketball.
How much of a financial commitment would it take to schedule a game at Soldier Field?
That is a good question and one we haven't asked. We had talks last summer with a promoter in Bridgeport, Ill. regarding the possibility of playing our road game versus Illinois State at Toyota Park, which is where the Chicago Fire play their MLS games. ISU had targeted that game for Homecoming, so we were unable to proceed. With the City of Carbondale investing $20 million into our facilities via Saluki Way, we would not want to move a home game, but if we could move a road game to Chicago we would be extremely interested in that in future seasons.
Would SIU consider adding another way for SASF members to earn points? Specifically, would you consider consecutive years purchasing all-session tickets to the men's and or women's MVC basketball tournaments?
We would certainly consider this. Most of the ways one can currently accrue points benefits the athletic program, while the purchase of MVC tickets is financially supporting the Missouri Valley Conference. I'd like to see points added for the purchase of our Paw passes (a mini-season ticket for volleyball, softball and women's basketball) but certainly would consider your suggestion regarding the men's and women's basketball tournaments. I have asked both Casey Hale, our Assistant AD for Development, and Chet Savage, our Deputy AD, to run the numbers and give me a recommendation on this topic.
Who poses the questions to Coaches Lennon and Lowery for pre-game and post-game assessments? They seem to lack depth and fail to address areas that are, in my opinion, critical issues.
For both the sports you mention we hold regular media availabilities where anyone with a media credential (radio, print and TV) can ask any question they would like. Post-game, both team's coaches hold a press conference along with selected players, and members of the media can also ask whatever question they would like, plus follow-up questions if they need a coach to clarify his remarks. There are other avenues for questions as well. Tom Weber, our Assistant AD for Media Services, writes a blog during the season and comes up with the questions for that medium. Fans also have the opportunity to ask questions each week via the radio shows Lennon Live and Lowery Live from Buffalo Wild Wings, either in person, by calling into the show or e-mailing during the show.


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Half a decade into the deepest U.S. housing crisis since the 1930s, many Americans are hoping the crisis is finally nearing its end. House sales are picking up across most of the country, the plunge in prices is slowing and attempts by lenders to claim back properties from struggling borrowers dropped by more than a third in 2011, hitting a four-year low.
But a painful part two of the slump looks set to unfold: Many more U.S. homeowners face the prospect of losing their homes this year as banks pick up the pace of foreclosures.
"We are right back where we were two years ago. I would put money on 2012 being a bigger year for foreclosures than 2010," said Mark Seifert, executive director of Empowering & Strengthening Ohio's People (ESOP), a counseling group with 10 offices in Ohio.
Americans Brace For Next Foreclosure Wave
Posted 05 April 2012 - 08:14 AM
The people closest to you have been trying to tell you that you have made a difference. That you did change things for the better. The Universe is vast and we are so small. There is really only one thing that we can ever truly control - whether we are good or evil.
The political triumph of the American Right has been to advance relentlessly the economic interests of the country's richest people, while emphasising a swath of moral, social and foreign policy issues that motivate and certainly distract middle-class and poor voters.
Posted 05 April 2012 - 05:16 PM
"If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England"
"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people"
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Posted 05 April 2012 - 08:11 PM
This is exactly what we need over here. A real challenge to the smug home owning status quo in this country. Time for folk to reap what they have sowed. Bring it on.
How do you repo a home owner?
Proof that Brown had repeated IMF / OECD / BIS warnings over house prices and did nothing!!!
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The exponential growth of debt and the unsustainability of debt
The logic of HPI @ 10% YoY means your £100k house would be worth £1.38bn in 100 years
Paying down my mortgage with money found on the street
It's time to sue the Bank of England / Federal Reserve for GROSS NEGLIGENCE
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How do you repo a home owner?
Have some soylent green?
Posted 05 April 2012 - 10:03 PM
I'm very much at the stage where if we don't start getting affordable housing comparable to the USA, I will be taking my experience and skills there. 18 months sounds about fair.
Same here. Think I might post something about beating Tony Blair to death, extradition might be a cheap way to relocate.
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House question.
11-09-2009, 15:17
If you own a house is it possible for you to house recall to someone elses house?
11-09-2009, 15:24
very valid question.
currently the house system is totally screwed, since if you own a house you can only recall to this one house, if you are a guest u can always get invited by someone else to another location and recall there, so are free to go whereever friends have houses.
so long story short, its actually better for you to NOT own a house right now, as long as you have friends with houses.
Percival Kama
11-09-2009, 21:59
you do have a purchase contract which you signed that you will have to close on or before a certain date. You will first need to make an ammendment to the contract approved by both parties to push back the closing date. the other option would be to do a bridge loan where the bank will loan you the money for a few weeks and will be paid off with the proceeds of your home sale.
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Fifth on Tulane's all-time blocked shots list with 75... Led the Green Wave in blocked shots with 41... Averaged 1.37 blocks per game, good for fifth in Conference USA... Appeared in 30 of Tulane's 33 games... Led Tulane in scoring with 13 points in a win at Memphis on February 7... Led the Green Wave in rebounding in five games... Turned in five games with double-figure scoring (Tulane was 5-0 in those games)... Set a career high in points with 13 at Memphis (on five-of-six shooting) and matched that point total three days later against UAB (on six-of-nine from the field)... Rejected five shots for a career-high in blocks at Memphis... Turn in a then career-high 12 points in Tulane's win over Houston on January 5... Connected on five-of-five from the field against UTEP on January 20 for 10 points... Perfect four-for-four from the free-throw line in Tulane's win at SMU on ESPN2 on January 14... Blocked four shots against Rice on January 7, then her career-best... Tied her career-high with a pair of steals in Tulane's win over Texas-Arlington in the Tulane DoubleTree Classic final, later matched with two steals at Houston.
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Nocchi, N; Filipponio, L (2012). Lo vuoi co[z]í o co[s]í? A sociophonetic study on sibilants in the regional Italian of Livorno (Tuscany). In: Calamai, S; Celata, C; Ciucci, L. Sociophonetics, at the crossroads of speech variation, processing and communication. Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore, 53-56.
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The aim of the following study is to verify to what extent the voiced variant [z] is increasingly spreading into the north-western Tuscan territories. This variant is typical of northern Italy varieties but it has also been recently found within Florentine speech, whereas a research on the north-western part of Tuscany has not been conducted up to now. This paper presents therefore the results of a sociophonetic analysis of intervocalic /s/ as it is realised in the regional Italian spoken in Livorno. Moreover, the following research aims to verify if [z] selection is determined according to gender and social class. Preliminary results show that gender seems to be the parameter which mostly influences the phonetic realization of /s/.
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PULLMAN, Wash. -- Washington State University used a 23-0 second half run to post a dominating 74-35 victory over UC Riverside at Beasley Coliseum Sunday afternoon.
The Cougars improved to 6-4 after holding the Highlanders (1-7) to 35 points, the fewest points scored by a WSU opponent since Alaska-Anchorage reached the same mark in the Washington State's 76-35 victory Feb. 23, 1979. The 39-point win is also the largest margin of victory since WSU beat Wyoming 94-49 Nov. 24, 1998.
Senior forward Rosie Tarnowski came off the bench to post team-highs of 14 points and eight rebounds as the 12 Cougs registered points. Redshirt-sophomore Ireti Amojo chipped in with 12 points and made four steals while sophomore forward Hana Potter added a season-high 10 points.
WSU shot 67.7 percent from the floor in the second half and held the Highlanders to 21.2 percent shooting for the game. The Cougars finished the game shooting 45.9 percent, finished with 50-35 rebounding advantage and made 17 steals.
Romberg opened the game with a couple jumpers and Tarnowski came off the bench to score eight first-half points as the Cougs played most of the first half with a double-digit lead.
Midway through the half, Potter got into the mix with a turnaround jumper before Tarnowski knocked down a three and added a pair of free throws to open up a 15-4 advantage. The Highlanders later cut it to five but Tarnowski closed the half with a layup while getting fouled and hitting the free throw to send the Cougs into the break leading 23-15.
WSU held UCR to 15 points on 20 percent shooting through the first 20 minutes as Tarnowski led all scorers with eight points for Washington State who forced UCR into 13 first half turnovers.
It was all Cougs in the second half as sophomore forward Sage Romberg hit a jumper and Amojo followed with a three to open up a 10-point WSU lead.
Following a Highlander three minutes later, Washington State caught fire and exploded for a 23-0 run over the next six minutes. Six different players recorded baskets during that stretch, as Potter's third basket during that span capped the Cougar run and opened up a 51-21 lead at the 12:20 mark.
Redshirt-junior Katie Grad's jumper gave the Cougs a 49-28 lead with 4:06 remaining and Potter followed with a layup to open up a 43-point lead, the largest of the game for WSU, 71-28 at the 3:02 mark.
Washington State will take seven days off to focus on finals before hosting nationally ranked University of Louisville next Monday at 6 p.m.
WSU's largest win since beating Wyoming 94-49 Nov. 24, 1998...tied for fewest points allowed since beating Alaska-Anchorage 76-35 (2/23/79)...fewest first-half points allowed since Wyoming scored 14 (12/5/09)...the Cougs recorded season-highs in rebounds (50), second half points (51), steals (17)...Adzasu grabbed a career-high seven rebounds.


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