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People are ready to welcome New Year 2017 with a lot of spirit and joy as New Year is the time of enthusiasm, optimism, and hope for a better, peaceful, and more stable future, Kamal Hayder, Research Analyst-PAGE said. It is the largest global celebrations including Pakistan which marks the last day of the year and welcome New Year 2017 with new hopes. Resolutions are made, new aspirations are born, and goals are decided for the coming time. Some major cities organise fireworks show, which are set off at midnight and host cultural festivals, music festivals, modern day New Year parties, and live concerts which help people forget all their past troubles of the past, and move ahead to the new time with smiles and cheers all around, Kamal added.

The rupee improved with slight gains against the dollar on the money market on Friday in the process of trading, Kamal Hayder-Research Analyst-PAGE said. The rupee managed to halt erosion in its value versus the dollar, recovering 10 paisas for buying and selling at Rs 108.10 and Rs 108.30 respectively, however it shed 20 paisas in terms of the euro for buying and selling at Rs 112.80 and Rs 114.30 respectively. Open Market Rates: Inter-Bank Market Rates: The rupee also picked up five paisas in relation to the dollar for buying and selling at Rs 104.60 and Rs 104.63 respectively. In the final Asian trade, the euro jumped to its highest in three weeks in holiday-thinned Asian trade, but was on track for a losing year on expectations that US President-elect Donald Trump’s policies will boost inflation and prompt the US Federal Reserve to hike interest rates at a faster pace, he added.

An inquiry commission under the supervision of Sindh High Court’s (SHC) Justice Muhammad Iqbal Kalhoro was formed on Friday to probe into water adulteration in Sindh. According to details, Chief Justice of SHC Sajjad Ali Shah has appointed Justice Kalhoro as head of the team on the directives of Supreme Court (SC). The commission would hold inquiry over the matter of mixing dirty water into clean water. It will also highlight the affected places where this crime is being carried out and would also unveil the culprits behind it.

The Regional Directorate, Intelligence and Investigation-FBR, Peshawar, with the help of local police has seized a container along with the trailer, carrying a number of smuggled goods. It is learnt that smuggled goods recovered from the container included 36,184 yards cloth, 990 pieces of CNC clutch plate for HTV, 17 outdoor units of LG air conditioners, 16 indoor units of LG air conditioners, 20 indoor units of Panasonic Split AC and 19 outdoor units of Panasonic Split AC. All the abovementioned goods as well as the vehicle have been seized under the relevant provisions of the Customs Act, 1969. The value of the same has been assessed at Rs 31 million. An FIR has also been lodged and further investigation is in progress. In addition to the smuggled goods listed, a few small cartons containing firecrackers have also been recovered from the seized container.

Prices showed firmness on the cotton market on Friday in the process of improved business activity, Kamal Hayder-Research Analyst-PAGE said. The official spot rate was unchanged at Rs 6250. In Sindh, seed cotton prices were at Rs 2600-3250 he said that in Punjab, phutti rates were at Rs 2800 and Rs 3500, as per 40 kg. In the ready session, over 11,000 bales of cotton changed hands between Rs 6150-6575. Kamal further said that prices maintained firm posture due to rising trend in the international markets. In China rates are firm and prices followed the same trend in India, particularly after the decision by the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) to purchase local cotton, he said.

The Directorate General of Intelligence and Investigation Inland Revenue (IR) has detected non-deposit of withholding tax to the tune of Rs 62,954,774 by Pakistan Railways on the award of contracts to different firms/companies under agreements. Source told to Research Analyst-PAGE on Friday that the said state-owned entity had entered into agreement with various firms/companies since the year 2006 whereby contracts for operating passenger trains were awarded through open auction; however, due withholding tax u/s 236A, of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 has not been collected/deposited by the Pakistan Railways from the contractors. An inquiry/ investigation has been conducted in this regard and default u/s 161 of the Income Tax Ordinance has been ascertained to the tune of Rs 62,954,774 along with default surcharge u/s 205 at Rs 1,505,294, source added.

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has categorically conveyed to the Ministry of Water and Power that the sales tax would continue to be charged on supply of electricity to Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJ&K) unless explicit amendment is made in the tax law. It is learnt that the issue came to light during the last meeting of FBR and Ministry of Water and Power on taxation issues of power sector entities. On the other hand, Ministry of Water and Power is expected to refer the matter to the Economic Co-ordination Committee (ECC) or Federal Cabinet for exemption from sales tax on supply of electricity to AJ&K.

The government has admitted its failure to curtail the electricity pilfering in the country, which is going on in league with employees of DISCOs and consequently contributing to increase the circular debt, source said to Research Analyst-PAGE. This confession came to light by the officials of Ministry of Water and Power on Friday during a meeting of Senate Standing Committee on Water and Power chaired by Senator Taj Haider. The additional secretary and joint secretary of the ministry stated, the helping hand of the officials of distribution companies can not be denied and this practice has been going on for years and can not be completely done away with. Joint Secretary Zargham also briefed the committee on future strategy of power generation while Additional Secretary Hassan Nasir Jami stated that power theft with the connivance of the officials of WAPDA has been going on over the years and it is difficult to control it, source added.

State Grid of China will help build a 4,000 MW power transmission line in Pakistan in a project valued at $1.5 billion, Pakistan said on Friday, the latest in a series of Chinese investments in its South Asian neighbour. The high-capacity transmission line will be the first of its kind in Pakistan and will link Matiari town in the south, near a new power station, to Lahore city in the east, a key link in transmission infrastructure, the Pakistani government said. An agreement on the project was signed on Thursday in Beijing between Mohammad Younus Dagha, secretary of water and power, and Shu Yinbiao, chairman of State Grid Corporation of China, the government said in a statement. Construction will begin in January, and should take about 20 months, said a spokesman for the Pakistani prime minister’s office. Pakistan has been plagued by a shortage of electricity for years, with widespread rolling blackouts in both rural and urban areas.

The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) Friday reduced gas prices from Rs 600 per Million British Thermal Unit (MMBTU) to Rs 400 per MMBTU for power houses in a bid to supply cheap electricity to industrial units aimed at minimising the cost of production, source said to Research Analyst-PAGE. According to a notification issued, the regulator following the policy guidelines of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources has cut natural gas prices for power houses by Rs 200 per unit, effective from December 15, 2016. The decision will be effective on all the power producing units including K-Electric (KE). The authority has also reduced the gas tariff for fertilizer plants by Rs 0.41 per unit from Rs 123.41 to Rs 123 per unit. The authority has made no change in the gas tariff for domestic, commercial and industrial consumers, source added.

The federal government has prepared the drafts of ‘National Energy Plan’ and Integrated Generation, Transmission and Distribution Plan (IGTDP) to meet future requirement of energy as well as to control mushroom growth of power projects. The IGTDP, which is two steps ahead of ‘National Energy Plan’, would ensure power transmission from the National Grid and its distribution. Additional Secretary Ministry of Water and Power, Hassan Nasir Jamy told this to the Senate Standing Committee on Water and Power, which met with Senator Taj Haider in the chair at the Parliament House Friday. He said that drafts of National Energy Plan and Integrated Generation, Transmission and Distribution Plan have been prepared and would be finalised after consultation with the provinces. He said that the consultation process with the provinces would be completed within three months. He said these plans would be approved in the mid of 2017 and implemented at the end of 2017. He said that purpose of the plans is to block mushroom growth of power projects and prepare future strategy.

Karachi Tax Bar Association (KTBA) on Friday requested the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to extend the date of e-filing of corporate and non-corporate tax returns and statements till January 31, 2017. In a letter, sent to Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, the KTBA said that the date of e-fling of non-ccorporate tax returns and statements for the tax year 2016 had already been expired on December 15 last and the date of corporate tax returns was going to expire on December 31. It cited that Bar had time and again informed the FBR about the difficulties and problems being faced by the taxpayers in e-filing of the tax returns 2016. It further said that although the efforts of FBR and PRAL in making the IRIS system efficient and workable were laudable, the system was still slow and was not up to the mark and was creating difficulties especially during the last hours. The letter further said that IRIS system, which was malfunctioning till the end of October, 2016. It said that from November 1, 2016, system was relatively improved and since then, the taxpayers and tax consultants were striving to complete the job of filing of taxes. However, they remain unable to do so, due to slow functioning and the huge backlog of tax returns of the regular filers. Keeping all this in view, the KTBA requested the finance minister to extend the date of e-filing of corporate and non-corporate tax returns and statements till January 31, 2017 in order to facilitate the genuine tax-filers.

While expressing serious concerns over cost overrun of various power generation projects, Senate Standing Committee on Water and Power has sought a detailed briefing from the government on cost escalation of Nandipur power plant, source said to Research Analyst-PAGE. A meeting of the committee chaired by Senator Taj Haider decided to take a briefing from Ministry of Water and Power on cost escalation of Nandipur power project, Sahiwal Power Plant and Neelum-Jhelum Hydro Power Project in the first phase. The committee also constituted a four-member sub-committee headed by Nauman Wazir to take a briefing on the reasons behind cost escalation of these projects and submit a report to the main committee. Nauman Wazir said the ultimate sufferers of cost escalation of the project are the consumers because over-expenditures are recovered through tariff. He added that 425MW Nandipur power project was approved with Rs 23 billion cost initially which was subsequently revised upward to Rs 42 billion and further to Rs 65 billion. The government, he said, sought tariff increase from the regulator, which was refused, source added.

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8,446 pages of FBI, CIA, Department of Defense, and National Transportation Safety Board files, covering the explosion and crash of TWA Flight 800.

On July 17, 1996, at about 8:31 p.m eastern daylight time, Trans World Airlines, Inc. (TWA) flight 800, a Boeing 747-131, aircraft registration number N93119, crashed in the Atlantic Ocean about eight miles from East Moriches, New York. TWA flight 800 was traveling from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), New York, New York, to Charles DeGaulle International Airport, Paris, France. The flight departed JFK at about 8:19 p.m., with 2 pilots, 2 flight engineers, 14 flight attendants, and 212 passengers on board. All 230 people on board were killed, and the airplane was destroyed. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the flight, which operated on an instrument flight rules flight plan.

Witnesses saw an explosion and then debris descending to the ocean. The flightcrew did not report a problem to air traffic control before the explosion. The airplane was manufactured in November 1971. It had accumulated about 93,303 flight hours and 16,869 cycles.

The investigation into the explosion of TWA Flight 800 was the longest and most expensive accident investigation in American history. The investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded that the crash occurred as the result of an explosion of the center wing fuel tank (CWT), resulting from ignition of the flammable fuel/air mixture in the tank. The source of ignition energy for the explosion could not be determined with certainty, but, of the sources evaluated by the investigation, the NTSB concluded that the most likely source was a short circuit outside of the CWT that allowed excessive voltage to enter it through electrical wiring associated with the fuel quantity indication system. The NTSB found that contributing factors to the explosion of TWA Flight 800 were the design and certification concept that fuel tank explosions could be prevented solely by precluding all ignition sources. The NTSB also pointed to the design of the Boeing 747, with heat sources located beneath the CWT with no means to reduce the heat transferred into the CWT or to render the fuel vapor in the tank nonflammable. Due to the recommendations made by the NTSB concerning possible causes of the explosion of TWA Flight 800, the FAA in February 2004 began the process of ordering airlines to install a fuel tank inerting system in most of their aircraft.

The NTSB concluded that there was no evidence of a missile or bomb detonation. The FBI agreed that there had been no criminal act after examining all the plane's wreckage that had been recovered and interviewing thousands of individuals.

Some people do not agree with the conclusions drawn by the NTSB. Partly influenced by the fact that the explosion took place two days before the opening ceremonies of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, where a bomb exploded ten days later, many thought that the explosion was an act of terrorism. Many witnesses reported seeing something ascend into the sky, which some find consistent with a missile. Others have come to believe that a United States Navy vessel operating in the region was responsible for damaging the plane. Other have given theories pertaining to electromagnetic interference.

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3,275 pages of FBI files related to the explosion of TWA Flight 800. Material includes: FBI briefs on 755 witnesses and what they reported to have seen. Memos dealing with whether or not radar data shows something intercepting TWA Flight 800. Forensic reports on the search for explosive residues. Results of fingerprinting victims for identification. Analysis of injuries of victims to try to determine if an explosive device went off in the cabin. Reports on testing of debris for characteristics or material compositions of explosives or weapons related material.

85 pages of transcripts of a CIA briefing made to the NTSB regarding the CIA's evaluation of witness statements.

TWA Flight 800 Missile Impact Analysis. This 24 page report documents the results of a study conducted between October 1996 and October 1997 of the wreckage of TWA Flight 800. The work was performed under the Department of Defense's Office of Special Technology, stationed at the Naval Air Warfare Center at China Lake. The military services routinely conduct destructive testing of aircraft by subjecting them to missile and projectile damage under conditions likely to be encountered in combat. This live-fire testing has built considerable expertise in identifying warhead damage on aircraft structure and systems. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Transportation Safety Board requested assistance from the military community in identifying possible missile impact damage on the wreckage of TWA Flight 800. Results from the examinations of the wreckage from TWA Flight 800 were documented and combined with other data to analyze the possibility that a shoulder-launched missile was responsible for the destruction of the aircraft.

U.S. Navy Salvage Report. This 136 page report covers the U.S. Navy's salvage of the victims and wreckage of TWA Flight 800. The report documents the techniques and procedures that were used. U.S. Navy divers encountered a torn and twisted aircraft with razor sharp metal edges and 300 miles of electrical cable. At the end of the salvage mission, all 230 victims and 98 percent of the plane was recovered. The report provides lessons learned during the conduct of the operation.

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Final Report

"National Transportation Safety Board. 2000. In-flight Breakup Over The Atlantic Ocean, Trans World Airlines Flight 800, Boeing 747-131, N93119, Near East Moriches, New York, July 17, 1996. Aircraft Accident Report NTSB/AAR-00/03.  Washington, DC." This report issued on August 23, 2000, gives the NTSB explanation of the accident involving Trans World Airlines, Inc. flight 800. Safety issues in the report focus on fuel tank flammability, fuel tank ignition sources, design and certification standards, and the maintenance and aging of aircraft systems. Includes the cockpit voice recorder transcript.

Among the many topics covered in the report are: Wreckage Recovery; Medical and Pathological Information; Information Regarding Certain Primary Radar Targets Recorded by the Islip, New York, Radar Site; Trajectory and Main Wreckage Flightpath Studies; Electromagnetic Interference from External Sources; Meteorite Strike Information; Accident Record and History of Fuel Tank Fires/Explosions on Airplanes; Possible Ignition Sources Unrelated to the Fuel Quantity Indication System.

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Documents

Among the many other pages of NTSB material are: Radar Data for Missile Visibility Tests Report; Operations Group Chairman Factual Report; Air Traffic Control Group Chairman Factual Report; Witnesses Group Chairman Factual Report; Interviews with pilots in the area; Witness Group Recorded Radar Study; Meteorology Group Chairman Factual Report; Survival Factors - Airplane Interior Documentation Group Factual Report; Structures Group Chairman Factual Report; Powerplants Group Chairman Factual Report; Systems Factual Report of Group Chairman; Flight Data Recorder Group Chairman Factual Report; Maintenance Records Group Chairman Factual Report; Cockpit Voice Recorder Factual Report of Group Chairman; Aircraft Performance - Airplane Performance Study; Security Factors Group Chairman's Factual Report; Hazardous Materials - Security Group Chairman's Factual Report; Reconstruction Group Chairman's Factual Report; Medical/Forensic Group Chairman's Factual Report; Fire and Explosion Group Chairman Factual Report; Trajectory Study.

TWA Hearing Transcript

A transcript of a public hearing that was conducted for this accident from December 8 through 12, 1997, in Baltimore, Maryland. NTSB Chairman Jim Hall presided over the hearing. Parties to the public hearing were the FAA; Boeing; TWA; IAM; ALPA; Honeywell; and the Crane Company, Hydro-Aire.

A ten page NASA summary report. During the first year of the investigation, some consideration had been applied to the possibility of man-made electromagnetic interference as a factor in the crash.

Congressional Hearings

Transcripts and copies of exhibits presented at the Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts of the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate One Hundred Sixth Congress First Session On the Investigation of TWA Flight 800, held on MAY 10, 1999

Additional material include submissions from organizations made to the NTSB concerning their views on the crash of TWA Flight 800. Submissions from the Air Line Pilots Association, Boeing, International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers, and Crane Co. HydroAire Inc. & Lear Romec.

As a finding aid for this title, all convertible text in the documents have been transcribed and embedded as text. All text capable of being converted can be searched. A search cross auto-index is also included for searching of all convertible material on the disc.

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Traditional Storyteller-The Three Little Pigs is an excellent app for sharing and teaching the art of storytelling. In this edition, spirited narrator Cat Weatherill shares a ten-minute long version of The Three Little Pigs story. She draws in young ones early on by engaging them in the hand gestures and vocal sounds she uses to add color to the story. She also pauses periodically to ask her listeners questions, such as "Do you like food?", a question that naturally relates to a story about hungry pigs.

After listening to the story, guide your child toward the map game. The goal is to place images representing events in the story in the correct sequence. When this is done, the narrator will read a truncated version of the story. Children can also record their own version of the story, either by listening and repeating story tidbits or recording a complete new version guided by images from the story.

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Decided to throw a little wild card into today's outfit post. Welcome the first 'His & Her' addition. Probably not going to be a thing. It just worked out that we had these photos from our Americana dinner we hosted for Anthology Magazine. Wanted to share our outfits for the feature.

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Shirt : J.Crew  // Pants : Zara  // Shoes : Kenneth Cole (similar)  // Hat : Brixton  // Jacket : John Varvatos

Shirt : c/o 2020Ave // Pants : Target (similar #1, similar #2) // Shoes : Christian Louboutin // Shawl : Urban Outfitters (similar) // Necklace : DIY

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In other news, I'm starting to get why there are 'mom clubs'. You can't really relate to the weird thing that is pregnancy unless you've experienced said weird things. If you think of the 'club' as one usually does a fraternity, then pregnancy is the equivalent to the freshman hazing stage. Embarrassing moments are bound to happen, but at least there are always others who are enduring this right of passage with you.. and when it's all over, you wear it like a badge of honor. Forever. And if you survive, you're in for life.... with the stretch marks as your unifying battle wounds. It's just really that 'if you survive' part. So far, I haven't read a book on anything pregnancy related and I've only devoured maternity style blogs and read all 300 whatever pages Lay Baby Lay. Obvious priorities. Other than that, I only know what my daily experiences have been. Every day comes with its own little bizarre quirks. After some back and forth on my 'anti-oversharing' policy.... I decided some events and occurrences just need to be immortalized. Let's start off with a few of the latest ones.

- If your biggest worries and anxiety come out when you're laying in bed at night, then apparently mine is the fear of outie belly buttons. I laid awake for an hour the other night in fear of what I'd do if the day came my stomach morphed from an innie to an outie. Some people don't mind the outie..... I'm not one of those people.

- Just when you breathe a sigh of relief that a man on the subway has finally stood up to offer you a seat on a busy morning train, a slightly neurotic and unfriendly woman whom, upon quick examination either just ate a burrito for breakfast or is all of like a week pregnant, gets on the train and asks for your seat..... riiiight as you're about to sit down. Uh.... hum, what? Seriously? You even have a super 'attention I'm pregnant' outfit on. Your eyes skim the shocked faces of the other passengers and in your most graceful and dignified tone, you say.... 'of course!'. Then, you proceed to stand over the breakfast burrito eating maniac and passive aggressively display your bump right in front of her.... for the remainder of your commute. Yep, that just happened to me last Monday. Love you too New York. Love you too.

- If you've gotten to the point in life where you just really loathe shaving your legs..... well, you should just get pregnant! Yep, it's that easy. And then around month three, your leg hair just miraculously ceases to exist. Thank the Lord! Leg shaving was never one of my strong suits, and thankfully I have super blonde hair, but when it did happen.... it was usually a super botched job. (I know, you're feeling sorry for E right about now.)

- Need a fool proof excuse for everything? Pregnancy brain. Also see: foggytown. My type-a internal list making and memory keeping ability has slowly slipped out of my grasp over the weeks. Do I have my keys? No clue. Oh, you just told me something really important about your new job? Gonna need you to repeat that. You sent me three emails about grabbing coffee? Nope, never read them. Oh, I responded to them all? You don't say. Don't remember doing that. Needless to say, everything from my apartment to my iPhone to my work computer is covered in reminders and to-do lists. Most of which I forget to check.

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Happy Wednesday loves! I hope you are all having a great week so far!! I can’t even describe how excited and pumped I am to bring you this post today. Microblading has been something I have wanted to do for soooo, soooo long and I can’t wait to give you a behind the scenes look into the process and also some tips and things you should know before, during, and after the process. Read on below to learn more about my experience in collaboration with http://www.browsbyang.com ! As always, all thoughts and opinions are my own.

* Close up of my brows 14 days after microblading.

Before You Go

Do your research! If you know me IRL, then you know that am kind of a picky gal, who likes things a certain way. Hence, the reason my friends and fam lovingly call me “Monica” as in Monica Geller from Friends. With that being said, it’s only natural that I would do a whole boatload of research before I even thought about going and letting someone touch my brows! Ha. Anyways, when I came across http://www.browsbyang.com  I couldn’t have been happier! When I read her reviews, the word perfectionist was mentioned several times…and I think my heart skipped a beat. I don’t’ know about any of you gals, but having someone who strives for perfection when it comes to my face, is tops in my book!!

Once Ang and I started to discuss working together and planning out the appointment, I felt even more at ease. She is so comforting, kind, and answered any questions I had. At this time, I also learned that she is not only an aesthetician, but a registered nurse as well! That put my nerves at eases even more, because whose better hands to be in than a nurse? As if things couldn’t get better, she also trained under Julia Anne Milin of Brow Design International who was featured  on this segment of Good Morning America. Long story short, it always pays off to do your research when it comes to something important and permanent.

Preparing For Your Appointment

Ang was very thorough and has do’s and don’ts listed on her website for your convenience. I made sure to check these a few weeks before my appointment. A couple that I wouldn’t have thought of were, no sun exposure a few weeks prior to appointment and also to not sure acne and/or anti-aging products for about 30 days or so prior to appointment.

On the Day of

Do: Wear something comfortable!! I wore one of my favorite tunics, comfy jeans, and sneaks. You will be at your appointment for 2-3 hours and wills be sitting and laying down for the actual procedure. It pays off to be comfy!! Also listed on Ang’s website, make sure you are not wearing makeup on your brows!!

The Microblading Process: A Behind the Scenes Look

Part One: Measuring and Shaping the Look of Your New Brows

This part of the process is so clutch and I was amazed at how much time and attention to detail Ang went into to make sure my new brows would be exactly what I was looking for. As you can see from the pics, there are many things that go into this step. In this part, she will measure your different parts of your forehead and eyebrows to determine where exactly to place your arches etc. I was so excited bc Ang was able to lift my arches to give me a much more refreshed and youthful look to my face. Once she has drawn and mapped eyebrows out, you will be able to see a close approximation of what your brows will look like in the end. Th next step of part one is for her to match the dye to your eyebrows. We tried two colors and had  a little chat back and forth about which matched my hairline and the highlights in my hair. In the end, I went with the slightly lighter shade.

Part 2: The Microblade Process

During this step, you will be laying down. Ang made sure that I was comfortable and again, wearing comfy clothes helps too. The total process takes about a house or so, depending on how much your brows need. As you can see from the pics in the beginning, mine needed a lot of help, especially in the tail area.

She will start by making an outline of each brow with a special pen and then go back in to start the outline with the microblade. I know you are all thinking this already…but does it hurt??!! You hear the word blade and you think, Ouch!! Don’t worry, Ang has you covered. She uses a topical ointment that helps numb the pain. In my honest opinion, I did not find it to hurt much at all. Without the lidocaine, it felt like a cat scratch. I opted for no lidocaine until the outlines were made, which makes the pigment adhere to your skin better. Once my outlines were complete, she numbed me up and I barely felt anything at all.

As you can see in the pics, the process is to build the brows gradually by adding precise strokes to the skin. You can see also that you may bleed a teeny tiny bit, but not enough to need a bandage or anything. When all was said and and done, I got to see my brows for the first time before the touch ups. My heart fluttered when I saw them for the first time because I couldn’t believe how perfect they looked!!

Part 3: Touch Ups

Once, my brows were done, Ang, the professional and perfectionist that she is, went back and perfected my brows down to the last stroke! She really takes her time and her attention to detail is impeccable. She will go out of her way to make sure you have #browsonfleek. She truly is a brow wizard!

Part 4: The Healing Process

This, in my opinion is absolutely the most important part of the process. I cannot stress enough how important it is to follow ALL of the instructions that Ang gives you. Her instructions are super detailed and gives you what to do day by day!

Some tips:

Do NOT get them wet!! As in, the whole 10 days! Ang gave me little visors to keep MY brows dry in the shower and my husband helped me wash my hair in the tub. Honestly, I lived on dry shampoo for most of the ten days!

Do invest in makeup wipes! You cannot wash your face and these are a lifesaver!

Do NOT stress about your brows! They will follow a distinct healing process. I couldn’t believe that Ang literally predicted exactly what my brows would do at each step of the healing process. Trust the experts….they know what they are doing!!

Do show off your brows!! For people that know me personally, I’ve gotten SOOOOOO many compliments already on my brows! They are a total game changer!!

Do schedule a touch up within 6-7 weeks, to assess how your skin accepted the pigment, and to reinforce the shape, ensuring the longevity of your brows.

*If you look at the two pics above, you can see the difference in color of brows immediately after microblading in the top pic and 14 days  later in the bottom pic. Your brows will lighten up by 30% from the 1st day.

In Review

Would I recommend microblading? 100% YES! It honestly is sooo worth every penny. I still can’t stop staring at how amazing my brows look. I felt so self conscious about my brows before, especially when I didn’t have makeup on. Now, I can totally rock a makeup free face and still feel confident bc my brows give me a “done up” look.

If you are in the Philadelphia area, you NEED to get in touch with Ang ASAP! She is such a doll to work with and so comforting and thorough. Plus, her pricing is super affordable, making my wonder why you haven’t already picked up the phone or emailed her yet! So what’s the cost? For initial consultation, first session, and follow-up, she charges a competitive price of $495. You can check out the pricing here on her website. So, what are you waiting for? Call or email Ang today so you can get the brows of your dreams too!!

Check out the beautiful salon,  where Ang’s studio is located. It’s called Boudoir Salon and Boutique and is conveniently located in the Philadelphia area. They offers tons of different salon services and also have the cutest boutique of unique clothes! A one stop shop, for brows, clothes, and hair!

Have your ever tried microblading or are you thinking about trying it? I’d be happy to answer any questions you have about my experience! Drop me a comment below and I’ll get back to you soon.

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The Edit View allows you to view and edit audio files in a waveform display. Editing is simple with Audition’s selection tools, allowing you to cut, copy, mix and trim audio clips with precision. Effects such as Normalize, Reverb, and Stereo Field Rotate can easily be applied and also saved as favorites. The Preroll and Postroll Preview makes working with effects easier than ever.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

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  • Select and edit waveforms.
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  • Apply effects and save them as favorites.

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In this lesson, you’ll work with a series of files in the Edit View. If you have not already copied the resource files for this lesson onto your hard disk from the Adobe Audition 2.0 Classroom in a Book CD, do so now. See “Copying the Classroom in a Book files” on page 2.

  1. Start Adobe Audition. Click the Multitrack View button if it is not already selected.
  2. Choose File > Open Session, and open the file located in the AA_03 folder, in the AA_CIB folder on your hard disk. Click the Zoom Out Full Both Axes tool (zoomout_fullboth1.jpg) to view all tracks in the session.
  3. Choose File > Save Session As, and name the file, and save it in the AA_03 folder on your hard disk.

    This session is the same one you worked with in Lesson 2. In this lesson, you will be working primarily in the Edit View.

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  5. Press the Home key on your keyboard and then play the session file by either clicking the Play button (play_cursortoend.jpg) in the Transport panel or pressing the spacebar on your keyboard.
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Pekin Community School District is pleased to announce the hiring of Clint Gingerich as our 7-12 Secondary Principal for the start of the 2018-2019 School Year.

Clint has a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Education from Northwestern College and will be completed with his Masters of Arts in Educational Leadership from University of Northern Iowa. Clint comes to us from Oskaloosa Community School District, where his leadership roles include Instructional Coach at the high school for the last three years and Athletic Director for Middle School.

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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

i dream in color

really, i do, i dream in color. doesn't everybody??

so pretty much, all day i've done just this. (and laundry.) which seems like not much but there's so much that goes into thinking of what would something looks like that it takes forever! i don't know how people come up with masterpieces in a day cuz i swear i'm just not creative enough to do that. sure, if i'm motivated and have a vision before i put pen to paper, yes i can make something worthwhile in a day. but these have really been cooking my noodle. in a good way tho. helps me explore different techniques. i always was a firm believer in hands-on training. =)
i've created two versions of each to see which one the client prefers. initially i was asked by the client to keep things mostly about the lineart and not about the digital colors. she felt that the lineart should be strong enough that it wouldn't need color except for a splash of colors to keep the focus on the lines. plus she didn't want it to look too cartoony. hence, the greek lady on the cloud is quite flat. but when i showed her the flats of these images, she had a tough time picturing it without all the colors and frankly, i have too. i'm trying to keep the main colors of reds, yellows, and a small bit of green or blue but doing that makes Clarity (the bellydancer) look like a zombie or a statue come to life. hence the need for choices. hopefully she'll like at least one of them.
with Instinct, i tried to go for an art nouveau (which, by the way, is a really hard word to spell) with the border patterns. she's french and all. the colors choices i made were more of an experiment. i don't know which i like better, the red drop shadow or the yellow. i like how both colors pop against the blue.

did i mention i am a bit indecisive??

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ooh, i really like the bellydancer version on the left. did you draw the entire bg too?


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How To Lose Inches Off Your Waist?

Lots of people want to see how they can lose inches off their waists in a few days. Dream on. Is it possible to lose  inches but not a lot in a single day, or single week. You can drop an inch from your waistline within one week. But this would require extreme rapid weight loss. The good news is there is a new diet supplement that can help you reduce, even without exercise.

You are reading this article now because you’re trying to figure out how to lose inches off your waist. Well here’s how you do it. First of all you need to consider why you got bigger around the waistline in the former place. Most people know the answer to this already it is because you eat too much high calorie junk food and you do not get any exercise.

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So there you have it the answer to losing inches off your waistline is by eating a calorie reduced diet plan and getting off your backside and doing some exercise. Lots of people start diets and even exercise and still they cannot lose weight. This is because they’re probably doing it all wrong. If you exercise correctly and eat a reduced amount of calories each day. Your body has got no alternative but to lose weight.

When it comes to long term weight loss, the best amount of weight to lose each week is around 1 to 2 pounds. This is as it will help to ensure that the majority of the weight you lose is bodyfat and not lean mass. This does not look like a lot does it. However, if you’re watching it over the long term it is indeed a good amount of weight to lose. If you were to lose 2 pounds every week for one year you would lose a whopping 104 pounds.

When it comes to losing weight and losing inches off your waist there is no quick fix. It takes time and you need to place in the work through healthy eating and exercising. If you have not done any exercise in a while, then you’ll need to hold it easy at first.

To lose those excess inches from the waist you need to start burning calories. The best exercise for burning calories is high intensity cardio training. Training high intensity is so beneficial, as it is quick, it does not tell you the time to become bored with the exercise and it really helps to kick start your metabolism. Stay away from long and slow paced cardio workouts, not only is calorie burning slow but you’ll quickly become bored of doing it as a result of the long duration of the workouts. Which is going to make you quit and result in no inches being lost from your waist.

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  • The post above makes no sense. And doesn’t answer your question. What works for him/her doesn’t work for everyone, I eat lots of rice and am thin. In answer to your question: measuring your waist you should account for water retention, it can affect things, a lot. Salt being the big culprit. lots of salt means lots of water in your skin means you look fat and have a bigger waist. You only need like 300 – 500 mg of salt in a day, your average can of soup has like 1200, most Americans eat like 4000-5000 or more mg of salt every day, one of the big reasons people die around these parts. Bodybuilders before contest attempt to reduce the amount of water in their skin so they look good, it’s not healthy to do this daily, but if you have a specific event like a weeding or something of that nature to go to, work on over the next few weeks/months eating less calories everyday than you are going to use up, eat under 2000 or so (1700 is good, just make it less than you need so your body pulls energy from your fat as apposed to store extra calories you ate there) and read up on salt, diuretics and water retention. The fat on your waist comes off along with that on your face, feet, buttocks, etc., There is no way to remove fat from a particular area on your skin (body) (unless you undergo surgery) When you notice fat on the belly it’s not just there that you gained fat, same with losing it. you lost or gained it all over your entire body. p.s. before you go to bed check your waist size and then do it again when you wake up first thing in the morning, you’ll see what I mean :) your body will “drink” the water in your skin while you sleep. Try it.

  • Eat little food. Dont eat too much. Run about 3 – 5 miles a day. I lost about 20 lbs in three month, just eating tuna, fruits and salad.. not eating too much rice and exercising regularly.


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Drawings by Eight Artists

No Direct Line From My Brain To My Heart

21 Feb — 15 Mar 2003

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Alan Holt

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Violet Faigan

Stella Corkery

For the 8 artists in this group show curated by Violet Faigan, drawing is only one of several modes of expression practiced by each, and in most cases takes second place to other art forms (music, photography, installation) and day jobs. It is the basic immediacy and convenience of drawing which gives these artists the impetus to pick up the felt tip, pencil or biro, making an instant mark on the page. An established photographer, Ann Shelton has recently used drawing as another form of creative output while travelling.

In some works such as Kirsty Cameron’s series of dark pencil drawings Fires in the Sky, the act of drawing seems to be an obsessive impulse and can at times become a therapeutic method of expression and communication. Violet Faigan and Simon Cuming often incorporate drawing into their installation practices. Here Faigan has used the medium to extend her interest in portraiture with old-fashioned illustrations of female singers (Peggy Lee, Marlene Dietrich and Julie London). In contrast to these portraits, Cuming focuses in on a more boyish subject, carefully depicting the fly in his triptych entitled Bonjour Mssr Courbét.

Faigan and many of the artists here also play music in bands (Jad Fair, Simon Cuming, Stella Corkery and Alan Holt). The influence of band posters and record cover art is most obvious in the collage works by Stella Corkery, depicting the kind of all-girl band common to the imagination of most teenage girls. American artist and musician Jad Fair uses his time on the road to work on his felt pen drawings, utilising a child-like aesthetic with references to pop music and cartoon characters. This naive style runs throughout the exhibition, the artists and curator all sharing an appreciation for outsider art and the hobbyist. Like many of the artists in this group, Graham McFelin has a history of exhibiting in project spaces (including Fiat Lux and the Honeymoon Suite). Here he combines drawing and object to create the smallest work in the show with a whited-out cigarette packet.

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Watching a Movie

Movies are comprised of a sequence of pictures. Showing pictures in quick succession creates the impression of a continuous sequence of events taking place. Slow motion reduces the frequency of pictures. Down to a certain limit motion still looks smooth, but then we start noticing that there are individual pictures shown. Yet for the following argument this is not important. The point is that we can slow down the frame rate ever more, even down to zero. At this point a last picture is shown, frozen on the screen. The next picture of course still exists, but will not be shown.

What is the time coordinate in the film. It is discrete and given by the sequence numbers of the pictures. The sequence of pictures defines the sequence of events taking place. When it comes to the last frame shown, where we decided to stop the film, local time in the film does not proceed anymore, simply because time is equivalent to frames shown and the next frame is never shown.

For observers in the movie theater it is irrelevant that there are potentially more pictures to show. There was a last frame and that was that. More will not happen.

Time in Physics

The movie with its slow motion and arbitrary stop can help to understand time in physics. The bold transfer from the discrete time co-ordinate of the film to continuous time in physics works as follows:

  1. Time is a sequence of events, a sequence of things happening.
  2. If events follow each other slower, time runs slower.
  3. If no more events follow, if things stop happening, time does not proceed.

The following paragraphs try to explain why this can be a viable way of looking at time in physics.

Time in physics, as far as we know, is continuous, not discrete. But there are many examples in mathematics and physics where the limit of discrete points results in a continuum. In the same way we can imagine that points in time is are individual events, yet they comprise a continuum.

In this view, time is implicitly given by a continuous sequence of events or states of the world. You could even say that time has no existence in itself. It is "only" a measure of how fast the states of the world follow each other.

Special and General Relativity tell us that time slows down in moving objects or under high gravity. How does this translate into the "continuous sequence of states of the world" view? Easy: the events follow slower onto each other than before. Similar to a film in slow motion. The time between the frames is longer than before.

Oh wait, what? Time between frames gets longer for slow motion, but how does this translate into the time in physics? How can there be more time between states of a continuum of states if the continuum of state is time?

The answer is the same as for the movie: we are talking about two time axes. In the movie, one axis is the frame number. The other is the observer's time axis as given by the observer's stop watch that shows a longer time between frames in slow motion. The same is done in physics, where a difference is made between the local time on a moving object or an object under gravity and the observer's time.

So we have two time axes, the one of the observer and the one of the object being observed. For the film it is easy to see how things happen slower. What about special or general relativity? What constitutes the longer time between world states, what makes world states follow each other slower — at least from the vantage point of the observer?

What are individual world states anyway? This is a difficult question, so we start with simplified world. Take a game of chess. A state is defined by the positions of all the pieces on the board. Look at the board now and look at the board some time later during which the players are thinking, not moving any piece. The state is the same — because nothing has changed. The important word is "change". While it is difficult to fully describe states of the world, it is easy to grasp that they are different due to change.

How do states of the world change? Again we fall back to a simple model. Consider a group of $n$ photons-in-a-mirrored-box and assume that they are point particles. Each photon has the (three dimensional) velocity $\Vec{v}_i$ with the absolute value being the the speed of light $c=|\Vec{v}_i|$. The average value of these velocities is \begin{align} \av &= \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=0}^{n-1} \Vec{v}_i . \end{align} If the box moves at the speed of light, all photons move in the same direction and their $\Vec{v}_i$ are all identical. In this case $\av$ is also the same and in particular $|\av|=c$. On the other hand, if the box does not move we have $|\av|=0$.

When all the velocities are identical, does the world state of this small world change? Well, the photons are moving at the speed of light through space, so this constitutes a change, doesn't it? The anser is "no", because this takes the world around the photons into account. If you blind out the world around and only look at the group of photons now and 5 minutes later, nothing has changed. Their positions relative to each other are the same. Like on the unchanged chess board we can say that the world state of the group of photons did not change at all.

Put another way: the state changes only if the photon velocities are not all identical. Intuitively, if one photon of a billion has a slightly different direction than all the others, the rate of change is smaller than when the box has stopped and the photons are bouncing about in arbitrary directions within the box. The more the velocities differ, the bigger is the rate of change. One way to measure this totalled difference of pairwise photon velocities are the averaged squared differences \begin{equation} \frac{1}{n^2} \sum_{i<j} (\v{i}-\v{j})^2 \;, \end{equation} which is the same as the variance of the set of velocities.

For the following, note that a sum $\sum_{i,j=0}^{n-1}$, if symmetric in $i$ and $j$, can be viewed as summing the elements $(i,j)$ of a symmetric matrix. As such it can be taken apart into twice the sum over the lower left triangle of the matrix plus the diagnoal like $\sum_{i<j} \dots + \sum_{i}\cdots$. And remember that $|\v{i}|^2=\v{i}\v{i}=c^2$.

Lets add the average velocity squared of the photons in the box and proposed measure for the rate of change, the variance of the velocities: \begin{align} \av^2 + \frac{1}{n^2} \sum_{i<j} (\v{i}-\v{j})^2 &= \frac{1}{n^2}\sum_{i,j=0}^{n-1} \v{i}\v{j} &+ \frac{1}{n^2} \sum_{i<j} c^2-2\v{i}\v{j}+c^2\\ &= \frac{1}{n^2} \left( \sum_{i<j} 2\v{i}\v{j} + \sum_{i=0}^{n-1} \v{i}^2 \right) &+ \frac{1}{n^2} \sum_{i<j} c^2-2\v{i}\v{j}+c^2\\ &= \frac{1}{n^2} \left( \sum_{i=0}^{n-1} c^2 + \sum_{i<j} 2c^2\right)\\ &= c^2 \label{eq:start} \end{align} There is a tradeoff between moving by average velocity, $\av^2$, and changing state as measured by velocity variance, $1/n^2 \sum_{i<j} (\v{i}-\v{j})^2$, because together they always add up to $c^2$. The two extreme cases are:

  1. If all $\v{i}$ are identical, the average speed is $c$, and the rate of change is zero.
  2. If the average is zero, the rate of change is at its maximum, $c^2$.

Lets compare this to the formula from Special Relativity according to which 4 dimensional velocity through space-time is equal to the speed of light $c$: \begin{equation} \left(\frac{c\,d\tau(t)}{dt} \right)^2 + \Vec{v}^2 = c^2. \label{eq:v4} \end{equation} The $\tau$ denotes local time on the moving object, while $t$ is the time for the observer and $\Vec{v}$ is the velocity of the object with respect to the observer. For the ensemble of photons in a box we have $\Vec{v}=\av$, so we can equate (\ref{eq:start}) and (\ref{eq:v4}). Dropping the $\av^2=\Vec{v}^2$ we get \begin{equation} \left(\frac{c\,d\tau(t)}{dt} \right)^2 = \frac{1}{n^2} \sum_{i<j} (\v{i}-\v{j})^2 \end{equation}

The left side describes how time proceeds locally on a moving object, in this case the ensemble of photons. On the right we have the variance of these photons' velocities as a measure of their state change.

For fun and formula simplification, we note that the square root of the variance is the standard deviation $\sigma$ of an ensemble, so we can also write \begin{equation} c\frac{d\tau}{dt} = \sigma(\v{0},\dots,\v{n-1})\;. \end{equation}

It is tempting to speculate that the ensemble of photons is a good role model for the real world, by assuming that

  1. time is (nothing but) a measure of the (rate of) change in physical systems,
  2. the rate of change is governed by all the physical processes that proceed at the speed of light,
  3. all change in a physical system can ultimately be attributed to processes with a direction and proceeding at the the speed of light, i.e. can meaningfully have an $\v{i}$ with $|\v{i}|=c$ ascribed to them.

To summarize: \begin{align} \text{rate of state change} &= \text{photon velocity's standard deviation}\\ &= \text{progression of local time} \end{align}

Open Ends

For a photons-in-a-box world we have seen that the progression of local time is given by how different the photon velocities (i.e. their directions) are. Smaller differences in the velocities intuitively mean a smaller rate of change. And this is formally equal to a slower progression of local time.

Does this have any meaning for the real world?

  • photon is role model for change
  • photon as a point particle is only half the truth, can we do the above with phtons as a wave?
  • max rate of change given by $c$
  • SR: moving reduces possibility for change
  • GR: gravitation reduces possibility for change
  • check entropy$\lt$variance bound: which, with the above remotely looks like the progresseion of time $d\tau/dt$ limits entropy (hmm, of what)
$\def\v#1{\mathfrak{#1}} \def\vx{\v{x}} \def\vy{\v{y}} \def\vz{\v{z}} \def\mA#1#2{a_{#1 #2}} \def\ma#1#2{a^{#1}_{#2}} \def\t#1{\tilde #1} \def\tx{\t{x}} \def\ty{\t{y}} \def\d#1{\partial #1} \def\dd#1{\partial_{#1}} \def\pderiv#1{\frac{\partial}{\partial #1}} $

Time as a Derived Quantity

$ \def\Vec#1{\mathbf{#1}} \def\vt#1{\Vec{v}_{#1}(t)} \def\v#1{\Vec{v}_{#1}} \def\vx#1{\Vec{x}_{#1}} \def\av{\bar{\Vec{v}}} \def\vdel{\Vec{\Delta}} $

Some time ago I wrote down an interesting derivation of the local time in a box filled with photons to be the same as the average delta velocity between the photons in the box. In particular, local time $d\tau$ is related to the velocity $\v{B}$ of the box and the average velocity $\av$ of the photons as follows: \begin{equation} \left(\frac{c\,d\tau(t)}{dt} \right)^2 = c^2- |\Vec{v}_B|^2 \approx c^2 - \av^2 = \frac{1}{n^2} \sum_{i<j} (\v{i}-\v{j})^2 , \label{eq:start} \end{equation} where the $\v{i}$ are the velocities of the photons in the box, of course with $|\v{i}|=c$, the speed of light.

While I find this already quite remarkable, I think it is possible to go even one step further and, at least formally, get rid of the coordinate time $t$ alltogether. If we call $\vx{i}$ the position of a photon in the box, then clearly $\v{i}=d\vx{i}/dt$. Inserting this into equation \eqref{eq:start}, we get \begin{equation*} \left(\frac{c\,d\tau(t)}{dt} \right)^2 \approx \frac{1}{n^2} \sum_{i<j} \left( \frac{d\vx{i}-d\vx{j}}{dt} \right)^2 \end{equation*} Lets define $\vdel_{ij}=\vx{i}-\vx{j}$. If we invoke the notion of the differential of a function, we can further simplify this last equation to: \begin{equation} c^2 d\tau^2 \approx \frac{1}{n^2} \sum_{i<j} (d\vdel_{ij})^2 \end{equation} This can be interpreted as saying that (the square of) small increments of the local time, $d\tau$, in a box of photons, is equal to the average of (the square of) small changes in the mutual distance of the photons in the box.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the timeless physics that Barbour has in mind. The formula seems to indicate that the flow of local time is just a secondary effect of a bunch of photons not all having identical velocity vectors. Because if they have, $d\tau$ becomes zero.

Monq.jfa faster again

The implementation of a deterministic finite automaton (DFA) has one central component: transition tables. Each node of the DFA contains one. It maps the incoming character to an outgoing edge, or rather to another node of the DFA, namely the target node of the transition by this character. The fastest implementation is an array indexed by the incoming character. For a character ch and a transition table trans this is just one array access:

Many transition tables are, however, extremely sparse with sometimes only a handful characters leading out of a node. In this case, using the full array of $2^{16}$ character values is an extreme waste of main memory. From the beginning monq optimized these array based transition tables such they only contain entries for the range of characters between the first and the last character used. Retrieving the transition then looks like

which is only minimally slower than storing the full array. But when only a few characters between the first and the last used character indeed have a transition, this still is a big waste of main memory. Therefore there was always a second implementation for the transition table, that only stores the available transitions and searches for the selected one with a binary search.

For every node, the decision between the two implementations was based on an estimated memory footprint. And the smaller one was always chosen.

In version 1.4 of monq I introduced a parameter that allows to trade memory usage for speed. If it is set high enough, no transition table will use a binary search. And the good news: my performance tests show that for the use case of searching a number of words in a long text, a speedup between 20% and 40% is possible.

(all times in seconds)
no. words 3 4 11 17 26 35
$\Delta t$ regex 9 12 28 42 68 82
$\Delta t$ monq 40 47 49 54 55 56
$\Delta t$ monq with StringBuilder 24 24 26 27 29 30
$\Delta t$ monq trading memory for speed 21 22 23 25 25 25

Monq.jfa even faster with StringBuilder

As mentioned in the previous article, my revived DFA class library for Java dates back from the time of Java 1.4. It always made heavy use of StringBuffer. Now I found the time to complete replace all instances of StringBuffer with StringBuilder and rerun the performance test reported in the previous article. Here is the table again with the new data:

(all times in seconds)
no. words 3 4 11 17 26 35
$\Delta t$ regex 9 12 28 42 68 82
$\Delta t$ monq 40 47 49 54 55 56
$\Delta t$ monq with StringBuilder 24 24 26 27 29 30

Now the break even, where monq takes over java.util.regex, is already at around 11 words. But I am looking already at some profiling results to see if this can be improved even more.

Monq.jfa performance comparison with java.util.regex

Recently I found the time to revive the Java package for deterministic finite automata (DFA), that I wrote many years ago at the EBI: Monq.jfa.

The software dates from times when Java was version 1.4 and generics where not yet available, but I noticed that it is quite complete with regard to functionality, and the test coverage shows that most of it is exercised in tests.

My biggest surprise though came from a performance comparison with java.util.regex. While java.util.regex uses "only" nondeterministic finite automata (NFA) and should therefore naturally be slower than a DFA implementation, I expected that implementation tricks and algorithmic developments in the last 10 years had improved its speed such that my DFA implementation provides no real gain anymore. But, as is often case: it depends.

I downloaded Wikicorpus 1.0, and combined 10 of the files into one file of around 210 MB with 35 million words, according to wc -w. The task was to count the appearance of a number of words. The gist of the implementation with java.util.regex is as follows:

Matcher matcher = Pattern.compile("word1|word2|... ").matcher(...);
while (/*input available*/) {
  if (matcher.find(start)) {
    Counter cnt = result.get(matcher.group());
  /* advance start */

The class Counter is merely a wrapper around an int with the increment() method. For brevity I leave out the details of buffering and looping over the input which is read in chunks.

For monq.jfa the central code looks like

  CounterAction cntAction = new CounterAction();
  Nfa nfa = new Nfa().or("word1").or("word2")...;
  Dfa dfa = nfa.compile(...);
  new DfaRun(dfa).setIn(...).filter();

The CounterAction is a callback which is called inside the filter() method for each matche found in order to count it.

I tested with an increasing number of randomly picked words, where the was one of them with a total count of 2.2 million times and the most frequent. The table below shows running times with an increasing number of words.

(all times in seconds)
no. words 3 4 11 17 26 35
$\Delta t$ regex 9 12 28 42 68 82
$\Delta t$ monq 40 47 49 54 55 56

When I started the measurements with three words, I was disappointed to see that all the lines of code seem to be useles: java.util.regex is 4 times faster. But then I remembered why monq.jfa was implemented in the first place: to filter text for whole dictionaries of strings or even regular expressions. Therefore I started adding words and, hey, the table shows the trend. As soon as your dictionary exceeds around 20 words, the DFA shows its strength.

In fact, starting from 17 words and onwards, the DFA implementation exhibits nearly the theoretical limit behavior, whereby the running time depends on the input length only, not on the complexity of the regular expression. Given that at the EBI we were using dictionaries with several thousand words, it seems monq.jfa was just the right thing to use. ☺

Linux Mint with Cinnamon

My old Laptop, a Lenovo T500, served me well for many years now. And it could have served me further, if I had not bought an Android 10" tab 2 years ago. Uuuuhu, how can this be related?

Well, the tab was intended for the casual surfing on the web and sometimes to waste some time with a small game. Yet, when surfing the web, I like to give feedback, and not just by clicking a button with a thumb on. Rather I tend to write, and write lot. But this is a complete pain with the on-screen keyboard on a pad. And not only the writing. I came to he conclusion that the general idea of touching with your fingers on the screen you want to read is a silly idea except for the most constraint situations.

So I decided to buy one of these 12.5" laptops, an Asuspro BU201. While it is of course larger than the tab, it is still light and small enough to carry through the house and use on the couch, if necessary --- in particular so compared to the T500 monster brick.

I got it from ixsoft.de with Linux Mint pre-installed with the Cinnamon desktop environment selected. Everthing worked just as it should so far. Compared to Xfce, Cinnamon looks a bit nicer, more sleek, more modern, but keeps all the benefits described over there as compared to Ubunutu Unity or Gnome-3. Fully configurable, for example to ludicrous settings like having F12 close windows and a double click on the title bar move the window to the background. — Very nice.

A mechanistic explanation of Time

$ \def\Vec#1{\mathbf{#1}} \def\vt#1{\Vec{v}_{#1}(t)} \def\v#1{\Vec{v}_{#1}} \def\av{\bar{\Vec{v}}} $

If you search the Internet for an explanation of what time is, there are a lot of sites with a lot of words basically saying that they cannot say anything about time. Here I have a different approach in that I ask you to compare two simple formulas and let you draw your own conclusions.

The speed of light

Given an observer whose local time is $t$ and an observed object passing by with a velocity of $\Vec{v}(t)\in\mathbb{R}^3$, Special Relativity tells us that for the proper time $\tau$ of the object the following holds: \begin{equation}\label{eq:srt} c^2 = |\Vec{v}(t)|^2 + \left(\frac{c\,d\tau(t)}{dt} \right)^2 \end{equation} where $c$ is the speed of light and $|\cdot|$ denotes the absolute value of a vector.

The term $d\tau/dt$ could be called the speed of aging of the object with respect to the observer. If the object is at rest with respect to the observer, i.e. $|\Vec{v}(t)|=0$, then $d\tau/dt = 1$, meaning the observer and the object age with the same speed.

The other extreme case is where the relative velocity approaches the speed of light $c$ and $d\tau/dt\to 0$ meaning that with respect to the observer, the object is not aging anymore.

Average velocity of an ensemble of points

The second formula describes the average velocity of an ensemble of $n$ points. For each point particle $0\leq i<n$, its velocity shall be $\vt{i}$. Further, all absolute values of the velocities shall be identical, namely $|\vt{i}|=c$. The average velocity of the ensemble is then \begin{equation} \av(t) = \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=0}^{n-1} \vt{i} . \end{equation} For brevity we leave out the dependence on $t$ for now as we compute the difference $c^2-\av^2$. \begin{align} c^2-\av^2 &= c^2 - \frac{1}{n^2} \left(\sum_{i=0}^{n-1} \v{i}\right)^2 \\ &= c^2 - \frac{1}{n^2} \sum_{i,j=0}^{n-1} \v{i}\v{j} \\ \end{align} The last sum is symmetric in $i$ and $j$ and therefore contains each pair $\v{i}\v{j}$ twice, except where $i=j$. The latter, quadratic terms are extracted from the sum to arrive at: \begin{align} c^2-\av^2&= \underbrace{c^2 - \frac{1}{n^2}\sum_{i=0}^{n-1} \v{i}^2}_{(A)} - \frac{1}{n^2}\sum_{i<j} 2\v{i}\v{j} \end{align} Since $\v{i}^2=|\v{i}|^2=c^2$, the terms denoted as $(A)$ in the formula can be written as \begin{align} (A)&= c^2 -1/n^2\cdot n c^2 \\ &= c^2(1-1/n) \\ &= \frac{n-1}{n}c^2 \\ &= \frac{1}{2} n (n-1) \frac{2c^2}{n^2} \end{align} The term $1/2 n(n-1)= 1/2 (n^2-n)$ is the number of elements in the lower right half of a square matrix without the diagonal elements and is therefore the same as $\sum_{i<j} 1$, which we multiply by $\frac{2c^2}{n^2}$ and plug it into $(A)$ to get \begin{align} c^2 -\av^2 &= \sum_{i<j}\frac{2c^2}{n^2} - \frac{1}{n^2}\sum_{i<j} 2\v{i}\v{j}\\ &= \frac{1}{n^2} \sum_{i<j} c^2-2\v{i}\v{j}+c^2 \\ \scriptsize \text{(since $c^2=\v{i}^2$)}\qquad &= \frac{1}{n^2} \sum_{i<j} (\v{i}-\v{j})^2 . \label{eq:final} \end{align} What does this last equation mean? Remember, we are talking about an ensemble of $n$ point particles all moving at the speed of light. Lets envisage the particles trapped in a box with $n$ sufficiently large and their movements sufficiently random, then the velocity of the box, $\Vec{v}_B$ is a close approximation to $\av$, the average over the particle velocities.

Putting it together

Suppose the box is the observed object we talked about in the first section. Then, by comparing equation \eqref{eq:srt} with the last equation \eqref{eq:final}, we get \begin{equation} \left(\frac{c\,d\tau(t)}{dt} \right)^2 = c^2- |\Vec{v}_B|^2 \approx c^2 - \av^2 = \frac{1}{n^2} \sum_{i<j} (\v{i}-\v{j})^2 \end{equation}

  1. On the far left we have the term which describes the flow of time in the box with respect to the observer.
  2. On the far right we have a purely mechanical term, the average delta velocities of the point particles in the box.

Does this make sense?

Here comes the part that I have to leave to the reader, except that I throw in my opinion anyway: it does make a lot of sense to me. Consider the box moving faster and faster, until it reaches the speed of light. What happens to the point particles in the box? Since they move also at the speed of light along with the whole box, the delta velocities $\v{i}-\v{j}$ have to converge to zero. Consequently the relative positions of the points inside the box become constant: the content of the box is kind of frozen, nothing changes anymore. This is the situation where also $c\,d\tau/dt=0$, meaning that proper time comes to a halt.

My conclusion is that (proper) time is nothing but the integrated average of change happening in a closed system. For a (closed) system of point particles, change is simply the delta velocity between points.

Open questions

Of course there are many. My priority one question is whether a similar derivation is possible for a system "filled" with a changing field, such that $d\tau/dt$ turns out to be equal to some measure of change of the field.


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Hello and welcome to Monday's edition of Celebrity Wrap Up.
That dress is exquisite.
Ross looks tired.
Talk about swagger. *swoon*
Her strap doesn't look all that strong. It could be a disaster if someone snipped it on accident.
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You loved the book, now see the Broadway musical.

You loved the book, now see the Broadway musical.

Tickets for John Caird and Paul Gordon's musical adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre go on sale by phone July 10, four months before the Nov. 7 first preview at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.

Tony Award-winning lighting designers Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer (Ragtime, Cabaret, Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk) have joined the design team of John Napier (set) and Andreane Neofitou (costumes), who had previously contributed to the hit tryout staging at the La Jolla Playhouse in 1999.

Sound designers are Tom Clark and Mark Menard. Steve Tyler is music director, Larry Hochman is orchestrator. James Barbour, Marla Schaffel and Mary Stout played Rochester, Jane and Mrs. Fairfax, respectively, in La Jolla, and will star on Broadway. Caird will be on hand for auditions in New York in late July.

The 2000 Broadway opening for the show about a 19th-century heroine orphan trying to find her place in the world will be Dec. 3. The show's sprawling set (by Cats designer Napier) needs 32 feet of wing space, which the Atkinson has. The show has 36 changes in scenery, including the "burning down" of Thornfield Hall. *

Jane Eyre is drawn from Bronte's 1847 novel of a plain woman falling in love with the mysterious, secretive Rochester in provincial England.

The music and lyrics are by Paul Gordon, with additional lyrics by Caird, who serves as librettist and co-director (with Scott Schwartz).

Tryout previews began July 13, 1999, at the La Jolla Playhouse in coastal La Jolla, CA, near San Diego. It closed Sept. 5.

The Broadway producers of Jane Eyre are lead producer Annette Niemtzow (The Kentucky Cycle), producers Janet Robinson, Pam Koslow (Jelly's Last Jam) and Margaret McFeeley Golden, and associate producers Jennifer Manocherian and Carolyn Kim McCarthy.

Composer-lyricist Gordon's work has been sung by Bette Midler, Amy Grant, Smokey Robinson, Patti LaBelle and more. He wrote the chart topping songs, "Next Time I Fall" and "Friends and Lovers." Caird might be best known for staging Nicholas Nickleby and co-directing and co adapting Les Miserables. His recent London staging of Candide was hailed a fresh adaptation of Leonard Bernstein's problematic classic.

The La Jolla cast -- expected to be roughly the same for Broadway, depending on availability -- was led by James Barbour (Carousel, Beauty and the Beast) as Rochester, Marla Schaffel (a onetime Fantine from Les Miserables) as Jane, Mary Stout as Mrs. Fairfax, and Elizabeth DeGrazia as Blanche.

In its long development, Jane Eyre had test runs in Wichita, KS, and Toronto, Ontario, and has been significantly revised and refined. Broadway tickets range $50-$86. Call (212) 307-4100. The box office opens Oct. 2.

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Fran Drescher is Happily Divorced

Tomorrow night Fran Drescher makes her triumphant return to TV. Her new series, Happily Divorced, based on her own true life events — when her husband came out after year of marriage — premieres on TVLand on June 15. On the show, like in life, after 18 years of marriage Los Angeles florist Fran (Dreshcer) discovers her husband, played by John Michael Higgins, is gay. Fran tries to adjust to the shock, move on with her life and start dating again, all while still living under the same roof as her ex. The legendary Rita Morena plays Fran's mom, Robert Walden is her dad and Tichina Arnold takes on the best friend role.

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The River Tagus, Lisbon, Portugal.

The River Tagus, Lisbon, Portugal.
The River Tagus, Lisbon, Portugal.
© National Maritime Museum, London
Repro ID: H5093
Description: This view of the North bank of the River Tagus at Belem. At the centre is the Monument of the Discoveries, which is designed to resemble the prow of a Caravel. It was built on the 500th anniversary of the death of Prince Henry the Navigator. Beyond is the 25 de Abril Bridge connecting Lisbon to the Setubal Peninsula and one of the longest suspension bridges in Europe.
Creator: Clifford J Pereira
Date: 1982-03
Credit line: Clifford J Pereira
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