![]() ![]() If President Trump suggested a new course of action, how sure can we be that CNN or the New York Times wouldn’t dismiss it out of hand or that Fox News would subject it to proper scrutiny? Meanwhile Facebook has unilaterally anointed the WHO the Oracle of Healthy, despite its refusal to acknowledge Taiwan and many questions about its effectiveness in mitigating the catastrophe the world is now having to endure.Īs for ‘trusted’ sources, how much of the mainstream media can really be trusted? Very few publications don’t have some kind of bias, with the US especially egregious in that respect. Until recently very few people expected Twitter to be expert on the therapeutic qualities of hydroxychloroquine, yet now we do. ![]() The censorship decisions ultimately have to be made by humans and will therefore always be flawed. ![]() ![]() This highlights the problem with this latest attempt at censorship, one shared with all others. However, as Axios points out, Twitter is inconsistent in its implementation of this new rule, having recently permitted a tweet of clear misinformation from tech entrepreneur Elon Musk to stay up. Twitter apparently doesn’t like people bigging the drug up too much on its platform, even going so far as to take down posts from President Trump’s Lawyer, Rudy Giuliani and the President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, for extolling its virtues. Speaking of Twitter, it seems to be taking a strong position on the matter of hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug that also seems to have at least some positive medical effect on COVID-19. If the stats it’s sharing are lies, what’s the point? Do we need a new global public health body willing to speak the truth? /7X8rwIsQyx If bows to Beijing & won’t call out cover up & disinformation costing k’s of lives, it’s failing to help others prepare. Until recently not many people would have contested claim that the WHO is the ultimate global authority on such matters – the clue is in the name, right? – but the tendency of its senior leadership to overtly kowtow to China, as in the clip below, is undermining trust in it. So Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are now all spamming their users with top tips from the WHO, in many cases whether they like it or not. The most untainted source of COVID-19 information, according to Clegg, is the World Health Organization. Last week Nick Clegg, Facebook’s VP of Global Affairs and Communications wrote about what the company is doing to ensure purity of information across all its platforms. This initiative underlines the role of public service media in tackling misinformation head-on and delivering accurate content that audiences can safely rely on.”įacebook, Twitter and YouTube are all members of the TNI too and on top of this, they seem to be constantly rolling out initiatives of their own. “Yet there is a tide of misinformation and bad information, driven mainly through online social platforms, which is threatening to undermine public trust and cause further anxiety for people. “During emergencies of this magnitude, the need for trusted, factual, evidence-based reporting is more crucial than ever,” said Noel Curran, Director-General of the European Broadcasting Union, which calls itself ‘the world’s leading alliance of public service media’ and is a member of the TNI. Surely that’s for other people to decide. Most things are potentially harmful, surely, and there’s something distinctly sinister about an organisation designating itself ‘trusted’. Meanwhile an initiative started by the BBC, among others, called the Trusted News Initiative, has announced plans to ‘tackle potentially harmful coronavirus disinformation’. This is taking the form of ‘a rapid response unit within the Cabinet Office is working with social media firms to remove fake news and harmful content.’ As ever ‘harmful’ is undefined, but the government seems worried that people could die as a result of being misinformed. The BBC reported today that the UK government is cracking down on misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic. Every day new initiatives are being announced to ensure people have the correct information on the COVID-19 pandemic, but who watches the watchers? ![]()
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![]() A Blood gang member in Springville, Utah may be very active in the gangster lifestyle, yet will have no connection to Blood gangs in the West or East Coast. Although Blood gangs share the same name, there is no formal leadership structure that controls all Blood gangs. On the West Coast members are more likely to use a bandana for identification, while some Blood sets on the East Coast will use a colored beaded necklace. Although the United Blood Nation (UBN) was born in the prison system, as members were paroled to the streets, they formed street gangs on the East Coast under the same name, while emulating the Los Angeles Blood lifestyle.Īlthough the majority of Blood gangs identify with the color red, members may not always wear gang identifiers when engaging in criminal activity. Born in the Rikers Island New York jail, African American inmates created the group as a way to protect themselves from the Latin Kings, which was the most prevalent group in the jail system at that time. In 1993, a group on the East Coast created a gang known as the United Blood Nation. Although many of these groups were nothing more than childish groups mimicking dress and slang they saw in a movie, some soon became involved in violent activity and drug sales comparable to gang activity committed by original Blood gang members in California. It was after this movie that many teens with no connection to the Los Angeles based gang began creating their own Blood gangs. It has been rumored that some movie theaters actually promoted the movie by offering a bandana to movie attendees. The movie Colors, staring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall was released which focused on the gang problem in Los Angeles. ![]() It was during the late 1980s that the Bloods became a household name. To minimize attention from law enforcement, many Blood gang members abandon wearing obvious identifiers of gang affiliation so they could continue illegal activity with little fear of apprehension. Some Blood members moved to several large cities throughout the West Coast to expand their drug market. Gang territories became more important as the many Blood and Crip sets fought over drug sales locations. Crack or more properly called rock cocaine was cheaper and much more addictive than the powder form of the drug. It was during this time crack hit Los Angeles. ![]() Conflict with the Crips continued and the Bloods found themselves heavily outnumbered.īetween 1982 – 1984 the violence between the two groups skyrocketed. During the next 10-years the Bloods continued to operate and grow in a fragmented manner. ![]() They lead the revolt against the Crips and were instrumental in creating the Bloods gang in 1972. The most well known gang within this group was the Piru Street Boys. It was during this time of conflict that several gangs joined forces to combat the growing Crip threat. “Ash to ash, dust to dust, bloods I trust Īs the Crips grew in South Central Los Angeles in the early 1970s they began targeting other gangs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Again, in some levels, they're necessary evils as whilst you can't cut their tongue, you can use them to move the candy around, whilst in others, their immovable tongues cause problems that you need to puzzle your way around.Įach level has a fairly prescriptive way of being completed. Lick - as the name suggests, the main characteristics of a Lick is its tongue, acting as a permanent rope.In some cases, their reproductive speed is necessary to fill gaps, whilst in others they can block easy paths if you're not quick enough. ělue - these square creatures rapidly reproduce, acting as both a help and a hindrance to players in different levels.Toss - this creature with a spring for a head is the best addition to the game, allowing you to bounce candy from rope to rope, as well as smaller characters later in the game. ![]() ěoo - initially these are designed to distract players, but as you become more familiar with them, you'll find that they have a hunger for nearby candy, spoiling your level if you get too close.Rotos - these are new flying creatures who can be used to carry candy, as well as picking up other creatures, even those much bigger than themselves.The main difference in Cut the Rope 2 is the introduction of new characters as you progress throug the game: Miss, and it's game over and time to start again. If it ends up near the end of another rope, it makes a connection, allowing you to carry on with the level. By swiping your finger across the rope, you cut it in half and the unique physics engine sends the candy across the screen in accordance with the movement of the rope when you cut it. You are still trying to feed one of the main characters a piece of candy, which starts each level attached to a piece of rope. It's a typical level based puzzle game where you need to complete the objectives in each level to be allowed to progress to the next.įans of Cut the Rope 2 will be pleased to see that the main parts of the original gameplay have been maintained. Finger Swiping Puzzle With A Physics Twist.Ĭut the Rope 2 follows up on the incredible success of the first version which received almost 500 million downloads and became one of the free games pre-installed on Windows tablets. ![]() ![]() ![]() I also have a failrly good knowledge of the soldaten songs "I Once Had Some Jam"! Our current Number 1, Jack! I am sure that it was effectively unknown, even as the original poem, until then. Oh and by the way, Lili Marlene did not really get going until it was recorded in the late 1930s. If you want to hear how some of these songs sounded, try an internet search with key words Soldatenlieder Erster Weltkrieg That will throw up plenty of suggestions. ![]() However, I have never come across the full lyrics and, unfortunately, most German writing on the subject seems to concentrate on material specially written and composed for use by or about soldiers, rather than the home made type. Ich hatt' einen Kamaraden (Uhland's famous 1826 farewell to a fallen fellow soldier) was transmogrified by hungry soldiers into Ich hatt' mal Marmelade. As far as parodies, equivalent to, say, 'When this lousy war is over.' are concerned, I know of only one for certain. For example, in a personal account of the recapture of Schwaben Redoubt at Thiepval on, the then Hauptmann Wurmb states specifically that when it went dark, both elements of his company advanced towards each other singing Die Wacht am Rhein in order to avoid shooting one another in the dark. There is also ample evidence that patriotic songs, folksongs and specific soldiers' songs were actually sung. There are plenty of pictures of regimental 'sods operas' in the histories showing men playing a wide variety of instruments - many of which were taken into the trenches. When it comes to singing, you cannot shut Germans up they love it, so I am certain that loads of songs were made up. (He did mellow in the 1920's and was a great and gentle dad.) ![]() After a couple of years as a storm trooper, and having been wounded in combat several times, he frankly was a short-tempered and violent guy, and would speak his mind, sometimes with biting wit, including to officers. My father, who was in the German Army in WW I, had a very sharp and rude mouth, and told me some examples of his biting wit, one of which even led to an investigation, but unfortunately I have good reason not to be specific about them. There is a song called "Ich hat ein Kamerad" that is very sad and was sung at the funerals of soldiers or veterans. Some are very romantic and even extremely sad, like one called "Three Lilies". A lot of them sound very militaristic and bombastic, but if you listen to the lyrics they often are about fields of blossoms blowing in the wind, or a young brother and sister holding hands and skipping down the road. I used to know about many German marching songs from WW II, but I don't know how prevalent they were in WW I I assume that they were, but I do not know. There were several very patriotic songs that one reads about a lot in connection with WW I and the troops singing them, like Wacht am Rhein. He said that there were many favorite songs, but these also each had saterical (or possibly rude?) variants. ![]() My father told me that when they drank in beerhalls they had singing books with wooden covers with hob-nails hammered into the covers so the book could lie open in a sea of beer on a beerhall table and not have the pages damaged. There still are singing societies that date to this period ( Sangerbuende) but they are a mere shadow of their former size and importance. After a week of performances the volunteers who built the building tore the building down and salvaged the timber and returned the lot to the City. In my hometown of Philadelphia, PA, USA, about 1900, there was a convention of German-American singing societies they borrowed a vacant lot from the City, built a wooden performance hall for the performances, complete with elaborate Victorian decoration, that was large enought to hold 1000 performers st once and an audience of 25,000. I am not precisely an expert here I know a bit about German civilian singing at this time, and a bit about German military music, more of WW II than WW I.Ĭhoral singing was a really big thing in German civilian culture of the time of WW I, so I would think that that extended to the military. Sorry that your questions have not sparked an answer. ![]() ![]()
![]() Instead, it will run within Apple’s very own web browser for iOS, named Safari. However, unlike Android where it can be downloaded from Play Store, it would not be available on Apple’s App Store. However, it seems like Fortnite might be returning to iOS devices after all, via GeForce Now.Īccording to a BBC report, GeForce Now will possibly be made available for iOS devices soon this year. Some users also reported that if they alt-tab out of the game and then alt-tab back into the game, the mouse cursor will work again while in the GeForce Experience In-Game Overlay. In the meantime, gamers may use the keyboard to navigate around the GeForce Experience In-Game Overlay. ![]() While Fortnite is playable again on Android devices via a third party apk file downloaded directly from Epic Games’ website, the same cannot be said incase of iOS devices. Solution: We are working to resolve this issue. GeForce Now features an ever-expanding library of games, including Fortnite. Log out of that account, then log back into the account you want to play the games on. GeForce Now, Nvidia’s very own cloud gaming platform, officially exited beta in February 2020. Image via Epic Games How Fortnite can return to iOS PC, macOS and Chromebook users can enable the new account linking features from a new tile on the My Library row in-app. We anticipate an expansion of these features to more GeForce NOW games in the future. Fortnite was soon banned from Play Store too following the lawsuit. Both the preloading and account linking features are currently enabled for Fortnite’s PC build on GeForce NOW. ( Learn more about device compatibility.). Soon after, Epic Games filed a lawsuit on both Apple and Google citing their monopolistic approach with regards to their respective digital stores. With NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW service, you can play Fortnite via cloud streaming on Windows PC, macOS, iOS Safari, Android phones and tablets, Android TV, NVIDIA SHIELD TV, 2022 Samsung TVs, and select LG TV models. This led Apple to ban the game from its App Store. ![]() ![]() ![]() Step 4: Now you can see the code of that template, now you can click on execute icon and script will start running, based on number of records it will take time to finish execution. In many web scraping projects I found this template code very handy for cleaning data and making life easy. Templates are stored at following path so you can create your own template with customized code. Stay connected as I am going to post more code templates that will make your web scraping life easy and manipulate data on fly.March, 2021 - LEAN IN DESIGN-BUILD SERIES '''Strip HTML will remove all html tags of a column in data table.ĬolNew = ''Ĭleantext = re.sub(cleanr,'', row) Below is the code of template for stripping html: I have created one template which I use to remove HTML code that comes while scraping badly organized HTML pages. Using Data Analytics to Drive Value and Improvementīy Betty Lynn Senes, Project Director, Sundt ConstructionĪs an industry, we need to improve. We need to provide better value for our clients. We do not hit schedule or budget targets as reliably as we think. A study from FMI and Autodesk, “Trust Matters: The High Cost of Low Trust” recently reported that “In the US alone, according to FMI, the cost of missed schedules is estimated to be $20 billion per year, excluding single-family construction projects.” Another study, “The Business Case for Lean”, from LCI/Dodge/McGraw Hill", indicates that 61% of “Typical Projects” complete behind schedule and 49% of “Typical Projects” complete over budget. Poor productivity, inefficient communication, or unplanned events or obstacles are just a few reasons for this. Embracing Lean philosophy and practices are shown to make a substantial difference, in comparison. The authors of “Business Case for Lean” article found that only 21% of projects with intense Lean practices completed behind schedule, and only 17% over budget. The Deming Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle is the model used in Lean circles to talk about continual improvement. Expressed a different way, the cycle means: “plan, perform, monitor, and improve”. When we “check” after acting, or “monitor” after “performing,” we are using the past to predict and potentially modify events of the future. We are increasingly able to track project metrics. With the exponential growth of technology, use of more apps, and the advent of “big data”, data analytics is becoming more accessible and more important than ever. #FMINER MATCH PORTION OF HTML TAG CODE#. ![]() ![]() So when fighting with non-undead mobs, sharpness is way better! Do Sharpness and Smite stack? But that’s not the case! Smite only increases damage dealt to undead mobs, while Sharpness increases the overall melee damage. At first, Smite may outperform Sharpness. Smite adds 2.5 damage per level and Sharpness only adds 1.25 damage per level. Frequently Asked Questions What’s better Smite or Sharpness? Since Smite belongs to the damage category enchantment, you can add smite with other damage enchantments like sharpness, cleaving, or bane of arthropods. Here’s the list of the under mobs in Minecraft: zombies, zombie villagers, baby zombies, zombie horses, husks, strays, drowned, skeletons, wither skeletons, skeleton horses, withers, zombified piglins, phantoms, and zoglins. This means you can one-shot a normal zombie with a diamond sword or a stone axe with Smite V. ![]() And the maximum level of Smite you can achieve in survival mode is Smite V.Įach level of Smite will add 2.5 damage to your weapon, and up to 12.5 damage (or 6.25 heart) at the max level. You can apply Smite to a sword or axe in Minecraft. The Smite enchantment enables you to deal more damage to undead mobs in Minecraft. Smite is one of the oldest enchantments in Minecraft that was added in Minecraft 1.0. Today, we are going to go through a special weapon enchantment to see what Smite does in Minecraft! What is Smite and what does it do in Minecraft What is Smite and what does it do in Minecraftĭid you know that the Minecraft world contains a large number of undead creatures roaming around in the night? And did you find it illogical to use a sword or axe to slice through the skeleton’s bones, or to pierce the zombie’s flesh and they actually die? Normally, you will need to use any heavy weapon to deal smite damage to them. ![]() ![]() DirectCompute is part of the Microsoft DirectX collection of APIs. Be advised that DirectX 11 and the latest display drivers are required to run this benchmark.ĭirectCompute is an application programming interface that takes advantage of the massively parallel processing power of a modern graphics processing unit to accelerate PC application performance in Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows 7. DirectCompute is an application programming interface (API) that takes advantage of the massively parallel processing power of a modern graphics processing unit (GPU) to accelerate PC application performance. This tool allows you to benchmark DirectX 11 latest general-purpose computing feature by calculating tons of FFT-like data and some memory transfers. " A forum member by the name of Pat has recently released a new benchmark tool for DirectCompute. There one post tucked away in the backpage news section and there's a forum about it here.hope it's OK to link to it!Īlthough it doesn't sound like much people are reporting increased performance in Windows 7 and more importantly.getting more FPS in games!! Note To Spammers: We do not allow unsolicited advertising! Spam is usually reported & deleted within minutes of it being posted, so don't waste your time (or ours)!Ĭan't find much on here about this, so I thought I'd post it. Registration is fast, simple, and absolutely free! To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.Īfter you have registered and read the forum rules, you can check out the FAQ for more information on using the forum. ![]() By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload your own pictures, and access many other special features. Before you register, please read the forum rules. You need to register before you can post: click the register link to proceed. You are currently viewing our boards as a "guest" which gives you limited access to view most discussions. There are lots of discussions about new processors, graphics cards, cooling products, power supplies, cases, and so much more! The EXTREME Overclocking Forums are a place for people to learn how to overclock and tweak their PC's components like the CPU, memory (RAM), or video card in order to gain the maximum performance out of their system. Keeping this in mind, we can expect the RTX 4090 vs RTX 3090 Ti battle to be a landslide win for the Lovelace board.Welcome Guest Visitor! Please Register, It's Free and Fun To Participate! Unfortunately, we don’t have definite gaming performance data, but we do know that the board is up to 2.4x faster in Cyberpunk 2077 with DLSS 3 Frame Generation at 4K compared to the RTX 3090 Ti with DLSS 2 Performance mode. To sum it all up, the RTX 4090 is looking like a solid performer compared to the Ampere flagship. Similar to the CUDA result, the Lovelace board is 59% faster than the RTX 3090 Ti (229,738 points). ![]() Moving on to the OpenCL Geekbench 5 benchmark, the RTX 4090 produced a score of 366,286. While not quite the 2x that Nvidia promised, the result is still spectacular. As a comparison, the RTX 3090 Ti clocks in at 260,346 points, making the Lovelace flagship almost 67% faster than the Ampere powerhouse. ![]() In Geekbench 5’s CUDA benchmark, the RTX 4090 scored an insane 433,619 points. Finally, the GPU ran at a maximum frequency of 2.61 GHz, prompting us to assume that it was overclocked. The RTX 4090 in question visited Geekbench inside a system configured with a Ryzen 9 7950X, an Asus ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO motherboard, and 32 GB of DDR5 RAM running at 2998 MHz. The information comes to us courtesy of Benchleaks. That said, thanks to recent Geekbench entries for the RTX 4090, we now have an idea about the board’s performance at least in synthetic benchmarks. Since the card isn't publicly available yet and Nvidia has yet to lift the review embargo, we can’t say for certain whether Team Green’s claims hold up. Nvidia claimed at the Lovelace reveal event that the GPU performs 2 to 4 times better than the RTX 3090 Ti. 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