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Collaborative R&D between academia and industry has been a primary driver for the creation of innovative technologies for many years. Challenges associated with bridging cultural and communication divide between academia and the industry, however, has remained a consistent impediment in fostering such collaborations.\nRecognizing the value and relevance of such collaboration, particularly in recent times, considerable effort is currently being made by academic institutions to engage in partnership development with the industry. This session will discuss some of the major initiatives undertaken by Universities to reinvigorate its research culture with an aim to promote greater long-term relationships with industrial partners. |
9 out of 10 based on 932 ratings. 3,873 user reviews.\nNews Report – An example Car thief caught trapped in target vehicle Jim Day, Staff Reporter Wed Feb 25, 2009 Day 2: Writing a News Report Rough Notes Important Discovery Made By Local Student Task: Write a news report based on the headline and picture below.\nThere are times when a teacher gives a theme or topic, but expects students to come up with a specific focus on their own. For example, he may assign a report on great inventors of the 1800s, but not on a specific historical figure.\nschoolsschools. This sample news report template will prove to be of great help for a new reporter planning to write a news report. It gives a sample article on the first page, and a news report chart on the next page that has to be filled in by the reporter.\nAlthough a news story can be creative and entertaining, too. Check out the examples below. It is important to remember that both news and features demand the same level of research and reporting. Read examples of news and feature articles from the Scholastic Kids Press Corps. Read them all, then write your own articles modeled after them. |
A manager/supervisor has a unique positon to utilize policies, programs, resources and best practices to establish positive culture and behavior.\nIn a large organization such as UC Davis, managers and supervisors have the flexibility to find and utilize vast available resources, coupled with their own discretion and management style, to create an environment with systems supporting employee well-being.\nA manager/supervisor is primarily responsible for the extent to which any employee on their team either engages or does not engage with wellness offerings and worklife programming. Every manager/supervisor has the opportunity to either act as a cultivator or as a gatekeeper.\nHealth and Well-being programming can often be spread through several units on the typical University of California Campus. A google or campus search can be the best resource for finding exactly what you need.\nPosters and Infographics for physical workspaces (breakrooms, restrooms and printers are a great location).\nRegular meetings: Schedule a well-being topic into staff meetings. For example, during Plan your Vacation month (observed in January) sit down with a calendar and the whole team to encourage taking their earned vacation and make a staffing plan for the year to accommodate unit or department needs. Alternatively, simply schedule a free financial education series with a once-a term workshop to instill knowledge and confidence in your staff.\nPersonal check-ins with your staff: This allows you to determine if they have any specific concerns for which you can provide resources. Brush-up on listening skills.\nManager Support: an employee’s direct supervisor who can be the biggest obstacle or influence (multiplier/cultivator or gatekeeper).\nTeam/Peer Support: the people an employee directly works with every day/typically same manager.\nSocial networks: formal and informal networks that provide support for well-being improvement.\nPhysical Work Environment: the characteristics that make up an employee’s physical space.\nStrategic alignment: direct connect between business strategy, people strategy and wellbeing initiatives. This can easily be tied to providing “meaning” in work for employees.\nLeadership support: primary messengers of business strategy and the importance of employee well-being.\nWell-being tools and programs: an organization’s well-being activities, tools, policies, guidelines, campaigns, platforms and programs.\nCulture: the underlying norms, values and beliefs of an organization that drive employee behavior.\nUniversity of California and the individual campus locations already have multiple policies and programming (strategic alignment) to encourage and support well-being. Tap into these.\nThe data shows that employees are more likely to feel higher levels of well-being when they feel higher levels of organizational support. 72% of employees with high well-being say they also have high organizational support. (Limeade/QuantumWorkplace 2015) The opposite is true, too — employees are more likely to feel lower levels of well-being when they perceive lower organizational support.\nMany companies and organizations institute wellness programs that focus on encouraging employees to eat better or exercise more. Meanwhile, they overlook the atmosphere of the workplace setting itself. We need to get serious about creating a workplace where people feel valued, trusted, and respected, where they are engaged in their work and can get home in time for family dinner.\nA strong manager relationship leads to more productive, efficient and loyal employees who create less conflict.\nEmployees supervised by a highly engaged manager are 59% more likely to be engaged.\nWhen employees feel their employer cares about their well-being, they’re 38% more likely to be engaged.\n“Culture is the collective values, norms and beliefs of the organization — also known as “how things are done around here.” It’s the backdrop for everything that happens at your company and the day-to-day experience. Organization and Unit Culture should be aligned with business strategy.\nA culture’s characteristics are not overt or concrete, but they’re nonetheless powerful because they shape employee behavior — telling people what to pay attention to, what things mean, how to react emotionally and how to behave. Culture is ubiquitous throughout the organization, even though it may present itself differently from one department to the next. Whether a culture is “good” or “bad” is relative, depending on the behavior and results it drives. Ideally, the culture should foster an environment that produces or enhances employee engagement.\nThe 4-Drive Theory of Employee Motivation states that there are four main drives that motivate employees. Leaders can begin to influence and start to fulfill each of these drives by using some of the systems and processes they already have in place. Changes and enhancements to those systems can help the organization become one in which employees can satisfy their drives and become highly motivated.\nDrive A: Acquire and Achieve: This drive encompasses extrinsic elements that are both physical (i.e., money, things) and emotional (i.e., recognition). This drive is satisfied primarily through an organization’s total reward system but can be enhanced through direct manager/supervisor recognition efforts.\nDrive B: Bond and Belong: (social creatures, social component of work) This drive is about more than just one-on-one relationships, it includes our drive to belong to things such as a team or clique. This drive is heavily dependent on Organizational Culture and can be enhanced by managers/supervisors through the promotion of team-building exercises and encouragement of pro-social work environments.\nDrive C: Create and Challenge: This drive is not just about learning but about mastering challenges. We are innately driven to tackle challenges that are placed in front of us. This drive is dependent upon job and organizational structure as well as manager/supervisor skills and encouragement of Professional Development to optimize opportunities to learn and grow. Managers/supervisors should aim to place staff in the sweet spot between difficulty and skill (FLOW) in order to reduce anxiety/stress and maintain interest in tasks.\nDrive D: Define and Defend: We defend those institutions and beliefs that we hold dear and with which we find meaning and passion for purpose. This drive is met through an employee feeling alignment and connection to the organization. The manager/supervisor can leverage motivation finding meaning in the noble goals and mission of the University of California.\nFocus on all four drives simultaneously: Research shows that weakness on fulfilling one of the 4-Drives negatively affects how the company or leader performs on the other three.\nIndividualize Motivation: Research indicates that different demographics and personalities respond differently to the 4-drives. Identify the top motivation for each employee to customize.\nCommunicate Effectively: Great leaders create the talking points that get discussed. Explain the multiple reasons of each action.\nExperiment: Employee motivation is an on-going commitment that requires thought, experimentation and adjustment. Managers and supervisors should implement new structures and processes and see how they work, add a new twist on an old program, do something new or stop doing something always done.\nManagers and supervisors are in a unique position to help shape the work culture and inspire a commitment to health and well-being by empowering the people you work with to learn more about their health. By participating in health promoting activities and encouraging your co-workers to take small steps towards a healthier lifestyle, you can make a difference.\nFirst, being in the manager/supervisor role, you have particular well-being challenges that must be addressed as self-care issues. Modeling behaviors for the sake of “being a good role-model” is not effective. Make a conscious decision to enhance your personal well-being and the subsequent actions and results will indeed be that authentic “role-model” you strive to be.\nSecond, model behavior that encourages healthy worklife and wellness practices. This makes it easier to incorporate well-being practices into your management style for your unit. Specifically, establish the following well-being practices and follow them yourself!\nOnce you have established some well-being practices in your modeling behavior, build upon these new baselines of well-being to enhance your team with specific tools and programming. The sections on Creating Worklife Integration and Creating A Healthy Work Environment provide specific tips.\nInclude a conversation about healthy lifestyles and the wellness initiatives during a new employee’s first days of employment.\nExplain campus well-being programming and how it can be accessed.\nAnnounce your support for participating in well-being programming.\nAlign cultural touch points which are formal and informal policies and procedures such as rewards, communication and training with health and well-being.\nMonitor and celebrate success so that individual and group-level health and well-being goals are set and progress recognized.\nShare the well-being vision, including how worklife and wellness is being defined, why it is important and how employees can participate in campus well-being initiatives.\nIntroduce and endorse well-being initiatives and programs through emails or postings.\nEncourage staff to join email lists or social media of campus-units that house worklife and wellness offerings.\nProvide incidental flex-time within the workday (using lunch and break times or start/stop times) for employees to have the ability to attend campus-sponsored well-being resources.\nExplore our campus resources to see how to integrate established well-being programming into your work environment.\nEstablish a wellness ambassador for your group.\nExplore the use of Flexible Work Arrangements.\nSchedule a team “Plan your Vacation” calendaring meeting.\nPass on information about campus support groups such as the Breastfeeding Support or Adult Caregiver Support groups.\nEncourage group attendance at the myriad of well-being workshops and activities such as meditation, knitting, or lunchtime WorkLife and Wellness Workshop series.\nAcquaint yourself with our Financial Wellness resources and class listings, thereby reducing the number one stressor for Americans.\nEmployee Engagement is the emotional commitment the employee has to the organization and its goals. It is the extent to which employees are motivated to contribute to organizational success and are willing to apply discretionary effort to accomplishing tasks important to the achievement of organizational goals.\n1. Make sure they have the right tools they need to succeed.\n2. Embrace individuality and diversity...match workers with tasks they like.\n3. Foster continuous development to build skills.\n4. Listen to employees and act on feedback.\n5. Foster closer connections to colleagues...encourage socialization.\n6. Find a way to encourage meaningful work.\n7. Recognize proudly and loudly. |
Many funders require that publications are made available in open access, when these are the result of research supported by their grants.\nThe EUR has an open access policy since 2011. Every publication should be deposited in the institutional repository RePub. When you do so, you are compliant with the open access conditions of large funders like NWO and the EU.\nNWO requires that researchers make their publication immediately available in Open Access at the moment of publication. You are compliant if you publish in Gold Open Access or if you deposit your publication in RePub once it is published.\nAccording to the Horizon2020 model agreement, each beneficiary must ensure Open Access (free of charge, online access for any user) to all peer-reviewed scientific publications relating to its results. The EU accepts an embargo period of 6 months (sciences) up to 12 months (humanities and social sciences). You are compliant if you publish in Gold Open Access or if you deposit your publication in RePub.\nResearchers receiving an ERC-grant should deposit their publications in an international depository by discipline (PubMed central for life sciences, Zenodo for articles in other discplines and OAPEN for books) or an institutional repository. You are compliant if you deposit your publication in Repub and you can additionally publish in gold open access.\nWhat does the publisher allow me to do?\nWhen you are uncertain whether your publisher allows you to deposit your article or which version to deposit, you can check the conditions at Sherpa/RoMEO. |
The aim of the Journal of Advanced Laboratory Research in Biology is to provide the scientific research papers and articles on new developments in the fields of biology and to act as a platform for the exchange of information between the academicians, professionals and industrial researchers. The emphasis will be on publishing quality research papers rapidly and freely available to researchers worldwide. Journal of Advanced Laboratory Research in Biology serves an important role by encouraging, fostering and promoting developments in biology. It is an open access journal, which publishes original research papers, Review Articles, Case Reports and Short Articles in all areas of biology and at the interface of related disciplines.\nGMT+9 2019-04-23 11:16:16 Processed in 0.30080986022949 s. |
Builder's Engineer: COMPUTATION OF COLLAPSE SETTLEMENT: Foundations on Collapsible Soils.\nCOMPUTATION OF COLLAPSE SETTLEMENT: Foundations on Collapsible Soils.\n1. Insert two identical undisturbed samples into the rings of two oedometers.\n2. Keep both the specimens under a pressure of 1 kN/m2 (= 0.15 lb/in2) for a period of 24 hours.\n4. After the completion of 24 hour flooding, continue the consolidation tests for both the samples by doubling the loads. Follow the standard procedure for the consolidation test.\nas shown in Fig. 18.5 for normally consolidated soil.\nFrom e-log p plots, obtain the initial void ratios of the two samples after the first 24 hour of loading. It is a fact that the two curves do not have the same initial void ratio. The total overburden pressure p0 at the depth of the sample is obtained and plotted on the e-log p curves in Figs 18.5 and 18.6. The preconsolidation pressures pc are found from the soaked curves of Figs 18.5 and 18.6 and plotted.\nare defined in Fig. 18.6. |
The Pope comes to America.\nWhat a perfect time to reflect on the power and majesty of God’s Church, the Catholic Church. Christ Jesus built His Church upon His Rock, that Rock being Peter, the first pope. Pope Francis is the 266th Roman pope in a line that can be traced directly back to Peter.\nI read a letter in the Wall Street Journal this morning with that same old tired diatribe that pro lifers don’t care about the kid after he or she is born.\nThe Mainstream Media (MSM) states that Catholic Charities supports the Obama Mandate requiring Catholic organizations to provide abortifacients, sterilization, and contraception to their employees.\n“Any representation to the contrary is false,” Catholic Charities said.\nThe Obama Administration is attempting to divide the Catholic community.\nThe MSM is quick to report any perceived divides to support the president and his anti-religion policies.\nThey jumped the gun on this issue. Catholic Charities is not supporting the president. |
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.Nothing like getting your blue-collar icons permanentaly etched into your skin.\nImaginative: no. Funny: no. A permanent reminder to youthufl stupidity: yes.\nAll I can say is: classy!\nThis guy got free game tickets in exchange for this tattoo. I’d make fun of the guy but a lifetime of shame is punishment enough.\nOpps you shouldn’t have done it in the first place. Loser! |
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Pow-Wow Days are here again!\nIts another quintessential morning here in Los Angeles, California. Yesterday, it was hot in Hollywood - literally. A huge fire took out some of the historic buildings and sets on the Universal Studios lot, yet the show went on the same evening for the MTV Movie Awards at the Gibson Amphitheater, which is right up the hill on the same property.\nSometimes I have to pinch myself that I live here, because with all the history of the movies and television all around me, its hard to not feel like the star of my own TV show.\nAs magic as it can be here in Hollywood, I frequently get the call to travel to far and distant places to play my artistic trade. Because I am truly a Kickapoo Indian Woman, I always have my bag packed and ready to go.\nRecently, I was honored to perform my one-woman show The Red Road as part of the 16th ASSITEJ World Youth Theater Festival in Adelaide, Australia. There were participants from over fifty countries and The Red Road was the first time a Native American performer had been invited to present their work as part of the international events. The festival directors made a point to honor the Aboriginal people of Adelaide. They asked Native Voices at the Autrys Artistic Director Randy Reinholz (Choctaw), Production Manager Rose-Yvonne Colletta (Mescalero Apache/Lipan) and me to present local elders from the Kaurna People with a traditional honoring from Native America. We presented them with Pendleton Blankets and other gifts from around Indian Country and they presented us with gifts of possum fur bundles wrapped with eagle feathers.\nOne of my huge worries (aside from being the sole artistic representative of Native America!) was whether the down-home Native humor of The Red Road would translate to an international audience. To get The Red Road into shape, I worked extensively with Jean Bruce Scott, the fantastic Executive Director of Native Voices at the Autry, along with Kristof Konrad, an expert Alexander Technique movement coach. We worked on all eleven characters in the show, making sure each was distinct and on-target. The hours of rehearsal paid off as ASSITEJ Festival audiences warmly received the show. Even a group of Korean actor/dancers were compelled to enthusiastically clap along with each song in the show.\nTalk about a slam dunk. Score one for Native America!\nThe Queensland Library recently received a multi-million dollar facelift and The Red Road was the very first theater production in their new auditorium. On the day of the show, Jean Bruce Scott, Rose-Yvonne Colletta, Wacky Productions CEO Janet Miner and I visited the Aboriginal Center For The Performing Arts and enjoyed several dance performances. Afterwards, we spoke to the students about becoming professional performers and finding work in the entertainment business. Its always a pleasure to share what Ive learned with young folks! The students returned the favor and came with their families to the performance of The Red Road and laughed and applauded with gusto. It was almost as good as performing for local Native crowds in Tulsa, OK and Albuquerque, NM. Many of the Aboriginal attendees told me after the show they were surprised to realize that our communities had so much in common.\nWith this success under my belt, its now on to a summer of shows around the U.S. which brings me back to Pow-Wow Days.\nI was the host and performer at the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Festival in Okmulgee, Oklahoma on June 20 and 21st. I was honored to perform for my Moms people (shes an enrolled Creek) and excited for the opportunity to open for country legend John Anderson. There will be tons of activities for the whole family, including sports, arts and even a PRCA Rodeo.\nThe Red Road is also returning as part of the prestigious Idyllwild Native Arts Festival. The festival takes place from July 6-11th in the beautiful mountain community of Idyllwild, California near Temecula. The Red Road will be the culminating event of the festival on Friday, July 11th at 6:30 pm. All of the lectures and events are open to the public. Check out the Idyllwild Arts Festival link at the end of the article.\nThe Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas has also included me as part of the entertainment for their upcoming Kickapoo Pow-Wow Days near Horton, Kansas. Ill be performing on Saturday, July 19th. Its going to be a real treat to meet some of my northern cousins.\nWherever you find yourself this summer Pow-Wow season, stay safe and think kindly of others. If youve got an extra Pow-Wow chair, bring it with you so Ill have somewhere to sit. Its hard to fit those in the airplanes overhead compartment. AAAY! |
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Viera High's Delaney Lott, right, shares a laugh with teammate Shaine Horvath during last year's Pink Game. The Hawks will host Melbourne Central Catholic on Oct. 3 in this year's Pink Game matchup.\nIt’s the date every Viera High School volleyball player looks forward to.\nAnd this season, that date is Oct. 3.\nThat’s when the Hawks will host Melbourne Central Catholic in the 12th annual Pink Game. All proceeds from the event will go to benefit the Side-Out Foundation, a national organization that raises money for breast cancer research.\nThe action will get under way at 5:15 p.m. with the freshman game, followed by the JV matchup at 6:15 and then the varsity contest which is set to begin at 7:15.\nPlayers from both teams will wear pink uniforms and fans are encouraged to wear pink shirts to the event.\n“It is so fun,” Viera senior Shaine Horvath said. “We love having it at home. It’s always such a huge deal. We love it when a big crowd comes out.\nOnce again, this year’s matchup will feature basket giveaways and a serving contest for prizes. The gym’s concession stand also will be open.\nViera coach Sarah Wayne, who lost her aunt to breast cancer in 2013, estimated the event has raised close to $30,000 through the years. |
Goal: To provide a scholarship for a student with a disability in the field of Rehabilitation or a related area, Graduate or undergraduate. This includes study in the area of rehabilitation, human services, social work, psychology, occupational therapy, social work, counseling or related occupations.\nBe a graduate or undergraduate student in the field of rehabilitation or a related area. You may be a high school senior planning to major in the field of rehabilitation or a related area.\nComplete the Statement of Disability.\nSubmit the scholarship application to: Scholarship committee, Rehabilitation Association of Nebraska, C/O Vocational Rehabilitation Services, 301 Centennial Mall South, 6th Floor, PO Box 94987, Lincoln, NE 68509-4987. |
"ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::registerLPCDriver - failed to locate SMC driver"\nSame thing happens with 2160 and 2150.\nAm I missing something? The only thing I've changed on my boot partition was the 'boot' binary. Rolling back to 2050 solves the issue.\nTheoretically I can nail it down to a specific svn version but it's been more than a hundred of them since 2050. Were there any major changes that could have affected extension loading? My FakeSMC is located on the same partition as Chameleon (first one, hfs gpt efi) all other kexts are on the Mac OS partition (second one). I'm booting 10.8.2, the only other custom kext is VoodooHDA.\nBoot with UseKernelCache=n or place fakesmc.kext in /System/Library/Extensions.\nThanks a lot, UseKernelCache=No did the trick!\nThanks, I had the same problem. That change was a rather bold decision, IMHO. Meaning, after chameleon update people just get stuck and cannot boot anymore. Is there any technical reason? I've noticed that r2070 doesn't require 'UseKernelCache=No'.\n"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans". . |
North Korea's deputy UN ambassador warned Monday that the situation on the Korean peninsula "has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment."\nKim In Ryong told the UN General Assembly's disarmament committee that North Korea is the only country in the world that has been subjected to "such an extreme and direct nuclear threat" from the United States since the 1970s — and said the country has the right to possess nuclear weapons in self-defense.\nNorth Korea's deputy UN ambassador called his country's nuclear and missile arsenal "a precious strategic asset that cannot be reversed or bartered for anything." |
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We know that by turning everything to their good, God co-operates with all those who love him, with all those he has called according to his purpose. They are the ones he chose specially long ago and intended to become true images of his Son, so that his Son might be the eldest of many brothers. He called those he intended for this; those he called he justified, and with those he justified he shared his glory.\nJesus said to the crowds, ‘The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field which someone has found; he hides it again, goes off happy, sells everything he owns and buys the field.\n‘Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls; when he finds one of great value he goes and sells everything he owns and buys it.\n‘Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet cast into the sea that brings in a haul of all kinds. When it is full, the fishermen haul it ashore; then, sitting down, they collect the good ones in a basket and throw away those that are no use. This is how it will be at the end of time: the angels will appear and separate the wicked from the just to throw them into the blazing furnace where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.\nIt is said, that nothing is ever as straight forward as it seems, and so it is with pearls and treasures. Just recently, in Ireland, a Chinese vase went for sale. The asking price was between €800 and €1,200. Unbeknownst to the owners they had a pearl of great price on their hands but they weren’t aware of it. It was actually a very rare piece from the short-lived Qing dynasty in China and on auction day it fetched €740.000.\nAround the same time, a woman in London had been wearing a ring on her finger for some thirty years, she had bought it at a second-hand sale, for a mere £15. She was under the impression it was a fake diamond ring until one day, recently, a jeweller spotted it on her finger during a visit to his shop. He told her to get it valued. To her dismay it turned out to be a 26.27 carat diamond ring. It went on auction recently with an estimated value of around £450.000.\nWhat these examples show is how our lives are shaped by our perception, taste, packaging and priorities. When Jesus came those same traits prevented most of his contemporaries from seeing who he really was. He didn’t fit their perceptions of what the Messiah should look like. In today’s language He was packaged all wrong. He was born in the wrong place, came from the wrong address and he mixed with the wrong kind of people. As a result many people missed the pearl of great price he was offering them. The pearl was the Kingdom of heaven which is of inestimable value.\nJesus continually holds out the Kingdom of heaven to us. For many of us, as children, it was easy for us to accept it as a wonderful story. But as adults we are asked to accept the reality of it anew. Because the Kingdom of heaven constitutes all who Jesus was and stood for. The acceptance of that kingdom now involves aligning or re-aligning our values and lifestyles in accordance with Jesus’ values. That’s price for the gift and it will be different for each of us, but nevertheless challenging. But once we recognise the incredible gift we are given, which includes the fullness of life here and hereafter, the price will be seen in perspective and joyfully accepted.\nLike Solomon in the first reading we need to pray for wisdom and an understanding heart that we may recognise the Kingdom when it reveals itself to us and accept it.\nIn explaining the kingdom of God to the crowds, Jesus frequently made use of parables. It is interesting that Jesus speaks of God by relating facts from everyday life. A God whose way of acting can be described in such simple everyday terms, is not a distant God far removed from our lives and the problems we face. Jesus teaches us to look at the world and see God in everyday things. This was the first thing he wanted to inculcate in his listeners. Finding yourself in the presence of God is not very different from the experience of someone who, one fine day, discovers a great treasure. Is not God our greatest treasure?\nJesus “spoke to the crowds in parables” (13, 34) and he concluded his discourse on the kingdom of God with three short parables. The first two explain, not the appearance of the kingdom, but its hidden nature, and the irresistible attraction it has for those who discover it. The emphasis is on the reaction of the one who finds the treasure or the one who has been anxiously seeking the pearl. Jesus wants to make clear that the kingdom of God is not readily available to all, but that all can find it. It is like the treasure or the precious stone, which has to be discovered. He gives an example to help us to understand his thought: when someone knows where the treasure is, he will be ready to sell all to get it. He will give up everything he has to possess it. A radical renunciation is required – it is the price that must be paid to attain the kingdom. Anyone who is not capable of that radical renunciation is ignoring the teaching of God. If he does not feel obliged to free himself of all his possessions, it means that he has not yet found the treasure that he needs and desires. The demand that Jesus made of his disciples is still valid today. The joy of the one who loses everything is possible only if one knows how to gain the kingdom of God. God does not impose this renunciation as an end in itself, but he presupposes it as a condition. If God does not ask us to renounce anything, it is because we have not yet discovered the kingdom as our supreme good.\nThe third and last parable, the one of the dragnet, marks a major change in Jesus’ line of thought. From an exhortation to opt for God, cost what it may, once we have recognised the presence of his kingdom, he goes on to remind us of the appointment that will come, when we have to render an account of our lives. Anyone who is incapable of renouncing everything to be with God, will finish up at the end of time with nothing. If we do not opt for God, at any price, we will gain nothing, and we will not be saved from “the blazing furnace”. Postponing our decision for God and his kingdom, will not make God postpone his decision in our regard. In the meantime, there may be another opportunity. We have been warned!\nThe cleverness of the person who is lucky enough to find hidden treasure, and then sells all he has to acquire it, or the quick action of the merchant who comes across a precious pearl, is the normal reaction we would all have if, like them, we found something of great value. Which of us would not have guarded the treasure we found, and buried it again until we could come and take possession of it, even if it meant losing everything else we had? Who would not be capable of sacrificing all his goods in order to gain the pearl of life?\nIf this way of acting does not strike us as extraordinary, if we understand that it is possible to risk all we have to gain what is not yet ours, then Jesus is asking us today, as he asked the people when he spoke these parables, why do you not act the same way with God? What more do you need, to make you decide to put God before all the other goods that you possess or desire?\nThe one who discovered the treasure, or the merchant who dealt in pearls, came unexpectedly upon something they had not been looking for or hoping for, and they had not expected to become owners of such wealth. They did not want to lose time but they had to lose all their possessions. They knew that if they sold all they had, they could acquire the treasure they had found. To become owners of it they had to give up everything they had. Since they knew that what they had discovered was more precious and more valuable than all they possessed, they were able to act quickly. Their detachment was total because all they possessed was just enough to acquire the treasure they had found.\nThe kingdom of God is like hidden treasure or a precious pearl. When someone discovers it, he finds within himself the determination to sell all to acquire it. When we discover the kingdom, we discover also that the things we own, even when we put them all together, are of less value than the kingdom. Once we realize that, we will have the courage to let go of everything that gets in the way of the kingdom.\nWell then, if the kingdom gives rise to that kind of reaction in anyone who discovers it, if God calls for that kind of detachment from those who know where he is to be found, what is happening to us? Why do we continue to cling to the things we have, big and small? Why are we so afraid of losing the little we have? Why do God and his kingdom not succeed in arousing in us the reaction that is normal when one discovers a treasure or a pearl of great value? Could it be because God and his kingdom are not yet our greatest treasure and our most cherished discovery?\nIt is hard to renounce something good if the treasure we have found is not worth it. We will not risk losing what we have gained in life, if we are not convinced that what we have found is the greatest good in our lives. This explains why we find it so hard to detach ourselves from things, even though we do not want to lose God or lose the way to find him. It is precisely because God has not yet become our supreme good, the one we desire most, because his kingdom is not yet the treasure we want to discover, that we are unwilling to risk everything to possess it. We continue then to hold on to our goods, and fail to discover God as our supreme good. What we already have keeps us from having God, and leads us to value people or things, or our personal plans, as good things we do not want to lose, even for God.\nIf God does not have an irresistible attraction for us, and if his kingdom does not waken in our hearts the capacity for renunciation, then we have to say that we have not yet discovered the kingdom that it is still hidden from us. This should not surprise us too much. Like the treasure still hidden, or the pearl whose value is not appreciated, God is there waiting for us to come looking for him and hoping that we will find him and recognise him. Jesus wanted his listeners to know that the kingdom of God is not for all to see, but is hidden from the majority.\nStill, while it may be hidden wherever we are, it is not far away. Indeed it may well be like the hidden treasure or the precious stone, waiting and longing to be discovered. God gives us a clue to help us to discern his plan: he knows where he will find people who are willing to give up all and be converted. Anyone who finds the kingdom of God will be able to give up all he possesses to acquire it. Even the most radical renunciation becomes possible, if it is the price to be paid to find the kingdom. If we truly seek God, how can other things be of importance to us? If we want to stay with God, how can we refuse to give up other things, no matter how good or valuable they may be?\nAnyone who does not feel capable of giving up something, does not truly appreciate God. Nobody in his right mind would give up what he has, unless he finds something of greater value. If we cannot find the will to give up whatever in our lives is not of God, it means that we have not yet found God. We Christians run the risk of losing God if we value him less than other things we possess, and are not able to renounce everything for his sake. Anyone who does not feel obliged to free himself of all his possessions, has not yet discovered the treasure which is the kingdom.\nThe demand that Jesus made of his disciples is still relevant today. The joy of one who loses all is possible only for one who knows the joy of possessing God and his kingdom. God does not impose renunciation as an end in itself, but requires it as a prior condition, and he obliges us to value him above all things. God would be of no value if it cost nothing to discover him. We would have very little appreciation of God if he did not ask us to give up something in order to have him. If God is not worth some effort on our part, if we make no sacrifice to have him, it means that we have not yet acknowledged him as our supreme good. What we are and what we have is worth nothing, no matter how good we are and how many good things we possess, if, at the end, we remain without God today and without his kingdom in the future.\nsupport us always with your love.\nthat even now we may hold fast to what endures for ever. |
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Memphis, TN – One of 16 alleged Gangster Disciples members and associates indicted on racketeering charges in May 2016 pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy. Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant of the Western Division of Tennessee, Special Agent in Charge Michael T. Gavin of the FBI’s Memphis Division, and Acting Special Agent in Charge Jack Webb of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Memphis Field Division, made the announcement.\nTommy Earl Champion, Jr., a/k/a "Duct Tape," 29, of Jackson, Tennessee, pleaded guilty on April 2 before U.S. District Judge John T. Fowlkes Jr. to one count of conspiracy to participate in a racketeering offense, and one count of using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.\nAccording to the indictment, the Gangster Disciples is a highly organized national gang active in more than 35 states. The scope of the Gangster Disciples’ crimes is wide-ranging and consistent throughout its national operation. The gang protects its power through threats, intimidation, and violence, including murder, attempted murder, assault and obstruction of justice. The Gangster Disciples promotes its enterprise through member-only activities and provides financial and other support to members charged with or incarcerated for gang-related offenses or who are fugitives from law enforcement.\nMembers and associates of the Gangster Disciples are subject to a strict code of discipline and are routinely fined, beaten, and even murdered for failing to follow the gang’s rules. "Enforcers" within the enterprise ensure that members who violate the strict rules of the enterprise are appropriately punished.\nChampion is scheduled to be sentenced on July 6, 2018.\nThis prosecution was brought as part of the Department of Justice’s Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) program, the centerpiece of the Department of Justice’s drug supply reduction strategy. OCDETF was established in 1982 to conduct comprehensive, multilevel attacks on major drug trafficking and money laundering organizations. Today, OCDETF combines the resources and expertise of its member federal agencies in cooperation with state and local law enforcement. The principal mission of the OCDETF program is to identify, disrupt, and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking and money laundering organizations and those primarily responsible for the nation’s drug supply.\nThe FBI; ATF; the Memphis Multi-Agency Gang Unit; the Memphis Police Department; the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office; the Jackson Police Department Gang Enforcement Team; the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation; the Madison County Sheriff’s Department; the 28th Judicial District West Tennessee Drug Task Force; the Tipton County Sheriff’s Office; the 26th Judicial District Attorney General’s Office; the 25th Judicial District Attorney General’s Office; the Atascosa County District Attorney’s Office; and the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office investigated this case.\nTrial Attorney Francesca Liquori of the Criminal Division’s Organized Crime and Gang Section, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Beth Boswell of the Western District of Tennessee and Samuel Stringfellow of the Northern District of Mississippi are prosecuting the case. |
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I’ve preached the gospel of rental company Sixt on these pages before, though a recent trip home to Florida afforded me yet another opportunity to test the company’s mettle and see what sort of untraditional rental fare I would end up with. So far I’ve had just one miss in five swings with the German-based company, with the miss coming in the form of a dismal Fiat 500L in Italy. On the plus side, at least that mini-minivan was a manual – and I was in Italy, after all. Things weren’t that awful.\nUndeterred by this season’s heaviest snowfall, Speed:Sport:Life trudged over to McCormick Place from our downtown Chicago offices – AKA my apartment – to check out the assorted new metal spread across what is actually this country’s largest new car show. The layout of the place is impressive indeed, with one million square feet and no fewer than three indoor ride and drive experiences hosted by manufacturers. Amid the wide diversity of vehicles on display, a few stood out – below are the ones that left a mark, as well as the show award we feel they’re most likely to win.\nWide open vistas. Limitless blue skies. Stunning canyons carved over millennia into multi-hued layers. The southwest provides all of it, and I can’t think of a better way to traverse it than in a fast, open-topped tourer with lots of horsepower. Which is precisely why I headed straight to Alamo’s midsize SUV lane for a “Toyota RAV4 or similar”.\nUnder sunny skies, Saturday’s 22nd annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance went off without a hitch despite a schedule curtailed by one day, owing to Sunday’s expected rain showers. That still left hours of unfettered machinery-ogling on the Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island’s pristine golf course, which is more than enough time to be left with the impression that this event remains one of the true automotive bucket list items. And even though my interests generally skew toward events that allow me to slide behind the wheel rather than merely observe, Amelia is the exception to that rule.\nDespite no longer cosying up to the warm bosom of the press fleet industrial complex, I still occasionally find myself behind the wheel of cars other than my own. Such was the case last week when I brought my own car, a C7 Corvette Z51, into the dealer for some warranty work and found myself sitting in the fortified bunker – aka cabin – of a loaner 2017 Camaro. Unlike the other sixth gen that I previously wrote up on these pages, which was option-laden but also saddled with the middling 2.0T Ecotec, this one featured nary an add-on save for the 3.6L LGX “High Feature” V6…a swap that made this drab-looking coupe immeasurably better to drive.\nFriends, let me tell you about the promised land, because I’ve been there. The rental car promised land, that is. Imagine gleaming rows of current year luxury models and sports cars, from Mercedes E550s to BMW 335is to Toyota GT86s, even the occasional premium model like an M3 or 911. Impossible, short of a fly-by-night Las Vegas exotic rental outfit, right? Nay. The promised land exists, and perhaps unsurprisingly to most car enthusiasts, it’s in Germany. |
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Beginner divers will usually have problems trying to maintain a neutral buoyancy while scuba diving. It is something that needs to be practiced and involves the control of your BCD and how you breath. The scuba diver in the image above is in a state of neutral buoyancy and is just hovering above the seafloor.\nWouldn’t you just love to glide through the water effortlessly? To be in a constant state of neutral buoyancy? Well with some practice and the tips I am going to be giving you, this can be accomplished.\nBreathing and scuba diving go together like a fish and water. It is very important to be aware of your breathing. By having some breathe control you will use less air and be better able to control your buoyancy, which will make for a much better experience during the dive.\nYour breathing is actually done in four stages. Your inhalation, then inhalation pause, then exhalation, and finally your exhalation pause. This pause between breaths may be unnoticeable to you at first but with some exercises, you will become very aware of it. And being aware of it will improve your diving experience overall.\nDoing some yoga is another way to learn how to control your breathing. Some of the exercises in yoga can help you tremendously with improving your scuba diving skills as well as your free diving skills (breath holding diving).\nLet’s start with the very simple technique of just sitting quietly somewhere comfortable and listen to your breathing. Listen for the pauses in your breath, don’t try and control it just be aware of it. You can also lie on your back and place your hands on your chest and stomach and feel how you breathe. Does your chest expand first or your stomach? Become aware of how you breathe. Now try and make just your chest rise and fall and then just your stomach.\nYou can do this at home, in the car, at work, etc. Just be aware of how you are breathing. Once you have done this for about a week or so you should be very aware of how you are breathing. Now, let’s get to the next phase.\nNow instead of just listening to your breath start to control your breathing. Try and make your inhalations and exhalations the same duration in time, say like 4 seconds for each. The add your pauses in, say about 2 seconds for each pause between breaths. Repeat this process during the day. Again you can do this anywhere.\nYour third exercise involves that you minimize your pauses till they are almost no existent and increase your breaths to 6 seconds each. Breath slowly and deliberately. Inhale and then immediately exhale.\nThe last exercise involves varying the amount of air that you breathe in and out. First, take as big a breath as possible by first expanding your stomach then expanding your chest and then exhale slowly. Then try shallow breaths by taking in a little air a possible and vary your breathing between these two methods.\nBy doing these four simple exercises you will become in complete control of your breathing and this will help you tremendously with scuba diving as I am about to tell you.\nBreathing correctly while diving is very important to controlling your buoyancy as well as your air consumption. Most new divers breathe too big and not deep. When scuba diving you want to breathe deep. This is critical for buoyancy control. The deeper you inhale you will rise and the more you exhale you will sink.\nBy breathing big you will give yourself to much positive buoyancy and begin to rise and then sink again when you exhale. This is yo-yo diving and can be dangerous not to mention physically tiring and hard for your dive buddy to keep track of you.\nBy constantly trying to adjust your buoyancy because you are breathing to big takes away from having a great experience while diving not to mention you will use up your air a lot faster.\nSo the idea is to breathe deep and nice and evenly. Breathe with your stomach and let your lungs fill from the bottom. This will help with your air consumption as well as your buoyancy. Breathe regularly and evenly, concentrating on your exhales. Make sure you exhale completely and rid the body of carbon dioxide. So focus on the exhales.\nAnd NEVER hold your breath while scuba diving!!!\nThere are three aspects to controlling your buoyancy besides breathing. They are Weighting, Trim, and correct use of your BCD. By practicing and mastering these skills you will become an expert at buoyancy control.\nYou can control your buoyancy by wearing the right amount of lead weight. Usually, if you are weighted correctly your BCD should be pretty empty at neutral buoyancy. Beginners always tend to over weight themselves and that makes it harder to control your buoyancy.\nA good way for checking if you have enough weights is to put weights on until you a floating at about eye level with the surface of the water with an empty BCD.\nTrim is the orientation of your body during the dive. You should maintain a flat and prone position in the water thereby making you more streamlined as you swim through the water. You can kick regularly or you can frog kick from this position. Besides, it is a very relaxed and natural position to be in.\nLastly is controlling your BCD. Correct use of the BCD will fine tune your buoyancy during the dive. The biggest hurdle to overcome is using the BCD inflate and deflate buttons. That is because they are opposite when using them. When you want to descend, you ADD air to the BCD to maintain a neutral to slightly negative buoyancy and when ascend you RELEASE air to control your depth and ascent rate.\nLearning this just takes practice. When using the buttons you want to use short presses and not hold them down for long. By short I mean presses of around half a second or so. Holding the buttons for too long and you will overcompensate and become a yo-yo diver again.\nSo scuba buoyancy control is just a matter of some knowledge and a lot of practice. So practice in the shallows or even in a pool and learn to master your buoyancy in the water and you will have an even greater diving experience because of it.\nI have a question for you. I tried once to scuba dive but it was a total disaster. My instructor was not the best. I do get a bit claustrophobic at times what would be your suggestion for this. But I have to admit, after reading your article I feel more secure about trying it again. I know what I am missing by not trying again.\nvery good and thorough article. I have been surrounded by scuba divers most of my adult life but never made the plunge myself.\nI know it is something for me that will become addictive very fast and my life isn’t ready for any new addictions at the minute.\nHaving said that though I am very much into meditation, yoga and relaxation at the minute, and spend a lot of time practising breathing techniques for relaxation & stress relief.\nWhat your article has showed me is that Scuba diving could be used as a natural extension to help practice those breathing techniques. |
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The Echo Nest helps music services from Spotify to Rdio and Rhapsody suggest tunes you'll like. But your playlists also teach its algorithms what movies you'll watch -- and even how you'll vote "I just found Polish reggae two days ago," boasts Glenn McDonald, lead engineer at the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based music startup The Echo Nest, as we stare at a screen in a conference room.\nThe Echo Nest claims it reaches around 100 million listeners per month, by powering music discovery services such as Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody and VEVO, and delivering musical connections where none may have existed before. Even now, where every band is no more than a Google search away, you may never have heard of these two acts, or indeed the genre. But a few days before, as The Echo Nest's research algorithms were sifting through "unassigned artists", McDonald found a strange cluster. "The computer said, 'These go together more strongly than with anything else,'" says McDonald.\nAnd so another entry was added to Every Noise at Once, McDonald's massive project to map the world's corpus of musical genres. Staring at the sprawling projection up on the wall, which resembles Mark Lombardi's unsettlingly internecine drawings of political conspiracies, one finds Polish reggae wedged roughly between Romanian pop and K-hop (or Korean hip-hop), closer in musical space to Chicago soul than it is to Finnish hip-hop.\nThese genre clusters are created not by what the artists sound like, but how they are described in the world: on music blogs; in record-company catalogues; on your cousin's Facebook page -- anything The Echo Nest's semantic trawl pulls up. Although to human ears, there is a distinct sound to Polish reggae -- McDonald says there is a "polka-folk melody to some of it", not to mention the lyrics being in Polish -- the distinction is murkier to a computer.\nThere are reggae bands from Bulgaria to Omaha, Nebraska, that would sound, in terms of quantitative audio signal, fairly similar. "But Polish reggae is clearly a thing," says McDonald, "and bands from Bulgaria to Omaha aren't part of it, no matter what they sound like."\nEvery Noise at Once is more of an obsessive skunkworks-style exercise in computer learning than a revenue stream for The Echo Nest. The company grew out of research at MIT's Media Lab, and now essentially makes money as the behind-the-scenes engine powering any number of greater-known applications, from Rdio to Spotify to Yahoo! to MTV. "In some ways," says Jim Lucchese, The Echo Nest's CEO, "we're the nerds doing the cool kids' homework," adding over drinks in Tribeca in New York City that, before McDonald joined the company, his hobby was "cleaning up music metadata".\nBut Every Noise at Once speaks to the same animating impulse on which the company was founded, as described by The Echo Nest's cofounder and chief technical officer, 36-year-old Brian Whitman. "We are trying to automatically understand everything about music," he says. "What people are saying about it, what it sounds like."\nThat means teaching computers about human constructs such as genre, which provide handy "bookmarks", as McDonald describes it, to finding one's place in the musical universe; but which can also be imprecise or particular to a computer. Run a query for the hottest "rock" artists, he notes, and the computer returns Rihanna. With enough human guidance and algorithmic power, however, a kind of AI version of the frenzied, aspiringly omniscient hipster narrator of LCD Soundsystem's Losing My Edge ("I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978") can be created. As McDonald notes in a blog post, "our computers can now enter plausibly into arguments over almost 500 genres, from a cappella to zydeco."\nThe Echo Nest claims to have a knowledge base of more than a trillion data points, covering more than 35 million songs and 2.5 million artists. This is music in the age of Big Data, when you can carry "almost all of recorded music in your pocket", as Echo Nest development director Paul Lamere puts it. The algorithms can rank the danceability of a tune somewhere on a spectrum of zero to one: it turns out that the Top Ten's danceability has changed little from "The Twist" to twerking, according to The Echo Nest. The listening habits of music-service users can meanwhile be tracked in real-time and correlated across their digital lives to derive powerful insights about their likely non-musical preferences. At the heart of what The Echo Nest is trying to do is not simply find the right song to play for you next, but to understand something about what it is playing and how that might relate to you. As Whitman puts it: "We're trying to get to the stuff you and I would be implicitly figuring out when we have a conversation about music, about ourselves." Generically categorising the world's recorded music is, by itself, a gargantuan task. But even more formidable is cracking who's on the other end of the signal.\nDemocrats liked more music genres (ten) than Republicans (seven); but liking The Beatles predicted nothing in the way of political preference.\nBrian Whitman and Tristan Jehan, (above: left and right) cofounders of The Echo Nest, met a decade ago at the MIT Media Lab.\nWhitman had been recording "intelligent dance music" ("the only genre," he jokes, sitting in a conference room, "happy enough to compliment itself in its name") under the name Blitter, and found it hard, like so many musicians, to successfully do so "at scale".\nAs he recalls, the audience "was out there, but hard to find". How could those fans be discovered and connected? Returning to his graduate studies, he began to work in natural language processing while thinking back to his original problem.\nHe began conducting experiments such as trying to automatically extract information ("with maximal semantic value") from song reviews, even taking on Pitchfork, the granddaddy of oblique music writing. Jehan, meanwhile, was toiling in the world of "music information retrieval", a wide-ranging discipline that seeks, in essence, to break down music into its component parts; to turn it into data. This is surprisingly difficult. For example, to a computer, the harpsichord and the guitar sound rather similar. "At the end of the day, it's a plucked string," says Jehan, a stylish 39-year-old Frenchman. Or take what he calls "valence". What is a song's mood? As Lamere had joked: "The happiest thrash metal song may sound like the most angry soft rock song." Is a song such as Joy Division's major-key Ceremony happy or sad? Then there's what might be called the Bohemian Rhapsody problem. "What do you do with a song like this?" asks Jehan. "You can't just have one data point representing one thing about it."\nSo The Echo Nest was born. The goal, Whitman says, was to get past the problems of "care and scale" that plagued the existing music recommendation and discovery technologies. Collaborative filtering ("those who bought X also bought Y") suffers on the "care" standard. "These technologies don't know about the music itself; they only know about some of the usage patterns around it," says Whitman. A Beatles album on Amazon will simply show that listeners also bought other Beatles albums, while the closed loop of popularity bias makes it nigh impossible for new music to enter the system. A service such as Pandora, Whitman argues, has expert human tagging, but fails on scale. "They've got a million songs. To us that's ridiculous. There's so much music that Pandora will never catalogue."\nThe cramped offices of The Echo Nest are not far from both MIT and the Berklee College of Music, and the place seems to have a foot in both camps. "We understand everything there is to know about music," says Whitman, "and then do a lot of crazy stuff around that." Every so often, for instance, the company will unveil a music hack -- for instance, a "Bonhamiser" that will add the Led Zeppelin drummer's signature sound to any song; or "The Infinite Jukebox", which takes a song, breaks it down via the Echo Nest Analyzer (a piece of software that codes songs according to a number of attributes, such as "acousticness"), and will randomly jump from one part in the song to another that sounds vaguely similar, so that the song never ends. The atmosphere is a hothouse of hacker bravado and record-shop-assistant connoisseurship, something like The Social Network meets High Fidelity.\nThe Echo Nest's algorithms also conduct searches of what's being said about music online. "We're out there crawling words," says Whitman. "If people start using a word, the system will bubble it up." If something called EDM-core -- "I'm making it up" -- starts showing up on blogs, it could become a meaningful term to associate with a number of artists.\nSemantic searching has its challenges, as McDonald notes. "The biggest problem is ambiguity," he says. Take something as simple as an artist's name. "There's a Polish death-metal band called Hate, there's a Compton rapper called Hate, there's a Japanese pop band called Hate." Humans can use contextual clues to disambiguate, "but the people writing about them are not putting unique identifiers about them -- it can be hard to tell which is which."\nThe big problem with an acoustic-based recommendation system is that just because a computer deems that two things sound alike does not mean a human will. Take Miley Cyrus. "You could sort of line up Miley Cyrus with a few indie female singer-songwriters," says Lemere. "There was a very similar acoustic footprint. But you'd never put Miley in that singer-songwriter cluster -- the cultural mismatch would just be too bad." What Lemere is talking about is perhaps the greatest machine-learning challenge of all: human taste.\nWhat you listen to, Whitman argues, is the most direct route to who you are. "Music preference can predict more about you than anything else," he says. "If all I knew about you was the last five books you read, I wouldn't know much about you." Music is personal; people talk about "my music" in discussing playlists and collections. The Echo Nest, in a typical exercise called "What's Your Stereotype?", asks users to reveal the kind of music they like. It then delivers a profile; in Wired's case, it was witheringly accurate: "Hipster barista".\nWhitman says that although the company's algorithms had become pretty good at making sense of music, they had less of a grip "on understanding how listeners relate to it". So its latest big push is what it calls its "Taste Profile" technology. At its furthest horizon, this is about using music to understand people's other affinities. In one exercise, The Echo Nest correlated listening preferences to political affiliation (expressed via data such as Facebook Likes). It turns out that, in the US, Pink Floyd are primarily liked by Republicans. Whitman speculates this has primarily to do with the changing demographics of an ageing fan base. Mining the data revealed other tendencies: Democrats liked more music genres (ten) than Republicans (seven); but liking The Beatles predicted nothing in the way of political preference.\nCuriously, the least predictive of all genres when it came to political affiliation was heavy metal. Loud and rebellious apparently cuts all kinds of ways.\nOne day, political campaigns may choose not to bother approaching voters who play a lot of Nordic metal on Spotify. But for now, a challenge looms for online listening services: maintaining listeners. A recent Echo Nest white paper notes that the majority of users of services such as Pandora and Rdio are inactive, and thus contribute little advertising value. "We have some really scary numbers from some of our customers about the sort of churn rate of people who will sign up for a free trial and never listen to anything," says Whitman. Call it search fright: you sign up for a service that has everything you could ever want to listen to, and suddenly the prospect of listening to any one thing becomes overwhelming. Not to mention the question of what to play after that.\nThe Echo Nest believes that figuring out what kind of listener you are -- rather than just knowing what you listened to -- is the key to engagement. So it is modelling attributes such as "mainstreamness" -- how far out do your tastes go compared to other listeners'? Are Radiohead experimental for you, or about as popular as you'll go? Or what it calls "taste freeze" -- does all of your listening tend to cluster in a particular time in your life? "A lot of our customers have this problem where the people who have money to pay for a streaming service tend to be a bit older," says Whitman. "They're slowing down discovering new music. It's a big problem for [streaming services] because the more music you discover, the longer you stay on." And there is, as always, the tyranny of the skip button, which not only provides an exact measure of when a playlist stopped appealing to someone, it arguably makes it harder to deliver that playlist. Whitman notes that when The Echo Nest designed playlisting applications for radio companies, this button faced resistance from programmers. "They think the road to getting people to like a new song is forcing them to listen to it four or five times," he says. Indeed, research backs this up: in what's called the "mere exposure" effect, people's liking for all kinds of music goes up the more they are exposed to it. After all, every song is unfamiliar at some point.\nOf course, there is more to our relationship with music than a set of curated preferences. Whitman suggests the next frontier in discovery and playlisting will get deeper into how people actually interact with music. As he noted at a talk at Microsoft, "not just what they skip, ban and recommend, but when? Did they just break up with their girlfriend?" He calls it watching people "fumbling with music".\nMusic today is like a non-stop sound track running through people's lives. Adrian North, a professor of psychology at Australia's Curtin University, says that music has become so pervasive that, although it still forms a central part of people's identity, "it's as though it's become so omnipresent that they've almost forgotten about it". Where it was once at the centre of vital subcultures, now "music just sits there enmeshed with a gazillion other apps on your iPhone. You can't separate your musical identity from the rest of your identity any more."\nHaving access to any song you want has only closed this circle, says North. He points to research by his lab suggesting that people's music selection is tied to what they're doing: while commuting, for example, music is "almost like a safe haven". What's ironic, he notes, is that what makes this sort of analysis possible is the very device that's playing the music -- and those people, like The Echo Nest, that are paying attention.\nLamere sees this as one of the next frontiers of music recommendation: "Being able to understand a person's context and what kind of music they want to listen to, and playing it for them." The phone, he says, "knows whether I'm running or browsing the web." But the APIs for converting this context into musical data are underdeveloped. As Whitman says, the privacy settings on smartphones typically do not apply to music apps: "They'll have to add that soon."\nFor now, Lamere says, "our smartphones look very similar to cassette players from 30 years ago. You've got a 'play' button and that's about it." But if your phone knows so much about you -- where you are, what you are doing and what kind of music you like, why should we even have to choose the song we want to hear? |
OUR Metro charges and Country girls remain undefeated through the first two days, as our Victorian high flyers have made their marks early on the Under-16 National Championships.\nPumping the other states emphatically, Victoria Metropolitan boys swept aside Northern Territory and South Australia Country… but had to put in a bit harder to see off NSW Metro.\nStarting with a bang, the Metro men saw off NT 123-45 as Josh Woodford (21 points), Zac Taylor (20 points), Luke Cleary (18 points), Leyi Adebayo (17 points, 10 rebounds) and Lucas Faili (nine points, 13 rebounds) opened their under-16 accounts in style as the Victorians surged ahead comfortably.\nDarrien Herbert (18 points), Leyi Adebayo (17 points) and Paul Tsapatolis (16 points, eight rebounds) took the game on in league with Josh Woodford (14 points), Oscar Berry (13 points) and Zac Taylor (nine points, 12 rebounds).\nThe hardest clash of the opening stanza for the Metro men came in a likely finals preview against NSW Metro. Tsapatolis (nine points), Taylor (nine points), Berry (eight points) and Woodford (eight points) pushed aside the northerners to keep the unbeaten spree going heading into Monday’s third day of competition.\nPushing past QLD North 66-49, the Country girls started the tournament on the right note as Piper Dunlop (16 points, 13 rebounds), Karli Bruce (10 points, 10 rebounds) while Jade Melbourne (nine points, 12 rebounds, seven assists) worked her way towards a triple-double.\nIt was smoother sailing on Sunday morning as the girls cantered past WA Country 83-50. The even spread was evident again as Piper Dunlop (14 points), Jade Melbourne (14 points) Olivia Pollerd (13 points) lifted the side across the line.\nSunday evening proved difficult. A lot more difficult. In a frenetic scramble to the line, Jade Melbourne (15 points) hit the match-winning lay-up… with 1.31 to go. In a 66-65 clash, neither Vic Country or New Zealand could hit their shots in the dying seconds, leaving an enthralling finish to go all the way to the line. Vic Country had shared the lead with New Zealand throughout the clash, but the Kiwis threatened to pull ahead late, but Melbourne and Olivia Pollerd (10 points) clinched the victory through their hard work on offence. Alisha Knights (16 points, six rebounds, six assists) also starred in the trenches for Country.\nBringing out the big guns early, the Metro girls sent the broadside through the ACT roster with a 94-45 demolition. There was no reprieve as Gemma Potter (21 points), Zoe Jenkins (13 points), Erin Riley (12 points) and Alex Keating (12 points) led from the front.\nSimilarly comfortable on Sunday, the girls saw off NSW Country 57-36 on the back of Gemma Potter (30 points, 10 rebounds). Potter held up her end of the bargain, slashing her way through the Country contingent in league with Zoe Jenkins (nine points).\nThe Country boys suffered on opening night at the hands of New Zealand, taking a 65-89 loss. The Kiwis exploded early on the back of Harrison Payne (23 points), Mac Stodart (19 points) and a double-double performance from Reihana Topia (11 points, 10 rebounds). In an even spread, Liam Porter (11 points), Ethan Fiegert (10 points) and Jordan Michel (10 points) flew the flag.\nRedemption came in the form of a thrilling two-point triumph on Sunday night as the Country boys held off Act in a 59-57 epic. Caleb Connick (12 points), Oscar Hide (10 points, 10 rebounds) and Luis D’Angelo (eight points) pushed the Country lads across the line and kept their tournament chances ticking along.\nBasketball Victoria will ramp up its coverage of the event starting Tuesday, so stay tuned for all the videos, galleries and insights into our four teams heading towards Saturday night’s grand finals. |
I felt that the school aspect was not overwhelming and gave us time to explore the area and plan a weekend trip.\n* What do you know now that you wish you knew before going on this program? how much money we had on our school accounts for food and how much food generally costs so that I could've accounted for that. |
Washington D.C.—One of the saddest aspects of enslavement in the Americas, particular North America, is the fact that all forms of education was denied us and still is today. Blacks were forced to remain ignorant and told they have no history or culture.\nWell, here is the problem, most African-Americans are still void of historical knowledge particularly of their ownership to lands right here in the U.S.\nBlacks owned about one million square miles of land in the Louisiana Territories and the South Eastern/Florida region, as well as California. In all these areas of the U.S., there were Black African-American nations before Columbus, who were targeted for enslavement due to the Papal Edict that gave the Christian nations of Europe the go-ahead to make slaves of all descendants of Ham found in the newly discovered lands This fact cannot be denied. The essay on Black Civilizations of Ancient America, published as the great book; Susu Economics the History of Pan-African Trade, Commerce, Money and Wealth, tells a reality of this.\nWhile many of Africans’ ancestors were kidnapped in Africa, many were Africans who came from West Africa, had a number of kingdoms and empires in the Southern parts of the U.S., and who were captured, had their lands taken and their persons sold into slavery. These Africans were direct black ancestors and their had a continuing connection with West Africa which included trade and commerce on the very eve of the invasion of the Europeans to the Americas.\nIn 1991, the U.S. returned about 68,000 square acres of land to the Washitaw Nation of Louisiana, one of the prehistoric Black nations of the United States (See www.hotep.org). This group of Blacks is the evidence of the Black ownership of land and the Black presence before English and Spanish/French colonization of North America.\nMany Blacks living today are descended from the pre-Columbian Black nations and it is time that issue is included in the reparation discussion. They should locate who are the descendants of these pre-Columbian African nations in the U.S. (perhaps the entire mixed African-American population, since most of these Black tribes were enslaved and shipped to plantations and mixed with Blacks from Africa).\nBlack researchers should do the work necessary to find the documentation proving that as recently as the 1800’s, the U.S. fought with a Black nation in California called the ’Black Californians, and that that Black nation ended up on slave plantations in the U.S., while others were sent to salt mines in Mexico.\nThe French and Spanish have documentation on the Black Washitaw Nation who once owned much of the annexed Louisiana Territories. In fact, the Washitaw Nation regard the states of Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mississippi as Washitaw Proper, and as of this very moment, the Washitaw Nation is recognized by nations around the world as one of the most ancient nations in the Americas (See www.hotep.org).\nAccording to an article, www.wanoline.com (see also We Are The Washitaw, the Washitaw originally came from Africa and were Africans. The Washitaw are still African Negritic peoples and they, like many of the ancient Blacks who live in the Americas became victims of the Papal Edict which opened the way for the colonialization of the New World and the taking of people into slavery and occupation of their lands.\nneed to be in touch with my family.\nwow, I dont know what to say, I am all for truth and open minded, but I gotta say is there any anthropological evidence that black africans are the supposed tribe of peoples this article is describing?, It seems this website just caters to the black man, and robs alot of other cultures of their heritage.\nIt seems that after admitting that you were ignorant of the topic and that you would need to do more research and get more information, you still attacked the work of this website. How smart of you does that sound? Are you a truth seeker or are you threatened by the truth?\nTo a person: Europeans and their mixed offsprings robbed us of our heritage..We are just finding that out.. everything Euro-Asians have was taken from the indigenous people on this planet. “When you don’t have a past, Kill & steal.” That’s what Euro-Asians do best. Get over it, truth hurts. Do you need a bandaid, sticker, or sucker to ease the pain?\nIt doesn’t “rob cultures” this article states that there was alot of history purposely overlooked, not taught in school. If you want the truth, it’s refreshing to find out the TRUTH.\nWhere is the evidence of these kingdoms and empires in the Southern US? And, where is the evidence of the pyramids in West Africa?\nA settlement does not constitute a kingdom; nor a tribe an empire. Your exaggeration of facts and apparent ignorance of scientific proof (especially in regards to your article on the Olmecs) makes you look like the one who fears the truth.\nThen what is your definition of a Kingdom? Every settlement would need to have a leader so the settlement would stay civilized and in order. Africans have very ancient Kingdoms (settlements) in fact the 1st civilizations on Earth were African civilizations as Africans were the 1st people on Earth. In order to have civilization there has to be people and agriculture present as people would need food to function day to day activities. Recently a 200K yr old civilization has been found in South Africa in which a calender and statues of (Heru) Horus a Nile Valley deity has been found.\nThe ones who fear the truth are the ones who have changed or left out historical facts throughout the diaspora and made light of significant contributions made by people of color.\nNot disagreeing with the black nations being here 3,000 years ago, but the notion that somehow they are “owed reparations” is sheer greed. They (and all native tribes which were here before the arrival of those horrid Europeans) ARE CONQUERED PEOPLES! So, GET OVER IT!!!!\nHmmm lets see…..The so-called Jews were Conquered by Hitlers army but yet they have been awarded reparations and the Light skinned Native Americans have also been conqured by the Spanish and yet awarded reparations….Why is it every time dark skinned people ask for their compensation people want to disqualify them? Is it because the Moors ruled Spain for 700+ years before they were finally defeated? Probablly. But with this truth revealed, why wont the Europeans just admit that African Americans are in reality the decendants of Moors! That would be a reparation in and of itself.\nI love, love, love this website. May the Creator keep your hearts and minds clear so that you may continue feeding the souls of those who are willing and ABLE to receive this powerful information.\nIt pisses me off that how white people, out of white supremacy and religion, hides, destroys or ignores certain history. Like when the smithsonium covered up that discovery in the grand canyon that a explorer found that had African Egyptian artifacts, or the mound that Thomas Jefferson had on one of his lands that he had escavated and he personally said had artifacts in it that looked African in nature. Who has these artifacts and where are they? They have to be out there somewhere. I know they were not destroyed. One last thing. I did not know the name California came about from a black women. A people who lived in California before columbus who were black natives. Why isn’t this story told or even a movie made of this. It would be pretty interesting. What happened to these black indians? Were they captured and sold into slavery, or did they escape into Mexico? I wonder?????\nWow, white people are awsome. To be so crafty. Know wonder they rule the whole world. They can change history,create a new language,new world,wow. Thanks for the info your work is awesome, answers a lot of questions I needed to have answered. Keep up the work, thank you.\nWe should have begin trying to something about all this as black people reparations of what was always our need to stay our we as people need to come back together like the good old days. So we as black people do our research and grow as a nation for a nation we were like gods not disrespect god.\nI think this awesome information. I just started a meet-up group(http://www.meetup.com/Diggin-in-da-dirt/) based in Atlanta; we are going to journey to these dig sites, mounds and recover the information for ourselves. I also have a website that is beginning to address the question “FACT or FICTION: who were the first indigenous people to the Amerikas” at http://www.thetuskegeeexperience.com. Keep searching, researching, collecting and diggin for da truf.\nY WASTE ENERGY TRYING TOO GET YOUR ENEMY TOO PAT YOU ON THE BACK.\nREGARDING YOUR BLACK ANCESTORS HISTORY THAT THEIR EURO ANCESTORS STOLE WHITEWASHED AND CLAIMED AS THEIR OWN. PHUCK EM!\nAND DONT FORGET TO PRACTICE YOUR ANCESTRAL SUPER-NATURAL BLACK MAGIC ALL DAY EVERYDAY. (HAITIAN REVOLUTION STYLE).\nTHANK YOU! MY SPIRIT IS CRYING OUT TO KNOW MORE OF ME AND FROM WHENCE I CAME! I APPRECIATE YOUR WORK AND YES, I AM SCREAMING THANK YOU AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS! BLESSINGS TO YOU ALL! |
Rock royalty, Sweet, recently graced the stage at Roundhouse music festival and provided the audience with a blockbuster set featuring hits such as ‘The Ballroom Blitz’, ‘Fox on the Run’ and many more!\nWe were lucky enough to go backstage and catch up with the lads, who gave us their advice on how to make it in the music industry today, and discussed the importance of free festivals to champion unsigned music artists.\nRoundhouse music festival is a yearly rock event celebrating the dazzling history of the world famous Dagenham Roundhouse pub. The festival is just one of many of Barking and Dagenham Council’s free Summer of festivals events.\nTo be the first to find out about interesting and exciting things happening in Barking and Dagenham, subscribe to OneBoroughLive. |
Reach the height of elegance with this soft pink cape with faux fur trim. In this look we've paired it with black dress pants, a turtleneck and long rhinestone encrusted gloves to allow the cape to shine. In store we've also sold it as a layering piece for evening wear and cocktail dresses. Accessorize with rose gold, silver and hematite for the finishing touch. |
A romantic classic, the three stone ring symbolizes the past, present and future. Three sparkling Herkimer diamonds are set in a handmade solid 14 karat rose or yellow gold setting with a dainty band in this delicately beautiful ring. Seen here in 14 karat rose gold. The largest stone, set lengthwise in the center, is flanked by two smaller stones set widthwise. Simple, elegant and dainty. This one's for the romantics. Handmade in NYC. |
I.C.A.DJ EVENTS is family owned and operated and works with a crew compliment of nine employees. We all work very hard to treat our clients the way we would personally want to be treated. Working together is a blessing since we all share a passion for this industry. Our company is based on the belief that our customers needs are of the utmost importance. Our entire team is fully committed to meeting those needs. As a result, a high percentage of our business is from repeat customers and referrals.\nA main highlight of our company is that we offer in person consultations with your DJ. Many of our competitors will book you and you never get to meet the DJ prior to the event. They tell you "they're well trained" etc. We stand out from our competition because our DJ meets with you in person at our office or a location convenient for you 30-60 days prior to the event date. During this consultation, we will help you build your dream reception by using an itinerary to plan your event and custom music selection. The itinerary will help ensure the event proceeds smoothly without confusion.\nOne of the most frequently asked questions is, "What music do you play?" Well, since music is digital everyone can now claim to be a DJ. The difference is the experience of when to play it, how long to play the song, and listening to what the client is asking for. During your consultation we will help you create your custom playlist. Some of our past clients prefer full control and request we only play what's on the list of songs requested. Others prefer to ask for "must play", "do not play", and certain "genres". Based off the consultation and listening to what our clients requested, that's how we prepare ourselves going into the event.\nProviding professional entertainment for weddings, debuts, quinceaneras, sweet 16's, corporate events, graduations, night clubs, bachelor/bachelorette parties, birthday parties, and many celebrations. Using a combination of professional LED lights and audio, we can design any package for your special event. What's most important to you? Is it a bilingual high energy MC, Uplighting, a custom gobo monogram, fun entertaining photo booth, or maybe a photo slideshow to display during dinner to entertain your guests? Our family style individual attention gives us the edge to exceed your expectations and create a truly memorable event. Just think, what do I want for my event? How can I make my dreams come to reality? |
I am now retired but accepting occasional roles such as non-executive directorships, small consulting projects in areas such as IP licensing, and mentoring; supporting new business initiatives with guidance and help. I am keen to utilise my experience in technology business management, as a board member of a publicly quoted company, and to bring many of the experiences I have had as a school governor, including as chairman, to other challenges.\nI am chairman of Archipelago Technology, an exciting new company exploiting a special printing technology for use with thick, viscous and sometimes hot materials.\nI am also working with Southampton University as a mentor for their Future Worlds initiative. Every year I am involved in mentoring MBA students at the Cambridge University Judge Business School.\nI graduated as an engineer, but over the years my role evolved into project management, business management and finally I was responsible for our company's commercial and legal operations. We specialised in licensing intellectual property, specifically software and semiconductor designs. I built a wealth of experience in licensing having negotiated and agreed contracts with a large proportion of the world's leading semiconductor and communications companies.\nA major part of my role was to negotiate various licence agreements. This gave me huge insight into the process of negotiation and here I have identified some key factors. Negotiation.\nI have experienced and witnessed many examples of good and bad practice in business, especially in high-technology, and here I give some views on the issues I feel important Business Practice. |
The success of 12th Annual Brain Injury Associations Fall Fundraiser is dependent on the support of generosity of the community that it serves. Please review the opportunities below and consider becoming a sponsor.\nCalling All Silent Auction Items!\nWe are on the hunt for great silent auction items to make the event even more fun. If you have something you'd like to contribute, please get in touch. Some examples are: wine, restaurant gift certificates, cottage weekends, massage gift certificates. |
Do Klasky Csupo hold the crown of 90s cartoons?\nKlasky Csupo reigned in the 1990s with hit cartoon series after the next. Some of which made it onto the silver screen. If you were born in the 1990s and watched Nickelodeon you knew most of these characters by name. During this decade, who else in the animation industry had this much success?\nNext 90s toy named Gak is still available? |
This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator, the brilliant Romesh Ranganathan welcome: The Australian writer of Puberty Blues, newspaper columnist, Simpsons writer, charity ambassador and formerly obsessive teen fan of Spike Milligan, Kathy Lette. Author and adventurer, podcaster and editor, member of Team UK in the European Miniature Golf Championships and the man who has read all the books you should have, Andy Miller. and Comedian, actor, author, presenter, film director, documentary maker, social media guru, atheist, activist, businessman, charity patron, voice-over artist, panel show host, sitcom writer, movie star and ambassador for Norwich City FC, Stephen Fry. This week, the Museum’s Guest Committee offer as exhibits the mysterious thing that drives women to be mothers, a receptacle for honey that contains nothing more than a broken balloon and … a bunch of grapes. The show was researched by Anne Miller of QI and Mike Turner. The production coordinator was Tamara Shilham. The producers were Richard Turner and James Harkin. It was a BBC Studios production. |
The current queen of covers, Kelly Clarkson, kills it again with this fan-requested cover of the Fugees’ Killing Me Softly in San Diego.\nYep, I’ll be singing the one lyric I know from this song over and over and over all day now.\nFirst off, I do respect Kelly Clarkson, but shouldn’t this be Kelly Clarkson rocking a cover if the Lauryn Hill/Fugees cover of the incomparable Miss. Roberta Flack. Lauryn Hill was able to dig deep and find that pit of your stomach pain much d with the anticipation of the belief that he truly is “singing my life with his words”. Clarkson’s version is an enjoyable cover but nothing but a little entertaining as a whole. Raised in an all holds barred family (than you dad for all of the musical road trip games and mom for putting up with us). |
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With nearly 99 percent of votes in a referendum counted on Sunday night, supporters of the proposal had 51.3 percent of votes cast, and opponents had 48.7 percent, the country’s electoral commission announced.\nThe head of Turkey’s electoral board has rejected suggestions of fraud in Turkey’s referendum that will grant the president vast new powers.\nTwo opposition parties have complained of a number of irregularities in Sunday’s vote, including an electoral board decision to accept as valid ballots that did not bear the official stamp.\nAssuming the “decision of the voters” is allowed to stand, the new government structure would be in place after the 2019 elections. Some key executive offices will be done away with and the President will essentially be able to overrule any legislative decisions. Erdogan would be immediately eligible to serve two five year terms, but with the “reforms” he has demanded already in place there is little reason to suspect that he couldn’t just change the deal yet again in Darth Vader style.\nBut that really doesn’t change the day to day reality we see in Turkey right now. This wasn’t a referendum calling for a new government structure which would need to be built from the ground up over the next two years. It’s simply a public confirmation of precisely what Erdogan is already doing. He has largely absorbed the power of the legislature and has been ruling under “emergency powers” ever since last summer’s attempted coup. In other words, the vote would just cement in place the current situation.\nAs Saagar Enjeti at the Daily Caller pointed out last night, this new, official paradigm in Turkey will now complicate the foreign policy situation for the United States and our allies, particularly when it comes to combating ISIS.\nErdogan’s broader powers may mean the U.S. will have to grant concessions in its strategy to the government. These concessions may include a bigger Turkish role in operations to recapture ISIS’s capital of Raqqa.\nTurkey is also home to millions of Syrian refugee’s that are being held back by the government from emigrating to the European Union. Erdogan’s increased power would grant him even more leverage over EU policies, by allowing him to threaten to open the refugee floodgate on the European continent.\nAs I said on Friday, the rest of the world is (at least for now) relegated to the role of basically sitting on the sidelines and watching. Having the trappings of a public referendum applied to Erdogan’s power grab makes it seem all the more legitimate. And even though he has locked up his opponents by the tens of thousands, it’s all being done under the umbrella of law enforcement and an effort to fight terrorism. Honestly, there’s little to be done at this point and nobody is interested in full scale military intervention in a nation which is still ostensibly one of our allies.\nTurkey’s once flourishing democracy is, at this point, pretty much a thing of the past. It’s a sad day, but there will likely be far darker ones to come. |
To freeze, just combine everything in freezer bag and freeze. To cook, toss it all in the crock pot and cook on low for 5-6 hours.\nThe first time we had this I just served it as whole chicken breasts with some veggies as a side dish.\nThe second time, I added taco seasoning and served on tortillas with chips and rice. It was lots better as tacos, but still good either way.\nMike said I have to make tacos like this everytime. |
The authorization of a new version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act ushered in a new era regarding the role of the federal government in administering education in the United States. The new law, entitled the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), replaces 2001’s No Child Left Behind Act. Fundamentally, the intent of this new iteration of ESEA (first signed into law in 1965) remains the same: to provide supplemental funds and programs for low-income students and to enable State and Local Education Agencies (LEAs or school districts) to improve the access and quality of elementary and secondary education. ESSA has the same goals, but significantly curtails the federal government’s role in education and instead allows states to set their own standards and accountability systems.\nESSA includes thirteen arts-friendly provisions that help improve the opportunity for theatre and other arts education for all students. Most importantly, the law asserts that arts education should be part of the well-rounded education of all students. The “well rounded” language, replacing NCLB’s core subject area definition of academic areas, is key to understanding where and how in the law theatre education can access federal funds to ensure equal access to our discipline. In every instance where the term “well rounded” or “music and the arts” appears in the law, there is potential funding that can tapped for theatre education. We’ve put together the ESSA Guide to Theatre Education Opportunities to help EdTA members and their state leaders understand the law and how theatre can be part of its implementation in the coming years.\nAvailability of Title I programs to provide supplemental funds for a well-rounded education.\nTitles I, II and IV to support professional development for theatre educators.\nFlexible Accountability Systems that require states to include multiple progress measures in assessing school performance, such as student engagement, parental engagement and school culture/climate.\nProtection from “pull out” practices in which students are withdrawn from the classroom, including theatre and arts, for remedial instruction.\nThe guide is divided into two parts: Opportunities for Theatre Educators explains areas of ESSA and its associated Title areas in which theatre educators can access funding or advocate on behalf of their program on a school or district level; and Opportunities for State Theatre Education Associations articulates state-wide funding options, and areas of the law that state leaders need to be aware of, such state report cards, committee opportunities, and evaluation, all of which can be a factor in how theatre education is regarded and delivered by EdTA members in individual states.\nThis guide was adapted from the National Association for Music Education document, ESSA Implementation and Music Education: Opportunities Abound. |
>> what to do next.\n>> the web apps" (fingers crossed).\nhave more consensus than we know.\n>> I propose we set the meeting for next Monday, at the usual time (15:00 UTC).\n>> Otherwise, we can make a doodle and decide there.\nNext message: Andrei Sambra: "Re: Next WebID CG teleconference."\nPrevious message: Henry Story: "Re: Next WebID CG teleconference."\nIn reply to: Melvin Carvalho: "Re: Next WebID CG teleconference."\nNext in thread: Andrei Sambra: "Re: Next WebID CG teleconference."\nReply: Andrei Sambra: "Re: Next WebID CG teleconference." |
Orchard Cottage sleeps 6 people, and is 23 miles from Ludlow.\nPipers Cottage sleeps 6 people, and is 27 miles from Ludlow.\nRuths Retreat sleeps 3 people, and is 24 miles from Ludlow.\nThe Smithy sleeps 4 people, and is 23 miles from Ludlow.\nMy Ly sleeps 5 people, and is 33 miles from Ludlow.\nMill Race Lodges - Lodge 3 sleeps 6 people, and is 24 miles from Ludlow.\nMill Race Lodges - Lodge 2 sleeps 6 people, and is 24 miles from Ludlow.\nMill Race Lodges - Lodge 1 sleeps 6 people, and is 24 miles from Ludlow.\nDolview sleeps 4 people, and is 31 miles from Ludlow.\nCastle View sleeps 10 people, and is 34 miles from Ludlow.\nOld Castle Farm - Castle Keep sleeps 4 people, and is 16 miles from Ludlow.\nMill Farm Holiday Cottages - River Cottage sleeps 4 people, and is 21 miles from Ludlow.\nPentre Mawr sleeps 8 people, and is 32 miles from Ludlow.\nBurrills View sleeps 6 people, and is 11 miles from Ludlow.\nLake View sleeps 4 people, and is 27 miles from Ludlow.\nCwm Lodge sleeps 2 people, and is 31 miles from Ludlow.\nDan Y Coed sleeps 8 people, and is 23 miles from Ludlow.\nCefnaire sleeps 10 people, and is 34 miles from Ludlow.\nNew House Farm - The Barn sleeps 4 people, and is 13 miles from Ludlow.\nMill Farm Holiday Cottages - Heyope Cottage sleeps 4 people, and is 21 miles from Ludlow.\nNorth View sleeps 8 people, and is 34 miles from Ludlow.\nMill Farm Holiday Cottages - Oak View Cottage sleeps 4 people, and is 21 miles from Ludlow.\nMill Farm Holiday Cottages - Mill Farm Lodge sleeps 6 people, and is 21 miles from Ludlow.\nMill Farm Holiday Cottages - Red Kite Cottage sleeps 4 people, and is 21 miles from Ludlow.\nCwm Yr Hendy Lodges - Oak View sleeps 6 people, and is 32 miles from Ludlow.\nCwm Yr Hendy Lodges - Hillside View sleeps 6 people, and is 32 miles from Ludlow.\nHigh House sleeps 6 people, and is 32 miles from Ludlow.\nQuarry Lodge sleeps 7 people, and is 29 miles from Ludlow.\nThe Arbour sleeps 12 people, and is 12 miles from Ludlow. |
We have listed all of the Kahului food pantries that we have found. With help from users like you we have compiled a list of some. If you know of a food pantry that is not included here, please submit new food pantries to our database by going to the ADD A LISTING link on the header of our website. |
Archive ouverte HAL - Theoretical study of the adsorption of DNA bases on the acidic external surface of montmorillonite.\nTheoretical study of the adsorption of DNA bases on the acidic external surface of montmorillonite.\nAbstract : In the present study, DFT periodic plane wave calculations, at the PBE-D level of theory, were carried out to investigate the interaction of DNA nucleobases with acidic montmorillonite. The surface model was considered in its octahedral (Osub) and tetrahedral (Tsub) substituted forms, known to have different acidic properties. The adsorption of adenine, guanine and cytosine was considered in both orthogonal and coplanar orientations with the surface, interacting with the proton via a given heteroatom. In almost all considered cases, adsorption involved the spontaneous proton transfer to the nucleobase, with a more pronounced character in the Osub structures. The binding energy is about 10 kcal mol(-1) larger for Osub than for Tsub complexes mainly due to the larger acidity in Osub surfaces and due to the better stabilization by H-bond contacts between the negatively charged surface and the protonated base. The binding energy of coplanar orientations of the base is observed to be as large as the orthogonal ones due to a balance between electrostatic and dispersion contributions. Finally the binding of guanine and adenine on the acidic surface amounts to 50 kcal mol(-1) while that of cytosine rises to 44 kcal mol(-1). |
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Lots and lots of water. Seems like there are some times in a life where everything in the natural just seems like it is heading in the wrong direction. Things happen to and around us that we don't have any control over...but we do have control over our response. We have to lay everything at His feet. It is the only response that leads to life.We can choose life our death, blessing or curse, I will never cease to worship Him for all He has done, for walking a path of suffering and when we are suffering He lifts us up and strengthens us in Grace. Bless you God for all you are and all you will always be to me. |
Home > Bladder Cancer Resources > Why is there blood in my pee?\nWhy is there blood in my pee?\nBlood in the urine does not always mean you have bladder cancer. Often it is caused by other things like an infection in your urinary tract, benign (non-cancerous) tumours, stones in the kidney or bladder, or some other benign kidney diseases.\nThe early stages of bladder cancer can cause bleeding but sometimes little or no pain or other symptoms.\nThe important thing is to see your GP quick smart if you have pink or red urine, or if you have noticed a change in your wee. Your pee might sink in the bowl, or look “heavier”. Get it checked out!\nWhen you go to the doctor, he or she will ask you to wee into a specimen jar. He will put a test strip in, and in about one minute he will tell you if there is anything unusual going on, and what the next steps might be. It’s a quick and easy test!\nIf you do have bladder cancer, and it has been found early, you have a way better chance of a full recovery. If you don’t do anything, that cancer can grow, and eat into your bladder wall, and spread through your body. |
In this video, Dr John Sommers-Flanagan, professor and counselor-educator at the University of Montana, discusses what children need from their parents, what parents need from therapists, and how therapists can help parents to be the kind of parent they wish to be. Dr Sommers-Flanagan advises an empathetic, collaborative approach in which parents are given a new attitude, helped to make a plan, and encouraged to get support for their new ways of parenting. The “Grandma’s rule” technique is explained. |
When running an e-commerce business there are so many things that you need to be focused on and choosing the best shipping option to ensure successful product distribution, can often feel like a bit of a minefield.\nShould I organize the export and delivery of my e-commerce products myself?\nYes, why not, if say you are shipping a relatively low number of items from the US to say the UK or Europe or vice-versa. The numbers may add up and your customers may be happy to cover your shipping costs and wait the extra few days before receiving it. You also have the confidence that comes from taking personal responsibility for the delivery of each item yourself and so you feel in control of the customer service side. However, you may find as volumes increase this becomes increasingly cumbersome and results in unnecessary delays. At that point you ought to consider an order fulfilment house.\nOrder fulfilment companies specialize in stocking e-commerce products on behalf of their clients in a location, which is much closer to the location of the customer. The customer places the order on the e-commerce company’s website, the order then automatically triggers a pick and pack process at the order fulfilment company, which then gets the product out to the final customer in the fastest possible time. Being based more locally to the end customer, the order fulfilment company will often be much more familiar with the various customs, rules and taxes involved with your deliveries than yourself and able to support you with these or even address them on your behalf. The net result will be faster delivery of orders to your customers and at a lower cost.\nHowever, whilst it might makes sense financially to go with an Order Fulfilment company, it’s a big step in terms of trust as you are, in effect, trusting this company with your most precious asset – your reputation. Choose carefully – assess their reputation – look at their customers, any reviews, the technical facilities they offer for you to track your products.\nThis entry was posted onWednesday, July 2nd, 2014 at 1:10 pm and is filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Both comments and pings are currently closed. |
The Dwyer Series 475 Mark III Handheld Digital Manometer is ideal for field calibration, monitoring or trouble shooting HVAC systems, clean rooms or a wide range of other low pressure pneumatic systems. This handy instrument measures positive, negative or differential pressures of air and other non-corrosive, non-toxic gases. When used with a Dwyer Pitot tube (see Flow and Air Velocity), the Series 475 Mark III can also be used as an air velocity gage. See the complete 475-1-AV kit described below. Its simple operation and easy to read digital display make it an indispensable test instrument for the plant engineer, industrial hygienist and HVAC technician.\nThe Series 475 Mark III is housed in a durable extruded aluminum case with its solid state circuitry mounted on a tough fiberglass epoxy circuit board. A standard 9 volt battery provides up to 100 hours of operation. Dual push pads on the front panel control on-off operation and English or metric pressure unit selection - all with no set-up or leveling. Zero adjust knob is conveniently located on top. The large 1/2" LCD display is easy to read in even the poorest lighting conditions, minimizing data collection errors and it includes a "low battery" indicator. The pressure sensor used is a silicon piezo resistive device. The monolithic chip also has a laser trimmed resistor network to assure accurate, stable temperature compensation. Standard connections are dual sized for 1/8" or 3/16" I.D. vinyl or rubber tubing. Complete instructions are conveniently printed on rear of housing.\n±0.5% of full scale, 60-78°F (15-25℃).\n0/5% of full scale, 32-122°F (0-50℃).\nBarbed for 1/8" or 3/16" I.D. tubing. 475-7-FM & 475-8-FM only; 1/8" or 3/16" O.D. tubing.\n6 9/16"H x 2 13/16"W x 29/32"D (166 x 71 x 23 cm).\n475-AV Air Velocity Kit - Includes your choice of Series 475 Manometer, two A-303 static pressure tips, 2 ft. lengths 3/16" I.D. rubber tubing, no. 166-6-CF Pitot air velocity slide chart and instruction bulletin H-11, all packed in a tough, molded plastic carrying case with die cut foam liner. To order, add AV suffix to any standard 475 model no.\nA-402-A Carrying Case - Tough gray nylon pouch protects any Series Manometer. Double zippered for quick and easy access. With belt loop that snaps closed. |
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On whom do you place your trust?\nHome|Faith|On whom do you place your trust?\nI’m not overly connected to the news. I mostly dabble in keeping up with current events, so if I find themes in those sporadic moments of catching up on the latest stories, I take note.\nMost recently, I’ve noticed the theme of people with big names being exposed for their dark secrets: politicians, radio show hosts, news anchors, producers and I’m sure more that I haven’t read about, yet. They are all household names, and many I have given an ear to more than once. Now, like a ripple effect, many are being exposed for extremely inappropriate behaviors.\nAll these exposures have caused me to stop and think back on who I allow to give input in my life. Who am I giving an ear to? Is what I’m hearing shaping my beliefs? Have I put any hope into what these people have said in the past? Luckily, with most of these celebrities, I take what they say with a grain of salt. But it made me look even deeper into those people or things I do put my hope in and the influence I let them have over me.\nEvery day there are hundreds of things that influence me: friends, family, social media, articles, advertisements, co-workers and my surroundings. But do you know who the biggest culprit is? Me. I am starting to realize that I have way too much influence in my own life, and I’ve put a lot of my hope and trust into my own abilities and decisions I’ve made. And to be honest, I don’t think I’m the best influence on myself and certainly not someone I should bet my future on.\nSound ridiculous? Maybe it’s just me, but I’m not necessarily perfect, and it turns out I don’t always make the right decisions. I’ve let people down, I’ve hurt feelings, I’ve lied, I can be selfish, and so many other things that I won’t put in this column. And yet, I somehow allow myself to give a lot of input into my life. But, if not me, who?\nIn Matthew 12:21, we are told that “His name [Jesus] will be the hope of all the world” (NLT). Now there’s a household name that has stood the test of time. He healed the sick, took care of those in need, fed the hungry and never once took part in any of the behaviors we are finding out about in these current news stories. Not even any of the behaviors I listed about myself. And then He took it a step further and He laid down His life for my sins and the sins of those people in the news.\nI can tell you, I was pretty shocked to come to the realization that the person who is speaking too much into my life was me. And even more shocked to conclude that I’m not that trustworthy.\nThankfully, I’ve got hope, along with the rest of the world. Jesus is the hope of the world, and we never have to worry about Him failing us or lying to us or breaking our hearts. We never have to think that there was some hidden secret that will be exposed someday. Two-thousand years of skeptics and theologians would have exposed them by now.\nThis Christmas I’ve been given a freshly-renewed hope in our blameless savior who I can have absolute trust in who He is and what He has done for us. There’s a lot of people with big names out there, but Jesus’ is one that is worth allowing to be an influence on our lives.\n“For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. And he will be called: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6, NLT). That’s a name I can trust!\nRyan Koltiska is the executive director of Sheridan KidsLife. |
Two of the works that are most memorable for me in this year’s Biennale of Sydney are Guido van der Werve’s film work Nummer acht: everything is going to be alright, and Lyndal Jones’s performance and installation at Cockatoo Island, Rehearsing catastrophe: the ark in Sydney. In the spirit of the biennale’s linked-in themes of establishing relations between works, peoples and things and the necessity of taking on board an ecological way of thinking, these works do for art what Slavoj Žižek has done for weighing up the state of mind of ‘living in the end times’. ‘Art and catastrophe’ can seem like a glib catchphrase exploiting the spectacle of disaster, but these two works are richer than that in harnessing the dilemmas of the relentless path towards progress bound up with the loss of frontier.\nVan der Werve’s short-film piece, which already has a global cult following, shows the artist striding ahead of an ice-breaker like the twenty-first century version of Caspar David Friedrich’s intrepid explorer negotiating Das Eismeer. Seemingly just steps ahead of the vessel carving its path of destruction (due to the clever confusion of distance in a featureless landscape), the artist in a state of magnificent momentum channels a rather heroic last symphony as he strides through the landscape about to disappear. Like the somewhat over-employed metaphor of Walter Benjamin’s angel of history, propelled into the future as it looks back at the ruins of the past, our man at the front (the artist himself) is a paradoxical figure of fearlessness.\nIn a work that is, in contrast, remarkable for its tentative steps in harnessing the very ordinary, everyday world of preparation for departure, Lyndal Jones’s Rehearsing catastrophe: the ark in Sydney creates a different kind of event space. This work, which has a Victorian origin in its first manifestation for the Avoca Project in 2010, is here cleverly restaged on Cockatoo Island, a place linked to former histories of maritime services and settlement. Rising to the occasion of this mythical space of embarkation, a motley crew of characters assembles in the courtyard by the wooden hull of the ark wedged into the wall of the ship-building precinct. Masquerading as animals, kitted out in simple handmade masks, they line up in pairs with suitcases in hand like postwar refugees to the new world. Intrepid, nervous, they look at us as we look at them before realising that (for today at least) nothing is going to happen.\n18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations, Sydney, 27 June – 16 September 2012. |
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I hate to admit it, but there are good reasons to leave London sometimes. Bristol, for example, can lay a good claim to being the capital of silent cinema in this country, thanks mostly to the year-round efforts of the marvellous people at Bristol Silents. Indeed, come January there is nowhere finer for the discerning silent comedy fan to be. The annual Slapstick Festival is a four-day, multi-venue extravaganza of comedy, mostly of the silent era, presented by comedians and experts – and accompanied by live music.\nThe 2012 Slapstick Festival will take place from 26-29 January 2012, and the full lineup has just been announced. Yes, there will be some more recent comedy courtesy of gala screenings featuring Dad’s Army, Monty Python and the French film-maker Pierre Étaix. But Slapstick Festival is noted for its passionate endorsement of silent comedy, and it’s here in spades.\nKevin Brownlow will be talking about Buster Keaton and showing footage from his documentary A Hard Act to Follow, while Griff Rhys-Jones will introduce a night of silent comedy including a screening of The General at Colston Hall with music from Günter Buchwald and performed by The European Silent Screen Virtuosi and Bristol Ensemble. On the last day of the festival, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Ian Lavender and Barry Cryer will also introduce their favourite Buster Keaton shorts.\nHistorian David Robinson will give an illustrated lecture, with clips, on Charlie Chaplin and also discuss his work with fan and comedian Sanjeev Bhaskar; Barry Cryer will present a Harold Lloyd double-bill and Graeme Garden will make a case for the debonair Charley Chase. David Wyatt will give two presentations: one talking about lesser-known silent comics such as Max Davidson and Larry Semon and the other on the spoofs and parodies rife in silent-era comedy.\nSlapstick Festival events will take place in Colston Hall, the Watershed Cinema and the Arnolfini Arts Centre, Bristol from 26-29 January 2012. See the Slapstick Festival website for more details and to book tickets.\nAnd don’t forget, the Slapstick Festival has its own real ale, brewed locally, especially for the event. The launch of the Slapstick Beer takes place at the Victoria Pub, Clifton on Friday 9 December at 7.30pm. Details on Facebook. |
After practicing law for few years he focused himself to university education: to contribute towards education, society and future generation our youth. He was among the founder member of Iqra University Islamabad.\nLately, his community development model has been much appreciated both in the corporate and development sector. The community projects include providing basic infrastructure to Govt. & private schools, setting up vocational schools for girls, setting up computer labs, sponsoring students education, Social enterprise projects and many more.\nKhan is a law graduate and holds an MBA & MSc. He believes in innovative way of teaching and use of technology and has high hopes that with the right guidance and encouragement our youth can deliver the best results. He intends to form a unified platform for all entrepreneurial stakeholders by forming “ Entrepreneurial Alliances”. He foresees Pakistan to become a leading economy and believes in order to do so; we have to invest in our Human capital i.e. our youth and the way forward is by promoting entrepreneurship and developing an encouraging ecosystem. |
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Our wonderful food is rich and aromatic, cooked with an exotic blend of herbs and spices unique to our restaurant. No other Indian restaurant in Stourbridge offers the exotic blend of flavours that Balti Bazaar chefs provide, and have been ranked officially by leading authorities such as the Good Food Guide, Good Restaurant Guide and British curry Awards as the ‘best place to dine in Stourbridge’.\nOur dedicated staff at Balti Bazaar aim to emulate this to the fullest, ensuring that each and every one of our customers has the finest Indian dining experience. We offer our services to anyone that has an interest in Indian food, Our Indian restaurant is perfect for anybody in the Stourbridge area, also including the areas of Hagley, Bromsgrove, Belbroughton, Halesowen, Old Hill, Cradley, Oldswinford, Dudley, Oldbury and kidderminister etc to deliver or to host a private function or just enjoy a meal of the finest food that we have to offer.\nThe premises is air conditioned for extra comfort and on further inspection of the internal surroundings it is worth pointing how each table is perfectly set giving a true feeling of luxury and ambiance.\nWe strive to build a sound relationship with all our valued customers who look to us for consistently excellent quality, value and service. Our staff continues to be best qualified and equipped workforce in the Midlands. |
Shifting international trade patterns at seaports throughout the Americas – with mega-size vessels requiring higher capacity road and rail connections serving ports, along with deeper harbors, bigger cranes and sturdier berths – can bolster a region’s economy while straining its infrastructure. Because there’s no stopping these trade shifts, ports – and the communities they serve – must learn to adapt in order to bolster job growth, prevent traffic snarls and remain competitive.\nTo address these issues, executives representing Port Tampa Bay and the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) – the unified and recognized voice of Western Hemisphere seaports – will hold a media briefing on Thursday, Jan. 21 at 10:30 a.m. The briefing is part of the ninth annual Shifting International Trade Routes conference at Le Méridien Tampa Hotel, in Tampa, Fla., Jan. 21-22. Hosted by Port Tampa Bay, the program is sponsored by AAPA, in cooperation with the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) and the Transportation Research Board (TRB).\nPress briefing speakers will include Port Tampa Bay President and CEO Paul Anderson, together with Saint John (New Brunswick) Port Authority President and CEO Jim Quinn (who serves as AAPA’s 2015/16 Chairman of the Board) and AAPA President and CEO Kurt Nagle. They will discuss key issues affecting international trade, and important trends and variables like global trade demand and its effects on domestic exports. They will also discuss funding for critical transportation infrastructure, such as waterside and landside improvements that are necessary to keep ports, as well as local and regional economies, viable. All three presenters are highly seasoned maritime industry experts who will offer unique and complementary perspectives on dominant trade, transportation and infrastructure issues that affect nearly all Western Hemisphere seaports.\nThe 2016 Shifting International Trade Routes program began in Tampa in 2008 and is now one of AAPA’s best attended conferences. Speakers will address the international economic outlook and shifts in global trade; discuss infrastructure needs from the perspective of cargo owners, ocean carriers, ports, terminal operators, warehouse and distribution centers, and rail interests, and provide an update on the project to expand the Panama Canal.\nWHAT: Media briefing on current and upcoming trade and goods movement impacts to roads, rails and waterways due to the needs of mega-ships carrying mega-loads of freight.\nThursday, Jan. 21, 2016, 10:30 -11:00 a.m.\nMEDIA: Professional journalists representing bona-fide media outlets are encouraged to attend the media briefing and can request complimentary access to the Shifting International Trade Routes Conference business sessions.\nPort Tampa Bay is Florida’s largest port and the largest economic engine in west central Florida, supporting nearly 80,000 jobs and generating almost $15 billion in annual economic impact. In addition to being a top 10 U.S. cruise port, the port handles a wide array of bulk, break bulk, containers and roll-on/roll-off cargoes, and is a major shipbuilding and repair center. Port Tampa Bay is the first seaport in the U.S. to receive the designation as “StormReady” by the National Weather Service. |
Thinking Personality, Reading Comprehension, and Social Norms.\nLegal Assistance, Translation, and Urban and Regional Planning.\nLaw is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. Laws are made by governments, and nowadays more specifically, by parliaments. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Law provides a rich source of scholarly inquiry, into legal history, philosophy, economic analysis or sociology. Law also raises important and complex issues concerning equality, fairness, and justice. All legal systems deal with the same basic issues, but jurisdictions categorize and identify its legal subjects in different ways. A common distinction is that between public law (a term related closely to the state, and including constitutional, administrative and criminal law), and private law (which covers contract, tort and property). In civil law systems, contract and tort fall under a general law of obligations, while trusts law is dealt with under statutory regimes or international conventions. International, constitutional and administrative law, criminal law, contract, tort, property law and trusts are regarded as the traditional core subjects, although there are many further disciplines. The main institutions of law in industrialized countries are independent courts, representative parliaments, an accountable executive, the military and police, bureaucratic organization, the legal profession and civil society itself. |
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Sodus/Port Gibson--Lois Sharrow, 76, died on Monday (July 2. 2018) at the Wayne County Nursing Home.\nA graveside funeral service will be held at 1 PM on Saturday (July 7th) at the Port Gibson Cemetery.\nMrs Sharrow was born on September 29, 1941 in Rochester, New York. She has lived in the area her entire life.\nfour grandchildren Melisa and Ryan Sharrow, Cody and Bradon Bulman. |
Daniel Farke believe patience was key as Norwich City produced a stirring second-half fightback to beat Rotherham United 3-1.\nCity trailed at the break after Richie Towell's close-range opener on 11 minutes but they rallied in the second-half and overpowered their opponents with three unanswered goals from Todd Cantwell, Max Aarons and Teemu Pukki.\nSpeaking within minutes of the final whistle at Carrow Road, Farke said: "I'm pretty proud to be honest. It's been several times in recent weeks that we have had setbacks.\n"We played a side who was on a seven game unbeaten run and in this league, it's so important to score the first goal.\n"But again, we showed the capability to respond with our quality in a really good way. It was a well deserved win and I'm pretty proud that we were able to come back.\n"It was unbelievably important [to be patient], because when you concede a goal and you want to win the game, you know Rotherham are well organised and on a good run.\n"It was difficult to turn the game when they were in the lead. Then to stick to your plan and be patient and not lose your nerves but also be concentrated on the work you have to do - that's quite important.\n"It's always important to have a good balance between being greedy to turn the game and not lose our nerves. We got this balance right."\nIt was the third time in the league this season that City have came from behind to win at Carrow Road and Farke was full of praise for his team's mentality.\n"We spoke [at half-time] about one or two tactical things we had to improve on. But also we spoke about the soft skills and the mentality we had to show.\n"We didn't want to be annoyed about the goal or decisions in the first-half. We needed to keep going and not be focused too much on what happens outside the pitch.\n"It was important to keep the nerves and be mentally strong - that was the key today and thankfully the lads stayed focused."\nCantwell scored his first goal for City to kickstart the recovery in the second-half and Farke was particularly pleased for the young playmaker.\n"We all got the feeling, even before his injury, that he was playing a crucial role in our plans. It's important that he's not only there with good performances but also add some end products.\n"To be there to score today and put in a brilliant assist for Max's [Aarons] goal, it's outstanding and I'm pretty happy for Todd." |
Lifelong friends, Jonny Banger and Artwork today open a £5 ballot for those who need a little extra help - whether NHS Staff, a student, nurse, carer or someone who just hasn't got the cash but still wants to rave. The announcement comes alongside the news that Sports Banger will be setting up shop at the festival, bringing his infamous sportswear bootleg creations to Three Mills Island.\nA limited number will be released, and chosen at random from the sign ups. These will be limited to max of 2 per person, and will be non-refundable / and only may be used by the initial purchaser. You will have 24 hours to claim your tickets. Good luck! |
28 \brief Describes binary operations performed on double*.\n30 For operations on DataAbstract see BinaryOp.h.\n31 For operations on DataVector see DataMaths.h.\n37 \brief acts as a wrapper to isnan.\n38 \warning if compiler does not support FP_NAN this function will always return false.\n44 // Q: so why not just test d!=d?\n45 // A: Coz it doesn't always work [I've checked].\n46 // One theory is that the optimizer skips the test.\n55 \brief returns a NaN.\n169 returns a non-zero vector in the kernel of [[A00,A01],[A01,A11]] assuming that the kernel dimension is at least 1.\n203 assuming that the kernel dimension is at least 1 and A00 is non zero.\n239 length is zero and first non-zero component is positive.\n301 nomalizes a 3-d vector such that length is one and first non-zero component is positive.\n339 length is zero and first non-zero component is positive.\n472 // SM is the product of the last axis_offset entries in arg_0.getShape(). |
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I just had the opportunity to purchase a 1997 rm250 for $2300 and was wondering if that's a good price for one ?\nif it was perfect, as in showroom quality i'd think 1500 max.\nI dunno where you're located but a 99 is listed here for 1500. Hasn't sold. I'd say both are worth 900-1100 here. Market conditions local to you typically affects the price. In the northern hemisphere it's coming up on fall and to some that means no riding soon so it's considered "end" of riding season so it's a buyers market typically.\nPeople are dumb. The bike retailed around 4500 new. $2300 would of been a fair selling price in 2000. Unless the bike is in museum quality shape, I would pass. For not much more you can find a YZ that's almost identical to the current model. |
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In this tutorial, I’m going to teach you how to make Extruding Shape Layers in Adobe After Effects CS6.\nFirst thing you need to do is start out a new project, give it a name and save it.\nNow, to create a shape layer, you don´t need to select anything, just go to the screen and create a shape like in the example below. You can give it colors and modify it the way you want.\nMake it a 3D layer by clicking on the “Classic 3D” tab on the upper right side of the screen.\nYou need to wait for it to load and then you will be able to see your shape like this.\nOn the bottom left, you will see an option that says “Shape layer” inside which you will find other options such as: Contents, transform, geometry options and material options .\nYou can regulate the lighting and other features from here as well.\nAfter Effects is a very useful program for those interested in design, it´s really simple to use and it can make a difference when creating a project. I highly recommend you to explore it. |
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Disclaimer: it's Hallie's birthday week, so this mama is feeling intensely sentimental, extraordinarily grateful, and a wee bit emotional.\nOn Easter Sunday my Facebook and Instagram feeds exploded with pictures of large family gatherings and holiday celebrations. Moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas, aunt and uncles and cousins...reunited, if even for just a few hours, in honor of a special day and in spite of the crazy that inevitably comes out when families get together.\nTom and I - and our extended families - work hard to stay connected despite the 1,000 miles between us. Annually we see one side for Thanksgiving and the other for Christmas, we visit both extended families in the summer, and the grandparents travel to us at least once in the spring or fall (and sometimes both). But because the journey requires an airplane or driving for multiple days in the car, we don't spend the rest of the holidays - New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day, Easter, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Halloween - with family.\nI had previously thought of us as the minority, celebrating at home with our little foursome because we don't have family here. (To be clear, I'm not complaining. I appreciate the intimacy of our holiday celebrations.) It struck me, however, as I wrote last week's post about our new Easter tradition, that I was wrong. We do have family here. We have the family we chose.\nWe met through preschool, elementary school, and existing friends. We became friends, and then over time, we became a village.\nThe other day a quote came across one of my social media feeds. I don't have the wording quite right, but it said something like "the village has enough idiots...I'll raise my child myself, thankyouverymuch". In that moment I felt horribly for whoever wrote that statement, because they clearly don't have a village like mine.\nMy village works because we built it slowly, on a foundation of friendship using bricks of kindness, honesty, support, acceptance, and love. (And with a little wine on top.) These gifts - and not necessarily just blood - make people family. And the four Ferri are lucky to have found family here in Texas.\nThese people - my village, my Texas family - make every day a holiday. |
Forensics are the scientific methods used to solve a crime. Forensic investigation is the gathering and analysis of all crime-related physical evidence in order to come to a conclusion about a suspect. Investigators will look at blood, fluid, or fingerprints, residue, hard drives, computers, or other technology to establish how a crime took place. This is a general definition, though, since there are a number of different types of forensics.\nForensic science is the combination of two different Latin words: forensic and science. The former, forensic, relates to a discussion or examination performed in public. Because trials in the ancient world were typically held in public, it carries a strong judicial connotation. The second is science, which is derived from the Latin word for knowledge and is today closely tied to the scientific method, a systematic way of acquiring knowledge. Taken together, then, forensic science can be seen as the use of the scientific methods and processes in crime solving.\nI need a forensic investigator?\nIf you have been accused of a crime: The most efficient way to clear your name is to allow a professional, unbiased source gather evidence.\nIf you have been the victim of a crime: Evidence found by an investigator is reliable and will stand up in court.\nIf your spouse is cheating on you: An infidelity investigator can prove your spouse’s actions via email, voicemails, and other surveillance, in order to get you the compensation you need.\nIf you are a business owner: Companies and employers often use corporate investigations because they can uncover sexual harassment issues, lawsuits from disgruntled employees, internet abuse, stolen customer information, or intellectual property issues.\nWhile it is true that almost all police forces have a forensic team on staff, these investigators often handle multiple cases at once. Not only will hiring your own investigator ensure that your case is at the forefront, but they can continue their investigation for as long as you need.\nDirect vs circumstantial evidence: Direct evidence establishes a fact and includes eyewitness testimonies and/or confessions. Circumstantial requires inference on behalf of the judge or jury. Fingerprints or hair fibers suggest someone was at the scene of the crime.\nPhysical vs biological evidence: Physical evidence is nonliving, inorganic material like fingerprints, glass, or bullets. Biological evidence is organic material like DNA, wood, or plants.\nReconstructive Evidence: This includes any evidence that allows police to better understand how the crime took place.\nAssociative evidence: Any evidence that links a suspect to a scene at a given time.\nTestimonial evidence: What is said in court by a competent witness. |
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Dark Physics & Dark A.I. & Dark Dynamix / How do you use the debugger?\nI see the debugger but I am not sure how to use it after putting 'phy enable debug' in my code.\nAre there any easy step by step instructions? I have looked at the help from Aegia but it didn't seem to say what steps to take for a simple view of what is happening.\nAnyone have any ideas? Maybe someone has done it already?\nNow that you have the command call in to enable the debugger go to the Start Menu and look under The Game Creators\Expansion Packs\Dark Physcis\Tools and run the Debugger program.\nFirst thing you may want to do is go to the View Menu, select Camera and then set the mode to Fly. Now you can navigate using the mouse and wasd keys.\nNow go back to your DB Pro program and run it. When the program is launched and everything loaded hit the stop button on the debugger. If your world is centred around 0, 0, 0 you'll get to see something in the debugger straight away. You still may need to move your camera around though. If your world is centred elsewhere then take a quick look around to move the camera. If things are moving slow or too fast go to the File Menu and select Preferences.\nFrom here select Camera Speed and input a lower or higher value. To continue the playback hit the Play button.\nHope that helps. There's also documentation included with the debugger to be found in the Help menu. Some of it may not be relevant to Dark Physics but still some useful info to be found.\nDoes the debugger render using a different handedness? I'm not really a 3D engine boff by any stretch of the imagination, but I believe there are left and right handed systems, and it looks like DB and the debugger are different. It was a major brain jolt for me when I jumped in there and started trying to look around my level. I think I'll find a large mirror to place next to the monitor and view it from there in future.\nYeah it does it the other way round which can take some getting used to but it's worth using anyway. Being able to see all that info can clear up all kinds of problems.\nI have started the debugger and selected NEW under file, then gone back and run an example program which runs very slow indicating maybe the debugger is in effect, but nothing seems to get recorded. I hit stop and then try to play and there is nothing there. I left the port as the default 5425 -should that be changed?\nI am just trying to run it with example 05 as I work through the information.\nIt may be the placement of phy enable debug which is causing the problem. Try making it the very first line of your program. Now run the debugger, no need to move the camera or select new or anything else. Now go back to the program and run it. You should get to see the objects falling down onto the ground. |
You are probably the first to admit that there are some things you know a lot about and some things you are in the dark about. How much do you know about Dallas, TX window replacement? Maybe not very much. But there’s one thing every homeowner is at least somewhat familiar with and that’s finances. You have to know how to spend your money correctly or you wouldn’t have a home in the first place. If you are looking into new windows, thinking about them in financial terms will help you understand whether or not you should move forward with the project. Here are a few financial aspects of window replacement to help you get started.\nWhen you start the window replacement search, you’ll notice that you’re in for a big investment. If that was money down the drain, it would make sense to hesitate over the decision, but you aren’t just throwing money away. Rather, you are investing it into the future of your house. The money you spend is money you most definitely will see again. If you sell your house in the future, for example, you can get 80% of your investment back in a higher home price because of the new windows. Plus, you’ll see energy savings each and every month you live in the home, which can pay you back the rest of the way and then some. Not only will you see the financial aspects, but your home will feel more comfortable and look better too. Do you have to spend a lot for window replacement? It’s not a small number. But you get so much out of it, most homeowners find it well worth the effort.\nYou want your appliances to last as long as possible. When you think of replacing appliances, the most expensive is the HVAC system. It would be nice for that system to run effectively and efficiently for as long as you own the home, so you don’t have to worry about that expense yourself. One way you can help it last longer is through new windows. While the windows cost upfront, they will take the pressure off the HVAC system and it won’t have to work as hard. You’ll see that in energy savings, but you’ll also see that in your system’s lifespan.\nThese are just a few financial benefits you will notice once you get Dallas, TX window replacement options installed. There are plenty of others and the professionals at Southwest Door & Windows can go over them with you. Give us a call at (214) 341-2212 and we can answer your questions about the investment you are thinking of making. We’ll never pressure you into anything and will give you our honest assessment so you can move forward with confidence. If you want to stop by and see us in person, our showroom is located at 10990 Petal St #700, Dallas, TX 75238 and we can show you examples there. |
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