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I hope everyone has enjoyed the holidays. I’ve been hibernating, but I’m back now, and I’ve got a bunch of talks and events over the next few weeks, in addition to a new term.
Jennifer Ouelette will be interviewing me about my writing, physics, and symmetry in the universe. The interview will be “live” in Second Life, but will be downloadable as a podcast after.
I’ll be talking about “What’s the Matter with the Higgs Boson” as part of the “Science on Tap” series organized by the Wagner Free Institute.
Tuesday, January 14, 7:30pm at the Philadelphia Free Library.
Max Tegmark and I will be talking about how mathematics describes the universe. I’ll be talking about symmetry. Max will be talking about his new book, Our Mathematical Universe, which comes out in a few days. There will be Q&A and book signings afterwards.
In other news, the paperback edition of the “User’s Guide to the Universe is finally out and available. I just got my copy today.
There are lots of other surprises in the new year. I’m not going to ruin them now, but I think you’ll enjoy them. Hope everyone is keeping nice and warm. | 112284031 |
Baraza La Mitihani La Tanzania – The Nationwide Examination Council Of Tanzania – All The Examination Outcomes & Academic Assets For Free Downloads. The Chairperson, Ms Carolina Joseph, Headteacher of a neighborhood nursery school ably led the proceedings and, with humour, introduced the two Master Trainers Ms Cecelia Joseph-English and Ms Deborah Gomes and the primary speaker Mr Stephen Harding, Education Administration Specialist and VSO from NCERD.
Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Schooling,Science and Expertise, Dr. Fred Matiang’i, Releases KCPE outcomes for 2015 at Mtihani House, Nairobi. Here I am talking about ensuring that along with your schooling and educating expertise, you also spotlight your palms on expertise in a given topic space. Such education ought to allow folks to amass relevant data, abilities, expertise and competencies to perform effectively as residents, workforce and as leaders of Malawi, thereby reducing poverty amongst the folks of Malawi. If you want to teach online courses at a regionally accredited college, your doctorate pretty much needs to be accredited from one of the six regional accrediting bodies acknowledged by the department of education. Members of Cupboard & Ministry of Training on Monday March 30, toured the Newtown Major Faculty development website.
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Ashish Kumar is a MBA from Delhi. He worked many years in private sectors. After that he returned to his home town Gonda(UP) and met his wife in his study class and fell in love for her. Now he teaches in Degree college as well as has joined the sweetmaking shop of his father-in-law. He handles both works simultaneously.
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£34,900 after tax and National Insurance will result in a £2,272 monthly net salary in 2019, leaving you with £27,268 take home pay in a year. You will pay a total of £4,480 in tax this year, and you’ll also have to pay £3,152 in National Insurance. Your hourly rate will be £16.78 if you’re working 40 hours per week.
Now let's see how we've calculated your tax on your £34,900 income.
As your total yearly earnings of £34,900 are above this personal allowance, you will have to pay tax on the earnings that are above this sum - in your case, if we deduct £12,500 from your £34,900 income, we'll be left with a taxable amount of £22,400.
This means that out of your total earnings of £34,900, you will pay a total of £4,480 in tax this year, which amounts to £373 per month.
As your total yearly earnings of £34,900 are above this threshold , you will have to pay National Insurance on the sum that is above £8,632.
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Starting or growing a business takes capital. In our unpredictable economy, start-ups and even established small businesses may find it difficult to get a traditional business loan. This is where business credit cards can help. They allow businesses access to funds for major purchases and allow them to build a respectable credit rating. Here are three ways a business credit card helps you expand your business and make your goals a reality.
Some businesses opt for charge cards, which provide funds and allow a grace period before repayment is due. However, most charge cards require the full balance to be paid regularly. Credit cards generally only require minimum monthly payments. That makes managing money much easier. Not having to pay back huge sums each month lets you make business plans like launching a new product or buying things such as shopping cart software.
Having a global presence is a great way to expand your business, and credit cards are one way to help with that. Most credit cards are accepted worldwide. Say you need to travel to Europe to set up a deal or make a business purchase. Not only can you purchase the airfare on your card, but you can use the card for any business expenses when you arrive. So that’s the hotel, food and any entertaining costs dealt with.
Business expenses can become complex, especially with a large workforce. Using one business credit card for all expenses means there’s only one statement to deal with when it comes to working out the expenses bill. This is also handy when it comes time to do the taxes. Employees can be added as authorized users where appropriate. There’s no expense reimbursement to deal with, which saves a lot of time and effort.
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A friend of mine is a midwife educator and we took a few classes with her before our baby was born. In one of them, on the topic of pain, she introduced us to a great saying: FEAR is False Expectations Approaching Reality. It buoyed me at the time in the hopes that labor wouldn’t be as painful as I expected. Although I can’t say the birth of my daughter was less painful than I feared, I can say that traveling to the U.S. with her was.
There were many things that allowed my FEAR to be just that—false expectations. Some things were better than I worried they’d be, and some things were worse. But overall, it was a much more pleasant experience than I imagined—as another American friend who’s a long-timer in Mexico has suspected may be the case with me, I might be psyching myself out to be pleasantly surprised in the end. Not a typical personality characteristic of mine, but when it comes to love and exile, it can be a useful tactic.
The cost was not a problem because I did not keep track of how much money I spent like I have on other trips. Why bother? Keeping track of my receipts wouldn’t change how much I had to shell out, that I’ve been unemployed for the last 24 months, or that my financial safety net is developing some seriously large holes. In the end, I had enough to get back home.
The family reunion was a success, if you don’t count the fact that my husband wasn’t there. But then again, neither were several aunts, uncles, and cousins…so why be nit-picky? The important thing was that my daughter got to see her grandparents (my parents) again, meet her uncle (my brother) and his fiancée, her great-aunt & uncle and a couple of their relatives, a good handful of my high school friends, and a large number of my parents’ friends from work.
One unexpected dynamic was that despite his absence, Margo had a much stronger presence than past trips, and I chalk that up to him being present through our daughter. She looks a lot like him, questions directed to me about her invariably brought him up, and many people intuited how much she (and me, by default) must miss him. So it was nice not having to tiptoe around the subject of his absence like a big white elephant.
I’d done my grieving over not being able to get a Canadian visa for Margo for travel. I’d prepared myself emotionally and let loose a few floodgates en route to have the best mindset possible upon arrival. Sure, a few tense moments occurred as can happen with anyone traveling with kids and aligning parenting philosophies with the grandparents. But I was surprisingly solid when it came to not falling apart.
It might have been because I convinced myself, as I told our daughter, that there were some good things about him staying home: he had to work, we saved money, someone had to feed the chickens and the bunny and the cats and water the garden, someone had to watch the house. So when we’d make our phone calls, it felt more like he was serving a purpose back home than languishing lamenting about not being with us. That was fortunate.
I also might not have had time to grieve his absence since I was so darn busy taking care of the baby. Besides fully co-parenting with my husband, we also had someone coming in a few days a week to help with the baby for the month before we left, and so I was used to getting a large amount of help with the baby at all hours. Her grandparents were great with her, feeding, entertaining, and bathing her to everyone’s delight, but spending the nights getting up alone with her and putting her to bed during Fourth of July fireworks and the days prior were more tiring than normal.
One FEAR that was more true than I expected was the exhaustion factor of the actual bus and air travel by ourselves. But even so, it was kind of funny to see a couple in the airport with two young kids bickering over some aspect of parental care mid-escalator ride. In the state I was in, baby hanging from the sling, (albeit balanced nicely with backpack weight), with luggage in tow, I smiled knowingly at the woman and said, just breathe. She looked surprised for a moment but then smiled back at me. Then they went back to their bickering and I thought to myself, I don’t have to deal with that aspect of traveling together, even if my back is aching!
Another silver lining to the exhaustion was that all of that extra time with the baby by myself also led to something special—we bonded like when she was a newborn, and that was perhaps the sweetest unexpected benefit of all.
When I got back to Mexico, I got some feedback from friends with children that gave me some insight about the fact that, although I may have unique circumstances as to why my husband isn’t able to travel with us, it’s surprisingly common for many of my friends to fall into the traveling alone with kids department. One friend related how her husband is stuck in the PhD program from hell for almost 10 years, which has forced her to strike out camping on her own with two small boys. A new American friend here in Mexico traveled alone with not one but two kids up to the States in June—not because her husband doesn’t qualify for a visa but because he forgot to renew it. Others travel alone because their spouses can’t get time off work.
Although I feel womanly solidarity in that we all face similar challenges with our children and I empathize with their spouses’ unavailability for travel (and I also bow down to their ability to juggle multiple infants alone!), when I mentioned this to Margo, as well as the pros of the “holding down the fort” argument, he wasn’t 100% convinced. “Yeah that’s all true, but I would like to go.” Knowing he’s someone who doesn’t express their wants and needs often, his words didn’t fall on deaf ears. And perhaps that is the one expectation that most disappointingly approached reality: that on the subject of traveling together as a family, reunion or otherwise, bright sides or not, ultimately we didn’t have any choice but for Daddy to stay home. | 123472057 |
Good painting offers a mysterious pleasure that one cannot quite put his finger on because the painter, through honesty and hard work, has actually painted his own personality in a familiar subject; and any person’s personality or character or soul, or whatever your word is for it, is something of an enigma.
I came across the quote above early this morning and was intrigued. I understood and felt a kinship with the meaning of his words but didn’t recognize the name of the painter so I looked him up. The image at the top was the first image I found. This painting and a number of others made me wonder why I didn’t know anything about this guy.
John Rogers Cox was born in Indiana in 1915 and spent a bit of his life in Chicago teaching at the Art Institute there. He later lived in New Orleans and the states of Washington and Kentucky, where he died in 1990. He painted very slowly and, as a result, didn’t paint many pieces during his career. The number of pieces by Cox that are known to exist is somewhere in the range of 20 paintings, although I am not sure that is a truly accurate number. This limited production probably explains his lack of widespread recognition.
The painting at the top is his most famous work. It is titled Gray and Gold and has been at the Cleveland Museum of Art since 1943. It was painted in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor and the entry of the US into World War II. I think the symbolism in it is pretty evident so I won’t go into it here. But even without the knowledge of that symbolism, it’s a pretty potent piece.
That can be said of most of his other paintings, as well. At least those you can find with decent available images. I love the relationship he creates in his work between the vast sky and the landscape. There is an elegant simplicity that really captivates me.
Coming across this painter made my morning. John Rogers Cox is another one of those expressive voices from the past that are still there if you only take the time to look. | 241786609 |
Can Detective Lottie Parker catch a killer and protect her family?
The Missing Ones is the first installment in the Detective Lottie Parker Series by Patricia Gibney. When a women is found murdered inside a church Detective Lottie Parker is put in charge of the case. When a second person is killed can Lottie find the link between the two murders? Just as Lottie and her team are trying to put all the pieces of a very complicated puzzle together, a priest goes missing. Is this linked to the two murders? Lottie and her team have a great deal of work ahead of them to find out what links all the pieces together.
On top of all of this Lottie is getting heat from her superintendent for her actions and her attempts at going after the local Bishop in connection with the murders and also going at a local well off business man both of whom have complained about Lottie and both who seem to be up to their necks in it in this case.
Can Lottie put all the pieces together and figure out who the killer is before more bodies turn up, before her own family and secrets come out. Has this case got anything to do with Lottie's long lost missing brother?
The Missing Ones, This book was chosen as one of the books for my bookclub (Bilsthorpe Bookworms) From reading the blurb i thought this sounded like an interesting read and defiantly my type of book. So what did i think once id read it?
I actually really enjoyed it. I found Lottie to be a character you liked, she's had a lot of hard times in her life and she is still going strong. Yes okay she has a slight drinking problem but at least she knows she does. I found i could relate to her when she spoke about her relationship with her mother as my own relationship with my mother over the past year has not been too good.
I found myself really rooting for Boyd hoping him and Lottie would get together and become a couple as i found them to be really sweet together and i thought Boyd was a perfect fit for Lottie after her loss. Boyd was another character you found yourself loving. Although he can come across as annoying and he liked to wind Lottie up he never meant any harm in it and always had Lottie's back.
I found halfway through the book i had guessed who i thought was the killer but i knew he had changed his name and couldn't figure out which of the characters he was now going by. To then find out i was well wrong completely about who the killer is i thought was really good. I really love it when i can't guess 'who done it' and the book keeps me guessing and questioning right up till the reveal. This to me is a sign of a great thriller novel.
I did find the book to be a little long winded, There was a lot of chapters and each chapter wasn't very long. I would have to say this is my only criticism really. I don't like it when books have lots of little chapters rather than a few long chapters. With over one hundred chapters in this book, i felt like the book seemed to never end.
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On 5 November 2015, a waste dam at an iron-ore mine in southeastern Brazil collapsed, unleashing a tide of slurry that killed 19 people, displaced hundreds more and polluted 650 kilometres of fertile valleys and estuaries before spewing into the ocean.
Two years later, fishing communities near the mouth of the still-contaminated Rio Doce on the Atlantic coast continue to struggle as a result of Brazil’s worst-ever environmental disaster.
“The social structure of this region has been turned upside down,” says Joca Thomé, a resident of the hard-hit coastal village of Regência and a leader of official efforts to monitor the damage to local biodiversity.
Although the number of dam failures has declined over many years, the number of serious failures has increased, despite advances in the engineering knowledge that can prevent them.
The Germano mine collapse is one of a catalogue of similar incidents highlighted in a new Rapid Response Assessment calling for international action to make the storage of mine waste more secure. The report was published jointly by UN Environment and GRID-Arendal, a UN Environment collaborating centre.
“Mine Tailings Storage: Safety Is No Accident” laments that, although the number of dam failures has declined over many years, the number of serious failures has increased, despite advances in the engineering knowledge that can prevent them.
The consequences, as at the Germano mine, can be a “tsunami-like wave of mine waste capable of destroying everything in its path” and inflicting long-term damage to the environment and the communities that depend on it.
While there is no publicly accessible inventory of tailings dams, one estimate has put their number at 3,500 worldwide. This is likely an underestimate since there may be more than 30,000 industrial mines across the world, although not all of these will have a tailings dam. The global volume of stored tailings is also unknown. However, recent disasters illustrate the potential scale of accidents.
The collapse of the dam at the Germano mine, which is owned by global mining giants Vale and BHP Billiton, released more than 33 million cubic metres of tailings, or waste left over from the processing of the ore. The mudflow destroyed forest along the river banks, wiped out fish and other wildlife and coated the river’s bed and banks with infertile sludge.
A dam failure at the Mount Polley copper and gold mine in British Columbia, Canada in 2014 released a similar volume of waste into a nearby lake, says the UN report. It lists a total of 40 such incidents in the past decade alone.
The report makes two central recommendations that can help the industry to eliminate tailing dam failures.
Firstly, it calls for a “safety-first” approach to tailings storage that should be reflected in both management actions and on-the-ground operations. Regulators, industry and communities should adopt a “zero-failure” objective in which “safety attributes should be evaluated separately from economic considerations, and cost should not be the determining factor,” the report said, echoing experts who examined the Mount Polley disaster.
The report also recommends establishing a UN Environment stakeholder forum to facilitate international strengthening of tailings dam regulation.
These approaches could include establishing a database of mine sites, identifying best practice and developing technical solutions to the main causes of failure. Regulations could be expanded to include, for instance, independent monitoring of waste dams and the enforcement of financial and criminal sanctions for non-compliance.
The assessment also discusses how mining firms can adopt cleaner processes, new technologies and re-use materials in order to reduce waste.
For Thomé, who works for Brazil’s Chico Mendes Institute of Biodiversity Conservation, the goal has to be eliminating such disasters, because the consequences for the victims – both material and psychological – are simply too severe.
Pollution is the theme of the 2017 UN Environment Assembly, which will gather in Nairobi from 4-6 December. A side event on pollution in the extractives industry will take place on Monday, 4 December from 6:00-7:30pm. For more information, please visit the Assembly website or email Oli Brown (oli.brown[at]unenvironment.org). | 132083434 |
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It's usually a person's completion of another cycle around the sun that initiates self-reflection, whilst for others it's the anniversary of an event- maybe the last day they took a swig of alcohol, the first time they left the house in many years or the first time they tipped out of their comfort zone. Different days stand out for different reasons. The day that recently caused me to turn within and judge how far I've come over the last year was the last Sunday in October, or more specifically, the day we fall backwards by one hour in the UK because of daylight saving time.
I've been a Londoner for a little over a year now which makes me qualified to give you a Londoner's guide to the city I now call home, right? Obviously being the good journalism student that I am, I did my research of 'the top places to visit in London Bridge' and then proceeded to do everything in my power to stay away from every place or experience mentioned in those lists.
I'm sitting in my university's library, particularly in my favourite spot next to the recreational reading section. I'm surrounded by books I've previously read, authors I've never heard of and some titles I wish I'd created and yet the words for this blog post are not flowing as I would ideally like them to be. I'm hoping that's something Stephen Fry went through when writing The Fry Chronicles, which is the book on my immediate right.
There are a lot of things on this blog that I take for granted. As the pen behind the pages, I know the ins and outs of this blog. I've seen it go from inception to infancy and to whatever it is now. Saying that, I thought I'd share some little known facts about Social Spying, the blog, with you today.
My first year of university took a lot from me. But it gave me a lot too. Particularly towards the end of the year, I found myself needing to defend the parts that made me, well, me. I'd lost sync with 'the old Steph', pre-2018, which wouldn't have been a problem had I liked this new version of me better.
No matter the length of time that I stay away from blogging, I know that when my heart needs to release something through words I will return and that my blog- and some people on the other end of it- will be there to receive me with open arms. That is this time. Now.
When I walked into that Halloween party all those months ago, which honestly feels like it could have been last week, I'm in awe. I had to stop and ask myself if knowing everything I know now about what I've been through over the last few months, with those 'nurses'- or just the one in particular- would I still have gone to that party?
I'm searching my memory banks for all the times I've had to tell someone that a loved one has died. I'm 19-years-old and grateful that death hasn't ever knocked on my door. I've seen death bang on the doors of distant family members, one time relentlessly when three members died within months of each other. But never so close to me. Never on my door. That changed today.
It's funny how things come full circle. I'm back in the washing room where I wrote this personal life update back in November. Like that cold evening at the end of the year, I'm surrounded by the swish-swash of my two-week's worth of laundry swirling and twirling around amongst soap suds. I've also put a playlist from Youtube on. It's called 'Escape Everything'. I'm not sure what that says about my mental state right now, but it's relaxing accompanied by the swish-swish of the washing machine infront of me. So, it seems apt to end this series in the washing room.
From previous parties at Julian's house, I knew where his room was. As I walked in, the first thing that hit me was the smell of cologne. Julian had sprayed some form of deodorant or put on after-shave or something of the sort and I could smell it. Luckily, it didn't smell bad, just very boyish. I found Julian all flustered. He'd changed into something more comfortable but he was sweating.
I'll be honest. This isn't the follow-up piece that I was expecting to write on the post 'My First Kiss on Valentine's Day at 19-Years-Old'. I expected to describe in more detail the sternness of Julian's body pressed against mine, his gentle caressing of my lower back and his oddly skew but quirky smile. This most definitely won't be that post.
I've noticed many differences (and similarities) between South Africa, where I lived for the first 18 years of my life and the UK (where I've lived for almost 6 months now). For starters, I remember catching a quintessentially British red double-decker bus for the first time last February to go to the town where I currently attend university, and at 9AM, the streets were still dead.
The first three things that came to my mind when I thought about the UK before I ended up moving here were the following: 'doom and gloom' cloud-covered skies, Her Royal Highness the Queen and drinking. A whole lot of drinking. Cumulonimbus just so happens to be my favourite type of cloud, so we're all covered there. I doubt that my day-to-day life experiences would have me crossing paths with Her Majesty, so that was never really a concern for me, however, the drinking culture of the UK which I had heard about frightened me, because I don't drink.
It happened. After 19-years-worth of rom-coms and watching people make out in movies and pack on the PDA in real life, it happened to me. Little old Steph. If you think I'm going to tell you that it was wonderful, you're wrong. But, I'll tell you more about that later.
The fact that I'm typing this blog post under an angled attic-like window that's the size of me (if I were decapitated) which offers me an exclusive view of the city and a gentle first-day-of-February breeze, should tell you where this post is going. I'm seated at a roundtable, in a well-lit corner, besides about 100 books, which are only the ones in eyesight. You could say that I'm in a bookworm's paradise- and you'd be right! | 98938513 |
I was born and raised on Long Island, New York. As such, I am a certified pizza snob. I believe New York Pizza is the best pizza, and there is very little you can do to change my mind.
It's really hard being a New York pizza snob in Boston, but that is the predicament I find myself in. Because I also am madly in LOVE with pizza, I decided that it would be a fun activity to make a yummy pizza at home.
Because I would trust Super Chef Bobby Flay with my life, I decided that his pizza dough recipe would be the perfect place to start. I even made the dough the night before and allowed it to come to room temperature just before cooking. It's really fool proof. A stand mixer is very useful to have, but if you don't have this or time to make your own dough, a store-bought dough would work just fine!
The joy of homemade pizza is the fact that you can let your imagination run wild. There is no pizza shop owner telling you what pizza options you have. Instead, the options are limitless! If you want a bacon, bleu cheese, french fry pizza -- by God, you make that pizza.
For my first homemade pizza, I thought I would keep it simple and go with what I like. I am a huge fan of browned sweet Italian sausage, and broccoli is almost always my vegetable of choice. And so this simple but comforting Sausage and Broccoli Pizza was born.
I doctored up a store-bought pizza sauce using a bunch of herbs, lemon juice, a touch of sugar and garlic. I wilted in some spinach for added nutritional goodness.
Now, if you're going to be making a pizza at home and take nothing else away from this post -- heed this tip: do NOT buy pre-shredded mozzarella cheese. If you buy a ball of fresh whole milk mozzarella and shred it yourself, you will find that it melts much more beautifully than the processed stuff and bubbles and browns in a mouthwatering way.
Also important is your equipment...a pizza stone is preferable, but I was able to find a $3 pizza pan (3 DOLLARS!!) at Marshalls. It's extremely helpful for crisping the crust and forming your dough into a nice circle. If all else fails, you can also follow the steps below using a large cast iron skillet!
The following recipe includes the pizza dough recipe and a separate recipe for the toppings. Note that the dough recipe yields 2 13-inch pizzas, so check back soon for another great pizza recipe I served this past weekend that is so outrageous it has to be good! PIZZA! PIZZA!
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook, combine 3 1/2 cups of flour, sugar, yeast and salt. Turn mixer on low and gradually stream in the water and 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Increase speed slightly and knead until the dough begins to form a ball and pulls away from the sides of the bowl. If it is extremely sticky, add more flour about a tablespoon at a time until desired consistency.
Lightly flour a clean work surface and turn the dough out onto the countertop. Knead lightly and form into a smooth ball. Use the remaing olive oil to grease a large bowl. Place the dough in the bowl and cover tightly with plastic wrap. Place in a warm area and allow to rise about 1 hour until doubled in size.
Once the dough has doubled, again lightly flour a clean work surface and separate the dough into 2 equal pieces. Knead each piece gently into a smooth ball. Cover with a clean kitchen towel for ten minutes. If not using immediately, wrap the balls tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. Allow to come to room temperature before cooking.
While preparing the toppings, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place the pizza pan in the oven to preheat as well.
In a small saucepan, combine the pizza sauce, water, herbs, sugar, and lemon juice over medium heat. Stir to combine. Bring to a slight boil then reduce the heat to low. Add the spinach and cook until completely wilted; season with salt and pepper. Remove from the heat and allow to cool.
In a skillet, heat a bit of oil over medium heat. Add the sausage and brown for about 2 minutes. Begin breaking apart the sausage and crumble into small pieces. Cook, stirring occassionally until browned on all sides. Transfer to a paper towel lined plate to drain.
In the same pan, melt the butter and saute the broccoli until warmed. Season with salt and pepper.
Remove pizza pan from oven and carefully press pizza dough onto the pan working out from the center. Make it as thick or thin as you like.
Use a soup ladle to spoon about a cup of the sauce into the center of the crust. Use the back of the spoon to swirl it around to coat almost all of the pizza, leaving about an inch for the crust. Top the sauce with broccoli then add the mozzarella cheese, being sure to evenly coat the entire pizza. Finally, place the sausage pieces on top. Drizzle the top with the remaining olive oil, being sure to get a bit on the crust as well. Bake at 350 for about 15 to 20 minutes until the cheese is bubbly and the crust is gold brown. Allow to cool slightly before cutting and serving. | 317705991 |
Büsingen am Hochrhein is a German town entirely surrounded by the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen and south across the Rhine by the cantons of Zürich and Thurgau. It has a population of about 1,450 inhabitants.
Since the early 19th century the exclave has been separated from the rest of Germany by a narrow strip of land of about 700 m at its narrowest and contains the Swiss settlement of Dörflingen. Büsingen belongs to the district of Konstanz, in the Land of Baden-Württemberg. Economically, it forms part of the Swiss customs area. There are no border controls between Switzerland and Büsingen or the rest of Germany since Switzerland joined the Schengen zone in 2008/2009. Büsingen is regarded as a holiday destination in summer by both German and Swiss visitors from around the area for its recreational areas along the Rhine. The town is also the home of the European Nazarene College, a large (for the town) Bible college with an international focus.
Between 1694 and 1728, because of war and fights between Schaffausen and the Austrians, Büsingen become an exclave in Schaffausen territory. In the year 1835 Büsingen became part of German customs territory. In 1895, Switzerland agreed to enable the farmers of Büsingen to sell their products in Switzerland. This exchange of goods functioned even during the First World War - in both directions. In 1918 a referendum was held in Büsingen in which 96% of voters chose to become part of Switzerland. However, it never happened as Switzerland could not offer anything suitable in exchange, and consequently Büsingen has remained an exclave of Germany ever since.
The exclave of Büsingen was formally defined in 1967 through negotiations between West Germany and Switzerland. At the same time, the German exclave of Verenahof, consisting of just three homes and fewer than a dozen people, became part of Switzerland.
There are no border controls between Switzerland and Büsingen or the rest of Germany since Switzerland joined the Schengen zone in 2008/2009. Büsingen is highly regarded as a holiday destination in summer by both German and Swiss visitors from around the area for its recreational areas along the Rhine.
The town is also the home of the European Nazarene College, a large (for the town) Bible college with an international focus.
cation, it uses public services from both countries, including public transport, post and telephone services, which operate side by side. To send a letter to Büsingen, one can send it using either a Swiss postal code or a German one. Residents of Büsingen can be reached by telephone using either a German number (with the prefix +49 7734) or a Swiss one (with the prefix +41 52).
Germans who have been registered in Büsingen for more than 10 years are called Alt Büsinger (Old Büsingers) and receive a special recognised status similar to Swiss citizenship. All Büsingers are allowed to purchase real estate or work in Switzerland even if they don't possess Swiss citizenship.
In emergencies, both the Swiss or the German police may be called, with the Swiss, being closer, usually arriving faster. In the case of a search warrant both German and Swiss officials are required to be present.
After attending primary school in Büsingen, children may continue their education in either Switzerland or Germany. About 70% elect to go to school in Switzerland.
The local football team, FC Büsingen, is the only German team to play in the Swiss Football League.
Unlike the rest of Germany, the enclave was not part of the Schengen Zone. This changed when Switzerland fully implemented the Schengen Agreement on 12 December 2008. | 80273713 |
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We’re pleased to announce that the third Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo (PELICE) will be held February 29 – March 2, 2012 at the Omni Hotel at CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The location in the Grand Ballroom North is the same as the PELICE events in 2008 and 2010.
PELICE is again sponsored by Panel World magazine and Georgia Research Institute. Once again, PELICE will be immediately preceded by the second Bioenergy Fuels & Products Symposia & Expo, which for the first time will be held in the Grand Ballroom North.
The most recent PELICE featured 65 speakers and moderators who addressed a range of topics including resins & adhesives, emerging issues for engineered wood products and panel manufacturers, structural and non-structural products, technologies & issues, and the highly popular energy to emissions sessions. The expo portion of the event featured 60 equipment and supplier companies. Many companies exhibited in both PELICE and the preceding Bioenergy events. Those that do so in 2012 will be able to maintain the same exhibit in the same location for both events, and participate in a new Combo Sponsorship program.
• 96% of the attendees who completed a post-PELICE survey reported they found some aspect or technology in the conference presentations and exhibits that might be useful to their business.
In an effort to continually improve PELICE, and in response to attendee and exhibitor feedback, the organizers have tweaked the exhibit layout to allow for a more thorough flow-through and have moved additional food functions onto the exhibit floor.
Despite a modest economy during the first PELICE in 2008, and a more severe recession during the event in 2010, the consistent feedback from participants is that PELICE continues to deliver an essential and unique event that addresses the specific and timely needs of the panel and engineered lumber industries. | 323292111 |
2012-12-28 First worldwide family litigation filed litigation Critical https://patents.darts-ip.com/?family=35677315&utm_source=google_patent&utm_medium=platform_link&utm_campaign=public_patent_search&patent=US20060112408(A1) "Global patent litigation dataset” by Darts-ip is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
An assistance method for selecting a program using a display device (112) is disclosed. The method (1200) selects one or more attributes associated with a first program, the one or more attributes being selected dynamically by a processor associated with the display device (112) according to one or more predetermined criteria. The method searches for a second program associated with one or more of the selected attributes. The second program and the one or more attributes associated therewith are displayed on the display device, according to the search for the second program.
This application claims the right of priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119 based on Australian Patent Application No. 2004906288, filed 1 Nov. 2004 and Australian Patent Application No. 2004906289, filed 1 Nov. 2004, which are incorporated by reference herein in their entirety as if fully set forth herein.
The present invention relates generally to the fields of multi-media, information technology and computing and, in particular, to a method and apparatus for displaying data associated with a program. The present invention also relates to a computer program product including a computer readable medium having recorded thereon a computer program for displaying data associated with a program.
In recent times, particularly in the areas of multi-media, information technology and computing, people are being exposed to huge amounts of data every day. It is important that a particular person or user of such data is able to navigate through available data items efficiently, in order to determine a subset of data items that is more relevant to the particular user.
Conventionally, there have been two main methods of determining a subset of relevant data items from the available data items. These two main conventional methods may be broadly referred to as “searching” and “browsing”. Conventional searching methods require a considerable amount of data, such as keywords, search categories and other search conditions, to be input by a user in order to be effective. These conventional searching methods are inappropriate for certain types of user interfaces, such as television screens and remote controls, where detailed data input is often difficult and inefficient.
For user interfaces such as television screens and remote controls, conventional browsing methods can be more appropriate. In such browsing methods, data items of a collection of data items may be organised into some form of data structure, such as a hierarchy of categories. A user may be provided with mechanisms for browsing through the data structure.
However, conventional browsing methods have a number of disadvantages. For example, conventional browsing methods typically only work well when the number of data items in the collection of data items being browsed is less than a certain size beyond which browsing efficiency starts to decline. Further, conventional browsing methods, which organise data items into a fixed data structure, do not take into account differences in individual preferences between different users, and hence the organisation might not be optimal for the individual users.
Some conventional searching and browsing methods consider user preferences when retrieving a subset of data items from available data items. In such conventional methods, user preferences may be collected either explicitly (e.g., by asking the user directly) or implicitly (e.g., by interpreting user behaviour) or both. The collected user preferences may then be compiled into user profiles. User profiles may be used to determine what data items a particular user prefers. A user profile for a television system, for example, comprises viewing data about a television user, including watched television programs, unwatched television programs, user ratings for rated television programs and other data collected from the user.
Recommendation systems can use user profiles to generate a short list of data items that may be suggested to users. For example, a recommendation system for a television system may be used to rate television programs based on a given user profile. The recommendation system may then produce a list of television programs, sorted in order of likelihood that the user would be interested in the television program. As an example, FIG. 9 shows a recommendation list 905 comprising television program rankings 900 and a list of television programs 901 for recommending to a user.
One major disadvantage of generating recommendations based simply on user profiles is that the intention of a particular user may change from occasion to occasion. A particular type of preferred data item selected by the particular user on one occasion may not necessarily be a preferred type of data item on a different occasion. For example, consider an online shopping catalogue that sells books. On one occasion the user may prefer children's books as gift for a child. On another occasion the same user may prefer documentary books as reference material for their work.
Some conventional searching and browsing methods use current context (e.g. a currently selected data item), to generate options that are related to the current context. However, these current context methods are also insufficient for large collections of data items, where the number of data items in a subset of available data items might be large. This problem may be addressed to some extent by sorting the data items in the subset into recommendation order based on user preferences.
However, again, there are disadvantages to these conventional current context and sorting methods. For example, presenting all related data items as options to the user is inappropriate for certain types of interfaces, such as television screens and remote controls, where navigating through a long list of options is inefficient.
Thus, a need clearly exists for a more efficient method of displaying data associated with a data item, which is suitable for use with interfaces such as televisions and hand held remote controls.
It is an object of the present invention to substantially overcome, or at least ameliorate, one or more disadvantages of existing arrangements.
displaying the second program and the one or more attributes associated therewith, on a display device, according to the search for the second program.
displaying the second program and data associated therewith, on the display device, according to the search for the second program.
display means for displaying the second program and the one or more attributes associated therewith, on a display device associated with said processor, according to the search for the second program.
displaying the second program and the one or more attributes associated therewith, according to the search for the second program.
FIG. 14 is a flow diagram showing a method of selecting one or more data attributes associated with a current pivot program for use as candidate attributes, as executed during the method of FIG. 11.
It is to be noted that the discussions contained in the “Background” section and that above relating to prior art arrangements relate to discussions of documents or devices which form public knowledge through their respective publication and/or use. Such should not be interpreted as a representation by the present inventor(s) or patent applicant that such documents or devices in any way form part of the common general knowledge in the art.
The principles of the methods described herein have general applicability to any environment comprising a collection of data items and a user interface for searching on and retrieving data related to selected ones of the data items. However, for ease of explanation, the steps of the methods are described with reference to selection of televisions programs for viewing on a television set and the displaying of data attributes associated with the television programs. It is not intended that the present invention be limited to the described methods. For example, the described methods may have application to an online shopping catalogue a digital photo album or the like.
FIG. 1 shows the hardware architecture of a television system 100 upon which the methods described may be practiced. The system 100 comprises a set top-box 101 coupled to a display device in the form of a television set 112 (e.g., a digital television set). The system 100 also comprises a controller in the form of remote control unit 105, which may be configured for selecting a data item corresponding to a television program for display on the television set 112. As seen in FIG. 1, the remote control unit 105 comprises directional navigation buttons 106 and special function buttons 107, 108 and 111. The buttons 106, 107, 108 and 111 of the remote control unit 104 may take any form. For example, one or more of the buttons 106, 107, 108 and 111 may be in the form of a defined area printed or formed on a surface of the remote control unit 105 and which is selectable by a user in a similar manner to the buttons 106, 107, 108 and 111 shown in FIG. 1. The remote control unit 105 may also take the form of a smart card ( not shown) and smart card reader (not shown), where the smart card has a number of user selectable indicia (or areas) formed on a surface thereof. In this instance, the user selectable indicia may be arranged on the surface of the smartcard in a similar manner to the buttons 106, 107, 108 and 111 of the remote control unit 105.
The set-top-box 101 may be used to interpret signals 109 received from the remote control unit 105 according to a press or selection of one or more of the buttons 106, 107, 108 and 111 of the remote control unit 105, permitting control events to occur within the system 100. These control events may result in changes to the state of the system 100 and/or appropriate reproduction on the television set 112, as will be described below.
In the system 100, the remote control unit 105 may use a radio frequency or infra-red (IR) transceiver (not shown) to transmit the signals 109 to the set-top-box 101. Alternatively, the remote control unit 101 may be hard wired to the set-top-box 101, via a communications cable (not shown). Similarly, the set-top-box 101 is shown in FIG. 1 coupled to the television screen 112, via a communications cable 104. Alternatively, instead of being hardwired, a further radio frequency or IR transceiver 1308 (see FIG. 13) may be used for communication between the set-top-box 101 and the television set 112.
FIG. 13 shows the set top box 101 of the system 100 in more detail. The set top box 101 in some implementations is essentially a scaled version of a conventional computer system. Such computer systems may include IBM-PC's and compatibles, Sun Sparcstations or alike computer systems evolved therefrom.
The set top box 101 typically comprises at least one Central Processing Unit (CPU) 1305, a memory unit 1306, for example, formed from semiconductor random access memory (RAM) and read only memory (ROM). The CPU 1305 may also be referred to as a ‘processor’. The set top box 101 also comprises input/output (I/O) interfaces including at least an I/O interface 1313 for transmitting data to and from the television set 112. The I/O interface 1313 may also be used to transmits data to and from another device such as a portable floppy disk drive, CD-ROM drive or even to and from a communications network (e.g., the Internet). The input/output (I/O) interfaces of the set top box 101 typically also includes an I/O interface 1315 for the IR transceiver 1308. The IR transceiver 1308 may be configured for receiving and transmitting the signals 109. The components 1305, 1306, 1308, 1313 and 1315 of the set top box 101 typically communicate via an interconnected bus 1304 and in a manner which results in a conventional mode of operation. Intermediate storage of any data received from the remote control unit 105 may be accomplished using the semiconductor memory 1306. Alternatively, the components 1305, 1306, 1308, 1313 and 1315 of the set top box 101 may be configured within the television set 112.
Software programs implementing the methods described herein may be resident in memory 1306 and be read and controlled in their execution by the CPU 1305 of the set top box 101. Intermediate storage of the software programs may be accomplished using the semiconductor memory 1306, possibly in concert with the CPU 1305. In some instances, the software programs may be supplied encoded on a CD-ROM or floppy disk and downloaded to memory 1306 via the I/O interface 1313. Still further, the software programs may also be loaded into memory 1306 from other computer readable storage mediums including magnetic tape, ROM or integrated circuits, a magneto-optical disk, a radio or infra-red transmission channel between the set-top-box 101 and another device, a computer readable card such as a smart card, a computer PCMCIA card, the TV broadcast, and the Internet and Intranets including via email transmissions of information recorded on Websites and the like. The foregoing is merely exemplary of relevant computer readable media. Other computer readable storage media are able to be practised without departing from the scope of the invention defined by the appended claims.
The methods described herein may alternatively be implemented in dedicated hardware such as one or more integrated circuits performing the functions or sub functions of the described methods. Such dedicated hardware may include graphic processors, digital signal processors, or one or more microprocessors and associated memories.
In the system 100, the memory unit 1306 contains a plurality of data items stored therein. Each of the data items corresponds to a television program that is currently being broadcast or which may be broadcast at some future time. Each data item may comprise a metadata set describing the name of a corresponding television program, broadcast details such as channel and time of broadcast of the corresponding television program, and/or data values corresponding to various data attributes (e.g., genre, cast, director, awards, producer, series, studio etc) associated with the corresponding television program.
The television set 112 is shown in FIG. 1 displaying a user interface 110. The user interface 110 is rendered by the CPU 1305 in accordance with the methods described herein and transmitted to the television set 112 via the communications cable 104. The user interface 110 may be overlaid on top of any live video stream being displayed on the television set 112. The signals 109 transmitted by the remote control unit 105 are received by the CPU 1305, which may cause changes to the user interface 110 as described in more detail below, depending upon which of the buttons 105, 106, 107 and 111 are selected.
FIG. 2 shows the user interface 110 in more detail. The user interface 110 comprises a central region 200 surrounded by a plurality of satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211 in a predetermined spatial arrangement. The central region 200 contains a television program name 201 corresponding to a particular television program stored in memory 1306. The television program corresponding to the television program name 201 shown in the central region 200 may be referred to as the ‘pivot program’.
Each of the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211 also contain a television program name 203, 206, 209 and 212, respectively, in addition to an attribute name 204, 207, 210 and 213. The television program names 203, 206, 209 and 212 represent television programs, which are associated with the pivot program 201 through sharing a similar value of one or more data attributes (e.g., genre, cast, director, awards, producer, series, studio etc). The data attributes through which the television programs represented by the television program names 203, 206, 209 and 212 are associated with the pivot program 201 may be shown as the attribute names 204, 207, 210 and 213, respectively, in each of the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211. Therefore, the attribute names 204, 207, 210 and 213 shown in each satellite region 202, 205, 208 and 211 indicate to a user of the system 100 the association between the television program represented in each of the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211, respectively, and the pivot program 201.
FIG. 12 is a flow diagram showing a method 1200 of displaying data attributes associated with a selected data item corresponding to a television program (e.g., Program B), using the user interface 110. The method 1200 may be implemented as software resident in memory 1306 and being controlled in its execution by the CPU 1305.
The method 1200 begins at the first step 1202, where the CPU 1305 detects the selection of one of the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211 of the user interface 110, representing a first data item corresponding to a television program (e.g., Program B). The satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211 may be selected using the buttons 105, 106, 107, 108 and 111 of the remote control unit 105. In response to one of the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211 being selected using the remote control unit 105, at the next step 1203, the CPU 1305 updates the pivot program 201 displayed in the central region 200 with the television program name (e.g., 203) corresponding to the first data item in the selected satellite region, as will be described in more detail below. Also at step 1203, the CPU 1305 updates each of the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211 to display corresponding second data items based on a search of the memory unit 1306. Each of the second data items represents a new television program which is associated with the updated pivot program 201. The attribute names 204, 207, 210 and 213 of each of the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211 are also updated when the pivot program 201 is updated at step 1203. The updated attribute names 204, 207, 210 and 213 are indicative of the association between the new television program (i.e., second data item) represented by an associated television program name (e.g., 203) in each of the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211 and the updated pivot program 201. The method 1200 concludes following step 1203.
The method 1200 may be used to display data attributes associated with the television programs contained in the memory unit 1306 until such time as a suitable television program is found for viewing, recording or other action.
The steps of the method 1200 may be repeated in response to one of the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211 again being selected using the remote control unit 105. In this instance, the CPU 1305 again updates the pivot program 201 displayed in the central region 200 with the television program name (e.g., 203) corresponding to the second data item in the selected satellite region, as will be described in more detail below. The CPU 1305 also updates each of the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211 to display corresponding third data items based on a search of the memory unit 1306. Each of the third data items represents a new television program which is associated with the updated pivot program 201.
As seen in FIG. 2, a visual highlight indicator 214 of the satellite region 202 may be used to represent that the television program name 203 shown in the satellite region 202 has been selected and is pending an action being applied to the television program represented by the television program name 203. The pending action may be that the program name 203 is to be used to update the pivot program 201 (i.e., the program name 203 becomes the new pivot program 201). A bold typeface may be used to distinguish the selected television program name 203 from the non-selected program names 206, 209 and 212.
FIG. 3 shows the user interface 110 of FIG. 2 comprising an additional region 301 containing an additional television program name 302. The additional region 301 enables the selection of a new pivot program 201 other than through the sharing with another television program (i.e., represented by another television program name) of one or more similar data attributes. As an example, the additional television program name 302 of the additional region 301 may represent a least related television program to the pivot program 201, enabling a user of the system 100 to make a ‘wildcard’ selection. The additional television program name 302 of the user interface 110 of FIG. 3 allows a quick search for a television program that is dissimilar to a current pivot program 201 (i.e., the television program name currently being displayed in the central region 200). The additional region 301 may be used in the case that the selection of the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211 and the display of the television programs related to the selected satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211, as described above, is not leading the user in a direction of interest.
In another example, the television program name 302 of the additional region 301 may be a most highly recommended television program that is dissimilar to the pivot program 201. Alternatively, the television program name 302 of the additional region 301 may be a randomly selected television program that is dissimilar to the pivot program 201.
FIGS. 4A and 4B show the remote control unit 105 together with the user interface 110 of FIG. 3. As seen in FIG. 4A, the remote control unit 105 has special function buttons 111 of which one button 406 is configured for launching the user interface 110 of FIG. 4B. An icon 407, as seen in FIG. 4A, indicates the function of the button 406.
The directional buttons 106 comprise an ‘up’ directional button 401, a ‘right’ directional button 402, a ‘down’ directional button 403, a ‘left’ directional button 404 and a central button 405. The spatial arrangement of the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211 of the user interface 110 of FIG. 4B corresponds to the spatial arrangement of the directional buttons 401, 402, 403 and 404, respectively. Similarly the central region 200 of the user interface 110 corresponds to the central button 405 of the remote control unit 105. The arrangement of the remote control unit 105 and the user interface 110 allows the user to easily understand the mapping between the directional buttons 401, 402, 403 and 404 of the remote control unit 105 and the corresponding satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211 of the user interface 110.
FIGS. 5A and 5B show the remote control unit 105 together with another user interface 510. The user interface 510 includes a central region 511 and satellite regions 512, 513, 514 and 515. As seen in FIG. 5B, the regions 511, 512, 513, 514 and 515 do not directly map to the spatial arrangement of the directional buttons 401, 402, 403 and 406 of the remote control unit 105. For the user interface 510, visual indicators (e.g., 516) within each of the regions 512, 513, 514 and 515 may be used to visually link the regions 512, 513, 514 and 515 with the directional buttons 401, 402, 403 and 404 on the remote control unit 105. The arrangement of the user interface 510 reduces the amount of vertical space required to display the user interface 510 on the television set 112, for example.
FIG. 5C shows still another user interface 520. The user interface 520 includes regions 521, 522, 523, 524 and 525. The regions 522, 523, 524 and 525 are arranged in a linear sequence rather than as satellites of the region 521 which contains the pivot program (e.g., the pivot program 201). As seen in FIG. 5B, the regions 522, 523, 524 and 525 map to the spatial arrangement of the special function buttons 108 (i.e., function buttons 501, 502, 503 and 504) of the remote control unit 105. For the user interface 520, the regions 522, 523, 524 and 525 may be selected using the function buttons 501, 502, 503 and 504, respectively, without using the directional buttons 401, 402, 403 and 404 of the remote control unit 105.
FIG. 6 is a flow diagram showing a method 600 of selecting a television program using the remote control unit 105 of FIG. 4A and the user interface 110 of FIG. 4B. The method 600 may be implemented as software resident in memory 1306 of the set-top-box 101 and being controlled in its execution by the CPU 1305. A period of execution of the method 600 between the beginning of step 602 and completion of step 607, as described below, will be referred to as a “browsing session”.
The method 600 begins at the first step 602, where in response to the detection of a signal received from the remote control unit 105, the CPU 1305 renders the user interface 110 and transmits the rendered user interface 110 to the television set 112 where the user interface 110 is displayed. The signal may be transmitted by the remote control unit 105 at step 602 in response to a user selecting the function button 406, for example. In rendering the user interface 110 at step 602, the CPU 1305 renders the name of a television program in the central region 200. The television program rendered in the central region 200 may be the television program that the user is currently watching. This television program is the initial pivot program 201. The user interface 110 may be overlaid on top of live video of the television program currently being watched on the television set 112.
Alternatively, the initial pivot program 201 may be a television program that the user selected from an electronic program guide, for example. At step 602, the CPU 1305 also renders the name of a television program in each of the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211 in addition to an attribute name 204, 207, 210 and 213, respectively. Each of the television program names (e.g., 203) in each of the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211 of the user interface 110 represent television programs related to the initial pivot program 201 through the sharing of a similar value of one or more data attributes, such as genre, cast, director, awards, producer, series, cast and studio, for example. One of these or other data attributes is shown as the attribute name 204, 207, 210 and 213 in each of the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211. The television program names and data attributes rendered in each of the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211 at step 602 may be selected by the CPU 1305 from the memory 1306 of the set-top-box 101.
At the next step 603, in response to the detection of another signal received from the remote control unit 105, and representing the selection of one of the satellite regions (e.g., 202), the CPU 1305 updates the pivot program 201. The CPU 1305 updates the pivot program 201 at step 603 by replacing the initial pivot program 201 with the name of the television program (e.g., Program B) that was represented by the selected satellite region such that the television program of the selected satellite region becomes the current pivot program 201. Alternatively, the satellite region selected at step 603 may be highlighted by the CPU 1305 using the visual highlight indicator 214 described above in response to the detection of the signal from the remote control unit 105. In this instance, the CPU 1305 may update the initial pivot program 201 upon reception of another signal from the remote control 105. This other signal may be transmitted by the remote control unit 105 in response to the selection of the central button 405, for example.
In one example, a particular one of the television program names 203, 206, 209 and 212 of the user interface 110 may be used to update the initial pivot program 201, at step 603.
Other actions may also be performed at step 603 upon selection of the satellite region such as scheduling the recording of the television program represented by the selected satellite region (e.g., 202). These other actions may be executed upon selection of one or more of the function buttons 107, 108 and 111 of the remote control unit 105, for example.
The method 600 continues at the next step 604, where the CPU 1305 updates the television program names 203, 206, 209 and 212 and attribute names 204, 207, 210 and 213, in each of the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211, respectively, to represent television programs related to the current pivot program 201. Again, the television program names and data attributes rendered in each of the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211 at step 604 may be selected by the CPU 1305 from the memory 1306 of the set-top-box 101. In one example, a particular television program name may be selected and used to update the television program names 203, 206, 209 and 212 of the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211, at step 604, only if the particular television program name has not been the pivot program 201 in the same browsing session. Alternatively, one or more of the television program names selected at step 604 may have been the pivot program 201 in the current browsing session. In still another example, a particular television program name may be selected and used to update the television program names 203, 206, 209 and 212 of the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211, at step 604, only if the particular television program was not the pivot program immediately prior to the current pivot program 201 in the same browsing session.
As an example, FIG. 7 shows the user interface 110 of FIG. 2, following update of the pivot program 201 in the central region 200, and following update of each of the satellite regions 202, 205, 210 and 213. For the user interface 110 of FIG. 2, ‘Program A’ is the current pivot program 201 and is shown rendered in the central region 200. ‘Program B’, ‘Program C’, ‘Program D’ and ‘Program E’ are shown rendered in the satellite regions 202, 205, 210 and 213, respectively, as television programs being associated with the current pivot program 201 through the sharing of a similar value for one of the attributes—‘ATTRIBUTE 1’ 204, ‘ATTRIBUTE 2’ 207, ‘ATTRIBUTE 3’ 210 and ‘ATTRIBUTE 4’ 213, respectively). In the example of FIG. 7, the satellite region 202 representing Program B is selected by the user using the directional buttons 401, 402, 403, 404 and 405, for example. Selection of the satellite region 202 initiates the transition of the user interface 110 from the state shown in FIG. 2 to the state of the user interface 110 shown in FIG. 7. For the user interface 110 of FIG. 7, Program B becomes the current pivot program 201 and is shown in the central region 200 of the user interface 110. Program F, Program G, Program H, and Program J are shown in each of the satellite regions 202, 205, 206 and 207 indicating an association with the current pivot program 201 through sharing one or more similar values of the attributes ‘Series’ 204, ‘Producer’ 207, ‘Studio’ 210 and ‘Cast’ 213, respectively.
The method 600 continues at the next step 605, where the CPU 1305 receives a further signal from the remote control unit 105. At step 605, the method 600 proceeds to step 606 if the signal received by the CPU 1305 represents selection of the central button 405 of the remote control unit 105. This signal represents that the user wishes to view the television program represented by the current pivot program 201. Otherwise, the signal received by the CPU 1305, again, represents the selection of one of the satellite regions (e.g., 202) and the method 600 returns to step 603.
At step 606, the CPU 1305 tunes the television set 112 to a channel which is currently broadcasting the television program represented by the current pivot program 201. For example, the CPU 1305 may transmit a signal to a tuner configured within the television set 112, via the communications cable 104, in order to tune the television set 112 to the channel. Alternatively, the CPU 1305 may execute other control events, at step 606, such as scheduling the television program represented by the current pivot program 201 for recording. At the next step 607, the user interface 110 is hidden (i.e., reduced or removed from display) and the method 600 concludes.
The method 600 has been described above with reference to the user interface 110. Alternatively, the user interfaces 510 and 520 or any other arrangement of the user interface 110 described herein may be used in the method 600. The method 600 will now be described in more detail below.
As described above, the memory unit 1306 contains a plurality of data items stored therein. Each of the data items corresponds to a television program that is currently being broadcast or which is due to be broadcast at some future time. Each data item may comprise a metadata set describing at least the name of a corresponding television program, broadcast details such as channel and time of broadcasting of the corresponding television program, and data values corresponding to various data attributes (e.g., genre, cast, director, awards, producer, series, cast, studio) of the corresponding television program. For any particular two data items stored in the memory unit 1306, similarities between two data items may be quantified by defining a distance metric as a function of the data attributes (i.e., metadata set) associated with each of the two data items. The distance metric may be a function of up to N-dimension, where N represents the number of distinct data attributes in the data attribute set.
FIG. 8 shows a distance matrix 805 which may be used to determine the distance between any two data items stored in memory 1306 with respect to one of the data attributes. The distance matrix 805 comprises a data attribute 800 (i.e., Cast) and data items (e.g., A 801 and F 802). These data items (e.g., A 801 and F 802) of the matrix 805 represent the data items stored in memory 1306 of the set-top-box 101. In the example of FIG. 8, each of the data items (e.g., A 801 and F 802) of the distance matrix 800 corresponds to a television program that is currently being broadcast or which is due to be broadcast at some future time. The distance matrix 805 also comprises distance values (e.g., 803) representing the distance between any two of the data items (e.g., A 801 and F 802) with respect to a data attribute (e.g., 800). For example, the distance value 803 representing the distance between the data items A 801 and F 802 may be determined based on similarities between the values of the data attribute 800 associated with each of the data items A 801 and F 802. In the example of FIG. 8, the attribute associated with the data items A 801 and F 802 being considered is the attribute ‘Cast’ 800. In the example of FIG. 8, any two data items (e.g., 806 and 801) in the distance matrix 800 have an associated distance value 807 of zero for the attribute 800 if the television programs represented by the two data items 806 and 801 have the same value(s) for the Cast attribute 800. That is, the cast of both of the television programs represented by the two data items 801 and 806 is the same. In contrast, the distance value 803 is equal to one if the two data items 801 and 802 have different value(s) for the Cast attribute 800.
Software implementing the methods described herein may be broken down into three logical components, including a data component 1000, a processing component 1001, and a user interface component 1002, as seen in FIG. 10. The data component 1000 comprises an electronic program guide 1003 listing television program data, a user profile 1005 comprising user data and a recommendation list 1009 comprising user specific television program recommendations. The data component 1000 may also comprise a current context 1007 which contains such data as the television program currently being watched, the currently selected television program and the sequence of television programs selected in the current browsing session.
The processing component 1001 uses data from the data component 1000 to determine a set of television program recommendations for displaying on the television 112. The processing component 1001 may be configured according to a data attribute selection strategy 1004 that determines a set of appropriate data attributes, and a program selection strategy 1011 that determines a program recommendation for each of the data attributes. The user interface component 1002 displays the television program recommendations on the television set 112 in accordance with any one of the arrangements of the user interface 110, 510 and 520 described above, for example.
The methods described herein operate within a program space. In one example, the program space comprises television programs that are currently being broadcast and those television programs to be broadcast in the near future. Alternatively, the program space may comprise television programs that are currently being broadcast and all future programs. In still another example, the program space comprises all television programs in an electronic program guide stored in memory 1306. In still another example, the program space comprises only television programs that are currently being broadcast.
FIG. 11 is a flow diagram showing a method 1100 of selecting a television program using the remote control unit of FIG. 4A and the user interface of FIG. 4B. Either of the user interfaces 510 or 520 may also be used in the method 1100. The method 1100 may be implemented as software resident in memory 1306 of the set-top-box 101 and being controlled in its execution by the CPU 1305. Again, the period of execution of the method 1100 between the beginning of step 1101 and the completion of step 1109, as described below, will be referred to as a “browsing session.” The method 1100 may be executed in any one of the program spaces described above.
The method 1100 begins at the first step 1101, where the CPU 1305 generates the television program recommendation list 1009 for recommending one or more television programs to a user of the system 100 based on the user's preferences. The recommendation list 1009 may be generated at step 1101, in accordance with any suitable recommendation system, including but not limited to machine learning algorithms.
In one example, the television program recommendation list 1009 may be generated dynamically at the start of a browsing session. Alternatively, the television program recommendation list 1009 may be generated periodically and stored in memory 1306. In this instance, at the start of the browsing session, the television program recommendation list 1009 may be retrieved from memory 1306.
where p and q represent the two television programs, and va(p) and va(q) represent the values of an attribute a associated with each of the programs p and q, respectively.
Alternatively, the distance matrices determined at step 1102 may be configured as a set of mathematical functions that map any two television programs of the recommendation list 1009 to a distance of some numerical value. For example, for two television programs with numerical attribute values, the distance between the two television programs may be the absolute difference between the attribute values associated with the two television programs.
The distance matrices determined at step 1102 may be determined for any two television programs in the particular program space in which the method 1100 is being executed. In this instance, the distance matrices may be stored in memory 1306 and may be retrieved from memory 1306 at the beginning of a browsing session. Alternatively, the distance matrices determined at step 1102 may be determined as needed by the method 1100.
The method 1100 continues at the next step 1103, where the CPU 1305 selects a television program and sets the selected television program as a current pivot program 201. The television program selected at step 1103 may be the television program that is currently being viewed. Alternatively, the television program selected at step 1103 may be a television program that the user had previously selected from the electronic program guide 1003 configured within memory 1306. The television program selected at step 1103 may also be a most highly recommended television program of the television program recommendation list 1109 generated at step 1101.
At the next step 1104 of the method 1100, the name (or a unique identifier representing the name) of the television program selected as the current pivot program 201 at step 1103 is stored in memory 1306 as data for the current context. Storing the current pivot program 201 allows back tracking through a navigation path of the current browsing session. However, if back tracking is not required, then the current pivot program 201 does not need to be stored. The name of the current pivot program 201 may also be displayed on the television set 112, at step 1104, in the region 200 in accordance with the user interface 110 of FIG. 4B.
(ii) the availability of television programs to recommend for the selected candidate data attributes using either (a) information gain or (b) uniqueness, as will be described in detail below.
In this instance, the term dynamically refers to the substantially automatic selection of the data attributes performed by the CPU 105 at step 1105. The data attributes are selected at step 1105 upon execution of the method 1100 and no user input is required to select the data attributes. Alternatively, user input may be used to select the data attributes at step 1105.
The data attributes selected at step 1105 are unique whenever possible. In this instance, the selected data attributes may also be repeated for the pivot program 201 due to poor metadata availability or other criteria as will be described below. An example of poor metadata is a lack of available attribute values being associated with the current pivot program 201, such that the number of usable data attributes is less than a predetermined number. This predetermined number may be four (4) in the arrangement of FIGS. 2, 3, 4B, 5B and 5C.
where w represents a watched classification such that a television program classified as watched has been determined by the television system 100 as having been viewed previously by a user of the system 100. For example, the television system 100 may use certain statistics to determine if a television program has been previously viewed or not by the user. Hw represents entropy for the classification w, n represents the total number of distinct values for the attribute a, vai represents one value in a set of all distinct values for the attribute a, Pvai represents the probability of a television program having a value of vai for the attribute a, and H<w|vai> represents entropy for the classification w given that attribute a has a value vai.
As described herein, information gain Ia for an attribute a of each television program having a corresponding data item stored in memory 1306 is determined from the past viewing behaviour of the user of the system 100. A value for information gain Ia may be determined for each data attribute a stored in memory 1306 according to Formula (2). The attributes may then be sorted according to the determined information gain Ia for each attribute a. All of the sorted data attributes for which the current pivot program 201 does not have a corresponding value may then be discarded and the attributes having the highest corresponding value for information gain Ia may be selected as the attributes at step 1105.
c) the number of attributes available for the pivot program 201.
For criteria a) directly above, the predetermined threshold may be defined before the start of a browsing session (i.e., prior to the execution of the method 1100). When the information gain Ia for an attribute a falls below the predetermined threshold, then the attribute a is not repeated. This predetermined threshold may be set to half way between a minimum and maximum information gain I for the browsing session.
For criteria b) above, if the difference in information gain I between a first attribute and second data attribute is large, then the first attribute is used much more often than the second attribute to determine which television program has been watched. In this instance, the first attribute is repeated instead of selecting the second attribute.
where dista(va(p), va(f)) is a function for determining the distance between two attribute values va(p) and va(f) as described above with reference to Formula (1), and |P| represents the number of television programs in the program space P.
A method 1400 of selecting one or more data attributes associated with the current pivot program 201 using uniqueness for use as candidate attributes, as executed at step 1105, will now be described. The method 1400 may be implemented as software resident in memory 1306 of the set-top-box 101 and being controlled in its execution by the CPU 1305.
The method 1400 begins at the first step 1401, where the CPU 1305 determines the uniqueness Uc(a) of the data attributes associated with the pivot program 201, in accordance with Formula (5) above. Then at the next step 1403, the CPU 1305 discards all unique data attributes where Uc(a)=1. At the next step 1405, the remaining data attributes associated with the current pivot program 201 (i.e., those attributes not discarded at step 1403) are sorted according to their uniqueness. The method 1400 concludes at the next step 1407, where the CPU 1305 selects one or more of the sorted data attributes associated with the pivot program 201 for use as candidate attributes. The data attributes that have the highest uniqueness are selected as candidate attributes at step 1407. If two data attributes have the same uniqueness, then the data attribute with a higher information gain may be selected at step 1407. If two data attributes have the same information gain, then one of the data attributes may be selected randomly as a candidate attribute at step 1407.
Apart from automatically selecting data attributes information gain and uniqueness, as described above, user input may be utilised to select the data attributes at step 1105 of FIG. 11. In one example, one or more data attributes may be selected by the user of the system 100, for use as candidate attributes, before a browsing session. In this instance, the selected data attributes do not change during the course of a browsing session. Alternatively, one or more data attributes may be selected by a designer of the system 100, for use as candidate attributes, during development of the system 100. Again, in this instance, the selected data attributes do not change during the course of a browsing session.
c) the selected candidate television program has the highest recommendation rating among those television programs selected in b) directly above.
where dista(va(p),va(c)) is the determined in accordance with Formula (1) above for determining the distance between two attribute values va(p) and va(c). If no television program satisfies the selection criteria a), b) and c) directly above, for a particular candidate attribute then the particular candidate attribute is replaced with a next one of the candidate attributes selected at step 1105.
In addition to having equal attribute values for a particular candidate attribute, television programs with attribute values similar to that of the current pivot program 201 for the particular candidate attribute may also be considered as candidate television programs. Two attribute values may be considered similar if the distance between the two attribute values is lower than a predetermined threshold distance. The predetermined threshold distance may be set to half way between a minimum and maximum distance value.
As described above, the selection of the one or more data attributes at step 1105 and the selection of the candidate attributes at step 1106, are executed by the CPU 1305. Alternatively, steps 1105 and 1106 may be executed by different CPUs where each of the CPUs is configured within the set top box 101 or where one or both of the CPU are configured externally to the set top box.
The method 1100 continues at the next step 1107, where the candidate television programs and their associated attributes are displayed on the television set 112 in the vicinity of the pivot program 201, in accordance with the user interface 110 of FIG. 4B. As seen in FIG. 4B, the current pivot program 201 set at step 1103 is displayed in the centre region 200 of the user interface 110, and the four candidate television programs selected at step 1106 are displayed in the satellite regions 202, 205, 208 and 211 together with corresponding candidate attributes 204, 207, 210 and 213, respectively. Alternatively, any of the user interfaces 110, 510 or 520 or any other suitable configuration of the user interface may be used to present the pivot program 201 and candidate television programs and attributes, to the user of the system 100.
At the next step 1108, if a signal is received by the CPU 1305 representing selection of the central button 405 of the remote control unit 105, then the method 1100 proceeds to step 1109. This signal represents that the user wishes to view, record or have some other action performed on the television program represented by the pivot program 201. Otherwise, the signal received from the CPU 1305 at step 1108 represents the selection of one of the satellite regions (e.g., 202) of the user interface 110 displayed at step 1107 and the method 1100 proceeds to step 1110.
At step 1109, the current pivot program 201 is selected and the method 1100 and therefore the browsing session concludes. The CPU 1305 may then tune the television set 112 to a channel if the television program represented by the pivot program 201 is currently being broadcast, as described above. If the current pivot program 201 represents a television program to be broadcast in the future, the television system 100 may seek input from a user as to whether the television program is to be recorded or whether a reminder is to be generated to alert the user when the television program is being broadcast.
At step 1110, the current pivot program 201 is replaced with the candidate television program represented by the satellite region (e.g., 202) selected by the user at step 1108. Following step 1110, the method 1100 returns to step 1104 where the current pivot program 201 is stored in memory 1306. Steps 1104 to 1110 may then be repeated until the CPU 1305 receives a signal 109 representing selection of the central button 405 of the remote control unit 105 and therefore selection of the current pivot program 201.
In each repeat of step 1105, a new set of selected candidate attributes may be different to a previous set of selected candidate attributes. In this instance, the new set of selected candidate attributes constitute a new set of searching conditions.
Following selection of the candidate television programs for each of the candidate attributes, at step 1106, an additional candidate television program may be selected from memory 1306 by the CPU 1305. In one example, the additional candidate television program may be selected for being dissimilar to the current pivot program 201 set at step 1103 of the method 1100. The additional candidate television program may be displayed in the region 301 of the user interface 110, at step 1107 of the method 1100. The additional candidate television program may be the most highly recommended television program that is dissimilar to the pivot program 201. In still another example, the additional candidate television program may be a randomly selected television program that is dissimilar to the pivot program 201 set at step 1103.
The aforementioned preferred method(s) comprise a particular control flow. There are many other variants of the preferred method(s) which use different control flows without departing the spirit or scope of the invention. Furthermore one or more of the steps of the preferred method(s) may be performed in parallel rather sequentially.
displaying the third program and the one or more further attributes associated therewith on the display device, according to the search for the third program.
3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the programs are television programs.
4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the second program is displayed according to a predetermined spatial arrangement relative to the first program.
5. A method according to claim 2, wherein the third program is displayed according to a predetermined spatial arrangement relative to the second program.
6. A method according to claim 4, wherein the attributes associated with each of the programs are displayed relative to a corresponding program according to the predetermined spatial arrangement.
7. A method according to claim 4, wherein the predetermined spatial arrangement of the programs displayed on the display device corresponds to a spatial arrangement of selectable areas of a controller associated with the processor.
8. A method according to claim 7, wherein the second program is selected using the selectable areas of the controller.
9. A method according to claim 1, wherein the programs represent television program data arranged in an electronic program guide.
10. A method according to claim 1, wherein the first program represents a television program currently being watched.
11. A method according to claim 1, wherein the first program represents a television program which has been selected by a user.
12. A method according to claim 1, wherein the first program represents a television program having a high recommendation rating.
13. A method according to claim 2, wherein the predetermined criteria for dynamically selecting attributes is based on information gain.
14. A method according to claim 2, wherein the predetermined criteria for dynamically selecting attributes is based on uniqueness.
15. A method according to claim 2, wherein the searches for the second and third programs are executed by a further processor to the processor performing the selection of the attributes.
16. A method according to claim 2, wherein the searches for the second and third programs are executed by the processor performing the selection of the attributes.
displaying the third program and data associated therewith, on the display device, according to the search for the third program.
19. A method according to claim 17, wherein the programs represent television programs.
20. A method according to claim 17, wherein the first search condition is based on a first value corresponding to a first attribute of the first program.
21. A method according to claim 18, wherein the second search condition is based on a second value corresponding to a second attribute of the second program.
22. A method according to claim 17, wherein the second program is displayed according to a predetermined spatial arrangement relative to the first program.
23. A method according to claim 18, wherein the third program is displayed according to a predetermined spatial arrangement relative to the second program.
24. A method according to claim 22, wherein the data associated with each of the programs is displayed relative to a corresponding program according to the predetermined spatial arrangement.
25. A method according to claim 22, wherein the predetermined spatial arrangement of the programs displayed on the display device corresponds to a spatial arrangement of selectable areas of a controller associated with the processor.
26. A method according to claim 25, wherein the second program is selected using the selectable areas of the controller.
27. A method according to claim 17, wherein the programs represent television programs arranged in an electronic program guide.
28. A method according to claim 17, wherein the first program represents a television program currently being watched.
29. A method according to claim 17, wherein the first program represents a television program which has been selected by a user.
30. A method according to claim 17, wherein the first program represents a television program having a high recommendation rating.
31. A method according to claim 17, wherein the predetermined logical process is based on information gain.
32. A method according to claim 17, wherein the predetermined logical process is based on uniqueness.
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If you are into good beaches, Antigua and Barbuda are the best places out of the Caribbean for you to visit. You can also enjoy cricket games throughout the island left behind by the British colonizers. Don't forget to visit the 19th century Anglican St. John Cathedral.
If you are keen to explore the underwater life, don't forget to visit Cayman Islands.
Going deeper into the discussion of the best pet-free vacation spots, Caribbean islands are known to be the only vacations spots in the world that come with a host of universal attractions well received by all personalities and tastes. You can see volcanoes in Bahamas and Barbados, while St. Lucia, Cuba and Jamaica offer massive mountain ranges for adventurous sports.
Anguilla is another vacation destination that is suitable for visitors of all kinds. It is the best spot for the families with small children and also couples. You can also explore the marine life and spend your day at the beach.
Thus, it is quite clear that Caribbean Islands are universal in character. To keep this article nice and short without bombarding you with information, we will cover only a handful of the islands. It is believed that Barbados offers you the real taste of traditional holidays. However, it is not so perfect if you come to Caribbean in search of peace as this particular island has the highest concentration of the tourists.
In other words, Caribbean Islands are the best pet-free vacation spots to go for a vacation.
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There has been some debate among bloggers about the oath President Obama took earlier today. Liberal bloggers argue that conservative Chief Justice Roberts flubbed the oath, which caused Obama to do the same. Conservatives (and others) ignore Roberts’ mistake and focus solely on Obama, blaming him entirely for the mistake.
The transcript makes clear that Justice Roberts made a mistake first, then corrected it, after which President Obama repeated the mistake not the correct version. In other words, both flubbed the oath, Roberts corrected himself, Obama did not.
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We might need to quickly go through the history of this tool. The credit goes to an Italian Mathematician who created a mathematical series of numbers that tends to predict future to a very close degree. It was about 800 years back when he invented this series and his first Job thereon was to gift it to the “Queen of England”. It’s only after that that the series and the formulas were made public and gradually, it came to the attention of markets investors who found it to be just the thing they always fancied. This was the tool for the investing institutions and retails trader to assist them while reading the markets on mathematical parameters and help them find the most likely movements for their trades. Over a period of time, it emerged as a great aid in market decision-making and now, Fibonacci tool, I can tell you is the most widely used technical indicator by all kinds of investors and its use extends to even the biggest of the investing banks.
Fibonacci series or Fibonacci numbers are based on a recurrence relation with the mathematical function F (n)= F(n-1)+f(n-2 ) where ‘N’ denotes a number in the sequence of Fibonacci series of 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13 and so on till infinity. Each number to follow is simple the sum of the first two numbers. This may scare you reading this but you don’t have to learn all this at all. These formulas are only an indication to what FIBONACCI TOOL is based on as practically you will be using this indicator in only the full and the final shape and in a way, very much relevant to forex market movements.
The application of Fibonacci indicator or Fibonacci tool, to a currency pair under consideration produces three points on each side of the trend where the pair is likely to find its major supports and resistances on the trend. An extension of this indicator can even produce supports and resistances more than three in number which usually is the style of investment institutions who look for rather larger trades but retail trader prefer trading only with three basic levels which can be produced by application of the simplest, the most basic of the Fibonacci versions. Of course we have learnt that we can either trade with the trend or against the trend but where do we join the rally? It is this great indicator that gives us the decision-making points and tells us where to take our trades. We go against the trend or in favor of it, is our personal choice. Indicator’s job is to give the crucial points and it does its job pretty well.
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I was in Nairobi a couple of weeks ago and took the opportunity to pop into the Sheldrick Trust and catch up with Kithaka, the orphan elephant that Real Africa has adopted. I arrived in the late afternoon, just as the elephants were returning from a day foraging for food in the adjoining Nairobi National Park accompanied by their handlers.
Although the orphans receive four to five milk feeds a day to replace the milk from their lost mothers, they are otherwise expected to find their own food in preparation for their return to the wild from a “halfway house” camp run by the Trust in Tsavo National Park.
I stood back against the large stockade, home to Maxwell the blind black rhino who was happily feeding on cut foliage on the other side. After a couple of minutes five small elephants appeared, walking, almost running, in single file along a path through the thick scrub. They shot past us without a glance, head into the yard and straight into their pens. A couple of keepers were to hand to shut them in.
Walking back into the yard I could see several keepers busy giving the elephants their milk, served in what look like oversized baby bottles. Some of the babies who were impatiently waiting their turn had their trunks stretched through the wooden barriers, feeling around in buckets that were hanging outside, hoping to find their milk.
I walked down the yard to the stable where Kithaka was. Born on October 2011 Kithaka is renowned for being one of the most mischievous of the orphans. This fact was confirmed by his handler that night, Eugene. He’d already had his milk and was now feeding on foliage that had been cut for him. I gave him a quick rub behind a very muddy ear before leaving him to his meal.
He seems to have recovered from a recent scare when foraging alone in the forest and coming across a large python. He ran out screaming and took some calming down, especially when all the other orphans caught on and started howling as well. He’s also got over a mystery illness for which antibiotics were required and is back to normal causing havoc. This included giving the orphan Daphne a trunk hug and trapping a nerve in her neck. She’s now recovered too.
Eugene explained that the handlers rotate round every few days so that no orphan gets too attached to any one of them. It was Eugene’s turn with Kithaka, and that he’d be sleeping in the raised bunk in the stable to ensure he was OK during the night and to give him his night feed.
I was leaning on the stable door, talking to Eugene who was sitting on the bunk. Kithaka decided to join in by turning to face us and sniffing with his trunk. He soon decided we weren’t as interesting as his food and continued with his meal.
Saying goodbye to Eugene and Kithaka, I dropped down to Edwin’s office to make our donation to the Trusts anti-poaching work. It’s such a well-run and thoroughly professional outfit, where the elephant orphans seem so content, it’s hard to remember that they’re all there because of the actions of man, that their lives all started with incredibly traumatic experiences.
As I left I was reminded of this. In a stable near the office was a tiny elephant only a week or so old, found a couple of days previously by the body of his mother. He was scared and upset, getting comfort from a gentle handler who was with him. Hopefully in a couple of years’ time he, like Kithaka, will be happy and well down the road to being reintroduced into the wild.
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As a fellow adoptee of Kithaka, it’s nice to see how my boy is doing. I wonder how far and wide, we his parents are spread throughout the globe? Would be good if we could all communicate with each other, as we have a common link. | 361589699 |
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UPDATE: Johnny Depp’s personal assistant, Stephen Deuters, told TMZ on Thursday, June 2, that the texts were heavily doctored. Deuters claimed he never said Depp attacked Amber Heard, and he is willing to testify under oath that he never had a conversation with Heard about the alleged domestic violence.
The ongoing divorce drama between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard just keeps getting uglier. Disturbing text messages reportedly exchanged between Heard and Depp’s personal assistant, Stephen Deuters, leaked on Wednesday, June 1, and suggest that the actor had a long history of violence. The messages, obtained by Entertainment Tonight, are reportedly from May 2014, before the couple were married, a source told the outlet.
The Danish Girl actress, 30, filed for divorce from the Pirates of the Caribbean star, 52, on Monday, May 23. A few days later, Heard was granted a temporary domestic violence restraining order after detailing several instances of alleged abuse and showing photographic evidence of her injuries.
The text exchange begins with Deuters (whose name appears on the top of the screen only as “Stephen”) allegedly apologizing on behalf of a man, who supposedly is Depp. Entertainment Tonight notes it was not able to independently verify the recipients of the messages or whether they had been edited. Us Weekly was also unable to verify the authenticity of the texts.
Stephen: "Think he's just texted you. He's incredibly apologetic and knows that he has done wrong. He wants to get better now. He's been very explicit about that this morning. Feel like we're at a critical juncture."
Amber: "Yes but I don't know how to be around him after what he did to me yesterday. I don't know if I can stay with him."
Stephen: "He wants to see you so much. He's distraught."
Amber: "… Look, He thinks 'he doesn't deserve this'. Obviously he has no idea what he did or to the extent that he did it. If someone was truly honest with him about how bad it really was, he'd be appalled … I'm sad that he doesn't have a better way to really know the severity of his actions yesterday. Unfortunately for me, I remember in full detail everything that happened."
Stephen: “He was appalled. When I told him he kicked you, he cried. It was disgusting. And he knows it. I wasn’t with him when he sent u the 2nd txt. He read it to me and I said it was the wrong text to send. He then sent the 3rd one and sat and cried again after on the bed. He's a little lost boy. And needs all the help he can get. He is so very sorry, as he should be."
Amber: "He's done this many times before. Tokyo, the island, London (remember that?!), and I always stay. Always believe he's going to get better … And then every 3 or so month [sic], I'm in the exact same position."
Heard’s lawyers later blasted Depp’s camp for trying to discredit her allegations. “Amber has suffered through years of physical and psychological abuse at the hands of Johnny. In domestic violence cases, it is not unusual for the perpetrator’s playbook to include miscasting the victims as the villain,” the Tuesday, May 31, statement read.
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Last week there was a recommendation for Al Gore to buy a new winter coat. At the UN’s World Climate Change Conference in Geneva last one of the worlds top climate change scientists, predicted that we are facing 10-20 years of global cooling. The Scientist, named Mojib Latif said the cooling would be the result of changes to ocean currents and temperatures in the North Atlantic, a feature known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Latif also said that the NAO may be partly the cause of warming during the past 30 years.
Climate Change: A team of international scientists has finally figured out why sunspots have a dramatic effect on the weather. It shows the folly of fearing the SUV while dismissing that thermonuclear furnace in the sky.
Mankind once worshiped the sun. Now the world studiously ignores it as nations prepare to hammer out a successor to the failed Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012, in Copenhagen in December. Something is indeed rotten in Denmark.
Our own government is committed to fighting climate change whether it be though Son of Kyoto or our own growth-capping, job-killing cap-and-trade legislation known as Waxman-Markey.
Despite the sun being the major source of all energy on earth, supporters of man-caused global warming have dismissed the sun’s role in climate change. They say the historic 11-year solar cycle changes the amount of energy reaching the earth by about only 0.1% — not enough to account for temperature rises this century.
The Aug. 28 issue of the journal Science details how the scientific team led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), using a century’s worth of data and three powerful computer models, figured out just how small changes in solar activity can trigger great changes in earth’s climate.
The study found that chemicals in the stratosphere and sea surface temperatures during solar maximums act in a way that amplifies the sun’s influence. The slight increase in solar energy in the peak production of sunspots is absorbed by stratospheric ozone, warming the air in the tropics where sunlight is most intense.
The additional energy also helps produce more ozone that absorbs even more solar energy. The increased sunlight causes a slight warming of ocean surface waters across the subtropical Pacific.
This stratospheric energy absorption and sea surface warming can intensify winds and rainfall, and ultimately influence global weather in ways that amplify the sun’s influence.
The world has significantly cooled in the last decade, a period that corresponds to a decline and virtual halt in sunspot activity. Solar activity is in a valley right now, the deepest of the past century. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports that in 2008 and 2009 the sun set Space Age records for low sunspot counts, weak solar wind and low solar radiance.
A Hoover Institution Study a few years back examined historical data and came to a similar conclusion. “The effects of solar activity and volcanoes are impossible to miss. Temperatures fluctuated exactly as expected, and the pattern was so clear that, statistically, the odds of the correlation existing by chance were less than one in 100,” according to Hoover fellow Bruce Berkowitz.
Current solar inactivity is similar to what scientists call the Maunder Minimum, a period of solar inactivity from 1645 to 1715 that spawned what is known as the Little Ice Age. At Christmas, Londoners could ice skate on the frozen Thames and New Yorkers could walk over the Hudson from Manhattan to Staten Island.
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Dr. Ronald Wyatt, an internist in Madison, Ala., entered an exam room to meet a new patient and his wife several years ago. When he walked in, the woman immediately pulled a framed photo from a large grocery bag.
It was the couple’s daughter, and Wyatt recognized her as his patient — one who had died two years earlier.
“I really can’t speak with you about this,” Wyatt recalled saying, his anxiety rising.
There were no alarms to set off, so Wyatt relented. Eventually, he opened his computer and showed, through patient records, how hard his team had worked to prevent their daughter’s death; he said he, too, had loved her. The father started weeping, then left peacefully. But it could have gone another way.
It was a unique experience in Wyatt’s career. But at its essence, it was also a moment — filled with tension and seemingly ripe to explode in violence — that is disturbingly common in American clinics and hospitals. Those moments frequently lead to physical assaults when patients or family members suspect a medical error has taken place.
Conflicts between clinicians and patients and their family members have leapt onto the radar of health care administrators and policy makers this year. That’s partly the result of a traumatic episode in January in which a beloved Boston cardiac surgeon was killed by the son of a deceased patient. But it’s also because patient-on-clinician violence is on the rise, according to federal statistics.
Among the 26,000 significant injuries due to workplace assault in 2013, nearly 75 percent were reported in the health care and social services sectors, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Injuries caused by violence nearly doubled among nurses and nurse assistants from 2012 to 2014, and increased by smaller margins among doctors and other medical professionals over the same period, according to an April report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Hospitals with a history of violence have responded by hiring more security officers and even buying technology to track the whereabouts of patients and personnel. But hospitals are by their nature open environments meant to convey an atmosphere of healing, not defensiveness, so they’re pursuing other strategies, as well.
Wyatt, for one, is helping to identify ways to stop the violence before it happens. As medical director of the health care improvement division at the Joint Commission, an independent organization that accredits health care institutions, he has been studying innovative ways in which institutions are tackling the issue.
They range from a massive and ongoing antiviolence program conducted by the Veterans Health Administration to more recent initiatives from the CDC and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which is involved in its own effort to study antiviolence programs in the health care system.
“There’s an acute effort here to come up with something robust around workplace violence prevention, and hold organizations more accountable,” Wyatt said.
Emergency room doctors and nurses, who are among the most frequent victims of patient attacks, said perpetrators are often mentally ill or under the influence of drugs or alcohol. But in other cases, otherwise perfectly reasonable individuals turn violent when being informed of a family member’s death or being refused narcotics.
Perpetrators typically fall into two categories — “affective,” or spontaneous, offenders, who are spurred by their immediate circumstances, and “predatory” offenders, who plan attacks methodically.
That’s an important distinction, conflict-resolution specialists said. While clinicians may be able to defuse the anger of affective perpetrators, they might endanger themselves trying to reason with predatory offenders.
The Veterans Health Administration initiative prepares for a full range of threats, said Kathleen McPhaul, who supervises the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior program.
The program offers four levels of behavioral-management training, starting with a basic program required of virtually every VA health care employee. A more specialized level of communication training is offered to those who are more likely to encounter verbal conflicts with patients.
Those who are more likely to encounter physically combative patients, meanwhile, learn how to escape a patient’s grip without hurting the patient or themselves, for instance. Others learn how to work in teams to contain a patient safely.
Outside the VA system, safety concerns have grown so pervasive that some communication training programs that never dealt with the issue of violence have been forced to do so. Such is the case at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where Dr. Michael Davidson, the cardiac surgeon, was fatally shot earlier this year.
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Σήμερα το πρωί, Κυριακή του Ζακχαίου, 27 Ιανουαρίου 2019, στον Ορθόδοξο Μητροπολιτικό Ναό του Αγίου Νικολάου Καμπάλας, λειτούργησε για πρώτη φορά ως Αρχιερέας ο νεοχειροτονηθείς Θεοφ. Επίσκοπος Γκούλου και Ανατολικής Ουγκάντας κ. Σίλβεστρος (Κισίτου), παρόντος και συμπροσευχομένου του οικείου ιθαγενούς Μητροπολίτου Καμπάλας κ. Ιωνά. Πυκνό εκκλησίασμα συμμετείχε, όπως και οι τα πρώτα φέροντες της πολιτείας και της κοινωνίας της Καμπάλας. ΑΞΙΟΣ!!!
Today January 27, 2019 will be remembered in the history of the Orthodox Church in Uganda as the very first time His Grace Bishop Silvester Kisitu of Gulu and Eastern Uganda presided over the Holy Liturgy in Uganda as a Bishop. AXIOS!
Having arrived in Uganda from Greece on Friday 23rd January, 4:00 Am at Entebbe International airport, various celebrations have been organized to mark the tremendous blessing that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ had bestowed on the Uganda Orthodox Church, the formulation of a new Orthodox Diocese of Gulu and Eastern Uganda with Bishop Silvester being the leader.
Before embarking on his official duties in North and Eastern Uganda, His Eminence Metropolitan Jonah Lwanga of Kampala and All Uganda, together with the Orthodox Christians in Kampala and other neighboring Orthodox deaneries organized a welcoming ceremony which also marked the official Introduction of His Grace Bishop Silvester to the Nation through leading the Holy Liturgical mystery at St. Nicholas Cathedral Namungoona.
The ceremony was graced by Honorable Minister of Kampala Beti Kamya Turwomwe as the chief guest alongside other dignitaries that Included the Lord Mayor of Kampala City – Erias lukwago, Rubaga North Member of Parliament Hon. Kasibante Moses, Lwemiyaga Member of Parliament – Hon. Theodore Ssekikubo, Mayor of Rubaga division – OWEK. Ssebugwawo Joyce Nabosa, The Katikiro of the Fumbe Clan among others.
Metropolitan Jonah encouraged all the people present that irrespective of the many challenges faced by the Orthodox Mission in Uganda most especially the North and Eastern Uganda where Bishop Silvester is assigned responsibility, he is optimistic that the Power, Love and Grace of our Lord will guide us to Victory.
His Grace expressed his gratification for the warm welcome he received and encouraged all Orthodox Christians in Uganda to always embrace Unity as one of the strategies in which the grace our Lord will continue to manifest itself amongst all of us thereby upholding our purpose as Orthodox Christians.
The Enthronement Ceremonies of Bishop Silvester in his Diocese is slated for 17th February 2019 at St. Lavrentios Orthodox Parish in Koro Sub-County, Gulu Municipality and later on 24th February 2019 at Holy Resurrection Orthodox Parish in Jinja Town. | 135590211 |
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Choosing the right front-end framework to build out a user interface is crucial to the success of any app. React has been a game changer in the way people think about structuring and building out the user interface. This class will explore the benefits of learning React and why so many companies are migrating to this new framework to build out their front-end.
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Herzlich willkommen auf www.science-guide.eu, Ihrem Reiseführer durch die europäische Forschungslandschaft!
When it comes to complexity, the European science landscape beats a rainforest hands down. To find your way through the structures and scientific activities in each of the countries you definitely need a guidebook!
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* Unfortunately, up to now, almost all our articles, audio files, and video clips are in German only. We will try to present them in other European languages as soon as we have found funding for the translation. | 173394931 |
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The St. Columba’s GAA Football team arrive at St. Columba’s National School, led by Conán Brady and Shane Mulligan Capt. Co.Longford yesterday.
A few weeks ago we offered the opinion that the club championship economy car was beginning to fall too easily into the slipstream of the inter-county juggernaut.
The spread at club level could never be as narrow or pronounced as it is at inter-county level but a few teams were making a habit of returning on a repeated basis, pointing to the formation of a new cartel.
On one weekend Kilmacud Crokes, Dr Crokes and Corofin, the champions of Dublin, Kerry and Galway (all current provincial champions) put the champions of Meath, Cork and Roscommon, traditionally among their biggest rivals at inter-county level, to the sword by a cumulative margin of 64 points. Lurking in the background once more were competition specialists Crossmaglen Rangers, six-time All-Ireland champions.
With Na Piarsaigh and Ballyhale Shamrocks positioning themselves in the hurling championship, it had an elite feel to it, one that was leaving very little time for romance.
Such an assertion was premature. First, Na Piarsaigh were uprooted by Ballygunner, a Waterford city club it must be said with serious pedigree, then Crossmaglen were scuppered by Gaoth Dobhair, a club laden with Donegal All-Ireland winners and finalists to remove a just a little touch of the elitist veneer.
But Mullinalaghta’s success in downing the might of Kilmacud Crokes in Sunday’s Leinster club final brought the house down.
It may well indeed be the greatest club story ever told but it has a lot of strong contenders to rival it.
It’s only a few short years ago that Mount Leinster Rangers landed a Leinster club title, beating Oulart-The Ballagh in the final before reaching an All-Ireland club final on St Patrick’s Day.
Carlow only has a sprinkling of hurling clubs, the county has never won a Leinster hurling title. At least Longford has some lineage to a successful past, winning the 1968 provincial football title.
Wicklow have never won a Leinster football title but that didn’t prevent Baltinglass claiming the 1990 All-Ireland title.
Kilmurry-Ibrickane and Dromcollogher-Broadford, Clare and Limerick champions, won Munster club football titles in the last decade, beating Kerins O’Rahillys and Nemo Rangers respectively. When Kilmurry-Ibrickane advanced to the All-Ireland final, Antrim champions St Gall’s were waiting for them.
Slaughtneil’s achievement in winning back-to-back trebles or a ‘double-treble’ – 2016 and 2017 Ulster football, hurling and camogie titles was done so with teams drawn from just 300 or so houses in their hinterland. But Mullinalaghta’s story surely outstrips them all now, the absence of a shop in the half-parish the icing on a cake that is already dressed up in paltry numbers, a membership of 155 from a population of around 450. The question is why haven’t the other 295 or so inhabitants signed up!
You’d like to believe that Mullinaglaghta’s story will permeate with club teams over the next few weeks, stoke something in them to reach higher and further. The belief that resources, financial and population, aren’t necessary tools at this level will be nurtured in just about every opening speech to 2019.
But while a few clubs will look inwards and find something, the effect at inter-county level will be negligible.
Nothing laid out the vast gulf between the two levels quite like the fall of the most recent two Dublin champions. Last year Wicklow champions Rathnew took out their Dublin counterparts St Vincent’s in a Leinster quarter-final but when the counties met last May, 23 points divided them. When Longford met Dublin in this year’s Leinster semi-final, the gap was 19.
The time of year that the provincial championships concludes is a factor in some of these results; heavier pitches leading to mistakes that an underdog loves to prey on. The conditions for an ambush are right. Ironic perhaps that there’s a clamour to get the club championships finished much earlier.
The 60-minute match duration is also relevant. Mullinalaghta have a more shallow bench by their own admission, so would an extra 10 minutes have served them well last Sunday?
But the bottom line is to achieve what they have done they must have good footballers. All the unity and defiance in the world won’t get them over the line if they don’t have quality, first and foremost.
Two years ago they might have beaten St Vincent’s, last year they should have beaten St Loman’s, this time they saw it out. The county itself has been ambushing more decorated counties in the qualifiers over the last decade. It’s been coming. They got it right at the right time.
No one can ever say they aren’t worthy.
Maybe Vincent’s time was at an end after a long run but Rathnew made sure of it with a 1-13 to 1-9 win in last year’s quarter-final.
Mount Leinster Rangers beat Ballyboden St Enda’s but the Carlow side’s 0-11 to 0-8 Leinster final win over Oulart-The Ballagh really made the hurling world sit up and take notice.
Nemo Rangers are the most successful club football team in history with seven All-Ireland titles which made their 2008 Munster loss to Dromcollogher-Broadford all the more sensational.
O’Hanrahan’s, living in the shadow of éire óg in Carlow town for so long, enjoy a 1-7 to 1-5 over that year’s beaten All-Ireland finalists. | 31266448 |
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Does your insurance cover your outbuildings?
Cape Town - The Ombudsman for Short-Term Insurance (OSTI), an independent body to whom clients may complain if they feel they have been unduly treated by their insurer regarding a claim, has recently released her report for 2015.
- The ‘referral rate’ shows the number of complaints to the OSTI per 1 000 claims received by the insurer.
- The ‘overturn rate’ shows what percentage of OSTI complaints finalised were overturned with some benefit given to the complainant.
OUTsurance is extremely proud to announce that they have again, for the second year in a row, comfortably beaten the industry averages for both of these key indicators. Of all the typical large short-term insurers, OUTsurance’s referral rate of 2 complaints per 1 000 claims was second only to Zurich Insurance.
When looking at the overturn rate however, OUTsurance was ahead of the pack, with only 13% of complaints overturned in the client’s favour. The product of these two key indicators gives a more complete picture of how fairly an insurer has handled its claims.
In this regard, OUTsurance comfortably OUT-performed all its major competitors, with an overturn rate of only 2.3 claims per 10 000 claims processed. This is 38% better than the next major competitor and approximately one third of the average of the major insurers.
We came out tops for the second year running and I am very pleased. The OSTI report is proof that our company has the right approach to dealing with claims. Fair treatment and awesome service to our clients when they claim is the most important thing we do”, said Ernst Gouws, CEO of OUTsurance.
“A massive thank you to all of our claims staff for living our company values, and ensuring our clients ‘Always get something OUT’,” Gouws concluded. | 304843593 |
space exploration | read. see. think.
life’s short. you hear everyone say it almost all the time yet we waste incalculable amounts of time and energy on contentious human interaction. this week you could say life is short, this world is fleeting, the universe is vast with a new sense of certainty.
witness voyager I and II.
thirty five years ago voyager I was launched and after spending those years traveling at a rate of about 520 million kilometers (about 320 miles) per year, it will soon reach the edge of our solar system. yep, the edge of our solar system. extraordinary. under which part of your day-to-day do you file that?
remember what you were doing 35 years ago? i bet it wasn’t contemplating the vastness of the universe. i bet it wasn’t figuring out how to get a spacecraft past four planets and out into deep space.
since it takes 16 hours for communication from voyager to reach earth, it might already be in deep space and we wouldn’t know yet. think 16 hours is long to wait, consider the scientists who’ve stuck with this project since 1977. talk about long game. the mission was designed to last only 5 years, but voyager I and II kept going and beaming back data, so nasa kept funding the project. guaranteed there were plenty of moments over those 35 years where they wondered if their funding would be pulled and the answer to whether voyager could get to end of the solar system and beyond would ever be answered.
the importance of voyager has been proven many times over.
voyager is still moving ahead, still reaching for another frontier that will add valuable information to the body knowledge.
it’s almost unfathomable. scientists considered that voyager might encounter other life out there so they put a metal record on board with sounds and pictures from earth and a pictorial set of directions on how to play the record. imagine even making the decision as to how to send information about earth, then what to include in that communication. how exactly do you communicate all that is life on this earth so that someone with no basis at all can understand? the list is fascinating.
in the middle of an argument or a tense situation you can move your mind to a bigger thought and physically lower your heart rate and blood pressure. contemplate the universe. especially as the election draws near. | 156821737 |
Arda Turan's ankle injury is to be monitored by Barcelona in the coming days.
Barcelona are to assess the severity of an ankle injury sustained by Arda Turan in training on Friday.
Turkey international Turan, who joined from La Liga rivals Atletico Madrid earlier this month, twisted his ankle and an initial diagnosis from Barca stated that he has sprained ligaments.
A Barca statement read: "Arda Turan twisted his ankle during Friday morning training and the verdict is that he has a second degree sprain in the external ligaments.
"He will now need to be subjected to more thorough testing, which should shed more light on his availability over the next few days."
The midfielder is unable to make his debut for Luis Enrique's side until January due to a FIFA ban preventing the Liga champions from registering new players in 2015. | 89891724 |
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For what reason do the Nevi’im tell us about the war of Gog U’Magog in the times before Moshiach comes? What benefit do we have from this knowledge?
The Nevi’im want us to know that the forces of evil are very powerful in this world and that they will never yield to us easily. And to let us know that even when the time for the ge’ulah comes, at that time these forces are going to exert themselves to the utmost to prevent the ge’ulah. Why? Because the ge’ulah is going to be the beginning of a period of great happiness when everybody will recognize Hashem. And therefore, at that time, our enemies will attempt their utmost to stop the ge’ulah and this true recognition of Hashem.
And the Nevi’im want us to know this, so that we should be aware, that in this world – right now too – the yetzer ha’rah is doing its best to stop us. And we have to know, that we have to fight back and that we are in this world to resist.
Our success depends on our achievements in this area and we have to make sure that we never desist, never weaken, in this area of avodas Hashem, no matter how many foolish opponents we have and no matter how strong they appear to be. | 126448394 |
BERLIN — The image of the United States has deteriorated further among its traditional allies after a year in which President Donald Trump ratcheted up his verbal attacks on countries like Canada and Germany, a leading survey showed.
Last week, when giving a speech at the UN General Assembly in New York, Trump drew laughter from world leaders when he claimed to have achieved more in his two years in the White House than almost any other US administration in history.
The countries with the most positive views of the United States were Israel, the Philippines and South Korea, all at 80 percent or above. Across all countries, the US got positive marks, with 50 percent saying they had a positive view, compared to 43 percent who were negative.
Despite Trump’s low ratings, 63 percent of respondents said the world was better off with the United States as the leading power, compared to 19 percent who preferred China in that role. | 280696776 |
Croatia offers a wide variety of geographical and cultural locations within a hand’s reach.
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I would never hold margin for any period of time. It's not a matter of if, but when they flash crash the thing and steal your stack.
This x100. Many people held margin at around ~$87 on Kraken and while they were right (it went up) took significantly loses due to Ddos attacks/manipulation. I'd advise anyone to be very very careful holding margin.
Felt bad adding a bit more to my stash yesterday @ $148. Felt better waking up to $175 ETH. Need to buy a Nano S but everywhere I look says they are unavailable or backordered.
Fwiw, with BTC leaking something about possible hard fork, if you guys are curious about another prediction of mine (search my post history for others) I expect ETH to have a pullback at some point in the next few months and BTC to rally a bit. And then people will once again start to realize BTC isn't in the same sphere to ETH even with the hard fork and ETH will rally once again to eventual higher all time highs*. For new holders here, don't panic sell if you see ETH drop some in the coming weeks. If something is actually a challenge, I'm sure it will be brought up and discussed before it's come to fruition, but for now just zoom out and see all the good news coming up in the next year =). The future looks bright.
How will someone who is holding only like 25 ETH benefit from POS? Ive read you will need 1000 ETH minimum to lock up and cash in from POS.
There will be staking pools. Hopefully it will be done in a way you remain the owner of your private key.
ShapeShift just raised millions from regular VC. GET HYPED!
Guessing how most people feel about ETH. Pretty damn funny.
they'll be done on smart contracts where you'll essentially lease you eth but no one will be able to remove your eth from the smart contract. you'll be able to call it back with your own key.
I feel like this is due to coinbase being down? Probably some fear over uncertainty of why it's down plus eliminating by the the biggest mode of USD - > ETH conversion?
Yeah Samsung and Toyota...That **** is big time.
Also wtf is going on with Bitcoin and ETH both dropping like crazy the last hour or 2.
lol. Never let it be said that dumb money is piling into a bubble here.
Hah if you think this is crazy you must be near here. Fasten your seat belt and hold on. It's a wild ride.
I figure people on a poker forum can handle the swings better than an average investor.
Tooth - I'm curious what do you do for a living? It seems like you have a never ending supply of time to post in these Crypto threads. Must be nice being a man of leisure.
Did you use shapeshift or something?
The fact that you're reading this thread makes me optimistic.
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Craig Barrett joined Intel in 1974 and was its CEO from 1998 to 2005. As part of a trip organized by the International Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) he gave a short public talk in Dublin. The mission of the ITLG is to encourage young Irish entrepreneurs and bring the skills, experience and know-how of Silicon Valley back to the people of Ireland.
When Craig began at Intel the company was making forty million dollars a year. By the time he left it was making a hundred million dollars a day. He helped manage Intel through eleven recessions and in his talk he made some interesting comments and observations on the current state of economic affairs. He particularly addressed the relationship between research Universities and the private sector. His suggestions on how we can move forward are unconventional and run contrary to some widely held beliefs. We have abridged the speech and added our own comments where appropriate.
“There’s not much secret to any of this. It’s really hard work and implementation that takes things forward. We like wealth creation, we like the high paying jobs and we like a growing economy. The only way you can keep that is by the constant creation of new companies, new wealth, new products, new ideas. That requires a continuous stream of investment.
“That investment in new ideas comes in two parts; public sector and private sector. The public sector, for historic reasons, invested in basic research which usually takes place in research institutes. There is also a private sector in R&D but typically it is more development based. It is more about the development of existing ideas.
“You can for example look at a company like Intel which invests six or seven billion dollars a year in research but it is mostly in the development of next generation microprocessors or some extension of the current Intel business line. A company like Microsoft will invest eight billion dollars a year in basic development and extension of its existing product line. Whether it is the operating system, the application suite or maybe some of the other programs that Microsoft has.
If we look at a large company like Microsoft, it can be seen that it has had three main challenges over the years. All of which have been derived from University research projects made up of one or two researchers.
Another issue with startup ideas is that very often there is no apparent way of monetizing them and Chief Financial Officers in many companies prefer to see money being spent in a tangible manner on existing product lines.
This implies a new way of doing things and Craig went on to lay out some fundamental principles that could help guide the way.
Substantial investment in new ideas: Ten years ago, 3% of Gross National Product devoted to R&D was considered ample. For investment to be considered substantial that figure should be 5%.
Sustainable investment: Competitive ideas can take longer to develop and bring to market than the electoral cycle in most democracies. Politicians have an inbuilt resistance to others, particularly opposing parties being seen to benefit from their ideas and the decisions they make.
Synergy. Bringing the private sector closer to Universities is absolutely key.
The acceptance of failure: In Silicon Valley you are not considered experienced unless you have had two or three failures. Without those sort of lessons learned first hand in the only way possible then what gives you the idea that you can be successful?
Gordon Moore, one of the founders of Intel has a famous much cited law that implies that computing power doubles roughly every eighteen months or two years. He based this on his observation that the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit had doubled approximately every two years.
“If you are a corporation working in the tech sector your only option, to stay abreast with technology and to stay in a competitive position, is not to slow down investment in technology.
“The only way to get out of recession in a stronger fashion than when you entered recession is to invest your way out and not to save your way out. This is absolutely contrary to any advice you may receive from investment bankers, the press, or a Wall Street broker that deals in stocks.
Is this profound strategic advice going to deaf ears? Is there anyone listening who has influence over strategic investment in the future of this country? Craig asked how much of GDP we Irish spend on R&D. He estimated correctly between 1.5 and 2%. The answer is 1.66% of a diminishing GDP. He made the point that the outdated recommendation from the Lisbon treaty was 3% but that now between 5% and 7% was more appropriate.Excellent Article Tom. Thank you. | 149718691 |
We see firsthand the effects of increasingly extreme storms and rising sea levels on our coastal economy and way of life in the Ocean State. I’m working to hasten America’s transition to a clean energy economy so we can leave this planet a better, safer place for our children and grandchildren. I founded the bipartisan Senate Oceans Caucus to protect natural resources like Narragansett Bay.
I’ve authored legislation that would put a price on carbon pollution, reducing the emissions that drive climate change and returning all the money collected back to the American people. Democrats and Republicans who are serious about tackling climate change agree that a system like the one I’ve proposed is our best bet for curbing carbon pollution. | 176602743 |
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This requirement involves a supervised, hands-on experience working with public health professionals. The intent is to engage students in activities that align with the student’s area of interest. Students can fulfill this requirement by volunteering with a local organization, interning with a nongovernmental organization, or working on a research project under a faculty mentor. Through the applied experience, we aim to afford each student the opportunity to participate in population-level change in a meaningful way.
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Seasonal beers, German themed food, and live music featuring the Firefly Girls and performances by the Kick Back Cloggers. Plus a silent auction with lots of great prizes. All to benefit Haverford Township Historical Society. $25 for members, $30 for non-members, and memberships are available at the door or in advance. | 189059557 |
"I've got a pair of brand new roller skates, you got a brand new key. Why don't we get together and try them out to see..." went the popular song by Melanie Safka in 1971. She wrote the song in about 15 minutes as she reminisced about learning to skate and ride a bike with her dad's help. These skates look bizarre to kids today who easily glide along on the linear wheels of inline skates.
Skates were invented in the late 1700s believe it or not, and for about 100 years most of them were an inline type. Maneuvering was difficult until the late 1800s when James Plimpton of Massachusetts redesigned the inline wheels, making four wheeled skates. The interest in skating spread all the way to the White House where Presidents and children skated. The Roller Derby became popular. And what better place to go on a date than the Roller Rink. A couple was expected to hold hands and grab each other closely as they rounded curves over the rink's glossy wooden floors and shimmied along to the live organ music.
Skates weren't just at the rink. It was a special night out when my family went to A&W Root Beer for a cold frosted mug brought out to our car by a waitress on roller skates.
Most of my skating was in my neighborhood on a blacktop road. Hard soled shoes worked best, or you were doomed to have the toes slip out of the small hooks and down you would go. I had many scabbed knees because we only wore dresses or shorts. There was a hill on our U shaped suburban road and we often held onto a friend's bike fender to start pulling us down the hill. As we got going, we let go and tried to stay upright while we rounded the curve, avoiding any oncoming cars. What dare devil behavior for our girl group! I recall our Brownie troop went to the local skating rink and several times our church had a social event at the rink. At the rink they always had races, usually divided by boys and then girls. We also all made a big circle and did 'The Hokey Pokey.' There was a lighted instruction billboard indicating what skating event was next, such as Couples Only, Reverse, etc. Good memories, great fun, and who knew? We were getting in a little exercise, too!
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Fig.1. The second lick is also a blues slide lick in Open E tuning but occurs over a faster shuffle groove in a different key. It is played over the IV-I (D7-A7) pattern of a blues progression in A. Back off the distortion on this one for a semi-clean tone with just enough gain for a little sustain and engage only the neck pickup. This phrase presents another favorite Allman blues box position with plenty of chord outlining in the melody. Check out the harmonica-like major third double-stop at the end of the phrase - this is a familiar Allman mannerism often heard in his solos. Again, be sure to employ frethand muting and pluck all the notes with your fingers. | 155033949 |
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Lisa Charleyboy is on a mission to empower aboriginal youth and she is using digital media to get her message across.
Identified as an aboriginal millennial to watch by Huffington Post, it’s clear Ms. Charleyboy understands how to use social media — a fashion writer and editor she was named one of Canada’s top fashion bloggers, as well as one of Toronto’s top tweeters. Now, she plans to use the medium to inform her latest venture, Urban Native Magazine, an online publication with a clear mission: To be the go-to destination for current articles on Indigenous fashion, art, culture, entertainment, lifestyle, news and business.
The magazine, aimed at 15 to 35 year-old aboriginal people in North America, will use editorial content and social media streams such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram to create positive change for aboriginal youth by getting them talking about social, political and pop culture issues, breaking down stereotypes and sharing success stories.
Ms. Charleyboy is part of a growing population of young aboriginal entrepreneurs. That trend is highlighted in a recent TD Market report that pegs the aboriginal economy at $32-billion by 2016, with $13-billion the result of direct contributions of aboriginal businesses, said JP Gladu, president and chief executive of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB).
“We see a lot of young people get into businesses that directly support the development of our natural resources, but I don’t think you can name a sector that our people are not engaged in. Within our own membership we have technology, media design, cosmetic companies, engineering firms, architects, lawyers and they are competing and succeeding. That is what Lisa is communicating,” he said.
“Certainly there are challenges, but if you are a young aboriginal person and all you read in the media is how your communities are failing, what seed will that plant in your psyche? On the other hand, if you start to see success stories of people just like you adding value to society, that’s where you start to develop pride. Positive energy breeds positive energy,” Mr. Gladu said.
Taking on this task is a challenge, but one Ms. Charleyboy is uniquely suited to. Growing up in suburban Abbotsford, B.C., the daughter of a non-native mother and a First Nations father who passed away when she was young, her interest in First Nations’ culture was only sparked after she moved to Toronto at the age of 17 to study fashion communications at Ryerson University.
She later transferred to York University to pursue a degree in journalism with the hope of entering the world of fashion magazines — a dream begun when she picked up her first copy of Vogue magazine at the age of 10.
In 2007, Ms. Charleyboy started her blog, Urban Native Girl Stuff (the genesis of her current magazine) to explore topics of interest, which included native culture as well as politics, fashion, beauty and lifestyle, but also to test the market.
“I wanted to see if there was an audience for this type of writing.” As it turns out, there was an appetite both from native and non-native communities. “A lot of people told me they found their culture through the blog and were really proud to be a native person,” she said.
That connection translated into 10,000 Twitter followers and 5,000 unique visits a month to the blog. This past August, Ms. Charleyboy launched Urban Native Magazine to build on the interest she knew was there and turn it into a viable business, with revenue coming from advertising and sponsorship.
To get the magazine up and running Ms. Charleyboy took on a limited business partner who provided early financing. She continues to seek investment and says corporate sponsorships will be key moving forward. Because she had not monetized the blog, Ms. Charleyboy supported it by doing freelance and public relations/communications writing and she will continue to do that during the startup phase of the magazine.
“I’m a lean startup. I chose not to try and access bank financing because I have student loans and don’t feel comfortable at this juncture to take on more debt,” she says.
A small business workshop put on by an employment and training centre for aboriginal people in Toronto helped her with her business plan and she received a small grant. She worked with a business mentor from CESO, an organization that matches senior level executives with aboriginal entrepreneurs to help her create a business plan to pitch to investors. Another option she is exploring is Ryerson University’s Digital Media Zone to help accelerate the business by accessing mentorship.
At the annual CCAB-sponsored Aboriginal Entrepreneurs Conference and Trade Show, being held Nov. 4, 5 and 6 at the Hilton Lac-Leamy in Gatineau, Que., Ms. Charleyboy will take part in a panel discussion on how to build a business using digital communications and how to establish an authentic digital voice.
Her best lesson, she said is to “know your consumer demographic and how and where they interact online. The goal is to create a community around your brand — not push out messages. | 134957790 |
Spending time with family and friends on a river, lake, or marina is a favorite summer activity. Follows these precautions to help children and adults boat safely.
Remember that things such as water wings, noodles and other swimming aids are fun toys for kids, but they should never be used in place of approved PFDs. | 188418125 |
This challenge could be a little challenging for a few. Whether you have 1 or 2 bags or even more (I have 3 bags, 1 case at the moment). It is difficult to get a picture of everything I have in 1 shot. I don’t own a wide angle if that would help, probably not. So if you want, take a picture of 1 or 3 items of what you have and post them at different times to make the challenge complete of what is in the bag/bags showing all that you want to post at the end of challenge. More than 1 camera that’s fine also. Newest Bag has 12 compartments, 6 in front, 2 on each side and 2 on top. I will start with the Bags.
I have three bags. One for my Nikon D7200 and lenses, charger, etc., one for my Nikon D750 and lenses, charger, etc., and one for my ready-to-go gear.
Thanks for the reply mcmama. I just got the new bag. Hopefully it will carry everything for my all day adventures of shooting. Everything will be in each bag than put into large bag and just go.
Good point William, Thanks for sharing.
An oldie but a goodie - Still use - like almost new.
Saving a spot, Will start with Photos Tomorrow.
For those of you that have not seen the January Challenge Calendar..Here ya go..
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Part deux of our painting experience. Our first painting lounge experience was a Magritte. This Koi pond with cherry blossom one was a fun one to do. We didn't bring booze this time so the quality of the painting was slightly better so I would like to think.
Dave and I are giving our painting to our own mom and pop. My parents have an empty apartment in Taiwan to decorate so it'll be perfect (because they don't live there). In fact, I'm on my way right now to give it to them in person :))))) Hello from Taiwan!! | 211742271 |
Kyle had contacted me a week before he planned to propose to Hailey. He chose the Anne Amie Vineyard in Carlton as the perfect backdrop to propose marriage to his woman. What a view! The winery overlooks all of the vines and the valley – its such a gorgeous place. In fact, the Anne Amie Vineyard has been voted as one of the most beautiful wineries in the Willamette Valley multiple times.
After she said YES we got to spend an hour hanging out at the winery sipping wine and Kyle and Hailey just being their cuties selves. I love turning proposals into mini engagement sessions. Everything is so fresh and new. Proposals are definitely something special to be a part of!
Luis Luque - Nice work! Beautiful and gorgeous couple. | 360833763 |
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Don’t get annoyed at the kid who’s messing with things, he might be in the middle of something super crazy!
It’s been quite a while that the world has been only focusing on the Millennials-too many questions, too many answers, appreciation and nagging, all sorts of researches- has been done and the generation has remained in the limelight for quite a while now. However, the fresh lot is straight out of the cradle and ready to rock the world, also known as Generation-Z. The ones born after the millennials are doing wondrous things without even stepping out of their comfort zone because they seek and find opportunities within it!
No field has been left undiscovered, no stone unturned, by these tiny packets of talent! Gen-Z has been creating waves all around the world.
Shorya Mahanot, one of the world’s youngest abstract artists, has been painting and receiving recognition since the age of four when he commissioned to produce his first solo exhibition at Mumbai’s Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.
Other than him, two tech-savvy brothers of ages 14 and 12 have managed to become the President and CEO of their own brainchild, ‘Go Dimensions’. Shravan Kumaran and his younger sibling Sanjay Kumaran are perhaps India’s youngest entrepreneurs and have used the code to build mobile applications. Starting at ages 12 and 10, Shravan and Sanjay have managed to develop and put eleven apps on the Apple App Store and Google’s Android Play Store and the apps have received over 35,000 downloads. Their first app — Catch me Cop on the Apple App Store — was released last year and was a hit.
Anand Gangadharan and Mohak Bhalla are tenth standard students from South Delhi and have made ‘Walkie Mobi Charger’, a compact attachment when attached to the heel of shoe automatically act as a portable mobile charger. This gadget made by the two 15-year-olds, generates up to six volts of electricity, which is better than the five volts released through a plug point, ensuring that the phone battery is charged at a faster pace. Did you even think of something similar for your school projects?
In yet another development, Five 14-year-old girls from India visited San Francisco for the Technovation World Pitch Challenge last year and pitched the mobile app they built and also won. The app is intended to encourage recycling, help fight disease and earn some money. The app connects waste producers with the recyclers. Tea vendors, for example, can alert recyclers to used, empty plastic cups; the recyclers then share the money they collect for the plastic with the vendors. The app is named Sellixo and was built by Sanjana Vasanth, Anupama N, Mahima Mechendale, Swasthi P Rao and Navyashree B, all 9th Standard students.
Kids these days are defining their generation through their wits, from being artists to entrepreneurs, they have started to achieve wonderful things in their life at a tender age, which may be considered not so tender now! They’re quite the raw fighters with brains.
Not just in India but all around the world, kids are starting to outsmart the world just as they step out of the cradle. Farouk James, a four-year-old has impressed YouTube and the world of blogging merely by his charm! Recently, seen at the front row of London Fashion Week runway, the kid has managed to bag several modelling gigs of various brands and had a fan following even before he could join school! His mother manages his YouTube and Instagram account single-handedly, giving the world interesting little updates of such a young star in the fashion world.
Interestingly, London Scout was only 3-years-old when she made it big in New York style scene. The 4-year-old Scout is known for introducing emerging contemporary kidswear (such as Sons & Daughters) to her followers. She’s big on prints, loves bold colours and prefers feminine shapes and silhouettes with 122k followers on Instagram, handled by her mother. She is represented by Buchwald and is featured in numerous campaigns.
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Another 4-year-old, Zooey, is known for her signature sunnies paired with graphic tees. She’s a fan of print-clashing, hi-top sneakers and wearing beanies year-round and is a star on Instagram with 20.4k followers and is represented by Bensimon Models, she’s been featured in numerous fashion editorials and magazines.
Born in the time when technological advancement has reached its zenith and the basic amenities are enhanced to become ‘digitally empowered’, these kids have left their footprints on the sands of time at a very young age. Parents these days, who are also the millennial generation- busy, making money, redirect their children’s attention to such facilities where they explore the best and the exposure they are getting is immense. The only question that puts one in a fix is- will this technologically premiere generation be able to strike a balance in life? Exposed at a very young age to this culture-will they benefit from technology and social media being the base? Achieving heights too early, will they expand the arena further and come up with things novel or just fade away like everything too early? | 58373364 |
For the last few years I’ve been running Debian systems for most of my home machines and the handful of servers I admin. I tend to run Debian Unstable on my desktops and development machines and Debian Testing on the servers.
I have no idea what Debian release names these corresponds to and I really really don’t care. People sometimes ask me or tell me about their Sid or Lenny or whatever the names are and I can just never learn them and I really don’t need to know them.
I dist-upgrade most of my machines frequently so I’m really not on any of Sid or Lenny or similar. I’m truly on Testing and Unstable, and even if I think Unstable possibly is a rather unfortunate name I think they are more describing as they are mere labels on very moving targets and remain the same over the years independent of Debian doing releases or not. Which is just a reason for me to just not care at all if Debian does infrequent releases or not, as long as packages go into these repos without too much lag. | 316379160 |
The judgmental critique by ‘those in the know’ of anyone who does not hold to their ‘conservative’ ‘traditional’ ‘orthodox’ Christian position can be hurtful, even devastating for some. If you’ve experienced it, remember this. Such criticism is usually not well founded and can often be merely a desperate attempt to bring you back into the ‘fold.’ Don’t buy it. Spending all your time and energy watching your back for the next attack is nonsense. Rather, you want to grow stronger and more informed about your own trajectory; learning, refining, sharpening, and formulating credible positions. Though this will scare the hell out of the ‘religious elite’ and maybe even yourself, it’s worth pursuing. | 121228320 |
The Grand Theft Auto thread!
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RE: The Grand Theft Auto thread!
Ok, I'm prepared for tomorrow, in which I shall ask for permission to pre-order GTA V. I've got all my arguments lined up (like I always do, but generally I'm too aggravated by the word 'no' to say any of them, but just in case).
Fingers crossed for you Ollie! I hope your arguments win the day!
That is good news. Or do you now owe some huge favour?!
Nope, although I do miss my $70, as a matter of fact, she owes me $2.01.
Countdown to Ollie's life going into suspended animation!
Not long to go now! This morning I was happy to hear that my brother intends to play GTAV, which means that when I visit him I can sit and watch him play it. Then he announced that this would not be possible for perhaps six months or more as he is still so engrossed in blinking Skyrim. Arrrgh!
Also saw a tweet today about there being a Father Ted reference in the game. Just ace!
Anyway, today I saw my first GTA V poster, I'm so excited!
There's a massive GTAV poster right round the corner from my work. I stare at it when the bus goes past. I saw a young bloke nearly fall over yesterday because he was ogling that poster.
Just a very small number of days to go!
I couldn't help myself, watching those leaked gameplay videos. I must say it has exceeded my expectations. | 113471661 |
I'm interrupting our regularly scheduled blog post for a very exciting important announcement :: There is a new baby Schill! Yayhooray!
Meet Karyn and Brian, who are getting married this March! They had us laughing during their entire engagement session. Brian and Kory only spoke in movie quotes and Karen and I chatted about the greatness of football (*right*). We met at the Como Park Observatory in St. Paul for their session. The Observatory seemed like a great place to take photos (Great light! Plants! Cool glass stuff!) but it was packed full of people, we were constantly harassed by the guards around the observatory for things like using a prop (Kory was holding a reflector -- not a prop!) and stepping "off the path," and as "professional photographers," we were only allowed 20 minutes to take photos. Despite the craziness, Karyn and Brian were totally cool and we got some great photos!
Meet the adorable Talan and his charming brother Eddie. Talan turned two a couple weeks back, so we meet up with him at his house for some fun photos! We had a great afternoon fun of cupcakes, a rock session, some bed jumping and a trip to the store!
What to do after eating cupcakes? Rocking out on your drum set, of course!
Over Christmas we were in Carrington, North Dakota for Katie and Travis' beautiful wedding. The night before the wedding, the Carrington area had a snowstorm. On the big day we had a perfectly snowy (if a little cold!) day for a winter wedding. Katie and Travis' family and friends were so welcoming and kind to us. It was a great day!
Katie looked amazing on her wedding day. Both Kory and I met up with Katie and the girls at the salon in the morning. Katie's sister did her hair and makeup and it was stunning. | 296347007 |
If you want to stay out of debt and keep your finances in order, you’ll want to make a budget. Who better to help you with that than our 10 Best Budgeting Blogs?
You Need a Budget is a no-nonsense site about curtailing runaway spending. Getting a handle on those everyday purchases is crucial. “Financial Advice I’d Give 18-Year-Old Me” looks at maturity and spending, while “5 Anxiety-Inducing Weak Spots In My Budget” deals with easing those money tensions.
Dianna Baros is the brainchild behind The Budget Babe. She wants to help readers find ways to wear lavish fashion without breaking the bank. Posts like “The Accessory Steal of the Week” and “The Look for Less” offer true value, alongside traditional tips for improving your bottom line.
Living Richly On a Budget comes from a nutrition author who takes an equally healthy approach to finances. Offering a budget planner and other cool tools to get you started, she stresses the importance of setting goals and making sacrifices.
Cait’s personal finance blog began as she struggled to get out of nearly $30,000 in debt, largely from credit cards. She launched the site just two years ago as she gathered resources for her effort. With advice on weekly and monthly budgets, she helps people recognize the need for an improved spending plan.
Tonya is an Los Angeles-based video editor who was living her dream, except on the balance sheet. That’s when she buckled down and developed a clear strategy for budgeting. She follows other great financial voices to find the clearest advice and latest tips for her readers, including better holiday planning.
From Joanna and Johnny comes this friendly and focused site with clear guidance on balancing your budget and tracking your net worth. Our Freaking Budget is loaded with tools and tips for beginners and advice for controlling cash flow and unneeded spending.
Extremely easy-to-follow budgeting is highlighted at Pear. Through their experiences, husband and wife duo Charlie and Sarah Park designed a web-based app readers can access from the site. The “Budgeting With Love” series looks at understanding the difference between want and need.
The Budget Fashionista is Kathryn Finney’s answer to balacing style with savings. She launched the site in 2003 as she struggled with credit card debt. As seen in InStyle and CNN, she’s built a strong following through her clever wit and honest postings. She offers insight into purchasing decisions large and small, as every penny counts. | 331552214 |
You’ve probably heard the expression, “A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step.” That’s certainly true of Educational Innovations‘ Transparent Alternator Kit. It’s a hands-on kit that visually (and vividly) demonstrates how electricity is created—the single step that has launched humankind into the technological age! Show your students the start of this fascinating path and they will begin their own journey.
Is Hydropower a Renewable Energy Source?
There are so many things happening in the world of energy these days. One only needs to watch the news or Google the word “energy” to find myriad examples and discussions of pipelines, carbon footprints, windmills, climate change and more.
Why not insert a bit of green science humor into your next quiz or homework page? Extra points for students who guess the right answers to our riddles!
You might also get a jolt from our Electricity humor page, from a previous issue of our newsletter.
If you have a favorite cartoon or joke, we invite you to share it as a comment below.
Wind power… solar power… hydropower… power from biomass… There’s so much to say about these renewable energy sources and their growing importance in our lives. Time spent teaching young minds about green science is invaluable—we are helping them to understand and participate in their own futures as inhabitants of our planet!
Even the smallest scientists will understand that the sun and wind can be made to “do work” and produce energy. This topic is so much fun to explore, we hope you’ll share your own favorite discussion starters with us in the comments below! | 123500739 |
Which asks should be prioritized in animal advocacy?
The strength of the idea concerns the cost-effectiveness of an ask, and what weight to put on it given the evidence-base. For example, food fortification looks promising as its evidence base looks strong, which allows us to take its high estimated cost-effectiveness seriously.
Limiting factors address the most likely factor to limit an intervention from expanding and having an impact. This could be funding, talent, replaceability, size of the problem or logistical factors. For example, ensuring humane slaughter and transportation seems to be a promising idea, however, it’s counterfactual replaceability is limited given that there are already lots of competent organizations working on the issue.
Execution difficulty is focused on how hard it would be to apply this intervention in real-world situations, both at the earlier stage of founding and the later stages of execution. It also covers the ability to receive valuable feedback quickly and if the timing is right for executing an intervention in the area. For example, we think the difficulty of doing high impact work in welfare-focused gene modification is extremely high both in the founding, feedback, and execution stage.
Externalities cover all non-direct effects both negative and positive of an intervention. For example, many meat reduction campaigns are focused on red meat and might have a much stronger negative effect on small, high priority animals like fish and chickens than any other intervention. This is an externality called the small animal replacement problem.
There are many other factors that could be considered, but we feel these criteria end up covering the most important considerations. Ratings for individual factors were combined into an overall promisingness ranking. This will provide direction as to what charities to recommend, and although that is the main focus of our research, the ranking could also provide additional suggestions as to where to distribute other charitable resources. For example, what should be the ask of the next corporate campaign led by other animal advocacy organizations?
This does not mean that we think that the top charities will necessarily do these specific asks, for it could be that a very strong approach, such as food tech, does not fit well with any of the above asks and is instead executed in a different way.
In the next stage of our research, we are going to focus on determining which approach is most promising and how to optimally combine asks and approaches to maximize the positive expected effects.
*Our contraceptives ask was moved to our poverty research team as this is where the intervention fits into the current charity world and is how it would be best executed. | 306577331 |
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Can Africa save rural Canada?
Often development flows from the so-called “developed world” to the undeveloped. Experts and volunteers from countries like Canada are supposed to have all the answers. These experts get on planes, fly to far-flung corners of the world and then run projects that work to change families, communities, economies or governments. I’m not saying this is wrong and doesn’t work – sometimes it helps in the overall process. Sometimes these experts really do have the cultural know-how, sensitivity, language skills and compassion to make real and lasting change. But without people on the ground, citizens from the country in question, change is impossible.
From the beginning, we at Community Forests International realized that communities and Tanzanians were the experts. When I first came to East Africa in 2007 I didn’t intend on helping anyone – I was trying to write a novel and find my place in the world. My Tanzanian friends helped me – they gave me a sense of belonging and place. They taught me some Swahili and showed me what it meant to belong to a community. I shared stories about tree-planting in Canada, shared stories about what was possible and how people in my country had worked to change vast areas of land by planting millions of trees.
My Pemban friends did the rest. They decided which trees to grow and how to grow them. I learned beside them and shared only in my enthusiasm and belief in the possible. I learned from one of my best friends, Mbarouk Mussa Omar, how to mobilize an entire community. How to share an idea and spread hope. I learned how to run an NGO and how to organize people around a shared vision. I came back to Canada and founded Community Forests International with a great group of Canadians while he founded Community Forests Pemba in Tanzania. We started the organizations together building off of each other’s strengths and weaknesses, learning quickly and taking risks at the right time. Today Pemba is a model of innovation. Communities have transformed their island and have built something that should be replicated around the world. Why can’t we learn from them?
Rural Canada, especially in the Maritimes where Community Forests International is headquartered has development challenges of its own. Brain drain, economic decline, forest degradation and corruption. As an organization that works to restore natural environments through the creation of sustainable economic opportunities we also run up against other challenges. We face closed minds, insurmountable communication barriers, intergenerational knowledge gaps and an unwillingness to try new things. Canadians are stubborn.
Maybe we’ve got something to learn.
Pembans have been working over the last few years to innovate cook stoves, housing construction, the generation of electricity and food production and their work has culminated in the creation of a Rural Innovation Campus. The campus is a place for communities to pilot new technologies, share their knowledge and return back to their villages armed with the tools necessary to make change. We are exploring ways to bring community leaders from around the world to come and learn and teach at the campus.
So what does this have to do with Canada?
We like the idea so much we’re bringing it home. We have the dream of making our organization’s 600 acre farm and forest a Rural Innovation Campus in Canada. A place where Canadians can come and share innovations and ideas around farming, forestry, green building and clean energy. We want to support people around the world in the development of new technologies, both to fight climate change and create new job opportunities.
In order to kick it off we’re bringing Mbarouk, Community Forests Pemba’s Executive Director to Canada in the summer of 2014. We’re excited to hear his thoughts on rural Canada – how we can learn from Pemba and build a true global network of ideas.
At this point in the game there’s one thing we know for certain. | 40571088 |
Chicago-based middle-market investment bank Jordan Knauff & Company (JKC) is pleased to announce it has received the 2016 Best Equity Capital Raising Transaction Alternative Investment Award from Wealth & Finance International magazine. JKC earned this award for its work as financial advisor to Des Moines, Iowa-based BH Companies, the fourth largest private multifamily property owner and manager in the United States.
With JKC as its advisor, BH Companies closed on $21.4 million in equity capital commitments for the BH New Opportunity Fund 2015, LP. BH Companies was founded in 1993 by Mr. Harry Bookey to acquire, improve, and manage residential apartment communities located in select geographies in the U.S. Since its founding, BH Companies has achieved notable and sustainable success such that it now includes a family of affiliated entities consisting of BH Equities, LLC; BH Management Services, LLC; and BH Construction. Acting as a collaborative unit, the entities collectively employ 1,650 people, and own and/or manage approximately 68,000 rental apartment units in 22 states.
The Wealth & Finance International awards are presented annually and feature a wide range of financial industry segments, including alternative investments, insurance and reinsurance, and general financial services. Award recipients are selected by a combination of votes gathered from the magazine’s network of respected industry partners and its own in-house research.
With a global audience of over 130,000 stretching from North America and Europe to Asia and the Middle East, Wealth & Finance International is a monthly publication dedicated to delivering high quality, informative, and up-to-the-minute global business content. Wealth & Finance International is read by an established global network of high net worth individuals and industry decision makers looking for the latest news and opinion on the business and finance issues that matter most. For chief executive officers of some of the world’s largest corporations to top tier managers in thousands of smaller enterprises around the world, Wealth & Finance International is an essential tool for keeping up to date with the news, opinions, and deals shaping the regional and international business landscape. | 62571415 |
Why isn't the conjugate symmetry of k-space always exploited, to save scan time? What's the downside? Why does it occur?
The downside is a reduction in the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) by a factor of √2.
If we reuse data, we are reusing the same noise contamination of the data as well. If we actually acquire the data, we'd still have noise contamination but it would be different because the noise is random.
The conjugate symmetry of k-space is as follows. To get the complex conjugate of a k-space data point, simply change the sign of the imaginary part of the complex number. To put it in the correct part of k-space, perform a reflection in both axes (equivalent to a 180° rotation).
See also the partial Fourier page of the K-Space Tool. | 286326 |
What are they? Tape storage devices run the gamut from small, PC-related systems in the gigabyte range to large enterprise tape libraries capable of up to petabytes of storage.
What do they do? Any tape storage and backup system has the ability to copy all or designated amounts of data from original sources, such as hard drives, onto tape cartridges so that they will not be lost in a system crash.
Must-know info? A revolution in tape drive technology has created a new generation of intelligent tape libraries capable of scaling up or down to meet virtually all your storage requirements. As long as scalability, performance and reliability remain key criteria for large storage systems, tape libraries will be the best bet for most enterprises. | 214061830 |
How do I produce consistently coloured concrete products?
Pigments should be purchased from a reputable supplier to ensure consistent colour strength and shade from batch to batch.
In addition, using different base pigments, or varying the weight of pigment in your batch can create a wide spectrum of colour tones and shades. The amount of pigment added is usually expressed as a percentage (by weight) of the batch cement content. Cement, pigment, aggregates and admixtures must be measured into the mix accurately. Water must be metered accurately as the water-cement ratio will significantly affect the final colour of the product.
What is the maximum dosage of pigment in a concrete or mortar?
How much pigment do I need to colour a cubic metre of concrete?
A typical concrete mix contains 350kg of cement per cubic metre, and therefore a 5% dosage of pigment by weight of cement would require 17.5kg of pigment per cubic metre of concrete.
The finished concrete surface is dusty how do I avoid this?
Dusting on the surface of concrete products is usually caused by too high a fines content and is most common when fine limestone aggregates are used. Reducing the amount of fines in the mix and using an appropriate super-plasticiser to allow a reduction in the water content should eliminate this problem.
The surface of the concrete is patchy or mottled. What is causing this?
In wet-cast concrete products, either over-vibration or too high a proportion of coarse aggregates in the mix can cause some of the aggregate to migrate to the surface resulting in a mottling effect. Other possible causes are an uneven application of mould oil and/or insufficient curing time allowed before mould stripping.
How do I reduce airborne dust when using pigments and stop my workplace and employees getting dirty?
Iron Oxide powders are classified as nuisance dusts but the level of airborne dust must be kept below 10 mg per m3 8 hour Time Weighted Average. This is best achieved by careful handling of the open pigment bag, and (if necessary) the use of local exhaust ventilation at the point of use. Careful disposal of the empty bag will also reduce the risk of small spillages.
Please see our safety data sheets for further details on the safe handling of our products.
use of our pigments supplied in a granular form, which have a very low level of fine particles present. These products also have excellent flow properties that allow them to be dosed into the customer's mix using semi-automatic pigment dispensing systems, with a significant reduction in manual handling.
purchase of powder pigments in water-soluble bags. The bags are pre-weighed at the customer's mix weight, and the whole bag can be added to the mix. The water-soluble bag dissolves, releasing the pigment with no dust.
for asphalt applications, our powder grades are supplied in low-melt bags which on additon to the hot bitumen mix, melt and release the pigment. These grades are available in a range of bag weights to suit the customer's mix design.
all of our powder pigment range is available as Hydrocol® water-based dispersions. They are specially designed to give not only good stability but ease of pumping. The products are supplied in returnable Transitanks from which the required quantity can be weighed into the customer's mix. The Hydrocol® grades are totally dust-free and create no packaging waste. In addition, they can be metered into the customer's mix through specially designed dispenser systems, thereby eliminating manual handling. | 95092962 |
Durban - Prop Joe Marler and flank Tom Johnson will make their England debuts at Kings Park here Saturday in the first of three Tests against South Africa.
Marler replaces Alex Corbisiero at loosehead and Johnson comes in for injured Tom Croft as coach Stuart Lancaster made four personnel changes to the team that walloped Ireland 30-9 three months ago in the Six Nations.
Ben Youngs takes over from Lee Dickson at scrum-half, as he did at Twickenham, and Ben Foden moves from fullback to left wing in place of David Strettle.
Mike Brown, who came on for Foden in the Irish victory that sealed second place behind Wales in the championship, is now the first choice No 15 for the clash of top-four nations with the third-ranked Springboks just above England.
The Red Roses starting line-up includes two South Africa-born players - inside centre Brad Barritt and lock Mouritz Botha - while assistant coach Mike Catt is also back in the land of his birth.
Flank Chris Robshaw continues as captain as England strive to continue their redemption after a troubled 2011 Rugby World Cup on and off the field that culminated in a 19-12 quarter-finals loss to eventual runners-up France.
Lancaster was formally appointed coach after Six Nations victories over Scotland, Italy, France and Ireland, and he said Marler and Johnson deserved their opportunities.
"Joe Marler and Tom Johnson had great seasons at their clubs and have worked really hard to get this chance. Both are in great form and have really impressed in training.
"Mike Brown has been outstanding for Harlequins and by moving Ben Foden to the wing we retain his strike power and aerial skills," explained the 42-year-old coach.
"It is competitive in lots of positions, but particularly at scrum-half. We are really pleased with the form of Ben Youngs and he knows our systems well. I am sure Lee will make an impact if he gets a chance from the bench."
"We have made no secret of how tough this series will be, but it is an opportunity we do not fear and with the 22 we have selected, including an experienced bench, I am confident that we can perform."
The second Test will be staged 1800 metres above sea level at Ellis Park in Johannesburg on June 16 and the third a week later at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth.
England and South Africa drew 3-3 in their first meeting 106 years ago at Crystal Palace in London and the Springboks have won 19 and the Roses 12 of the subsequent Tests. | 225840671 |
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Absinthe has created a dramatic comeback these days after being banned for pretty much a hundred years generally in most of the European Union and North America. Absinthe is undoubtedly an alcoholic drink that is primarily created from wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) and other herbs. Absinthe is also referred to as the green fairy was first formulated in Switzerland by a French doctor Dr. Pierre Ordinaire in the nineteenth century as a digestive tonic.
In the nineteenth century, absinthe was the most famous drink in France. It was supposed to work as an imaginative stimulant and was liked by great writers and painters including Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway and Oscar Wilde. The start of the twentieth century saw absinthe being restricted for most European countries and the United States. Herbs such as green anise, wormwood, and Florence fennel are the main ingredients. Many other herbs such as Melissa, hyssop, angelica root, sweet flag, dittany leaves, star anise, veronica along with other mountain herbs are utilized in making absinthe.
The best possible absinthe is made using natural herbs and doesn’t consist of any artificial colors or flavors. The herbs are ground and absinthe is extracted by the distillation process. The pale green hue of typical absinthe is due to the chlorophyll present in the herbs. The herb wormwood http://absinthe-kits.com contains a very mild neurotoxin called thujone. The thujone content varies in different brands of absinthe. In a few brands of absinthe, the quantity of thujone is negligible while in others it might be as much as 35mg/kg. International standards require alcoholic beverages to contain a maximum of 10mg/kg of thujone. Bitter spirits can consist of as much as 35mg/kg of thujone.
A high quality absinthe drink will show louche effect when water is added to it. High quality absinthe will demonstrate gradual turbidity or opaqueness as ice cold water is included with it. The louche effect is the outcomes of precipitation of essential oils within the herbs. Absinthe has large alcohol content and it is never taken neat. It’s to be diluted with ice cold water and sipped slowly.
You can find traditional and non-traditional approaches to make the absinthe drink. The more common method is known as the absinthe ritual. In the French absinthe ritual one ounce of absinthe is poured within a glass and a special absinthe spoon is kept on the glass. The absinthe spoon is flat and perforated, a sugar cube is placed on the spoon and then ice cold water is dripped over the sugar cube, as being the cube of sugar dissolves in the water it falls within the glass through the perforations in the spoon. Once the sugar cube is totally dissolved, ice cold water is incorporated the glass, the drink stirred with the spoon and then sipped slowly.
The Czech ritual is more fun and interesting. Absinthe is poured within a glass, and then a sugar cube is added onto the absinthe spoon. The spoon together with sugar cube will be soaked in the glass so that the sugar cube to absorb absinthe. The spoon will then be kept flat on the glass and the sugar cube lighted. As soon as the sugar caramelizes and melts, it falls in the glass via the perforations in the spoon. Ice cold water is then combined with the absinthe, stirred using the spoon and the absinthe drink is all set.
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ZVex Super Hard-On (SHO) | Online stripboard layout editor!
This is probably the most copied booster out there. Simple and effective, but can be a bit muddy at higher gain settings.
R10 is an optional anti-pop pulldown resistor.
Click here to see the bill-of-materials as a list or download it as a comma separated values file (.csv).
why when I move the pot I listen noise?
were does the ground in go?
Ground is attached to pin 1 and 2 of the pot an then goes to row 5 on the board. | 93008045 |
Netflix's 'Daredevil' is the 'Batman Begins' 'Arrow' wishes it could be, and exactly the bone-crunching street level drama Marvel needed to complete its cinematic superhero universe. Our early review, before all 13 episodes hit streaming on April 10!
SNL will Rock Studio 8H once again this weekend in returning Furious 7 star Dwayne Johnson to the stage, but April may yet have even more gold in mind. Birdman star Michael Keaton will return to SNL as our first April host, followed by the unstoppable juggernaut of Empire breakout Taraji P. Henson.
Star Trek’s rebooted cinematic tenure under J.J. Abrams has led to diminishing returns, Star Trek 3 just barely making it off the ground, leading many to wonder when Gene Roddenberry’s iconic franchise might return to its TV roots. That time may already be upon us, CBS is reportedly looking to boldly go forward with a new TV Star Trek. | 73591859 |
Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson has revealed that he consulted Reds attacker and Brazil international teammate Roberto Firmino before deciding to move to Anfield.
The two have known each other for years from their time with their national team and it was the former Hoffenheim man Alisson turned to when deciding whether to join Jurgen Klopp’s team or not.
“I spoke to Roberto and others before I came here and they told me about the British and that the people are very organised,” he told the Liverpool Echo. | 113325602 |
Please note: To attend coaching you must become a member of Cottenham Tennis Club which is a separate fee to the coaching. Anyone attending coaching for the first time can do so as a non-member for a maximum of two sessions after which you will need to join the club if you want to continue. If you decide after 2 weeks you are not enjoying the coaching and therefore do not want to join the club you will be refunded for the remainder of the coaching you have paid for in advance. To join Cottenham Tennis Club or for more details on club membership please see someone at Cottenham Sports Centre who will be able to help you. Please do contact us if you have any coaching or membership queries; we are here to help. | 159782480 |
Home » #TGIF » Fridays » Lagos » Nigeria » Pedestrian Bridges » Traffic » #TGIF; Of Friday Mayhem on Lagos Roads!!!
Until quite recently, I used to live the truth in the picture everyday, save for the weekends. Even some weekends were like this. But today is all about the Friday brand of crazy that goes on on Lagos roads. Lord have mercy. I have said this to my friends Ifeanyi and LL that Fridays in Lagos sees not just humans on the roads, but vampires, werewolves, witches and warlocks, lycanthropes, aliens (the friendlies as well as the "take-over-planet-earth" loonies from the planet of the Silver Surfer). All of them come out to play at the same time, every freaking FRIDAY. In my head, I picture that a silent alarm goes off around 5.30 pm; that's their signal to make lives more unbearable.
Stop and think about it for a nano second; how many times do you see the roads in Lagos as free as pictured below on a Friday afternoon?
Hardly ever; save for times of fuel scarcity. What's more mind boggling is the cause of all the mayhem. I mean you are stuck in traffic for 45 minutes and then eventually pass the spot where it began, only to discover it was some danfo driver(s) parked in the middle of the road to pick up passengers. Or two people (who should be apes really), having a shouting bout in the hot sun about an invisible scratch on the one's car. Or the pothole that started out small until it became wide enough to destroy your steering wheel; and you didn't see it because it was covered after the downpour. Then the traffic stint is made even more unbearable because we then go into a contest of "I sabi press horn pass you". Thus you add deafness to all the other ailments you pick up in traffic.
There. Am done ranting. Have a fantastic Friday with the creatures on the roads, yes? HUGS!!!!!!
Ill discipline is the major reason why the traffic situation in Lagos is dire!
An august visitor. True that; sad how we can treat our country shamefully and behave ourselves when away. | 24035128 |
This isn't a bird — this is a person.
Johannes Stoetter, an Italian artist based out of the Alps of South Tyrol in Italy, has been painting bodies since he discovered he had a passion for it in 2000. Nine years later, he made it his profession full-time.
He uses the human body as the canvas for his art. His first-ever painting job was for the cover of his friends' CD. Though he still creates art for album covers, he has come a long way since then.
Stoetter creates optical illusions that make it hard to tell he's even used the human form as a medium for his work because it's so well blended and camouflaged. He paints bodies for photo shoots, live performances, workshops, music videos, fashion shows, and more.
Keep reading to see more of his transformations, some of which are mildly NSFW since they use the naked human form.
This may look like your average tree frog, but Stoetter used three models to create this design. He says it started his passion for animal poses.
He tells TI that the models can usually stand comfortably and relaxed while he does the base color, but that "for some main lines and details they have to be in the pose."
This wolf is painted onto three different bodies, arranged perfectly to resemble a real animal.
"The longer they can stay [in the pose] and the faster I work, the better it is," he says of the models he works with.
Online, Stoetter posts videos that show the painted models walking out of the picture to show how it was created.
This angelfish is really one human body painted and perfectly folded up to look like the real deal.
Stoetter's design are incredibly intricate. He even won the World Bodypainting Championship in 2012, according to his website.
Once the model gets up, it becomes more clear how the piece was made.
He says the biggest challenge in switching from canvas to bodies is the time it takes. "You can't stop working and continue the day after," he tells TI. "You have to finish the work in one day."
The optical illusions are just some of the work he does. He also paints full pieces of artwork on bodies.
And it's not just animals — he also paints people to blend in with the surrounding landscape.
Because of his own success, he's become an expert in this type of art. Stoetter was even on the jury for the World Bodypainting Festival.
He does an unbelievable job matching colors and patterns to the kind found in nature. Check out his website and Facebook page for his latest creations.
Follow Johannes Stoetter on his Facebook and website. | 112786010 |
Fox & Friends’ synagogue-shooting coverage: The real problem is liberals’ rudeness.
The hosts don’t want to talk about the consequences of Trump’s rhetoric—only the rudeness of liberals who criticize Trump’s rhetoric.
For five or six minutes Monday morning, Fox & Friends got it right. The show began its broadcast with an accurate and concise recap of the Saturday murder of 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and the subsequent arrest of the shooter, 46-year-old Robert Bowers. Co-host Brian Kilmeade noted that Bowers had been “posting a lot of this anti-Semitic, uh, his beliefs” online prior to Saturday, as the chyron “ANTI-SEMITIC KILLER DUE IN COURT TODAY” appeared on screen.
Back in 2015, after Dylann Roof killed nine people at a historically African American church in Charleston, South Carolina, I criticized Fox News for failing to explicitly deem the shooting an act of violent racism—so I have to give the network a measure of credit here. Bowers is an anti-Semite, and Fox & Friends acknowledged this fact, unequivocally. It was perhaps one of the proudest moments in the show’s long and embarrassing history.
This aberrant triumph soon faded. Within minutes, the three hosts of Fox & Friends had pivoted back to their two favorite pastimes: reassuring President Trump that he bears no responsibility for anything other than those things that he chooses to take credit for, and criticizing those people who would posit a link between Trump’s policies, alliances, and comportment and the rise of violent political extremism in America. “While so many people are trying to figure out, you know, what is going on, who is to blame for something like that—a lot of people on television yesterday knew exactly who to blame,” said Steve Doocy.
“To think that the president could somehow be linked to this, you have to suspend disbelief, especially when he has great links to the Jewish community at home and abroad,” said Kilmeade.
“How about blaming the guy who did this?” asked Ainsley Earhardt.
“This shooter hated Donald Trump. Thought he was a globalist. Didn’t vote for him. And never apparently ever owned a MAGA cap,” said Doocy. It was 6:07 a.m., and a morning’s worth of toxic irrelevance was just getting started.
Fox & Friends isn’t so much a news program as it is a daily televised support group for early-rising xenophobes. Foremost among these is, of course, Trump himself. Fox & Friends enjoys a symbiotic relationship with the president, who watches the show regularly and often tweets in response to its segments. The Fox & Friends hosts know very well that Trump is tuning in, and it is clear that they are often speaking to him directly, praising his actions and belittling his critics, like courtiers flattering a patron or indulgent parents coddling an insecure child.
Fox & Friends isn’t so much a news program as it is a daily televised support group for early-rising xenophobes.
One of their favorite tactics is to shift the terms of debate by endlessly rebutting claims that have not been made, as a means of making Trump’s critics look unreasonable. The exchange between Earhardt, Kilmeade, and Doocy, in which they suggest that Democrats are literally blaming Trump for murdering 11 people in Pittsburgh, is a great example of this tactic. No one credible has said that Donald Trump is directly culpable for the Pittsburgh shooting. He isn’t. Of course the direct blame for the shooting lies with the shooter. The argument that people are making is that Trump is responsible for fostering and amplifying an atmosphere of partisan resentment—one in which bigots feel empowered to air their hateful grievances, one in which grievances can more easily curdle into violence.
But this argument is not one with which Fox & Friends is willing to engage. Rather, the show takes pains to not just deny any link between Trump’s divisive rhetoric and the concurrent acts of violence, but to deny that Trump’s rhetoric is divisive at all. Day after day, segment after segment, guest after guest, the objective remains the same: to gaslight the audience while flattering its most prominent member.
Monday morning was more of the same. Around 6:35 a.m., the show welcomed guest Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and failed congressional candidate who, according to a recent Daily Beast story, has been effectively blackballed from appearing on Fox’s “hard news” programming. He’s still more than welcome on the opinion shows, though, and on Monday, the Fox & Friends hosts showed Bongino a clip of protesters interrupting a moment of silence at a Sunday campaign rally for Tennessee Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn. Democratic incivility in action!
A little bit later, Kilmeade and his colleagues welcomed Kellyanne Conway, who bemoaned “the kind of rhetoric that is said day in and day out about this White House, the people who work here, the president, the vice president, their families—it’s got to stop.” On Fox & Friends, the greatest crime of all is not loving our president, or being rude to people who do love our president. Conversely, the exploits of people who do love the president are always worth a segment or two. On Monday, Fox & Friends also devoted several brief segments to lauding the election, in Brazil, of new President-elect Jair Bolsonaro: a racist, homophobic, misogynistic, illiberal strongman who has openly pined for a dictatorship and whose candidacy has riven the nation. Fox & Friends did not mention any of that, of course. “Thousands flood the streets of Brazil overnight to celebrate the ‘Trump of the tropics,’ ” Steve Doocy enthusiastically reported during the 8 o’clock hour. The Trump of the tropics.
How about that! Fox & Friends got it right twice in one day. | 209244695 |
Austen Heller: Chicagoan Gavin Hoffman says he started this line of shoes because he had so much trouble finding casual men's loafers that were stylish and well-made, yet affordable. He says there's a price gap between cheaply made discount shoes and the top-notch Italian brands that cost as much as $500 a pair. The investment banker said he had no experience in the shoe business. But he designed the product he wanted and found factories in Portugal and Spain to assemble the hand-stitched shoes using Italian leather, suede and fabric. Retailing for $185 to $195, Austen Heller's “driving shoes” have a rubber sole and insole padding for comfort. After selling the shoes through his company's website for a year, Mr. Hoffman recently began distributing them wholesale to shops around the country. In Chicago, they're sold at Haberdash Men's Shops. A women's version of the shoes is coming soon. “It's still a driving shoe, but this will be a more feminine version,” Mr. Hoffman says.
CurbNinja: This app aims to help motorcyclists and scooter enthusiasts find the best and safest parking spots on public streets — with crowdsourcing. Riders post recommended spots they've used, helping others to find places to park their motorcycles or scooters. “Living in the city, you learn where all of the best places to stash your bike on the street are, especially for free,” writes Tim Hines, who co-founded CurbNinja with Fred Lebed, in a news release. The CurbNinja mobile app, which launched at the beginning of April, is available for free download on iPhones and Android devices, and it can be used in any major city.
Social Q&A: This startup, based at 1871, is trying to improve question-and-answer sessions with its mobile Web application, which launched this week. Event organizers can use Social Q&A as a way of allowing audience members to submit questions. People pose a question from any device connected to the Internet. And then other audience members vote for the questions they like. In a news release, co-founder and CEO John Pytel calls it a tool “for anyone to better communicate with their audience and know which questions are most important to the entire group.” The monthly cost to run Social Q&A ranges from $69 (at events with as many as 100 people) to $299 (for groups as large as 500).
Cahoots Brewing: This new Chicago microbrewery has released its first beer, the No S'more Imperial Stout. “It started as an attempt at making a s'more-flavored beer,” the Cahoots website explains. “After under-loading it with chocolate malt, and a grain bill mistake that ended with two too many pounds of Munich grain, it turned out to be an exceptional beer. . . .It has a sweet taste with hints of the chocolate.” Cahoots' founder, Oak Park resident Dustin Adkison, raised $7,910 with a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the brewery. Cahoots' philosophy is to “allow the community that we serve to be a part of the process” — using forums and polls to determine what styles of beers will be made, label designs and recipes.
Flirty Cupcakes Dessert Garage: Originally launched in 2010 as a food truck, Flirty Cupcakes recently opened its second cafe, or “garage.” The new spot is at 4631 N. Lincoln Ave. in Lincoln Square, a space formerly occupied by Edvan's Foods (and before that, Happy Food Spot). The first Flirty location, which opened in 2012, is at 1030 W. Taylor St. | 39864170 |
One of the jewels of the Denver Art Museum's collection is our Spanish colonial art collection. The most comprehensive in the United States and one of the best in the world, it contains 3,000 objects. Includes Spanish colonial paintings, sculpture, furniture, silver, and decorative arts. This companion guide is full of enriching information about this representation of Latin American culture.
Softcover 9' x 6' x 1" | 274487403 |
spaCy v2.1 has focussed primarily on stability and performance, solidifying the design changes introduced in v2.0. As well as smaller models, faster runtime, and many bug fixes, v2.1 also introduces experimental support for some exciting new NLP innovations. For the full changelog, see the release notes on GitHub. For more details and a behind-the-scenes look at the new release, see our blog post.
spaCy v2.1 introduces a new CLI command, spacy pretrain, that can make your models much more accurate. It’s especially useful when you have limited training data. The spacy pretrain command lets you use transfer learning to initialize your models with information from raw text, using a language model objective similar to the one used in Google’s BERT system. We’ve taken particular care to ensure that pretraining works well even with spaCy’s small default architecture sizes, so you don’t have to compromise on efficiency to use it.
# Matches "love cats" or "likes flowers"
Instead of mapping to a single value, token patterns can now also map to a dictionary of properties. For example, to specify that the value of a lemma should be part of a list of values, or to set a minimum character length. It now also supports a REGEX property, as well as set membership via IN and NOT_IN, custom extension attributes via _ and rich comparison for numeric values.
The EntityRuler is an exciting new component that lets you add named entities based on pattern dictionaries, and makes it easy to combine rule-based and statistical named entity recognition for even more powerful models. Entity rules can be phrase patterns for exact string matches, or token patterns for full flexibility.
By default, the PhraseMatcher will match on the verbatim token text, e.g. Token.text. By setting the attr argument on initialization, you can change which token attribute the matcher should use when comparing the phrase pattern to the matched Doc. For example, LOWER for case-insensitive matches or POS for finding sequences of the same part-of-speech tags.
The new Doc.retokenize context manager allows merging spans of multiple tokens into one single token, and splitting single tokens into multiple tokens. Modifications to the Doc’s tokenization are stored, and then made all at once when the context manager exits. This is much more efficient, and less error-prone. Doc.merge and Span.merge still work, but they’re considered deprecated.
Using entry points, model packages and extension packages can now define their own "spacy_factories" and "spacy_languages", which will be added to the built-in factories and languages. If a package in the same environment exposes spaCy entry points, all of this happens automatically and no further user action is required.
How to use the Matcher, PhraseMatcher and the new EntityRuler, and write powerful components to combine statistical models and rules.
Everything you need to know about serialization, and how to save and load pipeline components, package your spaCy models as Python modules and use entry points.
How to retokenize a Doc using the new retokenize context manager and merge spans into single tokens and split single tokens into multiple.
If you’ve been training your own models, you’ll need to retrain them with the new version. Also don’t forget to upgrade all models to the latest versions. Models for v2.0.x aren’t compatible with models for v2.1.x. To check if all of your models are up to date, you can run the spacy validate command.
Due to difficulties linking our new blis for faster platform-independent matrix multiplication, this release currently doesn’t work on Python 2.7 on Windows. We expect this to be corrected in the future.
The deprecated Doc.merge and Span.merge methods still work, but you may notice that they now run slower when merging many objects in a row. That’s because the merging engine was rewritten to be more reliable and to support more efficient merging in bulk. To take advantage of this, you should rewrite your logic to use the Doc.retokenize context manager and perform as many merges as possible together in the with block.
The .pos value for several common English words has changed, due to corrections to long-standing mistakes in the English tag map (see issue #593 and issue #3311 for details).
For better compatibility with the Universal Dependencies data, the lemmatizer now preserves capitalization, e.g. for proper nouns. See issue #3256 for details.
The built-in rule-based sentence boundary detector is now only called "sentencizer" – the name "sbd" is deprecated.
The Doc.print_tree method is now deprecated. If you need a custom nested JSON representation of a Doc object, you might want to write your own helper function. For a simple and consistent JSON representation of the Doc object and its annotations, you can now use the Doc.to_json method. Going forward, this method will output the same format as the JSON training data expected by spacy train. | 185146495 |
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