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The city will do that through the "My Brother's Keeper" initiative. |
"The fact that this is looking at kids from birth through late teens and early college really just fit the niche we were looking at," said Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan. |
The goal is to help young people connect with mentors and local resources. Vaughan says the program will cover everything from children's nutrition to housing. |
"We know the number one determining factor of how successful a child will be in school is what their third grade reading level is at third grade, so we'll be focusing on giving families the tools to help their kids be successful," said Vaughan. |
The United Way of Greater Greensboro is partnering with the city on the initiative. |
"We see that our community is not any different from the rest of the United States in that young people, especially young boys of color, are lagging in test scores and a lot of academic success factors," said Frank McCain, Vice president of community investment and impact at the United Way of Greater Greensboro. |
McCain says the mentoring will be a big part of the My Brother's Keeper initiative. He says similar mentoring programs in Guilford County Schools have already led to better academic performance in the classroom. |
"We've seen reduced tardiness and absenteeism at the schools, and we've seen an increase in parental involvement. So mentoring works," said McCain. "We see very little of programs working together in a collective way to address needs -- this is what My Brother's Keeper will be for our community." |
Anyone interested in being a mentor in the program can contact the City of Greensboro or the United Way of Greater Greensboro. |
The Dayton volleyball team continued its impressive run by beating Northern 4A Wooster 15-5, 15-11, 12-15, 15-7 on Friday. |
The Northern 3A frontrunner improved to 7-0 overall. Carey Kytle and Amanda Sbragia had huge nights for Dayton. Kytle had 11 kills and 16 blocks and Sbragia had 11 kills and 15 blocks. |
Also for the Dust Devils, Rachel Hurt served for seven points and an ace and had 11 kills, Amanda Ring served for six points and an ace and had eight kills, Lauren Brown served for five points and an ace, Sarah Connet served for 13 points and an ace and had seven kills, one block and 22 assists, Danielle Rodriguez serv... |
Dayton won the freshmen match and lost the junior varsity contest. |
Plague Vendor tell us their musical inspirations in Under The Influence. Plus, new music from The Gaslight Anthem, Frank Turner's Mongol Horde and White Lung. |
Songs The Lord Taught Us. |
Returns will be issued on 2nd March 2018, and if any individuals do not receive a return by 9 March 2018, contact the Tax Office on 28470. |
All returns are processed in a strict date order, based on date of receipt in the Taxation Office, to ensure equity and fairness between taxpayers. Once assessments are completed a notice of assessment is sent to each individual using contact details provided on the return. |
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No it's the tax return that is being returned. Wake up! |
[prMac.com] Toronto (ON), Canada - Zevrix Solutions today announces the release of Output Factory 2.3.6, a feature update to company's output automation plug-in for Adobe InDesign. Awarded 5 stars by InDesign Magazine, Output Factory automates and simplifies workflows of printers, ad agencies, and publishing houses wor... |
The new version adds the ability to split InDesign files into consecutive groups of several pages using the new "Save as n pages" option. For example, users can split a 30-page document into ten InDesign files of 3 pages each, or fifteen double-page files and so on. In addition, the new update improves export of non-co... |
"With Output Factory, I've got our magazine production down to six minutes from three hours," says Jeff Middleton, a Toronto, Canada based graphic designer. "Once I set up all my presets, it was insane how fast it was. I load all my InDesign docs into Output Factory, press play, go grab a coffee and come back to my ent... |
Output Factory can be purchased from Zevrix website for $169.95 USD (Lite version $119.95), as well as from authorized resellers and Adobe Exchange. Trial is also available for download. The update is free for the users of Output Factory 2.x, and $84.97 to upgrade from Output Factory 1.x and BatchOutput. Output Factory... |
From killer robots, to runaway sentience, there's a lot of FUD that needs clearing up. |
HAL 9000 in the film 2001. |
AI in healthcare: Fascinating tech, but is it actually saving lives? |
The concept of inhuman intelligence goes back to the deep prehistory of mankind. At first the province of gods, demons, and spirits, it transferred seamlessly into the interlinked worlds of magic and technology. Ancient Greek myths had numerous robots, made variously by gods or human inventors, while extant artefacts l... |
There has been no age or civilisation without a popular concept of artificial intelligence (AI). Ours, however, is the first where the genuine article—machinery that comfortably exceeds our own thinking skills—is not only possible but achievable. It should not be a surprise, then, that our ideas of what that actually m... |
We rarely get it right: Kubrick’s 2001 saw HAL 9000 out-thinking highly trained astronauts to murderous effect; Bill Gates’ 2001 gave us Clippy, which was more easily dealt with. |
Now, with AI a multi-billion dollar industry seeping into our phones, businesses, cars, and homes, it’s time to bust some of the most important AI myths and dip into some reality. |
There are many projects and much research going on into replicating human-like thought, mostly by hardware and software simulations of human brain structures and functions as new techniques reveal them. One of the higher-profile efforts is the Blue Brain project at the Brain and Mind Institute of the École Polytechniqu... |
There are two main problems for any brain simulator. The first is that the human brain is extraordinarily complex, with around 100 billion neurons and 1,000 trillion synaptic interconnections. None of this is digital; it depends on electrochemical signaling with inter-related timing and analogue components, the sort of... |
Enlarge / An image from the Blue Brain project, showing the complexity of the mammalian neocortical column. Shown here is "just" 10,000 neurons and 30 million interconnections. A human brain is millions of times more complex than this. |
Even much simpler brains remain mysterious. The landmark success to date for Blue Brain, reported this year, has been a small 30,000 neuron section of a rat brain that replicates signals seen in living rodents. 30,000 is just a tiny fraction of a complete mammalian brain, and as the number of neurons and interconnectin... |
This yawning chasm of understanding leads to the second big problem: there is no accepted theory of mind that describes what “thought” actually is. |
This underlying quandary—attempting to define “thought”—is sometimes referred to as the hard problem, and the results of understanding it are called strong AI. People engaged in commercial AI remain sceptical that it will be resolved any time soon, or that it is necessary or even desirable to do for any practical benef... |
IBM Watson, one of the highest-profile successes in AI to date, started its life as an artificial contender on the American TV game show Jeopardy. It combines natural language processing with a large number of expert processes that try different strategies to match an internal knowledge database with potential answers.... |
The first serious application of Watson that might actually improve the quality of human life has been as a diagnostic aid in cancer medicine. Since 2011, Watson has been assisting oncologists by delving through patient medical records and trying to correlate that data with clinical expertise, academic research, or oth... |
Enlarge / Watson, competing on the game show Jeopardy. The bars at the bottom show its confidence in each answer. If no answer passes the confidence threshold (the white line), Watson doesn't respond. |
As marvellous as this sounds, it mostly serves to highlight the similarities and differences between current, narrow, practical AI and its strong, as-yet-mythical cousin. One basic engine of both is the neural network, a system based on basic biological concepts that takes a set of inputs and attempts to match them to ... |
We are now at the point where Watson and other AI systems such as Facebook’s DeepFace facial recognition system can do this with narrow, constrained data sets, but they are generally incapable by themselves of extending beyond the very specific tasks they’ve been programmed to do. |
Google, for its part, seems content with narrow AI—searching pictures by content, crunching environmental and science data, and machine language translation—than predicting the emergence of general strong AI. The human brain can find, utilise, and link together vastly more complicated and ill-defined data, performing f... |
A video showing DeepMind learning how to play the Atari game <em>Breakout</em>. |
Most recently, the DeepMind project used this combination of techniques to “master a diverse range of Atari 2600 games.” Speaking to Wired, Google researcher Koray Kavukcuoglu said his team has built “a general-learning algorithm that should be applicable to many other tasks”—but learning how to perform a task is a lon... |
Iowa State recruiting mailbag: How did Xavier Foster's Cyclones official visit go? |
Cyclone recruiting mailbag: How was Xavier Foster's Iowa State official visit? |
The Register's Matthew Bain answers your Iowa State recruiting questions in his weekly mailbag. |
Let's get right to the mailbag this week. |
DaJuan Foster was watching the Iowa State vs. West Virginia football game at Steve Prohm's house with the Cyclones basketball coaching staff Saturday night. They had left after the first quarter, and the original plan was for the players to leave at halftime. |
But DaJuan's son — you all know him as Oskaloosa power forward Xavier Foster, this state's 2020 mega-recruit — had other plans. |
"Well, at about 11 o’clock, I went on Twitter and there’s my son on the field." |
Go ahead and look at this story's main image for proof. Foster stormed the field with the rest of the crowd after watching Iowa State handle the sixth-ranked Mountaineers 30-14. George Conditt is celebrating next to him in the photo. Future Cyclone Luke Anderson was there, too, as was Foster's host, Talen Horton-Tucker... |
"It was awesome," Xavier said. "It’s hard to explain." |
Foster attended Hilton Madness on Friday night, met with Prohm a few times (including a film-room session), watched practice, met with athletic director Jamie Pollard and met with academic advisers. He already knows Iowa State's players pretty well from playing in open gyms with them during the fall, but he got to know... |
What were some of the Fosters' main takeaways? |
On what he learned from Horton-Tucker, Xavier said: "Just that, kind of the same thing as Iowa: There’s no professional sports in Iowa. You’re the NBA players in the state. Everybody looks up to you." |
On Hilton Madness, DaJuan said: "They had about a 2 1/2 hour practice, Hilton Madness and then they practiced again Saturday morning. It was a lot of basketball for those guys in a 20-hour time period. Xavier was impressed with the level of effort that these kids were giving after working so hard." |
On what he thought while driving home from the visit, Xavier said: "The environment was crazy. Everywhere. We were walking around and everybody knew me. Everybody loves being around and watching the Cyclones." |
On meeting Pollard, Xavier said: "He just reminds me a lot of my head coach now, our athletic director (Ryan Parker). He’s just a cool guy. He wasn't trying to push anything on me. He was just a cool guy." |
During their meetings with him, DaJuan said Prohm made it clear that Xavier was a recruiting priority. Xavier said Prohm wasn't pushing him to make any early decision. He did say he wants to narrow down his choices "some time soon," though. |
"I’m trying to pin down my options so that way I’m not wasting a lot of my time," he said. |
DaJuan also said they're discussing an official visit with UCLA. Nothing is set in stone, but if they get it scheduled, he said, it would happen before Oskaloosa's basketball season begins. |
In terms of schools that haven't offered: Michigan was in to see Foster on Monday night, DaJuan said, and North Carolina State is the newest program to reach out. The Wolverines have been monitoring Foster since the summer. |
"Iowa State may or may not be for him," DaJuan said. "But it’s a wholesome place and Iowa State fans are second to none. The fan base is just amazing." |
Iowa State is quite high on Dudley Blackwell, and it's recruiting the four-star 2020 small forward hard. |
Blackwell clearly has interest in the Cyclones, too. I confirmed with a source with direct knowledge of Iowa State's recruitment that Blackwell take an official visit to Ames the weekend of Nov. 9 — the Missouri game. Strockrisers.com's Jake Weingarten was first to report that. |
A rising junior at Somerset Academy in Miami, Blackwell is in Argentina right now as part of Team USA's 3-on-3 basketball teams at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games (along with Iowa recruit Patrick McCaffery). |
The Cyclones offered in late July, joining Oklahoma State as Blackwell's only high-major offers at this point. (That will likely change.) He's a consensus top-100 kid with high-end athleticism and a long, 6-5 frame. |
Iowa State assistant coach James Kane is leading the recruitment here. He's from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, like Blackwell, and that's helped him make an early connection. |
Blackwell was one of 12 players on my initial 2020 big board for the Cyclones. |
I didn't see Tamin Lipsey mentioned in any of 247Sports' or Rivals' coverage of the USA Junior National Team minicamp last weekend. Emoni Bates, a lanky small forward out of Michigan, seems to have stood out the most from the 2022 class. |
Lipsey played in Colorado Springs fresh off surgery on his left pinky finger. He'll sit out the rest of this football season to rest and recover, according to the Ames Tribune's Hayes Gardner. |
The Ames freshman thought his time with USA Basketball "went really well." |
"I had a great time competing against some of the best players in the country," Lipsey told me, "and learning from some great coaches." |
If you need reminding: Lipsey holds an offer from Iowa State plus interest from Iowa and Michigan. He also told me North Carolina and Tulane have sent him questionnaires. He was one of 29 prospects from the 2022 class invited to participate in the Team USA minicamp. |
Who funds the group bankrolling this Democratic candidate for governor? |
About 30 percent of Gillum’s March fundraising haul came from Collective Future, a 501(c)(4) that is not legally required to disclose its donors. |
The Collective PAC wants to see Democrat Andrew Gillum in the Florida Governor's Mansion next year, and the group is willing to spend big bucks to make it happen. |
The Washington, D.C.-based Collective PAC has an associated political action committee and a SuperPAC that are required to disclose their donors. But Collective Future, the 501(c)(4) arm of the group that has served as Gillum's largest contributor in 2018, does not have to. |
Quentin James, the founder and executive director of The Collective, did not respond when asked about the identity of the major donors to Collective Future. But he did write in an earlier email, "The Collective has received over 13,000 individual contributions from over 6,000 people. We are a grassroots led and funded ... |
What is interesting is the degree to which Gillum has leaned on an opaque fundraiser these past few months. |
Collective Future donated $100,000 to Gillum's associated political committee, Forward Florida, each of the past two months — about a third of the Tallahassee mayor's total fundraising haul in that time. The Tampa Bay Times looked through campaign finance records for the other major Democratic candidates for governor a... |
When asked why the Collective decided to support Gillum through its least-transparent fundraising arm, James wrote, "Collective Future has simply raised more money than our PAC or Super PAC entities." |
A Gillum spokesman wrote in an email that the campaign is "proud" to have the backing of the Collective. |
"It's a clear indication that Mayor Gillum has real momentum in this race," Geoff Burgan wrote. |
Also noteworthy: The group's support for Gillum appears to be wildly disproportionate to the other Collective-endorsed candidates running for governor. In addition to Gillum, the group supports Stacey Abrams for governor of Georgia, Ben Jealous for governor of Maryland and it supported Setti Warren for governor of Mass... |
A Tampa Bay Times review found $0 in donations from the Collective's various groups to Jealous, Abrams and Warren or any of their associated PACs. (James made a $500 personal donations to both the Warren and Abrams campaigns.) A spokeswoman for Abrams confirmed the candidate has not received any money from the Collecti... |
Attempts to reach the newly defunct Warren campaign were unsuccessful. But in a statement on Facebook that announced the end of his run, Warren said the campaign's inability to raise money was a major factor in his decision to step away from the race. |
"The money just isn't there to run the kind of campaign I want to run," Warren wrote. |
When asked why the Collective is investing so heavily in Gillum, James, the group's founder, stressed the importance of Florida to national politics. |
"Florida presents unique opportunities in 2018, including the possibility of electing the state's first African American governor and attorney general, flipping some congressional seats including in Florida 18 and 27, re-electing Senator Nelson to the United States Senate and returning voting rights to to its citizens ... |
And when asked whether Gillum could expect more support from the Collective going forward, James offered an enthusiastic response. |
"We have plans to far exceed that amount before the primary and the general election," he wrote. |
Times staff writer Langston Taylor contributed reporting. |
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A 50-year-old woman’s decision to drive drunk is costing her 17 days of freedom. |
Rose Anne Molloy received the jail sentence recently in provincial court in Georgetown after being caught for driving impaired on March 1 in Brudenell. |
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