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That can be heady stuff for a more-than-200-year-old opera that makes people think about Bugs Bunny when they hear it today.
Then again, it isn’t all that surprising for given this opera’s history — as it is based on a play by Pierre Beaumarchais. This Frenchman, the son of a watchmaker, funneled money and arms to the American Revolutionary War and supported revolution in his own country.
Kentucky Opera will present “The Barber of Seville” at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 18, at The Brown Theatre, 315 W. Broadway. An opera preview will be presented one hour before the performance in the Brown Theatre Rehearsal Hall. An Opera Talk Back with conductors, stage directors and artists will take place after the performance in the Brown Theatre’s first-floor conference room. More information can be found here.
FLP is a novel processing class offering an architecture template for efficient execution of many vision flows simultaneously. FLP raises architecture programming abstraction from instruction-level (as in an ILP) to function-level. By coarsening the programmability, FLP achieves a comparable power / performance efficiency to custom-HWs. At the same time, FLP offers much higher flexibility than individual custom-HWs by providing a Function-Set-Architecture (FSA).
The success of an FLP depends on the selection of FBs and their potential composition making it a crucial aspect de-fining flexibility and usability. New research is needed that shifts from optimizing individual applications to identifying common functions that are present in many applications of a market. The challenge becomes to define a small enough set of sufficiently composable functions that provide meaningful computation for a given market. Overall, a minimal but sufficiently contiguous set of FBs is desired.
A promising approach is to analyze existing programming frameworks (such as OpenCV for vision) for frequently used function primitives (as candidates to be an FB) and their composition. The basic idea is to identify the required functions for each application. The first step is to extract the Function Call Graph (CFG) from each application, and then converting into to Synchronous Data Flow (SDF) graphs. We consider the SDF presentation more suitable for Function-Set exploration, as it exposes all possible orders and connectivity among the function within individual applications. The most critical step is the FSA explorer, which overlays the SDF graphs of all applications to create a combined graph with all applications.
Basic knowledge of computer architecture is a must. The students also need to know C/C++ programming. Also candidates need to be interested in graduate-level research work which may involve reading and surveying scientific articles.
The accepted students will learn advanced topics in computer architecture as well as system-level design principles. Accepted students also will have a chance to engage in a creative project with an aim to rethink computer architecture. They may also get involve in serious research tasks with potential publication benefits.
1-acre lot located in Foley, AL city limits, Baldwin County maintains the 123-foot road frontage, and the rear attaches to Glenn Lakes Golf Course. NO HOME OWNERS ASSOCIATION OR FEES. Annexed into the city and road managed by the county. Just East of all the main attraction in Foley on Miflin Road. Close to all the shopping, restaurants and places of worship. The lot is built-up and cleared with sprinkler system currently installed.
Trout green water you can see your toes in, bait so thick you could walk across it to the other side, light winds barely ripple the surface and the major feed is just around the corner. These images conjure up a great picture for fishermen from Baffin to Calcasieu and all points in between, all the right factors are in place and it’s only a matter of time until the whole place goes nuts. Fast forward a couple of hours ahead only to find our angler who had everything going their way still has an empty stringer, what gives?
STAGED ~ Yesterday President Obama held a health care press conference, however many are crying foul as out of the 7 questions asked 4 were pre-selected and the other 3 came from people from health care organizations. Is this what President Obama considers holding up his end of his transparency pledge? To weigh in Brian and The Judge will be joined by "Fox News Sunday's" Chris Wallace and top Republican on the House's Health Subcommittee Rep. Tom Price (R-GA). PLUS, Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's Bin Laden Unit, will join Brian and The Judge offer up his expert opinion on the current military operations going on in Afghanistan!
He says thanks to constant communication between airlines they are able to work efficiently to keep passengers informed about their flights.
MASON CITY, Iowa – Flights scheduled to go out of the Mason City yesterday were delayed due to the snowstorm.
Operations Supervisor Dave Simms says due to the high levels of traffic at airports in Minneapolis and Chicago, they had to delay some of their flights by a few hours.
“When bad weather strikes we do ask everyone’s patience if you are traveling during a winter storm stay in contact with the airlines to find out about any cancellations."
Simms says yesterday morning their entire runway was covered in ice and they had to bring in workers earlier than usual.
Even if these massacres didn’t constitute genocide, it’s worth asking why the fiction has persisted that Kagame’s RPF rescued Rwanda from further genocide when much evidence suggests that it actually helped provoke it by needlessly invading the country in 1990, massacring Hutus, probably shooting down the plane of President Juvénal Habyarimana in 1994, and failing to move swiftly to stop the genocide of the Tutsis, as Roméo Dallaire—commander of the UN peacekeeping force in Rwanda at the time—suggested in his memoir Shake Hands with the Devil. The myth of the valorous RPF has for years been repeated not only in the media but also by officials in the Clinton, Bush II, and Obama administrations. Even those who criticize Kagame’s repressive rule in Rwanda today praise his actions during the genocide.
The reputation of the RPF appears to have been shaped by a coordinated public relations effort designed not just for the benefit of Kagame but also, as will be explained below, to obscure Washington’s role in a particularly bloody period of central African history, as the Soviet threat was receding and a new Islamist one seemed to be looming.
The RPF has long demonstrated considerable skill at deception. According to defectors interviewed by Rever, the group incinerated or buried its victims in tightly guarded encampments off-limits to human rights investigators, and recruited and trained a cadre of smooth-talking Tutsi technocrats, drivers, fixers, and other informal ambassadors who spouted RPF propaganda to visiting journalists, tourists, and NGO officials. In January 1993 rebel operatives took an international team of human rights investigators on a carefully guided tour of RPF-held areas in northern Rwanda. The investigators’ report, which was greeted with much fanfare, blamed virtually all the violence on the Rwandan government. Other human rights reports deemphasized the ethnically charged nature of the RPF’s crimes, attributing them instead to “generalized violence” and not mentioning that virtually all of the RPF’s victims were Hutu. Some human rights investigators denied that the RPF had committed any atrocities at all. RPF defectors told Rever that the group further confused foreign observers by killing Tutsis in “false flag” attacks designed to both demonize Hutus and escalate the genocide.
Minnesota officials and propane suppliers say they're better prepared to avoid repeating the shortages that hit much of the Midwest last winter.
Propane supply and demand are always at the whims of weather, but last year's one-two punch of a wet fall harvest that used up more fuel and a brutally cold winter created one of the worst shortages in recent memory.
With another cold winter approaching, Gov. Mark Dayton said he's confident the state has taken steps to ensure Minnesota residents have access to propane. Several propane storage facilities in the region have increased capacity, and more farmers and homeowners have filled up their fuel supplies early.
"We're in as good of shape as we could be today," Dayton said after meeting with industry officials Tuesday.
But the state's efforts to ensure adequate fuel supplies could be hindered by a key pipeline that's no longer shipping propane into Minnesota. The Cochin pipeline, which once supplied about 40 percent of Minnesota's propane, was switched over in the spring to move petroleum products into Canada.
Dayton said filling that gap is one of his top concerns. To help, the state will lean on railroads, which Dayton has pressed to address months of backlogs that have hit farmers with delays.
"There's no question the rail transport system in this state is very seriously overextended," the governor said. "We're going to be on them very rigorously to find out what their situation is, to monitor what they're doing."
Dayton said the state will continue meeting with industry officials and monitoring propane supplies as winter approaches.
The late start to last year's planting season pushed harvest back into a wet fall, requiring more of the fuel to dry out corn and other grains. The cold winter drove up propane demand to heat more than 200,000 Minnesotans' homes, raising prices and making supply scarce.
A wet spring pushed back planting this year too, Minnesota Corn Growers Association spokesman Adam Czech said. Despite the late start, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is projecting a record corn crop in Minnesota — a crop that may need plenty of propane for drying. Farmers can use more than 1,000 gallons of propane daily to dry their crop.
The association started warning farmers in June to stock up on propane.
The issues "are just kind of piling on top of each other, and it adds up to propane issues," Czech said.
Edmonton Police Service officers investigate after a crash involving two vehicles and a stolen Hyundai Tucson in the westbound lanes of Yellowhead Trail east of 66 Street in Edmonton, on Wednesday, March 20, 2019. One of the men in the Tucson were taken to hospital with minor injuries. The other two were arrested by police. The drivers of the other two vehicles were uninjured.
The highway was closed westbound for more than an hour as police investigated using an aerial drone, cameras and other equipment.
Jeffrey Wright, the character actor and theater veteran who seemingly shows up in every other movie, has become the latest-- and quite possibly the last-- actor added to the massive lineup for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Lionsgate announced today that they've cast him as Beetee, the former tribute from District 3 who has knowledge about electronics that becomes very, very valuable as he, Katniss, Peeta and many others return to the arena for the Quarter Quell.
Beetee is teamed up throughout the film with Wiress, the other District 3 tribute who was actually one of the first Catching Fire characters to be cast, when Amanda Plummer signed on back in July. And though Beetee isn't as flashy a role as dreamboat Finnick (who will be played by dreamboat Sam Claflin) or fiery Johanna Mason (Jena Malone is playing her), he's important to the action that happens in the arena, as well as the revolution that eventually engulfs Panem and changes Katniss's life.
Catching Fire is set to start production this fall, with a release date set for November 22 next year. In addition to all the new cast members mentioned above, Philip Seymour Hoffman is on board to play head games maker Plutarch Heavensbee, and of course all the original cast that survived the first film will be back-- that includes Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Toby Jones and Stanley Tucci. We don't know a whole lot else about it just yet, but you can follow along all the news as it comes by clicking here.
Is James Bond 25 Finally Bringing Back Felix Leiter?
ARSENE Wenger is adamant that the abuse Emmanuel Eboue suffered from Arsenal’s boo-boys will never happen again.
Gunners boss Wenger is happy that those fans’ actions have been roundly condemned and he has has given Ivory Coast defender Eboue a vote of confidence by saying he will face Porto tonight in the Champions League.
But the line-up will be more like Wenger’s Carling Cup team as a host of senior players are injured – Cesc Fabregas, Samir Nasri, Kolo Toure and Gael Clichy – while strikers Emmanuel Adebayor and Robin van Persie are being rested.
Wenger has revealed how all of Eboue’s team-mates rallied around him. Talking about how his under-fire player reacted to his weekend abuse against Wigan, Wenger said: “He was down for 48 hours, but on Monday he was OK and the same yesterday.
“All of his friends in the team called him up on Sunday, and that was the main help. Team-mates called to cheer him up.
“It is better to be playing away from home than to be coming straight back to the Emirates for him. The atmosphere is hostile in Porto, but they will be hostile to all 11 Arsenal players.
“I have told him that this can happen, but that he has to let it make him stronger. He has to deal with it properly. It is difficult when the home crowd is against you. We do a public job, so you have to deal with all sorts of responses.
“Of course I was disappointed. We cannot afford to expect too much from people and expect most from ourselves. This will be a one-off.
“There were circumstances. He was very tired, just back from injury, and the fans were worried because we were just 1-0 ahead. For once the media and football people have stood behind Eboue and given a positive and strong reaction. And for once the fans will realise that they have gone too far.
“Fans have a point when you look at players’ wages. But once you are on the pitch how much you are paid does not come into it. It is down to how much you want to do well and want to win. When you want to win the game, you have to take risks. If you encourage players to just kick the ball forward from the back there will not be many mistakes, but the strikers will die of hunger. But if you encourage players to play and take risks then there will be mistakes.
“I don’t think Eboue made his mistakes because he is well paid; he made them because he is part of the game.
The worst of the new injury problems is to Nasri, who could be out for three weeks with his ankle problem. Fabregas could also be a doubt for Saturday’s visit to Middlesbrough, with a knee injury.
But players such as midfielder Aaron Ramsey and Carlos Vela will get another chance to impress as Wenger looks to secure top billing in Group G.
But Porto are adamant they will beat fragile Arsenal to the top of Group G and avoid the big guns. Striker Lisandro Lopez said: “I have watched their games on TV and they are a team who have great talent but lack confidence. They have a terrific squad, great players, and a strong forward line with Adebayor and Van Persie. We have a black record against them, but we are confident.
“It is important to win the group.
Brazilian goalkeeper Helton is equally confident.
He said: “Porto do not fear Arsenal’s front line and know that they have some players missing. Players like Theo Walcott are missing, but they have a lot of great players.
“We are at home and this time we will make sure that we beat them. The group is at stake and we are adamant that we will top it.
Kim Kardashian: "I'm Not Engaged"
Kim Kardashian is no stranger to eye-popping photo spreads, but this time she's taking the concept to the next logical level.
Kardashian's shoot was conceived by photographer Nick Saglimbeni, who used his own custom-made, trademarked 3D camera.
"I work with Nick all the time and he is my favorite photographer," Kim told E! Online. "He just makes everyone feel so comfortable and confident...He just wants to have fun and make beautiful photos."
"World's Most Beautiful" will launch with a price tag of $4.99 per issue.
ne week after the results of the February 10 Local Council elections were announced, tension and uncertainty still prevail amidst much speculation, while President Maithripala Sirisena reflects on the two choices he faces.
The first is to continue with the Yahapalanaya Government with Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Prime Minister, Ministers and MPs from the United National Party (UNP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).
The other choice is to accept a proposal, known to be promoted largely by Minister Susil Premajayantha, for the SLFP to form its own Government with conditional support from former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is the de facto leader of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) which secured the majority of seats at the LG polls.
According to our sister paper the Sunday Times, the weekend’s political events—though they are changing from day to day—indicate the likelihood of the President calling upon Mr Wickremesinghe to continue as Prime Minister.
There is also likely to be a major Cabinet reshuffle.
Among the positive points for this move is the report that some top SLFP MPs are not in favour of Mr.Premajayantha’s move. They include SLFP General Secretary Duminda Dissanayake, Mahinda Amaraweera, Sarath Amunugama and Mahinda Samarasinghe.
So, if the President opts for the second choice it may create more problems than solutions because even the SLFP group supporting him may split.
Media speculation has been widespread. Most of it based on information provided or the statements made by politicians, who have their own agendas. But essentially it appears that this whole national crisis arose because President Sirisena apparently went into a panic mode after he heard the results on February 11. So did the UNP.
That very night he is reported to have met the Prime Minister and asked him to quit but Mr Wickremesinghe insisted he had the Constitutional right to stay on as the Prime Minister as his party had the majority of seats in Parliament, though not an overall majority of 113 in the 225-member national assembly.
But the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has expressed its support for the continuation of Yahapalanaya Government and with its 15 seats, there is an overall majority for the current administration to continue.
After the President met the Prime Minister on Sunday, February 11, there was speculation the UNP might form its own Government with some party Ministers and MPs commenting about this and some media groups giving it various twists and turns.
There were also reports of pressure within the UNP for a change in leadership with one TV channel quoting State Ministers Harsha de Silva and Vasantha Senanayake as saying that though they did not want to hurt Mr.Wickremesinghe, they believed there should be a change in the party leadership.
During the week UNP Cabinet Ministers met the President to express their confidence in the Prime Minister and call for the continuation of the Yahapalanaya coalition between the UNP and the SLFP.
It was pointed out that while the Local Council election results gave a clear warning to the Yahapalanaya Government for not fulfilling most of the pledges it made in 2015, the local polls constitutionally had no effect on the Central Government and there was little or no reason to panic.
But senior SLFP and UNP Ministers insisted the National Unity Government must go into full gear, taking immediate and effective action in the battle against corruption, to stabilise the economy, to bring down the cost of living, and to provide other relief to the people.
Amid all the turmoil and tension, which also deepen the country’s economic crisis, the official announcement came from Premier Wickremesinghe last Friday evening when he called a news conference at Temple Trees.
Calmly and confidently he announced he would continue as Premier and that there would be no change in the Central Government. But Mr Wickremesinghe also admitted there was a need for structural changes in the party and more effective action by the Government to move faster towards its vision 2025 goals of building a peaceful, just and all-inclusive society.
When Parliament meets today, the country is likely to see who commands the majority and who is with whom.
We hope the eventual outcome will be for the common good of all the people of the country and bring about religious and racial amity, unity in diversity as stressed in a message from the Mahanayake Thera of the Malwatte Chapter.
DAVID ROBERTS: Until these groups can come together bitter arguments, recriminations and stalled political and economic sectors will typify Kuwait.
JOSHUA MARICICH: Travelling outside Cairo I’ve seen first-hand the frustration of people that democratic gains may be taken away as a result of the protests.
UAE Gears Up for Elections – But Will the Voters Show Up?
MATT J. DUFFY: Some concerns have been raised about the stringency of the rules relating to public discourse in the UAE elections. Comments from a senior official, however, seem to have assuaged these concerns.
Saudi Elections: Too Soon, And Too Little?
CROSSROADS ARABIA: Arab News reports that the government has set a date for the second municipal elections. It does not report women cannot take part.
Dave Archambault II pulled his car over and grabbed a piece of paper. Parked in a quiet lot near his home in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, the Standing Rock Sioux chairman drew a line graph representing the history of his tribe.
Hundreds of years of despair leading to a peak moment of harmony and euphoria last year, when indigenous people from across the country converged on the area to fight the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline.
Archambault has become the face of the internationally recognized battle to stop the pipeline, but the oil corporation and the federal government are no longer his only enemies. Some of the most dedicated activists opposing the project now see Archambault as an adversary, a leader who has weakened and divided “water protectors” and threatened the resistance. His angriest Native American critics call him “DAPL Dave”.
Days after pipeline workers resumed drilling across the Missouri river, which provides drinking water to the tribe and flows a short distance from his house, Archambault explained why he has urged demonstrators to go home.
Miles away, activists were doing the very opposite: organizing supplies, building new camps and vowing to stay in place until the pipeline is defeated.
Amid these growing tensions, Archambault has been looking to the past. At least one branch of the US government has declared its treatment of the Great Sioux Reservation a blight on America’s past, when, in 1975, a federal court concluded that “a more ripe and rank case of dishonorable dealings will never, in all probability, be found in our history”.
His grandmother was beaten for speaking her native language, so she did not pass it on to her children, he said, and youth were threatened with jail if they were caught practicing their religion. The chairman also recounted how his uncles were involved in the grassroots American Indian Movement and were attacked by the FBI.
After decades of oppressive policies, Standing Rock has some of the poorest counties in the country today: a lack of housing and economic development, excessive substance abuse and physical abuse, high rates of dropouts and suicides, poor education and poor healthcare.
It’s not hard to see how the $3.7bn oil pipeline became a flashpoint for indigenous rights across the globe. An early proposal called for the project to cross the Missouri river just north of Bismarck, but was rejected partly due to concerns about the water supply in the mostly white city. The final route, which the pipeline company says could be complete in three months, is just upstream of Standing Rock.
By fall, a highly militarized police force began making mass arrests, deploying rubber bullets, water cannons and pepper spray, locking indigenous people in cages and prompting a United Nations investigation.
Although the Obama administration denied a key permit for the pipeline in December, many recognized it was only a temporary victory, since Donald Trump, who has received donations from the oil company’s CEO, would soon take office.
With the tribe’s legal battle against the project still active, the chairman has insisted that people leave. But many have returned following Trump’s fast-tracked approvals, and Archambault fears flooding could endanger people’s safety.
But at the camps, resentment toward Archambault has boiled over. Fueled by the rapid spread of misinformation, some are even convinced he is taking money from the oil company, earning him the “DAPL Dave” slur.
Anthony Gazotti, a 47-year-old Apache and recent arrival from Colorado, said the tribal council seemed no different than federal officials promoting the project.
On Saturday evening in Fort Yates, half an hour south of the camps, longtime friends from Standing Rock said it was difficult to have faith in the chairman.