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La Loba wine originates in a small village in the province of Soria, Matanza de Soria, located on the border of the area known as Designation of Origin Ribera<|fim_middle|> Loba. | del Duero.
These centenary vineyards offer a valuable lesson on the importance of respecting nature and all those involved in this project have passed on to us the values that have allowed our dream to become a reality.
Our idea at La Loba is to promote viniculture from a traditional, simple, humble, natural perspective. We don our wellington boots and visit the vineyards to prune and gather vine shoots, taking meticulous care of our heritage so that when harvest time comes around, we can gather fruit of a quality that will allow us to revel in the production process, getting our hands stained during fermentation stages, shifting barrels around during the aging, and all so that we can share the finished product with you, the customer.
The suggestive name of La Loba ("The Wolfess") marks the character, the strength, the determination, firmness and guile; the sweet picture of the grandmother shows us elegance, simplicity, delicacy, tenderness and balance. The combination of both is the union of the winery's two grandmothers: one gives us the name and the other the image, two very important people in their lives and now also in their project.
The sketch is the work of our great friend and painter, Santos de Veracruz, better known as the artist who works while Muchachito (Bombo Infierno) sings and plays.
Our relationship with our beloved Santitos is one of true friendship and a high level of understanding and kinship, an understanding that has allowed us to achieve that special level of synergy that arises through teamwork… and from there, our label, La | 324 |
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Updated: 11:04 AM CDT Sep 7, 2016
One man was hurt Tuesday in a chain reaction crash at a construction zone on Highway 92.The crash was reported at 11:55 a.m. just west of Dean Avenue, which is 8 miles west of Oskaloosa.According to an Iowa State Patrol crash report, Richard Neil Connop, 58, of Winfield, was hurt in the crash.Authorities said three vehicles were stopped at the road construction zone when a fourth<|fim_middle|>0 truck driven by Bruce Veenstra, of Oskaloosa, and a Sterling dump truck driving by Robert Albert, of Clarksville.
The crash remains under investigation. | vehicle approached and slowed down. A fifth vehicle however did not slow down or stop and hit the fourth vehicle, troopers said.Also involved in the crash were a semi tractor-trailer driven by Jeffy Klein, of Knoxville; a Ford F250 driven by Scott Johnson, 39, of Russell; a 3500 truck driven by Bruce Veenstra, of Oskaloosa, and a Sterling dump truck driving by Robert Albert, of Clarksville.The crash remains under investigation.
One man was hurt Tuesday in a chain reaction crash at a construction zone on Highway 92.
The crash was reported at 11:55 a.m. just west of Dean Avenue, which is 8 miles west of Oskaloosa.
According to an Iowa State Patrol crash report, Richard Neil Connop, 58, of Winfield, was hurt in the crash.
Authorities said three vehicles were stopped at the road construction zone when a fourth vehicle approached and slowed down. A fifth vehicle however did not slow down or stop and hit the fourth vehicle, troopers said.
Also involved in the crash were a semi tractor-trailer driven by Jeffy Klein, of Knoxville; a Ford F250 driven by Scott Johnson, 39, of Russell; a 350 | 266 |
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Kirsi Henriksson: "Everyone is guilty of the past, and thus everyone is needed for reaching a better future and solving the situation"
Posted on 20.3.2019 by Julia Bethwaite
The world is full of crises – caused by wars, hunger, water scarcity and poverty – and humans need leaders who can deal effectively in complex situations and who obtain the required leadership skills for resolving the issues. Peace operations are, however,<|fim_middle|> positions. What is the reason behind it, she asked. Politics is the answer, Ms. Henriksson replied. In peace operations, one is still waving the flag of her home country – the leaders are picked up based on their nationality and quota of the troops. It is not always asked and questioned whether the person is a good leader.
In addition, Ms. Henriksson explained why leadership positions are not that popular in peacekeeping operations. The work is not about sweets and flowers, but instead you are constantly struggling to understand the crises and be on top of human resource management. She highlighted that a good leader is the one who knows how to manage her people. It is the responsibility of the leader to assure equal treatment of all the peacekeepers, even if the initial situation, for example selection processes of the peacekeepers and payment, was significantly different.
Ms. Henriksson said that one of the saddest things in peace operations is primitive behaviour by the representatives of organisations. From ethical perspective, some of the peacekeepers may take steps backward: they somehow forget about the values promoted by their organisations. The peacekeepers may be there, for example, to enhance their careers, and do not obtain understanding of the country's past, present and future, in other words, the local context. Thus, it is of utmost importance for everyone to understand what is the reason they are there. For leaders, this is unfortunate, because they must lead also when they have been disappointed, for example, by some people acting in a way that they would never do in their home countries. Such behaviour can endanger the whole mission and deteriorate its reputation. Once the reputation is gone, the mission is easily targeted. That's why the credibility of the mission is very important. Hence, Ms. Henriksson highlighted that everyone must respect the values, follow the mandate and lead by example – all other actions increase the security risks of the operation.
Working with communities to deliver a mandate
As mentioned, crisis management is about cooperation and dealing with different communities; civil societies, regional local authorities and various religious leaders. It is about respecting everyone, which is the beauty of the work. "50 shades of khaki", Ms. Henriksson said. Engaging only with the target groups determined by the mandate of the operation is often not enough. A good leader needs to make sure that the diversity is respected, and all the relevant actors are involved.
The problem, however, is that all the actors on site, such as NGOs, civilian missions, military, etc., want to do something, which can lead to overlaps and wasted monetary, human and knowledge resources. In other words, the peace operations are missing comprehensive and integrated conducts. This concept is known as the 'peace industry', where conflict cycles are missing, and people are sometimes doing harm instead of promoting local ownership.
Ms. Henriksson was frustrated with the fact that the problems faced in peace operations today are the same ones that have been acknowledged already 20 years ago. She highlighted the need to talk with all the stakeholders, resolving the issues and changing the procedures. Currently, the words are there but the action is missing. "The leader must be firm and noticeable", stated Ms. Henriksson.
As an example, Ms. Henriksson mentioned the migration crisis a few years ago. The massive migration wave from Africa to Europe was a problem for the European Union, not so much to the African countries. Instead of trying to stop the migration flow, which would be not realistic, she focused her efforts in training the local authorities to tackle migration, especially human trafficking, and in raising awareness on how dangerous the journey can be. "You couldn't say don't go, but rather think twice before you go", Ms. Henriksson said.
Ms. Henriksson stressed that as a leader, you cannot divide the local actors between good and bad ones. According to her, no one is good, as everyone is guilty of the past, and thus everyone is needed for reaching a better future and solving the situation. As a leader, you don't have the luxury to choose who you work with. As a leader, you are a guest of a country, invited by the government and thus you need to work with the government and not to dictate what they must do, Ms. Henriksson noted.
Leadership & gender
There's not enough diversity in peace operations, but people of all ages, genders and skills are needed. Ms. Henriksson explained how especially women in lower positions face difficulties, but they may also take advantage of their situations, e.g. falling in love with the locals, which creates problems concerning unequal power relations. It is impossible to monitor people in their free time, and thus having mutual values in important. For Ms. Henriksson, it was not an issue to be a leader and a female, because she got the respect from male colleagues by leading coherently and by example. To be a leader, you must be a mixture of an angel and a devil, Ms. Henriksson described.
At the end of her lecture, Ms. Henriksson said that despite all the difficulties, she would go back to every place where she has been part of the crisis management team – not necessary as a leader, but to work for a good cause. According to her, being with wonderful people can lift you up, and also the places are often very beautiful. Interacting with local people is essential, as it helps to create a linkage with the environment and context. The main and only obstacle is security. Very often there are security restrictions that prevent people to move freely and interact with locals. Although Ms. Henriksson often took the risk and did not strictly respect the security recommendations, she acknowledged that it was important to ensure the security of the members of the mission. She stressed that finding a balance between those two is not always easy.
She also acknowledged the need for challenges in peace operations, because they build good leaders. It is about continuous change management.
Once the presentation of Ms. Henriksson was approaching the end, we had the pleasure to hear the comments of Professor Marko Lehti from Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI). He pointed out that most of the peacekeeping operations have a political and often hidden role, even though Finland seems not to be posing national issues in peace operations. Prof. Lehti posed a question to Ms. Henriksson, asking whether these hidden interests should be more visible. In response, she said that there is no use in hiding political motives, because everyone acknowledges their presence. However, the reputation of an operation should not be affected. After all, these operations are politically established.
Professor Lehti was also interested to know Ms. Henriksson's opinion on where should the ideal meeting place between practitioners and researchers be regarding the civil crisis management. Ms. Henriksson replied that research is very important, because practitioners often do not have time to analyse, as they do things in a hurry. An external eye is needed to observe and answer the question on "whether we are doing the right thing".
In addition, Professor Lehti was interested if there has been a change towards more adoptable crises management. Ms. Henriksson explained that such change has not been noticeable yet, because it can be challenging to find leaders who want to strive towards changing the leadership patterns. She said that it's also important to note that "the leader should have a life also after the leadership position."
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The lecture was organised by first-year LFC students Marina Danoyan, Tiia Eerola, Sini Anttila, Khalil Mozaffari, Leena Ylinen and Jani Pyrrö.
Photos by Jonne Renvall/Tampere University.
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Leadership for Change homepage | always based on collectivism and not on the actions of a few individuals. Passion and care for fellow humans is necessary. Leadership in peace operations was discussed on Tuesday, March 12th when the Master's Degree Programme in Leadership for Change had the pleasure of hosting a guest lecture 'Leadership in International Peace Operations: Managing the Changes and Challenges' by Kirsi Henriksson, Director of Crisis Management Centre (CMC) Finland.
Leadership and Peace Operations
The career of Ms. Henriksson is a vivid one; she has acted as the Head of the European Union EUCAP Sahel Niger civilian crisis management mission (2016-2018) as well as worked in varied countries, e.g. Mali and Libya. Before her international posts, she worked as Research and Development Director of CMC Finland. This sums up to a broad experience of international crisis management and leadership in successful projects. In her current position, she is responsible for developing the CMC Centre, managing its operations and reaching the objectives. CMC Finland is a governmental agency, which sends experts to peace operation missions. It has currently 122 experts deployed all over the world.
In the beginning of her LFC Lecture, Ms. Henriksson highlighted that she will tell stories about leadership in peace operations, which are based on her own experiences, as crises are always unique and one leadership style cannot suit them all. Ms. Henriksson noted that the interpretations and ideas of what an international peace operation is are very different, because there is no guidebook which instructs how to be a leader in a multinational and multicultural cooperation project in a high-risk environment, where the business is not running as usual. Ms. Henriksson emphasised that it is easier to lead others, when one has experience of the same work. She doesn't personally know many good leaders in peacekeeping operations and thinks that organizations should be tougher in saying no if they do not consider the person as a good leader.
According to Ms. Henriksson, the problem is that there is not enough training to prepare people to be leaders in peace operations, and even if there were, it is not guaranteed that people with such education would be appointed to leadership | 445 |
Block Island Wind Farm On Course for 2016 Completion
September 2015 • Sound Environment
By Amber Hewett
If you sailed near Block Island this August, you likely noticed the start of something transformative; something that was, until now, entirely foreign to U.S. waters. On July 26, 2015 Providence, RI-based developer Deepwater Wind made history by breaking ground on the nation's first offshore wind power project, three miles to the southeast of Block Island.
National Wildlife Federation joined dignitaries gathering to celebrate the groundbreaking of the Block Island Wind Farm. © Deepwater Wind
As sponsors of this year's Block Island Race Week, Deepwater Wind spread the word to participating sailors that the highly anticipated Block Island Wind Farm will be up and running next time the event commences. The project will consist of five offshore wind turbines and will produce enough local, clean energy to reliably power 17,000 homes. By the fall of this year, the foundations for all five turbines will be in place and ready for the turbine and transmission line installation next summer.
Block Island's five state-of-the-art offshore wind turbines will finally display the accessibility of America's largest untapped clean energy opportunity – at a time when new energy opportunities are exactly what the Northeast U.S. needs to identify and strategically select. With several coal-fired power plants recently retired or on track for retirement in New England, energy planners face decisions that will largely determine the region's energy trajectory for decades to come. Construction of the Block Island Wind Farm will ensure that offshore wind power holds a place in such pivotal conversations.
The Block Island Wind Farm is a pilot project, equipped to generate 30 megawatts of power. By comparison, the European Wind Energy Association released mid-year data in July announcing more than 10,000 megawatts of offshore wind power generation currently online across 11 countries in Europe. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates that currently accessible Atlantic offshore wind hosts an abundance of power equivalent to that generated by 200 average coal-fired power plants. The inexhaustible, pollution-free resource far off the Atlantic Coast is poised to play an enduring role in America's next energy chapter, and that chapter is starting in the Northeast.
With strong public support and bold political leadership, this one small project will be a catalyst for something much larger – so as Northeast sailors, we ought to learn about what's on deck!
3 Surprising Facts about Offshore Wind Power
1. After the Block Island Wind Farm is built, no future U.S. offshore wind development will likely be visible from shore. (From the southeast bluff of Block Island, the turbines will only appear to be the height of your thumb on the horizon.) This is because the better wind is further offshore and – one of the benefits of getting in the game two decades late – turbine size and efficiency has advanced dramatically since the first wind farm was built.
2. The supply of offshore wind energy matches our demand. America's coastal cities host dense populations and strained energy markets – with very few local, utility-scale sources of energy. Consider this: the wind far off the Atlantic Coast of Long Island is some of the best in the world for offshore wind power development, capable of providing energy for millions of homes and businesses. And not only is offshore wind power where we need it, it's also producing the most power when we need it: during summer afternoons and winter cold snaps.
3. Offshore wind power can be developed in a manner that protects wildlife and their habitats throughout every stage of siting, construction, and operation – for that, the environmental community is united in support for offshore wind power. Properly locating turbines combined with best management practices minimize or prevent impacts on birds, bats, sea turtles, and marine mammals – and all species benefit from cleaner air and water and cutting the carbon pollution that causes climate change and ocean acidification.
As a Northeast sailor, I can hardly imagine a greater testament to our region than to make carefully sited offshore wind power a pillar of a truly clean energy future. We have growing and urgent energy challenges to meet. Let's raise the bar. We can pioneer a solution that celebrates the unique potential of the very resource Northeast sailors have been harnessing for generations. Let's put our breeze on the map with a nod to tradition and a commitment to ensuring many more decades of breathing clean air while sailing on clean water.
The National Wildlife Federation strongly supports offshore wind power that employs the highest standards of wildlife protections through all stages of development, and we have long been proud to endorse the Block Island Wind Farm. To get involved, reach out directly to me at hewetta@nwf.org, and learn more at NWF.org/OffshoreWind.
Amber Hewett is the National Wildlife Federation's Northeast Regional Campaign Coordinator. She lives in Newburyport, MA.
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The best way to learn screenwriting is to read scripts – as many as possible, by many writers in many genres and dealing with many mediums.
Screenwriting is the art of telling stories, and every single one of us has been touched by a story. It's no wonder a lot of people want to turn their hand to screenwriting. To get started, all you need is a software like CeltX (check out our guide Celtx - The Ultimate Screenwriting Software [Cross-Platform] Celtx - The Ultimate Screenwriting Software [Cross-Platform] Read More ) and inspiration. The best way of learning isn't going on a college course, as odd as that sounds: instead, the Internet can educate you and entertain you – if you know where to look.
The Daddy of online script libraries.
The BBC's Writer's Room was set up to inspire the next generation of screenwriters. The majority of scripts are just for TV and radio, but there are a few small-scale films in their extensive catalogue. With so many different writers of varying styles, you can't help but enjoy the ride. The acclaimed — Luther, Death in Paradise, Sherlock, Ripper Street — mix with shows that have a cult following (Father Brown; Dennis the Menace and Gnasher; Doctors; Welcome to our Village, Please Invade Carefully).
What's more, they also offer a series of guides to writing in each format, as well as regular opportunities to get your<|fim_middle|> Writer's Tale, his wonderful book about working on the show, he uploaded the shooting scripts for his Series 4 episodes and the following year's specials. Fans rejoiced. Then the site was replaced.
But here they are again – and accompanied by further scripts for 1989's Ghost Light; the first episode, 1963's An Unearthly Child; and early reports on sci-fi on the BBC! It's these added extras that make Lee Thomson's site special.
You know a deadline is imminent when you spend time doing something other than what you're meant to be doing. As Douglas Adams said, "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." I'm a bit annoyed at Screenplays For You because it tempted me with the script for Airplane!, and suddenly it was a few hours (and many laughs) later, way past lunchtime, and the washing was still out in the rain.
If there's a film you love, you'll probably find the script (or one by the same writer) here. Whether you're after comic book adaptations (The Mask; V For Vendetta), classics (The Godfather; It's A Wonderful Life), or favourite childhood films (The Goonies; Who Framed Roger Rabbit), there's an ample amount to get stuck into.
Die Hard is next on my list.
The design is plain but efficient; however, once again, you have to look out for transcripts, which, whilst good in their own right, can never truly match the genius of original scripts.
Explore more about: Filmmaking, Writing Tips. | work judged. Death in Paradise, for instance, was picked up through an opportunity listed on the Writer's Room and is now one of British TV's biggest crime dramas.
Print off a script or read it as a PDF and you'll soon wonder where the time has gone.
This site includes all sorts: from TV to theatre, musicals to anime, Simply Scripts even offers you non-English scripts, so if you ever fancied reading Pan's Labyrinth in its original Spanish form, this is the place to be.
The wealth of mediums is virtually unrivaled and it's especially good if you want to learn how to write treatments; synopses that read more like short stories. Check out our guide yWriter - A Word Processor For Creative Writing yWriter - A Word Processor For Creative Writing Read More to yWriter if you want to write your own treatment.
But it's basically a conglomerate of links to other sites' scripts. It works well, but a few of the links are now dead and you have to be wary of transcripts, i.e. someone taking dictation and guessing what the original script might have said. Mind you, that's the type of thing that mars many script libraries.
It's quite a challenge to update a blog every single day, let alone adding an entire script, but Daily Script manages it. As such, there's a wealth of inspiration here.
You can only refine your search to either movie or TV scripts, but it's an enviable collection that doesn't just include final scripts that have been filmed but also earlier drafts. It's important to see that progression: if you're not happy with your own first drafts, it tells you not to worry; that change is as inevitable as death and taxes.
And if you are happy, it teaches you not to get precious about anything. Kill your darlings, as they say.
Alternatively, there's The Weekly Script, which also offers radio scripts alongside TV and film. It doesn't have the same range, but it's still a great resource that offers some of the classic movies and treasured television, including One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Due South, No Country for Old Men and Deadwood. You could easily get in on the ground floor and get your regular fix every Friday.
Steadily updated, with nearly 30 scripts have been added this year already. It doesn't have the same range as many, but there's a strong list regardless. The homepage is boring – very vanilla – but it does its job admirably and when reading a script, the interface is no problem whatsoever.
One particular advantage is that it contains scripts that have been deleted elsewhere. When Doctor Who showrunner 2005-09, Russell T. Davies, was publicising The | 565 |
We finally have the 'Big Brother 21' premiere date, and there's already a twist
Summer is starting June 25, because that's when "Big Brother 21" premieres! CBS announced the premiere date Monday, revealing the usual two-night premiere event will be on June 25 and 26 at 8/7c. And yes, it will be hosted by Julie Chen Moonves. But there is one unusual thing about the premiere date.
That's because June 25 is a Tuesday. "Big Brother" usually airs Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. After its first Sunday airing on June 30, the show will return to that rotation starting with the Wednesday, July 10 episode. Starting then, the weekday episodes will also move to the 9/8c slot, while the Sunday ones will remain at 8/7c.
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The temporary shift to Tuesdays is possibly to accommodate the remaining episodes of "The Amazing Race," which airs on Wednesdays. "Big Brother" has launched with a two-hour premiere the past few seasons, but both episodes on June 25 and 26 are one hour long.
Last week,<|fim_middle|> two-night premiere kicks off Tuesday, June 25 and Wednesday, June 26 at 8/7c on CBS. | the Chenbot tweeted a very brief teaser for Season 21 that really said nothing at all — it's literally just 10 seconds of graphics and a voiceover — but we've been so hungry for "Big Brother" content that we'll take anything at this point.
But while we finally have actual "Big Brother 21" news, the fate of "Celebrity Big Brother" remains up in the air. CBS has not yet made a decision on the star-fueled winter versions of the show yet.
Next order of business for "Big Brother 21": the cast, which will be announced mid-June.
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Firat Erdim, Founders Rome Prize Fellow in Architecture and Associate Professor in the Undergraduate Program in Architecture at IE University, will give his shoptalk entitled Peregrine Projections.
Daniele Giorgi, AAR/Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Exchange Fellow in Art History, will give his shoptalk entitled Political images in Medieval and Early Reinassance Florence.
This conference will highlight the activities and results of the AAR Affiliated Project Roman Maritime Concrete Study (ROMACONS) during the years 2002-2009 along with subsequent laboratory studies recently published in a volume entitled Building for Eternity: The History and Technology of Roman Concrete Engineering in the Sea (Oxbow, 2014). Using a pioneering methodology for collecting concrete cores both on land and in the sea and for their subsequent analysis, ROMACONS amassed and studied samples from 11 archaeological sites in Italy, Greece, Turkey and Israel. The subsequent historical, archaeological and scientific analysis of these data has expanded our understanding of how the Romans constructed harbor installations both at the interface of land and sea as well as underwater and why their concrete structures have long endured. The four papers to be presented are based on new information provided by the ROMACONS project with the hope that they will inform and encourage other scholars to pursue investigations of one of the most amazing achievements of ancient Rome – concrete engineering in the sea. Participants include Marie Jackson, John Oleson, Chris Brandon and Robert Hohlfelder.
John P. Oleson – Where Did the Roman Expertise in Maritime Concrete Come from and How did it Spread throughout the Roman Empire?
This project had the generous support of the CTG Italcementi Group, Bergamo.
In recent years, Hollywood has released<|fim_middle|>, Museo Nazionale Romano di Palazzo Altemps) and, for the first time, a screening of the silent film, The Last Days of Pompeii (1913), with intertitles in English and Italian and live piano accompaniment by Stefano Maccagno.
The first lecture will set the scene for more detailed discussion of the three national film industries that reconstructed their own versions of ancient Rome on screen from the 1890s through the arrival of sound in the 1920s – France, Italy and the United States. Subjects addressed will include the relationship of early cinema's Rome with the Rome of other nineteenth-century arts, both high (theatre, opera, dance, painting, the novel) and popular (circus shows, pyrodramas, puppetry and magic acts); the development of cinematic technologies for the reconstruction of Roman history; the use of Rome on film to stimulate a collective national and imperial consciousness; and the cinematic reconstruction of the Roman past to explore – and challenge – modern concerns about religion, politics, ethics, class, gender and sexuality, as well as the new medium itself.
All events are free and open to the public. All lectures will be given in English.
Thomas Spencer Jerome (1864-1914) was an American lawyer and lover of Roman history who lived on Capri from 1899 until his death. In his will he endowed a series of lectures to be jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome, and delivered at both institutions. The Jerome Lectures have become one of the most prestigious international lecture series for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. The revised lectures are typically published by the University of Michigan Press.
a screening of the silent film, The Last Days of Pompeii (1913), with intertitles in English and Italian and live piano accompaniment by Stefano Maccagno.
archeologica di Roma - Museo Nazionale Romano di Palazzo Altemps.
JOIN US for the American Academy in Rome's Spring Gala on Wednesday, April 15, 2015, at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.
SALUTE honorees Robert B. Silvers, James Turrell and Carrie Mae Weems, FAAR'06.
A Trustee Emeriti of the American Academy in Rome, Robert B. Silvers has served as editor of The New York Review of Books since 1963. He has edited or co-edited several essay anthologies including Hidden Histories of Science, The New York Review Abroad: Fifty Years of International Reportage, and The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin.
For over forty years James Turrell has created works that explore the effect of light within a created space. The recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, Turrell has had over 160 solo exhibitions worldwide. His work, often large-scale and architectural, engages viewers with the limits and wonder of human perception.
American artist Carrie Mae Weems, FAAR'06, has developed a complex body of art that employs photographs, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video over the last thirty years. Her work has led her to investigate family relationships, gender roles, and the histories of racism, sexism, class, and various political systems. Weems has exhibited widely at major national and international museums and is a recipient of several awards, including the Rome Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship.
Cocktails begin at 6:30 p.m. and dinner at 7:30 p.m.
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The evening will feature a conversation between Carrie Mae Weems (FAAR'06) and Mark Robbins (FAAR'97).
This exhibition is curated by Peter Benson Miller, Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome, in collaboration with Depart Foundation.
Paula Matthusen, Elliott Carter Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition and Assistant Professor of Music at Wesleyan University, will give her shoptalk entitled Modern Soundscapes, Ancient Structures: Sonic Pathways Between the Ancient Aqueducts and Contemporary Rome.
Steven Nadler - Why Was Spinoza Excommunicated?
In July, 1656, the 23-year old Bento (Baruch) Spinoza was excommunicated by the Portuguese-Jewish community of Amsterdam. It was by far the harshest writ of herem (ban) ever issued by that community, and it was never rescinded. Pulitzer short-listed historian and American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence Steven Nadler will consider the historical, religious, intellectual, and political circumstances around this seminal event in the life of the philosopher. Why was Spinoza ostracized with such extreme prejudice, and what can we know about the reasons for his punishment?
"National Narratives and the Medieval Mediterranean" is a research seminar supported by the Getty Foundation as part of its Connecting Art Histories initiative. Held in three meetings over two years at the American Academy in Rome (2014-2015), the seminar program explores the impact of national discourses on the development of medieval art history and archaeology in the Mediterranean littoral.
The 11 participants will present final papers produced during the seminar. They address the role of nationalism in the preservation and presentation of medieval art and architecture in Croatia, Tunisia, Egypt, Spain, Cyprus, Albania, Israel and Italy. The periodization of material culture as "Ancient," "Medieval", "Byzantine", "Ottoman", and "Modern," the characterization of religious change as positive or negative, even the visualization of the historical arc as one of progress or decline, will all be discussed. | a number of big-budget films set in antiquity, from Gladiator (2000) to Pompeii (2014). Yet cinema has been fascinated with the ancient world – and with Roman history in particular – since it emerged as a new technology more than one hundred years ago. The persistent presence of ancient Rome in early cinema compels us to ask: why did so modern a medium have so strong an interest in antiquity right from its start? What did ancient Rome do for cinema? And what did cinema do for ancient Rome?
Maria Wyke, noted scholar of Latin literature, will address these questions and more in the 2015 Jerome Lectures, The Ancient World in Silent Cinema. In the 43rd year of the Lecture series, this year will include three lectures, with introductions by Alessandro Schiesaro (La Sapienza Università di Roma) and Alessandra Capodiferro (SS-Col | 192 |
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Tiger Woods has big plans in rebuilding Pebble Beach's existing par-3 course, Peter Hay
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Pebble Beach's nine-hole par-3 course, Peter Hay, has always been a bit pedestrian in nature. But that's about to change.
The resort announced on Tuesday that Tiger Woods'<|fim_middle|> Golf Digest
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Conversations about the vision of Peter Hay were actually sparked by Tiger Woods during his preparations for the U.S. Open this year, Pebble Beach vice president and Director of Golf John Sawin told Golf Digest on Tuesday. Tiger noticed that some construction was ongoing at Peter Hay, which served as the grand entrance to the U.S. Open last year, and he expressed an interest in being involved in the future of a reimagined short course at Pebble Beach.
"From our standpoint, it was a natural fit," Sawin told Golf Digest. "Tiger and his team are very fun, creative people. And they have experience building these fun, dynamic playable short courses that are interesting and challenging for avid golfers, but still fun and playable for beginners. And maintaining that family-oriented, welcoming environment for junior golfers and beginners will be a great fit for how we see Peter Hay continuing to play a role in our community within the golf resort."
Perhaps known mostly by Pebble Beach guests as the land used for hospitality and parking lots for big events like U.S. Opens, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Ams and the famous Concourse d'Elegance car show in August, the course opened in 1957 and boasts a modest layout, but it has always been a great place for juniors and beginners to get a taste of Pebble Beach. The resort's impressive practice academy, across the street from Peter Hay, opened in 2014, and given the proximity of the two, Sawin says the resort plans to more closely align the experience at both facilities.
Sawin says the resort will submit for permitting in February after the AT&T Pebble Beach with hopes of construction starting in May. If all goes according to plan, the reimagined Peter Hay could open mid-fall.
This adds to Tiger's growing list of designs, including a new course opening, Payne's Valley, which will open at Missouri's Big Cedar Lodge in 2020, following new courses at Bluejack National outside Houston, which made Golf Digest's Second 100 Greatest in its first year of eligibility and El Cardonal at Diamante in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, among others.
"Tiger Woods has such a great history here, which I know he's proud of and we're very proud of," Sawin said. "It's great to formalize a partnership together."
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"Just missed throws here and there," Hartman said. "And that comes back on me. I think there were opportunities still there. I just missed a couple and that's what it is."
Wake Forest: The Demon Deacons travel to in-state foe Duke next Saturday.
UNC: The Tar Heels have an open date before hosting No. 2 Notre Dame on Nov. 27.
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By AARON BEARD - Nov. 14, 2020 05:47 PM EST
North Carolina tight end Garrett Walston (84) catches a touchdown pass during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Wake Forest in Chapel Hill, N.C., Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — There's no deficit that Sam Howell and his North Carolina teammates feel they can't overcome.
The sophomore threw for program records of 550 yards and six touchdowns and scored the go-ahead rushing TD with 4:11 left to help North Carolina rally past Wake Forest 59-53 on Saturday, capping a comeback from 21 down in the third quarter.
Howell's 20-yard keeper helped the Tar Heels (6-2, 6-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) match their biggest comeback in program history. It was part of a run of 35 unanswered points after falling behind 45-24, with Howell and the Tar Heels' offense rolling nearly all day at a record-setting pace.
"Sam and I have talked a lot about a legacy for a guy like him," coach Mack Brown said. "And his legacy will be how many games he wins. And that's what quarterbacks are remembered for."
The Tar Heels finished with a program-record 742 yards, with Brown calling it "one of the best offensive performances that I've ever been around." Yet more importantly, the Tar Heels completed comebacks after frantic rallies fell short in losses to Florida State and Virginia in the past month.
"I think a lot of teams would've just just quit ... but we just kept fighting back on both sides of the ball," Howell said, adding: "I'm just proud of the way we were able to fight back."
Javonte Williams followed Howell's keeper by running for a 15-yard touchdown run with 2:39 left that helped keep UNC in control late.
Sam Hartman threw for a career-best 429 yards and four touchdowns to lead the Demon Deacons (4-3, 3-3), who had their own huge offensive output with 606 yards. His second to Donavon Greene was an 18-yarder that pushed Wake Forest to its 45-24 lead with 6:56 left in the third quarter.
But UNC's defense hung in and finally slowed the Demon Deacons, forcing punts on the next four drives to give the Howell-led offense an opening. Then, after Howell's go-ahead keeper, Chazz Surratt sacked Hartman on fourth down to set up Williams' score that made it a two-possession game.
Hartman led one final scoring drive, but Williams recovered the onside kick with 56 seconds left to all but end a wild afternoon in the longtime instate series.
"Give North Carolina a lot of credit," Wake Forest coach Dave Clawson said. "They're a really good football team. And even when we were up 21, you don't feel like any lead is safe against them."
Wake Forest: The Demon Deacons entered this one with four straight wins, three coming in ACC play, and just one turnover all season. They looked poised to beat the Tar Heels for the second straight season before that five-drive drought, while the defense couldn't take Howell and the Tar Heels out of rhythm as UNC made its move.
"We had to make one more play," Clawson said. "We had to make one more third-down conversion. We had to make one more third-down stop. ... And we didn't do it."
UNC: Brown talked this week about wanting to see his team "grow up and mature" and build off a win against Duke without having a setback. They flirted with exactly that, falling behind big as they did at FSU (down 24) and Virginia (21) with those games ending as three-point losses. But they responded, with receiver Dazz Newsome saying: "We most definitely feel like we can come back on any amount of points that we are down by."
"I thought we took a huge step forward today," Brown said, "because we didn't come close. ... We actually won, and that's something that we hadn't been doing."
DOWNFIELD GAINS
Both team's receivers came up big.
Newsome (10 catches for 189 yards) and Dyami Brown (eight catches for 163 yards) each had two TD grabs for UNC, including a 75-yard score for Newsome in the first quarter.
Jaquarii Roberson had 12 catches for 167 yards and two scores for Wake Forest, while Greene added eight catches for 170 yards before suffering a second-half injury.
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Anyone else doing a 10×10 (or other) board game challenge for 2018? I think I've found what will be the first game I play 10 times this year.
Through Jungle and Desert
Days of Wonder announced Through Jungle and Desert, the second in the second series of Memoir '44 Battle Maps. According to the DoW blog, "This expansion offers two new decks of combat cards, along with six pre-printed standard scenarios and two pre-printed Overlord scenarios."
Source: http://blog.daysofwonder.com/2018/01/08/through-jungle-and-desert-the-new-battle-map-for-memoir-44/
Mayfair Expands
After laying off some employees late last year, Mayfair has announced it is expanding its relationship with Alliance Game Distributors. According to ICv2.com, "Alliance is now handling shipping for all trade channels and for direct-to-consumer orders on Mayfair products, and has taken on an expanded sales role for non-hobby channels."
Source: https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/39203/mayfair-games-expands-relationship-alliance
Empires of the Void II
According to the ACD Distribution blog, Red Raven Games' Empires of the Void II will be released next month. In Ryan Laukat's latest "each player has been given command of a mission by an alien empire to establish a foothold at the fringe of the galaxy. The game begins when their massive Worldships reach the fringe, where they must explore, wage war, use diplomacy, and construct buildings to gain victory."
Source: http://acddistribution.blogspot.com/2018/01/empires-of-void-ii-new-from-red-raven.html
The BoardGameGeek Show Debut
The first episode of BGG's The BoardGameGeek Show is now available on YouTube. Scott Alden, Eric Martin, and Lincoln Damerst talk about recent plays, conventions, and more.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ypXcv9BY3w
A Walker in the Barenpark
Over on Board Game Babylon, there's a quick five-question interview with Barenpark created Phil Walker-Harding. "The game originally had an amusement park theme. So, instead of 4 different types of bears, the pieces represented 4 different types of rides – rollercoasters, waterslides, etc."
Source: http://boardgamebabylon.com/2017/12/26/5-quick-questions-barenpark-phil-walker-harding/
Plan B's Next Move
Fresh off their successful releases Century: Spice Road and Azul, Plan B Games announced its new publishing branch, Next Move Games. According to Dice Tower News, "Next Move Games, much like Plan B, is focused on creating short, punchy, and high quality games that focus on elegantly simple rules and exemplary table aesthetic but feature incredible strategic depth … The only noticeable difference is that each game from Next Move will only have 4 letters in the title in order to drive home the point of their design and publishing goals, which leads us to their first of such titles – REEF<|fim_middle|>It sounds crazy, but ignorance of a game can be an advantage when I am translating. It means I have to understand the game only from the rules, which makes it easy to spot places where a new player would have questions."
Source: https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/72414/truckers-guide-galaxy-retrospective
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January 19-21. HexaCon. Denver, Colorado.
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April 5-8. PAX East. Boston, Massachusetts.
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April 27-29. Gaming Hoopla. Mundelein, Illinois.
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May 11-13. CMON Expo. Atlanta, Georgia.
May 17-20. Geekway to the West. St. Charles, Missouri.
May 25-28. KublaCon. Burlingame, California.
May 25-28. Gamex. Los Angeles, California.
June 1-3. NashCon. Nashville, Tennessee.
June 13-17. Origins. Columbus, Ohio.
June 24-30. Rocky Mountain Gaming Vacation. Park City, Utah.
July 4-8. Dice Tower Con. Orlando, Florida.
July 12-15. HistoriCon. Fredericksburg, Virginia.
July 21-29. WBC. Champion, Pennsylvania
August 2-5. GenCon. Indianapolis, Indiana.
August 24-26. MegaMooseCon. Richburg, South Carolina.
August 24-28. Coulee Con. La Crosse, Wisconsin.
August 31-September 3. Gateway 2018. Los Angeles, California.
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Also from Dice Tower News comes a report of Codenames XXL, due out in the second quarter of this year. "The primary feature of this version is the larger cards, designed for bigger groups to play more easily, as players won't be leaning over each other and squinting nearly as much. The original's cards were 2.6″ x 1.7″, but the new version goes big, not home, with 4.7″ x 2.8″ cards, almost 3 times larger (in terms of card area)."
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Amanda Marzullo and Christina Stolfo from Northwell Health on telling the story of a heart transplant patient and her recovery on social
Two months ago, Northwell Health Digital Content Producer Amanda Marzullo and Director of Audience Development Christina Stolfo underwent an ambitious and intense video project with a truly inspiring ending.
This is the second one we've documented from start to finish and we've learned that patience is key.
"We worked with the cardiac service line to develop a campaign based around the opening of their heart transplant program and the benefit it will have for Long Island, since it is the first of its kind in the area," explains Amanda. And that campaign centered around a heart transplant patient named Yvonne.
But they didn't know Yvonne would be the patient until the day it happened.
"Once we received the notification that there was a heart available and there was the final approval that the heart transplant was a go, we had to make sure it was a match and that the blood type was correct. So we didn't actually find out who the patient was that we were going to be following until about four hours before the shoot."
At that point, Amanda and a team of videographers and photographers weren't even sure if the patient would consent to have them follow along. "We were working on the project for a couple of months because we were interviewing the doctors about the new program," says Amanda. "But we really didn't have the crux of the story which was the patient."
"We had pre-planned this all out, so everyone knew that they were on standby," says Amanda. "They needed to have their camera gear because whenever it was a go, we had to pick up our stuff and just head out."
Once Yvonne had given consent for filming to proceed, they got to work and started shooting — "it was a real team effort," says Amanda.
They even had to do some last minute troubleshooting when they weren't allowed to film in the operating room. "One of the doctors that we were working with for the project was in the operating room and was able to shoot with her iPhone," says Amanda. "She provided us that footage which was very, very helpful to help tell that little section of the story."
A few days after her transplant, they followed up with Yvonne in another interview.
The whole process — from patient to publication — was about a month.
"That is one of the advantages of having your own in-house team for these stories," explains Christina. "You have full control over what's actually distributed and released. We didn't want to release anything until we knew that the patient was doing well and the surgery was a success."
The full video lives on the Northwell Health website, "The Well." Amanda and Christina worked together to direct traffic from social to the landing page.
"We didn't want to give the whole story away on Facebook because we want people to be engaged with our website," says Christina. "So we did a trailer video with a link to watch the full video. And then we did a similar approach to Twitter. For Instagram, we put the link in our profile and we did two Instagram Stories to drive traffic."
For Amanda and Christina, these videos led to partnerships that cemented the campaign's success.
If you're with the patient through the journey, they're more willing to open up and tell their story and be more emotional with you, which produces stronger content.
"What's always great about this type of content is that we can use it to promote organ donation registration," says Christina. "We worked together with Donate Life and Live On New York who also helped promote the content we produced."
"We had connected with Donate Life and Live On New York through social a couple of times," says Christina. "But I think this is the first time where the partnership was really pre-planned. Because you know when we're thinking, 'we're putting all this great content together for this heart transplant program' — it's really so much more than that — we could actually do a lot of good here by promoting organ donor registration."
And as for advice they'd give members doing video patient stories?
"This is the second one we've documented from start to finish, and we've learned that patience is key," says Christina. "You have to wait for the right time to distribute. There is always this feeling that you have to keep going and pushing new stuff out. But I think that if you wait until the story is complete from start to finish, you get a much better quality product."
"And you get more of the emotion, too," Amanda adds. "When you stay with a patient for a longer period of time, by the time you're finished telling their story, they've opened up to you a lot more than if you just went and met with them for the first time, did an interview, and left. If you're with them through the journey, they're more willing to open up and tell their story and be more emotional with you, which produces stronger content."
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As Christians, we too need to understand our place, our reason for being on this earth. Rick Warren's immensely popular book, The Purpose Drive Life, resonated with many of us because of the way it spoke about purpose. We believe we're here for a purpose, but we struggle to know what that purpose is. We go looking for the "personal will of God" because it assures us that we are unique, even in God's kingdom.
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Russ Wright Amanda Schukle (left) and Tracy Shapiro (right).
Steel Cranes — "Boat Song" (Premiere)
Amanda Schukle and Tracy Shapiro are Oakland rock duo Steel Cranes. With Schukle on drums and Shapiro on vocals, the two are rumbling the Bay Area music scene with their raw vibes. After knowing each other for only about a year and a half, the two are preparing to release a debut album entitled Ouroboros. We have the honor of premiering their first single, "Boat Song," a hefty, droning five minutes of noise and lamentation. The two women exude a fervent-yet-slow, seeping energy into this song, which they say they recorded in one take. Set<|fim_middle|> "Mirror" seem to point to a mildly cleaner version of the band's original, lo-fi sound. Regardless of their direction, their execution of this album so far is on point.
Bay Area Bands Weekend oOoOO Trails and Ways Steel Cranes | on maintaining the roughness of their live performances, the pair insisted on putting the whole album on tape. To do so, they teamed up with engineer Eli Crews of New, Improved Recording who has worked previously with tUnE-yArDs, Deerhoof and Questlove. Ouroboros is scheduled for release on September 24th.
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Hottest pop EP of 2016
Sophie & The Bom Boms go for the heart on final EP of 2016.
If a band promises to deliver something and then fails to do so, they better have a damn good reason for doing so. This is especially the case for Sophie and the Bom Boms, an outfit that began the year by dropping a string of killer singles with the promise of there being one per month. Needless to say, this promise fell through and it felt honestly disappointing. After a series of hit tracks, the musical world needed more of their unique brand of feminism-fused bratpop brilliance.
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\section{Introduction}
The objective of salient object detection is to identify the most visually distinctive object in the given image~\cite{ZhengZZ18}. As a preprocessing tool, the salient object detection (SOD) has a wide range of practical applications including visual tracking~\cite{hong2015online}, localization~\cite{HePZ17}, video saliency~\cite{OurTIP19}, image captioning~\cite{xu2015show,fang2015captions}, image retrieval~\cite{gao20123}, visual question answering~\cite{lin2017task} and object retargeting~\cite{vinyals2015show}.
Previous works frequently treat the SOD as a multi-level perception task~\cite{itti1998model}, in which its key rationale is to make full use of the saliency clues at different perception levels~\cite{shen2012unified}.
Recently, the fully convolutional networks (FCNs) has been adopted for the robust SOD, in which such success should largely attributed to its ability to learn hierarchical saliency clues.
Thus, the current state-of-the-art (SOTA) models~\cite{hou2017deeply,wang2017stagewise,hu2018recurrently} generally focus on how to utilize the hierarchical deep features in ``single network'' to produce the high-quality SODs.
Nevertheless, the hierarchical deep features revealed in an identical network have a tendency to be homogenization, resulting in a limited performance eventually.
In the view of the neuroscience, the human visual system mainly comprises two largely independent subsystems that mediate different classes of visual behaviors~\cite{visualParallel,schiller1991parallel}.
The subcortical projection from the retina to cerebral cortex is strongly dominated by the two pathways that are relayed by the magnocellular (M) and parvocellular (P) subdivisions of the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), in which the Parallel pathways generally exhibit two main characteristics:
\underline{1)} the M cells contribute to the low-level transient processing (e.g., visual motion perception, eye movement, etc.) while the P cells contribute more to the high-level recognition tasks (e.g., object recognition, face recognition, etc.);
\underline{2)} the M and P cells are separated in the LGN, but it is recombined in visual cortex latter.
\begin{figure*}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{motivation.png}
\caption{\normalsize{The major difference between our method and the conventional methods}.}
\label{motivation}
\end{figure*}
Motivated by the above-mentioned theory, we propose to use two parallel networks (see Fig.~\ref{motivation}) to mimic the binocular vision of human visual system.
The key point of the proposed parallel network architecture is its ability to conduct multi-level saliency estimation while avoiding the conventional single network architecture inducted feature homogenization problem.
To achieve it, we devise a novel multi-model deep fusion framework, which attempts to fully exploit the complementary deep features from two different parallel sub networks; i.e., one for the coarse-level saliency localization and the other for the fine-scale detail polishing.
Meanwhile, inspired by the aforementioned attributes, we adopt the inter-model short-connections to recursively ensure a complementary status between each of our sub networks.
Moreover, we utilize a FCNs based saliency regressor to conduct selective deep fusion over those inter-model deep features, achieving a high-performance SOD eventually.
It should be noted that our ``wide'' scheme is solely implemented by using simple network architecture, yet it has achieved
remarkable performance improvement (e.g., averagely \underline{2}\% in F-max increasing and almost \underline{6}\% in MAE decreasing) comparing to the conventional complicated ``deeper'' schemes.
And such performance improvements are mainly induced by the newly designed multi-model fusion
scheme, in which the adopted simple network architecture is a hallmark of the proposed method. Moreover,
as far as we known, our paper is the first attempt to handle the SOD from the "wider" perspective.
To demonstrate the advantages of our method, we have conducted massive quantitative comparisons against 14 most representative SOTA methods over 5 widely used publicly available datasets.
Also, we have conducted extensive ablation studies to comprehensively verify the effectiveness of each essential component in our method.
Specifically, the salient contributions of this paper can be summarized as follows:
\begin{itemize}
\item We provide a deeper insight into the SOD task by imitating the binocular vision of human perception process;
\item To alleviate the obstinate feature homogenization problem in single network case, we utilize parallel sub networks to automatically reveal saliency clues at different spatial levels;
\item We propose an end-to-end salient object detection model that learns diversity saliency clues in an iterative manner, aiming to achieve an optimal complementary status between the deep features extracted by our parallel sub networks;
\item We also provide a novel selective fusion strategy to fuse multi-model saliency clues for a high-performance salient object detection, archiving the new SOTA performance over the five adopted datasets.
\item The source code is available at: \textcolor{magenta}{https://github.com/Diamond101010/RMMDF}, which may has large potential to benefit the image salient object detection community in the future.
\end{itemize}
\section{Related Work}
\label{Related-Work}
\subsection{Deep Models with Single Network}
Early methods largely adopt various hand-crafted visual features~\cite{wei2012geodesic,li2013saliency,cheng2015global} to model the human visual attention~\cite{borji2015salient}.
After entering the deep learning era, deep learning based models \cite{cai2019saliency, xie2019high, wang2020salient, zhang2019salient, zhang2019hyperfusion, CC2015PR, CC2016PR} have been significantly improve saliency performance by using the automatically formulated multi-level deep features.
Li \textit{et al}.~\cite{li2015visual} proposed a convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based computational model, which incorporates the multi-scale deep features via simply vector-wise feature concatenation.
Then, the same authors in \cite{li2017multi} further introduced a novel cascade network, which consists of several sub-networks to reveal saliency clues in a multi-level manner.
Similarly, Zhang~\textit{et al}.~\cite{zhang2017amulet} proposed a novel method to aggregate multi-level CNNs based deep features, in which the key rationale is to simultaneously integrate those high-level semantical information with those low-level details for the robust SOD.
Recently, the fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) have achieved outstanding performance in many dense labeling tasks, including the SOD as well.
By using the FCNs based end-to-end saliency regression, both the efficiency and detection performance have been improved significantly.
Wang~\textit{et al.}~\cite{wang2016saliency} proposed to integrate hand-crafted features/priors into the recurrent fully convolutional networks (RFCNs).
Liu~\textit{et al.}~\cite{liu2016dhsnet} proposed a hierarchical refinement model to take full advantages of the coarse-level saliency clues to sharp the SOD boundaries.
Hou~\textit{et al.}~\cite{hou2017deeply} utilized the coarse-level deep features to facilitate the fine-level deep saliency computation via using the inter-layer short-connections.
\subsection{Deep Models with Parallel Sub Networks}
The recent development of network architecture has a tendency to become deeper and more complicate~\cite{TangW17}.
Zeiler \textit{et al.}~\cite{zeiler2014visualizing} have demonstrated that a deeper architecture can generally generate more discriminative features at the expense of more complexity architecture, leading the network difficult to train.
In sharp contrast to the ``deeper'' strategy, the ``wider'' architecture may become an intuitive choice, in this paper the term ``wider'' means to design network architecture with parallel sub networks.
For example, Lin \textit{et al.}~\cite{lin2015bilinear} proposed a bi-way architecture, utilizing two feature extractors to obtain multi-scale deep features for the image recognition.
Saito \textit{et al.}~\cite{saito2017dualnet} proposed a novel model for visual question answering, which attempts to learn discriminative features via using two independent sub networks to conduct feature extraction for multi-source data.
Kim \textit{et al.}~\cite{kim2018parallel} proposed to utilize a newly designed parallel feature pyramid network for object detection.
Recently, much effort has been made to design parallel architectures for the SOD.
Zhao \textit{et al.}~\cite{zhao2015saliency} designed a multi-context deep learning framework, in which the parallel revealed global context and local context are combined in an unified deep learning framework to jointly locate the salient object. Wang \textit{et al.}~\cite{wang2015deep} utilized parallel sub networks to respectively conduct pixel-level/object-level saliency computation, and then the revealed saliency clues will be fused as the SOD result.
Li \textit{et al.}~\cite{li2016deepsaliency} built a multi-task deep network to explore the common saliency consistency between the salient object detection and the semantic segmentation.
Actually, the ``wider'' choice has its merit to balance the trade-off between the saliency performance and the network complexity.
However, because the parallel structure adopted by the above mentioned methods are trained independently, those parallel learned deep features may not be able to effectively complement with each other, not to mention those occasional conflictions may lead the overall performance even worse.
In contrast to the above mentioned methods, the proposed model is completely different in 2 aspects:
\underline{1)} We utilize a novel recursive learning strategy to train parallel sub networks to obtain a complementary status between two subnetworks;
\underline{2)} As for those already learned complementary deep features, we utilize a selective fusion module to ensure an optimal fusion status for high-quality SOD result.
\section{Parallel Sub Networks}
\label{Method Overview}
Backbone networks with different structures may show
different fitting ability, and a good fitting ability frequently results in a strong semantical sensing ability. Thus, our
goal is to design a bi-stream network with two different
sub-networks, in which these sub-networks will potentially be able to provide complementary semantical deep features in terms of their different network structures and fitting abilities.
\begin{figure*}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{pipeline.png}
\caption{The pipeline of our proposed method. Our network follows the encoder-decoder style, yet it different from previous methods, in which the encoder consists of two backbones with different structures, i.e., VGG16 and ResNet50. The input image is firstly passed through the Encoder to extract multi-scale convolutional deep features. Then, we use both the newly proposed Dense Aggregation Module (Sec.~\ref{sec:DAM}) and Selective Deep Fusion Module (Sec.~\ref{integrate module}) to make full use the multi-scale deep features which are extracted from VGG16 and ResNet50 respectively. The decoder network takes the multi-scale convolutional features as input to generate a finer saliency prediction $\textbf{M}^{t}$, which will latterly be refined by recursively using those low-level deep features in previous stage (Sec.~\ref{sec:DRM}). In each learning stage ($<$N), our method simultaneously uses the detail refinement module (to alleviate the spatial info loss)
and the dense aggregation module (to avoid the learning ambiguity) to ensure the complementary status between the parallel sub networks.
When our recursive learning reaches the final stage (=N), we
simultaneously feed the last feature layer of ResNet-50 and all side
layers of VGG-16 into the selective deep fusion network to produce the final SOD results.}
\label{pipeline}
\end{figure*}
Here we simply choose two vanilla networks, i.e., the ReNet-50 and the VGG-16, as our backbone sub networks, which can also be replaced by any other off-the-shelf networks.
Also, these two parallel sub networks will focus on different saliency perspective by using independent loss function to obtain diversity features.
As for the ResNet-50 sub network, we denote its convolutional blocks as: \{Conv1, Conv2, ..., Conv5\}, followed by five de-convolutional layers ($3\times3$).
Since each convolutional block will reduce the resolution of input feature map by 1/2, those feature maps produced by the Conv5 block only have 1/32 resolution regarding the original input, which can merely locate the salient object, coarsely.
Thus, we utilize multiple de-convolutional layers to produce the fine-scale saliency score map $\textbf{M}^t$, where the superscript $t$ denotes the recursive learning stage.
The VGG-16 sub network is much simpler than the ResNet-50 sub network, and the VGG-16 only has five convolutional blocks: Conv1 (64 channels), Conv2 (128 channels), Conv3 (256 channels), Conv4 (512 channels) and Conv5 (512 channels). Each convolutional blocks is followed by a max-pooling layer of size 2 and a ReLU activation function.
Here we utilize $\textbf{X}$ = \{$\textbf{X}_i, i\in[1,5]$\} to denote the input maps for each convolutional block in the VGG-16 sub network, in which the $W_i$ and the $b_i$ respectively represent the predefined kernel and bias.
Thus, the learning procedure of our method can be uniformly formulated as Eq.~{{\ref{eq:X1}}}.
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:X1}
\textbf{X}_{i+1}\gets Conv(\textbf{X}_i):\ W_i^s*\textbf{X}_i + b_i,
\end{equation}
where $Conv(\cdot)$ denotes the convolutional operation and the superscript $s$ denotes the convolutional stride.
Similarly, we represent the input maps for convolutional blocks in our ResNet-50 sub network as $\textbf{F}$ = \{$\textbf{F}_i, i\in[1,5]$\}.
Fig.~{{\ref{pipeline}}} illustrates the overview of the proposed model, which mainly consists of three components: \underline{1)} detail refinement module; \underline{2)} dense aggregation module; and \underline{3)} selective deep fusion.
All these components will cooperate our recursive multi-model deep learning, which will be respectively introduced in the following sections.
\section{Inter-model Deep Fusion}
\label{method}
\subsection{Detail Refinement Module}
\label{sec:DRM}
Following the widely used encoder-decoder network architecture, the proposed detail refinement module (DRM) utilizes the ResNet-50 sub network to conduct an end-to-end saliency regression for the fine-scale saliency predictions, which will latterly be applied to another parallel sub network (VGG-16) to alleviate the spatial information loss problem, recursively.
\begin{figure*}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{module.png}
\caption{The illustration of the proposed modules. The sub-figure A is the detailed architecture of the Detail Refinement Module (Sec.~\ref{sec:DRM}) in the $t$-th stage. We resize the $\textbf{M}^{t}$ to the same size of the $\textbf{X}^{t}_i$ and concatenate them together by performing convolutional operation. Then, the combined features will be feeded into the next stage, obtaining the $\textbf{M}^{t+1}$ with better details. The sub-figure B shows how to convert the multi-level deep features $\textbf{X}^{t}_i$ into the integrated feature maps $\mathbb{X}_i^t$, which will latterly prepare a set of finer deep features for the next learning stage (Sec.~\ref{sec:DAM}).}
\label{module}
\end{figure*}
Actually, the conventional networks usually adopt multiple convolution and pooling operations for their saliency regression, which easily degrade their performance due to the spatial information vanishes in deep layers. To alleviate it, Hou et al.~\cite{hou2017deeply} proposed to resort short-connections to integrate inter-layer deep features to compensate the lost spatial details.
However, deep features obtained by an identical single network have a tendency of homogenization, which heavily limits the complementary status between inter-layer deep features.
To further improve, we propose to construct dense connections between our parallel networks, see the pictorial demonstration in Fig.~\ref{module}-A.
Since the last layer of ResNet-50 can well represent the saliency details, we use it to recursively refine its parallel VGG-16 features ($\textbf{X}_i^t$, $i\in[1,2,3,4,5]$).
Also, we resize the resolution of $\textbf{M}^t$ according to each target block $\textbf{X}_i^t$, and then fuse these linked deep features by using a $3\times3$ convolution.
Here we formulate the recursively fusion procedure as Eq.~{{\ref{eq:FUpdating}}}.
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:FUpdating}
\textbf{X}_i^{t+1}\gets \left\{
\begin{array}{ll}
Conv\{\textbf{X}_i^{t}, \uparrow(\textbf{M}^t)\},\ if\ \xi(\textbf{M}^t)<\xi(\textbf{X}^t_i)\\
\\
Conv\{\textbf{X}_i^{t}, \downarrow(\textbf{M}^t)\},\ if\ \xi(\textbf{M}^t)>\xi(\textbf{X}^t_i)
\end{array} \right.,
\end{equation}
where $\uparrow(\cdot)$ and $\downarrow(\cdot)$ denote the up-sampling and down-sampling operations respectively, the function $\xi(\cdot)$ returns the feature size of the given input.
So far, by using Eq.~{{\ref{eq:FUpdating}}}, we have utilized the fine-scale saliency predicted by the ResNet-50 sub network to refine its parallel sub network VGG-16.
Meanwhile, in order to achieve an optimal inter-model complimentary status, those deep features of VGG-16 should also be used to shrink the problem domain of the ResNet-50 sub network.
Therefore, we recursively update \textbf{M} ($\textbf{M}^{t+1}\gets\textbf{M}^{t}$) in the ResNet-50 sub network.
\subsection{Dense Aggregation Module}
\label{sec:DAM}
Previous works~\cite{zhang2017amulet,hou2017deeply,hu2018recurrently} have shown that a good saliency model should take full advantage of its intermediate multi-level deep features, in which those high-level deep features usually concentrate on the high-level semantical information while those low-level features frequently focus on the subtle details.
Inspired by the aforementioned aspects, we attempt to utilize all those intermediate deep features in the<|fim_middle|>0.090 & {0.865} & 0.836 & 0.067 & {0.777} & 0.761& 0.149 \\
DeepSal16~\cite{li2016deepsaliency} & {0.749} & 0.640 & 0.084 & {0.749} & 0.637 & 0.090 & {0.892}& 0.816 & 0.079 & {0.849} & 0.786 & 0.080& {0.832} & 0.692 & 0.117 \\
MDF15~\cite{li2015visual} & {0.642} & 0.639 & 0.092 & {0.673} & 0.664 & 0.094 & {0.797} & 0.787 & 0.104 & {0.787} & 0.794 & 0.089 & {0.717} & 0.696 &0.172 \\
\hline
\end{tabular} }
\label{table1}
\end{table*}
\end{center}
\vspace{-1.5cm}
\section{Experiments and Results}
\label{experiments}
\subsection{Adopted Datasets}
We have evaluated our method on 5 widely used publicly available datasets, including DUT-OMRON~\cite{yang2013saliency} (with 5,168 images), DUTS-TE~\cite{zhao2015saliency} (with 5,019 images), ECSSD~\cite{yan2013hierarchical} (with 1,000 images), HKU-IS~\cite{zhao2015saliency} (with 4,447 images) and PASCAL-S~\cite{li2014secrets} (with 850 images).
Also, we have adopted 3 commonly used standard metrics to evaluate our method, including Precision-Recall (PR) curve, F-measure curve, and Mean Absolute Error (MAE).
\begin{figure*}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{PR1.pdf}
\caption{Quantitative comparisons (PR curves and F-measure curves) between our method and 14 state-of-the-art methods over 5 adopted datasets, in which the left part is the PR curve and the right part is the F-measure curve.
Due to the limitation of space, we only provide the quantitative results over 3 datasets here, and the remaining 3 results can be found in Fig.~\ref{PRcurves2}.}
\label{PRcurves1}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure*}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{PR2.pdf}
\caption{Continued Quantitative comparisons (PR curves and F-measure curves) between our method and 14 state-of-the-art methods over 5 adopted datasets.}
\label{PRcurves2}
\end{figure*}
\subsection{Implementation Details}
The proposed method is developed on the public deep learning framework Caffe. We run our model in a quad-core PC with an i7-6700 CPU (3.4 GHz and 8 GB RAM ) and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 GPU (with 8G memory). Our model is trained on the MSRA10K dataset. Then, we test our model on other datasets. Due to the limited GPU memory, we set the mini-batch size to 4.
We use the stochastic gradient decent (SGD) method to train with a momentum 0.99, and the same weight decay 0.0005. Also, for our feature integration module, we use SGD with a momentum 0.9, and weight decay 0.0005. We set the learning rate as $10^{-8}$ and it reduces by a factor of 0.1 at 10k iterations. The training process of our model takes about 14 hours and converges after 5 epochs. During testing, the proposed model runs about 14 FPS with $256 \times 256$ resolution. The Tab.~{{\ref{time-analysis}}} shows the running time comparisons.
The performance improvements of our method are mainly brought
by the newly-designed multi-model fusion scheme, thus we can
implement the parallel sub networks using ``simple'' networks. For each sub network, the complexity/memory requirement
is better than the conventional single network cases, and the overall
complexity/memory requirement for our parallel sub networks is
comparable to the mainstream single network cases, e.g., by using a
GTX1080-8G GPU (with memory usage almost 100\%), it takes almost 14
hours to train our method, while the classic single method RADF18 takes about 10 hours.
\subsection{Quantitative Evaluation}
We have compared our method with 14 most representative SOTA methods, including MDF15~\cite{li2015visual}, DeepSal16~\cite{li2016deepsaliency}, Amulet17~\cite{zhang2017amulet}, DSS17~\cite{hou2017deeply}, UCF17~\cite{zhang2017learning}, SRM17~\cite{wang2017stagewise}, RFCN18~\cite{wang2018salient},RADF18~\cite{hu2018recurrently}, PAGRN18~\cite{zhang2018progressive}, DGRL18~\cite{wang2018detect}, MWS19~\cite{MWS}, CPD19~\cite{CPD}, AFNet19~\cite{AFNet}, and PoolNet19~\cite{PoolNet}. For all of these methods, we use the original codes with recommended settings or the saliency maps provided by the authors.
Both the qualitative comparisons and quantitative results can be found in Fig.~{{\ref{saliencymap}}} and Fig.~{{\ref{PRcurves1}}}.
As shown in Fig.~{{\ref{PRcurves1}}}, our method is competitive to the current SOTA methods across all datasets. As shown in Tab.~{{\ref{table1}}}, we utilize the averaged F-measure and the MAE to serve as the complementary evaluation metrics, which also indicate that our method consistently outperforms all other approaches.
As for the DUT-OMRON dataset, our model achieves $\underline{76.8}\%$ in F-measure and $\underline{5.3}\%$ in MAE while the second best (CPD19) only achieves $\underline{73.8}\%$ in F-measure and $\underline{5.6}\%$ in MAE.
Also, similar tendencies can be found in the HKU-IS dataset, which is one of the most challenge datasets.
Compared to the second best PoolNet19, our model increases $\underline{2.3}\%$ in F-measure and decreases $\underline{2}\%$ in MAE.
\begin{figure*}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{ablation_curves.png}
\caption{Component evaluation results, including the average precision (aveP), average
recall (aveR), average F-measure scores and average MAE scores over DUT-OMRON, DUTS-TE, ECSSD
and HKU-IS dataset}
\label{ablation_pr}
\end{figure*}
\subsection{Component Evaluation}
To validate the effectiveness of our method, we have evaluated several variants in the proposed model by using different settings on the DUT-OMRON, DUTS-TE, ECSSD and HKU-IS dataset.
We start with two single-stream networks and progressively extend it with our newly designed modules, including the parallel backbones, the detail refinement module, the dense aggregation module and the selective deep fusion module.
As shown in in Fig.~{{\ref{ablation_pr}}}, our newly designed parallel architecture equipped with detail refinement module only (see the 3rd row) can achieve much better performance than the single sub network (the first row and 2nd row).
Meanwhile, the overall performance of the proposed parallel architecture with dense aggregation module can get the overall performance further improved, see the 4th row in Fig.~{{\ref{ablation_pr}}}. Specially, we can notice a significant performance improvement by introducing the proposed selective deep fusion module, see the 5th row.
All these results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.
\begin{figure*}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{stage.pdf}
\caption{Qualitative illustration of our recursive learning scheme, where $t$ denotes the saliency maps obtained via different learning stages.}
\label{stage-wise}
\end{figure*}
\subsection{Recursive Learning Validation}
As described in Sec.~{{\ref{method}}}, our method is trained in a recursive manner.
To validate the effectiveness of our stage-wise recursive learning scheme, we perform a detailed comparison of the proposed model at different recursive learning stages using max F-measure, average F-measure and MAE scores.
As shown in the last three rows of Fig.~{\ref{ablation_pr}}, the overall performance of our method becomes better as the stage-wise recursive learning continue, in which the corresponding qualitative demonstrations can be found in Fig.~{{\ref{stage-wise}}}.
\begin{table*}[!h]
\LARGE
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{2.5mm}
\vspace{0.6cm}
\caption{Runtime comparison (GPU time) with previous deep learning based saliency models.}
\label{time-analysis}
\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{
\begin{tabular}{ccccccccccccccl}
\toprule
Method &Our & CPD19 & AFNet19 & DGRL18 & RADF18&
SRM17 & Amulet17 & UCF17 & DSS17 &
RFCN18& DeepSal16 & MDF15\\
\midrule
Time(s) & 0.073 & 0.063 & 0.062 & 0.150 & 0.154 &
0.070 &0.093 & 0.134 & 0.201 &
4.72 & 0.150 & 19.278 \\
\bottomrule
\label{table:time}
\end{tabular}}
\end{table*}
\subsection{Method Limitations}
Compared with previous works, our method can capture more powerful saliency clues from different saliency perspective while avoiding the obstinate feature conflictions by using the proposed multi-model fusion scheme.
As for images with clutter background, our method can well suppress those non-salient regions and preserves subtle salient details, which is proved by the increased precision rate and F-measure score in Fig.~{{\ref{PRcurves1}}}.
Nonetheless, we have noticed a slight decreasing regarding the average recall rate, which is mainly induced by an unbalanced bias in our multi-model fusion when computing those complementary deep features.
Another limitation of our model is the computational overhead for the stage-wise training. In the future, we plan to explore more efficient fusion approach by using the off-the-shelf model compression techniques to alleviate the computational burden
\section{Conclusions}
\label{conclusion}
In this paper, we proposed a novel multi-model fusion method, in which two parallel sub networks are coordinated to learn complementary deep features recursively.
The key rationale of our method is to utilize two different sub networks to respectively concentrate on different saliency perspectives, while those revealed deep features shall be able to complementary with each other.
To achieve this goal, our method consists of three newly designed components: \underline{1)} Detail Refinement Module; \underline{2)} Dense Aggregation Module; and \underline{3)} Selective Deep Fusion Module.
We have utilized the detail refinement module to recursively compensate the lost spatial details, and then we have used the dense aggregation module to coarsely locate the salient object to shrink the given problem domain.
Meanwhile, we have adopted the short connections in our dense inter-model to ensure a complementary status between the parallel sub networks.
\newpage
\vspace{0.4cm}
\centerline{\textbf{\large References}}
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
| VGG-16 sub network to recursively complement its parallel ResNet-50 network.
To this end, we propose a novel feature aggregation method named dense aggregation, see the pictorial demonstration in Fig.~{{\ref{module}}}-B.
For each recursive learning stage (i.e., noted by superscript $t$), we first utilize $1\times 1$ convolution to reduce the feature channel.
Thus, we can easily aggregate each feature block $\textbf{X}_i^t$ to 1 channel feature map $\hat{\textbf{X}}_i^t$.
Then, for each $\hat{\textbf{X}}_i^t$, we resize $\hat{\textbf{X}}_j^t$ ($j\ne i$) to be an identical size of $\hat{\textbf{X}}_i^t$ and aggregate all theses resized feature maps to an identical size of each ResNet-50' feature block $\textbf{F}_i^t$ by using $1\times 1$ convolution, which can be formulated as Eq.~{{\ref{eq:F}}}.
\begin{equation}\footnotesize
\mathbb{X}_i^t = \left\{
\begin{array}{ll}
Conv\{Cat(\hat{\textbf{X}}_1^t,\uparrow(\hat{\textbf{X}}_2^t),...,\uparrow(\hat{\textbf{X}}_5^t))\} & \textrm{\emph{if} $i=1$}\\
\\
Conv\{Cat(...,\downarrow(\hat{\textbf{X}}_{i-1}^t),\hat{\textbf{X}}_i^t,\uparrow(\hat{\textbf{X}}_{i+1}^t),...)\} & \textrm{\emph{if} $i=\{2,3,4\}$}\\
\\
Conv\{Cat(\downarrow(\hat{\textbf{X}}_{1}^t),...,\downarrow(\hat{\textbf{X}}_{4}^t),\hat{\textbf{X}}_5^t)\} & \textrm{\emph{if} $i=5$}\\
\end{array} \right.,
\label{eq:F}
\end{equation}
where $\uparrow(\cdot)$ and $\downarrow(\cdot)$ respectively denote the up-sampling/down-sampling operation, $Cat(\cdot)$ denotes the concatenation operation.
In general, those computed deep feature $\mathbb{X}_i^t$ ($i\in\{1,2,3,4,5\}$) can well represent the intermediate coarse-level saliency clues in the VGG-16 sub network, and we recursively aggregate these features into the ResNet-50 sub network as Eq.~{{\ref{eq:RUpdating}}}.
\begin{equation}
\textbf{F}_i^{t+1}\gets Conv(\textbf{F}_i^{t},\mathbb{X}_i^{t}),
\label{eq:RUpdating}
\end{equation}
where $\mathbb{X}_i^{t}$ denotes the resized $i$-th feature block in ResNet-50 at the $t$ learning stage.
Once the ResNet-50' deep features $\textbf{F}_i^{t}$ have been updated to $\textbf{F}_i^{t+1}$, we can achieve the improved fine-level SODs $\textbf{M}^{t+1}$ accordingly, which will be used to initiate another round of recursively learning in our detail refinement module.
In summary, there are totally three major advantages regarding the proposed dense aggregation module:\\
\underline{1)} Each coarse-level deep features generated from VGG-16 facilitate the computation of fine-scale saliency prediction of current ResNet-50 network, which ensures an effective complementary status between our parallel sub networks;\\
\underline{2)} The proposed dense aggregation scheme can correctly reveal the common consistency of those intermediate multi-level deep features, which making the fine-scale saliency prediction (ResNet-50) more accurate;\\
\underline{3)} The coarse-level deep features produced by VGG-16 can effectively shrink the problem domain of ResNet-50, boosting the convergency toward the true saliency.
\section{Selective Deep Fusion}
\label{integrate module}
For each step mentioned before, we assign a selective selective deep fusion module (SDF) to fuse those complementary deep features, which will be latter used to produce the high-quality SODs.
The conventional methods have well-investigated various hand-crafted fusion schemes (e.g., the multiplicative based ones, the additive based ones, and the maximum combination based ones) to combine saliency clues which are revealed at different spatial-levels.
However, these methods are elaborately designed for certain types of image scenes, which may fail to generalize well in other image scenes.
Therefore, we propose to utilize a newly designed selective deep fusion to handle the above-mentioned limitation.
As shown in Fig.~{{\ref{pipeline}}}, our selective deep fusion receives the deep features at the each recursive stage (we assign it to 3 according to the qualitative results demonstrated in Fig.~{{\ref{stage-wise}}} as inputs, i.e., $\textbf{M}^t$ , $\textbf{X}_i^t$, $i\in[1,5]$.
\begin{table*}
\centering
\caption{{Details of our selective deep fusion module, in which the ``DeC.'' denotes the DeConv and the ``ConvC.'' denotes the Conv-Classifier.
For simplicity, we have omitted the channel number of the ``Output'' because they have an identical channel number (i.e., 64), excepting for the last ConvC. which has 2 channels only}.}
\renewcommand\arraystretch{2}
\label{tab:freq}
\resizebox{\linewidth}{!}{
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
\toprule
\Large{Layers} & \Large{Conv1} & \Large{Conv2} & \Large{Conv3} & \Large{Conv4} & \Large{DeC.4} & \Large{DeC.3} & \Large{DeC.2} & \Large{DeC.1} & \Large{ConvC.}\\
\midrule
\Large{Kernel} & \Large{33} &\Large{3$\times$3}& \Large{3$\times$3} &\Large{3$\times$3} & \Large{3$\times$3} &\Large{3$\times$3}&\Large{3$\times$3} &\Large{3$\times$3} & \Large{1$\times$1}\\
\midrule
\Large{Channel} & \Large{64} &\Large{64} & \Large{64} &\Large{64} & \Large{64} &\Large{64}& \Large{64} &\Large{64} & \Large{2}\\
\midrule
\Large{Output} & \Large{256$\times$256} &\Large{128$\times$128} & \Large{64$\times$64} & \Large{32$\times$32} & \Large{32$\times$32} & \Large{64$\times$64} &\Large{128$\times$128}& \Large{256$\times$256} &\Large{256$\times$256} \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}}
\end{table*}
Since these deep features will gradually converge to the saliency ground truth as the recursive learning iteration goes on, it is intuitive to treat these deep features as individual saliency clues at the final recursive stage.
So, we combine the fine-scale saliency clue ($\textbf{M}^t$) with the convolved dense deep features Conv ($\mathbb{X}_i^t$) by using the element-wise summation in caffe, which can be formulated as Eq.~{{\ref{eq:sum}}}.
\begin{equation}
\textbf{S} = Sum\{Conv(\mathbb{X}_{1}^t),...,Conv(\mathbb{X}_{5}^t),\textbf{M}^t\},
\label{eq:sum}
\end{equation}
where \textbf{S} denotes the fused feature, which intrinsically contains complementary saliency clues of both parallel networks; the function $Sum\{\cdot\}$ denotes the element-wise operation to all its input, and each $\mathbb{X}_i^t$ is resized to an identical size of $\textbf{M}^t$ in advance.
Finally, we feed the combined feature \textbf{S} into a FCNs based saliency regression network, which consists of 4 convolutional blocks and 4 de-convolutional blocks to produce high-quality saliency maps.
We show the architecture details of the proposed selective deep fusion module in Tab.~{{\ref{tab:freq}}}.
Actually, this module is mainly consisted by two components: the encoder layers and the decoder layers. The encoder layers is composed of 13 convolutional layers.
Each of these convolution layers is followed by a batch normalization and a ReLU activation function.
Meanwhile, we assign each encoder layer with one corresponding decoder.
It also should be noted that we do not use any ReLU in the decoder layers.
Specially, our method totally uses three typical cross-entropy losses, i.e., two for the parallel sub networks and one for the selective fusion module, and we do not use any loss for our detail refinement module and dense aggregation module to avoid homogenizing deep features in our parallel networks.
\begin{figure*}[t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{pic_results.pdf}
\vspace{-0.4cm}
\caption{{Visual comparison of saliency maps. Note that GT stands for Ground truth. Apparently, It can be observed that the proposed model is able to handle diverse challenging scenes}.}
\label{saliencymap}
\end{figure*}
\begin{center}
\centering
\begin{table*}[!t]
\LARGE
\caption{Comparison of quantitative results including the max/average F-measure (larger is better) and MAE (smaller is better) on five well-known SOD benchmarks: DUT-OMRON~\cite{yang2013saliency}, DUTS-TE~\cite{zhao2015saliency}, ECSSD~\cite{yan2013hierarchical}, HKU-IS~\cite{zhao2015saliency} and PASCAL-S~\cite{li2014secrets}. The top three results are highlighted in {\textcolor{red}{red}}, {\textcolor{green}{green}}, and {\textcolor{blue}{blue}}, respectively.}
\renewcommand\arraystretch{1.7}
\resizebox{\linewidth}{!}{
\begin{tabular}{l|ccc|ccc|ccc|ccc|ccccc}
\hline
\multirow{2}{*}{Method}
& \multicolumn{3}{c|}{DUT-OMRON}
& \multicolumn{3}{c|}{DUTS-TE}
& \multicolumn{3}{c|}{ECSSD}
& \multicolumn{3}{c|}{HKU-IS}
& \multicolumn{3}{c}{PASCAL-S}
\\
\cline{2-16}
&max$F_\beta$ & avg$F_\beta$ & MAE &max$F_\beta$ &avg$F_\beta$ & MAE &max$F_\beta$&avg$F_\beta$ & MAE &max$F_\beta$ &avg$F_\beta$ & MAE &max$F_\beta$ &avg$F_\beta$ & MAE\\
\hline
\textbf{Ours} & \textbf{\textcolor{red}{0.787}} &\textbf{\textcolor{red}{0.768}}&\textbf{\textcolor{red}{0.053}} & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{0.839}} &\textbf{\textcolor{red}{0.798}}& \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{0.045}} & \textbf{\textcolor{green}{0.925}}& \textbf{\textcolor{red}{0.905}} &\textbf{\textcolor{red}{0.042}} & \textbf{\textcolor{red}{0.918}}& \textbf{\textcolor{red}{0.911}} & \textbf{\textcolor{red}{0.031} } & \textbf{\textcolor{blue}{0.849}} & \textbf{\textcolor{red}{0.791}} & \textbf{\textcolor{red}{0.089}} \\
CPD19~\cite{CPD} & {0.754} &\textcolor{green}{0.738} &\textcolor{green}{0.056} & \textcolor{green}{0.841} & \textcolor{green}{0.784} & \textcolor{green}{0.044} & {\textcolor{red}{0.926}} & \textcolor{blue}{0.880} & \textcolor{green}{0.045} & \textcolor{blue}{0.911} & 0.883 & \textcolor{blue}{0.034} & {0.843} & {0.786} & \textcolor{green}{0.092}\\
PoolNet19~\cite{PoolNet}& \textcolor{green}{0.763} & 0.683 & 0.071& \textcolor{red}{0.858} & \textcolor{blue}{0.781} & \textcolor{red}{0.040} & {0.920}& \textcolor{blue}{0.880} & \textcolor{blue}{0.049}& \textcolor{green}{0.917} & \textcolor{green}{0.888} & \textcolor{green}{0.033} & \textcolor{red}{0.856} & \textcolor{green}{0.804} & \textcolor{blue}{0.093}\\
AFNet19~\cite{AFNet} & \textcolor{blue}{0.759}& \textcolor{blue}{0.729} & \textcolor{blue}{0.057} & {0.838} & 0.772 & 0.046 &\textcolor{blue}{0.924}& 0.871 & \textcolor{red}{0.042}& {0.910} & 0.880 & 0.036 & \textcolor{green}{0.852} & 0.779 & \textcolor{red}{0.089} \\
MWS19~\cite{MWS} & {0.677}& 0.606 & 0.109 & {0.722} & 0.686 & 0.092 & {0.859} & 0.838 & 0.096 & {0.835} & 0.813 & 0.084 & {0.781} & 0.743 & 0.153\\
PAGRN18~\cite{zhang2018progressive} & {0.707} &{0.709} & 0.071& {0.818} &{0.782} & {0.056}& {0.904} & \textcolor{green}{0.887} &0.061 & {0.897} &\textcolor{blue}{0.885}& 0.048 &{0.817} & 0.721 & 0.120 \\
DGRL18~\cite{wang2018detect} & {0.739} &{0.723}& {0.062} & {0.806} &{0.769}& {0.051}& {0.914} & 0.866 &{0.049}& {0.900} & {0.882}& {0.036} & \textcolor{red}{0.856} & 0.785& {0.085}\\
RADF18~\cite{hu2018recurrently} & {0.756}&{0.675} & {0.072} & {0.786} & {0.696} & {0.072} & {0.905} & {0.861} & 0.060 & {0.895} & {0.848} & {0.050} & {0.817} & \textcolor{blue}{0.790} & 0.123 \\
RFCN18~\cite{wang2018salient} & {0.460} & 0.466 & 0.138 & {0.478} & 0.479 & 0.136 & {0.656} & 0.649 & 0.161& {0.583} & 0.583 & 0.150 & {0.611} & 0.596 &0.203\\
SRM17~\cite{wang2017stagewise} &{0.725} &{0.702} & {0.069} & {0.799} & {0.743} & {0.059} & {0.905} & {0.873} & {0.054}& {0.893} & {0.870} &{0.046} & {0.812} & {0.786}& {0.105} \\
Amulet17~\cite{zhang2017amulet} & {0.715} &0.639 & 0.098 & {0.751} & 0.658& 0.085 & {0.904} & 0.849 & {0.059} & {0.884} & 0.834 &0.052 & {0.836} & 0.744 & 0.107 \\
UCF17~\cite{zhang2017learning} & {0.705}& 0.602 & 0.132 & {0.740} & 0.611 & 0.118 & {0.897} & 0.819 & 0.078 & {0.871}& 0.800 & 0.074 & {0.820} & 0.693 & 0.131 \\
DSS17~\cite{hou2017deeply} & {0.681} & 0.640 & 0.092 & {0.751} & 0.694 & 0.081 & {0.856} & 0.839 & | 4,666 |
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STAPHYLINOIDEA Latreille, 1802
STAPHYLINIDAE Latreille, 1802
PROTEININAE Erichson, 1839
Proteinus Latreille, 1797
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After 17 seasons filled with success, the Norwegian team closes its doors, leaving behind a great legacy in the GPVWC.
Thursday, November 8th will be a day few expected to ever come. It will be the day one of the GPVWC's most prestigious names will take to the track in the Superleague for the final time after 17 years of honoured service - the day the history of Nordsjoen Racing comes to an end.
The team announced the news in a short message, also highlighting the one-off livery the team will be running in the final event - a brilliant tribute by Christian Zoerner to the championship-winning 2016 car.
"It's by all means the end of an era," said Team Principal Will Ponissi. "Nordsjoen Racing means a lot to me and to GPVWC as a whole and it'll be very weird not to be on the grid at the start of the season."
In 17 years, the team has accumulated great success, winning four constructors' championships, four drivers' titles and a staggering 62 Superleague races. Born out of the ashes of TGM in 2002 and first called EIRE, the team raced under the Nordsjoen Racing name between 2008 and 2018, winning championships with Joe Consiglio (2009 and 2011), Janne Tanskanen (2010) and David Fidock (2016).
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"There will be new teams coming to the fore and now it is the right time to take a step back and let new talent show what they can do. I am proud of the part we played in writing history in the GPVWC and we'll obviously keep following the best open-wheel series on rFactor 2," concluded the team principal.
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Second-year guard Josh Hart continued his torrid pace with 20 points and rookie Svi Mykhailiuk added 15 as the Lakers defeated the Clippers 82-69 in a second-round game of the NBA Summer League playoffs on Thursday night at the Thomas & Mack Center.
The top-seeded Lakers (4-0), who won the tournament a year ago, extended their Las Vegas winning streak to 10 games, two short of the record set by the Golden State Warriors in 2012-13. The Lakers will meet the<|fim_middle|> month, were held out for rest. Sindarius Thornwell and Desi Rodriguez led the Clippers (2-3) with 17 points apiece. Rodriguez added three rebounds on 7-of-12 shooting, while Thornwell had four rebounds, two assists and two blocked shots on 5-of-17 shooting. Reggie Upshaw had seven points, six rebounds, four assists and two steals.
The Clippers next face the Atlanta Hawks (2-3) in a consolation game on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Thomas & Mack. | winner of Saturday's Chicago-Detroit game in a quarterfinal on Sunday at 1 p.m. The semifinals are Monday and the championship game is Tuesday.
The Lakers were in control from the outset, leading by as many as 18 points in the third quarter and by double-digits for most of the second half. The Clippers shot poorly all night (35.8 percent from the field, 22.2 percent from 3-point range), but were especially bad in the first quarter (3 for 17). The Lakers, who shot 44.6 percent overall and 31.2 percent from the arc, held the Clippers to 12 points in the opening quarter of each half.
Hart missed five of his first six shots, but the tourney MVP candidate heated up after that. He made several driving layups and a couple of pick-and-roll 3-pointers and finished 7 for 16 from the field. He added six rebounds, two steals and two blocked shots to his game-high point total. Through four games, Hart is averaging 22.5 points while shooting 46 percent from the field and 42.4 percent from 3-point range.
Mykhailiuk, who was 5 for 7 from the field, added four assists and three rebounds. Alex Caruso had eight points and seven assists and Jeff Ayres, who started in place of injured rookie big man Moe Wagner, contributed 10 points, six rebounds in 16 minutes. Wagner is out for the rest of the tournament with a leg contusion.
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A massive passion of mine is for my love of music and going to concerts and gigs in and around London. 2013 was a big year for me with regards to concerts and festivals I attended – money well spent I should say! Here are a few of the concerts and venues I visited:
On March 25th, I saw The Script at the 02 in London. I have been a massive fan of The Script for a few years now and after seeing them at V Festival in 2007, I made sure to get tickets for their 2013 tour! The band as a whole have incredible stage presence and connect so well with the audience. I find comfort in listening to their slow ballads and up beat love songs and see them as an alternative to music currently in the charts. I would definitely recommend anyone to see The Script – well worth the money!
On March 29th, I went to the 02 Shepherds Bush in London to see Bastille. At this point, I hadn't really listened to many of their songs and had only heard their single 'Flaws' in the charts. But with an open mind, I went to the concert with no certain thoughts on how it would be. The venue itself is amazing! A converted old theatre with all its original features – detailed balconies, old fashioned stage and a HUGE chandelier as the centre piece. The concert was absolutely AMAZING – in fact, looking back on the concert I think they sound better live as opposed to the CD! – The show as a whole was incredible and the atmosphere there is fantastic – certainly not a band to miss. I feel so happy to have seen them in a small venue before they tour in massive arenas!
On the 24th April I went to Camden KOKO with a friend to see Dog Is Dead. I hadn't heard of the band before and decided I had nothing to loose by seeing them! Before going to the concert, I did check out some of their EPs on YouTube to get a feel for their music. Their songs seemed to have an indie-pop feel, with upbeat melodies and consistent use of the glockenspiel instrument to differentiate from other bands in the industry. Camden KOKO is an amazing venue – a converted theatre – and the sound quality is amazing there. I get satisfaction out of listening to new up and coming bands in old small venues as it feels much more personal and intimate! The show was amazing and the relationship between the group solidifies the performance as they're out to have a good time. At the end of the show, I bought a signed T-Shirt and the lead singer Robert Milton was around so I grabbed a quick photograph! A new up and coming band worth checking out.
Rival Sons and The Temperance Movement
In early May – the date has completely slipped my mind! – I went to see Rival Sons and The Temperance Movement at the Cambridge Junction. This time, I really hadn't heard of the band and didn't know what to expect. The Temperance Movement are a British blues rock band from Glasgow with lead singer Phil Campbell fronting the band. I have never seen a band full of so much energy and as a support act, their performance was unbelievably good! Rival Sons are an American band from California. Their performance was also incredible – over all an amazing night. The venue it self was tiny – the smallest venue I have ever been to – and there were no more than about 50 people there. A small room made the gig intimate and the atmosphere was amazing, a fantastic venue.
On the 29th May I saw the 1975 at Heaven nightclub in London. I had heard the song Chocolate played on Radio 1 and was instantly<|fim_middle|> The venue is also great, the acoustic sound is spot on and the stage is big enough to be seen at both standing level and tiered seating – good for us shorties!!
Looking back on this post… I've had a fairly good year for attending concerts! I had tickets for Rudimental but was in hospital so I couldn't go – gutted!
What concerts do you have planned for this year? Any that you'd recommend?
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I'm so jelly!! I love all of them! xx
Hannah Briggs
I LOVE the 1975, they're my fav! Saw them in 2010 supporting One Night Only, and they've gone so far since! great bands and also great blog! 🙂 xxx
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Wow you have had a good year for visiting concerts, I really want to see the 1975 my friend has tickets for this year trying to get him to let me go hehe, thanks for commenting on my blog xx
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January 8, 2014 / 2:22 am
What a great post !! So jealous must admit I only went to Rihannas last year
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You're one lucky girl!! We love the Script, but have never seen them live. Fingers crossed that 2014 is the year
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Bridie Scott
I've seen The Script twice now too and I absolutely love them, once at V Fest and the other in Birmingham. I fall in love with them everytime!!
Jealous of you seeing The 1975, love their songs
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obsessed with the 1975!
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Olivia McHale
WOW! I love that you have such a wide music taste, and you're soooo lucky to have gone to all of these gigs! Great pictures too 🙂 x | hooked. I spontaneously bought tickets for myself and my friend and once again, didn't know what to expect from the group. I listened to their EPs on Youtube and was instantly obsessed with their music. The 1975 are such a niche group with alternative indie/rock songs covering various personal topics. I can only describe the song and lyrics as haunting and smooth – such a unique feel! The venue was incredible as it's a long tunnel-like layout with the stage at a low level. There were less than 200 people there and the gig was so intimate – the atmosphere in the venue was unbelievable. I highly recommend seeing this band before they too get big!
Wireless Festival
On the 12th and 13th of July I went to Wireless Festival with my friend, held at the Olympic Park at Stratford. The main reason for booking tickets for this festival was for Justin Timberlake… Who WOULDN'T want to see Justin Timerblake in the flesh?!? The open aired festival was fun as there were different tents to see acts and the main stage where you could sit down and relax. The weather on the 2 days was above 25 degrees which made it unbearable to move out of the shade! Look at me complaining about the weather… typical Brit! None the less, my friend and I enjoy listening to acts such as Connor Maynard, Macklemore, Snoop Dogg, Emelie Sande, Kendrick Lemar and of course… the one and only Justin Timberlake and Jay Z! I thoroughly enjoyed the festival as you were able to relax in the sunshine and listening to music in the background – a laid back weekend for me!
You can just about see how bright red my legs are… ouch!!!
Just looking at how burnt my leg was makes me shudder even now!
On November 4th I had the privilege of seeing Bastille again but this time at a local venue, Southend Cliffs Pavilion. Once again, the concert was incredible and I loved the fact that Dan Smith – lead singer – came into the crowd to sing their big hit Flaws. Bastille also played 3 new songs which haven't even been recorded in the studio yet – how exciting! Can't wait to see what they produce in the future. | 470 |
The weather was kind and the smiles were abundant as over 500 runners took to the trails of Coed y Brenin in Snowdonia on Saturday to take part in the second annual Buff Winter Trail Wales. The quality of racing was high as ever, and the masses were boosted with the excitement of running alongside former Wales and British Lion Shane Williams MBE, who was running in Coed y Brenin for the first time.
In 2015 the event put winter racing on the map at Coed y Brenin with 300 plus runners taking part. As the trail running boom continues in this part of Wales the 2016 was full to a capacity 600 runners within 20 days of opening in October and the clamour for spare places continued right up until race week.
After an unsettled few months weather wise in the region, hopes of perfect underfoot conditions were slim, however light winds and a dry, overcast situation ensured that racing conditions were excellent for the runners on race day.
Rob Samuel had been touted as race favourite in the build-up to the event and after winning the summer Trail Marathon Wales half marathon event in 2014 the Eryri Harrier knew what was to come<|fim_middle|> race arena and past the award-winning Coed y Brenin visitor centres after the 10:30am start it was clear the Welshman wasn't waiting around.
Samuel is getting back to fitness after a troublesome 2015 with injury, but now running freely he quickly established a one minute lead by mile 3, this had turned into 3 minutes as he descended the stunning gladed area of Mynydd Penrhos and into the Ty'n y Groes feed station at mile 10, and by the finish his lead was to be almost five minutes as he crossed the line in 1 hour 25 minutes and 5 seconds – just 4 seconds shy of Matthew Robert's race record.
Behind there was some great competition as last year's 9th place runner Adam Newton improved by almost 5 minutes to finish second in 1:29:45. The Swansea Harrier had come through strongly in the second half of the race to overtake Gareth Wyn Stephens who finished a solid third in 1:30:27.
The women's event was full of quality. Added to last year's winner Vic Walls who was running once again were GB and Wales international mountain runner Gina Paletta, Welsh international Anna Bartlett and winner of the 2013 Trail Marathon Wales winner Mary Grace Spalton. Again, however, it was to be a gun to tape victory that took the day, as Paletta stormed around the course to win in 1:37:41, to smash Wall's 2015 course record by over 7 minutes and finish a superb 10th overall.
Behind Bartlett continued her return to form as she claimed second place, also inside the course record, in 1:44:30. Victoria Walls ran a strong race to claim the final podium spot in 1:47:38.
"Holy legs. Today's first race back after ten months at the Buff Winter Trail Race reminded me that nothing beats being healthy and spending time in the Welsh mountains with friends. Coming in first lady and 10th overall in a new course record was a huge bonus. Biggest thank you to Matt Ward and all the volunteers for an amazing event".
Rugby legend Shane Williams MBE was at the Buff Winter Trail Wales race for the first time, making the trip up from South Wales with his brother Dean and a number of Ammanford running friends. The former Wales and British Lion took on the Winter Trail as part of a year of adventure, as later in the year Shane will take on Ironman Wales in Tenby and finish off his year of challenges at the Snowdonia Marathon Eryri in Llanberis.
Running with what appeared to be a permanent smile, Shane danced his way around the trails with the aplomb which saw him become one of the worlds greatest try scorers, finishing in a very respectable 2:17:47 on the demanding 13 mile route.
"I don't think it could have gone much better to be honest. Of course after every event we analyse where we can improve, but other than the odd tweak needed, it all seems to have gone to plan. We have a great team working on the event, and I am eternally grateful for all of the support we receive from the local volunteers, organisations and fellow runners. It was great to see Rob and Gina back running strongly too, and to have two GB and Wales internationals winning the event is very pleasing from a competition point of view.
The 2017 Buff Winter Trail Wales race will take place on 21st January with entries to the 2017 event live on October 1st, 2016. | . As the runners wound their way through the | 9 |
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A University of Benin student has been denied graduation for three years despite meeting all academic requirements. His lecturers and examination officials said they were too busy to compile his records.
Temidayo Awoyemi, 26, had eagerly hoped to fulfill his dreams after graduation from the school's department of chemistry. He has spent three years since completing his studies, without graduation.
Officials in his department and faculty said they had had no time to process his records in the last two years.
The faculty checker, Professor Anthony Imiavan, in charge of scrutinizing students' records, confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that the student had no case to keep him from graduating.
A spokesperson for the school told this newspaper the case was "strange", and assured it would be resolved quickly.
Despite that assurance, the school has yet to act on the matter more than a month after.
Like many other students of the school, Temidayo's problem began in his final year when his department said his West African Senior Secondary School Certificate was not in its records. At least five other students in his class had the same problem.
After losing the 2012/13 school session to a six-month strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, Temidayo hoped he would be quickly let go the next session once he provided a copy of the missing certificate.
He submitted the certificate to the chemistry department and began to wait for clearance since 2013/2014 session. Two years after, he is still waiting for the school to process his result for graduation.
The process of clearing him requires the approval of his course adviser, Wayne Omagamre; faculty checker, Professor Anthony Imiavan; the Head of Department, Professor James Okuo; and Dean, Professor Sunday Omosigho.
The officials consistently said they had been too busy to attend<|fim_middle|> calls.
The University of Benin has lately been dogged by scandals involving harassment of students by lecturers. | to the case, the student told PREMIUM TIMES.
"Even after the course adviser claimed that he had done his own aspects of the work, the faculty checker, Prof. Imiavan, especially, has refused to check my results for years now for whatever reasons I don't know," Temidayo said.
The university's spokesperson, Michael Osasuyi, said the case was unusual. Mr. Osasuyi assured that the matter was receiving the vice chancellor's attention.
"The various authorities that are concerned with this matter are now working on it. Once the vice chancellor gets a report on it, you will be able to get a feedback," Mr. Osasuyi promised, more than a month ago.
This reporter visited the school three times within a month, but got no feedback indicating there has been no progress on the case.
When contacted, Mr. Okuo, who is the HOD, visibly angry, questioned this correspondent's interest in the case and ordered him out of his office.
Speaking to PREMIUM TIMES by telephone, the faculty checker, Prof Imiavan admitted the student had no case, but that "an individual does not approve a result alone".
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The Algarveans are Back with Live Theatre
Finally, The Algarveans are able to make a long-anticipated return to the stage after an enforced hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic. They open in a new performing space with a comedy, Duets by Peter Quilter.
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The Algarveans' new location in the sports hall of the União Juventude, Sesmarias, has a stage where the group can rehearse, perform smaller more intimate productions, run workshops, hold social events and introduce new members – some of whom may be treading the boards for the first time, and others possibly for the first time in many years. This gives members the chance to perform in a more intimate space to smaller audiences.
'We are delighted to have found a new home in which to perform Duets, where we can test the waters,' says director Jim Landis. 'Tickets for the show sold out in only a few days, a response that has assured us that our audience still support us and there is a huge desire for live theatre.'
The Algarveans look forward to welcoming you to 'The Little Theatre' located in the União Juventude, Sesmarias. In spring 2022 they will again be performing at Lagoa's much larger Carlos do Carmo theatre.
The Algarveans are always keen to welcome new members to get involved on stage or back stage. If you would like to try out for a part in a future production or help with set building, costumes or props, please see our website https://www.thealgarveans.com/ on how to join us. No previous experience is necessary and you'll find us a very welcoming bunch.
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Strategic Oasis on the Central Asia's Silk Road
A stone turtle, almost all that remains of Karakorum, the onetime capital of the Mongol Empire. The turtle, with a stele holder on its back, defined the boundary of the city. In the background is Erdene Zuu monastery, where the ancient city's remains are located.
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by K. Kris Hirst
K. Kris Hirst is an archaeologist with 30 years of field experience. She is the author of The Archaeologist's Book of Quotations and her work has appeared in Science and Archaeology.
Karakorum (or the Karakorum and occasionally spelled Kharakhorum or Qara Qorum) was the capital city for the great Mongol leader Genghis Khan and, according to at least one scholar, the single most important stopping point on the Silk Road in the 12th and 13th centuries CE. Among its many architectural delights, said William of Rubruck who visited in 1254, was an enormous silver and gold tree created by a kidnapped Parisian. The tree had pipes which poured out wine, mare's milk, rice mead, and honey mead, at the bidding of the khan.
Key Takeaways: Karakorum
The Karakorum was the name of the 13th century capital of Genghis Khan and his son and successor Ögödei Khan, located in the Orkhon valley of central Mongolia.
It was an important oasis on the Silk Road, which began as a city of yurts and gained a substantial population, a city wall and several palaces for the Khan beginning about 1220.
The Karakorum was cool and dry, and had trouble feeding its population of about 10,000 without importing food from China, which is one of the reasons that Ögödei Khan moved his capital away from the site in 1264.
Archaeological remains of the city are not visible on the ground but have been found deeply buried within the walls of the Erdene Zuu monastery.
There is little to see at the Karakorum today that dates to the Mongol occupation—a stone tortoise cut in a local quarry as a plinth base is all that remains above ground. But there are archaeological remains inside the grounds of the later monastery Erdene Zuu, and much of the history of Karakorum lives on in historical documents. Information is found in the writings of 'Ala-al-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvayni, a Mongol historian who resided there in the early 1250s. In 1254 it was visited by Wilhelm von Rubruk (aka William of Rubruck) [ca 1220–1293], a Franciscan monk who came as an envoy of King Louis IX of France; and the Persian statesman and historian Rashid al-Din [1247–1318] lived in the Karakorum in his role as part of the Mongol court.
Archaeological evidence shows that the first settlement of the Orkhon (or Orchon) River floodplain in Mongolia was a city of trellis tents, called gers or yurts, established in the 8th–9th century CE by the Uighur descendants of the Bronze Age Steppe Societies. The tent city was located on a grassy plain at the base of the Changai (Khantai or Khangai) mountains on the Orkhon river, about 215 miles (350 kilometers) west of Ulaan Bataar. And in 1220, the Mongol emperor Genghis Khan (today spelled Chinggis Khan) established a permanent capital here.
Although it wasn't the most agriculturally fertile location, Karakorum was strategically located at the intersection of east-west and north-south Silk Road routes across Mongolia. The Karakorum was expanded under Genghis's son and successor Ögödei Khan [ruled 1229–1241], and his successors as well; by 1254 the town had about 10,000 residents.
City on the Steppes
According to the report of the traveling monk William of Rubruck, the permanent buildings at the Karakorum included the Khan's palace and several large subsidiary palaces, twelve Buddhist temples, two mosques and one eastern Christian Church. The city had an exterior wall with four gates and a moat; the main palace had its own wall. Archaeologists have found the city wall measured 1–1.5 mi (1.5–2.5 km) long, extending to the north of the current Erdene Zuu monastery.
Major streets extended into the city center from each of the main gates. Outside the permanent core was a large area where Mongols would pitch their trellis tents (also called gers or yurts), a common pattern even today. The city population was estimated to have been about 10,000 people in 1254, but no doubt it fluctuated seasonally. Its residents were Steppe Society nomads, and even the khan moved residences frequently.
Agriculture and Water Control
Water was brought into the city by a set of canals leading from the Orkhon River; areas between the city and river were cultivated and maintained by additional irrigation canals and reservoirs. That water control system was established at the Karakorum in the 1230s by Ögödei Khan, and the farms grew barley, broomcorn and foxtail millet, vegetables and spices: but the climate was not conducive to agriculture and most of the food to support the population had to be imported. The Persian historian Rashid al-Din reported that in the late 13th century the population of Karakorum was supplied by five hundred wagons of foodstuff freight per day.
More canals were opened in the late 13th century but farming was always insufficient for the needs of the nomadic population which shifted constantly. At different times, farmers might be conscripted into fighting wars, and at others, the khans would conscript farmers from other locations.
The Karakorum was a center for metalworking, with smelting furnaces located outside the city center. In the central core were a series of workshops, with artisans making trade materials from local and exotic sources.
Archaeologists have identified workshops specializing in bronze, gold, copper, and iron working. Local industries produced glass beads and used gems and precious stones to create jewelry. Bone carving and birchbark processing were established; and yarn production is in evidence by the presence of spindle whorls, although fragments of imported Chinese silk have also been found.
Archaeologists have found plenty of evidence for the local production and importation of pottery. The kiln technology was Chinese; four Mantou-style kilns have been excavated so far within the city walls, and at least 14 more are known outside. Karakorum's kilns produced tableware, architectural sculpture, and figurines. Elite types of pottery for the khan were imported from the Chinese ceramic production site of Jingdezhen, including Jingdezhen's famous blue and white wares, by the first half of the 14th century.
The End of Karakorum
The Karakorum remained the capital of the Mongol Empire until 1264 when Kublai Khan became emperor of China and moved his residence to Khanbaliq (also called Dadu or Daidu, in what is today modern Beijing). Some archaeological evidence suggests that occurred during a significant drought. The move was a cruel one, according to recent research: the adult men went to Daidu, but the women, children and elderly were left behind to tend the herds and fend for themselves.
The Karakorum was largely abandoned in 1267, and completely destroyed by Ming dynasty troops in 1380 and never rebuilt. In 1586, the Buddhist monastery Erdene Zuu (sometimes Erdeni Dzu) was founded in this location.
The ruins of Karakorum were re-discovered by the Russian explorer N.M. Yadrinstev in 1880, who also found the Orkhon Inscriptions, two monolithic monuments with Turkish and Chinese writings dated to the 8th century. Wilhelm Radloff surveyed Erdene Zuu and environs and produced a topographic map in 1891. The first significant excavations at the Karakorum were led by Dmitrii D. Bukinich in the 1930s. A Russian-Mongolian team led by Sergei V. Kiselev conducted excavations in 1948-1949; Japanese archaeologist Taichiro Shiraishi conducted a survey in 1997. Between 2000-2005, a German/Mongolian team led by the Mongolian Academy of Science, the German Archaeological Institute and the University of Bonn, conducted excavations.
The 21st-century excavations have found that the Erdene Zuu monastery was likely built on top of the Khan's palace site. Detailed excavations so far have been focused on the Chinese quarter, although a Muslim cemetery has been excavated.
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IoT and industrial AI: Mining intelligence from industrial things
Here's how to understand what industrial AI can do, how IoT feeds it, and how to start a pilot project of your own
By Renee Bassett
There is nothing "artificial" about the intelligence that can be gleaned from the detailed monitoring of machines, processes, and the people who interact with them. Ever since the time and motion studies of the efficiency experts of the early 1900s, industrial engineers have been turning real-time data into information and decisions that could improve productivity, efficiency, and profits. With the fourth industrial revolution upon us now, artificial intelligence (AI) technology is ready to go to work in ways that are not always obvious.
According to a Gartner Group forecast, The Business Value of Artificial Intelligence Worldwide, 2017-2025, AI and Internet of Things (IoT) "already work together in our daily lives without us even noticing. Think Google Maps, Netflix, Siri, and Alexa, for example. Organizations across industries are waking up to the potential. By 2022, more than 80 percent of enterprise IoT projects will have an AI component-up from less than 10 percent today" (2018).
The takeaway is clear, says data analytics software provider SAS: "If you're deploying IoT, deploy AI with it. If you're developing AI, think about the gains you can make by combining it with IoT. Either one has value alone, but they offer their greatest power when combined. IoT provides the massive amount of data that AI needs for learning. AI transforms that data into meaningful, real-time insight on which IoT devices can act."
Artificial intelligence uses a variety of statistical and computational techniques and encompasses a number of terms. Machine learning (ML), a subset of AI, identifies patterns and anomalies in data from smart sensors and devices without being explicitly programmed where to look. Over time, ML algorithms "learn" how to deliver more accurate results.
Because of this learning, "ML outperforms traditional business intelligence tools and makes operational predictions many times faster and more accurately than systems based on rules, thresholds, or schedules," according to SAS. "AI separates signal<|fim_middle|>-like scan of the inner earth. This will help ExxonMobil target drilling investments on the most promising opportunities, adding speed and precision, and minimizing human biases. The current project focuses on deep-water drilling off the coast of Guyana.
What do you want to achieve with AI?
We are at the early stages of transforming our work processes. Our goal is to allow our domain experts to focus on what they are good at, augmented with AI. The project allows for much more efficient and collaborative planning for Guyana deep water development wells. Ultimately, that will lead to an ever-safer operation and steep improvements in efficiency and profitability.
What are some key things that you have learned?
We need to change the way we approach our business processes and partnership. Transformation is not about moving every piece of data to the cloud. It is rather about reimagining work processes inside out through the lenses of the art of possibility with all digital technologies, with a focus on business objectives. Digital transformation requires agility and speed. We established our collaboration agreement with IBM, put together the team in a month, and delivered the minimum viable product to the Guyana team in 10 months.
What do you wish you knew when you first started with your work with AI?
We need to have empowered digital champions to help transform a large organization. Understanding both the business and AI, these champions can connect business with solutions, advocate principles and value for change, and act as a conduit between the organization and external innovations. I strongly advise key business champions to get their feet wet on AI.
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"The challenge is that people have not developed the level of trust in artificial intelligence and machine learning that they have in other technologies that automate tasks," says Oliver Schabenberger, COO and CTO of SAS. "People sometimes confuse automation with autonomy, he adds. But have no fear: "AI does not eliminate the need for humans, it just enables them to do their work more effectively," he says.
AI, around since the 1950s, is becoming a mainstream application as a result of the explosion in IoT data volume, high-speed connectivity, and high-performance computing.
Source: SAS
Defining AI applications
Industrial AI can range from low-intelligence applications like automation to higher-end intelligence capable of decision making. It can also be controlled centrally or distributed across multiple machines. According to Gartner vice president and analyst Jorge Lopez, AI applications can be broken down into five levels of sophistication:
Reactors follow simple rules but can respond to changing circumstances within limits (such as basic drones).
Categorizers recognize types of things and can take simple actions to deal with them within a controlled environment (warehouse robots).
Responders serve the needs of others by figuring out questions and situations (driverless cars, personal assistants).
Learners gather information from multiple sources to solve complex problems (IBM Watson, wholly automated military drones).
Creators initiate a paradigm shift, such as inventing a new business model. They are not merely tools that people use; they have the potential to engineer actions harmful to humans. They will change humans' relationship to technology as well as people's roles within society and the economy, says Gartner. Therefore, "AI creator applications require profound thought before development."
These five artificial intelligence models have three types of organization, says Gartner: standalone, federation, or swarm. A standalone AI system is an individual entity that acts by itself to solve problems. The enterprise exercises centralized control over it by overseeing the entity as it performs.
In a federation structure, says Gartner, multiple versions of an entity work in the same way but on different problems (e.g., robo-advisors, personal assistants). The enterprise can exercise central control or give more autonomy to the entities. In a swarm structure, multiple entities work together on the same problem (e.g., Intel light show drones, Perdix drones). Control over execution is left to the machines entirely or requires only light human management.
Early AI adopters like retail and banking firms have reaped the benefits of AI, but it is not too late for fast followers, according to Petuum. AI has caught the attention of industrial innovators and naysayers alike.
Source: McKinsey & Company
More than automation
The most common place to start with AI is with automation, but experts say it is a mistake to stop there. The more powerful use of AI is to aid human decision making and interactions. Because AI can classify information and make predictions faster and at higher volumes than humans can accomplish on their own, those terabytes of data being produced by industrial IoT devices are being transformed into powerful tools today.
In a recent blog post for industrial AI startup Petuum, author Atif Aziz says, "Some industry leaders are zooming past the basics: digitization, cloud infrastructure, monitoring and dashboards. They are putting newly acquired data to good use through AI-driven advanced analytics (e.g., uncovering patterns through system of systems) and automating complex processes. Some early adopters are implementing as many as 100 digital transformation initiatives simultaneously or using AI to automate their core production processes across 30 or more plants," Aziz says.
On the other end of the spectrum, "some folks still need to understand how AI can provide real value and balance the ROI with their limited resources," says Aziz. "The breakneck speed of advancement in the Industrial AI/ML space over the last three years affords a unique advantage for these newcomers. They can skip many of the expensive intermediate steps (e.g., significant investments in data aggregation infrastructure, dashboards, and monitoring centers) and gain the same AI benefits as the savvier early adopters."
Aziz says most industrial AI initiatives fall into three categories. AI for assets includes equipment automation, equipment stabilization, and equipment health. AI for processes includes yield maximization through efficiency gains, automation and stabilization across multiple assets or spanning multiple flows, and quality improvement. AI for operational excellence and/or business agility includes energy cost optimization, predictive maintenance, logistics and scheduling, research and development, and more.
AI for assets
IBM Watson IoT helps organizations make smarter decisions about asset management by combining IoT data with cognitive insights driven by AI. IBM's Maximo enterprise asset management (EAM) system uses Watson IoT technology to make better decisions about critical physical assets in industrial plants-whether they are discrete machines, complex functional asset systems, or human assets.
One Maximo user, Ivan de Lorenzo, is outage planning manager for Cheniere Energy, a Houston-based liquefied natural gas producer. He says that, with the software, "we have better information on assets and maintenance activity, and more sophisticated tools and mechanisms for managing it all. The result is greater operational control and accountability, especially when it comes to planning and scheduling."
AI-based asset life-cycle and maintenance management solutions like Maximo use real-time data collection, diagnostic, and analysis tools to extend an asset's usable life cycle. Use of the software also improves overall maintenance best practices; meets increasingly complex health, safety, and environmental requirements; and controls operational risk by embedding risk management into everyday business processes.
IBM says EAM also helps "control the brain drain among employees facing retirement by [putting] into place proven workflows and enforced best practices that capture the knowledge and critical skills of long-time employees." Such a system also helps a reduced workforce to work more efficiently and cost effectively "by using the captured intellectual experience of skilled workers in a format easily dispersed in a wide range of languages."
AI for processes
AI systems are being used to improve whole processes as well as industrial assets. In an MIT Technology Review Insights publication produced in conjunction with IBM, Raytheon senior principal systems engineer Chris Finlay describes the benefits of replacing document-based information exchange with an AI-compatible digital platform to support engineering and design. "Once you start to capture things digitally, you can start to exploit machine learning or AI algorithms," he says. "You can start to reduce development costs because you can automate tasks that you were doing by hand."
Joe Schmid, director of worldwide sales for IBM Watson Internet of Things, says, "In the engineering process, you define what you want to do, design it, build it, test it, and prove that you've done it. The key is integrating those steps. But integrating is hard."
Customers that Schmid has worked with are often good at one part of the process, such as design, but they do not integrate design into the life cycle. "When they need to change goals or specs, it's all in people's heads," he says. "That doesn't work anymore with the complex systems we have today. One engineer can't have an entire system in their head. That's when errors pop up."
The goal of AI for engineering processes is to create an integrated "system of systems," a closed loop that runs from the requirements phase of product development to real-time monitoring of how consumers are using the product, and then deploy AI systems to analyze the data and leverage that knowledge to improve the product, says Dibbe Edwards, vice president of IBM Watson IoT connected products offerings.
In another example, global building materials company Cemex is on an industry 4.0 journey toward enhanced standardized operations using AI. The ultimate goals are increased efficiencies, reduced fuel and energy consumption, better quality, reduced costs, and improved decision making. The company announced in March that it had installed "AI-based autopilots" for its rotary kiln and clinker cooler systems that will "autosteer" its cement plants and enable autonomous, operator-supervised plant operations.
Cemex used OSIsoft PI systems to power Petuum Industrial AI Autopilot products. The two work with plant control systems to provide precise real-time forecasts for significant process variables, prescriptions for critical control variables, and a supervised autosteer function aligned with business objectives while staying within applicable static and dynamic constraints. The PI systems fuel real-time predictive and prescriptive recommendations.
Rodrigo Quintero, operations digital technologies manager for Cemex, says, "Petuum Industrial AI Autopilot helped us achieve something we didn't think was possible at this time: yield improvements and energy savings up to 7 percent, which is game changing for our industry. Additionally, this is a giant step in digital transformation toward safe, highly standardized operations, that will help us strengthen our high-quality products portfolio while also ensuring we meet our operational and sustainability goals, and minimize costs."
The Autopilot products can ingest data from a variety of sources, including unstructured, images, structured, time series, customer relationship management (CRM) data, enterprise resource planning (ERP) data, and others. The Petuum platform provides sophisticated data processing, data cleansing, and machine/deep learning pipelines to implement advanced AI that is sensitive to linear, temporal, long range, and nonlinear data patterns in a range of industrial use cases.
AI for operational excellence
Staying ahead of maintenance and production challenges to keep precision metals rolling out of its plants on time is a high priority for Ulbrich Stainless Steel & Specialty Metals. That is why the global company chose SAS Analytics for IoT to gain access to the latest suite of AI, machine learning, and streaming analytics available to analyze the data from plant sensors.
Jay Cei, COO at Ulbrich, says, "Collecting machine and sensor data from our factories and integrating that with ERP system data will help us understand the intricate relationships between equipment, people, suppliers, and customers.
Learning what their IoT data means is critical for understanding how the company can become more productive and efficient in the future, Cei says. DJ Penix, president of SAS implementation partner Pinnacle Solutions, says, "Streaming analytics will not only help Ulbrich understand what is happening now with their machines. It will also enable them to predict future events, such as when a machine needs maintenance before it breaks down."
The software provides a simplified way for any user to prepare stationary and streaming IoT data for analysis without specialized skills, says Penex. Whether a data scientist, business manager, or someone in between, they can use SAS Analytics for IoT to quickly select, launch, transform, and operationalize IoT data, he says.
Jason Mann, vice president of IoT at SAS, says companies can no longer afford to ignore the hidden signals in their IoT data. "To thrive, organizations need a solution that addresses data complexity and automates timely and accurate decision making," he adds.
Tips for AI pilot projects
According to a recent Gartner survey, 37 percent of organizations are still looking to define their AI strategies, while 35 percent are struggling to identify suitable use cases. Once you have developed a solid understanding of AI and its potential applications, it is time to make a case for a pilot. Here are some tips from Gartner for making the pilot project a success.
Be realistic about a timeline. Once you have approval from executives, it can be tempting to think a pilot project will follow quickly. In fact, according to results from Gartner's 2017 Annual Enterprise Survey, 58 percent of respondents in companies currently piloting AI projects say it took two or more years to reach the piloting phase, and only 28 percent of respondents reported getting past the planning stage in the first year.
Aim for fairly soft outcomes, such as improvements to processes, customer satisfaction, products, or financial benchmarking. Gartner Research Circle respondents urged others not to fall into the trap of seeking only immediate monetary gains. Aim initially for less-quantifiable benefits from which financial gains would eventually arise.
Focus on worker augmentation, not worker replacement. AI's potential to reduce staff head count attracts the attention of senior business executives as a potential cost-saving initiative. A more informed expectation, however, is for applications that help and improve human endeavors, as AI promises benefits far beyond automation. Organizations that embrace this perspective are more likely to find workers eager to embrace AI.
Plan for the transfer of knowledge from external service providers and vendors to enterprise information technology and business workers. External service providers can play a key role in planning and delivering AI-powered software, and knowledge transfer is crucial. AI requires new skills and a new way of thinking about problems. These include technical knowledge in specific AI technologies, data science, maintaining quality data, problem domain expertise, and skills to monitor, maintain, and govern the environment.
Choose AI solutions that offer tracking and revealing AI decisions, ideally using action audit trails and features that visualize or explain results. To that end, Gartner predicts that by 2022, enterprise AI projects with built-in transparency will be twice as likely to receive funding from CIOs.
Start small; do not worry about immediate return on investment. Digital transformation should begin with small experiments that are purely for learning, says Gartner. Use the time to pilot projects that employ a variety of technologies to assess which make the most sense for the business.
If you are deploying IoT, deploy AI with it. Each has value alone, but they offer greater power when combined.
Industrial AI applications fall into three categories: AI for assets, AI for processes, or AI for operational excellence and/or business agility.
When starting a pilot project, aim for fairly soft outcomes and focus on worker augmentation, not worker replacement.
Renee Bassett is chief editor for InTech magazine and Automation.com, and publications contributing editor for ISA. Bassett is an experienced writer, editor, and consultant for industrial automation, engineering, information technology, and infrastructure topics. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism and English from Indiana University, Bloomington, and is based in Nashville.
AI project success criteria
Petuum's Atif Aziz says, "Typical AI-driven improvements provide savings or value-added improvements ranging from 2 percent to 7 percent to many multiples after that." In his experience, such extremely high gains require the following criteria:
strong sponsorship from the C suite
effective change management
leveraging an ecosystem; not trying to do everything in-house
significant collaboration between subject-matter experts and AI/data science teams.
Examples of industrial AI/IoT applications
Industrial AI applications fall into three categories: AI for assets, AI for processes, and AI for operational excellence and/or business agility. The following specific examples have been implemented by users of SAS Artificial Intelligence Solutions.
Turbine engines. Model drivers of unscheduled downtime; identify optimal maintenance scheduling.
Wind turbines. Identify turbines performing below average; model drivers of capital component failures; improve planned maintenance.
Gas treatment. Identify predictors of foaming/flooding events; identify optimal operational parameters; optimize reagent utilization.
Aircraft parts maintenance. Generate removal advice for specific parts; forecast part removal and alert dispatching for optimized part delivery and availability.
Honda R&D: AI planning requires special skills
Kyoka Nakagawa is chief engineer, Value Creation Department, Digital Transformation Division, Digital Solution Center at Honda R&D Co., Ltd., Japan. She is also one of 40 women driving the adoption of artificial intelligence in business and industry profiled in IBM's List of Women Leaders in AI.
Kyoka is leading Honda research and development's efforts to train its automotive engineers to use advanced IBM analytics tools, helping them to better understand driver behavior, to increase the reliability of cars, and to design a more personalized driving experience.
What was the challenge you sought to address with AI?
The challenge was to raise our engineers' interest in wanting to use other people's data that could enhance their analysis. I offered an open proof of concept for people who have different engineering expertise for data they had never used, which helped engineers imagine how they can enlarge their analysis capability with other sources of data.
What benefits are you realizing?
Teaching AI helps people to organize their own thinking and their processes and helps focus their core of knowledge. It was a surprise to me that when AI functions well at work, business people seem to create more ideas to do better work. It may be because AI helps unburden some of their workload.
What do you wish you knew when you first started with your work with AI that you know now?
AI planning requires special skills, and not every project ends in success.
ExxonMobil: Get your feet wet in AI
Xiaojun Huang, PhD, is senior advisor for Upstream Digital Transformation for ExxonMobil. She is also one of 40 women driving the adoption of artificial intelligence in business and industry profiled in IBM's List of Women Leaders in AI.
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MONKEYS OF GIBRALTAR
Without a doubt, monkeys draw a lot of interest to Gibraltar. Originally from Morocco, the Barbary macaque population holds the only wild population in Europe.
Barbary macaques at the Rock of Gibraltar.
Although most Barbary monkey populations in Africa declined due to hunting and deforestation, the Gibraltar population is doing well. Currently, some 300 animals in five troops occupy the upper rock area of the Gibraltar Nature Reserve.
Do not fall for their cute look; they could be dangerous. Do not cross their path on narrow trails, and do not feed them. Also, hold on to your bags! They tried to steal my camera bag twice from my hand!
Europa Point
This is the southernmost point of Gibraltar. On a clear day, you can see North Africa across the Strait of Gibraltar.
Attractions at Europa Point
The Ibrahim-al-Ibrahim Mosque
The Ibrahim-al-Ibrahim Mosque, one of the most often visited places in the territory, is considered the largest mosque to exist in a non-Islamic country. It opened in 1997 at the behest of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. Muslims living in Gibraltar use it daily.
Ibrahim-al-Ibrahim Mosque in Gibraltar.
Shrine of Our Lady of Europe
The Shrine of Our Lady of Europe is a Roman Catholic parish church and national shrine of Gibraltar.
Europa Point Lighthouse
Also called Gibraltar's Trinity Lighthouse, it was built in 1841 at the southernmost point of Gibraltar, the gateway between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Today, it is fitted out with modern LED beacons capable of beaming light 18 nautical miles out to sea.
Gibraltar's Trinity Lighthouse.
Sikorski Memorial
This memorial took me by surprise. As a person originally from Poland, I was happy to see a piece of Polish history there. The monument was designed and constructed by a Polish company with sandstone transported from Poland.
The Sikorski Memorial commemorates the 1943 B-24 plane crash of 4 July 1943, which caused the death of General Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile.
Sikorski Memorial in Gibraltar.
Casemates Square
Casemates Square is a place to relax with the views of the Rock. Along with busy Main Street, it offers a wide range of restaurants, cafes, bars, and shops.
Beaches of Gibraltar
I only saw beaches from the top of the Rock. They look nice but small. I heard that monkeys visit them too, so again, watch your bags! Check out this Gibraltar Beach Guide
Sandy Beach Bay, Gibraltar.
Gambling in Gibraltar
With incredibly low taxes and some of the biggest names in the online gaming industry residing there, Gibraltar has been the world's biggest gaming hub for years. It's estimated that 60 percent of all online wagering in the world goes through the country's 26 online casino businesses.
Both of Gibraltar's casinos, Admiral Casino and Sunborn Casino, are located within the popular location of Ocean Village.
Views of Gibraltar from the hiking trail.
Hotels in Gibraltar
Gibraltar offers its visitors diverse accommodation, from hotels in the heart of the old town to beachfront rooms with balconies.
The Caleta Hotel Health, Beauty & Conference Centre
Located right on the Mediterranean Sea, this 4-star hotel features stunning views of the water. It has a restaurant, a grill with alfresco dining, and a health and beauty club.
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Flag of Gibraltar and the monkey overlooking their territory.
This landmark hotel, located on the Rock, offers stunning views. Built in 1932, it is decorated in colonial-style decor. Each room had views of the sea.
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Gibraltar, British overseas territory, is a place of strategic importance. In the Middle Ages, the territory was dominated by the Moors. Later, it has been fought over by Spain, France, and Britain – all claiming its possession. Today, it is self-sufficient and benefits from an extensive shipping trade, offshore banking, and its position as an international conference center. Tourism in Gibraltar constitutes one of the territory's most important economic pillars. Its main attractions are the Rock of Gibraltar with a resident population of Barbary macaques (monkeys), military heritage, duty-free shopping, casinos, and marinas. It is definitely a destination worth paying a visit. Here is what you need to know before your holidays to Gibraltar.
Monkeys feel at home at Rock of Gibraltar.
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What To Know About Holidays to Gibraltar
I added a visit to Gibraltar to my 14 -day tour of Southern Spain. And I am glad I did. It is an interesting place due to its historical significance, unusual location – practically an enclave in Spain – and of course the monkeys!
I recommend visiting it if you are touring Spain, but I would not make it a special trip. Other than the Rock and its attractions, it does not have much to offer. Overall, it has a very industrial vibe, especially in contrast with charming, colorful, and much cheaper Spain just a few miles away.
Rock of Gibraltar as seen from Europa Point.
Is Giblartar a part of Spain?
No. It is a British overseas territory. Along with other British territories, it is a remnant of the British Empire and does not form part of the United Kingdom. Most of the territories are internally self-governing, with the UK retaining responsibility for defense and foreign relations.
The United Kingdom's Overseas Territories are spread across the world and span a diverse range of cultures and environments. They all have the British monarch as head of state. Other most known territories include Bermuda, British Virgin Island, and the Cayman Islands.
This street address literally describes the views from the residence.
Where is Gibraltar located?
With the first look at the map, you will know why Gibraltar holds prime strategic importance. It guards the Strait of Gibraltar, which is the only entrance to the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. Since the 18th century, the territory has been a symbol of British naval strength.
It shares a land border with Spain to the north. 14 kilometers (9 miles) to the south is Morocco, on the other side of the Strait of Gibraltar, one of the world's most important shipping channels.
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Gibraltar on the map.
What language is spoken in Gibraltar?
The official language is English. Most locals are bilingual, also speaking Spanish, because of the country's proximity to Spain.
Population of Gibraltar
There are 32,000 registered Gibraltarians. The working population is 30000, half of which crosses the border daily commuting from Spain. Gibraltar has the 5th highest density of any country or territory in the world.
Although about 78% of the population is Catholic, Gibraltar has a significant population of Muslims, Jews, and Hindus.
Want to get married fast?
Anyone can get married in Gibraltar with just a day's notice – and it will be recognized worldwide. Sean Connery has been married in Gibraltar (twice), and this is where John Lennon and Yoko Ono tied the knot as well.
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Monkeys of Gibraltar live there feely and when tired catch the ride without asking for permission.
Crossing the Border with Gibraltar
Take into consideration the border gets busy during the rush hours when Spanish workers are commuting. Try to avoid these times to avoid lines.
Gibraltar is not a part of the Schengen area (26 European countries without borders). Everyone needs a passport to cross the border.
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You will need a passport to enter Gibraltar.
Gibraltar Currency
The official currency is Gibraltar Pound (tied to the Pound Sterling). The best way to pay is by using credit cards. Most businesses will take Euros, but you will charge you an elevated exchange rate.
Gibraltar prices
The cost of goods and services is similar to or slightly above the cost of goods in England but significantly higher than in Spain next door. However, there are some exceptions due to the beneficial tax rates, so fuel, petrol, and diesel are cheaper, and also alcohol and cigarettes.
The best seat with a view in Gibraltar.
Weather in Gibraltar
Temperatures are pleasant all year, with a low chance of precipitation for most of the year. The area is more temperate than most — in the 77th percentile for pleasant weather — compared to tourist destinations worldwide.
The warmest time of year is generally early to mid-August, where highs are regularly around 85°F (29.4°C) with temperatures rarely dropping below 71.1°F (21.7°C) at night.
I visited in early November, and the weather was just perfect.
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How many nights to spend in Gibraltar?
If you are not coming to enjoy the beach, then one full day or one night with two days is sufficient. Gibraltar is small and not as charming as Andalusia. Plus it is more expensive. Still, definitely worth a visit because of its uniqueness.
Driving in Gibraltar
We did not have a good experience while driving in Gibraltar. How can you if there is a huge rock smacked in the middle of it? The roads are narrow and winding, and GPS seems to be confused by the Rock.
Parking in Gibraltar is limited and expensive. The main car park is by the base of the cable car.
Driving into the Rock! Can we make it?
Map of Gibraltar
Most of the attractions circulate around the Rock. If you do not have much time, limit your visit to the Nature Preserve.
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What to see in Gibraltar
THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR
The Rock of Gibraltar, 426 m (1,398 ft) high, dominates the city's views and delivers outstanding panorama from the top. Most of the Rock's upper area belongs to the Gibraltar Nature Reserve, home to around 300 Barbary macaques. At the top, you will also find a large viewing area and a restaurant.
How to get to the Upper Rock Nature Preserve
The cable car is the fastest way up to reach the Upper Rock. Tickets include the general entrance to the Nature Reserve at the top. The journey takes 6 minutes.
Let me see what kind of creatures arrived in this cable car.
Walking to the Upper Rock
We did it the hard way. Not only we climbed it to the top but all the way from Europe Point! We got lost a few times in the city but eventually found an entrance to the reserve and made it to the top.
It was a long and steep climb, but interesting. Views were getting better and better with every step! We took a cable car down and then a taxi back to the car.
Climbing the Rock of Gibraltar. This picture lies! It was much steeper there than what it shows.
Taxi Tour
Visit www.gibtaxi.com for more information and a guide to tour prices. Typically, most of the major attractions of the Rock are included. It is definitely a good option if you do mind groups.
Skywalk Gibraltar
Gibraltar's Skywalk offers 360º views spanning three countries and two continents and links to other sites within the Gibraltar Nature Reserve. Honestly, the Skywalk did not impress. It is smaller than all the other ones I visited before in various places in Europe and North America.
Skywalk on the Rock of Gibraltar. Credit: Getty Images.
St. Michael's Cave
St. Michel's Cave consists of a network of limestone caves located within the Upper Rock Nature Reserve at the height of over 300 meters above sea level. The cave | 1,724 |
"Both dogs are amazing, loving, sweet, affectionate and gentle."
Five dogs were living alone on one property, three<|fim_middle|>, six boys and six girls.
Queen is just like her daughter Pocahontas and is being a wonderful mother to her new puppies, and it's safe to say that Pocahontas learned from the best.
"Both dogs are amazing, loving, sweet, affectionate and gentle," Silverstein said. "We have been unsuccessful to rescue the others but we are still trying."
Thanks to their rescuers, Pocahontas and Queen will never again have to go back to that flooded basement, and their puppies will only know happy lives with loving families. | in the flooded basement and two in the shed, just waiting for someone to remember that they were there.
Rescue Dogs Rock NYC heard about the abandoned dogs and knew they had to help.
"They have no human contact and get fed when someone shows up, which is approximately three times per week," Stacey Silverstein of Rescue Dogs Rock NYC told The Dodo.
Despite only caring for the dogs occasionally, their owner was reluctant to give them up, but finally rescuers were able to save one dog, Pocahontas - just in time for her to give birth to 12 puppies. Eight of them survived.
Pocahontas has been a fantastic mother to her puppies, and the little family is getting stronger every day. It was a happy ending for Pocahontas and her babies, but the four other dogs who'd been living on the property still needed help achieving their happy endings, too.
The next dog they focused on rescuing was Queen - who turned out to be Pocahontas's mom.
"We were able to remove Queen shortly thereafter and she went directly to our vet in Brooklyn where it was discovered that she was pregnant as well," Silverstein said.
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The post-acquisition blues
Posted by By Mathias Thurman
I have written before about the wisdom of involving security early in the process of acquiring another company. But given what happened at my company last week, it's probably a good idea to say it all again.
Trouble Ticket
At issue: The company has signed a deal to acquire a small software company, but no security review was<|fim_middle|> our main interest in this company. I had the entire source code tree evaluated for any signs of manipulation; luckily, it was clean. I then had it moved to our own source code repository and decommissioned the old server.
I drafted a remediation plan to close the egregious security holes, the eventual plan being to decommission all of the acquired company's internal infrastructure and migrate data and people to our own corporate servers. I felt it was too risky to even attempt to integrate its network with ours. And of course, with the enterprise cloud-based applications, we'll be terminating accounts and securing data.
It's a long list of problems, but it gives force to my message to the executive staff: Next time you think about acquiring another company, get security involved early.
This week's journal is written by a real security manager, "Mathias Thurman," whose name and employer have been disguised for obvious reasons. Contact him at mathias_thurman@yahoo.com.
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Action plan: Quickly assess the company's weaknesses and shore them up just as fast.
The CFO broke the news that we were acquiring a smaller software company in a meeting with most of the executive staff and other department heads. It was greeted as a welcome development, since we had been struggling with the question of whether we should divert resources to develop a needed feature in our product or instead purchase a company that could fill that gap. The problem for me was that I was learning this news along with the other department heads, even though the deal was already signed. I would be given a couple of weeks to conduct due diligence, but it was too late for any discovery that I made to be used as leverage to reduce the acquisition price tag — or even to scuttle the deal entirely.
The risks that might be uncovered in such a review can have tremendous implications. For example, it isn't unusual for a small software company to use someone else's proprietary software code as a base platform to build upon (why re-create the wheel, right?). The acquisition target might infringe on copyrights in less significant ways, as well, requiring fees to be paid. Those are just two of the many land mines that can be hidden from view in an acquisition, and both of them carry potentially large financial burdens that could fall on the acquiring company.
Although there was no chance of backing out of the deal, it was still important that I conduct a review, so that we would at least know what sorts of problems were in store for us. I dusted off my M&A questionnaire and got to work. After several sessions with the company's small IT team, engineering department and customer service folk, I had a decent handle on the security maturity of the company — or rather, it's security immaturity. It fell short on several measures.
This didn't surprise me, since the company doesn't have anyone dedicated to overseeing security matters. In fact, it was obvious from my review that security wasn't a priority. Nearly all of the company's infrastructure was installed on virtual servers located in a small data center closet, with all the servers on the same network and several exposed to the public Internet. One of the servers was hosting Subversion (used for source code management) as well as a wiki to manage product ideas and changes. Another was being used for the open-source PBX phone system Asterisk. The company's public-facing Web server was also acting as the corporate mail server.
The Asterisk server had Secure Shell (SSH) available to the Internet. I asked the IT guy why, and he said a contractor maintained the server and needed remote access. Remediation of those problems wouldn't have been difficult for them; they just had to set up a "demilitarized zone" for all Internet-facing resources and configure a VPN to provide restricted and secure access to those resources. The problem in my mind was that, when you run into big security risks that can easily be fixed, it's a red flag that alerts you to the extremely low priority that security considerations have been given.
Next, a quick Nessus scan turned up many vulnerabilities. The company was running outdated software for Apache, DNS, Asterisk and other things. No server had been patched in over a year. Some of the servers were even running Telnet, which is an unencrypted method for accessing a Unix server. Such servers should never be exposed to the public Internet; due to the lack of proper hygiene and network segmentation, I had to consider the entire network compromised. Although what I had already seen had prepared me for some real problems, I was still surprised that, in an age of breaches, a company could be so irresponsible about securing its infrastructure.
I then turned my attention to the cloud-based enterprise applications that the company was using, including Salesforce, Google Docs and QuickBooks. The big problem here was that the list of active users retained many people who had been terminated — and some of them were still actively logging in. In the case of Google Docs, many sensitive documents had been recently modified by a user who had been terminated more than a year earlier. On top of that, password policies hadn't been implemented, and many users had weak passwords with no expiration.
Obviously, I had my hands full.
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Storm warning issued for Boiling Springs
By Joel FitzPatrick, For the Herald-Journal
Aug 15, 2018 at 7:05 AM Aug 15, 2018 at 9:38 AM
Senior defensive back looks to lead Bulldogs to playoffs
A good defensive back can be one of the loneliest players on a football field.
Storm Duck welcomes the loneliness. If quarterbacks aren't throwing his way, he knows he is doing his job.
"I work a lot on my technique," the 6-foot-1-inch, 180-pound Boiling Springs senior said. "If I perfect it, no one will catch a ball on me.
"As a corner, you have to believe that no one<|fim_middle|> Duck said. "North Carolina felt like home. It felt like family." | can catch a ball against you. That is something I definitely believe."
Duck is just as confident as a leader, something he said that his coaches helped him develop.
"My mindset is to come to practice every day and help my teammates get better," Duck said. "This coaching staff does a great job of helping you develop. By the time you are a senior, you should be ready to lead."
With he and his fellow seniors leading the way, Duck believes this could be a special season for the Bulldogs.
"I think we are going to be really good," Duck said. "We have a lot coming back on defense, and the offense has been working hard. We will be good on both sides of the ball."
Boiling Springs will play what could prove to be one of the toughest schedules in the state. The Bulldogs play recent state champions Hillcrest and Dutch Fork in non-region games, and will face a region schedule that includes perennial heavyweights Dorman, Spartanburg, Byrnes and Gaffney.
"We will be facing a lot more competition this year," Duck said. "But I think we have a good enough team to beat all of them. We will play a good team every week. I think that helps us a a team because when we get to the playoffs, we know that we will be ready."
Duck will enter the season being able to focus solely on leading the Bulldogs. Unlike many seniors, trying to make a decision on where he will continue his career isn't something that will weigh on his mind.
Over the summer, Duck announced that he will attend the University of North Carolina. He chose the Tar Heels over several other ACC schools, as well as the University of South Carolina.
"My goal going into this summer was to commit and focus on my team," | 362 |
Starting and sustaining a business has never been more difficult. Countless companies start and fail within a relatively short amount of time, often because people simply aren't prepared to run an entire business. When you really want to be successful, the key is to make sure that your company focuses on ways to be innovative. Below you will find three ways that you can instill and improve innovation at your company.
One great way to improve innovation at your company is to hire people who are diverse and have a range of different backgrounds. When you have employees who have various ways of thinking and approaching problems, then you will be better equipped to move forward with new ideas and ways of operating.
You also want to make sure that the employees you hire share a vision of what your company is and could be. You want people who are dedicated to your company and who bring diverse ideas to the table to push the whole business forward.
With the advent of technology, it is often difficult to disconnect yourself from work. From emails to texts, even when you're not at work, you're working. But taking time off to recharge and refresh your brain is important. When you and your employees are run down and stressed, you're not going to produce your best work. Taking vacation time or random days<|fim_middle|> go to a coffee shop to facilitate your sprint. | off can be that stress reliever your employees need in order to be happy and well-rested, which in turn will make them better employees.
In the same vein, creating a stress-free work environment can do wonders for your success. You don't have to have a strict 9-5 timetable for your business. Different people are productive at different times of the day. As long as work is getting done and employees are committed, then you can create a flexible environment that works for everyone.
Some of the most innovative and successful companies employ a strategy called sprinting. Basically, this idea means that you set aside a specific amount of time to finish a project. Emails, phone calls, and meeting are all put on hold so that your team can focus on getting things done. You can even get out of the office, into nature, or | 169 |
By: Adrianna Log<|fim_middle|> W.O.R.K.S. orange wristbands and raised over $2,000 for nets! Thanks to MLS W.O.R.K.S. and the MLS players we are reaching out to a whole new group of soccer fans to send a net and save a life. | albo
Even in the off-season, MLS "Kicks It" with Nothing But Nets
Last week the Nothing But Nets campaign had a special treat – not one, or even two, but FIVE Major League Soccer players joined us and MLS W.O.R.K.S. in Orlando, FL at the Kick It 3v3 World Championship. This event brought over 6,000 budding soccer stars to Disney's Wide World of Sports to compete to be the best three person team in the nation. And we got to be part of the action!
Dwayne De Rosario of the Houston Dynamo, Diego Gutierrez and Bakary Soumare of the Chicago Fire, Kevin Hartman of the Kansas City Wizards and Jose Burciaga of the Colorado Rapids all came down to lend their time and talent in support of Nothing But Nets. The players put on a skills demo for hundreds of fans and, while doing so, helped raise awareness for malaria. Diego spoke to the crowd, letting them know that everyone can make a difference – and make a difference they did. Teams were soon announcing their commitments and challenging others within their brackets to do the same.
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Friendly Reminder – Fallout 3 DLC: Broken Steel Hits Tomorrow.
Posted byfyc<|fim_middle|> powers that be at Bethesda, that Broken Steel is weighing in at around 600MB! – For those of you who are like me, you're gonna have to clear up some space or bite the bullet and get a bigger HDD. This is surely something you don't want to miss out on. | admin May 4, 2009 Leave a comment on Friendly Reminder – Fallout 3 DLC: Broken Steel Hits Tomorrow.
Just a friendly reminder to all those who loved playing Fallout 3 as much as I did/have/am that tomorrow marks the launch of the 3rd and final (?) planned expansion DLC on Xbox Live! and Windows platforms at a cost of just 800 ($10) MS Points.
Broken Steel takes the player back to the end of the game and takes place right after the main story line's conclusion. In this expansion you join with the Brotherhood as they set out to eradicate what's left of the Enclave. It's been reported that the newest chapter will add an additional 5-6hours of gameplay and bumps the level cap from 20 to 30.
Personally I can't wait to get my hands on this. As it's very well documented that I absolutely love this game and am constantly hungry for more.
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The Good Son You-Jeong Jeong
Translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim (South Korea)
No, it's not based on the 1993 Macaulay Culkin-Elijah Wood film about that son who's not so good (spoiler: he's very bad). Though the title is apt: bestselling South Korean author Jeong tells the tale of Yu-jin, who awakens one morning covered in his mother's blood. Did he slash her throat? The increasingly twisted plot, narrated by Yu-jin, will leave even the most seasoned crime fiction readers guessing. He hasn't always been the best son, Yu-jin admits. But he can't quite remember all the details. Maybe it's down to the fact that he's stopped taking his anti-seizure medication. Or maybe he's blocked out murdering his own mother. Ever since his father and brother died years earlier and his mother adopted Hae-jin—it's clear she favors her adopted son over her biological one—Yu-jin's life has wobbled off the rails. He no longer swims competitively, due to his over-protective mother, and he confesses that he follows women at night, trying to scare them. Is this a young man with a vivid fantasy life, or a killer? Perhaps the truth lies somewhere in between. Read an excerpt here on Crime Reads.
Can You Hear Me?, by Elena Varello
Translated from the Italian by Alex Valente (Italy)
Perhaps she'll be known as "The Other Elena," if this novel, the first of hers to be translated into English, makes a big enough splash. Set in northern Italy's Ponte in 1978, Hear Me centers around 16-year-old Elia Furenti, who's full of the usual competing teenage feelings of lust and angst. The object of his affection is Anna, the mother of a new friend, much older, possibly wiser, certainly sadder. The angst comes not only from the normal hormonal storm but from Elia's fear over what his father, whose depression and drinking have spiraled in recent months, may or may not have done to a girl he took into the woods. Since the reader knows about the girl from page one, the question is not whether she went there or with whom, but what happened, a story Varvello measures out in tantalizing bits over the course of her psychologically gripping English debut. There is a dark, mesmerizing quality to what Elia imagines took place and as facts slowly seep into his reality, and his father becomes less a parent and more an adult with flaws, the reader will find it difficult to resist the urge to reach into the plot and stop the dominoes from falling.
The Lies We Tell, by Kristina Ohlsson
Translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith (Sweden)
This is the follow-up to 2017's Buried Lies, which introduced Ohlsson's new series featuring Stockholm criminal lawyer Martin Brenner, Lies finds Brenner desperate to disprove a dead woman's confession to multiple murders and find her missing son. Dubbed "Sara Texas" by the press, Sara Tell confessed to five murders—three in Sweden and two in Texas—before to jumping to her death from a Swedish bridge before she could be brought to trial. Her four-year-old son, Mio, disappeared when Sara died. Recruited by Sara's brother to prove her innocence, Martin has traveled from Sweden to Texas and back, trying to piece together the string of murders and figure out why an innocent woman would confess to the crimes. Now Martin has been unjustly implicated and it's his own innocence on the line, as well as Sara's. Ohlsson, whose previous series featured the duo of Stockholm investigative analyst Fredrika Bergman and police Superintendent Alex Recht, is known for her intricate plots and Lies is no different, weaving Martin's investigation into Sara's crimes into his hunt for Mio and his desperate attempts to save his own life and reputation. Fans of the dark-hearted tales of Läckberg and Nesbø will quickly add Ohlsson to their list of Scandinavian must-reads.
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Baby Blue, by Pol Koutsakis (Greece)
Translated from the Greek by Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife
In Athens, there's a kinder, gentler name for a hitman: a "conscientious fixer." In Koutsakis's second mystery featuring Athenian "fixer" Stratos Gazis—who fixes problems no one else can handle—juggles multiple "problems." The first relates to Emma, a blind teenage card shark who, along with her ex-journalist adopted father, Themis, performed little skits on the street to make a living. When her father is tortured to death, Emma is taken in by one of Athens's most feared crime bosses, Angelino, who vows to find the killer and enlists Stratos to help. As Stratos begins his investigation, his friend—despite their seemingly diametrically opposed professions—Costas Dragas, one of the city's top homicide cops, is on the trail of a killer who targets pedophiles, dubbed by the media as the Avenger. The deeper Stratos and Costas dig, the clearer it becomes that there's a link between Themis Raptas's murder and the crimes of the Avenger. In a noir worthy of the genre's founders, Koutsakis makes Athens, and Stratos, fitting Greek stand-ins for Los Angeles, Philip Marlowe, and Sam Spade.
Big Sister, by Gunnar Staalesen (Norway)
Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett
The 20th installment in Staalesen's long-running Bergen-set series featuring PI Varg Veum (though not the 20th title available to non-Norwegian speakers), Sister finds Veum uncomfortably mining his own past. Still crawling back to normal after the death several years before of his partner, Karin, an event that sent him into a dangerous depression, Varg is shocked when a woman approaches him, claiming to be his half-sister. As if that weren't enough to swallow, she has a case for him: her 19-year-old god-daughter from Haugesund (a town about three hours north of Bergen) is in nursing school has disappeared. She left her Bergen apartment two weeks ago, providing no forwarding address, and now she doesn't answer her cell phone. Not surprisingly, even in Norway, the police refuse to take the case of an adult who seems to have simply picked up her life in one place to start over in someplace new very seriously. But her god mother is worried and Varg is her last resort. He agrees to take the case, family loyalty outweighing his doubts, but the more he digs into the life of the missing woman, the more secrets he uncovers about his family, the kind that are best left buried. Secrets and terrifying Norwegian biker gangs—not a recipe for a happy family reunion.
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Do you know the biggest mistake is when people are shopping for their next car, whether it's a new or used car? The answer might surprise you: It's not knowing how much you can afford to pay for a car. Part of the issue is that there is more to owning a car than just the original price tag of the vehicle itself. When it comes to creating your car shopping budget, you need to make sure you're considering the full cost of owning a car. This article will help ensure you cover all the bases.
Visit any online payment calculator (we have a good one on the Auto City website here) to plug in some particulars and see what your monthly payments would be under various scenarios.
Monthly insurance premiums vary widely by the year, make and model of the vehicle being insured, as well as by the insurance company. Find out more by reading our previous article, How to Buy Car Insurance.
Gasoline prices fluctuate wildly over time, but you need to come up with estimate based on current prices and how much you tend to drive on a monthly basis. You can find tips about how to ease the pain in our article, How to Maintain or Improve Fuel Economy.
Every vehicle has an owner's manual that outlines all the regular maintenance that needs to take place to keep in good working order. Based on how much you drive in a year, you can come up with a list of all the maintenance items and then price them out at your trusted auto service center to come up with a monthly average that you'll spend. Repairs are trickier because you don't know what might go wrong with your car, but include something in your calculation. Learn how to keep your car in tip-top shape by reading these articles: Driving Habits that Help Your Car Last Longer<|fim_middle|> no matter what your credit status, and even a 3-day money-back guarantee if you have second thoughts after your purchase. You can check out more than 200 high-quality used cars available now on the inventory page of our website to see if your next ride is waiting for you right here at Auto City! | and The True Cost of Putting Off Car Maintenance.
Just to point it out, the average cost of the four items listed above add up to $577 on a monthly basis. If that figure makes you raise your eyebrows, then it's good that you're finding this out now instead of after purchasing your next car.
Once you've come up with estimates on the four main costs of owning the kind of vehicle that interests you, then there is the matter of seeing how the monthly total fits into your overall monthly budget. There are different ideas out there about what can generally be considered affordable. One approach is what is called the 20/4/10 rule of thumb. It begins with making sure you make a down payment of at least 20% on the vehicle you want to buy. If you do that, then you should be able to meet the next step, which is financing a purchase for no more than four years. And finally, get that monthly total of expected costs for vehicle ownership and compare it to your monthly gross income. You want the monthly total car expense to take up no more than 20% of your gross monthly income.
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Weather promotes growth of turf, weeds, diseases
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Weed Control for Crops, Turfgrass and Lawn Management
Crop Report
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Mississippi's sod producers experienced good news and bad news from 2017 weather conditions.
Jay McCurdy, turfgrass specialist with the Mississippi State University Extension Service, said the good news was a modestly warm spring with timely rainfall provided good growing conditions for most of the state's sod farms. The bad news was the same weather promoted the growth of weeds and<|fim_middle|>/publications/.
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"By comparing levels of sod production with previous years, we know this has been a good year for growers," McCurdy said. "The frequent rains led to disease and weed problems that were relatively easy to control or overcome."
Clarissa Balbalian, manager of the MSU plant pathology diagnostic lab, said large patch, dollar spot and take-all root rot have all been challenges in lawns across the state this year.
"Large patch was a problem throughout the spring and into July, but it is not active during the hottest weeks of the summer. It also occurs in the fall and may increase if people apply too much nitrogen," she said. "Dollar spot is another fungal disease, but it tends to occur when grass is stressed from a lack of nutrients."
Balbalian said effective fungicides are available, but applicators need to follow label directions carefully. Another option is to wait for weather conditions to change and most grasses will recover.
McCurdy said when warm and rainy weather occurs in the early fall, other diseases and armyworms start to show up. There is not much that can be done to prevent armyworms.
"These problems are fairly easy to fix, but each can run away from us," he said.
McCurdy said dove weed is continuing its march north and becoming more problematic in turf fields. The loss of a key herbicide several years ago has led to increased weed challenges from grasses like broomsedge. Growers are also having problems with torpedo grass, which spreads profusely.
"The profit margins are so slim with most sod farms that management decisions are carefully weighed," McCurdy said.
McCurdy said sod prices have not changed much in recent years. Bermuda, zoysia, centipede and St. Augustine grasses range from just under $2 per square yard to as much as $4, depending on varieties and supplies.
For more information on issues related to lawns and sod production, go online to http://extension.msstate.edu | 406 |
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Heat your charcoal grill as you would and grill the skewers until the sides of the scallops are firm, the centers are opaque and the bacon is crispy. This is difficult to time and flipping may or may not be required, so Brock cooked them until an internal temperature of 130 was reached. Transfer skewers to a platter, squeeze lemon over top and sprinkle with the chives. | ankering for scallops and it was a beautiful day, so I flipped through all of our barbecue books and this is the recipe we picked. Borrowed from America's Test Kitchen, 'Master of the Grill', this is very straight forward to prepare and perfect to cook on a charcoal grill (and it makes for a great appetizer or a full dinner – enjoy!
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Fast RF-CV characterization through High-Speed 1-port S-Parameter measurements
R.W. Herfst, Peter G. Steeneken, M.P.J. Tiggelman, Jiri Stulemeijer, Jurriaan Schmitz
We present a fast radio frequency–capacitancevoltage (RF-CV) method to measure the CV relation of an electronic device. The approach is more accurate, much faster, and more cost effective compared to the existing off-the-shelf solutions. Capacitances are determined using a single-frequency 1-port S-parameter setup constructed from discrete components. We introduce a new way to correct for nonlinearities of the used components, which greatly increases the accuracy with which the phase and magnitude of the reflected signal is measured. The measurement technique is validated on an RF microelectromechanical systems capacitive switch and a bariumstrontium-titanate tunable capacitor. Complete CV curves are measured in less than a millisecond, with a measurement accuracy well below 1%.
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Herfst, R.W. ; Steeneken, Peter G. ; Tiggelman, M.P.J. et al. / Fast RF-CV characterization through High-Speed 1-port S-Parameter measurements. In: IEEE transactions on semiconductor manufacturing. 2012 ; Vol. 25, No. 3. pp. 310-316.
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Home Business NFC – The Death of QR Codes?
In case you haven't heard of QR codes, or quality response codes, they're<|fim_middle|> NFC may have been so slow to take off was the need to embed chips in the marketing material. Today, NFC enabled plastics and papers have been developed which have made the production of tags cheaper, and Apple have recently embraced NFC technology. It looks like the death of QR codes may be nigh, as NFC takes over the marketplace.
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QR codes are usually scanned by a smartphone or other device and link directly to the company's website. NFC uses an embedded chip, which links customers to the company website when a smartphone or other mobile device touches or comes in close proximity to the chip. QR codes were invented for use in the automotive industry in 1984, and quickly caught on as a direct marketing idea, whereas NFC has also been around since the 1980's, although it has been slightly slower to catch on for marketing purposes. Both technologies are incredibly popular with marketers and those looking to advertise in a way which will have a huge impact on conversion rates compared to other methods.
Many technology buffs believe the answer to this question is yes, and there are a number of reasons for this belief. NFC is, on the whole, easier to use than QR codes – depending on the app used to scan the codes, QR codes can take up to 7 steps to connect the user to the digital content. All that users have to do with an NFC tag is place their smartphone in close proximity of the chip and the work is done for them. But in the fight to rule the link between the physical world and the digital one, NFC has been slow to catch up with QR codes, mostly because leading smartphone manufacturer Apple hasn't been keen to embrace NFC. Recently, applications using NFC have been rolled out by other companies, such as Google Wallet, and other smartphone manufacturers such as Samsung have been using NFC technology in their phones since as far back as 2006.
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| MEN'S LACROSSE: Win streak snaps in one-goal loss
Jane Miller
MEN'S LACROSSE: Win streak snaps in one-goal loss
Jane Miller & Matthew Mister 2:25 am, Apr 24, 2017
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Leading by four goals early<|fim_middle|>, riling up his home crowd and giving his team its first lead in over 30 minutes.
With half a minute left, Yale's hopes of a late goal were dashed as Albany won the final faceoff. The Great Danes were then able to run down the clock, defeating Yale 13–12 in the top-15 clash.
"It's important that we learn from this game," Tigh said. "There's a lot of areas in which we can improve to put us in better shape in the weeks to come."
Putting the nonconference loss in the rearview, Yale will travel to Cambridge to play Harvard in its final regular season game this weekend. With a win against the Crimson, the Bulldogs would clinch their first undefeated Ivy League season since 1956, the first year the Ancient Eight competed in lacrosse. | in the fourth quarter, the Yale men's lacrosse team was 12 minutes away from extending its win streak to eight games. However, the Bulldogs let the top-five win that would have boosted their NCAA tournament resume slip away, allowing five unanswered goals as Albany rolled to a 13–12 victory.
The No. 11 Bulldogs (8–4, 5–0 Ivy) won the majority of faceoffs in a contest that saw both teams put up a staggering 40 shots each, but Yale was ultimately unable to shutdown the nation's top offense as the game came down to its final seconds. No. 5 Albany (11–2, 5–0 America East) spent most of the contest playing catch up but finally punched its ticket to victory with just 34 seconds left on the clock.
"It was a great college lacrosse game," head coach Andy Shay said. "I thought we played well at times and played poorly at times. We lost a bunch of possessions in a row in the fourth, and that proved to be the end of the game. When we had the ball we were able to go on runs, but we went offsides and turned the ball over … you have to be clean in the fourth and we weren't."
Midfielder Jack Tigh '19 scored the opening goal of the Saturday night contest less than a minute into the game, driving down the right side of the field straight toward the net. Midfielder Lucas Cotler '20 added another point to the scoreboard for the Elis, but the country's top scorer, Albany's Connor Fields, responded with his first of three goals. A first quarter that featured a combined 19 shots between the two teams displayed the dynamism of the two offenses, with Albany enjoying a 4–3 lead after 15 minutes.
Despite the Great Danes' second highest faceoff win percentage in Division I, Bulldog midfielder Conor Mackie '18 outperformed his counterpart TD Ierlan throughout the night at the X, winning 16 faceoffs to the Albany freshman's 13. However, Yale reached its peak offensive dominance during the second period, when Mackie won just two draws. The Bulldogs outscored their opponent 3–1 with consecutive goals from attacker Jackson Morrill '20 and midfielders Joe Sessa '19 and Jason Alessi '18 to give Yale a 6–5 advantage heading into halftime.
Yale's leading goal scorer, attacker Ben Reeves '18, who came off a 10-point effort against Brown, had just one goal in the contest. Half of the Eli goals came from either Alessi or Sessa, who both had three goals Saturday after entering the game with just 19 combined in Yale's first 11 contests.
"[Saturday's game] definitely shed light to the fact that we don't rely on one specific person to get the job done, rather a collective group," Tigh said. "[Alessi and Sessa] are both tremendous athletes and played a great game."
The Elis quickly extended their one-goal lead at the onset of the third quarter. Defender Robert Mooney '19 was left wide open in transition and converted a bounce shot into his second goal in three games, and the Bulldogs gained their biggest lead of the night when Alessi also sent a bounce shot past Albany goaltender JD Colarusso. Alessi completed his hat trick with another goal midway through the third, but Albany rallied back with three goals of its own to pull back within one heading into the final period.
With just under 11 minutes to play, Fields ended a 3–0 Yale scoring run with a shot past Eli goalie Phil Huffard '18. Although Fields tallied a respectable five points against the Bulldogs, it was Albany midfielder Bennett Drake who led the team with four goals, including the game-tying strike in the fourth quarter.
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"The the whole team is awesome!! They are really caring!! I would recommend them to anyone who asks for an orthodontist. I am so glad that I came here!!"
"Dr. McGrath and his staff are fabulous! They are really caring, and teeth turn out great. Both my kids have gone to him. Dr. McGrath makes sure the teeth are just perfect. He also has great prizes for the kids. Tropical Smoothie and movie tickets are favorites. Thanks!"
"Absolutely the best! All three of my kids came here and have beautiful smiles. A huge thank you to Dr. McGrath and his entire staff for everything but especially the beautiful smiles! Highly recommend! Truly the best!"
"Outstanding staff dedicated to providing excellence. Very caring and gentle people. Can't say enough about Dr. McGrath, his expertise sure did a wonder for me. My change is absolutely stunning. Very thankful and happy with results. Will recommend to all that need gorgeous smile."
"This this was a wonderful experience! The staff is very helpful and kind. The Dr is extremely knowledgable and efficient. Our time with Dr McGrath and his team could not have been better."
"One word INCREDIBLE. From the start, every detail was clearly set out. The process, the payment schedule, timelines, etc. We have encountered absolutely no surprises along the way. This has been such an easy process for our family. I'm not sure what I was expecting on this journey but the people made our experience very enjoyable. I have 3 more children in or entering the program and I wouldn't even consider going anywhere else. Thank you for all that you have done to make it a painless event in Thomas' life."
"My daughter had her usual check up and had her wire changed and new bands put on. Service was excellent as always!"
"Can't say enough about how wonderful Dr. McGrath is and all the staff at Oakton Family Orthodontics! All three of my children have had braces. Years ago when we were first looking, we interviewed different offices. As soon as we came here, we knew we found the best place! We will miss seeing everyone. Thanks for treating us like family!"
"Dr. McGrath and his office staff are wonderful! I had never had braces as a child and was very picky about my teeth. I am so glad that I chose Dr. McGrath and Oakton Orthodontists! From the moment you walk in you are welcomed and everyone is extremely friendly. I am very pleased with my teeth and my experience with Oaktom Orthodontics and I would highly recommend them!!!! Special thanks to Dr. McGrath, Anita D, Holly, Shannon, Martina, Lianna, and Robert!"
"The most wonderful experience. Appreciate all your support. Would highly recommend to everyone, will miss visiting all of you. Great team! Big thank you to Kevin! Don't change a thing........"
"Thank you all so very much for everything you've done for me! I can't tell you what an amazing experience this has been so far & it's something I've waited over half of my life for! You are all so truly special and I'm just so blessed to have been referred to you via Tanya. I absolutely love the entire staff!!!"
"Staff is always friendly and helpful. Ortho check ups for braces are quick and efficient. We love going to see Dr. McGrath!"
"Dr McGrath and his staff are the best. They are professional. Caring. Respectful. Class A orthodontist. They go above and beyond what you would expect."
"It was a great experience. My son only missed one morning of school during his entire time with braces, they were always able to make after school appointments. There were no surprises. Great staff."
"The entire experience with Dr McGrath office was fantastic! The front desk staff, Martina and Lianna, are so easy and very friendly, a wonderful representation of good customer service. The back staff always made Megan feel special."
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By Ryan<|fim_middle|> idea how long the puppies had been trapped, nor did they have any clue if they would survive their ordeal.
Each of the puppies suffered damage inflicted by the tar, but some were in far worse shape than others. This one pup was totally unable to even close her mouth. She was in so much distress that she couldn't stop crying.
As soon as the team successfully transported all of the puppies to the treatment center, they tried to rehydrate and comfort them. At first, they were only able to administer water using their fingertips or an oral syringe.
Once the puppies were rehydrated, the real hard work began. The team worked carefully to remove all of the tar that was covering the puppies' fur. First, they used clippers and scissors in an attempt to cut away the largest chunks of tar…
Once that step was done, the rescuers carefully massaged a thick layer of oil into the puppies' coats. While it might've seemed odd, oil was actually the only way to soften the tar so that it could be washed off from the puppies' fur.
It took two hours, but the tar finally began to soften and the puppies started to wriggle and move more freely! It was an inspiring sight, but there was still much more work to be done before they would be out of the woods…
The puppies would have many more oil massages in their future to help in the process of loosening the tar. In between oiling sessions, they would transfer the puppies to vats of warm water and rinse off what they could of the warmed tar.
It took a lot of time, but after many oil massages—and even more baths—the team's efforts finally started to pay off! They were able to see the sweet young puppies who were hidden underneath all of that foul and viscose stuff.
Thanks to the Animal Aid Unlimited team, the puppies looked like they were going to pull through! It must have been wonderful for those pups to start seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, but it took quite a toll on them…
Unfortunately, the process of being manhandled and constantly massaged and cleaned was taking a physical toll on the puppies. It was so exhausting that they started falling asleep even as they were being cleaned!
Luckily, sleep was another thing these puppies desperately needed to help them speed up the recovery process. With every oiling and with every bath, they seemed stronger, healthier, and more eager to get back to the business of being regular puppies!
Thankfully, it wasn't long before they got their wish! Within a few days and with most of the tar removed, the puppies were completely unrecognizable. Who would've thought that just days before, they were on the brink of death?
The puppies had nothing but adoration for the members of the Animal Aid Unlimited team who came to their rescue. Now that they were clean and happy again, they were finally able to express their affection the only way they knew how: with lots of kisses! But there was even more good news for them…
Just when you thought this story couldn't get any more heartwarming, the Animal Aid Unlimited Team was actually able to locate the puppies' mother! They quickly rescued her and reunited her with her beloved missing litter.
Under the watchful and loving eye of their mother and the Animal Aid Unlimited team, the puppies were finally able to relax. They frolicked and played, and eventually, their true personalities began to emerge, too.
Seeing these puppies running free and playing together was something that their rescuers had only dreamed of a couple of days earlier. To see it actually happening was beyond their wildest hopes for the three little pups.
Being reunited with their missing mother made their incredible recovery all the sweeter. With their mother standing by, they would be able to get the nutrients they needed to survive as well as learn valuable life lessons from her (such as "don't play in a tar pit!").
Just watch these puppies' entire amazing journey. Once you witness these puppies in action you won't be able to resist shedding a few tears of joy when you see their happy ending for yourself!
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Families who've owned dogs since they were small pups form intimate bonds with said four-legged companions. And when kids make memories via playing fetch and tug-of-war with their furry energetic friends, they form truly unbreakable bonds.
The Texan Robles family loved their dog to no end. She knew the family since she was a puppy and grew up alongside the children. This made it all the more painful when, one afternoon, the pooch disappeared, leaving the family to wonder what became of the dog they were so close with…
Icela Robles grew up with dogs, so when she married and had children, she knew it was only a matter of time before her family welcomed a canine into their home. She had a special soft spot for Labradors.
When Iclela's son and daughter, Joshua and Jeslyn, were only a few months old, Lola the dog entered their lives, and it was love at first sight (or lick) for every single family member.
The kids immediately took to the golden Labrador and, after late evenings tossing the tennis ball and long walks with her on Saturday mornings, they developed a special bond.
As Lola and the two Robles children grew up, they spent every available moment hanging out together. In fact, if you asked Joshua and Jeslyn, they would have admitted they thought of Lola as another sibling.
One summer afternoon, Joshua and Jeslyn went out into the backyard to play with Lola. However, when the children called for her, she was nowhere to be found. After searching the property, they feared the worst.
A frantic Joshua and Jeslyn ran inside and told Icela. She and her husband hopped into their car and combed every square inch of their neighborhood, but it was true: Lola had disappeared.
An entire 12 months went by with no word from anyone about Lola. They asked friends and neighbors, but no one knew anything. The dog was gone, and the family was devastated.
Questions mounted for the family who could never stop wondering what Lola's ultimate fate was. Had somebody found her? Was she living somewhere else with another family? Answers were impossible to come by — until one morning.
On that day, Icela answered the phone and was greeted by an unfamiliar voice. On the other end, an employee at Dallas Animal Services announced they had stunning news.
Icela's mouth dropped as she heard the voice on the other end tell her they found Lola! Icela hopped in the car and drove to the shelter, wondering if that could possibly be true.
Sure enough, when Icela stepped into the shelter, a familiar face greeted her. There was the beloved golden Labrador Lola, eyes wide and tail furiously wagging! Joyous day!
Lola had been microchipped as a puppy, so when the workers from Dallas Animal Services brought her in, a simple scan of her microchip let them know she was the Robles' dog. But Icela had questions.
For instance, how had it taken a whole year for the family to get Lola back? Where had she been all that time? And how had she only found her way to the shelter now?
Obviously, Lola couldn't tell her owners what happened, but because she looked well-fed and cared for, the workers assumed she had been staying with another family.
While Icela wouldn't ever get the truth behind Lola's disappearance, this didn't diminish her overwhelming joy. Elated, Icela couldn't wait to tell Joshua and Jeslyn the news.
Icela called the house to make sure her kids were home, and she kept Lola in the back seat so the kids couldn't see her when the van pulled into the driveway. This way, the surprise would hit as hard as possible.
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As soon as Icela pulled into the driveway, Joshua and Jeslyn greeted her, curious as to why their mother wanted to know if they were home — and what she wanted to show them in the trunk. They soon had their answers!
Both children stared in awe as the dog they'd grown up with for years leaped out of the back! Jeslyn started crying, and Joshua couldn't stop hugging the long-lost family member!
It felt too good to be true, but it wasn't! The Robles were a full family again at last. The family celebrated by taking their newly returned dog out for a play session! Look at her go!
To this day, the mystery remains: where the heck had she gone for an entire year? Still, many animals who go missing never return; the Robles were just incredibly lucky to have their golden Labrador back.
Lola returning to her family after an entire year is a bizarre ending to this story, and we couldn't imagine what pain the Robles family must've felt within those 12 months. But even losing a cherished pet for a measly month can feel helpless.
John and Cindy Billesberger know this pain, as their beloved dog Bruno went missing in September 2016. They couldn't find him in any of his usual spots. At first, they were sure that the adventurous dog would eventually return, but then he didn't…
After a month without any trace of Bruno, they began to fear the worst. The family, who lived in Estevan in Saskatchewan, Canada, grieved every day for their missing dog. They hoped he'd simply been picked up by another family. It was the only way to keep their sadness at bay.
Then, something strange happened. One day, when John was outside and about a half-mile from his house, another of their dogs showed a strange interest in one particular spot on their neighbor's property.
John tried to force his pooch to move on, but the dog looked at him and refused to budge. When John started to walk away, the dog began to bark. That was when John decided to investigate…
When he saw what captured his other dog's attention, he was stunned. It was a four-foot-wide, 10-foot-deep hole, which was likely an old well that had been dug up but later forgotten about.
The well itself was an interesting discovery, but that wasn't why John and Cindy's dog started to bark. You see, at the bottom of the well was Bruno—and he was, miraculously, still alive somehow after all that time!
John quickly took a visual inventory of his beloved missing dog and he could tell right away that Bruno was in bad shape. The poor pooch was on the verge of death. He couldn't bark, and his eyes appeared sunken.
Crusty and infected, the poor dog had cuts and sores all over his body. He'd also sadly worn the pads off of his paws in his fruitless attempt to climb out. John knew he had to act fast…
John quickly called his son, who arrived at the scene just minutes later. His son tied a rope around his own waist and jumped down into the well, risking life and limb to save Bruno.
Bruno was in such a bad way that he didn't recognize John's son, and he seemed frightened. Still, John's son spoke soothing words and scooped up the dog, lifting him out of the well before climbing out himself.
The Billesbergers drove the injured Bruno to the nearest veterinary hospital in Estevan and prayed that he could hold on just a little bit longer. When they arrived, even the veterinary technicians were stunned.
The workers rushed Bruno into the ER, hooked him up to IV fluids, and began treating his injuries. They struggled to come up with a treatment plan knowing that the dog's chances of survival were very slim. Would he even make it?
Bruno was diagnosed as dehydrated, malnourished, and anemic, and that was only the tip of the iceberg. The team at the veterinary clinic knew that he would require round-the-clock care if there was to be any hope for his survival.
The workers noted that, in some ways, Bruno was lucky to have fallen in a well, especially since it had snowed; the little water he had there helped him hang on until he could be rescued. It was a strange but critical silver lining.
Bruno spent weeks recovering. Thankfully, he slowly started getting back to his old self again. Before too long, he was able to recognize the Billesbergers—and as soon as he did, his tail started wagging!
Both the staff at the hospital and Bruno's family were so concerned about Bruno when he first arrived, and the mere fact that he was even alive was a miracle. They couldn't get over how he was able to recover the way he did.
After 22 days of treatment, Bruno was finally well enough to go home! Sure, he was still a little weak and one of his paws was in a cast, but everyone agreed that the real medicine Bruno needed was love…
Cindy and John were overwhelmed with adoration for their dog and the people who helped him. "After seeing what he looked like when we brought him in and seeing the looks on the vets' faces," Cindy said, "every day—every moment—that he lived was another obstacle that [was] overcome."
Bruno looked much better, but he had a long way to go. He was still battling refeeding syndrome, a potentially deadly disease that affects dogs recovering from starvation. Cindy said it was difficult to see him undernourished because he was so healthy before.
The Billesbergers weren't the only ones who are happy to have Bruno back. John and Cindy remarked that their two other dogs were seriously depressed in the absence of their best friend. Thankfully, things were looking up!
It's truly heartbreaking whenever you see an animal like Bruno in pain or distress. Sadly, we don't always have the training or appropriate resources at hand to help. But even the smallest gesture can sometimes still mean the difference between life and death.
A man in India can certainly attest to this. Recently when he was walking home from work he heard something truly distressing — the desperate cry of what sounded like baby animals. Cautiously, he followed the sounds toward some construction debris…
Sure enough, there were three young puppies crying out for help! The man wanted to step in, but there was just one problem: the puppies were completely stuck in a pit of tar! Panicked, the man didn't know what to do.
The man took a closer look. The poor puppies had stumbled into a pit of tar and they were totally trapped in the sticky substance. Worse yet? It was hardening, and fast! He didn't know what else to do—he couldn't pull them out, and it wouldn't be safe to expose himself to the substance. Still, he had one idea…
The man desperately called the rescue organization, Animal Aid Unlimited. He couldn't help save the puppies, but they might've been able to! The rescue team arrived as quickly as they could and approached the puppies. It looked like a truly impossible situation for the little ones.
After struggling to release the puppies, the rescuers realized that they couldn't just pull the puppies from the tar—they were too badly stuck. In order to free them, they would have to separate the tar later! It was a slow and nerve-wracking process…
They transported the puppies—and the tar they were stuck to—back to their treatment facility and hoped for the best. They had no | 2,340 |
Preeclampsia May Lead to Reduced Thyroid Function
Women who experience preeclampsia, a serious complication of pregnancy, may have an increased risk for reduced thyroid functioning later in life, according to a new report.
Preeclampsia is a life-threatening complication that affects 3-5% of pregnancies. It results in high blood pressure and protein in the urine. Though it begins with mild symptoms, it can progress to severe preeclampsia and eclampsia—dangerously high blood pressure and convulsions that can lead to disability or death.
The causes of preeclampsia aren't known. In earlier work, a team led by Dr. Richard J. Levine of NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) found that high levels of 2 molecules in the blood may cause symptoms of preeclampsia. One of those molecules, soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1 (sFlt-1), acts by blocking a protein called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF).
Other studies have found that some cancer patients receiving treatments that block VEGF develop hypothyroidism, a condition in which the thyroid gland fails to produce enough hormones. The thyroid gland, located in the front of the throat, makes hormones that help regulate heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature and the conversion of food into energy. Reduced thyroid functioning, or hypothyroidism, results in overall weakness and fatigue, and increases the risk for cardiovascular disease.
Levine and his colleagues set out to see whether women with preeclampsia had problems with thyroid functioning as well. Funding for their work was provided in part by NICHD and NIH's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI).
The researchers first tested blood samples collected in an earlier NIH-led study on preeclampsia for levels of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), which stimulates the thyroid gland. Elevated TSH may signal a malfunction of the thyroid. The scientists also drew on findings from a study in Norway, in which researchers had collected data from over 7,000 women who gave birth to a first child in 1967 or later. The women's blood samples had been tested for thyroid function in the mid-1990s.
The researchers found a link between preeclampsia and reduced thyroid functioning, as reported in the<|fim_middle|> development of reduced thyroid function," Levine says. Doctors treating women with a history of preeclampsia should be aware of a higher potential risk for reduced thyroid functioning.
"Reduced thyroid functioning is easy to diagnose when suspected, and inexpensive to treat," says Dr. Susan B. Shurin, acting director of NICHD. "Replacement therapy substantially improves quality of life of affected persons."
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Genes that Protect Chromosome Tips May Boost Longevity | November 2009 edition of BMJ. In the first study, women who went on to develop preeclampsia had much higher levels of TSH toward the end of their pregnancies than women who never developed preeclampsia. The rise in TSH was strongly associated with levels of sFlt-1, one of the proteins linked to symptoms of preeclampsia.
In the Norway study, women who had preeclampsia in their first pregnancy were 1.7 times as likely to have high TSH an average of 20 years later as women who hadn't had preeclampsia. Women with preeclampsia in both their first and second pregnancies were nearly 6 times as likely to have high TSH levels.
"This suggests that a history of preeclampsia may predispose women to the later | 178 |
An investment fund is off to a strong start thanks to digital marketing arbitrage, tapping niches in the $131 billion online ad market.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- An investment fund is using a quirky arbitrage play to generate big returns from all those annoying digital ads and banners that we see every day while surfing the Net.
Basically, Harbor City is making what it calls a digital marketing arbitrage on this booming marketplace. It's betting that it can sniff out online leads and generate sales for businesses at a cheaper cost than the businesses are willing to pay for those leads. In other words, the spread - or difference - between the sale price per lead and the actual cost of capturing that lead could generate hefty profits for the company - and investors in the fund.
JP Maroney, the brains behind the concept, is an entrepreneur and investor with more than 25 years of experience starting, buying and selling companies. His business chops come from years of working as a consultant, business growth strategist and client acquisition consultant for such firms as Wells Fargo, Metric Property Management (a unit of BlackRock Realty Advisors,) Precision AutoTune and other corporations.
Since 2004, he's focused on online advertising and marketing. "We would put in a dollar on advertising, and in a short period - three or four days - we'd get back [a] $1.50, $3 and sometimes $5 return on our<|fim_middle|> turns down the business offer. "We're not getting paid for clicks - we're getting paid for results," he said.
Raising the fund has allowed Harbor City to significantly scale up its business and expand into multiple niches, ranging from reverse mortgages to insurance. By purchasing traffic in bulk, it can negotiate a lower price, which keeps its costs low. "Instead of maybe paying 50 or 70 cents for email traffic, we might get them to 35 or 40 cents a click, and that makes all the difference in the margin," he said.
Even more important is the goldmine of information it gets from all that traffic data and cookies. "We invested heavily in research tools that tell us about a particular demographic or market - the types of sites they're visiting, where they're going to, where they're coming from, how much time they're spending on these websites, what topics they're interested in, what emails they open, what subject lines interest them - we're obsessed with testing every single component!" he said. The firm then uses all of this info to refine and revise digital ads to better target customers, who will click to a client's site and purchase a product.
It also gives Harbor City an advantage over small mom-and-pop digital marketing companies that are rampant in this sector. "There is an edge in having this kind of data and knowledge," said Maroney.
But how does Maroney and his eight-member team have the expertise to advertise and target potential customers in so many different fields at a cheaper price than a small company that specializes in a particular niche? Maroney said he hires experts on a contract basis to advise on different sectors as the firm enters new niches.
"We take every niche one at a time and research the niche, understand the market, wrap our head around it, understand where they're hanging out, where they're visiting - the pages and websites - the psychology behind them - all of the things that go into understanding a market," he said. "Then, and only then, do we create the right kind of bait or hook to attract those kind of people."
So far, Maroney said his company is exceeding financial projections since its inception in December 2013. His initial goal was to raise $1 million the first year, but expects to have more than twice that amount by year-end. Investors from the U.S., the U.K, and Dubai are already lining up with new money commitments for 2015, according to Maroney.
"My goal was to bring in $1 million the first year, $25 million by 2016 and $100 million by the fifth year, but I think we're going to get there in two to three years," he said. "It's becoming a new investment class." | money," he said.
As he watched money flood into the digital advertising world, Maroney had an "a-ha" moment: He wondered if he could use his business and digital marketing expertise to raise a fund that could invest in this sector.
"This is a $131 billion a year industry, and over 60% of the dollars being spent on online advertising right now are being spent on performance marketing," where the ads don't just advertise a brand - they actually target specific customers, who will click on the ad and buy a product, said Maroney, Harbor City's founder. "It's a big big business."
So, he started meeting hedge fund managers and high net-worth buddies, asking how he could set up a fund. He launched it in December 2013. Instead of purchasing stock, the fund buys traffic and advertising on platforms, such as Facebook (FB , Google (GOOG , email, and RTB (real-time bidding networks), and arbitrages the difference between the cost of the traffic and the amount a client pays for a lead or sale. "If we're getting paid $50 for a lead, and we can generate that lead for $25, we're doubling our money every time someone fills out an application form," he said.
Of course, not every business deal works. If, after initial research and test marketing, Maroney feels the company can't generate the leads or sales for the amount of money being paid, the firm | 304 |
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Maintaining U.S. leadership in the NATO Alliance and sustaining the critical relationship between the U.S. and the European Union will continue to be among the most vital strategic aims of the United States in the decade ahead. Both of our political parties and the great majority of Americans in recent public opinion polls support a continuation of American leadership in NATO. We should also continue to view the over 500 million people who live in the European Union as our allies, friends and economic partners.
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Former U.S. Ambassador: Trump Had No Leverage Going Into North Korea Summit
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Both energy production and consumption can simultaneously affect regional air quality, local water stress and the global climate. Identifying the air quality–carbon–water interactions due to both energy sources and end-uses is important for capturing potential co-benefits while avoiding unintended consequences when designing sustainable energy transition pathways. The authors examine the air quality–carbon–water interdependencies of China's six major natural gas sources and three end-use gas-for-coal substitution strategies in 2020.
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Em matemática, as fórmulas de Viète são fórmulas que relacionam os coeficientes de um polinômio a somas e produtos de suas raízes. Esta denominação deve-se a François Viète, e são usadas especialmente em álgebra.
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Um polinômio geral qualquer de grau n
(sendo os coeficientes números reais ou complexos e an ≠ <|fim_middle|> estes termos por grau é obtido o polinômio simétrico elementar em – para xk, todos os distintos k-ésimos produtos de
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Identidades de Newton
Propriedades de raízes de polinômios
Teorema das raízes racionais
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Polinómios | 0) tem, conforme estabelece o teorema fundamental da álgebra, n raízes complexas (não necessariamente distintas) x1, x2, ..., xn. As fórmulas de Vieta relacionam os coeficientes do polinômio { ak } com somas e produtos (positivos ou negativos) de suas raízes { xi } como segue:
Estabelecido de forma equivalente, o (n − k)-ésimo coeficiente an−k é relacionado à soma acrescida de sinal de todos os possíveis subprodutos de raízes, tomando k por exemplo:
para k = 1, 2, ..., n (onde os índices ik são expressos em ordem crescente, a fim de garantir que cada subproduto de raízes seja considerado apenas uma vez).
Generalização para anéis
As fórmulas de Viète são frequentemente usadas com polinômios com coeficientes em um domínio de integridade R. Neste caso os quocientes pertencem ao anel de frações de R (ou em R mesmo se é inversível em R) e as raízes são tomadas em um corpo algebricamente fechado. Tipicamente, R é o anel dos inteiros, o campo das frações é o campo dos números racionais e o campo algebricamente fechado é o campo dos números complexos.
As fórmulas de Viète são fudamentais nestas situações, porque fornecem relações entre as raízes sem a necessidade de as determinar.
Para polinômios sobre um anel comutativo que não é um domínio de integridade, as fórmulas de Viète são válidas somente quando é um zero não-divisor e é fatorado como . Por exemplo, no anel dos inteiros módulo 8, o polinômio tem quatro raízes: 1, 3, 5 e 7. As fórmulas de Viète não são válidas se, por exemplo, e , porque . Contudo, fatora como e como , e as fórmulas de Viète são válidas se fixamos e ou e .
Exemplos gerais
Fórmulas de Viète aplicadas a polinômios quadráticos e cúbicos:
Para polinômios de segundo grau , as raízes da equação satisfazem
A primeira destas equações pode ser usada para encontrar o mínimo (ou máximo) de P.
Para o polinômio cúbico , as raízes da equação satisfazem
Prova
As fórmulas de Viète podem ser provadas por expansão da igualdade
que é verificada como válida sendo todas raízes deste polinômio, expandindo esta expressão e identificando os coeficientes de cada potência de
Formalmente, expandindo os termos são exatamente onde é 0 ou 1, sendo incluído no produto ou não, e k é o número de que são excluídos, sendo o número total de fatores no produto n (contando com multiplicidade k) – havendo n escolhas binárias (inclusive ou x), há termos – geometricamente, estes podem ser entendidos como os vértices de um hipercubo. Agrupando | 790 |
What a fun time at Crafter Quarters, Amesbury, MA, late January!
While the snow was flying in their part of the country, they were warm and cozy learning to use their Featherweight's sewing attachments. Sure wish I could have been there!
Ann Lamb and her husband know all about the lovely Featherweight, helping many keep their precious machines up and running! Several machines were even given a nice sprucing up with oil and cushions. Thanks to both of you our vintage featherweights can give us, and our grandchildren, many more years of sewing.
Ann coordinated this fabulous play day, Playing With Your Parts, and those attending not only learned how to use some fabulous attachments, but gained an appreciation for former seamstresses that only had these parts<|fim_middle|> machines a large variety of embellishments. Each does take practice learning to use, yet the satisfaction is well worth it. | to embellish (not all the built-in stitch patterns of today). Aren't they just fabulous sewing tools to use? I am always in awe of such wonderful inventions!
Ann shares her Valentine Wall hanging. Her largest heart was shirred using the gatherer, the pink heart was pin tucked with the tucker. A gorgeous ruffle surrounds the large heart. Can you see the tiny hem on the ruffle the hemmer foot made? Not an easy feat and takes practice. The dark purple heart was ruffled using a different setting on her ruffler, and the adjustable hemmer to hem it. The edge stitcher added the lace very nicely, and the lovely pink bias tape was put on with the binder. Her regular presser foot sewed all to the large background. Ann, this is a very beautiful wall hanging! Thank you sew much for sharing your wall hanging and the fantastic time had by all!
The sewing machine attachments turn our vintage straight stitch sewing | 196 |
Janine Mc<|fim_middle|> old stamp album gathering dust in the garage, Janine was drawn to the different stamps she recognised from childhood and decided she needed to create a piece of art to display them all. She felt it was such a waste for the old stamps to be left unseen in a tatty old book.
From there family and friends began requesting art, including such things as Tui, Fantails and even a Lancaster Bomber! The art requests progressed from there and as a result a Facebook page called Lottie-Lu was established where she now sells pieces throughout the North Island. Occasionally people ask Janine to create a piece from their own childhood stamp albums which she enjoys as it gives the art a special touch.
Janine's artwork is sometimes exhibited locally in Gisborne, or is available through her Facebook page, Lottie-Lu. | Diarmid creates her art from home, just outside of Gisborne. She finds this rural lifestyle as well as her love of all things New Zealand, to be great inspiration for her art.
We recently spotted Janine's beautiful creations on Facebook and decided we had to post them here on Little Fish. You can see more on her Facebook page at Lottie-Lu.
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We know our classrooms should be rich with<|fim_middle|> backgrounds," note Christina V. Cedillo, "often fail to see ourselves in our school texts, let alone have opportunities to engage with the kinds of knowledge that meaningful representation makes possible. By that we mean representation that transcends mere depiction to encourage meaningful engagement with and reflection on diverse experiences and ways of knowing. As educators we must provide students with texts that reflect their respective backgrounds and engage the perspectives they bring to the classroom.
"I didn't always know all of the places that I was from until I encountered them in books. I think that we can and should be intentional about including diverse lit as a matter of course whenever we discuss lit in different genres, styles, and so forth." Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich writes.
Bring your students a little "bookjoy," as Pat Mora calls it, not only on El día de los niños/El día de los libros but all year long. | diverse books, but we may need explanations to share with colleagues about why we choose a diverse book over an old standard and, perhaps, recommendations on which books to select and a few ideas for how we might use those texts in our classrooms. NCTE, its members, and friends offer the following.
Robert Needlman, a pediatrician in Cleveland, Ohio and cofounder of Reach Out and Read, talked about his approach to primary care, which puts literacy front and center by having literacy-rich waiting rooms and demonstrating to parents how to read to their children. He pointed out new evidence that literacy acquisition and listening to stories changes the structure of the human brain, contributes to the brain's health, strengthens a child's attachment to his or her parents, and increases overall emotional health and resilience. His concern, however, is the lack of diversity in the books he collects for his patients, who are predominantly African American.
Ellen Oh, author and CEO of We Need Diverse Books, stresses the importance of diverse literature for children of color.
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Saint-Maurice-Saint-Germain ist eine französische Gemeinde mit Einwohnern (Stand: ) im Département Eure-et-Loir in der Region Centre-Val de Loire; sie gehört zum Arrondissement Nogent-le-Rotrou und zum Kanton Nogent-le-Rotrou.
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Saint-Maurice-Saint-Germain liegt etwa 37 Kilometer westnordwestlich von Chartres an der Eure. Umgeben<|fim_middle|>Ort an der Eure | wird Saint-Maurice-Saint-Germain von den Nachbargemeinden Belhomert-Guéhouville im Norden und Westen, Digny im Nordosten, Pontgouin im Osten, Le Favril im Südosten, Saint-Éliph im Süden sowie La Loupe im Westen und Südwesten.
Bevölkerungsentwicklung
Sehenswürdigkeiten
Kirche Saint-Maurice
Schloss Les Vaux aus dem 19. Jahrhundert
Persönlichkeiten
Louis d'Ussieux (1744–1805), Historiker und Schriftsteller
Gemeindepartnerschaft
Mit der italienischen Gemeinde Villafranca Piemonte in der Provinz Turin (Piemont) besteht eine Partnerschaft.
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On the morning of January 17, Jiang Guangping, vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, secretary of the Secretariat, and member of the party group, led a<|fim_middle|> to express their condolences to the sanitation workers and sent condolences and gifts. | delegation of the General Consent of the Communist Party of China and accompanied by the leaders of the city, Hu Ti and Gu Dahua, to carry out the warm activities in the city.
Jiang Guangping and his entourage first came to Quantum Hi-Tech (China) Biological Co., Ltd., a company with concentrated migrant workers. He listened to the company's career development and trade union construction, and discussed with many migrant workers. When he heard the staff evaluation "Enterprises are like home", Jiang Guangping praised the company's efforts to accelerate the development and give full play to the role of trade unions to safeguard the rights and interests of employees. He encouraged the employees to continue to carry forward the spirit of the model, the spirit of work and the spirit of craftsmen, and make positive contributions to enterprises and the country.
Subsequently, Jiang Guangping and his entourage went to condolences to the staff Lu Rongbo. Lu Rongbo was diagnosed with liver cancer in November last year. Because his family income is low, he can't afford treatment. He is currently only treated conservatively at home. Jiang Guangping encouraged him to remain optimistic and active in treatment and strive for a speedy recovery. Finally, Jiang Guangping and his entourage went to the Dongdiwan Station of the Environmental Protection Workers Station in Pengjiang District | 270 |
HISTORY - ARCHAEOLOGY > ARCHAIC PERIOD > BUILDINGS > BUILDINGS C,D AND F
Location: Below the Old Bouleuterion and the Tholos (See Thompson, H.A. – Wycherley, R., The Agora of Athens. The American Excavations in the Athenian Agora, vol. XIV, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton 1972, pp. 26, fig. 8 and 28, fig. 9).
Date of construction: 6th cent. BC.
Periods of Use: Archaic
Buildings C, D and F, which are located beneath the ruins of the Old Bouleuterion, constitute an Archaic complex of an irregular shape; it was thought that it was the first gathering place for Solon's boule. It is currently believed that the buildings' function was private.
In 1936, an intricate complex of Archaic buildings was excavated beneath the ruins of the Old Bouleuterion. Their foundations and the lower layers of the walls were made of rough or roughly hewn blocks of Acropolis limestone, while the superstructure was built with mud bricks. The floor was made of compacted earth. The earliest of these buildings is Building<|fim_middle|> a second storey that partly rested on wooden columns, of which only their bases remain, still visible on the large courtyard to the east. The thickness of the walls is approximately 0.50m. There were seven columns on the north and seven more on the south part of the courtyard. It is thought the complex of rooms around the smaller courtyard housed the kitchen, while the rooms around the east courtyard served as living spaces for the owners.
A series of smaller structures were built in direct relation to the original complex. Apparently the said buildings were destroyed during the occupation of Athens by Xerxes' troops in 480 BC. Although there are traces of repairs, it is uncertain whether the complex was still in use when the Tholos was built (c.465-460 BC).
Mc CAMP II, J., The Athenian Agora: A Guide to the Excavation and Museum4 (Athens 1990), pp. ….
Mc CAMP II, J., Η Αρχαία Αγορά της Αθήνας. Οι ανασκαφές στην καρδιά της κλασικής πόλης2 (Athens 2004), pp. 59-60.
THOMPSON, H.A., The Tholos of Athens and its Predecessors,The American Excavations in the Athenian Agora, Hesperia Supplement 4, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Princeton 1940), pp. 8-33.
THOMPSON, H.A. – WYCHERLEY, R., The Agora of Athens. The American Excavations in the Athenian Agora, vol. XIV, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Princeton 1972), pp. 25-29. | C, at the site of the Old Bouleuterion. Its ground plan is rectangular with sides measuring 6.7 m (N to S) × 15 m (E to W). Internally, it was arranged into two rooms with a southern exposure. The east wall was expanded towards the south, so as to serve as a retaining wall for a large square. A similar construction appears at the extension of the western wall. These walls were made of Acropolis limestone and the masonry is polygonal. Based on the pottery unearthed in its foundations, the building has been dated to the 1st quarter of 6th cent. BC.
Soon after, Building D, an orthogonal structure, was erected on the edge of the extension of the western supporting wall. This building is internally arranged into a spacious central room flanked by two smaller ones – the western one appears to have been a later addition to the original structure. The material and techniques employed in the construction of Building D are similar to those of Building C, although it does give the impression of a more carefully built structure, and it is dated to the 3rd quarter of the 6th cent. BC. It is located opposite Building C, behind the aforementioned spacious courtyard.
The original complex cannot be have been used as an early Bouleuterion of 400 representatives, as the capacity of each building is inadequate for a body of such size. Shortly after its construction, Building D was destroyed. Another building was erected on its site; the enclosure was expanded further, and at its south edge a complex structure was added, known as Building F.
Building F has not been fully excavated, as it is partly overlaid by the ruins of the Tholos. Its shape is that of an exceptionally large and comfortable residence of the Late Archaic period; in reality, it takes up the space created behind the crossroads of two important Agora roads, the West and South Streets. Its general shape is rather irregular, which is also true for each of the rooms. Its dimensions are thought to have been 27 m (E to W) × 18.5 m (N to S). There are two internal courtyards around which the rooms were arranged, a main courtyard to the east and a smaller one to the west.
The building's walls were made of rough Acropolis limestone blocks and the gaps between them were filled with smaller stones and mortar. The superstructure would certainly have been made of mud bricks, while there are indications for the existence of | 518 |
The Greater Utica Region drew a crowd of more than 4,000 walkers and runners that lined the streets on Saturday, March 3rd. Participants helped raise $931,243 at America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk. Heartfelt thanks and congratulations goes to all of the teams and fundraisers who helped the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association work toward the mission of building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
Special recognition goes to the 2018 top fundraiser, Albert Pylinski, raising more than $84,000 in support of the American Heart Association/American stroke Association.
Participants who could not make it to the event, or have additional donations to turn in, may turn in money (including matching gift funds) by April 15, 2018 to receive any and all incentives, prizes, club benefits and awards. Incentives can be picked up at the American Heart Association office located at 125 Business Park Drive in Utica, Monday-Friday between 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM. For more information call 315-580-3964 or visit www.UticaHeartRunWalk.org.
During Closing Ceremonies, the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association announced the winner of the Lifestyle Change Award, sponsored by Olivari Olive Oil. The criteria for the award were major changes and/or significant strides towards living a healthier life made by an individual. The 2018 Lifestyle Change Award recipient was Rod Wilson. Read the stories of the Lifestyle Change Award finalists here.
Thank you for all of your support and helping us fight heart disease and stroke!
America's Greatest Heart Run & Walk 2018 is locally sponsored by<|fim_middle|> please contact the American Heart Association at 315.580.3964 or visit www.uticaheartrunwalk.org. | NYCM Insurance; Scalzo, Zogby and Wittig, Inc. Insurance; MetLife & MetLife Foundation; and AmeriCU Credit Union. For more information on America's Greatest Heart Run & Walk 2018, | 49 |
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Crestliner partnering with Jason Mitchell Outdoors
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Crestliner announced Tuesday a new partnership with television program Jason Mitchell Outdoors, which will air new episodes starting January 2016. Jason Mitchell Outdoors, a Fox Sports show featuring walleye guide Jason Mitchell, has received some of the highest Nielsen ratings in the outdoor industry. Jason uses his new Crestliner 1850 Pro Tiller on the show as well as for guiding on North Dakota's Devils Lake.
"Jason is a respected and talented angler who generously shares his knowledge and expertise to help others enjoy their time on the water," said Lori Kneeland, marketing manager for Crestliner. "We are thrilled to be partnering with him as he continues to produce his popular and informative television show."
Jason, whose wide range of outdoor passions include multi-species fishing and hunting, said he appreciates the diversity of Crestliner's portfolio of boats. "I always loved the durability and ruggedness of the forged aluminum hull on a Crestliner," he said. "The new Crestliners have an unbelievable ride. No matter how you like to fish, there is a very well built Crestliner boat loaded with great fishing<|fim_middle|> Mitchell said. "There is a reason that Crestliner has been around this industry for 70 years."
Jason Mitchell Outdoors is broadcast weekly on Fox Sports Net North and Fox Sports Net Midwest, covering North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas and Missouri.
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Jason Mitchell Outdoors highlights fishing opportunities in the North and Midwest regions of the U.S.; shares techniques and tactics for fishermen of all levels; and showcases stories about real anglers experiencing the outdoors. The show has a viewing audience of 12 million households per week.
"We are elated to work with Crestliner and really value their integrity and corporate culture and truly love fishing out of their boats," | 88 |
The Speed of Light for Building Pyramids
Last year, Steve Burrows, CBE, (Principal at the engineering consulting firm ARUP) spent several weeks in Egypt studying the pyramids through the eyes of a modern-day structural engineer. The result, which was presented in a documentary for the "Discovery Channel" and published in an article for "Design<|fim_middle|>Seeing metal stars set against white mortar stripes... [Read More] | Intelligence," presented fascinating insights into the design of the pyramids and offers some lessons in how we may think about sustainability through longevity in modern architecture.
Burrows's research reveals that some of the same practical considerations that structural engineers and architects contend with today, may have driven all the major decisions about the design and construction of the Giza Pyramids.
Steve Burrows "Engineering the Impossible", photo © Arup
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Beto Naveda Player Profile
Beto Naveda (b. 1972)
Full Name: Alberto Dante Naveda
Born: May 24th, 1972 (San Juan, Argentina)
Height: 5' 9
Signed: November 3rd, 2000
First Manager: Alex Smith
Also Played For: Boca Juniors, Dundee, FC Ashdod, Hapoel Jerusalem, New England Revolution
2000-01 SPL 7 (7) 2 0.14 1 0 28.6% 35.7% 35.7%
Dec 17th, 2000 17/12/00 League SPL vs. Rangers (H) 1 - 1
Dec 5th, 2000 05/12/00 League SPL vs. St Mirren (A) 1 - 1
Nov 28th, 2000 28/11/00 League SPL vs. Kilmarnock (H) 0 - 1
Nov 25th, 2000 25/11/00 League SPL vs. Dunfermline (H) 3 - 2
Nov 18th, 2000 18/11/00 League SPL vs. St Johnstone (A) 0 - 1
Nov 4th, 2000 04/11/00 League SPL vs. Motherwell (A) 1 - 2
Dec 5th, 2000 05/12/00 League SPL vs. St Mirren (A) 1 - 1 (35')
Nov 4th, 2000 04/11/00 League SPL vs. Motherwell (A) 1 - 2 (55')
Apr 7th, 2001 07/04/01 League SPL vs. Hearts (H) 1 - 1 (sub)
Mar 3rd, 2001 03/03/01 League SPL vs. St Mirren (H) 4 - 0 (sub)
Feb 24th, 2001 24/02/01 League SPL vs. Kilmarnock (A) 0 - 0 (sub)
Feb 17th, 2001 17/02/01 Scottish Cup 4th Round vs. Motherwell (A) 2 - 0 (sub)
Feb 10th, 2001 10/02/01 League SPL vs. Dunfermline (A) 1 - 3 (sub)
Feb 3rd, 2001 03/02/01 League SPL vs. St Johnstone (H) 1 - 1 (sub)
Jan 31st, 2001 31/01/01 League SPL vs. Dundee (A) 3 - 2 (sub)
Nov 11th, 2000 11/11/00 League SPL vs. Dundee (H) 0 - 2
Beto signed from Israeli side Hapoel Jerusalem under freedom of contract. He had earlier been with Boca Juniors, New England Revolution, Maccabi Acre and FC Ashdod. At the end of season 2000-01, he left United and was briefly with Dundee.
Squad Numbers
Motherwell 2 - 1 Dundee United
League (SPL)
Beto was born on this date in San Juan, Argentina.
Friday, November 3rd, 2000
Debut - Motherwell 2 - 1 Dundee United
United gave debuts to Alberto Naveda and Charlie Miller, both of whom were signed the previous day by Alex Smith. David Hannah returned from injury and earned a place on the bench.
Saturday, November 4th, 2000
First Goal - Motherwell 2 - 1 Dundee United
Last Goal -<|fim_middle|>a knocked in the rebound from close range. A minute later St. Mirren went down to ten men when Brown was red-carded after a horrific challenge on Aljofree.
Last Appearance - Dundee United 1 - 1 Hearts
United received the pre match boost of hearing that relegation rivals St Mirren had lost to Celtic at Parkhead and knew that a win would allow them to stretch their lead at the bottom over the Paisley side. After the midweek defeat at Aberdeen, United were desperate to get back on the rails in what was another vital fixture for the club. However, games against Hearts are always difficult and there was never any doubt that this game would be just that. The Tynecastle side went into the match neck and neck with Kilmamock in the race for the last UEFA cup place so both sides had everything to play for. As expected, United boss Alex Smith made one change to the starting line up with midflelder David Hannah replacing Paul Robinson who dropped to the bench. Teenage right back Jamie McCunnle celebrated his new contract by making his fourteenth consecutive first team appearance.
Saturday, April 7th, 2001 | St Mirren 1 - 1 Dundee United
Buchan tried a volley in the first minute following a throw-in but it was too high and seconds later at the other end Combe saved a Baltacha kick. In the fifth minute a great pass from Heaney released Buchan on the right and his first-time cross was struck just wide by Hamilton as United went very close. 20 minutes in and Combe was forced to make a fantastic save from a Yardley shot to keep the score level. Miller showed great skill in the thirty-fourth minute and won a free kick on the edge of the box. Miller's low free-kick could only be parried by Scrimgour and the onrushing Beto Naved | 151 |
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TIME has named Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) Faculty Member Professor<|fim_middle|> influential individuals. | Ravindra (Ravi) Gupta to the 2020 TIME100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Prof Gupta was honoured for his work leading the team that cured the 'London Patient' of HIV; the second person in the world to be cured of HIV infection. Adam Castillejo, who revealed his identity earlier this year, was cured of HIV following a bone marrow transplant in 2016 to treat a life-threatening blood cancer. Castillejo received stem cells from a donor with the CCR5 genetic mutation, which prevents HIV from taking hold. This technique was first used to cure the 'Berlin Patient', Timothy Ray Brown, of HIV in 2009.
Following the transplant, Castillejo was taken off antiretroviral therapy (ART) and remained HIV-negative. The breakthrough was published in 2019 in the scientific journal Nature – though at that point scientists still termed it 'long-term HIV remission' rather than cure. Then earlier this year, Prof Gupta confirmed in a Lancet HIV article that Castillejo had been cured of HIV: he still had no trace of HIV in his blood after over 30 months of not taking ART. While a high-risk and expensive transplant is not an appropriate treatment for most people living with HIV, the research offers an important scientific advance and hope for cure strategies.
"I am delighted by the honour of being part of this distinguished list of individuals," said Dr Gupta. "At a time of global turmoil it is more important than ever to celebrate and encourage people from all walks of life and across borders to work for the collective good."
At AHRI, Prof Gupta's work is focussed on understanding the genetic and biological properties of drug resistant HIV in South Africa, where it is estimated that 10% or more patients experience treatment failure. His work brings together the multiple strands of his ongoing research to address critically important consequences of global access to ART. In addition to his AHRI Faculty position, he is Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the Cambridge Institute for Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Cambridge.
The full TIME100 list and related tributes appear in the October 5, 2020 issue of TIME, available on newsstands on Friday, September 25, and now at time.com/time100.
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Happy New Year everyone. Long live the Queen! | 2012 many honoured her kindness, her spirit, and her tremendous sense of duty.
Britain 60 years ago was an austere and conservative country trying to cast the shadow of war aside but also gripped by rigid social conventions. Since 1952, it's clear Her Majesty has seen and overseen overwhelming changes and advancements within the British Isles and throughout the Commonwealth.
In honour of her 60th anniversary a new commemorative medal was created. The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal is a tangible way for Canadians to honour our Queen for her service to our country. At the same time, it serves to honour significant contributions and achievements by Canadians.
During the year of celebrations, 60 000 deserving Canadians from across the country and various walks of life were recognized. In recent weeks I have had the distinct privilege of presenting the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medals to 14 well-deserving individuals from across Haldimand-Norfolk.
It was difficult to choose. I took note of those who embody values of supporting others, encouraging learning, as well as philanthropy and volunteerism. Following are the Haldimand-Norfolk residents I chose to acknowledge: Ron Clark, Wallace Anderson, Frank Somner, Richard Walker, Walt Long, Marc VandenBussche, Gordon Miller, Warren Berger, Roger Cruickshank, Bob Hall, Ross Bateman, Pat Logan and posthumously Edna Bowyer and Roy Dinner. These recipients have made extraordinary contributions to making our community and province a better place to live. We should all be proud of them and their accomplishments – their drive to make a difference. They are a true reflection of Her Majesty's legacy.
Many things have changed over the past 60 years; however Her Majesty's presence on the Throne has remained constant. Canadians have the utmost respect for her commitment and support of our nation. And it was just a few days ago the Queen delivered her annual Royal Christmas Message — one that combines a chronicle of the year's major events, personal milestones and feelings on the days that lie ahead.
Through her four children, and a number of grandchildren, the Queen continues to inspire the Commonwealth of Nations. And as with the Queen, the area jubilee medal recipients inspire the rest of us with their tireless spirit of giving. This past year has given us | 482 |
By Ann Cory
Samantha Jensen receives an invitation to a pool party that promises a wet and wild time. It sounds like just what she needs to break out of her shell. Right away she is drawn to a bronze hottie who looks like he stepped from the pages of a swimsuit calendar. Trouble is, her track record with men leaves a lot to be desired. Can the dark-haired dream with the steely blue eyes rescue her from a mountain of personal issues, or will she drown in her insecurities?
Cole Davidson has never shied away from hard work to get what he wants, and he wants the sultry brunette with the fierce curves who sets fire to his senses. Even the cold shoulder she gives him can't extinguish the flames already ignited. Besides, he has been eyeing her for some time, only she doesn't know it. Convinced he can win her over, he enlists the help of his friends and sets up a few pool games that will leave her wet…with desire.
General Release Date: 21st July 2008
Samantha Jensen walked to the edge of the diving board. The water in the pool looked impossibly blue. Almost cerulean in colour. It called to her. Begged her to slip into its liquid paradise and escape the record high temperatures of the afternoon. The Santa Ana winds had picked up that morning and, mixed with the mid-summer humidity, made it hotter than usual. Unable to resist, she dove in headfirst. Into the blue.
The surge of water against her breasts gave her instant relief. While far from cool, it offered a momentary respite. She moved her body<|fim_middle|> a pool party. With a sigh of envy, she eyed one woman in a pristine white bikini, and couldn't help but admire her sleek tummy. Sure, she'd love to look that hot in a two-piece, but if it meant hours of excruciating crunches and giving up margaritas, then the effort hardly seemed worth it.
Her gaze averted to a tall, somewhat interesting blond. Not really her type, but he was easy on the eyes. As he moved out of her view, she was met with the sight of a bronze-skinned hottie in a slim-fitting pair of swim trunks. She sucked in her breath and felt the moisture gather between her thighs. Where had he been all her life?
Before she could fully appreciate his rock-solid bod of sin, her gal pal Chelsea swam up beside her.
"Flirt with anyone yet?" Chelsea asked in her sugary voice.
Samantha smiled at her always perky, always horny copper-haired friend.
"Nope, not yet. I'm checking things out first."
Chelsea slicked back her wet hair and sent a shower of droplets everywhere. "Quite the attractive crowd, don't you think? The guys look like they stepped right off the pages of a swimsuit calendar."
Samantha snickered. "Yeah, I thought the same thing. The ladies, too. I swear none of them eat."
Her friend shrugged. "Cool, more snacks for me."
She laughed. "Looks like you have it all figured out. I have to say, though, I feel a little out of place. I've never been to a party where I didn't know anyone."
Again her friend shrugged. "It makes it easier to do whatever you want. You can be a total lush and not feel guilty."
Somehow she didn't think that possible. Even after years of therapy. "Easier said than done. Besides, I'm still accountable to myself—whatever I decide to do."
Chelsea sighed. "You promised you'd be daring. It's why I agreed to come along. I said if you were going to be your usual boring self, then I wouldn't bother, remember?"
How could she possibly forget those words? "Yes, yes, of course, I remember. In case you haven't noticed, I took off my bikini top before I jumped into the pool."
"Only because you spilled your drink on it."
Heat rushed to her face. Damn, that girl had eyes in the back of her head.
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Share what you thought about Into the Blue and earn reward points. | like a mermaid along the bottom and admired the intricate tile work. Above she watched the water ripple. Gold rays from the sun splashed the surface like splotches of paint. So peaceful. So serene. She'd always felt safe in the blue. It was a place she went in her mind as a child. No one bothered her there. No one made her play favourites. No one else was allowed in.
This place wasn't her scene. But it was the need for change that had brought her here. Aware she couldn't stay under any longer, she pumped her legs. Samantha came up for air and treaded water. Her arms and legs looked distorted beneath her as they moved in slow motion. She blinked away the water from her eyes and took in the scene around her. Miles of tanned and toned bodies in barely-there swimsuits. Gorgeous men and women who looked ready for a photo shoot rather than | 187 |
Johnny Depp, The Rock and More Lead Day 1 Surprises at D23 Expo
The first full day of the bi-annual Disney fan event otherwise known as D23 Expo is in the books and as usual, there are more than a handful of surprises to recount.
It all began in the morning at the Disney Legends Event, which included the induction of eight Disney legends including George Lucas who received a standing ovation from the crowd.
"One more. There's nothing D23 fans like more than a surprise," Disney chairman Bob Iger said before introducing Johnny Depp as the ninth member<|fim_middle|> | to be honored that morning. "I'm thrilled to call Johnny a member of the Disney family, and today, Johnny Depp becomes a Disney Legend."
Robin Williams was also honored with a performance by Ne-yo (yes, odd choice)
The other big panel event in Hall D23 was the Disney Animation presentation, which included the surprise appearance of The Rock who will voice Maui in the upcoming movie Moana.
The songwriters from Frozen were revealed as the songwriters for what John Lasseter called Disney Animation's attempt to "create the definitive version of Jack and the Beanstalk, with Gigantic.
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Ellen DeGeneres, Ed O'Neill, Kaitlin Olson, and Ty Burrell appeared on stage for Finding Dory. O'Neill will be playing Hank the Octopus, Olson will voice Destiny the Whale Shark, and Burrell will voice Bailey the Beluga Whale. The sequel to Finding Nemo also showcased it's first batch of footage.
Other surprises included movies that weren't promoted including The Incredibles 2 and Cars 3, both of which had teaser posters revealed on the Expo show floor.
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Chefs competing in Bocuse d'Or UK selection named
18 August 2015 by Neil Gerrard
The cook-off will decide who will be the next UK Bocuse d'Or candidate and will take place on Friday 11 September at Le Cordon Bleu cookery chool in Bloomsbury Square, London.
Candidates in the competition will include Anthony Wright, chef lecturer, University College Birmingham, Christian Grebenstein from the Ritz London and Steve Love, chef consultant and former executive chef of Loves Restaurant.
Each chef will have 1.5 hours to prepare, cook and present three different hot garnishes (five portions of each, 15 pieces in total) suitable for accompanying a fillet of British beef provided by sponsor Aubrey Allen. The chefs will be judged on the techniques used and the presentation which should be in the style of the Bocuse d'Or.
Team UK president and chair of the national selection judges Brian Turner said: "To represent one's country in the world's most prestigious cooking contest is among the greatest challenges to be undertaken by any chef. We have a promising line-up of candidates in this year's cook-off and with the right preparation there is nothing to stop any of them from representing the UK one day. No one should underestimate how much thought, time and practice is required to compete successfully and the cook-off is just the start of what will be a tough but hugely rewarding journey for the successful chef."
LoÁ¯c Malfait, academic director at Le Cordon Bleu London, said: "This will be a fantastic opportunity to have so many great chefs under our roof. We are known<|fim_middle|>er
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The winner of the Bocuse d'Or UK national selection will be announced at a Champagne reception sponsored by supporters MoÁ«t & Chandon at 6pm at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school. The successful candidate will then compete in the European heats which take place in Budapest from 11-12 May 2016.
Previous UK candidates have included Adam Bennett from the Cross Kenilworth, Simon Hulstone from the Elephant in Torquay and Andre Garrett from Cliveden House hotel.
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This is why the A46 was closed last night
A crash involving two cars and a lorry closed the road for several hours
Fionnula HaineyNews Reporter
A46 southbound (Image: Google)
A stretch of the A46 was closed last night after a crash involving a lorry and two cars.
Police and paramedics were called to the A46 southbound between the A45 and Stoneleigh just after 7pm on Monday night (December 17).
Five patients were assessed at the scene.
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West Midlands Ambulance Service | scene.
Police were stationed at the Whitley roundabout diverting cars away from the A46.
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What did the ambulance service say?
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Breath Project Concert in Naples, Italy
Damien will be performing at Teatro Acacia in Naples, Italy, on May 19th.
The concert is to launch the "Breath Project". Organized by Spanish street artist Escif, the project aims to create a huge organic drawing made of 5,000 new trees planted on nearby Mount Olivella.
Damien has previously collaborated with Escif on the drawings used in the cover and booklet of My Favourite Faded Fantasy.
Damien donates $500,000 at Haiti Benefit Night
Posted on 16. Jan, 2012 by admin.
The New York Times reports that Damien bought a guitar owned by Bono for nearly half a million dollars at a Haiti benefit auction in Hollywood at the weekend.
Hosted by Cinema for Peace, the event raised more than $5 million to help Haiti recover from the devastating earthquake of 2 years ago.
In addition to providing the largest contribution on the night, Damien also performed for the audience, which included celebrities such as George Clooney; Sean Penn; Leonardo DiCaprio; Julia Roberts; Orlando Bloom; Mel Gibson; James Gandolfini; Garry Shandling; Salma Hayek; Hilary Swank; Josh Brolin and Diane Lane.
According to media reports, Damien recently earned about half a million dollars from the release of "Cannonball" by the winners of X Factor in the UK.
Damien on Achtung Baby Covers Album
Posted on 09. Sep, 2011 by admin.
Speaking at the Toronto International Film Festival, Bono disclosed that Damien is one of a number of great artists to be included on an Achtung Baby covers album commissioned by Q magazine.
Damien has recorded U2's "One" for the album, which will be made available to mark the 20th anniversary of Achtung Baby's release.
Other artists on the album include Depeche Mode, Patti Smith and Jack White.
Damien at Whelan's, Dublin
Posted on 09. Mar, 2011 by admin.
Last night Damien was a surprise special guest at a Glen Hansard / Liam O Maonlai double-headliner gig in Whelan's Dublin.
Damien performed a brand new song….
New song on Argentinian Compilation Album
Damien has contributed a new<|fim_middle|> unhappy with what happened there," she recalled.
"I called my manager and asked him to call Damien Rice's manager and organise something. I didn't expect him to come, but he did, and we started to work together. I fired everyone and followed him to Ireland.
"He taught me everything about being a musician. I was a huge, huge fan, so it was weird for me to just speak with him like it's natural, when I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm speaking with Damien Rice and we're creating music together'."
A look back: The Blower's Daughter
Posted on 06. Jul, 2010 by admin.
Sometimes it's nice to just go back in time and be reminded of your favorite songs.
Here is a video of Damien performing "The Blower's Daughter" on Live From the Basement in 2007.
Here's a little known fact… The original release of "The Blower's Daughter" single in Ireland in September 2001 was delayed after the first batch of CDs was destroyed in a fire on the ferry between Britain and Ireland…
Melanie Laurent Recording with Damien
French actress Melanie Laurent has been speaking again about Damien's influence on her musical career. Here is an extract from her interview with The Independent newspaper in Great Britain.
"Working with Damien on my first CD as a singer also makes me lose confidence, because compared to him I'm not a singer. But I think it's important to lose confidence because if you don't, then you risk just being the same actress all the time."
Damien singing in Icelandic
The Icelandic song that Damien performed in Reykjavik last night is "Sofðu unga ástin mín". Here is the video of the performance, which also features Lara Runarsdottir, Glen Hansard, Mia Maestro, Helgi Jonsson and Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir (of Lay Low).
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EskimoFriends comes live from sunny rainy Reykjavik tonight…
UPDATE 2: Damien performed 2 songs, "The Professor" and "The Blower's Daughter. He then reappeared on stage a little later to perform an Icelandic song with Lara Runarsdottir, a group of Iceland musicians and Glen Hansard. If you missed the performance you will be able to watch it online shortly from here.
UPDATE 1: They've just changed the running order a bit… Damien is now scheduled to perform at 10:40PM BST… (Grazie mille Gloria)… I think we'll forgive the timing confusion as Icelandic people surely struggle with timekeeping because they have almost 24 hours of sunshine (with a little bit of rain) every day in the summer…
In a few hours time, Damien will take the stage at the Inspired by Iceland event. You can be there too! Well, kind of… You can watch it live online from here.
The concert starts at 9PM BST, which is a bit confusing… That's 9PM Irish time, 10PM in Germany, 4PM in New York, 1PM in LA, 2.30AM (weird) in Myanmar and 12PM in the eskimo stronghold of Kotzebue, Alaska.
Damien is due to appear on the stage at 23.10 10:40PM BST, just after one of our other favourite singers, Glen Hansard, and right before Parabólur (cool). | song ("Look at Me") to an Argentinian compilation album, Canciones de Cuna (Lullabies).
Now available exclusively at branches of Disco in Argentina, the album features songs recorded by various artists with lyrics written by children aged 7 to 21.
All proceeds from the sale of the CD will be donated to the Casa de la Cultura de la Calle to support projects encouraging social inclusion through art for children at social risk.
Here is the tracklist (thanks Verena):
1. Ricardo Mollo: No Me Llore Tanto
2. Hugo Fattoruso: Cita Con Dios
3. Luis Alberto Spinetta: Mañana despertar
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Damien Collaborates with Melanie Laurent
Dublin's Evening Herald reports that Damien has recorded 2 tracks with French actress Melanie Laurent.
The tracks will appear on Melanie's forthcoming album, released on 5 May.
"It's a crazy story. I went to Woodstock [over two years ago] to record the album and I was | 382 |
Sport / Phakaaathi / Local Soccer
Ahly defeat Berkane in Super Cup to claim 21st African title
Success for Ahly ended a run of upsets in the Super Cup with Champions League title-holders Esperance of Tunisia losing the 2019 and 2020 matches, also in Qatar.
Ahly's coach Pitso Mosimane (right) celebrates with Ahly's forward Mohamed Sherif (left) after winning the CAF Super Cup at the Jassim Bin Hamad stadium in the capital Doha on Friday. (Photo by AFP)
Mohamed Sherif and Salah Mohsen scored in the second half to give Al Ahly of Egypt a 2-0 win over Renaissance Berkane of Morocco in the CAF Super Cup match on Friday, and a 21st African title.
Forward Sherif finished off a sweeping passing move by hammering a left-foot shot past goalkeeper Zouhair Laaroubi into the far corner on 57 minutes.
Un<|fim_middle|> next most successful clubs, fellow Egyptians Zamalek and TP Mazembe from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ahly qualified for the Super Cup by defeating Zamalek in the 2020 Champions League final while Berkane secured their place with a victory over Pyramids of Egypt in the Confederation Cup decider.
The Cairo Red Devils will face Esperance next month in the semi-finals of the current Champions League after eliminating Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa last weekend.
Berkane had their defence of the Confederation Cup — the African equivalent of the UEFA Europa League — terminated in the group phase after finishing only third in a mini-league.
Read more on these topics | marked fellow forward Mohsen doubled the lead eight minutes from time in Qatari capital Doha by rounding Laaroubi and pushing the ball into the net.
South Africa-born Ahly coach Pitso Mosimane has now won four CAF competitions, one less than the most successful African, Tunisian Faouzi Benzarti.
The annual match between the CAF Champions League and second-tier CAF Confederation Cup winners was watched by a crowd limited to 7,000 in the Jassim bin Hamad Stadium because of coronavirus protocols.
It was a fiercely contested affair with the Algerian referee having to separate rivals just before half-time after one of many injury stoppages that spoilt the game.
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The result confirmed the supremacy of Ahly among African clubs with nine victories in the Champions League, seven in the Super Cup, four in the African Cup Winners Cup and one in the Confederation Cup.
They have won 10 more titles than the | 214 |
What Causes a Garage Door Light to Start Blinking a Lot?
A common cause of a blinking garage door light is when there is something going on with the sensors. The sensors are designed to make the garage door light blink if they are in need of some attention, such as needing to be reset. Basically, there are two sensors on both sides of the garage door that are located near the bottom of it. The sensors point<|fim_middle|> problem that is causing the light to blink. A repair that doesn't require a lot of labor can cost as little as $75 when done by a technician. If there is something major wrong like the motor needing to be replaced, a technician might charge as much as $500 plus. Get in touch with a technician like Plano Overhead Garage Door about your blinking garage door light so he or she can fix it! | an infrared beam towards each other that creates an invisible line. If something breaks the invisible line, the door will stall and light blinks until the sensors are reset. A technician can fix the problem by resetting the sensors for you, or you can just unplug the garage door for a minute or so and plug it back up to reset the sensors yourself.
It is also possible that the garage door light won't stop blinking because the motor is in need of a repair. You might be experiencing no movement from the garage door if the motor is the problem. A technician can inspect the motor to find out if it should be replaced due to it being worn about and rusty. Sometimes bad wiring causes the motor to malfunction, which should be repaired fast in case the wires are overheating and causing a fire hazard. If the garage door has been used a lot, the motor might be naturally hot and need to cool off before the light will stop blinking on its own.
How Much Does a Garage Door Technician Charge for a Repair?
A garage door repair will be priced based on the complexity of the | 217 |
"Akisamiyo. Warabata ya nun naransa" (Goodness! Children are good for nothing). Okinawan nisei may have occasionally heard the issei express such an opinion. But the founders of Hui Makaala felt that they, the young<|fim_middle|>ama is a former secretary of Hui Makaala and former president of the Womens Committee of Hui Makaala. | Japanese-Americans of Okinawan descent, were not nun naran, or good for nothing. They felt capable of playing a significant role in promoting the general welfare of the Okinawan community. So in January 1946 Hui Makaala was formed.
Besides uniting to work for the Okinawan community, Hui Makaala members created their organization to provide younger, English-speaking Okinawans a sense of belonging. At the end of World War II, this need was strongly felt by the nisei. Although the nisei could have, and did, join the Okinawan locality clubs, these clubs were limited in their capacity to fulfill this need because many were then controlled by the issei, who conducted the meetings in Japanese. With a club of their own, young Okinawans could socialize with each other and develop activities based on their mutual interests. Founders of Hui Makaala were Dr. Francis Kaneshiro, Dr. Bunkichi Uesato, Clarence Uyechi, Dr. Yoshio Yamashiro, Dr. Shoyei Yamauchi, the late Tokuichi "Dynamite" Takushi and the late John Uehara.
The first meeting of the new organization was on January 11 at the Jikoen Temple with 60 members present. The name Hui Makaala was chosen. By selecting a Hawaiian name the members identified themselves as a group belonging to the society of Hawaii. Makaala means "ever alert, vigilant, watchful." Hui Makaala implies an organization ever alert to serve, work, and strive together. The basic goals of the group have been: 1) to foster a better understanding and acceptance of the American way of life, 2) to provide social, recreational and educational activities for members and friends, 3) to assist deserving students in their pursuit of higher education.
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For over a century, predictions about the future have been dominated by technological fantasies, either with utopian or dystopian outcomes. Driven increasingly by responses to the causes and effects of climate change, popular political future imaginaries span elitist extraplanetary survivalism and back-to-the-land minimalism. Anthropologists have emphasised the social and material forms of technology, and the need to analyse and account for visions of the future and attend to socio-material relations between technologies, humans and other living beings in a shared environment.
FAN explores the anthropological potential for future-oriented methodologies, while EAN generates knowledge on approaches energetic practices of various kinds. This workshop brings these two concerns together, to generate synergies, theoretical trajectories and newly shared research agendas. Where do energy and technology futures intersect? How are human futures implicated in diverse techno-energetic visions? What alternative other human futures are possible in the current techno-energetic world than those extremes delineated above of extraplanetary survivalism and back-to-the-land minimalism? How can anthropologists account for- and intervene- and take part in forging in futures-generation?
The aim is to demonstrate that two relatively new areas of anthropological research and practice can work together to consolidate an agenda for research and intervention. It seeks to both impact on the theory and methodology of the discipline and to advance an anthropological approach to energy futures in an interdisciplinary research field.
FAN and EAN are networks of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
Future Anthropologies Network (FAN)
Future Anthropologies Network (FAN) is being established as an outcome of the work of the Anthropology at the Edge of the Future Lab held at the 2014 EASA conference. The intention of the group is to continue our shared work in conceptualizing, debating, theorizing and practicing an engaged anthropology that puts futures at the centre of its agenda. One of the key outcomes of our lab was to produce a manifesto, which captured and synthesised the feeling that we collectively took away from the lab. This document will form the basis of our work, and the point from which we will develop as a network.
To create and advance a responsible and engaged anthropological approach to futures, through scholarship, research and practice.
To establish anthropology as a discipline that is a key participant in contemporary debates and practical developments in discussing and making futures
To enable early career scholars to see anthropological future-making as a possible career route
See more on: https://futureanthropologies.net/
Energy Anthropology Network (EAN)
Around the world, anthropologists are asking how energy is generated and used, how energy is conceptualised, the role of energy in shaping and articulating states and societies, and diverse relationships characterised as markets, households, families, companies and corporations. Ethnographic work is accumulating on energy concepts and effects such as energy justice and energy ethics, in relation to resource exploitation, distribution, sharing and exchange, in relation to development ideologies, socio-economic regimes, political trajectories, and so forth, with a strong element of<|fim_middle|>, an organised approach to comparative and collaborative research is timely, as anthropologists bring critical insight based on ethnographic research. EASA EAN will be a forum for such creative and collaborative discussions.
To bring together social scientists and practitioners with common interest on energy
To make energy issues more visible
To propose alternative understandings of energy systems.
To support independent and critical studies on energy choices.
To spark public debate, encourage community outreach and feed research agendas
See more on: https://ean.hypotheses.org/
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Deadline for abstract submission: April 15th 2019
Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by May 1st 2019.
Full papers (in English with a maximum length of 8,000 words including notes and references) will be due by May 30th, 2019.
The workshop is free of charge, and a limited amount of funding is available to support travel expenses. If you need to request support for travel please contact the organisers regarding this when submitting your abstract.
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Dr. Débora Lanzeni, DLRC Aarhus University
Dr. Nathalie Ortar, LAET, ENTPE-University of Lyon
Pr. Sarah Pink, Monash University
Dr. Karen Waltorp, Aarhus University
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The Lighter Side of Police Work
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(Stories taken from guy-sports.com)
We all know about how demanding and, at times, difficult being an officer of the law can be. Dealing with a client base that is<|fim_middle|> Side of Robbery
A bank robber in Virginia Beach, Virginia, got a nasty surprise when a dye pack designed to mark stolen money exploded in his pants. The robber apparently stuffed the loot down the front of his trousers as he was leaving the scene.
A police spokesman said, 'He was seen hopping and jumping around with an explosion taking place inside his pants.' Police kept the man's charred chinos as evidence against him.
While investigating a purse snatching in Brunswick, Georgia, detectives picked up a man who fit the thief's description and drove him back to the scene. He was told to exit the car and face the victim for an ID. The suspect dutifully eyed the victim, and blurted, 'Yeah, that's the woman I robbed.'
Laissez Les Burglary
In Thibodaux, Louisiana, a robber with a thick Cajun accent couldn't get restaurant patrons to understand his demand for money. Frustrated, he whipped out his gun, but it wouldn't fire. Grabbing the cash register, he ran but got only three feet before falling because the register was still plugged into the wall. He unplugged it and tried to escape again, but a diner knocked him down and called the police.
You Can't Keep the Change
In Rhode Island, police were sure they had the right man when the suspect in a string of coin-machine thefts paid his $400 bail— with quarters.
You Don't Know Me
Texas authorities, responding to a store robbery, seized a man who was fleeing sans clothing. He said he'd stripped after the robbery because he figured his clothes would make him identifiable.
Working Overtime
In Virginia, a janitor went to great lengths to avoid being ID'd in a 7-11 robbery, using a ski mask and rental car for the occasion. But he also wore his work uniform, which said "Cedar Woods Apartments" and had his name, Dwayne, stitched across the front.
And finally, a popular joke from the Garda (Irish police force) over yonder in the Emerald Isle…
His antics were legendary. He gleefully exceeded the speed limit, receiving over 50 citations. Normally, the offender would either have their license revoked and/or spent a little time in the local jail after, say, 10 citations.
But Prawo Jazdy was different. He flaunted the law, not only breaking traffic laws but changing his identity after each offense, eluding authorities who were helpless to stop him. Until one day.
A Polish man happened to be in the station when he saw the notice alerting the Garda to this heinous hooligan. He read it and began laughing. When the cops asked why he was laughing, he explained that "Prawo Jazdy" is Polish for "driving license."
But in all seriousness, police work as a whole is no laughing matter. We here at Behind the Blue are thankful and grateful for each officer's sacrifice so that we may be safe in our daily lives.
Filed Under: Cop Humor Tagged With: cop humor, cop stories, dumb criminals, funny | usually not happy to see you would wear on most of us— and most of us don't have to put on a police uniform prior to clocking in for the day or night. From traffic tickets to apprehending dangerous criminals, the job is never boring and certainly never lacking for interesting anecdotes.
But it's not all seriousness. Every so often a cop is involved in a situation where laughter instead of yelling is the byproduct. Here are a few humorous stories straight from the Blue themselves.
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Diary of an Aspiring Loser: I'm Motivated!
Mostly. This current bout of motivation started late last week and despite having a very challenging run on Saturday, I'm still feeling fired up to lose. I think being within 5 pounds of my goal weight has me feeling extra motivated to get there, finally. So after many years of resistance I have finally started taking a multi-vitamin. I'm just not that good at taking a pill on a daily basis and I haven't been convinced that I really need one. I've always thought that if I eat a balanced, healthy diet I probably don't really need to add vitamins to the mix. But, I'm getting to be, ahem, well, not as young as I used to be and SO many women have told me that it makes them feel better so I'm in. I went to Costco and got a huge bottle of (cue booming male voice)...Premium Performance Multiiiiii. Of course I was sold on the name. I'm also taking a Glucosamine/Chondroitin pill and a Super B Complex (I think that's what it's called). The Super B might be overkill as there's plenty of B vitamins in the multi. Anyway, today is the second day in a row I've taken them, which is probably already a record for me. I'm hoping to feel a difference in my energy levels from taking all these horse pills. Dammit vitamins are big!
On the fitness front things are moving along well. I had a nice day off from exercise on Sunday. We took the kids to a local community picnic and had fun watching and joining in their fun. Miguel had his soccer game in the afternoon so I took the time to submit my final documents for the George Foreman challenge. It's been 12 weeks already! I lost a little less than 6 pounds during the 12 weeks but the biggest thing was that I moved into the normal category on the BMI scale. I'm still getting used to officially not being overweight. I heard a news snippet on the radio this morning about how more Americans than ever are falling into the Obese category and I thought, not me, not anymore<|fim_middle|> do a morning run. Didn't happen. Now I have to try and squeeze it in after work. 4.5 miles is tough to "squeeze in" since it's nearly an hour of running. But we'll see, I can get creative hopefully.
My eating has been good. I have been tracking 100% and staying within my points. I was feeling munchy last night and ate a large portion of pseudo-healthy multi-grain chips last night, followed by hot cocoa made with milk. But I had the points for it so I just logged it and moved on. It's a good thing I didn't have any chocolate in the house or I would have gone overboard.
Thank you MsE! Have fun at your first tri - there's nothing like the first one so enjoy it! | . It feels good. I took my final pictures in a bikini but I don't have the guts to post them here. On the sly I posted them in the during section of my blog so if you want to see them you can go there. I also shared them on my Facebook page and was overwhelmed by the positive response. I look at those pictures and tend to see flab and fat that I want to lose. But all the positive comments helped me to see that my view remains really skewed and that I must look pretty good. I still feel like they are "before" pictures from a P90x commercial.
Ok, back to fitness. Yesterday (Monday) I took myself to the gym and did 25 minutes on the upright bike, level 8, random. Whew, it was hard. I was sweating and probably grunting at some points too. I hate it when someone is sitting next to me without headphones, I get self conscious about how much noise I might be making during my suffer-fest on the bike. Anyway, I did it, and felt good about it. Then I did legs/shoulders/core for strength training. I haven't done a legs routine in weeks and was a bit nervous about how it would go. But I did fine. It was mostly not too hard, but not easy either, and only a few exercises really had me struggling. I was happy with that. And it felt really good to be settling back into my routine. Today is Tuesday and I was supposed to | 311 |
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Why was Ridge Racer the king of next-gen?
by John Reeves October 8, 2020
Namco's standing start
Namco's Ridge Racer series has a real knack for launching alongside new consoles. Of the 22 games in the series – some of them being ports or updates of other entries – eight were also launch titles, so we're here to investigate exactly what makes this iconic arcade racer so well-suited to the next-generation transition.
From the get-go
The original Ridge Racer was both the first entry in the series and its first launch title, releasing alongside the PlayStation in 1994 (Japan) and 1995 (everywhere else). Though it was released in arcades in 1993, the faithful PSX port was a huge success and has been credited with the console's early lead over the Sega Saturn. Ridge Racer also saw an updated version and two sequels on the PlayStation, as well as an expanded port on the Nintendo 64 which, bizarrely, released five years later in 2000.
Ridge Racer was also the first game to support the neGcon, a controller released by Namco around the same time. The neGcon was a weird but supposedly wicked motion controller designed for racing games, imitating analog-stick controls in racing games by letting you twist each half of the pad in opposite directions. It was another way that Ridge Racer showed off the PSX, supporting an exclusive peripheral that you couldn't find on any other console.
The first Ridge Racer immediately defined everything about the eventual series: high-speed arcade racing where you drift around corners to keep your speed up; a vibrant, realistic look with car models and tracks that were entirely fictional<|fim_middle|>, making almost any Ridge Racer title tough to get a hold of in 2020. There won't be a new Ridge Racer launching with the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series consoles, but I hold out hope that we'll get another traditional console-bound entry sooner rather than later.
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©2018 Doublejump (ABN 20930071156). All rights reserved. | ; tracks set on mountain roads and other natural Outrun– and Daytona USA-esque backdrops instead of closed circuits; and bangin' techno soundtracks.
Overall, Ridge Racer laid down three defining traits or "rules" for the series: visceral arcade racing, dazzling visuals and fantastic original music. Every entry is meant to meet these criteria; when you pick up a Ridge Racer game, it should include these three things. With four Ridge Racer games releasing for the PlayStation in as many years, these rules were firmly underlined.
In this way, it makes sense that Ridge Racer became such a common launch game. You know what you're getting, you know it's fun and you know it will show off the power of your brand-new hardware. If you're picking up a new console and knew you liked the series, why not pick up Ridge Racer?
Just another Ridge Racer
The series' second launch title was Ridge Racer V for the PlayStation 2 in 2000. It was closer in style to the series' oddly-titled second entry Rage Racer – darker, grittier, all that jazz you obviously want from a racing game. This better suited Sony's focus on more realistic gaming experiences with the PS2 and its "Emotion Engine", a CPU designed to more efficiently render 3D environments for more "emotive" games.
Ridge Racer V wasn't a very distinct entry in the series, though few of them were after the beloved R4: Ridge Racer Type 4. Aside from updated visuals, the ability to customise your racing team in the game's career mode and a particularly diverse soundtrack meant to create an "exciting new experience" to "point to the future of the next generation of consoles", Ridge Racer V was just another Ridge Racer.
Ridge Racer DS was the series' third launch game, this time for the Nintendo DS in 2004. It was a remake of the Nintendo 64's Ridge Racer 64, which was itself an expanded port of Ridge Racer Revolution, which was itself an updated version of the original 1993 game.
Compared to the rest, Ridge Racer DS really felt like a launch title. It added an awful new control scheme where you controlled a steering wheel on the bottom screen with the DS stylus – yeah, that sounds like a fun time in a fast-paced arcade racer – and 6-person multiplayer using a single game card through Download Play. Similar to Super Mario 64 DS (which also launched with the console), it showcased 3D gaming on a portable device through an existing Nintendo 64 title, suggesting that the DS was basically a portable Nintendo 64. Reviews weren't too hot, though.
One important step forward
Ridge Racer (Ridge Racers in Japan) launched with the PlayStation Portable (PSP) in 2004 in Japan – at almost the same time as Ridge Racer DS – and 2005 everywhere else. It was a similar situation to Ridge Racer DS but was more embracing of what it was and could be. In short, Ridge Racer was more like a Greatest Hits for the series.
It was perfect for the PSP and showed off what was basically, in contrast to the DS, a PlayStation in your hands. A series that began and flourished on the PlayStation, lovingly collected into a portable package for the company's first handheld device. It was visually stunning for a portable title, ran at a solid frame rate and brought together a number of tracks and cars from across the series. It even featured a remixed soundtrack across several in-game "discs": brand-new music on the "Red" and "Blue" discs, remastered songs on two "Classic" discs, and music remixed by the original composers on the "Remix" disc. Alongside R4, Ridge Racers remains the best reviewed entry in the series.
Ridge Racer 6 launched with the Xbox 360 a year afterwards in 2005 and was the first mainline entry to not release on a PlayStation console. As a Ridge Racer title, it followed the series' recent pattern of being relatively indistinct and was subsequently outshone by Project Gotham Racing 3 and Need for Speed: Most Wanted, which were also launch games.
However, Ridge Racer 6 did take at least one important step forward by introducing online play to the series. As an Xbox launch title, this made sense to include for the Xbox's online-centric brand and audience. Players could race with 14 players in total, against replay ghosts from other players, and download free DLC cars. It even went so far as to require online play to unlock some of its vehicles (a feature that would not hold up well to public opinion today), and it was the first high-definition Ridge Racer title.
Even launch-ier
Ridge Racer 7 released a year later with the PlayStation 3 and, like Ridge Racer 6, online connectivity was a major feature designed to highlight the new PlayStation Network. Online play "permeates virtually every aspect of the Ridge Racer experience": players were ranked on a global ranking system, could play online both competitively and cooperatively, and download extra DLC like events, decals and background music. It became even launch-ier when 3D television compatibility was patched into the game three years later.
Other than that, Ridge Racer 7 was "the world's first 1080p game to run (mostly) at 60 frames a second" and helped showcase the PS3's extremely expensive power difference by being a refined version of Ridge Racer 6 with largely the same feature set. Yet again, the gameplay remained almost identical.
Ridge Racer 3D released in 2011 on the 3DS as the seventh Ridge Racer launch game. This time it was one of the portable's best launch games, outshining the rest of the line-up with polish and good use of the glasses-less 3D display. It also used the console's StreetPass feature to passively download "Duel Ghosts" for 1-on-1 races.
Of all these entries, Ridge Racer 3D might best represent why the series became a go-to launch game. Nothing about the game itself is all that noteworthy or distinct – it lacked online multiplayer and had little content or gameplay that wasn't borrowed from previous games in the series – but it showed off the portable's 3D technology well compared to the rest of the launch line-up. For Nintendo, that's all it really needed to do.
Not even close
Finally, we arrive at Ridge Racer for the PlayStation Vita. Launching in the same year as Ridge Racer 3D alongside Sony's sophomore portable, Ridge Racer is the latest and likely final launch game in the Ridge Racer series, and for good reason: it's goddamn awful. The only thing Ridge Racer had going for it was that it was as dependably fun as any other Ridge Racer game on a gameplay level.
The base version of the game only included three(!) tracks and five cars total, with six more tracks and eight more cars available as DLC. They were all taken from previous entries, too. Compare this to Ridge Racer on PSP, the obvious standard for the Vita entry to reach, which had 24 tracks and 52 cars, or Ridge Racer 2 with 42 tracks and 62 cars. There was a clear expectation and the Vita game didn't even come close.
It lacked a proper career mode – "you simply attempt the three tracks included in the game (…) as single, one-off races over and over, earning money and winning points as you do so, before being deposited back to the menu screen" – but added an RPG-like levelling system, which meant that your cars would increase in speed the more you play. Remarkably, this car levelling system also applied to online play; the player who had banked more hours is the one who wins, simple as that. Customisation had taken a bump, too. You could give your cars paint jobs but couldn't tinker with the car models themselves. No new bumpers, spoilers or wheels.
As a launch game, the Vita-centric features focused on the console's push for online play (though Ridge Racer was not the only Vita launch title with this focus). You chose one of four racing teams and were locked-in with the rest of the players who picked the same, and then helped your team climb the online leaderboards by winning races and contributing points. However, these online features constituted most of the game because of how bare-bones it was. Offline, Ridge Racer was barely more than a demo – though I suppose that's sort of fitting for a launch game.
Stagnating for effect
After Ridge Racer on the Vita, there were three more games in the series before it finally fell dormant. The Burnout-style spin-off Ridge Racer Unbounded released in 2012 remains the most recent console release, while 2013's Ridge Racer Slipstream and 2016's Ridge Racer Draw & Drift both released for iOS and Android platforms (and are no longer available).
As a series, Ridge Racer had already stagnated for a while – but funnily enough, this served it well as a perpetual launch title. The game itself never changed all that much, the most dramatic being a new "Nitro" boost added to the first PSP entry and online play added in Ridge Racer 6, but this meant that hardware-specific features stood out and were easy to notice. It was always the same game at its core, just with minor additions and tweaks made to showcase the hardware it was launching with. Even the name stayed the same; it was usually just titled Ridge Racer over and over again.
Nevertheless, I miss Ridge Racer. No series has replicated its style or gameplay, though Inertial Drift and Hotshot Racing come close while chasing their own distinct angle. The series also haven't been ported or made available digitally for the most part | 2,103 |
The InterPlanetary Network (IPN) is a group of spacecraft equipped with gamma ray burst (GRB) detectors. By timing the arrival of a burst at several spacecraft, its precise location can be found. The precision for determining the direction of a GRB in the sky is improved by increasing the spacing of the detectors, and also by more accurate timing of the reception. Typical spacecraft baselines of about one AU (astronomical unit) and time resolutions of tens of milliseconds can determine a burst location within several arcminutes, allowing follow-up observations with other telescopes.
Rationale
Gamma rays are too energetic to be focused with mirrors. The rays penetrate mirror materials instead of reflecting. Because gamma rays cannot be focused into an image in the traditional sense, a unique location for a gamma ray source cannot be determined as it is done with less energetic light.
In addition, gamma ray bursts are brief flashes (often as little as 0.2 seconds) that occur randomly across the sky. Some forms of gamma ray telescope can generate an image, but they require longer integration times, and cover only a fraction of the sky.
Once three spacecraft detect a GRB, their timings are sent to the ground for correlation. A sky position is derived, and distributed to the astronomical community for follow-up observations with optical, radio, or spaceborne telescopes.
Iterations of the IPN
Note that, since any IPN must consist of several spacecraft, the boundaries between networks are defined differently by different commentators.
Spacecraft naturally join or leave service as their missions unfold, and some modern spacecraft are far more capable than prior IPN members.
A "planetary network"
The Vela group of satellites was originally designed to detect covert nuclear tests, possibly at the Moon's altitude. Thus, the Velas were placed in high orbits, so that a time delay would occur between spacecraft triggers. In addition, each<|fim_middle|> 3, 1969, and thus referred to as GRB 690603. The location was determined to be clearly outside of the satellites' orbit, and probably outside of the Solar system. After reviewing archived Vela data, a previous burst was determined to have occurred on July 2, 1967. Public reports of initial GRBs were not disclosed until the early 1970s.
Further missions
Additional spacecraft were given gamma-ray detectors. The Apollo 15 and 16 missions carried detectors to study the Moon; middle-to-late Venera spacecraft carried detectors to Venus. The relatively long baselines of these missions again showed that bursts originated at great distances. Other spacecraft (such as the OGO, OSO, and IMP series) had detectors for Earth, Solar, or all-sky gamma radiation, and also confirmed the GRB phenomenon.
The first true IPN
Scientists began to tailor instruments specifically for GRBs. The Helios-2 spacecraft carried a detector with precision time resolution to a Solar orbit that took it over one AU from Earth. Helios-2 was launched in 1976.
In 1978, multiple spacecraft were launched, forming the necessary baselines for a position determination. The Pioneer Venus Orbiter and its Soviet counterparts, Venera 11 and 12, took gamma detectors to the orbit of Venus. In addition, the spacecraft Prognoz-7 and ISEE-3 remained in Earth orbit. These formed an Earth-Venus-Sun triangle, and the probes at Venus formed a smaller triangle. 84 bursts were detected, until the network degraded in 1980. The Pioneer Venus Orbiter continued until it entered the Venus atmosphere in 1992, but not enough other spacecraft were functioning to form the required baselines.
On March 5 and 6, 1979, two bursts of hard X-rays were detected from the same source in the constellation Dorado by the γ-ray burst detector Konus, on the Venera 11 and Venera 12 spacecraft. These X-ray bursts were detected by several other spacecraft. As part of the InterPlanetary Network (IPN), Venera 11, Venera 12 were hit by the March 5, 1979, hard X-ray burst at ~10:51 EST, followed 11 s later by Helios 2 in orbit around the Sun, then the Pioneer Venus Orbiter at Venus. Seconds later the Vela satellites, Prognoz 7, and the Einstein Observatory in orbit around Earth were inundated. The last satellite hit was the ISEE-3 before the burst exited the Solar System.
The second IPN
Pioneer Venus Orbiter was rejoined by Ulysses in 1990. The launch of the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory in 1991 again formed triangular baselines with PVO and Ulysses. Ulysses continued until June 2009, and the PVO mission ended in August 1992.
Compton once again brought directional discrimination with the BATSE instrument. Like the Velas, BATSE placed detectors at the spacecraft corners. Thus, Compton alone could determine a coarse burst location, to within 1.6 to 4 degrees. Baselines with other spacecraft were then used to sharpen Compton's position solutions. In addition, almost half the sky from Compton was blocked by the Earth, just as Venus blocked part of the sky for PVO. Detection or non-detection by Compton or PVO added another element to the location algorithms.
Compton also had high-precision, low-field-of-view gamma instruments. Occasionally, GRBs would occur where Compton happened to be pointing. The use of multiple, sensitive instruments would provide much more accuracy than BATSE alone.
The "third" IPN
Compton and Ulysses were joined briefly by Mars Observer in late 1992, before that spacecraft failed. Some feel that Compton provided sufficient continuity, and that the distinction between 2nd, 3rd, and subsequent IPNs is semantic.
"Additional" IPNs
Compton and Ulysses were joined by Wind in 1994. Although Wind was in Earth orbit, like Compton, its altitude was very high, thus forming a short but usable baseline. The high altitude also meant that Earth blockage was negligible. In addition, Wind carried a top and bottom detector. Interpolation between the two units usually gave a general sky direction for bursts, which in many cases could augment the IPN algorithm. The addition of RXTE in 1995 also helped. Although RXTE was an X-ray mission in Earth orbit, it could detect those gamma-ray bursts which also shone in X-rays, and give a direction (rather than merely a time trigger) for them.
Two important developments occurred in 1996. NEAR was launched; its trajectory to an asteroid again formed a triangular IPN measured in AUs. The IPN was also joined by BeppoSAX. BeppoSAX had wide-field gamma detectors, and narrow-field X-ray telescopes. Once a GRB was detected, operators could spin the spacecraft within hours to point the X-ray telescopes at the coarse location. The X-ray afterglow would then give a fine location. In 1997, the first fine location allowed detailed study of a GRB and its environ.
Compton was deorbited in 2000; the NEAR mission was shut down in early 2001. In late 2001, the Mars Odyssey spacecraft again formed an interplanetary triangle.
Other members of the network include or have included the Indian SROSS-C2 spacecraft, the US Air Force's Defense Meteorological Satellites, the Japanese Yohkoh spacecraft, and the Chinese SZ-2 mission. These have all been Earth orbiters, and the Chinese and Indian detectors were operational for only a few months.
Of all the above, Ulysses is the only spacecraft whose orbit takes it large distances away from the ecliptic plane. These deviations from the ecliptic plane allow more precise 3-D measurements of the apparent positions of the GRBs.
The 21st century: staring spacecraft
New techniques and designs in high-energy astronomy spacecraft are challenging the traditional operation of the IPN. Because distant probes require sensitive ground antennas for communication, they introduce a time lag into GRB studies. Large ground antennas must split time between spacecraft, rather than listen continuously for GRB notifications. Typically, GRB coordinates determined by deep space probes are distributed many hours to a day or two after the GRB. This is very frustrating for studies of events which are measured in seconds.
A new generation of spacecraft are designed to produce GRB locations on board, then relay them to the ground within minutes or even seconds. These positions are based not on time correlation, but on X-ray telescopes, as on BeppoSAX but much faster. HETE-2, launched in 2000, stares at a large region of sky. Should a GRB trigger the gamma detectors, X-ray masks report sky coordinates to ground stations. Because HETE is in a low, consistent orbit, it can use many inexpensive ground stations. There is almost always a ground station in view of the spacecraft, which reduces latency to seconds.
The Swift spacecraft, launched in 2004, is similar in operation but much more powerful. When a GRB triggers the gamma detectors, generating a crude position, the spacecraft spins relatively rapidly to use its focusing X-ray and optical telescopes. These refine the GRB location to within arcminutes, and often within arcseconds. The fine position is reported to the ground in approximately an hour.
INTEGRAL is a successor to Compton. INTEGRAL can similarly determine a coarse position by comparing gamma counts from one side to another. It also possesses a gamma-ray telescope with an ability to determine positions to under a degree. INTEGRAL cannot pivot rapidly like the small HETE and Swift spacecraft. But should a burst happen to occur in its telescope field of view, its position and characteristics can be recorded with high precision.
RHESSI was launched in 2002 to perform solar studies. However, its gamma instrument could detect bright gamma sources from other regions of the sky, and produce coarse positions through differential detectors. Occasionally, a GRB would appear next to the Sun, and the RHESSI instrument would determine its properties without IPN assistance.
Note however, that all these spacecraft suffer from Earth blockage to varying degrees. Also, the more sophisticated the "staring" instrument, the lower the sky coverage. Randomly occurring GRBs are more likely to be missed, or detected at low resolution only. The use of non-directional deep space probes, such as MESSENGER and BepiColombo, will continue.
Current IPN developments
In 2007 AGILE was launched and in 2008 the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and although these are Earth orbiters, their instruments provide directional discrimination. The Fermi Space Telescope uses both wide-area burst detectors and a narrow-angle telescope, and has a limited ability to spin itself to place a GRB within the telescope field. MESSENGER's Gamma Ray Neutron Spectrometer was able to add data to the IPN, before the end of MESSENGER's mission in 2015. Due to falling power from its RTG, Ulysses was decommissioned on June 30, 2009.
See also
Gamma-ray Burst Coordinates Network
References
External links
Third Interplanetary Network Current IPN website, including data for download, etc.
IPN Progress Report A Quarterly Refereed Journal
IPN Status report IPN status as of September 24, 2007.
Proposed spacecraft
Gamma-ray astronomy
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A gamma-ray burst was detected by the Vela group on June | 40 |
Comfort and convenience await you in this cosy, historic, cottage.
Welcome. Let's step into the high-ceilinged rooms with beautiful jarrah floors and explore.
In Annie's air-conditioned bedroom you will find an old fashioned double brass bed, a writing desk and an antique cot. In Rosie's Retreat, depending on the time of day you can either slumber in the ornate single day bed or nestle in the comfortable old lounge chair. 'The Dormitory' is also the grandchildren's play room. Here you can flop on one of the two single beds or put your feet up on the double sofa and perhaps tap away on your tablet.
Annie and Rosie's rooms become quiet areas by simply closing the hallway door. 'The Dormitory' is adjacent to the family room. There is hanging space in all bedrooms. Freshly laundered, lovely, bed linen, plumped pillows, toiletries and towels are provided with compliments.
The air-conditioned family room has an amply cushioned day bed and comfortable lounge chairs. It is the hub of the home. If you enjoy jigsaws or games then this is the place to be. Simply open the bookcase cabinets then let the fun and challenges begin or, you can just sit back and watch TV or a DVD.
The light filled kitchen overlooks the treed backyard with a paved area shaded by a beautiful old peppercorn tree. Young ones assure me that this is a fairy tree.
The kitchen is fully equipped with dishwasher, fridge/freezer, gas cooker, microwave and utensils galore. You are welcome to create culinary delights or simply eat on the run. You are also welcome to sample the assortment<|fim_middle|> artisans, vintage clothing and wares, crafts and exquisite quilting fabrics, a bookshop, and even special extras such as organic flower bouquets and locally made skin care products. Around the corner from these is the laundromat and the newsagent.
The Visitors Centre website lists even more things for you to see and do: upcoming events, forest and bush walks, scenic drives, cycling, Greenbushes natural swimming pool, wineries, tours and places of interest. If you are interested in the history of Bridgetown then call into the Old Gaol Museum.
The Winter Festival, Bridgetown Blues and Garden Festivals are included in previous visitors' favourites. Other events, just down the track, include the Balingup Medieval Festival, Nannup Music Festival, Manjimup Cherry Festival and Pemberton Unearthed Festival.
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The kitchen abuts the dining area and combines the old with the new. For example, if you enjoy supping from fine china and etched glassware complemented with damask napkins, then the dining dresser is the place to explore. If you prefer a more minimalist style then simply use the practical, plain, dishwasher proof setting. The dining room has an old oak table that is perfect for a game of bridge or similar and can be extended to seat six at meal times.
Friends and family asked that mention be made of the front verandah. It is a favoured place to sit and gaze out at the hills, enjoy a cuppa or a glass of wine, listen to music, read and relax, or watch the sunset. On a balmy evening simply turn on the ceiling fan and the misting system then top up your glass.
At a more practical level there are appliances such as a washing machine, iron and ironing board. If there is anything like this that you need just ask and I'll let you know whether or not it is available.
The cottage accommodates 6 people nightly price is for 4 people, additional costs for more people. You can park behind the home or on the front verge.
The Blackwood River, with its walking track, canoeing potential, BBQ/picnic area, playground and markets every second Sunday is a stone's throw away. You can meander down to town along the old railway track through the Ashbil Community Garden with a market on the last Saturday of the month or over the little bridge, down the footpath past the old church and the deli.
The main street hosts cafes, restaurants and hotels that cater to a broad range of tastes. The Cidery, with locally made premium ciders and award-winning beers, is several blocks away. Tucked between these eateries you will find two supermarkets and a variety of unique outlets. For example, there are the diverse works of local artists and | 403 |
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70 Years of Regal Entertainment
One of Sydney's oldest and proudest musical societies is celebrating its 70th birthday. It all began because of a casting dispute.
The founder of The Regals, Frederick J Dunne, is quoted in a program as being inspired to form the musical society because of his dream of involving the whole community in his love of music.
It transpires that his love of the ensemble mistress of the Rockdale Musical Society also had something to do with it. He left the other company - to form the new one in the same suburb - when his future wife was told her services were no longer required.
There was a happy ending for all, as they got married and The Regals have served their community for seven decades.
The current President Paul Morrision is a third generation Regal. His parents met during a rehearsal and his grandmother was the box office stalwart and patron.
The Regals' first production was on the 14th of November 1945. It was the Edwardian musical Our Miss Gibbs. No doubt the audience were dressed to the nines as was their custom at the time. The venue was the Rockdale Town Hall in Sydney's south, still home to the musical society today.
The aim of The Regals was to promote musical entertainment, create opportunities for young people to showcase their talent and assist charitable causes.
The original 1945 Regals members came from all walks of life - accountants, electricians, florists, butchers, stenographers, builders and returned servicemen and women. Nowadays, other than the addition of an IT expert, graphic designer and social networking guru, this is still the case.
This eclectic mix of people is what makes a community theatre group so interesting. With the varied skills required to put on a production; from on-stage performance and set construction, to promotions and marketing<|fim_middle|> and without their countless hours each week of selfless sacrifice the Society would not be the wonderful place it is today."
2015….and still flying high.
After seventy years, The Regals Musical Society will be embarking on its most challenging year ever.
In May it will stage the NSW community theatre premiere of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Director Danielle Nicholls-Fuller is relishing the opportunity to bring their 'Fine Four Fendered Friend' to the Rockdale Town Hall Stage. "It will certainly be a challenge. The number one question that I have been asked since accepting directorship is 'How are you going to make the car fly?' All I can say is that an experienced technical team has been recruited whose responsibility is to develop the car – and it will be amazing. To find out more you'll have to come and see the show."
Danielle was musical director for another of the Regals' 21st century triumphs, when it staged the world premiere of Jon English's rock opera Paris in 2003.
The calendar in 2015 is very full. There are two other musicals Alice in Wonderland Jr in February and Hairspray in October.
Kicking off on the 8th February there will be a Member's Family Picnic Day at Carss Park, a tradition established by members in the 1970's. Mid-year The Regals will participate in the biannual Spotlight Awards – the local theatre community's 'night of nights'. There is also time for a pancake party and a gala dinner on the 14th of November.
"The Regals would not be celebrating its 70th anniversary without the ongoing support of the Rockdale City Council and the hard work of the past membership," says Morrison. "With the celebrations that we have in store for 2015 I would love to invite as many people as possible to come back home to The Regals and celebrate this wonderful occasion."
Register via The Regals' website www.theregals.com.au, 'like' the company's Facebook page or email Paul directly via president@theregals.com.au
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Paul Morrison believes that it is the contribution of volunteers that pumps the lifeblood through the heart of The Regals family.
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Sue Williamson's Diary:
Blue days in Dakar, African videos in Washington and a party in Joburg
A feature by Sue Williamson on the 4th of July 2016. This should take you 5 minutes to read.
It seems a little crazy to fly to Dakar in Senegal from the US for two nights, then fly back again, especially when the opening of the Dak'Art Biennale was six days before, and the special events would be over, but that was the only way I could juggle all the dates.
The 1:54 Contemporary Art Fair in New York closed on May 8, the 'Senses of Time: Video and Film-based Work from Africa' opened at the National Museum of African Art in Washington on May 17, and in the meantime, Victoria Mann and Salimata Diop of the AKAA art fair had proposed organizing a book launch and an Other Voices, Other Cities workshop for me in Dakar in the gap between the two events.
The Hotel Djoloff
So I went, arriving in Dakar very early one morning, and was met by Salimata and taxi-ed to the charming Hotel Djoloff, in the Fann Hok district of Dakar.
From the roof top restaurant, one could watch the fishing pirogues setting out for the catch each day. Time being super short, Salimata had organized the workshop for that very day, inviting Dakar friends and artists.
The new CICAD Centre, venue for the workshop
As always, my question to the group is what they believe to be the essential nature of their city. The discussion, which started with the mention of blackouts and traffic jams, went through the fact that Dakar is a peaceful and safe country, with strong traditions like 'ataya': drinking tea together to promote social interaction and communication; a country where almost everyone has a cellphone, and systems like 'wari' help people transfer money across the country without bank accounts by paying money into one 'Wari' point then texting the recipient a message to pick it up at another, the fact that creativity and a sense of design can be seen everywhere in many small ways, the fact that everything is always an emergency and last minute but everyone trusts that it will happen anyway.
Lunching with Salimata and Tracy at the French Institute
So the line which emerged at the end was: DON'T PANIC – CREATIVITY WILL SAVE US.
Viye Diba, an artist friend who missed the bus to the workshop but came to the shoot laughed when he heard the line, and said it would have been the line he would have chosen anyway
The old Palais de Justice
Before the workshop, we had visited the old Palais de Justice to view the main show of the Dak'Art Biennale. It's a magnificent old modernist building in a state of decay, and the curator's theme for the Biennale was 'Dak'Art 2016 : La Cité dans le jour bleu' which I thought was very poetic. That colour of blue used for the script is seen in many places in Dakar.
The next morning, I considered a few other places but given the fact that time was so short, and we still had to make all the letters that day, I thought it would be best to settle on the Palais as a location for the shoot, and to paint the letters that shade of blue.
During the shoot, Simon Njami, the curator for the Biennale appeared, so I persuaded him to be part of the word 'CREATIVITY'.
That night, I take the 2 a.m. flight back to Washington.
Self, Karen Milbourne and Berni Searle outside the NMAFA
'Senses of Time', at Washington's NMAFA has been curated by Karen Milbourne and Polly Roberts, video works from myself, Theo<|fim_middle|> exactly Brett Murray knew what Zuma's penis looked like…
Linda Givon and Liza Essers
Bongi Dhlomo feeds her mask some soup
And the Khumalo sisters do such a brilliant job of dj-ing that three hours after the midnight bus has left the party, the artists and gallery staff are still on the floor.
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Design by Blackman Rossouw | Eshetu, Yinka Shonibare, Sammy Baloji, Moatz Nasr and Berni Searle. Berni has come for the opening, and Moataz was supposed to come, but on returning to Cairo from Dak'Art, he was detained by police for 16 hours and his passport has been withdrawn. Such is the danger of being an outspoken artist in a repressive country.
Johnnetta Cole, director of the NMAFA
The seven video works have been extremely well installed in a darkened gallery at the museum, and look great. The powerful Johnnetta Cole opens the exhibition. Lots of press arrive for the press preview, and here is a nice clip… even if the presenter comes out with the inevitable framing line… 'the curators want you to know that African art cannot just be defined by traditional media like beadwork and masks…' Oh, America …
'Senses of Time' at the NMAFA
I spent a couple of months in Washington in 2007 on a Visual Arts Research fellowship, and it's enjoyable to wander round the museums on the mall again. In the Smithsonian Castle is a machine which will take your photograph and reproduce it on a screen in pixels of work in the collection.
The selfie machine at the Smithsonian
Ten days after my return to Cape Town, I fly to Joburg to help celebrate the Goodman Gallery's 50th birthday at an amazing party set in Shine Studios, high above the lights of Johannesburg.
The lower level at Shine Studios
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This page presents the geographical name data for Mascías Cove in Antarctica, as<|fim_middle|>ospatial-Intelligence Agency. | supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division.
Description (see definition): Cove indenting the W coast of Graham Land immediately E of Mount Banck. First roughly charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (BelgAE) under Gerlache, 1897-99, and later, by the Scottish geologist David Ferguson, 1913-14. Named for Lieutenant Eladio Mascias of the tug Argentine Antarctic Expedition of 1949-50.
NOTE: The information regarding Mascías Cove in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Mascías Cove should be addressed to the National Ge | 214 |
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