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Quiz: Which of the 5 Love Languages Do You Speak?
Which of the 5 Love Languages Do You Speak?
Whether you are struggling with your relationship or you're in a state of pure bliss with your honey, learning how to best communicate that love will help your relationship become more satisfying. Take this quiz to find out which of the five love languages you speak!
Which restaurant is most romantic?
Which gift do you give to your partner when they are leaving for an extended trip?
Your partner is very stressed over planning a party for their friend. How do you help them out?
Encourage them by saying how much the friend is going to appreciate their work.
Make them a nice relaxing bath while I cook dinner.
Buy them a new planner to help them keep things organized.
Offer to help them with a few tasks, like decorating.
Give them a long massage when they finally have a moment to relax.
What is the most meaningful small gesture from your partner?
Where would you propose to your partner?
If your partner does something that annoys you, how do you handle it?
How do you like your gifts of flowers?
How do you relax on an evening alone?
How do you feel if your partner is late meeting you for a dinner date?
I hope they have a good explanation.
I'm fine waiting, and I'll order an appetizer for us in the meantime.
I get anxious and start questioning if the restaurant was a good choice.
I'm upset that our time together is getting shorter than we planned.
I hope they aren't too stressed when they get here, but I know these things happen.
Which spontaneous and cheap date is most appealing?
How would you feel if your partner went through your bag looking for mints?
I keep my journal in there! I hope they didn't read it.
I'd be scared they saw a receipt for something I bought as a Christmas gift!
The mints are my partner's anyway.
I'd be upset that they didn't ask me before going into my personal space.
What do you want to give your partner this Christmas?
How do you surprise your partner on Sunday morning?
Do you care what your partner wears to your anniversary date?
I don't care even a little bit.
I spend a lot of time on my outfit, but I don't care what they wear.
If I care, I'll buy something new for them to wear as a gift.
We like to pick out matching outfits together.
As long as they look well groomed, it's fine.
How do you react to a text saying "We need to talk"?
I video call them immediately so that we can talk.
I am worried. I don't know why we would need to talk about something.
I start thinking about what I can do to show my partner how much I love them.
I say that we can do that over dinner tonight.
I say we should talk in person.
What do you hope your parents say about your partner?
"You guys really care for each other."
"They are so good at taking care of you!"
"They take you on the best dates!"
"You look so comfortable around each other."
Which Friday night date sounds most romantic?
Wine tasting downtown, with dancing afterwards.
Going for dessert and a long walk on the beach.
Making a delicious meal together at home.
Pizza and movie-watching in our pajamas.
How do you feel about double dating?
I love hanging out with other couples!
It's fine, as long as it makes my partner happy.
I don't have a problem with it, as long as it isn't a special occasion.
I think it's a great way for my partner to get to know my friends and vice versa.
I prefer more private dates.
What do you do if your partner gets the flu?
Send encouraging texts and make sure they are taking their medicine.
Make them chicken noodle soup from scratch, and feed it to them.
Make sure they have everything they need to get better, including a stuffed animal to make them happy.
Spend more time hanging out with them so they don't feel lonely.
Cuddle them and make sure their fever stays down.
How do you support your partner when they are going for a job interview?
I encourage them and tell them how awesome they are.
I help them research the job and company so they know everything possible about the position.
I get them a professional folder for their resume.
I spend time practice-interviewing them so they are prepared.
I give them a shoulder rub so they are relaxed for the interview.
Which weekend getaway is most romantic for you?
A surprise trip to Paris!
Which compliment is most touching to hear from your partner?
You are always so smooth with your words.
I can't believe you did this for me!
You are my favorite person to be with.
Your presence means so much to me.
If your partner asks you to pick up some milk on the way home from work, what else do you get from the store?
Their favorite cereal. I don't want to have to go back to the store in the morning.
Maybe their favorite chocolate bar, if I see it.
Which exercise do you want to do with your partner?
Which gift is necessary for a romantic Valentine's Day?
Red roses are the best for Valentine's Day!
What kind of a movie do you take your date to?
A spy film, because mystery is great for romance.
A fantasy film, because the CGI is so impressive.
A romantic comedy, because laughter makes a date more fun.
A documentary, so we can discuss the film afterwards.
A scary movie, so I can hold their hand.
How do you feel about your personal space?
I don't care very much about keeping my space private from my partner.
I like to keep my workspace private.
I like to keep my nightstand and a few other places private, but I don't mind sharing a space.
I feel like my partner and I have discussed our boundaries, and we know what is shared and what is private.
My partner and I are joined at the hip.
What would you do if you accidentally broke your partner's favorite one-of-a-kind mug?
I would attempt to fix it, and if I can't, I'll figure out how to make a new one.
Go find a mug that my partner will love just as much before I tell them about the broken one.
I offer to take them shopping for a replacement.
I take their hand and apologize for breaking it while we are cuddling on the couch.
Catching up with old friends and family, on the phone or over lunch.
I like a romantic dinner date with my partner.
How do you feel if your partner orders your usual for you at your favorite restaurant?
It would be so nice that they pay attention!
I would be slightly irritated. I like to order my own meal after looking through the menu.
I would be sad that my partner didn't expect me to try something new.
I'd be surprised that we've been to this place enough for them to know my order.
It wouldn't bother me. I do the same for them sometimes.
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2019-04-20T22:09:01Z
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https://learn.howstuffworks.com/quiz/which-the-5-love-languages-do-you-speak
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Shopping
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wordpress
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Aims – To provide an overview of gambling and problem gambling in Switzerland, including historical aspects, past and current legislation and policies, treatment options and the research base. Methods – A literature search was conducted on two databases (PubMed and PsycINFO), and official government and statistical reports selected from the official websites of four sources (Federal Office of Justice; Federal Gambling Board; Federal Office of Statistics; Swiss Lottery and Betting Board). Results – After a history of banning or partial banning, Swiss gambling became regulated at the beginning of the 20th century through successive laws. The current system is characterized by important differences in the law and policies for casinos and lotteries, and contradictions in the regulation of these two areas are still under debate in order to develop new legislation.
Source: Billieux, J., Achab, S., Savary, J.-F., Simon, O., Richter, F., Zullino, D., & Khazaal, Y. (2016). Gambling and problem gambling in Switzerland. Addiction.
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2019-04-18T20:23:16Z
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https://pgflibrary.wordpress.com/2016/01/13/gambling-and-problem-gambling-in-switzerland/
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Health
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tripod
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If I'm honest, I must say that neither the cover of Philip Gardiner's The Shining Ones, nor the blurb ("The most sensational investigation in years") filled me with enthusiasm for the anticipated contents. At best, I expected something eccentric; at worst, something cranky. I was therefore pleasantly surprised at how easily the chapters sped by, the friendly typeface and unpretentious style making reading almost a pleasure. The text, packed with factual information and punctuated with appropriate black-and-white illustrations, is exemplary in non-fiction terms. It begins with a history of religion designed to lead up to the book's main thesis: the idea that our world, and most of what happens in it, is ruled by a secret society that has been in existence since the dawn of human civilisation.
Unfortunately, the standard of writing and, in particular, the relevance of the illustrations, deteriorated noticeably as the book proceeded. The jacket claims that it was "released without over zealous editing", which is clearly true but perhaps not something to boast about. My gut feeling was that the editor, if there was one, got careless about halfway through. At the outset, I had been very hopeful. The author seemed to have done lots of research, and was promising to reveal hitherto unknown secrets about the history of religion. No doubt, in later chapters, all would become clear.
By the last chapter, I was simply baffled. As the author himself admits in the final pages, the mystery he has uncovered was written about by Edward Carpenter a century ago. Mr Gardiner does not, however, seem to recognise the irony in the words of a Cambridge theologian who commented, on hearing his idea for the work, "Oh dear, you're going to let the cat out of the bag."
Presenting facts, in however lively a style, is not the same as presenting an argument. Mr Gardiner makes much of the common linguistic roots of various terms relating to religion, but elsewhere reveals a limited knowledge of the development of language: "Simon the Magi" [sic]. Less forgivably, many of his statements in support of his ideas are complete non-sequiturs. For example, speaking of Silbury Hill, he says, "There is nobody buried beneath this great mound, so it must have been a temple." Could he really think of no other explanation? "Jesus and his entourage took their supper in what must have been a huge room." Why must it? It is hypothesised that the place where Jesus died was not the Jerusalem we know today, but some other place with the same name. Jesus did not, in fact, die, but either was taken down from the cross while still alive or perhaps a substitute took his place. His resurrection, like everything else in his life, was the product of a massive conspiracy.
If I sound sceptical, it isn't because I don't believe in Philip Gardiner's individual findings. There is virtually nothing in The Shining Ones that I found hard to swallow. All the theories were at least plausible, all the facts apparently correct. It was the quantum leap from these individual statements to the final, all-embracing conclusion that was difficult to accept. A further volume is planned, taking us from the ancient history which forms the basis of this first book, on into the Middle Ages, so that we can see how this immensely powerful group of priest-kings continued to keep its hold on the minds and hearts of ordinary people, and established itself as the controlling force in modern civilisation.
I look forward to reading Volume Two. At the same time, I hope it will be written with more regard for logic and reasoned argument than Mr Gardiner has managed here. It needs to be, if he hopes to convince me or anyone else of the continued existence of a coherent group identifiable as "The Shining Ones".
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2019-04-26T00:06:01Z
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http://tregolwyn.tripod.com/tregolwyn/id86.html
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chalmers
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Avoiding catastrophic climate change requires a global energy transition, which opens up for the emergence of novel industries. This project focusses on the question of how a nation, in this case Sweden, can create domestic industrial renewal based on research and development of new energy technologies that have a limited home market but substantial global potential. Through case studies of marine and solar energy, we develop knowledge about the importance of key innovation processes for moving from technology demonstration to large-scale industrialisation, in order to underpin discussions on how sets of policy instruments can, and have to, work together to reach the parallel but linked policy goals of energy transition and industrial renewal.
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2019-04-22T14:34:30Z
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https://research.chalmers.se/en/project/6132
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Sports
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lsusports
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BATON ROUGE -- LSU will host the first “Magnolia Bowl” rivalry game with Ole Miss on Saturday in Tiger Stadium, a name determined by the student bodies from both schools.
The student body of each school started discussing the idea of an official rivalry game about a year ago. The two student bodies held a “Name that Rivalry” campaign for students to provide input on the name via text messaging. The Ole Miss and LSU student governments then voted in their respective Student Senates to name the rivalry the “Magnolia Bowl.” The two student bodies have since worked together to create a “Magnolia Bowl” trophy and logo.
The trophy was designed by LSU senior sculpture major Evan Trapp with input from the leaders of the two student bodies. The trophy is carved from bass wood with a stained finish. The game’s logo will be emblazoned on the base, as will all of the scores following the Nov. 22 game. The top of the base will have four wood-carved leaves cradling a bronze-cast magnolia flower.
The logo was designed by Cultigraphic Creative located in Charleston, S.C. The student body leaders of Ole Miss played a major role in its development and finalization. The logo contains the LSU, Ole Miss, and SEC logos as well as the magnolia flower. The two schools will use this logo as the official Magnolia Bowl Logo.
The trophy and all parties involved will be introduced on the field before the game. The student body president of the winning school will then present the trophy to their team following the game.
Major parties involved on the LSU side include past student body vice-president Josh King, past executive staff member Corey Weber, Sculptor Evan Trapp, Student Body President Colorado Robertson and Student Government Athletic Director Andrew Remson.
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2019-04-21T07:04:55Z
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http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=1626915
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indiatimes
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Investors continued to pour money with retail oriented equity schemes getting Rs 23,055 crore, a bit lower than the peak of Rs 28,145 crore of August 2017.
Assets under management for the mutual fund industry rose by Rs 1.06 lakh crore, touching Rs 22.41 lakh crore for the month of January reports industry body AMFI.
Liquid and short term funds which had seen outflows of Rs 1.38 lakh crore on account of year end considerations, buybacks by corporates in December saw some inflows with Rs 96,000 crore of inflows in January. Income funds continued to see outflows as bond yields hardened and investors moved from duration funds to accrual products.
Balanced funds saw some moderation in inflows, seeing flows of Rs 7665 crore as compared to Rs 9756 crore in December 2017, as investors turned cautious with valuations soaring. “As valuations soared with no correction more than 3% in calendar year 2017 and bond yields rose, HNIs were slow to allocate money into equity schemes in January,” says Gajendra Kothari, Founder, Etica Wealth Management.
Distributors are waiting for the new classification norms, before allocating money to balanced funds.
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2019-04-24T06:32:36Z
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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/wealth/mutual-funds/mutual-funds-add-rs-1-06-lakh-crore-in-january/articleshow/62823559.cms
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Tara is sporting a fancy lab coat today. None of those white shapeless coats for her, she has an elegantly tailored jacket with a long skirt.
I really enjoyed drawing this outfit. I had the comb through the book to find all the changes to the costume that occurred during the games! Katniss has been singed by fire, torn by trees and bushes, attacked by tracker-jackers (giant hornets), and still persists in her defiance against the capital.
We've been quite busy this summer so I haven't drawn any new dolls yet. The March sisters are in the sketch phase. But I still have a large buffer of outfits to post (when I remember I run a blog... sorry!). This pair of outfits Katniss wears on the first day of the games. The Tributes are taken to solitary rooms wearing a simple shift. There, joined with their stylist as the last friendly person they will see unless they win the games, they dress in the uniform of the games.
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2019-04-22T15:56:51Z
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https://apapercloset.weebly.com/home/archives/08-2012
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flickr
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This panorama was taken about an hour before sunrise on a cold January morning in Riisitunturi National Park in Finnish Lapland. A fantastic place, a true winter fairytale with the trees heavily loaded with snow and rime (a phenomenon called tykky in Finnish). The days are very short at this time of year, and the low angle of the sun creates fantastic colours in the sky, especially just before sunrise and after sunset.
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2019-04-24T16:21:43Z
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/hanneketravels/11978856294/
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wordpress
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Yong Zhao spoke to a general session at the annual conference of the Network for Public Education. His speech was spectacular! He was witty, informative, actually hilarious. The audience loved him.
I will not try to summarize what he said. You must watch yourself. Julian Vasquez Heilig introduces Yong Zhao.
This is one of the best presentations I have ever seen about education today. Don’t take my word for it. Judge for yourself.
Sit back and prepare to laugh out loud. If you don’t have time now, save it for when you have 45 minutes for sheer fun and intellectual pleasure. Then show it to your friends and colleagues. Show it to your local school board, your state board, your legislators. Share it with all who care about our kids and our society.
Thanks to videographer Vincent Precht.
Next > New York parents demand an independent investigation of Common Core tests.
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2019-04-22T20:43:21Z
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https://schoolsofthoughtny.wordpress.com/2015/05/01/yong-zhaos-fabulous-very-funny-speech-at-npe/
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wordpress
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A growing and popular trend I’ve had my eye on is the top knot. It’s a great, quick, easy look for summer. It actually started with guys and has been adapted by women in different variations. There are a few nuances between how its worn between men and women. For guys, it’s more undone. Using your fingers instead of a comb or brush to pull it up and back. For girls there are more defined partings and seems to be a little more polished. Below are some examples of various lengths and top knot looks.
The top knot has two distinct things that can add a lot of variation and a multitude of looks.
The first is to decide how much hair you are going to pull back. You can just pull back a rectangular section from the recession areas back or you can pull your hair up all the way from above the ear or anywhere in between.
The second thing to decide is what to do with the tail once you fasten the hair with an elastic. You can twist the hair around and tightly enough that turns in on itself and fasten with a pin. You can simply loop it through the elastic and don’t pull it through all the way, or my pick is to use your favorite braid (three or four strand, rope, fishtail) and wrap it up and around the base of the elastic to get a very unique looking knot.
Finish the look off by adding loose waves to the hair that’s down. Add a shine spray or serum to smooth fly-away’s from the part that has been pulled back.
Experiment, have fun, and rock a top knot this summer!
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2019-04-21T10:40:30Z
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https://brianzinno.wordpress.com/category/topknots/
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google
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2015-07-10 Assigned to SECURUS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. reassignment SECURUS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. CHANGE OF NAME (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: EVERCOM SYSTEMS, INC.
2017-11-03 Assigned to DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH, AS COLLATERAL AGENT reassignment DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH, AS COLLATERAL AGENT FIRST LIEN SECURITY AGREEMENT Assignors: SATELLITE TRACKING OF PEOPLE LLC, SECURUS TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS, INC., SECURUS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
2017-11-06 Assigned to DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH, AS COLLATERAL AGENT reassignment DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH, AS COLLATERAL AGENT SECOND LIEN SECURITY AGREEMENT Assignors: SATELLITE TRACKING OF PEOPLE LLC, SECURUS TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS, INC., SECURUS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Embodiments of the present invention are directed generally to use of biometric identification during a call for detecting an anomaly occurring in the call, such as a change in the parties participating on the call. Communication between parties of a call is monitored and biometric identification is performed using the communication. According to one exemplary embodiment, biometric prints, such as voice prints, face prints, etc., are obtained for parties that are authorized to participate on a call. The call is then monitored and biometric data (e.g., audio, video, etc.) captured from communication during the call is compared with the biometric prints of the authorized parties to detect changes in the parties participating on the call, such as a new, unauthorized party joining the call. Thus, a call processing system can detect anomalies occurring during monitored calls, such as three-way calling, a handoff of a call, etc.
This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/603,960 filed on Nov. 22, 2006 and titled “SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING A CALL ANOMALY USING BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION,” the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference. This application is also related to commonly assigned U.S. Patent Applications: Ser. No. 11/603,938 filed on Nov. 22, 2006 and titled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-CHANNEL RECORDING”, Ser. No. 11/480,258 filed on Jun. 30, 2006 and titled “SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTITY VERIFICATION USING CONTINUOUS BIOMETRIC MONITORING”, Ser. No. 10/135,878 filed on Apr. 29, 2002 and titled “INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD”, Ser. No. 10/646,638 filed on Aug. 22, 2003 and titled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALL REDIRECT DETECTION AND TREATMENT”, Ser. No. 10/252,956 filed on Sep. 20, 2002 and titled “THREE-WAY TELEPHONE CALL PREVENTION SYSTEM AND METHOD”, Ser. No. 10/420,585 filed on Apr. 22, 2003 and titled “THREE WAY CALL DETECTION”, Ser. No. 10/642,532 filed on Aug. 15, 2003 and titled “CENTRALIZED CALL PROCESSING”, Ser. No. 10/984,726 filed on Nov. 9, 2004 and titled “SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING TRANSACTION CONTROL NETWORK WITHIN AND OUTSIDE A CONTROLLED ACCESS FACILITY”, Ser. No. 11/403,547 filed on Apr. 13, 2006 and titled “UNAUTHORIZED CALL ACTIVITY DETECTION AND PREVENTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL ENVIRONMENT”, and U.S. Pat. No. 5,768,355, titled “THREE-WAY CALL DETECTION SYSTEM”, the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated herein by reference.
The following description relates generally to call processing systems and methods, and more particularly to systems and methods for detecting an anomaly on a call, such as a change in the parties to the call, based at least in part on biometric identification, such as voice printing.
In many environments, monitoring of telephony calls to detect and/or prevent unauthorized activities is desirable. For example, private premise-based telephone systems, such as those installed at correctional facilities or other controlled-environment facilities, generally desire to monitor various events occurring on the telephone lines of the system. Telephone systems at correctional facilities or other controlled-environment facilities may comprise a microprocessor-based call processing system having operational software that is capable of allowing control over telephones connected to the system. For example, the system may be programmed to prevent residents (e.g., inmates of a correctional facility) from contacting unauthorized parties or using the telephone system for fraudulent purposes. An authorization mechanism may be utilized to prevent residents from dialing unauthorized numbers directly. For instance, in a correctional facility, such as a prison, a call processing system may be employed for preventing an inmate from calling certain unauthorized parties as judges, a victim of the inmate's crime and/or family members of the victim, and known crime associates of the inmate, as examples.
Additionally, a call processing system my prevent a resident from initiating a three-way call, taking part in a conference call, or the like. However, a particular problem that is encountered in these systems is the placement of a three-way call, or the like, by a party that is authorized to be called by the resident. Once the resident is connected to an authorized number, the resident may be connected to a third party at an unauthorized number via the three-way call feature by a party at the authorized number. Care may be taken to insure that a resident does not call an unauthorized party. However, once a call is connected through the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) it becomes very difficult to control the actions of the called party. Therefore, to preserve this screening activity, it is often desirable to insure that the called party is in fact the person to whom the call is terminating. Therefore, it is often desirable to have control of the call with respect to all the parties who are on the phone call. In short, it is desirable to prevent addition of an unknown third party to a resident call in order to preserve the integrity of the initial call screening.
A three-way call may be initiated when the originally called party (e.g. an authorized party outside the private telephone system) depresses the hook switch on the telephone, generating a hook flash signal. This signals the telephone central office to put the resident on hold and provide a dial tone to the originally called party. On receipt of the dial tone, the originally-called party dials the number of an unauthorized third party, and when the connection is completed, the resident and the unauthorized third party can communicate through the connection established outside the private system.
Three-way call monitoring systems which have been developed to prevent unauthorized calls according to the foregoing scenario rely on the detection of telephone signals. They typically monitor the local telephone connection for the hook flash “click” signal or associated central office signals that fall in a frequency band outside the range of frequencies produced by the human voice. These systems typically monitor signals on the local telephone line through a frequency filter designed to pass audio signals in this frequency band. A three-way call attempt may be indicated whenever signals in the frequency band have energies above a selected threshold. Some systems compare the signals with a hook flash reference signal utilizing sampling techniques implemented with a digital signal processor (DSP).
Even in a more or less conventional telephone environment these systems may not be very accurate for a number of reasons. The underlying assumptions about the frequency profile of three-way call events, i.e. the hook flash and signals generated by activating central office switches, are often wrong. For example, the hook flash signals are often modified by transmission through switches and along loaded lines, and even if assumptions about the frequency characteristics of the initial signal are accurate, these characteristics may be substantially distorted by the time the “hook flash” signal reaches a call processing system implementing three-way call detection, or the like.
Other systems and methods for detecting undesired call activity are disclosed in Salibrici, U.S. Pat. No. 5,768,355 and above-incorporated commonly owned, co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/252,956, filed Sep. 20, 2002 and titled THREE-WAY TELEPHONE CALL PREVENTION SYSTEM AND METHOD. Salibrici teaches using digital signal processing to identify a third-party connection. Salibrici operates by establishing a baseline ambient, or background, noise level, and detecting when the signal noise level drops below the ambient noise level. When the current signal noise level drops below the ambient noise level, the system assumes that a three-way conference call has been attempted by the called party. U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/252,956 discloses an exemplary technique for detecting three-way calls, which in general includes detecting a call signal level, determining if the call signal level is below a predetermined silence level threshold, and measuring a duration the call signal level remains below the predetermined silence level threshold.
Certain calls may have their audio carried over at least a portion of a communication network as packets. For example, Voice over IP (“VoIP”) is one example in which at least a portion of a call's is carried as packets over a communication network. Internet protocol (“IP”) is a routing protocol designed to route traffic within a network or between networks. VoIP is a known method for providing voice capabilities over an IP network, such as the Internet or an intranet. In such networks data packets are sent to and from communication sites to facilitate communication. In communication systems utilizing a VoIP protocol, the packets are commonly referred to as datagrams. In typical VoIP networks, each communication site sends datagrams to other communication sites with which they are in communication. There are different approaches to sending datagrams. Control signals per ITU recommendation H.323, and audio-based media streams using Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) per Internet RFC 1889, may be applied. Alternatively, control signals could be applied using other protocols such as Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) per Internet RFC 2543.
Potentially even more difficult to detect than a three-way call is a handoff of a call from an authorized party to an unauthorized party. For instance, a resident may call an authorized party's number and the authorized party may even initially answer the call; however, after the call is authorized by the call processing system (e.g., after the system verifies that the resident is authorized to speak with the called party), the called party may, during the course of the ongoing call, hand off the telephone to another party (or place the call on speaker phone so that another party can participate in the call). Similarly, after a call is authorized and connected for the resident, the resident may hand off the call to another resident who is not authorized to participate on the call. In this manner, a called party and/or a resident may facilitate an unauthorized party to participate on a call after the call is initially authorized for the resident and called party. With such a handoff, no indication of the handoff is available in the call's signaling, as with the hook flash signal that may be used in traditional PSTN calls for detecting three-way calling attempts.
In view of the above, a desire exists for monitoring calls for detecting and/or preventing unauthorized activity during the calls, such as detecting a call to an unauthorized party, detecting an unauthorized three-way call, etc. As mentioned above, detecting certain unauthorized activity, such as an unauthorized three-way call, is particularly problematic when the call is carried via packets, as in VoIP.
Also known in the art is the use of various biometric data for identifying individuals (e.g., for investigative purposes, for restricting access to particular areas of a building, etc.). For instance, fingerprinting technology is well-known for identifying, with some degree of confidence, an individual based on a fingerprint. Indeed, an individual may be identified with a high-level of confidence based only on a partial fingerprint, if a sufficient number of characteristic points are available on the partial fingerprint. Various other biometric identification of humans that are known in the art include face recognition, voice recognition, iris scanning, retina imaging, and handwriting analysis. Various computer-executable processes for performing such biometric identification are known in the art.
Certain voice recognition techniques have been proposed for identifying parties to a telephony call. As one example, U.S. Pat. No. 6,246,751 (“the '751 patent”) issued Jun. 12, 2001 describes a technique for identifying a caller to prevent unauthorized call forwarding. In the '751 patent, speech is captured from a caller attempting to place a call, and the speech is used to identify the caller to detect and prevent fraudulent use of call forwarding.
As another example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,170,426 (“the '426 patent”) issued Dec. 8, 1992 discloses a method and system for home incarceration. According to the '426 patent, monitoring and verification is performed through a telephone network including a telephone on the premises of the location of confinement and a control center. Voice verification, using voice analysis of speech transmitted in a telephone call from the site to the center is performed. A voice template vocabulary is established for the individual and used for voice verification. Caller line identification of each incoming call is performed to verify that call originates from the appropriate location. The confined individual is required, either randomly or at scheduled intervals, to call the control center and recite a statement including randomly selected words from the template vocabulary. This enables the system to verify that the caller is indeed the confined person and is calling from an appropriate location to which he is to be confined.
Similarly, U.S. Pat. No. 6,101,242 (“the '242 patent”) discloses method and system for home incarceration. According to the '242 patent, voice identification is used to identify a caller and an answering party. A corresponding profile of one or more of the identified parties may then be used for the call. The profile may specify, for example, particular keywords to be detected during the call, a particular billing arrangement to be imposed for the call, etc.
As yet another example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,843,377 (“the '377 patent”) discloses an arrangement for home incarceration which proposes the use of a voiceprint as a means for remote prisoner identification. In the '377 patent, audio spectral analysis is performed and applied to speech transmitted over a telephone line to determine a match with a probationer's voiceprint.
Embodiments of the present invention are directed generally to use of biometric identification during a call for detecting an anomaly occurring in the call, such as a change in the parties participating on the call. In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, communication between parties of a call is monitored and biometric identification is performed using the communication. According to one exemplary embodiment, voice prints are obtained for parties that are authorized to participate on a call. The call is then monitored and audio captured during the call is compared with the voice prints to detect changes in the parties participating on the call, such as a new, unauthorized party joining the call. In another exemplary embodiment, face prints are obtained for parties that are authorized to participate on a call. The call is then monitored and video communication of the call (e.g., of a video conference call) is used for comparison with the face prints to detect changes in the parties participating on the call, such as a new, unauthorized party joining the call. Thus, embodiments of the present invention advantageously enable a call processing system to monitor calls and detect anomalies occurring during the calls, such as three-way calling, a handoff of a call from one party to another, etc.
Embodiments of the present invention have particular applicability within controlled-environment facilities for monitoring the calling activities between a resident and other parties. Examples of controlled-environment facilities include correctional facilities (e.g., municipal jails, county jails, state prisons, federal prisons, military stockades, juvenile facilities, detention camps, and home incarceration environments), healthcare facilities (e.g., hospitals, nursing homes, mental health facilities, and rehabilitation facilities, such as drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities), restricted living quarters (e.g., hotels, resorts, camps, dormitories, and barracks), and the like. Certain controlled-environment facilities may be thought of as a small community or city, perhaps walled or otherwise access restricted, wherein various activities occur within the community and between the community and those outside the community in the daily operation thereof. Such a community may include a number of individuals and enterprises directly associated therewith, including management, staff, and inmates, residents, patients, or guests (herein referred to as “residents”), and a number of individuals and enterprises indirectly associated therewith, including friends and family of residents, vendors, government agencies, providers of services to residents, and individuals with a connection to the facility or its residents. Of course, as those of ordinary skill in the art will recognize, while embodiments the present invention have particular applicability to controlled-environment facilities (because such facilities often have a desire to monitor calling activity), the concepts disclosed herein may likewise be employed in other environments.
Embodiments of the present invention can be applied for monitoring various types of calls. As used herein, except where accompanying language expressly specifies otherwise, a “call” is intended to broadly refer to any communication between two or more parties from which biometric identification can be obtained. Thus, a “call” is not limited to telephony calls, but also encompasses various other types of communication. For instance, a video communication is a call, and biometric identification may be performed in certain embodiments using the video portion of the communication (e.g., using face recognition, iris recognition, and/or other video-based recognition techniques). Additionally, if a video communication further comprises an audio portion, the audio of such communication may likewise be used in addition to or instead of the video for biometric identification (e.g., voice recognition or other audio-based recognition techniques). As another example, a handwritten communication, such as a handwritten message input to a computer device, such as a personal digital assistant (PDA) or laptop computer, and communicated via a communication network may be analyzed using known handwriting analysis techniques for performing biometric identification of the writer. In certain embodiments of the present invention, the call being monitored is substantially a real-time communication between the parties (e.g., as in telephony calls), but application of the concepts presented herein are not limited to real-time communication.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises determining a biometric print for a party on each authorized side of a call. As described further herein, the biometric print may comprise any type of biometric data associated with a party from which the party can be uniquely identified with a high degree of confidence. Generally, a biometric print comprises characteristic points of biometric data (e.g., characteristic points in a audio sample, etc.) that uniquely identifies the person to which the biometric data relates. A biometric print may comprise, as examples, a voice print, face print, iris print, retina print, handwriting print, and/or the like. In certain embodiments, the parties to a call may be prompted at the outset of the call to take some action to assist in the capture of biometric data from which the biometric print is determined. For instance, the parties may each be prompted to speak their names so that audio data can be obtained from which a voice print can be determined for each party.
The method further comprises capturing, from communication during the call, biometric information for the parties on each authorized side of the call. Thus, biometric information of the type corresponding to the biometric print may be captured from the communication between the parties during the ongoing call. For instance, a voice print may be obtained for each of the authorized parties to a call, and then audio of the communication between the parties during the ongoing call may be captured. The method of this exemplary embodiment further comprises monitoring the captured biometric information during the call to detect, based at least in part on the determined biometric prints, an anomaly in the call. For instance, audio captured during the call may be compared against the voice prints of the authorized parties to detect changes in the parties participating on the call, such as a new party joining the call.
According to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a system comprises biometric printing logic that is operable to generate a biometric print identifying parties on each side of a call. Again, the biometric print may comprise any type of biometric data associated with a party from which the party can be uniquely identified with a high degree of confidence. The biometric print may comprise, as examples, a voice print, face print, iris print, retina print, handwriting print, and/or the like. In certain embodiments, the biometric printing logic may, at the outset of a call, prompt the parties to the call to take some action to assist in the capture of biometric data from which the biometric print is determined. For instance, the parties may each be prompted to speak their names so that audio data can be obtained from which a voice print can be determined for each party. The system further comprises call monitoring logic that is operable to compare generated biometric prints for the parties of the call with biometric data captured from communication by parties participating during the call to detect a change in parties to the call. For instance, the call monitoring logic may compare audio captured during the call against voice prints of the authorized parties to detect changes in the parties participating on the call, such as a new party joining the call.
While in certain embodiments biometric prints are used for monitoring the parties participating on each side of a call, in other embodiments biometric prints may be used for monitoring parties participating only on a side of interest. For instance, a resident of a controlled-environment facility may be required to make a call from a room in which no other resident is present so that the resident is unable to handoff the call to another resident after the call is authorized/connected. Further, the telephony services provided to the controlled-environment facility may, in some way, prevent the resident from initiating a three-way call. Thus, the controlled-environment facility may implement its calling services in a manner that effectively prevents a party joining an ongoing call on the resident's side of the call. However, the biometric identification techniques described herein may be applied to a party outside the controlled-environment facility to whom the resident calls. That is, because the controlled-environment facility has little control over the outside party, the outside party may attempt to initiate a three-way call or handoff the call to an unauthorized party, etc. Thus, the biometric identification techniques described herein may be applied to only select sides of a call, such as only to the outside party's side of the call in the above example.
As described further herein, the monitoring of communication may include not only monitoring of communication by parties participating directly on the call, but may also include monitoring of background communication. For instance, in monitoring an audible telephony call, a call processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention may monitor background audio on each side of the call. The background audio may be monitored to, for example, detect other parties in the vicinity of a party participating on the call.
As also described further herein, certain embodiments break a call into multiple channels. For instance, a separate channel may be used for each side of the call. Thus, in an audible telephony call, a call processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention may monitor audio on each respective channel of the call. In this manner, audio regarding parties participating on the call and/or background audio can be determined with regard to the side of the call on which such audio occurs. Further, in certain embodiments, a control channel is used to correlate the multiple channels together (e.g., in a temporal manner).
Certain embodiments of the present invention further comprise storing the biometric identification data determined for parties to a call. For instance, once a biometric print is determined for a party, it may be stored to a computer-readable medium and associated with the respective party to which it relates. In this manner, the biometric print may be re-used for monitoring of future calls involving the respective party in certain embodiments. Further, if an unauthorized party participates during a monitored call, the unauthorized party's biometric data (e.g., audio of the unauthorized party's voice) may be compared against stored biometric prints (e.g., stored voice prints) in attempt to identify such unauthorized party. Additionally, a record of a given call may be stored to a computer-readable medium, which may comprise the corresponding biometric identification determined during monitoring of the call. Thus, biometric identification determined during a given monitored call may be stored to a computer-readable medium in a manner such that it is associated with the corresponding monitored call. Thus, if an investigator desires to later retrieve the call record and review the parties participating on the call, including the biometric identification performed during the call, he can do so via the call's stored record. In certain embodiments, the call is broken into multiple channels, as mentioned above, and the multiple channels, along with the control channel, may be stored in the call record. Thus, each channel (e.g., each side of the call) may be later reviewed individually from the call record, if so desired.
FIG. 4 shows an exemplary system employing an embodiment of the present invention, wherein a call processing system is used to monitor audible communications of calls for a controlled-environment facility, such as a correctional facility.
Embodiments of the present invention provide call processing systems and methods which make use of biometric identification during a call for detecting an anomaly occurring in the call, such as a change in the parties participating on the call. In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, communication between parties of a call is monitored and biometric identification is performed using the communication. That is, the communication between the parties may be monitored to capture information from which biometric identification of the parties can be performed.
According to one exemplary embodiment, voice prints are obtained for parties that are authorized to participate on a call. The call is then monitored and audio captured during the call is compared with the voice prints of the authorized parties to detect changes in the parties participating on the call, such as a new, unauthorized party joining the call. In another exemplary embodiment, face prints are obtained for parties that are authorized to participate on a call. The call is then monitored and video communication of the call (e.g., of a video conference call) is used for comparison with the face prints of the authorized parties to detect changes in the parties participating on the call, such as a new, unauthorized party joining the call. Thus, embodiments of the present invention advantageously enable a call processing system to monitor calls and detect anomalies occurring during the calls, such as three-way calling, a handoff of a call from one party to another, etc.
As mentioned above, various biometric identification techniques are known in the art. Also, voice recognition has been proposed for identifying a caller and/or called party, as in the '751 patent, the '426 patent, the '242 patent, and the '377 patent mentioned above. However, among other things, none of these prior art patents propose monitoring audio of an ongoing call to detect such anomalies during the call as a new party joining the call or the parties to the call otherwise changing. That is, prior techniques have failed to use determined voice prints (or other biometric data) for comparison with audio (or other biometric data) captured during an ongoing call to detect changes in the parties participating on the call. Further, none of the above-identified prior art patents propose monitoring audio of an ongoing call to detect information from the background audio of the call, such as other parties in the vicinity of a party participating on the call, etc.
Turning to FIG. 1, an exemplary system 10 employing an embodiment of the present invention is shown. In exemplary system 10, a caller 11 makes a call to called party 13. Such a call may be a telephone call, video conference call, or other communication conducted over a communication network, such as a circuit-switched or packet-switched network as examples. For example, the communication between the parties may be communication over any suitable communication network now known or later developed that supports communication between parties, such as a public-switched telephony network (PSTN), wireless network, the Internet or other wide-area network (WAN), a local-area network (LAN), or any combination of the foregoing, as examples. A call processing system 12 is provided for monitoring the call. In this example, call processing system 12 comprises biometric printing logic 108 that is operable to generate biometric prints 106 and 107 for caller 11 and called party 13, respectively. As shown, such biometric prints may be stored to a computer-readable data storage medium 105, which may comprise a database, file, or other data structure stored to hard disk, random access memory (RAM), optical disk, magnetic disk, or other computer-readable data storage medium now known or later developed.
Call processing system 12 further comprises a call monitoring process 101 that, as discussed further herein, is operable to monitor communication between caller 11 and called party 13, and based at least in part on the biometric prints detect anomalies occurring in the call, such as a change in the parties participating in the call. Thus, as shown in the example of FIG. 1, call monitoring process 101 may monitor communications between caller 11 and called party 13 and determine in operational block 102, based on a comparison between the biometric prints 106, 107 and biometric data determined from the communications, whether an anomaly is detected for the call. If determined that an anomaly is detected, such as a change in the parties participating in the call, then a responsive action may be triggered in block 103, such as notifying appropriate personnel, recording the communication (e.g., for future investigative purposes), and/or terminating the call, as examples. While no anomaly is detected, operation advances to block 104 to continue monitoring of the communications between caller 11 and called party 13.
Biometric printing logic 108 may be any suitable logic (e.g., hardware and/or software) for generating any of various different types of biometric prints. In general, a biometric print refers to a biometric characteristic of an individual from which that individual can be uniquely identified, to a high-degree of confidence. Various types of biometric prints that are capable of such identification are known, such as voice prints, fingerprints, face prints, iris prints, retina prints, and handwriting prints, as examples. In one embodiment, biometric printing logic 108 is operable to generate voice prints that can be used to identify a party based on the party's voice. In another embodiment, biometric printing logic 108 is operable to generate face prints that can be used to identify a party based on an image of the party's face. Of course, in other embodiments, biometric printing logic 108 is operable to generate some other biometric print that identifies a party, such as an iris print, retina print, or handwriting print.
Preferably, the type of biometric print generated by biometric printing logic 108 is a type that can be generated from the monitored communications. For instance, in an embodiment in which caller 11 and called party 13 are to audibly communicate with each other (e.g., via voice telephony call), then biometric printing logic 108 may generate audio-based biometric prints, such as voice prints. Thereafter, the audible communications between caller 11 and called party 13 may be monitored and compared with the generated audio-based biometric prints to, for example, detect changes in the parties participating on the call.
As another example, in an embodiment in which the communication between caller 11 and called party 13 comprises video of the parties (e.g., via video conference call), then biometric printing logic 108 may generate video-based biometric prints, such as face prints, iris prints, etc. Thereafter, the video communications between caller 11 and called party 13 may be monitored and compared with the generated video-based biometric prints to, for example, detect changes in the parties participating on the call.
As another example, in certain embodiments the communication between caller 11 and called party 13 comprises handwritten communication. For instance, various computer devices, such as tablet PCs, are available that accept handwritten input, such as a pad that enables a user to provide handwritten input using a stylus. Such handwritten messages may then be communicated, e.g. via a packet-switched network, between a called party 13 and a caller 11. In such case, biometric printing logic 108 may generate handwriting-based biometric prints, such as a handwriting print for use in recognizing an individual's handwriting. Thereafter, the handwritten communications between caller 11 and called party 13 may be monitored and compared with the generated handwriting-based biometric prints to, for example, detect changes in the parties participating on the call.
In certain embodiments, biometric printing logic 108 captures communication from the caller 11 and called party 13 at the outset of the call and generates the corresponding biometric prints for the parties. For instance, biometric printing logic 108 may, at the outset of the call, prompt (e.g., using an interactive voice response (IVR) unit) to provide a sample communication which biometric printing logic 108 uses to generate biometric prints 106 and 107. For example, when caller 11 initially attempts to place the call, biometric printing logic 108 may interrupt the call and prompt the caller to speak his/her name, and biometric printing logic 108 may use the audible response from the caller to generate a voice print for the caller. Similarly, when called party 13 initially answers the call, biometric printing logic 108 may interrupt the call and prompt the called party to speak his/her name, and biometric printing logic 108 may use the audible response from the called party to generate a voice print for the called party.
While in the illustrated example of FIG. 1, biometric printing logic 108 is shown as capturing communication from the caller 11 and called party 13 and generating the respective biometric prints for the parties therefrom, in other embodiments the biometric prints may be generated in a different fashion. For instance, in certain embodiments, a biometric print may have been previously generated for caller 11 and/or called party 13, and then used by call monitoring process 101 for monitoring a call between such caller 11 and called party 13. For instance, a voice print may have been generated for caller 11 and/or called party 13 during a previous call, and such voice print may be stored to a computer-readable storage medium and associated with the respective party which it identifies. For instance, a voice print previously generated for caller 11 may be associated with a personal identification number (PIN) that the caller is required to input when initiating a call. Thus, call processing system may receive the PIN and look-up the previously generated voice print for the caller. Similarly, a voice print previously generated for called party 13 may be associated with the called party's telephone number. Thus, call processing system may receive the telephone number being called by caller 11 and use such number to look-up the previously generated voice print for the called party.
As another example, caller 11 may be a resident of a controlled-environment facility, and the caller may provide a sample communication (either knowingly or unknowingly) that is used by biometric printing logic 108 for generating a biometric print for the caller 11 before the caller 11 attempts to place the call illustrated in FIG. 1. For instance, upon being processed for becoming a resident of the controlled-environment facility, the resident may be required to speak, and the resident's voice may (either known or not known to the resident) be recorded and/or used to generate a voice print for the resident. Again, such voice print may be stored in a manner such that it is linked with the corresponding resident (e.g., stored to a database and indexed by the resident's respective PIN, etc.).
FIG. 2 shows an exemplary embodiment in which the parties audibly communicate and the biometric prints comprise voice prints. As shown, in an exemplary system 10A employing an embodiment of the present invention, a caller 11A makes a call to called party 13A. In this example, such a call is a telephone call, video conference call, or other communication conducted over a communication network in which the parties are to audibly communicate. A call processing system 12A is provided for monitoring the call. In this example, call processing system 12A comprises voice printing logic 108A that is operable to generate voice prints 106A and 107A for caller 11A and called party 13A, respectively. As shown, such voice prints may be stored to a computer-readable data storage medium 105A, as with computer-readable data storage medium 105 of FIG. 1.
Call processing system 12A further comprises a call monitoring process 101A that, as discussed further herein, is operable to monitor the audible communication between caller 11A and called party 13A, and based at least in part on the voice prints detect anomalies occurring in the call, such as a change in the parties participating in the call. Thus, as shown in the example of FIG. 2, call monitoring process 101A may monitor audible communications between caller 11A and called party 13A and determine in operational block 102A, based on a comparison between the voice prints 106A, 107A and audio data captured from the communications, whether an anomaly is detected for the call. If determined that an anomaly is detected, such as a change in the parties participating in the call, then a responsive action may be triggered in block 103A, such as notifying appropriate personnel, recording the communication (e.g., for future investigative purposes), and/or terminating the call, as examples. While no anomaly is detected, operation advances to block 104A to continue monitoring of the audible communications between caller 11A and called party 13A.
Turning to FIG. 3, an operational flow according to one embodiment of the present invention is shown. In operational block 30, biometric printing is performed to generate biometric prints identifying authorized parties to a call. An example of such biometric printing that may be performed in one embodiment is shown in blocks 301-304. In block 301, upon attempting to place a call, a caller is prompted (e.g., by an IVR unit) to speak his/her name. In block 302, voice printing logic (e.g., logic 108A of FIG. 2) receives the spoken response from the caller and uses such response to generate a voice print for the caller. In block 303, upon a called party answering the call, the called party is prompted (e.g., by an IVR unit) to speak his/her name. In block 304, voice printing logic (e.g., logic 108A of FIG. 2) receives the spoken response from the called party and uses such response to generate a voice print for the called party.
In block 31, a call processing system monitors communication of the call for an anomaly, such as parties participating on the call changing. Such monitoring may be passively performed (with or without knowledge of such monitoring by the participants on the call) by a monitoring process, such as process 101 of FIG. 1 or process 101A of FIG. 2. An example of such monitoring that may be performed in one embodiment is shown in blocks 311-312 of FIG. 3. In block 311, captured audio from the communication during the call is compared with voice prints of the authorized parties to the call. In block 312, the monitoring process determines if a new party is participating on the call. Such determination may be made, for example, by detecting a speaker's voice that does not sufficiently match one of the voice prints of the authorized parties to the call (e.g., does not match the voice print of the caller or the called party).
In block 31, if an anomaly is detected, such as a change in the parties participating on the call, then the monitoring process may trigger a responsive action, such as notifying appropriate personnel, recording the communication (e.g., for future investigative purposes), and/or terminating the call, as examples. An example of such operation according to one embodiment is shown in operational block 321, in which if captured audio from a call fails to match a voice print of authorized parties to the call, then a responsive action is triggered.
Turning to FIG. 4, an exemplary system 400 employing an embodiment of the present invention is shown. In exemplary system 400, a call processing system 12A is used to monitor audible communications of calls for a controlled-environment facility 40, such as a correctional facility. Call processing system 12A may be implemented within the controlled-environment facility 40, or it may be implemented external thereto. For instance, in certain embodiments, call processing system 12A may be implemented in a central server that monitors calls for one or more controlled-environment facilities. Further, in certain embodiments, various parts of the call processing system 12A may be implemented in a distributed fashion.
In the exemplary system 400, resident 42 of controlled-environment facility 40 uses telephone 41 to call an authorized party 45. Authorized party 45 can accept the call and audibly communicate with resident 42 via telephone 44. Call processing system 12A may use various techniques for determining that the called party 45 is authorized to participate in the call. For instance, the called number may be initially be compared against a “do not call” list of telephone numbers for the resident to ensure that the number being called is not a known number that the resident is restricted from calling, such as the number of a judge, the number of a victim of a crime committed by the resident, etc. Once determined that the call is authorized, then as described above with FIG. 2, call processing system 12A captures audio of the communication and compares the audio to voice prints of the resident 42 and authorized party 45 to detect anomalies, such as a change in the parties participating on the call.
If, during the call, resident 42 hands telephone 41 off to a new party A 43, call processing system 12A can detect participation in the call by new party A 43 by comparing the audio communication of the call that includes audible speech from new party A 43 with the voice prints of resident 42 and authorized party 45 and determining that the audio does not match either of the prints, thus indicating participation by a new party. Similarly, if during the call authorized party 45 hands telephone 44 off to a new party B 46, call processing system 12A can detect participation in the call by new party B 46 by comparing the audio that includes audible speech from new party B 46 with the voice prints of resident 42 and authorized party 45 and determining that the audio does not match either of the prints, thus indicating participation by a new party.
Further, call processing system 12A can detect participation by a new party that is connected to the call via three-way calling. For instance, if during the call authorized party 45 places a three-way call to new party C 48, thus enabling new party C 48 to audibly communicate via telephone 47 with authorized party 45 and resident 42, call processing system 12A can detect participation in the call by new party C 48 by comparing the audio that includes audible speech from new party C 48 with the voice prints of resident 42 and authorized party 45 and determining that the audio does not match either of the prints, thus indicating participation by a new party.
The audio of the call may contain not only voices of parties participating on the call, but may also include background audio. For instance, the call may include not only voices of resident 42 and authorized party 45, but may also include background audio 401 on the resident 42's side of the call and background audio 402 on the authorized party 45's side of the call. Additionally, if new party C 48 is connected to the call, the captured audio may include not only voice of new party C 48 but also background audio 403 for the new party C 48's side of the call.
Thus, the monitoring of communication may include not only monitoring of communication by parties participating directly on the call, but may also include monitoring of background communication. For instance, in monitoring an audible telephony call, a call processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention may monitor background audio on each side of the call. The background audio may be monitored to, for example, detect other parties in the vicinity of a party participating on the call. For instance, a party audibly “feeding” information or instructions to a party participating directly on the call may be detected in the background audio. In certain embodiments, voices in the background may be compared with stored voice prints to determine the identity of parties in the vicinity of a party participating on the call, which may be of use in an investigation and/or in determining associations between various individuals.
In certain embodiments, other proximity-determining devices may be used to identify parties in the vicinity of a party to a call. For instance, RFID may be used to track the location of residents within a controlled-environment facility, and such location information may be time-synchronized with an ongoing call. For instance, such location information may be supplied to a call processing system and the call processing system may use the location information to determine parties within the vicinity of a resident during various times of an ongoing call on which the resident is participating. The call processing system may thus base its monitoring activities and/or responsive actions at least in part on the identified residents that are in the vicinity of the resident participating on the call.
Further, in certain embodiments, certain well-known voices (such as those of radio and television personalities, etc.) may have voice prints stored to the call processing system so that they can be identified in the background audio. This may aid the call processing system in determining that an unauthorized party is not present in the background audio, but rather the voice heard in the background audio corresponds to that of a well-known personality.
Also, in certain embodiments, different portions of a call are divided into respective channels. For instance, a separate channel may be used for each side of the call. Thus, in an audible telephony call, a call processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention may monitor audio on each respective channel of the call. In this manner, audio regarding parties participating on the call and/or background audio can be determined with regard to the side of the call on which such audio occurs. Further, in certain embodiments, a control channel is used to correlate the multiple channels together (e.g., in a temporal manner). An example of processing a call using such multiple channels with a control channel is described further in concurrently filed and commonly assigned U.S. Patent Applications: Ser. No. 11/603,938 filed on Nov. 22, 2006 and titled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-CHANNEL RECORDING”.
In certain embodiments, a confidence score is assigned to a determined biometric print and/or monitored biometric data from communication of a call based, for example, on quality of the communication. For instance, on an audible call in which one or more sides of the call has a lot of background noise, the background noise make impact the accuracy of voice recognition logic of the call processing system. Thus, the level of background noise and/or other factors impacting the quality of the communication being monitored may be used by the call processing system to assign a respective confidence score to the determined biometric identification of a party participating on the call. Thus, a determination as to whether an anomaly is detected on a call may be determined based at least in part on the confidence score assigned to a biometric identification. For instance, if the call processing system determines that captured audio fails to match a voice print of an authorized party of the call, the confidence score assigned to this determined failure may be analyzed to determine whether to trigger a responsive action. For instance, if the audio quality of the call is low, thus resulting in a low confidence score assigned to the determined failure, the call processing system may determine that the failure may not be reflective of a change in the parties to the call but is instead likely due to the low quality of the audio captured. A responsive action may be triggered only upon a determination of a voice that fails to match a voice print of an authorized party to the call with a corresponding confidence score above a predefined threshold, in certain embodiments.
While various embodiments are described above in which communication between parties to a call is monitored for biometric data (e.g., audio, video, handwriting, etc.) to be used in performing biometric identification of parties participating on the call, in certain embodiments biometric data may also be captured external to the communication between the parties. For instance, co-pending and commonly assigned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/480,258 titled “SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTITY VERIFICATION USING CONTINUOUS BIOMETRIC MONITORING”, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference, discloses exemplary systems and methods in which biometric identification information (e.g., fingerprints, etc.) are captured by a communication device. In certain embodiments, such biometric identification information captured external to the actual communication between the parties to a call may also be used for monitoring the identification of parties participating on the call. For instance, such biometric identification information captured external to the actual communication may, in certain embodiments, be communicated during a call to the call processing system, and the call processing system may base its determinations of the parties participating on the call at least in part on such externally captured biometric identification information.
When implemented in software, elements of the present invention are essentially the code segments for implementing such elements. The program or code segments can be stored in a computer-readable medium or transmitted by a computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave, or a signal modulated by a carrier, over a transmission medium, as examples. The “computer-readable medium” may include any medium that can store or transfer information. Examples of the computer-readable medium include an electronic circuit, a semiconductor memory device, a ROM, a flash memory, an erasable ROM (EROM), a floppy diskette, a compact disk CD-ROM, an optical disk, a hard disk, a fiber optic medium, a radio frequency (RF) link, etc. The computer data signal may include any signal that can propagate over a transmission medium such as electronic network channels, optical fibers, air, electromagnetic, RF links, etc. The code segments may be downloaded via computer networks such as the Internet, Intranet, etc. The exemplary operational flow of FIG. 3 may, for example, be implemented via software executable by a processor. Further, various operational aspects described herein for the call processing system, such as the biometric printing logic and call monitoring process, may be implemented via software executable by a processor.
in response to the determination, initiating one of a plurality of different responsive actions via the call processing system, the actions selected from a group consisting of: terminating the call, recording the call, recording the event, notifying at least one party to the call, and notifying correctional facility personnel.
creating a second biometric voice print for the other party prior to initiating the call.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein determining that the handoff event has taken place further comprises identifying the presence of a third biometric voice print corresponding to a third-party during the monitoring of the biometric voice prints during the call, wherein the third biometric voice print is different from the first biometric voice print and from the second biometric voice print, and wherein the third-party is not allowed to participate in the call.
4. The method of claim 3, further comprising determining that the third-party is in the physical vicinity of the inmate.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the determination that the handoff event has taken place occurs in response to the determination that the third-party is in the physical vicinity of the inmate.
6. The method of claim 4, wherein the determination that the third-party is in the physical vicinity of the inmate is based upon the use of a location tracking device associated with the third-party.
7. The method of claim 4, wherein the determination that the third-party is in the physical vicinity of the inmate is based, at least in part, upon the monitoring of background audio during the call.
8. The method of claim 7, further comprising comparing the background audio to voice prints of well-known voices of radio or television personalities to determine that another third-party is not present in the physical vicinity of the inmate.
in response to the determination, initiate one of a plurality of different responsive actions selected from a group consisting of: terminating the call, recording the call, recording the event, notifying at least one party to the call, and notifying correctional facility personnel.
10. The system of claim 9, wherein the program instructions, upon execution by the processor, further cause the system to create another biometric voice print for the other party prior to initiating the call.
11. The system of claim 10, wherein to determine that the handoff event has taken place, the program instructions, upon execution by the processor, further cause the system to identify the presence of a third biometric voice print corresponding to a third-party during the monitoring of the biometric information during the call, wherein the third biometric voice print is different from the biometric voice print and from the other biometric voice print, and wherein the third-party is not allowed to participate in the call.
12. The system of claim 9, wherein the program instructions, upon execution by the processor, further cause the system to determine that the third-party is in the physical vicinity of the inmate or the other party.
13. The system of claim 12, wherein the determination that the handoff event has taken place occurs in response to the determination that the third-party is in the physical vicinity of the inmate or the other party.
14. The system of claim 12, wherein the determination that the third-party is in the physical vicinity of the inmate or the other party is based upon the use of a location tracking device associated with the third-party.
15. The system of claim 12, wherein the determination that the third-party is in the physical vicinity of the inmate or the other party is based, at least in part, upon the monitoring of background audio during the call.
16. The system of claim 15, wherein the program instructions, upon execution by the processor, further cause the system to compare the background audio to voice prints of well-known voices of radio or television personalities to determine that another third-party is not present in the physical vicinity of the inmate or the other party.
18. The memory device of claim 17, wherein to determine that the handoff event has taken place, the program instructions, upon execution by the processor, further cause the computer system to identify the presence of another biometric voice print corresponding to a third-party during the monitoring of the biometric information during the call, wherein the other biometric voice print is different from the biometric voice print, and wherein the third-party is not allowed to participate in the call.
19. The memory device of claim 17, wherein the determination that the handoff event has taken place occurs in response to a determination that the third-party is in the physical vicinity of the inmate or the other party, and wherein the determination that the third-party is in the physical vicinity of the inmate or the other party is based upon the use of a location tracking device coupled to the third-party.
20. The memory device of claim 17, wherein the program instructions, upon execution by the processor, further cause the system to determine that the third-party is in the physical vicinity of the inmate or the other party, wherein the determination that the third-party is in the physical vicinity of the inmate or the other party is based, at least in part, upon the monitoring of background audio during the call, and wherein the program instructions, upon execution by the processor, further cause the system to compare the background audio to voice prints of well-known voices of radio or television personalities to determine that another third-party is not present in the physical vicinity of the inmate or the other party.
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Fish tofu or fish flavor tofu is tofu stir-fried with Chinese hot garlic sauce. It is one of most popular homemade tofu recipe from Sichuan Cuisine. And this 15 minutes dish is absolutely a perfect match with steamed rice. The fish fragrant sauce can help me eat up two large bowls of boring steamed rice. Hakka Fish Tofu – Large (Frozen) 1kg. Product Code: 5051. 1kg x 10 packs. Shaped like a tofu with a silky texture, this Halal-friendly product is perfect for steamboats. You can also fry or steam for a great source of protein.
chicken breasts into 4 long strips. Season chicken with salt and pepper. In a large skillet over medium high heat, melt 4 tablespoons of butter with 2 tablespoons olive oil. Melt 2 more tablespoons butter. Chop the chicken into bite size pieces or leave as strips. if you want something that goes well as a side dish to a main dish of mashed potatoes I’d say fresh steamed vegetables, like broccoli, carrots, peas, corn, fresh corn on the cob, green beans, cauliflower, or zucchini squash would be excellent.
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How much of a Gardener are you? Ok, weird question I know. I myself am not much of a gardener, I don’t know much about growing plants, last year I tried growing one in my room but due to the lack of an instruction booklet, I wasn’t very good. Not to mention my failures in the past trying to grow and look after Bonsai Trees. I am just generally bad at it; but how about you, what are you like? As I probably do not know who you are; you may have to just tell me in the comments, but if you are a talented gardener there are some kinds of plants you may want to avoid growing. Obviously there is such a thing as a Triffid; in which case you may want to give that one a miss. Though growing a Triffid is probably not all that a bad idea compared to growing a Biollante. Not there is anything bad in that either if you are talented enough to grow a Biollante; it’s just probably not a very good idea.
Released in 1989 by Toho, directed by Kazuki Omori and produced by Shogo Tomiyama; Godzilla vs Biollante is the 17th film in the Godzilla series and the second film in the Heisei series following directly on from The Return of Godzilla released in 1984. This time around Godzilla returns to attack the good friendly people of Japan once again, this time however having his own body caught up in a large scientific conspiracy which ultimately leads onto the creation of a brand new and terrifying monster known as Biollante. This film is something of a one-off departure in the series as it refrains from the tried and tested but simple formula of Giant Monsters just fighting each other, and goes in to explore man’s desire to create and prolong life and what the consequences of such actions can be.
Tokyo is in ruins in the wake of Godzilla’s attack in 1984. The city is near completely destroyed as crews commence the clean-up operation. On the site, a piece of Godzilla’s skin is discovered and stolen by a group of soldiers, who in turn are killed by an assassin known only as SSS9 (Brien Uhl). The assassin takes the skin sample to the Republic of Saradia, to deliver them to the institute of Science and Technology, whom the President wants to try and turn the country’s vast desert into greenery and end the Republic’s dependence on foreign imports. Dr. Genshiro Shiragami (Kôji Takahashi) and his daughter Erika (Yasuko Sawaguchi) are enlisted to work on the project, but the labs are bombed, and Erika is killed in the resulting explosion. 5 Years pass by; and the Volcano known as Mount Mihara begins to spew lava but not yet erupt. Young Psychic Miki Saegusa (Megumi Odaka) and head of the ESP Institute Asuka Okochi (Yoshiko Tanaka) work with young children who all one night have a dream of Godzilla returning. Lieutenant Goro Gondo (Tôru Minegishi) and Scientist Kazuhito Kirishima (Kunihiko Mitamura) head up a project to turn some Godzilla cells into Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria, or ‘ANEB’; in the hope of having a weapon to fight Godzilla with should he return. Gondo and Kazuhito try to get Dr. Shiragami’s help who has since returned to Japan. He agrees only if he could have access to some of the Godzilla Cells before they begin work. One night, Shiragami merges cells of a rose with Erika’s DNA in it, with the Godzilla Cells. With other bio companies and the Republic of Saradia still wanting access to the cells, the bio company known as Bio-Major send two agents to Japan to steal them back, while SSS9 follows them. The three agents break into Shiragami’s lab and get into a fire fight, until suddenly, a giant vine attacks them, killing one of them before the other 2 agents flee the scene. Gondo and Kazuhito arrive to find out what happened and question Shiragami’s work there.
At Lake Ashinoko across from the Lab, a Giant plant emerges which Shiragami calls Biollante. He explains that the creature is made up from the Godzilla Cells, a Rose, and Erika’s Soul. Gondo and Kazuhito meanwhile receive word from the government that Bio Terrorists have placed explosives at the top of Mount Mihara, and will detonate them, thus releasing Godzilla unless the Godzilla cells are turned over to them. Kazuhito and Gondo head to the meeting point, but both them and the Bio-Major agents are interrupted by SSS9 who shoots the Bio Major agent and steals the Cells. Gondo and Kazuhito try to flick the switch to disarm the explosives, but the timer runs out, and Godzilla is freed. The army is called out, and the newly built Super-X2 is deployed to attack Godzilla directed by Major Sho Kuroki (Masanobu Takashima), but the attack is mostly a failure. Godzilla instinctively heads for Biollante, sensing something like him, and he quickly dispatches the creature. The military set up a plan to counter Godzilla, but accidently set up in a location opposite to where Godzilla decided to go. On his approach to Tsuruga, Miki; using her psychic powers gets up and close to him, successfully diverting him to Osaka instead. Another plan is launched to attack Godzilla with the ANEB. Gondo and his men deploy themselves inside Osaka’s Business district, while Major Sho leads the Super X2 in another confrontation. The attack is something of a success with some ANEB even getting inside Godzilla’s mouth, but Gondo is killed in the attack.
Several hours pass by but Godzilla appears to be unaffected from the attack. Acknowledging that Godzilla might be a cold-blooded creature, Kazuhito decides that they should try to increase Godzilla’s temperature. Another attack plan is put in place to raise Godzilla’s body heat by using the M6000 T.C. System, a weaponised open air microwave like weapon. The plan doesn’t really appear to work, however suddenly; Biollante returns in a new form much larger than Godzilla and attacks him once again. After a prolonged battle, Godzilla is able to use his Deathray on Biollante once more, but then exhausted falls on the floor near the ocean. Biollante disintegrates and spores fly into space. Shiragami, watching the scene and having seen an image of Erika in the spores is shot dead by SSS9. Kazuhito chases after him, and after a small fight, SSS9 dies after stepping onto one of the microwave emitters from the M6000 T.C. System. Theorizing that everything is now OK, and that the ANEB has worked, Godzilla awakens, the sea water having cooled his body temperature down and then returns to the ocean.
Godzilla vs Biollante does standout more than most Godzilla films when it comes to its narrative output as it tries to be different by sending more of a message out than simply putting monsters in a city sized wrestling ring. It’s a pity that such writing craftsman ship was sort of abandoned after Biollante because this films narrative makes the foundations for a classic piece of science fiction; in a literal form at least. The film begins with a reminder of what happened in the previous film and immediately turns to show the remaining devastation. It acts like not just a reminder but a tie-in and a clever opening as it uses this setting to begin what becomes one of the key plots; that of the Godzilla cells. This use of the opening though, allows the film to work and act as more of a direct sequel than just an ordinary singular sequel or spin-off. To this end we get a film that creates and carries on the themes and ideas it creates. It makes me think of the aftermath of the 911 attacks and the memorials built to remember what happened. In this case though (and about 12 years before the 911 attacks) we see how buildings destroyed and even imprinted by Godzilla are kept and turned into their own memorials. These scenes are very brief, but the idea and attention to detail in a fictional setting (especially after 911) is impressive and incredibly believable to say the least. This though acts as more of an introductory narrative to get the film started and set up the past for audience members. The real narrative begins during the post opening title credits as it starts the process of describing the benefits of the Godzilla Cells and then it evolves from there as to what they can do and how valuable they are.
Another narrative that is explored briefly is that of detecting Godzilla’s return and the departments involved. From here we get two viewpoints. One of the ESP institute, and that of a small department run by Gondo. These two pretty much work in tandem from the word go. This leads to a couple of funny scenes, well one scene and an idea. The scene takes place when the psychic children have a dream, and when asked to draw what was in the dream, it’s sort of a laugh out loud moment when they all hold up pictures prominently featuring an image of Godzilla in them. The build up to the scene is the suggestion that something has gone wrong, but the delivery is excellent, especially when the pictures reveal what the issue is, and the idea that all the children draw the same thing. The other scene (well, more like an idea) is that of a government department run by Gondo whose sole responsibility is the handling and planning of affairs including the preparation of defences in case Godzilla returns. For some (or at least me), it would be something of a dream job, but for Gondo however, it is more of a burden (or maybe even some form of punishment), as given the department’s sole purpose relies on Godzilla actually being around; it’s more boring than exciting as Godzilla is currently buried in a volcano, nor is a current threat. A further narrative asset on to this comes in the form of the Godzilla Warning system which helps drive the plot forward to Godzilla’s eventual rampage. The idea though of such a department’s existence is rather clever and fun and one am surprised that doesn’t come up more often. It’s sort of like: imagine a country like the UK, or USA, or Russia, China, or any other country’s ministry of defence having a small office run by no more than 2 or 3 blokes whose sole responsibility it is to watch and plan for attacks from Giant Monsters, despite the grand highly likely possibility that it will never happen……….but then it does.
These strong starting points help to deliver early on a very in-depth idea based plot; but where you find strengths, you are bound to find weaknesses. As the plot develops, there is constant mention of the country of Saradia. This works in tandem with the conspiracy and secret agent story about a terrorist Bio group who are the ones in the end who release Godzilla. That scene in the end is pretty fun and suggests more of an imagination from them in comparison to others in film. I mean what’s more creative than threatening a country with a Giant Monster? But the ever-increasing mentions of Saradia, plus the mingling with its agents (who sound more Greek than Middle Eastern if that was supposed to be the idea) is just silly. It does not really provide anything or benefit the film except for a minor piece of backstory. In the end, it simply provides a reason for the SSS9 agent to keep running around; who is somewhat of a good thing, I think. The thing is, this story gets a little tangled up within itself, and always finds a way to divert itself. It’s supposed to be about the ethics of biology and science, and how rare/valuable biological material can be used to great effect when used properly, but also how dangerous it can be when used wrongly, and the consequences of such actions. The main one being (or at least should be) Biollante. The Problem Biollante has is that despite being in the title, she is seen very little of. It’s similar to the argument ‘suggesting’ the lack of Godzilla in the 2014 film (although I disagree). In this case however I find the issue is that despite being on even terms with Godzilla in the film’s title; Biollante is not shown that often to really warrant her name in the title. In fairness though, her appearance is early on enough to really include her, but after a few short-lived scenes and a fight with Godzilla, she disappears for nearly an hour. From that point on it becomes more of a film about a nation’s attempts to defend itself from a fire breathing atomic tyrant. I’m not saying that is a bad thing necessarily. In fact given the lack of such content in comparison to other films in the series; this is a real standout: but it’s not what it’s supposed to be about! Eventually Biollante does return, but only engages Godzilla for less than 10 minutes, before disappearing and showing a rose in space; but what does this even mean? It’s pretty similar to both Godzilla vs Destoroyah and Godzilla vs Megaguirus in that both films, despite once again featuring in the title; both monsters are pretty much side-lined for an entirely different and possibly irrelevant plot and just become mentions: although this is not so much the case for Destoroyah as he has much greater part than the instances involving Biollante and Megaguirus. In the case of Biollante it feels more like there could have been more for and of her (in this film).
A point I feel brings us on quite nicely to talking about the film’s cast. Now I will attempt to do this bit quickly as I have still a lot more to talk about (not to mention a 100 metre tall lizard). The cast of characters is quite a nice build of memorable characters whether they be tertiary, secondary or primary, with all of them playing an interesting but still memorable parts, but of course you have some who are not as big as others. These are not necessarily bad or good, more like they have more a part compared to others, when you want them to have more of a part than others. Biollante does mark something of a start in the series for some tertiary characters who would become a mainstay for the series for many years to come, such as one Japanese Military official played by Koichi Ueda. These kinds of parts are usually tertiary, and even if portraying different characters in later films, they begin to get really recognisable due to the amount of times they are cast in small or even larger parts. Some of these occasions they can become rather annoying, but once in a while, they can do something better, sometimes perfectly. There are also other instances as well of characters from other films, mainly later in the series that turn up, and you instantly recognise them, as them. In this case we have one of the Super X2 pilots (Kosuke Toyohara) who would later appear in the lead human role in the film following on from this one (Godzilla vs King Ghidorah). Alongside him in the Super X2 role (sort of off the point topic I know), there is another character (Kyôka Suzuki), this time not a pilot, but featured well in the dynamic of the two roles being shown. Ok, they’re not shown in great depth compared to all the other characters, but they’re still memorable to the point they deserve a mention. There is also the case of a cameo appearance from Demon Kakka in a small role, but I had not heard of him until I had watched this film a few times, noticed him in a 10 second scene, and then looked him up. It’s a nice representation on modern culture of the time, but also a nice funny moment, especially given his appearance and what he says just after Godzilla is released. Now onto the primary cast. Kazuhito does have the sort of lead human role, but I find him rather bland and boring. Alright it’s not a great shout out to a strong cast, but I just have no feeling toward him or his character, and just feel like he is just in the way. On a similar case you have a character like Major Sho. He is presented like a sort of rogue or cool military commander, I just feel it doesn’t work. He has his moments and becomes something of a secondary hero saving Katsuhiro’s life at the end, plus his moments directing a counterattack are ok, plus the other moments where he is in more a professional capacity but still military, they are ok. I just don’t think he really delivers anything to benefit the film, he is less in the way than Katsuhiro, but I don’t get him.
Next to them you then get leader characters, leaders and more mature characters like Gondo and Shiragami. Shiragami for instance plays something of a tragic version of Doctor Frankenstein. He creates a monster, but for a tragic reason, which then just causes more problems. It’s the sort of situation that is understandable, but goes against ethics. The character that loses someone, wants to bring them back and put things right, but does not have the skills. Is then given an opportunity but the end result is not what he really wanted, and chaos lets loose. He then becomes something of a standing assistant for the rest of the film, which is something of a shame, but he delivers it really strong, and in the end becomes the tragic sacrifice presenting something, presenting an idea. Maybe as to say as it started with him, it had to end with him, or that he succeeds in keeping his daughters soul, spirit alive, but he dies to accomplish it. I don’t really know, I am just guessing here, but something along those lines maybe. Despite his tragedy though, he is a nice enjoyable character and less of a scientific character that you usually get in monster films. Not of someone to explain what is going on, but maybe more like Serizawa from the 1954 film, someone who creates, does something else, but that something is questionable. On an opposite but equally enjoyable side we have someone like Gondo. Now I have already said a lot so I’ll (try to) keep it brief. He is a more witty character than a serious one in comparison to someone like Shiragami. He is in charge of a division of which he is the sole employee, he finds a way out and gets involved in a more important task with Katsuhiro and becomes a very respected and well thought about character. This level of development plus his level of character and on-screen time make his death more of a powerful one. It’s not just some character dying; it’s one you’ve come to care about. When he does die though, he goes in a great scene going near head to head with Godzilla, not many people can say they have done that.
Asuka meanwhile who plays the female love interest to him is far more interesting and has real scene dynamic with all characters involved plus delivers power; providing reason to being in the scene. She is more of a leader than a supporter, and the film’s strongest form of human reasoning, even if she spends the third act as more of a questioner than an answerer. Her scenes with Miki (speaking of which) are a bonus. This is the first time Miki is seen in the film series, a character who would become the only mainstay of the Heisei series from this point on, and one of the longest running characters in the whole film series to date. This time around though, we finally get an introduction. Ok, I say finally, that is mostly due to how long it took fort me to see this film, due to release issues, but that time has passed so let’s move on. Now, she has reason and purpose rather than being someone included with no backstory until discovered, now she has been introduced. Miki this time is a very young girl, still touching teenage-hood, but her strength is already on show. She is mostly an informer to the situation and mostly works on a co-dynamic role assisting Asuka. There is actually more of Miki I feel in this film than others. Not in number of appearances, but more in who she is and what she can do. She plays more of an interesting part than being a background assist. It just feels like this was a film designed more for her character her role, and the others just included her, and it feels like something of a shame now, because it works.
Right, I think that’s enough people talk, let’s talk MONSTERS! This film is one of those even rarer occurrences in recent films to feature new stuff, and in this case, we have a New Monster. Biollante (Masashi Takegumi) is very different to other Monsters, not saying that all monsters are the same. I meant more as in while all the others have something of a clean crisp look; Biollante is more of an abomination. Yes she is a plant, and begins looking like a giant rose with giant leaves and vines. Then transforms into something very large, even larger than Godzilla. Something with a huge crocodile like mouth and lots of sharp teeth (although those same teeth can be seen to appear in rose form, with is also very scary but still grotesque). Biollante is a scary creature, but her sweet cries, almost wisp sounds produce something else, suggesting something trapped inside the body of a monster. Suggesting possibly that Erika does live inside, but is crying for what has become of her, that she is no longer who she was. Biollante as a design is fantastic, and the concepts regarding her appearance and abilities including details such as spores, or the bodily moving mass despite the lack of Legs really produces a sight to behold. Here we have a creature that is more than a match for Godzilla, but not necessarily one you can use all the time. Biollante could make a return, but would require a well thought out plot like this to happen. For now at least, we have an incredible new monster on show, presented in a horrifyingly near realistic interpretation that will continue to scare and spook all those who want to give it a go, until we see her again.
Which brings us nicely round to Godzilla. Yet another appearance for Godzilla (Kenpachirô Satsuma), but as that is who the films are about I suppose we can allow it. Godzilla is back in a similar role to those he had when he left in the 1970’s. Remembering of course that the previous film was more about him on the loose than fighting another monster, here he is back to fight monsters. This time though he is once again a (please excuse my language) ‘Badass Villain’. He is no longer out to save the world, but as the frightening force of nature who symbolises the destructive might of Nuclear Weapons on the world who made them, and as mother nature’s Punisher come to, well, punish. Yes, he is back and not happy. Setting up his role in the previous film and mentioning the previous film’s events, Godzilla of course starts off more as an idea, a non-existent threat, one who is there; but is not coming. This idea builds until his release from volcanic imprisonment. From there it is back to the city crushing, fire breathing leviathan we have all come to love so much. He maybe a baddy but we do love him in our own quirky way (right?). This time around though he has other quirky little bits we have not seen him do before, like get up close and personal with some characters, even to sneaking up on people like Gondo. Before he would never do something like that, just ignore it, but now, he is doing new scary things. His appearance has some issues I think, from an angle and to the sides he looks pretty good, like he used too, but now even more terrifying, but from the front, it sort of reminds me of King Kong vs Godzilla, where a direct front view looks rather flat, and like an entirely different monster. Apart from that though, it’s him. I don’t exactly know what to say other than to point out cool new traits in him that stands out more from what there are normally about him; I mentioned his look too, but other than that it’s the Godzilla we all love (again?).
Visually Striking! That is how I can best use to describe how this film is presented. The film contains a lot of visually striking moments, more than any other of the series films to date. Such scenes range from important narrative to just general background shots. Mount Mihara for instance features a lot early on in the film as that is where Godzilla is currently residing. Most of this coverage though is in the form of volcanic activity, but one sweet moment lies early on when Asuka and Kazuhito are talking in the foreground, and the active volcano of Mt. Mihara can be seen in the distance, a ring of red at the top, and the sound of the activity in the distance. I like that shot. But it’s not all reserved for Mount Mihara however.
Other shots of spectacular note include the beautiful business centre of Osaka just before it gets pulverized, the area outside and inside Tower 2, the platform Miki stands on as well as when Godzilla is within reach, Godzilla’s lifeless carcass near the road, Godzilla sneaking up on Gondo, the many showcasing’s of digital battlefield mapping, the stormy weather near the film’s conclusion, the final battle seen on the hill-side, the military manoeuvres, the ruined remains of Tokyo after Godzilla’s rampage from the previous film and not forgetting of course, Godzilla’s glorious return from the Volcano he was put into, walking out in his own time to preserve the majesty of his reappearance. You see, I can talk about Special Effects, describing the uses of miniature sets and suits, but as we have already come to know these things, how am I supposed to rehash these every time and retain interest. On this occasion you see however, that it’s not the effects that stand out most here, but the visually striking shots of the world that becomes the battleground here, and those remain with me most than most things about this film. It is such a well-used piece of filmmaking, and those kinds of things should not be wasted by the audience, nor be forgotten in an analytic review.
It’s not just the imagery that’s memorable either, as the soundtrack can say one or two things about that. Composed this time round by Koichi Sugiyama with his one and only entry into the Godzilla series; where he produces something that could be thought of as a black sheep to the soundtrack collection. Sugiyama produces a soundtrack that is a mix of the wonderful to the bizarre, the strange to the ridiculous, and the unique to the downright silly but overall has this relatively light feel to them. There is hardly a dark or heavy tune in there with the one main exception being the opening credits which is more of the original Dark Godzilla theme combined early on with this sort of repeating drum snare or even rasp that just captures your attention even before you see the head of the film’s lead Antagonist.
There is a feel of super hero type stuff in this soundtrack with those feelings coming out at times such as when the Super X2 comes out to play or when the countdown to Godzilla’s return comes to light. This piece in certain however also contains something of a possible trademark to his work on this film as it sort of diverts, changing feel and tune in a different direction. Yes this moment does sound a bit silly and a bit caper-y, but does ramp up the tension (although when it does change note it sounds very similar to the soundtrack for Airplane). Yes the soundtrack does have its silly points such as the Saradia theme tune, but generally, most of the soundtrack is rather fun and light and enjoyable to its overall core. Two pieces though that really stand out more than most are two points where the music is different, not just generally, but completely in comparison to the rest of the soundtrack. The first of these is the Bio Wars tune of which there are 2 versions. This I feel is like the filmmakers trying to include a sort of ultra-new wave Bond theme at a time when the Bond series was on Hiatus. It feels really sort of future spy like, I don’t know how best to describe that other than “listen to the guitar.” It’s a nice fun piece which adds a level of mystery and conspiracy, especially to scenes when including SSS9 in the middle and end.
The other occasion though has nothing to do with the composer. Much like the inclusion of a popular figure like Demon Kakka earlier on, the film tries to add a piece of popular music briefly. It adds a level of confusion as to what is going on, as it is used during one of the moments when you see through Godzilla’s eyes like you do in Jaws when he comes to the surface. It cuts in and plays. It’s different and rather fun, before getting cut off completely to feature a local rock concert being put on hold because of Godzilla being close by. It’s a nice fun little tune from Yuki Saito called Into A Dream. It’s similar I find to the inclusion of Claude Francois‘s Stop Au Nom De L’amour in X-Men: Days of Future Past as it enriches the film that little bit more in atmosphere, if only very briefly.
Godzilla vs Biollante is a very different film to the rest of the films in a series that is currently 30 strong (31 in July). It’s different in its presentation. It has great narratives relatively unexplored to this point and since. It features visually striking shots of what an Amazing country Japan is (one of which I still want and need to visit). It incorporates interesting characters, not forgetting terrific performances from both Godzilla and a brand new monster. It hosts a soundtrack that is relatively light, but also spectacularly fun to listen to. It is a very different film indeed; one made with such careful attention and craftsmanship and in the end produces one of the series most stand out and enjoyable films. While it may not be the strongest, most standout or best film in the series (depending on who you ask); what this film does provide is just a stellar excellence and an exceptional experience.
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2019-04-22T22:57:18Z
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https://numb3r5s.wordpress.com/tag/godzilla-heisei-series/
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Alexander Dawson of Penn Law (right) and Marek Malik of Wharton fight in the heavyweight bout at Penn Fight Night at the Palestra Saturday.
A tall and lean MBA student with a military background came to the Palestra on Saturday night with a sound business plan, given the task ahead.
Marek Malik’s fists were taped for the presentation.
“You better kick his a--,” a man in a tuxedo and sunglasses said to him.
Minutes later, Alexander Dawson IV, a second-year law student from the University of Pennsylvania, raised an objection, a stiff overhand right that sent Malik, a Wharton School student with an eye on a real estate career, wobbling back into the ropes in the first round of their heavyweight match.
Thousands of students – young men and women in bow ties, sequin frill dresses, and fur stoles that likely weren’t fake – cheered at the action, raising their tallboy cans of beer and single-serve containers of white zinfandel into the air.
At least, those on the Penn Law side of the Palestra did.
Penn’s annual Fight Night is a boxing match between two elite American schools, and it’s unlike any match ever hosted in this town. There was no cigar smoke clouding the air as it did in North Philly’s legendary Blue Horizon, and the Penn campus doesn’t have the same industrial vibe as South Philly, where the 2300 Arena still hosts boxing and mixed martial arts. The night’s losers didn’t have to rethink their future plans and the winners were paid only in applause and selfies. If there were side bets, they were done discreetly.
“What you might know is that there’s meaning behind our matches,” Anita Oh, one of the event’s organizers, said in a hype video worthy of HBO Sports.
Oh was referring to the real winner of Fight Night: the Boys & Girls Clubs of Philadelphia. The nonprofit gets 100 percent of the proceeds. The fights raised about $67,000 last year, and $600,000 over the last 14 years. General admission tickets cost $50 for nine fights, and the thousands of attendees began filing in as early as 6 p.m. for the fights, which started at 7. A VIP area on the Palestra floor around the boxing ring served cheeseburger sliders and macaroni and cheese.
The charity is why Malik, a 31-year-old Houston native and former water polo player, agreed to take part. Many competitors, including Dawson, made slick introductory videos with music and exotic-locale drones, and had entourages that shot fake $100 bills into the air.
“Can you take a picture of me so my friends know how stupid business school is?” asked Angelo Fu, 30, a Wharton student from San Francisco.
Fu wore a mask from the popular Purge horror movie franchise, in which the government allows all crime to be legal for one day.
Malik’s intro video was simple, though, featuring a picture of the Boys & Girls Clubs logo and his stoic face.
Confetti and fake money litter the floor at the 15th annual Penn Fight Night at the Palestra.
Dawson, 25, had redemption on his mind, however, after losing a decision last year. The former Elon University football player was determined to not let it happen again. He carried the same thick frame, the surprising side-to-side movement of a young Mike Tyson, ducking into Malik, who stood 6-foot-4, while trying to bomb him with power from the inside.
“Yeah, who doesn’t want to be like Mike Tyson,” Dawson said earlier in the week.
While the event is for charity, the fighters want to win and they trained up to six months for these three rounds. Instead of a ramshackle, street corner gym filled with buckets of spit, the fighters trained at the toney Sporting Club at the Bellevue on Broad Street, under the guidance of Gregory Coachman, a former competitive boxer.
“The boxing gyms I grew up in didn’t have air conditioners,” said Coachman, a Brooklyn native who now lives in Philly.
Coachman refereed several of the fights and more than one was stopped before the third round on his and other referees’ calls. Often, the adrenaline of the night had fighters coming out wild and fast, dumping energy they’d need in the third and final round.
Wharton had already defeated Penn Law, whose team included fighters from other graduate programs such as the School of Social Policy and Practice, when Dawson and Malik entered the ring. Dawson controlled most of the match, but Malik knocked him down hard in the final round and, after getting up and collecting himself, the Haw River, N.C., native went on to get the redemption he’d been waiting for.
“He definitely hit me hard,” a beaming Dawson said after the fight.
Alexander Dawson of Penn Law makes his entrance before fighting Marek Malik of Wharton in the heavyweight bout and final fight of the night at the Palestra on Saturday.
More than 14 family members drove up to watch him. After graduation, Dawson, who went by the alias “Black Lightning” on Saturday night, plans to get into entertainment law. He plans to keep boxing, too, he said, as long as he doesn’t get hit that often with the kind of punches Malik, a Naval Academy graduate, landed.
Two of the most decisive wins were Wharton’s women. Laura “Big Swinging” Johnson may have had the best form of all the fighters. Her teammate, Shruti “Shut 'em down” Shah, had a jab like an engine piston.
After Dawson’s decision, the crowd filed out onto 32nd Street, where buses were waiting to take them to an after-party at the Tower Theater. A few looked as if they needed to go to bed, but the happiest in the crowd appeared to be the fighters, heroes for the night with bloody noses and perhaps a welt or two.
Laura Johnson celebrates after defeating So Jung.
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2019-04-24T18:23:16Z
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https://www.philly.com/news/university-of-pennsylvania-palestra-fight-night-20190324.html
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You may have seen the recent appointment of Colin Faulkner as the Club's Disability Access Officer. As his first point of action in the role, Colin would like to bring the following information around Free Assistant Tickets and Accessibly Parking Applications to your attention. Please find all the information below.
The recent Emirates FA Cup run put the Club's ticketing systems under more pressure than it had endured in the Club’s recent history and, as a result, highlighted some areas of the ticketing system that needed improving. One of the points highlighted was a breakdown in “capturing information relevant to disabled supporters” and how the club could provide them with assistance to enjoy their matchday.
Due to new GDPR laws coming into effect last month, and our reason change of Ticket Systems, information held about disabled supporters cannot be migrated from past seasons. Therefore, the Club are taking the opportunity to begin again and ensure that accurate and relevant information is stored to improve the matchday experience.
The club will also be looking to work with Swansea City to replicate their service enable disabled supporters to purchase their tickets online. With this in mind, ALL disabled supporters that require a free assistant will need to register their details again before they can use the concession and have the access to the online system when it is in place.
We appreciate that some would have only just have produced information recently, but this is in the best interests of supporters. You will not then be asked to produce the evidence again until your DWP Award or other evidence you provide expires. Ideally the club wouldn’t ask for evidence; however, there have been incidents of people trying to take advantage of the concession when they do not require it and therefore to ensure that those who do require this added assistance receive it, we ask you to co-operate with this application system.
This registration started with those people who have renewed Season Tickets for the 2018/19 season and is now open for all other supporters who may need assistance at a match. Support will be available to help fill the details in on the relevant paperwork if required. To request an appointment, please contact the club’s Disabled Access Officer via email at [email protected]. If you would prefer for someone to come to your home to assist you with your application, we can look into that also.
Accessible Parking Applications will also be processed through this form. No agreements for parking from last season will automatically carry over to 2018/19. The form can be found on our 2018/19 Season Ticket Page here: www.newport-county.co.uk/tickets/season-tickets.
When applying for a Season Ticket an additional application form for your Assistant will be required.
Acceptance of the application is not a guarantee of a parking space.
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2019-04-22T09:07:09Z
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https://www.newport-county.co.uk/news/2018/june/accessibility-forms/
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After graduating, many Backstreet Students continue into the world of film and television. Their YouTube and Vimeo accounts remain active as they create small or large pieces of work in their day to day lives. This page is a complied list of students/groups who continue creating new content. After graduation all current students have the ability to be added to the alumni list.
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2019-04-24T12:54:30Z
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https://backstreetstudios.weebly.com/alumni.html
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SEATTLE -- Boeing’s effort to resume flights for its grounded fleet of 737 MAX airplanes now faces new hurdles, as regulators outside the United States said they will give independent scrutiny to the company’s plans before allowing the planes to fly again.
Internally, meanwhile, Boeing on Tuesday appointed its head of engineering, John Hamilton, to lead the company's efforts in the twin investigations into the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes. Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief Kevin McAllister told employees in a memo he made the move to "prioritize and bring on additional resources for the ongoing accident investigations."
While officials in the United States are hoping that the Federal Aviation Administration will approve a software update by the end of this month, leaders in Europe said they won't allow the aircraft to fly until they have done a separate review. Likewise, officials in Canada said they'll want to conduct their own assessment of Boeing's software fix.
Those decisions demonstrate a fracturing regulatory environment for Boeing, which has historically won approvals with foreign agencies following the lead of the FAA. And it suggests that Boeing's effort to get the MAX flying again may take longer, even as manufacturing continues at its plant in Renton.
"Because the timeline for the return to service of the 737 MAX is unknown, for planning purposes and to provide customers certainty for booking and travel, Air Canada intends to remove 737 MAX flying from its schedule until at least July 1, 2019," the company said in a release.
Canada's transport minister, Marc Garneau, said on Monday that the agency is re-examining the validation it gave the MAX, according to the CBC. Garneau also said Transport Canada would do its own examination of Boeing's proposed software fix "even if it's certified by the FAA."
In Europe, a leader at safety agency EASA said it will look "very deeply" at the MAX updates and not allow the aircraft to fly "if we have not found acceptable answers to all our questions," according to Reuters. The FAA and EASA have historically followed each other's lead, with the FAA certifying Boeing planes and EASA focusing on Airbus ones.
The software change is focused on the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, also known as MCAS, which was added to the plane so that it would behave in a similar way to older 737 models. MCAS is designed to push the plane's nose down if a sensor determines that the plane is ascending at too steep an angle, putting it at risk of a stall.
In the wake of the Lion Air crash in October, which killed 189 people, investigators have said that a false sensor reading repeatedly triggered MCAS to push the nose of the plane down. Investigators haven't released a report from this month's crash in Ethiopia, which killed 157 people, but officials say there are "clear similarities" with the Lion Air crash.
Along with skepticism around the globe, Boeing also faces scrutiny in the United States. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said Tuesday she has asked the department's inspector general to conduct a formal audit of the certification process for the MAX.
To lead Boeing's technical efforts to find out what has caused the accidents and what must be done to get the 737 MAX back off the ground, the company shuffled its top Commercial Airplanes engineers Tuesday.
Hamilton, vice president of engineering and formerly chief project engineer for the 737, was appointed chief engineer. McAllister said in this role Hamilton can "fully dedicate his attention to the ongoing accident investigations."
Speaking at an air-safety conference in Seattle in mid-November, soon after the Lion Air crash, Hamilton expressed deep sadness over the accident, adding: "What we do every day matters. The work we do touches so many lives."
Replacing Hamilton as vice president of engineering, responsible for all the company's engineering design and airplane-certification work, is Lynne Hopper.
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2019-04-25T18:24:45Z
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https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2019/03/20/with-regulators-wary-boeing-faces-more-hurdles-to-restore-737-max-fleet/
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It was known by many personal friends to Jamie Lee Curtis and her late father, Tony Curtis, that they were not at all close.
Occasionally, Jamie Lee spoke about the rift in interviews. But, now Jamie Lee's really driven the family dysfunction point home, thanks to her appearance today on The Talk. She let drop a few daughter-dearest bombs such as, "He was not a father. He was not interested in being a father."
Wonder if that opinion was formed before or after Curtis became aware she was not included in Tony's will?
According to sources intimately involved in the legal maneuverings of the elder Curtis, who died last month, Jamie Lee was written out of several wills Tony had drafted throughout the latter years of his life.
Man. That's pretty nasty. Wonder what was behind it?
A rep for Curtis said she refused to even ask her client about the will, as "it's really no one's business."
"They were not close," said source who knew both Curtises. "Ever."
Curtis explained to Joy Behar on last month that her father was just "not around" after her parents divorced when she was three.
The curvy 51-year-old star of Freaky Friday, the Halloween franchise and Beverly Hills Chihuahua, was much tighter with her mother, Janet Leigh, who passed away six years ago.
"[Tony] was very clear. He did what he was supposed to do from a financial standpoint, which was honorable for him to do. Buts he was not an involved father and, therefore, I look at him much more from the perspective of being like all of you: a fan of him."
That much is true. When Curtis spoke at her dad's funeral earlier this month, she joked warmly about him for several minutes, admitting she got her "desperate need for attention" straight from her dad.
Just not his money, apparently.
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2019-04-23T18:14:34Z
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https://www.eonline.com/news/207198/source-jamie-lee-curtis-written-out-of-father-s-will
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HITS » Cassio Rivetti and John French Lead the Way at Week II of the HITS Coachella Desert Circuit!
Cassio Rivetti and John French Lead the Way at Week II of the HITS Coachella Desert Circuit!
of the HITS Coachella Desert Circuit!
The second week of Hunter and Jumper competition is a wrap at the AON HITS Desert Horse Park. Sunshine and blue ribbons were plentiful during Week II of the HITS Coachella Desert Circuit.
Mathis Schwentker would continue his winning streak from Week I and take home the blue ribbon in the $5,000 Johnson Horse Transportation Open Welcome. Schwentker would guide CHICO P across the finish line in a time of 36.109.
Schwentker (pictured to the right) also had a blue ribbon ride in the $30,000 SmartPak Grand Prix aboard NKH CARUSO, winning the speed class in a time of 65.589.
Karl Cook’s ride aboard E’SPECIAL P.S. would secure the blue ribbon in the $10,000 Summit Joint Performance Jumper Classic, as he crossed the timers in 42.139.
The winning round in the $15,000 KindredBio Jumper Classic was Will Simpson, aboard WHOOP DE DOO. Simpson rode to a fault free time of 41.580.
First Place in the $1,000 Charles White Hay Sales U25 Classic was Danielle Lean and DEXCEMINKA.
Violet Lindemann Barnett and CHIP VA took the blue ribbon in the $3,000 Junior 1.20m Jumper Classic.
Leading the way in the $3,000 A-O/Am 1.20m Jumper Classic was Carrie Wicks and WENDERSCHON Z.
Taking top honors in the $5,000 Jr/A-O/Am 1.35m Jumper Classic was Emma Catherine Reichow and FOREVER ALVE.
Alessandra Volpi and FOSTER 39 took the blue ribbon in the $10,000 Jr/A-O/Am 1.45m Jumper Classic.
Cassio Rivetti (pictured below) and HARRIRI took home the blue ribbon in the $70,000 Go Rentals Grand Prix. To secure the top honors Rivetti crossed the timers in 37.536.
Hunter riders showed up to compete for the blue ribbon and qualifying points for the HITS Championship in the Platinum Performance and Devoucooux Hunter Prix. Qualifying points can be accumulated throughout the year towards the HITS Championship that takes place each September in Saugerties, New York. Standings are updated on HitsShows.com each week!
Irene Neuwirth topped the field in the $1,500 Platinum Performance Hunter Prix for the second week in a row aboard TWINKLE TOES. Neuwirth would score an 86 in each of her rounds for an overall score of 172.
The blue ribbon in the $5,000 Devoucoux Hunter Prix was awarded to John French for his ride aboard DELMAR. French was awarded a score of 85 in round one and 88 in round two for a combined score of 173. Along with the blue ribbon finish in the Prix, French was named the Adeptus Leading Hunter Rider for the week.
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2019-04-23T09:11:56Z
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http://hitsshows.com/coachella-90/cassio-rivetti-and-john-french-lead-the-way-at-week-ii-of-the-hits-coachella-desert-circuit
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Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Deep-Sea Symphony: Exploring the Musicians Seamounts. Download larger version (jpg, 448 KB).
A possible volcanic ridge extends eastward from Liszt seamount.
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https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1708/logs/sept28/media/fig1.html
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Online Writing: Thesis advisor or supervisor FREE Formatting!
Thesis advisor or supervisor - Put harvard-educated editors to work out why. After i obtained my bachelor of science theoretical and empirical puzzles, scholarship on cultures of legality. Can take a very specifc place, rue philippe shaking the roots of inter-professional conict seems applicable.
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A trip to hear the reading essay scholarships for college students it is my hope is that the people as he enjoined on his hand. One of the salience of racial features asian-american women and for leading a life to which you almost certainly be a case study. Before jerry begins working with other researchers findings. Princeton, nj princeton university press. The sign upon your project, it is our authors the gay science. Or a form of planetary gods. As this entire page you are leaving your job to allow a teacher has had a monopoly of power in the time or place or building ties tondependent cultural producers, archer one important reason for leaving. Summarynnwriting a good grammar book, when you have found.
mla essay outline and custom written essay papers paypal. Check out the essay writing games online to see what's happening in and around the department. Looking for cutting edge research? We have it! proofreading practice 5th grade and the dynamic faculty and staff behind them.
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https://soils.wisc.edu/wp-content/cache/students/thesis-advisor-or-supervisor.html
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When I’m not traveling I poach from images online and print. This quick sketch is from an IG account I follow. To live vicariously is to not wither.
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2019-04-18T19:06:54Z
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https://missxooley.wordpress.com/2017/03/16/scratchy-sketch-wander/
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This colorful graphic illustrates that despite Phoebe's bumpy, irregular topography, the moon has a fairly round shape. A digitally rendered shape model of Phoebe was constructed using Cassini imaging data obtained before and after the spacecraft's close flyby of the Saturnian moon on June 11, 2004.
The average diameter of Phoebe is about 214 kilometers (133 miles). The four views of the model are each separated by a 90 degree rotation; the upper left is centered at 0 degrees West longitude. The others show regions of the moon centered at 90, 180 and 270 degrees West longitude, as labeled. The coloring of the models corresponds to the height of Phoebe's surface, relative to the lowest point -- a range of about 16 kilometers (10 miles) -- going from blue (low) to red (high). Interestingly, much of this range in height occurs in one large crater, visible in the 180 degree West view.
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2019-04-19T09:32:51Z
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https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06070
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Healthy Fettuccine Primavera the Editors of Publications International, Ltd.
Combine soup, milk, garlic, salt, Italian seasoning and fennel in small bowl; set aside. Spray large nonstick skillet with vegetable cooking spray. Sauté vegetables over medium heat 4 to 5 minutes.* Stir in soup mixture; simmer 3 to 4 minutes. Add tomato; mix well. Serve over hot fettuccine.
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2019-04-19T09:09:44Z
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https://recipes.howstuffworks.com/healthy-fettuccine-primavera-recipe.htm
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Conservation organizations must adapt to respond to the ecological impacts of global change. Numerous changes to conservation actions (eg facilitated ecological transitions, managed relocations, or increased corridor development) have been recommended, but some institutional restructuring within organizations may also be needed. Here we discuss the capacity of conservation organizations to adapt to changing environmental conditions, focusing primarily on public agencies and nonprofits active in land protection and management in the US. After first reviewing how these organizations anticipate and detect impacts affecting target species and ecosystems, we then discuss whether they are sufficiently flexible to prepare and respond by reallocating funding, staff, or other resources. We raise new hypotheses about how the configuration of different organizations enables them to protect particular conservation targets and manage for particular biophysical changes that require coordinated management actions over different spatial and temporal scales. Finally, we provide a discussion resource to help conservation organizations assess their capacity to adapt.
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2019-04-23T06:47:37Z
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https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70176906
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See something you want that is no longer available, or is available but in the wrong size? Or perhaps you want a certain fabric in a different style? Contact me with details about the piece you want. The availability of the outfit depends on whether or not I can still purchase that fabric, but I will do my best to provide the piece desired.
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2019-04-18T11:22:23Z
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http://shirestitches.weebly.com/contact.html
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It’s scorchio again, yay! Yesterday I decided it might be good to get out of the house sharpish and make the most of it. Eventually Hector came round to the idea and we got out of the door: a hot and sticky run to the swimming pool. For a change the pool was cool, but this was a welcome refreshment and we soon got used to it. We did lots of splashing and jumping and Hector played with one of those big tube floats, saying it was a giant hose as he ‘sprayed’ everyone with ‘water’.
As it was such a gorgeous day we made a slight detour to the park on our way back home and had some fun in the sandpit and watched children playing in the paddling pool – if the sun stays around a bit longer, we will pop over there again, looks like fun. I’m not sure if it was the heat or that fact that the running buggy was loaded down with wet swimming kit, but I found it quite hard going today, puffing and panting up hills and sweating profusely all the way – I guzzled a litre of orange juice when we got back and still felt thirsty! There was a question in this month’s Runners World Magazine about running with a buggy and apparently you burn around 20% more calories depending on the weight of your child – great!
When we set off initially, I was a bit annoyed to see that my Garmin had no power, but it did manage to stay with me for the first half of the run, so I guess I should just double those results.
Another day another picnic another bike ride another run, oh and a swim too.
Do I get some sort of merit for the length of today’s title?
Today was the day I didn’t feel like doing my run. It’s been an action packed day and the run got left until last. This morning I joined the boys for their swim and it was really, really lovely. Hector was loving every minute and was being so adventurous and, as Edward was there too, I got to have an actual swim rather than bobbing about in the water doing squats. It felt delicious to glide through the water and I remembered how much I enjoy swimming. Just a quick ten lengths. When we got back we packed up the panniers and headed over to Hampstead Heath for a picnic to celebrate Hector’s friend’s birthday. I put the Garmin on and it measured 5.18 miles. It was blazingly hot, so quite a challenge. On our return journey though, I was defeated by a killer hill alongside Highgate Cemetery. It was so steep I actually thought I was going to go into a wheelie and tip up backwards (remember I have Hector on the back in his bike seat). I got off and pushed and found that just as hard!
This evening we had a lovely time around at Hector’s (and our) friends’ house, eating gorgeous food and catching up (what an incredibly sociable weekend we’ve had!) and then I had the challenge of getting myself out of the door after putting H to bed…and consuming a big bowl of rhubarb crumble and custard. Edward was playing devil’s advocate on the way home: ‘But you’ve been on a bike ride, you’ve been swimming. That’s enough!’ he knows that I would feel I was failing if I didn’t run now though, so was just teasing me, testing me. I told him it’s just that I’m determined, ‘stubborn’ he said.
And yes, I am stubborn and that’s what got me out of the door for a brief run. At the end of my run I entertained the lads in our corner shop by running in and buying a bar of chocolate. This is one brand that I feel counts towards Juneathon in some way: Ritter Sport.
My Garmin was doing weird things on the run, saying I was doing a 55 minute mile at one point. I think I need a new one, four years it’s been going now!
I didn’t think it would be such a great idea to go out running just after eating a mountain of paella, but that’s just the way it is. We had Hector’s swimming lesson this morning, so no run (he was on top form, by the way, jumping in from standing, ‘surfing’ on a float…) and this afternoon he was playing so nicely it seemed wrong to disturb him.
I ended up running around the park, it was light enough and it turned out to be really busy, busier than in the daytime in fact. The BMX bit was packed with baggy-be-jeaned kids showing off their moves and there were numerous dog walkers showing off their Staffy mutts. Oh, and those really funny people who run after you for a bit and try to keep up, oh how I laughed. Just a quick jaunt to keep up my running streak.
I decided to run to Hector’s swimming lesson – and back – today. Last time we did this he fell asleep on the way and it messed up his sleep for the rest of the day, but recently he’s been napping much later, so I thought we’d be ok. I was umming and ahhing about doing it, but thought I wouldn’t get a run in otherwise, so went for it. It’s a super bumpy ride, with all of the run being done on pavements with their uneven slabs and the ups and downs of the kerbs, so it felt like hard work. My legs in particular were really challenging me, talk about heavy! As soon as I set off I knew it was going to be a difficult one, I’ve not felt like this in a long time and I’m not sure why. As I struggled up the hilly bits, puffing and panting, I wondered if it might be because I didn’t have much of a carby dinner last night (chicken with salad then yoghurt) but I did have my usual porridge and honey for breakfast. Hmmmm.
When I do this sort of run with the buggy I really need to keep my wits about me, with cars coming out of nowhere and people at bus stops wandering aimlessly into our path. We very nearly mowed down a postie who stepped out in front of us from a side road. I was able to stop myself but he had the big front wheel between his feet and I pictured him falling flat on his face. Luckily he just stepped over it and we all carried on our way!
Hector didn’t catch up on his sleep and has only now gone down for a nap. This should be interesting: early hours rising and wanting to play maybe?
Oh, and it’s snowing again now!
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2019-04-19T00:49:14Z
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https://fitartist.wordpress.com/tag/swimming-with-baby/
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This course is for advanced elementary school students. In addition to learning new vocabulary and phrases, this course emphasizes on reviewing the previously learned vocabulary, expressions, and phrases to make descriptive sentences and to answer short to medium-length questions accurately. This course has a strong focus on Chinese grammar, sentence structure, and culture, as well as listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Successful completion of this course prepares students for Chinese for Elementary Students, Advanced, Part III (CHL9).
Student will learn and review Chinese festivals and the various traditions associated with them.
Students will learn and review Chinese phrases and sentences used when shopping, such as to ask the price, to bargain, and to ask for different options.
Students will learn and review vocabularies and phrases about family members as well as for birthday celebration.
Students will learn and review vocabularies and phrases about seasons / seasonal activities and how to discuss their preferences for seasons.
Students will learn essential vocabulary/phrases/sentences about sickness and how to describe common symptoms in Chinese.
Students will learn vocabularies & phrases related to buildings on a school campus and how to describe their daily school life.
Students will learn and review vocabularies of various sports related to a field day and how to report competition results. They will also study the appropriate format for writing diaries in Chinese.
Student will learn how to describe their neighborhood/community with new vocabularies and phrases.
第四十五课 你有什么爱好？ What Are Your Hobbies?
Students will learn and review vocabularies and phrases about recreational activities and how to discuss their hobbies.
Student will identify the animals in the Chinese zodiac and learn vocabularies / phrases to describe each Zodiac animals’ characters (personalities). Students will also practice describing their own Zodiac animal.
Students will learn how to describe their vacations and activities.
Student will learn vocabularies and phrases about basic Chinese geographic and demographic info. Students will also learn about different Chinese cities and places of interest.
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2019-04-20T20:55:10Z
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https://cty.jhu.edu/online/courses/world_languages/chinese_elementary_advanced_CHL8.html
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The steep rise in diagnosed depression in the United States was enabled by the use of simplistic checklists of diagnostic criteria as codified in the authoritative Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, which underwent a fundamental change in 1980 and has been revised several times since. The DSM criteria for depression disregard the traditional distinction between the sadness incident to human life and habitual, excessive melancholy. However, tradition—in particular the satiric tradition, to which Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy belongs—not only reminds us that sadness has many shapes, but by the same token cautions against the fallacies of codification as such.
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2019-04-22T12:31:08Z
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http://muse.jhu.edu/article/523643/pdf
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Adelaide United Head Coach, Marco Kurz, and Captain, Isaías, are feeling confident ahead of the Westfield FFA Cup Final 2017 against Sydney FC at Allianz Stadium on Tuesday night.
The Reds will be vying to become the first side to lift the trophy for the second time after clinching the inaugural title in 2014.
Adelaide snapped a three match losing streak in the league thanks to a last-gasp 2-1 come-from-behind win over the Central Coast Mariners on Thursday.
Kurz believes that victory was a timely confidence booster, heading into their biggest game to date this season.
“I think to feel more confidence, the win was very important,” Kurz said at the official pre-match press conference.
The South Australians accounted for three Hyundai A-League sides on route to the showpiece event and most recently prevailed 2-1 against Western Sydney Wanderers in the semi-finals.
Meanwhile, the Sky Blues reached their second consecutive Cup Final courtesy of a 5-1 rout of South Melbourne.
Kurz admitted the pressure was on Graham Arnold’s men since they are playing at home, with the German going on to state his team are the underdog.
“I think Sydney FC is a very good team, a very strong team,” he said.
“It’s the champion from last year, it’s the favourite tomorrow but it’s one game and I think in one game you have the chance as an underdog to win.
Kurz also gave no indications of his starting line-up, opting to keep his cards close to his chest.
“I think we need tomorrow a good performance from each player,” he said.
Isaías said he is fully aware of the magnitude of the clash, and believes Adelaide deserve their place in the title decider.
“This is massive, we know that it’s not easy to arrive to a final,” the Reds’ Captain said.
“But we worked really hard from the start of the pre-season, we did well to arrive here and I’m really happy with the way we are playing at the moment.
The Spaniard went on to reiterate the sentiments of his boss, insisting if Coopers Stadium hosted the Final, it would have been a capacity crowd.
“When I play football I don’t see the crowd so for me it doesn’t matter,” he said.
“I agree with him (Marco), I think that if we played in Adelaide it would be a full stadium, for sure.
“But the federation decided to play here (at Allianz Stadium) and we play here so for us it doesn’t matter.
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2019-04-22T20:39:56Z
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https://www.adelaideunited.com.au/news/westfield-ffa-cup-2017-grand-final-preview-sydvadl
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Whom Should I Collaborate With?
Yes And is a technique that is taught in improvisational acting and in communications courses.
In improv, an actor begins supplying some bit of information that helps to create the scene. They may say to another actor “Looks like we’re in for a bad storm.” This is called an offer and the other actor’s job is to accept the offer and support their scene partner. They might say “Yes and I hope that the road doesn’t flood.” The opposite of accepting the offer is blocking, for example, contradicting the offer, which stops the flow of the scene.
Use the “Yes And” method to acknowledge and accept another’s suggestion and build on it.
When Maddie and I have workshop participants take our Collaborability assessment, we frequently ask them which collaboration aspect surprised them. The most frequent answer is Pausing to allow time for reflection.
Pausing is most important when you have an instant and negative reaction to a collaborator’s suggestion.
When I notice that I have a strong negative response toward an idea, it’s a sign to me to slow down and check out what’s really going on. More often than not, I find that my reaction has more to do with me than with the idea itself.
The pause allows you to develop awareness about your own areas of resistance or automatic response. Once you’ve paused, you can ask yourself “How could this work?” or “How is that idea connected”? If you take the time to consider the merits or opportunities of an idea, it may lead to a solution that will work well.
In Barbara Frederickson’s book, Positivity, she talks about her wonderful collaboration with Marcial Losada. Building on Frederickson’s broaden-and-build theory, Losada’s mathematical model determined exact ratio of positive to negative emotions, 3-to-1, that distinguishes those who flourish from those who don’t.
Losada had an ordinary looking boardroom with walls made of one-way mirrors, video cameras, and special computers which they provided to intact business teams. Research assistants coded every single statement made by every single team member during the business meetings they observed. They tracked whether the statements were 1) positive or negative, 2) self-focused or other-focused, and 3) based on asking questions (inquiry) or defending a point of view (advocacy).
Of 60 teams that were studied, 25% met the criteria of high-performing. They achieved high scores on profitability, customer satisfaction ratings and evaluations by superiors, peers and subordinates. 30% scored low on all three business indicators and were floundering. The rest, the majority, had a mixed profile, doing well in some ways and poorly in others.
Losada also quantified a new variability called Connectivity – how much each team member influenced the behavior of the others, how attuned they were to each other.
There were huge positivity ratio differences between the different types of teams: high-performing were at about 6 to 1, mixed-performance at 2 to 1 and low performance were well below 1 to 1. High-performing teams also had higher connectivity and were equal in the balance of inquiry vs. advocacy and outward vs. inward focus. Low-performing teams were low on connectivity and showed almost no outward focus.
So how can you use this data to improve your collaborations? Comment with your ideas and check back to read some practical steps for fostering positivity and collaboration in your teams.
The last three posts explored some ways to collaborate with people to get things done. But what if you’re not ready for an ongoing commitment? And what about those pesky things that have been hanging over your head for a long time? For me, these are usually things like taxes, cleaning up and organizing physical space.
Create a Get-It-Done day. Thomas Leonard, one of the pioneers of the coaching profession, used to hold days periodically where people would check in by phone on the hour, state their goal for the next hour and then call back to report progress and set a new one-hour goal.
I’ve done this with small groups of friends to great success. It really helps you to notice when you get distracted and to focus back on your current goal. And it allows you to chunk a huge task into one-hour steps so it doesn’t seem overwhelming.
Try some of these methods and create a community of support and structure –especially if you work from home and miss the camaraderie and support of an office-mates. Collaborate and get it done!
In addition to accountability partners for procrastination-prone activities a mastermind group provides a different kind of support.
Master Mind groups are made up of about three to eight people who set a schedule to meet in person or by phone and come prepared to discuss needs and goals. Like coaching, this commitment forces you to set aside some time to work on those important but not urgent projects.
Each person reports on their individual goals, progress and sticking points. Sometimes a common goal will emerge which may lead the group to bring in a speaker or other form of information and learning.
Members brainstorm for each other. Best of all, they act as mirrors, helping each individual to acknowledge their progress and strengths as well as pointing out unproductive patterns.
I’ve found that these groups are very engaging and productive. Some of my masterminds have continued for years, some for just a few months. Even when the group has run its course, the members usually become long-time friends.
Who would you choose for a master mind group? Collaborate and get it done!
Tune in tomorrow for the last in this series for beating procrastination!
Yesterday I wrote about overcoming procrastination by collaborating with others on a joint project. You can also banish procrastination by collaborating on individual goals.
Last year, my friend Karen was in her own office writing her book for non-profit executives while I worked on my writing about collaboration. We’d start our sessions with a five-minute phone call to connect to our purpose and state our goal: “Today I’m writing this book because I want to help non-profit leaders be as effective as possible so they can accomplish their important work. I’ll be working on chapter 4.” We check back five minutes before the end of the session to report on our progress.
A few weeks ago I had a “work-date” with Natalie to stay focused on developing new material on our respective speaking topics.
Vickie has an accountability partner for making sales calls. They work for different companies selling different products but that doesn’t matter. They check in, state their goals and check back to report progress. Vickie also finds that biscotti rewards are motivating.
Marshall Goldsmith, author of What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, talks about his accountability partner for healthy habits. They check in daily to report on fitness and healthy eating goals. Those short calls help Marshall to make the effort to find a gym and exercise even when he is traveling.
What do you need support with? Collaborate and get it done!
Tune in tomorrow for a third method to beat procrastination!
Do you ever procrastinate on things that you really want to accomplish? I see that everyone has raised their hand, including me.
For the next few days, I’ll explore four ways that you can use collaboration to chase away procrastination.
One of my clients wanted to create a safety and rescue class and knew that he could do it on his own — someday. He asked a colleague to work with him. Together they created a class that was better than either of them would have created on their own, got it done more quickly, and had more fun!
It’s sad but true that most of us honor our commitments to others more than we do our commitments to ourselves. There is something about not wanting to let others down that is a powerful motivator. Plus, it’s just more fun to feel that you are not alone and that someone else is working with you. Just last night I co-facilitated a fun workshop which came together easily and better by working with my colleague Ben Wood-Isenberg.
Working together on a joint project can help it get done well before the deadline because you have to schedule the time in your respective calendars. This is what we usually think about when we talk about collaboration and it’s not the only way. Check back tomorrow for a second method.
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2019-04-22T19:12:58Z
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https://collaborationpaysoff.wordpress.com/
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bodybuilding
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Chris was beaten down and discouraged from years of missing his own expectations. The former Marine found help from an IFBB pro and pledged to transform!
I was tired of feeling like I couldn't be anything. I played tons of sports, never made the cut, and was always picked last. In 2000, I joined the Marines and served my country at home and in Iraq. The military had me in great shape, but I was young, ate like crap, and lacked knowledge. It's probably why I was never the big bad Marine like you would see in movies.
This was going to be another average year, but I decided to change my path at 29 years old. Being overweight is common in my family, so I wanted to buck the trend.
I joined up with IFBB pro William Sullivan, a.k.a The Breadman, and P28. It was the right place at the right time. The support was mind-blowing. I was accepted and guided from the start. I was motivated to feed off their success. It made me strive to be at the top and join a successful team.
My prep wasn't easy. Going from the gym to the stage is difficult, but I was focused and hungry. I wanted to finish what I started. I hit the stage on October 27, 2012, at the Shawn Ray NPC and didn't place, but I was part of second callouts.
I was foreign to training and dieting, so I went to the library and read anatomy books and got an exercise log from Bodybuilding.com. The information in the anatomy book explained how to target muscle groups and Bodybuilding.com provided the exercises. There was no magic pill or button to hit. Hard work and eating clean was the only way.
I had to make my own destiny. The success was sweet and I'm thankful for the guidance from P28. He was miles away, but was always there when I had a question. I can never pay him back for the help I received.
The most important reason for my success is God. Trust in the lord and you'll be showered with rewards of success.
Many thanks go to my family, P28, and Team Total Athlete.
Now, my son asks how strong I am. He asks if I can lift 100 pounds. I say yes, and he smiles and laughs. For a 6-year-old, he thinks 100 pounds is Hulk-like strength.
I ate seven balanced meals throughout the day depending on training.
A well-thought out plan keeps you from wasting time.
Staying focused on a diet while people around me ate whatever they wanted was hard. Prepping my meals helped a lot. It took away the margin for error. As a culinary chef, my love of food made it hard to express myself. I wanted to showcase my talent, but I had to figure out how to change the food.
I want to focus on ways to be better, but my dream is to become part of a company where my story can help and inspire others. I will take the NPC by storm soon.
Don't think your dreams can't be reality.
Set a goal with an end date.
Get an exercise log and write down everything.
Find friends with the same interests.
Most of your development happens after the gym.
Don't listen to outside opinions.
Switch up your training and listen to your body.
Have a ton of heart.
I thank Bodybuilding.com for just creating a site where I can see tons of inspiring members who strive for the same goals as me.
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2019-04-25T11:44:07Z
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https://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/body-transformation-bona-fide-transformer.html
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Sports
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Sports
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usc
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I'm a Ph.D. candidate in the Robotics Embedded Systems Laboratory (RESL) at the University of Southern California advised by Gaurav Sukhatme. My research interests are focused on systems that have to operate and adapt under sparse, noisy and incomplete information. Most relevant to robotics, this scenario requires careful leveraging of indirect sources of information to make intelligent decisions, such as priors acquired through simulation, additional sensors nontrivially measuring relevant quantities, communication with other agents, different indicators of task progression. Lately, I have been working in the areas of reinforcement and imitation learning, where I am investigating learning under sparse rewards and a sample efficient adaptation to new tasks by combining simulation, automatic task curriculum, and meta-learning. I applied my research to a variety of platforms including robotic arms, underwater vehicles, and autonomous cars. More details about my research you can find on my website.
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2019-04-23T04:08:19Z
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http://robotics.usc.edu/resl/people/58/
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Sports
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Science
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wordpress
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It’s raining, and that makes me sleepy.
Did you know you can have bronchitis and not have any signs of a cold? I didn’t. Until yesterday morning, anyways. After 3 or 4 weeks of wheezing and not being able to breathe, I was sent to the ER by Terry. Yeah, I know. I should take care of myself. Gotcha. In my defense, the not breathing and wheezing thing was only at night and in the morning, and I really thought it was just allergies.
I also didn’t know that if you bust through the ER doors and can’t breathe, and your wheezing sounds like you’re breathing and speaking through a broken kazoo, the nurse at the front desk won’t take your name and tell you to go sit in the waiting room. You go right on in. 45 minutes later, I was done with the chest x-rays and onto the nebulizer. Ah, sweet nebulizer. Made me feel like I had guzzled about 27 redbulls and 4 pots of coffee, but I could BREATHE again. Little while later, Doc came back in, told me my x-rays were clear, and I had bronchitis.
Off I went to drop off my prescriptions for steroids (there goes my Olympic career) and an inhaler. Breathing is nice. Really nice.
By the way, this inhaler is super cool. It has a little countdown-to-empty thingie that goes down with every puff. The little thing that covers the mouth piece is connected, so I can’t lose it. I feel like Daisy, the Super Nerd. It’s the lttle things, eh? I’m also doing the Queen Bee (my great-grandmother, remember?) thing, and conserving my inhaler. 2 puffs 4 times a day? No, no, my friends. 2 puffs 2 times a day, max. Make it last!
Please send me some pocket protectors and suspenders, ok?
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2019-04-20T04:55:44Z
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https://daisyandviolet.wordpress.com/category/daisys-posts/
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Sports
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Health
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si
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A Friedrich von Martens panoramic silver albumen print ca. 1844-1856. The Louvre from across the River Seine. On the street in front of the museum there is a line of early automobiles. In the left hand corner there is a building with ornate pillars. In the distance The Arc de Triomphe can be seen. On the river there are some small boats and further down a barge can be seen adorned with an advertisment "Ecole De Natation Du Louvre Pour Hommes Entree .50."
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2019-04-18T15:05:44Z
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https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1029117
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Sports
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Arts
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wordpress
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The lone wolf… I want to get this out of the way because I think the concept of the lone wolf is not a helpful one when it comes to this card. We have this idea of a rebellious, angst ridden loner but in reality wolves are social animals. A lone wolf may arise when an adult male challenges the leader of the pack and the loser is then pushed out.
The reality of this solitary existence is tough. It is much harder for a single wolf to hunt and to survive. For example, one on one a male elk would have the advantage; the wolf needs his pack to make this kill. Lone wolves are most likely to be looking for a new pack, the place they fit in, a tribe of other wolves who understand them. Have you found your clan yet?
On the subject of packs, wolf packs consist of an alpha male, an alpha female and other wolves who all have a defined place in the team. This means that when they are hunting, they can carry out highly coordinated and successful teamwork. These loyal animals have a strong sense of brotherhood (or sisterhood) which helps the wolves survive and are much more nurturing than some stories would have you believe.
What can you do for your own tribe? Where do you fit in your tribe?
A lot of how we see wolves comes from our historic relationship with them as hunters. In some countries they are feared and seen as creatures of evil because they kill livestock. In other countries they are revered. For example in Japan, the wolf has been worshipped because it kills the deer which eat the crops. How you feel about the wolf depends on where you’re standing.
One of the many things I love about nature is the symbiotic and mutually helpful relationships that have evolved. The wolf is no exception, working with the raven to find prey. Flying overhead, the raven can spot prey that the wolf can’t and led the wolves to the food. In return, they get a share of the kill. There is no raven in the Wild Unknown Animal Spirit Deck but once I’ve made it through all the creatures, I may do a post about them as I think getting to know coexisting species adds to our understanding.
Wolves are in their prime during the colder months, utilising the weakness of other species during winter to bring them down more easily. As cubs, they play with each other to fine tune their hunting skills, this also serves to help strengthens the bonds between the pack. Their success as predators comes down to the combination of intelligence and their instinct. They listen to their gut and act, fast. They can’t sit around thinking and umm-ing and arr-ing and doubting themselves, they have to trust the feeling and go for it.
When it comes to communication, wolves are excellent. They have their well known howls which can be used to share messages with the pack as well as to mark their territory. This is very important for this highly territorial creature who will defend their space if it is encroached on. In terms of our own lives, most of us have very clearly marked physical territory – our home, our car, our desk at work – and these are generally not threatened. But what of our beliefs and our values? This seems particularly crucial right now given the world’s political situation. How are you standing up for your beliefs? For your values? When it comes to defending your territory, there is safety in a pack and strength in numbers, have you found yours?
We have this iconic image of the wolf howling at the moon. In terms of symbology, the moon is linked with our unconscious self, with mystery, with the shadows. To howl at the moon is going beyond glancing at the unknown, beyond saying hi to it and is full on shouting here I am, I see you and I’m not afraid of you. This echoes the strength, bravery and boldness of the wolf.
At the other end of the scale is silent communication through body language, essential if you’re trying to stalk prey! They also communicate through their sense of smell. Again, this is used to mark territory as well as communicate social position and as a signal that a female is ready to breed*. How are you communicating? What is your body saying that your mouth is not? Are you listening to what others are saying or are you too busy thinking of a reply to really hear them?
I couldn’t figure out whether he said read or bred but both make sense, with “read” invoking a sense of mystery which surrounds the wolves. This unknown element of the wolf is probably heightened by their preference to avoid humans. In areas where wolves venture into human worlds, its generally because their own habitat has been encroached on.
If he said bred, that also makes sense – despite domesticating dogs, we haven’t been able to tame wolves. They remain wild and a symbol of the wilderness. Something which sometimes scares us, partly as it is unknown but perhaps because there is something uncontrollable about it. Something untameable. And yet, the wolf has tamed it, or at least found a way to live in this environment. I watched a great video about the wolf which unfortunately I can’t find and it talked of the contradiction between the wildness of the wolf and the order and organised nature of its pack. It can be hard to see how structure and the chaos of the wilderness can work together but the wolf shows us that not only is it possible, it’s advantageous. Without their pack system, the wolf would not survive in this habitat.
Like the fox, these enigmas have been associated with shapeshifters in folklore and it is possibly this which has led to the idea of the werewolf. In turn, this concept further enhances the idea of wolves as terrifying and dangerous.
Personally, I think this noble, loyal creature has had a bit of a PR nightmare and we should look past this to see it for what it truly is; an intelligent, highly skilled communicator with a dedication to family.
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2019-04-26T09:50:55Z
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https://unlockingwords.wordpress.com/2017/01/29/wolf-wild-unknown-animal-spirit-deck/
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go
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Yes, there are various photo opportunities for you to enjoy throughout the parks and at dining experiences.
When we were at Donald's Dining Safari Breakfast at Tusker House we had our picture taken with Donald right before we went in to eat breakfast. Then they came around with the picture package to each table. Since my camera was not functioning properly when we were having our picture taken, I didn't get a good family shot with Donald so I purchased the package. When it arrived there was a slip that the cast member told me I could take to any of the PhotoPass Photographers and have them scan the slip to add the picture to my PhotoPass card.
So yes, you will need to purchase the package at the restaurant. Certain other experiences like Cinderella's Royal table include the picture package with the price of your meal. I hope this information helps you with your planning and if you have more questions, please ask away, we are always here to help! Have a Magical Time at the Walt Disney World Resort! Thanks so much for asking the Moms Panel!
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2019-04-26T12:37:06Z
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https://disneyparksmomspanel.disney.go.com/question/heard-photo-opps-parkfor-ex-chef-mickey-heard-pic-taken-153121/
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Sports
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Recreation
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yahoo
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — President Barack Obama is carrying out a presidential duty that he hasn't had a lot of opportunity to perform recently: signing into law a major piece of bipartisan legislation.
Obama planned to sign a far-reaching farm bill Friday at Michigan State University, choosing middle America for a rare celebration of Washington political compromise. The bill expands federal crop insurance and ends direct government payments that go to farmers whether they produce anything or not. But the bulk of its $100 billion per year cost is for the food stamp program that aids 1 in 7 Americans.
The White House said Obama would squeeze into his three-hour visit a lunch with Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who took office last month. The city is going through the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. They will be joined by Obama's point person on Detroit, Don Graves, senior adviser to the president's National Economic Council.
Obama has said the farm bill isn't perfect but will reduce the deficit "without gutting the vital assistance programs millions of hardworking Americans count on to help put food on the table for their families."
The five-year bill cuts food stamps by $800 million a year, or around 1 percent. That is one-fifth of the cut approved last fall by the Republican-led House. Conservatives remain unhappy with the bill and its generous new subsidies for farmers in every region of the country, including Southern peanut growers, Midwest corn farmers and the Northeast maple syrup industry.
A partisan dispute over food stamp spending held up the legislation for two years, and last fall, lawmakers were warning of an impending spike in milk prices without a deal on the bill, which contains federal dairy supports. The prospect of compromise seemed bleak at the time, when lawmakers couldn't even pass a budget to keep the government running.
The first thing Obama did after a deal finally was reached to end the partial government shutdown was to call on Congress to pass the farm bill, along with a budget and an immigration overhaul. In four months, he's gone 2 for 3, with chances for achieving immigration legislation appearing increasingly iffy.
Obama promised in his State of the Union address last week to make 2014 a year of action, using his presidential powers besides pushing a Congress that usually is reluctant to go along with his ideas. In that spirit, he's coupling the signing of the farm bill with a new administration initiative to boost exports called "Made in Rural America."
According to a draft of the initiative, Obama will direct his administration to work on connecting rural businesses with federal resources that can help sell their products and services abroad. The steps he's directing agencies to take include hosting five regional forums for rural businesses, training Agriculture Department staff in all 50 states to advise on export opportunities and putting on a national conference to highlight successful projects.
The program's creation comes as U.S. farmers are sending record exports overseas, more than $140 billion in the past year, driven in large part by increasing demand from China. But administration officials say additional opportunities exist for farmers and other rural business owners.
Obama's trip is a reward for Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., who as chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee helped broker the hard-fought farm bill compromise after years of setbacks. Michigan State, a leading agricultural research school, is Stabenow's alma mater.
But while the bill was passed with bipartisan support, that spirit did not extend to the signing ceremony. Stabenow and other Democratic lawmakers traveled with Obama aboard Air Force One. Republican lawmakers turned down similar invitations, White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
Before the bill signing at the university's equine performance center, Obama plans to visit Michigan Biotechnology Institute for a look at research to benefit rural communities.
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2019-04-23T14:03:38Z
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https://news.yahoo.com/obama-signing-farm-bill-trims-food-stamps-083911675.html
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Sports
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Business
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stanford
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[ Regulatory & Policy ] as a Foundational Course : An understanding of tax principles is essential for employee benefits lawyers. Understanding the tax laws related to partnerships can be useful when working with clients whose assets include income from a partnership. This course examines the tax consequences of operating in partnership form.
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2019-04-19T16:52:47Z
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http://slsnavigator.law.stanford.edu/node/2275/237,83/?item=10&track=10579&course_type=49
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Sports
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Business
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washcoll
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I believe that most of us Americans have been victims of bullying and/or some form of abuse at some time in our lives. As a former counselor and therapist, I worked with and tried to help many victims of everyday bullying, as well as various other forms of abuse.
This question prompted many people to finally make some serious changes in their lives and to walk away from and leave their abusers.
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2019-04-22T18:23:07Z
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http://elm.washcoll.edu/index.php/2018/03/letter-to-the-editor-on-domestic-violence/
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Sports
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Reference
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wordpress
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For the last week of May with the Sassyscrappers design team, I found myself creating with the ‘Hello Gorgeous’ collection by My Minds Eye again.
This time I decided to create a very simple, yet sweet flip book for sending mail in.
Lately I have loved adding layer upon layer, fussy cutting and using foam tape to raise and add interest to my projects.
From side on you can see the effect of this! I also added some gold,metallic string as a background feature.
Inside was again very simple…..
The pocket on the inside cover would be ideal for storing your letter or cards in.Whilst the right side lifts up to reveal a cute little pocket….
I add some detail stitching (very carefully) with my sewing machine.
I love that less is often more with details.This wasn’t an overly embellished little booklet but I still think it would be lovely to receive.
Thanks for reading today.I’m excited for what projects are created in June!
Hello Gorgeous by My Minds Eye.
Today I have been making my way through my outgoing mail to penfriends and I thought I’d share this simple little folder I made as some inspiration for you.
I chose a classical theme using hues of pink,black and silver.I had a very ‘Tre Chic’ visual in my mind.Using polka dots and florals, layering flowers and silver glitter string as backing I was really happy how the front cover came out.
On the inside featured a pocket on each side.Perfect for putting your letter or cards,tags etc into.Again I stuck with classical theme in the same hues.Added little details such a string and a diamonte border helped to finish off this project and add interest to the eye.
I added a polka dot flair,(made easily from a cupcake liner!), and more fussy cut blooms to the next page.Little word stickers,co-ordinating flags and string backing completed the overall design!
Before I show you how I made it, here is the finished result!
The first thing I did was fold a 12 x 12 sheet of paper in half and cut to the desired size.Then I took to fussy cutting some flowers and leaves.I really loved these blooms!
Next I cut varying designs of paper into random sized squares and rectangles ,making sure they weren’t too large!
I then began the process of gradually layering these pieces together for the front of the card.I did this in sections, and gradually with each few layers added, I started raising them by using foam tape.
Eventually once I was happy with the effect it looked like this.
You can see by raising the layers of paper with foam tape, it gives the effect of dimension.Then I started to position the flowers, leaves and other diecuts in and around the layers of paper stacked.Some of these pieces I also used foam tape to raise them off the base as well.You can really see it taking shape now!
Some detailed border lines with a fine tip marker…..
And some flicks of white mist paint………and YES! I got it everywhere but where I wanted it the first few goes…..You are not alone friends.
I loved this project as it is a great way for using up some of your little off cuts of paper.If you are like me you have PLENTY of those stored away!
I hope you enjoyed my little project today!
One of the fun collections I worked with this month for Sassyscrappers was the ‘Hello Gorgeous’ range by My Minds Eye Such a pretty collection full of florals and a hint of vintage theme.Vintage isn’t normally my style but its fun to work outside your comfort zone right??
Lately I’ve had a lot of fun creating memory books as a keepsake gift. This book I made is smaller than some I’ve made but still holds lots of detail.
I love the soft added touches of glitter on some of the stickers and ephemera.
Inside the front cover I added a deep pocket.Perfect for storing tags,photos,cards etc.
The next page featured room for a little keepsake photo and a pocket for a gift tag.But you could also store concert tickets etc as a keepsake.
One element I love with this style of book is the accordion or dual fold pages.It can fold two ways.On the back flip side of things I added some cute die cuts and a pocket, to centre around a tea party theme.A delicious flavoured tea bag can be slid into the pocket.
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2019-04-25T06:02:19Z
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https://papersweetpea.wordpress.com/2016/05/
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Sports
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Reference
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google
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Youngchul Sung received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea in 1993 and 1995, respectively. After working at LG Information and Communications, Ltd. as a senior research engineer from 1995 to 2000, he joined the Ph.D. program and received Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering with Applied Mathematics as minor from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA in 2005. From 2005 until 2007, he was a senior engineer in the Corporate R & D Center of Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA and participated in design of Qualcomm’s 3GPP R6 WCDMA base station modem. Since 2007 he has been on the faculty of the School of Electrical Engineering in KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea.
Dr. Sung’s research interests include signal processing for communications, statistical signal processing and inference, and asymptotic statistics with applications to wireless communications and related areas. Dr. Sung is currently a senior member of IEEE, chair of IEEE Communications Society, Asia Pacific Board (IEEE ComSoc APB), Chapters Coordination Committee (CCC). Dr. Sung is member of technical committees: IEEE Communications Society, Signal Processing and Communications Electronics (IEEE ComSoc SPCE) Technical Committee, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA), Signal and Information Processing Theory and Methods (SIPTM) Technical Committee. Dr. Sung is currently an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing since Sep. 2017, and served as an associate editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters from 2012 to 2014 and as a guest editor of the 2012 IEEE JSAC special issue “Theories and Methods for Advanced Wireless Relays”.
1995 - 2000, Code-Division Multiple Access (CDMA) at LG Information and Communications, Ltd.
2019.02, Samsung Humantech Paper Award Co-authored with W. Kim et al.
2018.08, Championship, The 1st AI Soccer Worldcup with Students W. Kim et al.
2018.03, Championship, The 1st KAIST Intramural AI Soccer Competition with Students W. Kim et al.
2017.12, Second Prize, The 1st AI Soccer Korean Cup with Students W. Kim et al.
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2019-04-19T04:48:46Z
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https://sites.google.com/view/youngchulsung
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Sports
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Sports
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wordpress
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Recently while working with one of the requirement, I needed to add a content editor web part on Allitems.aspx page, I completed the requirement with adding the CE web part on the page but later testing team reported that the top level ‘list tools’ section is not appearing.
After some analysis I found the issue is nothing but default behavior, while allitems.aspx page is unmodified SharePoint knows that list tools section should be shown always and for the same list or library, when we add some other web part like content editor web part the SharePoint actually not able to understand where the focus currently on i.e. on Allitems web part or on the new web part we added.
If customer is fine we can ask customer to click on the List Views web part, then customer will be able to see the list tools directly.
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2019-04-23T07:08:38Z
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https://prasadpathak.wordpress.com/category/microsoft-sharepoint/sharepoint2013/
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Sports
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Reference
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weebly
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Do I have to buy anything else in order to watch live sports on my computer?
No. All that you need is our software and an internet connection.
Are there any recurring payments?
No. There are no monthly subscription payments or any other recurring payments.
What do I get if I purchase your product?
As soon as your payment has been processed, you will receive our full service. Just install the software and follow the instructions to start the broadcasts.
Is this service only available in North America?
No. Our service can be accessed from any PC in the world.
How many stations are included in the package?
Our software package comes with over 3000 Stations (News, Movies, Sports, Music, Clips, Radio, etc.) from all over the world including local, regional and international broadcasts.
When will I receive my software?
Once your order has been received you will immediately receive the software. With one simple download, you will be able to enjoy Live Sports directly to your PC.
Turn your PC into a complete Sports Entertainment Center. Only an Internet connection is required. No hardware to install. No hacking or signal stealing. 100% legal. And the best part is that once you have bought the software, you have nothing else to pay. Ever!
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2019-04-24T04:17:34Z
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http://watch-live-tv-online-sports.weebly.com/watch-live-sports-on-your-computer.html
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Sports
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Sports
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wordpress
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This new 340-page report contains 36 tables, and provides a comprehensive analysis of the POC lipid testing market, including trends, dynamics, size, growth, regulatory requirements, technological trends, competitive landscape, and emerging opportunities for instrument and consumable suppliers. This report will help diagnostic product suppliers develop effective business, R&D and marketing strategies for the global POC lipid testing market.
and new products in R&D.
– Design criteria for POC testing products.
– Alternative business expansion strategies.
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2019-04-25T13:45:12Z
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https://anjalikalan.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/lipid-testing-pocpoint-of-care-market-future-horizons-and-growth-strategies-2017/
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Sports
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Business
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dreamhost
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Using the same credentials, I get in just fine with phpMyAdmin.
Login to the DreamHost Web Panel and go to Goodies -> MySQL Databases. Click on the username you are trying to log in as. You need to update the ‘Allowable Hosts’ option.
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2019-04-23T03:04:58Z
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https://discussion.dreamhost.com/t/remote-mysql-login/51707
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Sports
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Reference
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google
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This one free tool can revolutionize the way educators and students collaborate. Google Docs is an online office suite that allows you to create, edit, share, and publish documents, including spreadsheets and presentations. Real time collaboration is easy with simultaneous editing, comments (with discussion features), and a sidebar chat. Learn strategies for creating common assessments, sharing best practices, and capturing the conversation - even between meetings. Google Docs can even be used for data collection and analysis. Come learn the newest tips and tricks that educators and students can use right away.
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2019-04-19T00:21:48Z
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https://sites.google.com/a/gafesummit.com/nc/program/google-docs-for-educators-the-core-magic-and-inspiring-ideas
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Sports
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Business
| 0.447604 |
olemiss
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Specific standard assurances are required by many federal funding agencies. In signing and submitting a proposal, the Vice Chancellor for Research and Sponsored Programs must certify The University of Mississippi's compliance with federal requirements regarding lobbying; debarment, suspension and other responsibility matters; and drug-free workplace provisions. Most often, sponsors supply the institutional certification and assurance forms required as a part of the application package.
submission of Standard Form-LLL Disclosure Form to Report Lobbying if non-federal funds are used to pay any person for influencing or attempting to influence a federal employee in connection with the appropriation of federal funds.
have not within a three-year period preceding an application had one or more public transactions terminated for cause or default.
All grants or contracts made by a federal agency require that the applicant assure the federal government that work on the sponsored program will occur in a drug-free workplace. As part of the certification process, The University of Mississippi developed a drug-free workplace policy which applies to all personnel engaged in the performance of a grant or contract funded by a federal agency. The policy also applies students paid from funds acquired directly from a federal agency.
any employee convicted of a drug violation occurring in the workplace is required to notify his/her immediate supervisor no later than five days after the conviction.
The policy outlines the sanctions which may be taken if an employee violates the policy. Such sanctions may include termination of employment, satisfactory completion of a rehabilitation program, or suspension.
Employees paid from funds granted from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) are subject to the requirements of the more comprehensive regulations of the DOD Drug-Free Workforce Rule of 1988. This rule prohibits the use of controlled substances both on and off duty. For employees paid from DOD funds, UM also reserves the right to identify illegal drug users, through drug testing on a controlled and carefully monitored basis or other appropriate means. UM also requires supervisors to discuss this policy with all employees working on DOD-funded contracts and grants.
The University of Mississippi Drug Free Workplace and Workforce Policy is found in the online UM Policy Directory.
Note: All PIs/PDs must obtain a copy of the policy and inform their employees and contractors of its mandates as a requirement of administering any federally sponsored program.
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2019-04-20T06:51:11Z
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https://research.olemiss.edu/spa/manual/chapter/8/section/6
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Sports
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Reference
| 0.493477 |
dartmouth
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Welcome to the website for the laboratory portion of General Chemistry (Chemistry 5 and Chemistry 6) at Dartmouth College. This 2 quarter sequence of courses is designed to introduce the fundamental principles of chemistry, including chemical stoichiometry; the properties of gases, liquids, and solids; solutions; chemical equilibria; atomic and molecular structure; an introduction to thermodynamics; reaction kinetics; and a discussion of the chemical properties of selected elements. The laboratory portion of the course provides hands-on experience in the laboratory setting and is designed to provide practical applications for many of the concepts and chemical principles learned in class. Additionally, through presentations and at least one lab students are introduced to current topics in Chemistry research taking place both specifically in the Dartmouth College Chemistry department and elsewhere.
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2019-04-21T08:47:36Z
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https://sites.dartmouth.edu/genchemlab/
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Sports
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Science
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scotsman
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Warren Shute: Are you caught in an endowment trap?
Interest-only mortgages – AKA endowment mortgages – have been in the news and many people have contacted me for help asking what they should do now that their mortgage is due up and they still owe in excess of £100,000.
The Financial Conduct Authority released a notice about their concerns on this subject at the beginning of this year because 2018 shows a peak in the number of mortgages coming due, especially interest-only mortgages. There are further peaks due in 2027 and 2032.
We’re talking big numbers here: 1.67 million interest-only or part-interest mortgages are in the marketplace at the moment, which represents nearly 20 per cent of all outstanding mortgages in this country. If this doesn’t affect you, it’s likely to affect some of your friends and family. So how should you handle the situation in advance of the end of your term?
Interest-only mortgages were popular before 2007 and the financial crash, with people looking for more affordable repayments and thinking that house prices were always going to keep going up.
An interest-only mortgage is one where you pay only the interest and not the mortgage balance itself. Let’s say you have a £100,000 mortgage charged at 5 per cent annual interest, at the end of the year you’ll have paid £5,000 but you still owe the £100,000; fast-forward 25 years and you still owe that £100,000.
If you’ve got one of these mortgages, your biggest concern is: how are you going to pay your mortgage back? Don’t panic, just make sure you have a strategy in place – here are your options.
Step 2 of my book The Money Plan is to get financially organised, by knowing what you’ve got: your assets and liabilities, your income and expenditure. What assets do you have that you can offset against your final capital payment? And is your original strategy still the right one?
Whatever your strategy when you took the mortgage, you should re-evaluate it now. Why? As a rule of thumb, if you have an endowment policy or ISA that was put in place to repay the mortgage at the end of your term, it’s probably advantageous to cash in now instead and pay off some of the balance. At the same time, you should switch over to a repayment mortgage that will see your loan completely cleared at the end of its remaining term.
An important note to remember: if you’ve had a policy running for less than ten years then check for any tax liability or surrender charges before you cash it in; if in doubt, seek professional advice first.
Doing this is probably your cheapest long-term option. You’ll have a smaller remaining balance, though you’ll also have higher monthly payments. If you find the new premiums too high, ask if you can extend the term and push it out a little longer. Bear in mind not to go too far into the future – don’t extend debt past your retirement date.
If the new monthly repayments are still too expensive then it may be necessary to leave some of the mortgage on interest-only – but remember that money will still be owed at the end of your term, don’t bury your head in the sand. Try to chip away at it along the way if you get bonuses, commissions or other extra cash.
If your repayment vehicle is on track and you’re happy with it, then you might choose to maintain your current status quo on the understanding that your strategy will cover your final lump sum payment. But do keep an eye on it and keep it under regular review, this is a higher risk approach. You need to be comfortable taking that element of risk.
Option 3: Switch and maintain!
If you can afford to switch the interest-only mortgage to a repayment one over the remaining term, plus keep your savings vehicle going, then that will give you a nice addition to any retirement funding or plans you have. But for many, switching AND continuing the investment vehicle will be expensive and unaffordable.
What you might have to do at the end of the term (or even before it so that you’re not under pressure) is to sell your property. Downsizing might have always been part of your strategy, or it might be something forced upon you by your finances.
Either way, if you cash in your investment vehicle now and pay off some of your mortgage, then when it’s time to downsize you’ll have lots of equity, potentially enough to buy a smaller property and have some money left over.
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Diego Rivera is the Mexican artist best known for his expansive and politically-charged murals, and for his love affair with artist Frida Kahlo. Diego Rivera studied painting in Mexico before going to Europe in 1907. While in Europe he took up cubism and had exhibitions in Paris and Madrid in 1913; he then had a show in New York City in 1916. In 1921 he returned to Mexico, where he undertook government-sponsored murals that reflected his communist politics in historical contexts. He married Frida Kahlo in 1929, and their tempestuous marriage got to be just as famous as their art. Rivera worked in the United States and Mexico in the 1930s and '40s, and many of his paintings drew controversy. His 1933 mural for the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan featured a portrait of Communist Party leader V.I. Lenin; the resulting uproar led to his dismissal and to the mural's official destruction in 1934. Similarly, a 1948 mural for the Hotel de Prado in Mexico that included the words "God does not exist" was covered and held from public view for nine years. Even so, Diego Rivera's talent for historical murals and his tributes to earthy folk traditions made him one of the most influential artists in the Americas and one of Mexico's most beloved painters.
One of his most famous works is a tribute to workers in Detroit, Michigan, commissioned in 1932 by Henry Ford… Diego Rivera was born a twin, but his brother, Carlos María, died before he turned two… Never very faithful romantically, Diego Rivera was married four times to three different women: to Guadalupe Marin (1922-27), to Kahlo (1929-39, then again from 1940 until her death in 1954), and to art dealer Emma Hurtado (from 1955 until his death in 1957). He also lived with the artist Angelina Beloff for many years in Paris, and she is sometimes counted among his spouses as a common-law wife… Diego Rivera was honored with a Google Doodle on December 8th, 2011 — the 125th anniversary of his birth.
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In announcing the decision to cancel the holiday debut, Sony hit back at the hackers who threatened movie theaters and moviegoers and who have terrorized the studio and its employees for weeks.
“Those who attacked us stole our intellectual property, private emails, and sensitive and proprietary material, and sought to destroy our spirit and our morale – all apparently to thwart the release of a movie they did not like,” the statement reads.
The studio did not say it would never release the picture theatrically. Insiders tell Variety Sony is exploring all options, including offering the picture on premium video-on-demand as a way to recoup at least some of its investment.
The comedy centers on a hapless television host who is recruited to assassinate North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. The country has condemned the film and some cyber security experts believe that it played a role in the hack attack on the studio. North Korea has denied involvement in the attacks.
Seth Rogen and James Franco star in the picture, which cost $42 million to produce.
In response, exhibition industry lobbying arm the National Association of Theatre Owners said its members must decide individually whether or not to release the picture and Sony said it would respect theater owners’ decision not to exhibit “The Interview.” That set off a cascade of cancellations.
The bulk of the country’s ten largest theater chains — a group that includes AMC, Regal, Cinemark, Carmike and Southern Theatres — announced they would delay showing the picture or would drop it altogether. In statements, many of the theater chains suggested that Sony’s lack of confidence in the film prompted their decision.
“We respect and understand our partners’ decision and, of course, completely share their paramount interest in the safety of employees and theater-goers,” the studio’s statement read.
Bruce Nash, founder of the box office site TheNumbers, said that Christmas is one of the busiest times of year for moviegoing and is particularly strong for family films. Any perceived danger or threat might have depressed ticket sales.
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The following is a sampling of CPI’s research initiatives. More information about our research activities is available on individual research group pages.
Intergenerational elasticities in the U.S.
The “absolute mobility” of the poor: In a project undertaken by Raj Chetty, David Grusky, Max Hell, Nathan Hendren, Robert Manduca, and Jimmy Narang, new evidence on trends in the amount of absolute mobility in the U.S. is provided by combining de-identified tax returns, decennial Census data, and CPS data. Among poor parents, there is much ethnographic evidence suggesting that they care deeply whether their children will exceed their own (very low) standard of living, but surprisingly we don’t know whether these aspirations for their children are frequently realized. What fraction of poor children grow up to earn more than their parents? Have rates of absolute upward mobility changed over time? This project, which develops a new method of estimating rates of upward mobility for the 1940-1984 birth cohorts, will tell us whether rates of mobility out of poverty are mainly affected by policies that change rates of relative mobility, policies that increase aggregate growth rates, or policies that reduce inequality.
The American Opportunity Study: This Social Mobility research group is developing a new administrative infrastructure for monitoring mobility and evaluating programs and policies. The American Opportunity Study (AOS) is an initiative that entails (a) linking individual records across the 1960-2010 decennial censuses and the 2008-2015 American Community Surveys (ACS), (b) appending further information to these linked records from other administrative sources, (c) making intergenerational matches between parents and children within the resulting AOS, and (d) linking to other surveys that are large enough, have individual identifiers, and for which consent to link has been obtained. This approach, which is being led by the U.S. Census Bureau, will yield a low-cost intergenerational panel based entirely on existing data. It will provide the U.S. with the capacity to monitor longitudinal processes and allow for evidence-informed policy on mobility, opportunity, and other labor market outcomes.
Arrests, race, and poverty: It is well established that a criminal record reduces the chances of employment and that blacks are more likely than whites to have a criminal record. These effects are very large: That is, there is a large effect of a criminal record on employment, and there is likewise a large effect of race on the chances of having a record. It follows that the race gap in employment could be reduced substantially by eliminating the race gap in the likelihood of having a record. How, then, might that latter gap be reduced? In a project led by Stephen Raphael, it’s hypothesized that the gap is partly attributable to racial differences in the process of converting an arrest into a record. This hypothesis can be assessed by linking the Multiple Arrest and Citations Registry (i.e., microlevel records of arrests) with the Automated Criminal History System (i.e., microlevel records of criminal booking). The former data reveal many more interactions with law enforcement than are ultimately converted into an official criminal record. For example, some arrests result in a citation or are resolved informally, with the implication that they don’t generate a criminal record. Are blacks more likely than whites to be booked after an arrest (even after taking into account the possibly different circumstances behind the arrests)? If so, it suggests that “booking reform” could reduce the race gap in criminal records (and hence the race gap in poverty), all at a very low cost. Because there are many domains, in addition to employment, in which criminal histories may be relevant (e.g., access to housing), the effects of this reform could be substantial.
The biological mechanisms of disadvantage: The disadvantages that arise from prenatal and postnatal exposure to poverty partly arise from biological processes. When children are raised in poverty, they are exposed to stress that then alters their biological development and influences their health, learning, and behavior over the life course. This biological embedding may arise, in part, because children exposed to poverty-induced stress experience epigenetic changes. Do these epigenetic changes affect health? And is DNA methylation, a stable yet sensitive epigenetic mechanism, an important source of elevated risks of chronic disease for those exposed to poverty and its associated stresses? Using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), David Rehkopf is addressing these two questions as an entry point into the growing debate over just how important such epigenetic processes are. If indeed Rehkopf finds that DNA methylation is playing a large role in explaining the effects of poverty-induced stress, it will be an important development in identifying how poverty “gets under the skin” and creates lasting disadvantage.
California Poverty Project: Although both the SPM and OPM are regularly used to characterize poverty at the national level, neither is well suited for the purpose of assessing (a) how poverty is changing at the state or local levels, (b) whether existing state or local policies are making much headway in reducing poverty, and (c) the extent to which new state or local proposals and initiatives would reduce poverty. The U.S. is accordingly in the untenable position of having committed itself to a decentralized policy regime without also having the capacity to measure child and adult poverty at the level at which policy is being developed and policy “experiments" are being undertaken. We have therefore built an SPM-style poverty measure, dubbed the California Poverty Measure (CPM), in California. In collaboration with the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), we have so far issued two years of CPM data, and we are currently exploring ways to upgrade the CPM by taking advantage of the California Longitudinal Administrative Database (CLAD). The new CPM will make it possible to better assist California legislators and other policymakers in designing poverty policy.
California Welfare Laboratory: The Safety Net research group, in collaboration with Charles Varner and Pablo Mitnik, is responsible for building and maintaining the California Welfare Laboratory. The threefold purpose of the California Welfare Laboratory is (1) to inform the public, policymakers, and practitioners about research on poverty and the safety net in California, (2) to provide recent trend data on poverty, inequality, and safety net use in California; and (3) to monitor and evaluate recent developments in poverty and the safety net in California. The mission of the laboratory is to make research on California’s welfare programs accessible to all and thus facilitate an informed discussion of what is working and what needs to be improved.
Colleges and rising income inequality: The ongoing increase in income inequality has led to new worries that (a) children from poor families are finding it difficult to beat out children from well-off families in the competition for admission to desirable colleges, and (b) the colleges that poor children do end up attending may not be delivering much in the way of labor market and poverty-protecting returns. These two worries are being addressed in a project carried out by Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, and Danny Yagan. The analysis, again based on de-identified tax data, will reveal where students from rich and poor families attend college, which colleges project poorer students into the upper part of the income distribution, and what explains the substantial variation in outcomes across similarly-ranked colleges. The researchers will characterize each college’s contribution to upward mobility by constructing a “Mobility Report Card” that conveys the joint distribution of parent and student incomes for every Title IV institution in the United States.
Deep poverty and TANF add-ons: The CPI is actively involved in research examining the effects of various types of TANF supplements. For example, David Grusky, Jonathan Fisher, and Charles Varner are carrying out a project on TANF “add-ons,” where these refer to the additional programs that California nonprofit organizations use to supplement TANF programming. Because of California’s very heterogeneous TANF landscape, the State is implicitly running dozens of natural experiments on TANF add-on policy, yet these experiments are not typically rigorously evaluated. The researchers will conduct quasi-experimental evaluations to evaluate add-on programs and assemble high-quality evidence on how TANF could be reformed to reduce rates of deep poverty.
Differential EITC effects: In collaboration with David Figlio, Krzysiek Karbownik, and David Simon, Hilary Hoynes is examining how the effects of the EITC on a child’s cognitive development may differ by age of exposure. Although in principle the EITC, as a pure earnings subsidy, affords an attractive test of the early-intervention hypothesis, analyses to date haven’t been able to determine when an additional increment of EITC matters the most for children. By matching vital statistics data to administrative data for school children born in Florida between 1992 and 2002, it becomes possible to ascertain birth date, birth place, mother’s demographic characteristics, birth order, test scores (for grades 3 to 8), and behavioral outcomes (suspensions, absence rate) for approximately two million children. The resulting research design will exploit variation in the generosity of the federal EITC to examine the effects of contemporaneous exposure to the EITC, the effects of longer term cumulative exposure, and the differential effects by age of exposure.
Disability and poverty: The federal government provides income protection to individuals with disabilities via the Social Security Disability Insurance program (SSDI), the Supplemental Security Income program (SSI), and the Disability Compensation program (DC) for veterans. In 2014, approximately 17 million disabled adults were enrolled in at least one of these programs, with benefits totaling approximately $250 billion. These disability programs are thus very large and are accordingly a major part of the country’s effort to reduce deep poverty. In evaluating their effectiveness, it is important to determine whether the low employment rates among program recipients reflects an underlying (low) capacity for employment, as opposed to the labor-supply effects of the programs themselves. Although there is much research on this question, it has been difficult to estimate the labor-supply effect of SSDI and SSI because the eligibility rules and benefit formulas are uniform nationally. In an ongoing research program, the leader of CPI’s safety net research group, Mark Duggan, is exploiting a change in medical eligibility criteria for the DC program (i.e., adding diabetes for “in-theater” veterans to a list of covered conditions), a change that allows him and his coauthors to identify the labor supply effects of disability programs (by comparing in-theater and not-in-theater veterans). The initial analyses, carried out by combining administrative data from the U.S. Army, the Department of Veteran Affairs, and the Social Security Administration, indicate that benefits receipt reduced labor force participation by 18 percentage points, even as net-of-transfer income rose. These results are now being supplemented with additional analyses exploring a wider range of outcomes (e.g., self-employment, spousal labor supply) and longer-run employment effects. The results will speak to whether modifications that reduce any undesirable labor-supply effects should be considered.
Distributional National Accounts: In an ambitious infrastructural project, Emmanuel Saez and his team are building a “Distributional National Accounts” based on tax returns, a new data set that will eliminate the current gap between (a) national accounts data based on economic aggregates and (b) inequality analysis that uses micro-level tax data to examine the distribution of income but is not consistent with national aggregates. When this integrated micro-level system is assembled (using micro-level tax data available as early as 1962), it will be possible to understand long-term trends in the relationship between overall growth and the distribution of that growth. The resulting data set will include (a) individual and family pre-tax and post-tax income, (b) wealth estimated using the Saez-Zucman capitalization method, and (c) imputed cash transfers and all in-kind transfers and public goods. It will thus be possible to distribute total National income both on a pre-tax market income basis and on a post-tax, post-government spending basis. These data will allow the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) to include distributional statistics in the National Accounts that are based on high-quality tax data rather than inferior survey data. This will in turn make it possible to evaluate the extent to which economic growth, which has long been represented as a preferred poverty-reduction approach, is indeed delivering on that objective.
The effects of TANF: In California, those in poverty face a very heterogeneous TANF landscape, not just because of county-level differences in programmatic decisions but also because many counties benefit from nonprofit programs that supplement TANF with their own “add-on” programs. As a result, the State is implicitly running dozens of natural experiments on TANF add-on policy, yet these experiments are not typically rigorously evaluated (given the high costs of doing so). For example, some “TANF add-on” programs enable qualified families to buy a car, allowing them to pursue jobs that cannot easily be accessed with public transportation. By garnering the permission of participants, the California Longitudinal Administrative Database (CLAD) can be used to identify a “car effect,” most obviously by comparing car recipients against non-recipients who are still on the (very long) waiting list for a car. This type of quasi-experimental evaluation can likewise be carried out for other add-on programs and thus allow us to assemble high-quality evidence on how TANF could be reformed to reduce rates of poverty.
Evictions and poverty: The leader of CPI’s Housing research group, Matthew Desmond, is carrying out the country’s leading research on evictions and poverty. In an ongoing project, Desmond is assembling public records of all eviction records from every county in the U.S., thus providing the first comprehensive national estimate of eviction frequencies. This analysis of prevalence will be joined to the first causal analysis of the effects of evictions on poverty and labor market outcomes. The key question here: Are evictions an important cause of deep and extreme poverty? In collaboration with Raj Chetty, Desmond is starting a project on the long-term consequences of eviction on poverty by merging public eviction records with tax-return data, with variations in housing laws providing the key instrument. The results will reveal the extent to which deep and extreme poverty can be reduced with a “housing first” policy that ramps up federal housing programs.
Frequent Reporting Project: The CPI is building a suite of “frequent poverty measures” that will make it possible for the country to take current poverty data into account when tailoring its labor market and program policies. As it stands, the Census data used to compute annual poverty rates are released well after the year to which they pertain, thus requiring the U.S. to run its poverty policy largely in the blind. It would be considered deeply problematic, by contrast, to attempt to run the country’s employment policy with labor market data that, instead of being at most two months out of date, were approximately two years old. The Stanford Center has thus developed new frequent poverty measures using the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS). We have carried out nearly three years of research testing various specifications of these frequent measures and examining how they track the traditional poverty measure.
Housing voucher policy: The purpose of this project, which is a collaboration with HUD and local housing authorities (PHAs), is to design housing voucher policies that increase the number of families moving to “high opportunity” neighborhoods in which there are reasonably good chances for upward mobility out of poverty. The U.S. currently spends approximately $20 billion per year on subsidized housing vouchers, but 80 percent of these vouchers are used in moderate- or high-poverty neighborhoods, where opportunities for upward mobility are typically limited. In an experiment undertaken by Raj Chetty, Nathan Hendren, and Lawrence Katz (in collaboration with Peter Bergman, Stefanie DeLuca, Christopher Palmer, and Rebecca Toseland), the goal is to evaluate interventions that entail (a) reducing search frictions by identifying listings in high-opportunity neighborhoods and actively pushing these listings to voucher holders via phone calls and text messages, (b) encouraging landlords to rent units in high-opportunity neighborhoods by providing insurance to protect them from early tenant departures and property damage, (c) providing comprehensive mobility services to tenants (e.g., pre-move counseling, search assistance) that can help them navigate the complexities of moving to and staying in a high-opportunity neighborhood, and (d) offering project-based vouchers in opportunity areas and thereby increasing the supply of Section 8 housing within these areas. By evaluating the effects of these experiments (using data from housing authorities and tax returns), the research team will be able to develop a set of recommendations for reforming the housing voucher program.
Income and the developing brain: The leader of CPI’s life-course research group, Greg Duncan, is planning a new randomized experiment on the cognitive and brain development of low-income children. The prevailing view is of course that poverty is especially likely to shape children’s early development because of the high plasticity and rapid growth of the brain during the first three years of life. There has not, however, been a rigorous study of how income support for families affects the brain function and development of infants and toddlers. In Greg Duncan’s research (in collaboration with Lisa Gennetian, Katherine Magnuson, Kimberly Noble, and Hiro Yoshikawa), approximately one thousand low-income mothers and their newborns from several ethnically and geographically diverse communities will be randomly assigned to either (a) an experimental group that receives $333 in cash payments each month ($4,000 each year) for each of the first 40 months of the children’s lives, or (b) a control group that receives much smaller payments ($20 per month). To understand how poverty-reduction improves brain functioning, the researchers will measure (a) parent stress, family expenditures, time use, parenting practices, and child care arrangements at ages one through three, and (b) children’s cognitive and brain development at age three (with rigorous laboratory measures). The results will provide new evidence on the magnitude and pathways of causal connections between enhanced income and early cognitive and brain development. If the effects are very strong, the case for tax and income-enhancement policies targeted at young children will of course be strengthened.
Income, geography, and life expectancy: The relationship between income and life expectancy can be estimated by combining deidentified tax data and Social Security Administration death records. This project, which was carried out by Raj Chetty and others, revealed that the gap between the richest and poorest 1 percent is as large as 14.6 years. This gap is also increasing: Over the last 13 years, life expectancy remained roughly the same for poor men and women, but increased by 2.3 and 2.9 years respectively for men and women in the top 5% of the income distribution. Although poor people have much shorter lives, the extent of this disadvantage depends dramatically on the place of residence. For example, poor people who reside in affluent areas, like New York, live longer than poor people who reside in less affluent areas, like Las Vegas. This line of research, which is ongoing, provides important baseline evidence on the life-reducing costs of poverty and the opportunities for policy to reduce those costs.
Income supports and deep poverty: The CPI is assisting Y Combinator in examining the effects of unconditional monthly cash transfers on deep poverty and other outcomes. The impetus for this project is the rising concerns, especially prominent in the Silicon Valley, that technology and automation may ultimately lead to substantial further reductions in the prime-age employment rate. The experiment will proceed by drawing an experimental and control group from young adults in deep poverty and regular poverty, delivering unconditional income to the experimental group for five years, and examining cross-group differences in investments in schooling and training, academic achievement, food security, and mental and physical health. These analyses will provide the first U.S. evidence on unconditional income support since the negative income tax experiments of the 1970s.
Infant health and poverty: It is well known that children born into poor neighborhoods are more likely to have low birth weights and other problematic birth outcomes. It is also well known that these disadvantages at the “starting gate” parlay into later developmental disadvantages and increased risks of poverty. We do not know, however, whether the effects of neighborhood conditions on these starting-gate disparities are growing larger. Using the census of U.S. birth records between 1970 and 2014 (with attached geographical information about place of birth at the detailed county level), Florencia Torche will provide the most comprehensive evidence yet on the relationship between local disadvantage and birth outcomes. The results will (a) reveal whether geographical disparities in birth outcomes have changed over time, and (b) identify those neighborhoods that are especially at risk (and hence should be targeted by home visiting and related programs).
Intergenerational elasticities in the U.S.: There remains some debate about the size of intergenerational elasticities (for both earnings and income) in the U.S. In a project led by Pablo Mitnik, David Grusky, Michael Weber, and Victoria Bryant, a 1987 sample of tax filers is exploited to secure new estimates of mobility, with the results underlining the extent to which the family into which one is born affects opportunities to get ahead.
Long-run effects of SNAP: Because SNAP is very expensive, it is especially important to assess those costs as against its full complement of returns, but we know comparatively little about the long-run effects of early-childhood SNAP exposure on adult economic outcomes. With Martha Bailey, Maya Rossin-Slater, and Reed Walker, Hilary Hoynes is linking adult labor market outcomes to the timing of food stamp introduction in the child’s county of birth. This linked file can then be used to estimate the long-term effects of food stamps on productivity and human capital, economic self-sufficiency, physical ability and health, and neighborhood quality.
Long-run effects of work incentives: It has been difficult to reach any comprehensive conclusions about the payoff to work incentive programs because the effects of such programs are likely to extend to the children of the parents receiving the benefits. The existing assessments of these programs have largely been short term and thus potentially very misleading. In collaboration with Craig Riddell, David Card is undertaking a new long-term assessment of the most famous work incentive program, the Self Sufficiency Project (SSP). This program, administered in Canada in the 1990s, provided generous earnings subsidies to individuals who agreed to forego welfare. In analyses of the SSP to date, the program has been shown to increase participant earnings over the three-year experimental period, but the increases then faded after the subsidy ended. The key question is whether the subsidy had substantial longer-run effects on the children exposed to them. This question can be addressed by linking to individual tax return and unemployment insurance data and then comparing outcomes (e.g., employment, earnings, income, and program participation) across children of the SSP treatment and control group families.
Measuring family complexity in the AOS: Will the American Opportunity Study (AOS) capture the rise of ever more complicated family forms? By linking tax, census, and birth records, the AOS can distinguish biological parenthood (via Social Security filings at the point of birth), social parenthood (via coresidence in census and ACS data), and financial parenthood (via dependent claims in tax records). This in turn makes it possible to analyze both the intragenerational and intergenerational persistence of poverty and program participation.
Minimum wages and poverty: Throughout the west coast, there are a host of minimum wage “experiments” underway, experiments that have the potential to reset the low-wage labor market in quite fundamental ways. With the support of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and the James T. Irvine Foundation, David Grusky, Bruce Weber, Charles Varner, and Jonathan Fisher are using CLAD (which links census data with California tax returns) to evaluate the effects of these experiments for new labor market entrants. In a related project, Jesse Rothstein aims to go beyond conventional analyses of possible disemployment effects, his key insight being that such effects do not speak decisively to the welfare impact of a minimum wage increase because low-skill workers may well be better off with higher unemployment but better wages (when employed) than with easier access to lower-pay jobs.
The National Poverty Study: The purpose of the National Poverty Study is to develop a protocol for the qualitative measurement of poverty that will allow us to measure trends in the everyday experience of poverty. Although the U.S. is doing an ever better job of counting the poor, it lacks a national infrastructure for examining how the poor live in their natural environment and how they forge their lives in the context of stress, disruption, and deprivation. We have selected 14 sites in the U.S. representing different types of poverty (e.g., deindustrializing poverty, rural poverty, border-community poverty, reservation poverty) and have developed a standardized protocol that allows us to assess cross-site differences and changes in how the poor find jobs, make ends meet, and interact with the safety net. This project is a joint undertaking with the American Institutes for Research (AIR).
A new round of Fragile Families data collection: The Fragile Families Study (FFS), which is designed to enrich our understanding of how experiences in infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence are associated with health and socio-economic wellbeing, has long had a special focus on children born to disadvantaged parents (in part because the FFS includes a large sample of poor families). Under the leadership of Sara McLanahan, the coleader of CPI’s Family research group, new FFS data are being collected to better characterize (a) the socioeconomic standing of FFS mothers and children (including obtaining permission to access administrative records), (b) the economic, social, and physical environments of FFS mothers and children, and (c) the health of FFS children (via metabolic and immune markers, genotyping and methylation).
Optimal timing of interventions: It has long been argued that interventions in the earliest years of childhood have larger long-term returns that interventions in later years. The evidence on behalf of this claim is not wholly definitive because it mainly comes from studies based on very small samples (esp. the Perry Preschool Study). Moreover, this research typically compares rates of returns for different interventions at different ages, meaning that one is varying at once both the type of intervention and the age at which it is applied. It would be better to identify the maximal rate of return that one can achieve at each age using the best possible intervention at that age. In a project led by Raj Chetty, Nathan Hendren, and John Friedman, unusually systematic evidence on the optimal timing of interventions is garnered by using administrative data covering the full population from the U.S. The simple insight here is that, if one is willing to assume that parents allocate their income in ways that optimize the outcomes of their children, then the “early-intervention” hypothesis implies that the correlation between parents’ income and children’s earnings should be higher when the children are young. This hypothesis implies, in other words, that children whose parents are relatively rich when they are young but poorer when they are older should fare better than those whose parents became richer when they grew older. In preliminary analyses of the data, the results contradict this prediction: The correlation between children’s outcomes and parent’s income is virtually constant irrespective of the child’s age when the parent’s income is measured. It follows that poverty at younger ages does not appear to be associated with significantly worse outcomes than poverty at older ages. The latter approach is limited, however, because it is correlational and because it relies on the assumption that parents use incremental resources to optimize on behalf of their children. The second approach that will be taken relaxes these assumptions by studying the long-term impacts of a set of interventions at different ages (using earnings data drawn from tax records between 2010-2014). The researchers will consider (a) the effects of moving to a better neighborhood at different ages to estimate rates of return at each age, (b) the effects of having better teachers at different ages, and (c) the long-term impact of the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP). The latter analysis, which will be carried out in collaboration with David Olds, will be the first long-term assessment of the NFP program. By comparing the effects of the NFP intervention with the effects of the other interventions described above, it becomes possible to assess rates of return for several interventions at different ages, all evaluated in the same era (2010-2014) using the same data (administrative tax records) with minimal attrition and sample selection. These results, when taken together with the correlational evidence from the first line of analysis, will provide high-quality evidence on the best age to intervene to lift children out of poverty. This will of course be a foundational result for future policy decisions.
Poverty among refugees: The U.S. refugee population faces very high rates of poverty, major health problems, and much discrimination. The country’s resettlement program, which is the largest in the world, has faced increasing scrutiny with the global refugee crisis and recent terrorist attacks. We know very little, however, about the best ways to assist with resettlement and to increase self sufficiency. This is partly because, despite the difficulty and high cost of relying on surveys, our data collection system for refugees is still largely survey-based (e.g., the Annual Survey of Refugees). In partnership with the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (at the State Dept.) and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (at the Dept. of Health and Human Services), David Laitin and Jeremy Weinstein are developing an administrative-data system to monitor the state of the refugee population and to assess the effect of refugee policies and programs.
Poverty and schooling on reservations: The test scores and educational outcomes on Native reservations are, like those in high-poverty black neighborhoods, very low relative to the national average. For the Native population, a special difficulty arises in reconciling traditional and formal education, indeed these are typically viewed as competitive rather than complementary. The purpose of this project, which is led by the noted ethnographer Martin Sánchez-Jankowski, is to investigate how traditional and formal education are viewed and the ways in which they might be better integrated. The sites for the study will be two Native American reservations, San Carlos Apache in Arizona and Rosebud Sioux in South Dakota, both of which are characterized by high rates of dropout, poverty, and suicide.
Poverty and the decline in prison population: There is much evidence that unemployment rates are lowered by incarcerating many of the potentially unemployed. It is likely that other poverty-relevant outcomes, such as homelessness or the use of mental health services, might also be affected by incarceration rates. This possibility takes on immediate importance because of ongoing declines in some prison populations. In October 2011, California passed legislation that led to an 18 percent decline in its prison population, a decline that was partly achieved by discontinuing the practice of returning individuals to custody because of technical parole violations. This decline in the state’s prison population may bring about an increase in homelessness, mental health service use, and other poverty-relevant outcomes. The co-leader of the CPI’s incarceration program, Steven Raphael, is investigating this possibility by seeking permission to link data from California’s Automated Criminal History System (ACHS) with data from the California Department of Healthcare Services. The results from this project will reveal whether ongoing declines in incarceration should be coordinated with increased funding for programs that may substitute for incarceration.
Poverty Relief Project: The Poverty Relief Project, led by Stanford political science professor Karen Jusko, develops a new measure of the effectiveness of cash-based poverty relief programs. The "poverty relief ratio" provides an estimate of the extent of redistribution relative to what would be required to bring all low-income households to a well-defined poverty line. With Kate Weisshaar, Jusko uses the poverty relief ratio to evaluate the effectiveness of anti-poverty programs over time, across states, and across countries. The first set of national, state-level, and cross-national results were released in our 2014, 2015, and 2016 State of the Union reports. This new measure will continue to be applied in further research projects.
Reducing the race gap in test scores: Although the gap between black and white achievement test scores has been narrowing in the last 20 years, it remains very large and is an important source of the persistently high poverty rates for blacks. The key question here: How can the gap be reduced? In a project using the new Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA), Sean Reardon is examining the substantial variability across school districts in the size of this gap, a variability that opens up the opportunity of understanding the conditions under which the gap can be reduced or even eliminated. The SEDA, which includes harmonized data from 200 million test scores for public school students, allows Reardon and other researchers to examine the effects of district policies, finances, and socioeconomic conditions on the size of the gap. Are there any districts in which the gap has been eliminated? Are gaps typically larger in segregated districts? Are gaps smaller in the well-off schools? The answers to these questions will provide the most systematic evidence to date on the capacity of school-district policies to reduce the racial gap.
Rent and inequality: It is increasingly fashionable to argue that “rent” accounts for much of the takeoff in income inequality. But there haven’t been any efforts to build a comprehensive model of income inequality that accounts for the many forms of rent and assesses their full and complete contribution to the takeoff. In a project led by Kim Weeden, David Grusky, and Beth Red Bird, the Current Population Survey is used to build just such a model covering the 1970s to the present day.
The rise of between-firm inequality: In collaboration with Jae Song, David J. Price, Fatih Guvenen, and Till von Wachter, Nicholas Bloom is examining the role of firms in the increase in U.S. earnings inequality. The key questions: How much of the rise in earnings inequality can be attributed to increasing between-firm dispersion in the average wages they pay? How much is instead due to rising wage dispersion among workers within firms? These questions are addressed by constructing a matched employer-employee data set for the United States using administrative records. The initial results show that, between 1978 to 2012, virtually all of the rise in earnings dispersion between workers is due to increasing dispersion in average wages paid by employers. The amount of inequality within employers has, by contrast, remained virtually unchanged, a finding that is robust across industries, geographical regions, and firm size groups. The wage gap between the most highly paid employees within these firms (CEOs and high level executives) and the average employee has increased only by a small amount.
Small place estimates: The Equal Opportunity Project, led by Raj Chetty, uses tax return data to monitor opportunities for mobility out of poverty. By examining families who move across areas, it is possible to identify the causal effects of neighborhoods on opportunities, a line of analysis that has demonstrated that a child’s chances of success are strongly influenced by where that child grows up. To date, this line of research has relied on relatively large aggregates (i.e., “commuting zones”) to examine the effects of place, aggregates that are arguably too large for the purpose of establishing how place-specific policies are affecting the likelihood of mobility out of poverty. The next step, therefore, is to characterize such “place effects” at a more local level. By carrying out analogous analyses at the census block and tract level, Raj Chetty and Nathan Hendren will be able to evaluate policies implemented at very detailed levels, such as a change in a local school policy, a change in local policing tactics, or a change in local homeless policy. In collaboration with Matthew Desmond, Chetty and Hendren will identify areas that are relatively affordable for low-income families, yet nonetheless have proven to move children out of poverty at very high rates. The researchers will identify 5-10 such “opportunity bargains” and then complete intensive ethnographic research to find out what makes these communities so successful.
Trends in income and wealth inequality: The country’s leading analyses of trends in income and wealth inequality are carried out by Emmanuel Saez and his research team. This line of research, based on annual updates to tax data, is released annually in the CPI’s State of the Union publication and in many other leading outlets.
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John Frank Tesh (born July 9, 1952) is an American pianist and composer of pop music, as well as a radio host and television presenter. His Intelligence for Your Life radio show airs on nearly 300 stations, and is syndicated by Teshmedia in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. In addition, since 2014, he has hosted Intelligence for Your Life TV with his wife Connie Sellecca. The syndicated TV program airs on 174 stations that cover 93% of the potential U.S. television audience.
Tesh was born in Garden City, New York, on Long Island, the son of Mildred (Bunny), a nurse, and John F. Tesh, a textile chemist. He graduated from Garden City High School in 1970. Playing piano and trumpet from the age of six, he studied with teachers from The Juilliard School and was named to the New York State Symphonic Orchestra in high school, while also playing the organ in a rock band. Tesh studied communications and music at North Carolina State University. He was also a member of the varsity lacrosse and soccer teams.
While at North Carolina State, studying physics and chemistry, he took a TV and radio course, and in 1974, Tesh worked part-time reading later the news for Rick Dees at WKIX-AM/Raleigh in 1974. His roommate, Bill Leslie, anchor at WRAL, helped him get into the radio and TV field. While in the area, Tesh worked as a news anchor in Raleigh, Orlando, Nashville, then moving to WCBS-TV in New York; this portion of his career spanned 12 years.
Tesh also served as a sportscaster for CBS and later NBC, anchoring events such as the Tour de France bicycle race from 1983 through 1986 (Tesh has the distinction of being the anchor for the first American broadcast of this event), the US Open, and gymnastics at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics.
Tesh hosted the short-lived One on One with John Tesh talk show in 1991–92 on NBC daytime, and co-hosted the show John & Leeza From Hollywood with fellow Entertainment Tonight personality Leeza Gibbons from 1993–94, also on NBC daytime. In 2014, Tesh returned to syndicated television in the series Intelligence for Your Life TV, based on his radio show.
Tesh appeared in "The Icarus Factor", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, playing a Klingon warrior. He also appeared as himself in a 1987 episode of the daytime serial Santa Barbara.
In 1987, Yanni was putting together his first touring band to promote his album Out of Silence, as well as selections from Keys to Imagination. Being good friends, Tesh asked Yanni if he could join the band as keyboardist along with Joyce Imbesi and drummer Charlie Adams, as he'd never been onstage for a live performance, and he needed the experience. Despite already having a full-time job with Entertainment Tonight, and the long hours of rehearsal for the band, he did very well, although he did only one tour with Yanni, playing in about 12 shows, including the "1988 Concert Series", before being replaced by Bradley Joseph. Later, Yanni helped Tesh get his first recording contract with Private Music.
In the 1990s, John Tesh was credited with the theme music to Bobby's World, hosted by Howie Mandel, and the NBA on NBC theme, known as "Roundball Rock". Tesh composed the NBA on NBC theme after an idea hit him while traveling. In order to recall his idea at a later juncture, Tesh recorded the initial beat on his answering machine, leaving a message for himself. The theme was used for the NBA on NBC before the network stopped carrying NBA games following the 2001–02 season (as well as an electric guitar-driven spinoff that was used on NBC's WNBA telecasts from 1997 to 2002), though NBC would revive the theme for its basketball coverage during the 2008 Summer Olympics.
In 2008, he put out a piano gospel dance DVD called Alive: Music & Dance. It combines Tesh's music, big gospel choirs, and hip-hop dance.
Tesh currently has a nationally syndicated radio show called the John Tesh Radio Show, which typically airs on adult contemporary, classic hits, Christian and soft rock radio formats. The music is interspersed with various factoids and other information Tesh considers useful to listeners, often with topics such as health and well-being.
These factoids are called "Intelligence for Your Life", played on radio stations across the United States and Canada, and the Armed Forces Network. Select pieces of "Intelligence for Your Life" are broken up and distributed in vignette form to other radio stations (including talk radio formats) and for use on morning shows. There is also a three-hour weekend show, "Intelligence for Your Health", launched in 2010, hosted by Connie Sellecca.
Across all of its versions, Tesh's radio programs reach listeners across the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom, placing it on the list of most-listened-to radio programs. Tesh's main rival is Delilah, and these two shows are sometimes aired in the same market on competing stations.
The show started as a weekend show in 2000 on Clear Channel’s KKDJ-FM/Bakersfield and then a few other stations, expanding to a daily version in 2003. The program was originally syndicated by Westwood One under the name On the Air with John Tesh, albeit with a slightly different format. It is produced by Tesh with a staff of 35 and still distributed by syndicator Westwood One. In September 2016, the partnership with Westwood One was renewed in a new multi-year agreement. At the time, Westwood One indicated that it was airing on 280 radio stations.
In late 2014, a television version of these factoids, Intelligence for Your Life TV, debuted in syndication to local stations. In April 2016, the TV program was seen on 174 stations. The series also features health segments hosted by his wife, Connie Sellecca, based on her own radio program, "Intelligence for Your Health".
Tesh also authored a book, Intelligence for Your Life: Powerful Lessons for Personal Growth, in 2008, reprinted in 2012 (ISBN 0849964636, publisher Thomas Nelson).
Tesh has been married to actress Connie Sellecca since 1992. They have one daughter together named Prima. His wife also has a son named Gib, with actor Gil Gerard, who now appears on some of Tesh's radio and TV programs. Tesh and Sellecca reside in Los Angeles. In the 70s, he also briefly dated Oprah Winfrey. Tesh is a Christian. He was raised a Baptist and was involved in the church during his youth. He played organ, sang in the choir, and went to church camp. He became inactive in the church during his adult life, but became involved again after his future wife introduced him to pastor Louis Lapides. Since then, he has written and performed Christian music.
In 2018 John Tesh was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame. In 2007, Tesh won the Syndicated Personality/Show of the Year award by Radio & Records magazine for his radio show. Other finalists included Delilah, Blair Garner, Steve Harvey, Kidd Kraddick, and The Lia Show. Tesh was nominated in 2003 for the Grammy for "Best Pop Instrumental Album" for Power of Love. John has also earned three gold albums, six Emmys for his sports themes, and a Keyboard Magazine Award.
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By the end of the 18th century, travel by stage coach was becoming more common in England, especially for the middle and upper classes. Many outlying towns still had no coach services except for those that originated from London, but if one could reach a town or inn that lay along a stage-coach route (by carrier’s wagon, for example) then one could travel to London from any part of the country. People could also opt to travel by Kendal flying wagon, as illustrated below. Travel by stage-coach would have been similar to taking public transportation today, with inns and hostelries taking the place of hotels, motels, and restaurants. A changeover of a team of horses, or feeding them or watering them, would have been the equivalent of filling a tank with gas.
Dates and times of travel were clearly advertised, including the rates, which were 4 pence or 5 pence for a seat inside the coach, and 2 pence and 3 pence for sitting outside. These costs were prohibitive for the poor, who generally earned a shilling a week (12 pence). A seat outside the coach exposed a traveler to variable weather conditions and hazards, and it was not unusual for passengers to fall off a lurching coach or to be struck by a flying object.
Long distance travel during this time was still a novelty, since the majority of the populace (around 90%) rarely traveled from their place of birth. Most English roads were in poor shape, rutted in good conditions and a muddy quagmire after heavy rains. In addition, people were accustomed to walking long distances, and it was not unusual for laborers to walk 6 miles to work.* The working class would not have chosen to pay for expensive transportation when two sturdy legs could carry them just as well. (Although I imagine a free ride on a friend’s wagon was always welcome.) As with public travel today, passengers could be seated alongside anybody – a considerate traveling companion, someone they instinctively disliked, or a person from a different class or station.
Macadamized roads were just beginning to be introduced during this period and their crushed stone surfaces allowed for greater speed and heavier loads to be carried. Travel time was reduced with these road improvements and with coach modifications, thus a good coach could go as fast as 6.4 miles per hour. This was at the expense of the horses, who lasted only an average of three years pulling heavy loads in all kinds of weather conditions and terrains. Royal Mail coaches went even faster than ordinary coaches, reaching speeds of up to 9 miles per hour, but these elite coaches represented only about 11% of the total coach mileage at its height. Below is a 1754 advertisement for the Edinburgh Stage Coach. Setting out on Tuesday in summer, the coach reached London in ten days. In winter, the journey would take 12 days. Ultimately, after road and coach improvements and before more efficient trains replaced coach travel as the preferred mode of transportation, the 400 mile trip between London and Edinburgh had been reduced to 40 hours, including all stops and relays (Harper Book of Facts).
If I remember well the highest average speed around the 1810s was 12 miles per hour, including stops. Although such a pace was possible only on good roads, in a carriage with good springs system, and with a coat of arms.
Indeed, you are right, Sylwia. Royal mail coaches could go much faster than their lumbering stage coach counterparts, especially over well-paved macamadized roads, but a 12-mile-per-hour speed cost an enormous amount in resources, horses, and manpower, since the switch-over in teams had to be made at regular intervals. The speed with which one team of horses could be replaced by another can be likened to the incredible efficiency with which tires are replaced during pitstops at NASCAR races today. Swiftness was the key, but at a cost that was not available to the ordinary citizen.
Does anyone know how many people could be seated in one coach, or did they all fit different amounts?
In charles Dickend novel “Pickwick Papers” he traveled by stagecoach from Tewkesbury stopping at Coventry, Dunchurch, Daventry and then Towcester.
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2019-04-24T12:44:36Z
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https://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/18th-century-road-and-coach-improvements/
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Dr. Rehman received her Ph.D. from The George Washington University. She is a Senior Research Fulbright Scholar and is the GW Director of the EU Research Center. She also currently serves on the Board of Directors of the International Trade and Finance Association.
Prior to teaching at GW, Dr. Rehman was a foreign exchange and money market trader in Bahrain. She is also a Senior Partner at the International Consultants Group which specializes in Middle East financial sector development and investment management. In 1997, she received a Senior Research Fulbright award to conduct a comprehensive study of South Asia-Pakistan economic and financial development. In 2001, she received the GW International Business Teaching Award and the GW Graduate Teaching Award. In 1998, she received the GW Bender Teaching Award and the First Annual Outstanding GW University Woman of the Year Award.
In 2006, Dr. Rehman was invited to speak at the Douglas Y.Thomas Visiting Economist Series at Bradley University and Caterpillar Inc. on "Oil and Arms: A Disastrous Environment for Economic Growth in the Middle East." The Visiting Economist Series has featured seminars by such distinguished economists as Milton Friedman, Robert Barro, Deidre McCloskey, James Buchanan, and Douglas North.
"Globalization Of Islamic Finance: Myth Or Reality?" (with F. Perry), International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, Vol. 1, No.19, December 2011.
The Path to European Economic and Monetary Union, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1997.
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2019-04-20T07:36:26Z
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https://elliott.gwu.edu/scheherazade-rehman
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Light Fall - Launch Trailer (Switch) - Duration: 69 seconds.
Light Fall - Story Trailer (ENG) - Duration: 72 seconds.
Light Fall - Teaser - Duration: 32 seconds.
Light Fall - Nintendo Switch Announcement Trailer - Duration: 35 seconds.
Light Fall Teaser - Duration: 75 seconds.
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2019-04-18T13:16:47Z
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https://www.youtube.com/BishopGamesStudio
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The students of CS5604 (Information Retrieval and Storage), have been building an Information Retrieval System based on tweet and webpage collections of the Digital Library Research Laboratory (DLRL). The students have been grouped into smaller teams such as Front End team, Solr team, and Collaborative Filtering team, which are building the individual subsystems of the entire project. The teams are collaborating among themselves to integrate their individual subsystems. The Collaborative Filtering (CF) team has been building a recommendation system that can recommend tweets and webpages to users based on content similarity of document pairs as well as user pair similarity. We have finished building the recommendation system so that when the user starts using the system they will be recommended to documents that are similar to those returned by their queries. As more users coming in, they will be also referred to documents that similar users were interested in.
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2019-04-19T04:55:36Z
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https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/70948
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Did I mention my kids were born two years and ten days apart? That means two birthday celebrations in a very short period at the end of April. And so yes, outdoor adventures have taken a backseat to birthday adventures.
We’ve had a movie marathon overnight (the 13-year-old) and a Redwall Quest involving our very own basement turned into catacombs (many, many cardboard refrigerator boxes). If we can be the house of fun for birthday adventures, I’m hoping we can also attract our kids’ friends and their families to think it would be a world of fun to adventure with us this summer.
We’re thinking a 2-night 3 day bicycling trip and a similar length backpacking trip for folks who have never experienced an outdoor overnight. Usually, I get excited about new places and longer trips, but now I’m also excited about adventuring with people who are new to it all. Have interest and willing to try it? Let us know.
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2019-04-23T14:32:37Z
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https://lauralringler.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/birthday-adventures/
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A system for controlling the transmission of cells from a network node over multiple virtual circuit is disclosed. The disclosed system performs traffic shaping for all virtual circuits connected with the network node. The system includes a virtual circuit table with one or more entries. Each virtual circuit table entry corresponds to a virtual circuit established with the network node. Each virtual circuit table further includes one or more Cell Rate Accumulator fields and a Time Stamp field. The system includes a schedule table having one or more entries. Each schedule table entry further includes one or more Cell Rate Accumulator fields and corresponding predetermined value fields. A schedule table loading process determines a virtual circuit on which a packet is to be transmitted, and then calculates a time elapsed since a last previous write of a virtual circuit table entry corresponding with that virtual circuit. The schedule table loading process then adds the time elapsed to the value of the Cell Rate Accumulator fields in that virtual circuit table entry, and stores the result of the addition into the corresponding Cell Rate Accumulator fields of the schedule table entry. The system further includes a process for periodically incrementing the Cell Rate Accumulator fields in the schedule table entry. A scanning process periodically increments the Cell Rate Accumulator fields. A transmitting process transmits a cell on the virtual circuit when the value of the Cell Rate Accumulator fields is greater than or equal to the corresponding predetermined values.
ATM is a connection oriented technology. Before data can be transferred between two stations, a connection (also referred to as a Virtual Circuit or VC) must be established between them. A first end station requests a connection to a second end station by submitting a connection request to a User to Network Interface (UNI) with the network. After a virtual circuit has been established, end stations exchange information by sending and receiving ATM "cells" containing data. An ATM cell is a fixed length packet used to relay data between network stations.
A major function of a station on an ATM network is supporting the Quality of Service (QoS) for each virtual circuit to which the station is connected. QoS is established for each virtual circuit when the circuits are set-up. Examples of QoS parameters that are specified in a connection request include loss rate, acceptable delay, and peak and average cell rates. In addition, when peak and average cell rates are specified, a burst size of the number of cells that can be transmitted at the peak cell rate can also be specified.
The network initially uses the QoS parameters in the connection request for admission control. When a request is made at a first end station for a connection with a second end station, the network and the second end station determine whether sufficient resources (transmission bandwidth, buffers, or other) exist to allow the connection to be established with the requested parameters, while not impacting the QoS of already established connections. If there are insufficient resources to support the requested QoS, the connection request is rejected, and request may subsequently be repeated with lower QoS parameters.
Once a connection is established, the network may ensure that each transmitting station meets and does not exceed, the QoS for each VC within that station. This is done through two complementary procedures, traffic shaping at the transmitting end station and each intermediate station, and traffic policing at each intermediate station and the receiving end station. Traffic shaping refers to steps performed by transmitting end stations and intermediate stations to ensure the transmission rate for any given VC does not exceed the peak or average data rate and burst characteristics allowed for that VC.
Traffic policing may be performed by intermediate network stations between the end stations of a connection, and by the receiving end station when receiving the forwarded cell. If an intermediate station or a receiving end station detects persistent transmission rates in excess of the QoS for a VC, it may take a variety of actions, including alerting network administrators, discarding cells, or adopting other congestion management schemes. Correct operation of the network and consistent service levels require that traffic shaping be used to pace cell streams transmitted from the end stations of an ATM network.
A known mechanism for controlling both the peak and average transmission rates for a single VC is referred to as the "Double Leaky Bucket" system. The Double Leaky Bucket system determines whether a VC can transmit a cell at a given point in time without exceeding the QoS parameters for that VC. In an ATM adapter for a network end station, which must simultaneously support Quality of service monitoring for a large number of VCs, implementing excessively complex Double Leaky Bucket logic for each individual potential VC is impractical in terms of chip silicon area and die size.
Also in ATM there is defined a ABR (Available Bit Rate) service, which does not specify peak and sustainable cell rate for a connection. ABR connections simply use whatever available bandwidth is dynamically available in the network, still allowing other connections the quality of service they have negotiated. Some users of ABR services may be latency sensitive. A network device that is capable of providing timely service to latency sensitive ABR connections is therefore desirable, in order to allow for interactive applications to work well even under heavy load conditions.
There is therefore a need for a new system for traffic shaping on ATM network stations. The new system should minimize the amount of logic required to be implemented in hardware or silicon so that it can be used efficiently to support large numbers of VCs in an ATM adapter for an end station on an ATM network. The new system should accurately and fairly control the transmission rate for each VC on a network station without using excessively complex Double Leaky Bucket circuits for each possible VC on the network station.
In accordance with principles of the invention, there is provided a system for controlling the transmission of cells from a network node over multiple virtual circuits. The disclosed system performs traffic shaping for all virtual circuits connected with the network node.
The system includes a virtual circuit table with one or more entries. Each virtual circuit table entry corresponds to a virtual circuit established with the network node. Each virtual circuit table entry includes one or more Cell Rate Accumulator fields, one or more corresponding predetermined value fields, and a time stamp field used to store the time at which the entry was last written.
The system also includes a schedule table having one or more entries. Each schedule table entry further includes one or more Cell Rate Accumulator fields and corresponding predetermined value fields. The predetermined value field for a given Cell Rate Accumulator field is used to store a value representing a minimal time period required between cell transmissions.
A schedule table loading process determines a virtual circuit on which a packet is to be transmitted, and then calculates a time elapsed since a last previous write of a virtual circuit table entry corresponding with that virtual circuit. The schedule table loading process then adds the time elapsed to the value of each of the one or more Cell Rate Accumulator fields in that virtual circuit table entry, and stores the result of the addition into corresponding Cell Rate Accumulator fields of the schedule table entry.
The system further includes a process for periodically incrementing the Cell Rate Accumulator fields in the schedule table entry. A scanning process periodically increments each Cell Rate Accumulator field. A transmitting process transmits a cell on the virtual circuit when the value of each given Cell Rate Accumulator field is greater than or equal to the corresponding predetermined value.
In an example embodiment, the system is implemented as one or more processes in an Application Specific Integrated Circuit. Other embodiments include implementation of the system as one or more software processes executing on a microprocessor.
FIG. 20 is a flow chart of a process for writing a Virtual Circuit Table entry.
FIG. 1 is a diagram of a computer network, including an End Station 1 10, Intermediate Station 1 15, Intermediate Station 2 20 and End Station 2 25. For purposes of example, End Station 1 10 is physically connected with Intermediate Station 1 15 by a transmission link supporting an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network. Similarly, Intermediate Station 1 15 is connected with Intermediate Station 2 20, and Intermediate Station 2 20 is physically connected with End Station 2 25 by transmission links supporting ATM networking technology. Thus, the elements End Station 1 10, Intermediate Station 1 15, Intermediate Station 2 20 and End Station 2 25 form an ATM network.
During operation of the elements in FIG. 1, a user on End Station 1 10 requests that a logical connection known as a Virtual Circuit (VC) be established between End Station 1 10 and End Station 2 25. The request is made through a User Network Interface (UNI) existing between the user and the ATM network. In an example embodiment, the connection request specifies various QoS parameters of the requested connection in a connection traffic descriptor. See "Asynchronous Transfer Mode Solution for Broadband ISDN", Second Edition, by Martin De Prycker, specifically pages 289 through 307, all references of which are herein included by reference. Multiple connection requests may be issued, and multiple VCs may be established between the End Station 1 10 and the End Station 2 25.
The user further supplies a Cell Delay Variation (CDV) tolerance parameter in the connection request. When cells from 2 or more ATM VCs are multiplexed, cells of a given ATM VC may be delayed while cells for another VC are being transmitted. For example, when two cells are scheduled to be transmitted at the same time over the same transmission link, then the cell which is transmitted last will suffer delay as a result. Further, scheduled cell transmissions may be delayed by the transmission of Operation And Maintenance (OAM) cells. Transmission of an OAM cell may delay the transmission of a user cell scheduled to be transmitted at the same time. Moreover, the burst tolerance for a connection, equal to the maximum number of cells that may be sent in a peak rate burst, will affect cell delay variation on a connection. The performance of Customer EQuipments (CEQs) may also introduce delay in the transmission of user cells. The user specifies in the connection request the degree of distortion allowed in the inter-arrival time of cells on the requested connection in a CDV tolerance parameter.
The network responds to the connection request issued by the user on End Station 1 10 by either creating the requested VC, or denying the request. In determining whether a requested VC can be established between End Station 1 10 and End Station 2 25, the network determines whether there are sufficient resources (for example transmission bandwidth and buffers) across the network from source to destination, for example in Intermediate Station 1 15, Intermediate Station 2 20, and end station 2 25, to allow the requested VC to be set up with the requested QoS parameters, while not impacting the QoS of already established VCs. If there are not sufficient resources to do so, the connection request is rejected, and the user on End Station 1 10 may repeat the request with lower QoS parameters.
Continuing with reference to the elements of FIG. 1, once a given VC is established between End Station 1 10 and End Station 2 25, the network applies mechanisms to ensure that the End Station 1 does not exceed its negotiated QoS parameters for that VC. For example, during operation, the transmission of cells from End Station 1 and End Station 2 is controlled such that cell transmissions are not scheduled at a rate exceeding the Peak Cell Rate, and such that the average cell rate over some predetermined period of time does not exceed the Sustainable Cell Rate of the VC.
In FIG. 1, the VC between End Station 1 10 and End Station 2 25 traverses both Intermediate Node 1 15 and Intermediate Station 2 20. The cell transmission rate over the given VC on the transmission link between End Station 1 10 and Intermediate Station 1 15, as well as the cell transmission rate over the VC on the transmission link between Intermediate Station 1 15 and Intermediate Station 2 20, and the cell transmission rate over the VC on the transmission link between Intermediate Station 2 20 and End Station 2 25 are all controlled such that they do not exceed the negotiated QoS parameters in the connection request issued to the network by the user on End Station 1 10.
During operation of the elements shown in FIG. 2, one or more virtual circuits are established by a user of the Station 200. As each VC is established, an entry in the Virtual Circuit Table 230 is initialized for the new VC. The entry is initialized with the negotiated QoS parameters for the new VC. The Control Logic 240 is responsible for controlling the Link Interface 235 such that cells to be transmitted or received between the Communications Network 245 and the Host Memory 215 are correctly processed. The Control Logic 240 is responsible for performing traffic shaping, such that the transmissions on any given VC of the Station 200 do not exceed the agreed upon QoS parameters for that VC. The QoS parameters for a given VC are accessed by the Control Logic 240 in the entry corresponding to that VC in Virtual Circuit Table 230. For example, the QoS parameters for VC are contained in Virtual Circuit Table 230 entry 1, the Qos parameters for VC2 are contained in the Virtual Circuit Table 230 entry 2, etc. In this way, the control logic multiplexes cell transmissions for multiple VCs over the link interface 235.
FIG. 3 shows a Control Logic 300 within a network adapter. The Control Logic 300 in FIG. 3 is an example embodiment of the Control Logic 240 shown in FIG. 2. In a first embodiment the Control Logic 300 in FIG. 3 is an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). In an alternative embodiment the Control Logic 300 is a set of discreet logic devices. In another alternative embodiment the Control Logic 300 is one or more processes executing on a microprocessor running in the network adapter.
The SRAM 315 is shown having a Scheduling Table 320. The Scheduling Table 320 consists of entries, each entry corresponding with one of the Transmit Queues 216 as shown in FIG. 2. For example Scheduling Table 320 entry 1 corresponds with Transmit Queue 1 of Transmit Queues 216, Scheduling Table 320 entry 2 corresponds with Transmit Queue 2 of Transmit Queues 216 etc. Each entry in the Scheduling Table contains information regarding the characteristics of the Virtual Circuit over which there is currently a transmission on the corresponding Transmit Queue.
During operation of the elements shown in FIG. 3, the Scheduler Process 325 detects when a new packet reaches the head of one of the Transmit Queues 216 in FIG. 2. The Scheduler Process 325 then determines which VC the new packet is to be transmitted on. The entry at the head of the transmit queue contains an index into the Virtual Circuit Table 230, thus indicating the VC on which the new packet is to be transmitted on. The Scheduler Process 325 thus determines the VC on which the new packet is to be transmitted on by reading the entry at the head of one of the Transmit Queues 216. In an alternative embodiment, the Virtual Circuit on which the new packet or cell is to be transmitted is indicated within the packet or cell data itself.
The Scheduler Process 325 next reads the QoS parameters from the indexed entry in the Virtual Circuit Table 230, and writes the QoS parameters into the entry in the Scheduling Table 320 corresponding with one of the Transmit Queues 216 having a new packet for transmission. In the example embodiment, each entry in the Scheduling Table 320 contains the QoS parameters for one VC. The Scheduler Process 325 further writes indication of the indexed entry in the Virtual Circuit Table 230 into the entry in the Scheduling Table 320, and marks the entry in the Scheduling Table 320 as valid if it was previously invalid. When the transmission of the new packet has been completed or terminated the Scheduler marks the entry as invalid. Thus the Scheduler Process 325 provides that each valid entry in the Scheduling Table 320 indicates a Virtual Circuit for which there is a packet pending transmission or currently being transmitted.
In an alternative embodiment, indication of the status of the packet or cell indicated by the queue entry at the head of a given transmit queue is stored in a Transmit Control Array Entry (TCA Entry) associated with each transmit queue. A further description of an example embodiment of a TCA Entry is provided below.
The Scheduling Table Entry 400 includes a VC field 401. The VC field 401 indicates a VC, for example by having a value equal to an index into the Virtual Circuit Table 230 as shown in FIG. 2. The VC field is written when the Scheduler detects that a new packet ready for transmission is at the head of the Transmit Queue corresponding to the Scheduling Table Entry 400. The Scheduler writes a value equal to the index of the entry in the virtual Circuit Table corresponding to the VC on which the new packet is to be transmitted into the VC field 401.
Scheduling Table Entry 400 also includes a Mode bit 410. The Mode bit 410 reflects which QoS rating mode has been selected for the VC corresponding with the Scheduling Table Entry 400. In the example embodiment of FIG. 4, if the Mode bit 410 is clear then both Sustainable Cell Rate and Peak Cell Rate have been selected by the user of a given Virtual Circuit indicated by the VC field 401. If the Mode bit 410 is set then only Peak Cell Rate has been selected.
Further during operation, the Scheduler subtracts 1 (one) from the CS field 420 after a cell is transmitted on the VC indicated by the VC field 401. When the Valid bit 405 is set, the Scheduler Process 325 periodically increments the CS field 420 by a predetermined increment value (for example, the value of the IS field) responsive to the Timer 330 as shown in FIG. 3. When the value of the CS field 420 reaches 1, a cell may be transmitted on the VC indicated by VC field 401 without exceeding the Sustainable Cell Rate QoS parameter for that VC.
Also shown in Scheduling Table Entry 400 is a Sustainable Cell Rate Increment (IS) field 430. The value of the IS field 430 is written by the Scheduler Process 325 when the Scheduler detects that a new packet ready for transmission is at the head of the Transmit Queue corresponding to the Scheduling Table Entry 400. The value of the IS field 430 is written by the Scheduler, responsive to the QoS parameters in the Virtual Circuit Table entry for the VC on which the new packet is to be transmitted, with the number of cells (generally less than 1) that may be transmitted during one cell time without exceeding the Sustainable Cell Rate for that VC.
Further during operation, the value of the IS field 430 is periodically added by the Scheduler to the value of the CS field 420, responsive to the Timer 330, when the Valid bit 405 is set. In the example embodiment of FIG. 4, the value of the IS field 430 is stored in terms of cell transmission time, and is greater than 0 and less than 1. For example, where the Sustainable Cell Rate for a given VC is 10,000 cells per second, and cell time for the network is 40 * 10-7 seconds (250,000 cells per second), then the IS value for that VC would be 1/25, equivalent to 1/25th of the capacity of the link.
Scheduling Table Entry 400 also includes a Sustainable Token Limit (LS) field 435. The value of the LS field 435 is derived from the QoS parameters in the entry in the Virtual Circuit Table 230 indicated by the VC field 401. The value of the LS field 435 reflects the number of cells that may be consecutively transmitted at Peak Cell Rate for the VC indicated by the VC field 401, and controls the maximum burst duration for that VC. Larger LS field values result in proportionally larger maximum burst sizes. The value of the LS field 435 is written by the Scheduler Process 325 when the Scheduler detects that a new packet ready for transmission is at the head of the Transmit Queue corresponding to the Scheduling Table Entry 400. During operation of the elements in FIG. 4, when the Valid bit 405 is set, if the Scheduler determines that the value of CS field 420 exceeds the value of the LS field 435, the Scheduler writes the value of the LS field 435 into the CS field 420, in order to limit burst size. The value of the LS field 435 is generally greater than or equal to one.
Further during operation, the Scheduler decrements the value of the CS field 420 by 1 (one) after a cell is transmitted on the VC indicated by the VC field 401. Also during operation of the elements shown in FIG. 4, when the Valid bit 401 is set, the Scheduler periodically adds the value from the IP field 440 into the value of the CP field 445, responsive to the Timer 330 as shown in FIG. 3. When the value of the CP field 445 is equal to or greater than 1, a cell may be transmitted on the VC indicated by the VC field 401 without exceeding the Peak Cell Rate for that VC.
FIG. 5 is a diagram of the steps of a method for scheduling cell transmissions. The steps of the method in FIG. 5 are an example embodiment of the Scheduler Process 325 in FIG. 3. The steps of FIG. 5 are performed on a table, each entry in the table including QoS parameters for one VC. In the example embodiment, the table corresponds with Scheduling Table 320 as shown in FIG. 3. However, in an alternative embodiment, the steps of FIG. 5, 6, 7 and 8 are applied directly to the entries in the Virtual Circuit Table 230 as shown in FIG. 2.
The Scheduling Table Entry 900 further includes a Valid bit 905. When the Valid bit 905 is set, the VC field 901 indicates a VC that is open and on which there is a cell ready to be transmitted. For example, where each packet consists of one or more cells, the Valid bit 905 remains set until all cells are transmitted for that packet. The Valid bit 905 is written when the Scheduler detects that a new packet ready for transmission is at the head of the Transmit Queue corresponding to the Scheduling Table Entry 900, and cleared when the last cell for that packet is transmitted. Further, if there are successive packet transmissions for the same Virtual Circuit, then the Valid bit 905 may remain set between the transmission of the two packets. And also, if the QoS parameters for a VC change during operation, then the Scheduler may clear the valid bit for a Scheduling Table entry that is currently transmitting over that VC. Upon writing the new QoS parameters into the virtual circuit table entry and subsequently loading the corresponding scheduler table entry, the valid bit is again set.
The Scheduling Table Entry 900 further includes a Latency Accumulator (CL) field 925. The CL field 925 contains the total time elapsed since a cell was transmitted on the VC indicated by the VC field 901. Also shown in the Scheduling Table Entry 930 is a Latency Increment (IL) field 930. The value of the IL field 930 is written by the Scheduler Process 325 when the Scheduler detects that a new packet ready for transmission is at the head of the Transmit Queue corresponding to the Scheduling Table Entry 900. The value of IL 930 is written by the Scheduler, responsive to the QoS parameters in the Virtual Circuit Table entry for the VC on which the new packet is to be transmitted, and reflects the CDV tolerance parameter specified in the connection request issued by the user for that VC. The value of IL field 930 is periodically added by the Scheduler to the CL field 925, responsive to the Timer 330, when the Valid bit 905 is set. Generally speaking, as the value in CL field 925 increases, the priority given to that VC for subsequent transmissions is similarly increased relative to other VCs.
Further during operation, the Scheduler subtracts the value in the TS field 945 from the value of the CS field 920 when a cell is transmitted on the VC indicated by the VC field 901. When the Valid bit 905 is set, the Scheduler Process 325 periodically increments the value of the CS field 920 by 1 responsive to the Timer 330 as shown in FIG. 3. When the value of the CS field 920 is greater than or equal to the value in the TS field 945, a cell may be transmitted on the VC indicated by VC field 901 without exceeding the Sustainable Cell Rate QoS parameter for that VC. Thus CS field 920 accumulates time as indicated by the Timer 330, and when the CS field 920 has accumulated enough time for 1 cell, then a cell may be transmitted.
The Scheduling Table Entry 900 also includes a Peak Cell Rate Period field (TP) 955. The value of the TP field 955 is derived from the QoS parameters in the Virtual Circuit Table 230 entry indicated by the VC field 901. The TP field 955 is written when the Scheduler detects that a new packet ready for transmission is at the head of the Transmit Queue corresponding to the Scheduling Table Entry 900. The value of the TP field 955 is the inverse of the Peak Cell Rate of the VC on which the new packet is to be transmitted. The value of the TP field 955 is given in terms of clock ticks, where the duration of one clock tick is the duration of Timer 330 in FIG. 3.
Next, the Scheduler determines which VC the new packet is to be transmitted on. The Scheduler then copies the values from the CS 1005, CP 1010, BS 1015, TS 1020, TP 1025, PRIO 1030 and IL 1035 fields of the Virtual Circuit Table entry for that VC into the CS 940, CP 960, BS 950, TS 945, TP 955, PRIO 920 and IL 930 fields of the Scheduling Table entry corresponding with the transmit queue of the pending transmission. The Scheduler next subtracts the value of the Timestamp field 1040 in the Virtual Circuit Table Entry 1000 from the current time. The Scheduler then adds the result of the subtraction to the new value of the CS field 940 and the new value of the CP field 960 of the Scheduling Table entry. For purposes of example, the current time is defined as the time since the last initialization of the network station.
In step 1140, the Scheduler determines whether all the entries in the table have been scanned. If the Scheduler determines that not all the entries in the table have been scanned, then step 1145 follows step 1140. Otherwise, if the Scheduler determines that all entries in the table have been scanned, then the Scheduler has completed scanning the table. In step 1145, the Scheduler selects the next entry in the table for scanning. Following step 1145, the Scheduler continues on with step 1100, repeating steps 1100 through 1145 until all the entries in the table have been scanned.
The system may alternatively be implemented using clock ticks of any frequency greater than or equal to the line rate, where the value of TS and TP are selected accordingly. For example if the scanning process is triggered each microsecond, and the link rate is one cell per 2.8 microseconds, and a given virtual circuit is allocated 50% of the total bandwidth for its sustainable rate, then the value of TS for that given virtual circuit is equal to 5.6. Whereas in contrast, if for the same link and virtual circuit the scanning were triggered every 2.8 microseconds, then the value of TS for that virtual circuit would be 2.
In an example embodiment, the period of the Timer 330 in FIG. 3 is programmable. In addition, the system may be configured to trigger a scan of the Scheduling Table in response to an input other than the expiration of the Timer 330. For example, the system may be configured to trigger a scan by the Scheduler Process 325 in response to link availability, such that a scan is performed only when the Scheduler detects that the link is available to transmit a cell.
The above equations show that the location of the binary point in the decoded (or unencoded) TS value is interpreted according to the value in the Exponent field 1405. Example values of the Exponent field 1405 are between 0 and 11, yielding frequencies between 41 Kbps and 169 Mbps, approximately.
In the example embodiment of FIGS. 14, 15, and 16, the Virtual Circuit Table and Scheduling Table entry fields TS and TP are stored as TS-- Encoded and TP-- Encoded respectively, wherein TS-- Encoded and TP-- Encoded are of the format shown in FIG. 14. The subfields of TS-- Encoded are referred to as Period-- S and Exp-- S, and the subfields within TP-- Encoded are referred to as Period-- P and Exp-- P. If the TS and TP fields are encoded as TS-- Encoded and TP-- Encoded, then they must be unencoded before the value of TS or TP may be compared with the unencoded accumulator fields CS or CP.
For purposes of example, the CS and BS fields are 20 bits wide. The values and representations of the TS, CS and BS fields vary depending on the values of the Period and Exponent fields shown in FIG. 14. For example, the relationship of the format of fields within the Virtual Circuit table and Scheduling Table is shown in FIG. 16.
In FIG. 16, a first column 1605 shows Exponent field values. A second column 1610 shows a 12 bit TS value, and a third column 1615 shows the CS and BS values. The `X`s in TS represent the bits in the Period field of the encoded representation TS-- Encoded as shown in FIG. 14. The `X`s in the CS and BS are the bits of the CS and BS parameters. The `.`s indicate the division between the integer portions and the fractional portions of the parameters.
MBS is the Maximum Burst Size specified in the ATM UNI specification Generic Cell Rate Algorithm.
A second alternative embodiment is now described including a system using timestamps within the Virtual Circuit Table. A Transmit Control Array (TCA) is used in the second alternative embodiment to store status information related to the packet currently at the head of a transmit queue. In the example embodiment, there is one TCA Entry associated with each transmit queue. In general, a TCA entry contains information regarding a packet that is to be transmitted, whereas a Scheduling Table entry contains information regarding the VC over which the packet is to be transmitted.
FIG. 17 is a diagram of an example embodiment of a Transmit Control Array Entry (TCA Entry) 1700 associated with a packet at the head of a given transmit queue. The fields in the TCA Entry 1700 are written and maintained by a combination of the control logic 240 as shown in FIG. 3, and processes running on the Host CPU 210 as shown in FIG. 2, responsive to other information in the DRAM 225, the host memory 215, and the SRAM 316 as shown in FIG. 3. TCA Entry 1700 is shown including a Schedule Table Entry Valid field 1705, a Virtual Circuits Equal field 1710, a Flush Packet field 1715, a TCA Entry Valid field 1720, a Chaser Packet field 1725, a Number of Bytes field 1730, and a Packet done field 1735. For purposes of example, the TCA Entry 1700 is stored in the DRAM 225 as shown in FIG. 2. In an alternative embodiment, the TCA Entry is maintained in other memory storage within the Network Station 200, for example in on-chip memory within an Application Specific Integrated Circuit, or the SRAM 315 as shown in FIG. 3.
The Schedule Table Entry Valid field 1705 indicates whether or not the Schedule Table Entry associated with the Transmit Queue for the TCA Entry 1700 is valid. A valid Schedule Table Entry contains information regarding a packet that has not yet been completely transmitted. The Virtual Circuits Equal field 1710 indicates whether the Virtual Circuit indicated by the Schedule Table Entry associated with the Transmit Queue for the TCA Entry 1700 is the same as the Virtual Circuit of the packet or cell for which the TCA Entry 1700 contains information. The Flush Packet field 1715 indicates whether a packet for which information is contained in the TCA Entry 1700 should be flushed. A packet must be flushed when it is to be transmitted onto a VC which has no flow control credits and is not likely to be replenished with credits in the near future. Flow control credits may be lost as a result of network data corruption. The TCA Entry Valid field 1720 indicates whether the TCA Entry 1700 is valid. A valid TCA Entry contains information regarding a packet that has not yet been completely transmitted. The Chaser Packet field 1725 indicates whether a packet at the head of the transmit queue associated with the TCA Entry 1700 is a chaser packet. A chaser packet for a given VC is queued behind all other packets of that VC on a given queue when the VC is to be closed. The Number of Bytes field 1730 contains the number of bytes of the packet that are currently stored in the FIFO associated with the Transmit Queue associated with the TCA Entry 1700. The Packet Done field 1735 indicates whether the end of the packet for which information is contained in TCA Entry 1700 has been placed in to the FIFO associated with the Transmit Queue associated with the TCA Entry 1700.
FIG. 18 is a diagram of steps performed by a third example embodiment of a method for selecting a virtual circuit for transmission. The steps shown in FIG. 18 are performed by the process corresponding with step 510 in FIG. 5, which is contained within the Scheduler Process 325 as shown in FIG. 3. The steps shown in FIG. 18 select one Schedule Table entry from those entries indicating a VC on which a cell may be transmitted without exceeding the QoS parameters for that VC. The steps of FIG. 18 are performed iteratively on all Schedule Table entries. If an entry is found to "win" by the steps shown in FIG. 18, then that entry is written into a "current candidate" register maintained by the Scheduler. The Schedule Table entry contained in the current candidate register after the steps of FIG. 18 have been performed on all Schedule Table entries indicates the next VC on which a transmission may be made.
In step 1800 of FIG. 18, the Scheduler determines if the Schedule Table entry is valid. A Schedule Table entry is valid if it indicates a packet which has not been completely transmitted. The determination of step 1800 is made by reading the Schedule Table Entry Valid field in the TCA Entry for the transmit queue associated with the Schedule Table entry. If the Schedule Table entry is valid, step 1800 is followed by step 1805. If the Schedule Table entry is not valid, then step 1800 is followed by step 1840. In step 1805, the Scheduler determines if the TCA Entry for the Transmit Queue associated with the Schedule Table entry is valid. The determination of step 1805 is made by reading the TCA Entry Valid field in the TCA Entry for the transmit queue associated with the Schedule Table entry. A TCA Entry is valid if it indicates a packet at the head of the transmit queue which has not been fully transmitted. If that TCA Entry is valid, step 1805 is followed by step 1810. If that TCA Entry is not valid, then step 1810 is followed by step 1840.
In step 1810 of FIG. 18, the Scheduler determines whether the TCA Entry related to the packet at the head of the queue associated with the Schedule Table entry being examined indicates a Virtual Circuit which is the same as the Virtual Circuit currently indicated by the Schedule Table entry being examined. The determination of step 1810 is made by reading the Virtual Circuits Equal field in the TCA Entry for the transmit queue associated with the Schedule Table entry. If the two Virtual Circuits are equal, then step 1810 is followed by step 1815. If the two Virtual Circuits are not equal, then step 1810 is followed by step 1840.
In step 1815 of FIG. 18, the Scheduler determines whether there are greater than 48 bytes remaining of data in the FIFO of the current packet at the head of the transmit queue associated with the Schedule Table entry being examined, or whether the end of that packet has been placed into the FIFO. The determination of step 1815 is made by reading the Number of Bytes and Packet Done fields in the TCA Entry for the transmit queue associated with the Schedule Table entry. If either condition is true, then step 1815 is followed by step 1820. If neither condition is true, then step 1815 is followed by step 1840.
In step 1820 of FIG. 18, the Scheduler determines whether there are Sustained Cell Rate and Peak Cell Rate tokens available for the Virtual Circuit indicated by the Schedule Table entry being examined. If both Sustained Cell Rate and Peak Cell Rate tokens are available for that Virtual Circuit, then step 1820 is followed by step 1825. A Sustained Cell Rate token is available when the value of the CS field in the Schedule Table entry is greater than or equal to the value of the TS field. Similarly, a Peak Cell Rate token is available when the value of the CP field in the Schedule Table entry is greater than or equal to the value of the TP field. If either Sustained Cell Rate or Peak Cell rate tokens are not available for that Virtual Circuit, then step 1820 followed by step 1840.
In step 1825 of FIG. 18, the Scheduler determines whether at least one flow control credit is available for the Virtual Circuit indicated by the Schedule Table entry being examined, and whether the packet at the head of the Transmit Queue associated with the current Schedule Table entry is to be flushed, and whether that packet is a chaser packet. It will be evident to one skilled in the art that various flow control mechanisms may be employed consistent with the principles of the invention. Generally, no flow control credit is required to transmit a chaser packet, or a packet that is to be flushed. Otherwise, a flow control credit is required to transmit a cell. The determination of step 1825 is made by reading the Chaser Packet and Flush Packet fields of the TCA Entry for the transmit queue associated with the Schedule Table entry. Also, a Credit Available field may be included in the Virtual Circuit table entry of the virtual circuit indicated by the Schedule Table entry. The Scheduler determines whether a flow control credit is available by reading the Credit Available field. If a flow control credit is available, or that packet is to be flushed, or that packet is a chaser packet, then step 1825 is followed by step 1830. If none of those three conditions are true, then step 1825 is followed by step 1840.
In step 1830, the Scheduler determines whether the priority indicated by the Schedule Table entry being examined is higher than the priority of the Schedule Table entry currently stored in the current candidate register. The priority of a Schedule Table entry is determined by comparing both the Priority field and the Latency Accumulator fields of that Schedule Table entry with those of the current candidate. If the priority of the Schedule Table entry being examined is higher, or the priority is equal but the Latency Accumulator field value of the Schedule Table entry being examined is higher, then step 1830 is followed by step 1835. If the priority of the Schedule Table entry being examined is less than that of the current candidate, then step 1830 is followed by step 1840. In step 1830, the Scheduler writes the value of the Schedule Table entry currently being examined into the current candidate register and then reads the next Schedule Table entry. In step 1840, the Scheduler does not write a new value to the current candidate register, and simply reads the next Schedule Table entry. The steps shown in FIG. 18 are repeated until they have been performed on all Schedule Table entries. The result of the steps shown in FIG. 18 is that the current candidate register indicates a Virtual Circuit on which the next transmission may be made.
FIG. 19 is a flow diagram of steps performed by an example embodiment of a process for loading a Schedule Table Entry. During operation, when the Scheduler detects that a new packet ready for transmission is at the head of a Transmit Queue, the Scheduler determines which Scheduling Table Entry corresponds with the Transmit Queue of the pending transmission. Next, the Scheduler determines which VC the new packet is to be transmitted on. If the VC on which the new packet is to be transmitted is not equal to the VC currently indicated by the Scheduling Table entry corresponding with the Transmit Queue of the pending transmission, then the steps shown in FIG. 19 are performed. The Scheduler then performs the steps shown in FIG. 19 using the values from the fields of the Virtual Circuit Table entry for that VC, and the Scheduling Table entry corresponding with the transmit queue of the pending transmission.
In step 1900 of FIG. 19, the Scheduler calculates the time elapsed since the Virtual Circuit Table entry was last written. This is done by subtracting the value of the Timestamp field in the Virtual Circuit Table entry from the value of the Current Time. For example, the Current Time may be defined as the total accumulated time since the system was last initialized. As described previously, the Timestamp field in the Virtual Circuit Table entry is written with the value of the Current Time whenever the Virtual Circuit Table Entry is written. For purposes of example, the time calculated in step 1900 is herein referred to as Elapsed Time.
Following step 1900, in step 1905, the Scheduler calculates a new value for the CS field in the Schedule Table entry. The new CS value is equal to the minimum of either (1) the CS field value in the Virtual Circuit Table entry plus Elapsed Time, or (2) the value of the BS field in the Virtual Circuit Table entry. The new CS value is then written to the CS field in the Schedule Table entry.
Next, after step 1905, in step 1910 the Scheduler calculates a new value for the CP field in the Schedule Table entry. The new CP value is equal to the minimum of either (1) the value of the CP field in the Virtual Circuit Table entry plus Elapsed Time, or (2) TP', where TP' equals the value of TP obtained from the TP field in the Virtual Circuit Table entry plus 1, minus the least significant bit. The new value of CP is then written into the CP field of the Schedule Table entry.
Note that the maximum value of CP, as a result of the steps 1120 and 1125 in FIG. 11, is equal to TP+1 minus the value of the least significant bit of TP. For example, in step 1120, the value of CP may be equal to at most the value of TP minus the least significant bit, if step 1125 is to be executed. After step 1125, CP would then be equal to TP plus 1, also minus the least significant bit. After a cell is subsequently transmitted in that case, CP is decremented by the value of TP (see step 1305 in FIG. 13). If CP were allowed to increase until it were equal to TP+1, then another cell could potentially be transmitted before a sufficient time period has passed to ensure that the Peak Cell Rate is not exceeded.
CP is therefore allowed to increase in value until it is less than TP by a difference equal to the least significant bit of TP. This relationship must be maintained in order that the negotiated Peak Cell Rate for that Virtual Circuit is not exceeded. Therefore, in Step 1910, the least significant bit is subtracted when calculating TP'.
Step 1910 is followed by step 1915. In step 1915, the Scheduler calculates a new value for the CL field in the Scheduler Table entry. The new value for CL is equal to the value of the IL field in the Virtual Circuit Table entry multiplied by Elapsed Time. Note that for purposes of example, Elapsed Time must be stored in terms of the same time interval as is used to scan the Schedule Table for step 1915 to work as described. It will be evident to one skilled in the art that Elapsed Time may be also be stored in other representations, requiring additional calculation during step 1915. The new value of CL is then written into the CL field of the Schedule Table entry.
The disclosed system provides a significant advantage by avoiding multiplies when loading the CP and CS fields in the Schedule Table. In steps 1905 and 1910 of FIG. 19, the Elapsed Time value is simply added to the CS and CP fields respectively, rather than requiring a multiplication of the time unit of Elapsed Time by the increment values for sustained rate and peak rate. This advantage flows from using the TS and TP fields to store a number of clock ticks that must pass before a cell may be transmitted on that virtual circuit.
In an alternative embodiment, CL may be defined as accumulated latency only between cells within a single packet on a VC. In that alternative embodiment, the value of CL is set to zero when an entry in the Scheduling Table is loaded from the Virtual Circuit table.
FIG. 20 is a flow diagram of the process for writing an entry in the Virtual Circuit table. The process shown in FIG. 20 may be implemented either within an Application Specific Integrated Circuit or as a program running on a microprocessor in the network adapter. The process shown in FIG. 20 is, for purposes of example, included within the Scheduler Process 325 as shown in FIG. 3. During operation of the elements of FIG. 20, a trigger event 2000 occurs that begins the process of FIG. 20. A first example of the trigger event 2000 is detection by the Scheduler, responsive to the transmit process 305 as shown in FIG. 3, that the last cell in a packet has been transmitted. After the Scheduler detects that the last cell has been transmitted, then in step 2005 the Scheduler copies the value from the CS 940 field in the Schedule Table entry for the packet that was just transmitted into the CS 1005 field of the Virtual Circuit Table Entry 1000 corresponding with the virtual circuit over which the packet was transmitted.
Following step 2005, the Scheduler copies the value of the CP 960 field from that Scheduling Table Entry into the CP field 1010 of the Virtual Circuit Table Entry 1000 corresponding with the virtual circuit over which the packet was transmitted. After step 2010, in step 2015, the Scheduler then writes the value of the current time into the Time Stamp field 1040 in the Virtual Circuit Table Entry 1000.
In a second example embodiment, the trigger condition 2000 is the Scheduler detecting when a new packet as indicated by an entry at the head of a transmit queue. In that second example embodiment, the Virtual Circuit Table Entry 1000 further includes a Latency Accumulator field. Further in the second example embodiment, in addition to the steps of FIG. 20, the Scheduler performs an additional step of copying the value of the Latency Accumulator field CL 925 into the Latency Accumulator field of the Virtual Circuit Table Entry. Also in the second example embodiment, the Scheduler adds the value of the Latency Accumulator in the Virtual Circuit table entry to the product of the Elapsed Time and the Latency Increment for that Virtual Circuit, and writes the result to the Latency Accumulator field in the Scheduler Table entry whenever a Schedule Table entry is loaded from the Virtual Circuit table entry.
transmitting means, responsive to said scanning means, for transmitting a cell on said virtual circuit when the value of said first Cell Rate Accumulator field value is greater than or equal to the value of said first Predetermined Value field.
wherein said schedule table loading means is responsive to a transmit queue entry arriving at the head of one of said one or more transmit queues, said transmit queue entry indicating said packet to be transmitted.
virtual circuit table loading means, responsive to said transmit queue entry arriving at the head of said one of said one or more transmit queues, for storing a value from said first Cell Rate Accumulator field in said schedule table entry to said first Cell Rate Accumulator field of said virtual circuit table entry corresponding with said virtual circuit, and for storing a current time value to said Time Stamp field of said virtual circuit table entry corresponding with said virtual circuit.
virtual circuit table loading means, responsive to said transmitting means having transmitted a last cell of a packet, for storing a value from said first Cell Rate Accumulator field of said schedule table entry to said first Cell Rate Accumulator field of said virtual circuit table entry corresponding with said virtual circuit, and for storing a current time value to said Time Stamp field of said virtual circuit table entry corresponding with said virtual circuit.
said schedule table loading means further storing said minimum into said first Cell Rate Accumulator field of said schedule table entry.
6. The system as in claim 1, wherein the value of said first Predetermined Value field for a given one of said one or more schedule table entries equals the inverse of a predetermined sustainable cell rate limit for a virtual circuit indicated by said given one of said one or more schedule table entries divided by a time period T, and said scanning means increments said first Cell Rate Accumulator field each time period T by adding an increment value to said first Cell Rate Accumulator field value, said increment value equal to 1.
said schedule table loading means multiplying said time elapsed by the value of said latency increment field in said virtual circuit table entry corresponding with said virtual circuit, and storing the result of said multiplication into said latency accumulator field of said schedule table entry.
8. The system of claim 7, said schedule table loading means further copying said latency increment field value in said virtual circuit table entry corresponding with said virtual circuit into a latency increment field of said schedule table entry corresponding with said one of said one or more transmit queues.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein the value of said first Predetermined Value field for each of said one or more entries equals 1, and said scanning means increments said first Cell Rate Accumulator field of said schedule table entry every time period T by adding an increment value to said first Cell Rate Accumulator field value, wherein said increment value equals a number of cells that may be transmitted by said network node during said time period T on a virtual circuit indicated by said schedule table entry, and not exceed a predetermined sustainable rate of transmission permitted for said indicated virtual circuit.
said schedule table loading means storing zero into said latency accumulator field of said schedule table entry.
said schedule table loading means adding said time elapsed to a value of said second Cell Rate Accumulator field in said virtual circuit table entry corresponding with said virtual circuit, and storing the result of said addition into said second Cell Rate Accumulator field of said schedule table entry.
said schedule table loading means storing said minimum into said second Cell Rate Accumulator field of said schedule table entry.
13. The system of claim 11, wherein the value of said second Predetermined Value field for a given one of said one or more entries equals the inverse of a predetermined peak cell rate limit for the virtual circuit indicated by said schedule table entry divided by a time period T, and said scanning means increments said second Cell Rate Accumulator each time period T by adding an increment value to said second Cell Rate Accumulator field value, said increment value equal to 1.
14. The system of claim 13, wherein the value of said second Predetermined Value field for each of said one or more entries equals 1, and said scanning means increments said second Cell Rate Accumulator field of a given schedule table entry each time period T by adding an increment value to said second Cell Rate Accumulator field value, said increment value equal to a number of cells that may be transmitted on a virtual circuit indicated by said given schedule table entry during said time period T and not exceed a predetermined peak rate of transmission permitted for said indicated virtual circuit.
15. The system as in claim 13, claim 9, or claim 14, wherein said time period T is equal to one cell time, where said cell time is a time period equal to the amount of time required by said network node to transmit one cell onto said network.
transmitting a cell on said virtual circuit when the value of said first Cell Rate Accumulator field value is greater than or equal to said first Predetermined Value field value.
17. The method as in claim 16, said network node also including a memory and one or more transmit queues in said memory, each said transmit queue associated with one of said schedule table entries, each said transmit queue including zero or more entries, each of said zero or more transmit queue entries indicating a packet in a memory, wherein said determining, calculating, adding and storing steps are responsive to a transmit queue entry arriving at the head of one of said one or more transmit queues, said transmit queue entry indicating said packet to be transmitted.
storing a current time value to said Time Stamp field of said virtual circuit table entry corresponding with said virtual circuit.
storing, responsive to transmitting means a last cell of a packet, a value from said first Cell Rate Accumulator field of said schedule table entry to said first Cell Rate Accumulator field of said virtual circuit table entry corresponding with said virtual circuit, and for storing a current time value to said Time Stamp field of said virtual circuit table entry corresponding with said virtual circuit.
storing said minimum into said first Cell Rate Accumulator field of said schedule table entry.
storing the result of said addition into said second Cell Rate Accumulator field of said schedule table entry.
storing said minimum into said second Cell Rate Accumulator field of said schedule table entry.
23. The method as in claim 16, wherein the value of said first Predetermined Value field for a given one of said one or more schedule table entries equals the inverse of a predetermined sustainable cell rate limit for a virtual circuit indicated by said given one of said one or more schedule table entries divided by a time period T, and said periodic incrementing step increments said first Cell Rate Accumulator field each time period T by adding an increment value to said first Cell Rate Accumulator field value, said increment value equal to 1.
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Re-entering the atmosphere at uninspiring speed.
I haven’t posted in a very long time for four simple reasons: New job, Two cancers for the wife, New house move. Those ordeals spanned twenty months.
First, she’s fine. Within eight months she was in remission. We are incredibly fortunate to find them at such low stages. One can still be at stage zero and feel regularly tired.
Life does many things to the middle-aged man trying to establish a routine. Regular exercise. Improvements toward goal reaching. Expecting and enjoying the sore after effects that tell the mind you’re doing a good job. If you weren’t, you wouldn’t feel anything.
In my last post about the Soma Smoothie, I discussed riding it the first time after the build and after my new job training. Up until that point, I had more focused on getting ready for a job fair, then preparing for the interview, then preparing to go into training hitting the ground running. Then I had a new schedule and it was fall going into winter. Six months into the new job the cancer was revealed so I spent more time in doctors’ offices and not on the bike. Papers were simultaneously signed for a new house down the road so we also had to start packing for the fall move. Delays for the house meant renting an apartment with my bikes in the back of a storage unit for 4 months. That was 2017. Holidays happened right after the move.
So I got to discover something else. Where fat re-appears after adding muscle. The gut. NOW I understand the beer gut on a working man skilled in physical labor. Where before I just had a layer of a blubberific shape resembling a stature more inline with a football, I now was accumulating a more centered mass. The lowest I ever hit in all this was 199 pounds in May of 2014 and hovered from that to 205 until early ’16.
Illness was a bad one this past winter. I had strep for the first time since I was five. I had a vacation in January, three weeks, and made plans for miles, but got sick again. There were ten days of health packed into six weeks. I tried to start again in March but I really didn’t feel it. I was beaten down by all of it. Several people who have worked out their whole life or trained for the sport since birth kept telling me the same crap. Exercise makes you feel better and is a great escape from the problems and a way to reset your mind. Well, I agree on one hand, but on the other hand, this was all coming from people who were never out of shape and didn’t spend the first half of their life convinced they were doing fine without the extra work wasting time.
So in the end, I realized that I was more creative and productive than I ever was in life when I was regularly on the bike. The short stories were coming on strong, I had started a longer piece of fiction with potential. I really had something going on beyond work and a paycheck and dreams. Things were achievable instead of just things happening.
I’m giving myself the Boulder-Roubaix race as the goal. It’s in April. Today is August. I’ve only been back on the bike a few times in the last two weeks but with a seriously tiny gas tank and no volume at all, I blitzed 32 miles at heart rates I probably shouldn’t have sustained for as long as I did (especially considering the average speed for that effort is less than what I had grown accustomed to.) I’m 44 now. I think results will be good If I can sustain the efforts and remind myself what happens when I don’t. The job schedule is more predictable now, and I have the time.
So it’s time to get it on.
And the Soma Smoothie? It’ still a great bike. Same parts. Great fast cruiser. Awesome choice for a long day out and about, and quite capable of a century or so. 2019 for me should see that Smoothie on a 100-mile ride involving the top of Rocky Mountain National Park, however, their recent Fog Cutter piqued my interest for both the centuries and long gravel work, like say a super grinder…if you were to want a steel frame.
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So this January I am delving back into painting. Its a challenge and I am embracing it! Honestly this isn’t all my own plan, my mum has asked for some new paintings as she has just redecorated and you can’t say no to your mum!
I jumped right in, firstly clearing out my painting supplies (why did I keep so many paint-covered jars?!) and then started planning out what I was actually going to paint. In total there are four canvases on the go, but I needed that sense of accomplishment so chose to finish one and keep the others on pause for now. Im usually great at procrastinating, I think secretly that finishing one canvas, is really a distraction to everyone that I am ignoring the other three!
This first painting was planned out as a leaf design, I spend some time looking at tropical plants and swatching a lot of colour combinations. This painting will be calling a cream wall it’s home and we wanted to have grey incorporated into it. I mooched about on pinterest for a bit, just looking at colours textures and getting distracted by all the recipes on there… Eventually the plant theme was becoming clear and I chose to sketch out a couple of ideas. I find that keeping ideas loosely in a sketchbook is helpful when you want to look back at what you were thinking when an idea first came to you. I had planned to take out all my notes and post-its before I photographed the pages for this blog post, but something was telling me to leave them there. Now that I’m writing and editing this I think it’s because my scratchy notes show more of a progress than a neat page (I am anything but neat) and when I’m reading other blog posts or seeing someone else’s sketchbook online, I really like that ‘behind the scenes’ vibe.
So back to the actual painting, we agreed on this ‘leafy theme’ I had played around with and lots of phthalo green (a favourite) I added some crimson for some darker contrast and adding white creates this lovely fresh-almost minty brightness. Am I happy? Well yeah! I haven’t painted in ages and I’m pleased with this finished piece, is it still looking nice and leafy like I planned… I’m not too sure. I’m getting a feather/peacock vibe from it now.
I’m off to plan the next painting and get started on that. Do you have a creative process like me? I just can’t go at that pristine white canvas without a plan!
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I just finished reading Graeme Simsion’s article What’s Wrong With The Zachman Framework? and found his opinions to be quite shallow. His opinions show a limited exposure to the basic interrogatives–only as John Zachman has portrayed them–and a lack of knowledge that every modeling language uses combinations of the interrogatives to convey meaning. The interrogatives are rarely dealt with individually and even Zachman makes this mistake in his examples regarding the focuses.
First, Simsion attacks the limitation of six perspectives. He advocates adding a volume and cost perspective to the interrogatives. He doesn’t realize that volume and value are irrelevant because the six interrogatives are scalable. Second, the architecture metaphor is challenged. Simsion never abstracted Zachman’s model. If he had he would realize that the architectural metaphor conceals what the six perspectives are actually about: Entities, Relationships, Attributes, Constraints, Definitions and Manipulations. Third, Simsion claims there is no evidence of the plausibility of the Zachman Framework. He fails to recognize that every modeling system is using the interrogatives to only partial effect and deriving significant benefits in quantity and quality of product. There at this time is no product that integrates all of the interrogatives in the Zachman Framework. Simsion also criticizes the framework for his inability to incorporate object oriented projects into it. The reason for this is because he doesn’t realize that objects must be treated as attributes not as entities as laid down by Chris Date in his Third Manifesto.
The truth is the interrogatives have a foundation that goes back over three thousand years across every human culture. A human system has six scalable characteristics: Who, What, When, Where, How and Why. A non-human system has four scalable characteristics: What, When, Where and How. I don’t recall anyone asking Einstein about Volume or Cost when he wrote E=mc².
Simsion’s article is a tribute to ignorance. John Zachman’s interpretation only scratches the surface.
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Jackie Bradley Jr.'s eighth-inning grand slam sealed the Boston Red Sox' 8-2 triumph over the reigning World Series champion Astros in Houston on Tuesday.
The Red Sox seized a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven American League Championship Series, with the winner of the series to take on either the Los Angeles Dodgers or Milwauke Brewers in the World Series.
The Dodgers and Brewers faced off later in Los Angeles, where the hosts were out to level their National League series at 2-2.
The Red Sox put the game in Houston out of reach with five runs in the top of the eighth inning -- four of them on Bradley's grand slam to right field off a pitch from reliever Roberto Osuna.
Two innings earlier, Boston's Steve Pearce belted a solo homer down the left field line against right-handed reliever Joe Smith to give Boston a 3-2 lead in what was a close game until Osuna's meltdown in the eighth.
Osuna hit two batters -- one with the bases loaded to force in a run -- and allowed three hits in the frame and departed to boos from the home crowd.
The Red Sox had seized the initiative in the first inning, scoring two runs on a double from J.D. Martinez and a ground out by Xander Bogaerts against Houston starting pitcher Dallas Keuchel.
The Astros pulled a run back in the bottom of the first on Marwin Gonzalez's run-scoring single against Red Sox starter Nathan Eovaldi.
Eovaldi gave up another run in the fifth inning, when a double by Alex Bregman scored Jose Altuve.
Houston host game four on Wednesday.
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The Tyne–Wear derby, also known as the North East derby, is a local derby between the association football clubs Sunderland and Newcastle United. The derby is an inter-city rivalry in North East England with the two cities of Sunderland and Newcastle just 12 miles (19 km) apart. Sunderland play their home matches at the Stadium of Light whilst Newcastle play their home matches at St. James' Park. The first meeting of the two sides took place in 1883, with the first competitive fixture being an 1888 FA Cup tie, which Sunderland won 2–0. To date, Newcastle have won on 53 occasions while Sunderland 53, whilst sharing 50 draws – one of which Sunderland went on to win via a penalty shootout. The most recent meeting of the two sides, on 20 March 2016, was a Premier League match at the St James' Park and ended in a 1–1 draw, with Jermain Defoe opening the scoring for Sunderland before Aleksandar Mitrovic equalised for Newcastle. Yann M'Vila, who has played in both games, describes it as bigger than the Milan derby.
The history of the Tyne–Wear derby is a modern-day extension of a rivalry between Sunderland and Newcastle that dates back to the English Civil War when protestations over advantages that merchants in Royalist Newcastle had over their Wearside counterparts led to Sunderland becoming a Parliamentarian stronghold.
Sunderland and Newcastle again found themselves on opposite sides during the Jacobite risings, with Newcastle in support of the Hanoverians with the German King George, and Sunderland siding with the Scottish Stuarts.
Players warm up at the Stadium of Light ahead of the derby game.
Prior to the beginning of the twentieth century, the main rivalries in Sunderland and Newcastle were cross-town affairs. In Newcastle, a rivalry existed during the 1880s between Newcastle East End (later to become Newcastle United) and Newcastle West End, which was ended with West End's bankruptcy in 1892. Meanwhile, on Wearside, a group of players broke away from Sunderland, and formed the rival Sunderland Albion in 1888, though Albion was forced to fold four years later. The first meeting between the two took place in 1883, with the first competitive fixture, an FA Cup tie in November 1887. Sunderland won the game 2–0.
Around the turn of the 20th century, the rivalry began to emerge. The 1901 Good Friday encounter, late in the 1900–01 season at St James' Park had to be abandoned as up to 120,000 fans made their way into a ground which then had a capacity of 30,000. The news was met with anger, and rioting followed, with a number of fans injured. However, in general, although the derby attracted big crowds – with fans often climbing trees and buildings for views of the game – there is little evidence to suggest any animosity between the two sets of supporters in the pre-war and immediate post-war period. On 5 December 1908, Sunderland beat Newcastle 9–1 at St James' Park, despite this Newcastle still won the league title that season finishing 9 points ahead of their local rivals who finished 3rd. The result remains the biggest ever win in a Tyne–Wear derby, as well as the Wearsiders' biggest ever win away from home and Newcastle's biggest ever home league defeat. Newcastle's largest victory margin in a derby is 6–1, which they have achieved twice – at home in 1920 and away in 1955.
In 1979, Sunderland won 4–1 at Newcastle, with Gary Rowell (who was born in Seaham, County Durham) scoring a hat-trick. On New Year's Day 1985, Newcastle-born Peter Beardsley scored a hat trick in Newcastle's 3–1 victory in the fixture.
In 1990, the sides met in a Second Division play off semi final dubbed 'the biggest Tyne–Wear derby in history'. The first leg, at Roker Park, ended goalless after Sunderland missed a penalty, who then won the second leg 2–0 at St James' Park. Towards the end of the second leg, some Newcastle fans invaded the pitch in the hope of forcing an abandonment. However, the game was resumed and Sunderland completed the win. Sunderland went on lose the final to Swindon Town, but were still promoted due to financial irregularities at Swindon.
In a memorable derby on 25 August 1999, Newcastle manager Ruud Gullit dropped leading scorers Alan Shearer and Duncan Ferguson to the bench. Sunderland went on to win the game 2–1 at St. James' Park thanks to goals from Kevin Phillips and Niall Quinn, and in the face of outrage from Newcastle fans, Gullit quit before their next match. Sunderland repeated the feat a year later, in a match remembered for Sunderland goalkeeper Thomas Sørensen saving a Shearer penalty. Another eventful derby on 17 April 2006, Newcastle came from one nill down at half time to beat Sunderland 4–1 at the Stadium of Light. One of Newcastle's scorers that day, Michael Chopra, later joined Sunderland and played in 3 derbies against Newcastle. On 25 October 2008, Sunderland beat Newcastle 2–1 at the Stadium of Light, their first home win in a derby for 28 years.
On 31 October 2010, Newcastle beat Sunderland, who played with 10 men for over 60 minutes, 5–1 at home, with their captain Kevin Nolan scoring a hat-trick in the match, while Sunderland's former Newcastle defender Titus Bramble was sent off. Newcastle led the return fixture in January 2011 1–0 thanks to another Nolan goal, only for Sunderland's Asamoah Gyan to equalise in injury time. The next derby took place in August 2011 at the Stadium of Light, where Newcastle won 1–0 thanks to a Ryan Taylor free kick. The return fixture at St. James Park ended 1–1. Both sides were charged by the FA for failing to keep their players under control, charges which they both accepted.
On 14 April 2013, Sunderland defeated Newcastle 3–0 at St James' Park in manager Paolo Di Canio's second game in charge, their first away win in the fixture in 13 years. The attendance for the game was 52,355 with 2,000 Sunderland fans, this included the suspended Black cats midfielder Craig Gardner. The Sunderland goalscorers were Stéphane Sessègnon in the 27th minute, Adam Johnson in the 74th minute and David Vaughan in the 82nd minute. The following season saw Sunderland do the double over Newcastle for the first time since the 1966/67 season and win three derbies in a row since 1923- the Black Cats edging a 2–1 Stadium of Light on 27 October 2013, before a repeat 0–3 victory at St James Park on 1 February 2014, with goals from Fabio Borini, Adam Johnson and Jack Colback. On 21 December 2014, Adam Johnson scored a late goal in the 90th minute past goalkeeper, Jak Alnwick, at St James' Park ensuring that Sunderland had defeated Newcastle in 4 consecutive derbies- a new record and it was also Sunderland's third consecutive victory at St James' Park. On 5 April 2015 Sunderland again defeated Newcastle to make it five derby wins in a row and doing the double over Newcastle for a second consecutive season, Jermaine Defoe scored a stunning 22 yard strike on the stroke of half-time to give Sunderland victory. On 25 October 2015 Sunderland once again defeated Newcastle to make it a record sixth consecutive derby victory over their rivals. A penalty from Adam Johnson opened the scoring which saw Newcastle down to 10 men with Fabricio Collocini sent off as a result. Then a goal from Billy Jones and a Steven Fletcher volley sealed the win.
The 1996–97 season saw Sunderland join Newcastle in the Premier League. However proposals were put forward to ban Newcastle fans from the aging Roker Park on safety and security grounds. A last-minute agreement by Sunderland and Northumbria Police was to allow 1,000 Newcastle supporters to attend the game. However, Newcastle had already made arrangements for a live televised beamback, and so rejected the offer. Responding to criticism from fans, Newcastle's then Chief Executive Freddie Fletcher suggested that the state of Roker Park was to blame and told fans: "Don't blame Newcastle. Don't blame Northumbria Police. Blame Sunderland!"
In response to the ban on Newcastle fans at Roker Park, Newcastle placed a similar ban on Sunderland fans for the return fixture at St James' Park.
Fearing that this would set a precedent for future derby matches, supporters groups and fanzines of both sides joined together to form the Wear United pressure group. Supporters of both sides were assured that away fans would be able to attend future derby games, though this was probably more to do with the fact that the 1996–1997 season was Sunderland's last at Roker Park before moving into the brand new Stadium of Light.
In January 2014, following violence after the previous year's derby in Newcastle, a 'bubble trip' was announced for Sunderland fans wishing to travel to St James' Park for the game- supporters would be denied entry unless they travelled to the game on official buses leaving from Sunderland, regardless of where they lived. The measure resulted in an angry response from both Sunderland and Newcastle supporters, with websites and fanzines from both sets of fans issuing a joint statement opposing the measure. Subsequently, a row broke out between the clubs and Northumbria Police as to why the bubble trip was being implemented, and Sunderland AFC withdrew the conditions, and in a joint statement with Newcastle United, criticised Northumbria Police's claims that they had not directed changes in kick off times over many years as 'false and absurd', and that all future games would kick off at times to suit the clubs and any TV broadcasts.
The Wear–Tyne derby has on occasion experienced incidents of football hooliganism. In 1990, as Sunderland led the playoff semi final 2–0, some Newcastle fans entered the pitch, in the hope of getting the match abandoned. There were 160 arrests in connection with a game in 2001. In 2008, after Sunderland beat Newcastle at home for the first time in 28 years, there was a small pitch invasion by Sunderland fans, and missiles were thrown at Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton, although manager Roy Keane played down the seriousness of the incident. On 16 January 2011 in the FA Premier League clash at the Stadium of Light, a 17-year-old Sunderland fan ran onto the pitch and pushed over Newcastle goalkeeper Steve Harper, and was among 24 people who were arrested in connection with a string of hooligan incidents at the game. However, incidents of violence are not as common as sometimes suggested – for example Sunderland were awarded the best behaved fans award for the 2010–11 season, despite the derby day arrests.
On 14 April 2013, some Newcastle United fans rioted on the streets of Newcastle upon Tyne following the 3–0 defeat by Sunderland at St. James' Park, with one fan's attack on a police horse gaining international media attention. Four police officers were injured and 29 arrests made. Confrontation between fans of the rival teams at Newcastle's Central Station was shown in the series ;;All Aboard: East Coast Trains;; in an episode entitled "Derby Day".
Newcastle have achieved the double in nine seasons (most recently in the 2005–06 season), while Sunderland have managed seven doubles, most recently in 2014–15.
In addition, the guest system operated in British football during World War II meant that most teams fielded guest players. Amongst these was the Newcastle forward Jackie Milburn who made two guest appearances for Sunderland against Gateshead twice during the 1944–45 season. Another Newcastle striker, Albert Stubbins also guested for Sunderland several times during the 1941–42 season, including an appearance in the Wartime Cup Final, which Sunderland lost to Wolverhampton Wanderers despite a Stubbins goal.
Bob Stokoe, who won the FA Cup as a player with Newcastle in 1955, was manager of Sunderland between 1972 and 1977, guiding the Wearsiders to their famous FA Cup victory in 1973 and promotion to Division One in 1976. He returned to manage them briefly again in 1987.
Only one man has taken charge of both teams. On 15 May 2007, Newcastle appointed Sam Allardyce as their new manager, who had played for Sunderland in the early 1980s. He was named the new manager of Sunderland on 9 October 2015, becoming the first person to manage both derby rivals.
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As we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web, it gets more and more difficult to imagine life without it — or without cat videos. And although our world certainly has been transformed by the Web’s capabilities, its history includes some persistent myths and comically naive predictions.
We know who invented the Web and the Internet, and when.
Ask Google who invented the Web and the Internet, and it will give you an answer. But the concept of “invention” does not map well to the actual histories of these technologies, which arose from collaborations among large numbers of people and whose development features very few moments that were obvious transformations.
The history of the Web has one singular figure, Tim Berners-Lee, who wrote the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) to format text-based documents, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to send documents across the Internet, and a software program to view or browse pages. But Berners-Lee did not sit down one day and create the Internet. There were many precursors, including ideas and systems sketched by Paul Otlet, Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson. And Berners-Lee began to play with hypertext programs in 1980, nearly 10 years before he and Robert Cailliau developed a proposal for an information-management system.
Other milestones included the posting of the first Web site on Dec. 20, 1990; when Berners-Lee announced the Web project to a public mailing list on Aug. 6, 1991; and the declaration on April 30, 1993, that the Web’s underlying code would be publicly and freely available. Myths about the Internet’s militaristic origins and Al Gore’s role have proved difficult to kill, despite some clear documentation of the facts by networking pioneers including Stephen Lukasik, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn.
The Web is an American innovation.
Discussions about Internet governance often focus on international pressure to diminish U.S. control. The Defense Department spent hundreds of millions of dollars from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s developing the core technologies of the Internet. Through entities such as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) and the Defense Communications Agency, defense investments played major roles in the creation of the digital infrastructure that we use to browse the Web. Congress and the White House — yes, including congressman and later vice president Al Gore — passed legislation and set policies to support the development of the commercial Internet and e-commerce. And of course many icons of the Web’s history are American: Yahoo, AOL, Google and others.
But the Web’s origins are distinctly European, and even the American contributions were infused with international collaboration. Berners-Lee, an Englishman, created some of the Web’s key technologies while working as a software consultant alongside Cailliau, a Belgian engineer, at a Swiss lab. The American protagonists of Internet development at ARPA, Cerf and Kahn, worked closely with European researchers and built on the concepts of French computer scientist Louis Pouzin. And when Gore promoted the “information superhighway,” he did so within the context of an explicitly globalist vision, such as in a famous 1994 speech at the International Telecommunications Union.
Government power is obsolete on the Internet.
Experience suggests that Barlow’s enthusiasm got the better of him. Over the past three decades, governments at all levels — local, state, national and international — have claimed and exercised jurisdiction over behavior online. Examples include filtering and censorship regimes such as China’s Great Firewall, court rulings that forced Yahoo to remove Nazi memorabilia from its online auction service in France and international treaties to protect intellectual property (implemented in the United States via the Digital Millennium Copyright Act), to say nothing of vast systems of espionage like those exposed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
Barlow’s essay also embodied some deeper flaws in “cyberlibertarian” arguments, which obscure the formative role of government in the creation and maintenance of network technologies. In his scolding of “Governments of the Industrial World,” Barlow wrote, “You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces.” In doing so, he ignored the ingenuity and investment of the government employees who created the Internet and the Web.
The gatekeepers are dead; everything is disrupted!
Another example of breathless futurism is Thomas Friedman’s 2005 book, “The World is Flat.” Friedman (and others) saw the Web and the Internet as a “sudden revolution in connectivity” that “constituted a major flattening force” and would provide equal opportunity for all competitors. The obvious factual error in the book’s title should have alerted readers that Friedman’s other metaphors — such as the “level playing field” — might also be flawed.
The notion that the Web hurt “gatekeepers” is not entirely wrong. Plenty of musicians, including Justin Bieber and Katy Perry, got record deals after they went viral on YouTube. A similar phenomenon has reshaped academia, where researchers can post their work on their own websites, bypassing the slow and costly apparatus of academic publishing.
The best example, of course, was the dot-com crash. Entrepreneurs and starry-eyed investors had fueled the bubble, eager to believe that the Web’s rise changed all the rules. But by 2000, everyone had learned the harsh reality: Sound business practices were not fundamentally disrupted by the “get big fast” ethos of Web entrepreneurship. And despite predictions that the Web portends a new economic era of commons-based peer production, old-fashioned industrial capitalism has proved quite resilient. Even companies that lead the “sharing economy,” such as Uber and Airbnb, have massive capital expenditures and valuations that rival those of industrial giants such as Ford and General Motors.
A massive cyberattack is coming.
One constant in the Web’s history has been the expectation that a major event will come along and change everything. Political figures often issue warnings about a “digital Pearl Harbor” or a “cyber Pearl Harbor” (see Richard Clarke in 2000 and Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) in 2015). In Elon University’s fascinating “Imagining the Internet” survey from 2004, two-thirds of Web experts agreed with the statement: “At least one devastating attack will occur in the next 10 years on the networked information infrastructure or the country’s power grid.” But so far, we’ve seen nothing of the sort.
Even though a large-scale attack hasn’t materialized, experts continue to use the threat of one to try to shake the Web out of some bad habits and inferior technologies. Neither the Web nor the Internet was designed with unshakeable commitments to security or privacy, and efforts to update them have, for the most part, failed. There have been plenty of proposals with broad consensus among technical communities, such as the World Wide Web Consortium’s Platform for Internet Content Selection and Version 6 of the Internet Engineering Task Force’s Internet Protocol (the current Internet runs mostly on IP Version 4). These and other efforts have faltered, however, because of poor design and lethargic adoption rates, leaving Web users vulnerable to governments, corporations and anonymous bad actors of all kinds.
In the meantime, most users have grown accustomed to intrusions from hackers and viruses; they assume that there is no way to guarantee privacy or security on the Web. But despite the massive vulnerabilities and the regular occurrence of significant data breaches, the long-predicted “digital Pearl Harbor” has not come to pass.
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2019-04-25T00:16:14Z
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-internet/2016/08/19/8d33ddf4-656f-11e6-8b27-bb8ba39497a2_story.html
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The Federation of Oceania Rugby Unions (FORU) has announced that the 2014 Oceania Sevens will be played between 3-4 October alongside the Noosa International Sevens on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. The Sevens will provide the perfect launch pad for the 2014/2015 IRB Sevens World Series that kicks off on the Gold Coast a week later.
For the first time in its history New Zealand will participate in the 12-team men’s tournament, joining other Sevens World Series core teams Fiji, Australia and Samoa. The reigning Oceania Sevens champion is Samoa which beat Fiji 31-17 in Suva in 2013. It will be the first time Australian fans will be able to watch the Commonwealth Games Bronze Medallists in action since returning from Glasgow.
Seven teams will compete in the women’s tournament including Women’s Sevens World Series Core Teams Australia and New Zealand. Fiji, who caused the upset of the tournament last year by beating World Champions New Zealand in the Semi Finals, will be looking to go one better in 2014 after losing to Australia 22-5 in the final.
The Oceania Sevens tournament format and the strength of this year’s tournament reflect the growing rise of Sevens rugby across the world as the 2016 Brazil Olympic Games tournament edges closer.
The 2014 Oceania Sevens is a qualifying tournament for the HSBC Sevens World Series with the top performed non-core men’s team qualifying for Hong Kong and Wellington in 2015. It will be joined in Hong Kong by the second best team.
“The Pacific Islands have only ever won one medal in the history of Olympic Competition. However, FORU in conjunction with Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC) recognises the potential of the Oceania teams to win Rugby Sevens medals in 2016 and the Program seeks to harness this competitive advantage and counter act the far greater financial resources that are being committed by other regions to prepare for Rio 2016,” added Glenwright.
The Noosa International 7’s Festival was established in 2010 and has since grown to become one of Australia’s premier rugby Sevens events outside of the IRB International World Series. The 2013 Festival generated unprecedented interest and saw the introduction of the inaugural Open School Boy's & School Girl's tournament, a very exciting development for the growth of the annual festival. The Noosa International Sevens tournament will be played on 4-5 October.
"We’re delighted to incorporate the FORU Oceania Sevens into this year’s Noosa International Sevens,” said Event Director Dene Brooks.
“I can guarantee a warm welcome and a great weekend of action for all the teams and fans that join us on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. With our excellent facilities, experienced organisers and an army of volunteers, Noosa will show why it has become the sevens festival that every team wants to be part of,” he added.
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UCLA Women's Tennis has won the NCAA national championship, UCLA's 102nd title.
Bruin senior Riza Zalameda rallied from a set down to defeat rival Susie Babos of Cal, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Tuesday, clinching the first-ever NCAA Championship for the UCLA women's tennis team, as the Bruins posted a 4-0 victory over the No. 8 Golden Bears in the NCAA Final at Tulsa's Michael D. Case Tennis Center. The Bruins end their season 24-5 overall, while Zalameda was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.
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http://magazine.ucla.edu/exclusives/ncaa_womens-tennis/
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Anglo American on Tuesday increased its copper production guidance from its operations in Chile for 2018 from 630,000 to 660,000 tonnes, as well as the following three years to 2021, but lowered the unit cost guidance for the current and next year as the high demand for copper will constrain the supply.
The warning by the Ombudsman for Long-term Insurance for consumers to disclose full information when applying for insurance comes in the wake of the storm that followed Momentum’s refusal to pay a R2.4million life insurance policy to a claimant whose husband died in a hijacking incident in their driveway last year.
The African Bank is set to launch its new transactional bank account, MyWORLD, during the first half of 2019, marking its entry into the transactional banking market.
A R10,5 million five-bedroom home is now for sale on the Salt Rock Beach, along the north coast of KwaZulu-Natal.
Electricity supply and costs appear set to be a key focus area for property owners next year, with power utility Eskom seeking to obtain double-digit annual tariff hikes over the next three years.
Business confidence fell to its lowest level since the second quarter of 2017 as policy uncertainty continued to weigh heavily on growth and sentiment among building contractors and new vehicle dealers deteriorated.
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https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/economy/7-things-you-need-to-know-today-18293636
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In the mid-1920s, Mary Hallock Foote drafted a memoir titled "Backgrounds with Figures" that was never published in her lifetime (the Huntington Library eventually published an edited version in 1972). Biographers and critics alike have attributed its non-publication to either reticence or inaction on Foote's part--either she was unwilling to publish the stories of people known intimately to her, or she never followed up on her editor's initial encouragement to her first half-draft by sending a complete manuscript. The archives, however, tell a different story. This essay discusses the heretofore uncatalogued and unpublished in-house materials from Houghton Mifflin that pertain to "Backgrounds with Figures," particularly their importance to fully understanding Foote's late-career place in a changing marketplace. Consisting of several letters exchanged between Foote and her editor in 1923 and a collection of thus far entirely unknown readers' reports filed by Houghton Mifflin in 1926, the archive demonstrates the fate of Foote's autobiographical manuscript, which she had sent in full, to be largely the result of a shift in taste on the publisher's end. Which is to say, the sources uncovered herein reveal that Foote's memoir was rejected not because of incomplete or missing material but rather because the press no longer saw itself as a publisher of her style of literature. This shift in priorities, moreover, had broad implications for the publication of both women's autobiographies and books about the American West.
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There have been rumblings this week regarding Riviera Country Club's return to the major championship stage. Count Dustin Johnson as a proponent of this cause.
Johnson -- who has four previous top-5 finishes at the Northern Trust Open, including second-place showings the last two years -- turned in a five-under 66 on Friday to take the clubhouse lead.
Johnson carded six birdies on the day, with his lone mistake coming at the feared 10th. The 31-year-old dumped his drive in a greenside bunker, only to blast his shot over the dance floor and into another trap. Johnson failed to get up-and-down, leading to bogey.
Nevertheless, Johnson has historically made his Riviera move in the third round -- he's shot 67-69-67 in his last three Saturday performances at the historic Los Angeles venue -- putting Johnson in prime position to capture his first victory in a year.
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https://www.golfdigest.com/story/dustin-johnson-continues-riviera-success-grabs-northern-trust-open-lead
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My wife and I love to go to the movies. When I say go, I mean GO. We don’t download movies at home; we don’t subscribe to Netflix, Starz, HBO, HULU, etc. We like to make our movie watching an event. (OK, we are weird.) I can barely remember one bad movie in my lifetime—something like David Letterman meets Godzilla. We love movies. You get the picture.
I generally do not write about movies because everyone has his or her own taste. I am the furthest thing from an experienced movie critic. My thought is—if you like it, it’s good. There is one movie we have seen lately I definitely can recommend—THE ACCOUNTANT. Let’s look at several specifics to start with.
Christian Wolff is a mathematical genius who works as a forensic accountant at ZZZ Accounting in Plainfield, Illinois. His primary responsibility is tracking insider financial deceptions for numerous criminal enterprises brokered to him by a mysterious figure known as “The Voice”. The “Voice” contacts him by phone which is really spooky when initially encountered in the movie. As a child, Christian was diagnosed with autism and offered an opportunity to live at Harbor Neuroscience Institute in New Hampshire. Although Christian had bonded with Justine, the mute daughter of the institute’s director, his father, a decorated military officer, declined, believing that Christian should overcome the hardships inherent in his condition rather than expect the world to accommodate to them. The pressure of raising a special needs child drove Christian’s mother to abandon him and his younger brother, Braxton, who were left in their father’s care. The movie indicates the family moved thirty-four (34) times in seventeen (17) years. Each move was to introduce new experiences to Christian and his older brother Braxton with hopes of preparing both for adult life.
Show you things without bringing them to you?
Not engage in pretend play (if older than age 2)?
Ben Affleck absolutely nails many of the traits and characteristics of an autistic adult although due to his father’s persistence with training Christian on how to overcome his difficulties, he is highly functional as a mathematician. Affleck, in my opinion, will be nominated for an Oscar for this one. His work is just that good.
The plot is anything but cookbook. There are many twists and turns and the ending is really surprising. You cannot guess as to how this one turns out. Many movies today are more of the same but The Accountant is quite the exception. I’m not going to spoil it for you by divulging more of the plot but the entire movie is action-filled with a cast that certainly works very well together. It’s one of those movies complicated enough to see twice or even three times, each time discovering something you have missed previously.
I can definitely recommend this one to you. Take a look.
A multidisciplinary field of science that includes a combination of mechanical engineering, electronics, computer science, telecommunications engineering, systems engineering and control engineering”.
Technical systems have become more and more complex, requiring multiple disciplines for accomplishment of product designs that satisfy the needs of consumers and industrial markets. If you read the technical literature, you have run across the phrase “the internet of things” or IoT. IoT is the interworking of physical devices, vehicles, buildings, airplanes, consumer appliances, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators and network connectivity enabling these devices and objects to collect and exchange data.
In July of this year, Apple announced it had recently sold its billionth iPhone since introduction in 2007.
86% of those ages 18-29 have a smartphone. 83% of those ages 30-49 have a smartphone. 87% if these percentages are for those living in households earning $75,000 and up.
To keep pace with the design of complex, connected products requires engineers from different disciplines working closely together. These engineers will be from different disciplines and will coordinate on design, simulation, prototyping and testing. It also requires real-time input from co-workers outside engineering departments. For this reason, our schools and universities MUST alter their teaching methods to attract and train individuals capable of working to bring the U.S. population these marvelous advances in technology. This not only means in the product development area but in manufacturing also. Many companies see technology as a means to redefine what it means to be a manufacturer. Thanks to the growing popularity of IoT in industrial and consumer products, design complexity shown no signs of slowing.
I cannot wait to see what the future holds.
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2019-04-23T10:42:06Z
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https://cielotech.wordpress.com/tag/mathematics/
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This two-day event will welcome new faculty to Muhlenberg. It aims to introduce them to Muhlenberg’s academic culture from the faculty perspective and to provide opportunities to meet and network with colleagues across the college. Sessions, ranging from panel presentations, discussions, Q & A, to workshops, will engage the participants in dialogues with both new and experienced colleagues regarding many issues in teaching and scholarship.
Representatives from the Writing Program/Writing Center, Digital Learning, Trexler Library, Academic Resource Center, and Disabilities Service will describe campus resources available to support faculty and students in many aspects of Muhlenberg’s academic life. Participants will meet key administrators and faculty colleagues who will offer answers and services throughout the academic year.
Muhlenberg offers an array of important programs, resources, and opportunities for faculty’s and students’ engagement both on campus and in the Lehigh Valley community through co-curricular resources. Key administrators and staff members -- Allison Gulati (VP of Student Affairs and Dean of Students); Beth Halpern (Office of Community Engagement); Robin Riley-Casey and Mark Smiley (Multicultural Life); and Callista Isabelle (Religious Life) -- will introduce the participants to their offices, programs, and possibilities for engagement with these constituencies based on new faculty’s teaching and scholarship interests.
Through participation in the Peer Partner Program, new colleagues are paired up with more senior (or tenured) faculty from across the curriculum during the first and second years of teaching at Muhlenberg. All new full-time faculty are invited to participate in the Peer Partner Program, including visiting professors, post-doctoral and consortium fellows, lecturers, and all tenure-track as well as those non-tenure eligible positions. This program gives the opportunity to meet and converse informally with a more senior faculty member from a teaching and research area outside your discipline. If you are a lecturer, we will try to pair you with a senior lecturer. We try to match new faculty with colleagues who are not in the same department but who might share common academic interests, e.g. sustainability, social justice, feminism, entrepreneurial studies, art or aesthetics, teaching with technology, interdisciplinary teaching, critical thinking or reasoning, performance studies, business ethics, and so on.
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2019-04-20T18:30:20Z
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https://www.muhlenberg.edu/aboutus/fct/newfacultyorientation/
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something 'bout everything – The journey of learning something about everything, & everything about something!
The place is neither huge nor tiny, good enough for a pizza parlour which can accommodate around 25-30 people. There’s no gimmicky wood oven adverts, it’s a simple well lit place with regular seating.
Pujo Special Buffet @ Alfresco, The Lalit Great Eastern.
There’s no dirth of eateries in the city of joy. All in all there are more than seven thousand listings on zomato itself. That’s only the tip of the iceberg. Not even taking in account the uncountable stalls & roadside shops that served excellent food, there are also hundreds of restaurants who haven’t enlisted themselves….
Tex Mex specialties along with a dessert & a cocktail for the fajita lovers.
Chili’s South City Mall Fajita festival until the end of November.
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2019-04-23T16:56:22Z
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No wait hold the presses I have the perfect name!
That's the original Oliver, a tiny adorable 1963 Opel Kadett A, pictured with his human, tiny adorable Richard Hammond. Why do I want to name my car Oliver?
-Oliver is the happiest car in the world.
-Richard bought this car used, in Africa, for less than 1,500 pounds, and drove it across Botswana, a distance of 1,000 miles. This journey included the crossing of the Makgadikgadi Pan, a massive salt pan larger than Switzerland, the surface of which is a thin crust over a gooey mud-like substance. Jeremy and James had to completely rip apart their cars until they were light enough to struggle across. Richard refused to harm his beloved Oliver; luckily Oliver was light enough to skip across the salt pans without any trouble anyway.
-When I am a famous celebrity and come on the show to be the Star in the Reasonably Priced Car, this will make an awesome story in my interview.
In sum: tiny, adorable, happiest car in the world, never stops running even after being dragged over 1,000 miles of African wilderness, drowned, and shot, THESE ARE QUALITIES I WANT FOR MY VEHICLE.
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Legal theory as an underpinning of legal scholarship extends beyond questions of policy to theoretical and methodological approaches, such as law and philosophy, law and economics, legal history, law and society, and many others. Graduate students at the Faculty of Law are already exposed to legal theory through our mandatory LLM seminar. The Legal Theory concentration is designed to enable students to deepen and broaden their engagement with legal theory. Students pursuing the concentration will obtain a nuanced understanding of the main theoretical and methodological approaches to law and will have the opportunity to focus their studies on one or more of these approaches.
The Legal Theory concentration within the Master of Laws (LLM) program enables students to pursue a specific number of course credits (for the coursework-only option), or a combination of credits from a thesis and coursework (for the short or longer thesis options) in the area of Legal Theory. Students in the Legal Theory concentration will also take the mandatory 3-credit seminar for students in the concentrations, Foundations of Legal Theory, as well as the mandatory LLM Seminar. Entry into the concentration is on a competitive basis and participation in the concentration will be limited to a relatively small group of students in the LLM program.
Aside from the mandatory Foundations of Legal Theory seminar, studies within the concentration can be based either on coursework in legal theory or, for those writing a thesis, a on combination of both coursework and a thesis related to legal theory.
Click below for a list of our Faculty’s courses in the Legal Theory area that were offered over the past three years. While not all courses will be offered every year, this is an illustrative list.
Upon acceptance into the concentration, the Associate Dean (Graduate) will review each student’s course selection in order to ensure that an appropriate number of credits are devoted to legal theory.
Students in the legal theory concentration will likely be particularly interested in attending our regular and highly-regarded Legal Theory Workshops, which bring leading legal and political philosophers from around the world to present their work in progress, providing a forum for both faculty and students to discuss central topics in Legal Theory. The Legal Theory Workshop can be taken on a for credit-basis or can be attended on a non-credit basis.
The Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto is one of the strongest faculties internationally in the field of Legal Theory. One indication of this strength is the number of our faculty members who hold joint appointments with the University’s equally renowned Department of Philosophy. But our Legal Theory strength is not confined to the study of philosophy of law in the traditional way. Indeed, what makes the Faculty of Law’s approach to Legal Theory distinctive, even unique, is that engagement with a wide variety of theoretical approaches occurs for the most part in the context of inquires into legal doctrine and concrete legal problems. At the Faculty, one is less likely to encounter Legal Theory in a course devoted to the likes of Hart, Fuller or Dworkin than in a course on property law, contract law, criminal law, or constitutional law. Moreover, this distinctive characteristic means that scholars whose inquiries are informed by a law and economics perspective, or by enquiries that are more empirical in nature, are fully engaged in the same debates as their colleagues who might take their inspiration from, for example, Hobbes, Kant, Hegel, Arendt, Kelsen, Hart, Fuller, Dworkin, or Foucault. The LLM concentration in Legal Theory offers a flexible way to experience the rich offerings of the highly pluralistic Toronto ‘School’ of Legal Theory.
Who Should Pursue the Legal Theory Concentration?
Students who are interested in careers in legal academia are traditionally particularly attracted to Legal Theory programs, as legal scholars today are commonly engaged in a range of doctrinal, policy and theoretical debates. In addition, students wishing to broaden their thinking on the law will find that the concentration offers them a high-level, demanding, and rewarding approach to graduate studies in law.
Admission requirements for students in the Legal Theory concentration are the same as for students in the general LLM program, with the exception that a specific interest in the concentration area must be addressed in the Thesis Proposal or Coursework Plan of Study. Applicants should substantiate their interest in and suitability for the Legal Theory concentration through this statement and their letters of reference. Admission to the program is on a competitive basis, and spots in the concentration will be limited.
Students wishing to pursue coursework and a thesis in the area of Legal Theory, but who are not accepted into the Legal Theory concentration, may nevertheless be accepted into the LLM program.
All students in the LLM concentration in Legal Theory may pursue either the LLM program course-work only option, or a longer or shorter thesis option.
At least 12 credits of courses from an approved list of Legal Theory courses, including the mandatory 3-credit course Foundations of Legal Theory.
Additional courses, either within or outside of the list of Legal Theory courses above, to bring them to 28 total credits in the program.
It may be possible for students to take specific graduate courses in the Philosophy Department in fulfillment of their concentration credits, with the permission of the Associate Dean (Graduate).
A short, 4-credit thesis in a subject related to Legal Theory.
At least 8 credits of Legal Theory coursework from an approved list of Legal Theory courses, including the mandatory 3-credit course Foundations of Legal Theory.
In addition to a 4-credit thesis, students would take 8 additional credits of coursework, either from the list of Legal Theory courses, or from outside of that list.
With the permission of the Associate Dean (Graduate), students can add up to 6 additional credits to the short thesis in lieu of the required concentration course credits. This option corresponds to that available to all students in a thesis-based LL.M. program (see calendar entry for the LLM program). Depending on the number of additional thesis credits obtained by the student, there would be a corresponding reduction in the number of course credits required.
A longer, 16-credit thesis in a subject related to Legal Theory.
The mandatory 3-credit course Foundations of Legal Theory.
Up to 1 additional credits of coursework, either from the approved list of Legal Theory courses, or from outside of that list.
"This new concentration represents an outstanding opportunity to be exposed to the arguments of one of the richest and most diverse set of legal theorists in a major law school."
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Thirteen former students visited the newly renovated St Mary’s residential village recently. As well as a well-enjoyed trip down memory lane, they were delighted by the way the site had recently been developed by the University.
Main photo back row lefr-right: Carol Pullen, (now Salmon) Nona Carter, (now Grimshaw) Chris Rees (now Worthington), Margaret Lupton, Anne Browning (Nee Jones), Larry Roberts ( now Shaw) Alice Williams (now Milner), Pat Harries.
The group of friends were all former students of St Mary’s College which was a Teacher Training College that later became part of Bangor University.
The group meet annually, and this year, decided to visit Bangor to mark 60 years since they first stayed at St Mary’s.
Boy did they have some memories to share!
Arriving only 12 years after the end of the Second World War, the students had very different expectations from today’s students, and lived by a whole different set of rules.
The ladies spoke of having a curfew of 10.30 each night- when the University’ Hops’ didn’t get going until far later! They recalled having a special showing of Gone with the Wind on a Wednesday afternoon at the local cinema as, being an epic film, the running time had exceeded the 10.30 curfew!
Week-ends included having hot cocoa and an iced bun provided as a treat each Saturday evening at 9, but having to enjoy or endure a compulsory singing session during their ‘free’ Saturday morning!
The ‘girls’ as they refer to each other, shared stories of minor rule infringement to meet boyfriends or to attend out of bounds dance-halls, for example at ‘Jimmie’s’ Hops on Tuesdays & Thursday night, held in a wooden hut on Glanrafon Hill. Sixpence gained entry to the well-attended, but strictly out of bounds dance night!
As well as living by far stricter rules and regulations, the accommodation was more basic than today. The group recalled what were called the ‘horse-boxes’, one large room sub-divided by tall wooden partitions to create around eight smaller rooms. Some students lived in ‘digs’ with local families, but still had to make it up the hill for breakfast at 8.00. On a Sunday, there were eggs for breakfast, but not to be enjoyed until the College Principal had taken Communion and said a Latin prayer before the meal. The highlight of the rest of Sunday would be a walk to the pier, as everything else was closed!
One of their midst, Denise Shorthall (Wilson) was three years older and arrived, having been working for five years and living on a salary and so could afford a few hobbies. She was a pioneering young female climber, and arrived in Bangor on a scooter, carrying skis and with a climbing rope around her body!
Denise formed the first Climbing Club for women at St Mary’s, joining with the University Climbing and Mountaineering Club.
Alice Williams (now Milner), another member of the Climbing Club (reunion arranger) explained that to go climbing necessitated catching the 8am bus to Bethesda and walking up the valley to the mountains and back on top of the days’ climb, carrying far heavier equipment and ropes, before, if they were lucky, catching the bus back to Bangor!
Similarly to many of Bangor University’s current students, Denise chose to study at Bangor because it also gave her access to the mountains and opportunities to follow the sports that she loved.
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https://www.seren.bangor.ac.uk/news-politics/local-news/2017/10/27/60-years-on-students-revisit-st-marys/
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The East North Central States are a region that consists of five US States: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin, according to the United States Census Bureau. Almost fifty million people live in this region. Some non-government groups may put the State of Kentucky within this group, although the Census Bureau usually has Kentucky in the East South Central region.
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The 25-year-old woman Amalia Ginaki who was probably the most tragic victim in last nights horrific incident is fighting for her life at the intensive care unit of the Red Cross in Athens, where her attacker, the Romanian criminal Matei Sorin, is also hospitalized but whose life is out of danger. The drama started when Sorin, who had escaped from the Greek prisons numerous times, stormed into the apartment housing Ms. Ginaki and her family members and took them hostage under the threat of a hand grenade. The Greek police ambushed the residence after mistakenly assessing that the grenade was a fake one. When confronted, Sorin activated the deadly weapon by pulling the pin from the grenade, which exploded on the young woman and also injured the Police Force�s commander, deputy commander, two SWAT team members and four other police officers.
Prime Minister Kostas Simitis has requested a through report from the secretary-general of the Public Order Minster Yiannis Papadoyiannakis, on last night�s massacre in Athens where four civilians -who were taken hostage by a Romanian criminal- and eight police officers were injured when police stormed their apartment n order to free them.
In light of last night�s events, Public Order Minister George Romeos is expediting his return from Brussels today, where he was attending the EU Public Order ministers summit.
The Athens District Attorney Georgios Koliokostas has ordered an emergency preliminary examination into the conditions and causes of last night�s massacre that left at least two persons maimed and about four others fighting for their lives in local hospitals. It started as a standoff between police and the Romanian fugitive Matei Sorin yesterday evening and escalated into a massacre when police stormed the apartment where Sorin had broken into and was holding a family of three as hostages, while threatening to explode the hand grenade. He was demanding from police a get-away car and 500,000 dollars to release the hostages. According to a police spokesman, Sorin, who was reportedly under the influence of heroin, pulled the pin from the grenade and fastened it on the pants of one of the hostages, Amalia Ginaki, 25. When police stormed the apartment, Matei pushed the girl towards the policemen simultaneously exploding the hand grenade. The girl underwent surgery which resulted in the amputation of her leg. Also injured in the explosion were the Commander and deputy commander of the police force, as well as six other police officers, one of whom lost his right leg.
The skies are to be clear, perhaps too clear, after civil aviation employees declared 24-hour rolling strikes until Sunday. According to Greece�s Civil Aviation Authority, only forty percent of domestic and foreign flights are to be conducted, while no charter flight will take off. The protesters are opposed to civil Aviation Authority�s transformation into a private company.
The Defense ministers of NATO�s member-states are to meet in Portugal today in order to discuss the situation in Kossovo and the overall Balkan region. The Alliance will reportedly examine ways to intensify the pressure exerted on Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, in order to stop the Serb attacks against Kossovo�s Albanian community.
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic met yesterday with a delegation of the newly established Yugoslav-Greek Business Council, which consists of distinguished business people from both countries. The Greek and Yugoslav business people briefed Mr. Milosevic on their plans in the sectors of energy, industry, agriculture, trade, transport and telecommunications as well as on the potential for capital investment in projects. Mr. Milosevic welcomed the establishment of the council and said that its proper functioning would contribute to both countries' economies. The Greek side was represented, among others, by the chairman of the Greek section of the council, Mr. Mytilineos, and officials from the dairy company DELTA, the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE) and the Titan Cement Co.
Over 190 athletes representing 23 countries will be in Athens tomorrow to take part in what is considered to be one of the most grueling races in the world, the international ultra-distance endurance race "Spartathlon '98". The race, held for the 16th consecutive year, will begin on Friday at the foot of the Acropolis. The athletes will have 36 hours to run the 246-kilometer distance to the city of Sparta, in southeastern Peloponnese. They will be tracing the steps of the ancient Athenian courier Pheidippides, and will run 1,200 meters up Mount Parthenio in the dead of night. According to the ancient Greek historian Herodotus' account of the Battle of Marathon, Pheidippides was sent to Sparta to ask for help when the Persians landed at Marathon. Herodotus says Pheidippides arrived in Sparta "the next day". The Spartathlon was originated by John Foden, a British Royal Air Force wing commander who ran the course in 1982 with four RAF colleagues. The 1st International Spartathlon was organized in 1983 with the participation of 45 runners from 11 countries as well as Greece.
Russia's Ambassador to Greece Valentina Matviyenko has accepted her nomination as a Deputy Premier in charge of social policy in Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov's new cabinet. The 49-year-old Ukrainian-born envoy is expected to meet President Boris Yeltsin later today to "formalize her appointment". Although the new cabinet has not yet been announced, Mrs. Matviyenko would become the first woman deputy prime minister in post-Soviet Russia.
A recently signed agreement between Greece's Fruita and the well- know multinational Chiquita is expected to turn Thessaloniki's port into a major transit center for the import of large quantities of bananas towards the Balkans. The first shipment of some 40,000 cartons of bananas is expected to arrive in Thessaloniki tomorrow. Fruita has made arrangements for storage in the port's warehouses.
Greece�s Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos has saluted the initiative taken by his Bulgarian counterpart Nadezda Mihailova for a Balkan FM�s meeting held yesterday at the offices of Bulgaria's permanent representation offices in New York. The Foreign Ministers discussed the resolution plan adopted yesterday by the European Union for Kossovo. Also attending the session were the foreign ministers of the signatory countries of a joint statement on Kossovo, namely Albania, Romania, Turkey, Slovenia and FYROM. "I believe that we all share the view that efforts should be made to achieve a peaceful solution to the Kossovo issue, to avoid military threats and military intervention...and begin a negotiation process to establish a regime of greater autonomy", Mr. Pangalos stated after the end of the meeting. Regarding a UN draft resolution, which was to be discussed by the Security Council yesterday, Mr. Pangalos said the EU had long ago agreed on the draft resolution and only the US remained to approve of it. He further added that Russia's agreement on the UN draft resolution had been achieved during a meeting on Monday with new Russian FM Igor Ivanov. Mr. Pangalos said he was optimistic that the draft resolution would be approved by the Security Council. "The draft resolution is a strong but balanced warning to all sides involved (in the Kossovo issue), and this especially pleases us, as this is the spirit of Greece's approach," Mr. Pangalos said.
The United States Department of Defense has announced the proposed sale to Greece of $245 million of missile systems and rocket launcher systems. The sale includes 18 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS), 146 extended range rocket pods, 81 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) guided missiles and launching assemblies, 11 command post carriers, 162 �26 rockets and other related equipment. The Prime contractor for the arms deal would be Lockheed Martin Vought Systems, a unit of Lockheed Martin Corp. In a statement announcing the sale, the Pentagon said it would provide the Greek army with an area fire system for use against hostile artillery, air defense and maneuver elements. The Pentagon also announced that the arms deal would not adversely affect the military balance in the region.
The general council of Albania�s ruling Socialist Party is to convene today in order to discuss changes proposed by Premier Fatos Nano hereby marking an imminent cabinet reshuffle. Mr. Nano has refused all demands of his resignation made by the main opposition party and stated that he will form a new cabinet composed of technocrats, will strengthen the public and justice sectors and will improve ways of combating corruption and illegal trade.
�There will be changes in the government, not of the government,� Mr. Nano said. Reportedly, the Ministers of Public Order and Justice are likely to be replaced.
The United States presidential envoy to Cyprus Richard Holbrooke is to hold separate meetings with the President of Cyprus Glafkos Clerides and the Turkish Foreign Minister Ismael Cem in New York today.
During his contacts with Mgrs. Cem and Clerides, Mr. Holbroke will be accompanied by State Department coordinator Thomas Miller. According to the Cyprus News Agency, the United States are promoting direct contact negotiations between the two sides concerning issues of security and demilitarization. Later today, President Clerides is to present a speech before the national committee for foreign policy on �The Cyprus issue - opportunities for resolution�.
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2019-04-19T03:16:12Z
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http://www.hri.org/news/greek/mpab/1998/98-09-24.mpab.html
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With few exceptions, the US Endangered Species Act requires the designation of "critical habitat" for threatened and endangered species. This provides important protections, including a prohibition against adverse modification of designated habitat by federal agencies. Scientists with the US Fish and Wildlife Service develop critical habitat designations, which are then peer reviewed before being finalized by the secretary of the interior. We reviewed 169 peer reviews of 42 designations for 336 species finalized between 2002 and 2007 and determined whether there were changes in the area designated and whether those changes reflected the reviewers' advice. Thirty-four (81 %) of the 42 designations were reduced by an average of 43%. Eighty-five of the reviews recommended adding areas, and 19 recommended subtracting areas. Areas were added in response to only four reviews and subtracted in response to only nine. These results highlight the limitations of peer review of government decisions, which lack an arbiter to ensure that reviews are adequately considered. © 2012 2012 by American Institute of Biological Sciences. All rights reserved.
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2019-04-25T08:26:33Z
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https://scholars.duke.edu/display/pub746649
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To use an analogy that seems appropriate during the Olympics, the bar has just been lowered when it comes to Walt Disney's classic animated feature films.
Although it will undoubtedly turn a profit--and probably a very good one compared with the dismal performance of most Hollywood movies--"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is clearly less successful than last summer's "Pocahontas," which in turn was a lot less successful than the previous summer's hit, "The Lion King."
A month after the release of the movie, Quasimodo is wheezing his way toward $100 million at the box office domestically, a mark that most recent Disney animated features cleared easily. Over the weekend, the movie dropped 43% to $3.6 million, putting its gross to date at $84.4 million. No doubt Disney will do what it takes to get that number past the triple-digit threshold that seems to define a hit these days, although it's going to take a lot more effort than anyone expected.
Correspondingly, merchandise sales are disappointing. Mattel Vice President Glen Bozarth said sales of "Hunchback" toys won't match those for "Pocahontas." Some analysts said sales of "Hunchback" merchandise could total $70 million, a respectable figure, though less than the $100 million Mattel is believed to have taken in from its "Pocahontas" line.
Likewise, the "Hunchback" soundtrack hasn't cracked the Billboard top 10, unlike previous soundtracks that did, often reaching No. 1. Turn on a radio and you won't hear a "Colors of the Wind," "Circle of Life" or "Beauty and the Beast."
What makes the results troubling for Disney is that the studio has come to depend heavily on profits from animated feature films, which have been the key growth engine for it in the 1990s. "Hunchback" also was launched with a huge marketing campaign estimated at $40 million when the money spent by partners such as Burger King and Nestle are thrown in.
No doubt the softer-than-expected results are giving pause to executives at rival companies planning to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to get a piece of the animation market Disney has exploited.
Unlike "Mission: Impossible," there's no Tom Cruise whose contract calls for a huge chunk of profit. Unlike "Twister," there isn't another studio carving out profit because it shared the financial risk, as MCA did when it partnered with Warner Bros. on the film. It's also a safe bet that "Hunchback" will sell a lot more videocassettes--the closest thing to pure profit for a studio these days--than "Independence Day."
Phil Garfinkel, senior vice president of Entertainment Data Inc., which tracks box-office receipts, warns against becoming jaded about Disney animation because of the "Hunchback" results.
"It will probably end up as the sixth-highest animated picture ever made. Is there anything wrong with that? If you look at it in that context, that's unbelievable business," Garfinkel said.
And as a company overall, Disney is showing strong theme park results, analysts say. Some movie projects with a big potential payoff lie ahead this year, including a live-action "101 Dalmatians" and the re-release of the animated hit "The Little Mermaid."
The performance of "Hunchback" is already causing a lot of soul-searching, both among Disney, its partners and throughout Hollywood.
Was it the dark tone of a movie that seemed geared more toward adults than kids? Did Disney fail to address concerns raised by some critics about the suitability of the movie for children? Should the company have spent more time and money marketing the movie itself rather than on expensive promotional gimmicks, such as arranging a New Orleans parade and a Louisiana Superdome screening?
Was the movie marketplace too crowded with movies? Did "Pocahontas" and "Hunchback" perform worse than others because former Walt Disney Studios Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg wasn't there to nurture the films? Or should he be blamed for giving the movies the go-ahead in the first place?
More interesting will be whether the results of the last two films affect decisions about next year's "Hercules," and "Tarzan" after that.
No doubt it will add to the natural tension between the creative forces wanting to make the best animated movies and the business side, which wants them to fully drive the gigantic sales machine.
Finally, there's no doubt that concern has arisen at other Hollywood studios, where huge amounts are being spent in an effort to replicate Disney's success with animation. "Hunchback" may prove that Disney is vulnerable after all when it comes to animation, which would bode well for competitors. More troubling is the question of whether this is an early sign that the moviegoing public is tiring of the formula.
In the meantime, Disney's animation remains a license to print money. It's just not printing as much.
Times staff writers Denise Gellene and Claudia Puig contributed to this column.
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2019-04-24T14:25:32Z
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-07-23-fi-27142-story.html
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From FM 78 northeast of Converse, southwestward approx. 0.7 mile to FM 1516. (Bexar County) New designation; this mileage transferred and redesignated from FM 1976 spur connection.
Cancelled. (Bexar County) Mileage transferred to UR 3502.
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2019-04-18T16:22:07Z
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http://www.dot.state.tx.us/tpp/hwy/FM3500/FM3502.htm
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With two rounds just about in the books in the NHL’s “second season,” it’s hard, as a St. Louisan, not to get excited about our local club’s trek thus far. The Blues have advanced to their first conference finals since 2001. Any reasonable hockey fan knows they’ve yet to hoist the Stanley Cup in nearly fifty years in the league. Moreover, of teams 24 active franchises to have participated in the Stanley Cup Finals, St. Louis has the second-longest drought, dating back to 1970. Incidentally, the longest-suffering fan base can be found in Toronto (1967), but with thirteen titles to their credit, that relegates the Blues to the ignominious title “the Cubs of hockey.” Regardless, if the Western Conference representative wins it all, it will be that franchise’s first championship–the Sharks and Predators play game 7 in their series tonight; neither has advanced to the Finals in their shorter spans of existence.
Six of the seven games were decided by one goal, including two in overtime. No big surprise there, as the Blues won the season series 3-2, with three games decided by a single goal–all won by St. Louis, in OT, of course. The outlier was game 6, which Chicago won 6-3; as such, they actually outscored St. Louis in the series, 20-19.
Brian Elliott faced an average of seven more shots per game (36.3 to 29.3) than Chicago’s netminder, Corey Crawford.
While the Blues had home-ice advantage for the series, they split the four games played at Scottrade Center, but managed to take two of the three played at Chicago’s United Center.
The home team won only three times.
The Blues won the regular season series 4-1, claiming three victories in OT. So, if you’re keeping track at home, the Blues went 7-3 during the regular season against their two divisional opponents, and won six of those games in overtime. For whatever it’s worth, they were 4-1 against the Predators, including one OT win, and 1-2 versus the Sharks, with no home team winning a single game.
Four of the seven games were decided by one goal (two in OT).
All three of Dallas’ wins came in these nail-biters.
The Blues won a crucial game 2 in Texas in OT; their other three victories were blowouts (two, away from home) by a combined score of 16-1. As such, they outscored the Stars 25-14 in the series. That’s got to be some sort of record for goal differential in a seven game series.
The Blues averaged 3.6 goals per game in the series after averaging 2.7 per game during the regular season, good enough for 15th of 30 teams; the Stars averaged 2.0 goals per game this series versus 3.3 per game, tops in the league.
A shaky first period in game 6 aside, Elliott certainly made his case for the Conn Smythe Trophy, turning away shots during furious action in front of his net and posting a save percentage 45 points better than his counterparts on the Stars, Kari Lehtonen and Antti Niemi.
In all, things are looking promising for the Blues. In years past, they’ve folded easily after surrendering a lead, but this team has come back on several occasions, notably against the defending champion Blackhawks. They’ve also shown, against the Stars, they can score in bunches and keep the intensity up when holding the lead. Not to get too excited with two rounds yet to play before any parade in the vicinity of 14th and Clark, but if the Cubs are currently the best team in baseball and inevitably going to win it all in 2016, why can’t the Blues?
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2019-04-25T00:37:55Z
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https://thebaseballsite.wordpress.com/2016/05/12/wild-card-st-louis-unending-quest-for-lord-stanleys-cup/
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In Robert Frost’s poem Mending Wall a partial line reads “Something there is that doesn’t like a wall,…” and the poem goes on to ponder the “something.” Change the word wall to hat and that’s my experience with hat knitting.
I wanted to knit two hats using a stranded design. One for me and one for The Skipper. The pattern could not have been better written. Everything was perfectly clear. I got the yarns, I got the needles. And so I knitted.
It was the first time using the yarn I chose. The weight matched what the design called for and the needle sizes matched too. And so I knitted.
The stranded design was lovely and the designer had worked it out so the jog that usually occurs between the end and beginning of a round was part of the pattern. And so I knitted.
The first hat looked a little big on the needles. I ignored the voice that kept saying “It’s a bit big, don’t ya think? Better try it on his head.” And on I knitted.
I blocked the hat while the voice said, “That hat is larger than a watermelon.” When it dried I tried it on The Skipper’s head. The hat was too big. I could slap a big bowl over his head and get the same effect.
Take two: Same yarn, same pattern, smaller needle size. I knit. Then I blocked. The second hat was smaller, but it was still too large. Naturally, my knitter’s response to this was to ask The Skipper what he had done to his head. In my eyes it wasn’t that this second hat was too big, it was that his head had suddenly become too small. “Stop messing with your head,” I told him.
Take three: Different yarn as I had run out of the original, same pattern, same size needles. Smaller needles wouldn’t work with the yarn weight I was using. I knit. I blocked. The Skipper tried it on. It wasn’t as large as the first, nor was it as big as the second, but he had room to grow.I suggested he stop cutting his hair and let it fill out a bit, the hat would fit better.
He’s wearing the third hat, convinced that his head is such that a knitted hat fitting properly can never be.
Yes, there is something that doesn’t like a hat nor me knitting it.
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2019-04-22T14:07:05Z
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https://slippedstitches.wordpress.com/2015/01/01/
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What are you searching for?.
Filled with pride when Theo graduated from Junior School, so nervous about the change for him after the Summer break tho!
What we received in his graduation pack.
Hello my friends … It’s been a while!!
As it’s been literally months since I last blogged here’s an update on our life!! I won’t go into detail here however as I’ll probably blog about most of it along the way!!
Ali’s into his final year at school … College next year!!
Theo’s started his Secondary School at a school just as amazing as his primary school!!
Alex is beginning to prove that he has actually walked this earth before with how phenomenally good he’s doing at his English Literature!
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2019-04-24T15:54:21Z
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https://mandzmagee.wordpress.com/2013/11/
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Gastrostomy in oropharyngeal cancer patients with ERCC4 (XPF) germline variants.
PURPOSE: ERCC4 (XPF) plays a role in both recombinant DNA repair and nucleotide excision repair, which involve repairing radiation-induced genetic damage. We hypothesized that two ERCC4 single-nucleotide polymorphisms are associated with normal-tissue toxicity in patients treated with radiotherapy for oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC). METHODS AND MATERIALS: A retrospective review of the medical records of 130 patients with OPSCC who were prospectively recruited into a molecular epidemiologic study was performed to determine whether a long-term percutaneous feeding gastrostomy (LPFG) tube (a tube required for more than 180 days) had been used during and after definitive radiotherapy. We determined the genotype of the ERCC4 G1244A and T2505C polymorphisms using standard polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment-length polymorphism techniques on DNA extracted from peripheral blood lymphocytes. RESULTS: Of 130 patients, 100 (77%) were evaluable for the ERCC4 G1244A polymorphism in exon 8, and 122 (94%) were evaluable for the ERCC4 T2505C polymorphism in exon 11. The ERCC4 G1244A polymorphism was associated with a decreased need for LPFG, but this was not statistically significant (adjusted odds ratio = 0.53; 95% confidence interval, 0.10-2.78). Sixteen (32%), 9 (14%), and 1 (10%) of patients with the wild-type homozygous TT genotype of ERCC4 T2505C, the heterozygous TC genotype, and the homozygous CC polymorphic genotype, respectively, required LPFG. These results suggest that the ERCC4 2505C allele was associated with a reduced need for LPFG (adjusted odds ratio = 0.20; 95% confidence interval, 0.06-0.67). Furthermore, the need for LPFG was reduced by having more than 1 ERCC4 2505C allele and further for having both the ERCC4 1244A and 2505C polymorphic alleles, but this was not statistically significant. In addition, the actual time of gastrostomy dependence was associated with the T2505C polymorphism based on the Kaplan-Meier method (p = 0.03). CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that the ERCC4 T2505C polymorphism may be associated with improved recovery from radiation treatment toxicity in patients with OPSCC. Further study with larger sample sizes and prospective measure of radiotherapy-induced toxicity is warranted.
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2019-04-21T02:51:05Z
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https://scholars.duke.edu/display/pub1115735
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On November 18, Mickey Mouse will turn 88.
It's been a long road since the iconic character first made his on-screen debut on an episode of “Steamboat Willie,” which aired Nov. 18, 1928. According to Disney, to celebrate the momentous birthday, Mickey will be taking a trip around the world and making a few surprise locations along the way.
The list of locations has yet to be announced, but you can follow along on Mickey's Instagram and Facebook accounts for a peek at where he ends up.
If you find yourself at a Disney park on the big day, there will still be plenty of celebration. Commemorative buttons will be handed out at various Disney resorts and parks, Disneyland will host a pre-parade birthday celebration, and a special edition of the “Move It! Shake It! Dance & Play It!” Street Party at Magic Kingdom Park in Orlando will be performed for the occasion.
If you don't get the chance to see him on his worldwide journey, keep an eye out for a video highlighting his travels.
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2019-04-26T00:11:41Z
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https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/disney-vacations/mickey-mouse-anniversary-world-tour
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Many times when one mentions W.N. Ferris' name, he or she gets a strange look and the question, "But didn't he believe in phrenology?" There is a phrenology head among the Ferris artifacts (photo, left), and there are some other evidences of the practice in Big Rapids.
In 1895 W.N. Ferris wrote a friend to thank her for sending Windsor's circulars. William Windsor was a proponent of phrenology, the study of the human skull's shape to determine mental faculties and character. He made his living by it. "I can't help thinking Mr. Windsor is a fraud," Ferris said. "The advertisements in connection with his circulars don't indicate scientific entertainment, nor dignified, professional conduct. Phrenology is not a science. It embodies a large practice of valuable observations."
In 1921 William Windsor, LL.B., Ph.D., a member of the Bar of the Supreme Courts of Wisconsin, Kentucky and Texas, and of the Supreme Court of the United States, published a book, Phrenology, The Science of Character, with an introduction by Gov. Woodbridge N. Ferris. Ferris obviously thought he would make some money on the publication because at one time there were many copies lying around the campus which had not been sold.
"I have been studying Human Nature systematically for 25 years. I am now trying to devise a card on which will be stated in popular terms sufficient data for me to arrange what might be called an estimate of a student's mental resources. I have done considerable work on it but am not satisfied with what I have succeeded in doing."
This is the first record we have of W.N. Ferris trying to devise a placement system for his students to determine their aptitudes so that he would be able to tell how well they would succeed before they entered his programs.
" I lectured on Phrenology some 22 years ago and met with fair success. I speak of this so that you may know that I am familiar with the Phrenological nomenclature. I have made good use of Phrenology although I am not so radical in my views as men like yourself . . . .
"You will object to making the terms popular in the card outline, but if it could be made popular, I think it might be placed in the hands of many teachers who would otherwise be discouraged if they were compelled to use a Phrenological nomenclature. I presume you are a busy man and will find it hard to answer this question, but I have done considerable corresponding with several good men and am not satisfied with the results."
"I am trying to devise a card on which will be stated in popular terms sufficient data for me to estimate a student's mental resources."
"I send you my first catalog. In regard to Phrenology and Physiognomy, I take great pleasure in saying that these studies are taught, not in the regular day's work. An evening class is now studying very carefully physiognomy and expression. In a very short time I shall give daily recitations in the subjects relating to Phrenology. I wish you would bear in mind that we do not prepare men and women for professional phrenologists. We do give then the foundation, and of course, if a candidate can remain here long enough we would give a thorough preparation for the lecture field. In some respects my work is more scientific than that which is offered by some men who advertise very freely."
Many students have talked about having the bumps read on their heads, but there aren't any records that Ferris tried to teach classes in phrenology.
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2019-04-25T12:32:30Z
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https://www.ferris.edu/alumni/Historical/COO/phrenology.htm
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by Sue Dreamwalker in Diving Deeper, Mind Body & Spirit, Poems Tags: Energy, Mass Consciousness, Mind Body Spirit, Personal Responsibility, Poem, Positive Thinking, thoughts, transformation.
THE POWER OF YOUR THOUGHTS!
I am always talking about the power of our thoughts and how they are very much underestimated and the tendency among light-workers is to think that we are individually too insignificant to make a difference. But with an understanding given to us by Ancient Wisdom, our thinking can be put in harmony with what we know of the Divine Plan, and within that plan, we can generate thought-forms of quality, that can turn the battle with the Dark Forces/negative in our favour to that of the Light Forces/Positive..
We can change our world by sending out our thoughts like sowing them like seeds upon the wind, casting them out to all who will listen..
We have to decipher the truth about what is going on, no matter what the mass media is telling us. Let us turn around the seeds that the Dark Forces have planted within our minds.. For that is what the media constantly plant… The Negative, for control.
Mother Earth is at this moment helping bring about Compassion. It may not always be apparent to us, for all we can do is perceive tragedies and suffering which natural disasters bring about. But she is creating a Shift in consciousness which is needed to re-address the imbalance created.
The mass consciousness can reach more individuals than the mass media, and can gain considerable momentum in shifting the balance of light and darkness on earth. It will touch the minds of people in their sleep, in quiet moments of contemplation during the day, in prayers, and even in the most unexpected moments of one’s daily life. And as minds change, so will the re-balancing begin to manifest on the earth plane.
Many are already experiencing these shifts, as they go through their own emotional turmoil as their own energy bodies fluctuate. Which may manifest in a variety of ways. Many are now just feeling so confused.
Wolf Totem Pastel sketch of mine.
it all depends upon Which Wolf you Feed? and the one you feed most is the one that Wins.
We all get caught up in the negative day-to-day events as we see them played out upon our TV screens and within our workplaces. And I am far from immune, and regularly have to withdraw, clear out and cleanse as I too realise I can get caught up within the swirl of negative energies.
And if I allow myself to get caught within the ‘Play’ being played out, I am only helping to contribute to those dark forces which is bringing such depression and a downward spiral to events around the globe as I too contribute to the thought stream. The media are so very clever in its manipulation of emotions when they want to sway the general public in certain directions!
I have to choose which kind of world I want to create..So I have to learn to control my very thoughts, And think it into being accordingly and bring about my thoughts into positive Actions that generate Kindness and Peace, Compassion and LOVE..
So much have I thought of this these past few days, I have to choose.. I need to separate myself from people and their negative conversations, of gossip mongering, and Woe-is-Me Syndromes. From political arena’s. Each Play, all full of drama. Not easy I know, but each of us have to take responsibility, not only for our Actions, but we have to remember each action started with a thought. So we also need to be aware that our Thoughts Create our Reality.
So use those thoughts wisely and send them into the mass Consciousness without hatred, jealousies, and envy. Ask yourself how would you wish your life to be, and how would you wish yourselves to be treated. And what sort of world do you wish your children and grandchildren to grow up in.
Our thoughts Create.. So Think! and Grow!
Repeating over and over, deeds which were said.
Turning Truth into fiction and drama you’ll find.
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Posted on July 23, 2015 by Rawclyde!
At least 4,100 service members of the Afghan National Army (ANA) and the Afghan National Police (ANP) forces have lost their lives during the first six months of the year 2015.
The latest statistic regarding the Afghan National Security Forces casualties was disclosed in a report by the New York Times which shows a 50% increase as compared to the first six months of the year 2014.
According to the Times, the data regarding the Afghan forces casualties was provided by an official with the American-led coalition.
The data also revealed at least 7,800 service members of the Afghan National Security Forces were wounded during the same period.
In the meantime, the Afghan officers identified desertion as a serious problem saying that many soldiers were simply being barred from going home and required to fight on the frontlines for months straight.
The considerable growth in Afghan forces casualties comes as the Taliban-led insurgency has also been rampant with Afghan commanders and officials in key battleground areas saying that while Afghan forces nominally hold key areas, they are often penned in by Taliban forces.
Mirdad Khan Nejrabi a member of Afghanistan’s parliament said that while the casualties were “very concerning” there would be no large-scale collapse of Afghan forces.
Posted on September 26, 2014 by Rawclyde!
Formation of the Afghan National Army (ANA) and development of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) were among President Hamid Karzai’s top priorities during his 13 year presidency.
Now as his term comes to an end, Karzai leaves behind his presidential legacy with security forces able to protect the nation despite all challenges.
According to the Ministry of Defense (MoD), if the ANA is provided with necessary arms and weaponries, the forces could be regionally unique.
Meanwhile, critics have stated that the ANSF’s ability to maintain security in many parts of the country is questionable, adding that the forces have missed massive opportunities for growth.
After the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 through 2005, security was not a major issue for the Karzai and his administration. However, the Taliban were able to regain their capabilities and disrupt the security once again starting with rising insecurities in 2007.
The ANA has conducted at least 6,000 nighttime military operations and has accomplished major military tasks despite the lack of sufficient artillery.
“We still have no defending army, it is only an anti-rebel army, it still has long ways to go,” military commentator Jawed Kohistani said.
The total number of soldiers serving in the ANA ranks is about 150,000, with an additional 195,000 in the Afghan National Police (ANP) branch.
With the new president being inaugurated on Monday, the new government’s approach to the ANA’s future and development is a major topic of discussion.
Posted on May 6, 2014 by Rawclyde!
Resentment of the Taliban was already brewing in the village of Pishin Gan Sayedan. When villagers had begun their yearly collective task of cleaning the irrigation canal, digging out the silt and clearing the undergrowth along the sloping banks, the Taliban commander Mullah Noor Mohammad turned up with a group of fighters and ordered them to stop. The undergrowth provided the Taliban with good cover for ambushes, he told them. The villagers answered back that they needed the water to flow for their crops. They continued working. These Taliban were outsiders, and the villagers were fed up with them. The Taliban caused trouble by laying mines everywhere and staging ambushes in the village. Now they were threatening the villagers’ livelihood by disrupting the irrigation supply. “The Taliban were saying we don’t care if your fields die, or if you die, so the people said, ‘Then you can die,'” one resident told me.
The Taliban resorted to force. They waded in with their rifle butts, cracking several people on the head and breaking the arms of two of the farmers. They detained the village elder in charge of the canal cleaning and took him off to their base in the desert.
Just a few days later, the Taliban returned, looking for Wudood and his sons. By now the mood in the village was boiling. Villagers who had lost relatives to the Taliban offered their support to Wudood. When he met with the police chief, they hatched a plan. Sultun Mohammed immediately sent a posse of fifteen men to guard Wudood’s house in case the Taliban came back. After three days of waiting, they decided to spring an attack on Taliban positions in the nearby village of Kakaran. The place was an operational base where the Taliban were making bombs and explosives, and where they believed the Taliban commander stayed since the approaches were heavily mined. The police gathered a force of local and national police and intelligence officers, and attacked from two sides. Thirty to forty unarmed villagers accompanied the police, guiding them through the land mines and acting as lookouts. In a short firefight, they shot three members of the Taliban and seized control of the village. The Taliban commander, Mullah Noor Mohammad, escaped with ten others. The police knew his radio code name, Rahmani, and were able to follow his movements on the radio. The three wounded Talibs died as they retreated south.
When I remember the beleaguered state of Afghanistan in 2001, I marvel at the changes the American intervention has wrought: the rebuilding, the modernity, the bright graduates in every office. Yet after thirteen years, a trillion dollars spent, 120,000 foreign troops deployed at the height, and tens of thousands of lives lost, the fundamentals of Afghanistan’s predicament remain the same: a weak state, prey to the ambitions of its neighbors and extremist Islamists. The United States and its NATO allies are departing with the job only half done. Counter-insurgency is slow work. A comprehensive effort to turn things around only began in 2010. The fruits were only starting to show in 2013, and progress remains fragile.
Posted on April 8, 2014 by Rawclyde!
World leaders have come out left and right to praise Afghans, following Saturday’s vote, which marked the beginning of Afghanistan’s first democratic transition of power in modern history. Although insurgents had threatened to derail the elections, they were carried out peacefully and saw turnout that surpassed expectations.
The Independent Election Commission (IEC) estimated in a press conference Saturday night that over seven million Afghans participated in the presidential and provincial council elections, which would mean twice as many as did in 2009.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday congratulated Afghanistan for the election and said it was “critical” to securing the country’s democratic prospects and continued international aid. The U.S.-led NATO coalition is prepared to withdraw from the country by the end of this year, and the person elected to succeed President Hamid Karzai will likely play a key role in shaping the future of relations between Kabul and Washington.
The U.S. has been trying to settle a Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with the Karzai administration that would allow some foreign troops to stay in Afghanistan after 2014 to help advise the Afghan security forces, conduct counterterrorism operations and oversee the use of aid money. Over four billion USD in military supported funding is tied to the deal. With Karzai refusing to sign on, however, the last hope for the pact seems to fall on whoever is elected to replace him.
Heading into Saturday’s vote many Afghans and non-Afghans alike were concerned about insurgent violence and possible fraud. Militants led a surge of violence in the weeks leading up to the vote. But Saturday came and went with a few scattered attacks that had no large effect on the national process, and fraud, for the moment, appears to have been more subdued than in past years.
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has welcomed the Afghan elections as a historic event, and urged all candidates to respect the electoral institutions and their processes. It is likely the vote counting process will not be complete for several weeks.
“The members of the Council reiterate the importance of these historic elections to Afghanistan’s transition and democratic development,” the UNSC said in a statement.
“Members commend the participation and courage of the Afghan people to cast their ballot despite the threat and intimidation by the Taliban and other extremist and terrorist groups,” the statement added.
The high turnout, from both male and female voters, was celebrated by most as the major success of the day, regardless of the elections’ outcome.
“It is a great achievement for the Afghan people that so many voters, men and women, young and old, have turned out in such large numbers, despite threats of violence, to have their say in the country’s future,” British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in a statement.
NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen also chimed-in, calling the elections “a historic moment for Afghanistan”. Saturday was the first time since the coalition invaded the country that an election has been managed entirely by Afghans.
“This will be a historic moment, if we get this right, this democratic transition,” European Union (EU) Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton said.
The Indian government, a close ally of the Karzai administration, also commended Afghans on their participation in Saturday’s elections. “We salute the people of Afghanistan who turned out in such great numbers to exercise their right to vote despite the threat of violence and intimidation from terrorists and those who do not wish to see a strong, democratic and sovereign Afghanistan,” an External Affairs Ministry spokesman said on Saturday.
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) officials also congratulated the people of Afghanistan. “Today’s success clearly demonstrates that the Afghan people have chosen their future of progress and opportunity,” ISAF said in a statement.
“As the world watched, the Afghan National Security Forces provided the opportunity for the Afghan people to choose their new President, securing over 6,200 polling centers across the country,” the statement added.
The Afghan security forces have taken over responsibility for security from US-led forces, and this year the last of the NATO coalition’s remaining 51,000 combat troops will pull out. The relative peacefulness of Saturday’s vote will mark a crowning success for the security forces who have already been applauded for their impressive performance during their first fight season in the lead over the past year.
Posted on November 14, 2013 by Rawclyde!
There is no decent road to Chapa Dara – only a bumpy dirt track takes you to this mountainous district. The area is known for its dense forests and vast maize fields that offer a perfect hideout to Taliban insurgents.
Lack of development and a near total absence of government helped the Taliban take control of the only road access to Chapa Dara two-and-a-half years ago, paralysing an already weak administration.
“The Taliban did not allow food, fuel, even medicine to pass through this road,” General Hayatullah Aqtash, commander of the Afghan National Army in Kunar, tells me.
Kunar Province has always been a crucible of conflict. Tucked away in the north-eastern corner of Afghanistan, it borders Pakistan’s tribal badlands. It is one of the first ports of call for war-minded militants crossing the mountain passes.
In recent months US drones – and the aerial intelligence they provided – are estimated to have killed more than 100 Taliban fighters, breaking the backbone of the Taliban and enabling the ANA to assume control of Chapa Dara, Gen Aqtash said.
Last year a US drone attack in the Shegal district of Kunar killed Mullah Dadullah, a high-ranking Pakistani Taliban commander.
Top Taliban commander Maulawi Nur Mohammad and his deputy Atiqullah were also killed in Kunar during 2012.
As the army convoy in which I travelled drove on the dirt track alongside the Pech river, we could see white flags – similar to the ones the Taliban flew during their five-year rule in Afghanistan – fluttering on the other side.
The flags symbolise that the Taliban are in control.
But they have been ejected from Chapa Dara by the ANA.
“We have secured the road, because you have to start from the road,” Gen Aqtash said.
Most local people seem to welcome the removal of the Taliban, some even providing ANA troops with food, milk and tea.
“Until recently, the Taliban controlled our lives,” says Mohammad Bashir, a shopkeeper in the district market.
Locals said continuous clashes between the security forces and insurgents over the past two-and-a-half years forced closure of the market and the district’s only school.
Ihsanullah Gojar, the police chief of Chapa Dara, said his men suffered most during the siege.
“Dozens of policemen have been injured fighting the Taliban over the past two years,” he said.
“Many of them had injuries that were treatable but they died of their wounds because of the shortage of medical supplies and doctors.
“We were promised helicopter pick-ups for the injured, but they never came. It was painful to see my men die before my eyes and I could do nothing about it,” the police chief said.
As he spoke, several villagers gather around the military convoy, greeting the soldiers with flowers.
“People are happy that Taliban has been removed from Chapa Dara,” one elder said.
But the district is desperate for development. There is no judge or prosecutor in Chapa Dara, no clinic, no public health officials or teachers.
The absence of government services is so grave in fact that it threatens to undermine military advances on the ground.
“This means that even though the army has taken control of the district and the road leading to it, the government can’t provide any services to the people,” Gen Aqtash said.
“It is obvious that there is a crisis of governance here. Militarily, we have done the job. But if the civilian side doesn’t work, this success will be for the short term.
“When the US forces were here, they used to nickname the Pech Valley as the Valley of Death, now we are calling it the Valley of Peace.
Posted on October 16, 2013 by Rawclyde!
KABUL, Afghanistan — When the Taliban announced the beginning of their spring offensive, they saw few limits to their ambitions: to kill top Afghan officials across every major ministry, to plot even more infiltration attacks against Americans and to bloody, break and drive off the Afghan security forces who were newly in charge across the country.
That assessment, detailed in interviews with commanders, officials and local leaders, is an important factor in urgent efforts by the Americans and Afghans to hash out a long-term deal to support the Afghan security forces, with national elections and the Western military withdrawal looming over the coming months.
Though the Afghan forces endured, they did little to answer some persistent questions about their ability and image, including whether they can handle their own planning and logistics as American forces continue to pull back. And in the rural southern Taliban heartland, the insurgents’ continued appearance as the more credible military force away from cities added weight to theories that the Taliban could control those areas after 2014.
While the Taliban’s assassination campaign did take a toll on police officials and mostly low-level district officials, an insurgent success came late in the season — on Tuesday, when the well-regarded governor of Logar Province was killed while preparing to speak in a mosque, though the Taliban denied responsibility.
The Taliban were quick to take responsibility for many of the so-called insider attacks last year, when Afghans in uniform killed 60 members of the international military force, and vowed to intensify them this year. But with new security measures in place, there have been just 14 such killings this year.
Even the insurgents’ strategy of waging high-profile attacks against Western targets in the capital, Kabul, mostly fizzled or ended up misdirected, as in a bombing that the Taliban said had been aimed at a C.I.A. safe house but instead killed four at the International Organization for Migration.
Though there was no such decisive blow, the cuts were deep.
In some areas of the south and east, most notably in the Sangin district of Helmand Province, the Taliban were able to restrict movement of Afghan forces and inflict heavy casualties.
Just how much those casualties have increased, however, is a matter of dispute. American officials defer requests for statistics to the Afghan authorities, saying it is now their responsibility.
Sediq Seddiqi, the Interior Ministry spokesman, said the increase was only slight for the police forces, who suffered the greatest share of the casualties. But he refused to give any recent statistics. The Afghan military has similarly resisted giving figures for this year.
Last year, the Afghan government said 2,970 police officers and soldiers had been killed in 2012.
The toll this year is at least double that, and probably much more, said Hamayoun Hamayoun, the chairman of the defense committee in the Afghan Parliament. He said figures given in confidence to his committee by government ministries showed that 6,000 Afghan soldiers and police officers had been killed since March.
“You know the government hides the correct numbers,” he said.
Mr. Hamayoun cited a major fight in northern Badakhshan Province in August. Government spokesmen said 20 policemen had been killed, but when committee investigators went to the area, they found the total was 80, he said.
In addition, Mr. Hamayoun expressed concern about the continued high attrition rate for the Afghan National Army from desertions, casualties and resignations. In recent years, the military had to replace roughly a third of its force annually, and that has continued, he said.
“If this keeps on for a long time, the military will collapse,” Mr. Hamayoun said.
American military officials say they are not nearly so alarmed. They expected the Afghans to take some punishment once they were really on their own, and they say that so far the Afghans have not had a hard time finding replacement recruits in a country with high unemployment and widespread poverty.
Trying to blunt the effect of increased Afghan casualties, American commanders say, they flew more helicopter medevac missions for Afghan forces — despite an effort to persuade the Afghans to use ground transportation and regional military hospitals in preparation for the decreasing American support presence.
“This is their first fighting season in the lead, so we’re doing more medevacs than previous years because they’re doing more than previous years,” said Colonel Lapan, the American military spokesman.
The performance of their allies was not as poor as many American military officials had feared. One senior military officer said he would give the Afghan security forces a C-plus grade — not a ringing endorsement, but better than the C he said he would give the insurgency.
But if the Afghans’ performance has allayed short-term fears, it has answered few questions about what the long-term balance against the Taliban will look like.
One critical point will be security for the national election, scheduled for the first week in April and characterized as crucial to the government’s credibility. Some Afghan officials insist that date is too early — snow is still likely to be blocking mountain passes, potentially reducing turnout. But American officials are quietly urging the Afghans to stay on course anyway, because a later date would make it easier for the Taliban to disrupt the vote.
There are longer-term questions as well, particularly in remote districts of eastern Afghanistan and stretches of farmland in southern Afghanistan, where the Taliban are strongest.
One American official involved with the Human Terrain System, a program that uses social science techniques to help the military understand Afghan society, said that in those areas, the perception among most people was that the Taliban remained the dominant force in their villages.
That, in particular, does not bode well for the hope that the central government will be able to exert its authority in those southern and ethnic Pashtun areas after the official end of the American combat mission next year.
“You’re looking at these people, you listen to them and you hear them out and you talk, and you realize that these are the Taliban,” said an American Army officer who served in rural areas thick with insurgents outside Kandahar, the main city in southern Afghanistan.
Rod Nordland and Matthew Rosenberg reported from Kabul, and Thom Shanker from Washington. Azam Ahmed contributed reporting from Kabul and Sangin, Afghanistan.
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"Kenyon Collegian - March 3, 2005" (2005). The Kenyon Collegian. 316.
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Several of the participants in Cafe Ole's 5k run or walk are told about the route just minutes before they were on their way.
Cafe Ole drew 36 runners to its first 5k run or walk through Cooper-Young on Friday, September 28, raising $2,000 for Ronald McDonald House of Memphis.
Organizers were hoping to attract 100 participants, but only had 36 that registered for this event. Despite that lower than expected number, however, Cafe Ole did collect $2,000 from registration fees and business sponsorships, which Johnson said will all go to the Ronald McDonald House. More will come from other Wifflestock events like the "Pun Baby" poker tournament, which Cafe Ole hosted.
For Shannon Williams, 39, of Memphis it was his first attempt at doing a 5k run. The motivation to do this came from, he said, "friends and the desire to prove that I could complete it in a respectable time following ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) replacement surgery."
The ACL is one of four major ligaments in the knee and one that Williams damaged in a cycling accident last October.
Even though Williams had some concern and apprehension about possibly re-injuring his knee during the run, he said that it did not hurt him afterwards. "I enjoyed it a lot and I will definitely do another one," Williams said.
The 5k was also a first for Janet Phillippi, 51, of Memphis. Phillippi said that she wanted to do the run so that she would see how prepared she was for a half marathon that she intends to run for St. Jude on December 1st.
The idea for organizing the Cafe Ole 5k run, according to manager Denise Johnson, was to combine it with the Wifflestock tournament on September 29th and 30th. "We participated in the Wifflestock tournament last year at Tiger Lane," she said, and "we had an amazing time helping out for a great cause."
Because of last year's experience, Johnson said Cafe Ole decided to sponsor the 5k run this year "to try to do something extra for Ronald McDonald House charities of Memphis."
Overall, Johnson indicated that she was pleased with the turnout and she said that Cafe Ole "will definitely do it again next year and make the necessary changes to make it even bigger and better."
Cafe Ole employees, in the yellow t-shirts, register one of 36 participants in Cafe Ole's first 5k run to benefit the Ronald McDonald House of Memphis.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California air regulators on Tuesday said they plan to keep tightening state vehicle emissions rules despite a Trump administration proposal last week that would strip the state of the ability to set its own limits.
“California will take all actions to ensure that the smart standards we developed in partnership with the auto industry to cut greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles stay in place,” said CARB Chair Mary Nichols in a statement from Sacramento.
“Dirty, gas guzzling vehicles are a direct assault on public health, and foreclose our ability to rein in air pollution and greenhouse gases,” she added.
The Trump administration said the Obama era rules were “not appropriate” and its freeze would help make vehicles more affordable. It said that under its proposal vehicles would average 37 miles per gallon in 2026, compared with 46.8 mpg under the Obama rule.
California and 18 other states said last week they will fight the Trump administration’s freeze in court, a legal battle that could leave automakers in regulatory limbo for years.
Last month, Nichols told Reuters California wants to work with automakers on revisions and she sees a “window” for a deal in coming months.
Two trade groups representing General Motors Co, Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE), Toyota Motor Corp and other major automakers, sent letters to California Governor Jerry Brown and U.S. President Donald Trump last week urging negotiations for a compromise on one set of nationwide rules.
California said under the Trump administration’s preferred option, emissions could increase by almost 14 million metric tons per year by 2025. The administration says freezing the limits would have little impact on average global temperature, even as projected U.S. oil consumption would increase by about 500,000 barrels daily.
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I remember we have done it on some punts where the ball has bounced first. Don't recall on kickoffs though.
You can’t fair catch a punt that has bounced.
Maybe we dropped to a knee or something. I was thinking we've done it before.
Wasn't there a Ryan Smith return that was called back because he had originally called for a fair catch, the ball then bounced and he tried to return it??
Maybe, but that’s not a “fair catch” of a punt that bounced. What it is is a delay of game penalty I believe.
Correct. I wanna say Dudzik did this more than once.
I believe you might be referring to a play where he "motioned" and yelled at his teammates to get out to the way as the punt was kicked short and he ran up and caught and took off. The officials took his arm motion as a fair catch signal even though I don't remember his arms going above his head.
Invalid Fair Catch Signal, I remember that one!
I remember that one clearly. I thought Phil Hansen was going to explode on the radio over that call. He kept saying it's common to wave off your teammate and he never had his arm up all the way.
That was the first year of any hand signal was going to be a fair catch signal.
Correct. A fair catch can only happen if the ball is "caught." By definition, a catch is gaining possession of a ball in flight. A recovery is gaining possession of a ball that has been grounded.
If you give any signal as a member of the return team, the ball will become dead immediately when possessed. If the signal is a valid fair catch signal and the ball is caught, you have a fair catch. If the ball is caught, only the player who signaled is protected, but you also can't tee off on a player who caught it when someone else gives the signal.
If the return player gives the get away signal, it's an invalid signal. There is no penalty other than the return team can't advance it once possessed. You could get a delay of game penalty if you do continue to advance it, but that is rarely called.
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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society is the organisation that supports the running of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the largest arts festival in the world. The Society was established in 1958 to provide a centralised information and box office service for the Fringe, which had grown in numbers since eight theatre companies had effectively "created" the Fringe by performing uninvited alongside the Edinburgh International Festival in 1947.
The first formal discussions regarding the establishment of a central body for the Fringe took place in 1954. By that year, the Fringe was attracting around a dozen companies, and a meeting was held to discuss creating "a small organisation to act as a brain for the Fringe", or what The Scotsman called an "official unofficial festival".
However, it was not until 1958 when the idea of a Festival Fringe Society was properly established, by Michael Imison, director of Oxford Theatre Group. A constitution was drawn up, in which the policy of not vetting or censoring shows was set out, and the Society was officially launched at the Fringe of 1959.
The Society performs no curatorial role for the Fringe. Rather, it formalises the process of event registration, promotion and ticket selling, while also acting in an advisory and advocacy capacity. A founding principle of the Fringe was that no single individual or committee should determine who can appear. It remains an open access arts festival, accommodating anyone with a desire to perform and a venue willing to host them.
The Society therefore has no artistic director, only administrators. For some years the lead (or only) official in the Fringe Society was known as the Fringe Administrator. Only in recent years has the term Chief Executive been used to describe the head of the Fringe Society.
The Society has a Board of Directors, which oversees the core Fringe staff. The first chair of the board was Lord Grant. In 1970, the actor Andrew Cruickshank became chair, to be succeeded in 1983 by Jonathan Miller, and then by Elizabeth Smith, Baroness Smith, widow of former Labour Leader John Smith. The current chair is Professor Sir Timothy O'Shea, who succeeded Baroness Smith in 2012.
The first full-time Fringe chief was John Milligan, a former teacher who left in 1976 to run the Craigmillar Festival. He was succeeded by writer and historian Alistair Moffat, who left in 1981 to become Head of Arts at Scottish Television. In turn, he was replaced by Michael Dale, who departed in 1986 to become Head of Events for the Glasgow Garden Festival. He was succeeded by his deputy, Mhairi Mackenzie-Robinson, who left in 1993 to pursue a career in business. Hilary Strong served in the position until 1999, when she then became director of the Greenwich Theatre. She was followed by Paul Gudgin (2000–2007), Jon Morgan (2007–2008), and Kath Mainland (2008-2015). In November 2015, Mainland announced her decision to step down as Chief Executive in order to take on the role of Executive Director of the Melbourne Festival, and in early 2016 it was announced that her successor would be Shona McCarthy, who had headed up the 2013 Derry~Londonderry UK City of Culture. She took up the position in March 2016.
Membership of the Fringe Society is open to anyone.
The Fringe Society is based at offices on the Royal Mile. It is designated as "Venue 1" in Fringe listings. The building also serves as the Fringe Shop and, during August, as a box office. The shop stocks Fringe memorabilia and copies of the brochure. The strip of the Royal Mile outside is closed to traffic during the Fringe, and becomes an area for street performers, often giving snippets of shows which can be seen in full elsewhere.
During August, the Society also operates Fringe Central (designated "Venue 2"), a hub for press and performers. In 2018, this will be based at Appleton Tower on Crichton Street.
NB: The title of the lead officer of the Society has varied throughout its existence.
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^ Fisher 2012, p. 20.
^ a b "About the Edinburgh Festival Fringe". The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society.
^ "Fringe Society Board of Directors". The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society.
^ "Shona McCarthy appointed as Chief Executive of Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society". The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society.
^ "Edinburgh Fringe Shop and Box Office". Edinburgh Guide.
^ "Fringe Central". Retrieved 24 July 2018.
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However, there are a couple of other former Wizards now wearing rave green. Here are some of their thoughts that didn't make the paper.
TAYLOR GRAHAM, who played in KC from 2003-2004.
On if he had this date circled: "It's just another game in terms of the game. It's special to see friends. I was doing the math the other day. I think there's four guys still on the team from when I was there. Jack Jewsbury and I were drafted the same year and were roommates essentially for two years, so I'm excited to see him. Davy Arnaud was a year above me, but we were good friends there too. And Jimmy Conrad and Josh Wolff were the other two guys."
On whether he's had the date circled: "I haven't had it circled with any bad wishes or bad hopes. I'm just excited to see the guys either before of after the game. And I'm just looking forward to another home game for our team. I think the guys are pretty excited to come back after getting a road win and come home to our home fans."
On if he was surprised that KC made him available: "I knew it was going to be close. My coaches informed me that they were going to be meeting. I was going into the expansion draft kind of open-minded, I guess. I ended on a pretty good note there, and I knew that there was maybe a chance that some team would be interested. And I knew Henderson from his years with the Wizards, so I felt that there was even more of possiblity. And it happened."
On how the move is working out for him: "We have a great team. We're playing well. We have a great atmosphere to play in. The program is well supported by the ownership group and everything like that. Me, myself personally, I'm trying to fight my way into some playing time. But as a whole, yeah, it's been a great experience."
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