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[edit 7:37 pm: searching around a bit more I found this offer for the $39 annual fee card for 10,000 points after first purchase and 10,000 points after $500 in spend within 3 months. I also edited the application links below.]
[edit 6/18/13: see the comments for one data point applying through the 20,000 point link. I'm surprised that Barclaycard would deny an application just because an offer was expired, but that was reader Paul's experience (no credit pull, though).]
In the comments to a post last month, reader travel well asked whether I had any experience with the Travelocity Rewards co-branded American Express card. I hadn't heard of the card, but did some research, and want to share what I found with readers.
There are two versions of the Travelocity Rewards Amex: a $39 annual fee version and a no annual fee version.
- The $39 annual fee version earns 5 points per dollar spent at Travelocity, 2 points per dollar spent at your choice of either gas stations, grocery stores, or restaurants, and 1 point per dollar spent everywhere else. The link I found offers 7,500 bonus points after your first purchase [edit: see above].
- The no annual fee version earns 3 points per dollar spent at Travelocity and 1 point per dollar spent everywhere else. It offers 5,000 bonus points after first purchase.
Like the US Bank Flexperks Travel Rewards Signature Visa, the Travelocity Rewards points earned by this card can be redeemed in fixed-value tiers. The value in turn depends on the redemption tier. From the Travelocity website:
As that list illustrates, points are worth 1 cent each until you reach the 20,000 point level, when the value jumps to 2 cents each. Then each subsequent point is worth an additional cent, until you reach the 40,000 point level, when the value jumps back up to 2 cents each. This means that the most lucrative redemptions are always in intervals of 20,000 points.
Fortunately, the Travelocity Rewards card does allow partial redemptions, and indeed as far as I can tell allows redemptions only in the tiers specified. Redemptions are made directly through the Travelocity website, for reservations made with Travelocity. After selecting your flights, hotels, or rental cars, select the Travelocity Rewards American Express as your method of payment, and you'll see the option to redeem points for part of your purchase. As the above analysis makes clear, whenever possible you should redeem them in blocks of 20,000 points. When you do so, you'll earn a full 10% rebate on all your purchases made at Travelocity with the $39 annual fee card and 6% rebate with the no annual fee card. After selecting your redemption amount, complete your purchase and you'll receive a statement credit for the amount of your redemption.
Who should use the Travelocity American Express card?
This card looks great on paper: a 10% rebate on Travelocity bookings, which can be paired with 2 Ultimate Rewards points per dollar when you click through to Travelocity through the Ultimate Rewards Mall. Still, there are two drawbacks that I think are serious enough to keep me from getting the card personally.
First, the more lucrative card has a $39 annual fee. Admittedly, that won't break the bank – if I were able to redeem my points regularly at the 20,000 point level, then the 5-6 cent edge this card has over a card like the Chase Sapphire Preferred (for double points on travel) would be justified. That's especially true if carrying this card allowed me to cancel my Sapphire Preferred, which carries a hefty $95 annual fee.
However, the second problem is that 20,000 point threshold. To earn those 20,000 points, I'd need to spend $4,000 on Travelocity, which isn't realistic for me personally: I purchase travel using my Barclaycard Arrival World MasterCard (for a 65% discount on paid travel after manufacturing spend), I redeem US Bank Flexpoints for paid travel (for a 74%-80% discount on paid travel), and of course I redeem airline miles for award travel. Even more importantly, sometimes Travelocity doesn't have the best price on airline tickets, or doesn't offer itineraries that are available elsewhere, in which case I use other online travel agencies instead or book directly through the airline. All that would add up to paying multiple $39 annual fees while I waited to hit the 20,000 point sweet spot.
All that said, if you already spend a lot of money on paid travel through Travelocity, enough to hit that 20,000 point threshold at least once a year, then this is a card with terrific earning potential. I would probably pair it with a Chase Ink card in order to continue to earn double Ultimate Rewards points through direct hotel bookings (and have access to the Ultimate Rewards Mall) while still earning hotel loyalty points and credit for nights and stays towards elite status.


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"Japan: Abduction and deprivation of freedom for the purpose of religious de-conversion"
Wednesday October 31, 2012, 12h00 – 14h00
(Prior to UPR session on Japan)
Palais des Nations,
Room XXV (25)
"Religious Discrimination in Japan"
Conference organized by the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) in joint sponsorship with Human Rights without Frontiers, the Japanese Victims Association against Kidnapping and Forced Conversion and Foref-Europe
Wednesday October 31, 2012, 12h00 – 14h00 (prior to UPR session on Japan)
Palais des Nations, Room XXV (25)
Human Rights Without Frontiers has just published its report "Japan: Abductions and deprivation of freedom for the purpose of de-conversion". In the last 40 years, about 4000 members of the Unification Church as well as members of the Jehovah's Witnesses, were kidnapped, confined and submitted to brainwashing for days, weeks, months and sometimes years in total impunity to force them to recant their faith. Last year, Human Rights Without Frontiers carried out an independent investigation in Tokyo and in Seoul. The report was published in Japanese and now in English. It is used as a reference for current campaigns in Japan, UN, United States and academic conferences so that an end can be put to this practice and the Japanese authorities prosecute those who perpetrate such illegal activities.
October 31, 2012, 12h00 -14H00, room XXV (25) (prior to UPR session on Japan)
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Heiner W. Handschin, Secretary General UPF Europe 2, Coordinator UN – relations, Geneva.
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- Aaron Rhodes, International human rights activist, co-founder of the Freedom Rights Project, and former Executive Director of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights.
- Willy Fautre, President Human Rights Without Frontiers, Brussels – Belgium
- Patricia Duval, Attorney at Law, Brussels – Belgium
- Toru Goto, Representative of the "Japanese Victims' Association against Religious Kidnapping & Forced Conversion. "
- Mitsuko Antal, Victim of abduction and forced conversion, Japan.
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Names: Craig, Nancy & Nikki
Identifying sign: I swear, these Aussies give you a shiny happy beach feel despite freezing temperatures in NYC.
You're likely bump into their kind: Blue Bird Coffee Shop at 72 East 1st Street, Lower East Side, New York seeking a refuge from the cold and enjoying awesome coffee.
Fashion Friday Tip: People, I just checked my calendar and I can tell you what you've been afraid of — the winter ain't going anywhere anytime soon… But a look at this friendly Australian bunch in New York reminded me of warm summer colors, of surfer fashion and brands like Quicksilver, Dakine and Roxy. Soft shades of green go well with washed pink and baby blue. Let's go for summer colors and smile to make us survive the winter easier!


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The Breeder gallery is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition in Athens of German born, London based artist Markus Amm, that consists of new paintings, sculptures, photograms and wallpaintings.
Like silent x-rays and inverted silhouettes, the array of geometric abstractions in Amm's canvas works appear as nearly cubistic imprints of shadow shapes, broken planes and the torn edges of elegantly textured surfaces. They seem to float and mingle with in their monochrome frames, seemingly unpinned from their material backing. The subtly painted layers, traced frames and outlines are composed and combined like a series of time lapse snapshots or stack of composited blue prints; each layer a solo antecedent yet intrinsic part of the work's totality. Crushed, fragmented, stained or sliced the variety of textures and grains included in each work are often highlighted by a complementary curve, stripe or color tint that punctuates their mute demeanor to imbue the piece with a sense of intimacy, immediacy and mood.
In close proximity to his canvas works, Amm's wall and sculptural pieces project his deftly constructed compositions from the surface of the canvas into the multi dimensional space of architecture. Through the careful application of surface treatments on walls, calculative placement of thin, angular, wood sculptures and the addition of signature painted fragments, Amm constructs a visual picture plane from the tangible gallery space. Framed and accented by their own structural elements, these painting-installations unfold and re-structure themselves as the viewer's perspective crosses the space.
The body of work presented at the Breeder even though was not originally created within the gallery, triggers a dialogue with the architecture of the space. The walls, the mosaic floor, the light coming in different shapes and from various directions interact with the works and produce a new meaning, a fresh view on the three-dimensional space. At the gallery's basement, the viewer comes across three bodies of work: black photographic paper (coin studies), museum barriers standing in vertical position (distance keepers) and wall painting (model), that act as collage elements and manage in a quite unexpected and paradoxical way to serve as a whole new system of reference. Amm, inspired by the miniatures of the gallery space, that the artists are used to build in order to have a first approach to the spatial arrangement of the gallery, painted on the walls a resemblance of the pieces of muskin-tape which hold the cardboard walls of those miniatures together. The model of the gallery space refers directly to the notion of the "white cube", an art space deprived from external stimuli and ideal -in a laboratory-like shape- for political, economical, aesthetical and social experiments. The distance keepers, that museums use to prevent viewers from approaching works of art, are assembled in vertical compositions and reflected upon the black photograms become part of the model. Amm's masterful presentation of such interrelationships of space and canvas, fragment and whole, present and process, is an exercise in abstraction that appears to have opened the way to new spheres of artistic production, merging format, structure and style.
Markus Amm was born in Germany in 1969 and he now lives and works in London. He has had solo shows in Herald str gallery. London, David Kordansky gallery, Los Angeles and Karin Guenther gallery, Hamburg. He has presented his work in the show Triumph of Painting 4: Germania in the Saatchi gallery (2008), London, in Formalismus in Kunsteverein Hamburg (2004) and various museum, institutions and galleries in Europe and the States.


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…the facts are that in the case of the Navy Yard as well as in all of the recent shootings, this is a result of a long-standing CIA program to use what we call Manchurian Candidate shooters."
Press TV: The numbers are staggering. We thought after Sandy Hook things would come under control but it seems that the gun control debate isn't going anywhere forward, wouldn't you agree?
Webre: Well the thing is that what is behind these mass shootings is not being publically reported by the media.
And I have been in consultations with a group that is based in the European Union in Brussels, European Coalition against Covert Harassment which is now consulting with the European Parliament and the facts are that in the case of the Navy Yard as well as in all of the recent shootings, this is a result of a long-standing CIA program to use what we call Manchurian Candidate shooters.
These are shooters, individuals that are specially chosen under a CIA program. We know about it because of a whistleblower from the CIA who has gone public. They use nanotechnologies with implants that are located inside the perspective shooter and then the shooter can be teleguided and directed to do the shooting. His will can actually be overcome and this goes from experiments in the early 1960's by Doctor Jose Delgado at Yale University School of Medicine.
Press TV: Well then Mr. Webre, then the question that does come to mind is that how does shooting a three-year-old child or students at an elementary school benefit the CIA?
Webre:Yes, this is a well-established program to create mayhem and therefore to establish gun control laws and to overcome the guarantees of the Second Amendment of an armed population against a tyrannical government.
What the CIA wants to do is to disarm the US population and therefore be able to implement its draconian plans for a police state and only a well armed citizenry can keep that police state at bay.
And that is what the media in the United States is not reporting that these shooters are Manchurian Candidates which are directed through nano implants, nanotechnology in their brains and other parts of their bodies through a very sophisticated program that now goes from Sandy Hook to the Navy Yard and now to Chicago.


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Bring the kids they can enjoy doing a scavenger hunt and geocaching on our journey into the rainforest.
Scavenger Hunt – Each participant will receive a list of things items to find and mark them off as we see them during our travels. It's a great way for everyone to learn about the types of trees and all the amazing nature they are experiencing in the largest national forest. Prizes included for children.
Try Geocaching – It's like a treasure hunt. We use our GPS unit to guide us to a hidden cache. We can trade small items like pins, key chains or other little trinkets. If you like you can bring something to trade from your home. This is great fun for all ages, not just the kids.
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Christopher Nolan is developing a 4K remaster of his iconic Dark Knight trilogy. While Marvel Studios' interconnected MCU franchise continues to dominate both the box office and critics' hearts - aside from the recent Wonder Woman, which may very well signal a turnaround in that regard - it wasn't too long ago that DC sat atop the comic book movie world. That status came courtesy of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, which many would argue is the best cinematic depiction of Batman to date. Chronicling Bruce Wayne's rise from damaged orphan to Gotham's savior, then subsequent fall from grace and struggle to clear his name there are few comic book based trilogies as satisfying.
The clear standout entry in Nolan's trilogy is 2008's The Dark Knight, routinely cited as one of the greatest superhero films of all-time. Featuring Christian Bale really coming into his own as Batman, and Heath Ledger's iconic take on The Joker, The Dark Knight hauled in over $1 billion worldwide, as well as mesmerized both critics and fans. 2005's Batman Begins is also held in very high regard, if generally eclipsed by its sequel. 2012's final installment, The Dark Knight Rises, has fallen victim to some post-release backlash in the years since, although it was both a critical and commercial success at the time.
The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises were often held up as demo discs for just how terrific films could look on Blu-Ray - Batman Begins was an HD-DVD port, and suffered as a result - and now Batman News reports that Nolan is personally overseeing a 4K home video remaster for all three films in his Gotham-set trilogy. Nolan revealed the news during a recent video interview with BadTaste.it, while promoting his latest film, Dunkirk.
Nolan is looking forward to the 4K disc releases of his Batman series, due to 4K with HDR technology offering fans a closer approximation of the TDK trilogy's original 6K photography than any prior home video experience. Of course, 4K is still a long way from the enormous 18K resolution of The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises' IMAX scenes, but it'll be probably be quite awhile before home viewing formats get near that level of clarity.
It's unclear at the moment exactly when Nolan's 4K remastered Dark Knight trilogy will be available for purchase - or if the films will be released individually, as a boxed set, or both - but one imagines that whenever they do come out, they'll be a big seller. For the sake of the DCEU and its fans, here's hoping Ben Affleck's current take on the Caped Crusader ends up spawning a series of Batman films just as worthy of a lavish home video treatment down the road.
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Past Glories in a New Light. On the Making of Swedish 20th Century Modern Furniture Classics
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This conceptual coloring in-book is a result from the ResArc PhD-course Philosophies – Architecture in Effect that I participated in spring 2013 at KTH, Stockholm. I have chosen own conceptual clusters along the course. Some of them will be a start or a contribution to a chapter in my thesis. Each cluster, in total six, discusses a question, raises an issue or is a comment to the modern classic. It is full of loose strings and questions that will be further explored.


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What Is Pilates
As developed by Joseph Pilates, Pilates is an exercise regimen that focuses on conditioning your core and heightening your awareness of your own body. Pilates is a lifestyle of fitness and health that builds strength and awareness using controlled movements, executed with precision, along with proper breathing techniques.
Pilates is a great workout that leaves you feeling satisfied, calm, and in control of every muscle in your body. As your core becomes stronger, you will experience the wonderful lifting and lengthening of your body as you work out the compression that comes with the stress and strain of our harsh daily environment.
Practicing the Pilates Method can lengthen and stretch all the major muscle groups in the body, which improves muscle elasticity and joint mobility. Greater flexibility and strength in your core helps you perform better during regular daily activities and sports, and it can decrease your chance of injury.
Regular Pilates practice helps you become acutely in tune with your body, because during each session we emphasize proper breathing, correct spinal and pelvic alignment, and concentrating on smooth, flowing movement. You will actually learn how to control the way your body moves, and to execute movements with efficiency.
Pilates is often used in physical therapy situations to rehabilitate injuries, because the exercises are performed in reclining or sitting positions, and most are low impact and partially weight bearing. This makes it an extremely effective practice for folks who are trying to maintain good health as they age.
Pilates is a very flexible exercise regimen that allows for modifications to the exercises to accommodate practitioners of different skill levels. It is designed for the intensity to increase as your body conditioning improves.
This video is the 34 original mat exercises from Joseph Pilates book Return to Life as performed by Jesse Scarpulla
"Pilates presents a conscious way of being in your body for your whole life in everything you do."


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GODZILLA ON MONSTER ISLAND (GODZILLA VS. GIGAN) - Blu-Ray
The 1972 Godzilla epic where he romps and stomps with the buzz-saw giant creature Gigan and the three-headed monstrosity Ghidorah! There's an amusement park, a bunch of kids and the battle for the planet. Whew. This Blu-Ray includes the original Japanese version and the dubbed in English version too.
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13 fascinating facts about our toddlers
What's irresistibly cute, can out-energise the Energizer Bunny, comes with a penchant for demolition and usually has sticky fingers? That's right – it's the beloved toddler, and they are MIGHTY.
Toddlerhood is an incredibly rich phase of development for kids, and when you get your head around what's actually going on with these little guys, it's no surprise that they are a force to be reckoned with.
1. They are ambidextrous!
Does your toddler draw with his left hand, but swing a bat with his right? You're not alone in being confused about your child's handedness. Tots don't usually begin to favour a specific hand until somewhere between the age of two and four. Usually by school age the child will have established their preferred hand. (Unless your child is in the one per cent of the population who will remain ambidextrous for life!)
2. They have a 'word spurt'
Incredibly, at around 18 months of age, a toddler experiences a "word spurt", adding new words (several per day) to their vocabulary at breakneck speed. Experts have attributed this learning surge to word repetition, learning many words at once and learning words of varying difficulty.
3. They have a heavy brain
According to data, a three-year-old boy's brain weighs 1.3 kgs, while a three-year-old girl's brain weighs 1.1 kgs. By the time they near the end of toddlerhood, their brains are almost at full size.
4. They have more brain connections than adults do
From birth to three years of age, a child's brain is developing at a rate faster than any other time of their life. In fact, according to researchers, by the time they are three years old, a child has formed 1000 trillion brain connections – around twice as many as adults. Talk about brainy tots!
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5. They really know how to move!
We knew toddlers were active, but can you take a guess how active? An American study shows that children are more physically active during their toddler years that at any other time of their lives. The findings show that walking toddlers take 2367 steps and experience 17 falls per waking hour. That's a whole lot of moving and tumbling! And, it brings us to this next point …
6. They have energy to spare
A survey, reported here, found that toddlers use as much energy per day as a grown adult would if they ran for 30 miles (48 kms) or did 249 minutes (four hours) of boxing! (And they still don't want to go to bed!)
7. They are still growing bits of their body
Toddlers have no kneecaps! What they do have is cartilage, and it will become bone at around three years of age.
8. They can hear things we can't
Toddlers have extremely sensitive hearing, and pick up higher frequencies than adults. (That's not to say they will actually listen, of course!)
9. They sleep a lot (no matter what you may think!)
From birth to three years of age, children will have been asleep for around half of their lives.
10. They really do grow overnight
If you swear your toddler wakes up taller one day, you are probably not imagining things. Children grow in spurts, up to half an inch (1.2 cms) in one day, and it occurs during their sleep. Also, a child's body grows in a segmented fashion, with arms, legs, feet growing at their own pace.
11. They have a little tummy
Take a look at your toddler's clenched fist, this is about the size of their stomach.
12. They suffer amnesia
If you've ever wondered why kids can't remember much before the age of two to four years of age, it's due to "infantile amnesia".
13. They are called 'toddlers' for a reason
The word "toddler" has been around since the eighteenth century and is a derivative of the word "toddle", which means to move about with an unsteady gait. And that is why we love plastic cups.


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Hotel Villa D'Este
The company Villa d'Este SpA, established in 1873, currently comprises four hotels. The first two, Grand Hotel Villa d'Este (Cernobbio, Lake Como) and Villa la Massa – a Renaissance villa on the banks of the Arno (Florence, Candeli), offer a total of 198 deluxe rooms in historical buildings with upscale facilities. The other two hotels, Barchetta Excelsior and Palace, both located on the lake side of downtown Como, are 4-star facilities with altogether 184 rooms.
Villa d'Este is an internationally recognized brand synonymous with aristocratic hospitality. This reputation is mainly due to the company's historical hotel, which affluent clientele consider a destination by itself, a "must" on the Italian Grand Tour.
The group's activities guidelines can be summarized as follows:
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• Matching historical tradition with a constant innovation in services;
• Preserving the considerable historical heritage;
• Attention to the environment and contributing to related local initiatives.
Among the numerous nominations that Villa d'Este received in the years, we'd like to mention the recent FORBES election that ranks Villa d'Este as "Best Hotel of the World"


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Ricoh Acquires Pentax to Create Interchangeable Lens Camera Company
Hoya has sold their Pentax camera arm to Ricoh. Their Pentax Imaging Systems arm will be spun-off as a new operation while all shares transferred over to Ricoh as of October 1st. The deal also includes the Pentax camera creation subsidiary located in Vietnam. A general statement from Hoya explains how Ricoh was looking to create a consumer cameras operation and sought the Pentax
interchangeable lens camera expertise, lens expertise and sales avenues. It has
plans for the operation to specifically include an interchangeable lens camera
operation. Terms of the transaction were not released but the Nikkei Business Daily, a Japanese business paper reports the deal was around 10 billion yen ($124.2 million).
The Ricoh reshuffle gives Pentax control of the PRI camera business. Ricoh announces the PRI Pentax Ricoh Imaging business unit is assuming full control of all development, design and sales of cameras, worldwide. PRI was developed when Ricoh acquired P
the consumer divisions of the Ricoh Personal Multimedia Products Company,
which designed, manufacture and sold Ricoh cameras. The change took effect
April 1st 2012. Pentax and it's the division that has previously designed, manufactured and sold Pentax
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Pentax was once a subsidiary of Hoya Corporation. This process was started with Hoya Corporation when Pentax and Hoya formed the Hoya Pentax HD Corporation. The main goal of Hoya was to make their medical-related business stronger by benefiting from Pentax's technologies and knowledge in the sphere of intraocular lenses, endoscopes, biocompatible ceramics, surgical loupes, etc. There was speculation at one time that the Pentax camera business would be sold after the merger.
Hoya has since closed the Tokyo Pentax factory, and relocated a majority of the operations to Southeastern Asia. All the professional grade (DA*) and consumer grade (DA, D-FA) camera lenses are manufactured in Vietnam, while DSLR cameras are manufactured in the Philippines
The K-x has been discontinued as a product line by Pentax, with the announcement of the discontinuance being made in March, 2011. There was some speculation that the Pentax K-r, which was in the same price range, would occupy this spot in Pentax's product line, but it has also since been discontinued. Since this time, Pentax has introduced the mirrorless Pentax K-01 which occupies the price range formally occupied by the K-x, while Pentax's DSLR line continues to feature the Pentax K-5.
The K-01 - Also Discontinued. The first camera of its class to be able to use lenses from the reflex-version bodies without the use of an adaptor. The camera is compatible with all K-Mount lenses which initially launched by Pentax in 1975. Older lenses without the A designation will only meter properly using stop-down metering. Manual focus lenses will continue to function as manual-focus only.
Pentax's K mount, often called the "PK mount", an accepted camera lens mount for attaching an
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Bodine Electric had a little something extra to celebrate recently at the third annual Supplier Day in Orlando, Fla. Siemens Medical Solutions USA, who hosted the event, presented the Chicago-based distributor with its Top+ Supplier certification based on its performance in supplying Simens' Nuclear Medicine Group with fractional horsepower electric gearmotors used in medical diagnostic imaging systems.
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The mini-conference, hosted by Teach North Korean Refugees and Seoul University of Foreign Studies, will feature two panels.
The first panel, organized by the university, will feature academics while the second panel, organized by TNKR, will focus on three refugees and their plight.
"We have three different aims: to raise awareness about North Korean issues, given an opportunity for refugees to practice their speech skills in front of a live audience, and inspire people to get involved," TNKR co-founder Casey Lartigue said.
The refugee speakers will include North Korean-American Cherie Yang and Hwang In-Cheol, the son of a man who was on the 1969 airplane hijacked by a North Korean agent. Lartigue said he was telling his story to help efforts to get his father freed.
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Founded in 2013, TNKR aims to help North Korean refugees tell their stories and improve their life skills to connect them with more opportunities.
"We have been doing this for a little more than three years and we have matched 250 refugees with about 440 volunteers," Lartigue said.
TNKR encourages all of their volunteers who join the program to hold events and crowd source funds.
They have recently received help from a yoga teacher, a Zumba dance instructor and one man raised $500 by riding his bicycle from Busan to Incheon.
The funding will go toward TNKR's in-house tutoring program, which has 70 refugees on its waiting list.
There are two aspects to the program. Track one focuses on teaching English and track two is for refugees who want to engage in public speaking.
"They come to us because we provide a safe zone for studying -- it doesn't have to be about answering questions about North Korea," Lartigue said.
Lartigue said that the refugees gain confidence from these speaking events, as it allows them to practice in front of a live audience and bond with their teachers.
The conference will be held Saturday from 2-5 p.m. at Seoul University of Foreign Studies.
Entry costs 10,000 won per person in advance or 15,000 won at the door.
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So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. (Genesis 2:3)
One thing I have asked of the Lord that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. (Psalm 27:4)
We are 1/3 of the way through a month of daily prayer for the work of the church. If you have tried to spend good time in prayer each day, you know that sometimes prayer is work. In our culture, it's quite an effort to be still, to be silent, to be expectant. And then, actually spending time in prevailing prayer, for the in-breaking of the kingdom, is diligent work. It's easier to do activity than to stop to pray.
"Prayer is not preparation for the work. It is the work." But today, Sunday, we rest from our rigorous schedule of praying daily for the work of the church. Instead, we join the God-given, gracious rhythm of resting and rejoicing. David, the warrior-king, cherished time of gazing upon the beauty of the Lord. Today is for rest. Today is for worship. Tomorrow, we get on our knees again to engage the work of prevailing prayer.
As you read this, it might be before church, after church, or Sunday evening. Wherever you are, take some moments to gaze upon his beauty. Tell God that you love him. Praise him for the rest that is the gift of the gospel.
How do we gaze upon the beauty of the Lord? In our hearts, we see with the light of faith a God of splendor and beauty. In the Word of God, we meet a God who reveals himself to his people. In the gift of music, our hearts are tuned and our lips are given words to praise his beauty. If this does not come easy, don't be discouraged. Just start with where you are, and ask God to draw you near to him in the coming days, weeks, and months.
"...that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe." (Ephesians 1:17-19)


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This is neither a brave post of sorts, nor a rant. But a mere expression of thought, or my unworthy two cents of what has become. I am not a brave soul, neither do I claim to be one (or intend to at that), yet it's Tuesday and one and a half days have passed since what has happened. In all honesty, it is still Monday but I know it would be nightfall by the time I get about finishing this.
While it would be unfair to say that I am not affected by what takes place, blame it on the genetic makeup and the ongoing qualms of the personal belief systems, I do know that the riots are bothering me. I might not be too explicit about it but when I see my kind fight each other, the child in me simply asks, "Why?"
It has been a long time since I accepted that we were all one kind, irrespective of the supposed racist I claimed to be while I lived in India. On the contrary, I nurtured within me a deep love for the country, its people and everything else that came with it. Now, the supposedly mature person I have become no longer fights for "her kind" that rallies against "his kind". While streaks of feminism still lie in me as the highlights on my hair since last Summer, it is only a matter of time before my hair grows longer and I get a new hair cut.
When the Sandra Bullock movie, Miss Congeniality mocked world peace, we all laughed a long in the name of comedy. But little did we know that those blonde babes had more sense than we do in wishing for a world filled with stability.
Some have called this the reincarnation or perhaps the start of such a reincarnation of the 1983 Black July. On the same light I have friends who avoid all forms of "reported media" on the claim of partiality and the mere fact of it being reported. Perhaps if we were all as dismissive about life, the world might be a happier place.
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You can definitely use dark flooring to your advantage if you want to create an interior décor based on contrasts. For example, you could have a white area rug and white furniture in the room and this way you'll create a timeless color combination that always looks amazing.
This bedroom definitely feels sumptuous. As you can see, the decor is very simple. But the details are all very well chosen and the attention to detail is amazing. The colors chosen for the décor are simple and earthy, which makes the room feel casual and inviting. The textures are marvelous and the chandelier is the most impressive detail.
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India is looking at cutting capacity at its biggest oil refinery to match lower fuel demand projections and contain costs which jumped to USD 60 billion due to meeting stringent environment...Read more..
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IEA: Global oil market to hit surplus in early 2017
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The oil industry is using solar power in an ironic new way
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Fuel marketers to meet 5% ethanol blending target this year: Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan
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Usually, the primary goal of user research is to answer specific questions about a design. But what happens when you shift your primary objective from conducting research to "building a lasting relationship"? The presenters will share stories about how this approach has forever changed the breadth and depth of information that they learn about users, and how it's actually made some of the hardest parts of enterprise research, such as recruiting users, easier.
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Last night (Feb. 24) in Chico, CA, the North State Symphony gave an enthralling area premiere of a new work by composer Libby Larsen. Dancing Man Rhapsody was written for violinist Terri Baune (Concertmaster of the North State Symphony) and commissioned by the NSS together with several other California orchestras. Baune was the Concertmaster of The Women's Philharmonic and has known Larsen for many years. Maestro Scott Seaton is in his second year as Music Director of the NSS, and is infusing a new energy into the orchestra with his innovative programming, and lively rapport with audiences and the musicians. The program also featured another recent work, Schism, by David Biedenbender, as well as Rimsky-Korskaov's Snow Maiden Suite and Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 1 (Spring).
Dancing Man Rhapsody has five sections, with descriptive titles, played without a break. The opening ("Dancing Man") is playful, with its startling offbeat finger-snaps and a swinging line in the solo. Then "A Sudden Conga" breaks out with a Latin percussion riff, and violin and brass in vigorous exchanges. A jazzy plucked string bass gives a continuous pulse to the next section, while the strings soar in searing melodies. Here, the intense lyricism infuses the music with a rich, building, philosophical introspection. The warmth of the string timbre, and the musicality of the entire orchestra in shaping the long lines gave depth and insight to this central passage.
Some spontaneous cadenza-like solos transition to a faster repeated rhythm, and a section ("Backwards in High Heels") rife with quotations – the repeated notes become the "Chopsticks" theme, and there are references to children's songs, Mozart, Gershwin (and others). The solo violin interjects with jazzy riffs, and as if (paradoxically) the quotations have unleashed the music, it builds with a wild, exhilarating energy. The last section ("Dancin' with Kravitz," a reference to Funk musician Lenny Kravitz) cavorts and spirals with a stomping, fervent drive until ending with one final explosive violin solo. Terry Baune was incandescent as the soloist in this demanding work, incorporating jazz, classical and rock idioms, and Maestro Seaton led the orchestra with great flexibility and power.
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Agnes Martin Gallery
The Agnes Martin Gallery features seven paintings by the internationally acclaimed artist. These works were created in 1993 when Martin returned to Taos. This gallery was built specifically for these paintings. Martin, who never conceived of her work as a series, or as being exhibited in this fashion, was thrilled by the display - even going so far as to suggest the four yellow Donald Judd benches which are arranged under the Gallery's oculus. During her life Martin visited this gallery frequently, and would sit quietly on the benches experiencing its unique setting. Scholars have compared the Harwood Museum of Art's Agnes Martin Gallery to the Matisse Chapel in Vence, Corbusier's Ronchamp Chapel, and the Rothko Chapel in Houston.
Go here to view a time lapse film created by Ollie Bell documenting a day in the life of the Harwood's Agnes Martin Gallery.


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Some people say that waiting for dying to begin is far worse than dying itself. Nursing homes are filled with people who anxiously await death's visit. This can last for years. Fear pervades day after day during this time. The fear becomes accentuated when empty chairs are inevitably noticed in the dining room. Every few weeks, another person disappears, evoking terror in one's heart.
When is it going to be my chair? What is going to happen? Will it hurt? Where am I going? Will I know who I am? Will I ever return?
In the mid-1990's, my father Sampson D. Cooper, aged ninety-two, made his final passage. He had been living in a nursing home and for many years had been confined to a wheelchair. He felt trapped in a body that simply would not function in the way that he wanted. His intellectual capacity diminished dramatically near the end of his life, and he increasingly became disheartened when words and entire sentences disappeared into a black hole that slowly consumed his mind.
For a couple of years, I received weekly telephone messages that Dad had been found on the ground near his wheelchair. He would slip while transferring from his bed or the toilet. Sometimes, I think, he would just lie down on the floor to sleep because the extra few feet to get to the bed demanded too much effort. As an independent person, he would not tolerate being strapped into the chair. Fortunately, he was never hurt in these incidents except for occasional bruises.
One evening, however, we got the message that Dad had been found unconsciousness. We went straight to the nursing home. When we arrived, his eyes were open but he was unable to speak. It did not look good.
We stayed with him until late that evening and I returned early the next morning. As he was not able to eat or drink, the doctor knew that he could not last for more than a day or two. So I sat with him, speaking, singing, being quiet. Shoshana arrived around noon. We spent the afternoon swabbing his lips and mouth with water, trying to help soothe any discomfort. Most of the time we meditated.
My mother had died nine years earlier on the holiday called Tu b'Shevat, the festival of trees, while we were living in Jerusalem. On the long flight between Israel and California, where she had lived and would be buried, I remember looking across an expanse of clouds, feeling Mom's presence everywhere. Her spirit permeated everything. It was a wonderful feeling. I remember wondering if death was really so expansive.
Late in the afternoon with Dad I noticed a change in his breathing. Throughout the day, he had pushed our hands away, not wanting to be touched. Dad was quite independent. We respected his needs and left him alone. But now something had changed. He reached out and wanted to hold my hand. His eyes were wide open, but he was still unable to speak.
As I moved in close enough to whisper to him, he began to emanate a light of life-force that bathed the room. I felt myself carried into a completely different realm, fully conscious, and I sensed more strongly than ever the presence of my mother. My head was two inches from my Dad's. I knew that he could feel her as well. He was quite still, looking straight ahead, holding my hand tightly.
I found myself saying, "It's o.k., it's o.k."
Dad was not religious. He had been angry with just about everything for the last fifteen or twenty years. Mom had given up along the way. But she had asked me to promise to see him through his final years. This was not easy to do. He could be quite nasty. Still, when we returned from Israel, he moved from California to Colorado so that we could spend extended time together.
Now, however, there was not the slightest hint of the anger I knew so well. The last half hour of his life was calm, connected, and extraordinarily powerful. His breath got fainter, I continued to whisper and Mom's presence got stronger. At one point I sensed a deep gratitude from her, and from a part of him, for seeing him through the last years of his life, and especially for what was happening right now.
Then I felt the presence of my mom indicating that she would take over, for he was about to go somewhere that was beyond my limits.
He never closed his eyes until the final shudder when his breath stopped. In that last moment, I began to say the kaddish. Wherever he was, he heard me. A tear formed up in the corner of one of his eyes. I was stunned. And then he was gone.
All the years of our estranged relationship were wiped away in that final half hour. Words did not need to be spoken. The life-force that spread through that room, and beyond, was all that needed to be communicated. Indeed, it is here with me now as I write these words.
Working with dying people means dealing with fear: our own, that of those around us, and that of the person dying. Although most fear of death is diverse and extensive, it essentially falls into three main categories: fear of personal failure in this life, fear of pain in the dying process, and fear of the unknown after death.
When we make peace with our own concerns about death, we are more able to work with others. Many practices in Judaism help us develop skills for this kind of work. Following are exercises that open our awareness and slowly help to alleviate our fears.
We are all familiar with the feeling that we have not done things well; we feel that we have botched jobs or relationships, and we sense that we have left tracks behind that we wish would disappear. We hope that time will heal these wounds, but when we are approaching death, old pains often loom quite large in our universe of regrets. If only we could do it over again; if only we had more time to fix things.
People in the process of dying worry about promises unkept, responsibilities avoided, and life goals unfulfilled. They worry as well about liabilities that are being left behind for others. They are distressed about abandoning people who relied upon them, who they nurtured, loved, or sustained. And they are troubled about people who may have served and loved them but were never properly acknowledged.
As long as people focus on the empty part of the cup, the list of concerns grows longer and longer. Many times dying people have their heads and hearts so filled with a sense of personal failure and missed opportunities that they are immersed in a sea of remorse that keeps them, and everyone else, from attending some important issues: forgiveness, open-heartedness, acknowledgement and the expression of unconditional love.
It has been pointed out by health professionals who work with dying patients that the most important quality we need to have when attending someone in the dying process is the ability to be present, to be able to listen, support and be non-invasive. These qualities are of utmost importance. In doing so, however, we sometimes do not have an opportunity to "get real" with a dying person. I was not able to do so with my father; he was somewhere else that last day. And my mother left suddenly, so I never had the chance. Nonetheless, I have been in many situations in which people are able to let go of old patterns and make new connections that bring about a healing for everyone involved.
Whether or not this will occur depends upon a wide set of variables. It should not be a goal. Many people simply are not prepared to be more vulnerable or to take risks in the highly stressed environment that often accompanies the dying process. If however there seems to be willingness on everyone's part to explore deeper questions, here are some practices for working with others in the dying process.
1. Offering Confession and Asking Forgiveness:
In Judaism, this practice is often associated with the high holy days: Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. At that time, we communicate with the Divine, confessing things we regret having done, said, or even thought.
At any time in the year, however, we can take on the spiritual practice of confessing our regrets to another person, particularly someone who is in the process of dying. Obviously, this is not easy to do, and must be accomplished with considerable skill and sensitivity. People are reticent to openly reveal things about which they feel guilty. Many would prefer to take these secrets to the grave, and they should be entitled to do so.
The success of this practice is not measured by the amount or intensity of information divulged, rather, success is measured by the degree to which a safe haven is provided in which a person can choose to discuss his or her regrets. Clearly, it must also be safe to not discuss sensitive issues--pressure must never be brought to this situation.
This practice is done with only two people. We begin by sitting quietly, remembering as many events as we can in which we may have done, said, or thought some things we now regret. Sometimes, simply sitting quietly like this is sufficient, for in mystical terms, the souls are communicating on different planes of reality that do not require verbal expression. It goes beyond a glance or gesture. Indeed, even if a person is in a coma, the soul can connect in unknown ways.
Most of the time, however, in this process it is quite useful to speak aloud what is in our hearts. The purpose of this exercise is to be willing to admit mistakes and to ask for forgiveness. When we are able to do so, the process can be profoundly moving. It often opens a potential for new understanding between people and is highly recommended for healing old wounds. Either or both people can speak.
This is another spiritual exercise that is normally done during the high holy days but can be addressed at any time during the year. As noted, people in the dying process often feel that they have unfinished business. Releasing them from these concerns can be a true source of liberation.
First, at an appropriate time, we ask a person, "Do you feel that you have made promises or commitments that are still unresolved?" If they say yes, we attempt to find a way to release these commitments that is satisfactory for the person. If it is a promise they made to you, you can say something like: "I whole-heartedly release you from this promise and any other commitments you may have made."
If it is a commitment to someone else, try to find a way to free the person. You might bring in others who are involved. You might use reason. You might take on some things yourself, though you should never assume an obligation of another because of a sense of guilt. You might invite angels to help, use prayers, call on God.
The very fact that these issues are being discussed is the beginning of the process of liberating a person usually leads to much more peace of mind and clarity. In one's final days or hours a great deal can be accomplished along these lines to help her or him through the transition process.
3. TASHLICH: (Sending Away…)
Annulment of vows is one of a number of purification practices. Another is tashlich (sending away), which is done annually the on afternoon of the first day of Rosh Hashana. Usually it is performed by saying prayers at a body of water into which we cast breadcrumbs. The following is a variation on this.
If people in the dying process can write for themselves, have them do so. If they need help in the writing and are willing to let you help, you may write for them. On scraps of paper, write responses to the following:
a. Things I have done in my life that I regret.
b. Anything I may have said to harm someone.
c. Events I would replay, if I could.
d. Things I wished I had said to someone.
e. Promises I made that were never kept.
f. Hopes and dreams that never worked out.
Anything can be added to this list. Each scrap of paper should be crumpled up and burned over a small fire, slowly, contemplatively, until all are gone. In a hospital, or anywhere that fire is not permitted or not practical, each scrap of paper can be cut into tiny pieces and destroyed in some way.
If the dying person is a parent, grandparent, or elder relative, an excellent practice is to record as much family history as he or she is willing to offer. Who did what when? What are some of the rarely told family secrets? This should be done with as much detail as you can gather. Exploring the past in great depth is a wonderful form of healing.9
It allows people to reflect on the meaning their lives, the impact they have had, the continuity they have engendered. Although these reflections can raise old wounds, for the most part they are usually provocative and soul satisfying. This process is highly recommended.


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The convenience of throwing on a backpack as you're heading out the door and still looking stylish is a huge win-win in my book. Here are some of the ways I've style one of my favorite pieces, the Chanel Chevron Backpack from the Spring 2016 Collection!
Some of my current faves that have a classic cut and color, but include some amazing, fun details!


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Recently I feel very interested about finding the general solution of first-order totally nonlinear PDE with two independent variables. However, most PDE books only discussed little about finding the general solution of first-order totally nonlinear PDE with two independent variables, even for http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hkWDQ57NlksC&pg=PA1&dq=Partial+Differential+Equations+by+Bhamra&hl=zh-CN&sa=X&ei=8mhPUZeYBciaiAe3m4HADw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA.
I known that for $F\left(x,y,u,\dfrac{\partial u}{\partial x},\dfrac{\partial u}{\partial y}\right)=0$ , let $p=\dfrac{\partial u}{\partial x}$ and $q=\dfrac{\partial u}{\partial y}$ , the PDE is related to the following system of ODEs
$\begin{cases}\dfrac{dx}{dt}=\dfrac{\partial F}{\partial p}\\\dfrac{dy}{dt}=\dfrac{\partial F}{\partial q}\\\dfrac{du}{dt}=p\dfrac{\partial F}{\partial p}+q\dfrac{\partial F}{\partial q}\\\dfrac{dp}{dt}=-\dfrac{\partial F}{\partial x}-p\dfrac{\partial F}{\partial u}\\\dfrac{dq}{dt}=-\dfrac{\partial F}{\partial y}-q\dfrac{\partial F}{\partial u}\end{cases}$
However, unlike the linear and quasilinear cases, since there also contains $p$ and $q$ , even the above system can perfectly solved for $x(t)$ , $y(t)$ , $u(t)$ , $p(t)$ and $q(t)$ , I still have no concept about the clear route to combine them to get the general solution like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_characteristics#Example.
So I am thinking some alternatives about finding the general solution of first-order totally nonlinear PDE with two independent variables.
For example the PDE $u_xu_y=xy$ , I found the procedure in Solve PDE using method of characteristics but the procedure also consider the condition $u(x,0)=x$ so it is directly not suitable for finding the general solution of $u_xu_y=xy$ .
So can I for example modify the condition as $u(x,0)=f(x)$ and make some corresponding modifications of the procedure so than I can find the general solution of $u_xu_y=xy$ ?


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Seminar: Blind Compressed Sensing in Biomedical Imaging
Dr. Yoram Bresler, professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, presented his work "Blind Compressed Sensing in Biomedical Imaging: data-adaptive sparse modeling and acquisition"
According to Dr. Bresler, compressed sensing methods have generated tremendous interest in biomedical imaging: they can produce high quality images from significantly reduced data acquisition. He showed that replacing fixed models of sparsity and randomized acquisition in these methods by data-driven learning can help unleash the full potential of compressed sensing. These approaches are illustrated on CT and MRI.
Dr. Yoram Bresler, Professor
Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Seminar: Medical Image Synthesis
Dr. Jerry L. Prince presented his work: "Medical Image Synthesis: Methods and Applications".
According to Dr. Prince, the acquisition of truly calibrated magnetic resonance images is not currently possible. Scanners and pulse sequences are different—in subtle ways sometimes and quite dramatic ways more often. Manufacturers have different strategies for optimizing their image quality and MR techs might change a parameter to try to improve the image quality on any given day. As a consequence, the use of MR images for automatic image analysis yields inconsistent results. We have been exploring image synthesis methods to address this problem and are hopeful that through synthesis we will be able to obtain more consistent image analysis results. If successful, the use of automatic image analysis methods applied to MR images might become a more important part of clinical practice in the future. Four methods and a variety of applications and their results are presented in this talk. Sparse reconstruction is an important theme throughout, and image segmentation and registration are key methods that serve to demonstrate improvements. Although our results are promising, this new area of research is controversial and its future impact is uncertain. Dr. Prince concluded with some ideas about future directions and some thoughts about what might be possible in the future.
Dr. Jerry L. Prince
William B. Kouwenhoven Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
IEEE-NPSS/MIC Conference Awards 2015
Two Gordon Center members were honored at the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society / Medical Imaging Conference.
Early Achievement Award
Quanzheng Li, Ph.D., received the IEEE-NPSS Early Achievement Award for outstanding achievement to the field of medical imaging science, "for contributions to the development of a MAP framework for iterative image reconstruction on static, dynamic, parametric and TOF PET, and its application in whole-body dynamic imaging and computer-aided detection."
The 2015 Bruce Hasegawa Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award
Se Young Chun, Ph.D., received the 2015 Bruce Hasegawa Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award from IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) at the IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, CA, USA. He has been selected as this year's recipient of this award for contributions to image reconstruction methods in the presence of object motion.
This annual award is given to young investigators to recognize their contributions to the medical imaging field.
IEEE-MIC Oral: PET/MRI Joint Estimation
A Joint Estimation Method for Kinetic Modeling of Simultaneously Acquired PET/MRI Signals
Moses Q. Wilks, Xiaomeng Zhang, Jinsong Ouyang, Georges El Fakhri, Nathaniel M. Alpert, Quanzheng Li.
At the IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, Dr. Wilks presented a method to jointly estimate kinetic parameters from simultaneously acquired PET and MRI data, using the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). Often, data acquired on the relatively new modality of PET/MRI scanners is used independently. This method was developed to use this simultaneously acquired data in a synergistic fashion. Computer simulations showed that it could improve model fitting in the case of CTE-MRI and 15O-H2O PET data. This was extended to in vivo imaging of a rabbit implanted with a tumor, and simultaneously imaged with Magnevist as a MRI contrast agent and 15O-H2O. A 4x4x5cm region of interest was created over the tumor and vascular extraction (K1) rates were measured using standard techniques (PET Alone), or by simultaneous modeling (ADMM). Due to the noisy nature of the 15O-H2O scan, PET alone was not sufficient to create reasonable measurements, but using ADMM structural and biological information was retrieved.


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Aerobic exercise confers plenty of benefits on those who indulge. Now, new findings published in the journal Neurology suggest that six months of regular cardio activity, such as walking, jogging or cycling on a stationary bike, can help reverse cognitive problems in older adults, reports the American Academy of Neurology. For the study, researchers recruited… Read More »


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Diablo III For Nintendo Switch Releasing On November 2nd
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Today, I'm sharing the links to free printables I've used to create Montessori-inspired Presidents' Day activities for preschoolers through first graders.
I show how I used the printables to prepare the Montessori-inspired activities. I also have links to other posts with additional ideas and presentations.
Free Printables Used in the Pictured Presidents' Day Activities for Preschoolers-Grade 1
Presidents' Day Number Order and Skip Counting Puzzles
Free Printable: President's Day Number Order and Skip Counting Puzzles from Gracehopper Learning.
Presidents' Day Word Fun
Free Printable: Presidents' Day Word Fun for Kindergarten by Melissa Williams at Teachers Pay Teachers
Presidents Matching Activity, Number Order Activity, and Golden Bead Activity
Free Printable: Happy Birthday George! (A Presidents' Day Learning Center Binder) by Cortney Bystrom from Once Upon a Substitute (Updated: Layers of Learning has free president cards that are updated to include Donald Trump. The cards aren't numbered, though.)
Free Printable: Presidents' Day Mini Books and Writing Activity from Ready-Set-Read!
Washington and Lincoln Timelines
Free Printable: Presidential Timelines from Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational
Free Presidents' Day Printables for Preschoolers-Grade 1
- Guess Who? President's Edition from Cultivated Lives
- Counting to 44 – Presidents' Day Sequencing Activity from Toddler Approved
- Presidents of the United States Coloring Sheets from USA-Printables
- Presidential 4-in-a-Row Board Game from Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational
- President's Day Bingo from Live Speak Love, LLC
- President's Day Pack from Step into Second Grade with Mrs. Lemons
- If I Were President Writing Freebie from Ginger Snaps
- President's Day Lapbook from Homeschool Share
- George Washington Free Beginning Reader from Educating to the Core
- President's Day from The Schoolhouse
- President's Day Money Game from The Schoolhouse
- American Treasures Reader from Enchanted Homeschooling Mom
- Presidents Day Roll and Circle from Primary Inspiration
- Presidents' Day Memory Match and Presidents' Day Cubes from Primary Inspirations
- U.S. Presidents Cursive Printables from Copycat Books
- Calendar Connections ~ Presidents from 1+1+1=1
- Race to $1.00 by Claire Knight at Teachers Pay Teachers
- Sort the Coins by President from Teach Beside Me
- Presidents' Day: A Writing Freebie from First Grade Hip Hip Hooray at Teachers Notebook
- Presidents Freebies from Teachers Notebook
- Presidents Freebies at Teachers Pay Teachers
Please join me at PreK + K Sharing for ideas on how to use the free printables to create Montessori-Inspired Presidents' Day activities: Montessori-Inspired Presidents' Day Activities Using Free Printables.
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Video Part 3: The Legislative Impact on NFPA Combustible Dust Hazard Codes
In this video, Guy Colonna P.E., Division Manager at the NFPA discusses the impact legislative action has on recent changes to NFPA standards and codes for combustible dust hazard mitigation with Traci Purdum, ChemicalProcessing.com's senior digital editor. Colonna explains how OSHA public rule making and HR849 impact the NFPA voluntary consensus standards and what this means to facilities. Watch now. You can also viiew additional videos in this series: Part One. Part Two.


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BOCA RATON, Fla. – A starting lineup that featured five new players proved to be no roadblock for the No. 1-ranked Lynn University women's tennis team as the Fighting Knights routed NAIA's 25th-ranked St. Thomas in the 2018 season opener on Thursday night, 9-0.
Final: #1 Lynn 9, St. Thomas 0
Records: #1 Lynn (1-0), St. Thomas (0-1)
Location: Perper Tennis Complex| Boca Raton, Fla.
All-time Series: Lynn leads 21-0
Get Social: Twitter - @Lynn_Knights | Instagram - @Lynn_Knights | Facebook - /LynnFightingKnights
- Diana Bogolii and Klaudia Boczova immediately showcased their potential as being one of the most formidable doubles tandems in the country in a dominant 8-1 victory at the top flight.
- Lynn's No. 2 (Anastacia Parkin/Eleonora Liga) and No. 3 (Federica Mordegan/Natalie Kallmunzerova) doubles squads also posted 8-1 wins.
- The Fighting Knights quickly went to work in singles play with straight-set victories at the top three flights. Boczova and 15th-ranked Kallmunzerova each won 6-0, 6-1 at the top two spots, respectively, with Mordegan blanking her opponent at No. 3.
- The bottom half of the lineup each played an eight-game pro set.
- 16th-ranked Bogolii and Liga each surrounded just one game apiece at the No. 4 and 5 slots with Parkin securing an 8-5 triumph at No. 6.
- Lynn's 2018 roster features seven newcomers and just one returner. Five players made their Blue and White debut tonight.
- Lynn opened its season with a win over St. Thomas for the seventh year in a row.
- St. Thomas is ranked No. 25 in the NAIA National Coaches Poll.
Lynn has a special matchup this weekend as the Fighting Knights host Stetson University in the sixth installment of the South Florida Showdown. First serve is slated for 10 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 3.


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Letters to the Editor
The 'real truth'
Mayor Alan Autry calls the ruling by Judge Oliver Wanger requiring the city of Fresno to respect the constitutional rights of its residents "cavalier." He then tries to paint Judge Wanger as being disconnected from "the real truth."
Judge Wanger's ruling is grounded in the Constitution and in case precedent. He merely blocked the city from engaging in the immediate destruction of the property of homeless persons. This is not a radical ruling.
Mayor Autry wants the City Council approval to appeal the ruling. Instead of wasting taxpayer money on a fruitless appeal, the city should devote time and energy to constructively addressing the homeless problem in the community.
A good first step for the council would be to sponsor a forum on homelessness that involves all stakeholders, not a select few, and encourages real dialog on the issues. Presentations of "best practices" from other communities should be included in such a forum.
Fresno should learn from the successes of others. The city should not spend hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on an appeal, only to be told the "real truth" from the higher courts that Fresno's cavalier destruction of the property of the homeless is indeed unconstitutional.
Chris A. Schneider


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Ratatat played Terminal 5, Black Pus @ DbA tonight
Black Pus, aka Brian Chippendale of Lightning Bolt, was one of two openers at Ratatat's first of two Terminal 5 shows last night (4/21). Despot and Kid Cudi are opening for Ratatat at the same venue tonight. Black Pus instead plays a show at Death By Audio in Brooklyn with
Sisters Necking, Tussle and JEFF the Brotherhood. Black Pus will also appear at the NO FUN FEST at MHOW in May, and in Rhode Island tomorrow…
Black Pus – 2009 Tour Dates
Apr 22 – death by audio brooklyn, New York
Apr 23 – AS220 Providence, Rhode Island
May 17 – NO FUN FEST..music hall of williamsburg brooklyn, New York


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A new video has appeared on YouTube showing footage of a TV Licensing goon encounter in North Yorkshire.
It would appear that this video is yet another example of TV Licensing choosing to ignore a perfectly valid WOIRA instruction.
It's true what they say, that you can form an opinion of someone within about the first five seconds of meeting them. Well within that narrow time frame, we were able to deduce that this follicly challenged goon was a bit of a loose cannon, not least for the way his jaw is ignorantly chiseling a piece of gum at the same time as trying to hold a conversation with the occupier.
The occupier very benevolently explains that he is filming for both of their safety, which he is perfectly entitled to do. The goon, evidently unfamiliar with TV Licensing policy on this matter, challenges the presence of the camera.
"Can I ask you to stop recording?" asks the goon, arrogantly forgetting that he's on someone else's property.
"No. I'm quite within my rights to record" comes the legally correct reply of the occupier.
"Not if I ask you not to" retorts the goon, closely followed by "how are you well within your rights to film me? I haven't given you permission."
Comedy gold from the goon next, as he lectures the occupier on how to behave like a decent human being.
The occupier elaborates a bit on his reluctance to deal with TV Licensing: "I get pestered all the time from the TV licence (sic). I've removed all implied rights of access. So why are you at my door?"
The goon, looking increasingly ignorant by this stage, comes back with: "Well I don't know that, do I? I haven't been told that you've removed all rights of access, otherwise they wouldn't be sending me to your door, would they?"
After exchanging a few more pleasantries about the legalities of filming and implied rights of access the cocky goon shrugs his shoulders, protests his innocence and makes his retreat.
What a complete and utter masticator.
Attention all iPhone users: Please remember to hold your phone horizontally if you use it to film a TV Licensing goon.
Edit (27/7/13): We have replaced the original dull image of the goon with a new enhanced version.
Edit (27/7/13): We have replaced the original dull image of the goon with a new enhanced version.


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