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Posted 11 February 2018 - 02:23 PM
What can be done for the Armenian people ```
To slow migration ```
What can the Armenian government do ```
What can we do ```
What is the truth ```
What is your opinion ```
Posted 15 February 2018 - 07:29 AM
Posted 15 February 2018 - 08:46 AM
To do that, Armenians should stop taking bribes during elections. All they do is complain and on election time take the bribe and put the crooks back in power. Only a honest politician can set fair and honest rules.
Posted 16 February 2018 - 12:13 PM
hmmmmm i have no answer
Posted 21 February 2018 - 10:05 AM
Has there been any improvement ~ in the last year or so ```
What can we ~ from outside Armenia ~ do to encourage "Fair rules and business conditions" and " End election Bribery " ?????
How can we help ???
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Posted 28 February 2018 - 09:48 AM
If there is no difference between the RA Armenians and diaspora than treat them fairly when they invest in Armenia. Don't let them (Crooks) collude with the judges and steal their investments. Talk is cheap, now walk the walk!
Armenpress News Agency , Armenia
February 26, 2018 Monday
While building Armenia-Diaspora ties we should look into future, youth
and 21st century – presidential candidate Armen Sarkissian
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 26, ARMENPRESS. Armen Sarkissian, candidate for the
President of Armenia, sets the principle of Armenians' becoming a
world nation on the basis of strengthening the Armenia-Diaspora ties,
reports Armenpress.
In an interview to the Public TV, asked with which model the
Armenia-Diaspora relations should develop, the presidential candidate
said: "It is the model by which we, as Armenians, are going to live in
this world. This model is an open, rather than a closed model for me.
I want to imagine that all Armenians should live in a situation where
there is a small state, but a world nation. We all, as Armenians,
regardless of our place of residence, should fulfill our civil duty to
the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Artsakh based on this
The next important precondition for the presidential candidate for
strengthening the Armenia-Diaspora ties is not to put a difference
between the Armenians and Diaspora-Armenians, as well as the
contribution of the Diaspora-Armenians in developing the homeland. He
also highlighted the need to look into the future and use the "tools"
of the 21st century.
"While building the Armenia-Diaspora relations we should look into the
future, the youth and the 21st century. The tools we have used
previously for strengthening the Armenia-Diaspora ties, today should
be different as it is the 21st century", Armen Sarkissian said, adding
that the key on strengthening the ties between the homeland and the
Diaspora is in the hands of youth with free thinking.
English – translator/editor: Aneta Harutyunyan
Posted 15 March 2018 - 10:29 AM
YEREVAN, March 14. /ARKA/. The decision of the government of Armenia to introduce tax breaks for start-ups has helped establish about 400 new information technology (IT) companies, Deputy Minister of Transport, Communication and Information Technology Amalia Yegoyan told a news conference today.
Under a government decision passed by the Armenian parliament in late 2014, startups employing up to 30 people can be exempt from profit tax until 2020. They are also eligible for a preferential income tax rate for their employees, equivalent to 10 percent of their gross wages. The minimum payroll tax rate in Armenia is set at 24.4 percent.
According to the deputy minister, in 2017 alone more than 100 companies were set up not only in the capital Yerevan but also beyond it.
She said small teams working as freelancers that used to work in shadow chose to register their companies after the decision. 'This is very important, as international companies wishing to cooperate with Armenian start-ups require portfolios of companies, information on registered employees and other data ," noted Yegoyan.
She said as a result of successful negotiations, an agreement was signed earlier this week between the Gyumri Technology Center and MALIA Group in Lebanon, which intends to support the start-ups of the Center and entrust it with some technological tasks, as well as the maintenance programs.
IT is Armenia's fastest growing economy sector expanding by an average 20 percent annually. It employs more than 16,000 people and accounts roughly for 5 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product.-0-
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Posted 17 March 2018 - 08:37 AM
Ratings agency Moody's has changed the outlook on Armenia's debt from stable to positive and reconfirmed the country's B1 long-term issuer and senior unsecured debt ratings.
"The change in the outlook on Armenia's sovereign rating to positive indicates that Moody's sees the next 12-18 months developing positively," read a report issued by the Armenian Central Bank.
Moody also raised the country's long-term local-currency bond and deposit ceilings to Baa3 from Ba2. Moreover, long and short-term foreign currency bond and deposits will remain the same. A decisive factor in the change was GDP growth, high level of affordability of state debt and strengthening of institutions, as well as the development of a macroeconomic stability assistance policy.
Moody's also outlined the risk factors which served as a base for keeping unchanged the country's rating and changing the outlook from stable to positive.
According to the agency, upward pressure on Armenia's rating would stem from further economic and institutional reforms that point to sustained improvement concerning economic competitiveness and institutional strength. Moody's expects that Armenia's fiscal deficit will narrow to 2.6 per cent of GDP in 2018 and 2.5 per cent in 2019, from 4.7 per cent in 2017. The organisation expects levels of government debt to decline by approximately 2 per cent by the end of 2019.
Posted 17 March 2018 - 08:46 AM
On April 10-17, the "For the sake of the state of Armenia" is preparing for new rallies and bringing more people to the streets. As stated by Petros Makeyan, Chairman of the Democratic Homeland party, member of the Coordinating Group for the "For the sake of the state of Armenia", regardless of expectations of some forces, all their demonstrations and actions will go on without any violence.
"The authorities are concerned about the resumption of the struggle, noting that a new movement has begun, but with old faces, who, after being imprisoned, continue to strugglle against them. In publications and statements it is said that we are getting ready for a fight. We are also accused of supporting "Sasna Tsrer". And if the Government feels real danger, they can put new obstacles and declare that we are going to commit illegal actions, even impose on us cases like Sari Tagh or others," he said.
Susanna Muradyan, a member of the Coordinating Group for the "For sake of the state of Armenia" frontline, stressed that the rally, as well as all further actions would be peaceful.
"It is not necessary to fight against the computer, liking this or that statement or speech, but it is necessary to go out to the square and rally. Change of power will only happen under the pressure of the people," said the speaker.
Karapet Rubinyan, a former vice-speaker of the RA National Assembly, member of the Coordinating Group for the "For the sake of the state of Armenia", noted that it was expected to unite with other opposition forces. According to him, if the society felt that the opposition was united, it would join them. At the moment, according to the members of the "For the sake of the state of Armenia", negotiations are underway with the the Yelk (Way Out) and Yerkir Tsirani parties, and their position will be clear.
Posted 21 March 2018 - 09:20 AM
The youth is our future, hopefully they will succeed!
PanArmenian, ArmeniaMarch 20 2018Switalski says Armenians are talented, 'have a high IQ'March 20, 2018 - 18:23 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The EU delegation in Armenia has announced the launch of EU for Youth project and four new youth empowerment programs in the country, Panorama.am reports.
When the project launched on Tuesday, March 20 , EU ambassador the country Piotr Switalski urged the Armenian youth to create a different state.
"It is your responsibility to create a better future for your country," the diplomat said.
"EU believes in the youth, especially in the Armenian ones. You boast the advantage of a wealthy civilization, you have famous people in all the fields."
According to him, young people should be able to push the country forward and unveil it to the world.
Also, Switalski said Armenians are talented, have a high IQ, and the European Union supports them by creating good education opportunities for them.
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Sophomore Michele Conway and freshman Alexa Smead each scored three points, on two goals and one assist, but Central Connecticut (1-14) gave up four goals in a row during the final 12 minutes of play and lost to Manhattan (9-4) by a score of 10-6 on Tuesday night. Senior captain Alice Lee was impressive in goal, as she stopped 20 shots for the Blue Devils.
The first half was an even affair, with neither team scoring more than two goals in a row. The Jaspers leading goal scorer, freshman Chrissy Gutenberger, got Manhattan started, scoring two unassisted goals to open the game. Smead scored her first goal of the game to cut the lead to one, but Gutenberger found the net again to put the Jaspers up 3-1.
Sophomore Jessica Roberts scored on a free position shot with 12:26 remaining in the half to bring the Blue Devils within one again. CCSU tied the game at three when Conway scored her first goal on an assist from Smead. Manhattan finished the scoring in the opening frame with goals from junior Caralyn Hickey and Gutenberger to grab a 5-3 lead.
Out of the locker rooms it was Central Connecticut that struck first. Junior Courtney Mooney scored off an assist from Conway just 1:25 into the second period. After a goal from Manhattan's Phelicia VanOverbeke, Smead finished on her second goal of the night to bring the Blue Devil deficit to 6-5. She was assisted on the play by CCSU senior Stephanie John.
With under 12 minutes remaining in the game, Manhattan received
two goals each from VanOverbeke and Hickey to take a 10-5 lead.
With 3:26 left the Jaspers had the margin they needed to hold off a
late goal by CCSU and win this one 10-6. Conway scored off an
assist from freshman Ashley Mara with 1:48 to play.
The Jaspers dominated the offensive output as they outshot CCSU 40 to 24. The Blue Devils made up for it in the draw controls department, recording 14 to Manhattan's four. Sophomore Cara Momnie collected a game high eight on her own. She now has 55 draws on the season, breaking her own school record of 49 set last year. Lee recorded 20 saves for the second consecutive game, and added two ground balls and a caused turnover in the net.
Manhattan had three players do all the scoring. Gutenberger tallied four goals, while Hickey and VanOverbeke each scored three. Gutenberger also caused a game high six turnovers and sophomore Kristen Brenner led the Jaspers with four ground balls. Junior Allison Brown came away with 12 saves and three ground balls in net for Manhattan.
Central Connecticut falls to 1-14 on the season and will next be
playing in the final game of the season. The Blue Devils will host
Sacred Heart on Friday April 17 at 4:00 p.m. Manhattan improves to
9-4 this year and will also be playing at home on Friday. The
Jaspers will host Siena College on April 17 at 7:00 p.m.
while sophomore Cara Momnie led all players with eight draw
controls. Momnie now has 55 draws on the season, breaking her own
school record of 49 set last year. Central Connecticut will play
in their final game of the season when they host Sacred Heart on
Friday April 17 at 4:00 p.m.


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Movie review: Philomena (with video)
Rating: 4 stars out of 5
Starring: Judi Dench, Steve Coogan
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Running time: 98 minutes
Parental guidance: Coarse language, adult themes
The human interest story is typically a rather mawkish concoction aimed at the ignorant masses.
At least, that's the view of one of the characters in the human interest story Philomena, a reluctant melodrama that filters an emotional tale — a woman hunts for the son who was taken from her 50 years earlier — through the eyes of an acerbic journalist who thinks she's a product of a lifetime of talk shows, romance novels and The Reader's Digest.
The journalist is Martin Sixsmith, a real-life figure played by Steve Coogan, a British comedian and actor whose facility with political incorrectness and sour realism, not to mention the metafiction he brought to Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, makes him an ideal narrator (and prospective object of redemption) in this heart-tugging tale.
A former BBC announcer, Sixsmith was fired from his job as a political spin-doctor and returned to journalism, his cynicism (not to mention aggressive atheism) held like both spear and shield before him.
Seeking a story, he is introduced to Philomena Lee, an Irish woman with a secret.
Fifty years earlier, Philomena became pregnant out of wedlock and had a baby boy, Anthony. The child was raised by the nuns of an Irish convent who then sold him to an American couple.
Philomena, who has been in permanent mourning ever since, is now looking to find what happened to him.
Philomena is brought to marvellous life by Judi Dench.
Devout, forgiving, and blessed with gloriously unfashionable middle-class taste (she will recite the plot of a pulp novel as if it was gripping over-the-fence neighbourhood gossip), Philomena is accorded both the dignity and tragedy of a story that, in lesser hands, would devolve into soap opera.
Dench, though, puts steel into her backbone, perhaps to counterbalance a mushy sense of irony, and marches over the sophisticated attitudes that would diminish her.
The result is an odd-couple drama with a dark heart and a post-modern sensibility, an expose of the shockingly sadistic treatment of unwed mothers in the 1950s, and a worldly dismissal of everything that brought it about.
It's a tear-jerker that sneers at tear-jerkers even as it acknowledges their power.
That high-wire act is accomplished by Coogan, who co-wrote the script, and director Stephen Frears (The Grifters, The Queen), who deftly balances Martin's arch Oxbridge view of organized religion — his atheism is both sour and intellectualized — with Philomena's unreasoned but compassionate acceptance of what happened to her.
The nuns took away her baby and frustrate her search for him half a century later, but in her view it's not their fault: They're part of something greater that simply must be accepted.
This is all based on a true story (Sixsmith's book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee was published in 2009) that tells how a young woman was coerced into signing away her child, working for years in the convent laundry to pay the costs of her childbirth, and frustrated at every turn.
At first, it seems she is about to undergo a similar exploitation at the hands of Sixsmith — whom Philomena introduces to everyone as "Martin Sixsmith, News At Ten" — especially given his early assumption that such tragedies are little more than a salve for the ignorant masses.
This viewpoint is underlined by his magazine editor, who greets each difficulty in Philomena's search with calm appreciation of its news value.
"This is perfect for the weekend section," the editor says when things get particularly bad.
Martin and Philomena travel to the U.S. on their search, he with his eye on a revived career and she filled with fears of what can happen to a boy in America. What if he's homeless? Or nobody loves him? "Or what if he's obese?," she says, having heard that it's a problem.
What she unearths is gossip of the highest kind: naive or worldly, we all want to know what happened.
The heartbreak of the stolen children lies at the centre of Philomena, but this is a film that looks beyond the scandal and becomes a study of faith, compassion and the easy joy of the page-turner.
It's a human interest story for the unsentimental.


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Re: How to "unflatten"?
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg83912] Re: How to "unflatten"?
- From: Ray Koopman <koopman at sfu.ca>
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 04:25:56 -0500 (EST)
- References: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
On Dec 3, 4:09 am, Hauke Reddmann <fc3a... at uni-hamburg.de> wrote: > Excuse a complete noob's question: > > I do calculations with S matrices and need to convert > the tensor form Sab_cd (which would be e.g. the nested > list {{{{,},{,}},{{,},{,}}},{{{,},{,}},{{,},{,}}}} - > I omitted variables a1-a16, since only the structure > of the list, a 2*2*2*2 nest, is relevant) into a > matrix Mab_cd: {{,,,},{,,,},{,,,},{,,,}}. That is trivial: > Mab_cd=Partition[Flatten[Sab_cd],4]. > > But how to reverse the process? Of course even I already > can write a quadruple loop S[[,,,]]=M[,] with direct > handover of elements, but that is so unelegant, especially > as I have to apply this a hundred times in the computation > (and can't write subroutines yet, I'm a noob after all :-) > > Question 2: I could skip the whole converting if I knew > how to do an Einstein sum over two indices inside a tensor: > Sab_cd -> Sab_ca -> sum(a=1,n,Sab_ca) -> Tb_c. > At the moment I do this whith "blocking" multiple indices > into a matrix and then do the matrix product, but this is > more a clever hack. > -- > Hauke Reddmann <:-EX8 fc3a... at uni-hamburg.de > order stormed the surface where chaos set norm > had there always been balance? ...surely not > therein lies the beauty For the answer to question 1, see the thread "Insulating data from code" that ran May 16-23, 2006. http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica/browse_frm/thread/6f294d230f9fd211


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Chargesheet ready against defrocked priest for teen's rape and murder
Chargesheet ready against defrocked priest for teen's rape and murder
Published: 23rd August 2016 12:58 AM
Last Updated: 23rd August 2016 12:58 AM
From the Link: http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/Chargesheet-ready-against-defrocked-priest-for-teens-rape-and-murder/2016/08/23/article3592282.ece
PALAKKAD/COIMBATORE: AS the charge sheet is being readied against defrocked priest, H Arockiaraj, accused in the suspicious death of a teenage girl at the pastor's residence attached to the St. Stanislaus church in Walayar in 2013, the Coimbatore Bishop and three members of the clergy are likely to be made approvers.
According to police summons might be issued to Bishop Thomas Aquinas and the priests, Fr BF Madalaimuthu, Fr Kulandairaj, Fr Lawrence Melcure arrested and later released on bail for withholding information, to give a statement under section 164 before the Magistrate. If they supported the prosecution, they are likely to be made approvers. The Bishop and the three priests would have to give a statement to the Chief Judicial Magistrate which will determine the course of the case.
On July 23, 2013, the body of Fathima Sofiya was found in the living room of Fr Arockiaraj' residence attached to the St. Stanislaus church in Chandrapuram. She was then 18 years and 4 days old. Subsequently, four weeks after the 'murder', a canonical court was set up by the Coimbatore Bishop, which found that Fr Arockiaraj guilty. He was suspended from the diocese and defrocked.
Sources, privy to the investigation, said the post mortem report by police surgeon Dr PB Gujral has clearly stated that rape had been committed on the girl while ruling out ligature strangulation. However, Shanthi Roselin, the mother of the girl, continued to maintain that her daughter was strangulated. As such, investigators are learnt to have sought medico legal opinion on whether under these circumstances Section 302 (murder) could be included in the chargesheet.
On a petition from Shanthi Roselin, the Additional Sessions Court I, Palakkad had issued warrants against the Bishop and the four priests. They were charged under section 201 and 202 of the IPC for withholding information about Fr Arockiaraj from the police.
On August 12, Bishop Thomas Aquinas, Fr Madalaimuthu, Fr Kulandairaj, Fr Lawrence
Melcure had appeared before the investigation officer MK Zulfiquer at the Palakkad South police station and their statements were recorded. They were later let off on bail.
The Walayar police who investigated the crime had collected the shawl in which the body was reportedly found hanging. But this crucial piece of evidence was now missing after the police had closed the case within two weeks after writing it off as suicide.
It was in July 2015, after two years, Shanthi Roselin after recovering a letter Fr Arokiaraj had written to Sofiya and based on the photographs showing bruises on the face of the deceased, had approached the police for a reinvestigation. By then, Shanthi had also recorded many telephonic conversations she had with Arokiaraj in the background of her daughters death.
Later, Fr Arockiraj was arrested on charges of rape and under Posco for abusing a minor. He is now out on conditional bail.
Shanthi had also approached the Kerala High court and met the DGP of Kerala seeking justice.
She admits that her family had known Fr Arockiaraj since 2007 when her daughter was in Class VI. He was the Assistant Vicar of the St. Michael's church in Coimbatore. The family kept in touch after he was transferred to Valparai in Tamil Nadu and later to Chandrapuram in Walayar. He used to visit Shanthi's house Coimbatore and bring Sofiya in his car to Walayar, located 35 km away, for an eye treatment, counselling and catechism classes. It was during one such trips that the body of Sofiya was found in the living room of Fr Arockiaraj
Meanwhile, the Vicar General of the Catholic Diocese of Coimbatore, speaking to Express, clarified that the question of hiding evidence from the police by four members of the clergy, never arose as the Kerala police had never sought any information from them in the first place.
Bishop Thomas Aquinas, and the three priests, Kulanthai Raj, Madalai Muthu and Lawrence Melcure, were part of the canonical commission that inquired into the issue. Despite Arockiaraj having confessed to have "used" the girl, to the canonical court, the information was not divulged to the Kerala police.
"The inquiry was conducted in 2013, and Arockiaraj was defrocked. We did not divulge information to the police as they did not seek it from us," said Father John Joseph, Vicar General.
"At the time the girl was supposed to have died, the Bishop was away on ecclesiastical duty. The police had already conducted an autopsy into the teens death and were proceeding with the investigations," he added.
Following the arrests of the four priests for concealing evidence, the church has submitted documents relating to the inquiry to the Kerala police, officials confirmed


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Will Happy Endings get its happy ending and a Season 4 renewal?
That remains to be seen, but should you fail to "Save Happy Endings" like ABC wants you to, executive producer Jonathan Groff thinks they have crafted a Season 3 finale (Friday, 8/7c) for the kooky, GIF-tastic, ratings-challenged sitcom that would leave you, well, "happy." "Obviously, we want to go on, but if this is it, I don't think any Happy Endings fan would be disappointed," Groff tells TVGuide.com.
Fall TV 2013 Scorecard: Which shows are returning? Which aren't?Find out what else you can expect from the back-to-back episodes, the latter of which features the wedding of Jane ( Eliza Coupe) and Alex's ( Elisha Cuthbert) heretofore unmentioned older sister Brooke (Stephanie March), what he really thinks of ABC's "Save Happy Endings" campaign, if USA will pick up the show and more.How did you prepare for the finale with everything up in the air?
Jonathan Groff: Honestly, we didn't think too much about, "Oh, this could be it." If it is it for the show, which would be sad, I think it would leave people with a nice feeling of, "OK, I get where this could go." But we really felt like we'll land somewhere and come back. People at ABC really like the show, all the way up to the top. They've been so supportive in so many ways that we kind of feel like maybe at the end of the day, they'll say, "This is a good show. We just need to figure out how to put it in the right place. This cast is going to be in movies. We want to say we have this cast and keep them for as long as we can." I don't know if they want to let them go. Obviously, there are challenges in the ratings, but I think they're aware there have been challenges in how they've handled this. I think we really looked at it like, "What would be a satisfying end to the season that would underscore the kind of weird ecosystem that is this group of friends and how they would go on from there."
18 reasons you should watch Happy EndingsThat includes a wedding, which is your finale staple.
Groff: [Laughs] Yeah, we love weddings! We really did something interesting to introduce two new characters and to revisit Jane and Alex's parents. We meet Brooke and get to see a new family dynamic for Jane and Alex, which is a little unusual for a finale, but we like doing weddings. Now that we blew the lid on the fact that it's not Penny's (Casey Wilson) wedding since she broke up with Pete (Nick Zano), we were like, "Who's wedding could it be?" We talked about, "Could it be her mom [Megan Mullally] and Big Dave's [Michael McKean]?" We felt that wasn't right and Megan wasn't available! So Megan's in the [penultimate episode] with Michael. Then we said, "Let's define Jane a little bit." So we came up with Brooke.And she's more anal than Jane, right? It's hard to imagine anyone would be.
Groff: Brooke out-Janes Jane. She's the ultimate Kerkovich alpha. It's fun to see Eliza play Jane back on her heels. She just really wants to get the approval of her older sister. It's very important to her. Alex leans into her role as the kid sister. It's really fun to see the three of them together. The kicker with Brooke's wedding is that she's also marrying a black guy, Elliot, (James Lesure), who's kind of perfect. That messes with Brad (Damon Wayans Jr.) a little bit. Through that, we felt like we did set up some stuff for next season and also, if we don't get a next season, you could go, "OK. I'll make my own imaginary show."Check out an exclusive sneak peek of Brad meeting Elliot below.
Groff: Yeah. I don't think [the secret's] that surprising, but they agree not to tell anyone and of course they each tell the wrong person. Some of the fun is watching the secret get out. You really get to see Max (Adam Pally) and Penny's reaction to it.When I talked to David Caspe and Josh Bycel earlier in the season, they said Dave and Penny won't get together this year. Is that still true? Do you even hint at that possibility in case this is it?
Groff: Well, I think it would be way too soon no matter how you cut it to with Dave and Alex, and Penny just getting out of an engagement. But the consensus in the writers' room is that you're always looking for interesting combinations and it just has to be at the right time and you have to buy it.So you didn't change any plans even when things were looking dire and you were pulled off the schedule for a month?
Groff: Nope. We just did what wanted. The only thing we struggled with is we have such funny actors that we always want to make the show super-funny. We need to check ourselves and remember that people, especially on ABC, are connecting with the characters. That's the genius of Modern Family and The Middle. We get carried away sometimes with being super-funny, and I love that, but sometimes the best episodes for us are the real, grounded moments. I think the show at its best does that well. And I think we've had some great moments of that this year, like the end of the game night episode after everyone finds out Penny broke up with Pete. There's a moment at the end in the finale where you go, "That's sweet." But we honestly just kept doing what we wanted to do and already planned.
25 Bubble Shows: Which will survive?
I don't think any show has been moved as much as you guys. You've been in three time slots this year — technically four if you could the double episodes on Fridays. Were you worried at any point, especially during the month off the air, that you'd be pulled altogether?
Groff: No. Honestly, ABC has been great. They really do love the show and they were trying — they still are — to make it work. The Sunday thing wasn't like, "We legitimately don't know what to do with this." We did well last year around Revenge. I think we were a decent lead-in to them from Modern Family, so I think the thought was, "Let's get some Revenge eyeballs to Happy Endings." I think it was more of a good experiment than a "We don't know what to do." The Tuesday thing was more, "Was that a good idea? I don't know." We had Dancing with the Stars [as our lead-in], but the fall's Dancing wasn't the most successful. We started late [in October] and we didn't air many episodes. And there was a hurricane and an election. We aired three originals in December when that's a dark period. I don't think anything has done gangbusters at 9 o'clock since. I'm probably getting myself in trouble! [Laughs] But it was a weird season, scheduling-wise. That was weird.
And then they launched the Save Happy Endings campaign.
Groff: Right. You know, it's easy to make light of it because the corporate entity that has the power to save the show is asking viewers to save it. I think it was their way of getting fans excited. It also got attention. Rarely have I seen a promo get picked up in news outlets. It struck people as kind of odd and paradoxical. It got news. Social media for us has always been a huge factor because people talk about it on Twitter and Facebook. I think it's because we do jokes. It's a visually satisfying show. Our crew just comes up with the best stuff. ... For ABC to say "Get it going" was kind of odd, but it got people talking. We'll take anything! And honestly, they could've canceled us. The move to Fridays to keep us around was to keep us on the schedule. ABC has been so, so good to us. Other networks would've canceled us already and I think they didn't because they know it's a good show and this cast is insanely talented. It's an attractive audience for advertisers even though it's not as big as we'd like it to be.
Get the scoop on 39 must-watch finalesWhat do you know or have heard about USA possibly picking you guys up?
Groff: I don't know much. It's nice to know that people might want us, but I don't really know anything. No one tells us anything. ... If ABC picks it up, it's because it's a good show. They have good comedies and we're one of them. They want to try us again and handle us differently. I'd love to be anywhere, but I'd love to stay on ABC. We'll see what happens.Happy Endings airs back-to-back episodes Fridays at 8/7c on ABC.


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The ex-journalist who was arrested after jostling with Brad Pitt at a film premiere last week said on June 2 that he was merely trying to give the actor a hug and didn't mean him any harm.
Vitalii Sediuk, a former Ukrainian television reporter, told The Associated Press in an interview that he was in a fan area of the event that was open to the public when he went in to give the actor a hug. Sediuk, 25, has gained a reputation for outlandish pranks on red carpets in Moscow, Los Angeles and last month, at the Cannes Film Festival when he crawled underneath America Ferrera's dress at a film premiere.
His contact with Pitt, which caused the actor to lose balance while he was signing autographs at the "Maleficent" film premiere on Wednesday, led to Sediuk's arrest. He spent two days in jail, where he said he watched television coverage of the incident, before pleading no contest to battery and unlawful activity at a sporting or entertainment event Friday. He was sentenced Friday to three years of probation, a year's worth of psychiatric counseling and ordered to stay away from Pitt.
"I'm a normal guy," Sediuk said. "I'm not crazy." (Also Read: How Brad Pitt Was Attacked)
The 6-foot-2 (1.87 meter) native of Boryspil, Ukraine said he initially wasn't near the front of the fan area where Pitt was signing autographs last week, but saw paparazzi leave one area and headed for it. He said he stood on a metal railing and reached over to give Pitt a hug, toppling onto the carpet area as security grabbed him.
Sediuk was attempting to grab Pitt's crotch and the actor gave him a couple of hits to the back of the head, the actor wrote in a statement to People magazine after Sediuk's interview.
"I don't mind an exhibitionist, but if this guy keeps it up he's going to spoil it for the fans who have waited up all night for an autograph or a selfie, because it will make people more wary to approach a crowd," Pitt wrote. "And he should know, if he tries to look up a woman's dress again, he's going to get stomped."
Sediuk said his antics should lead to a re-examination of security procedures at high-profile entertainment events.
The former journalist has hugged the crotches of Bradley Cooper and Leonardo Di Caprio and crashed the 2013 Grammy Awards said the primary purpose for his pranks is entertainment. "I'm doing this for fun," he said.
He avoided a similar stunt at the "Maleficent" premiere because he said he knew children would be at the event.
Sediuk has been fired by the Ukrainian television station 11 and said he does not know what his next steps will be. He said he intends to spend the next few months focusing on fulfilling his sentence in the Pitt incident, which include community service and a restraining order preventing him from going near Hollywood events.
He said he would like to remain in the entertainment field, working as a movie director or appearing in a reality show, and would continue work as a journalist - if anyone will hire him.
Sediuk said he wouldn't give up pranks, but knew that his days of getting close to celebrities in Hollywood were at an end. Any future stunts would be done legally, he said, and "in a polite way."
He said his antics should lead stars and event organizers to reconsider their security procedures.
"Don't get offended at me. Don't get mad at me. And just to be thankful that I show it's easy to get access to you and maybe you have to tighten security," Sediuk said. He said celebrities should be cautious when talking to fans. "Obviously, I don't want to say, 'Don't talk to fans.' But (be) cautious."


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Family Ties: Davis Family Coming to Stevens for Four Generations
The Davis family has been coming to Stevens since World War I, when Herbert Wainwright Davis, Class of 1920, joined Stevens' Naval Unit and yearned to drive his father's big blue Stutz.
His son, Herbert W. Davis, Jr. '50, M.S. '53, attended Stevens after serving his country in the European Theater during World War II. His sons, Gregg '84 and Steven '85, followed him to Castle Point, where Gregg met his wife, Teanne Sawyer Davis '86—but that's another story.
And this past fall, the fourth generation of the Davis family, Herbert Wainwright's great-grandchildren, entered Stevens, continuing what may be one of the longest family legacies in the university's history.
Alena and Jaymes Davis—twin sister and brother—joined the Class of 2017 this fall, and smile patiently when asked about their family legacy.
"There's kind of a pressure," Jaymes acknowledges.
But they're surrounded by family history. As they picnic on Palmer Lawn, their father Gregg points toward Palmer Hall and the very window of the dorm room where their grandfather lived. They're just a few minutes away from the Beta Theta Pi house, where Gregg was a brother and remembers the exact day that he first met Teanne: Feb. 28, 1983. It wasn't a late Valentine's Day dance but a large gathering that evening to watch the final episode of "M*A*S*H*."
"The fact that they were the fourth generation steered them away," Gregg says, at least at first. So Teanne and Gregg stepped back and let the twins decide.
Alena, who is studying biomedical engineering, and Jaymes, who has chosen business and technology, did apply to other schools, but Stevens seemed to have a lot going for it. Alena calls it a good technical school that just felt right.
"New York City is right here," she says. "You have a little campus, and the city. It's a close knit community; it's more comfortable."
"It has a small town atmosphere, and we come from a small town," Jaymes added, as the family hails from the rolling hills of Harvard, Mass, west of Boston.
Their parents are delighted.
"Stevens had a good ROI (Return on Investment) article come out. The timing was perfect," Teanne says with a sly smile. "I think it was a no-brainer—a lot of positives."
"It's something that we knew works," Gregg said. "Everyone I knew who came from Stevens is very successful."
Gregg's grandfather, the late Herbert W., Class of '20, started the Davis Company, which made cabinetry and, during World War II, ammunition boxes. His father, Herbert W., Jr., founded Herbert W. Davis & Company, an engineering and management consulting company that he ran for many years in Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; he's now retired and lives in Vermont. Gregg works as general manager of API Technologies, a micro-electronics company in Marlboro, Mass., while Teanne is a stay-at-home mom who worked as an engineer with Digital Equipment Corp. before having the twins.
Growing up in Cliffside Park, N.J., Gregg recalls spending many Alumni Days on campus with his family. He knew his father's Stevens roommates, his longtime friends who, actually, are named Tom, Dick and Harry.
Busy with kids and life up in Massachusetts, the Davises hadn't returned to Stevens in more than 20 years. When they brought their only children to Stevens as freshmen, they found a refreshing change.
They never forgot that classic Stevens speech they heard as freshmen: "Look to your left, look to your right, one of you won't graduate."
Stevens President Nariman Farvardin's speech was the complete opposite, Gregg said, and assured parents that the school will do what it can to help their children.
"That one statement made all the difference," Gregg said. "As parents, we're putting our kids in school and we want them to succeed."
While Jaymes is still contemplating a career path, Alena says that her passion lies in engineering artificial limbs, and maybe even the next artificial heart.


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Financial Systems Center is Just What Industry Needs, Say Two Alumni Sponsors
This month, Stevens will celebrate the launch of the Financial Systems Center (FSC), a state-of-the-art financial research and teaching facility that applies systems thinking and related methods to understand the behavior of the complex global financial system. Supporting undergraduate programs in Quantitative Finance, Cybersecurity, Computer Science and Business & Technology, and master's and doctoral programs in Financial Engineering, Software Engineering and Systems Security Engineering, the FSC is the first center of its kind in the U.S.
The FSC holds a special place in the heart of two Stevens alumni – Chris Ferreri (B.E. in Electrical Engineering, 1977) and Stuart Breslow (M.S. in Technology Management, 1998). As technological innovation speeds change in financial systems, the career successes of these alumni are testament to the importance of financial engineers having cross-disciplinary skills, technological expertise and a systems perspective to tackle that challenges and opportunities presented by today's complex financial system.
Ferreri – an advisory board member of both the Stevens School of Systems and Enterprises and the FSC – is managing director of ICAP, the world's leading interdealer broker and a corporate sponsor of the FSC. With an average daily transaction volume in excess of $2.3 trillion, more than 50 percent of which is electronic, ICAP is truly at the center of the financial markets, providing a wide range of financial products and broking services to trading professionals in the global wholesale financial markets. Ferreri is responsible for trading systems strategy, design and planning for the blending of ICAP's voice brokered over-the-counter markets and implementation of electronic trading.
Ferreri's background is perhaps atypical for the average finance whiz. He studied electrical engineering and began his career as a project engineer for DuPont, managing manufacturing plant projects, supervising foremen and other employees, and leading process improvement projects for technical and non-technical workers.
In 1984, Ferreri transitioned to the financial industry, becoming a U.S. Treasury broker for Garban, which later merged with another company to form ICAP. Although this may seem like a far cry from his early career, he said his general engineering education and his ability to look at the markets from a systems perspective made him an effective financial professional.
"When I entered the financial industry, it was on the commercial side as a broker – an area that was basically absent of engineers," Ferreri said. "But my skills translated well. Because of my broad engineering skill-set developed at Stevens, I was able to communicate effectively with the technology department right away. I also had critical thinking and problem solving skills that set me apart. Even better, I understood how to analyze the interaction of all the various elements that make up today's complex investment markets, which is incredibly important in an industry that's rate of change continues to increase."
Breslow is chief executive officer and chief information officer of RealTick, also a FSC corporate sponsor. RealTick is an industry-leading financial software developer and service provider for the institutional and professional trading communities. It has revolutionized the electronic trading industry with its global, multi-asset, multi-broker, broker-neutral trading technology that is used by the world's most demanding traders to transact with the world's leading brokers. Breslow has been CEO since 2008 after joining the company as CIO in 2006.
Breslow sought his M.S. in Technology Management from Stevens in order to round out his technical background and prepare him for a senior leadership position of a technology company. After earning his B.S. in Electrical/Computer Engineering from Rutgers and M.S. in Computer Science from NYU/Polytechnic University, his first job was at IBM as a software engineer developing microcode for high-speed network devices. He later held a senior technology role at PaineWebber (now UBS Financial Services), where he was in charge of all online client-facing activities for the broker.
"I came to the realization that my future would revolve around technology, and Stevens was the perfect fit to prepare me for the management track," Breslow said. "With its technology focus, it was much more akin to what I was looking for than a traditional MBA program. I refer to the MS in Technology Management degree as 'CIO training.'"
Upon completing his degree, Breslow became the global head of client facing trading and analytics technology for global equities at Lehman Brothers, and was also earlier responsible for the development of Lehman's high-performance Equities Direct Market Access Trading platform. A few years later he became CEO and CIO of RealTick.
He said he continues to use the management skills he learned at Stevens in his day-to-day work, especially what he calls the "consultant mindset approach" to breaking down problems and opportunities into alternative solutions and manageable tasks.
Ferreri and Breslow agree that today, more than ever, financial services professionals need background in a number of diverse disciplines, as well as a systems perspective, to succeed in the field. The financial industry was one of the earliest adopters of technology, and technology is now at the heart of nearly all global financial industry activities. Mobile banking and trading are on the rise. Technology is driving better data and analytics and more sophisticated trading platforms. There is widespread automation in financial services, and the high volumes of trading that happen 24/7 are almost completely reliant on technology.
"The financial world today is a technical world, and without technology, the markets would basically come to a screeching halt," Breslow said. "We need finance professionals who understand technology and how best to put it to use."
"Due to the complexity of the markets today, financial engineers with a systems methodology as the core structure of their education have a clear advantage," Ferreri added.
Ferreri and Breslow are confident the Financial Systems Center – by providing basic training in computer science, engineering, investment and finance, and systems – will instill in students an excellent understanding of the marketplace and prepare them to be valuable contributors to the financial industry, whether they find employment at an investment bank, hedge fund, financial institution or asset management firm.
"Given its focus on engineering and its location near Wall Street, Stevens has always been an excellent supplier of technical talent, and FSC is well suited to continue serving that mission," said Breslow.
"I'm proud of the work Stevens has done with the FSC and proud to have my company's name listed among its partners," said Ferreri.


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For a while, it was quite easy to know a lot about Jesca Hoop without knowing any of her music – coming to our attention via Guy Garvey's fervent praise, the Californian arrived on British shores from the unlikely previous position as nanny to Tom Waits' children. That these two (admittedly very impressive) references are still the most popular stories anyone can tell you about the young singer-songwriter suggests that while her two previous albums have shown promise, they've yet to yield any truly sparkling jewels.
If Hoop had arrived in the UK with The House That Jack Built under her arm, it might be a very different story. It's certainly the most arresting record that she's made, created with three separate producers in LA, and sprinkled with some genuinely infectious adult pop. That's not to say that Hoop has given up on being the next PJ Harvey in favour of chasing Ladyhawke's wonky pop crown – there's plenty of earthier material here – it is a record partly inspired by the death of Hoop's father. It's more the fact that everything seems to have been given that extra bit of polish that makes it stand out.
The best examples of this are sat next to each other near the start of the record. 'Hospital' must be the most immediate, poppy track Hoop has ever written, the story of a child enjoying the celebrity status and extra attention her broken arm receives. Told over a tick-tock beat and bursting into a radio-shattering chorus of "There's nothing like a broken arm/To win your love" with a swaggering confidence, if you were told it was a lost Cyndi Lauper classic from the Eighties you wouldn't be surprised.
It's followed by the album's title track, which strips back these layers of sheen to reveal just a single bluesy guitar, pirouetting gently through a stark tale of family loss and the jumble of feelings it can provoke, all "Purple Hearts/And racing cars/And the words for her you wrote". Here, Hoop sounds closer to Jeff Buckley than any of her female contemporaries, producing one of those songs that seems to make time stand still.
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The end of Wallace's is hysterical
Yeah TB. Most definitely. Might have saved himself another 30k right there.
I don't like Stan Van Gundy but I loved his comment about Matt Barnes getting fined $20K for throwing the ball in the stands after a loss. He said next time just to throw $20K into the stands for the fans lol
I really like Doc's assessment of the game...
Yeah even when one questions Doc's sub patterns or what not, during his post game pressers he almost always seems to know what he's talking about. Also one has to remember coaches can't be 100% honest, b/c they have to see these players the next day.


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