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The Koopa Troopa Orb (or Paratroopa Capsule in Mario Party 5) makes its first appearance in Mario Party 5 where it can be thrown to a space on the board or used on the player for ten coins. It will summon Paratroopa, who then will have the player hit a Dice Block to show an amount of coins. Paratroopa will then take coins from the opponents equal to the amount as shown on the Dice Block.
In Mario Party 6, it becomes the Koopa Troopa Orb that players can only place on a space as a roadblock trap. It costs ten coins at the Orb Shop. Although it is referred to as the Koopa Troopa Orb, it still features a Paratroopa. Opponents who pass the space containing the Orb makes Paratroopa appear to switch places with the owner of that Orb.
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I ate at this place and I had a good food. It was too spicy but my fault because I didn't question before ordering. Overall it was good and I recommend this place.
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I ate at this place and I had a good food. It was too spicy but my fault because I didn't question before ordering. Overall it was good and I recommend this place.
This place is great to go dinning with a pack of friends or to have a nice family night. The restaurant has a friendly environment that lets you have a splendid time. The have salads, wings and other delicios.
Great place to go with friends, family or boy/girlfriend. The food is excellent, my favorite snack "chepos", i love alitas💕
We had the arrachera plate and the meat was very tasty and well served , beer was cold. It's a good place to eat and watch your favorite sports , try their Jicama fries.
Great place to eat or have dinner. Meals for kids, salads and wings with different sauces from mild to extra hot. Be careful with sauces as they can be pretty bad in your tummy. Prices are great.
I have visited Las Alitas several times and at several locations. I must say that the food is very tasty, though a bit spicy for me. Unfortunately, I would say that the service is almost always very slow. The servers tend to bunch up and...More
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Las Alitas is a casual, family friendly place. Their food (wings, burgers) is pretty good, with a ton of options for sauces. Not the best wings, but a nice option for no frills, simple dining.
This place tries to be like Buffalo Wild Wings in the United States. It is good but they tend to put to much sauce on the chicken and there isnt a lot of variety of flavors!
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my problem is that i hate how burgers taste if i have to assemble them myself. i always opt for chicken or hot dogs.
I always choose chicken when given the option! I think we're having some smoked ribs this year, but I'm still bringing chicken!
Steak!! No bun, no cheese and I think we are getting bison - low fat! YUM.
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Princess Shantal is Esperanza's cousin and an OC of Detective88 who debuts in "MCF: the Princess Test." when we first introduce her she was a spoiled brat, but later on, we learn of her story which makes her sorry for her after she is forced to be friends with Mordecai, Rigby and Bartok. She has black hair with a blue top and sash, a orange skirt and shoes and during her coronation wears a gold crown with blue diamonds. She is voiced by Janice Kawaye.
Shantal appears and shouts that her crown is stolen. She warns Esperanza and the MCF that her crown is in the Kingdom of the Spring. She knows about the Princess Test and allows the MCF to go, but Sylvia tells Mordecai, Rigby and Bartok to stay here and watch over her to calm her down and possibly befriend her. She says that the journey is on foot. While the MCF, Wander and Sylvia spend their time in the Kingdom of the Spring, befriending their ruler Prince Dylan and finding the crown, Mordecai, Rigby and Bartok give into Shantal's demand since she is going to be coronated the next week. Finally, Mordecai tells her off, releasing Shantal's soft side and regretting her rude behavior. She apologizes and becomes their friend. When the MCF, Wander and Sylvia return with the crown, Shantal greets them a changed girl and is crowned Grand Princess of her kingdom, the Ruby Empire.
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Matlab Visualization and Postprocessing on Unstructured Grids and Meshes with FEATool functions
Matlab contour, surface, and visualization plots for unstructured mesh and grid data using FEATool Multiphysics functions.
FeatFlow strictly employs quadrilateral grids in two dimensions. In the FEATool GUI one can use the Grid > Convert Grid Cells menu option to change an unstructured triangular simplex grid into quadrilateral one. On the Matlab and Octave command lines one can also use the
quadmesh, and grid primitive functions such as
holegrid etc. to generate quadrilateral grids. Alternatively, one can also import a pre-made external quadrilateral grid in any of the import format that are supported in FEATool, such as for example from GiD.
In contrast to most other CFD and physics simulation codes it is in FeatFlow desirable to start with a very coarse grid. FeatFlow will then internally uniformly refine this grid a prescribed number of times to generate the multigrid level hierarchies, and also adapt boundaries to the geometric boundary parametrization. In this way one can achieve optimal conditions for the geometric multigrid solver. This also means that the output from FeatFlow will correspond to a much finer grid and have a higher quality solution.
The FeatFlow CFD solver is installed in the featflow subdirectory. It includes the monolithic cc2d and cc3d solver, while the projection method based solvers (pp2d and pp3d) will possibly be made available in a future release.
In addition to Matlab or Octave with FEATool installed, the system requirements for running the FeatFlow solver is Linux, or Windows 10 with Windows Subsystem for Linux/Bash on Ubuntu on Windows installed with a 64-bit x86 processor based system.
Instead of using the usual solve button
= in Solve Mode of the FEATool GUI, one can use the FeatFlow toolbar button to call the external FeatFlow solver for Navier-Stokes physics mode models.
The FeatFlow solver dialog box allows one to first Export the current grid and model definition to FeatFlow data files. The Solve option calls the FeatFlow CC2D solver using the exported data. Import finally reads a computed FeatFlow solution and imports it into the FEATool GUI (refining the initial grid as necessary determined by the FeatFlow Grid refinement level setting).
The FeatFlow solver settings are described as follows
Grid refinement level - Number of grid refinements of the imported grid to compute on. FeatFlow uses a geometric multigrid solver approach where the initial coarse input grid is uniformly refined several times to generate the finer multigrid levels. Thus it is often desirable to start with a quite coarse input grid.
Artificial stabilization - Select between streamline diffusion and upwinding for artificial stabilization of convective terms.
Stabilization parameter - Stabilization tuning parameter.
Solver type - Select either Stationary (monolithic) or Time-Dependent problem and solver type.
Time stepping scheme - Choose between implicit 2nd order Fractional-step-theta, Crank-Nicolson, and 1st order Backward Euler time stepping schemes.
Time step - Sets the macro time step size (internally FeatFlow takes three sub-time steps for each macro time step).
Simulation time - Maximum/final simulation time.
Time stopping criteria - Stationary limit to stop a time dependent simulation.
Full settings - Access all FeatFlow CC2D solver parameters (see the FeatFlow documentation for a description of these) [1].
featflow function can also be used on the command line as follows:
FEA = FEATFLOW( FEA, VARARGIN ) Export, solves, or imports the solved problem described in the FEA finite element struct using the FeatFlow CFD solver. Accepts the following property/value pairs
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mode export/solve/import Command mode to call (string)
data default Default FeatFlow solver parameter data struct
fdir featflow FeatFlow processing directory
fname ft2ff FeatFlow output filename
wbash C:\Windows\System32\bash.exe Windows bash path
[1] S. Turek, C. Becker, FeatFlow, Finite element software for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, User Manual, Release 1.1, Heidelberg, 1998.
[2] S. Turek, Efficient Solvers for Incompressible Flow Problems: An Algorithmic and Computational Approach, Series: Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering , Volume 6, Springer-Verlag, 1999.
[3] E. Bayraktar, O. Mierka, S. Turek, Benchmark Computations of 3D Laminar Flow Around a Cylinder with CFX, OpenFOAM and FeatFlow, International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 7, 3, 253-266, 2012.
Matlab contour, surface, and visualization plots for unstructured mesh and grid data using FEATool Multiphysics functions.
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One week after City Hall's liaison to the diplomatic community stepped down under fire, the man named to replace her announced yesterday that he too was leaving the post.
The official, Bruce S. Gelb, said he was leaving the unpaid job for personal reasons.
Mr. Gelb, 70, was named to replace Livia S. Sylva, who stepped down amid complaints from some administration officials that she had undercut Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's efforts to crack down on parking scofflaws among United Nations diplomats. He said yesterday that he had had no concerns about the parking issue and that the controversy had no bearing on his change of heart. Rather, he said, he wanted to spend more time with his family and the new job most likely would not allow that. He said he still intended to help Mr. Giuliani get re-elected.
''I was looking forward to working on the parking issue,'' Mr. Gelb said. ''That's a world I feel very comfortable with. But I could see a problem devoting my time to my family.'' Before last week, Mr. Gelb served as head of the city's Commission for International Business. After Ms. Sylva's departure as head of the Commission for the United Nations and Consular Corps, the Mayor decided to merge the two posts and said Mr. Gelb would handle the assignment.
Colleen Roche, Mr. Giuliani's press secretary, said that she did not know who would replace Mr. Gelb but that the two jobs would remain combined.
When Ms. Sylva resigned, administration officials said the Mayor was angry about a brochure she had distributed last year to a United Nations committee, assuring diplomats that they would not be held responsible for unpaid parking tickets.
When the long controversy over diplomatic scofflaws flared up again in recent months, Mr. Giuliani worked with the State Department on a plan to punish them by taking away their diplomatic license plates. But the Mayor recently had to settle for a weaker plan, under which the State Department will refuse to renew an automobile registration for a diplomatic mission if parking tickets have gone unpaid for a year.Continue reading the main story


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Aerosmith will play ANZ Stadium on April 28 with Wolfmother, Grinspoon, Spiderbait and the Dead Daisies, with tickets going on sale on March 4.
Frontman Steven Tyler said his role as a judge on American Idol had given a new audience and boasted: "I'm on fire. There were 40 million people watching Idol every night.
"People would come on and sing Aerosmith songs. It brings you back up again. It re-upped the Aerosmith catalogue by 300-per-cent. It did its job.
"I can't go anywhere now but it's all good. I've got photographers sneaking around.
"I don't know where they are.
It's total invasion of privacy. I gotta make sure I get spackled good before I leave the house."
Tyler and bandmate Joe Perry have feuded since Aerosmith formed in 1970.
Perry tried to replace Tyler with another singer after he discovered the American Idol job by reading about it online.
Tyler eventually made peace with his band mates to record last year's Music From Another Dimension, their first album since 2004.
"I'd got myself sober three years ago and thought what am I doing this for," Tyler said.
"I told the band, 'I'm on fire, I'm ready to do this with you or without you.' I was the first one to come to the table and say we're
not worth anything unless we're together. Let's put the grievances aside.
"I'm still amazed by this band. Two years ago we were fighting, I didn't want to know about them anymore.
"I got a chance to think about it for a month, really strongly. Aerosmith is the biggest accomplishment in my life short of my kids.
"The damage we've done in this band writing songs from Dream On to Walk this Way to Another Last Goodbye, it's been an incredible journey."
Tyler, who turns 65 next month, has plans to explore the Outback.
"Last time I went I wanted to see a kangaroo, hold a koala and dive the Great Barrier Reef, and I got to do them all.
"This time I want to walk the Songlines hopefully with an Aboriginal chief. I've read about the Songlines, it's incredible stuff. "
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Organisation: Danish Refugee Council (DRC)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Country Procurement & Logistics Coordinator
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The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a private, independent, humanitarian organization working on all aspects of the refugee cause in more than 36 countries throughout the world. The aim of DRC is to protect refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) against persecution and to promote durable solutions to the problems of forced migration, on the basis of humanitarian principles and human rights. DRC works in accordance with the UN Conventions on Refugees and the Code of Conduct for the ICRC and NGOs in Disaster Relief.
Job Summary: The Procurement Officer will mainly support the West Nile procurement and will also from time to time be required to support the rest of the program procurement depending on the existing needs according to DRC/DDG set guidance and standard operating procedures.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensure that there is value for money for all the procured good and services by seeing to it that all procured items are of good quality and meet the set standards.
- Ensure that the request for payments tracker and procurement table are updated and shared with field offices on weekly basis.
- The procurement officer will take lead in ensuring that contracts drafted meet the standard requirements before they are reviewed by the CPLC and consequently submitted for final approval.
- Ensure DRC rules, regulations and procurement standards are upheld in all the procurement processes
- Take part in achieving the performance objectives in the procurement and logistics sector by ensuring that 90% of the procurement are done timely.
- Offer technical support to field procurement staff.
- Help in tendering processes and identification of pre-qualified suppliers.
- In charge of the preparation for all the procurement documents according to the documents check list and submit to CPLC for review before submission for approval.
- Receive all the order request (OR) from field and update the procurement table before any procurement.
- The procurement officer will mainly be responsible for all procurement filing and ensures that all documents are filed in an orderly manner for safety and easy retrieval. All originals go to finance and copies retained in the procurement /logistics folders.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) Procurement Officer job placement should hold a Bachelor's degree in Procurement & Logistics Management or the equivalent.
- At least five years' experience, preferably working in a busy organization INGO environment.
- Excellent communication in English both written and oral.
- Excellent MS Excel and MS Word skills
- Proven commitment to accountable practices.
- Previous experience of working in challenging environments.
- Proven ability to manage large varied workloads and deal constructively with stress and periods with long hours.
- Proven ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines and work with limited supervision
- Proactive, stable and robust character and a good team player.
- Excellent communication skills, calm and a good sense of humour.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to establish effective working relations at all levels.
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Dr. Anthony Kameen is a Board Certified Ophthalmologist specializing in laser vision correction (LASIK and PRK) and premium cataract surgery. A 1982 graduate of Georgetown University Medical School, Dr. Kameen went on to complete his Ophthalmology residency at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC) and was named Chief Resident of the Department in 1986. He later played a significant role in pioneering laser vision correction, having performed the first government approved Excimer laser vision correction procedure, the first LASIK Intralase procedure and the first NearVision CK procedure in the Baltimore area.
More recently, Dr. Kameen was the first surgeon in the Mid-Atlantic region to provide the newly-approved KAMRA inlay procedure to correct near vision loss.
Dr. Kameen's vast clinical experience and impressive results have earned him an international reputation for excellence, drawing patients from around the world. He has been voted "Top Doctor" in the field of Ophthalmology/Laser Vision Correction in both the Baltimore and Washingtonian magazine and he has received the "Top Doctor" award from both the VISX Corporation and the LVCI Corporation as one of their most accomplished surgeons. Dr. Kameen has also been awarded LVCI's "Top Five" award given to the top five surgeons in the country. Additionally, Kameen Eye Associates has received national recognition as one of the most technologically advanced practices in the industry.
Dr. Kameen is considered one of the most respected eye surgeons in the country. He has performed over 10,000 PRK procedures, 60,000 LASIK procedures, 2,000 astigmatic Keratotomy procedures and 10,000 Cataract with lens implant procedures. Dr. Kameen has also appeared as an expert witness in numerous circumstances. Dr. Kameen has performed laser vision correction on many physicians as well as members of his own family, most recently performing LASIK on his 22 year old son. Dr. Kameen had laser vision correction to correct his own nearsightedness and astigmatism in 1994.
Dr. Kameen has been listed as a Top LASIK Surgeon by Madison Media in its monthly airline in-flight magazines. Dr. Kameen has also been listed as a Trusted Lasik Surgeon in Maryland.
Dr. John Minardi is a Board Certified Optometrist and has been practicing for over two decades. Dr. Minardi received his education from University of Michigan and New England College of Optometry, and went on to a residency at University of Miami Medical School's Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.
Dr. Minardi has been caring for the eyes and vision of patients in Maryland since 1987 through his work at a number of area practices. He has held the position of Lead Optometrist at Kaiser Permanente's Silver Spring and Kensington/Largo Medical Centers, as well Chief of Optometry of Kaiser Permanente's Baltimore Service Area. He has also been the Clinical Director at both Summit/LCA Vision Centers and (what was then) TLC The Laser Center/Kameen Laser Eye Associates.
Dr. Minardi has specialized in pre- and post-operative care of refractive and cataract surgery patients, specialty contact lens fittings, care of glaucoma patients, and comprehensive eye exams. His depth and breadth of experience have made him widely respected in the field of optometry and beyond.
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Katie is the vibrant, energetic, and people-focused leader of our office. Each aspect of patient care is overseen by Katie. That comfortable and cared-for feeling you have when you walk in the door? That's because of Katie.Katie is a 1995 graduate of Loch Raven High School and earned her AA degree from the Community College of Baltimore County in 1998. Katie began her career at Kelly & Associates Insurance Group where she was an administrative assistant, data entry assistant, enrollment specialist, and then spent six years as assistant to the Chief Financial Officer.
- Reading. She reads a few books every week.
- Spending lots of time with her family (especially her 15 nieces and nephews).
- Music. She performs and leads worship at Christ the King Church in Towson, MD.
What I love About Kameen Eye Associates:
- "We see patients come back every day after their procedure with great vision that changes their lives. That never gets old."
- "I love interacting with people. In my role I get to spend time with patients every day."
- "I wake up every day and do something I LOVE to do with people that are TERRIFIC."
My Favorite Things About Dr. Kameen:
- "Dr. Kameen is humble, sharp, and witty."
- "Patients feel cared for by Dr. Kameen from their initial appointment and for years to come. Every patient is so important to him."
- "Dr. Kameen is compassionate and caring. You see this in his life both inside and outside of the office."
About Heather:
Heather is the first face you see when you walk into the office. Heather handles scheduling, billing, and all the details around your procedure, from the initial consultation to your follow up appointments and annual eye exams.
Heather is a 1992 Pikesville High School graduate and studied at Catonsville Community College and The University of Maryland, Eastern Shore. Heather worked in restaurant management, event management, and financial services before joining Kameen Eye Associates in 2005.
- Heather is close with her family, including the traditional Saturday morning breakfast.
- A self proclaimed homebody, Heather loves wine and a movie on the couch on a Friday night.
- Daisy, her miniature pincher.
- Heather is a bookworm. We have a lot of those at Kameen.
What I love About Kameen Eye Associates:
- "I get to work with great people every day!"
- "Having laser vision correction changed my life. Now I get to be a part of that for others."
- "Freeing our patients from glasses and contacts is a great feeling."
My Favorite Things About Dr. Kameen:
- "Dr. Kameen is always innovating and changing. That inspires all of us to constantly grow and develop our skills."
- "I've never worked for anyone that thanked me for doing my job like Dr. Kameen does."
- "Dr. Kameen is a kind, caring, and great man to work for. I love my job."
About Bev:
Bev has been in ophthalmology for over 24 years and with Dr. Kameen since 1995. During that time she has seen the progress of modern eye surgery and has cared for thousands of patients. Bev is a graduate of Woodlawn High School and Catonsville Community College.
- Spending time with her large family and friends.
- The beach and everything that goes with it.
- Cooking and shopping (usually with her family and friends).
What I love About Kameen Eye Associates:
- "I love seeing the advances in the industry. We are on the leading edge in our care and I love being a part of that."
- "Each patient we see is a chance to change a life with clear vision."
- "Our clients are the best, and I enjoy being with them each day."
My Favorite Things About Dr. Kameen:
- "Dr. Kameen has a way of making everyone feel important and cared for. Everyone is equal to him even though he is the boss."
- "I feel like I receive the best instruction and guidance from Dr. Kameen."
- "Dr. Kameen is one of the kindest people I have ever met."
About Jenn:
Jenn is a 1994 graduate of Chesapeake High School. Jenn began working with Dr. Kameen in 1999 as a administrative assistant and has done just about every job at Kameen. She started her career with ServePro working in residential and commercial restoration services.
- "My life is full of my boys: my husband and three sons. Even the dog is a boy."
- "With a family of boys I enjoy everything outdoors: hunting, camping, fishing, and boating."
What I love About Kameen Eye Associates:
- "I LOVE it here."
- "I LOVE my job."
- "I LOVE the people."
My Favorite Things About Dr. Kameen:
- "Dr. Kameen is funny, caring, sincere, and thoughtful."
- "We are a family here, and Dr. Kameen sets the tone for that environment."
About Kelly:
Kelly is a caring and talented technician. Her kindness radiates through every aspect of her role here, making sure our patients feel at home and at ease.
Kelly is a graduate of Ocean City High School in New Jersey. She has worked in Ophthalmology for 8 years, and her career arc has taken her from general to retina to refractive surgery specializations. Before joining the Kameen Eye Associates team, she worked with Dr. Wolf in Arnold, MD.
As a child, Kelly was a competitive gymnast, and her very first job, at age 11, was as a toaster girl. Today, she is the proud mother of her daughter, who is a straight-A student and athlete.
- Reading books
- Skiing and snowboarding, as well as playing at the beach
- Spending time with her daughter and husband
- Visiting out of town relatives
What I love About Kameen Eye Associates:
- "I love all the girls I work with here."
- "Seeing patients' lives be changed through corrected vision."
- "We care for each patient individually, because every person is unique."
My Favorite Things About Dr. Kameen:
- "He inspires me to be a better person at work and outside of work."
- "He's the most genuine doctor I've ever met. He truly cares about his patients."
- "He appreciates all the work we do around the office."


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Steve Glick, director of security and protective services at The College of Wooster, talking about security along Beall Avenue
"I can see progress already. The impact that positive reinforcement has had on the neighborhood is something that's very important I have started seeing people fix up their houses."
Former Wooster council member Mindy Cavin, talking about the city's program to encourage property maintenance
"(The museum) is to preserve the early history of Wayne County agriculture. We want to show the ingenuity of the farming items that were used before the invention of the tractor. Kids today have no idea how hard farming was once, and don't understand the inventive genius behind the handmade implements used on the early farmsteads."
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"These kids build up these relationships and it's so neat to see. The compassion that they show one another and they've never met."
Jenny Best, a third-grade teacher at Fairless. Her class and that of Cornerstone third-grade teacher Jenny Gaut have been pen pals and recently had a picnic together
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"With a program like this, we're able to tap into the minds of all learners. I think that is extremely important."
Michelle Hostetler, curriculum Director at Dalton, talking about the STEAM-based teaching
"Where else is this kind of activity for 10-year-olds? They can do things just as good as adults. And this group certainly proves that."
Elton Boyer, president of the Triple Nickel, talking about Norwayne students who, under the leadership of Norwayne Elementary School Principal David Dreher, raise the flags along the Avenue of Flags at Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery
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Since 2007, the U.S. Soccer Development Academy has strived to impact the Men's National Team – never has the program's influence been more felt than the four-day camp leading into Wednesday's match against rival Mexico. The Academy is represented both on the field, with two former players participating in the camp, and on the sidelines, where Klinsmann's staff has a wealth of experience at the elite youth level.
Here is a brief look at sixrepresentatives of the Development Academy who are currently in Philadelphia representing the MNT.
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Bill Hamid joined the D.C. United Academy program in 2007, and by the next year he had been named the best U-17/18 goalkeeper in the Development Academy's Mid-Atlantic Conference. In 2009, he was the top choice 'kepeer for the D.C. United team that finished second at Finals Week, earning a 20-4-5 record during the course of that season. Hamid was the first D.C. United player to sign a Homegrown player contract in 2009, and has become the club's top-choice goalkeeper.
Forward Juan Agudelo has already earned 10 caps with the Men's National Team, so it's easy to forget that he is still just 18 years old and debuted just nine months ago. When he stepped on the field in the 61st minute against South Africa on Nov. 17, 2010, he became the first product of the Development Academy program to appear for the MNT – 24 minutes later he became the first to score. The former New York Red Bulls Academy striker has scored five goals in Major League Soccer since signing a Homegrown contract in 2010.
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Head coach Jurgen Klinsmann will begin his tenure by working with a range of assistant coaches. For his first training camp, he has called on three Development Academy coaches to work alongside him.
Martin Vasquez recently took over as the head coach and Director of Soccer Operations at Real Salt Lake AZ in Casa Grande, Ariz. There he will oversee all things soccer at Grande Sports World, while leading the U-15/16 and U-17/18 teams affiliated with Real Salt Lake.
A U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer, Thomas Dooley played in two FIFA World Cups during his playing career before transitioning to coaching. He was part of the technical staff for the Pateadores U-17/18 team that captured the Finals Week championship in July in Milwaukee.
Another Hall of Fame inductee, legendary midfielder Tab Ramos appeared in three World Cups while earning 81 caps for the MNT, and in 1996 was the first player ever signed by Major League Soccer. After hanging up his boots, Ramos founded NJSA 04, a Development Academy club in Aberdeen, N.J. He serves as the president and executive director of the club, and also worked with the U-20 MNT this year.
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Yeah, so I leave for the UK on Tuesday. I've spent much of this week organising things and making sure I have everything I need. The trip, after nearly a year of waiting (It's roughly a year since I thought of applying to go overseas), is finally becoming real.
The first half of the week was spent dealing with Centrelink. Without going into specifics, they essentially cancelled my youth allowance payments that hadn't started yet because I hadn't reported my earnings 4 weeks prior to them telling me to. So that was a load of fun. Especially when one of them wanted to argue with me over whether it was a little odd or not. Apparently it's totally normal to expect things to be done before you request them. Anyway, that was all sorted and now I should be getting some tidy fortnightly payments. They'll certainly help.
Then it was a matter of working out what I'm taking. I spent half a day obsessing over whether I should take one bag or two on board with me. Singapore Air say that you can take a laptop on free of charge, separate from your carry-on luggage, so I assumed that covers the bag that it's in. Just to make sure, I rang them, and enjoyed a lively horn-based tune four times in a row before I got through. Surely it can't be that hard to have a variety of on-hold music? They seemed to agree with me that it covers the bag it's in, so we'll see how that goes… I sure hope it does because my backpack's full of magazines and books and papers. And extra clothes just in case my luggage goes missing (I really hope it doesn't 😦 )
The last three days were just wandering about the house, panicking every so often over some minor oversight that could be sorted in minutes, then watching DVDs instead of doing so. Well, someone had to watch all four seasons of A Bit of Fry & Laurie back-to-back, didn't they. They weren't going to watch themselves!
On Friday I went into the city to get some last-minute things, like padlocks and security ties, books (Adelaide seems to have totally sold out of Stephen Fry's novels in the last two weeks, very odd indeed) and so on. I decided it was a good idea to get a Travelex Cash Passport, as it might help to alleviate the foreign exchange fee that you get charged for using your Visa card overseas. For the minimum amount of £100, it cost me $240. I knew our dollar's pretty poor against the pound, but jeepers… It never really occurred to me just how bad it is. I also needed to get some actual cash out, so went and got £50 from the money exchange place. $119. Ouch. And all I got was a single paper note with a funny little man on it that's too wide for my wallet! I think I might need to buy a new wallet while I'm over there. One that fits ridiculously oversized novelty money.
As for today, I've spent most of it packing. I think I have most of what I need packed, just the last minute things like the Macbook, my speakers, and a few cables left to go in. I figured it's a better idea to pack a few days beforehand just in case something goes wrong. So far, nothing has.
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With Penn sitting in second place overall after two rotations at the Ivy Classic and coming to the vault, DiPaolo stuck a 9.725. Her routine capped a 48.400 team score for the Quakers in the event. This bested Penn's previous best team vault by 15-hundredths of a point and was the second-best team vault in program history. DiPaolo has now scored at least 9.725 on five of her seven vaults this season. She is currently ranked sixth amongst ECAC gymnasts on vault with a regional qualifying average of 9.725.
On bars, DiPaolo was part of a rotation that scored a season-best 48.700 overall, the third-highest mark in the history of the program. This was also the fifth time in seven meets this season that the Quakers have eclipsed the 48 point mark for the event. In this meet, they beat their previous season high on the event by two-tenths of a point.
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Early classification of multivariate temporal observations by extraction of interpretable shapelets
Transcriptome analysis
Early classification of time series is beneficial for biomedical informatics problems such including, but not limited to, disease change detection. Early classification can be of tremendous help by identifying the onset of a disease before it has time to fully take hold. In addition, extracting patterns from the original time series helps domain experts to gain insights into the classification results. This problem has been studied recently using time series segments called
The proposed early classification method for multivariate time series has been evaluated on eight gene expression datasets from viral infection and drug response studies in humans. In our experiments, the MSD method outperformed the baseline methods, achieving highly accurate classification by using as little as 40%-64% of the time series. The obtained results provide evidence that using conventional classification methods on short time series is not as accurate as using the proposed methods specialized for early classification.
For the early classification task, we proposed a method called Multivariate Shapelets Detection (MSD), which extracts patterns from all dimensions of the time series. We showed that the MSD method can classify the time series early by using as little as 40%-64% of the time series' length.
In medical informatics, the patient's clinical data records, such as heart rate, are collected over time and therefore represent a time series. If the data is collected from two groups of patients (for example, symptomatic and asymptomatic with respect to heart failure), the task of multivariate time series (MTS) classification is to learn temporal patterns to determine whether the patient belongs to the group of symptomatic patients.
Time series have been extensively analyzed in various fields, such as statistics, signal processing, and control theory. The focus of the research in these fields is on gaining a better understanding of the data-generating mechanism, the prediction of future values, or the optimal control of a system. From a statistical viewpoint, time series analysis is comprised of methods for analyzing time series data in order to extract meaningful statistics from the data. As a part of time series analysis, time series forecasting is aimed to use a model, e.g. AutoRegressive Moving Average (ARMA), to predict future values based on previously observed values
Although all of the aforementioned methods could be helpful in our study, and the experience of researchers and practitioners from other fields are extremely valuable, the focus of our research is to classify a new time series as early as possible by looking at and extracting patterns from past observations rather than predicting future values or analyzing a single time series' pattern.
In the data mining community, the time series classification problem has been studied in some detail as well. The predictive patterns framework has been introduced to directly mine a compact set of highly predictive patterns
A method that extracts all meta-features from a multivariate time series was proposed by Kadous et al.
In the context of classification of unknown time series (time series with an unknown label), models utilize the whole time series with the unknown label to predict it based on the information learned from training data. In an early classification context, the objective is to provide patient-specific classification of unknown time series as early as possible. Therefore, instead of utilizing the whole time series, our MSD method looks into a portion (current stream) of the unknown time series and determines whether it is able to predict the label of the whole time series without looking at the rest of the time series. If MSD is able to predict at the time point which is at the end of the current stream, the label is predicted. Otherwise, MSD requires more data for the unknown time series and looks at a larger segment, and does so until it is able to predict the label of the time series.
For early classification, a new method called
In this study, we generalize the definition of local shapelets to a multivariate context and accordingly propose a method for early classification of multivariate time series. The proposed method is called
In particular, we propose the following extensions to the existing univariate shapelet method:
• Extending the concept of univariate shapelets to multivariate shapelets, which are multidimensional subsequences with a distance threshold along each dimension.
• Proposing use of information gain-based distance threshold.
• Proposing use of weighted information-gain based utility score of a shapelet. A theorem is provided to show that the weighted information gain incorporates the earliness and assigns high utility score to the shapelet that appears earlier given the same accuracy performance.
The mathematical definition of the problem is presented in the Definitions section. The method for multivariate time series classification is described in the Methods section. Datasets are described in the Dataset and data processing section. In the Results and discussion section, the experimental results are presented. Finally, future work and concluding remarks are discussed in the Conclusion section.
A time series
For a given time series
Figure 1
Illustration of computing the distance between a subsequence
Illustration of computing the distance between a subsequence
A shapelet is defined as
• The distance
• The distance threshold
Figure 2
Illustration of the distance threshold
Illustration of the distance threshold. The distance threshold is chosen such that it divides the dataset into two separate groups (red and blue groups). It is clear that there is no unique best threshold. Any threshold between 10 and 14 or between 16 and 21 has only either one false negative or one false positive. However, there is no perfect threshold that separates the datasets into two pure groups.
In another way, the distance threshold
The distance between a shapelet
Figure 3
Illustration of a 3-dimensional shapelet
Illustration of a 3-dimensional shapelet. This shows an example of a 3-dimensional time series (red, green and blue lines) of length 15. An example of an extracted 3-dimensional shapelet of length 4 is illustrated in the right part of the figure. The shapelet is extracted from the time series from position 6 to position 9.
The distance between an
The distance threshold Δ = [
In this section we first describe a recently proposed method for early classification of univariate time series
Modifications of univariate shapelet for early time series classification
Algorithm 1: UnivariateShapeletsDetection
Input: A training dataset D of M univariate time series;
Output: A list of univariate shapelets
1. for
2. for
3. for
9. return
The method iterates over the time series in the dataset
The functions that compute the distance threshold and utility score are explained in the following sections. We describe how to prune the shapelets and use them for early classification in the Shapelet Pruning and Classification sections, respectively.
Distance threshold method
The Chebyshev's inequality method is proposed for computing the distance threshold
Additional file 1
Supplementary document. The supplementary document (ECMTS-Supp.pdf) contains additional analysis of the obtained results. These details are omitted for lack of space but are consistent with the findings reported here.
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The basic idea is to find the shapelet's distance threshold that maximizes the information gain and divides the dataset into two groups, target and non-target time series
First, the entropy of the dataset is computed as
Figure 4
Candidate distance threshold
Candidate distance threshold. The distance threshold
Utility score method
The set of shapelets extracted from the dataset might be exceedingly large. Therefore, it is important to rank the shapelets in order to select a small subset of the shapelets for classification. For this reason, each shapelet has to be assigned a score that takes into consideration earliness as well as discrimination among classes.
The weighted
The utility score of a shapelet should incorporate the earliness and the distinctiveness properties. First, we define the earliness
1. Compute the distance between the shapelet
2. Split the dataset
3. For each time series
4. Compute
5. Compute the weighted information gain using Equation 4.
The following theorem proves that the weighted information gain incorporates the earliness and assigns high utility score to the shapelet that has better earliness given the same accuracy performance.
Theorem: If
Therefore, the weighted information gain gives high scores to the shapelets that come early in the time series.
Shapelet pruning
To select a subset of the shapelets for classification, the shapelets are sorted in descending order using their utility scores. In this manuscript, two methods have been used to select a subset of the shapelets.
The first method iterates over the shapelets starting from the highest ranked shapelet. We select the shapelet and remove all training examples that are covered by that shapelet. The shapelet
The second method simply involves keeping the top
If the length of the shortest shapelets extracted by Algorithm 1 is
Multivariate shapelets detection for ECMTS
In a dataset of
We follow the same procedures as in the univariate case. Namely, for each
Equation 5 requires all
The algorithm for extracting the multivariate shapelets from a dataset is similar to Algorithm 1. The algorithm iterates over each time series and extracts all multivariate shapelets. For each candidate multivariate shapelet, it computes the distances with every time series. Note that each distance is a vector of length
Distance threshold method
The multivariate information gain (Additional file
Utility score method
The steps to adapt the utility scores defined on univariate time series are similar to the steps we have followed to adapt the distance threshold method.
After computing the score for each shapelet, the method sorts them in descending order according to their utility scores and then selects a subset of shapelets as explained in the Shapelet Pruning section. The classification process is similar to the process described in the Classification section, taking Equation 6 into consideration when computing the distance between the shapelet and the current stream of the query time series.
Dataset and data processing
Viral challenge datasets
We used two datasets for blood gene expression from human viral studies with influenza A (H3N2) and live rhinovirus (HRV) to distinguish individuals with symptomatic acute respiratory infections from uninfected individuals
H3N2 dataset: A healthy volunteer intranasal challenge with H3N2 was performed in 17 subjects. Of those subjects, 9 became symptomatic and 8 remained asymptomatic. Blood samples were taken from each subject at 16 time points. Some subjects have missed certain measurements at time points 1,5,6 and/or 7. Hence, the gene expression values were measured on average 14-16 times for each subject. 30 genes were identified, in ranked order, as contributing to respiratory infection
HRV dataset: A healthy volunteer intranasal challenge with HRV was performed in 20 subjects. Of those subjects, 10 became symptomatic and 10 remained asymptomatic. Blood samples were taken from each subject at 14 time points. We ignored time stamps 8-11 because the majority of the subjects missed the measurements at those time points. Thus, the gene expression values were measured on average 6-10 times for each subject. 30 genes were identified, in ranked order, as contributing to respiratory infection
Drug response dataset
Another clinical dataset was generated for studying the changes in cellular functions in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients in response to drug therapy with IFN
Identification of triplets of genes for a Bayes classifier of time series expression data of multiple sclerosis patients' response to the drug has been performed
A discriminative hidden Markov model has been developed and applied to the MS dataset to reveal the genes that are associated with the good or bad responders to the therapy
A mixture of hidden Markov models has been developed to identify the genes that are associated with the patient response to the treatment
Environment setup and evaluation measure
In all experiments we set
In the results, we report the median of the accuracy, the coverage (the percentage of the time series that are covered by the method), and the earliness (the fraction of the time series length used for classification). Note that the earliness varied from test example to another. In other words, each test example could be classified at different time point, so that our method is patient-specific and there is no fixed length of the time series used for classification.
Because there is an imbalance in the drug response dataset, the accuracy (
Since the objective of the paper is to provide a method for early classification, we propose an evaluation measure that incorporates both the earliness (
where smaller values of
Results and discussion
Evaluation of MSD method
First, we show the effectiveness of the MSD method on a single patient from the H3N2 dataset. In Figure
Figure 5
Illustration of the effectiveness of the MSD method on a case from H3N2 dataset
Illustration of the effectiveness of the MSD method on a case from H3N2 dataset. The effectiveness of the MSD method is illustrated on a single patient from H3N2. In the top panel, a 2-dimensional H3N2 asymptomatic test subject (genes RSAD2 and IFI44L observed at 15 time steps) has been correctly classified by MSD method at the 5
Next, the MSD method was evaluated on the viral and drug response datasets using all genes defined by the dataset. In Table
From Table
For the viral infection dataset, a list of 23 genes associated with the viral infection sorted by their relevance to the infection diagnosis is provided in a recently published study
Figure 6
Performance of MSD method on the H3N2 dataset using different numbers of top genes
Performance of MSD method on the H3N2 dataset using different numbers of top genes. This figure illustrates the performance of the MSD method on the H3N2 dataset using different numbers of top genes from the provided ranked list
For the drug response dataset, no ranked list of genes is provided in previous publications. In 4 out of the 6 drug response datasets the number of the genes is small, therefore, on these datasets, we ran our MSD method on all combinations of genes. The number of genes used for each dataset to achieve the highest accuracy is provided in Table
Since our method achieved high accuracy using a small number of genes (in some cases only one gene), we ran the univariate method
Baseline classifier for early classification
We compared the MSD method with a random classifier to evaluate MSD by comparison. The results of the random classifier are shown in Table
In addition, we compared MSD to the baseline classical classifier, which uses shorter time series. Recent research strongly suggested that the 1-nearest neighbor (1NN) method with Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is exceptionally difficult to beat
We constructed 2 datasets out of H3N2, which we call 1NN(70) and 1NN(60). We also constructed 2 datasets out of the HRV dataset, which we call 1NN(50) and 1NN(40). The 1NN(
Figure 7
Comparison of the MSD method to the baseline classifier
Comparison of the MSD method to the baseline classifier. The performance of 1NN with DTW using different time series length and MSD on the viral infection datasets. The left (right) group shows accuracy of the classifiers on H3N2 (HRV) dataset, respectively. The x-axis within a group is ordered by the fraction of the time series, shown in parenthesis. The results provide evidence that the MSD method is more accurate than 1NN.
On the HRV dataset (right group), the accuracy of 1NN using 50% of the time series' length (gray bar) is worse than our early classification method MSD (yellow bar), and MSD used a smaller fraction of time series on average. For instance, 1NN achieved 55% accuracy on 1NN(50) dataset (
Therefore, for the early classification task, using conventional classification methods on shorter time series is not as accurate as using methods specialized for early classification, such as our proposed method.
Run-time analysis
In Table
For the early classification task, we proposed a method called Multivariate Shapelets Detection (MSD). It extracts patterns from all dimensions of the time series. In addition, we proposed using of information gain-based distance threshold and weighted information-gain based utility score of a shapelet. The weighted information gain incorporates the earliness and assigns high utility score to the shapelet that appears earlier. In order to adhere to the limitations of clinical settings (in which only a small pre-specified number of genes is provided in shorter time series), datasets comprised of fairly short time series were used in reported experiments. However, our method is applicable to any domain. We showed that MSD can classify the time series early by using as little as 40%-64% of the time series' length. We compared MSD to a baseline classifier and showed that using the method proposed for early classification is more accurate than using conventional methods.
The run time of the MSD method grows exponentially with the number of examples and the length of the time series which limits the applicability of the proposed approach to datasets with smaller number of data instances and/or temporal observations. In practice, this is not a limitation for early classification in many health informatics applications (e.g. sepsis) since decisions typically have to be made very early by learning from a small number of patients. However, in future work, we will speed up the run time of the method by incorporating parallelism in the algorithm.
We are working to improve MSD by allowing the components of the multivariate time series shapelet to have different starting positions. Since the number of candidate shapelets grows exponentially, the concept of closed shapelets, and maximal closed shapelets can be introduced to pruning redundant shapelets that are supersets of smaller shapelets. Another extension to our work is to let the horizon between the time stamps in the subjects vary.
Competing interests
Both authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Author's contributions
MG designed the algorithms, implemented software, carried out the analysis, and drafted the manuscript. ZO inspired the overall work, provided advice, and revised the final manuscript. Both authors read and approved the final manuscript.
We thank everyone in Prof. Obradovic's laboratory for valuable discussions. Special thanks to the reviewers for their valuable suggestions that helped improving presentation and characterizing the proposed method, and to Dušan Ramljak for reviewing the initial draft of the paper.
This work was funded, in part, by DARPA grant [DARPA-N66001-11-1-4183] negotiated by SSC Pacific grant; the US National Foundation of Science [NSF-CNS-0958854]; and the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education.
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On Lieberman's computer screen, tiny red rectangles move back and forth along tiny streets and clog tiny intersections. They speed up and slow down, change lanes, cut one another off and run red lights with a reasonably realistic mix of lawful and unlawful behavior. Modelers can rearrange streets and intersections at will, adding new lanes or turn bays and experimenting with different signal-timing strategies. They can also adjust the psychology of the imaginary drivers, changing their aggressiveness, for example, in making a left turn in the face of oncoming traffic.
Simply plugging in average values is not enough, they find. When they attempt to simulate the natural variation of real-world traffic (programming in a slow or unresponsive driver, for instance), it has a sharp effect on the simulations - usually slashing the capacity of a street or intersection. Planners, Lieberman said, need to prepare their systems for such drivers, and, he added, ''There's an old saying: 'There's a clunker in every queue.' ''
More important, Lieberman's models vividly demonstrate the futility of using the same strategies for ordinary traffic and for congestion. Schwartz, too, had pointed out that progressively staggered lights only impede progress when the flow breaks down near an intersection like Herald Square. Most traffic signals in New York City and the rest of the country work the same way they have worked for 50 years: the timing is built on some idea of the average demand on an intersection, and then it runs without change, cycle after cycle, day and night, oblivious to changing circumstances. ''It works fine at 2 A.M.,'' Lieberman said, ''but it's actually counterproductive at 5 P.M.''
EVERY SO OFTEN, workers on duty in the control room maintained by the City of Los Angeles see something unexpected on their computer screens - sudden pockets of congestion near the freeways. The freeways themselves are invisible to them. Even though they have an early version of the technology now making its way toward other American cities, their screens have no way of getting the information produced by their State of California counterparts three blocks away. Electronic sensors feed the city computer detailed, up-to-the-minute data about the flow. The computer knows how fast the cars are moving and how closely they are packed. The screen can zoom in on a troublesome intersection or back away to show hundreds of traffic-filled acres. Every so often, the flow starts to break down on streets suspiciously near a freeway - and then, even though no freeway problems have yet been reported, the city experts know they will soon be hearing from their State of California counterparts.
The obvious next step, linking the state and city computers in the interests of quicker communication, will be just the easy part of a pilot project, now getting under way, which is meant to serve as a model for the future of traffic control. When the system can assess conditions on both streets and freeways, and when it can use that information freely to change the timing of signals, it should be able to push and prod the flow of traffic at will.
''We're kind of at a takeoff point right now,'' said Rowe, the head of Los Angeles's transportation system. His computers have already taken over the timing of traffic lights at several dozen key intersections. When traffic begins building up on one approach or another, for example, his computers can lengthen the appropriate green lights accordingly. That in itself improves performance considerably. ''The city being a dynamic place, signals are running most of the time at a not-optimum setting,'' he said.
In the future, signals should get cleverer. Planners want their computers to take a global view of traffic buildups. That might mean changing the flow of key thoroughfares when an accident slows a nearby freeway, for example. The best handling of a particular intersection may not serve the system as a whole; in some situations, the computers will certainly sacrifice the interests of some drivers for the greater good.
Deputy Commissioner Schwartz's forthcoming plan for Manhattan (which he hopes to get started in 1989 or 1990) takes that principle to a new extreme. When the computer decides that the midtown core is getting congested, it will initiate a set of procedures designed to frustrate - delicately, Schwartz hopes - the flow of cars on the way into the center. A red light for traffic heading down Fifth Avenue at 72d Street, for example, might lengthen from 40 seconds to 40 1/2. At 71st Street, the red signal stretches to 41 seconds, and so on - each half second delay creating an electronic friction to slow down the incoming cars.
The New York plan has an analogue on the California freeways. Under a system known as ramp metering, cars are forced to pause at a red light before they enter, holding down the number of cars on the freeway. The psychological difficulties are similar. ''It's still a political hot potato in many jurisdictions,'' said David K. Witheford of the Transportation Research Board, an arm of the National Research Council in Washington. ''When you meter somebody, you're penalizing an individual who may not see the community benefit.''