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Frequently Asked Questions about StartupYard
What is StartupYard?
StartupYard, based in beautiful Prague, is Central Europe's leading seed accelerator for technology startups. Founded in 2011, we have accelerated 58 startups from 20+ countries, and over half of our alumni have been either funded, or acquired within 2 years.
StartupYard alumni include a broad range of successful and award-winning tech startups including BrandEmbassy, Gjirafa.com, TeskaLabs, NeuronSoundware, Rossum.ai, BudgetBakers, Cryptelo, and SteelMountain, among many others. Our alumni now collectively employ hundreds of people, across the world, and have created 100s of millions of Euros in shareholder value.
What are we looking for?
StartupYard invests in and accelerates "Deep Tech" startups that are solving a unique and difficult technology problem, or tackling an old problem in a unique and challenging way, with the possibility of scaling globally. Startups that apply should be able to benefit from intensive mentoring from some of the tech industry's best minds.
What do we offer?
Program: StartupYard is a 3 month, in-person mentorship based program for early to seed-stage companies, that leverages deep corporate partnerships with telcos, banks, tech companies, and many others, to help a high tech company develop its business with access to a top-tier network.
Funding: Startups may be offered €30,000 in initial seed funding from StartupYard if they need it, and we operate a follow-on fund for startups that perform well during and after the program. This is in addition to over €1 Million worth of perks offered through the exclusive GAN (Global Accelerator Network) partner program, including free access to professional services like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Bizpark+.
Network: More important than money, our startups gain access to our extensive network of mentors, investors, and advisors from Central Europe's leading firms in Technology, Finance, Telco, Software, and Retail. Among our top mentors are C-level executives from KB- Bank, Vodafone, Accenture, KPMG, Seznam, Google, Microsoft, E.ON, and many more.
Can I apply even if I don't have a product yet?
Yes you can. We are interested in people who have the capability and the ambition to deliver and build global solutions.
What type of commitment do you require?
StartupYard's official program lasts 3 months, during which time the core team of your startup will be resident in Prague. We look for startups that will benefit most from cooperation with StartupYard, so ongoing support and assistance should become a natural extension of our relationship over time.
StartupYard is a mentor-driven accelerator. Deep and valuable mentorship can only happen in person, on an intensive day-by-day basis over a period of time. An in person commitment is essential to this process.
What do you mean by mentor driven?
Our program revolves around the mentors. During the first month, you will go through intense mentoring sessions with industry experts from many different businesses, including a host of c-level executives from leading tech companies, as well as successful business founders. You'll then follow up continuously with those mentors who are best placed to help you expand your network, and make connections you need going forward.
Will we receive training?
It depends what you mean by training. We're not a school, and we won't teach you how to code, but we organize extensive workshops and on-to-one sessions with experts on specific topics like financial projections, investments, growth hacking, media training, pitching, etc.
Do I have to pay to participate?
No. Participation in StartupYard is free of charge. We take a 5% stake in any company that participates in the program.
Do you invest in start-ups?
Teams that are selected can receive, if they want, a €30,000 investment in exchange for 5% of equity of the start-up. We also offer follow-on funds to our best performing startups.
I'm a single founder. Can I still apply?
In rare cases, we select solo founders. However, the vast majority of our startups have a founding team. A founding team is not only important for you as a company, but it is vital for the StartupYard program, which is far too demanding for a typical single founder alone.
We don't have any programming skills in our team. Can we still apply?
Non-technical teams can apply to StartupYard, and will have to quickly find a way to build their product.
I'm not located in Prague. Do I have to be physically present on-site?
Yes, for 3 months you will have to be with us in our great open-space in Node5.
Can I apply even if I am not from Europe?
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We have already raised money from friends/family or business angels. Can we still apply?
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It is happening! Please check the MGA Meetup post below for details :)
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Sweet! Makes sense.
MIT Tournament Sun, Oct 23
The MIT Go Club is hosting an up to 100 person tournament on Oct 23 which you can sign up for on the MGA meetup:
It seems large enough that it is worth telling people about outside MGA, but unsure where to advertise it … so putting it here for now, haha.
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Asking because it looks like I need an invite and can't just sign up through that link!
RE: Clocks!
Trying to finalize clock order this week. I'm close to the limit for what I am able to front dollar-wise right now - but if your club wants 20+ clocks, can send me ($20 x #clocks) asap, and lets me know by Friday 9/16 - I can add you to order. Shipping from Boston to you will be an additional cost (estimating ~$60 to ship 20 - 30 clocks inside US through USPS, but might be able to get better deal).
MGA has been having a discussion/battle over which clock for ~year and the thread Nate links to is a good summary. I suspect in 6 months we'll have some strong feelings one way or another about the LEAP clock, haha.


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The Arctic as a Venue for U.S. and Asian Cooperation with Russia
Organized by RAND Corporation 4. August 2016
Tensions between Russia and the U.S. have deepened since the annexation of Crimea in 2014. The Arctic, however, has remained a relative bright spot for cooperation between the two states.
The Arctic Council provides a forum for bilateral and broader multilateral dialogue between Russia and the West on issues such as search and rescue coordination, oil spill prevention, and black carbon mitigation. At the same time, as U.S. and E.U. sanctions and the drop in the price of oil have continued to take their toll on the Russian energy sector, Russia has turned towards East Asian states, particularly China and South Korea, for financing and infrastructure.
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Discussion in 'Politics' started by gwb-trading, Jul 5, 2012.
Zimmerman's bail set at $1M in Trayvon Martin case
If he didn't already spend all his defense donations he should be able to meet the $100k needed to make bail.
When's that "stand your ground" hearing supposed to take place?
Clearly a violation of his 8th Ammendment rights, especially considering a electronic monitoring/tracking device prevent's any possibility of him fleeing. Obviously the corrupt judge is caving to the media.
I'm sure lying to the court about finances and possibly plotting to flee the country had nothing to do with it
If there was any evidence of substance about him plotting to flee he would be held without any bail at all. Another made up story with zero evidence to back it up. "Possibly" only means something if you're bias, which the judge obviously is.
Wondering that myself. Maybe it is up to his defense attorney to file a motion for it. He will probably file a motion for dismisal based on the SYG law, and it will more than likely be denied and the trial will start.
Prosecutors Say Zimmerman Hid Second Passport, Lied About Money
In a packed Florida courtroom in April, George Zimmermanâs defense lawyer surrendered his clientâs passportâa gesture to show that Zimmerman would not attempt to flee the country if he were released on bond.
It now appears that Zimmerman had another passport he didnât hand over.
According to startling new disclosures by prosecutors in the case , the state attorneyâs office says Zimmerman failed to give the court another valid American passport he had obtained in 2004.
Prosecutors said Zimmerman got his second passport after claiming heâd lost his original one, which expired at the end of May 2012. It was that original passport which he turned over to the court; the second passport, which is valid until 2014, remained in his possession.
Maybe it was just a coincidence Zimmermen gave the court his passport that expired in May 2012 and kept his passport that expired in 2014
"Prosecutors had filed a motion today to revoke his bond, accusing Zimmerman of "deceiving" the court about his finances, even going so far as to discuss it in code words with his wife, and his possession of a second passport, which he apparently acquired two weeks after the shooting."
"In the conversations, prosecutors said, Zimmerman and his wife also cryptically talk about his second passport in a safety deposit box they shared.
Although one of his passports was due to expire in May, prosecutors said today, Zimmerman applied for a second passport, informing the State Department that the original had been lost or stolen."
Why not just drop all charges?
The guy clearly acted in self defense and removed a violent, drug using, criminal off the streets.
Just think of all the future tax dollars that Zimmerman saved by sparing us the burden of putting Martin through the penal system.
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The announcement of the OpenSocial project is really exciting, so I was really glad to drag Patrick away from his work to take some time to chat with me about it.
Patrick is easy to talk too, and I think that comes across in the interview itself. There has been a lot of pre-release speculation on what OpenSocial really is, and the press has put out wildly different ideas over the last couple of weeks. Patrick lays out the facts of the announcement.
He covers a lot, including:
- What has actually been released
- What OpenSocial isn't
- Details on the various APIs:
- People Data API: You can get access to owners and viewers, and their friends
- Persistence Data API: Store simple hash table data for the users using your application
- Activities Data API: Like the Facebook News feed
- What it means to be an OpenSocial "container"
- Fun social apps that Patrick has seen developed by the trusted testers
You can download the episode directly, or subscribe to the show (click here for iTunes one-click subscribe).
Also, check out video from the Campfire One event and interviews with a subset of the partners involved in the OpenSocial launch. Having a large number of application developers and container vendors show what they have already done gives you a glimpse to the future.
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We type of expect top-tier phones to include Qualcomm silicon at this stage, and thus Huawei does not disappoint. The Nexus 6P is powered using a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor clocked at 2GHz, and that is backed by 3GB of RAM. Additionally has another chip for tracking your movement along with other data. When paired with Android 6.0, you won't notice any sluggishness coming from these chips. Netflix streaming, YouTube clips, video games - none of the made the phone struggle or lag. Actually, we expect this is among the fastest Android phones We've ever played with. It just works. Oh, and you do not have to worry about overheating. The Qualcomm SD810 got some flack earlier for causing the Sony Xperia Z3+ to overheat, thus affecting its performance, however the Nexus 6P only gets averagely warm in operation, likely because of the device's scale and thickness lending a helping hand.
One last thing when one thinks of specs : the Nexus 6P has all of the usual connectivity features, including GPS with Glonass, Bluetooth 4.2, dual-band 802. 11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct, NFC. So, whether you are looking to make use of contactless payment readers or track a run, the Nexus 6P has got you covered. With Qualcomm's chips handling everything, it is silky smooth. Still, if you need to be extra sure the Nexus 6P will power through all the things you can throw at it, splurge and obtain the pricier variant with 128GB of storage. It'll cost you £579, whereas the 32GB base model is £449. (Also, go Huawei for giving the an enormous middle finger to 16GB base model phones. It is 2015, people. Subsequent step up ought to be standard by now.
Nexus 6P review: Battery
Let us point out battery. The 6P has an embedded 3,450mAh battery, and although that sounds great, it is so-so in real life for any large-scale phone. if you are a power user like us, you will need to charge your phone nightly. Otherwise, you will find yourself with 15 per cent battery from the next day. So, expect about one-and-a-half days of normal use, and that is fine although not best-in-class at this size. That giant display is unquestionably a juice guzzler.
Thankfully, though, Android 6.0 has some battery-saving features that you may dig into should battery become a problem for you personally. You should use App Standby to pack up apps you do not actually need. There is also Doze, which basically puts everything on pause, except basic core functions for example SMS and telephone calls, after which there is fast-charging, which gets you against zero to 100 per cent inside an hour.
Both the Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X also feature a USB Type-C connector. It is phasing out micro-USB and means your charging cables are reversible, so it does not make a difference what side you are jamming the cable straight into the port. Also, on some devices, the USB-C port enables for fast USB 3. 0 data transfer and video output. Unfortunately, neither the Nexus 6P or Nexus 5X support that last bit.
The USB Type-C implementation here remains great though, because you may also apply it to charge another phone via the 6P, so long as you've all of the necessary cables along with you. Aside from everything, we actually wish Huawei would have included wireless charging. This can be a feature that may appear gimmicky but is really a dream in real-use situations. Oh well.


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Top 10 Things To Know About The Snapchat IPO
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Snapchat's IPO: The 10 Things You Must Know
Snapchat's parent company, Snap, has filed for its much-anticipated IPO, and with the Snapchat IPO filing comes new information on Snapchat's users, revenue, valuation, expectations, and company structure. Snap has lofty expectations, but whether or not it's equipped to meet its valuation and capital raising goals amid slowing growth and increasing competition from Instagram remains to be seen.
Here are the top 10 things to know about the Snapchat IPO and what it means for the app, for Snap as a "camera company," and for advertising on Snapchat.
1. Snap is looking to raise $3 billion with this IPO, bringing valuation to over $20 billion.
Snap's long been a company of lofty goals, and its IPO is no exception. It's targeting the $3 billion mark for its IPO, which will push its total valuation over $20 billion. Snapchat's enjoyed meteoric success, but it isn't without pitfalls. It isn't yet a profitable company and lately it's encountered growth pitfalls that may stand in the way of that $3 billion goal.
2. Snapchat brought in $404.5 million in revenue in 2016, up from $58.7 million in 2015.
Snap's revenue growth from 2015 to 2016 was tremendous, increasing from $58.7 million in 2015 to $404.5 million in 2016. Much of that is due to a boom in advertising in Snapchat brought about by new features on the platform, and ads account for the vast majority of Snap's total revenue.For context, it's worth noting that impressive though Snapchat's growth in revenue may be, Instagram sold $2 billion worth of ads last year.
3. That said, it lost $514.6 million in 2016.
Snap isn't profitable now, and, by its own admission, might never be profitable. There's a line in the S-1 filing that reads, "We have incurred operating losses in the past, expect to incur operating losses in the future, and may never achieve or maintain profitability."
Granted, we know part of why Snapchat posts major losses: Servers.
For the most part, Snap competitors like Facebook and Twitter own their own servers while Snapchat rents its server space—a deeply costly endeavor. Instagram was in the same boat before Facebook bought it in 2012.
4. We don't know what share prices are going to be, but they're probably going to be high.
And that could be a big problem.
We've already established that Snap's looking to raise big money (no whammies), but given that it's not profitable, that could be a big ask with a big share price to match. Fortune used the price-to-sales metric to compare the stock valuation of Snapchat (based on an estimated $25 billion valuation) to other major tech IPOs and found that Snapchat came in way, way higher than the rest. Snap comes in at 61.7 p/s compared to the Facebook's 12.6 and Twitter's mere 4.2.
$3 billion is a lot to look for from a company that isn't a profitable. That being said, Snapchat does have a deeply engaged base and an impressive story of overall growth.
5. Snapchat users are super engaged.
Per Snap's first prospectus released yesterday, over 2.5 billion Snaps are sent from the app every day. Snapchat boasts, on average, 158 million daily active users, 25% of whom post to their Story every day. And on average, those daily active users visit the app more than 18 times per day
6. But Instagram poses a major threat to Snapchat's engagement, growth, & continued success.
Following the release of Instagram Stories (which closely mimic Snapchat Stories — a major pillar of the Snapchat experience), engagement is way down on Snapchat. According to reports from Techcrunch, view counts on Snapchat Stories are down somewhere between 15-40% following the introduction and proliferation of Instagram Stories. This drop in engagement comes at a profoundly inopportune time, too. If Instagram continues to sway users to its own version of Stories, Snapchat's going to have a hard time clawing its way to profitability.
7. Snap's IPO is shaping up to be a little less Facebook and a little more Twitter.
If you had to choose between the two, you want to be Facebook. But from posting comparatively modest revenues and significant losses to relatively slight user bases, Snap's IPO is less like Facebook's and more like Twitter's. Facebook was already bringing in $1 billion in profit by the time it filed for its IPO, had 483 million daily active users (to Snapchat's 158 million) and reported revenue of $3.7 billion in the year prior to its IPO, compared to Snapchat's paltry $404 million.
8. Snap's IPO comes relatively early in the company's history.
Though it's numbers are nowhere near Facebook-level proportions, it's worth nothing that Snap's IPO is coming much earlier than Facebook's. Facebook had been around for 8 years before it filed for its IPO, but Snap has only been around for five.
9. The majority decision-making and voting power will remain with the co-founders.
The shares Snap is selling are Class A common stock, which hold no voting power. Instead, control will remain with CEO Evan Spiegel and co-founder Bobby Murphy. Between them, they hold roughly 89% of Snap's voting power.
10. Though Snapchat functions like a social network, Snap considers itself a "camera company."
We often compare Snapchat to social networks like Twitter and Facebook, Snap doesn't necessarily see itself that way. It sees itself as "a camera company." Spectacles represented Snap's first foray into hardware, but it may not be the last, and Snap seems to have big plans for Spectacles in the future. Viewing Snap as a camera company instead of an app and social platform fundamentally reframes the way that we think about it. Instead of a social ecosystem, it becomes a perspective tool, and that opens it open to a wealth of opportunities, provided Snap's positioned to capitalize on them.
Also See Our Posts On:
The Top 10 Snapchat Statistics Marketers Should Know
See How Snapchat Demographics & User Stats Changed In 2016 [Infographic]
Instagram Stories vs. Snapchat: Top Influencers Weigh In On Their Favorite
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The French Rhone Alps offer miles of exciting trails and off-road mountain biking terrain for mountain bike enthusiasts. Whether you're looking for a family biking adventure or a thrilling extreme sports mountain bike experience you'll find it in the French Alps. In the winter cable cars carry skiers up into the mountains, and in the summer mountain bikers can hitch a lift to the top and choose from planned routes back down that are graded from beginner to expert and include natural and manmade challenges to tackle along the way. Some of the best centres for mountain biking in the region are Pra-Loup bike park, Tignes bike park, Les Arcs, Chatel bike park and Les Gets bike park.


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What about you? Do books get spoiled for you often? Or do you spoil books for others?
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What about you? Do books get spoiled for you often? Or do you spoil books for others?
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so true!!ReplyDelete
I especially hate when a reviewer does it. they should know better!Replies
I know right! I admit, it can be challenging to write some reviews without spoilers, especially if you really want to discuss a major point in the book - but at least let everyone know that there are spoilers! Thanks for stopping by :)Delete
Oh, I do try not to insert spoilers in my reviews (or my rants); I don't even like letting my eyes accidentally glimpse the last page or the last line in a book I'm reading, for fear of spoiling it. I glance to see how many pages there are, and quickly return...lolReplyDelete
Here's MY MUSING MONDAYS POST
It's a bit of an art sometimes not to have spoilers in a review. I don't mind as long as the reviewer indicates there's spoilers then I can choose to read or not. Here's my MM: http://daystarz.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/747/ReplyDelete
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Egypt's not doing so hot.
Earlier in July, Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected leader in over half a century, was subjected to a military coup. Since then, the military has ruled as an authoritarian regime characterized by massacres of protestors, arrests of pro-Morsi supporters and a ban on Morsi's political party, the Muslim Brotherhood. However, despite the military's volatile and condemnable behavior, one thing remains resolute: the U.S.'s seemingly unconditional $1.5 billion of aid, 85% of which is allocated to the military.
There is a reason that the Obama administration has not yet labeled the events in Egypt as a military coup. Section 7008 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2012 prohibits foreign assistance to a country whose head of government was deposed by a military coup or decree. If Morsi's ousting was to be labeled a military coup by the administration, all aid that falls under the parameters of Section 7008 would have to cease immediately. The administration cannot afford to do this for fear of losing its aid-based leverage.
Leverage is one of the advantages that comes with foreign assistance to Egypt. Aid can always be suspended or cut off to incentivize progress towards establishing democratic institutions and addressing humanitarian issues; however, this leverage has yet to be utilized despite threats to those two very things. From a severe crackdown on NGOs to a military coup and a massacre of civilians, suspending aid has been delayed repeatedly for more dire occasions. What develops is a boy-who-cried-wolf scenario: the repeated threats to suspend aid are losing credibility and, with it, the U.S.'s ability to influence developments in Egypt.
Here lies the primary weakness in the administration's policy towards Egypt. Unconditional support of what is essentially an autocratic military dictator in General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has not, and will not, help Egypt move towards consolidated democracy. The U.S. must progress towards incentivized aid and revert less to blind funding. The administration failed to procure political support for the Middle East and North Africa Incentive Fund, which was perhaps the best chance of establishing incentivized aid this past fiscal year. Thus, the funding in Egypt is left largely up to congressional discretion.
In 1978, the U.S. pledged annual aid to both Israel and Egypt as part of the peace treaty between the two historically warring nations. But it begs the question: are those same motives for aid still relevant? If the U.S. were to cut aid to Egypt, would the Egyptian government throw out the peace treaty with Israel and reignite a thirty-year old conflict? It seems unlikely, and therefore the foreign assistance to Egypt, if leverage remains unexploited, becomes both antiquated and impracticable.
For the administration to take full advantage, military aid should be suspended immediately (with exception to operations in the Sinai Peninsula) and a message must be sent to the interim government that aid will be restored when the political roadmap established by the military is achieved. A new constitution and legitimate elections must precede further aid to Egypt in order to abide by the Consolidated Appropriations Act and to set the standard for countries enduring similar circumstances across the region.


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In this small shop you will find : special wrapping paper, ribbons, notebooks, hand made writing paper, decorations. Thirty-some carousels of greeting cards. On the top floor you will find an extensive collection of black and white cards.
An unusual combination of dry-cleaner and shop where special greeting cards (and lots more) are sold. The dry-cleaner offers environmentally friendly quality (for 10 years now). Clients are enthusiastic over the card assortment and the owner enjoys visiting conventions and publishers seeking original cards.
Relaxed, peaceful music by the Millers or baroque music to pick out a card by.
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Meet Doctor Morales
Senior Medical Advisor
Dr. Oscar G. Morales is the Senior Medical Advisor for Achieve TMS East. He is also the founder (2009) and Medical Director of the McLean Hospital TMS Service, the first in the Harvard Medical School and Partners Healthcare system dedicated to psychiatric treatments and investigation. He is responsible for all TMS activities including clinical, training, and current investigation of TMS Therapy in treating psychiatric disorders.
Dr. Morales is on the faculty for the MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program and is involved in the training of Harvard students, residents, fellows, and psychiatrists. He was involved in the efforts that led Massachusetts Medicare to approve TMS for depression. Soon after, the larger private health insurance companies followed.
"For over 25 years, self-medication was my only way of coping with depression (i.e. alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and crack). After many detoxes, acute recovery programs, Intensive Outpatients Programs, and incarcerations, I received mental health help (along with medications) with success but limited. One thing I noticed once I started TMS treatments was my ability to focus better. I also realized that when I encountered chaotic situations, breathing and taking a step back to analyze the situations became easier.
Now that my TMS treatments are over, I take it one day at a time. I also try to process any type of circumstance which I can see coming by using tools I've learned to use through my recovery. I would certainly recommend TMS to future patients. Although it was personally a scary thing to me at first, it was the whole team who calmed my fears when I first started and made the entire treatment very doable.
When it comes to my experience with Achieve TMS East's services, I couldn't ask for a more attentive, compassionate, and personable group. Whatever questions I had were met with truthful and assured answers. For a person such as me, I need to be around people who are positive, responsible, and even humorous in order for me to feel comfortable. The staff at Achieve reflect this, and it made my sessions with TMS a splendid experience."
– S.B. Achieve TMS East Patient


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Science. Communication. Community.
Blue/black vs. white/gold isn't the point. How #dressgate has opened up many more interesting questions about vision and the brain.
It's not often that the Twitterverse gets excited about how light, optics, and the brain interact to produce perception. If this enthusiasm had to be drawn out by a fashion mystery, so be it. The scientific explanation for the blue/black vs. white/gold debate – a failure of a perceptual mechanism called color constancy – has been presented well, for example by Adam Rogers over at Wired, who thankfully got some top-notch vision scientists on record. Buzzfeed of course got more than its share of clicks from the uproar, and also included a handy poll in its post, showing that 75% of people see the dress as white and gold.
Here's what I think most of the coverage has missed: while there has been plenty of chatter about the "deceptive brain", no one has explicitly stated that what most people see – a white/gold dress—is actually the right answer in this situation, regardless of whether or not the dress "objectively" is blue/black. The brain and the visual system evolved to make use of the only major light source available (at least until electricity came along), the sun. This illuminant has predictable properties – an output spectrum and modestly varying sunrise and sunset times – that the brain internalized. This is how color constancy came about: the ability to see a stop sign as red or grass as green regardless of what kind of light is illuminating it. But when the brain is confronted with impoverished input, it makes an educated guess.
The best guess in the case of the photo of the dress is white/gold. A lot of natural cues about the illumination situation have changed or been taken away. First, it's a photo, so it's second-hand information. People have problems interpreting photos in other domains too, for example depth. Second, the original illumination situation is murky. Was a camera flash used and was the dress under fluorescent lighting? Third, we are of course all viewing the photo of the dress on screens. These might be HD displays or smartphone screens with various degrees of backlighting, under different lighting sources (the fluorescents at your office, the gloom outside or the solitary incandescent in your basement). Or maybe you printed the photo, altering the viewing conditions yet again.
The point is, if you see white/gold, you are correct in this viewing situation. All the information your brain has received screams "white/gold", so there actually couldn't be any other answer. The question of what color the dress actually is is secondary and boring. Photoshop sleuths have broken down the image in exhaustive pixelated detail. Those patches are indeed blue and black. The far more interesting questions are
It would be great to see journalists follow up with these kinds of questions, with input from scientists and the scientific literature. (I also see a lot of fascinating experiments for a dissertation, but that's the recovering scientist in me talking.) Most of the public never even considers that the experiential phenomenon of color is constructed by the brain, and that light itself is not colored, though we often erroneously refer to it that way. (Ferris Jabr got it quite right in this Twitter conversation.) You'd think a story that delved deeper into color perception would get a few clicks – posts about the amazing eyes of the colorful mantis shrimp, for example, never get old.
So thanks, Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian, and all the rest, for getting people excited, even if only momentarily, about vision science!
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Original post on Tumblr by Caitlin McNeill
NPR: How Animals Hacked The Rainbow And Got Stumped On Blue


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KAPPA III Principal's Corner – May 8th
I hope you enjoyed your weekend. The New York State Math Exam will be administered this week, starting tomorrow May 2nd, 2016 and ending Thursday, May 4th, 2017. Once again, the test will be untimed. It is important that students eat a hearty breakfast and arrive on time every day. Testing strategies to remember: Use time wisely, read all directions and questions carefully, attempt every question, actively reason through the questions and use process of elimination to help you choose the correct answer in a multiple choice question.
Our After School and Saturday Academy has concluded. We will offer tutoring for all students that are failing or at risk of failing for the year. It is essential you monitor your child's grades through Skedula, on a weekly basis. You may schedule an appointment, if you want to discuss your child's progress with teachers at any point this year, with Ms. Ovalles. You are also encouraged to attend our parent engagement time, which takes place every week on Tuesdays 2:45-3:15pm. Please note, report cards were distributed last week to all students.
We are on our final marking period of the year. The end of the school year is shortly coming to an end. I would like to encourage students, staff and parents to keep learning alive and continue with the important study habits we have discussed all year, as they are critical to the next year and beyond. Please mark your calendars, our last student-led conference will be held Wednesday, May 18, 2017.
I would like to congratulate all fifty-five students who participated in the AMS Pi5NY Math Competition this Saturday, April 29th, 2017. It was a fun competition that inspired our students to greater achievement. May is a busy month for us as we have scheduled various events for our students and families. Please review the calendar and continue to support your child's educational journey that will lead them to success. Today begins our nutrition class that will consist of eight sessions and participants will receive a certificate upon completion of all sessions. Certification can be used to obtain employment at a daycare center. All nutrition classes will be given in Spanish. Camp Becket will host team-building activities for the 6th grade students on Saturday, May 6th and on Saturday, May 13th for 7th grade students.
Tomorrow we will celebrate National Teacher's Day. We would like to take a moment to thank our KAPPA III teachers and all the extraordinary teachers in our community for their hard work and dedication inside and outside of the classroom. Thank you for making a difference in our student's life.
Ms. Jean Colon, Principal


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The Employment Support Team
The Employment Support Team (EST) operates throughout Aberdeenshire offering one-to-one Key Worker support to citizens. The Employment Support Team assists citizens who are actively seeking employment, who may require training or perhaps need a little help to sustain their employment.
Some of our areas of support include flexible childcare arrangements, transport (bus tickets) and other support to help with employment opportunities.
Who can use the service?
Our services are free and confidential, and available to anyone in Aberdeenshire such as:
- Citizens on low incomes, long-term unemployed, newly unemployed or returners to the employment market,
- Citizens with other stresses in the household (for example disability, mental health issues, drug and alcohol problems;
- anyone entering employment, trying to keep jobs or improve their hours/earnings; and/or going into further and higher education
How can Employment Support Team help?
- Supporting you to move from benefits into employment, only if it is the right time for you;
- Building confidence, assistance with CVs and job applications, job club information, digital training to help you cope with online stuff like Universal Job Match and job application forms;
- Practical help in setting and moving towards your own personal goals with Key Worker support;
- Information on learning, training and employment opportunities;
- Support finding affordable, flexible childcare and access to short term financial help with childcare costs;
- Advice about money and benefits.
The Employment Support Team will work with you every step of the way into learning, training & employment.
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SIMC Distinction 2016
31st May 2016
John Monash Science School was invited to send a team of four students to the sixth Singapore International Mathematics Challenge hosted by the National University of Singapore High School of Mathematics and Science (NUS) and Singapore's Ministry of Education. The competition was held during the week beginning Monday 23 May, and involved 62 schools from across the globe, including some of the world's most prestigious and best performing schools in Mathematics and Science, including NUS itself, the North Carolina School of Mathematics and Science, Raffles Institution Singapore (the overall winner), Ritsumeikan High School Japan, Mahidol Wittayanusorn High School Thailand, Lycee Descartes, Tours, France and The High School affiliated to Renmin University, China. JMSS was one of only two schools from Australia invited to take part.
The competition questions, all requiring mathematical modelling and proof, were set by Professor Imre Leader, the Chief Judge, and colleagues from Cambridge University, and based around the broad theme of communication. The questions were completed by the student teams over the course of 30 hours, with limited access to other teams or teachers. The questions allowed access to all teams in the early stages but soon became more complex, and challenged students to think creatively and work together constructively. All teams were asked to provide a full written report of their solutions at the end of the allocated time, and then to present their findings to a different judge and an audience of teachers and students on three separate occasions.
The John Monash Science School team, comprising Orion Zymaris (Year 12), Alex Socha (Year 11), YiJie Neo (Year 11) and Ethan Payne (Year 12), obtained one of twelve Distinctions in the event, placing them in the top 12 schools in the competition. This is an outstanding achievement and one of which the students themselves, the accompanying staff members, and the whole JMSS community, are all extremely proud. They were coached most ably by former JMSS student Victor Phan, with Head of Mathematics Luke Bohni looking after the team in Singapore. JMSS is the only Australian school to have won a Distinction at this prestigious and significant event, an achievement which highlights the excellence in Victorian Government school education.


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DMRC JE Result 2016 {DMRC SC/TO Result 2016} www.delhimetrorail.com, DMRC Junior Engineer Result 2016, DMRC JE Civil Result 2016, DMRC JE Electronics Result 2016, DMRC Account Assistant Result 2016, DMRC CRA Result 2016.
डीएमआरसी (DMRC) JE परीक्षा जो के कुछ दिन पहले मार्च महीने में आयोजित के गए है, उस परीक्षा का Parinam परिणाम आप दिल्ली मेट्रो के आधिकारिक वैबसाइट से देख सकते है।
Delhi metro rail corporation (DMRC) has conducted the exams for various posts in Delhi and all over India in the month of March February 2016. So many students all over India applied for the Delhi metro rail corporation (DMRC) paper and did their best in the examination hall. Delhi metro rail corporation (DMRC) releases various posts in different departments of railway every year. Posts like Junior Engineers, Maintainer, and Assistant Manager, Account Assistant etc has been released this year and the written test has been conducted in the month of February on various dates in Delhi and the other states of India. All the aspirants who appeared in the examination hall will be eagerly waiting for the DMRC Result 2016 of Delhi metro rail corporation (DMRC) which shall be available soon on the official site of Delhi metro rail corporation (DMRC).
DMRC JE Result 2016
Official committee of Delhi metro rail corporation (DMRC) is busy in checking the examination and compiling the results of DMRC 2016. All the candidate who have went through the exams must be feeling very nervous about the results. There are more than 1500 posts available in the Delhi metro and has been released by the government in different departments of metro this year. This was very important exam for every candidate. Every one of you is advised to keep checking the official site of Delhi metro rail corporation (DMRC) with in regular period of time for all the important information about the DMRC JE Result 2016 and other important notification of the department.
Name of the exam – DMRC (JE SC/TO) Account Asst.
Number of posts – 1500
Name of conducting body – Delhi metro rail corporation (DMRC)
Examination date – various dates in the month of February
Results date – will be available very soon
Official web site – delhimetrorail.com
DMRC Result 2016
Delhi metro is the 12th largest metro system in the world today and it is located in the capital of India. Every year Delhi metro rail corporation release hundred of posts in its different departments. Aim of the Delhi metro rail corporation is to select the aspirants who are really very hard working and deserving in every aspect. Therefore the level of the paper they set is really hard and to clear the cut off is a difficult task to do. Delhi metro rail corporation provide some best working environment and high class additional perks and facility for their workers. Delhi metro is one the best and easy way to travel around in Delhi and the people are very comfortable and happy by the services that Delhi metro is providing.
DMRC SC/TO Result 2016
The DMRC JE Result 2016and other of the various posts like Junior Engineers and Maintainer plus other like Assistant Manager, and Account Assistant , station controller, junior manager (civil) , stenographer and maintainer that has been conducted recently by the Delhi metro rail corporation (DMRC) will be available very soon on their official web page. Candidates are free to open their web page for all the important dates and updates regarding results, merit lists. You will find every single query that you have in your mind over there. You can find all the information about study material, previous question papers, new sample papers, solved question papers of every year on the official page. So everyone is requested to stay in touch with the site for upcoming things in future. The candidates who will be selected for DMRC will have to face personal interview and group discussion. Every aspirant has to bring their original 12th standard and degree certificates with him at the time of personal interview. Aspirants will be selected on the basis of their rank in results and the performance in personal interview.
How to Check DMRC Result 2016
- Go to the official website delhimetrorail.com and open it
- Find the link for DMRC JE Result 2016 and open it.
- Fill in your username and password and you will find an option of download result click on the download button and save your result and print it.


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Saute onion and green pepper in butter until tender. Add to eggs along with 1 cup of the Cheddar cheese, ham, salt and pepper. Mix well. Preheat and butter a griddle. Use ¼ cup mixture for each sandwich. Fry until eggs are set; turn and fry on other side.
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Electric cars are riding high, as incentives and new models make them a realistic option, but the fresh attention may highlight flaws compared with gasoline and alternatives such as bio-fuels.
The attention rankles with some in the biofuel industry, whose own hype was abruptly halted by a glut of production in 2007, subsequent bankruptcies and a fall from grace after a link was drawn -- which they dispute -- between biofuels and spiralling food prices and rising hunger.
Gasoline may beat off both alternatives for decades as the least-worst option, with wider adoption of more efficient conventional cars helping to curb carbon emissions and oil dependence.
The uncertainty is striking for a $5-6 trillion global auto and fuel supply market, where there is agreement only that the number of cars will keep rising, perhaps doubling to 2 billion by 2050.
The momentum is with electricity, following an oil price spike in 2008, lavish government incentives and a crippling downturn across the wider car industry. Last week the United States finalised fuel efficiency standards, following similar rules in Europe.
Green cars grabbed centre stage at auto shows this year in New York, Geneva and Detroit, including all-battery cars, hybrid varieties that switch between electric and gasoline, and small, more fuel-efficient conventional cars.
Battery electric vehicles (EVs) are expensive. Mitsubishi Motors and Nissan Motor Co last week announced prices for their i-MiEV and Leaf battery-only electric cars, in production already or about to debut, at 3.98 million yen ($42,520) and 3.76 million yen respectively before state subsidies, several times the cost of equivalent cars.
Reality bites with driving ranges of about 100 miles (160.9 km), far less than for a petrol car which U.S. customers expect to exceed 300 miles.
And electric cars have to contend with the multi-billion-dollar cost of a new charging infrastructure, although they benefit from running costs at about a quarter of gasoline at today's prices, according to electric car advocates.
"The electric vehicle sector certainly has momentum, but it's questionable whether it has the legs for the longer term, at least at the moment, and whether it has enough scale," said Peter Wells at Cardiff University's Centre for Automotive Industry Research, who expected big cost reductions.
Success depends on drivers accepting limitations on range and on re-charging time, which takes several hours, said Pierre Gaudillat, research and development manager at the UK-funded Carbon Trust.
"I don't see any major breakthrough on the horizon," he said. Customers may have to compromise on what they expect from a car, perhaps tailored for commuting, and from ownership, for example buying the car but renting the expensive battery.
Hybrid gasoline-electric cars overcome the range problem but are still pricey because of their complexity and battery costs.
Sales of hybrid-electric vehicles are expected to reach about 1.3 percent of an estimated 67 million light vehicle sales this year, according to the information company J.D. Power and Associates.
Battery-powered, all electric vehicles (EV) will only amount to about 20,000 units, but by 2015 could reach a 0.3 percent market share.
The International Energy Agency says EV and hybrids must reach at least 7 percent of global car sales by 2020 to hit targets to avoid more dangerous climate change.
Global biofuel production, meanwhile, will grow 16 percent in 2010, according to the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance.
Gasoline may continue to dominate both, especially if oil price rises are muted by efficiency drives. Automakers are already making smaller engines more powerful and transmissions more efficient, while the carbon emissions savings of both electric and biofuels are disputed.
"I think oil-based transport fuels have such a competitive advantage and dominance that you need a compelling argument to move to something different, and the case has not been made for what that is," said Chris Mottershead, vice principal of research and innovation at King's College London, and former head of climate change at oil major BP.
Technologies to replace gasoline enthuse investors, even those doubtful of any climate threat, given the vulnerability of the United States and others to oil prices. The United States imports over half the petroleum it consumes.
HSBC is one backer of electric, investing $125 million in January in Better Place, a California-based company that wants to build charging networks and lease batteries to customers.
HSBC climate change analyst Nick Robins stressed a wider benefit, or "positive spill-over", from electric cars which he contrasted with the negative wider impact of biofuels. Car batteries could help balance electric grids that are increasingly dependent on intermittent wind, by re-charging at night, Robins said.
Biofuels are made from sugar, corn and oil seeds now, and perhaps in the future from grass, crop waste and wood. Rising biofuel demand has stoked prices of feedstocks such as corn, but may only have played a small part in the 2008 food price spike, analysts say.
The oil major Royal Dutch Shell is a big backer of ethanol, striking a deal in February with Brazil's Cosan to create a $21 billion a year ethanol joint venture.
Ethanol made from Brazil's sugar cane is economic at an oil price of $40-50 a barrel, compared with $80 oil prices now. That has created an autos market in Brazil where most new cars are flex-fuel, handling any blend of gasoline and ethanol, at no extra cost.
Fake Anti-Virus Spreading Its Net
Google has said that fake software security programs rigged to infect computers are a growing online threat with hackers tricking people into installing nefarious code on machines.
An analysis of 240 million Web pages by the Internet search giant during the past 13 months revealed that fake anti-virus programs accounted for 15 percent of malicious software it detected.
"The Fake AV threat is rising in prevalence, both absolutely and relative to other forms of Web-based malware," Google said in its findings.
"Clearly, there is a definitive upward trend in the number of new Fake AV domains that we encounter each week."
Fake anti-virus (AV) peddlers rig websites to frighten visitors with pop-up messages warning that supposed scans have found dangerous malicious software on machines.
The scam goes on by selling victims programs that hackers claim will fix the purported problems but which in fact usually plant nefarious computer code on machines.
Such transactions can also leave credit card information in the hands of cyber crooks.
"Surprisingly, many users fall victim to these attacks and pay to register the Fake AV," Google said.
"To add insult to injury, Fake AVs often are bundled with other malware, which remains on a victim?s computer regardless of whether a payment is made."
Google has refined tools to filter out booby-trapped Websites and hackers have evidently responded by flitting from one domain name to another.


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I first encountered Ambrose by reading Undaunted Courage, his vivid account of the Lewis and Clark expedition, while camped for a summer along the Milk River in Montana, near the explorers' original route. (In this book, it turned out Ambrose paraphrased only very loosely the prose of historian Dumas Malone.)
Tales of the episode ricocheted through the media. Quickly, though, the specific charge of plagiarism appeared to take a back seat to other, more ambiguous charges. Wendy Kaminer observed that Ambrose's success depended precisely on a kind of literary conformity in a commodified culture that gave readers the heroes they craved. And as Ron Robin notes in his history of recent episodes of academic misconduct, many historians appeared to see Ambrose's plagiarism as a product of his deeper sin of blurring the lines of scholarship and mass entertainment.
Now there are new charges.
Three weeks ago, Richard Rayner reported in the New Yorker that Ambrose's looseness with his sources reached far earlier into his career, and beyond the appropriation of others' prose and into the domain of apparent fabrications.
Ambrose's career and original fame had been built on his masterful and scholarly studies of Dwight Eisenhower. Yet as revealed by Rayner, not only was Ambrose's oft told story of how he came to be Eisenhower's first biographer false (he was not solicited by the former President as he claimed), but his statements that he interviewed Eisenhower for "hundreds and hundreds of hours" on a range of momentous subjects turned out to be fictions as well. Historians at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, while preparing a program on Ambrose's works, had discovered that the retired Eisenhower's meticulously kept schedule book reveals that Ambrose met Eisenhower only three times, for a grand total of five hours.
Needless to say, these revelations only raise more questions. What kind of "deep-down resentment" could have driven such an accomplished figure to such literary crimes? wonders Garrison Keillor.
This is a fair question, but a letter published in this week's New Yorker raises what I think are more important ones, ones less about Ambrose and more about us, his readers (note: a subscription may be required).
Pete Wilson, the former California Senator and Governor, defends Ambrose against charges neither the author nor Eisenhower can speak to:
We may never know with absolute certainty the details of their interactions, for the period in question was more than forty years ago, and neither of these fine American is with us today. What we know is that Ambrose and President Eisenhower clearly had an important relationship, which included a number of meetings, substantive conversations, and a long correspondence.
Well, the evidence certainly suggests that Ambrose had an important relationship with Eisenhower; what's doubtful is whether the opposite was true.
But it's Wilson's conclusion that cuts to the heart of the issue:
And what truly matters is that Ambrose made the history of our country compelling. He illuminated the extraordinary war service and the Presidency of Dwight Eisenhower. He shone a bright light on the Second World War generation and gave these citizen-soldiers the opportunity to tell their stories. Ambrose's legacy is his exceptional body of work, which will continue to engage, educate, and inspire.
Engage and inspire, most definitely. But educate is more complex. When Ambrose cites interviews that plainly didn't happen, what can we be sure we've learned? Wilson notes that he never met Eisenhower; he, like most of us, only knows him through the biographical and historical work of other scholars. If that work cannot be trusted, what have we learned? Is the purpose of historical writing -- even popular historical writing -- to elicit pride and shape a national identity? Or, to paraphrase a teacher of mine, is it to remember the things that society would prefer to forget? Can it do both?
Ambrose was never reticent about the purpose of his writing -- it was to tell a good story that brought his readers into the past. What's unclear now is how much of that past took place only in Ambrose's imagination.
For a fascinating account of the original Ambrose plagiarism controversy, along with other recent episodes of scholarly misconduct, see Ron Robin, Scandals & Scoundrels: Seven Cases that Shook the Academy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004).
For the origins of modern academic citation practices, see Anthony Grafton, The Footnote: A Curious History (Cambridge: Harvard, 1997).


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End of Product Lifecycle. Active development and support for MySQL Database Server versions 3.23, 4.0, and 4.1 has ended. For details, see http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/lifecycle/#calendar. Please consider upgrading to a recent version. Further updates to the content of this manual will be minimal. All formats of this manual will continue to be available until 31 Dec 2010.
Functionality added or changed:
Added syntax support for
CHARACTER SET and
CHARSET= table options (to be able to read table dumps from 4.1).
Fixed replication bug that caused the slave to loose its position in some cases when the replication log was rotated.
Fixed that a slave restarts from the start of a transaction if it is killed in the middle of one.
Moved the manual pages from
man to
man/man1 in the binary distributions.
The default type returned by
IFNULL(A,B) is now set to be the more 'general' of the types of
A and
B. (The order is
REAL or
Moved the mysql.server startup script in the RPM packages from
/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql to
/etc/init.d/mysql (which almost all current Linux distributions support for LSB compliance).
Qcache_lowmem_prunes status variable (number of queries that were deleted from the cache because of low memory).
Fixed mysqlcheck so it can deal with table names containing dashes.
Bulk insert optimization (see Section 5.1.3, "Server System Variables") is no longer used when inserting small (less than 100) number of rows.
Optimization added for queries like
merge_table WHERE
Added functions
LOCALTIME and
LOCALTIMESTAMP as synonyms for
CEIL is now an alias for
CURRENT_USER() function can be used to get a
user@host value as it was matched in the
GRANT system. See Section 11.13, "Information Functions".
CHECK constraints to be compatible with standard SQL. This made
CHECK a reserved word. (Checking of
CHECK constraints is still not implemented).
CAST(... as CHAR).
Added PostgreSQL compatible
LIMIT syntax:
row_count OFFSET
mysql_change_user() now resets the connection to the state of a fresh connect (Ie,
ROLLBACK any active transaction, close all temporary tables, reset all user variables etc..)
CHANGE MASTER TO and
RESET SLAVE now require that slave threads both be stopped; these commands return an error if at least one of these two threads is running.
Bugs fixed:
Fixed number of found rows returned in
multi table updates
--lower-case-table-names default on Mac OS X as the default file system (HFS+) is case insensitive. See Section 8.2.2, "Identifier Case Sensitivity".
Transactions in
autocommit = 0 mode didn't rotate binary log.
A fix for the bug in a
SELECT with joined tables with
ORDER BY and
LIMIT clause when
filesort had to be used. In that case
LIMIT was applied to
filesort of one of the tables, although it could not be. This fix also solved problems with
mysql_server_init() now makes a copy of all arguments. This fixes a problem when using the embedded server in C# program.
Fixed buffer overrun in
libmysqlclient library that permitted a malicious MySQL server to crash the client application. (CVE-2002-1376)
Fixed security-related bug in
mysql_change_user() handling. All users are strongly recommended to upgrade to version 4.0.6. (CVE-2002-1374, CVE-2002-1375)
Fixed bug that prevented
--chroot command-line option of mysqld from working.
Fixed bug in phrase operator
"..." in boolean full-text search.
Fixed bug that caused
OPTIMIZE TABLE to corrupt the table under some rare circumstances.
Part rewrite of multiple-table-update to optimize it, make it safer and more bug-free.
LOCK TABLES now works together with multiple-table-update and multiple-table-delete.
--replicate-do= didn't work for
UPDATE commands. (Bug introduced in 4.0.0)
Fixed shutdown problem on Mac OS X.
InnoDB bugs in
REPLACE, AUTO_INCREMENT, INSERT INTO ... SELECT ... were fixed. See the
InnoDB changelog in the
InnoDB section of the manual.
RESET SLAVE caused a crash if the slave threads were running.


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James Willis (American football)
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|Personal information
|Date of birth:
|September 2, 1972
|Place of birth:
|Huntsville, Alabama
|Career information
|NFL Draft:
|1993 / Round: 5 / Pick: 119
|Career history
|Career NFL statistics
James Willis (born September 2, 1972) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the fifth round of the 1993 NFL Draft. He played college football at Auburn. He played high school football at J.O. Johnson High School in Huntsville, Alabama.[1] He is the defensive assistant/linebackers coach for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League.
Willis also played for the Philadelphia Eagles, Seattle Seahawks, and the Birmingham Thunderbolts of the now defunct XFL.
Playing career
Willis was drafted in the 5th round (119th overall) by the Green Bay Packers in the 1993 NFL Draft. Willis shares the record for the longest interception return in Philadelphia Eagles history after scoring on a 104-yard interception against the Dallas Cowboys in 1996; after intercepting Troy Aikman four yards into the endzone, Willis returned the pick 14 yards before lateraling to Troy Vincent, who returned the remainder 90 yards for the score.[2]
Coaching career
Upon the dissolution of the XFL, Willis decided to retire as a player and returned to Auburn to work towards completing his college degree. He became a student assistant for the Auburn Tigers football team in 2001 and became a defensive graduate assistant in 2003 under defensive coordinator Gene Chizik.
Rhode Island Rams
In 2004, Willis took his first coaching job as the linebackers coach of the Rhode Island Rams.
Temple Owls
In 2005, Willis was hired for the same position by Temple University.
Auburn Tigers
In 2006, Auburn head coach Tommy Tuberville hired Willis to return to his alma mater as the linebackers coach under new defensive coordinator Will Muschamp. When Muschamp left for Texas, his replacement Paul Rhoads kept Willis on staff. When coach Tuberville resigned from Auburn in 2008, the entire staff was initially released by new head coach Gene Chizik, however on December 26, 2008 Willis was retained to again coach linebackers.[3]
Alabama Crimson Tide
Although initially thought to return to Auburn, Willis was hired by Alabama's head coach Nick Saban to be the Crimson Tide's associate head coach and outside linebackers coach on January 21, 2009.[4] During his one season with Alabama, the Crimson Tide defeated the Texas Longhorns in the 2010 BCS National Championship Game.
Texas Tech Red Raiders
On January 13, 2010, Willis agreed to join head coach Tommy Tuberville to serve as the new defensive coordinator for the Texas Tech Red Raiders football team.[5] Prior to the 2011 TicketCity Bowl, Willis allegedly left the program to pursue other career opportunities after a domestic disturbance call at his home.[6][7]
Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns
On February 7, 2013, Willis agreed to become the new defensive coordinator for the Ragin Cajuns.[8]
New Orleans Saints
On February 11, 2015, it was reported that Willis left the Ragin' Cajuns to become a defensive assistant/linebackers coach for the Saints.[9]
- ↑ "J.O. Johnson Jaguars". Alabama High School Football Historical Society. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
- ↑ "Reed rumbles 108 yards for NFL record | Longest interception returns by team". Pro Football Hall of Fame. November 24, 2008. Retrieved June 2, 2014.
- ↑ "Auburn's Chizik retains linebacker coach James Willis". AL.com. Associated Press. December 26, 2008. Retrieved December 26, 2008.
- ↑ "James Willis to Alabama as associate head coach". Press-Register. 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
- ↑ Willis agrees to coach at Tech
- ↑ http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=13742573
- ↑ http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/12/27/domestic-assault-reported-at-home-of-former-texas-tech-defensive-coordinator/
- ↑ http://www.ragincajuns.com/news/2013/2/7/FB_0207134909.aspx
- ↑ http://espn1420.com/ul-defensive-coordinator-james-willis-accepts-job-with-saints/


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DONALD Trump confirmed today he will jet into Aberdeen to visit his "great" club after he officially opens the newly renovated Trump Turnberry resort.
The presumptive Republican US presidential nominee will be in Scotland on the day the result of the EU referendum is announced.
It will be the first time the property tycoon has been in the country since he announced his candidacy for president last year.
Mr Trump revealed that he would be travelling north to Menie Estate on Twitter yesterday.
• READ MORE: Nicola Sturgeon rules out meeting Donald Trump at Turnberry
He tweeted: "After @TrumpTurnberry I will be visiting Aberdeen, the oil capital of Europe, to see my great club, @TrumpScotland."
And he stated that his club in Ayrshire would be the "world's best" resort.
Trump Turnberry has now reopened its doors to guests after a 200 million pound refurbishment which has taken place over the past eight months.
All the bedrooms have been remodelled along with the hotel bars and restaurants.
The iconic Turnberry Lighthouse has also been full restored and converted into a 3,500 pound per night two-bedroom presidential suite.
• READ MORE: Stays at Trump Turnberry lighthouse on offer for £7k a night
Mr Trump will travel to Scotland on June 22, two days before he cuts the ribbon to officially open the resort which the billionaire bought in 2014.
He will then fly up to Aberdeen to visit staff at Menie Estate, the links golf course he built which opened in 2012.
The golf fan named the dunes on the resort "the Great Dunes of Scotland" in memory of his mother Mary Macleod, who was born in Stornoway.
Mr Trump has since applied for planning permission to create a second golf course on the estate and also hopes to build hundreds of luxury holiday homes on the site.
The Scotsman's EU Referendum page: Keep up to date with latest news, polls and features.


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I love that feeling after a good workout, don't you? But as good as that feeling feels, I find it difficult to stay motivated to workout. Taking that first step into the gym-which is in our basement-can be tough. If I don't work out first thing in the morning {which hasn't happened in ages because I always choose sleep over getting up extra early, especially during the week}, then I find that I build myself up for my workout all day long, but as soon as I walk in the door, I talk myself right out of it.
But just over a week ago, something happened. I like to think there is such a thing as The Fitbit Effect. I got a Fitbit Flex, at a significant discount through work by signing up to be a part of a fitness program, and it's changing me. Just wearing my Fitbit makes me want to move more, and I check the Fitbit app obsessively to see my progress. I am actually disappointed if I don't meet my steps goal for the day, and am trying to find ways to move more especially at work since I sit at a desk all day long.
I'm also finding it helpful that a couple of my friends, and Shawn, have Fitbits and we challenge each other daily, or on the weekend like this weekend. I always find it motivating to workout with a friend.
Has anyone else experienced The Fitbit Effect? What motivates you to workout, or maintain your workout routine?
I also just started a new fitness program, Kayla Itsines Bikini Body Guide. Go check out the transformation photos! It's a 12-week program, with the option to do an additional 12 weeks, and the workouts are short, but sweaty. The workouts are right up my alley as far as a mixture of using body weight and free weights, as well as cardio. Admittedly, I tend to get bored with programs like this {I recently did PiYo, and I loved it, but was ready to switch it up}, but I think that there is enough variety that it won't feel like I'm doing the same workouts over and over. I'll have to post before and after photos if this goes well ;)
What fitness programs have you found to be effective?


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June 19, 2017
The term "bad credit" is a relative one but in the eyes of a
mortgage company, bad credit is associated with a three-digit credit score. A
credit score can range from 300 to 850 with a higher score representing better
credit. Borrowers who are VA eligible might be surprised to learn that the VA
doesn't require a certain minimum credit score whatsoever but instead lenders
must make a reasonable determination as to the creditworthiness of the
applicant. However, even though the VA doesn't require a minimum most VA
lenders do and that score is 620. It doesn't mean that a score below that won't
get approved, it's just the likelihood is lower. In fact, recent changes with
the VA home loan program issued by the VA allows for an approval with a score
as low as 500. But again, that doesn't guarantee an approval for someone with
bad credit.
If an applicant is turned down because of bad credit, there
should be a conversation with the loan officer who can point out why the
approval system rated the scores below what's needed for an approval. Most
often it's due to one of two of the five most important scoring factors…payment
history and available credit. If borrowers can return to timely payment
patterns and eliminate payments made more than 30 days past the due date,
scores will recover rather quickly, as in within a couple of months. If loan
balances are kept around one-third of available credit, scores will also heal.
These two factors make up nearly two-thirds of the entire score.
When refinancing however there is another path to get a VA
loan with bad credit. If refinancing an existing VA loan with another VA loan,
it's called a streamline refinance. With a streamline there is no need to
verify income. Nor is there any need for an appraisal and other time and money
saving features. With the VA streamline, there is no credit report pulled so no
credit scores are reviewed. The only credit guideline the VA requires is that
there be no more than one payment made within the previous 12 months made more
than 30 days past the due date and no such late payments within the previous
If you're VA eligible but think you can't get an approval
because of your credit, don't make the decision not to apply for a mortgage to
buy a home or refinance on your own. You might very well be surprised and even
if you can't be approved right now your loan officer can provide you a road map
for an approval.
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TM1 blogs
Creating scorecards in TM1
The following example is a demo from the IBM Cognos TM1: Create Scorecards (v10.2) one-day instructor-led course. This course teaches scorecard developers how to create scorecarding solutions in TM1.
Participants learn how to create all of the necessary scorecarding objects such as metrics cubes, diagrams, and maps, deploy the solution to the Web for end-user consumption, and create an engaging dashboard presentation for the solution. If you would like to know more about this training course or other training courses, please visit the IBM Training Course Catalog.
This demo takes you through creating a scorecarding solution for the sample Great Outdoors company. You start by examining an example scorecarding application to understand how users interact with these applications and the objects they contain.
TM1 Applications and cross dimensional security or Access tables with NoData in TM1
Got questions about cross dimensional security in TM1 Applications aka Contributor quite a few times, so it's obviously time to write something up and put out here for linking in future ) Cross dimensional security is quite a mouthful, so for us ex-Enterprise Planning people: this is a post on how to do something like Access Tables in TM1. Don't get overexcited, though, there's no "good-enough" solution that I'm aware of, more like a bunch of workarounds. I'll list them here with the pro's and con's of each and typical usage scenarios. I'll pay a bit more attention to one of them (dynamic MDX-subsets with an auxiliary flag cube), cause it's not very intuitive (for non-hardcore TM1 developers) and is actually quite useful.Problem overview
Let's set up the scene. I'll use the SData server that comes as a sample with your TM1 installation.
This model is about a company selling cars worldwide. I've mocked up a very simple TM1 contributor application to let them collect their sales budgets by countries:
The workflow tree to left lists countries rolling up to regions. Opening a node for specific country (Denmark, in this case) allows us to input sales for a particular Model (L Series 2WD) and get our gross margin easily. Country managers can submit their budget, region managers review it and etc.
All good so far but what if we don't sell all models in all countries? Only "L Series" in Denmark, while we're at it.
Pretty typical scenario, but quite a pain to implement in TM1. And a big shock to all EP consultants so used to access tables (just say Denmark is eligible for this set of Models, Norway for this and etc). And a puzzle for TM1 old-timers who prefer Excel-built user-forms with TM1Web to Contributor — they just don't see the problem at all )A bit of back-end discussion
Hopefully it's just a matter of time before this functionality gets implemented in TM1 Contributor, but it actually requires quite a bit of additional engine work.
Current TM1 security works on the "user"-basis, so you know what a person can see in the cube. Unfortunately, that's not enough, to fully implement access tables we need "who can see what where" component, essentially adding this approval hierarchy dimension to whole security process, so while it's definitely doable, it might take a while for the smart folks in labs to carve it out. I'd guess that it'll require another set of control cubes (very similar to the one I'll describe later) and an additional view configuration each time an approval hierarchy node is selected.
On the other hand if they just add dynamic subset refresh to title subsets — that'll solve everything straight away!
So back to the issue, what options do we have now? Again, if you know a better solution — please don't hide it )Approaches TM1 dimension element security
So we say that Lucas from Denmark has access only to L Series in model dimension. And it'll work perfectly, he won't see any other models when he logs in.
Up until it turns out that he's also responsible for Norway while Norway's country manager is on leave. And Norway sells only S Series, but our poor Lucas will see both when logs into either country, because he now has access to those elements in the dimension. And he can even add data to the "wrong" model, making the whole thing quite shaky.
Pro's: works perfectly
Con's: only if you have a rigid 1 person – 1 approval node relationship and I'm yet to see this in real life.
Ok, you'd think, we'll just configure an additional step ofCell security
Adding these country-model relationship as a input restriction rule. Only L Series in Denmark, S Series in Norway, easy as.
The problem is that Lucas will still see both set of models in either country when he logs in, he just won't be able to input data in the wrong country – model combination. Which is an improvement, but he'll still complain about models from other country cluttering his input form.
Pro's: your data is correct
Con's: user interface is far from ideal
So you'd think ok, now we just need to hide those unneeded models by introducingFlags
Zero-suppression can be used to hide all unneeded combinations. Two caveats:
1) you'd need a nonzero element on the needed intersections, so you add a "flag" element to row or column and then apply rules to set it in needed intersections. Looks tad ugly, but not a major issue
2) zero suppression works only on rows or columns, so you need to drag your model dimension to rows and fix the view. This is a major limitation.
Pro's:will work and works for higher levels of approval hierarchy (flags will be summed up) so Europe manager will see both Norway and Denmark car sets you can use rules to set flags, so they can be quite flexible
Con's: see above andperformance can seriously degrade, because you'd need to populate and feed all "potential" input scenarios, causing overfeeding (there are no real cells, only flags). You'll essentially turn off the whole sparse processing algorithm, can be quite a show stopper
Let's assume that putting the secured dimension on rows / columns isn't a problem flags are actually a comfortable solution. We can avoid the ugliness of needing a "flag" element using MDX subsets method described below, so if rows / columns requirement is not critical I'd consider that method instead. We're introducing other kind of ugliness there, so it's not a clear cut.
Let's explore other approaches to the problem before we jump to MDX.Conditional Pick-lists
A very powerful feature to limit one dimension based on another is using the IF condition in picklist rule to pick a corresponding subset. So if your data is already in some sort of flat / line-item input, conditional pick lists are an ideal solution. You'd most likely need another cube to transform this pick-list dimension to a real one for analysis, but you'd need it anyway when you go the line-item way. It's quite a common scenario with employee / contract management applications, but for the Sales application we're discussing here it'll be quite painful, imagine selecting a "model" for each of the input rows.
Pros:works as described, with various subsets pregenerated in TIs
Cons:requires additional cube for analysis not suitable for all types of applications Worksheets
I'll just briefly touch this: since you can add worksheets into TM1 applications, you can add an Active Form that will be fully generic based your requirements. I never did this due to quite a lot of reasons (maintenance, performance, development just to name a few), but worth listing it here.
Pro's: fully flexible
Dynamic subsets are a quite useful concept, they are MDX expressions returning set of dimension elements. Each time user requests a view with a dynamic subset, it's expression is evaluated and results are returned for display. Other currently selected dimension elements (so called context) can be passed into dynamic expression making it quite flexible. Biggest downside is that this subset needs to be in columns or rows to be reevaluated when context changes.
If that's not a problem, then we can build quite a flexible solution. Key idea is to use an additional cube to hold our flags (show or not) and query it to define what should be shown.
Let's look at it for the car sales example we're discussing:
1) Let's create a "flag" cube with 2 dimensions, Approval Hierarchy (region) and the one we want to filter (model)
1s in intersection are "show" the model for country. Note how the higher levels of approval hierarchy (Scandinavia, Europe) get their values automagically by consolidation.
2) Let's create a new subset in model dimension. We'll use the following MDX expression.
Walking through it from inside out:TM1SUBSETALL to select all models TM1FilterByLevel to select only leaf level elements [SalesCubeFlag].([region].CurrentMember) select value for [SalesCubeFlag] for currently selected region in context return only the models having value greater or equal to 1
Let's assign it to view and see how it works in the application:
I've added models in rows of the cube view:
Let's log on as Denmark:
As Norway:
As Europe:
So you can see this working for various detail and total nodes.
Pro's:You can use rules or TIs to populate the flag cube according to your requirements You can have multiple dimensions and dynamically filter them depending on the context You can add a measure dimension to store multiple different flag logic for different applications
Cons:Double check if this works in your TM1 version. I had issues in CX 10.1 and no issues in enterprise TM1 10.1, so it might be version / fix pack quite sensitive. MDX subsets used to lock down the whole server on refresh and were avoided like plague (you just ran a TI to convert subset to static), but shouldn't do so anymore after 10.1. I'd guess that performance would be at least as good as flags + zero suppression, worth testing if this will be an issue for you. Be careful with hierarchy levels, unlike flags this approach will display all children (even the ones you want to avoid showing), that's why I'm selecting the lowest level of hierarchy.
I'll leave you with a link to excellent MDX Primer, describing much more "fun" things you can invent in MDX based world. Though I'll say that I'm quite a proponent of their extensive use, moderation is the key ) I wrote a small MDX query wrapper for TM1 a couple years ago to play with TM1 MDX syntax.Summary
I usually select conditional pick lists, flags or MDX based on application type I'm working with. Would love to hear better options.Some interesting links
Access Tables in TM1:
MDX with attributes
And every post is way more interesting with a cat in it, don't you think?
TM1 and CAM Failover
You may set multiple ServerCAMURI as follow in tm1s.cfg
ServerCAMURIRetryAttempts specify the retry count for access each dispatcher
IBM SPSS Modeler v16.0 What's new
Although it is not officially released yet, a document that explains what's new has been linked to the internet. You can find it by clicking here.
Some of the new key features that caught my attention are:
- TM1 Source and Export nodes
- With the source node you will be able to use cube views and import data into Modeler
- With the export node you will be able to score data to an existing TM1 cube
- New R nodes
- In Modeler 15 FP2 an R node was introduced for modelling, R Model Build/Apply. The new release has two additional nodes, R Process and R Output. With the R Process node, you can use R scripts to do transformations and with the R Output node, you can use R scripts to perform data analysis and produce text and graphical outputs. Also R nodes will be installed as part of the base Modeler installation and not separately.
- R in database
- R nodes can be pushed back to some databases offering better performance. Oracle, Netezza and SAP HANA.
- Monte Carlo Simulation
- Simulation Source node - generate synthetic data, using a wide selection of statistical distributions
- Fitting node – can create a preconfigured source node
- Simulation Evaluation node - terminal node designed to evaluate fields resulting from a simulated analysis stream
- Python scripting – use python to automates processes. Legacy scripting language will continue to be supported.
- New Distinct node – Will handle duplicates records more effectively.
- New Receiver Operator Characteristic (ROC) Evaluation node chart type
- Area Under the Curve (AUC) and Gini metrics in Analysis node
Powershell with TM1Server.log
Ideally you want to timestamp the tm1server.log after any restarts and then you can analyze a clean single session of information.
One of the easiest things you can do is use Windows powershell to then extract just the messages you want.
e.g. if i just want to explore the cube dependencies the server is producing then I just the following line within powershell
Get-Content .\tm1server.log | Where-Object {$_ -match 'TM1.Cube.Dependency'} | Set-Content tm1server.log-out.txt
You can alter the above statement to do any filtering you need
TM1 Cafe
IBM TM1 Watchdog
New Releases and Product Notifications for November 2013
Top 20 Developments in IBM TM1 in recent years
In what will always be a controversial list we called out at the time the Rule function Continue as being a real game changer for TM1 developers.
Those who have been doing TM1 for 10+ years since the days of TM1 714SR2 will remember when there was no Continue function and constant nested Ifs made for ugly looking rule files.
Check it out here:
How to use the Auto Classifier Node in SPSS Modeler 15
IBM SPSS Modeler V15.0 enables you to build predictive models to solve business issues, quickly and intuitively, without the need for programming.
In this demonstration we are going to show, how you can use the "Auto-Classifier Node".
The Auto Classifier node can be used for nominal or binary targets. It tests and compares various models in a single run. You can select which algorithms (Decision trees, Neural Networks, KNN, …) you want and even tweak some of the properties for each algorithm so you can run different variations of a single algorithm. It makes it really easy to evaluate all algorithms at once and saves the best models for scoring or further analysis. In the end you can choose which algorithm you want to use for scoring or use them all in an ensemble!
First a brief description of the data. The data comes from the 1994 US Census database. You can find the data here http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Adult from the UCI Machine Learning Repository. The goal here is to determine whether a person makes over 50K a year. It has 14 variables both categorical and numeric.
First step is to import the data. The data are in csv format so we can use the "Var. File" node to import them. All you have to do is define the source path and we are ready to import the data.
Then we can use the "Data Audit" node to inspect the data. This is one of the most useful nodes of SPSS Modeler. It will display a graph and statistics for all variables and locate if there are missing values or outliers in the data. I am going to write more about this in another tutorial.
Click here to read the full article
How to import new RAVE visualisations from Analytics Zone
For those who don't know, The new visualization engine (RAVE) underpinning most of the IBM business analytics products is capable of some stunning visualisations. There is a gallery of sample visualisations on Analytics Zone (.com). These include (but is not limited to):
For instructions on downloading and installing these into either Cognos Express or Cognos BI check out the article on TM1Tutorials.com. How to import the new visualisation charts into IBM Cognos BI.
TM1 Analyze and Share Data
IBM Cognos TM1 is an enterprise planning software platform that can transform your entire planning cycle, from target setting and budgeting to reporting, scorecarding, analysis and forecasting.
The following example is a workshop from the IBM Cognos TM1: Analyze and Share Data (v10.2) three-day instructor-led course available in a classroom or online environment. This course is designed to teach analysts how to use TM1 to analyze data to discover trends and exceptions, create and customize reports and templates, and contribute to plans. If you would like to know more about this training course or other training courses, please visit the IBM Training Course Catalog.
Tasks covered
- Connecting to the Sales Plan Cube.
- Creating an exploration and arrange the view for data entry.
- Creating two sandboxes and view them as Flex views.
- Entering data and commit to both Sandboxes.
- Calculating variance between the sandbox values.
- Merging the Optimistic sandbox with the base.
TM1 CFG File - ViewConsolidationOptimizationMethod
One of the parameters that I always suggest adding in is ViewConsolidationOptimizationMethod=TREE
The reason why is because of the documentation you can find here: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/ctm1/v10r1m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.tm1_inst.10.1.0.doc%2Fc_viewconsolidation_optimizationmethod_1.html&path%3D0_1_21_2_93
Specifically its says "This setting provides the best performance in normal operations"
Cognos Report Studio RAVE - Visualization Customizer
Missing TM1 Subset Editor
Somehow its thinking its still on the 2nd screen but you don't want to have to go back to your desk and plug everything back in to then move the subset editor back to the original single screen.
One quick way to get round it is to edit your tm1p.ini file but a quicker way that doesn't involve shutting down Excel is to press:
- ALT with Space Bar
- Then press M (which is the shortcut for Move)
- Then use your cursor keys to bring the subset editor back to your screen


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Answers to Reading Practice
|Directions: This exercise is designed to wean you off English spelling rules in reading Lakota. The following English words are theoretically possible in the Lakota languages. First, pronounce them as you would in English. Then, pronounce them as if they were Lakota words. You do not need to write anything down; simply check to see if your pronunciations match the descriptions given in the Answers section.
|1. manual
|English pronunciation: "mae nyoo ehl"
Lakota pronunciation: "mah noo ahl"
|2. house
|English pronunciation: "hows"
Lakota pronunciation: "hoh oo seh"
|3. loathe
|English pronunciation: "lohwth"
Lakota pronunciation: "loh ah teh"
|4. euphonious
|English pronunciation: "yoo fohw nee uhs"
|5. automobile
|English pronunciation: "ah tohw mohw beel"
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