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Piroshki Palace Food Truck
August 13, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 12:00 pm on Tuesday, repeating until September 3, 2019
Piroshki time! Come try a delicious, home made piroshki and a craft beer. You won't leave disappointing, we promise!


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In 2014, Heinz Weyringer, director of the RING AWARD competition (Graz), and Albrecht Thiemann, editor of the international opera magazine OPERNWELT (Berlin) initiated a new award for music theatre – the MORTIER AWARD. It is named after the late Gerard Mortier, Belgian opera and festival director, who was the first laureate.
The MORTIER AWARD honours personalities who are devoted in an exemplary way to a form of music theatre that is in touch with our times. A type of music theatre "that reflects and discusses the history of the genre, spanning more than four centuries, as a source of existential experience. A music theatre that imagines a future. A music theatre that plays an active role in public discourse and civil society, addressing urgent issues for local communities and society in general. The MORTIER AWARD does not promote a particular type of aesthetics, artistic practice or professional group. It encourages innovation and a risk-taking attitude to make the impossible possible. It is underpinned by an intellectual ethos that focuses on key questions of the human condition: Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going? And, above all: Why are we doing what we do? In this sense the MORTIER AWARD calls for a permanent renewal of opera – its aesthetics, artistic practice and institutional structures – as well as the idea that opera should regain an ear- and eye-opening, up-to-date relevance which was, to a large extent, lost in the twentieth century. The MORTIER AWARD reminds us of the necessity of artistic innovation and taking risks."
The MORTIER AWARD will be presented every two years. As a new addition, it now also features a YOUNG ARTIST AWARD.
Musical theatre in touch with our times is dynamic, on the move by definition – and so will be the mental profile of the MORTIER AWARD and the YOUNG ARTIST AWARD – always open to fresh ideas and visions.
The second recipient of the MORTIER AWARD is Markus Hinterhäuser, Laudator Peter Sellars.
Click here for the video clip (6:30 min) of the MORTIER AWARD 2017.
Further press information you can find here!

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Although the sunflower state is often the butt end of many tourism jokes, I have always found a simple beauty in the rolling plains. Sure, Kansas may be lacking in mountains and forests, but that doesn't mean it has nothing worth stopping to look at.
This weekend Matt and I decided to take a day trip through the flint hills region of Kansas to do some hiking and photographing. The Flint Hills is a large, rocky prairie which spans the state north to south about 130 miles west of here. We stopped and enjoyed many small towns, one of particular note was Council Grove. To me, this town seemed to be what every small town should be… clean streets, well kept homes, a cute downtown, and a nearby lake….all around a vibrant community. This weekend was their town festival, so it was bustling with activity and traditional 'fair food' such as funnel cakes, cotton candy, and my personal favorite, corn dogs.
I am not sure if it was just a lucky day or what, but as the sun starts to set out there the landscape explodes with colors. The sky was a vibrant mix of red, orange, purple, blue, and a few other colors I have never seen before. The setting sun cast it's colors all over the landscape…giving everything, including our skin a weird colorful hue…it really was quite amazing.
Sometimes even the most simple things can stunning.
We stopped for lunch in the town of Eureka, KS at this nifty small town placed called "Lo-Mar". It's one of those places where the food is as greasy as it is good. One of my favorite things about traveling the country is stopping at small eating establishments such as this.
Does this look like the windows xp background to anyone else?
Here we have the remains of an old stone house… one of many that dot the kansas landscape. A guy that happened to be driving by informed us that people lived there until the '60s and then it burned. I would have guessed it had been even longer.
The long road ahead and a beautiful summer sky.
Here I am standing, enjoying the view.
The Chase County Courthouse in Cottonwood Falls – the oldest courthouse still in use in kansas.
Matt hiking along the trail at the Tallgrass Prairie National Park.
I am thinking school let out a long time ago here.
The school from off in the distance.
The day ended with this great sunset over the flint hills. Actually it ended with a long drive home and getting pulled over by the Neodesha Police Dept for going 25 in a 20… but I didn't take any photos of that. For the record, it takes a significant amount of effort to drive a jetta under 20mph.


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Disease Information: Making It Relevant To Patients
Author: John Putzke
There is a common look among newly diagnosed patients, the wide-eyed stare of information overload. Like deer in headlights, it's all too often associated with a paralyzing freeze, resulting in a missed opportunity to engage and inform patients. This is the first in a series of articles exploring ways to connect patients to personally relevant information. This article targets the first step, the efforts of healthcare providers to organize patient-related information and educational materials. A practical guide is presented along with examples using an epilepsy population.
The Great Flood
The ease of gathering disease-related information makes results from even causal searches daunting. The depth and breadth of topics is extensive, but is typically spread across multiple, unrelated sources. Thus, patients must keep track of and ferret through islands of sources, overgrown with repetitive information, to find relevant details. In addition, numerous factors complicate and add to the flood of potentially applicable information such as:
- Disease Characteristics
- e.g., systems involved, symptom variation, disease stage and progression
- Domains Impacted
- e.g., physical, social, emotional
- Treatment Options
- e.g., surgical vs. medication
- Stakeholder Interests
- e.g., patients vs. caregivers
Taken together, the experience can be overwhelming to patients and all too often associated with a paralyzing freeze, resulting in a missed opportunity by healthcare providers to engage and inform patients.
Navigating these waters involves multiple steps and components, but the home port is a well-organized tool-chest of health-related information and educational materials. Below is a practical guide for categorizing these materials which can be easily modified and adapted as needed for various disease populations.
The Bucket Brigade
To gain control over the flood of information an exhaustive range of buckets are needed. Various models of health and wellbeing domains, the buckets, have been proposed (e.g., here and here). Although some commonalities emerge (e.g., Emotional and Social Health domains), differences across models are pronounced often making modifications necessary to fit the aims of a specific information classification strategy. A discussion of the factors associated with selecting a model and what, if anything, to modify was considered beyond the scope of this article. Instead, the model and related domains are assumed to be in place with the remaining task being how best to organize and categorize the information within each bucket.
An adaptation from the Epilepsy Foundation model was used as an example (see here). The domains and a brief description are as follows:
- Emotional Health
- Feelings, mood and related behavior
- Stress Management
- Learning to respond to life's stressors
- Sleep
- Restful period of relative inactivity of mind and body
- Diet and Nutrition
- What one eats and drinks
- Physical Activity
- Voluntary body movement and exercise
- Independent Living
- Self-met day-to-day needs capacity
- Social Relationships
- Climate of exchange and interactions between people (social, physical and verbal)
- Education and Employment
- Continued learning and work-related activities
- Disease Information*
- Physical and/or diagnostic characteristics of a disease
- General*
- Disease centered community involvement and events
- Treatment and Procedures*
- Information about various treatments and procedures
Three domains were added (marked with an asterisk*) to ensure the entire range of issues encountered within epilepsy clinical care settings were covered. This change was made to address the broader goal of leveraging a web-based patient portal (i.e., Studytrax) to dynamically generate and monitor patient use of targeted, personally relevant disease and treatment-related information, and educational materials.
What's In The Buckets?
Gathering disease-related information and educational materials is necessary, but not sufficient building systems that deliver personally relevant information to patients. Certainly disease information (e.g., seizure type) is one component, but characteristics about the patient, as well as the information source itself are also key components. These later components are general, and thus apply across disease populations. Recommended characteristics that have worked well are presented below. Those looking to catalog items can find a template spreadsheet with appropriate pick-list items here.
- Type
- Description: The media type of item
- Options: Website, Video, Podcast, Text
- Notes: The "Text" option refers to written information to be inserted into a report. Ideally the text is dynamic, rather than static. That is, the text generated should be logic-driven based on patient data values. For instance, Low, Normal, and High may be used to describe a lab value as appropriate.
- Domain
- Description: The item's relevant domain area
- Options: Specified by the model adopted and any modifications. In the current example: Emotional Health, Stress Management, Sleep, Diet and Nutrition, Physical Activity, Independent living, Social Relationships, Education and Employment, Disease Information, General, Treatment and Procedures
- Notes None.
- Disease Relationship
- Description: Whether the item is related to a specific disease (e.g., seizure type) or generally applicable across disease populations (e.g., sleep hygiene)
- Options: General, Disease Specific
- Notes: Within multi-disease informational systems, this characteristic identifies items that are applicable across more than one disease state (e.g., educational video on "MRI – What to expect").
- Audience
- Description: The target audience of the item
- Options: General Public, Scientific
- Notes: Used to identify whether the informational item targets the scientific community (e.g., a journal article) or the general public. The writing style and background knowledge assumptions are typically distinct enough that thought best to present these target types separately.
- Reading Level
- Description: Reading level of the item
- Options: 5Th Grade or below, 6th to 9th Grade, 10th Grade or Above
- Notes: None
- Developmental Level
- Description: The target developmental level of the item
- Options: Lower School, Middle School, High School or Above
- Notes: None
- Access Information
- Description: How the item is accessed
- Options: URL, File Path
- Notes: None
- Target Person(s)
- Description: The target person of the item
- Options: Patient, Caregiver with Adult Patient, Caregiver with Child Patient
- Notes: None.
- Access Link or File Path
- Description: The link or file path of the item
- Options: None
- Notes: None
- Description
- Description: Item Description
- Options: None
- Notes: Summary sentence or two about the item.
Taken together, these characteristics will help further the efforts to successfully connect patients to relevant information. Forthcoming articles will examine other components and examples from various disease populations.


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materials: Deer Antler Crown, Goat Horn(inlaid eyes)
Dimensions: 68mmH X 66mmW X 26mmD
Great display item or Necklace, Netsuke
Humpback Whale / Okimono, Necklace
Materials: Whale Tooth, Goat Horn
Kakapo Necklace .
Material: Deer Antler Crown / Goat Horn(eyes) / New
Endangered Parrot, Kakapo. Flightless, nocturnal and heavyweight New Zealand bird. I used the rim of the crown for expression of the bird. Backside is a feather.
Materials: Deer Antler, Paua shell
Materials: Deer Antler, Goat Horn
Hei Tiki
Materials: Deer Antler Crown, paua shell
Manta ray
material: Cow Bone
Puffer fish / Okimono
Materials: Whale Bone, Mother of Pearl
Cuttlefish Necklace 3
Material: Cow Bone, Paua Shell
Bat / Okimono (small ornament)
Materials: Whale Tooth, Goat Horn
29mm High
Otafuku / Necklace
Material: Deer Antler
Otafuku, the character brings you GOOD FORTUNE.
Bean Pod / Necklace
Material: Deer Antler
Cuttlefish Necklace
carved from Cow Bone with Mother of Pearl Shell and Goat Horn
Cuttlefish #2 . *Sold
Material: Cow Bone, Mother of Pearl / 45mm
Blue Whale / Necklace, Tiny ornament (*individual sale)
Material: Pilot Whale Tooth, Goat horn (can't be made again, because these are the last stock of the material)
Whale on Tusk / Necklace
Material : Wild Pig Tusk, Goat Horn, capped by Cow Bone
Frog . *Sold
Material: Whale Tooth, Bekko(Tortoise Shell) with Gold Leaf
*carved from tip of Whale tooth.
Sansyo-Uo = Japanese Giant Salamander
carved from Black Coral
can be worn as a Necklace
Material: Pilot Whale's Ear Bone
Hei Tiki *Sold
carved from Deer Antler Crown, Paua Shell
carved from Pilot Whale Ear Bone . It is believed that Bat brings happiness and Good fortune in Japan. *can be worn as a necklace
47mm long
Blue Whale
Materials: Whale Bone, Goat Horn(inlaid Eyes)
62mm length
Fugu / Puffer Fish
carved from Whale Bone. Mother of Pearl for eyes
Fugu=Pufferfish is a highly praised food in Japan. Fugu the word is similar with Fuku which means Good Fortune, so it's believed it brings you good fortune.
Tadpoles and Shell
Material : Deer Antler
降り龍 Kudari-Ryu / Dragon from the Heaven (messenger of the god)
Carved from Deer Antler, Red Coral, Mother of Pearl, Goat Horn
can be worn as a Necklace / 79mm wide
Frog . *SOLD
Tiny frog carving from Whale Tooth with Tortoise shell eyes . 21mm
Frog thinking about new world
carved from Deer Antler / finished Nov 2017
* For Sale
Squid Letter Opener
carved from Cow Bone with Goat Horn inlaid
180mm *For Sale
Humpback Whale / ornament, Okimono
Cow Bone (one piece) with Deer Antler Crown Base
for sale
Humpback Whale / Necklace . *Sold
carved from Cow Bone (one piece)
Goat Horn inlaid(eyes)
93mm for sale
Kiwi Bird Skeleton / Necklace
carved from deer antler crown
for sale
Carved from deer antler
Hair Pin / Kanzashi
Carved from Deer Antler
Paua shell on top (like flower)
145mm long for sale
Rocky Shore / Netsuke (can be worn as a necklace) Crab, Starfish and Paua
carved from Deer Antler Crown, Paua shell and mother of Pearl
for sale
Humpback Whale
Carved from Sperm Whale Tooth / Can be worn as a Necklace
Goat Horn eyes * for sale
New Life / Deer Antler
Material: Sperm Whale Tooth + Merino sheep horn + Bull Horn
This octopus Netsuke is beautifully done by using natural colour of the material.
White part is the outside of the tooth and yellower part is the inside ivory. Octopuses change their body colour, so I used the material feature to give it reality. Sold
Material: Wild Pig Tusk
Size: 55mm


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Is EU looking at yesterday's Microsoft?By Julio Franco
European regulators are expected to conclude a five-year antitrust probe of Microsoft this month.
The EU is seeking restrictions that would prevent Microsoft from unfairly using the dominance of Windows to gain control over audio and video on the PC. But the penalties may be too little, too late.
Read more: CNet News.


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The recently announced Surface Book 2 is Windows' strongest laptop ever, and it might be the best choice for your next content creating needs. With a refreshing update to the first model (and the refresh that came out last year), this new device includes a stronger hinge, a larger size, and it's full of power. With all its new features and fixes, some are even considering it a true competitor to Apple's Macbook Pro.
Microsoft has developed some pretty sleek laptops in the past, and the design of the new Surface Book 2 is right in step with previous models in its smooth metal shell. It doubles as a tablet with the simple press of a keyboard button, and users can flip around the display and plug it back into the base with ease.
One of the biggest improvements to the Surface Book is its revamped fulcrum hinge. The major issue with the previous models was the screen moving while typing. While this wasn't much of a problem on a flat surface, it made for an unstable display when on a user's lap. The screen is now sturdier and doesn't move around, even when lifted up.
Attaching and removing the display from its keyboard is overall smoother as well, thanks to better connectors. The hinge, however, still adds a rounded bump to the Surface's profile. That rounded edge doesn't get in the way or cause any problems, but if you're into sleeker laptops this may not be the most aesthetic you're looking for.
The 15-inch Surface Book 2 weighs slightly more than a Macbook Pro, including the keyboard. But the tablet hybrid's powerful new graphics card – the NVIDIA's GTX 1060 GP on the larger model – will definitely make any additional weight worth it. It's much more capable than that of the Macbook Pro's Radeon 555/560 GPUs.
The smaller model of the Surface Book 2 will weigh in at 3.38 to 3.68 pounds, depending on the type of graphics on board. Although the 13-inch Macbook Pro does weighs a mere 3 pounds, Microsoft still comes out on top due to its advanced graphics technology.
Both models of the Surface Book 2 offer beautiful displays. The 13.5-inch features a 3000 x 2000-pixel display, and the 15-inch model features a 3240 x 2160-pixel display. While they aren't quite 4K, they still look very sharp, which is something Microsoft has been improving over time.
Of course with the release of a new Surface device, Microsoft has pushed out the new Surface Pen as well. The original pen debuted with the original Surface laptop and will work just as well with the new devices. Microsoft has been improving on this as well, and many users feel that writing on the Surface feels almost like writing with a pen on paper.
With Intel's new eighth-generation CPUs and improved graphics, both models of the Surface Book 2 handled just about everything thrown their way. These laptops are definitely powerful and user friendly for even the most demanding users.
Microsoft still hasn't released details about pricing, but we can expect that the 13-inch Core i5 model will start at $1,499, and the 15-inch model will start at $2,499. That being said, you can expect to dish out more for the Core i7 model with a dedicated GPU.
With all these new updates, the Surface Pros could be perfect for your next digital masterpiece. What's your take on the new Surface Book 2? If you're an Apple user, do you think you'd make the switch? Let us know in the comments down below!


text: Morocco may be a fascinating doctrine country homogenized from African, Arab and European influences. it's our nearest link to the continent of Africa and a various vacation destination. The country offers an unbelievable quantity of history, culture, art and music along side a desirable geographical landscape incorporating the Sahara Desert, the snow capped chain and therefore the Atlantic outline.A holiday in Morocco isn't complete while not associate degree extended visit to Marrakesh, the Imperial town of Morocco set at the bottom of the chain. There square measure several things to expertise during this town, however you must visit the Jamaa el Fna within the centre of the previous town. This sq. is that the home of fruit crush stalls and snake charmers, dancers and story tellers, magicians and peddlers. it's a toy of colors and as dark falls it becomes a grocery store wherever you'll purchase a number of the superb cookery delights of Morocco and eat them within the chill of the desert evening. Casablanca Casablanca, Morocco's industrial centre, tends to return lower down on the commercial enterprise list, behind the likes of Marrakesh and Rabat; but the city's French colonial inheritance, entwined with the normal Arab culture, ensures there's legion numerous things to try to to and see. aboard the art movement buildings, and previous stone medina alleys, guests will notice museums, palaces, and therefore the second largest house of God within the world. Completed in 1993 and placed on a platform commanding the Atlantic Ocean, the long-lasting Hassan II house of God is that the second-largest house of God within the world, associate degreed one among few hospitable non-Muslims (through chosen radio-controlled tour opportunities lasting around an hour each). The mosque, which might accommodate up to twenty five,000 worshipers, offers Muslims the prospect to hope on a glass floor, giving the distinctive feeling of praying directly over the ocean. everyone seems to be welcome to admire the attractive piece of design at any time from the spacious court, that alone will accommodate an extra eighty,000 people. Located within the same region as Hassan II house of God, La Corniche may be a beach front district giving associate degree array of feeding experiences yet as pools and beach access. On a hot day, the world will be found brimfull with surfers, swimmers and sunbathers, giving a less ancient and a a lot of holiday-escape aspect of Morocco. La Corniche offers a part packed with amusement, and therefore the probability to travel on a refreshing walk on the beach, or maybe a dip within the ocean if you're feeling daring. OuarzazateOuarzazate town itself has several things to visualize, from casbah's, markets, museums, cinema studios, stream banks and previous districts of Taourirt and Tassoumate. we tend to invite you to find out somewhat bit a lot of concerning this town in south Morocco and acquire accustomed to all Ouarzazate monuments and best looking at places. Taourirt casbah Museum: this spectacular building offers you the chance to go to within a true ancient casbah showing the simplest of south Moroccan casbah design right within the heart of Ouarzazate; Sunday Market: most likely one among Ouarzazate less visited place by tourists, this weekly spirited market may be a sensation of sounds and smells. Go within Moroccan individuals existence and be astounded by the exotic feeling of this place; Tifoultoute Kasbah: This eighteenth century quarter placed on the thanks to Zagora, options a robust strategic location for such associate degree ancient quarter. you'll visit within, drink some tea and learn a lot of concerning the region history and culture. Don't miss out the superb read of the vale from the quarter prime terrace; Tassoumaat previous District Medina: this distinctive and nevertheless untouched district close to the stream bank on Ouarzazate's entrance coming back from Marrakesh, guarantees nice interaction with native Berber individuals and provides you the prospect of attending to understand a special and distinctive a part of Ouarzazate. Expect previous mud brick homes, kids taking part in on the streets, girls baking bread, sheep close to the stream, previous zaouias from previous sacred men, etc;


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✔ RE Patch
✔ Treaty Patch
Age I
As soon as you start, separate vills on dif food crates, quickly queue your first batch of villagers when you got 270 food, all but one go to gather food. Quickly build a house. Get all age 1 upgrades (except villager attack/hitpoints upgrade).
Send Wood Trickle Card.
Queue up to about 23 villagers.
Age Up with 2 Settlers or 400 wood. If you use Wood Trickle in your boom, you do not really need 400w option because the trickle provides enough wood for TCs. So, 2 Settlers is a better option in this case.
Aging to II
2nd card is Economic Theory.
Distribute your villager on food/gold to gather 1200 food/1125 gold.
Age Up Very Fast
Aging to III
As soon as you hit Age II, collect Age II 400 wood crates, research 2nd food upgrade. [Only if you aged up with 400 wood)
While aging from II to III keep ~10 villagers on food for continuous vill production, the rest go onto wood.
Age III
Build 2 more Town Centers.
Send Refrigeration and Royal Mint Cards.
Gather extra wood to research second gold upgrade in market.
Distribute your villagers on food/gold to gather 2000 food/1200 gold for Age IV.
Note that with Russia your villagers come in batch of 3 so keep an eye out for housing, use your villager training hotkey to queue 1 batch of villager per Town Center, don't queue too many on each TC or you will miss your aging milestone and fill up your pop limit.
Age Up with Musks, Cossacks or Oprichniks. [On Treaty Patch age up with 1000 coin].
Age IV
Send 2 Factories, put them on wood and upgrade wood production rate.
Tweak your villager distribution to get 4000 food/4000 gold for Age V.
Age Up with 2000 Gold.
Aging to V
Research all market wood upgrades.
Age V
Build Capitol right away, upgrade wood/food/gold.
Build a church, buy Mercantilism (2000 XP) and send all the mill upgrade cards.
Note that after maxing the villagers queue in your Town Centers, you will have 97 villagers (98 if you used 400w age up) in total, you need to delete two (two if you used 400w age up) of existing villagers so the last batch of 3 can come out for max 99 villagers (Do it like a few seconds before the last batch comes put).
Build a mill and a plantation and upgrade them fully first.
Most settlers are on wood now.
When you finish sending Sustainable Agriculture and Food Silos cards, put your villagers on mills.
When you finish sending all plantation cards, put your villagers on plantations.
Distributivism (Wood Trickle) >Economic Theory > > Refrigeration > Royal Mint > Factories > Sustainable Agriculture > Food Silos > Cigar Roller > Textile Mill-> Rum Distillery > Advance Arsenal -> Fencing School > Cavalry Training > anything you need.
Musketeer: your main unit as it's cheap and fast to mass.
Cossack: weaker than other hand cav but lower pop.
Mortar: Send Unicorne Mortars card as soon as you can, probably after all training cards, since your mortar will train 2x faster than your enemy with 1/2 coin cost, use your advantageous mortars to destroy your enemy's forward base and push hard with Sevastopol.
National Redoubt: one of the most important cards if you plan to run, should follow up with Improved Buildings to turn your fort into a highly mobile stronghold which enables you to attack from everywhere. Or just use them as mighty 16500 hitpoint cannons to fortify your forward base.
Oprichnik: very unique unit of Russia, they are hand cavalry but with extremely strong siege and bonus against villager. Don't waste them attacking other hand cavalry. Use them to pick up villagers building forward base and a couple oprichnik around would be handful to push your enemy's base back or to poke a hole on your enemy wall.
Strelet: cheap and weak counter if your enemy is massing infantry. They are Russian version of skirmisher with lower HP, attack and range.
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Skip to 0 minutes and 11 seconds Hello again! In real life, when we have important decisions to make, we often choose to make them using a committee. Having different experts sitting down together, with different perspectives on the problem, and letting them vote, is often a very effective and robust way of making good decisions. The same is true in machine learning. We can often improve predictive performance by having a bunch of different machine learning methods, all producing classifiers for the same problem, and then letting them vote when it comes to classifying an unknown test instance. One of the disadvantages is that this produces output that is hard to analyze.
Skip to 0 minutes and 51 seconds There are actually approaches that try and produce a single comprehensible structure, but we're not going to be looking at any of those. So the output will be hard to analyze, but you often get very good performance. It's a fairly recent technique in machine learning. We're going to look at four methods, called "bagging", "randomization", "boosting", and "stacking". They're all implemented in Weka, of course. The idea with bagging, we want to produce several different decision structures. Let's say we use J48 to produce decision trees, then we want to produce slightly different decision trees. We can do that by having several different training sets of the same size. We can get those by sampling the original training set.
Skip to 1 minute and 41 seconds In fact, in bagging, you sample the set "with replacement", which means that sometimes you might get two of the same [instances] chosen in your sample. We produce several different training sets, and then we build a model for each one – let's say a decision tree – using the same machine learning scheme, or using some other machine learning scheme. Then we combine the predictions of the different models by voting, or if it's a regression situation you would average the numeric result rather than voting on it. This is very suitable for learning schemes that are called "unstable". Unstable learning schemes are ones where a small change in the training data can make a big change in the model.
Skip to 2 minutes and 28 seconds Decision trees are a really good example of this. You can get a decision tree and just make a tiny little change in the training data and get a completely different kind of decision tree. Whereas with Naïve Bayes, if you think about how Naïve Bayes works, little changes in the training set aren't going to make much difference to the result of Naïve Bayes, so that's a "stable" machine learning method. In Weka we have a "Bagging" classifier in the meta set.
Skip to 2 minutes and 54 seconds I'm going to choose meta > Bagging: here it is. We can choose here the bag size – this is saying a bag size of 100%, which is going to sample the training set to get another set the same size, but it's going to sample "with replacement". That means we're going to get different sets of the same size each time we sample, but each set might contain repeats of the original training [instances]. Here we choose which classifier we want to bag, and we can choose the number of bagging iterations here, and a random-number seed. That's the bagging method. The next one I want to talk about is "random forests". Here, instead of randomizing the training data, we randomize the algorithm.
Skip to 3 minutes and 42 seconds How you randomize the algorithm depends on what the algorithm is. Random forests are when you're using decision tree algorithms. Remember when we talked about how J48 works? – it selects the best attribute for splitting on each time. You can randomize this procedure by not necessarily selecting the very best, but choosing a few of the best options, and randomly picking amongst them. That gives you different trees every time. Generally, if you bag decision trees, if you randomize them and bag the result, you get better performance. In Weka, we can look under "tree" classifiers for RandomForest.
Skip to 4 minutes and 31 seconds Again, that's got a bunch of parameters. The maximum depth of the trees produced – I think 0 would be unlimited depth. The number of features we're going to use. We might select, say 4 features; we would select from the top 4 features – every time we decide on what decision to put in the tree, we select that from among the top 4 candidates. The number of trees we're going to produce, and so on. That's random forests.
Skip to 5 minutes and 1 second Here's another kind of algorithm: it's called "boosting".
Skip to 5 minutes and 5 seconds It's iterative: new models are influenced by the performance of previously built models. Basically, the idea is that you create a model, and then you look at the instances that are misclassified by that model. These are the hard instances to classify, the ones it gets wrong. You put extra weight on those instances to make a training set for producing the next model in the iteration. This encourages the new model to become an "expert" for instances that were misclassified by all the earlier models. The intuitive justification for this is that in a real life committee, committee members should complement each other's expertise by focusing on different aspects of the problem.
Skip to 5 minutes and 50 seconds In the end, to combine them we use voting, but we actually weight models according to their performance. There's a very good scheme called AdaBoostM1, which is in Weka and is a standard and very good boosting implementation – it often produces excellent results. There are few parameters to this as well; in particular the number of iterations. The final ensemble learning method is called "stacking". Here we're going to have base learners, just like the learners we talked about previously. We're going to combine them not with voting, but by using a meta-learner, another learner scheme that combines the output of the base learners. We're going to call the base learners level-0 models, and the meta-learner is a level-1 model.
Skip to 6 minutes and 43 seconds The predictions of the base learners are input to the meta-learner. Typically you use different machine learning schemes as the base learners to get different experts that are good at different things. You need to be a little bit careful in the way you generate data to train the level-1
Skip to 7 minutes and 1 second model: this involves quite a lot of cross-validation, I won't go into that. In Weka, there's a meta classifier called "Stacking", as well as "StackingC" – which is a more efficient version of Stacking. Here is Stacking; you can choose different meta-classifiers here, and the number of stacking folds. We can choose different classifiers; different level-0 classifiers, and a different meta-classifier. In order to create multiple level-0 models, you need to specify a meta-classifier as the level-0 model. It gets a little bit complicated; you need to fiddle around with Weka to get that working. That's it then. We've been talking about combining multiple models into ensembles to produce an ensemble for learning, and the analogy is with committees of humans.
Skip to 7 minutes and 58 seconds Diversity helps, especially when learners are unstable. And we can create diversity in different ways. In bagging, we create diversity by resampling the training set. In random forests, we create diversity by choosing alternative branches to put in our decision trees. In boosting, we create diversity by focusing on where the existing model makes errors; and in stacking, we combine results from a bunch of different kinds of learner using another learner, instead of just voting.
Ensemble learning
Sometimes committees make better decisions than individuals. An ensemble of different classification methods can be applied to the same problem and vote on the classification of test instances. Bagging, randomization, boosting and stacking are ensemble-based classification methods. It is good to have diverse classifiers in the ensemble, and these methods create diversity in different ways. Instead of voting, stacking combines results from an ensemble of different kinds of learner using another learner.
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Does your cat meow non-stop? Incessantly at times? Peter does. And we think it's because he's bored. He's healthy otherwise--he gets enough water and food and snuggle time but he is an indoor cat and probably wishes he could safely roam the concrete jungle.
We're looking to get Peter a friend. His mom just had another litter, so hopefully we will bring her home as soon as we can (when her shots are done and it's safe for her to be brought home).
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- Private Pool
- 5 Adult Bikes
- 6 Passenger Golf Cart will be provided
- Gulf Front
- Sprawling Porches
- Complimentary beach set up each morning which includes: 2 beach chairs and 1 umbrella (Service will be provided March 1 - October 31st)
- Parking for five vehicles
- Complete Clean Linen Participant - ALL linens, including comforters laundered upon every checkout
EXECUTIVE ACCESS: Guests staying at this 360 Blue property have access to limited golf tee times at Shark's Tooth and Camp Creek Golf Courses, the tennis courts at Shark's Tooth Club and complimentary use of two kayaks for one hour per day, as well as 20% off stand up paddle boards at the WaterColor Boathouse.
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The second level features four of the home's bedrooms. The master suite showcases a king bed and a private en suite bathroom with a shower. Two additional king bed guestrooms also each offer a private bathroom with a shower, and the home's bunk room boasts two twin-over-twin-over-twin bunk beds (that's right—two sets of triple-decker twin bunks!) and a shared bathroom with a shower/tub combo. Down on the first floor is the home's final guestroom, which features a king bed and private bathroom with a shower. A spacious third living area, a full-size refrigerator/freezer, and a wet bar provide even more space and amenities in this wonderful home.
Sprawling areas on the second-floor porch and lower deck create incredible outdoor relaxing spaces, and guests can step right onto the warm, sugar white sand beach. This home is also equipped with 5 custom 360 Blue adult beachcruiser bikes, which provide the perfect way to experience the sights and sounds of our charming 30A towns.
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Everything was perfect! Thanks so much for helping create so many great memories. Will be back next year!
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We could not be any happier to hear how much you all enjoyed your time with us! We especially loved the photo you shared with us! Thank you for staying with 360 Blue, we look forward to seeing you again soon!
Beautiful home right on a clean white sand beach. only drawback was the ground floor bedroom area had a stong mold odor and is inly accessible from outside the home (no indoor connection to the second floor where the heart if the home is.
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We are so delighted that you enjoyed your stay with us in Seagrove! We will be sure to share your feedback regarding the mold smell to our property manager so that it may be looked into and corrected if found. Thank you for joining us, we hope to host you all again soon!


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Fears Finsbury Park 'road rage killer' has fled UK
Police believe suspect in fatal stabbing of delivery driver is in Austria
10 January, 2020 — By Sam Ferguson
Taki Eddine Boudhane's mother Saida Boudhane and brother Islam with close friend Zakaria Gherabi at the scene of the stabbing
DETECTIVES fear a van driver suspected of killing a chef in a possible road rage stab attack may have already fled the country to Austria.
Taki Eddine Boudhane, 30, who also worked as a delivery driver, died in Finsbury Park on Friday night.
It is understood there was an altercation with a driver of a white VW Caddy-type van, who followed Mr Boudhane's scooter to the junction of Lennox Road and Charteris Road.
Mr Boudhane was stabbed after a struggle and later died at the scene.
Taki Eddine Boudhane
A witness and close friend, who asked not to be named, said Mr Boudhane was praying as he died.
His brother, Islam, reached the scene only to see emergency services desperately trying to save Mr Boudhane's life.
"I saw my brother lying down on the floor," he said. "There was blood everywhere. Officers didn't let me see. They were trying to bring him back to life.
One was giving him blood, while one was massaging his heart to try and bring him back. I knew it when I saw him, he was gone. But I kept saying to myself, he's going to wake up."
Islam added: "I was shouting my name because if he hears my name I know he'll get up, as if that will make him get up. But he never did."
The white van was found abandoned by police on Saturday morning.
Police in Finsbury Park after the stabbing
Speaking to the Tribune at the Finsbury Park Muslim Welfare House, Islington's police borough commander Chief Superintendent Raj Kohli said police suspect the killer flew to Austria the morning after the stabbing.
"There is a person of interest who we believe flew to Austria," he said. "I'm confident this investigation will come to a conclusion."
He added: "I'm a father too. The death of anyone is emotional, but no family should have to go through this."
Detective Chief Inspector Neil John, who is leading the murder investigation, said it was making good progress, and appealed for anyone with information to come forward.
"This is a busy thoroughfare and it is very likely that members of the public would have seen a fight in the road which they may also have captured on their phones," he said.
"The driver and the person believed responsible for this tragic matter is now the subject of a police manhunt.
"At this time I am unable to release any further information concerning the identity of the driver as this may hinder the ongoing police investigation. The incident itself appears to have been spontaneous and not connected to, or as a result of, anything other than a traffic altercation."


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After being told that Prasoon Joshi had publicly run her 'past profession' down, 34-year-old Sunny Leone said: "I don't know who Prasoon Joshi is. I will Google him and then I will comment." Mr Joshi had said: ""I don't support Sunny Leone's past profession"
"It is a movie which is produced by Aamir Khan sahib's Aamir Khan Productions. It's being directed by Advait Chauhan. Prasoon Joshi is writing the lyrics for it. But it's very early to talk about it," the music maestro said
Mr Bhansali and Mr Joshi received the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award
"When years of hard work get recognised, especially by the government, one feels humbled and motivated. Amongst my other awards, this honour is the most special because it would mean a lot to my parents and elders," he said
On Ganesh Chaturthi, the Ambanis opened the gates of Antilia to celebrate the festival with grandeur.
Vidya Balan, Ekta Kapoor And Others Attend Central Board Of Film Certification's Logo Unveiling Event
Kangana Ranaut's Manikarnika will open in cinemas on January 25
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There is a podcast for just about any aspect of business life you can imagine–#entrepreneurlife, #bossbabelife, #contentmarketerlife–you name it. So. Many. Choices. But you have to start somewhere, and so we did. If you are looking for inspiration to help you grow as an entrepreneur, tips to introduce more work-life balance into your world, or career insights to help you find your purpose, then check out our list of recommended, must-listen-to podcasts.
"The Goal Digger Podcast"
Hosted by marketing guru Jenna Kutcher, "The Goal Digger Podcast" empowers women to "dig in, do the work, and tackle your biggest goals" and "live more and work less." Kutcher has seemingly navigated many of the topics she discusses. She gave up a "nightmare" of a corporate job to build her own business, which has become a lucrative, motivational personal brand.
Sample Episode: A recent edition featured lifestyle influencer Sazan Hendrix, who discussed navigating new "seasons" of her life and work, including how motherhood and the evolution of the influencer space impacted her business, how she conquered fear, change, and uncertainty, and realigned her entrepreneurial path along the way.
"Secrets of the Most Productive People"
From Fast Company magazine comes a podcast focused on how to "work smarter instead of harder." (See a modern work theme?) Hosts Kate Davis and Anisa Purbasari share pro tips, hacks, and insights on everything from the morning routines of successful people and the plausibility of four-day work weeks to managing digital distraction and staving off burnout. Each episode is short and sweet, at 30 minutes.
Sample Episode: Are you crazy busy, but still not getting everything done? Join the club. Then listen to Episode 8: "How Can We Feel Less Busy?" with time management expert Laura Vanderkam, who tells us how to slow down, expand our perception of time, and work with intention.
"Don't Keep Your Day Job"
Host Cathy Heller spotlights creative entrepreneurs and experts, like Seth Godin, Mark Manson, and Angela Duckworth, and asks interviewees to share ways we can find more joy and purpose in life while making a living doing what we love. Episodes also pack healthy doses of the latest thinking on building a business, from disrupting the status quo to designing your creative path.
Sample Episode: Email has made a comeback in a big way. Heller talks with the co-founders of the seven-million-subscribers-strong, Oprah-approved e-news digest Daily Skimm, who reveal how they developed their millennial women-focused company, which now includes an app, book, and podcast (natch).
"Creative Pep Talk"
Creativity comes in ebbs and flows. In this podcast, host and illustrator Andy J. Miller hopes to spark more flows than ebbs as he sheds light on the intersection of creativity and business. Topics include influencer marketing for creatives, unlocking your creative biz potential, and approaching creativity and business with a healthy mindset.
Sample Episode: In "Starbucks Doesn't Sell Coffee: This is the Secret to Unbelievable Growth," Miller draws analogies and lessons for artists from our fave mass latte-maker, specifically, how to generate consistent income in your creative career and create art that sells.
"The Tim Ferriss Show"
Lifestyle design guru Ferriss, the bestselling author of "The 4-Hour Workweek," chats with a variety of successful people, from Michael Pollan and LeBron James to Aisha Taylor and Cindy Eckert, sharing takeaways to help you live your best biz life.
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5 Simple Ways to Clean Your Internal Database
- By tdillon - Apr 25, 2013
- Direct Mail Marketing, Small Business Ownership
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According to the US Post Office, mailing lists deteriorate at a rate of 2% per month. This means that every year, 20-25% of a list has "gone bad". For those of us who engage in database marketing, that can result in a significant amount of wasted resources.
Your internal database is one of your most important assets! Marketing to your database can be incredibly powerful and profitable, but only if your mailing list is accurate and clean. To help ensure you're maintaining a healthy database, and maximizing your hearing aid sales, we've compiled 5 strategies to keep 100% of your database accurate and profitable.
1) Segment
Analyze your database and segment it into smaller groups of similar records. This will allow you to easily adjust your marketing message and better target the contacts in your list.
-Which marketing communication enticed them to book an appointment
-If they currently wear hearing aids or not
-Which brand of hearing aids they use
2) Mail First Class
Send your next database direct mail promotion first class and undeliverable mail will be returned to you. You'll be able to identify records that will need to be updated or removed – saving you money on direct mail that wouldn't reach its intended audience.
3) Data Services
National Change of Address (NCOA), deduping services, and list standardization help to clean and maintain your mailing list. Hearing Aid Marketing, among other mailing companies, provide these services for a small fee.
4) Customer Surveys
Mailing follow up, research, and customer surveys can provide valuable information about your business, employees, products, customers and prospects.
5) Office Skills
Whenever a lead calls your practice, be sure your receptionist is capturing and storing all of their information. Whether they come in for an appointment or not, they should be in your database and receive marketing materials.
Maintain and promote to a high quality mailing list. With increased list deliverability and accuracy, you will see an increase in conversions and ROI.


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Fearne Cotton has a crush on Leonardo
The British presenter is worried the Revolutionary Road star will leave her speechless when she hosts the red carpet at the BAFTA Awards on Sunday.entertainment Updated: Feb 04, 2009, 18:55 IST
The British presenter is worried the Revolutionary Road star will leave her speechless when she hosts the red carpet at the BAFTA Awards on Sunday.
She said: "He is absolutely gorgeous and even better looking in the flesh. Oh my God, yes! I'm slightly concerned I'll just stare at him and won't be able to speak. Which really wouldn't be cool!
"I got 0.5 seconds with Leo at the Golden Globes last month so I'm hoping for a good five minutes this time.
"Five minutes and maybe something juicy from him - and an email address. email@example.com or something."
Leonardo, 34, isn't the only star attending the prestigious ceremony Fearne admires - she also hopes to meet 'Doubt' actress Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and his partner Angelina Jolie.
She added: "Meryl Streep is amazing - I worship her. I'd be over the moon to meet her, even just for 30 seconds. And I met Brad and Angelina briefly at the Globes. They are like these totally non-human, shiny, beautiful creatures."
Brad and Angelina have been named in the Leading Actor and Leading Actress categories respectively for their roles in 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and 'Changeling'.
The Orange British Academy Film Awards take place at The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, and will be hosted by Jonathan Ross.


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People's Open Chat is a Rocket.Chat instance that is being hosted on the sudomesh server. This is a place for documenting it's configuration and troubleshooting bugs related to it. The instance can be found at https://peoplesopen.net/chat.
Troubleshooting =
If you receive a "not found" error, such as 502 Bad Gateway, when going to https://peoplesopen.net/chat, try,
1. Reaching it by its port like so https://peoplesopen.net:3001
2. If this also fails, log into the sudomesh server and restart the service by going to /var/www/Rocket.Chat.runner and running ./run.sh
Install Rocket.Chat
We chose to install Rocket.Chat manually on an Ubuntu 14.04 server, following this guide.


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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is seeking public comments regarding returning lab results to a participant in human subject research. More information can be found on the study's website. Comments received by Friday, October 20, 2017 will be considered at their October meeting. All "written information shared with the committee will be placed within a Public Access File (PAF), and may be provided to the public upon request."


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Maldives islands have a wide range of activities water-sports freaks. Appease your craving to play with water in Maldives Island Resorts to your heart's content. It adds a speck of adventure to your lifestyle.
Anantara Naladhu Maldives offer courses on advanced open-water, wreck diving and rescue dives. Once in Naladhu, you would come across many adventures. At least 20 significant dive spots are close to the island. Your dive will be a guided one with utmost safety and reassurance. You don't have to bring your diving equipment, the Dive Centre has tem all. Your House Master will look into other affairs like your lunch.
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If you are a professional windsurfer, the centre got boards and sails for you with guidance to pick the best. The beginners will also have an opportunity learn how to handle wind and waves.
Offered complimentarily by Naladhu Maldives, Kayaks are usually meant for early birds, but available at most times. It is a great chance to feel the tranquil lagoon.
A canoe has several purposes: touring, white-water canoeing and recreation to name a few. Although this is a lightweight narrow boat, it demands strong construction due to its purposes. Today's canoes are mostly made of moulded plastic or fibreglass. Although it is now considered a water sport, it was a mode of transport during early times. In 1936 canoeing entered the Olympics.
In outer form, canoes resemble a kayak. Anyone would mistake kayak for a canoe. The best way to differentiate a canoe from a kayak is checking the paddles. The canoe paddles have one blade, whereas kayak ones have two blades.
This water sport needs riding a wakeboard on water. This is combination of water skiing, snowboarding and other surfing methods.
You should use the surfboard to paddle to a wave. With that the surfboard crosses the water. All it requires is your skill and adrenaline. Sometimes you may have to face unpredictable consequences, but that is what surfing is.
A big rubber tube, which is circular in shape, is pulled from a boat at a certain speed. This does not require much skill. You need to hold on without letting yourself fall as the boat turns. This is also known as biscuiting. A pro can well afford to jump off the boat and be airborne. They can also roll out of the tube and get back to the tube with the same motion.


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American history classes are notorious for excluding entire groups of people without even noticing the problem. For playwright and actor Brian Quijada, this proved to be a gift in disguise. While learning about the civil rights movement in elementary school, Quijada asked the teacher where Latinos—his people—would have sat on a segregated bus. She answered, "They weren't around." Even as a kid, Quijada was dissatisfied by the answer. It led to a lifetime of questions, culminating in Where Did We Sit on the Bus?, a one-man show he wrote and stars in, which runs at City Theatre Jan.19-Feb. 24.
"That was the very first time that I had an identity crisis, I guess, as a Latino boy," says Quijada. "It led me to go home and ask a bunch more questions about where we came from, who we were, who I was."
Described as a "hip-hop autobiography," the show, directed by Chay Yew, explores family, art, and identity through music. Quijada plays the ukulele, harmonica, a hybrid keyboard/drum machine, and an iPad used for live looping. He describes the show as part storytelling, part stand-up, and part personal reflection. For Quijada, whose parents emigrated from El Salvador before he was born, becoming an artist was almost unheard of, and the play grapples with what it means for him even to be performing it.
"I feel very lucky that I'm going on stage every night and talking about my family coming to the United States, being undocumented immigrants, to make me, to have me have this life on stage telling their story."tweet this
"I'm the first artist that my parents have ever met, me and my brother," says Quijada, whose brother is also an actor. "It's kind of an explanation of what it means to be a storyteller trying to make a professional living doing what no one in our family history has ever done before."
Quijada wrote parts of the play throughout his life—poems, letters, journal entries—without even realizing it. "In the play, I go through my entire life, I shout out the age that I am," says Quijada. "It's really cool that there are parts of this play that are actually my voice at 16."
Although the story Quijada tells in Where Did We Sit is not overtly political, any piece of art right now that deals with immigration is set against the backdrop of a national conflict over the topic, which has resulted in detention centers, protests, and the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history. Quijada is aware of this in every aspect of making and performing his play.
"I went through security to get here from New York and got my luggage secured by a TSA [agent] that isn't receiving a paycheck because of a debate regarding a border wall," he says. "I feel very lucky that I'm going on stage every night and talking about my family coming to the United States, being undocumented immigrants, to make me, to have me have this life on stage telling their story."


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Mexican Ambassador to Tehran Ulises Canchola Gutierrez expressed delight over Isfahan sponsoring a water festival, and hoped that nations around the globe will follow suit keeping in mind the global water scarcity dilemma.
"Sponsoring the water festival is both an interesting and an important move," said the ambassador addressing the closing ceremony of the 2nd National Festival on Films, Photographs and Manifestations of Water held at Isfahan's Kowsar Hotel on Thursday.
He said Iran and Mexico share many common problems, such as water scarcity, and festivals like this one can contribute "to culture building on optimizing water usage as a national and international responsibility," IRNA reported.
He highlighted the right choice of films and photographs as the main themes of the national festival, noting that "these arts can play an effective role in promoting the right culture of water usage."
A total of 2000 photos and 248 feature, documentary, and animated films from 581 artists were submitted to the festival secretariat this year, of which the selection committee chose 124 photos, 22 feature films, 33 documentaries, and 17 animations to be displayed.
The winners of each section were awarded at the closing ceremony in the presence of provincial, national, and international authorities, the participating photographers and cinematographers and a huge number of enthusiasts.


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Mind Mapping is a system that enables you to do many things.
It is a non linear graphical way to represent ideas and concepts.
As a visual thinking tool, the power of Mind Mapping lies in its simplicity.
When using a Mind Map, information is structured in a way that resembles much more closely how your brain actually works.
It is an activity that is both analytical and creative, engaging the brain in a broader and richer way, and helping with all its cognitive functions.
Because of this Mind Mapping is a great tool to encourage creativity and thinking outside the box.
You can use Mind Mapping as a preparation tool which enables;
- Planning
- Brainstorming
- Problem Solving
- Analyses
- Researching and consolidating information from multiple sources
- Memorization
- Structuring a Presentation or Meeting
You can also use it in the moment, such as in a meeting where it can help with:
- Note taking
- Ordering and store information.
- Gaining insight on complex subjects
- Jogging your creativity
- Generating new ideas
- Comprehension and synthesis
Mind Mapping can be done with pens and paper, or with software on a computer.
Below is an example of a Mind map used to organize a meeting.
At Craft of Communication we use Mind mapping as a tool in various contexts.
The feedback is overwhelmingly, and consistently, positive.