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Mar Gregorios Ibrahim is one of the bishops that stayed with his people in Aleppo during the war and the attacks. He is a close, long-time friend of the Community of Sant'Egidio. He was with us throughout the long journey of the "Spirit of Assisi", a quarter of a century of threads of dialogue between believers and men of good will, between religions, recreating, each time, the ability to live together. Even during the wars. The war in Bosnia, the war in Mozambique, whose peace agreement was signed exactly twenty years ago in Rome, on October 4. Aleppo, along with him and his people, until three months ago was a place of co-existence and hospitality. Even for close to 50,000 Iraqi refugees.
The appeal that Mar Gregorios Ibrahim launched in Il Corriere della Sera, through Antonio Ferrari, echoes those of bishops and priests of different Christian denominations who had to flee from Homs along with almost 100,000 Christians. It echoes the concerns and the dramatic plight of millions of Syrians. An alternative must be found to the war in Syria, where the simple act of being able to leave your house in safety has become a dream and where not only peaceful co-existence and human dignity are in danger, but the very integrity of the nation is in danger.
The Community of Sant'Egidio feels the pain of the Syria's wounds as its own. Together with Franciscan fathers and Jesuits, it has launched aid plans for victims and displaced persons inside the country. In Lebanon, among the refugees of every origin, it has just expanded a plan to aid 600 families in Beirut, 400 refugee families in the East Bekaa and 200 families in North Bekaa: health and food support as well as the opening of two schools for about one thousand children.
The Community of Sant'Egidio offered an occasion for representatives of the Syrian opposition to meet in Rome in order to draft a joint platform. With the Rome Appeal, eleven political and social movements recommended a course for a political solution to the Syrian crisis. The Rome Appeal continued on the ground. Other movements and Syrian political forces have demonstrated in recent weeks the decision to strengthen the request for a political solution and the end of violence and war. Some at risk of their lives. Like Abdulaziz al-Khayer, kidnapped last week in mysterious circumstances on the road to the airport in Damascus. While the United Nations reports human rights violations and unjustifiable violence on both sides and while the U.N. and Arab League envoy Brahimi has made contact with the different sides, the Community of Sant'Egidio supports the efforts of everyone in favor of achieving a democratic future for Syria and an immediate end to the violence: a political and not a shattering military way out of the present escalation.
The Community of Sant'Egidio confirms its willingness, initiative and efforts to achieve, as soon as possible, an effective cease-fire that enables the start of a national dialogue between all prominent figures in the crisis.
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Back from Camping!
Well, the Microcampus kids, Ms. Stagg, and I went on a three-day, two-night camping outing, settling in at the Taoxi tea plantation, about an hour uphill from Dali Old Town. Good times, strong winds (with slightly stronger tents, fortunately), and a good time had by all. For many it was their first time camping while bringing in supplies (food, tents, water), so the packs were lighter this morning on the way down. Good stuff.
Back at it tomorrow--students working on inquiry projects and service learning plans that they made before the camping trip. For me, it's catching up on a bit of rest and relaxation!
A few days out in fresh air with a bunch of newby campers. I hope some of them will come to love the fresh air and tent as much as I have! Good stuff indeed.
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Hey Andy,
So good to hear . . . it's been amazing to watch the kids really work together on things, and great to have the time to allow some natural exploration/mistake making/retooling/tweaking/success cycles to take place. This is such a treat at times!


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If you are coming to Sunday worship with us, we encourage you to check our calendar to verify worship times. Most Sundays we follow our standard schedule of two services, one at 8:30 a.m. and one at 11:00 a.m.
However, on holiday week-ends we often hold only one worship service at 10 a.m. (week-ends such as Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's). The church calendar will provide you with the correct times for the specific Sunday you are coming to worship.
In addition to Sunday worship, during the seasons of Advent and Lent we hold special weekly Wednesday evening worship services. On Maundy Thursday and Good Friday of Holy Week we also have commemorative evening worship services. All evening services are usually held at 7:00 p.m. The church calendar will provide you with the correct times for the specific day you are coming to worship.


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In our continuing milking of Kindle 2 hype, here's another e-reader story for your reading pleasure.
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Once you've downloaded an ePub book, simply upload it via Bookworm's site, and you'll have access to it from your computer or mobile device. If you have an iPhone, there is an option to view in the book in the e-book reader Stanza, if you have that application installed. You'll also be able to pick up where you left off reading as you move across devices.
O'Reilly Labs recently invited principal Bookworm developer Liza Daly to bring the open-source software into O'Reilly Labs' research-and-development space.
Liza had the following to say about the opportunity: "Most importantly, core Bookworm code will remain open-source. If you would like to use Bookworm code, even commercially, you're encouraged to do so."
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The second clue in The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery Sweet as Pie Club stitch-a-long was released on June 15th. Each month a new pie is released as part of the cross-stitch pattern. This month is Key Lime Pie! After stitching it, I couldn't resist creating a Key Lime Pie Kawaii Cuddler too! You can … [Read more...]
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Are there any Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery fans? Amanda & Ashleigh create THE cutest cross-stitch patterns! My stitchin' time is limited with my hookin' addiction, but I still "collect" (or is it hoard?!) all their adorable patterns. Not only are they talented, they are two of the nicest gals...AND … [Read more...]


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The Hive, JCube, BP Cube and Hub 21 are launching the Go Global Silicon Valley (GGSV) program in partnership with US Market Access Center (USMAC) to fast-track innovative emerging technology companies who are targeting global markets through Silicon Valley, the leading startup ecosystem for high-tech innovation and development in the world. The program consists of two phases.
You will participate in a four-day intensive and interactive bootcamp delivered by USMAC and The Hive, JCube, BpCube, Hub21 teams. The bootcamp will be focused on the unique corporate culture of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. Content covers the best practices on value proposition development, business model refinement, pitch perfection and tips on generating meetings with potential prospective customers, partners and/or investors the 'Silicon Valley way'.
You will have the opportunity for ongoing one-to-one US relevant mentoring sessions with the USMAC Team to help you apply the learning from the bootcamp to your business. On the last day of the bootcamp your pitches will be evaluated along with other important criteria, to assess your readiness to progress to the US-based Phase 2.
The best performing companies in the Boot Camp might have the opportunity to fly to the Usa for an intensive period of market validation.
We will draw upon the following experienced instructors and mentors to conduct the 4-day boot camp.
Chris is a serial entrepreneur with over 30 years' experience as an entrepreneur. Chris started and sold his first company while in college. Since then, he has been involved in founding eight more startups. One was sold to Electronic Data Systems in the early 1990's. Another, Avanade, was founded in late 1999. When Chris left in 2009, the company had reached $1B USD in revenue with operations in almost 30 countries. In addition to his role as co-CEO of the USMAC, Chris is an Industry Fellow at UC Berkeley and a partner in a venture capital firm.
Alfredo joined US MAC in 2004 as a mentor and then took over as Co-CEO in 2010, where he expanded US MAC's partner programs and introduced the "Go Global" Silicon Valley accelerator program. Alfredo has over 25 years of business development and management consulting experience in the information technology sector. He has advised over 150 early-stage technology companies in his career and he also worked with large multinationals such as Adobe, Microsoft, Nortel Networks, Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Prior to US MAC, Alfredo was president and co-founder of two Canadian digital media companies, where he established offices in Ottawa, Toronto, and San Francisco, California. Alfredo is a certified Kauffman FastTrac instructor and teaches the "Tech Venture" and "Growth Venture" curricula to foreign entrepreneurs and economic development groups worldwide.
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Apply by June 15 – Boot Camp will take place Jun 26-29 (4 days).
Am I eligible? The Go Global Program is designed for technology startup companies who are developing a specific global market entry strategy. The Program is best suited for companies with customer-ready products and financial traction (revenue).
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The programme will be delivered by US Market Access Center (USMAC). They have developed and delivered similar programmes over the last 17 years assisting technology companies to enter the US market. To date they have worked with over 1,800 companies from more than 50 countries around the world. The USMAC programme design has been developed with contributions from faculty members, advisors and experts from notable accelerators, incubators and institutions including The Kauffman Foundation, The Center for Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley, 500 Startups, Garage Technology Ventures, and others. USMAC has a strong working relationship with both Rocket Space in San Francisco and BootUp World in Menlo Park, which are vibrant co-working space and canters for high-growth, seed-funded technology start-ups and corporate open innovation programmes.
The Hive is a certified incubator from the Italian Ministry of Economic Development since February 2014 which obtained the TUV certification, related to the incubation and acceleration services on November 2015. It's one the top ten university associated business incubators in Europe selected by UBI GLOBAL on October 2015. They aims to promote economic development and job creation by integrating talents, technologies, know-how and capital within a network that promotes the growth of new business. The Hive's mission is to help entrepreneurs and professionals to start, revitalize, quickly and successfully grow their business by integrating excellence and passion of the entrepreneur, professional, startupper.
Jcube is a hub that aims to foster the innovation ecosystem in Italy and the Adriatic area, organising initiatives and providing physical infrastructure, network and specific know-how to support entrepreneurship. Born as an Incubator for startups, JCube is expanding its facilities and activities to become the region's leading technology park. In 2015 it inaugurated the Fab Space (additive manufacturing laboratory) and started various Open Innovation projects (promoting external innovation and open R&D for corporate) and Acceleration programs (supporting start-ups).
BP Cube is a management consulting firm for startup and enterprise incubator, which overlooks on the entrepreneurial panorama as first enterprise incubator of the province of Pesaro and Urbino. It has the objective of supplying advice and the correct competences to the development of entrepreneurial ideas.
Hub 21 is the Scientific, Technological and Cultural Pole of Ascoli Piceno. Hub 21 upholds the birth and the development of startup. It attracts innovative enterprises, stimulates and supports the processes of innovation of existing enterprises.


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Home > Journals > COSA > Vol. 2 (2008) > No. 3
Volume 2, Number 3 (2008)
Applicability of multiplicative renormalization method for a certain function
Izumi Kubo, Hui-Hsiung Kuo, and Suat Namli
Interacting Fock space versus full Fock module
Luigi Accardi and Michael Skeide
General equilibrium asset pricing under regime switching
Robert J Elliott, Hong Miao, and Jin Yu
An extension of the Itô integral
Wided Ayed and Hui-Hsiung Kuo
A class of extreme X-harmonic functions
John Verzani
A decomposition of multiple Wiener integrals by the Lévy process and Lévy Laplacian
Atsushi Ishikawa
Limits of bifractional Brownian noises
Makoto Maejima and Ciprian A Tudor
Optimal hedging of path-dependent options in discrete time incomplete market
Norman Josephy, Lucy Kimball, and Victoria Steblovskaya
Distribution and propagation properties of superprocesses with general branching mechanisms
Zenghu Li and Xiaowen Zhou


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At Nautical Detailers llc in Wilmington, NC, we provide answers to all of your important questions about our product and services.
Can I get this clear coat product from someone else in your area?
No, we are the exclusive dealer for the Carolina's.
How long does it take to apply?
It depends on your boat's length and width, whether it's an open bow or center console and whether it has a cabin. Once we speak with you, we will be able to give you a more accurate answer. Generally a few hours.
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We have 3rd party vendors that have been vetted by us to provide detailing services.
Regarding MagicStrip-Pro
What if I need a longer strip for my boat? No problem, we do custom orders.
Contact us threw e-mail and one of our advisers will touch base with you to attend to your requirements.
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It is not made to last forever. We've left MagicStrip-Pro on more than one boat for a complete season in a salt water environment... At one point in the life cycle the clarity
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This is a topic that comes up often. The products out there that are not formulated by the chemists to make the product a "breathable" product is the issue. These products are made under the assumption that you will not own your boat for over 4 years. Over time the Gel Coat begins it's deterioration process which is the cause of the yellowing and or cracking effect. Our product is made to allow what ever it bonds to to breath.
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Washing your boat with soap & water after every use.
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This range of economy, fifteen-way, IEC outlet, AC mains power distribution panels with a 20 amp Powercon inlet and Powercon 'loop-out' outlet, is housed in a compact 1U rackmount steel case. The loop-out feature provides an un-switched, direct loop-through power outlet to supply equipment that must remain powered when the MDU is switched off, or to supply to a second MDU. All versions have on the front panel an illuminated, power rocker switch or an un-switched, LED power-present indicator, fuse and bi-colour LED indication of power status for each of the output channels. Inlet and outlets are on the rear panel.
NOTE: Current drawn from the 'loop-output' must be included in the total current calculation. Care must be taken not to exceed the maximum total load of the MDU.
The fuses on the front panel have an adjacent bi-colour LED. Green illuminated indicates that the circuit is powered correctly. Red illuminated indicates that the fuse has failed.
Outputs are numbered front and rear for easy identification and a designation-strip holder with snap-on cover is fitted on the front panel. The paper strips supplied may be inserted before or after installation; 7.5mm of printable height is available. Templates for printing designation strip labels, available as a DWG file for AutoCAD and compatible applications, can be downloaded from the appropriate product page on the Canford website.
Spare designation-strip inserts (not suitable for printers) 45-3082 and spare clear covers 45-3092 are available.
The front panel has an illuminated switch or un-switched LED indicator, independent outlet fuses with status indicators. The rear panel has a 20 amp Powercon inlet , 20 amp Powercon 'loop-out' outlet and fifteen 10 amp IEC outlets. An earth stud is fitted.
This economy range is only available with Black front panel, with either red or green illuminated switch or 'input power present' LED indicator on the front panel.
As IEC cable plugs vary enormously in size and design it is not possible to define a 'universal', wire, connector-retaining clip. To overcome the challenge of securing all IEC connector types both re-wireable and moulded, a single lacing-bar is fitted as standard. The stainless rods may be fitted in a variety of positions to take account of cable connector size. An additional rod may be ordered separately and fitted, which is particularly suitable where connectors of different heights are inserted or where excess cable must be doubled back. An example would be when 'double ended', fixed length, moulded AC mains cords, such as the IEC-Lock types, are used.
Input connector: Neutrik Powercon type, NAC3FCA, stock code 42-021.
Loop-out connector: Neutrik Powercon type NAC3FCB, stock code 42-022.
Output connectors: Bulgin, stock code 42-153 or Schurter, stock code 42-054.
Moulded mains leads: A large range are offered, see AC Mains Power Leads.
Locking, moulded, mains leads: Patented, locking IEC leads, see AC Mains Power Leads - IEC-Lock or see AC Mains Power Leads - IEC-Lock+.
Switch guard plates, see below. Additional lacing bar kit.
All types are 1U, 19-inch rack mounting, 44 x 483 (h x w) mm.
A switch guard-plate may be fitted at the time of installation or retrospectively to Canford MDUs to avoid units being accidentally switched off (or on). The central cut-out gives finger access and a clear view of the illuminated switch. Note: Different types of MDU require switch guards of different sizes, see information in descriptions.
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Here's how the process of owning a PARC rental property works. The first step with a new potential client is to review your goals and see if it fits with our strategy. As attractive as our program may be, we understand that this strategy is not for everyone. Together, we will determine if your goals match the goals of our Team and if the relationship seems to be a good fit.
If you become a client, you will have access to the PARC's inventory of cash flow properties. We will create a personalized buying plan that can help you reach your goals as you build your rental portfolio. All investment properties available to our clients will generate consistent, passive income streams. Each property will already have been purchased by our company, professionally renovated and producing income…day one.
All that is required in order to start earning returns is for that client to make a buying decision and our team will handle all of the details. If financing is required or the member would like to make a self-directed IRA real estate investment, our team of experts will assist with the transaction from contract to close.
Because your property is producing income when you buy it, you will immediately start to earn positive cash flow and high rates of return. Each month you will receive cash flow checks that can be deposited directly into your bank account.
If any maintenance or tenant payment issues come up, a full-service team is there to handle the issues for you, so you'll never even need to know they happened!
The PARC Team believes in building long term relationships with our clients and we look forward to working with you to help you meet your personal goals. The first step is to set up an appointment with an Investment Advisor. So, let's get started!


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Samsung has today announced that it has shipped 10 million Galaxy S4 smartphones globally, less than a month after the device officially went on sale in Australia.
The milestone references "global channel sales" of the Galaxy S4 rather than how many devices are actually in the hands of end users but it's still a hugely impressive figure.
According to Samsung, the Galaxy S4 is estimated to be selling at "a rate of four units per second."
The Galaxy S4 reaching the 10 million shipment mark in less than a month is a new record for Samsung and makes it the company's fastest selling smartphone of all time.
By contrast, the Galaxy S III took 50 days after its launch to ship the same amount of units, while the S II took five months and the original Galaxy S took almost seven months.
Samsung's CEO and President of the IT & Mobile Communications Division, JK Shin, released a statement marking the Galaxy S4 milestone.
"On behalf of Samsung, I would like to thank the millions of customers around the world who have chosen the Samsung GALAXY S4. At Samsung we'll continue to pursue innovation inspired by and for people."
In addition to announcing the milestone, Samsung says it also plans to release more color variants of the Galaxy S4. Among the new colours set to launch in the coming months include "Blue Arctic", "Red Aurora", "Purple Mirage" and "Brown Autumn".
The Galaxy S4 is currently sold in "White Mist" and "Black Forest" colours.
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The event on May 2, 2019 honoring Shibu Varghese and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center was a resounding success with great turn-out and several inspired speeches. Thanks to all of those in attendance, including Dan Rex, CEO of Toastmasters International, and Sheryle Warren, District Director for District 56. Thank you also to members of the Destined for Excellence and Spirited Speech Masters who contributed to the event's success and smooth operation.
Congratulations again to Shibu Varghese, Senior VP of People and Business and Chief HR Officer to M.D. Anderson. Your continued support of the employee education and development provided by Toastmasters is greatly appreciated!
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8.550026DX - MOZART: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik / Serenata Notturna
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525
Serenata Notturna, K. 239
Divertimento in F, K. 247 "Lodron Night
Music No.1"
As a child Mozart had enjoyed phenomenal success, travelling through Europe and, with his sister Nannerl, performing for kings and queens, the nobility and others able to afford the spectacle. His father Leopold Mozart, Vice-Kapellmeister to the Archbishop of Salzburg, had taken good care of his only surviving son's education and musical training, and had managed his career at the expense of his own.
In December 1771 the Mozart's patron, the Archbishop, had died and was succeeded early in the following year by a less sympathetic churchman, the reformist Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, a son of the Imperial Vice-Chancellor. The new Archbishop shared the feelings of the Imperial family on the activities of the Mozarts, who seemed to bring no credit on their employers by "travelling around like beggars". The concert tours that had brought some profit and distinction to the family were to be curtailed, and Mozart was for a few years to be more or less confined to the narrow limits of Salzburg, in a position that he and his father found quite unworthy of his genius.
Nevertheless in Salzburg there was work to be done, music to be written and played. In 1777 Mozart was to set out, accompanied only by his mother, to seek his fortune in Mannheim and in Paris, an abortive journey, during the course of which his mother died. Mannheim in particular, with its virtuoso orchestra, provided a stimulus to his work. Before this, however, Salzburg had provided the occasion for a number of compositions, including the Serenata Notturna and the two Divertimenti sometimes known as the Lodron Nightmusic, occasional pieces to celebrate the name-day in 1776 and 1777 of Countess Antonia Lodron on 13th June. The Countess, born Arco, a name we meet in the accounts of Mozart's later dismissal from the Archbishop's service in 1781, was the wife of the hereditary marshal of the court, and a leading patroness of music in Salzburg. The Mozarts were on visiting terms, however deferentially, and Leopold Mozart and his son had joined the Lodron's party at a fancy dress ball in February, 1776, Leopold Mozart as a porter and his son as a barber's boy.
It was during the winter that Mozart had written the Serenata Notturna, K. 239, completed in January, 1776, and clearly designed for some Salzburg social occasion. The work is scored for a concerti no of single strings, two violins, a viola and a double bass, and a body of ripieno strings and timpani, an arrangement which, bar the drums, must remind us of the form of the Baroque concerto grosso.
The first movement of the Serenata is a stately March, in which the smaller and larger groups of instruments are contrasted. There follows a Minuet, and a Trio played by the concertino, leading, after the repetition of the Minuet, to a final Rondo that includes episodes of possible topical reference. Within the framework of the repeated principal theme comes a solemn Adagio, the music of a country dance and a brief and unexpected plucking of strings, before the lively conclusion.
The Divertimento in F is scored for two horns and strings, and was completed in June, 1776, for Countess Antonia Lodron's name-day It starts with a lively movement in all the clarity of classical first movement form. This is followed by a C major Andante grazioso and a first Minuet returning to the key of F, with a contrasting D minor Trio.
The next movement, marked Adagio and in the key of B flat, is scored only for strings, the first violin taking the lead. The second Minuet, in F, with a B flat Trio for the strings alone, leads to a final movement with a slow introduction and a varied concluding rondo, all well suited to the occasion of the composition
Eine kleine Nachtmusik, the Serenada in G, K 525, comes from a later period of Mozart's life. In 1781 Mozart, who had returned from Mannheim and Paris to the service of the Archbishop of Salzburg, accompanied his patron on a visit to the Imperial capital, Vienna. There he finally broke with his employer and secured his dismissal from the archiepiscopal court. In Vienna there seemed every opportunity, which it seemed his patron was deliberately preventing him from seizing.
The last ten years of Mozart's life were spent in Vienna, without the presence of his father to guide him and without the kind of secure patronage that he had hoped to gain at court. An imprudent marriage brought its own difficulties, but Mozart, nevertheless, won some immediate acclaim, both in the theatre and as a performer on the fortepiano, popularity which waned, but had begun to revive at the time of his sudden death in December, 1791.
Eine kleine Nachtmusik was written in August, 1787, a few months after the death of Leopold Mozart in Salzburg, while Mozart was preparing his new opera, Don Giovanni, for performance in Prague The occasion of its composition is unknown, but the work would have been suitable for domestic performance. Originally including a first Minuet, now lost, the Serenade opens with music as lucid and cheerful as anything Mozart wrote, followed by a Romance of charm and ingenuity, a spry Minuet and a final Rondo, a conclusion to the remarkable series of Serenades and Divertimenti on which Mozart had embarked twenty years before, as a ten-year-old.
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XCI Evento da Comunidade SQLPort
Realiza-se no dia 21 de Fevereiro de 2017, o 91º Encontro da comunidade SQLPort, que tem como objectivo a partilha de experiências e conhecimento entre os profissionais e entusiastas de SQL Server em Portugal. O evento vai ser realizado no auditório da Microsoft Portugal, pelas 18:30, sendo a entrada livre para todos os inscritos.
Os registos devem ser efetuados no site da Eventbrite.
18:30 Abertura e recepção
19:00 "New features for devs in SQL Server 2016" – Antonio Lourenço (CTO – Take And Sound)
20:15 Intervalo
20:30 "Mantaining Query Store at the instance level in SQL Server 2016" – Etienne Lopes (SQL Server DBA – Oramix SA)
21:40 Sorteio
22:00 Jantar livre
Do you know that now you can DIE with SQL Server 2016? Well, only if you know that DIE is DROP IF EXISTS. We will time travel with temporal data, will secure our data with row-level security, dynamic data masking and always encrypted, will stretch our database to Azure and even talk JSON natively.
All started with Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at IST (Técnico Lisbon) and more recently Informatics Engineering at Lusofona. From helpdesk, sysadmin, software engineer, developer evangelist to currently CTO at a media production company. Interests in all things IT related but with primary focus on cloud, storage and collaboration tools.
As DBAs we need to manage not just one but many/all databases in one (or many) instance(s).
Knowing that the scope of Query Store is the database, not the instance, monitoring all its settings properly and regularly can become a hard task…
In this session I'll present a project I'm working on to simplify monitoring Query Store at the instance level, for all its databases at once.
Etienne Lopes currently works as a SQL Server DBA at ORAMIX – Expert Services.
Working with SQL Server since 1997: 6.5 to 2014, member of sqlport community (www.sqlport.com), regular speaker since 2012 at SQL Server events such as: SQL Saturday and 24 Hours of PASS


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MLB trade rumors: Giants eye Andrew McCutchen if Giancarlo Stanton deal doesn't happen
The Giants have a backup plan if Giancarlo Stanton's deal falls through.
San Francisco's front office has remained in contact with Andrew McCutchen and considers the Pirates outfielder a possible target if the team is unable to acquire the Mariners slugger, according to MLB Network's Jon Morosi.
McCutchen's name has swirled in trade rumors over the last two years, but the Pirates opted to pick up his 2018 contract option earlier this month. Although his numbers have been on the decline, his power has remained consistent. The former NL MVP has smashed at least 20 home runs in seven straight seasons and hit 28 home runs with 88 RBIs in 2017.
The Marlins have reportedly warned Stanton that he will be stuck on a stripped-down team in the process of a rebuild if he refuses to waive his no-trade rights and accept a new deal elsewhere. So far, the Giants and Cardinals are the only teams to submit offers to acquire the reigning NL MVP. Meanwhile, the Red Sox are also "tepid" about a trade.
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Feeling Disgruntled? How to Change Your Mood
"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures." – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Everyone experiences a bad mood from time to time. In fact, it's considered normal to have different emotions given circumstances, physical ailments or condition, lack of sleep, too much work or other stress and a variety of other causative factors. Still, when you're in a funk, feeling disgruntled, you want a quick way out of it. After all, feeling dissatisfied is no way to live on a continuing basis. So, how do you change your mood? Perhaps these tips will help.
Shake it up.
This suggestion isn't to get jiggly, but rather to do something today that's not your normal routine. Likely, when you're feeling upset or dissatisfied, it can be due to doing the same thing day in and day out. You need variety in life, so choose an activity or embark on a project that's different. Indeed, a willingness to spice things up and change behaviors, modify routines and discovering something new, say researchers, can keep you motivated, improve mood, and prevent burnout.
Go outside for a walk.
Sometimes the simplest action can be the most effective at improving mood. For example, if you want to brighten your mood, step outside and go for a walk. Brisk stepping is good, yet even walking at a modest pace is great exercise that is beneficial for the release of endorphins in the brain, the body's natural feel-good chemicals. As for other exercise, according to researchers at the University of Connecticut's kinesiology department, any exercise that includes light or moderate intense physical activity yields significant improvements in feelings of well-being.
Pamper yourself.
If you constantly feel tired and know you've not been getting sufficient sleep, it's time to do something about it. Sleep deprivation has been linked to increased accidents at work and while driving, greater risk of medical conditions such as coronary disease, high blood pressure, and more, as well as sluggishness, inability to concentrate, memory lapses, quickness to lash out and other signs of a sour mood. Aim for a solid 7 hours or more of sleep each night. Eat well-balanced meals. Exercise regularly. Put yourself in the frame of mind where what you do makes you feel good: a bath, petting the cat, cooking your favorite meal, listening to music. Pampering yourself pays handsome dividends when it boosts your mood.
Talk live with a friend.
The sound of the human voice can be reassuring, welcoming, like balm that soothes a wound. Talking live with a friend, loved one or family member, even a trusted co-worker can help ease loneliness, temper sadness, eradicate orneriness, dampen anger and erase disappointment. It isn't what you talk about that makes a difference, though. It's the fact that you are exchanging pleasantries and conversation with another human being, someone who can react to the tone of your voice and acknowledge in real time what's going on with both of you. The reciprocity of this communication helps lift spirits and dash a down mood, especially during times of stress.
Get creative.
Feel like splashing some paint on a canvas to vent frustration or see where your creativity takes you? A study from Drexel University's College of Nursing and Health Professions found that coloring and other forms of art therapy can help dispel a bad mood. Delving deeper into their experiments, however, they found that when participants engaged in open studio sessions, or art therapy moderated by and with the encouragement of a therapist also worked to create good feelings. The key takeaway here is to have an audience or co-participant as you get creative, for it's the exchange of ideas in the process of being creative that appears to further self-discovery, creative expression and exploration resulting in improvements in mood.
Gratitude is good for body, mind and soul. Put another way, when you're grateful, you're enhancing your ability to improve mood through boosts in overall well-being. Show gratitude when you receive something from another, when you wake up in the morning and feel grateful to be alive, when you think about all the good things in your life and acknowledge how blessed you are to have them.
Do something for another.
Did you know that the simple act of doing something good for another can lead to a feeling of contentment? Researchers at the University of Zurich found that generosity – even a little generosity – makes people feel better afterwards, experiencing greater contentment. Even the intent to do something was enough to signal the brain's altruistic area and intensify interaction between that area and the one associated with happiness. Help your neighbor take out the trash barrels, bring backyard flowers to a shut-in, hold open the door for others at the coffeeshop, say hello to those you pass on your walks. It doesn't take much to make a substantial difference in your mood.
Challenge your mind.
Distraction may be your best solution to thwart a negative mood, especially if other avenues aren't available to you now. Busy yourself in problem-solving, drag out the puzzle box and set to work arranging the pieces in a cohesive whole. Balance your checkbook. Pull together the paperwork to take to your CPA or start on your income tax return. The more challenging the effort, the more likely you'll find your sour mood dissipates. Even small increments of success will add to your satisfaction and help boost your mood.
Engross yourself in a book or movie.
Like mind challenges' ability to improve mood, diving into an enjoyable book or getting lost in a movie also create the opportunity to ditch unwelcome thoughts and negative mood with little effort. Since it's so easy to do, it helps to always have a book ready that you want to read or are already in the process of reading. Movies you've taped on the DVR or bookmarked on your TV provider's site also help ensure you've got access to entertainment that you can engross yourself in.
Plan a goal for tomorrow that excites you.
Nothing lifts spirits more than looking forward to doing something. When you create goals that you can't wait to get busy working on, you're already boosting your mood. For this reason, it's always helpful to have a list of goals to refer to, so you have something to do tomorrow that excites and motivates you. Revise your goals regularly, making notes on progress achieved and what yet needs attention. This exercise also serves to sharpen your interest level for what's on your agenda tomorrow. Looking forward, not backward, is often the key to overcoming negative thoughts or mood.
Kane, S. (2018). Feeling Disgruntled? How to Change Your Mood. Psych Central. Retrieved on October 24, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/feeling-disgruntled-how-to-change-your-mood/
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The market leading 68-page, November-December 2018 edition of ILM has now been published in print and on its digital app for Apple and android devices. The latest edition looks at the challenges and opportunities for biodegradable leather and if it could fit into a circular supply chain.
With a strong editorial focus on the environment and true sustainability, the latest edition of International Leather Maker looks at the hot topic of biodegradable leather with some of the challenges ahead that tanners, with the support of chemical companies and technical institutions, will need to tackle to make leather truly part of a circular system.
In addition, ILM publishes an overview of some of the widely marketed competing materials against genuine leather and wonders if they are really sustainable at all, or are they a mix of natural and manmade materials falsely claiming to have eco credentials when the reality is less certain.
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Paras Wires (P) Ltd. pioneers in coil cord cables. Coiled cords or spiral cables are electric wires which are coiled, to provide adaptability to tough applications. These wires are used in areas where the length of the cable must be able to vary to ensure durability since they undergo regular motion. Due to its flexibility, these wires find its application in medical, military, automobile and telecommunication purposes. At Paras Wires (P) Ltd. we provide coil cords which even have passed test of more that 5000 cycles of continuous stretching and contracting of the cable and it still does not lose its shape. This can be supplied in any colour the customer desires.
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Key features: Competition for development contracts Innovate UK is investing up to £4 million in the long term care revolution national challenge.
Programme: SBRI
Award: Up to £4 million
Opens: 07 Apr 2015, 00:00
Registration closes: 26 Aug 2015, 12:00
Closes: 02 Sep 2015, 12:00
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The long-term care revolution national challenge
This SBRI competition aims to stimulate the development of innovative new products, services and systems that disrupt the institutional long-term care model, ensuring that UK businesses are well placed to take advantage of this growing market opportunity.
The competition is open to organisations (large enterprises, SMEs, micro businesses, entrepreneurs, third sector, public and private sector) working together as a consortium through a single contracted project lead, to develop and deliver commercially viable products, services and systems.
Successful applications will attract a 100% funded development contract over a period of up to 24 months.
The competition opens on 7 April 2015. The deadline for registration is at noon on 26 August 2015. The deadline for applications is at noon on 2 September 2015. Projects are expected to commence in January 2016.
There will be a briefing event for potential applicants on 14 April 2015.
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- Is Kampala Hospital a Specialist Centre?Yes Kampala Hospital is a specialist hub, where different specialists work from.
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- Where is Kampala Hospital located?Makindu Close, Plot 6C, Kololo, behind the Golf Course.
- Am I required to pay a deposit to be admitted at Kampala Hospital?Yes. A deposit is required from all self-paying patients except for genuine emergencies whose certificate should be signed by the doctor. For emergency admissions, deposit has to be paid within 24 hours. A company patient is required to bring a letter of undertaking if the Company is a Corporate Member of Kampala Hospital. Patients covered by an insurance company should ensure the handling doctor completes their insurance forms within 24 hours of admission and inform the insurance company about the admission.


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Rocky Mountain Highball - Colorado Premiere
A Yama Studio Production / rockymountainhighball.com
Has the weather been getting you down? Well, we have a special night planned that we hope will get your spirits up. "Rocky Mountain Highball" is a new climbing film that presents an in depth look into why some climbers push themselves to boulder at the vertical limit. The film documents the many facets of bouldering by interweaving numerous classic climbs in Colorado with interview footage from the leading figures of the climbing world.Yama Studio has brought in a huge cast of world renowned climbers, like Paul Robinson, John Sherman, Kevin Jorgeson, Lynn Hill, Daniel Woods, John Gill, and Jason Kehl. Having filmed more than 70 climbs with more than 35 athletes, this film proves to be an exciting journey through the world of highball bouldering. We would like to thank the climbing community for their help in making Rocky Mountain Highball a reality. What started out as a film, developed into a community project, and it is time to celebrate as a whole.
A Yama Studio Production / rockymountainhighball.com
Yama Studio, along with The American Alpine Club, request the pleasure of your company at the world premiere of Rocky Mountain Highball. April 27, 2009 The Boulder Theater 2032 14th Street Boulder, CO 80302 Doors open at 7:00 pm Show begins at 8:00 pm Immediately followed by...The RMH After-party presented by The American Alpine ClubThe B-Side Lounge 2017 13th Street Boulder, Colorado 80302 After-party is free! Tickets are $14, available at www.bouldertheater.com or at the box office. Advance Tickets are $12, available this Tuesday at The Spot Gym and The Boulder Rock Club
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VDS CoBeNe Activities
Kick-Off-Event VDS CoBeNe
The virtual VDS CoBeNe info event is to welcome all faculty and student members on behalf of vice rector J.-R. Tyran. After a formal introduction about the framework of the new VDS CoBeNe, we will have a break out session with two separate discussion groups for PhD and supervisors.
DATE: October 16th 2020, 14.00 to 15.00
LOCATION: virtual via BigBlueButton, see link
5th European Student Conference on Behaviour and Cognition, Vienna
The "5th European Student Conference on Behaviour and Cognition" is a student-organized event of the VDS CoBeNe.
DATE: September 5th -8th 2018
VENUE: University of Vienna, UZA II PharmazieGeoZentrum
REGISTRATION: see website of the conference
Summer School 2018: Perspectives in Neuroaesthetics
This interdisciplinary VDS CoBeNe summer school connects like-minded, enthusiastic early stage researchers, providing cutting-edge knowledge on methods and topics in the multifaceted field of Neuroaesthetics and establishing international research connections.
DATE: September 24th-28th2018
VENUE: Several interdisciplinary labs at London UK (see details in programme)
REGISTRATION: until June 15th with a motivation letter (max. 2,500 characters) and a CV (max. 2 pages) to email@example.com
FEE: the fee of € 200,- includes accommodation, lab visits and talks, as well as common business lunches. Travel costs are not included in the fee. Official VDS CoBeNe PhD fellows are eligible for reimbursement. Social events and the travel are not included in the fee or topic for reimbursement.
You can find the flyer and programme here.
Organized by the VDS CoBeNe PhD fellows Patrick Markey, Jürgen Goller, Eva Specker, Felix Haiduk and Jane Boddy.
Summer School 2018: Citizen Science in Theory and Practice
CS is becoming increasingly important within the research community, as one can gain large, spatially and temporally scaled data sets. But how to get citizen scientists interested and how to deal with big data? What makes a successful study and where to publish your data?
DATE: October 15th-19th 2018
VENUE: JUFA Hotel Almtal, Hinterinnbach 17, 4645 Grünau im Almtal, Upper Austria.
REGISTRATION: until August 15th with a motivation letter (max. 2,500 characters) to firstname.lastname@example.com - the application deadline has been extended until the 15th of August!
FEE: the fee of € 170,- includes lectures, accommodation, coffee breaks and all meals at JUFA according to the programme. Official VDS CoBeNe PhD fellows are eligible for reimbursement. Social events, the optional hiking tour and the travel are not included in the fee or topic for reimbursement. We reserved 2-bed rooms at the JUFA Hotel Almtal for all participants.
You can find the flyer including a programme here.
Past activities
Summer School 2018: Statistical Design and Modelling for Small Sample Sizes
Summary of our first summer school
The VDS CoBeNe Summer School on Statistical Design for Small Sample Sizes has finished successfully. 30 participants attended lectures and workshops given by Roger Mundry (MPI Eva Leipzig) and Robin Ristl (Meduni Wien), who also debated about "How to fix Statistics" in a vivid public panel discussion. Social events like a Heurigen dinner or a birdwatching tour in the Lobau/Nationalpark Donau-Auen facilitated discussions in relaxed atmosphere. Considered as highly valuable and rewarding, the unanimous opinion of both participants and lecturers was consequent: let's schedule a follow up.
(written by Felix Haiduk)
This summer school offers early stage researchers with basic knowledge in R, a combination of lectures, workshops and discussion on experimental design, modelling, data analysis, and data visualization, focusing especially on modelling with small sample sizes.
DATE: August 27th-31st 2018
VENUE: Campus of University of Vienna, Altes AKH, Lecture Hall C1/Seminar Room 3, Spitalgasse 3, 1090 Vienna
REGISTRATION: until June 30th with a motivation letter (max. 2,500 characters) to firstname.lastname@example.com
FEE: the fee of € 100,- includes lectures, lunches, and coffee breaks with snacks. Official VDS CoBeNe PhD fellows are eligible for reimbursement. Social events -except the "Heurigen", and the travel are not included in the fee or topic for reimbursement.
You can find the flyer including a programme here.
Second CoBeNe Annual Assembly
Our second annual assembly took place on March 14, 2018 at the IMP lecture halle in third district of Vienna. Please find the programme here.
Talk of Prof. Russell Foster, Oxford University
Statistic Workshop in R
We have organized a 2-day workshop on Statistical Analysis in R on February 22-23 2018, free of costs for VDS CoBeNe PhD fellows. Further information you can find here.
VDS CoBeNe & DK CogCom Workshop
On November 22-23, 2017 we had our first workshop with VDS CoBeNe PhD fellows and PIs at the brand-new IMP building. For more information see the programme.
- About doctoral education by Lucas Zinner, Center for Doctoral Studies, UniVie (pdf)
- PhD process without tears by Christian Kolowrat, Center for Doctoral Studies, UniVie (pdf)
Workshop: From Theory to Practice: Scientifically Investigating Intentions and Emotions in Contemporary Art
An interdisciplinary VDS CoBeNe workshop at the 57th Biennale in Venice, Italy
In early November 2017 the first VDS CoBeNe interdisciplinary scientific workshop took place, organized by PhD candidates for PhD candidates. Its goal was to foster the exchange of ideas, enabling participants to jointly develop and carry out a unique research project while getting to know PhD fellows from different disciplines, in an inspiring surrounding.
The workshop comprised a symposium and a subsequent excursion including a field study in Venice, Italy. The research question tackled by the workshop was whether intentions of artists are actually recognized by viewers of their artworks: If an artist intends to display or elicit a certain kind of emotion with an artwork, can this emotion then somehow also be observed in the viewer? The workshop addressed this by using questionnaires, asking museum visitors about their experiences, and also via measurements of their physiological responses, such as skin conductance and heart rate.
Read more here.
SPR Annual Meeting, October 11-15, 2017
At the annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, 4 PIs of the VDS CoBeNe had a joint invited symposium:
ANA meeting September 24-26, 2017
The 15th ANA (Austrian Neuroscience Association) meeting will be held from September 24-26, 2017 at the IST Austria in Klosterneuburg, Austria. For more information please check here.
10th Vienna Aesthetics Symposium, September 21, 2017
The 10th Vienna Aesthetics Symposium will be held under the title
"Evolutionary psychology of facial attractiveness"
The keynote speakers of this year's symposium are:
Dr. Rob Jenkins (University of York)
Dr. Anthony Little (University of Bath) and
Dr. Romi Zäske (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Date: Thursday, September 21, 2017
Time: 16.00 – 19.00
Place: Faculty of Psychology, lecture hall G (2nd floor, left wing), Liebiggasse 5, 1010 Vienna
Please find attached the program and the abstracts of the 10th VAS.
VDS4 Symposium, September 14-15, 2017
The symposium "Interscience - 1st Symposium of the Vienna Doctoral Schools" is taking place on the 14th and 15th of September 2017 and you can find a preliminary program on our webpage.
This symposium is a unique opportunity to present your research to the entire PhD student community in Vienna and different prominent research groups. You can be part of it in many ways!!
We are currently looking for two students that would be interested in giving a talk of 20 min (+10min questions) about their research. This talk will be presented to a very diverse audience and would be a great chance to talk about your research in broad terms, to students from many different backgrounds.
We are also very excited to introduce the first "VDSlam: An alternative and entertaining way of presenting your PhD". The idea is to present your project (or just a part of it) in 5-7 min in an unusual and creative way (by singing, dancing, using a theatre play…).
Alternatively, you can also register for a poster, which should be presented during one of the two poster sessions.
If you're interested in contributing please send an email to any of the student speaker: email@example.com, email@example.com, email@example.com, email@example.com.
We're looking forward to your contributions!
Talk of Thomas R. Zentall
First CoBeNe Annual Assembly
Our first annual assembly took place on March 7, 2017 at the historic Josephinum in Vienna. Please find the program here.
Around 70 people attended the event, got more information about the Doctoral School in Cognition, Behaviour and Neuroscience and enjoyed the keynote speaker Raffaella Rumiati from ISSA, Trieste with "How is information about social groups represented in the human brain". Together with Peter König she was introduced as member of the VDS CoBeNe Scientific Advisory Board.
Participants got an impression of the Josephinum collection of the Medical University of Vienna and took the chance for networking with colleagues.
All fotos by Lukas Lengersdorff and Jessie Adriaense
PhD meeting group 1 and 2
All PhD members of group 1 and 2 are warmly invited to our meeting on Monday, 16th January 2017, at the new IMP, Campus-Vienna-Biocenter 1, 1030 Wien. The meeting will start at 13:30 at seminar room SR 1.014.
If you would like to attend, please register at firstname.lastname@example.com.
First PhD meeting December 15, 2016
All PhD fellows of CoBeNe are warmly invited to our first - only for PhD fellows - meeting on Thursday, 15th December 2016, at LOOP, Lerchenfelder Gürtel, U-Bahnbogen 26/27. You will be informed about your advantages/possibilities at CoBeNe, have the chance to come to know better each other and first of all - spend a nice evening!
If you would like to attend, please register at firstname.lastname@example.com
Kick-Off Meeting October 11, 2016
We have selected these eight talks (in alphabetical order), please click on the names for the abstract:
Elisabeth Adam: A Drosophila model of HSAN-1 - Of wrong connections, neurodegeneration and protein aggregation
Jessie Adriaense: Your pessimism brings me down, but does your optimism lift me up? Emotional contagion in common ravens (Corvus corax)
Robert Beattie: Lgl1 Controls Neural Stem Cell Lineage Progression via Intrinsic and Cell-non-autonomous Mechanisms
Bruno Miguel Fontinha: Unraveling new functions of an ancient vertebrate deep brain photoreceptor
Isabelle Laumer: Eat now or use tool? Profitable decision-making in Goffin cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana) and orangutans (Pongo abelii)
Patrick Markey: Semantic and syntactic processing of Art: perception of paintings and associated distinct neurophysiological brain responses
Annika Nichols: Sleep and wake in C. elegans are global brain states under tight control of arousal circuits
Mario Thalwitzer: Pose as a Gender Signifier
The full program you can find here.
At the invitation of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), on 11th October 2016 our KickOff event took place at the Vienna Biocenter.
About 120 scientists of VDS CoBeNe were impressed by the variety of methods, research approaches and the presentation of selected topics from the disciplines neuroscience, cognitive and behavioral biology, psychology and art history.
The VDS CoBeNe initiates with this kick-off the transformation to a new generation of PhDs: open for an exchange of methods, transfer of knowledge intra-discipline and beyond and open for discussion about their own research results in a parent context.
As part of the presented talks and poster, the following PhD candidates were distinguished: Jessie Adriaense (best talk), Rashmit Kaur and Vedrana Šlipogor (best poster). We congratulate the laureates warmly!
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hey all just checking in been a long time since i posted anything here (still lurk occasionally)
recently had a hard drive die with all my mame setup on it went into the attic to get my old pc where i had a backup fired the old boy up and then had a lovely electrical smell and that hard drive also died the same day
so that has prompted me to start from scratch with a raspberry pi 3 and retropie setup
i decided to streamline the amount of games i had down to about 200 games on mame rather than scrolling through thousands of stuff i never play so ive got just the classics running plus some interesting/quirky games
all are running well no dead roms no mahjong etc etc
also have nes, supernes, megadrive, mastersystem, amstradcpc464, zx spectrum and n64 emulators (although might lose the n64 as a few games seem to lag abit on performance on the pi)
next job is to sort out missing scraped covers and cabinets and make sure all the controls are working as intended for each game
dream is to one day build a cabinet of my own but until i move house space means i cant even really have room for a bartop so the raspberry pi is a nice little compromise at the moment
keep up the good work love the quality of this site and the information that is here
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In this work we present a very efficient key recovery attack on the QC-MDPC scheme using the fact that decryption uses an iterative decoding step and this can fail with some small probability. We identify a dependence between the secret key and the failure in decoding. This can be used to build what we refer to as a distance spectrum for the secret key, which is the set of all distances between any two ones in the secret key. In a reconstruction step we then determine the secret key from the distance spectrum. The attack has been implemented and tested on a proposed instance of QC-MDPC for 80 bit security. It successfully recovers the secret key in minutes.
A slightly modified version of the attack can be applied on proposed versions of the QC-MDPC scheme that provides IND-CCA security. The attack is a bit more complex in this case, but still very much below the security level. The reason why we can break schemes with proved CCA security is that the model for these proofs typically does not include the decoding error possibility.Category / Keywords: CCA-security, key-recovery attack, post-quantum cryptography, QC-MDPC, reaction attack. Original Publication (in the same form): IACR-ASIACRYPT-2016 Date: received 6 Sep 2016, last revised 8 Sep 2016 Contact author: qian guo at eit lth se, thomas johansson@eit lth se, paul stankovski@eit lth se,fywzguoqian@gmail com Available format(s): PDF | BibTeX Citation Version: 20160908:205126 (All versions of this report) Short URL: ia.cr/2016/858


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Morris J. Lawrence Jr., is about as versatile as anybody can get when it comes to music.
He wrote serious music, popular music, sung in heavy opera and light musical comedy, taught music, and played just about every musical instrument–"everything but the guitar," he always said.
While working on his doctorate at the University of Michigan, Lawrence served as the Director of Music at both the Washtenaw Community College and St. Thomas schools.
In the spring of 1968, in recognition and according his work was a commission by St. Augustine High School of Lawrence's native New Orleans, Louisiana, for a symphony band composition.
Lawrence, (then) 28, felt the $1,000 commission he received for "Caprice," which the composer described as "a sonata allegro design with a theme which has an English flavor to it, consisting of this them being played with many colorful background varions," was one of his first steps on a rather long and difficult climb to making a name in serious music.
Composer of four string quartets and forty band compositions, author of a piano book of songs and a text on basic musicianship for colleges, Lawrence was fond of popular music.
He wrote sixty-five numbers for dance orchestras, ranging from rock and roll to the more subtle forms of jazz.
In fact, in a composition class at the University, Ross Lee Finney suggested that in his serious music, Lawrence use the jazz rhythms he had learned in New Orleans.
"In New Orleans, I wrote jazz most of the time," Lawrence always said. "Here, I saw the difference in style. The music is more intellectually stimulating. I tried writing in the different medium, but using the jazz rhythms, I came into a new contemporary style."
In between travels, Lawrence was busy cataloguing his works so he could give publishers a list of what he had available.
Lawrence graduated of St. Augustine High School, where he was the first chair clarinetist and band president of the symphonic and marching bands.
His band director, Edwin Harrell Hampton, early recognized Lawrence's composing ability and encouraged him.
He went to Xavier University, where he received a Bachelor of Music Degree in Instrumental Music Education in 1961.
Professor William D. Revelli, director of U-M bands, helped obtain an Oliver Ditson Scholarship for Lawrence in 1961.
"I heard about the University of Michigan all the time, wherever I went," Lawrence said. "I thought if I couldn't make it, it might be the end of the world, or maybe the end of my career."
Lawrence received his Master of Music Degree in the summer of 1962. While working on the degree, he played the B-flat contra-bass clarinet in the Symphony Band and was in the Michigan Marching Band under direction of George Cavender.
During his undergraduate days in New Orleans, Lawrence played professionally with the dance orchestra, "The Royal Dukes of Rhythm," a period during which he was concert-master and band president f the Xavier University Bands, founder of XU Collegians Dance Orchestra and recipient of eight music department scholarships for his outstanding musicianship.
"I started composing serious music while I was in high school," Lawrence said. "They look light now, with all the mistakes and everything. While I was composing swing and jazz pieces, my band director asked me to write for the marching and symphony bands, and I got started."
Lawrence felt especially fortunate that during his studies at Xavier and Michigan, he had come in contact with such composers as Mrs. Elizabeth Ivy, Richard Saylor, Orlando Tognazzi, Ronald DeKant, Arthur Hunkins, George Wilson, and Ross Lee Finney.
"I know exactly what I want to express in my music," Lawrence said. "When I sit down to put notes on paper, I have the entire form of the composition in my head. Although I may change it in final form, it usually is pretty close to what I originally conceived. I would like to be known as a neo-romantic composer."
Lawrence sang in Tosca in New Orleans, played B-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, and the saxophone in the Monroe production of the musical "Gypsy," and appeared in a singing, acting role in the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre's production of "Finian's Rainbow."
In 1966, he was the contra-bass clarinetist for the Ypsilanti greek Theatre Orchestra.
"I always felt I had to be a fighter and keep plugging away," Lawrence said. "I want to get more of my works published, and whatever happens, I'll keep playing, composing, and singing."
Lawrence and his wife, Darrilyn, whom he married in 1965, had two sons, Morris II and Jason Christopher.


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Branches of long beans or Chinese beans, wash, trim both ends, cut in 2 or 3
1/4 cup red onions, sliced, rubbed with salt and 1/2 tsp sumac
1/3 cup Turkish Tulum* or feta or goat cheese, crumbled
1/4 cup walnuts, crumbled
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
3 tbsp wine vinegar
1-2 garlic cloves, mashed with salt
Bring the water to boil. Add the beans and boil for about 15 minutes, drain. Season with salt and pepper. Whisk all the dressing ingredients. Pour all over the beans while they are still warm. Sprinkle red onions, cheese and walnuts over the top and serve.
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text: Why 'The Play that Goes Wrong' is wrong about theatre The assumptions that makes amateur theatre an old joke are really a power play that creates a fall guy for culturally privileged professionals. Image: The Play that Goes Wrong Last week Mischief Theatre's The Play that Goes Wrong opened in Melbourne. Its comedic hook and victim of choice is amateur theatricals. How theatre reflects cultural tensions about and beyond theatre is perhaps more fascinating than the shows themselves. I'm not going to review The Play that Goes Wrong - Amelia Swan has done so already - but instead I will consider what its presence can tell us about theatre and society. Attacking amateurs The Play that Goes Wrong is part of a long line of theatre and movies that perform 'being amateur'. The play's marketing tells us that it's about 'The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society who are attempting to put on a 1920s' murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong… does, as the accident-prone thespians battle on against all the odds to get to their final curtain call.' The language is telling: 'Cornley' (corny or what?), 'Polytechnic' and 'thespians' are all laden with the heavy signifiers of 'being amateur.' How the cast performed 'being amateur' was highly 'professional' but the major assumption that amateur theatre-makers are inept, was upheld. Paradoxically, non-amateurs capitalise on this 'knowledge' and wring it for every laugh and box office buck they can get. We all know the stereotypes that amateur drama is shockingly bad yet the real drama is that, like any double act, 'the straight guy' needs 'the fall guy' to maintain their status. Non-amateurs need amateurs; when we sit in a theatre (or cinema), having purchased our not-so-cheap ticket to watch non-amateurs mimic the apparent foibles of a cultural underclass, we laugh. We laugh because we understand the tensions being played out. Or we think we do. Nicolas Ridout suggests that the embarrassment evoked by amateurs exists because we are aware of the possibility of failing just like amateurs. This ability to see both worlds gives rise to our enjoyment. We see our own possible downfall and yet it isn't us who has fallen so we can laugh. This is the basis of slapstick. Sounds a bit like Schadenfreude - to get the joke we must mock the 'other'. Arguably, by accepting the (untested) beliefs of the past, that amateurs make bad theatre, as the truth, a form of cultural revisionism is taking place in the amateur genre: it suits non-amateurs to keep amateurs in their cultural place so they, professionals, can be seen to be doing the cultural work. And doing it better. Representation of the cultural underbelly by the culturally privileged suddenly can be seen as a problem. As Francois Matarosso writes 'If people are only imagined and portrayed by others, how can they be full, free and equal members of society?' There is no equality in the representation of amateurs by non-amateurs. Yet the fact that Swan, in her review, only questions the absence of decent women or non-white roles is telling. She doesn't challenge the premise itself. Indeed, whilst it is no longer PC to make shows or movies based on racial discrimination, unless it is an interrogation or commentary on it then why doesn't this apply to cultural practice discrimination? Amateurs are artists too, aren't they? Or am I letting identity politics get in the way of a high quality laugh? Radical Responses As the Mormons peddle their spiritual wares in Federation Square, riding off the back of the extraordinary marketing of the musical The Book of Mormon, I wonder if amateurs will come out placarding and raising membership outside The Play that Goes Wrong. Will they and their supporters be there with banners shouting 'Don't let Pros perform us' 'Nothing about us without us'! 'Amateurs do it for Love!' Or are the cultural prejudices so internalised that it is still okay to mock amateurs? What if lurking in our cultural collective sub-conscious we all know that those pretending to be amateurs have the power? They have the luxury of time, money, and training to make 'a highly physical comedy packed with finely-tuned farce and Buster Keaton inspired slapstick delivered with split-second timing and ambitious daring' so there is an inevitability about the jarring juxtaposition between form and content presented on stage. Brilliantly performed amateurism. But do amateurs care anyway? To understand what that we would need to survey the estimated quarter of a million people engaged in amateur theatre to learn their perspectives or at least ask the audience of The Play that Goes Wrong. It would be fascinating to know who cares. If theatre can provoke consciousness or action in the real world, such as the Mormon's leafleting in Fed' Square, might The Play that Goes Wrong offer a similar prod? Arguably, when we sit, comfortably in the theatre laughing at last century power relations of professionalisation, sucking upon the unrepresented to benefit and fatten the chops of the dominant, we are complicit, leaving little room for action. Maybe the play has the capacity to change society's ideas – perhaps by offering insight into a world where engagement in fun, stimulating, communal activities is a way of being. Such change is unlikely. When you see the play it feels remote because it is so silly. But perhaps the play could offer reassurance that to make theatre now (read 'to live') is about existing within the cultural tension of our individualistic yet alienated times: between being the best and being our best. Mischief Theatre previously produced Peter Pan Goes Wrong and they are practically the same play. It is a well-worn stereotype. I'd suggest that these plays are not about amateur theatre but an image of amateur theatre and the tensions in our culture between who are represented as competent and those who are not. Personally, I'd prefer to go to my local amateur theatre company and see one of their shows – the real thing not the commercial mimesis. Perhaps your local amateur company will perform The Play that Goes Wrong and get it right. What then? 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Republican Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada announced Friday that he is officially opposed to the Republican healthcare plan.
Heller joins Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin who announced that they didn't support the current iteration of the plan Thursday shortly after it was published.
"I'm announcing today that in this form I will not support it," Heller said during a press conference. "It's going to be very difficult to get me to a yes."
Heller is up for reelection in the 2018 campaign year. He didn't win his first election by a commanding margin, and he only gained 45.9 percent of the vote compared to his opponent's 44.7 percent in the 2012 race.
The senator asserted that he wanted to include language that would "protect Medicaid expansion in states" in order for him to support the measure.
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We receive correspondence from Ari Lehman himself... the FIRST Jason Voorhees!
OfferOfTheDay has received correspondence from Ari Lehman (he's the dirty guy next to the boat above) regarding our recent article about him. He seems really down to earth, and wants to remind the masses that JASON NEVER DIES!!!
And if you haven't watched the original Friday the 13th, go out and buy/rent it today. It's definitely one of the scarier Jason movies.
Wow! Many Thanks for this great article about me. I am now leading a different band, however. FIRSTJASON is the name of my Horror-Rock band. We have been touring around the US for the past year, performing at Horror Conventions and in Punk/Metal clubs. FIRSTJASON will appear at FEAR FEST 2 in Dallas Texas later this year. Please check us out on YouTube or at www.FIRSTJASON.com. Rock On, and remember…JASON NEVER DIES!!!!! — Ari Lehman
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Ari Lehman really got Adrienne King good on that surprise attack. I'm sure there were tons of people watching the ending scene from Friday the 13th the original who needed diapers that day.
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