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Last weekend Da'Shawn Hand, the nation's top player, took his first official visit to Michigan. The Wolverines are considered to be Hand's top school and it sounds like the defensive end from Woodbridge (Va.) Woodbridge Senior enjoyed every minute of the trip.
"It was amazing and crazy," said the 6-foot-4, 248-pound Hand. "It was cool to be a part of history with the largest crowd in history. They had chants saying 'We want Da'Shawn!' It was wild."
Hand said in the past that these official visits were going to help him figure out if he could go to these schools for four years and while he would not give a definitive answer on that it seemed like he really liked the atmosphere despite the Michigan staff not exactly "pitching" him.
"It was more laid back," he said. "They were just acting like normal people. They weren't even acting like they were recruiting me it was just laid back.
"It was more about seeing how I was doing, catching up with people and seeing what I remembered," Hand said. "I talked to all the coaches and it was the same old, same old."
This was a huge recruiting weekend for Michigan with visitors like Malik McDowell, Jashon Cornell, Joshua Alabi, Justin Hilliard and many others.
"Everybody was there, Wilton Speight and a lot of other people," he said. "He sat with us during the game."
Alabama and Florida round out Hand's top three and both will receive official visits. The Gators are the only team in Hand's top three that lost last weekend and many are wondering, including Michigan commits Jabrill Peppers and Juwan Bushell-Beatty, if that will knock the Gators out of Hand's top three.
"Not at all," said Hand. "Everybody has tough weeks every now and then so they just need to get through it. It doesn't change my decision at all."
Hand travelled to Ann Arbor with Tim Settle and Matthew Burrell Jr., both of whom are members of the 2015 Rivals250 Watch List.
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While investors wager the latest inflation, industrial growth data will trigger an RBI rate cut, figures signal the Indian Economy faces hurdles even as stock markets surge to a record
India's consumer price inflation hit another record low in June, adding to evidence the $2.3 trillion economy is struggling amid government reforms, a festering bad loan crisis, a widening output gap and rising unemployment.
While bond markets are rallying as investors wager the latest data will trigger a rate cut from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the figures signal the economy faces hurdles even as the stock market surges to a record, the rupee rallies and the world's major economies head into a new era of higher borrowing costs.
Data on Wednesday showed consumer price index (CPI) at 1.5% in the year to June, down from an annual 2.2% a month ago and below forecasts for a 1.6% reading. That's below RBI's medium term target of 4% and through the bottom of its 2% projection for the first-half.
Separately, industrial production grew 1.7% in the 12 months to May, down from 2.8% in April and below the 2% forecast in a Bloomberg survey, backing recent data that pointed to a slowdown in the manufacturing sector before the introduction of the goods and services tax (GST) on 1 July.
"There's pressure on RBI to lower rates," Madan Sabnavis, chief economist at CARE Ratings, said on the phone from Mumbai, before the data. "There is a lot of surplus funds available in the system, but investments and lending isn't happening."
Some of the pessimism stems from the fact that is India is still recovering from the demonetisation move that interrupted employment for millions, forced farmers into fire sales of agricultural produce and bogged down the manufacturing sector. The introduction of goods and services tax (GST) on 1 July only added to the confusion while a glut of bad loans means businesses are not borrowing to invest in Asia's third-largest economy.
Bank credit to industry contracted in the year to May, while deposits surged following the ban of high-denomination notes in November, leaving the banking system grappling with surplus cash.
Paradigm shift
Arvind Subramanian, chief economic adviser to the government, said India was undergoing a "paradigm shift" in inflation.
"This low number and what it implies about underlying price pressures—as well as the latest IIP data just released—is something that, I am sure, policymakers will reflect upon very, very, carefully," he said in a statement.
Worryingly for policymakers, falling inflation can foretell slowing growth and demand. In the January-March quarter, India grew 6.1% from a year ago, below the five-year average of 6.9%. That's still a robust rate for the western world but not good enough to provide jobs for the millions people joining the workforce every year.
Investment slowdown
India will expand 7.3% in the 2018 fiscal year, according to a June survey of analysts conducted by Bloomberg News. Growth forecasts were lowered slightly for this year and next when compared to a survey conducted in May.
The slowdown mirrors a subdued private investment climate and has triggered a debate over whether the central bank should abandon its relatively hawkish bias and cut interest rates to jump start flagging corporate investment.
"RBI should cut rates by at least 50 basis points if they want to help genuine borrowers," said Rupa Rege Nitsure, group chief economist at L&T Finance Holdings Ltd in Mumbai.
That view is slowly gaining ground; the median forecast in the Bloomberg survey is for India's repurchase rate to drop to 6 percent in the third quarter from 6.25% currently. One representative of the central bank's six-member monetary policy committee also favour's a cut.
The RBI started a rate cutting cycle in 2015, lowering the policy rate by 175 basis points through October.
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"Actual growth is lagging due to demonetisation and high real interest rates," Abhishek Gupta, economist at Bloomberg Intelligence, said in a report. "The upshot—a widening output gap that is pulling down inflation. The RBI needs to cut rates to let growth catch up to the economy's potential."
But others like Deutsche Bank's chief India economist, Kaushik Das, says a rate cut won't accomplish much. "It is clear by now that leverage is concentrated in certain sectors such as steel, infrastructure and telecom and the debt levels in these sectors are so high, it is unlikely that monetary policy will be able to do much to improve the situation meaningfully," he said.
"Also, while considering deeper rate cuts, the central bank will need to keep in mind the interest of the savers and pensioners and evaluate the risks to financial sector stability."
India's rough patch hasn't deterred investors who are buying into the country's longer-term prospects, including one of the world's youngest demographics. That's driven down bond yields, pushed the stock market up almost 20% this year to among the world's best performing, and sent the rupee about 5% higher against the US dollar.
"India has witnessed robust foreign portfolio investment flows, heavily tilted towards debt owing to better carry, helping keep the rupee afloat," Madhavi Arora and Upasna Bhardwaj, economists at Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. wrote in a note. "However, expectations of narrowing real rate differentials with the US amid an August cut by the RBI will weigh on debt flows." Bloomberg


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(Trinidad Guardian) Detectives are investigating two separate incidents of attempted fraud against high-profile clients at RBC Royal Bank (RBC). Sources say the clients—a businessman and an attorney—were almost defrauded of more than TT$6 million at the Independence Square, Port-of-Spain branch of the bank.
Contacted on Friday, Sherry-Ann Singh, the bank's regional manager of business communications-corporate communications and brand, in an e-mail response to queries posed by the Sunday Guardian, said, "RBC is aware of the allegations of attempted fraud and we are co-operating with the authorities in their investigations."
Singh said because of the police investigations and the bank's need to maintain client confidentiality, the bank could not give any details. Fraud Squad officers yesterday said they were following certain leads and hinted at the possibility that banking officials might be involved. Sources said the first incident was unearthed last Friday and involved the attorney.
On December 20, RBC received a written request purporting to be from the attorney. The letter asked the bank to transfer TT$5.9 million to another bank to cover a business transaction the lawyer was seeking to complete, and bore his signature. RBC transferred the money as requested, to the other bank, also in Port-of-Spain.
Sources said the fraudster/s apparently let the transferred cash sit in the other bank for over two weeks before attempting to retrieve it, by asking for a manager's cheque to be made out for the amount on January 4. However, someone at the second bank apparently alerted the lawyer about the transaction as the bank was carrying out the fraudster/s orders last Friday.
Sources said the attorney, who rarely checks his account at RBC, had not been aware of the missing cash until he was alerted by the second bank. After being alerted, the lawyer went to RBC and alerted them about the fraudulent transaction. Management immediately contacted the other bank and, luckily for the attorney, the fraudster/s had not yet turned up to collect the cheque.
The transaction was terminated and the attorney was able to recover the money. Contacted about the incident, the attorney confirmed it occurred, but said he did not want to be named, as his family was traumatised by the incident. He said the bank was investigating the matter and he would leave it in their hands.
Businessman targeted, too
Fraud Squad officers had hardly begun investigations into the first incident when the fraudsters struck again, this time targeting a businessman. Sources said last Tuesday, the fraudsters would have got away with almost US$60,000 if the businessman had not been more alert to activity in his account.
In this case, the fraudster/s again asked RBC to transfer money to another bank to cover a business transaction, but this time did so by e-mail. Police said some US$35,000 was fleeced from the businessman in two separate fraudulent transactions before he realised there was a discrepancy with his account. The fraudsters targeted his account again.


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Continuing on with their game, and the card making, Joshua today decided to produce the cards on the pc. We've told him if he writes up the instructions for his new, card based game, we can offer it out to his home ed friends!
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We all made a new friend today, when a lovely couple came around with their 5 year old to talk about home education, and about being involved in our local HE group. The young lad settled down quite quickly with my three, and they all seemed to get on well. Bearing in mind that three of the four boys were ones who had all been – for different reasons – labelled as difficult at school, it makes you realise just where the problem lies; certainly not with our kids.
Today we received through the free DVD The Transporters courtesy of the NAS. Samuel saw the box and is itching to watch it, but I said we wanted to all watch it together so he is going to have to wait till tomorrow. Very impressed with it so far, and the accompanying book though.
The boys watched a bit of Class TV today – mainly the Maths Channel – which was good. They go through phases of watching lots of "educational" tv and hopefully this might be the start of one of those phases!
I spent a lot of the day battling with this computer, which we've had problems with since the day we bought it, after Roarke loaded on some new software that caused a huge conflict; ending in the entire system going haywire. Just about got it going again (at least I've got the internet back!) but it looks like tomorrow we'll have to back it up, and then wipe it completely. PC World say, if it still doesn't work properly after that, then they'll look at exchanging it…
I've been in even more pain today. Jonathan turned transverse late morning, which was better, but just before dinner he turned breech again and I'm in lots of pain. As soon as I stand up my uterus tightens and my belly goes rock hard. A couple of times it has been bad enough to even make me have to breathe through it to relax. Not good. Sitting here actually at the computer is very uncomfortable so I'm going to have to cut short what could have been a rather rambling blog anyway!
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The Best of 2015 in rock and pop was sometimes about recapitulation, playing to your strengths.
And so, you had Toto touching on every base in their considerable past — from prog to rock to pop. And Keith Richards finding a great, greasy groove. And Steve Hackett diving headlong into a series of expanded musical landscapes. And Ringo Starr reclaiming solo heights with a little help from his friends.
But not everybody stayed between the lines of expectation.
Billy Gibbons took the basic ZZ Top gumbo and added a splash of Cuban spice. Neal Schon left aside both the pop formulations that have hurtled Journey to the top of the charts and the scorching guitar workouts that populate some of his other solo projects for something more emotional.
Death Cab for Cutie tried to move on without a key member, while Bob Dylan glanced back to the pre-rock era. Joe Jackson and James McMurtry confirmed their disparate, yet still considerable geniuses.
With competition at that level for this Best of 2015 list, figures as legendary as David Gilmour, Iron Maiden and Mark Knopfler were unfortunately relegated to honorable-mention status …
No. 10. RINGO STARR – POSTCARDS FROM PARADISE (POP/ROCK): After years of touring in various configurations, Ringo Starr has put together more than just the longest-tenured edition of his All-Starr Band. He's finally rediscovered the kind of camaraderie — personal and musical — that propelled him to stardom in the first place. All of his current group made contributions to Postcards from Paradise, a Best of 2015 album that boasts this fun looseness often missing from Starr's post-Ringo solo albums. In fact, their songs buoy everything that surrounds them – including, it's clear, Ringo Starr himself. The ultimate band mate, Starr sounds whole again.
No. 9. NEAL SCHON – VORTEX (ROCK): You come in expecting a torrent of guitar – and he certainly delivers – but Vortex also shows another side of Neal Schon. Actually, several. Schon and former Journey bandmate Steve Smith brilliantly tangle throughout Vortex, with Schon boiling while Smith bashes. But "Matador," for instance, stops its breathless assault for a splash of Spanish guitar, while "Lady M" explores what can only be called a thunderous romanticism. The results are an album that, while it once again underscores his musical brilliance, also feels like one of Neal Schon's most personal ever.
No. 8. BOB DYLAN – SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT (POP): This Best of 2015 entry is — at its foundation — what every great Bob Dylan album has always aspired to, and many of his worst have been sunk by: The opposite of what you thought it would be. Dylan's willingness to frustrate our desires, to know exactly what is anticipated and to do something else entirely, has made him the most interesting rock star there ever was. With Shadows in the Night, he gives us an album of songbook-era songs, but no big band. A Frank Sinatra tribute, with none of his most familiar songs. A promise of jazz, with Americana instead. In other words, Bob Dylan succeeds here by being Bob Dylan.
No. 7. STEVE HACKETT – WOLFLIGHT (PROG/ROCK): The sweeping success of Steve Hackett's Genesis Revisited II project clearly had a direct impact on his first solo album in four years. Constructed between shows, Wolflight had to be tightly focused, and it represents some of his best developed, most intricately conveyed solo work. At the same time, re-engaging with songs from his old band seemed to convince Steve Hackett once more than he has a license to similar kinds of long-form thoughts. All of it makes for his most fully realized album yet, and certainly one of his bravest.
No. 6. KEITH RICHARDS – CROSSEYED HEART (ROOTS ROCK): Mick Jagger gets the headlines, the spotlight, the girls. But listen as his long-time Rolling Stones bandmate moves from the crowing Mick Taylor-era strut of "Trouble" to the creaky folk of "Goodnight Irene" to the shit-kicking lament of "Robbed Blind" to the hard-won revelations of "Amnesia," and it's impossible to overestimate what the guy with the pirate's smile brings to the table. Keith Richards' first solo album in nearly 25 years was worth the wait, as he rejoined familiar collaborators to fashion his most eclectic mix of songs yet. And, as with his initial solo disc, it might just be the kick in the pants the Rolling Stones need to get back into the studio as a group.
No. 5. JAMES McMURTY – COMPLICATED GAME (ROOTS): Somehow, James McMurtry got pegged as a protest singer, the fault of his barking indictment "We Can't Make It Here" from 2005's Childish Things and the cuttingly acerbic "Cheney's Toy" from three years later. Only he was always much more apt to delve into the personal, rather than the political — a narrative balance put back into place on Complicated Game, McMurtry's first studio effort since 2008's Just Us Kids. Together with Louisiana swamp-popper C.C. Adcock, they constructed James McMurtry's most radio-ready sounding album ever, without surrendering his typically incisive tales.
No. 4. JOE JACKSON – FAST FORWARD (POP/ROCK): At 61, many rockers of Joe Jackson's vintage are settling into the nostalgia circuit, raking in the dollars while playing favorites from yesteryear. Not Joe. Instead, he recorded this reliably eclectic album in four separate cities, with four separate groups of collaborators — a process that shows he intends to live up to this project's title. Regina Carter, Bill Frisell and Brian Blade contribute to the New York City-based, jazz-inflected tracks. Jackson decamped to Amsterdam for a run at the stand-out track "A Little Smile." He gets funky (where else?) in New Orleans, with an assist from Galactic. Jackson's ageless wit, and his delicately conveyed emotion, tie everything together. Only in Germany, where things take a confusing turn into cabaret, does Jackson stumble. By then, however, he's crafted one of his best albums in ages, so we forgive.
No. 3: DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE – KINTSUGI (POP/ROCK): Death Cab for Cutie returned to the familiar atmospherics of the 2003 breakthrough Transatlanticism on this Best of 2015 entry. That is to say, there's a considered, singer-songwriterly attention to detail — and a darker conflict at play. Back then, Death Cab for Cutie dealt with a lost love over an album-length theme, whereas Kintsugi is haunted by the departure of guitarist and producer Chris Walla. Even if he, in fact, participated in these sessions, the knowledge that Walla is gone now make lines like "you cannot outrun a ghost" resonate with painful precision.
No. 2: TOTO – TOTO XIV (POP/ROCK): Every long-hoped-for return from a legacy band brings with it the thorny issue of expectations. They must, alternatively, sound like themselves — and like something brand new. It's an almost impossible proposition, but one that Toto deftly pulls off on this Mid-Year Best of 2015 charttopper. By so consistently tested themselves, Toto escaped the sense of embalmed valedictory that often surrounds comebacks like this one. Instead, they produced a visceral, entirely present return, one that acknowledges their best moments even as it builds upon them.
No. 1. BILLY GIBBONS – PERFECTAMUNDO (ROCK): At this late date, you'd think you knew Billy Gibbons — and, certainly, his sound — pretty well. Thus, a solo album (even one with a bulked-up backing band) might have seemed utterly superfluous. And, in truth, even in its best moments, Perfectamundo trades in the currency of a groove any ZZ Top fan knows all too well. But then Gibbons will flood a nasty little Autotuned boogie with these Cuban-inflected rhythms, and those assumptions are blown to pieces. This top Best of 2015 finisher brings in some of his main band's influences (covering two old blues guys, for instance, including Slim Harpo), even as he brings in thunderstorms of percussion and a winking blend of multi-culti turns of phrase. By bridging these two things, Billy Gibbons made a nearly perfect side project: one that builds outward from the expected into something else entirely.
WARREN HAYNES – ASHES AND DUST: You know Haynes as a blues-rocking shouter, and an ex-Allman Brothers Band member. Here, he does brilliant things with a bluegrass inflection. … . IRON MAIDEN – BOOK OF SOULS: Composed as a group (rather than the more typical individual) effort and expanded to dizzying song lengths, there's lot here to thrill die-hard fans but also plenty that challenges their preconceived notions. … MARK KNOPFLER – TRACKER: Knopfler opened up his narrative focus, even as he continued to combine an idiosyncratic, eternally resonant picking style with this intriguingly dark rootsiness. … DAVID GILMOUR – RATTLE THAT LOCK: He finally seems free of the Pink Floyd mantle, and that more modest conceptual format frees Gilmour to explore elements of jazz, found-object sounds, even a waltz. … WHITESNAKE – THE PURPLE ALBUM: David Coverdale makes an argument that shouldn't really have to be made for Deep Purple's Mark III and IV eras, as the group began to incorporate more funk into their sound. Pity the rest of his old bandmates couldn't be there too.
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Last year's Tiger Woods wasn't just a great playing game of golf, it was a pretty awesome showcase for Nintendo's Wii MotionPlus peripheral. The company was clearly so proud about what it accomplished, it even beat Nintendo to the punch as the first game on the market to support the motion device. Armed with all that Wii MotionPlus knowhow, the Wii Tiger Woods team set out to improve an already fantastic golfing experience with the yearly follow-up. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 might not be a massive step up from the previous incarnation, the game is a significant improvement and there's a ton to enjoy even if you've plowed through last year's 2010 edition.
Look, even though Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 doesn't absolutely require you to have a Wii MotionPlus peripheral, at this point in the game you owe it to yourself to get one: for this year's version, EA Sports' Tiger Woods team outdid last year's incredibly impressive golfing experience with a swing mechanic that mirrors golfing as accurately as you can get on a videogame controller. While armchair golfers might swear by the two/three click system or the analog flick control, virtual golf feels much more real when you're swinging a stick around. EA Sports has been working to get this mechanic right for four iterations now, but I think for 2011, its fifth game using the Wii remote, the team nailed it with something that's both fun to experience and accurate as hell.
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Though the Nintendo version isn't a slouch in visuals, you're obviously going to get a better looking experience on the HD consoles – those systems have the strength to make all the PGA courses look far more beautiful than the Wii edition. But it's not the visuals that make Tiger Woods work here: you're not going to get a more immersive game of golf than on Wii. The Wii remote has been a tricky beast for some developers to handle, but the Tiger Woods Wii team clearly shows a true understanding and manage to make the Wii remote work as close to an actual set of golf clubs as you can get with this generation of controllers.
There are a variety of different control schemes: a pick-up-and-play "All Play" option for the beginner and the "Normal" and "Advanced" options that are pretty much what the team created for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 on Wii. Then there are the new tweaks: Advanced Plus and Tour Pro, two Motion Plus-enhanced controls that take into account all the subtle twists and turns in the backswing and the drive that apply the draw or fade. If you can get a grasp of what the game's looking for and how it affects the ball's flight in these two modes, you'll find it an incredibly accurate simulation of golfing even without the feedback of the club head connecting with a ball.
To enhance the "you are there" feel, the team added a new first-person "True View" mode. Here, everything you're doing is through the eyes of your golfer, right down to the drive of the ball. When you're ready to swing, you glance down at the ball, either on the ground or the tee, and you can move the club with insane accuracy – this mode really shows off just how much the Wii MotionPlus helps with 1:1 motion.


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Summer. For kids, it means a long break from school and homework. For parents, it can create stress over how to keep your kids from spending the next two months sitting in front of a computer or TV screen.
Embrace Technology – Technology isn't going away, so why not embrace it, says Darryl Knight, MS, an exercise physiologist and program coordinator for the Healthy Kids, Healthy Weight program.
His suggestions include:
"You can't just move away from the digital age, so try to embrace it," Knight says.
Choose the Right Kind of Play – Parents tend to think kids are more active in the summer, when the opposite is actually true. In the summer kids aren't in school, so they tend to sleep more and want to stay in the house. For that reason, Knight says forget about structuring your child's day around chores that will keep them indoors.
For younger kids, you need to think about making activities game-based.
"All younger kids want to do is play," he says. "Don't plan structured activities. They'll become bored quickly. Younger kids like running around, playing on the playground, riding a bike or running around the house."
For older age groups, structured activities like organized sports, camps or trips to the gym for group exercise classes or a pickup basketball game are ideal.
"Older kids should get involved in some type of sports camp or have a schedule similar to school," Knight says. "Keeping that routine will make sure they are up and moving around."
Use Rewards and Incentives – Rewards or incentives can be incredibly motivating for kids, giving them a goal and a sense of accomplishment. A trip to the mall, a new pair of shoes or even a new video game can be all the incentive your child needs to be active during the day.
Just don't make those rewards food-based. And remove the temptation of junk food by not bringing it into the house to prevent eating out of boredom.
Give Them Power – Be sure to involve your kids in the process of scheduling their summer – as long as it's limited decision-making power. Ask them what they want to do so you don't sign your kids up for an arts and crafts camp only to find out they really wanted to go to soccer camp with their friends.
"Talk to them and figure out the things they like," Knight says. "If you provide kids with incentives, non-food related, they're more likely to be active."
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Donald Andrew McClurkin, Jr. was born November 9, 1959. He has won three Grammy awards, ten Stellar awards, two BET awards, two Soul Train awards, one Dove award and one NAACP Image award for his work. Most recently he ventured on the creative and successful King's Men Tour.
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A wheelchair-bound woman in her 70s picked up a machete to defend herself, claiming a friend who was drunk slapped her on Fairfields Avenue just before 4 a.m. Friday, arrest records show.
The incident began when the friend, Willie Lee Hughes, 58, became frustrated when the woman wouldn't take him home, according to the affidavit of probable cause. When he grabbed her arm and hit her across the face, she picked up a machete to defend herself, the affidavit says.
That's when Hughes called police, the affidavit says. He denied ever having grabbed or slapped the woman.
It was unclear Friday whether the incident took place at the woman's house.
Hughes, 3909 Tchoupitoulas St., New Orleans, was booked into Parish Prison on counts of cruelty to the infirmed and entering or remaining after forbidden, booking records show.
Man booked in attack against brother-in-law
Sheriff's deputies on Friday arrested a 43-year-old Denham Springs man accused of beating his brother-in-law in the head with a baseball bat.
Michael Harrington's sister called him late Thursday night to pick her up from a house on Erin Avenue in Baton Rouge. Harrington later told police that when he arrived, he saw his sister locked in a dispute with her husband over house keys, according to the affidavit of probable cause. Harrington retrieved a baseball bat from the back of his truck and attacked his relative, the affidavit says.
Harrington then left the scene to avoid a return attack, but came back to speak to deputies. The brother-in-law was left with multiple large gashes on his head and a bloodied shirt, according to the affidavit.
Harrington, 446 Carrie Drive, was booked into Parish Prison early Friday on aggravated second-degree battery, booking records show.
Authorities book 2 on suspicion of DWI
Authorities arrested at least two people suspected of driving while intoxicated in East Baton Rouge Parish and booked them into Parish Prison between 2:30 p.m. Thursday and 2:30 p.m. Friday, booking records show.
Those booked and the counts against them:
- Elizabeth Perrault, 36, 7353 Vice President Drive, Baton Rouge, first-offense DWI, possession of alcoholic beverage in vehicle, motor vehicle insurance required or expired, motor vehicle inspection expired, driver's license suspended or revoked and simple battery.
- Wayne Robins, 35, 6172 Perimeter Drive, Baton Rouge, first-offense DWI, driving over a median, failure to maintain control and reckless operation of vehicle.
Compiled from staff reports. To talk to a crime reporter at The Advocate, call (225) 388-0369.


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Edrom is a rural Parish in east central Berwickshire being bounded on the north by the Parishes of Bunkle and Preston and Chirnside, on the east by the Parish of Hutton, on the south by the Parishes of Whitsome, Swinton and Fogo and on the west by the Parishes of Langton and Duns.
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|This is the text of Ronald's talk to the Society on 21st March 2004. It was about a diary which should appeal to those with an interest in local history, a snapshot of life in a rural Parish between 1797 and 1822, and for those connected to Edrom - an opportunity to 'meet the ancestor'.
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|An account of the publication by the Society of the Edrom Monumental Inscriptions etc. also some background on the parish and persons associated.
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|From Coldstream to Canada
|The Galbraith history from Coldstream to Toronto University. A comprehensive account of the Galbraiths.
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|James Burns
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|An account of the life of Robert Fortune born at Edrom who became a renowned botanist and undertook several journeys (often proving quite perilous ) to China and the Far East - Many plants are named after him and he can probably lay claim to be the founder of the tea industry in India having smuggled plants out of China to help establish this. Buried at Brompton Cemetery, London where a memorial to him has recently been restored.
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The 20 most common surnames on gravestones recorded by us in the Edrom monumental inscriptions volume are (number of gravestones in brackets): JOHNSTON (43), ROBERTSON (41), PATERSON (39), BLACKADDER (33), WILSON (30), DICKSON (28), ANDERSON (28), PURVES (26), BROWN (26), LOGAN (26), TURNBULL (22), BELL (19), BOSWALL (19), SWINTON (18), GIBSON (18), LOGAN HOME (17), FORREST (17), HOGG (17), COCKBURN (17), DARLING (16).
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1841 census: Edrom, Loanhead, White Mire, Craig Walls, Bighouse, Stuartslaw, New Stead, Todheugh, Old Edrom, New Edrom, Edrom Mains, Edrom Newton, Broomhouse, Swallowdean, Nisbet, Old Crunklaw, Crunklaw, Wittywalls, Nisbet Hill, Nisbet, Mill, Pathhead, Bankhead, Mungoswalls, Reedyloch, Kelloe, Sinclairshall, Kimmerghame, Mount Pleasant, Belshiel, Sandpit, Greenknowe, Middlestots, Kimmerghame Mill, Kimmerghame Heugh, Whitlaw, Whitelaw, Old Toll, Blackadder, Blackadder Mount, Tempest Bank, Allanton, Broomdykes.
1851 census: Edrom, Edrom Newton, Broomhouse, Kelloe Bastle, Todhaugh, Craigwalls, Newstead, Chirnside Bridge, Stuartslaw, Boathl, Kimmergham, Sinclairshill, Kimmerghame Heugh, Middlestots, Greenknowe, Kingslaw, Bellshiel, Mount Pleasant, Nisbethill, Nisbet Mill, Pathhead, Weetywalls, Crunklaw, Old Crunklaw, Nisbet, Nisbet Rhodes, Allanton, Broomdykes, Blackadder Bank, Blackadder East, Blackadder, Reedyloch, Kelloe, Whitelaw, Blackadder Mount.
1861 census: Edrom, Broomhouse, Swallowdean, Edrom Mains, Todheugh, Quarry House, Edrom Newton, Stuartslaw, Craigwalls, Chirnside Bridge, Allanton, Broomdykes, Blackadder Bank, Tempest Bank, Allanbank, Blackadder, Kelloe, Whitemire, Kelloe Bastle, Dovecot, Reedyloch, Mungoswalls, Nesbit Rhodes, Weetywalls, New Crunklaw, Nesbit Mill, Mountpleasant, Kimmerghame Mains, Sinclairshill, Kimmerghame, Belshiel, Sand Pit, Greenknowe, Middlestots, Whitelaw.
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Over the past few weeks I've learned to look at people in a new way. Call it creepy or call it empirical, it makes little difference. The fact is that I've found a glimmer of hope left in humanity. And so what if preserving that glimmer requires candid photos through curtains and glass?
The story begins at my desk—central station for all things gloomy. At least, that's how it's seemed the past little while. The bulk of the time I spend at my desk (a grand chunk of each twenty-four hour block) generally consists of my reading through documents linked to the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, Nazism, pogroms, etc. After all, it's what I study. But that doesn't make it any less difficult to process emotionally. And when I need a quick break from homework I'll pull up a tab on an Internet browser to see if new developments have broken in Ukraine or in Gaza.
Frankly, sometimes I'm not sure what's more dismal—the past or the present.
Life can seem a tad dreary at times, despite all our best intentions to keep stiff upper lips or to whistle or sing. And although I'm not a naturally sad person, every now and then things just don't look terribly hopeful—and perhaps my addiction to current events isn't helping this prognosis.
It was on one of those bleak days that I saw a cliché come to life and my whole mood changed. I was chatting with someone online—a friend or a sibling, I can't quite remember—when a shuffling old woman entered my view through the window at my desk. I watched her hobble along the sidewalk across the street from my hostel, and she kept up her slow pace until she reached the large rosebush that clings to the building on that side of the road.
She reached up a rheumatic hand, gently took hold of a flower, and drew it close to her face.
Yes, friends. That woman literally stopped and smelled the roses.
I can't explain why, but that experience struck me deeply. Despite my normal aversion to all things trite, I really admired that woman and suddenly felt the urge to go up to that rosebush myself and take a big whiff of the scent God infused into His creation. The view from my window gained meaning, and the world seemed a little less gray.
Imagine my surprise, then, when a day or two later a group of four passersby took the liberty to do the same thing—to stop for a moment, put their journey on hold, and sniff at the yellow rose petals.
That's when I lost all sense of propriety. Glancing at the digital camera near my laptop on the desk, I made an impulsive decision and snapped shots of the group in order to document that people really do enact the adage we've all heard too often.
It became a new hobby. Every day I would look up from my readings from time to time to see how people reacted to the rosebush as they passed. If they stopped, I whipped out my camera for the photo, proving to the world (or at least to myself) that there really is beauty left on the earth, and that there really are people who relish it. I started to trust humanity just a bit more than I have in the past. In each passing pedestrian I imagined a closet philosopher enraptured by aesthetics, or a budding theologian whose mind and soul rejoiced in the glories of God.
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I watched him down round after round of the stuff. His face flushed, and still he pulled out new cans to fill his bottle when the old tins were empty. One time he got up, staggered to the nearby dumpster, and proceeded to relieve himself publicly. I quickly looked away, feeling embarrassed on behalf of this man who had numbed himself past the ability to feel. Clearly he yearned for the comfort—no matter how transient—that can come only after all senses are dead. Soon he stumbled back to his spot on the steps and eventually lost consciousness for a time.
The sight jerked me out of my idealizing and forced me to remember reality. Right next to the rosebush—that symbol I'd invented to stand for hope and goodness—there lay a drunken beggar who not only could not take time to smell the flowers, but probably had too much pressing on his soul to even see them or care. The immediacies of hunger, of hatred, of loss, unemployment, divorce, destitution, depression—who knows—crowded out the roses. And I understand why.
For some reason, I felt that I needed to capture this image. After a moment's hesitation, I took up my digital camera, climbed under my desk in order to lift the curtain for a clearer view, and clandestinely snapped a portrait of the person whose pain I'd been watching.
I prayed for that man. There wasn't much else I could do.
The next day he was back, and he sat on the porch even though it was raining and the steps had no awning to shield him from the drizzle. I ached for him—especially when he pulled out a can.
But this day turned out a bit differently than the previous one had. After about ten minutes or so, I saw a young woman approach the man. In one hand she grasped the handle of a mug covered in pink and red hearts; in the other she held a banana. She leaned over the man and insisted he take the fruit and coffee, then she stood for a while, chatting, laughing, smiling with the man who had set his beer can aside to make room for the gifts.
The two were so consumed with their conversation that I'm sure neither of them noticed the camera lens across the street, snatching the moment, preserving the scene of true love in action.
I'm not sure if the rosebush really is the symbol I'd made it out to be all those times that I watched people stop and observe it, or smell it, or touch it, or maybe just stand in its shade for a while. Sure, it's beautiful, and I'm glad there are people who notice beauty in the world.
But there's something more lovely than flowers.
Cliché and all, I think I'm in favor of the maxim to "stop and smell the roses," just so long as we're willing to notice the men who sit under the bushes. Just so long as we're willing to grab our bananas and mugs and go stand in the rain for the sake of God's sons and His daughters. That's what makes this world beautiful–men and women and caring and love.
I'll let you decide whether it's wrong for a person to hide in her room taking pictures of strangers. But now, on those days when the present and past seem a little too heavy to handle, I've got proof that good people still walk on the earth—people who understand that "[p]ure religion and undefiled before God . . . is this[:] To visit [people] in their afflictions, and to keep [themselves] unspotted from the world" (James 1:27).


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8:00 AM - Introductions and Championship Rules
8:15 AM - The Financial Analyst Perspective
Panelists: Coming soon!
8:40 AM - Finalists Pitch - Professional Services Group
Each professional facing solution finalist will get 5 minutes to pitch their business plan followed by 5 minutes of Q&A from our panel of expert judges.
9:30 AM - The Equity Analyst Perspective
Panelists: Coming soon!
10:00 AM - Coffee Break
Meet with the finalists or pin down that elusive VC you've been chasing!
10:45 AM - Finalists Pitch - Consumer Group
Each consumer solution finalist will have 5 minutes to pitch their business plan, followed by 5 minutes of Q&A from our panel of expert judges.
11:35 PM - Winners Announced!
Final judging and champions declared!
*See the complete agenda for the Health 2.0 10th Annual Fall Conference here.
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Health 2.0
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Piper Jaffra
Summation Health Ventures
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text: Alice "Bunty" Tate, beloved wife of the late Captain Ian MacFarlane Lamont MacLean, formerly of Lochgair and Rosson-Wye, passed away on Sunday, January 8, 2017, at Hereford County Hospital. The funeral will take place at The Forest of Dean Crematorium, on Wednesday, January 25 at 2.00 pm. Family flowers only please, but donations if desired for the RNLI, may be sent to: C/o William Bevan Funeral Directors, 16 Old Gloucester Road, Ross-on-Wye HR9 5JG. Telephone number 01989 562092.


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Predictive policing is the computerized analysis of historical crime data from databases, record management systems, and other digital sources. Agencies have achieved a lot of great results using this tool, but experts say law enforcement agencies have just begun to scratch the surface of what the technology can do.
Public safety computing tools are now available for desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. The following is a look at some of the products that were released before the IACP conference.
There's the stuff that you would expect to see at any law enforcement exposition and there's the stuff that seems to have dropped out of a science fiction movie. And all of it has the potential to be important to what you do in contemporary policing.
Whether agencies want to give field officers mobile crimefighting tools or better manage ongoing cases, these new and updates offereings from law enforcement software vendors will handle the job at hand. Photos courtesy of companies.


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Upcoming events of interest in the Cape and Islands business community
Tuesday, Nov. 27
Cape Cod Volunteers will hold a grand opening and open house of its second Volunteer Opportunity Center from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Mashpee Public Library, 64 Steeple St.
The event will feature volunteering experts and nonprofits looking for volunteers.
Details: For more information, go to www.capecodvolunteers.org.
The Dennis Chamber of Commerce will hold its monthly Business After Hours networking event from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Cooperative Bank of Cape Cod, 1583 Main St., East Dennis. Appetizers, wine and beer will be available and there will be a fish bowl raffle and a 50/50 cash raffle.
Details: To register, call 508-398-3568 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. The event is free.
Thursday, Nov. 29
My Pinnacle Network, a new monthly business-to-business networking group, will meet at 7:30 a.m. Thursday at Murray & MacDonald Insurance Services, 550 General MacArthur Boulevard, Bourne.
Details: For more information, visit www.mypinnaclenetwork.com.
The Cape Cod Human Resources Association will hold "EEO Best Practices: Addressing and Preventing Discrimination" from 8:30 a.m. to noon Thursday at the Holiday Inn, 1127 Route 132, Hyannis. Rebecca Shuster, director of training and at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, will outline elements of an equal employment opportunity program for employers.
Details: To register, go to www.cchraonline.com. The cost is $40 in advance for members, $50 for walk-in members, $70 for advanced non-members, $100 for walk-in non-members.
Monday, Dec. 3
The Wellfleet Chamber of Commerce will host its "December After Hours" networking event from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday at The Bookstore & Restaurant, 50 Kendrick Ave., Wellfleet. Complimentary appetizers and a cash bar will be available. Proceeds from this event will go to the Wellfleet Historical Society.
Details: Admission is $10 for members, $15 for non-members. To register, call 508-349-2510 or email firstname.lastname@example.com by Nov. 30.
Tuesday, Dec. 4
Michael Corcoran of the Workforce Training Fund will speak about the Fund from 8 to 10 a.m. Dec. 4 at Cape Cod Community College Hyannis Center, 540 Main St. The event is co-sponsored by the Cape and Islands Workforce Investment Board, the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce and the Workforce Education Resource Center. Refreshments will be served.
Details: To register, call 508-775-5900 or email email@example.com.
Wednesday, Dec. 5
Harwich Chamber of Commerce will sponsor "Investment and Retirement Planning" from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Dec. 5 at the Chamber, One Schoolhouse Road. Jane Bourette of Coast to Coast Financial Planning and Maggie French, ACC of Living Whole Coaching will present.
Details: The cost is $25 for members, $30 for non-members. To register call Chris Perry at 508-430-1165 or email at firstname.lastname@example.com or register online at www.harwichcc.com. Registration is required.
The Eastham Chamber of Commerce will hold a "December Business Forum" at its member networking and social event from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Dec. 5 at Eastham Elementary School, 200 School House Road. The event will also include an Eastham Library presentation.
Details: The cost is free for members, $10 for non-members. To register call 508-240-7211 or go to www.easthamchamber.com.


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Countdown: D-6 What's in the Show?
- Posted on April 3, 2016
- in CS 2016 Updates
- by Hien Nguyen
We are now down to 6 days until show day, and we wanted to zoom out a little from the past posts in which we focused a on individual performances. Below here we have our second trailer which will give you a quick overview of what to expect in the show this year. We will have the following performances incorporated in the play:
- Fan Dance
- Hat Dance
- Sriracha
- Lion Dance
- Vocals
- Ribbon Dance


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Monday Update: U.S. Coast Guard officials have confirmed that two people were killed and the search continues for four people missing after after a strong squall hit a sailing regatta in Mobile Bay Saturday. Two bodies were recovered over the weekend. The Coast Guard said that a fifth person believed to be missing was found safe in his home.
The Coast Guard is expected to provide another update Monday.
Previous: A multi-agency search is underway and will continue through the night for at least five missing boaters after a strong storm system passed the Mobile Bay, Alabama area Saturday afternoon.
The Coast Guard received reports Saturday at approximately 4:30 p.m. that a sailing regatta had been hit by a strong line of thunderstorms that passed through the area, with multiple reports of missing persons, capsized vessels and persons in the water.
By Saturday night, more than 40 people were rescued by a combined effort of multiple agencies and good Samaritans.
Local media reports that the bodies of two people have been recovered.
A strong line of thunderstorms pushed eastward across the Mobile Bay area Saturday at approximately 3:30 p.m., resulting in winds in excess of 70 miles per hour. Mariners in the area were caught off guard, including a regatta sailing event taking place in the Dauphin Island area.
The agencies continued to search on Sunday for at least five people still believed to be missing. An update Sunday from the Coast Guard said that the search would continue overnight Sunday.
"In a combined effort, multi-agency responders have covered more than 2,500 square miles searching for survivors and we will continue to do so tonight," said Capt. Duke Walker, Commander, Coast Guard Sector Mobile. "We are very grateful for the continued assistance of state, local agencies and Good Samaritans who helped individuals in distress. Because of these combined efforts, over 40 people were rescued throughout this case."
As of Sunday afternoon, the search included:
- An HC-144 Ocean Sentry crew.
- An HH-60 Jayhawk crew from Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile
- An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans
- Three 45-foot response boat-medium crews from Coast guard Station Dauphin Island.
- A 29-foot response boat-small crew from Coast Guard Station Dauphin Island
- Two 87-foot Coast Guard patrol boat crews – the Coast Guard cutter Stingray and Cobia.
- Three Coast Guard 26-foot TANB aids to navigation boat crews
- Three Alabama Marine Resources boat crews.
- Four Alabama Marine Patrol boat crews.
- Four Mobile County Sheriff's Department flotilla crews.
- One Coast Guard Auxiliary fixed wing aircraft crew.


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A support worker for vulnerable people crashed into a hotel wall the morning after celebrating his birthday.
Zimbabwe-born, Ruramaji Hlomayi said he could not recall driving off in his sister's Mini and he believed his drinks had been spiked.
Hlomayi, 24, of Shorefields, Blackpool, pleaded guilty to failing to provide a breath specimen and driving without insurance.
He was banned from the road for 12 months, fined £255 with £85 and ordered to pay £26 victims' surcharge by Blackpool magistrates.
Andrea Fawcett, prosecuting, said the defendant lost control of the car he was driving in the Dickson Road area on December 20 at 8am and crashed into a hotel wall.
At the police station he was unable to provide the required breath specimen.
Brett Chappell, defending, said his client had no previous convictions and had a responsible job as a support worker working with people with severe behavioural problems.
The night before the offence it had been Hlomayi's birthday.
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He could not remember getting into a car and driving the next morning and he believed his drinks must have been spiked.
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text: Seeking spiritual guidance, US President George W. Bush today paused for a moment to ask himself "What would Jesus do?". After a moment's reflection, Bush informed close aids of his absolute certainty sure that if Jesus Christ were president, he would make plans to invade Iraq, killing thousands upon thousands of Iraqi citizens if necessary to further US corporate interests. Once a US-friendly Iraqi government was established, Bush went on, Jesus would then revert to the Reagan-era US policy of selling chemical weapons to Iraq.


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Are We Living in the Time of the End?
Many biblical prophecies leave us in no doubt that increasingly cataclysmic events will occur before God's direct intervention in human affairs.
What Is the Time of the End?
How does the Bible use the term time of the end? What exactly is it? Are we in that time yet? Is there a way to know?
A World in Perpetual Crisis
We could be headed for the greatest crisis in all of human history culminating in the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Noah and Our Time: A Sobering Parallel
Like the people in Noah's time who laughed and mocked as he built the ark, the end of this age will come when the overwhelming majority are unprepared.
The End of the Age
Jesus Christ spoke of a coming "end of the age." What did He mean? What age did He say would come to an end?
The Time of the End: The End of What?
The Bible speaks of the time of the end. But exactly what will come to an end?
Biblical Terms for the Coming End of Man's Age
Some biblical terms have a considerably broader application than the 3 1⁄2 year time of crisis immediately preceding Jesus Christ's return.
Jesus Christ's Olivet Prophecy: Where Are We Now?
In a remarkable prophecy shortly before His death, Jesus described the signs that would preceed His return. What do those signs reveal?
Did Jesus Christ Foretell Devastating Storms?
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'This Generation Will Not Pass'
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The Population Explosion and Prophecy
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God's Framework for End-Time Prophecy
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Preparing for the End Time
Why does God reveal what the future holds? So we will be spurred to change. What do you need to do to be prepared?
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In light of the many prophecies about the end of this age, what can you do? What should you do?


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Service Engineering and Management
Major pillars of the Hong Kong economy are related to services such as finance, professional services, medicine, education and logistics. Those service systems are complex systems in which specific arrangements of people and technologies take actions that provide value for others. Systems are designed and built to provide and sustain services, yet because of their complexity and size, operations do not always go smoothly, and all interactions and results cannot be anticipated. As a result, systems engineers are trained to develop quantitative decision-making tools and methodologies for smooth, agile and resilient operations in data-intensive service systems such as finance, healthcare, and logistics.
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Network Epidemiology Modeling of Dynamic Human Behaviors for Controlling Hospital Acquired Diseases
C.H. Cheng
Healthcare associated infections (HAIs) are the disease that people acquire inside a healthcare setting such as hospital. This type of infections poses a serious threat to public health. For instance, there were about 722,000 cases of HAIs reported by U.S. hospitals in 2011. About 10% of HAI cases resulted in death (Magill et al. [1]). Another example was the 2003 SARS epidemic causing hundreds of deaths around the world. It was later traced back to an outbreak in a hospital in Hong Kong (Lee et al. [2] and Hung [3]).
Modern healthcare systems are trying to reduce the risk of HAIs. Among many control strategies against infectious diseases, targeted immunization is a common and effective approach for preventing infections among people. It requires identifying potential "super spreaders" and preventing them from being the sources that spread the diseases over human contact networks, with the goal of reducing the impact of epidemic outbreaks as far as possible. Except for direct protection for targeted individuals, targeted immunization also provides indirect protection for people who are in the same contact networks as the targeted individuals. These people may be infants and pregnant women who are not suitable for getting vaccinated themselves. Moreover, when vaccines are scarce, possibly due to limited budgets or shortages of supply, allocating resource optimally is essentially important for eveloping efficient intervention strategies.
In this work, we plan to develop effective and efficient control strategies of target immunization against HAIs. This work leverages on the PI's previous project on developing a hospital risk management system with indoor application of the RFID technology. This technology tracks the location and movement of human and medical equipment and monitors real-time ward events. We have conducted a four-month pilot study of our system in a public hospital in Hong Kong. Based on the data collected, we plan to conduct further investigation for developing network-based control strategies for minimizing HAI outbreaks. Specifically, several activities are involved to achieve this goal:
- dynamic human contact network construction based on human tracking data in a hospital for characterizing personto-person interaction in a healthcare setting,
- concise formulation of targeted immunization as an outbreak minimization problem under network diffusion models,
- investigation on the equivalence between the outbreak minimization problem and the influence maximization problem which is extensively studied in the field of social influence analysis,
- solution to the outbreak minimization problem using optimization approaches, which is applicable to real-world scenarios,
- experimental evaluations on real data and comparison to the existing methods to verify the performance and scalability.
Our work is unique for four reasons. First, we focus on the indoor application of targeted immunization in a relatively closed community against HAIs, while most existing work generally deals with outdoor cases. Second, human interaction pattern in a healthcare setting differs from that in a large population due to the highly hierarchical and modular structure of a hospital and distinct roles of patients and caregivers. Third, we solve the outbreak minimization problem with optimization approaches instead of greedy methods used in most existing work. Finally, our work makes contribution to the study on infectious disease control as well as the study on influence maximization by improving the solution efficiency and effectiveness.
Financial Digital Library
J. Yu, C.C. Yang and W. Lam
The Financial Digital Library being developed contains annual reports, financial news articles, and government documents that allows users from different places to access and search for the information they need based on concept space. We have a collection of annual reports from 249 Hong Kong public firms, real-time stock quotes, and a set of agents to support technical and fundamental analysis. We have also conducted a series of studies on how an electronic filing system can improve transparency of financial information transmission in Hong Kong.
Integration of OLAP and Multidimensional Inter Transaction Mining
J. Yu
Today's markets are much more competitive and dynamic than ever before. Business enterprises prosper or fail according to the sophistication and speed of their information systems, and their ability to analyse and synthesize information using those systems. Integration of On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) and data mining is a promising direction since it facilitates interactive exploratory data analysis. The objective of this project aims at integrating OLAP and multidimensional inter-transaction data mining for large financial multidimensional databases.
Integration of Renewable Energy Resources with the Sustainable Water System in Hong Kong: Models and Algorithms
C.H. Cheng & Neng Fan
Energy is required to extract, collect, pump and deliver water for human consumption and industrial use, and also for wastewater treatment before its reuse or its return to the environment. For example, the US alone uses at least 521 million MWh a year for water-related operations, and this is equivalent to 13% of the country's total electricity consumption. According to US Environmental Protection Agency, the massive energy consumption in water/wastewater treatment and delivery add over 45 million tons of greenhouse gases annually.
To reduce further damage to the environment and at the same time to meet water demands sustainably, one of the most effective approaches relies on usage of renewable energy resources. However, these resources, such as solar, wind, etc., are highly unpredictable and intermittent due to weather conditions. Meanwhile, water demands are also highly uncertain depending on the future population growth and climate changes.
A large-scale integration of renewable energy into water systems faces the uncertainties in these two infrastructures. To overcome these challenges, we propose a research to develop optimization-based models and algorithms for policy makers to integrate renewable energy as a major energy source, and to optimally operate sustainable water systems. To achieve these goals, we plan to conduct the following research activities:
(1) Quantifying the uncertainties of water demands and renewable energy resources through data mining and data analytics.
(2) Designing multistage stochastic programming models and algorithms for renewable integration to water systems, and also for management and operations of the water/wastewater treatment facilities.
(3) Evaluating the proposed techniques for practical test in a real water system.
Different from previous studies, this research is unique. First, instead of only considering the energy efficiency in a water system, we concentrate on large renewable integration for both planning, and management and operations of the water system. Second, the proposed multistage stochastic programming model will have the capability to incorporate the uncertainties because of renewable integration. Finally, the success of this project will be a practical and methodological evidence for the concept of onsite energy generation to promote the adoption of renewable energy in other industries.
Knowledge Discovery
W. Lam, H. Meng and J. Yu
This project focuses on automated or semi-automated learning from data and texts, and the transformation of learned theories into some knowledge representation formalisms. We expect to develop the theory and techniques for partial or full automation of the time-consuming process of expert knowledge elicitation through automatic knowledge discovery or learning from data. We aim not only at the accuracy and effectiveness of the learned information, but also at improving the level and depth of knowledge discovered.
Network Epidemiology Modeling of Dynamic Human Behaviors for Controlling Hospital Acquired Diseases
C.H. Cheng & Dorbin Tobun Ng
The SARS epidemic in 2003 was traced back to an outbreak in a hospital in Hong Kong. In 2013, a Frenchman died of a SARS-like virus. He got infected while he was sharing a common hospital room with an infective. To ensure public health, we need a further understanding of human interaction dynamics in a hospital environment and a deeper investigation of nosocomial infections for effective and efficient control strategies.
Time and space play an important role in shaping human behaviors, inferring human interactions, and influencing epidemic spread of infectious diseases in a healthcare institute. Our research aims at enhancing the capability of tracking the movement of people and tracing the infection of a hospital-acquired disease for each individual in order to monitor and control the epidemic spread of nosocomial infections. To achieve this goal, we plan to conduct the following research activities:
(1) network models of dynamic human behaviors for an enhanced spatial-temporal analysis to determine human interaction patterns and contacts in a relatively close community,
(2) epidemic models to track and trace nosocomial infections based on the time-varying contact networks to increase our understanding of transmission mechanisms in hospital,
(3) traceability analysis of tracking the mobility and infection for each individual to identify risk behaviors by linking both the network and epidemic models,
(4) effective and efficient control strategies against epidemic spread under different scenarios to take advantage of the network structure and disease dynamics.
This research is unique. First, since our focus is on the movement of people, our methods are very different from those used to track products in a supply chain. Further, we plan to conduct the traceability analysis of the dynamic interactions and infections of people at individual level for network epidemiology study in hospital. This differs from either the popular modeling of a static network or the traditional epidemiology study for a large region. Finally, many spatial-temporal analyses and epidemiology models are developed for outdoor applications while this work deals with indoor activities.


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All of John Legend loves all of Chrissy Teigen — including her baby belly.
"You can't hide it after awhile! A lot of times, it's tough because you're getting used to a different size," Legend exclusively tells PEOPLE of his wife's pregnancy at a behind-the-scenes look of the 2016 AXE Collective.
"For her, it's something to get used to when you've never had that experience before, but I think she's handling it really well. I think she looks gorgeous all the time."
The parents-to-be, who will be welcoming their baby girl in the spring, announced in October that they were expecting their first child.
"John and I are so happy to announce that we are pregnant," the model wrote in an Instagram post.
With only a few months to go until their daughter's arrival, the happy couple are doing everything they can to be prepared.
"We're getting our house ready and trying to make sure we have everything set up so that we can go into that transition smoothly," says Legend, 37.
Adding,"I'm at that age where everybody is having kids. We get lots of good advice."
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From his partnership with AXE, whom he's worked with over the past year, to starring in the upcoming film La La Land and executive producing Underground, Legend seems to have already mastered his role when it comes to fatherhood.
"You just want to do the right things. You want to teach the children how to be good people, how to be intelligent and aware and kind and all those things," the "All of Me" singer says.
"Everything else will work itself out if you give them the tools that they need to be successful. They'll go to good schools and they'll have influences around, we know that, but you just want them to be good people and contribute good things to the world."
— Christina Dugan