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One of the more dramatic subplots of the very dramatic day in Britain's House of Commons was Labour MP Tulip Siddiq's decision to delay a planned cesarean section so she could show up at Parliament in a wheelchair to cast a vote on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal.
It's regrettable, as many of her colleagues noted, that there were no procedures to allow her to cast a proxy vote. It's also regrettable she made this sacrifice for a vote that turned out to be not even close.
Parliament rejected the deal May had negotiated with the EU by a vote of 432–202—the first time a government motion has been defeated by more than 100 votes since the 1920s. One hundred and eighteen Conservatives voted against their own government. It's been clear since December that May did not have the votes to actually pass the deal, and the only real uncertainty was the margin of defeat. Following the lopsided vote, Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the opposition Labour Party, put forward a motion of no confidence in May's government, which will be voted on tomorrow evening.
What happens next? Nobody actually has any idea, because the rules are being negotiated on the fly and every ultimatum, deadline, and statement of principle should be taken with a grain of salt. But there are a few possibilities.
First, despite today's historic defeat, it's not out of the question that May could win tomorrow's vote. Her coalition partner, the Democratic Unionist Party, which is strongly opposed to her deal, says it will support her remaining prime minister. And despite the intraparty rebellion over her Brexit deal, May comfortably won a confidence vote within the Conservative Party just last month.
Disappointed as they may be in the terms she negotiated with Brussels, are Conservatives really going to abandon her if her ouster would open up the possibility of Corbyn becoming prime minister? The Guardian reports that Jacob Rees-Mogg, a right-wing MP who leads a faction of hard-line Brexiteers who rejected May's deal, will nonetheless support her in the vote.
If May loses the vote, there's a 14-day period in which a new government can be formed. During this period, May could stay and fight or step down to let a new Conservative leader try to cobble together a workable administration. (She may have a hard time finding anyone who wants such a thankless job right now.) Given the current numbers in Parliament, there's probably no other party capable of forming a coalition. If no government can be formed within 14 days, a new general election would be called but could not be held for at least 25 working days after that.
This is a lot of time, given that the March 29 Brexit deadline is only 73 days away. If no further action is taken between now and then, Britain will leave the EU without any trade agreement with Europe. While some hard-line Brexiteers support the "no deal" scenario, economists have warned the consequences could be dire for an economy that's deeply integrated with the continent.
EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker tweeted following today's vote: "I urge the #UK to clarify its intentions as soon as possible. Time is almost up #Brexit."
Or is it? After both sides had long insisted that the March 29 deadline was set in stone, EU officials are now reportedly preparing for the possibility that Britain will ask for an extension. This could be granted, though it would have to be agreed on unanimously by EU member states.
But even with unlimited time, it's not at all clear that May, or whoever might replace her, could come up with a "better" deal than the one rejected today.
The main sticking point is that no side of this debate wants to impose a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. To avoid this, under May's proposal, the entire United Kingdom would remain in a customs union with the EU for at least a 21-month transition period after leaving the union. Nobody is a fan of this, since Britain would be bound to economic and legal policies that it no longer has a role in shaping and would be unable to negotiate its own trade deals. After the 21 months, if no solution to the Northern Irish dilemma is agreed to, Northern Ireland would remain in the customs union when the rest of the U.K. exits. Many Conservatives, particularly May's Unionist coalition allies, are aghast at this solution, since it would effectively economically separate Northern Ireland from the rest of the country.
It makes sense that these solutions are unpopular. But other than some vague musing about technological solutions, nobody has come up with a better idea that grants Britain full economic independence from Europe, keeps Northern Ireland fully united with the rest of the U.K., and avoids customs checks on the Irish border.
In a statement following today's vote, May said that if she wins the confidence vote, she will hold meetings to "identify what would be required to secure the backing of the House" for her deal. This might make sense if she had lost by a handful or even a few dozen votes, but given the margin, it seems unlikely that a few tweaks or reassurances would win enough new votes to get the bill over the hump.
Renewed enthusiasm is growing among some MPs in both parties for a "Norway-style" Brexit deal that would leave Britain with a much closer economic relationship with Europe, though it's not clear this would satisfy Brexit supporters given that the country wouldn't have full control over immigration policy—one of the key selling points of the whole Brexit concept. There's also the possibility of a new referendum: Thousands of "people's vote" supporters cheered outside Parliament as May's deal was voted down on Tuesday. But this is still a tough sell for MPs of all parties from districts whose constituents supported Brexit and would see a do-over as a betrayal.
Over the next two months—or likely longer—Britain's leaders are going to have to make some very unpleasant choices.


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"You don't like Sophie's fiancée, do you, hon?"
He didn't so he nodded. Helen put her wristwatch on the bedside table.
"But he seems such a nice boy. He is polite. He has manners. He even kept calling you sir when you told him Pat would be equally fine."
"That is precisely why I don't like him," said Pat. "Don't you find him… too perfect?"
"Is there such a thing?"
Damn right there is. Pat dunked the false teeth in the water. His tongue licked his upper gums.
"I think you're just being grumpy. Your little girl is growing up and you can't stand it."
"She's 29, Helen, for God's sake. I should be relieved she's finally getting wed!"
"So what's your problem then?" Helen let the comforting warmth of the blanket embrace her.
"I can't quite put my finger on it. But something is off. Did you watch him eating his asparagus?"
"He'd never had it before."
"Exactly! Who has never eaten asparagus in this day and age?"
"Now you're being silly, hon."
Pat kissed his wife goodnight and put out the bedside light. He didn't say a thing for a full minute. But he just couldn't keep his opinion to himself till the next morning.
"You know, there are times you'd swear he was from another dimension."
He was. And marrying the most eligible girls in America was just the first phase in his race's plans to enslave Earth.
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Cuddon Cycling Marlborough's open grade riders will compete for the Okaramio Hotel Challenge Trophy from Okaramio tomorrow afternoon.
The open grade 50km handicap event covers a rolling course out to Havelock, and then over the Mahakipawa hill to almost Linkwater and return. The past winners have usually come from strong rides over the Mahakipawa climbs and then holding off the fast finishing back markers over the final 15km from Havelock to Okaramio. Scratch marker Gerard van Antwerpen wil be out to repeat last years effort of first place and fastest time. Van antwerpens main competition for time honours will come from Jeremy McKenzie, Josh Scott and Andrew Jamieson. Riders are to assemble at the Okaramio Hall at 1pm for a 1.30pm start.
The junior under 17 grade will compete in a 24km massed start/sealed handicap event twice over an out and return course on the Taylor Pass Road. Thomas Westend is favoured to take fastest time over Ethan Brydon with other competition likely to come from Callum Caughey, Zac Mortimer, Christopher Grammer, Hugh Trollope and Jack Ritchie. Riders are to assemble just beyond the Taylor Pass Road roundabout at 1pm for a 1.30pm start.
Marlborough's top school cyclists are travelling North this weekend to compete in the National Schools Cycling Championships in Levin, Palmerston North and Fielding. The riders Leatham Landon-Lane, Peter Crampton, Brodie Catterick, Callum Saunders, Quinn Karwowski and Nick Blakiston will compete in the Sir Bernard Fergusson team time trials on Saturday. On Sunday the riders plus Georgia Catterick will compete in road events, and Monday all will ride in points races on the Manfield raceway.
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The Private Life of Galileo By Galileo Galilei, Maria Celeste Galilei, Mary Allan-Olney
Galileo's Respect for People
His demeanor was modest and unassuming: he neither depreciated nor envied the talent of other men but gave to all their due and more than their due. Of self praise so much is recorded of him by Gherardini that when his eyesight was decaying day by day he endeavored to take comfort by saying that of all the sons of Adam none had seen so much as he. He never spoke of Aristotle in terms of contempt as was the custom with some of his followers but contented himself by saying that he did not find his method of reasoning satisfactory. Of Kepler, whose extravagance was evident, he said on being pressed for his opinion that he was undoubtedly a great philosopher but that his mode of philosophizing was vastly different to his own. He exalted Plato to the skies calling his eloquence golden. He also praised Pythagoras as unequaled among philosophers, but Archimedes was the only one of the ancients whom he called master. He was extremely fond of the writings of Ariosto, and was accustomed to say that reading Tasso after Ariosto was like eating cucumbers after melons. Endowed with great tenacity of memory he could repeat by heart a great part of the works of Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Seneca the sonnets of Petrarch, the rime of Berni, and the heroic stanzas of Ariosto in whose "Gerusa lemme Liberata" he found new beauties each time he read it. Not to make the list of his attainments too long we may say that there was no art, science,nor handicraft in which he was not superior to the generality of men professing them. He protested that he had never met with a man so ignorant but that something might be learnt from him.


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President Taylor dies
July 9, 1850 — Zachary Taylor, 12th president of the U.S., died after serving only 16 months of his term. He was succeeded by Millard Fillmore.
First bridge over Missouri
July 9, 1930 — Dedication of the first bridge over the Missouri River, east of Fort Benton near Wolf Point, was observed by 15,000 people and reported in the Wolf Point Herald as appearing "as vaporous as the ethereal substance of which dreams are made."
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Did you see I have a new SSMT posted? #4 chose this one, and I'm loving it. I put it there from memory. (You probably should check and see if I got it right. Let me know if I made a mistake.)
This is the 11th verse my ♥ sister ♥ and I have committed to memory this year. That's the sister who lives out-of-state. We both committed to do the Beth Moore SSMT thing, then found out the other was doing it. One of those Weird God Things my preacher talks about. 🙂
Do I have all eleven verses firmly fixed in my head/heart? No, I don't. Some are a little hazy, and some have escaped me altogether. But a few are there, sitting tight, waiting to leap to mind when I need them. I think this verse will be one of those.
I used to be able to memorize very easily. When I was in 6th grade, I was the narrator for the Christmas play at school, and had to memorize the Christmas story in Luke 2. (I'm lucky enough to remember when we had Bibles in school–and used them!)
Here's the current SSMT–
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who blessed us in the heavenly realm with every spiritual blessing in Christ." Eph. 1:3.
Number Four chose this verse in case you're wondering. (She finds the best ones!) And I'm jumping up and down because I think I have it memorized. (Not literally. Jumping up and down is bad on the new hip.)
But every time I go over it in my head, a question mark pops up in my head. What specifically is Paul referring to when he says, "every spiritual blessing"?
I looked up spiritual blessing in the back of my Bible (I love the Helps back there) but the closest I could get was spiritual gifts.
Is 'gift' synonymous with 'blessing'? Or fruit?
I'd appreciate your opinion on this one.


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ROMANTIC SUSPENSE: Softhearted Camille is blackmailed into helping two of her sleazy coworkers kidnap a man for ransom. After coming to the aid of two women locked out of their car, oil tycoon Trenton Shade wakes up chained to an antique barber's chair. He quickly realizes the beautiful nurse caring for him is as much a victim of his abductors as he is, and is then surprised when Camille risks it all to help him escape. While evading recapture in the swamps of Louisiana, Camille and Shade develop strong feelings for each other. Will their passions be enough to see them through this harrowing experience and the astonishing aftermath of an insidious plan they discover they're entangled within?
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'Everything that can be invented has been invented'. This possibly apocryphal quote is attributed to Charles H. Duell who headed the U.S. Patent office in 1899 and suggested closing the office down. Now we look at all that has been invented and implemented in the 12 decades since and are amused.
In the 21st century, some writers are saying essentially the same thing. In The Rise and Fall of American Growth, Robert Gordon of Northwestern University argues all the developments in information technology will not have nearly the impact on the economy and growth as did the developments of 100 years ago, like cars and electric motors. Hence, stagnation.
In their book, The Innovation Illusion, Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel claim the engine of economic growth is stalling. Growth comes from hungry new firms with exciting new ideas. The road is cleared for them by the death of older, tired firms whose methods and products have become out of date.
Frixon and Weigel say this healthy growth process has been bogged down as huge corporations like Google and Microsoft dominate whole sectors. Older and larger firms predominate in both Europe and America. The number and proportion of startups has fallen. Once more, stagnation.
Supporting the gloom and doom are productivity statistics that show the increase in the amount a worker can produce has been slowing. And if you are not yet depressed, all the innovations that have recently taken place, such as drones, 3D printing and driverless vehicles, will leave us all jobless.
Just as Duell was very wrong when he thought that everything had been invented by 1900, so is the pessimism of the current gloom and doomers. Seeing future developments and their implications is difficult. To take just one example, for a long time, people have been able to imagine space and space travel, but no one foresaw satellites, GPS and all the related effects here on Earth. So, too will the future surprise us.
What we do need to ensure that our economy is not bogged down in old firms and old ideas are entrepreneurs: bright, young people with ambition, fire in the belly and a taste for the new and innovative. Unfortunately, our education system was not designed to produce this kind of person.
From the beginning of time, most people learned what they needed to know from their parents and family. There was little change between generations. Then came the industrial revolution in the 1700s, in which agricultural work gave way to factory jobs.
These new factory workers had to learn how to be in specific places surrounded by people they might not know. They had to stop and start work at times not of their own choosing. They had to do what they were told to do by a person who had recently been a stranger. And they might need more literacy and numeracy than before.
Now the world of work has gone beyond the old factory jobs and often beyond jobs themselves to less structured, more creative entrepreneurial activity. Unfortunately, our educational system still has too much of the old factory model. Graduates emerge looking for jobs – that is, someone to tell them where to go, what to do and when to do it.
What we need are more people who ask themselves entrepreneurial questions. What good or service can I supply that people are willing and able to pay for? How can I do something new and different that has not been done before? Where is there a need even if it is only for a marginal improvement?
The Canada West Foundation has just released Start 'Em up: Incubating Nextgen Innovators. These nextgen innovaors are the people who can and will develop and implement new technologies and improve our productivity and standard of living. We are starting to develop such entrepreneurs in some parts of our post-secondary system, especially in business schools.
Now we need to move our elementary and high school systems away from the pre-factory classroom model into structures that encourage independence, entrepreneurship, creativity and the competitiveness and hard work that the 21st century requires.
New automated learning technologies will help. So will more entrepreneurial approaches by teachers. Once we do this, this next generation of entrepreneurs will lead us into a bright, prosperous future that we cannot yet imagine.
Troy Media columnist Roslyn Kunin is a consulting economist and speaker.
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KILN – Authorities say two Bay St. Louis men have died in separate weekend house fires.
City Fire Chief Pam San Fillippo tells WLOX-TV that 87-year-old Joseph Labat III was home alone when a fire broke out Sunday. She says fire was contained to a single room but there was heavy smoke.
State fire investigators were looking into the cause on Sunday.
The Sun Herald reports that 52-year-old Andrew Jackson Ellis Sr. died late Friday.
Hancock County sheriff's investigator Glenn Grannan says that fire started about 11:30 p.m. Friday and quickly engulfed the house, but three other people escaped. Grannan does not know whether the occupants were related.
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OSHKOSH – Some athletes follow in the footsteps of their predecessors in choosing where to continue their collegiate careers.
For a trio of former Lourdes Academy standouts, those footsteps are running right along side each other.
Maeve McDonald, Nora Keller and Emily Foley are a senior, junior and freshman, respectively, for the Marquette University women's cross-country team, giving the squad a definite Lourdes Academy flavor.
"I think it's a fun group of girls and being able to have two familiar faces on the team with me makes it so much better," Foley said in a recent phone interview. "I love running with those girls, so it's definitely a positive."
Foley was obviously the last of the group to make her way to Marquette and was influenced by having two former teammates on the squad.
Yet both Keller and McDonald said that although they definitely shared the positives about the program and the school, they wanted to make sure that Foley found the landing spot that most suited her.
"I didn't want to try to convince her too much because I wanted that decision to be her own," Keller said. "But I definitely tried to encourage her, so I was really happy when she made that decision because she was such a great teammate in high school."
Added McDonald, "I think we did a good job of promoting it."
McDonald also ran with former teammates when she first arrived at Marquette, joining now-graduated siblings D.T. and Clare on the Golden Eagles roster.
When Keller showed interest in coming to Marquette, she hosted her former teammate's official visit.
"When Nora graduated (from high school), and I heard she was interested in Marquette, I really talked it up because it is a great program," McDonald said. "I got to host Nora in her official visit and show her around and introduce her to the team, which was fun."
Keller said having a friendly face to turn to as a freshman was definitely a positive.
"She definitely made things easier," Keller said. "Someone I can see every single day. She's always been someone I looked up to and someone I could talk to and a reminder from home. So it was a big comfort for me coming into Marquette knowing Maeve was going to be there."
Foley agreed that having some friends on the squad helped with the sometimes tough transition to college, but it was also what she saw from McDonald and Keller before she even stepped foot on the Marquette campus that helped influence her decision.
"I've been running with these girls since sixth grade and we've formed a bond over the years," Foley said. "Knowing that they were there and succeeding, not only in their running but in their academics, it just made it easy to transition."
Marquette concluded its season Saturday at the Great Lakes Regional, but all three are planning to compete on the Golden Eagles track and field teams in the indoor and outdoor season.
In track, their talents will likely be spread over different events and although on the same team, they likely won't be competing with each other.
In cross-country, when the team lined up at the starting line, they could look down the row of runners and see some familiar faces.
"It's so fun when you can line up at the start line with people you have been racing with for so long and share those memories you have together," Keller said.
"When I see Nora on the starting line, we always give each other a little smile," McDonald said. "We used to say some things to each other before races in high school and we still say them to each other now."
Foley said there might be more former Knights headed Marquette's way – at least if she has anything to say about it.
"I always put a bug in their ear whenever I see my old teammates but they are going to have to figure out what college works best for them," Foley said. "It would be great to get another Lourdes girl to come to Marquette, but we'll see how it turns out."


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Have you thought about your resolutions for the New Year? According to the Spectrem Group, the top five resolutions of affluent investors are to spend less, save more, pay down debt, revise or create an estate plan, and revise or create a retirement plan.
[CLICK HERE to read, "What Kinds of New Year's Resolutions Do Investors Make?" at The Millionaire Corner, December 17, 2012.]
Perhaps this year you can focus on some resolutions that really need to be done, but they're a bit farther down your list. How about talking to your elderly parents/adult children about estate and healthcare directive plans?
Did you know that 40% of adult children feel like it's not their business to ask about their parent's finances? And according to a recent Fidelity study, 97% of both parents and adult children disagree on whether the children will take care of the parents if they become ill. With such a wide discrepancy in perception and so much at stake, maybe this is an issue best moved to the top of your resolution list.
[CLICK HERE to read, "Parents and Adult Children Not in Sync as Many Families Still Struggle with Financial Conversations," at Fidelity Investments, November 14, 2012.]
Have you thought about pursuing an entrepreneurial business you've always wanted to start? Entering this new phase of our economic recovery, this could be a good year to do so. Today, more than 12% of Americans are engaged in some sort of entrepreneurial activity. Accounting for more than a 60% increase from 2010 to 2011, we are currently at our highest level since 2005.
[CLICK HERE to read, "U.S. Entrepreneurship Rates Increase According to Research by Babson College and Baruch College," at Babson College, November 29, 2012.]
Do you own a long-term care insurance (LTCi) policy yet? If not, now may be your last chance to get one at a lower price. With so many Americans living longer, insurers are starting to exit the business. The ones still selling LTCi have announced they are raising premiums and reducing benefits.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Genworth Financial is planning to charge women 40% more than men for premiums of individual long-term care insurance policies in 2013. Until now, premiums have been the same regardless of gender, but analysis has revealed that women are paid two out of every three benefit dollars from long-term-care insurance.[1]
[CLICK HERE to read, "Women Face Higher Costs," at The Wall Street Journal, November 23, 2012.]
As always, we're here to help you get ship shape for 2013. If you'd like some more ideas on how to get financial fit this New Year, please give us a call.
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[1] American Association for Long Term Care Insurance, "2013 Increased Tax Deduction Limits for LTC Insurance," October 18, 2012.


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is a fairly popular stall selling fried hokkien mee with very nice taste of wok hei. Good!
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Hup Seng Fried Prawn Noodle sells fried hokkien mee with a very nice wok hei. Comes with prawns, pork belly and sotong slices stir fried in a nice mix of yellow noodles and mee hoon with eggs and a broth. Chilli and a piece of lime is served on the side.
This fried hokkien mee has a slightly wet texture, but its noodles and mee hoon mix is still springy and has a nice smokey taste. Squeeze in the lime and the flavours gets even better. The chilli on the side has a nice dried shrimp taste and mixes well with the fried noodles. The prawns and sotong slices are just your usual stuff. The pork belly however is worth a mention, it is half fatty and is soft and moist. Really nice.
This is definitely a lovely plate of fried hokkien mee. I like it! Big thumbs up!
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Just for the record, we had a good Christmas. I didn't start my shopping until the day before yesterday, but somehow it all came together, and my wife presented her Christmas program, as in past years, and it all came out well.
Yesterday morning, I watched the party-line vote on the health-care bill. The last time I stopped what I was doing to watch the wheels of government grinding was when President Clinton was impeached and tried before the Senate. I returned to my work that day feeling that justice had been done: that whatever peccadilloes our President had been involved in, they represented nothing even close to grounds for removal from office.
This time I was observing a travesty. Health-care reform is bad for the country. For myself as an individual and as a business owner, I see nothing but higher costs, worse health care, and fewer options.
The only good thing is that the vote is not the end of the road. While we were led to believe that Obama would be signing the health-care bill into law while enjoying his Christmas turkey, that isn't happening. The House and Senate versions must still be reconciled, which won't happen until February or so.
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Title: Uncertainty, Price Stabilization and Welfare
Title: Uncertainty, Price Stabilization and Welfare
Published in: Working Papers Series
Author/s: E. Kwan Choi* and Stanley Johnson
Year: 1990
Number: 90-4
This paper investigates whether a small country facing foreign price instability benefits from active stabilization of the domestic price of the importable. If the random tariff revenue is rebated ex post, domestic price stabilization increases income instability, and nonintervention is optimal. If an ex ante rebating scheme is employed, a small country can benefit from domestic price stabilization, and there exists a partial stabilization policy that dominates free trade. Partial stabilization of the domestic price with the ex ante rebate requires a variable import levy inversely related to the foreign price.


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The live musical Rent airs on Fox TV Jan. 27 at 8/7c.
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of World AIDS Day, our friends at @RENTonFox are matching donations to Broadway Cares up to $20,000. Go to Rent's Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram to donate.
Set in the early 1990s and written by the late Jonathan Larson, the musical Rent is the story of New Yorkers struggling with love, lust, and making rent against the backdrop of the HIV/AIDS epidemic raging through the city and gay community. It went on to win a Tony and the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a 2005 film starring Anthony Rapp and directed by Christopher Columbus.
The live Fox Broadcasting version stars Jordan Fisher as Mark Cohen, Brennin Hunt as Roger Davis, Tinashe as Mimi Marquez, Brandon Victor Dixon as Tom Collins, Valentina as Angel Dumott Schunard, Vanessa Hudgens as Maureen Johnson, Kiersey Clemons as Joanne Jefferson, and Mario as Benjamin Coffin III.


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Izvoru Crisului Reformed-Calvinist Church
The Reformed – Calvinist Church from Izvoru Crișului, located in an area full of history
The Reformed – Calvinist Church from Izvoru Crișului, located in an area full of history
The story of this museum begins with the passion of a student from Cluj, who
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Vlădeasa Rescue Base – Weather Station – Vlădeasa Peak – White Stones – Petrieni Hill
Arkhai Sculpture Park was built by sculptor Ernő Bartha, a nationally and internationally recognized artist.
The Museum of Science and Optical Illusions is the latest project of the Pluto Astronomical
The idea of creating this concept started in 1994, with the launch of a project
Muzeon is an innovative and interactive museum that tells the story of the Jewish community
The collection, located in the center of Răscruci commune, is the result of the ethnographer
In the Iclod village area, since 1975, the history teacher and the director of the
On January 15, 2014, on the 164th birth anniversary of the national poet Mihai Eminescu,
The Sic village is a special ethnographic space, the majority of Hungarian community in this
The traditional activity of the Mera village, Baciu commune, inhabitants was animal husbandry, mostly buffalo
Mărișel commune is one of the most important places in Țara Moţilor located on the
The Hostenians were one of the most important communities of old Cluj, with a specific
In 2018, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca inaugurated a museum space dedicated to one of the most
Address: Feleacu village, Feleacu commune The Feleacu village represented an important landmark in the history
On September 9, 2018 in a space belonging to the Apahida City Hall, the community
The first church built in Huedin on the current Avram Iancu Street, is supposed to
Beliş – Fântânele lake goes into the category of artificial accumulation lakes, being located at
Matthias Corvinus House is an important attraction point of the city because the greatest king
Iclod Rural Museum is located in the commune with the same name from Cluj County
In the present the museum houses over 18.000 pieces included in 5 collections. The permanent
The museum building was built in 1860 by the architect Grigore Pongracz, and the owner
The History Museum from Turda was built in 1943, the patrimony of the museum integrating
"Octavian Goga" Memorial Museum was built in 1967, following the donation made to the Romanian
Closed for restoration. Temporary exhibitions: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday – 10.00-16.00, Wednesday – 12.00-18.00. The
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The Botanical Museum is located at the ground floor of the Botanical Institute within "Alexandru Borza"
Program: Tuesday-Sunday: 10:00-17:00. Monday closed. The beginning of the museum dates from 1924, from the
In order to visit the museum it is necessary to make an appointment. Free entrance.
Established in 1859, the Zoological Museum of "Babeş-Bolyai" University currently has over 300,000 pieces. The
The museum has approximately 16,500 exhibits, grouped in multiple collections. We remind a few of
Vivariu Museum was built during 1998 – 2001 from the funds of "Babeş-Bolyai" University. It
The University Museum in Cluj was established in 2001, its collections having over 750 original
The Pharmacy History Collection is subordinated to the History National Museum of Transylvania. The museum
Established in 1951, Cluj-Napoca Art Museum had older patrimony collections: an art collection from the
"Romulus Vuia" National Ethnographic Park is an open air museum and one of the two
Address: Memorandumului Street, no. 21 Phone: 0264-708.953 , 0783-005.146 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.muzeul-etnografic.ro Schedule: Wednesday
In the center of Câmpia Turzii, on Mihai Viteazul Street, no. 1, there is the
In Turda, in the interwar period, there was a significant Jewish community. In the place
In the centre of Turda municipality, on Andrei Şaguna Street, no. 2, on a land
The Calvinist Church New Turda from Basarabia Square, was built in the 15th century in
Old Turda Calvinist church is situated in the centre of Turda, Haşdeu Street, nr. 1
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Masjid-e-Jahan-Numa is known as Jama Masjid of Delhi – Jama Masjid, it is one of the largest mosques of India.
Mughal ruler Shah Jahan constructed this mosque by spending 1 million rupees between 1644 and 1656. The construction of this mosque was completed in 1656 AD with three spacious doors, four towers and 40-meter high tower and red stone and white marble. About 25,000 people can come together in its courtyard. There are three domes on its roof, surrounded by two towers. About 899 black borders have remained on the floor. The architect plan of the governor's mosque, Shah Jahan's son Aurangzeb, was built in Lahore in Pakistan, which was exactly like the Jama Masjid.
The Mughal ruler Shah Jahan constructed the Jama Masjid between 1644 and 1656. This mosque was built by about 5000 workers. In fact, it was called Masjid-e-Jahan-Numa. It was built under the leadership of Shah Alam Khan, the ruler of Shah. At that time, it cost about 1 million rupees to build it. Shah Jahan had also constructed the Taj Mahal in Agra and the Red Fort in New Delhi, it is exactly opposite the Jama Masjid. The construction work of the Jama Masjid was completed in 1656 AD (1066 AH). This mosque was inaugurated on July 23, 1656 by Mullah Imam Bukhari of Bukhara in Uzbekistan, all of which he did on the invitation of Shah Jahan. At one time, 25000 people can pray in Jama Masjid, and that is why it is also called India's largest mosque. This mosque is usually called "Jama", which means Friday.
Some interesting points of Jama Masjid – Interesting Facts About Jama Masjid
If you go to Delhi then surely you will want to see the Jama Masjid. If you look at the Jama Masjid, then you will know about its history, importance and information. So let us know some interesting things about Jama Masjid.
- It took 12 years to build the mosque and about 5000 people had made it together, and it cost a million rupees to build it.
- Jama Masjid of Delhi is India's largest mosque.
- This was the last architectural work of Mughal ruler Shah Jahan, after which he did not build any artistic building.
- "Jama Masjid" means Friday Mosque.
- 25,000 people together in a mosque can pray at the same time.
General thing about Jama Masjid:-
Day Closed: Open all Days
Visit Timing: Morning 7 AM To 6:30 PM (During prayer hours Tourists are not allowed)
Admission Fee: Free
Photography Charges: No
Nearest Metro Station: Chawri Bazaar
Designed By: Mughal Emperor


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Deploy ML/DL models into a consolidated AI demo service stack
Keywords: IRIS, IntegratedML, Flask, FastAPI, Tensorflow Serving, HAProxy, Docker, Covid-19
We touched on some quick demos of deep learning and machine learning over the past few months, including a simple Covid-19 X-Ray image classifier and a Covid-19 lab result classifier for possible ICU admissions. We also touched on an IntegratedML demo implementation of the ICU classifier. While the "data science" hiking still goes on, it might also be a good time to try some AI service deployment from the "data engineering" perspective - could we wrap up everything we touched on so far into a set of service APIs? What are the common tools, components, and infrastructure that we could leverage to achieve such a service stack in its simplest possible approach?
In scope:
As a jump start, we can simply use docker-compose to deploy the following dockerised components into an AWS Ubuntu server
- HAProxy - load balancer
- Gunicorn vs. Univorn - web gateway servers
- Flask vs. FastAPI - application servers for web app UI , service API definitions and Heatmap generations etc
- Tensorflow Model Serving vs. Tensorflow-GPU Model Serving - application backend servers for image etc classifications etc
- IRIS IntegratedML - consolidated App+DB AutoML with SQL interface
- Python3 in Jupyter Notebook to emulate a client for benchmarking
- Docker and docker-compose
- AWS Ubuntu 16.04 with a Tesla T4 GPU
Note: Tensorflow Serving with GPU is for demo purpose only - you can simply switch off the gpu related image (in a dockerfile) and the config (in the docker-compose.yml).
Out of scope or on next wish list:
- Nginx or Apache etc web servers are omitted in demo for now
- RabbitMQ and Redis - queue broker for reliable messaging that can be replaced by IRIS or Ensemble.
- IAM (Intersystems API Manger) or Kong is on wish list
- SAM (Intersystems System Alert & Monitoring)
- ICM (Intersystems Cloud Manager) with Kubernetes Operator - always one of my favorites since its birth
- FHIR (Intesystems IRIS based FHIR R4 server and FHIR Sandbox for SMART on FHIR apps)
- CI/CD devop tools or Github Actions
A "Machine Learning Engineer" would inevitably put hands all over these components to provision some production environments along service life-cycles anyway. We can scope more in over the time.
Github repository
The full source code is at: https://github.com/zhongli1990/covid-ai-demo-deployment
Also the integratedML-demo-template repository is reused together with the new repository.
Deployment Pattern
Below shows the logical deployment pattern for this "AI demo in Dockers" testing framework.
For demo purpose I deliberately created 2 separate stacks for deep learning classification as well as web rendering, then used a HAProxy as a soft load balancer to distribute the incoming API requests across these 2 stacks in a stateless way.
- Guniorn + Flask + Tensorflow Serving
- Univcorn + FaskAPI + Tensorflow Serving GPU
IRIS with IntegratedML is used for machine learning demo samples as i.e. in the previous post of ICU prediction.
I omitted some common components in current demo that would be needed or considered for production services:
- Web servers: Nginx or Apache etc. They would be needed between HAProxy and Gunicorn/Uvicorn, for proper HTTP session handling i.e. avoid DoS attacks etc.
- Queue manager and DBs: RabbitMQ and/or Redis etc, between Flask/FastAPI and backend serving, for reliable Async serving and data/config persistence etc.
- API Gateway: IAM or Kong clusters, between HAProxy load-balancer and web server for API management without creating a sing-point-of-failure.
- Monitoring & Alert: SAM would be nice.
- Provisioning for CI/CD devops: ICM with K8s would be needed for cloud neutral deployment & management, and for CI/CD with other common devops tools.
Actually, IRIS itself can certainly be used as enterprise grade queue manager as well as a high-performing database for reliable messaging. In the pattern analysis it becomes apparent IRIS can be in place of RabbitMQ/Redis/MongoDBs etc queue brokers and databases, so it would be better consolidated with much less latency and better throughout performance. And even more, IRIS Web Gateway (previously CSP Gateway) can certainly be positioned in place of Gunicorn or Unicorn etc, right?
Environment Topology
There are a few common options to implement the above logical pattern in all-Docker components. On top of our heads would be:
- docker-compose
- docker swarm etc
- Kubernetes etc
- ICM with K8s Operation
This demo starts with "docker-compose" for functional PoC and some benchmarking. Certainly we'd love to use K8s and possibly with ICM too over the time.
As described in its docker-compose.yml file, a physical implementation of its environment topology on an AWS Ubuntu server would end up something like this:
The above diagram shows how those service ports of all Docker instances are mapped and exposed directly on the Ubuntu server for demo purpose. In production it should be all security hardened. And for pure demo purpose, all containers are connected into the same Docker network; while in production it would be separated as external routable vs internal non-routable.
Dockerised Components
Below shows how those storage volumes in host machine are mounted to each container instance as specified in this docker-compose.yml file:
ubuntu@ip-172-31-35-104:/zhong/flask-xray$ tree ./ -L 2
./ ├── covid19 (Flask+Gunicorn container and Tensorflow Serving container will mount here) │ ├── app.py (Flask main app: Both web application and API service interfaces are defined and implemented here) │ ├── covid19_models (Tensorflow models are published and versioned here for image classification Tensorflow Serving container with CPU) │ ├── Dockerfile (Flask server with Gunicorn: CMD ["gunicorn", "app:app", "--bind", "0.0.0.0:5000", "--workers", "4", "--threads", "2"]) │ ├── models (Models in .h5 format for Flask app and API demo of heatmap generation by grad-cam on X-Rays) │ ├── __pycache__ │ ├── README.md │ ├── requirements.txt (Python packages needed for the full Flask+Gunicorn apps) │ ├── scripts │ ├── static (Web static files) │ ├── templates (Web rendering templates) │ ├── tensorflow_serving (Config file for tensorflow serving service) │ └── test_images ├── covid-fastapi (FastAPI+Uvicorn container and Tensorflow Serving with GPU container will mount here) │ ├── covid19_models (Tensorflow serving GPU models are published and versioned here for image classification) │ ├── Dockerfile (Uvicorn+FastAPI server are started here: CMD ["uvicorn", "main:app", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "8000", "--workers", "4" ]) │ ├── main.py (FastAPI app: both web application and API service interfaces are defined and implemented here) │ ├── models (Models in .h5 format for FastAPI app and API demo of heatmap generation by grad-cam on X-Rays) │ ├── __pycache__ │ ├── README.md │ ├── requirements.txt │ ├── scripts │ ├── static │ ├── templates │ ├── tensorflow_serving │ └── test_images ├── docker-compose.yml (Full stack Docker definition file. Version 2.3 is used to accommodate Docker GPU "nvidia runtime", otherwise can be version 3.x) ├── haproxy (HAProxy docker service is defined here. Note: sticky session can be defined for backend LB. ) │ ├── Dockerfile │ └── haproxy.cfg └── notebooks (Jupyter Notebook container service with Tensorflow 2.2 and Tensorboard etc) ├── Dockerfile ├── notebooks (Sample notebook files to emulate external API Client apps for functional tests and API benchmark tests in Python on the load balancer etc) └── requirements.txt
Note: the above docker-compose.yml is for deep learning demo of Convid X-Rays. It is used together with another integratedML-demo-template's docker-compose.yml to form the full service stack as displayed in the environment topology.
Service Start-ups
A simple docker-compose up -d would start up all container services:
ubuntu@ip-172-31-35-104:~$ docker ps
31b682b6961d iris-aa-server:2020.3AA "/iris-main" 7 weeks ago Up 2 days (healthy) 2188/tcp, 53773/tcp, 54773/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8091->51773/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8092->52773/tcp iml-template-master_irisimlsvr_1
6a0f22ad3ffc haproxy:0.0.1 "/docker-entrypoint.…" 8 weeks ago Up 2 days 0.0.0.0:8088->8088/tcp flask-xray_lb_1
71b5163d8960 ai-service-fastapi:0.2.0 "uvicorn main:app --…" 8 weeks ago Up 2 days 0.0.0.0:8056->8000/tcp flask-xray_fastapi_1
400e1d6c0f69 tensorflow/serving:latest-gpu "/usr/bin/tf_serving…" 8 weeks ago Up 2 days 0.0.0.0:8520->8500/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8521->8501/tcp flask-xray_tf2svg2_1
eaac88e9b1a7 ai-service-flask:0.1.0 "gunicorn app:app --…" 8 weeks ago Up 2 days 0.0.0.0:8051->5000/tcp flask-xray_flask_1
e07ccd30a32b tensorflow/serving "/usr/bin/tf_serving…" 8 weeks ago Up 2 days 0.0.0.0:8510->8500/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8511->8501/tcp flask-xray_tf2svg1_1
390dc13023f2 tf2-jupyter:0.1.0 "/bin/sh -c '/bin/ba…" 8 weeks ago Up 2 days 0.0.0.0:8506->6006/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8586->8888/tcp flask-xray_tf2jpt_1
88e8709404ac tf2-jupyter-jdbc:1.0.0-iml-template "/bin/sh -c '/bin/ba…" 2 months ago Up 2 days 0.0.0.0:6026->6006/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8896->8888/tcp iml-template-master_tf2jupyter_1
docker-compose up --scale fastapi=2 --scale flask=2 -d for example will horizontally scale up to 2x Gunicorn+Flask containers and 2x Univcorn+FastAPI containers:
ubuntu@ip-172-31-35-104:/zhong/flask-xray$ docker ps
dbee3c20ea95 ai-service-fastapi:0.2.0 "uvicorn main:app --…" 4 minutes ago Up 4 minutes 0.0.0.0:8057->8000/tcp flask-xray_fastapi_2
95bcd8535aa6 ai-service-flask:0.1.0 "gunicorn app:app --…" 4 minutes ago Up 4 minutes 0.0.0.0:8052->5000/tcp flask-xray_flask_2
... ...
Running another "docker-compose up -d" in the "integrtedML-demo-template"'s working directory has brought up the irisimlsvr and tf2jupyter container in the above list.
1. AI demo web app with a simple UI
After starting up the above docker services, we can visit a demo web application for X-Ray Covid-19 lung detection hosted in an AWS EC2 instance at a temp address at http://ec2-18-134-16-118.eu-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:8056/
Here below is a couple of screens captured from my mobile. It has a very simple demo UI: basically I just click "Choose File" then "Submit" button to upload an X-Ray image, then the app will show a classification report. If it is classified as Covid-19 X-Ray, an heatmap will be shown to emulate the "detected" lesion area via DL; and if not, the classification report will only show the upload X-Ray image.
The web app is a Python server page whose logic are mainly coded in FastAPI's main.py file, as well as in Flask's app.py file.
When having a bit more spare time I may document in detail the coding & convention differences between Flask and FastAPI. Actually I hope I could do a Flask vs. FastAPI vs. IRIS for AI demo hosting.
2. Test demo APIs
FastAPI (expose at port 8056) has built in Swagger API docs, as shown below. This is very handy. All I need to do is to use "/docs" in its URL, for example:
I built in a few place holders (such as /hello and /items) and some real demo API interfaces (such as /healthcheck, /predict, and predict/heatmap).
Let's have a quick test on these APIs, by running a few Python lines (as an API Client App emulator) in one of the Jupyter Notebook samples files I scratched up for this AI demo service.
Below I am running this file for example: https://github.com/zhongli1990/covid-ai-demo-deployment/blob/master/notebooks/notebooks/Covid19-3class-Heatmap-Flask-FastAPI-TF-serving-all-in-one-HAProxy2.ipynb
First to test backend TF-Serving (port 8511) and TF-Serving-GPU (port 8521) are up and functioning:
!curl http://172.17.0.1:8511/v1/models/covid19 # tensorflow serving
!curl http://172.17.0.1:8521/v1/models/covid19 # tensorflow-gpu serving
{ "model_version_status": [ { "version": "2", "state": "AVAILABLE", "status": { "error_code": "OK", "error_message": "" } } ] } { "model_version_status": [ { "version": "2", "state": "AVAILABLE", "status": { "error_code": "OK", "error_message": "" } } ] }
Then test the following service APIs are up & running:
- Gunicorn+Flask+TF-Serving
- Unicorn+FastAPI+TF-Serving-GPU
- Load balancer HAProxy in front of bother services above
r = requests.get('http://172.17.0.1:8051/covid19/api/v1/healthcheck') # tf srving docker with cpu
print(r.status_code, r.text)
r = requests.get('http://172.17.0.1:8056/covid19/api/v1/healthcheck') # tf-serving docker with gpu
print(r.status_code, r.text)
r = requests.get('http://172.17.0.1:8088/covid19/api/v1/healthcheck') # tf-serving docker with HAproxy
print(r.status_code, r.text)
And expected results would be:
200 Covid19 detector API is live! 200 "Covid19 detector API is live!\n\n" 200 "Covid19 detector API is live!\n\n"
Test some functional API interface, such as /predict/heatmap to return the classification and heatmap result of an input X-Ray image. The inbound image is based64 encoded before sending in via HTTP POST per API definitions:
# importing the requests library import argparse import base64
import requests
# defining the api-endpoint API_ENDPOINT = "http://172.17.0.1:8051/covid19/api/v1/predict/heatmap"
image_path = './Covid_M/all/test/covid/nejmoa2001191_f3-PA.jpeg' #image_path = './Covid_M/all/test/normal/NORMAL2-IM-1400-0001.jpeg' #image_path = './Covid_M/all/test/pneumonia_bac/person1940_bacteria_4859.jpeg' b64_image = "" # Encoding the JPG,PNG,etc. image to base64 format with open(image_path, "rb") as imageFile: b64_image = base64.b64encode(imageFile.read())
# data to be sent to api data = {'b64': b64_image}
# sending post request and saving response as response object r = requests.post(url=API_ENDPOINT, data=data)
print(r.status_code, r.text)
# extracting the response print("{}".format(r.text))
All such test images had also been uploaded into GitHub. The result of above code will be:
200 {"Input_Image":"http://localhost:8051/static/source/0198f0ae-85a0-470b-bc31-dc1918c15b9620200906-170443.png","Output_Heatmap":"http://localhost:8051/static/result/Covid19_98_0198f0ae-85a0-470b-bc31-dc1918c15b9620200906-170443.png.png","X-Ray_Classfication_Raw_Result":[[0.805902302,0.15601939,0.038078323]],"X-Ray_Classification_Covid19_Probability":0.98,"X-Ray_Classification_Result":"Covid-19 POSITIVE","model_name":"Customised Incpetion V3"} {"Input_Image":"http://localhost:8051/static/source/0198f0ae-85a0-470b-bc31-dc1918c15b9620200906-170443.png","Output_Heatmap":"http://localhost:8051/static/result/Covid19_98_0198f0ae-85a0-470b-bc31-dc1918c15b9620200906-170443.png.png","X-Ray_Classfication_Raw_Result":[[0.805902302,0.15601939,0.038078323]],"X-Ray_Classification_Covid19_Probability":0.98,"X-Ray_Classification_Result":"Covid-19 POSITIVE","model_name":"Customised Incpetion V3"} CPU times: user 16 ms, sys: 0 ns, total: 16 ms Wall time: 946 ms
3. Benchmark-test demo service APIs
We set up a HAProxy load balancer instance. We also started a Flask service with 4x workers, and a FastAPI service with 4x workers too.
Why don't we create i.e. 8x Pyhon processes directly in the Notebook file, to emulate 8x concurrent API clients sending requests into the demo service APIs, to see what happens
#from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor as PoolExecutor from concurrent.futures import ProcessPoolExecutor as PoolExecutor import http.client import socket import time
start = time.time()
#laodbalancer: API_ENDPOINT_LB = "http://172.17.0.1:8088/covid19/api/v1/predict/heatmap" API_ENDPOINT_FLASK = "http://172.17.0.1:8052/covid19/api/v1/predict/heatmap" API_ENDPOINT_FastAPI = "http://172.17.0.1:8057/covid19/api/v1/predict/heatmap" def get_it(url): try: # loop over the images for imagePathTest in imagePathsTest: b64_image = "" with open(imagePathTest, "rb") as imageFile: b64_image = base64.b64encode(imageFile.read()) data = {'b64': b64_image} r = requests.post(url, data=data) #print(imagePathTest, r.status_code, r.text) return r except socket.timeout: # in a real world scenario you would probably do stuff if the # socket goes into timeout pass
urls = [API_ENDPOINT_LB, API_ENDPOINT_LB, API_ENDPOINT_LB, API_ENDPOINT_LB, API_ENDPOINT_LB, API_ENDPOINT_LB, API_ENDPOINT_LB, API_ENDPOINT_LB]
with PoolExecutor(max_workers=16) as executor: for _ in executor.map(get_it, urls): pass print("--- %s seconds ---" % (time.time() - start))
So it took 74s to process 8x27 = 216 test images. This load balanced demo stack was able to process 3 images per second(by returning classification and heatmap results to clients):
--- 74.37691688537598 seconds ---
From the Putty session's Top command, we can see 8x server processes (4x gunicorn + 4 unicorn/python) started to ramp up as soon as the above benchmark scripts started running
This post is just a starting point to put together an "All-in-Docker AI demo" deployment stack as a testing framework. Next I hope to add in more API demo interfaces such as the Covid-19 ICU prediction interface ideally per FHIR R4 etc, and add in some support DICOM input format. This could also be a test bench to explore more closer integration with IRIS hosted ML capabilities. Over the time it can be used as a testing framework (and a pretty simple one) to intercept more and more ML or DL specialty models as we hike on various AI fronts including medical imaging, population health or personalised prediction, and NLP etc etc. I also listed a wish list at the very end of the previous post (in its "Next" section).


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'Oh My God' is Lay's first movie and he will star as one of the lead roles. On the poster, he's with fellow actor Cheney Chen.
The film is a sci-fi romantic comedy, directed by Leste Chen and produced by Zhang Ziyi. It tells a story of a couple trying to have their child. Their prayers are answered as a baby falls from the sky.


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Obama administration intervenes in Dakota pipeline project opposed by Standing Rock Sioux, halts construction
by Jorge Barrera, APTN National News, September 9, 2016
The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday moved to temporarily block construction of a controversial four-state pipeline shortly after the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe lost a bid before the U.S. Federal Court to stop the project.
The U.S. Department of Justice, the Army and the Department of the Interior issued a statement it would stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline on land next to or under Lake Oahe which is under the jurisdiction of the Army Corps of Engineers. The decision puts a freeze on construction in a zone about 30 kilometres to the east and west of the lake, which is large reservoir on the Missouri River.
The joint statement was issued shortly after a U.S. Federal Court judge Friday denied an attempt by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to stop construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe plans to appeal the decision.
Federal Court Judge James Boasberg said the Tribe failed to make the case for an injunction to stop construction of the 1,886 kilometre pipeline, which would pump about 500,000 barrels per day of fracked oil from the Bakken fields in North Dakota to Illinois where it would connect with existing infrastructure.
Boasberg said the tribe's application, which took aim at permits issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, failed to show the injunction would protect the scared sites the Sioux said where threatened by the project. Many of the burial and sacred sites identified by the Tribe sit on private land which are beyond the court's scope in the case, said the judge.
"The Tribe thus cannot demonstrate that the temporary relief it seeks here…can prevent the harm to cultural sights that might occur from this construction on private lands," said Boasberg, in the ruling. "In other words, Standing Rock cannot show that any harm taking place on private lands removed from the Crops' permitting jurisdiction 'will directly result from the action which it now seeks to enjoin."
The statement from the three U.S. federal departments said construction next to and under Lake Oahe would stop until the Army completed a review of its decision on permits issued under the National Environmental Policy Act.
The statement also said the Obama administration wanted to begin talks with Native American Tribes on improving government-to-government consultations on infrastructure projects impacting their territories.
"We fully support the rights of all Americans to assembly and speak freely. We urge everyone involved in protest or pipeline activities to adhere to the principles of nonviolence," said the joint statement from the federal departments. "We have seen thousands of demonstrators come together peacefully, with support from scores of sovereign tribal governments, to exercise their First Amendment rights and to voice heartfelt concerns about the environment and historic, sacred sites."
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The Splunk Data-to-Everything Platform Increases Scale and Speed; Over 18,000 Customers Turn Data Into Doing
Splunk Enterprise Expands Data Access with Data Fabric Search and Data Stream Processor; Empowers Users with Context and Collaboration
Splunk Inc., provider of the Data-to-Everything Platform, announced that new versions of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud will expand the ways customers can unlock value and bring data to every question, decision and action. These innovations power the Data-to-Everything Platform, helping customers solve any data problem at any scale. Splunk Enterprise 8.0 is now generally available.
"Splunk Data Stream Processor's ability to mask private student information in real-time gives us a very effective tool to create a more safe and connected campus."
In front of a capacity crowd of over 11,000 customers and partners at its annual user conference, .conf19, Splunk also announced the general availability of Splunk Data Fabric Search (DFS) and Splunk Data Stream Processor (DSP). With these innovative technologies, Splunk is taking customers beyond how they interact with data today enabling massive scale federated search and stream processing.
"Every problem that organizations face is a data problem, so Splunk is designing products and solutions that help our customers get to the business outcomes that they want to achieve," said Tim Tully, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Splunk. "Whether our customers want the acceleration of Splunk Data Fabric Search, the real-time capabilities of Data Stream Processor, or the accessibility of Splunk Connected Experiences, Splunk provides the Data-to-Everything Platform to help all users across an organization tackle any type of data challenge."
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"We are committed to being a leader in teaching, research and public engagement and these were important considerations that went into our selection of Splunk Cloud as our campus-wide data platform. Splunk Cloud helps us manage everything from IT and Security to providing personalized student experiences both in and out of the classroom," said Joe Barnes, Chief Privacy and Security Officer, University of Illinois. "Splunk Data Stream Processor's ability to mask private student information in real-time gives us a very effective tool to create a more safe and connected campus."
Analyze and Act Fast Across Data Ecosystems with Data Fabric Search and Data Stream Processor
Splunk DFS accelerates and streamlines the data analytics experience by quickly weaving together insights from massive datasets, living across diverse data stores, into a single view. For customers that have data living across multiple data stores, including data warehouses that aren't Splunk-based, DFS weaves together all this data for complete visibility across the entire organization.
Splunk DSP is a real-time stream processing solution that continuously collects high-velocity, high-volume data from diverse sources, turns data into valuable information or insights, and then distributes results to Splunk or other destinations typically within milliseconds. Users can deliver meaningful data and information to numerous destinations or data stores in order for analysts or other business professionals to quickly extract insights and make critical business decisions. Splunk DSP can also mask sensitive data in order to protect critical information that could impact a business.
"With Splunk's new Data Fabric Search, we can detect and respond to potential issues within minutes, not hours, so our teams can focus on delivering innovative and personalized products for our customers," said Jon Prall, VP Communications Production Engineering, Verizon Media. "Data Fabric Search harnesses the power of multiple Splunk deployments to gain operational insights about billions of events with optimized, scalable queries."
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Splunk further expanded its offerings that bring customers even closer to their data. Splunk Connected Experiences deliver insights on-the-go through augmented reality (AR), mobile devices, and mobile applications that provide users with the ability to access their data anywhere at any time. Enhancements to Connected Experiences include general availability on Android devices and tighter integration with Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud.
Now generally available with Connected Experiences, Splunk Natural Language Platform (NLP) provides more users the ability to access important information in their organization by allowing them to talk to their data through mobile devices using the Splunk Mobile and Splunk TV apps. Users can use their voice to ask questions and the system will respond with an answer. Responses can be configured to be Splunk dashboards or saved search results with natural language descriptions. The Splunk Mobile app is free to download through the App Store, and the Splunk TV app is only available from the App Store on Apple TV. NLP availability for Android will be available later this year.
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Differentiated Instruction
Differentiating instruction in the classroom is hard. But technology can help.
Teachers know that students learn best when they are working on material that is challenging enough that they require guidance and support but not so challenging as to be impossible—what psychologist Lev Vygotsky famously called the "zone of proximal development." Yet, in a classroom of students who vary in terms of what they know and what they are ready to learn, targeting instruction to each student's zone means understanding and addressing the needs of 20, 25, or 30+ different students—and that can feel overwhelming.
In a 2008 survey, 43% of teachers agreed with the statement, "My class/classes in my school have become so mixed in terms of students' learning ability that I/teachers can't teach them." The 2018 HMH Educator Confidence Report also revealed that using data to inform instruction—a key aspect of differentiated instruction—is a top concern among 45% of the educators who responded.
The Challenges of Differentiated Instruction in the Classroom
Teachers need deep domain knowledge to differentiate.
One of the greatest challenges of differentiated instruction is that it requires deep domain knowledge—of the subject itself, of the potential ways students progress from one level of understanding to the next, of where students might get stuck, and of common gaps in students' understanding. However, research by Washburn, Joshi, and Cantrell has shown that not all teacher education programs are preparing teachers with the detailed domain knowledge that's required to differentiate.
Teachers need to identify students' zones to differentiate.
Up-to-date information about a student's zone of proximal development is indispensable to determining what students should work on next, and that's where formative assessment comes into play. Dylan Wiliam of the University of London has called assessment "the bridge between teaching and learning—only through some kind of assessment process can we decide whether instruction has had its intended effect."
But administering and scoring formative assessments is time consuming, meaning teachers often need to choose between having timely, instructionally relevant information and actually teaching their students. The complexity of data analysis can also leave teachers data-rich but insight-poor if they have no way to filter through and visualize the information that's most relevant to planning instruction for their particular students.
Teachers need to implement flexible grouping to differentiate.
Small-group instruction allows teachers to differentiate more efficiently by working with students who have common needs at the same time, as research by Chambers and colleagues has shown. Effective, harmonious grouping requires determining not only which students are in similar zones but also if they have common interests and learning preferences and can get along together. And grouping is not a one-time event: groups should be reassembled flexibly as students learn more and their zones diverge.
Teachers need to identify resources to differentiate.
Last but not least, a challenge teachers may face with differentiated instruction is that it requires them to identify instructional resources that target skills at the level that each group or individual student should be working on while taking into account a variety of other student characteristics that are relevant to choosing effective instruction. Carol Ann Tomlinson's list includes "background experience, culture, language, gender, interests, readiness to learn, modes of learning, speed of learning, support systems for learning, self-awareness as a learner, confidence as a learner, independence as a learner, and a host of other ways." Without an organized repository of resources available to them, teachers can spend an inordinate amount of time searching for supplemental Open Educational Resources (OERs) to meet student needs and interests—and OER materials typically do a poor job of providing guidance for differentiation.
Differentiated Instruction Strategies Using Technology
It's no wonder that teachers find differentiating instruction a challenge! Instead of pre-planning and following a set instructional path, differentiation is a continuous cycle of evaluating needs, planning and delivering instruction around those needs, and re-evaluating progress to start the cycle over again.
While teachers must be at the center of this process, using technology to differentiate instruction can alleviate some of the burden, especially when it comes to saving time.
Technology can provide domain maps and potential learning pathways.
Digital and blended learning programs that rely on evidence-based maps of how students learn within a domain can help teachers better understand how current instructional goals relate to prior and future learning. For instance, HMH's Into Math, Into Reading, Into Literature, and ¡Arriba la Lectura! core programs utilize learning spines that map out skills and knowledge in math and language arts from kindergarten through high school to help teachers track development over time.
Technology can identify students' zones through computer-based formative assessment.
Computer-based formative assessments that provide group administration, automatic scoring, and curated reporting allow teachers to focus on moving students forward rather than testing and number crunching. Adaptive assessments target questions to a student's level, providing more specific information about his or her zone in less time. Stealth assessments—like those embedded in HMH's Waggle adaptive practice application—reduce the need for formal assessments by providing a constant stream of up-to-date information, which is reported out to teachers and used by the program to automatically adapt to student needs.
Technology for differentiated instruction can recommend groups of students in similar zones.
Using formative assessment data and records of student progress, grouping engines—such as iRead's Groupinator—can recommend how to organize students with similar skill needs for small-group instruction. Teachers can then adjust these suggested groupings based on their own knowledge of their students, and they can get updated recommendations for flexible regrouping as the program acquires more information.
Technology can identify resources targeted to student needs.
When the instructional resources of a program are organized against skills in a domain map, it's much easier for teachers to find resources that address the skills students need to learn at the right level. Modular content enables teachers to pull out and recombine instructional resources that fit their classroom's needs rather than constraining them to a strict scope and sequence that requires supplementation to reach all learners.
Effective teaching in today's mixed classrooms often means differentiating instruction based on student needs—a challenge that can range from headache-inducing to nearly impossible without resources and support. Advances in differentiated instruction technology tools can help teachers meet the challenges of this worthwhile approach to instruction, automating some of the most time-consuming and cumbersome parts so they can focus on what matters most: the students in front of them.
Differentiating Instruction With Technology
Learn more about how HMH's Into Learning, iRead, and Waggle programs help teachers differentiate both core and supplemental instruction in their diverse classrooms through formative assessments, insightful reports, targeted recommendations, and student-focused resources.
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DALLAS – Let's see: The Wild is without two of its top scorers in Zach Parise and Thomas Vanek. The Wild has lost six consecutive games, with six total goals in that span.
And now it must figure out a way to muster up some belief and confidence that it can actually rebound in this best-of-seven first-round playoff series against the powerhouse Dallas Stars.
The cherry on top of all this doubt would be a little goalie drama.
So naturally, the Wild showed up to practice at American Airlines Center on Friday only to find former longtime Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs goalie Kenny Carroll manning Devan Dubnyk's net.
Sixteen years ago, Carroll, who hails from Oil City, Ontario, was in the Wild's inaugural training camp on a tryout. These days, he runs one of the Stars' ice rinks in Richardson, Texas, and got to live a dream by tending goal during an actual NHL postseason practice with his wife, 4-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter watching.
"Pretty cool," Carroll said.
Wild interim coach John Torchetti explained Dubnyk's absence as "maintenance," which wouldn't be a big deal if Parise's absence from practice a couple Fridays ago wasn't first described as "maintenance," too.
Parise hasn't been around the team since.
Erik Haula's recent disappearance from practice was also described as "maintenance."
Haula missed Game 1 of the playoffs.
So, there's understandable skepticism heading into Game 2 Saturday, especially since Dubnyk was seen coming out of the medical room after Thursday's 4-0 loss and took a Jason Spezza slapshot off the mask in the first period.
Torchetti insisted Dubnyk's absence had nothing to do with that.
Haula declared himself ready to play Game 2, and he took his normal spot between wingers Nino Niederreiter and Jason Pominville, who has no goals in his past 12 games.
From there, Torchetti shook up the other lines. Mikael Granlund moved from center to left wing on a new line with Mikko Koivu and David Jones. Charlie Coyle, who has no goals in the past 19 games, moved from right wing to center on a new line with struggling Jason Zucker and Justin Fontaine.
Jarret Stoll centered Ryan Carter and Chris Porter, the Wild's most physical player Thursday with six hits.
Torchetti did a lot of film work before Friday's practice. He specifically highlighted 18 neutral-zone turnovers he found from Thursday's game.
"I think they understood the message. We beat ourselves," Torchetti said.
The problem is that Torchetti has been harping on center-ice turnovers for weeks and nothing has changed. The Wild still seems to refuse to get pucks deep consistently, perhaps because the harder work is then retrieving that puck.
"They definitely had the puck much more than us," Coyle said. "We were just giving it to them. We have to play in their end and support each other and just have that sense of urgency to get in there and just battle. That's it. We've got to outbattle that team.
"We have to get pucks in there and just work them down low. They don't like to play down there. No one likes to play in their own zone."
Dubnyk clearly wasn't fond of the play in front of him Thursday. After the game, Dubnyk talked about the confidence level inside the locker room.
"The most important thing is we've got to understand that we can play with these guys, we can beat these guys," he said. "There's no reason to think otherwise. But if there's anybody in here that thinks we can't beat them, they shouldn't. We've shown it and we've got the guys in here."
But without Parise and Vanek, the Wild desperately needs more from several players. Coyle knows he's one of them. He had no shots Thursday and is averaging 1.26 shots per game the past 19.
"I've got to be a big body, take pucks to the net, create some traffic, some havoc," Coyle said. "I need to generate some more here."
Coyle did like the way the Wild moved on from Thursday though.
"We had a good practice," he said. "We have to forget about [Thursday]. It doesn't mean anything now unless we let it sit in our heads. Everyone's pretty positive, it was an upbeat practice, everyone's feeling good. We get that game [Saturday], we're in good shape heading home."
Added Haula, "We didn't play like we wanted to play and that's going to change."


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Half Man Half Biscuit - Arthur's Farm lyrics
Arthur's Farm by Half Man Half Biscuit
Arthur Askee and Dougie Wougie Bader
Went down to the Animal Farm.
Douglas bored a boar,
With his stories from the war.
And explaimed about the boil on his palm.
Napoleon, very pink, offerred both of them a drink,
And a drink and a drink and a drink.
Come the hour of four, they were legless to be sure,
Not one of them had even had a wink,
Of sleep.
Everybody sang as loud as they could,
"Two legs bad, but four legs good!"
This made the boys feel pretty oppressed.
Came the new real, it was A. A. at the Helm",
While Dougie played lufftwafer on the roof
After amputating limbs all the others wrote new hymns
And a sign post read secondhand limbs.
Years passed by, double grazzing in the sty.
It was good, but it was total apathy!
Everybody arsed around
As the Beast of England Sound,
Had been ruined by a busy busy bee!
And chants were heard from the East to the West,
"Four legs good, but no legs best!"
Invalidity reigned supreme.
And shouts were heard from the East to the West,
"Four legs good, but no legs best!"
one time visitors were now the regime.
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