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Lawsuit: Jail inmate died after staff failed to care for her
By Annie Knox, KSL.com | Posted - March 22, 2018 at 10:44 p.m.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake County Jail nurses and guards refused to arrange medical care for an inmate who died from an infection related to gastric bypass surgery, even though she showed clear signs of serious pain and sickness in the days leading up to her death, her family alleges in a wrongful death lawsuit.
Lisa Marie Ostler, 37, of Riverton, died in April 2016 after roughly four days in the jail, her family alleges. Jail employees violated Ostler's right to due process and were unnecessarily harsh to the point that they broke Utah law, Rocky Anderson, the family's attorney, argues in the lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court.
"Our daughter died a very painful death from a medical cause that was not related to drugs. And they couldn't get beyond looking at it as a drug event to get her any kind of help," her father Calvin Ostler told reporters Thursday.
A proper medical evaluation would have determined Ostler needed care and prevented her death, but that never happened, the suit alleges. Ostler's parents said Thursday their daughter was manager at a bank and a credit card company, but she became dependent on painkillers after the surgery and developing Crohn's disease, an inflammatory bowel disease. She later turned to heroin after losing her insurance, they said.
Ostler was being held in the jail in advance of a scheduled court appearance for drug charges.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for the suffering Ostler's parents say she endured, plus funeral and medical expenses, her family's distress, attorney fees and other losses. Ostler leaves behind three children, ages 7, 12 and 14, according to the suit.
The lawsuit names former Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder, chief deputy Pam Lofgreen, jail medical director Todd Wilcox, and several jail employees. It contends the employees and the leaders of the jail violated Ostler's constitutional rights and were unnecessarily harsh.
Utah County Sheriff's Sgt. Kevin Hunter said the sheriff's office "does not comment on active lawsuits." Winder, now Moab's police chief, declined to respond, saying he had not yet spoken with the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office.
Ostler's family alleges she showed "obvious signs of excruciating pain" from peritonitis — inflammation of lining of the abdominal organs — but jail employees disregarded them.
"It's torture," said Kim Ostler, her mother.
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Other inmates could hear Ostler yell, moan and curl up in a ball, and noticed she hadn't eaten for two days, showing clear signs of dehydration before she was pronounced dead at a hospital in the early hours of April 3, 2016, the suit alleges.
On March 30, the day Ostler arrived at the jail, an employee filled out paperwork noting she had several medical issues and took medications, including one to treat Crohn's disease.
A fellow inmate asked a guard to call for medical help, but the guard said Ostler was "coming down off drugs," and told Ostler, "I'll bet it feels like you're going to die, doesn't it? Just a couple more days."
Ostler repeatedly pushed an alarm button to call for help, her family said, but a guard told her to stop.
Other inmates prodded guards to give Ostler care over two days, reporting she was yelling and crying, with one checking on Ostler to find she appeared to have stopped breathing. Jail employees did CPR and an ambulance brought her to a hospital, where she was declared dead, her family said.
An autopsy found she died of the inflamed abdominal lining from a rupture at the site of the gastric surgery, and her Crohn's may have exacerbated the problem.
The Ostlers said they want the jail to reform how it handles inmates' medical issues and possibly create a civilian review board to evaluate the jail.
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Wall Street is deep red on a day that promises to be the worst since the start of 2022. The Nasdaq fell 4.96% to 12863.69 points, the Dow Jones lost 2.99% to 33,043.86 points while the S&P 500 leaves 3.36% at 4,155.80 points on the floor. The collapse is likely due to the resurgence of inflation fears and lower-than-expected economic growth. to influence the trend There is also a sudden increase in weekly unemployment benefitsindicating that the US labor market is actually less healthy than expected.
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Published at 4:02 pm on June 29, 2017
The Justice Department is giving up the legal fight over the name of the Washington Redskins.
In a letter to a federal appeals court, the department said last week's Supreme Court decision in favor of an Asian-American band calling itself the Slants means the NFL team will prevail in a legal battle to cancel the team's trademarks because the name is disparaging to Native Americans.
Mark Freeman, an attorney for the Justice Department's civil division, wrote on Wednesday to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals that the court "should reverse the judgment of the district court and remand the case with instructions to enter judgment in favor of Pro-Football."
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Not a DrillDove Cameron Is Loving Her Unreleased Songs, And We're Dying to Hear Them
Updated: Aug 15, 2018 11:48 am
By Emily Brozyna
Let it be known – Dove Cameron can't release her music quite yet, but she really, really wants to. While she is officially signed to Columbia/Disruptor Records, things are still in the works. The star recently took to Twitter to let her fans know that the procces is all going v well.
starting to get tracks back from what i recorded a few weeks ago & i feel so happy and peaceful that @disruptorrecs & @ColumbiaRecords have my back. i love my team so much. i love my music. i am so happy. @SonyMusicGlobal
— Dove Cameron (@DoveCameron) August 15, 2018
Since wrapping Descendants 3, the starlet has been hard at work in the recording studio, banging out all the songs she's written so far. She's clearly having a blast and creating some bangers! In fact, she just confirmed that she has a solid ten songs ready to go.
we officially have 10 songs 💓
— Dove Cameron (@DoveCameron) August 1, 2018
While Dove had previously taken to social media to reveal the artwork for her very first upcoming single, titled "Talks About," it's not even definite that "Talks About" will even be the first single. She's got ten whole songs now, after all.
#talksabout #talksabout #talksabout
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It's even possible we might not actually get to hear "Talks About" at all. As she explained to a fan on Twitter, that song — which she once described as "a love song in the lyrics only" in an interview with RAW — was recorded so long ago. She made that song when she was still unsigned, and now might not fit into the musical direction she's currrently creating.
i've said this before, but i recorded it when i was not w my label i am w now. so it may be released, it may not be. if we have better songs, it's smarter to wait to release it & not have it be the 1st one. if we still love it w this new sound, it will come when the time is right https://t.co/hWPql7LlpP
— Dove Cameron (@DoveCameron) July 25, 2018
So we'll just have to wait and see if we ever end up hearing this tune, but it's nice to know music is being worked on, so that's what counts. As for what kind of vibes we can expect from her music? Dove previously explained what she was aiming for sounds a little like pop, but more rough around the edges.
"It's definitely in the realm of pop, but edgier. It's not straight down the center of the road that is pop, it's left of pop. If you took pop and held a lighter to it… it's a little burnt," she said in an interview.
Based off of the short snippets she shared from her early recording sessions, it sounds like we may hear a fun dance number – but only time will tell if this bop makes the cut of her final tracklist.
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— Dove Cameron Italia (@TeamDoveIT) April 23, 2017
We'll just be over here waiting for these songs to grace our eardrums, as we know anything from the Disney Channel alum will be next-level. We're ready when you are, Dove.
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Revived interest in physical layer security has led to a cascade of information theoretic results for various system topologies under different constraints. We have provided practically oriented solutions to the problem of maximizing achievable secrecy rates in an environment consisting of multiple legitimate and eavesdropping radio nodes. By assuming 'genie' aided perfect channel state information (CSI) feedback for both types of nodes, we first study two scenarios of interest. When independent messages are intended for all legitimate users (called 'broadcast' mode), provably convergent second order cone programming (SOCP) based iterative procedure is used for designing secrecy rate maximizing beamformers. In the same manner, when a common message is intended only for legitimate nodes (dubbed 'multicast' mode), SOCP based design is proposed for obtaining linear precoders that maximize the achievable secrecy rate. Subsequently, we leverage the analysis to the more real world scenario, where the CSI of the malicious nodes has to be somehow estimated and that of the legitimate users is corrupted with unavoidable errors. For this case, we devise provably convergent iterative semidefinite programming (SDP) procedures that maximize the achievable secrecy rates for both the beamforming based broadcast and the linearly precoded multicast modes. Finally, numerical results are reported that evaluate the performance of the proposed solutions as a function of different system parameters. We further maximized the achievable secrecy rate while performing antenna selection (AS) when we do not have perfect availability of instantaneous channel covariance matrices of the legitimate (L) and eavesdropper/wiretapper (E) nodes. Instead, we have at our disposal corrupted estimates of the channel covariance matrices. The error component of the estimated matrices is assumed to be weighted by a norm bounded error vector. For a class of norms, irrespective of the distribution of the error vector, we devise a so called convex inner approximation (CIA) semidefinite programming (SDP) based solution that yields a transmit precoder with the desired sparsity as dictated by the number of antennas to be selected. An example of achievable secrecy rate is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Average secrecy rate vs. the TX power .
We have considered a multi-cell multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system with multiple-users (MU) contending for the space-frequency resources in the downlink direction. The problem is to determine the transmit precoders by the base stations (BSs) in a coordinated manner to minimize the total number of backlogged packets in the BSs, which are destined for the users in the system. Since the problem is similar to the precoder design for a MIMO interference broadcast channel (IBC) system, traditionally it is solved by the weighted sum rate maximization (WSRM) objective with the number of backlogged packets as the corresponding weights, i.e, longer the queue size, higher the priority. In contrast, we address the queue minimizing downlink precoder design as a joint nonconvex optimization problem over space-frequency resources. We employ successive convex approximation (SCA) technique to solve the problem by a sequence of convex subproblems using inner approximations. Initially, we discuss the centralized joint space-frequency resource allocation (JSFRA) solutions based on SCA as well as by mean squared error (MSE) reformulation. Then we extend the distributed precoder design for the centralized schemes using primal and alternating directions method of multipliers (ADMM) method. We have verified the usability of proposed algorithms for future systems using state-of-the-art system-on-chip (SoC) platforms, e.g., Xilinx Zynq and Texas Instruments' Keystone II illustrated in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Scheduler implementation architecture.
Requirements for higher data rates and lower power consumption set new challenges for hardware implementation of multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing receivers. Simple detectors have the advantage of low complexity and power consumption, but they cannot offer as good performance as more complex detectors. Therefore, it would be beneficial to be able to adapt the detector algorithm to suit the channel conditions to minimize the receiver processing power consumption while satisfying the quality of service requirements. At low signal-to-noise ratio and/or low rank channel, more power and computation resources could be used for detection in order to guarantee reliable communication, while in good conditions, a simple and less power consuming detector could be used. Therefore, we compare the performance of different detection algorithms. The performance results are based on simulations in a long term evolution system where precoding and hybrid automatic repeat request are used. The effect of channel estimation on the performance is shown. Theoretical complexities of the detectors as numbers of arithmetic operations are presented. For evaluation purposes, we have designed pure hardware integrated circuit implementations with high level synthesis tools (HLS) using a 28 nm CMOS technology but also programmable domain-specific instruction-set processors (DSIPs) are designed.
Lattice reduction (LR) is a preprocessing technique for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) symbol detection to achieve better bit error-rate (BER) performance. We propose a modified LR algorithm, Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovasz (LLL) to meet high throughput. To reach energy efficiency requirements, we have proposed a customized domain-specific instruction-set (DSIP) multiprocessor for LR. The processor cores are based on transport triggered architecture (TTA) and consisting an instruction-set which can be programmed for other algorithms in the detection algorithm domain too, see Figure 3. The TTA cores are programmed with high level language. Each TTA core consists of several special function units to accelerate the program code. The multiprocessor takes 187 cycles to reduce a single matrix for LR. The architecture is synthesized on 90 nm technology and takes 405 k gates at 210 MHz.
Figure 3. Mutliprocessor lattice reduction architecture.
We have addressed the effect of transmitter nonidealities on the self-interference (SI) cancellation in full-duplex transceivers. The non-idealities considered include the nonlinearity of the power amplifier (PA), imbalance between in-phase and quadrature branches of the transmitter (IQ imbalance), phase noise and the time misalignment of SI and feed forwarded signal. Further, the effect of multi-path propagation of the SI signal is studied. Simulation results show that even simple techniques to compensate the non-linear operation of the PA and the multi-path propagation of the SI increase the SI cancellation performance.
We have considered sequential compressed acquisition and progressive reconstruction of spatially and temporally correlated sensor data streams in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) via compressed sensing (CS) as illustrated in Figure 4. We developed a sequential framework based on sliding window processing, in which the sink can efficiently reconstruct the current sensors' readings from a sequence of periodically delivered CS measurements by exploiting the joint compressibility via Kronecker sparsifying bases. Specifically, we derived a recursive CS recovery method which utilizes the estimates from the preceding decoding instants via a regularization and reweighted ℓ1-minimization to improve the reconstruction accuracy of sensor data streams while reducing the necessary communications. As beneficial features, the method produces estimates for the current sensors' readings without additional decoding delay, and, via adjusting the window size, it can dynamically trade-off between the CS recovery performance and decoding complexity. Numerical results show that our proposed method achieves higher reconstruction accuracy with a smaller number of required transmissions, and with lower decoding delay and complexity as compared to those of the state of the art CS methods. An example is illustrated in Figure 5.
Figure 4. Wireless sensor network system model .
Figure 5. Recovery error vs. communications cost .
We have provided analytical assessment that justify the performance tendencies of practical coding/decoding techniques for a binary data gathering wireless sensor network. We model the binary data gathering WSN by a binary chief executive officer (CEO) problem. The theoretical rate region is analyzed based on the Berger-Tung inner bound. We also derived the bit error probability (BEP) floor and its lower bound given the observation error probability by using the Poisson-binomial distribution approximation of the observation error occurrence and Shannon's rate-distortion function. The simulation results show that the bit error rate (BER) performance of our proposed technique is close to theoretical limits supported by the Berger-Tung inner bound. The extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) chart analysis is also used to verify the BER performance. Moreover, the simulation results show that the error floor is placed between the Poisson-binomial approximation and the rate-distortion lower bound.
Figure 6. MIMO-OTA measurement system.
Figure 7. Example of antenna radiating pattern .
Figure 8. Propagation measurement system.
Wireless Medical Communications (WiMeC) team is investigating the concept and the problematic resulting from this requirement focusing on short range communication (up to tens of meters), wideband communication (in all the forms), channel modelling (crucial for system development), knowledge on antennas, and physical layer and medium access control (MAC). The wireless body area network (WBAN) is a key element of the research approach. In 2014, the central research topics included channel models for WBAN, performance evaluation of ultra wideband receivers, low-power MAC protocols for WBANs, on-body antennas, as well as environmental challenges in medical WBANs. The team had also a major role in contributing to the ETSI SmartBAN standardization work. The results were presented in 1 Doctoral Thesis, one book, 5 international journal papers, and 13 international conference papers. International relations were further developed in through the advisory Board membership of the Research Centre in the area of wireless medical technologies and applications in Macquarie University (Australia). Furthermore, Horizon2020 project proposal was prepared with new partners. WiMeC also contributed to the scientific community by organising UWBAN 2014 (in conjunction with Bodynets 2014) in London, serving as ISMICT2014 general co-chair and board members (International Steering Committee and Technical Program Committee), and co-chairing the IEEE PIMRC 2014 Technical Programme Committee. In 2015, the WiMeC team is focusing its research essentially on solutions of dual use in homes and institutions; receiver performance evaluation and new MAC protocols; dependable WSN networks (robustness, security and secrecy); close to body signal propagation; interference modelling; nanoscale communications; mobile clouds for medical ICT; and visible light communication for medical ICT.
Figure 9. Body area network measurement.
We have considered nanoscale wireless communication in both the Terahertz and VHF bands. For the Terahertz band, we have developed accurate analytical channel models taking into account multiple scattering. Both frequency and time domain channels have been derived. In time domain, we can notice the tail in response due to multiple scattering and also due to the frequency selective molecular absorption. For the VHF band, we have performed accurate analysis of the bit-error-rates possible with nanoscale carbon nanotube based mechanically oscillating receivers. For high accuracy, linear response has been considered in addition to the square-law response previously considered. More accurate noise correlation models have been used than in previous works, leading to significantly more accurate results.
Figure 10. Nanoscale communication model in the VHF band.
Tuovinen, T (2014) Operation of IR-UWB WBAN antennas close to human tissues. Acta Universitatis Ouluensis, Technica C 505.
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 T. Tuovinen, M. Berg, "Impedance Dependency on Planar Broadband Dipole Dimensions: An Examination with Antenna Equivalent Circuits", Progress in Electromagnetics Research. 144: 249-260.
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 T. Tuovinen, M. Berg, E. Salonen, "The Effect of Antenna Pattern and Polarization for Launching Creeping Waves on a Skin Surface". The 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP 2014), 6.-11.4.2014, The Hague, The Netherlands.
 M. Särestöniemi, V. Niemelä, M. Hämäläinen, J. Iinatti, N. Keränen, J. Partala, T. Jämsä, T. Seppänen, J. Reponen, "Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.15.6 Based WBAN System for Monitoring Parkinson's Disease", The 8th International Symposium on Medical Information & Communication Technology (ISMICT2014), 2.-4.4.2014, Florence, Italy.
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 Darooei Zadeh A., Bagheri H., Katz M., "Using Mobile Clouds in Medical ICT scenarios: A Preliminary Study". The 8th International Symposium on Medical Information & Communication Technology (ISMICT2014), 2.-4.4.2014, Florence, Italy.
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 Karvonen H., Petäjäjärvi J., Iinatti J., Hämäläinen M., Pomalaza-Raez C., "A Generic Wake-up Radio based MAC Protocol for Energy Efficient Short Range Communication". Workshop on "The Convergence of Wireless Technologies for Personalized Healthcare" in Conjuction with IEEE 25th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC2014), 2.–5.9.2014, Washington, DC, USA.
 Virk M. H., Vuohtoniemi R., Hämäläinen M., Mäkelä J.-P., Iinatti J., "Spectrum Occupancy Evaluations at 2.35-2.50 GHz ISM Band in a Hospital Environment". The 9th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets-2014), 29.9.–1.10.2013, London, UK.
 Mucchi L., Carpini A., Kumpuniemi T., Hämäläinen M., Iinatti J., "Evaluation of the Aggregate Interference in Hospital ISM Band". The 9th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets-2014), 29.9.–1.10.2013, London, UK.
 Karvonen H., Petäjäjärvi J., Iinatti J., Hämäläinen M., Energy Efficient IR-UWB WBAN using a Generic Wake-up Radio based MAC Protocol. UWBAN-2014 (Ultra Wide Band for Body Area Networking-2014) Workshop Co-located with the 9th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets-2014), 29.9.–1.10.2014, London, UK.
 Kumpuniemi T., Hämäläinen M., Yekeh Yazdandoost K., Iinatti J., Human Body Size and Shape Effect on UWB On-Body WBAN Radio Channels - Preliminary Results. UWBAN-2014 (Ultra Wide Band for Body Area Networking-2014) Workshop Co-located with the 9th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets-2014), 29.9.–1.10.2014, London, UK.
 Berg M., Tuovinen T., Propagation along a Human Body Surface in WBAN: Remarks of Desirable Antenna Characteristics. 4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (MobiHealth-2014), 3.–5.11.2014, Athens, Greece.
 T. Tuovinen, M. Berg, W. Whittow, E. Salonen, Performance of WBAN on Ground Antenna Type with Relation to Analytical Path Loss Model. The 8th International Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), Loughborough, United Kingdom, on 10-11th November 2014.
 M. Berg, T. Tuovinen, E. Salonen, Low-Profile Antenna with Optimal Polarization for 2.45 GHz On-Body Sensor Nodesl. The 10th International Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), Loughborough, United Kingdom, on 10-11th November 2014.
 M. F. Hanif, L.-N. Tran, A. Tölli & M. Juntti, "Computationally efficient robust beamforming for SINR balancing in multicell downlink with applications to large antenna array systems". IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 62, no. 6, pp. 1908–1920, June 2014.
 M. F. Hanif, L.-N. Tran, M. Juntti & S. Glisic, "On Linear precoding strategies for secrecy rate maximization in multiuser multiantenna wireless networks". IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 62, no. 14, pp. 3536–3551, July 15, 2014.
 L.-N. Tran, M. F. Hanif & M. Juntti, "A conic quadratic programming approach to physical layer multicasting for large-scale antenna arrays". IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 114–117, January 2014.
 P. Jayasinghe, L. K. S. Jayasinghe, M. Juntti & M. Latva-aho, "Performance analysis of optimal beamforming in non-coherent AF MIMO relaying over asymmetric fading channels". IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 1201–1217, April 2014.
 E. Suikkanen & M. Juntti, " Study of adaptive detection and channel estimation for MIMO–OFDM systems". Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 73, no. 3, December 2014.
 Q. Sun, L. Li, M. Juntti, A. Tölli & J. Mao, "Optimal energy efficient bit and power loading for multicarrier systems". IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 1194–1197, July 2014.
 A. Yadav, M. Juntti & J. Lilleberg, "Linear precoder design for doubly correlated partially coherent fading MIMO channels", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 3621–3635, July 2014.
 S. Lin, L. Wang, A. Vosoughi, J. Cavallaro, M. Juntti, J. Boutellier, O. Silven, M. Valkama & S. S. Bhattacharyya, "Dynamic dataflow modelling and design for cognitive radio networks on heterogeneous platforms". Journal of Signal Processing Systems, to appear.
 J. Kokkoniemi, J. Lehtomäki, K. Umebayashi & M. Juntti, "Frequency and time domain channel models for nanonetworks in Terahertz band". IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, to appear 2015.
 M. Leinonen, M. Codreanu & M. Juntti "Sequential compressed sensing with progressive signal reconstruction in wireless sensor networks". IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, to appear 2015.
 M. F. Hanif, L.-N. Tran & M. Juntti, "Antenna selection with erroneous covariance matrices under secrecy constraints". IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, submitted September 2014, revised December 2014.
 J. Lehtomäki, M. Lopez-Benitez, K. Umebayashi & M. Juntti, "Improved channel occupancy rate estimation". IEEE Transactions on Communications, to appear 2015.
 Q.-D. Vu, L.-N. Tran, M. Juntti & E.-K. Hong, "Energy-efficient bandwidth and power allocation for multi-homing networks". IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, submitted September 2014, revised November 2014.
 R. Asvadi, T. Matsumoto & M. Juntti, "LDPC code optimization with joint source-channel decoding of quantized Gauss-Markov signals". Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2014), Sydney, Australia, June 10–14, 2014, pp. 5233–5238.
 A. Ghazi, J. Boutellier, M. Abdelaziz, X. Lu, L. Anttila, J. R. Cavallaro, S. S. Bhattacharyya, M. Valkama & M. Juntti, "Low power implementation of digital predistortion filter on a heterogeneous application specific multiprocessor". Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014), Florence, Italy, May 4–9, 2014, pp. 8336–8340.
 G. Destino, D. Macagnano, M. Juntti & S. Nagaraj, "Sparsity-aware channel estimation with contaminated pilot sequence". Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014), Florence, Italy, May 4–9, 2014, pp. 6469–6473.
 J. Kaleva, R. Berry, M. Honig, A. Tölli & M. Juntti, "Decentralized sum MSE minimization for coordinated multi-point transmission". Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014), Florence, Italy, May 4–9, 2014, pp. 469–473.
 Z. Khan, J. J. Lehtomäki, L. A. DaSilva, M. Latva-aho & M. Juntti, "Adaptation in a channel access game with private monitoring". Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2013), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, December 9–13, 2013, pp. 3157–3163.
 M. Leinonen, M. Codreanu & M. Juntti, "Compressed acquisition and progressive reconstruction of multi-dimensional correlated data in wireless sensor networks". Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014), Florence, Italy, May 4–9, 2014, pp. 6449–6453.
 X. Lu, A. Tölli, L. Anttila, M. Juntti & M. Valkama, "Multiuser frequency allocation with wideband power amplifier models". Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014), Florence, Italy, May 4–9, 2014, pp. 3913–3917.
 T. Tuovinen, M. Berg, "Impedance dependency on planar broadband dipole dimensions: an examination with antenna equivalent circuits". Progress in Electromagnetics Research 144, pp. 249-260.
 T. Tuovinen, M. Berg, J. Iinatti, "Analysis of the impedance behaviour for broadband dipoles in proximity of a body tissue: approach by using antenna equivalent circuits". Progress in electromagnetics research B 59, pp. 135-150.
 E. Antonino-Daviu, M. Sonkki, M. Cabedo-Fabrés, M. Ferrando-Bataller, E. Salonen, D. Sánchez-Escudores, J. I. Herranz-Herruzo, A. Valero-Nogueira, M. Baquero-Escudero, V. M. Rodrigo-Peñarrocha, A. Vila-Jiménez, B. Bernardo-Clemente, F. Vico, "Planar Wideband Antenna Designs for Wireless Applications in Portable Devices", Waves Journal, 2014, pp. 17-28.
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 M. Berg, T. Tuovinen, E.T. Salonen, "Low-profile antenna with optimal polarization for 2.45 GHz on-body sensor nodes," Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2014 Loughborough, pp. 641,643, 10-11 Nov. 2014.
 T. Kumpuniemi, M. Hämäläinen, T. Tuovinen, K.Y. Yazdandoost, J. Iinatti, "Radio channel modelling for pseudo-dynamic WBAN on-body UWB links," Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT), 2014 8th International Symposium on, pp.1,5, 2-4 April 2014.
 J. Medbo, K. Börner, K. Haneda, V. Hovinen, T. Imai, J. Järvelainen, T. Jämsä, A. Karttunen, K. Kusume, J. Kyröläinen, P. Kyösti, J. Meinilä, V. Nurmela, L. Raschkowski, Leszek, A. Roivainen, J. Ylitalo, "Channel modelling for the fifth generation mobile communications," Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2014 8th European Conference on, pp.219,223, 6-11 April 2014.
 V. Niemela, T. Paso, T. Tuovinen, J. Haapola, M. Hämäläinen, J. Iinatti, "Propagation effects and antenna properties and their impact on ED receivers' performance in body sensor network," Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT), 2014 8th International Symposium on, pp.1,5, 2-4 April 2014.
 A. Roivainen, V. Hovinen, J. Meinilä, N. Tervo, M. Sonkki,C. Ferreira Dias, "Elevation analysis for urban microcell outdoor measurements at 2.3 GHz". 1st International Conference on 5G for Ubiquitous Connectivity, 26th-28th November 2014, Levi, Finland.
 A. Roivainen, P. Jayasinghe, J. Meinilä, V. Hovinen, M. Latva-aho, "Vehicle-to-vehicle radio channel characterization in urban environment at 2.3 GHz and 5.25 GHz". IEEE 25th International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2nd-5th September 2014, Washington, DC.
 M. Sonkki, E. Antonino-Daviu, M. Ferrando-Bataller, E. Salonen, "Wideband planar antenna with monopole excitation for wireless applications," Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2014 8th European Conference on, pp. 2380-2383, 6-11 April 2014.
 M. Sonkki, E. Antonino-Daviu, M. Ferrando-Bataller, D. Sánchez-Escuderos, A. Vila-Jiménez, E. Salonen, "Four slot MIMO cube with excitation of four orthogonal radiating modes", XXIX URSI National Symposium, 3rd-5th September 2014, Valencia, Spain.
 N. Tervo, C. Ferreira Dias, V. Hovinen, M. Sonkki, A. Roivainen, J. Meinilä, M. Latva-aho, "Diffraction measurements around a building corner at 10 GHz". 1st International Conference on 5G for Ubiquitous Connectivity, 26th-28th November 2014, Levi, Finland.
 T. Tuovinen, M. Berg, E. Salonen, M. Hämäläinen, J. Iinatti, "Conductive layer under a wearable UWB antenna: Trade-off between absorption and mismatch losses," Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT), 2014 8th International Symposium on, pp.1,5, 2-4 April 2014.
 T. Tuovinen, M. Berg, E. Salonen, "The effect of antenna pattern and polarization for launching creeping waves on a skin surface," Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2014 8th European Conference on , pp.1743,1746, 6-11 April 2014.
 T. Tuovinen, M. Berg, W.G. Whittow, E.T. Salonen, "Performance of WBAN on-ground antenna type with relation to analytical path loss model," Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2014 Loughborough, pp.55,59, 10-11 Nov. 2014.
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How to meet the cast of The Family Man (TV Show - 1990) ?
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Laurie Simmons: Talk
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Edlis Neeson Theater
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, from 3PM - 4PM
On view through Sunday, May 5th
Artist Laurie Simmons leads audiences on a journey through the films that have inspired and influenced her work on the opening day of her exhibition Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera.
MCA Talks highlight cutting-edge thinking and contemporary art practices across disciplines and are organized by Curator of Public Programs January Parkos Arnall and Assistant Curator of Public Programs Christy LeMaster.
Laurie Simmons (b. 1949, Long Island, New York), a central figure of the Pictures Generation, is known for her staged photographs and films with paper dolls, finger puppets, ventriloquist dummies, and costumed dancers as "living objects," animating a dollhouse world suffused with nostalgia and colored by an adult's memories, longings, and regrets. Simmons's work blends psychological, political, and conceptual approaches to art making—transforming photography's propensity to objectify people, especially women, into a sustained critique of the medium. Mining childhood memories and media constructions of gender roles, her photographs are charged with an eerie, dreamlike quality. On first glance, her works often appear whimsical, but there is a disquieting aspect to Simmons's child's play, as her characters struggle over identity in an environment in which the value placed on consumption, designer objects, and domestic space is inflated to absurd proportions.
Simmons received a BFA from the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia in 1971. She has held major exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Baltimore Museum of Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Neues Museum, Nuremberg Germany, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden; and the Jewish Museum, New York. She has participated in two Whitney Biennial exhibitions (1985, 1991) and was included in the 2013 Venice Biennial. Simmons is the recipient of the Roy Lichtenstein Residency in the Visual Arts at the American Academy in Rome (2005); and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1997) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1984). She lives and works in New York and Kent, Connecticut.
Tags: Andrea Karnes, Big Camera/Little Camera, Chicago, Edlis Neeson Theater, Illinois, Laurie Simmons, Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Near North Side


Dialog Bahasa Inggris 2 Orang Tentang Liburan – Liburan adalah momen yang begitu menyenangkan. Untuk itu, berikut ini kami membuat sebuah dokumentasi percakapan yang didapat dari sahabat-sahabat yang sedang liburan. Semoga dialog berikut bisa menjadi contoh yang bermanfaat bagi Anda.
Kanandra: Rivana, you look so pale. You seem bored with your work.
Rivana: Is that true? I don't even realize it. But, yeah, I think that I need refreshment.
Kanandra: Yeah. Should we plan a holiday for us? I need refreshment, too. The st two weeks were very tough for us.
Rivana: Do you have any idea about the destination?
Kanandra: Let me think for a while. Hmm… how about Japan?
Rivana: Are you kidding me?
Kanandra: No, I'm not. I'm serious.
Rivana: I don't have enough budget to go there. It is better for us to go Bandung. It costs cheaper.
Kanandra: Come on, Rivana. Trust me. I am a good holiday planner.
Rivana: Yes, I know it. But, I am not sure that you will cover everything for two of us.
Kanandra: Yes, that's true. You're smart as always.
Rivana: Then, what? Oh, Just forget it. I will not go to Japan with you.
Kanandra: We will be the backpackers.
Kanandra: Don't worry. I have ever done it when I traveled in Europe.
Rivana: Can you guarantee the safety?
Rivana: Then, how is the budget estimation? How much it will cost?
Kanandra: There is a discount of ticket flight from one of a travel agent. I am their loyal customer so that they give me special price. Overall, it will cost about Rp 3000.000.- for two days.
Rivana: Hmm… That's still expensive for me.
Kanandra: Come on, Rivana. You will not regret it after you feel the sensation. It is very worth it. You dream to visit Disney Land, right? I can read your mind.
Rivana: Let me count my saving first. I have to consider several things.
Kanandra: Okay, let me know. Oh, one more, you don't to worry about the visa. I can deal with it fast. Remember, I'm a good traveler. I'm a professional backpacker.
Rivana: Yeah, I know it, Kanandra. You have mentioned it.
Kanandra: Good. See you later.
Vanisha: Milea, I haven't seen you for a long time. Where have you been?
Milea: Don't you know that I got married two weeks ago? I have given the invitation through your secretary, Vanisha.
so sorry, Milea. Congratulation for your wedding. Have a blessed life with your husband.
tough. Even I lost my weight at that time.
Vanisha: Oh my God. But, everything ran well, right?
Milea: Yes, I am happy that it ran well.
Vanisha: Then, you went for honeymoon last two weeks?
Milea: Yes, of course. It was also a precious holiday for me and my husband.
We were very busy and it was such a relief that we had time to relax.
Vanisha: Where did you go?
Milea: We went to Bali. Hahaha. I have gone there for several times and Bali always pulls me back. It is like my second hometown. It is my favourite place to have a holiday. Fortunately, my husband also loves it.
Vanisha: Hmm… I can imagine how lovely it was. What places did you visit in Bali?
Milea: Actually, those were not new places for me. I have visited them many times. But, the difference was the partner. It became special since I went there with my love. In a week, we always had a romantic dinner. I still can't move on from those moments.
Vanisha: Oh my God. You make me envy. It makes me to get married soon. Day by day, I become more workaholic. I need to move on. At least, I need to have a holoday, too. We never know that I can meet my future husband during the holiday. Hahahaha.
Milea: Hopefully, you can make it fast, dear. I am waiting for the invitation from you.
Milea: Anytime, dear. Let's have lunch now. I will share a lot of stories then.


For an overview, see the article of March 29, 2015, in the Santa Fe New Mexican here.
The retaining wall is in and done! Our original thought was to have it as high as the bottom of the door, but it quickly became obvious that it wouldn't fit in with stone wall at the wheel. As it is, there is a gentle slope from the right and a small step up to the door. No ramps or steps needed there and if we want a path to the east all we need is a couple of steps. The tubes you see are for future safety banister. Now we need to replace that ugly (and non-functioning) door. One thing we like about the wall is that it fits in with the Mill's appearance, but it is obvious that it isn't part of the original stonework.
On to other matters. The Mill may be one stops on the 2018 Fiber Arts Tour May 18-20, 2018. The Mora Arts and Cultural Compound has applied to be added to the tour and if that happens we could be one of three stops here in Mora. The Mill would host a display of quilts and quilters.
How exciting to be part of the generation that is able to see the St. Vrain Mill in Mora, New Mexico coming back to life! This is how valuable your continued membership and donations are.
corporation registered in New Mexico. It also has 501 (c) (3) federal tax-exempt status. While the Foundation's current focus is on the Mill itself, its charter also provides for acquisition of other properties in Mora related to the life of Ceran St. Vrain. Membership in the Foundation is open to individuals, businesses and organizations.
Even though only a few months have passed since our membership meeting, a lot has been happening and I wanted to bring you up to date, especially for those of you who don't live in the Mora area and don't have a chance to see what's going on.
The most significant development is the signing of the contract to stabilize the Mill's north foundation by means of injecting a quick-setting, expanding grout under the foundation. This approach was recommended by Engineering Analytics, our engineering consultants. The contractor is Hayward Baker, out of Colorado. In order to save money, we extended the completion date until March 31, 2018 and allowed Hayward Baker to choose when they could do the work. There is actually no problem doing this work in the winter and that being their slow time anyway, it works out well for both of us.
The overall cost of the project is on the order of $90,000. We have $30,000 in our construction account, and have arranged to borrow $60,000 from individuals in the Mora area. The repayment of these loans (10 years duration) will be covered by the pledged donations many of you committed to last year. Once the grout work is done, we will turn our attention to the wall repair, but that is clearly next year's project.
We have completed the "coyote" fence along the west property boundary which offers our neighbors to the west a bit of privacy. See photo attached. We have brought power to the property but not directly into the building and have installed an outdoor water hydrant. Both were necessary to support the construction work. By running an extension cord into the Mill, we have power for lights and our own repair projects. We will build an extension to the fence so the power box and hydrant will not be visible from the street.
We have also received a donation for the specific purpose of replacing the wooden front door. A local craftsman did the work and did an excellent job making a practically exact replica of the original, only studier. We will keep the original door on display as it is covered in pencil notes regarding numbers of bags of corn, etc – part of the accounting system back then.
We had the Mill open for visitors on Saturday and Sunday of Labor Day weekend, maybe 30 -40 people dropped by each day, many were just driving by and wanted to see inside. We also offered up the Mill as the site of the Punkin Patch for the Mora Fall Fest.
Mora experienced a 3.2 magnitude earthquake early Friday morning. I have joked about the need to do the foundation stabilization because who knows when we might get an earthquake. At least I thought I was joking. However, the Mill north wall is still standing, no problem.
The Foundation has over 100 supporting members as of today. We feel gratified that so many of you have confidence in us and support our efforts. However, we noticed that there are some members from 2016 that have not continued their membership in 2017. Since we know our cause is good and just, the only explanation is that those members simply haven't gotten around to renewing. So if you are one of those folks, please renew your membership for 2017.
Thank you all for being a part of "Saving the Mill".
St. Vrain Mill Annual Meeting and open house. Meet at the mill.
1:40 p.m.—Short Reading by Gloria Zamora Meet and talk to Gloria who lived in Las Agui-tas with her grandparents, as a young child, and wrote about living in a small rural northern New Mexico community in Sweet Nata.
Talk to prize-winning local author, Malcolm Ebright, about his new article Making Water Run Uphill and his other books on land grants and acequia rights.
Since most but not all of us have been involved in a bunch of stuff, thought I would take a minute to get everyone on the same page again. First, our scheduled meeting last week with the NM Senators' staffers was postponed. Michele came down with a bug or something. However, our meeting with Beverley Spears and her team went well. Beverley is proposing a steel plate to be placed above the stone walls on either side that runs from the north wall to several feet beyond the cracks. She believes this would tie the North wall to the rest of the structure and eliminate the need for the foundation grouting. She will draw up the specs but I would need a second and third opinion on that. She also seems to have come around to the idea that all the roof really needs, and not right now, is new metal and replacement of any damaged wood. No need to re-deck the whole thing.
The basic decision we are facing is: do we do the structural repairs before doing anything else, or do we do some other things like power, second egress that will allow us to use the Mill to a limited extent while we get the resources to do the big buck items. Without the USDA loan, we may not be able to do the former for some time anyway. When I was in Abq a couple weeks ago, I met with the USDA CFP manager, Kathy Pfiffner. I wanted to be reassured our proposed end use was indeed sufficient, and it is. Our payback capability may be the issue. Beverley will have the schematics and cost info to us maybe by the end of next week so we can proceed with the USDA loan application, and Christine can do the same with the DAR grant application. It looks like windows and any front door work would fit the DAR grant best.
I had a pleasant experience Saturday. Christine St Vrain-Fischahs was invited to make a presentation on Ceran St Vrain to the End of Trail Chapter of the Santa Fe Trail Association. She invited me to attend and a make a pitch about the Mill and our efforts. We will get a few new members for sure. One of whom is a lady named Faye Gaines, a SFTA Director, 90 years old, lives at Point of Rocks(about 30 miles from anywhere) and was on the committee that got the Mill in the NM endangered places list. She also said Ceran St Vrain is her hero. She is very interested in our progress and may well become a very effective "booster" for our cause.
Overview: In 2013, several members of the Mora community established The Saint Vrain Mill Preservation and Historical Foundation for the specific purpose of buying and restoring the St Vrain Mill in Mora. The mill was successfully purchased for a total price of $27,000. We are soliciting membership in the Foundation as well as donations because attention has now shifted to the much larger and expensive task of restoration and adapting it to a community purpose.
available at http://www.moravalley.com/st_vrain_mill.html 2016 will present significant challenges. We will need to raise considerably more money than last year if we are to continue repairs in a timely manner. There are sources of potential funding that are available to us now that we own the Mill. While we solicit and appreciate any financial support you can continue to give us, the most important thing you can do for the Foundation is help spread the word about our efforts and goals. We realize that supporting an effort such as ours requires a certain level of faith, especially if you are not directly involved in our day-to-day activities. Please go to our website for a financial overview that gives you an accounting of funds raised and significant expenditures.
Mail to our address above, or visit our website www.stvrainmill.org and use PayPal. All contributions are tax deductible.
For full information, visit http://stvrainmill.org/ and contribute to the renovation fund.
To St Vrain Mill Foundation Members and Contributors.
There has been an unexpected development in our Mill stabilization and wall repair project. USDA has asked us to expand the scope of the project to include the restoration of at least the first floor for use as a community facility. Instead of a project of several steps over three or four years, they are encouraging us to take on a larger project with a completion date of two years or less.
We originally decided on a phased approach for a couple of reasons. One was we weren't sure what the community use or uses should be, and the other was we didn't want to commit the Foundation to a large loan that may be difficult to repay. Since then, the idea of restoring the first floor into a cultural center featuring the history of the generational families of the Mora Valley has generated a great deal of support. Also, while the new loan will be much larger, maybe twice as large, the repayment period can be up to 40 years instead of just ten, making the annual payments easier to handle.
We are working with an architect now to design the changes we will need to make to the building, such as handicap access and electrical service, and to come up with a total project cost. Once that is in hand, we will submit a modified application to USDA. The restoration of the second and third floors are not part of this proposal.
While we can expect a modest income stream from visitor donations, perhaps an admission fee, once the Mill is open to the public, cash flow and loan repayment will be a challenge. USDA would like us to maintain a cash reserve to cover loan payments for the first several years while we continue to develop additional grant sources and expand support from the community. While we don't know just now what these reserves should be, we think with the anticipated membership fees, annual fundraisers, and most important, the pledges many of you submitted, we already have the ability to meet that requirement.
While our path to "Saving the Mill" will continue to have some twists and turns, the end goal is very clear, achievable, and worthwhile. We, the Foundation Board, thank all of you for your support, faith, and encouragement.


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Block your calendars from March 29 to 31 and make your way to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre at Harbour Road, where the Art Basel show will be held this year in HK.
The brainchild of gallerists Ernst Beyeler, Trudi Bruckner and Balz Hilt, Art Basel was first exhibited in 1970 in the lovely city of Basel, Switzerland as an arts event that would open the doors of opportunity to artists known and unknown from around the world.
The show was an instant hit with over 16,000 visitors at that very first edition.
The inaugural show had hosted 90 galleries and 30 publishers from 10 different countries. The seeds to a successful event had been sown.
Over time, Art Basel found another home at Miami Beach, Florida, USA then has been in Hong Kong since 2013. Over 60,000 visitors attended the first Hong Kong event, ensuring that it became a permanent fixture on the city's calendar.
While Art Basel, Hong Kong, exhibits a very local flavour by becoming a hub for Asian and Asia Pacific artists, galleries and exhibitionists to come forward and showcase their art, diversity is an integral part of its make-up.
Along with catering to local artists and artists from the continent, it provides equal space and opportunity for foreign artists at the show. It has become a stage for local talent but has also pushed forward a dialogue between local and foreign artists, inspiring and being a cause of a flow of ideas and art across borders.
Another very important and commendable part of Art Basel is that it provides a platform for both established artists and fresh talent. It offers an opportunity for both to come together and share a stage, inspiring a two-way flow of artistic thought.
2018 will see heightened enthusiasm and larger participation from the community of art lovers. The city is gearing up to put on a show that will be an enriching experience not only for the artist community but also for the general public.
This year, Art Basel will feature 248 premier galleries. These galleries have been chosen from across 32 different countries and territories. The very local flavour of Art Basel will be reflected in the art galleries of Asia and the Asia Pacific that make up half the exhibiting galleries. These galleries will showcase the region's diversity through both historical material and contemporary ideas of local artists.
From some of the leading modern art and contemporary galleries in the world to new discoveries of emerging artists, Art Basel, Hong Kong, 2018, will have everything for the art lover. It will provide an insight into both local craftsmanship and international western designs.
These will feature exhibits from some of the modern and contemporary artists of the generation. It will include paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, photographs, film, video and digital artworks from the 20th and 21st centuries.
This section exhibits works of Asian and Asia-Pacific artists. Both solo and collaborative efforts will be on displaying artists' work from Turkey to New Zealand, including Asia, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent.
These galleries display works of budding talents and next generation artists.
These are a curated set of exhibits in an architecturally delineated space. These are sector diverse and cover many sub-sectors and the overlap between different sectors in a very artistic space.
This is a feature completely dedicated to large-scale sculptures and installations. These displays try to take art out of the conventional art-fair stand space and into open, uninhibited spaces.
These are just a few of the features at Art Basel, Hong Kong, 2018. There are many more waiting to be explored. Be sure to drop in and let your artistic self, take over.
The venue plays an important role when it comes to exhibits. It provides another layer of interpretation and meaning. That is why the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre or HKCEC has been chosen as the venue for the grand exhibit.
One of the major exhibition centres in Hong Kong, the HKCEC itself is a work of art. Its location on the Victoria Harbour puts it at the heart of the city. Phase 1 of this handsome glass building with its glass curtain that overlooks the harbour was the world's largest in 1988 when it was opened. Phase 2 was inaugurated and the main venue for the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to Peoples Republic of China as a Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). The HKCEC certainly lends itself to artistic display, making it a perfect choice for Art Basel.


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The theme of Rethink! Festival is What services are good for. Better services for better futures. The era we live in is marked by significant changes on a planetary scale, generated by the impact of the transformation processes produced by humanity. Some major challenges regarding digitization and automation processes, energy production, climate change and healthcare are changing the way governments, institutions, businesses and citizens face these challenges. Challenges that the culture of service design must consider, by building a new imaginary for this large-scale change.
We will give a speech on April 10 at 4:20pm about how service design can guide the transformation of organizations.


For the next few weeks things are going to be a bit wacky around here.
Yesterday morning this was our kitchen.
By the evening the cabinets and appliances were out, the floor was gone and the ceiling was raised.
Tomorrow this wall comes down so we let Halley have a little sharpie party. This may or may not come back to to bite us. But she was in paradise.
Today a gorgeous trench was dug.
This is so exciting, so dusty, so noisy, so stressful, but I am so happy.
Each step makes me giddy.
Plus tomorrow I hope to fulfill a lifelong dream.
To smash a wall with a sledgehammer.
Hopefully our contractor will indulge me.
HOLY COW!!! i love construction projects. so. much.
We are redoing part of our kitchen too, and right now, we are without a sink...it's very stressful with two kids, but trying to think of how pretty it will look!
ooooh! have fun! I got to smash a closet when we redid the bathroom--was it ever fun!
Eeek - and here I am going crazy in my kitchen (yesterday was demo day here, too!). It's going to amazing, I know it!
How exciting!! What fun to photograph the whole process. Can't wait to see the beautiful new space!
If I haven't commented before, then I'm delurking :) We went through a big remodel almost 2 years ago-totally get the crazy, dusty...with a 2 year old at the time and a newborn, we lived in crazy, dusty, not so awesome, plastic ET wall and all. The final product was SO worth it! When people told us if our marriage can survive a remodel, we can survive anything, I didn't have a clue. I get it now, and am happy to say we're back to the awesome. Best wishes!
Love it! Kitchen makeovers are the most satisfying projects. Ever.
Oh fun! We finally did a kitchen/family room renovation this fall. It was a mess, but so worth it!
It will be soooo worth it. I did it a few years back and that gas line was the worst part, but you will love it.
I really can't wait to see the finished product!
OMG I think I just broke out in hives.
Wowza! That is some major demolition going down! I can't wait to see the finished product!!!
wow! can't wait to see the "after" pics! and am totally jealous about the gas line... electric drives me crazy!
Wow!! Now that is a major undertaking. But, every exciting. I cannot wait to see what you are going to do with that kitchen. I can only imagine it will be FABULOUS!
Wow. I am speechless. "Speechlessly" excited for you? We have some redecorating we are doing...but nothing like your redo! Good luck!
oh man!! lucky girl!!! i can't wait to see the progress! sometimes there is such a thing as "good dust"
YAY a gas line!! i too had electric in the first house we purchased and it was a pain in the ---. i was over the moon when we purchased our second home and it had a gas range. oh how i love to cook!!!
I am so jealous!!! Our remodeling is so small scale, I would love to knock down walls. Enjoy it!
love it...can't wait to see you!
Wow. Can't wait to see the finished product. Hope it doesn't take too long!
My goodness - hope you are still this calm further into the reno. Can't wait to see the final look.
Oh wow! How long do you expect this to take? When I had my kitchen done (after years of saving up!) I couldn't face living with the dust, so we went on holiday and let the guys get on with it! I'm very curious to see your 'before and after' shots in the future!
oooh! FUN! FUN! I'm about to join you my friend!- only building from the ground up!
Have a happy sledge-hammering day!
Congrats! I want a new kitchen too! I will have to settle admiring yours!! XO Miss you.
Any survival tips are greatly appreciated!
Are you LIVING in this house??
wow, you are one cool mom!
is it sad that renos get my heart racing? this is like my mommy crack! can't wait for 'afters'.
How perfect was the timing on Meg's "kitchen remodel" post?
So... lots of Chick Fil A right now?
HOW FUN. oh my goodness. the joy you will have when it is complete. love products with a dramatic change.
hang in there. i know the weather is a little crazy.
Oh how exciting!!! I love living through others remodels :) SO MUCH FUN! I can't wait to see the progress!
i LOVE that picture of her drawing on the wall!!
Oh my gosh ~ good luck!
ooo! I'm a little jealous! I've wanted a kitchen makeover since we moved here two and a half years ago!


When an appalling and seemingly inexplicable murder shattered the peace of a quiet English suburban street it revealed the extent to which organised crime has now seeped into our lives, often without our knowledge. In his groundbreaking book Misha Glenny takes us on a journey through the new world of international organised crime, from gun runners in Ukraine to money launderers in Dubai, by way of drug syndicates in Canada and cyber criminals in Brazil. During his investigation into the dark side he spoke to countless gangsters, policemen and victims of organised crime, while also exploring the ferocious consumer demands for drugs, trafficked women, illegal labour and arms across five continents. This constantly riveting account unveils the nature of crime in today's world but it also offers profound insights into the pitfalls of globalisation where the rules dividing the legal from the illegal are often far from clear.


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Life is Cheap as Far As Thanos is Concerned: A look at the Wave Attack in Infinity War
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By Clave Jones On May 14, 2018 Last updated Nov 17, 2018
One of the many action sequences of Avengers: Infinity War was the siege on Wakanda. Thanos–on his quest for the Infinity stones–tracks Vision to Wakanda in order to extract the Soul Stone from his forehead. He sends his Black Order–plus a seemingly unending number of alien servants called Outriders–to take Wakanda, and their formidable defense in the Dora Milaje and a force dome that covered the capital. Plus, the Avengers were present to hold the line.
Confronted with the force dome, the Black Order released the Outriders, hoping to overwhelm it through sheer ferocity and numbers. Movie goers watched the Outriders sprint toward the Avengers and Dora Milaje, War Machine's gatling fire sizzling past them. The Outriders snarled their teeth as they continued to charge, undeterred that many of the numbers were being gunned down.
The Outriders wouldn't kill anyone—that wasn't the point. Their ferocity was meant to force the Avengers to scatter and break formation for a moment, buying the Black Order a brief second to sneak behind enemy lines.
A single Outrider's glorious charge might last only three seconds before a Dora Milaje blade would spin around and slice into its side. But in doing so, their attention is drawn toward a single foe, as hordes and hordes more battered their lines. As hundreds of Outriders lay dead in the savannah grass of Wakanda, the Black Order grinds forward a few yards, while many more Outriders line up behind, just to do what others just did.
To Thanos, life is cheap. Yet he wasn't the first one to utilize this tactic. It's called a Human Wave Attack and it's been utilized throughout history. It's an offensive infantry tactic that bombards an enemy's front lines with seemingly never-ending ground troops who rush in wholly unprotected.
A human wave attack is meant to quickly advance as many troops as possible into close range, hoping that the shock from a large swarm of attackers engaged in melee combat will force the enemy to fall back into disarray. The organization and the training of the attacking wave is irrelevant–they're cannon fodder. It simply requires either courage or coercion for the attackers to advance into enemy fire.
If attackers are matched against modern weaponry such as automatic firearms, artillery, or air support, a human wave attack is an extremely dangerous and costly tactic. But what does Thanos care? His plan was to snap 50% of them out of existence anyway.
Remember, human wave attacks aren't just something out of comic books, they're a significant part of human history. Farmers armed seemingly with not much more than pitchforks rushing at British infantry as they hastily reloaded their muskets during the American Revolutionary War comes to mind, as does the Boxer Rebellion.
In fact, Thanos' utter disregard for life could have been lifted straight from the history books, not from a comic panel. The last skirmish of World War I–Armistice Day–saw 10,000 casualties. Despite a cease fire scheduled at 11am on November 11th, 1918, General John Pershing was still ordering his American troops to advance, even as the people of Paris, London, and New York were celebrating the end of the war.
The Americans took heavy casualties, all because Pershing believed that the Germans had to be severely defeated at a military level to effectively 'teach them a lesson.' Private Henry Gunter was killed at 10:59, one minute before the scheduled end of the war, having been ordered to advance and take a German machine gun post. History tells us that the Germans – who, like Pershing, knew they were literally minutes away from a ceasefire – tried to signal the Americans to stop attacking. But when it became obvious that this had failed, they fired on their attackers and Gunter was killed.
When life is seen as cheap, one can only be left with regret. Pity the poor Outriders, genetically bred by Thanos to serve merely as compliant cannon fodder. Pity the poor Avengers, forced into a fight they didn't ask for. And pity poor Thanos, so twisted in his morality that none of the life in the universe means anything to him, right down to using the the tactic of throwing lives at the Avengers in a ferocious wave.
Eh, but it's just a comic book movie, even if it is a record-setting one. And you may be rolling your eyes at the mention of tactics in a Human Wave Attack—and for good reason. After all, this article began with a description of running headlong and recklessly into enemy fire. But it does have identifiable tactics, though clumsy and improvisational ones.
A human wave attack encourages attackers to push, to try and mob control points, and to overwhelm the enemy. It's a sort of follow-the-leader mentality like you find in "Capture the Flag" style FPS games. The objective, to paraphrase Stalin, is to make the enemy choke on your dead.
But dismissing this mad rush as unstrategic misunderstands its nuance. These wave attacks operate by overwhelming the enemy, both literally and visually. When presented with multiple targets, defenders tend to focus fire on the most obvious few, letting the majority get closer.
These loud, obvious frontal attacks also make flanking moves extremely effective. Thankfully, the Avengers recognized this when the Outriders began to circle the dome. Rather than allow themselves to be flanked, the Avengers ordered a narrow opening in the dome, thereby creating a chokepoint. Although it allowed the Outriders to pour into the dome, it also contained and grouped them, allowing the Avengers to unleash AoE attacks.
Human wave warfare tactics work on collective effort rather than individual heroism. Killing the enemy wasn't the goal of an individual Outrider, it was to soak up fire. And every Outrider helped with that, even if just for a few seconds. Apart from the occasional spectacular moment rendered as glorious action sequences for the big screen, it's a high-casualty grind—one where small sacrifices add up to victory. There is little heroism to be found in human wave attacks because a soldier's role is always a brief one.
Which, in the cruel warfare of Thanos, is exactly as it should be.
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As its name suggests, the disposeAndNil() function provides a convenient way to dispose of an object and nil-ing the reference to it.
It uses the IDisposable pattern on .NET and Island and uses Closeable on Java. The function just sets the variable to nil on Cocoa as losing the reference there cleans up the class.


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Friedrichswalde ist ein Wohnplatz im Ortsteil Glöwen der Gemeinde Plattenburg im Landkreis Prignitz in Brandenburg.

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Der Ort liegt zwei Kilometer südlich von Glöwen und sieben Kilometer nördlich von Havelberg. Die Nachbarorte sind Glöwen im Norden, Bendelin im Nordosten, Rotes Forsthaus und Damelack im Osten, Waldgehöft und Julianenhof im Südosten, Chausseehaus im Süden, Toppel, Dahlen und Nitzow im Südwesten, Quitzöbel im Westen sowie Roddan im Nordwesten.

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China's top diplomat rejects West's 'immoral' Huawei concerns
FILE PHOTO: The Huawei brand logo is seen above a store of the telecoms equipment maker in Beijing
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - China opposes politically motivated attempts to discredit its telecoms equipment makers on security grounds, the Chinese government's top diplomat, State Councillor Wang Yi, said on Monday.
"What we oppose are groundless accusations for political purposes and attempts to bring down a foreign company," Wang told a news conference in Brussels in a veiled reference to Huawei Technologies Co.
"We think such practices are abnormal, immoral and have no support," he said after a meeting with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.
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Home » Blogs » Blogs, Bryhana, Hip Hop News, What's New » Jay-Z And Eminem Tied For Third Most Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 Hits EVER
Jay-Z And Eminem Tied For Third Most Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 Hits EVER
Posted on May 15, 2019 at 12:54 pm
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Two of the greatest to ever do it are TIED for a huge accomplishment!
Eminem has now caught up to Jay-Z, to tie for the spot of third most Billboard Hot 100 top 10 RAP hits ever. Thats a definitely a mouthful! Logic's new single off of his album Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, features Em and entered the Billboard chart at No. 5 this week. That's what bumped the Eminem's number of top 10 hits to a total of 21; of course now making him tied with Jay.
Which rappers have the number 1 and 2 spots you ask? Lil Wayne comes in at a pretty close second, with 24 and the number one spot is none other than Drizzy himself with a whopping 33! Crazy enough, just a little over a year ago Drake was behind Jay. That is until he dropped his album Scorpion. Two tracks off the album, "Diplomatic Immunity" and "God's Plan" both debuted in the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and brought his total to 22.
We should also probably note that today is also a big day for TWO reason for Eminem. Besides getting his accolades up, today is the ten year anniversary of his 2009 album, Relapse. The album features the singles "Crack a Bottle", "We Made You", "3 a.m.", and "Beautiful". It has sold over 3 million copies in the U.S. and is certified double platinum!


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Rio Grande is een stad en gemeente in de Braziliaanse staat Rio Grande do Sul. De stad telt 209.378 inwoners (2017) en werd gesticht in 1737 (en kreeg stadsrechten in 1835), waarmee het de oudste stad van de staat is. Rio Grande ligt tussen twee grote lagunes (Lagoa dos Patos en de Merínlagune) in, aan de oostkant is zij begrensd door de Atlantische Oceaan.

De stad is een van de rijkste steden van Rio Grande do Sul, dankzij haar lange industriële historie. Rio Grande heeft de op een na drukste haven van Brazilië en een grote olieraffinaderij van Petroleo Ipiranga.

Aangrenzende gemeenten
De gemeente grenst aan Arroio Grande, Capão do Leão, Pelotas en Santa Vitória do Palmar. En over water (Lagoa dos Patos) met São José do Norte.

Verkeer en vervoer
De plaats ligt aan de wegen BR-392, BR-471 en RS-734.

Geboren in Rio Grande

 Antônio de Sousa Neto (1801-1866), politicus en militair
 Antônio Rodrigues Filho, "Neca" (1950), voetballer
 Heitor Pereira (1960), componist en muzikant van voornamelijk filmmuziek

Galerij

Externe link
  Website van de gemeente Rio Grande

Stad in Brazilië
Gemeente in Rio Grande do Sul