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Phase 1: Site Preparation and Foundation
With the planning complete and a basic design and quotation in hand, it was time to continue with the actual construction. The first step was to arrange for a new driveway to be built, along with a large, level pad on which the shop slab would be poured. After some preliminary meetings in May, the driveway construction finally began in early June.
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Phase 1: Site Prep and Foundation
Phase 2: Framing
Phase 3: Finish Work
Phase 4: Shop Setup
The driveway needed to be fairly rugged to prevent softness and damage during mud season, particularly given the chance that large, heavy trucks bearing boats might be traveling over the drive. Therefore, the excavation contractor specified a base of heavy 6" gravel, followed by additional 3" gravel and finished off with 2" gravel as the top surface. Numerous loads of the coarse gravel made up the pad beneath the shop location, which needed to be raised as much as 3-4' in some areas.
In addition, we had to do some resculpting of the landscape to allow for better drainage of water past the site, so the contractor took care of all this as well. After several days' work, the construction was complete, allowing me the pleasure of driving into the property for the first time since we gained ownership back in March.
The new pad where the shop would eventually go looked nice, and began to give a sense of the location and the size of the building. Of course, the landscape looked somewhat disturbed at this point (and this would get worse before it got better), but with some vision one could see how things might end up when all was said and done.
With the pad and driveway complete, the next step was to arrange for some of the infrastructure required--electricity, septic, and water. Shortly after completion of the driveway, the well drillers arrived to drill a new well, up closer to the house site, which was located further into the property from the shop.
We decided to go with buried electrical service, and after a number of more or less frustrating calls and meetings with the local power company, managed to obtain the proper quotes for primary 200 amp service, customer-owned meter and pedestal, and secondary wiring from there. Shortly thereafter, the excavation contractor returned to trench for the buried power, water, and septic system, and before long the property looked as if huge moles had been left to run free.
After nearly a week of work, all the trenches were dug, the conduit, cable, and piping run, the leach field and septic system installed, and the trenches backfilled, returning the land to some semblance of its former self. After a couple weeks and some false promises, the power company hooked up the electrical service on September 28, completing one of the more frustrating processes.
Meanwhile, work continued on the slab. One day, the foundation crew arrived to locate and build the forms for the slab, after which I could locate such things as the plumbing for the bathroom and the conduit carrying the potable water lines. My builder, Bob Emery, installed styrofoam insulation on the ground, then installed a wire mat to which the heating contractor could attach the plastic tubing needed for the radiant floor heating. Finally, Bob installed the rebar above the newly-installed tubing, and a conduit that would eventually carry electrical wires out to the center of the shop where the table saw would be.
Shortly thereafter, the day arrived when the slab would be poured. Beginning bright and early in the morning, a stead stream of concrete trucks arrived--six in all--and dispensed their cargo into the forms, where a large crew spread, leveled, and smoothed the product. Several days later, the same crew formed up the curbing, and poured the curb, completing the shop foundation.
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The Entertainer accelerates store roll-out as profits and sales surge
By Matthew Chapman2015-09-09T12:20:00+01:00
The Entertainer is upping its store expansion plans after full-year sales and profits rocketed in a gangbuster year for toys.
The Entertainer plans 18 new stores for current year
Profits surged 27% last year
Like-for-likes up 13.7% and total sales increased 20.8%
The toys retailer plans to open 18 new stores this financial year and "significantly more" in the following year after a strong year of trading.
Pre-tax profits surged 27% to £7.6m for the year ending January 31 as total sales increased 20.8% to £129.1m. During the same period, like-for-likes increased 13.7%.
The Entertainer's profits were initially £845,000 higher, but the company donates a tenth of pre-tax profits to charity.
Founder and managing director Gary Grant said the surge in sales was helped by major toy launches across the year.
Sales of Lego doubled for the three months after the launch of The Lego Movie, while the loom-band craze resulted in an "absolutely staggering" jump in footfall, and sales of products related to the Frozen movie soared.
The company has upped its planned store expansion from 15 to 18 outlets after the strong trading, and Grant said expansion for the following year will depend on how it trades this Christmas.
He was upbeat about the peak trading season and beyond, which he expected will be boosted by Star Wars-themed toys following the release of the latest film in the franchise on December 18.
The Entertainer has ambitious expansion plans as it seeks to fill the gap left by the closure of Woolworths in 2009.
Grant said: "There are many communities that don't have a toy retailer – when Woolworths closed its doors, 800 toy departments closed their doors. We do not even have a seventh of the store estate of Woolworths currently."
The Entertainer has moved its main distribution centre to Banbury as it seeks to put in place an infrastructure over the next five years that will support its expansion. The new warehouse has 2.5 times the capacity of its previous warehouse.
The Entertainer currently has 107 stores in the UK.
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Ю́рковица () — холм в Подольском районе Киева на Подоле. Известная сегодня под этим именем эта местность, по мнению В. Б. Антоновича и П. П. Толочко, была третьим образовывающим Киев пунктом —  Хоривицей.

Юрковица, Юрковка — название горы, яра и ручья (который существовал ещё в XVIII столетии). Гора граничит с горой Щекавица, Татаркой, Кирилловскими высотами. Разделена Юрковицким валом в направлении с запада на восток.

Юрковицкий ручей (Сверховица, Серховица) в древние времена впадал в Почайну. Ныне по его руслу расположены улицы Нижнеюрковская и Юрковская.

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В конце XIX века раскопки на Юрковице проводились археологом В. В. Хвойкой и Н. Ф. Биляшевским. В 60-е годы XX века Е. В. Максимовым и В. Д. Дяденко были обнаружены следы человеческой деятельности и поселения каменного века (Кирилловская стоянка), чернолесской культуры, зарубинецкой культуры и древнерусского периода.

Самые древние находки на Юрковице указывают, что гора входила в район промыслов (охоты, рыболовства) жителей кирилловского поселения позднего палеолита.

В течение шести (до конца IV столетия) веков на территории современного Киева существовали поселения зарубинецкой культуры. На Юрковице находилось одно из них. Оно имело укрепление (вал), которое использовалось в более поздние времена.

На сегодня нет данных про заселение Юрковицы ранее IX века, но ряд исследователей с конца позапрошлого века отождествляют Юрковицу с летописной Хоривицей. Городище на Юрковице (Лысой или Плоской горе) господствовало над поймой Почайны. C городищем на Юрковице связан могильник (известен в историографии как Некрополь II), который тянется вдоль подножия Кирилловских высот. Обряд погребения идентичен могильнику на Старокиевской горе. Поселение Х —начала XI века на Юрковице (Лысой горе) являлось форпостом, защищавшим Киев с северо-запада.

После Батыевого нашествия эта местность упоминается в связи с Иорданским Николаевским женским монастырём, храмовые строения которого были уничтожены в 1935 году.

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Hello! I'm Dr Christopher Monk, though Chris is just fine.
I work as a historical consultant and educator specialising in the Middle Ages. I work with talented individuals and teams in the creative industries and heritage sector, helping them to develop and promote their projects and ideas. I also maintain an international profile as an independent scholar, publishing across a variety of disciplines in medieval studies.
What does a historical consultant actually do? Perhaps the easiest way to answer that is to explain what clients have asked me to do.
I've been working with Rochester Cathedral since 2013 as a medieval manuscript specialist for its Heritage Lottery Funded project 'Hidden Treasures, Fresh Expressions', focusing on a permanent exhibition of Textus Roffensis, the cathedral's most important medieval book, a manuscript which has been recognised as Britainls greatest hidden treasure.
As well as transcribing and translating, to date, about a third of its more than 450 pages, I've collaborated with a team in producing multi-media outputs for the renovated exhibition space in the cathedral's crypt, which opened in 2016.
Textus Roffensis (Rochester, c.1123), close-up of folio 119r. Britain's greatest hidden treasure is being brought into the light. Image: Image by Christopher Monk ©2014 and by permission of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester Cathedral.
It requires a comprehensive skills set and great teamwork to make a medieval book with hundreds of pages of 12th-century script accessible to the general public. My job was to help the team understand what was actually in the codex, identifying and bringing to life its cultural and historical 'hotspots'. The result of our endeavours was an interactive, 'turn-the-pages', virtual Textus Roffensis and an educational film about the manuscript's scribe.
"Our company, Fuzzy Duck Creative, was commissioned to create a number of touch-screen interactives explaining Textus Roffensis for Rochester Cathedral. Chris was not only a modest but extremely thorough expert on how best to interpret this text for a modern and lay audience, but also recorded a friendly but authoritative voiceover for the interactives that exactly met the client's brief."
Phil Hewitt, Director, Fuzzy Duck Creative Ltd.
Working on the 'Hidden Treasures' project has led to other work at Rochester Cathedral. I was commissioned to create an online guide to reading the Old English script of Textus Roffensis. And I've been digging into the lives of Rochester's medieval monks through a study of the cathedral's thirteenth-century customs book, known as Custumale Roffense.
Rochester's thirteenth-century customs book, Custumale Roffense (folios 1v-2r), tells us about the fascinating lives of the Rochester monks and their servants. By permission of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester Cathedral.
One of my most enjoyable commissions for Rochester Cathedral was delivering a series of workshops for the cathedral's volunteers and library staff, followed by public lectures in the cathedral's nave.
"Christopher Monk was an excellent speaker, down to earth and approachable. He gave the great impression that he wanted to share his knowledge with us all. Great!"
"The use of animated graphics to highlight individual words and sentences, and to see their modern English equivalent, made it easy to follow Dr Monk's exposition."
"The sessions did meet my expectations; I've been fortunate enough to see Chris speak before so I know he is very good."
"Have more visits from Dr Monk."
"I do hope Dr Monk can be persuaded to come back often, and perhaps show us how to make pottage next time!"
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Salix Games, headed by Bafta Breakthrough Brit winner Jessica Saunders, asked me to work as a historical researcher for its debut video game, Du Lac and Fey: Dance of Death. This meant providing well researched historical, art historical, and archaeological points of reference from which the artists could work in producing some of their fabulous artwork. The game is due for release in the summer of 2018.
"My Company Salix Games is making a video game that blends fantasy elements around real world events. We hired Chris to advise us on the early medieval period, so that we could establish a grounding for Arthurian Legend in 5th century Wales. This ranged from what these characters would have potentially worn to translations of spells into Old English.
Not only is he quick, but Christopher's research is extensive and always goes above and beyond what we expect, often providing great ideas for us to enhance our characters and story by weaving in a layer of historical authenticity. To top it off he is an absolute joy to work with!"
Jessica Saunders, Director at Salix Games
The Salariya Book Company, an independent publisher of children's literature, asked me to work as historical consultant for one of its books in its flagship multi-million selling series,You Wouldn't Want To. This was a great role for me, not only because I was able to advise on the historical accuracy of both the artwork and text of the book, but also because this kind of book fundamentally represents what my consultancy work stands for: educating whilst entertaining.
"We were very pleased with the consultation services provided by Chris for our children's book, You Wouldn't Want To Be An Anglo-Saxon Peasant. He provided us with thorough, helpful suggestions about how we could improve the historical accuracy of our text and illustrations, whilst always keeping in mind the target audience and the aims of the project. Throughout the process, he remained enthusiastic, punctual, and highly capable."
Nick Price, Salariya Book Company
In summary, I really enjoy helping creative people create and making the inaccessible accessible. So if you have a story to tell based in the Middle Ages, I will help you tell it with confidence, knowing that it's grounded in historical research.
If you or a team you're heading need a historical advisor, then get in touch and we can talk about your requirements. It doesn't matter what it is, I will either know the answer or know where to find it.
If you need someone to provide the nitty-gritty research for a public history or heritage project, then that's just up my street.
The following are examples of subjects that I have a specialist interest in: social and religious customs; family life; marriage and sexual mores; laws and crime; the Church and monastic culture; pagan beliefs; manuscripts; art and sculpture; dress and grooming; and beliefs about monsters.
I have particular expertise in the culture of early medieval England (c.500-c.1100), though I am always happy to research any facet of medieval life outside this period.
You can find further information on my current and recent projects here.
I provide professional proofreading and editing services. I'm also available for talks and presentations to historical societies and other special interest groups. So please contact me if you wish to talk over your ideas or discuss your needs.
"Chris took on work at short notice in a development editor capacity for an academic book project that acquired a new chapter at a late juncture. He provided a sensitive mix of creative input and meticulous editing, ensuring that the project kept moving at a critical stage."
Anna Henderson, co-editor with Gale Owen-Crocker of Making Sense of the Bayeux Tapestry: Readings and Reworkings (Manchester University Press, 2016) and formerly Editorial Director, University of Exeter Press
My PhD was completed at the University of Manchester (2012), where for four years I also lectured on medieval literature, language, art, and culture. I studied under the renowned scholar and dress and textiles expert, Professor Gale Owen-Crocker, whose interdisciplinary approach to understanding the medieval world has influenced my own research and teaching.
I'm the author of the eBook Sodom in the Anglo-Saxon Imagination (Rounded Globe, 2017), an in depth study of how the biblical story of Lot and the Sodomites is navigated across a range of texts from early medieval England, from poetry through personal letters to penitentials; in biblical works by well known writers of the period such as Bede, Alcuin and Ælfric; and in the artwork of the unique Illustrated Hexateuch manuscript.
My study of monsters in early medieval English manuscripts, including the famous Beowulf manuscript, was published in the journal Anglo-Saxon England (vol. 41, 2012), and I recently wrote a chapter on the naked figures in the borders of the Bayeux Tapestry for a collection of Bayeux Tapestry essays published by Manchester University Press.
Other areas of published research include marriage in early medieval England and the representation of textile items in early medieval English art. I have recently completed two chapters for a forthcoming book about the senses and emotions as they are perceived in the material world and culture of early medieval England. My contributions focus on joy (with particular reference to how it is represented in the Harley Psalter) and the sensuality of sex.


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Amazon Buys Podcast Startup Wondery
Amazon announced on Wednesday that it is acquiring podcast startup Wondery, marking another major push into audio content for the company.
Amazon began offering podcasts on its Amazon Music Service in September 2020. Amazon's purchase of Wondery, which was the largest independent podcast company on the market, could help it better compete with rivals such as Spotify and Apple in the increasingly lucrative podcast market. Amazon already owns Audible, a podcast and audiobook service that also boasts its own original content
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"Amazon Music launched podcasts in September 2020, and together with Wondery, we hope to accelerate the growth and evolution of podcasts by bringing creators, hosts, and immersive experiences to even more listeners across the globe," Amazon said in a statement.
Wondery, which was founded in 2016, offers a variety of popular podcasts, including "Dirty John," a true crime story about an abusive man, "Dr. Death," which centers on medical malpractice, and "Joe Exotic: Tiger King," among others. A handful of Wondery's podcasts, including the aforementioned "Dirty John" and "Dr. Death," have or are being adapted into television shows.
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It is unclear how the deal could impact future film and television adaptations of Wondery's podcasts. An Amazon spokesperson declined comment. A Wondery spokesperson did not return a request for comment.
Amazon noted in its announcement of the deal that Wondery's podcasts would continue to be available on platforms outside of Amazon Music.
"When the deal closes, nothing will change for listeners, and they'll continue to be able to access Wondery podcasts through a variety of providers," Amazon said in a statement.
Earlier in 2020, Wondery CEO Chief Executive Hernan Lopez was charged with wire fraud and money laundering alongside two former FOX TV executives. The Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday that Lopez will leave Wondery after the deal closes and the company's Chief Operating Officer Jen Sargent will take over the leadership team.
The Wall Street Journal reported on December 2 that Amazon was in talks to buy the podcast maker. The talks valued Wondery at over $300 million, according to the publication. The company was valued at $100 million in July 2019.
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The Spirits Of Digital Advertising
by Liz Rowley // Wednesday, June 11th, 2014 – 12:51 pm
The liquor industry's self-regulated restrictions, such as its Global Marketing Code, seek to reduce underage exposure to alcohol advertisements. This restriction poses challenges for alcohol brands that want to promote on digital messaging platforms like social media.
"Regulations vary greatly across the globe," said Jason Loehr, VP and director of global media and digital marketing for Brown-Forman, whose brands include Jack Daniel's and Southern Comfort. "The most important consideration anywhere is that we are engaging with consumers who are of legal drinking age. This is especially true in social media where a two-way dialogue occurs with the friends and followers of our brands."
These regulations limit the extent to which the alcohol industry participates in digital marketing and advertising activities. For instance, a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) study released in March examining the alcohol industry's advertising practices reported that of the 14 companies (representing 1,679 alcohol brands) it examined, all "stated that they do not use third-party advertising networks for online behavioral advertising on their websites or sponsored pages on social media."
In many cases, alcohol companies have to rely on self-reported data, using mechanisms such as age gates designed to bar underage users from accessing alcohol-related content online. When a consumer enters a birth date on a branded webpage, indicating legal drinking age, the site cookies the user's browser.
Even here, alcohol companies seem to impose their own restrictions. The companies in the FTC report claimed cookies "are not used for the delivery of future advertising and are not provided to unrelated third parties. The companies also report that they do not engage in further tracking of consumers who fail the age gate."
Three companies stated they use third-party age verification services to audit people who sign up for their mailing lists.
Of course, as marketing efforts spread beyond owned sites, companies have to rely on age-gating mechanisms provided by other online portals. In 2011, the FTC counted more than 250 Facebook pages and more than 100 Twitter feeds run by alcohol brands. Facebook bars underage users from visiting alcohol brand pages, according to the FTC. Nor may they view friends' likes from those pages.
Loehr said the sign-in mechanisms from Google and Facebook Connect, which require dates of birth, simplify the process of ensuring a consumer is of legal drinking age. But relying on the owners of online portals to provide these tools can be tricky. And Twitter enacted an age-gating mechanism last July that automatically sends users a direct message prompting age verification whenever the user follows a liquor, beer or wine brand. "Most of the major platforms in social have this ability, but some of the up-and-coming platforms do not," Loehr said.
Nevertheless, alcohol companies have invested steadily in digital advertising. Digital ad spend quadrupled from 2008 to 2011, accounting for 7.9% of the $3.45 billion in total advertising expenditures that year (the FTC report was released in 2014, though it cataloged spend during 2011).
"Newer media formats such as social, digital and addressable are make targeting and adherence to our Global Marketing Code easier," said Beam Suntory CMO Kevin George. Beam Suntory, which owns Jim Beam and Maker's Mark brands among others, has extended its digital efforts yearly.
"Digital has been a strong vehicle for us in the past, and it allows us to receive instant feedback from our fans," George said. "For 2014, we've added pre-roll elements, and the (30-second and 15-second) spots give us more placement flexibility. This allows us to be in more places including, YouTube, Hulu, Microsoft Video Network and NBC."
The company is also building on a 2013 video campaign around Cruzan Rum, using viewer engagement data and social media feedback to reach larger audiences. So far, 2014's campaign efforts have increased viewership from 11 million to 80 million.
"We are always trying to better understand our target so we work closely with our media partners to ensure we deliver messaging that resonates with them," George said. Beam Suntory, he added, is also this year testing addressable media via programmatic buying.
In this, Beam Suntory is not alone. "The data generated from and accessible by digital channels is very powerful in our efforts to connect with consumers based on a variety of inputs," added Brown-Forman's Loehr. "Programmatic plays a role in looking at consumer interests and efficiently working with paid ad opportunities, at scale. One of the benefits is where we have opportunities to combine data sources to help ensure that legal drinking age consumers are seeing our ads."
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By Shari Gab / August 5, 2016
Here's How to Make the Most of the Last Month of Summer
Nine bucket list items for livin' it up
You can break all the clocks you want — time stops for no man.
And so let us approach the last month of summer with heads held high. There's still time to get that tan on, time to tone up and time to charm your leading lady under the stars.
To assist, we've pulled together nine essential happenings to hit before you're tethered indoors for good, including a classic car show in the mountains, kicking your own ass into shape with pro surfers and a new glamping oasis right here in the heart of the city.
The Annual Stowe Car Show
There are a bajillion reasons we would advise heading over to Stowe. For one, a Tradewinds plane will have you there in no time and they have been known to have a Heady Topper on board from time to time. Additionally, ski resorts are some of the most ultimate adventure destinations in the summer, on which note this locale delivers in full. But in our humble opinion, the Stowe annual car show takes the cake. In its 59th year, over 800 antique and classic cars will be on display with the thrilling edition of race cars new just this year. (Aug.12, 13 & 14)
The XPT Training Experience with Laird Hamilton
More than training, this my dear friend, will be an experience. But also, you're gonna feel the good hurt in the morning for certain. Hosted by Surf Lodge, Laird Hamilton, Brian Mackenzie and Gabby Reece are bringing their renowned program to the east coast for the very first time. Good for those looking to advance their skills in breathing, moving (in the pool, the gym and outdoors) and recovery technique. Also, it's definitely going to be crazy fun. An intimate workshop means spaces are mighty limited, so hop to it. (Aug. 7 – 9)
Summer Streets
In short, Summer Streets … they're just fantastic. If you've yet to partake in one, it's your year. From 7 A.M. to 1 P.M. and spanning from Central Park down to Brooklyn Bridge, the street is blocked from auto traffic and runners, cyclists, skaters of all variety and more rule the roost. There's a zip line, a freakin' waterslide and plenty of workout classes, vendors and rest stops along the way. Kid and pet friendly. (Aug. 6, 13 & 20)
Zombie Survival Camp
Whiting, New Jersey
Adult summer camps are having a moment. And there's a reason for that. They're completely joyous. Not a stitch has changed since we were kids. All the archery, kayaking and Capture the Flag shenanigans are still righteously fun. This one is, eh, different. Prep for a real life Walking Dead scenario by learning how to create shelter, use a crossbow, shoot a gun and, well, die. A real no brainer. Hardy har. (Aug. 20)
The Road to Shindig with Billy Reid
A celebration of art, music and style in cahoots with Blackberry Farm Brewery. Head to the West Village and toast their new brew exclusively made for the event with Billy himself. (Aug. 11)
Picnic in the Park Made Easy
Central Park, Summerstage, outdoors movies — they're begging for a picnic. And because in Manhattan, for all of its inconveniences, there are many a restaurants that want to make the art of picnic very convenient for you. Some of our favorite joints offering to-go packages: 1 Hotel Central Park, Lowes Regency NY, Lotte Palace, Perfect Picnic and Park South Hotel.
The Full Moon Fest
Governor's Island, New York
The music festival for people who don't like music festivals. The Full Moon Fest delivers all the best parts about outdoor concerts — the lineup, the atmosphere, the view, the location — and cuts out all of the rest. It's a boutique approach to fests, large enough to garner good acts, but not so big that you're going to be swarmed with these people. (Aug. 20 – 21)
Battle of the Burger
Twenty of the city's best go head-to-head. Save your appetite and help 'em decide who deserves the crown. Burgers, booze, Budweiser and live music. Summer in a nutshell. (Aug. 18)
W Hotel Glamping
There's a camping oasis right here in the concrete jungle. W Hotels has partnered with design team Laurel & Wolf to compose the Extreme Wow Suite & Terrace. It's a 12-foot outdoor yurt nestled amidst lanterns, rattan hanging chairs and a fire pit. Enjoy all the hotel perks, but imagine you're "roughing" it while sipping Veuve Clicquot.
What the Hell Is Hot Girl Summer?
Energy Bars, Ranked by the Healthiness of Their Ingredients
Some of Nike's Best Sneakers Are Almost Half Off
Highballs Are the Only Great Summer Whisky Cocktails
The 8 Pairs of Shoes Our Staff Won't Travel Without
Inside the Greatest Vintage Car Cult on the Internet
Backcountry's Cutting Prices in Half (and More) on Some Badass Knives
The 7 Best Canned Cocktails for Summer
NYC's Secret-est Garden Is Throwing a Decadent Summer Bash
The Whiskey Rebellion Trail Is the Best American History Class, Uh, Ever


Bernie Ecclestone to bid for Saab | What Car?
Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone will make a bid for Saab, the Swedish car maker being offloaded by General Motors.
Ecclestone confirmed his plans last night, as potential bidders finalised their offers before GM's board meets today to decide Saab's future.
Ecclestone's bid is made in partnership with Genii Capital, a private investment firm.
The group also said that it believed Saab had 'tremendous brand value' as well as an innovative image, and hoped that it would pioneer developments in energy efficiency and in-car communications platforms.
Genii Capital last month agreed to buy a majority stake in Renault's Formula One team.


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Home / Divertissement / Russian Federation really wants to convince you the Salisbury spies are gay lovers
DS TV SENSATION The Novichok attack suspects have been interviewed by Russia Today
The UK named two Russian suspects, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, as suspects in a plot to poison former the Russian officer and his daughter at their home in Salisbury, England.
RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan conducted the interview with the men, identified as Alexander Petrov and Russlan Boshirov.
"Our friends had been suggesting for a long time that we visit this wonderful town", the man known as Petrov told the RT TV network.
The suspected assassins' alibi of tourists visiting the "123 metre spire" of the town's cathedral also sparked incredulity.
Wearing sweaters and appearing uncomfortable with the questioning, the two men claimed that they travelled as tourists to Salisbury and explained that they made two trips to Salisbury after bad weather hampered their first day trip.
London renewed its assertions that the men were officers of the Russian military intelligence service GRU and lied about their involvement in the poisoning of one-time Russian agent Sergei Skripal.
Simonyan said the two men contacted her directly and that she had not looked for them personally.
The Center for European Reform tweeted that its director of foreign policy, Ian Bond, told the BBC that the interview could have meant to "cause confusion, put smoke out there to obscure the battlefield".
Russian Federation has denied any involved in the Britain attack. So, if we had anything suspicious, they would definitely have questions.
The full unedited interview still hasn't been published online but the RT anchors addressed the obvious question of why these two men would approach RT, a cable network whose audience is primarily people outside of Russian Federation.
But their unlikely story has branded "lies and blatant fabrication" by Theresa May after they appeared on the Kremlin-funded RT channel yesterday to proclaim their innocence and deny they were agents of the GRU.
Asked about apparent inconsistencies in the two men's story, 44-year-old Muscovite Ivan Raspopov joked: "You know, Russian tourists often become rather odd in the West". As Oleg Kashin, a Russian journalist, noted: "It's become a simple test of loyalty: in order to protect these guys, you need to make overwrought jokes about gays".
British officials decried the interview, calling it "risible". He said they were innocent and "nothing criminal" about them, apparently contradicting accusations by Scotland Yard that they were agents of Russian military intelligence.
Detectives believe it is likely the two suspects, thought to be aged around 40, travelled under aliases and that Petrov and Boshirov are not their real names.
"What a bold move, to rely on Sunday trains to get themselves to Salisbury and back and then to Heathrow", one Twitter user noted, in reference to Britain's unreliable weekend rail services. So they returned the next day. And the exotic poison is also blamed for the death of Dawn Sturgess, 44, in July, after her boyfriend, Charlie Rowley, gave her what turned out to be a bottle of bogus perfume that contained the nerve agent. The men denied having any poison or the counterfeit Nina Ricci perfume bottle that United Kingdom police say was used to transport the nerve agent.
Whatever revelations may pop up, the United Kingdom will stick to its vague version of the Salisbury poisoning incident, analysts said on the heels of an exclusive RT interview with Britain's Skripal case suspects.


Have a conflict? Try these simple tips to resolve the issue. For more information on conflict resolution or for the assistance of a professional mediator, please call 541-344-5366.
If there is no threat of violence, speak directly to the person with whom you have the problem. Direct conversation is much more effective than sending a letter, banging on the wall, throwing a rock or complaining to everyone else.
Plan to talk to the other person at a good time for both of you and allow enough time discuss the issue. For example, don't begin the discussion as the other person is leaving for work, after you have had a terrible day, or right before you have to make dinner. Check in with the other person about when would be a good time for them.
Think out what you want to say before your meeting. State clearly what the problem is and how it affects you. Talk in a quiet place where you can both be comfortable and undisturbed. Use "I" statements, i.e. "I am frightened and alarmed when I wake-up to loud noises in the middle of the night."
Respect means different things to different people. However, no one wants to be blamed or called names. Upsetting the other person only makes it more difficult to be heard. Do not blame the other person or begin the conversation with what you think should be done.
Do not interpret the other person's behavior: "You are blocking my driveway on purpose just to make me mad!" Instead, give information about your own feelings: "When your car blocks my driveway, I get angry because I can't get to work on time."
Give the other person a chance to tell his or her side of the conflict completely. Relax and listen; try to learn how the other person feels. Although you may not agree with what is being said, tell the other person that you hear him or her and are glad that you are discussing the problem together. Try to repeat back to the person key points that you hear them make, so they are aware you are hearing.
Once you've established a mutual desire to work together, get all of the issues and feelings out into the open. Don't leave out the part that seems "too difficult" to discuss or "too insignificant" to be important. Your solution will work best if all issues are discussed thoroughly. Often the dispute is due to misunderstanding the details.
Two or more people cooperating are much more effective than one person telling another to change. Be specific: "I will turn my music off at midnight" is better than a vague, "I won't play loud music anymore." Then write down your agreement and what each person will do. Cooperative communication validates each person's view of reality.
Agree to check with each other at specific times to make sure that the agreement is still working. Set dates and time line before you part.


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import datetime
import json
import locale
import logging
import logging.config
import os
import string
import sys

import pause
import twitter
from pymongo import MongoClient

from almanacbot import config
from almanacbot import constants

DB_EPHEMERIS = 'ephemeris'
DB_FILES = 'files'

conf = None
twitter_api = None
mongo_client = None
mongo_db = None

def _setup_logging(
        path='logging.json',
        log_level=logging.DEBUG,
        env_key='LOG_CFG'
):
    env_path = os.getenv(env_key, None)
    if env_path:
        path = env_path
    if os.path.exists(path):
        with open(path, 'rt') as f:
            log_conf = json.load(f)
        logging.config.dictConfig(log_conf)
    else:
        logging.basicConfig(level=log_level)

def _setup_twitter():
    logging.info("Setting up Twitter API client...")

    global twitter_api
    twitter_api = twitter.Api(
        consumer_key=conf.config["twitter"]["consumer_key"],
        consumer_secret=conf.config["twitter"]["consumer_secret"],
        access_token_key=conf.config["twitter"]["access_token_key"],
        access_token_secret=conf.config["twitter"]["access_token_secret"])

    logging.info("Verifying Twitter API client credentials...")
    twitter_api.VerifyCredentials()
    logging.info("Twitter API client credentials verified.")

    logging.info("Twitter API client set up.")

def _setup_mongo():
    logging.info("Setting up MongoDB client...")

    global mongo_client
    global mongo_db
    mongo_client = MongoClient(conf.config["mongodb"]["uri"])

    logging.info("Verifying MongoDB client credentials...")
    mongo_db = mongo_client[conf.config["mongodb"]["database"]]
    mongo_db.authenticate(
        conf.config["mongodb"]["user"],
        conf.config["mongodb"]["password"],
        mechanism=conf.config["mongodb"]["mechanism"])
    logging.info("MongoDB client credentials verified.")

    logging.info("MongoDB client set up.")

def _get_next_ephemeris(date):
    p_day_of_year = {
        "$project": {
            "date": 1,
            "todayDayOfYear": {"$dayOfYear": date},
            "leap": {"$or": [
                {"$eq": [0, {"$mod": [{"$year": "$date"}, 400]}]},
                {"$and": [
                    {"$eq": [0, {"$mod": [{"$year": "$date"}, 4]}]},
                    {"$ne": [0, {"$mod": [{"$year": "$date"}, 100]}]}
                ]}
            ]},
            "dayOfYear": {"$dayOfYear": "$date"}
        }
    }

    p_leap_year = {
        "$project": {
            "date": 1,
            "todayDayOfYear": 1,
            "dayOfYear": {
                "$subtract": [
                    "$dayOfYear",
                    {
                        "$cond": [
                            {"$and":
                                 ["$leap",
                                  {"$gt": ["$dayOfYear", 59]}
                                  ]},
                            1,
                            0]
                    }
                ]},
            "diff": {"$subtract": ["$dayOfYear", "$todayDayOfYear"]}
        }
    }

    p_past = {
        "$project": {
            "diff": 1,
            "birthday": 1,
            "positiveDiff": {
                "$cond": {
                    "if": {"$lt": ["$diff", 0]},
                    "then": {"$add": ["$diff", 365]},
                    "else": "$diff"
                },
            }
        }
    }

    p_sort = {
        "$sort": {
            "positiveDiff": 1
        }
    }

    p_first = {
        "$group": {
            "_id": "first_birthday",
            "first": {
                "$first": "$$ROOT"
            }
        }
    }

    res = mongo_db[DB_EPHEMERIS].aggregate([p_day_of_year, p_leap_year, p_past,
                                            p_sort, p_first])
    obj_id = res.next()['first']['_id']
    return mongo_db[DB_EPHEMERIS].find_one({"_id": obj_id})

def _tweet_ephemeris(eph):
    if eph['location']:
        twitter_api.PostUpdate(status=_process_tweet_text(eph['text'], eph),
                               latitude=eph['location']['latitude'],
                               longitude=eph['location']['longitude'],
                               display_coordinates=True)
    else:
        twitter_api.PostUpdate(status=eph.text)

def _process_tweet_text(text, eph):
    today = datetime.datetime.utcnow()

    template = string.Template(text)

    values = {
        "date": eph['date'].strftime("%d de %B de %Y"),
        "years_ago": today.year - eph['date'].year
    }

    return template.substitute(values)

def _get_next_eph_datetime(eph, now):
    eph_datetime = eph['date']
    eph_this_year = eph_datetime.replace(year=now.year)

    if eph_this_year < now:
        eph_next_year = eph_this_year.replace(year=eph_this_year.year + 1)
        return eph_next_year

    return eph_this_year

def main():
    # configure logger
    _setup_logging()

    # read configuration
    global conf
    try:
        conf = config.Configuration(constants.CONFIG_FILE_NAME)
    except Exception as exc:
        logging.error("Error getting configuration.", exc)
        sys.exit(1)

    # setup language
    try:
        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, conf.config["language"]["locale"])
    except Exception as exc:
        logging.error("Error setting up language.", exc)
        sys.exit(1)

    # setup Twitter API client
    try:
        _setup_twitter()
    except Exception as exc:
        logging.error("Error setting up Twitter API client.", exc)
        sys.exit(1)

    # setup MongoDB client
    try:
        _setup_mongo()
    except Exception as exc:
        logging.error("Error setting up MongoDB client.", exc)
        sys.exit(1)

    # loop over ephemeris
    interrupted = False
    while not interrupted:
        # get next ephemeris
        logging.info("Getting next ephemeris...")
        now = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
        next_eph = _get_next_ephemeris(now)
        logging.debug("Next ephemeris:"
                      + "\n\t -     text: " + next_eph['text']
                      + "\n\t -     date: " + str(next_eph['date'])
                      + "\n\t - location: "
                      + str(next_eph['location']['latitude']) + ", "
                      + str(next_eph['location']['longitude']))

        # wait until publication
        eph_pub_date = _get_next_eph_datetime(next_eph, now)
        logging.info("Waiting until publication time: " + str(eph_pub_date))
        try:
            pause.until(eph_pub_date)
        except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
            interrupted = True
            logging.warning("Waiting time has been interrupted. Exiting!")
            continue

        # tweet ephemeris
        logging.info("Tweeting ephemeris...")
        _tweet_ephemeris(next_eph)

        # wait a day to avoid duplicates
        pause.days(1)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()


The Thirds terrain is region sized (256m x256m) and is a flat and green region divided into equal thirds with a smooth canal separating each area. Don't underestimate the effort it took, getting those canals smooth enough for boating took far, far longer than you'd think.
It's the easiest way to terraform online grid regions or for use in 3D modelling tools when you don't want to terraform yourself and unless you're a masochist, you don't want to do this.
The Thirds terrain is region sized (256m x256m) and is a flat and green region divided into equal thirds with a smooth canal separating each area. Don't knock it, getting those canals smooth enough for boating took far, far longer than you'd think.
This terrain terraforming file was hand made inworld and tested on the Second Life and Avination grids so you can have confidence it will load and look good without problems.
The land texture is not included in this pack. For managed grids it is available as part of the default upload. For other uses, you will need to source your own texture.
If not, open the .raw file in notepad, remove the file name (line 1) and import into blender, then export into your preferred file format.


The concept of "Data Lake" is becoming a widely adopted best practice in constructing an analytic ecosystem. When well executed, a data lake strategy will increase analytic agility for an organization and provide a foundation for provisioning data into both discovery and integrated data warehouse platforms. However, there are many pitfalls with this approach that can be avoided with best practices deployment. This talk will provide guidance on how to deploy toward the "data reservoir" concept rather than ending up with an all too common "data swamp".
Relational databases are known to have tightly integrated components that make them hard to extend. This usually leads to new databases that are specialized for scale and certain workloads.
For its last three releases, PostgreSQL has been providing official APIs to extend the database *without forking it*. Users can read the documentation, implement their ideas according to the APIs, and then dynamically load in their shared object to override or extend any database submodule.
1. JSON / JSONB: This new data type enables storing and querying semi-structured data.
2. HyperLogLog: This extension creates a new data type, user-defined functions, and aggregate functions to quickly calculate count(distinct) approximations over large data sets.
3. PGStrom: This extension offloads particular CPU intensive workloads to GPU devices and enables running parallelized SQL on GPUs.
4. Citus: Citus shards, replicates, and parallelizes SQL queries. It does this by hooking into Postgres' planner and executor APIs and through transforming queries into their parallelizable form.
In summary, PostgreSQL's extensible architecture puts it in a unique place for scaling out SQL and also for adapting to evolving hardware trends. It could just be that the monolithic SQL database is dying. If so, long live Postgres!
The Hadoop ecosystem is highly complex with many moving parts. Even with well thought out road maps and architectures there are numerous pit falls that a project team falls into when implementing Hadoop Distribution Upgrades, Security Implementations and developing Data Ingestion capabilities. This presentation will enable you to avoid these anti patterns and focus on designs that are proven to work.
In Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, we are now developing MyFlashSQL, an open-source dialect of MySQL, which is to optimize MySQL/InnoDB engine on top of flash SSDs and non-volatile RAMs. In this talk, we will introduce its motivation, goals, and several on-going research directions, and share some preliminary results.
Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against data sources of all sizes. It was designed from the ground up with the ability to scale to the sizes required by companies such as Facebook, Airbnb, and Dropbox. Using Presto, one can query data where it lives, including Hive, Cassandra, Kafka, and relational databases. Because of its pluggable architecture, one can write a connector to query from practically any data source (https://prestodb.io).
This talk will present the Presto architecture and pluggable connectors for a variety of data sources.
The sheer number and diversity of storage devices being deployed in large distributed data processing systems can present a huge challenge, greatly impacting system response times with little visibility into what the root cause may be. Furthermore, establishing when these devices are approaching the end of their useful life ahead of time is virtually impossible in large deployments without a large degree of human intervention.
In this session, we will review a powerful lightweight storage intelligence layer that operates invisibly at the block layers and can operate with any block or object based file system that utilizes block devices, and soon to be memory class devices also. As part of this intelligence layer, a deep learning statistical engine keeps track in real time of all storage IO operations across both time and capacity. By utilizing behavioral device analytics, we are able to visualize both locally with machine learning and remotely via a low impact reporting when a storage device is behaving badly and in the best case, completely remove this device from operation until it is fit for reinsertion of removed entirely at the next maintenance cycle. We believe having this level of automation will dramatically lower the likelihood of persistent long tail latencies caused by storage devices in systems deploying device analytics.
We have implemented a flexible User Defined Operator (UDO) for labeling connected components for a binary mask expressed as an array in SciDB, which is a parallel distributed database management system based on the array data model. This UDO is able to process very large multidimensional arrays by exploiting SciDB's memory management mechanism that efficiently manipulates arrays whose memory requirements far exceed available physical memory. The UDO takes as primary inputs a binary mask array and a binary stencil array that specifies the connectivity of a given cell to its neighbors. The UDO returns an array of the same shape as the input mask array with each cell containing the label of the component it belongs to. By default, dimensions are treated as non-periodic, but the UDO also accepts optional input parameters to specify periodicity in any of the dimensions. The UDO requires four stages to completely label connected components. In the first stage, labels are computed on each "chunk" (SciDB terminology for subarrays local to individual nodes) of the mask in parallel across SciDB instances using the weighted quick union (WQU) with half-path compression algorithm. In the second stage, labels around chunk boundaries from the first stage are stored in a temporary SciDB array that is then replicated across all SciDB instances. Equivalences are resolved by again applying the WQU algorithm to these boundary labels. In the third stage, relabelling is done for each chunk using the resolved equivalences. In the fourth stage, the resolved labels, which so far are "flattened" coordinates of the original binary mask array, are renamed with sequential integers for legibility. The UDO is demonstrated on a 3-D mask of size O(1011) elements, with O(108) foreground cells and O(106) connected components. The operator completes in 1.5 hours using 6 SciDB instances.
Analytics is the science of examining raw data to uncover hidden patterns, correlations with the purpose of drawing conclusions about the data. It is different from traditional Business Intelligence in the sense that for traditional Business Intelligence may consist of very complex queries, but still in that case we know what we are looking for. On the other hand, Analytics answers questions that we can not formulate properly - for example, how many different type of customers we have and what are their attributes or which three medicines taken together are most likely to cause severe side effect.
To uncover hidden patterns, the analytic algorithms (for example K-Means clustering) need to scan data many times and perform compute heavy operations. To execute these algorithms in a reasonable time, often people use cluster of machines, which provide both large memory and enough computation power and use a parallel processing framework like Hadoop.
However, recently another approach is emerging, which is using special type of CPUs which can do some type of parallel operations blazing fast. Machines built using the special CPUs can replace smaller clusters or reduce the large clusters to more manageable size.
During this presentation, I will talk about special analytic instructions in Oracle's latest SPARC-M7processor and its ability to query compressed data, effectively increasing the memory size by many times. I will share some performance results, where one gets 5X to 20X for well known machine learning algorithms.
We present a Vertica data connector for Spark that integrates with Spark's Datasource API so that data from Vertica can be efficiently loaded into Spark. A simple JDBC Spark Datasource that loads all data of a Vertica table into Spark is not optimal, because it does not take advantage of the pre-processing capabilities of Vertica to reduce the amount of data to be transferred or leverage parallel processing effectively. Our solution connects the computational pipelines of Spark and Vertica in an optimized way, and not only utilizes parallel channels for data movement, but also (a) pushes computation down into Vertica when appropriate, and (b) maintains data-locality when transferring data between the two systems.
Operations on structured data (such as those operations expressed in Spark SQL) can be processed by Vertica, Spark, or a combination of both. The connector controls Vertica's table data flowing through query execution plans in parallel; the data is then transferred into Spark's pipeline. Our push-down optimizations identify opportunities to reduce the data volume transferred by allowing Vertica to pre-process the filter, project, join and group-by operators before passing the data into Spark.
When using a simple connection scheme, parallel connections to Vertica quickly saturate the network bandwidth of the database nodes, becoming the bottleneck due to inter-Vertica-node shuffling. This happens because each Spark task pulls a specific partition (range) of the input data, which is typically scattered across the Vertica cluster. To address this, we have devised an innovative solution to reduce data movement within Vertica.
Using a consistent hash ring, the connector guarantees that there is no unnecessary data shuffling inside Vertica, minimizing network bandwidth and optimizing the data flow from Vertica to Spark. Each query execution plan inside Vertica only targets the data (i.e., segment of the data) that is local to each node.
Big Data has been defined as increasing volumes, velocities, and varieties of information, all three of which are relevant to cyber security use cases, which depend on analyzing massive streams of internet protocol information in order to detect and defend against a wide range of threats. Applying Big Data to Cyber Security results in new capabilities to defend information technology assets. This presentation covers the compelling value proposition and how Big Data can fit into a typical data center's security methodology.
Inequality joins, which join relational tables on inequality conditions, are used in various applications. While there have been a wide range of optimization methods for joins in database systems, from algorithms such as sort-merge join and band join, to various indices such as B-tree, R*-tree and Bitmap, inequality joins have received little attention. In other words, queries containing such joins are usually very slow and do not scale with big datasets.
In this talk, we introduce fast and scalable inequality join algorithms. We put columns to be joined in sorted arrays and we use permutation arrays to encode positions of tuples in one sorted array w.r.t. the other sorted array. In contrast to sort-merge join, we use space efficient bit-arrays that enable optimizations, such as Bloom filter indices, for fast computation of the join results. We have implemented a centralized version of these algorithms on top of PostgreSQL, and a distributed version on top of Spark SQL. We have compared against well known optimization techniques for inequality joins and show that our solution is more scalable and several orders of magnitude faster. Up to our knowledge, our solution is the first that is able to process inequality joins efficiently on datasets with billions of rows.
B+-tree has been used as one of the main index structures in database fields for a long period. However, with the unprecedented amount of data being generated by modern, global-scale web, mobile, and IoT applications, typical B+-tree implementations are beginning to show scalability and performance issues. Various key-value storage engines with variants of B+-tree such as log-structured merge tree (LSM-tree), have been proposed to address these limitations. At Couchbase, we have been working on a new key-value storage engine, ForestDB, that uses a new hybrid indexing scheme called HB+-trie, which is a disk-based trie-like structure combined with B+-trees. In this presentation, we introduce ForestDB and briefly discuss why ForestDB is a good fit for modern big data applications.
Executing analytics queries at scale was never easy to achieve with relational database systems that run on a shared storage infrastructure. However there are certain tools and techniques that in a relatively simple way, without need of redesigning entire architecture of a system can offload data and SQL queries from RDBMSs like Oracle to Hadoop. This presentation will discuss the technologies and configurations that has been evaluated at CERN for bridging Oracle and Hadoop order to get the best of both worlds - relational, transactional system with ability to perform massive data processing.
Since 2010, engineers from Oracle and Sun have been working together to integrate our software and hardware and wire database functionality directly into our on-die streaming co-processor. By fast processing in-memory compressed columnar format, the co-processor increases the effective memory bandwidth, while leaving the general purpose processors free to execute higher level logic. This functionality was released in the SPARC M7 last year.
In this lightening talk, we will illustrate how we decompose SQL operators into portable vector primitives which we implement in optimized software and on our co-processor, and show the co-processor are several times faster and many times more energy efficient than the optimized implementation on a general purpose core. Moreover, the decomposition of SQL operators into primitives leads to a second level of query planning and optimization, as we discover the optimal combination of primitives varies for different data distributions and hardware environments.
There is an increasing need to provide a portal for public, interactive analyses of large numerical simulations, often exceeding several hundred TB in size. These require very localized access patterns. 3D spatial indexing with space-filling curves can easily be mapped onto B-tree-based range queries in relational databases. In particular, linking ""landmark regions"" extracted in post-processing to the raw underlying data is quite trivial. Examples are dark matter halos extracted from large cosmological N-Body simulations, or vortex tubes in simulation of isotropic turbulence. While querying such databases is very fast, loading them gets very cumbersome once data exceeds a few hundred TB. Here we present one solution to this problem, coined FileDB, which is to leave the raw data outside the database in their original binary format and provide functions (implemented in SQLCLR/C#) to access the files efficiently. Our first target data are the Millennium suite of cosmological simulations, the largest of which has 300 billion particles. These data can be treated efficiently because they are highly structured, with particles organized according to a space filling curve and/or according to the landmark (""dark halos"") they belong to. In fact, ingesting them in a relational database would lose this organization, which would require extra columns and an increase in data size due to the page-level storage of many database systems.
The Virginia Connected Corridors (VCC) is a new initiative developed by the Virginia Tech transportation Institute (VTTI) in partnership with the Virginia Department of Transportation. The VCC encompasses both the Virginia Smart Road and the Northern Virginia Connected-vehicle Test Bed, which is located along one of the most congested corridors in the United States. To harness data from this facility, we orchestrate analytic pipelines to ensure both rapid availability of data and ingestion into VTTI's research data repository.


Everyone else is already talking about awards season already, so I might as well put in my two cents: it better not be a boring one. Where are the great genre films like The Babadook and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night? Where the stylish action movies like Inception, or quirky comedies like Birdman? It bears repeating: this cannot be another year of pretentious dramatic sagas.
We still have months until the season is officially under way (and until Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight comes out, don't forget that), but trailers like CAROL are like film Ambien. While I always look forward to Cate Blanchett, there is something mind-numbingly generic about this trailer that does nothing to sell the movie. Dear Hollywood: the whole forbidden love affair movie happened already--several times. Blanchett deserves better than this presentation (as for Rooney Mara, I'm still very meh).
I want to see Carol. My "must see" list is actually pretty long, but a lot of them are indies from Sundance. I think it should be a good one.


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Toward an in silico models for variation in neuroangiogenesis in retina
Hesam Dashti1,
Nader Sheibani2,
Christine Sorenson3,
Chengyu Liu1 &
Amir H Assadi1
BMC Neuroscience volume 11, Article number: P75 (2010) Cite this article
Phenotypic variation is ubiquitous. Diversity in behavioral response within a single genotype is ubiquitous. Sources, mechanisms and innovations in variation within a genotype are hardly understood. In neuroscience, the problem of genotype-phenotype relationship is notoriously difficult due to many intermediate layers that mediate between the DNA, the physical structures of cells, and the dynamics of neuroglial and vascular interactions in development and response to environmental stimuli. Neuroangiogenesis in mice retina provides a mechanism that lends itself to detailed study of the relationship between genotype and phenotype.
The circuitry of the retina is directly affected by genomic perturbations [Markus] Meister et al.. Development of the retinal circuitry plays a fundamental role in the earliest patterns of neuronal connectivity through spontaneous retinal waves [Marla] Feller et al. The branching architectures of nerves and vasculature are also established to develop in parallel. Therefore, it is reasonable to investigate the variation in pattern formation in developing retina as a gateway to understanding variation in fetal brain development and its functional consequences. In this article, we study variations on the branching structures as they occur naturally or due to genomic perturbations, such as gene knockout.
Angiogenesis is controlled by physical interactions between cells and extracellular matrix as well as soluble antigenic factors, such as VEGF. Variation in morphology for the wild type is due to modulation of signaling. However, the mechanism by which mechanical signals integrate with other microenvironmental cues to regulate neovascularization in retina remains unknown. This article provides an in silico approach towards exploring morphological variation neuroangiogenesis in the mouse retina for the wild type and certain mutants. Specifically, novel algorithms are designed to quantify natural and perturbed variation in morphology; this is most difficult and laborious step towards analysis of Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) and other quantitative neuro-genetics methods to determine the genomic and other mechanisms that are responsible for morphological variation.
On the clinical side, we elucidate potential applications of the computational models to understanding the mechanism of diseases that are characterized by pathological morphologies in angiogenesis, such as diabetes.
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Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
Hesam Dashti, Chengyu Liu & Amir H Assadi
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
Nader Sheibani
Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
Christine Sorenson
Hesam Dashti
Chengyu Liu
Amir H Assadi
Correspondence to Amir H Assadi.
Dashti, H., Sheibani, N., Sorenson, C. et al. Toward an in silico models for variation in neuroangiogenesis in retina. BMC Neurosci 11 (Suppl 1), P75 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-11-S1-P75
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-11-S1-P75
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To keep the Louisiana plantation he loved, Dominic Kane had six months to honor his father's will and marry. When he saw the beautiful bondservant fresh from the high seas, his decision was made. He offered to temporarily make her his wife in name only. But after impulsively kissing her lush lips, a raw passion surfaced, and Nick realized his roguish life had not been complete before the entrance of this green-eyed enchantress.
Jordan St. James was desperate to escape London and the evil investor who expected her to repay her family's debt with her body. She set off on a journey to work as an indentured servant in the New World, and upon seeing the wealthy planter who'd purchased her papers, Jordan's heart beat faster. The intensity of his eyes burned into her soul, and his seemingly innocent touch left her shivering with desire. She vowed to do whatever it took to become, in every way, his...BAYOU BRIDE
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Begorrah! It's "McGomery" County Weekend
By Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board on Mar. 13, 2014
The St. Patrick's Day celebrations and events throughout Valley Forge and Montgomery County, Pa., make other areas green with envy. Whether you're looking for a place to toast to the health of your closest mates or a family-friendly time for you and your little Leprechauns, The Pursuit offers more options than you can shake a shillelagh at.
It's a four day celebration of the Emerald Isle at the Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery. Starting Friday, March 14, and stretching to the wee hours of Monday, March 17, the live music, food, drink specials, bagpipers and giveaways are sure to be pleasing all lads and lassies. Dance away (a jig, perhaps?) to the band House Money or the live DJ, both of which are sure to sham-"rock." Open wide for the Scotch egg-eating contest, or put on your best knickers and orange beard to be hailed the Best-Dressed Leprechaun.
The tradition of an Irish wake, where the life of a deceased relative or friend is marked by a glorious celebration rather than maudlin sentimentality, is a deep-seated part of Celtic heritage. The Methacton Community Theater cast of "The Irish Wake of Patty O'Toole" revives this style of unusual farewell in a comedic but touching dinner-theater show. The delightful and mischievous Patty O'Toole has passed away, and all his friends have gathered to say their last good-byes. The funeral director brings everyone to order and the eulogies begin. Things start rather normally until suddenly the ghost of Patty O'Toole appears to participate in his own wake. The fun and laughs unfold March 14-16 at the Center Square Golf Club.
Under the theme "Ireland: Land of Legends," Montgomery County's St. Patrick's Parade, held in Conshohocken, starts at 2 p.m. March 15 at 11th Avenue and Fayette Street. The bands, dancers, flags and shamrocks march along Fayette to Elm Street, ending in front of the Washington Fire Company. It is the centerpiece to a day of Irish-themed events and storefront offers, including a 5k run, a church bake sale, drink specials at nearby pubs and eateries, and even ice cream with free green sprinkles.
St. Patrick's Day wouldn't be St. Patrick's Day without music. Let your feet start a'tapping at the "Road to the Isles" performance at Montgomery County Community College. The concert showcases the traditional music and dance of Ireland and Scotland with two performances: One geared toward schoolchildren and families (March 14, at 10:30 a.m.) and an evening performance on for adults (March 15, at 8 p.m.). The group's six performers contribute their talents on the fiddle, flute, pipes, guitar, and with vocals, Irish Step dancing and Scottish Highland dancing. Dance performances include the sword dance, highland fling, Irish reel and jig, slip jig, and hornpipe, all complemented by songs, stories, and instrumental solos and duets.
You and your "wee bairns" (kids) can scout the grounds for hidden gold coins scattered throughout the field at the March 16 Schuylkill Canal Lock 60 Treasure Hunt. If the luck of the Irish smiles upon ye, the found "shillings" can then be turned in at the Locktender's House for a bag of treasures. The day also includes Irish music, treats and stories, including the tale of the Irish immigrants that were so integral to the hand-digging of the historic waterway.
It's an old Irish blessing that goes:
Walls for the wind, And a roof for the rain, And drinks beside the fire -
Laughter to cheer you, And those you love near you, And all that your heart may desire!
The imagery is clear: The warmth and embrace of a room to nestle down in. Follow your own rainbow this St. Patrick's Day weekend to one of our pot-of-gold comfy hotels or B&Bs. You'll wind up with a jackpot of a good memories.
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Q: Difference between survdiff log-rank and coxph log-rank I'm using the survival package in R to analyze clinical data. I am analyzing two different groups of patients, when I calculate survdiff in order to compare the curves, I got p= 0.135, but when I adjust the model using coxph and different covariates, let say clinical cancer stages, , I got an overall logrank score of 0.0005793 for 5 covariates. My question is, could I use this late logrank p-value to say that adjusting the model with more covariates the difference between the curves is signifficative?
here is the data
survdiff(formula = my.surv ~ final_table$G)

n=56, 14 observations deleted due to missingness.

                 N Observed Expected (O-E)^2/E (O-E)^2/V
final_table$G=1  4        2     1.43    0.2294     0.247
final_table$G=2 52       24    24.57    0.0133     0.247

 Chisq= 0.2  on 1 degrees of freedom, **p= 0.619**

And this is the coxph results
coxph(formula = Surv(final_table$Time_surv, final_table$Survival) ~ final_table$G + final_table$ST)

  n= 56, number of events= 26
  (14 observations deleted due to missingness)

                   coef exp(coef)  se(coef)     z Pr(>|z|)
final_table$G2    2.094e-01 1.233e+00 7.532e-01 0.278    0.781
final_table$STII  1.883e+01 1.501e+08 5.739e+03 0.003    0.997
final_table$STIII 1.998e+01 4.773e+08 5.739e+03 0.003    0.997
final_table$STIV  2.089e+01 1.186e+09 5.739e+03 0.004    0.997

              exp(coef) exp(-coef) lower .95 upper .95
final_table$G2    1.233e+00  8.111e-01    0.2817     5.396
final_table$STII  1.501e+08  6.662e-09    0.0000       Inf
final_table$STIII 4.773e+08  2.095e-09    0.0000       Inf
final_table$STIV  1.186e+09  8.430e-10    0.0000       Inf

Concordance= 0.74  (se = 0.057 )
Rsquare= 0.37   (max possible= 0.957 )
Likelihood ratio test= 25.86  on 4 df,   p=3.381e-05
Wald test            = 4.02  on 4 df,   p=0.4033
Score (logrank) test = 19.67  on 4 df,   **p=0.0005793**

Thanks
Thanks to comments I did this analysis, survdiff with roup and stage
survdiff(formula = Surv(final_table$Time_surv, final_table$Survival) ~
final_table$G + final_table$ST)

n=56, 14 observations deleted due to missingness.

                                 N Observed Expected (O-E)^2/E (O-E)^2/V
final_table$G=1, final_table$ST=III  3        2    1.149     0.630     0.668
final_table$G=1, final_table$ST=IV   1        0    0.279     0.279     0.285
final_table$G=2, final_table$ST=I   15        0    8.715     8.715    13.547
final_table$G=2, final_table$ST=II   2        1    1.816     0.367     0.402
final_table$G=2, final_table$ST=III 30       19   13.067     2.693     5.540
final_table$G=2, final_table$ST=IV   5        4    0.973     9.413     9.935

Chisq= 23.2  on 5 degrees of freedom, p= 0.000313

So the final value is totally significant, but now I got 6 curves, more or less this is what I want, how the group and the stage is affecting the survival. What do you think?

A: Without actual output it is difficult to tell, but generally an "overall logrank score" will test the null hypothesis that all of the coefficients are 0.  Therefore a significant result could be due to one or more of your covariates being related to survival while your 2 groups are still identical (or they could be different).
It is better to fit the model with your group variable (and the covariates) and fit another model without your group variable (but still with the same covariates) and compare the 2 fits.

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