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our last full day of the disney cruise was our "at sea" day. we'd already been to both ports on the itinerary, so the whole day was dedicated to hanging out onboard, participating in activities, swimming, relaxing, what have you. we actually managed to make it to a nice sit-down breakfast for once, in the royal palace dining room.
the hub was up on the top deck taking in this one.
we stopped inside vanellope's sweet shop again to pick up some snacks while it was still early and wasn't bombarded with the other 4,000 guests onboard.
these are super cute. i wonder if i can recreate them myself. i'm not very good at drawing faces.
while the girls spent some time upstairs in the pool, the old lady and i stopped for some downtime in the cabin before it was time to play a trivia game in one of the clubs. i'd been trying to wait it out for an empty washer in the launderette down the hall, and when i saw that they were all available i scurried to grab our bag of dirty clothes from the closet.
but i couldn't get it to work. either it was out of soap or it was broken somehow. poop.
i was really annoyed and tried to call housekeeping for some assistance, but after being on hold for a good five minutes while standing in that hot little room, i gave up. after all, i was just trying to get a jumpstart on things - we'd all packed enough clothing to last for the entire trip. and by the time i got back to our cabin with my sad bag of still-dirty laundry, it was time to head up to deck 4 to hit da club for some trivia.
we stopped to take pics in one of the big round windows - something we'd meant to do earlier, but kept putting off with "oh, we'll do that later!" of course the lighting was all wrong, but we took 'em anyway, just because.
after perusing the cocktail menu, i decided to try something that sounded really delicious - a non-alcoholic bubble gum-flavored smoothie. isn't it pretty? and it tasted just like it looked.
the bean joined us right as the game ended (which we lost by, like, two points), fresh from the pool. she got to enjoy the last few sips of my smoothie and then we headed back to the cabin to get her cleaned up and freshen up a little before dinner. we stood out on the balcony and watched as we made a giant circle in the water. with nowhere to go, we were literally sailing around and around with no actual destination because the next stop was back at port canaveral.
our dining rotation that evening took us to the spot we'd all been looking forward to the most - the animator's palate.
out of all the dining rooms on the ship, this one was the most "disney" - full of props from various disney/pixar movies, animated screens on every wall, very kid-friendly decor. the plates followed the theme, with little paintbrushes adorning one side, and the butter knives were shaped like paintbrushes too. i wanted to order a set of the mickey-themed chairs for home, too. they were super cute.
look how pretty our cocktails were! but holy cow, so sweet.
while i decided to try the black truffle pasta "purses."
as we were enjoying our first course, the show began as crush from "finding nemo" appeared on the screen. he cracked jokes and then we were all looking for the hidden microphone as he started talking directly to people at the tables. it was lots of fun and very entertaining, and i kind of wished every dinner was in this room.
the bean was super stoked to again have the server cut her meat for her.
for my entrée, i'd chosen the grilled tuna steak.
and the old lady was happy to enjoy some penne topped with bolognese sauce. this is probably her most favorite meal in the whole world. bring her some pasta and meat sauce and she's one happy camper.
and this was the "sweet temptation" - white chocolate cheesecake, the lemon-raspberry tart, and a mango mousse.
and because i was feeling a little tired but really wanted to go hard for the last night, i ordered a cappuccino. i may have also partially wanted it to have the cute mickey design they dusted on top.
our towel animal that evening was a turtle rocking the hub's sunglasses.
i caught a glimpse of cinderella as she scurried off somewhere, presumably with both shoes intact.
being the last night of the trip, there were lots and lots of people getting in that last photo op with the characters on every level.
and we spotted nigel from "finding nemo" just outside of cabanas. i don't know how we'd never seen him before, with as many times as we frequented that joint.
we met downstairs in one of the clubs again, this time to take part in the 80s trivia game.
meanwhile, the hub and the bean were perusing the shops. she must've picked this up because we'd just watched "alice through the looking glass" in the movie theater on the second night of the cruise.
the trivia game ended up being a team effort, with the room divided in half and playing for...well, nothing but glory. after answering questions correctly, we were either given another trivia question to answer or a physical challenge. in this one, we somehow roped ourselves into trying to show the game master the "care bear stare." i had no idea what the hell that was supposed to be, but one of the girls on our team did. and apparently she was the first one who'd ever gotten it right out of all the times he'd hosted this game.
that was pretty much the last activity we got to participate in, besides riding the aqua duck one last time. while the pool and slides were open for business, there was always something to watch via "funnel vision." sometimes it was a movie, others it was some sort of disney channel show, and with playoffs going on, we got to watch live basketball games.
but now i can share some tips with you, in case you find yourself on a disney cruise some day. and if you have any interest at all, you absolutely should do it. it's such a great trip, very well organized, fantastic service and surprisingly good food for being mass-produced.
and you could look for activities to do at any given time, or check showtimes or hours for things like kids' club and the vacation planning center. if you booked another cruise while still onboard, they throw in perks like 10% off and shipboard credit. i knew we didn't have a shot at booking another trip anytime soon, because while we loved every minute of this trip i knew the hub wasn't a fan. at all. he was a good sport about it all, but he's never been a cruising fan and really only did this one because he knew the rest of us really wanted it. not to mention, he had some good memories from being the bean's age and going on a similar trip with his grandparents.
since you can't use your phone while on board the ship, disney provides these fantastic "wave phones" that look like those awesome nokia cell phones circa about 1998. while we all made fun of them, they came in really handy while the kids were at their club because if they wanted to be picked up, we received a text message via the wave phone.
one last thing - and not one that anyone in my cabin wanted to partake in - my co-leader was alllllll about the few minutes of quiet time she was able to enjoy in what she called "bath, party of one." the shower in the cabin featured a teeny-tiny tub that would have been perfect for bathing a small child...or, in her case, one person sitting criss-cross-applesauce style.
she insisted that it was wonderful and perfect and gave her a nice break from the world...but 1. baths aren't my thing and 2. i'm not all about crouching into a tiny space for any amount of time. i'm glad she enjoyed it, though. and so that's my last tip for you, in case you wondered how you could possibly squeeze in a bath during your disney cruise. it's all ready for you.
i was a little sad that i never managed to squeeze in a single trip to the fitness center - treadmills overlooking a fantastic view of the ocean? dang it! - nor did i ever get around to trying out the jogging track around deck 4. we also never made it upstairs to the miniature golf course or the basketball court, and despite our best efforts didn't spend a single late night in any of the clubs.
i think that means we're going to need a re-do someday. and now that we've been on one disney cruise, we're officially part of the "castaway cay club," which offers perks for returning cruisers. i'm not sure what exactly it all entails, but i'd definitely love to find out.
looks like i'd better start hustling cookies on the regular again.


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Erie County sheriff warns of phone scam
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The Erie County Sheriff's Office is once again reminding residents that it does not solicit the payment of fines or court costs by phone in the wake of another scam going around.
Sheriff John Loomis said Tuesday that someone claiming to be a sheriff's deputy who retired years ago contacted two people recently and told them that they had costs to pay and a warrant was issued for them. One of the people who received the call did not send any money to the caller, but another person did and lost $7,500 in the scam, Loomis said.
The troubling thing about the scam is that the number that appeared on one the victim's caller ID was a number associated with the Erie County Sheriff's Office, Loomis said.
Loomis said no law enforcement agency attempts to collect fines or costs over the phone. He said anyone who receives a call from someone claiming to be from his office should call the office to confirm at 451-7012.

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The Creative Curriculum balances both teacher-directed and child-initiated learning, with an emphasis on responding to children's learning styles and building on their strengths and interests. This curriculum applies the latest theory and research on best practices in teaching and learning and the content standards developed by states and professional organizations. While keeping the original environmentally-based approach it clearly defines the teacher's vital role in connecting content, teaching, and learning for preschool children. It features goals and objectives linked directly to our valid and reliable assessment instrument.
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Report: Police Cam Activated After Keith Scott Shooting
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Crucial evidence in the police shooting death of a 43-year-old Black man is not available because one of the officers failed to activate his body camera as soon as he responded to the incident, The Washington Post reports.
The move is in violation of department policy.
On Saturday, Charlotte police released two videos after four days of sometimes violent protests in the city over the death of Scott, who police say had a gun. His family contends that he was unarmed.
Neither video is conclusive on that question.
The body camera video begins by showing a Charlotte police officer with his gun drawn, who appears to be yelling as he and the officer wearing the body camera stand behind Scott's vehicle. The officer with the camera then can be seen striking Scott's truck with his baton. Scott exits the vehicle, four shots are fired by an officer who is not visible on the video and Scott falls to the ground.
The recording officer retreats back behind the truck, then advances toward Scott's dying body. But none of the moments in the first half a minute of the bodycam footage have audio, indicating the officer, who has not been identified, did not turn on his camera until after the Sept. 20 shooting when audio begins.
Officers with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police department are equipped with Axon Flex body cameras made by Taser. Last year, the city spent more than $7 million to buy and implement the use of 1,385 of the cameras, making Charlotte the first major city in North Carolina to arm all of its patrol officers with body-worn cameras.
When turned on, the cameras come with a "buffer" function that saves only 30 seconds of soundless video filmed. However, audio does not begin to be recorded until the moment an officer manually activates the camera.
The department's body camera policy states that officers must fully activate their cameras "prior to or in anticipation of" interactions with civilians resulting from traffic stops, suspicious vehicle/persons investigations, arrests, use of force incidents and/or voluntary investigative conduct (which is defined as "the mere suspicion of some type of criminal activity by a person").
Police say officers saw Scott with a gun, prompting the plainclothes officers to leave the area, put on vests and then return to detain Scott. Those officers did not have cameras and another officer responding to the call soon arrived. Department policy states the officer should have activated his camera as soon as he left his vehicle. Instead, he waited for at least 45 seconds, maybe longer.
"We've been saying from the beginning that our goal is to find out what happened and exactly why Mr. Scott lost his life," Justin Bamberg, an attorney for Scott's family said in an interview Sunday. "It's evident from the body camera footage that was released, based on how these cameras operate, that the officer did not hit the button to begin recording until after Mr. Scott had already been shot."
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Si Chen received his PhD degree in Material Science from Southwest Jiaotong University, China in 2015. He joined the Department of Biomaterials, Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass) in May, 2018, which is an EU HORIZON 2020 funded project based at Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín (Slovakia) coordinated by prof. Dušan Galusek. In the framework of FunGlass, he started in September 2018 his training period at the Institute of Biomaterials (FAU), which is an international advanced partner of FunGlass. The research activities of Dr. Chen are focused on the investigation of the synergistic effects of metallic ions doped in 45S5 bioactive glass on angiogenesis in bone regeneration  and the fabrication of composite poly (e-caprolactone)-based electrospun fibers, incorporating bioactive glass particles, by using benign solvents, following similar approaches already developed at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials .


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Improving the Health of Women,...
0:13Skip to 0 minutes and 13 secondsVERONIQUE FILIPPI: Welcome to Week 3. I'm Dr. Veronique Filippi at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. I'm a reader in epidemiology and maternal health. In this week, we are going to consider why maternal health is a global health priority, which has been recognised in the Millennium Development Goals. And while a lot of progress has been made in reducing maternal mortality, there's still a lot more that could be done. By the end of the this week, learners should be able to recognise why maternal health is a priority and why women in low-income countries are so much at risk of dying during pregnancy, childbirths, and after childbirths.
0:59Skip to 0 minutes and 59 secondsThey should be able to evaluate the key strategies that should be put in place in order to reduce maternal mortality. And finally, they should be able to identify future priorities in maternal health in order to improve survival further. So we start with the week by looking at the definition of maternal mortality and morbidity, why women die and when. And we will be looking at the determinants of maternal mortality and morbidity in a poor resource setting. We will continue by looking at what we have learned in terms of strategies that work in reducing maternal death and maternal morbidity from a range of perspectives, putting a bit more focus on skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care.
2:00Skip to 2 minutes and 0 secondsThen we will do a session looking at the future of maternal health, looking at quality of care from the perspective of the mother as well as from the perspective of the provider. We will finish the week with a case study identifying all the determinants of maternal mortality and how we could stop the death occurring at different points in the pathway from the time the woman gets pregnant to the time she needs to give birth. Then learners will have the opportunity to reflect further on what they have learned and how it applies to their country and their settings, looking at the various barriers and how they can be overcome.
2:51Skip to 2 minutes and 51 secondsSome of the best minds at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and University College London have come together to prepare this course content. And we very much hope that you will enjoy the learning this week.
Welcome to Week 3 of the course, titled Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood. I'm Dr Veronique Filippi, a reader in maternal health and epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the leader for this week of the course.
This week will consider why the health of women during pregnancy, whilst giving birth and during the postnatal period is a global health priority. Improving maternal health has been one of the eight Millennium Development Goals, and while significant headway has been made to reduce levels of maternal mortality across the world, there are still many countries in which giving life can be dangerous.
What will we learn?
By the end of this week you should be able to:
Recognise why the health of mothers is so important
Evaluate key intervention strategies and their impact on levels of maternal mortality and morbidity
Identify future priorities for maternal health, in particular with respect to quality of care.
Structure and content
We'll start the week by thinking about what we mean by maternal mortality and morbidity, and consider specific features of maternal health, such as how many women die, and when and why that happens.
The next activities will explore what the evidence tells us about our progress in saving mothers' lives, what strategies are needed to increase those numbers further, and what we need to prioritise in the future.
We'll close the week with a powerful case study on why mothers die, pulling together the issues raised in each activity. Learners will have the chance to reflect upon why expectant mothers don't always receive the care they need, and apply their understanding to addressing how those barriers have and can continue to be removed for women across the world.
Some of the best minds at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and University College London have come together to prepare this week's content. We very much hope you will enjoy this week!
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Jurgen Klopp praises Liverpool's 'amazing' players after beating Chelsea
Liverpool moved back to the top of the Premier League with a 2-0 victory over Chelsea, live on Super Sunday
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Jurgen Klopp felt his Liverpool team dominated the game against Chelsea and fully deserved the three points in their 2-0 win which sees them stay at the top of the table
Jurgen Klopp hailed his Liverpool players for producing a "really, really good" performance in the victory over Chelsea.
Sadio Mane's header and Mohamed Salah's wonder-strike moved Liverpool back to the top of the Premier League, after Manchester City had regained top spot by beating Crystal Palace earlier on Sunday.
Liverpool took 51 minutes to break the deadlock against Chelsea, but Klopp felt his side dominated the game against tough opponents.
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Klopp said: "It was a really good game. A difficult game, of course, against a really strong opponent.
"We dominated the game in a lot of parts of the game. Apart from after 2-0 when they changed this system.
"The rhythm was really good. We tried, we created we passed, we shot, we crossed, we did everything. I know it's not allowed to speak about the wind, but I'll do it anyway. First half we played against the wind, second half we had it in our back, and you can see that for both sides. It's difficult.
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"The second half, Chelsea struggled with the build-up, and we forced them to build long. It's not easy, and we won a lot of balls.
"First half, we were left-side dominant, and second half, right-side dominant. We were really flexible and there were brilliant individual performances. A really, really good game from us."
The Liverpool boss was effusive in his praise of his squad
Liverpool now have four games left, while City have a game in hand, and the Reds will likely need to win all four of those games if they're to claim their first league title since 1990.
Klopp is not looking too far ahead, though, insisting that they cannot take Cardiff or Huddersfield lightly despite their lowly league positions.
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"We don't know, but we have to try, and that's how it is," Klopp said when asked if they can win all four matches.
"We respect all opponents so much. We know Cardiff fight against relegation, so they'll be all tough.
"The whole season, we didn't think too much about it. If you play a game and you're manager of LFC, you want to win it, and most of the time, you do win it.
"Today it was very, very important because Chelsea are so strong. What we did to win that game was absolutely amazing."
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The eight steps or limbs work as a ladder which we can use to climb into the state of yoga. We purify the body and our actions with the first four and then access higher states of inner concentration with the last four so that we can be liberated.
The complete name, Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, identifies Jois's method of yoga practice. The origin of this method has been somewhat mystified. We are told it is an ancient system of practice written down in the Yoga Korunta. The Yoga Korunta is said to have contained lists of asanas grouped into what are now the six "series" of Ashtanga Vinyasa, each a set of sequence of poses, along with original teachings on vinyasa, dristi, bandha, mudra, and philosophy.
Ashtanga Vinyasa is a highly focused practice. The practice of dristana, in which one gazes steadily upon a specified point in and between each asana, lends to pratyahara, a more internal awareness. Ujjayi pranayama is maintained throughout, creating a steady rhythm in the breath that is sustained evenly from pose to pose, its sound and sensation creating a mantra that fosters greater mental focus and acuity. Bandhas are employed in most of the practice, assisting in the regulation of pranic energy flowing through the body. The practice is tied together through vinyasa, the conscious connection of breath to movement that helps generate a "balance of strength and flexibility, lightness and heaviness, movement and stillness". Below is the an image of the primary series sequence.
As in Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, Vinyasa Flow moves steadily from pose to pose in sequences of movements synchronized with ujjayi pranayama (however not used in hot vinyasa) often pausing to hold poses for various lengths of time while maintaining the rhythmic flow of the breath. Unlike Ashtanga Vinyasa, each class usually offers a different sequence of poses, although most use some form of Surya Namaskara A and B from the Krishnamacharya lineage. Many classes also closely follow the basic standing poses and finishing sequences found in Ashtanga Vinyasa. Many Vinyasa Flow classes apply Iyengar alignment priniciples, energetic actions within poses and use of props.
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În 2005, Alexandru Dandea a devenit jucător la Râmnicu Vâlcea, ocupantă a Ligii a II-a. A fost în acest club până în 2008, jucând în 90 de meciuri și înscriind 10 goluri. În 2008, a fost transferat la Seso Câmpia Turzii, la care a stat un an, participând la 14 meciuri, din care a înscris un singur gol. A revenit apoi la Râmnicu Vâlcea, unde a jucat până în 2012, când a fost transferat la CS Severin.

CS Severin

În 2012, Alexandru Dandea a debutat în fotbalul mare după ce a fost cumpărat de către clubul CS Turnu Severin, clasat pe poziția a 14-a din Liga I. A jucat la această echipă în perioada 2012-2013, timp în care a jucat în 27 de meciuri, din care a înscris 2 goluri. Fostul antrenor al CS Severin, Marian Bondrea l-a caracterizat ca un jucător inapt pentru Liga I, care "gafează prea des". În 2013, Dandea a fost transferat la Dinamo.

Dinamo

Alexandru Dandea a debutat cu adevărat atunci când a semnat contractul cu Dinamo, unul dintre cele mai bune cluburi de fotbal din România, aflată pe o poziție înaintașă în Liga I.

Astra

La sfârșitul sezonului 2014-15, Alexandru Dandea s-a transferat în Liga I, la Astra Giurgiu.

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Legături externe

 Alexandru Dandea la romaniansoccer.ro

Nașteri în 1988
Fotbaliști români
Fundași
Fotbaliști ai FC Dinamo București
Fotbaliști ai FC Astra Giurgiu
Fotbaliști ai FC Hermannstadt
Sportivi români în viață
Oameni din Drăgășani

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System monitoring, specifically web and server monitoring, allows businesses to have real-time 24/7 tracking of their IT environments.
Being able to constantly check the health of your servers or websites at the click of a button has many benefits. With easy deployment and very little effort needed to set up these monitoring systems, it is a sound investment for any company that runs IT infrastructure (isn't that all of us!) the customized monitoring tool can help prevent problems that can have a negative impact on your business, identifying potential pressure points in your server or website environments before they become an issue, allowing for your IT staff to focus on what truly matters.
An example of a system monitoring tool that we found to be very useful is System Monita, which provides an integrated monitoring solution for both website and server environments. Although simple and easy to use, it is very easily customized, allowing you to monitor your environments most effectively to suit your needs.
The dashboard provides a heart beat view of your environments, great for management, while the tool provides the ability to drill down on entities to review more granular, historical data and trends.
There are a number of server and website monitoring solutions available, we have trialed a few. We think that System Monita offers the features you need to deliver a robust infrastructure environment to your stakeholders.


Nick Schrock, also known as "Moose" is a Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt under JW Wright, having also worked extensively on his grappling skills with Saulo and Alexandre Ribeiro. Schrock earned his reputation as one of the top BJJ competitors of his generation in the lower belt divisions of this sport/martial art, where he conquered important titles such as IBJJF World champion and Pan American (gi and no-gi) Champion.
Nickname: Nick is often referenced as "Moose", a nickname that has followed him since his blue belt days. It started while rolling with a more experienced training partner, his team mate mentioned that training with Nick felt like training with a moose. The banter started circling among his teammates and quickly became attached to Schrock's jiu jitsu life.
Nick Schrock was born on August 16, 1989 in St.Louis, Missouri – USA.
Sports were introduced to Schrock at a young age, with American football, being one of his preferred disciplines – an activity he played competitively as a linebacker throughout high school.
Nick found jiu jitsu at the age of 19 during his school break. Although he didn't know much about the martial art he decided to try out a class and test the waters, that very first grappling experience taking place at JW Wright's academy. It only had five participating members but Schrock was sold on to the benefits of the gentle art from the get-go.
At Wright's academy Nick befriended a judo black belt who also trained there. This judoka, nicknamed "Judo Blair", would often spend time before and after classes giving stand-up advice to Schrock. Although this exchange only happened for a short period, it greatly benefited Moose's throwing ability, to an extent that he would later earn the label being one of the top judoca in BJJ even though he never stepped foot inside a judo club.
Always an avid competitor, Nick Schrock went through the belt system reasonably quick, under the tutelage of JW Wright – who awarded Moose his black belt on July 2016. Only a few months later, on September that year, Nick took a job for a start up Business Development company in North San Diego, California. This move provided Schrock a chance to work with two legends of the sport, the Ribeiro Brothers (Saulo and Xande) at the University of Jiu Jitsu academy.
Cover photo by Blanca Marisa Garcia for FIVE Grappling.


They are used when the subject and object in the sentence are the same. Or, when YOU do something to YOU.
Instead of using another basic pronoun (he, him), we use the reflexive pronoun to make the meaning completely clear.
John hit him. JOHN hit someone else.
John hit he. Never correct.
John hit himself. JOHN hit JOHN.
You can stick with a basic personal pronoun after prepositions of place if the meaning is already clear.
She took her dog with her. She can't take her dog with someone else. Take already means you bring something with you.
If the meaning is not clear, we use a reflexive pronoun.
She was very proud of herself. She could be proud of someone else, so the reflexive pronoun is necessary here.
We also sometimes use reflexive pronouns as a way of emphasizing a situation.
Do it yourself, I don't have the time.
The house itself is nice, but the neighborhood is rundown.
Finally, there are always exceptions! In English, there are several verbs that do NOT pair with reflexive pronouns – although they are reflexive in most other languages.
In the morning I shower myself. In the morning I shower.
Do you shave yourself everyday? Do you shave everyday?
We ONLY use reflexives if they are necessary for emphasis.
She's only three years old and she can shower herself already!
They barber will make you never want to shave yourself again!


After a three-week trial, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida jury decided in favor of Kasowitz client Liggett Group LLC and three other tobacco company defendants. The jury in Rohr v. R.J. Reynolds, et al. found Liggett and the other defendants zero percent responsible for the death of a man who allegedly smoked their products. The verdict came in an "Engle progeny" case, following a 2006 Florida Supreme Court decision that decertified the class in Engle v. Liggett Group, Inc., but allowed former class members to file individual lawsuits and rely on general findings from the original class action.


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Q: Getting position within K-Means cluster I'm clustering a set of 5000 images using K-Means, and moving them to folders according to cluster number. Is there a way to leverage the clustering to order them by similarity within each directory?
One solution I thought of is calculating the distance (with annoy) between a random image and all others in a cluster/folder, and adding an incremental index to the filename so they are sorted by visual proximity.
I wonder if there's already a subproduct of the clustering I could use for this. Distance from the cluster centroid wouldn't work since two samples could have similar distances but in different directions, so I'm thinking something like the distance to origin in a 2D scatterplot?

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Error of omission: the Honorable Shirley Chisholm
Can we all just blame overwork for the glaring omission I recognized after the blog posted on Saturday? I opened the blog with the great Bella Abzug's penchant for wearing hats—her way of distinguishing herself as a professional. And I segued from there into a discussion of one of the sessions at the Smith College Women's Leadership Conference, where a white woman talked about being asked, on more than one occasion, "How can you be an engineer?"
In the second part of the post, I talked about unconscious bias and the thought-provoking presentation Aziza Jones made about how women of color—and allies like me—can support more diverse leadership.
By Kadir Nelson – photo, Public Domain
It's a fine post. But it could have been better. No matter what the second half of the post had been about, I should have balanced it with an Abzug-like example. In this case, since it was about women of color in leadership, there's a perfect counterpart to Abzug: the woman she joined in the New York Congressional delegation, the Honorable Shirley Chisholm.
I thought about editing Saturday's post, but I didn't want to sneak Representative Chisholm in the back door. We'll give her the stage all to herself.
Shirley Chisholm, truth-teller
In 1968, Chisholm became the first black woman ever elected to Congress. She recognized exactly what that milestone meant, and she wasn't afraid to tell the truth, however uncomfortable it might be:
"That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not either just or free."
I wrote about Abzug because she adopted a costume to overcome the unconscious bias directed at her. But of course, people of color can't just slap on a hat and establish themselves as professionals. Unconscious —and sometimes conscious—bias causes some white people to "read" them as waiters when they're dining in restaurants, as salespeople when they're shopping, as invisible (except when they're perceived as menacing).
And let's not forget the many ways people today disrespect the women of color in power. Case in point: serial sexual harrasser Bill O'Reilly dismissed substantive comments on the House floor by Rep. Maxine Waters, saying he was distracted by her "James Brown wig." So Waters wears straight hair; I recently heard a black professional say she was told not to straighten her hair because it made her seem like she was trying to "look white." Straight, natural, braided—it's not about the hair, clearly. It's about the power these women wield.
The white men in power tried to sideline Shirley Chisholm, too. But they didn't know what they were getting into. Chisholm represented an urban district, in Brooklyn, so of course the House leadership put her on the Agricultural Committee. At first she was angry about this, but she later saw that she could use her position to expand the food stamp program. So she did. She was one of the driving forces behind the creation of the WIC program—supplemental nutrition for Women, Infants, and Children.
"Shirley Chisholm had guts"
In 1972, Chisholm racked up another first—becoming the first Democratic woman to run for President. Yes—of the United States. She was also the first black person from either major party to run. But she always said she felt more discriminated against for her gender than for her race. From her The New York Times obituary in 2005:
"I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being black," she told The Associated Press in December 1982, shortly before she left Washington to teach at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. "When I ran for the Congress, when I ran for president, I met more discrimination as a woman than for being black. Men are men."
I'm not here to parse degrees of discrimination. All people deserve equal respect and opportunity; that we still haven't figured out how to do that after living together for thousands of years is unconscionable.
But let's remember Shirley Chisholm as she herself wanted to be remembered— not as "the first black woman congressman," but as a courageous leader:
"I'd like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts."
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"YOU'RE a professional?" Unconscious bias, it's still here
Bella Abzug, Library of Congress
The inimitable Bella Abzug always wore a hat. Not because her head was cold, or because she wanted to be ready if the Royal Family asked her to tea. No, Abzug—a lawyer, activist, and politician who represented Manhattan's Upper West Side in the U.S. Congress for six years in the 1970s—wore a hat because it marked her as a professional. Back when most of the women in the workforce were secretaries, that was an important distinction.
The 1970s—nearly half a century ago. Women comprise a significantly larger percentage of the professional workforce. Yet people still make assumptions about what we can and cannot do, based on how we look.
Tessa Ann Taylor, Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times, says she still encounters people who seem mystified by the fact that she can be female and an engineer.
Speaking at last week's Smith College Women's Leadership Conference, Taylor said that people—okay, male people—have literally asked her "How are you a software engineer?"
Bella Abzug understood this mentality. She once said that while men have been told to "speak softly and carry a big stick," for women it was "talk softly and carry a lipstick." That may have been a guaranteed laugh line, but Abzug's journal entries are less jocular:
"I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure."
Taylor may not be trying to "knock the crap" out of the corporate power structure, but she does do a lot of training to help people recognize the Unconscious Biases That Will Not Die. Or at least That Haven't Died Yet.
Women of color in professional leadership
On the final day of the conference, I attended a workshop called "Leadership as Disruption: Women of Color and their Allies Moving Beyond the Boundaries," led by Aziza Jones, MSW. Jones challenged us to identify strategies to support and increase opportunities for women of color to lead. And also to identify ways in which we can support them as allies.
The bottom line for all of this work: Be willing to have difficult conversations. The more we can share our reality—and understand our privilege, for those of us who have it in this crazy world—the more we'll be able to connect with others. Whether those others are women of a different race, or the clueless men who ask questions like "How are you an engineer?"
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." —Alice Walker
Talk. Connect. Use your power—for yourself and for each other. It's time for us to change the world, don't you think?


Who will be the 10th Cultural Policy Research Award Winner?
2013 Call for applications now open!
The European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and ENCATC, have launched today the call for applications for the 2013 Cultural Policy Research Award (CPRA). The winner of the CPRA 2013, worth 10.000 Euro, will be publicly announced in November in Belgium during the Award Ceremony and 10th CPRA Anniversary Celebration.
Candidates (who must hold at least a M.A. degree in social sciences, art & humanities, or public policy research, and must be no older than 35 years old) must submit their applications for the 2013 CPRA by Friday, 31 May 2013 through the online application form on the CPR Award website. Before applying, they are strongly advised to consult the application guidelines.
The Cultural Policy Research Award was initiated in 2003 by the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and is developed in partnership with and managed by ENCATC since. The CPRA annual competition encourages the next generation of cultural policy researchers to undertake comparative and cross-cultural applied research that can inform policymaking and benefit practitioners active in the field. The Award is devoted to innovative research projects which contribute to new knowledge in the field. It brings visibility and recognition to young researchers and affiliates them with a community.
The prestigious international jury includes: Lluís Bonet – President (University of Barcelona, Spain), Eleonora Belfiore (University of Warwick, UK), Jacques Bonniel (Université Lyon II, France), Timo Cantell (City of Helsinki Urban Facts, Finland), Sanjin Dragojevic (University of Zagreb, Croatia), Mikhail Gnedovsky (Cultural Policy Institute, Russia), Therese Kaufmann (eipcp, Austria).
Six finalists, selected amongst all applicants, will be invited to the 7th Young Cultural Policy Researchers Forum, alongside the 21st ENCATC Annual Conference in November in Belgium, where they will present their research proposals to the CPRA Jury, Forum participants and ENCATC members and major stakeholders.