He came into our lives unexpectedly. He captured our hearts as well as those of our neighbors and strangers who became friends.
It began on a cold wintry night, about 15 years ago, in a forest area just behind our house in Kew Gardens, Queens (We live just behind Forest Park, the last great project of the city of Brooklyn in the 1890s before it was swallowed by New York City). My wife was coming home after yet another dreadful ride on the horrific state-run New York City subways.
She heard a few meows, then stopped and looked into the woods. Out from behind the trees came a friendly cat who was formally attired. He was primarily black with a touch of white. He was apparently looking for a home or perhaps had become confused about where a formal event was being held.
So began a special chapter in our lives, our special time with a wonderful friend. He took a little while to become a beloved member of our family. At first, he ran wild around our small apartment here in the heart of Bunkerland, encouraging the other two cats of the house to become a thundering herd of feline mayhem. He could be a young pain at times, knocking things over unlike most other cats who, unless it was meal time, usually had only two speeds: slow and slower.
But although my wife immediately recognized that Tuxedo was an extraordinary creature when she started walking him like a dog in the yard, it took me a little while to understand that he was unique. What got my attention was that, whenever I went to the door, Tuxedo was always with me. He wanted to go out as frequently as a dog, which meant just about all the time. Tuxedo also loved to go sun bathing (See photo above).
Once, going outside to take some garbage to the incinerator, Tuxedo, who came out with me in the hall to protect me against any criminal elements, did something extraordinary. As I scooped him up to take him back inside, he reached out with a paw to touch my beard. It was a soft, affectionate touch, the touch of a lover. It felt like he was stroking me. It was as though I was his pet instead of the other way around. He was an amazing little creature.
Tuxedo was remarkably at ease around us and everyone, especially strangers who were usually charmed by the Welcome Wagon cat. But he provided limitless charms for us, who were lucky enough to adopt him, or possibly it was the other way around since he was an atypical cat. He would jump into bed with us.
He also seemed to think I—no matter where I was—was a big comfortable bed and would lie all over me. (See photo) Indeed, the night before his death, he was lying on my legs on the living room couch, something that he had done so many times before. I wish he could do it again forever.
My favorite Tuxedo trait was when I would be lying on the couch dosing. He would come up on the couch, finding the smallest space possible next to me and squeeze in for an hour or so. As I was dosing, I could hear this lovely purring. It was very relaxing to have my little friend so close. And when I was reading on the couch or a chair, there would be Tuxedo, lying right in my lap for hours at a time. At times, he would knead me, then fall asleep on my chest. Some of my other cats would join. (See photo).
To this day, Portia, one of the other cats, likes to lie all over me. She learned that from Tuxedo.
The Tuxedo legend would grow thanks to our walks in the yard. He would often walk alongside me—his thin long tail straight up—as though we were two longtime friends out for a constitutional. Actually, we were. It was just me and my black and white shadow (See photo). I never put him on a leash, although he had a name tag. Actually, it was a World War II dog tag Suzanne purchased at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall in Pittsburgh.
We let him roam at will because that's what he enjoyed and because our wondering boy would always return. Indeed, like a dog, when I called him, he would come. He was also daring. He was a little athlete who loved to jump up on the thin rod above our shower and balance himself. Sometimes he'd be up there for hours (See photo). Just before he died, he looked up at the rod, carefully calculated his jump and successfully did it one last time. It was quite a feat for a cat who was dying.
But Tuxedo was also an acrobat outside.
He had enjoyed his adventure. Tuxedo would have made a good ambassador. He was never afraid of different things or people. He was never scared or spooked by any situation.
For example, when I'd walk Tuxedo and we would encounter little dogs, he would also let them run around him and play to their hearts' delight. However, let Tuxedo come across a dog two or three times his size, and Tuxedo was ready for a fight as he got his back up. Several times I had to pull him away. He wasn't afraid of any dog.
Tuxedo was a Courageous Cat and he helped others. Once, when my wife was having a nightmare and hollering, Tuxedo reached out with his paw and awakened her. Another time, when there was a small fire across the street in Forest Park, Tuxedo kept looking out the window until he got our attention. Through Tuxedo's alertness, my wife called the fire department.
Tuxedo was also a protector. For example, we got a new cat, a kitten, Benny. The first day he was so small he could fit in the palm of my hand. Portia tried to bully him. Tuxedo immediately started to protect Benny. It usually takes cats a few days to get used to each other. However, Tuxedo and Benny were fast friends in a few minutes and were running around together. Tuxedo became a father/big brother to Benny.
Soon Tuxedo and Benny were playing together around the hall outside together as my armed guard doubled for incinerator visits. With Tuxedo and Benny—a.k.a. Courageous Cat and his trusty sidekick Minute Mouse—I had nothing to fear when I ventured outside into an ugly part of the Rancid Apple.
Tuxedo would become a well known member of our co-op community, Hampton Court. His walks in our yard and garden became legendary. Often he was off by himself while I was reading on a bench. Neighbors and strangers were delighted by his insistence on coming right up to them and caging pets. Tuxedo might have been the most petted cat in history.
Two years ago, our beloved Tuxedo—after a long illness in which he fought to hold on because he wanted to be with us—laid down and died in the window sill looking out at the garden where we walked many times and in the woods beyond where Suzanne found him. (See photo Tuxedo in Death).
I hope Tuxedo is in a place where he is being rewarded for all the joy he brought to so many of us. We were delighted by who he was. He was beloved by many. We miss him toujours.
On wintry nights, I sometimes walk by the woods outside of Hampton Court. I often stop and listen to hear Tuxedo calling. He's not there physically. But his spirit, his heritage and memory of joy are always there for anyone who had the privilege of knowing him.


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Morski Krzyż Zasługi z Mieczami – polskie odznaczenie przyznawane żołnierzom Marynarki Wojennej i innych rodzajów Sił Zbrojnych RP za zasługi w działaniach przeciw terroryzmowi lub podczas operacji pokojowych i stabilizacyjnych, nie walczącym bezpośrednio z przeciwnikiem. Jest jednym z odznaczeń wojskowych, które nadawane są w Polsce za działania zbrojne w czasie pokoju.

Utworzenie
Krzyż ustanowiono ustawą z dnia 14 czerwca 2007 roku o zmianie ustawy z dnia 16 października 1992 roku o orderach i odznaczeniach, razem z Krzyżem Wojskowym, Wojskowym Krzyżem Zasługi, Wojskowym Krzyżem Zasługi z Mieczami, Morskim Krzyżem Zasługi, Lotniczym Krzyżem Zasługi, Lotniczym Krzyżem Zasługi z Mieczami oraz Medalem za Długoletnią Służbę. Zmiana została wprowadzona w życie 10 października 2007 roku, po upływie trzech miesięcy od momentu ogłoszenia, które nastąpiło 9 lipca. Równocześnie Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej rozporządzeniem z dnia 31 lipca 2007 roku zmienił rozporządzenie z dnia 10 listopada 1992 roku w sprawie opisu, materiału, wymiarów, wzorów rysunkowych oraz sposobu i okoliczności noszenia odznak orderów i odznaczeń.

Zgodnie z treścią wyżej wymienionej ustawy "Morski Krzyż Zasługi z Mieczami może być nadany żołnierzowi Marynarki Wojennej, a wyjątkowo żołnierzowi innego rodzaju Sił Zbrojnych Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, za sumienną służbę w czasie działań bojowych przeciwko aktom terroru w kraju lub podczas użycia Sił Zbrojnych poza granicami państwa w czasie pokoju w warunkach szczególnie niebezpiecznych, nie bezpośrednio w styczności z przeciwnikiem". W precedencji polskich odznaczeń zajmuje miejsce za Brązowym Krzyżem Zasługi i przed Wojskowym, Morskim oraz Lotniczym Krzyżem Zasługi. Jest równorzędny z Wojskowym i Lotniczym Krzyżem Zasługi z Mieczami. Nawiązuje do Medalu Morskiego, nadawanego za służbę podczas II wojny światowej.

Nadawanie
Morski Krzyż Zasługi z Mieczami nadaje Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, a wręcza osobiście lub przez osobę przez niego upoważnioną, z inicjatywy własnej lub na wniosek ministra właściwego do spraw obrony. Prezydent ma również prawo do pozbawienia Krzyża osoby nim odznaczonej. Krzyż jest przyznawany nie później niż trzy lata od zakończenia działań bojowych, a można go otrzymać dwukrotnie.

Wygląd
Oznaką Morskiego Krzyża Zasługi z Mieczami jest 40 mm równoramienny krzyż kawalerski o wyciętych półkoliście ramionach, wyoblony od strony lica, srebrzony i oksydowany. W środku znajduje się wypukłe zbrojne ramię Marynarki Wojennej. Rewers krzyża składa się z centralnie umieszczonego trzywierszowego napisu "POLSKA SWEMU OBROŃCY" oraz gałązek wawrzynu na ramionach poziomych. Odznaczenie zawieszone jest na ciemnoniebieskiej wstędze szerokości 38 mm z czterema białymi pasami szerokości 2 mm, umieszczonymi po bokach i wzdłuż boków w odległości 10 mm od siebie. Pomiędzy krzyżem a wstęgą znajdują się na pierścieniu dwa skrzyżowane miecze, srebrzone i oksydowane, ostrzami skierowane ku górze. Drugie nadanie Morskiego Krzyża Zasługi z Mieczami oznaczane jest poprzez nałożenie na wstędze okucia szerokości 5 mm w kształcie srebrnej listwy, ozdobionej wypukłymi splotami liści dębowych. Kolory baretki są identyczne ze wstęgą Krzyża, a w jej środku umiejscowione są dwa skrzyżowane miecze, srebrzone i oksydowane, skierowane ostrzami w górę. W przypadku kolejnego nadania odznaczenia pod miecze podkłada się okucie.

Zobacz też
 Order Krzyża Wojskowego
 Krzyż Wojskowy

Bibliografia
 Ustawa z dnia 14 czerwca 2007 r. o zmianie ustawy o orderach i odznaczeniach
 Rozporządzenie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 31 lipca 2007 r. zmieniające rozporządzenie w sprawie opisu, materiału, wymiarów, wzorów rysunkowych oraz sposobu i okoliczności noszenia odznak orderów i odznaczeń

Polskie odznaczenia wojskowe

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A: I would try both ways because you don't really know how successful your "detrending" will be. If you get the same answer both ways, that is great news because it means you likely have a really strong difference. If not, you need to examine the data more closely to see which has fewer issues. It would also be helpful if you had data from the same time period but a year before (assuming all other things stayed constant).
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THE ENEMY WITHIN provides unique insight into one of the most dramatic events in British history: the 1984-85 Miners' Strike. No experts. No politicians. Thirty years on, this is the raw first-hand experience of those who lived through Britain's longest strike. Follow the highs and lows of that life-changing year.
In 1984, a Conservative government under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared war on Britain's unions, taking on the strongest in the country, the National Union of Mineworkers. Following a secret plan, the government began announcing the closure of coal mines, threatening not just an industry but whole communities and a way of life.
Against all the forces the government could throw at them, 160,000 coal miners took up the fight. THE ENEMY WITHIN tells the story of a group of miners and supporters who were on the frontline of that strike for an entire year. These were people that Margaret Thatcher labelled 'the enemy within'.
Using interviews and a wealth of rare and never before seen archival footage, THE ENEMY WITHIN draws together personal experiences - whether they're tragic, funny or terrifying - to take the audience on an emotionally powerful journey through the dramatic events of that year.
Contains strong language.
The feature film PRIDE is based on the LGBT community's participation in the strike.
'Gripping, timely...The miner narrators take us into the fierce heat of the battle and remind us the struggle for good jobs, livable communities, and dignity for all is far from over. This is an inspiring, beautifully-rendered film of resistance that reveals how today's economic and political crises came to be.' Dorothy Sue Cobble, Distinguished Professor of History and Labor Studies, Rutgers University
'A sympathetic and insightful portrait of one of the most important strikes in recent history...Highly recommended.' P. Hall, Video Librarian
'Moving and powerful, this movie shows how manipulative political power can be but also how passionate and irresistible the struggle for justice is. It redresses history and proves the neo-liberals are the enemies of democracy.' Nadia Urbinati, Professor of Political Theory, Columbia University
'A compelling testament to the power of solidarity...Feminist, LGBT, and Black Power organizations all had a hand in gathering money and supplies...The Enemy Within is not only a compelling account of social struggle, and the methods the miners employed to carry on, but it also serves as an inspiration towards another way of thinking about and conceiving politics.' Riad Azar, Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture
'By listening to the stories of these miners, our lives and our work can improve...This film could provoke interesting classroom conversations about the power of the people, appropriate power of the state, and the rights given to corporations. Students and community groups can also learn much from this film about tactics for nonviolent activism and its costs and rewards.' Whole Terrain Journal
'Vital and valuable...Students and community activists alike can only benefit from revisiting this prolonged clash between a trade union committed to social justice and a government prepared to use excessive force to permanently weaken the voice of labor. The unfinished agenda left to us by those battling miners is one that deserves to be renewed and pursued by a new generation of progressive activists. The Enemy Within can be an effective trigger to that renewal.' David Coates, Professor and Chair, Anglo-American Studies, Wake Forest University, Author, Prolonged Labour: The Slow Birth of New Labour Britain
'I can't express enough my admiration for Owen Gower's remarkable film. It moved and inspired me. Everyone - not only in Britain - should see this superb film.' John Pilger, Journalist and Filmmaker
'Help[s] us understand the bleak conditions that we face today...If you want to understand how we ended up with the austerity regime that prevails in all industrial countries in the West and in Japan, there are a number of strikes whose outcome would determine economic conditions for decades to come.' Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
'Highly recommended, especially for public and college library and DVD shelves.' The Midwest Book Review
'Finally, a documentary as sweeping and dramatic as the momentous strike it chronicles. Narrated by the rank-and-file miners, wives, and supporters who waged it, replete with vivid historical footage, and informed by recently uncovered documentary evidence, this film recounts a turning point defeat for trade unionism that helped usher an era of growing inequality not only in Great Britain but across the West. The struggle between Margaret Thatcher and the miners resonates down to the present day.' Joseph McCartin, Professor of History, Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown University
'Interweaving personal stories with archival clips and reenactment footage, the film follows the miners as they walk off the job...Interesting for providing firsthand accounts of the historic strike, the film highlights the price union members paid for standing up for their beliefs and ideals.' Candace Smith, Booklist
'[The film] presents this lived experience economically and with great force, focused intently on faces and voices of men and women as they channel a wide range of decades-old emotions. They exalt in their erstwhile power, reveal sharp personal disappointment at the absence of support from other unions or the Labour Party, and cry as they recall defeat. Particularly memorable is the unanimous conviction that the strike really had stakes and really could have been won.' Tim Barker, Dissent Magazine
'A raw and moving portrait of the dispute...showing events from the perspective of those who manned the picket lines.' Jonathan Wright, BBC History Magazine's DVDs of the Year
'A powerful story...Seeing the brutal tactics deployed by the government and how the police and media went along with these crimes shocks the viewer. But the response of the miners will empower anyone who watches the film for the hope of a better future.' Dr. Eric Loomis, Assistant Professor of History, University of Rhode Island
'This film is important because if we forget what happened during the miners' strike then we are weakening ourselves and disarming ourselves for the future. Let's analyze what happened...Let's make sure we build a strong trade union and labour movement that can prevent another Margaret Thatcher.' Jeremy Corbyn, newly elected Leader of the Labour Party, Member of Parliament for Islington North
'A documentary as gripping as any thriller. Thirty years on, the strike looks like a civil war that turned into a siege, during which the insurgents were starved into submission...The Conservative government planned nothing less than the emasculation of union power by abolishing the domestic coal industry, and was quite uninterested in what all those irredeemable non-Tory voters were supposed to do for a living afterwards...Gower's film is a heartfelt tribute to the communities who were hammered by political, not economic, forces. They look bloodied, but unbowed.' Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
'Too few Americans know the story of the 1984-85 British miners' strike; The Enemy Within tells it beautifully. Drawing on colorful archival footage and lively interviews, this is an important and entertaining film, with lessons about labor, politics, and the importance of solidarity that echo with relevance today.' Erik Linstrum, Assistant Professor of History, University of Virginia, Author, Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire
'An eloquent and passionate oral history about what it felt like to be on the losing side, but the side of the angels, during one of the most significant turning points in modern British social, economic and political history.' The Independent
'Historically, the collective strength of coal miners was one of the engines of 20th century democracy, essential to the British labor movement's influence...Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government understood this and decided to break the union. They succeeded ruthlessly...Three decades later, The Enemy Within tells this story vividly and movingly, as men and women from the mining communities recall their involvement against footage and photographs from the time.' Geoff Eley, Professor of Contemporary History, University of Michigan
'Tells the story...with the most impressive set of archive footage ever assembled...[T]he idea that the police could stage a mass violation of civil liberties, subjecting tens of thousands of people to arbitrary detentions and the military occupation of their villages - most of it barely reported by the mainstream media - will seem weird to young audiences now. If the miners had possessed smartphones, Twitter and the Human Rights Act - let alone Al-Jazeera and Russia Today - the outcome might have been different.' Paul Mason, The Guardian
'Lovingly made, beautifully shot and wonderfully soundtracked - this is timely, important and truthful cinema, at once bitter, nostalgic and unexpectedly uplifting.' Tom Huddlestone, Time Out
'Heartbreaking. Infuriating. Necessary. The Enemy Within offers a people's history of one of the defining events in modern British history. It should find a place in any course that covers the late-twentieth century.' Guy Ortolano, Associate Professor of History, New York University, Author, The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature, and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain
'There has been no other piece of work so far that has made this conflict feel so alive and, most crucially, relevant to our own day and age.' Gary Green, Quietus
'The complex and violent drama of the miner's strike is captured in this brilliantly calibrated British documentary...This is a well-honed people's history with little in the way of dramatization...And those who care anything for contemporary struggles can find themes that recur today across the world. In the ashes of the pits - which all disappeared within ten years of the strike - remains a little anti-establishment fire and legible notes on how to take on an adversary ten times your size.' Sophie Monks Kaufman, Little White Lies
'Brilliantly done and deadly serious, yet not without humor.' Jason Solomon, Daily Mail
'Eye-opening, often moving, sometimes funny, frequently shocking...A sober and surprisingly affirming film about then, and now.' New Internationalist
'The mainstream media didn't tell the truth about the miners' strike when it happened. And the same lies are still being told. It's therefore important that we tell this story.' Ken Loach, Filmmaker
'A superb film...For educators and general audiences, the film powerfully illustrates how an inspiring solidarity-'something to behold'-staved off ascendant capital to remind us that 'the future is still up for grabs.'' Laurie Mercier, Professor of History, Washington State University, Co-author, Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry
Gower, Owen (film director)
Gower, Owen (film producer)
Kirwan, Sinead (film producer)
Lacey, Mark (film producer)
Hird, Christopher (film producer)
Simons, Mike (film producer)
Lavington, Amelia (producer)
Wilkinson, Gerard (producer)
Hadley, Malcolm (director of photography)
Edmunds, Paul (editor of moving image work)
Executive producers, Christopher Hird and Mike Simons; edit producer, Amelia Lavington; archive producer, Gerard Wilkinson; director of photography, Malcolm Hadley; Editor, Paul Edmunds.
Economic Anthropology
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British miners' strike, Margaret Thatcher, war on the unions, Britain longest strike, England, Conservative government, National Union of Mineworkers, Arthur Scargill, Ridley Plan, Ian MacGregor, National Coal Board, NACODS, picketing, Yorkshire, Nottingham, David Jones death, Ollerton, Battle of Orgreave, police brutality, South Yorkshire police, South Wales, Trades Union Congress, women's contribution, gay activists, movie Pride; "The Enemy Within"; Bullfrog Films
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Grade: 9 - 12, College, Adults
Included in Collections: The Docuseek2 Complete Collection 2nd Edition, The Docuseek2 Essential Collection, The Docuseek Canadian Collection 2nd Edition, The Bullfrog Films Collection, The Psychology and Mental Health Collection, Labor History, The Women's Studies Collection, The Business and Economics Collection, Pride Month Sampler, The Anthropology Collection

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Visit to Wick Farm, Burnham-on-Crouch May 2013
Photo by Brian Whitehead
The collective noun for Skylarks is 'an exaltation' and had it not been for the overcast skies and an earlier brief shower of rain I am sure we would have seen a greater number as there are around 20-30 breeding pairs on the farm. A little later when the sun appeared several male skylarks ascended steeply upwards, hung in the sky warbling with gusto before dropping back to the ground.
Wick Farm extends to 220 hectares of which the majority is given over to mixed arable farming. Martin Smith, who owns the farm, has a great interest in birds and wildlife and we were very pleased that he could spare the time to escort the sixteen members of the Bird Group who attended today, on a 'walk-talk' around the farm. He told us that this year everything was about three weeks behind. Near the farmhouse and adjacent outbuilding 6-7 pairs of swallows were nesting and in a nest box there had earlier been a breeding Barn Owl but sadly the outcome was not a happy one – but it did give Martin a chance to clear the box ready for the next residents. In another barn a bird visited frequently to roost and visible signs were on the floor. On inspection the many pellets were found to contain much soft matter but with no sign of bones, and Martin explained they could only be from a Kestrel.
Walking east along the main track we reached a field recently sown with bird mix which Starlings were enjoying in great numbers as well as a Pied Wagtail and also a group of Linnets a small, lively and sociable finch with the male now sporting its pink-red chest. According to the RSPB the Linnet is a Red Status bird that is it has 'the highest conservation priority, with species needing urgent action'.
Martin had hoped to attract Corn Buntings by planting specific winter bird food for them and we did see several but he has competition from across the river at Wallasea and fears many have found a new home there. On the western margin of this field is sown a section of wildflower mix. Elsewhere our local beekeeper (our Chairman, Peter) has some hives so as you can see this farm is doing a great deal to help the birds and the wildlife in general.
Not only is it birds that visit here but badger, hare, fox, water voles and the occasional muntjac deer but fortunately not rabbit or mink. Partridge and Turtle Doves are also not present this year.
A short way on is a copse which unfortunately is 80% Ash so it is a waiting game to see if Ash Die-back will affect them all: the disease has apparently now reached South Woodham Ferrers. On the bright side smaller trees planted from seeds from passing birds are already starting to get established so if the Ash does die nature will take over and the new growth shoot up into the vacant spaces. A nest box placed high in the trees is home to Stock Doves and also a Sparrow Hawk is nesting in the trees. The reservoir had Coot and Tufted Ducks on it and here Tern platforms have been built: we saw Common Terns flying by but they haven't as yet used the platforms.
Sometimes one's best efforts are not successful and today we shared with Martin one of his disappointments. We were looking across a field to 'the scrape', a reed edged pond, and beyond that behind a fence extends a field of crops. Sheep have 'closely' grazed the field around 'the scrape'. The combination of these factors provides the right environment to encourage Lapwings to breed and raise their young. It was thought that at least one pair had successfully bred this year. Today though two Crows were confidently walking near the nest site and with no apparent defence of the site from the Lapwings Martin concluded they were no longer there. To make matters worse a male Marsh Harrier was also present and shortly after a female too – even worse for the Lapwings. An informative sign details the making of 'the scrape' and says that in previous years some Lapwings have bred successfully. There are several of these informative signs around the farm.
Although the Marsh Harriers were bad news for the Lapwings we were thrilled to see them and equally later in the day to see a Hobby as it flew by. The Hobby is unusual among European falcons as it is a summer visitor from Africa arriving here in April and leaving in October.
We heard the Reed Warbler before we saw it quite well hidden amongst the reeds and a surprise was seeing a Blue Tit feeding there, hanging upside down. Many seabirds flew over including Redshank and a selection of Gulls.
We saw and learnt a lot of interesting things today and I think that had we been without the guidance of Martin we would not have been able to identify some of the birds nor would we have found others and we certainly would not have known who occupied which nest box and what was going on with the farm itself; we were very grateful to have had the chance to share his knowledge. Thanks also to Jimmy & Barbara for making 'the caravan' available to us.
Birds identified: Great and Blue Tits, Chaffinch, Sparrow, Blackbird, Starling, Pied Wagtail, Linnet, Skylark, Corn Bunting, Reed Warbler, Swallow, Collared Dove, Wood Pigeon, Rook, Crow, Magpie, Tufted Duck, Coot, Mallard, Marsh Harrier, Hobby, Common Tern, Black-headed, Herring & Black-backed Gulls.
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Companies like Waze, Viber, and ICQ and many others were all founded and developed in Israel.
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Emerging from within an entrepreneurial culture that pursues rapid results and quick, smart technological solutions to common problems, Israeli new media companies are vital players in an increasingly digital world.
Israeli companies span the range of new media possibilities, including content creation, delivery and management, broadcast, digital & cable TV, interactive TV, IPTV and satellite services, online advertising, e-commerce, optimization, analytics, and user interface solutions.
Israeli companies are sought after by media outlets, operators, and content providers for their novelty and utility, which create a rich user experience while increasing revenue.
As a top national priority, Homeland Security in Israel is more than just an exportable commodity. Israel's self-reliance has created a diversified and cutting-edge security industry, adding innovation to existing technologies as well as developing new ones. Today Israel has earned a worldwide reputation for providing leading security solutions and continues to successfully partner with key world players to protect airports, seaports, government offices, financial institutions, recreational facilities, etc.
Since its founding, Israel has been coping with water scarcity and treating the subject as a national priority. The country has constantly been developing novel and efficient water technologies, which can benefit the world as it is increasingly dealing with water scarcity concerns due to global warming.
Some 97 percent of Israel's wastewater is used for agriculture and irrigation; putting it leaps and bounds ahead of terms of world standards.
Israeli programs for accelerating water innovation are being replicated in Singapore and Korea, and leading international players are continually investing in this market in Israel, making it a particularly exciting field in which to become involved.
Israeli companies undoubtedly enjoy an exclusive advantage in the global cosmetics and toiletries industry. Direct access to the Dead Sea and its natural minerals and vital ingredients, provides the healthiest production environment on earth and grants Israeli companies like Dead Sea Beauty Products, an incredible competitive edge in the cosmetics market. Many Israeli companies combine advanced science with the natural resources of the Dead Sea, renowned as a unique health and spa site, to produce top of the line cosmetic products. Salts, black mud, and other rich minerals have supported the global success of the Israeli cosmetics industry which exports an annual $ 165 million.
Israel is an internationally recognized leader in cutting-edge agricultural advancements. The country's elevated level of innovation in this field is due to the close cooperation between scientists, extension advisers, farmers, and agriculture-related industries, who contribute to the manufacturing of advanced technologies used locally and around the world.
IWhile Israel does not engage in large-scale vehicle manufacturing, more than 100 Israeli manufacturers supply systems, parts, modules and tooling to both original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and the secondary market. Originally established to support, among others, the security and aircraft industries, Israeli companies have successfully adapted relevant technologies that were utilized for the military to civilian uses and made themselves a prominent technology destination for global companies in the field.
Once known exclusively for its fresh citrus produce and processed citrus products, Israel is now renowned for its vibrant, fast-growing food and beverage industry. European, Middle Eastern and North African cuisines blend to create a diverse array of original Mediterranean-style foods, most of which are kosher certified. Israel's dynamic food and beverage industry produce gourmet foods, high-quality ingredients, and rich ethnic cuisine. In addition to Israel's signature produce, the country has also earned a reputation for producing innovative, nutritious and delicious processed foods as well as a celebrated collection of fine gourmet wine.
An IT Powerhouse by the early 1990's, IT exports from Israel totaled $90 million. In 2000, that figure was up to $2.6 billion. Today, IT exports have topped $3.6 billion, representing over one-quarter of all technology exports from Israel and almost one-tenth of the total national export. Additionally, the Israeli software sector draws over one-third of all foreign investment in Israel. Israel's unique geographic, geopolitical, demographic, and cultural characteristics have combined to create a genuinely different software development climate – where innovation and entrepreneurship is the norm, early adoption is the rule, and innovative thinking is a day to day phenomenon.
The concept of advanced manufacturing is not new, though in recent years certain advanced technologies have created a tipping point that may lead to radical changes in traditional manufacturing processes. Over the past few years, Israel has experienced significant growth in these technologies include big data and cloud, sensing systems and powerful advanced processors; widespread additive manufacturing technologies; industrial robots, with rapidly developing abilities and decreasing costs; and information technology (IT), enabling new models of collaboration.
The Dental industry is a thriving field in Israel reflecting local innovation and technological development capabilities. In recent years, there have been quite a few acquisitions of Israeli companies by large international companies. Due to the skills of the chip industry in the metal industry, most of the dental industry in Israel has focused on implants and has become a leading player in the field. Israel is also a key player in providing a variety of other industry solutions, including the field of 3D printing and imaging.
According to the 2014 Global Cleantech Innovation Index, Israel has the most potential to start and commercialize clean-tech companies.
Israel is number one in reusing its water. Some 97 percent of its wastewater is used for agriculture and irrigation; while Spain is at 16%. Israel is many levels ahead of standards in the world.
Israeli programs for accelerating water innovation are being replicated around the world and international players in the investment space in Israel, like the IMF unit of the World Bank or Schneider Electric, are taking the energy sector to the next level.
Israeli ingenuity is widely known for being responsible for some of the world's most amazing medical advancements. Israel's robust life science industry is dealing with a wide-ranging spectrum of fields. From startups developing new cancer-targeting therapeutics, advanced genomic research for precision medicine, and the latest sensing technology to be integrated to your connected devices.
Whether futuristic, such as Given Imaging's PillCam capsule endoscopy or Itamar Medical's fingertip monitors for sleep disorders and cardiac issues — or cleverly simple, such as First Care Products' Emergency Bandage – Israeli inventions are changing the face of healthcare in hospitals, doctors' offices, homes and even battlefields worldwide.
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A Tesla ModelS running Autopilot crashed into two stationed patrol vehicles in Taiwan National Freeway No.3. On Dec 11th, two patrol units were dispatched to Taiwan National Freeway no.3 to redirect traffic due to a car accident. While two police officers redirecting traffic on scene, an approaching Tesla ModelS did not notice the traffic ahead and crashed into the two stopped patrol vehicles.
Local authorities is now investigating the accident, but the cause of the accident is questionable.
First, according to the owner, the Tesla ModelS was running on Autopilot and that he fall asleep immediately after.
If the autopilot system is engaged,it should have notice the slow traffic ahead and stop the vehicle, instead it crashed into two patrol cars.
Secondly, did the Tesla Autopilot disengaged before the accident? The driver of the Tesla was found sleeping in car at the time of accident, which is a possible cause for Tesla Autopilot to disengage since when no hand is detected on the steering wheel for a period of time, the car will disengage the auto steering.
Perhaps, the Tesla owner should not 100% rely on the Autopilot system; like Tesla suggested, it is a driving assist system and driver should stay alert to traffic situations at all time while engaging Autopilot.
A video footage was uploaded to Facebook on Nov 1st, showing that a same white Tesla ModelS (with same license plate) was spotted cruising on National Freeway and suspected the Tesla was running with Autopilot since the driver was spotted sleeping at the time.
The driver of the Tesla ModelS in the accident later said Autopilot was activated initially but later deactivated before the accident happened, and that he did not have the habit of sleeping while driving. The driver in the video footage uploaded to social media was his friend!


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Trying to squeeze in one more Easter-ish treat before Sunday!
Not going to lie, I was pretty convinced at one point during the cinnamon-roll-making-process that these were 100% a fail. And then they did fail. I had this moment where I thought, "Do I really want to make these again?" Then I sighed and thought…Yeahhh. I was really dreading repeating the whole process of mixing up the dough, letting it rise, rolling it out, cutting it into slices, letting it rise again, and then baking them.
That's a lot of steps, you know?
But the biggest thing that was holding me back?
This is the first time I've ever made homemade cinnamon rolls! Sometimes things work out the first time you make them, but I figured that probably wouldn't be the case with these. I just haven't made many homemade breads and pastries, and honestly, they intimidate me a little bit.
I feel like I have to be honest with you about something else too.
I don't like carrot cake.
I don't like veggies in my baked goods! I just don't. I don't like zucchini in them or rhubarb, or any of the other vegetables that show up in cakes and quick breads. But if you have been following this blog for any length of time, you also know that I don't like chunks of things in baked goods either. I seriously tried to chop these carrots as small as I could, and after baking the rolls, they really aren't that noticeable. They're there, but it isn't like you take a bite and end up with a mouth full of carrots.
But if you're a carrot cake fan and you don't mind chunky sweets, these are totally for you! Even as someone who claims she doesn't like carrot cake, these were really good. My parents raved about them and they can get down with some carrot cake!
To make these cinnamon rolls carrot cake flavored, I took some classic cinnamon rolls and added shredded carrots and crushed pineapple to the dough. For some reason, I just knew adding those two things would mess up the whole process. Just knew it. But I was wrong!
The filling is a classic brown sugar cinnamon filling, but I think you should definitely consider adding chopped pecans if you like pecans. I tried really hard not drizzle this cream cheese glaze directly into my mouth, and you may have similar issues. But I strongly suggest you actually put it on the cinnamon rolls instead.
Sprinkling some chopped pecans and shredded coconut on top of these babies would definitely take them over the top. I had a giant bowl of toasted coconut leftover from these Bird's Nest Cakes, and was really sad when I realized I'd forgotten about it. So definitely add those two things!
Pretty sure you have a special brunch coming up this weekend, so if you're making cinnamon rolls, add in a few extras and bam. Carrot Cake Cinnamon Rolls.
Combine first 3 ingredients in a glass measuring cup and let it stand for five minutes.
In the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, beat butter at medium speed until smooth and creamy.
Add sugar and mix on medium speed until fluffy.
Add the eggs and milk and mix well.
Stir in the yeast mixture.
Next add in cinnamon, and with the mixer on low speed, slowly add in the flour. Mix until all the flour is incorporated.
Add carrots and crushed pineapple and mix until it's evenly distributed throughout the dough.
Sprinkle the additional flour onto a flat surface and turn out the dough. Knead the dough for about five minutes, until smooth and elastic. Add up to 1/4 cup flour if necessary if the dough sticks to your hands or the surface.
Place dough in a lightly greased large bowl, turning to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place (85°), draft-free place for about 2 hours, or until doubled in bulk.
AFter the dough has risen, punch it down in the bowl and turn out onto a lightly floured surface.
Roll into a 16- x 12-inch rectangle and spread with 1/2 cup very soft butter, leaving a 1-inch border around edges.
Stir together brown sugar, granulated sugar, and cinnamon. Sprinkle the cinnamon-sugar mixture over butter. Sprinkle with chopped pecans.
Spray two 9 inch pans with non-stick spray.
Roll up the dough from the shorter side. Using flavorless dental floss or a sharp knife, cut 1 inch slices and place them in the prepared pans.
Cover and let rise in a warm place (85º), draft-free place for about 1 hour or until doubled in bulk.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and bake for 20-22 minutes, or until rolls are golden brown. Let the cinnamon rolls cool in the pans for about 10 minutes.
Beat cream cheese on medium-high speed until smooth and creamy.
Add milk and powdered sugar. Mix on low speed until mostly combined. Then mix on medium speed until completely smooth and there are no lumps.
If the glaze is too thick, add a tablespoon of milk until the desired consistency is reached.
Drizzle glaze over warm cinnamon rolls. Sprinkle with coconut if desired.
These were over the top AWESOME!!!
^ meant to say, thanks so much for sharing the recipe!
Okay, 1) that first cinnamon roll looks like a heart, totally cute. 2) I also am terrified of veggies in my baked goods and 3) I am also quite intimidated by breads etc. Seems like so much time and effort, but then you are always happy when it's finished and your kitchen smells awesome! These looks amazing Beth.
I give you major props for trying these again… rolling and waiting for the bread to rise is always a pain. But I am so glad you stuck with it because these look amazing! Carrot cake in a cinnamon roll? Delicious!
Beth, these look just amazing! What a perfect recipe for Easter brunch!! I think cinnamon rolls can be so tricky, but they are delicious – I really need to make them more often!!
Mmm … sort of combining a cinnamon roll with carrot cake actually seems like a perfect match to me. I actually love carrot cake, so this is definitely up my street. Neeed to pin this!
Two attempt really isn't bad for your first time. I love that you added carrots and pineapple to the dough–love! These really do look wonderful.
Whoa. Just whoa! Carrot cake cinnamon rolls?! I am beyond impressed! You nailed this one Beth, especially with the dough and filling combo. You do deliver, right?
Beth, you are an evil genius!! I'm kind of bummed that I didn't see this post before Easter, but no matter–I'm pretty sure carrot cake cinnamon rolls are good any day of the year!
Oh my.. these look delicious!
I love carrot cake and I love cinnamon rolls so I would double love these!


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How to Pick up The Right Hair Color Looks Best With Hazel Eyes?
Having hazel eyes can give you the chance to experiment with lots of different hair tones which can bring out various colours in your eyes as well as your skin tone.
Even when you plan to lighten your hair just at your home, if you choose the right hair dye, then you can return to your originally natural colour when you choose.
Here are some tips that you need to be aware of when choosing the right hair colour for your hazel eyes.
The first idea that you can try is knowing your coloring. More often than not, the skin tones of those who have hazel eyes can range from fair ivory to medium caramel.
No matter what colour of the shade of the complexion, it is absolutely the undertones of your skin which will be the influential impact on which colours will look most stunning on you.
In order to figure out if you have warm tone, cool tone, or neutral tone, you can take one piece of silver as well as one piece of gold jewelry.
After that, you can put on earrings or simply hold your necklace or just watch up to your face and figure out which one looks nicer on you. if it is the gold, then you possibly have warm undertones; if it appears to be silver, they are most likely cool undertones.
However, if you cannot say which one appears most obviously, then you tend to have neutral-toned undertones. Well, I guess it is always important to find out your skin undertones.


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Estonia's Public Procurement Complaints Board (Riigihangete vaidlustuskomisjon (VAKO) has rejected an appeal by virtual flag carrier Nordica (EE, Tallinn Lennart Meri) against a decision that nullified its subsidiary Regional Jet's contract to serve Saaremaa, the Baltic country's biggest island, the Estonian broadcaster ERR has reported.
In early June, the Estonian Road Administration (Maanteeamet), the authority responsible for Saaremaa's transport links with the mainland, declared the award of a Public Service Obligation (PSO) route between Tallinn Lennart Meri and Kuressaare invalid, leaving it unclear who would operate the route.
Regional Jet had won the contract for the route, which until then had been operated by Lithuania's TransAviaBaltika (KTB, Kaunas). Nordica won an appeal against that decision in early May. Now VAKO has rejected Nordica's appeal.
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Posted: December 6, 2012 | Author: egghead23 | Filed under: blogging, Day-to-Day, family, friends, kids, parenting | Tags: 2012, Book of Mormon, End of Year meme, George Clooney, memories, Potter Puppet Pals, Thinkit | Leave a comment
One of the problems I have every year with these prompts is that it takes me a day or two to think of an answer. That being said, I'm sure you will look at a few of these and think, That took her time to come up with? Jeez. Click!
December 3 – If you could meet someone new in 2013, who would it be? Or would you rather spend more time with someone you already know?
No, I do a pretty good job of socializing as it is. I'm kind of making a career of it. Who would I like to meet in 2013? Anyone but my maker.
December 4 – What was the wisest decision you made this year?
They ask this one every year, and if I can think of anything, it's stupid material stuff. I got a minivan that has made it easier to load the kids into the car and has cut down the squabble factor. I bought a new toaster oven that seems to do the trick. I started Practice What You Pinterest, but I can't say that has turned out to be wise. Decisions? I didn't really make any major ones this year, and I make too many little ones every day to single any out.
Oh, wait! I decided to avoid MSG. It's made a world of difference with my migraines. That counts as wise, right?
December 5 – Interview 3 people about their favorite moments of the year. Share what you heard.
This was a fun one, and I actually got several good answers:
Michelle H. said that her best moment was her sister's wedding and seeing her own daughters all dressed up for the event. She also enjoyed a moment the day before the wedding when she threatened to bitch-slap her sister.
Nadia had two as well. First was the day (May 23, 2012) when she had lost enough weight to fit back into her wedding gown. (Way to go, Nadia! I've kissed my gown goodnight until my daughter can wear it.) And October 31st, when she had officially lost 100 pounds.
That is one FINE looking man. I bet he smells better than cinnamon.
Robin said the day after Election Day was the best moment for her. (Yes, many of us felt we could breathe easier that day…)
Meredeth gave some silly story about her daughter becoming potty trained, until she remembered that she had met George Clooney. Not to belittle A's milestone, but duh, M. I would deal with diapers for a decade to have that guy press his shoulder into mine like that.
Michelle M. enjoyed seeing her daughter graduate high school to go study veterinary medicine.
Several friends said that their moment was when Notre Dame beat USC to go to the National Championship.
Three friends had babies this year, so those moments trumped all the others for them.
Kelly's daughter underwent surgery that changed her life for the better.
Bill got pulled onstage during a concert to sing and dance with the band.
Kevin had a great one too. He said his moment was seeing his wife present their son with his high school diploma on a stage, where they shared an affectionate whisper. It was a message. "Tell Dad," the graduate said, "the Phillies are tied in the tenth."
For me, there were a million little moments. Edison's excitement waiting in the audience at Asbury Lanes for the Potter Puppet Pals to begin; watching Craig, one of my fellow wizards "bonding" with two "gnomes" made out of potatoes, while sitting on a bench looking serenely at the lake; laughing with Manfrengensen until tears came out of our eyes; asking Clooney whether I tell him I love him enough and his response, "Uh, duh"; laughs with my lady friends who lunch/and/or/breakfast at Panera; hearing my son referred to as "a ringer" during a Quidditch match; meeting our new niece and our new nephew; almost passing out while driving Manfrengensen to the hospital after his bike accident; holding my daughter's hand; watching her try on the shoes I wore to my wedding; The Book of Mormon. I'm surrounded by magic every single day.
December 6 – How do you want get involved in your community this year?
I did a lot this year to get involved in my community. I still cook once a month for a local soup kitchen, and I started teaching Sunday school. I will continue to do those things in the coming year, and I will look for other opportunities, chiefly ones that involve aiding the poor in our area.
So there, all caught up…now let me get to the myriad other things I have on the docket today.
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In this article, we conclude our conversation with Chief Len Garis of the Surrey Fire and Rescue Service in British Columbia, Canada. You can find the first two parts here and here. In this final part of the interview, we talk about the resources that are available to fire services who are looking to use evidence to inform their prevention efforts.
Darkhorse: So we've talked about the benefits - and the benefits are compelling. But do you have any sense of the cost of doing targeted inspections?
Len Garis: Most of them are sunk costs. I have an inspection division of 9 people, who are full-time inspectors. They take care of roughly half of the inspections. The other half are handled by suppression crews on duty - roughly 420 full-time staff.
Darkhorse: Were there any challenges - cultural or expectations - for your suppression crews? A big part of their job is now on prevention as opposed to suppression.
Len Garis: When I arrived here they were already doing inspections, so there wasn't a big change. Nevertheless, we carefully measure what we do. And it's been such an obvious success that they buy into it. Knowing what we deliver and what we're getting for that delivery is extremely important.
Darkhorse: For someone considering this, say a chief or prevention officer, what advice would you give them?
Len Garis: Make sure that they match their problems to the remedies. They need to know what are their causational issues, compliance rates, type of demography, both in the residential and in the commercial spheres. Make sure they do the work. You can't just cookie cutter the policy that's working here in Surrey for some other community without making sure that you understand the problem fully.
That's my strongest piece of advice. Just because it worked in Surrey doesn't mean it will work in Calgary or Halifax because the problems are different.
That said, doing nothing is no better than doing the wrong thing.
Darkhorse: So you'd suggest that others look at their own data - demography, compliance, etc., compare it to their fire rates, and see what is driving their community risks?
Len Garis: Absolutely, but before that, we've provided some resources to get you started. We've just posted a study that we finished in June about targeted residential fire risk. It summarizes the risk areas in Canada.
There are five risk criteria for residential fires based on publicly available data: People over 65 or under 6, single parents, unemployed residents, and high mobility people - people who move frequently. We identify the top regions in the country that have the highest concentrations of these traits. Using this as a criteria, I can tell you that there are 1.3 million households representing 3.5 million people that would fit the criteria of "higher risk".
We make this list of neighbourhoods available at the city and provincial level so that the local services have somewhere to start. Basically, we've created a list of the households who are most likely to experience a death or injury from fire.
If you just focus on those, it becomes very, very doable in most communities. One still needs to look at their community and say "How many people do I have like that?" and, "Are the problems the same?" I.e. lack of fire safety education, lack of a working smoke alarm, etc. But this is a very good starting place if you want to validate this for your neighbourhoods and start doing these types of targeted inspections on residential properties.
Darkhorse: As a starting point, you'd suggest take a look at these, look at your own community through this lens. Maybe you only have small numbers of people in your community who match this criteria, or maybe they're not concentrated in a geographic area. But then you're saying take the next step and see if there are other issues, do a bit of the research by joining together the incident data and the inspection data to try to see the correlations between them. There are other factors you should be including in your community, is that correct?
Len Garis: That's exactly right. You may discover different issues in your community, but you need to do the work to discover that.
Darkhorse: Are you aware of other jurisdictions, even outside of Canada that are using similar approaches to targeted inspections?
Len Garis: Yeah, actually there's a group, albeit small, through the NFPA that have come together. They call it Smart Enforcement and there's an exchange on the NFPA website. There's quite a number of interesting initiatives going on. There was actually a presentation at the NFPA conference in Las Vegas just a few months ago.
It was really exciting to see how this approach of using science to focus on priorities is growing. The prescriptive approach seems to be changing across North America. In fact, NFPA is trying to come up with some fundamental risk models that people might be able to use and apply generically. I think it's a tall order, but it's definitely heading in the right direction.
Darkhorse: Can you provide us with some of the links to this research and resources?
Len Garis: Sure. All of it is found on our Research Centre website. The whole site is full or resources for transitioning to an evidence-based model.


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Headline : Lexus Unveils Electric LF-30 Concept With Drone-Deploying Capabilities
Caption : Lexus has teased its first electric car at the 46th Tokyo Motor Show with the debut of its LF-30 concept.
The car, according to the automaker, embodies the 'Lexus electrified' vision and features autonomous driving and drone support technologies that look ahead to the year 2030.
The four-seater LF-30 features gargantuan gullwing doors and a massive glass roof. It uses a quartet of electric motors, one housed within each wheel. Together they generate a peak 536 horsepower (400 kw) and 516 pound-feet of torque (700 nm), enough to carry the 5,070-pound concept to 62 mph in 3.8 seconds. A large chunk of that weight comes from the 110-kwh battery that delivers 500 kilometres of electric-only range.
Packed beneath the floor, the LF-30 uses wireless charging technology to simplify daily charging, and AI-based energy management to enable optimal distribution of electric power to both the vehicle and the home, and charging control coordinated with the user's daily schedule.
The car is packed with advanced features including a self-parking function and a front-door pickup function in which the LF-30 electrified autonomously moves from driveway to doorstep provide an especially high level of convenience.
Onboard, more artificial intelligence identifies the driver via voice recognition, adjusting elements of the interior like temperature and audio according to their preferences.
The AI can also make suggestions for activities after the driver has arrived at their destination.
Perhaps most futuristic of all however, is the glass roof area above the rear seats. The roof serves a double purpose as it also acts as a "SkyGate" display window benefiting from augmented reality tech to show different types of info: navigation, videos or a star-filled sky – with rear passengers using gesture controls to choose the preferred settings.
To top it all off, the concept is complemented by a "Lexus Airporter" drone-technology support vehicle that'll carry your luggage from in front of the house to the vehicle's cargo area.
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Facial Expression Recognition (FER) research aims at classifying the human emotions given from facial images as one of seven basic emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, disgust, anger, surprise and neutral. FER finds applications in different fields including security, intelligent human-computer interaction, and clinical medicine. Recently, many FER works~\cite{kim2016fusing,liu2017adaptive,li2017reliable,zhang2018facial,zeng2018facial,yang2018facial,acharya2018covariance} based on CNNs have been proposed in the literature. Although these works mainly differ by the model architectures and the used databases, convolution and Fully Connected (FC) layers are often employed.

The classic neural network architecture was found to be inefficient for computer vision tasks, since images represent a large input for a neural network (they can have hundreds or thousands of pixels and up to 3 color channels) with a huge number of connections and network parameters. CNNs leverage the fact that an image is composed of smaller details, or features, and creates a mechanism for analyzing each feature in isolation, which informs a decision about the image as a whole. As part of the convolutional network, FC layer uses the output from the the convolution/pooling process and learns a classification decision. It is an essential component of CNNs, which demonstrates its utility in several computer vision tasks. The input values flow into the first FC layer and they are multiplied by weights. The latter usually go through an activation function (typically ReLu), just like in a classic artificial neural network. They then pass forward to the output layer, in which every neuron represents a classification label. The FC part of the CNN goes through its own back-propagation process to determine the most accurate weights where each neuron receives weights that prioritize the most appropriate label.

To improve the performance of CNNs, several methods using higher order kernel function than the ordinary linear kernel have been proposed in the literature. In~\cite{cui2017kernel}, a novel pooling method in the form of Taylor series kernel has been proposed. This method captures high order and non-linear feature interactions via compact explicit feature mapping. The approximated representation is fully differentiable, thus the kernel composition can be learned together with a CNN in an end-to-end manner. It acts as a basis expansion layers, increasing thereby the discrimination power of the FC layers. These methods have attracted increasing attentions, achieving better performance than classical first-order networks in a variety of computer vision tasks. Wang et al.~\cite{wang2019kervolutional} focused more one the convolution part and they proposed to replace the convolution layers in a CNN by kernel-based layers, called kervolution layers. The use of these layers increases the model capacity to capture higher order features at the convolutional phase.

In this paper, we build upon these works and introduce a novel FC layer. We leverage kernel functions to build a neuron unit that applies a higher order function on its inputs instead of calculating their weighted sum. The proposed Kernelized Dense Layers (KDL) permits to improve the discrimination power of the full network and it is completely differentiable, allowing an end-to-end learning. The experimental results demonstrate the benefits of such layer in FER task and show that our model achieves competitive results with respect to the state-of-the-art approaches.

The remainder of this paper is organized as follow: Section~\ref{sec:KDLL} introduces the proposed KDL for FER. Section~\ref{sec:Experiments} presents the different conducted experiments and their related results. Section~\ref{sec:Conclusion} concludes the paper.

\section{kernelized Dense Layer}
\label{sec:KDLL}

The proposed kernelized Dense Layer is similar to a classical neuron layer in the way that it applies a dot product between a vector of weights and an input vector, add a bias vector ($b\geq 0$) and eventually applies an activation function. The difference from standard FC layers is that our proposed method applies higher degree kernel function instead of a simple linear dot product, which allows the model to map the input data to a higher space and thus be more discriminative than a classical linear layer.

Figure \ref{fig:Kernel_Neuron} shows the processing of an elementary unit (kernel neuron) of our proposed KDL. Formally, the output $Y$ is computed by applying a kernel function $K$ on an input vector $x =\{x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n\}$ and the corresponding vector of weights $W = \{w_1,w_2,\dots,w_n\}$ and, adding the bias vector ($b\geq 0$).

\begin{figure}[ht]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{Kernel_Neuron.eps}
\end{center}
\caption{The basic unit of our proposed KDL is a kernel neuron. It applies a kernel function on an input vector $x =\{x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n\}$ and a vector of weights $w = \{w_1,w_2,\dots,w_n\}$, adds a bias term and eventually applies an activation function.}
\label{fig:Kernel_Neuron}
\end{figure}

In this work, we employed two different kernel functions which have an Euclidean structure $\mathbb{R}^{d}$.

\begin{itemize}
    \item \textbf{Linear kernel:}
        \begin{equation}
            \mathcal{K}(x,w)=x^{T}w+b,\quad x,w\in \mathbb {R} ^{d},b\geq 0.
            \label{eq:LinearKernel}
        \end{equation}
\end{itemize}

The linear kernel (Equation~\ref{eq:LinearKernel}) looks at the similarity between the input vector $x$ and the filter weight vector $w$.

\begin{itemize}
    \item  \textbf{Polynomial kernel:}
        \begin{equation}
            \mathcal{K}(x,w)=(x^{T}w+b)^{n},\quad x,w\in \mathbb{R}^{d},b\geq 0.
            \label{eq:PolynomialKernel}
        \end{equation}
\end{itemize}

Starting form $n>1$ in Equation~\ref{eq:PolynomialKernel}, the polynomial kernel $K$ encodes not only the linear relation between both $x$ and $w$ vectors, but also non-linear relations between them. It corresponds to an inner product in a feature space based on some mapping $\varphi$:
\begin{equation}
    \langle \varphi(x) , \varphi(w)\rangle \approx \mathcal{K}(x,w).
\end{equation}
Note that in the case of polynomial kernel with degree $n>1$, we do not apply an activation function on the neuron output, since non linearity is already added by the high polynomial kernel degree. \\

Other kernels that expand the non-linearity to the infinity can also be used. For instance, the Gaussian kernel defined by $\mathcal{K}(x,w)=e^{-{\frac {\|x-w\|^{2}}{2\sigma ^{2}}}},\quad x,w\in \mathbb {R} ^{n},\sigma >0$, Laplacian kernel defined by $ \mathcal{K}(x,w)=e^{-\alpha \|x-w\|}$, or the Abel kernel defined as $ \mathcal{K}(x,w)=e^{-\alpha |x-w|},\text{ where, }\alpha >0$ in both kernels.

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\subsection{Datasets}
\label{sec:datasets}
Our experiments have been conducted on three well-known facial expression datasets: RAF-DB~\cite{li2017reliable}, ExpW~\cite{zhang2018facial} and FER2013~\cite{goodfellow2013challenges}.

\begin{itemize}
    \item The RAF-DB~\cite{li2017reliable} stands for the Real-world Affective Face DataBase. It  is  a  real-world  dataset  that  contains  29,672  highly diverse  facial  images
    \item The ExpW~\cite{zhang2018facial} stands for the  EXPression  in-the-Wild  dataset. It contains  91,793 facial  images
    \item The FER2013 database was first introduced during the ICML 2013 Challenges in Representation Learning \cite{goodfellow2013challenges}. This database contains 28709 training images, 3589 validation images and 3589 test images
\end{itemize}

\subsection{Training process}

The only pre-processing which we have employed on all experiments is cropping the face region and resizing the resulting images to $100 \times 100$ pixels. We have used Adam optimiser with a learning rate varying from 0.001 to 5e-5. This learning rate is decreased by a factor of 0.63 if the validation accuracy does not increase over ten epochs. To avoid over-fitting we have first augmented the data using a range degree for random rotations of 20, a shear intensity of 0.2, a range for random zoom of 0.2 and randomly flip inputs horizontally. We have also employed earl stopping if validation accuracy does not improve by a factor of 0.01 over 20 epochs. Each KDL of our model is initialized with $He$ normal distribution and a weight decay of 0.0001.

\section{Experiments}
\label{sec:Experiments}

In order to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed KDL, we built a simple CNN from scratch rather than using a pre-trained one. As shown in Figure~\ref{fig:Base_Model}, our model architecture is composed of five convolutional blocks. Each block consists of a convolution, batch normalization and rectified linear unit activation layers. The use of batch normalization~\cite{zou2019integration} before the activation brings more stability to parameter initialization and achieves higher learning rate. Each of the five convolutional blocks is followed by a max pooling layer and a dropout layer. Finally, two KDL are added on top of these convolution blocks with respectively 128 and 7 units. On the former, we apply a ReLU activation function in the case of linear kernel only, since non-linearity is already added by the polynomial kernel. Softmax activation function is finally applied on the last KDL.

\begin{figure*}[ht]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{Base_Model.eps}
\end{center}
\caption{Base model architecture: it is composed of five convolutional blocks. Each block consists of a convolution, batch normalization and rectified linear unit activation layers. Each of the five convolutional blocks is followed by a dropout layer. Finally, two KDL are added on top of these convolution blocks with respectively 128 units and ReLU activation and 7 units with softmax activation.}
\label{fig:Base_Model}
\end{figure*}

\subsection{Ablation Study}
\label{sec:AblationStudy}

This section explores the impact of the use of the proposed KDL on the overall accuracy of a CNN model. We evaluated the performance using the same network architecture with different FC techniques. First, we used our model with standard FC layers which gives the same results as kernel neuron layers with a polynomial function with degree (n=1). After that, we replaced these FC layers by our KDL. We studied the behaviour of two different kernel functions, namely; the second-order polynomial kernel and the third-order polynomial kernel. The experiments are conducted with the same training parameters as described above.

\begin{table}[ht]
\caption{Accuracy Rates of the proposed approach }
\begin{center}
\resizebox{\linewidth}{!}{
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
\textbf{}&\multicolumn{3}{|c|}{\textbf{Dataset}} \\
\cline{2-4}
\textbf{Models} & \textbf{\textit{FER2013}}& \textbf{\textit{ExpW}}& \textbf{\textit{RAF-DB}} \\
\hline
Base-Model-FC & 70.13\% & 75.91\% & 87.05\% \\
\hline
Base-Model-KDL$^{\mathrm{a}}$ (n=1)& 70.09\% & 76.87\% & 87.03\% \\
\hline
Base-Model-KDL$^{\mathrm{a}}$ (n=2)& 70.85\% & 76.13\% & 87.64\% \\
\hline
Base-Model-KDL (n=3)& \textbf{71.28\%} & \textbf{76.64\%} & \textbf{88.02\%} \\
\hline
\multicolumn{4}{l}{$^{\mathrm{a}}$KDL: Kernelized Dense Layer.}
\end{tabular}
}
\label{tab1}
\end{center}
\end{table}

\begin{figure}[tbp]

	\subfloat[Validation accuracy]{\includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{RAF-DB-ACC.eps}\label{fig:val_acc_RAF_DB}}\
	\subfloat[Validation loss]{\includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{RAF-DB-LOSS.eps}\label{fig:val_loss_RAF_DB}}\\
	\caption{Validation accuracy and validation loss on RAF-DB with the three kernel configurations.}
	\label{fig:val_acc_loss_RAF_DB}
\end{figure}

Table~\ref{tab1} presents the results of our model using standard FC layers with comparison to the proposed KDL. In the case of the standard FC layers (Base-Model-FC), our base model attains 70.13\%, 75.91\% and 87.05\% of accuracy rate on respectively FER2013, ExpW and RAF datasets, while the use of KDL considerably increases its accuracy. Indeed, one can notice that the accuracy for the second-order polynomial kernel increases for about 0.7\% for FER2013, 0.25\% for ExpW and 0.6\% for RAF-DB. In the same way, using the third-order polynomial kernel increases further the overall accuracy. Compared to standard FC layers, the third-order polynomial KLD enhances the model accuracy for about 1.15\% for FER2013, 0.75\% for ExpW and 1\% for RAF-DB. These results are consistent with previous work \cite{wang2019kervolutional}, where the third-order applied on convolution layers gave the best performance. Although the computational complexity of these kernels is higher compared to the standard layers, they allow to strongly improve the model accuracy. These results demonstrate that the use of KDL, in the case of FER problem, are beneficial for the overall accuracy of the model. These techniques enhance the discriminative power of the model, compared to a standard FC layer.

\begin{figure}[tbp]
	\centering
	\subfloat[Validation accuracy]{\includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{ExpW-ACC.eps}\label{fig:val_acc_ExpW}}\
	\subfloat[Validation loss]{\includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{ExpW-LOSS.eps}\label{fig:val_loss_ExpW}}\\
	\caption{Validation accuracy and validation loss on ExpW with the three kernel configurations.}
	\label{fig:val_acc_loss_ExpW}
\end{figure}

Another beneficial aspect of using KDL is the speed of convergence. As shown in Figures \ref{fig:val_acc_loss_RAF_DB}, \ref{fig:val_acc_loss_ExpW} and \ref{fig:val_acc_loss_FER2013}, the higher degree is the kernel function, the fast it converge. Due to the use of early stopping in our training process, the learning process is interrupted as soon as the model begins to overfit. As can be seen, the higher is the kernel function degree, the sooner it stops training (the blue, red and green curves correspond, respectively, to n=1, n=2 and n=3). High degree kernel functions are known to be prone to overfitting, which in our case limits the number of units and layers of our proposed KDL.

\begin{figure}[tbp]
	\centering
	\subfloat[Validation accuracy]{\includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{FER2013-ACC.eps}\label{fig:val_acc_FER2013}}\
	\subfloat[Validation loss]{\includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{FER2013-LOSS.eps}\label{fig:val_loss_FER2013}}\\
	\caption{Validation accuracy and validation loss on FER2013 with the three kernel configurations.}
	\label{fig:val_acc_loss_FER2013}
\end{figure}

\begin{table}[ht]
\caption{Accuracy rate of the proposed approach and state-of-the-art approach}
\begin{center}
\resizebox{\linewidth}{!}{
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
\textbf{}&\multicolumn{3}{|c|}{\textbf{Dataset}} \\
\cline{2-4}
\textbf{Models} & \textbf{\textit{FER2013}}& \textbf{\textit{ExpW}}& \textbf{\textit{RAF-DB}} \\
\hline
Base-Model-FC & 70.13\% & 75.91\% & 87.05\% \\
\hline
Base-Model-KDL$^{\mathrm{a}}$ (n=1)& 70.09\% & 76.87\% & 87.03\% \\
\hline
Base-Model-KDL$^{\mathrm{a}}$ (n=2)& 70.85\% & 76.13\% & 87.64\% \\
\hline
Base-Model-KDL (n=3)& 71.28\% & \textbf{76.64}\% & \textbf{88.02}\% \\
\hline
Tang et al.~\cite{tang2013deep}  &   71.16\% & --   &   --  \\
\hline
Guo et al.~\cite{guo2016deep}& 71.33\%&--&   --\\
\hline
Kim et al.~\cite{kim2016fusing}&\textbf{73.73\%}&--&   --\\
\hline
Bishay et al.~\cite{bishay2019schinet}  & -- & \textbf{73.1\%} &   --    \\
\hline
Lian et al.~\cite{lianexpression}  & -- & 71.9 \% &   --    \\
\hline
Acharya et al.~\cite{acharya2018covariance} &-- & --  & \textbf{87\%}  \\
\hline
S Li et al.~\cite{li2018reliable} &-- & --  &74.2\%  \\
\hline
Z.Liu et al.~\cite{liu2017boosting} &-- & --  &73.19\%  \\
\hline
\multicolumn{4}{l}{$^{\mathrm{a}}$KDL:  Fully connected kernel.}
\end{tabular}
}
\label{tab:SOTA}
\end{center}
\end{table}

\subsection{Comparison with the State-of-the-Art}

In this section, we compare the performance of the KDL with CNN to several state-of-the-art FER methods. The obtained results are reported in Table~\ref{tab:SOTA}. As can be seen, KDL with CNN outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on the ExpW dataset. The best accuracy rate is 76.64\% and has been reached using the third-order polynomial KDL. Second-order polynomial KDL gives, for his turn, 76.13\%. Whereas the state-of-the-art methods~\cite{bishay2019schinet} reached \textbf{73.1\%}.

On RAF-DB dataset, the accuracy of our models is also superior to state-of-the-art methods. The best accuracy rate is 88.02\% and has been reached using the third-order polynomial KDL. Second-order polynomial KDL gives, for his turn, 87.64\%. Whereas the state-of-the-art methods~\cite{acharya2018covariance} gives \textbf{87\%}.

For FER2013, even thought using the KDL improves considerably the models accuracy, the obtained results are still under the state-of-the-art results. The best accuracy rate for this dataset, namely 71.28\%, was reached using third-order KDL. Despite the improvement, the result obtained is 2.5\% less than the state-of-the-art method~\cite{kim2016fusing} (\textbf{73.73\%}) but remains competitive.

\section{Conclusion}
\label{sec:Conclusion}

In this paper, we designed Kernelized Dense Layer for CNN model that aims to enhance the discriminative power of the overall model. It consists of applying higher order kernel method than the standard FC layer. Experimental results on ExpW, RAF-DB and FER2013 datasets demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed KDL compared to standard FC layer in terms of convergence, speed and overall accuracy. The proposed FER method outperforms  most of the state-of-the-art methods and remains competitive. The performance of our model is essentially due to its capability of capturing high order information that are crucial for fine-grained classification tasks such as the FER.

As future work, other kernel functions will be considered, compared and combined. Different configurations will be studied, especially  the impact of the number of KDL used in the network.

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and for example I get
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114.114.115.115
8.8.8.8
etc...

and I want to run a specific command to get:
N IPs found in DNS

(N is the number of IPs which found in the return)
also I want to divide these IPs to different varibles:
$a="114.114.114.114"
$b="115.115.115.115"
$c="8.8.8.8"
$N="x.x.x.x"

Does any body know how to do it?

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#!/bin/bash

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do
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