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Bahia (@2.2) vs Atletico PR (@3.3)
Bahia will win
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Bahia – Atletico PR Match Prediction | 05-10-2019 18:00
With this, we always try to provide gratis all the tools you need to bet responsibly and we hope winning! Even stats, standings, news and information on the football league Brazil Serie A and on teams Athletico-PR and Bahia(BA).The prediction 1x2 or under/over or goal/nogoal, with odds of bookmakers comes complete with the correct score. Under you found the prediction processed by our proprietary software and reviewed manually by our editors of the football match Athletico-PR-Bahia(BA), match of the championship Brazil Serie A.
Atletico Paranaense has been making a great season, won the Campeonato Paranaense playing with a team formed by reserves and base categories over its greatest rival Coritiba, is advancing in the Brazil Cup, is very close to passing of phase also in the South American Cup and started Series A very well, thrashing in his stadium and tying with one of the best teams in Brazil that is Grmio right away from home. For this confrontation, the coach Fernando Diniz will not be able to count on the steering wheel Camacho by account of suspension. For this game with Bahia, the team must maintain the same posture, playing with patience and seeking control of play through possession of the ball and this is a game that fits very well against Bahia who is a team that is usually quite offensive , leaving some spaces in its defensive sector. The team has received praise from the entire Brazilian press for the form of play imposed by coach Fernando Diniz, which consists of having possession of the ball, exchanging passes from his defensive zone until opportunities appear and avoiding kicks.
We invite you to check Bahia and Atletico PR match statistict (Tab Stats->Match statistics), where you will find out who is the best scorer. Check Odds stats (Tab Stats->odds), where you will find graphical statistics bet Under / Over and Handicap.In tab Form(Stats->form) you find graph teams form and a list of all matches of Bahia and Atletico PR in season. Also you can check the statistics of possession, shots, corners, offsides, and many other applications. Our site is not limited to only as this. In tab Goals stats (tab Stats->Goals stats) check how many loses and scored goals per game, how many games won and lost to zero. In the section Schedule you will find full schedule of both teams for the whole season. You will find what results teams Bahia and Atletico PR usually end matches with divided into first and second half.
Below you will find a lot of statistics that make it easier Predict the result for a match between both teams. In 22 (81.48%) matches played away was total goals (team and opponent) Over 1.5 goals. On average in direct matches both teams scored a 2.74 goals per Match.Bahia in actual season average scored 1.35 goals per match. In 13 (48.15%) matches played away team was total goals (team and opponent) Over 2.5 goals. Below the text is a list of the direct games. Atletico PR average scored 1.48 goals per match in season 2019. In 25 (39.06%) matches in season 2019 played at home was total goals (team and opponent) Over 2.5 goals. 4 matches ended in a draw. Teams Bahia Atletico PR played so far 19 matches.Bahia won 4 direct matches. In 37 (57.81%) matches played at home was total goals (team and opponent) Over 1.5 goals. Atletico PR won 11 matches.
Atletico PR lost only one match from the previous 5 played before this match with Bahia.The attacking skills of Atletico PR are not good. They have failed to win 15 of their last 38 matches in Brasileirao.In their last match they draw against Flamengo. Atletico PR is ranked on the 5th place in the standings with 57 points, 38 goals scored and 32 goals received in the last 38 leaguegames.
Due to the physical nature of the duel, betting on the cards might be a wise choice. They will certainly look for retaliation for the embarrassing defeat suffered in the first round, so we can expect a high-tempo match. Both teams are in a good shape, with Atletico PR being slight favorites due to home advantage and their excellent form.
In the last 10 games as a visitor Atltico-PR won 5, drew 4 and lost 1. In 15 games, he suffered the first goal 4 times and only got 1 turn on the scoreboard. Bahia started the season in great form by winning the Bahia Championship with a 1-0 defeat in 13 games, coming in very well in the Northeast Cup where they won the first leg against Botafogo-PB away from home and come from great victory over the good team of Santos in the last match of Serie A in the game where he was superior, had more possession of the ball and won more times. This is a stronger team when you play in your stadium, because in the last 30 games you have 6 wins, 5 draws and 4 losses as a visitor; against 10 wins and 5 draws in his stadium. For the game against Atletico Paranaense, the team knows that they can not expose themselves much because of their opponents style of play and should adopt a more cautious stance, just as he did against Santos in the last round where he fled some of his characteristics not to leave too many spaces behind, but even then you should look for the goal with long distance kicks and also pressing the ball out, since Atltico Paranaense always comes out touching his defense, but can get in the way when pressed. The team usually plays pressing their opponents most of the time, tries to play in speed with sides that support a lot and usually kicks a lot outside the area, since there are several players with the quality. In their away games there is a tendency towards few goals, since 24 of their last 34 games finished with Less than 2.5 goals. In the next round, the final result was a draw for (0-0) in the visit to Grmio. In the first round managed to win at home to Chapecoense by (5-1). His attack has scored regularly, as he has managed to achieve in 8 of the last 10 games. For this confrontation, coach Guto Ferreira has as doubt the defender Tiago, pillar of the Bahian defense, who recovers from a calf injury and will only have his confirmed presence closer to the match. Atltico-PR AnalysisCurrently in 2nd place, the visiting team has so far won 4 points.
Scroll down to see all of the predictions, poll and statistics for Cruzeiro v Atletico PR - plus the latest match odds. It should be a decent one. Looking at these two teams, we feel that Atletico PR are dangerous enough to score a goal against this Cruzeiro team, however that is unlikely to be enough to prevent defeat. Our tip is for a 2-1 winning margin for Cruzeiro at full-time.
By visiting our website daily you will increase your winning chances. Our predictions for Atletico PR vs Bahia are based on a large number of factors such as direct meetings, Atletico PR last matches, Bahia last matches, Atletico PR lineup, Bahia lineup, standings, insider informations and so on. All the predictions posted here have a huge rate of success! On this page you can find our predictions & bettings tips for the match between Atletico PR and Bahia.
Prediction Athletico-PR - Bahia(BA)
In the last game he played for the Northeast Cup, he beat Botafogo PB out (1-2). Analysis of BahiaThe home team is currently in 13th place with 3 points earned. His attack has scored regularly, as he has scored goals in 7 of the last 10 matches. This is a team affected by the home factor, stronger when you play in front of your fans, since in the last 30 matches you have 7 wins, 3 draws and 5 losses as a visitor, with 15 goals scored and 10 conceded, against 11 wins, 2 draws and 2 home defeats, with 36 goals scored and 13 conceded. However, in the last match at this stage, in a match for Brasileiro Serie A, on 05-14-2017, Bahia won by (6-2). Bahia and Atletico-PR face each other at the Fonte Nova Arena in a match of the third round of Brasileiro Serie A. In the last 10 home games Bahia has 9 wins and 1 draw. The goals of the match were scored by Tiago Pagnussat (33 ), Z Rafael (40), Regis (42 and 45), Edigar Junio (44 ) and Edson (72) for Bahia and Guilherme ) and Marco (38) for Atltico-PR. In his debut he lost out to Internacional by (2-0). In the second round, won at home to Santos by (1-0). In 15 games, only managed 1 turn on the scoreboard in the 4 games in which he suffered the first goal. Special attention is needed for the home / away condition, since both teams present significantly different results in their home and away games. The history of direct confrontations in this stadium indicates a balance between these two teams, as there was 1 draw and 1 victory for each team in the last 3 matches.
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The fiery Celtic was not suspended, however.
Celtics guard Marcus Smart was fined $50,000 for forcefully shoving 76ers center Joel Embiid to the floor in Wednesday night's game at Philadelphia, the NBA announced Thursday.
Smart, however, was not suspended. The large fine was a result of Smart's two prior incidents this season, which also drew fines.
The Sixers won the game, 118-115, just their third victory against Boston in the last five seasons, including last season's 5-game playoff series between the teams.


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Scots Start Season With Clutch Win
Capital University (OH)
Capital University (OH) (0-3) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 9 2
Alma College (1-0) 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 X 2 5 0
3B: Joe Caporale
2B: Jordan Anstandig
Auburndale, Fla. – The Alma College baseball team won its first game of the season against Capital University (OH), 2-1, at the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational Sunday (Feb. 24). Junior Dylan Dzendzel (Royal Oak, Mich. / Royal Oak) pitched six shutout innings to earn the win. Making his collegitate debut, junior Aaron Saenz (Sebewaing, Mich. / Unionville-Sebewaing Area) picked up the save for the Scots as he came in at the top of the ninth with bases loaded and one out and was able to retire the final two batters.
The game was a pitcher's duel between Dzendzel and Capital's Scott Gutstein for much of the contest. The Scots were able to get a run off Gutstein in the third when junior Logan Huff (Johannesburg, Mich. / Johannesburg-Lewiston) drove one to the short stop with a man on second and third. Junior Pete Carravallah (Canton, Mich. / Plymouth) scored easily while the Crusaders (0-3) shortstop bobbled the ground ball, allowing Carravallah to reach safely.
In the next inning, Capital had its first man in scoring position at second base with one out. The ball was put in play to junior shortstop Zach Schirmer (Bay City, Mich. / Bay City Western) who made the heads up play to fire it to third basemen Huff who made the tag on Crusader trying to advance.
Dzendzel faced a tough task in the fifth with a man on third with nobody out. The junior then stuck out the next batter looking and forced back-to-back groundouts to escape the inning. The southpaw finished off his outing in the sixth with his third strikeout to retire the side.
The home half of the sixth saw Alma put another run on the board with senior Jordan Anstandig (West Bloomfield, Mich. / Walled Lake Northern) sending a double in to the left-center gap to plate Huff.
The Crusaders cut the lead in half with a run in the eighth and looked prime to tie the game in ninth with a man on each base and only one out. Head Coach Jason Crain went to his fourth reliever of the day in Saenz to shut the door and the lefty delivered striking out the first batter. In the final at-bat, Capital's Nick Beck drove one to center where Carravallah made the diving catch to seal the victory.
Dzendzel scattered only four hits and one walk over his six innings of work.
Senior Alex Archambeault (Lansing, Mich. / Waverly) pitched one inning in relief, striking out two batters.
This final score was the exact same as last year's matchup between the Scots and Crusaders.
This was Coach Crain's first win of his collegiate head coaching career.
"I am very excited for this team. It is outstanding to get off on the right foot with a win, but to come out and have so many clutch performances in a tight, well played game is even more special. This was the consummate team with the outstanding start by Dzendzel to Saenz coming in with the bases loaded and out to close it out. There were many other plays throughout the game that proved crucial. I can't wait to see this team grow and continue to compete like they did today."
-Head Coach Jason Crain
The Scots continue play down in Florida on Monday (Feb. 25) against the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. First pitch scheduled for 10:30 a.m.


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State Industrial Relations ministers are meeting with the federal Workplace Relations Minister, Peter Reith, in Sydney today.
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State Industrial Relations ministers are meeting with the federal Workplace Relations Minister, Peter Reith, in Sydney today. Two significant issues are expected to dominate the agenda.
The first is the re-emerging issue of one national industrial relations system founded upon the Constitutional Corporations Power. Subscribers will recall that HR Link 2000reported in early March that the federal Minister had once again adopted this issue as an item on the agenda for future reform.
The corporations power in s 51(xx) of the Constitutionallows the Commonwealth to legislate with respect to foreign corporations, and trading and financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth.
According to the Mr. Reith the benefits of a system based upon this constitutional power include:
a move away from the duplication and complexity involved in maintaining six workplace relations systems;
an identifiable safety net to cover and protect low paid workers; and
an end to a system developed over 100 years of "conciliation and arbitration", that has resulted in complexities and inefficiencies such as paper disputes, notional interstateness, and logs of claim with wide ranging ambits.
In an article published in the Australian Financial Review of 27 April 2000, the NSW Attorney-General and Minister for Industrial Relations, Mr. Jeff Shaw, strongly opposed Canberra's move to override State systems through the corporations power. Whilst recognising that there will be occasions when issues arise from the overlap of industrial systems in a federal structure, the State Minister believed the proposal to be inconsistent with aspects of the federal Workplace Relations Act 1996. The federal Act specifically protects State agreements that may be inconsistent with federal awards or statutes relating to unfair dismissals. Therefore, in relation to unfair dismissal provisions, the federal Act has what Mr. Shaw refers to as a "States' rights focus". The other major concern of the NSW Minister, is that a system founded upon the corporations power will fail to protect employees of partnerships or unincorporated traders. This would predominantly affect small business employees.
The second significant item on the agenda is that of employee entitlements. Once again, in early March, Mr. Reith reaffirmed the Government's commitment to helping employees who have been left out of pocket and out of a job when businesses become insolvent. In this regard the Employee Entitlements Support Scheme (EESS) was established as a national scheme providing a safety net level of support for employees who have found themselves in this position since 1 January 2000. Today's meeting will canvass the possibility of the States contributing to the scheme.
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One of the advantages of using Helicon Focus beyond the Micro and Macro photograpy is the possibility to use the lens at their sharpest point we you are shooting normal size objects. Every lens have an optimal range of sharpness (from Ken Rockwell: Most lenses are their sharpest from two stops below maximum to about f/8). So if you try to shoot a wide object like the Orchid Oncidio on the following example, we need to use an small aperture to get the all object in focus and this may affect the sharpness and even produce diffraction.
In this case I was able to use and f3.5 aperture on a Nikkor 28mm on an Nikon D7000.
Thanks for these examples. We recommend to use the smallest aperture that gives resolution. That means that if you lens has the same sharpness at 1/5.6 and 1/8 it is better to use 1/8. Smaller aperture means larger DOF, smaller number of shots and last but not least, this minimizes optical artifacts when blurred foreground object masks background object.


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\section{Introduction}

The design of naturalistic spoken dialog systems (SDSs) that can interact with users in a human-like manner, requires models that control when it is an appropriate time for the system to speak. These turn-taking models (e.g. \cite{raux_finite-state_2009,ferrer_is_2002,maier_towards_2017}) are used to make decisions as to whether the current speaker will continue to hold the floor (HOLD) or not (SHIFT). A naive approach to modeling these decisions is to identify turn exchange points using silence thresholding.  This approach is limited in its naturalness since the chosen threshold can potentially be too short (leading to interruptions) or too long (leading to unnaturally long pauses). These traditional threshold-based approaches also cannot model rapid turn-switches, which can potentially involve a brief period of overlap during the turn exchange \cite{heldner_pauses_2010}.

It has been proposed in the projection theory of Sacks \cite{sacks_simplest_1974} that, rather than reacting to silence, humans often form predictions as to when their conversational partner will finish their turn. Using these predictions we are able to anticipate utterance endpoints, and start our turns accordingly. LSTM-based turn-taking models that operate in a similar predictive fashion were proposed by Skantze in \cite{skantze_towards_2017}. In these models LSTMs are used to make continuous predictions of a person's speech activity at each individual time step of 50ms. The networks are trained to predict a vector of probability scores for speech activity in each individual frame within a set future window. Rather than designing classifiers to make specific decisions, these continuous models are able to capture general information about turn-taking in the data that they are trained on. They can therefore be applied to a wide variety of turn-taking prediction tasks and have been shown to outperform traditional classifiers when applied to HOLD/SHIFT predictions.

A downside to the approach in \cite{skantze_towards_2017} is that, since a single LSTM is being used, all input features must be processed at the same rate. When considering linguistic features, the the relevant information for turn-taking prediction happens at a coarse temporal granularity in comparison with acoustic features, where much of the relevant information occurs at the sub-word prosodic level. When using a single LSTM, this requires either averaging the acoustic features to represent them at a word-level temporal resolution, or upsampling the linguistic features to represent them at the acoustic temporal resolution. Both of these options have their drawbacks. In the case of averaging the acoustic features, we lose the finer-grained prosodic inflections that are important to forming turn-taking predictions. In the case of upsampling the linguistic features, the model has a harder time with the longer term dependencies that exist between linguistic features. Because the linguistic features are sampled at a higher rate, the model is more susceptible to the vanishing gradient problem. We propose a way to address this problem by using a multiscale RNN architecture, in which modalities are modeled in separate sub-network LSTMs that are allowed to operate at their own independent timescales. A master LSTM is used fuse the modalities and form predictions at a regular rate by taking as input a concatenation of the current hidden states of the sub-networks. This allows the hidden states of the sub-networks to be updated at an appropriate temporal rate.

In this paper we present significant extensions to the original work of Skantze in \cite{skantze_towards_2017}. We investigate the performance of our proposed multiscale architecture on two datasets that contain two different combinations of modalities. We look at the influence of modeling modalities in separate sub-networks and using separate timescales. We find that there are significant performance benefits to modeling linguistic features at a slower temporal rate, and in a separate sub-network from acoustic features. We also find that our approach can be used to incorporate gaze features into turn-taking models, a task that has been previously found to be difficult  \cite{de_kok_multimodal_2009}.

\section{Continuous Turn-taking Prediction}

The main objective of continuous turn-taking prediction as proposed in \cite{skantze_towards_2017} is to predict the future speech activity annotations of one of the speakers in a dyadic conversation using input speech features from both speakers ($x_t$). At each timestep $t$ of frame-size 50ms, speech features are extracted and input into an LSTM that is used to predict the future speech activity ($y_t$) of one of the speakers. The future speech activity is a 3 second window comprising of 60 frames of the binary annotations for frames $t+1$ to $t+60$. The output layer of the network uses an element-wise sigmoid activation function to predict a probability score for the target speaker's speech activity at each future frame. To represent linguistic features in this model the word-rate features are upsampled to the 50ms acoustic feature rate. They use one-hot encodings, where the feature is "switched on" for a single frame, 100ms after the word is finished (to simulate real-world ASR conditions). To model more fine-grained prosodic inflections the 50ms acoustic feature rate could be increased. However, doing this leads to a sparser linguistic feature representation since all features input into an LSTM must be processed at the same rate. This makes it more difficult for the network to model longer-term dependencies that exist in the linguistic modality.

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\section{Multiscale Continuous Turn-taking Prediction}

To address this problem we modify the original network architecture to include a variable number of sub-network LSTM cells that process features from separate modalities independently. The sub-networks are allowed to process the input features from the separate modalities at different timescales. An example network configuration that uses a master LSTM ($h^0$) and two sub-network LSTMs ($h^1$,$h^2$, each assigned a modality) is shown in Fig. \ref{fig:multiscale}. We use superscripts to denote the index of modalities $m\in M$, and subscripts to index timesteps (represented using the notation $t^m$). At each timestep of the master LSTM ($t^0$), the current states of the sub-network LSTMs are concatenated and fed into the master LSTM. The hidden state update process for the network is shown in Algorithm \ref{multiscale_algo}.
By feeding the current states of the sub-networks into the master LSTM, we are effectively performing a sampling operation, represented in the algorithm by the step $h_{t^0+1}^m  \longleftarrow h_{t^m+1}^m$. The sampling operation can either increase or decrease the temporal resolution of the individual modalities, depending on the timescales used. For example, in Fig. \ref{fig:multiscale}, the temporal resolution of the first sub-network ($h^1$) is decreased since we sample it at a regular rate every five $t^1$ timesteps. The temporal resolution of the second modality could either be increased or decreased by the sampling process since the features have irregular timesteps. The processing of features at a slower update rate potentially allows the network to better retain information. The model was implemented using the PyTorch framework and our code is available online\footnote{www.github.com/mattroddy/lstm\_turn\_taking\_prediction}.

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\section{Experimental Design}
To assess the performance of our multiscale approach, we test it on two different datasets. In each dataset, features from two separate modalities are investigated by training models using a variety of different network configurations. The HCRC map-task corpus (MTC) \cite{anderson_hcrc_1991} is used to examine linguistic and acoustic modalities while the Mahnob Mimicry Database (MMD) \cite{bilakhia_mahnob_2015} is used to examine visual and acoustic modalities. In this section we discuss the details of the datasets and how features were extracted. We then discuss the evaluation metrics used to assess network performance. We then outline our experimental procedure.
\subsection{Map-Task corpus}
The MTC is a corpus of 128 dyadic task-based dialogues totaling 18 hours in length. We used 96 conversations as training and 32 conversations for testing. Additionally, we used 32 conversations of the training set as a held-out test set during hyperparameter searches.  The speech transcriptions supplied with the corpus were used as the ground-truth for the speech-activity predictions
\paragraph{Acoustic Features}\label{acous_feats}
As acoustic features, we use the low-level descriptors from the eGeMAPs \cite{eyben_geneva_2016} feature set extracted with the OpenSmile toolkit \cite{eyben_opensmile_2010}. The features were all normalized using z-scores on a per-file basis. We extract the features at two different temporal resolutions: 10ms and 50ms. We use these two different temporal resolutions to investigate which one is more useful for our turn-taking models. In our results tables and discussion we refer to these as "Acous 10ms" and "Acous 50ms".
\paragraph{Linguistic Features}\label{ling_section}
For linguistic features we use the word annotations supplied with the corpus.
The words were represented as an enumerated vocabulary where the raw word features were transformed into a linear embedding of size 64 that is jointly trained with the rest of the network.
In an effort to simulate the conditions of a real-time system, the linguistic features were not provided to the system until 100ms after the end of the word. Three different temporal rates for the processing of linguistic features are tested in our experiments. In our discussion and results below, "Ling 50ms" refers to using word features that have been sampled at regular 50ms intervals, as was proposed in \cite{skantze_towards_2017}. "Ling 10ms" refers to using word features that are sampled at a faster rate of 10ms. "Ling Asynch" refers to using an irregular update rate, where the LSTM only processes the linguistic features when a new word is available.

\subsection{Mahnob Mimicry Database}
The MMD is an audio-visual corpus of 54 dyadic conversations totaling 11 hours in length. The participants are either assigned discussion topics or roles to play in a loosely defined role-playing scenario. When splitting the data into training and test sets we balanced the number of role-playing and discussion conditions in the training and test set. We used 39 conversations for training and 15 for testing. Since there are no speech transcriptions available for the dataset, we manually labeled the dataset for speech activity. The procedure we used for extracting acoustic for MMD was the same as that followed in for the MTC in section \ref{acous_feats}.
\paragraph{Visual Features}
We automatically extract visual features using the OpenFace toolkit \cite{baltrusaitis_openface_2016}. During informal exploratory experiments we found that the automatically extracted gaze features performed better than other features extracted with the toolkit (e.g. facial action units, pose). We therefore used the gaze features (a six dimensional vector of eye gaze directions) along with a confidence score as our visual input feature. The video in the MMD uses a high frame rate of 58Hz. We perform a comparison of using features at this high frame rate and using features that are averaged over 50ms frame windows. In the results tables and the discussion below we refer to the high frame rate video and the averaged video features as "Visual 58Hz" and "Visual 50ms" respectively.

\subsection{Evaluation Metrics}

To evaluate the performance of the different network configurations we use two kinds of evaluation metrics that were proposed in \cite{skantze_towards_2017}. These two kinds of metrics represent the prediction performance on two common types of turn-taking decisions that are pertinent to SDSs.

\paragraph*{Prediction at Pauses}

The prediction at pauses metric represents the standard turn-taking decision made at brief pauses in the interaction to predict whether the person holding the floor will continue speaking (HOLD) or the interlocutor will take a turn (SHIFT). To make this decision, we find all points where there is a pause of a minimum set length. We then select all of these instances where only one person continued within a one second window directly after the pause. We average the predicted output probabilities within the window for each of the speakers at the frame directly after the pause. The speaker with the higher score is selected as the predicted next speaker, giving us a binary HOLD/SHIFT classification for which we report F-scores. We test predictions at pauses of both 500ms (PAUSE 500) and 50ms (PAUSE 50). The majority vote F-score for the MTC (always HOLD) is 0.5052 and 0.4608 for PAUSE 50 and PAUSE 500 respectively. For MMD the corresponding values are 0.7298 and 0.8185.

\paragraph*{Prediction at Onsets}

Prediction at onsets (ONSET) represents a prediction of the length of an utterance after an initial period of speech. It represents a useful decision for estimating how long the upcoming utterance will be. It categorizes onset predictions into SHORT and LONG, where SHORT utterances can be considered similar to backchannels. For an utterance to be classified as short, 1.5 seconds of silence by a participant has to be followed by a maximum of 1 second of speech, after which the speaker must be silent for at least 5 seconds. For the utterance to be classified as long, 1.5 seconds of silence must be followed by at least 2.5 seconds of speech. The point at which the predictions are made is 500ms from the start of the utterance. The prediction is made by taking the mean of the 60 output nodes from the sigmoid layer and comparing them to a threshold value. The majority vote F-score for the MTC (always SHORT) is 0.3346. For the MMD the corresponding value is 0.5346.
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\caption{Map-task corpus experimental results}
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\caption{Mahnob corpus experimental results}
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\subsection{Experimental Procedure}
In our experiments, the networks were trained to minimize binary cross entropy (BCE) loss which was shown to produce good results in \cite{roddy_investigating_2018}. We test the impact of using three different network configurations with multiple combinations of modalities at different temporal resolutions. The three network configurations are: "no subnets", which corresponds to an early fusion approach in which the modalities are fed directly into a single LSTM; "one subnet", which corresponds to the use of only one sub-network LSTM; and "two subnets", which corresponds to the use of separate LSTM sub-networks for the individual modalities. We note that combinations such as "Ling 50ms" with "Acous 10ms" are not possible when using the "no subnets" and "one subnet" configurations since the features are being input into the same LSTM and cannot operate at different temporal resolutions. Grid searches for three hyperparameters (hidden node size, dropout, and L2 regularization) were performed for each network configuration. In order to limit the influence of parameter count changes between the different network configurations, the hidden node count in a given network was limited to a sum of 150. Once the hyperparameters for a network are chosen, we train the network five times and report the mean values of the different evaluation metrics in Tables \ref{tab:tab_maptask} and \ref{tab:tab_mahnob}. The best performing modality combination for a given network configuration is shown in bold and the best overall performance is shown in italics. In our discussion below we use two-tailed t-tests to report on the difference between the means of metrics.

\section{Discussion}

Looking at the results from the fusion of linguistic and acoustic modalities shown in Table \ref{tab:tab_maptask}, it is clear that there are significant benefits in modeling acoustic and linguistic modalities separately using different timescales. Our best performance on all evaluation metrics is achieved using our multiscale approach where features from the two modalities are modeled at separate rates. Comparing the BCE loss of the best performing early-fusion result (7) with the best multiscale result (11) gives a statistically significant improvement ($P<.001$). Comparing the performance of the acoustic feature timescales, we observe that the faster rate of 10ms consistently performs better than the slower 50ms rate. Looking at the performance of the three different linguistic timescales in (3,4,5), we see that processing linguistic features at the slower regular rate of 50ms achieves the best performance. Comparing the BCE loss of (3) and (5) suggests that sampling linguistic features at a fast temporal rate makes it difficult for the network to model longer term dependencies ($P=.004$). The effect of processing modalities on their own in separate sub-networks without the added gain of using separate timescales is inconclusive when we examine (6) and (10). Using a single subnet as an added layer also does not yield significant differences to the early fusion approach. We conclude that the main advantage in using our multiscale approach on a combination of acoustic and linguistic modalities is its ability to fuse the two modalities when the linguistic features are operating at a slow 50ms timescale and the acoustic features are operating at a fast 10ms timescale. Comparing our results with previously published baselines reported on the same dataset by Skantze in \cite{skantze_towards_2017}, our best result on the PAUSE 500 task of 0.8553 is a large improvement over his reported score of 0.762.

Looking at the results from the fusion of visual and acoustic modalities shown in in Table \ref{tab:tab_mahnob}, we were able to achieve our best BCE loss using our multiscale approach to fuse acoustic features at a 10ms timescale and visual features at a 58Hz timescale. Comparing this result (9) with our best "no subnets" result (2) gives a statistically significant improvement ($P=0.035$). We note that using early fusion with gaze features (5) does not add any value when compared to acoustic features on their own (1). The results also indicate that the faster 58Hz gaze features perform better than the averaged 50ms visual features when used in conjunction with the acoustic features. This suggests that we loose relevant information by averaging the gaze features within a timestep.

\section{Conclusion}
In conclusion, we have shown that there are considerable benefits in using multiscale architectures for continuous turn-taking prediction. When fusing linguistic and acoustic modalities, the architecture allows acoustic features to be modeled at a fast temporal rate (which is better-suited to capturing prosodic inflections) while modeling linguistic features at a slower rate (which is better-suited to capturing long-term linguistic dependencies). When fusing visual and acoustic modalities, our multiscale approach allowed the use of high frame-rate visual features without resorting to averaging.

\section{Acknowledgements}
\scriptsize{ The ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology is
funded under the SFI Research Centres Programme (Grant
13/RC/2106) and is co-funded under the European Regional
Development Fund.}

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A few weeks from now when all the dust settles, I've got a great blog for you to read. It's all about Madeleine's sleep habits (or the lack thereof) for the past few months, which have been very very bad. Being in the midst of it still, the sleep thing is neither funny nor understandable so I'm not ready to write about it yet.
Why tell you about it then? Because my hiney's draggin', ladies. I'm eyeing that can of Coke pretty lustfully, and I have yet to have a drink of caffeine since I was pregnant. I'm not so worried it'll stunt her growth now that she's here; I'm worried it'll keep the little machine up even more! So I resolutely turn from the caffeine and move blearily forward.
With a steady stream of cookies.
I'm not so far gone into Sleep-Deprivation Land that I take it out on Madeleine, thank goodness. I know being a baby is tough and she's a good kid and it's not her fault.
Not taking it out on other people, though, I can't promise.
I'm trying to go through my life as inconspicuously as possible, hoping and praying people won't cut me off in traffic or take the last good bunch of bananas at the greenmarket, thus arousing the Wrath of the Tired Mommy.
So to warn people (I believe in giving victims a head start) I wore my "Mommy Needs A Time Out" t-shirt today. I ran across these amazingly cool tees on the Internet: made (of course) by a mommy who's been there, the ringer t-shirts come in a variety of trendy colors and are chicly embellished with Swarovski crystals. I feel very hip in my top and get tons of people stopping me on the Manhattan streets to ask where I've gotten it.
So listen up: I got it at Time Out Spot, so stop asking. Heather makes Time Out Spots for use in daily discipline, and added the tees as a bonus. She's got a "Daddy Needs A Time Out" line as well, but it's every parent for him- or her-self as far as I'm concerned.
As if the shirt's not cool enough on its own, I heard it got picked up by the wardrobe of "Desperate Housewives" for possible use on an upcoming episode. Wanna be the first mommy on your block to wear the same shirt as Lynette?
Feel free to forward this entry as an email to your husband. Daddies, this would make a very good Mother's Day gift. Heather said that if you enter "mommy" in the coupon code area at checkout she'll give you 10% off your total purchase.
How can you lose? Take advantage of a sale, get the Mother's Day shopping out of the way, and provide yourself with an Early Warning Detection System all at the same time.
Because when Mommy's got the t-shirt on, you'd best get out of the way.


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Sheri Madigan, PhD, Director, Determinants of Child Development Lab
Dr. Madigan is a Canada Research Chair in the Determinants of Child Development. She joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary in 2015 and is currently directing the Determinants of Child Development Lab, a lab that is dedicated to conducting research on the multidimensional influences that shape children's developmental trajectories. Dr. Madigan is a principal-investigator on several research projects on children's development supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program, and the Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation.
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Nicole Racine, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr. Nicole Racine is a postdoctoral fellow and clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary. Her research examines how childhood adversity influences maternal-child mental health outcomes, as well as how adversity is transmitted across generations. Nicole completed her PhD in Clinical Developmental Psychology at York University in Toronto and her residency in Clinical Child and Pediatric Psychology at Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary. Her research is funded by an Alberta Innovates clinician fellowship award and she was previously a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada post-doctoral scholar. Her research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, The Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Governor General's Gold Medal Award (2017) as well as the Certificate of Academic Excellence from the Canadian Psychological Association (2017). She is also the recipient of a 2019 University of Calgary Peak Scholar Award for Knowledge Engagement related to her collaborative community projects.
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Brae Anne McArthur, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr. Brae Anne McArthur is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Calgary working in the Determinants of Child Development Lab. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology: Applied Developmental Emphasis from the University of Guelph and completed her internship in Clinical Child and Pediatric Psychology at Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary. Dr. McArthur's primary research is in the area of developmental psychopathology. Her current work focuses on understanding the transactional relationship between parental factors and youth risk and resiliency factors to identify mechanisms that contribute to the development and varied manifestation of mood disorders. Her fellowship is funded by the Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI).
braeanne.mcarthur@ucalgary.ca
Audrey-Ann Deneault, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr. Audrey-Ann Deneault is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary's Determinants of Child Development Lab. She completed her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology at the University of Ottawa. Her research examines how parent-child relationships and parent-child attachment foster positive socio-emotional and cognitive development in children. She is particularly interested in father-child relationships and the influence of different family systems (e.g., coparenting relationship, sibling relationships) on child development. Her research is funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship and a supplement from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Société et culture Postdoctoral Fellowship Supplement.
audreyann.deneault@ucalgary.ca
Anh Ly, MA, Research Coordinator
Anh is a doctoral student in medical anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. She is happy to be back in Calgary where she completed her previous graduate studies and where she formerly worked as a Research Coordinator/Associate on several Aboriginal health projects for the Department of Family Medicine and Alberta Health Services. Her current research interests include: anthropology of infectious disease, global health and governance, colonial medicine, science and technology studies, and ethnography of Southeast Asia.
lya@ucalgary.ca
Jessica Cooke, Graduate Student, PhD Candidate (Clinical Psychology)
Jessy (she/her) is completing the third year of her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on understanding how caregiver adversity, caregiver-child attachment relationships, and caregiving behaviours influence child development and risk for psychopathology. Her research is funded by an Alberta Innovates Graduate Studentship in Health Solutions and a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.
jessica.cooke1@ucalgary.ca
Camille Mori, Graduate Student, PhD Candidate (Clinical Psychology)
Camille recently graduated from a combined undergraduate degree program at the University of Calgary with a major in psychology with honours and a major in dance. Her research interests include lifespan psychology and understanding how environmental, social, and intergenerational factors impact development. She is also interested in knowledge translation; specifically, in how to best communicate research across disciplines and to the wider public. Camille will be focusing on antecedents and outcomes of sexting among adolescents.
cmmori@ucalgary.ca
Rachel Eirich, Graduate Student, MSc II (Clinical Psychology)
Rachel is a graduate student in Clinical Psychology at the University of Calgary. She is interested in examining the role of screen time on children's socioemotional development, as well as how technology can interfere with caregiver-child interactions and attachment relationships.
rachel.eirich@ucalgary.ca
Jenney Zhu, Graduate Student, MSc I (Clinical Psychology)
Jenney holds a Bachelor of Arts, Honours Specialization in Psychology from the University of Western Ontario. Her research interests include understanding the role of adverse childhood experiences on adulthood relationship outcomes, including caregiver-child and romantic relationship interactions.
jenney.zhu@ucalgary.ca
Julianna Watt, Research Assistant
Julianna completed a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at McGill University. Her interests include language development and bilingualism, as well as intelligence and learning disabilities in children. In the future, Julianna hopes to pursue graduate studies in School and Applied Child Psychology at the University of Calgary.
julianna.watt@ucalgary.ca
Tashia Christie, PURE Summer Studentship
Tashia is beginning her final year at the University of Calgary. She will be completing her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with honours under the supervision of Dr. Madigan and Dr. McArthur. Tashia also holds a minor in sociology and an embedded certificate in Mental Wellbeing and Resilience. Her research interests include postpartum mental health, childhood development and mental wellbeing, and social-emotional learning. She is currently completing a PURE position within the lab under the supervision of Dr. McArthur.
tashia.christie1@ucalgary.ca
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Paolo Pador
Paolo is in the final year of his Bachelor of Science in Psychology. He will be completing his honours thesis under the supervision of Dr. Madigan and Jessica Cooke. His research interests include child development and the effects of early parent-child interactions. He is currently completing his Mathison Summer Studentship, exploring the impacts of a parent's adverse childhood experiences on children's behavioural problems.
paolofelipe.pador@ucalgary.ca
Julianna Park
Julianna is in the final year of her BSc in Psychology at the University of Calgary. She will be completing her honours thesis under the supervision of Dr. Madigan. Her interests include the socioemotional development of children and adolescents. Julianna is a recipient of the Alberta Innovates Summer Studentship. She is currently working under the guidance of Camille Mori, exploring the prevalence of sexting behaviour in adolescents. In the future, she hopes to pursue graduate studies in Clinical Psychology.
julianna.park@ucalgary.ca
Claire McGuiness
Claire completed her Bachelor of Science and is currently completing her MSc in School & Applied Child Psychology at the University of Calgary.
Valeriya Volkova, BSc(Hons), PhD Candidate
Valeriya is a PhD candidate in Kinesiology at the University of Calgary, completing a specialization in Wearable Technology. She participated in the 2019 Innovation 4 Health Hack-a-thon where she worked with a team led by Sheri, Nicole, and Brae to develop a wearable sensor capable of objectively capturing screen time in children. Since then, Valeriya has been working on a screen time meta-analysis under Sheri's and Brae's leadership. When not in the lab conducting her doctoral research, Valeriya coaches competitive gymnastics and serves on several committees at and outside UCalgary.
valeriya.volkova@ucalgary.ca
Jasmeet Khatkar
Jasmeet is in her final year of her BSc in Psychology at the University of Calgary. She is also currently completing her honors thesis under Dr. Susan Boon. Her research interests include interpersonal relationships and the mental health of youth minorities and immigrants. She hopes to complete graduate studies in Counselling Psychology.
Selena Kahlert
Selena is currently completing her third year of a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. Her research interests include early language development and clinical child psychology. In the future, Selena hopes to pursue a Master's degree in Speech Language Pathology.
Haneen Salama
I am a student in my second year of Bachelor of Science in Psychology. I am planning to finish my undergraduate level with an embedded certificate in Mental Wellbeing and Resilience and to get an Honours degree. I am interested in child psychology and psychopathology. In the future, I hope to pursue graduate studies in Clinical Psychology
Past Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Dr. Marc Jambon (University of Toronto Mississauga)
Dr. Rochelle Hentges (East Tennessee State University's Strong BRAIN Institute)
Past Honours and Graduate Students
Chloe Devereux (Psychology Honours Student, University of Calgary)
Ciana Anhorn (Psychology Honours Student, University of Calgary)
Logan Van Roessel (Psychology Honours Student, University of Calgary)
Walaa Taha (Psychology Honours Student, University of Calgary)
Past Research Assistants and Volunteers
Katarina Padilla (Psychology Honours Student, University of Calgary)
Mirele Koumary (Masters Student, University of Calgary)
Idy Akpan (Psychology Honours Student, University of Calgary)
Sophia Lu (Undergraduate Student, University of Calgary)
Jaedyn Paarup (Undergraduate Student, University of Calgary)
Fatima Shah (Undergraduate Student, University of Calgary)
Simal Saeed (Psychology Student, University of Calgary)
Katie Zumalt (Graduate Student, Columbia University)
Claire McGuinness (Graduate Student, University of Calgary)
Rachel Pagaling (Graduate Student, University of Calgary)
Nina Anderson (Graduate Student, University of Denver)
Audrey Gauthier-Légaré (Graduate Student, Université Laval)
John Choi (Bachelor of Health Sciences Student, University of Calgary)
Mackenzie Beaupre
Rejimol Perika (Health Sciences Major, University of Calgary)
Vanessa Huynh (Health Sciences and Biomedical Honours Student, University of Calgary)
Elena Buliga (Graduate Student, University of Calgary)
Shanaya Fischer (Psychology Honours Student, University of Calgary)
Zoe Hodgins (Graduate Student, McMaster University)
Danae Laut (Graduate Student, University of Calgary)
Sara Lolarga (Psychology Major, University of Calgary)
Julia Poole (Graduate Student, University of Calgary)
Lea Schumacher (International Exchange Student, University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Kaleem Khan (Psychology Honours Student, University of Calgary)
Helen Wang (Health Sciences Major, University of Calgary)
2021 DCD LAB EVENT
After over a year of social gathering restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the DCD Lab Members were able to reunite for an outdoor picnic to say farewell to our beloved lab coordinator, Chloe, who is starting her graduate program in Counseling Psychology at the University of Alberta! Thank you, Chloe, for all your contributions to the lab, your lovely presence will be dearly missed!
Thanks to our DCD Lab Members who made it to our bowling event/goodbye party for Nina! We are wishing Nina all the best as she moves on to her next adventure and starts her graduate program in Clinical Psychology! We also wish the following students best of luck as they begin their graduate studies this fall: Claire McGuinness, Rachel Pagaling, and Katie Zumalt! Last, we say farewell to our summer graduate exchange student, Audrey Gauthier-Légaré! We will miss having you all in lab!
Thanks DCD Lab Members for your endless hard work and dedication to our lab! We couldn't do it without you!
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Looking for a postflop focused 25z/50z coach. DM rates/info/any relevant stuff.
Looking for CFP starting at NL10 -> Nosebleeds.
Long term so we can both benefit from it.
I Can devote 60hr+ weekly for the next year, 30-40hr after that.
Discuss the deal on DM.
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Looking for an OFC Pineapple coach. Particularly someone familiar with low in the middle sets. PM me.
For the past month I've been dedicating myself to 6-Max KO Hypers, as regular hypers seem to have died or at least it's hard to put volume at 10s+ while KO's run up to the 50s.
So I've been recently trying to move up to the 15s where I'm finally finding a couple decent regs. I think I'm still making good decisions overall but variance has been hitting pretty hard too and I think a coach to help me find my leaks or help me gain confidence in each move I make is the way to go right now.
How much for a Solid, Winning MTT Reg (perhaps show me your stats) to look over my DriveHUD Ignition database and to point out leaks/make suggestions based on that?
I'm playing anything from 10$ to the high rollers 325$ depending on bankroll which I could be a little better with.. IE Recently built up 100$ or so crypto deposit to over 3k playing a mix of anything from 10$ to 325$'s but only when satellited into, and playing the 100k (162$) pretty regularly -- but then lost most of it back adding too much volume primarily and perhaps a little lack of focus/motivation losing most of it back.
Had a few close runs at a good.. Ie first in the 30k (50$) w/7 left, and fizzled out in 5th.. First in 100k w/20 left, lost 3 hands in a row and 17th. So just looking for problem spots/leaks would be great.
I'm primarily just playing on weekends / working full time present..
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I'm looking for a coach to improve my game. I have just shy of 100k hands on Ignition, and I will link my pgc thread here. Nothing fancy, I pay via WF or PayPal, you help analyze my play, finding leaks, & pt4 analysis would be huge help. Absolutely must be reputable; don't bother if you dont have verifiable evidence of being a proven winner and coach.
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if you find such a coach,please just let me know!
do you have the suggestion about 6-max?
Looking for HU coaching, specifically for 8 to 20bb spots with 1/5 ante. Obv dont need someone that plays that format a lot, but that's what all the hands will be be. Bonus points if you can help me with 3 and 4handed similar situations.
I grind 16m satties where the first table is Cev.
Already am a semidecent HU player so would need to someone with intermediate to high skill level. Please pm me.
Looking for mixed game coaching. PM me.
my name is Florian im 36 years old and im from germany.
By beginning of this year i started to treat it seriously with all my focus on it.
When i started i was thinking that my skill level should be enough to beat the micros but now im facing the reality and the micros chrushing me.
After overall bad sessions i feel realy bad about my game and my self.
To becomme a better mindset i started to make sport also to get my concentration for long grinding sessions to the top.
But yeah, this is not helping when im not able to fix my leaks on the tables.
I study every day poker. Poker, Poker, Poker... every day but its not helping me that much as it should be. Guess i have leaks in study also.
I feel i need a someone where i can talk to about study, analyzing and adapting stuff to my game at the table.
Heres is my overall cash graph after 10k+ played hands.
That i am slightly in + is not because of the micros.
I feel much more comftable playing 50nl+. Dont know why..
That feels like realy dump to not even winning at the Button.
And this is absolutely destroying my mind.
The most profit i make seems to come from when other players just folding to me.... thats so.... dont have a word... how this feels bad to me... and that also means to me that the tables should be very soft..... but im softer... lol.
Hope to hear from you guys that will be great!
Great! Please add me to you chanel.
Looking for CFP MTT opportunity. Right now I'm more or less breakeven player, need someone that I'm accountable to and can coach and help me find my leaks, and get me in the right structure for buy ins and hold me accountable to stay with it. DM me or hmu on skype to discuss.
I am looking for a poker buddy/coach for Live 1/2, 1/3, 5/5 cash games. I have been working hard on my game for few years. Hopefully someone who plays in Los Angeles.
I'm looking for help to beat the 15s spins.
I'm winner in 6k spins from 7s to 73 chip / ev.
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Vlad's alive, I think. Before I take the 1-hour drive to my only Tuesday college class, I'll translate this. After doing my CCNA studies before class and if I have time, I'll do "On a Pair of Wings" and, if I feel like it, "Leisure Boogie". This song is nice, feel free to discuss it or leave suggestions for improvements below. Where I've been? Though you probs don't care. I bought some new Ushanka cockades over the weekend for the Ushanka I wear, was forced to help my parents with yard work. Procrastinated because college was out Monday for new student registration and was really just slacking off because a scrawny nerd like myself shouldn't be hauling 6 foot boards around, they're longer than I'm tall! TL:DR I was being lazy and dealing with parents and college burnout and just haven't had the motivation to do diddly squat.
LOL, sounds like she cut the strand of her hair and left on his pillow. And why in the world would he itch his trigger finger to know her name?
Thanks. Rereading it, what i had sounds incredibly stupid ;p.
I'm going by my own personal rules of translation, and this was in the "Don't Park Cars Album" an album by Makarevich. Three or four of the songs from "Don't Park Cars" are cover songs. I will add this translation to Chizh and Co HOWEVER I personally feel that this still belongs here as a Makrevich song as it was in the "Don't Park Cars" album, Chizh and Co do not have a version available on any music service that I can find (I've spent the better part of a morning on iTunes searching). Now, this doesn't mean they didn't do the song, iTunes doesn't have Makrevich's "Моя Страна Сошла С Ума" on it, even though it was a song he did and is on this website as a translation. However, I'm leaving my translation here but will copy my translation over for Chizh and Co's version.
So, according to your logic, if Putin was singing "Povorot" (and he did), lyrics belong to him and not Makarevich?
That isn't remotely what I was saying nor close to what I meant. Makeravich covered this song in an album therefore the translated lyrics can be for be for both Makarevich and Chizh. I didn't say they belong to Makarevich at all.
Oh, boy. You already created TWO pages for this cover version. Please, stop.


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National Support
Being part of a connectional church means having support on various levels. At the national level there are several areas where congregations can find support for their mission work.
Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA)
PMA links advocacy and social justice through efforts including the Office of Public Witness, Presbyterian Peacemaking Program and Presbyterian Disaster Assistance. It also works for environmental justice, and hunger issues here and abroad.
PMA partners with more that 50 countries around the world in Global Mission efforts - sending mission co-workers and valuing collaborative efforts that address critical needs.
Efforts toward confronting and dismantling racism are also a part of our national efforts. Other areas of interest include the Young Adult Volunteer program and Theological Education.
Office of the General Assembly (OGA)
The primary point of contact with the Office of General Assembly is in regards to issues surrounding Immigration. From offering support for advocacy to providing legal resources for refugees and asylum seekers, the Office of the General Assembly works behind the scenes as well as on the front lines of caring for those who are foreigners. (Deut 10:18-19)
affinity groups and PCUSA supported agencies
In addition to national support from the PCUSA, we are in a covenant relationship with several organizations. We are members of the National Council of Churches, who have begun to take an active role against racism. Church World Service provides opportunities for congregations to sponsor refugees, provide kits (school, hygiene as well as disaster buckets) and to offer community CROP walks against hunger.
We also have several affiliate organizations that assist congregations that wish to focus on Peacemaking, Fossil-Fuel Divestment and Israel/Palestine.


Global mobility is a defining issue for the 21st century. The Global Mobility Project at Ohio State integrates the insights of the arts, humanities, and social sciences to facilitate both a conversation and an investigation of how local culture and individual decision-making inform and reflect the complex global forces behind mobility. We give a central role to the humanities and arts as we reimagine the human dimensions and dynamic cultural reverberations of the movement of peoples, internationally and locally.
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My academic background is in the social sciences. I have a BA in Social Anthropology from the School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex, and an MSocSc in Industrial Archaeology from the Department of Economic History, University of Birmingham.
My professional experience encompasses teaching, educational software design, and the development of e-learning and networked learning in Higher Education. I'm also a qualified software developer and project manager.
My PhD research topic follows an interdisciplinary approach, seeking to investigate the interrelationship of power and knowledge in the context of social practice in networked digital environments.
I'm researching effective methods to discover how this interrelationship is enmeshed in the production, distribution, exchange and consumption of knowledge in an increasingly globalised, networked and, most especially, financialised political economy.
I'm also particularly interested in the socio-political implications of this current historical shift specifically, but not exclusively, in terms of the educational domain, of which the recent proliferation of Massive Open Online Courses may be merely one symptom.
I'm also keen to address examples, in online and digital contexts, of the misrecognition of hierarchisation at the core of social practices, including in the domains of knowledge such as education that seem to serve, in Bourdieu's terms, as "institutionalised classifiers" involving "submission to dominant values" in the midst of a more general struggle for political dominance.
My conceptual and methodological interests include the use of social theory that aims to offer a robust critique of hierarchical social structures and processes via analyses of social practice in specific contexts. In a more general sense this invokes theoretical perspectives on the epistemological foundations of power, the interplay of structure and agency, and the specificities of continuity and change.
I believe that such critical perspectives potentially have valuable implications for reassessing the meaning and reenergising the potential of ideas such as "increased participation", "democratic practice" and "citizenship".
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New Central Bank survey predicts 55% inflation in 2019
GDP anticipated to contract by 2.5% this year, survey of economists and consultancy firms reveals.
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Inflation in Argentina this calendar year will soar to 55 percent, while the troubled nation's gross domestic product (GDP) will contract by 2.5 percent, according to new survey from the Central Bank.
Those are significant rises. Prices were originally expected to rise by 40 percent this year, with the economy expected to contract by 1.4 percent. Inflation, however, hit 25 percent in just the fisrt six months of the year, data from the INDEC national statistics bureau showed last week.
The new projections, which come from a poll of economists carried out by the national monetary authority, comes just a few days after the Government slapped on currency controls, placed limits on the purchase of dollars and said it would oblige exporters to liquidate their dollars as soon as possible.
Argentina's economy has been in recession since the second quarter of 2018 and the value of the peso against the dollar has fallen by around 20 percent over the last three weeks. In a bid to contain its slide, the Central Bank has sold off reserves of some US$12 billion.
As purchasing power has declined, poverty has risen too, with the most recent data estimating that some 32 percent of Argentines are living below the poverty line.
"For the year 2019, the survey's participants (large private consultancy firms) estimate a general level of inflation at 55.0% (+15 points compared to the previous survey) and a variation of the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for 2019 of minus 2.5%, with a 1.1-point drop greater than what they forecast in July, " said the monetary authority in a statement.
The forecast for GDP in 2020 also fell to 1.1 percent contraction, in contrast to the two percent expansion projected in the previous survey, taken in July.
"The projection of the analysts of the average nominal exchange rate for September amounted to 60.00 pesos per dollar (+13.8 pesos per dollar compared to the previous REM)," he said.
The exchange rate closed on Tuesday at 58.49 pesos per greenback, after Central Bank intervention.
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One of the most efficient and affordable SUVs in Japan and China, the Honda Vezel, will be completely redesigned and re-engineered for the next year. The upcoming 2023 Honda Vezel, also known as the Honda HR-V, will exude a more angular, straight-edged look compared to its predecessor. This latest generation will also receive some changes inside, including a roomier cabin, better materials, and technologies.
So, if you're looking for this type of SUV, the new Vezel will make every family journey very pleasant. On top of that, this SUV carries a hybrid engine that is quite powerful, providing excellent fuel consumption. It uses a 1.5-liter hybrid engine powered by two electric motors.
2023 Honda Vezel Changes
Unlike the previous generation, the new 2023 Honda Vezel will be able to penetrate all road terrains. However, as before, we're expecting to see the same design appearance with strong and sporty lines, typically everything that one modern SUV offers.
Not only that, the upcoming Honda Vezel should also be equipped with various wheels and tires. However, right now, we don't have information if this model would ride on the same platform, or it will use the new one that should handle hybrid system.
More Modern Interior
Inside, the 2023 Honda Vezel will be roomier based on some rumors. This SUV was always been comfortable, offering two rows of seats and enough room for five passengers. Based on the latest report, there will be some arrangements inside, which should result in more legroom and headroom, especially behind.
For 2023, Honda will also add more quality materials, making every journey comfortable. We're also expecting more technology inside, including a new infotainment system that supports Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone connectivity. Other features that should also be available are an audio-video system, auto AC, and also the One Push Ignition System.
2023 Honda Vezel Engine Specs
The 2023 Honda Vezel is one of the competing vehicles in the Honda SUV lineup. It has a very reliable performance thanks to a hybrid engine that is quite powerful and fuel efficient. The Honda Vezel consists of a 1.5-liter hybrid engine that comes with two electric motors.
Thanks to that, it combined power of 129 horsepower and a torque of 186 lb.-ft. The power is channeled through a CVT transmission to (AWD) all-wheel drive. As you noticed, the powertrain is impressive, and it offers three different modes: EV, Hybrid and Normal.
2023 Honda Vezel Price, Release Date
Despite various improvements both in terms of exterior and interior appearance, the new 2023 Honda Vezel should be in the same pricing range. As far as we know, the latest generation will cost around $30,000 for the model with basics equipment. However, expect a price increase on the upper trims.
Although Honda has not yet officially released the debut of this SUV, we're expecting its release to happen sometime next year. Overall, the Honda Vezel is a great family SUV that offers a variety of security and comfort, as well as excellent space capacity. Like before, it will compete with several competitors such as the Mitsubishi Outlander Sport or the new Nissan Juke.
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Old Skool gin liqueurs are back at it and this time with the festive season in mind as they have launched a limited edition Old Skool gin gift set a.k.a The Boom Box.
In case you haven't heard, Old Skool Gin aims to help you escape adulthood with a trip back to kidulthood, and send your taste buds on a wistful exploration of retro sweets and famous fizzy drinks.
This Old Skool gin gift set features three miniatures of their gin liqueurs including Iron Brew, Sweet Violet and Tutti Frutti.
These three exciting gin liqueurs are intended to send you and your friends on a wistful exploration of the retro sweets from your childhood.
If you're struggling with what to get to a gin lover this Christmas miniature gin gift sets are soaring at the minute. You are likely to find that most of your fave gin brands have launched one for the festive season.
The Lakes Gin have recently launched their own gin miniature gift set which looks divine but also there's a Tesco gin gift set equivalent for pink gin lovers (as if they would get left out) which you can get for a pretty good bargain.


This is a great fall dessert, and it is so easy to make — Quick pumpkin spice cake with brown sugar & cinnamon cream cheese frosting, made with a spice cake mix.
Grease a jelly roll pan.
Combine all the cake ingredients in a bowl and mix until combined.
Bake about 20 minutes, or until done.
Place all the ingredients into a bowl and whip until creamy.
Last month when we were in Colorado, my mom suggested that we make some kind of pumpkin-y dessert. After a few of my suggestions were shot down, we finally settled on some kind of pumpkin bar. I thought it would be fun and easy to make it using a spice cake mix and a can of pumpkin, so I went to work trying to figure out the proportions, and I came up with something pretty delicious. I made it in a jelly roll pan, so be sure to have one of those on hand!
Sadly, they didn't really turn out to be bars — they were definitely make cake-like. But, I digress. They were still delicious. The final product turned out to be light and airy, and the brown sugar and cinnamon cream cheese frosting was beyond amazing. I was originally going to make it myself, but when I saw a brown sugar & cinnamon cream cheese at the store (this is the kind I bought), I knew I had to try it out!
As with most recipe experiments, I was a little nervous as the cake cooked, but it came out perfectly. I was so excited to share it with the family, especially after I finished making the frosting. It's definitely my go-to cream cheese frosting recipe now!
This is totally optional, but I thought since it was pumpkin, I would make a fun little pumpkin on top using Kraft Caramel Bits (my current obsession.) I thought they were a great touch, though if you do this, don't put them until you have taken it out of the refrigerator and are about to serve. They hardened up a ton while it was chilling in the refrigerator and you couldn't even bite through them!


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The Trout Have Got to Eat
Editorial Staff March 25, 2018, 6:00 AM March 1, 2018
By Chris Scalley:
With spring in the air, anglers are finally ready to shake the dust off their fly gear and hit the river to remedy that cabin fever. Anticipation of the first dry fly action of the season gets all fly fishermen fired up!
But hold your horses. Let's really think about the aquatic bug lifecycle. For advanced invertebrates like caddisflies or black flies, the sequence of stages are egg, larvae, pupae, adult. With more primitive insects like mayflies and stoneflies, the cycle goes egg, larvae (nymph) then adult.
Early spring, usually March in the South, is the starting point for most aquatic invertebrate's initial emergence. Anglers should focus on the middle stages like larvae, nymphs and pupae, which are most readily available to the trout. Even though you might see a rise here and there, you will likely catch more and bigger fish on subsurface patterns such as nymphs and wet flies.
I have always agreed with my clients that one fish on a dry is worth 10 on nymphs, but at the end of the day, most folks just want to catch a lot of fish.
Over most of the southern waters, the best dry fly fishing won't begin in earnest until a little later in spring. That's when trout will key in on adult and pupal stages of hatching insects on the river. Then it will be very handy to know about rise forms created by trout and fly fishing the "surface" and "surface film" with dry flies.
Chris Scalley, of River Through Atlanta Guide Service, can be contacted through his website riverthroughatlanta.com.


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Biografia
Febvre fu dapprima influenzato da Paul Vidal de la Blache durante il tempo trascorso nella École normale supérieure (1899-1902) e conseguì il dottorato in storia nel 1911 dopo aver scritto una tesi su Filippo II e la Franca Contea. Poco tempo dopo ottenne una cattedra all'Università di Digione.

Combatté nella Grande Guerra ed ottenne una cattedra all'Università di Strasburgo nel 1919, quando l'Alsazia ritornò alla Francia.

Nel 1929 Febvre e Marc Bloch fondarono la rivista Annales d'histoire économique et sociale, dalla quale prese il nome la cosiddetta "scuola delle Annales" con il suo modo particolare e innovativo di interpretare la storia. Nel 1933 Febvre ottenne una cattedra al Collège de France.

Tra gli anni trenta e i primi anni quaranta pubblicò svariati studi e, con lo scoppio della seconda guerra mondiale, chiese all'occupante di far riapparire gli "Annales" nella zona occupata, nonostante l'opposizione del condirettore Marc Bloch. L'autorizzazione a riapparire sotto un altro titolo fu concessa: lo stesso Bloch (rimosso dal comitato editoriale ai sensi dello Statut des juifs) vi pubblicò sotto pseudonimo e Febvre ricevette persino, nel 1942, una dichiarazione di sostegno del ministro collaborazionista Abel Bonnard.

Quindi fu Febvre a guidare le Annales nel periodo del dopoguerra. Suo allievo fu anche Fernand Braudel con cui fondò la sesta sezione della École pratique des hautes études.

Morì nel 1956.

Lo storico Alessandro Barbero riporta una sua massima che bene sintetizza il fine della sua ricerca: "L'uomo non ricorda nulla...ma ricostruisce di continuo".

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 Filippo II e la Franca Contea. La lotta fra nobiltà e borghesia nell'Europa del Cinquecento (Philippe II et la Franche-Comté. Étude d'histoire politique, religieuse et sociale, Flammarion, Paris, 1911), Introduzione di Angelo Torre, presentazione di Fernand Braudel, trad. Anna Marietti Solmi e Corrado Vivanti, Collana Biblioteca di cultura storica n.138, Einaudi, Torino, 1979, ISBN 978-88-061-7962-5.
 Notes et documents sur la Réforme et l'Inquisition en Franche-Comté, Paris, 1911, pp.336.
 Histoire de la Franche-Comté, Paris, Boivin, 1912, pp.260.
 La terra e l'evoluzione umana. Introduzione geografica alla storia (La Terre et l'évolution humaine, 1922), trad. di Corrado Vivanti e Anna Maria Damiani, Prefazione di Franco Farinelli, Collana Piccola Biblioteca n.402, Einaudi, Torino, 1980, ISBN 978-88-065-0641-4.
 Martin Lutero (Un destin: Martin Luther, 1928), trad. G. Zampa, Barbèra, Firenze, 1949; Collana Biblioteca Universale, Laterza, Bari, 1ª ed. 1969.
 Civilisation. Évolution d'un mot et d'un groupe d'idées, Paris, Renaissance du livre, 1930, pp.56.
 Il Reno. Storia, miti, realtà (Le Rhin. Problèmes d'histoire et d'économie, 1935), trad. di Adelina Galeotti, nuova ediz. a cura di Peter Schlotter, Collana Saggi.Storia e scienze sociali, Roma, Donzelli, 1998, ISBN 88-7989-431-5.
 Il problema dell'incredulità nel secolo XVI. La religione di Rabelais (Le problème de l'incroyance au xvie siècle. La religion de Rabelais, 1942), trad. Luca Curti e Clara Castelli, Prefazione a cura di Aron Jakovlevic, Collana Paperbacks n.89, Einaudi, Torino, 1978, ISBN 978-88-063-5949-2.
 Origène et Des Périers ou l'énigme du Cymbalum Mundi, Paris-Genève, Droz, 1942, pp.144.
 Amor sacro, amor profano. Margherita di Navarra, un caso di psicologia nel '500 (Autour de l'Heptaméron. Amour sacré, amour profane, 1944), Collana Universale Il Portolano n.2, Cappelli, Bologna, 1980.
 Les Classiques de la liberté : Michelet, Lausanne, Traits, 1946, pp.162.
 Combats pour l'histoire, Paris, Armand Colin, 1952, pp.456.
 Au cœur religieux du xvie siècle, Paris, SEVPEN, 1957, pp.359.
 L. Febvre - Henri-Jean Martin, La nascita del libro (L'Apparition du livre, 1958), Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1977; Collana Biblioteca Universale n.154, Laterza, Bari, 1988; Collana Biblioteca Storica, Laterza, Roma, 2011, ISBN 978-88-420-9529-3.
 Pour une histoire à part entière, Paris, SEVPEN, 1962, pp.860.
 Onore e patria (Honneur et patrie, Texte établi, présenté et annoté par Thérèse Charmasson et Brigitte Mazon, 1996), Prefazione all'edizione italiana di Carmine Donzelli, Collana Saggi.Storia e scienze sociali, Donzelli, Roma, 1997, ISBN 88-7989-335-1.
 Studi su Riforma e Rinascimento e altri scritti su problemi di metodo e di geografia storica, trad. di Corrado Vivanti, Prefazione di Delio Cantimori, Collana Biblioteca di cultura storica n.86, Einaudi, Torino, 1966; Collana Reprints, 2 voll., Einaudi, Torino, 1976.
 Problemi di metodo storico, trad. Corrado Vivanti, Collana Reprints, Torino, Einaudi, 1976; Collana Piccola Biblioteca, Einaudi, 1992, ISBN 978-88-061-2881-4.
 De la « Revue de synthèse » aux « Annales ». Lettres à Henri Berr, 1911-1954, edizione a cura di Jacqueline Pluet e Gilles Candar, Paris, Fayard, 1997.
 L'Europa. Storia di una civiltà. Corso tenuto al Collège de France nell'anno accademico 1944-1945, trad. A. Galeotti, Collana Saggi.Storia e scienze sociali, Donzelli, Roma, 1999, ISBN 88-7989-505-2; Collana Universale Economica. Storia, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2014, ISBN 978-88-07-88366-8.

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Voci correlate
 Scuola delle Annales

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Collège de France
Storici del Medioevo

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Residents in shock after man shot and seriously injured outside Cambuslang bar
A 49-year-old man was rushed to hospital after he was allegedly ambushed as he parked his car near the Kirkhill Bar on Cadoc Street.
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Armed police were seen attending the incident at the Kirkhill Bar (Image: Tony Nicoletti)
Cambuslang residents have spoken of their shock after a man was shot and seriously injured outside a nearby pub last night.
The victim - who suffered wounds to his face and stomach - staggered into the Kirkhill Bar on Cadoc Street after being targeted as he parked his car.
Armed police swooped on the area at 8.30pm and sealed off nearby streets.
Police Scotland have confirmed a 49-year-old man was injured in the incident but was in a "stable" condition in hospital.
Alex Thomson, 64, has lived on Cadoc Street for 27 years and admitted he had never seen anything like it.
He told the Reformer: "I saw the ambulance arrive before the cops. It was sitting on Croft Road for 10 minutes before the police pulled up with guns.
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"Between here and the other streets there must have been 10 or 12 cop cars and around eight officers with guns."
Alex added: "I remember a taxi driver got murdered in Cambuslang years ago but I've never seen anything like this before. It's usually quiet around here.
"A friend of the victim, who didn't want to be named, said: "It's absolutely unbelievable. "He is a brilliant neighbour and well known in the area.
"I just hope he is okay. He is highly thought of around here."
Police stand guard at the scene on the morning after the shooting (Image: Tony Nicoletti)
Another resident said: "It's usually just young boys who kick about this street, so it's scary to have something as serious as this happen right on your doorstep.
"That pub is always really busy. One man witnessed police attend the scene and added: "It was chaos. I heard all the sirens and all the commotion so I just came in and shut the door. "I don't know much about it but I heard someone had been shot.
"You hear about this sort of thing happening somewhere else but you don't think it will happen at your place."
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A Police Scotland spokesman said: "At around 8:50pm tonight police received report of a 49-year-old male found with gunshot wounds in Cadoc Street, Cambuslang.
"Emergency services attended and the victim was taken to hospital for treatment where his condition is described as stable.
"Police officers are still on the scene dealing with the ongoing incident to try and establish the full circumstances surrounding it."
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