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Phantoms est le premier album studio du groupe de black metal symphonique hongrois Sear Bliss. L'album est sorti en août 1996 sous le label Mascot Records.

Phantoms a été réédité en 2006 par le label Vic Records. La réédition de l'album a été décidée car sa version originale était quasiment introuvable dans le commerce, en partie à cause du fait qu'il a été produit en un nombre assez limité.

Par rapport à ses successeurs, les éléments Black metal de cet opus sont bien plus mis en avant. L'ensemble est globalement plus brutal et le clavier, ainsi que les instruments à vent, se font plus discrets.

À la sortie de cet album, le magazine de metal Aardschok lui a accordé le titre d'album du mois. Il faut noter un détail important : il s'agit de la première et de la seule fois que le magazine a accordé ce titre à un album de Black metal.

C'est le seul album de Sear Bliss enregistré avec Csejtei Zoltán en tant que vocaliste principal. À partir de l'album suivant, c'est Nagy András qui deviendra le chanteur principal, en plus de son rôle de bassiste.

Musiciens

 Csejtei Zoltán - chant, batterie
 Csejtei Csaba - guitare
 Barbarics János - guitare
 Nagy András - basse
 Winter - claviers
 Szűcs Gergely - trombone

Liste des morceaux

 Winter Voices - 0:46
 Far Above the Trees - 6:55
 Aeons of Desolation - 8:54
 1100 Years Ago - 6:45
 As the Bliss is Burning - 5:48
 Land of the Phantoms - 9:16
 Beyond the Darkness - 4:37
 With Mournful Eyes - 6:22

Album de Sear Bliss
Premier album musical sorti en 1996


La, Trinidad, Benguet – Tourists who flock to the Mountain City has chosen the province as a destination as well.
A lot of visitors are expected to troop to the La Trinidad strawberry fields over the summer, peaking during the Holy Week as visitors want to pick fresh berries and sample strawberry products which abound the area.
The Valley has become a favorite destination for tourists who want to see where vegetables and flowers are actually grown.
Claire Prudecio, Provincial Tourism Officer, said a surge in tourism is seen during the summer season.
Itogon tops municipalities with most tourists due to its many eco-tourism activities like mountain climbing and trekking adventures.
Prudencio said treks up to the summits of both Mount Pulag and Ugo have increased participants as well as the Northface 100 which have lured foreign contingents.
Another eco-tourism mountain climbing activity, the Mt. Purgatory-Mangisi Invitation Traverse organized by the municipality of Bokod also in Benguet, placed third.
Events held in Bokod, Kapangan and Kibungan centered on sports tourism. These are trekking, mountain biking, running and various altitude sports which promote the beauty and natural terrain of the province.
Prudencio said Kibungan is the second most visited town in the province.
The Baguio Correspondents and Broadcasters Club, the mother organization of all media clubs in the region will also bring the annual Lucky Summer Visitors to the province capital for tours.
The village of Twin Peaks traversed by the historic Kennon Road will again serve as first-ever host of the annual search for LSV, who will be given red carpet treatment during Holy Week.
The annual LSV, a project of the Baguio Correspondents and Broadcasters Club (BCBC), aims to promote the people, culture and tourism spots of Baguio City and the province.
The LSV will be brought to key destinations in the province including the strawberry fields, Balatoc Mines and the BenCab Museum in Asin.
Aside from the government sector, the LSV has been getting support from its partners like Chevron, SMART, Benguet Electric Cooperative, Baguio Water District, Philippine Military Academy, Mines View barangay, BB-PICAG, Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) and its attached agency, Land Transportation Office, SNAP-Benguet, Hotel Supreme, SM City Baguio, Benguet State University, Benguet Corp., Chanum Foundation, Hotel and Restaurant Association of Baguio and Baguio Country Club, Pines Garage Van Operators Association, GMT-Interlink Security Management Corp., among others.


WoW patch 7.2: The Tomb of Sargeras brings a new PvP Brawl. These Brawls will be with different modes, rules and gameplay.
If you are a WoW fan and looking for something different, then these Brawls are the perfect solution for you. Keep on reading and find out more about the new Brawls.
Every other week there will be a different PvP Brawl. There will be different rules and modes for each of them. By winning a match, you will get a reward. Simple right? All you have to do is click on Player vs. Player Tab and find them. Or just simply use hotkey "I" and there you have it. I have some info about 3 Brawls. If you want to find out more read on below.
One of the Brawls is Tarren Mill vs Southshore – Warfare. This Brawl actually is a battle between two towns, Southshore and Tarren Mill. In order to win here, you have to play as a team. Winning the battle, you will recieve a reward.
Next Brawl is Gravity Lapse – Resource Race. This event takes place in Eye of the Storm. This will be a brand new expirience for all WoW players. The players will be launched in the air to collect resource in order to win the match.
The third event is Warsong Scramble – Capture the Flag. This event is happening in Warsong Gulch, where you and your team are playing the usual capture the flag mode. To win the match, you need to capture the flag 5 times. But there is something else. If your own flag is not at your base there is a penalty. What is the penalty? Well, we just have to wait and see when the Brawl hits WoW.
Until then, don't forget to subscribe and get the latest WoW news.


If you have chosen to homeschool in Utah, you may need information, resources, and curriculum that will help you get started. This page aims to help guide you through the process of homeschooling in the Beehive State. Take a few minutes to read through it, and feel free to share this page with other new homeschoolers in your state.
If you have questions or comments about homeschooling in Utah, check out the homeschooling tools and resources or visit the online Utah support group.
Homeschooling in Utah is great! There are so many resources available to homeschoolers that it is hard to decide which to choose. There is never a lack of people to get advice from, be mentored by, or to get hands on help from.
While homeschool styles and schedules vary, here is what may be an example of a "typical" homeschool day.
Perhaps your child will do five minute timed math exercises, then practice the piano for 30 minutes. After that, you may decide to do book-work for the first 1 ½ to 2 hours, before moving onto Time4learning.com.
Once a month or so, you might like to do a science experiment; build a racecar from popsicle sticks, a self-propelled boat from a pop bottle, or an airplane from clothespins. You might even have just a "book day" once in a while – where you take the whole day just to read and enjoy stories.
Time4Learning is vibrant, engaging, educational, and funny.
If you have any more questions or comments about homeschooling in Utah, head over to the Utah Parent Forum.


Portugal and particularly the Algarve has so much to offer. The climate of course is a benefit and attraction. The availability of attractive Algarve Apartments and lavishly fitted out Algarve Villas. The wonderful silken sandy beaches which are known to be some of the best in the world. and of course not forgetting the golf courses. Come for the golf stay for the climate.
But maybe your main interest is sailing. We have put together a brief article on three wonderful Marina in the Algarve. If you get down here it is well worth a visit or even go onto www.goholidaylets.com and book marina accommodation. Lagos marina apartments can be a wonderful holiday. As can be a villa in Albufeira near Albufeira Marina.
Portimao Marina is located next to the historical forts of Santa Caterina. The Marina has a water depth of around 5m that can cater for large craft. There are restaurants where you can dine, shops, bars and swimming pool around you will find beautiful Algarve Villas also. If you are a golfer you can play golfing in one of the nearby golf courses. The ocean view is amazing; you can see right across to the resort of Ferragudo. Or you can enjoy a walk along the riverbank of Portimao in the direction of Praia da Rocha.
Albufeira Marina plays a big role in hosting a large group of tourist. There are hotels, Albufeira Villas and Albufeira Marina Apartments, shops, restaurants and bars. The Albufeira marina is safe and well sheltered with a large pontoons for all types of vessels.
You can take a walk along the coastline from Albufeira Old Town to the Marina and have a clear view of the coastline.
The Vilamoura Marina is the largest in the Algarve, with two different zones for different types and sizes for the vessels. The Marina provides a wide range of recreational boat support services and there are several shops, restaurants and clubs and surrounded by Vilamoura Marina apartments . You can take a walk to the fashionable casino just down the road. This area of the Algarve has lavish holiday rental accommodation together top quality hotel accommodation. Book a Vilamoura holiday rental with www.goholidaylets.com today.
There are other Marinas that can be found far East in Tavira and Faro. Each and every Marina is unique in its own ways so do not limit yourself, explore and capture good memories of them.
Delightful food at affordable prices.
Praia da Luz is a very cozy one fish village, easily accessible resort in the Western Algarve. You get to this charming resort town by turn off the N125 just outside Lagos. The local restaurant scene of Praia da Luz is a joy to explore and it comprises mainly of fresh fish caught daily and is readily available and which is prepared in various ways.
Praia da Luz to accommodate the increasing number of visitors has a wide selection of restaurants. Some of the Praia da Luz beach apartments are within the vicinity of some of the restaurants. A wide range of cuisine is available there is a restaurant for everyone. You will find Chinese and Italian restaurants that serve both international and traditional cuisines, Portuguese Irish and English bars are also found here. There are several restaurants along the beach too. Most visitors prefer the quieter end of the western Algarve the Praia da Luz holiday apartments or Algarve villas caters really well for families groups.
Here are some of the restaurants you can dine in while at your vacay.
The restaurant is located in Praia da Luz just below the church in the town square or opposite the Fort. This is a lovely and comfortable restaurant that serves both local and international cuisine. Most meals are accompanied by Portuguese wine of your choice.
You are advised to book in advance especially during the high season. Children are made very welcome. The staff are friendly and very accommodative and you re assured of a delightful and memorable dining experience.
Chaplin's is located at Avenida Pescadores 4, Praia da Luz, Lagos. Chaplin's is friendly restaurant. That's why you feel welcome the moment you enter . The restaurant is known for its home made chips and fresh vegetables. The menu comprises of meat, fish and vegan dishes, there is a menu for kids too. The restaurant is ideal for families since its location is in a traffic free zone making it suitable for kids to play while parents are still enjoying their meals.
For steak lovers, look steak café is the place to be. Here you are offered a great dining experience in the modern looking restaurant and excellent services. The prices are affordable you don't have to break a bank for the steaks. Everyone is welcome here from couples, families and groups of people to single individuals.
On arrival you will find a team of friendly staff who are always ready to welcome you with top marks customer service and satisfaction. The dining atmosphere here is incredible. You can enjoy your meals in a relaxed ambiance while admiring the stylish restaurant. You can have take outs also and enjoy at your nearby holiday rental apartment.
Enjoy dining at these and other great restaurants at this "beach of the light" region.
The Algarve has been phenomenally popular with visitor from Northern Europe for a few decades. Golf in particular has been a huge attraction and to cater for the demand challenging golf courses and golf links have been developed. Sunshine is the main attraction as Portugal has very few days without sunshine. To provide accommodation for these visitors created a secondary business opportunity was created and the likes of apartments to rent in Albufeira had to be also been developed. Not alone Albufeira but apartments to rent in Lagos and Villas to rent in Alvor and other places sprung and are great value in excellent location. Some luxurious hotels also were added to the mix.
Next the Portuguese had to add food and excellent restaurants popped up serving local food accompanied by excellent Portuguese Wines.
Today we would like to give you a short introduction to the Algarve as a wine producing region. Normally when we think of The Algarve a few memories and places come to mind smooth sandy beaches, golf course with carpets of emerald green grass, luxury Algarve Villas, and apartments Algarve style. Wine yes of course in relaxing restaurants no awareness of the fact some are produced from vines grown a few miles from the villas in Albufeira you might have rented.
Located in the hills above Silves in the valley of the Odelouca River The vineyard covers an area of 8 hectares. Because of it location it is near most Apartments Algarve for holiday rent. They area would have a lot of holiday villas. Tours are welcome.
Open all year round for tours.
This region produces fresh white wines, though it is known to many the wines of the Algarve is usually red. The wines are produced by a small number of cooperatives. With wineries like those listed the production is now widespread to other individuals. The Algarve wines are known to be of high alcohol content because of the warm climate. If your Algarve Villa is close to these regions perhaps you can pay a visit to the yards and see how the process takes place. They are a number of websites offer various wine tours. But chose wisely as they vary in cost and some might turn out expensive for a family.
The Vitis Vinifera Vine flourishes well here in the Algarve. The climate is best suited for the vines long term need, since wine is produced over a long period. The bright sunshine, the warm fresh air, the cool sea breeze is what the grapes want for producing wines, of high quality.
When in your holiday rental at Algarve Apartment enjoy the fresh air the breeze from the sea too while enjoying the tasty alcohol from the great local vineyards.
The climatic conditions quicken the vine growing season, this enables the grapes to attain a certain juicy capacity. The grapes are able to get a sugary taste as they continue to ripen so by the time the season ends the grapes have attained the needed sugar content. The soils here in the Algarve vary in content, some have limestone, sandstones and more sandy stones especially those along the coastline. This is beneficial for the vineyards. It's a good a place to rent your Algarve villa if you are the kind of person that loves the sandy beaches.
The grapes that are commonly used are Arinto, Malyasia, Siria, Chardonnay Viognier and Alvarinho the named category is mainly used to produce white wines. Castelao, Negra Mole, Tourga, Nacional and Trincadeira is mostly used for red wines which is most common in the Algarve region. If you are really into wine and perhaps visiting the Algarve, choose an Algarve Villa or Apartments algarve that is close to the vineyards if you want to learn more of how its produced, the history behind the wines. Enjoy the Algarve wines and carry some back home for your folks more so grab a bottle enjoy it in your apartment before leaving the wine region.
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Jorge Chavez International Airport
The principal international and domestic airport in Peru is Jorge Chávez International Airport (IATA: LIM, ICAO: SPJC, previously SPIM) (Aeropuerto Internacional Jorge Chávez). It's in Callao, 11 kilometres (7 miles) north-west of Lima Center, the country's capital, and 17 kilometres from Miraflores.
The Limatambo Airport in San Isidro was Lima's first airport. Due to a lack of space and capacity, it discontinued operations in 1960 and was replaced by the Lima-Callao International Airport. The Lima-Callao airport was renamed "Aeropuerto Internacional Jorge Chávez" in June 1965, in honour of the great Peruvian aviator Jorge Chávez Dartnell. The terminal building was dedicated in December 1965.
Compaa de Aviación Faucett had its corporate headquarters on the airport grounds when it was in operation.
The Peruvian government placed the airport under the control of Lima Airport Partners in 2001 in order to repair and extend its infrastructure (LAP). Fraport and International Finance Corporation have joined LAP. The Peruvian Corporation of Airports and Commercial Aviation is in charge of air traffic control (CORPAC).
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Nehrer Stefan - Department Head
Donau University Krems
Krems, Austria
Stefan Nehrer is an orthopaedic surgeon at Department for Orthopaedic Surgery at the hospital in Krems, Professor for Tissue Engineering at Center for Regenerative Medicine and since 2011 he is also Dean of Faculty Health and Medicine and since March 2013 he is Head of Department for Biomedicine and Health Sciences at Danube University Krems.
He studied at the Medical University Vienna where he obtained his MD in 1984 and his PhD in 1999. From 1995 to 1996 he was at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, at Prof. Myron Spector where he started his scientific work in cell-based therapies in cartilage regeneration.
From 2000 to 2006 he was head of orthopaedic research at the Medical University Vienna and leading surgeon in sports medicine and paediatric orthopaedic. In 2007 he was appointed Professor for Tissue Engineering at Danube University Krems. Over the years he has continued his research on experimental and clinical applications of chondrocyte transplantation and formed a group for tissue engineering research. Furthermore, his interests focused on mesenchymal cell differentiation and design/implementation of tissue culture bioreactors for automated and controlled manufacturing of cartilage, bone and osteochondral grafts, based on autologous cells and 3D porous scaffolds.
He has published 73 peer reviewed articles and numerous other articles and book chapters in national and international journals. Prof. Nehrer has presented at many national and international meetings and he is member of national and international societies. Currently, he is the president of the German-Austrian-Swiss Society for Orthopaedic Traumatologic Sports Medicine (GOTS).


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\section{Introduction}

Epilepsy is the second most common brain disorder behind migraines. Seizure detection and localization are ongoing fields of study in neurology that aim to create algorithms that can successfully identify epileptic seizures. Seizure patients can be tracked by two mediums: electroencephalographic (EEG) signals and video EEG. An EEG signal is a multi-channel time series indicating the patient's brain waves while a video EEG is a video monitor of the patient's physical movement and of its surrounding environment. In the past, advances have been made towards the use of pure EEG signals for automated seizure detection \citep{hussein2018epileptic, saab2020}. However, the automated analysis of video recordings of hospital patients has not been addressed. Analysis of the video could allow detecting events that are not visible on other modalities--such as EEG--and could contain essential information for automated seizure detection. For example, repetitive motions, such as chewing while eating, can trigger an EEG signal that resembles seizure patterns and misleads EEG-based automated detection algorithms.

In many human detection and tracking tasks, the face of most of the body of the targets is visible \citep{everingham15, shao2018, dollar2011}. Epilepsy patient detection is considerably more difficult because their head is often covered with an EEG headset and their body by blankets or cables.

For this work, we aggregated and curated a dataset of 45 video recordings of hospital patients by leveraging continuous video recordings acquired during clinical routine. We use this dataset to compared multiple standard deep learning detection models for the task of epilepsy patients detection. We fine-tune variants of Mask R-CNN architecture \citep{he2017} and compare to their ImageNet pre-trained non-fined tuned version. We use the mean average precision with a bounding box overlap of at least 50 percent (mAP50) to evaluate the performance of our models in patient detection. We show that fine-tuned models outperform existing state-of-the-art pre-trained person detection models. We believe that our patient detection pipeline has vast applications in the clinic and may serve as a promising step towards highly accurate seizure detection and localization.

\section{Dataset}

We created a dataset for hospital patient video detection using continuous video recordings acquired during the clinical routine. We selected 50 videos clips from different neonates, children, teenagers, and adults patients with a heavier concentration of neonates and children. The videos were acquired under different camera angles, often with partial occlusion or the patient with blankets or machines, sometimes with the patient lying in bed, sometimes with relatives or nurses in the footage. We attempted to have as much variation as possible (Figure \ref{fig:examples_annotations}).

Each annotated video clip consists of 600 frames acquired at 15 frames per second (40 seconds per clip) with a frame resolution of 240x320. This accounts for 30,000 frames of patient activity for the full dataset. Five videos were dropped during processing due to formatting errors.

The Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT) \citep{cvat} platform was used to create bounding boxes around the patients. We included the body parts occluded by the blankets in our bounding box annotations. For reference, we present four unique, annotated images of epilepsy patients in Figure \ref{fig:examples_annotations}.

This annotated video dataset was randomly split into 31 videos for training, 11 for validation, and 5 for testing. The training set is used to update the network's parameters, the validation set to evaluate the generalization performance during training, and the test set is left out to perform the final independent evaluation once the model is trained.

\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=8cm]{images/patients.png}
    \caption{Sample annotated EEG patient video frames. Patient faces are redacted for privacy.}
    \label{fig:examples_annotations}
\end{figure}

\section{Methods}
\subsection{Object Detection}

Convolutional Neural Networks have become the standard for image recognition and computer vision tasks. Tasks like object detection and semantic segmentation have also become crucial due to applications in sectors like autonomous driving and robotics. For the task of seizure patient detection and tracking, we process every video frame individually using a 2D Mask R-CNN \citep{he2017}. Mask R-CNN is a conceptually simple and flexible framework for object instance detection and segmentation. It builds on the work of Faster R-CNN \citep{ren2015}, another detection model, by adding a branch for predicting object masks in parallel to the branch for bounding box recognition. It has delivered top performance on the COCO 2016 dataset, a benchmark for object detection tasks \citep{lin2014}. We utilize both the 50 and 101 layer variants of Mask R-CNN.

\subsection{Mask R-CNN}

 Mask R-CNN is an overall two-stage procedure that uses parallelism in regard to the class and bounding box. Every candidate object has two outputs: a class label and a bounding box offset.

 Building from Fast R-CNN, the first stage of a Regional Proposal Network is adopted. Pixel-to-pixel alignment is added and features are extracted using region of interest pooling (RoIPool) from each candidate box. RoIPool is a technique that performs quantization for the pixels via pooling \citep{he2017}. This is combined with a RoIAlign layer \citep{he2017} whose task is to properly realign the extracted features with the input following the quantization performed by RoIPool.

Mask R-CNN is unique in that it outputs a binary mask for each region of interest in contrast to most object segmentation systems where classification depends on mask predictions. For each region of interest, a multi-task loss is defined as:

\begin{equation}
    L = L_c + L_b + L_m,
\end{equation}

where $L_c$ and $L_b$ are the classification and bounding box losses defined in Fast R-CNN \cite{girshick2015}, and $L_m$ is the loss that generates class-wise masks to prevent competition between classes.

The mask representation is also valuable to the speed performance of Mask R-CNN because it encodes an input object's spatial layout and produces faster inference.

For its backbone, Mask R-CNN features a convolutional architecture for feature extraction. This architecture is that of a vanilla 2D ResNet \citep{he2016} of either 50 or 101 layers. A Feature Pyramid Network \cite{lin2017} is subsequently added to create levels of prioritization for features. Feature Pyramid Network uses a top-down architecture with lateral connections.

\subsection{Model Fine-tuning}

We fine-tune the 50 and 101 layers ResNet variants of the Mask R-CNN architecture on a training dataset of 30 videos. These networks were pre-trained on ImageNet \citep{deng2009}. To fine-tune this model for the patient detection task, we perform hyperparameter optimization and data augmentation as part of a custom training loop.

For training, we use stochastic gradient descent. We use the learning rate (0.00001) and batch size (512) that achieve the best performance on the validation set. To improve generalization performance, we also added on the fly data augmentation during training, namely random brightness changes (90 to 110 percent), random flipping in y with a 0.5 probability, resizing frames to 360x480 and applying random crop of 200x300, random rotation from 0 to 15 degrees, and random contrast from 90 to 110 percent.

We train the model for 50,000 iterations of the training set and evaluate the loss function on the validation set every 1,000 iterations. For the final evaluation on the test set, we select the model that minimizes the loss function on the validation set.

\begin{figure*}[t]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth,height=7cm]{images/chart.pdf}
  \caption{Comparison of fine-tuned models to pre-trained only models with mAP at IoU of 0.5. Results are reported on the test set.}
  \label{fig:results}
\end{figure*}

\subsection{Technical Specfications}
We use Detectron2, a wrapper for object detection with neural networks created by Facebook AI Research \citep{wu2019}. We use Pytorch 1.9.0 and train our models with two NVIDIA TITAN RTX GPUs.

\subsection{Evaluation}

To evaluate the performance of our model, we used the mean average precision (mAP) with a bounding box overlap of at least 50 percent intersection over union (IoU). IoU is measured by calculating the Area of Overlap and dividing it by the Area of Union.

mAP50 is a common object detection metric and is used for example in the Pascal Visual Object Classes (VOC) Challenge \citep{everingham15}. This metric is best for the task of patient detection since it is more difficult to define the location of patient bounding boxes compared to classical human detection tasks. The mAP50 is computed video-wise and averaged over videos.

\section{Results and Discussion}

The main result we identify in this work is the performance of our custom model (an ImageNet pre-trained Mask R-CNN that was fine-tuned on a training set of 40 patient videos) versus existing state-of-the-art person detection models of the same architecture: ImageNet pre-trained Mask R-CNNs. Both Resnet 101 and 50 variants of Mask R-CNN achieve substantially higher patient detection performance after fine-tuning (Figure \ref{fig:results}). The fine-tuned ResNet 101 variant achieves the best result with a mAP50 of 64.0. The fine-tuned ResNet 50 is second best with a mAP50 of 53.9. Without fine-tuning, and despite ImageNet pretraining, these models reached a much lower patient detection performance: 19.3 of mAP50 for ResNet 50 and 14.1 for ResNet 101, failing to detect the patient in most cases.

As discussed earlier, we assume that detecting epilepsy patients is more difficult due to the presence of obstacles like blankets, nurses, wires, etc. Moreover, while most person detection tasks show the arms and legs of the targets being visible, it is rare to see the full body of a seizure patient. Figure \ref{fig:results} shows that ImageNet pretraining without fine tuning detects patients reasonably well in the absence of bed covers but does not generalizes well to covered patients.

One of the limitations of our work is that we do leverage the temporal relation of frames and process them independently. Temporal information across frames can be crucial to understanding the behaviors of different objects in a scene \citep{carreira2017} such as epilepsy patient tracking. Temporal information could be leveraged using a 3D ResNet as the backbone of the Mask R-CNN. However, depending on the size of the video clips, we be limited by the GPU memory. We could also post-process the predicted bounding boxes coordinates as a second optimization step.

\begin{figure} [t]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=8cm]{visu.pdf}
    \caption{Examples of patient detections. The ground truth bounding box is in blue, the detections of the fine-tuned ResNet 101 Mask R-CNN in green, and those of not ImageNet pre-trained ResNet 50 Mask R-CNN in red. Patient faces are redacted for privacy. Frame A has been extracted from video 4 (in Figure \ref{fig:results}), where all models achieve high mAP50; Frame B from video 3, where all models achieve poor performance; frame C from video 1 where the fine-tuned ResNet 101 Mask R-CNN achieves perfect mAP50, while both baseline ImageNet pre-trained models get a mAP50 of 0; and frame D, from video 5, where we can observe that the fine-tuned ResNet 101 Mask R-CNN may be biased to bed cover or adult hands detection.}
\label{fig:visu}
\end{figure}

\section{Conclusion}

We presented patient detection results using our own dataset of hospital patient video aggregated and curated for this article. We estimated the need of fine-tuning state-of-the-art ImageNet pretrained models to perform correct patient detection. Fine-tuned neural networks could achieve a hospital patient detection performance of 64.0 mean average precision in continuous video recordings. Without fine-tuning, these models reached at best 19.3 of mean average precision and failed to detect the patient in most cases. This underlines the importance of fine-tuning object detection models in hospital settings. Given these promising results pave the way to building an ecosystem for finetuning object detection models in hospital video recordings as a whole.

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In today's world, farmers need to increase their production in order to meet the demands of a growing population, but at the same time they also must reduce the use of yield-increasing agrochemicals to preserve long-term sustainability. This use case relies on solar-powered plug and play sensors to provide farmers with instant access to data on their soil properties and crop health. These sensors measure parameters such as temperature, humidity, PH value or nutrients and subsequently store the information in online databases accessible through smartphones. Therefore, this use case assists farmers in their planning of the whole cultivation process, teaches modern farming techniques and enables users to grow different types of crop even with a lack of prior knowledge. Hence, it makes decision-making easier as farmers have access to important information, allowing them to save water, alleviate operating costs, reduce the risk of crop failures as well as the use of agrochemicals.
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At the end of 2017, Patti Bateman and Linda Witulski began to talk about the Aurora Rotary Foundation about how our club could help the Aurora Community. It was clear that an inclusive park for students with disabilities would be something the Aurora Community could use for its children.
Our dream was to make this a park where all students could play together, side by side. There are very few places a disabled child can play with friends and other children in a safe environment in the Denver Metro Area.
We asked club member Rick Richard to join us, and together we approached the City of Aurora's Parks, Recreation and Open Space (PROS) Department to see if they might have space in one of Aurora 's parks where we might add an inclusive play area. We met with several people at the City of Aurora and found out a local family had recently approached the city as they had a son, Ashaun, who was in a wheelchair and wondered if an inclusive playground could be built in Aurora for their son. They had also contacted the Make a Wish Foundation, and together they approached the City of Aurora.
The City of Aurora, with our Club's commitment and pledge of funds, applied for an Open Space grant with Arapahoe County. In August 2018 we were awarded the grant.
From birth to almost age two, Ashaun was a healthy child and was meeting all his developmental milestones. Shortly before his second birthday, his biological grandfather shook and beat Ashaun nearly to death. Ashaun was not expected to survive. After nearly two months in Children's Hospital, Ashaun was placed in our home in foster care. We were asked to comfort him until he passed.
Well, Ashaun has beaten the odds! He is now a seven-year-old little boy filled with joy and lots of smiles. However, the child abuse Ashaun suffered has left him unable to walk, talk or eat. He now requires being fed through a tube in his intestine. He has had numerous hospitalizations and last year had to have his entire colon removed so now also has an ileostomy. He is legally blind and physically functions similarly to that of a very young infant. Mentally, he understands just about everything. He loves silly jokes, music, anticipation games, his friends and above all else, going super-fast in his wheelchair!
Ashaun's medical struggles have qualified him for Make-A-Wish. Ashaun's wish is to have a handicapped accessible park built so that he can play with his friends (typical peers as well as those with special needs) and go fast!
Thank you for helping make Ashaun's wish come true for not only himself but for all of the children in our community!


It's patio season in Kansas City, and restaurants and bars are opening their doors to everyone's favorite spots to chill. With so many to choose from, it can get a little overwhelming come happy hour. Fear not: we've doled out the superlatives so you can pick your patio with your crew, beverage craving or budget in mind. Happy summer!
Think palomas piled high with delicious grapefruit foam, and smoky mezcal drinks complete with torched cinnamon sticks. The patio is swanky, but comfortable, featuring luscious green turf, faux boxwood plants and posh white couches with silver sidetables.
Formerly Barrel 31, Brick House reopened with new branding but the same great deals. Later happy hour, bocce ball, giant Jenga and more make this patio a great spot to hang with a big group for a day of drinking or a long night of fun.
Farm to table eats get even better under the shade of an oak tree on the Farmhouse patio. This City Market brunch favorite is even more delightful in the summer when you can enjoy your mimosas al fresco.
You won't find boring appetizers on the beloved Gram & Dun patio. If the cushy lounge chairs, beautiful flowers and blazing fire pits weren't enough to call you there in the first place, then how about some pig wings or flash-fried shishito peppers? Bring a crew and order a few rounds of apps.
The patio over is fired up for the season, and who ever said pizza parties went out of style? Upgrade to the adult version and get your friends together for Neapolitan pies, negronis and definitely the Nutella pizza for dessert.
McCoy's long-awaited patio renovations are complete, and it's a better spot than ever to sip on their rotating selection of McCoy's beers. Kick off a night in Westport with your buddies at one of their bigger tables, or stick around for a dinner date at a table for two.
With practically half of the menu half-price during happy hour, Extra Virgin slides under the radar as one of the best patio deals in town. Their sangria is the strongest and most authentic you'll find, but let's be real– we're all just here for the churros.
Every Thursday night all cocktails, wines by the glass, etc. are half-off for girls night out. Round up your ladies and treat yourself to some oysters and a glass or two of bubbles.
Grab a charcuterie board and fill up a bubbly house-made soda (the flavors get crazier and more delicious every day, we swear) and relax on Sundry's adjoining patio, worry-free. Casual vibes make this a great pit stop during the work day, and plenty of on-tap beers make it a lovely place to pass a weekend afternoon.
The patio isn't huge, but the wine is fantastic. Plus, the industrial West Bottoms location makes for an interesting change in scenery. Grab your closest friends and settle in for a wine tasting that will turn all your preconceptions about Missouri wine upside down.
Sip an Aperol spritzer and transport yourself to Italy with killer handmade pastas and the best tiramisu in town. Pro tip: snag a table around sunset and be treated to a view of the moon rising over the clock tower in the distance.
Rm 39's second location out in Leawood has a major leg up on the original 39th street spot when it comes to patio season. Plenty of seating means you won't have trouble snagging a table outside, so you can worry about more important things: like what to order on the ever-changing seasonal menu.
With a brand-spankin'-new cocktail menu and deals that extend beyond happy hour (hellooo, rosé Tuesday and $5 cocktail Thursday), RND is more than worth the scenic drive out to Lawrence.


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Sales would be 'step back' as boss backs current strikers
Kane to stay at Oxford all season
NHS staff face the sack over vaccine hesitation
Bus drivers' strike action starts again
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Sagar thrilled to be captain of GB team and wants gold in Tokyo
09/07/21 • By Doug O'Kane
IAN SAGAR admits he doubted whether weekly 16-hour drives across Europe after being turned away at airports were worth pursuing his Paralympic dream but is delighted he kept going after being named captain of the Great Britain wheelchair basketball team for Tokyo.
The Hoyland Common man, who has been in a wheelchair since a motorbike crash in Hoyland as a teenager, has been selected for his third Paralympic Games which start in Japan next month.
"I am one happy chap," said Sagar who lives in Italy where he played professionally for several years before moving to a German club last year.
"This is a bit of an exceptional one because it's a year late due to Covid.
"I have put in a lot of sacrifices.
"I have been driving eight hours to Germany every week then playing a game then eight hours back.
"It was all so that I could get to Tokyo, because I needed to be playing at a high level to get selected.
"I had been flying but I got turned away from the airport twice because I am English and the Covid rates were high in England. So I had to jump in the car and set off.
"I did wonder at times whether it would be worth it but in the end it has all paid off."
Sagar is thrilled to be named captain and hopes he can lead the team to a gold medal.
"It's a big honour. I was captain just after the Rio games but then I took two years off from the sport to spend time with my family.
"So to get the captaincy back now is fantastic.
"GB are world champions and number one in the world going into Tokyo.
"We are in the same group as the USA who are number two in the world and probably our biggest rivals.
"The preparation has been a bit weird and difficult because of everything that has been going on but the atmosphere around the squad is very good so I have high hopes.
"It's definitely possible to win gold.
"I think it will come down to the team who copes best with the Covid restrictions. We will go straight to our rooms and will be only allowed out to be chaperoned to meals, training or games.
"The GB team will put systems in place to mitigate the sense of claustrophobia."
Sagar, who turns 40 next year, competed at London 2012 then won bronze in Rio in 2016.
"I would have thought this will be my last Paralympics.
"I am the oldest guy in the team now and there are a lot of young bucks pushing me for my place.
"There are the European and World Championships in the 12 months after Tokyo which is crazy.
"I will have to see how I feel after Tokyo.
"Paris 2024 is only three years away but I do think that's a little bit too far for me."
Sagar spent time with the GB squad in Sheffield last month and is now back in Italy before returning for a pre- tournament training camp then the flight to Tokyo.
He said: "I had to quarantine when I came back and I did that at my parents' house. It was nice to see them after nearly two years.
"I feel proud to represent Barnsley. Everyone seems to know me. If I nip out to the shops in Hoyland, I usually get three or four people talking to me and wishing me luck."
There was doubt over whether the Olympics and Paralympics, which had already been pushed back one year, would take place during a pandemic.
Sagar said: "It will be strange following all the guidelines and protocols, but it does look like it will go ahead now. If they can refine the processes in the Olympics, I am sure ours will go ahead without a hitch."
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Explores the impact of campaign finance on electoral outcomes. Overview on the uses of money; Discussion on campaign spending and public knowledge; Conclusion.
Presents a summary of campaign finance-related lawsuits consolidated by the U.S. Supreme Court. National Rifle Association et al; Federal Election Commission et al; Republican National Committee et al.
Presents a summary of the article `Should Campaign Reformers Be Identified?,' by Ian Ayres, published in the Summer 2001 issue of the `Regulation' journal. Plans of campaign finance reformers for campaign contributions; Implications of mandating anonymous donations.
Focuses on the Missouri Fair Elections Initiative or Proposition B. Support for publicly funded elections; Provisions of the initiative; Opposition to Proposition B among incumbents in legislative races; Need for full financial disclosure; Imposition of campaign contribution limits.
Editorial. Comments on campaign finance for judicial elections in the United States, and view that reforming the way elections are paid for is crucial to restoring public trust.


AMMAN, Dec 19, (RTRS): Palestinian billionaire Sabih al- Masri, Jordan's most powerful businessman, returned to Amman on Tuesday after his release in Saudi Arabia secured when he agreed to pay an unspecified amount of money, sources close to the matter said.
Masri was detained for questioning last week over his alleged links with Saudi business partners among royals, ministers and officials who were rounded up last month in an unprecedented anti-corruption purge.
Masri, chairman of Amman-based Arab Bank, Jordan's largest lender, was taken into custody just before he was planning to leave Saudi Arabia after chairing meetings of Saudi companies he owns, informed sources said. "He is at his home now in Amman," said a family source.
Masri, a Saudi citizen, said from his home in Riyadh on Sunday after his release that the Saudi authorities had accorded him "all respect". Saudi officials have not commented on his detention. Jordanian authorities privately said King Abdullah intervened to secure his release. A source familiar with the matter said Masri was freed after reaching a settlement to return an unspecified amount of money.
There was no coment from the Masri family. "There is no way Masri has been freed without agreeing to some settlement. The Saudis are telling anyone who has made huge sums of money that they have to pay back some of that wealth," the source said. Another source said Riyadh saw these settlements not as blackmail but an obligation to reimburse money taken illegally from the world's top oil producer over several decades.
Saudi authorities have already succeeded in reaching financial settlements with dozens of royal family members, senior officials and wealthy businessmen in the crackdown spearheaded by powerful Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.
Around 200 people in total have been questioned in the crackdown, authorities said last month. Saudi authorities estimate they could eventually recover around $100 billion of illicitly held funds. They have been working on reaching agreements with suspects detained at Riyadh's luxurious Ritz Carlton hotel, asking them to hand over assets and cash in return for their freedom.


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Meet the 2020 National Translation Award in Prose Judges!
The National Translation Award is awarded annually in poetry and in prose to literary translators who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English by masterfully recreating the artistic force of a book of consummate quality. The NTA is the only prize for a work of literary translation into English to include an evaluation of the source language text. 2020 marks the twenty-second year of the NTA and the sixth year in which the NTA is awarded separately in poetry and prose. Submissions for the National Translation Award in Prose are being accepted until April 20, 2020.
We are honored to present this year's judges, Amaia Gabantxo, Emmanuel D. Harris II, and William Maynard Hutchins. Learn about them below:
Amaia Gabantxo is a writer, singer and literary translator specialized in Basque literature—a pioneer in the field and its most prolific contributor. Her most recent translations include Kirmen Uribe & Jon Cazenave's collaborative photo-poetic art book Gale, Miren Agur Meabe's A Glass Eye, Harkaitz Cano's Twist and Gabriel Aresti's two poetry collections Downhill and Rock & Core, which earned her the 2018 Kutxa Laboral Literary Translation Prize. She is a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and founding member of the Third Coast Translators Collective. She collaborated with the artist Jenny Holzer in her 2019 Bilbao Guggenheim retrospective, translating her Inflammatory Essays and Truisms into Basque, and helping curate a selection of Basque poetry to project onto the museum's facade. A multidisciplinary artist, in 2019 she released the album KANTUZ: 1931. She is currently writing a novel in flamenco form.
Emmanuel D. Harris II, Ph.D., is a Professor of Spanish and Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is the award-winning English translator of the Afro-Peruvian novel Malambo by Lucía Charún-Illescas and also the translator of the collection of short stories Over the Waves and Other Stories / Sobre las olas y otros cuentos by the Afro-Cuban writer Inés María Martiatu, which was a featured selection of the Cervantes Institute in Chicago. In 1996 he was awarded Teacher of the Year at Washington University and has been honored to have a service award established in his name in 2000 at Baker University where he formerly instructed.
William Maynard Hutchins has translated numerous works of Arabic literature into English including Return of the Spirit by Tawfiq al-Hakim, The Cairo Trilogy by Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, and The Fetishists by Ibrahim al-Koni. His translation of New Waw by al-Koni won the ALTA National Prose Translation Award in 2015. He received National Endowment for the Arts grants for literary translation in 2006, 2012, and 2020. He studied at Yale University and the University of Chicago and taught at the Gerard School, Sidon, Lebanon, the University of Ghana, the American University in Cairo, and Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina.
Important update: As of this year, the National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose, previously open only to translators with U.S. citizenship or residence, will now accept submissions of translations from translators of any nationality. We only accept submissions from publishers for this award via our Submittable portal. Submit by April 20!
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Boko Haram: U.S. Lawmakers Okay Five-year Strategy To Assist Nigeria
The United States House of Representatives has passed a legislation directing the country's Secretaries of State and Defence to jointly develop a five-year strategy to assist Nigeria in its fight against Boko Haram.
The measure is also aimed at providing assistance to members of the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) and international partners offering support in counter-terrorism operations against the Boko Haram sect in the region.
According to reports, the legislation, passed by a voice vote, was introduced by Congresswoman Frederica Wilson (D-Florida) and Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine).
They expressed optimism that it would help combat Boko Haram specifically. The strategy is also aimed at addressing the crushing humanitarian and educational crises that Boko Haram had created.
"Boko Haram captured my attention and the headlines when the terrorist group kidnapped 276 Nigerian schoolgirls from their dormitory rooms 968 days ago. For most of the world, the Chibok girls symbolised the horror that is Boko Haram, but the damage its members have wrought goes far deeper," Congresswoman Wilson, wa quoted as saying in a statement.
Collins, who authored and originally introduced the bill, averred that Boko Haram had pledged allegiance to ISIS and it continued to commit terrible acts of brutal violence against civilians in Nigeria as well as in Chad, Cameroon and Niger Republic.
Collins, describing Wilson as a willing and able partner in the effort to pass the bipartisan legislation, explained that it requires a five-year strategy to pursue Boko Haram and it would bolster efforts of the U.S. throughout the region.
Any support from the United States will be welcomed by the Nigerian government, even though heightened counter-terrorism operations have decimated the terrorists, who still carry out suicide attacks on soft targets.
The military said few days ago that it has commenced final rescue operations in Sambisa Forest, a safe haven for the terrorists that have forced over two million persons out of their homes in their over seven years push for an Islamic State and an end to Western education in the region.
Posted on December 9, 2016 December 9, 2016 Author Williams OsewezinaCategories LocalTags Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, MNJTF, Multi National Joint Task force, Senator Susan Collins, United States House of Representatives, US support for Nigeria against Boko Haram, War on TerrorLeave a comment on Boko Haram: U.S. Lawmakers Okay Five-year Strategy To Assist Nigeria


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Gurgaon is known for its Kingdom of Dreams, theatrical performances, and nightlife.
Gurgaon, now known as Gurugram, is the second-largest urban area located in Gurgaon, located in the State of Haryana. It is situated in the southwestern region of Delhi. It is primarily a technology and financial center since the headquarters of many of the world's top multinational companies are located here. The city has many attractions, including the Kingdom of Dreams, Damdama Lake, Fun N Food Village, Cyber Hub, Vimla Art Gallery, and more. It is a modern city that has seen rapid growth in only a few years. The rapid expansion of Gurugram is due to the emergence of business and corporate culture. The name Gurugram comes because of Guru Dronacharya of Mahabharata.
The type of attraction that is covered in Gurgaon: Air Safari, Amusement Park, Art Gallery, Bird Sanctuary, Camera Museum, Camping, Entertainment center, Escape Games, Fort, Garden, Go Karting, Golf Course, Ice Games, Lake, Mall, Movie Theatre, Nature Resorts, Plant Gallery, Restaurat, Pub, Bar, Street Market, Temple, Hindu Temple, Transport Museum, Tribal Museum, Water Park, etc.
Check out the top places to visit in Gurgaon.
From vibrant lifestyles to the nightlife in Haryana's capital city Haryana, "Gurgaon" is filled with numerous destinations to explore and enjoyable activities for people who are tourists or from all over India. Below are the top places to go in the city and your family members.
#1. Ambiance Mall
Ambiance Mall is the shopping mall located inside Gurgaon; Haryana is counted among the top places to go in Gurgaon for Couples. Apart from shopping at this mall, it is also possible to do and enjoy a variety of entertaining things at the malls, including enjoying the streets and Indian authentic and traditional food and desserts from the shops that have been established and opened within the mall. The mall also enjoys popularity and acclaim from tourists for its cinema and movie halls. Apart from watching movies and dining, you can relax and relax within the mall. There are a variety of shops that offer clothing and shows from hundreds of brands. You can participate in skating, ice skating, and others to have fun.
#2. Fun And Food Village
Fun and Food Village is an acclaimed and well-known amusement park within Gurgaon, Haryana. This is among the top indoor and outdoor places to Visit in Gurgaon for enjoyment, excitement, and fun while traveling with family and friends. It's an excellent location for children and adults. It offers many engaging and mind-soothing activities, including aquatic sports, boat rides, skateboarding, water sports, etc. Based on the requirements and desires of kids, corporate employees, and individuals of all age groups, The amusement park has many fun and exciting activities.
#3. Kingdom of Dreams
It is located in Gurgaon, Haryana, "Kingdom Of Dreams" is the most renowned food and beverage court that does not leave a scratch unturned to meet the needs of visitors or guests. It is also regarded as one of the best places to go to in Gurgaon In the evening with your family and friends. It is among the most popular places to visit in Gurugram. The food court attracts many visitors from India and serves various food items and desserts. It is among the most popular places to go in Gurgaon during Lockdown. People searching for different styles of entertainment and food on holiday are welcome to visit and enjoy themselves with their loved ones and friends.
#4. Museum of Folk and Tribal Art
The Museum of Folk and Tribal Art is among the most attractive and popular places to go on vacation with your family and family. The Museum is filled with artists, photos, photographs, and important monuments. Each year, many people go to the Museum and close-by locations. It showcases the arts and the culture of the people of the tribe.
#5. Sheetla Mata Mandir
Sheetla Mata Mandir has been flooded with devotees all over India and particularly during Hindu festivals and rituals. The temple was constructed in honor of "Maa Sheetla Devi," the wife of Dronacharya. It is among the most beloved and ancient temples in Gurgaon, Haryana. It is possible to visit the temple at any time, and you don't need money to go there, which is why it's listed as one of the Places to Visit in Gurgaon for Free. It is also popular with tourists due to being among the most affordable places in Gurgaon.
#6. Gun Salute
If you are looking to eat delicious and mouth-watering desserts and food, you should visit The Gun Salute is one of the top Nearby places to go to in Gurgaon for food. It is known for providing top-quality food and service for guests. The menu is diverse, with food, drinks, and liquor provided to guests. There is also a chance to have amusement and enjoy the nightlife. This restaurant is one of the most popular Gurgaon tourist spots.
Some Other Top Tourist Places in Gurgaon
#. Attraction (Top Places)
Ambience Mall
Appu Ghar
Aravalli Biodiversity Park
Botanix Nature Resort
Camp Tikkling
Damdama Lake
F9 Go Karting
Farrukh Nagar Fort
Flyboy Aero Park
Fun N Food Village
Galleria Market
Heritage Transport Museum
Leisure Valley Park
Lohagarh Farms
Mata Sheetala Devi Temple
Molecule Air Bar
Museum of Folk and Tribal Arts
NeverEnuf Garden Railway
Qutub Golf Course
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Sky Jumper Trampoline Park
Smaaash
SodaBottleOpenerWala
Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary
Tau Devi Lal Bio Diversity Park
The Paintball Co.
Vimla Art Gallery
Vintage Camera Museum
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For a workers' united Europe!
London Underground has informed union reps of its intention to reduce the frequency of maintenance checks carried out on some trains from 24 to 96 hours.
The checks, which involve ensuring the train is safe to run, are carried out my fleet workers in depots across the network.
Tube union RMT has objected strongly to the plans, insisting that they put passenger safety at risk. The union has also accused the employer of wanting to cut fleet workers' jobs.
On November 21, workers at the University of London struck over outsourced contracts, insecure hours, and pay.
A loud protest organised by their trade union, the IWGB, took place outside the iconic Senate House during the university's Foundation Day — when the Chancellor, Princess Anne, visits. The dispute is made up of mostly security guards, cleaners, porters, post room workers, and receptionists.
Housing repair workers in Manchester suffer from high levels of mental ill-health and stress, a survey has revealed.
Higher education union UCU is balloting for strike action over university bosses' plans to scrap guaranteed pension benefits from the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS).
Faced with the imminent threat of closure, workers employed by BiFab (Burntisland Fabrications) in the company's yards in Fife and Arnish (Isle of Lewis) staged a work-in and mobilised a 1,000 strong demonstration outside the Scottish Parliament.
News that the company was about to call in the administrators, putting over 1,400 jobs at risk, broke on 12 November. The company faced cash flow problems on a contract for the Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Moray Firth.
Labour launched a "Make Homes Safer" campaign on the 9 November to pressure the government to put aside money for urgent repairs to old buildings in the autumn budget.
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"In 47 years of membership of the Labour Party, I've never been at a meeting where there was any anti-Semitic language or any attacks on the Jews. They would have had short shrift in any meeting I was at.


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"PUTTING THE RAPIDS BACK INTO THE GRAND RIVER"
I am posting my completed mural for competition. After spending much time in Grand Rapids, I fell in love with this magnificent city. While there, I found out about the current project concerning the restoration of the Grand Rapids River that runs through town. I can't wait to see it come to life so I accelerated the process and created my own image of what it could look like after doing some intensive research. I hope this gives the people a chance to actually see how wonderful it would be to bring the river back to it's original state and supply some extra activity and resources to the city of Grand Rapids. It is apparent that this project has economic strength however I am equally interested in the recovery of the ecosystem, providing an enhanced biodiversity and establishing sustainability.


After examining all of the pros and cons a customer has decided that it's a better deal to hire an Auto Carrier to transport their car instead of driving it themselves. Usually transporting a car comes with a major life change. The customer is starting college, moving for a new job or retiring to a new phase of their life.
It understandable that they're focused on the big picture. So they might not pick up on the fact that they are hiring an auto broker instead of an auto carrier. An auto broker is really just a form of freight broker. They act as the middleman between the customer and the company that will actually be transporting the car. The advantage is that they have access to many carriers and quotes. So the customer does less shopping around. The broker also acts as your service oriented respresentative, whereas a carrier, which is basically a trucking company, isn't going to offer the flexibility and experience that an experienced broker provides for their fee.
Obviously the broker doesn't have as much control over the process as the actual transport company. The customer might not receive a guaranteed pick up time. The broker won't know the exact specifics of the truck that will be picking up the car.
The homeowner might actually have to agree to meeting the truck at another location, because the transport carrier can't fit in their neighborhood. Brokers arrange transport to maximize the revenue on a route. Instead of picking cars up in a geographic order, they have the cars picked up by the highest paying. So if a car is in the low paying range, it might always get bumped.
The middle ground is to use a large car transportation company such as Direct Connect Auto Transport. We are a large enough company to have many different offices located throughout the United States. A variety of car haulers are available. There are enclosed carriers for pristine antique cars and expensive sports cars. Open air carriers which provide cost-effective transport for most cars. Flatbed trucks are available for odd-shaped or very large vehicles. They work with eBay sellers, corporate relocation specialists, and can help people move cars overseas as well as in the United States.


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Q: Dash, top panel and title bars of windows are not being displayed After logging in to my system, the dash, top panel and title bars of windows are not being displayed. I tried opening dash by pressing the window key but it was of no use.
On my desktop, I had two shortcuts to some folders I use regularly. Using it I was able to open the nautilus explorer which let me realize that also the title bars are not being displayed.
Despite the comment at the start of this answer, I tried it never the less. Surprisingly, it seems compizconfig-settings-manager was already installed on my system and the Ubuntu Unity Plugin and Enable OpenGL checkboxes were already checked. I may have installed it when this system used to be an older version of Ubuntu but I don't remember doing it.
I also tried the following (again expecting it to work against all odds).
unity --replace

But the issue persists.
I thought of trying to get a screenshot but it would just have been my wallpaper with the two icons or maybe the title bar less window of nautilus. I don't think it would have helped anyway.
This system used to be 14.04 which I had then upgraded to 16.04. It used to work fine up until yesterday. I don't know what happened now.
Really need help with this :(

Update #1
As I mentioned, I've already tried most of the solutions given against this question; None helped.

A: I have the same problem. Check this thread for fixes people have tried. Some of them seem to work for some people. But not for all. The problem is still unsolved and pending.
Ubuntu Forums

1.) I tried to clear the cache as suggested (terminal -> sudo rm -r ~/.cache), but i did not work for me.
2.) I tried to login as a guest, but the screen is still blank and i had to open console one by ctl+alt+F1 and sudo reboot.
3.) Opening a terminal by right click and then unity --reset or unity --reset-icons did not work either.
As of 3.) i get error messages in terminal, as is:
compizconfig - Error: Unable to find interface type 3 on 0x10065b0
[... ]
unity-panel-service stop/waiting
unity-panel-service start/running process 2798
start: Job failed to start
I am out of ideas now, as im not an expert for unity or desktop GUIs in general.

Need help with this too! I need my Computer/GUI...

UPDATE
Finally i found a solution, that worked for me (Ubuntu 16.04.04 LTS) !

rm -rf ~/.compiz-1 ~/.config/compiz-1
sudo shutdown now

reboot PC
Keep in mind this will delete your Dash customization :( But at least Dash and Menus are back now!

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I don't even know where to start; so much went on in this shoot and was so much fun. Grace is such a sweet gal; positive and full of energy just like her fiance Matt. Our engagement photoshoot started at the Grapevine Vintage Railroad Station, where they wore their favorite country attire including the most stylish boots I've seen! Matt and Grace are absolutely cute together! Matt thank you so much for making my job easy; every photo turned out great. You two were amazing in front of the camera! It's always great when you get to work with a couple who is clearly in love and are not afraid to express that connection in front of my camera. Congrats guys!
Next, we went to Trinity Groves to take our last evening shots! I loved Grace's dress. It went very well with graffiti walls and the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge scenery.
Thank you so much guys for such a great evening! Looking forward to your BIG WEDDING DAY next month!!


On this page there is further information as also tips and tricks for a pleasant holiday in the island Madeira. And of course, I also arranged some interesting links to other interesting websites of Madeira.
Those who fly to Madeira should not only have a pure beach holiday. The island is much too beautiful to spend one or two weeks only in the hotel and at the pool. The best is to explore the island Madeira with a rented car. Madeira has a very well arranged road network and there is even a motorway.
After I made very bad experiences with car rentals during my last holiday as also during my first holiday in Madeira, at my second holiday in Madeira I played it safe. In Madeira, there are numerous large and small car rentals that compete against each other, partly with dumping prices, to get the vacationers preference. It is evident that at low prices, the quality and the service often fall by the wayside. It already happened to me two times that I got rental cars in which I didnt't feel safe and where from the beginning I was ripped off by the rental.
But how can one find a good car rental among such an abundance of providers? Finally, the most expensive must not be the best. There is a little trick or rather a meaningful method: the very good hotels also work in cooperation with very good car rentals; finally, a very good hotel does not want to annoy a guest by guiding him into a car rental - trap.
Tipp: Very good hotels work in cooperation with very good car rentals. If one is already guest in a good hotel, he can normaly rely on the hotels' recommendation.
With this tip, I relied on my last holiday in Madeira on the hotels' recommendation, thus I came to amigos do car, a middle-sized car rental with more than 100 cars for rent; Everything worked marvelous and I am very satisfied; thus, the car rental for my next holiday in Madeira is already certain. But let's go step by step.
At amigos do car it is possible to book the car previously from germany at the web side www.madeira-autovermietung.com or book it in a short term locally. Those who go for holiday to Madeira during the main season should better book the rental car in advance. I experienced once that within the whole island there was nearly no car available. But normally, it is possible to book the car locally in a short term and amigos do car deliver it to the hotel for free.
Tipp: If one rents a car on a short term from the hotel, the car is delivered for free to the hotel. Moreover, one saves the rental fee for the arrival and departure day.
I already booked my car from Germany in advance. Thus, a friendly lady of amigos do car was waiting for my arrival with a little name plate on which my name was written. The contract was rapidly filled out. I have to give a big compliment to amigos do car concerning the rental contract: for the first time I saw a rental contract that was either written in portuguese as also in english. Unbelievable, for the first time I was able to read what I was really subscribing!
On the contract it is also mentioned that all insurances are included and that the car can also be driven by the partner of the car renter. The kilometres are anyhow included limitless; What more do you want? - Of course a good and funciotning car. At amigos do car there are cars for rent starting from the little Smart up to a van, or from a sport utility vehicle up to a convertible.
I got a Peugeot 206 that was recently cleaned, either form the interior as also from the exterior. It was really a pleasure to get into this car. In order to be fair, an employee of amigos do car immediately informed me about a scratch at the door. Car rentals that are not serious, they just conceal the damages of the car and if one is unlucky, he will be blamed for this afterwards. Moreover, I got from the employee of the car rental a phone number that was available 24 hours per day. Such a service is also unusual in the case of big car rental companies. One assumes that there will be no accident with the car, but such a number is really comforting.
Tipp: The car rental Amigos do car is my tip for a car rental in Madeira. The facts of the convenient prices, the pick-up service at the airport, the delivery service at the airport, the contract in englisch language, the friendliness, the 24h-service-number, several chaffeurs and in general the seriousness of the company support a conviction.
Conclusion: for a reasonable price, I got a good rental car in a good condition. I was not deceived or vamped in no way, it was rather the opposite: I was attended and welcomed in a very friendly way. This is the reason why I recomend Amigos do car to each visitor of Madeira. And it is self evident that in my next visit to Madeira, I will be again the client of amigos do car .
At the south east of the island, at a height of approximately 700 m there is the little place Camacha. The community that counts approximately 7.000 inhabitants is famous on one hand for its basket makers and on the other hand for its football history. The place Largo da Achada forms the centre of the location. At this place, there is a plaque that reminds on the first football game of Portugal in the year 1875. At that time, an englishman named Harry Hinton brought the first football into the country.
Apropos english people: at the end of the 19th century, rich commerciants choosed Camacha that is located a outside the capital Funchals as their residence. Those well-off english people initiated the basket making in the island by demanding the manufacture of wicker furniture for their own use. Out of it, a little impire of basket makers evoked in the island that lasts until now.
The coffee bar Relógio (= Coffee Clock) is the centre of the visitors at the main place Largo da Achada. A huge building complex arises around a clock tower of the 19th century that the english people apparantly built in accordance to the Big Ben. Today those buildings have insofar something to do with a coffee bar that in a bar or a restaurant it is also possible to get a coffee among other things.
In the Café Relógio one gets any kind of basketry. From a simple souvenir for tourists up to a living room suite, everything that can be braided is available. On weekdays it is possible to watch in the basement of the building the basket makers during their work. But those basket makers just form a little part of hundreds of freelance basket makers that make their basketries at home in a mass production and deliver them to a company. Although these items are handcrafted, they can not be considered any more as individual items of a classic manufacture.
Those who love basketries will find here a bigger choice than somewhere else. Myself, I found my visit in Camacha rather disappointing, as in the centre of the town there where huge busses leaving legions of tourists there. In this turmoil of strangers one rapidly gets annoyed. Thus I found it more interesting to walk a little around the area and to look at the houses and the people. In some houses, it is visible from outside that in the inside people do braid. As the people have little space in their houses when the finished basketries are piled up until they are picked up, they are put outside in order to entertain. It is highly interesting to watch the habitants of the street how they form little groups and talk together or they simply stand around there.


In my dream, I am an old man living alone in the middle of nowhere. I've managed to carve out an existence for myself, cut off almost completely from a world that no longer makes sense, where the balance, rules and fair play I was raised to believe in no longer exist outside my questionable memory.
I occasionally wonder if I'm the only one who does remember those days, and even doubt my own mind often, but I rarely think about it anymore. The people I once loved are gone, but cruel irony has conspired to leave me standing. I was great, once, if memory serves. Not powerful, necessarily, but an influence in some circle of reference I've never defined in musing. Once in a while, my old man catches himself imagining that someone still remembers his work, but he brushes the thought away like dust. It doesn't matter.
In my alternate reality, I have become handy at survival, harnessing solar power, running a clean well and raising rabbits as both company and protein. Lettuce grows in a box under a sunny window and there's an apple tree in my back yard. It's enough for me and the bunnies.
I have succeeded in jumping the grid, but at the price of my identity and any connection to the world more than 50 yards from my door. I am not wanted by the Law, but neither am I welcome in "proper" society. It's all a little vague, but my dreamscape surrounds me and is not concerned with a constructed narrative about my journey to the place where I am – at last – alone.
Except for my End. This I have thought about many times. In fact, no sojourn to the world of this dream neglects to visit my demise.
It goes something like this: A small band of desperate young people arrives at my doorstep. Against my better judgment, I let them enter instead of dropping them cold before they fully leave the road, as I've done before when prying eyes threaten my solitary world. They need something from me, something I am unable to refuse to try and give, even though I know I will not succeed. I am exposed, and must confront everything from which I have chosen to hide myself.
The world's reception to my return is not positive – it happens that I am more well-remembered than I'd imagined, and my presence is not welcome. I know I am a toothless old wolf, barely able to growl, and certainly without a bite left in my raggedy head. But I have stepped on to the path and there's no turning back, so forward I go.
On the way out my door for the last time, I turn the rabbits loose and burn down the house. I won't be needing it any longer, but it's mine and not for squatters to overtake. It is a great act of selfishness, but I am an old man and it's my prerogative.
It doesn't take long for my previously undefined Enemies to find me and the weary travelers. They are sleek and fat, well-armed in anticipation of our meeting. They surround us and jeer at me, but I can tell they're a little afraid, that they think I might have a trick or two up my sleeve.
They pick me off easily and I die in the road, the kicked-up dust settling in my open mouth and eyes, drying my tears for the last time. I have effected no change, given no help or hope; but I knew this would be the outcome when I threw down the match.
I was never saving myself for anything, just waiting for my time.


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Memorable Manitobans: William Sylvester Alpheus "Billy" Beal (1874-1968)
William Sylvester Alpheus "Billy" Beal
Community activist, photographer.
Born at Chelsea, Massachusets on 16 January 1874, son of Loretta H. Freeman and Charles R. Beal, he grew up at Minneapolis, Minnesota where he graduated from high school. He arrived in the Swan River area of Manitoba in 1906 to work as a steam engineer at a saw mill. He decided to stay, becoming the first African-American resident in an otherwise exclusively Caucasian community, residing there for almost 60 years. Beal was widely known for his breadth of interests, including carpentry, electronics, philosophy, astronomy, nutrition, and religion. He made electrified fences for cattle farmers, and furniture and toys which he gave to friends and neighbors. He is believed to have had some medical training, helping local doctors to administer vaccinations and carrying his own medical bag.
He was involved in the formation of the Big Woody School District in 1912 and was elected its first Secretary-Treasurer, holding that position for 37 years. He was instrumental in the establishment of a circulating library within the school system. He also served as the first secretary of the Big Woody Sunday School. He formed a literary society and debating teams; he directed plays, and organized poetry readings and musical concerts. A keen amateur photographer, a selection of his images were featured in a 1988 biography entitled Billy: The Life and Photography of William S. A. Beal.
A life-long bachelor, Beal died penniless at The Pas on 25 January 1968. He was buried in The Pas Cemetery.
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Billy Beal Plaque (First Street North, Swan River)
Billy: The Life and Photography of William S. A. Beal by Robert Barrow and Leigh Hambly, Winnipeg: Vig Corps Press, 1988.
"Local book probes live of enigmatic northern photographer" by Donald Campbell, Winnipeg Free Press, 23 November 1988, page 38.
We thank Ernesto Griffith and Ken Fahrenschon for providing additional information used here.
Page revised: 29 November 2020
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