"In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power and fulfill your potential."
Best suited for: Anyone who is committed to living their best lives, but who may need tools, frameworks and support to get on their way. Sally starts each engagement with the belief that life is a journey, that our past does not write our future, and that by tapping into your authentic gifts and passions, you will achieve whatever results you most desire.
You may be considering a new career path, starting a business you've only dreamed of; You may be experiencing communication challenges with your business partner, team, spouse or children; You may be facing a major life event or transition and would like to work with a coach as you navigate all the possibilities; You may feel simply that you have been tolerating circumstances in your life that are no longer acceptable. Whatever the circumstances, you will dive in with a 90-minute exploration of "how you got here", which will illuminate for you what a successful coaching engagement would feel like. Typically, an initial coaching engagement will span 3 months (many run much longer), and will include one weekly 60-minute meeting (and ongoing email/texting support 24x7), wherein Sally will use the most effective tools and techniques for accountable action towards your vision and goals. Sally's intention is always to help you see a new possibility for living, to support you fully as you embark on your path, and to celebrate with you along the way!
Best suited for: New leaders, small business owners or management teams seeking to become more effective by creating a confidential, empowering, professional coaching program to optimize individual and team performance, to radically improve team communication, to work harmoniously toward a common goal.... to remove silos, and get more done!
· Employee resistance to change, low morale, internal conflict?
· Leaving business on the table, not getting repeat customers?
· Losing your top performers to the competition?
· Working with employees who are enthusiastic, committed and willing to embrace change.
· Establishing a culture of cooperation and harmony, all working towards a common vision.
· Receiving a steady stream of referrals from happy and satisfied customers.
· Having employees you can depend on, so you can take a break and celebrate your success.
Sally's customized team coaching programs provide leadership and teams the opportunity to perform beyond their current abilities, using a results-driven process which leverages member relationships, shared experience, and interpersonal awareness. In each client engagement, Sally uses a customized approach to achieve the organization's specific needs/desired outcomes by creating a space for groups to experience intimate coordination, collaboration, and creative thinking needed to address complex issues.
You may require a neutral third party to help facilitate group meetings, discussions, or decision making within your business to ensure: Sessions are productive; Goals are set and met; Rules of engagement are followed; All members of the group are engaged; Action plan/ next steps are decided.
If appropriate, Sally uses individual and team assessments to identify common group behaviors, demonstrate gaps between perceptions and reality, providing everyone the opportunity for open and honest discourse, working together in a manner that creates shared group understanding and increased effectiveness.
Sally is certified to administer the Energy Leadership Index (ELI) Assessment, and as a certified Master Practitioner, she received intensive training with the tools and debrief processes used which enable teams to be more effective in several measurable ways.
The ELI is a one-of-a-kind assessment that enables you to hold up a mirror to your perceptions, attitudes, behaviors, and very quickly see how these may be holding you back from success or propelling you forward. Whether you proceed through the FULL Energy Leadership Development program or not, the ELI Assessment and debrief process alone will change the way you view your world.


Believe it or not, Hollywood Gothique is not preternaturally aware of every Halloween event in Los Angeles and Southern California, and the smaller venues do not always contact us to declare their existence. Fortunately, helpful readers occasionally send us emails alerting us to cool haunts we might otherwise overlook; most recently, we learned of the Backwoods Maze in Burbank, which has (to our astonishment) been operating since 2004 (2003 if you count an earlier maze with a different theme).
One wrong turn off the highway lands you deep in the rural back country of Texas where a farmhouse inhabited by a maniacal clan of cannibals harvest their livestock; pigs, cows and humans.
Farmer Porky's opened for business last weekend; had we known, we certainly would have made a trip out to report our first-hand experiences. Instead, we hope to wander over sometime this weekend, presumably after visiting this year's Rotten Apple 907 presentation, "Nightmare at the Museum."
The Backwoods Maze is located at 1912 N. Pepper Street in Burbank. Remaining dates are October 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, 31. Hours are 7:00 pm-10:00 pm.


Smooth Banks is an artist with many styles and flows. When listening to his music, you will sometimes fall into dream land thinking about life.
Because of this, Smooth Banks has released the video for Survival of the Fittest. Click the play button to watch right now.


What are two main reasons to use personalization?
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To convert leads into customers and to progress users to the next stage in their buyer's journey.
To drive engagement and communicate specifics.
To convert leads into customers and drive engagement.
To progress users to the next stage in their buyer's journey and communicate specifics.
Previous post: Sam, your boss at ABC Marketing Agency, wants users to feel more connected to your company. Sam suggests: "Add a personalization token to the homepage that says 'Welcome, first name.' I know that we need personalized content." How would you respond to Sam's request?


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As you can tell from the suits of armor above, Two Worlds II isn't letting the apple fall too far from the traditional RPG tree. The Polish-developed title is a known quantity for its European, PC-gamer fanbase, but a full U.S. release on multiple platforms should raise its profile further. Among these is the Playstation 3, and Two Worlds II has a full compliment of trophies, listed below.
Need help collecting these Trophies? Let our Two Worlds II walkthrough be your guide.


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'An Abrupt Wake-Up Call': Alaska Peers into a Future Without Oil
Yereth Rosen June 18, 2020
This pullout offers tourists a closer look at the Trans Alaska Pipeline. Since before the pipeline began operating in 1977, Alaska has depended on oil revenue.
Siqiniq Maupin, a young Inupiat mother and activist trying to help steer Alaska away from its fossil-fuel dependency, is convinced that the coronavirus pandemic will be a turning point. Oil prices have cratered, the industry has shed hundreds of jobs and the usual flow of oil money has dried up, signaling the urgent need for a "Plan B," she said.
"Personally, I think this is absolutely the end of the oil era, and I think this is going to be an abrupt wake-up call for people," she said in a phone interview from her Fairbanks home.
Though a harsh critic of oil development, Maupin acknowledges that oil money brought important improvements to rural Alaskans' lives, like running water and flush toilets. "It's nice to have the necessities," she said.
But oil money came with costs. For her family members and others living on the North Slope, the coronavirus pandemic has put those costs into stark relief, she said.
For years, she explained, Inupiat-owned corporations made money from oil development, enabling them to distribute hefty shareholder dividends that blunted the sticker shock for people buying high-priced food in village stores. Indigenous people of the North Slope could afford to drop some of their reliance on traditional wild foods like caribou meat and fish.
Now that the money has gotten scarce, many people have begun to return to more traditional diets ― and been forced to confront the habitat damage wrought by decades of oil development, Maupin said.
In the North Slope village of Nuiqsut, where some of Maupin's family members live, oil development has edged up almost to Nuiqsut's doorstep, bringing dust, hazy pollution, industrial noise and bright lights to the village. "You can't really escape it," she said. Gathering traditional food is now more difficult and time-consuming, she said; caribou that used to roam in easy reach nearby, for example, have now fled to distant areas. And the in-your-face presence of industry is stressful, she said: "It takes away that medicine that we're looking for when we go out on the land to hunt."
In many ways, the dilemma facing Maupin's relatives and friends symbolizes the challenge facing Alaska as a whole.
For decades, oil money carried Alaska. That was by design. The state constitution, drafted in the 1950s territorial era, and the subsequent federal law that granted statehood, structured a system of common public ownership of all natural resources, including oil. Almost every barrel of oil ever produced in the state has come from state lands and state-owned mineral rights. In Alaska, there is no private individual ownership of mineral rights; there are no Texas-style oil barons. Some historians insist that the presence of oil in the far north convinced Congress that Alaska had the wherewithal to support itself as the 49th state.
For a long time, the system worked more or less as many envisioned. Oil royalties, taxes and fees flowed into the state treasury and paid for nearly all government operations, including mass-scale modernizations and services new to Alaska but taken for granted in the Lower 48. Oil development spurred the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, creating money-making corporations that lifted many Alaska Natives out of poverty. Oil employment, though always far less important than state oil revenues, was a significant part of the private-sector economy. In many ways, oil money built modern Alaska.
But the all-eggs-in-one-basket approach carried risks, experts have long warned.
Among the prescient observers was Inupiat leader Eben Hopson, the first mayor of the North Slope Borough, the regional government created in 1972. Even before construction started on the Trans Alaska Pipeline, he warned of the downsides of oil money – skewed values and an unhealthy dependence, including among Alaska's indigenous peoples. "The politics of the Arctic are no longer the politics of the people, but they are the politics of oil," Hopson said in a 1970 speech to a Canadian commission considering Arctic offshore drilling. "Oil boom politics are addictive."
Others, also warning about the transitory nature of oil fields and oil money, pushed for the state to save some of its newfound bounty. Just before the first barrel was sent down the Trans Alaska Pipeline in 1977, the state created the Alaska Permanent Fund to sequester a quarter of royalties and lease payments for use in a distant post-oil-money future.
That future may have arrived. Alaska, once the top oil-producing U.S. state, had slipped out of the top five by 2018. The Alaska Permanent Fund, famous for its annual dividends paid out to all Alaskans, is now the major money source bankrolling most of state government operations. Oil's contribution to total state revenues, which sat at 90 percent just a few years ago, has plunged as production declined and North Slope crude prices bottomed out below $10 a barrel in late April.
"It's gone down to 20 percent, and if we're at $10-a-barrel (oil) now, it's way less than 20 percent," said Pat Pitney, a legislative budget analyst who served as budget director for former Gov. Bill Walker.
The shift from reliance on oil revenues to reliance on investment earnings actually began a few years ago. Alaska oil production was on a decades-long decline, the inevitable reality for oil fields as they age. But the coronavirus pandemic, which depressed oil prices and created other operational problems for remote work sites like the North Slope oil fields, pushed that long-term decline into a steep plunge. As a Hemingway character put it in response to the question of how he went bankrupt, "two ways: gradually, then suddenly."
Companies operating on the North Slope have slashed operations to maintenance levels, mothballed drill rigs, halted exploration and development programs and issued layoff notices to several hundred workers. ConocoPhillips, the state's top producer, announced plans to cut summer production by 100,000 barrels a day. Alaska oil production peaked in 1988 at 2 million barrels per day but has dropped to around 400,000 barrels per day.
The current oil-field shock has created an immediate fiscal emergency for the state: a $1 billion hole in the state's $5 billion budget, Pitney said. "How do you make up a billion dollars?" she asked. A state income tax would have been a partial answer, but Alaska in the heady oil-money days of 1980 abolished its income tax.
Are Alaska's days as a petrostate over? Pitney believes that Alaska will produce oil for years to come, generating some state revenue and employment, but the scope will be nothing like it was in the past. "Oil's never going to be the savior that it was for the last 35 years," she said.
Industry representatives who testified at a May 8 teleconference legislative hearing echoed predictions of a permanently shrunken Alaska oil sector. They asked for state government help, possibly in the form of tax policy or regulatory relief, to survive a post-pandemic future that they said might be dominated by cheaper energy sources.
"We know that this demand situation and hopefully the price situation will not last forever," said Kara Moriarty, executive director of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association, told lawmakers. "As we come out of this, a more competitive landscape than ever before is expected to emerge." In short: Alaska oil will have a harder time getting investment or space in the market unless there is some help from the state government.
Due to its high costs and remote Arctic setting, Alaska was losing out to competitors even before the pandemic, said Damian Bilbao, a vice president for BP Alaska, the company that operates the supergiant Prudhoe Bay field. "The decline in Alaska production during the early 2000s seems to have led several West Coast refineries to invest in preparation for other sources of oil," Bilbao told lawmakers.
BP itself is heading for the exit. After 60 years in Alaska, the oil giant is selling its assets here to the much smaller, privately held Hilcorp Energy Company. If the deal goes through as planned, Hilcorp will run a dramatically streamlined Alaska operation, with hundreds fewer employees and other changes. The tall BP office building, a landmark looming over midtown Anchorage, could stand largely empty after the sale goes through. Hilcorp, the company's top Alaska executive told lawmakers in February, has no plans to move into it.
Yereth Rosen is a longtime reporter based in Alaska.
More articles by Yereth Rosen
Why Alaska Native Villages Were Quick To Self-Isolate
Scarred by a legacy of colonial diseases, Alaska tribes quickly cut off the outside world.
Climate Change Is Fueling a Farming Boom in Alaska
It's becoming easier for the northern state to grow its own food—and more necessary.
For 40 Years, Alaska Has Modeled a Universal Income. Now That's in Peril.
Is the way to save the dividend through taxing the rich or slashing state services?
After Platinum Health Took Control of Noble Sites, All Hospital Workers Were Fired
A private-equity startup acquired two rural Missouri hospitals during the pandemic. In March, it suspended all hospital services.
Sarah Jane Tribble
How Farmers Markets and Food Trucks Became a Beachhead for Gentrification
In gentrifying neighborhoods, developers use food options to lure in more affluent residents, and longtime residents find themselves forced to compete against the "urban food machine."
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli
Boycotting the Boycotters: In Oil-Friendly States, New Bills Aim to Block Divestment from Fossil Fuels
You may divest from fossil fuels — but you may not be able to do business with the state of Texas.
Erika Bolstad

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Church leaders and members need to be "spiritual mentors" — like Jesus and the saints — befriending, accompanying and enriching the lives of young people, one U.S. observer told the Synod of Bishops.
"Young people are leaving the church for different reasons, but the absence of spiritual friendships and mentors in our families, schools and parishes lies at the heart of this crisis of faith," said Jonathan Lewis, assistant secretary for pastoral ministry and social concerns in the Archdiocese of Washington.
"Spiritual friends and mentors are urgently needed today since young people trust personal relationships more than institutions," he said in his Oct. 10 intervention, which he shared with reporters.
He began his brief talk in the synod hall by asking those present to think of how many young people they actually know by name.
Lewis, who as an observer was taking part in the synod discussions but did not have a vote on the final proposals given to the pope, said "young people are not asking for a new event or 'program' but a relationship" with a person who gives life a new horizon and sure direction — the person of Christ.
This is why the first task of the church is to offer young people an encounter with Jesus through its witness, he said.
Local churches can start with clergy and laity asking themselves: how many hours they spend each week mentoring young people; whether their sacramental preparation programs provide long-term spiritual mentorship; whether they invest financially in the formation of lay mentors; and how many young people they know by name.


I'm really excited to announce the latest addition to our growing stable of computational geography research: a fully-funded ESRC studentship involving the application of cutting-edge techniques (text-mining, topic modelling, graph analysis) to a large, rich data set of 450,000 PhD theses in order to understanding the evolving geography of academic knowledge production: how are groundbreaking ideas produced, circulated, and ultimately succeeded, and how do issues such as researcher mobility and institutional capacity shape this process?
We're looking for a stellar candidate (either undergraduate or Masters-level) with a demonstrable interest in interdisciplinary research – you will be working at the intersection between disciplines and this will present unique challenges (and opportunities!) that call for resourcefulness, curiosity, and intellectual excellence.
The British Library manages EThOS, the national database of UK doctoral theses, which enables users to discover and access theses for use in their own research. But the almost complete aggregation of metadata about more than 450,000 dissertations also enables us to begin asking very interesting questions about the nature and production of knowledge in an institutional and geographic context across nearly the entire U.K., and this anchors the project in quintessentially social science questions about the impact of individuals, work, and mobility on organisations and cultures.
However, textual data of this scale is solely interpretable and navigable through 'distant reading' approaches; so although it remains rooted in the interests and episteme of the social sciences, the research involves genuinely interdisciplinary work at the interfaces with both the natural sciences and the (digital) humanities! At its heart, this project is therefore an exciting example of 'computational social science' (Lazer et al. 2009) in that it involves the application of cutting-edge computational techniques to large, rich data sets of human behaviour.
Ultimately, this project seeks to understand changes in the U.K. geography of academic knowledge production over time and across two or more disciplines. All applicants are therefore expected to demonstrate an interest in the underlying social science research questions and (at a minimum) basic competence in programming. Additionally, the successful applicant for the 1+3 route would be expected to successfully complete King's MSc Data Science programme, while the successful +3 applicant would be expected to demonstrate a degree of existing facility with core analytical approaches.
For more information on the project, please see here.
1+3 (1 year Masters + 3 year PhD) or +3 (PhD only), subject to candidate's existing academic/professional background. For applicants with a social science background we are suggesting King's MSc Data Science programme. For applicants with a natural science background we will need to discuss how best to achieve a grounding in the social sciences.
Well-known remote sensing data producers such as The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA are developing a wide range of data products relevant to understand land surface processes and atmospheric phenomena as well as human-caused changes. However, although there is an unprecedented variety of long-term monitoring data, it remains challenging to understand exchanging processes between atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere. To overcome this issue, 'Big Data' technologies are being proposed to tap the question of how to simultaneously explore multiple Earth Observations (EOs).
Amongst all collaborative initiatives presented at EGU, the Earth System Data Cube project led by the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and funded by ESA presented an emerging platform (E-Lab). The project aims to maximize the usage of ESA-EOs and other relevant data streams. The main concept behind the E-lab's stream data maximization is the so-called 'Data Cube' concept. This 'cube' concept enables handling and extracting information for a given georeferenced dataset, optimising the management of its spatial and time dimensions. These dimensions are use to split data into smaller sub-cubes of of varying dimensions. In this way, dimension X and Y are the spatial dimensions (i.e., latitude and longitude). The third dimension corresponds to time; the fourth are the multiple variables or data streams themselves. All data uploaded into E-Lab are under the elegant and efficient 'Data Cube' umbrella and simultaneously exploration is mainly permitted by a set of predefined preprocessing rules applied during the data ingestion process.
Fig 2. Representation of the 'Data cube' concept and its related-structure applied to three different data sets (V1, V2, V3). Source: Earth System Data Cube (2017).
E-lab provides scientists a virtual online laboratory where the "Data Cube" can be explored, standard processing chains can be examined, and new work-flows can be tested. Jupyterhub is the underlying framework of the platform. This makes it simple for the users to work on the data cube using the popular Jupyter notebook, which supports high-level programming languages (mainly in Julia, Python and also a bit in R, although the latter is a bit underdeveloped at this stage).
The Earth System Data Cube initiative is a pioneering project offering an open and free-of-charge collaborative virtual platform with a solid background in the analysis of large data-sets and a sound understanding of the Earth System. However, a challenge remains in regards to the standards of data infrastructure, metadata and sharing protocols for existing and incoming, either private or public, projects supported by the 'Data Cube' concept. A first step towards tackling this concern is being led by The EarthCube and NextGEOSS initiatives which also were part of the transdisciplinary programme covered by the EGU of this year.
Interested in how Crowdsourcing is revolutionizing the way to collect/extract knowledge for data-driven analysis? If so, look out for a blog post on the topic right here this coming Friday.
The author is grateful to the Geography Department Small Grants and the P4GES: Can Paying for Global Ecosystem Services reduce poverty? project for providing funding for his successful attendance at the EGU General Assembly. Revision of English version by Sarah Jones and content by Miguel Mahecha.
Quite often, I use this quote to explain the behind story of my research. And I keep on correcting people that I am working on urban mobility, not transportation. The former, to me, has a much broader meaning and is about people and their interactions with the built environment.
Most of my research explores the usage of automatically generated urban mobility data, such as smart-card data (my main source), mobile phone data and social media data. These types of data are generated by "citizens as sensors" as described by Goodchild (2007). People are carrying all kinds of sensors, such as mobile phones, smart wristbands and so on, all the time. The network formed by such sensors consists of the people themselves; therefore, it contains explicit spatial as well as implicit social information. These data sets offer us new potential to have a direct look into human behavior.
Compared to conventionally surveyed data, sensor data has a significant advantage in terms of granularity, coverage, efficiency and reliability. However, they are not perfect and often demographic information about the people carrying the sensors is absent. Nevertheless, these data sets still have a significant advantage for pattern detection and behavior analysis, thanks to its large sample size and less questionnaire bias. The challenge here is that data are collected with untapped purpose. We need be creative to make the best use of it and how. This challenge, as I see, is also the beauty of the "Big Data" concept.
I would like to show a few examples from my previous research – big data informed urban planning – which is one of many potential uses of mobility data. The first is about investigating functional urban changes in Singapore. There, we used a set of urban indicators to identify human activity centres and boundary of urban regions. Changing structure of traffic flows over years proved the successful implementation of decentralization in Singapore. Moreover, the significantly growing emerging sub-centre reveals how rapid the urban development of Singapore has been. This is definitely unique among all developed countries. When we mapped out the redrawn regional boundaries (see image at top), even a non-analytical government officer immediately interpreted the graphics and presented us the impact of new development on people's locations choices.
Note: Smart-card data is generated by automatic fare-collection systems. In London, it is Oyster card data. To find out more about smart-card data, and the above mentioned work, see my paper on detecting the dynamics of urban structure through spatial network analysis.
It is always interesting to compare things. We compared three world cities, namely London, Singapore and Beijing. You may expect Singapore to be the one with the most regular travel patterns using public transportation. Beijing, however, has the highest regularity with respect to "when to travel" and is second with respect to "where to go". The most important reason is the regular passenger control measure which is applied to about 40 stations where passengers are held outside the stations before being allowed to enter at regular time intervals during the morning peak. Such queues can last for miles. Passengers can either wait there, search or use an alternative station or mode according to their situation. Moreover, this inconsistency of regularity can also subscribe to another unique phenomenon in Beijing which is due to Vehicles Plate Number Traffic Restriction Measures where many private car owners drive a car on most days but for one day use public transport system. Though people in China sometimes complain about the inconvenience of such policy, it indeed helps reducing Carbon emissions and relieving road congestion. Read more about this in my paper entitled Variability in Regularity: Mining Temporal Mobility Patterns in London, Singapore and Beijing Using Smart-Card Data.
Cross-checking detected patterns with multi-sources data could enhance and deepen previous findings.
If you are interested in any of these ideas or you want to chat about your great idea, please do not hesitate to contact me. To read more, click here.
Goodchild, M. F. (2007). "Citizens as sensors: the world of volunteered geography." GeoJournal 69(4): 211-221.
Rodrigue, J.-P., et al. (2013). The geography of transport systems, Routledge.
Big data is a broad term for data sets so large or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate. In practice, researchers can face a big data challenge when the dataset cannot be loaded into a conventional desktop package such as SPSS, Stata or R. Besides being the curator of the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in UK, the UK Data Service initiative is also currently organising a series of workshops focused on big data management. These workshops aim to promote better and more efficient user-manipulation of their databases (and other sources).
Keen to attend to one of UK Data Service's workshops, I visited the University of Manchester on 24 June 2016 to participate in "The Big Data Manipulation using Hive". In a short, Hive™ is a tool that facilitates reading, writing and managing large datasets that reside in distributed storage using SQL (a special-purpose programming language). Although a variety of applications to access the Hive environment exist, the workshop trainers showed attendees a set of tools freely available for download (further details can be accessed from the workshop material). One of the advantages of the tool mentioned is its flexibility for implementation in well-known programming languages such as R and Python.
I recently attended an ESRC funded advanced training course on spatial and spatio-temporal data analysis using Bayesian hierarchical models at the Department of Geography, Cambridge (convened by Prof. Bob Haining and Dr Guangquan Li), to gain an overview of Bayesian statistics and its applications to geographical modelling problems.
Compared to 'classical' frequentist statistical techniques, modern modelling approaches relying upon Bayesian inference are relatively new, despite being based upon principles first proposed in the works of Thomas Bayes in 1763. Since the 1990's Bayesian methods have begun to be widely applied within the scientific community, as a result of both an increasing acceptance of the underpinning philosophy and increased computational power.
In contrast to frequentist approaches, Bayesian methods represent processes using model parameters and their associated uncertainty in terms of probabilities. Using existing knowledge (e.g. from previous studies, expert knowledge, common sense etc) about a process or parameter of interest, a 'prior distribution' is established. This is then used in conjunction with a 'likelihood' (derived entirely from a dataset relating to the specific parameter) to produce a 'posterior distribution' – essentially an updated belief or opinion about the model parameter.
can provide an easily interpreted quantitative output.
Historically however, Bayesian approaches have been considered somewhat controversial, as the results of any analysis are heavily dependent upon the choice of the prior distribution and identification of the 'best' prior is often subjective. Arguably though, the existence of multiple justifiable priors may actually highlight additional uncertainty about a process that would be entirely ignored in a frequentist approach! Moreover, in many studies, it is common for researchers to make use of a 'flat prior' in order to reduce some of the subjectivity associated with prior selection.
as identified with a Bayesian spatio-temporal modelling approach.
As part of the course, we learned to use the winBUGs software with a Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach to explore a variety of spatial modelling problems, including: the identification of high intensity crime areas in UK cities, investigating the relationships between exposure to air pollution and stroke mortality, and examining the spatio-temporal variations in burglary rates. More information on the approaches taken in these studies can be found in Haining & Law (2007), Maheswaran et al, (2006), and Li et al. (2014).
Overall, the course provided a very engaging, hands-on overview of a very powerful analytical framework that has extensive applications in the field of quantitative geography. A comprehensive introduction to Bayesian analysis from a geographical perspective such as this is hard to find, and I would highly recommend that anyone with an interest in alternative approaches to spatio-temporal modelling should attend this course in future years!


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Right now you can get this Play-Doh Super Color, 20-Pack for $11.19! This is the lowest price we've seen.
I'm grabbing these for the goodie bags at my daughter's birthday party! Plus I love that we will have a few left for playtime this summer.


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Iona College Offers Dynamic Immersion Program Designed to Help Start-Ups and Spur Innovation
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. – Driven by a mission to educate the next generation of innovators, critical thinkers, and business leaders, Iona College in New Rochelle, New York is offering a new graduate-level certificate program at Iona's Hynes Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.
"Fostering an 'Entrepreneurial Mindset' Is Key in Today's Economy"
Joseph E. Nyre, Ph.D., President of Iona College, announced today that the College has created an Advanced Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Innovation for graduate level students and expanded the curriculum at the Hynes Institute, an emerging program that provides students with the knowledge, experience, and skills necessary to succeed in today's global economy. This new certificate is ideal for students who want to fast track the creation of their own entrepreneurial ventures, without the time or expense of earning a traditional MBA. The certificate is also ideal for professionals who would like to build their entrepreneurial skills to advance their careers within their existing organizations.
"The economy is changing at warp speed and so must higher education, so fostering an entrepreneurial mindset is key," Dr. Nyre pointed out. "With this new program, we are helping the next generation become the big-thinkers, problems solvers, and visionaries who will lead and build the companies of the future. We believe it also will drive a new movement in higher education that will become a national model of innovation."
In Just Two Months, Students Can Earn Graduate Level Entrepreneurial Certificate
The certificate program is 15 credits (or five MBA-level courses) and provides immersive and collaborative experiences in problem solving, ideation, design thinking, and business modeling. The program is also designed to help students gain access to Iona's collaborative workspace, mentorship, start-up support, as well as opportunities to present to potential investors.
"We are truly on the cusp of something great," said Christoph Winkler, Ph.D., founding director of the Hynes Institute. "Our interdisciplinary approach encourages students across all disciplines to think and act entrepreneurially by creating something of value for themselves and our economy. We couldn't be more excited to invite student to participate in this cutting-edge program."
The Hynes Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation was established on campus in 2017 with a $15 million gift from James and Anne Marie Hynes, and aims to prepare the next generation of entrepreneurs, innovators and leaders, in part by preparing students for the growing global economy.
During its relatively short existence, the Hynes Institute is making a name for itself. Last year, three Iona students were chosen to participate in Stanford's University Innovation Fellows (UIF) Program among other students from 96 universities in 16 countries from around the world. As part of that fellowship, the students are going through training and will travel to the University Innovation Fellows Silicon Valley Meetup in California where they conduct in-depth analyses to develop unique projects that address a need at their respective schools.
On campus, construction began earlier this year at Spellman Hall, where the Hynes Institute will occupy 3,800 square feet of classroom and office space. GaelVentures, Iona's incubator space that is part of the Hynes Institute, is located on North Avenue, and is an essential part of the Advanced Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Innovation.
Founded in 1940, Iona College is a master's-granting private, Catholic, coeducational institution of learning in the tradition of the Edmund Rice Christian Brothers. Iona's 45-acre campus is just 20 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. With a total enrollment of nearly 4,000 students and an alumni base of over 45,000 around the world, Iona is a diverse community of learners and scholars dedicated to academic excellence and the values of justice, peace and service. Iona is highly accredited, offering undergraduate degrees in liberal arts, science, and business administration, as well as Master of Arts, Master of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees and numerous advanced certificate programs. Iona's LaPenta School of Business is accredited by AACSB International, a prestigious recognition awarded to just five percent of business schools worldwide.


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Former top spokesman for US in Iraq to join Google
May 23, 2005 by by Andrew Gordon
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Dan Senor, formerly the Bush Administration's primary spokesman in Iraq, has joined Google as VP of global communications strategy.
He replaces Cindy McCaffrey, who stepped down as VP of corporate marketing late last year. His will be the top communications post.
Steve Langdon, senior manager of corporate PR, confirmed that Senor had joined the company, but declined to provide further information.
Senor was not available for comment.
Speculation in Silicon Valley PR circles was that Google had been looking to make an unconventional hire for the position.
In addition to his role as spokesman in Iraq, Senor was a senior advisor to L. Paul Bremer, administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). Senor's post was dissolved, along with the CPA, after the US transferred power to an Iraqi government in June of last year.
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, Senor served as director of the coalition information center, based in Qatar. He has also served as a legislative aide, press secretary, and communications director for former Sen. Spencer Abraham (R-MI).
Senor joins the company at a time when competition in the search space is growing fierce. Microsoft and Yahoo are looking to challenge Google's dominance, and search companies are adding new functionality to distinguish their services, from hotel listings to search software for mobile phones.
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Business process management tools help solve many of the problems with traditional architectures by isolating application code from rapidly-changing business processes. This article is a good managerial overview of the issues, benefits, and components of BPM.
rganizations the world over are looking for better flexibility and higher productivity. They need software applications that are not only long-lasting but also adaptable to change. Business process management (BPM) is a revolution in the software industry today that's providing such capabilities. BPM may be defined as the practice of improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and operational agility of an enterprise by automating, optimizing, and managing its business processes. BPM enables business processes to be designed independently of any single application and then leveraged as shared business logic. This article provides an overview of BPM and workflow, and then briefly discusses how the two differ. It then highlights the features and benefits provided by a complete BPM solution and links to widely used BPM products (both proprietary and open source).
Business processes are generally depicted diagrammatically, in a graphic form called a business process diagram (BPD). A BPD is actually a process diagram drawn using a business process designer. It is based on a flowcharting technique and consists of graphical objects that represent a network of related activities, the information about the activities, and the flow that defines the order of execution of these activities. These graphical objects have distinct symbols and shapes that help distinguish various types of activities.
Large organizations have many such workflow operations—and these benefit from being grouped and managed just as do other businesses processes. A Workflow Management System (WFMS) is software that manages workflow execution, by interpreting the process definition, interacting with workflow participants and, where required, invoking external IT tools and applications. Note that all workflow systems are process oriented.
A workflow modeling component, which lets you model workflows visually.
A workflow execution component that's responsible for launching and managing workflows.
Reduced operating cost. Workflow automation reduces the unit cost to execute a transaction.
Increased efficiency. Business process automation can eliminate many unnecessary steps.
Better control. Automation standardizes working methods and provides audit trails that can improve managerial control.
Improved customer service. Improved consistency and control result in better customer service.
Flexibility. Automated processes are relatively easy to change as business requirements change, and—unlike changing human-driven processes—modifying an automated process results in immediate and permanent change.


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The Suntory Dojo Academy program 2021 (later referred to as Dojo Academy) and the Suntory Dojo Senpai program (later referred to as Dojo Senpai) will start on Monday 17th May 2021 and end at 23.59 on Friday 29th October 2021. Open to UK (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) residents aged 18 or over who have been signed up by an approved Edrington Beam Suntory UK Distribution Limited (later referred to as 'EBS UK' or 'the Promoter') employee in partnership with the venue in which the participant works. This excludes employees and their immediate families of the Promoter EBS UK, Beam Suntory International, its agencies or anyone else professionally connected with the promotion.
There are 3 prize places on a trip to the Japan (the "Suntory Japan Trip") to be won, of which 2 spaces will be won by participants in the Dojo Senpai and 1 space will be won by a participant in the Dojo Academy.
Dojo Academy Winner
To be eligible to win the one place on the "Suntory Japan Trip", Dojo Academy participants must have entered their details on suntorydojo.com and participated in all four Academy masterclasses (dates below). After the fourth masterclass, each participant will be invited to submit a 'Kaizen Classic' cocktail entry for consideration, with the top 6 entries as judged by James Bowker, House of Suntory Brand Ambassador, winning the opportunity to present their 'Kaizen Classic' Cocktail to the Bar Master judges in October 2021. The best of these 6 Kaizen Classic Cocktails as judged by the Bar Masters, will win the one Dojo Academy spot on the "Suntory Japan Trip".
Winner selection will take place in the two weeks following the Challenge conclusion. The winners will be notified by the Promoter and in the event a claim for a prize is not received by the Promoter within 3 days of notification, the Promoter reserves the right, at its discretion, to withdraw prize entitlement and/or award the prize to the to the next best entrant. The Promoter's decision on points scored and who has won is final, and no correspondence will be entered into.
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Academy Masterclass dates:
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To be eligible to win one of two Senpai places on the "Suntory Japan Trip", Dojo Senpai participants will be required to participate in four monthly Kaizen Challenges in the masterclass series, gaining points out of 100 for each Challenge, as judged by James Bowker, House of Suntory Brand Ambassador. The members of the Dojo Senpai will also be asked to award each of their peers a score out of 100 in the final challenge, for the improvement in their Kaizen Classic and Japanese bartending technique – these scores will be collated into an average score out of 100, comprising the fifth Kaizen Challenge. The sixth and final Kaizen Challenge for the Dojo Senpai participants will be a written test of knowledge gained of Japanese bartending over the course of the Dojo Senpai program.
The two Senpai places on the "Suntory Japan Trip" will be awarded to: (Prize 1) The individual who scores the highest number of points across the six Kaizen Challenges (out of 600), and (Prize 2) The individual who scores the highest number of points from the judges in October 2021 for their Kaizen Classic cocktail.
Winner selection will take place in the two weeks following the Challenge conclusion. The winners will be notified by the Promoter and in the event a claim for a prize is not received by the Promoter within 3 days of notification, the Promoter reserves the right, at its discretion, to withdraw prize entitlement and/or award the prize to the next best entrant. The Promoter's decision on points scored and who has won is final, and no correspondence will be entered into.
Senpai Masterclass dates:
Wednesday 1st September 2021
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The promotion is open to UK (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) residents aged 18 or over excluding employees and their immediate families of the Promoter EBS UK, Beam Suntory International, its agencies or anyone else professionally connected with the promotion. Participants will only be confirmed if approved by employing venue and EBS UK Account Manager.
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The initial registration period for the Suntory Dojo competition will be open from 09.00 Monday 11th April 2021 and will end at 23.59 on Friday 14th May 2021. The promotion will start on Monday 17th May 2021 at 23.59 and end at 23.59 on Friday 29th October 2021.
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Following registration at www.suntorydojo.com up to 80 outlets will be confirmed to participate in Suntory Dojo Academy. The venues selected will be sent a confirmation email followed by 4 x masterclass experience kits, one each for the Suntory Dojo Masterclasses in June, July, August and September 2021 respectively.
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Dojo Academy – 1 place on the prize "Suntory Japan Trip"
The trip will comprise a maximum of 7 days in Japan, including: travel to and from a UK airport, return flights to Japan, accommodation, subsistence, and internal travel within the set itinerary. All reasonable expenses will be covered by EBS at their discretion and any activates outside of the agreed itinerary or costs not deemed as a reasonable expense will be the responsibility of the prize winner to cover. Note experiences, distillery tours and other activities will also be available depending on COVID-19 and can be cancelled at the promoter's discretion.
The trip will take place before the end of 30th July 2022, exact dates to be advised. The winners will fly from London and return to London. The Promoter will arrange at its cost travel from respective home (UK) addresses to and from the London airport selected by the Promoter. All correct valid visas and passports must be confirmed prior to travel by the participant. The prizes are non-transferable, must not be offered for resale, and rights to postpone the trip are reserved by the Promoter but cannot be amended by the winners.
Dojo Senpai – 2 places on the prize "Suntory Japan Trip"
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Dojo Academy
To be eligible to win the one place on the "Suntory Japan Trip", academy participants must have entered their details on suntorydojo.com and participated in all four masterclasses (dates below). After the fourth masterclass, each participant will be invited to submit a 'Kaizen Classic' cocktail entry for consideration, with the top 6 entries, as judged by James Bowker House of Suntory Brand Ambassador, winning the opportunity to present their 'Kaizen Classic' Cocktail to the Bar Master judges in October 2021. The best of these 6 Kaizen Classic Cocktails as judged by the Bar Masters, will win the one Dojo Academy spot on the "Suntory Japan Trip".
Kaizen Classics – Dojo Senpai
The two Senpai places on the "Suntory Japan Trip" will be awarded to: (Prize 1) The individual who scores the highest number of points across the six Kaizen Challenges (out of 600), and (Prize 2) The individual who scores the highest number of points from the judges in October 2021 for their Kaizen Classic.
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Qantas Young Socceroos named for Argentina tournament
Qantas Young Socceroos Head Coach Jan Versleijen has selected a squad of 20 players to participate in the Copa Ciudad de Rosario in Argentina as part of his team's preparations for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup to be held in Egypt starting in two months time.
Qantas Young Socceroos Head Coach Jan Versleijen has selected a squad of 20 players to participate in the Copa Ciudad de Rosario in Argentina as part of his team-s preparations for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup to be held in Egypt starting in two months time.
The touring squad is comprised of 16 players from Hyundai A-League and National Youth League clubs and four players from overseas clubs.
The Qantas Young Socceroos will face fellow FIFA U-20 World Cup finalists Uruguay and the United States of America as well as Argentinean Youth team C.A. Tiro Federal.
"This South American tour is extremely important for us as we have drawn Brazil and Costa Rica at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Egypt," said Versleijen.
"This will be our last major training camp before the tournament itself and also the last opportunity for the players to push for selection at the World Cup.
"Playing in South America will help us learn much about the style of the opponents we will face in Egypt.
"I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the Hyundai A-League clubs for their cooperation and support for this important tour.
"It is in our collective interest that the players are playing at the highest levels in the lead up to the FIFA World Cup and we will do everything that we can to ensure that is the case," concluded Versleijen.
The Qantas Young Socceroos have been drawn in Group E for the FIFA U-20 World Cup Egypt 2009, alongside Brazil, Costa Rica and the Czech Republic.
The FIFA U-20 World Cup Egypt 2009 will be played from 24 September to 16 October.
The Qantas Young Socceroos will assemble in Sydney on Monday 20 July for a two day camp and will depart for Argentina on Wednesday 22 July.
Qantas Young Socceroos Squad List Copa Ciudad de Rosario Rosario, Argentina 25-29 July 2009
Luke Brattan (Brisbane Roar), Isaka Cernak Okanya (Brisbane Roar), Alex Cisak (Leicester City, UK), Peter Cvetanovski (Borussia Moenchengladbach, Germany), Kofi Danning (Sydney FC), Luke DeVere (Brisbane Roar), Nathan Elasi (Melbourne Victory), Antony Golec (Sydney FC), Jason Hoffman (Newcastle Jets), Matthew Jurman (Sydney FC), Osama Malik (North Queensland Fury), Tahj Minniecon (Gold Coast United), Aaron Mooy (Bolton Wanderers, UK), Sam Munro (Sydney FC), Jason Naidovski (Newcastle Jets), Mitch Nichols (Brisbane Roar), Chris Payne (Sydney FC), Andrew Redmayne (Central Coast Mariners), Nikola Stanojevic (AIS), Rocco Visconte (Hearts FC, Scotland)
Heat, humidity, altitude and air miles: what the Caltex Socceroos can expect on the road to Qatar
The Caltex Socceroos? road to Qatar 2022 is likely to be a long and winding one, featuring intense heat, humidity, altitude and countless air miles. Having received a bye through their first round of Asian Football Confederation qualifying for FIFA World Cup 2022, Graham Arnol
'I'm loving being back': Behich beams about return to Turkey
Caltex Socceroos defender Aziz Behich has his sights set on Champions League football with new club ?stanbul Ba?ak?ehir FK after making a ?smooth transition? back into Turkish Football. After spending last season in Holland at PSV Eindhoven, Behich has returned to Turkey where
Gary van Egmond names maiden Young Socceroos squad
New Young Socceroos Head Coach Gary van Egmond today named his maiden squad in charge of Australia?s under-20 men?s national football team. Van Egmond has selected 30 players for a training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra from Sunday, 28 July 2019 to Fri
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Aziz Behich has vowed the Caltex Socceroos are ready to ?make a statement in Asia? during their FIFA World Cup 2022 qualifying campaign. The group stage of the second round of Asian Football Confederation qualifiers was drawn on Wednesday night and pitted Australia up against
Australia to face Jordan, Chinese Taipei, Kuwait, and Nepal in combined qualifiers
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Amy's Mental Health Story in Turning Point CT
by Amy | Jan 16, 2016 | Media, Overcoming Obstacles | 1 comment
At Turning Point CT, "Our mission is to empower teens and young adults in their search for emotional and mental health." Read the original article in Turning Point CT here.
What have you struggled with? When did it become too much?
PTSD after sexual assault and 27 surgeries. I grew up thinking an "illness" was either fever or croup. Illness was a stuffy nose — a sick-day, an excuse to miss a day of school. At 18 years old, "illness" took on an entirely different meaning. Illness meant waking up from a coma, learning that my stomach exploded, I had no digestive system and I was to be stabilized with IV nutrition until surgeons could figure out how to put me back together again. Illness meant a life forever out of my control and a body I didn't recognize. My body never went back to normal. With no other alternative, I learned how to accommodate it and embrace it for the amazing things its extraordinary resilience.
I was shocked and saddened that I could never get my old, unwounded body back. But what really startled me was realizing what had happened to my mind.
Learn about Amy's Sexual Assault Awareness Program here.
PTSD. I had never heard those letters put together before. I knew what "trauma" was, but I didn't know it could cause so much internal dis-ease and dis-order — illness that I couldn't see.
But that was the biggest shock to me — waking up in a new body and a new mind, troubled by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
What kind of support did you get at first? Did it work?
The PTSD term for finding healthy coping skills is "self-soothing." To live a healthy thriving life, I've had to befriend my past, embrace my experience, and express what had happened to me. I needed to tell my story in order to heal. But first, I had to hear my story for myself, rather than avoid it.. Once I learned how to hear my own heart-shattering story, and feel the pain, the frustration, the anger, and ultimately, the gratitude, I was able to speak to it. I was able to gently teach myself how to live in the present moment rather than in the world of the trauma.
Healing didn't come all at once. Every day I tried to face a memory a bit more. I called it "dipping my toes" in my trauma. Finally, I could put words to my grief. I was able to write, "I am hurting."
Were there any turning points where things really started to change for the better?
As soon as I was able to write words like "sadness" and "pain", I allowed myself to explore them. Soon, I couldn't stop the words that flowed out of me. My memories started to empower me, and I wrote with feverish purpose.
I started to journal compulsively for hours as every memory appeared in my mind. Soon, the words couldn't do justice to my traumatic experience – I needed a bigger container. I turned to art, drawing, scribbling. I filled pages with teardrops, lightening bolts and broken hearts. For me, creativity became a lifeline – a release. It was a way to express things that were too overwhelming for words. Expression was my way of self-soothing.
Learn about Amy's College Mental Health Program here.
Once expression helped me face my own story, I was able to share it. And the day I first shared my story with someone else, I realized I wasn't alone. There were others that had been through trauma and life-shattering events. And there were also people who had been through the twists and turns of every day life. Being able to share my story emboldened me with a newfound strength and the knowledge that terrible things happen, and if other people can bounce back, then so can I.
What's your life like now? What have you been able to accomplish, and what are you working towards?
Find out what a "Detourist" is here.
My perspective on illness has changed since my days of "croup", and it's also changed since my last surgical intervention. I've learned that illness isn't always in the physical scars. I've learned that some wounds aren't visible, and some wounds even we don't know we have, until we choose to take care of them. But I've also learned that I'm resilient, strong, broken and put together again, differently, yet even more beautiful – like a mosaic.
I wrote a one woman musical about my life, Gutless & Grateful, that Ive been touring across the country as a mental health and sexual assault awareness program for colleges. As a survivor and "thriver" of nearly 30 surgeries, a coma, and a decade of medical trauma, I have been challenged with moments of extreme difficulty. But as an artist, newlywed, actress, 28-year old college student and overall lover of life, I've learned so much from this beautiful detour.
What would you say to people who are having a tough time? What's helped you that you wish you had known earlier
You don't know what you're capable of until you're tested, so just trust that you are capable of anything and you'll get through. It can get better.
Lux G.	on January 17, 2016 at 8:44 pm
Always so inspiring and encouraging reading your posts.


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A popular dish in Mindanao and other parts of the Visayas, Law-oy is a flavorful vegetable stew with fried fish. It's similar with "laswa" from the Ilonggos and "dinengdeng" from the Ilokanos. A very healthy and tasty dish!


One of my all-time favorite things about this job of mine is seeing all the ways my couples love each other. Sam + Kelli truly share SUCH an amazing kind of love. They've been married for 6 years and we did a little anniversary session for them in September. They are so fun and the way the love each other is just the best. These two compliment each other so well and you can just tell they're each others best friends. The way they laugh and joke and love is something that is so, so admirable and I'm sooo happy I got to capture an amazing love like theirs. Watching them love each other defines why I do what I do everyday. And I hope you can see it too!!!


https://pluslexia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Motivation-box.jpg 237 700 Jesper Sehested https://pluslexia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/PlusLexia-logo.gif Jesper Sehested2018-03-05 08:41:182018-10-09 08:04:08How do you motivate yourself to keep going in school?
How does dyslexia affect you in everyday life and school? What is the best thing about being dyslexic?


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This is a before and after of Heat & Glo's Slimline Series 7X gas burning fireplace insert, along with custom hearth construction by Auburn Home & Energy Center.
SlimLine fireplaces fit where other larger fireplaces don't. With a more slender profile, they can be installed in smaller spaces.
Select the right fireplace size to fill your space. Available in 28, 32, 36 and 42-inch wide.
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Yield puzzle: Is bad news, bad news?
Kathrin Forrest, MA, CFA, Portfolio Manager and Anthony Wu, CFA, Senior Portfolio Analyst, SLGI Portfolio Management
Opinions as of June 10, 2019
What a year it's been in the markets. Over 10% return since the beginning of the year is something that we would normally be cheerful about – and no, we're not talking about stocks. This is actually the total return for long-term Canadian bonds. It's quite an accomplishment, especially when you consider that yields were only at 3.18% on Dec. 31, 2018. And it's a similar picture in the U.S. bond market.
Capital appreciation has been the main driver of recent bond returns, pushed up by falling yields across the maturity spectrum. The exception is at the very short end, where policy rates have remained anchored at 1.75% in Canada and 2.25 to 2.50% in the U.S. However, the outlook for policy rates has changed dramatically since the start of the year.
Following four 25 basis point increases in its policy rate over the course of 2018, the U.S. Federal Reserve moved towards a neutral stance in January. On this side of the border, the Bank of Canada reluctantly rolled back its tightening bias as well, now emphasizing data dependence in a context of still "accommodative" policy.
However, further out the curve, yields dropped materially as bond markets became increasingly worried. Taking a closer look at the key drivers of longer-term yields, inflation expectations have not changed materially since the start of the year, despite a bit of a roller coaster ride.
In contrast, real expected growth and the term premium have fallen dramatically. And that has pulled down longer-term bond yields as investors anticipate lower interest rates in the future, and demand a lower risk premium for holding traditionally safe-haven assets.
The issue is not so much where we are, but where we're headed. While current economic conditions appear generally strong, the worry is that past policy tightening, coupled with fading fiscal stimulus and uncertainty from ongoing trade tensions, could put the brakes on the economic expansion in the coming quarters. Forward-looking indicators, such as the Institute for Supply Management's Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index have trended down, historically leading yields lower with a short lag.1 (Chart below). And the most recent U.S. labour market data, while still essentially indicating full employment, sent cautionary signals with muted wage and job growth – which doesn't bode well for the consumption outlook.
Bond Yields have followed the PMI lower
1Based on a survey of purchasing managers, the Institute for Supply Management's Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index monitors monthly changes in production levels, giving equal weighting to new orders, production, employment, supplier deliveries and inventories.
Where do we go from here? With quite a bit of worry priced in, bonds certainly don't look like a bargain, especially in the context of current yield. The picture becomes more nuanced if we consider bonds as diversifying building blocks alongside equities. Equities have looked more cheerful, rallying as markets aggressively priced in cuts in Fed policy rates, and presumably with that, a turn for the better in future economic growth.
It will be important to watch how the current dichotomy between bond and equity markets unfolds. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's recent remark that, "Using monetary policy to push sufficiently hard on labour markets to lift inflation could pose risks of destabilizing excesses in financial markets or elsewhere," and its impact on equities and bonds, will be important to reflect on.
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Sitapur City Junction railway station is a railway station in Sitapur district, Uttar Pradesh, India. Its code is SPC. It serves Sitapur old city. The station consists of three platforms. The platforms are not well sheltered. It lacks many facilities including water and sanitation.

References

Railway stations in Sitapur district
Moradabad railway division
Sitapur


While traveling around Yucatan Peninsula for two months I also stumbled upon the lovely beach village Mahahual in Costa Maya. I was happy I added it to my Yucatan itinerary as more than anything I loved the super laid-back vibe at this fishing village transformed into a popular tourist destination in Yucatan. In this Costa Maya travel guide I will tell you all the best things to do in Costa Maya and secret travel tips I found out about Mahahual.


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Q: TypeError: ListControl, must set a sequence (python error) I am using Python Mechanize to open a website, fill out a form, and submit that form.
It's actually pretty simple.
It works until I come across radio buttons and "select" input boxes.
br.open(url)
br.select_form(name="postmsg")
br.form['subject'] = "Is this good for the holidays? "
br.form['message'] = "I'm new to technology."
br.form['E'] = '0'
br.submit()

  br.form['E'] = '0'
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/ClientForm.py", line 2897, in __setitem__
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/ClientForm.py", line 2092, in __setattr__
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/ClientForm.py", line 2100, in _set_value
TypeError: ListControl, must set a sequence

Why am I getting this error? Why can't I set E just like the text boxes? (E is a radio button)
Edit: This is the form, according to Web Developer.
Elements
Index   Id  Name    Type    Value   Label   Size    Maximum Length  State
0   subject subject text            35
2   message message textarea
3   identity    identity    select          1
13      action_btn  hidden
14      _charset_   hidden
16      r   hidden  /Stocks_(A_to_Z)/Stocks_G
9       E   radio   0

Checked
8       E   radio   1
15      .crumb  hidden  1n1Yo3MQae3
7       E   radio   2
17      bn  hidden  25263
6       E   radio   3
5       E   radio   4
4       E   radio   5
12  SubmitCancel    SubmitCancel    submit  Cancel
1   mbpostthreads   threads button  Check Existing Topics First
11  SubmitPost  SubmitPost  submit  Post Message
10  SubmitPreview   SubmitPreview   submit  Preview Message
18  yIdCoreIdUser       hidden  annamae41g

A: Radio buttons and Check-boxes can have different behavior then other elements. It depends on their name and id.
If the items have the same name, try doing this:
br.find_control(name="E").value = ["0"]

Another option is:
form.find_control(name="E", kind="list").value = ["0"]

and finally, this might work:
    br["E"] = ["0"]

(I haven't used mechanize in a while so i don't remember exactly).

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Puzzle Collection: Hello Kitty no Beads Koubou
(Redirected from Hello Kitty no Beads Koubou)
Publisher(s) Imagineer
Release date(s) July 17, 1999
Genre Puzzle
Platform(s) Game Boy Color
Serial code(s) DMG-AHBJ-JPN
Puzzle Collection: Hello Kitty no Beads Koubou (Japanese: パズルコレクション ハローキティのビーズ工房) (©1999 Nintendo/Imagineer), literally Puzzle Collection: Hello Kitty's Beads Factory is a puzzle game for Nintendo's Game Boy series of gaming consoles.
The genre of this game is a tile-matching puzzle game similar to the game Yoshi's Cookie, in which the player shifts various beads to match five in a row and make them disappear. Additionally, the bead for Hello Kitty's face acts as any bead; so if there were four hearts and one Hello Kitty face the hearts and Hello Kitty's face would disappear.
There are three main modes in this game, including "play alone" (ひとりであそぶ) in which the player plays through various rounds alone, "battle" (たいせん) in which the player battles against the computer or another Game Boy and the Print Studio.
After the player clears a round, it may unlock a picture to print in the Print Studio using the Game Boy Printer.
The game has a 1992 and 1999 Nintendo copyright notice on both the introduction screen and box art, but it seems Nintendo staff were not directly involved in the development of this game. (staff credits)
Retrieved from "http://sanrio.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Puzzle_Collection:_Hello_Kitty_no_Beads_Koubou&oldid=4809"
1990s video games
Video games released in Japan
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Hello Kitty video games


NEW DELHI (Reuters): The main opposition Congress party will give 72,000 rupees ($1,045) to each of India's poorest families every year if voted back to power, its chief said on Monday, launching what he called a "final assault on poverty".
Congress President Rahul Gandhi, facing a tough opponent in Prime Minister Narendra Modi in general elections set for April and May, told reporters the program would benefit 250 million of a population of 1.3 billion.
Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dismissed Gandhi's announcement as a poll gimmick lacking details.
Any family earning less than 12,000 rupees a month would receive 6,000 rupees every month in its bank account, said Praveen Chakravarty, the head of Congress's data analytics department.
The party would look to roll out the program nationwide within two years, and target paying the amount into the account of the family's senior woman member, he added.
Chakravarty declined to say if the scheme would fold in existing subsidies, but said state and federal government have sufficient resources to fund it without widening the fiscal deficit.
The Congress announcement may have come too late, some analysts said.
Instead, Verma said the Modi government's recently announced direct cash support of 6,000 rupees a year for 120 million poor farmers, which has already got off the ground, could help woo voters.
The number of Indians below the poverty line had fallen to about 65 million, or 5 percent of the population, from 22 percent in 2011, the BJP said on social network Twitter after Gandhi's news conference.
In recent weeks, Congress has pivoted its election campaign back to economic issues as polls showed the BJP had gained an early advantage after hostilities last month that brought nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan to the brink of another war.
Of 543 parliamentary seats up for grabs, Modi's alliance could win 241, versus 141 to the Congress-led opposition alliance, a survey released this month by the CVoter polling agency showed.


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Вишнёвка — деревня в Карачевском районе Брянской области, в составе Карачевского городского поселения.
Расположена в 1,5 км от восточной окраины города Карачева, к югу от шоссе  Брянск—Орёл.  Население — 590 человек (2010).

История
Упоминается с середины XIX века (историческое название — Вшивка, Ушивка). Входила в Драгунскую волость Карачевского уезда, состояла в приходе Всехсвятской церкви города Карачева.

С 1925 года в составе Карачевской волости, с 1929 в Карачевском районе. С 1930-х гг. до 2005 года — в Первомайском сельсовете (центр — деревня Масловка). В первой половине XX века — две отдельные деревни: Вшивка 1-я (южная, более старая часть) и Вшивка 2-я (северная часть, застроенная в начале XX века).

Со второй половины XX века называется «Вишнёвка».

Литература

Населённые пункты Карачевского района


The leaders of the main U.S. Latino organizations responded on Wednesday to Trump's comments about a Hispanic judge, voicing their concerns about the impact on Latinos and the U.S. legal system.
Prominent Latino leaders spoke out about Donald Trump's racist attacks on U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel in a conference call on Wednesday, calling his comments "unfounded" and "un-American" and demanding an apology to both the judge and the Latino community.
Janet Murguía, national president and CEO of National Council of La Raza (NCLR) said the organizations on the call were united in "strong condemnation of Donald Trump's unconscionable attack" on Curiel. "It's repugnant, un-American and a slap in the face of our increasingly diverse judiciary and all of us who participate in this democracy," she said.
Murguía added that Latino elected officials she's in contact with are "doing a lot of soul searching" and "are really trying to figure out if they can stay true to the Republican party."
In May, the U.S.-born judge presiding over a fraud suit against Trump University ordered the release of internal company documents, leading the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to accuse Curiel of a conflict of interest because he is "Mexican."
Despite an outcry from both sides of the aisle, including leaders from his own party, Trump continued bashing the judge in the media saying he belonged to a legal group that supported undocumented immigrants. On June 5, he told Face the Nation: "He is a member of a club or society, very strongly pro-Mexican, which is all fine. But I say, he's got bias. I want to build a wall."
Trump was referring to the California La Raza Lawyers Association, a moderate group that has largely stayed out of the immigration debate and mostly deals with challenges Latino stereotypes, according to PolitiFact, the fact-checking website.
The group is often confused with Murguia's advocacy group, NCLR, which is often a target of conservatives," PolitiFact reported.
On Tuesday , Trump issued a statement defending his remarks, saying "I am friends with and employ thousands of people of Mexican and Hispanic descent." He added that he felt "justified in questioning whether I am receiving a fair trial."
Representatives from Hispanic organizations on the call shared their concerns about the impact of Trump's words on Latinos and the U.S. legal system.
"This kind of rhetoric is having a direct impact on our quality of life on our community," said Hector Sanchez, chair of National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA) and executive director of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA), citing reports of bullying in schools, hate crimes, and racism in the workplace.
"Judge Curiel is no less American than Donald Trump," said Sanchez. "He deserves the respect that comes with the public office he holds."
Maria Teresa Kumar, president and CEO of Voto Latino, added that Trump's remarks are "his latest attempt at making Latinos feel less than American."
Thomas Saenz, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Foundation (MALDEF) pointed out that if Trump really wanted to disqualify Curiel, his lawyers could have already filed a legal motion to do so. He also noted that Trump's preference for a judiciary that permitted "judge shopping" would make the legal system "come to a grinding halt."
"Trump's candidacy is a very real threat to the fabric of America and the diversity and freedoms we enjoy," said Cesar Blanco, interim director of the Latino Victory Project, warning that Republicans' support of the presumptive nominee could hurt their chances with the Latino electorate.


Lost In The Lights is a product from Sixtystone Press, written by Jeff Moellar. It's available for sale now as a PDF over on DrivethruRPG — a printed book will be released in the second-half of 2013.
This is a pretty cool book, and something quite different from your run-of-the-mill Call of Cthulhu investigative romp through New England. While it still retains all the best elements of the classic Cthulhuoid investigation, it transplants them to modern-day Las Vegas … or more correctly the literary/movie version of modern-day Las Vegas. So, there's lots of glitz, glamour, Elvis impersonators, and opportunities for insanely-convoluted heists. But behind the gaudy facade there lies some really repulsive horrors … so, even if it is in lurid Technicolor, you know it's still good-ol Call of Cthulhu.
My own role on this book was to design most of the handouts … which was actually no mean feat (indeed it was one of the most challenging projects I've undertaken). Jeff had some neat ideas about using modern electronic means of delivering clues — so there's text messages, web pages, wikipedia entries … and video clips. The last of these alone took forever to create — after all you can't just go out and find stock images of a Hazmat team romping through Las Vegas's Greyhound bus depot; these things need to be built up as a Photoshop montage of found elements. In the end I also added in some original photographs of my own (by lurking around my local bus depot with a camera, doubtlessly looking very suspicious).


My name is Erica and I am a 36 year old wife and mom of one (soonish to be two).
Road trips! I don't know exactly why, but there is something about the combination of spending long days on the road, experiencing amazing new places, and seeing family and friends along the way that is so inspiring. Every summer my husband and I come back home brimming with new ideas and a fresh perspective. It's magic.
Whenever my husband (Paul) either comes home later than he thought he would or takes longer than 5 minutes to respond to a text, I immediately assume he's dead. It's pretty irrational and I can laugh about it later, but in that moment I can't seem to shake the feeling of dread. I try to make a concerted effort to not be fearful though and the few times I've found myself in a truly difficult situation (not just ones I'm creating in my head), I've found that repeating the verse "Be still and know that I am God" helps a lot.
I love to laugh and laugh easily. I have a 17 month old, so everyday life is entertaining. And if I'm ever in a funk, Niles Crane (from TV's "Fraiser") can get me out of it every time.