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Shirakawa (白河市; -shi) é uma cidade japonesa localizada na província de Fukushima.

Em 2003 a cidade tinha uma população estimada em 48 297 habitantes e uma densidade populacional de 410,44 h/km². Tem uma área total de 117,67 km².

Recebeu o estatuto de cidade a 1 de Abril de 1949.

Cidade-irmã
  Compiègne, França

Referências

Ligações externas
 Site oficial em japonês
Fukushima Kenjinkai do Brasil


This document accounts for the results and impact of Cloud Interoperability Plugfests conducted under the auspices of the CloudWATCH2 project. Based on the results of the plugfests, the report outlines a series of considerations and actions regarding the future of plugfests.
This document constitutes an update of its predecessor document (D3.3) instead of an independent deliverable. Significant changes in comparison to the predecessor document are described appropriately.


Laura grew up in Saskatchewan, and after several years in Alberta and Minnesota she moved to B.C. with her husband, Michael, in 1985. Her career experience spans over 30 years, in telecommunications senior management, and customer service. Now semi-retired, she enjoys part-time employment at a local gift gallery, and pursues her two passions – spending time with family, and creating art.
Laura is honoured to serve the foundation established by her close friends, Lynn and Graham, in their son's memory.


Links and subcategories within the Allergies section are provided below.
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Struggling with strawberries? Petrified of peanuts? Sorry you ate shellfish? Maybe you have a food allergy. Find out more in this article for kids.
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A growing number of kids are allergic to nuts and peanuts. Find out more about this problem and how allergic kids can stay healthy.


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Home / Xian Travel Blog / Baoji-Lanzhou High-speed Rail Started Operation on 09TH July, 2017
Baoji-Lanzhou High-speed Rail Started Operation on 09TH July, 2017
Baoji-Lanzhou high-speed rail had its first run on July 9th! It completes a crucial link between the east & middle area to the northwest west area in national network. That means Silk Road tour travelers could take the fast train throughout the tour. Baoji locates in Shaanxi province about 170km to Xian, being an important conjunction in China's railway network and Lanzhou locates in Gansu province being another important link in northwest China. The connection between the two points beyond doubt is a great progress in Chinese transportation.
The rail with its whole length of 401 kilometers started its construction in 2012. It runs at the average speed of 250 km per hours, which means the journey from Xian to Lanzhou is slashed from previous 6 hrs to 3 hrs. This line let the vast northwest area embraced by the great network of Chinese national network.
It will definitely boost outbound passenger flow from the northwest and even central Asia and also improve transport capacity on the Eurasian rail corridor. Adventurers holding interest to the extensive and mysterious northwest area are provided lots of convenience to explore their dreamy land and leave their foot prints on the famous channel connecting the east and west of the world—the Silk Road!
After 09th July, 2017, journey to the west is totally unimpeded. Monky King Sun Wukong should be excited and happy to hear the news because his tutor Xuanzang monk and brother disciples won't need to spend too much toil and time on the way! Baoji-Lanzhou high-speed allows them a more convenient journey to worship Buddha in west India.
The new high-speed rail brings Monkey King and his fellows to be closer to the holy land in their heart. We China Xian Tour lead you to reach the breathtaking landscape along the ancient Silk Road in the northwest of China deeper and faster. Tickets booking service and diversified Silk Road tours would make you a lifetime memory in China!

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Set off this morning for a 1 hour and 30 minute drive (80 kilometers) to Bago, a former capital filled with Buddhas and temples. There, we will visit the Thamanay Buddhist Academy and the one-thousand-year old Shwemawdaw Pagoda. We continue to Kin Pun, a small town at the foot of a mountain, switch vehicles to a public local truck for a winding and exhilarating ride to the top of the mountain. Arriving at the Golden Rock you'll be awestruck by the gleaming Golden Rock and the views that surround it. Watch as the sun sets overtop of Kyaikhtiyo – a magical sight- and then return to your hotel for the evening.
Overnight stay near the Golden Rock.
In the early morning, you'll have the opportunity to visit the Golden Rock again to soak in its atmosphere– especially when the glinting boulder is bathed in the purple, sometimes misty light of dawn. Afterwards, you will hike down to the base camp and continue your journey to Hpa-An. On the way, you will stop at the beautiful villages of Kyauk Kalat and La Kha Na. Then, you will visit the Saddan cave, the most impressive one in the area. You will need a flashlight to go through the tunnel and be enchanted on the other side by the landscape. If time allows on the way back to the town, we will stop by the riverfront at the Shwe Yin Myaw Pagoda and watch the sunset over the Salween River.
Overnight stay in Hpa An.
This morning starts with a visit to the bustling morning market, a colorful daily market in the town center. Then, it's time to transfer by road to Mawlamyaing. Despite being Myanmar's third-largest city, Mawlamyaing seems incredibly sleepy compared to Yangon or Mandalay.On the way to Mawlamyaing you'll stop in Kawhnat Village, a hidden treasure of the region, to see the home of beautiful temples built by a Burmese tycoon. After checking-in at the hotel, take an orientation tour of the city and then continue to the town's hill top viewpoint for a magnificent sunset over the islands of the Salween River.
Lunch at a local village home, Dinner on your own.
This morning starts with a visit to Zyegyi Central Market where you will experience the lively atmosphere of a bustling local market. Continue to the riverside and take a local ferry to Bilu Island, a fascinating self-contained Mon island comprising 64 villages linked together by rutted dirt tracks full of adventure. You will travel by a local open-air truck (tuk-tuk) to explore the island. In between the villages you will be passing through lush rice fields and farmland where time seems to have stopped and you can stop as often as you wish for photos. After a full day on the island, return to Mawlamaying by ferry and transfer back to your hotel. Optional: you can also book a bike ride across the island.
Lunch at a local village home.
This morning, after breakfast, commence the drive to Yangon. Upon arrival you'll be dropped off at your hotel (the hotel stay is not included this evening).


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News Briefs for June 28, 2019
•Shoreham, Vermont's WhistlePig has announced FarmStock Crop 003, the final rye release in the limited edition series. The 43% abv whiskey is a blend of three 100% rye whiskies: 52% of the blend is WhistlePig's 3-year-old rye (distilled from grain grown on the company's farm and matured in Vermont oak barrels), 31% is 6-year-old Canadian whisky, and 17% is 10-year-old Canadian whisky. Both Canadian whiskies are sourced from Alberta. WhistlePig's FarmStock Rye Crop 003 will be available in limited quantities across the U.S. on July 1 for a suggested price of $73 a 750-ml.
•New Jersey-based Royal Wine Corp. has extended its Jeunesse brand with a new semi-sweet sparkling red wine called Belle Rouge. Retailing at $16 a 750-ml., the new entry will debut first in California, New York, and New Jersey, followed closely by Florida, ahead of a national rollout. Jeunesse's other offerings include Black Muscat, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Duette (a white blend), and Pink Moscato. Royal Wine's Bartenura brand, from Italy, is the 10th-ranked import label in the U.S. by volume among wines priced $10 and above, up 5.5% to 670,000 cases last year, according to Impact Databank.
•Ty Ku sake will launch its cucumber-infused expression in a can beginning next month. At 12% abv, each 8-ounce (250-ml.) can of Ty Ku Cucumber Sake offers the equivalent of one glass of wine plus a small refill. Individual cans retail for $5 or can be bought as a 4-pack for $20. In contrast to wine, however, the company notes that it contains no gluten, sulfites, or tannins. Ty Ku Cucumber is already available nationwide in 720- and 330-ml. bottles. Ty Ku is imported from Nara, Japan by Davos Brands.
•German vodka brand Sash & Fritz is rolling out in select U.S. markets this summer. Launched in Germany in 2015 by sommelier and winemaker Peter Steger, Sash & Fritz ($35) is made from 100% German wheat and spring water from the Ore Mountains. Sash & Fritz is making its U.S. debut in markets including Nevada, Florida, Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and Michigan.
Tagged : Davos, Royal Wine Corp., Ty Ku, WhistlePig
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Through active research, the SimLab "Nuclear and Particle Physics" builds and provides expertise on present and future supercomputing architectures with a particular emphasis on applications in the fields of theoretical Nuclear and Particle Physics. Its research program encompasses both, fundamental physics topics and algorithmic developments. A particular focus of active research is Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics, which allows for ab initio simulations of the strong force of the Standard Model of elementary particle physics.


WWF's Green Heart of Africa (GHoA) global conservation programme for the Congo Basin focuses its resources on the five countries of the Central African region that hold the most important dense humid forest areas and most significant populations of iconic wildlife species: these are Cameroon, Central African Republic (CAR), Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Gabon.
With a very strong presence in 28 field bases and offices across the region, We work in the field through involvement in five national programmes.
The landscape known as the "Dzanga-Sangha Protected Areas" (south-western region of CAR) is the biggest intact forest remaining in the country. WWF operates in this unique natural haven to help protect its impressive biodiversity.
Gorilla gorilla beringei Mountain gorilla Family interaction during midday rest Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Gabon is essential to WWF's Green Heart of Africa (GHoA) initiative. The country extends along the Atlantic Ocean line and is 80% covered by forests. 13 national parks protect a spectacular array of tropical wildlife and some of the most majestic scenery in the world.
Low population density (in particular in northern Congo) and low road density has helped the conservation of rich rainforest wildlife. The thinly inhabited rainforest of northern Congo, spread over 160,000 km², is a priority place for the long term conservation of large mammals in the Congo Basin.
Spread over three countries - Cameroon, the Republic of Congo and Gabon - the Tri National Dja-Odzala-Minkébé (TRIDOM) transborder forest covers 178,000 km², or 10% of the Congo Basin rainforest.


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Q: Reverse proxy in IIS7 We have an app that uses a bunch of ASP.NET SOAP services, hosted on IIS7. Now we're trying to move the services to a different server. Problem is that the client has a hard-coded URL, and does not support redirects. Since both servers are shared, establishing a DNS alias would be unadvisable.
And the one responsible for this amazing design has left the organization since, so we cannot even fire them.
Is there a piece of software out there that does completely server-side redirection? That is, it sits in a virtual folder, takes all requests, passes the headers and the POST data to another URL elsewhere and spits out whatever the said URL returned?

A: You can use URL Rewrite module in conjunction with Application Request Routing to implement Reverse Proxy.
If you do not want to use those free modules by Microsoft, try Helicon Ape -- it implements most of Apache modules on IIS 7 (then you can use Apache-style commands to achieve the same).

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https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/University-of-Nebraska-team-creates-cornfield-14093257.php
University of Nebraska team creates cornfield robot system
Updated 10:22 am EDT, Saturday, July 13, 2019
In this June 20, 2019 photo, a robot, created by a team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is shown measuring physical characteristics of a corn plant at the Greenhouse at Innovation Campus. (Emily Haney/Lincoln Journal Star via AP) less
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Plant science students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are still taught to phenotype by hand, wading into muddy fields to record the differences in physical characteristics between varying corn hybrids with a small set of tools and a pen and notebook.
But like the rest of 21st century life, technology is on track to render humans obsolete.
A team of UNL plant scientists and biological systems engineers have built an automated system capable of detecting an individual corn leaf and grasping it with robotic precision to screen its temperature, chlorophyll and water content in less than a minute, the Lincoln Journal Star reported.
At a time when driverless combines can harvest around the clock, drones can nimbly identify problem spots in a field, and cattle herds are fitted with wearable devices to monitor their individual health, the Plant Phenotyping Robot System marks another leap forward for precision agriculture.
James Schnable, an associate professor of plant science who specializes in computational biology, said before hybrid corn "really took off" after World War II, there was little need to measure how a specific breed of corn physically manifested itself in the field.
"When we started doing hybrid breeding, there became this mechanism where there was a lot of investment in breeding and suddenly you have this whole discipline of how you collect data to make breeding decisions," he said.
UNL has trained aspiring plant scientists in labs and research fields to phenotype various corn hybrids in the search for breeds with higher heat and drought tolerance that produce better yields.
Phenotyping took a leap with the opening of the Greenhouse Innovation Center at Nebraska Innovation Campus, where an automated conveyor belt and camera system can record miniscule changes to individual plants in a controlled environment.
That technology has been taken out of the greenhouse and into the field at various places in the state, including the Eastern Nebraska Research and Extension Center near Mead, where a Spidercam outfitted with special cameras, like those found at colossal stadiums, records the physical characteristics of plants in the field.
"The challenge is we need to score bigger and bigger populations as we do more and more complicated breeding tasks," Schnable said. "And the total population of students interested in spending their summers in cornfields as steam is coming out of the mud is not getting any bigger.
"That's why we need more complicated technology to look at much bigger experiments across more environment," he added.
Schnable, who partnered with a trio of biological systems engineers at UNL to develop the robot, said the goal is to verify the data collected from the expensive camera systems at ground level, and once perfected, do it faster and with more certainty than an army of human scientists can.
Building a robot to automate those processes took years, as the team had to build a system that could identify the leaf from a corn or soybean plant, and then direct a robotic arm where to reach and how to grab it for a battery of measurements, said Abbas Atefi, a Ph.D. candidate in biological systems engineering.
"For our task, we needed to find the 3D coordinates of each grasping point on the leaf," Atefi said. Using a "time-of-flight" camera, rather than a standard color camera, the robot could be given hundreds of options for points to grab on an X, Y and Z axis.
Atefi spent two years writing an algorithm that narrowed the hundreds of candidate sites into a single representative point before converting the coordinates into directions for the robotic arm to bend and twist toward a leaf, finally grabbing it without damaging it.
Once that was accomplished, the team worked on refining the fiber-optic cable and temperature sensor installed on the gripper, which measure the biochemical and physiological processes of the plant through indicators such as chlorophyll and water content.
After hundreds of tweaks to the algorithm, the team ran the robot through a series of tests in the Greenhouse Innovation Center, comparing the results to a series of benchmarks taken by both human researchers and the powerful imaging system already in operation.
The results, which will be published in the academic journal Computers and Electronics in Agriculture in August, show that the robot is able to determine the temperature of a leaf with comparable accuracy to a human, while tests measuring chlorophyll, water content, and nitrogen still need more fine-tuning.
But early results feed into the optimism the team has about the robot's future, both in the greenhouse and in the field.
"Integration is something we think about a lot," said Yufeng Ge, an associate professor of biological systems engineering at UNL.
The robot needs to be able to operate in a wide array of environments — wheeled around on a moveable platform in more conventional greenhouses, or woven seamlessly into the existing conveyor belt system at Innovation Campus — while providing a known degree of accuracy in each, Ge said.
"If you have a graduate student, they are human, they will make errors," he added. "But we can have a system where hundreds of robots are scattered throughout the greenhouse, each carrying a specific sensor to look at one aspect of the plants with great accuracy."
Schnable said automating certain phenotyping processes also frees graduate students to crunch the massive volumes of data looking for patterns that emerge in various hybrids.
"(Graduate students) may not want to stay in grad school if the first two years they are just walking around taking measurements," he said. "Longer-term, there is a vision that this would be able to go out into the field, where I still do have grad students running around."
Santosh Pitla, an associate professor of biological systems engineering, said the robot will soon be tested on a robotic platform — essentially a small, driverless tractor with a 5-foot clearance and a toolbox full of scientific instruments that can navigate a cornfield on its own — that would allow for automated data collection in hundreds of field acres.
If drone imaging or the on-board computers in a combine can sense higher plant temperatures in wider parts of a field, Pitla said robotics is the next leap in precision agriculture, allowing farmers to pinpoint the water, fertilizer or pesticide inputs down to the individual plant.
"Right now, we still talk about things in pounds per acre or gallons per acre," he said. "I think we could get to the point where we're talking about per plant, and every plant has a name and each robot can go and tend to each plant's needs. That's the end goal, treating each plant separately."
Information from: Lincoln Journal Star, http://www.journalstar.com
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Chordiality is a non-auditioned community choir of about 70 members, with a growing reputation for quality. We rehearse in Indooroopilly, and while many choristers are local, our membership is Brisbane wide.
Chordiality aspires to develop, support and encourage a friendly and co-operative environment for members to pursue excellence and enjoyment in choral singing.
We give two main concerts each year, and our programs are inspired by the long history of choral music. Our secular and religious repertoire from the Renaissance to the 21st century includes madrigals, polyphony, oratorio, opera choruses, jazz, contemporary songs and small works. From Bach to Britten, Morley to Mendelssohn, Vivaldi and Verdi to Vaughan-Williams, in English, Latin, French and German, we sing a capella, accompanied by piano, or by our chamber orchestra. We immerse ourselves in the musical styles and techniques of these different periods and surround ourselves and our audiences with beautiful music. At the end of each year Chordiality also hosts a Christmas Party for friends, family and supporters. In 2015 we raised $1200 for the Karuna Hospice through generous donations.
The founding members of Chordiality had previously been members of the Queensland Philharmonic Chorale and missed the opportunities it had provided. After intense planning during 2007, Chordiality was enthusiastically launched onto the Brisbane choral scene in 2008.
Our name reflects what we aim to achieve.
Ross Jelf began conducting at 17 years of age and formally trained at University of Queensland, Australia graduating with a Bachelor of Music and Education. Ross also received a Graduate Certificate in Music Studies with Distinction from University of Queensland.
Before moving to the UK in 2009, Ross was heavily involved in choral music in Queensland, conducting the Buderim Male Choir, Sunshine Coast Choral Society, Sacred Music Ensemble and Strings n Things Chamber Orchestra.
In London, Ross graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with a Master of Arts in Choral Conducting. There, he studied with some of the UK's most prominent choral directors including Patrick Russill, Paul Brough, Jeremy Summerly, David Hill and James O'Donnell. During the Masters course, Ross was given the opportunity to conduct professional choirs such as the London Oratory Choir and the BBC Singers.
Ross continued his efforts in community music in London conducting the Dover House Singers, Sine Nomine Singers, North London Youth Music Centre Choir and many other community groups as guest conductor. Ross also founded and conducted the professional choir, Illumina.
As a singer, Ross sang professionally with the Choral Scholars of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Southwark Cathedral and the all-male Gregorian chant group, Schola Cantorum of Edington Music Festival. This led to many prominent performance experiences including tours throughout Europe and USA, television and radio broadcasts on the BBC, premiere performances including the launch of, 'The Choirbook for the Queen' and major services such as the George and Victoria Cross service singing in front of The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall.
Ross now resides in Brisbane where he is the Musical Director of Chordiality, Cantate Singers, The University of the Sunshine Coast Singers as well being a Lay Clerk at St John's Cathedral.
Simon Carl has been our accompanist since the choir's inception. He completed a Bachelor of Music with Honours in Voice, from the University of Queensland in 2004, and is a regular accompanist for choirs. Simon brings a wealth of choral and vocal experience to his work as accompanist.


Veerni believes that true democracy depends on the full participation of women in their communities, and that education is the most effective instrument to secure this end. By providing secondary education to the most vulnerable of populations, Veerni both delays child marriage and works towards eliminating it by creating viable socio-economic alternatives. We prepare our girls for a life in which they are capable of exercising their basic human rights and making independent life choices.
In India 27% of girls are married before their 18th birthday, the legal age for marriage. 7% are married before the age of 15. Rajasthan is among the top 12 states in India where child marriage is prevalent. Almost 90% of child marriages in Rajasthan take place in rural areas. Child marriage is significantly related to educational and poverty levels, most prevalent amongst poor, low-income and backward caste communities in rural Rajasthan.
This is precisely where efforts like Veerni come in.


I see more and more folks who are trying to file bankruptcy without an attorney. And more often than not, they come to regret that decision.
There's more than one set of rules, and it can get complicated.
The federal bankruptcy code and federal rules are supplemented by the local rules of the court where your case is filed, so directions you find online about how to file bankruptcy may differ from the local rules where you're filing.
It is very, very difficult for someone not trained in the law to understand the interplay of all of these.
The rules change frequently, so non-professional advice you get could be outdated or inapplicable.
To add to the complexity for non-lawyers, the bankruptcy laws are not static. The practice of bankruptcy is constantly evolving because of new case law, new judicial orders, and amendments to statutes and rules. Judges will issue written opinions from time to time that might expand, restrict, or explain the way the statutes and rules are put into practice. Accordingly, advice you get from a friend may not be accurate or relevant to your situation.
It's the job of practicing bankruptcy attorneys to keep up with these changes. Bankruptcy attorneys have a familiarity with the bankruptcy process in their area that can't be found on the Internet or in how-to-file-bankruptcy books.
Lots can go wrong if you file by yourself.
The term to describe an individual who files without attorney representation is "pro se." I've seen a lot of pro se cases, and folks often run into problems that could have been avoided with an attorney.
I observed one bankruptcy case in which a gentleman who lost his job filed bankruptcy without an attorney. When he realized he could lose part of his tax refunds in Chapter 7 bankruptcy, he wish he hadn't filed. But he couldn't undo the fact that he had filed.
Often, a pro se case will get dismissed because not all of the required papers were timely filed with the court or the filing fees were not timely paid. Unfortunately, such dismissals are often followed by another filing and further court filings. A lot of wasted time and effort.
I also observed a woman recently who hadn't been paying her landlord. She, too, filed bankruptcy without an attorney. Then she found out that bankruptcy would not help her continue living in her house without her paying rent.
Her landlord showed up at her initial meeting of creditors. She probably didn't expect that; in fact, she probably did not know what to expect at that meeting at all without having an experienced attorney explain it to her.
Your attorney may be able to protect your car or your house.
Depending on your circumstances, you can lose assets, like your car or your house, in Chapter 7 bankruptcy. And you may not get all of the help you need just by filing a petition in bankruptcy. If you have income to protect or assets you want to keep, an experienced bankruptcy attorney can guide you through the process and help you avoid an unpleasant outcome.
So maybe Honest Abe was right when he said, "He who represents himself has a fool for a client." It's important to find an experienced bankruptcy attorney in your area to determine if bankruptcy is right for you.
Carolyn Camardo is a Chapter 7 panel trustee for the Eastern District of Virginia. She has represented debtors and creditors both in trial and appellate courts. Her reported bankruptcy cases include: Budget Service Company and Allen Brunch v. Better Homes of Virginia, Inc.; Wal-Mart v. Tina Carpenter; Marcus v. Jefferies; and Kubota Tractor Corporation v. Strack. Ms. Camardo received her Bachelor of Arts with distinction from the University of Virginia and her Juris Doctor degree from the Washington & Lee University School of Law. After graduation from law school, Ms. Camardo served as a law clerk to the Hon. Thomas Wilson, bankruptcy judge in the Western District of Virginia, Harrisonburg Division. She has been practicing commercial and bankruptcy law in Hampton Roads for over three decades.
You mentioned that the federal bankruptcy code and federal rules are supplemented by the local rules of the court where your case is filed. Do most attorneys know the specific rules for the area they practice in? My sister has gotten herself into a financial mess ever since her husband died last year. Hiring a bankruptcy attorney might be a good idea.
You said that we might lose some of our assets depending on the situation. If I was thinking of filing bankruptcy I would want to know what I would have to do and what I would lose. Maybe I should speak with a professional so I can prepare and make a plan to avoid bankruptcy.


If your child is going to be absent, please call the school office at 308-995-6558 before 8:00 am to inform us of the absence. If you know ahead of time that your student will be absent, please send a note, call the school office, or send an email to peggy.perry@dusters.org. We will attempt to contact you if your student is absent and you have not contacted us. If we do not have contact with you and are not informed of the reason for absence, the absence will be considered unexcused. It is also important that you inform us of the reason for the absence, especially when due to illness as we are required to report illnesses to the Health Department on Wednesdays.
Pictured is Gavin Klein, HHS senior who will be attending Iowa Western. Gavin will be running cross country and track for the Reivers.


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Q: Convert a list of cupy array to comination of list I have a list of cupy.array as follow,
X_train = [[[cp.array([[0., 0., 0.],
      [0., 0., 0.],
      [0., 0., 0.],
      [0., 0., 0.]]),
   cp.array([0.96376295, 0.4473439 ])]],
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      [0., 0., 0.],
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  cp.array([0.08592631, 0.74990236])]]]

I want to change this list to this:
    [[array([[0., 0., 0.],
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   array([0.96376295, 0.4473439 ])],
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     [0., 0., 0.],
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   array([0.08592631, 0.74990236])]]

With numpy in cpu, I know that it solves with:
 X_train = np.array(X_train)
 X_train = [X_train.tolist() for arr in X_train for X_train in arr]

However, with cupy in GPU, I don't know how to solve that. It seems that it is different. Based on this link: creatiing a cupy array from python list is slow


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One of the greatest players ever believes his stats would be double in today's NFL
There's no denying that the game of football has changed, giving the offense a distinct advantage in recent years.
That fact has certainly helped bolster some players' careers, and left fans and former players alike debating how past stars would perform under today's rules.
As for one of the greatest football players of all-time, he's convinced his record setting stats would be double in today's NFL.
Throughout its history, the NFL has seen many great players come and go, but only a handful stand out as worthy of being in the conversation for greatest of all-time.
One of those players who stands head and shoulders above the rest is Jerry Rice.
On top of three Super Bowls, a Super Bowl MVP, multiple Offensive Player of the Year Awards, 10 All-Pro selections, and 13 Pro Bowls, Rice holds the NFL record for career receptions, receiving touchdowns, and receiving yards, as well as the record for most points scored by a non-kicker in league history.
And most of those records aren't even close, as Rice has over 5,000 more receiving yards, more than 100 more receptions, over 40 more receiving touchdowns, and over 200 more points scored than any other player in NFL history.
Put simply, unlike virtually every other debate over the greatest player at each position, the debate over Jerry Rice being the league's greatest receiver of all-time isn't even close.
It's why Rice is basically the only non-quarterback in the league's history that has a legitimate argument for being crowned the greatest pure football player of all-time.
But despite all of the success Rice had in the 1980's and 1990's, he recently claimed that he would have doubled all of his stats if he were able to play in today's NFL.
According to Rice, some of the rules changes the NFL has made in recent years have greatly benefited the offense – specifically wide receivers – and he believes he would have thrived under those circumstances.
"First of all, the game really favors the wide receiver now, because you can't put your hands on him," Rice said. "Linebackers can't take shots at you coming across the middle anymore. It's kind of hard because it's hypothetical, I probably might be able to, like, double everything."
Whether or not Rice's estimation that he would have been able to double his production in today's game is accurate or not, there's no doubt he's correct that the game is much easier for today's receivers than it was in Rice's heyday.
The physicality that was required of receivers in Rice's prime is all but gone, and they're now basically given free rein to streak up and down the field, as the league-wide increase in points scored in recent years has proven.
So, while the argument over whether or not he could double his production is obviously a totally hypothetical debate that will never be proven one way or another, Rice's primary point — that today's game is easier for receivers than it was in his day — is absolutely correct.
Of course, that's a fact that probably won't sit well with today's diva wide receivers, but they'll just have to get over it.
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Q: Best way to parse hexadecimal string into binary char I have a big hexidemical (in a std::string representation) that I need to parse into an binary representation (probably unsigned char*) to use with OpenSSL's sha256 function, in order to create a hash. In binary representation I do not mean a binary string, however actual binary data. I am struggling a little bit to find a good solution to do this conversion, and hoped that someone could help.
One example of this in C style is provided here in the hex2bin function (link due to copyright notice) http://pastebin.com/bW3fQA2a
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To clarify, yes the hex string will be longer than longs (and long longs).

A: How about this:
void readStr(const std::string& str, unsigned char* output) {
   for (size_t s = 0; s < str.size() ; s+= 2){
        std::string twoChars = str.substr(s,2); // Read two chars
        unsigned char c = (unsigned char)std::stoi( twoChars,0,16); // Transform them to a 1-byte int
        *output = c; // Write byte into buffer and advance
        c++;
   }
}

This allows transforming arbitrary length strings into byte arrays. It works by simply picking two hex digits at a time (one byte), converting it using stoi and writing it into the output buffer.


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I've done a bunch of webinars, but this broke all of my records.
Both the non geek HTTPS site conversion for site owners and the Site Conversion for Designers were the highest webinar registration I've ever had.
We covered why you don't want to use plugins and quick conversion methods and all the trouble you will have with those.
Plus, how to understand, and more importantly, vet all the info you're getting about it.
And everyone was thrilled to get my Ultimate HTTPS Pre Conversion Checklist.
That is going to make the whole process way easier for both the site owner and webmaster doing the conversion.
My email inbox blew up for days after these webinars.
Site owners, you need to get on someone's list to help you with your site conversion asap. I'm already booked solid until March. And I doubt that anyone who can do conversions is going to be any different for the rest of the year.
I want to thank my site audit clients who empathized with the overwhelm of response from the webinar. Y'all are so sweet to say you could wait, if need be.
But, I want to let everyone know that my site audit clients are at the top of the list for site conversion for several reasons.
You already have most all the info in that pre conversion checklist ready to go.
Your sites are all nice and clean because we put them that way and you're educated on how to keep them that way.
Those conversions are going to be easier, faster, and cheaper because you have already invested in your site success. And this is where that investment really pays off.
Prior to the webinars, I was already working with a few clients who had been hands off site owners. Their sites were hacked or they had other serious issues.
Gathering up all of their site info has been a real chore.
And one of those sites has so many issues that it is not even cost effective to save it. We're starting over.
Those are bag of cats projects. Don't let this be you!!!
Get a site audit and get all that stuff cleaned up before you request a conversion.
I told you so!!! Converting sites to HTTPS is the hottest, most in-demand skill for designers and webmasters in 2017.
And my inbox after these webinars proves it.
If you're a webmaster or a designer, you MUST get up to speed on securing sites and converting them to HTTPS.
You don't have to convince site owners why this needs to be done.
They are ready to make the switch.
And if you don't provide that service, they will find someone else who will.
Plus, if you're not building all new sites on a secure foundation and on HTTPS, you're going to be out of business next year.
So, it's either learn how to do this stuff, or find a trusted partner you can outsource it to.
This testimonial from webmaster Pam Saxon of Saxon Creative made my day. She posted it in our private Facebook group for Webmasters.
I'm still in the process of finishing up all the changes to both of my member sites. Those are priority 1 for me this week. I hope to have an email out to all members by the weekend or first of next week with all of the changes, so look for that.
SiteGround is blazing a trail for all other hosts to follow. They will auto issue a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate for all new domains and hosting packages.
This is one step forward in a bigger process to make a 1-click install of SSL for all site owners on their host.
And, they are going to try to give you easy ways to do the actual conversion too.
As folks in my webinars saw, that is so not the way you want to go with it.
This is the equivalent of the 1-click WordPress installation. There's nothing secure about it. Just ask any of my site audit clients about the huge difference in site security, that also radically affected their performance.
WPTavern also mentioned this move by SiteGround and gave their $.02 about it.
Just know that other hosts will be following suit on this.
This also explains what I've been seeing in site audits. There are now two listings in AWStats for every domain – the SSL version and the original.
I'm having a hard time accepting the findings in a recent report of the new Google ranking factors.
The study was conducted by SearchMetrics, which is a very reputable SEO service provider. And here's the link to download the full report, if you want it.
The link I'm highlighting in the title of this section is to Search Engine Land's breakdown of the report, which is a little easier to digest.
What is important is relevance. That means, search is getting more personal.
The other reason I hope you'll see the article on Search Engine Land is because they also mention another report by the nice folks at Stone Temple Consulting, which states backlinks are still very important.
I trust Eric Enge at Stone Temple Consulting because he does his homework, lots of it. And his past predictions about what Google's up to and new trends has been spot on.
So, when Eric says backlinks have always mattered and still will, I have a hard time accepting anyone who says they don't.
So, if these two entities are coming up with different data and different conclusions, it makes me wonder if they were both testing the same types of sites.
You'll want to read both articles yourself and see what you think about the types of sites they tested and their conclusions.
Elvis has left the building y'all.
It's official. Matt Cutts, the public mouthpiece, er lighting rod, of Google has officially resigned his post after a long hiatus from his former spokesperson position.
John Mueller took over and holds weekly live discussions for webmasters.
Matt is now working for the Pentagon's Digital Defense Service, making the web a safer place for all of us.
You know when you visit a site and get a 404 page not found or a 500 internal server errors?
Well, those are HTTP status codes. And they impact your SEO too because Googlebots get them as well when they try to crawl your site pages.
Team Yoast has a nice post on them and what they mean for your SEO.
Now, I do want to speak to the difference in 404s and 410s that he mentions.
In Google Search Console, you can mark deleted posts and pages as 410 to tell Google they really are gone.
But John Mueller once said that Google treats them about the same and it's not worth making the effort to mark 410s. Google will eventually figure it out and drop the page or post from indexing.
But, he also said, and Yoast does too, that a bunch of 404s tell Google, and maybe even your readers, that you have problems on your site. And that will impact your SEO and your traffic.
So it's a good idea to take care of them one way or the other.
If you can, redirect them to similar content.
But definitely don't redirect them all to your home page. That shocks both Googlebots and readers because they don't know why they ended up on a page that is not the content they were looking for. And Google will eventually pop you for that as well.
I'm hoping to bring you interviews with SEO experts about deleting posts and your SEO, but scheduling has been an issue since before the holidays. I'll keep you posted on when we do get those interviews setup, though.
Oh man, the domain provider Tucows is about to buy up eNom for $83 million. And God bless you if you use either of them for as a domain registrar. They are both a pain to deal with.
GoDaddy and Namecheap are best in class for domain registrars.
And it's always a good idea to have a different company for your domain than for your hosting.
If one gets hacked, the other doesn't.
Or if you need to move to another host quickly, having backups that you can restore, and a domain you can get to easily will let you do that.
Having your email at a 3rd party like GSuites is required for that too.
Read Get Your Email Off Your Host for more on why this is a good idea.


What is social collaboration and learning? How can organisations benefit from using these? To find out I've had a chat with James Tyer who is the Global Lead of Social Collaboration Lead at Kellogg Company.
You can listen to the podcast interview on iTunes and SoundCloud (embed below) or read a summary below. Questions by yours truly, answers by James.
You are a Global Lead of Social Collaboration, what does that involve?
Over the course of my career, I got more and more interested in how I could help people learn from each other through connection and networks than writing formal courses for them. Of course there is always a need for the formal but I got far more interested in the social and the informal. So I was employed by Kellogg Company a year ago to make a specific piece of social technology, in this case it's Microsoft's Yammer, successful globally. It requires quite a change in company culture, and I was lucky enough to be hired under a group that is all about the future of IT at Kellogg.
Why do companies need social collaboration and learning?
Well lots of companies have pretty outdated business models. They tend to be structured very hierarchically, focus on command and control. We're going back to Frederick Taylor, and Henry Ford, and management making the decisions and everyone else doing the work who are kind of cogs in the machine that just did one thing. But as the world's got more complex, and especially the amount of information that's available to everyone, companies are starting to realise, "Well, how do we tap in to this more networked way of thinking?" You can be more networked, you can be more agile, you can respond to consumer demands, industry market demands, and employees. And it tends to be that if you focus on specifically the behaviours and culture that make social collaboration, and social is in quotes, collaboration has to be social, that's the term that we use. If you put these things in place, then you tend to have a more engaged work place. It's more of a community feeling. There's more transparency from leadership. There's more accountability as well, and that can lead to greater innovation as ideas are shared more freely and people have more ownership of those ideas and, of course, workers can be more productive because a lot of the politics and organisational process that gets in the way of their work, slowly gets removed.
Well I think that first thing that everyone has to do, is do some kind of cultural assessment. We talk about the technology. The technology firms talk about their technology, but really, and the technology firms might not like this too much, but all of it does the same thing. They do some bits better than others, but you're really dealing with the culture. So understand the culture. How are employee connections made? What is leadership like? What is the command process like? How are decisions made? All of those kind of things, and once you have a good understanding of that, you can also probably have a really good understanding of how the business actually works.
And once you get that far, you can actually start finding used cases, and I find the way that you have to approach this is it's one conversation at a time. It's maybe one person. It might be five people that you just have a conversation about what do they find frustrating. What are they hoping to achieve? What are their business goals? And then see if you can find a way to use some of the technology to help that. Very importantly, you have to find some leadership engagement.
Actually, well, a lot of what makes organisations and the culture of organisations the way they are, are the assumptions we carry about what people are doing, and what they are thinking, and what they're working on. So Working Out Loud is a way of getting out of your head and into a place where other people can see what you're doing.
Another way of calling it is 'narrating you work,' and there's some great people that speak about it. I urge anyone listening to go look up John Stepper, Simon Terry, or Jane Bozarth, who has an awesome book called Show Your Work as well. And what they say is if you share what you're working on, whether it's in a draft, or it's an idea, or if it's, I don't know, a photo, it could be anything, then others in your organisation will see what you're doing and you can accomplish a number of things. First is a lot more ideas. People will share their ideas, they'll give you your feedback, all of those kind of things, so, from there, you can get new products, new services and all that kind of stuff. You can avoid repeating the wheel.
LinkedIn or internal employee profiles?
That's a difficult question. It's a bit of a jump, but if I'm thinking that I'm working out loud, I'm putting some of what I'm doing internally externally into my networks and hopefully bring some value to them, so people can learn from me, just as I do from others. I think something that your LinkedIn profile, which is outward facing and internal facing, because anyone can go and see it. Why would you spend a lot of time completing an internal intranet profile, when you can have a much more active, live LinkedIn profile, or about me, or a blog site, or, doesn't have to be LinkedIn, of course. Why would you spend all this time with this internal only facing thing, when there's something much more open and transparent for everyone to see?
I don't think any one technology is better than the other. It's the behaviours, like habit building, the personal knowledge management that really help. And it depends on where your industry is, it depends on where the people are. For me, I find Twitter is one of the most helpful for my learning networks. Although, you have to remind yourself when you get in to some of them that you're talking to people that probably think very similarly to you as you get in to these networks. You want to have a diverse array of opinions, if you can get them.
So Facebook might be great for something, the internal social networks, Yammer, Jive. I've forgotten all the others. There are so many now. All of them can work for you. But you have to build your own networks too. So it takes time to get in to them and to show that you're valuable to them and also, you have to meet the people where they are.
What do the next 3 years have in store?
Well, the one I see happening directly because I have to use Yammer, is we seem to be going back to big enterprise suites again as Microsoft pushes Office 365 and a lot of the HR systems and other systems are a sales force and so forth, are trying to bring everything back in to the one big thing again, and it's actually a shame because, I think it's David Weinberger that said that we want small things kind of loosely connected with people as those connections. So you can have a number of different networks but it's all about the people and as the technology gets more, the cognitive load that it places on you gets more, so it'll be interesting to see what happens and whether some of the smaller companies, with specific offerings will actually get bigger traction.
Analytics is going to be one. Internal social analytics, I think, are going to get bigger, and in the learning space, of course, learning analytics as well. We haven't talked too much about the formal learning space, but just because of where I sit. And I think just more good examples of what's happening, and especially, I think, through mobile as well. I think that's something that's not looked at hugely, so far, even though most of us probably access all of our social stuff on our phones these days.
Follow James on Twitter @jimbobtyer and connect with him on LinkedIn where he also publishes articles. Read the full version of this interview at Link Humans.


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It's not easy kickstarting your career. Either you start straight from school, or you head to university to hone your skills further before venturing into the big wide world. Like a lot of people, I finished university and lacked the same passion for my subject that I had going into it – in my case, it was law. I studied at the University of the West of England for three years, graduated, and then realised that it wasn't for me. As a result, I wasn't sure where to turn to next.
I started looking around at potential careers, knowing just a few things: I wanted to stay in Bristol, my hometown; I wanted to develop myself both personally and professionally; and I wanted to be a specialist, not a generalist. When I came across RedRock, they ticked all three boxes and I was sold – I had to apply.
With no industry experience, they took me on. I was assured that I wouldn't be thrown in the deep end, and needless to say I wasn't. I became part of Alex Marsh's new resourcing team, and alongside a handful of others we learned everything there is to know about resourcing candidates before moving on to other teams – my next stop was business development, preparing me for further stages of my career.
After sticking to it, and within a year of first entering the industry, I've now been promoted to Junior Consultant. The fact that I was able to go beyond what I needed to learn as a Junior Resourcer has meant that I've not had a standing start. It could have been a daunting challenge, but it hasn't been – for a lot of reasons. Whether that's the training I've had, the support on offer or the general culture around the office. There's someone with you every step of the way while you're learning – they leave you to crack on with the job at hand, but as soon as you need that little nudge in the right direction, they're right there with you.
The office culture is worth a special mention in this regard, and I think a large part of that is because of the interview process. In joining the company, you're asked to play a quick game that assesses your personality and the way you go about solving problems. Because of this, everyone at RedRock gets on together really well – we're certainly not cut from the same cloth and everyone brings something different to the table, but there is a cohesion that makes for a fantastic work environment. That goes from solving day-to-day challenges in the office, right the way to running the Bristol 10k as a team, which was an opportunity I couldn't turn down.
I was born and raised in Bristol, I went to university here and now I've started my career here. I'm often asked why I haven't left yet, but to me it's a no-brainer. It's the city where my friends and family are, and the career opportunities here are endless. Earning a promotion within my first year has proven that RedRock stay true to their word; the only thing stopping you from progressing in your career here is yourself, and I'm not going to let me get in the way.
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To kill or not to kill (Sunday Guardian)
People protest the death sentence given to the convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, in Chennai last month. PTI
oor Rajiv Gandhi. Not only have individuals associated with groups that backed the LTTE been accommodated in senior governmental positions since 2004, but now the Tamil Nadu political class has demanded that his killers be pardoned "so that Tamil sentiments get respected".
Those involved in the battle against terrorism point out repeatedly that any identification of individual terrorists with the greater community gives them a potential support base that is undesirable from the point of view of creating a climate against such acts of violence.
Those within the US, the EU and India who — for example — moan about "Islamic Terror" are in fact playing the game of the extremists, who seek to blur the lines between them and the broader community by donning the cloak of champions for the many. There is therefore a fallacy in seeking clemency for Rajiv's killers on the grounds of their ethnicity. Those in Tamil Nadu who are vociferous in such a demand are doing the Tamil people a disservice in identifying a unique and peaceful culture with a small group with most un-Tamil proclivities.
That hypocrisy is at the root of the entire political spectrum has been once again proved by the different approaches to the approaching execution of Al Qaeda sympathisers such as Afzal Guru, the Khalistan fanatic Devinder Bhullar and the killers of Rajiv Gandhi. That stalwart ally of Sonia Gandhi, Muthuvel Karunanidhi, weeps at the prospect of Tamils being put to the gallows, although he seems to have fewer qualms about a similar fate being met by Wahhabi or Sikh desperados. The BJP would like the Wahhabis to be hanged, and the sooner the better, especially because of their own poor record in suitably ending the lives of convicted terrorists during the six years when Atal Behari Vajpayee was PM. They sympathise with the Akali Dal demand that Bhullar be spared, and are not very vocal about the Rajiv killers. As for the Congress, that venerable force is in what may be termed the Mother Teresa mode. Both Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra have visibly forgiven the killers of Rajiv Gandhi, and are eager to move on without any fresh blood being spilt. Had either of the two ladies shown a similar enthusiasm in opposing death penalty in general, they may have garnered more goodwill from their admirably merciful attitude. However, their compassion seems thus far to have been restricted to the killers of India's youngest PM.
India is in the happy position of being totally Gandhian at last. We have a pacifist as UPA supremo, another as PM and a third as Defence Minister. Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and A.K. Antony wear their obsession with the avoidance of conflict on their sleeves, and prove it by their responses to the security challenges being faced by the nation. Very different from the full-blooded response of Indira Gandhi in 1970-71 or Rajiv Gandhi in 1986-87, and matching the serial appeasement favoured by Jawarharlal Nehru. Given such a trio at the apex of the national security pyramid, it is no surprise that India's diplomatic footprint has dwindled to insignificance across its neighbourhood. Recently, Sri Lanka revoked the visa-free entry it had given holders of Indian passports, while joining Pakistan in giving PRC nationals that privilege. Throughout South Asia, India has receded in public importance and consciousness, being replaced briefly by the US, but since the 2008 financial turmoil, by China. Those not particularly respectful of Indian concerns (as seen in the policy kitchens of North and South Block) know that Sonia, Manmohan and Antony can be relied upon to avoid tough options. Indeed, that the defining characteristic of policy by the UPA has been to look the other way in the hope, perhaps, that the problem will go away.
regime less prone to sporadic fits of the type of mercy demonstrated by the Sonia-Vajpayee decision to commute Rajiv assassin Nalini's death sentence or the heart warming visit of the vivacious Priyanka Vadra to connect with those who killed her father may have executed the whole batch of terrorists by now, whether LTTE, Wahhabi or Khalistani. That would of course be completely out of character for the regime, which is even more "soft" than the squidgy consistency of the Vajpayee approach to national security (that saw ceasefires being offered to Kashmir terrorists just when the military was at their throats, and which ferried terrorists to freedom with a Cabinet-level escort). Let it be admitted that this columnist opposes capital punishment. It is a brutal and barbaric punishment, that satisfies nothing other than the most degenerate and atavistic cravings of the human race. Hence, were he in the position of the merciful Sonia, the compassionate Singh and the even saintlier Antony, he would take steps to abolish capital punishment altogether. However, short of this, to prolong the wait of those convicted is to be guilty of inflicting on them an inhuman punishment.
Either the government should execute them all — and swiftly — or do away with capital punishment across the board, including in the case of those who do not have champions within the political spectrum.
What is steadily degrading the national security environment of India is less bad policy — although there are numerous examples of these, especially in the Kafkaesque Home Ministry — than an absence of the will to implement any policy. Decisions are ricocheting across the governmental interface, getting attenuated, sometimes accentuated, and often vetoed by players who ought to have had only a marginal effect on policy. For six years, this government has reached for the lowest common denominator. These days, it is getting paralysed into either incoherence or spasms of unwise action in its search for options even less favourable than that. It would seem that a sentence of capital punishment has been carried out, not on terrorists but on the functioning of the UPA.
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UnReal Roundtables 2x05 and 2x06: Things Are Getting Dark [Contributors: Maddie, Meredith, Chelsea]
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UnReal has continued to be quite the ride for audiences this season. The last two episodes delivered some jaw-dropping moments, interesting character development, and some great teases for what is to come in the rest of the season. Maddie, Meredith, and Chelsea discussed their thoughts on "Infiltration" and "Casualty."
Is there hope for a Quinn and Rachel reconciliation?
Maddie: There is no way around it, in my opinion — these two are linked. They are Everlasting, and as long as the show is on the air they are a huge part of each other's lives. There were some nice signs of how these two actually do care about each other as people in the past two episodes. They are family — a very dysfunctional family, but a family nonetheless. Personally, I can see a professional reconciliation before a personal one. They both respect each other's talent and competence and that they need the other in order to make the best show possible. However, they still have a long road ahead to any kind of friendship since there still are problems between them from season one that need to be addressed.
Mer: There's always hope. Things change so quickly and drastically and dramatically on this show. But I think Quinn needs to own, apologize for, and relinquish her manipulative hold on Rachel. She wants Rachel to herself, because of how lonely she is. So she wants Rachel to be lonely with her too.
Chelsea: The last few episodes have proven that Rachel and Quinn are forever entangled with each other. They're at their best when they're working together. Even when they're fighting, Quinn will have Rachel's back, as proven with the Jeremy situation because Quinn only really cares about Rachel.
Can Quinn be happy? Or will she sabotage this blossoming connection with Mr. Fantastic?
Maddie: I'm on the fence about this. However, it is a credit to Constance Zimmer's performance that I can see Quinn going in either direction. It helps that Ioan Gruffudd is charming as all get out, and was able to have easy banter with Quinn. However, I could also see her never quite letting her guard down enough to let him in. The only other person she ever did that for was Chet, and while he is on some semblance of a redemption arc, Quinn still wasted her best years on him.
Mer: I'm not sure. I think Quinn views romantic entanglements, ultimately, as weakness. And Quinn hates weakness.
Chelsea: Quinn can be happy, and I think Mr. Fantastic is a great step for her. The relationship is still quite new, but it's refreshing to see her away from Chet's toxic aura. Plus, she just misses Rachel and having her work-wife by her side. There's always hope.
Darius is getting the short end of the stick and is starting to appear tired of it, too. Do you think he is going to stop playing the game and go rogue?
Maddie: Darius basically has whiplash from all the drama and all the directions he's been pulled in. This is putting him in a vulnerable spot. He could keep fully cooperating with Rachel, but he is susceptible to manipulation right now that could make him do something rash.
Mer: No. In the end I don't. In the end, I think he really believes this can rehab his image and get him some sort of next deal to secure his future. And he believes Rachel knows what she's doing.
Chelsea: He's been going rogue a lot throughout the show, and I can't blame him because there are so many cooks in the kitchen trying to create their vision of Everlasting. He's tired of it, but he also knows what he signed up for. I think he'll play the game still but he has a chance with Chantal or Tiffany.
How much did Ruby and Darius' arc break your heart?
Maddie: One of the things I enjoy about this show is the writers know there needs to be at least one relationship between characters that is sincere amidst all of the cynicism and darkness. That way the audience has enough hope to get emotionally invested in the relationship. Last year had prime opportunities for shipping and also just had the precious cinnamon roll that was Faith. This year, Ruby was the character that immediately made audiences root for her. She seemed to be good person, and her dynamic with Darius was wonderful. Each of their interactions just had that spark. The overnight date really could have been the start of something real and wonderful, and that is why it hurt all the more when it crashed and burned. We need the beautiful moments to make the destruction have substance.
Mer: I'm hoping we see more of Ruby. I have a sneaking sense they'll bring her back. It did break my heart because they both had real feelings, but also because Ruby gave up so much to come do the show. I want it to be worth something, you know? To not have been in vain.
Chelsea: It was sweet while it lasted, but Darius was right that he would be disappointing her. Ruby is so strong in her personality and convictions and does need somebody that won't fold. Darius always needs his hand held and needs to start becoming his own person and make his own decisions before he can ever ready for Ruby.
How do you feel about Coleman and Rachel as a couple? Do you feel he gets Rachel?
Maddie: I love Michael Rady, and he has been doing a really good idea with this character. However, I feel like Coleman still doesn't get both Rachel and the world that he has entered. I also am not the biggest fan of the power imbalance between the two. The way in which he told Rachel in the imperative that they were leaving the show after this season did not sit right with me. Coleman and Rachel's scenes to me kind of feel like eating a "chocolate sandwich cookie" from Walmart, when you think you are eating an Oreo. The experience is almost what you are expecting and wanting it to be, but it's just a little bit off.
Mer: LOVE IT. LOVE. IT. I like their chemistry and I think this nice, smart, normal guy is what Rachel needs. He doesn't get Rachel because Rachel isn't letting him. If she can let her walls down just a little bit, he'd totally get her and I think he'd embrace all sides of her.
Chelsea: I like Michael Rady in most things, but he is too vanilla for Rachel and really doesn't understand her very much. For her, he's the ideal guy that isn't drama-filled and will make important things with her. I'm glad she has him now but I don't see them working out because Rachel thrives on the drama and her work with Quinn. Also, can we just address that Coleman just has bad hair? What kind of look are they going for with it? Because it's definitely not working.
Are you waiting for the other shoe to drop with Coleman (whether his destruction or a reveal of an ulterior motive)?
Maddie: This is UnReal, so we already know things are not going to stay hunky-dory. I'm leaning less toward Coleman having an ulterior motive because we now officially have our villain in Jeremy. At the end of the day, I feel like Coleman is too nice and unwilling to get his hands dirty to survive in this world. Coleman reminds me of Piz from Veronica Mars — nice enough character, wonderful actor, but the character just has no idea what they have gotten themselves into. Either Rachel, Quinn, or both women are going to destroy him.
Mer: Not really, actually. I think Rachel may end up sabotaging it, either on purpose or not, maybe with Adam now that that ball is rolling. I actually think Coleman is pretty much exactly what he appears. I could be wrong, but that's my feeling.
Chelsea: I'm anticipating that other shoe dropping soon. Nobody makes it as far as he has in the industry without stepping on some toes. I'm curious to see what his story is and his inevitable destruction.
How do you feel about Jeremy's evolution into a villain?
Maddie: CALLED IT! From day one, I had a strong feeling Jeremy would end up being an antagonist. However, it wasn't until the finale last year that I got villainous vibes from him. As soon as he started talking with Rachel's mom, I knew the "Nice Guy" was going to don his metaphorical fedora and assume his place as the show's villain. Also, Quinn's takedown of him was immensely satisfying.
Mer: It works. It made him interesting, and it proved that as messy and sometimes questionable as our other characters are, they aren't really villains, right?
Chelsea: Called it from day one. Jeremy is the absolute worst and I hope that's the last we see of him. Glad Quinn got one last dig at him.
Are we supposed to start feeling sympathetic to Chet now?
Maddie: The answer, oddly enough, is yes. The past few episodes have shown that even though he is still deeply flawed, he is now self-aware and refuses to blame his issues on others. He is trying to change, and it is really interesting to watch. I feel like since the character up to this point has been so easy to hate, it is also easy to overlook Craig Bierko's performance of the role. He is doing a dynamic and compelling job of showing Chet's evolution. I want his arc to be slow, but I am genuinely intrigued with where the show is going to take this character.
Mer: Chet needed something to make him relevant to the storyline again, other than chasing after or fighting with Quinn. My romantic heart wanted Coleman to save the day for Rachel, but in the end I'm really glad it played out the way it did. And I enjoy not totally hating Chet.
Chelsea: I hate that I'm enjoying this Chet redemption arc, but at least it's keeping the character viable and interesting. At least we know he has limits in what terrible things he will do. Saving Rachel and trying to make Jeremy own up to his faults before that shows there's more to Chet than we know. Maybe he is making a change.
Let's talk about the confrontation between Rachel and Jeremy, and its fallout. Can we give Shiri Appleby all the award nominations? Especially since she directed this episode, too.
Maddie: This scene was so hard to watch, and yet I couldn't look away. It was absolutely terrifying. I did not know how far they were going to take it. You could feel every ounce of Rachel's fear and helplessness in that scene. I was so relieved when Chet intervened. Shiri Appleby is an acting powerhouse. Her performance in the following episode was raw and electric, and her direction of the episode heightened it. That scene where she takes the photos of the bruises is enrapturing. Her acting and direction kept Rachel's manic energy as the emotional core of the episode and it was incredible to watch.
Mer: It was fantastic, very real, very scary, and hard to watch. It was everything that makes this show so wonderful. I was actually taken out of the scene for a brief moment because there's one shot where you can tell Shiri is pregnant. And even though I know it's pretend, I'm pregnant and the sight of this big guy hitting her and shoving her made me physically ill. But yes, it was extremely well done, really, on the part of both actors.
Chelsea: My heart stopped. Thank God it wasn't worse and that Chet stopped it all. Shiri just killed it, and then again in the following episode where Rachel's clearly not dealing with it. I'm worried about Rachel, and she needs somebody in her corner. I'm glad Quinn kept fighting to make sure she was okay, even when Rachel was turning her away.
The tension between the directions Rachel is being pulled in are about to snap. Do you think Rachel is going to try to find redemption with Coleman or go further into the abyss with Quinn? Or is there a third option?
Maddie: I think Rachel has been kind of stuck between these two all season. I think the show is going to surprise us with a third option which I cannot surmise yet. However, I think the show and her career is going to come first.
Mer: I don't know. My shipper heart wants to root for Rachel and Coleman. I like it, and I like them.
Chelsea: Ultimately, she's going to be with Quinn running the show in some way. Coleman is nice now but he's too vanilla for the complex and dark women. I think Rachel is going to try very hard to be with Coleman, but the show will win in the end.
Does the show seem less fun this season? It's still amazing, but this season seems to be in a darker place.
Maddie: It is darker this season, but I do love it. Last year, in my opinion, it felt like there were moments where the game stopped or it was only one-sided. You had Rachel manipulating the girls, but we — as an audience — were in on it. This year everyone is out to play against each other and everyone has an agenda, and the audience is less informed of character's motivations. It makes the viewing experience more intense but still a great ride.
Mer: Hm. I see what you're saying, sort of. But there was plenty of dark last season, too, and there are fun moments this season as well. I find the tone similar, and I'm pleased to say that I find the show just as compelling in its sophomore season.
Chelsea: I like the dark direction it's taking this season and that it has a steady voice. Season one veered between the dark and light tones, but I'm glad they have a clear direction of what they want this year.
Lastly, ADAM IS BACK Y'ALL! This is going to bring some amazing explosive drama. What are you expecting/wanting to go down next week?
Maddie: I am so glad Freddie Stroma has returned from Westeros and is back. Adam is a really interesting character and, all shipping aside, his scenes with Rachel are just fun to watch. I am really looking forward to how his dynamic with Coleman and possibly Darius will be like. Also, I am curious if Quinn updated him on the Jeremy situation. Moreover, the promo for "Ambush" is anything to judge by, we are going to get some hot moments this episode and I am here for it. My Goldwell shipping heart sings. I still have no idea what is going to go down, but I know this show is going to knock it out of the park.
Mer: Oh there's gonna be some triangle drama. Normally I dread it, but this show does everything so well that I'm excited for it! I like Adam and I liked his dynamic with Rachel, too. So I can't wait to see what happens.
Chelsea: I don't know what I want, but I'm excited to sit back and watch the fireworks.
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So what DID I do for Thanksgiving nonetheless you may be asking by now. My mate Morayma, and cardinal of her friends, who are all studying tourism, loved to see the tourer sights, run into the ancestors and learn active the civilisation here in Cotahuasi and surrounding villages. We visited frequent of the sights that Cotahuasi Canyon is famous for, plus the Rock Forest "Huito", past vestiges of Callac and Maucallacta, the waterfalls of Sipia and Uskuni, caloric baths at Luicho, as healed as the villages of Puica, Pampamarca, Alca, and Charcana. We besides talked next to the mayors in each of these villages and the girls asked them many questions roughly the people, customs, holidaymaker attractions and snags. Each city manager said the big difficulties are alcoholism, domesticated intimidation and management subsidies.
The most primitive two problems I see or comprehend active nearly all day and were cipher new, but I was dumbfounded to perceive them reference the subsidies. Why are they a problem? The offspring get unrestricted meal and dejeuner in the schools, as economically as for nothing welfare attention. The mothers get liberated eudaimonia safekeeping and feed for their babies. There are as well multiple non-government organizations that donate assorted employment and unite whatsoever wishes. We as missionaries are besieged with requests to assist draw together pecuniary and material needs somewhere we go, which we sometimes donate. As a upshot of all these obedient intentions and acts, tons of the family have began to anticipate these "helps" as their "rights" and have become slow. They don't condition to manual labour to charge for their house so they work a short time ago ample to get by or to buy as much inebriant as they privation. If the spouse isn't dwelling soaked and abusing his family, the partner is fitting as promising to be doing it. Almost no one produces more than 'just enough' for their own desires.
Transportation of products to souk is delicate but is decent easier both day near new roadstead existence built. There needs to be a amendment in the black maria and minds of the grouping to transport roughly speaking a metamorphose in their lives. We were able to look in near Isedoro and his ancestral in Suni, wherever we normative a melt greeting as habitual. The girls were musical performance with the kids and valid in the room beside his better half Monica, bombardment dry habas (like a national capital edible bean) by close on them on the rudeness floor, and afterwards roasting them and maiz (corn) complete a grove forest fire. I had in short mutual with them how Isedoro had onetime been an spirituous and used to whip his spouse. After accepting Christ he has changed absolutely. He is now primary the place of worship in Suni, perusal the Bible and control training, and portion with the ministry in Chulca, Cushpa and otherwise villages above Suni. He and his familial are a stunning evidence to the influence of God to conversion lives.
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About 20 written account from Charcana I got really bitter so put on my jacket, which helped as interminable as we were walking. When we arrived in Charcana (after a two hour walk!), we restrained into our rooms at the hotel and I started to shudder from the nippy. The pause aforementioned they weren't frigorific so I complete that it was only me. I put on two more jackets, got in bed in my sound asleep bag, sheathed up with blankets, and drank two cups of hot tea since I eventually stopped shaky. I felt OK consequently but stayed in bed patch the women geared up Thanksgiving dinner, yellow-bellied alimentary paste bisque with tuna, which we ate on next to a brace of pieces of dry baked goods. Probably a nifty item that nearby wasn't any pecan pie as I played out the period of time vertebrae and off to the bath next to diarrhea. Needless to say, I had to skip the cardinal time unit slog up to see the cave paintings and granite of import preceding Charcana on Friday.
Morayma graciously insisted on staying with me to label confident I was OK so she didn't get to go either. The others hired a usher and horses to yield them up the heavy pike trajectory. Unfortunately, when they left-hand at 5:00 am, they forgot to get the photographic equipment from Morayma so they didn't get any pictures. Poor Roseangela, riding a equid this time, she took a header when the foal made a high-speed avoid. I had as well hoped to look in near Maritza, whom I had transported pay for to Cotahuasi beside Dr. Ana, well-nigh two time of life before, to get cure for a ruined leg. She was a unfortunate person of mishandle by her husband, when they were both drunk, he short of her and she barbarous into a hole, reception complex fractures. She was compatible out in the paddock this occurrence so fatefully I didn't get to stop by beside her. It wasn't a middle-of-the-road Thanksgiving for me but I'm grateful for the honourable clip we had and that by Saturday I was fancy penalty and able to slog spinal column to the car.


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Knowing where to invest money in growing your business can be daunting for some, especially those starting out. Here is a famous company that started out with a trade show way back in 1967 and this trade show launch was all they needed to get the products selling and massive growth to start the business.
They are still going today and it is well noted that trade shows have worked extremely well for this business Teradyne. Still trading in 2014 at www.teradyne.com/. Now the exhibition layout is not quite what we would have done, however it was 1967 so we will let them off. Note the lovely vinyl chairs!!
Here are our top reasons why.
Consider people attending exhibitions. These are people who often are paying to attend and are searching for a new brand and trends to become part of their lifestyle.
Exhibiting is mostly about brand awareness and it provides the potential for customers to get to know you.
Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest are fantastic tools to connect with your audience and showcase your product instantly. But it can't beat face-to-face time with your customers.
Ask people their opinion of your brand. It's a chance to conduct market research with a diverse range of the population, and get immediate feedback.
Also, positive comments on your products will leave you feeling fuelled and energised.
Trade shows are an excellent opportunity to study other brands' activity and examine recent trends and opportunities of the industry.
But don't see them as rivals. Get to know the competition and ask for advice if you're starting out.
Remember: If you're not exhibiting, it's guaranteed your competitor is filling your booth.
Whether it's a young brand entering the market with similar products, or an established company, they are happy to be exposed to that face-to-face marketing without you.
Thinking about how to display your stand and the marketing of your literature that you will provide to visitors will help you strengthen the identity of your brand in your own mind.
Seeing how your stand fits with other exhibitors will also help you find your feet and look at ways to improve your brand's presence, if need be.
It's a worthwhile exercise, looking at the comparisons between you and your competition.
Your job doesn't end after the exhibition gates close.
Following up with all the leads that you've generated will ensure any exhibition fees will be paid for and more.
Make sure you don't give up until you've spoken with every lead and have discussed the opportunity to do business – it might take up to a year before some leads will need your services, but by being in contact you'll be kept front of mind when they do.


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