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Constantinovca este satul de reședință al comunei cu același nume  din raionul Edineț, Republica Moldova. Satul are o suprafață de circa 1.21 kilometri pătrați, cu un perimetru de 5.59 km. Comuna Constantinovca are o suprafață totală de 22.70 kilometri pătrați, fiind cuprinsă într-un perimetru de 24.17 km. Din componența comunei fac parte 2 localități: Constantinovca și Iachimeni. Satul Constantinovca este amplasat în regiunea de șes și mici coline, pe  râul Draghiștea, situat la 27 km de orașul Edineț, la 35 km de stația de cale ferată Brătușeni și la 229 km de Chișinău. Satul este legat prin șosea cu reședința comunei Trinca.

Satul este așezat în partea de nord a raionului Edineț, la hotarele cu raionul Briceni, și se învecinează cu următoarele localități:
 la nord cu satul Tabani, raionul Briceni - 7 km;
 la nord-vest cu satul Caracușenii Vechi, raionul Briceni - 3 km;
 la nord-est cu satul Trestieni, raionul Briceni - 3 km;
 la vest cu satul Balasinești, raionul Briceni - 12 km;
 la est cu satul Halahora de Sus, raionul Briceni - 5 km;
 la sud-vest cu satul Corjeuți, raionul Briceni - 6 km;
 la sud-est cu satul Tîrnova, raionul Edineț - 7 km;
 la sud cu satul Trinca, raionul Edineț - 5 km.

Populația

La recensămîntul din anul 2004, populația satului constituia 594 de oameni, dintre care 47.81% - bărbați și 52.19% - femei. Structura etnică a populației în cadrul satului este următoarea: 17.34% - moldoveni, 79.46% - ucraineni, 2.36% - ruși, 0.34% - găgăuzi.
Conform datelor recensămîntului din anul 2004, populația la nivelul comunei Constantinovca constituie 623 de oameni, dintre care 48.15% sunt bărbați, iar 51.85% - femei. Compoziția etnică a populației comunei: 17.82% - moldoveni, 79.13% - ucraineni, 2.25% - ruși, 0.32% - găgăuzi, 0.48% - alte etnii. În comuna Constantinovca au fost înregistrate 236 de gospodării casnice în anul 2004, iar mărimea medie a unei gospodării era de 2.6 persoane.

Istoria localității

Nu se cunoaște data exactă a înființării satului, însă prima atestare documentară apare în
revista "Bessarabskie oblastnîe vedomosti", nr. 7 din 1869, care îl atestează cu data de 2 dec. 1868. Dintr-o culegere de statistică a jud. Hotin aflăm că în 1868 Constantinovca avea de acum 41 de familii cu pământ și 10 fără pământ. Într-un document de la Arhiva Națională din 10 iunie 1868 citim: "În Constantinovca trăiesc 45 de proprietari" (F. 8, inv. 1, dos. 46).

Denumirea satului e legată de numele moșierului Constantin Stamati-Ciurea, care stăpânea aici pământuri întinse și care practica înăimirea țăranilor din satele vecine pentru lucrarea lor. Deoarece proprietarul îi plătea bine cu cereale și cu bani, și deoarece tot el le-a propus să se instaleze cu traiul aici, pe malul Draghiștei, ca să fie aproape, repartizându-le pământ, țăranii s-au înnoit. Plugarii mulțumiți de generozitatea moșierului savant și scriitor și-au numit siliștea cu numele lui - Constantinovca. În unele documente istorice denumirea localității figurează și ca Constantinești.

Alexandru Egunov, președintele Comitetului de statistică din Basarabia, în lucrarea sa "Gubernia Basarabia în anii 1870 - 1875. Enumerarea localităților", editată la Chișinău în 1879, constata: în 1875 Constantinovca din volostea Edineț avea 65 de case cu 187 de bărbați și 167 de femei, 75 de cai, 100 de vite mari cornute, 201 oi.

Către 1910 Constantinovca număra 126 de case cu 734 de locuitori. În 1911 și-a deschis ușile școala primară. Mulți ani ea se situa în case particulare. În 1951, a fost reorganizată în școală de 7 ani. În continuare ea a mai fost reorganizată o dată în școală medie incompletă, apoi în gimnaziu.

După schimbarea hotarelor din 1918 autoritățile române i-au înzestrat pe 140 de țărani din Constantinovca cu 247 ha de pământ. Peste un an în anul 1919 satul dispunea de 229 de gospodării, 992 de locuitori, 2 mori de vânt și o moară de apă.

În perioada interbelică localitatea a făcut parte din zona administrativ-teritorială a județului Hotin, plasa Briceni (România).
La recensământul populației din 1930 au fost înregistrate 1.061 persoane, din care 19 români, 660 ruși, 373 ucraineni și 7 evrei.

În 1933 a fost ridicată biserica de lemn, adusă din satul ucrainean Selișce din zona Chelmenețului, unde a fost construită o biserică din piatră, iar cea veche, locuitorii satului au hotărât s-o doneze consângenilor lor, care se mutaseră în Constantinovca.

La 10 noiem. 1940 s-au înregistrat în Constantinovca 927 de locuitori, dintre care 924 erau ucraineni și 3 - moldoveni. Trecută prin focul războiului, prin pericolul foametei și deportărilor, localitatea număra la 1 aug. 1949 doar 866 de oameni - 169 de moldoveni și 697 de ucraineni.

În 1979 Constantinovca număra 373 de bărbați și 416 femei, în 1989, respectiv, 289 și 367. Conform Dicționarului statistic al RM, în 1994 satul avea o suprafață de 10,3 kmp, 292 de gospodării, în care locuiau 695 de oameni. Fondul locativ alcătuia 12,9 mii mp. 238 de case foloseau gazul lichefiat. Fântâni - 120. Drumuri - 18 km, incl. 12 km cu îmbrăcăminte dură. În sat mai funcționau o casă de prestări servicii, un stadion. La 1 aug. 2000 în cele 311 gospodării de aici trăiau 606 oameni. Populația beneficia de un gimnaziu, biserică, punct medical, cămin cultural, o bibliotecă publică sătească și un magazin de stat.

Resurse naturale

Comuna este amplasată pe o suprafață de 769,36 ha, inclusiv:
  terenuri cu destinație agricolă – 594,14 ha;
  terenuri ale fondului silvic – 4,91 ha;
  livezi – 4,91 ha.

Economia locală

Pe teritoriul comunei sunt înregistrați următorii agenți economici:
 Gospodării țărănești – 330;
 Întreprindere comercială ConsumCOOP.
Pe teritoriul comunei activează organizația obștească Asociația utilizatorilor de gaze "Const-Gaz".

Sfera socială

Pe teritoriul comunei activează:
 Gimnaziul;
 Grădinița de copii;
 Oficiul "Poșta Moldovei";
 Centrul medicilor de familie.

Bibliografie
Victor Dragoș, Toader Fănică: "Localitățile Republicii Moldova"

Note

Localități din raionul Edineț
Colonii evreiești din Basarabia


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Main, largest, wreck
Mr B D Hughes has researched this wreck and trying to date it. He has taken samples with permission given by Alison Mills the Museums Officer as the wreck is in the North Devon Area of Special Scientific Interest, together with members of the School of Geography and Environmental University of Oxford and others.
Mr Hughes says that the size and shape of the wreck has intrigued him since first seeing it in the mid 1960's, its periodic appearances had been commented on in books and local newspapers since 1850's when it was described as a 'very old wreck'.
In the 1940's and 50's it was described as a 'Viking ship' and a 'Spanish Galleon'. During the summer of 1973 it was photographed and noted by the Army Experimental Establishment based at Instow, who were doing beach trials at Westward Ho!, but no clear indications of its origins could be found from the remains then exposed.
It became clearly visible again in 1997, Mr Hughes made a rough diagram of its structure which was then 82ft (25m) long and 23ft (7m) at its widest part. The present wreck measured in Feb 2005 is only 77ft (23.5m) long as the stern post has fallen forwards and sideways.
The outer planking is of Oak and ceiling or inner planking is 50mm thick and also oak.It has been suggested it could be to be one of the following ships:
First candidate the Salisbury of London lost on the night of 2-3 March 1759 on Northam Burrows
The Sally of Bristol wrecked on Northam Sands on 17 September 1769
No other wrecks of sufficient size are recorded until mid 19th century and that one, the Pace, wrecked 28th December 1868 was later salvaged.
The remains could be the Sally but until further research is undertaken it still remains a mystery. The dating of the wreck is not only of interest to maritime historians, it is also of importance for the study of coastal erosion and the movement of the pebbleridge. It is suggested that due to the position of the wreck to the ridge it suggests that the ridge has moved faster than previously assumed. The ridge has moved about 350m in 235 years.
Information from B D Hughes. More information on local wrecks can be obtained from the Devon Historic Environmental records on Dendrochronology from English Heritage and Coast Erosion at Westward Ho! from Peter Keene Classic Landforms of North Devon Coast 1986 (Thematic Trails)
Second Wreck
This is a smaller vessel, approx 50ft long.
It is believed to date from the late 18th or early 19th centrury
It has been considered that it could be a Polacca Brig (the hull the right size) typical of the type trading in Bristol Channel, North Devon and Taw Estuary, used for moving limestone and coal.
Mr Hughes says more research on the list of shipping for 1790-1830 needed.
Third Wreck?
On 26th July 2015 the above wreck, or part of a wreck, was discovered by Jon Webb. No-one seemed to be previously aware of its presence on the beach, and it has since been re-covered by sand.
The co-ordinates were recorded as 51.060747,-4.230531
Close to the 'third wreck' are what could be an additional section to it. The lay of the timbers show that this is not one large wreck, joined. It could be the same ship, but broken….
…. or a fourth wreck?

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Josef Albers and Nan Goldin, an Unlikely Duo
Josef Albers (left) and Nan Goldin (right)
What do Josef Albers and Nan Goldin have in common? Not much, it would seem. Albers, who was one of the principal forces behind the famed German art school the Bauhaus, was a courtly man known for his formal art and excellent teaching. Conversely, Goldin shot to fame as a wild child of the 1980s, a free (if troubled) spirit who channeled her and her friends' messy experiences with sex, drugs and bohemia into her art.
Yet on a recent visit to the Museum of Modern Art, I found some intriguing similarities between bodies of work on show by these two artists. Though not exactly spiritual siblings, the two had some similar concerns and thought processes, particularly concerning the narrative potential of photography.
An early poster for The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, long owned by the MoMA, is currently occupying a prime space on the museum's first floor. The walls of the first two galleries put the work in context, displaying stills from the series and charmingly amateurish posters advertising early showings. But it's really in the third room, a darkened theater showing the now-iconic slide show, that the work comes alive.
"The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is the diary I let people read," Goldin has written—and like a diary, the work is immediate, raw, confessional. It documents a world of excess and sensuality among East Village denizens of the 1980s, but along with the hedonism there's a whiff of frenzy. As the New Yorker art critic Hilton Als wrote in this excellent profile of Goldin, Ballad "is poised at the threshold of doom; it's a last dance before AIDS swallowed that world."
Twisting at My Birthday Party, New York City, 1980, by Nan Goldin, from The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Accompanied by music from various eras—everything from the Velvet Underground to opera arias—Ballad scrolls by as a fever dream of highs and lows. The photographs themselves are as messy as their subjects, eschewing technical prowess in favor of spontaneity and access, as Goldin shows her friends shooting up, having sex, crying and being abused. But for every shocker of an image there's a quieter one: what struck me on this viewing were the sections on masculinity and childhood, both of which are nuanced and reflective.
C.Z. and Max on the Beach, Truro, Massachusetts, 1976, by Nan Goldin, from The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Ultimately, the power of the work comes from the cumulative effect of viewing it as the images build into a narrative, telling the story of a group of people at a particular juncture of time. There's pleasure in recognizing characters who reappear, alone or in company, now jubilant and now in despair, and the layering and sequencing of images is complex. It's a clever way of using photography's capacity to freeze time while also subverting it, making viewers reassess their assumptions as they constantly build and rebuild a world from available fragments.
A similar force is at work on the museum's fifth floor, in the small but satisfying exhibition One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers. Though it is as modest and quiet as Goldin's work is in-your-face and operatic, Albers' photocollages showcase a similar preoccupation with intimacy and narrative sequencing.
Walter Gropius and Schifra Canavesi, Ascona, August 1930, by Josef Albers
Like Goldin, Albers took candid photographs of his friends, most of whom were artists. They are pictured at happy times—sunbathing, laughing, hugging each other—and at more reflective moments, smoking or looking into the distance. The way he carefully mounted the images onto board, finding playful and revealing sequences, implies that he had a theory of photographic portraiture that, like Goldin's, focused on narrative-building.
"One and one is two—that's business," Albers wrote in 1938, in an elegant explication of this theory. "One and one is four—that's art—or if you like it better—is life. I think that makes clear: the many-fold seeing, the many-fold reading of the world makes us broader, wider, richer. In education, a single standpoint cannot give a solid firm stand. Thus, let us have different viewpoints, different standpoints. Let us observe in different directions and from different angles."
Oskar Schlemmer, 1927-1929, by Josef Albers
In addition to this Cubist-like idea of portraits built from multiple angles, there's a certain similarity in subject matter. Walter Gropius, who established the Bauhaus in 1919, did so after being trapped for three days in the rubble of a World War One bomb blast. His vision was to break from the past and build a new world, one based on nascent European Modernism. If the avant-garde artists he gathered around him were less wild than Goldin's punks and drag queens, they were still classed as "degenerate" by the Nazis. And they enjoyed a good party too. Gropius called for "friendly relations between masters and students outside of work, therefore plays, lectures, poetry, music, costume parties. Establishment of a cheerful ceremonial at these gatherings."
Albers' portrait of Marli Heimann, a weaving student at the Bauhaus, shows this spirit of fraternization at work. Taken during the course of an hour, the twelve frames in the collage show different moods passing over Heimann's expressive face. Albers varies the lighting, too, using full sun in one frame and, in its neighbor, a dramatic shadow covering a third of the subject's face. Judging by his 1963 book Interaction of Color, Albers probably used the shadow for its shape and tonal contrast, but it could also be read metaphorically, as the oncoming darkness of the new political regime.
Marli Heimann, March [or] April, 1931, all during an hour, by Josef Albers
As the inter-war years progressed into the nineteen-thirties, the threat hanging over the Bauhaus artists became increasingly clear. Albers and his wife Anni fled Germany for the United States in 1933, the same year that the Nazis forced the Bauhaus to close. Bauhaus director Ludwig Mies van der Rohe held on for another four years in Germany, then left for the U.S. too. It was the end of an era.
Unlike Goldin, Albers did not show these photocollages during his lifetime. But the discipline and artistry with which he assembled them suggests that he saw them as more than just a pleasing hobby. "In musical compositions, so long as we hear merely single tones, we do not hear music," Albers wrote in his seminal 1963 book, Interaction of Color. "Hearing music depends on the recognition of the in-between of the tones, of their placing and of their spacing." Placing, spacing: capturing shifting patterns and complex moods. This is something both Albers and Goldin embraced, and the art world is richer for it.
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is on show at MoMA through April 16, 2017. Find information about it here.
One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers is on show at MoMA through April 2, 2017. Find information about it here.
One comment on "Josef Albers and Nan Goldin, an Unlikely Duo"
Dan Ellis
I love the parallel! Both artists are complimented by the comparison, yet I doubt either would be grateful.
This entry was posted on March 27, 2017 by sarahjcoleman in Art Photography, Books, Exhibitions, Uncategorized and tagged Bauhaus, Hilton Als, Josef Albers, Marli Heimann, Mies van der Rohe, MoMA, Nan Goldin, Nazis, One and One Makes Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Walter Gropius.
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The Indian state of Gujarat is of a similar size and population to Great Britain with a unique cultural heritage. The most famous Gujarati is undoubtedly Mahatama Gandhi but did you know Freddie Mercury's family was Gujarati?
Founded in 1987, Kingston upon Thames Gujarati School (KUTGS) is run by volunteers, with the support of The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.
The school welcomes children and adults from the whole community of all abilities, who would like to learn Gujarati language and gain a greater understanding of Gujarati culture. Students are also encouraged and supported to take an accredited GCSE in Gujarati.
Special events are celebrated annually such as Diwali, Navratri, Holi and Christmas. Students participate in cultural songs, dance and drama at the school and with other community organisations.
Friday evening Gujarati classes has a new home: West Barnes Library, Station Road, New Malden, KT3 6JF, and the Saturday morning Bal Mandir stays at Sarvoday Hall, Tolworth Recreation Centre. Please see the poster below.


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Title: Intergenerational aspects of psychological control and irrational beliefs between parents and adolescents
Author: Johnson, Rebecca
Awarding Body: University of Birmingham
Current Institution: University of Birmingham
http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/643/
It is often assumed that parents are a major influence on their children's mental health. Research, however, has challenged this assumption and has shown that when there is a link between the generations, the direction of effect is not always or only from parent to child. The aim of the current work was to consider two questions in relation to whether parents are a relevant contributor to adolescent psychological distress. First, the relationship and direction of influence between parental psychological control and adolescent adjustment was considered in a review of literature. Second, a research study investigated whether parents and adolescents share similar irrational beliefs that underlie psychological distress. The literature review concluded that there was evidence of a link between parental psychological control and adolescent adjustment. The weight of literature also supported the idea that the direction of influence was mutual with parents and adolescents influencing each other. The research study found tentative evidence that some irrational beliefs may be transmitted from parent to child, especially self-downing beliefs from fathers to sons. If this finding is robust then it might be possible to target early intervention to young men whose fathers are psychologically distressed and hold self-downing type irrational beliefs.
Qualification Name: Thesis (Clin.Psy.D.) Qualification Level: Doctoral
Keywords: BF Psychology


How Does Your (Big Data) Garden Grow?
Building one can be an inordinate amount of work up front: finding space, prepping the soil, etc.
You plant your seeds, and they hopefully sprout. You obsessively tend for weeds, pests and the occasional wandering child.
And then it's payoff time -- a cornucopia of wonderful fruits and vegetables.
Yesterday I spent most of the day sitting in on EMC IT's first-ever big data user summit -- 60 people from across the business, all learning and sharing from each other. I couldn't help but think -- what a wonderful garden we're growing these days: there's plenty at hand to harvest, with an even bigger bounty on the horizon.
There are certainly organizations far more proficient than EMC's current internal efforts around big data analytics. But most that I encounter look longingly at what we and others have done, and desperately want to get their organizations moving in the same direction.
To the extent that we can share our learning, methodologies and experiences -- perhaps we can help others who haven't started their journey yet.
Historically, EMC has not been the most analytically proficient company when it comes to our internal operations. Sure, we used BI and reporting, and you'd occasionally see a simple analysis using limited data sets, but those tended to be the exception rather than the rule.
Sort of like 95% of the companies out there, based on my impressions.
Our world changed when our strategy changed.
With the acquisition of Greenplum, we were now squarely playing in the nascent "big data" marketplace. That investment has now morphed and grown into today's Pivotal.
Along the way, so many of us became completely enamored and bedazzled at the potential that lay at hand. And as we looked inside our own company, we realized we had some heavy digging ahead to transform how we did business internally.
Time to get busy planning our big data garden.
Not to shy away from the challenge, we plunged ahead. Big data analytics proficiency was clearly communicated as a new organizational goal. A senior executive was appointed to act as an executive sponsor.
And EMC IT did something exceptional -- they built on their existing ITaaS capabilities to establish a business analytics as-a-service (BAaaS) platform.
The party really got going a bit over a year ago: clear mandate, platform available, resources at hand, etc.
What can we share about learning to grow a corporate big data garden?
These slides come to you courtesy of Malte Bernholz, VP of Corporate Consulting at EMC. Not to be confused with EMC's global services group, the corporate consulting team is our in-house business consulting service.
At the beginning of the year, he was asked to study all of our various internal analytical efforts, spot the trends and make key recommendations.
His presentation was just one of many very interesting talks as part of this all-day event.
As of January 2013 (about a year into the program) he quickly found 17 ongoing initiatives, with 6 more planned. While we've sanitized the actual initiatives, they span multiple parts of EMC's business -- from marketing to HR to IT to finance to engineering to manufacturing to customer service.
The takeaway for me was simple: big data analytics is a toolset and methodology that can be used across the business.
Imagine if instead we had stood up 17 separate analytical puddles across the business. Besides being hideously expensive, it wouldn't be nearly as effective: there wouldn't be the pooling and re-use of data sets, models and expertise.
Not all initiatives are true "big data" ones, either. Three of the projects were mostly about simply sourcing the right data, and applying simplistic analytics.
Five of the projects were mostly about better analytics on existing, structured data sets. The majority (9) used many diverse sets of data, as well as sophisticated analytics.
Over time, projects tend to move up-and-to-the-right: more data, more data sources, more powerful analytics. And there are six new ones that aren't shown here.
This internal population now gives us the opportunity to understand what works -- and what doesn't -- when it comes to growing a big data garden.
Malte breaks down the observed successful model into three logical components: the team, the process and the platform.
We as technologists inevitably become obsessed with debating the merits of the platform; the real action is elsewhere.
Fail to get the team right, and the best process/platform won't help. If the team fails to use discipline in their process, no platform will help.
It's only when the team and the process is lined up that we can then have a legitimate discussion about the platform.
Malte identified five key roles that lies at the heart of the most successful internal initiatives.
The project lead is a key role. This individual must be exceptionally goal-oriented, as this kind of work inevitably creates all sorts of #brightshinyobject distractions.
While one good project lead might be able to run multiple analytics projects, it's hard to imagine that this kind of project could be shared with other unrelated ones.
From left to right, the next role is that of the "business analytics and project management". Their job is interact with the business side of things -- extract knowledge from subject matter experts (SMEs), bring domain expertise into the picture -- and, once findings are established -- drive the operationalization of the results (no small task!).
A relatively new role turns out to be exceptionally important here: the data engineer. Available data must be discovered, determined to be relevant, sourced, cleansed and made available for use by others. No data at hand, no data analytics. And data doesn't magically appear in the analytical environment, it takes hard work.
Based on our EMC internal observed experience, this data engineering effort turns out to be the longest/hardest/most challenging part of any project.
Next, we have our familiar data scientists or perhaps analytical experts. If everything is set up for them (questions well-framed, data is at hand, resources available, an engaged team is involved, etc.) their work proceeds surprisingly quickly. If, however, they have to spend time helping to frame the question, sourcing the data, getting people to listen to their findings, etc. -- well, this drags on very long indeed.
Finally, we have the "IT Rep" role. This is a cross-functional role that masks the complexity of IT realities from the people trying to get something done. In addition to providing the platform and the tools, there are frequently data governance issues which must be navigated, as well as helping the data engineer do their data sourcing job.
It looks rather obvious when it's laid out this way, and I guess that's the point: follow the process, and you'll get results.
It starts with defining the business question at hand: very precisely and unambiguously. That's not as easy as it sounds, which is where executive sponsorship comes in.
There is a vast universe of potential questions that are worth answering -- but which one should we tackle first, and why?
Part of the value that Malte's team brings to the picture is helping to frame that all-important first question.
The "science" part of data science comes next.
Collect multiple hypotheses, decide on a few key ones, design experiments, set them up, run them and interpret the results. Iterate until you've got something that's valid, or you've proven to yourself that no valid provable hypothesis exists.
The hard part here is setting up the experiment, which inevitably involves sourcing data, which may or may not be easily available, and so on. There's an interesting back-and-forth between difficulty-of-data-sourcing and experiment design -- not all experiments in data science are feasible!
At some point (usually) you come up with a predictive model that's worth putting into practice. Yes, the model might improve over time, but you want to move ahead with what you've discovered.
Operationalization comes next: putting the learnings into practice. The final difficult hurdle is organizational change management -- getting people to do things differently based on the model, and not their intuition or experience.
The ultimate goal is to increase the velocity of the process end-to-end: from framing of the question to measuring results. Currently the left-hand side of the process runs about 6 to 12 weeks. The stated BHAG is to engineer this so it can potentially be done in 5 days -- and that goal driving a lot of hard work in IT around the BAaaS platform: data pre-sourced, previous results already at hand, a community of practitioners to draw on, easy-to-consume resources, etc.
The right-hand part of the diagram is more challenging, of course -- as no one has come up with an effective organizational change management technology yet!
Part of the answer inevitably lies in simply doing more of it. The first behavior change to a data-driven process can be the most difficult; subsequent ones can be incrementally less challenging.
In essence, this chart represents one aspect of a "continual business process improvement machine". And -- of course -- we'd like to scale it as much as possible.
One of the important discipline challenges Malte describes as "pruning the tree" during the experiment phase.
Many, many distractions await the team, and it's the role of the project lead to keep everyone on task, and defer the discovered branches (all valid, by the way) until some later time and place.
Keep in mind, this is about Big Answers (not big data), and someone is paying big bucks to answer a very specific question.
#1 -- Get the team right: the roles and responsibilities.
#2 -- Don't skip the question-framing exercise -- it drives everything else. Ditto for brainstorming hypotheses -- the more diverse, the better.
#3 -- The actual data science happens quickly. Setting up the environment -- and driving the resulting changes -- takes real time and effort.
#4 -- Focus on the data that's at hand, and don't hypothesize the perfect data set. However, if you've got a strong hypothesis that supports gathering new data, don't discount that.
#5 -- Shamelessly re-use other team's data sets, models and findings. Share your sandbox with others.
#6 -- Disproving a hypothesis is also a useful result, but not nearly as satisfying. Sometimes there's no correlation and the world is a random place -- that's good to know.
#7 -- Put in place a process to deal with the many "tree branches" you'll inevitably encounter along the way.
Acknowledgements are in order: to Vijoo Chacko and SuiLin Yap with EMC Corporate Consulting for assisting with the inventory work, and to Frank Coleman of EMC Global Services for much of the summarization and findings.
I cringe when certain folks describe big data environments as magic black boxes: mountains of data in, predictive models out. Or when they focus on a particular tool (e.g. Hadoop) vs. the entire environment requried to get meaningful business results.


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Q: how to extract information from a ipv6 packet I am writing my own packet sniffer using python sockets by retrieving the
packet information such as source ip, source port, destination ip,
destion port, TTL, Flags (SYN, ACK, FIN, RST, PSH, URG) etc.
For IPv4, I am able to unpack the packet based on the respective positions, and the result is similar to what I see with tshark. See code below:
IPv4_UNPACK_PATTERN = '!BBHHHBBH4s4s'
IPv6_UNPACK_PATTERN = '!4sHBB16s16s'

IPv4_HDR_LEN = 20
IPv6_HDR_LEN = 40
TCP_HDR_LEN = 20
ETH_HDR_LEN = 14

# IP ATTRIBUTES
IP_VERSION_POS = 0
IP_TOS_POS = 1
IP_LENGTH_POS = 2
IP_IDENTIFICATION_POS = 3
IP_FRAGMENT_OFFSET_POS = 4
IP_TTL_POS = 5
IP_PROTOCOL_POS = 6
IP_HDR_CHCKSUM_POS = 7
IP_SRC_ADDR_POS = 8
IP_DST_ADDR_POS = 9

TCP_FLAG_POS = 5
TCP_WINDOW_POS = 6

# main program:
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_PACKET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.ntohs(0x0003))
packet = s.recvfrom(SOCKET_BUFF_SIZE)
pkt_type = extract_type(packet)
ip_header(packet, pkt_type)

# this function extracts the information from pkt
def ip_header(pkt, pkt_type):
if pkt_type=='ipv4':
    data = unpack(IPv4_UNPACK_PATTERN, pkt[ETH_HDR_LEN:ETH_HDR_LEN + IPv4_HDR_LEN])
    version = data[IP_VERSION_POS]
    total_length = data[IP_LENGTH_POS]
    ttl = data[IP_TTL_POS]
    protocol = data[IP_PROTOCOL_POS]
    ip_header = (version & 0xF) * 4
    start_pos = ETH_HDR_LEN + IPv4_HDR_LEN
    # Unpacking TCP
    tcp_obj = unpack(TCP_UNPACK_PATTERN, data[start_pos:start_pos + TCP_HDR_LEN])
    tcp_flag = tcp_obj[TCP_FLAG_POS]
    window = str(tcp_obj[TCP_WINDOW_POS])
else:  # ipv6
    data = unpack(IPv6_UNPACK_PATTERN, pkt[ETH_HDR_LEN:ETH_HDR_LEN + IPv6_HDR_LEN])
    # what bit positions to be used here for ipv6?

But for the IPv6 packet, I do not know the correct bit positions for ipv6 fields.
Can anybody point me to the document which describes the bit positions for ipv6 packets for the following fields:

*

*version

*ip total length

*TTL

*protocol

*ip header

*TCP flags

*Window size

*Don't fragment bit

*More fragment bit

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    byte[] bytes = { 'f', 'o', 'o' };
    String s = StringFactory.newStringFromBytes(bytes, 0, 0, 3);
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  /// CHECK-START: void Main.testNewStringFromChars() builder (after)
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  /// CHECK-START: void Main.testNewStringFromChars() inliner (after)
  /// CHECK-DAG:     InvokeStaticOrDirect method_name:java.lang.StringFactory.newStringFromChars intrinsic:None

  public static void testNewStringFromChars() {
    char[] chars = { 'b', 'a', 'r' };
    String s = StringFactory.newStringFromChars(chars);
    System.out.println(s);
  }

  /// CHECK-START: void Main.testNewStringFromString() builder (after)
  /// CHECK-DAG:     InvokeStaticOrDirect method_name:java.lang.StringFactory.newStringFromString intrinsic:None

  /// CHECK-START: void Main.testNewStringFromString() intrinsics_recognition (after)
  /// CHECK-DAG:     InvokeStaticOrDirect method_name:java.lang.StringFactory.newStringFromString intrinsic:StringNewStringFromString

  public static void testNewStringFromString() {
    String s1 = "baz";
    String s2 = StringFactory.newStringFromString(s1);
    System.out.println(s2);
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    testNewStringFromBytes();
    testNewStringFromChars();
    testNewStringFromString();
  }
}

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Late last week, Gfinity revealed that Dare Iced Coffee had joined as a series major partner for the 2018 Gfinity Elite Series Australia.
Dare Iced Coffee will be supplying iced coffee to players across the Rocket League, CS:GO and Streetfighter V matches within both seasons of the Gfinity Elite Series Australia in 2018.
The Dare Iced Coffee "Drink it Through" campaign will be integrated across the 42-live broadcast events in the Series.
Dominic Remond, CEO of Gfinity Esports Australia, said of the announcement, "We are extremely pleased to have Dare Iced Coffee join the inaugural Gfinity Elite Series Australia, as Series Major Partner across all three of our game titles in 2018. We are excited by the content integration and promotion opportunities that we can deliver to the vast online audience. This is great news, following on from our sponsorship announcements earlier in the year, including Dell as Presenting Partner for the Series.
Darryn Wallace, Director of Marketing & Innovation at Lion Dairy & Drinks, agreed, adding, "We are really excited about this opportunity and see it as a way to reach a highly relevant and engaged audience in a way that is entirely aligned to the brand proposition," he said.


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Discontinuing Google Data Access
by NuevaSync Staff | Feb 11, 2020 | Blog Post
Yesterday, February 11th 2020, we heard from a number of our users using the service to sync Google data that they had received an email from Google notifying them that NuevaSync's access to their data would be disabled on February 18th. This exposes an unfortunate truth about cloud services such as Google Calendar and GMail: that it is Google's choice, rather than the user's, whether to allow access to your data, for services like ours.
When the NuevaSync service was first developed the service 13 years ago Google had a policy of open user-controlled access–presumably to encourage adoption of their services. Access to user data for 3rd party applications was permitted, provided the user had granted permission. Over the years Google's position as a service provider grew more dominant, reducing their need to encourage third party services. At the same time bad actors entered the scene, with the goal to sell user data, generate spam and other malicious activity, and posing as legitimate Google application developers.
These two factors have prompted Google to introduce a series of additional hoops through which 3rd party service providers such as NuevaSync have to jump in order to retain access to Google user data. We have invested considerable time and resources complying with these measures over the past two years. However, Google recently added yet another condition which unfortunately it has not been practical for us to meet: a security audit to be performed on our servers, procedures and software by a Google-designated audit company. While in general security audits are a good thing (we have undertaken them for our large commercial customers in the past and we take user data security very seriously), in this instance we would have to cover the cost of the audit, estimated at many times our annual revenue from Google users. The cost can't be justified in the context of the size of the business and frankly it's just not affordable. With these new measures Google is effectively terminating access for small service providers like us.
The February 11 email from Google appears to represent the end of the road in that we don't have options to comply with the latest conditions for user data access and it also seems unlikely that Google will reverse their position at this point. Therefore we will be taking steps to discontinue support for Google data sources over the next few days, initially for new users and existing accounts not currently configured with Google sources.
It's possible that there may yet be a workaround or an 11'th hour reversal by Google. For example we don't yet know if the termination date applies to GSuite accounts or only GMail accounts. Updates on the situation will be posted on our web site. NuevaSync service in general of course remains available: it's only support for Google-hosted data that is being discontinued. Note also that for many users Google's own smartphone apps can now provide equivalent functionality to our service for Google email, calendar and contacts data. For those users who are interested in switching email provider to a Google alternative, our service is available bundled through these independent email and calendar service providers: Rackspace Webmail and LuxSci.
Thank you to all our Google users for your support over the years.
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U.S. shutout leaves team eyeing 2016 Olympics
Soundings Editors
Outgoing Olympic sailing chairman Dean Brenner says a detailed post-mortem of the U.S. team's zero-medal performance in London will identify shortcomings in the Olympic sailing program, but the team's first skunk since the 1936 Berlin Games, though disappointing, does not mean that what's in place now should be scrapped.
"This is a really hard time," says Brenner, Olympic sailing's two-term chairman, speaking with Soundings a day after returning from London. "We did not expect to come home with zero medals. That was not part of the program."
The U.S. team was shut out in 30 chances to medal in 10 events sailed July 29-Aug. 11 in Weymouth Bay and Portland Harbor.
Brenner says the U.S. sailors should be proud to have competed in the Olympics — no mean feat — but the team's performance was "not acceptable. "We are better than the way we were there," he says. "Definitely some things need to be changed.
"[But] anyone who says the program is hopelessly broken and needs to start over from scratch doesn't know what they're talking about. We had a terrible two weeks."
The team's most promising young sailors, Anna Tunnicliffe, Molly Vandemoer and Debbie Capozzi, who were ranked first in the world before the Olympics, finished a disappointing fifth in women's match racing. Mark Mendelblatt and Brian Fatih posted a seventh in the Star Class after winning a bronze in January at the International Sailing Federation world championships. Paige Railey, who was ranked third internationally in the Laser Radial before the Games, took eighth. Women's 470 sailors Amanda Clark and Sarah Lihan, who won silver in April at France's Hyere's Week, came in ninth. And the results went downhill from there.
Brenner says there is no common denominator in the team's failure to perform to its potential. He says four or five of the U.S. sailors were capable of medaling, but didn't. Without specifying athletes or classes, he says that in one class the starts were inconsistent. In another, the American seemed to sail well in some wind conditions, but not in others. In yet another class the sailor wouldn't let go of one starting strategy, even though it clearly was flawed and wasn't working.
In some cases, competitors did not seem to have trained enough; in others, they trained too much. They peaked early. Some sailors weren't rested enough; others rested too much. They were sluggish. "In some classes, they just lost," Brenner says. "This is sailing. I've gone to lots of regattas where my teammates and I were ready, and we didn't win."
The best sailors in the world — 380 of them — competed for 30 medals. The competition was fierce and it gets fiercer every year as more countries take up the Olympic sport with a laser-like focus. Limited to two terms, Brenner stepped aside Sept. 1 and Josh Adams becomes managing director of U.S. Olympic Sailing — a new full-time position that assumes most of the duties of the part-time chairman post — for the next quadrennium, culminating in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Adams will be charged with shaping the team for those Games.
Brenner says U.S. Olympic sailing is less than halfway into a building program that started in 2005-08, when its annual budget quadrupled from $1 million to $4 million. From 2009 to 2012, the goal was to change the team culture — collaborate more by training in mutually supportive "pods" of sailors and coaches, and stress physical fitness as Olympic-class boats become increasingly athletic. From 2013 to 2016, the focus will be on improving the talent pipeline.
"We want to make our youth development pipeline better," Brenner says. "It has to be better. We have to have a really good program for kids at the tip of the youth pyramid. That's going to be a big initiative for the coming quadrennium." He says that will ensure U.S. Olympic sailing's future will be a competitive one.
Most of the United States' Olympic sailors are full-time athletes now, an improvement from past Olympics. They had plenty of opportunities to race against the best in international competition, Brenner says. They had plenty of opportunity to train at Weymouth before the games. Though an Olympic team never has enough money to do everything it wants to do, "we've had a lot more support than we used to have," Brenner says. "We need more money. We're fighting an uphill battle there, but the vast majority of our team would say they had enough money. That wasn't the problem."
Brenner says he expects to see a lot of the faces that competed in London on the U.S. sailing team in Rio. "But if you want to go for 2016 you will have to take a really hard look at what you have to do because the status quo isn't OK."
Australia's sailors mined the most gold in London: three first-place medals and one silver. They were followed by Spain with two gold medals; Great Britain with one gold and four silver; and the Netherlands with a gold, a silver and a bronze.
Australia's sailing team came up blank at the 2004 Games in Athens. That country turned its program around by focusing on a few of its very best sailors and entering just eight of the 10 2012 Olympic sailing events. The United States is still the top medal producer in sailing with 59 since sailing became an Olympic event in 1900.
U.S. Olympic sailing results
- Women's match racing: Anna Tunnicliffe, Molly Vandemoer and Debbie Capozzi, 5th
- Star: Mark Mendelblatt and Brian Fatih, 7th
- Women's Laser Radial: Paige Railey, 8th
- Women's 470: Amanda Clark and Sarah Lihan, 9th
- Finn: Zach Railey, 12th
- Men's 470: Stuart McNay and Graham Biehl, 14th
- 49er: Eric Storck and Trevor Moore, 15th
- Women's RS:X (boardsailing): Farrah Hall, 20th
- Men's RS:X: Bob Willis, 22nd
- Men's Laser: Rob Crane, 29th
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Dubuisson: Memories of 'Aunt Rabbit,' co-founder of SLII
Edith Garland Dupre was one of the eight founders of Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute in Lafayette back in 1901.
Dubuisson: Memories of 'Aunt Rabbit,' co-founder of SLII Edith Garland Dupre was one of the eight founders of Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute in Lafayette back in 1901. Check out this story on dailyworld.com: https://www.dailyworld.com/story/opinion/2018/11/28/dubuisson-memories-aunt-rabbit-co-founder-slii/2129204002/
Ed Dubuisson, Special to the Daily World Published 3:19 p.m. CT Nov. 28, 2018
"Edith Garland Dupre, after whom ULL's Dupre Library was named."(Photo: Submitted)
Edith Garland Dupre was my great aunt, one of the nine sisters of my grandmother, Rosa Dupre Dubuisson. She was born in Opelousas on June 1, 1881, and eventually accomplished enough at what is now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette to have the library named after her. More about that later.
We called her "Aunt Rabbit," a peculiar name for a great lady. This is how that came about.
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She was called Rabbit as a child by her family. If you closely examine the accompanying photograph of her as an adult, you will see that she has buck teeth. She never looked like a rabbit, except for those teeth, but they were the first thing I noticed about her when we visited.
A childhood pet rabbit
I was very young when I met her for the first time, and I had buck teeth of my own, so I was overly aware of buck teeth in others, and somewhat empathetic. The rabbit connection was never openly discussed in her presence — my father simply told me to call her Aunt Rabbit. This never seemed to bother her — the strangest things seem normal in my family.
Ed Dubuisson (Photo: Daily World)
Later on, some killjoy relative told me that her nickname had nothing to do with her buck teeth. As a child, she had a pet rabbit to which she was very devoted and that was why she was called "Rabbit."
More: Dubuisson: Photo from the past — the way we were
My personal reaction to that observation was that both she and her rabbit had prominent front teeth, buck teeth, and because of that, she resembled her beloved rabbit. Hence the nickname "Rabbit." Hence my dear "Aunt Rabbit."
I'll bet that the two of them could do serious damage to a bunch of carrots.
Aunt Rabbit was one of the eight founders of Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute in Lafayette back in 1901. Known as "The Industrial," the school had 145 students that first year. Three of the founding instructors were women, and Edith was one of them.
Became full professor
The "Industrial" evolved and grew over the years, and is known today as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, with an enrollment of more than 19,000 students. Edith became a full professor, head of the English Department, and Chairman of the Library Committee.
More: Dubuisson: Bonneal Whipp and Mean Joe Green
She also headed or served on a multitude of other committees, both university and community, and served our country in a non-military capacity in both World Wars. In 1943, she was recognized by the Pope with the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Award for distinguished service to the Catholic Church.
A final story: She was an early environmentalist and was especially protective of Lafayette's many live oaks. Very near her home on Cherry Street was a large and ancient oak tree whose roots and trunk had grown well into the street, so that the flow of traffic was impeded.
The City of Lafayette decided that the tree had to go, and when the workmen arrived to chop it down, she personally stopped them from proceeding and then fought the mayor to save it. She won.
More: The yambilee and me: Don't rain on my parade
Around the time of her retirement in 1941, she opened the Sans Souci bookstore in downtown Lafayette. The little red building survives today as the Sans Souci Fine Crafts Gallerie, home of the Louisiana Crafts Guild, at Parc Sans Souci.
A lot more information about Aunt Rabbit is available on the Internet and at the Dupre Library at UL. Strangely enough, this column is the only place where I have found her nickname mentioned, so I am particularly pleased to have been able to introduce "Aunt Rabbit" to the world.
Her photograph is taken from an article written by Doris Broussard Bentley, and some of the above biographical information appeared in her article as well as in an essay written by R.A. Hoffpauir Jr.
Memories of the Tomlinsons and Camp Thistlethwaite
After getting a much-needed haircut from Jessica at Union Street Barber Shop, I had a reunion with Randy Tomlinson, who was getting a cut from Chet. Both Chet and Jessica are excellent barbers, the conversations are always lively, and the shop has purple-and-gold barber chairs. To quote Bebe, "Geaux Tigers!"
Randy is the son of Billy Tomlinson, who was one of my scoutmasters when I was a Boy Scout a few years back. Although I don't recall that Randy was a Scout, his brother Leston and I were both members of Troop 30. We suffered through 10-mile hikes to Camp Thistlethwaite north of Washington, where we would camp out with 40 or so other scouts.
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Except for a brief stint during basic training in the Army, I never camped out again. Trying to sleep under the stars while unknown creatures of the night rustled through nearby underbrush was not my idea of a good time. I worried about hungry coyotes and rabid raccoons and the lack of plumbing facilities. Mosquitos seemed particularly attracted to me. Someone stole my chocolate chip cookies. No, not a good time.
I remember that all of our Scoutmasters insisted we each cook our own supper, usually seven steaks and canned pork and beans (haute cuisine to a 12-year old), over an open fire that we started ourselves. Some of the more dedicated scouts took pride in being able to light a fire with just one match. Not me
I quickly learned that a well-concealed can of Sterno helped the fire-starting process tremendously. My grandmother's seasoning mix helped the seven steaks. Sterno and the seasoning mix helped me earn my Camping merit badge.
God bless Jake Abdalla
Donuts and chocolate milk were dispensed in the morning from an Abdalla's delivery truck, which saved me from having to fry bacon and eggs at dawn's early light. God bless Jake Abdalla.
Back to the barber shop and Randy: He brought me up to date on his family, and we had a pleasant visit. By the way, Randy's father was not the Scoutmaster I encountered at the Elbow Room while placing football bets with the resident bookie.
Along the Rialto
Dickie Hollier and I have both arrived at the Post Office at the same time on several recent occasions, and it is always a pleasure to see him. He and my father were close friends, and when Papa Nick died a while back, Dickie wrote a very kind letter to the Daily World expressing his admiration for his old friend. I still have a copy. Thanks again, Dickie.
After judging a Halloween costume contest at Achilles' Gallery in Lafayette, Burnell Lemoine and I retired to Antoni's Italian Cafe in the Oil Center for dinner. I saw some familiar faces across the room and journeyed over to say hello to Opelousas attorney Peter Caviness and his wife, Pam. They introduced me to their grandson, Ramsey Soileau, who was dining with them.
Pete is still working full-time, is aging gracefully (he is somewhat younger than me, give or take a decade), and is very much a gentleman. My secretary, who is a little choosy as to whom she likes, likes Pete.
It was a pleasure seeing the three of them.
That's enough for now. Leave a message for me at ebdubuisson@gmail.com. Until next time, I am Ed and out.
Ed Dubuisson is a lifelong resident of Opelousas and a member of a law firm that dates to the 19th Century. He is a graduate of Tulane Law School and he wrote articles for the Tulane Law Review and other publications while at Tulane. His first newspaper article was published in the Daily World when he was 16.
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No matter what the new year brings, follow where Jesus leads
Dec. 28, 2019, 3 p.m.
Welcome Jesus into your heart this Christmas
Let God fill you with joy, peace and love
Dec. 7, 2019, 3 p.m.
Do not be deceived; there is only one true God
Nov. 30, 2019, 3 p.m.
Be thankful for all of God's great gifts
Heed the words of God and you will be blessed


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Microsoft OneDrive Storage Bumped To 15GB For Free, 1TB For Office 365 Users
By Ben Reid | June 24th, 2014
Microsoft's OneDrive, formerly SkyDrive, is one of a large number of services vying for your attention in the battle of the cloud services, and in order entice customers into signing up, the software company has announced its intention to more than double the amount of storage space offered as standard. At the present moment, those signing up to a free OneDrive account can enjoy 7GB of cloud-based storage for photos, videos, documents and other such files, but soon, this will be bumped to 15GB of free storage.
With Google Drive giving customers a generous 15GB just for signing up, it's clear that Microsoft doesn't want to lose out on potential customers just because a rival is offering a better deal. 15GB is pretty good going, particularly given that many others, such as Apple's iCloud, are comparatively stingy with how much storage they offer to non-paying consumers, and the generosity doesn't end there.
Microsoft also announced that the price plans will be reduced, which once again pulls its offerings into closer contention with what Google offers. With the next month, a 100GB monthly plan will set you back a mere $1.99, which is a saving of $5.50 on the current fee, while 200GB will set you back just $3.99, down from $11.49.
In light of these new, considerably cheaper options, Microsoft has also decided to scrap the 50GB storage option, but given how cheap the 100GB and 200GB packages are, it works very much in the favor of the cloud-based consumer.
There's also good news for Office 365 users, too, who'll get a whopping 1TB of free space, which, I think you'll agree, is quite a dramatic increase on the current 20GB. Business users have long since been able to enjoy this considerable storage offering, but it makes Office 365 a much more enticing project for the general consumer with the 1TB package on the table. It's also a sensible ploy on Microsoft's part since, let's face it, only a very small portion of users will get anywhere near to using even half of that.
So, OneDrive and Office 365 users, you should notice the changes imminently, and although deals like this are often only available to new or existing customers, anybody can take advantage of this new pricing / storage structure.


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Born Miguel Curtis McDonald... Curtis Lee ,middle named after his late uncle Curtis Lee McDonald was born in Peoria,Illinois where he grew up listening and singing to his mother and fathers 8track tapes and 45 records ranging from great artists such as Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Marvin Gaye and The Jackson 5. His mother could also attribute to his love of music because she grew up singing in choirs and he would sometimes hear her powerful soprano voice echo thru the house and enjoyed listening. Curtis enjoyed music and singing a lot but only as a hobby. It wasn't until he realized thru hearing from his family and voice teachers from grade school that he could actually have a successful career singing. So he dropped his dream of becoming a pro football player and began to listen to and study different types of music and artist as well as studying classical and jazz voice at Texas State University to hone in his craft. Currently Curtis Lee lives in the music capital of the world Austin, Texas. Where he has started his professional live singing career in the music scene of Austin four years ago gigging nightly on 6th, 5th and 4th street at some of the most popular clubs and venues downtown with a 60 's and 70's Funk and Soul Cover band called The Bumps. He has also performed with such bands as The Atlantic's ,London Calling ,The 80h Project,M.A.S.K and In The Pink. He is currently singing with a Soul Pop band called The 80H Project and is working on his 1st studio EP Album release. Curtis Lee would like to take his singing career to the next level and become established as an original soul artist in the music business and create a nice sound for all ears to hear. So look out for him in the near future.
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Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in a person's mood, energy, and ability to function. Different from the normal ups and downs that everyone goes through, the symptoms of bipolar disorder are severe. They can result in damaged relationships, poor job or school performance, and even suicide. But there is good news: bipolar disorder can be treated, and people with this illness can lead full and productive lives.
About 5.7 million American adults, or about 2.6 percent of the population, age 18 and older in any given year, have bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder typically develops in late adolescence or early adulthood. However, some people have their first symptoms during childhood, and some develop them late in life. It is often not recognized as an illness, and people may suffer for years before it is properly diagnosed and treated. Like diabetes or heart disease, bipolar disorder is a long-term illness that must be carefully managed throughout a person's life (National Institute of Mental Health).
Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder causes dramatic mood swings—from overly "high" and/or irritable to sad and hopeless, and then back again, often with periods of normal mood in between. Severe changes in energy and behavior go along with these changes in mood. The periods of highs and lows are called episodes of mania and depression.
A mild to moderate level of mania is called hypomania. Hypomania may feel good to the person who experiences it and may even be associated with good functioning and enhanced productivity. Thus even when family and friends learn to recognize the mood swings as possible bipolar disorder, the person may deny that anything is wrong. Without proper treatment, however, hypomania can become severe mania in some people or can switch into depression.
Sometimes, severe episodes of mania or depression include symptoms of psychosis (or psychotic symptoms). Common psychotic symptoms are hallucinations (hearing, seeing, or otherwise sensing the presence of things not actually there) and delusions (false, strongly held beliefs not influenced by logical reasoning or explained by a person's usual cultural concepts). Psychotic symptoms in bipolar disorder tend to reflect the extreme mood state at the time. For example, delusions of grandiosity, such as believing one is the President or has special powers or wealth, may occur during mania; delusions of guilt or worthlessness, such as believing that one is ruined and penniless or has committed some terrible crime, may appear during depression. People with bipolar disorder who have these symptoms are sometimes incorrectly diagnosed as having schizophrenia, another severe mental illness.
Symptoms of Mania
Increased energy, activity, and restlessness
Excessively "high," overly good, euphoric mood
Extreme irritability
Racing thoughts and talking very fast, jumping from one idea to another
Distractibility, can't concentrate well
Little sleep needed
Unrealistic beliefs in one's abilities and powers
Poor judgment
Spending sprees
A lasting period of behavior that is different from usual
Increased sexual drive
Abuse of drugs, particularly cocaine, alcohol, and sleeping medications
Provocative, intrusive, or aggressive behavior
Denial that anything is wrong
A manic episode is diagnosed if elevated mood occurs with three or more of the other symptoms most of the day, nearly every day, for 1 week or longer. If the mood is irritable, four additional symptoms must be present.
Poor appetite or eating too much
Trouble sleeping or sleeping too much
Nervousness and worry
Loss of interest in and withdrawal from usual activities
Feelings of sadness that don't go away
Irritability or restlessness
Feelings of sadness, worthlessness or guilt
Inability to think or concentrate
Repeated thoughts of death or suicide
Chronic pain or other physical problems that don't respond to treatment
Increased risk-taking behavior, including reckless driving or substance abuse
Course of Bipolar Disorder
Episodes of mania and depression typically recur across the life span. Between episodes, most people with bipolar disorder are free of symptoms, but as many as one-third of people have some residual symptoms. A small percentage of people experience chronic unremitting symptoms despite treatment.
The classic form of the illness, which involves recurrent episodes of mania and depression, is called bipolar I disorder. Some people, however, never develop severe mania but instead experience milder episodes of hypomania that alternate with depression; this form of the illness is called bipolar II disorder. When four or more episodes of illness occur within a 12-month period, a person is said to have rapid-cycling bipolar disorder. Some people experience multiple episodes within a single week, or even within a single day. Rapid cycling tends to develop later in the course of illness and is more common among women than among men.
People with bipolar disorder can lead healthy and productive lives when the illness is effectively treated. Without treatment, however, the natural course of bipolar disorder tends to worsen. Over time a person may suffer more frequent (more rapid-cycling) and more severe manic and depressive episodes than those experienced when the illness first appeared. But in most cases, proper treatment can help reduce the frequency and severity of episodes and can help people with bipolar disorder maintain good quality of life.
Causes of Bipolar Disorder
Scientists are learning about the possible causes of bipolar disorder through several kinds of studies. Most scientists now agree that there is no single cause for bipolar disorder—rather, many factors act together to produce the illness.
Because bipolar disorder tends to run in families, researchers have been searching for specific genes—the microscopic "building blocks" of DNA inside all cells that influence how the body and mind work and grow—passed down through generations that may increase a person's chance of developing the illness. But genes are not the whole story. Studies of identical twins, who share all the same genes, indicate that both genes and other factors play a role in bipolar disorder. If bipolar disorder were caused entirely by genes, then the identical twin of someone with the illness would always develop the illness, and research has shown that this is not the case. But if one twin has bipolar disorder, the other twin is more likely to develop the illness than is another sibling. In addition, findings from gene research suggest that bipolar disorder, like other mental illnesses, does not occur because of a single gene. It appears likely that many different genes act together, and in combination with other factors of the person or the person's environment, to cause bipolar disorder. Finding these genes, each of which contributes only a small amount toward the vulnerability to bipolar disorder, has been extremely difficult. But scientists expect that the advanced research tools now being used will lead to these discoveries and to new and better treatments for bipolar disorder.
Brain-imaging studies are helping scientists learn what goes wrong in the brain to produce bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses. New brain-imaging techniques allow researchers to take pictures of the living brain at work, to examine its structure and activity, without the need for surgery or other invasive procedures. These techniques include magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). There is evidence from imaging studies that the brains of people with bipolar disorder may differ from the brains of healthy individuals. As the differences are more clearly identified and defined through research, scientists will gain a better understanding of the underlying causes of the illness, and eventually may be able to predict which types of treatment will work most effectively.
Children and Adolescents
Both children and adolescents can develop bipolar disorder. It is more likely to affect the children of parents who have the illness. Unlike many adults with bipolar disorder, whose episodes tend to be more clearly defined, children and young adolescents with the illness often experience very fast mood swings between depression and mania many times within a day. Children with mania are more likely to be irritable and prone to destructive tantrums than to be overly happy and elated. Mixed symptoms also are common in youths with bipolar disorder. Older adolescents who develop the illness may have more classic, adult-type episodes and symptoms.
Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents can be hard to tell apart from other problems that may occur in these age groups. For example, while irritability and aggressiveness can indicate bipolar disorder, they also can be symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, or other types of mental disorders more common among adults such as major depression or schizophrenia. Drug abuse also may lead to such symptoms.
For any illness, however, effective treatment depends on appropriate diagnosis. Children or adolescents with emotional and behavioral symptoms should be carefully evaluated by a mental health professional. Any child or adolescent who has suicidal feelings, talks about suicide, or attempts suicide should be taken seriously and should receive immediate help from a mental health specialist.
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UEA alumnus Elizabeth Macneal's debut novel The Doll Factory will be published next year by Picador, it has been announced.
The novel is already causing a stir, having won the £1,000 prize for the 2018 Caledonia Novel Award for self- and non-published works.
An Oxford graduate, Macneal completed UEA's Creative Writing MA programme last year after being awarded the Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Scholarship. Edinburgh native Macneal also makes pottery from her London home.
Macneal will be hoping to emulate the success of her fellow UEA MA Creative Writing graduate Emma Healy. In 2014, Healy's Elizabeth Is Missing scooped a Costa Book Award for best debut novel.
Picador, an imprint of the Pan Macmillan publishing house, is best known for publishing rising stars alongside its established poetry arm, having acquired collections by Carol Ann Duffy and Kate Tempest.


TNT sportscaster Kenny Smith gave Shawn Marion the nickname "The Matrix" in Marion's rookie season. That's not what this means.
By any standard, it's been one sweet career for professional basketball player Shawn Marion. In 11 years in the NBA, Marion has racked up a slew of impressive stats: 10,000 points scored, 80-plus playoff game appearances, and four All-Star team selections. In 2011, he helped the Dallas Mavericks win the NBA championship finals. And his record of charitable works rivals his on-court accomplishments.
An ill-advised tattoo barely registers on a resume like that. Nonetheless, in 2003, Marion had his right leg tattooed with what he thought were the Chinese characters for his nickname, "The Matrix." Maybe he should have consulted fellow NBA star Yao Ming, a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese born in Shanghai, first. Chinese characters are composed of exact combinations of strokes -- between poor translation and poor rendering, misprints are common in tattoos. The three figures on his leg signify demon, bird and camphor (the active ingredient in mothballs). Taken together or apart, if they have any connection to a matrix, no one has explained it.
Our next case study illustrates that although a lot of parents think their children are angels, some may take it a little too literally.


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Workshop on gender equality plans and structural change in Horizon Europe
By Lucy Ferguson, Workshop Rapporteur
In the last face-to-face event many of us attended before the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation hosted a workshop on "Fostering institutional change through Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) and the way forward towards Horizon Europe" on 4thMarch in Brussels. The workshop was attended by a range of participants involved in structural change projects across the EU, including project coordinators, evaluators and team members, with the aim of strengthening gender equality provisions in the future EU funding programme Horizon Europe, building on a series of co-creation and outcomes of consultation with stakeholders. I would like to take a moment to acknowledge our Italian colleagues who were unable to join in person, and connected from home, in a way that we would all come to know as normal in the months that followed. This article highlights some of the main discussions and recommendations. A full workshop report will also be published by the European Commission later this year, along with an in-depth analytical review of structural change for gender equality in research and innovation.
Opening the workshop, Jean-Eric Paquet, Director-General, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission highlighted that all public institutions will be required to design and implement a gender equality plan in order to be eligible for funding under the Horizon Europe Framework Programme. Mina Stareva, Head of Sector Gender, E5-Democracy & European values, DG Research and Innovation outlined the key pillars of Horizon Europe and how provisions for gender equality have been strengthened at the level of implementation and targeted support, and invited participants to be "bold, frank, direct and ambitious" in their contributions. Invited speaker Marcela Linkova, Coordinator of the GENDERACTION project, noted that this is a very exciting time for people working on structural change, particularly for countries that are less advanced in gender equality in research and innovation.
Following in-depth discussions of key questions, recommendations were developed in three areas. In terms of implementing gender equality plans and good practices, recommendations included: embed a focus on the process in structural change projects – participation, ownership and reflexivity; spread responsibility for GEP implementation across the whole institution in order to increase accountability for successes and failures; and develop support structures for core teams in the form of time and resources, as well as make such work visible within the overall academic culture. Recommendations to further gender equality plans included: develop synergies between the Research and Innovation Framework Programme and Structural Funds; engage civil society more substantively in structural change in research and innovation, in particular in relation to SDG 5; and consider how to strategically engage the private sector in funding aspects of GEP implementation. Finally, the participants discussed how to support gender equality plans, such as: establish a Competency Centre on Gender with an integrated Helpdesk and capacity development component; and set up a Gender Equality Taskforce to facilitate regular contact between relevant actors and stakeholders.
Three over-arching take-away messages were drawn from the workshop discussions. First, the need to focus on process, not outcomes. Second, the importance of a reflexive approach. Third, the value of participation in building consensus and ownership for gender equality across an institution. Fourth, the need to explicitly acknowledge the highly political and politicised nature of structural change.
In conclusion, participants agreed that ongoing mutual learning and critical reflection – both within research and innovation and more broadly in other fields – are the key to ensuring that structural change for gender equality in Horizon Europe is transformative and sustainable.
Manuela Aru2021-03-25T11:47:32+02:00July 23rd, 2020|Tags: academia, european commission, gender equality, gender equality plan, GEPs, horizon europe, report, structural change, workshop|
Decentralized pathways for the integration of a gender dimension in R&E at the University of Coimbra
By Francisco Rodrigues, CES-UC
The UC SUPERA team has been in direct connection with the rectorate from the beginning of the project, and more so since the transition from the baseline assessment to GEP design and subsequent implementation strategies.
Although central support and a reliable working relation are fundamental for the success of the project, this is not the most streamlined approach in the initial stages of implementation. The formal approval process is complex, requiring input from a myriad of relevant stakeholders and decision-making bodies.
For that reason, but primarily to create a decentralized platform that enables the development of specific solutions within the diverse contexts in UC, we adopted a sort of centrifugal approach. This means securing institutional backing at the highest level and leveraging it to capitalize on the various levels of autonomy within the University's structures. The cornerstone of this approach are Focal Points for the main Research and Education Units, as they were nominated by the respective unit Directors following a direct request at a Senate session. Through capacity-building for gender mainstreaming, providing its members with adequate competencies and data on the institution's state-of-play, such a network enables the detection and maximization of windows of opportunity for institutional change, not only at the Unit level.
As these Units enjoy scientific and pedagogical autonomy, the integration of a gender dimension benefits from this platform. Directly, it has so far led to the proposal of a seminar for final-year medicine students on gender biases in medicine (teaching, research and practice), as the Focal Point for the Faculty of Medicine identified a window of opportunity in the restructuring of that curriculum. Even though the current public health crisis postponed this process for a year, we are confident that the seminar will be integrated and work in tandem with ongoing parallel efforts in other contexts, while inspiring similar initiatives throughout the University.
Although that is encouraging, more tangible achievements have come from a different source within that decentralized approach. Shortly after confinement was imposed, we were contacted by the recently created Strategic Areas Unit, which sought to encourage female academics to apply for ERC grants. This team had come to us through the Focal Point of the larger Unit it is lodged in, the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research.
Due to the nature of the Institute and the Strategic Areas Unit, they work directly under the supervision of the Vice-Rector for Research. This allowed for that initial contact to blossom into a fully-fledged for the integration of the gender dimension in the UC's scientific outputs and subsequent betterment of its scientific production.
This initiative entails a number of activities: a EEA grant application for combatting gender-based discrimination; the gender-sensitive revision of research-funding applications produced in the UC; the construction of a repository of relevant resources and inspiring practices with regards to the integration of a gender dimension in research; a communication campaign for the encouragement of academic excellence of researchers of the underrepresented sex in various fields and the development of a training course on the integration of the gender dimension in research, directed to researchers on all levels and fields, designed to take advantage of existing gender competencies throughout the fields and enlarging the group of gender-sensitive researchers (first edition scheduled for mid-September). This cooperative relation is promising for sustainable gender mainstreaming in the University's scientific activities, as it is grounded on top-level strategic commitment, as well as the devotion of the supervising research structure's resources.
The instances described are illustrations on the benefits of a decentralized approach, particularly in topic as varied and difficult to implement as integrating the gender dimension in research. For the UC SUPERA team, the most relevant takeaway from this experience is that investing in the embracement of a large and diverse number of stakeholders is complicated, time-consuming, and therefore often frustrating, but gratifying when it is time for returns, as they signify impactful and structural change.
Manuela Aru2021-03-25T11:47:57+02:00July 20th, 2020|Tags: academia, CES-UC, gender bias, gender dimension, gender-sensitive data, higher education, research funding, sex-disaggregated data, stakeholders engagement, structural change, university|


List Rules Vote up the most entertaining newer western films & TV shows, including streaming series.
While the Western genre isn't as well represented in either film or television as it was back in the mid-20th century, there are certainly plenty of recent western shows and movies that are worth watching. In fact, some of the new western movies are incredible films, regardless of their genre. Most people familiar with westerns remember fondly the years when movies like Pale Rider and The Outlaw Josey Wales were released, but there are some recent additions to the genre dating back only a few years.
If you're a fan of westerns and enjoy watching them on television, you probably already know all about HBO's Westworld, which is more of a sci-fi/action/thriller that just so happens to reside in a western setting. Other series like Deadwood tell the story of a small western town as the inhabitants work to establish themselves legitimately within the country... while also doing just about every cliched nuance of western life. Of course, we can't forget the newer westerns in film, such as instant hits like The Revenant and The Hateful Eight, among others. Whatever your interest in the genre, there are hundreds of amazing examples of modern westerns in movies and TV shows to enjoy. This list compiles the best of them all.
Which western movies and shows deserve the top spots on this list? Help decide by giving your favorites a thumbs up and adding any good movies or shows missing from the list.
Does this do the classics justice?


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Geoffrey Chaucer: riassunto della vita e opere
Appunto inviato da trilly81
Riassunto in inglese della vita e opere di Chaucer, in particolare le caratteristiche di "The Canterbury Tales" (1 pagine formato doc)
Geoffrey Chaucer, (c.
1340–1400), English poet, one of the most important figures in English literature.
He was born in London between 1340 and 1344; his parents were vine merchants in London. In 1357 he was in the service of Duke of Clarence, whom he served for many years. In 1372 , Chaucer went to Italy and stopped in Genoa and Florence and in his second trip to Italy, he went to Milan, where he became acquainted with Petrarch's and Bocciaccio's works. In his works, he introduces metrical innovation which were very important for the developement of English poetry.
He introduced the line based on syllabes and the use of ryme. Chaucer's death is in 1400. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Chaucer's literary activity is often divided into three periods.
The first period includes his early work (to 1370), which is based on French models, especially the Roman de la Rose, and the poems of Guillaume de Machaut.
Geoffrey Chaucer: riassunto in inglese
GEOFFREY CHAUCER: OPERE
Chaucer's second period (about 1387) is called Italian period because during this time his works were modeled primarily on Dante and Boccaccio. Major works of the second period include The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, and in english verse The Legend of good Women, a poem telling of nine classical heroines, which introduced a heroic couplet in a iambic pentameter. (Iambic pentameter is a line of five metrical feet, each foot of which consist of an unstressed sillable, follow by estressed one); and Troilus and Criseyde, based on Boccaccio's Filostrato, one of the great love poems in the English language, where he perfected the seven-line stanza later called rhyme royal.
Chaucer's final period is the English period which includes his masterpiece: The Canterboury Tales. This unfinished poem, is one of the most brilliant works in all literature: instead of 120 tales, he wrote only 22 stories. The poem introduces a group of pilgrims going on a pilgrimage to Thomas Becket's shrine in Canterbury. Chaucer himself was invited to join the company.
The pilgrims' tales include a variety of medieval genres. Chaucer was a master storyteller but because of a change in the language after 1400, his metrical technique was not fully appreciated until the 18th century.
The pilgrims can be divided into three main groups: a first group connected with the declining feudal wold (Knight, Yeoman...), a second group associated with religious life (Prioress, Monk...) and a third group including townspeople.
Geoffrey Chaucer: riassunto
GEOFFREY CHAUCER: CANTERBURY TALES
The Tales, are all written in verse (except two that are in prose) i.e. in couplets of ten syllables and five accents (Iambic pentameter).
The Canterbour Tales uses the narrative technique of a "tale within a tale". Boccaccio had used the same technique in his Decameron in which a groups of refugees escaping from the plague, and decide to tell each other stories. Chaucer also used "frame story", a story in which another story will appear.
Though apparently influenced by Boccaccio, Chaucer, differs from the italian writer:
- In Boccaccio, the storyteller are young gentlemen and ladies; Chaucer, instead, chose pilgrims from the most different classes.
-Boccaccio, was not analytical in his way of writing and focused his attention above all on manner. Chaucer was more precise and tied a psychological study of the single characters throught a very detailed description of the middle class of his time.
Letteratura straniera — Geoffrey Chaucer: riassunto breve in inglese della vita e opere dello scrittore famoso per la sua opera "The Canterbury Tales" e spesso riconosciuto come il padre della letteratura inglese
Letteratura straniera — Riassunto in inglese della vita di Geoffrey Chaucer e della sua opera The Canterbury Tales (prologo e "the friar")
The Canterbury Tales: trama e personaggi in inglese
Letteratura straniera — The Canterbury Tales: trama in inglese, descrizione dei personaggi, sruttura, caratteristiche, realismo e allegoria dell'opera di Geoffrey Chaucer
The merchant, Chaucer: riassunto
Letteratura straniera — Poetica di Chaucer, collegamenti con Dante e Boccaccio e riassunto breve in inglese del "Racconto del mercante", la decima novella del Canterbury Tales


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Still Lots of Gay Jokes
Comedians call James Franco homosexual as funny premise.
James Hamblin
Ariane Lange at Buzzfeed counted 26 gay jokes on last night's Comedy Central Roast of James Franco. I personally only counted 25, but that's because I was too busy having sex with other men—just kidding. Did I do it right? Or whatever, leave the jokes to the professionals, like Seth Rogen ("[Franco] told me he worked for 36 hours straight, which I don't believe. The straight part."), Nick Kroll ("I could see him being gay for a year as an art installation."), Andy Samberg ("James Franco has force-fed me so much dick, you could make foie gras out of my liver."), and Jonah Hill ("He's like our generation's Johnny Depp, if Johnny Depp was a worse actor who blew guys.")
Later on, Aziz Ansari called them out ("So many gay jokes right now.")
The thing about roasts is you can insult people for an hour, and they know you don't mean it. Like the roasting comedians never even thought of the terrible, outlandish things they're saying about the roastee. He's obsessed with himself, he's obsequious, he ignominiously sacrifices his dignity to advance his career, etc. It's just a roast, chill out. That's what makes it fun. You can even call a dude gay, and it's not actually an insult to him, only to gay people.
James Hamblin, MD, is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He hosts the video series If Our Bodies Could Talk and is the author of a book by the same title. | More


"Lucky" magazine has partnered with fine-jewelry manufacturer I.B. Goodman Company to create an exclusive contest that will reward the winner with a jewelry wardrobe valued at more than $10,000.
The manufacturer of fine jewelry for men and women in the U.S. joined forces with the publication to promote the designer Ze collection in the "Lucky Breaks" section of the November issue.
The contest requires Lucky readers to describe in a 100-word essay how they would "Dress Up A Little Black Dress" with jewelry from the Ze collection. The contest ends Nov. 30. A panel of judges, which includes jewelry industry and fashion experts, will review entries. The grand prizewinner will be selected based upon the originality and creativity of their response. The winner will then have the opportunity to choose from more than 30 ensembles of fine jewelry including lustrous pearls and vibrant colored stone designs that make up the collection.
The contest began on October 1 and the winner will be announced by Dec. 31.
Jill Zvaigzne, the award-winning designer behind the Ze collection, says that she believes the publication is an appropriate vehicle to promote her line.