Yes, most certainly. A short story about two boys who discover a hidden beach and the evil deadly secrets that lie within its soft white grains of sand. book Sistema De Referencia De Fotografia Digital: Estojo Michael Freeman Pdf Epub. The characters were not engaging, and the tensions between characters were insufficiently developed. With moving and often hilarious candor, Shields ruminates on a variety of subjects, all while exploring the impulse to confess, to use oneself as an autobiographical subject, to make one's life into a work of art. Children should read these books, they are well-written and can help foster a love for the "right word" and the well-turned phrase. The search for the woman's true identity takes a young male member of the family across the ocean with her in a detective-story-like search to movingly peel back her past, like onion layers. This is an awesome poem, and I can't believe that someone can weave a story like King Tut into a book like this. ISBN-10 8565837238 Pdf Epub. ISBN-13 978-8565837 Pdf. The author of each book is a specialist in his or her field, which guarantees readers solid advice and instruction that helps them know what to look for when acquiring a pet, feeding, housing, maintaining health care, and where applicable, grooming and training. Another important note: the lines of each page are referenced on the top-middle part of each page, so at a glance you know what range of lines a page contains. When she does something strange happens. I bought this book because I had watched her short reading on you tube. Book is as expected. This is a large, heavy book.


A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers is preparing to introduce legislation as soon as next week that would rein in President Donald Trump's ability to impose tariffs for national security reasons.
The 21-page draft bill aims to take away a tool the Trump administration has wielded to impose sweeping tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum — duties that led key trading partners like Canada, Mexico and the European Union to hit back with retaliatory measures that have hurt U.S. businesses and continue to put a strain on the economy. The administration is currently considering using the same mechanism — a statute known as Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 — to implement steep duties on imports of cars and car parts.
Under Section 232, the president has the ability to make a final determination on whether to levy import restrictions if a Commerce Department analysis determines that foreign imports are undermining U.S. economic interests in a way that poses a threat to national security.
The bill, currently being called the Bicameral Congressional Trade Authority Act, would take that unilateral power away from the executive branch by requiring congressional approval of any tariffs proposed under Section 232 before they could take effect, according to a draft of the legislation obtained by POLITICO.
If passed, the bill would also work retroactively to require a congressional vote of approval on any national security tariffs imposed within the last four years, such as those in place on steel and aluminum imports from most U.S. trading partners.
"Trade actions with such significant repercussions should not be solely within the authority of the executive," a one-page summary of the bill reads.
Sens. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) are co-leading the effort in the Senate, while Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Ron Kind (D-Wis.) are expected to introduce the House version, two sources close to the effort told POLITICO. The current target date for releasing the bill is Wednesday, the sources said.
A House aide added that Reps. Darin LaHood (R-Ill.) and Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.) have also signed on as co-leads.
A similar version of the bill was introduced last year, and despite support from a number of powerful business groups and a bipartisan array of lawmakers, congressional leaders showed little interest in picking it up — or crossing the president.
Like its predecessor, the latest bill would face an uphill battle to passage in either chamber, not to mention a likely veto from Trump. But the renewed effort to curtail Trump's tariff powers underscores how the president's willingness to impose sweeping duties on allies and adversaries alike remains a persistent source of uneasiness on Capitol Hill, among members of both parties.
That unease will only multiply if the president decides to trigger blanket tariffs on imports of cars and car parts — a move that would almost surely lead U.S. farmers and manufacturers to get hit with another wave of retaliatory duties. A Commerce Department report on the auto tariffs investigation is due the middle of next month.
Beyond requiring congressional approval, the bill would also seek to "restore national security intent" to the tariff process by moving the responsibility of investigating the need for duties to the Defense Department, from Commerce. Commerce would, however, retain the responsibility of determining the appropriate action if DoD determined a national security threat exists.
That marks a shift from the current statute, under which the Defense Department is able to provide only nonbinding input on national security tariffs, which Commerce and the White House can choose to ignore.
During the steel and aluminum investigations, for example, then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis wrote a memo saying the Pentagon did not believe the U.S. was at risk of not being able to get enough steel or aluminum for defense purposes, because the U.S. military's demand for those products is only about 3 percent of U.S. production. The tariffs have been in place since mid-2018.
The bill as currently written would require the U.S. International Trade Commission to spearhead an exclusion process for affected products. It would also mandate that the ITC prepare a report examining the effects of all recent and future tariffs imposed under the national security statute.
The legislative effort is the latest in a series of bills that have sought to alter the amount of authority the president has to impose tariffs. It stands in sharp contrast to legislation Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) introduced this week that would seek to expand the president's power by allowing him to raise tariffs unilaterally on specific products if he determined foreign countries were employing higher import barriers than the United States.
That bill, the Reciprocal Trade Act, has 18 Republican co-sponsors in the House and was being actively pushed by the White House on Capitol Hill. But top Republicans in both chambers have already made clear the legislation has little to no chance of advancing.


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Wheaton Eye Clinic treats urgent care patients during regular business hours, by appointment. An ophthalmologist is on-call after hours. Both can be reached through our main phone number: 630-668-8250. An operator will relay your information to the on-call physician.
If there is a life-threatening condition, 911 should be called, or the patient should immediately go to the nearest hospital emergency room. An eye emergency is a condition the patient perceives is not life-threatening, but needs immediate attention. Medical treatment should be sought immediately in the event of an eye injury.
Projectile objects, such as a ball or finger, can cause a wide range of damage including corneal abrasion, bleeding in the eye, fracture of the orbital bone, rupture of the eyeball or retinal detachment.
Activities such as grinding metal or trimming tree branches can disperse particles that become lodged in the eye.
Such occurrences can be devastating and commonly occur in laboratories or at home from accidental exposure to household cleaners, solvents or aerosol products.
Broken glass or a similar sharp object in the eye usually results in violent trauma.
Amateur use of fireworks or explosives has the potential to cause serious injury.
Whenever an eye injury occurs, certain steps must be taken in order to prevent serious damage and visual loss. If someone has been exposed to a harmful chemical, immediate irrigation of the eye with water is of utmost importance, even before a phone call to the ER is made. If a blunt or penetrating injury of the eye occurs, manipulation of the eye should be avoided since further damage could be caused. A shield (such as a makeshift one cut from a Styrofoam cup) should be placed over the eye. A pressure patch on the eye may be harmful after trauma and should be avoided.


New York last week passed a pro-abortion law that had long been supported by Democrats in the state Assembly but was unable to pass the Republican-controlled state Senate. However, in November, voters handed the Senate majority over to Democrats, who responded by approving the new pro-abortion legislation. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the bill into law.
Although Cuomo and Democrats exulted at the bill's passage, others have condemned it.
One of those firing back at Cuomo and New York state's gleeful Democrats is Dr. William Lile, an OB-GYN whose website, prolifedoc.com, makes his stand on abortion very clear.
Lile made a video that now on YouTube in which he said New York leaders are wrong to be celebrating death.
"If they're a patient they're a person, and if they are a person they deserve our protection," he said. "I've been in private practice almost 20 years and I've delivered almost 4,000 babies with two primary rules: We want to have a healthy mom and we want to have a healthy baby," he said.
Has New York crossed a horrible moral line?
"Celebrating what? The governor just signed a law saying that we can take the lives of the babies in the womb up until their due date. That's nothing to celebrate," he said.
Lile said that America cannot turn its back on doing what is right because doing right defines America.
Lile said that those who worship abortion will reap what they sow.
"There are consequences for actions, and unfortunately I think New York state will suffer consequences for this kind of horrible behavior," Lile said.
Bishop Edward Scharfenberger of the Albany Diocese also lambasted Cuomo, who claims to be Catholic, for the law.
Scharfenberger also noted that the law appears to be one step toward criminalizing anyone who does not follow the pro-abortion party line.
"If abortion is deemed a fundamental right in New York State, will the State then still be able to issue licenses to pro-life nurses or physicians? Will health facilities which do not provide abortions be certified? Will the law allow that even one dollar be given to maternity services without offering women the 'choice' of abortion? These are unanswered questions, but I shudder to think of the consequences this law will wreak. You have already uttered harsh threats about the welcome you think pro-lifers are not entitled to in our state. Now you are demonstrating that you mean to write your warning into law. Will being pro-life one day be a hate crime in the State of New York?" he wrote.
"Our young people especially, who have seen their sonograms and who follow the discoveries the sciences have made, know the lies and the despair that proponents of such dangerous and death-dealing legislation are promulgating, even if blindly or unwittingly. Giving up on life is no excuse for us as a responsible and compassionate people," he wrote.
"Let's not bequeath to our children a culture of death, but together build a more humane society for the lives of all of our fellow citizens," he added.


Read eBooks Control Unleashed: The Puppy Program [AUDIO MP3] Available!
Control Unleashed®: The Puppy Program is meant as "preventive medicine" for puppy raisers. Many common behavior problems can be either prevented or minimized by starting a puppy with good foundation training from the beginning. In addition, this book provides a program that will help you create a puppy that is ready for sport-specific training at the appropriate age-a puppy with the ability to focus on whatever you want, for as long as you want, whenever you want. "Paying attention" is its own skill set and teaching it should be separate from teaching your puppy more complex behaviors. Without attention, you won't get as far as you want with all those other behaviors you're going to teach because it's likely they will fall apart in the face of distraction. So it is wise to teach the attention skill set as the "base of operations" for your puppy training. The attention skill set includes: Discrimination skills, self-control skills, and arousal regulation skills. The concepts and suggestions in this book can also be used for rescue dogs that, like puppies, are starting out as "blank slates" as far as your training is concerned. About the Author Leslie McDevitt, MLA, CDBC, CPDT is a Certified Dog Behavior Consultant through the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants and a Certified Professional Dog Trainer through the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers. In 1998, Leslie rescued Gordie, an American Pit Bull/GSD cross that had been badly abused, and in trying desperately to help him through his crushing anxieties and fears, met her inspiration and mentor, world-renowned veterinary behaviorist Dr. Karen Overall. Through Gordie, Leslie found her calling and devoted herself completely to becoming a dog trainer, and later, a behavior consultant.


Fact: The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) openly admits to paying out Vaccine Injuries related to Autism. Though most media, refuse to report this.
" We have compensated cases in which children exhibited general brain disease (and) symptoms including autistic behaviour "
" A question to ask is this, why haven't paediatricians come forward to demand the end of the use of thimerasol once and for all?
And to advocate for the treatment of these children before it is too late for them to regain function lives? There is effective treatment for children with autism, and for many of them, if they are treated early enough, there is great hope for partial or even full recovery.
Why aren't paediatricians at the front of the line, protesting the amounts of mercury allowed to come out of Coal Fired Power Plants?
Why aren't they leading the charge to stop the use of Mercury amalgam dental fillings that are placed in the mouths of young children and pregnant women?
The very federal agencies that should have been sounding the alarm about environmental pollution creating future generations of mentally disabled citizens, did less than remain silent. Because they have become the arms of the very corporations that profit from selling and distributing poison.
When you look at who sits on the FDA Advisory Boards, it becomes obvious that the FDA has become a trade arm of 'Big Pharma'.
The conflicts of interest are so glaring that every American should question why this has happened.
The handwriting is on the wall because the US Government has been quietly settling Vaccine Brain Damage Cases in the Court of Federal Claims. The recent PACE Environmental Law Review has determined that many of these brain injured children, have autism. The American Academy of Paediatrics, the CDC, the FDA and plenty of other medical organisations have adopted the lies of big pharma. Without caring about the damage that is being done to the World's children.
I have been a member of the American Academy of Paediatrics for over 20 years. But when it became clear to me that the American Academy of Paediatrics was defending the use of Mercury in Vaccines when they knew it was damaging children, I had no choice but to resign from their fellowship."
"i think the Government or certain public health officials within the Government, have been too quick to dismiss the concerns of these families without studying the population that got sick".
Comments by the former Director of the CDC during a CNN interview: "Now we all know that Vaccinations can occasionally cause fevers in kids. So if a child was immunized, got a fever, had other complications from the Vaccine that, if you're predisposed with a Mirtochondrial disorder can certainly set off some damage. Some of the symptoms that carry the characteristics of Austism."
" If we now have better diagnosis of autism, then we should see a higher incidence of autism in older adults. However there are no studies, that have found these previous undiagnosed or misdiagnosed autistic adults among older Americans. They simply don't exist. Except in very small numbers. And that's because older Americans were not given the great numbers of Vaccines that the children of today are being given.
A genetic epidemic cannot exist, and therefore the increase of autism, has been linked to the increase in an environmental exposure.
This is now accepted as the probable cause. So the next logical thing to do is to trace all toxic exposures to their source.
We live in a world ruled by Corporate Interests and agendas that are not in the best interests of the citizens on this planet. "
"It's amazing to me today that the vast numbers of children who are not the same after the vaccines are simply ignored by the CDC and doctors who say there is no credible reason proof that vaccines contribute to autism. WHAT IN THE WORLD IS IT GOING TO TAKE?? "


At this year's Royal Melbourne Show, beef cattle prepared and shown by NMIT's Diploma of Agriculture students received numerous awards in the carcass judging and cattle handling competition.
In the Open Class for Export Steers, NMIT Epping campus student, Kirsten Stead, came in third place for steer on the hoof judging with an Angus steer bred at NMIT's Yan Yean farm. This animal was also the highest scoring school-bred export steer on the hoof in that class.
In the cattle handler competition (over 21 category), NMIT Epping campus students took out first, second and third place. First place went to Peter Bekiaris, second Madeline Logan and third Stephen Sierakowski.
First place recipient Peter Bekiaris was ecstatic with his win. "I was so excited to get first place, I couldn't believe it. It really is a win for everyone involved; all the students and teachers helped each other out to get the steers ready for competition.
"The steer I handled was a Charalois/Angus cross. To prepare for the show we were taught how to lead the steers around the ring and fed them a specialised feedlot mix," Mr Bekiaris said.
Chris Lawton from Lienerts Australia created the custom beef feedlot mix for the steers, and offered her advice to the students throughout the process in regards to animal health and nutrition.
In the cattle handler competition (over 18 category), NMIT students Peta Blackburn and Prue Phillips won awards, Peta second and Prue third.
In the carcass competition, cattle were judged on a range of meat quality criteria and specifications. The NMIT Yan Yean bred steers were very competitive in the export class being awarded third, sixth and tenth out of 37 exhibits.
In the Medium Domestic category, a Simmental donated and bred by Brenair Park, prepared and shown by NMIT Epping campus students was awarded sixth prize out of 47 exhibits.
NMIT's Agriculture and Animal Science Head of Department, Phil Tripp, said this was teacher, Reanna Clayton's, first year of coordinating the beef carcass program for the Melbourne Show.
"Reanna has done extremely well in her first year running the NMIT show team, the steers have never looked better. The awards are a credit to Reanna and the Diploma of Agriculture students. What makes it really special is that the majority of steers were bred at NMIT's very own farm in Yan Yean," Mr Tripp said.


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Book review: Identifying the informative "unusual" computationally
Anomaly Detection: Techniques and Applications
Saira Banu Atham, Shriram Raghunathan, Dinesh Mavaluru, and A. Syed Mustafa, Co-editors
A lot of learning happens by observing what happens normally. In many cases, identifying what happens in unusual contexts may also provide insight. In the computational space, "anomaly detection" in various available data is used in various practical applications, with real implications on people's daily lives. Anomalies refer to data deviations from a normal state of observed behaviors, beyond particular parameters. Anomalies are those data points at the far ends of the min-max range, the ends of the normal curve, the isolate datapoints in scatterplots, the unclustered datapoints in a 2D or 3D data representation. With multidimensional data, these are the datapoints that do not cluster.
Saira Banu Atham, Shriram Raghunathan, Dinesh Mavaluru, and A. Syed Mustafa are co-editors of Anomaly Detection: Techniques and Applications, which highlights some of the techniques and technologies to achieve anomaly detection in various systems.
Building trust between nodes
N. V. Kousik, R. Arshath Raja, N. Yuvaraq, and S. Anbu Chelian's "Secured and Automated Key Establishment and Data Forwarding Scheme for the Internet of Things" (Ch. 1) opens with the observation that data security is a major challenge for the Internet of Things' devices. An untrustworthy device may result in stolen data and malicious actions. They propose an approach that would enable the "optimal selection of the proxy server in terms of QoS constraints, where the cryptography would be performed" (p. 2) in Wireless Sensor Networks. They write: "This work ensures security by doing collaborative key management between sensor, proxies and server" (p. 2), based on the lightweight processing at the nodes. If two nodes cannot make a trust connection, that connection is not used, and the message reroutes through trusted nodes. Their technique is termed Secured and Automated Key Establishment using Modified BAT and Fuzzy Neural Network (SAKE-MBAT-FNN) to enable secured key handling (p. 16) for IoT security.
Evolutionary-based optimization
Algorithms for anomaly detection can harness any number of strategies and tactics to identify zero-day exploits that may end up compromising various technology systems. These algorithms are ranked based on their level of detection accuracy and their false positivity rates (inaccurately suspecting a zero day when one does not actually exist and ending up with false leads). False leads can burn time and effort when people try to track down and identify and neutralize threats.
Vidhya Sathish and Sheik Abdul Khader's "A Study of Enhanced Anomaly Detection Techniques Using Evolutionary-Based Optimization for Improved Detection Accuracy" (Ch. 2) proposes a method to improve performance of such systems in the wild, pitted against others' methods and systems in the cyber research community. Intrusion detection systems often are trained on known malicious signatures, which are then identified and defended against in perimeter security. Then, there are anomaly detection features that analyze network traffic to identify atypical features and behaviors that may indicate a system compromise under way. Intrusions have historically followed four patterns: denial of service attacks, probing attacks "that initiate network scanning with a malicious intent" to access system information, user-to-root access of protected information, and root-to-local attacks to "loot the information through authenticated user" (pp. 20-21). The point is to not only have the computational "learner" learn from the past but also from the present in an ongoing way and to identify indicators that are actual partial warning signals (vs. noise), even with unknown facts and incomplete information. Often the data are from the servers' log data and other captured information.
Given the speed at which compromises may occur, interventions have to be sufficiently responsive to head off an attack. Intrusion systems are generally either classifiers (non-malicious or malicious) or evolutionary-based (generally defined as emulating the "pheromone behavior of real species, mammals, ants, etc.) whilst hunting…prey" (p. 22) or hybrid ones combining the two approaches (Sathish & Khader, 2021, p. 23). In the real world, such systems have to work in different technologies and conditions; they have to work even as a system may be partially failing due to the attack. They have to be effective as a credible defense (against a world of adversaries) with the lowest-costing computational expense.
Based on research, a number of known attack methods have been profiled based on particular actions and tells. They include names such as the following: Neptune, smurf, teardrop, buffer overflow, perl, Nmap, satan, Multihop, and phf (Sathish & Khader, 2021, p. 26). The various methods involve various attributes, sequences of attributes, and interactions. The various approaches, which include cross-validations or other methods to improve performance, are tested on canonical datasets to assess performance with real-world data. Some of the early approaches show fairly high variances in performance. With the application of evolutionary-based approaches, the detection rates have improved, some to near 99%, and with false positive rates to a few percent.
Given the delay in publication and the need to protect methods, such research articles have a lag. Still, for learners, understanding how the community converges on a solution type based on expertise and empirical data may make for engaging reading.
Practical technologies and techniques for identifying outliers
In any number of contexts, identifying the outliers in a dataset may be informative. For example, in a blood lab panel, what numbers are unusual, and what do they suggest about a person's underlying health? In a group of employees, what does it mean that a person is high-achieving or low-achieving? In observing market trades, what does it mean when there is an unusual pattern of trades based on timing, costs, and target trades?
What is the relevance of a deviated datapoint or a cluster of them? What makes the anomaly stand out? What does the anomaly mean? How is the outlier data relevant in the particular context? Can the same phenomenon be seen using other data sources? When are such anomalies seen, and why? What explains the average, the normative, and why?
Huichen Shu's "Anomaly Detection and Applications" (Ch. 3) explores some commonly available software programs (both commercial and open-source) and their respective statistical methods that may be used to identify anomalies. Traditional outlier detection algorithms used "probabilistic and statistical, linear, proximity-based, and high dimensional methods" (p. 47), with varying levels of fit to different data contexts. [The author notes that a number of available technologies may be used: Matlab, SPSS, R, and others. Users may have their own preferences based on different user interfaces and data visualization outputs.]
Shu reviews the uses of principal component analysis (PCA) and Eventual PCA for outlier detection. The author writes of a data graph: "…the points distributions are along two vectors, namely, u1 and u2. Intuitively, there are more samples in (the) u2 direction; the PCA model would regard u2 direction as an output to present the original dataset. The point of PCA is to find proper directions like u1 and u2 by the covariance matrix. Logically, points that are generated with the same principle would match the same directions. So the samples do not match the directions that most observations match and are hence regarded as Outliers" (Shu, 2021, pp. 51-52).
Another approach involves Support Vector Machines, particularly the One-Class SVM. Here, the model determines the boundary for membership: those inside are not outliers. The svm subpackage in sklearn in Python or the One-Class LIBSVM Anomaly Score in RapidMiner may be used to achieve this (Shu, 2021, p. 54). In another, neural network modeling is applied to identify anomalies with a high level of perceptrons or layers to capture nuanced details. (p. 56) Clustering is introduced as an effective method, with the idea that whatever datapoints are not within a particular size cluster are outliers (Shu, 2021, pp. 58-59). [I'd thought that the author was going to assert something similar with the PCA, that any attributes not pulled into one of the main components would be labeled outliers.] So, too, with the nearest neighbor types of similarity analyses (pp. 61-62). There are density-based methods, too (p. 62); high-dimension outlier detection (taking into consideration multiple aspects of the datapoints) [with the caveat that the data must include "proper subsets of dimensions to explore outliers" (p. 67)]; an "isolation forest" approach (pp. 68 – 69), and others. There is a short section on integrated models at the end.
This work may spark new ideas about how to identify anomalies in less traditional ways. This work does not offer insights on how to clean data, how to set parameters, or how to approach findings with nuances. The accuracy and recall assessments of the approaches are based on a limited dataset (a few were used in the various assessments).
While the author offers some light assessments of the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, the evaluations seem more specific to the data or the particular run vs. a full evaluation of the particular modeling approach for outlier detection. That said, using statistical tools and modeling from data (and then assessing predictivity outcomes) are important sequences to practice and learn. Forming that capability to reason through how to conduct statistical analyses is an important professional skill. Still, it is important not to under-estimate the complexity of such reasoning, and the importance of building on accepted methods within a field before using tools non-normatively. Some of these approaches read as too freewheeling to be accepted in different academic contexts. Too many will learn to just start up a computer program, ingest some data unthinkingly, and then come out with a data visualization that they try to publish, even when it is not fully set up or reasoned. The assertions may be unintelligible or indefensible, at least in relation to the data. Too many assume that there is a one-button solution to complex data analyses. It also helps to have some level of intimacy with the data, so that the anomalies, once identified, can be better understood.
On the Social Internet of Things (SIoT)
The core vision for the Social Internet of Things (SIoT), from 2014, applies a social layer to the IoT. In this approach, the various objects (sensors, devices, and other technologies) can establish social relationships with each other autonomously. This way, "friendship" between trusted objects may resulted in higher efficiencies…for people. The IoT can enable heightened conveniences and use cases for people. There can be different ways to analyze the data from the IoT. "Smart" and "social" are combined.
To enable that vision, the various devices in an IoTs assembly have to be able to interoperate with various other devices, connect in trustworthy ways, identify other devices accurately, represent the self accurately, exchange information without leaking it (to third parties), and enable safe interactions—in efficient ways, even with light resources. The prior challenges need to be overcome if the SIoT as a paradigm can be realized, according to Dinesh Mavaluru and Jayabrabu Ramakrishnan in "An Evolutionary Study on SIoT (Social Internet of Things)" (Ch. 4). The creation of trust has to work across the five levels of the IoT: perception (sensors), network (data transmission and exchange), middleware, application (services), and business layers (pp. 79 - 81). The rush to market for various IoT devices has meant that security has been overlooked in various IoT hardware, save "a meagre (sic) protection by implementing software-based solution" (p. 82), which is insufficient. Based on the so-called "CIA triad," security requires that data is kept confidential, accurate (with integrity, not changed), and available to authorized users (pp. 83-84). The coauthors suggest the importance of setting regulations and standards for the quality of the underlying technologies in the IoTs and the SIoTs. They point to various extant standards that need to be adhered to for the various layers of the IoT. Perhaps as quality is adhered to and particular objects and nodes in the IoTs can select their trusted friends, this will force lesser players in the market out and ensure the retention of quality. Or it may mean a separating of sociality among the devices within the inner circle and outer ones.
Reading human emotional states from observed expressions
Jayabrabu Ramakrishnan and Dinesh Mavaluru's "A Critical Study on Advanced Machine Learning Classification of Human Emotional State Recognition Using Facial Expressions" (Ch. 5) provides an in-depth review of the literature of the applications of deep learning to the identification of human expressions, in dynamic play over human features. This chapter begins with some contexts in which machine recognition of human emotions may be relevant in human-computer interactions: "medical treatment, sociable robotics, driver weariness reconnaissance, and numerous other human-computer association frameworks" (p. 94).
The study of human expressions has had a fairly long history, over generations. With the advent of machine vision and machine learning, among other advances, various algorithms may be applied to the pre-processing of facial imagery, the extraction of features, and then their classification as having various emotions. The output variable of the Facial Expression Recognition (FER) system is the identified emotion (happiness, surprise, smile, sadness, anger, fear, or disgust) (Ramakrishnan & Mavaluru, 2021, p. 95) as a prediction. This review focused on various researchers' uses of deep learning based classifiers as applied to different facial expression databases. As research is published, there is a value to reviewing available works and extracting the most important aspects. Their conclusion: "The deep learning-based classifier represented the best results in terms of recognition accuracy, which represents an accuracy of 99.6% for facial expressions" (p. 127).
Anomaly detection for wireless sensor networks
Many locales use deployed sensors to enable smart awareness and other functions, in various environments. One technological challenge is how to collect data from various sensors and sources, various clusters, in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), and transfer it safely in a way that people can access and sense-make and use. Beski Prabaharan and Saira Banu's "Anomaly Detection for Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks" (Ch. 6) proposes a method in which data is moved securely, validated, and stored at the base station. Anomaly detection is a part of the sequence in order to identify untrustworthy nodes and untrusted data. Their methods involve both homogeneous and heterogeneous WSNs.
Detecting anomalous users…in real time…based on call records
"There are still billions of people connected around the world, who depend on the normal phone calls" begins Saira Banu and Beski Prabaharan's "Algorithm for Real Time Anomalous User Detection from Call Detail Record" (Ch. 7). Indeed, the long-standing challenge of heading off spam calls (and other types of spam) has been with humanity for many years. It continues through the present in both developed and developing countries. This work describes a method to enable spam detection by identifying anomalous users from Call Detail Records (p. 151). The work is aided by a general sense of spam caller features: the actualizing of bulk messages for "financial or personal gain" and including the use of harassment. One Android app described uses an identified database of spammers to label the origin of incoming calls on the device (p. 153). In a summary of other methods, these include different levels of approaches: system, server-based, or client-based…and depend on categorizing communications based on contents and / or feedback. The researchers describe the granular contents of a call record (p. 155) and calculate a Trust Value based on selected aspects of the call record. It is unclear how effective this approach might be, and the process does not seem to have been tested.
Securing informational transactions over the Web
Syed Mustafa and Madhivanan's "Secured Transactions from the Anomaly User" (Ch. 8) provides an overview of how informational transactions are secured, with HTTPS secure connection, protected password Hashing, not to expose info in URL, and also…Oauth authorization framework" and the SSL/TLS cryptographic protocol in the transport layer. The authors describe microservices using REST API and SOAP "to secure the transaction through 2-way SSL using Spring Boot Technology" (p. 159). For the common reader, it helps to know some of the efforts deployed to protect their uses of the Internet for so many aspects of their lives and their privacy and data. For developers, this may apply to some professional use cases. Given the speed of change, it is hard to know what is still timely and what is not.
Anomaly Detection: Techniques and Applications, by Saira Banu Atham, Shriram Raghunathan, Dinesh Mavaluru, and A. Syed Mustafa (2021), provides some helpful insights about some foundational practices in "anomaly detection," described broadly, and applied practically to various socio-technical and other systems.
Discussion of "Book review: Identifying the informative "unusual" computationally"
Social Internet of Things (SIoT) data security anomaly detection human emotion detection outlier detection data integrity data availability data confidentiality book review machine learning Internet of Things (IoT) facial expression detection
Related: Book review: Analyzing big data for real-world value, Book review: Using social media for social goods, Book review: Harnessing intercultural education for a more inclusive world

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Ripple Labs shows interest in buying Celsius
By Lucy Adegbe
Ripple Lab has reportedly declared interest in buying the assets of Celsius Network. According to Reuters, a spokesperson of the blockchain firm had revealed this after Celsius filed for bankruptcy, noting that the assets will help them.
"We are interested in learning about Celsius and its assets, and whether any could be relevant to our business," the spokesperson said, however, not commenting on Ripple's decision to buy Celsius.
With the current state of the crypto market, Ripple has grown as a payment company.
It will be recalled that Celsius had halted withdrawals on its platforms, citing market conditions. Having a deficit of $1.19 billion in its balance sheet, the company later filed for bankruptcy.
Ripples, accumulated over $408.9 million from the sale of its digital assets – XRP.
While the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit against Ripple continues to drag on, it is unclear whether Ripple's potential acquisition of Celsius will pull through.


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School staff Email Education Support Office Email Directorate Intranet
North Ainslie Primary School
Our World School
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North Ainslie Primary Hazardous Materials
COVID-19 safety at our school
Our Healthy Eating Hub
Oval Rejuvenation
Start of the year information
Principal Message – our journey so far
Message from the North Ainslie Primary School P&C
Plans for the North Ainslie Primary School oval upgrade
At North Ainslie Primary School, we value our school community and the facilities that support the best learning opportunities for our students. Working together with our Parents and Citizens' Association (P&C) and local school community we are looking to upgrade our school's oval space.
This project will provide not only a considered and multi-use space for our school to play, learn and connect to Country, but will also be a wonderful and sustainable facility for our local community.
Our Journey so far - Principal, Tania Collis
The rejuvenation of our oval is a project that will bring a whole new lease of life to our play and learning spaces here at North Ainslie.
The project commenced in 2017 when the P&C and the school began working together to improve the quality of the oval. We started looking at our budgets, saving money and investigating grants that might help us with funding.
During this phase, one simple question changed everything: "Have we really had a look at how the children play and use the oval at break times?"
So, we looked.
Using a drone, we discovered a myriad of activities taking place across the space. Some activities were structured games such as touch football, soccer, and cricket. Then there were the chasing games, the imaginative games and the students chatting and socialising under trees.
We then looked at the space and how it was used for lessons, with multiple classes often sharing the area as they played games and taught fundamental skills. This formed the idea of multiple grassed areas for games and lessons, different in size and in different areas of the larger oval space.
As a school community, we are also on our Cultural Integrity Journey as we learn more about Indigenous Perspectives and how we can help to Care for Country. This led to collaborating with our P&C on workshops for teachers, families, and students, and with Indigenous Community Leaders, Uncle Tyronne Bell and Adam Shipp to finalise the design you see here today.
We are excited to bring to our community a space that recognises Indigenous Perspectives, with a yarning circle at its centre and plants that represent that we live on Ngunnawal land. A space where we can all come together to share social occasions and further develop our community connections. A space where our teachers and students can develop skills that will last them a lifetime and help to keep them fit, physically and mentally. A space that invites children to play, to explore, to learn and to laugh.
Tania Collis
It is so exciting to see this project finally about to start construction! The Parents' and Citizens' Association of North Ainslie Primary (NAPS P&C) have been working towards an upgrade to the school's oval space for many years.
We have involved all school staff, students, parents, carers, and the community in transforming the oval into an exciting, inviting, engaging, and enduring multi-purpose playscape.
The project has evolved over the last few years, and it was such a joy to see our Student Leaders step up in 2020, working with their peers, school staff, parents, and Indigenous experts to co-design a space that centres and reflects their needs.
The P&C were delighted to secure a Nature in the City grant in 2020, which will be used to create a water-smart underground system to ensure our plants survive and thrive in the future, and we even started a native plant nursery on the grounds, to grow our own plants and build on our students learning about the natural world. We continue working closely with the ACT Government and school to deliver our collective community vision for this space.
Uncle Tyronne Bell kindly shared some Ngunnawal language with us to describe the space, which translates to Play, Learn, Discover. We can't wait to see our kids and community do just that as this beautiful patch of Ngunnawal country continues to nurture us for many years to come.
The construction will take place in a number of phases over the coming years, with the first stage of the project starting in 2021.
We value your support and your skills. Please visit our P&C webpage to learn more about this project and see how you might be able to help and get involved.
In 2020, North Ainslie Primary School Student Leaders wrote a letter to the ACT Government, outlining why they wanted their oval space upgraded with assistance from the Government coupled with funding from the school and the P&C. The students also created a provocation presentation for years 3-6 students to get them thinking about their vision for an oval upgrade, in order to create a concept and master plan for their outdoor space.
Below are some examples of student work resulting from the provocation project, describing how they currently use the oval and what they would like to see in their future outdoor space.
Year 3-4 Class:
"Knowing that the hard work put into this project by us student leaders will pay off and benefit future generations of children, has kept us going throughout the long lunches and the exhausting meetings. This journey has been a once in a lifetime opportunity and we hope future students will benefit from our hard work, decades into the future," wrote 2020 Student Leaders Isla, Grace, Amy, Hugo, George and Oscar.
The upgrade of the school's oval space will take place in the highlighted area of the school grounds, adjacent to the existing bike track:
See below for an artist's impression of what is proposed for the upgrade of the Senior Oval, including:
a central Aboriginal yarning circle
multiple grassed areas for community sport, play and learning
landscaped space for plants, including native plant species
areas for sitting and a path leading from the school to the oval area
Construction on the oval area is planned to commence from October 2021 and be completed in early 2022 (weather and ACT Government health directions permitting).
Student safety is our priority, so while work is underway, part of the oval grounds will be cordoned off. However, the bike track, the 'Spider Web' and play equipment will all remain open and accessible for school and community use.
The natural elements of this project are central to our vision and all efforts will be made to ensure they thrive by having the best possible start.
If you have questions about these works, please email ACT.Education@act.gov.au. Watch this page as we share updates on construction and bring you Frequently Asked Questions soon.


Total of 3 large bags/boxes of snacks throughout the year. 1 now, others at a later date when notified by the teacher.Suggestions-goldfish, animal crackers, chex mix, etc.Please no sugary snacks or individual packages.
Please have crayons, scissors and glue at home for homework.


When the temperature rises, treat your vehicle the same way you treat yourself – take some extra precautions to stay cool and in control to help avoid trouble.
Check engine coolant. If your coolant level is low or your coolant has lost its strength over time, you run a greater risk of overheating your engine.
in hot temperatures. An inspection at your Ford or Lincoln Dealership will help reveal if your battery still has the power to perform reliably.
Change your oil and filter. This is always a must for your vehicle, and it's especially important in hot conditions. Proper lubrication with the right grade of clean oil and a fresh oil filter helps your engine endure the stress of extreme heat.
You need your fluids. Brake fluid, power steering fluid and windshield washer fluid should all be topped off as a precautionary measure.
Inspect the air conditioner. If your climate control isn't working properly, you and your passengers can get very uncomfortable. A dealership service technician will check for leaks in the A/C system and add refrigerant if needed.
Check the wipers. Extreme heat and sun exposure will wear down their effectiveness. If they streak or smear, it's time for new wipers.
Make sure tires are properly inflated. Underinflated tires rob you of gas mileage and are also a safety hazard. Overinflated tires can also wear out prematurely and create unsafe handling. Check your tire pressure frequently to make sure they're within the manufacturer's recommended limits, since tire pressure can increase as the temperature rises or road friction builds up heat. Also check your spare tire regularly to keep it properly inflated.
Most roads and highways that cross elevated terrain are largely smooth and present little risk. However, some require extra skill to maneuver safely and with as little wear on your vehicle as possible.
Avoid driving on roads that cross steep slopes. You could lose traction and slip sideways if you try driving on them. Try to drive straight up and straight down steep slopes or it may be best to avoid the hill completely. Be conscious of the conditions on the other side of a hill before driving over the crest.
Start in a low gear. When climbing a steep hill, downshifting can put strain on the engine and possibly lead to stalling. Starting the ascent in a lower gear is better than downshifting later.
Take it slow. Observe all posted speed limits on curves, inclines, declines and straight-aways.
Don't ride your brakes. When traveling down steep grades, riding your brakes to keep your vehicle's momentum in check puts unnecessary strain on your braking system and leads to overheating. If you're driving a manual transmission vehicle, shift to a low gear before beginning your descent to let the engine slow your vehicle instead.
Be courteous. If you're driving a heavy recreational vehicle or hauling a trailer up a long mountain slope, pull over and let other vehicles pass when you can do so safely.
Plan ahead. Most roads that are particularly winding or hilly are clearly marked. Still, before your mountain trip, plan your route around the least difficult roads, especially if you are towing a camper, trailer or recreational vehicle.
Planning ahead is crucial to safe driving. You should prepare yourself for the possibility of a situation in which you have to react evasively, think quickly, and keep yourself and your vehicle from harm at the hands of another driver.
Find yourself an empty parking lot or deserted, infrequently traveled road and get to know how your vehicle responds to the following tactics. Make sure to practice both in normal and slippery conditions. With a little practice, you'll have an emergency plan and the skills to execute it.
Practicing defensive maneuvers should be kept to a minimum in order to avoid excessive wear on the vehicle – just enough to be comfortable with how you and your vehicle respond.
Quick stops. With your vehicle traveling at 25-30 mph or 40-48 kph, try to make as quick a stop as possible. Press firmly on the brake pedal to get a sense of just how effective your anti-lock brake system can be in an emergency.
Swerving. In your practice environment, steer your vehicle quickly one lane over and back again to simulate maneuvering around an obstacle.
Swerving while stopping. Next, try turning your vehicle quickly one lane over while pressing firmly on the brake pedal. This maneuver is best used to avoid a collision with an object or vehicle in front of you while giving a vehicle behind you enough room to stop as well.


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Lines Busy, but Hadassah Pushes Stem Cell Case with White House
Hadassah members are trying to get their message on stem cell research to the White House — all at once. Members of the women's Zionist group swamped White House phone lines Tuesday, petitioning President Bush to reverse his position on stem cell research.
Hadassah says expanding the use of stem cells in medical research could provide new treatments and cures for deadly diseases.
Bush allowed research using existing stem cell lines from 2001, but few of those lines are still viable today. Stem cells are extracted from embryos and can be manipulated to create various human blood and tissue cells. The lines are cell groups extracted from embryos, and are capable of reproducing themselves.
No further lines are available for use under current administration policy.
"What President Bush knew and what scientists knew in 2001 is a lot different from what we know now," said Marla Gilson, Hadassah's Washington representative. "I! t's time to allow new lines to be formed and those lines to be formed with federal funding."
To make their voices heard, about 1,500 Hadassah members all tried to call the White House at the same time during their conference in Phoenix.
Hadassah President June Walker went first, calling the White House on a speaker-phone as members listened on. She began to make her case to a White House operator before being transferred to a comment line.
Using cell phones, the membership then began to call en masse. Many of them received busy signals or could not complete their calls from the ballroom.
Hadassah sees itself as the premier supporter of stem cell research, fostered by the work of Hadassah hospitals in Israel, which have championed research in that area and which co-own several stem cell lines.
Researchers at Hadassah hospitals recently found that the use of stem cells alleviated Parkinson's disease in rats.
The group is rolling out a national education! campaign for its members, explaining the religious issues in stem cel l research and suggesting tools to bring the issue to legislators.
The group also is looking get support for stem cell research from states, planning a day in March 2005 in which Hadassah members will march on all 50 state capitals, urging state legislators to pass pro-stem cell legislation.
Jewish groups largely support stem cell research, and they have been working with like-minded organizations to urge its expanded use. Jewish ethicists largely have concluded that Jewish tradition allows embryos to be destroyed if the research has the potential to benefit society.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Tuesday that Bush is strongly committed to advancing medical research and combating disease.
"He also believes strongly that while we should explore the promise of stem cell research, we should do so in a way that doesn't cross a certain moral line," McClellan said.
One administration official said the White House had contacted Hadassah more than a mon! th ago to offer a representative to speak at their conference but was rebuffed.
Shelley Klein, Hadassah's director of advocacy, said she believed the phone campaign was a productive way to get the group's message across.
"There's nothing more productive than grass-roots efforts," she said. "As an organization, its important to let President Bush know how many people care about this issue."


Passionate Prayers for Children is a journal designed for families to join together and passionately pray spiritual and physical desires over a child. This journal is for all ages, from the newborn baby to someone in high school. A journal format allows a family to document all of the blessings prayed over a child as they grow and remember where God has answered prayers. Share these journals with family and friends who will unite in prayer over a child. Matthew 18:20 says, "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." When a child is old enough, use this journal as a daily devotional. They will learn how to look scripture up and learn what God's word says about a variety of topics. It is a great way to wrap a day with a child up, to see what the bible says and why the family desires that prayer for them. Please visit prayerwithpurpose.com to find additional resources, daily prayer devotionals and a lot of helpful information.


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Literary Collections / Ancient & Classical
Ancient & Classical
Browse Books: Literary Collections / Ancient & Classical
Greek Myths: A New Retelling (Hardcover)
By Charlotte Higgins, Chris Ofili (Drawings by)
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Paperback)
By Sophocles, Robert Fagles (Translated by), Bernard Knox (Introduction by), Bernard Knox (Notes by)
The Message New Testament-MS (Experiencing God) (Paperback)
By Eugene H. Peterson (Translator)
The Poetic Edda (Paperback)
By Lee M. Hollander (Translated by)
Oriental Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume II (Paperback)
By Joseph Campbell
Meditations (Paperback)
By Marcus Aurelius
The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Paperback)
By Aeschylus, Robert Fagles (Translated by), Robert Fagles (Introduction by), W. B. Stanford (Introduction by), Robert Fagles (Notes by), W. B. Stanford (Notes by)
The Pocket Epicurean (Hardcover)
By John Sellars
A Thing of Beauty: Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece (Hardcover)
By Peter Fiennes
Shakespeare Box Set (RP Minis) (Hardcover)
Great Dialogues of Plato (Mass Market)
By Plato, W. H. D. Rouse (Translated by), Matthew S. Santirocco (Introduction by)


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Living with Alzheimer's Film Project
Highly-rated
directed by eliot rausch
A man struggles to remember his past.
directed by Veronica Barbosa
A college girl returns home after a year abroad to discover her beloved grandma has Alzheimer's and now must accept the present.
directed by Swati Srivastava
A short film dealing with a heart-breaking dilemma faced by an Alzheimer's caregiver.
Restorative Rhythms: The Power of Music Therapy
directed by David Reiss
Seth Laucks presents a Dave Reiss film about the Power of Music Therapy.
directed by Peter O'Brien
Rose is a short documentary that portrays a daughter's despair as she comes to terms with having to put her own mother into a nursing home.
RUN TOMORROW – LIVING WITH DEMENTIA
directed by Yasuhiro Tamura
A film featuring a nationwide marathon aiming to bring together people with dementia and others.
Saving Steve Goodwin's music before Alzheimer's can steal it
directed by Teresa Mahoney
A lifelong pianist struggled to play as his memory began to fade. A professional musician brought his songs to life again.
directed by Andrew Barrie
A son tries to reconnect with his estranged father who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
directed by Cesa Pledger
Two women search for connection in the midst of heart-wrenching grief and loss.
directed by Andrew Garbus
A middle-aged man visits his father and grapples with the impacts and effects of Alzheimer's disease.
directed by Jeff Morrison
Thought you might be encouraged by a son who is struggling with forgiving his father who now has Alzheimers.
directed by Edward Choi
'Sunflower' is a short film about an old man named Charles, who reminisces life through memories at a hospital.
directed by Mark Lundsten
Liz has Alzheimer's and refuses to take a bath.
The Days Are Getting Longer
directed by Ted Terrenoire
Filmed in a single day, this story captures the life of a husband as he cares for his wife who is a victim of Alzheimer's.
The Genetics of Alzheimer's
directed by David Shenk
A short, animated film, narrated by David Hyde Pierce, on the genetics of the disease.
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We're Investing $1 Million in Respiratory Research!
When you can't breathe, nothing else matters. That's why two of Saskatchewan's leading health research funding organizations are looking to the future with a long-term investment of $1 million over five years.
Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation (SHRF) and Lung Sask have built a strong relationship over the years with a common objective of supporting health research in Saskatchewan.
This new investment will be dedicated to furthering health research in the areas of Indigenous peoples' lung health, cannabis and impact on lung health, and patient and caregiver education.
2021-2022 Competition Now Open - Solutions Program - Addictions Focus
SHRF is pleased to launch the first of its new programs, developed in response to engagement with the research community, partners, and other stakeholders and in line with SHRF's strategic plan and Board direction. This new program, called the Solutions Program, will be a peer-reviewed, competitive funding program to support direct research costs for interdisciplinary teams, including knowledge users conducting projects with measurable impact in focused areas.
The Solutions Program - Addictions focus is looking for teams to identify innovative and impactful approaches to address the entire addictions trajectory – from prevention and screening, to harm reduction, treatment and recovery. Working together, including those with lived/living experiences, is a way to help ensure strategies are effective, and services provide the necessary supports.
As a partner funder of the Solutions Program, Lung Sask is inviting applications through this program that focus on Indigenous peoples' lung health, lung health, and patient and caregiver education.
For more information about the Solutions Program, including information about important dates and application information, please visit the following link:
Solutions Program
Breathing as One: Research Competitions
Lung Sask is pleased to launch the request for applications for 2021 Lung Sask Breathing as One: Research Competitions.
Breathing as One: Allied Health Research Grants
Breathing as One: Allied Health Research Fellowships
Breathing as One: Research Fellowships and Studentships
Registration deadline: August 9, 2021 by 3:30pm EDT
Application deadline: August 27, 2021 by 3:30pm EDT
Details and competition documents are available at: Canadian Lung Association Research Funding page.


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Bezos' soon-to-be ex could be world's richest woman
Mr Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie. They met when he interviewed her for a job at New York hedge fund D. E. Shaw & Co in 1993.PHOTO: BLOOMBERG
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MacKenzie Bezos could leave with $89b if assets are split 50:50, but this may be unlikely
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nghuiwen@sph.com.sg
While Wall Street has taken the news of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos divorcing his wife of 25 years in its stride, investors will be watching to see if the divorce settlement affects his control of the giant company.
Mr Bezos, the world's richest man, announced his split from his wife MacKenzie on Wednesday, saying in a statement that "though the labels might be different, we remain a family, and we remain cherished friends".
While Mrs Bezos does not hold any Amazon shares directly, Mr Bezos has a 16.1 per cent stake worth about US$130 billion (S$175 billion). Forbes magazine now estimates his overall net worth at US$137.1 billion.
Bloomberg reported that so long as the company is growing and returning profits, he will probably maintain investors' confidence.
The couple, who live in Washington state, last year pledged US$1 billion to fight homelessness in the US.
Meanwhile, the divorce could make Mrs Bezos the world's richest woman.
Here are five things you should know about her.
1 A PRINCETON GRADUATE AND AN AUTHOR OF TWO BOOKS
Mr Bezos, 54, has often acknowledged Mrs Bezos, 48, for her support when he founded Amazon, which grew from an online bookseller to become of the world's largest retailers.
Mrs Bezos grew up in San Francisco; her father was a financial planner and her mother a housewife. She studied English at Princeton University, where she was an assistant to novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison.
Amazon's Jeff Bezos, wife MacKenzie to divorce
It took her a decade before she published her debut novel, a psychological thriller entitled The Testing Of Luther Albright, that won the 2005 American Book Award.
2 A WHIRLWIND ROMANCE
When Mrs Bezos was trying for a job at New York hedge fund D. E. Shaw & Co in 1993, the first person to interview her at the firm turned out to be Mr Bezos, who was then a senior vice-president. She got the job as a research associate.
In a 2013 interview with Vogue magazine, she was quoted as saying: "My office was next door to his, and all day long, I listened to that fabulous laugh.
"How could you not fall in love with that laugh?"
Mrs Bezos, then 23 years old, told the magazine that she made the first move to woo her future husband by suggesting lunch.
Within three months of their lunch date, the couple were engaged. And another three months later, they tied the knot. The couple have four children: three sons and a daughter, adopted from China.
3 ONE OF AMAZON'S EARLIEST EMPLOYEES
Mrs Bezos was considered one of Amazon's earliest employees when the firm was founded in 1994. She helped with the accounting in its first year.
World's richest man, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, to divorce after 25 years of marriage
Investors ask how the Bezos divorce will affect Amazon
Mr Bezos has always been outspoken about his wife's unwavering support during that period.
"When you have loving and supportive people in your life, like MacKenzie, my parents, my grandfather, my grandmother, you end up being able to take risks," he had said.
4 SHE COULD BECOME THE WORLD'S RICHEST WOMAN
Mrs Bezos could become the world's richest woman with the divorce, reported local and international news outlets.
Divorce lawyer Sandy Ain told The Washington Post that the Bezos family reside in a "common property" state, which means that all the assets and debts accumulated during their marriage would be divided equally.
With Mr Bezos being the richest person in the world, a 50:50 agreement would result in the biggest recorded divorce settlement, reported The Washington Post.
This means that Mrs Bezos could walk away from the divorce with about US$66 billion (S$89 billion), making her the richest woman in the world, according to CNBC.
However, a divorce lawyer told CNBC that a 50:50 split is unlikely, as Mr Bezos' wealth is tied to his controlling stake in Amazon.
This also may not be the case if the couple have a pre-or post-nuptial agreement. The couple or Amazon have yet to comment on the likely division of their assets.
5 WAS SHE DUMPED FOR A FORMER TV ANCHOR?
Jeff Bezos, newly divorcing, now seeing Lauren Sanchez-Whitesell https://t.co/Psdx1aA6ry pic.twitter.com/BBxInZ2PX8
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 9, 2019
Soon after Mr Bezos and Mrs Bezos revealed their plan to divorce, reports suggested that Mr Bezos has been in a secret relationship with Ms Lauren Sanchez, a former TV anchor and the estranged wife of Hollywood talent mogul Patrick Whitesell.
Celebrity-news site Page Six reported that Mr Bezos got to know Ms Sanchez, a former anchor of television channel Fox's Good Day LA, through Mr Whitesell. Mr Bezos and Ms Sanchez reportedly became closer after her separation from Mr Whitesell.
SOURCES: REUTERS, PEOPLE.COM, VOGUE, WALL STREET JOURNAL, CNBC, BLOOMBERG, WASHINGTON POST, WIRED, THE NEW YORK POST
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on January 11, 2019, with the headline 'Bezos' soon-to-be ex could be world's richest woman'. Print Edition | Subscribe
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At work, but not really awake yet. It's gonna be a multiple cup of coffee kind of day.
Oh yeah, and it's still ****ing hot and humid.
Gawd, what is up with you east coast deadbeats?
Got carb cleaner in my eye yesterday afternoon, it burns us!
'Morning! Saw my knee doc yesterday for the last time (I hope). I'm doing great. I can road bike and run as much as I want. Doc didn't seem to give two turds when I told him how much I've already been running. Still no MTB for 4-6 more weeks though. I have to complete advanced rehab first, which is a lot of cutting, pivoting, and jumping. So far everything I have done has been linear movements. A month more of rehab and I'll be officially RECOVERED.
Duathlon brick workout last night in the heat and wind. 20 mile bike, 5K run. It was brutal.
Rain. Rain. Rain. More rain. That is all.
Bikes are in the shop for fork overhauls.
Gotta find the wifey a new ride this weekend.
"Corn Dog Day" at work. We also have Ice Cream Day and Fried Dough day regularly. This is what it's like to work in the South.
Mornin! Just letting this week bleed out in anticipation of vacation next week. Ordered up some new bling for the bike, got a shock bushing kit, upsized the brake rotors for 7 inchers and got a set of adapters. It'll be the first stuff I have replaced in over a year.
Work is busy, weather is good but snow on the mountains again.
Luckily Buffalo has nice weather the rest of the year.
Raining yet again in the PNW. Taught my sister about her camera yesterday. Today we are going to a book store to find her a book on it. Maybe some shooting later today.
You're in the PNW. And you're going to a bookstore. And it's been raining.
The landscaping company was outside doing their typical work around the building at work. Although, this time it was two woman workers who were here. The women at work were complaining cause the workers were outside in just shorts and sports bras.
I did not hear any complaints from the men.


A cognitive map is a mental map of an environment. Participants map a physical or virtual environment by what they remember based on their knowledge of a space.
1. Recruit participants and organize materials and a space for a creative session.
2. As a moderator ask a participant to create a map showing how they navigate in a real or virtual space. This can be done several times. Keep in mind that maps can be created in collaboration by a group of people to incorporate different viewpoints.
3. Ask other participants to navigate through the map, how they perform a task or how they "read" the space.
4. Take notes of what participants describe, take special note of moments where the participants backtrack or change their primary goal.
5. Analyse the different maps and the flow each of them has.
When you need to gain understanding of the way users navigate through a design solution.
Most solutions are developed by people that are not the end users, this allows to test of the users understand the design.
Space doesn't necessarily have to be physical, a website or an app also require navigation skills.
List of what works and what doesn't work in the design.
Refine the design based on the insights that have been gained.
EDEN, Colin. On the nature of cognitive maps. Journal of management studies, 1992, 29.3: 261-265. MONTELLO, Daniel R. Cognitive map-design research in the twentieth century: Theoretical and empirical approaches. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 2002, 29.3: 283-304.


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The crimes of Jared Fogle, the disgraced former Subway spokesman who has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for child porn, are about as bad as anyone can imagine.
But now that his accomplice is in court for his own sentencing, even more facts are coming up–and they're even more twisted.
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Pattinson vs. Chalamet: Battle of the Sad Boi Haircuts
September 13, 2019, 11:53 AM ET
By Jessica Toomer & Alyssa Fikse
Credit: Netflix
Here at SYFY WIRE FANGRRLS, we're invested in hard-hitting journalism, the kind of dogged investigation that unearths uncomfortable truths, presents unbiased arguments, and speaks truth to power with regard to hot-button issues the rest of the internet is too cowardly to address. Which is why we've decided to cover that most controversial of topics, a question so emotionally charged it could wage Tumblr wars for years to come, so contextually nuanced and socially loaded even Ronan Farrow won't touch it.
We're talking, of course, about the battle of the medieval sad boi haircuts in Netflix's upcoming historical epic, The King.
In one corner of the ring, we've got Timothee Chalamet, a baby-faced ingenue with pillow lips and puppy eyes. He's Greta Gerwig's muse and the on-again-off-again on-screen boyfriend of one Armie Hammer. In the other corner, we've got Robert Pattinson — RPattz if you survived the Twilight era — a former teen heartthrob turned legitimately talented actor with a pension for doing weird sh*t in movies, like sporting bizarre wigs and masturbating with Willem Dafoe.
Both men have a legion of fans behind them, a promising future ahead of them, and a mane of locks that have defined their careers. And now they're risking it all, switching up their 'dos in a kind of on-screen experimentation the likes of which we've never seen before. Whose coif will reign supreme? Who will spark hair trends for decades to come? Who will look back on this time with disgust and self-contempt? We're going to find out.
Some Brief Background
Jessica: We're gathered here today to observe the strangely sensual haircuts of these two millennial hotties thanks to Joel Edgerton and Netflix. The two have paired up to give us a historical epic, this time about young King Henry V, a kid who liked swords and statement-making hairdos and led England during a fairly prosperous time of war. Hot guys in chain mail? Alyssa, it's our kryptonite.
Alyssa: Our brand is pretty strong. And by "pretty strong" I mean iron-clad. So yeah, The King is a pretty straightforward retelling of Henry V and the battle of Agincourt, and I believe they keep the Shakespeare out of it, correct? I don't think Timothee Chalamet will be doing a full-on St. Crispin's Day monologue, but HE COULD. No, instead of serving us the Bard's quip, Chalamet and Robert Pattinson as his rival, the French Dauphin, are serving us LEWKS.
Jessica: You bet your damn quill they are, which is why we're doing the hard work of reading these very different styles to see which speaks to our inner horndog the most. It's time to judge the cuts!
Robert Pattinson's Fancy French Blowout
Alyssa: I feel like I need to preface my opinions on this cut with information: during my sophomore year of college, there was definitely an Edward Cullen poster in my dorm room. Listen, everyone went through a Twilight phase. Even if you loathed Twilight, that was your Twilight phase. It's fine. So, with that in mind, know that I sometimes have a hard time being objective about Robert Pattinson because Twilight was so deeply burned into my brain before it was fully formed. So, yeah. This works for me.
Jessica: Twilight informed many a woman's sexualities during those times and science needs to do the right thing and launch a full investigation into how Stephenie Meyer's supernatural love triangle liberated women's appetites and also doomed us to pine over RPattz until the end of time. That being said, this wavy lob reminds me more of Jackson Rathbone's look in that franchise and, I don't hate it.
Alyssa: Oh god, now I'm having flashbacks to the Twilight wigs, and they are BAD. Someone call Moira Rose to set them straight, please. My only quibble with this luscious blowout is that I am not sure that level of volume is attainable at this point in history. Did they have dry shampoo back then? Like, I get that the Dauphin is a fancy man, but I feel like there are limits. I feel like medieval movies tend to sanitize people up a bit because no one really wants to watch a bunch of people with black teeth and greasy hair on screen. We may claim to want some realism in our movies, but there is a limit.
Jessica: See, I'm not sure if this is the hair department adding too much modern flair to a 15th-century 'do or Pattinson's own natural hair follicle voluptuousness refusing to be tamed. After all, the guy gained a legion of swooning fangirls (myself included) because of his perfectly-coiffed assets and though he wears it a bit messier these days, the height, the sheer drama, is still there. Perhaps, and I say this with utmost seriousness, RPattz's locks just refused to be controlled?
Alyssa: The man clearly knows his way around a wig, so maybe you're right. These blond locks can only be matched by the silliness of his accent in The King. Between his disastrous haircut attempts in Cosmopolis to that mustache in The Lighthouse, RPattz has proven himself to be a follicular chameleon. He's not afraid to get weird, and while I don't always understand it, I respect it.
Jessica: There is no fear when it comes to body hair and there's something dangerously attractive, nay, downright sensual about that attitude. The commitment to his craft can be measured by the length of his locks and it deserves to be recognized. Plus, he's got the bone structure to pull off a blunt lob and he's not afraid to show it.
Timothee Chalamet Sad Boi Bowl Cut
Alyssa: That's the thing, isn't it? If you have cheekbones that reach heavenly ascendancy, you can kind of pull off anything. I think we're seeing the same thing happen with Timothee Chalamet as well: Beautiful Person Gets Bad Haircut, Still Beautiful. If you look at historical paintings of ol' Hal, the bowl cut is very accurate. It's bad, but at least they're correct.
Jessica: I have a hard time believing bowl cuts even existed before Timothee Chalamet, tbh. And if they did, there's no way King Henry V wore it with as much sass as our sweet, baby-faced little peach. The sharp angles, the volume on top, the shaved neck — who gave the bowl cut the right to go so hard?
Alyssa: A fair assessment! As far as bowl cuts go, this is certainly better than the one that I had in kindergarten. However, I am momentarily having a difficult time taking Chalamet seriously as a heartthrob at this particular moment. Venice Film Festival gave with the stunning silver suit, but then quickly took away with the SUPER awkward makeout shots of Timmy playing tonsil hockey with Lily-Rose Depp. Far be it from me to yuck someone's yum, but that looked like his first kiss ever. Sure, no one wants their make out in public display most of the time, because truly none of us look as sexy as we think we do en flagrante, but yikes. My crush took a devastating hit.
Jessica: First of all Alyssa, how dare you judge him! Who knows how choppy the seas were that day? Perhaps the awkward angle and open-mouthed spit fest was the consequence of water buoyancy affecting his balance and throwing his timing off. I've seen Timmy make out with Armie Hammer for two hours on screen and while he's a wonderful actor, there's no way you can fake that kind of tongue-salsa-ing skill. The boy's got moves, he's just the victim of an ill-timed paparazzi ambush. But I will cave just a bit and say that as hot as Mr. Chalamet looks with this new medieval do, it does give him a certain "f*ck boi" air that, coupled with his upcoming turn in Little Women, has me worried. Sad Boi Summer cuts are one thing but please Hollywood Gods, don't let Timothee Chalamet fall victim to the curse of F*ck Boi Fall.
Alyssa: I know! I shouldn't be so fickle in my thirst! But you might be right about F*ck Boi Fall. Laurie, as much as I love him, is basically the OG literary f*ck boi, so I am not sure that I will survive Little Women with my feelings intact. However, Henry V makes a pretty smooth transition from womanizing bastard to the stalwart king over the course of this tale in other iterations, so I fully expect Chalamet to bear this bowl cut with dignity. Even if I desperately hope that the wild curls will fly free uninhibited in whatever he does next (aka please don't give him a weird 'do in Dune).
Our Findings
Jessica: I've pored over the evidence — and by that I mean I've watched this trailer a dozen times and perused Tumblr for extra pics — and I've come to the difficult conclusion that the bowl cut must reign supreme in this battle. RPatz's messy lob put up a worthy fight, and almost made me revisit the Twilight series, but alas, there's something about a sad boi king rocking that fresh-out-the-monastery do that just speaks to my soul. Long live the bowl cut I guess.
Alyssa: Once again, we must disagree. For me, it's the lob all the way. Timmy, I love you, but not like this. Ultimately, for me, it came down to one deciding factor, and this may be the most Leo thing I have ever typed: which cut would I ultimately want to have? These are both undeniably beautiful men who are pulling off troublesome cuts all while still being undeniably beautiful. It felt like an impossible choice! So I went the self-centered route and pulled from my own experience. I've had a bowl cut. I've had a lob. #TeamRobLob
Jessica: A friendly stalemate it is Alyssa and yet, we'd be remiss to forget the underdog in this battle of bodily hair — Sir Ben Mendelsohn. Anyone who's willing to sport a tangled, past-the-shoulder bird's nest and still try to make it look hot is a winner in my book.
Alyssa: You are correct. Mendelsohn's Henry IV is going through it — all that guilt over kind of stealing a kingdom and all — so he doesn't necessarily have time for the shears like Hal and the Dauphin. And yet, he's doing his best. A quick brush through would do him some good, but when you've got a kingdom to cling to, a self-care routine tends to fall by the wayside.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are the authors', and do not necessarily reflect those of SYFY WIRE, SYFY, or NBC Universal.
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