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US representatives issued a series of demands in Beijing during talks on May 4, ranging from an insistence that China take no action against US measures undermining its development of high-tech industries to the impossible ultimatum that it cut its trade surplus with the US by $200 billion within two years. These demands are not intended as the basis for negotiations, but to escalate economic conflict and military tensions.
"The US demands amount to a call for unilateral Chinese disarmament ahead of a potential trade war and for Beijing to abandon key elements of its industrial policy, which have led Washington to grow increasingly wary of China as a long-term economic rival," the Financial Times commented.
China economy expert Eswar Prasad, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told the newspaper: "These meetings could end up going into the books as a formalisation of hostilities rather than as a basis for a negotiated settlement."
The US delegation included Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and anti-China trade hawks, US trade representative Robert Lighthizer and White House trade policy adviser Peter Navarro. The demands were set out in a four-page document entitled "Balancing the Trade Relationship."
The Trump administration claimed it sought to "facilitate candid and constructive exchanges between the two sides." In fact, the US document resembles the ultimatum handed to Serbia by Austria in July 1914, which led to the outbreak of World War I.
The US had previously demanded that China take immediate action to reduce its $375 billion goods trade surplus with the US by $100 billion. This has been doubled to $200 billion—a reduction of $100 billion in…


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Isabelle McNally es una actriz de cine y televisión estadounidense, hija del reconocido restaurador inglés Keith McNally. Es conocida principalmente por su interpretación de Madeleine Loomis en la serie de televisión de suspense Bates Motel en 2017.

Carrera
McNally inició su carrera en el cine participando en algunos cortometrajes. Después de aparecer en algunos largometrajes en papeles menores, en 2014 logró reconocimiento interpretando el papel de Kendra Lee en la popular serie de televisión House of Cards. El mismo año apareció en la película dramática Before I Disappear, interpretando el papel de Vista. En 2017 integró el elenco de la última temporada de la serie de televisión Bates Motel en el papel de Madeleine Loomis. Su personaje en la serie fue uno de los intereses sentimentales de Norman Bates. El mismo año apareció en la película The Song of Sway Lake e integró el elenco regular en la serie web creada por Mia Lidofsky Strangers.

Filmografía

Cine
2017 - The Song of Sway Lake
2016 - The Big Spoon
2014 - Loitering with Intent
2014 - Before I Disappear
2012 - Amnesia
2012 - Charm
2012 - Indigo Children
2012 - Greetings from Tim Buckley
2012 - Frances Ha
2012 - Not Waving But Drowning
2011 - Happy Life
2010 - Struck

Televisión
2017 - Bates Motel
2017 - Strangers
2014 - The Money (Película para TV)
2014 - House of Cards
2012 - The Corrections (Película para TV)

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In this post, we discuss how to calculate the moment coefficient of skewness and also discuss some issues surrounding the notion of skewness.
One informal but useful way of checking the skewness of a distribution is to look at the density curve (or a histogram). Consider the following density functions.
The density curve in Figure 1 has a longer tail to the right than to the left. The example in Figure 1 is a distribution that is skewed to the right. It is also said to be positively skewed since its coefficient of skewness is positive. The density curve in Figure 2 has a longer tail to the left than to the right. The example in Figure 2 is a distribution that is skewed to the left. It is also said to be negatively skewed since the skewness coefficient is negative. If a density curve looks the same to the left and to the right (such as the bell curve for the normal distribution), then it is a symmetric distribution and the skewness coefficient is zero.
The distribution in Figure 1 is a right skewed distribution (the longer tail is on the right). It is a gamma distribution with mean 2 and median approximately 1.678347. The mode (the highest peak) is at x = 1. The distribution in Figure 2 is a left skewed distribution (the longer tail is on the left) with mean and median approximately 0.909 and 0.9213562, respectively. The mode is at 0.95.
In the distribution for Figure 1, we can say that "mode < median < mean". In the distribution for Figure 2, we can say that "mean < median < mode". A common conception is that these simple rules characterize all skewed distribution, i.e., the mean is to the right of the median, which in turn is to the right of the mode in a right skewed distribution and that the mean is to the left of the median, which in turn is to the left of the mode in a left skewed distribution. Such rules are certainly easy to remember and are stated in some statistics textbooks. In the above two figures, this rule of thumb is certainly true. It turns out that this rule of thumb does not hold in many instances. The above two graphs are "textbook" demonstrations of skewness. They are gamma distributions and beta distributions and they behave well according to the usual notion of how skewed distributions should look like. In a later section of this post, we will discuss this issue in greater details. First we define the coefficient of skewness.
The measure of skewness defined here is called the Pearson moment coefficient of skewness. This measure provides information about the amount and direction of the departure from symmetry. Its value can be positive or negative, or even undefined. The higher the absolute value of the skewness measure, the more asymmetric the distribution. The skewness measure of symmetric distributions is, or near, zero.
To help put the definition of skewness in context, we first define raw moments and central moments of a random variable . The th raw moment of is , the expected value of the th power of the random variable . The first raw moment is the mean of the random variable and is usually denoted by .
The th central moment of a random variable is , the expected value of the th power of the deviation of the variable from its mean. The moment is usually denoted by . The second central moment is usually called the variance and is denoted by . The square root of , , is the standard deviation.
The ratio of the standard deviation to the mean, , is called the coefficient of variation.
The ratio of the third central moment to the cube of the standard deviation is called Pearson's moment coefficient of skewness (or the coefficient of skewness) and is denoted by .
The last version (3) is in terms of the first raw moment , the second central moment and the third raw moment . Essentially, the coefficient can be obtained via (3) by first computing the first three raw moments.
Even though kurtosis is not the focus of this post, we would like to state it to complete the the brief discussion on moments. The ratio of the fourth central moment to the fourth power of the standard deviation, , is called the kurtosis.
In this section, we discuss the skewness in two familiar families of continuous distributions – gamma and beta. We also demonstrate how exponentiation can affect skewness.
The following is the probability density function of the gamma distribution.
where is the gamma function, and and are parameters such that and . The number is the shape parameter and the number here is the rate parameter. Figure 1 shows the gamma distribution with and . When , we obtain the exponential distribution. When and where is a positive integer, we obtain the chi square distribution with degrees of freedom.
The above calculation shows that the rate parameter has no effect on skewness. The example in Figure 1 has , giving a coefficient of skewness of = 1.414213562. In general, the gamma distribution is skewed positively. However, the gamma distribution becomes more and more symmetric as the shape parameter . The following graph the gamma densities for and .
In Figure 3, the light blue density with is an exponential distribution. The red one with is the density in Figure 1. With , the gamma density already looks very symmetric (the dark blue).
On the other hand, as the shape parameter , the gamma distribution becomes increasingly positively skewed. When , . When , .
where is the gamma function, and and are parameters such that and . Both and are shape parameters.
In the beta family of distributions, the skewness can range from positive to negative. If the parameter dominates (i.e. is to a higher power and is to a small power in the density function), then the beta distribution has a negative skew (skewed to the left). This is because the function has left skew and the function has right skew. Then the skewness of the beta distribution follows the one that dominates. If the parameter dominates, the beta distribution is skewed to the right. If both parameters are roughly equal, the beta distribution is close to symmetric. For example when and , the beta distribution is left skewed (its density curve is in Figure 2). As in the gamma case, the skewness of the beta distribution has a close form. The following formula confirms the intuition about the skewness of the beta distribution (found here).
Thus the beta distribution with and has skewness coefficient -1.137431317. The following figure further demonstrates the role of the shape parameters play in changing the skewness of the beta distribution.
In Figure 4, as the parameter goes from 2 to 20, the skewness goes from 1.137431317 to 0.659393193 to 0 to -0.659393193 to -1.137431317.
Symmetric distributions have zero coefficient of skewness. Raising a symmetric distribution to a positive power can produce a skewed distribution. For example, let be the standard normal random variable (mean 0 and variance 1). Let . Then has a chi-square distribution with 1 degree of freedom, which means that it is a gamma distribution with and . According to Example 1 above, the skewness coefficient is . Thus squaring a standard normal distribution produces a very strongly positively skewed distribution.
When raising a positively skewed distribution to positive power can produce a more strongly positively skewed distribution. For example, let be an exponential random variable. Example 1 shows that exponential distributions have skewness coefficient 2. We show that the coefficient of skewness for is approximately 6.619.
With the first two raw moments, calculate the variance of . Then compute via formula (3).
Via formula (3), the following is the coefficient of skewness for .
Raising the beta distribution with and to higher powers eventually produces a positively skewed distribution. This is an interesting example, though this observation probably should not be taken as a rule.
All the examples discussed previously are good "textbook" examples in that they help build intuition on how skewness behaves in familiar distributions. However, it is also easy to take the wrong lessons from these examples. The above examples can serve as good introduction to the topic of skewness. It is also important to attempt to provide a caveat that some of the commonly drawn lessons are not appropriate in all circumstances.
As indicated earlier, one wrong lesson from Figure 1 and Figure 2 is that a density curve such as Figure 1 may suggest that "mode < median < mean" for a right skewed distribution and that Figure 2 may suggest that "mean < median < mode" for a left skewed distribution. In both Figure 1 and Figure 2, the mean is further out in the long tail than the median. In certain textbooks, these two observations are even stated as characterizations of right skew and left skew. Such a rule of thumb is easy to state and easy to apply. For some students, such rule provides a lot of clarity about how skewness should work. For such students, checking for skewness is simply a matter of finding the relative position of the mean and median (e.g. in such thinking, if mean is greater than the median, then it is a right skew).
Any discussion of skewness should point out that the simple rule described in the above paragraph, though useful in many situations, is imperfect and may not apply outside of certain familiar distributions. For a good discussion on this issue, see this article.
We highlight one example found in the article mentioned above. This example demonstrates a clear violation of the common misconception indicated above. The following is the density function of the example.
where . To facilitate the discussion, let be the random variable whose PDF is defined above. The above density function is a juxtaposition of a triangular density and an exponential density. This triangular-exponential distribution has positive coefficient of skewness when . Yet within this range for , the mean can be made to be on either side of the median. We consider three cases where , and .
The following is the graph of the density curve . The right tail is long since the exponential distribution is on the right side. However, the left side is heavier (with 70% of the weight on the triangle on the left side).
The following shows the results for the density function .
The calculation confirms the positive skew (0.2845), which is a moderately strong positive skewness. Note that the mean is to the left of the median. Both the mean and median are to the left of the mode (at x = 0). In Figure 5, the right side is infinitely long, thus a positively skewed distribution (and is confirmed by the calculation of ). According to the common notion of how right skew should work, the mean should be further out on the right tail. But this is not the case. The mean is further out on the left side than the median. The violation of the common conception of skewness can occur when one tail is long but the other side is heavier.
The following is the graph of the density curve . The right tail is long since the exponential distribution is on the right side. The left side is still heavy but a little less heavier than in the previous example (with 60% of the weight on the triangle on the left side).
The density curve has a stronger positive skew than the previous example as there is a little more weight on the exponential side (the right side). Even though the mean in this case is to the right of the median, both the mean and median are not on the right tail but on the left triangular side (the heavier side). In any case, the mean is definitely not further out on the longer tail (the right tail) as the common rule of thumb would suggest.
Both Example 6 and Example 7 are right skewed distributions that do not conform to the common expectation about right skewed distributions. The following example will dispel the notion about the direction of the skew.
Here we use so that there is a still a long right tail but 90% of the weight is on the other side.
The overall shape of the is similar to Figure 5 and Figure 6. The following shows the results for the density function .
Because there is so little weight on the right tail, the skewness is actually negative (-0.48928). Here we have a right skewed looking distribution that is actually skewed to the left!
Examples 5 through 7 demonstrate that when one tail is long but the other side is heavy, the common conception of right skew and left skew do not apply. The common conception, as discussed earlier, is that the both the mean and the median are located in the longer tail and that the mean is further out in the long tail than the median. The article mentioned earlier is easy to read and gives a fuller discussion of the issues when dealing with the notion of skewness. The common conception of skewness can be easily violated in discrete distributions, especially when the weights on both sides of the median are not equal. All the above examples are unimodal distributions. According the quoted article, bimodal or multimodal distributions can be problematic too.
Of course, the caveat presented here is not meant to discourage anyone from discussing the common conception about skewness. The common conception about the locations of mode, mean and median conveys useful intuition and we should continue to focus on it. But the common rule of thumb should definitely be not be presented as gospel truth as some textbooks had done. Instead, it should be pointed out that the common rule of thumb is imperfect and it would be helpful to have a discussion why the rule is imperfect.
Some important distributions in statistical applications are of the form where and are independent and . When and where and have chi-square distributions with degrees of freedom and , respectively, the ratio has an F distribution and this ratio is called the F-statistic.
Let and be the density functions of the independent random variables and , respectively. Let and be the distribution functions of and , respectively. Let where . We have . Integrating over the region of , we obtain the following.
Taking the derivative, we obtain .
This above derivation of the density function is found in .
In general, if where is a constant, then we have this relationship for the density functions between and : . Then the following are the density functions of and . Note that has a gamma distribution with parameters and . For , it is a gamma distribution with parameters and .
The distributon derived above is said to be an F distribution with and degrees of freedom. The first parameter is the degrees of freedom in the numerator and the second parameter is the degrees of freedom in the denominator.


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Russia has just approved a coronavirus vaccine for use in tens of thousands of people, although its effectiveness has not been thoroughly tested, according to news reports.
Russia named the recently approved vaccine "Sputnik V," in reference to the world's first artificial satellite, launched during the space race, Reuters reported. Russian state television has framed the worldwide effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine as a similar "race," and in announcing the approval of Sputnik V, President Vladimir Putin essentially proclaimed Russia the favorite, according to The New York Times.
"We should be grateful to those who made that first step very important for our country and the entire world," Putin said at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning (August 11) in reference to vaccine developers, according to The Associated Press.
"I know [the vaccine] has been shown to be efficient and builds stable immunity," Putin noted, despite no published data from early human trials of the vaccine and no late-stage human trials currently underway. . The rush to get the vaccine approved has raised concern among scientists in Russia and abroad, who say that only carefully designed human trials, including thousands of people, can clearly show that a vaccine is safe and effective enough for the public use.
"Accelerated approval will not make Russia the leader in the [vaccine] race, it will only expose consumers of the vaccine to unnecessary danger," the Association of Russian Clinical Trials Organizations said in a statement Monday ( August 10). Associated Press reported.
"It is not possible to know if the Russian vaccine has been shown to be effective without submitting scientific papers for analysis and then there may be data quality issues," said Keith Neal, emeritus professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Nottingham in England, said in a statement published in the Science Media Center, an organization that provides expert commentary on scientific studies and news coverage. The first human trials of the Russian vaccine began in mid-June and included 76 participants, but data from those trials have not been released, according to The Associated Press.
Beyond this lack of transparency, scientists are concerned that there is no "phase 3" clinical trial, the final stage of testing required for a vaccine to be approved.
Phase 1 and 2 trials typically include a few hundred participants and test whether a vaccine elicits an immune response without triggering dangerous short-term side effects, Live Science previously reported. While these early trials provide clues about how well a vaccine works, only phase 3 trials, which include thousands to tens of thousands of volunteers, can compare infection rates between vaccinated and unvaccinated people.
In other words, only phase 3 trials can show that a vaccine prevents COVID-19 infection. To approve a vaccine in the US, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires that a COVID-19 vaccine cut at least half the chances of a person becoming infected with the virus compared to a placebo or an inert injection.
Russia plans to begin such tests of its already approved vaccine on Aug. 12, Kirill Dmitriev, executive director of Russia's Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), told reporters, according to The Associated Press. (The RDIF funded the development of the vaccine.) The phase 3 trial will include "several thousand" participants from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines and possibly Brazil, Dmitriev said. But before the data from that trial is available, Russia will offer the vaccine to tens of thousands of people, he added.
"People outside of clinical trials will have access to the vaccine in August, and some, already on a large scale, in October," Dmitriev said. Specifically, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said that doctors can start getting vaccinated this month, according to The Associated Press. Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said the country will soon begin a massive campaign to distribute the vaccine, and that both medical workers and teachers will have priority to receive it first, The New York Times reported.
However, without the phase 3 data, there is no way to know that the vaccine will protect most of the people who receive it; Also, the rare side effects associated with the vaccine may only appear as more and more people get the shot.
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I'm really missing everyone back home, especially Deanna and my girls. I've been thinking about them a lot this whole trip. Last night was the first night I got to talk with all of them. I put them on speaker-phone and Deanna put us on speaker-phone there, too — both sides could talk to each other altogether that way. That was fun. Deanna seems to be doing much better. Her voice is making a strong comeback and it sounds like she is regaining some of her energy, too. She still complains of soreness, though, and I'm sure she feels very much like she's still in recovery-mode.
For breakfast this morning, Karen heated up some oatmeal for everyone. We mixed it with maple syrup (the "real" stuff) and brown sugar — very yummy. I also had some blueberry juice (another local item), half a grapefruit, and some toast. After that, we all suited up (including Mom and Dad this time) for another trek across the lake. Mom took a fall going down the ice-packed stairs from the deck. She fell in the sitting position, but her back still looked pretty bruised up. She said that she wasn't in any pain (unless she directly touched it); we're praying that it still won't be bothering her tomorrow.
After we got back to the house, Karen fixed us some Dagwood sandwiches, kettle chips, and some kind of tofu-filled quesadilla-looking slices (which were surprisingly very tasty — smile). After lunch, Bryan started the process of preparing the wood-burning hot tub for later that evening by filling it up with water. Not too much later, him, Dad and I took off for an hour or so for some geocaching a couple miles away at a beautiful park with a pond hidden in the middle and lots of great hiking trails.
Upon our return, we warmed up with another amazing dinner: chicken enchiladas, Mexican salad, and for dessert: creme brulee. Mmm-mmm-mmm. Bryan had started to warm up the hot tub now. Tonight it was a four-to-five hour process. Whew! Lots of hard work. While we were waiting, we played some Catchphrase with Mom and Dad. I'm guessing they left at probably around 8 o'clock and we started to get ready to go into the hot tub shortly after their departure. All three of us — Bryan, Karen, and myself — fit pretty comfortably in the tub. It was very relaxing and — I told Bryan — my favorite part of the trip so far.
The temp outside was about 17 degrees, but it was nice and warm in the hot tub. My hair, which had somehow gotten a little wet (probably from running my hands through it a couple times) was frozen solid. It definitely felt good after a day full of activity. The stars were out (shining bright, compared to what I'm used to) and the night was calm. After getting out, we were all pretty much ready for bed. I had a short phone conversation with Deanna (too short) and then hit the sack. Tomorrow, the plan is to get up a little earlier and head up north to see Joe, Mom's brother, and his family.


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By Gale Fiege Herald Writer
Thursday, October 25, 2012 7:58pm
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Brie Baerg, 21
City: Oak Harbor
Program: Skagit Valley College Marine Technology program (Anacortes)
Q: Why did you enroll in this program? Are you interested in aerospace or simply looking for steady work?
A: I am taking all the courses available here at Marine Tech, but my focus is on composites. My goal is a job in the aerospace industry and especially a job at Boeing. But I also want to buy and maintain my own boat. I believe there are a lot of job opportunities in aerospace and I am able to do the physical labor. It had been a while since I had been in school, but this is a great, affordable program and by next summer I should be able to apply for a job at Boeing.
Q: What would be your ideal first job after this training? What would you like to be doing in five or 10 years?
A: I would like a position as a composites technician. However, I am picking up the skill sets necessary for many jobs in various industries. If I can get in as a technician, then my goal would be to work my way up the job ladder at Boeing.
Q: So you feel good about job prospects at Boeing? Would you be willing to relocate?
A: Boeing is the top company and is recognized as such. I would be willing to relocate. I moved here to go to Skagit Valley College. Moving is not a problem. A friend's dad worked for Boeing. He made good money and enjoyed his job.
Q: When did you first travel by air and where did you go?
A: I was about three years old and flew with my family from Southern California to North Carolina. I love flying and want somebody to get my pilot's license, as well. Planes and boats have always been my thing.
Q: What will air transportation be like in 50 years?
A: Faster, bigger. We will always want to transport people and goods by air. I would plan to keep current with new developments and move forward with the industry.
Q: How long is your day here at the tech school?
A: I am here from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., four days a week. I stay later to work on my composites projects.
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- Injects views and resources, that's it.

### How?

```groovy

repositories {
  repositories {
    maven {
      jcenter()
    }
  }
}

dependencies {
  compile 'inject:inject:1.0.4'
}

```

```java

public class BaseActivity extends Activity {
  @InjectView(R.id.title)
  private TextView mTitle;

  @InjectResource(R.string.fruits)
  private String[] mFruits;

  @Override
  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.base_activity);
    Injector.inject(this);
  }
}

public class BaseFragment extends Fragment {
  @InjectView(R.id.title)
  private TextView mTitle;

  @InjectResource(R.string.hello)
  private String mHello;

  @InjectResource(R.array.bases)
  private int[] mBases;

  @Override
  public void onViewCreated(View view, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      super.onViewCreated(view, savedInstanceState);
      Injector.inject(this, view);
  }
}

public class BaseViewGroup extends ViewGroup {
  @InjectView(R.id.subview)
  private View mSubview;

  @InjectResource(R.dimen.font_size)
  private float mFontSize;

  public BaseViewGroup(Context ctx, AttributeSet attrs, int style) {
    super(ctx, attrs, style);

    String service = Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE;
    LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) ctx.getSystemService(service);
    inflater.inflate(R.layout.base_view_group, this, true);
    Injector.inject(this);
  }
}

```

### License

Copyright 2015 Sergey Ivonchik

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


"Grace-the free and unmerited favor of God"
Heaven Scent Cupcakes, along with our family, has been so blessed through the years that we have chosen to "give grace" back through our cupcakes. The GRACE cupcake (aka wedding cake) will be available approx every other month. A percentage of the sales of this cupcake goes directly to a charities that have had an impact on our family and/or local community.
Charities include Lauren Doyle Memorial Scholarship, Relay For Life and Dancers Against Cancer. Thank you to all our customers for supporting this effort!
Saturday, April 6th is the BBQ and Brews in downtown Cartersville!
Click on Cupcakes & Descriptions under the Photo Albums tab (above) to see a picture of each of our daily cupcakes along with a description.


There are a variety of reasons to volunteer within the community. Not only does volunteer work help the community, it causes people to be invested in and care more deeply for their community. However, finding volunteer opportunities can be time consuming and difficult, so often volunteering is a nice idea, but it remains just that. According to the Erie Vital Signs website, Erie County is below the state and national average for volunteerism.
Getconnectederie.org is a way for the Erie community to change that. The website brings nonprofit organizations and potential volunteers together with ease. A collaborative effort of The United Way and The Nonprofit Partnership, the site uses an engaging format in order to increase the number of volunteers in the Erie area by providing a place for any nonprofit organization to list their needs.
Melissa Fenn, Volunteer Coordinator for Getconnectederie.org, says of the site, "The ultimate goal of Get Connected is to facilitate mutually beneficial relationships between community volunteers and nonprofit organizations in Erie County. Every community member is looking for something different when they make the decision to volunteer; some people are seeking opportunities to work directly with clients or children, while others might prefer working in an office environment." The home page at Get Connected features a slideshow of images and facts that reinforce the mission of the partnership. It also features links to the most recently posted opportunities, a weekly blog, contact information, and page links to specific facets of the site. A great link on the homepage is the "How Get Connected Works" tab. One click takes you to videos and informative images that tell how to use the site easily and effectively. If you still want more information or have questions, there are several PDF documents available for download to further clarify the uses of the site under the "Resources" section.
Fenn comments on the different facets of the site, "One of the unique aspects of Get Connected is that it is a resource for the entire community. We are building the list of volunteer opportunities to include activities that are appropriate for youth volunteers, high school students, college students, professionals, and retirees. Get Connected is a place that nonprofit organizations can post all of their opportunities and reach a wide variety of community members at once. There are currently over 300 volunteer, in-kind, and advocacy opportunities posted on Get Connected and we hope to continue to build that list over the next year."
The organizations link on the homepage take you to a comprehensive list of all of the partnered organizations. Each organization is hyperlinked to a description of the mission of that particular organization, the opportunities for volunteers within the organization, and contact information. There is the option to become a fan of particular organizations so that you are made aware as soon as those places post new opportunities.
For those who find the comprehensive list overwhelming, there is a categorical list that filters the organizations so that potential volunteers can search by areas of interest. This significantly narrows the list of organizations, making it feel more manageable. A click on the "Environment" link gives options to volunteer for organizations such as Asbury Woods Nature Center, Presque Isle State Park Weed Warriors, and Winds of Change.
You can also choose to search through volunteer opportunities without choosing a specific organization if you choose the "Opportunities" link on the home page. This page also offers a filter so that you can narrow the category of research based on the time you have to volunteer, the field you are interested in, and your proximity to the volunteer project.
If you are worried that you don't have time for a volunteer project or don't know where you fit, Fenn says the site helps with that as well. "Some people are using volunteer projects as a team building activity with a group, while others want to use it as a professional development experience for themselves. Get Connected provides community members with an easy way to search opportunities from over 125 organizations in one, convenient list. This allows someone to search for opportunities that are specific to their interests, skills, and availability. "
Signing up on Getconnectederie.org is quick and painless, requiring only your email address and the creation of a password. Once you have signed up, you can begin searching the organizations and opportunities that appeal to you. You can make connections within the community while making the community a better place to live and work.


The black-casqued hornbill is also known as blacked-casqued wattled hornbill.
It belongs to the Bucerotidae family.
It's a large black hornbill with white only on tips of outer tail feathers.
This species is one of the great African hornbills, its range is vast and covers almost 2.1 million square kilometers in West Africa, Liberia, Zaire and Angola. They stay away from the coast and are in the rainforests and forest galleries located up to 1250 meters.
They move at dawn in small noisy troops in search of food. They stand in the treetops at 50 or 60 meters above the ground. They need a large amount of food and they are looking trees laden with fruit. And are able to travel long distances and to explore large areas.
Couples stay together throughout the year, and even after the breeding season, males often continue to feed their companion. As all land hornbills, these birds nest in tree cavities and some nests are sometimes located more than 5 m above the ground. The reproduction period begins when resources are abundant. This diet consists of fruits, palm nuts, raffia, insects, small crustaceans. Nesting can only be effective if there is abundance of food. It belongs to the female to incubate the eggs in a nest whose entrance is closed using various materials such as mud, moistened food or feces consolidated with saliva. The male takes care of supplies through a small opening left in the facade. The young grow slowly, the growth is barely visible, is excessively long and young is not reaching its full development after several years.
Their lifespan is estimated at 19 years.


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Twisting the Truth—Politics and Weather in the Bahamas
The nonsense that has paraded as commentary since the tornado tragedy in Freeport two weeks ago has taken political pantomime to new levels. And this can only make it more difficult to take whatever measures are needed to address any problems that are identified.
Here are the facts as we know them today.
A severe storm front approached Grand Bahama from South Florida in the early morning of March 29. The National Weather Service in Miami issued hail and tornado warnings, and several funnel clouds were spotted in Florida. Although uncommon, meteorologists are aware that tornados occur in the northern Bahamas every few years.
An aviation weather station in Freeport manned by five met officers was operated by the Grand Bahama Airport Company, a division of Hutchison Port Holdings, until the end of last year when it was replaced by an automated weather station augmented by a trained observer.
Automated stations are used at airports worldwide due to their efficiency and cost-savings. But since they are unable to report some weather hazards (like tornados), many airports augment them with observers. An observer was in place at Freeport and forecasters at the Met Office in Nassau were fully aware of the approaching storms.
The Met Office relies on a special type of radar to determine whether a storm front is producing heavy winds in a circular pattern. The US issues a watch when tornadoes are likely, and a warning when a twister has been sighted or indicated by radar.
According to meteorologist David Cook at the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, "Doppler radar can see signatures of spinning air in a thunderstorm prior to a tornado actually forming. These are looked for very closely by meteorologists to try to detect precise locations where a tornado may form."
It's clear that the Freeport Weather Department existed only for the airport. According to Environment Minister Earl Deveaux, Grand Bahama's meteorological obligations were, and still are, the sole responsibility of the Met Office in Nassau. And this has been confirmed by several officials.
Deputy Director Basil Dean also acknowledged that the Met Office in Nassau was aware of the approaching storms, but no warnings where issued until after they had arrived at Freeport. And an official government report this week revealed that top Met Officers were clueless about what was going on - either in Nassau or Freeport - until they received a phone call from a local government official.
That's extraordinary. Except when a hurricane is travelling, there is very little weather activity of note in the Bahamas. So the disinterested and dilatory reaction of our met officers (both high and low) to a severe storm front approaching the country's second city and industrial centre - one that had already produced warnings and tornadoes in Florida - is simply inexplicable.
This, rather than the closure of the airport weather department by Huchison, is the essential point in terms of forecasting.
The tornado strike came at about 11.30 am on March 29. According to National Emergency Management Agency Director Captain Stephen Russell, five homes were damaged, affecting some two dozen people. But the most serious losses occurred at the Freeport Container Terminal.
Three port employees (Michael Young, Cleveland Lowe and Shawn Saunders) were killed and several others injured when a 200-foot-high Super Post Panamax gantry crane collapsed during the storm. Four other multi-million-dollar cranes were damaged.
The initial reaction from the opposition PLP to this chain of events was to blame the government for the deaths caused by a natural disaster - a predictable but hardly constructive view. Their thesis was that had the five met officers in Freeport continued to be employed after December 31, the tragedy could have been averted.
Here's a message for Perry Christie: there's really no need to continually shovel outrageous propaganda and ridiculous hyperbole down our throats disguised as fair comment. That only hurts the PLP's chances with those all-important swing voters. A little common sense, realism and constructive criticism would go a long way in situations like this.
Now let's turn to the container port.
This facility is operated by the Hong Kong-based Hutchison Port Holdings, which has interests in 25 countries. The port is a major part of the Grand Bahama economy, operating around the clock, with a yearly capacity of 1.5 million 20-foot containers. HPH is owned by the Chinese conglomerate Hutchison Whampoah, which acquired half of the Grand Bahama Development Company in the 1990s.
Hutchison invested hundreds of millions of dollars to develop the container terminal. It employs more than 800 Bahamians and injects a yearly payroll of over $30 million into the Grand Bahama community. The 10 huge gantry cranes cost millions of dollars apiece, and it is still unclear just how the port's operations will be affected by the damage sustained on March 29.
Also unclear is why a team of men was working on one of the cranes at the precise moment when the tornado struck. And this is the essential point in terms of emergency management.
According to marine insurers, wind damage to the big quayside cranes that run on rails is the biggest weather-related cost for ports. Due to their size, profile and location, these cranes are particularly susceptible to wind, and operating procedures are designed to prevent them being toppled or blown along the rails.
Such an accident occurred in Jacksonville, Florida, only two years ago. Sudden high winds dislodged a parked 1000-ton crane and toppled it onto others. No one was hurt because operations had already been suspended and the cranes were secured following severe weather forecasts. It cost Jaxport $1.6 million to repair the damage.
According to the International Labour Organisation's Code of Practice, ports should arrange with "a reliable weather service" to obtain proper forecasts in good time for appropriate action to be taken. Such action includes stopping cargo handling; securing large cranes; deploying flood-protection equipment; and evacuating workers.
"This type of incident can result in serious injuries and be very costly in repairs and operational downtime," said Laurence Jones, a top industry risk assessor. "However, such incidents can be prevented, or at least the collateral damage caused can be restricted, by having appropriate procedures and ensuring that they are followed."
Writing in an online insurance journal in 2008, Jones continued: "Essential elements include having effective national and local weather forecasting systems and ensuring that operational procedures respond appropriately when sufficient warning is forthcoming. In addition, good practice would dictate that storm pin or tie-down facilities and procedures are invoked."
One shipping expert I spoke to had this to say: "With machines valued at several million each it's hard to believe Hutchison would cut corners, especially since they have half a dozen of the world's biggest container terminals in their stable. I suppose someone could always make a bum decision to press on under ominous weather conditions."
Besides the human tragedy involved, there is also the question of how long, and to what extent, the port's operations will be affected by the damage, and what impact this will have on workers and the Grand Bahama economy.
Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham said early on that he expects the port to run at 50 per cent capacity in the short term. But so far - more than two weeks after the accident - there has been no official word from the government, or the port, or NEMA on either damage estimates or operational impact - neither of which should be controversial or difficult to produce.
But it would be foolhardy to attempt to pre-judge a complex situation like this without knowing the full facts.
The government and HPH are investigating what happened. We should focus our ire on making sure that the results of those inquiries are made public immediately, that those at fault are held accountable, and that any recommended actions are implemented. Providing more jobs for civil servants should not be a policy goal.
The prime minister has said that the inquiry report will be made public, but we have heard such noises before. Last year, for example, the government promised to release the detention centre inquiry report, but never did.
The incident in Freeport was a workplace accident that occurred in freak weather conditions. This is not the same as the Sea Hauler incident in 2003, when a passenger vessel collided with a freighter at sea and four people lost their lives.
The Christie government's initial response back then was to launch an internal inquiry by the Port Controller and other Transport Ministry officials. A wreck commission, headed by a judge, was later appointed to undertake a public investigation under maritime law. Two years after that accident, the commission found both the government and the boat captains liable - yet no-one resigned or was charged as a result.
In the present case, the politicos should take a reasonable, bi-partisan and transparent approach to determine what happened in Freeport and bring accountability to the matter. Some things are more important than playing the game.
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Every now and then a reminder needs to be issued. The Church is not a building. Neither is it programs that are run by her. The church is not how good the music or the preaching is. The church is not how much offering comes in or does not. The church is not liturgy. The church not man's idea, it is God's! The church is not just about the people in it. (It is also for the people not yet in it!) The church is not made up of people 'who have it all together'.
the Church is incomplete without you!
The church is not how well people dress up on Sunday. The church is not the stain glass or steeple. The church is not complete without you! The church is not and should not be a place where some are more important than others. The church is not and should not be a closed 'community' or club. The church is not how well her building is adorned. The Church is NOT complete without you!
What is your take on what the Church is NOT?


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The 2010 UEFA Europa League Final was the final match of the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League, the first season of the revamped European football competition formerly known as the UEFA Cup. Played at the Volksparkstadion in Hamburg, Germany, on 12 May 2010, the match was won by Spain's Atlético Madrid, who, after extra time, beat England's Fulham 2–1.

The win gave Atlético their second major European title, following the 1961–62 European Cup Winners' Cup. Having beaten defending champions Shakhtar Donetsk on the way, Fulham were playing in their first final in only their second season of European football, and their second major final overall in the club's history.

As the winners, Atlético qualified automatically for the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League by finishing third in their group. They also played in the 2010 UEFA Super Cup in Monaco on 27 August 2010, where they took on Italy's Inter Milan, the winners of the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League; Atlético won 2–0.

Background
Atlético Madrid and Fulham had never played against each other before this match, and Atlético were Fulham's first ever Spanish opponents. Atlético, on the other hand, had played 19 previous matches against English opposition, winning six and losing five; the most recent of these was against Liverpool in the semi-finals.

Fulham were playing in only their second season of European football; in 2002–03, they won the Intertoto Cup and reached the third round of the UEFA Cup before being knocked out by Hertha BSC. Atlético, however, had played in four previous European finals, including the 1974 European Cup Final, which they lost to Bayern Munich, and three Cup Winners' Cup finals. Their only European title came in 1962, when they beat Fiorentina 3–0 in a replay at Neckarstadion, Stuttgart, after the original match at Hampden Park, Glasgow, finished as a 1–1 draw.

The final was Fulham's last chance at qualification for European football in the following season. The Premier League season had finished the previous weekend with Fulham finishing in 12th place, 17 points away from the Europa League places. Earlier in the season, they had been knocked out of the League Cup in the third round and in the sixth round of the FA Cup. Atlético were also unable to qualify for Europe via the league; they went into the match in ninth place in the Priméra División, eight points away from the league's Europa League places with one game left to play. However, they had a chance at qualification through the Copa del Rey; they played against Sevilla in the final on 19 May, but lost 2–0.

Before 2010, only two European cup finals had ever been played in the city of Hamburg, both of them at the Volksparkstadion (), when the finals of certain competitions were played over two legs on a home-and-away basis. The first was the 1982 UEFA Cup Final second leg where hosts Hamburg lost 3–0 to hand the UEFA Cup to IFK Göteborg of Sweden following a 1–0 defeat in the first leg at Ullevi in Gothenburg. The second one was the 1983 European Super Cup first leg where the 1983 European Cup winners Hamburg drew 0–0 with the 1983 European Cup Winners' Cup winners Aberdeen.

A total of six European Cup/UEFA Champions League finals and three UEFA Cup Winners' Cup finals have been played in German cities, as well as one UEFA Cup final since it became a single-legged match.

The Volksparkstadion was opened in 2000 on the site of Hamburg's previous stadia: the Bahrenfelder Stadium and the original Volksparkstadion. The Bahrenfelder Stadium was built in 1925, but after a two-year renovation, it was replaced by the 75,000-capacity Volksparkstadion in 1953. Hamburger SV moved into the Volksparkstadion from their previous home at Rothenbaum in 1963. The stadium then played host to three Group 1 matches at the 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany. 14 years later, UEFA Euro 1988 was held in West Germany and the Volksparkstadion was chosen to host the semi-final between West Germany and the Netherlands. By the late 1990s, plans were laid down for a complete renovation of the stadium; the playing surface was rotated by 90 degrees to take advantage of the natural angle of sunlight and the stadium was rebuilt to hold more than 57,000 spectators. Building work began in 1998 and Hamburger SV returned to the ground in 2000. The stadium was used as a venue for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, playing host to four group stage matches and the quarter-final between Italy and Ukraine.

The 'hosts' for the final, Hamburger SV were only eliminated from the tournament by Fulham at the semi-final stage. The disappointment of coming so close to playing a final at home was doubled for the Hamburg fans as this was the second consecutive year in which they had been knocked out at the same stage in the UEFA Cup/Europa League – in 2008–09, they lost out to local rivals Werder Bremen. Two recent finals had involved a team playing at their usual stadium: Feyenoord defeated Borussia Dortmund in Rotterdam in 2002, while Sporting CP lost to CSKA Moscow in Lisbon in 2005.

Route to the final

Pre-match

Venue

The Volksparkstadion was chosen as the venue for the 2010 UEFA Europa League Final at a meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, on 28 March 2008. The committee – who selected the venue for the 2010 UEFA Champions League Final at the same meeting – based their decision on a number of key criteria, including stadium capacity, facilities and security.

Like the recent finals of the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup, the 2010 Europa League final was given its own unique visual identity. The design concept is intended to give the public a distinctive impression of the host city and will be used on all media associated with the event. The logo for the 2010 final was revealed at the EAST Hotel Cinema in Hamburg on 30 November 2009 – to coincide with the opening of ticket sales for German residents on 1 December – and the ceremony was attended by Karin Von Welck, the regional officer for sport and culture, German Football Association general secretary Wolfgang Niersbach, Hamburger SV chairman Bernd Hoffmann and Germany Under-19 coach Horst Hrubesch. The logo features an artistic impression of two footballers competing for a ball, set against a modern drawing of various elements of the Hamburg skyline.

A trophy handover ceremony was held at the Fischauktionshalle in Hamburg on 13 April 2010, at which a delegation from holders Shakhtar Donetsk – including chief executive Serhiy Palkin, coach Mircea Lucescu, defender Mariusz Lewandowski and midfielder Jádson – returned the trophy to UEFA President Michel Platini. Platini then presented the trophy to the mayor of Hamburg, Ole von Beust, for it to be put on display in the city until the day of the final. Also present at the ceremony were the presidents of Hamburger SV and the German Football Association: Bernd Hoffmann and Theo Zwanziger.

Ambassador
Former Hamburg player Uwe Seeler was appointed as ambassador of the final.

Ticketing
The regular capacity of the Volksparkstadion was just over 57,000; however, for the 2010 Europa League final and other international matches, the standing area in the north stand was converted to seating, reducing the capacity to around 51,500. Approximately 25% of the available tickets were allocated to each club for distribution to their own fans, while approximately 5,100 tickets were retained for the international general public. Following the ticket application process for German residents – which ran from 1 December 2009 to 15 January 2010 – applications were opened to the international general public on 24 February 2010 and closed on 19 March. As demand exceeded the number of tickets available, successful applications were determined by a ballot at the end of March.

Officials
The referee for the 2010 UEFA Europa League Final was Nicola Rizzoli, representing the Italian Football Federation. Rizzoli had been an international referee since 2007, and took charge of his first UEFA Champions League match in the August of that year, even before his first UEFA Cup match. Since then, he refereed a further 10 Champions League matches and nine UEFA Cup/Europa League matches. His only Europa League assignment in 2009–10 – other than the final – was the second leg of Liverpool's round of 16 tie against Lille at Anfield on 18 March 2010. Rizzoli had previously refereed quarter-finals in both the Champions League and the UEFA Cup.

The refereeing team was entirely made up of officials from the same country; Rizzoli was joined by assistant referees Cristiano Copelli and Luca Maggiani, and the fourth official was Gianluca Rocchi. As part of an ongoing experiment throughout the entire 2009–10 UEFA Europa League, there were also two additional assistant referees with the task of monitoring each penalty area; the extra officials for the 2010 final were Paolo Tagliavento and Andrea De Marco.

Match

Team selection
For Atlético, only Sergio Asenjo was unavailable through injury; the Spanish back-up goalkeeper started Atlético's match away to Sporting de Gijón on 8 May after manager Quique Sánchez Flores rested his regular number 1, David de Gea, ahead of the Europa League final, but he tore ligaments in his right knee after 13 minutes and was ruled out for six months. As well as De Gea, Flores rested a further six regular first-team players for their penultimate league match: Luis Perea, Paulo Assunção, Simão, Raúl García, Diego Forlán, and Sergio Agüero.

In the Fulham camp, the most severe injury concerns related to top-scorer Bobby Zamora and winger Damien Duff; Zamora strained his Achilles tendon in the second leg of Fulham's semi-final against Hamburg on 29 April and missed the last three league games of the season, while Duff picked up a calf injury in the penultimate league game against Stoke City on 5 May. Other players with minor injuries included Paul Konchesky (ankle), Brede Hangeland (knee), Aaron Hughes (groin), John Paintsil (muscle strain), and Bjørn Helge Riise (stomach cramps).

Neither team had any players missing through suspension, so the final team selections were largely as expected; the biggest surprise was from Fulham manager Roy Hodgson, who named Chris Baird at right-back ahead of Ghanaian international John Paintsil.

Summary
Atlético started the stronger side and had a chance to take the lead in the 12th minute when Sergio Agüero latched onto a backpass from Danny Murphy and played the ball into Diego Forlán, whose shot struck the post. The sustained pressure from the Spanish club was eventually rewarded when a mistimed shot from Agüero fell to Forlán, who struck the ball past Mark Schwarzer to give Atlético a 1–0 lead. The lead, however, only lasted for five minutes, before Simon Davies struck Zoltán Gera's cross into the net on the half-volley to level the scores at 1–1.

In the second half, Fulham began to gain a foothold in the game and went close to taking the lead after an hour when Simon Davies struck a shot following a poor clearance, which required a save from Atlético goalkeeper David de Gea. In the 55th minute, Bobby Zamora, who had been a fitness doubt prior to the game, was replaced by Clint Dempsey, who became the first American to appear in a major European football final. Atlético finished the 90 minutes as the stronger side, but with neither team able to score, the game went into extra time. In extra time, it was again Atlético who looked the more likely to score, with both Forlán and Agüero having opportunities to hit the net. As the tie approached 120 minutes, however, the Spanish side scored a winner, when Agüero turned Fulham defender Aaron Hughes and crossed the ball to Forlán, who flicked the ball into the goal. Forlán was subsequently named man of the match for his performance.

Details

Statistics

Source: UEFA Team Statistics

See also
Atlético Madrid in European football
Fulham F.C. in European football

References

External links
2009–10 UEFA Europa League, UEFA.com

Final
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Uefa Cup Final 2010
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The 2013 Martyr's Memorial B-Division League season, also known as the RedBull Martyr's Memorial B-Division League for sponsorship reasons, was the 2013 season of the Martyr's Memorial B-Division League. A total of 13 teams competed in the league. The season began on 4 March 2014 and concluded on 24 April 2014.

Teams

Of the 13 participating teams, eight remain following the 2013 Martyr's Memorial B-Division League. They are joined by two teams promoted from the Martyr's Memorial C-Division League and three relegated from the 2012–13 Martyr's Memorial A-Division League.

Naya Basti Youth Club was promoted from the 2012 Martyr's Memorial C-Division League. Whereas, Madhyapur Youth Association, Bansbari Football Club and Boudha Football Club were relegated from the 2012-13 Martyr's Memorial A-Division League.

Boys Union Club were promoted to the 2013–14 Martyr's Memorial A-Division League from the previous season. Swoyambhu Club and United Club had to withdraw from the competition due to financial reasons and were relegated to the Martyr's Memorial C-Division League.

Venues
The league was played centrally in one venues in Kathmandu.

League table

Awards

References

Martyr's Memorial B-Division League seasons
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Guidance for responsible persons on false alarm management of fire detection and alarm systems from the Fire Industry Association.
Information on reducing the number of false alarms from fire-detection and fire-alarm systems from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
For any outdoor event, festival, mass gathering etc. to run safely it is essential that there is suitable and sufficient pre-planning on behalf of all stakeholders involved, therefore, the NFCC Event Safety Group has developed a suite of best guidance documentation to enable a consistent approach to information giving, gathering, planning and recording.


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Toddlers are busy people. All you need do is spend twenty minutes with one of these energizer miniatures and you know you're in the company of a source of energy that seems inexhaustible. At least it does until the little guy hits the deck mid-step for a nice long nap. Turns out that even when they're asleep, these indefatigable guys are still busy.
A new study shows that toddlers use their sleeping time to turn their experiences into knowledge. The process works something like this: Your toddler spends an exciting time at the grocery store with you telling her the name of each item you put into your cart. By the time you make it through the entire store, you're more than ready for the ride home. And your toddler is sound asleep in her car seat. While said toddler is asleep, she is not just dreaming about the time spent with you. Her brain is busy categorizing the experience and turning the fun you've just had into knowledge.
This discovery is based upon work done by researchers who studied their interactions with 9- to 16-month olds. The parents and toddlers were invited to a training session in which the toddlers were repeatedly shown images of objects while hearing the name of the object. The names were fictitious and the objects were intentionally ones that could be categories by proportion, color, or other details. Objects that were belonged to the same category by shape were always given the same names. EEG measurements were recorded during this process.
After the interaction with researchers, one group of toddlers spent the next hour or two sleeping while another EEG was recorded. The other group stayed awake and went for a walk. Both nappers and non-nappers then had another learning session. EEG recordings were made for both groups as the little guys went through the same combinations as the first learning session, as well as being exposed to new combinations.
The results? All of the toddlers were able to recognize the original objects. The nappers were able to make connections between the objects by category while the non-nappers were not. Examination of the EEGs during sleep showed brainwaves known as sleep spindles. It was found that the experience was taken to the next level during these spindles. In fact, "the greater an infant's spindle activity, the better it can assign category names to new objects after sleep," according to the researcher Manuela Friedrich.
All in all, the study raises the question of whether or not this experience-to-knowledge link is made by older children and adults. Maybe it's not so silly for kindergartners to take a nap mid-day. Maybe nap breaks while studying could help the study process in adults. It's a question that certainly deserves some attention!


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80-year-old actress
Faye Dunaway is a 80-year-old American actress, director and producer, best known for her roles in Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde.
Name: Faye Dunaway
Occupation: actress, director, producer
Born: January, 14 1941 in Bascom
Citizenship: United States
Warren Beatty (1967)
1999: The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (Luc Besson): Yolande of Aragon
1993: Arizona Dream (Emir Kusturica): Elaine Stalker
1987: Barfly (Barbet Schroeder): Wanda Wilcox
1974: Chinatown (Roman Polanski): Evelyn Cross Mulwray
1973: The Three Musketeers (Richard Lester): Milady de Winter
1967: Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn): Bonnie Parker
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Death Hoax says "Actress Dies at 80"
AMP™, 14-01-2021 | Faye Dunaway was reported as dead earlier this week, causing concern among fans across the world. However, the January 2021 news has now been confirmed as a complete hoax and just the latest in a string of fake celebrity death reports.
Faye Dunaway named "Sexiest Actress Alive"
AMP™, 18-01-2021 | Faye Dunaway, 80, has been dubbed "the Sexiest Actress Alive" by Glamour's magazine in its February 2021 issue out this week. For the second year in a row, our gorgeous hottie beat out some other equally hot women for the number one spot!
Highest-Paid Actress in the World
AMP™, 18-01-2021 | It's been a rough year for the actress, but at least she has her millions of dollars to ease the pain. 80-year-old Faye Dunaway has taken the No. 1 spot on People With Money's highest-paid celebrity list for 2021.
Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2021?
AMP™, 18-01-2021 | According to a reliable source, Faye Dunaway is leading the race to become Time magazine's Person of the Year in 2021. But while the actress' fans are thrilled with the news, many people hold a very different opinion.
Faye Dunaway goes 'Gangnam Style'
AMP™, 18-01-2021 | The 80-year-old actress is said to have been secretly practising 'Gangnam Style' steps, after singer PSY has invited her to join in the famous dance earlier this year.
'Bonnie and Clyde' named Best Film of All Time
AMP™, 18-01-2021 | According to the latest Watch and Listen magazine poll just out yesterday (Sunday, January 17), 'Bonnie and Clyde' is now considered to be the Greatest Film in the History of Cinema.
83-year-old Actor to Be a Dad?
AMP™, 18-01-2021 | Speculation is rampant that Warren Beatty is expecting a baby after long-time partner was spotted with a prominent stomach bulge on Sunday evening, during romantic dinner date. Is the 83-year-old actor about to be a dad to a little boy or girl?
Her Beloved Dog Recovering from Surgery
AMP™, 14-01-2021 | Faye Dunaway's adored labrador retriever "Spinee" has undergone a risky surgery on Saturday and is luckily beginning the slow process of recovery. The 80-year-old actress has received waves and waves and support for Spinee, as she offered her Twitter followers an update on pooch's status regularly.
Did she just Get Engaged?
AMP™, 18-01-2021 | On Saturday morning the Sun-Times reported the 80-year-old actress Faye Dunaway and her boyfriend, to be shopping for engagement rings. Naturally, the article sent the Facebook and Twitter into a frenzy.
Did she get married over the weekend?
AMP™, 18-01-2021 | Reports from the Daily News yesterday (January 17, 2021), suggest the 80-year-old actress has secretly got hitched to her long-term relationship. Sorry guys, Faye Dunaway seems to be off the market.
Actress to announce shock retirement, at age 80
AMP™, 18-01-2021 | Sad news for Dunaway fans as speculation had been rife that the American actress will announce her retirement from acting, at age 80, with immediate effect.
Split Rumors: Is the 80-year-old Actress Single Again?
AMP™, 18-01-2021 | Earlier this week news reports surfaced that Faye Dunaway, 80, and her partner had split up. Is the American actress really single again?
The Next Bond Girl?
AMP™, 17-01-2021 | American star Faye Dunaway is reportedly set to play the Bond girl in the next edition of "James Bond" franchise. The Internet is buzzing with rumors that the 80-year-old actress could be cast as the female lead opposite Daniel Craig.


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Flying Cars and the Casting Couch in Silicon Valley. Both Exist. For Real
Charlie Thompson, CEO & Founder of The Clean Collective
It's no secret that raising funds as a female founder is tough.
A Boston Consulting Group survey concluded that just two per cent of venture capital funding reaches female-led companies – a statistic made louder last week by Kim Jackson passionately speaking out (nice one, Kim).
I've given myself an additional challenge in my funding mission in that I founded The Clean Collective to make a difference to human and planetary health, and finding investors that are interested in changing the world (not just their pockets) is like weeding a lawn of grass by hand.
As the inspiring Catriona Wallace puts it, "you've got to get used to eating rejection for breakfast when capital raising." Yep. Breakfast, sometimes followed too quickly by brunch.
So, you can imagine my excitement to receive an invitation to attend an investment event in Silicon Valley, dedicated to social impact start-ups.
What I left with wasn't cash but something far more powerful.
The start-up roller coaster
I hit the first day of the event with a spring in my step from the possibility that was oozing from it. It kicked off with a presentation so powerful that I felt compelled to write and thank the speaker for the inspiration and for confirming there are VCs out there who believe in this planet's need for double bottom line business.
The next 48 hours were filled with strong chats and big pitches. Did you know someone already built a flying car? Legit, that James Bond stuff already exists.
The bigger the ideas and the bigger the tech builds, the bigger the creeping sense that I was out of place here.
Enter: the male protagonist
In a true Moses moment, the crowd seemed to part as an engaged angel investor glided straight into my conversation. When he asked me how I found the event, my honesty spilled:
"I don't think I'm in the right place. I'm not building new technology or flying cars; I'm just trying to use existing technology to empower people to tackle climate change and take ownership of their health."
"Really?" he replied. "I have an interest in climate investments."
The conversation begins. A long and serious discussion ensues: the health and climate epidemics, the latest scientific research available, the solutions we're building at The Clean Collective, how time is of the essence with just 134 months left on the Climate Change Clock.
I left with a serious contact who'd confirmed serious interest in investing in The Clean Collective with further discussion, willing to connect me to further impact-concerned investors.
I heard from him a few hours later.
Lunch locked and loaded for tomorrow.
Dining with the (angel) devil
I've done coffee, lunch, dinner and wine with investors in rain and shine – even on crutches straight from a doctor's surgery – to raise the funds I've needed to fuel my business. I felt prepared. Just another lunch…
It started pleasantly enough. This guy had already expressed an interest in getting to know the person/s he was investing in. It's not unusual. I played ball. We got chatting.
Let's call him Phil.
It turns out Phil's passion is photography and he's got a studio just around the corner.
The conversation turns – the horse bolts – and wrapped in some inappropriate comments, he tells me that he wants to "capture" me and asks if he can take my picture at his studio.
As I wonder if I've understood the words that just casually fell out of his mouth, he's already showing me a portfolio of images, cropped in a way that you're left wondering if the women in them were wearing clothes.
What he didn't realise is the photos he tried not to show me were reflected in his wine glass, revealing a bit more skin.
How does an Aussie start-up founder end up on a Silicon Valley casting couch?
This man was practiced. He'd done this before. His words ducked around the subject in such a dance that I was left questioning myself at every sentence.
In asking for clarification of his true interest and intentions, he revealed that he'd decided he wanted to take my picture the moment he saw me at the conference; that if I went to the conveniently-located photography studio from his lunch reservation, he "couldn't be sure what would happen" after the photos were taken; and that my dismissive reaction was unusual, because most women become CEOs "because they want fame."
Read Charlie Thompson's open letter to angel investor 'Phil'.
Dear Phil
You stunned me into a state of gibberish that I'll thank you for: sometimes your brain needs to be faced with an alien situation before it finds its script. Here's mine:
You've got the wrong definition of 'human capital'.
Women cannot be bought.
Women are capable leaders that become CEOs for many reasons.
Women founders do not deserve to be subjected to your well-rehearsed show.
And in case you're wondering, the world's still dying, and the Climate Change Clock's still ticking.
Thank you for filling some of my precious time in the 134-month window of opportunity that we have to save the planet from a climate catastrophe with your ridiculous proposition because, you know what? No one grows in their comfort zone and you've just added some serious fuel to my fire.
In the words of Meatloaf, "I'd do anything [for my love of this planet], but I won't do that."
My mission is so much bigger than your cheque book.
You sent me back home to Australia with next-level amounts of clarity, grit and determination to find investors that respect people, respect the planet, and understand that investing in our future is not only money and energy incredibly well spent, but an absolute necessity for civilisation as we know it.
The Clean Collective is now running an equity crowdfund crowdfund with us to raise funds to fuel its mission, seeking passionate investors for the future of human and planetary health. In return, investors will get 12-month discounts to www.thecleancollective.com, early-bird access and passes to new digital products, and The Clean Collective will remove 37,500 pieces of plastic pollution from the environment and plant 12,500 trees when they hit their target of raising $1.5M. This is what you call a true and fair exchange, Phil.
Access the equity crowdfund here.


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Canadian Trucking Head to Step Down in 2017
David Bradley Photo via Ontario Trucking Association
Canadian Trucking Alliance and Ontario Trucking Association president and CEO David Bradley has announced that he will step down at the end of 2017, after more than 30 years in the position.
Bradley joined OTA as the director of economics in 1985 and was promoted to president six years later. In 1997, he took in the additional responsibility of leading CTA and has continued in the dual role ever since.
"It is with some amazement, but always with appreciation, that I think back on what a leap of faith it was back in 1991 to have entrusted such a young guy to represent such an incredible and important industry," said Bradley in a letter to the organization. "While I have loved dealing with the issues, it is the people I have had the pleasure to get to know, to work with and to learn from that have made coming to work every day so energizing and rewarding."
In his career, Bradley was a defender of the industry and an advocate of responsible trucking and tough safety standards, according to OTA. He supported regulatory initiatives such as speed limiters and the upcoming ELD requirement.
He will remain in his current role through 2017.
"There will be plenty of time for reflection down the road," said Bradley. "For now, it's business as usual for me."
Related: Southern Cross-Border Freight Outpaces U.S.-Canada Cargo for First Time
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Closing The Gap: Legislatures Urged to Address Truck Platooning Laws
Truck platooning technology has leapt far ahead of outdated laws designed to cut down on tailgating and convoys. A new, state-by-state initiative seeks to bring regulations in line with this new technology.
EKA Launches Private Freight Marketplace Solution
EKA Solutions has launched MPlace, allowing larger shippers, brokers and carriers to create private freight marketplaces using features of its cloud-based Omni-TMS platform.
ATA Partners With NACV Show on Educational Symposium
The North American Commercial Vehicle Show has partnered with American Trucking Associations to host a symposium at this year's event, offering educational and benchmarking sessions to attendees.
Technology is Changing How Carriers, Shippers, and Brokers Connect
The power of software and technology has the potential to make the whole freight and logistics value chain much more efficient and effective.
AI Is More Likely to Do Your Books Than Drive Your Truck by 2020
Fleet owners and owner-operators are often justifiably wary when hearing about the next 'Big Thing' coming to trucking. But while driverless trucks remain a long ways off, artificial intelligence could have a place in your business in the next few years.
Peloton Announces Level 4 Driverless Truck Platooning System
Peloton's new Automated Following solution uses vehicle-to-vehicle technology to allow a single driver in a lead truck to control two platooning vehicles.
Making the ROI Case for Telematics
Sometimes the toughest part of a telematics implementation is convincing company leadership that it's the best option for the business. Focusing on the solution's ROI will go a long way to convincing even the most skeptical business leader.
Have an ELD? Bundle it with Telematics
Fleets that bundle their ELD solutions with telematics not only will stay in compliance, but also will get the benefits of better visibility into every aspect of their trucks' operations, improving the bottom line.
How Logistics Technology is Helping Small Carriers and Brokers Compete
Technology is allowing the small carriers that make up the vast majority of the trucking industry to become a more integral part of the supply chain.


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Exercises from the rust book.  Just typed in by me for practice.

## Attribution

Since all the code is from the rust book, modulo any typos or alterations,
attribution is to the book's authors and the rust-lang project in general.

* Rust main repo: [rust-lang/rust](rust-lang/rust)
* Book source: [rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src/doc/trpl](rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src/doc/trpl)

Rust is licensed under Apache 2 or MIT, so same here.


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Gov. Newsom Signs Universal Mail-In Ballots Into Law
Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed Assembly Bill 37, which would require every registered voter to be sent a mail-in ballot. The law takes effect in January and will require ballots to be mailed to voters for the statewide elections in June and November. California is now the eighth state in the union to implement this kind of legislation as Democrats continue to mobilize elections for the ballots they want to count. This was the final nail in the coffin in California elections after residents had a rare chance to recall Newsom – and didn't.
Newsom celebrated the signing of the bill as a victory for voter access, expanding voting options, and bolstering election integrity and transparency. He said that the "unprecedented steps" of mail-in voting last year brought record-breaking participation in the 2020 presidential election.
Democratic Assemblymember Marc Berman, who helped author the bill, also pointed out that the 2020 General Election had the "highest voter turnout in California" since Harry Truman was president. He claimed that other states were making it harder for people to vote while California was looking to expand access on an "already safe and secure ballot." He went on to say the data proves that sending everyone a ballot in the mail provides voters access and more options when it comes to casting their ballot.
While Newsom made universal mail-in voting one of the executive orders during the pandemic, the Sutter County Superior Court later ruled that his actions were unconstitutional. A judge ruled that Newsom is not granted the power to amend or make new statutory laws and that he did not have the authority to issue election orders under the California Emergency Services Act. The California Constitution clearly states that the legislature is tasked with changing election laws and that this should not have been done by executive fiat. Newsom was even issued a permanent injunction over the order and to keep him from doing it in the future.
"Gavin Newsom, in his official capacity as Governor of the State of California is enjoined and prohibited from exercising any power under the California Emergency Services Act which amends, alters, or changes existing statutory law or makes new statutory law or legislative policy," the order states.
Many notable politicians have supported Newsom throughout the recall election, with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris even making an appearance. But throughout the entire recall, Secretary of State Shirley Weber was working hard to ensure Democrats stay in office and maintain local elections. She went ahead and allowed Remote Access Vote By Mail (RAVBM) throughout the recall election, where a voter can print a ballot from their home computer. Many have even accused the Newsom administration of cheating the recall because of this, adding that California is the "poster child" of systemic voter fraud.
Newsom has continued to snap at his critics and reporters throughout the recall, adding that it is only the people outside of the state who are "bi******" about the state. He said Texas and Florida could "eat their hearts out" with the jobs California has created and that he should be able to express the way he feels.
The recall election, mail-in ballots, and executive orders are all a part of Democrats moving forward to maintain total power in California. Anything that gets in their way or rejects the narrative is "racist" or "voter suppression."
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