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package ch.idsia.scenarios.oldscenarios;

import ch.idsia.benchmark.experiments.EpisodicExperiment;
import ch.idsia.benchmark.experiments.Experiment;
import ch.idsia.benchmark.tasks.ProgressTask;
import ch.idsia.benchmark.tasks.Task;
import ch.idsia.tools.MarioAIOptions;

/**
 * Created by IntelliJ IDEA.
 * User: Sergey Karakovskiy, sergey at idsia dot ch
 * Date: Feb 24, 2010
 * Time: 12:57:18 PM
 * Package: ch.idsia.scenarios
 */
public class GeneralScenario
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
//        Agent agent = new ForwardAgent();
    MarioAIOptions options = new MarioAIOptions(args);
    Task task = new ProgressTask(options);
    Experiment exp = new EpisodicExperiment(task, options.getAgent());
    exp.doEpisodes(2);
}

/*
        MarioAIOptions options = new MarioAIOptions(args);
//        Evaluator evaluator = new Evaluator(options);
//        Agent agent = new ForwardAgent();
        options.setFPS(24);
//        options.setVisualization(false);
        String amicoModuleName = options.getPyAmiCoModuleName();
        System.out.println("amicoModuleName = " + amicoModuleName);
//        String amicoAgentName = "ForwardAgent";
        System.out.println("options.getAgentFullLoadName() = " + options.getAgentFullLoadName());
        Agent agent = new AmiCoAgent(amicoModuleName, options.getAgentFullLoadName());
        options.setAgent(agent);
//        evaluator.evaluate();
//        System.out.println("evaluator = " + evaluator.getMeanEvaluationSummary());
        System.exit(0);

 */
}

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There are 2 main things that every golfers is looking for out of their driver: More distance and More accuracy. If you can get both you've hit the jackpot. It often seems like we have to sacrifice one for the other. Our straightest drivers aren't necessarily our longest and vice versa. Well give your old driver shaft a warning, because the Project X HZRDUS offers more distance and more accuracy in your driver. There is a reason it is one of the hottest shafts on tour and the list of players using these shafts is growing as is Project X's offerings. (The HZRDUS Red was just released) With all the OEMs offering no upcharge shaft upgrades, be warned: you need to try the HZRDUS.
I find it interesting when testing products that I have a preconceived notion of what to expect when I try something, only to see something different on the course. I thought that the Project X Black was a lower launching shaft while the Yellow as a higher launching version of it. I wasn't seeing that on the course when I was playing them so I was confused, only to read that they are the same profile, just that the yellow is backweighted for heavier heads.
Project X created a unique shaft by hand rolling them in here in the US. This attention to detail shows up in the results of one of the most consistent shafts I've hit off the tee. The knock on Project X has always been feel, whether it is their iron shafts or even their original graphite wood shafts. The HZRDUS however has great feel. It offers a much smoother transition throughout the swing, without getting too soft. There is still a crispness to the shaft, but I felt it was right where I want it to be.
I also appreciate the Project X stiffness numbers so that you can dial in exactly what you want. The .5 increments allow you to get right at the exact stiffness you are looking for without tipping the shaft. The stiffness, weight, spin and torque are all labeled right on the shaft which are actually kind of incorporated into the logo.
The Project X HZRDUS Black won the game spot in my Ping G LS driver. I actually like it so much I'm getting another for my M2 driver as well. The driver shaft is not an easy battle to win, there are some great shafts out there and ones that have played very well for me, but the distance and accuracy of the HZRDUS were just too hard to beat. My on-course testing showed the potential of my driver. I wasn't longer on my best drives than before, but I am consistently longer on the majority of my drives. Basically my longest drives didn't change when the stars align, but my average drive is better, more fairways and more distance.
The Project X HZRDUS shaft offers very strong flight. It isn't low launching, but has a flat trajectory that is tied more to your face at impact rather than the shaft trying to make it go higher or lower. The ball gets up in the air, but then just holds its line vertically and horizontally. There just isn't much movement after impact. That's not to say that a bad swing won't give you bad results; it still does. However those bad swings seem to be less with the HZRDUS Black in my hands.
The HZRDUS Yellow was most fascinating to me. Part was because I was initially wrong about what it was, and the other is because I can't seem to figure out backweighted shafts. When I had my timing down, this was as good as the Black, but for whatever reason, backweighted shafts throw off my timing and are inconsistent. If however that is good fit for your swing, this shaft will yield the same results as the Black.
Be Warned: There is a reason this shaft is so hot on tour and with consumers right now. It offers both distance and accuracy with a nice firm smooth feel, which is much improved for Project X. I've been really happy with my "gamer" combo of the HZRDUS Black 6.0 in the 60 gram shaft installed in my Ping G LS driver. This thing is dangerous, it bombs the fairways, it might just having you changing driver shafts.


Designed by Paola Navone and exclusive to Heal's, the Hepburn ottoman features the designer's trademark blend of classic and contemporary styles. Made to order in southern Italy, a hardwood frame is beautifully upholstered in a choice of designer St Moritz wool, semi-aniline or soft leathers complete with mid-century inspired button cushion detail. The use of pre-stretched elasticated webbing plus foam core seat cushion with fibre topper provides a comfortable sit. Choose from three foot options natural, walnut or black wenge, to match your style.
St Moritz wool - a luxurious woollen fabric woven in Italy, napped and marled to provide soft, tailored upholstery.


Grade 2, unlike grade 5 and grade 8, has become an industry term to refer to low carbon fasteners. Most low carbon fasteners manufactured today are actually A307. A307 bolts are similar to grade 2 but have slightly less tensile strength in larger diameters. When we mark an item as "Grade 2" it might be an A307 or a grade 2 depending on the manufacture. If you have an application where tensile strength is an issue please see our Grade 5 and Grade 8 fasteners.
1" 1-8 1" 1" 1" 1"
1 1/8" 1.125" 1.125" 1.125" 1.125"
1 1/4" 1.25" 1.25" 1.25" 1.25"
1 1/2" 1.5" 1.5" 1.5" 1.5"
* Hex bolts and hex cap screws have become synonymous but technically a hex cap screw refers to a hex bolt with a thin fillet under its head and is machined with tighter tolerances. Our grade 2 bolts are hex bolts. If you need an actual cap screw please see our Stainless, Grade 5, and Grade 8 hex cap screws.


Kevin Bacon Will Star In a Tremors TV Reboot!
Well, chalk this one up on the list of things we never expected to hear today. After trying to make a TV breakthrough over a decade ago on channel formerly known as Sci-Fi, cult classic Tremors is heading to TV once more: but this time, it'll wield the unstoppable star power of Kevin Bacon himself.
Entertainment Weekly broke the news that a TV series was in development at Universal, and that Bacon would both star and produce (he appeared in the first Tremors, but has declined to return as Valentine McKee in either the 2003 TV series or any of the direct-to-video sequels) while The Secret Circle writer Andrew Miller would script.
Details are sparse—other than that the show will be set in Perfection, Nevada, the fictional town from the first film—but the series is currently being shopped around for a new home. Considering the past connection, Syfy would probably be an easy fit, but who knows? It's great to see Tremors getting some modern love though.
We'll bring you more on the Tremors reboot as and when we learn more about it.


Created to celebrate Mats Valks 2016 3x3 world record of 4.74 seconds, the Valk 3 mini measures 4.74cm on each side. The design, and turning quality are the same as the regular size valk 3, but in a much smaller size, so you can practise your algorithms on the go, with a great quality cube, that is easy to tuck away when not in use.
this feels exactly like a smaller valk, but it catches a bit compared to the valk.
Delivery from The Puzzle Store was very fast - arrived earlier than I had expected, and I was notified of every update in the process.
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The Olympic Stadium in London continues to be used after London 2012.
Shopping centre Westfield Stratford City draws visitors to the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, London.
Taking on the world's largest sporting events is a feat that has, traditionally, required significant development and adjustment for the host nation.
With Japan about to play host not only to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, but also to the Rugby World Cup 2019 and the Kansai World Masters Games 2021, one of the crucial issues that needs to be tackled is providing venues for each.
On 27 July, Neil Levett, managing director of Alad Limited and publisher of the magazine Panstadia & Arena Management, spoke to members of the British Chamber of Commerce in Japan.
He outlined the models required in venue management and operation in Japan, and his plans to facilitate idea sharing through Stadia & Arena Pacific 2016, a sports venue conference and exhibition to be held in September in Yokohama.
Looking at venue owners and operators in Japan, Levett hopes to involve British firms in imparting service knowledge from both the Games and other successful sporting events that have taken place in the UK.
"It may seem like a strange thing to say", said Levett, "but we came here [to host Stadia & Arena Pacific] predominantly because Japan has got a basketball league, successful three-tier football league, and baseball league, some with 50,000-seater or over audiences. That gives us a sustainable business model after the party of the Olympics has gone".
With the government placing an emphasis on the development of the national sports industry, the time is ripe to begin building Japan's sports venue capability, according to Levett. He said that interest in global arenas expressed by representatives from some of Japan's top venues is evidence that things are changing in Japan.
For Levett, the core issue is re-assessment of the financial models: the necessary shift from a cost centre to a profit centre.
"Venue owners in Japan tend to be prefectures and local and national governments, whereas in the Western model there are more that are privately owned", he said. There needs to be a move from a prefecture-based funding model to a revenue-generating model he added.
Venues such as the O2 in London are run along the lines of a revenue-generating model. With this model, "the venue operator would come in on behalf of the owner, prefecture or government to run the facility", he explained, adding that there is a requirement for "venue based revenue, where we are actually sweating an asset".
He gave the example of the Singapore Sports Hub, a public–private partnership (PPP) model and a venue that hosts a 56,000-seat football stadium, 12,000-seat arena, shopping centre, aquatic centre and facilities for other sports.
"Content is king", Levett said. "You can either have an anchor-tenant, such as a football club or basketball club, or a more transient venue … the Royal Albert Hall, with different performances and with a different finance model".
Levett hopes that inviting global stakeholders in the sports industry to share knowledge with Japanese delegates will lead to best-in-class management.
"It's a real sharing exercise", he said. He explained that UK Trade & Investment have organised "meet the buyer" sessions to match Japanese delegates with British firms in the hope of forming advantageous partnerships.
Levett selected West Ham United Football Club's old stadium, The Boleyn Ground, as a prime example of the kind of transient venue model that Japan should look to adopt.
"It's a typical model", he said. "They have corporate hospitality; there's restaurants, bars and meeting facilities".
In addition, the stadium's 80 corporate hospitality boxes, become hotel bedrooms on non-match days, he explained. This transforms the stadium into a meetings, incentives, conference and exhibitions venue.
Future-proofing global sporting event venues, to ensure that they do not simply become ghost remnants of a great event, was also on the agenda. This could be achieved through use of the smart venue concept, which is similar to West Ham's hotel model, Levett explained. The concept looks at sport as a focus for community development.
He compared the concept to that of a European market square, with businesses surrounding the trading area. The Olympic Stadium is next to Westfield Stratford City, one of the biggest shopping centres in Europe.
"You're going to go to that area and spend a day there", Levett said, pointing out the value of the location. For this idea to work in Japan, there is a need to switch to a PPP model, which has been successful in the Yokohama arena, he added.
Japan's population is heavily concentrated in the cities of Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama, but the government wants to maintain its regional and local population level. It then "needs to make sure that people out in the regions have got work", Levett said.
One way of doing that is to look at the role facilities play in communities in these regions. Levett said that the Japan Sports Agency (JSA) is looking at models, such as that of Madison Square Garden in New York City.
By doing this, said Levett, the JSA can understand "what they can do to replicate or better it". In addition, "the UK has signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan to share best practice on the provision of security at major sporting events", he said.
Bringing together over 50 global industry experts and delegates, Stadia & Arena Pacific 2016 will explore topics such as the design and construction of sports venues, operations, technology and security.
Tours of the Yokohama Arena, Nissan Stadium and Yokohama International Swimming Pool are also in the programme. The exhibition will offer delegates the opportunity to meet leading product and service suppliers.
"The thirst for knowledge certainly exists", Levett concluded. "There is the embryo of this happening in Japan; knowledge-sharing is coming through".


I am always analyzing and processing and trying – wanting – to understand. I don't, for example, understand addiction from the point of view of an addict. I try to understand it scientifically, clinically, neurologically, and of course gather the perspectives of addicts I meet and know. I may never gather all the insight I need or want, but I keep trying to learn.
I feel like, as I move along through life, getting older (hopefully a bit wiser), I am becoming more understanding, more compassionate, more interested in understanding, more caring, loving and accepting. What surprises me, though, is how one of the closest people to me is the exact opposite. He has become so closed, so judgmental – about everything. A total Besserwisser: he knows best (and is, perhaps not ironically, judgmental of all the people he meets who are equally know-it-all types!?). Addiction is just an example of a topic that I examine and think about a lot – and he and I diverge on this subject in a major way, but there are so many other things where the chasm between this close person and me keeps growing wider and deeper.
I'm not sure what to make of it because I don't really want to feel judged, demeaned, second guessed or guilt-tripped every time I talk to this person. Because of his emotional proximity to me, it is not like I can or even want to write him off. In some ways, we are so close and the only people who can understand each other and our histories. I don't like the idea of losing the connection but come on.


The Sapphire Portfolio (Part) comprised 15 single-let industrial assets located throughout the UK. The portfolio book value of the 15 properties at the commencement of the contract in April 2011 was £33.3m. The portfolio was sold for £34.5m in December 2013.
The portfolio had been placed into West Register (part of RBS) following a default by the sponsor of the original RBS loan. First Alliance Properties successfully tendered, and were then instructed by West Register to undertake the asset management of the portfolio for an ongoing management fee and a profit share, payable on exit, for sales proceeds in excess of a pre-agreed threshold above book value. The portfolio was successfully sold along with a similar-sized portfolio of single-let industrial assets that was also held by West Register. The two portfolios together formed the whole of the Sapphire Portfolio.


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Amaryllis Virginia Garnett (17 October 1943 – 6 May 1973) was an English actress and diarist.

Born in St Pancras, London, Garnett was the eldest of the four daughters of David and Angelica Garnett. Her father was a writer, her mother an artist. Her maternal grandparents were the artists Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, the sister of Virginia Woolf, making Woolf her great-aunt.

Her father's parents were Edward Garnett, a publisher and writer, and Constance Garnett (née Black), a prolific translator of Russian literature. Her great-grandparents included Richard Garnett, author and librarian, Leslie Stephen, biographer, and Julia Duckworth, a pre-Raphaelite artists' model and niece of the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.

In 1946 T. H. White, a friend of Amaryllis Garnett's parents, wrote his book Mistress Masham's Repose for her, which for White became the beginning of a new career as a children's writer. A biographer of White notes that in the book "Children are never told that their elders are better than they are or taught Algebra, just Oeconomy, Natural History, and other subjects dealing with life, a situation which would doubtless have delighted Amaryllis Garnett."

The Garnetts had four daughters, who called their parents "Angelica" and "Bunny" and had an unconventional childhood. While the family was living at Hilton Hall, near St Ives, Amaryllis, Henrietta, Nerissa, and Fanny were all sent, to the surprise of some, to the co-educational Huntingdon Grammar School, where Amaryllis arrived at the age of eleven.  They made few friends there, but took leading parts in school plays and were the most creative pupils. Meanwhile, at home there was a farm, with a herd of Jersey cows, an orchard, a swimming pool, sculptures, and a dovehouse. At the age of sixteen, Garnett went as a boarder to Cranborne Chase School, then trained for an acting career at a drama school in London. In 1962, she appeared in a production of Medea, when a reviewer commented "Amaryllis Garnett, as the Leader of the Chorus, made one listen to what sounded uncannily like Eliot-inspired reflection, not to admire its sonority but to unravel its philosophical implications."

In 1966, Garnett had her first screen role in an ITV Play of the Week written by John Mortimer called A Choice of Kings. In 1967, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. As an actress, she was taken up by Harold Pinter, who found her a part in his film The Go-Between (1971). Spotlight 1973 gave her height as 5 feet 8 inches and her eye colour as blue. Her mother described her as "very beautiful and deeply intelligent". In 1969, according to Frances Spalding, she was much admired by Cyril Connolly.

In her late twenties, Garnett was living on a houseboat on the River Thames, moored by Battersea Bridge at Chelsea, which had been bought for her by her parents. However, her life was turbulent, the result of combining a high-spending lifestyle with having no income at all. She decided to give up acting and move to Morocco with a boyfriend, causing her father to complain "Surely she ought to get a job and get on with her profession!" At the age of 29, her life was falling apart.

On an afternoon in May 1973, David Plante and Mark Lancaster took Garnett and her two sisters, all in long dresses, out to a club, where they danced together, while the men watched. A few days later, while suffering from deep depression, Garnett drowned in the river at Chelsea. It was possible that the death was accidental, but the Garnett family believed suicide more likely, and Angelica Garnett told Plante that she had "not been a good mother". Garnett left behind a diary, which remains unpublished.

In her biography of Duncan Grant of 1997, Frances Spalding gives the view that "Amaryllis was a rare combination of character, imagination and friendliness."

See also
List of unsolved deaths

Notes

External links

 Portrait of Amaryllis Garnett , 1958, by Duncan Grant  at artnet.com
 Huntingdon school play – Amaryllis Garnett as Queen at huntingdon.ccan.co.uk

1943 births
1973 deaths
20th-century English actresses
Deaths by drowning in the United Kingdom
Amaryllis
People educated at Cranborne Chase School
Unsolved deaths in England

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http://inesad.edu.bo/developmentroast/2012/10/why-information-and-communications-technology-deserves-a-prominent-place-in-a-post-mdg-framework/
Why Technology Deserves a Prominent Place in Post MDGs Development
Yesterday my grandfather turned 83. There he is in the picture below. The incredible half century gap between the before and after nostalgic snaps are shot next to his lifelong toy and companion: His Morse Code radio.
According the International Amateur Radio Union 1, more than two million amateur radio lovers just like my grandpa surf the radio waves in search of making connections with others all around the world. I am constantly reminded of the global popularity of this as a pastime when the conversation between us always and inevitably turns to his radio activities and latest certificates he gained. Take his mastery of the "200 world islands" credentials. To receive them he had to touch base with another electron tube enthusiast in each of the two hundred designated islands. Where there are no inhabitants, expeditions were organised that set up makeshift accommodation and a radio shack for a week at a time to allow people to make the needed connection. Upon contact, using the universal language of Morse Code, they swap calling numbers (UA6FQ is my grandpa's) and send each other a postcard with the date and location of their virtual meeting. He has thousand, literally thousands, of postcards going back to the mid fifties from every nook and cranny of our planet. In return, his radio-buddies receive one from Stavropol—his home town, my birth place and a city nested in the heart of the Northern Caucus range of South Western Russia, between the world's largest lake that is the Caspian sea and the world's, well, blackest Black Sea. .
It is amazing that something that seems so archaic to most of us still plays a huge part in connecting strangers across the globe, even if only fleetingly. It is like the Social Network of their generation; Millions of users hopping around hundreds of their radio friends only to touch base briefly, with a handful becoming lifelong radio-pals worth a quarterly ten minute update of short-long-long-short-long index finger tappings. Through their unrelenting chase of radio connections, his generation of innovative social networkers—born out of Space Age technological curiosity, catalyzed by Sputnik's success and perpetually fueled by the Cold War—and their more hobby driven contemporaries have provided us with endless hours of conversation topic; keeping me and my 83 year old grandpa close.
My Grandfather By His Trusted Radio in 1956 and 2009
Had my family emigrated to the U.K. eighty years ago instead of seventeen we would have counted ourselves lucky to hold a conversation via such a device. Instead, with him being in Russia and me in Thailand, Bolivia, France, Australia—and all the other faraway places my life and work take me—we speak for over an hour over Skype at least once a month. Always with the usual wonderfully charming difficulty of his being unable to see or hear me properly for his deteriorating senses and my occasional struggle to understand his diction through his almost entirely toothless smile. Not to mention the Skype call quality problems we have all become inured to that are tolerated by millions of users for the benefit of free global voice and video chat—a tiny price to pay, especially compared to the expedition-size efforts of radio lovers.
We are part of the last few decades' transformation of social relations and communications between members of a global digital diaspora. On the one hand, for individuals, this serves in the building and maintaining of identity and personal roots. In fact, academics are recognizing that such technologies "are increasingly used transnationally to link migrants and homelands in ways that are deeply meaningful to people on both ends of the line 2". For society, on the other hand, online organization of scattered diaspora can help in spreading vital on-the-ground information of major events, pushing a cause and even in the reconstruction and development of nations 3, as has been witnessed most recently across the Middle East 4. Although the sad events of the mostly mindless looting and violence in the UK in the summer of 2011 5 remind us that spontaneous, internet-driven organisation does not always have an admirable purpose and does not always lead to positive action.
Social connections and better family communications are not the only applications of modern technologies that—for those that can access and use them correctly—can have a positive impact on development. Initiatives like the Khan Academy 6 and Coursera 7—that offer free classes ranging from basic middle school math to university level courses in nutrition for health and disease management—are leveling the playing field of access to education (at least for those with an internet connection).
In this way, ICT (information communication technologies) are increasingly heralded as vital to increasing access to health and education, improving opportunities for employment and income for the poor and pushing breakthroughs in social freedoms such as those of uncensored media and free speech. Nothing tells the story better than the example of mobile cellular devices. Mobile telephones are increasingly used by farmers 8 in the most rural of villages to get the latest city market prices for their goods, which ensures that they get more of the pie from intermediary traders and wholesalers who purchase their products. In some cases, the added advantage elevates the standing of women 9 and other under-privileged groups within communities. Mobile devices have also revolutionized monetary transactions; People are able to send and receive remittances from their family abroad through texting each other pass codes for banks and other institutions that hold their money. Others take out and maintain small micro-loans from local and international lending organisations via their cellular devices. All these uses have meant that the growth of mobile phone industry in developing countries has been nothing if not explosive 10, with DFID 11 reporting 25% annual growth 12 in subscriptions in Africa alone. Meanwhile, in Guatemala, NGO workers joke that there are twice as many mobile phones as there are citizens in the country.
These developments help speed up and reduce the cost of communications, but they are not without their own problems. In China, for instance, many are calling for corporate liability to be established for companies that sell the government internet tools that it uses to restrict human rights 13. Meanwhile, in Jamaica, spread of mobile phone usages has ushered in changes in social expectations: Increased connectivity is accompanied by higher obligations on out-migrants 14 to support those left behind. Importantly, not everyone can afford modern devices and many remain simply beyond the 'coverage' zone. This inability to access internet and ICT technology can further alienate and impoverish the most vulnerable people across societies, causing skeptics to criticise what they are calling the contemporary 'ICT fetishism' 15.
Nevertheless, the wonders of technology never cease to amaze: Electron radios have shortened the distances between strangers for decades, a role now taken over by social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn; Skype brings a Russian granddad close to his globally nomadic granddaughter every single month; Twitter and other internet sites are playing an important role in social movement organisation of rebellious youth; and mobile phones are now simultaneously many people's banks, price-transmitting mechanisms and powerful spreaders of other market, social and political information. As a result, there is room to remain optimistic about the role that ICT can play not only in popular resistance, development and poverty reduction, but in keeping strong family connections, such as my own, across our world's borders. Issues of changes in social expectation are outside state responsibility and ensuring corporate and government technological responsibility are perhaps better addressed through international pressure. However, in order to silence the critics on inequitable spread of ICT benefits, countries can and need to address inequality in access to guarantee that the most vulnerable groups are not left behind.
The Millennium Development Goals 16 (MDG) were agreed upon and put in place by the leaders of 193 nations at the 2000 Millennium Summit 17. None of the eight global objectives explicitly included a role for internet and other information and communications technology, perhaps because their widespread use in advanced nations had only been around for a decade or so. However, subsequently, ICTs' importance has been increasingly internationally recognized, not least by the United Nations 18. As the 2015 MDG deadline approaches and we begin to imagine a post-MDG future, the framework enacted will surely need to be a more vehement promoter of ICT and other technologies for development. Inevitably, as with all development solutions, they are not a panacea for development. In order to steer technologies in the direction of reaping the highest development rewards they will need to be devised with the local context in mind and be accompanied with a strong effort on ensuring equality in access across all social groups, especially the most disadvantaged.
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Phil, a native of Kansas, and his wife Marilyn became members of First Christian in 1967, and since that time he has served as Chairman of the Board, Elder, Deacon, and many other positions. He retired from the U.S. Government as a mathematical statistician and is a former school teacher. He currently teaches Sunday School and is a student himself at Wesley Theological Seminary.
Phil is a Stephen Minister and a Licensed Minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). In these roles, Phil assists with visitations, worship, leadership, and other pastoral responsibilities. He chairs the Safe Haven Management Committee, which oversees our ministry to the homeless. Phil and Marilyn have one son and three grandchildren.


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Patriots LS Joe Cardona Named Finalist For NFL's "Salute To Service Award"
1 year ago at 3:55 pm ET
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New England Patriots long snapper Joe Cardona has been named a finalist for the NFL's 2020 Salute To Service Award.
Cardona joins San Francisco 49ers GM John Lynch and AMB Sports and Entertainment CEO Steve Cannon as the three finalists for the award.
According to the NFL, the award honors people involved in the NFL who make "exceptional efforts to honor and support members of the military community."
When not on the football field, Cardona is a Lieutenant in the United States Navy, graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy at West Point in 2015.
Prior to his time in the NFL, Cardona was an Ensign in the Navy and worked as a staff officer at the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Rhode Island during his rookie season in 2015.
During his rookie season, Cardona was working his second job four days a week, which also included a 24-hour shift during the Patriots "day off." In 2017, Joe was promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade and served as a junior commissioned officer in the United States Navy and in 2019, Joe was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in the Navy.
Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick hosted his promotion ceremony before a mini-camp practice at Gillette Stadium in front of his teammates.
During his Patriots career, Cardona has facilitated more than a dozen re-enlistment and retirement ceremonies at Gillette Stadium for military members. He also led a handful of free football clinics for military children at military bases across New England and replaced military family toys that were burned in a fire three years ago at Joint Base Cape Cod.
Per the NFL, "In 2017, Joe rallied teammates and coaches to each donate a pair of tickets to their game against Atlanta and over 150 military members, who had recently returned from deployment, were invited to the game and participated in a special pregame ceremony. Each year during Memorial Day weekend, Joe helps plant more than 37,000 American flags in the Boston Common to honor the brave men and women from Massachusetts that have lost their lives defending our country. Joe also offers his support to the Travis Manion Foundation, a nonprofit that empowers veterans and families of fallen heroes to develop character in future generations."
Back in November, each of the NFL's 32 teams chose a nominee for the award and a panel of six judges voted for the finalists "based on the positive effect of the individual's efforts on the military community, the type of service conducted, the thoroughness of the program and level of commitment."
The winner of the 2020 Salute To Service Award will be announced during the NFL Honors event the night before Super Bowl LV in Tampa, FL.
USAA bank will contribute $25,000 in the winner's name to "the official aid societies representing all five military branches."
Through the end of the 2020 season, Cardona has played in every Patriots regular season (96) , and postseason games (12), contributing to two Super Bowl championships.
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The machine is composed of a mechanical structure used in the BASIC 450 series with C-shaped structure, cross-shaped table and tank with opening doors, filtering and decanting tank incorporated into the base for a convenient inspection, which has been revisedcompletely and repainted.
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December 13, 2017 by Rudolf Abraham 1 Comment
I was recently sent a copy of the latest (15th) edition of the book Europe by Rail – The Definitive Guide, by its Berlin-based authors Nicky Gardner and Susanne Kries (who are also the lovely people behind hidden europe magazine, to which I have been a regular contributor since 2007).
It's a wonderful book – I love the idea of arranging a travel guide around rail journeys, rather than rail journeys merely being included as a means of getting from A to B (or as the authors put it, it's a guidebook with an emphasis on journeys rather than destinations). Over its 512 pages, it includes some 50 rail routes, which between them do an impressive job of covering the wealth of landscapes, cities, cultures and languages this continent has to offer, from the Bay of Biscay to the Baltic, and from the Balkans to the Arctic Circle. The routes are preceded by a 48 page introduction which carries sections on night trains, rail passes, how to get the best deals on tickets and other useful information, along with plenty of inspiring colour photos. As you'd expect from the people behind hidden europe, it's very readable, with a more literary style than you'd generally expect from most guidebooks, and an emphasis on slow travel. And it's not too large, fitting easily within my camera bag (a fairly standard indication of whether something is likely to accompany me on my travels). That's not to say the routes are short on facts either – along with tips on what to see along the route, each is accompanied by journey times, distances, train frequencies (cross-referenced to the relevant sections of the European Rail Timetable), suggested stop-overs, connections and other details (including some suggestions for hotels, and the locations of tourist offices), together with a handy sketch map.
Europe by Rail began life around 20 years (and more than 100,000 copies) ago, and over successive editions has been transformed from a book about 60 European cities (presented with a healthy serving of information on rail travel), into a book about the rail journeys themselves, a form it first took with the 14th edition. This new, 15th edition builds further on this, with more routes added, improved sketch maps, and thoroughly updated timetable information.
Within the card covers are maps of Europe showing the location of the routes. With one of these open, I closed my eyes and took a blind prod at the map with my right index finger. It landed somewhere near Prague, on Route 22 – a rail journey stretching from Hamburg to Budapest. Having been on at least one leg of that journey earlier this year – taking the S-Bahn east from Dresden along the Elbe to Kurort Rathen, followed by a short ferry crossing and a hike up into the other-worldly rock formations of Saxon Switzerland National Park – this brought a smile to my face. Turning to the corresponding page of Route 22, I found the sensible advice to 1) sit on the left when travelling south (the views of the sandstone formations are on that side) and 2) take the slow train, allowing for a stop-off to visit the national park, and mentioning the ferry.
The information given on a suggested stop-over is always interesting and goes well beyond the standard blurb of tourist brochures. Looking up another journey (45, from Zagreb to Thessaloniki) for example, I turned to the pages on Zagreb, a city I know rather well having lived there. Sure enough, what greeted me was not a paragraph with its number of inhabitants or a dose of hyperbole, but a paragraph about Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža and one of his essays on Zagreb. More familiar and practical information on the city is cross-referenced to another journey (44).
As the authors state in the introduction (I paraphrase a little), it is the job of a decent guidebook to inform and inspire. Europe by Rail does both in spades.
You can find information about where you can order a copy of Europe by Rail – The Definitive Guide here.
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Seems an interesting book. I travelled happily with Interrail a couple of times, but that was in the good old days.
CROATIAN MISCELLANY – a portrait of Croatia in 100 images
CROATIAN MISCELLANY is an ongoing and deeply personal portrait of this southeast European country - its people, traditions, festivals, landscape and cultural heritage - by UK-based photographer Rudolf Abraham. It is not intended to be a collection of well-known sights and beautiful views - not that Croatia has any shortage of these - but rather a more intimate glimpse of places both on and off the beaten track, and into the daily life of a country that has fascinated this particular photographer for the best part of the last 20 years. Read more
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Walks and Treks in Croatia (Cicerone, 2019), Peaks of the Balkans (Cicerone, 2017), Istria. The Bradt Travel Guide (2nd edition; Bradt, 2017), The Alpe Adria Trail (Bradt, 2016), Montenegro Pocket Guide (Berlitz/Insight, 2016), St Oswald's Way and St Cuthbert's Way (2nd edition; Cicerone, 2016), The Mountains of Montenegro (2nd edition; Cicerone, 2015), National Geographic Traveler Croatia (2nd edition; National Geographic, 2015)


Video games, new technologies and superheroes inspired chatter across ages and genders in March, as people on Facebook and Instagram in the US embraced their inner nerd.
Younger Instagrammers convened to discuss strategy games, which could include video games or tabletop games. And older men looked back at the classics, lighting up Facebook with talk of arcade games.
New technologies inspired conversations about brands, as speculation about the iPhone 7 united men and women on Facebook. Younger women discussed the announcement that Six Flags is pairing a roller coaster with virtual reality goggles.
Men and women joined forces to talk about Wonder Woman, who appeared in "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice." Meanwhile, younger men put on their capes to talk about the movie itself.
March's Hot Topics shows people enthralled by pop culture and innovation. Brands can speak to the nerd in all of us by creating novel content that sparks curiosity and inspires discoveries.
People in all four countries discussed rivalries on-screen and in the ring while women focused on holidays.
In all four countries, women of all ages discussed International Women's Day. In the UK, women also celebrated Mother's Day.
March's topics united people in all four countries in different ways. Brands can speak to that unity by celebrating the events that bring people together and the rivalries that bring out their competitive sides.


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Number of Private Establishments for All Industries in Imperial County, CA (ENU0602520510)
Q2 2022: 8,048 | Establishments | Quarterly | Updated: Dec 6, 2022
Q2 2022: 8,048 (+ more)
Q2 2022: 8,048
Establishments,
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An establishment is an economic unit, such as a factory, mine, store, or office that produces goods or services. It generally is at a single location and is engaged predominantly in one type of economic activity. Where a single location encompasses two or more distinct activities, these are treated as separate establishments, if separate payroll records are available, and the various activities are classified under different industry codes.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Number of Private Establishments for All Industries in Imperial County, CA [ENU0602520510], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ENU0602520510, February 1, 2023.
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The outrageously funny picture books series from Mike Thaler and Jared Lee are now chapter books! Follow Hubie on his adventures in the Black Lagoon, where how rumors can make a student create a monster of any teacher!
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I am not poor Nor am I rich But I have faith And that is enough wealth to last me in this world.


PTA Meeting at Pleasant Ridge - 9:45 a.m.
Lyon School Open House - 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
SPIRIT DAY - TBT "80's or 90's Throw Back Thursday"
Please stop by the Lost & Found - JUST OUTSIDE THE MUSIC ROOM - the next time you are in the building. Writing the LAST NAME on all your students items will assist in their return.
Bowling has begun! Students learned the 4-step approach and how to keep accurate score. Students will continue to bowl next week too.
Our next major unit is Tchoukball. Tchoukball was originated in Switzerland and combines elements of handball (it is played with your hands, and the balls used are similar) and volleyball (as the defending team must prevent the ball from touching the ground). At each end of the field are trampoline-like rebounding frames that are used to score points. The team who has possession of the ball is trying to score by throwing the Tchoukball against the rebounder without the other team catching it. The other team is trying to anticipate where the ball is going to go based on the angle it is thrown and then must catch the ball before it hits the ground.
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Pleasant Ridge 4th graders capped off their study of our great state by making mini Illinois-themed parade floats. Led by band students, they paraded through the hallways for our 3rd and 5th graders.
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Die Escuela Técnica Otto Krause ist eine Technikerschule in der argentinischen Hauptstadt Buenos Aires. 1995 wurde das Gebäude zum Nationalen Historischen Monument erklärt (Gesetz Nr. 24.491).

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Die Otto-Krause-Technikerschule befindet sich an der Kreuzung Avenida Paseo Colón und Calle Chile im Stadtteil San Telmo. Sie wurde nach ihrem Gründer, dem Ingenieur Otto Krause, Sohn deutscher Einwanderer, benannt. Die Schule wurde 1897 gegründet und ist somit die älteste Technikerschule des Landes. Das jetzige Gebäude wurde am 24. Mai 1909 eingeweiht.

Die Schule hat rund 2000 Studierende, die Ausbildung dauert sechs Jahre. Die ersten drei Jahre (ciclo básico) sind für eine Schulausbildung, vergleichbar der deutschen Sekundarstufe II, mit technischer Ausrichtung vorgesehen. In den Jahren vier bis sechs findet eine Berufsausbildung zum Techniker in verschiedenen Bereichen statt. Nach Abschluss der Ausbildung kann ein Ingenieursstudium angeschlossen werden.

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No, seriously, they rebooted TOMB RAIDER. Because that's what the world needed. Sean and Aaron review Lara Croft's return to the big screen, as Alicia Vikander tries to ... you know, just hang out and stuff. Plus thoughts on Shape of Water's Oscar win, Sean's new status as the apparent King of Disney Songs, some podcast schedule news and more!


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Todo lo que necesita saber sobre la Academia y los Uffizi en Florencia
The Accademia and Uffizi galleries are the two most visited museums in Florence. Each year, millions of visitors pass through its rooms adorned with art. Both are home to numerous and invaluable masterpieces of the Renaissance period. But how did such extensive collections come about? Let's take a look at his past to discover it.
Academy Gallery
The Galleria dell'Accademia was founded in the 18th century by Grand Duke Peter Leopold of Lorraine. Originally, it was intended to serve as a teaching facility for the students of the nearby Academy of Fine Arts. Over the years, the collection of the gallery became more diverse thanks to the efforts of the Grand Duke and later, even to Napoleon himself. Compared to other museums, the Gallery of the Academy is quite small. However, it has an impressive artistic heritage.
David by Michelangelo
The most famous work of art in Accademia is the statue of David by Michelangelo. He worked in sculpture from 1501 to 1504 and sculpted it in a single block of marble. Not many people know that, originally, they intended to place David on top of the facade of Brunelleschi's Duomo. However, once Michelangelo finished, they realized that hiding David at such a high level would be a waste. A commission of prominent artists and citizens decided to place the statue in front of Palazzo Vecchio, in Piazza della Signoria. However, in 1872, the city decided to move David to the Accademia for its preservation; It took three days to move the statue!
Other notable works
While David is undoubtedly impressive, the gallery offers many more delights. For example, the Hall of Prisoners took its name from the four large naked male sculptures known as the "Prisoners" or "Slaves." Originally, they were created by Michelangelo to adorn the tomb of Pope Julius II. These sculptures are particularly famous for their unfinished state. Michelangelo left them so intentionally, to represent the eternal struggle of humans to free themselves from the limits and physical weight of matter. Other great works include a copy of Rape of the Sabines by Giambologna; Tree of Life of Pacino di Buonaguida; paintings by Giotto, Botticelli, Bartolini and more.
Department of Musical Instruments
In the 20th century, Accademia opened a new collection, a Department of Musical Instruments. The more than 50 instruments exhibited include pieces from the famous Cherubini Conservatory that connects directly to the gallery. Most of them were originally part of the private collections of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany and the Medici family).
Unlike Accademia, the Uffizi Gallery is incredibly large and its art collection is even more so. Few people know that the building that houses the gallery today was not built to be a museum. In 1560, Cosimo I de 'Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, commissioned the construction to house the judiciary and the administrative offices. In fact, the word "uffizi" in old Italian is translated as "offices".
La colección de pinturas, camafeos, joyas, estatuas, miniaturas, bronces, instrumentos científicos de Francesco del siglo XV creció con cada nueva generación de Medici. El Salón de los Mapas Geográficos, que muestra mapas de los dominios Medici en Florencia, Siena y Elba, y la Sala de Matemáticas se agregaron entre los siglos XVI y XVII. En 1588, la galería abrió el Opificio Delle Pietre Dure, un famoso taller de mosaicos de piedras semipreciosas que aún existe en la actualidad. También puedes ver muchas obras de arte con nombres como Tiziano, Rafael, Piero Della Francesca, Federico Barocci y otros. Tanto la Academia como los Uffizi deberían estar en la cima de la lista de atracciones de Florencia de todos los viajeros. No solo muestran las obras maestras artísticas, sino que también pintan una imagen del rico pasado de la creatividad de la ciudad. Debido a su popularidad, se recomienda comprar sus boletos con anticipación para evitar las largas colas.
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A tweezer bottom/doji has formed at the support of the daily, so i am placing a short-term long position up until the next daily resistance level .
Trade closed manually: Closed position for a +42 pip profit. Closed manually because a shooting star candle was formed on the trendily,looks like a reversal is going to take place. Will not take out a short position until the next 1HR candle close.
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Di Maria Says He Had To Leave Real Madrid "By The Back Door"
By Matheus Honorato November 7, 2015
The Argentine international told reporters his sale to Manchester United was Madrid's way to "cover the costs" of big name signings.
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He was the man of the match when Real Madrid claimed "La Decima" over arch-rivals Atletico Madrid. With him, Los Merengues won two Copa del Rey titles, one Supercopa de Espana, the 2011-12 La Liga title, and the 2014 UEFA Super Cup. Yet, Argentine international Angel Di Maria said he was forced out of Madrid in order to cover costs.
"I didn't leave for money," Di Maria told reporters after PSG's defeat on Tuesday night. "I wanted to see if I could renew and they didn't want me to. They wanted to cover the costs of the great players they had signed that summer.
"I had to leave by the back door. It wasn't how I would have wanted."
The winger had an amazing four-year spell with Madrid. Di Maria tallied 190 appearances for the club, in which he scored 36 goals and dished 87 assists.
Nonetheless, he had to leave the Spanish capital in 2014 after being transferred to Manchester United for a British-record £59.7m.
He said his departure served to cover for the big-money signings Madrid made that summer. The two largest fees paid by the club were for the signatures of James Rodriguez and Tony Kroos.
Despite the hefty price they paid for him, Louis van Gaal and Manchester United did not get their money's worth with Di Maria on the pitch.
I wanted to stay at Real Madrid - Di Maria https://t.co/8WxvKYBc1V pic.twitter.com/sHxjKjrQ8L
— Goal (@goal_intl) October 29, 2015
Angel Di Maria's New Home In Paris
The Argentine failed to perform for the Red Devils and was sold to Paris Saint-Germain after only one season in the Old Trafford. During his stay in Manchester, Di Maria played 32 games, scoring four goals and handing out 12 assists.
The reigning Ligue 1 champions paid £44.3m for Di Maria's services and so far have got the response they wanted from the player. Di Maria has scored four goals and tallied three assists in just 12 games under Laurent Blanc.
The Argentinian international has adapted well to playing next to Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Edinson Cavani. Di Maria's addition has improved PSG's firepower and caused this new Di Maria-Ibrahimovic-Cavani trio to rival the other star-studded attacking trios in world football today. The PSG attacking trio has a total of 20 goals in the 2015-16 season.
Barcelona's MSN Trident has a total of 29 goals under their belt, even with Lionel Messi sidelined because of an injury. In Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo is carrying the load with 13 goals, but when we add up Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema to the equation, the Madrid trio has a total of 22 goals this season.
After their 1-0 loss to Madrid in the Bernabeu, Di Maria also enforced that he is happy in his new home and is looking to stay there for many years.
"I am changing little by little," he said. "I'm happy in Paris and I hope to be for many years."


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Helen Thomas takes on new BBC England director role covering TV, radio and online output across country
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Helen Thomas has been appointed director of BBC England, a new role designed to "better reflect all of the UK's nations and regions", the corporation has announced.
Thomas will have "direct editorial and operational responsibility" across all non-networked TV, online and radio output in England, including regional news programmes such as Look North and Points West.
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The role was created to bring England in line with other UK nations, all of which are already led by BBC directors.
It replaces the controller of BBC English regions role, from which David Holdsworth has stepped down after 34 years at the BBC.
Thomas said: "It's so important that we serve and reflect all of the country's diverse communities.
"England is a complex, changing place and the BBC needs to evolve our offer to ensure we are providing the best services possible to people across the country."
Thomas will be in charge of 13 regional TV services, 39 local radio stations, and regional and local online services. She will be tasked with ensuring England is represented within the BBC.
Thomas has worked for the BBC intermittently since 1985, including as editor of BBC Radio Humberside, head of regional and local programming in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, and head of Yorkshire.
BBC director of nations and regions Ken MacQuarrie said: "We've made a big commitment to better serve the nations and regions and represent the diversity of the UK.
"[Thomas] is a creative, innovative thinker who has a track record of forging new partnerships and championing content that reaches new audiences.
"Through her work on the reinvention of local radio to leading our biggest English region, Yorkshire, she has shown she is passionate about serving all of our communities and making content that reflects and represents our audiences."
MacQuarrie thanked Holdsworth "for his outstanding service over more than three decades" and "brilliant leadership to our teams across England".
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It's Alumni Weekend! The Lady Vols host the Rocky Top Invitational with Winthrop, North Florida, and Indiana State coming to Knoxville.
Tennessee is 3-2 all time vs Winthrop. The last meeting was a UT sweep in 2003. All the other meetings were in the early 1970s.
Tennessee is 1-0 all time vs North Florida. The only meeting between the teams was a 3-1 UT win in 2015.
Tennessee is 1-0 all time vs Indiana State. The only meeting between the teams was a 2-0 UT win in 1977.
Since 2001, UT is 5-1 vs the Big South, 11-1 vs the Atlantic Sun, and 3-2 vs the Missouri Valley Conference.
A win over Winthrop would be UT's 50th win all time in the month of August. Right now the team is 49-7.
This tournament features a full roster of coaches just starting out in the lead job. Tennessee is Eve Rackham's first head coaching position. Winthrop's Chuck Rey just started his first season as a head coach. North Florida's Kristen Wright is in her first year as a head coach at the NCAA level. And Indiana State's Lindsay Allman is the old-timer of the group, having just started her second year as a head coach.
Former Indiana State head coach from 2003-2007 Julie Krofcheck currently resides in Knoxville, married to former Tennessee head coach Rob Patrick.
There's an interesting (but really just-for-fun) feature on the stats section you might want to check out: on the page that lists UT's all time season records, if you scroll to the bottom of the page you can see an extrapolation of where current Lady Vols might stand at the end of the season at their current rate for comparison. For example, Brooke Schumacher had 34 digs in the three matches played so far this year. If she were to remain at that pace in the 27 matches remaining on the schedule, she would have 340 digs at regular season's end — good enough to make the UT all time top 30 for season digs.
A voucher for free admission to the Winthrop match is available on UT's promotions page. Also be sure to note while there that kids 12 and under can get in free to both Saturday matches.


Henri Pirenne (1862–1935) was a Belgian historian of international stature. He had an intellectual reputation that extended far beyond the borders of his own country. This book is not merely a writer's oeuvre. It is a life in pictures.


Due to rapid advances in DNA sequencing technologies, both in time as well as cost, the interpretation and use of genomic information is playing a significant role in several applications. Indeed, genomic information is being collected at great pace, depth and breadth. Unprecedented access to such information calls for sophisticated algorithms to make sense of the massive genomic data along with deriving possible actionable solutions from heterogeneous data sources in the different areas. In this talk, Dr. Utro will present some algorithm that we have developed in tree main area plant, population and cancer genomics, giving major emphasis to latter topic. He will also discuss my experience with designing a tool for guiding cancer treatment and understanding disease.
Dr. Filippo Utro is a research scientist at the Computational Biology Center at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (NY – USA). Filippo joined IBM Research in 2011 as a post-doctoral researcher, after completing his PhD at University of Palermo (Italy) on Computer Science, and he was converted to research scientist in 2014. His research involves computational methods for analyzing various types of biological data. Dr. Utro started his career at IBM as an investigator in the cacao genome project and has since continued to research on plant, population and cancer genomics. His research interests include bioinformatics, algorithms and data structures and genomic medicine. Latest researches of Dr. Utro include the use of k-mer to detect relevant features in genomic and epigenomic data, analysis on polyploid plants and Watson for Genomics. Watson for Genomics look for variations in the full human genome and uses Watson's cognitive capabilities to examine data sources such as treatment guidelines, research, clinical studies, journal articles and patient information.
The late 20th century witnessed a major restructuring of the US electric power industry to facilitate the "competitive" procurement of electricity from generators competing to produce in open markets. In this lecture, we develop a mathematical framework to characterize the strategic behavior of generators in such markets under imperfect competition. In particular, we establish natural conditions under which Nash equilibria are guaranteed to exist for such markets, and derive a sharp upper bound on their price of anarchy (PoA). In addition to providing a structural characterization of a generator's market power, the PoA bound we derive uncovers the possibility of a Braess-like paradox – that is to say, an increase in the power flow capacity of certain transmission lines can manifest in the reduction of social welfare at Nash equilibrium. We close with a discussion surrounding the practical implications of such results.
Eilyan Bitar is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. Prior to joining Cornell in the Fall 2012, he was engaged as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Computing + Mathematical Science (CMS) at the California Institute of Technology and at the University of California, Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science during the 2011-12 academic year. A native Californian, he received both his Ph.D. (2011) and B.S. (2006) from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Bitar's research interests include modern power systems and electricity markets, stochastic control, and optimization.
As transistors shrink to nanoscale dimensions, trapped electrons are making it difficult for digital computers to work. In contrast, the brain works fine with single-lane nanoscale devices that are intermittently blocked. Conjecturing that error-tolerance can be achieved by combining analog dendritic computation with digital axonal communication, neuromorphic engineers have created Neurogrid, the first neuromorphic system with billions of synaptic connections.
Prof. Kwabena Boahen received the B.S. and M.S.E. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, both in 1989 and the Ph.D. degree in computation and neural systems from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1997. He was on the bioengineering faculty of the University of Pennsylvania from 1997 to 2005, where he held the first Skirkanich Term Junior Chair. He is presently a Professor in the Bioengineering Department of Stanford University, with a joint appointment in Electrical Engineering. He directs Stanford's Brains in Silicon Laboratory, which develops silicon integrated circuits that emulate the way neurons compute, linking the seemingly disparate fields of electronics and computer science with neurobiology and medicine. He is an IEEE Fellow.
Richard G. Baraniuk is the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. His research interests lie in new theory, algorithms, and hardware for sensing, signal processing, and machine learning. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, and the National Academy of Inventors and has received national young investigator awards from the US NSF and ONR, the Rosenbaum Fellowship from the Isaac Newton Institute of Cambridge University, the ECE Young Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Illinois, the Wavelet Pioneer and Compressive Sampling Pioneer Awards from SPIE, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award. His work on the Rice single-pixel compressive camera has been widely reported in the popular press and was selected by MIT Technology Review as a TR10 Top 10 Emerging Technology. For his teaching and education projects, including Connexions (cnx.org) and OpenStax (openstaxcollege.org), he has received the C. Holmes MacDonald National Outstanding Teaching Award from Eta Kappa Nu, the Tech Museum of Innovation Laureate Award, the Internet Pioneer Award from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, the World Technology Award for Education, the IEEE-SPS Education Award, the WISE Education Award, and the IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Medal for Education.


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The Word of God calls on believers to offer forgiveness to those who sin against us and to pray for those who persecute us. There are times in life when following these commands requires nothing more than a deep breath and the choice to overlook the offense. Still, there are other occasions when the hurt caused by another is so deep and profoundly painful that coming to a point of forgiveness requires divine intervention. Candy Callahan of Casey, Illinois, learned firsthand that with God, all things are possible.
Candy was raised in a home with her mother and stepfather. Her stepfather began abusing her and her sister when Candy just 4 years old. The horrific abuse continued until the girls were finally removed from the home. She and her sister were placed with a foster family and were eventually brought to live at the Baptist Children's Home in 1971 when Candy was 14. Though she found safety after being removed from her home, the transition was still a huge struggle.
"I hated everybody; I didn't know what was going on; I didn't know why we were taken away," Candy recalls. "But I know now in my later life that the Children's Home was what I needed in my life."
Despite Candy's pain and struggles, God used her time at the Baptist Children's Home to draw her closer to Himself. She remembers having to go to church every Sunday morning and Sunday night. But there was one church service she will always remember. It was during a revival service at Carmi First Baptist Church that Candy went forward and gave her life to Christ.
As the Lord began to work in her life, she felt the Holy Spirit calling her to forgive the two people who had hurt her most – her mother and stepfather.
"I really don't think people understand how their actions can affect people throughout their life," Candy explains. "I am 61 years old, and I still struggle sometimes. But God laid Matthew 6:14-15 on my heart: For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins."
With the help of her counselors, Candy was able to forgive her parents for what they did to her. She began to pray for them regularly. There were times it seemed her prayers would not be answered. Nonetheless, Candy continued to pray year after year. Shortly before her death in 1998, Candy's mother called her into the room to talk. From her bed, her mother shared with Candy that she had asked the Lord into her heart.
"I prayed for her for 30 years, and she finally came to know the Lord," Candy shares. "I was so happy because I know I will get to see her again one day!"
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KDOT conducted a study to find the best improvement plan for moving traffic more safely and efficiently through the area. Public questions and feedback played a significant role in identifying local, regional and statewide needs for the plan. Stakeholders were consulted through a project blog, public meetings, online surveys, focus groups, community and public official presentations and through an advisory group. The final, comprehensive report for the 32-month study was completed in early 2011.
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The 10 most innovative companies in space
Noah Robischon
After NASA embraced the private space industry, the investment dollars began flowing. In 2015, more than $2 billion in bets were placed on space startups, but in 2016 things came back down to Earth—a 30% decrease year-over-year, according to CBInsights. At the same time, many of the companies on this year's list have announced revenue-generating partnerships, which means that 2017 may well include several exciting, ambitious, and highly public product—and rocket—launches. Keep your eyes on the skies.
Click on a company to learn more about why it made the list.
01. ORBITAL INSIGHT
For analyzing data from a constellation of satellites
02.SPIRE
For delivering better weather intel
03. SPACEX
For reigniting our interest in rockets
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SpaceX Dragon passenger spaceship
The SpaceX Pad Abort Vehicle was manufactured at the company's Hawthorne, California, headquarters before being shipped to Florida for the pad abort test at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The spacecraft is equipped with four quads each containing two SuperDraco engines for a total of eight thrusters that will be fired during the test to evaluate the capability of the launch abort system.
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At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft is being prepared for a test to simulate an emergency abort from the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 40. The ability to escape from a launch or pad emergency and safely carry the crew out of harm's way is a crucial element for NASA's next generation of crew spacecraft. SpaceX will perform the test under its Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) agreement with NASA, and will use the data gathered during the development flight as it continues on the path to certification.
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Eight SuperDraco engines boost a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft away from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in an emergency pad abort simulation. Each of the eight SuperDraco engine generates 15,000 pounds of thrust and burns about six seconds. The test began at 9 a.m. After the engines shut down, the Dragon spacecraft's trunk, with passive fins for stability, will separate when it reaches peak altitude.
The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft descends into the Atlantic Ocean under a parachute following a simulated emergency at the launch pad. SpaceX is placing the Crew Dragon through a worst-case scenario abort tests in order to reduce risk and refine the design.
04. BLUE ORIGIN
For making the private space race competitive
05. KYMETA
For propelling internet service to new heights
06. CHINA AEROSPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORP
For launching China back into space
07. ROCKET LAB
For giving small satellites lift-off
08. ASTROSCALE
For safely redirecting space debris
09. STRATOLAUNCH SYSTEMS
For turning a plane into a launchpad
10. MOON EXPRESS
For bringing us back to the moon
This article is part of our coverage of the World's Most Innovative Companies of 2017.
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NASA's best photos of 2016
Sunset From the International Space Station
Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA captured a series of photos for this composite image of the setting sun reflected by the ocean.
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Space Station Flight Over the Southern Tip of Italy
The southern tip of Italy is visible in this image taken by the Expedition 49 crew aboard the International Space Station on Sept. 17, 2016. The brightly lit city of Naples can be seen in the bottom section of the image. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft can be seen in the foreground.
Star Trails Seen From Low Earth Orbit
Astronauts on the International Space Station captured a series of incredible star trail images on Oct. 3, 2016, as they orbited at 17,500 miles per hour. The station orbits the Earth every 90 minutes, and astronauts aboard see an average of 16 sunrises and sunsets every 24 hours.
Many Fantastic Colors
The Nili Fossae region, located on the northwest rim of Isidis impact basin, is one of the most colorful regions of Mars. This region is ancient and has had a complicated geologic history, leading to interesting structures like layered bedrock, as well as other compositions.
Wind Carved Rock on Mars
The distinctively fluted surface and elongated hills in this image in Medusae Fossae are caused by wind erosion of a soft fine-grained rock. Called yardangs, these features are aligned with the prevailing wind direction. This wind direction would have dominated for a very long time to carve these large-scale features into the exposed rock.
Rains of Terror on Exoplanet HD 189733b
This Halloween, take a tour with NASA's Exoplanet Exploration site of some of the most terrifying destinations in our galaxy. The nightmare world of HD 189733 b is the killer you never see coming. To the human eye, this far-off planet looks bright blue. But any space traveler confusing it with the friendly skies of Earth would be badly mistaken.
Aurora and Manicouagan Crater
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station adjusted the camera for night imaging and captured the green veils and curtains of an aurora that spanned thousands of kilometers over Quebec, Canada.
Around local midnight time on April 8, 2015, astronauts aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of Paris, often referred to as the "City of Light." The pattern of the street grid dominates at night, providing a completely different set of visual features from those visible during the day.
Stargazing From the International Space Station
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) see the world at night on every orbit — that's 16 times each crew day. An astronaut took this broad, short-lens photograph of Earth's night lights while looking out over the remote reaches of the central equatorial Pacific Ocean.
Thanks to a bill passed by Texas legislators that put in place technical voting procedure for astronauts, they have the ability to vote from space through specially designed absentee ballots. To preserve the integrity of the secret vote, the ballot is encrypted and only accessible by the astronaut and the county clerk responsible for casting it.
Fiery South Atlantic Sunset
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station photographed a sunset that looks like a vast sheet of flame. With Earth's surface already in darkness, the setting sun, the cloud masses, and the sideways viewing angle make a powerful image of the kind that astronauts use to commemorate their flights.
Ring Details on Display
This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft showcases some of the amazingly detailed structure of Saturn's rings.
Hubble Takes Flight with the Toucan and the Cluster
NGC 299 is an open star cluster located within the Small Magellanic Cloud just under 200,000 light-years away.
Hubble Spies Spiral Galaxy
Spiral galaxy NGC 3274 is a relatively faint galaxy located over 20 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (The Lion).
Practicing Orion Spacecraft Recovery After Splashdown
A group of U.S. Navy divers, Air Force pararescuemen and Coast Guard rescue swimmers practice Orion underway recovery techniques in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center to prepare for the first test flight of an uncrewed Orion spacecraft with the agency's Space Launch System rocket during Exploration Mission (EM-1).
A Trio of Plumes in the South Sandwich Islands
On September 29, 2016, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this false-color image (MODIS bands 7-2-1) showing volcanic activity in the South Sandwich Islands. Located in the South Atlantic Ocean, the uninhabited South Sandwich Islands include several active stratovolcanoes.
Infrared Echoes of a Black Hole Eating a Star
This illustration shows a glowing stream of material from a star, disrupted as it was being devoured by a supermassive black hole. The feeding black hole is surrounded by a ring of dust. This dust was previously illuminated by flares of high-energy radiation from the feeding black hole, and is now shown re-radiating some of that energy.
Hubble Views a Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star
This star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around the star's remaining core.
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Infrared Saturn Clouds
This false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows clouds in Saturn's northern hemisphere. The view was made using images taken by Cassini's wide-angle camera on July 20, 2016, using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to infrared light at 750, 727 and 619 nanometers.
Moonset Viewed From the International Space Station
Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Tim Peake of ESA took this striking photograph of the moon from his vantage point aboard the International Space Station on March 28, 2016. Peake shared the image on March 30 and wrote to his social media followers, "I was looking for #Antarctica – hard to spot from our orbit. Settled for a moonset instead."


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Central Zone of the Town of Angra do Heroismo in the Azores
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Angra do Heroísmo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɐ̃ɡɾɐ du eɾuˈiʒmu]), locally referred to as Angra, is a municipality and city (of approximately 21,300 people) on the island of Terceira, within the Portuguese autonomous region of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 35,402, in an area of 239.00 km². Along with Praia da Vitória to the north, it is one of two municipal administrative divisions that are comprised by Terceira. Together with Ponta Delgada (São Miguel) and Horta (Faial), Angra is one of the three regional capitals of the Azores. Each capital is responsible for one of the three branches of government; Angra is the location of the judicial branch (the Supreme Court of the Azores), in addition to being the religious centre of the Archdiocese of Azores.
Dating back to 1450, classified as a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1983. Some claim that Angra was founded by Álvaro Martins, who sailed with Didrik Pining on his expedition to the New World, and with Bartolomeu Dias on his voyage around the Cape of Good Hope. Others contend that Angra was founded in 1450 or 1451 by Jácome de Bruges, a Fleming in the service of Prince Henry the Navigator, who recruited farmers, fishermen, and merchants in the Low Countries to colonize the Azores.
Angra served as a place of exile for Almeida Garrett during the Napoleonic Wars. It also served as a refuge for Queen Maria II of Portugal from 1830 to 1833.
The word Heroísmo ("heroism") was added to the name of the city, Angra (meaning "inlet" or "cove"), by Maria II, in recognition of the bravery and sacrifice shown by the people of Angra in the struggle that ended with the formation of a liberal constitutional monarchy in Portugal.
Angra do Heroísmo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɐ̃ɡɾɐ du eɾuˈiʒmu]), locally referred to as Angra, is a municipality and city (of approximately 21,300 people) on the island of Terceira, within the Portuguese autonomous region of the Azores.
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