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Travis Kelce says he'll double Tyreek Hill's donation plus give to Operation Breakthrough
Posted: Mar 17, 2020 / 10:48 PM CDT / Updated: Mar 18, 2020 / 06:58 AM CDT
MIAMI, FLORIDA – FEBRUARY 02: Travis Kelce #87 of the Kansas City Chiefs looks on before Super Bowl LIV at Hard Rock Stadium on February 02, 2020 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce announced Tuesday that not only is he matching teammate Tyreek Hill's donation to Harvesters, he's doubling it and also donating to Operation Breakthrough.
"I got your 6k and will raise you another 6k meals," Kelce tweeted in response to Hill's challenge.
Together, they will donate 18,000 meals to Harvesters to give to local families struggling to find food during the coronavirus outbreak.
Kelce also said he wants to make sure local children who rely on Operation Breakthrough have the food and supplies they need. He will donate all the food and supplies they need for the next 15 weeks "to keep it business as usual for the kids."
Hill started the challenge on Twitter Monday.
"The COVID-19 outbreak is changing our daily lives," Hill tweeted. "Today my foundation will be partnering with Harvesters to donate meals to families and youth who are now without their free breakfast and lunch programs."
In his announcement, Hill also challenged teammates Patrick Mahomes, Demarcus Robinson, Gehrig Dieter, Tyrann Mathieu, Chris Jones, and Frank Clark.
Kelce was the first to respond.
Hill also said he is challenging all of Chiefs Kingdom to help in any way they can.
Let's go @cheetah!! I got your 6k and will raise you another 6k meals thru @harvestersorg! But we can't leave our friends @OB_Inc_KC hanging, so we're going to donate all the food & supplies for the next 15 weeks to keep it business as usual for the kids!! Much love KC! ❤💛
— Travis Kelce (@tkelce) March 17, 2020
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Gartner, a technology research firm, projects that the artificial intelligence sector will grow just over 21% this year. With that growth comes a significant demand for AI engineers to help maintain, improve, and build new AI systems. The courses below are my top recommendations for online AI courses you can take today to begin your journey into the field.
What AI means
The thought of Artificial Intelligence often conjures images of human-like robots, like those from Westworld and Ex Machina. Although currently impossible, this highly advanced version of AI, more formally known as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), is being heavily researched.
Notable developments in AI have been in Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI), or AI systems focused on narrow tasks, like autonomous driving, playing Starcraft, and debating humans.
Acclaimed machine learning professor Andrew Ng explains in his course AI for Everyone that AGI has made little progress compared to ANI. Essentially all online AI courses pertain to narrow intelligence, so most of this article will focus on recommending ANI courses.
Source: AI For Everyone, Andrew Ng, Coursera
What should you learn?
In Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, one of the most widely assigned textbooks in college AI courses, the author describes the various narrow intelligence subtopics that could produce an AGI system when combined.
natural language processing to communicate successfully in a human language;
knowledge representation to store what it knows or hears;
automated reasoning to answer questions and to draw new conclusions;
machine learning to adapt to new circumstances and to detect and extrapolate patterns.
computer vision and speech recognition to perceive the world;
robotics to manipulate objects and move about.
— Russell, S. J. (2020). Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Pearson
It's worth noting that machine learning is a critical component in an AI curriculum, and there is a lot of crossover between AI courses and machine learning courses.
Many of the most important advances in AI as we know it today are due to developments in machine learning, specifically through deep learning and reinforcement learning. Because of their importance to AI, I've considered their inclusion in the curriculum more heavily when searching for and selecting the best courses.
Before we get into the course recommendations, we need to describe AI course prerequisites briefly.
Most AI courses assume you have basic knowledge of statistics, probability, linear algebra, calculus, and programming, and without this mathematics exposure, you'll find it challenging to understand many AI concepts. You don't need a graduate-level understanding, but AI is an advanced math and computer science subject, so comfort with these prerequisites is essential.
If you're uncomfortable with any of these subjects, the following are some of the top-rated courses that may benefit you:
Probability: Fat Chance: Probability from the Ground Up from Harvard
Statistics: Fundamentals of Statistics from MIT
Linear Algebra: Linear Algebra 18.06 from MIT
Calculus: Single Variable Calculus and Multivariable Calculus from MIT
Programming: Learn Python from Codecademy, or any other top Python course
If you have some familiarity with each, you may find it easier to take one of the AI courses listed below and reference these courses when something doesn't make sense. All of the prerequisite courses listed above, except for Codecademy, have entirely free videos.
Aim not to just sit and watch videos, but to solve as many problems in these subjects as possible.
The 7 Best AI Courses for 2023
1 AI For Everyone Coursera 4.8 Beginner
2 Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree Udacity 4.8 Beginner-Intermediate
3 Professional Certificate in Computer Science for Artificial Intelligence edX 4.9 Intermediate
4 Deep Learning Specialization Coursera 4.9 Intermediate
5 Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown edX 4.9 Intermediate
6 Natural Language Processing Specialization Coursera 4.6 Intermediate
7 Artificial Intelligence OpenCourseWare 4.8 Intermediate
Course breakdowns
#1 AI For Everyone
Pricing Free-$49.99/month
Course Link Enroll
AI newcomers desiring a broad, non-technical overview of the field
Taught by Andrew Ng, creator of the famous Stanford Machine Learning class, this course is the best non-technical introduction to AI.
This is a good fit for a comprehensive view of AI, what it can do, its misconceptions, and its benefits. Conversely, if you're interested in the technical aspects of implementing AI solutions, you're better off considering one of the other courses on this list.
Andrew Ng brilliantly explains the complexities of AI in simple, primarily non-technical terms, giving anyone the ability to converse with practitioners and speak intelligently about AI in its current state.
What is AI?
Building AI Projects
Building AI in Your Company
The rest of this article will recommend the best technical courses, that is, those requiring the aforementioned prerequisite knowledge in math and programming.
Enroll in AI For Everyone
#2 Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree
Pricing 3 months for $1017
Level Beginner-Intermediate
Anyone interested in learning a wide range of AI techniques from some of the top AI experts
Peter Norvig, the author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the most widely used AI textbook in universities, co-created this AI course. This course's curriculum follows a similar, but condensed, path to Norvig's textbook and forms a general overview of AI techniques.
The course features several example projects that'll test your new knowledge from each lesson, including building a sudoku solver, a forward planning agent, an adversarial game-playing agent, and part of speech tagging model. These projects will provide valuable portfolio pieces and proof of your newly acquired AI skills.
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Classical Search
Automated Planning
Optimization Problems
Adversarial Search
Fundamentals of Probabilistic Graphical Models
Overall, this course offers a strong foundation in Artificial Intelligence techniques. The content mirrors that of many intro AI courses offered at universities and is presented by two top minds in the industry.
Despite the positives, one central AI technique missing from this curriculum is machine learning. For that, check out the next course in this list.
Enroll in Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree
#3 Professional Certificate in Computer Science for Artificial Intelligence
Pricing Free-$348
Learners that yearn for a better computer science foundation
The CS50 computer science course from Harvard is one of the most popular CS online courses currently available. This two-part professional certificate from edX tracks Harvard's CS50 and CS50AI courses, allowing learners without the prerequisite CS knowledge to break into AI.
AI is computer science, so making sure you understand traditional CS concepts is critical to learning how to make intelligent systems. The professional certificate requires both courses to be completed, but if you already feel like your CS knowledge is adequate, jumping to the second course might be a better fit and save time.
Even though this course has sections on C and Python programming, I wouldn't consider it an introduction to programming. If you're not already comfortable with a programming language, you may find it challenging to keep up.
Course 1: Introduction to Computer Science
Intro to Computer Science
Programming with C
Data types, operators, conditional statements, loops, command line
Functions, variables, debugging, arrays, command-line arguments
Linear search, binary search, bubble sort, selection sort, recursion, merge sort
Hexadecimal, pointers, custom types, dynamic memory allocation, call stacks, file pointers
singly-linked lists, hash tables, tries
Using SQL with Python
Intro to the Internet, IP, TCP, HTTP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM
Flask web servers and Ajax
Course 2: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python
Search - finding solutions to problems
Knowledge - representing information and drawing inferences from it
Uncertainty - using probability to deal with uncertain events
Optimization - finding the best way to solve a problem
Learning - using data to improve performance
Neural Networks - using brain-like structures to perform tasks
Language - processing human's natural language
I found the lessons to be an entertaining and insightful mix of on-stage presentations and code demonstrations. The lecturers are excellent teachers, but there's no hand-holding. You'll find this series challenging and demanding, something you'd expect from an actual college course.
Enroll in Professional Certificate in Computer Science for Artificial Intelligence
#4 Deep Learning Specialization
Students with some experience who want to dive into the deep learning branch of AI
This Specialization by Andrew Ng takes a deep dive into deep learning, an advanced form of neural network.
Although deep learning is considered only one piece of AI, it's played a critical role in many of the most impressive AI achievements. This course is designed to provide a broad knowledge of recent developments in deep learning and contains insightful wisdom on building, training, and optimizing machine learning models.
Course 1: Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Basics of Neural Networks
Shallow Neural Networks
Course 2: Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization
Optimization Algorithms
Hyperparameter Tuning, Batch Normalization and programming frameworks
Course 3: Structuring Machine Learning Projects
ML production workflow
Error analysis procedures
Course 4: Convolution Neural Networks
Foundations of Convolutional Neural Networks
Deep Convolutional Models
Special Applications: Face Recognition and Neural Style Transfer
Course 5: Sequence Models
Recurrent Neural Networks
Natural Language Processing and Word Embeddings
Sequence Models and Attention Mechanism
Transformer Network
In the last two courses of this Specialization, you'll learn about computer vision and natural language processing, two important AI subtopics, making for a well-rounded introduction to the field. Deep learning is only one of many AI techniques, so you may want a broader overview of AI before enrolling in this course series.
Enroll in Deep Learning Specialization
#5 Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown
Pricing Free, $399 for materials
Intermediate learners who have a strong interest in autonomous driving and enjoy hands-on learning
Autonomous driving is one of the most active AI fields, and this course uniquely tackles online learning for self-driving vehicles by pairing its content with a purchasable driving robot. For a $399 starter kit (found here), you'll receive a Duckiebot vehicle, road mat, cones, and signs to start live training your own models for autonomous driving.
The course itself digs deep into controlling your Duckiebot, such as how to drive in lanes, stop at intersections, and detect and avoid crashing into objects. All coding is done with Python and a machine learning framework, like PyTorch or Tensorflow.
Introduction to autonomous vehicles
Towards autonomy
Modeling and control
Robot vision
State estimation and localization
Learning by reinforcement
Duckiebot uses an NVIDIA Jetson Nano, a small computer built for AI IoT applications, for which you'll learn how to program. Once the course is completed, you'll have knowledge of basic robotics, IoT, and reinforcement learning (eg, Q Learning), after which you can go on and apply your new skills to all sorts of IoT and robotics applications.
Enroll in Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown
#6 Natural Language Processing Specialization
Pricing Free-$49.99
Those with some experience and a fascination with the NLP branch of AI
One core feature of an intelligent system is deciphering, analyzing, and providing insight into human language, a feat achieved with natural language processing (NLP). The entire goal of this Specialization is to give the tools and techniques needed to build NLP systems.
The content of this course is produced by the same team that created the Deep Learning Specialization mentioned above, and so it is incredibly well-designed and informative. The Specialization is split into courses that each focus on essential model types: Classification, Probabilistic, Sequence, and Attention. These model types resulted in significant improvements in NLP and formed the foundation of some of the best language models we have today.
Course 1: Classification and Vector Spaces
Sentiment Analysis with Logistic Regression
Sentiment Analysis with Naive Bayes
Vector Space Models
Machine Translation and Document Search
Course 2: Probabilistic Models
Autocorrect
Part of Speech Tagging and Hidden Markov Models
Autocomplete and Language Models
Word Embeddings and Neural Networks
Neural Networks for Sentiment Analysis
Recurrent Neural Networks for Language Modeling
LSTMs and Named Entity Recognition
Siamese Networks
Course 4: Attention Models
Neural Machine Translation
Text Summarization
Question Answering
While not a general introduction to AI, this Specialization will leave you with highly-valuable skills in a subset of AI. From here, you'll have the prerequisite knowledge to either start building your own startup around NLP or to find a career in the industry.
Enroll in Natural Language Processing Specialization
#7 Artificial Intelligence
Self-starters looking for a completely free, top-tier course
This is a free AI course from MIT OpenCourseWare, a platform that hosts many MIT courses complete with homework, exams, solutions, lecturer notes, and full lecture videos. This course is a perfect fit if you're a self-motivated learner and don't care about platform interactivity, auto-graded assignments, and certificates.
Since this is a live recorded university course, lessons are given in an MIT lecture hall by Patrick Henry Winston, a renowned MIT professor. The content in this class spans more broadly than any other course of found, touching on everything from basic AI algorithms, to machine learning, to probabilistic methods. AI is a fast-moving field, and since this course was recorded in 2010, it doesn't include some more recent developments. Despite that, the concepts presented are still relevant and form the foundation of AI today.
Goal trees
Rule-based expert systems
Depth-first
Alpha-beta
Interpreting line drawings
Domain reduction
Visual object recognition
Nearest neighbors
Identification trees
Neural nets and back propagation
Sparse spaces
Near misses
Felicity conditions
Support vector machines
Trajectories
Subsumption
Society of Mind
The AI business
Probabilistic inference
Model merging
Cross-modal coupling
The easiest way to watch the lectures for this course are through this YouTube playlist, but you'll still need to reference the OpenCourseWare page for notes, assignments, exams, and solutions.
Enroll in Artificial Intelligence
Learning AI from scratch can be daunting, but remember that no matter your background or level of education, you can learn anything with persistence.
If you've taken one of the courses above and want to share your experience or think there's a vital offering I missed, leave a comment down below!


Crickets have become a staple diet for a lot of reptiles and amphibians. Purchasing crickets online in large quantity has become very common place among exotic pet hobbyists and even sports fishermen. This article will cover the basic care and breeding of the common house cricket, Achetus domesticus.
Crickets will hatch, grow to adulthood and die with an average life span of eight weeks once reaching adulthood. The males perform the chirping and are good indicators of weather conditions. The frequency of chirping is low in cold weather and high in warm weather.
Males will perform the chirping and while chirping their wings, rear legs and body will shake. Females will have an ovipositor that protrudes from their rear and is significantly larger than males.
A cricket will go through a growth cycle reaching maturity after 5 weeks and then die after 8 weeks of adulthood. Each week the cricket will grow in size until it reaches its adult size.
Crickets can live in moderate room temperatures from 70-80F but will only thrive in the low 80s. Below 70F will prove detrimental to health and most crickets will die. A reptile heat bulb, either colored or ceramic is recommended for winter or cold climates.
Moderate humidity is recommended. The growth cycle will be increased with warm temperatures and higher humidity in the 60% range.
Crickets will eat plenty of grains, fruits, and vegetables. Some crickets will become cannibalistic if not fed a proper diet on a regular basis. The leading Cricket and insect breeders offer diets and reptile food companies even produce a diet for crickets. All food given to crickets should be nutritionally complete since you are gut loading the insect to be food for a reptile. Water should be provided through a damp sponge, water crystals or a shallow dish with gravel so the crickets do not drown.
Gut loading crickets is a proven scientific theory that you will provide the most nutritious live prey by feeding crickets high-quality food prior to offering them as prey to your pet.
I use Armstrong's Cricket containers that are made of a dense plastic and have screen covers to prevent escapes. These are sold as kits with food and water, cricket containers and scooper to collect the crickets. I highly recommend these for the ease of use and cleaning.
You can also make your own for a fraction of the cost using a Sterilite storage container and cutting a square hole out of the top and with the use of a hot glue gun and the scrap material from the square cut out you can put a wire mesh or fabric over the hole and glue the extra material through the mesh and contact the plastic material of the lid. This method is relatively cheap if you own a glue gun yourself. Be sure to follow all warnings provided with the glue gun and any tools you use.
A single adult female can produce 2000 crickets in her lifetime. Keeping crickets in large numbers can reduce your feeder bills. You will want to begin with an egg laying container, in the adult enclosure place a shallow container with moist dirt at the bottom. A shallow deli cup or Tupperware container works great. Place the egg carton over the container with enough room for the crickets to move freely in and out of the egg laying container. This is to provide the females with a sense of security.
Every one to two weeks transfers the egg laying container in a new cricket container. We will call this container the pinhead bin. Provide the same food as you do the adults but be sure to keep a moist sponge instead of any shallow water dishes to prevent drowning. That's it!


So we're not saying that this was because of the big-ticket sales tax snafu that The Durham News broke late last year.
But, it's sure gotta be at the top of the speculation list given the timing -- i.e., soon after the announcement, and on a snowy Friday afternoon to boot.
We don't know any more than has been in the funnies about the tax issue (though I'm still curious how this squared up, IIRC, with the state changing taxability of theater tickets, museum admits, college meal plans and a range of other adjustments.) And we'd be remiss if we didn't give a tip-of-the-hat for Nocek's role in revitalizing both a facility and its programming, both much more vibrant since his tenure.
Update: Per the H-S, it was the taxes.
The theatre's board of directors "felt new leadership was needed to restore confidence and get us back on track," said Ellen Reckhow, who represents the Board of County Commissioners on the theater board. "Unfortunately, the board was not aware of the challenging financial situation until fairly recently," Reckhow said.
The theater's board of directors named businessman and philanthropist Dan Berman interim president and CEO. Berman served as board chair for the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, and is a board member and finance chair of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
As chairman of the Board of Trustees of Carolina Theatre of Durham, Inc., I am writing you today to inform you that Bob Nocek has stepped down as our president and CEO. His resignation is effective immediately.
Under Bob's leadership, the Carolina Theatre has played a key role in the renaissance of downtown Durham. We are grateful for his service and wish him well in his new pursuits.


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Hi; Happy World Cardmaking Day, it's time for a new Allsorts Challenge! I'm hosting this week with a theme "Trees and leaves". Welcome to join us. Our sponsor is Marianne Design.
This must be my favourite stamp, you've seen this lately, but now in a bit of different colours.
Colouring with Distress Inks and water in WeR Precision Press and final touch with brushes.
Beautifully created landscape. Thanks for joining the Crafting With An Attitude challenge.
Wow, what amazing autumn scene! Love what you've created here.
Another stunning card Mervi. Thanks for the fabulous challenge!
Lovely creation, thank you for joining our challenge at CRAFT Challenge this week. Please also have a look at our DT call and consider applying for the position of DT member, we are a friendly bunch.
Oh wow--this is stunning! Love all the white layers, too!
Great landscape card, beautifully done, good luck and thanks for entering Creative Knockouts.
Absolutely stunning coloring. Beautiful scene.


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ASP found murdered on city outskirts
ASP Mizanur Rahman Talukder of highway police (Savar circle). Photo courtesy: Police Headquarters
An assistant superintendent of police (ASP) of Savar highway circle was killed by unidentified assailants hours after he left his Uttara residence to join work at Kaliakoir in Gazipur yesterday.
Police recovered the body of ASP Mizanur Ranman Talukder, 50, from near Birualia Bridge around 11:30am, possibly dumped by the assailants after killing him at some other place, said Syed Shahid Alam, officer-in-charge of Rupnagar Police Station.
A piece of cloth was found wrapped around his neck, he said.
According to the inquest report, the body bore marks of injuries on the forehead and left and right cheeks. There was also a red mark around his neck.
Mizanur's body was sent to Dhaka Medical College morgue for an autopsy.
Police said Mizanur left his residence in Sector-5 of Uttara around 5:00am for his office. He had no official vehicle. He used to go to office by a personal car.
Yesterday, his car was found in his office garage. His two cell phones were found beside his body; one was switched off. Mizanur was clad in a check shirt, trouser of the police's uniform and shoes.
A black colour side-bag was lying beside the body. The victim's uniform shirt and car key were found inside that bag.
While visiting the spot, this correspondent saw no shop or house within half a kilometre.
The police officer's body was found inside a bush near the Birualia Bridge highway, said Md Imran, a tea-stall owner near the bridge.
Shafiqul Islam, superintendent of Highway Police, Gazipur Region, told The Daily Star that Mizan had been posted in Kaliakoir and he used to live there.
"On Tuesday morning, I asked him to come to my office and he worked here until 3:00pm and went to Uttara to meet his family," he said, adding that Mizan was supposed to join duty at Kaliakoir yesterday morning.
Asked why he didn't have a bodyguard that an officer of that rank is entitled to, Shafiqul said no guard was with him as no vehicle had been issued for him.
Primarily, police are suspecting that it was a murder, but have no clue about it, he added.
Hailed from Ghatail of Tangail, Mizanur joined as a sub-inspector of police in 1989 and promoted to the rank of ASP three years back.
Before working as an ASP in Savar circle, he worked as officer-in-charge of Ghior Police Station of Manikganj district.
The victim's younger brother Masum Talukder said the family was clueless about the motive behind the murder.
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A new research letter published by JAMA Internal Medicine compares the proportion of terrorist attacks committed with firearms in the United States with the proportion in other high-income countries, as well as the deadliness of attacks with firearms compared to those by other means.
The article by Robert A. Tessler, M.D., of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Seattle, and coauthors searched the Global Terrorism Database from 2002 to 2016. The database is maintained by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland and it defines a terrorist attack as the "use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious or social goal through fear, coercion or intimidation." The database collects location, type and number of fatalities for each attack and categorizes weapons.
During the study period, the database captured 2,817 terrorist attacks in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand, of which 2,403 (85.3 percent) were in Western Europe and 329 (11.7 percent) were in the United States.
The types of attacks were: explosives (49 percent), incendiary (36 percent), firearms (9.2 percent), vehicle/melee (5.4 percent) and miscellaneous (3.1 percent).
In the 2,817 attacks, there were 1,031 fatalities, of which 566 (54.9 percent) were attributed to firearms, according to the results.
The proportion of firearms attacks among countries with 10 or more attacks was highest in the United States at 20.4 percent with 67 attacks followed by the Netherlands at 14.3 percent with three attacks, according to the results.
"Although firearms were used in fewer than 10 percent of terrorist attacks between 2002 and 2016, they accounted for about 55 percent of the fatalities. … In the United States and other countries, government policies and legislative efforts to protect citizens from terrorism should consider the proportions and lethality of terrorist attacks committed with firearms," the article concludes.


Where I've been for the last 2 weeks: campus & radio appearances!
Me and the staff of UC Berkeley's Hardboiled!
Regular readers of this blog might have noticed that I've been seriously M.I.A. for the past two weeks. For the first week, I was attending a conference in California where I snapped this picture of a nearby state beach; for the second week, I was so busy upon my return that I didn't even have time to check my (work) email, let alone my blog email or to write blog posts.
There's a ton of stuff I've missed, and I apologize to all of you for leaving you in the lurch like that (I need an intern!). But, during the past two weeks, I did have a chance to do several media and on-campus appearances, which I'd like to tell you guys about!
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Kellie, my daughter, called me.
The teachers said many positive things about my granddaughter including that they all overhear the boys saying she's pretty hot (she's a cheerleader).
A day or two later, Kellie phoned me to complain that after a full day of work, in a 40-hour work week, she would have to go home, cook dinner and clean up around the house. She had done the laundry in the morning.
"But, [the older one], especially, complains and doesn't do the job thoroughly," she said.
"Then, discipline them to do it over until they do it right," I told her. "In the long run, it will conserve your energy once they know they can't slack off, and it'll relieve much of your stress.
"Vicki got water all over the floor when she did them," said Kellie.
"Oh. And who vacuumed…?" I asked.
While the neighborhood kids no longer clean my house and my caregiving chores for Emma are done, as you know I have written and published Volume I, Begins the Night Music, my book based on my blog, journaling Emma's and my experiences. Now my neighborhood adult friends and worldwide Linkedin network friends help. A caregiver herself in more ways than one, my New Zealand sociologist/researcher/writer friend, Beatrice, who does make social studies more interesting, has written a review of my book to be published in different periodicals; she tells me she is aiming at "INsite, the magazine for elderly care in New Zealand, as well as a slightly different version for Carers NZ newsletter, and Carers World Radio*," if she can get in.
Currently she is visiting England and on November 1 will meet in London, in the House of Lords, with Baroness Pitkeathley, "baronessed for her work for carers," Beatrice emailed me. "Jill Pitkeathley is behind the whole global carers' movement," said Beatrice, "and am taking your book with me, to hand over to Carers' UK as she will." How very kind and thoughtful of Beatrice. One of the major organizations Baroness Pitkeathley founded is the National Organisation for Distressed Gentlewomen.
"But I shall mention your name in the Hallowed Halls," Beatrice added.
Beatrice thought I, as an American, might not be impressed. I am impressed, and we still have in New York city and state, and elsewhere, a brand of Edith Wharton women, the lives of some of whom overlapped with hers; some of late may have fallen on hard times, even; thus no longer able to pay the rent or the upkeep on the brownstone or the country house, and have become distressed gentlewomen.
This gracious promotion of caregivers and of my book could only but help alleviate a distressed situation.


I hope you had a great weekends sailing, I just have a copule of favours to ask to make getting the results put in quicker and easier for all.
1. If you're the race officer and the office isn't open or the duty officer isn't around to hand the results to, can you put them in the green folder behind the bar which will save us hunting around for them.
2. Can I also ask that if you're suing a sail with a number other than the one for your boat that you identify this clearly on the sign on sheets as it's quite tricky to guess otherwise so your result might get accredited to someone else and I'm sure you wouldn't want that.
On behalf of the Hurricane 5.9 Association I would like to extend a big thank you to TBYC. This years Nationals was said to be the best ever, this was due to all the hard work done behind the scenes. Thank's to Jo and the catering staff for feeding us all, many of the sailors mention how good the food was. To Gordon and Lorraine and the lovely bar staff for serving lots of drinks, I believe from Nick Elmore, the bar nearly ran out of beer. To the sailing committee, especially to Chris for sorting out the results every day. To Phil Crawford and his Race officers team, working in extremely hot conditions and setting good courses. Big thanks! Tony Clarke and the guard boat crews for your hard work, especially on the Saturday in windy conditions with lots of capsizes and masts down. To my team of event organisers, Kylie Jenkins, Wayne Miller, Pete Sherwin, Paul Palmer, Chris Hull and Andrew Hannah. Thanks for your help and support. To all the club flag officers, Pete Thompson our Commodore and Nick Elmore, Vice commodore, thanks for support. To our prize sponsors, Hyde Sails, Spartan, AW sailboats and Towergate Mardon insurances. To the Hurricane 5.9 association committee and entrants, who made this event such good fun. Finally to Little Max Duce, who did a stirling job sorting out all the trollies and helping the sailors on the beach. Cheers Struan Wallace, Hurricane Treasurer.
Unfortunately I am unable to carry out my guardboat duty (SS2) on Sunday 8th August for the Yantlet Trophy (I've already swapped once).
If anyone is willing to swap guardboat duty please let me know.
congratualtions to Dave Whiteand John and Dan Henderson, Graham Sexton and his lovely and talented crew Kristina who did all the hard work, tactics, navigation, wind forecasting / weather routing etc etc and Tally Eyre and Peter for winning their represented classes in the Nore race this year.
Showing TBYC leads the way in dinghies on the sunny side of the Thames yet again.
Please somebody swap a Race officer duty with me.
I have a clash with another event.
The kitchen will be open from 5pm – 7pm for pre match sustenance !
As some of you will be aware, I am part of a team intending to row across the English Channel in the next few days when the weather settles down (now 90% sure for Sunday). If conditions are right, we are also hoping to beat the current record of 2 hours 40 minutes. Why? You might well ask!
It's all for charity: The AHOY Centre, which is based in east London, provides water based activities for young and disabled people in one of Britain's most deprived areas. In particular it does a lot of work with young offenders and those who are not in education, giving them some structure to their lives, often for the first time, regularly leading to RYA qualifications and similar.
For more details see www.ahoy.org.uk.
Anyone wishing to sponsor us is very welcome to do so and the JustGiving site is: www.justgiving.com/xchannelrowing.


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Q: how to fit train CNN with the appropriate input shape? I am trying to train a CNN and LSTM network with S&P 500 dataset. This is the shape of my train dataset:

xtrain shape: (6445, 16)
ytrain shape: (6445,)

this is the input shape I have gave to CNN:
model.add(TimeDistributed(Conv1D(filters=64, kernel_size=1, activation='relu'), input_shape=(None,16)))

withe input shape parameter shown in the code I get this error:

ValueError: Input 0 of layer conv1d_8 is incompatible with the layer: : expected min_ndim=3, found ndim=2. Full shape received: [None, 16]

A: expected min_ndim=3, found ndim=2.
Keras expects three-dimensional arrays when working with Conv1D: the expected shape is [batch_size, sequence_length, feature_dimension]. In your case, you only have one feature dimension, I suspect the price, but imagine you also wanted to pass the trading volumes data, you would have xtrain.shape == (6445,16,2). The last dimension would contain information about the price and the volume.
To solve your issue, you need to reshape your xtrain to
(batch_size, sequence_length, feature_dimension=(6445,16,1)

To do so, you can use tensorflow:
xtrain = tf.expand_dims(xtrain, axis=-1) # -1 means expand the LAST axis

or with numpy:
xtrain = np.expand_dims(xtrain, axis=-1) # -1 means expand the LAST axis

This function just does what the name implies: it adds a new axis in the position specified by axis. This results in xtrain having the shape we wanted, now you can just proceed with your model, for example:
model = keras.models.Sequential()
model.add(keras.layers.TimeDistributed(keras.layers.Conv1D(filters=64, kernel_size=1, activation='relu'), input_shape=(None,16,1)))

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My own more extended thinking on Nancy's key notion of transimmanence can be found in my most recent book, The Theological and the Political, which interprets transimmanence as the dynamic force of liberating spirit. I there place Nancy's notion in conversation with the thought of other writers, including Richard Wright, Abdul JanMohamed, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Walter Mignolo, and other theorists (see especially chapters 3 and 4 of that book).
Transimmanence, is Nancy's concept for naming and locating the place(s) and movement(s) at work within his unique and expansive notion, "the sense of the world." If the world's "sense" is its continual "taking place" (BSP, 5), always-circulating and opening through incessant joining, playing, speaking, sharing, passaging within both the knowing and being of bodies in the world (SW, 78), then transimmanence is Nancy's word for naming these interplaying dynamics, and also locating them. The locating is expressed in Nancy's writing as a concern with a logic of spacing, or of weighing, between dynamically charged entities. But the locating function also expresses Nancy's mindfulness regarding the spatial and locating consciousness of Western discussions of "transcendence" and "immanence." Transimmanence, then, is a concept that "locates" in two related ways: (a) throwing into relief the heart of Nancy's project, while also (b) situating his project in relation to broader discussions.
"One could also put it this way: art is the transcendence of immanence as such, the transcendence of an immanence that does not go outside itself in transcending, which is not ex-static but ek-sistant. A transimmanence. Art exposes this. Once again, it does not "represent" this. Art is its ex-position. The transimmanence, or patency, of the world takes place as art, as works of art" (M, 34-5).
As a first key trait, there is here the dialectical relation of transimmanence to the notion of transcendence. The very notion of transimmanence is broached by Nancy in relation to "transcendence." When pronouncing art as transimmanence Nancy announces it as "the transcendence of immanence as such," or "the transcendence of an immanence." Here, transimmanence is introduced as emerging through (dia) engaging transcendence.
This does not mean that thinking transcendence is the necessary precondition for the possibility of thinking transimmanence. It does mean, though, that transimmanence has provenance in discourses of transcendence. Nancy's notion of transimmanence engages and then breaks from, deconstructs, the notion of transcendence. Indeed there is a "refusal of transcendence," as called for by theorists, Hardt and Negri (2000, 90-1). Nancy's refusal, though, remains mindful of the term's provenance in Western discourses of transcendence. Like Laclau (2005, 244), Nancy can reference mainly "failed transcendence," but in so doing develops his counter-position to transcendence as a dialectical engagement of transcendence. Nancy's refusal is a deliberate working amid the ruins of transcendence, its legacy of failure. What now, more positively, can be said about transimmanence itself?
The third aspect of our extract offers a crucial response: transimmanence is an "ek-sisting." In the Greek, ek- as originally from eik, concerns a point whence action or motion proceeds. It is not so much a standing out, as the "ex-" in ex-stasis (ecstasy). Nancy's transiting in transimmanence keeps the focus not on anything that might stand out from world, but on a motion that is a moving into "outer," always other, spaces and times, within world. The emphasis is on a sliding or passing through. Ek-sisting is continual transiting through the complexities of world, finding edges, ever new routes to edges, alternative dimensions of depths within, tracing the textures and layering through which movement occurs – unceasingly. It is a motion or exteriorization that does not actually go outside ("What outside?" Nancy often quips) but does pass toward an outer within world. This is as Hutchens says "open immanence," not "closed immanence" (Hutchens 2005, 167). This ek-sisting, more broadly, is also a resistance to closure. As Nancy argues in Corpus, transimmanence is world in extension, continually extending, coordinating separation and relation (C, 95); but this extension, a mode of weighing, works in continual, labile tension with another kind of weighing, an amassing that Nancy calls "concentration" (C, 77, 79). Nancy can term the transimmanental opening of the spacings of extension amid concentration, a "revolt" and "liberation" of bodies (C, 111).
There is a fourth aspect of our passage that both clarifies transimmanence and points to a central, expansive domain of Nancy's project: transimmanence as "ex-positional" through art. "Art is [transimmanences's] ex-position" (M, 35). Art is ex-position not as we might refer to essays and speeches as expositions, but as a "putting out" and "into place" (Old French, poser). By putting into place, art puts into being, into some place amid the multifarious spacing of the world. Transimmanence as ex-posited through art is linked to the dynamism that generates the sense of the world. Nancy says further in our extract that transimmanence taking place as works of art is a "patency." With this term Nancy seems to draw on the medical and phonetic uses of the term, referring to patency as "being unblocked," being-with other entities such that free flow and passing occur. In other words, transimmanence, as ex-positional through the arts, works to clear passageways, moving deftly, creatively, to make place(s) and space(s) of world. The ex-positing that is the work of art is a reforging of the world as extension (again in agonistic relation to world as concentration), thus creating or ex-positing both "intimacy and withdrawal" of multiply-sensed and sensing bodies in a singular plural world (C, 33).
In sum, transimmanence names within Nancy's project the dynamic, ceaselessly flowing sense of the world, liberating world continually into itself, evolving and revolving into ever more textured and artfully ex-posited complexity. This is also a "revolt of bodies" toward "freedom" (C, 101). Within the larger discussions of transcendence and immanence, then, Nancy's "transimmanence" is not simply a matter of having done with both, declaring a pox on both their houses. Nancy, instead, strikes a neither/nor approach to transimmanence/immanence, recasting both in the discursive milieu of transimmanence.
B. C. Hutchens, Jean-Luc Nancy and the Future of Theology. McGill-Queens, 2005.
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Ernesto Laclau. On Populist Reason. New York: Verso Books, 2005.
BSP Being Singular Plural. Stanford University Press, 2000.
M The Muses. Stanford University Press, 1996.
SW The Sense of the World. University of Minnesota Press, 1997.


Happy Epiphany!! We've muddled through the twelve days of Christmas here, in which we hadn't much of a break between gatherings, going ons, and my work schedule. We are finally at Epiphany, and it dawns on me that in the hubbub of the holiday I didn't prepare for one of my favorite feast days. Christmas is great, but me, I like me a good Epiphany celebration. Epiphany is just such a vivid and raw event. A king of a babe in a manger, surrounded by mud and straw and animals and stench. Visitors from distant lands making their way to Him, furtively evading the one seeking to destroy this child. What it must have been like to stand anywhere near that blessed event. What it must have been to approach that child, the King of Kings. I love the lyrics of the Newsboys' song Adoration - it is such a vivid depiction of what it might have been like. "She (Mary) sees me shivering here, she smiles and with a nod, I walk through the mud and straw to the newborn Son of God." I think I link to this every year, but it continues to be my favorite so here it is again!
I had grand plans for Epiphany...grand, I tell you! Alas, it wasn't to be. It doesn't help that my inexplicable (minus blaming scar tissue) stomach cramps came back in style in the wee hours of the morning and have only now subsided some seven hours later, despite medicine. Wait. There it is. There is my myrrh offering to Jesus - I brought the myrrh. Happy Epiphany!
Preparing for a secret mission should he choose to accept it.
Speaking of my new devotional, a new year has also brought a new approach to prayer (again). I've seen over the years people "choose" a word for the year. I've never been drawn to that, as I rarely will make resolutions in the new year. It is fairly plain to me that I am always a work in progress. However, this year, the Lord placed a word on my heart, and a verse on my heart that keeps popping up over and over, so I cannot escape it. I have a word for the year, and it's a glamorous one.
It struck me as odd, because I have felt empty much of the last year, but it brought frustration and failing. Empty was negative. Nothing. Bare. Barren. Less than. Incomplete. Worthless. Meaningless. Incapable. Empty.
Yet, when this word came into my heart and continued to reverberate within it, no sadness was attached. It was as though I had been holding my breath and could finally exhale. Empty. Pure. Simple. Holy. Potential. Peace. Serenity. Humble. Home. Receptacle for grace, blessing, light, joy... Open to abundance. Ready to overflow.
The verse that keeps repeating along with that word are the words of St. John the Baptist.
More of Him, less of me. Empty me. Fill me. By the day, the hour, the minute. Every second of every day, a greater desire to lay myself down at the foot of the cross and let his grace and mercy fill me. Leave resentment and complaints at his feet; let gratitude fill me. Leave my worries at his feet; let dreams fill my heart. Leave my ambition and selfishness at his feet; let His will consume me. Leave my fear and the past at his feet; let His promises fill me.
It is fitting that one of the verses for reflection today in my devotional was John 10:10. "I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly." (I prefer the NRSV translation here versus the NIV in my devotional.) Abundant life. The words evoke images of lush fields, great joy, raucous laughter...I cannot help but smile. And Jesus is here, always here offering this abundance to us. Every day, every moment, he is waiting to fill us, but we must be empty to be filled. I must be empty to be filled.
And thus it is decreed: 2015 is the year of empty. Less of me, more of Him, as I continue in my journey to try to love more selflessly, serve more joyfully, and live more boldly.
May all His grace and mercy and every good thing be yours in this new year!
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Hi, Rakhi! Your word for the year is inspired, and it really touched me, too. Just a few weeks ago I wrote in my journal that I was holding my breath, and I felt like God was answering "Breathe."
I love your thoughts on the word empty. It its true that we must empty ourselves so that we can be filled with Him. My word vexed me this year because I didn't want it at first. It definitely was not of my choosing, but now I see that it is the best word for me to reflect on this year.


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Risk of paralysis as MEPs fight Euro-elections
DETERMINED efforts are already under way behind the scenes to prevent the EU's legislative process from grinding to a halt next year following the European Parliament's decision to suspend normal operations for three months to concentrate on the June parliamentary elections.
By Myles Neligan
Officials fear that an enormous backlog of legislative proposals will have built up by the time MEPs resume their normal duties after the summer break.
In particular, they are concerned that the suspension of parliamentary activities from May 1999 will hold up agreement in vital areas where the Parliament shares decision-making power with the Council of Ministers.
The prospect of widespread administrative disruption has prompted calls for formal rules to govern the Parliament's practice of taking time off for electoral campaigns.
At the moment, there are no established procedures for dealing with MEPs' unscheduled absence, and the Parliament's right to an electoral recess is not enshrined in any of the existing EU treaties.
"Given that we have an anomalous institutional set-up, whereby one institution is elected but the other two are not, formal procedures to govern Parliament's occasional absence from the scene would make sense," said a senior Council official.
"This issue will have to be addressed sooner or later," confirmed a European Commission official responsible for relations with the Parliament.
The problem will be more acute in 1999 than in previous election years because the Maastricht Treaty has greatly increased the Parliament's decision-making responsibility. More than 25% of new proposals must now be approved jointly by the Parliament and the Council, a requirement which has already put the system under strain.
"We have simply had to make time for all this extra work. In practice, this often means sitting up half the night," said an official in the Council's secretariat.
Officials in all three institutions argue that as the 1997 Amsterdam Treaty provides for a further expansion of the Parliament's decision-making powers, there will be an even greater need for working rules before the next round of parliamentary elections in 2004. "This is when the crunch will come," said a Council source.
For the time being, a unit has been set up to undertake the delicate task of coordinating the flow of legislative proposals between the institutions, to ensure that all urgent matters are dealt with before the May 1999 'deadline'.
Its members will make particular efforts to ensure that joint procedures launched in the run-up to the shut down are completed by the time MEPs return to their constituencies to campaign for re-election.
The Council, which has been identified as one of the bottlenecks in the system, will come under pressure to get ministerial agreement on outstanding legislation sooner.
The programming unit will also urge the Commission to issue fewer new proposals from next spring. "It will be more complicated this year, but we feel sure that we will be able to arrive at a solution in time," said a member of the unit.
The Parliament, sensitive to criticism from the Commission and the Council about its decision to down tools, is keen to emphasise that all the institutions have a role to play in ensuring that matters proceed smoothly.
"We cannot act until the Council presents its common position on a particular proposal, and that can take months. It's a bit rich for them to blame all the administrative delays on the Parliament's electoral recess," said one official.
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The salary statistics of audio-visual and multimedia collections specialists are shown in Table 1. In the next few tables we compare the average salaries of audio-visual and multimedia collections specialists within different industry sectors and in the 50 states of the United States. The audio-visual and multimedia collections specialists annual salary statistics are from the national compensation survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2017 and published in April 2018 .
Table 1 shows the average annual salary for audio-visual and multimedia collections specialists. The average annual salary for the 90th percentile (the top 10 percent of the highest paid) audio-visual and multimedia collections specialists is $79,950. The median annual salary (50th percentile) is $48,590. The average annual salary for the bottom 10 percent is $26,920. It is noted that in the United States, the annual salary of the 90th percentile (the top 10 percent of the highest paid) is almost 196% higher than that of the bottom 10 percent.
The table and chart below show the trend of the median salary of audio-visual and multimedia collections specialists from 2012 to 2017.
The average salaries of audio-visual and multimedia collections specialists in 10 major industry sectors are shown in Table 2. We note that the salaries vary considerably within different industry sectors. The highest paying industry sector for audio-visual and multimedia collections specialists occupations is the management of companies and enterprises sector with an annual salary $63,140. The lowest paying sector is the other services (except federal, state, and local government) sector (annual salary $29,820).
From the above tables we note that not only audio-visual and multimedia collections specialists salaries vary considerably based on one's education and experience, and the industry sectors, they also change considerably from state to state. In the following table we compare the median salary of audio-visual and multimedia collections specialists in all 50 states of the United States. We note that the median annual salaries range from $23,660 to $67,080. The highest paying state for audio-visual and multimedia collections specialists is Connecticut with a median annual salary of $67,080. The lowest paying state is Nebraska with a median annual salary of $23,660. For more salary information of audio-visual and multimedia collections specialists profession in a specific state, use the links in the table.
 Highest paying industries for audio-visual and multimedia collections specialists.


I attended a wedding a couple of weeks ago and had an opportunity to speak with the mother of the bride. She was telling me that there was a little drama over the wedding cake.
Her daughter had wanted to use one of her friends who was just starting out a bakery business to make the cake, but the mother ultimately decided to go with another company that had been in business for over 20 years.
I understand her thinking…sometimes it's okay to give a new person a chance on minor items, but when it comes to a big event, you definitely want to use an experienced person.
For most people, the biggest financial event of their life will be buying and selling a house, and just as is the case in the above example, do you really want to take a chance with an inexperienced real estate professional?
As owner of Hippie Hollow Homes real estate, I have participated in more than 1,200 real estate transactions in Central Texas since 2004. I also own and operate the largest real estate investing club in Austin, Texas, as well as clubs in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, where we bring in some of the top real estate minds in Texas to teach other real estate professionals on how to run their business.
Finally, I speak nationally with my husband, Phill Grove, as part of the 'Big Live Event' tour. Other speakers include (or have included) Rudy Guliani, George Ross, Michael Gerber, Gene Simmons, Stedman Graham, Steve Wazniak from Apple and more.
At Hippie Hollow Homes, our primary goal is to assist distressed homeowners with being able to sell their house fast.
While the real estate market is good in Austin and the economy is picking up, there are still some people who are not able to sell their houses in the conventional manner. By 'conventional', I mean calling a Realtor to put your house on the MLS (Multiple Listings Service- the national realtor database), put a sign in your yard and wait for someone qualified buyer to call you.
But there are times when the conventional way of selling houses just doesn't work. And the biggest flaw with most Real Estate Agents is that they just offer one way to buy or sell a house. It's like trying to jam their square peg processes into a round hole. It just doesn't work.
For example, I recently helped a distressed seller in Round Rock, Texas, who was being transferred to Dallas in two weeks. She couldn't afford to pay for two homes and didn't want to try renting her house out. Her house was worth about $200k, but so was her mortgage. If she sold conventionally, it would take at least 90-180 days to sell (3 mortgage payments) plus $15k in closing costs (which she did not have). The Realtor she was working with didn't have any solutions for her other than convincing her that going into debt for $15k to sell her house was better than foreclosure.
Hippie Hollow Homes was able to buy her home in 7 days without her having to come out of pocket for any expenses!
And we can provide the best solution available for any of those problems. Whatever your reason for not being able to sell your house traditionally, Hippie Hollow Homes as experienced it. We practice over 12 ways to buy & sell homes that work in today's market. This philosophy allows us to match a round peg strategy with the appropriate round hole.
The only reason that we cannot help you…. if you don't contact us today.
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Audatex is now fully integrated with MyPriceLink, the new pricing initiative that replaces General Motor's monthly static price methodology for its collision parts portfolio. The technology provides suggested list price on Genuine GM Parts in real time with no user action required from within Audatex Estimating. The integration of MyPriceLink minimizes workflow disruptions throughout the entire collision process. For collision repairers using the Audatex platform, the MyPriceLink integration will be seamless, and shops and insurers will continue to write estimates in the manner to which they are accustomed.
"A year ago the industry asked General Motors to engage collision industry stakeholders in an effort to collaborate and integrate into our design of MyPriceLink. Audatex stepped right up….and we are very pleased they collaborated during this entire period; taking into account the needs of their customers, providing valuable technical assistance to the program, with the end goal being a seamless workflow solution for their customers on the Audatex estimating platform. It's fully integrated into the GM MyPriceLink system." Kris Mayer, General Director, Wholesale Channel, Customer Care & Aftersales, General Motors Corporation."
The solution has been in pilot since July 2015 and is ready to launch on December First. On the launch date, part prices will be updated electronically, and the real time part pricing workflow will be enabled automatically for all repairers, independent appraisers, and insurance partners.


The Oscars are tonight and I have no plans to watch, as usual. Unlike in most years, I do feel a sudden compulsion to see one movie win. My pick: Gasland deserves the Oscar for best documentary, for being (as my wife aptly noted) a cross between An Inconvenient Truth and Erin Brockovich.
There are many, many problems one can point to in our society, from the financial shenanigans that helped bring about our recent depression, to our fundamental failure to confront "third rail" political issues like the funding of Social Security or Medicare and healthcare. What makes this story about hydrofracking especially powerful is that it connects all the dots on the spectrum: corporate malfeasance, political intransigence, bureaucratic expediency (because, yes, bureaucracies can be efficient when they want to be), hard science, loose medicine, and personal tales of loss in the face of all of the above.
Meanwhile, as if reporter Ian Urbina was watching the movie with me yesterday, the New York Times is running a story today about hydrofracking and its associated problems—though as usual (in service to "objectivity") the article does what the documentary does not, in pointing out that there are always at least two sides to the story and that questions about "facts" remain.
In this case, it seems to me there are three sides: government officials who say all the right things about being watchdogs for the public good (while clearly failing); energy companies that downplay the known science (and working to hide what isn't yet known) because it's better for business that way; and environmentalists and average citizens who are witness to the devastation wrought by hydraulic fracturing, not least through the demonstrably flammable water emanating from the tap. Those scenes are a consistent highlight of the movie. Sadly, the Times neglects even to mention Gasland; this is all the more ironic given the scope of coverage the news organization is dedicating to the Oscars.
Our collective failure to confront this and other issues is more complicated than what is, or is not, reported in the news media. (Though that's certainly one good starting point for a discussion.) Where An Inconvenient Truth may have been more abstract—it's difficult to really grasp the implications of planetary changes you cannot see with your own eyes, as this recent episode of This American Life (#424, aired 14 January 2011) so ably demonstrated—Gasland is direct and in your face. A hard-to-avoid truth: your drinking water, and mine, may soon be ruined. If that's not worth fighting for, what is?
Thank you for your well written post. I also combed the article looking for a mention of the documentary Gasland and was surprised it wasn't there. Ironic too that the article was front page news in the NY Times on the day of the Oscars. Liked your insight that the newspaper does a lot of coverage on the Oscars making the slight even odder. The articles by Ian Urbina have continued with no mention of the film. Seeing is believing as they say. Good that it is front page news. Hydraulic fracturing is frightening stuff — hopefully people will become more aware of it as this is happening on such a large scale right in our own backyards.
You're right on about GasLAND and the NY Times failure to point out numerous regulatory failures which may ultimately lead to poisoning America's water nationwide.
The NYT also refuses to focus on bio-methane, a natural gas made from recycling waste, a constantly renewing resources. Europe and China are way ahead of us on this.


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Le Jingo (ou djingo) est une danse initiatique ou sacrée du peuple bassa. Cette musicothérapie est destinée à interpeller les esprits pour obtenir la guérison.

Danse rituelle
Danse rituelle exécutée dans la nuit pour exorciser ou faire des découvertes initiatiques, le danseur en transe serait en contact avec les morts.

Notes et références

Bibliographie
 Jacques Fame Ndongo, Médias et enjeux des pouvoirs: essai sur le vouloir-faire, le savoir-faire et le pouvoir faire, Presses universitaires de Yaoundé, 2006, 452 p.

Culture camerounaise
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Cutting the Cord: Is It Worth It?
By Tracey Dowdy
According to statistics from Nielsen, the average American home receives 189 television channels but watches only 17. That number sounds about right for my house – I don't know off-hand how many we get but I guarantee that we only watch a fraction of what's available.
For years, industry analysts have been warning us that television is fading and network cable is about to meet eight-track tapes, Blockbuster Video and Tower Records in the Great Beyond. But how true is that? The fact is in 2014, pay-tv subscriptions dropped a mere 125,000, or about 0.1 percent, although actual TV viewing is down about 10 percent overall.
There's no denying that costs have steadily increased, while customer satisfaction has moved just as steadily in the opposite direction. "High prices, poor reliability, and declining customer service are to blame for low customer satisfaction with pay TV services. The cost of subscription TV has been rising 6 percent per year on average — four times the rate of inflation," according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index.
For those fed up with the cost of cable, cutting the cord seems like the obvious answer, if for no other reason than paying for 189 channels and watching only 17 seems like an enormous waste of money. But, it's more complicated than a straight number of channels verses cost comparison.
Those a la carte options sound great until you do the math. Side note: JCHS class of '84, I've finally found a use for those horrible math word problems Mr. Mac Isaac used to make us do in High School. They really do have a real-world application!
"If Tracey is paying $ $85.20 (average cost based on information from the FCC) a month for both TV and Internet connectivity but wants to cut the cord and choose programming a la carte, how much will she save?"
Let's break those monthly costs:
HBO Now: $15
Showtime: $10
Hulu: $8
Amazon Prime: $8.95
Netflix: $10 (for new subscribers)
Internet: $19.99 (lowest cost offered in my area for standalone Internet connectivity)
There's a stark lack of sports access in that list and even if you add a $7 month subscription to CBS you still won't be able to access NFL games. Compare the price tag of the cable package and the a la carte streaming services and you see both have their plusses and minuses.
Some cable companies are catching on that consumers are more educated, want more options and are more fed up, so they've come up with offerings like Comcast's Xfinity Stream, an Internet-only TV service that offers HBO and the major TV networks live and on-demand for $15 per month on top of the price for stand-alone broadband service.
Verizon has gone further and introduced Custom TV as part of its FiOS TV offerings, allowing customers to choose from a variety of "channel packs" so subscribers only pay for the channels that they want to watch.
The bottom line is that you need to do your homework. Sit down with your family, talk about viewing habits and what you can and can't live without. Just make sure your calculator is part of the conversation.
Tracey Dowdy is a freelance writer based just outside Washington DC. After years working for non-profits and charities, she now freelances, edits and researches on subjects ranging from family and education to history and trends in technology. Follow Tracey on Twitter.
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Effects of ultrasonication on the production of hyaluronic acid by lactobacilli
Authors: K.C. Hor 1 , L.C Lew 1 , S.B. Choi 1 , and M.T. Liong 1
1 Universiti Sains Malaysia School of Industrial Technology 11800 USM Malaysia
Lactobacilli; hyaluronic acid; ultrasonication
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The oral administration of hyaluronic acid has been shown to improve skin health. This study aimed at utilizing ultrasound treatment to enhance the production of hyaluronic acid by lactobacilli. Among the 16 strains of lactobacilli screened, a higher production of hyaluronic acid (P<0.05) was observed from seven strains namely, Lactobacillus casei BT 2113, Lactobacillus casei BT 1268, Lactobacillus casei BT 8633, Lactobacillus casei FTDC 8033, Lactobacillus acidophilus FTDC 1231, Lactobacillus gasseri FTDC 8131 and Lactobacillus rhamnosus FTDC 8313. Upon ultrasonic treatment, hyaluronic acid concentration increased significantly (P<0.05) in all the seven strains studied. The use of ultrasonication at 100% amplitude increased the hyaluronic acid content (P<0.05) up to 51.6 % with concentrations ranging from 0.262 mg ml−1 to 0.385 mg ml−1, while an amplitude of 20% yielded a lower increase ranging from 0.227 mg ml−1 to 0.310 mg ml−1. Increasing duration of ultrasonic treatment (from 1 min to 3 min) also significantly (P<0.05) improved the concentration of hyaluronic acid in some strains. Our data demonstrated that a sub-lethal physical treatment, such as ultrasonication, can be applied to increase the membrane permeability of lactobacilli cells and subsequently increase the release of bioactive metabolites.
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L. Abrankó (Szent István University, Gödöllő, Hungary)
D. Bánáti (University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary)
J. Baranyi (Institute of Food Research, Norwich, UK)
I. Bata-Vidács (Agro-Environmental Research Institute, National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Budapest, Hungary)
J. Beczner (Food Science Research Institute, National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Budapest, Hungary)
F. Békés (FBFD PTY LTD, Sydney, NSW Australia)
Gy. Biró (National Institute for Food and Nutrition Science, Budapest, Hungary)
A. Blázovics (Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary)
F. Capozzi (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
M. Carcea (Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics Rome, Italy)
Zs. Cserhalmi (Food Science Research Institute, National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Budapest, Hungary)
M. Dalla Rosa (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
I. Dalmadi (Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary)
K. Demnerova (University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic)
M. Dobozi King (Texas A&M University, Texas, USA)
Muying Du (Southwest University in Chongqing, Chongqing, China)
S. N. El (Ege University, Izmir, Turkey)
S. B. Engelsen (University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark)
E. Gelencsér (Food Science Research Institute, National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Budapest, Hungary)
V. M. Gómez-López (Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, Murcia, Spain)
J. Hardi (University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia)
K. Héberger (Research Centre for Natural Sciences, ELKH, Budapest, Hungary)
N. Ilić (University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia)
D. Knorr (Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
H. Köksel (Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey)
K. Liburdi (Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy)
M. Lindhauer (Max Rubner Institute, Detmold, Germany)
M.-T. Liong (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia)
M. Manley (Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa)
M. Mézes (Szent István University, Gödöllő, Hungary)
Á. Németh (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary)
P. Ng (Michigan State University, Michigan, USA)
Q. D. Nguyen (Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary)
L. Nyström (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
L. Perez (University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain)
V. Piironen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
A. Pino (University of Catania, Catania, Italy)
M. Rychtera (University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic)
K. Scherf (Technical University, Munich, Germany)
R. Schönlechner (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria)
A. Sharma (Department of Atomic Energy, Delhi, India)
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M. Szeitzné Szabó (National Food Chain Safety Office, Budapest, Hungary)
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ClassNK grants AIP to NYK Line and JMU's bulk carrier design
Japan-based classification society ClassNK has granted an approval in principle (AIP) to the concept design of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) powered bulk carrier jointly developed by NYK Line and Japan Marine United (JMU).
The AIP complies with ClassNK's Rule Part GF, which follows the International Code of Safety for Ships using gases or other low-flashpoint fuels (IGF Code).
The 200,000DWT carrier is designed to offer additional cargo-carrying capacity in spite of its extra weight caused by the increased amount of equipment such as the LNG-fuelled tank and LNG fuel supply system.
The LNG-fuelled operation is set to allow the vessel to reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulphur oxides (SOx) and particulate matter (PM) emissions. It will also help it to meet Phase 3 of the Energy Efficient Design Index (EEDI) defined by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for the ship's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
"The design developed by NYK and JMU meets the industry's demand for an increase in cargo capacity while also being environmentally friendly."
ClassNK Technical Solution Department director and corporate officer Hayato Suga said: "The design developed by NYK and JMU meets the industry's demand for an increase in cargo capacity while also being environmentally friendly.
"As a classification society, we have confirmed the safety of the design and are very happy to be involved with this innovative project."
In August, ClassNK awarded an approval certification to Iino Marine Service for successfully concluding an evaluation of the EU Monitoring, Reporting, Verification (EU MRV) monitoring plan for its chemical tanker 'Chemroad Wing'.
The approval was the first of its kind to be granted by ClassNK.
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The Philippines' Department of Science and Technology is now accepting the application for its undergraduate scholarships programme. These scholarships are open to Filipino applicants in the field of science and engineering.
The aim of the scholarships is to give support to poor and needy students.
The Philippines' Department of Science and Technology is the executive department of the Philippine Government responsible for the coordination of science and technology-related projects in the Philippines and to formulate policies and projects in the fields of science and technology in support of national development.
Course Level: The scholarship is available for the undergraduate degree.
Study Subject: The scholarship is awarded in the field of basic sciences, engineering, other applied sciences, and science and mathematics teaching.
Other DOST-SEI priority courses P5,000.00/mo.
Nationality: Filipino applicants can apply for the scholarships.