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I am not the type that forwards on meaningless circulars, joke emails and get rich through attending this course for just $999.
But having read this recent blog post by (the direct marketing legend that is) Mr. Drayton Bird, I felt compelled to pass it on. To read the original post in its entirity, please click here.
Frankly, having seen what's happened here, I think it makes eminent sense and is not just scaremongering – though it is scary. I am old enough to remember hiding in a bomb shelter during the second world war. Juval Aviv was the Israeli Agent upon whom the movie ' Munich ' was based. He was Golda Meir's bodyguard, and was appointed to bring to justice the Palestinian terrorists who took Israeli athletes hostage and killed them during the Munich Olympic Games. In a lecture in New York City he said things we all need to know — but that the U.S. government – or any other – has not yet revealed.
He predicted the London subway bombing on the Bill O'Reilly show on Fox News stating publicly that it would happen within a week. O'Reilly laughed, and mocked him saying in a week he wanted him back on the show. Within a week the attack took place. I remember that day very well. Juval Aviv gave intelligence (via what he had gathered in Israel and the Middle East ) to the Bush Administration about 9/11, a month before it occurred. His report specifically said they would use planes as bombs and target high-profile buildings and monuments.
Congress has since hired him as a security consultant. Now for his future predictions. He predicts the next terrorist attack on the U.S. will occur within the next few months. Forget hijacking airplanes, because he says terrorists will NEVER try and hijack a plane again as they know the people onboard will never go down quietly again. Aviv believes our airport security is a joke – that we have been reactive rather than proactive in developing genuinely effective strategies. For example:
1) Airport technology is outdated. We look for metal when the new explosives are made of plastic.
2) Some idiot tried to light his shoe on fire. Because of that, now everyone has to take off their shoes.
3) A group of idiots tried to bring aboard liquid explosives. Now we can't bring liquids on board. He says he's waiting for some suicidal maniac to pour liquid explosive on his underwear; at which point, security will have us all traveling naked! (See my post last week).
Every strategy used is reactive. We only focus on security when people are heading to the gates. Aviv says if a terrorist attack targets airports in the future, they will target busy times on the front end of the airport when / where people are checking in. (Remember the Glasgow bomber?) It would be easy for someone to take two suitcases of explosives, walk up to a busy check-in line, ask a person next to them to watch their bags for a minute while they run to the restroom or get a drink, and then detonate the bags BEFORE security even gets involved.
In Israel, security checks bags BEFORE people can even ENTER the airport. Aviv says the next terrorist attack in America is imminent and will involve suicide bombers and non-suicide bombers in places where large groups of people congregate. (i.e., Disneyland, Las Vegas casinos, big cities (New York, San Francisco, Chicago, etc.) and it will include shopping malls, subways in rush hour, train stations, etc., as well as rural America (the hinterlands ( Wyoming , Montana , etc.).
The attack will be characterized by simultaneous detonations around the country (terrorists like big impact), involving at least 5-8 cities, including rural areas. Aviv says terrorists won't need to use suicide bombers in many of the larger cities, because at places like the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, they can valet park a car loaded with explosives and walk away. Aviv says all of the above is well known in intelligence circles, but the U. S. Government does not want to 'alarm American citizens' with the facts. The world is quickly going to become 'a different place', and issues like global warming and political correctness will become totally irrelevant. On an encouraging note, he says that Americans don't have to be concerned about being nuked. Aviv says the terrorists who want to destroy America will not use sophisticated weapons.
They like to use suicide as a front-line approach. It's cheap, it's easy, it's effective; and they have an infinite abundance of young militants more than willing to 'meet their destiny'. He also says the next level of terrorists, over which America should be most concerned, will not be coming from abroad. But will be, instead, 'homegrown', having attended and been educated in schools and universities in the U.S. (It seems to me that too many are indoctrinated in Britain, where people like the thugs who insulted dead British soldiers in Luton are not dealt with properly by idiot magistrates. In a parallel case in Saudi Arabia they'd probably have been beheaded. And incidentally, if you want Sharia law, live in Pakistan,Sudan or Nigeria).
He says to look for 'students' who frequently travel back and forth to the Middle East . These young terrorists will be most dangerous because they will speak English, will fully understand the habits of Americans; but that Americans won't know/understand a thing about them. Aviv says that Americans are unaware and uneducated about the terrorist threats we will inevitably face. America still has only a handful of Arabic and Farsi speaking people in intelligence networks, and it is critical that we change that fact SOON. So, what can America do to protect itself?
Aviv says the U.S. needs to stop relying on satellites and technology for intelligence and instead, follow Israel's, Ireland's and England's hands-on examples of human intelligence, from an infiltration perspective and to pay attention to, and trust 'aware' citizens to help.
However, the U. S. government continues to treat its citizens like babies. It thinks they 'can't handle the truth' and will panic if they understand the realities of terrorism. Aviv says this is a deadly mistake. Aviv recently carried out a security test for Congress by placing an empty briefcase in five well-traveled spots in five major cities.
The results?
Not one person called 911 or sought a policeman to check it out. In Chicago, someone tried to steal the briefcase! In comparison, Aviv says that citizens of Israel are so well 'trained' that an unattended bag or package would be reported in seconds by citizen(s) who know to publicly shout, 'Unattended Bag!' The area would be quickly and calmly cleared by the citizens themselves. Unfortunately, America hasn't been yet 'hurt enough' by terrorism for their government to fully understand the need to educate its citizens or for the government to understand that it's their citizens who are, inevitably, the best first-line of defense against terrorism. Aviv also was concerned about the high number of children in America who were in preschool and kindergarten after 9/11, who were 'lost' without parents being able to pick them up, and about schools that had no plan in place to best care for the students until parents could get there.
In New York City , this was days, in some cases!) He stresses the importance of having a plan agreed upon within your family, of how to respond in the event of a terrorist emergency. He urges parents to contact their children's schools and demand that the schools too, develop plans of actions, just as they do in Israel . Does your family know what to do if you can't contact one another by phone? Where would you gather in an emergency? He says we should all have a plan that is easy enough for even our youngest children to remember and follow.
Aviv says that the U. S. government has a plan, that in the event of another terrorist attack, EVERYONE's ability to use cell phones, blackberries, etc., will immediately be cut-off, as this is the terrorists' preferred communication source and often the way their bombs are detonated. How will you communicate with your loved ones in the event you cannot speak to each other?
If you believe what you have just read, you should send it to every concerned parent, guardian, grandparents, uncles, aunts, whomever. Besides sharing this via e-mail, he suggests you discuss it with whomever it makes sense to. Make contingency plans with those you care about. Better that you have plans in place, and never have to use them, than have no plans in place, and find you needed them.
He ends rather frighteningly with: If you choose not to share this, or not to have a plan in place, and nothing ever occurs — good for you! However, if something does happen, and even more, it directly affects you and your loved ones, then this will haunt you forever.
Iain G. Morrison is a senior marketer in the British Tourism Industry. And hopes the 'war on terror' is resolved peacefully. And quickly…
Tags: common sense marketing, drayton bird, drayton bird blog, Iain G. Morrison, Iain Morrison VisitBritain, Juval Aviv, terror threat, us terror attacks


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Q: How do I retrieve a DNS resource record by hostname I am trying to retrieve a SoftLayer DNS resource record by hostname.
I have tried 2 different methods.
First URL is
https://api.softlayer.com/rest/v3/SoftLayer_Dns_Domain_ResourceRecord/getObject.json?objectMask=mask[domain]&objectFilter={"resourceRecord":{"host":{"operation":"dsn-p01"}}}

This returns RC 500, MSG "Internal Server Error", CONTENT '{"error":"Object does not exist to execute method on. (SoftLayer_Dns_Domain_ResourceRecord::getObject)","code":"SoftLayer_Exception"}'
My suspicion is that it is looking for teh DNS resource record ID, which I don't have.
My next attempt was using this URL:
https://api.softlayer.com/rest/v3/SoftLayer_Dns_Domain/getByDomainName/dsn-xxx.com.json?objectMask=mask[resourceRecordCount;resourceRecords]&objectFilter={"resourceRecords":{"host":{"operation":"dsn-p01"}}}

This returns the domain records and all the resourceRecords associated with the domain.
How can I retrieve a single SoftLayer resourceRecord by hostname?

A: This example may help you:
https://[username]:[apikey]@api.softlayer.com/rest/v3/SoftLayer_Account/getDomains?objectMask=mask[resourceRecords]&objectFilter={   "domains": {     "resourceRecords": {       "host": {         "operation": "myHostTest"       }     }   } }

Method: GET

EDIT:
Also if you know the dns_domain_id, you can try the following:
https://[username]:[apikey]@api.softlayer.com/rest/v3/SoftLayer_Dns_Domain/[dns_domain_id]/getResourceRecords?objectFilter={"resourceRecords":{"host":{"operation": "myHostTest"}}}

Method: GET

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The 'Humber Keel' was the most common type of vessel plying the larger rivers using a large square sail for propulsion. On the smaller rivers and later the canals propulsion started with man power then horse drawn until steam power came along, but the same low draught keel without the sail or with a mast which could be lowered was used so as to navigate the river with bridges.
The rivers Swale and Ure of North Yorkshire runs south to Boroughbridge thence to Linton where it takes on the name Ouse. Still travelling southward to Nun Monkton the Ouse is joined by the rivers Nidd and then the Foss at York. Passing through the city it runs by Naburn and is joined by the river Wharfe and passes Cawood winding its way to Selby. Thence joined by the river Derwent at Barmby on the Marsh then to Airmyn and the river Aire and finally into the Humber passed Goole at Faxfleet.
In 1699 an Act of Parliament concerning the Trent was passed 'An Act for making and keeping the river Trent in the counties of Leicester, Derby, and Stafford navigable'. The Trent runs from Stoke on Trent, Nottingham, Newark and Gainsborough to Trent Falls and the Humber.
The source of the river Aire is near Malham, Settle it travels south to Cold Coniston thence to Skipton, Bingley and Shipley. The Aire then passes the remains of Kirkstall Abbey to Leeds. From Leeds the Aire runs east to Temple Newsam where it joins the Calder near Castleford and passes through Fryston Hall, Ferrybridge, Knottingley, Beal, Haddlesey, Weeland, Snaith, Rawcliffe until it joins the Ouse near the village of Airmyn.
'The Yorkshire Ouse'. Baron F. Duckham. Published by David and Charles.
'The Humber Ferries'. Alun A. D'Orly. Publisher by N.V.N.G.R.
'The Aire & Calder Navigation'. Peter L. Smith. Publisher Wakefield Historical Publications.
'Exploring the Yorkshire Ouse'. Alison Waite. Published by Countryside Publishing Ltd.
'Life in the past around Snaith'. Snaith Historical Society.
'A History of Transport Through Selby'. David G. Lewis.
'Ferries Across the Humber', by Kirk Martin. ISBN: 9781783831029.
'The Passage over the River Hull. The Story of Wawne Ferry' by Martin Limon. Now available for Kindle download from Amazon.
George Beaumont who died whilst serving aboard the Steam Packet 'Queen' in Hull.
George Beaumont who was a Ferryman on the Ouse.
George William Beaumont who was a Mariner on the Seas.
Willie Beaumont Fireman on Tom Pudding Tug used on Aire & Calder.
Thomas Phillipson who was Ferryman on the Trent at Owston Ferry.
Charles Whitehead who served on 'Whisper', 'Jane Davies', 'Gamaliel', 'Margaret', 'A.D. Gilbert', 'Hyperion', 'Albatross', 'Pearsons' , 'Brighton' , 'Contess of Devon', 'J. Perian'.
John Law of Knottingley, Master of 'Margaret' of John Ward, Kilpin Pike.
Benjamin Mummery, Master of 'Salvage' Steam Tug, owned by the Goole & Hull Steam Towing Co. Ltd.
John Edwin Mummery, Master of 'Goole No. 4', Steam Tug, owned by the Goole & Hull Steam Towing Co. Ltd.


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Q: Getting a 400 Bad Request error code in Angular 5 POST Call I have an ionic app through which i'm calling a rest service with a POST method. I am sending a large string of base64 data to the server. Everything works fine if i send the request through Postman. But, when i send it through the App, it gives me a 400 Bad Request error.
This is my angular provider code :-
 uploadPic(bugImage : any){
    const headers1 = new HttpHeaders();
    headers1.append('Content-Type', 'application/json');

    return this.http.post(this._global.LocalserviceURL + 'ReportaBug', JSON.stringify(bugImage),{headers : headers1}).map(result => result).catch(this.errorHandler);
  }
  errorHandler(error: HttpErrorResponse) {
    return Observable.throw(error.message || "Sever Error");
  }

and this is how i am using the provider method :-
onBasicUpload(e: any) {
    this.imgpov.uploadPic(this.test).subscribe(res => {
      console.log(res);
    })

I've looked online and it says to send headers too. I guess i'm sending appropriate headers. How do i get this working?

A: I find out the root cause should be the Content-type haven't been updated in your request header.
Try to use
const headers1 = new HttpHeaders().set('Content-Type', 'application/json');
like Angular HttpClient doesn't send header

A: You need to see the 'content-type headers'
headers: new HttpHeaders( {
      **'Content-Type': 'application/json'**,
      'Authorization': 'Basic ' + token
    } )

Or

headers: new Headers({'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'

So based on Requested content-type you need to add those headers.


Truck drivers who haul goods to and from the ports in Long Beach, Los Angeles and San Diego began an "informational picket" the morning of April 27 in response to a long-simmering labor wages dispute involving the Teamsters and four Southern California drayage companies.
The four companies picketed during the day were Harbor Rail Transport, which is based near Los Angeles; Long Beach-based Intermodal Bridge Transport; Pacer Cartage, which has offices in San Diego and in Los Angeles County; and Pacific 9 Transportation, which has offices in the LA County cities of Carson and Long Beach.
The protest is the latest in a series of job actions that the truck drivers, supported by the Teamsters, have taken against harbor-area trucking firms. There was also a series of short-term strikes and pickets at the LA and Long Beach ports in 2013-14.
The truckers have contended that they should be classified as employees by the companies they work for, rather than independent contractors. The reclassification would possibly mean increased wages and health benefits. For years, the Teamsters union has worked to gain employee status for the drivers so they'd be eligible to join the union.
Of the estimated 500 drivers associated with the four companies, about 200 walked picket lines Monday morning and more were on hand during the afternoon for secondary picketing at port terminals.
Terminals at all three ports remained opened Monday morning, a point that Port of Long Beach Chief Executive Jon Slangerup wanted to make clear.
The Harbor Trucking Association, which represents trucking companies near the ports, said last week when it was becoming clear when the possibility of picketing was rising, that the pickets would come at a "horrible" time, since some ports are still trying to dig out from a backlog of cargo containers built up last fall and winter during a labor dispute between terminal operators and longshore workers.
The Teamsters did not initially make it clear how long the picketing would last, but previous demonstrations at the LA and Long Beach ports lasted anywhere from one to three days.


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Home Life Fashion Akon's Wife to Invest US$12m in Uganda Music & Fashion
Akon's Wife to Invest US$12m in Uganda Music & Fashion
One of celebrated rapper Akon's wives, Rozina Negusei is in Kampala to promote Uganda's music and fashion with $12 million (about Shs 44 billion) investment boost.
"Looking for a hub, Africa Hollywood home; if we do entertainment whether movie, music award, every year, Uganda can become the home of entertainment industry," she said.
Rozy as she's fondly known is said to have travelled to Uganda with a group of Turkish investors from LCB Worldwide a multinational company who invests in host countries points of entry to conduct Prevention Solutions to combat pathogens which could lead to pandemics.
Rozy who is the president/ chief executive officers Zanar Entertainment, Entreeg Records and Entreeg Investment group, is a serial entrepreneur, having previously founded successful ventures in the entertainment and fashion industries. With a drive to succeed and an ambitious personality, Rozy got her foot in the music industry at a very young age, first as a Casting Director then Producer for music videos, collaborating with well-known artists like Jay Z, Usher, P. Diddy, and many more.
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Q: how to display content of variables of file1 to file2 in python i want to display content of list of file1 to file 2 in python
I am just providing a sample code in that file1 have a list and a variable. I just wanted to display content of that list in file2 by importing. the code is giving an error
from file1 import list1,p
ImportError: cannot import name list1
my code is :
file1:
if __name__ == '__main__':
    list1 = ['a','b']
    p = 123
    print list1
    print p

file2:
from file1 import list1,p
if __name__ == '__main__':
    list2 = ['p','q']
    pb = 321
    print list2
    print pb
    print list1
    print p

A: in file1 you have if __name__ == '__main__': but since file1 is imported, that's not true in this case.  Perhaps something like this for file would be more appropriate:
list1 = ['a','b']
p = 123
if __name__ == '__main__':
    print list1
    print p

It seems that in your case the print statements are only there for debugging in the case that file1 is invoked directly.  But list1 and p must be defined to be imported, in which case the print statements probably aren't supposed to run (I'd assume from your code).

A: Just remove the if statement:
file1.py:
list1 = ['a','b']
p = 123

file2.py:
from file1 import list1,p
print(list1) #output: ['a', 'b']

A: I would make your list1 and p functions instead of just variables (see below):
file1.py
if __name__ == '__main__':
    list1 = ['a','b']
    p = 123
    print(list1)
    print(p)

def list1():
    list1 = ['a','b']
    print(list1)

def p():
    p = 123
    print(p)

And then in your second file call them like so:
file2.py
from file1 import *
if __name__ == '__main__':
    list2 = ['p','q']
    pb = 321
    print(list2)
    print(pb)
    list1()
    p()

You could also more simply just do this instead:
list1 = ['a','b']
p = 123
if __name__ == '__main__':
    print(list1)
    print(p)

Hope this helps!

A: In file1, instead of having if __name__ == '__main__' you should use if __name__ == 'file1'. This is because when you are importing this file in file2, the __name__ of file1 is not __main__ instead it is the name of the file which is file1.
So, having something like this will help:
file1:
if __name__ == 'file1':
    list1 = ['a','b']
    p = 123
    print(list1)
    print(p)

file2:
from file1 import list1,p
if __name__ == '__main__':
    list2 = ['p','q']
    pb = 321
    print(list2)
    print(pb)
    print(list1)
    print(p)

Output, when running file2:
['a', 'b']
123
['p', 'q']
321
['a', 'b']
123

You can remove the brackets from the print statements as I am using Python3 instead of Python2.
But using __name__ == 'file1' is redundant in file1.


I've made a guest appearance at Constance, as curator of this month's mixtape. Click my feet to listen, and follow the Mixtape link to check out the whole series, which is pretty great. A list of songs can be found below.
The Sylvers : What's it all about?
Apologies also for the lull in posts. I've been busy taking apart mechanical watches and trying to pull together a performable set of songs, with the intention of making solo outings this summer.
This entry was posted on April 15, 2011 at 11:50 am and is filed under General, Misc. + Etc..	You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.


Angie Bailey has been at IWU since 2011. She has been a nurse for over 25 years and an educator for 10 years. The 25 years of nursing practice have been with IU Health in various units and positions including ICU and labor/delivery. As a result of circumstances, she experimented with nursing education. After one semester of teaching clinical, she was "hooked." She is passionate about preparing the next generation of nurses.
Angie is the simulation specialist for the pre-licensure division of nursing. Her areas of content expertise include maternal/newborn and critical care nursing. She is interested in equipping students to be successful in nursing school.


India's most anticipated events of 2019 — General Elections of Lok Sabha is knocking our doors! The prominent parties standing for the elections, party leaders and representatives have a busy schedule organizing campaigns and convincing people to vote. While the media is busy capturing all events starting from press conferences to any gatherings, and putting it in front of public, the public is deeply engrossed with latest news and developments.
The phenomenal growth in real time data tracking and analyzing techniques has inspired data scientists to visualize and predict sentiments, build real-time models to predict the winners, etc.
Trust me , the most exciting part of it is capturing the information online from all sources and predict in real time with highest accuracy. The great challenge in this scenario is the accuracy and ever increasing length of date getting flooded from all sources every second. With the current challenges in view, I decided to use few Deep Learning ML techniques to predict moods using Twitter data.
Describe deep learning algorithms, LSTM, Bi-directional LSTM, Bi-directional GRU, CNN.
Train these algorithms using contextual election corpus as well as pre-trained word embeddings to predict sentiments of electing parties.
Comparing the accuracy and log loss of different models.
We started our sentiment classification technique with Google's pre-trained Word2Vec model that represents words as vectors, built on the basis of aggregated global word-word co-occurrence statistics from a corpus. The Word2Vec model, trained by Google predicts words close to the target word with a neural network to represent a linear substructures of the word vector space.
As we represent each word with a vector and a sentence (tweet) as an average of its words (vectors) to illustrate its sentiment, it becomes obvious to train the word vector with different moods to aid in the classification and prediction process. As such, Word2Vec is trained with different RNN models.
A recurrent neural network (RNN) is a sequence of inter-linked artificial neural network where connections between nodes form a directed graph along a sequence. They are particularly known for processing data related to sequence : text, time series, videos, etc where the output at any given instant t is affected by the output at previous instant t-1 along with the input at t.
We will see how RNN based models (LSTM, GRU, Bi-directional LSTM) perform with an external embedding which has been trained and distilled on a very large corpus of data as well as with an internal embedding, where a part of the contextual corpus has been considered for training.
Basic RNNs suffers from vanishing and exploding gradient problems for which LSTM based networks have evolved to handle this problem.
Auto-encoders are a special type of RNN known for compressing a relatively long sequence into a limited, fixed-size, dense vector. They are well known for classifying textual sentiments and hence used here for the same purpose for training and predicting mood categories for election tweets.
An auto-encoder attempts to copy its input to its output through an encoder and decoder architecture. The dimension of the middle-hidden layer is lower than that of the input data. Thus, the neural network is designed to represent the input in a smart and compact way in order to reconstruct it successfully.
The AutoEncoders used here follow simple Sequnce2Sequence architecture built from an input layer followed by encoding LSTM layer, an embedding layer, decoding LSTM layer, and a softmax layer. Both the input and the output of the entire architecture are vectorized representation of the tweets and their labelled sentiments. Finally, the output of the LSTM is passed through softmax activation to represent the sentiment category.
Helping to preserve a constant error, by continuous learning and back propagation through time and layers.
LSTMs contain gated cell that controls flow of information. Gated cells remain responsible for information read, write and storage. They remain primary decision makers to retain cell state information (input gate), to determine the amount of cell state to pass on to next neural network layers (output gate) and amount of existing information from memory that can be forgotten (forget gate).
Gates in LSTMs contain analog information ranging from 0 to 1 through sigmoid activation functions. The analog information flow in gates facilitates back propagation to happen through multiple bounded nonlinearities.
LSTM solves vanishing gradient problem by keeping the gradients steep enough, therefore training relatively short batches with high accuracy.
The below figure shows how word embedding can feed an input sentence to LSTM. The LSTM layers takes into consideration previous hidden state to extract the key feature vectors that determines the sentiment of the sentence.
GRU is just a slightly modified version of the LSTM to capture the dependencies between time instances adaptively.
Absence of a memory unit like LSTM makes it incapable to control the flow of information like the LSTM unit.
GRU functions with "reset" and "update" gate. The reset gate remains located between the previous activation and the next candidate activation to allow forget from previous state. The update gate decides how much of the candidate activation to use in updating the cell state.
Possesses fewer parameters and thus may train a bit faster or need less data to generalize.
Falls short to LSTM in processing larger datasets where LSTMs have shown to perform better.
The source code below shows how to build a GRU with a single hidden layer and classify tweets using "softmax" classifier and "Adam" optimizer.
Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks (BRNN) connects two hidden layers of opposite directions to the same output, thus increasing the amount of input information available to the network. This architecture facilitates the output layer to get information from past (backwards) and future (forward) states simultaneously.
Divide the neurons of a regular RNN into two directions, one for positive time direction (forward states), and another for negative time direction (backward states). This facilitates information inclusion from both past and future of the current time frame.
Output of two states remain disconnected with the inputs of the opposite direction states.
For forward pass, forward states and backward states are passed first, then output neurons are passed.
After forward and backward passes are done, the weights are updated.
CNN used for sentiment prediction using pre-trained word embeddings is composed of 1D convolution layers and 1D Global Max Pooling layers with 128 filters.1D convolution layer in the network performs convolutions (feature mapping) over the ordered embedded word vectors in a sentence using filter size of 5, sliding over 5 words at a time.
Attention mechanisms allow neural networks to decide which vectors (or words) from the past are important for future decisions by considering them in context to the word in question. In this process, it filters important and relevant chunks of information, and force hops in parts of the sequence that is not relevant to the final goal or task. Such relationships among words and connection to neighboring words can be represented by directed arcs of a semantic dependency graph.
Further, an attention mechanism takes into account the input from several time steps, distributes attention over the hidden states by assigning different weights, or degrees of importance, to those inputs. For a fixed target word, the first task is to loop over all encoders' states to compare target and source states to generate scores for each state in encoders. A softmax is then introduced to normalize all scores, which generates the probability distribution conditioned on target states. At last, the weights are introduced to make context vector easy to train.
The principle advantage of attention mechanism lies in the context vector's ability to take all cells' outputs as input to compute the probability distribution of source, providing the decoder an ability to represent global information, instead of a single hidden state.
The word2vec tool takes a text corpus (list of tweets) as input and produces the word vectors as output. It first constructs an unique vocabulary set from the training text data (list of tokenized tweets) and then learns vector representation of words, representing n-gram features that aids in sentiment classification process. The process is known as word embedding as used in pre-trained word embeddings, the only difference being the training process takes place using election tweets instead of pre-trained data. We used Keras to convert positive integer representations of words into a word embedding by an Embedding layer.
CNN used for sentiment prediction is composed of 1D convolution layers and 1D pooling layers over a series of 4 layers, with 32, 64, 128 and 256 filters respectively in each layer.
1D convolution layer in the network performs convolutions (feature mapping) over the ordered embedded word vectors in a sentence using filter size of 3, sliding over 3 words at a time. This allows considering at 3-grams to understand how words contribute to sentiment in the context of those around them.
After each convolution, we add a max-pool layer to extract the most significant elements and turn them into a feature vector. Further, we also add a regularization of 20% to ensure the model does not overfit. The resultant tensor of varying shape is concatenated into one big, single columned vector through flattening. The long feature vector is then used by dense layer with software activation to yield a resultant classified output.
The neural network architecture (each of LSTM, GRU, Bi-directional LSTM/GRU) is modeled to 20000 most frequent words, where each tweet is padded to a maximum length of 2000. The first layer is the Embedded layer that uses 128 length vectors (each word is tokenized with Keras's Tokenizer) to represent each word. The next layer is the LSTM layer with 256 memory neurons. Finally, the results are fed to a single output Dense layer with 8 neurons and a softmax activation function to predict the associated mood.
The model yields 99.58% accuracy over 5 epochs with a batch-size of 128 .
In this post, we reviewed deep learning methods for creating vector representations of sentences with RNNs, CNNs and presented their effectiveness in solving a supervised sentiment prediction.
With glove pre-trained word embeddings, Bi-directional LSTM and Bidirectional GRU with Attention Layer perform the best, while Auto-encoder model, performs the worst both in case of BJP and Congress.
With Word Embedding matrix solely trained with election context tweets increases accuracy of models (LSTM, GRU, Bi-directional LSTM/GRU) to almost 99.5%. But CNN model performs the worst, with 50% accuracy.
However each of these models can be further improved using extensive tuning of hyper-parameters, different epochs, learning rates and addition of more labelled data for minority classes. Further altering the neural network architecture by increasing or decreasing the number of neurons and hidden layers might give added improvements.
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A CAR FIRE forced officials to close one lane of the M6 on Easter Sunday, just hours after another vehicle had been engulfed by a massive blaze.
A VIRGIN ATLANTIC jet faced a collision at 14,000ft (4,267 metres) with two drones as it was approaching Heathrow Airport to land, sparking fresh fears over the dangers of remote-controlled aircrafts.
NIGEL FARAGE is the second most-favourite person to replace Theresa May as leader of the Conservative Party among Tory councillors, a shock poll has found.
PRINCE HARRY was spotted arriving alone at the splendid St George's Chapel in Windsor for the Easter Service on the Queen's 93rd birthday as Meghan Markle remained at home ahead of her royal baby's birth.
MEGHAN Markle and Prince Harry are expected to miss today's Easter service as the Duchess of Sussex's baby is due any day now.
MEGHAN MARKLE and Prince Harry called Queen Elizabeth II "Granny" as they celebrated the monarch's 93rd birthday with a touching message on their newly-launched Instagram account.
PRINCE HARRY took the "unprecedented step" of breaking the unwritten royal rule of "never complain, never explain" to protect Meghan Markle from racial attacks and the press scrutiny, a royal biographer said.
PRINCE WILLIAM teased his brother Prince Harry for still being single in his 30s and often called him "gooseberry", a friend of the Duke of Sussex said.
THERESA MAY is facing another no confidence vote as senior Tory MPs are discussing changing the party's rules surrounding leadership challenges to oust her as soon as possible.


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Girls Swim Team Wins State Title
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Kami Boutotte, Author
Wrapping up their season, the girls swim team won the state title at the UIL State Swimming and Diving Championships at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center Sat., Feb. 16th.
"Everyone deserved it," senior Kaitlynn Sims said. "We worked really hard for it and really wanted it."
Over 30 different teams from across Texas competed at the meet, and Montgomery outscored them all. The Lady Bears finished with a score of 186, while Magnolia scored 159, Friendswood scored 150 and Austin Johnson scored 149.
"After the last event, we all walked off the bulkhead and started bawling," freshman Kaitlyn Weightman said. "We were all hugging each other and jumping around."
Many of the girls won first place in relay events. Seniors Valerie Brilanti, Kelli Curington, Sims and junior JoJo Daspit took the gold for the Girls 200 Medley Relay with a time of 1:47.39. Then, Curington, Sims, Daspit and Weightman won first in the Girls 400 Freestyle Relay with a time of 3:29:57. Curington, Weightman, junior Haley Nelson and sophomore Kendall Wilson also placed 7th in the Girls 200 Freestyle Relay with a time of 1:40:01.
"The relays were probably the best part of all," Sims said. "Winning the relays was definitely better than winning individually."
Not only did the girls win relays together, but they also won individual events. Sims broke the state record for the Girls 500 Freestyle, with her time of 4:39:73. The second place time was 18 seconds slower. Daspit won the Girls 100 Freestyle with a time of 50.41.
"We've grown closer since freshman year, and I think that contributed to our success at state, with us all supporting each other and cheering for each other," Sims said. "I think that really helped us."
Even though they did not win first prize, several girls did place near the top of their divisions. Sims took the silver in the Girls 200 Freestyle with 1:47.10, and Weightman placed 13th with 1:55.32. Daspit placed 4th in the Girls 50 Freestyle in 23.61. Junior Morgan Whitaker placed 16th in the Girls 100 Butterfly.
"They're amazing, and I've never had a group like this," coach Dale Villemez said. "They're like extra daughters to me, so it's just really gratifying to watch them come out here and perform like I knew they could do."
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EditorialDecember 7, 2020
2021 VW Golf GTI – Still the Ultimate Hot Hatch?
The hot hatchbacks are often noted as the real killer of the British sports car. When they first emerged on the scene, they offered the same performance and driving thrills as a lightweight, finely-tuned British sportscar, but they mixed it with practicality, usability, and reliability. And the car that best represented all that hot hatchy goodness was the original Golf GTI. Over the years, however, the GTI became bigger, uglier and put on more and more eight. And although with every new generation VW said they have gone back to the basics, that has never been the case. With that in mind, let's have a closer look at the new 2021 VW Golf GTI and see how this one measures up to that original.
It would be unfair to expect the latest GTI to be very similar to the original, what with all the safety and emission regulations new cars these days have to contend with. But a true successor to a legend can always capture the essence of what made the original great through clever engineering and packaging. There have been numerous examples of such cars, like Mazda MX-5. In terms of outright performance and day-to-day usability, there is no doubt that the new kid eats the oldtimer for breakfast. But greatness is about more than just power and luxury.
The 2021 Golf GTI is, by any standard, a remarkable performance machine. It does not go overboard with power like most others performance cars today – a positive point as far as being loyal to the original recipe is concerned – but it does not want for power, either. With a 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbocharged petrol engine that churns out 245 PS and 370 Nm, the car sprints from 0 to 62 mph in just over six seconds; not lightning quick, but certainly quick enough to be plenty of fun. As for the top speed, it is irrelevant even to those who track this car, but it can reach its 155 mph limit without breaking a sweat.
What makes the Golf GTI more fun that its more powerful rivals, though, is how that power is put to use in combination with a lightning fast 7-speed DSG transmission, a trick differential, and a chassis sorted out by some of the best engineers in the business. Again, one cannot doubt the efficacy of these systems working in tandem. But bear in mind, the original GTI had none of these fancy tech, and yet it was a hoot and half to throw around, even on the trip to the supermarket. This is where the new GTI loses the spirit of its ancestor. We're talking about the electromechanically adjustable running systems such as the XDS electronic differential, the new locking differential and optional adaptive dampers. While they are no doubt great inventions, they don't necessarily contribute to the car's fun factor. A simpler set up with a well-tuned regular suspension would have resulted in more play in the chassis, would have kept the weight down, and would have overall made the GTI closer in terms of driving feel to that brilliant first effort.
Then again, the new Golf GTI has to have those unnecessary and unnecessarily complicated features if it wants to remain competitive in today's market. And for what it's worth, the car hides its tech in terms of raw driving dynamics a lot better than most other rivals. We just wish VW would offer a striped-down version with all the tech and luxury features taken away for the purists – a sort of Golf GTI RS, if you will…
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You've got to read this if you haven't already.
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thanks for recommending this book. You should make a list of good books in your Resources section.
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Dudley Weldon Woodard
born: October 3, 1881 Galveston, Texas.
died: July 1, 1965
A.B. (1903) Wilberforce University; B.S. (1906) University of Chicago; M.S. (1907) University of Chicago
Ph.D. Mathematics (1928) University of Pennsylvania
thesis: On Two-Dimensional Analysis Situs with Special Reference to the Jordan Curve Theorem ; advisor John R. Kline
There is little or no information about Dudley Weldon Woodard's early childhood. That period was very difficult for Blacks who were seeking an education (see Plessy vs Ferguson). However, there are quotes attributed to Woodard himself that stated "I do not recall feeling disadvantaged while growing up." This can possibly be attributed to the fact that Woodard's father had a good job that was considered prestigious at the time; a job with the U.S. Postal Service.
Woodard, from all indications, was a brilliant individual and his intellectual curiosity was probably supported by his family. Upon completing his early education in Texas, Woodard attended Wilberforce College in Ohio, receiving a bachelor degree (A.B.) in mathematics in 1903. Woodard then attended the University of Chicago where he received a B.S. degree and an M.S. degree in mathematics in the years 1906 and 1907 respectively. After receiving his M..S., Woodard taught mathematics at Tuskegee Institute (now University) for seven (7) years [1907 - 1914] and on Wilberforce faculty for six (6) years [1914-1920] after which he joined the mathematics faculty at Howard University in 1920. At Howard, he was not only a professor of mathematics but was selected Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1920-1929). Woodard devoted his entire professional life to the promotion of excellence in mathematics through the advancement of his students, teaching and research.
In the early 1920s, Woodard began taking advanced mathematics courses during the summer sessions at Columbia University. It was during this period that he became recognized as one of the gifted mathematicians in the nation. In 1927, Woodard took scholarly leave from Howard and spent a year at Penn, working under the direction of John R. Kline. Woodard received the Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania on June 28, 1928, becoming the thirty-eighth (38th ) person to receive a Ph.D. degree from from the University of Pennsylvania; more significantly, Woodard became the second African American to earn a Ph.D. degree in mathematics.(the first was Elbert Cox in 1925) Woodard, and his wife had a son who joined the faculty at Howard .
In the area of research, Dr. Woodard published three papers; his masters' thesis, "Loci connected with the Problem of Two Bodies" "On Two Dimensional Analysis Situs with Special Reference to the Jordan Curve Theorem" [Fundamenta Mathematicae, 13 (1929), 121-145], and "The Characterization of the Closed N-Cell" [Transactions of the American Mathethematics Society 42 (1937), No. 3, 396 - 415]. His second publication appears to be the first research paper published in an accredited mathematics journal by an African American.
Dr. Woodard established the M.S. degree program in mathematics in 1929, guaranteeing Howard's mathematical program as the pinacle for studying mathematics among the Historically Black Universities and Colleges. He was the thesis supervisor for many of Howard's M.S. degree students. He also established a mathematics library at Howard. He attracted Elbert Cox to join him in 1929 and he established and sponsored several other professorships and many scholarly seminars in mathematics. Dr. Woodard's students included W.W.S. Claytor, George Butcher, Marjorie Lee Browne, Eleanor Green Jones, Jesse P. Clay, and Orville Keane.
W.W.S. Claytor was the most promising student in the inaugural year of Prof. Woodard's new graduate program at Howard in 1929. Both Claytor and Butcher also went to the University of Pennsylvania and earned the Ph.D. degree in mathematics under Prof. J. R. Kline. Among his colleagues and students, Woodard excelled and was very popular as professor and as an administrator. Additionally, he was apparently highly respected by those who knew him in the mathematical sciences community. Deane Montgomery, former president of the American Mathematical Society and the International Mathematical Union described Woodard as, "an extremely nice man, well-balanced personally." Leo Zippin, who was an internationally known specialist in Woodard's field, said that he was "one of the noblest men I've ever known." Dr. Woodard was not only a brilliant mathematician, but a man of high intelligence and dignity; he enjoyed life in spite of his racial environment. He used the phrase, "black is beautiful" in the 1930s; he often ignored the "colored" signs and visited any men's room of his choice. He also ate at many "nice" restaurants and enjoyed the theaters of his choice in New York. He and his family once moved in what had been an all-white neighborhood because it was aesthetically nice and it was near Howard.
Woodard retired in 1947 and died July 1, 1965 in his home in Cleveland Ohio.
The first research paper published in an acredited mathematics journal by an african american is the first of two papers by Dudley Weldon Woodard, On two dimensional analysis situs with special reference to the Jordan Curve Theorem.
Woodard, D. W., Loci Connected with the Problem of Two Bodies.
Woodard, D. W., On two dimensional analysis situs with special reference to the Jordan Curve Theorem, Fundamenta Mathematicae 13 (1929), 121-145.
Woodard, D. W., The characterization of the closed N-cell, Transactions of the American Mathematics Society 42 (1937), no. 3, 396--415.
For other details on Woodard see the University of Pennsylvania's excellent Claytor and Woodard Website.
references: [Houston 2001], [Kenschaft 1987] [Newel et, al], [Taylor], [Donaldson], [Donaldson & Fleming]
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Teacher Struck By Bus At Springfield Middle Talks With Smokey
According to the school's principal Dr. Grant Bell, She was in a lot of pain…
Smokey Barn News November 5, 2013 Springfield, Tenn. SEE PDATES BELOW
A Springfield Middle School teacher was hit by a bus in the parking lot of the school and subsequently transported to Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville. According to the school's principal Dr. Grant Bell, Ms. Mary Slow 48 of White House was in a lot of pain "We don't know how significant it is right now but we are very concerned"
UPDATE: Mary Slow Chats With Smokey
11:30PM Thursday November 7, 2013
Ms. Mary Slow spoke exclusively to Smokey this morning from her hospital bed in the trauma center at Vanderbilt medical center in Nashville. Ms. slow went over her injuries with us, she was hit pretty hard, perhaps harder than anyone may have thought. She will definitely be in the healing process for some weeks and it will be months before she's back to 100%.
Her injuries include, nine fractured ribs, multiple fractures to her pelvis (which she is scheduled for surgery to have a screw placed in to stabilize one of the larger fractures), she also has a fractured hip cup, dislocated shoulder, a minor spinal fracture at T7, a lacerated knee, a concussion, and a partial pneumothorax (collapsed lung). It's now easy to understand why Mary was in so much pain after the accident.
Mary said the bus was stopped and had just finished loading. "The thought that went through my head was, by the time he closes the door and pulls out I'll already be across. The next thing I knew I could hear the bus, I turned and it was right there. There was nothing I could do" Ms. Slow said.
After the impact the driver did get the bus stopped fairly quickly because "I didn't end up under the bus", Mary said. "I'm not angry with the bus driver, accidents happen, I'm not interested in persecuting the guy, at this point my only concern is getting well" Mary is still in a lot of pain, it's difficult for her to breath because of all her broken ribs. The rib pain was enough that Vanderbilt gave her an epidural to help her deal with the pain so she could breath a little easier.
Mary said she has a splint on her pinky finger and a "really banged up hand, but they said it's not broken." The loss of skin on her knee and hand was significant. Mary said she will likely carry permanent scarring. Mary's an avid fitness person, she told us that she just ran a 5k. Her
husband Kelly told Smokey Mary's also an avid motorcyclist and loves riding her blue 2005 Ninja 500. So needles to say, Mary is in pretty good shape which probably helped her fair a little better than some. Mary said she told her husband that "As soon as I saw the bus, the thought honestly went through my head, I'm dead".
Mary was taking it all pretty well, she really seemed to have a great attitude and even joked about her final injury, five of her fingernails were broken. Mary and her husband Kelly's first thought was to try to keep the severity of
her injuries quiet but rumors quickly spread over Facebook. She wanted to chat with Smokey and tell her story because, as she said it "If it's going to be out there, I want the truth to be out there".
On Thursday two teachers came from the school with a laundry basket full of cards, gift cards, a banner signed by the students and a quilted prayer shawl. Springfield Middle school even had a moment of silence for Mary.
Mary told Smokey that she's scheduled for surgery later on today and she'll be happy to provide us updates on her progress. Smokey would like to say thank you to Mary again for taking the time to chat with us even as she lay in a hospital bed in pain.
UPDATE: Friday Nov. 8, 2013
The surgery went well. One screw was inserted into the back of Mary's pelvis for the largest break. There are several other breaks to the pelvis including the ball socket. The surgeon indicated in pre-op that the bones were in a good position and he may not have to do anything with the front two fractures, so all that was required was one screw.
The school system is taking this accident very seriously, on Wednesday the Robertson County Schools transportation department did a reenactment of the accident in hopes of learning something to help prevent this kind of an accident from happening in the future.
As more updates become available on Mary or this story generally we will bring it to you.
Jim Ball reporting
Earlier UPDATE:
Driver Charged 8:17PM Wednesday November 6, 2013
Patrick Pendleton (26), the driver of the bus that struck a teacher as she walked to her car is being charged with; failure to exercise due care and failure to yield to a person in a cross walk, according to Lt Watkins, with the Springfield Police Department.
The charges follow an accident on Tuesday evening when the bus Pendleton was driving with 20 students struck Ms. Mary Slow as she was heading to her vehicle in the parking lot of Springfield Middle school. Mr. Pendleton has been a bus driver with the Robertson County School System since 2008. Pendleton's court date has been set for January 13 2014.
As of 6:00PM Wednesday evening Ms. Mary Slow is still at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville in stable condition according to a Vanderbilt media representative.
Reported earlier:
Mr. Pendleton has been a bus driver with the Robertson County School System since 2008. s. Mary Slow is a 7th grade Math teacher at Springfield Middle School, since July 2012.
According to the police report, the driver of the bus, Patrick Pendleton (26), was picking up (After School Program) students when he struck Ms. Slow as she walked to her vehicle in the parking lot. The bus was carrying 20 students at the time of the wreck, but no one on board was injured. The wreck is still under investigation by Springfield Police.
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Laura Maynard November 7, 2013
Mrs. Mary Slow is the mother-in -law of my nephew Charlie. I met her at the wedding of her daughter Alex just a year ago. She is a fantastic and caring lady. This accident will not keep her down long. It is the prayer of all her extended family for a swift and complete recovery.
So Sad November 7, 2013
We have known Patrick from childhood. He has a truly kind and giving heart. We don't know the teacher but have only heard good things about her. Such a tragic accident. Praying for all families.


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Ernesto Neto in Sharjah
While Culture Moves Us Apart, Nature Brings Us Together, 2013. Installation in the public space in the old city of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Ernesto Neto about his work "Enquanto a cultura nos separa, a natureza nos une" (While Culture Moves Us Apart, Nature Brings Us Together), created for the Sharjah Biennial 11 in 2013.
[Text published in the catalog of SB11]
This piece came to me when I was in the Sharjah desert. I saw a mirage that I couldn't understand - I don't know if it was a human figure with some kind of veil or an architectural construction with a dome in the centre.
Later that night, I had a dream. I was in the desert, and the whole landscape was just sand. It was night time, and a pink star became brighter and brighter, until the day came, and I realised that the star was a person. I guess a woman, coming down from the sky. She landed on her feet in the desert, and then she was slowly swallowed by the sand, until her heart had touched the ground. I was just a spirit - I had no body, no eyes, no nose - but she had two strong and gentle eyes, and suddenly she blinked and disappeared, like a gas on the wind. Left behind was a transparent net, as if still covering her head and shoulders. I began to move, rolling like a stone, getting closer to the structure. Hanging in the centre of the dome was something like a flower stigma, from which water fell continuously, creating a pond in the desert.
Suddenly, an egg of ice emerged from the lips of the stigma, and - plop - it fell down into the pond. Thirteen hours later there appeared a grass never seen before on this planet, and little by little it began to grow, spreading out faster and faster. Other vegetables began to pop up: a tree here, a bush there, forests, fruits, flowers and later, some animals - little ones, then bigger ones, birds, mammals, insects. After the silence of the vast sand, the landscape became full of colours and sounds. Before sunset, the alive grass touched me - I mean, it touched my spirit - and suddenly I had a body, brown curly hair, brown eyes. I'd always felt that I was a man, but until then I had no body and senses; I didn't understand what a body was, and how life could be so good. Like all the other animals, I began to run around. There were many little lakes, and it was so good to taste the water! The pond was so big now that I couldn't see the other side, and it was full of seaweed, anemones and fish. The reflection of the sun on the water made me jump in, and I discovered that unlike the other lakes, this one was salty. When I turned back, I saw a woman with green nails looking at me. Before I could talk to her, I was woken up: "Good morning, sir, we are arriving. Please bring your seat to an upright position and fasten your seat belt."
Please see the photos and the video of
>> Ernesto Neto setting up his work
* 1964 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; lives there.
1997 Escola de Artes Visuais Pargua Lage, Rio de Janeiro
Ernesto Neto draws inspiration from the biomorphic and modernist abstraction of Alexander Calder and Constantin Brancusi, as well as from the conceptual, social and performative installations of his Brazilian predecessors Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica. His works incorporate a combination of commonplace and organic materials - stockings, spices, sand and shells among them - engaging the senses and inviting visitors to interact both with the artwork and with each other.
Neto's recent exhibitions include solo shows at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (2012); Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico (2011); Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2011); Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2010); and Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway (2010). In 2001, he represented Brazil at the Venice Biennale, Italy.
© Text by Ernesto Neto, published in the catalog of Sharjah Biennial 11, 2013. Re-published with permission of the Sharjah Art Foundation.
© Photos, video: Haupt & Binder
Enquanto a cultura nos separa, a natureza nos une (While Culture Moves Us Apart, Nature Brings Us Together). 2013
Crochet with polyester rope, ice, stones, plywood, grass, fiberglass, water, clay and wood connectors, and loam
486 x 1,024 x 1,024 cm
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation
Presented at Sharjah Biennial 11
9 image pages, more info
Ernesto Neto in Buenos Aires
Walkable installation: O Bicho Suspenso na Paisajem. Inaugural show at the Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires.
Sharjah Biennial 2013
13 March - 13 May 2013. Curator: Yuko Hasegawa. SAF President & Director: Hoor Al Qasimi. More than 100 participants.
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Jérome Fleuriet, Leah Bakst, Michael Mustari; Response of pursuit cells in MST after eye position perturbation by microstimulation of the Superior Colliculus (SC). Journal of Vision 2017;17(10):277. doi: 10.1167/17.10.277.
Primates use the fovea to maintain high quality central vision of the world. When a target is moving, smooth pursuit eye movements (SEM) keep the fovea of both eyes on target. A large proportion of neurons in area MST discharge during SEM. These smooth pursuit cells (SPC) carry visual and extraretinal signals. We recorded 27 SPC in MST of a macaque monkey during SEM trials interrupted with a saccade that was elicited by electrical microstimulation (MS) in the SC. The MS consisted of a train of pulses (0.1ms, 400Hz, 40ms) at low currents (< 40mA). The tracking behavior was characterized by 1) an evoked saccade that brought the eye outside the target path, 2) a SEM following this abrupt change in eye position and 3) a corrective saccade. We quantified the ratio of activity after the evoked saccade, before the corrective saccade and during the corrective saccade. A majority of neurons (63%) presented ratios between 0.8 and 1.2 after the evoked saccade but ratios less than 0.8 during the corrective saccade. Among this subpopulation, 59% actually had a decrease of their firing rate before the corrective saccade. On average, this drop of activity occurred 54 (±11ms) after the evoked saccade offset or 109 (±9ms) after its onset. Interestingly, in 90% of cases the latency of this drop of activity was sensitive to the delay between the evoked and corrective saccades. Finally, 22% neurons did not present a drop of activity during these intervals while 15% presented a decrease from the evoked saccade offset. This eye position perturbation showed that the activity of a majority of MST smooth pursuit cells was not interrupted by a direct corollary discharge from the saccadic system. However this activity seems inhibited by the occurrence of a corrective saccade even though not always time-locked to it.


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In lean times, people tap a renewable resource: their own plasma
About a half-dozen people are sitting on gray plastic chairs in the waiting room at CSL Plasma center in Spokane Valley. An American flag is on one wall. A DVD is starting to play on two TV sets. The people ignore the film that is showing — Intolerable Cruelty.
Clayton Lawrence is reading a book and waiting to sell plasma for cash.
"I'm between jobs," says the 25-year-old father of three. "Things have been kinda rough."
He is pretty upbeat. In addition to the $200 or so that he makes selling blood plasma twice a week, he supports his family working day labor, typically in construction. When times were better, he had a steady construction gig.
"I worked on the roof at the WinCo across the street," he says.
His wife stays home with their three children: a 5-year-old and 7-month-old twins.
The amount of money he earns from plasma sales varies depending on how much he weighs. CSL pays according to weight, and the more you weigh, the more you get paid.
You have to weigh at least 110 pounds to sell plasma at CSL. You can give plasma twice in a seven-day period. CSL pays everyone $15 for the first donation in a week. For the second visit in a week, you get $25 if you weigh less than 150 pounds, $30 if you weigh 149 to 175 pounds and $35 if you weigh more than that.
Lawrence says he is between the lightest and second group. "I'm trying to put on weight," he says, grinning.
There are three places to sell plasma in Spokane. CSL, a multi-national Australian company, owns two of them. In addition to the Valley location on Sprague, they own Spokane's oldest plasma donation site at 104 W. Third Ave.
The third location, at 510 W. Francis St., is owned by International Bio Resources (IBR), a company with corporate offices in Louisiana and Georgia. Zach Blankenship is the manager of that plasma center, which opened Jan. 6. The Spokane location is one of more than 30 plasma centers IBR operates.
IBR pays more than CSL — $40 each for the first two times you donate, plus a $20 referral fee if you get someone else to donate. After the first two times, they pay $25 and $35, regardless of weight. You can only donate twice a week, as it takes a couple of days for your body to replenish plasma. Both CSL and IBR put a mark on a donor's finger that is visible under black light to ensure people don't donate too often.
Blankenship says there are about 900 donations a week at the IBR center. "The goal is to get to 1,000 by next month," he says. He says they will top out at 1,500 a week. He says IBR makes about a 30 percent profit on selling plasma.
Petra Garza, 39, is waiting to donate for the second time at IBR. She is a single parent with three sons, 18, 16 and 4. She moved back with her parents because of the economy. She is a waitress but only works 20 hours a week. She is looking for more.
"The job market is hard right now," she says. It's been a year since she's had a 40-hour job. "I've been a waitress a long time, and even the tips are down."
Lynn Amsden, 57, has been selling plasma off and on since the 1980s. He says he has only come to the IBR center a couple of times.
"I don't do it all the time," he says. However, with winter coming, he wants to prepare his mobile home for the cold weather and donating plasma gives him some money to do it. He gets about $900 a month from Social Security. He says, for him, the economy has been down since 1995, when he broke his back. "It's hard to make it on Social Security."
The process of donating plasma involves being tested for several diseases, including HIV, hepatitis and syphilis.
The process takes about 45 minutes to an hour once it starts. A needle is put in your arm and blood withdrawn. The blood goes to a separator, where the plasma — the liquid portion of whole blood — is removed and stored. Then the blood is returned to your body. The process is repeated several times in order to get about two pints of plasma.
Christine Kuhinka, manager of corporate communications for CSL, says that people are compensated for their time, not the plasma. It takes more time for larger people to donate more plasma than smaller people, which is why they get more money, she says.
The price paid for people's time at CSL dropped over the summer. Kuhinka says it had little to do with supply and demand or the weak economy.
"The rates vary for a variety of reasons," she says, including infrastructure improvements. CSL operates 65 centers, with another eight opening soon.
Kuhinka wouldn't say how many people donate at the Spokane locations. She says more people have been donating for several years.
"The industry has seen a steady increase in the number of people donating," she says. That started in 2005, and she says it's hard to correlate the increase in donors to the economy.
CSL manufactures a variety of products using plasma. The products are used in transplant medicine, critical care and immunology and for coagulation.
Kuhinka says 90 percent of the people donating are repeat donors. Many people donate plasma for altruistic reasons as much as for money. "They get that they are saving lives," she says.
Altruistic or not, the drop in payment wasn't appreciated by the donors. Eric Bretz, 43, was on his way to donate at the downtown CSL center.
"The rates suck, they really do," he says. He says the price drop meant about $70 a month less for him. However, he's unemployed and has little choice but to continue.
Outside of IBR on Francis, a group of men gather and chat. Andrew Pauley, 25, stands among of them. He says he can't find work and donates plasma to make ends meet.
"It's money," he shrugs, adding, "still, it's selling bits of myself."
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An 18-year-old boy reported with a history of insect bite while sleeping. He noticed pain in his hand, which woke him up, and mild local redness. However, no bite marks were seen. Thirty minutes later, he developed progressive difficulty in breathing and after 6 h became unconscious.
At presentation, Glasgow Coma Scale was M2E2V2. He was intubated immediately on arrival. External ocular movements were normal by Doll's maneuver, and pupils were reacting to the light. Deep tendon reflexes were all brisk, and plantar responses were bilaterally extensor.
MRI revealed multiple T2- and fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) hyperintense foci in the corpus callosum and bilateral cerebral white matter, with associated microhemorrhages. Electroencephalography revealed background slowing in theta to delta range suggestive of diffuse encephalopathy.
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Vietnam Veterans Day Event 3/29
American Legion Post 234 and the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Peter Puget Chapter present a Vietnam War 50th Anniversary Commemoration event in honor of Vietnam Veterans Day.
The program includes readings from local authors who have written about the Vietnam War era, video interviews with Vietnam War era veterans, and the one act play "Seldom is Heard" performed by the Edmonds Driftwood Players.
Veterans and their families from all military branches and all eras of service are welcome to attend as well as the general public.
$5 per person donation at the door
Location: 22909 - 56th Avenue W, Mountlake Terrace
VA Thanks to Vietnam War Veterans
On March 29th, VA pauses to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. We are forever grateful for the heroism, devotion and courage of the more than 9 million Veterans like you who served during the Vietnam War.
Every day, VA's employees honor your service by keeping the promise President Abraham Lincoln made, to care for those "who shall have borne the battle" and for those they leave behind. We serve you and we honor you not only with words, but also with deeds by providing world-class benefits and services like health care,disability compensation, and memorial care with VA cemeteries and private burials.
As we pay tribute to your service, we encourage you to find out more about the benefits that may be available to you and your loved ones. Explore VA today.
District Spring Conference
The District Spring Conference schedule is available by clicking here. If you have questions or need more information, don't hesitate to contact:
Thomas Conner
Department Administrator
Department of Washington
3600 Ruddell Rd SE | Lacey, WA 98503
Phone 360.491.4373 | Fax: 360.491.7442
American Legion Post 234 Scholarship
In memory of Joshua & Lucille Brandingham since 1997
The deadline for submitting an application is 3/31/2016
Scholarships may be awarded to students who are seniors or graduates of any high school located within the city limits of Mountlake Terrace, Washington or whose parents, grandparents, or great grandparents are or were a member of American Legion Post 234 and who have been accepted for attendance at any accredited university, college, or vocational-technical school.
Application and requirements are available by clicking here.
For more information, contact the Post 234 Scholarship Committee Chairperson, John Crawford.
VFW Open House
VFW Open House
The Open House will run from 12:00 PM (noon) to midnight Saturday, April 2, 2016.
Membership Tables will be manned from 12:00 PM (noon) to 4:00 PM.
The VFW will open at 11:00 AM Saturday.
All veterans will be welcome and directed to the appropriate membership table.
Bellevue College to host U.S. Army Jazz Ambassadors
Free concert brings big band swing, bebop, Latin, popular tunes, and more to Bellevue
The U.S. Army Jazz Ambassadors will play a free concert Tuesday, April 5 at 7 p.m. in the Courter Family Athletic Pavilion on the Bellevue College (BC) campus.
The Jazz Ambassadors is the official touring big band of the United States Army. The 19-member ensemble has received great acclaim both at home and abroad performing big band swing, bebop, Latin, contemporary jazz, standards, popular tunes, Dixieland, vocals, and patriotic selections.
"This band is truly amazing. We are thrilled to host them on our campus," said professor and Jazz Band Director Jim Sisko. "Bringing musicians of this caliber to Bellevue College is immeasurably beneficial for our current and future students and really points to the Eastside as a home for the arts."
The band has appeared in all fifty states, Canada, Mexico, Japan, India, and throughout Europe. Notable performances include concerts at international jazz festivals in Montreux, Switzerland; Newport, Rhode Island; Toronto, Canada; Brussels, Belgium; and the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands. In 1995, the Jazz Ambassadors performed in England, Wales, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Czech Republic in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II. The band has also been featured in unique joint concerts with major orchestras, including the Detroit and Baltimore symphonies.
WHAT: Jazz Ambassadors of the U.S. Army Field Band performing big band swing and more. An exciting evening of fun for the whole family. Band members will also be available for an audience meet-and-greet after the performance.
WHEN: Tuesday, April 5, from 7 – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: Bellevue College- Courter Family Athletic Pavilion, Building G
PARKING AT BC: Free evening parking and Metro Transit route 271 stops on the Bellevue College campus
TICKETS: The concert is free, but reservations are required through Brown Paper tickets:
Veterans History Project reaches 100,000 milestone
The Library of Congress' program to preserve veterans' wartime memories has archived its 100,000 collection.
The Veterans History Project collects veterans' first-person narratives from World War I through the more recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Officials are highlighting the 100,000 milestone while renewing the call for volunteers to help veterans tell their personal stories, so that future generations can better understand troops' experiences in war. The congressionally mandated project is in its 16th year.
About 20,000 of the collections are available online at the Veterans History Project (http://www.loc.gov/vets/)
A simple search of the website shows that more than half of the veterans' collections — nearly 58,000 — come from those who served in World War II. The next highest — 18,432 — come from the Vietnam War. There are 2,252 collections from Iraq veterans and 1,029 from Afghanistan veterans.
"There are more than 22 million veterans still living in the United States, and it is our hope that even more volunteers will come forward to interview the veterans in their lives and communities and also submit original photographs, letters and other correspondence to be preserved for researchers now and to inspire future generations," said Veterans History Project director Robert Patrick in a statement.
Project officials point to the online VHP field kit (http://www.loc.gov/vets/kit.html), which provides instructions, a list of interview questions and required forms. They encourage individuals, businesses, high schools, colleges and universities, congressional offices, houses of worship and other organizations to participate.
The website also offers a how-to video.
SOURCE: Military Times article at http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/benefits/veterans/2016/02/25/veterans-history-project-reaches-100000-milestone/80805994/
March 14th Meeting
Take care of your feet!
The guest speaker for the March meeting will be Summer from Tina's Hair Salon who will give a presentation on the importance of foot care. Don't miss this opportunity to learn helpful tips and ask questions.
2nd District Spring Conference
Here are the details for the 2nd District Spring Conference on April 16th at Post #163 Friday Harbor.
Morning ferries from Anacortes, the morning of April 16th:
Departs: 08:30, Arrives: 09:55
Social Hour Starts: 10:00
Memorial Service: 11:00
Joint Meeting: 12:00
Lunch: 13:00 - $10 for a pulled pork sandwich, choice of coleslaw or potato salad, and dessert.
Meeting: 14:00
RSVP: No need to pre-pay for meal but please contact and give number of people coming. 360-378-3052 or email: roehome@yahoo.com
Hotel Information:
Discovery INN - 1016 Guard Street, Friday Harbor, WA. 98250 - Phone: 360-378-2000
Deluxe Queen - $111.20, Double Queen - $127.20
Friday Harbor Suites
680 Spring Street West, Friday Harbor, WA 98250
$115 (may have to mention The American Legion Conference for price)
Jerry Hughes
2nd District Commander
2nd District Round Table
The District Round Table this month will be held at Post #91 in Burlington at 13:00 on Sunday, the 20th of March. Those who are interested are also invited to come a little early as the Burlington Post will also be serving Breakfast that day from 08:00 to Noon.
For those who don't already know, our District Service Officer is Shannon Plummer from Post #163 in Friday Harbor. Mr. Plummer is trying to establish communications with all service officers within the 2nd District and would also like them to attend the Spring Conference in April. If your Post has active service officers who are taking claims, please have them contact him at his email: plumdog01@gmail.com
In preparation for our Spring Conference on April 16th at Friday Harbor (Details to be sent out soon), I am requesting that all Posts who wish to have the names of their deceased members read at the Memorial Service please submit those names to me as soon as possible so that I can add them to the list. Again, these are members who have passed since April of last year.
If any Post has an upcoming event that they would like me to send out to the rest of the District, please feel free to email it to me and I'll send it out.
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Under Armour had an awful year. Will 2018 be better?
by Paul R. La Monica @lamonicabuzz December 13, 2017: 10:56 AM ET
5 stunning stats about Under Armour
Under Armour has been under attack from Wall Street. The stock has lost more than half its value in 2017, making it the worst performer in the S&P 500. And this year's plunge follows a more than 30% drop in 2016.
It's a stunning fall from grace for the sneaker and athletic apparel company, which only a few years ago was enjoying strong momentum and making life difficult for giants Nike and Adidas.
But declining sales in the United States, disappointing sneaker launches, a wave of executive departures and a challenging retail environment have left Wall Street skeptical that Under Armour (UA) can turn things around anytime soon.
Simeon Siegel, an analyst with Nomura Instinet, argues that the company overextended itself in the past few years by entering too many new categories like tennis, fishing and golf instead of paying more attention to its key running and training segments.
"Under Armour likely grew too far, too fast," Siegel said. "It's fair to credit CEO Kevin Plank with some phenomenal growth. But Under Armour needs to cut ancillary products, pull back and focus on the core business."
Under Armour has also made a big push into basketball with a line of shoes endorsed by Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry. But it may have tried too hard to market Curry as a worthy successor to Michael Jordan, who still is a big seller of sneakers for Nike.
The problem, analysts say, is that the Curry sneakers are great for playing basketball but are not fashion lifestyle shoes the way Air Jordans were in the 1980s and 1990s during the peak of Jordan's NBA career.
Related: Under Armour is in serious trouble
Even Curry's teammate Kevin Durant, who has a shoe line for Nike, has made fun of them.
Making matters worse, Curry debuted the latest iteration, the Curry 4, during the NBA Finals in June. But the sneaker wasn't available in stores until October.
"Under Armour was too late with the Curry 4 launch," said Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Sam Poser. "Not having the shoes out when they were top of mind was a mistake. The timing was so messed up."
Under Armour also suffered from bad PR earlier this year that may have hurt its reputation with younger customers (and athlete endorsers) after Plank agreed to join President Trump's now defunct manufacturing council.
Plank said in an interview with CNBC that "a pro-business president is something that is a real asset for the country." Curry responded by telling The Mercury News that he agreed with Plank -- but only "if you remove the 'et' from asset."
Related: Why Under Armour's CEO had to ditch Trump
Lance Allega, Under Armour's vice president of investor relations, spoke with CNNMoney and highlighted that the company will "evolve into an operationally excellent company with financial discipline."
Allega added that the company will be more innovative and "laser-focused" on how it brings new products to market.
"We already are a great brand. We need to become a great company," he said.
Allega is one of several new executives at Under Armour. He joined in January from The North Face and Vans owner VF Corp (VFC), and also has worked at Nike.
But there have been several other changes in the leadership ranks this year that may also be making Wall Street skittish.
Co-founder Kip Fulks said in October he was taking a sabbatical. The company's footwear chief, head of women's and kid's apparel and chief marketing officer also announced they were leaving after the company reported weak third-quarter results.
The dramatic shakeup in the world of retail is obviously hurting the company, too.
Related: Air ball! Nobody's buying expensive sneakers
Sporting goods giants Foot Locker (FL) and Dick's (DKS) are struggling and their stocks have both plunged as a result. Cabela's was sold to Bass Pro Shop. The Sports Authority, Gander Mountain and Sports Chalet have all gone bankrupt in the past two years.
That's one reason why Under Armour has tried to find new retail partners, such as Kohl's (KSS) and DSW (DSW), in order to lessen its reliance on struggling sporting goods chains.
However, it's also worth noting that Under Armour's rivals aren't suffering as much from the problems in retail.
Adidas (ADDYY) continues to thrive. Nike, the worst performing Dow stock in 2016, has enjoyed a renaissance this year, with shares rising nearly 25%. Skechers (SKX) has rebounded from a rough 2016, too.
Victor Ahluwalia, an analyst with CFRA Research, said he's concerned that Under Armour will have no choice but to slash prices to win back customers. And that could further hurt profit margins.
Ahluwalia said he noticed bigger markdowns on Under Armour products over the Black Friday shopping weekend than there were for Nike.
Related: Slam dunk for Adidas as sales top Nike's Jordan line
He said it is encouraging to see Under Armour's international business growing rapidly, but sales from outside the U.S. are not yet big enough to move the needle for the whole company.
Still, Ahluwalia recently upgraded the stock. The reason? If Under Armour doesn't turn things around soon, there could be calls for the company to get taken over.
"Under Armour could go private or be sold to another company. That will keep a floor on the stock price. But 2018 will still be a tough year," Ahluwalia said.
CNNMoney (New York) First published December 13, 2017: 10:56 AM ET


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Alberta government delays U of C's exceptional tuition increase
By Sophia Lopez, July 30 2021—
This week, the University of Calgary's Students' Union (SU) announced that the government of Alberta has decided to delay the massive tuition increases proposed by the university due to a lack of proper student consultation.
In an interview with the Gauntlet, SU President Nicole Schmidt discussed how she agreed with the decision made by the government, as she felt that the university was not being transparent enough with students during the consultation period which started in March.
"In my opinion there was a lack of depth of consultation, and also the time frame that the university actually set out for the consultation period was very limited in nature. So there was really very limited student engagement in the consultation process," she said. "The consultations were barely more than information sharing with students."
The tuition increases that U of C planned to implement in the 2022 fall semester consisted of increasing tuition up to 30 per cent for undergraduate students in Engineering and Medicine — a plan which was approved by the Board of Governors this June.
Schmidt explained how such an increase isn't fair for students considering how much they already have to pay for their university education — and this increase was not mentioned to students until the beginning of summer break.
"That's no way to engage student stakeholders who already pay a lot of money for their education," she said. "Something that was really lacking in the spring when they began their consultation process was the information sharing. The university wasn't transparent with the size of these tuition increases, but also the details of these proposals."
After trying for months to stop the exceptional tuition increases from happening, Schmidt and the SU are beyond happy to see the government responding to the lack of proper student consultation done for the proposal of tuition increases, and praised VP External Marley Gillies for her advocacy on the issue.
"I personally am ecstatic. I know that my colleagues at the SU are also very excited," said Schmidt. "This was a really big student advocacy win. This win came as a result of a lot of organized advocacy effort from myself, but also from VP External Marley Gillies and our communications team, and several meetings with the minister and the ministry to discuss our concerns. So this is a really big win for students and not something that you see happen everyday."
Schmidt hopes that U of C will now begin to provide more information to students regarding the improvements the university plans on making if tuition were to increase.
"One thing students haven't seen is an itemized list of program specific improvements that the university is planning to make with these tuition increases," she said. "Myself and other members of the SU haven't seen this either, so we're really hoping that the university will come forward with what they're planning to actually improve for the programs that they're increasing tuition for."
For the upcoming fall semester, Schmidt mentioned how the SU plans on advocating for a better student consultation system.
"Myself and the SU certainly believe that there must be a minimum standard set for the university to adhere to when it comes to consultation and student feedback," said Schmidt. "So we're planning to present this to the university and use a guiding document for consultation going forward, because we've seen a real lack of student feedback and student consultation on this and other issues from the university in the past year. So that's sort of our plan for next steps going into the fall."
In a statement from the university, more details were given as to when and who the tuition increases will affect if they were to be implemented.
"While we believe our consultations with students and other stakeholders were robust, we are happy to expand our efforts with the extra time given by Minister Nicolaides. If approved as proposed, these increases would go entirely into program improvement for three impacted professional programs: the Master of Business Administration, Medical Doctor and Bachelor of Science Engineering. The increases would come into effect in the 2022-2023 academic year, and would only apply to new students. Current students and those starting in the upcoming school year would not be affected. With these proposed increases, tuition costs at the University of Calgary would remain below the average of comparable institutions. We look forward to talking with the minister's office to hear more about the specifics of the submission," read the statement.
For information on the possible tuition increases, visit the U of C website. To read the full statement made by the SU, click here.
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Q Centre launches initiative to provide scholarships dedicated to the queer community
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The U of C cancels all remaining in-person exams and moves block week online
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