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Scouting Report: Cordrea Tankersley
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By: Shae Dougall
Cordrea Tankersley, CB, Clemson
6'1", 199lbs
Tape Viewed:
Clemson vs Ohio State (2016)
Clemson vs Virginia Tech (2016)
Clemson vs Troy (2016)
Nothing really stands out to me about Cordrea Tankersley, except his awesome name. As you read on, you'll find that I view the former All-American third teamer to be slow to react, stiff, upright, and not particularly good in coverage. Currently projected as a fourth round pick, I wouldn't touch Tankersley until the sixth round as a project pick. He's a press corner with a lot of stuff that needs to get coached into him. He was able to get away with his deficiencies at Clemson because of the ridiculous talent around him, but will struggle to make a name for himself in the NFL except in very specific, beneficial circumstances.
Play Recognition: 6 out of 10
Tankersley is consistently befuddled by deep routes with a lot of cuts. He might recognize the play, but it's hard to tell. I'm not confident in his chances to successfully make the leap to the NFL because his reaction time is just too slow.
Speed: 3.5 out of 5
Tankersley perplexes me. His combine 40 yard time of 4.4 should speak to excellent straight-line speed, and yet…it doesn't show up on tape, especially on deep routes. I feel like this indicates some sort of mechanical issue. He definitely seems to play a little bit stiff and upright, which isn't conducive to maintaining top-level change of direction speed at all times. Until Cordrea can get coached up, a 3.5/5 his speed score shall remain.
Mirroring: 7 out of 10
Tankersley can blanket the receiver on just about any quick route, making it difficult on them and occasionally bumping them off of the route completely. This ability scales back the longer he has to cover and deeper the route gets.
Pursuit: 3 out of 5
Takes too long to come back to the ball on any route that ends with a hitch, although he does usually make a strong, squared-up tackle in those situations. He can catch up to some guys that have burned him, but usually only when the pass is inaccurately thrown.
Man: 8 out of 15
Tankersley has a bad tendency to get beat deep. Even worse, he gets called for pass interference a lot on those plays. He has the size necessary to cover bigger receivers, but the tape indicates that he doesn't have the speed, despite his 4.4 40 yard dash time at the scouting combine. He also lacks the lower body explosiveness to go up and get the ball in jump ball situations. Finally, Tankersley allows way too much separation on off-coverage routes, failing to quickly close on the ball. This is either due to lack of recognition or lack of athleticism (or both).
Zone: 8 out of 15
Whiffed badly in some of the zone situations I watched on tape. On one play, Tankersley was so far out of position that he had to run nearly 8 yards downfield just to get to the receiver…and then he promptly missed the tackle. Simply lacks the instinct and reaction speed necessary to play effective zone coverage.
Press: 5 out of 5
I'm most confident in Tankersley when I see that he's right on the line of scrimmage. Assuming the receiver doesn't blow him off the line immediately, he'll be able to compete with them for a while using bump-and-run technique. This almost always causes enough of a problem for the quarterback's timing to be thrown off, which allows Tankersley to compete for underthrown passes, whether in zone or man coverage.
Tackle: 3.5 out of 5
I saw more than one occasion on tape where Tankersley was in position to make the tackle and made the tackle…and then there were some other times where he was in position to make the tackle and missed the tackle. So, he's basically like a lot of cornerbacks.
Ball Skills: 5 out of 5
Despite mechanical issues and slow reaction time, Tankersley sure did seem to be in the right place at the right time a lot in college. He came away with 8 interceptions with just two years of starting experience at Clemson and he consistently plays the football very well when it's not going over his head for a huge gain.
Tankersley won't be pulverizing guys in the open field too often, but he seems to have the mechanics of tackling down pat. You could certainly do worse at the cornerback position.
Play Recognition: 2.5 out of 5
Like on passing plays, Tankersley is often slow to react to a running play. Curtis Samuel made him look foolish on a cutback in the college football playoff, catching Tankersley out of position and blowing by him for a huge gain.
Willingness: 5 out of 5
On every running play I saw, Tankersley showed the want-to that a lot of cornerbacks don't possess at any level. He consistently ran towards where the ball was going, even when it wasn't close to his side of the field.
Injury: 8 out of 10
Missed a couple of games due to injury in 2016, but that might have been due to Clemson's coaching staff not wanting to risk him aggravating something that was pre-existing (read: resting him because they were playing mediocre South Carolina and something called South Carolina State).
Total Prospect Rating: 68/100
Pro Comparison: Jonathan Banks, CB, Chicago Bears
Both have the prototypical size to match up with number one receivers and absolutely lack any further abilities necessary to do so. Whether in zone or man, these players look lost more often than not, though certainly not due to their prototypical size and tantalizing athletic abilities. Banks was a second round pick, a fast-riser following a solid pre-draft season. Tankersley could follow the same path to be horribly over-drafted as teams scramble to make sense of the absolute cluster-f of cornerbacks graded between the second and fourth round.
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Commodity traders are the global economy's "last swashbucklers" – but the world is changing.
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After three mission weeks in the space of a month I felt really needy. Hearing the gospel consistently and faithfully preached made me more and more aware of my own sin and failures and at times the gospel really did seem foolishness in my eyes. Compared with the world around us, the way people live and what they worship and value, the gospel seemed so frail. And yet the amazing truth of the gospel is that the Lord will keep the needy safe, and the gospel is powerful. So powerful it recognises that humans will honour vile things over what is good. But God is still good, and still God.
So, I've been following some of the debates about this book and have been thinking about writing something myself but decided not to as I don't think I have anything very new or helpful to say on the topic that someone else isn't already saying, clearer, more concise and more helpfully! I've still not read the book, but am keen to to check it out for myself, but in the meantime, have a read of Dave Bish's reflections (he's read the book!).
He sums up my thoughts after watching the promo video and the Q and A launch session with this phrase "He constantly asks questions and rarely answers them which while provocative is a bit annoying. He asks some really good questions but I'm rarely satisfied with the choices he makes in answering them". That sums up how I feel about it – a little frustrated about what Rob is actually saying as he seems to be trying to be contraversial and evasive at the same time – the result: feeling a little bit like I'm trying to nail jelly to the wall whilst trying to work out what he's saying!


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Kolkata students shine in sports meet
The Sports Authority of India (SAI) complex bore testimony to the 'first stirrings' of Kolkata's Olympic beginnings during the inter-school sports meet. Spread over five days, 'Techno Olympica Knights 2013' broke the notion that Gen Yers in the city are always glued to social networking sites, computer games and other electronic gadgets, rather they give credence to sporting activities for imbibing life skills, including discipline and determination.
Over 650 young athletes from 32 schools across the city competed in a flurry of indoor and outdoor games like football, hockey, basketball, table tennis, badminton, discus throw, long jump, chess, hurdle race, relay race, 100 and 200 metre races from December 14 to 16. The chess was played at the Techno India campus in Salt Lake on the last day.
The students of different sporting events had already won accolades for their performance at the district, state and national level tournaments.
Holistic education
The judges and officials of the meet came from various sports bodies like Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy, Bengal Referee Association, Bengal Table Tennis Association, Bengal Hockey Association, West Bengal Basketball Association, West Bengal Badminton Association and West Bengal Athletic Association. From Sunil Gavaskar to Sourav Ganguly, the Techno India's effort to organize the first of its kind Olympic tournament in the city was lauded by famous sports personalities.
Among the participating institutions were St James' School, DPS Newtown, Hariyana Vidya Mandir, Apeejay School Salt Lake, Ballygunge Shiksha Sadan, Lakshmipat Singhania Academy, The Future Foundation School, Loyola High School, Young Horizon School, BDM International, Calcutta International School, Techno Model School, Salt Lake, Techno India Group Public Schools, Hooghly, Konnagar and Garia, to name a few.
The closing ceremony of the sports meet saw a star-studded evening on December 17 at the Techno India campus.
Eminent footballers, Sheriff Chuni Goswami and Shivaji Banerjee, Dibyendu Barua, chess grandmaster, Joanne Joria, director of The American Center, Kolkata, Bratati Bandopadhyay, a Bengali elocutionist, Jagannath Basu, recitationist, Manoshi Roy Choudhury, director, Goutam Roy Choudhury, chairman, Satyam Ray Choudhury, managing director of Techno India Group, Ashok Ranjan Thakur, vice-chancellor of Techno India University were among the distinguished personalities present on the occasion.
Equal weightage to all games
Chuni Goswami, who was present at the closing ceremony, was happy to know that football had been featured in a big way during the meet where all the sporting events were given equal importance.
The championship trophy was handed over to the students of Lakshmipat Singhania Academy, while the teams from Roynagar K S Pouro Vidyalaya and central Model School, Barrackpore emerged as first and second runners up respectively. Goutam Roy Choudhury announced that they will support the higher studies of the tourment's three most successful athletes.


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Comments: The beer will be served at the Anheuser-Busch Biergarten, which is licensed through the state. A special event liquor permit is not required.
Comments: Information was not provided on restrooms for the start/finish area. In reviewing the website, it has been confirmed that aid stations will provide restrooms by use of portable toilets. Restrooms for the start/finish area were not explained, but shall be required. This could include a combination of portable toilets with the restrooms of the Biergarten at Anheuser-Busch Brewery visitor area.
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WEB SUMMIT 2017 Day 3 – LIVE FROM LISBON
Linkilaw November 9, 2017 Business News
Forbes describe Web Summit as an event which "creates collisions between startups, investors, and others so they share insights and forge relationships" and, as we took ownership of our stand for Day 2 and launched into a thousand conversations with attendees from across the world, the unseen impact from these collisions and relationships could be game changing, for the individual as well as the collective.
This is our experience in Web Summit 2017 Day 3.
That's not to say that after a first full day of #websummit and lively evening at #nightsummit, we had emerged fully formed into the new day but, it's funny how a combination of strong coffee and bright Lisbon sunshine helps to re-fuel and re-energise.
And boy did we work that stand as attendees, investors and fellow startups from multiple nations stood, stopped, talked and ruminated about everything from Linkilaw to partnership to cross-border opportunities to the joys of congregating at this temple of tech. It was truly a day for exploration, optimism and solidarity. If you want to plug into a wave of energy, optimism and endless opportunities to chew the technology cud, then Web Summit is your kind of town.
One of our favourites for the day was meeting Anita Cedargren and her colleagues from Karma (www.karma.life) – a brilliant project dealing with the global issue of overproduction and waste of food. Karma wants to transform how and where restaurants, cafes and grocery stores can sell excess food to the market. In the meantime, they're having a great time, doing a great good – what a combination!!
Away from the stand and across to the main arena, it's just a year since we sat and tried to absorb news of the Trump victory and so, it was fascinating to have Brad Parscale, digital director for the Trump campaign, attend a Q&A session. He was arguably the key architect behind the most seismic political development in modern history and arrived to a somewhat mixed reception, revealing how Facebook drove the campaign and enabled his team to turn his candidate into a highly targeted product.
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And it wasn't just Parscale who dished out some political home truths about the new world order, former chess champion Gary Kasparov was on stage declaring that "In chess, we have fixed rules and unpredictable results. In Putins Russia, It's absolutely opposite"
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Orchestra Fuego a Passion for the Music
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GETTING TO KNOW ORCHESTRA FUEGO
It's been really important to have talented arrangers and a really solid team of energy around the music. We have a great time working together and all have such a passion for the music.
has not changed in 30 years. Salsa music in the US has really taken a back seat, but with our new invigorating sounds we have started igniting crowds with our sound.
Marc Anthony; he's passionate about what he does and love his music. He inspires me to continue with the Salsa music.
Salsa Brava…
is our title song to our second album. We are what's considered "Old School Salsa band" which basically means the Salsa beats and rhythms from the 1970's. Our music is original and invigorating. This song was written by Marcus Hernandez to showcase what Orchestra Fuego is all about.
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Our music is intoxicating and very fresh; our songs all mostly original compositions. Our band members have an amazing passion for what we are doing and it shows when we perform live.
We live in the Land O Lakes area near Tampa, Florida. Music scene in my town is basically soft rock. We have introduced Latin music to our area with sizzling Salsa, Merengue, Cha-Cha, and bachata tunes. We perform all over the Tampa, Ocala, Orlando and Gainesville areas.
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Basics
======

This tutorial provides basic usages of the C++ package through the classical handwritten digits
identification database--[MNIST](http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/).

The following contents assume that the working directory is `/path/to/mxnet/cpp-package/example`.

Load Data
--------
Before going into codes, we need to fetch MNIST data. You can either use the script `/path/to/mxnet/cpp-package/example/get_data.sh`,
or download mnist data by yourself from Lecun's [website](http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/)
and decompress them into `data/mnist_data` folder.

Except linking the MXNet shared library, the C++ package itself is a header-only package,
which means all you need to do is to include the header files. Among the header files,
`op.h` is special since it is generated dynamically. The generation should be done when
[building the C++ package]({{'/api/cpp/'|relative_url}}).
It is important to note that you need to **copy the shared library** (`libmxnet.so` in Linux and MacOS,
`libmxnet.dll` in Windows) from `/path/to/mxnet/lib` to the working directory.
We do not recommend you to use pre-built binaries because MXNet is under heavy development,
the operator definitions in `op.h` may be incompatible with the pre-built version.

In order to use functionalities provides by the C++ package, first we include the general
header file `MxNetCpp.h` and specify the namespaces.

```c++
#include "mxnet-cpp/MxNetCpp.h"

using namespace std;
using namespace mxnet::cpp;
```

Next we can use the data iter to load MNIST data (separated to training sets and validation sets).
The digits in MNIST are 2-dimension arrays, so we should set `flat` to true to flatten the data.

```c++
auto train_iter = MXDataIter("MNISTIter")
    .SetParam("image", "./data/mnist_data/train-images-idx3-ubyte")
    .SetParam("label", "./data/mnist_data/train-labels-idx1-ubyte")
    .SetParam("batch_size", batch_size)
    .SetParam("flat", 1)
    .CreateDataIter();
auto val_iter = MXDataIter("MNISTIter")
    .SetParam("image", "./data/mnist_data/t10k-images-idx3-ubyte")
    .SetParam("label", "./data/mnist_data/t10k-labels-idx1-ubyte")
    .SetParam("batch_size", batch_size)
    .SetParam("flat", 1)
    .CreateDataIter();
```

The data have been successfully loaded. We can now easily construct various models to identify
the digits with the help of C++ package.

Multilayer Perceptron
---------------------
If you are not familiar with multilayer perceptron, you can get some basic information
[here](https://mxnet.apache.org/api/python/docs/tutorials/packages/gluon/image/mnist.html). We only focus on
the implementation in this tutorial.

Constructing multilayer perceptron model is straightforward, assume we store the hidden size
for each layer in `layers`, and each layer uses
[ReLu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectifier_(neural_networks)) function as activation.

```c++
Symbol mlp(const vector<int> &layers) {
  auto x = Symbol::Variable("X");
  auto label = Symbol::Variable("label");

  vector<Symbol> weights(layers.size());
  vector<Symbol> biases(layers.size());
  vector<Symbol> outputs(layers.size());

  for (int i=0; i<layers.size(); ++i) {
    weights[i] = Symbol::Variable("w" + to_string(i));
    biases[i] = Symbol::Variable("b" + to_string(i));
    Symbol fc = FullyConnected(
      i == 0? x : outputs[i-1]
      weights[i],
      biases[i],
      layers[i]
    );
    outputs[i] = i == layers.size()-1 ? fc : Activation(fc, ActivationActType::relu);
  }

  return SoftmaxOutput(outputs.back(), label);
}
```

The above function defines a multilayer perceptron model where hidden sizes are specified
by `layers`.

We now create and initialize the parameters after the model is constructed. MXNet can help
 you to infer shapes of most of the parameters. Basically only the shape of data and label
 is needed.

```c++
std::map<string, NDArray> args;
args["X"] = NDArray(Shape(batch_size, image_size*image_size), ctx);
args["label"] = NDArray(Shape(batch_size), ctx);
// Let MXNet infer shapes other parameters such as weights
net.InferArgsMap(ctx, &args, args);

// Initialize all parameters with uniform distribution U(-0.01, 0.01)
auto initializer = Uniform(0.01);
for (auto& arg : args) {
  // arg.first is parameter name, and arg.second is the value
  initializer(arg.first, &arg.second);
}
```

The rest is to train the model with an optimizer.
```c++
// Create sgd optimizer
Optimizer* opt = OptimizerRegistry::Find("sgd");
opt->SetParam("rescale_grad", 1.0/batch_size);

// Start training
for (int iter = 0; iter < max_epoch; ++iter) {
  train_iter.Reset();

  while (train_iter.Next()) {
    auto data_batch = train_iter.GetDataBatch();
    // Set data and label
    args["X"] = data_batch.data;
    args["label"] = data_batch.label;

    // Create executor by binding parameters to the model
    auto *exec = net.SimpleBind(ctx, args);
    // Compute gradients
    exec->Forward(true);
    exec->Backward();
    // Update parameters
    exec->UpdateAll(opt, learning_rate, weight_decay);
    // Remember to free the memory
    delete exec;
  }
}
```

We also want to see how our model performs. The C++ package provides convenient APIs for
evaluating. Here we use accuracy as metric. The inference is almost the same as training,
 except that we don't need gradients.

```c++
Accuracy acc;
val_iter.Reset();
while (val_iter.Next()) {
  auto data_batch = val_iter.GetDataBatch();
  args["X"] = data_batch.data;
  args["label"] = data_batch.label;
  auto *exec = net.SimpleBind(ctx, args);
  // Forward pass is enough as no gradient is needed when evaluating
  exec->Forward(false);
  acc.Update(data_batch.label, exec->outputs[0]);
  delete exec;
}
```

You can find the complete code in `mlp_cpu.cpp`. Use `make mlp_cpu` to compile it,
 and `./mlp_cpu` to run it. If it complains that the shared library `libmxnet.so` is not found
 after typing `./mlp_cpu`, you will need to specify the path to the shared library in
 the environment variable `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` in Linux and `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH`
 in MacOS. For example, if you are using MacOS, typing
 `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH+=. ./mlp_cpu` would solve the problem. It basically tells the system
 to find the shared library under the current directory since we have just copied it here.

GPU Support
-----------
It's worth noting that changing context from `Context::cpu()` to `Context::gpu()` is not enough,
because the data read by data iter are stored in memory, we cannot assign it directly to the
parameters. To bridge this gap, NDArray provides data synchronization functionalities between
GPU and CPU. We will illustrate it by making the mlp code run on GPU.

In the previous code, data are used like

```c++
args["X"] = data_batch.data;
args["label"] = data_batch.label;
```

It will be problematic if other parameters are created in the context of GPU. We can use
`NDArray::CopyTo` to solve this problem.

```c++
// Data provided by DataIter are stored in memory, should be copied to GPU first.
data_batch.data.CopyTo(&args["X"]);
data_batch.label.CopyTo(&args["label"]);
// CopyTo is imperative, need to wait for it to complete.
NDArray::WaitAll();
```

By replacing the former code to the latter one, we successfully port the code to GPU.
You can find the complete code in `mlp_gpu.cpp`. Compilation is similar to the cpu version.
Note that the shared library must be built with GPU support enabled.

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I love this dish, because it is one that brings beautiful memories of me sitting in my friend's garden, enjoying a nice glass of Pinot Noir, along side her olive tree, with yummy crusty bread on the side, lots of laughs and a few tears. One of my favorite memories, is just watching the hummingbirds flying around and allowing ourselves to just be in the present moment.
This recipe is a wonderful alternative for a "Meatless Monday", it can also be a great vegan recipe, just omit the parmesan cheese. The flavor is in the red bell peppers, garlic, onions, basil and fennel. This is one you will want to make with your family over and over and again. If you have balls left over, please freeze them, they do great in the freezer.
1. In large deep sauce pan add the 4 cups of water. Allow it to come to boil. Add millet and red quinoa. Add the salt, pepper and garlic powder. Turn down the heat to medium low simmer, cook for 20-25 minutes. Stirring occasionally. You want a nice fluffy mash potato like texture. This makes the balls easy to roll up.
2. Add 1 tbsp of the olive oil to a sauté' pan and sauté' the garlic, onions and red bell peppers, cook for about 1-2 minutes. Add a pinch of salt and pepper to season the veggies. Add the sauté' vegetables to the mixture along with the dried basil, fennel seeds and the cup of parmesan cheese. Taste and season with the black pepper and sea salt, as needed.
slightly and roll the mixture into medium balls. You can put the balls in the fridge to harden for about 30 minutes. This will help the balls to hold together when you are browning them in the sauté pan.
4.Once the balls are firm, add the remaining olive oil in a sauté' pan and sauté' each ball until golden brown on each side on medium heat. Add goat cheese, basil and lemon zest for garnish, if you desire.
Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Saute garlic until tender.
Stir in crushed tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato puree, basil, oregano,sea salt (or to taste), organic cane sugar, red pepper flakes. Reduce heat to low and simmer for at least 40 minutes.
Serve the Millet and Red Quiona Balls on top of the Marinara Sauce.
Use pieces of basil as garnish with a little lemon zest.
Fashion!! We are always looking for what's hot on the runways. So, I will indulge that side of us, for just a moment; Retro is the thing this season, designers are getting their inspiration, once again from the 60's and 70's, but just an essence of the era, from high waist and wide- legged pans, to wide brim hats and Boho frocks. If you ask me, Boho frocks will always be in, I am just saying.
Okay, back to food. The big thing now, that's trending in food, is savory yogurts and turmeric. We have seen yogurt topped with granola, coconut, chocolate chips, honey, etc., etc. But we are also, seeing this trend of topping and mixing yogurt with savory ingredients. Now in Ayurvedic medicine ( an ancient medical system of India, which take a holistic approach to healing)has been mixing yogurt with savory ingredients as a common practice to healing, especially using turmeric. It is known to provide many health benefits, one in particular is to help with anemia. Turmeric is also the main ingredient in yellow curry, hence the curry recipes I am sharing with you today.
So, I decided to take on this trend and make a healthy dish using yogurt and turmeric. This recipe is high in protein, to be exact, it packs a whopping 27 grams of protein. It is also great for digestion, because of it's high content of probiotics. As well as, being high in potassium and b12, which provides lots of energy and good nerve health.
This recipe is super easy, high is vegetarian based protein and full of flavor. Enjoy. Remember to eat on purpose as you Set the Table with Love.
Side note: In this dish you are making the chickpeas two ways, roasted and also as a spread over the yogurt.
1 can organic chickpeas, rinsed and drained, you will use this one can, for the spread and for the roasted chickpeas, so divide the chick peas in half. Set the other half aside and prepare the roasted chickpeas first.
Blot chickpeas with a paper towel to dry them. In a bowl, toss chickpeas with olive oil, and season with red curry powder, no garlic seasoning and sea salt and cayenne pepper, to taste. Spread on a baking sheet with parchment paper and bake for 30 to 40 minutes, until browned and crunchy.
Add everything to a food processor and process until smooth, you may need more oil, if you like your spread thinner.
Add greek your to the bottom of your plate. Top with Yellow Curry spread first, then roasted chickpeas, than add garnishes and drizzle extra virgin olive oil over top the entire dish.


Many of the cooks who dreamed up dishes for The Boxcar aren't yet old enough to drive. That's because the food truck is operated by the NOCCA Institute, a support group for the local arts high school that treats cooking as a creative pursuit equal to painting, drama or dance.
"It's student supported," said Dana D'Anzi Tuohy, the chair of New Orleans Center for Creative Arts' culinary program, "it's not student-run."
The Boxcar is a laboratory that lets students turn their learning into lunch. It's typically staffed by grown-ups, but students will climb aboard and cook from time to time as interns.
"From day one," Tuohy said, "from the naming of it to the menu development, they were involved."
The truck culls many ingredients from the gardens taking shape around NOCCA. The food, though, bears the mark of the inexhaustible appetite of youth.
The Jurassic Pork II, for example, is a mound of thin french fries buried under root beer braised pork, pickled jalapeños, queso fresco and barbecue sauce. On a recent visit, even the salad with its grilled cauliflower and blackened tofu was substantial enough to keep a teenager well fueled through the afternoon.
I said: "Your lunch can launch the next generation of chefs."


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Q: "The name does not exist in the current context", C# It says my return value does not exists in the current context (accessHelper), and i can't figure out what the problem is?
Bonus question, can someone tell me what the "new" keyword does? All tutorials i've seen, it's there, but no explanation to what it does.
public AccessHelper GetAccessHelper(int id)
{
    using (SqlConnection sqlCon = new SqlConnection("Data Source = QL01; Initial Catalog = SCAM; Integrated Security = True"))
    {
        var accessHelper = sqlCon.Query<AccessHelper>("getAccessHelper", new { id }, commandType: System.Data.CommandType.StoredProcedure);
    }
    return accessHelper;
}

A: Your variable is declared inside another scope, you can't access it from a upper scope.
The new keyword initializes a collection with the variable id inside, as for new SqlConnection it calls the constructor to create an SqlConnection object with the given arguments.
public AccessHelper GetAccessHelper(int id)
{
    using (SqlConnection sqlCon = new SqlConnection("Data Source = QL01; Initial Catalog = SCAM; Integrated Security = True"))
    {
        var accessHelper = sqlCon.Query<AccessHelper>("getAccessHelper", new { id }, commandType: System.Data.CommandType.StoredProcedure);

        return accessHelper;
    }
}

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A Course in Miracles is a complete self-study spiritual thought system that teaches that the way to universal love and peace - or remembering God - is by undoing guilt through forgiving others, healing our relationships and making them holy. Emphasizing that it is but one version of the universal curriculum, it uses the language of traditional Christianity, but expresses a non-sectarian, non-denominational spirituality. Over 2-million English language copies in print. As its title implies, the Course is arranged throughout as a teaching device.
And, the supplements "Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice" and "The Song of Prayer," extensions of the Course principles which were dictated to Dr. Schucman shortly after she completed the Course itself.
The Text is largely theoretical, and sets forth the concepts on which the Course's thought system is based. Its ideas contain the foundation for the Workbook's lessons. Without the practical application the Workbook provides, the Text would remain largely a series of abstractions which would hardly suffice to bring about the thought reversal at which the Course aims.
Finally, the Manual for Teachers, which is written in question and answer form, provides answers to some of the more likely questions a student might ask. It also includes a clarification of a number of the terms the Course uses, explaining them within the theoretical framework of the Text.
The Course makes no claim to finality, nor are the Workbook lessons intended to bring the student's learning to completion. At the end, the reader is left in the hands of his or her own Internal Teacher, Who will direct all subsequent learning as He sees fit.
Helen Schucman (July 14, 1909 - February 9, 1981) was a research psychologist from New York City. Raised by Jewish but non-religious parents, Schucman had always had an interest in religion. From 1958 through 1976 she was a professor of medical psychology at Columbia University in New York.
Helen Schucman and William Thetford, Professors of Medical Psychology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City.


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Obama's $447B Don't Call it a Stimulus is Larger than the $862B Plan from 2009!
Well the leak of a $300B proposal earlier in the week was quite inaccurate, to the tune of over 50% wrong. While we are not allowed to call it a stimulus because after all stimulus is a bad word, this "don't call it a stimulus" is actually probably a bit bigger on an annual basis than the $862B plan launched in early 2009 that ran essentially over 2 years. Almost all of this $447B stimulus friendly help is for 2012.
The fiscal boost from the jobs package next year would be larger than in the first year of the 2009 economic stimulus, said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics Inc.
The economy on steroids continues. [Nov 18, 2009: Minyanville - Our Economy is on Steroids]
And as expected how will it be paid for? By some vague notion of revenue enhancements and cuts over the NEXT DECADE. Which we know never happens - a decade is 5 political cycles in the U.S.
Obama stressed that he would pay for the entire jobs package with offsetting spending cuts and increases in tax revenue over the next decade. He said he would announce the offsets by Sept. 19.
Anyhow this is a starting point - although a much larger one than expected - so I'd assume by the time its said and done something along the lines of $200-$250B might get passed. Especially since its tax cut heavy, so the GOP can buy off on it. So a great negotiating ploy to start at nearly half a trillion.
I do continue to giggle that we take money out of the already empty social security trust fund.
One thing that totally awed me was Obama used what I thought would be the GOP's line on the payroll tax cut. I literally said a year ago that the 2% payroll tax cut would be extended a year from now because (a) the economy would stink and (b) the GOP would yell that Obama is raising taxes in a time the economy can't handle it. Instead Obama used that line last night!
"I know some of you have sworn oaths to never raise any taxes on anyone for as long as you live," he said. "Now is not the time to carve out an exception and raise middle-class taxes, which is why you should pass this bill right away."
If you want details, Bloomberg has a decent story on it.
Tax cuts account for more than half the dollar value of the president's latest plan to turn the economy around, and administration officials said they believe that will have the greatest appeal to Republicans in Congress.
The centerpiece of the plan is the cuts in payroll taxes, which cover the first $106,800 in earnings and are evenly split between employers and employees. Obama would reduce the portion paid by workers next year to 3.1 percent from 6.2 percent. The rate had been cut 2 percentage points under the terms of a tax deal reached last year, and that reduction is set to expire Dec. 31.
Businesses would get the same 3.1-point reduction on taxes they pay on the first $5 million of their payroll, a limit that skews the benefit toward smaller firms. The full 6.2 percent employer contribution would be waived on the first $50 million net increase in a company's payroll.
The proposal includes additional tax credits for hiring veterans and workers who have been unemployed more than six months.
The package includes spending favored by Democratic constituencies. It would include a $105 billion infrastructure proposal for school modernization, transportation projects and rehabilitation of vacant properties. Most of the economic impact from the infrastructure spending would be next year.


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Domus Aurea for vibraphone and piano was commissioned by Daniel Ciampolini, at the time, of the the Ensemble Intercontemporain. The piece was premiered in 2001 at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris with the "Soloists of the Ensemble Intercontemporain."
(The text that follows is adapted from a text by Beth E. Levy. The full text can be found in the liner notes of the Edmund Campion/SFCMP Outside Music CD, Albany Records Troy 1037)
In Domus Aurea (2000) (Duration 13'30"), the composer took his inspiration from Geoffrey Harpham's book On the Grotesque in which the author (following Nabokov's Speak, Memory) explores "the exigencies of fantastic content, causing form to bulge and burst like a sponge-bag containing a small furious devil." More particularly, Domus Aurea meditates on the varied meanings of the word "grotesque" and the architecture of the building from which it takes its name: the "Golden House" of the Emperor Nero. Paraphrasing Harpham, Campion writes: "Shortly after Nero's death, this opulent and despised construction was covered in dirt and rubble. The structure lay undisturbed for centuries until excavations revealed the unusual and perfectly preserved frescoes that decorated the palace walls and ceilings. These bizarre ornamental drawings featured elaborate fantasies with symmetrical anatomical possibilities, small beasts, human heads, and delicate, indeterminate vegetables merged into one decorative motif. Renaissance artists including Filippino Lippi, Pinturicchio, Perugino, Signorelli (facing page), and the Chief Architect and Prefect of Antiquities at the Vatican, Raphael, studied and copied these drawings. It was Raphael who used the motif in his decorations of the Vatican Loggia. The style came to be called 'grottesche' (referring to underground caves), a word that was later to evolve into the term 'grotesque'." Today, Campion points out, grotesquerie can be found all over the buildings of Europe, stretching from the cathedrals of Paris to St. Basil's in Moscow. Equally important, the grotesque became a literary and even a psychological preoccupation. Citing French romantic writer Theophile Gautier on the role of the grotesque in nature and art, and Thomas Mann's view of the grotesque as "something more than the truth, something real in the extreme," Harpham argues that "the Grotesque is the central moment of a process on the path to emergent comprehension. . . the purgatorial stage of understanding during which the object appears as a jumble of distortion of other forms." Campion agrees, seeing in the grotesque a parallel with music. "Like the grotesque, music can be decorative, senseless, profound and revelatory, all at the same time."
Domus Aurea and Technology
Domus Aurea uses only acoustic instruments, but the composition is reliant on current computer music techniques. Methods related to spectral analysis expose pathways for combining the instruments in new and unusual ways and algorithmic processes open the doors to expanded musical materials.
A selected performance History of Domus Aurea
Domus Aurea, soloists of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Centre Pompodou, France
William Winant and Karen Rosenak, TEMPO Festival, UC Berkeley, June
Domus Aurea, The Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio, Berkeley City Club, December 9
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CNMAT
Other People Involved
Relation to CNMAT
Techniques in New Music
Dodecophonic
Subjects in Music
Rhythm and Timing
MIC: Teaching
MIC: Subjects
David Coll


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Ties That Bind: Estimating the Natural Rate of Interest for Small Open Economies
Grossman, Valerie
(Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
Martinez-Garcia, Enrique
() (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
Wynne, Mark A.
Zhang, Ren
() (Bowling Green State University)
Enrique Martínez García
Mark Wynne
Ren Zhang
This paper estimates the natural interest rate for six small open economies (Australia, Canada, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland and the U.K.) with a structural New Keynesian model using Bayesian techniques. Our empirical analysis establishes the following four novel findings: First, we show that the open-economy framework provides a better fit of the data than its closed-economy counterpart for the six countries we investigate. Second, we also show that, in all six countries, a monetary policy rule in which the domestic real policy rate tracks the Wicksellian domestic short-term natural rate fits the data better than an otherwise standard Taylor (1993) rule. Third, we show that over the past 35 years, the natural interest rates in all six countries have shifted downwards and strongly comoved with each other. Fourth, our findings illustrate that foreign output shocks (spillovers from the rest of the world) are a major contributor to the dynamics of the natural rate in these six small open economies, and that natural rates comove strongly with estimated U.S. natural rates.
Grossman, Valerie & Martinez-Garcia, Enrique & Wynne, Mark A. & Zhang, Ren, 2019. "Ties That Bind: Estimating the Natural Rate of Interest for Small Open Economies," Globalization Institute Working Papers 359, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, revised 31 Mar 2019.
Handle: RePEc:fip:feddgw:359
DOI: 10.24149/gwp359
File URL: https://www.dallasfed.org/~/media/documents/institute/wpapers/2019/0359.pdf
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Mikael Juselius & Claudio Borio & Piti Disyatat & Mathias Drehmann, 2017. "Monetary Policy, the Financial Cycle and Ultra-low Interest Rates," PIER Discussion Papers 55, Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research, revised Mar 2017.
Mesonnier, Jean-Stephane & Renne, Jean-Paul, 2007. "A time-varying "natural" rate of interest for the euro area," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 51(7), pages 1768-1784, October.
Jean-Stephane Mesonnier & Jean-Paul Renne, 2004. "A Time Varying Natural Rate of Interest for the Euro Area," Money Macro and Finance (MMF) Research Group Conference 2004 42, Money Macro and Finance Research Group.
Olivier Coibion & Yuriy Gorodnichenko, 2015. "Is the Phillips Curve Alive and Well after All? Inflation Expectations and the Missing Disinflation," American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 7(1), pages 197-232, January.
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Small Open-Economy Model; Monetary Policy; Natural Rate; Bayesian Estimation;
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E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
F41 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Open Economy Macroeconomics
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What Animals Attack Yellow Jacket Nests in the Ground?
Yellow jackets can ruin an otherwise idyllic summer day as they buzz menacingly around pools, picnics and other outdoor areas frequented by humans. Living in concealed underground colonies, you may first be aware of their presence when your lawnmower runs over the nest, disturbing its 5,000 or so residents who are each capable of delivering multiple painful stings. Some species of wildlife are undaunted by stingers and find yellow jackets a tasty treat worth digging for.
Yellow jackets prefer underground nests, sometimes moving into an abandoned animal or snake burrow. They also will nest in hollow logs, hollow walls or other easily accessible cavities, as well as protected areas such as under bushes or in tall grass. The yellow jackets construct an underground paper nest approximately the size of a soccer ball where young are nurtured to adulthood with a paste of insect protein. Adults feed on flower nectar.
Among large mammals in the United States, bears are the most likely to consistently feed on yellow jackets. Insects provide a large portion of a black bear's diet, and a yellow jacket nest provides a convenient and nutritious meal. A bear's thick coat protects it from angry swarming adults while the bear slurps up nymphs and larvae out of the nest. If you encounter bear dung when you are out on a hike and poke it apart with a stick, it is not unusual to find exoskeletons of yellow jackets that have been passed through the bear's system undigested.
While raccoons and skunks are not usually animals you care to have wandering around your property, they can be beneficial when it comes to routing out nests of yellow jackets. Like bears, skunks gain a large percentage of their dietary protein from insects and are one of the yellow jacket's main predators. Depending where you live, moles, shrews and badgers will also consume yellow jackets in their nests. In the southern states, armadillos have sharp digging claws, long burrowing noses and natural armor that equips them to eat yellow jackets.
Hornets, including yellow jackets, retire inside their colony at night, making it an ideal time for bears, skunks, badgers and raccoons to pay them a call. You can set out an "all you can eat buffet" sign of sorts by pouring some honey on the entrance to the yellow jacket's nest at night. A keen nose and insatiable sweet tooth will direct a nearby animal to quickly hone in on the honey and the high-protein meal within the nest.