This Streamer Dac looks like it could give the Cambridge 851N a run for its money both are priced the same, and feature wise it looks like this NAD might be a good choice. I'm in no super rush but plan on one of the 2 sometime soon.
I'm not sure if NAD will be at Apoxona but if need be I might find a NAD dealer in Chicago or drive up to Madison to check one of these out. I probably dont need to use all the features the NAD offers. Has anyone had the opportunity to check the C658 out? I was thinking about the Cambridge unit until I seen the reviews on the NAD.
wow, that puppy is loaded with all sorts of goodies.
Little brighter than the 851N. Nice piece Steve. They both are.
At first glace they seem pretty comparable, but I think it will all come down to what you're looking for. The 815 seems more like a streamer that could function as a preamp, and has a very serviceable DAC for those that want it.
The NAD seems like a preamp, that is focused on streaming and being a real one box solution. It seems built to be that one box solution for the growing market of powered speakers in my mind. Plus adding a phono preamp while eliminating a digital out points more towards a true one box push. MQA was a smart marketing addition, and so was using the BluOS. But no DSD, and no digital output will probably be a deal breaker for some.
Both have a few advantages and trade offs, so I think it's a good option if it checks the right boxes for you.
Failed to see that it plays only converted DSD files, good catch.That wouldn't be a deal breaker for me as my Oppo 105D is fine with DSD files plus SACD playback, plus my Marantz plays SACDs. I have no intrest in downloading DSD files to stream, but I can see where it would be a deal breaker for some. Decisions, Decisions. It's down to one these 2 or maybe a Blusound vault.
The Nad is billed as a Dac first, so not having the digital output makes sense. Though to me, anything that streams one might want the option of adding different dacs to the mix.
I think that would be the deal breaker for me. I don't currently use an external dac, but I've heard what one can do so I don't like the idea of limiting that option.
No wifi on it for the streaming side. Holm Audio by me is a NAD dealer. If I have a shot this weekend, I was going to stop by there anyway. I will check and see if they have one in stock.
It has wifi Brian, it's in the specs.
You sure Tony? I only saw Bluetooth quality Bluetooth aptX HD wireless built-in.
On some other brands, some headphones and cars, when I see them describe like, Bluetooth "wireless" is not wifi wireless like hit your router. Unless there was another spot or I am reading it wrong.
Thanks Tony. I completely missed that one. I will see if I can go to Holm and check it out possibly put it against the Node.
It has no digital out.
My suspicion on sound would be a darker background and better details with the Cambridge. I imagine the NAD will have a muddiness to the imaging that the Cambridge won't have. I'd honestly expect it to compete more with the CXN soundwise, but I could be wrong.
I actually prefer the 851N as a streamer/DAC over the AURALiC Altair I had. The Altair is a bit dry in presentation and the 851N is more musical. The thing holding the 851N back is no USB out and no DSD. The former is an issue for my systems as I use external DAC's almost exclusively, but the latter isn't an issue whatsoever.
Well NAD, Cambridge, and Blusound all have rooms at Axopona, so I will be on a mission. Bran if you check it out impressions please, I'm just glad I can check them all out in April at the show.
Cambridge told me that they will be demoing their new Alva turntable at Axpona. Hopefully they'll have some of their streaming gear going as well though.
Or put em all to rest and get yourself a Cambridge Audi Edge NQ 💡I'm sure looking at doing it but I'm slow to change and my 851N is a nice piece.
WOW, to say he didn't like it much is being polite.
Not sure where the Audi part slipped in there ?? Maybe I was typing Azur but don't even know if the Edge NQ is part of that line or not. I'm just knowing the Edge is an intriguing piece and it has me thinking hard.
Well if you're steering towards the 851N I may be selling mine.
Kidding. I love this thing. Imaging is crazy good! It's a keeper for me.
O or put em all to rest and get yourself a Cambridge Audi Edge NQ 💡I'm sure looking at doing it but I'm slow to change and my 851N is a nice piece.
Just checked this one out drool! $4000 is a bit over my budget, I would get %6 off purchasing from World Wide Stereo using the discount from some employee purchase sight through work. It will still be over my budget with the 6% off. I'm looking forward to checking it out.


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Milly felt a sharp pain as she continued to run. The wound was too deep for her to forget about even though the man responsible was still after her. The events leading up to this point were fresh in her mind. Why did her parents trust this man? Why did they let him stay in for the night? The memories continued to play out in her head while she ran for her life, looking back routinely to ensure her pursuer wasn't near. Milly could not afford to be caught.
Milly reached her destination and stopped to take a breath. She entered a small cave in the woods as she tended to her wound. The gash on the side of her left rib where the man stabbed her after murdering her parents released too much blood for Milly to last much longer. She accepted the possibility of death. Milly just didn't want that man to catch her. She knew he was not to be trusted as soon as she saw the psychotic look in his eyes. He gained the trust of her parents through sympathy. Milly's parents couldn't see the evil in his eyes the way she did due to their sympathy for his being out in the harsh winter cold.
For three days, the psychopath helped them around the house, promising to leave when the snow cleared. He befriended Milly's father, gaining this trust through the common interest in contact sports talk. He was pleasant to Milly's mother. Milly knew. Her intuition told her to steer clear from the man, but her parents understood their mistake too late when he killed them both in their sleep. The psychopath attempted to murder Milly in the same fashion, but she was able to escape through the window in her room. Unfortunately, the knife she was stabbed with punctured her side too deeply.
Milly could hear the psycho running into the entrance as she hid behind a large boulder within the cave. His eyes bore the same psychotic, emotionless stare she saw when he attempted to kill her. Milly was scared to death. She was hypnotized by the emotionless stare of the monster that stood before her scanning the area. She moved back slowly as not to be seen. She was lucky he couldn't see her. Milly crept back closer to the shadows, ensuring she didn't step on anything that could draw the psycho's attention. She winced at the pain from her wound, tripping over herself.
The sound of her falling caught the attention of the psychopath, who then stepped over to Milly. He was face to face with the bleeding young girl, whose face was stuck with fear. Milly attempted to get up, pulling herself up with the wall behind her. The psycho walked closer to Milly, relishing his conquest. He was ready to end the cat and mouse game.
As the psycho took another step, Milly witnessed a large object lunge at the psycho, who disappeared from her view. Milly looked over to the area opposite of the cave's entrance to see a grizzly bear tearing the psycho apart. Milly let out a sigh of relief and made her way out of the cave upon confirming the murderer was no more. Milly came to terms with reality. She was losing too much blood and would die soon. Milly thought of her family. She held on to the memory of her parents and the time she spent with them. She felt her life fading but knew she could go peacefully with the satisfaction that the man who killed her family can never harm another person again. Milly sat back under a tree cherishing the memories of her life as the rising sun's warmth caressed her face one last time.
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Greta Thunberg in April 2019
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg
(2003-01-03) 3 January 2003 (age 16)
Student and climate activist
School strike for climate
Malena Ernman
Olof Thunberg (grandfather)
Greta Ernman Thunberg (born January 3, 2003) is a Swedish activist. She is known for her work against climate change, a popular example of youth activism. She started protesting on August 20, 2018, outside of the Swedish parliament in Stockholm.[1] In December 2018, she attended the UN Climate Change Conference. In the next month, she gave a speech on World Economic Forum in Davos.
She has received many awards. Three Norwegian MPs nominated her for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.[2]
On 15 March 2019, approximately 1,400,000 people around the world, mainly students, protested against climate change.[3] On May 24, 2019, a second major protest took place.[4]
Life[change | change source]
Greta Thunberg was born on 3 January 2003.[5] She is the oldest daughter of Malena Ernman, ian opera singer and her father is actor Svante Thunberg.[6] Her grandfather is actor and director Olof Thunberg.[7]
At a TEDx speech in November 2018, Thunberg stated that she first heard about climate change at the age of eight, but could not understand why so little was being done about it.[8] At age 11, she had depression and stopped talking. Later she was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), and selective mutism. She added that selective mutism means that she was speaking only when she needed to and that "now is one of those moments". She further added that the "spectrum" was an advantage "as almost everything is black or white".[8] She said: "I feel like I am dying inside if I don't protest".[9] She hands out leaflets outside the Swedish parliament with the phrase "I am doing this because you adults are shitting on my future."[9]
Her father doesn't like that she misses school but says: "[We] respect that she wants to make a stand. She can either sit at home and be really unhappy, or protest, and be happy".[10] To lower her family's carbon footprint, she insisted to become vegan and give up flying.[11] She said she persuaded her parents to give up eating meat by making them feel guilty. "I kept telling them that they were stealing our future." [12] Her mother gave up her international career as an opera singer.[10] Despite invitations to speak at international events, Greta also avoids flying.[13]
Thunberg says her teachers are divided in their views about her missing class to make her protest. She says: "As people they think what I am doing is good, but as teachers they say I should stop."[9] A teacher who supports her said: "Greta is a troublemaker, she is not listening to adults. But we are heading full speed for a catastrophe, and in this situation the only reasonable thing is to be unreasonable."[9]
In May 2019 Penguin, a British publishing house, published No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, which is a collection of her speeches.[14] Penguin plans to publish Scenes from the Heart, the Thunberg family's story, published in August 2018. All earnings from these books will be donated to charity.[15] In the same month, artist Jody Thomas painted a mural of Thunberg on a wall in Bristol. It portrays the bottom half of her face as if under rising sea water.[16]
↑ "The Swedish 15-year-old who's cutting class to fight the climate crisis". The Guardian. 1 September 2018.
↑ Vaglanos, Alanna (14 March 2019). "16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize". Huffington Post. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
↑ Shabeer, Muhammed (16 March 2019). "Over 1 million students across the world join Global Climate Strike". Peoples Dispatch. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
↑ "Students From 1,600 Cities Just Walked Out of School to Protest Climate Change. It Could Be Greta Thunberg's Biggest Strike Yet". Time. 2019-05-24. .
↑ Lobbe, Anne-Marie (13 December 2018). "À 15 ans, elle remet les dirigeants mondiaux à leur place!" (in French). Sympatico. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
↑ "School Strike for Climate: Meet 15-Year-Old Activist Greta Thunberg, Who Inspired a Global Movement". Democracy Now!.
↑ Santiago, Ellyn (14 December 2018). "Greta Thunberg: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". Heavy.com. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
↑ 8.0 8.1 Thunberg, Greta (12 December 2018). School strike for climate – save the world by changing the rules. TEDxStockholm. Stockholm: TED. Event occurs at 1:46. Retrieved 29 January 2019. I was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrom, OCD, and selective mutism. That basically means I only speak when I think it's necessary. Now is one of those moments… I think that in many ways, we autistic are the normal ones, and the rest of the people are pretty strange, especially when it comes to the sustainability crisis, where everyone keeps saying that climate change is an existential threat and the most important issue of all and yet they just carry on like before.
↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Crouch, David (1 September 2018). "The Swedish 15-year-old who's cutting class to fight the climate crisis". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
↑ 10.0 10.1 "The Swedish 15-year-old who's cutting class to fight the climate crisis". The Guardian. 1 September 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
↑ "Climate crusading schoolgirl Greta Thunberg pleads next generation's case". The Straits Times. 5 December 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
↑ "Environmentalist Greta Thunberg Made Her Parents Feel Guilty For Eating Meat And Dairy". www.plantbasednews.org. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
↑ "Greta Thunberg, la paladina del clima: "Mamma non vuole ma salverò il pianeta"". Repubblica.it (in Italian). 11 March 2019. Retrieved 19 April 2019. Ho smesso di usare l'aereo, ho smesso di mangiare carne e latticini
↑ Thunberg, Greta. "No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference". Penguin.
↑ Thunberg, Greta (24 May 2019). "Send us your questions for climate activist". The Guardian.
↑ "Giant Greta mural painted in Bristol". BBC. 31 May 2019.
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Q: Phone Number Key Digit/Letter Permutations I am doing some algorithm practice and came across a problem which I am having difficultly solving.
Each number key on a phone represents certain letters (e.g. 2 => A, B, C, 3 => D, E, F, etc. with the exception of 1 and 0). The user can tap a key multiple times to "scroll" to a different letter. For example, 222 could be AAA, AB, BA, or C.
Given an input string such as 444223 what different combinations could this represent?
You can assume there is a dictionary/hashmap which has the number to letter mappings.
map = {
  2 => "ABC",
  3 => "DEF",
  4 => "GHI",
  5 => "JKL",
  6 => "MNO",
  7 => "PQRS",
  8 => "TUV",
  9 => "WXYZ",
}

I have attempted to solve this problem in two parts. First, split the input into an array of substrings of contiguous digits. For example: ["444", "22", "3"]. Then, run each of those through a recursive algorithm which breaks the input down to its base-case (e.g. f(4444) -> f(444) -> f(44) -> f(4)) and then solves for the single digit and goes back up the chain working out all permutations.
However, I haven't been able to get this to work - and I don't know whether this is the right approach. I also had problems when the string of digits was greater than the number of letters (e.g. 4444) as this could be two Bs which I don't think would work with the permutation recursion algorithm I attempted to write.
Any help would be appreciated!

A: You are on the right track breaking the streaks of identical digits into all their permutations.
The recursive part has up to three parts. So for 4444 the first step breaks into 3 pieces:
"4" (G) --> continue on 444
"44" (H) --> continue on 44
"444" (I) --> continue on 4

These continue on the remaining string, using the same rules.
EDIT:
This is a bit complicated to write in pseudo-code because of the data structure.  You need three things:

*

*The sets that contain each partitioning of the numbers

*The current set you are working on

*The value being worked on (such as "4" in the above example)

*The number of identical numbers left

So, for a given sequence of identical numbers, the partitioning works like this:
PartitionNums (sets, curset, val, len) {
    if len = 1 then
        insert into sets (curset, val)
    else if len = 2 then
        insert into sets (curset, val)
        insert into sets (curset, val||val)
    else if len = 3 then
        insert into sets (curset, val||val||val)
        ProcessSets(sets, (curset, val), val, len - 1)
        ProcessSets(sets, (curset, val||val), val, len - 2)
    else
        ProcessSets(sets, (curset, val), len - 1)
        ProcessSets(sets, (curset, val||val), len - 2)
        ProcessSets(sets, (curset, val||val||val), len - 3)
}

It would be called like:
ProcessSets({}, '', '4', 5)

For 44444.
This just handles one string of identical numbers.  This then has to be woven into code that splits the string and looks up the characters from the sequence of numbers.

A: This seemed like a cool problem so I wrote an implementation in Perl. The basic premise was split each set of digits into consecutive digits, then generate all possible groupings of those digits that equal the length of the digit string. After that simply feed the digits into a mapping table and group the results as a single solution.
#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Set::Product::PP qw(product);

my %digit_map = (
   2 => [qw(A B C)],
   3 => [qw(D E F)],
   4 => [qw(G H I)],
   5 => [qw(J K L)],
   6 => [qw(M N O)],
   7 => [qw(P Q R S)],
   8 => [qw(T U V)],
   9 => [qw(W X Y Z)],
);

sub decode {
   my (@digits) = @_;

   my $last_digit = $digits[0];
   my @solutions;
   my @consecutive_digits;
   while ( my $digit = shift @digits ) {
      if ( $digit == $last_digit ) {
         push @consecutive_digits, $digit;
      }
      else {
         $last_digit = $digit;
         push @solutions, [
            map { _partitions_to_letter($_) } _partitions(@consecutive_digits)
         ];
         @consecutive_digits = ( $digit );
      }
   }

   if ( @consecutive_digits ) {
      push @solutions, [
         map { _partitions_to_letter($_) } _partitions(@consecutive_digits)
      ];
   }

   my @combined_solutions;
   # compute cartesian product of all partitioned consecutive digits
   product { push @combined_solutions, join '', @_ } @solutions;

   return @combined_solutions;
}

sub _partitions_to_letter {
   my ($partitions) = @_;

   return join '', map { $digit_map{ $_->[0] }->[ @$_ - 1 ] } @$partitions;
}

sub _partitions {
   my (@consecutive_digits) = @_;
   return [ [@consecutive_digits] ] if @consecutive_digits == 1;

   my @partitions = (
      # use the current array as a partition
      [ [@consecutive_digits]            ],
      # each piece of the current array counts as a partition
      [ map { [$_] } @consecutive_digits ],
   );
   foreach my $i ( 0 .. $#consecutive_digits - 1) {
      push @partitions, [
         [@consecutive_digits[0..$i]],
         [@consecutive_digits[$i+1..$#consecutive_digits]]
      ];
   }

   return @partitions;
}

foreach my $solution ( decode(qw(4 4 4 2 2 3)) ) {
   print $solution, "\n";
}
#   IBD
#   IAAD
#   IAAD
#   GGGBD
#   GGGAAD
#   GGGAAD
#   GHBD
#   GHAAD
#   GHAAD
#   HGBD
#   HGAAD
#   HGAAD

Happy to explain any pieces that are difficult to understand.

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Q: Google Scripts " e.changeType=='INSERT_ROW' " functionality - Reading when a new row is inserted I'm trying to get my Google sheet to perform certain functions only when a new row is added. After some research I found the .changeType function which seems to work, but I'm having trouble then getting more functions to run based on that condition.
As you can see in my code, I'm using the .changeType function within an if statement.
The if statement appears to work, and it works up until the ui alert - which also works. However, none of the code below it does.
The weird part is that the same code works if I take it outside of the if function.
I'm having a lot of trouble debugging this as the Google Scripts debug tool thinks if(e.changeType=='INSERT_ROW') is an incorrect line of code, but I don't feel it is as it does actually run correctly in the Google sheet. I think this is something to do with the on change trigger functionality.
Perhaps it's the rest of my code that's incorrect, but I can't understand why it works when it's not within that if statement.
What I'm trying to do is to get the row that's just been added, by getting the active range of cells. Then, find the range of cells from immediately below that cell right to the last populated cell in the whole sheet. Those cells should then move with the .moveTo function.
Can anyone explain what's going wrong here? it's been impossible to debug so far!
Code is below:
function moveUpRows(e)
{
  var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
  var ui = SpreadsheetApp.getUi();

  if(e.changeType=='INSERT_ROW')
  {
    ui.alert("new row added!");
    var range = sheet.getActiveRange();
    var belowActiveRange = range.offset(1, 0);
    var rangeMovingUp = sheet.getRange("L"+belowActiveRange.getRow()+":S"+sheet.getLastRow())
    rangeMovingUp.moveTo(rangeMovingUp.offset(-1, 0));
  }
}

A: If you insert a new row - this will lead to an undefined active range notation
In fact, Logger.log(range.getA1Notation()); will log #REF!
You can work around this limitation by defining:
...
var range = sheet.getActiveRange();
var row = range.getLastRow();
var belowActiveRange = sheet.getRange(row+1, 1, 1, sheet.getLastColumn());
...


First edition of Sue's The Wandering Jew.
In this outstanding literary letter, Longfellow writes in full and sends an early draft of his beloved poem "Excelsior," commenting on its meaning and significance and writing out all thirty-six lines.
FIRST EDITION, the deluxe issue, one of only 425 numbered copies signed by James Joyce. The notoriously difficult Finnegans Wake is probably the most ambitious work of literature of the twentieth century. The writing of Finnegans Wake occupied Joyce's life from 1922, the year of the publication of Ulysses, until 1939, two years before the author's death.
FIRST EDITION. A handsome copy of Walden, published in an edition of 2000 copies.
A lovely copy of Huckleberry Finn.
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Is It Time to Social Work Your Social Work Career?
Leave a Comment / Career Fulfillment, Social Work / By Nicki Sanders
Sheila Johnson
Billionaires! Billionaires who have not retired. Billionaires who continue to create and create.
If you were a billionaire or multi-millionaire, how would you invest your time?
If you were a multi-millionaire or billionaire, would you really retire, or would you social work differently?
I don't think you would retire in the traditional sense – at least not for long.
Given your social work education training and work experience, do you really believe that you could ignore the world's problems and only shop, resort hop, and dine in five-star restaurants?
I don't think so. You know too much. You've seen too much. You've experienced too much. Too much bureaucracy, tokenism, exploitation, and empty promises to retire completely from your change agent activities.
The social workers who have become life coaches, teachers, entrepreneurs, private practice clinicians, travel agents, and real estate agents are still using their social work skills to help their clients. Ask anyone who has "left" the social work profession if they've left their social work skills education and training completely. Nope, they are putting those transferable skills to good use.
We want to retire because of how we work. The problem is the way we've been told social work must work. The problem is the low standards and expectations being passed down from generation to generation. The problem is the narrow, traditional view of social work.
My social work education, skills, and training make me a great social work career coach. What I do is more than resumes, cover letters, and job interviews and I have social work to thank for that!
You've heard me say repeatedly that social work skills are high-income skills. Yet, social work skills are so much more than that. Social work skills are people skills. Social work skills are human behavior skills. Social work skills are communication skills. Social work skills are critical thinking skills. Social work skills are problem-solving skills.
The world needs social workers to expand, not retreat! Business as usual just gets us more business as usual.
Let's elevate the profession…and each other! We can go from overworked, overpaid, and unappreciated to energized, well-paid, and appreciated. We all deserve to do work that feeds our hearts, minds, and wallets.
My vision is for social work to work for social workers and clients.
Too many amazing social work students and professionals are exiting the profession. I believe that the rise of human services and nonprofit management degrees, social entrepreneurship, and life coaching is due in part to social work fighting against growth and change. If the NASW Code of Ethics mandates advocating for the oppressed, why isn't there a unified social work voice advocating for better working conditions and better pay for social workers?
There is little collective benefit in maintaining the status quo. It's time for tired, burned-out, struggling social workers to band together with social workers who are thriving and optimistic to work toward a brighter social work future.
If you are disappointed or discouraged about the current state of your career in social work leadership let's schedule a 15-minute chat to discuss how to move you toward enthusiasm and opportunity. Career fulfillment is possible for you and available to you!
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Are You Really Saying YES to Your Social Work Career Success Workshop; January 17, 2023
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Nicki Sanders, MSW, ushers high-performing women of color in mid-level social work and human services leadership through promotion to senior leadership. As Founder and CEO of Nicki Sanders Leadership Consulting, her mission is simple – to eliminate toxic workplaces by developing skilled, empathetic, and goal-oriented leaders who have the vision, support, and resources to create a culture where business prospers, and employees thrive individually and collectively. Nicki has an extensive background in nonprofit management leading high-functioning, multi-disciplinary teams. She is an accomplished professor, coach, trainer, and group facilitator who has combined her gift for authentic relationships, Master of Social Work degree, and over 20 years of diverse work experience to create a life and career aligned with her values and purpose. Nicki is a lover of cupcakes, travel, and 80's hip hop and R&B music.


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The following is a list of notable jazz clubs in Paris, past and present.

 The 7 Lézards (closed)
 Les Associés
 Autour de midi et minuit
 Le Baiser Salé
 :fr:Bal Nègre (closed)

 Blues Bar
 Le Bœuf sur le toit
 The Caméléon
 La Cave du 38 Riv'
 Le Caveau de la Huchette
 The Caveau des Oubliettes
 The Chapelle des Lombards
 Le Chat Qui Pêche
 Club Saint-Germain
 Le Duc des Lombards
 La Fontaine (closed)
 The Franc Pinot (closed)
 The Jazz Cartoon
 The Jazz Club Lionel Hampton
 Jazzland
 The Living Room
 :fr:Mars Club (closed)
 New Morning
 :fr:Le Petit Journal Montparnasse
 The Petit Journal Saint Michel
 Quatre Vents
 Sunset/Sunside (or Sunset Jazz Club)
 Le Tabou (closed)
 Le Tennessee

See also
 French jazz
 List of jazz clubs

References

External links
 Paris-Jazz-Clubs.com: Paris Jazz Club & Musician Info
 ParisLovesJazz: live jazz in Paris and upcoming Paris jazz club listings

Paris
Jazz Clubs
Jazz, Paris
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Contact Trey Email Trey trey.barnes@marinerwealthadvisors.com 913-387-2734 Trey Barnes, CFP®
Forbes 2021 Best-In-State – #7 in Kansas
Barron's 2021 Advisor Rankings By State – #3 in Kansas
Trey is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional and has a DACFP certification in blockchain and digital assets.
Trey specializes in providing comprehensive wealth management solutions for business owners, executives and high-net-worth families. He has more than 25 years of financial services experience.
Prior to joining Mariner Wealth Advisors, he spent 18 years at A.G. Edwards, where he served as a financial consultant, senior vice president and investment officer. While at A.G. Edwards, he developed wealth solutions for clients that included financial planning, retirement planning, college savings and estate planning.
Trey has a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Kansas.
Trey was named to Forbes' 2021 Best-In-State Wealth Advisors list, ranking #7 in Kansas and to Barron's Top 1,200 Advisors list, ranking #3 in 2021 and #5 in 2020, also in Kansas. He is a member of the Financial Planners Association of Greater Kansas City.
He supports the United Way and the Mariner Foundation. Trey serves on the Founder's Circle for the Global Orphan Project. In his free time, he enjoys golf, hiking and snowboarding.
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One year ago, the news was awash with Billy Willson, a 4.0 GPA student from Kansas State University who decided to drop out of university after his first semester with this Facebook message: "YOU ARE BEING SCAMMED. You may not see it today or tomorrow, but you will see it some day." His post is still being shared and there are close to 9,000 comments mounting on this thread. And as someone who has spent a long time in academia as a student and as a university professor, I can't help but agree with Willson. As the average increase in university tuition has exceeded that of the increase of salaries or the cost of living, we must begin to ask the tough questions as to why university fees in the US are outpacing the rise of inflation or cost of living increases, and why so many universities are playing a heavy hand in the student loan debt crisis.
As it stands today there are now several generations of university graduates unable to pay for their loans, from the millennials to those who graduated thirty years ago. And with the student loan debt in the United States at $1.3 trillion this year there is an alarmingly high percentage of graduates who are unable to command a salary high enough to pay back these loans. The delinquency or default rate is approximately 17% and the non-payment rate at 43%. The end result is that new and older university graduates are facing a lifetime of living like Ross and Phoebe (without all the spare time to meet up with friends in the local café) and in order to get out of financial woes, many will be forced into debt consolidation or into a federal relief program.
And the situation of increasing amounts of student loans over the years was no accident. In the US from 1997-2017, tuition increased to incredible proportions: at private universities tuition rose 157 percent, at public universities out of state tuition rose by 194 percent, and in-state tuition at public Universities has increased by 237 percent. In the UK the figures are almost as grim as in the US where the average increase in university tuition in the UK grew by 260% between 1980-2014 while the cost of consumer goods grew at approximately 120% in this same period. And many students in the UK are feeling robbed from the experience as well.
Articles like this by Zack Friedman in Forbes, which frames the ability to pay off students loans a simple matter of living a "humble lifestyle," completely misunderstands the crisis facing most university graduates in the United States. Graduates are facing a dismal job market and are not making choices between a one and two-bedroom apartment. They are making choices between having a home or not. And then there is the ripple effect where not being able to pay student loans back due to low or no income, can actually mean that you are unemployable where government agencies have the power to seize state-issued professional licenses from residents who default on their educational loans. And in twenty-two states you can have your driver's license suspended for falling behind in student loan repayments, making it impossible for most people to get to work.
And while there are troubling parallels between the student loan and the subprime mortgage crises being made, in addition to a House tax bill that will make graduate school impossibly unaffordable for most, there are even deeper ethical dilemmas facing higher educational institutions which are granting degrees with extremely high price tags and participating in the wholesale bilking of new graduates where students are forced to take jobs that don't even require a university degree in the first place.
And while some might find Billy Willson's story exceptional, the reality is that what he has protested against has merit. In 1980 when the average cost of tuition, room and board at university was $9,000, the reality is that the money earned in 1980 bought far more than today and the $23,000 average price tag on public university and $30,000 for private institutions today means that students are paying more for education than ever before. So, Willson is correct about students being scammed and more so about some of his critiques of higher education. What bothers me about his campaign against higher education is why so many institutions and educational presses were silent on this matter. Might it be that they feared fanning the flames of righteous anger, lest this anger have a domino-effect?
There were a handful of responses to Willson earlier this year, mostly by people refuting his points about courses offered at KSU, addressing the implications of university students being scammed and not learning vital information for post-uni life, and some sympathizing with him. But there were few articles which addressed the central critique of Willson which is about the extortionate cost of an education today in regard to the payout in the short-term post degree.
And facts speak clearly to this situation with the numbers of higher education enrollment in decline since 2013 to include the enrollment of international students who are often being lured from U.S. institutions given the rise of western institutions setting up campus in places like Singapore and China. Students in both the UK and the US are opting out of university with increasing frequency as many are opting for apprenticeships, starting their own businesses, going to trade school, taking classes at community colleges or online, and entering school leaver programs which are gaining in popularity in the UK.
What is the way out for universities who want to maintain their student body before losing many to alternatives already taking hold? Brown University just last week announced the end of all student loans for its undergraduate financial packages. Instead, it is replacing the loan structure with scholarships as the university has recently begun a $30m fundraising campaign which has thus far amassed over 2,000 donors.
As more and more people enter a lifetime of student debt and younger generations watch their parents suffer under this enormous burden, little does it matter if you have MBA or PhD after your name. The reality today is that the education and job markets are completely different to how they were just 15 years ago. We need to equip ourselves with the skills to resist caving into what is, for most people, a lifetime of debt. And more importantly, we must teach the younger generations that books and learning are freely available at the local library while we work on viable alternatives to the soaring fees of universities and trade schools. The bottom line is this: do we want to be a society which positions students for a lifetime of indentured servitude, or might we consider that education is an integral part of our society which benefits everyone?
This article was posted on Thursday, December 14th, 2017 at 1:30pm and is filed under Debt, Education, Student Loans, Students, United Kingdom.


I feel bad for the ladies but this story is pretty dang funny.
Hey, TNT, here's a tip. Don't do this when dating women.
Why would he go to prison?
"A woman scorned..." Or 10 women!
Again, who is "he" here? TNT? The other guy?
Are we sure TNT and the other guy aren't the same person?
Didn't you read the article? More than a dozen women agreed to date this guy.
Hey pal that was uncalled for!
What I was saying is...of course it's TNT.
He ate cat and dog at each meal. That's now against the law.
I don't see how this is a crime.
Did the dates pay for it? I didn't read the article.


Discussion in 'The Members Lounge' started by JJWilson, Feb 10, 2019.
Hello everyone, I have rather sad news to bare today, tomorrow will be my last day on the forums as I leave on my mission to Charleston West Virginia on Tuesday. I will be absent from the forums until my return in February of 2021, but I have asked gtblackwell to give a monthly report on my whereabouts, and how the morale is doing, to which he kindly and graciously obliged.
These past two years on the forum have been fantastic, I've learned so much, and have met so many fantastic people across the world who share the same passion as me.
I will return to the forums when I get back, and hopefully I'll be a much wiser and mature member (that's a big hope!). If any of you would like to email me personally, message me sometime today and tomorrow, and I'll give you my email adress. Otherwise my good friend Gaines will give everyone monthly updates in a different thread!
Thank you to all who have helped me grow and learn, many of you have been great examples not just in your historical knowledge, but how you carry yourselves as people.
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Godspeed and embrace your new adventure.
I don't know what your new adventure is, but I wish you well with it and with everything else. Don't be a stranger.
Indeed, godspeed JJ. Looking forward to the updates.
We'll keep the light on.
You will be challenged. Remember He only places in front of you what He knows you can handle.
Good luck in your chosen path. Post again when you return.
Hopefully, I will still be around to welcome you back in two years time, but, if I am not, then G-d speed in your mission !
May He guide you with His light on the paths of righteousness.
Wishing you the very best in your future endeavors!
Please do come back and stay safe in the meantime!
Thank you Ron, In the very slight chance that you are not still around, I want to say thank you once more for your service, I barely know you, but I feel such a great appreciation for you and the millions of men like you who served in the second world war. When my children ask if I knew any WW2 vets, I will be proud to say I knew Ron Goldstein....In the meantime, I wish the best of health and happiness, I will look forward to speaking with you again!
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Thanks in advance for everyone that helps :), I'm having trouble with use of blenders built in materials in the game engine. More or less the materials that I assign just don't display on the object. Can anyone go over how this is done or point me to a tutorial that deals with this?
I have been modeling more than learning about materials and the game engine so I'm lacking a bit in those area's so I'm sorry If what I'm asking don't make sense or using wrong terms. Thanks in advance community!
You need to bake textures, procedural ones don't work in the GE.
hummmmm Think I can find some tutorials on baking, I just couldn't find any on procedural textures and now I know why. woot!


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I suppose battling and conquering isn't the best way to live on in people's hearts and minds these days.


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Will the end of the Mid-South Coliseum demolish another piece of Orange Mound's identity?
Tonyaa Weathersbee
Tiana Pyles remembers how a piece of Orange Mound's identity was lost when the W.C. Handy Theater was ground into dust in 2012.
The theater, which was built in 1946 in the first neighborhood in the South to allow African-Americans to buy homes and property, attracted entertainers ranging from Count Basie to the Bar-Kays.
"My grandmother used to talk about all the acts that used to come to the theater, one of our historic landmarks," said Pyles, who is executive director of the Orange Mound Community Development Corporation.
Unfortunately, blight and neglect caused that landmark to be lost to the bulldozer. Which Pyles understands.
But if that becomes the fate of the Mid-South Coliseum, which closed in 2006, Pyles, as well as Jerome Robinson and other Orange Mound residents, won't quite understand that.
"My parents, they met there, and my grandmother used to enjoy the wrestling matches there. This is definitely a staple of Orange Mound," Pyles said. "It provided some jobs for us, and Liberty Land (an amusement park located on the Mid-South Fairgrounds that closed in 2005) did so as well…
"But with Liberty Land gone, and the Coliseum not up and running, that has affected us economically. I think it would be great for us to have a venue that we don't have to run either to (Southaven) Mississippi or downtown, to enjoy."
"I think the coliseum is a celebration of the Orange Mound community because it is an icon of our neighborhood," said Robinson, a resident who is on the board of the Coliseum Coalition, which is working to preserve the structure.
"It was the first integrated facility in the region, and this is a place where our community can raise the bar and give our kids hope…right now our kids are an afterthought."
However, the fate of the coliseum, which was built in 1963 and was the place where legends such as the Beatles and Elvis Presley performed, is in limbo. The city recently decided to pay $500,000 to mothball the arena as it plans to build a sports complex around it.
But that decision vexes members of the coalition, which had already done its own estimates and plans on costs to preserve and renovate it.
No doubt, the structure has historical significance. It is, after all, on the National Register of Historic Places. And Pyles and others hope the city's decision to mothball the coliseum is a move to buy itself time to find the best way to repurpose it, and not to demolish it.
That's because for Orange Mound residents like Pyles and Robinson, saving the coliseum not only means saving a piece of the neighborhood's heritage. It means reviving a bit of its sustenance, as well.
They have a point.
In that area, a place where people work multiple jobs, the median household income is around $32,000 a year. At the least, a repurposed coliseum might expose youths to job possibilities from fairs or whatever venues that can be created there – not to mention entrepreneurial opportunities that they could spawn.
"I'm glad that the city is finding ways and funds to do things to support us, but it does not feel like it [the sports complex] is really for us, not all the way," Pyles said. "So, I feel the coliseum is more for us…it sits in such a strategic place, and it would be wonderful to keep it not just for us, but for the other surrounding communities.
"We have to look at the socioeconomics of where we are now, and how we can change that. With these venues, people will be exposed to what kind of jobs they might want to do."
Robinson said that when the coliseum was operating, youths in the neighborhood would pick up various forms of work, like unloading trucks before performances.
"It creates exposure to opportunities that they might not otherwise see," Robinson said.
Of course, the future of the Mid-South Coliseum remains complicated. Estimates on the costs of renovating it range from $25 million, from the coliseum coalition, and $40 million from the city.
Then there's the overwhelming question of whether a non-compete clause with the FedEx Forum, which requires it to sign off on any events held in other venues, will be a roadblock, because if it views concerts or other coliseum events as competing with forum events, it can refuse.
To many, that arrangement alone is a heavy shackle on any future for the coliseum. Robinson, however, is more optimistic.
"Concerts aren't getting bigger," he said. "They're becoming more niche."
Yet while skepticism abounds as to whether reviving the coliseum is worth a try, the city should, at least, consider what such a revival could do for the heritage and the sustenance of Orange Mound. Because when it comes to its fate, that community should not be treated as an inconvenience or an afterthought.
"I see what the city is trying to do, and I know they're torn," Pyles said. "But this reminds me of the W.C. Handy Theater…a lot of our history is being lost…
"Now I understand that everything can't be saved, but if the Sears building can come back the way that it did, then that gives me hope for anything. Hopefully this (mothballing) provides enough time to find some innovative funding for the coliseum, because the sportsplex is not the same…
"It's a wonderful reminder from our past, headed into our future."


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Tri-County Board, OACBHA Honor Front-Line Heroes
The Tri-County Board of Recovery & Mental Health Services marked September 20-26 as a Week of Appreciation to recognize workers on the front lines of the pandemic-related mental health and addiction crisis.
Week of Appreciation is a statewide event coordinated by the Ohio Association of County Behavioral Health Authorities, which provided grants to help local behavioral health Boards honor first responders (police, fire and EMT personnel), public safety, public health, educators, hospital staff, crisis services workers, volunteers for Quick Response Teams, and others who have helped save lives and build resiliency amid the ongoing overdose and mental health crisis made worse by the coronavirus pandemic.
Tri-County Board Executive Director Terri Becker said: "So many of our frontline workers have been directly impacted, and we don't have enough opportunities to thank them. Week of Appreciation is a chance to recognize their hard work and to just give a little bit of encouragement and thanks for all they do to keep our families safe and healthy."
Board staff logged more than 600 miles delivering appreciation packages to about 150 locations throughout Miami, Darke and Shelby Counties. The packages included a poster personalized for each organization, a copy of the Board's resolution, and a red plastic bucket of mints imprinted with the message "Thank you for being lifesavers."
The Board also purchased billboard space on I-75 between Piqua and Sidney. The billboard mirrors the poster design and says "Thank you – law enforcement, fire-EMT, public safety, public health, educators, health care, essential workers."
Tri-County Board to Celebrate 50 Years
The Tri-County Board of Recovery and Mental Health Services will convene for its 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting and Dinner October 17 at Edison State Community College in Piqua. The Art of Recovery reception will begin at 5:30PM in the Myers-Vaccaro Art Gallery in East Hall. The dinner meeting will begin at 6:30PM in the Robinson Theater in North Hall. No business is expected to be transacted during the meeting.
The public is invited to attend both events. There is no charge for either the reception or the dinner, but registration is required and seating is limited. For registration information go online at www.tcbmds.org/celebrate, or email Brad Reed at ReedB@tcbmds.org, or call 937-335-7727 ext 209.
Featured guest speakers during the dinner are Dr. Mark Hurst, Director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, and Rusty Harden, a Tipp City artist who will demonstrate how art helps recovery.
The Art of Recovery gallery exhibit is open for public viewing during normal campus hours through October 24.
Call for Entries - Art of Recovery Exhibit October 2018
The Tri-County Board of Recovery and Mental Health Services is seeking entries from local artists for its annual Art of Recovery gallery exhibit to be displayed in the Art Gallery at Edison State Community College in Piqua throughout the month of October.
Artists who have been affected personally, through a family member or friend, or anyone whose art reflects recovery from mental illness or addiction are invited to participate. Artists display works ranging from painting and drawing to sculpture, mixed media, crafts, photography and poetry. Artists typically reside in Darke, Miami and Shelby counties, although submissions from other counties are welcomed. Many use their art to express personal journeys with recovery from mental illness and addiction, while others have been touched as family members, friends, advocates and service providers.
Select Art of Recovery works will be displayed in the Myers-Vaccaro Gallery, East Hall, Edison State Community College, Piqua, from October 1-25. To be considered for the exhibit, artwork (photos of large pieces are acceptable) must be submitted to the Tri-County Board by September 24. Artists must submit an entry form for each piece to be considered. An artist's statement must accompany each piece describing how the piece represents wellness, mental health or addiction recovery. Pieces may be representational or metaphorical, and do not need to be biographical in nature. All pieces selected for the Gallery Exhibit must be made available for display from October 1 through October 25. Submission form and additional details are available at the Tri-County Board's website, tcbmds.org/art.
Art may be in any medium, including but not limited to painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, needlework, crafts, instrumental music, poetry and mixed media. Artists may submit more than one piece for submission, and may elect to remain anonymous at the showcase. There is no fee to enter, and no prizes are awarded. For the gallery exhibit, three certificates will be awarded. Best in Show will be determined by the judges, People's Choice will be awarded based on popular vote, and the Director's Award will be selected by Tri-County Board staff for the piece that best exemplifies wellness and recovery.
The Art of Recovery showcase aims to increase public awareness of mental illness and addiction issues in an effort to fight the stigma that so often accompanies these diseases.
The 2018 Art of Recovery Exhibit will be in conjunction with the Tri-County Board's celebration of its 50th Anniversary in October. While not a requirement, art pieces that reflect that 50-year history are encouraged.
For more information, visit the Tri-County Board's website or contact Reed at ReedB@tcbmds.org or 937-335-7727 ext 209.


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Subway looking to update stores' not-so-fresh look
Subway wants to freshen up the look of its stores as it tries to stem a sales decline.
Subway looking to update stores' not-so-fresh look Subway wants to freshen up the look of its stores as it tries to stem a sales decline. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://jsonl.in/2uBvzrR
CANDICE CHOI, Associated Press Published 12:25 p.m. CT July 17, 2017 | Updated 3:19 p.m. CT July 17, 2017
This Subway store in Knoxville, Tenn., sports an updated interior. The fast-food sandwich company is updating the look of its stores as the chain's U.S. sales have been declining.(Photo: Associated Press)
NEW YORK – Subway wants to freshen up the look of its stores as it tries to stem a sales decline.
The sandwich chain says the redesign — which includes a brighter atmosphere, displays of vegetables behind the counter and ordering tablets — is the first major revamp since the early 2000s. The changes will take place as stores around the country are remodeled and new ones are built.
The makeover comes as Subway's sales have fallen for four straight years amid competition from places including Jimmy John's and Firehouse Subs. Since 2012, Subway's average annual sales per store are down 13% at $420,000, according to industry tracker Technomic. Last year, its number of U.S. stores also shrank for the first time, though it still had more than 26,700 locations.
Don Fertman, Subway's chief development officer, says franchisee agreements require them to remodel stores every seven to 10 years. Fertman says the current "Tuscany" design was intended in part to reflect the Italian heritage of founder Fred DeLuca, who died in 2015. His sister, Suzanne Greco, is now CEO of the privately held company.
"It's been working for us since the early 2000s," Fertman said, but he noted that it was time to evolve.
In the U.S. and Canada, new stores will be built using the redesign. About 150 stores will get the new look in the coming months, Fertman said. By the end of next year, he said 3,000 to 5,000 stores globally should have it, with most of those being in the United States and Canada.
Some have reservations about the plans.
John Gordon, a restaurant industry analyst, said Subway might be better off focusing on improving its food before turning to remodeling, given the tight financial situations of many franchisees.
While the company hasn't yet specified the cost, the remodeling looks like it will be pricey for franchisees, noted Keith Miller, who has three Subway stores in Northern California.
Miller, who is also head of the Coalition of Franchisee Associations, said two key questions are whether remodeling would boost sales and whether franchisees can afford it. If franchisees can't afford it, Miller said it's not really a solution.
"How do you require someone to do something that they can't financially do?" he said.
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#OTD in 1807 – Birth of Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, KCB, a British civil servant and Governor of Madras.
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Trevelyan is referred to in the modern Irish folk song The Fields of Athenry about 'An Gorta Mór'. For his actions, he is commonly considered one of the most detested figures in Irish history, along with the likes of Cromwell.
Image | Charles Trevelyan accompanied by a poem written by Joe Canning
Friends of Ireland! Please take the time to consider supporting this very important petition.
Irish Holocaust – Not Famine. The Push to educate in facts.
We can now prove beyond doubt that more food than was required to feed the Irish people during the period (1845-1850), was exported out of Irish ports under armed guard. This is not a petition of Acrimony, Discord or Hate, this is a petition for Truth! Please sign with your family, and ask your friends and their families to consider.
In Proud and Loving memory of our Forefathers, and the Truth that our Children Deserve.
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#OTD in 1914 – Cumann na mBan, Irish women's Republican movement, was founded.


A Donegal woman has been selected in a small elite group of young people worldwide to take part in an expedition to Antarctica to preserve the continent's unique landscape and wildlife as well as learning how to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Eimear Carlin from Milltown, Raphoe, is the only Irish representative on the '2041 Antarctic Youth Ambassador Programme' and has been formally invited by Robert Swan OBE to take part in the three-week International Antarctic Expedition (IAE), which begins next February.
Swan is the first person to walk to both the North and South poles, in 1986 and 1989 respectively, and is now a renowned environmental leader who takes a select group of current and future environmental experts to Antarctica. His aim is to inspire the next generation of leaders to continue his work.
Human activities in Antarctica are governed by an international agreement, the 1959 Antarctic Treaty. This ensures that Antarctica is used for peaceful purposes only and that the environment is protected. Currently there is a cessation that bans drilling or mining in Antarctica called the Environmental Protocol, established in 1991. This document can be reviewed after the 50-year anniversary in 2041.
Ms Carlin, who has just completed a post graduate diploma in Development Studies from Kimmage Development Studies Centre in Dublin, moved to Inuvik in the Canadian Arctic in 2004, and spent four years working the Canadian Forestry Sector. She worked mostly in reforestation, and personally planted over 600,000 trees.
"I became very interested in the environmental challenges faced by the Polar Regions and how changes in the Polar ecosystem can impact on the rest of the world," she said. "From living within the Arctic Circle I am used to working in extreme weather conditions, experiencing 24 hour darkness and temperatures in the -40s.
The expedition will also see Ms Carlin complete Swan's 'Leadership on the Edge' programme, the goal of which is to develop the skills of future business and environmental leaders. This will be held at the first ever Education Base established in Antarctica by Robert Swan at Bellinghausen Station.
Ms Carlin has pledged to raise €19,607 to take part in the expedition. With the support of ECOCEM, Irish producers of the world's most sustainable building material, the French Embassy in Ireland, and Kimmage Development Studies Centre, she is over the halfway mark towards the Expedition, which takes place from February 28 to March 14 2013. She will be hosting a climate change Café Scientifique Fundraiser in the Alliance Francaise Dublin on November 22nd entitled "Climate Change- Ireland's place in the Polar Plight". Guest speakers will debate on Climate Change followed by a Q+A Session the event will be FREE with optional donations on the night.
She has also started personal fundraising, most notably a roller-skating trek around Ireland covering 800km, which is the equivalent distance of the Drake Passage, the sea of water that connects the south-western Atlantic and the south-eastern Pacific, between the southern tip of South America in Chile and South Shetlands Islands of Antarctica over the next four months.
This project will culminate in a Fundraiser Gala Evening in Dublin on the last weekend of January. Upon her return in March, Ms Carlin will then undertake the second leg of the journey, around the schools of the country to educate.


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Microsoft To Resurrect Humans Into Chat Bot After Death
Five Greatest Scientific Advances
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By Anthony K December 29, 2021
No one can claim to truly know where we go after death. Or even what happens to our desires, dreams, and most intimate thoughts. However, Microsoft might have some ideas.
Microsoft was offered a patent, titled "Creating a Conversational Chat Bot of a Specific Person," by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
The patent offered to Microsoft is similar to a Dystopian Plotline
As keen observers have explained, since Microsoft was granted the patent, the chatbot could be founded on a deceased family member or friend. In the episode of Black Mirror, a widow chats with a version of her deceased husband through a service offered by a fictional tech firm. The Twilight Zone health with a similar topic back in the 60s. Basically, the idea is modeling a chatbot based on the person in question and permitting them to have a conversion with other persons through a computer.
The issue of lack of regulation has surrounded post-Mortem data
With such technology, it is with no doubt that this will bring the question regarding regulations and ethics of post-mortem data. There is no regulation of people's data after their death will mean that any person can collect a deceased person's data and offer it to a service provider. The service provider will, from the data, create a chatbot. This will happen even without consent from at least the relatives or close persons to the deceased.
Some key questions are, will things remain as they are in the future? Will regulations permit companies to make digital versions of humans without any prior consent? Will the companies take the duty of consent to themselves.
We can't guess what psychological effects this may have. Patent filings do not always result in a product; thus, whether Microsoft's idea will be brought to life is still unclear.
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This one I came by first through #linktuesday. The site was started to make learning Git a lot easier, and I'm thinking they're succeeding. If you're new to Git (and even if you're not), this one might well be very useful to you.
I guess everyone who ever looked into Git has already seen Pro Git, but I need to share this one if I'm talking about Git resources. It's still my default Git resource when I need to look something up.
Cheat sheets are always good, but this one is special. It's not just a listing of the Git commands, but actually contains some explanations as well, making it extra useful. I refer to this one in every single training I deliver on Git.
The company I deliver most of my Git sessions for is one of the leading development and maintenance shops for Drupal and Joomla! projects in The Netherlands, so I've been digging into specific documentation for working with Git in combination with those projects. It turns out that Drupal already has excellent documentation on the topic!
p>It looks like Joomla! is a bit behind on the Git bandwagon, but I learned today from one of my students that Joomla! has actually finalized the decision to fully move to Git, so I'm guessing more documentation will follow soon for Joomla!, right now there is already some third-party blogs that have published some stuff, like the article by howtojoomla.net on how to manage your Joomla! project with Git.
If you know of any other resources on using Git, let me know, I'm always happy to include more links in my training sessions!


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DVLA Set To Close Branches On South Coast
Plans to shut down DVLA regional offices will affect sites in both Bournemouth and Portsmouth.
More than 1,200 jobs are at risk under Government proposals to close 39 regional offices of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), it was announced today (Tuesday 13th December).
The 39 offices are expected to close by the end of 2013 - including the sites in Bournemouth and Portsmouth.
Roads Minister Mike Penning says the proposal, which will now be consulted on, "will make dealing with the DVLA easier and quicker for motorists and businesses".
The Public and Commercial Services union said the news was 'devastating' for staff, especially coming two weeks before Christmas.
The union warned that the closures would wipe out the high-quality face-to-face services provided to the public and the motor trade.
Officials claimed that senior managers denied there were any closure plans after the union exposed what it believed were secret discussions late last year.
Despite a three-month public consultation being launched today, the union said the decision already appeared to have been taken.
General secretary Mark Serwotka said: "With unemployment and inflation remaining high, these cuts to local communities are outrageous and unnecessary, and will further weaken economies crying out for investment.
"DVLA senior managers have previously denied this is what they were planning, so to announce it just two weeks before Christmas is insulting and devastating for staff."


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May 26, 2016 The Real Book Spy
A Book Spy Review: 'The Firemam' by Joe Hill
A deadly plague with no antidote. It's origin a mystery. Cities falling like dominoes. Is this the end of the world?
As a big fan of apocalyptic thrillers, I was really excited for Joe Hill's The Fireman. As a fan of Joe Hill's previous work, I was really disappointed with this offering.
Hill, whose real name is Joseph Hillstrom King, is the son of famed author Stephen King. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that he's displayed a knack for writing horror stories that are stunningly creepy during his career as a novelist. The apple, as they say, didn't fall far from the tree.
Hill has an abundance of talent, there's no question about that. And while I didn't love this book, I have to praise the author's writing style and abilities–it's what kept me going for seven hundred pages after I'd already lost interest in the plot.
The story is about a deadly plague called Draco Incendia Trychophyton, appropriately nicknamed "Dragonscale" because of its unique symptoms. Those who contract it find themselves covered in black and gold marks, before eventually bursting into flames and turning into ash. Sucks, right?
The main character here is a nurse named Harper Grayson, who is sweet and charismatic. I found Harper easy to like and rooted in all the character traits you hope your nurse will exhibit when you're in the hospital yourself.
Harper cared for hundreds of patients infected with Dragonscale before her hospital went under. Married and pregnant, Harper is devastated when she realizes that she's finally caught the plague that causes its victims to spontaneously combust after a short period of time.
The first gut-wrenching part of the story takes place when Jakob, Harper's husband, abandons her after she reneged on a promise they'd made to one another when the outbreak first began. That promise had to do with them each agreeing to kill themselves should they become ill. Harper, though, wants to press on at least long enough to deliver her baby.
The Marry Poppins-like Harper was, as I said, easy to like before–and she's instantly lovable at this moment in the book. Only a heartless person wouldn't root for a pregnant woman fighting a horrible plague long enough to see the birth of her baby. It's worth noting, too, that Harper had seen other infected women deliver healthy babies at the hospital she worked for, so there's genuine reason to get behind her and support her.
Jakob later joins a Cremation Squad, groups of armed citizens hellbent on burning anyone suspected of carrying the Dragonscale disease to the ground.
This is a crucial point in the book, where the story presents itself as something completely unlike anything else currently in circulation. It's subtle, and doesn't happen right away, but the reader eventually sees the humans as the bad guys… and the sick, infected individuals as the good guys.
Hill writes this transition of perspective brilliantly, and I'll admit that I was caught off-guard to suddenly find myself rooting for those infected with the deadly plague. It's a huge change from the way we see apocalyptic events portrayed in books or on television today. Like, for example, in The Walking Dead where the vast majority of watchers are cheering on earth's remaining survivors.
Harper, now on her own, connects with a mysterious man who wanders around New Hampshire in a fireman's jacket and carries with him a crowbar-like weapon. Known only as The Fireman, he's managed to turn his own case of Dragonscale into both a defense mechanism and a weapon, which he uses against those harming other infected people.
With the whole world going up in smoke around her, Harper attempts to make her way to a mysterious refugee camp set up to help the sick. But to do that, and to see her baby, she'll need to learn The Fireman's secret to controlling the fire within.
Can she hold the disease off long enough to find help or will her plan, and her body, go up in flames? Find out in Joe Hill's smoking new thriller, The Fireman!
The Fireman greatly resembled other apocalyptic thrillers and horror stories (like Stephen King's The Stand and Firestarter), but with a little Twilight: Breaking Dawn thrown in there. It works to a point, but becomes tiresome and a chore to read after about four hundred pages.
The Fireman is a cool character, and Harper is a bona fide heroine, but the story drags on far longer than it needs to–packing in umpteen references and nods to other famous books within the genre.
There's also a pretty obvious political agenda written into the plot, which I'm not a big fan of. I prefer my thrillers to thrill, not carry a subliminal message about multiple hot-button issues facing the country during this election period. I understand that the author has his opinions, and that's cool. I just wish they weren't so out in the open here, since this is, after all, a work of fiction designed to entertain.
That's a minor complaint, though, as my biggest issue is the sheer length of the story, which absolutely has dry spells and times when the plot lacks… heat.
Author: Joe Hill
Pages: 747 (Hardcover)
Publisher: William Marrow
Release Date: May 17, 2016 (Order now!)
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Boyle Street is also known as the East Side of the downtown area of Edmonton. The easiest way to find this vibrant area is to directly go east of the downtown core. One can also take the "main avenue," Jasper Avenue east, and you will come to Boyle Street. Besides, the location to the city's core Boyle Street has a long history.
Boyle Street is one of he oldest parts of the city and is named after a lawyer, John Robert Boyle. This street was the home to the first, "downtown" area. It switched hands to the Hudson Bay Company who furthered its development. Because of this transaction the Boyle Street area has a new feel, while continuing to keep some of its historic charm. Some of its historic charm dates back to the early nineteen hundreds.
However, since the Boyle Street area ranges from complete development to underdevelopment areas the city of Edmonton has called for a plan of action. This plan has be given the name the, Downtown East Project. The Downtown East project divided the area into four quarters. The first quarter is called the Heritage quarter, since most of the historic feel and buildings are gathered there. Directly north of the historic area is the Civic Quarter: properly named since the Provincial Law Courts of Alberta are located there. The other tow quarters are named McCauley Quarter and the Five Corners Quarter. These two quarters are for the residents of the Boyle Street area. The population varies amount these last tow quarters from dense to a relax feel.
The Boyle Street area is truly a mixture of environments. It of course has the uniqueness of history and the newly developed residential parts. There is a lot of progress still being made, since there is still a decent amount of underdeveloped areas of Boyle Street. However, it is a great area right east of the downtown core where one can shop, work, and take in many types of entertainment. One can live in the historical quarter and have all the services of a modern and growing city.
The Downtown East Project is the biggest revamping of the area taking place. This makes it a unique area of the downtown area because there is a lot of potential. If one has the mindset to enjoy a lively and growing area of the city, the Boyle Street area might be for you.
Surrounding neighborhoods in the Boyle Street area include; McCauley and Riverdale.


Confused as to whether VOD advertising is broadcast or non-broadcast?
CAP have released a handy Insight article reminding us that advertising in VOD services is regarded as non-broadcast, like other internet and website advertising. Read the full article here.
Could new CAP behavioural rules apply to Connected TV?


Former federal prosecutor Michael I. Behn has been representing whistleblowers for 25 years, helping recover over $500 million in taxpayer funds through some of the most significant whistleblower suits ever brought. This month, Boston's Northeastern University Law magazine recognized Mr. Behn's remarkable career in a profile headlined the "King of Qui Tam." The article can be found at www.bit.ly/BehnKingOfQuiTam.
"Qui tam" is a Latin term (often pronounced "key tam") for the lawsuits brought by Mr. Behn and his clients. In a "qui tam" lawsuit, a citizen who witnesses fraud against the government can sue on the government's behalf to recover taxpayer money stolen through lying or cheating.
These "qui tam" rights come from a statute known as the False Claims Act, a law first established by Abraham Lincoln. The False Claims Act protects whistleblowers who report fraud against the government (called "relators") and incentivizes integrity by paying successful relators 15-30% of any government recovery. These "qui tam" provisions have resulted in billions of dollars in recoveries, and have been expanded to securities fraud, tax fraud, and commodity futures fraud.


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Q: How do I convert a list with non-unique rownames to a (nested) list with unique rownames? I have a long list e2i, which "maps" rownames to values, and has duplicate rownames:
> head(e2i)
$`679594`
[1] "IPR019956"

$`679594`
[1] "IPR019954"

$`679594`
[1] "IPR019955"

$`679594`
[1] "IPR000626"

$`682397`
[1] "IPR019956"

$`682397`
[1] "IPR019954"

I need to convert it into a list with unique rownames, where each named element would be a list of (either named or unnamed) values:
> str(mylist)
List of 2
 $ 679594:List of 3
  ..$ : chr "IPR019956"
  ..$ : chr "IPR019954"
  ..$ : chr "IPR019955"
 $ 682397:List of 2
  ..$ : chr "IPR019956"
  ..$ : chr "IPR019954"

I believe there's a short and elegant solution.
As for long and ugly solution - I think I could do that with a loop like this:
mytest = function(e2i) {
    result = list()
    for (e in names(e2i)) {
            # iterate all rownames, including duplicates
            if (e %in% names(result)) {
                    # convert existing element to a list (if not already a list),
                    # then append new value e2i[[e]] to that nested list
            }
            else {
                    # just add the value to the result
                    result = c(result, e2i[[e]])
            }
    }
    return(result)
}

Initially data was in a matrix, and for my loop solution draft above I'd use it as input:
> head(entrez2interpro_matrix)
  EntrezGene.ID Interpro.ID
1        679594   IPR019956
2        679594   IPR019954
3        679594   IPR019955
4        679594   IPR000626
5        682397   IPR019956
6        682397   IPR019954

A: Have you looked at the reshape package?
Or just use unstack():
> d
  EntrezGene.ID Interpro.ID
1        679594   IPR019956
2        679594   IPR019954
3        679594   IPR019955
4        679594   IPR000626
5        682397   IPR019956
6        682397   IPR019954
> unstack(d, Interpro.ID ~ EntrezGene.ID)
$`679594`
[1] "IPR019956" "IPR019954" "IPR019955" "IPR000626"

$`682397`
[1] "IPR019956" "IPR019954"


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package ru.job4j.inheritance;

public class Person {

    String name;
    int age;

    String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }
}

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