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The Assyrian Genocide: Cultural and Political Legacies
Hannibal Travis
Description - The Assyrian Genocide: Cultural and Political Legacies by Hannibal Travis
For a brief period, the attention of the international community has focused once again on the plight of religious minorities in Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. In particular, the abductions and massacres of Yezidis and Assyrians in the Sinjar, Mosul, Nineveh Plains, Baghdad, and Hasakah regions in 2007-2015 raised questions about the prevention of genocide. This book, while principally analyzing the Assyrian genocide of 1914-1925 and its implications for the culture and politics of the region, also raises broader questions concerning the future of religious diversity in the Middle East. It gathers and analyzes the findings of a broad spectrum of historical and scholarly works on Christian identities in the Middle East, genocide studies, international law, and the politics of the late Ottoman Empire, as well as the politics of the Ottomans' British and Russian rivals for power in western Asia and the eastern Mediterranean basin.
A key question the book raises is whether the fate of the Assyrians maps onto any of the concepts used within international law and diplomatic history to study genocide and group violence. In this light, the Assyrian genocide stands out as being several times larger, in both absolute terms and relative to the size of the affected group, than the Srebrenica genocide, which is recognized by Turkey as well as by international tribunals and organizations. Including its Armenian and Greek victims, the Ottoman Christian Genocide rivals the Rwandan, Bengali, and Biafran genocides. The book also aims to explore the impact of the genocide period of 1914-1925 on the development or partial unraveling of Assyrian group cohesion, including aspirations to autonomy in the Assyrian areas of northern Iraq, northwestern Iran, and southeastern Turkey. Scholars from around the world have collaborated to approach these research questions by reference to diplomatic and political archives, international legal materials, memoirs, and literary works.
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If you're vying for the attention of consumers in a crowded market, you might sometimes feel like you're fighting a losing battle. The fact is, when there are lots of other businesses out there all competing for custom, it can be hard to stand out. So, to help you overcome this problem, here are a few effective ways to get your brand noticed.
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If the content of your marketing message doesn't resonate with your audience, it won't work – no matter how loudly and proudly you push it. In order to get consumers to sit up and pay attention to your products or services, you have to have a well-honed promotional message that appeals to the right people. To ensure your campaigns are spot on, it pays off to do some market research. This can involve conducting questionnaires, holding focus groups and analysing data concerning the demographics of your target audience. By making sure you know exactly who you're trying to appeal to and finding out what it is that makes these people tick, you can fine tune your message so that it has maximum impact.
Companies are always looking for ways to keep their costs in check, but it's important that you don't skimp on your marketing campaigns. If you aren't prepared to spend sufficient sums on these promotional activities, your sales levels could suffer and your long-term success may be compromised. Always bear in mind that when planned and executed properly, marketing campaigns bring in considerably more money than they cost. This should be at the forefront of your mind when you're setting your budget.


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Principal on leave for Facebook post on Kobe Bryant's death
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CAMAS, Wash. - A high school principal in Washington state is on administrative leave for suggesting in a personal Facebook post that NBA superstar Kobe Bryant's death was deserved.
On the day Bryant died, Camas High School Principal Liza Sejkora wrote that "karma caught up with a rapist today."
Bryant was accused of raping an employee at a Colorado resort in 2003.
Prosecutors dropped a sexual assault charge at the accuser's request.
Sejkora apologized and removed her post, but the Camas School District says it put her on leave Tuesday because of threats and community concern.
Bryant, his daughter and seven other people were killed in a helicopter crash.

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Online divorce pilot: 2018
Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service ("HMCTS") had previously published how they proposed that the Courts (in England and Wales) should work differently moving forwards. In order to test the proposals various pilots were to be carried out. Back in January of this year HMCTS announced that an online process for divorce was being introduced and this would be piloted too.
There had previously been a part online service whereby people could complete the form online and print it and send it to the Court but in January this was extended to allow everything to be done online in the first instance.
On 7 June 2018, the right Hon. The Lord Burnett of Maldon spoke at the Sir Henry Brooke annual lecture 2018. He said, in part, that "significant reforms of the civil and family courts have been tested via pilot schemes, such as the online civil money claims pilot – commonly, if inaccurately, referred to as the online court – the probate pilot scheme and the online divorce pilot scheme. These pilots are working well".
He continued that "First, I mention the online divorce pilot. The pilot has now moved to general availability since 1 May. Over 600 applications were received in the first week and a total of 2,600 as of this Monday. In the paper-based world, an uncontested divorce requires a petitioner to fill out a form and file it with the court. Many people fill them in themselves others pay lawyers to do it for them. They are not difficult but the rejection rate illustrates how lawyers sometimes fail to appreciate that what is our meat and drink proves indigestible for others. 40% of those forms have to be sent back to the applicant. They are rejected because they had not been completed properly. The form checking is done by District Judges or fee paid deputies. It is mind-numbing work which does not call for the skill of a judge or the cost involved in deploying a judge to such work. But a 40% rejection rate also wastes the time of the petitioners and of HMCTS in processing the forms. The paper form takes a petitioner about an hour to complete. The new online process takes roughly 25 minutes; less than half the time. And it is designed (as with so much we all do online) to prevent a person moving on to the next stage unless the earlier stage has been completed fully and correctly. The rejection rate is now only 0.5%. The benefits all round are enormous. The President of the Family Division has been singing its praises at every turn. It is the shape of things to come".
Whilst the above all sounds really positive, which is great news, I would certainly recommend that people still do seek legal advice even if they are making the application for divorce online since there are the related financial aspects to be dealt with. If these are not dealt with at the time of divorce it is certainly possible that the other party may make a claim for either property, pensions, lump sums or spousal maintenance at any point in the future (the potential claims do not end upon divorce – which is a common misconception – but instead remain open until an Order of the Court).
If the parties are in agreement regarding the finances and even if the agreement is that either party is to make no financial claim against the other either now, in the future or upon death, that can be dealt with by way of a Consent Order signed by both parties and sent to the Court on paper (so no Court attendance is required). This would provide the parties with protection.


One of my oldest cookie recipes, decadently chocolate and rich, almost like a brownie cookie or a fudge cookie. A 'must-make' for a Christmas cookie tray.
PROBLEM: How do you get two pounds of chocolate home without it melting? SOLUTION: Eat it in the car.
NUTRITION LOGIC: Chocolate comes from cocoa beans. Sugar comes from sugar cane and sugar beets. Beans, sugar cane and beets are vegetables. Therefore chocolate is a vegetable and a healthful diet should include 6 – 8 servings a day.
TWELVE STEPS: Why isn't there a Chocoholics Anonymous organization? Because no one wants to quit.
Okay, okay, the jokes are pretty lame but if you're a chocolate fiend, read on for you may have just discovered your favorite cookie. Gourmet Mocha Cookies are thick with chocolate, butter and eggs and have the consistency of mini flourless chocolate cakes. Coffee adds depth, vanilla adds sweetness. If you need a chocolate fix every day, you'll make these year-round.
ALANNA's TIPS The mini chips melt a bit when folded into the warm batter, creating soft concentrations of chocolate throughout. This recipe calls for a total of 3 cups of chocolate chips, the equivalent of almost 17 ounces. Since bags of chocolate chips typically are a pound big (yes, kitchen mathematicians, that's 16 ounces), I just split the chocolate chips between the chocolate mixture and the last addition of chocolate chips. Make these "three bites big" to yield five dozen. With good-quality, non-stick baking sheets, I place the dough directly on an ungreased surface. But if your cookies occasionally stick to your cookie sheets, use parchment or silicone. Watch the timer on the first batch for baking time is critical: too little and the cookies will be soft and fall apart, too long and they dry out. Store in the freezer for the cookie version of a frozen Snickers bar (that is, addictively delicious but hidden from sight).
CHOCOLATE MIXTURE In a medium saucepan, slowly melt unsweetened chocolate, the first chocolate chips and butter over low heat, stirring occasionally, not allowing the mixture to bubble.
EGG MIXTURE In a large mixing bowl, beat eggs, sugar and coffee granules until eggs are pale and yellow. Add vanilla.
FLOUR MIXTURE Separately, stir together the dry ingredients.
COMBINE When the chocolate mixture is smooth and still hot, fold it into the egg mixture, then fold in the flour mixture. Add the mini chocolate chips and stir. Let batter stand for 15 minutes.
BAKE To form cookies, use one spoon to scoop out about half a spoon of dough, a second spoon to scrape the dough onto a baking sheet, about twelve cookies per sheet to allow for spreading. Bake 8 – 10 minutes until puffed and shiny on top. Do not overbake. Let cool 5 minutes, then transfer to a paper towel with a metal spatula.
Aii, different cookie sheets perform so differently! Notes from a recent batch follow, see what I mean?
Non-stick cookie sheet, 12 cookies per sheet, 9 minutes. Airbake with silicone, 12 cookies per sheet, 14 minutes. Airbake with parchment, 16 cookies per sheet, 11 minutes.
Kitchen Parade is written by second-generation food columnist Alanna Kellogg and features fresh, seasonal dishes for every-day healthful eating and occasional indulgences. How do you feed a chocolate craving? Share a favorite chocolate recipe that other Kitchen Parade readers might like via recipes@kitchen-parade.com. How to print a Kitchen Parade recipe. If you like Kitchen Parade, you're sure to like my food blog about vegetable recipes, too, A Veggie Venture. "Like" Kitchen Parade on Facebook!
These cookies look like my favorites that I find at Whole Foods. Can't go there without getting two! Can't wait for my hubby to make them for me! He loves to cook and I love to find recipes for him.
What a great system! I like it! I'll check Whole Foods on my next visit, maybe that way I can eat just one. Or is it two?!
These did not work at all for me. I think they definitely need more flour. I ended up with a goopy mess, and used the batter to make brownies instead. Sounded good, but the results are iffy.
Hi Mary, So sorry to hear you had trouble. Rest assured, the cookies "do" work, I've made them for many years, again and again. I'm wondering if you missed an ingredient, or got the quantity wrong? The batter is actually quite thick, you definitely have to 'scoop'. That said, recipes do turn out differently depending on different conditions, humidity, flours, etc. But again, I'm so sorry you didn't get what you were expecting, and hope that at least, the 'brownies' were good.


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When people purchase goods online, quite often their cards are declined for different reasons. But they have no idea why since they typically see some vague error message. We fix this in real time. We let consumers know why their card got declined so they know how to fix it. In this way, we facilitate the end of the purchase process. Consumer is happy. Online retailer is even happier.


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I just got my Raspberry Pi a couple of days ago one of the things I want to do now is a time-lapse video (look at this beautiful one). Gphoto2 is a great tool to remote control cameras, so I bought a very cheap one from ebay. The camera arrived today and was in perfect working order.
Btw, did you know the capacitor powering the flash is still loaded with a very high voltage a long time after disconnecting it from any power source? I knew that. And the capacitor reminded me. Twice.


Unfortunately there are a lot of misconceptions about exercise. I always believed that there are too many people with too little real knowledge and give too much advice. The scope of this article is not to look into all the misconceptions surrounding exercise or to clear the myths and truths of fitness but to outline the most effective exercises to lose weight fast. Exercise is vital for weight loss and with so much information available, and some of it of ill content is no surprise that people don't tend to stick with exercise.
Here I have summarized some really good exercises to help you lose weight. This is not an exercise program to follow as such and they are only some suggestions.
1. The exercise that suits you.
This makes top of my list. Regardless of what anybody may say of what is best and what is not, the one exercise regime which you are likely to stick to is the one that rocks your boat.
I have come across statements such as 'exercise is only pumping iron in the gym (in other words lifting weights) and all the rest can't even be defined as exercise'. I won't even bother to comment on that, I will simply say that as long as physical activity is done in the correct technique, it does not contradict any health issues and you are not placing a high injury risk on yourself, it is good enough.
Farmers walk is a simple classic exercise however a lot more demanding that it may appear to be in the first instance. It is good for hand grip, back and shoulders. It also works on the abdominal, pectoral gluteal and leg muscles. You can try to contract the Transversus Abdominus muscle (tummy) to help you keep your posture. Remember to breath.
To perform: Standing, straight back and shoulders back.
Dead lift two weights in each hand. Choose lights weights if a beginner in exercising, such 2kg dumbbells. Hold the weights with arms straight in each side and walk up and down a room.
Walk 4 lengths (depending on the size of the room) or until you feel that your shoulders are falling forward and you can't hold the weights. Rest the weights on the floor and repeat.
Functionality: Think all the shopping bags you carry walking around.
This exercise works on the back and arm muscles.
Functionality: Think of cutting wood for the fireplace.
To perform: Use a bench. Stand on the side, place your right knee flexed and right hand for support on the bench. Keep your left leg straight on the floor positioned slightly back. *Assume a semi on fours position.
Hold a dumbbell with the left hand. Pull the dumbbell upwards on the side by flexing your elbow until the dumbbell touches your ribs. Lower until the arm is straight (keep elbows relaxed) and repeat x8. Repeat exercise with opposite side.
Start with low weights to your own comfort and increase with practice.
It sounds rude but is a very good exercise for agility and an all over strength workout. Aim to perform this exercise as fast as possible but make sure you keep the correct technique. Best practice a few times and increase the speed as you build more confidence.
To perform: Begin in a standing position.
Lower to towards the ground into a squat position and place your hands on the ground.
By placing your weight to your arms to support yourself, extend your feet backwards in one quick motion to the front plank position.
Then bring your legs back in and return to the squat position in one quick motion.
Return to the starting upright standing position.
Single arm squat and swing.
This is another example of a whole body exercise. The single arm squat and swing works the muscles in the hips, thighs, back and abdomen and arms.
To perform: Stand with your legs hip width apart, back straight and shoulders back and down.
Hold a dumbbell (or any weight) with your right hand.
Return to standing position and at the same time swing the weight over your head. Keep your arm extended during movement. Lower the weight and repeat x4 with each arm.
Practice with low weights before moving to heavier weights or increasing the speed in which you perform the exercise to avoid injuries.
A good circuit program would incorporate exercises for most parts of the body. It would also incorporate both resistance and some aerobic exercises. They also tend to alternate high and low intensity exercises. Alternating the intensity of the exercises can help increase the fat you are mobilising during exercise.
Most places such as gyms and health clubs tend to offer circuit classes. You could make your own DIY circuit program however it may be challenging to gather all the paraphernalia and set up your own circuit.
4. Finish your workout with a blast of aerobic exercise.
If you opt for the old fashion resistance program finish off with a blast of aerobic exercise. There has always been a debate between aerobic fans and weight fans as to which one is best for weight loss. The truth is that there are a number of factors that influence weight loss and the effects of exercise.
Performing resistance exercise first can lead into using most of the glycogen you have stored. If you combine this with an aerobic workout then you are likely to be mobilising fat as a fuel.
1. Always warm up to avoid injuries.
2. Best recommended to consult a health professional and/or exercise professional prior to taking on any exercise.


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Twitter, the micro-blogging online social networking service has been in existence since 2006. It allows users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". Although, the media mainly quote Twitter in the context of celebrity sleaze -idle and ignorant chit chat among the 'Twitterati'and/or in the context of political upheavals -it is widely being used as a communication and marketing tool among professional individuals, organisations and institutions associated with education and research.
Promote yourself - Twitter can be used to find research posts & projects you can work on and collaborate on with other like-minded individuals.


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Use your Flexystruder-equipped LulzBot 3D printer to make custom 3D printed NinjaFlex® window clings!
Aleph Objects, Inc., makers of the LulzBot brand of Desktop 3D Printers and parts announced a partnership with IC3D at the 2017 Midwest RepRap Festival. A first in the history of 3D printing, this Open Source collaboration will help push forward innovation in 3D printing material technology and will speed up the flight to quality.
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Q: How can i change a One-To-Many relationsship entry with Hibernate in JPA I have a Class called 'Customer'. This class has a OneToMany relationsship to a nother Class called 'Auftraege'.
@Entity
@NamedQuery(name = "all.customers", query = "SELECT c FROM Customer c")
public class Customer implements Serializable {

private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

public Customer() {
    super();
}

@OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.EAGER, cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
@JoinColumn(name = "_id_auftrag", referencedColumnName = "_id")
private Set<Auftraege> auftraege = new HashSet<Auftraege>();

[getter/setter]

 }

Auftraege.class
@Entity
public class Auftraege implements Serializable {

private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

public Auftraege() {
    super();
}

@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private int _id;

@Column(unique = true)
private int auftragsnummer;

@Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
private Date datum;

@Column(length = 60)
private String themengebiet;

@Column(length = 10)
private String status;

@Column(length = 350)
private String begruendung;

public int get_id() {
    return _id;
}

public void set_id(int _id) {
    this._id = _id;
}

public int getAuftragsnummer() {
    return auftragsnummer;
}

public void setAuftragsnummer(int auftragsnummer) {
    this.auftragsnummer = auftragsnummer;
}

public Date getDatum() {
    return datum;
}

public void setDatum(Date datum) {
    this.datum = datum;
}

public String getThemengebiet() {
    return themengebiet;
}

public void setThemengebiet(String themengebiet) {
    this.themengebiet = themengebiet;
}

public String getStatus() {
    return status;
}

public void setStatus(String status) {
    this.status = status;
}

public String getBegruendung() {
    return begruendung;
}

public void setBegruendung(String begruendung) {
    this.begruendung = begruendung;
}

}

Now, i want to change the 'status' Attribute in the 'Auftraege' class to another entry.
For that i have a datatable which holds the customer and if i clicked a button (each row has one) than i want to get the clicked row customer and change the 'status' attribute from the 'Auftraege' class. But how can i do that ?  Always i got all the Auftraege as a list from the Customer, but i want just the one, i've clicked.
Here's the class which i called when i click the button in the table:
@Named
@SessionScoped
public class AuswertungBean implements Serializable {

    public void genehmigen(Customer c) {
    Customer cu = c;
    for (Auftraege a : cu.getAuftraege()) {

        System.out.println(a.getAuftragsnummer());

    }
}

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You are Wrong in proscribing IPOB, Ohaneze asks Nigeria Govt to Unproscribe IPOB
You are Wrong in proscribing IPOB, Ohaneze asks Nigeria Govt to Unproscribe IPOB Anambra State President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Damian...
Anambra State President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Damian Okeke-Ogene has called on the Federal Government to remove the terrorist label on the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB because, he argued, the organization does not threaten lives and property.
Addressing reporters in Awka, Okeke-Ogene urged security operatives to concentrate more in the Northeast to end the unwanted killings by those who, he said, hate the unity of Nigeria.
He described as unfortunate and unacceptable the declaration of IPOB as a terrorist organization, while other agitating groups, especially in the northern part of Nigeria that specialize in kidnapping and killing of innocent Nigerians on daily basis were moving freely without trial and prosecution. Okeke-Ogene, who is aspiring for the position of national vice president of Ohanneze in the election slated for January, 2021, said it was unfortunate that a group that does not carry arms could be labeled terrorist.
He wondered why the federal government has refused to prosecute the Fulani herdsmen, bandits and other dangerous groups responsible for the kidnapping and killings going on in the northern part of Nigeria. He said: "Have you ever heard that IPOB kidnapped or killed anybody unjustly? Why should the government go to court within 24hrs after a misunderstanding between Operation Python Dance II of the Nigerian Army and IPOB without a proper investigation and declared the group a terrorist organization, while those with intention of tarnishing the image of the country before the international community are operating freely in the society without any government action? "The Federal Government was totally wrong in declaring IPOB a terrorist organisation."
According to him, IPOB is a group of young men of Igbo extraction that do assemble when the need arises to deliberate on issues affecting their welfare and the region as enshrined in Nigeria Constitution. "I think that what we should do as one people is for us to continue to pray and work together to ensure that the current security challenges tormenting the country come to an end and not to tag a particular group in a region that happens to be the safest region in Nigeria, as terrorist organization," Okeke-Ogene said.
He, however, commended the effort of the Katsina State governor, Aminu Bello Masari and the security agencies on the safe rescue of theabducted school children of Government Science School, Kankara and urged the security agencies and other authorities to also checkmate the activities of Niger Republic and Lake Chad immigrants.


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In the early days of artificial intelligence (AI), Hans Moravec asserted what became known as Moravec's paradox: "it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult-level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility."
This assertion held for a quarter of century but is now unraveling primarily due to the ascent of deep learning (DL). With the rapid advance of deep learning, it is essential to understand how this technology will mature by the end of this decade and which forces are shaping the leadership hardware and software in the 2019/2020 timeframe.
In the early 2000s, the availability of massively parallel compute capabilities and huge amounts of data were joined by breakthroughs in machine learning techniques. The beginning of a revolution in the field of computing was marked by leaps such as those achieved by Geoffrey Hinton's lab at the University of Toronto (2006). This included training of individual neural layers and paving the way to larger networks with more layers, essentially making the models "deeper". This speed up resulted in effective and viable compute models for solving real-world problems. Deep learning was born as an updated take on the previous 'connectionism' approach, and has boosted the reach and results of machine learning in a profound way ever since.
Scientists started throwing larger datasets at the newly defined deep neural networks (DNNs), and were soon solving tasks such as image and speech recognition with near-human accuracy. Traditional automakers and technology companies engaged in a race to bring the promise of autonomous driving closer every day. After a long winter, AI blossomed and transformed the face of tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook, while at the same time a multitude of deep learning startups received hundreds of millions in venture capital.
The transformative impact of AI and deep learning extends well beyond the high-tech industry. AI was in its 'childhood' during the years 2014-15, and fields like medicine, health care, agriculture, oil and gas, finance, banking, transportation, and even urban planning, started experimenting with the application of this technology. By 2020, deep learning will have reached a fundamentally different stage of maturity and efficiency orientation, and will be 'coming of age.' Deployment and adoption will cross the line from experimentation into core implementation and will permeate most fields of research and industries.
This rapid and fundamental transformation across industries and fields is happening not as a result of a one-dimensional breakthrough event, but rather through the collection of advances on a number of different fronts. We expand on these below.
Increased Topology Variety and Dataset Size and Complexity
In 2012, Google's neural networks taught themselves to recognize cats and humans in YouTube* videos with 70% accuracy, a significant improvement over machine learning methods at the time. Just six years later, this technology has evolved to support real-life applications such as the identification of potentially malignant cells in 3D medical imaging — computations involving many more dimensions than earlier. As datasets have become more complex over the years, deep learning topologies have evolved.
The initial progress with neural nets has been illustrated by the ImageNet* project, an annual competition in visual recognition, with different topologies being developed to address the challenge: AlexNet* (Alex Krizhevsky, 2012), GoogLeNet/Inception (2104), and Residual Neural Network (ResNet) among others. The solutions improved at a very fast pace and have resulted in major changes to the structure of the DL topologies – e.g., growing from 8 layers to 152 layers in just 4 years.
AI Shifts Towards Significantly More Inference Cycles
Advancements in speed and accuracy have made deep learning both viable and cost-effective, pushing deep learning from its exploration phase into broad deployment. As deep learning has been adopted more broadly, there has been a clear shift in the ratio between cycles of training (producing models) and inference (applying models) from 1:1 in early days of DL, to potentially well over 1:5 by 2020. Additionally, real-world applications have increasingly stricter latency, demanding lightning-fast DL inference. This brings inference acceleration to the spotlight and core of many hardware and software solutions and promises a more rapid expansion of inference infrastructure.
Deep Learning Frameworks and the Democratization of Data Science
The early AI techniques have traditionally involved deep expertise in the programming of data parallel-machines and specialized statistical libraries in frameworks such as R*, MATLAB*, Python*, Java*, Scala*, or C++*. The rapid maturation of deep learning into broad deployment has been supported by the development of frameworks that abstract away lower level dependencies and facilitate deep learning implementation at scale: from Theano* in 2007, to Caffe* in 2013, and Torch* in 2014. However, the major shift to deep learning at scale happened starting circa 2016 with deep learning frameworks providing a new level of abstraction, tools, and hardware-independence, spurring a tremendous increase in the number of data scientists and AI practitioners developing models in the new deep learning frameworks.
TensorFlow* was released by Google in 2017. Its flexible architecture allows for the easy deployment of computation across a variety of platforms, and from desktops, to clusters of servers, to mobile and edge devices. TensorFlow quickly became the most widely used deep learning framework. Other frameworks were introduced during the 2016 to 2018 period including Caffe2*, PyTorch*, MXNet*, CNTK*, and PaddlePaddle*.
The release of multiple frameworks which significantly facilitate the implementation of deep learning in different environments has greatly contributed to its democratization, making it much more accessible and further strengthening the dissemination and wide adoption of DL-based applications.
Hardware Architectures for Heterogeneous Deployments
The adoption of AI throughout its childhood phase was strongly supported by GPUs. Yet, GPUs were not originally architected for neural network deployment. Due to the availability of GPUs, DL algorithms were adapted to use them for acceleration, gaining a significant boost in performance and bringing the training of several real-world problems to a feasible and viable range for the first time.
CPUs, libraries, and other software capabilities were initially not optimized for DL, but have gone through significant optimization during 2016-2018. Through the addition of dedicated libraries such as Intel® Math Kernel Library for Deep Neural Networks (Intel® MKL-DNN), CPU systems have demonstrated enormous performance compared to levels observed in early 2016 (i.e. Intel® Xeon® processor E5 v3 (codenamed Haswell) with BVLC-Caffe) – up to 277x for inference (for GoogleNetv1 using Intel® Optimization for Caffe*) and 241x for training (for AlexNet using Intel Optimization for Caffe)1, respectively. Many topologies specifically benefit from processing on CPUs like Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors because of the memory requirements or hybrid workloads involved. Additionally, since Intel Xeon Scalable processors are relied upon for so many other enterprise workloads, leveraging them for AI comes at minimal extra cost.
For customers whose DL demands grow more intensive and sustained, a new class of accelerators is emerging, with very high concurrency of large numbers of compute elements (spatial architectures), fast data access, high-speed memory close to the compute, high-speed interconnect, and multi-node scaled solutions. Intel is developing a purpose-built accelerator, called the Intel® Nervana™ Neural Network Processor (Intel® Nervana™ NNP), which delivers on all of these fronts. Similarly, Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ X VPU and other Movidius VPUs offer capabilities for media processing and DL inference for low-power edge devices.
Increased Breadth of Deployment
The years 2014 and 2015 have witnessed a great amount of experimentation for AI within commercial deployments. Today, most companies are still at stages of exploration and starting to understand the benefits that AI can bring to their individual industries. By 2020, AI will move in the technology adoption cycle from "early adopters" to "early majority," with deployments moving from experimental into the main lines of business. We will also observe a more accelerated adoption within academic/scientific and government environments. Such broad deployment requires solutions that cover a wide range of settings – from sub-watt end devices, to megawatt racks, and all that is between. Rolling out deployment in line of business implies shifting the criteria towards scale, flexibility, power, and cost efficiency.
Increased Accuracy in Performance Assessments
Earlier hardware performance metrics such as TOPs (peak theoretical Tera Operations per second) are not a representative measure of performance for AI. TOPs measure the raw compute potential of a platform, which rarely happens in AI applications. It does not capture meaningful utilization constraints from real DL workloads such as data residency and reuse, data flow and interconnect, and workloads that combine compute types (e.g., attention in Neural Machine Translation, or Reinforcement Learning). More relevant benchmarks are starting to emerge, in which actual workloads are being exercised. In those benchmarks, accuracy is generally maintained while the measured metrics include effective TOPs (or throughput), power efficiency (inferences per second per Watt), latency, and, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). To address the various limits of machines, benchmarks will tend to cover image recognition, Speech or Neural Machine Translation (NMT), and elements of recommendation systems.
What it Takes to Win at Scale
From the most-advanced drone to the largest data center, the upcoming larger and broader deployment of AI will demand a comprehensive portfolio of products and platforms addressing different requirements and constraints (such as at the edge vs. in the data center). Today, inference primarily runs on CPU, and a typical deployment will use a mix of neural networks and other types of compute. The trade-offs between performance, power efficiency, and latency vary significantly across compute environments, and highly efficient solutions demand completely integrated systems with optimized interactions between CPU, accelerator (when needed), memory, storage, and fabric. The AI space is becoming increasingly complex, and a one-size-fits-all solution cannot optimally address the unique constraints of each environment across the spectrum of AI compute.
The key elements of a leadership solution include a proliferated highly effective CPU as a flexible and powerful platform foundation, combined with a portfolio of specialized competitive acceleration for specific rigorous workloads from the end-point to the data center, a tightly integrated system to provide the best overall real-world solution, and a strong software stack to support all the popular deep learning frameworks. These are the considerations we have in mind as we build our product roadmap to best support AI on Intel® architecture.
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Stopping To Drink: Is It Worth The Time?
Dayton Kelly
This article was adapted from a combination of speeches given at the European Sports Science Conference 2017, most notably Lewis James PhD (Loughbrough University, UK).
Research in dehydration and exercise has long been clouded in uncertainty despite athletes having been observed to lose three to four liters of water an hour exercising in the heat. It is clear that at some point dehydration impairs performance (dying of thirst would certainly increase your marathon time), but the magnitude of dehydration required for performance impairment remains debatable. Recommendations for fluid consumption may be further obscured as performance impairment will further depend on exercise type and the method of dehydration. It does appear, however, that long distance endurance exercise, such as marathon running, does display the greatest performance decrement with dehydration. So, is stopping to drink worth the time?
Where does the current literature stand?
In its infancy, research in dehydration suggested water loss may actually improve performance. It was found that the most successful athletes at marathon type events were actually the most dehydrated and thus dehydration must equal better performance. It was thought that the accompanying weight loss with dehydration may improve running economy. This conception has been since rejected realizing winning athletes were likely more dehydrated because they were running harder.
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Since then, the body of literature has suggested that dehydration resulting in weight loss that exceeds 2% of the athlete's total body mass will impair marathon-type performance. While this threshold has been repeatedly demonstrated, it has recently been called into question. It was recognized that no literature to date had actually blinded participants of their dehydrated status. Thus, people may be performing worse because they think dehydration will make them perform worse rather than any physiological mechanism be at play.
This would support the idea that marathon runners do not need to drink during marathon running. To tackle this issue, a sample of athletes performed twice performed testing hooked up to a machine providing an intravenous saline solution. On one of these occasions the machine provided regular saline, maintaining hydration throughout the exercise task, and on the other, hypohydrated saline solution was used to induce dehydration. On both occasions, participants were unaware of whether or not they were being rehydrated. The study found impairment regardless of participant blinding, suggesting a real physiological mechanism of dehydration exists.
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The literature suggests a physiological threshold for marathon-like exercise performance at a 2% body mass loss of water. Thus, marathon runners are advised to maintain hydration during marathon running to prevent too much fluid loss.
NOTE: Runners should practice like they perform, should you choose to rehydrate during your marathon you should practice grabbing cups of water while running, as you will have to do in competition.
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Sean Penn is known to be outspoken and creative in his thoughts which is clearly justified in his book called "Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff". If you are not an avid book reader, you might not understand everything in the book and you might want to keep a dictionary handy. The fictional character in Penn's debut novel is named Bob Honey, who according to the author, leads a rather abnormal life. Bob tries to express himself as a social person although his antisocial character finally takes the lead. The author also uses Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff as a platform to infer to celebrities who are not involved in politics. Penn mentions a lot of social issues troubling the world right now and mentions the absurdity of people dealing with them as he believes that they are totally solvable.
If you have known Penn as a person, then you are bound to find some similarities between him and the central character in the book, "Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff". Both the individuals are not only discontent with the existing political storm but also have a strong desire to help people on humanitarian grounds. In the novel, Bob Honey travels to Iraq to analyze the devastation post the war era and also expresses his ways to help people affected by the hurricane in America. In real life, Sean Penn also made efforts in terms of organizing boats for people trapped by waters of Hurricane Katrina. When you pay deep attention to the book, you will notice that Bob Honey is more inclined towards the left wing's politics, however, he does not stand with the #MeToo movement.
Sean Penn has presented Bob Honey as a very interesting character who is not only bold but also is ready to take up the challenge with the current President of the United States on Twitter. In this section of the book, "Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff", Penn expresses his disagreement and discontent at the President's tweets and how they are bullying at times to a lot of American people. He also refers to the commander-in-chief as a landlord. Bob Honey also mentions how there were millions of women who marched on the inauguration day of the President and how that trumped the inauguration numbers. Penn also mentions about the Parkland shooting in one of his interviews and he applauded the courage of the students during those tough times. He also mentions that Bob Honey's character is not promoting any form of violence in any way.


The first Saturday in February brought arctic temperatures to the West Roxbury, Ma. Home Depot, but inside the store it was all snugly and warm, The Kids Workshop was taking place. The children filed into the workshop they took off their hats, scarfs and winter jackets and immediately found a place at the workshop tables to build this month project, a Heart Shaped Candy Box.
Along with the tools and goggles, each builder was encouraged to wipe their hands with a sanitizing wipe to keep the germs at bay. The kids loved the project; the workshop was very busy there was a constant flow of tiny builders all morning long.
Look at this little guy, he had no problem sleeping through all the commotion and the pounding hammers :) and it was a sticky situation when all was said and done with this wee builder!
The finished candy box was covered with heart stickers, the perfect Valentines gift for his mom one little builder told me, and another little girl said she was going to use her box for her jewelry, or hair clips.
It fills my heart with joy every month to see the workshop packed with kids just wanting to build, get the pin and receive their certificate….. The kids are always so proud to show off the finish product!
Bring your favorite little person to a Kids Workshop; check it out online for monthly workshop details, mark it on the calendar, believe me it will leave an impression and make some memories that will totally warm your heart!


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Looking over my back issues of Antiphon (the publication of the Society for Catholic Liturgy) a few days ago, I re-read an essay by the English monsignor Bruce Harbert (a member of ICEL) titled, "The Roman Rite and the English Language" (vol. 9, no. 1 [2005]). He writes:
Translations from Latin can easily be tempted to translate with a preponderance of Latinate words, which can give the resulting text a cold and remote tone. This is because so much of our abstract vocabulary is composed of recognisably Latinate words. The Douai Bible is the classic instance of this procedure. There is another way, which is to exploit the native resources of our vocabulary. In his fine essay "Politics and the English Language" George Orwell recommended this as one of the best ways of ensuring that you write vividly and vigorously. Many modern writers have experimented with this technique, privileging the native above the imported in their choice of words. The first of Ezra Pound's Cantos is a remodeling of a book of Homer in an insistently English idiom. Tony Harrison followed him with a muscular translation of Aeschylus' Oresteia that uses the alliterative patterns of Anglo-Saxon poetry. Seamus Heaney in his recent translation of Beowulf plundered the English word-hoard that his original offered him, incorporating also words from the languages, both English and Gaelic, of his native Ireland. But to my mind the best example of all, and highly appropriate as a model for translators from Latin, is Ted Hughes' version of Ovid's Metamorphoses, an astonishing tour de force that uses native resources to match the power and dexterity of his original.
Since Monsignor Harbert's knowledge of Literature vastly exceeds my own, I am in no position to comment on (much less dispute) what he says about these works. But I would like to share a few thoughts about his remarks specifically as they relate to the task of liturgical translation.
First, Latin is part of English. The languages of the peoples of England were overlaid with Saxon, Danish, Latin, and (after 1066) French. Latin, thanks largely to Christianity's spread over the island, became part of English well over a millennium ago. So, if one truly wants to separate "native" from "imported" and to summon up the original speech of the English people, one would have to learn Icelandic, which, I am told, is the modern European language closest to Anglo-Saxon. (Indeed, we are not now what we once were.)
Second, I am concerned about setting Latin aside in favor of some kind of (supposedly) more supple and natural English because Latinate English has "a cold and remote tone." This remoteness is not the case when and where people have had adequate exposure to the true richness of English. (Is "paternity" really colder than "fatherhood"?) The problem is not with the tone but with the hearers, who have underdeveloped ears and limited understanding.
Third, it seems to me that we should celebrate the richness of English, since we have a language that is eager to add words to the word-hoard. Compare English to German, which typically makes new words by building on old ones (with the result being polysyllabic monsters), or to French, which has refused to add words from other languages to its lexicon. Why not use all the words?
Finally, the Monsignor is speaking of a difference of kind and not merely of degree. He cites various secular texts as examples of translations that he favors, and, as I said, I do not presume to quibble with his opinions of them. However, he is ultimately speaking of translating sacred texts (by which I mean Sacred Scripture and liturgical texts). The secular texts he cites and the sacred texts of Christian Tradition are two very different things. While the translators of the King James Version of the Bible may have made many errors in translation, they at least understood (in contrast to many modern translators, it would seem) that they had to do honor and justice to the revealed Word itself. It is simply a matter of ensuring that the level of diction corresponds to the seriousness of the subject.
I welcome input from those better schooled than I in linguistics and literature.


Stephen Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the University of Exeter Business School. He previously held lecturing posts at Manchester Business School and at the Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. Before his academic career he worked in a variety of management roles in the hotel industry and in the NHS.
Stephen is a Chief Examiner for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, having responsibility for professional examinations in Employment Law, the Strategic Business Context and Leading, Managing and Developing People.
He teaches employment law, employee resourcing, employee relations, international HRM and the business context at postgraduate and undergraduate level. Research interests include employee retention, occupational pensions and regulatory issues. He is the author / co-author of several books including five editions of 'People Resourcing / 'Resourcing & Talent Management', three editions of 'Employment Law: An Introduction' (with Astra Emir), 'The Employee Retention Handbook' and six editions of 'Human Resource Management' (with Derek Torrington, Laura Hall and Carol Atkinson). A new book by Stephen entitled 'Contemporary Issues in Human Resource Management' has recently been published. He regularly represents parties in employment tribunals and speaks at business events in the UK and Europe.
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Torrington, D, Hall, L, Taylor, S, Atkinson, C (2014). Human Resource Management. London, UK, FT/Prentice Hall.
Taylor, Stephen (2014). Resourcing and Talent Management. London, UK, CIPD Publishing.
Taylor S, Woodhams C (2012). Managing People and Organisations.
Taylor S (2011). Contemporary Issues in Human Resource Management. London, UK, CIPD Publishing.
Torrington D, Hall, Laura, Taylor, Stephen, Atkinson, Carol (2008). Fundamentals of Human Resource Management. London, UK, FT/Prentice Hall.
Taylor S (2005). People resourcing. London, UK, CIPD Publishing.
Taylor S (2002). The Employee Retention Handbook. London, UK, CIPD Publishing.
Taylor S (2000). Occupational pensions and employee retention: debate and evidence. Employee Relations, 22(3).
Carroll M, Earnshaw J, Marchington M, Taylor S (1999). Recruitment Practices in Small Firms. Employee Relations, 21(3).
Taylor S, Earnshaw J (1995). An Exploration of Employer Objectives in the Provision of Occupational Pension Schemes in the 1990s. Employee Relations, 17(2).
Taylor S (2016). Compensation policy and employee retention. In Saridakis G, Cooper C (Eds.) The Research Handbook on Employee Retention, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Taylor S (2014). Achieving a better work-life balance. In Wetherly P, Otter D (Eds.) The Business Environment, Oxford University Press.
Taylor S (2014). Recruitment and selection. In Rees G, Smith P (Eds.) Human Resource Management: an International Perspective, London: Sage.
Taylor S (2012). McDonalds UK: improving recruitment and retention by enhancing corporate reputation. In Wilkinson A, Dundon T (Eds.) Case Studies in Global Management: Strategy, Innovation and People Management, Australia: Tilde University Press.


Following Peter Bache's successful charity walk, in 2018, in aid of Prostate Cancer UK & the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham where he raised a staggering £61,500.
Peter is now seeking to raise money for the RFU's Injured Players Foundation (IPF) who support rugby players with catastrophic injuries and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham which provided him with such wonderful treatment when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2017. Peter is now in remission and is once again turning his sights towards raising money for an important cause.
The journey will begin at Twickenham (HQ of the RFU) on the 1 May 2019 and finishes at Stourbridge Rugby Club on 10 May 2019 hopefully finishing in time for the famous May lunch at Stourbridge Rugby Club…the "largest rugby club lunch" outside of London.
To find out ways you can help, make donations through Gift Aid, or more importantly how to participate by walking and cycling with us…then please click on the "find out more" button below.


The BBC may have breathed a sigh of relief as the U.K. government's blueprint for the pubcaster, released last week, left it largely unscathed. But rivals are likely dismayed that the network is maintaining what they see as an unfair advantage with a funding plan set to last at least a decade.
The government's white paper protects the BBC's domestic public service and global commercial activities, guaranteeing the broadcaster's £3.7 billion ($5.3 billion) license fee funding for another 11 years from 2017.
The annual fee, paid by all U.K. homes owning a TV set, has been frozen at £145.50 ($209) since 2010; increases starting next year will be pegged to inflation, provided the BBC passes a "health check" after five years. Also, those who watch TV online will now be required to pay the fee.
But others are unsatisfied. Many observers believed the white paper would mandate that the BBC sell the lucrative UKTV network, owned jointly with U.S. media firm Scripps Networks Interactive. "This will be a disappointment for the commercial sector, that the BBC has not been reduced in scope or size," says Michael Grade, the former BBC chairman and ex-ITV executive chairman.
$209 Annual household licensing fee for owning a TV set in the U.K.
The white paper opens the door for BBC subscription plans, at home and potentially overseas, stipulating that the broadcaster launch trial pay services over the next five years. "We'll see an SVOD BBC offering based on the BBC Store before too long," Hewlett predicts, referring to a domestic iTunes-style service launched last year based on the BBC's 60-plus-year archive. The Beeb, which has traditionally opposed subscription plans due to fears they would erode license-fee funding, could form an SVOD partnership with ITV and possibly NBCUniversal, according to reports.
The most contentious issue to emerge from the white paper is a proposal that, for the first time in the BBC's 93-year history, government appointees will sit on a new "unitary board." The body, which would replace the discredited BBC Trust and board of governors, would be responsible for determining the network's editorial direction. Some claim that, if implemented, it risks compromising the pubcaster's global reputation for journalistic integrity and impartiality.


In 2009 a committee, consisting of members within the Central Islip Fire Department, was formed to design a memorial park as a dedication to all department members who have served and answered the last alarm since the department was founded over 100 years ago. This memorial will also be a dedication to 1st responders and members of our community who lost their lives tragically on September 11th 2001.
The goal of the memorial is to provide a tranquil setting where family, friends and members of the department can gather to reflect on the deceased. We envision a place where memories will be shared, individuals can be honored and a meeting area for memorials to recognize those who have served.
Because this will be a community gathering place we hope to enlist the support of a broad range of Central Islip residents and as many members, friends and family of the department as possible.
The committee has selected 6X9 pavers that are available for purchase and can be engraved with the deceased name, rank, years of service etc. If you are interested in purchasing a paver, order forms are available to print. Please see the memorial brick tab within the Department Memorial link.


Douglas Kirkland was born in Toronto Canada. He joined Look Magazine in his early twenties, and later Life Magazine during the golden age of 60's/70's photojournalism. Among his assignments were essays on Greece, Lebanon and Japan as well as fashion and celebrity work, photographing Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlene Dietrich among others. Through the years, Douglas Kirkland has worked on the sets of over one hundred motion pictures. Among them, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "2001 A Space Odyssey", "Out of Africa", "Titanic" "Moulin Rouge" and "Australia" Baz Luhrmann's epic starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.


Albert Residence Covent Garden Piazza in London is an apartment building.
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Featuring city views, Albert Residence Covent Garden Piazza in London features accommodation, an outdoor swimming pool and a spa and wellness centre. ...The accommodation comes with a fully equipped kitchen with a dishwasher, a flat-screen TV and a private bathroom with bath and shower. An oven and toaster are also offered, as well as a kettle. A Full English/Irish breakfast is available each morning at the apartment. The wellness area at Albert Residence Covent Garden Piazza is comprised of a sauna and an indoor pool. Popular points of interest near the accommodation include Royal Opera House, Dominion Theatre and Covent Garden. London City Airport is 14 km from the property, and the property offers a paid airport shuttle service.
When would you like to stay at Albert Residence Covent Garden Piazza?


Not sure if too many of you know this, but a crane collapsed in New York City on Saturday. It's an enormous tragedy and nothing could possibly justify making any jokes from the situation. However, with a steadfast desire to figure out exactly what happened, I mocked up some possible scenarios using a computer physics simulation software called "Phun." Hopefully it can be of help to the investigators. Videos are below.


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Caitlin Wachs 30 Lingerie. Kenrod was written on December 22, Clark treats Robert Mitchum to a look at the candy. My Candy Doll! Add to stream. Continue to external site Go Back.


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The mission of People Preserving Peteetneet (PPP); a non-profit, tax exempt, museum and cultural arts center; is to preserve our history, serve the public and promote community involvement through heritage education, preservation of historic artifacts as well as the preservation of the Historic Peteetneet Museum and Cultural Arts Center's rich historical and cultural legacies by adding to the understanding of Payson, its heritage, people, places and events.
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Our vision, which is strong and dynamic, is successful in preserving the legacy of the past while meeting constantly evolving needs of present and future generations of our community. Our facility plays a vital role in Payson's cultural life and serves the community by making the most effective use of resources to provide:
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Buried Child, drama, play, Pulitzer Prize - May 10, 2019
Meet the Buried Child Cast: William Treichel as Reverend Dewis
This will be William's second venture into the world of theatre, having played "Ray" in "Simply Divided". He is privileged to participate in such and important American play as "Buried Child". He is, however, the only member of the production to have been directed by Sam Shepard. In 1981, in Seattle, he was an extra in his movie "Frances". It was a crowd scene and he was dressed in Depression era clothes. He remembers Shepard in the back of a stake bed pick up. Shepard wore a weathered brown leather jacket and his instructions were "Be loud, be angry." While he has looked for that brief bit of fame in the film he thinks it ended up on the cutting room floor. Regardless, here he is playing the very funny Reverend Dewis. Though it is the smallest role in Buried Child, William gets to enjoy some of the best punchlines to be delivered in this dark comedy.
One never knows where one's paths will lead.
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This property was purchased at Auction in January of 2012. It was in terrible cosmetic condition and required extensive cleanup. The property required replacement of the roof due to hail damage. The basic infrastructure of the house was in sound condition, and most of the damage to the floors was repaired by using boards from a closet. The closet flooring was replaced with carpet. Several interior doors were replaced, and a fresh coat of paint was put on newly patched walls. A great project. This house sold in 1 day above asking price with multiple offers.


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While there's certainly qualities in this show that are really good, I found myself rather unimpressed to be brutally honest.
Story - 3/10
Kousei Arima was a prodigy at playing the piano. He dominated every competition on a regular basis by playing the music perfectly as it was intended by the composer. He was so dominant to the point where he became famous among child and adult musicians alike. However, after the death of his mother (who was also his instructor), he was unable to cope with it and eventually lost the ability to hear the piano. He then quit shortly after. For the next couple of ... years, the world around him became dull and lifeless aside from a couple of his friends, until he met this extremely cheerful violinist, Kaori Miyazono. She revealed to him a side and style of music he never knew existed, and eventually convinced him to give the piano another shot.
The premise doesn't sound too bad. In fact, the way it handles the romance plot is pretty neat. It isn't just simply your typical boy meets girl and then they eventually confess, blah blah; there's a lot more to it than that. It focuses more on Kousei's development as a result of Kaori's carefree happy-go-lucky personality. The story is told primarily in Kousei's point of view, and likewise the plot revolves somewhat around him. Other characters do get screen time as well, though, and occasionally we do hear their take on things too.
A big thing that really makes the story stand out (in the first half, particularly) is how it portrays the music. Why do we play music? Who are you playing for? What message are you trying to convey? Music isn't just there to pleasure your ears, it's used as a tool to speak from the heart. Who you are as a person, what you've gone through, and what you strive for are all expressed in how you play music. The notes may be the same, but the feel of the song can vastly vary with the way people play it. In other words, you take the music and make it your own. The way this narrative and message are pushed is rather distinct and effective in my eyes, and it was one of the few things that kept me captivated throughout the series.
Despite how well this all is presented, there were still quite a lot of flaws, particularly in its execution of several storyline elements.
Melodrama. It's alright to have it in moderation (it's a show about teenagers after all- there's bound to be at least some), but it was taken to a whole other level in this show. Almost every episode contains at least one overreaction to an event, almost to the point where it became hard to really feel the proper emotion you were supposed to in the particular scene. There were some instances where this was properly used and was actually beneficial to what was going on, but more often than not, I found myself cringing and unable to relate to the character(s) at all.
Pacing. The pacing of this show was all over the place, but generally speaking, it was so slow to the point where it felt like it was beating a dead horse. Literally, I could look up the word "monologuing" in the dictionary and find the cover art of YLIA. Episode after episode, there was an absurd amount of redundant soliloquy to the point where it became hard to watch. Again, as the saying goes: "everything in moderation". Internal monologue isn't inherently a bad thing, but it starts to parody itself when it gets overused. Thanks to stuff like this, it takes longer than it needs to for things to get going and actually progress.
Lastly, there's the comedy. Quality of comedy in general is unquestionably subjective (personally I didn't find a whole lot of it funny, but that's just me), but that's not where the issue lies. My gripe with it is that it was terribly misplaced. You're in the middle of this deep, sad scene, and then all of a sudden you're slapped in the face with comedic relief that doesn't fit the scene at all. To put it bluntly, it kills the mood.
The story had a LOT of potential. I, like many others, was hooked at the beginning, but found it harder to watch as the show goes on. It really makes me wish that this was a 12 episode anime instead so that things didn't overstay their welcome.
Art/Animation - 7/10
The art in this show fits the feel of it really well. The characters designs are rather unique; they each all have full lips rather than a simple line like you see in almost every anime nowadays, and it's little subtleties like this that adds a sense of realism to the show. The brightness of the setting also appropriately fits each situation. The color palette often fits the mood of the scene very well; it's colorful and bright when things are more lively, dark and dull when things are more depressing, so on and so forth. The actual art itself isn't bad either. Animation was pretty solid and up to par with today's standards, but occasionally it was less than stellar.
Sound - 8/10
Now, I'm not a fan of classical music at all. I don't necessarily hate it, it's just not my bread and butter, but I've started to open up to it a lot more than I originally was. The OST is nice and really adds to the emotions that the specific scene is trying to convey. The solo performances are especially good for reasons I've already touched upon. I'm also a personal fan of the OPs and EDs, both of which suit the show well. Not much else to say here, really. It's just solid all around, which is important for a show like this.
Character - 4/10
As a romance and drama, the characters really are the backbone of the entire show. With the slower pacing, the characters get added depth, which is critical for a show like this to do. I must say, it did a fine job in that aspect. Many characters had their own backstory (although there are a few issues with this that I'll get to), and there aren't many one-dimensional characters that get major screen time. Most importantly, they all have likable qualities about them that make them endearing to the audience, creating an emotional bond between us and them.
Something that I felt was handled rather well was the development of Kousei. Being the main character, it's pretty important for him to be fully fleshed out, and thankfully he is. He starts out as a mopey, depressing, and generally dull kid, but gradually develops into something much more. After losing his mother, he really had no reason to play music. All he ever knew was to play it perfectly as the composer intended, and for the purpose of pleasing his mom. Enter Kaori. Her unique style of playing opened up Kousei's eyes in a big way, and inspired him to take up music again. His journey together with Kaori and friends has been helping him break out of his shell, and his progression bit by bit was superb.
While I'm singing a lot of praise here, you'll notice the score I gave is again rather mediocre. Hear me out.
Many of the side characters were pointless; their development overall pretty much either served no purpose and/or wasn't done well. Often times, instead of adding to the story, their screen time swayed away from the main plotline which is not how it's supposed to work. Yes, I understand that people might think it's nice and cute to see someone else's story every now and then, but again, the issues I have are 1) it sways the show away from the main narrative without connecting to it at all, and 2) the way these characters are handled just feels half-assed when compared to how well Kousei is developed. If this were a longer show where separate characters could have their own little mini-arcs, I feel like this would have been handled much better, but obviously that wouldn't be possible for a shorter seasonal anime.
Another thing -- Kaori. This is kind of tied into the pacing, which I also touched upon earlier. She never really received significant development until the very end of the show. Up until that point, she's nothing but a mere plot device used to stir up drama. For the duration of 21 episodes, she was just a cute girl that's meant to be likable and appeal to the audience, but with no depth whatsoever. It would have helped substantially to show her insight on the status quo as the show went on.
Enjoyment - 4/10
Needless to say, I didn't enjoy this anime a whole lot. There are redeeming qualities that I'm not going to overlook out of blind hate, but overall, this just wasn't for me.
Overall - 4/10
In my opinion, this anime doesn't deserve to be rated as high as it is. Again, it's not the worst thing I've ever seen; there's several redeeming qualities, and I can completely understand why someone else would enjoy it. However, to be honest, it seems pretty undeserving to be holding the #13 spot overall at the time this review was written.
I'll try to sum it up as simply as I can: for more "intellectual" (for lack of a better word) viewers who care more about logic and technicalities, stay clear. As a show catered for a younger audience, it's very clear more effort was put on style rather than substance, and that can make it frustrating to watch. For more casual viewers just looking to bathe in their feels, this is definitely worth a look. There are some quirky characters here that you might enjoy, and the relationship between Kousei and Kaori is definitely one that might leave a lasting impact on you.