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8th Annual Machine Learning Symposium
Presented by the Machine Learning Discussion Group at the New York Academy of Sciences
In our current digital age, a wealth of data is available at our fingertips. Often, the value of this 'Big Data' is not in the data itself, but the ability to learn from historical data in order to make predictions. Machine Learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, involves the development of mathematical algorithms that discover knowledge from specific data sets, and then "learn" from the data in an iterative fashion that allows predictions to be made. Today, Machine Learning has a wide range of applications, including natural language processing, search engine function, medical diagnosis, credit card fraud detection, and stock market analysis.
This symposium — part of an ongoing series presented by the Machine Learning Discussion Group at the New York Academy of Sciences — will feature Keynote Presentations from leading scientists in both applied and theoretical Machine Learning. Speakers include Rayid Ghani (University of Chicago), former Chief Data Scientist for the Obama for America 2012 re-election campaign; IBM specialist in automatic speech recognition, Brian Kingsbury; and Northwestern University's Jorge Nocedal, who shall discuss the role of machine learning in optimization.
2014 Spotlight Talk Awards
The New York Academy of Sciences congratulates the winners of the 2014 Spotlight Talk Awards, which recognized a series of the best oral research presentations delivered by early career investigators during the Symposium.
Generative Image Models for Visual Phenotype Modeling
Theofanis Karaletsos
Graph-Based Posterior Regularization for Semi-Supervised Structured Prediction
Jennifer Gillenwater, BS
Learning from Label Proportions: Algorithm, Theory, and Application
Felix X. Yu, MSc
Scaling Graph-based Semi Supervised Learning to Large Number of Labels Using Count-Min Sketch
Partha Pratim Talukdar, PhD
Accelerated Parallel Optimization Methods for Large Scale Machine Learning
Haipeng Luo, PhD candidate
Learning Theory and Algorithms for Revenue Optimization in Second-Price Auctions with Reserve
Andrés Muñoz Medina
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Google is the proud sponsor of the Spotlight Talk awards.
Member $30
Student / Postdoc Member $15
Nonmember (Academia) $65
Nonmember (Corporate) $85
Nonmember (Non-profit) $65
Nonmember (Student / Postdoc / Resident / Fellow) $45
* Presentation titles and times are subject to change.
Registration, Continental Breakfast, and Poster Set-up
Brooke Grindlinger, PhD, The New York Academy of Sciences
Keynote Address 1
Using Machine Learning Powers for Good
Rayid Ghani, MS, University of Chicago and Edgeflip
Audience Q&A
Spotlight Talks: Session 1
A series of short, early career investigator presentations across a variety of topics at the frontier of Machine Learning science.
Jennifer Gillenwater, BS, University of Pennsylvania and University of Washington
Learning from Label Proportions: Algorithm, Theory, and Applications
Felix X. Yu, MSc, Columbia University; Google Research; IBM Research
Andrés Muñoz Medina, MSc, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University; Google Research
Theofanis Karaletsos, PhD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Partha Pratim Talukdar, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
Networking Break and Poster Session 1
Structured Classification Criteria for Deep Learning in Speech Recognition
Brian Kingsbury, PhD, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, US
Computational Identification of Genotype-Specific Effective Drug Combinations
Kaitlyn Gayvert, BA, Weill Cornell Medical College; Tri-Institutional Training Program in Computational Biology and Medicine
Towards Minimax Online Learning with Unknown Time Horizon
Haipeng Luo, BS, Princeton University
Haipeng Luo, BS, Princeton University; AT&T Labs
Nuclear Norm Minimization via Active Subspace Selection
Cho-Jui Hsieh, MS, University of Texas at Austin
Note Added in Press: Peder A. Olsen, PhD, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, will be presenting this Spotlight Talk on behalf of co-author Cho-Jui Hsieh.
Fast, Scalable Comment Moderation via Active Learning at The New York Times
Jason Capehart, BS, The New York Times
The Role of Optimization in Machine Learning
Jorge Nocedal, PhD, Northwestern University
Career Development Presentation
From Academia to Industry as a Machine Learning Scientist
Zachary Cohn, PhD, American Express
Best Early Career Investigator Research Presentation
The Scientific Organizing Committee will announce the winner, selected from early career investigator oral and poster presentations made throughout the day
Google is the proud sponsor of the early career investigator Spotlight Talk awards.
Symposium Adjourns
Naoki Abe, PhD
Naoki Abe has been a Research Staff Member in the Data Analytics Research group since May 2001, and is engaged in research in Machine Learning, Data Mining, and their applications to problems in business analytics. Abe obtained his BS and MS in computer science from MIT in 1984 and a PhD in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. From 1984 to 1985, he worked as a researcher at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. From 1989 to 1990, he was a postdoctoral researcher at U.C. Santa Cruz, where he conducted research in computational learning theory. During the 1990s, he was with NEC research laboratories in Japan, where he was engaged in research in machine learning and its applications to various areas, including data mining, e-commerce, natural language processing, and bioinformatics. During this period he was also involved with the MITI-sponsored Real World Computing project, and the MEXT-sponsored Discovery Science project. From 1998 to 2000, he was adjunct Associate Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Naoki has served as program committee members of ICML, ALT, and COLT, and is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Machine Learning Research.
Corinna Cortes, PhD
Corinna Cortes is the Head of Google Research, NY, where she is working on a broad range of theoretical and applied large-scale machine learning problems. Prior to Google, Corinna spent more than ten years at AT&T Labs - Research, formerly AT&T Bell Labs, where she held a distinguished research position. Corinna's research work is well-known in particular for her contributions to the theoretical foundations of support vector machines (SVMs), for which she jointly with Vladimir Vapnik received the 2008 Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, and her work on data-mining in very large data sets for which she was awarded the AT&T Science and Technology Medal in the year 2000. Corinna received her MS degree in Physics from University of Copenhagen and joined AT&T Bell Labs as a researcher in 1989. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Rochester in 1993.
Corinna is also a competitive runner.
Brooke Grindlinger, PhD
Patrick Haffner, PhD
AT&T Labs-Research
Patrick Haffner is Lead Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs Research. In the 1990s, he pioneered Neural Networks for speech and image recognition, resulting in the first industrial deployment of Deep Learning by AT&T in 1996 (with Yann LeCun). He was also one of the lead inventor of the DjVu compression technology. Since 2000, his main focus has been large scale algorithms for speech, natural language and network applications.
Gunnar Rätsch, PhD
Data scientist Gunnar Rätsch develops and applies advanced data analysis and modeling techniques to data from genomics, high-throughput sequencing, clinical records and images.
He earned his Ph.D. at the German National Laboratory for Information Technology under supervision of Klaus-Robert Müller. His thesis is on iterative algorithms related to Boosting and Support Vector Machines. He was a postdoc with Bob Williamson and Bernhard Schölkopf. Gunnar Rätsch received the Max Planck Young and Independent Investigator award and was leading the group on Machine Learning in Genome Biology at theFriedrich Miescher Laboratory in Tübingen (2005-2011). In 2012 he joined Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as Associate Faculty.
The Rätsch laboratory advances computational methods for the analysis of big data common in the biomedical sciences. The group utilizes, develops and integrates ideas from machine learning, operations research, sequence analysis, statistical genetics, text mining and computer vision with the aim to discover relationships in complex biomedical data.
John Langford, PhD
John Langford is a Doctor of Learning at Microsoft Research. His work includes research in machine learning, game theory, steganography, and Captchas. He was previously a Research Associate Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute in Chicago. He has worked in the past at IBM's Watson Research Center in Yorktown, NY, under the Goldstine Fellowship. He earned a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002 and a Physics/Computer Science double major from CalTech in 1997.
Mehryar Mohri, PhD
Mehryar Mohri spent about 10 years at AT&T Bell Labs or AT&T Labs - Research (1995-2004), where, in the last four years, he served as the Head of the Speech Algorithms Department and as a Technology Leader, overseeing research projects in machine learning, text and speech processing, and the design of general algorithms. He joined the Courant Institute in the summer of 2004 as a Professor of Computer Science. In 2004, he was a Visiting Professor at Google Research for a full semester where he worked on several machine learning and algorithmic research projects. Since then, he continues to work at Google as a Research Consultant. His current topics of interest are machine learning, computational biology, and text and speech processing.
Robert Schapire, PhD
Robert Schapire received his ScB in math and computer science from Brown University in 1986, and his SM (1988) and PhD (1991) from MIT under the supervision of Ronald Rivest. After a short post-doc at Harvard, he joined the technical staff at AT&T Labs (formerly AT&T Bell Laboratories) in 1991. Since 2002, he has been on the faculty of Princeton University where he is currently the David M. Siegel '83 Professor in Computer Science. His awards include the 1991 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, the 2003 Gödel Prize, and the 2004 Kanelakkis Theory and Practice Award (both of the last two with Yoav Freund). He is a fellow of the AAAI, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. His main research interest is in theoretical and applied machine learning.
Di Xu, PhD
Di Xu is vice president, Risk and Information Management at American Express. Di has been with American Express since 2001 in positions of increasing responsibility in decision science, including acquisition, underwriting and fraud and customer management modeling functions. He currently heads the global underwriting decision science team that supports new accounts underwriting and line management models for both US and International markets as well as acquisition and targeting models for the U.S. market. Di and his team are actively exploring cutting-edge machine learning research and its application in financial services. He earned a doctorate degree in Industrial Engineering and a Master of Science in Statistics, both from Rutgers University and Bachelor's in Engineering in Control Theory from Shanghai JiaoTong University.
Rayid Ghani, MS
Computation Institute & Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Rayid Ghani is a Research Director and Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute and the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He is also the co-founder of Edgeflip, an analytics and social media startup that is focused on helping non-profits, advocacy groups, and charities do better fundraising, volunteer recruiting, outreach and advocacy. Rayid is currently focused on using data, analytics (and other related buzzwords ) for social causes, both with the University of Chicago and Edgeflip. Rayid created and runs the Eric & Wendy Schmidt "Data Science for Social Good" Summer Fellowship which brings together aspiring data scientists to work on data science projects in partnership with governments and non-profits. At the university, Rayid directs the Center for Data Science and Public Policy and is also developing and teaching courses that bring together Data Science and Public Policy.
Before joining the University of Chicago and starting Edgeflip, Rayid was the Chief Scientist for the Obama 2012 Election Campaign focusing on analytics, data, and technology. Rayid did his graduate work in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University. In his spare time, Rayid advises several startups and non-profits and speaks at, attends, and organizes academic and industry machine learning and data mining conferences.
Brian Kingsbury, PhD
Brian Kingsbury has been a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center since 1999. Currently he is co-PI and technical lead for LORELEI: an IBM-led consortium participating in the IARPA Babel program that includes six academic institutions as partners. He has contributed to IBM's entries in numerous competitive evaluations of speech technology, including Switchboard, SPINE, EARS, Spoken Term Detection, and GALE. Brian completed his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1998. He is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing and a program chair for the 2014 International Conference on Learning Representations. From 2009 to 2011 he was a member of the Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and he served as a speech area chair for the 2010, 2011, and 2012 ICASSP conferences. His research interests include deep neural network acoustic modeling, large-vocabulary speech transcription, and keyword search.
Jorge Nocedal, PhD
Jorge Nocedal is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Industrial Engineering at Northwestern University. He obtained his B.S. in Physics from the National University of Mexico (UNAM) and a PhD. in Mathematical Sciences from Rice University. His research interests are in optimization algorithms and their application in machine learning and in areas involving differential equations. He is currently the Editor in Chief for the SIAM Journal on Optimization, is a SIAM Fellow, and was awarded the 2012 George B. Dantzig Prize.
Jason Capehart
Jason Capehart is a data scientist at The New York Times. His work focuses on the application of advances in statistics, machine learning, and technology to practical business problems. Over the course of his 7 year career he's created and deployed dozens of models in the finance industry, media industry, and for startups. Causal inference is his chief interest, but, even for a professional, he's worked on an unusually diverse set of fields including: social network analysis, natural language processing, hedging, speech analytics, and computer vision. Jason holds a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Zachary Cohn, PhD
Zachary Cohn is director of digital modeling for American Express Risk and Information Management. For the past five years, he has been working in digital acquisition and machine learning, on scalable techniques in response modeling and feature generation. He obtained a PhD in Mathematics from Stanford University in 2009.
Kaitlyn Gayvert
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Kaitlyn Gayvert graduated from the State University of New York at Geneseo with a B.A. in Mathematics in 2012. She is currently a computational biology and medicine graduate student at Weill Cornell Medical in the laboratory of Dr. Olivier Elemento studying drug repositioning problems through the application of machine learning and statistical methods.
Jennifer Gillenwater
Jennifer Gillenwater is currently a computer science PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her undergraduate degree from Rice University in Electrical Engineering in 2008. Her main area of interest is machine learning, with application to natural language processing. More specifically, she has worked on projects involving graphical models, semi-supervised learning, and submodular optimization. The natural language applications she has experience with include parsing, summarization, and web search. Most of her recent work has focused on two areas: posterior regularization and determinantal point processes. In addition to research, she has helped craft the machine learning course at the University of Pennsylvania and completed several internships at Google and Microsoft.
Cho-Jui Hsieh, MS
Cho-Jui Hsieh (UT Austin) is a Ph.D. student at University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). His research interests focus on large-scale machine learning and data mining. Cho-Jui obtained his B.S. degree in 2007 and M.S degree in 2009 from the computer Science Department of National Taiwan University (advisor: Chih-Jen Lin). Currently he is a member of big data group led by Inderjit Dhillon. He is the recipient of the IBM Phd fellowship in 2013-2015, the best research paper award in KDD 2010, and best paper award in ICDM 2012.
Theofanis Karaletsos, PhD
Theofanis Karaletsos did his undergrad in computer science and computational biology at Universities in Munich, Germany. He worked towards his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, jointly supervised by Karsten Borgwardt and John Winn (Microsoft Research Cambridge). His work revolves around developing and applying generative probabilistic models to a variety of problems with particular focus on vision and biological settings, such as unsupervised phenotype modeling. He recently moved to the group of Gunnar Raetsch at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York to work on the analysis of electronic medical records and pathology images in the context of cancer.
Partha Pratim Talukdar
Partha Pratim Talukdar is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, working with Tom Mitchell on the NELL project. Partha received his PhD (2010) in CIS from the University of Pennsylvania, working under the supervision of Fernando Pereira, Zack Ives, and Mark Liberman. Partha is broadly interested in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Data Integration, and Neurosemantics, with particular interest in large-scale learning and inference.
Felix X. Yu
Felix X. Yu is a fourth-year PhD student of Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University. His advisor is Prof. Shih-Fu Chang. Before coming to Columbia, Yu received his Bachelor's degree from Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, in 2010. Yu's primary research interest is learning with weakly supervised data, and its applications in computer vision and multimedia. Yu's works have been recognized by prestigious academic awards including the IBM PhD Fellowship Award, Facebook PhD Fellowship Finalist Award, and ACM Multimedia Best Paper Award.
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David Horta (Pinar del Río, Cuba, 1973) is a Havana-based independent art curator, critic, consultant, and lecturer. Horta graduated in education sciences, with a focus on English language and literature, and his postgraduate studies range from cinema theory and critics, film writing, and direction and production for TV, to art valuation and marketing, and art conservation.
Horta started a solo career as a freelance curator, critic, and consultant in 2011. Before that, he worked in several cultural institutions in his home province, Pinar del Río, like the regional Council of Fine Arts (specialist, 2001-2004); the Tiburcio Lorenzo Arts Academy (lecturer in aesthetics and art history, 2007-2010); the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Hermanos Saíz University (lecturer in art history, Cuban cinema and aesthetics of documentary filmmaking, in careers like social communication, cultural studies and journalism); the arts and literature magazine La Gaveta (editor in chief, 2004-2007); and the Casa-Taller Pedro Pablo Oliva cultural foundation (chief art projects developer and curator of the Tiempos Modernos Film Archive, 2008-2011).
Horta was awarded the Prize for Critical Writing and the Prize for Curatorial Achievement at the 20th-anniversary edition of the 20 de Octubre Salon of Visual Arts in Pinar del Río (2003), for Agujeros Negros, his first solo curatorial project and the accompanying essay. He has since written about art, cinema and culture in several publications in Spanish and English, among them Noticias de Arte Cubano, Cauce, La Gaveta, Convivencia, EnFoco, Portal del Cine Latinoamericano y Caribeño, and ArtOnCuba, among others. The Dubai-based Canvas magazine commissioned Horta to review the 2016 edition of Art Basel-Miami.
David Horta's most recent involvement in projects on Cuban art include Utopías y Disidencias (Curator. Pedro Pablo Oliva's Arts Studios. Pinar del Río-Havana, 2014-2015); Tragaluces (Curator. MAPRI, 2015); Growing up in Neverland (Curator. Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, University of Tampa, 2016); Oye cómo va (Co-curator. Dunedin Fine Arts Center, 2017); Pedro Pablo Oliva's Cuba. HiStories (Co-curator. University of Tampa, 2018).
Horta is co-founder and producer of La Concretera Producciones, a non-for-profit educational and creative platform aimed at fostering independent filmmaking, focused on video, documentary and experimental cinema made by young, emerging Cuban creators; he is guest curator and member of the technical council and collection board of the Museo de Arte Pinar del Río (MAPRI) and guest curator in the art studios of Cuban artist Pedro Pablo Oliva; he has also worked or works in collaboration with several specialized cultural and education agencies as independent advisor and lecturer, among them Cuba Educational Travels, CubArtEdu, Havana Strategies, and Insight Cuba.
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 Ludwig von Savoyen (nach 1253–1302), Adliger aus dem Königreich Arelat und erster Herr der Waadt, siehe Ludwig I. (Waadt)
 Ludwig von Savoyen (1283/1293–1349), Graf von Savoyen und Herr der Waadt, siehe Ludwig II. (Waadt)
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Do the Jets have the NFL's worst roster?
After they spent this offseason stripping their roster of veterans, as part of a get-younger rebuilding process, that is a legitimate question.
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The Falcons, Patriots, and Titans have the three best rosters in the NFL for 2017, according to these rankings.
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If you are about to rent a new place or expect to be renting indefinitely, here are some décor tips, Courtesy of PopSugar Living identified specifically for the renter in mind. Remember and note that for some of these suggestions, it will require restoring the property to its original condition upon vacating so be sure to refer to the terms of your lease!
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Over the past several weeks, we've taken a deep dive into our Member 360 tool, one of the multiple proprietary business tools that we make available to our CEOs and business owners. This week the series continues as we look at the very important topic of Leadership. There are several key questions asked in this part of our 360 Tool. Last week, we covered the first 6 questions. Here is part 2 of the Leadership deep dive where we look at the last 6 questions. .
Taking a more in depth look at each topic and rating your business in each area is important for the health and growth of your company. Leadership for your company is just one piece of the Member 360. If you haven't seen the full evaluation tool, you access the full MEMBER 360 here.
This week, we'll look at the last 6 LEADERSHIP questions and why they are important.
Do you make decisions in an appropriate time frame?
Leaders typically prefer to make decisions with the most amount of information available. Sometimes you don't have that luxury, however. It's possible you may have incomplete information to make a decision, but one must be made anyway. It's likely you've seen a leader who is paralyzed from action due to wanting more information or input. In most cases, decision paralysis is not a good thing. As a leader, you often must work with limited information and trust your "gut" and experience.
Do YOU make necessary decisions when you may not have all the information? Obviously, critical or crucial decisions for your company need to be thought out carefully, but when it's time to pull the trigger, do you decide in a timely manner or do you procrastinate? If you feel you make timely decisions, give yourself high marks here!
Do you show personal respect and concern for team members and demonstrate compassion when needed?
In last week's blog, we explored integrity and being an example for your team. This goes hand in hand with showing compassion and concern. Studies show that great leaders also have the trait of great empathy. Trying to understand how your team members are thinking and feeling will help you when compassion is needed. Being seen as a leader who wants to help someone on a personal level will help cultivate the loyalty, work ethic, and teamwork that you want in your team. If you feel you are not as compassionate with others as you need to be, give this some thought. You'll really like the results!.
Are you actively involved in training or mentoring leaders within your organization?
John Maxwell said, "One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination." EVERYONE wants to be mentored! Think of your personal experiences and the mentors that helped you become the leader you are today. Your future leaders will eagerly accept your mentoring, as well. In addition, any succession or exit plan for your company revolves around the success of you training/mentoring the future leaders of the company. If you feel that you are an effective mentor, give yourself good marks here.
Do you currently spend time on the most important aspects of the business (as the owner)… the things that drives the most value?
In other words, are you a cog in the daily grind, or are you really a strategic thinker and leader in your company? At LXCouncil, we spend a great deal of time talking about this. You know the saying – "You should be working on the business, not in the business as the leader." Are you critically examining the aspects of your company that you are personally involved in? Can you measure the value of these activities? If you are embroiled in accounting, marketing, sales, etc., are these the best use of your time? Or, are you thinking strategically, building relationships that bring value, and coaching/mentoring your team for maximum effect? If it's the latter, give yourself a high mark.
Are you taking vacation and time to rejuvenate, as well time for personal development as the owner?
A burned out boss is a bad boss. You need to take time off to recharge and refocus from time to time. PS – don't think you can take a vacation and still "work a little." When you leave for a vacation, leave the work behind. By the way, you will show team members that you TRUST them to run the business while you are away. Don't email or check in by phone…this can actually demotivate your team. You've worked hard to make your business a success. Enjoy the fruits of your labor by taking some time off!
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Q: Probability of the sum of cards? The problem is basically as follows
There are four cards with points [1,2,3,4], every time I draw one card randomly and then put it back to the deck. As I keep drawing I record the sum of the points on the cards, I stop drawing if the sum is greater than or equal to five.
If the final points is equal to five, I win, otherwise I lose. What's the probability of me winning?

My attempt to solve this problem is, let $p_n$ be the probability of the sum EVER equal to $n$ after drawing enough number of times, specifically
$$p_1=\frac{1}{4} \text{ (draw 1 once)}$$
$$p_2=\frac{1}{4} + \frac{1}{4}p_1 \text{ (draw 2 once + draw 1 twice)} $$
$$p_3=\frac{1}{4} + \frac{1}{4}p_1 + \frac{1}{4}p_2 $$
$$p_4=\frac{1}{4} + \frac{1}{4}p_1 + \frac{1}{4}p_2 + \frac{1}{4}p_3 $$
then $p_5=\frac{1}{4}p_1 + \frac{1}{4}p_2 + \frac{1}{4}p_3 + \frac{1}{4}p_4 = 369/1024$ should be the probability of winning at five.
However I was told that the answer should be around 0.33 so I'm confused, is my answer correct?

Update
It turns out 0.33 (1/3) is the answer for sampling without replacement.

A: Whenever there are conflicting answers from combinatorial methods, I
like to simulate the result to see what happens.
My method of simulation (in R) is to sample five cards with replacement from among 1, 2, 3, 4. Then to take cumulative sums of the results to see if the total 5 is
present at any step. If so, that's a win. (Any cards drawn after a total of 5
are ignored.)
After a million iterations the vector w has a million
TRUEs and FALSEs. The mean of this logical vector is the proportion
of its TRUEs. With a million iterations this proportion should approximate
the probability of winning to at least two or three places.
It seems that
simulation results match $369/1024 = 0.3603516,$ the answer proposed in your
Question and computed in the Comment
of @a_statistician.
set.seed(1112);  m = 10^6;  deck = 1:4
w = replicate( m, 5 %in% cumsum(sample(deck,5, rep=T)) )
mean(w);  369/1024;  15/49
[1] 0.360286        # aprx P(Win) = 0.3604
[1] 0.3603516       # exact P(Win) = 369/1024
[1] 0.3061224       # 15/49

A: I think another way to approach this problem is to model the game as a Markov chain with the following transition probability matrix, $M$:
$$
\begin{matrix}
 & \text{From state} \\
\text{To state} &
{\begin{array}{r|ccccccc}
  & 0   & 1   & 2   & 3   & 4 & \text{win} & \text{lose} \\
\hline
0 & 0   & 0   & 0   & 0   & 0   & 0 & 0 \\
1 & 1/4 & 0   & 0   & 0   & 0   & 0 & 0 \\
2 & 1/4 & 1/4 & 0   & 0   & 0   & 0 & 0 \\
3 & 1/4 & 1/4 & 1/4 & 0   & 0   & 0 & 0 \\
4 & 1/4 & 1/4 & 1/4 & 1/4 & 0   & 0 & 0 \\
\text{win (5)} & 0   & 1/4 & 1/4 & 1/4 & 1/4 & 1 & 0 \\
\text{lose (5+)} & 0   & 0   & 1/4 & 2/4 & 3/4 & 0 & 1
\end{array}}
\end{matrix}
$$
Note that this is a reducible Markov chain: once we reach the win or lose state, we will be stuck there forever.
Our starting state is:
$$
v = {\begin{bmatrix}
1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0
\end{bmatrix}}^{\top}
$$
Since we know that the game will end after five draws at most, we can calculate the probability distribution over the states after five draws by  left multiplying $M$ with the initial state vector $v$ five times:
$$
M \times M \times M \times M \times M \times v
$$
Implementation in R:
library(expm)

M <- matrix(nrow = 7,
                            c(  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,
                              .25,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,
                              .25, .25,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,
                              .25, .25, .25,   0,   0,   0,   0,
                              .25, .25, .25, .25,   0,   0,   0,
                                0, .25, .25, .25, .25,   1,   0,
                                0,   0, .25,  .5, .75,   0,   1),
                            byrow = T,
                            dimnames = list(c("0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "win", "lose"),
                                            c("0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "win", "lose")))

M %^% 5 %*% c(1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)

Output:
          [,1]
0    0.0000000
1    0.0000000
2    0.0000000
3    0.0000000
4    0.0000000
win  0.3603516
lose 0.6396484

The probability for the win state is consistent with $\frac{369}{1024}$.

P.S. I do wonder though if there is a way to derive the distributions over the final states analytically without carrying out the matrix multiplications.

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I don't have VMG. But I assume it is similar to race because of 3 line briddle.
is better allaround kite by far. Mainly it Jumps far better.
Very poor jumping ability even overpovered. It has plenty of glide. But no height.
More like lotus or other european sport car.
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9m seems to boost just fine!
Have you actually compared it to sonic 2 9m?
No! I avoided the 9m s2 because I local kiter I have big respect for bought one and sent it back....said it was not a well behaved kite compared to the other sizes. The 9m s1 was a major handful as well to launch in twin tip wind ranges. I don't think the s2 has the same launch issues but he said it was not pleasant to fly.
I have one race in 11 m² even if there is absolute no need for it, if not racing, only argument was to be able to boost higher and be always very high powered even in wind significant under 10 knts. And it is great in absolute constant lowend around 5 knts not just due to being a bit lighter and significant more power but as it has higher better feel able bar forces than sonic², which allow to handle the last knt better in manouvers, but on the other hand the boarder to a no wind swim is so small, that I often prefer my 9 m² s² in front of 11 m² race.
but for me they are the best sizes in both ranges of sonic 1 and 2 where I tried all from 6 to 15 m².
But also Sonic² as sonic race is also just for really experienced rider, if you don't know how to handle and to set up it can be a mess for sure.
I haven't tried, but absolutely no interest, just the open class development of sonic race with even less bridle lines and for sure 1 or a bit more % better upwind and power and what not. But if not racing, who does it need?
Posting advertisements of firms is cool, to keep your forum a live, but try to check if there is already a topic about next times, thank You.
I got to try out my new 15m Sonic VMG today in underpowered conditions. Felt fast, but I didn't have my GPS.
I've been on the Sonic 2's in 9m,11m,15m, and 18m for the last 2.5 years. Had Sonic 1s and a Chrono before that. I'm mostly racing. I've never ridden a Sonic race, so can't compare.
Wind was only about 10-12 knots when I got on the water and it dropped to probably about 6 knots at the end when I barely made it back to the beach. Only on the water for about 40 minutes. Usually I would be on my 18m in these conditions.
I heard from someone else that their VMG 11m seemed to not fly right at first, like the lines weren't pulled tight or something. Then after a few minutes theirs worked fine. My 15m flew perfectly, straight and stable, right out of the bag.
The biggest thing I noticed rigging up was how simple the bridle system is. Looks like half as many lines as a Sonic 2 bridle, so should be easier to clear tangles.
Air intakes on the VMG are small and spaced far apart, so took a while to pre-inflate (I always pre inflate). I hot launched it and by the time it reached the top of the window it was mostly inflated. Maybe a bit slower to inflate than Sonic 2.
Bar pressure when trimming felt slightly lighter than sonic 2, but took more pull on the bar when turning it hard.
Turning seemed a bit slower. I was on 15m lines and had room to loop it twice in a row to get going when the wind dropped out.
When riding upwind, even in the light conditions, it felt like I could push as hard as I wanted on my rear foot, and it would just keep going. With the Sonic 2 in those conditions, I'd have trouble keeping my rear leg straight going upwind and wouldn't be able to push as hard as I want. Also, even in light wind on Sonic 2, I usually have to pull 5 or 6 inches on the 4:1 depower. Wiith the VMG it felt like I could just push on my rear foot and go.
I noticed a big difference while tacking. On sonic 2, tacking feels like a multi-step process. Kite up- head upwind- switch feet etc. After a few tacks to get used to the kite, the VMG felt like it was all one fluid motion and I never slowed down, it just kept powering upwind through the whole tack and I was coming out with lots of speed.
It does seem like the VMG tips curl when the lines are slack, more than on the Sonic 2. If I turned the bar too hard when looping to get started, the lower tip would curl. Also, once or twice the lines went slack when I didn't foil through a tack in a lull. When the line were slack, one of the tips would usually flop up onto the bridle. The tip curls never caused any issues though. The kite was always fully controllable and the wingtip came right off as soon as the lines were tight and I pulled in the bar, but it definitely has more wingtip curl than the Sonic 2. Had no tip curl issues in foiling jibes, even when the lines went slack a few times.
I'm excited to see how it goes with more wind! Usual range for 15m for me is about 12-18 knots. I also want to compare back to back with the Sonic 2. Next time I'll make sure I remember my GPS!
The biggest take away is, no matter how hard you push upwind, this thing just keeps pulling harder. You can't pinch upwind and relax for a second. Compared back-to-back with Sonic 2 18m in about 10 knots of wind I was going ~10 degrees higher and 1 mph faster upwind! Compared in 12-13 knots back-to-back with Sonic 2 15m I was going 2 mph faster and a few degrees higher upwind. Going 22-23 mph most of the time upwind on the VMG now at about 44 deg to the wind, sometimes as high as 37 deg to the wind.
Downwind, compared to Sonic 2, I"m also going about 2 mph faster at similar angles to Sonic 2.
The light bar pressure has been difficult to get used to also. When going through the tack, it's hard to feel where the kite is. When jibing, it is a bit harder as well. If the lines go slack during the jibe, the kite keeps flying forward in whatever direction it was pointing, where the Sonic 2 would kinda stall out wherever it was in the window and wait for the lines to regain tension.
So I'm way faster on the VMG, but I definitely crash more often. Have a regatta coming up in a month and it will be interesting to see how much faster I am on this kite. If I can keep from crashing all the time, I'll be really fast!
update. 21m kite is still very difficult to fly. I have flown R1V2 19m which is very easy kite. Also elf joker 8 in 15m is easier kite to fly. Also P L aero 2 is easy compared to race at least in very big sizes. I deffinitely won't recommend it in gusty lake conditions.
About boosting. Finally got hang of it. Yes, it jumps big, however only if you are very overpowered or have long lines. With my 18m lines I was able to jump now about 10m jumps (good height for me especially with big kite). However if comfortably powered jumps are tricky. I don't have enough time to get the kite back to my front.
But I am sure it is 100x easier to jump with 15m or 18m because they turn faster.


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Sisters return to their roots with Rusty Plow Press
Sisters Marissa Mullett and Theresa Drummond started their company to create logos, design T-shirts and help businesses with branding.
Sisters return to their roots with Rusty Plow Press Sisters Marissa Mullett and Theresa Drummond started their company to create logos, design T-shirts and help businesses with branding. Check out this story on coshoctontribune.com: https://www.coshoctontribune.com/story/news/local/2019/07/14/sisters-return-their-roots-rusty-plow-press/3437699002/
Drew Bracken, Correspondent Published 4:00 p.m. ET July 14, 2019
Sisters Marissa Mullett and Theresa Drummond, left, own Rusty Plow Press. Based in Coshocton County, the company produces T-shirts with a local flavor. (Photo: Chris Crook/Tribune)
COSHOCTON – They're two sisters who grew up in West Lafayette, went to Ridgewood High School and Ohio State – where both also worked. They got married, had children, moved back to the Coshocton area, and then decided to start their own business while staying close to their families.
They're the Berry sisters, now Marissa Mullett and Theresa Drummond. And that in a nutshell is how Rusty Plow Press Company got its start.
"We both have a desire to create garment art," Marissa said, "that really resonates with target clients/customers. And because we both moved back to the county we call home, we wanted our venture to promote and serve the area."
"So after brainstorming together, and with our husbands," Theresa finished the thought, "we landed on creating Rusty Plow Press Company."
It's a company, Marissa explained, "That creates logos and helps brand local small businesses in addition to garment designs."
By the way, they came up with the name Rusty Plow Press, Theresa said, because, "Sometimes you just know when a name is right."
Theresa graduated from Ridgewood High in 2001, then Ohio State in 2005 with a degree in agricultural education. She worked at OSU for 11 years, mostly in the office of the board of trustees. At Rusty Plow Press, she does "a lot of behind-the-scene work, the financials, ordering, invoicing."
"As a child," she recalled, "we did a lot of normal kid things – raised animals, played sports and spent a lot of time with family. Since I was 15, I always had a job (waitressing, or working on a farm) and knew with hard work anything is possible."
Marissa graduated from Ridgewood in 1999. She then went to Ohio State to earn her undergraduate degree in English in 2003 and her master's in agricultural communications in 2006.
Rusty Plow Press creates a variety of products with local themes. (Photo: Chris Crook/Tribune)
She then worked for OSU, first at the airport, then the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. In 2007 she moved back to Coshocton County to serve as an OSU extension educator in Agriculture and Natural Resources. In 2009 she stepped out of that role to stay home with her first daughter. At Rusty Plow Press, she's the graphic designer.
"I don't really remember dreaming of a particular career path when I was a kid," she said. "We were very much encouraged as kids to just be kids and spent lots of time with family."
"Because of the way we were raised," Marissa continued, "I'm not surprised I'm co-owner of a creativity-based company that celebrates rural life and involves family."
"It's absolutely from the heart," Theresa added. "It's rewarding to work with customers to provide a unique product that makes them happy."
"Creating art," echoed Marissa, "that really resonates with our clients is incredibly rewarding. 'I love it' is something we've heard/read innumerable times.
"That," she concluded, "is when we know we've accomplished our goal."
For more information, call Rusty Plow Press Company at 740-502-8392 or log on www.rustyplowpress.com.
Aces of Trades is a weekly series focusing on people and their jobs – whether they're unusual jobs, fun jobs or people who take ordinary jobs and make them extraordinary. If you have a suggestion for a future profile, let us know at ctnews@coshoctontribune.com.
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Internet Entrepreneur Inspires Students at Fifth Annual REDe Summit
BY DYLAN MARTIN AND LAUREN MUNNELL
University of Mississippi School of Business Administration
Students take in lessons from successful business owners at the fifth annual REDe Entrepreneurship Summit at The Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Union. Hosted by the university's Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the event is designed to encourage, celebrate and enhance the entrepreneurial spirit among Ole Miss students. Photo by Kevin Bain/Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services
Alexis Maybank, founder of Gilt Groupe, shared her struggles and successes with University of Mississippi students as the keynote speaker during the fifth annual REDe Entrepreneurship Summit, held Nov. 10 at The Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Union.
"A career is a very long marathon," Maybank said. "Don't measure yourself in your missteps and instead have the long arc of your career in mind."
Maybank's address not only included her personal story, but also outlined the steps necessary to create a strong business plan. She discussed the importance of trial and error and how a "no" isn't always a bad thing.
Two Ole Miss business school alumni were highlighted at the summit, where they shared lessons learned from their initial failures launching businesses. Brea Givens and Tanner McCraney both went back to the drawing board after initial poor performances at the Gillespie Business Plan Competition.
"It's always gonna be an uphill battle, but it's definitely worth it," said Givens, founder and CEO of Froomie. "As you embark on your entrepreneurial journey, be prepared to accept change with open arms."
Alexis Maybank, keynote speaker of the fifth annual REDe Entrepreneurship Summit, speaks to a packed house of students at the event. Photo by Kevin Bain/Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services
Givens and McCraney, co-founder of Rumie, both won at the competition after receiving assistance from the UM Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
These type of life lessons are the goal of the REDe Entrepreneurship Summit, which has been held since 2018. The focus is to encourage, celebrate and enhance the entrepreneurial spirit among Ole Miss students.
"We believe hearing the entrepreneurial journeys of these speakers encourages our students to pursue ideas they have in mind, learn from failures and get prepared for challenges in their future career," said Tong Meng, director of programs for the CIE.
The CIE was established in fall 2014 by the School of Business Administration. Since 2018, the center has awarded $39,000 in scholarships and has given over $188,000 in cash prizes to students. More than 60 student ventures have been established with support from the center.
"Attending the REDe Entrepreneurship Summit was very eye-opening and inspiring to me as I was able to see Ole Miss alumni take their ideas and bring them to life," said Danielle Delavaldene, a junior from Dallas majoring in marketing.
"I also found Alexis Maybank's speech to be inspirational as she discussed the importance of executing a strong business plan and how it helped her company be very successful."
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Q: React-Native Different View for Landscape Mode ios and android
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*What is the recommended practice to create different layouts for
small and large screens?

*What is the method to detect the device screen size?

Thanks!

A: 1.The recommended practice to create different layouts is to use FlexBox, but if you cannot achieve this using FlexBox, you can use something like Dimensions.
2.There are a few methods to detect device screen size, the main one I've been using and have seen used is Dimensions. You can get the dimensions with Dimensions like so:
var {
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Dimensions
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var deviceHeight = Dimensions.get('window').height;
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Located next to the Vidy Pyramids, a village of 4000 sq.m. will welcome the teams and visitors of the HYDROCONTEST in a festive and sharing spirit during one entire week. Organised in various areas, the village offers free access to the races and to its playful and educational activities, making it a unique, exciting way of enjoying the HYDROCONTEST. It will also include a snack-bar for an even more enjoyable experience by the lake with family or friends.
Visitors will be able to follow the races right from the shore and to share and discuss with the competing students in their paddocks that will remain open to the public. The teams will use these booths to store their boats and equipment, and carry out any necessary repairs or adjustments for the competition.
New in the 2015 edition, small conferences called « Tech Talks » are planned every evening of the week with presentations given by the competing teams. Through explaining their projects, each of them will share with their peers and the public the outcome of several months of intense research, conception and preparation for the HYDROCONTEST.
At the heart of the paddocks area, a pool of model boats offers visitors of all ages, even the youngest ones, the opportunity to take the helm of remote-controlled flying boats equipped with foils, immersing themselves in the universe of the Hydros Foundation and its HYDROCONTEST. Those who wish to learn more about these wings that make boats « fly » above the water may also visit the « Hydrofoils, from crazy pioneers to high efficiency » exhibition, which recounts their history in English and in French.
A detailed programme of the event will shortly be published for more information on the events planned throughout the week.


Whenever I see the birds in large groups, I think of Alfred Hitchcock's film, the Birds.
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You have a flock of good shots here. It's almost certain that ANY of us who saw "The Birds" has the same reaction. I have the additional fear of seeing that many Alfred Hitchcocks perching ominously on the wires.
Great shots, I think the same thing when I see a large group of birds.
Glad to read that Al. 🙂 The weather isn't that bad, at least we enjoyed prolonged summer. London is sometimes milder compared to the rest of the country in a way. Take care my friend.
That's pigeons. they will sit on your lap if you have crumbs for them.
Haha that sounds awesome. There are signs all over the place requesting people not to feed the pigeons, but of course nobody listens. It is great when the kids can feed them as well.
I wouldn't do it today. They really are nasty birds.
But pigeons… even he didn't bother to put them in that movie, did he?
I'm OK with Hitch not showing up, but I do want the car Tippi is driving.
Absolutely fab..loove the click of pigeons in the public place..makes for a superb scenery. Reminds me of a place in Mumbai, Dadar, called Kabutar Khana (Pigeons feasting).


Promo Event: "Love Revolution" by Michelle Mankin – Excerpt + Giveaway!
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Michelle Mankin is a young adult romance writer as well as a self proclaimed giant… inside of her own mind!
Now, that's not a typo. Love Revolution is actually the sequel to Love Evolution. So of course I'm going to tell you about the first book before I tell you about the second one!
Love Evolution (the first in a planned trilogy) is a rock 'n roll romance based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
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The wheels of love are always turning at Black Cat Records. Things are just starting to settle down there, but two Texas sisters are fixin' to stir things up again at the Vancouver record label. CEO Mary Timmons sets spirited country superstar, Sara Daniels, on a collision course with cocky rocker, Chris Alex. Meanwhile, Brutal Strength's suave drummer, JR, has his head turned by pretty young intern, Samantha Daniels. Do all their highways lead to happiness or will the wheels fly off when the sisters' tragic past comes back to haunt them?
Love Revolution is a rock 'n roll romance inspired by Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and is the second book in the Black Cat Records Trilogy.
A lone spotlight illuminated JR as he began to lay down a heavy beat. Strobes flashed as Avery stepped out from behind the black curtain to meet Marcus at center stage. He reached for her, but she leaned away, just out of reach. She winked at him and smiled at the audience. The crowd roared their approval…For Sam, the spotlight stayed on JR. She didn't notice anyone else. Frenetic, yet fluid, he flailed away on the drums like a madman, a modern day Keith Moon. His sticks spun like twin rotator blades on a Chinook helicopter, and his knees moved up and down, pistons pounding out a rhythm.
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Infinity. Life. Death. Rebirth. Some souls are meant to be together, but pursuing true love can be dangerous and often deadly. When sixteen-year-old Madeline falls in love with Samuel, a boy who lives hundreds of years before she is even born, she will risk her very existence to be with him.
Madeline's from present day Chicago when she is pushed onto the train tracks, and accidentally time travels to a bloody war between the Natives and the colonists. She falls in love with a Native boy, Samuel. But, she's living in the body of a colonial girl and their romance is a crime that carries harsh punishments.
Madeline discovers that she is meant to be a Messenger, a traveler who if properly trained, can slip through time's fabric at will. The Medicine Woman mentors her. But Madeline doesn't fit in this world. She's different from the other colonists. Rumors of witchcraft and spying arise. Deadly Hunters, dark-souled predators as well as skilled time travelers, crave Madeline's powers. Can Madeline find the way back to her future? And will that future include her one true love, Samuel?
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In this modern day Arthurian, 17 year-old Boston high schooler Arriane, aka Ryan, DuLac just found out the guy she's been crushing on, hot biker Matt, is a little older than he was letting on. In fact, he is really Merlin—the Merlin, King Arthur's Merlin, the greatest wizard who ever lived. Frozen in a cave for over fifteen hundred years, he's woken for a purpose. But Ryan's not impressed. Tired of being a relationship loser, she'd rather kick his legendary behind.
Now, I'm going to be honest. The blurb above is not the one I read originally when I decided to read My Boyfriend Merlin. This one isn't better or worse, but the one I read seemed to encompass more of the things that were a big drive in this book. I originally wrote this review while staring at the other blurb with the different set of information, but trustme when I say nothing I'm going to outright discuss is that big of a surprise.
Okay, I'll be frank–I didn't come at this book with exceedingly high expectations. I mean, right from the get go, it's clear: there's a love triangle coming. I understand it's the big thing now to tout these kinds of things, but come on. Really? For me, it's not a selling point. But the blurb promised me Merlin, and for that I'm willing to test out someone else's probably trite love triangle.
Despite promising us "my boyfriend Merlin," Ryan and Merlin/Matt actually begin the book broken up and stay that way. They just totally aren't over each other. There is, of course, a cosmic reason they can't be together and blah blah blah. BUT WAIT.
THE PLOT DECIDES TO PUT THE ROMANCE IN SECOND PLACE FOR A WHILE.
Nothing ever makes me so happy as this. Once we get past Ryan going "Oh Matt, I miss you!" all of the sudden there are gargoyles everywhere and magic battles and Ardis holds zero punches. By the way, this is the first three chapters I'm talking about. The book certainly takes off like a rocket and promises you a wild ride.
After that intial action, though, it slows down again. Ryan gets whisked off to Hogwar– Avalon High School to learn how to defeat magic and weild a sword. (She's no wizard, though. But you can find out WHAT she is if you read the book.) This, of course, results in some high school drama. However, I was fairly impressed on how minimal all that is.
Of course, that's probably because all the drama emphasis is on the love triangle. Once again, I had a large problem with it. It's bad enough that it's between Merlin and his brother. It's worse that Vane is clearly a not so nice guy. What's even WORSE is that Ryan really doesn't like him in the beginning and he gives her NO reason to like him and then all the sudden they're friends. Her change in tune is ridicusouly unwarranted and out of character, but makes the love triangle viable. No, people, no.
That said, though, the second half of the book was really impressive. The action kicks back up again, and the love triangle is mostly forgotten under EVERYBODY SAVE THE WORLD. In the rush of action, there were a few MAJOR things that were introduced and then not dealt with at all, which was annoying, but I let is slide because honestly I didn't want to deal with them then either. BEHEAD THE GARGOYLES!
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Come on time. Everything is fine. No complaints.
High quality goods. Track to track all the way. There is no unpleasant smell. Good quality silicone. Put in your inbox. Everyone is happy. Seller recommend.
Works well, Good quality, looks Nice in your tea glass!
The tea infuser looks just like the ones in the pictures. None of them were damaged. Package arrived fairly quickly. I got the colors I wanted.
Ordered two of them. Absolutely adorable. Great size also for tall narrow cup. Floats well and easy to clean. Would by more for gifts next time!
cute product for the price, thank you!
Fast shipping, good quality. Recommened.
highly satisfied with a quality of the product. the store is reliable, recommend.
Cute little product but doesn't actually work properly as it keeps floating and the water doesn't get inside it.
Het heeft ruim een maand geduurd voordat ik de uiltjes had, maar ze zijn meer dan het wachten waard. Super leuk. Ik ga de andere kleurtjes ook bestellen.
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Black History Month: Heroes of Today
As Black History Month concludes, we must remember that our story continues with ascendancy from those who came before us and beyond. We recognise those who have allowed many to not only share their story but remind others that we are here and our legacy will never fade!
GUAP, or " great understanding and power", first made its appearance back in 2015 as the world's first video magazine. The platform has successfully showcased upcoming talent within the community. From the arts to music and business founders, Ibrahim Kamara and Jide Adetunji have carefully orchestrated a multi-faceted company which houses events, creative studios and now an award-nominated in-house creative agency. In the last five years, the GUAP team has put together issues which include the likes of J Hus, HER, Buddy, Hamzaa and Brent Faiyaz. Their latest breathtaking covers, The Black Renaissance Issue 20 champions Nella Rose and Henrie Kwushue, two Black British Women who have actively been impactful voices within the Black British Creative scene.
gal-dem is an independent online and print magazine, which houses the voices of women of colour and non-binary people of colour. Their mission statement confronts the inequality and misrepresentation within Britain's journalistic landscape. Through enthralling literature centred around the opinion, news, music politics and lifestyle, the founder Liv Little, provides a spotlight to marginalised narratives and experiences so many have ignored. Gal-dem's presence echoes the significance of variety, especially within a climate that usually prefers our silence.
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THE ENDS FESTIVAL
The Ends Festival is a Croydon-based music and food festival that invited 15,000 music lovers back in 2019. It aspires to celebrate contributors within the Black music scene both internationally and homegrown; upcoming and legendary. From performances from the likes of Nas to Ghetts, NAO to Wizkid, The Ends Festival is set to return in 2021 after deciding to be a bi-annual affair in February.
NO SIGNAL — "#BLACKRADIO FOR MUSIC LOVERS"
The new home for Black British music, No Signal quickly became an overnight sensation during the peak of the pandemic. Their flagship show #NS10v10 is a soundclash show that has brought global audiences as well as local, granting the online station a rapid road to triumph. With celebrity appearances and support from Burna Boy, Jorja Smith and football legend Ian Wright with Julie Adenuga, it's been clear that the platform is etching in a permanent mark within the Black British experience and its identity. Since the loss of Choice FM (now Capital Xtra) back in 2013, No Signal emergence was welcomed with open arms as being the new tenant for those within the Black Diaspora and its miscellaneous sound.
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This course will explore working in community as a form of civic engagement and an arena of human service work. This is typically referred to as community practice. Community practice, whether by the volunteer or the professional, entails helping a community at-large solve its problems and achieve its goals. Insightful, grounded community practice enables helpers to impact the total milieu of peoples lives, improving the broader spectrum of peoples lives in ways that direct client-centered helping cannot. Through the theoretical component of the course students will examine different ideologies of helping and how those become expressed in various forms of community helping including: service, organizing and development, social change and empowerment, and advocacy. Through the experiential component of the course students will become familiar with the varied tools of this distinctive type of helping within a specific Twin Cities social movement. This course is presently designed principally to expose College of Health, Community and Professional Studies students to the local food movement and related movement community-based enterprises. Other students may take this class with permission of the instructor.
Students will understand and be able to apply such concepts as power, politics, and justice to the execution of community practice.
Students will be able to analyze and reflect on the ethical dimensions of civic engagement as community practice.
Students will be able to recognize diversity of political motivations as articulated through different ideological frameworks for community practice.
Students will identify roles, skills and ways to effectively participate in different forms of community practice as an expression of responsible citizenship.
Students will be able to frame and articulate ways different local food movement group engage in outreach, advocacy, education, empowerment, crisis intervention, partnership collaboration, social activism, and resource mobilization as modalities of community practice.


Designed with the city's vinyl lovers and left-field dance music enthusiasts in mind, Potato Head Hong Kong's new Music Room showcases state-of-the-art audio equipment and a carefully curated vinyl selection in a specifically designed, acoustically treated space.
Concealed within Potato Head Hong Kong, this unique, interactive facility features the finest imported equipment from the US, the UK and Japan, hand-picked with the help of Potato Head Hong Kong's Music Director, Johnny Hiller.
Johnny, a German born DJ and producer who has worked closely with many of the world's first generation of legendary DJs, moved to Hong Kong in 2012 where he co-founded Otaku Soundsystem. Working closely with PTT Family, Johnny oversaw the design and music content of the Music Room to ensure an optimal listening environment where the soundtrack could take centre stage.
Supporting the resurgence of vinyl culture and appreciation, The Music Room houses over 8000 records, sourced over a 30-year span by Music Director Johnny Hiller. Along with monthly updates and additions by some of the world's top vinyl dealers, these form the basis of a growing in-house Potato Head collection.
Regular classic LP events are already in progress, including a monthly Ethiopian Jazz night on 7-inch format only. Balearic disco, reggae and ethnic/world music selections are in the constant mix, which fits in with the venue's laidback ambience.
Through the Music Room, Potato Head Hong Kong hopes to inspire different generations of music enthusiasts through its eclectic offerings and add to Hong Kong's cultural mix by going deeper into the subject matter through curated events, listening sessions and private events.


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Also the living area of the through and through family hotel has been continually expanded since it opened over 50 years ago, developed and renovated. 36 completely individually designed rooms with modern amenities and stylish furnishings create a homely welcoming atmosphere.


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package com.cloudera.api.v7;

import static com.cloudera.api.Parameters.*;

import javax.annotation.security.PermitAll;
import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.POST;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;

import org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.ext.multipart.InputStreamDataSource;

import com.cloudera.api.model.ApiCommand;
import com.cloudera.api.model.ApiHostRefList;
import com.cloudera.api.v6.ClustersResourceV6;

@Consumes({ MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON })
@Produces({ MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON })
public interface ClustersResourceV7 extends ClustersResourceV6 {

  /**
   * @return The services resource handler.
   */
  @Override
  @Path("/{clusterName}/services")
  public ServicesResourceV7 getServicesResource(
      @PathParam(CLUSTER_NAME) String clusterName);

  /**
   * Deploy the Cluster's Kerberos client configuration.
   *
   *

   * Deploy krb5.conf to hosts in a cluster. Does not deploy to decommissioned
   * hosts or hosts with active processes.
   *

   *
   *

   * Available since API v7.
   *

   *
   * @param clusterName The name of the cluster
   * @param hosts
   *          Hosts in cluster to deploy to. If empty, will target all eligible
   *          hosts in the cluster.
   * @return Information about the submitted command.
   */
  @POST
  @Consumes
  @Path("/{clusterName}/commands/deployClusterClientConfig")
  public ApiCommand deployClusterClientConfig(
      @PathParam(CLUSTER_NAME) String clusterName,
      ApiHostRefList hosts);

  /**
   * Download a zip-compressed archive of the client configuration, of a
   * specific cluster. Currently, this only includes Kerberos Client
   * Configuration (krb5.conf). For client configuration of services, use the
   * clientConfig endpoint of the services resource. This resource does not
   * require any authentication.
   *
   * @param clusterName The cluster name.
   * @return The archive data.
   */
  @GET
  @PermitAll
  @Path("/{clusterName}/clientConfig")
  @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM)
  public InputStreamDataSource getClientConfig(
      @PathParam(CLUSTER_NAME) String clusterName);

  /**
   * Prepare and start services in a cluster.
   *
   *

   * Perform all the steps needed to prepare each service in a cluster and start the services
   * in order.
   *

   *
   *

   * Available since API v7.
   *

   *
   * @param clusterName The name of the cluster.
   * @return Information about the submitted command.
   */
  @POST
  @Path("/{clusterName}/commands/firstRun")
  public ApiCommand firstRun(
      @PathParam(CLUSTER_NAME) String clusterName);
}


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If you successfully complete the General Educational Development exam, you can obtain credentials equivalent to a high school diploma, if you do not have one. Getting a GED will prove beneficial to getting admission to a college and could improve your career prospects later.
The General Educational Development (GED) exam was developed by the American Council on Education (www.acenet.edu). Although the GED is different from a high school diploma, it is considered as an equivalent credential by employers and admission to secondary education programs, 95-96% of employers and colleges accept it (source: ACE).
A prospective GED test taker must be sixteen years of age or older. Those enrolled in high school, receive a diploma or other qualification of equal value, are not permitted to take the GED. GED eligibility requirements vary from state to state; these policies can apply to the GED Official Practice Exam, preparatory courses and testing fees. Students should visit their state's official website to research the state's specific requirements.
Five subject tests make up the general educational development exam, namely: social studies, science, writing, reading and mathematics. Each section of the general educational development exam carries 200 to 800 marks. To pass, a student needs an overall score of at least 2250, with a minimum score of 410 on every individual test. Students need a 60-percentile score in the general educational development exam and they will need to study to prepare for it (source: ACE). Students can prepare for the exam by employing various available resources.
Classroom Preparation Courses: Your local GED testing center will notify you about classroom training courses that are available. A list of such courses is provided by ACE on its website. You can find the location of such programs in your area by visiting the American Literacy Director locator and entering your address (source: www.literacydirectory.org). You can access the needed information from phone book listings by looking for literacy programs, continuing education or adult education categories.
Classes are offered by community colleges and high schools. Study online in the comfort of your home. Free online practice tests (including answers and questions) are available; you can access them via the official website of the ACE. At PBS Literacy Link, you can find a GED course that employs Internet resources including videos (source: www.pbs.org/literacy).
Steck-Vaughn Adult Education is a store that you can purchase GED workbooks; you can get practice questions from the GED Official Pretest (steckvaughnadult.hmhco.com) that you can use to test yourself. You can visit the official GED website of your state in order to access other useful resources for home study.
You need to go to an official test center to take the general educational development exam, which is not offered online. Every US states has testing centers and they are available at the majority of international destinations. You can visit the ACE website for a list of test centers in the U.S.; international locations are listed on the Prometrics website (www.prometric.com). Personal registration at your testing center may be a mandatory requirement, but visiting the official general educational development website of your state will help you find out whether pre-registration can be done online or forms can be downloaded for mailing. Apart from having to pay any applicable fees, you have to show your social security number, proof of residence and a government-issued ID.
The GED exam will take about seven hours to finish. Some states do not insist that you take all the tests at a single sitting. In some locations, you can take the test in the evening. Get in touch with your test administrator for information about the testing options available. There are options available to test takers who have specific needs. Individuals with learning disorders, vision or hearing impairments can require special accommodations. Contact the ACE website or your test center for request forms for such special accommodations. If you are a non-native English speaker, you can take the GED in either French or Spanish, this varies from state to state. In some states, you may be required to complete the ESL (English as a second language) exam.
Contact your local testing center to find out your scores. People in the armed forces, in jail, the U.S Job Corps or located outside of the U.S. who has a desire to take the GED must visit the ACE website to obtain a transcript request form that they need to submit; alternatively, get in touch with the appropriate organization.
In case you did not pass the exam, you can retake the test or part of it, most jurisdictions and states allow this. You will have to find out about the waiting period before being able to retake the exam. You may have to take a test preparation course before you are allowed to retake the GED.


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Metadata writeback works for PSB format when it is added to the NComm handler.
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To use Dynamic Media to preview and generate dynamic renditions for EPS files, see Adobe Illustrator (AI), Postscript (EPS), and PDF file formats.
For EPS files, metadata writeback is supported only if the version of PostScript Document Structuring Convention (PS-Adobe) is greater than 3.0.
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For details, see Imaging Transcoding Library.
The Adobe Camera Raw library enables AEM Assets to ingest raw images. For details, see Camera Raw Support.
To use Dynamic Media to generate dynamic renditions for PDF files, see Adobe Illustrator (AI), Postscript (EPS), and PDF file formats.
To use Dynamic Media to preview and generate dynamic renditions for AI files, see Adobe Illustrator (AI), Postscript (EPS), and PDF file formats.
* The ZIP archives created using Deflate64 algorithm have limited support in AEM. Archive and unarchive operations are not supported. However, operations like uploading, browsing, and downloading are supported.
Asterisk (*) means all other formats are supported in DAM for storage, versioning, ACL, workflow, publishing, and metadata management.
See Configuring mime type-based for upload job parameters support.
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However, because AEM only detects mime type based on the file extension, all of the mime types are detected as application/postscript.
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Why Spain's brothels are filling up with 20-year-old johns
Police worry about the drastic decrease in the average age of clients, who come from all walks of life
His first time was shortly after his 20th birthday. "I was playing on a soccer team and we won a championship. We all went out for dinner, and then they invited us to a brothel as a prize for having won the tournament," says Antonio, 21, who lives in Asturias.
"When we finished dinner, we started to have some drinks and then all of a sudden the coach said we should go. With the euphoria of the drinks almost all of us decided we were up for it, and on top of everything, they were paying. Since then, I've gone back on the nights I'm out partying. Now, it's part of the plan."
Visiting prostitutes has become increasingly common for 20-year-old Spaniards such as Antonio, according to the police. And questioning whether or not the women are victims of human trafficking is not something that commonly crosses the minds of these young clients.
All of the boys aged from 19 to 21 we spoke to for this article wished to remain anonymous, including Antonio, who asked us to use a pseudonym. "Don't even say the city that I'm from please," he begged. This is understandable, but the truth is that in the social circles of boys his age, visiting prostitutes is not a taboo.
"I would say it's almost common," says Javi, also a fake name. He is 21 and from Cadiz. "You get to thinking and your mind fills up with friends or acquaintances that have gone or go… to, well, whores."
Police research backs up Javi's evaluation. It is now common and almost normal for young men to spend their money on sex.
The normalization of prostitution
José Nieto is the chief inspector of the Center of Intelligence and Risk Analysis (CIAR) with Spain's National Police. He has investigated sexual exploitation of women and organized crime related to prostitution for more than 19 years. Lately, he has noticed something has changed.
"We all have the classic profile of johns in our minds: men of a certain age, perhaps wearing a suit and tie. But lately in our routine inspections we are finding a lot of boys, a lot of young men who are aged 19, 20, or 21. The profile has definitely changed. The age has gone down a lot."
"I'm not talking about special cases," he adds. "I'm talking about groups of guys who have already started going to brothels as part of their routine. And sometimes the boys go alone. Sometimes we talk to the boys and they say, 'But we pay them €50 – I would love to make that much in a day'."
None of the boys we spoke to admit that sexual need is what drives them to brothels. "My friends usually go to these places; they're guys that don't have any problem picking up girls," says Antonio.
According to Nieto, all types of young men can be found in brothels – rich, poor, blue-collar and students.
"We completely agree with the evaluation of the police… the profile of sex consumers in Spain is changing. And it's worrying," says María José Martín, a social worker with APRAMP, an association that helps female prostitutes.
For Martín, prostitution is related to supply and demand. "If that's what the young men are demanding then, as a consequence, there will be more women who are obliged to prostitute themselves," she argues.
Javier from Cadiz worked at a restaurant during the summer and that's when he got his first taste of paid-for sex. "The cook and the other waiters were super nice, I really got along with them and sometimes we went out together. One night they suggested going to a brothel and they paid. This summer we went two or three times when the night was coming to an end. They always paid."
When the summer ended Javier quit the restaurant but returned to the brothel.
"I went alone twice, and twice I called for them to come to my house. It's a way to party, that's how I see it. It's fun, but it's expensive," he explains.
Tito, a 20 year-old from Madrid, also asked us not to use his real name. He began visiting prostitutes during his Erasmus year in Rome.
"Older friends from Erasmus told me it was really fun, that they'd gone several times. At the time I had no intention of doing anything. I had never considered it. In fact, the night I went I didn't even think I was going to do anything, just have a drink, but a girl got closer and…"
Tito went back to Madrid and says he doesn't think he would go back – but "you never know."
Sex now. Reflection later
"It doesn't surprise me," says Marta Arasanz, a psychologist specializing in sexology, responding to the findings of the police.
"Despite the fact that today there is more sexual liberty than ever before and maybe young men have the easiest access to sex in history, this generation lives in a world of immediacy – everything has to be quick, here and now, and sex is no exception," she explains. "Prostitution fits in with this philosophy that demands quick pleasure without consequences or commitments."
Arasanz believes that sooner or later this practice could have negative consequences for the young johns. "They are boys who may end up understanding sex from the 'intercourse-centric point' of view, meaning that sex is all about their pleasure – quick and without a second thought about their partner. Without empathy. It can deform their concept of sex and relationships," she suggests.
Throughout our conversations with young men who had visited prostitutes, their main worry was about the "shame" of talking about their experiences. None of the boys said they were worried about the women with whom they were having sex.
"When I came back from Erasmus I told some friends and none of them got upset," says Tito. "It's true that we spoke about whether the girls were exploited or whatever, but this is something you think about after."
Tito also told a few of his female friends. "They were more surprised, but because it was unhygienic or risky for my health. But none of them said anything about exploitation or referred to the situation of the prostitutes."
Nieto says that throughout his career he has asked boys about their thoughts on the women. "They always say the same thing: that the girl who they were with wasn't obliged to be there, that she was there of her own free will to make money. I explain to them that this is hardly ever the case, and especially not in a brothel."
"It's clear that we have a long way to go in terms of public awareness. Especially among young men," says Arasanz. "It seems that they still don't realize that they're contributing to the suffering of women."
Spanish police have been directing public awareness campaigns aimed at young men since 2013.
"We give speeches at high schools and universities. The objective is to make the boys think, invite them to reflect that it is possible that along with their fun, they are contributing to the enslavement of a woman."
Today, on a sunny Tuesday afternoon, Nieto is talking to students at the Charles III University of Madrid. He explains the work that he does and that many prostitutes are not in the profession by choice.
Asked if he thinks these lectures help, Nieto says: "For these young men, at first glance it's hard to see a victim in prostitution because there is no blood, no cries for help. There is a scantily clad girl, usually smiley, who orders them a drink. We try to explain why they are victims and that they are contributing if they go to these clubs."
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