MT - We lived with my uncle. It was a big building. Half of it was his medical practice. The Germans would come there. He was a gynecologist, they didn't have kids, but he was very well known and responsible, and I guess because he was a Ukrainian amongst the Polish, the Germans would send their wives to him. That was a little bit dangerous for us because in reality we were there illegally and in addition to that, because my mother and father had an opportunity, and they had to survive somehow, they bought a little store. I forget what it was called. At the back of the store there was a little room where we sold books. The German soldiers would come into the store, because they walked around all of Ryashev. I know that when they would come, my mother would hold me beside her and tell me to stand politely and not say anything. I was a polite girl so I did as I was told. But there, in the back, with the books, there was a young lady named Iryna who worked there, and I didn't know why my mother would be so worried when the German soldiers would come and she was there. But I was too young to ask, but I observed it nonetheless. One time the soldiers came, but they were polite, these German soldiers. They tried to show me some tricks. One decided to go look in the back. My mother squeezed my hand so tight that it hurt. She was so nervous. But he returned and nothing happened and they left. My mother then left to go look in the back, and I remember it was so cold. Iryna was working them. And Iryna was a Jew.
Interviewer - And your mother knew this?
MT - Yes. That is why she took her. Iryna was sitting in the back in this light, silk blouse. It was so cold! She was shaking, because there was no heating then, ad her jacket was hanging on a hanger. I remember the hanger. The jacket was hanging so that one sleeve was showing and the other was hidden. That was because she had a Jewish band on that sleeve. She usually sat and wrote in her jacket because it was so cold. Mother paid her and gave her food if needed, and some perfume I remember, but if they caught her, they would have executed us too. So my mother came, and she was sitting there. It makes me want to cry right now thinking about it. She was sitting there in that blouse, shaking, because it was so cold. But she was smart because when she heard they were coming, she hung up her jacket so that they would not see [her band].
MT - One morning I heard there some kind of commotion. Something was happening. I saw that they were carrying things to the backyard, where there was a cellar where we kept sour milk and other things.
Interviewer - Who? Your mother and father?
MT - No, there were always those who helped. Тhere was a cook and a girl who lit the furnace and cleaned. So they were carrying something. I looked - and it was good. I was wondering what was happening. Somebody must be down there. Not far from us, right beside the villa, there was a house where friends of my parents lived. They were Jews. And I noticed that nothing was happening there. I was playing with my friends, and I noticed that they were no longer carrying things [into the cellar], but something was happening inside. "Marta, go there, play here, don't bother us, you don't need friends today because we'll be leaving, we need to pack", my parents told me. I knew something was up. I heard them doing something that night and the next morning I woke up, everybody woke up, and I hadn't left my little room yet, because we had little rooms then. Somebody slept beside me and they had also woken up, but whether it was my mother or father or somebody else I don't know. In any case, I climbed up some blocks, or something else I can't remember right now, to the window because it was very high up, this little window, and I looked to see what was happening. І see that a carriage has arrived. The carriage is full of hay and some kind of bags. They didn't take the hay off, but they did unload the bags, and they were leading our Jewish friend from the house to the carriage.
Interviewer - From your house?
MT - Our house. He was hiding there. Now I remember that I forgot to mention that before this, 2 days before, I heard a loud yell. I need to go back. There was a loud yell outside and I saw that the Germans were taking this man's wife, and she was yelling "God will punish you for this. God will punish you for this." I saw that the man was no longer in our cellar, but in our house, and my mother and father were holding him so that he wouldn't go out. We cannot boast because we were not doing this only for me, but to save ourselves too. I wouldn't have helped him nor her. So she was taken away. And the next day, two days later, he was taken to the carriage.
Interviewer - So they found him in your house?
MT - No, they didn't find him. My mother and father were taking him to the carriage. The carriage was a regular one, pulled by horses, very old-style, poor. They put him in the carriage and covered him with bas and hay and I was dying of fear. I think I even started crying then because I thought the bags of potatoes would kill him. I already knew, even as a kid, that these were bags of potatoes. Then it drove away. They were very nice villagers. They helped pack and transport Jews from Turky to the Hungarian border because it was easy to take them there.
Interviewer - So you think they took him there?
Interviewer - Do you know how drove him? They were villagers, Ukrainians?
MT - They were villagers, yes, yes. From around Turky (the village). Later my mother told me that there were a few trustworthy people.
MT - Ukrainians, yes. These were people who worked the fields, regular people, not rich folks, who would transport things often to Hungary to sell. Potatoes, for example. They could transport it. There were more instances like this one, but I remember this one because I will never forget how scared I was that he was going to die under those bags.
MT - The Germans would behave very strangely with the Jews. I remember one time in Zolochiv, I was with my friends and we were going somewhere from school. We were walking along a road where street vendors were set up selling sour cream and eggs from their homesteads. We had to stop because to the left of us there was this big group of people. At the front, there were young Jewish men followed by Germans in uniform. As they got closer, we noticed that the vendors looked scared so we also moved away so that God forbid we get into some kind of trouble. When they got close to the eggs, we heard the Germans say, because I remember this because we learned German in school and we spoke it well. They told them to break the eggs. They had something in their hands that looked like sticks, some kind of instrument. We tried to get as far away from it as possible, and they started beating the eggs. Тhe vendors started yelling "panonko, panonko", I remember that word, "don't break them". But they did and they broke almost all of them. And one older girl who went to school with me said "this isn't the first time they've done this" meaning that they [the Germans] wanted the Jews to break the eggs and turn over the milk, oh there was also milk there, because we could see it spilling over, so that the Ukrainian villagers would be convinced that the Jews were the bad guys and the Germans were their friends.


Elaine Cha was recently appointed as assistant vice president for HCM systems in the Office of Human Resources at Princeton University. Cha will work to integrate business processes and enhance workforce-planning analytics; lead HR-technology initiatives; and ensure HR services and standards meet university needs.
Loews Hotels and Co. has hired Elizabeth Norberg as the hospitality group's chief human resources officer and executive vice president. She will lead the company's HR and people strategies.
Galvin has more than 25 years of experience in HR leadership. Most recently, she was chief HR officer at Glassdoor. Prior to that, she worked at Deloitte, Advent Software and MSCI Barra Inc.
Galvin received a bachelor's degree in political science and business from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland and a master's degree in business studies at the University College Dublin's Smurfit School of Business.
She has a bachelor's degree in English language and literature from Syracuse University and a master's degree in human resource management/personnel administration from The New School.
Box Inc., a cloud content-management company, announced that Christy Lake will serve as its chief people officer. Lake began her career at Bain & Co. and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, and has been an HR leader at The Home Depot, HP and most recently at Medallia, a SaaS company.
Every corner of the organization is being disrupted by technology and HR is no exception.
Just over 10 percent of job seekers relocated for work in the first six months of 2018.


An immensely big city where the vibes of a village still can be felt. This kind of grey looking city seems to be the cultural centre of China. Places to visit: Summer Palace, Tiananmen square and the Forbidden City. Don't forget to wander around the ancient neighbourhoods, called Hutongs. In this article you read everything about Beijing.
What to see in Beijing?
Summer Palace: nowadays a huge public park with an imperial past.
Tiananmen square (天安門廣場): Enormous square with in the middle the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong.
Forbidden City: Served as a home for several emperors in the history of China. Was also the political centre of the Chinese government for almost 500 years.
Hutongs: Classical Chinese neighbourhoods, typically for Nothern Chinese city, especially for Beijing.
The Tiananmen square, the Forbidden City and the Hutongs are all very close to each other and can be visited by just walking. The metro system of Beijing is very good and reliable, for just 20 RMB you can get around Beijing by metro, tickets can be bought at every metro station.
The Summer Palace is a bit too far to walk, so we would recommend to take the metro / subway to the Yuanmingyuan station and take Exit B. Exit B will lead you to the South Gate of the Summer Palace garden, bus 331 can take you from the South gate to the East gate of the Summer Palace.
What can you do after Beijing? We would like to give you some advice.
Shanghai: Take the nighttrain to this stunning city. Shanghai is totally different than Beijing.
Top 10: Or choose from our top 10 destinations.


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Record Number Of Storms In Atlantic
Record Number Of Storms In Atlantic Featured
By Super User / Local News / Tuesday, 15 September 2020 01:16
By WILLARD KILLOUGH III
CAROLINA BEACH - With a record number of storms in the Atlantic ocean over the previous week, people should be reminded of the need to prepare sooner rather than to late for tropical storms and hurricanes.
While the temperatures are cooling in September, that doesn't mean North Carolina won't be a target for future storms. Florence dominated September a couple of years ago.
According to the National Hurricane Center on September 15th, They "Continued to issue advisories on five tropical cyclones over the Atlantic basin. This ties the record for the most number of tropical cyclones in that basin at one time, last set in September 1971. The tropical cyclones are Hurricane Paulette, located north of Bermuda; Tropical Depression Rene, located over the central Atlantic; Hurricane Sally, centered over the north-central Gulf of Mexico; Tropical Storm Teddy, located over the east-central tropical Atlantic; and Tropical Storm Vicky, located over the eastern tropical Atlantic."
According to NOAA, "Elsewhere over the Atlantic basin on this Monday afternoon, a broad area of low pressure over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Upper-level winds are not particularly conducive for development, and any development of this system should be slow to occur while it moves slowly southwestward. It has a low (20 percent) chance of formation during the next five days. There's also a tropical wave located over the far eastern tropical Atlantic, producing disorganized shower and thunderstorm activity. Environmental conditions appear to be conducive for slow development of the system this week as it moves westward at 10 to 15 mph. It has a medium (50 percent) chance of formation during the next five days. www.hurricanes.gov"
North Carolina and three other southern states lead the nation in the number of billion-dollar weather-related disasters since 1980. Most of those disasters are tropical-storm related.
The North Carolina coast is the most vulnerable to a direct hurricane strike, but inland cities and towns across the state can also be devastated by the high winds and potential tornados, storm surges, flooding and landslides from hurricanes and tropical storms.
During hurricane season, from June 1 to November 30, you should have a family emergency plan in place and a family emergency supplies kit assembled.
Know your evacuation routes and locate your local emergency shelters.
Don't get caught by surprise. There is not enough time to think of everything you need to do when a hurricane gets close.
As a hurricane moves closer to your area, begin monitoring the weather reports every hour.
Listen for hurricane watches and warnings.
Put fuel in all vehicles and withdraw some cash from the bank. Gas stations
and banks may be closed after a hurricane.
If authorities ask you to evacuate, do so promptly.
If you evacuate, be alert to flooded or washed-out roads. Just a few inches of water can float a car. Remember: Turn Around, Don't Drown.
Keep a photo I.D. that shows your home address. This may become important when asking a police
officer or National Guard member for permission to re-enter your neighborhood.
There is never enough time to get ready for nature's fiercest weather. Give yourself and your family a head start.

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Where Are All the Facebook Desktop Apps?
Travis Harvey
Nobody can argue against Twitter's exploding popularity. We've seen developers create applications, both mobile and desktop, that create a more powerful user experience than the web's offerings. Facebook has hundreds of millions of users, so where are all the Facebook applications?
Sadly, there aren't many specifically developed to expand the Facebook experience. We see integration of Facebook feeds in Twitter applications like Seesmic and TweetDeck, but the functionality is severely lacking. As Facebook continues to expand their user base, they're seeing more and more people using it as their primary communication tool between friends. Instead of emails, users are relying on their Facebook inbox and wall communication. Instead of instant messaging clients like AIM and MSN Messenger, they're using Facebook chat. Facebook is becoming more than what we know to be social networks. It's an advanced communications tool. So if Facebook is becoming the go to place for communication and interaction, why aren't there application clients designed specifically for the Facebook experience? Millions of users would love to see applications that offer all of the features that are available on the web, improved and ported into a desktop application.
Earlier, Microsoft released a Windows desktop application dedicated to Facebook called Fishbowl. Fishbowl is a full-featured desktop client that allows for full browsing of all you're Facebook data. You get complete access to your friend's list, profiles, and photos in a beautiful application experience. They've built in support for multi-touch navigation and gestures, which is geared to really improve photo browsing. Notifications are pinned to the taskbar and using aero peek allows you to quickly check profiles from the taskbar. Try out Fishbowl if you're a Windows user. Microsoft says it'll work with XP, Vista, and 7.
Hopefully we see more and more developers jumping on the idea, resulting in some truly amazing Facebook desktop clients. Microsoft has set the pace, and it'll be interesting to see where this leads. Would you use a Facebook desktop application instead of the web? If you haven't already tested Fishbowl, give it a go and let us know how Facebook outside the web feels.
[Via Neowin]
Gift the silver screen with movie-inspired gifts for everyone
Everyone loves a good movie now and again. Why not channel that affection into the perfect gift? Whether it's inspired by a favorite franchise or creates the ideal movie-viewing experience, film-related gifts are always a great idea. Choose from our must-have collection.


From nanotechnology to pharmaceuticals and engineers to professors, the Capital Region is becoming an increasingly diverse place for foreign nationals to work and live. Brilliant in their fields, for many this is the first experience of full English immersion. Having just enough English to get by or asking a more proficient employee to serve as an on-the-spot interpreter affects the productivity of everyone involved and could lead to your best international employees resigning out of frustration.
CRLC has a team of English as a Second Language (ESL) instructors that has been working at local corporations for several years. Classes are tailored to the company's and the employees' needs and include elements of grammar training and small talk to refining pronunciation. You'll see immediate improvement in listening skills, relaying information from meetings and all-around clearer communication.
Importing and exporting to China, setting up shop in Brazil, having a parent company in France and working in communities with Spanish speakers are all reasons to embrace corporate training in another language. Knowing just a few phrases and cultural courtesies in your client's or host's native language will help you bond in a way that others cannot.
CRLC is not offering translating or interpreting services at this time.
Capital Region Language Center is a NYS certified WBE (woman-owned business).
AMRI's relationship with the Capital Region Language Center has been great for our company and our employees. A significant number of employees have enthusiastically embraced the opportunity to improve their communication skills and develop more of a U.S. Accent. Our diversity is now that much more of an advantage and the relationship with CRLC is much more of a partnership than a vendor relationship. The instructors understand both the students' and the business' needs and work with our employees, and us, well.
Did you have a rough time in middle or high school language class? Do you have a family member who speaks another language as his or her native tongue? Looking to increase your opportunities in the workplace or climb the corporate ladder? We'd love to hear your story!
Instructor Gloria Batista grew up in a Spanish-speaking household and has been with Capital Region Language Center almost since its beginning.
Rita Hausman is an English as a Second Language and Latin instructor at Capital Region Language Center.
Vicki Tremper is a French instructor with Capital Region Language Center and the DSO for Empire State English.
Quanxi Wu is a Chinese language instructor with Capital Region Language Center (CRLC).


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Posted: Jan 14, 2020 / 01:36 PM PST / Updated: Jan 14, 2020 / 01:36 PM PST
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Brett Favre vs. Steve Young. Aaron Rodgers dueling with Colin Kaepernick.
The catch by Terrell Owens, electrifying returns from Desmond Howard and breathtaking runs by Kaepernick.
Few franchises have been as intertwined over the last quarter-century as the Green Bay Packers and San Francisco 49ers, with coaches getting groomed in one spot and ending up in the other, seven previous playoff meetings, and a regrettable draft decision that sent Rodgers packing for Green Bay instead of staying close to home and reviving the 49ers.
The teams that have combined for nine Super Bowl titles will meet with a spot in the championship game on the line once again when the 49ers (14-3) host the Packers (14-3) in the NFC championship game on Sunday.
No matchup has occurred as frequently in the past 25 years, with the eighth meeting this week putting Green Bay-San Francisco three games ahead of any other rivalry. In fact, the only teams to play more than eight times in the postseason in the Super Bowl era are the Rams and Cowboys, who met for the ninth time last January.
The Packers have won four of those previous seven meetings, going 4-1 with Favre at quarterback and losing both meetings with Rodgers as starter in the 2012-13 seasons when he was outdueled by Kaepernick.
It all started back in 1992 when Mike Holmgren left a job as offensive coordinator in San Francisco to take over the Packers. The man who tutored Young in both college and the pros set out to groom the untested Favre, who was acquired in a trade from Atlanta that same year.
With Favre and Holmgren at the helm, along with free agent acquisition Reggie White, the Packers set out to challenge the Cowboys and 49ers for dominance in the NFC. After getting knocked out of the 1993 and '94 playoffs by Dallas, Green Bay got its shot against San Francisco the following year and jumped all over the Niners.
Adam Walker fumbled on San Francisco's first play from scrimmage and Craig Newsome returned it for a TD and Favre followed with two quick touchdown passes as the Packers rolled to a 27-17 win that established them as true contenders — even though they lost the following week against Dallas.
The teams met again the following year when Howard returned a punt 71 yards for a TD after San Francisco's opening possession. Young was knocked out later in the first quarter with an injury and the Packers won 35-14 on the way to a Super Bowl title.
"There was a time that you could just say, 'Hey, no matter, the 49ers are a better team than Green Bay,'" Packers defensive end Sean Jones said after that game. "There was a time where they could make mistakes, and still not play their best and you knew and they knew they were going to win. Well, those days are over. At worst, we are even with them in talent. So, then you throw in mistakes and there you have it — that's the difference."
The Packers dominance of the series led to George Seifert resigning as coach and former Packers assistant Steve Mariucci taking over.
Green Bay won the first playoff matchup against Mariucci the following year as the frustration mounted in San Francisco.
"It's getting pretty obvious," Young said at the time. "We have to find a way to beat the Packers. They are the team standing in the way of all our progress."
The breakthrough came the following year thanks to one of the most memorable plays of the series in San Francisco's only playoff win over Favre. On Jan. 3, 1999, Owens lost a fumble and dropped a potential TD pass early before delivering late.
With 8 seconds left and the Niners trailing by four, Young stumbled dropping back from center and then threaded a 25-yard pass between a phalanx of Packers to Owens, who somehow managed to hold onto it despite being hit by two defenders.
"I don't know where I would be if it weren't for that play, to be honest," Owens said years later. "If you take that one catch, that one touchdown away from me, I don't know where I would be. It was a play that really catapulted my career."
Favre won his final playoff meeting against the Niners three years later, and the next really meaningful link between the franchises came in 2005 when San Francisco drafted Alex Smith with the No. 1 overall pick instead of local boy Rodgers.
Rodgers fell to No. 24, only adding fuel to his motivation.
"Not as disappointed as the 49ers will be that they didn't draft me," Rodgers said at the draft about his disappointment at being passed over by San Francisco.
That proved prophetic as Rodgers and former Niners offensive coordinator Mike McCarthy built a powerhouse that won the Super Bowl following the 2010 season and then went 15-1 the next year before losing to the Giants one game before a potential showdown with San Francisco.
The teams finally met again in the playoffs the following two seasons, with Kaepernick running for a quarterback-record 181 yards and two scores and throwing for 263 yards and two TDs in a 45-31 San Francisco win that ushered in a new era of dual-threat quarterbacks.
Kaepernick braved the cold of Green Bay the following year to lead a late winning drive that knocked the Packers out again.
But San Francisco soon fell off from there and hadn't been back to the playoffs again until this season, when once again a familiar foe is in the way.
More The Big Game Stories
PLAYOFF PREVIEW: Round 2 – Green Bay Packers head to San Francisco with Super Bowl berth on the line
by by Local 5 Packers Digital Contributor Marty Hendricks / Jan 18, 2020
(WFRV) - Twenty-eight NFL teams are on vacation, their season over. Four are left standing: Kansas City, Tennessee, San Francisco, and Green Bay.
The Packers face a formidable roadblock to a Super Bowl berth in Miami on February 2nd, as they return to the scene of their worst performances of the season: the West Coast.
A look inside the Lost and Found at Lambeau Field
by Dena Holtz / Jan 18, 2020
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – If you've ever been at a home Packers game at Lambeau Field, you know that sometimes just leaving with all the people you came with can be a reason to congratulate yourselves.
Now imagine you get home and you realize you lost or forgot something while you were there. Is it lost forever? What do you do?
Lambeau's very own tailgating hype band
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – If you've ever wondered what you can possibly do with the skills you learn from being a part of the school band, you needn't look further than the Packers Tailgaters Band.
First off, this is a pretty cool job to begin with, hyping up the fans before a home game at Lambeau Field is not a bad conversation starter at parties. But while this may look like a fun job, make no mistake, this is a group of extremely talented musicians.
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package thrift

import (
	"github.com/go-kit/kit/log"

	"github.com/banerwai/micros/command/profile/service"
	thriftprofile "github.com/banerwai/micros/command/profile/thrift/gen-go/profile"
)

// New returns an AddService that's backed by the Thrift client.
func New(cli *thriftprofile.ProfileServiceClient, logger log.Logger) service.ProfileService {
	return &client{cli, logger}
}

type client struct {
	*thriftprofile.ProfileServiceClient
	log.Logger
}

func (c client) Ping() string {
	reply, err := c.ProfileServiceClient.Ping()
	if err != nil {
		c.Logger.Log("err", err)
		return ""
	}
	return reply
}

func (c client) AddProfile(jsonProfile string) string {
	reply, err := c.ProfileServiceClient.AddProfile(jsonProfile)
	if err != nil {
		c.Logger.Log("err", err)
		return ""
	}
	return reply
}

func (c client) UpdateProfile(profileID string, jsonProfile string) string {
	reply, err := c.ProfileServiceClient.UpdateProfile(profileID, jsonProfile)
	if err != nil {
		c.Logger.Log("err", err)
		return ""
	}
	return reply
}

func (c client) UpdateProfileStatus(profileID string, status bool) string {
	reply, err := c.ProfileServiceClient.UpdateProfileStatus(profileID, status)
	if err != nil {
		c.Logger.Log("err", err)
		return ""
	}
	return reply
}

func (c client) UpdateProfileBase(profileID string, mmap map[string]string) string {
	reply, err := c.ProfileServiceClient.UpdateProfileBase(profileID, mmap)
	if err != nil {
		c.Logger.Log("err", err)
		return ""
	}
	return reply
}

func (c client) UpdateProfileAgencyMembers(profileID string, agencyMembers string) string {
	reply, err := c.ProfileServiceClient.UpdateProfileAgencyMembers(profileID, agencyMembers)
	if err != nil {
		c.Logger.Log("err", err)
		return ""
	}
	return reply
}

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7 ways Google is using AI to help solve society's challenges
Google is using AI to help people facing disease and natural disasters, and to provide new opportunities for underserved communities.
Katie Malczyk
Keyword Contributor
The potential of AI to solve big problems is increasing all the time. In the past few years, AI and transformational innovations have become more important in confronting some of society's biggest challenges. Today, AI is helping countries and communities facing disease and natural disasters, and providing new opportunities for historically underserved groups.
Here are seven ways AI is already making the world a better place:
1. Forecasting floods and helping people stay safe through early warning systems
Last year the United Nations released a report stating that half of the world lacks adequate early warning systems for disasters like floods and fires. Yet research shows that the number of people impacted by climate-related crises and the damage they cause is only increasing. In response, we need lifesaving technology to help people stay safe and governments adequately prepare.
Our flood forecasting program covers dozens of countries. It shows forecast information in Search and Maps, and sends alerts to mobile devices to notify people in harm's way. And our FloodHub features detailed inundation maps so people can see exactly what to expect in their location.
What is the Google FloodHub?
2. Detecting real-time wildfire boundaries to aid in firefighting
We use satellite imagery to create AI models that can detect wildfire boundaries in real time, and we show their location in Search and Maps. Last year, we applied our models to more than 30 wildfires in the U.S. and Canada, which helped inform local residents and firefighters. We've now expanded to Mexico and parts of Australia as well.
3. Monitoring prenatal health
Global maternal mortality rates are unacceptably high, with about 295,000 women dying during and following pregnancy and childbirth in 2017, most from causes that could have been treated or prevented with adequate healthcare. Ultrasounds, for example, have become a routine part of prenatal care for many, but are still difficult to access in low-resource settings, due in part to a lack of adequately trained healthcare workers. We are working with Northwestern Medicine to develop and test AI models to enable lightly trained ultrasound operators in low-resource settings to accurately identify potential problems and risks, such as fetal positioning.
4. Fighting pest infestations of crops
Pest infestations of cotton and food crops can devastate farmers and those who rely on their harvest. We are collaborating with InstaDeep and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to better detect locust outbreaks in Africa to make it possible to implement control measures. We've also supported Wadhwani AI in India to create an AI-powered app that helps identify and treat infestations of pests, resulting in a 20% reduction in pesticide sprays and a 26% increase in profit margins for farmers.
5. Helping address population changes and humanitarian response through buildings
Open Buildings is an open-access dataset project using AI to interpret satellite imagery, designed to pinpoint the locations and geometry of buildings. This information is useful for a number of important applications, from population estimation, urban planning and humanitarian response, to environmental and climate science. Available in Africa, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam, the project enables governments and aid organizations to better understand the needs of residents, both in everyday life and in crisis situations.
6. Detecting genetic variations that cause disease
Thanks to a partnership with PacBio, researchers are using our deep learning technology, DeepConsensus, to quickly and accurately identify genetic variants that cause diseases. This will help scientists to uncover serious genetic conditions, such as an elevated risk for breast cancer or pulmonary arterial hypertension.
7. Helping people with non-standard speech connect and be understood
Millions of people have difficulty being understood when they speak. Project Relate, an Android app built on AI research, helps people with non-standard speech communicate more easily with others. It can transcribe speech into text, use a synthesized voice to repeat what's been said, or communicate directly with the speaker's Google Assistant to complete any number of tasks, from playing a song to turning the lights on.
How technology can help break communication barriers
How AI is improving agriculture sustainability in India
A look at how AI can help agriculture and sustainable farming in India.
By Miguel de Andrés-Clavera Rahul Sukthankar
9 ways we use AI in our products
By Justin Burr
Why we focus on AI (and to what end)
By James Manyika
Responsible AI: Looking back at 2022, and to the future
Looking back at Google's 2022 progress in principled AI innovation and ahead to 2023 and beyond.
By Marian Croak Jen Gennai
Google's 2022 year in review
By Megan Friedman
Helping robots learn from each other
A look at how Transformers are helping robots become more useful.
By Vincent Vanhoucke


Every winter we run a special Cloudeight Boosters drive to help us get through the slow times after Christmas.
This year, we're sweetening the deal.
If you make a gift of $10 or more, not only will you be invited to join our Cloudeight Boosters and grab some or all of the special freebies we offer our boosters, we'll give you a lifetime license for FastStone Capture Pro. Faststone Capture Pro is the same screen shot tool we have used for years. The retail price of FastStone is $19.95 – and you can get it free with donation of $10 or more.
And don't forget the growing list of other free stuff we offer our Cloudeight Boosters, including our newest e-books, FolderMagic, special discounts on some our products and services – and a lot more.
Our Cloudeight Boosters Winter Fundraising Drive starts now and continues through Monday, February 1, 2016 (or while supplies last). We will give anyone who donates $10 or more between now through February 1, 2016 a free lifetime license for FastStone Capture.
If you're already a booster, login to your account, give a gift of $10 or more and you'll get a free lifetime license to FastStone Capture Pro. It's easy. Just login to your boosters account and click the link on the Boosters' home page.
If can't afford to contribute, recommend our free InfoAve Premium newsletter to your friends . Or use our Start page as your start page. Anything you can do to help is very much appreciated.
I'm more than a bit confused.
its "free" but only if I give you $10.00 ?????
You can buy the program for $19.95. We're trying to give something back for donations. You're not required to donate if you don't want to. We have many loyal Cloudeight Boosters who have contributed many times without any incentives at all. I'm sorry this confuses you.
I sent you a donation this morning and the link for the lifetime license for FastSone Capture Pro apparently didn't work. When I clicked on the link it just took me back to the log in page.
The download link and registration key will be sent to your personally by Email within 24 hours. Thanks for your donation.
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It's a busy week here in the sunny South as I am expecting company this week in the form of my beautiful daughters. Hence, I'm pulling out some items here that don't require a lot of writing, and for which much of the research already has been done.
Following up on an earlier post, the Mills siblings—George, Agnes, and Violet—played croquet with and against a plethora of interesting players. One of them, the Ven. Ralph Creed Meredith [left] was, among his other accomplishments, chaplain to George VI and Elizabeth II.
More information about Meredith has come to light since I first wrote about him, and that knowledge led me to create his own Wikipedia profile. After all, he seemed to be virtually the only one in his family without one!
Here's my contribution:
The Ven. Ralph Creed Meredith, M.A., (10 July 1887 – 10 January 1970) was an Anglican Cleric who, according to the 1932 Crockford's Clerical Directory, in succession became a curate at Caverswall, Meir, Staffordshire (1912–1914), curate at St. Bartholomew's Church, Armley, Leeds (1914–1917), served the Diocese of Lichfield (1917–1918), was curate of St. Peter's Church, Harborne, Birmingham (1919–1920), and eventually took charge of the Conventional District of Bournville, a village south of Birmingham diocese from 1920-1924. His success at Bournville led the Bishop of Wellington to appoint Meredith Vicar of Whanganui, New Zealand in 1924, where he remained until 1932. He eventually became Archdeacon of Waitotara (1925–1932) as well, despite using addresses in both New Zealand and Hertfordshire, England during that time.
Meredith was a Freemason and an athlete of some note. After arriving in New Zealand in 1924, he was the winner of several New Zealand National Badminton Championships in 1927 and 1928, and was a world class croquet player, having performed for the New Zealand team competing for the 1930 MacRobertson International Croquet Shield, which fell to Australia, 3-0. Meredith also competed in numerous croquet tournaments in southern England and Ireland after relocating from The Vicarage in Windsor to Parkstone, Dorset. Meredith is credited with being the "prime mover" in the 1927 formation of Badminton New Zealand (then known as the New Zealand Badminton Association), of which he was president for two years. He was also president of the New Zealand Croquet Association and the Manawatu Association.
Meredith required surgery in April 1931 and had travelled to England for the procedure. On his return voyage, emergency surgery was required during a stopover in Port Said, Egypt. Subsequently in poor health, he accepted an offer from the Marquess of Salisbury to take over the Parish of Cheshunt, St. Albans, in Hertfordshire in 1932. According to Kelly's 1933 and 1937 Directories of Hertfordshire, Meredith served as Vicar at St. Mary the Virgin and was Rural Dean of Ware, Hertfordshire, residing at The Vicarage, Churchgate. He also served as Vicar of Windsor, 1940-1958. In 1946, Meredith was appointed Chaplain to His Majesty, King George VI, and maintained a place in the College of Chaplains of the Ecclesiastical Household of Elizabeth II on 5 August 1952.
Meredith was born in Dublin, Ireland, where he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and Dublin University, receiving his B.A. in Ethics & Logic with Honors after the Michaelmas Term in 1909. Meredith earned his M.A. at Trinity in 1912. He had earlier been educated at Rhos College in North Wales. He married Sylvia Aynsley (sometimes Ainsley) of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, on 21 April 1915, and died in Poole, Dorset, England, where he had served as Rural Dean since 1962.
Ironically, just hours after posting the article to Wikipedia, it was happened upon by Meredith's grandson, Jules, who believed he could identify his grandfather and grandmother in the 1957 Devonshire Park photograph [left] from the website of the Bowdon Croquet Club.
Here's what Jules had to say:
"Although not 100% sure (image resolution/quality) - My grandfather is on the back row (2nd from right) and I believe that the lady (front row - 3rd from left) is my grandmother Sylvia Meredith (nee Aynsley 1894-1987). She was also a keen croquet player and, along with grandfather, was a member of the East Dorset Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club."
In addition, Bowdon's Ken Cooper passed along this bit of information from croquet legend Dr. W. P. Ormerod regarding Meredith's identification of his grandparents corresponding to the numbered Devonshire Park image [right]:
"Canon and Mrs.Creed-Meredith I knew also quite well from the 1950's. I am not convinced that No.14 is him; the height is about right but he invariably… played in his dog-collar—he also had a club foot and surgical boot which of course we can't see. I am also not certain that No.52 is Sylvia C-M, but I knew them both much better at Parkstone from 1965. However I'm sure Jules has contemporary photos of 1957."
A higher resolution photograph would certainly resolve this identity crisis, and Jules Meredith informs us that he will be talking to an uncle who can perhaps provide more detail as well as a clearer image or two!
Nevertheless, I hope this gives the reader even more insight into one of the cast of fascinating characters who populated the croquet lawns, circa 1947 – 1971, along with the Mills.
You can see Creed Meredith's Wikipedia page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Creed_Meredith.
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Drowning in Plain Sight !
I felt really Impressed to do this picture tonight !
I remember nearly drowning when I was a kid , it was so Much like drowning in sin , there were people all around me unconscious to my plight , watching me Go Under for the last Time , then my Dad Came ,Jumping in clothes and All ,to Save His Child , just Like Jesus Did for me .. From the Water Lifted Me now Safe Am I !


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Die Grube Geyersecke war ein Eisenerzbergwerk bei Birken im Landkreis Altenkirchen in Rheinland-Pfalz.

1780 wurde die Grube erstmals erwähnt, der Betrieb dürfte allerdings älter sein. 1827 wurde der Betrieb neu gemutet. Im Jahre 1847 wurden 20,9 t Kobalterz gefördert. Um 1900 erfolgte die Konsolidation mit der 1652 erstmals erwähnten Grube Stöckerdamm zum Verbund Geyersecke-Stöckerdamm. Ab 1901 wurde eine Drahtseilbahn nach Wisserhof genutzt. 1903 wurden 13.400 t Eisenerz gefördert. 1910 wurde ein Maschinenschacht mit 400 m Teufe angelegt. Bereits 1912 wurde die Förderung eingestellt. Bis zu 155 Belegschaftsmitglieder arbeiteten in der Grube.

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On the Aindra School of Sanskrit Grammarian
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Publisher: Delhi, India, Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan: 1991
Elements of South Indian Paleography
By: A.C.Burnell
Publisher: New Delhi, India, Asian Educational Services: 1994
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By: Henry Yule & A. C. Burnell (Authors) & William Crooke (Ed.)
Publisher: New Delhi, India, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd.: 2013
Words of Indian origin have been insinuating themselves into English ever since the end of the reign of Elizabeth and the beginning of that of King James. When such terms as calico, chintz, and gingham had already effected a lodgment in English warehouses and shops, and were lying in wait for entrance into English literature. Such outlandish guests grew more frequent 120 years ago, when, soon after the middle of last century, the numbers of Englishmen in the Indian services, civil and military, expanded with the great acquisition of dominion then made by the company; and we meet them in vastly... View more info
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I sure wish I made this bread a few days ago. If I had, I would've been able to enjoy it with those Sam Adams mussels Laura and I ate for dinner. I guess I have to plan a little better next time.
I was just having a conversation with Laura about bread. During this conversation, I said, "What if a deli, or something like a deli, made their own bread to serve their sandwiches on? I think that deli would make a name for itself. Every day, make a few different styles of bread, cut the loaves into slices and sell some really awesome and memorable sandwiches. One of the benefits would be that the restaurant would smell like a bakery every day." You know as well as I know, everyone loves bakeries. Real bakeries – bread bakeries.
Bread isn't expensive to make. For the recipe I'm going to share below, the ingredients come up to less than a dollar. No mixer is needed. No fancy tools. Just a bowl and an oven. Almost all of us have these things. I vote to focus on bread much more often.
Central to the "almost no knead" method of making this bread is a high hydration level and a long resting period called autolyse. During this resting period, which can last anywhere between 8 and 18 hours, the flour in the recipe absorbs any liquid that's used. In our case, the liquid is water and beer. This method fully hydrates everything. As a consequence of this hydration, enzymes in the flour encourage its natural proteins to begin developing gluten. If you aren't familiar, gluten is what gives bread dough its elasticity. Traditionally, kneading encourages the development of gluten, but since we're taking advantage of autolyse, there's very little kneading involved.
The resulting bread is really nicely browned with a legitimately thick crust. After you break that open, you'll be left with a chewy interior. I just ate two pieces with melted butter on them and I have to tell you – this is my kind of thing. I felt like I was a lumberjack sitting in the woods somewhere tearing bread apart with my teeth. It's serious stuff.
The flavor is good. It's slightly acidic from the use of white vinegar and it has somewhat of a yeasty edge to it from the beer. As I was baking this bread, Laura mentioned that the wonderful smell brought her back in time. She couldn't pinpoint when, but she said it was definitely nostalgic.
I'd like to thank Bread Illustrated for this recipe. Their Almost No-Knead Bread was just what I was looking for. I'm certainly learning a lot from this bread cookbook and suspect I'll be a master by the time I'm through.
In a large bowl, add and mix the flour, salt and yeast with a whisk.
Then, in a medium sized bowl or a 4-cup measuring cup, add and mix the water, beer and vinegar.
Next, add the wet ingredients to the large bowl that currently has the dry ingredients in it. Use a rubber spatula to fold everything together, being sure to continue folding only until there's no more visible dry flour.
When the dough is mixed, cover the bowl tightly with plastic wrap and let it sit at room temperature anywhere from 8 to 18 hours. During that time, the dough should rise slightly.
On a lightly floured counter, add the dough and knead for about 1 minute. The dough should become smooth and elastic.
Once the kneading is finished, form the dough into a ball by stretching the top and pulling it towards the bottom. Basically, you're pulling the surface of the dough so it's taut while moving the excess to the bottom. After you form the ball, place it on top of a piece of parchment paper that measures about 18 inches long.
Take the parchment paper by both sides and lift the dough. Lower everything into a Dutch oven.
Cover the pot tightly and let it sit at room temperature for about 2 hours or until the dough doubles in size.
Cover the Dutch oven with its heat proof lid. Then, arrange your oven racks so one is in the center position. Turn the oven heat on to 425 degrees and immediately add the pot to it. The dough will warm up as the oven does. Bake the dough for 30 minutes. Once that's complete, remove the lid and bake for approximately another 30 minutes or until the top of the bread is golden brown.
Finally, when the bread is finished baking, remove everything from the oven, grab the edges of the parchment paper and lift the bread from the pot. Let it cool for an hour or so before slicing into it.
I'm not sure what it is, but every time I make a basic bread like this, I feel like I'm living thousands of years ago. Each ingredient used here has been around forever and the result is timeless. If you decide to go ahead with this recipe, please let me know how it turns out in the comment section below. Thanks for reading!


One of the many things I did with my Sister before we took off on our big week or has it been two?) of adventures was to stock her pantry, OH MY!! Being someone who rarely pays full price for anything I got a bit nervous paying full price for almost everything. My goal was to stock her pantry and freezer for at least 6 months. Being that she lives alone I took my "Food Saver" along to repackage meats for her. Her job was to pick out things she liked, my job was to figure out how much of each item would hold her over for the long haul. We hit a second buggy before we were half way through the store, by the end we had 3 buggies full top to bottom. Frozen meat totals, 20 PKG ground beef. 20 PKG chicken breast. 20 PKG pork chops. 20 PKG hot dogs, 10 ham steaks, 10 beef steaks, 2 small turkey roasts, 2 PKG Fish, I think that was about it in the meat department. Canned and boxed goods? More than her pantry could hold :) Toiletries, cleaning supplies and paper products? TONS. A once a week quick trip to the grocery for perishable things is all she will need for a VERY long time.
Tater Tot update :) He is a doll baby, always smiling and laughing but refuses to sleep unless its in our arms, spoiled little guy for sure.
Our budget has been blown out of the water the past 2 weeks. Thank goodness for the EF. I say bring on the fall so I can get that bank account built back up!!!
The other mini spending was to buy her a small George Foreman grill. Cooking for one is not so easy, using the little grill will make things a bit faster. Best part of all she is excited to try her new kitchen tool out.
Figure I might as well share what she did have on hand to eat. One tub of something that she seemed to think was butter, so NASTY!! A few packets of soy sauce leftover from carry out, a few Popsicle's in the freezer for her grandson. That's it for the freezer/fridge. The pantry. a huge bag of instant potatoes that had no directions on how to prepare it, 2 tin cans of squash, double nasty!!
Another thing that has me baffled is how can you reach middle age and not know how to cook? I'm not talking about making home made bread, laying the table for 20 guests, or making a gourmet meal. My sister ask me how to make chicken salad.....what??? How long should you cook a hamburger? This is one of the reasons stocking her pantry cost so much. I knew she has no kitchen knowledge. Knowing how to cook real meals from real food is so much cheaper than depending on quick fix meals and baking.
Rome wasn't built in a day. Changing bad habits of eating out every meal every day is not going to be easy. Not having a retirement fund or disability insurance....It's just nuts!!!! My Sister will be living for the rest of her life on a Social Security check of $1,214.00 each month. Could you make that amount work with your budget? As frugal as hubby and I are we couldn't do it...that is why money goes into savings and our retirement account each and every payday. That is why we are willing to pass on the must have newest gadgets/electronics that come out. That is why we live well below our means today so we can eat and have a roof over our heads in the future. If you don't have disability insurance put that Latte down right now!!! Get yourself and your better half a policy today. You might be surprised at how VERY cheap they are!!!
Off to bed for me. We had our Sunday dinner tonight as I will be taking my Sister back to AL tomorrow, had Kara and Tater Tot since 8:00AM. I am done, done, done!!!


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On Point: Special - The Trump Administration Pours North Korea a Power Cocktail: American Coordinated Coercive Diplomacy Operations to Denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, 2017 - 2018
by Austin Bay
This article is extracted from Chapter Two, NORTH KOREA: Frozen War, Hot Nukes, Maximum Pressure Cocktails in Austin Bay's Cocktails from Hell: Five Complex Wars Shaping the Twenty-first Century (Bombardier Books, 2018) pp. 45-51. Copyright Austin Bay 2018, All Rights Reserved.
Whether a mixed drink or geo-strategic policy, a cocktail is a combination. DIMEFILCH is an acronym for some of the ingredients. The Diplomatic, Information, Military and Economic elements of power (DIME). Financial, Intelligence, Legal (law enforcement), Cultural, and Humanitarian capabilities also mix in a "power cocktail."
The "first brush" narrative in this section collects connected events and actions that occurred from March 2017 to March 2018. Overall, the operation represents a concerted effort to wage twenty-first-century "cocktail" warfare by employing and coordinating American power in pursuit of a geo-strategic goal: denuclearizing North Korea. But this is a slice of ongoing history. Subsequent events will determine the effectiveness of this particular multi-dimensional operation.
The Coercive Diplomacy narrative actually begins with Donald Trump's October 24, 1999 Meet the Press interview with Tim Russert.
The interview is a historically illuminating flash forward to his administration's 2017–2018 "de-nuclearizing" North Korea coercive diplomatic effort. It also adds convincing depth to the US narrative that "North Korea has gone too far."
Based on administration statements made in 2017, "de-nuclearizing" means destroying the DPRK's nukes and its long-range missile delivery systems. If coercive diplomacy does not produce this result, a war would, though with hideously destructive costs. In the 1999 interview, Trump summarizes the American government's weak responses to North Korea's slow but undeterred quest for nuclear weapons:
First I'd negotiate and be sure I could get the best deal possible.… The biggest problem this world has is nuclear proliferation. And we have a country out there in North Korea which is sort of wacko, which is not a bunch of dummies, and they are developing nuclear weapons.… If that negotiation doesn't work, then better solve the problem now than solve it later. (Trump 1999)
A narrative warfare gambit? Given the twentieth-century date, the statement was either bravado or a promise to act when and if. The Trump administration's subsequent actions demonstrate Trump made a promise. In March 2017, Trump's foreign policy began a coordinated attack on Kim Jong Un's regime with the interim goals of disrupting Pyongyang's political and military plans, exposing the regime's grave weaknesses, and psychologically rattling its leader. The administration's ultimate goal was to set conditions to de-nuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
On March 17, 2017, then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared, "The policy of strategic patience has ended. We are exploring a new range of diplomatic, security, economic measures. All options are on the table." He added that if North Korea didn't end its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, why, Japan and South Korea might have to acquire their own nuclear arsenals. That same month Tillerson said the first steps to coerce de-nuclearization would be additional UN sanctions. Regarding China, Tillerson said, with diplomatic finesse, "No one issue defines the relationship between the US and China. We will be talking about a broad range of issues when I'm in Beijing. But the threat of North Korea is imminent. And it has reached a level that we are very concerned about the consequences of North Korea being allowed to continue on this progress it's been making on the development of both weapons and delivery systems."
Declaring North Korea an imminent threat was a dire warning that indicated kinetic military action could occur. However, for the present, American economic power would be the primary coercive instrument.
Tillerson's rejection of strategic patience was an explicit repudiation of the Obama-era policy as expressed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democrat presidential candidate in 2016: "The approach that our administration is taking is of strategic patience in close coordination with our six-party allies." Recall the Sunshine Policy and other "soft power" initiatives had failed, and this was evident during the Obama administration. (See Complexity 3, this chapter.)
In April 2017, Vice President Mike Pence visited South Korea and assured the country, "We [Americans] are one hundred percent with you." Pence said North Korea's economic and political isolation is what the nuclearization is predicated upon. Complete economic isolation would deny North Korea all imports and stop its exports.
The coercive diplomatic operation that vice president Pence sketched solicited collective international economic and diplomatic action to end the threat of nuclear war in East Asia.
The Trump administration made it clear North Korea bore responsibility for the horrors that are and the horrors that could be. However, China, pursuing its policy of strategic ambiguity, has served as Pyongyang's key enabler.
However, China and Russia border North Korea; isolation of the Kim regime is impossible without their cooperation. In April 2017, the Trump administration suggested that China would receive a favorable trade deal—and perhaps other unspecified considerations—if Beijing helped terminate North Korea's nuclear weapons program. (See chapter three, The Dragon Revives, for a discussion of China's economic goals and potential vulnerabilities.)
A de-nuclearized peninsula would signal to China that the US was guaranteeing that China would not confront a nuclear-armed South Korea. Should North Korea collapse and South Korea absorb it, the reunified Korea would not possess nukes.
Military power, however, remained in the mix. US, South Korean, and Japanese military exercises near North Korea began to intensify.
In June 2017, at the Shangri-La summit in Singapore, Secretary of Defense James Mattis said the US had vital interests in the Asian littoral and that the Asia-Pacific region was "a priority region" for Washington. The Trump administration would address regional issues through "military partnerships, robust investment and trade relationships, and close ties between the peoples of our countries." Then he addressed North Korea's "clear intent" to acquire nuclear- armed missiles. Mattis said he believed China would "come to recognize North Korea as a strategic liability, not an asset." Mattis said the US would "engage China diplomatically and economically to ensure our relationship is beneficial." That was a carrot. But Mattis didn't shy away from confronting China's South China Sea aggression. He declared that the 2016 arbitration court ruling concluding that China had illegally seized Filipino territory was binding and served as a diplomatic starting point to peacefully manage regional disputes. That was careful, measured language—in effect, "Let's play by the rules and respect each other."
As he finished, Mattis mentioned, as if in passing, that for the first time the US would give Vietnam a retired US Coast Guard cutter. That was a small but forceful stick waved at Beijing. In 1979, China and Vietnam fought a bloody border war and China lost. China fears a US-Vietnam alliance (see chapter three).
Finally, Mattis said America remained "committed to working with Taiwan and with its democratic government to provide the defense articles necessary…."
That's a stick – a military stick. Beijing says Taiwan is a breakaway province. Mattis's remark echoed a phone call Trump made to Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen in December 2016, shortly after Trump's election. China heard the echo.
September 3, 2017: North Korea tested a powerful nuclear device. On September 23, Trump replied with an executive order that informed analysts called a declaration of economic war on North Korea. The order supported Tillerson's warning that the Trump administration would exert maximum pressure on North Korea until the criminal state de-nuclearized. Economic pressure followed diplomatic pressure.
The military pressure included US Air Force strategic bombers flying show-of-force missions around the peninsula, including a foray into international airspace over the East Sea off North Korea's coast.
The pressure also included psychological (Information) pressure on "Little Rocket Man"—Kim Jong Un. Trump coined that nomme de insult in September, and it was a useful punch. Trump's nicknames are such damningly effective caricatures that they become psychological weapons. Insulting a dictator's dignity is a potentially valuable psychological weapon. Dictators demonstrate invulnerability by silencing and suppressing dissent and opposition using physical intimidation and coercion, to include mass murder. Kim's inability to stop Trump's taunts or top his taunts demonstrate a kind of vulnerability on Kim's part. Vulnerable dictators don't remain in power, not for long.
On March 5, 2018, Kim Jong Un said he was willing to do something he had said he would never do: discuss de-nuclearizing his regime. He made no demand of South Korea and the US, other than that they meet to discuss the subject face-to-face. A day later, a South Korean delegation met with Kim in Pyongyang and reported that Kim himself had said he understood that South Korean and American joint military drills would continue. That was a huge concession. For decades, the Communist state's propagandists have portrayed allied military exercises as preparations for invading the north. The dictatorship also agreed to suspend its provocative nuclear weapons tests and missile tests while talks continued.
June 2018: The March 2018 North Korean concession led to more discussions between South Korea and North Korea and meetings between President Moon and Kim Jong Un. The Trump administration said President Trump and Kim could discuss de-nuclearization face to face but there would be no US and allied concessions. Singapore would host their historic summit. As the summit approached, North Korea tried to alter the diplomatic ground rules. Trump canceled the summit—coercive diplomacy met with coercive diplomacy. North Korea asked the US to hold the Singapore summit. It took place on June 12, 2018. At the summit Trump dropped the "bad cop, good cop," shook hands with the dictator, praised Kim for wisely choosing to talk, and assured him that he and his nation had a safe and wealthy future—as long as Kim followed through on his promise to completely, verifiably, and irreversibly de-nuclearize (CVID). During face-to-face discussions, Trump added another stroke of unpredictable diplomacy: he produced an iPad and showed Kim a four-minute video prepared by the White House. Slickly calculated to fascinate its target audience, the thirty-something movie-loving Kim, the video contained imagery and audio inspired by science fiction films, dramatic historical documentaries, razzle-dazzle adventure video games, and advertisements selling expensive high-tech products. The imagery and audio narration explicitly advocated making responsible decisions that positively shape the future by avoiding destructive nuclear war and promoting wealth. However, in the perspective of the deadly politics behind the summit, the video implicitly condemned Kim's "Byongjin" policy. North Korea could not possess nuclear weapons and have wealth; nuclear weapons guaranteed North Korea's ruin.
The video was a remarkable example of a psychological warfare diplomatic weapon that is simultaneously persuasive and coercive. In street lingo, the psychological cocktail sent this message: "Stay alive and get rich, kid."
As the summit concluded, Kim indicated he would de-nuclearize and Trump responded with a goodwill gesture: South Korean-US military exercises would be suspended as long as North Korea pursued CVID. Like other allied gestures, the exercise suspension could be quickly reversed.
Time will tell if the Trump administration's diplomatic operation de-nuclearizes North Korea and the world avoids a major war. As I finish this book, human history and the American effort both continue. Elements of a serviceable CVID deal have emerged. North Korean domestic media have mentioned the possibility—but the deal has yet to be made. Whatever its outcome, the coordinated coercive diplomatic operation as implemented March 2017 through March 2018 and into June 2018 with the Singapore summit was a remarkable example of a DIMEFILCH cocktail.
From Austin Bay's Cocktails from Hell: Five Complex Wars Shaping the Twenty-first Century (Bombardier Books, 2018) pp. 45-51. Copyright Austin Bay 2018, All Rights Reserved.
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Upon accepting your financial aid, you have 7 calendar days to enroll your student into Freedom Christian. On day 8, if we have not heard from you, your financial aid will be released to another family.
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Freedom Christian will consider the FINAL financial aid batch on June 15th of each year, if funds are still available. You must have been accepted into the school and be in a "verified" state with FACTS by this date in order to be considered in this final batch. This process can take weeks, so it is important for you to get the process moving well ahead of this deadline.
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School Opportunity Scholarships are the latest educational option for public school parents in NC as of 2013. The program was designed to create scholarships that allow low-income/working-class parents an educational choice for their children entering grades 1st through 12th. If you qualify based on your income and household size, you may apply and use that $4200 voucher toward the private school of your choice.
What an incredible option for parents who have prayed for an opportunity to send their child to a Christian school where values/ethics and biblical instruction are the standard!
Freedom welcomes any family who shares our vision for America: to raise up godly young people to serve Him, their families, and their country, whether the Lord directs them to business, industry, or the military. The admissions process is the same for all who apply including the admissions fee, the necessary paperwork and an interview with our Head of School.
The 2019-20 new student application for the Opportunity Scholarship Program opens February 1, 2019. The priority deadline is March 1, 2019. The application will close on June 1, 2019. Eligible applicants who apply between February 1 and March 1 participate in the lottery. The application remains open until all funds are exhausted.
The priority deadline for renewal and new applications is March 1. For full details, read the Opportunity Scholarship Program Overview.
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MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOR MARYLANDERS – ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE 111TH CONGRESS
The 111th Congress, which just concluded, began two years ago with an aggressive agenda complicated by an ailing economy that would throw a great many challenges in our path. We tackled these challenges head-on and put our nation on a path to recovery from the worst recession in generations. At the same time, we succeeded in extending access to quality, affordable health care to 30 million Americans, expanding the availability of credit to small businesses, protecting children and consumers, and helping to strengthen the civil rights of all Americans from the abuses of big business and big government.
Many Marylanders are still hurting, especially those who lost their jobs through no fault of their own. But the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, passed by Congress, helped to stem the very worst of the recent recession. The package helped to save or create millions of jobs by making unprecedented investments in our nation's infrastructure. It helped people stay in their homes, keep their jobs, and take care of their families.
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Patients come first in the health care reform passed by Congress. I'm particularly pleased that the new law includes provisions I authored to strengthen protections through a Patients' Bill of Rights and guarantee proper oral health care for our children. I also led the successful fight to codify the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities, correcting a long-standing bias in our health care system that was ill-equipped to deal with disparities among different populations, particular minorities.
I have been proud to represent Maryland in the 111th Congress and have worked hard to protect our local economy. We are making unprecedented road and transit investments to handle the tens of thousands of new jobs coming to Maryland thanks to BRAC. I've led the fight to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, which is an economic engine as well as environmental treasure, wrote the law that ensures that the federal government pays its fair share for stormwater pollution running off its facilities, and authored comprehensive reforms in our drinking and wastewater infrastructure programs. We've also made major investments in the Blackwater Wildlife Refuge and the C&O Canal National Park, including restoration of the historic Catoctin Aqueduct and repairs to the Big Slackwater Towpath. And we've provided federal support for key transportation projects that will ease traffic congestion and related pollution including dedicated funding for Metro, upgrades for MARC, and resources to replace buses statewide with clean-fuel alternative vehicles.
Nationally, as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I was honored to participate in the confirmation hearings for two Supreme Court Justices. I used the opportunity to highlight the real consequences Supreme Court decisions have on the lives of every day Americans and the real threats to our civil rights. I was a proud cosponsor of the successful fight to repeal our military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, and equally proud that one of the very first pieces of legislation we passed helped to level the playing field for women who have been discriminated against in the workplace through unequal pay. As a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, I've helped carry this fight internationally, by working to raise awareness of gender issues in how the U.S. distributes its foreign aid. We also capped this Congressional session by ratifying the New START Treaty with Russia. Not
only does this treaty enhance our national security but it serves as a significant step forward in helping to reduce the spread of nuclear weapons worldwide.
When Congress reconvenes in January to begin its 112th session, our priority will be to continue to promote domestic job growth and help boost our nation's economy while protecting middle-income Americans from further economic hardship. Thankfully, we will be building on a strong foundation of strategic investments that have pointed our economy back in the right direction.


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Q: The number of summands $\phi(n)$ If $n$ is a positive integer such that the sum of all positive integers $a$ satisfying $1\leq a\leq n$ and $\gcd(a,n)=1$ is equal to $240n$ then the number of summands namely $\phi(n)$ is

*

*120

*124

*240

*480

My attempt:
If $n $= $p_1^{q_1}p_2^{q_2}...p_k^{q_k}$ where $p_1, p_2,...p_k$ are primes.
$240 n = \frac{n(n+1)}{2} - \frac{p_1^{q_1+1}-1}{p_1 -1}\frac{p_2^{q_2+1}-1}{p_2 -1}... \frac{p_k^{q_k+1}-1}{p_k -1}  +1 $
From here, I was not able to proceed. Guesswork tells me that the number has to be 480 because the sum is $240n$.

A: Note that $a$ and $n$ are relatively prime if and only if $n-a$
and $n$ are relatively prime.
Call such a pair $\{a,n-a\}$, where $a$ is relatively prime to $n$,  a couple. The sum of the numbers in a couple is $n$.
If $n\gt 2$, there are $\frac{\varphi(n)}{2}$ couples. For every $a$ relatively prime to $n$ gets coupled with someone other than herself.
It follows that our sum is $n\cdot\frac{\varphi(n)}{2}$. If this is $240n$, then $\varphi(n)=480$.

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Boutique hotel The Rose brings bold, bright design and Victorian charm to the high street of Deal, a spirited seaside town on the east Kent coast. Standing for over 200 years, this townhouse pub was a hit in its heyday, but had fallen behind the times when it was bought by the former design editor of Wallpaper magazine and her landlord husband, a descendant of the brewers that once owned the pub. What followed was a labour of love, with the design-savvy duo restoring the building's standing and a introducing a flurry of colour – chairs in velvet mustard, mint-green sinks and purple bath tubs all make an appearance. Downstairs, the mod-British restaurant and mid-century lounge bar turn out dishes and drinks made with ingredients sourced from the Kentish countryside.
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Double rooms from $115.03 (£92), excluding tax at 20 per cent.
Rates include an à la carte breakfast – choose from options like duck eggs with anchovy soldiers, bacon sandwich with rhubarb ketchup, or avocado and green chilli on toast.
The hotel have followed the vintage thread by keeping things fairly lo-fi, which is why there are no TVs in the rooms. Rooms 3, 4 and 6 have record players and a stash of vinyl, however.
At the hotel
Free WiFi throughout; free tea and coffee stations. In rooms: free bottled water and Austin Austin organic bath products.
Our favourite rooms
All eight rooms were individually designed, so each has its own quirks and character – some have a mint-green sink or a yellow bath, others have a knock-out piece of mid-century furniture. Finding a favourite will be a matter of taste, but we're particularly taken by Room 4, which has a super-king-size bed and a spacious bathroom with sliding wooden doors, a roll-top bath and a shower clad in bottle-green tiles. If bold colours and bright patterns are your thing, try Room 9, a cosy bolthole with mustard fabrics and cloudlike wallpaper by Farrow & Ball.
We'd advise leaving space, or even bringing an extra bag, if you're prone to the temptation of vintage shops.
All the public areas are wheelchair accessible, but there are no specially adapted rooms.
Pet‐friendly
With advance notice, dogs under 40kg are welcome in Room Three and Room Eight. There's a flat fee of £20. See more pet-friendly hotels in Kent.
All ages are welcome, but the hotel isn't particularly geared towards children. A cot (£15 a stay; suitable for children under two) or mattress (£15 a stay; suitable for children from two to eight) can be added to certain rooms subject to availability.
Top Table
You can't beat the green velvet banquette, which was lovingly restored by a local upholsterer.
The atmosphere is undoubtedly casual, but the hotel's design credentials warrant a certain studied carelessness. Work jackets, wide-leg chinos and oversized jumpers will hit the mark.
Hotel restaurant
The restaurant is designed with as much thought and flair as the rooms, working original features like the time-worn floorboards and 1950s wall panelling into the mix. These relics have never been in better company, now brought to life by a forest-green banquette and utilitarian mid-century furniture. The kitchen is helmed by chef Rachel O'Sullivan, who honed her craft at Soho's Polpo and cult East London café Towpath. She and her team prepare mod-British dishes from the open kitchen at the end of the room, with classics like braised rabbit, roast hake and rump steak ensuring Kent's fields and waters get their due. But as with everything at the Rose, there's a sense of freshness running through the whole operation – obvious pairings are often swapped out for something more enticing, and dishes aren't bounded by an obsessive need to keep things Kentish to the last.
The bar and lounge are splashed with bold colours thanks to the plum, blue and mustard lounge chairs and high-backed sofas covered in leafy motifs. A wood-burning stove and antique rugs keep things snug on cold days, and the walls are decked with a range of artwork, some of it by local artists and others from the Carl Freedman's gallery in Margate. The local ales and wines have been chosen with judicious care, but it's the seasonal cocktails that steal the show, made with local herbs and fruits foraged by Lucia Stewart, founder of the Wild Kitchen.
Breakfast is served every day from 8.30 to noon. The restaurant is open Wednesday to Saturday for lunch (noon to 3pm) and dinner (6pm to 9.30pm); on Sunday the kitchen is open from 8.30am to 4pm. Drinks flow in the bar from 9am to 11pm daily.
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The Rose is on the High Street in Deal, a charming seaside town on the east Kent coast.
The closest airports are London Gatwick and Heathrow, both around two hours' drive from the hotel.
Deal has its own station. If you're coming from the capital, you can hop onto a high-speed service from St Pancras International, which takes around 90 minutes. If you're in the mood for a leisurely journey, the regular service leaves from London Bridge, taking an hour longer.
You won't need your car in Deal itself, but it's worth having one if you want to explore the Kentish countryside and nearby seaside towns. There's parking within a few minutes' walk of the hotel.
Worth getting out of bed for
The fine-tuned balance of antique, retro and contemporary design in the lounge makes it all too enticing to kick back – and when you've got Kentish ales, English sparkling wines and killer cocktails within arm's reach, you may find the hours slip by faster than you expected. It's worth dragging yourself away, however, as Deal High Street has won acclaim for the number of its independent boutiques – don't miss Smugglers Records for a bit of crate digging, galleries Don't walk walk and Linden Hall Studio for a taste of the homegrown art scene, and Mileage, Fleming's and Delpierre for antique and retro homeware. If you've got a car, further cultural hits can be found in Margate, home to the Turner Contemporary and Carl Freedman's Counter Editions, the gallery that supplied the some of the artwork at the Rose. Make the most of the sea air on the walk between Deal and Sandwich, once home to the Earl who inspired the eponymous snack. You'll pass the River Stour, have views of the chalky coastline at Ramsgate and cross the grassy dunes of the Royal St George's Golf Course, the inspiration behind St. Mark's, which James Bond plays on in Ian Fleming's Dr. No. Deal's beaches are pebbly, so if you prefer to bask on sand, you might want to head up the coast to Ramsgate or nearby Broadstairs, home to Botany Bay, a stretch of sand bounded by Kent's chalk-white cliffs. If you've never been, now's a good chance to see fit in a visit to Canterbury Cathedral, around 20 minutes' drive from Deal. The building needs no introduction, but yellow-sashed guides are on hand to impart its lesser-known history.
If you're on the hunt for brunch or a light lunch, stop in at local favourite the Popup Café – as the name suggests, its very presence stands as proof of its popularity. Originally intended as a summer project project, the café wooed residents with its flaky pastries and fresh sourdough to such an extent that the owners were convinced to put down roots for good. If you prefer a more traditional setting, the Black Douglas Coffee House is an equally worthy place for a sandwich or a slice of cake. For a laid-back lunch or dinner, try Frog and Scot, a Francophile bistro run by husband-and-wife team Benoit (the frog) and Sarah (the Scot). Chef David Gadd spent six years at The Sportsman, a Michelin-starred gastropub in nearby Seasalter, so there's certainly no lack of talent in the kitchen. If the brilliant bistro fare at Frog and Scot persuades you to pay a visit to Gadd's old stomping ground, bear in mind you'll need to book weeks, if not months, in advance. Back in Deal, Victuals and Co have scaled up the small plates trend, offering nine of their 'medium plates' each night – you just need to choose whether you want three, four or five. Another novel option is the Dining Club, which is made up of several Georgian dining rooms, making a meal feel more like a private dinner. Head chef Scott knows no bounds when it comes to the variety of cuisine – over the course of a month, the menu could start in Britain, make its way through Europe and end in the Far East. You'll need a membership to book, which costs £10 and lasts a year.
Local bars
You won't find a local bar that does a better cocktail than the Rose, but if you're determined to play away for an evening, don't miss pint-sized wine bar Le Pinardier. It's owned by Frenchman Benoit (one half of the Frog and Scot), who has more than a decade's experience working in the wine and champagne industry. For a true taste of Kent, order a glass of Chapel Down, a sparkling wine that can hold its own among the big name champagnes.
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Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this coastal hotel in Deal and unpacked their vinyl from local store Smugglers Records, a full account of their seaside break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside the Rose in Kent…
Every seaside town needs its star hotel. In Victorian-era Deal, it was the Rose, where a travelling businessmen could strike deals in the commercial room, entertain his new clients at the billiards table then toast success with cigars and brandy in the smoking lounge. The pub and its rooms were the talk of the town, and things stayed that way until the end of the 20th century, when its bloom began to fade – it was time for the Rose to turn over a new leaf. In 2016, the hotel was snapped up by a husband-and-wife duo who had the just the right sort of motivation to whip things into shape while staying true to the spirit of the place. Christopher is the descendant of the owners of the Thompson & Son brewery, who owned the hotel and pub for 50 years; his wife Alex is the former design editor at Wallpaper magazine, making them something of a restoration dream team. After a refurbishment that saw every room lavished with care and colour, the Rose blooms brighter than ever before. Hand-picked retro and antique furniture give the place an inherent home-from-home feeling, but it's a cosiness tinged with glamour – velvet furniture, miniature roll-top baths and artwork from Carl Freedman's Margate gallery provide just the sort of finish that strikes a chord with design-savvy Londoners in search of a little coastal therapy.
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We loved
We loved our stay at the Rose, our room was lovely with a big, comfy bed. We really enjoyed the breakfasts and the view from our window, which looked out onto the church and the churchyard.
By Roshni, BlackSmith
Stayed on 17 Apr 2019
We loved the room and the cosy, stylish interiors throughout The Rose. Being super dog friendly was also a plus – our 5-month old border terrier was able to accompany us to dinner and breakfast and was very excited to meet everyone. A cooked-to-order breakfast came with the room, which was also a lovely plus. Service was wonderful and always friendly.
Don't expect
Total peace and quiet. It's a very relaxing place, and quiets down completely after 11pm, but because it is small (just what we wanted), you can hear other guests entering and exiting their rooms. You can also hear the slight beat of the music from the restaurant/bar, but as I said, after 11pm it goes super quiet so didn't affect our stay or night's sleep at all!
By Emma, BlackSmith
Stayed on 26 Jan 2019
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