For 1937, the Riley Monaco reappeared, although with very different styling. The new design was very much similar to the larger Adelphi. In addition, the Kestrel 9 and Merlin 12/4 were discontinued, as they were effectively replaced by the new Monaco. All models now had bumpers, Trafficators and interior lights (even the Tourers). Throughout 1936/7, Rileys sporting excellence continued, although less outright wins were recorded, they were still a team to be reckoned with. Late in 1936, a new Marque, called Autovia was launched in Coventry. One of the companies directors was Victor Riley, and the Engine and gearbox were obvious developments of those used in the Riley 8/90. Although not a Riley, the Autovia shared too many design features with Rileys to be regarded as a completely new / different car. The only new Riley for 1937 was the Continental Touring Saloon, on the 12/4 chassis. By Mid'37, Riley had completed development of it's all new 2½ litre 4-cylinder engine. This was intended to be the new range-topper in place of the unsuccessful V8 8/90, and was called the Big-Four. The new Big-Four was available with Kestrel, Adelphi, Touring, or Close-Coupled Saloon bodywork.
12/4 (1½ litre): Adelphi, Kestrel, Lynx, Continental-Touring, Sprite.
16/4 (Big-Four): Adelphi, Kestrel, Continental-Touring, Close-Coupled Saloon.
The Adelphi could also be bought with the 8/90 or 15/6 engines, direct from the factory. It is also interesting to note that the Sprite is the only open top model left in the range. The Rileys now had a radiator Grill, with vertical slats mounted in front of the traditional Honeycomb radiator, and the Bonnet Louvers had been removed. Bumpers were standard on all models, both front and back, and so were steel covers for the spare wheels. In addition to the models listed above, A brand new 12/4 or 9hp Riley, the Victor was launched at the motor show. This was the cheapest Riley model.
"Lord Nuffield in acquiring the Riley Organization is desirous of preserving in every way the development of those characteristics that have made the Riley car so outstanding."
Immediately after purchasing Riley, Lord Nuffield re-sold it to Morris Motors, so as to generate a large amount of capital for the company. The company was then re-named Riley (Coventry) Successors Ltd., with Victor Riley appointed Managing Director. Lord Nuffield made it clear that the company could continue as before, with financial backing from Morris Motors. However, many detail changes were made to the cars, including some parts being replaced with standard Morris stock, to reduce cost but not affect Riley performance, or style. Shortly after the take-over, Morris Motors became the Nuffield Organization, now comprising Morris, MG, Wolesley, and of course Riley.
Things then happened very quickly and after a brief hiatus in production when the only cars sent out from the factory were previous orders and new vehicles using up the stock of old parts, a new range was launched. This consisted of a 12hp Saloon and Drophead as well as a slightly larger 16hp Saloon and Drophead. Thus Riley had gone from a bewildering array of models to just 4 models, all with components taken from the Morris Parts bin, and yet still retaining those Riley engines which endeared the marque to so many people.
This meant the final demise of the Riley 9, after well over 20,000 had been built since 1926. Shortly after the 1939 range was launched, however, the Foleshill plant like so many others across the country was turned over to war production. It was during WW2, in 1944, that the founder of Riley Cycle Co., William Riley died. He had outlived his own company, which had survived for 40 years, and produced some of the most outstanding cars of its time.


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Exclusive Report on Car Revenue Launches in India in March 2021: Legal Attraction on An all-electric SUV, a high-end Made-in-India Jeep & more!
Kristene Taylor Published Friday, 12 March 2021, 06:49 EST
The last month of the immediate fiscal year packs during a lot of cars launches for the customers in India. Hereabouts is what including all brands similar to like Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Jaguar, et al. are up to!
Skoda KushaqMercedes-Benz A-Class LimousineMercedes Benz E-ClassVolkswagen Taigun, Tiguan 5-seaterJaguar I-PaceMade-in-India Jeep Wrangler
March 2021 features a lot of future for car enthusiasts in India because the fresh month will have some big and awaited announcements coming in from the Indian car industry. From SUVs to luxury sedans and even an all-electric offering, this month seems to pack it all, and hence, many of us must be looking forward to the subsequent few days. Interestingly, most of the cars launching this month are from the premium segments and makes like Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Jaguar, and Jeep are gearing up for his or her respective launches. So let's take a glance at what all cars are arriving inside the market this month and what to sure expect from all of them.
Skoda Kushaq
Including the Vision IN concept performance at the Auto Expo 2020, the Skoda Kushaq will ultimately make its presentation date 18th March. this may even be the company's first offering to be supported by the MQB-A0-IN platform. The Kushaq will only be launched with a petroleum engine and can continue to challenge the likes of Kia Seltos and Hyundai Creta within the segment. Moreover, the vehicle also will be the brand's first SUV that's 'Made for India'. Skoda Kushaq is predicted to urge an honest feature list and is probably going to be launched in India within the price range of Rs 10-16 lakh (ex-showroom).
Mercedes-Benz A-Class Limousine
The new Mercedes-Benz A-Class Limousine will finally be launched in India on 25th March during a 200, A 200d, and AMG A35 versions. Now, the great news for the enthusiasts is that the A35 AMG version is going to be made in India and hence, you'll expect to ascertain a satisfying tag. For beginners, a brand new A-Class Limousine renews the A-Class hatchback and CLA inside the corporation's stock collection for India. the costs are expected to start from the Rs 35 lakh, ex-showroom mark and prime competition comes within the sort of the BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe.
Mercedes Benz E-Class
The New Mercedes-Benz E-Class model 2021 is another Merc that will be launched this month, on March 16th to be precise. The best-selling luxury car in India, the new E-Class gets significant updates with the foremost important ones being the new MBUX system with "Hey Mercedes" voice assistant. Moreover, the car gets a fresh seamless glass panel that acts because of the digital driver instrument cluster and therefore the touchscreen infotainment system. The engine options on the new E-Class will likely be equivalent because of the current lineup. The new model is predicted to be offered within the E200 and E220d guise.
Volkswagen Taigun, Tiguan 5-seater
Volkswagen Taigun's presentation is continuing to be exposed to the month of 24th March and be able to share the engine and transmission with the Skoda Kushaq. The upcoming Volkswagen Taigun is going to be supported the company's India-specific MQB A0 IN platform and maybe a part of the VW Group's India 2.0 Strategy. The Taigun will challenge the likes of Hyundai Creta, Kia Seltos, MG Hector, Maruti Suzuki S-Cross and therefore the Nissan Kicks within the segment. Also joining the stage on an equivalent day is that the 5-seater version of the Volkswagen Tiguan. Prices for the said model are expected to start from Rs 23 lakh mark and it'll continue to challenge the likes of Citroen C5 Aircross and therefore the new Jeep Compass within the segment.
Hopely movement all-electric SUV, the Jaguar I-Pace that was earlier alleged to be launched on 9th March will now be launched on 23rd March. Given the EV marathon within the country, the I-Pace goes to be a crucial product within the company's product portfolio for India and also keeping in mind the very fact that the corporate will go all-electric by the year 2025. To be sold in three variants namely S, SE, and HSE, the Jaguar I-Pace will offer a combined output of 389 hp alongside a peak torque of 696 Nm. Presented a new model electrical SUV will offer a Pointed range of 470 km on one full submission and is predicted to be priced on the brink of Rs 1 crore (ex-showroom) as for information schedule.
Made-in-India Jeep Wrangler
Firstly Jeep Wrangler was launched in India for a long time movement, its cost so high was certainly a downer. However, the corporate has now an answer because it goes to launch its locally assembled model on 15th March. Expect the Jeep Wrangler to now demand a way lower cost tag and with this, the corporate also will be ready to address the decent demand within the market. The upcoming 2021 Jeep Wrangler is predicted to draw power from an equivalent 2.0-litre petrol engine that's good for developing 268 hp of power and 400 Nm of torque.
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Chinese Canadian Pop Singer Kris Wu Sentenced to 13 Years in Jail for Rape
A Chinese court ruled that the actor and singer supplied three women with alcohol and raped them when they could no longer consent
Wu Yifan aka Kris Wu, December 2020 (VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
Kris Wu has been sentenced to 13 years in prison by a Beijing court for charges that include the rape of three women, The Associated Press reports. The Chaoyang District court ruled that the Chinese Canadian pop star and actor, as well as others implicated in the case, supplied three women with alcohol in 2020 and raped them when they could no longer consent. Most of the 13-year sentence stems from that incident, but he also received one year and 10 months for a 2018 event where he "assembled a crowd" and assaulted two women they got drunk.
Wu will be deported after completing his sentence, the court said. He was fined 600 million yuan ($83.7 million) for evading taxes.
Wu, a former member of K-pop band Exo and one of China's most popular artists, is among the highest-profile figures to be punished for allegations arising from the #MeToo movement. When the allegations surfaced, he lost major deals with brands including Louis Vuitton, Bulgari, Porsche, and L'Oréal.
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Kyler Murray on losing DeAndre Hopkins: Obviously, that's a big hit
DeAndre Hopkins
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December 16, 2021, 5:21 PM ·1 min read
The Cardinals won't have receiver DeAndre Hopkins for at least the rest of the regular season after undergoing knee surgery.
But they do still have quarterback Kyler Murray, who has been in the MVP conversation throughout the 2021 season.
Speaking to the media on Thursday, Murray acknowledged that losing Hopkins is significant. But he also expressed his belief in the players the Cardinals will still have on the field.
"Obviously, that's a big hit," Murray said, via Kevin Parrish Jr. of the team's website. "That's a guy we all know and trust out there on the field. But it's a long season and not all the time are you going to make it to the end with your full army.
"We just have to have guys behind him step up and I'm confident in every single one of those guys. We have a deep receiving room, we have a deep running back room, we got a ton of skill."
The Cardinals did go 2-1 without Murray and Hopkins earlier in the season, defeating the 49ers and Seahawks while losing to the Panthers.
Christian Kirk, A.J. Green, Rondale Moore, James Conner, and Zach Ertz will likely be Murray's top targets with Hopkins sidelined.
Kyler Murray on losing DeAndre Hopkins: Obviously, that's a big hit originally appeared on Pro Football Talk
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import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import static javax.persistence.GenerationType.IDENTITY;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.Table;
import javax.persistence.Temporal;
import javax.persistence.TemporalType;

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 * PrXfwj entity. @author MyEclipse Persistence Tools
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@Table(name="t_pj_xfwj"
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public class PrXfwj  implements java.io.Serializable {

    // Fields

     private Long fid;
     private String fwjno;
     private Date ffabudate;
     private String fcontent;
     private String ffilename;
     private String ffileurl;
     private String fjingbanren;
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     private String fname;
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4friendshipOnly (For Friendship Only) is different! We are Helen and Eddie and when we relocated with work we left behind an established group of couple friends.
It was more of a blow than we realised at first, what with the excitement of moving to a new area and a new career. But slowly (by that I mean the first weekend!) we realised just how much we had lost.
What we needed were more new friends!
We wanted a clean, honest friendship only site for couples that we could trust. So we made one!
Socially a bit quiet? Time to do something about it!
Search Your Nearest City or County Here for Free!
You can use the free search bar to check our membership in your area before you join.
For a start we are 'friendship only' so there's no confusion from day 1. Our administrators work hard and check every profile personally and they do it again if anything is edited or changed.
But we actually go a lot further than that! We are a UK only website so you can be assured that you do not correspond (even unknowingly) with anyone outside of the country.
Why do that? Because we are all about local friends!
Once you join you can login (after we check your profile!) and browse our other members. Your search results can be filtered so you can decide exactly who shows up.
So don't you get lots of random messages flying around and what if I want to decide who contacts me? Good point! We run a validated friends system and you can send or accept friends requests before there is any communication. Don't like the profile? Click 'decline'. Would like to get in touch? Click 'accept'. It's as easy as that!


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Q: How to use Babel with fs.createReadStream I have an ES6 js file that I want to transpile down to ES5 using fs.createReadStream and babel.
fs.createReadStream('path.js').pipe(res);

It's just a for a quick and dirty prototype. I know not to serve pages like this in production.

A: I worked it out
const babel = require('babel-core');

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    fs.readFile('src/pages' + req.url, 'utf8', (err, es6) => {
      const js = babel.transform(es6, {presets: ['es2015', 'stage-2']});
      res.write(js.code);
      res.end();
    });

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The melody drifted softly from the intercom.
Some sweet kind of song.
The lyrics were muted by the whispering, hushed voices, and one small child's happy screech.
Glossy floors waxed with thick layers of polished onyx inlay, create a winding ribbon which we follow down the long corridor. I'm distracted by the faint smell of coffee which seems to be coming from the opposite direction.
And that's the way I want to run.
Hospitals seem so impersonal. So rigid. So cold.
The sound drifted off as easily as it had arrived and we all stared with blank looks as the numbers light up and the elevator rises.
There are thin places rising in my heart too.
Places that are raw and exposed.
We are here to usher in a new life though, not talk about the hidden deep things in my soul.
In these last months I have heard some of their whispers, while the silence of others has been deafening.
I get it some days how we people think that if you do things right and pray hard and memorize a few verses that everything will turn out great in this walking with Jesus life.
And trust me, JQ and I have spent years trying to figure the parenting thing out. Too often we have believed that if our kids turn out great, that we must have done enough of all the right things.
But what we know is that it. is. all. grace.
One pint size miracle, that we have peered through the sound waves trying to capture a glimpse of her so many times, in the last months.
Once, I saw her little chin and thought it must be her mamas. Another time she covered her face as if to save the beautiful reveal for later.
I'm so grateful that if there was a choice -that if life was an option, thank goodness, love won out.
That's what Jesus did for us when He hung on the cross.
His love won out and now it is all about the grace He extends to us.
It makes me thankful for the ones who do it all backwards.
For all those who are messy and messed up and remind me, what real grace is.
It is a gift that can not be earned but only accepted.
And we accept it and embrace it. More than that, I extend grace and cling to it.
Mostly I'm sitting here in a waiting room with palms opened to the sky, praying that God in heaven is hearing my heart.
Thank goodness, God's grace is exactly that. GRACE! There is nothing we can do to earn it. The person who looks like they follow all the rules and who can sing in tune while doing it all right, falls as short as the ones who look like they are doing it all wrong.
Isn't that why Jesus came?
And now, God's elaborate grace is displayed in this package of skin.
This tiny human, with the perfect number of fingers and toes, and fist clenched. This squalling life, pushing forth, tearing open all the misconceptions of what God's grace really looks like.
We cradle grace in our arms.
And when we understand that we can never be right-enough, then we begin to understand how God's grace really works.
As she first drew life and breath into her tiny lungs, from overhead the song rang out.
The sound we had heard hours before.
The song they played over the intercom every time a new baby makes their debut.
The rhythmical, pattern of sweet beauty in song.
Notes that harmonize and weave the gentle message of glorious joy.
New life. New beginnings. New grace.
And all that is real life, is ridiculous, extravagant, grace.
The Brahms Lullaby, plays soft, steady and sweet.
It is an anthem to Gods grace.
An alleluia to the story He is weaving.
When God writes a story, He often starts with small unlikely beginnings.
And this story begins with a tender lullaby, a psalm, an anthem of grace.


The FX market is also known as the foreign exchange market. Trading between two countries with different currencies is the true basis of the Forex business model. Currency trading has been around for over 30 years, as it was established in the early 1970's. The trading or selling of contracts is not based on any one business and it does not involve investing in just one business. You are simply trading currecnies for profits.
The currency market and the stock market are very different business models. The difference between the two is the amount of trading that occurs. Millions upon millions are traded daily on the currency market. It is estimated that the daily amount traded is around two trillion dollars. That amount is way higher than the amount traded on the stock market daily by any country. The forex market has involved with governments, banks, financial institutions and other similar types of institutions from other countries.
Another major difference between the two is the fact that it's global, worldwide. The stock market only takes place within a country. The stocks are mainly based around business products sold in a country, and the forex market includes any country.
The stock market has set business hours which revolves around the normal business hours of any given day. The FX market is open 24 hours a day because of the vast number of countries that are involved in the trading practices. With this many countries participation the difference in time zones keeps the market open around the clock.
The stock market in any given country is going to be based on that countries currency. In the FX market you are involved with many different countries and many different treaties. These are just a few of the differences between the two.


Meet up at the Youth Café for an awesome series called "PROPEL" that looks at 4 things God uses to propel our faith. You don't want to miss this!
Its summer and you've got the time, so join a small group Bible study June-July with other HS students – led by some of our own HS!
Get the full scoop by joining us for the Summer FEED Small Group Kickoff on June 10, 6:00-7:30pm in the Youth Cafe/Warehouse.
2015 Theme: Jesus the King (reading the gospel of Mark). You don't need an extra book – just bring a Bible!
Groups are labeled whether they are for guys, girls, or co-ed.
Groups are always "open" to high schoolers, so share this page or invite friends!
Pick a group that works for you and stick with it – don't hop around!
Groups meet at different locations – leaders will tell you location on June 10.
Here's our tentative list of groups: we'll update final changes on June 10.
Locations will be posted June 14.


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DuckDuckGo (DDG) is a general search engine designed to protect user privacy, while avoiding the skewing of search results that can happen because of personalized search (sometimes referred to as a filter bubble).
DDG does not track users – user IP addresses and other information are not logged. A log of search terms entered is maintained but the terms are not associated with particular users. Because DuckDuckGo does not record user information, it has no data to turn over to any third-party organizations.
Unlike Google, DuckDuckGo does not default to personalized search, which constrains search results based on information related to the user, such as location, preferences and history. Users may opt to boost results based on locality, for example, but it will not be done unless they specify that they want it to be. Results that appear to be from content mills are also filtered out of search engine results pages (SERP).
DuckDuckGo is sometimes referred to as a hybrid search engine because it compiles results from a variety of sources including its own crawler, DuckDuckBot, crowd-sourced sites such as Wikipedia, and partnerships with other search providers including Yahoo!, Yandex, Yelp, and Bing.
Instant answers, which appear at the top of the results page, are available for queries involving many types of searches, including flight statuses, recipes, rhyming words, calculations and statistics -- among a wide variety of other possibilities. Instant answers also include functions, such as a stopwatch and a strong password generator.
The !bang feature allows users to search a particular website. Typing "!Facebook" before a search term, for example, restricts the results to those found on that site.
DuckDuckGo was founded by Gabriell Weinberg in September 2008. Initially funded by Weinberg, the search engine received $3 million in venture capital in 2011 and is now supported by keyword-based advertising. The company's headquarters are in Paoli, Pennsylvania.
DuckDuckGo is available in most browsers, including Chrome, Firefox and Safari.
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Shape: Flash, Other | Duration: Undisclosed
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I was traveling from home to Howell michigan(heading east) taking I-96. I was about 3/4 of a mile west of m 127 and could see the overpass and noticed a white beam of light coming from the sky and appeared to go all the way to the ground. I couldn't see all of it due to the overpass was blocking my view It lasted about 4-5 seconds. The light was on the east side of m 127 and south of I96. I wasn't sure what it was and didn't think much of it till I went under the overpass of m 127. As I went by the overpass On the north side of I-96 and on the east side of m-127, right above me a huge blue beam of light came (like someone turned a switch) from the sky to the ground. It was about the size of a football field perfect circle. I could see inside the circle what seem to be static. Other people also seen this as they were pulling over to see it to. This was not a natural thing it was to perfect. It went right into the clouds.( cloud cover was very low) It wasn't spot light like you see at grand opening. I can say that cause 5 miles west of m-127 they had that kind of light going and this blue beam was nothing like that. I felt very little next to this light. I've been in the airforce and work at the airport for years and I don't know of anything that could make a light like this or even a aircraft that could carry light or have the power the generate a beam this bright. The light disappeared like someone turning off a switch.
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Disney Online announced the Pirates of the Caribbean Online MMOG video game for Mac and Windows PCs. The game allows thousands of players to experience adventures from the movies and explore other areas of the world.
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Players can customize their own pirate character from over a million combinations of body types, face, hair, clothing etc. You can also captain your own ship and recruit other players to be your crew. Both ship and land based missions to locate buried treasure are offered and battles using swords, grenades, pistols, and canons are available. The game is rated E10+ and is downloaded free with a portion available at no charge. Unlimited access is $4.95 for the first month and $9.95 for following months.


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Cate Blanchett On Why "Failing Gloriously" Is Her Ultimate Secret
By Kim Peiffer
Updated Feb 28, 2016 @ 8:00 am
Credit: Jason Merritt
It's clear that whatever Cate Blanchett is doing, she's certainly doing it right. The Aussie star is up for her third (yes, third) potential Oscar win on Sunday for her leading role in Carol, and has two Oscar statues already hanging out at home, one for 2004's the Aviator and one for 2014's Blue Jasmine (not to mention countless other accolades). So how does she do it? Simple. She welcomes failure first and foremost.
"I remember a teacher said to me at drama school that if you're going to fail, you may as well fail gloriously, which behind that piece of advice was to just take a risk," she told InStyle at an event for SK-ll Friday in Los Angeles, celebrating the brand's #ChangeDestiny campaign. "And I think risk is really, really important for an actor. The failure is very public, but you have to risk it, otherwise you don't progress, you don't make discoveries."
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Failure may be a big part of the reason for her success, but so is her inspirational look at life and her belief that living in the moment instead of dreaming up the future is really the secret to achieving happiness. "I'm really practical, and I think if you're constantly thinking about some dream that you're trying to achieve, you actually miss the forks in the road that actually lead to the opportunities," she said.
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"The most important piece of advice I can give is to be alive to those opportunities, to work with what you have and try to find the courage to not be defined by the roles that people are telling you that you should fulfill. For me, it's been hard work and consistency. Life is about the process." Well said Cate, well said.


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Q: Can I safely uninstall games purchased from Steam? Can I uninstall purchased games from my computer and then later download them through Steam without having to re-purchase if I'd like to?
I'm running short on space on my laptop, looking to free up some space and wanted to be sure that I can safely re-download anything at a later time similar to how you can with the Xbox Live marketplace.

A: Yes, games linked to your Steam account can be installed / uninstalled at will.
There are some rare exceptions where a game has additional DRM that limits the number of times you can install - but this should always be noted on the game's store page (the first example I've found is Dead Space 2, check the wall of capitalised text carefully to see what I mean) and there is often a way to "reclaim" those installs before you uninstall the game. So check the Store page for each game before you uninstall if this is a concern.

When you want to reinstall:
On your game list, if you switch to the "All Games" view you will find all the games you have linked to your account. Those that are not currently installed will be greyed out, and from here you can select for them to be downloaded and installed.


One of the highlights of what I get to do these days is to meet amazing saints, doing extraordinary things for the sake of the Kingdom of God in the most obscure and ordinary of places. In September, over a very nice dinner, in a very nice restaurant, I met with one such saint and as she told her story of how God called her and what God called her to, I knew that I would NEVER look at the manger the same again.
My wife and I knew that we were in the presence of humble greatness as we listened to the mighty, soft spoken woman of God show us Our Creator's heart for the lost and the least. With Luke 18:16 as her Scriptural framework, "Let the little children come to me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God," Dr. Ananthi Jebasingh described the timeline for God's creation of Friends of the Good Samaritans in Delhi, India. Their mission statement is "Uplifting the unprivileged of India by involving the privileged of the world." Their missional calling is to take initiatives for the needy and marginalized in India and restore them to confident living.
For this blog, I merely want to focus on one moment in this ministry's history. After growing out of space in her home, Ananthi was given free space, an empty room, in the public toilet complex where for the next decade; she faithfully was the conduit for God's heavenly transformational, loving power to give orphans and poor children a hope and a future now and forever. Eventually the Friends of the Good Samaritans School grew to hold 600 children in four rooms of a slum toilet complex!
At one point in her recounting when she was given the toilet classroom, Ananthi remembers telling the Lord "I can't teach here, it is too disgusting!" (think of the "Slumbdog Millionaire" public toilet scene for a mental image). She recalls the Lord impressing on her dissatisfied heart that if God, the all-powerful and perfect Creator of all, was willing to take on the fullness of a human, being born into a dung-filled cave for animals, then she should be willing to serve her Lord and Master in such a place. Ananthi's story reflects the Christmas story; that God shows up in the most unassuming and disgusting of places miraculously for the purposes of redemption.
This year, as I look at a the antiseptic manger on our mantle, I remember that God, the Almighty, Sinless and Everlasting, broke into creation in the lowliest of places, on an ordinary day, in a most ordinary way to begin an extraordinary earthly journey that would end in even more extraordinary spiritual rescuing of human kind from the eternal, dreadful consequences of our sin. Jesus was born in a place no better than the public toilets of the slums of Delhi, and he willingly entered this lowly situation to transform us and give us a hope and a future!


So it looks like the "intermodal-by-sea" concept to create "marine highways" for U.S. freight is going to become reality sooner rather than later.
Last week, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) got the green light to start establishing a new national network of marine highways to help move cargo across the country in order to cut congestion on some of the nation's busiest highways. This new effort will designate specific maritime inland and coastal maritime corridors as "marine highways" initiative, according to U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation Thomas Barrett - eligible for up to $25 million in existing federal capital construction funds, while qualifying for up to $1.7 billion in federal highway congestion mitigation and air quality (CMAQ) funds.
How will it work? Take heavily congested highway I-64 in Virginia, which links the port of Norfolk with Richmond Va. (the state's capital and a major cargo hub.) A new service being established by Norfolk-based James River Barge Line plans to move cargo up instead the James River to Richmond, shifting more than 4,000 trucks-worth of cargo off nearby I-64 and onto the waterway.
Building and expanding a waterborne freight network that links to trucking is something Sean T. Connaughton, head of the U.S. Maritime Administration, has encouraged for some time. He said today's marine operators and logistics providers are under intense pressure to compete and maintain a high quality of service in order to offer shippers added value to their cargoes. The marine highway can provide an effective alternative as a link in the multimodal system.
He noted America's marine highways are defined by the marine operators that carry cargo via the coastal waters, lakes, and river systems of North America and also having at least one port of call in the U.S. Types of vessels that are employed on the marine highway can be classified as: tug and barges (sea-going), tug and barges (river type), small ships, liquid bulk, dry bulk, break bulk, intermodal (container, roll-on/roll-off, lighter aboard ship), and rail-ferry.
Connaughton added that the U.S. is expected to import 30 million containers in 2010 and 40 million in 2020. The domestic tonnage of freight carried by all U.S. systems will increase by 67%, while international trade is expected to at least double.
Now, granted, truckers have plenty of reason to view all this with more than just healthy skepticism - for of course it sounds like marine highways would siphon revenue away from trucks. I think, however, there's potentially a great opportunity here for truckers to actually gain more freight (an important consideration given how economy is faring these days) in partnerships with marine carriers, while also creating shorter, profitable, and predictable lanes that get drivers the home time they want.
Think, too, about shifting a lot of the hazmat cargo onto the waterways, so truckers get to physically transport such potentially dangerous goods over much shorter distances - lowering the risk for them and especially their drivers.
We're also just at the start of this process, too - it's not like hundreds of cargo ships can pop up and start hauling freight to and fro. "I am not naive enough to think that our marine highway will solve our congestion problems overnight - after all, much of the vessel capacity we will need to accommodate our projected trade growth is still on the drawing board," Connaughton stressed.
Well, we're definitely expanding this water highway effort, according to the DOT. Now we just have to see where it'll take us.


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title: "Neural Machine Translation: State of the Art"
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> This article list a few recent papers on neural machine translation, where new state-of-the-art have been made. So I am aiming at organize some experiment settings: including dataset, model architecture comparison and hyper-parameters selection so as to facilitate further experiment.

Recently the most notable and solid works or breakthroughs on neural machine translation are almost all made by big AI companies, Google's GNMT, Transformer, Facebook's Conv2Seq. Those models provide stable improvements over same datasets towards reaching human-like performance in general. So I choose the following papers as the current state-of-the-art not only because their high test BLEU score, but their sufficient experiments.

- (**GNMT**) [Google's Neural Machine Translation System: Briding the Gap between Human and Machine Translation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.08144.pdf), Sep. 2016.
- (**Massive**) [Massive Exploration of Neural Machine Translation Architectures](https://aclweb.org/anthology/D17-1151), ACL 2017.
- (**ConvEnc**) [A Convolutional Encoder Model for Neural Machine Translation](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P17/P17-1012.pdf), ACL 2017.
- (**ConvS2S**) [Convolutional Sequence to Sequence Learning](https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03122), ICML 2017.
- (**T2T**) [Attention is All You Need](https://papers.nips.cc/paper/7181-attention-is-all-you-need.pdf), NIPS 2017.

### 1. Dataset

| Paper   | Training Set                      | Dev            | Test    |
| ------- | --------------------------------- | -------------- | ------- |
| GNMT    | WMT14 En->Fr (36M), En->De (5M)   | nt12+13 (6003) | nt14    |
| Massive | WMT15 En->De (4.5M)               | nt13           | nt14+15 |
| ConvEnc | WMT15 En->De (4.9M), En->Fr (12M) | ?              | nt15    |
| ConvS2S | WMT14 En->De (4.5M), En->Fr (36M) | ?              | nt14    |
| T2T     | WMT14 En->De (4.5M), En->Fr (46M) | nt13           | nt14    |

> - ConvEnc: En->Fr remove 150 longer sentences to reduce 12M to 10.7M.

### 2. Vocabulary and UNK techniques

| Paper   | Vocabulary/Lexicon construction strategy |
| ------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| GNMT    | En-Fr: Word 212k-src 80k-tgt, Word pieces (8k, 16k, 32k), mixed word/char model (32k) |
| Massive | Shared subword units by BPE, 32000 merge vocab size ~= 37k |
| ConvEnc | En-Fr: Word 200k-src 30k-tgt; En-De: Word 200k-src 80k-tgt |
| ConvS2S | En-De: BPE 40k, En-Fr: BPE 40k           |
| T2T     | En-De: BPE 37k, En-Fr: word pieces 25k   |

> - Reference for learning word pieces (which is a model-based lexicon learning approach).
>   - [Japanese and Korean Voice Search](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/37842.pdf), ICASSP 2012.

| Paper   | UNK techniques                           |
| ------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| GNMT    | Attention-based src-to-tgt copy and replace |
| Massive | ?                                        |
| ConvEnc | Attention-based src-to-precomputed-dict (fast align) and replace |
| ConvS2S | Same as ConvEnc                          |
| T2T     | ?                                        |

> - Positional unknown word model (PosUnk) is first introduced in

### 3. Optimization algorithm or procedure

| Paper   | Optimization                             |
| ------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| GNMT    | Adam first 60k updates (lr=2*e-4), then SGD (lr=0.5) anneal half every 1.2M updates, 5 gradient clip |
| Massive | Adam lr=e-4, dropou=0.2, batch=128, 2.5M updates 4 times |
| ConvEnc | RNN: Adam lr=3.125*e-4, early stop w.r.t. dev ppl; Conv: SGD with annealing, lr=0.1, batch=64 (32), 25 gradient clip, dropout=0.1 (0.2) |
| ConvS2S | Nesterov 0.99 momentum 0.1 gradient clip; lr start from 0.25, decay w.r.t. dev ppl, util below e-4; mini-batch 64 |
| T2T     | Batch token: 25000; Adam (lr decay with warmup) |

### 4. Beam search strategy

| Paper   | Beam search                              |
| ------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| GNMT    | coverage penalty, length penalty (8-12 beam size) |
| Massive | 10 beam size, same penalty as in GNMT    |
| ConvEnc | length normalization by length $$\vert Y \vert$$ |
| ConvS2S | 5 beam size, length normalization (by length $$\vert Y \vert$$ or tuned as in GNMT) |
| T2T     | 4 beam size length penalty $$\alpha=0.6$$, maximum length is 50 |

> - Coverage penalty and length penalty
>   - $$s(X, Y) = \log P(Y \vert X) / lp(Y) + cp(X; Y)$$
>   - $$lp(Y) = \frac{(5 + \vert Y \vert)^\alpha}{(5 + 1)^\alpha}$$
>   - $$cp(X; Y) = \beta \times \sum_{i=1}^{\vert X \vert} \log (\min (\sum_{j=1}^{\vert Y \vert} p_{i, j}, 1.0))$$
> - It seems that length penalty can slightly improve BLEU score in the above models/papers, however, Phillip Koehn's challenge paper has shown the vagueness of this strategy could result in coherent improvements.
>   - [Six Challenges for Neural Machine Translation](https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03872), Jun. 2017.

### 5. BLEU comparison

This part gives some BLEU comparisons on two standard dataset:

- EN->FR 36M
- EN->DE 4~5M

| Paper & Model           | EN->DE     | EN->FR         |
| ----------------------- | ---------- | -------------- |
| GNMT WPM-32K            | 24.61      | 38.95          |
| Massive                 | ?          | ?              |
| ConvEnc 2-layer Decoder | 24.2 (80K) | 35.7 (12M 30K) |
| ConvS2S BPE40K          | 25.16      | 40.51          |
| T2T base                | 27.3       | 38.1           |
| T2T big                 | 28.4       | 41.0           |


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Home Article FINANCIAL REGULATION DODD SQUAD.
FINANCIAL REGULATION DODD SQUAD.
by Tim Fernholz
Chris Dodd versus the banks?
One reason to be optimistic about financial regulation legislation in the Senate is that the committee chair with relevant jurisidiction is Connecticut's Chris Dodd. Dodd is in electoral trouble thanks to his tight connections to the financial industry, including a special VIP mortgage from Countrywide, and some home state slights like moving to Iowa during the 2007 presidential primaries. But Dodd knows he's in trouble, and in trying to change his image, has become a dedicated proponent of tougher regulation. He compares his goals to one of my favorite D.C. statues, above, which symbolizes harnessing trade and is found outside the Federal Trade Commission.
"I want a muscular financial services sector," he said. "But I want a muscular restraint so that it doesn't run wild."
Getting there...
In the wake of the financial crisis, however, Dodd has concluded that the government should impose unprecedented constraints on those firms, limiting their profits to better protect consumers.
He has become a leading advocate for the creation of a new federal agency to protect consumers of financial products such as mortgages and credit cards, an idea the industry opposes. His staff has been urging him to take clearer public stands on consumer issues.
... "The best antidote" to political trouble, he said, is to give voters "a chance to see that you're fighting on their behalf."
That's the stuff. I'm not sure there's any other member of Congress, perhaps with the exception of Henry Waxman in the House, who has so many incentives to separate himself from the special interests under his committee's jurisdiction. Dodd has a very tough election ahead either way, but if he doesn't produce some serious reform for Connecticut voters, it's almost a foregone conclusion. In an ideal world, of course, Dodd would not have become so interconnected with the financial sector in the first place, but it is nice to see populist political pressure having some effect now.
-- Tim Fernholz
Blog: TAPPED
Tim Fernholz
Tim Fernholz is a former staff writer for the Prospect. His work has been published by Newsweek, The New Republic, The Nation, The Guardian, and The Daily Beast. He is also a Research Fellow at the New America Foundation.
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Q: Suppress initial inline citations biblatex I'm trying to suppress initials within inline citations. I'm using biblatex. I've searched through other posts, and found that setting uniquename=false and uniquelist=false has worked for other people. However, setting these options is not working for me. How can I get my citations to appear as follows:
'some text (Anderson 1999) and more text (Armenta et al. 2008)'.
My bib file is as follows:
@ARTICLE{AnderssonS1999,
  author = {{Andersson, S.}},
  title = {Morphology of UV reflectance in a whistling-thrush: implications
    for the study of structural colour signalling in birds},
  journal = {Journal of Avian Biology},
  year = {1999},
  volume = {30:},
  pages = {193-204}
}

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  author = {{Armenta, J.K., Dunn, P.O. \& Whittingham, L.A.}},
  title = {{Effects of specimen age on plumage color}},
  journal = {The Auk},
  year = {2008},
  volume = {125:},
  pages = {803--808},
  file = {:Users/rossahmed/Library/Application Support/Mendeley Desktop/Downloaded/Armenta, Dunn, Whittin\textit{g\textit{}}ham - 2008 - Effects of specimen age on plumage color.pdf:pdf},
  publisher = {BioOne},
  url = {http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1525/auk.2008.07006}
}

My .tex file is as follows:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[firstinits=true,style=authoryear-comp,natbib=true,doi=false,isbn=false,url=false,uniquename=false,uniquelist=false,sorting=none]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{test.bib}
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\renewcommand*{\nameyeardelim}{\addspace} % remove comma inline citations

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\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{pages}{#1}
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A: The author lists in your sample bib entries are wrapped in braces ({...}). Moreover author names aren't delimited with and. This prevents BibTeX/biber from parsing names correctly. Refer to biblatex-examples.bib from the documentation for proper bib file format.
@ARTICLE{AnderssonS1999,
  author = {Andersson, S.},
  ...
  volume = {30},
  ...
}

@ARTICLE{armenta2008,
  author = {Armenta, J.K. and Dunn, P.O. and Whittingham, L.A.},
  ...
  volume = {125},
  ...
}

The bib entry should provide only the data. Most formatting, delimiters and punctuation should be handled with biblatex.


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John the Cappadocian () (fl. 530s, living 548) was a praetorian prefect of the East (532–541) in the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565). He was also a patrician and the consul ordinarius of 538.

Biography
Both John the Lydian and Zacharias Rhetor report that John was a native of Caesarea, Cappadocia. Procopius, John Malalas, the Chronicon Paschale, and Zacharias called him "John the Cappadocian" for disambiguation reasons, as the name John ("Ioannes" in Greek and "Johannes" in Latin) was widely used by his time. John the Lydian and John Malalas at times mention him only as "the Cappadocian". John occasionally styled himself as "Flavius Marianus Michaelius Gabrielius Archangelus Ioannes", although most of these names were probably just honorifics, as by that time most individuals were known by a single name. His family connections are obscure and only two relatives are known with certainty. Those are his only daughter Euphemia and a kinsman called Ioannes Maxilloplumacius.

Rise to power
His contemporary historians were biased against him, particularly Procopius and John the Lydian, and their accounts are often coloured by their prejudices. Procopius calls John poorly educated, though he grudgingly admits the Cappadocian's great natural abilities led to his rise to prominence. He first appears in the sources as a scriniarius (notary) in the service of an unidentified magister militum. His administrative ideas reportedly attracted the attention of Emperor Justinian, resulting in his promotion to positions with financial responsibilities. From there, he gained enough favour to become a vir illustris and eventually the acting Prefect. There is a theory that his close relationship with Emperor Justinian may date to Justinian's service as magister militum praesentalis in the 520s, prior to his elevation  to the Byzantine throne.

John was appointed to lead the first commission on Emperor Justinian's new legal code, the Corpus Juris Civilis, and became Justinian's chief legal advisor. He was also appointed praetorian prefect of the East, giving him the power to introduce new taxes on the population. The new taxes were very unpopular, and the mob involved in the Nika riots of 532 demanded that both John the Cappadocian and the quaestor sacri palatii Tribonian be dismissed. Emperor Justinian did so, until the riots had been suppressed, after which he reinstated John as prefect and Tribonian as quaestor. After the riots, which had been supported by upper-class Senators, John, who had the same lower-class background as Justinian, became even more important in political affairs. John influenced Emperor Justinian's military decisions, helping to draft the Perpetual Peace with Khosrow I (531–579) and convincing Justinian not to empty the treasury with a large expedition against the Vandal kingdom in North Africa. John worked with the Byzantine emperor to reduce the size of the bureaucracy, both in Constantinople and in the provinces, developing a rudimentary meritocracy.

Zacharias reports that the Cappadocian was widely feared for his influence on Emperor Justinian and a tendency to bring accusations against many people. He was reportedly aided by several flatterers in his service. John the Lydian reports that the Cappadocian constructed a prison within the Praetorium of Constantinople. There, prisoners were regularly tortured and executed. John the Lydian asserts that the Cappadocian extracted money from his victims and gives an eyewitness testimony to the execution of one such victim.

John the Lydian goes on to report other changes to life in the Praetorium. The Cappadocian transferred his quarters upstairs, offering the traditional living quarters of the Prefect to his followers. The Prefect reportedly treated his official staff as common slaves. He converted the baths of the Praetorium to a stable for his horses, building a new elevated bathroom for himself equipped with fountains. He reportedly used his official residence to give lavish feasts and indulge "in all manners of debaucheries" while maintaining a luxurious private residence at the same time. Procopius seems to agree, reporting that the Cappadocian would spend his mornings robbing the taxpayers, devoting the rest of the day to "unrestrained debauchery". Procopius also claims that John employed thousands of bodyguards to ensure his security.

Downfall and exile
John the Cappadocian's downfall seems to have been the result of an ongoing rivalry with Empress Theodora and general Belisarius. He was considered a rival of Theodora for independent and unique influence over Emperor Justinian. At that time the influence of both on the emperor was in fact so great that they became very hostile to each other and each supposedly accused the other to him, so that they could influence the government alone. Belisarius had reportedly gained much popular support following his return from the Gothic War and the Cappadocian considered him another rival favorite. According to Procopius, Theodora and Antonina, wife of Belisarius, allied against the Prefect. Antonina arranged a private meeting with John, supposedly to conspire against Justinian. John agreed to meet her at the palace of Rufinianae near Chalcedon, reportedly violating a direct order by Justinian to avoid secret meetings with Antonina. Their supposedly private conversation was actually overheard by Marcellus and Narses, as pre-arranged by the two women. Marcellus and Narses were ordered by Theodora to kill John if he spoke out in favor of treason. In the ensuing scuffle, however, John escaped and fled to a church, while Marcellus was wounded by one of John's guards. John was removed from office immediately after and banished to Cyzicus.

Theodotus succeeded John as praetorian prefect in late May or early June 541. A continuation of Marcellinus Comes reports that the private residence of John at Constantinople passed to the ownership of Belisarius. The Cappadocian was ordained a priest against his will, but he reportedly avoided practicing his priesthood in fear that this would ruin his chances for a return to power. His wealth was confiscated, but Justinian was reluctant to be overly harsh to his old favourite and restored part of John's private property to him at a later date. Procopius noted that John remained wealthy enough to live a life of luxury, but his troubles were not over. He was hostile to his new superior, Eusebius, Bishop of Cyzicus, and when Eusebius was murdered, the Cappadocian found himself accused of complicity in the crime.

John was imprisoned, his captors beating him to produce a confession. His guilt was not established, but his wealth was again confiscated. This time Justinian was much harsher to him. His new place of exile was Antinoe in Egypt. He was transported there by ship, forced to only wear a cheap cloak and earn his living as a beggar at every stop on the way. Procopius wrote his account on the third year of John's exile, that is in 544. John still didn't lose his hopes for restoration to power. He had taken to accusing various citizens of Alexandria for tax avoidance. Procopius notes Theodora's continued efforts to put John on trial for murder, but the residents of Cyzicus would not testify against him.

In 548, Theodora died, and Justinian recalled John to Constantinople. However, the Cappadocian never returned to political power and was not allowed to resign his unwanted priesthood. John Malalas notes that the Cappadocian died peacefully at Constantinople some time later. His contemporary historians acknowledge his ability to identify problems and produce solutions, but decry his wickedness, greed, and the way he squandered his wealth.

Cultural Depiction

John is the main antagonist of Theodora, Slave Empress, a 1954 sword and sandal film depicting Justinian's early reign. The character is played by Henri Guisol.

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6th-century Roman consuls
6th-century deaths
Praetorian prefects of the East
Ministers of Justinian I
Patricii
Imperial Roman consuls
Byzantine Cappadocians
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Hartham Leisure Centre Refurbishment
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The exciting new extension and refurbishment of Hartham Leisure Centre
We're delighted to announce that Hartham Leisure Centre will undergo an exciting £8m refurbishment project from April 2021. It will include both an extension to the building, providing a wide range of brand-new facilities, as well as significant improvement to existing ones.
The developments will go a long way to ensuring a wide range of state-of-the-art facilities for the entire community to enjoy. It will be carried out in a phased approach and is expected to be complete by autumn 2022. This project will include:
Phase 1 – completion date to be announced
In phase 1, the centre's swimming pools will undergo vast improvements, including the re-tiling of the poolside area and the refurbishment of the changing facilities.
Phase 2 – scheduled to complete in autumn 2022
Phase two will include an extension to the building, which will significantly increase the provision of activities at the centre. It will house a brand-new gym with over 200 pieces of high-tech equipment, two new group exercise studios offering a wide range of classes for every customer, changing facilities and a children's soft play area and café. A new, bright and welcoming reception area will also be located here.
Rest assured, throughout phases one and two, the existing fitness facilities will remain open. We have installed over £100k worth of brand-new Technogym equipment in the current gym for customers to enjoy.
Phase 3 – scheduled to complete in winter 2022
Phase three will include the provision of a brand-new, immersive group cycling studio guaranteed to get new and keen cyclist's pulse racing and new and improved gym changing facilities.
Please be aware, whilst works are carried out, there will be a temporary entrance to the building in place. This will be clearly signposted upon your arrival to the centre.
Please keep checking this page and our Facebook page for further updates on the project.
We are very excited to be working with East Herts Council on this development. It will go a long way to getting more people active and securing the long-term provision of leisure facilities for the local community. Thank you for your patience whilst works are underway.
The Everyone Active Team


Beautiful black velvet maxi dress from Necessary Evil! The lovely Sophia dress is super flattering and features a keyhole neckline with a necktie fastening, long bishops sleeve, and an oversize hood. Slightly gathered under the bust, this straight cut dress looks amazing on, and measures approximately 58" from shoulder to hem.


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Stef Van Bellingen
Stef Van Bellingen, based in Sint Niklaas (B), is an independent art curator and guest lecturer at several art schools in Belgium and the Netherlands. He is the artistic director of WARP (Waasland Art Projects), a non-profit organisation in Belgium operating as a contemporary art platform with lectures, exhibitions, portfolio days and a summer school. Stef van Bellingen is curator of ArtAids DAK'ART, a project planned for 2010.
Han Nefkens started to collect art in 2000. The H+F Collection, named after himself and his partner Felipe, is in long-term loan to various museums in The Netherlands and abroad. Nowadays Han Nefkens is not only active as a collector but also as an initiator of international art projects, often in collaboration with museums and other art institutions.
The Han Nefkens Foundation is a private non-profit organisation that was set up in Barcelona in 2009 with the aim of promoting the production of contemporary artworks. The mission is to stimulate artistic creation in Barcelona by offering international artists an opportunity to create artworks and interventions in the city, and to promote other fields of contemporary creation.
According to Han Nefkens, sharing is the antidote to loneliness, and he does so through his artistic and anti-AIDS projects and his writing. In 1995, he made his debut with the autobiographical novel Bloedverwanten ("Parents"), which was followed by Twee lege stoelen ("Two empty chairs", 2006) and De gevlogen vogel ("The bird flew", 2008). Nefkens also writes short pieces, "vignettes".


Friday was such a long, crazy and not-so-fun day. So, when it came to dinner, I was ready for some comfort food — and, I mean full out comfort food. Mac n' cheese to be exact. I didn't even use gluten-free pasta. Ever since I made homemade macaroni and cheese for the first time last… Continue reading Comfort Food and Cookies!
I'm getting ready to head out for a holiday trip with my sorority's alumnae chapter, but first I spent the morning making and testing cookies for tomorrow's cookie swap in New York City. Many of these people are professionals, so I really have to bring my game. The morning started with whiskey raisin white chocolate… Continue reading Cookie Time!


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Waco Airport Airshow (ACT), Waco, TX, 6-1983. The Douglas A-26 Invader (designated B-26 between 1948 and 1965) is an American twin-engined light bomber and ground attack aircraft. Built by Douglas Aircraft Company during World War II, the Invader also saw service during several major Cold War conflicts. A limited number of highly modified United States Air Force aircraft served in Southeast Asia until 1969. It was a fast aircraft capable of carrying a large bomb load. A range of guns could be fitted to produce a formidable ground-attack aircraft.[4]
A re-designation of the type from A-26 to B-26 led to confusion with the Martin B-26 Marauder, which first flew in November 1940, some 20 months before the Douglas design's maiden flight. Although both types were powered by the widely used Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp eighteen-cylinder, double-row radial engine, they were completely different and separate designs — the Martin bomber originated in 1939, with more than twice as many Marauders (nearly 5,300) produced in comparison to the Douglas design.
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Transfer Updates
Bayern New Boy Renato Sanches Sidelined For One Month
By Vishal Singh | August 8, 2016 | 0
Bayern Munich's 18-year-old midfield prodigy, Renato Sanches, has been diagnosed with a thigh injury, which he sustained during the Euro 2016 Final.
As per Bayern Munich's official website, the teenager will need at least four weeks to get back to match condition and will, therefore, have to wait in order to make his first team debut for the Bavarians.
The Portuguese maestro recently arrived from Benfica in a massive €35 million summer switch.
Sanches missed Bayern Munich's training session this Sunday, as he continues to rest, so as to be ready in time for the upcoming season.
Renato played a crucial role in Portugal's Euro 2016 triumph. The youngster played in an attacking midfield position, and was even picked to start in the final. He was substituted later in the 79th minute for Eder – the man who went on to score the winner, and help Portugal secure their first major international trophy.
Mourinho Discusses Why He Missed Out On Renato Sanches
Sanches will most probably miss Bayern Munich's German Super Cup match against Borussia Dortmund next week.
We may be able to see the 18-year-old play against Schalke on the 9th of September, which comes after a short international break.
The Portuguese stirred up interest from Europe's top clubs after his exceptional performances for club and country last season. Even Jose Mourinho admitted that he would have fought for Renato's signature had he arrived at Old Trafford earlier.
Sanches signed a contract with Bayern Munich back in May, but it became effective on the 1st of July.
This was Mourinho's statement over the 18-year-old midfield starlet:
"I arrived late. I signed in May. If I had arrived earlier, I'd have fought for him.
"Manchester United watched Renato many times, and maybe I did it even more. In so much time at home, I watched many Benfica and Portuguese league games."
But, the Red Devils seemed to be more interested in Paul Pogba – who played against Renato in the final of the European Championship this year.
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Q: How can I see which is my boot partition? I want to see which partition (/dev/sdaX) is my boot partition. I'm using Ubuntu Server, so I need a command line solution
I tried this, but the output was ambiguous as two partitions were shown:
sudo fdisk -l | grep 'Linux' | cut -d' ' -f1 2>&1

How can I get the boot partition name?

A: Boot partition
In order to find the boot partition I would use the command df /bootfor an installed Ubuntu system (standard Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server and the community flavours Kubuntu, Lubuntu ... Xubuntu),
$ df /boot
Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda8      103162996 30558020  67341528  32% /

or if you want a clean output with only the partition,
$ df /boot | grep -Eo '/dev/[^ ]+'
/dev/sda8

Boot partition and EFI partition in UEFI mode
In order to find the boot partition and the EFI partition in an Ubuntu system booted in UEFI mode (both are use during boot),
$ test -d /sys/firmware/efi/ && echo efi || echo bios
efi

$ df /boot
Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2      303017780 3281532 284320780   2% /

You can use fdisk (as you have been trying)  or parted to find the EFI partition,
$ sudo fdisk -lu|grep -i efi
/dev/sda1      65535   1048559    983025   480M EFI System

$ sudo parted -ls|grep -i efi
 1      33.6MB  537MB  503MB   fat32           EFI System Partition  boot, esp

Parted does not provide the drive letter on the same line as the partition number, but you can use the full information and your eyes,
$ sudo parted -ls
Model: WDC WD32 00BEKT-00PVMT0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End    Size    File system     Name                  Flags
 1      33.6MB  537MB  503MB   fat32           EFI System Partition  boot, esp
 2      537MB   316GB  315GB   ext4
 3      316GB   320GB  4161MB  linux-swap(v1)

A: I realised that I could grep for the * that flags the boot partition like this:
sudo fdisk -l | grep '*  ' | cut -d' ' -f1 2>&1

That solved my problem.

A: Mido's answer is what I was looking for.
To overcome the reliability issue Zanna pointed out, I'd propose:
sudo fdisk -l | grep ' \*   ' | cut -d' ' -f1

Should get the only match this time.


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Grand Theft Auto Pacifist Is The Best Thing On Youtube
Gene Stice February 15, 2021 Culture, Review, Video Games, Youtube
These days Youtube is probably the closest thing we have to public access television. They'll host just about anything, within reason. One issue though is that good new content is getting harder and harder to find. Not in the sense that channels aren't making new videos, but that fresh channels can't seem to break through and beat the algorithm. These days it feels like so many fields are dominated by just one channel. Fantano owns music. Dunkey is in charge of gaming. Red Letter Media has the monopoly on the film-bro market. Hell, I'm not sure what category you could fit Value Select or SadWorld into, but they're already the best.
So, as a way of boosting some channels, and in the interest of helping people find reasonably novel and enteraining content, I'll be writing about whatever is The Best Thing On Youtube.
The metrics are simple.
Have less than 100k subscribers.
If a channel has a plaque, it hardly needs any help at this point.
The first channel I wanna talk about is GoldVison (36k subscribers), more particularly, the dude's series of Grand Theft Auto Pacifist series.
I've always kinda liked playing games in ways that go entirely against their purpose. One time my cousin and I played Halo 2 and just tried making modern art statues out of destroyed vehicles in Blood Gulch, true commemorations to the brutal atrocities of the war on the covenant. The best Mario Maker levels always seem to be the one that stretch the limits of what can be done with the tools the developers use, turning an easy platformer into a punishingly twitchy experience. Jon Bois of SB Nation built some of his clout by creating the Breaking Madden series, in which he attempted to get Touchdown Tom to run 99 yards on a QB sneak, to score enough points to make the game crash, and to make Johnny Manziel extend a single football play into the end of time.
Playing Grand Theft Auto and as a law abiding citizen is something most people have done out of novelty at least once, following traffic laws, resisting the instinct to kill every NPC, not even drawing a gun. That said, most people end up getting bored of it after 10 minutes and immediately go back into the violent mode.
Some Youtubers have tried making a challenge out of things, treating pacifism as if it makes the game harder, rather than simply being a new way to enjoy the city of San Andreas.
GoldVision takes things a step further by not only making a whole series out of his pacifist exploits, but also by placing them in the more volatile world of GTA V's online servers, where other players rain havoc down like its hurricane season in central Florida.
His videos center around his created character, Francisco. The object simply isn't to exist in this world, but to live a fulfilling life, be that through winning street-races, climbing mountains, finding little-known spots on the map, or forging meaningful relationships with the other players.
The editing Is crisp. GoldVision's narration has enough dry wit to get a sensible chuckle out of even the snobbiest viewers.
In these videos, there's a strange existentialist life-affirming narrative that highlights the collective absurdities of the game's world, people's default playing style, as well as what it means to be a law-abiding citizen. Still though, Francisco comes out of each episode a better person (if video game characters can emotionally develop) with new experiences, that many without pacifist limitations would never even consider.
The series is a gentle reminder that sometimes even limitations are blessings, encouraging people to find fulfillment in a way that appeals to something higher than just their carnal instinct.
If this sounds interesting, check out his playlist here . His other content is also remarkably novel and fun. His main series though is ongoing, so there's plenty of reason to subscribe. Also follow him on twitter!
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University students and recent graduates comprise a portion of the population that is more concerned about the environment than previous generations. Global trends point to energy costs as one of the largest line items in university budgets worldwide.
In an environment where organizations are forced to "do more with less," universities require innovative approaches for creation of an optimal student learning environment. Efficient management of energy use in classrooms, research facilities, offices, and campus residential facilities—as well as overall campus security—are key elements in creating an atmosphere where students, faculty, and staff can thrive.
Forward-thinking universities focused on reducing energy costs and optimizing campus security are turning to integrated university infrastructure solutions from Schneider Electric in order to address their financial and operational challenges.
Global trends point to energy costs as one of the largest line items in university budgets worldwide. By implementing infrastructures that integrate building, security, and energy management, universities can slash their capital expenses.
Aarhus University in Denmark, for example, runs all of their applications on a single network. They are able to improve productivity and operational efficiency because components are co-utilized by both security and building management systems. If facility managers need to add new technology, the open, standards-based platform makes upgrades affordable.
Despite the slow global economy, enrollment in universities and colleges continues to rise. Statistics show a correlation between growing crime on college campuses and increased enrollment. Therefore, keeping students, faculty, and visitors secure is a top priority.
The Georgia Institute of Technology provides its students and facilities with a campus-wide security system that integrates access control with video surveillance, intrusion detection, and centralized database management. Each department manager has complete control of his/her facilities, and personal ID cards are used for access control, security, and retail point-of-sales. As an added benefit, the university saves on capital costs by operating the system on their existing campus LAN network.
The benefits of an integrated infrastructure include energy cost savings and improved protection of people and assets. By integrating the key domains of an enterprise—Power management, IT room management, Process & Machine management, Building management, and Security management – a university can maximize energy efficiency and campus security.
Power management – improves power availability, reduces energy bills, cuts CO₂ emissions, and integrates renewable energy.
IT room management – secures academic records and student data, ensures server uptime, protects critical applications with Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), and optimizes power and cooling systems.
Process & Machine management – cuts engineering, operations, energy, and maintenance costs across multiple facilities, and ensures productive plant and machine performance.
Building and Security management – gives administration, staff, and students a complete view of university energy, building, and security systems from a single software platform, locally or remotely via the web.
Like a city, college campuses have office buildings, student housing, restaurants, and sports centers among other facilities. Every building has different energy and security needs. In some facilities, temperatures can be controlled on a room-by-room basis. In other facilities, climate control is managed from a centralized location.
The seamless integration of all building systems, services, and applications lays the groundwork for an efficient campus. By functioning as a true ecosystem, systems can communicate with each other.
Research studies indicate that pupils' performance increased up to 30% with comfortable, healthy indoor climates*. Students with the most natural light in the classroom performed better too. Figures show academic improvements, including 20% in mathematics and 26% in reading comprehension.
University students and recent graduates comprise a portion of the population that is more concerned about the environment than previous generations. As a result, universities are developing sustainability strategies to reduce environmental impacts, conserve natural resources, and promote environmental stewardship among campus and community stakeholders.
* Study by the International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).


Hey, who are you calling "lazy?" That's what I thought when I first came upon the phrase, "Lazy User Model." In this case, being lazy is not a value statement or judgment but rather a phenomenon that explains certain behaviors, particularly when technology is involved, that may permit the user to get on with the business of learning. Let's explore that a little.
What is the Lazy User Model?
Remember the last time you wanted to upgrade your cell phone? One of the factors you likely considered was how much time you would need to spend to learn the features and affordances of your new phone. If you chose a phone that worked much as your old phone did, you demonstrated the principle of the Lazy User Model (Tétard & Collan opens as PDF, 2009). The theorists postulate that users attempting to solve a problem, such as obtain information or carry out a task, are limited in some ways and have a set of possible solutions against which to weigh the need and the limitations. They believe that users typically choose the solution that results in the least cost to them and still solves the problem. That is why they call the theory the "Lazy" User Model. You can see that in this case, being lazy may save on the overall investment of time, money, or other resources. Here is what that looks like in graphic form.
Plug your need for a new cell phone into the graphic, and you will see how being lazy works for you. You need a new cell phone. The state that limits you includes the choice of phones your cell phone provider offers, your knowledge of the phone you already have and when your current plan expires allowing you to select a new phone. Your possible solutions (let's say) include an iPhone and an Android. The least cost or lazy option for you is the type of phone you already have because you already know how to use most of the features. The cost in terms of time spent learning the features of the phone outweigh the choice to adopt (or "switch" as Tétard & Collan, 2009 call the action) the possibility of choosing a new brand of phone.
What does being lazy look like in class? More important, why would you want to allow your students to be lazy? In our present case, let's change the title of the model from Lazy User to Lazy Classroom.
Here is a scenario from a project Dana, Linda, and I reported on Literacy Beat recently (here and here). We asked a group of fifth graders to learn science vocabulary through the Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy Plus (VSS+) model. The students needed to solve the problem of creating the VSS+ entry by selecting images, creating an audio file, and writing a definition, among other things.
The need or problem: Create a VSS+ entry.
The state that creates the limitations: Use the tools assigned and that are available in the school computer lab. The students were further limited by the amount of time they had to complete the project before they were required to submit it.
The set of possible solutions thus includes choosing Thinglink or PowerPoint. Most of the students were familiar with PowerPoint but hadn't used it, and none of the students were familiar at all with Thinglink.
The lowest cost or "lazy" solution for most students turned out to be PowerPoint because most of the students were familiar with the software. Some students did try Thinglink and created successful VSS+ entries because they were intrigued with the tool, and a few others started with Thinglink but switched back to the more familiar tool after experimenting with it.
What are the Implications for the Lazy Classroom?
There are several things we might take away from the Lazy Student Model.
Being lazy can be a time saver that allows the students to concentrate on the task and not on the tool.
Being lazy might mean that students will not choose the best technology because they chose the tool they know instead of the best one for the task.
If students need to learn how to use a new-to-them technology, the will need support. Support could include direct instruction, a series of help or job aids, or access to a peer expert who is knowledgeable about the tool. Indeed, in the VSS+ project, we purposefully chose some students to become experts in working with sound files, selecting graphics, or designing graphic images using the drawing tools in PowerPoint, for example. Then, when other students needed assistance, we teachers directed the students to their expert peers to teach them what they needed to know just in time to put the technology to work.
What other implications for the Lazy Classroom Model occur to you? Are there examples you would like to share? Please use the comments section to post your thoughts.
Is there a video on youtube, where I can see "the lazy classroom model" in action?
Hi Yazmin, I can't think of a video, but do check out the example of students who reverted to the software they knew best in the article.
I was actually reading some articles that talk about the "lazy classroom" without actually saying it. They said that this "lazy" attitude towards learning is our default response in the face of a difficult problem. This attitude has a lot to do with why we have confirmation bias, and why we are apprehensive towards data and views that contradict our own. I think that the last point is something that we should be doing as teachers to to combat. Views should be challenged and students should expect their views to be challenged, and they should be able to support them. I think allowing this lazy model to continue could be detrimental to critical thinking, at the same time I also feel that it can be appropriate or beneficial in some situations to make time for more important material.
Hi dezvillalobos, Thanks for reading our blog! I think your observations about the "lazy" approach are spot on. Students (and teachers) have to make conscious choices about going for the default or "lazy" mode or taking a more critical stance toward the tasks they face.
Thanks for sharing. I am an undergrad student at UNC Chapel Hill and I volunteer in several classrooms where I think the lazy user model is unconsciously implemented. For example, there is a 3rd grade class that is extremely project-focused, and students are on iPads nearly every day. Most of them use the same project tools everyday and rarely try new programs. I agree that "being lazy" can actually be usefully time-saving, but I know that students should also consistently try new things. Thanks again for this Thomas!
You're right, it is important for students to expand their repertoire of tools and really master the ones they know, as well.