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Digital Matrix Systems, Inc. Introduces New Trended Attributes
October 22, 2015 in 2015, Archive /by Selma Filipovic
Addison, Texas (October 22, 2015) Digital Matrix Systems, Inc. (DMS) today announced the availability of over 700 attributes that leverage trended data, bringing the total number of DMS Summary Attributes™ to over 3,100. These attributes deliver a new dimension of risk assessment when compared to the standard variables commonly used for decisioning.
Digital Matrix Systems, Inc. Helps Organizations Comply with Data Privacy Mandates
July 28, 2015 in 2015, Archive /by Selma Filipovic
Addison, Texas (July 28, 2015) In a continuing effort to keep clients' information secure, Digital Matrix Systems, Inc. (DMS) today announced an enhancement to the anonymization process used in the company's data access products. The process will work uniformly at the individual user-rights level across all three platforms.
Digital Matrix Systems, Inc. Includes CodeOnce™ Technology in Future Releases
June 9, 2015 in 2015, Archive /by Selma Filipovic
Addison, Texas (June 9, 2015) Digital Matrix Systems, Inc., a credit industry pioneer and leading risk management solution provider, announced that its CodeOnce™ technology will be included in all new software releases planned for 2015 in its effort to continuously improve the overall user experience.
Digital Matrix Systems, Inc. Introduces CreditServer™ v9.02
May 21, 2015 in 2015, Archive /by Selma Filipovic
Addison, Texas (May 21, 2015) Digital Matrix Systems, Inc. today announced the latest update to CreditServer™ 9.02, the premier hosted data access tool designed to simplify retrieving data files from the major credit bureaus and other specialized data sources with a single request. With eight new data sources, the latest version is the most robust to […]
Equifax Aligns with Digital Matrix Systems, Inc. to Introduce Credit Score Alternative for Auto Insurance
May 3, 2015 in 2015, Archive /by Selma Filipovic
ATLANTA, GA and ADDISON, TX (May 3, 2015) Equifax today announced a relationship with Digital Matrix Systems, Inc. (DMS) to introduce a new, innovative credit score alternative for the auto insurance industry. The risk evaluation tool will enable insurers to reduce risk exposure, reduce acquisition costs and simplify the customer quote process. Compare.com, an auto […]
Digital Matrix Systems, Inc. Announces Participation in Auto Insurance Report National Conference
April 14, 2015 in 2015, Archive /by Selma Filipovic
Addison, Texas (April 14, 2015) Digital Matrix Systems, Inc. (DMS), a leading international risk management solution provider, today announced it is participating at the Auto Insurance Report National Conference being held May 3 – 5 in Palm Beach, Florida. DMS senior vice president, Carson York will participate on a panel with other industry executives.
Digital Matrix Systems, Inc. Announces Update to Data Access Point™
April 7, 2015 in 2015, Archive /by Selma Filipovic
Addison, Texas (April 7, 2015) Digital Matrix Systems, Inc. (DMS) today announced an update to Data Access Point™, a cutting-edge connectivity hub that links clients to key decision data sources with a single inquiry and delivers the data within a standard XML format.
Palm Harbor Reduces Credit Risk Assessment Costs Using CreditBrowser
March 17, 2015 in 2015, Archive /by Selma Filipovic
Addison, Texas (March 17, 2015) Digital Matrix Systems, Inc., (DMS) is partnering with Palm Harbor Villages Inc. to reduce the costs of pulling credit through the use of its premier web-based access tool, CreditBrowser®. This risk management approach has saved Palm Harbor over $100,000 annually. When Richard Peck, vice president of retail operations at Palm […]
Digital Matrix Systems, Inc. Introduces DMS Data Warehouse™
August 12, 2014 in 2014, Archive /by Selma Filipovic
Addison, Texas (August 12, 2014) Digital Matrix Systems, Inc., a credit industry pioneer and risk management solutions leader for the financial services and insurance industries, announced it has changed the name of its data storage solution to DMS Data Warehouse™. Previously named CreditWarehouse®, the new name reflects the company's ongoing expansion into new industries and […]
Digital Matrix Systems, Inc. Enhances DMS Common Inquiry Feature
December 27, 2013 in 2013, Archive /by Selma Filipovic
Addison, Texas (December 27, 2013) Digital Matrix Systems, Inc., a credit industry pioneer and leading risk management solution provider, announced that it has enhanced a key feature of its Data Access Point™ system to support requests to its growing list of specialized data providers. Data Access Point™ by DMS is a cutting-edge connectivity hub that […]


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Get onto it straightaway and contact your local car removal company. All it takes is a simple web search to gain access to the contact information of thousands of car removal specialists. Refine your search by entering your location as one of the search terms. The majority of companies will be able to provide you cash on the spot so don't delay and get it off your driveway. Reduce the hassle and stress of dealing with your damaged car by dealing with a reputable car disposal company.
You understandably want to earn money from your car, however, the information you provide must be honest and accurate. Your quote is devised from the details you give and in order for this to be a true estimate the information must be correct. The vehicle will be checked so be as honest about it as you can. If you have left out any details they won't want to pay up which delays the process. Car removal companies aren't put off by damaged cars as they will profit from any car no matter what the condition. Gather the information about your car before ringing up or filling out their online contact form.
It can be a major hassle sorting out your damaged car so let a car removal company do the hard work for you. Whilst they take care of everything there are a few things you can do to make it as quick and easy as possible. Have your paperwork including proof of identity and Title of Ownership handy. The more organised you are, the easier the exchange will be. You can also get ready by double checking you have moved all your valuables out of the car. Also place the car in an easily accessible spot and you're ready for the car removal company to take on the responsibility of transporting and wrecking your car.
To get paid quickly for your damaged car, don't delay in locating a car removal service. Provide accurate and honest information and have the vehicle ready to be towed. Don't hinder the procedure and be ready for the transaction to take place. For a professional company in Sydney contact Metro Car Removal.


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Staying on Top: Highlights of Levi's Tech Infrastructure
July 23, 2019 • by Heidi Sax • Apparel Retail
Levi Strauss & Co. is rocking and rolling. The 166-year-old retailer (wait, what?) celebrated its 2nd IPO and $8 billion valuation in March, and Levi's brand recognition is at an all-time high. The iconic red tag is still as ubiquitous and leather patch in back still considered as cool as ever.
Levi's success isn't just anecdotal. Having spearheaded Levi's revival, visionary CEO Chip Bergh is focused on modernization. The retail giant recently announced plans to open about 100 new company-owned stores, just as other apparel sellers in Levi's cohort, like Abercrombie & Fitch, are shuttering them. The brand recently opened its largest store to date, optimized with the latest and greatest tools (including CB4) from Levi's technology arsenal.
Here we'll take a look at the technology that's helping Bergh deliver on his promise of helping Levi's become the "leading world-class omni-channel retailer."
Indigo, an AI-powered Chatbot
In 2019, Marc Rosen, Levi's EVP and President of Global Direct to Consumer, was named The Robin Report's Radical of the Year. One of Rosen's most notable accomplishments was creating Indigo, Levi.com's chatbot, which the brand uses to converse with shoppers to determine their fit and style needs. His work on Indigo contributed to "11 consecutive quarters of double-digit growth for the direct-to-consumer business," according to The Robin Report.
Indigo isn't your average chatbot. It sticks with shoppers while they shop, helping them sift through styles and locate them in-store or online. They can see promotions, trending items, or talk to a customer service agent.
Mom Jeans, please! Thanks, Indigo.
This friendly bot sets a new standard in the world of virtual communication.
Levi's Technology for Product Innovation
Levi's isn't innovating in just the digital world. The new Eureka Lab, nestled blocks from Levi's San Francisco headquarters, is the brand's hub devoted to product innovation. Since its inception, the lab has been churning out new products and features that cater to shoppers' desires.
To date, the Eureka lab has incubated a series of profitable innovations including:
Four-way stretch denim: Fabric that recovers quickly and doesn't sag at the knees helped rebound the women's business and increased sales from less than $800 million to $1 billion annually since 2015.
Wearable Levi's technology: Levi's celebrated the 50th birthday of their iconic trucker jacket with Levi's Commuter x Jacquard by Google Jacket. The garment, inspired by bike commuters, lets wearers control their iPhones from the jacket's sleeve. Later, Levi's optimized the technology for ride sharing, road noise monitoring, and location sharing.
We'll be watching to see how Levi's continues to innovate on their product post-IPO.
Levi's Technology for Supply Chain Enhancements
More than one executive at Levi's helm is earning industry-wide recognition for outstanding accomplishments. Liz O'Neill, Levi's Executive Vice President of Product, Innovation, and Supply Chain was named one of Fast Company's "Most Creative People of 2019."
"Speed to market and sustainability are two of the biggest challenges in the [apparel] industry," says O'Neill, who's headed Levi's supply chain since 2013. She managed to overcome obstacles to both speed to market and sustainability with Project F.L.X. (short for "future-led execution").
Project F.L.X. is a game-changing operating model that uses "digital prototyping and lasers to automate the process of applying finishes to jeans"—in other words, making them look distressed, faded, and otherwise cool. Levi's shares that Project F.L.X. "ushers denim finishing into the digital era" and the brand has shared plan to scale this technology to 50% of the company's jeans.
This Levi's technology will help the retailer:
Replace manual techniques that are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and chemical-reliant, making this stage of the process 20-40x faster.
Create photo-real finished garments digitally, cutting finishing design and development time in half, improving speed to vendor.
Capitalize on on-demand and hyper-local production, reducing lead times from months to days.
Eliminate thousands of chemical formulations, propelling Levi's goal of achieving zero discharge of hazardous chemicals by 2020.
These are innovations that promise to transform not only Levi's business but the apparel industry at large.
Levi's Technology for In-Store Excellence
Levi's appetite for innovation doesn't there. The retailer is using the last mile, their brick-and-mortar stores, to transform the customer experience with even more digital advances.
First, Levi's is investing in customer-facing innovations that take hyper-locality and customization to new heights. The brand's new 16,902 square-foot Times Square flagship offers every Levi's collection Levi's, plus a selection of New York-centric merchandise and a large Authorized Vintage section. The store also features a 500-square expert tailor shop with sewing machines, direct-to-garment printing capabilities, and iPads for customers to browse designs from branded designs from tailors across the globe.
Once shoppers are ready to give garments a try, they're treated to spacious fittings rooms with Levi's style advisers just a call button away—typical fitting room woes, not included. The store also has large-format immersive LED screens and mobile POS systems.
But Levi's isn't satisfied roll out the technology red carpet only for shoppers—they're giving associates next-gen tools to help them serve customers and drive sales. At all US stores, Levi's is leveraging CB4's app (and its proprietary AI algorithms) to understand each store's unique demand patterns. With this tool and others like it, Levi's enables store teams to provide customers in each market with the products they want most. These efforts help Levi's ensure a consistently outstanding in-store experience across all stores.
Levi's isn't the only major retailer that uses CB4 to drive revenue in stores. Check out this video of Barnes & Noble Chief Digital Officer, Bill Wood, talking about how CB4 has empowered the book seller's retail workforce.
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SLOVAKIA has dispatched 20 police officers who will help Slovenia handle the migration crisis, on November 6. Another unit of Slovak police officers is already helping its colleagues in Hungary.
The police officers will be stationed at the border of two European Union member states – Slovenia and Croatia, with the former being a member of Schengen and the latter not. There should be over 400 police officers sent from different member states to Slovenia. Apart from handling the influx of migrants, they are supposed to secure public order.
Police Corps President Tibor Gašpar said that the despatched police officers represent a standard-equipped unit for patrol duties, and this has been supplemented by certain special devices. They come predominantly from northern districts of Slovakia, while those that were sent to Hungary last month are from southern districts.
The Slovak police force has now dispatched the greatest number of its members in its entire history, Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák said.


This slaw takes off on a cabbage-onion-chile salad dressed with Mexican crema and lime that a Mexican neighbor used to make. It is delicious alongside anything grilled or frankly, tucked into a soft corn tortilla all on its own.
1. In a large bowl, toss together all the ingredients except the coriander or mint leaves. Season to taste. Refrigerate 4 hours to 2 days.
2. Just before serving, taste for seasoning and toss with the coriander or mint leaves.


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Q: Is there a verb that means "to make someone feel special"? Is there a verb that means "to make someone feel special"? I've used that same phrase one too many times in the same piece and would love to mix it up!
For example: "On your child's birthday every year, harness the power of family traditions to make your child feel special."
You could use something like "...harness the power of family traditions to delight your child" but that doesn't bring the same meaning.
From my perspective, to make someone feel special isn't just about making them happy or excited -- it's about making them feel that they matter to you and that you appreciate them for who they are.
Thank you in advance for any help you can offer!

A: How about celebrate? It works doubly with the birthday aspect.

1. To observe (a day or event) with ceremonies of respect, festivity, or rejoicing. See Synonyms at observe.
3. To extol or praise: a sonnet that celebrates love.
Source: The Free Dictionary at American
Heritage

So:

Harness the power of family traditions to celebrate your child on her special day.

A: Informally, one can use the multi-word verb big up [for]:

big up (to/for) somebody [spoken; informal]
used when you want to praise someone

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*Big up to Kelly Holmes! She ran a superb race.

[Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English] [adjusted]
Although Collins still considers big up a slang usage, the Farlex Dictionary of Idioms gives the transitive usage without adding even an 'informal' caveat:

big up

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*To promote or aggrandize the importance, quality, or positive aspects of someone or something.

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*The promoters have really been bigging up this new band ....

A: Uplift is good here.  It carries the idea of the inherent worth of the person.
"...harness the power of family traditions to uplift your child"

To elevate in rank, honour, estate, or estimation. OED

Also according to OED, in Scottish it has the particular meaning of make proud as well.   This fits with the OP's request for a word that doesn't just indicate a feeling of happiness but a feeling that they matter and have value.

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The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award (or 'The Duke of Ed') is an exciting international youth development program.
Anyone between the ages of 14 and 24 can take part and the best bit is you choose your own activities and set your own goals.
The Bridge Award is also available. This award is open to young people aged between 11 and a half and 25 years. It builds confidence and resilience and is a great introduction to the Bronze level of The Duke of Ed (from 14 years).
Why do The Duke of Ed?
You'll get recognition for doing many of the things you already do. You can also choose new activities that you've always wanted to do.
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The Duke of Ed has 3 Award levels and you can choose the level that's right for you: Bronze, Silver or Gold. Each level has different time commitments.
To finish the Bronze and Silver levels you have to complete 4 Award sections and 5 for the Gold level.
You design your own program around the things that interest you most.
The Award sections are:
Voluntary Service—get involved in your community and give service to others.
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You'll have an Award Leader, instructors and assessors who can help you decide on activities for each Award section but remember, it's your choice.
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Adidas has released its 2016 financial report and it looks very, very positive for the German sportswear manufacturer. According to the brand the past year was "exceptionally successful", with their revenues rising 14%, passing the €1 billion mark for the first time in the company's history.
Adidas CEO Kasper Rorsted stated that: "We are not a fashion company. Of course we like to have fashionable products, but we are a sports company." But what made the past year so extremely successful were the lifestyle products and not the performance products. The sales of lifestyle items grew 45%, performance wear on the other hand just grew 13% overall.
Sales of their retro sneakers like the iconic Superstars or Stan Smiths have boomed last year. Adidas gained some ground on their main competitor in the US market, Nike. Although Adidas has more than doubled its share in the US, that still only constitutes a 10% market share. Nike has that market pretty much covered.
The German brand will further invest in its efforts In the US market and chip away on Nike's market dominance. Going forward, Adidas expects sales to increase further, up to between 11 and 13 percent for 2017. Net income will also grow between 20 percent and 22 percent on average per year until 2020.


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Q: Is "How did your job go?" grammatically correct? And if it is correct, can someone explain to me the grammar. Like, is it present continuous or something (grammar isn't my strong suit).

A: When we ask, "How did {something} go?" the "something" must have finished. It cannot be ongoing.  The simple past did go is used with things that happened in the past.
If the surgeon is operating on one of the organs of your body, and you are lying unconscious on the operating table, the nurse does not ask, "Doctor, how did the operation go?" because the surgical procedure is not finished yet. The nurse can ask "How is the operation going?"
But if the "job" is a completed task then your question is valid. Let's say the job was replacing the roof of a house, which people in that trade call "a job".

We have a big job tomorrow. We have to replace the roof of an old mansion.

Then you can ask:

How did your job go?  Were there any surprises? Did the decking need
  to be replaced?

But if you're asking someone at dinner how they fared at work:

How did your day go?

There, your day means "your work day".  The work day is over.  It is evening now.

A: It's correct.   It's past indefinite, also called "simple past" even though there is good reason to avoid that label.   Verb constructions have properties, such as tense, aspect, and mode.   In this clause, the verb construction is "did go".
The "did" appears before the subject "your job".   This arrangement is called subject-auxiliary inversion, and it's part of what marks this clause as a question.   We've established the interrogative mode.
In any finite verb construction, there is exactly one verb that marks tense, that takes either a past-tense form or a present-tense form.   When there is only one verb in the construction, it's quite easy to find that verb: My job goes well or my job went well.   These are the simple cases, in the sense that it only takes one word to complete the verb construction.
When there is more than one word in the finite construction, the verb that marks tense is the first.   In this example, that's "did".   This is the past-tense form of the verb "to do".   We've established the past tense.
English marks two properties that are generally considered aspects: continuous and perfect.   The continuous aspect requires an -ing form, traditionally labeled the present participle.   The perfect aspect requires an -en form, traditionally labeled the past participle.   For the verb "to go", those forms are "going" and "gone".
In your example question, neither participle is included.   We have only the past-tense "did" and the bare infinitive "go".   With nothing marking the continuous aspect and nothing marking the perfect aspect, there is nothing marking any aspect.   The aspect simply isn't marked.   We've established the indefinite aspect.
There is also a property called voice, with the values active and passive.   Those values make sense when describing transitive verbs.   The verb "to go" is intransitive.   We might consider this voice to be active, or we might consider this clause to have no voice.   In either case, it would make no sense to describe this construction as passive.
Your example question is in the interrogative mode, the past tense and the indefinite aspect.   For short, it is a (voiceless or possibly active) interrogative past indefinite construction.   For shorter, it is a past interrogative or a simple past.

There is such a thing as the present continuous:

How is your job going?

In this case, the verb with tense is the "is", which is a present-tense form of "to be".   The only other verb is an -ing form, which marks the continuous aspect.
It is as easy to find present continuous statements as it is to find present continuous questions:

My job is going well.

Here, the mode is indicative, the tense is present, the aspect is continuous.

A: To add on to Tᴚoɯɐuo's answer:  It is grammatically correct.  Whether it is idiomatically correct depends on what you are trying to say.
If, as Tᴚoɯɐuo says, you have a particular limited-term job that is complete (at least for the day) then you can say,

How did your job go?

or, assuming we both know which job you've been working today:

How did the job go?

In the same way, suppose I go on a business trip to meet with a client.  When I get back my wife might ask:

How did your trip go?

or

How did your meeting go?

However, if you just want to ask someone about their regular job, which they go to every working day, it would be more idiomatic to ask something like:

How was work?
Did you have a good day at work?

Or, more generally:

How was your day?


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WILLIAM BAILEY was born in 1930 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA.
1957 MFA from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1955 BFA from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1948–51 BS from University of Kansas School of Arts, Lawrence, KS
1999 Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
1998 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1997 Galleria d'Arte il Gabbiano, Rome, Italy
1997 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
1996 Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY
1995 University Art Museum, State University of New York, Binghampton, NY
1995 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Galleria Appiani Arte Trentadue, Milan, Italy
1994 Andre Emmerich, New York, NY
1994 Betsy Senior Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Columbus Gallery, Columbus, GA
1991 Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1989 Fairfield Artist of the Year, Center for Financial Studies, Fairfield, CT
1988 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1988 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
1987 FIAC Paris, Grand Palais, Paris, France
1987 Galleria Il Gabbiano, Rome, Italy
1986 Robert Schoelkopf, New York, NY
1984 American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
1983 Meadows Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
1979 Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC
1978 Galerie Claude Bernard, Parigi, Italy
1976 Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1975 Polk Museum, Lakeland, FL
1973 Galleria il Fante di Spade, Rome, Italy
1973 Galleria Dei Lanzi, Milan, Italy
1973 Galleria La Parisina, Turin, Italy
1972 Queens College, City University of New York, New York, NY
1972 Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1969 Nasson College, Springvale, ME
1967 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1963 Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
1961 Kanegis Gallery, Boston, MA
1956 Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
William Bailey : Bailey Still Life at Trevi, 1982, oil on canvas, 26 x 21, 66 x 53.3cm
William Bailey : Panicle, 1988, oil on canvas, 29 x 24 inches
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VICTORIA – CUPE 410, Greater Victoria Public Library staff, welcomed 37 new members from the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV) after a Labour Relations Board vote at the art gallery on November 30.
The workers at the AGGV are integral to every aspect of the Gallery's operations. They provide curatorial services, exhibit design and preparation, gallery programming for visitors and members, as well as front desk services. They also manage the Gallery Shop and the art rental and sales program, coordinate membership and donor services, and also provide marketing and development, accounting, IT, security and custodial services.
CUPE 410 represents workers at the Greater Victoria Public Library including pages, circulation assistants (clerks), librarians, and branch supervisors to shuttle drivers, IT specialists, services and program coordinators. Including workers from AGGV, they now represent almost 300 workers.
"We look forward to getting to know our newest members and working with them towards their first collective agreement with CUPE," said Hughes.


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Eagles swoop up victory over Mustangs
by Kinsey Phipps
Saydel has defeated PCM for the past two years that Cory Waddell has been head coach of the PCM wrestling team. He was not planning on making his standings with the Eagles 0-3. Sadly, his expectations for the meet did not work out as he planned, when the Mustangs went down to Saydel with a final score of 45-36.
Though the meet didn't go as expected, some wrestlers did shine through in the Dec. 11 meet at Saydel. Senior Ron Marshall pinned his opponent in a mere 45 seconds. Another senior, Tristan Clark, pinned his adversary in 1:22.
"I think we just showed up but nothing else. There were matches we should have won, but we were not ready," Marshall said. "I feel I showed up to get my job done for the team, along with a few others. I feel we need better focus before the meet, and I think some people are just there to be there, which is bad for the ones that want to be there."
PCM ended the night with three falls and three forfeits. Saydel's victory included five falls, one decision and two forfeits.
"Winning the dual portion of the conference will be difficult. We will keep working towards that same goal the remainder of the year. We will focus on the tournament title with a healthier team." Waddell said.
The next triangular for the boys is tonight, Dec. 18th at Nevada, starting at 6 p.m.
This week in history: the 2018 football state championship game
Cross country moves to PCM's stomping grounds
Senior Night Wrestling
Mustangs split wins with Cubs
Mustangs clobber Rams
Mustangs wrestling week in review
Great One Eight goes down in Mustang history
Mustangs make school history
Unspoken Heroes


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#include "stenopng.h"

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	assert (argc >= 1);
	/*if (argc != 3)
		abort_("Usage: program_name <file_in> <file_out>");*/

	char** image_filenames = &(argv[1]);
	size_t image_count = argc - 1;
	int was_metadata_read = 0;

	sort_strings(image_filenames, image_count);
	metadata_t metadata;
	FILE* output_fp = NULL;
	int remaining_output_bytes = 0;
	for (int i=0; i < image_count; i++) {
		png_data_t png_data;
		memset(&png_data, 0, sizeof(png_data_t));
		read_png_file(image_filenames[i], &png_data);
		size_t capacity = get_pixeldata_storage_capacity(&png_data);
		int remaining_capacity = (int) capacity;
		char* data = (char*) malloc(remaining_capacity);
		assert( data );
		unpiggyback_data(&png_data, data, capacity);
		char* data_ptr = data;
		if (! was_metadata_read) {
			unserialise_metadata(data_ptr, MIN(METADATA_LEN, capacity), &metadata);
			int no_zeroes = 1;
			for (int i=0; (i < 256) && no_zeroes; i++)
				no_zeroes *= metadata.filename[i];
			assert( ! no_zeroes );
			assert( strlen(metadata.filename) );
			assert( ! does_file_exist(metadata.filename) );
			output_fp = fopen(metadata.filename, "wb");
			assert( output_fp );
			remaining_output_bytes = metadata.filesize;
			remaining_capacity -= METADATA_LEN;
			data_ptr += METADATA_LEN;
			was_metadata_read = 1;
		}

		while (remaining_capacity && remaining_output_bytes) {
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					1,
					MIN(remaining_capacity, MIN(remaining_output_bytes, OUTPUT_CHUNK_SIZE)),
					output_fp);
			assert( bytes_written >= 0 );
			remaining_capacity -= bytes_written;
			remaining_output_bytes -= bytes_written;
			data_ptr += bytes_written;
		}
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		destroy_png_data(&png_data);
	}
	if (output_fp)
		fclose(output_fp);

	return 0;
}

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Category Archives: Paul McCartney
Six More 1980s Christmas Songs Not Just For Christmas
Here we go again, then. Ducking the bombardment of crappy Christmas musical missives, and two years on from the first collection, we present a few more festive tracks that – hopefully – don't require the services of a sickbag.
A very Merry Christmas to all.
6. Paul McCartney: Pipes Of Peace (1983)
Paul's Christmas 1983 chart-topper is, surprisingly, his only UK solo number one single (no doubt helped by the impressive video). The melody maestro puts together a hook-laden mini-symphony that Brian Wilson would surely be proud of. Producer George Martin even conjures a bit of Pepper-style surrealism for the intro.
5. Chris Rea: Joys Of Christmas (1987)
It can't be easy writing a 'downer' Christmas song. 'Joys Of Christmas' was a single but wasn't a hit, reaching just 67 in the UK, but it still sounds like a minor classic, lyrically a harrowing portrait of the North East underclass and musically a kind of ZZ Top/Robert Palmer hybrid (what's with that weird 'Addicted To Love' accordion?) with some scorching Telecaster work. And his voice has never sounded better – he hits some amazing low notes in the verses.
4. Joan Jett: Little Drummer Boy (1981)
I first heard this on the soundtrack of the 1983 guilty-pleasure movie 'Class' and have had a soft spot for it ever since. It was never a single but appeared for a while on Jett's breakthrough album I Love Rock'n'Roll until it was bumped off in favour of something less seasonal.
3. Wham!: Last Christmas (1984)
Recorded at London's Advision studios in August 1984, George insisted on playing all instruments (including some very dodgy bass). But the bittersweet lyrics, twinkling synths, George's gossamer vocals and the poignant memory of his death a year ago make it an indispensable seasonal hit. It was kept off the 1984 Christmas number one spot in the UK by Band Aid's 'Do They Know It's Christmas'.
2. The Replacements: Beer For Breakfast (1983)
Is it a Christmas song? Dunno, but Paul Westerberg drawls 'I'm dreaming of a white Christmas' halfway through, and maybe it's a portrait of his Christmas Day libations. Good effort (swearing alert).
1. Chris Rea: Driving Home For Christmas (1988)
Rea's song was only a minor yuletide hit on its original UK release in 1988 (though written in 1984 and recorded in 1986) but it's still played regularly and has made the top 100 every year it's been re-released. Rea told Classic Rock magazine recently: 'I do regret that I never got it to Van Morrison because that's who I wrote it for. I thought he would have done a marvellous job. But I can't knock it. I always think, if I don't hear "Driving Home For Christmas", it means I can no longer go on holiday…'
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Q: Does /proc/[pid]/net/tcp refers to only to sockets owned by [pid]? Does /proc/[pid]/net/tcp refers to only to sockets owned by [pid]?
If yes, looping through /proc numeric-only directories (ie. pids) and reading /proc/[pid]/net/tcp would be a safe/correct way to list each socket owned by each pid? ie. kinda like the functionality netstat -p provides, but I would like to do it in C and I wouldn't like to parse netstat output.
As an addendum, is there a reference for the connection status column? What each byte means? Or reading the kernel source would be the only way to find out?
Is the "format" of each proc entry be stable along Linux kernel versions?


I was about to go to sleep when from the living room I heard Anita Baker's "Caught Up in the Rapture"— great song yes, but more importantly an exclamation point for how I feel about my boyfriend. I love him in that over the fence, grand slam kind of way. It's truly the most amazing feeling in the world. To quote Anita, the love queen herself I am indeed "caught up in the rapture of [him]." So why do I feel a lot of times like I'm falling short?
As women we put a lot of pressure on ourselves routinely. We tend to be acutely aware of everything we do and everything everyone else is doing (it's definitely a genetic flaw). You worry about being the prettiest you can be. Worry about keeping a wonderful home. Making money (making money's been a big one for me lately). You desperately want life to follow a linear course but you find more often than not it's hills and valleys. Sometimes you cry and you don't tell anyone; not your husband, your kids, you don't even tell your girlfriends; you're not depressed, you're just kind of pent up with thoughts. You want to be the career woman who bakes in her 5-inch stilettos with her perfectly curled hair. Instead you're barely getting through your 12-hour office day in your ballerina flats.
I don't really have any answers about what to do about all this worrying. All you can do is try to be the best you can be and hope you're lucky and have one of those guys who can see the effort and thinks you're cute just the way you are. I think I'm one of the lucky ones. So I won't hope to avoid the valleys, I'll just hope that the valleys have flowers.


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Restaurant Spotlight
Restaurant Spotlight: Les Petites Canailles
A French restaurant that celebrates the vineyards of Paso Robles, from a duo that grew up in wine and food
This Best of Award of Excellence winner highlights wineries from Paso Robles and other Central Coast regions, with spotlights on names such as Saxum, Sine Qua Non and Stephan's L'Aventure—the winery owned by the chef's parents. (Courtesy of Les Petites Canailles)
Emma Grant
Since opening in 2019, Les Petites Canailles has become a favorite for locals and a destination for wine tourists exploring the dining scene in downtown Paso Robles, Calif. The restaurant's owners, Courtney and Julien Asseo, were both born into food and wine; Courtney comes from a family of butchers, Julien is the son of winemakers. For years, the two worked in restaurants in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, including Wine Spectator Grand Award winners Joël Robuchon Restaurant and Restaurant Guy Savoy. In time, the couple made their way to Paso Robles to open their own establishment, named in tribute to their three children. (Les Petites Canailles means "the little rascals" in French.)
Wine director and general manager Alexander Wolfe has quickly grown the wine program from 100 to 400 selections in just a few years, earning Les Petites Canailles its Best of Award of Excellence in 2022. The list centers on Bordeaux, Burgundy, the Rhône Valley and California, showing off some of the best that Paso Robles and the surrounding Central Coast have to offer (including an extensive selection of Rhône variety bottlings from Saxum and Sine Qua Non) while highlighting wineries Julien got to know while growing up in France. Rarer gems are featured in "Lara's Library," a selection dedicated to a now-deceased friend of the restaurant; this includes bottles from Château Mouton-Rothschild and Château Montrose.
The list's "Family" section highlights the couple's close-knit circle of winemaking friends and relatives, including an impressive collection from Julien's parents, Stephan and Beatrice Asseo, the proprietors of Stephan winery and its L'Aventure estate, as well as Paso wines from Julien's brothers-in-law.
Julien, the executive chef, prepares an ever-changing, farm-to-table menu that mixes classically French and international influences. Julien cooks leeks, a French staple, on the restaurant's plancha (a flat-top metal grill used in Spanish cooking) and serves them with herb vinaigrette and pine nuts, while he complements his moules frites with 'nduja, a traditional Calabrian sausage that is spicy and soft. Guests can also enjoy the likes of prime hanger steak tartare, roasted Alaskan halibut with zaalouk (a Moroccan dish of cooked eggplant and tomato), Burgundy escargot risotto, a mushroom "Bolognese" with pappardelle and a caviar service with shirred eggs. A selection of "butcher cuts," served with a choice of sauces and sides, changes regularly. A five-course "Trust Us" tasting menu (or a vegetarian version) is also available, with optional wine pairings.
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The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) Review
After running away from a residential nursing home to pursue his dream of becoming a pro wrestler, a man who has Down syndrome befriends an outlaw who becomes his coach and ally.
(USA)Directors: Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz
Budget: 6.2 million USD
Box office: 22.8 million
USDNominations: Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film
This was a highly anticipated film for me, and I loved every second. This is a heartfelt story of a friendship that parallels the classic novels of Mark Twain. I was sucked into the world of the film seconds in, and I was sad when it was over. This film follows the bond between brothers and how far that love can carry you through life.
My favorite thing about the film was its lighthearted and inspirational feel. The movie is clearly not meant to be the most realistic, but its imaginative feel made the movie incredible to watch. The character development was also astounding, and I rooted for the two protagonists to live a life free of repercussions.
Peanut Butter Falcon has the perfect balance of suspense, comedy, and lifelike elements. This film was hilarious to watch at times, and often had me laughing at the screen. There were also times I found myself sitting on the edge of my seat, holding my breath in suspense. But overall this film reached down and grabbed a hold of my heart, truly touching me in every way emotionally possible.
The actors all did a phenomenal job in this film, and I loved every preference. Zach Gottsagen truly stole the show and held the film together. I know the writers of this film are close friends with Zach in genuine life, and they wrote this film for him to star in. Zach did definitely not disappoint, and he truly shined in his performance. Shia LaBeouf's performances was phenomenal, and the bond between the two actors was hard to miss.
While the ending of the film was not the most realistic, it fit in perfectly with the imaginative feel defined in the rest of the movie. The ending scene truly was the last piece to the puzzle and had me smiling from ear to ear.
This is a film I could definitely watch repeatedly without getting sick of it.
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Anne Lebel has been Capgemini's Chief Human Resources Officer and a member of the Group Executive Board since 2020.
Prior to joining Capgemini, in 2016 Anne was appointed by Natixis as Chief Human Resources Officer and Corporate Culture Officer, and a member of the Senior Management Committee.
From 2012, Anne was the Global Head of Human Resources of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty. She joined the company in 2008 as Head of Human Resources for France, Italy and Spain, and later for Europe and Asia, after being the Head of Human Resources for Serono France from 2004.
Anne started her career in 1987 at Bossard Consultants, as an organization and change management consultant. In 1997, Anne joined Schering Plough France as Human Resources and Training Manager for France before moving to head up HR Organization and Development in Europe.
Anne is also Lead Independent Director of Nexans' Board of Directors. She is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Strasbourg (France) and the Institut d'administration des entreprises (IAE) Paris.


What is the manifold assumption in semi-supervised learning?
I am trying to figure out what the manifold assumption means in semi-supervised learning. Can anyone explain in a simple way? I cannot get the intuition behind it.
It says that your data lie on a low-dimensional manifold embedded in a higher-dimensional space. I didn't get what that means.
Imagine that you have a bunch of seeds fastened on a glass plate, which is resting horizontally on a table. Because of the way we typically think about space, it would be safe to say that these seeds live in a two-dimensional space, more or less, because each seed can be identified by the two numbers that give that seed's coordinates on the surface of the glass.
Now imagine that you take the plate and tilt it diagonally upwards, so that the surface of the glass is no longer horizontal with respect to the ground. Now, if you wanted to locate one of the seeds, you have a couple of options. If you decide to ignore the glass, then each seed would appear to be floating in the three-dimensional space above the table, and so you'd need to describe each seed's location using three numbers, one for each spatial direction. But just by tilting the glass, you haven't changed the fact that the seeds still live on a two-dimensional surface. So you could describe how the surface of the glass lies in three-dimensional space, and then you could describe the locations of the seeds on the glass using your original two dimensions.
In this thought experiment, the glass surface is akin to a low-dimensional manifold that exists in a higher-dimensional space : no matter how you rotate the plate in three dimensions, the seeds still live along the surface of a two-dimensional plane.
The manifold assumption in machine learning is that, instead of assuming that data in the world could come from every part of the possible space (e.g., the space of all possible 1-megapixel images, including white noise), it makes more sense to assume that training data come from relatively low-dimensional manifolds (like the glass plate with the seeds). Then learning the structure of the manifold becomes an important task; additionally, this learning task seems to be possible without the use of labeled training data.
There are many, many different ways of learning the structure of a low-dimensional manifold. One of the most widely used approaches is PCA, which assumes that the manifold consists of a single ellipsoidal "blob" like a pancake or cigar shape, embedded in a higher-dimensional space. More complicated techniques like isomap, ICA, or sparse coding relax some of these assumptions in various ways.
The reason the manifold assumption is important in semi-supervised learning is two-fold. For many realistic tasks (e.g., determining whether the pixels in an image show a 4 or a 5), there is much more data available in the world without labels (e.g., images that might have digits in them) than with labels (e.g., images that are explicitly labeled "4" or "5"). In addition, there are many orders of magnitude more information available in the pixels of the images than there are in the labels of the images that have labels. But, like I described above, natural images aren't actually sampled from the uniform distribution over pixel configurations, so it seems likely that there is some manifold that captures the structure of natural images. But if we assume further that the images containing 4s all lie on their own manifold, while the images containing 5s likewise lie on a different but nearby manifold, then we can try to develop representations for each of these manifolds using just the pixel data, hoping that the different manifolds will be represented using different learned features of the data. Then, later, when we have a few bits of label data available, we can use those bits to simply apply labels to the already-identified manifolds.
Most of this explanation comes from work in the deep and feature learning literature. Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun -- see the Energy Based Learning Tutorial have particularly accessible arguments in this area.
Josh Tenenbaum then discusses the difficulties of learning such a mapping from input to feature space. But let's go back to the question: we are interested in how the input and feature spaces are related.
The [x1=elevation, x2=azimuth] space is the feature space (although simplistic, it can be thought as a valid embedding space).
With this example, it is clear that the dimensionality of the embedding space is way less that the input space: 2 vs 1024. (This distinction will hold even for choices higher dimensional, less simplistic embedding spaces).
To convince yourself that the embedding forms a manifold, I invite you to read the rest of the Tenenbaum paper paper or the Colah article.
Note: this is just an illustration of what the manifold hypothesis means, not an argument of why it happens.
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13 Kansas student-athletes named Dr. Gerald Lage Award recipients
IRVING, Texas – The Big 12 Conference announced the recipients of its highest academic honor, the Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award on Tuesday, with 13 Kansas student-athletes earning the accolade. In total, 111 student-athletes across the conference's 10 schools were honored.
Emily Bermel (softball), Taylor Christie (soccer), Ariadna Fonseca Diaz (women's golf), Courtney Griffiths (track & field), Kelly Koenigsman (rowing), Morgan Kottas (rowing), Lisa Lauschke (track & field), Chris Melgares (track & field), Patricia Montero (volleyball), Liana Ochoa (rowing), Megan Paule (track & field), Taylor Sieperda (swimming & diving) and Riley Varuska (rowing) will all receive the award and will be publicly recognized with their names being featured on the video board at the Phillips 66 Big 12 Men's Basketball Championship, March 13-16, at the Sprint Center in Kansas City.
In its ninth year, the award and has recognized a total of 691 conference student-athletes. The award is in memory of Lage, who served as the Oklahoma State faculty athletics representative with the NCAA and the Big Eight/Big 12 Conference from 1983 until his death in 2007. He was the chairman on three occasions (1985-86, 93-94 and 2003 04).
In order to be eligible for the accolade, student-athletes must have lettered at least once in their career while maintaining residence at their institution for at least one academic year. The honoree, which can only be recognized once, should have 100 hours of earned credit with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.80 at the time of the nomination.


I'm here at Museums and the Web in Indianapolis. Seb Chan and I delivered the Planning for Social Media Workshop yesterday. The slides can be viewed on the M&W site later today. I've been summarizing this morning's session. Thanks to some killer jet lag I can't promise to be awake for the afternoon session. You can follow the twitter feed at #mw2009. If you would like to follow me (when I'm awake) or to comment on this blog post, it would be great to do so either here or on Twitter. I'm artech05.
It is imperative to make behind the scenes available to audiences before and after visits.
Exhibitions are curator's conceits. They are only one way of communicating museum programs.
Virtual solutions as simulacrum- do we become caught up in our own obsession with technology?
Could steve project change the language of art criticism?
Most of what we acquire in museums is accidental- donors etc.
How do we bring the organization along in the change?
How should we change our work practices? What are the key objectives?
Connect with other collections. Result of the recognition that relationships are part of the new agenda and core business of the museum.
What will benefit staff? How do you seduce them?
Thanks to Mia Ridge for chairing the session.


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Home > Book Collecting > What To Collect » Collecting Ephemera » Ephemera – What is It and Who Wants It?
Ephemera – What is It and Who Wants It?
Collecting Ephemera: materials that lend themselves to thematic collections include documents, letters, booklets, brochures, pamphlets, billheads, ledgers, scrapbooks, photographs, maps and a myriad of other items.
For decades those who write about or describe ephemera have attempted to come up with a simple definition, only to find themselves threading a maze of etymology and entomology. The word derives from the Greek hemera (day) and implies something that lasts for a day, the life of the mayfly often used as an example. Most efforts fall back on the definition put forth by Maurice Rickards, "the minor transient documents of everyday life." But even Rickards, whose Encyclopedia of Ephemera is the most frequently cited resource, nor the 40 or so experts who helped to complete the volume after his untimely death, have been happy with it.
The "everyday life" part of it is accurate. History books cannot record all of the influences on our social, economic, cultural, and other attitudes that affect aspects of daily living. The bits and pieces of advertising, memorabilia, record-keeping and other categories that constitute ephemera demonstrate how these attitudes have developed.
The term "paper" is often used to refer to ephemera, along with the phrase "printed matter." However, not all ephemera is on paper but can also include items on metal, wood, cloth, celluloid, plastic, and other materials. And not all is printed. Handwritten documents, phrases woven into ribbons or bookmarks, hand-drawn original art works, and painted animation cells will all also fall within some categories.
Some ephemera is far from transient. Some survives because of its importance, some was produced to endure for at least a length of time, some was made be collected and saved, such as postcards, poster stamps, and Victorian trade cards.
Collectors fall into two groups: those who collect objects and those who collect based on subject.
Object categories would be things like matchbook covers, autographs, postcards, poster stamps, valentines, sheet music, bookmarks, crate labels, cigar bands, cigarette cards and so forth. These categories can, of course, be further broken down into more specific interests, such as 18th Century sheet music, sewing trade cards, Christmas greeting cards, Route 66 postcards, fish house menus, Presidential autographs, and the like.
Subject, or thematic collecting, goes much further and can test the intellectual resources of the dealer to determine where items can fit into a collection. Subject collections are often for the purpose of archiving the history of a particular event or period in history, fashions of various eras, development of a particular river's resources, military history, and thousands of other interests. These collections often start with a personal interest or passion for a subject and evolve to include anything pertaining to it. Such collectors are usually more than willing to help educate a dealer who is interested in finding material for them.
The kinds of materials that lend themselves to thematic collections include documents, letters, booklets, brochures, pamphlets, billheads, ledgers, scrapbooks, photographs, maps and a myriad of other items.
Many subject collections are begun, or donated to and continued, by institutions such as museums, libraries, and universities. They can also be a source of customers for those who are willing to advise themselves on the needs and the focus of such collections.
References: For the most part, the most current and useful references are those that are devoted to a single topic. There are volumes on collecting menus, greeting cards, post cards, transportation ephemera, sheet music, valentines, trade cards, posters, maps, trade catalogs, advertising, magazines, stereo view cards, and many other subjects. Some are price guides which, as always, need to be reviewed with caution although they can indicate a range of values for various items. (These also can change over time.)
As one dealer recently commented, ephemera can't make you rich but the rewards are tremendous if you are passionate about it. (In fact, there are some things that can sell for a great deal of money, but you have to have money to invest in them to start with.) One of the great values is that you can learn something new every day.
What To Collect
Care and Preservation of Books
Collecting Dr. Seuss Books and Ephemera
What is a professional bookseller, and how do I become one?
Little Golden Books - Collection and First Edition Identification
Children's Literature by Writers and Educators of the Harlem Renaissance
Related resources for book collectors
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Which caught my eye because of my instant reaction which was: I'm not clicking through to that. Fifty is way too many books to consider.
Then I clicked through, but only so I could write this post. The fast TOO BIG reaction is more interesting to me than the list.
Also, fifty is too small a list! That's my second reaction, following a split second behind the first. EVERY SINGLE YOUNG ADULT NOVEL is a coming-of-age story. Isn't it? Isn't that practically the definition of a YA novel? No matter what else is going on, the protagonist(s) and probably various secondary characters move inextricably from childhood into adulthood. That's got to be true of 99.9% of everything published as YA in the last 20 years!
On top of that, if the pacing is too slow or the book is too long or for any other reason under the sun, you may publish your specific book as adult, but often it is still a coming-of-age story, so we wind up with what, a twentieth? a tenth? of all adult fiction also falling into the coming-of-age category.
And you're going to cut the list down to fifty? What a pointless exercise.
Also, if you do click through and glance at the top ten or so titles in this list, you'll see they're all contemporary YA. So why not say the top fifty great contemporary YA books? That would help readers decide whether the list is really something they might be interested in or not.
…. Can't quite see myself reaching for that one, no. But it's still more-or-less contemporary YA, I guess.
Wow, that must have been a challenge to write. On the other hand, nothing in this description suggests that it's a coming-of-age story, so if the Book Riot author of this post — Dana Lee — decided to include it, she might have written a description that more clearly suggested a coming-of-age theme.
Well, well, that is beside the point, which is about the number 50. Which is very nearly as bad as the number 100.
Who can decide what to put on a list of the 50 best fantasy novels of all time, or the 100 best historical romances of all time? When I consider questions like that, what I get is FIELD TOO LARGE, both for the list and for the category.
And even after someone goes to that much trouble, who can dredge up enough time and interest to make it to the bottom of the list?
a) Specificity. The ten YA novels I have loved most this decade, say. The ten novels I remember best from my early teen years. The ten fantasy novels that might have most influenced my own writing. Like that.
b) Brevity. Ten is ample. I grant, five feels like I'm getting shortchanged, and seven feels like a cop-out. If you're going to hit seven or eight, you might as well head for ten. Nice round number. Ten is good. Twelve if you can't bring yourself to stop at ten. Fifteen is about as long as any list ever needs to be.
What do you think? Do lists of fifty or more titles act as click-repellent for you?
Fifty is way too long for a list of books. Ten is perfect. I won't read all ten, but I'll see one or two I may pick up. With fifty, the search costs are too high, and the fact that the list went to fifty makes me think the list creator isn't all that confident in their top ten. Fifty is what you come up with when you're throwing everything and the kitchen sink in, and I have zero confidence in the ordering past number one.
Sometimes I enjoy scrolling through long lists of books to see how many I have read, if the list focuses on books I've likely to have heard of, if not read (such as favourite/well-known books or a genre I've read a lot of). But if I'm looking for recommendations, then shorter and more heavily curated lists are much more useful. Longer lists, as you say, have too many books to consider.
And now I am going to go away and think about whether YA = coming-of-age. I had thought that YA could be about the experience of being a teenager without being coming-of-age, but maybe it's just that it's a more prominent theme in some books than others.
Herenya, I'll be interested in what you come up with. It was agent Kristen Nelson who gave that definition of YA and it immediately seemed right to me. Nelson separated YA from MG on this one element, I believe.
But out of the thousands and thousands of YA titles, I expect a few don't have a coming-of-age theme. OTOH, I can't offhand think of any that don't, whereas it's easy to think of fiction titles that are listed as "adult" but have quite central coming-of-age character arcs.
If it's something where I know the books, long lists are ok, but I'm not reading more than 10 blurbs for unknown books/authors unless that list is really specific to my tastes.


On Oct. 10, the U.S. Senate approved the America's Water Infrastructure Act, a waterways infrastructure bill that requires reauthorization every two years, with a bipartisan 99-1 vote. The House passed the bill earlier this year, and the president is expected to sign it into law this week. The legislation authorizes at least $9 billion for critical water infrastructure projects across America, including flood protection and drinking water improvement projects.
Earlier this year, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., stated his intention to enact infrastructure overhaul through passage of five or six individual bills. ABC continues to advocate for policies to revitalize America's infrastructure, and the passage of the water infrastructure bill, along with the passage and signing into law of the "FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018," which contributes to Congress's efforts to provide much-needed infrastructure reforms and funding.


Corruption in high places is hardly a new story in this country, yet Donald Trump seems determined to take corruption to a new level. He of course is setting the path himself, refusing to follow a longstanding precedent whereby presidents put their assets in a blind trust so that they are not in a position to profit personally from their policies. Trump has done the opposite, evidenced by including his business partners (i.e. his kids) in important meetings with foreign officials.
Not surprisingly, the lack of concern for ethics in his own dealings has spilled over into his picks for top administration positions. While his cabinet is filled with the incredibly rich who, thanks to Trump's proposed tax breaks, will be newly incentivized to steal, there are two individuals who stand out: Steven Mnuchin, Trump's pick for Treasury secretary, and Andrew Puzder, Trump's choice for Labor secretary.
These two nominees sat at the top of major corporations that had large scale violations of the law. They may not have known of the illegalities, but frankly as CEOs, they have the responsibility to ensure that their companies are following the law. Furthermore, if both are approved, they will be in a position where they are responsible for enforcing the laws that their own companies violated.
In Mnuchin's case, OneWest Bank, which he cofounded and ran, had a practice of rushing evictions to foreclose on underwater homeowners following the collapse of the housing bubble. An article in The Intercept by David Dayen reports on a memo from the California attorney general's office detailing the banks abuses. The article details a variety of dubious and illegal practices the bank pursued to dispossess homeowners.
In the former category, it mentions an instance where OneWest Bank pursued a foreclosure over a 27 cent payment shortfall. In the latter case, the memo documents backdated mortgage contracts. In several cases, the date listed was prior to date when OneWest Bank came into existence. This sort of backdating would be a clear case of fraud. The attorney general's staff recommended a civil case against the bank, which Attorney General Kamala Harris (now Sen. Kamala Harris) chose not to pursue. As Treasury secretary, Mnuchin will be overseeing a department that has substantial supervisory responsibilities over the banking system.
Puzder's run-in with the law is perhaps somewhat less egregious than Mnunchin's, but also involves violating laws that he will be expected to enforce if approved for his position. Pudzer runs CKE Restaurants, which is the parent company for both Hardee's and Carl's Jr. Burger chain. According to the Huffington Post, Hardee's was forced to pay $58,000 in back pay to workers who were not paid overtime wages that were owed. There were also a number of instances in which franchisees of the companies were required to give back pay to workers who had been denied overtime they were owed.
One of the responsibilities of the Labor Department is enforcing wage and hour laws, which includes making sure that employers make required payments. While it is usually good to have a person as Labor secretary who has familiarity with these laws, being the target of an enforcement action is not the best sort of familiarity. It raises the obvious question of whether Puzder is likely to take seriously his responsibilities to protect workers or whether he will have more sympathy with the employers seeking to evade the law, possibly including his former colleagues.
These are the sort of conflicts of interest and questionable practices that would ordinarily be drawing considerable attention in the media as Donald Trump prepares for his inauguration. Unfortunately they have been largely ignored as issues like Republican plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act and gutting the Office of Congressional Ethics have occupied center stage. While these other issues are certainly important, they should not distract enough attention to allow Trump to install cabinet members whose conflicts of interest and past practices make them unqualified for their positions.
But the conflicts and questionable practices by his cabinet picks pale in comparison with Trump's plan to maintain his business empire even as he assumes the presidency. It speaks to the incredible degradation of ethical standards that this could be tolerated. Every president in the last half century, of both parties, has put their assets in a blind trust upon assuming the office.
If Donald Trump is not prepared to divest his empire, then he shouldn't have run for president. It is that simple. (It's also not hard for Trump to avoid conflicts of interests, even with his far-flung business interests.) If Congress allows Trump as president to flagrantly violate longstanding ethical standards, then we certainly can't expect anything better from cabinet nominees like Mnuchin and Puzder.
Proponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership seem to believe that they really just face a marketing problem.
As President, Will Donald Trump and His Cabinet Trade Inside Information?
Has Donald Trump given the public any reason to believe that he will resist the temptation to profit from his position as president?
Will Trump pursue a trade agenda that will increase manufacturing jobs, or one that will further enrich corporate America?


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Q: how can i change Xunit option in hudson/jenkins i Use jenkins with Xunit publisher plugin.

my problem is that jenkins take just a new report (he have a interval to know if the report is new or old one ) , so when i build ,and i need to say that i generate report with line commande so is not really syncronised .
so i want to configure the plugin to have the possibility to set up the time ( like say to jenkins take all report 15min older).

thnks for you answer

A: If I understand you correctly, the reports are sometimes generated after the publishing step.
If you do not want to adapt the build process itself (e.g. generate the reports with the maven surefire-plugin or similar), you can define the report generation as a pre-build-step by calling a separate script or a goal/phase.
EDIT: if reports are found, but are stale, try what happens, if you run the clean target as the first step? Are the reports found? the error message sounds like if the tests were actually stale.
As to the not found file - Try an absolute path once to clarify the presence of the file. If everything runs smoothly, the problem lies in the assumption of the execution directory for the relative path.


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Q: "missing right parenthesis" error in oracle db I want to query the last x minutes of data from a table called V_DISPOSITIVO
I have the following query (for example, x= 10 minutes):
SELECT FECHA
  FROM V_DISPOSITIVO
 WHERE FECHA > (select FECHA  - interval '10' minute
                  from V_DISPOSITIVO
                 where (rownum = 1)
              order by FECHA desc)

It fails, but the output doesn't give me the exact cause it fails. It just says

Error code 907, SQL state 42000: ORA-00907: missing right parenthesis

What am I doing wrong?

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I need the date of the last row saved (it could be 2 years ago), and then substract x minutes from that.

There is no such thing as the "last" row in a relational database. If you mean the "latest" value in a date or timestamp column, simply use max() and substract the 10 minutes:
SELECT fecha
FROM v_dispositivo
WHERE fecha > (SELECT max(FECHA)  - interval '10' minute
               FROM v_dispositivo);

A: I assume "fecha" is a a datetime column. If so, try the following instead
SELECT FECHA
FROM V_DISPOSITIVO
WHERE FECHA > sysdate - 10/(60*24)

or
WHERE FECHA > sysdate - interval '10' minute

A: You can do it in a single query using an analytic function (and eliminating the sub-query):
SELECT FECHA
FROM   (
  SELECT FECHA,
         MAX( FECHA ) OVER () AS MAX_FECHA
  FROM   V_DISPOSITIVO
)
WHERE  FECHA > MAX_FECHA - INTERVAL '10' MINUTE;