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Love posting funny photos and memes online? New rules may change what you can share
By Kim Komando, Komando.com
Facebook has been getting its fair share of criticism over the last couple of years. The social media platform has become known for its issues with scammers, data tracking, stolen content and fake news posts.
Add that to privacy issues Facebook has had over the years and it's easy to justify breaking up with the social media platform. But many of us use the site to post content or to keep in touch with old friends or family members — which can make breaking up hard to do.
To address some of these issues, Facebook has been rolling out new tools recently to help cut down on them. Another new tool was made available this week, and you need to know what it is if you post photos to your page on a regular basis. Let's take a look.
Facebook aims to stop copyright infringement
Ever worry about your photos getting stolen off of your Facebook page? Well, Facebook's new tool is going to help ease that concern.
The Rights Manager tool was rolled out Monday as part of an update to its rights management platform, and the purpose is to let creators and publishers dictate where their images end up. This tool is similar to what Facebook rolled out back in 2016 to help cut down on stolen videos.
Here's how it works. Image owners who want to keep their photos out of the hands of other parties can provide Facebook with a copy of the images along with a CSV file that contains image metadata. The images are then uploaded to a reference library along with any information on when or where the copyright applies.
The Rights Manager uses this information to monitor Facebook and Instagram for matches. When an unauthorized post is made using the image, the owner can opt to monitor the post with the image, have the entire post taken down, or attribute credit to themselves via an ownership link.
There is also the option to use a territorial block, which lets the post stay live in territories where the copyright doesn't apply.
If the other party also tries to claim ownership of the image, Facebook has a dispute process in place to help resolve the issue. If it can't be resolved between the two involved parties, Facebook will yield it to whoever filed first.
The image owner doesn't have to make public posts with the images on Facebook or Instagram for this tool to work. Any images that are uploaded to the reference library are fair game, even if they don't appear on the user's Facebook or Instagram account.
Related: Facebook makes it easier to take back your photos
But while this tool could keep unauthorized users from profiting off of someone else's work, it could also have a significant impact on the way content is shared on Facebook and Instagram. There's a chance the original creator could get unfairly boxed out of the copyright on an image if they aren't the first to claim the image via Rights Manager.
It could also affect memes being passed around on both platforms. Facebook's blog post on the tool doesn't address the potential issues that could occur with that kind of content, so it will be interesting to see how it plays out over time.
How to protect your images even without Facebook's help
Want to use this tool to protect your images? Well, you're out of luck for now. The use of this tool is currently limited to creators and publishers Facebook has selected. According to Facebook, the goal is to eventually offer the use of this tool to everyone who uses Facebook or Instagram. It's unclear when that will happen, though.
You can still protect your images from being used now — even if access to the Rights Manager is limited. To do this:
Change the privacy settings on your albums. This is one of the easiest ways to prevent unauthorized use of your images because it blocks access to your images completely.
Are you a professional photographer? Opt to use another website instead. Facebook can be helpful for promoting your business, but until it offers the tool for widespread use, you're probably better off showcasing your work on another platform.
Don't upload high res photos. If your photos are low resolution, you lessen the risk of someone using them. They'll be too grainy or poor quality for commercial use if the resolution is low.
Hit the report button. If your image is being used without permission, report the problem to Facebook. It's simple to report, here's how:
Find the Facebook post you want to report and click on the three dots in the upper right corner.
Select "Find support or report post." Follow the on-screen instructions to file the report.
While beefing up copyright protections is a step in the right direction, Facebook is still a mess when it comes to privacy and security. Your best bet is to get off the platform once and for all. But if you must stay, take steps to protect yourself. Tap or click here for 10 must-change Facebook settings.


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Ambassador Jaeger Visits Texas
May 8-9 Ambassador Jaeger visited two Liechtenstein companies that have their North American Headquarters based in Texas, namely Hilti, a maker of drilling and fastening tools for the construction industry, and RiceTec, a producer of hybrid rice seed.
Ambassador Kurt Jaeger with Hilti President and CEO for North America Avi Kahn.
Ambassador Jaeger's visit started off in Plano, outside of Dallas, where Hilti has its Northern American headquarters. He met with President and CEO Avi Kahn where he was given a tour of their facilities. Hilti continues to aim to maintain its market leadership in the manufacturing and supplying of quality, innovative and specialized tools and fastening technology. Ambassador Jaeger also visited Hilti's facility in nearby Irving where some of their product testing is done. As a product and service provider, Hilti offers a wholistic approach for build projects - from software to design, products and tools for work onsite to training, repairs, testing and consultancy.
Ambassador Kurt Jaeger, joined by RiceTec CEO Mike Gumina (far right) and Field Manager Cody Corbell, visit a farm developing hy
Ambassador Jaeger travelled further to Alvin, outside of Houston, where RiceTec is located. There he met with CEO Mike Gumina and was given a tour of RiceTec's offices, research facilities and green houses where hybrid rice seed is developed. Later he was given a production overview where he visited farms where the rice is being grown.
RiceTec is the first company to commercialize GMO-free hybrid rice seed in North America. RiceTec products are planted in over 50% of the total rice acres in the US (over one million acres). Their rice seed is developed to produce higher yields, resist disease and allow for sustainable development. A significant part of RiceTec's worldwide R&D is located in Alvin.

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Freedom not in question, only site
Published 12:00 am Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Nearly nine years ago our nation came together as one, bonded instantly in grief and horror by deadly terrorist attacks on our home soil.
The 9/11 attacks scared all of us to the core, but quickly that fear turned to anger then a steely resolve to defeat the evil set upon destroying our nation.
Several sites were attacked that day with the World Trade Center being the bloodiest location and the place which burned some of the worst images into our collective mind as the twin towers burned, then crumbled, killing thousands.
Fundamental Islamic terrorists claimed credit for the attacks, and we've been at war with them ever since.
Today, just 600 feet from the site of Ground Zero, plans for a new Islamic mosque and civic center have sparked great controversy.
Supporters suggest the mosque issue is an important test of America's true resolve when it comes to freedom of religion.
Perhaps it is.
But perhaps letting our principles get in the way of our common sense is allowing our enemies to make fools out of us. The plan essentially allows a group that shares religious beliefs with the 9/11 terrorists to build a monument in the shadow of the site.
Just like the white citizens who in the 1950s and 1960s sat silent as racist organizations terrorized members of the black community the good, non-violent followers of Islam are doing the same today.
They're sitting by and allowing — in some cases even aiding — Islamic terrorists to ruin the name and reputation of their religion.
While legally, perhaps, the mosque has cleared all its hurdles, morally it should not be built that close to Ground Zero. Doing so is slap in the face to all of the men and women who died on 9/11, and the days since, fighting the evil enemies intent on killing more of us.
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We had a last-minute booking recently, to help a school which was doing a whole week of music-related activities. It seemed like exactly the right thing for us to do, to help promote live music.
Only four out of the six of us were able to be involved, so arranging some of the music for a quartet was required. We knew that this was going to be a half-hour-long gig, and that the audience would include children from age 4 or 5 up to 11 years old, so it was going to have to be a varied programme full of short pieces, to allow for possible limited attention span in the younger members of the audience.
The children in our audience were wonderful! They were very well-behaved, sat still and listened with all their ears, and joined in where we needed them. The piece by Rathgeber has places in the music where one has to shout ''Ha Ha'', or whistle twice, or stamp feet twice, and they obliged very enthusiastically, being directed as to which was required, and when, by Liz, who held up signs for them.
I think it's fair to say that we would welcome the chance to do this sort of thing again, for other schools, not necessarily as part of a special week of music. Please contact Ally at ally@pipinghot.org.uk if you would like us to visit your school!


The YayPay Story: Here's to All the Revenue Heroes!
Anthony Venus, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of YayPay, has owned some fast-growing businesses with an even faster growing list of outstanding receivables. Here's Anthony's story on how YayPay started.
At my previous business, our sales and marketing team had all the great CRM and automation systems. The finance team had an ERP system that was good for record keeping. They also used a CRM that was not integrated to financial data. Yet, most of all, they used a lot of spreadsheets…and more spreadsheets. We wanted to find a better way to manage AR and stay on top of collections.
Our credit and collections team was very important to the business. After making a sale to a customer and issuing an invoice, the collections team was the next important touch point of customer service. In the ideal world, the front office and the back office should be completely linked through interactions with the customer.
More sales meant our credit and collections team was drowning in work. The workload and stress from trying to track down and speed up payments was taking a toll. Unless they were robots, how could they keep up with hundreds and later, thousands of bills to collect? Our growth stalled because not enough cash was coming through the door. After all, cash flow is the lifeblood of any business.
We needed innovation in collections management.
Taking up the challenge, in 2015, I co-founded YayPay to make collecting money fast, easy and highly predictable. Eugene Vyborov joined and became co-founder and chief technology officer. Our founding team committed to create a way to automate the entire collections management process. We started experimenting with workflows, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
YayPay's product launched in January 2017. We have since helped collect hundreds of millions of dollars. Our customers report 3x human efficiency gains. Collectors are able to handle more invoices that ever before through powerful automation. After using YayPay our customer's payment speed has increased on average by 34%.
Our history continues to be rewritten by creating cutting-edge collections technology. We have shareholders such as the venture capital arm of one of America's largest banks, Fifth Third Bank. YayPay's commitment to our mission of "making collecting money fast, easy and highly predictable" remains constant.
We raise a salute to the unsung heroes of finance and customer service – America's credit and collections teams.
You are the revenue heroes!
You are the reason we exist. You are our why. With your feedback and support, we commit to create for you the best collections management software on the planet.
We won't stop creating and won't rest until we make your important job an easier one.
Hi everyone. I'm a Fintech entrepreneur. As YayPay's CEO, I spend time listening to customers, strategizing where we go next and leading our executive team. Previously, I was the Co-founder and CEO of companies such as Meridian Equity Partners (a licensed financial firm); Marketshare, a market-research firm acquired by Harris Interactive (AC Nielsen) where I also served as President, Asia Pacific; and Strategic Intelligence, an online publishing firm. I obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the University of Queensland.
I've visited 75 countries (and counting), and lived and worked on five continents. I'm based in New York City, and over the years have also lived in San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Brisbane and Accra. I got married last year (at a youthful age "aka it's just a number" of 44!) to Francisco Ortiz Sanz in Granada, Spain. My favorite place on earth is Venice, Italy, in winter, with its quiet and chilly streets, almost absent of tourists and full of local charm and wonder.
I'm looking forward to meeting you and hearing all about the challenges and triumphs you face in AR and cash collection, and any ideas that you have for YayPay to improve. Please reach out anytime!
I am a performance-oriented engineering executive specializing in building enterprise applications for the financial industry; my goal at YayPay is to help companies work through accounts receivable issues that exist for every business. I am responsible for YayPay's product delivery, talent acquisition, strategic technology vision, and core product architecture.
Previously, I founded and built two technology businesses, A2A and WebiNerds, and was Lead Technical Associate at TechStars Boston in 2016. I have a master's degree in Computer Science from Dnipro National University, Ukraine. My family is in Ukraine, including my parents, sister and two beautiful nieces.
I am passionate about aeroplanes, billiards, travelling, behavioural economics, and machine learning. My favourite places to visit include Amsterdam, Boston, and Lviv (Ukraine). I am enjoying our place in TIME because right now seems to be the best point in time for us to be alive. I'm amazed to see and participate in the development of the new technologies that are changing the way humans live every day.
I am passionate about solving problems and making the lives of people easier. I've always wanted "change in the world" and make a difference. Through creating products that make life easier, I feel that I've achieved that goal.
YayPay is different; We do not just automate jobs; we enrich them by enhancing the relationships AR departments have with their customers.We turn the AR department into a Customer Success department, helping each user bring joy to their customers and making them want to continue doing business with them.
I've spent my career working in commercial payments, getting to know my way around high- and low-value payment systems, the complexities of how businesses pay and get paid, and working with distributed teams spanning the globe. I'm a certified scrum professional and authored a patent on "System and method for collecting clearing information for implementing a global electronic funds transfer." I attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
I love helping to grow the product function within an organization, from the ground up, starting as the person rolling up their sleeves to get the job done and moving to a scaled organization where I still operate as a player and coach… I love brainstorming with teams to achieve the best possible outcome and inspiring them to be the best they can be.
I love time spent with the family outdoors or playing board games, especially Boggle, Yahtzee, and Scrabble. We love skiing and going on long hikes where we can eat a picnic lunch. I love the beach in winter to watch the ocean; the waves are ominous and it makes you realize you're a part of something much bigger than yourself. My kids and husband are the most important things in my life - and the time I spend with them fuels my soul. I LOVE ice cream and rainy days with a good book (and a fireplace if it's cold enough). Nature brings me peace.
Applies to the technology we use to solve problems, such as predictive automation, and also to the unique way we market YayPay, such as mARVin. We dare to be different and innovative; here's to the crazy ones!
YayPay exists for the customer and our partners. We know them by name and we want to be a part of their lives because customer and partner success defines our success.
The secret to most overnight successes is that the creators toiled through failures and eliminated problem after problem until all those problems were solved. We move fast. We weave our way through, adapt, and learn, and always ensure we cross the finish line. We roll up our sleeves and unapologetically do what is takes to get the job done. We spend each dollar as if it were our own.
We have an insatiable curiosity for seeking the truth. We are open and honest with each other. When we make a mistake, we own and fix it as fast as we can. We are not afraid to ask for help.
We hire people who ask questions and are hungry to learn. We achieve mastery of self through seeking out knowledge, training, coaching, practice, and feedback. We are diverse and inclusive of people from all walks of life. We offer continuous agile coaching and training for our engineers, continuous sales training for sales and marketing, and leadership and teamwork training at company off-site gatherings for everyone.
When we win, our community wins with us. We have pledged 1% of our equity to our customers and community.
YayPay is an automated accounts receivable solution that makes collecting money fast, easy, and highly predictable. We're a rapidly growing, venture-backed company at the forefront of automation and machine learning. Our leadership team has years of experience under their belts, and we've got some of the world's best FinTech and SaaS investors, including QED, and Birchmere. We load our hires up with a ton of early responsibility and provide everyone the ability to contribute to our success and rapid growth.
View current job openings now!
"YayPay streamlines bill collection with a mixture of automated and human powered collections."
"Yaypay helps you quickly collect payments from your customers, and it works like magic."
"Comprehensive analytics [with] the information to make decisions about working capital performance."
"YayPay [is] disrupting the AR department with machine learning"
Recognized with FinancesOnline.com's 2017 "Top 15 Best Accounting Software", "Great User Experience", and "Rising Star" awards.
Become a revenue hero today, and take the next step towards accounts receivable automation!


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Mozilla Firefox ends support for Amazon Fire TV, Echo Show
Mozilla Firefox browser has announced to end support for Amazon Fire TV and Echo Show devices from April 30. According to the company, the users will no longer be able to install the Mozilla Firefox app on FireTV And will not receive security updates, or be able to reinstall the app if they uninstall it starting on April 30.
"If you have Firefox set as your default browser on Echo Show, you will be redirected to Amazon Silk for web browsing starting April 30, 2021," the company said in an update.
According to Mozilla, the app will also be delisted from the Amazon Appstore, rendering it unable to be reinstalled if removed from a device. You can still browse the Mozilla Firefox web on your Fire TV and Echo Show by using Amazon Silk. Just say "Alexa, open Silk."
Mozilla launched Firefox on Fire TV just two weeks after Google announced it would pull down YouTube from all Amazon devices.
Mozilla first brought Firefox to Fire TV devices in December 2017. In July 2019, however, Google brought the YouTube app back to the Fire TV, giving users one less reason to use Firefox.
The Mozilla Firefox browser first came to Echo Show devices alongside Amazon's Silk browser with the introduction of Echo Show 10 in September 2018.
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City budget hole cut in half from last year, but still huge
City Hall now is purchasing red ink by the barrel rather than the barge-full, but at least the numbers are improving.
That's the news in the Annual Financial Analysis released by Mayor Rahm Emanuel this morning, which projects a preliminary city budget hole for 2013 of about half what it was at this time a year ago.
According to the analysis, the deficit in the year that begins Jan. 1 is the lowest it's been in five years. But it's still an eye-popping $369 million. And much of the improvement is due to a projected rise in city revenue, the first increase since 2008.
Here are the numbers.
From 2001 through 2007, the projected budget deficit for the next year generally ran about $100 million. Those figures dropped before the City Council passed a technically balanced budget late in each of those years.
But the numbers seriously turned south late in the decade, with the projected budget gap for 2011 — Mr. Emanuel's first budget — at $654.7 million.
Mr. Emanuel ended up closing all of that gap, and with the 2013 budget projected to have a hole of "only" $369 million, he says progress has been made.
"By making the tough but necessary choices in 2012, we are able to cut our budget gap in half in one year without using one-time fixes," Mr. Emanuel said in a statement. "But this will not be done in one year."
Mr. Emanuel's office specifically noted items such as improved debt collection, worth $31 million; wellness programs, at $20 million; nearly $200 million in various departmental cuts like reducing the number of police stations and shifting to a grid-based garbage collection system.
However, according to a chart distributed by the city late yesterday — the full analysis will not be released until sometime today — the city projects a nearly $200 million revenue increase in 2013 over the 2012 projection.
If that's accurate, about half of the cut in the projected $372 million budget hole was due to increased revenue. According to Laurence Msall at the Civic Federation, some of that is rising tax receipts from a reviving economy, and some is unspent money from this year that is being carried over to next.
It's unlikely that such carry-overs, known as salvage, will occur again, Mr. Msall said.
Whatever happens, the new analysis — part of an annual multiyear look at city finances ordered by the new mayor — shows the gap growing to $466 million in 2014 and $580 million in 2015 unless further "tough decisions" are made.
Translation: The pressure will remain on for pension reform.


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Making your vision a reality
Kathleen J. DuBois, M.A., CFRE
Kathleen founded Progressity, Inc. on October 5, 2001. After leading and championing the firm for more than 16 years she now serves on the senior management team of SHPE: Leading Hispanics in STEM.
Nonprofit & Business Leadership | Marketing Communications ⇨ Strategic Planning ⇨ Branding ⇨ Nonprofit Fundraising
Kathleen is a passionate and compassionate visionary, coach and change agent. She knows how to do the right things for her clients.
Kathleen's forte is working with nonprofit and corporate executives who have a big vision and need outside expertise to design a plan, build the team, develop the brand, raise the money and apply savvy project management strategies to create rapid forward movement. She is skilled at bringing people together around a common vision and mentoring individuals and teams to excel.
Clients have included the likes of the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Girl Scouts, The Greenbrier Resort and the global nonprofit, the Guardian Angels. She has guided the raising of more than $100 million for various organizations and has been a keynote speaker and trainer for hundreds of audiences. Her acumen, strategic thinking and creativity have guided transformational results for academic institutions, nonprofits, government agencies, economic development organizations and small businesses.
Prior to founding Progressity, Kathleen held leadership positions in Morgantown, West Virginia with the West Virginia University College of Engineering & Mineral Resources and the West Virginia University Foundation. She also served as chief advancement officer for the prestigious Ellis School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
As a member of the renowned John Maxwell Team, Kathleen is part of a global corps of executive coaches and trainers who have been certified by Maxwell to teach his materials and administer the 360 Leadership Assessment Tool. She has coached and advised executives and entrepreneurs from 12 countries.
Kathleen holds a graduate degree in Corporate and Organizational Communication. She is a certified trainer in nonprofit leadership, a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) and a graduate of two management leadership programs: Robert Morris College (Pittsburgh, PA) and Leadership West Virginia.
Kathleen is the author of Monday Motivation: 52 lessons for living the best year of your life. She resides in Washington, DC and loves the excitement of living in our Nation's Capital.
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My look at the intentional flooding of Pontiff Playground in Old Metairie during severe rain events.
This video was shot at my house in Old Metairie as the worst of the storm system passed through.
Widespread flooding across the Metro area after severe weather moved through. These pictures are from Old Metairie, with the exception of the first. That one is on Causeway Blvd.


London, England, July 30, 2018 – Navigator Holdings Ltd. ("Navigator") (NYSE: NVGS), the owner and operator of the world's largest fleet of handysize liquefied gas carriers, advises that its 2018 Annual Meeting (the "Meeting") will be held on September 12, 2018. The Meeting will be held at The Coral Beach and Tennis Club, Bermuda at 09:00 local time. The record date (the "Record Date") for voting at the Meeting, at which Board of Directors will be elected and to ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP as the Company's independent public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2018 is set to July 24, 2018. The notice, agenda and associated material will be distributed prior to the meeting.
The Company's Notice of the Meeting and Proxy Statement will be mailed on or about July 31, 2018 and will be furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") and available on the Commission's website at www.sec.gov. The Notice of the Meeting and Proxy Statement and the Company's 2017 Annual Report are also available on the Company's website at www.navigatorgas.com.
Navigator Holdings Ltd. is the owner and operator of the world's largest fleet of handysize liquefied gas carriers and a global leader in the seaborne transportation of petrochemical gases, such as ethylene and ethane, liquefied petroleum gas ("LPG") and ammonia. Navigator's fleet consists of 38 semi- or fully-refrigerated liquefied gas carriers, 14 of which are ethylene and ethane capable. The Company plays a vital role in the liquefied gas supply chain for energy companies, industrial consumers and commodity traders, with our sophisticated vessels providing an efficient and reliable 'floating pipeline' between the parties. We continue to build strong, long-term partnerships based on mutual trust, our depth of technical expertise and a modern versatile fleet.


Fantastic, easy recipes from the new BBC One series. Treat yourself to some of the amazing dishes on the show this week such as Philip's delicious Rosemary yorkshires or Dipa's Golden Bombay potatoes. If that doesn't tempt you, try Pippa's Artichoke and celeriac gratin or indulge in Katie's Crab custard tarts.
Finally, you can try your hand at the Apple Charlotte from the nail-biting elimination challenge. Britain's Best Home Cook is the ultimate collection of delicious, achievable recipes from Britain's most talented everyday home cooks - those who make great food for their family and friends day in, day out. This fully photographed official companion to the hit series features all the very best dishes from the show's contestants - the recipes that the judges Chris Bavin, Mary Berry and Dan Doherty consider wonderful home cooking - and step-by-step advice on achieving the same perfect results for classic dishes and the nation's favourite meals.
Alongside the show's brilliant recipes, award-winning food writer Jordan Bourke offers easy-to-follow and fuss-free good food that will bring new, tasty ideas to your kitchen table: quick suppers, great weekend lunches, healthy meals and flavoursome sides and veg dishes. Here you'll find recipes that define brilliant modern British home cooking, from the most sublime roast potatoes, an ingenious twist on roast chicken or irresistible yet utterly simple chocolate pudding.


The Smith & Wesson 78G is a CO2 powered, single shot, .22 caliber, pistol with a manual safety, gun blue finish, and brown plastic grip. These were styled after the Smith & Wesson Model 41 semi auto. They were manufactured between 1971 and 1980. This is a great CO2 air pistol in the original box, including owners manual and literature plus a vintage S&W .22 caliber pellet tin.
The metal retains better than 95% of the original finish, and the grips are in excellent condition.
It was recently cleaned, lubed, and resealed in our shop. Velocity tested at around 402 fps using lead pellets.


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Mike Bollert
A food advertisement several years ago stated "Give it to Mikey, he'll eat anything." A local saying could be, "Give it to Mikey, Mikey will do it." That would be Mike Bollert!
For some 40-plus years, Mike Bollert has demonstrated, with much success, his assets as a builder, not only in Norfolk County but in a wide geographical area within Ontario. He has always believed in the local community and this interest and knowledge has impacted the lives of many local people, both young and old. He could be found supporting several venues on the same day mixing with youth and their parents, many whom he had coached or mentored throughout his career.
Mike served as a leader in Junior Hockey as a coach, trainer and General Manager. He spent time as the General Manager of Operations with the Norfolk Rebels (Port Dover Sailors) most recently prior to his induction. Mike also worked in a similar capacity with Junior hockey teams in Simcoe for 22 years, Waterford for three years, and Hagersville for three years.
He was nominated in 2008 for an Ontario Volunteer Service Award and received a 40-year certificate for his years volunteering in hockey in Norfolk County.
Mike was also involved in creating two organizations that addressed under-serviced populations. The first was the South Coast Special Needs Kids group, which was formed to assist children with special needs. This group enabled children of all abilities to play sports including baseball, sledge hockey, basketball, bowling, and golf. Secondly, Mike loaned his organizational abilities to help start the girls' hockey program in Norfolk, known as the HERicanes.
For the 40 years leading up to his induction, Mike was one of the longest serving Board members for the Norfolk County Fair and Horse Show. His role of chair of the Grounds and Building committee has allowed him to recruit many sports teams to manage the off-site parking and gates at the Fair. This gesture in turn helped many teams raise much-needed funds for their organizations.


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John Cena Officially Returning to WWE on the June 27th RAW
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As soon as the severity of Cody Rhodes' injury was known and given the fact that surgery will be necessary, it was clear that WWE was going to need some top star power. Consider that gap filled (at least temporarily) as John Cena's WWE return has been officially announced for the June 27 episode of RAW from Laredo, Texas.
The June 27th RAW also happens to be the last episode before the Money in the Bank event, so it wouldn't be a shock to see Cena throw his name into the mix and jump right into the WWE Undisputed Universal Title picture. As for how long Cena may stick around, that remains to be seen, but it would be hard to imagine him not also taking part in the SummerSlam PPV and/or any of the big stadium events coming up.
Since we've already seen Cena take on Roman Reigns, it should be interesting to see who Cena is involved with during this run. Theory is a top candidate being Cena has teased confronting him via social media. Also, Seth Rollins amped things up after his attack on the already-injured Cody, so he's another top name that could be involved with Cena.
Officially, John Cena is coming back on June 27th to celebrate his 20-year anniversary with WWE, but one would guess that this will be more than a one-off appearance.
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#Steampunk Month: Anime Rewatch – Last Exile Eps 1-3
Posted on June 6, 2017 by otomo
Steampunk has been a concept that's cropped up in a lot of Anime, some of which I'll talk about more of this month — but Anime is a medium that's allowed retro-futurist tech to flourish in their concepts, as they don't have the same American need for "hard" science fiction or fantasy delineations, often making for really cool creative concepts.
Last Exile is one of those series, something I loved years ago, and so I started watching it again as we discuss Steampunk topics, as I recalled it being one of the closest anime to steampunk that we had.
The series is about a fantasy world Prester, and there's a couple nations Anatoray and Disith which are at war with each other. There's a guild that oversees the rules of airship combat — and it's got the oldschool chivalrous form of warfare where sides line up and fire at each other. The opening episode starts with a group breaking that chivalry and sending the world into turmoil.
It's got steampunk airships — which teeter between steam/dieselpunk in their operations. they have machine gun type weapons that soldiers are outfitted with, driven by steam pressure, shown off in the very first episode. It's got a lot of Napoleonic cultural themes to it as well. I love the different airship designs representing the different nations, it's very cool.
The art doesn't hold up all that well– these were early experiments in the transition to digital art in anime, and it shows in a lot of spots. Though I like the way the ship designs are and the characters look, there's points where it throws a viewer out.
The first couple episodes really show us that whole big-world scope concept, while introducing the main characters Klaus and Lavie — who are independent messengers who use their personal airship, more of a fighter-style one they call vanships, to deliver messages. We learn there's a guild and rating system for how dangerous the missions are, with pay accordingly.
They get thrust into this conflict that we see, and it's actually a pretty dry presentation of the battle from an impersonal perspective most of the time. I wasn't nearly as gripped in these episodes as I remember being with the series from a long time ago. Still, the world is intriguing enough to continue.
The third episode is where it gets interesting. We start off with a pod-race style set up, which is boring in and of itself until the twist, where we see a downed fighter pilot, a young girl, and a message that has to be delivered. Some crazy sci-fi enemy is chasing him down and our heroes accept responsibility to bring her to safety. It's just the opening volleys, but with great airship battles and fast pace, I'm excited to go through this series again.
A big focus overall so far on adventure and battling, with ordinary heroes who are taking on more than they can chew.
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A rare Mekong dolphin plays in the river at Kampi village in Kratie province. KT/Chor Sokunthea
The Ministry of Environment is currently considering putting Prek Kampi on a tentative list to send to UNESCO, to potentially become a Natural World Heritage Site.
Spokesman for the Ministry of Environment, Neth Pheaktra, said yesterday: "The ministry is studying the site to prepare a report for UNESCO. Prek Kampi is home to the most dolphins in Cambodia, and in 2017 we had 92 in total."
Pheaktra also said the ministry is working hard to study more of the site, to create a detailed report to submit to UNESCO.
He said: "If the request is accepted, Cambodia will have a new heritage tourist site which will boost the country's tourism industry."
"The dolphins are very rare and are on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) red list," he added.
He also stated the importance of Lbak Khoan, as it is where many freshwater dolphins live.
"The dolphin conservation area, Lbak Khoan, on the border between Cambodia and Laos, is an important habitat for freshwater dolphins," he added.
According to the ministry's report on Irrawaddy dolphins, they are one of the 58 aquatic species that is protected under a government sub-decree of August 12, 2009.
According to the summary report, between 2015 and 2017, 12 new dolphins were discovered, making the total 92 in 2017.
The report says the conservation of Mekong dolphins remains a major challenge as there are many threats, including fishing nets in their habitats, the use of dams, and the impact of hydroelectric dams on the upstream areas.
It says a total of 72 guards are permanently stationed at 16 checkpoints, 11 of which are located along the Mekong River in Kratie province and five on the Mekong River in Stung Treng province.
The Fisheries Administration is working with WWF to determine the current population of dolphins in the area, which they expect to have decreased since 2017.
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Panama Canal woes threaten U.S. ports
By	Capt. Max Hardberger on	 January 21, 2014
International shipping is by definition international. But no greater reminder exists today than the looming brouhaha over the Panama Canal expansion. If financial difficulties derail the project, the tidal wave of adverse economic effects could stretch 2,000 miles to ports on the U.S. Gulf and East coasts.
U.S. port planners have beat the drums for years pushing for expansion and improvements to handle an expected influx of ships too large for the present Panama Canal that now call at U.S. West Coast ports. But Reuters has reported that the Spanish-led consortium building the canal, Grupo Unidos por El Canal (GUPC), is threatening to renege on its contract over a projected $1.6 billion cost overrun. GUPC and Panama are exchanging accusations, with GUPC claiming that Panama submitted flawed geologic data and Panama claiming that GUPC deliberately underbid the work. Regardless of how arbitrators ultimately rule, unless somebody comes up with a tidy $1.6 billion or more to finish the work a lot of U.S. politicians and businessmen may find themselves holding some expensive bags. The improved canal's 2014 opening has already been pushed back a year, and unless the financial issue is resolved, it could be delayed further.
At a glance, it seems that GUPC may have deliberately underbid the 2009 contract. At the end of 2008, the leading Spanish partner Sacyr was "grappling with falling core earnings (and) punished by (Spain's) weak construction and property markets," the Reuters article said. Sacyr was saddled with $19.7 billion in debt, about seven times its market value, and the company's shares had lost nearly 90 percent of its value from its peak in 2006. But then along came the Panama Canal contract, and Sacyr was back in business. However, unless the canal authorities were suborned (something not unheard of), they should have known there was something fishy with the GUPC bid — it was a whopping $1 billion under the next lowest bid.
Indeed, some Panamanian officials suspected as much at the time, according to Reuters. A WikiLeaks published a cable from the U.S, embassy in Panama to the U.S. State Department in Washington that quoted Panamanian vice president Juan Carlos Varela as saying, "When one of the bidders makes a bid that is a billion dollars below the next competitor, then something is seriously wrong."
Certainly there are few winners in this situation, and U.S. ports that rashly invested in improvements before the Panama Canal expansion was finished can only hope their investments will eventually see fruit. They may take heart from one beneficiary of the Panama Canal woes, the Hong Kong Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co. Ltd. HKNCDI signed a deal with Nicaragua four months ago to build a competing canal for $40 billion. According to an Oct. 31, 2013, article in The New American, HKNCDI claims that the Nicaragua canal could be finished as early as 2019, which may not be far behind the actual completion date of the Panama Canal improvements.
Whether the Nicaragua canal project fares better than the Panama Canal expansion remains to be seen, but HKNCDI is probably a straw-man for the Chinese government (most Chinese companies are) and, if so, the Chinese government can probably afford a few cost overruns.
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Fixing defense will be a complicated task for Eagles
By Nick Fierro
Fletcher Cox (91) is the only defensive player the Eagles have drafted since 2006 to make the Pro Bowl. Here, he goes against guard Kelechi Osemele (70) in January's Pro Bowl. (Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP)
Now that the Philadelphia Eagles appear well on their way toward featuring an offense to match their explosive special teams, the last championship obstacle of assembling the proper defense will be infinitely more complicated to achieve.
Not only have they been consistently unable to identify defensive talent, having drafted just two Pro Bowl players over the past 14 years, but have most recently created an environment in which players who were productive in other systems (Eric Rowe, Connor Barwin, Mychal Kendricks) no longer fit.
As it stands, they are charged with replacing five defensive starters: defensive end Barwin, defensive tackle Bennie Logan, cornerbacks Nolan Carroll and Leodis McKelvin and linebacker Kendricks, who technically is still on the team but on his way out.
But that's only the starting point. They need a better pass rush, more linebacking depth and almost certainly an adjustment from defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz, who obviously wields more power over defensive personnel than anyone else in the vaguely defined "collaborative process" they have going on now.
Schwartz came in from the outside last year and took roughly 90 seconds to determine that Rowe, who showed promise as a rookie and last month won a Super Bowl as a starter for the Patriots, couldn't cut it here anymore and that McKelvin could. Same judgment, ostensibly, for Kendricks, who until 2016 had been enormously productive when healthy. His realignment of the base defense back to a 4-3 didn't get as much out of players like Fletcher Cox and Vinny Curry as the 3-4 they played the previous three seasons under the former regime. What's more, his reluctance to blitz put undue strain at times on a secondary that was overmatched.
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This is a lot to overcome, but it can be done with better evaluation and a system that can take advantage of what its players do best.
What the defense needs besides faster cornerbacks than it had last year is the right calls dialed up at the right times and a realistic expectation for how long the back end can cover if the front end is not making the quarterback uncomfortable.
With the offense it has in place now, it needs a bend-but-not-break philosophy as a general rule — at least until it can generate the kind of a consistent pass rush that allows more chances to be taken in coverage. This team is going to score lots of points.
So here's one suggested plan:
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• Call Scot McCloughan to see if he wants to stick it to his former team. Having just been fired by Washington, this former general manager would add another experienced set of eyes and a winning perspective to the upcoming draft process. McCloughan just may be the finest talent scout in the league today. But he also has some personal issues that allegedly led to his sudden and ill-timed departure from the Redskins on the opening day of NFL free agency. It was akin to a head coach being fired on the eve of a season opener.
McCloughan knows talent, especially on the defensive side. As a senior personnel executive with the Seattle Seahawks from 2010 through 2013, he had a big part in building a Super Bowl champion. The Redskins, who were a mess before his 2015 arrival as GM, had two straight winning seasons before his abrupt exit.
• Don't reach. Yeah, that's easier said than done. But with the Eagles, it's been the rule rather than the exception when it comes to defense. From Marcus Smith to Jaiquawn Jarrett to Trevor Laws, the list of high-round busts over the years indicates a fatal flaw that's followed them regardless of who's been in charge.
• Be patient. This is a process that will take at least one more offseason after this one. What they don't get this year, they should be able to get next. So long as they stick to their plan.
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• Coach them up. Especially Curry, the pivotal player in the process this year. How he went from 9.0 sacks in 2014 to 6.0 over the next two seasons is not easily explained.
"With him, he hasn't finished the quarterback as well as we would like him to, as well as he would like to, to be able to finish with getting those sacks," Schwartz said in his last press conference of the season. "But he's been consistently around the quarterback and he's affected the quarterback when he's in there. Vinny gives great effort. He's really a tough player. Sometimes he can be a bull in a china closet in a good way."
Getting more from fellow defensive end Marcus Smith would help too.
For the Eagles to improve defensively, it must truly be a collaborative effort. The personnel people have to do their jobs. But then so do the coaches.
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The last time they had both of those dynamics working at the same time, they went to the Super Bowl. They'll never get back until they can get that going again.
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Offering professional development to teachers has always been a challenge with most teachers having so little time available. So, with two goals in mind, Peninsula School District's Technical Services Department started offering online, asynchronous, professional development courses this year to both certificated staff and classified staff. Our primary goal was to offer fun, engaging, 21st century technology content – and that's where Kyte Learning comes in. Kyte's content serves this purpose well. The video modules are often under five minutes, so if staff want to achieve some learning before school, during their lunch, or even at a doctor's appointment, it's easy to do. Staff aren't going to forget where they left off because each video module watched has a green checkmark by it. So it is easy to begin a unit, part from it, and then return later exactly where you left off. I have noticed that teachers are online at 9 pm, Saturdays, and during their lunch periods; this asynchronous system offers a level of flexibility that truly benefits our staff.
Our second goal at Peninsula was to have staff use our LMS (Schoology) to complete these courses. That way staff get some experience working with our LMS which was introduced just last year.
Our first course was called Google 101 which was a 12 week course. As illustrated on the right, we wanted to keep each week at about two hours. So, most of Kyte's units fit nicely into a one week unit (a few weeks we combined two topics). Elementary, Middle, and High School staff signed up for this course.
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According to a post on Web MD, a study was conducted that suggested sitting in an upright position for many hours could lead to prolonged back pain.
The researchers studied the seating positions of 22 volunteers, using the "positional" magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This MRI machine enabled imaging while the volunteers were in different seated positions, i.e., slouched forward (as if hunched over a desk or playing a video game), an upright 90-degree angle and reclined at about 135-degrees (with the feet on the floor). The volunteers' spinal positioning while seated was then examined. The outcome of the study was that the 135-degree reclining position places less stress on the spine and may decrease the risk of back pain.
Researcher, Waseem Amir Bashir, MBChB, a clinical fellow in the department of radiology and diagnostic imaging at the University of Alberta Hospital in Canada stated in a news release: "A 135-degree body-thigh sitting posture was demonstrated to be the best biomechanical sitting position, as opposed to a 90-degree posture, which most people consider normal." Bashir continued, "Sitting in a sound anatomic position is essential, since the strain put on the spine and its associated ligaments over time can lead to pain, deformity and chronic illness." "This may be all that is necessary to prevent back pain, rather than trying to cure pain that has occurred over the long term due to bad postures," says Bashir.
This research study seems to be echoed by a survey that was done across the U.S.A.
According to a post in Medical Condition News, a nationwide survey was conducted in the U.S.A where 68% of the doctors surveyed said they were likely to recommend that their patients experiencing back pain sit in a reclined position to help alleviate the pain.
According to the survey, 80% of doctors recommend that their patients sit in a reclined position with their legs raised up high and their back slightly or completely reclined. Dr. David agreed that this position provided the appropriate lumbar support and pressure required to help relieve the pain experienced in the back muscles, more specifically those in the lumbar region – which is used for stability and is an important part of the body's core.
Another interesting outcome from the survey conducted was that 60% of the doctors surveyed each owned reclining furniture at home.
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Q: Is there a way to restart a GenServer with different configuration after a abnormal exit on Elixir? I started to learn Elixir a couple of days ago and I'm really liking it. Especially the idea of using a Supervisor processes as helpers to create fault-tolerant applications.
However, one scenario that I thought would be natural but I couldn't find any reference so far, is a way of restarting a child process (GenServer) with a different configuration upon a failure.
My use case is the following:
I have a process that grabs data from a Database and works with it to some extent. And the database connection is crucial for the process life.
I want to be able to use a different database connection (a backup database) if the process exits abnormally because it could not connect to/fetch data from the database a given N number of times (instead of unleashing hell and throwing notifications that the process is dead because of database connectivity)
Is it possible?
As far as I could see, the Supervisor simply restarts the process the same way every time. Maybe using a :simple_one_for_one strategy could suffice somehow, but I don't know exactly how.

A: AFAIK, this is not possible with a single option, because one needs to store a state of this process (default vs backup.)
That is relatively easy to implement the desired behavior, though.
First of all, make the supervisor load and maintain the connection pool, e. g. from the config file. Secondary, yes, it's easier to use :simple_one_for_one restart strategy. Important: make it explicitly trap the exits:
Process.flag :trap_exit, true

And, finally, when :EXIT signal is received, rotate the connection pool, make a cleanup and manually restart the underlying critical process with start_link, passing the currently head connection settings from the connection pool as the argument to it.

A hacky but faster solution would be to store the connection pool in DETS (or any other persistent storage,) read it on initialization and pass to the underlying child, immediately rotating and overriding the list in DETS. That way one might use :one_for_one or any other desired strategy. One should cleanup the storage on each supervisor restart to make the default connection setting to be on top at that moment. I would not recommend this approach.

Update: Apparently, just using long-running Task and handling :DOWN signal from it could suffice in your particular case.

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The position is located in Saskatoon and reports to the Owner/President of Suncorp Valuations. As a senior business partner, The VP, Human Resources establishes and supports human resource and organization development strategies that align with Suncorp's vision, mission, objectives and business goals. This role provides HR leadership and organization development expertise, direction, coaching and advice to Executive and Management teams, and HR support to mid and front line teams in all office locations.
Through collaborative efforts, the VP, develops, communicates and deploys a comprehensive Human Resource Business Plan, which assesses, determines and directs Suncorp's human resource policies, practices and procedures. This encompasses program and policy development and deployment, and the coordination of HR processes, including but not limited to, corporate communication, full-cycle recruitment, employee movement, engagement, coaching and training, management development, performance management, and compliance management. The incumbent works closely with the Chief Financial Officer in matters related to payroll, compensation and benefits.
A key focus of this role is to provide advice to the leadership group regarding HR policy & legislation, support managers dealing the employee issues, and develop and facilitate coaching and training programs to improve managerial capabilities.
to continuously learn and keep abreast of Canadian and USA employment, OHS, human rights legislation in order to provide accurate advice for a multi-jurisdictional organization. The ability and willingness to provide strategic, practical and tactical human resources support. You have a natural ability to quickly assess the landscape of an organization and to influence new ways of thinking or doing things.
Bachelor's degree in HR, or a BA in a related field or equivalent education and experience.
Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in a Human Resources.
Preferably five years' experience as a line/operations manager.
Understanding of HR governance/legislation, infrastructure, policy and program development.
Proven project management, change management and implementation planning experience.
Well versed with Employment and OHS legislation.
Experience reading and interpreting financial documents.
Excellent computer skills, including proficiency with MS Office.
INSPIRED LEADERSHIP requires high levels of emotional intelligence, self-awareness, personal agility, innovativeness and decisiveness.
STRATEGIC OUTLOOK & ALIGNMENT includes the ability to innovate, understanding of the company and the market, conceptual thinking and business acumen.
DRIVE FOR RESULTS & EFFICIENCY requires decisiveness, strength in people management, action & change management and analytical thinking.
MANAGING & DEVELOPING OTHERS involves the ability to prioritize, delegate, coach, develop and empower others, communicate openly, praise successes, constructively communicate developmental opportunities and manage conflict.
COLLABORATIVE WORKING RELATIONSHIPS depend on high individual accountability, consistent delivery on commitments, refined interpersonal skills, including open and transparent communication, and alignment around goals and deliverables.
JOB MASTERY & DEVELOPMENT is dependent on the achievement of technical expertise in one's chosen field and/or role and the establishment of credibility as a subject matter expert.
Along with the required credentials, you enjoy working with a group of professionals and excel at research and analysis. Although you are able to work independently, you enjoy leveraging the knowledge of coworkers to complete accurate assignments. You have no problem working in a small office while collaborating with stakeholders in other offices. You easily manage multiple projects and are naturally focussed on providing internal stakeholders and external clients with high levels of service. You enjoy a role that provides in-office work, client interaction and travel to perform on-site investigation of client assets.
On a personal note, you are interested in developing your career through participation in internal and external professional development and enjoy a role that provides a combination of office work and travel to client sites. Preference will be given to those that are a candidate member of the American Society of Appraisers.


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"PLEN was the start of my DC love story – a story that is still unfolding today. My first memory of riding the escalator up at the Capitol South metro stop and taking in my surroundings alongside my PLEN group was very moving. I remember looking at the young professionals around me, just going about their daily commute, and hoping I too would be there upon graduating. PLEN's seminar provides a full-picture scope of DC for the young women who attend, touching on all industries and interests within the public sector. I would highly recommend this program to any student as the PLEN experience served as the cornerstone of my professional life."
–Lindsey Santamaria, Membership Manager, National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) (PLEN alumna and speaker)
"During my daughter's Women in STEM Policy PLEN seminar, she experienced real world networking. These skills, that are often missed during a traditional undergraduate education, armed her with a new toolkit to reach her goals. Learning that it's a career jungle gym, not a linear career pathway, where one must take skills from each professional opportunity and apply it to the next, further empowered her and challenged her to take opportunities in a field still dominated by men."
-Dr. Helene Sheena, MD, FAAP (Parent of a PLEN alumna)
"As a graduate of a woman's college and someone who stumbled into a wonderful career in the policy world of Washington, D.C., PLEN's mission is near to my heart. The incredible students who attend PLEN are already learning to be leaders. When they come back from PLEN their excitement and ambition are actually contagious — they bring the energy of PLEN to campus so their experiences are multiplied. I give to PLEN because of these young women. PLEN has created the magic formula that attracts and supports women of all backgrounds and financial capacities. They are then given a chance to develop a vision of themselves as professionals who can work to change the world."
-Lynn Smith Fox, Former Senior Adviser, Federal Reserve Board (PLEN Advisory Council)
"I have been a PLEN presenter for almost thirty years. In 1998, when I joined the President's Interagency Council on Women at the State Department, I started speaking to PLEN students. In every job since then, I have had the pleasure of meeting amazing young women who are changing the world. Today, as the CEO of Girl Scouts Nation's Capital, I find that many of the issues college women bring up in our talks are also the questions young Girl Scouts want addressed. Congratulations PLEN for being a catalyst for change in women's lives, and thank you for providing a space where young women can explore the world and feel empowered and fulfilled."
–Lidia Soto-Harmon, CEO, Girl Scouts Nation's Capital (PLEN Mentor Award Honoree, speaker, and supporter)
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CHAPPY CHILL OUT - Tuesdays 2nd break in Chappy Space.
Please let any students know who would benefit from a quieter supervised space where meeting new friends is encouraged.
We have craft, puzzles, games and our forever amazing Mrs Harkins all set with some sewing activities too!
KRAVE CLUB - Wednesdays 2nd break in the Hall.
Alternate year levels - years 3, 4 and 5 this week. This is a crazy fun, active game space where working together as a team and including everyone is valued.
Year 6's are very welcome to join in as helpers anytime to both of the above groups.


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A Story of Subversion, a Story of Anticipation
Colloquium | January 30 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Speaker: Hallie Wells, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Sponsor: Center for African Studies
Slam—a performance poetry competition created in Chicago in the 1980s—has circulated around the world, but in Madagascar it has flourished in a context of a uniquely rich history of verbal arts that are thoroughly entwined with social and political life. As an artistic movement that emphasizes the co-production of authority between performer and audience, slam is part of a significant shift in Madagascar in conceptions of free expression and public discourse, in a postcolonial context of rapid urbanization and global mediatization.
This paper argues that the format of slam poetry emphasizes the role of the audience in the co-production of the event, and thus as integral to the process of constructing and performing authority. Slam reminds us that authority is always built from encounters between bodies, in addition to being supported by texts, infrastructure, and institutions, and focalizes this relation as a source of generative aesthetic and socio-political potential. In the context of Madagascar, whose verbal art traditions have fascinated scholars seeking to understand the link between aesthetics and sociopolitical processes, this emphasis on the role of the audience is not new. What is new is the notion, promoted through slam, that anyone could be or become an authoritative speaker, regardless of skill or social status. Through an analysis of two poetry performances—a story of subversion and a story of anticipation—this paper argues that the slam community is a key site in which Malagasy youth both critique and perform major societal shifts in understandings of authority and public discourse.
Hallie Wells is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at UC Berkeley and a current Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow. Her research is centered on the nexus of aesthetics, performance, and public speech, which her dissertation examines through the lens of slam poetry in Madagascar. She has won a number of awards for her fiction and poetry, including the Barnard College Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
Event contact: asc@berkeley.edu


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18.Sep.2010 at 18 | Shannon Holland
How The Movies Influence Male Fashion
When it comes to male fashion, although there many different cuts and styles when it comes to tailored suits and shirts, casual wear options have always been somewhat lacking, with most fashion shops choosing to focus on the female market over the male. The creation of the metrosexual way of life altered the face of men's fashion, meaning the past few decades have seen a change, which, granted, might not have given them the same options women have when it comes to clothes, but it helped close the gap.
The demographic of movie-goers has also changed with time, meaning Hollywood has had to catch up. In order to attract the most lucrative audience, many film makers took to making films that attracted males aged in their late teens to early twenties. Box office hits, such as The Dark Knight, Lord of the Rings, and Transformers, owe there success to the vast new echo-boomer generation, the second largest generation behind the baby-boomers. Many of these successful films create merchandise that help to promote the film, meaning fashion is directly influenced thanks to the creation of branded bags and t-shirts.
Equally, films directed in a more progressive and modern style, such as Kick Ass and Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, have benefited from Hollywood's changed demographic. It's these more progressive, very teenage orientated films that seem to be almost altering the style of male fashion in a very notable way.
The fur hooded parka sported by the lead character in the Scott Pilgrim film is one example of fashion falling under cinematic influences, as once the parka had been shown on screen, many high street shops began selling similar parka coats, declaring them once more in style. Similarly, the rest of the casts' unique scruffy, causal, "hipster" styles also began to bleed into the high street shops, and onto the designers' runways.
Occasionally people wonder whether a films styling has actually created fashion movements, or if the films styling simply reflected a fashion movements already occurring. More often then not, the film and the fashion worlds' progress at such similar speeds, detecting who pre-empted who is nigh on impossible task.
A great movie example would be the use leather jackets for men in 70s hit, Grease, which brought the leather jacket back out of wardrobes and put it back on backs all over the world.
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Do these "rules of thumb" work for the huygens chess piece? As far as I know this piece does not appear in any chess engines, but it could be a good exercise to test the robustness of any new code.
Thanks, that is an excellent idea. Although I've never added the Huygens, it should work and consider the entire board to be one slice, since the Huygens has no color-binding. It cannot move a single space directly, but since it can leap three forward, and then two back, it can effectively move a single space, and the recursive algorithm would find this.
A pawn placed on a1 cannot visit the whole board, only a little over half the board. So it considers that triangular-shaped half the first slice. (Nevermind that a pawn cannot even exist on a1, that's a whole 'nother problem.) Since this did not find the whole board, it detects the second slice by throwing a pawn on b1 - but this only finds 7 more squares! For slice three, throw a pawn on c1 and find 6 more squares ... Obviously, this is not at all what we want to happen. In fact, as far as the pawn goes, I'm not even sure what the theoretically correct answer is, although I'm quite sure this ain't it. A slight improvement would be to ignore the pawn's capture-only moves on the grounds that it might never have the opportunity to do that. This would leave each file as a separate slice. There is some logic to this. It might even be the correct answer to some questions. But, for purposes of making a material hash table, to detect draws by insufficient material and probably do other groovy stuff as well, I believe we want to consider all pawns to be identical (although I'm not 100% sure of that either...) So I guess the pawn just gets a special flag that tells the system to treat it as though it is not colorbound even though it really is.
The pawn also points out another potential problem with this algorithm. It begins by visiting the "first" space. This, for the pawn, was bad, but not truely terrible because it considered a1 to be the "first" space. But what if pawns went backwards instead of forwards? Now instead of considering the board to be split into 8 different slices, it would be split into 64 different slices! Clearly, for asymmetric pieces, the choice of which square to visit first is very important. I can see two potential ways to deal with this. First, we can look at how the piece moves and then be wicked smart about which square to visit first. This would be awesome, but I'm not sure how to determine this (it makes my head hurt, and, frankly, I'm just not that smart.) And I'm not 100% sure that there even is a best answer for all kinds of pieces. The other possible solution is to leave it as-is, with the addition that when we are doing our recursive analysis to detect a new slice, if we happen to stumble across a square that we have visited while discovering a previous slice, we now need to consider this new traversal to be part of that original slice. I think this approach is solid, although the algorithm is now becoming more complicated ... But, well, that's why this particular project fascinates me so much. The various interesting issues to ponder are practically never-ending.
One final random thought ... If a piece type has two meta-colors, you can NOT assume that it is equivalent to all other pieces with two meta-colors. Example: Alice Chess. In Alice Chess, both the Knight and the Bishop can see exactly 50% of the squares. But their color-bindings are NOT the same!


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Ai Weiwei, one of the world's most prominent artists and activists renowned for making strong aesthetic statements resonating with timely phenomena across today's geopolitical world, discusses his work and life with Tim Marlow, artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts, London. From architecture to installations, social media to documentaries, Ai uses a wide range of mediums as expressions of new ways for his audiences to examine society and its values. His public installation Good Fences Make Good Neighbors was exhibited throughout New York City in 2017. A landmark show at the Royal Academy, in 2015, was the first major survey of the artist's work, bridging over two decades of his extraordinary career.
Presented with the Royal Academy of Arts and the Center for the Humanities.


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assembled_jac_type csc ['csc', 'dense'] N/A Linear solver(s) in this group, if using an assembled jacobian, will use this type.
distributed False N/A N/A True if the component has variables that are distributed across multiple processes.
size 1 N/A ['int'] The size of the linear system.
vec_size 1 N/A ['int'] Number of linear systems to solve.
vectorize_A False N/A ['bool'] Set to True to vectorize the A matrix.
Note: Options can be passed as keyword arguments at initialization.
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You can solve multiple right hand sides by setting the "vec_size" argument, giving it the number of right hand sides. When you do this, the LinearSystemComp creates an input for "b" such that each row of b is solved independently.
To solve multiple linear systems, you just need to set the "vectorize_A" option or argument to True. The A matrix is now a 3-dimensional matrix where the first dimension is the number of linear systems to solve.


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Planning & Economic Development
Ford Site: A 21st Century Community
Zoning and Public Realm Master Plan
Ford Site Economic Impact
The Ford Site Master Plan, adopted by the Saint Paul City Council in 2017, is the culmination of a decade of planning for the site. It provides a framework to guide mixed-use redevelopment of the 122-acre main assembly plant parcel and the adjacent 13-acre rail yard. It does not include the 22-acre river parcel ("Area C").
The following text reflects the Ford Site Master Plan as adopted in 2017. For current versions of the Ford Site Master Plan, see Master Developer and Amendments.
Office, research and development, medical, custom manufacturing, and other light-industrial employment uses are envisioned for the redeveloped Ford Site. Providing a range of employment along with housing and services at the future site will ensure that the site provides good economic value for the City and residents. At full build-out, the site is expected to provide 1,500 jobs.
Employment and business recruitment efforts will focus on high-quality jobs that provide good salaries. The City's goal for the Ford Site is to have family-sustaining jobs secured by a diverse workforce, representative of the people who live throughout the neighborhood, City and metropolitan area.
The City of Saint Paul will support the future property owner in seeking strong employment uses for the site. Other partners that could assist in this effort are the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, GREATER MSP, the Saint Paul Port Authority, the Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Highland Business Association.
A financial analysis of the potential development estimates that annual tax revenues from the site could increase from $1.1 million today to $22.3 million when development is complete. This is a significant benefit for the City, the county and the school district. Taxes generated from the site will help reduce the tax burden of residents citywide.
Jobs Strategy Report (2016)
Market Analysis for the Ford Site (2015)
Green Manufacturing Potential for the Ford Site (2009)
Menaka Mohan
Ford Site Planner
menaka.mohan@ci.stpaul.mn.us
Hannah Burchill
hannah.burchill@ci.stpaul.mn.us
Community Engagement and Adoption
Redevelopment Principles
Project Studies
Citywide Plans
Snelling-Midway Redevelopment Site
Open Saint Paul
2040 Comprehensive Plan - Saint Paul For All
Ford Spur Study
Racial Equity Metrics
MSP TechHire
Development Opportunity Sites
6/24/19 - City of Saint Paul launches Housing and Redevelopment Authority (HRA) Property Map
6/19/19 - Saint Paul City Council approves 2040 Comprehensive Plan
6/10/19 - Saint Paul invites public comments on Environmental Scoping Document for Ford Site
4/23/19 - Housing and Redevelopment Authority to hold quarterly update on Housing Trust Fund
4/18/19 - City of Saint Paul launches Opportunity Zone website