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For WSU researcher Amanda Boyd, the goal is to identify risks and effectively communicate them to the population that is at risk. In Boyd's case, that population is the Inuit people of the Arctic Circle.Boyd is an assistant professor at WSU who studies risk communication and considers this question ever...
Illia Dunes open again
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The Illia Dunes re-opened Monday after closing early last week due to environmental and safety concerns, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.Volunteers from WSU's Center for Civic Engagement and ASWSU joined the Corps' Natural Resources Management staff Monday morning to clean the beach a...
Volunteers work for alternatives to violence
Evergreen reporter | Alysha Davis
A non-profit is holding a candle to violence on the Palouse.Alternative to Violence on the Palouse (ATVP) is a non-profit, confidential organization that works to provide advocacy and support for victims and survivors of crimes such as sexual assault, domestic abuse, child abuse and stalking. Voluntee...
A golden retriever helps researchers fight cancer
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A 3-year-old golden retriever named Matilda might hold clues to fighting cancer.Matilda, who lives in Pullman with her veterinarian owners, is one of 3,000 golden retrievers enrolled in a nationwide study that assesses risk factors for various types of cancer.The Golden Retriever Lifetime Study is be...
Peter Carey: Remembering the man who wanted to make you smile
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Peter Martin Carey was known for his colorful shirts, his caring smile, and the chocolates he regularly brought to work.Carey had worked in WSU's psychology department for about a month when he died on Aug. 23 due to a coronary blockage at his Pullman residence. He was 64."His energy and positiv...
Board of Regents give medical school go-ahead
Washington State University's Board of Regents made the decision to continue pushing for a medical school Thursday.Ron Sims, a member of the board, said, "I believe having a medical school will mean that at least during my lifetime, fairness, justice, and access to healthcare is determinant."Sims ...
Ombudsman works for gender equality in sports
BY STEFFEN STROUP | Evergreen reporter
Cathryn Claussen has always been passionate about equality for all, but when her father told her at a young age that women couldn't play in the NBA, she was stunned.From that point on, she wanted to prove that women were skilled enough to play on the same level as men. Now, with her newly created dis...
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The Board of Regents at WSU supported working to create a medical school in Spokane by a 100 percent vote.Investigating these options is currently the number one priority for the board.Ron Sims, a member of the board, observed the disparity in doctor distribution across the state."Nearly half of doc...
'My kind of place, my kind of people'
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WSU honored an alumni and nationally-renowned sports broadcaster Friday by renaming the Murrow West Communications Building to Jackson Hall.Recognized by his deep booming voice, Keith Jackson is the unofficial voice of college football.The ceremony outside the Murrow Buildings drew a large crowd of studen...
The science behind shootings
A WSU Spokane study on deadly force found that participants in a simulation took longer to fire a gun at black suspects than white or Hispanic suspects, even though they were more likely to feel threatened.Participants took an average of 1.61 seconds to fire against black suspects, compared to 1.37 seconds for whi...
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Pi Beta Phi's local chapter has returned this semester after four years of inactivity, and they are recruiting untraditionally.The sorority is returning with a new group of members after an unauthorized event forced it into unrecognition. In late 2011, Pi Beta Phi was sanctioned by WSU as the resul...
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Q: Do "caught" and "delivered" mean the same for a signal? Do "caught" and "delivered" mean the same for a signal?
In APUE, a signal is called delivered if it is started to be handled.
The book uses "caught" in many places.
I haven't found what it means by a signal being caught, compared to "generated", "sent", "pending" and "delivered".
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Kurt Colbeck Apr 22, 2016 Editorials 2 Comments
Sony are one of those Android manufacturers that sit in the background, but for the most part they lead by example when it comes to software.
Yesterday, we reported that Sony have taken to their official developer blog to announce the availability of Android 'N' developer preview for Z3 users to try out before its full release in the fall. Sony aren't strangers to offering stock Android on their popular devices, with their most recent efforts being put into the Concept ROM that is officially supported by their development team.
Sony Concept
Just in case you aren't aware of the Concept ROM, Sony's philosophy behind it is offering stock Android as the foundation. With some beloved Sony features such as their camera, added on top. The best thing is it gets updated every other day with fixes, features and anything highly requested in their Google+ community. The community has heavily involvement from Sony employees and moderated by many of them.
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If you follow Sony closely, you will also know that they released a stock Lollipop build for the Xperia Z3 back in November 2014. At the time, this news was huge for Sony fans and technology enthusiasts alike. Not least because almost all third-party Android manufacturers don't tend to deviate too far from their 'norm'. Which in this case is their own heavily modified skins.
Sony's motives behind offering stock versions of Android on their flagship devices is widely unknown, but it's safe to assume that they saw that many of their customers wanted the latest software as quick as they can get it.
Due to the usual complications with software updates, this becomes almost an impossibility with carriers and a plethora of testing that comes with it. Sony decided to go through the back channels and just build straight from AOSP, add Google Apps and let it roam free for anybody wanting to try the latest version of Android. Not only that, but Sony's own software is a close to stock, unadulterated version of Android with next to no bloatware (unless they bow to carriers).
Why are they leading by example?
Because the fundamental issue with all Android manufacturers nowadays is the speed of major software updates. Sure, the addition of mandatory monthly security updates forces the manufacturers to update their devices more frequently. However this doesn't actually fix the overall flaw the latest major release of Android that is provided by Google.
I skimmed over the subject slightly in the first section, but the main issue is to do with the rigorous testing process that goes into pushing a software update. It's not just a matter of getting the code from Google, working some magic and pushing the update the next day . Development time goes into making the radios reliable, camera modules optimised and an almost endless list of things you'd expect a phone to have.
So how can manufacturers keep consumers half-happy until the full version intended for public use is released? In my opinion others should lead by Sony's example. Give the user an option to use the latest version of Android in its purest form. Make the process fairly simple to do, and you're in a win-win situation.
The best thing that Sony did is make it a simple process to make that choice. If you can follow instructions you it is an easy process to actually install these versions of Android to try. Sony posted a very easy to follow guide on their blog.
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UFU swap welly boots for hiking boots to raise money for Air Ambulance NI
Ulster Farmers' Union staff are making their final preparations for the UFU centenary challenge walk on Monday, 4th June where they will be taking on five peaks, across six counties in one day. All to raise money for the charity Air Ambulance NI. The UFU has set an ambitious goal to raise £100,000 in its centenary year for this life-saving charity.
UFU president Ivor Ferguson says, "The staff have taken on an impressive challenge. Over the course of the day they will be walking 14 miles and climbing to a combined height of 4593 feet. To put it in perspective – it is the same length as 18 football pitches and more than 13 times the height of the Harland and Wolff shipbuilding cranes in Belfast."
UFU staff will be starting off at 7am on Slieve Gullion in county Armagh, then making their way to Cuilcagh in county Fermanagh, Sawel between the borders of counties Tyrone and Londonderry, Slemish in county Antrim and finish at Slieve Croob in Co Down at around 10pm.
The aim of the day is to raise money for the charity Air Ambulance NI, a service that the UFU sees as vital for rural dwellers. Mr Ferguson says, "The air ambulance gets help to hard to reach places fast. It is a crucial service for rural areas; already it has been call-outed to a number of farming incidents."
The Air Ambulance needs around £2.5 million pounds a year to keep it operational. One call-out to an emergency costs on average £5,500 pounds. "Staff have been busy training over the last number of weeks and their family and friends have shown support with donations. Many UFU members have already been generous in their support for the UFU Air Ambulance appeal but if you haven't made a donation yet, please get behind the staff and show your support for their fantastic effort," says the UFU president.
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Q: In R, how do I check whether a number of .txt data-files all have identical column names? screenshot of my Rstudio
I would love some help figuring out if the column names in 34 .txt files are identical. The columns should make up the first 69 values in the files. I'm very new to R, but have programmed before, so I would prefer a low-level solution that I can understand.
In addition, I haven't found a way to efficiently read in all of the files. This seems not to be necessary for the remainder of my code. But I can imagine it might be necessary for the above.
Finally, in the screenshot you will see that I have a list of all the .txt files (called all_files), I have one .txt file read in, and I created a list of the column names in that .txt files (called column_names).

The idea I came up with was the following:
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I think the problem here is that:
colnames(all_files[i]) doesn't work because:

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*the files are not read in

*all_files[i] returns a string with .txt at the end, but colnames() wants the file name without .txt

I hope this all makes some kind of sense. Thanks very much in advance.
Kind regards,
Boris Pinksterboer

A: You need to think carefully about the steps to perform to solve this problem.

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*read each file

*fetch the column names

*check them

You seem to be missing the first step.
There are multiple ways to accomplish this, I'm picking one that is likely well suited to your knowledge of R.

for( i in all_files ) {
  d <- read.table( all_files[i] )
  if( not(identical( colnames(d), column_names )) ) {
    cat( basename(all_files[i]), " does not have the right columns\n" )
  } else {
    cat( basename(all_files[i]), "OK!\n" )
  }
}

It will tell you in the terminal which file has the right columns and which has not.


WOW Gospel 2007 will feature the best of 2006, with hits from Donald Lawrence & Tri-City Singers, Smokie Norful, Kiki Sheard, Kelly Price, Kurt Carr, J. Moss, Byron Cage, Donnie McClurkin, Vickie Winans, Hezekiah Walker, Fred Hammond, Deitrick Haddon, Tye Tribbett, Martha Munizzi, Mary Mary, Sounds of Blackness, and more! As if that isn't enough, also included is the track from the new artist V3 "Love Will Make The World Beautiful", and from the Gospel Dream Show finalist (featuring Brian Smith), "Power Of A Dream". As always, a companion DVD will be simultaneously released!


The National Museum of the United States Army will be constructed at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, just south of Washington, D.C.
The 188,000 ft. educational destination and national landmark and will open its doors on June 14, 2019 the Army's 244th Birthday.
POINT PLEASANT — A Point Pleasant native is a founding sponsor of the The Army Historical Foundation (AHF) which is working to create a national landmark and educational destination to represent the Army.
Jeffery D. Rife reported the AHF is spearheading the $200 million effort to tell the storied history of the nation's Army by building the National Museum of the United States Army at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, just south of Washington, D.C.
Rife explained AHF has already broken ground on the 188,000 foot educational destination and national landmark and will open its doors on June 14, 2019 the Army's 244th Birthday.
Rife was the first soldier honored by the AHF in their 2018 calendar for his outstanding service to this nation.
The Army is the nation's oldest and largest military service yet it is the only one without a National Museum, explained Rife. He said the growing momentum behind AHF's campaign to construct this tribute to the service and sacrifice of the 30 million men and women who have worn the Army uniform since 1775 is long overdue and deserves wide ranging attention and support.
Rife shared the museum will be a state-of-the-art facility featuring interactive and engaging exhibits and galleries. The soldier stories gallery will feature personal accounts from soldiers of all generations. The Fighting for the Nation Galleries will tell of the Army's remarkable stories of triumphant sacrifice from the first shots of the Revolutionary War and difficult years of the Civil War to the overseas wartime service of the last century and the current Global War on Terrorism, said Rife. The Army and Society Gallery, a gallery unlike any in the other service museums, explained Rife, will depict the interaction between the Army and its citizens including how the Army has helped advance the nation culturally, socially, scientifically, and technologically. External features include a memorial garden, amphitheater, parade ground, and the Army Trail and outdoor area that features a GSTEM (Geography, Science, Technology, Engineering, Math learning lab, interactive stations, trail side exhibits, and a multipurpose area.
Rife commented a project of this magnitude and national significance requires the encouragement and involvement of the nation.
For those interested in helping to share the story of the United States Army and honor soldiers and Army veterans there are many ways to get involved, Rife explained. Grassroots volunteers assist the campaign by promoting the museum within their own organizations and by reaching out to their local government and businesses. Donation opportunities to fund the museum and its comprehensive educational exhibits are also available both to individual donations and corporate giving programs, Rife explained.
"We are growing a nationwide network of grassroots volunteers and each volunteer has found his or her own way to advocate for the National Army Museum," explained Beth Schultz Seaman, AHF's director of grassroots development.
The volunteers assist with AHF's mission to reach millions of citizens and Army veterans to share the good news about the Museum and to ask for their support to make the Museum a reality, said Rife.
He explained supporters are also able to spotlight friends and relatives in the museum's Registry of the American Soldier which shares personal stories of soldiers from all eras noting their lives, accomplishments, and selfless service. The soldiers registry is free and the entries will be on permanent display at the museum. All soldiers registry entries are available now on the website and shared weekly on social media, explained Rife. To add a soldier story to the Registry please visit the following link: https://armyhistory.org/the-registry-of-the-american-soldier/.
Another way to honor a soldier or special Army unit is to purchase a commemorative black granite brick that will line the Museums Path of Remembrance, said Rife. Bricks can have three or six lines of customizable text and will serve as a lasting legacy on the museum grounds. Visit the following link to purchase a brick: https://armyhistory.org/bricks/.
Rife explained the AHF establishes, assists, and promotes programs and projects which preserve the history of the American soldier and promote public understanding of and appreciation for the contributions by all components of the U.S. Army and its members. The foundation serves as the Army's official fundraising entity for the Capital Campaign for the National Museum of United States Army. For more information about the foundation, the National Museum of United States Army and the soldiers registry, visit www.Armyhistory.org.
Jeffery D. Rife contributed information for this article.
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https://www.mydailytribune.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2018/06/web1_AHF2.jpgThe 188,000 ft. educational destination and national landmark and will open its doors on June 14, 2019 the Army's 244th Birthday.


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"You'd have to be living under a rock not to know that the ocean is filling up with plastic," says environmental activist Paul Hellier. "So rather than waiting for politicians and large companies to act, let's start talking about what we as ordinary citizens are going to do about it."
Four years ago, Paul, who lives on the NSW south coast, set up Fair Food Forager, an environmental profit-for-purpose enterprise which enables consumers to source ethical, sustainable food – and encourages restaurateurs, cafe owners and food suppliers to adopt more eco-friendly practices.
"The purpose of Fair Food Forager is to encourage businesses to increase their commitment to sustainability and show them that there are plenty of things they can do that are really simple and don't necessarily have to cost them money," he says.
"For example, by donating its food scraps or coffee grounds, a business can probably reduce its rubbish output by half. Or maybe it could be something like putting plastic straws under the counter and not putting them in every drink that they serve."
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The Fair Food Forager app was initially launched in Paul's home community in the Illawarra, but has now been taken up by communities across Australia and, indeed, the planet. There are currently 6,000 businesses listed on the app and a searchable website – most of them crowd-sourced or vetted by partner agencies.
"The app is now in about 20 countries, with Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom providing the bulk of the listings," he says proudly. "But parts of Asia and New Zealand are starting to come online, which is really exciting."
Apart from appointing a number of ambassadors in Australia, the UK and Asia, Paul has also forged links with environmental groups such as Surfrider Foundation Australia and The Sustainable Restaurant Association in the UK. "It's amazing when you consider that we first launched with 15 venues in Wollongong and two in Sydney," he says.
As a keen surfer and former council lifeguard, Paul had seen the devastating impact of ocean pollution first-hand and knew that he wanted to do something practical to curb our wasteful behaviour.
"I'd been cleaning up the local beach for about 15 years – picking up plastic and finding it all there again the following day," he says. "Then one day I found a turtle that had died because it had swallowed plastic wrap. I started to think that I needed to do more than just pick up rubbish."
According to Paul, Fair Food Forager not only helps the consumer make an informed choice about where they spend their money, but also provides an environmental benchmark for the food industry.
Each of the 6,000 businesses listed on the app is rated according to 13 environmental criteria such as use of sustainable seafood, efforts to reduce the use of plastic and whether vegan and vegetarian options are available.
Consumers can quickly assess a business based on the number of icons listed next to the name of a cafe, restaurant, grocery store or specialist food outlet.
"Nothing on the app is about being perfect," he says. "It's about encouraging businesses to increase their commitment to sustainability."
Over the past four years, Fair Food Forager has become a global enterprise and an all-consuming passion for its founder, who clearly relishes the opportunity to connect with like-minded people.
But Paul Hellier says his essential motivation for continuing the work remains the same. "I just care about the environment and animals," he says.
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Artist: Kate Bush
Title: Remastered In Vinyl I
Label: Rhino / Parlophone
Deluxe four vinyl LP box set. Kate Bush - Remastered In Vinyl 1 contains remastered versions of the first four Kate Bush albums. This is the first (and definitive) program of remastering undertaken by the artist. Vinyl Box 1 features The Kick Inside (1978), Lionheart (1978), Never For Ever (1980) and The Dreaming (1982). The original album artworks are retained within new artwork for the boxes. Kate's debut, The Kick Inside was released in February 1978 and contains the UK No. 1 hit, "Wuthering Heights." The album peaked at No. 3 in the UK where it was certified Platinum. The production included contributions from Duncan Mackay, Ian Bairnson, David Paton, Andrew Powell, Stuart Elliott and David Gilmour. Kate's second effort, Lionheart was released in late 1978, reaching #6 in the UK and also going platinum. 1980's Never For Ever, co-produced with Jon Kelly, was Kate's first #1 album. It was also the first ever album by a British female solo artist to top the UK album chart, as well as being the first album by any female solo artist to enter the chart at #1. It has since been certified Gold. Following Kate's production assistance on Lionheart, and her co-production of Never For Ever, 1982's The Dreaming was the first album she produced on her own. The album peaked at #3 in the UK where it has been certified Silver.
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1.2 The Saxophone Song 3:47
1.3 Strange Phenomena 2:53
1.4 Kite 2:56
1.5 The Man with the Child in His Eyes 2:37
1.6 Wuthering Heights 4:27
2.1 James and the Cold Gun 3:34
2.2 Feel It 3:04
2.3 Oh to Be in Love 3:17
2.4 L'amour Looks Something Like You 2:26
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2.6 Room for the Life 4:03
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Together Apart: The theme of 2020-2021's extraordinary yearbook
Yearbook cover for AGHS 2020-2021
Erika Schiesl, Reporter, Opinion Department Editor
Under lockdown, school has changed in nearly every aspect. Little about the "high school experience" remains consistent with previous years, and many elements of school which motivate students and connect them with their peers have not been attainable. No freshmen orientation, no homecoming, no sports events. Without these usual highlights, some may wonder if a yearbook is worthwhile or even possible at all.
However, the 2020-2021 yearbook is still in the works thanks to yearbook teacher Mr. Bledsoe.
"The quality is still going to be good, if not better this year than it's ever been since we're taking more time with it," said Bledsoe.
With so many of the usual events cancelled, it's necessary to find ways to fill in the gaps.
Bledsoe explained, "I would've had twice as many pages done at this point. It's still going to be 396 pages like always, but because there aren't any school activities [or] sports yet I have to find something to fill about 150 to 200 pages."……
The lack of pages at this point may seem alarming, but Bledsoe is up for the new challenge in his ninth year of yearbook involvement.
"It's fun to be creative, I like to do better each year. I don't want to keep doing the same thing every time," Bledsoe stated.
Every school year is different in its own ways. Even though this year's deviation makes it considerably more complicated to pick apart, Bledsoe is confident in the substance of the yearbook and has a vision for the unique story it will tell.
"We can't make it a negative yearbook. We want to at least show that, 'Hey this had an effect on us.' So you open it up [and it's] black and white and… as you go farther and farther into your yearbook it gets more color," he explained.
"The theme this year is Together Apart, and you know, we're all together but we're apart because of COVID… and then on the cover, there's an eagle. And he's got the little Google things on the bottom, you know with a microphone and the headphones and stuff. They're the eggs and the nest and [the eagle is] kind of happy, but he's noticing that 'Hey, this world looks kind of weird right now.'"
Overall, Bledsoe believes there is one crucial part to each year's book.
"Our students reflect the community, so we have to be mindful of that. If you pick up our yearbook, it's going to look different from one on the East Coast so it has to be a reflection of everything that's going on around here. I like to tell a story with our yearbook and have a cohesive plan from beginning to end where you see it evolving, and it's fun to see how students grow."
Students may wonder how Bledsoe plans to tell a cohesive story of this school year and include the foundational parts of the book when images are not as easily accessible.
"For clubs, I contacted the club advisors and asked them to send me pictures of their students," he explained. "[ASB has] been our main contact, they've been providing us with some pictures and things too because they always have their dress-up days and different things they do on Instagram."
As for school photos, they were actually intended to happen this week.
"We were going to have school pictures [December 16-18]. I had written up a plan where we were going to drive through the parking lot with appointments. [Students] were going to get out of their car and Ray Ambler, Spike Thiesmeyer, and I were going to be in three different rows in the parking lot. Then the lockdown came, so that shut down all those plans. That's the plan for… sometime later in the [school] year."
Any students curious about more information regarding the yearbook or looking to purchase it can visit the yearbook website. As for the production and distribution timeline, that's likely the most different aspect of this yearbook.
"In past years our final deadline for the yearbook was March. I got [Jostens] to extend it, so our deadline is going to be in June… and instead of handing it out in May this year, it's going to be July. And the reason for that is we want to fill it up with all the things that happen this year. By doing it in June we're going to get graduation in the yearbook. That's never happened before and if there are things like prom or senior activities we can get those in the yearbook for the first time ever."
Regarding production, there is a lot of pressure to meet those deadlines.
"It's a 90,000 dollar book. I have to make sure we sell enough books to pay for it and I pay that bill no matter what… it's scary throughout the year," Bledsoe admitted.
As of December 8, 30% of the yearbooks had been sold.
"Last year we sold out, hopefully people will get on it and we'll sell out again."
The actual printing process of the yearbook changed last year due to COVID. However, it is a change that Bledsoe welcomes.
"I think for over 20 years our printing plant has been located in Visalia. Last year because of COVID they shut [it] down. Now everything is printed in Tennessee. One thing that's cool is that by being printed in Tennessee the quality went up… it's amazing the way it was printed, the colors inside are so much better."
In addition to changes presented by the pandemic, there are other new aspects to the yearbook.
" I have a whole list of all the terms that we're using right now, like pandemic and COVID, and 'Come on, man!' by Biden. We had the presidential election, so we did a whole page on that. I've sectioned it with how seniors are dealing with their senior year and how it's different," he said.
Bledsoe is determined to catalog this year in a way that is meaningful to this yearbook alone, not just as the latest add-on to the yearly routine.
" I always think about… the person 20 years from now looking at the yearbook. I want to show how last year ended and… how we got here. That's the way we're starting the yearbook, by telling a story. I'm doing it all chronologically… and by the time we get to the last page you have learned the entire story about the year."
The Eagle Times would like to thank Mr. Bledsoe as well as the yearbook class for continuing their tradition of excellence even in the most difficult of times.
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I've developed a reputation for understanding men and what they need in their marriages. And I can't tell you how many times I've heard a husband say the line above.
They feel defeated, as if all their efforts amount to nothing. Gradually, they start losing interest in doing all the "right" things. Then, inevitably, the connection between the partners weakens, and tension, distance, or fighting becomes the norm.
This is a dangerous place for a couple. Like an unattended wound, connection hemorrhages from the relationship. If this is not stopped, the couple will grow completely apart.
If you're a woman, and you're guilty of focusing on that one little thing that upsets you about your man, please don't feel I'm placing the blame all on you. But I do want to wake you up.
Because if you understand what I'm about to tell you, you'll know the secret to getting what you really want in your marriage.
Yes, you can find yourself waking up in a marriage that's more connected, more passionate, and more in tune than you've ever experienced.
You can be so in sync with your partner that all those things that used to bother you don't even annoy you even more.
It all starts with understanding what's driving your complaints in the first place.
See, underneath every complaint is a desire for something different.
For instance, there is always a desire behind nit picking. If he forgot to stop at the supermarket on the way home, perhaps there is another desire there—that he not work so late and spend time with you.
If the two of you had more date nights together, him forgetting to pick up groceries may not bother you so much. But because you're feeling a lack of connection, the grocery incident triggers this. And then it does exactly the opposite of what you want, which is to get closer.
Remember what it was like when the two of you first fell in love?
You both had an abundance of positive feelings for each other. The little things never bothered you. You stayed focused on all that was right about your partner. If something was a little off, you chalked it up to being human. Everybody's got something!
Criticism and complaining are universally absent from courtship. If the two of you had harped on each other about negative things, you probably wouldn't have gotten together.
That's why, if you're tempted to complain about something now, look to the courtship stage and ask yourself if you would have brought it up then. Chances are you would have turned your attention to all the things he was doing right.
And yes, I understand that maybe HE'S not keeping up his end of the bargain. Maybe he has slacked off and not done all those little things that made you fall in love with him in the first place.
Here's where you have to be smart.
Want Something To Change In Your Partner? Leave It To P.M.S.
Isn't P.M.S. the dreaded "time of the month"?
In this case, P.M.S. stands for positive, measurable, and specific.
This is your new code for how to ask your husband for what you want without him feeling like he does nothing right.
If you want to make a change, it's easier to move towards something than away from something.
For example, "Quit ignoring me" is not only a complaint that creates even more distance in your relationship, it's also open to interpretation.
"Quit ignoring me" means different things to different people.
You need to be more specific in order for your partner to know how to do it right.
This is positive, measurable, and specific. You're telling him what you want him to do instead of complaining about what he doesn't do, and you're doing it in a way that leaves no guessing.
I've had so many couples come to me in a really tough spot and they have had such a hard time staying positive.
Again, you'd never think to say these things during the infatuation stage. But as you've settled into your relationship, you've both become more careless. And this only leads to disconnection.
I help couples recapture the magic of the early stages while building the skills that result in long-lasting love. In my program, Wake Up In A New Marriage, you'll learn the same methods at home, including how to ask for what you want and need from your partner in a way that doesn't create needless friction or distance.
These communication skills are important, because without them, talking can actually make things worse. This is why you can feel so drained and disconnected after trying to talk through an issue together—or why your partner keeps doing that thing you don't like even though you've mentioned it a hundred times!
In fact, what you DON'T say is just as important in creating positive feelings. That's why throughout the program I'll teach you exercises you can do using only your body language, as well as a skin-on-skin routine that will jump-start and sustain the flow of good feelings between you throughout the day.
You'll also learn how to create a positive climate in your relationship through conversation prompts that allow you both to feel loved and appreciated—the way each of you wants to be loved!
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When you take the time to get to know your partner's own "love language," and vice versa, each of you can be sure you're being the best lover to your partner you can be.
If all this seems like too much work, consider how much more work goes into a disconnected relationship—the tension, the weariness, the constant complaining—to each other and other people.
Getting what you both want in your marriage is so much easier when you recognize you both want positive acceptance and deeper connection.
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UNRWA condemns the killing of ten Palestinian refugees in Aleppo
ALEPPO, PALESTINOW.COM — On Tuesday night, as families gathered to break their fasts for the Ramadan Iftar meal, several rockets hit the densely populated Neirab camp for Palestine refugees in Aleppo, killing at least ten civilians and wounding more than thirty. Among those killed were four children, the youngest just six years old. A number of the injured remain in critical condition.
The ongoing hostilities around the Neirab camp and the ensuing deteriorating security situation have forced the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to suspend the six schools that it runs within the camp – impacting more than 3,000 children. Funerals took place throughout the night of Tuesday, and shops and services were closed on Wednesday in mourning. While UNRWA has opened its schools in Neirab camp today, it does so with the sad knowledge that three of its students will not be joining the final preparations for the end-of-year exams.
UNRWA condemns the killing and wounding of all civilians, including Palestine refugees and calls on all parties to the conflict to abide by their obligations under international humanitarian law, namely in taking all precautionary measures to ensure the protection of civilians during hostilities.
The dramatic escalation in hostilities in northwestern Syria leaves UNRWA concerned for an estimated 10–20,000 Palestine refugees who are displaced in that area. We join calls by other humanitarian actors in Syria for an end to the terrible suffering of civilians.
Neirab camp lies 13 kilometers east of Aleppo and is one of the most densely populated camps for Palestine refugees in Syria. It is home to some 18,000 residents and has been affected by varying levels of hostilities throughout this eight-year long conflict. Over the past few years, a significant number of displaced people have sought safety within the camp, many of whom fled from nearby decimated Ein el Tal camp in 2013.
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After taking part in a non-stop charity 'Race the Sun Challenge' from sunrise to sunset of cycling, climbing and kayaking around the Brecon beacons in support of Action Medical Research, four businessmen and friends from the Midlands have managed to raise a whopping £5,090 with money still coming in. Group leader, Christian Shuker commented: "Our original fundraising target was £2,000 so to have not only doubled but smashed it is fantastic! "We are so grateful to the many businesses and individuals who have not only donated but have supported us in so many ways throughout our training and to our families who have been brilliant." Calling themselves Team Wrong Direction, the friends decided to support Action Medical Research as it is the leading UK-wide charity working to help save and change children's lives through medical research for those children affected by rare conditions. Almost everyone in the UK will have benefitted in some way by Action Medical Research's pioneering work which includes the first polio vaccines, ultrasound in pregnancy and the rubella vaccine. Added Christian: "As we're all fathers we wanted to support the charity's work, which is for so many children across the UK the only lifeline available." You can still contribute and donate via: (www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Wrong-Direction2016).


This spring, The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is proud to present the MFA in Curatorial Practice thesis exhibition FRONT, a five-person project featuring new works by Graham Coreil-Allen, Precious Blake, Brian Davis, and FreeSpace Collective members Billy Friebele and Michael Dax Iacovone. This exhibition is curated by 2017 MFA candidate and emerging curator Betty Gonzales. Inspired by creative placemaking efforts initiated in Baltimore by organizations looking to spark life in certain parts of the city, FRONT is a series of events and artworks intended to address issues of urban renewal by reimagining vacant storefronts and buildings throughout the Bromo Arts and Entertainment District.
The aim of this project is to ignite conversations and awareness of various spaces within the Bromo Arts District by providing multiple ways of experiencing and discussing the people, places, and history whose character and culture is now at stake with the amount of proposals for new development within the designated arts district. Artists, community members, and visitors are encouraged to walk through and interact with the spaces and people around them that are intended to enrich their understanding and appreciation of one of Baltimore's youngest Arts and Entertainment Districts.
Augmented reality (AR) is digital imagery superimposed over the viewer's environment in real time through the use of a geo-location-based mobile application developed by Brian Davis and FreeSpace Collective. The works will spark the imagination of the viewers while encouraging them to think more critically about their environment. AR can define spaces by providing a malleable approach to creative placemaking without physically altering a space. Through this method, meaning is injected into spaces through educating the audience about their surroundings. Using technology to redefine space by placing a virtual layer over the world with geographic specificity allows for the reimagining and reinventing of public spaces, and through that process, ownership of the streets can take place.
Public artist Graham Coreil-Allen will lead a two-part series of walking tours titled Bromo Spectacular! that will focus on the history, design & uses of key sites representative of the area's heritage, culture, and development. Participants are invited to join these New Public Sites walks to creatively explore the district's little known histories, urban design successes and challenges, and current artist-led redevelopment projects.
Front the book is an illustrated activity guide by Precious Blake that works in conjunction with Graham Coreil-Allen's Bromo Spectacular! walking tours. The guide is a coloring book, note taking pad and informational booklet. With written captions by Coreil-Allen, Blake vibrantly illustrates stops on the tour that particularly speak about the effects of urban architecture, modes of transport, and public spaces on social and racial inequalities in Baltimore City.
PRECIOUS BLAKE is a visual journalist and cultural organizer living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. Precious received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration with a concentration in Printmaking at Maryland Institute College of Art. She is currently a 2016-17 Baltimore Corps Fellow and Development Assistant at Arts Every Day, a non-profit that advocates for arts education and access in Baltimore City Public Schools. Precious is dedicated to serving underrepresented artists in Baltimore through community programming, event organizing, and equitable access to arts education.
GRAHAM COREIL-ALLEN was born in Galveston, Texas and raised in Tampa, Florida. He studied at Tulane School of Architecture in New Orleans, completed his BA at New College of Florida in Sarasota, and received his MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art's Mount Royal School of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. The public artist has created public projects and programs for numerous organizations, places, and events both nationally and abroad, including Baltimore Office of Promotion and Arts, 99% Invisible, The Deitch/Creative Time Parade, and Washington Project for the Arts. Coreil-Allen was an invited artist in the US Pavilion at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale, was selected for an inaugural Rubys Artists Project Grant, and is a founding leader of Citizen Artist Baltimore.
BRIAN DAVIS lives and works in Northern Virginia. Born in Ft Walton Beach, Florida, Davis was raised in both Guam and South Carolina. He has taught New Media and Sculpture at George Washington University and George Mason University. Davis has a BFA in General Studio from Winthrop University and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Florida. He was recently awarded a Professional Fellowship at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
FREESPACE COLLECTIVE was founded by artists Billy Friebele and Michael Dax Iacovone who began working together on collaborative video projects in graduate school at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008. FreeSpace Collective focuses on community engagement, public spaces, mapping, and interactivity with an emphasis on collaboration. They have exhibited in Detroit, MI; St. Louis, MO; Washington, DC; Baltimore, MD; Sarajevo, Bosnia; and Jatiwangi, Indonesia among other places. FreeSpace Collective is based in Washington, DC.
BETTY GONZALES was born in San Antonio, Texas but has lived in Maryland for over ten years. She majored in Studio Art with a minor in Art History from McDaniel College in Westminster, MD where she developed an interest in curating and community engagement as a gallery assistant on campus. Betty has an invested interest in the city of Baltimore, its people, and its unique art scene.


A high sensitive electrochemical sensor based on methionine/gold nanoparticles (MET/AuNPs) modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE) was fabricated for the quantitative detection of hydroquinone (HQ). The as-modified electrode was characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques. The electrochemical performance of the sensor to HQ was investigated by using cyclic and differential pulse voltammetry, which revealed its excellent electrocatalytic activity and reversibility towards HQ. The separation of anodic and cathodic peak (∆Ep) was decreased from 471 mV to 75 mV. The anodic peak current achieved under the optimum conditions was linear with the HQ concentration ranging from 8 μM to 400 μM with the detection limit 0.12 μM (3σ). The as-fabricated sensor also showed a good selectivity towards HQ without demonstrating interference from other coexisting species. Furthermore, the sensor showed a good performance for HQ detection in environmental water, which suggests its potential practical application.


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Dean Winters
Obituary of Dean Winters
Dean Winters (born July 20th, 1964 in New York City, New York) was a TV Actor who was best known for being cast as Ryan O'Reily on the cable TV drama "OZ". Dean died on January 17th, 2022 (TBV) and his death was possibly because of a high speed driving accident.
Please help us remember the life of Dean Winters by contributing to his obituary, his ancestry, family tree, funeral, burial, his birth, family, career and death in the sections below.
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Full Name: Winters, Dean
Common Name: Dean Winters
Birth Name: Dean Gerard Winters
Birth Date: July 20, 1964
Category/Genre: TV Actor
Spouse/Partner: Not Married - Single - Dating?
Father: Patrick Winters
Mother: Magna Winters
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TV Actor American Born on July 20th Born in 1964 Born in New York
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"I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry."
Is Dean Winters still alive? According to our unconfirmed records, he has not passed away.
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Mary Zimmerman directs a lavish revival of Leonard Bernstein's classic musical, featuring a company of more than 40 actors and musicians!
Two sisters. One incredible city. Unlimited possibilities. Join Ruth and Eileen Sherwood as they leave behind their mundane Ohio lives in pursuit of making it big in New York City. Chock-full of swinging show tunes, breathtaking choreography and effervescent charm, Wonderful Town captures the thrill of chasing one's dreams like no other musical.
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The Aliso Canyon breach is accidental, but thousands of other sites are flaring off methane intentionally, as waste.
WATCH: Infrared footage captured by Earthworks shows the release of methane gas from a leak at the Aliso Canyon Underground Storage Field in Los Angeles County.
For more than two months now, a ruptured storage well has poured thousands of tons of gas into the Porter Ranch section of Los Angeles. The Aliso Canyon leak is huge—California's largest known source of methane emissions at this point—but not compared to another font of wasted gas miles away in Venezuela.
Punta de Mata is home to the world's largest gas flare, one of the flaming chimneys used to burn off excess natural gas at oil wells and other energy sites. In 2012, it incinerated about 768,000 metric tons of natural gas, almost 10 times the amount given off so far from the Southern California Gas Company's facility at Aliso Canyon.
Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is 84 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide over two decades. As countries seek to comply with the new UN climate accord by slashing emissions, both gas flaring and leaks remain persistent problems. Though widespread, they can be difficult to track, given that methane gas is invisible and odorless.
Now, high-tech cameras and satellites are capturing those releases better than ever, putting pressure on companies and officials to take action. Flaring gas has a much lower impact on the climate than a vent directly into the atmosphere—the flame converts gas into an amount of carbon dioxide that will have 30 times less warming potential in the near term. Still, the methane hotspots spanning the globe add a hefty sum to its greenhouse gas pollution.
With a new satellite tool called VIIRS, or Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, researchers found more than 7,000 flare sites. Russia flared the largest volume of gas (25 billion cubic meters, about half what the state of Colorado produces in a year), according to the study, while the United States had the highest number (2,399) of flares.
VIIRS is designed to operate during the daytime, monitoring land and water cover. At night, its "operators would tell you, well, there's nothing to see," says Christopher Elvidge, a NOAA scientist and the paper's lead author. But the researchers "lucked out," he says, when an engineer thought to use the equipment at night, when it could isolate flaring activity.
As a result, researchers were able to assemble the most complete view yet of the world's gas waste, one that departs from previous assessments. In the latest VIIRS-driven ranking, Iraq flared the second largest volume of gas, followed by Iran and Nigeria.
Flaring often occurs because oil producers don't have the pipelines or the market for the gas that sometimes comes up along with oil; it can also happen for safety, to avoid an explosive buildup of methane during emergencies or maintenance, for example. Last year, the World Bank launched an initiative aimed at ending all routine flaring by 2030. So far, several energy companies and governments have signed on.
Having a way to monitor flaring will be key to the effort. Elvidge's research team plans to keep fine-tuning its methods, releasing results sometime this spring for subsequent years to see how they compare with the 2012 data.
"We're going to be able to track these mega-flares through time," he says.
The new paper notes that 90 percent of the gas flared is coming from just 30 percent of the sites. Likewise, when it comes to leaks from U.S. sites, "a small number of facilities are responsible for a large percentage of the emissions," says Mark Brownstein, vice president of the climate and energy program at the Environmental Defense Fund, which supports stronger methane regulations.
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed rules aimed at reducing leaks, but they would only cover new wells and facilities, not existing ones. Some companies are already taking steps to find and fix problems, participating in a voluntary EPA program. But as ongoing leaks in L.A. and elsewhere show, many sites are still vulnerable. Aliso Canyon is among than 300 similar storage sites across the country, and it's one of the largest.
High-tech eyes on the sky ultimately could help snuff out all those invisible methane clouds and hard-to-detect flares, which threaten to undermine countries' Paris commitments. In the U.S., so dependent on natural gas as a means of weaning itself off coal, the issue goes far beyond the immediate crisis in Los Angeles.
On Twitter: Follow Christina Nunez and get more environment and energy coverage at NatGeoEnergy.


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These little treats are stupidly simple to make. So simple you will curse me for bothering but prior to this discovery I was intimidated by the lamb rack. Costco sells good Australian ones cheap, so stock up next time you visit. They freeze well. Once in hand the trick is to cut the rack into chops. Follow the bone with a sharp knife to slice off perfect lamb lollipops. Try to keep them the same thickness.
Salt. Plenty. Grill at medium to high heat for 2-3 minutes a side. Do not over cook. Let them rest a few minutes before serving.
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FDA In Brief: FDA Collaborates with Health Canada and UK's MHRA to Foster Good Machine Learning Practice
FDA in Brief
The following quote is attributed to Bakul Patel, director of the FDA's Digital Health Center of Excellence in the Center for Devices and Radiological Health
"With artificial intelligence and machine learning progressing so rapidly, our three regulatory agencies, together, see a global opportunity to help foster good machine learning practice by providing guiding principles that we believe will support the development and maturation of good machine learning practice. This will help stakeholders to advance device development, which has the potential to significantly improve the quality of patient care and transform health care.
We recognize that machine learning technologies present unique considerations due to their complexity and the iterative and data-driven nature of their development. While this is true, we are excited for continued progress in this area. We believe these guiding principles will help advance the development of machine learning technologies for medical devices.
We also recognize that strong partnerships with our international public health partners are essential for the FDA's Digital Health Center of Excellence efforts. Such partnerships empower stakeholders to advance responsible innovations and we expect this initial collaborative work with Health Canada and the United Kingdom's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) can inform our broader international engagements, including work at the International Medical Device Regulators Forum."
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Health Canada and the United Kingdom's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) jointly issued the "Good Machine Learning Practice for Medical Device Development: Guiding Principles" to identify a set of ten guiding principles that are important to be included in the development of Good Machine Learning Practice (GMLP). Good Machine Learning Practice is intended to advance high quality artificial intelligence/machine learning enabled medical device development.
These ten principles are intended to identify areas where alignment in efforts related to research, building resources and tools, regulatory policies, regulatory guidelines, international harmonization and consensus standards could be developed by the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF), international standards organizations and other collaborative bodies to advance the maturation of GMLP.
The FDA envisions that these guiding principles could be used to either specifically tailor practices applicable to health care, create new practices for health care or adopt from practices that have been proven in other domains.
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Q: Compressed Bloom Filters with fixed false positive probability I am trying to implement compressed bloom filter implementation according to this paper Compressed Bloom Filters by Michael Mitzenmacher. I need to calculate m - number of bits and k - number of hash functions for given fixed false positive probability. For example:
I know that if I have n = 1000 elements(to be inserted in bloom filter) and given probability p = 0.01, the "optimal" number of bits will for Bloom filter will be (-n * Math.log(p) / (Math.log(2) * Math.log(2))) = 9585
And also I need k = (9585/1000)*Math.log(2) = 7 - hash functions. That is, I will get false positive rate 0.01.
To "compress" bloom filter we need to build more "sparse" filter - get lesser hash functions and more number of bits in vector.
But I did not get the idea how to calculate number of hash functions and number of bits for this sparse filter. If we decrease k by 1 how will increase number of bits? what is the ratio?

A: Well, I did not find any concrete ratio between number of hash functions and number of bits with fixed false positive rate. But I have found precalculated table of such values. Here you can find values of number of hash functions and bit vector length with corresponding false positive rate. Since we have such table we can find number of hash functions(less than optimal) and corresponding bit vector length with false positive rate less or equal to the given.
Here is implementation for building "sparse" bloom filters.
Hope this will save someone`s time in future.


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First Sneak Peek at Baz Luhrmann's South Bronx Netflix Series 'The Get Down'
Arts & Culture, Bronx Facts, Bronx Stories, Famous Bronxites, Film & Television
by Ed García Conde
It's been almost a year since Netfilx and Baz Luhrmann announced that they were embarking on producing a series based in the South Bronx in the 1970s as hip-hop was emerging, disco was reigning supreme alongside Salsa, and of course—The Bronx was burning.
Netflix simply writes, "Told through the lives and music of a ragtag crew of South Bronx teens, The Get Down is a mythic saga of the transformation of 1970s New York City.
When it was first announced, there was much excitement yet many folks who lived through this era of the South Bronx had a "proceed with caution" attitude, myself included. I mean for far too long outsiders are telling our narratives and there are worries that such stories in the hands of Hollywood big shots like Luhrmann would be watered down or as usual, just not told "right".
As the first trailer is released, at a first glance, it appears that perhaps Baz and crew along with Netflix may have done it justice but I'll hold full verdict until actually watching the entire series since you can't base anything completely off a trailer. (By the way, Baz, we haven't forgotten that you attended and lent your name as host to the awful "Piano District Gentrification Party" so let's hope your piece isn't as tone deaf as your appearance in the party was).
The first thing one notices in the trailer is that there appears to be a lack of Latinos, something which we expressed concerns over when the casting was announced.
Puerto Ricans were by far the dominant Latino group in the South Bronx making up a majority chunk of the population in the area. In fact, Latinos in the late 70's were a larger group than African Americans by that time so visually the trailer doesn't appear to be too representative of the area and decade.
In fact out of the 9 cast members that appear in the series 13 episodes scheduled to come out later this year, 3 appear to be Latino but only 2 Latinos, including Jimmy Smits and leading lady Herizen Guardiola as Mylene Cruz, play these rolls. The rest of the Latino casts appear in supporting roles but are far and few in between to tell the full story of the era especially Hip-Hop which latinos played a huge role in.
Besides that glaring omission of the Latino population in the trailer and what appears to be the main cast, there is a feel of authenticity to that era. There doesn't appear to be any sugar coating at all of the strife and violence that filled the lives of so many Bronxites in those days and hopefully it won't be constantly on display and is relegated to be the backdrop to the series.
The trailer does shows the vibrancy of LIFE that, despite what the narratives told coming out during that time by outsiders, was permeating the area and borough.
In one of the clips in the trailer, you can tell that the producers and directors are heavily influenced by some of the photography of Joe Conzo Jr and one scene is almost identical to one of his many iconic photographs.
Conzo Jr on Facebook said, "Honored to be asked to document #TheGetDown Series on Netflix and have my photos as reference images!"
In this screen shot of The Get Down trailer you can see how photographer Joe Conzo, Jr's iconic images influenced in getting a feel for that time. (See Joe Conzo's Image below)
Joe Conzo, Jr documented the early days of Hip-Hop and is considered to be the "Man Who Took Hip-Hop's Baby Pictures" by New York Times reporter David Gonzalez
Then there's another clip where the characters are climbing atop the famous rock in St Mary's Park on 149th Street that anyone who grew up in the South Bronx knows well.
One of two scenes in the trailer where some of the cast are climbing the famous rock in St Mary's Park on 149th Street. Perhaps this is a focal and gathering point? We'll see.
Like I said earlier, I'm still holding out on judging the entire series based on 2 minutes and 58 seconds of footage.
Until then, let's continue to hope for something mediocre at best and come out happy that it turns out better than anticipated.
Tags: Baz Luhrmann, Netfilx, South Bronx, The Get Down
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Holder cited for contempt of Congress
At issue in the House Oversight Committee's decision are documents relating to the Fast and Furious investigation.
The House Oversight Committee voted this week along party lines to cite Attorney General Eric Holder for contempt of Congress for failing to turn over documents in the ongoing investigation of the government's Fast and Furious "gun-walking" operation. The vote followed President Obama's assertion of executive privilege, blocking release of the documents, which led to an escalation of tensions with the GOP-led committee. The resolution now moves to the House for a full vote. The White House has dismissed the probe as a politically motivated "election-year fishing expedition"; Republican House Speaker John Boehner questioned whether the president is now "bending the law to hide the truth."


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Home ECHL Three Game Road Trip a Crucial Test for Stingrays
Three Game Road Trip a Crucial Test for Stingrays
Travis Rogers
CHARLESTON, S.C. – The South Carolina Stingrays are in New England to take on some North Division foes on the road for the first time this year. The Stingrays had previously hosted and swept the Reading Royals in a two game set in early November. They will be taking on the Worcester Railers for the first time tonight before moving on to Manchester, NH to take on the North Division leading Monarchs in a rematch of the 2017 Eastern Conference Finals Saturday and Sunday.
The South has struggled this year against the North going 14-22-2-1 and the Stingrays are hoping to reverse that trend. The Stingrays are 13-6-1-1 on the road this year but all of those games have been in confines of the familiar barns of South Division opponents.
The Stingrays have been banged up as of late and will be looking to get more bodies back in the line up. The Stingrays were only able to get 15 healthy skaters suited up for their last game against Jacksonville last Saturday night. The forwards have taken the brunt of the injuries with Trevor Gillies, Patrick Megannety, Kelly Zajac, Nick Roberto and Robbie Baillargeon all scratched last game. Dylan Margonari has only suited up four times in 2018. Frankie Simonelli and Kris Bindulis were also out on defense.
Since the first of the year there have been a few storylines that bear watching on this road trip and through the rest of the season.
Captain Joe Devin is settling into a groove. He has had five multipoint games in 2018 compared to three for all of October, November and December. His steady leadership and point production will be crucial to the long term success of this year's team.
All-Star selection and rookie forward Taylor Cammarata has cooled off with his point production since the first of the year. While the on-ice effort is still very apparent, he has only found the back of the net once since 2018 began. He will have to settle down and trust the instincts that made him a nearly a point-a-game forward in the early part of the season. If he can re-harness the incredible scoring touch he displayed at the All-Star Classic last month, it will bode well for the Stingrays and their hopes for a long run in the post season.
Rookie forward Hampus Gustafsson has broken out of his shell in many ways during his second stint on assignment to the Stingrays via the Washington Capitals through the Hershey Bears. He has started to display a physical side to his play and been rewarded on the score sheet, posting eight points in his last 11 games, including five goals. He was assigned to South Carolina to help find his scoring touch and as his confidence has increased, so has his point production. As Hershey continues to try to find its way, he should be a prime recall option as the season progresses.
The goaltending situation appears to have settled down as much as it can with two number one goalies in net. Both Parker Milner and Jeff Jakaitis prefer shouldering the load and playing. Keeping both netminders mentally sharp and focused will be key. Both have been stellar this year and have been key to the Stingrays success.
Enough cannot be said about the defense and penalty kill this year. They are currently leading the league in shots allowed, goals allowed and the penalty kill. What has become a pleasant surprise for fans is that the offense is starting to click. The Rays have scored three or more goals in 11 of 15 games in 2018. Additionally, the power play (at least at home) has started to produce on a level not seen in several years.
If the power play can bring its success to the road this may become one of the most well-rounded teams ever seen in Charleston.
Dylan Margonari
Frankie Simonelli
Hampus Gustafsson
Jeff Jakaitis
Joe Devin
Kelly Zajac
Kris Bindulis
Nick Roberto
Parker Milner
Patrick Megannety
Robbie Baillargeon
Taylor Cammarata


When you think about Honda vehicles one word that likely comes to mind is reliable. Honda's are known for being safe and reliable options, but there are certain steps you can take to ensure your Honda stays in the best condition and remains reliable.
The owner's manual of your vehicle is your go-to resource to make sure that your vehicle is always in peak condition. Whether you need to troubleshoot an issue in your vehicle or to understand it better, the better you know your owner's manual, the better you know your car. When you know your Honda better, the more in-tune you will be if something goes wrong, which will lead to getting it serviced faster and avoiding major problems.
The schedule of maintenance recommended by manufacturers is often forgotten about by car owners. Avoiding routine maintenance can result in serious issues in your vehicle, and if you avoid the schedule it can potentially void your warranty.
The manufacturer's maintenance schedule isn't just a suggestion – it's a plan tailored directly to your vehicle to ensure that it stays reliable and safe. Following that schedule is your best way to ensure your Honda is reliable for a long time.
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Rep. Rob Wittman eyes defense dollars to reduce toll on Coleman Bridge
By Frances Hubbard
fhubbard@dailypress.com |
Drivers have been paying a toll at the Coleman Bridge, which connects Gloucester and York counties, for nearly 20 years. The toll generates over $6 million in revenue annually. As we approach the expected suspension of the toll in 2021, the reality is that the toll may not be leaving anytime soon.
The Coleman Bridge connecting Gloucester and York counties plays a critical national security role for the U.S. Navy, according to U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman — enough so that he is suggesting the Department of Defense pay for some of the bridge's management and upkeep.
If he is successful, the funding could help reduce the bridge tolls that drivers have been paying for more than 20 years.
Wittman has introduced language in the National Defense Authorization Act that asks the Navy to assess its use of the bridge and the operations and maintenance costs associated. That assessment, Wittman said, could lead to a cost-sharing agreement between Gloucester County and the Department of Defense.
"It is a proper question to ask about how much of the cost to maintain the bridge should be jointly shared with the Navy," Wittman said in an interview Friday. "It's a critical place for Navy operations. If that bridge were to not be in operation for some reason, it has significant implications for national security."
The Navy will be asked to look at things like the number of ships that pass under the bridge; the time the bridge is open; and the effects on the mechanisms and equipment used to open the bridge. The ships pass through on their way to and from Naval Weapons Station Yorktown to load or offload munitions.
It is not the sole responsibility of the Navy to pay for the bridge, Wittman said. Virginia is also responsible.
"We do believe there is a shared responsibility there," he said.
"If this plan under Congressman Wittman goes through, it would go a long way towards reducing the tolls, since the original debt structure required Gloucester citizens to pay for operations and maintenance through tolls," said Gloucester County Supervisor Phillip Bazzani.
It was expected to take 25 years to pay off the bonds used to finance the widening of the bridge in 1996. About three-quarters of the bonds have been repaid so far, but the bonds only account for about half of the $82.5 million in debt on the project.
In the next four years, the bridge's debt service of $43.3 million in bonds and financing expenses should be settled, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation, but the toll will stay.
The project will still owe $39.3 million borrowed from the state's Toll Facility Revolving Fund, according to Marshall Herman, a VDOT spokeswoman. The fund provides money to pay for eligible toll facilities in the state and now has an unused balance of around $70 million.
The rebuilt four-lane bridge, which opened to traffic in August 1996, was built for $97 million, including engineering and construction costs. Construction alone by Tidewater Construction Corp. cost $75 million, according to VDOT. The financial arrangement at the time required a toll to pay for the project.
The Coleman Bridge carries about 960,000 vehicles a month, according to VDOT. The toll is $2 for two-axle cars, or 85 cents per car using an E-ZPass. The Commonwealth Transportation Board raised the toll on the span from 50 cents in 2005. The increase applied to drivers using the E-ZPass electronic payment system.
The Coleman Bridge generated $6.4 million in toll revenue during fiscal year 2017, according to Herman.
In the past five years, around $2 million has been spent annually on facility operations and maintenance while $3.1 million a year went toward debt service. The remaining revenue — more than $1 million each year — is deposited in the facility's Maintenance Reserve Fund.
According to VDOT, Navy vessels from the nearby Yorktown Naval Weapons Station and Cheatham Annex are the main users of the Coleman Bridge's swing span. "The bridge does open for some barges and other types of vessels on occasion," Herman said in an email. "But this is the exception."
The Navy is expected to complete its assessment by March 2018, according to the defense spending bill. Wittman said a briefing then would determine the next steps.
There is no guarantee, he said, that the toll will go away. "This is just the first step," Wittman said. VDOT and the Commonwealth Transportation Board would have to make that decision based on future projected costs.
"As far as I am aware, this is the first time that we have asked for or received any congressional support with respect to the financial structure of the debt and operation and maintenance costs for the bridge," Bazzani wrote in an email. "I have been pushing this effort since I was elected, and I believe we have accomplished a significant milestone to alleviate the unfair burden to Gloucester County residents as a result of paying the debt on the bridge."
Hubbard can be reached by phone at 757-298-5834.
George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge - At a glance
32,000 Number of vehicles that use the span daily; 15,500 are northbound; 960,000 vehicles per month use bridge
$2 Per car toll ($0.50 EZ Pass fee enacted in 1996 increased to $0.85 in 2005)
$75 million Cost of construction on new bridge
$97 million Total bridge widening cost (including construction, engineering, etc.)
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$10.5 million bond debt balance
1952 Year original bridge was built.
1996 Year bridge was rebuilt and widened
1976-1996 Years bridge had no toll
Source: Virginia Department of Transportation
Virginia Department of Transportation
U.S. Department of Defense
National Defense Authorization Act
Frances Hubbard
Frances Hubbard is the Gloucester-Mathews reporter for the Daily Press. She is an alumnus of Christopher Newport University and has been with the Daily Press Media Group since 2003. Born and raised on the Middle Peninsula, she has a genuine love for the community she covers. Her passions include her family, writing, running, sunshine, sand, and water.
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The 2009 VIE accounting rule changes did not have a significant effect on Chinese VIEs.� Accountants decided that the existing VIE control agreements for Chinese VIEs fit the new rules and that the VIEs could continue to be consolidated. I have questioned that conclusion in a recent post. I am not convinced that the existing technical service agreements actually give the public company access to the residual profits of the VIE.
That requirement says "give us some balance sheet information about the VIE." �Only 59% of the Chinese VIEs disclose any balance sheet information. Clients of the Big Four, which audit 71 of the 107 VIEs, disclose some balance sheet information 72% of the time.� Many of the smaller auditing firms involved with Chinese VIEs seem unaware of the new disclosure requirements. When there is disclosure, most of the time only total VIE assets and liabilities are disclosed, ���rather than disclosing the classified balance sheet information required by the standard. The level of detail provided varies significantly based on the auditing firm, with Deloitte clients generally disclosing more information. For an ���example of what I consider to be a quality disclosure, look at E-House (China) Holdings annual report (pages F-8-10). With E-House, separate balance sheets are provided for each of the VIEs.� Many of the disclosures report only total assets (and 41% report nothing!), which I consider to be inadequate and not in compliance with the accounting standard.
Qualitative and quantitative information about the reporting entity's involvement (giving consideration to both explicit arrangements and implicit variable interests) with the VIE, including, but not limited to, the nature, purpose, size, and activities of the VIE, including how the VIE is financed.
In other words, "tell us what the VIE does and how it relates to the public company." Here the disclosures are pathetic. Only 29% of companies with VIEs disclose the revenue and net income of the VIE. Excluding companies audited by Deloitte, which disclose this information 82% of the time, only 4% of companies disclosed the revenue of the VIE.� Deloitte audits the most VIEs (34 of 107) and its clients have more consistent and higher quality disclosures than companies audited by the other firms. I do not believe that any of the disclosures, however, rise to the standard set by the rules. More qualitative information is required about VIE activities, including describing payment arrangements between the VIE and the public company.
Investors need the information required by the FASB standards on VIEs to properly assess the risks of investing in companies that use the VIE structure. I call on companies to improve the quality of disclosures. I suggest that the Big Four get together and agree how to apply the FASB standard in China. I also call on the SEC to get tougher on requiring companies to make these disclosures.