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'Two months in, we were faced with a positive pregnancy test. My wife wanted an abortion. I was crushed.': Husband shares how they navigated unexpected pregnancy, differing opinions about abortion
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"Me and my wife had always agreed on having kids. In the map of our lives, we planned to settle down from the hustle and bustle of the city about four or five years into our marriage, move into a quiet neighborhood, and start trying. It was really important to us to save up a good chunk of money before conceiving so we could afford the things we needed for our little angel-to-be.
Well, it's safe to say things didn't go exactly as planned.
About two months into our marriage, we were faced with a positive pregnancy test. We had done all the right things. She was on birth control. We were extremely careful each time. Again, it meant a lot to us to be ready to bring a child into the world. The news obviously came as a shock. A checkup soon after revealed she was two weeks along and her birth control failed for no fault of our own.
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Although we were both a bit taken aback, we differed in our ideas on what to do. After a few days of careful consideration, my wife decided that she wanted to get an abortion. This early into the pregnancy, no procedure was necessary. Just a pill to rid the pregnancy. This is what she wanted and she was sure of it.
She wasn't ready to be a mother. She was also plagued with an underlying fear of dying in childbirth. This was the exact way her mother had died, and she'd been internally drowning through the trauma of it ever since.
I was crushed by her decision. I knew the pregnancy was unexpected, but it had never crossed my mind to not sustain it. My vibrant images of a life with this baby boy or girl soon turned dim.
You see, I am pro-life and she is pro-choice. I knew this, but I never thought our beliefs would become so relevant to our reality. At first, I was hurt by her choice not to want to keep the pregnancy. My mind filled with a dark cloud of doubt. Did she not love me enough? Was I not the one? Did she not think I would make a good enough father? Then came the anger. I was furious that she wanted to make this decision without my nod of approval.
But then something dawned on me.
Maybe it wasn't about me. In fact, maybe it wasn't about me at all. Maybe it was about her. While my opinion and feelings certainly mattered in this situation, I realized it didn't feel right to expect the power of a final say-so. After all, I was a man. I would not be the one to bear the consequences of pregnancy, both during and thereafter. It was not my body.
After some deep reflection, I told her that if she didn't feel ready to follow through with her pregnancy, then I respected her decision. 'I'll be there to support you through whatever your choice is,' I said. And I did just that. Five days later, she took the pill. I held her hand through it all.
Today, I still do not entirely agree with abortion. My wife, on the other hand, believes women should have sovereignty over their bodies. In a debate years ago, I can vividly remember her saying something like, 'To give more value to unborn life than to a living, breathing woman is an indication of just how little women are valued in society.' Needless to say, my wife agrees with abortion. And both sentiments are okay.
I think it's easy to think that the other side of the argument is filled with hate and evil, but it's not. My wife is the most beautiful soul. She loves with her whole heart. She gives love even when she doesn't receive it back. She is a great sister, daughter, friend, and wife. She's the type of person to remember something you said three years ago and surprise you with it. To do the most mindful little things that leave you in awe. She is, inside and out, burning with kindness.
I'm not evil for disagreeing with abortion. My wife is not evil for agreeing with the freedom to have it. Whether you agree or don't agree with abortion, that is okay. But please listen and respect both sides of the argument. After all, we are all just humans trying to navigate this complex world.
This is often a debate about morality and I don't think there will ever be a clear answer in that regard. All we can do is come together. Love hard. It is true that the best change comes when you love your opponent. And that is why I held my wife's hand when she took that pill, the same way she held mine when I cried after the pregnancy was gone.
But, ultimately, what's clear to me is that this is an issue that should be debated by women themselves, not men. Sure, men can support their side, but just like me, they shouldn't be the ones with the final say-so.
Today, I don't like to take the label pro-choice or pro-life. I take the label pro-unity.
Please be kind to your neighbor, and please support your loved ones no matter their decisions. This life is too short for anything less than love."
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Genome wide comprehensive analysis and web resource development on cell wall degrading enzymes from phyto-parasitic nematodes
Krishan Mohan Rai, Vimal Kumar Balasubramanian, Cassie Marie Welker, Mingxiong Pang, Mei Mei Hii, Venugopal Mendu
Agronomy and Plant Genetics
BACKGROUND: The plant cell wall serves as a primary barrier against pathogen invasion. The success of a plant pathogen largely depends on its ability to overcome this barrier. During the infection process, plant parasitic nematodes secrete cell wall degrading enzymes (CWDEs) apart from piercing with their stylet, a sharp and hard mouthpart used for successful infection. CWDEs typically consist of cellulases, hemicellulases, and pectinases, which help the nematode to infect and establish the feeding structure or form a cyst. The study of nematode cell wall degrading enzymes not only enhance our understanding of the interaction between nematodes and their host, but also provides information on a novel source of enzymes for their potential use in biomass based biofuel/bioproduct industries. Although there is comprehensive information available on genome wide analysis of CWDEs for bacteria, fungi, termites and plants, but no comprehensive information available for plant pathogenic nematodes. Herein we have performed a genome wide analysis of CWDEs from the genome sequenced phyto pathogenic nematode species and developed a comprehensive publicly available database.
RESULTS: In the present study, we have performed a genome wide analysis for the presence of CWDEs from five plant parasitic nematode species with fully sequenced genomes covering three genera viz. Bursaphelenchus, Glorodera and Meloidogyne. Using the Hidden Markov Models (HMM) conserved domain profiles of the respective gene families, we have identified 530 genes encoding CWDEs that are distributed among 24 gene families of glycoside hydrolases (412) and polysaccharide lyases (118). Furthermore, expression profiles of these genes were analyzed across the life cycle of a potato cyst nematode. Most genes were found to have moderate to high expression from early to late infectious stages, while some clusters were invasion stage specific, indicating the role of these enzymes in the nematode's infection and establishment process. Additionally, we have also developed a Nematode's Plant Cell Wall Degrading Enzyme (NCWDE) database as a platform to provide a comprehensive outcome of the present study.
CONCLUSIONS: Our study provides collective information about different families of CWDEs from five different sequenced plant pathogenic nematode species. The outcomes of this study will help in developing better strategies to curtail the nematode infection, as well as help in identification of novel cell wall degrading enzymes for biofuel/bioproduct industries.
BMC plant biology
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Helminth Proteins/genetics
Plant Cells/physiology
Polysaccharide-Lyases/genetics
Tylenchida/enzymology
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Rai, K. M., Balasubramanian, V. K., Welker, C. M., Pang, M., Hii, M. M., & Mendu, V. (2015). Genome wide comprehensive analysis and web resource development on cell wall degrading enzymes from phyto-parasitic nematodes. BMC plant biology, 15, 187. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-015-0576-4
Genome wide comprehensive analysis and web resource development on cell wall degrading enzymes from phyto-parasitic nematodes. / Rai, Krishan Mohan; Balasubramanian, Vimal Kumar; Welker, Cassie Marie et al.
In: BMC plant biology, Vol. 15, 01.08.2015, p. 187.
Rai, KM, Balasubramanian, VK, Welker, CM, Pang, M, Hii, MM & Mendu, V 2015, 'Genome wide comprehensive analysis and web resource development on cell wall degrading enzymes from phyto-parasitic nematodes', BMC plant biology, vol. 15, pp. 187. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-015-0576-4
Rai KM, Balasubramanian VK, Welker CM, Pang M, Hii MM, Mendu V. Genome wide comprehensive analysis and web resource development on cell wall degrading enzymes from phyto-parasitic nematodes. BMC plant biology. 2015 Aug 1;15:187. doi: 10.1186/s12870-015-0576-4
Rai, Krishan Mohan ; Balasubramanian, Vimal Kumar ; Welker, Cassie Marie et al. / Genome wide comprehensive analysis and web resource development on cell wall degrading enzymes from phyto-parasitic nematodes. In: BMC plant biology. 2015 ; Vol. 15. pp. 187.
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Two (2) copies of the Couples Workbook — skills and exercises for home and in-session practice. Included Provided at first paid session.
Five (5) couples facilitation sessions. 5 Included. Additional sessions $100 each. $140 each at time of session (40-45 min.).
The number of appointments required is usually around five sessions and changes depending upon the report and issues of the couple involved. We will cover as many topics as possible in the five package sessions and discuss if there are priorities to focus on. Additional sessions can be purchased for $100 each after purchasing the upfront package or $140 pay-as-you-go.


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Minnesota earns Team of the Week honors after top-25 wins
Minnesota's win over Maryland ties them with Nebraska for third place in the Big Ten.
Playing its best basketball down the home stretch of the regular season, Minnesota continued its climb up the Big Ten Conference standings after scoring wins over a pair of ranked teams last week and now have three top-25 wins on their resume.
The #Gophers offense is right now!
points vs. Penn State
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points vs. Maryland
It's the first time in program history the team has scored at least 90 points in three straight @bigten games. pic.twitter.com/OCl7shgyD5
— Minnesota WBB (@GopherWBB) February 19, 2018
Minnesota's latest came Sunday afternoon as the Gophers were dominant in a 93-74 home win over No. 10 Maryland. Minnesota sophomore Gadiva Hubbard led all scorers with 22 points, adding four assists and three rebounds. Needing six points to become the 24th member to reach 1,000 points at Minnesota, junior Kenisha Bell contributed 21 points, six assists and four rebounds. The win, which was the first ever for the Gophers against the Terrapins, moves Minnesota (21-6, 10-4) into a tie with Nebraska for third place in the Big Ten. Both teams sit just a game behind Maryland and Ohio State, who are tied for the league lead at 11-3.
.@GopherWBB resume is .
When you ...
• Beat the No. 10 ranked team in the country
• Improve to 21-6 overall & 10-4 in @B1Gwbball
• Make it two straight Top-25 wins
• Win your 6th straight home game
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— Minnesota on BTN (@MinnesotaOnBTN) February 18, 2018
On Feb. 14, Minnesota knocked off No. 23 Michigan, 93-87, behind 26 points from senior Carlie Wagner, who went 8-of-17 from the floor and 6-of-11 from 3-point range. She now has 2,055 career points to move into fourth on the Minnesota career scoring list, passing Laura Coenen who had 2,044 points from 1981-85. Freshman Destiny Pitts backed Wagner with her sixth double-double of the season with 10 points and 12 rebounds.
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She's now tied with Bell for the most double-doubles on the team this year. Bell, meanwhile, contributed with 16 points, six assists and four rebounds. The win pushed Minnesota over the 20-win mark for the 13th time in program history, including three of four seasons under head coach Marlene Stollings.
Congratulations to @CarlieJoWagner, who has been named the @bigten co-Player of the Week for the first time in her illustrious career! pic.twitter.com/9WVHEw10Ll
The three top-25 wins this season are the most for the Gophers since winning four such games in the 2004-05 campaign, and it's the first time since March of 2004 that the team has won three consecutive games against ranked teams. The Gophers' current streak began with a 77-72 win over then-No. 20 Iowa on Jan. 21.
Women's basketball rankings: LSU enters AP Top 25 poll for first time in four years
With 101 points against Penn State on Feb. 11, 93 points against Michigan and 93 points Feb. 18 vs. Maryland, the Gophers have scored at least 90 in three straight league games for the first time in program history.
down!@GopherWBB rolled to a double-digit upset vs. No. 10 Maryland. pic.twitter.com/hPRqc2A54f
Only two games remain in the regular season for Minnesota, which returns to action Feb. 20 at home versus Indiana. The Gophers' final tune-up before the Big Ten Conference Tournament comes Feb. 25 at Illinois.
Ohio State remains atop the women's college hockey Power 10 rankings
The last week in women's college hockey saw some of the nation's top teams keep up their torrid paces, while others stumbled, leading to some jockeying in the Power 10 rankings.
What we know about the first college basketball game ever played
Geneva College and Vanderbilt University claim the first college basketball game, both in 1893, while Hamline and Minnesota A&M played the first intercollegiate game in 1895.
Minnesota men's hockey bounces back in overtime St. Cloud State to split series
Logan Cooley scored with 18.8 seconds remaining in overtime, and No. 3 Minnesota men's hockey took down No. 4 St. Cloud State, 2-1, to split the series.
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Owning a boat can be very rewarding. You can adventure out on the sea whenever you want to escape the city life, you can go fishing anytime you want, and you can enjoy some amazing family gatherings on sunny summer days. However, to fully enjoy the boating experience, you need some accessories to increase your comfort on the boat. We won't discuss safety elements, as we assume that you already have that taken care of. So, we will provide you with some ideas that will make your sailing experiences a lot more enjoyable.
All men love boats, and all men love grills. Put these two elements together and you've got yourself the perfect day for any man. Boat grills come in many shapes and sizes, and some of them can be quite affordable. When choosing a grill, make sure its size is proportionate with the size of the boat, so that if you happen to have more people on board, you can prepare a grill for all of them. Moreover, make sure that the grill is made of quality, rust resisting materials.
Dropping your boat keys in the water is one of the worst things that can happen when sailing. Luckily, these accidents can be prevented with MyCustomFloatingKeychains. These accessories are very affordable and they come in numerous designs. You can even customize floating keychains with different messages, and they can also make great gifts for fellow boat owners.
During the summer, it can get really hot on the boat. You may have a mini-fridge for keeping your beers and water cold, but a portable ice maker can also be very useful, especially if you plan on throwing some boat parties.
If you have a small boat, you will have to be very careful with the gadgets that you bring on board, as they can easily get ruined by water splashes. To avoid this, we advise you to invest in special waterproof gadgets such as a waterproof sound system, a waterproof camera, a waterproof phone case and so on.
OK, this might not be a must have accessory, but it is the type of detail that can make the difference. After all, what's the point of spending a day on the sea with friends, if you aren't going to get a little wild? Make sure to buy quality inflatable skis and insist that everybody who wants to try this sport must wear life vests.


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Silver Knees
Artist: Norman Price
Medium: Oil on Stretched Canvas
Dimensions: Sight Size 17" x 19" Framed 21" x 23"
Original Use: Interior Illustration for Liberty Magazine - April 4, 1931
September 22, 2012 By curator
Full view of luminous oil on canvas painting
The artist's signature lower right.
Created to accompany the 13th installment of the serialized novel "Silver Knees" in the April 4th 1931 issue of Liberty Magazine, this oil on canvas painting features a romanticized depiction of love during the Mexican-American war. In this lush scene, Gitana, a gypsy dancer, enjoys an afternoon serenade, as her star crossed lover, an American war hero, looks on quietly. "Silver Knees" was the title used by Liberty Magazine for their exclusive serialization of "Gitana," one of many popular historical novels by R.W. Chambers published in the 1920s/30s. Verso is notated by the artist with a personalized and dated inscription and retains a Liberty Art Department verso label.
Framed in handsome gold gilt lined walnut frame
Liberty Art label reads "Silver Knees April 4th -Page 67"
Verso view
Illustrator, Norman Mills Price was born in Brampton, Ontario (1877) and began his studies at the Ontario School of Art. Around 1901 he spent time in London, studying at the Goldsmith's Institute; Westminster School of Art; and with Cruikshank. While in London, he was the founder of Carlton Studios.
He later went on to Paris, studying at the Academie Julian, with J.P. Laurens and R.E. Miller. He did freelance work in Paris until an assignment in Belgium for Century brought him to the attention of other American publishers. In 1911, he had a studio in New York City, and worked for such publication as Harper's, Cosmopolitan, and Liberty.
He illustrated the novels: The Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare (1905), The Rogue's Moon (1929), Leif Erikson the Lucky (1939), Treasure Island, and other books. Price is best known for his depiction of pirates and Vikings.
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Deborah Niemann is a dairy goat breeder, homesteader, and author. She's the author of Raising Goats Naturally: A Complete Guide to Milk, Meat, and More and Homegrown and Handmade: A Practical Guide to Become More Self-Reliant. She's had as many as 21 milkers but is trying to cut back since her daughters left home and is now down to "only" 16 with a varying number of kids each year.
Her love of goats actually started with her first bite of goat cheese when she was in college. When she and her family moved to the country in 2002 to start growing their own food, she knew they had to have a couple of goats so she could make goat cheese. She and her husband have made 18 different cheeses through the years, as well as ice cream, yogurt, and buttermilk.
As ruminants, goats can live without grain, but they absolutely must have forage. Deborah first tried Standlee hay and hay pellets many years ago when she unable to find hay locally. Today, she feeds the pellets plain and mixed into the goats daily grain rations.
As people become more interested in knowing where their food comes from, the popularity of goats is growing for milk and meat. While city slickers (like Deborah) might be a little nervous about bringing home a thousand-pound milk cow, goats are much easier for newbies to learn to handle. With the right information and support, anyone can learn to raise goats. She says the most important thing is to listen to your goats. If they're happy and healthy, you're doing something right. If they're not producing well and you're calling the vet regularly, then something in your management needs to change. When eating a good diet and living in a natural environment, goats are very hardy animals.


portland imc - 2015.04.08 - Rally protest TPP outside Wyden and Blumenauer's office Wed.
Rally protest TPP outside Wyden and Blumenauer's office Wed.
WHEN: Wednesday, April 8 at 12:15 p.m.
Questions: Contact Morgan Gratz-Weiser at morgan.gratzweiser@sierraclub.org.
Together, we'll call on Senator Wyden and Congressman Blumenauer to stand with Oregonians to ensure trade agreements protect the environment. We must keep the pressure on our representatives to reject fast track legislation that seeks to rush the TPP and similar trade deals through Congress.
We'll have great speakers and some fun chants, and will deliver letters to the members. Please feel free to write a personal letter to the representatives telling them specifically why you are opposed to fast track. If you'd like, ride your bike (or bring it!) to show our representatives we're committed to a clean, green future!


Beautiful and very spacious 4-bedroom 3-bathroom condo located in the very desirable Pepperwood Village complex. You'll enter this wonderful home from the serene greenbelt area and step onto the stone entryway and into the inviting living room with bamboo flooring. To your left is the fourth bedroom (currently being used as a den) and a .75 bathroom. Upstairs you will find the 3 other bedrooms including the master bedroom suite featuring the master bathroom, ample closet space and a private balcony overlooking the greenbelt. Also, upstairs, are the two other bedrooms and the full bathroom. Back downstairs, you will approach the dining area and the remodeled kitchen with ceramic tile flooring & granite tile counter tops. The kitchen and the dining room overlook the very private and secured backyard which is entered through the glass sliding doors. The backyard has a lawn area plus a sitting area, perfect for a relaxing dinner or for entertaining. From the backyard you enter the 2-car garage with a panel roll-up door with an electric garage door opener, extra storage area above the rafters plus the laundry facilities. In addition, this home has central air conditioning and forced air heating for your comfort and is in a very well-maintained park-like condo complex that you will be impressed with. Your new home is conveniently located near freeways, shopping and Disneyland! You will not be disappointed!


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Maison Vuillaume
Embroidery Workshop since 1850
Haute couture embroidery
On the road to Nancy in Mirecourt, the Maison VUILLAUME has been established since 1850 and is by far the oldest Lorraine embroidery company still in business. VUILLAUME is well known in Paris for its haute-couture and ready-to-wear products, as well as for its leather goods, thanks in particular to its beaded bags, which have made a name for themselves across the Atlantic, as the quality of its work is still renowned.
French workshop
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Hawkwind – Do Not Panic (Documentary)
I don't know much about Hawkwind, but I feel I should as an obsessive fan of psychedelic rock n roll. Luckily, YouTube is filled with tons of awesome rockumentaries and I stumbled upon one about Hawkwind called 'Do Not Panic'. I had always known that I needed to spend some time to go through the Hawkwind discography, but felt very overwhelmed by the number of albums when I started to investigate. What kept leading me back to them was that Lemmy, of Motorhead, spent a few years with Hawkwind. It was mind boggling to think that Lemmy, one of the pioneers of heavy rock music, spent years in an extremely spacey, psychedelic, rock n roll band.
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The inside story of Hawkwind, one of Britain's wildest acid rock bands. Emerging from the Ladbroke Grove underground at the end of the 60s, the band trailed radicalism and counter-culture in their wake, and have been a direct influence on punk, metal, dance and rave. Includes interviews with some of the band's enduring legends, including bassist Lemmy, writer Michael Moorcock, founder members Terry Ollis, Nik Turner and Mick Slattery, and former managers Doug Smith and Jeff Dexter.
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Very good documentary about an exceptional band, in fact one of the greatest bands in the history of rock music. I'm a big fan and love just about every album they've released from 'Hawkwind' to 'The Machine Stops' so my opinion will obviously be a bit biased.
One thing I wish would happen is that Dave Brock and Nik Turner could reconcile their differences and find it in their hearts to forgive one another, it's casts a sad shadow over the legacy of the band.
However their music is amazing and for me the high point albums are 'X In Search Of Space' 'Doremi Fasol Latido' 'Space Ritual' 'Warrior On The Edge Of Time' 'Quark Strangeness & Charm' '25 Years On' 'Levitation' 'Sonic Attack' 'Live Chronicles' 'Electric Tepee' 'Alien 4' and the recent 'The Machine Stops'. Check out any of the albums mentioned and you'll find a wealth of excellent music, Hawkwind are the kings of Space Rock.


In this work, experimental techniques, equipment, apparatuses, models, algorithms, and software codes were developed to explore the nanoporous structure of polyetherimide (PEI) created using the solid-state foaming process. First reported in 2001, researchers have wondered about the transport properties of this skin-covered nanoporous structure but no one had successfully developed the means to reliably produce, access, or characterize it. In this work, I developed techniques and equipment to produce flat, uniform, and dimensionally stable specimens with low variance. Then, I developed two unique methods to selectively and robustly remove the solid skin without damaging the underlying porous nanostructure. The resulting geometry brought about a fluid problem with peculiar boundary conditions, which has nontrivial solutions. Therefore, I solved the partial differential equations for these geometries in order to compute transport properties from experimental data. The full solution to this problem made use of analytic and numerical methods, software algorithms, and image processing. After developing the complete experimental and theoretical tool-sets, I obtained data on a wide range of nanoporous PEI structures, including permeability, diffusivity, tortuosity, and thermal conductivity. Permeability was found to be in the range of 10^-16 to 10^-15 m^2, comparable to that of limestone, volcanic rock, and sandstone. Diffusivities were in the range 0.01 - 0.025, comparable to very dense soil. Tortuosity, a property often wondered about by researchers beholding scanning electron micrographs (SEM) of this nanostructure, was computed from diffusivity and porosity data to be in the range 20 - 40. These are the first results on transport properties, some 15 years after the discovery of the nanostructure. During this doctoral work, several major discoveries were made. First, I found that PEI's nanostructure is impermeable to liquid water, however it allows gasses and wetting liquids (such as acetone and isopropyl alcohol) to freely flow through the structure. This phenomenon is similar to that exploited in the commercial polytetrafluoroethylene membrane GoreTEX. This waterproof-but-breathable property has many practical applications, especially given that PEI's nanostructure was shown to be waterproof at pressures of over 50 atmospheres, whereas GoreTEX can withstand less than 3 atmospheres. Additionally, I developed a new method to achieve a completely novel nanostructure in PEI by using a two-state foaming technique. These new nanostructures have a very unique appearance and resemble a hybrid of closed-cell and open-porous morphologies. Perhaps most notably, I also discovered a processing condition which produces PEI foams that are transparent. This is the first known occurrence of polymer foams with cells so small that light scattering is diminished to the point of optical clarity. The cells are so small that our SEM techniques were inadequate in imaging the structure. Only a few voids on the order of 10 nanometers were visible. However, the structure was found to be open-porous as well as optically transparent, similar to Aerogel, but a polymer. Lastly, I performed a feasibility study on 3D printing polymer bubbles. The idea was to create a nozzle that jets a stream of individual liquid polymer bubbles at high frequency, and deposit them in layers to create a 3D object. Although further work is necessary, I demonstrated the vision using liquid latex, butter, and paraffin wax as working materials, having successfully developed nozzles and techniques to create and release bubbles encapsulated by these substances. The most significant aspect of my work isn't in the fact that I was first in 15 years to obtain transport property data on nanoporous PEI, but in creating the experimental and theoretical tools as a platform for much broader future research in this field.


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I was not intending to make a quilt top yesterday afternoon. Quilts were not even on my mind yesterday at all. So I was very surprised that in less than four hours I started and finished a quilt top! From cutting to the final press was four hours! I am LOVING the Moda Love Quilt pattern!
Moda is one of my favorite fabric companies! They are a philanthropic company, giving to many very worthwhile causes, FUN, and they are always looking for ways to inspire quilters, of all levels, to sew more by offering free patterns and tutorials! Thank you Moda!
I used North Woods by Kate Spain for Moda Fabrics that will be available in JUNE!
This collection has wonderful colors that include Cranberry, Spruce and Linen. It is a very lovely collection and mane of the fabrics are not just for Christmas! Very versatile.
I made the Charm friendly version. I had a little more than charm size for the fabrics. It was a breeze to cut them to the correct size and easily sew this top together. This would be a great beginner pattern, a fabulous charity baby quilt or a lovely last minute baby gift!
I used Aurifil 50wt for perfect piecing and this was sewn on my Bernina 440.
Next up for this pattern is another new quilt from my grand baby girl due in July! Baby quilts are the best!
Oh thank you so much for bringing this lovely to my/our attention!!! I really have some nice pieces for this one!!!!!
liking this pattern for a baby quilt, have some charm pack maybe I should do something with mine too.
I love quick finishes like this! Beautiful! How exciting to sew for your very own grand baby!! Can't wait to see it!
Just what I need this week! I need a baby quilt by end of June and have put it off to long to do anything very elaborate. This one offers great style with reasonable amount of piecing. Thanks for pointing us too it and showing us such a sweet version.
Thank you for the great idea! I was needing something to play with today and I have lots of extra Candys to choose from!
This is a great pattern! SO quick and fun to put together in any of the sizes Moda offers. :D Looks fab!
Love your version! Such a fun quilt to make.


Besides the peanut butter, Steven Shrout walked around the dog park in a gold Speedo.
Eric McKay, a 15-year-old in Virginia, accepted a challenge by Lidl grocery store and shared his prize with people affected by the shutdown.
Southerners started eating this unusual combo during the Great Depression, and today it's a source of discord across the internet.
The first things you need to ditch: your regular bread, jelly and that jar of PB. Confused yet?
Trystan Reese and Biff Chaplow have already two adopted children.
But the break wasn't smooth -- 11 of 12 got caught within a day.
It never hurts to remind yourself of the things and people you value.
"Taste the rainbow. Ingest the light. FEEL ITS POWER."
Something about this nutty spread has folks confused about refrigeration.
Unfortunately, one Florida woman found out the hard way that there is indeed a wrong way to eat a Reese's. Forty-six-year-old, Michele Underwood was arrested last week after she was clocked speeding at 127 miles per hour along a stretch of Interstate-95.


The problem is that we need a lot or RAM & CPU power on our machine to emulate all the devices we need and often laptops suffer from this.
In my case, I use a 13″ MacBookPro with 16Gb of ram with OSX on which I have installed the iOS & Android emulators and Windows 10 (through Parallels) with VisualStudio 15.
Everything works pretty well, thanks to the Mac agent I can connect to the iOS emulator directly from Windows but how can I use the Android emulator from Visual Studio and avoid reinstalling it in Windows and use nested virtualization?
What we want to do is basically what the Xamarin Mac Agent does for the iOS emulator: open an SSH connection to OSX and do a port forwarding.
In this way Windows will see the Android emulator like it is running directly on his pc.
Remember that it doesn't matter that I'm running the two OSs on the same machine as they think they are separate machines on the same network!
Once we have established the connection to the SSH server we need to kill the adb server on the machine that hosts the emulator so that it will be available for other machines.


SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Small and medium-sized smartphone manufacturers are making inroads in the vast smartphone market both domestically and internationally.
According to industry watchers, Good Mobile is reviving Pantech Co.'s SKY Phone. The company is expected to begin exporting its own smartphones to the U.S.
SKY Phone is one of the representative cell phones made by Pantech, a mobile device manufacturer that grew rapidly by selling pagers in the early 1990s.
However, as Samsung Electronics Co., LG Electronics Co., and Apple Inc. have dominated the domestic market since 2010, Pantech suffered financial difficulties and dropped out of the smartphone market.
Currently, Pantech is seeking to return to the smartphone market. Good Mobile, a small smartphone distributor, signed an agreement with Pantech to gain exclusive use of the SKY brand for five years.
Good Mobile also plans to take over parts of Pantech's research team and staff at its service center and manufacturing line.
The company will distribute a foldable smartphone in the first half of this year, under an OEM agreement.
When an order is placed with detailed product design, Chinese manufacturers will produce Pantech's Sky brand smartphones.
Park Jong-il, CEO of Good Mobile, is optimistic about the success of the project as the company was able to see how positive customers were about Pantech cell phones.
Sea-Mobile Co., another small smartphone manufacturer, is planning to enter the U.S market in the first half of this year.
It is not a licensing company, but it is entering U.S. as its own brand. It is targeting lower-income customers by providing affordable smartphones.
Mobile industry analysts predict that the market for self-sufficient smartphones will continue to grow as the number of small smartphone manufacturers increases.
Self-sufficient smartphones are typically released online or at offline stores rather than through the big mobile carriers.
Consumers can sign up for device and mobile rate plans separately. This way, consumers can compare prices with transparency.
While self-sufficient smartphones only account for 10 percent of the smartphone market, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are continuously releasing self-sufficient smartphones.
In order to expand their market, they should be able to enhance their customer service and warranty service and fully understand consumer needs and wants.


Fizemos uma recolha de inúmeros depoimentos internacionais sobre este novo álbum e foi com estas palavras que nos deparámos.
"When it comes to sparkling musical gems, few bands are as multi-faceted as Portuguese four-piece The Gift".
"Each track feels epically layered, yet oddly open, and the entirety of Altar seems jigsaw puzzle-piece fit and interlocking. Impressive".
"Ultimately it's a fantastically high tempo electronic pop record, it's album of the year material, and yes I know it's only April".
The result is a fantastic collection of songs that pull the listener into this vibrant, colourful world of different moods and interesting quirks; theatrical pop that brings in discordant synths and an intense, joyous expression of creative talent."


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Unlike other casino games, slot machines are not interactive. They are activated by a lever and require that a paper ticket or bar code be inserted into the machine. However, players can earn uang from these machines. If a player wins, he can collect his winnings and move on to the next game.
In most of the United States, slot machines are regulated by the state governments. A number of states have gaming control boards, which establish rules for the operation of slots. Other states, such as Nevada, do not restrict private ownership of slot machines. Still, slot machines in some states are not available for public use. In those states, slot machines are classified by the Gambling Commission, which has set definitions for the different types of slot machines.
For example, a traditional three-reel slot machine has one, three, or five paylines. Most of these slot machines also have variable credits. This is usually listed in the help menu or on the machine's face. When symbols line up on the payline, the player receives credits based on the paytable.
Modern slot machines also include advanced bonus rounds. These bonus features are typically aligned with the theme of the game. For example, a game with a Chinese theme would feature dragons. A game with a Japanese theme might include koi. Another feature that is often used is a hold and spin feature, which allows a player to spin the reels several times. This can lead to more winning combinations, and can also lead to larger payouts.
In the United Kingdom, slot machines are classified by the Gambling Act 2005. The United States, meanwhile, is divided into seven states: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, and New Jersey. In addition, some remaining states allow slot machines that were manufactured prior to a specific date.
The concept of a slot machine has been around for many years. Before the invention of mechanical slots, slots were only found in small shops and casinos. The first slot machine was invented in 1899 by Charles Fey. He manufactured his Liberty Bell slot machine in his San Francisco workshop. The game was a hit, and the club was extremely popular. The club eventually moved to Russia and then to Russia's banned gambling zones.
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Junko Chodos (born 1939) is a contemporary artist born and educated in Japan and residing in the United States since 1968. Her works represent a wide variety of techniques and styles, ranging from pencil, pen, and collage, to works done with acrylic.

Chodos has had solo exhibitions featured at the Tokyo Central Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the USC Pacific Asia Museum, the Fresno Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in St. Louis, and numerous other museums and galleries in Japan and in the United States.

Life and career
Junko Chodos was born Junko Takahashi in Tokyo, Japan, in 1939. Her experience during World War II affected her later life and art. She grew up in a household where Shinto, Buddhism and Christianity were strong influences. She was a member of the first post-war generation of "commoners" allowed to attend the Gakushūin, the Imperial school.

Chodos studied  at Tokyo's Waseda University from 1963-1968. She graduated  with a BA in Art History and Philosophy. At Waseda, she studied under Professor Shigeo Ueda, noted translator of Martin Buber into Japanese, and took an interest in his writings of philosophy.

After leaving Japan in 1968, Chodos migrated to California, calling herself a "spiritual refugee". She then attended the State University of New York, Buffalo. Later, in 1971 she married Rafael Chodos, a lawyer and author in biblical studies and the aesthetics of fine art.

In an article in the Winter 2003 issue of CrossCurrents, Chodos wrote:

To seek justice, to be courageous, to be ethical in other words, to choose rational universal standards over loyalty towards the group is to be a traitor in Japan, and these individuals break the biggest taboos of the totalitarian society. I experienced these aspects of Japanese society as a form of persecution and as a threat to my own integrity. That is why I left Japan and became a spiritual refugee.

As Junko Chodos developed her style. she coined the term Centripetal Art to describe the philosophical basis of her art, which she defined as art created by an artist who strives towards her center and encounters divine presence there.

Exhibitions and Publications
Chodos' solo exhibit from 1995 "In the Forest of Amida Budda" was described by William Wilson in the Los Angeles Times as a "small but impressive solo." This exhibition featured works that appeared similar to Japanese scrolls. Chodos painted on top of Mylar with inks and acrylics to get a unique texture for these works.

Chodos published Metamorphoses: The Transformative Vision of Junko Chodos, a catalog of the one-person exhibition of the art of Junko Chodos at the Long Beach Museum of Art in the Fall of 2001. The book featured full-color high-quality reproductions and five critical essays. The works included a selection from collages to mylars included in her "Esoteric Buddhism" series, inside CD jewel boxes. The book won "Best Art Book of the Year - First Prize"" from Independent Publisher in 2002.

In 2005, the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in Missouri presented a 30-year retrospective of her work titled "Junko Chodos: The Breath of Consciousness". The exhibition title referenced a recurrent image in her work: the lungs. The exhibition included complex drawings of roots and dead flowers and works from a 1991 series, "Requiem for an Executed Bird". In the same year, the Fresno Art Museum Council of 100 gave Junko Chodos The Distinguished Woman Artist Award. The award is given to a woman who "has spent thirty or more years in the studio and has created a unique and prestigious body of work."

Her influences include Paul Klee, Willem de Kooning, Matthias Grünewald, Albrecht Dürer and Japanese calligraphy, as well as the authors Rainer Maria Rilke, Herbert Read and Martin Buber. In 2010, Chodos was named a Fellow of the Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture.

Centripetal Art
Junko Chodos has termed her art as "Centripetal" in nature. The New Republic defines centripetal artists as artists "whose preoccupation is directed to a dramatization of their accidental or willful individualism". A centripetal painter "believes in self-illumination, improvisation, speaking for himself alone", they "look to museums when not at mirrors". Junko Chodos herself defines it as "art created by an artist who strives towards her center and encounters Divine Presence there, where people go beyond the barriers of ethnicity, gender, religious denominations, dogma, and of confined ideas of blood and soil.

In 2008, Junko and her husband formed the Foundation for Centripetal Art to spread its ideas.

References

Further reading
 Ellens, J. Harold. "Why on Earth does God Have to Paint? Centripetal Art." CrossCurrents 61.2 (2011): 271-275.

External links

 Centripetal Art

1939 births
Living people
20th-century American painters
20th-century American women artists
20th-century Japanese women artists
21st-century American women artists
21st-century Japanese women artists
Artists from Tokyo
American women painters
Religious artists
Modern painters
Japanese emigrants to the United States
American artists of Japanese descent
Painters from California
University at Buffalo alumni

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Q: Loss for Multi-label Classification I am working on a multi-label classification problem. My gt labels are of shape 14 x 10 x 128, where 14 is the batch_size, 10 is the sequence_length, and 128 is the vector with values 1 if the item in sequence belongs to the object and 0 otherwise.
My output is also of same shape: 14 x 10 x 128. Since, my input sequence was of varying length I had to pad it to make it of fixed length 10. I'm trying to find the loss of the model as follows:
total_loss = 0.0
unpadded_seq_lengths = [3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 3, 2, 8, 5, 3, 5, 7, 7, ...] # true lengths of sequences

optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(model.parameters(), lr=1e-3)
criterion = nn.BCEWithLogitsLoss()

for data in training_dataloader:
    optimizer.zero_grad()

    # shape of input 14 x 10 x 128
    output = model(data)

    batch_loss = 0.0
    for batch_idx, sequence in enumerate(output):
        # sequence shape is 10 x 128
        true_seq_len = unpadded_seq_lengths[batch_idx]

        # only keep unpadded gt and predicted labels since we don't want loss to be influenced by padded values
        predicted_labels = sequence[:true_seq_len, :] # for example, 3 x 128
        gt_labels =  gt_labels_padded[batch_idx, :true_seq_len, :] # same shape as above, gt_labels_padded has shape 14 x 10 x 128

        # loop through unpadded predicted and gt labels and calculate loss
        for item_idx, predicted_labels_seq_item in enumerate(predicted_labels):

            # predicted_labels_seq_item and gt_labels_seq_item are 1D vectors of length 128
            gt_labels_seq_item = gt_labels[item_idx]
            current_loss = criterion(predicted_labels_seq_item, gt_labels_seq_item)
            total_loss += current_loss
            batch_loss += current_loss

    batch_loss.backward()
    optimizer.step()

Can anybody please check to see if I'm calculating loss correctly. Thanks
Update:
Is this the correct approach for calculating accuracy metrics?
# batch size: 14
# seq length: 10

for epoch in range(10):
    TP = FP = TN = FN = 0.
    for x, y, mask in tr_dl:
        # mask shape: (10,)
        out = model(x) # out shape: (14, 10, 128)
        y_pred = (torch.sigmoid(out) >= 0.5).float().type(torch.int64) # consider all predictions above 0.5 as 1, rest 0
        y_pred = y_pred[mask] # y_pred shape: (14, 10, 10, 128)
        y_labels = y[mask] # y_labels shape: (14, 10, 10, 128)

        # do I flatten y_pred and y_labels?
        y_pred = y_pred.flatten()
        y_labels = y_labels.flatten()

        for idx, prediction in enumerate(y_pred):
            if prediction == 1 and y_labels[idx] == 1:
                # calculate IOU (overlap of prediction and gt bounding box)
                iou = 0.78 # assume we get this iou value for objects at idx
                if iou >= 0.5:
                    TP += 1
                else:
                    FP += 1
            elif prediction == 1 and y_labels[idx] == 0:
                FP += 1
            elif prediction == 0 and y_labels[idx] == 1:
                FN += 1
            else:
                TN += 1

     EPOCH_ACC = (TP + TN) / (TP + TN + FP + FN)

A: It is usually recommended to stick with batch-wise operations and avoid going into single-element processing steps while in the main training loop. One way to handle this case is to make your dataset return padded inputs and labels with additionally a mask that will come useful for loss computation. In other words, to compute the loss term with sequences of varying sizes, we will use a mask instead of doing individual slices.
Dataset
The way to proceed is to make sure you build the mask in the dataset and not in the inference loop. Here I am showing a minimal implementation that you should be able to transfer to your dataset without much hassle:
class Dataset(data.Dataset):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()

    def __len__(self):
        return 100

    def __getitem__(self, index):
        i = random.randint(5, SEQ_LEN) # for demo puporse, generate x with random length
        x = torch.rand(i, EMB_SIZE)
        y = torch.randint(0, N_CLASSES, (i, EMB_SIZE))

        # pad data to fit in batch
        pad = torch.zeros(SEQ_LEN-len(x), EMB_SIZE)
        x_padded = torch.cat((pad, x))
        y_padded = torch.cat((pad, y))

        # construct tensor to mask loss
        mask = torch.cat((torch.zeros(SEQ_LEN-len(x)), torch.ones(len(x))))

        return x_padded, y_padded, mask

Essentially in the __getitem__, we not only pad the input x and target y with zero values, we also construct a simple mask containing the positions of the padded values in the currently processed element.
Notice how:

*

*x_padded, shaped (SEQ_LEN, EMB_SIZE)

*y_padded, shaped (SEQ_LEN, N_CLASSES)

*mask, shaped (SEQ_LEN,)
are all three tensors which are shape invariant across the dataset, yet mask contains the padding information necessary for us to compute the loss function appropriately.
Inference
The loss you've used nn.BCEWithLogitsLoss, is the correct one since it's a multi-dimensional loss used for binary classification. In other words, you can use it here in this multi-label classification task, considering each one of the 128 logits as an individual binary prediction. Do not use nn.CrossEntropyLoss) as suggested elsewhere, since the softmax will push a single logit (i.e. class), which is the behaviour required for single-label classification tasks.
Therefore, in the training loop, we simply have to apply the mask to our loss.
for x, y, mask in dl:
   y_pred = model(x)
   loss = mask*bce(y_pred, y)
   # backpropagation, loss postprocessing, logs, etc.

A: This is what you need for the first part of the question, there are already loss functions implemented in tensorflow: https://medium.com/@aadityaura_26777/the-loss-function-for-multi-label-and-multi-class-f68f95cae525. Yours is just tf.nn.weighted_cross_entropy_with_logits, but you need to set the weight.
The second part of the question is not straightforward, because there's conditioning on the IOU, generally, when you do machine learning, you should heavily depend on matrix multiplication, in your case, you probably need to pre-calculate the IOU -> 1 or 0 as a vector, then multiply with the y_pred , element-wise, this will give you the modified y_pred . After that, you can use any accuracy available function to calculate the final result.

A: if you can use the CROSSENTROPYLOSS instead of BCEWithLogitsLoss there is something called ignore_index. you can use it to exclude your padded sequences. the difference between the 2 losses is the activation function used (softmax vs sigmoid). but I think you can still use the CROSSENTROPYLOSSfor binary classification as well.

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