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Accuser 'horrified and ashamed' after alleged sex with Andrew
Virginia Giuffre
The Duke of York's accuser Virginia Giuffre has told BBC Panorama she felt "horrified and ashamed" after allegedly having sex with Andrew when she was a teenager.
Ms Giuffre claims she was trafficked by the since-disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and forced to have sex with the duke in 2001.
Andrew categorically denies he had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Ms Giuffre.
The Duke of York has denied the claims (Jonathan Brady/PA)
In her first UK television interview, Ms Giuffre said: "There was a bath and it started there and then led into the bedroom.
"It didn't last very long, the whole entire procedure. It was disgusting. He wasn't mean or anything but he got up and he said 'thanks' and walked out.
"I sat there in bed, just horrified and ashamed and felt dirty. I had to get up and have a shower."
She added: "The next day, Ghislaine (Maxwell) tells me I did a really good job. She pats me on the back and said 'You made him really happy'."
In tears, Ms Giuffre said: "It was a wicked time in my life. It was a really scary time in my life. I had just been abused by a member of the royal family… These powerful people were my chains."
"His sweat was like – it was raining basically everywhere and I was just like grossed out from it."
Virginia Giuffre describes the night she danced with Prince Andrew at a London nightclub.
Prince Andrew says he doesn't recall meeting Virginia and "didn't sweat at the time." pic.twitter.com/ghCz1hvAk2
— Panorama 🌐 (@BBCPanorama) December 2, 2019
Claiming she danced with a sweating Andrew at Tramp nightclub in London earlier that night, Ms Giuffre said: "He is the most hideous dancer I've ever seen in my life.
"It was horrible and this guy was sweating all over me, his sweat was like it was raining basically everywhere, I was just like grossed out from it, but I knew I had to keep him happy because that's what Jeffrey and Ghislaine would have expected from me."
She was allegedly told the duke was coming back to Ghislaine Maxwell's house.
"Ghislaine tells me I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey, and that made me sick," she said.
"I just didn't expect it from royalty. I didn't expect it from someone that people look up to and admire in the royal family."
Ms Giuffre told how while working as a 17-year-old locker room attendant at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida she was approached by Ghislaine Maxwell to train as a massage therapist.
"They seemed like nice people so I trusted them," she said of Ms Maxwell and Epstein.
Ms Giuffre told the couple she had had a difficult time and had been a runaway and sexually abused.
"That was the worst thing I could have told them because now they knew how vulnerable I was," she said.
Quizzed on accusations of inconsistency, Ms Giuffre said: "You are left with a foggy memory sometimes, you really are.
"I might be wrong on dates absolutely and I might be wrong on places even, sometimes.
"But one thing that I can tell you is you never forget the face of someone who has heaved over you."
Viewers heard how Ghislaine Maxwell once brought out a Spitting Image puppet of Andrew which the duke allegedly put on a woman's breast.
The incident is said to have taken place when Ms Giuffre and another woman, Johanna Sjoberg, were at Epstein's house off Fifth Avenue in New York.
Ms Giuffre said: "Prince Andrew put the puppet on Johanna's breast. Ghislaine was like 'I wanna take a picture of that' and they did. They took a picture and they were laughing about it.
"It just goes to show how much we were not even dignified as humans to them. We were there as toys to be passed around."
Ms Giuffre also claimed that while in London in 2001, the duke and Ms Maxwell were "bad-mouthing" Andrew's ex-wife Sarah, Duchess of York.
"We were having tea and Andrew was talking about Fergie – his ex-wife at that point, and Ghislaine's bad-mouthing Fergie as well."

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As I read the UnME Jeans Case I was wondering whether all companies can use social media to advertise their products. A category of companies that came quickly into my mind was publishing companies.
Is it therefore wisely for publishing companies to advertise their books through social media?
Michael Porter (professor at Harvard University) has come up with this 'Shared value' concept. It's about creating more value, by invloving the consumers more, by not only looking at pure economical value-creation, but also Social value creation.
As corporate social responsibility is seen as a 'cost post' to profit maximalization, and it is only limited to the CSR budget, Shared Value is about mobilizing the entire budget of the corportation.
It could be described as a new way of doing business, which i think would be an improvement in the efficiency of the contemporary economic system.
Here you can see professor Porter explaining himself the problem pretty enthusiasticly, and the solution!
Is this a smart move? I think they got a point. I also liked some pages in the past because I could win something there or just for something interesting. So shifting the focus more to word of mouth creation sounds good. But I don't think they should stop with social media. Because it is important in creating the word of mouth that Unilever wants to create. So they should not stop with social media but shift their focus on the social media. It is a trend that will stay and otherwise Unilever will lose on a key playground for the future.
It is in dutch, but basically what happened was that Heineken started with an ad of a heineken beer that looks like a coffee cup. And asked who wanted to drink, Douwe Egberts(coffee company) responded with: I will!. And so multiple companies started with reactions where they used their brands to suggest things related to the topic. I thought it was fun and a good way to raise brand awareness.
Through this website people can customize their own iphone case. They use a interface most looking like the "dell" parameter-based interfase. Enabeling customers to upload their photo and making a case for their iphone out of it.
Interesting about this product is that for the mobile industry it's almost retro. Everybody remembers nokia introducing a very simple form of customization for their customers by having replacable covers. The link* on the bottem of this post shows a picture of the mobile phone timeline of nokia. As you can see it was already in 1997 when they introduced the concept.
A Harvard business revieuw article published in the same year (1997) tells us about "The Four Faces of Mass Customization".
Hi everyone, this article gives you the newest insights into loyalty programs reveal the best ways to engage customers, we know all about the classic ways in loyalty's programs and here are the last insights by Kim T. Gordon, columnist at Enterpreneur.com and President at National Marketing Federation in Miami.
The importance of a positive customer experience!!!
I enjoyed a lot the course about the customer experience so I wanted to know more about the importance of a positive customer experience. I hope you will enjoy it!
Mass production as a paradigm of management has dominated the world industrial production since World War II. With shifting demographics and changing consumer tastes and preferences, mass production far homogeneous markets is not enough to keep businesses going. This paper discusses the paradigm shift from mass production to mass customization, its conceptualization and applications in the hospitality industry.
Color theory is the practice of using the meaning behind colors to bring about a sensory experience. This practice can be applied to web design with some knowledge and thought. A carefully selected color scheme will create the mood of the website, evoke a certain emotion. That is why it is important that the color scheme used on a website is in line with the product itself, its target audience, and characteristics of a product.
Warm colors will bring about sunny emotions and are wisely used on sites that want to call to mind a feeling of happiness and joy. As a case in point, yellow became a popular color in web design in 2009 when the global economy wasn't doing very well and companies wanted their customers to feel sunny and comfortable on their site. Cool colors are best used on professional and clean-cut sites to achieve a cool corporate look. Cool colors stir up emotions of authority, establishment, and trust.
In the end the colors used will evoke certain negative or positive emotions, and can ulteriorly affect the sales and popularity of the product you are selling on your website.
A personal example of mine are the websites of the low cost carrier airline EasyJet.com and RyanAir.com. I mostly book EasyJet when it comes to low cost airlines. Why? Simply because EasyJet seems more trustworthy the website more work, and easy to navigate, while RyanAir is very strident, too bright, which in the end looks cheap, something you do not want to be associated with your flight. So Easy jet won me as a customer partly because of their color scheme. Soft, orange/yellow color, which makes it more safe and pleasant to navigate through.
So pick your color scheme wisely when choosing the personality of the products or service your are trying to promote on your website. It really makes a difference!
Here are some links to some nice articles about color schemes.
A couple of posts ago, Dimitris raised the question if there were any more examples of crowdsourcing. Mostly because the examples he gave where small initiatives. The fortune 500 firms didn't really embraced the idea of crowdsourcing on a large prominent scale.
I found some examples of two different companies that use the idea of crowdsourcing.
The second example is the AOL website. They had a problem with the quality content of the site so they stated that they wanted to use cheap labor to help them maintaining their quality. AOL asked crowd workers to determine whether Web pages contained a video and to identify both its source and location on the page. This would saveup time and money.
The article also stated the financial benefits for companies to use crowdsourcing.
I am convinced that crowdsourcing is the future! It is the new co-creation model. Users/ consumers generate value, they get paid and get a high customer involvement with the company.
I found an interesting (short) article about the (eight) ingredients to build customer loyalty.
Of course as we have read in the article of Werner Reinarts and V.Kumar (the mismanagement of customer loyalty), customer loyalty does not always means (customer) profitability. However building customer loyalty is very important for a company, especially if you want them to become 'true friends'.
Next you can find eight essential ingredients according to R.Paul and D.Timm to build customer loyalty.
Dimitris already told us about the characteristics of experiences. You can divide an experience in two dimensions; participation and connection. Participation can be split in active and passive, and connection in immersion and absorption.
I find some additional information on this, Joseph Pine introduced the multiverse. This is a tool to gain insight about how we can use digital technology to create new en wonderous experiences that fuse together the real and virtual.
Reality is a trinity of time, space and matter. But there's also a virtual based size, with no matter, no space and no time. Matter is about atoms, if there's no atom it's about bits. Space is about the real places we inhabit, but there's also no space; the virtual world we explore.
Then we have time; the actual time that unspools in front of us. And you can have no time, it's autonomous from the actual time.
We have time and no time, space and no space, and matter and no matter. This defines the eight different realms of the multiverse, it's a more extensive model than the model we saw in class.
There are many examples to explain each realm, but I think this video provides good examples, it also summarizes the theory I discussed above.
Did you know about Pinterest??
Since we have discussed so much about social media I thought you may be interested in learning some things about Pinterest, a brand new idea in the field of social media.
Pinterest is more like Flickr or Tumblr and not so much as Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter.
I suggest you should read the article below to get a clear idea of what exactly is Pinterest and why not request an invite at http://pinterest.com/?!
What I found most interesting about this new media is that only after less than two years in business, Pinterest is already one of the most popular social networks in the world, as measured by engagement (according to data from comScore).
As you can see, it is ranked just below Facebook and Tumblr as the most popular site to hang out on.
As Boudewijn Tilman pointed out in his post: Involvement of fans or consumers, the involvement of fans in a football club can be enormous. He pointed out two examples: FC United of Manchester and a Mexican squad in which the fans decide about the starting eleven. These examples turned out to be a pretty good success.
But I want to point out another example: myfootballclub.co.uk. This example goes beyond letting the fans decide about who plays and who are on the bench. Actually "myfootballclub.co.uk" gives his consumers the chance to become the owners of the club which is called: Ebbsfleet United for only 35 pounds.
This whole club is in the hands of their fans. All the major club functions are in the hands of their fans and all the members/fans worldwide get their votes in transfers, the starting eleven and also in deciding about the future of the club.
In the first year the club got over 32,000 members (which is I think pretty much for a 5th division team in England). But they ended up with only 3,500 members in september 2010, while the club previously stated that 15,000 members was the minimum required.
On December 23 2011, it was announced that the club needed to raise £50,000 by the end of the 2011/12 season or risk going out of business.
So what you can see is that involvement in sports can be a good thing, in the case of the Mexican team but it can also turn out into an disaster like the example above.
I think that it is too much yet to let your consumers or your fans fully decide about all the major business decisions. But I do still think that it was a cool idea which was really out of the box thinking when they started it in 2007.


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Q: pagination in search results I want to do pagination in search result .i have one page and there are two table one for the searching and second for the result.
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by default i have applied pagination but when i want to find user details by searching i also want to do pagination in search result.
however i not done yet.this is my pagination code.
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Migrant sex workers in Australia (report)
In Multicultural communities, Sex Work
Lauren Renshaw, Jules Kim
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, November 2015
In this report the Australian Institute of Criminology, in partnership with Scarlet Alliance, the Australian Sex Workers Association, presents one of the first pieces of research specifically conducted on the work and migration experiences of migrant sex workers in Australia.
Surveying a large sample of migrant and non-migrant sex workers across a range of states and territories in Australia, the study has enabled an assessment to be made of the demographic profile, work conditions and access to services of migrant sex workers.
It contrasts and compares the experiences of migrant sex workers with those of Australian-born sex workers. The migration experiences and motivations of respondents for migrating to Australia are also documented and the possible pathways migrants may take in engaging in sex work are described, along with an analysis of the specific needs and services required by this group..
There has been little research conducted on the experiences of migrant sex workers both internationally and within Australia. This is despite widespread media and other reports highlighting the perception of migrant sex workers as particularly vulnerable to exploitation and human trafficking. This report focuses on consolidating current knowledge of migrants in the Australian sex industry, based on a review of the existing literature and an analysis of responses to a survey conducted among migrant and non-migrant sex workers in a range of states and territories in Australia in 2010
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Digital TV converters a hassle to come by
The magical little converter box that is supposed to work when television stations switch their broadcasting from analog to digital has become a scarce commodity.
By news@parkrapidsenterprise.com
"They put the horse way before the cart," said Tom Lundberg, engineering manager for Lakeland Public Television.
While broadcasters have been worrying about consumer education and some in Congress are fretting over possible mismanagement of a billion-dollar coupon program, consumers are finding the converters are just plain hard to get.
Congress has mandated the switchover to digital by Feb. 17, 2009. Televisions connected to cable or satellite will not be affected, but older analog-only television sets will not receive any television signal after that date without a converter box.
Minnesota ranks third in the nation in the number of analog broadcast-only households. According to the Association of Public Television Stations, 24 percent of households in the state use only analog TVs.
To ease the transition, Congress appropriated $1.5 billion for a program to distribute $40 coupons to help consumers pay for the converter boxes they will need to continue watching to analog TVs. The boxes are said to typically cost $50 to $80. Each household can order two coupons.
As of July 11, 20 million coupons have been requested and about 5.5 million have been redeemed.
The coupons must be used within 90 days.
That's when consumers run into a brick wall.
Lundberg said the federal government "is basically saying, 'Here's $40. Good luck.'"
The shortage of converter boxes is nationwide, Lundberg said.
Consumers who received their coupons earlier in the year had an easier time using them, but those who waited may still be unable to redeem them at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Park Rapids.
Park Rapids Pamida is accepting the coupons as down payment on a lay-away for the converters.
According to Karenlee Carlson, manager of the local Wal-Mart, earlier this year the store had hundreds of the converter boxes in stock and they sold "like crazy."
"We had plenty until May or early June," Carlson said, "and then we got hit really hard. Right now the supply is limited. If we could get more, we would."
Ken Gartner, electronics supervisor for the local Wal-Mart, said initially he ordered 300 of the converters and kept ordering them, but once the first coupons were sent out, consumers took the inventory down to nothing.
He believes manufacturers, predominantly RCA and Magnavox, are not keeping up with the demand and possibly "way underestimated" what the numbers would be.
According to Gartner, the Wal-Mart in Park Rapids is getting from 16 to 32 converters a week. "As fast as I can get them out of the stock room, they're gone," he said. "If we get some in the morning, I'm really surprised if there are any left in the afternoon."
Pamida is offering to use the coupons as a down payment on a layaway for Lasonic brand converters. Betsy Thelen said the system gives headquarters in Omaha a count on how many the local store needs.
"So if you want to use a coupon before it expires, it is the thing to do," she said.
The wait can be up to 30 days.
Lundberg said the converter boxes are available online for those who have Internet access. He advises being a "smart consumer" and shopping around if that's the choice you make.
Lundberg talks to people daily about the conversion. Lakeland Public TV is serving as an information center for people and helping them with conversions, he said.
Part of the difficulty is every circumstance will be different, he said of questions he is hearing about why the converter boxes don't seem to work once people do bring them home.
The public television station (KAWE/KAWB) has put together a half-hour program about how the digital conversion will work. The next one will air at 7 p.m. Aug. 12.
For more information about the switch to digital in the area, contact Lundberg at 800-292-0922, Ext. 101 or go to
www.lakelandptv.org
For more information about the coupons, call 888-388-2009 or visit www.dtv2009.gov .


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Effect of mechanical set point of bone cells on mechanical control of trabecular bone architecture
M. Mullender, B. Van Rietbergen, P. Rüegsegger, R. Huiskes*
The architecture of trabecular bone is thought to be controlled by mechanosensitive bone cells, where hormones provide a background for their responses to mechanical signals. It has been suggested that, in osteoporosis, this response is hampered by changed hormonal levels, thereby increasing the mechanical set point of the cells, which would lead to bone loss. We have investigated if a temporary increase of the mechanical set point causes deterioration of trabecular bone architecture, such as seen in osteoporosis. Furthermore, the effects of a changed loading pattern were investigated for the same reason. For this purpose, we used a computer simulation model, which was based on the regulation of bone architecture by mechanosensitive osteocytes. It was found that a temporary shift of the mechanical set point causes no lasting changes in architecture. Although an increase of the mechanical set point induces bone loss, the mechanism of bone loss (trabecular thinning) differs from what is observed in osteoporosis (loss of whole trabeculae). Hence, a change of the mechanical set point alone cannot explain bone loss as seen in osteoporosis. On the other hand, the removal of load components in a particular direction resulted in irreversible loss of whole trabeculae. These results indicate that such temporary changes in loading patterns could be important risk factors for osteoporosis.
Mullender, M., Van Rietbergen, B., Rüegsegger, P., & Huiskes, R. (1998). Effect of mechanical set point of bone cells on mechanical control of trabecular bone architecture. Bone, 22(2), 125-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/S8756-3282(97)00251-2
Mullender, M. ; Van Rietbergen, B. ; Rüegsegger, P. et al. / Effect of mechanical set point of bone cells on mechanical control of trabecular bone architecture. In: Bone. 1998 ; Vol. 22, No. 2. pp. 125-131.
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NCAA Third Place
The 1985 Huskies opened up with a string of five games in which they scored four goals or more in each contest, shutting out the first three opponents. Over the next ten games, Bloom shut out eight opponents to push their record to 15-0 with an aggregate score of 57-7 at the conclusion of the regular season. After Shippensburg won a strokeoff in the next contest, Bloom beat Kutztown to move into the NCAA tournament as a regional host. The Huskies won the regional and advanced to the semifinal, where they lost to eventual champion TCNJ 1-0. They defeated Drew to take third place. Karen Hertzler was named National Player of the Year and was named an All-American along with Donna Graup and Carla Shearer.


The action in Beckett's play takes place on a deserted road where there is nothing but a dried tree. In Kirill Vitoptov's performance it is taken to a half-empty room of a rented flat. Here the Tree of Peace is a crumbled New Year tree. Nobody got rid of it after the holiday… Four young people are constantly waiting for a mythical Godot who should decide their destiny. But nobody knows how he looks like and when he is going to come.
In this bland flat, created by Nana Abdrashitova, four losers imagine that they are superheroes, suicides, wise men, children… In fact, they all are just clowns. But where all possible roles are mixed, something new is born. The director called it "grey clownery". The characters try to decide who of them deserves happiness, who will be the first; whether they should go their separate ways forever or tolerate each other a little bit longer. The more seriously they attempt to find the sense of their existence, the funnier and the more ridiculous the conclusions are. The more they want to fall apart, the stronger their fear of loneliness is. At the end of days they are perfectly sure that they are not forgotten, that Godot knows the address of this flat.


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Trixi Studios' "Take On Me" Creates 80s Pop Magic In Your Living Room
By Dan ShawAugust 1, 2017Happy, News
Trixi Studios have created an ingenious tribute to A-ha's "Take On Me" video clip.
A-ha's "Take On Me" video broke new ground in the early MTV era. Developers Trixi Studios have honoured the classic clip in a new way.
The make-believe world of the hand drawn mixed with reality was the core visual feature "Take On Me", the hit song by Norwegian pop outfit A-ha. In the video released by Trixi Studios, this world is recreated in the form of an augmented reality app.
The new version of the video clip showcases the power of the augmented reality and how easily it can be created on platforms like Apple ARkit. With augmented reality so easily implementable for app developers, expect a slew of new and creative uses of the technology.
There are unfortunately no plans to release the app as yet, but you can find out more about Trixi Studios on their website.
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Pastor Joseph Prince is in Israel now for the TBN Tour.
This year, we are gonna POP (Possess Our Possessions)!
Pastor Lian wants to us to bring before God what possession we really want to possess this year in this session.
What is the one thing that if you possess it this year, you will have everything?
Numbers 13:27-31 - When we see the possessions that we want to possess, we can usually see the Giants too.
This is good news: If you see giants, you are in the promised land!
Numbers 14:6-9 - The Lord wants to give us EXCEEDINGLY good things this year. Let this sink into your spirit man.
Have the revelation that the Lord delights in you!
The word "delight" can't be said without a lightness and a smile. You can't say it in an angry tone/way.
Put your hand on your heart and say "The Lord delights in _____ (your name)". The Lord will give our possessions to us.
When we see the possessions that we want to possess, we can usually see the Giants too. This is good news: If you see giants, you are in the promised land!
The things of God are simple but powerful. We can receive from Him easily.
I Samuel 17:33-37 - Believe for audacious faith this year that allows us to have victory over all giants, lions and bears in our lives.
David knew why he could have such an audacious faith. He knew it was not himself, but the Lord who delivered him from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear.
II Samuel 22:1 - The Lord is the One who delivered David from all his enemies.
II Samuel 22:20 - David knew the secret as to why he could have such audacious faith.
He knew that the Lord delights in him! The word "delighted" here is the Hebrew word "carphet".
There is power in the remembrance of what the Lord has done.
Believe for audacious faith this year that allows us to have victory over all giants, lions and bears in our lives. David knew why he could have such an audacious faith. He knew it was not himself, but the Lord who delivered him from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear.
When we are in God's presence and we know it and practice His presence without focusing on anything else (God's power, the provision, etc), we can enjoy it and receive from Him.
As we hear God's word and testimonies of His goodness, faith arises in our hearts, and we become prosperous in every area of our lives.
Don't believe that your success is because of yourself. It is because of the Lord.
If your eyes are truly on the Lord, even when people lie about you and spread evil things about you, you won't be affected, because you know it's not about you.
You will live really free and happy, with no one you're trying to impress.
Remember: The battle is the Lord's!
When David had absolutely nothing as a poor shepherd, he was truly the richest boy in Israel.
He had the presence of God with him. He knew that the Lord was with him.
When you have the Lord, you are successful and you are prosperous.
Practice God's presence in your life. Whatever is not right in your life, God will make it right.
Isaiah 53:10 - The word "pleased" here is also the Hebrew word "carphet". God was delighted to bruise His Son because He knew that after bruising Jesus, your healing would be sure and sealed! God knew the fruits that would result from that and He delighted in them.
When you have the presence of God, you have every exceedingly good thing!
When David had absolutely nothing as a poor shepherd, he was truly the richest boy in Israel. He had the presence of God with him. He knew that the Lord was with him. When you have the Lord, you are successful and you are prosperous.
I hope that you have been blessed by reading this post on "21 Feb 2016 - The Lord Delights In Us - Pastor Lim Lian Neo Sermon Notes Online - New Creation Church Sermon Notes Online".


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Q: Testing ANN backpropagation implementation When assembling an artificial neural net with backpropagation,
the algorithm is complex and there is no stable reference point for testing.
What is the best approach to debug correctness of implemented algorithm?
I am not talking about train/validation/test phases, I would like some sort of gauge or, perhaps, a step–by–step training results/weight values to check the against the inner workings of a network, for a given configuration and training data.

A: What I think might help is:

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*Using modules with an automatic differentation frameworks (like Theano or Tensor Flow) and defining a network with the same configuration as yours - and checking results using their inner differentation frameworks.

*Using a numerical gradient computations.

*Computing appropriate gradients on your own and comparing results.


"Sustainable Youth Ministries fail all the time; they thrive in a culture of experimentation, innovation and creativity. It is floundering youth ministries that often remain paralyzed, unable to risk, stuck in a nostalgic obsession with past success"
This quote comes from Mark DeVries in his excellent book Sustainable Youth Ministry. I read it over the summer break, before I got married and made a note to reread it in May, when I could make some of the more radical or systemic changes (due to having a new senior pastor and having 6 months or so before the new year begins) needed in our ministry here at HTD. So that's currently what I'm doing. It's a great book full of great wisdom of the long, committed, costly, risky, business it is for a church to create a long lasting sustainable ministry that will outlast any Youth Pastor.
I really like taking taking risks for the sake of the Gospel. It excites me. Please pray that I would seek with the people of our church God's plan and purpose for our ministry to the youth of Doncaster.
I think that quote remains true if you remove both instances of the word 'youth'.


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Kannada cinema, also known as Sandalwood or Chandanavna cinema, is home to many spectacular movies in the Indian film industry. The industry is also known for experimental works such as Girish Kasaravalli's Ghatashraddha. The industry got its international recognition with the film Naandi in the year 1964.
One of the main reasons for the industry's success is its actors and actresses. Actors and actresses play an important role, as much as the directors and distributors. The role of actresses in the success of a film is measureless. Here is a list of Top 10 Actresses in Kannada Cinema in the year 2022.
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Radhika Pandit is a former television actress. She has worked in television series such as Nandagokula, Kaadambari, and Sumangali. She soon became a leading actress in Kannada cinema following her debut in the feature film Moggina Manasu. She won the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress and the South Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her role in the film Moggina Manasu. Her popular films include Hudugaru, Addhuri, Drama, Bahaddur, and Mr. and Mrs. Ramachari.
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2020 issue.
Quirky and charming garage pop, sounding like the 1960s and early 1970s, and clearly influential to the decades that followed, sounding like it must have influenced so many quirky indie pop outfits of the past 50 years, or influenced the bands that influenced other bands that weren't even aware of the Shaggs. When they go into spoken word on "Painful Memories," the Shangri-Las influence comes through, but mostly this is their own thing, recalling those obscure vinyl treasures you find at thrift stores, these recordings apparently recorded in 1969 - 1973 circa, includes a version of the Carpenters 1973 "Yesterday Once More."
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Shaggs' Own Thing by The Shaggs
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When The Shaggs' Philosophy Of The World came out in 1969, some people couldn't or wouldn't understand it. But many musicians, including Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain, cited the Shaggs as a major influence. Heck, Zappa exclaimed they were "better than the Beatles!" NRBQ's Terry Adams and Keith Spring were such fans, and after reissuing Philosophy in 1980 on their own Red Rooster label, Adams began work on a collection of recordings the Wiggin sisters had made in the years following their debut. The result was Shaggs' Own Thing – a beguiling follow-up that reveals a more developed and mature sound while still retaining all of their homespun uniqueness.
"The songs were better and they were recorded better, so it naturally made a better album," Dot Wiggin said shortly after the original release of Shaggs' Own Thing in 1982. It's a "natural, organic extension" of the utterly original sound that The Shaggs had created, intentionally or not, with Philosophy Of The World, as John DeAngelis writes in the new liner notes. While Dot Wiggins originals like "You're Somethin' Special To Me" and "My Cutie," and covers of classic songs like "Yesterday Once More" reveal a maturity not displayed on the debut, the two versions of "Shaggs' Own Thing" and the revisiting of "My Pal Foot Foot" show that The Shaggs lost none of their pure and honest charm over the years.
Remastered from the original tapes with liner notes by John DeAngelis, this reissue includes the bonus track "Love at First Sight," first issued on the 1988 Red Rooster/Rounder Shaggs CD and appears on LP for the first time, plus three additional tracks on CD: "Sweet Maria" and "The Missouri Waltz," first released by Light In The Attic as a limited-edition Record Store Day 45 in 2016, and the previously unreleased cover of the classic surf instrumental "Wipe Out."
In 1968, three sisters from Fremont, New Hampshire strapped on their instruments and declared themselves The Shaggs. At that moment begun a peculiar tale that would last far beyond the group's five-year run. Dot, Betty and Helen (and occasionally Rachel, the fourth sister) played in the group on the insistence of their father, Austin Wiggin, who was convinced they were going to be big.
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Hydrochar more effectively mitigated nitrous oxide emissions than pyrochar from a coastal soil of the Yellow River Delta, China
Recently, the innovation team of coastal saline-alkali land biological resources evaluation and utilization of Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences has made progress in reducing nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from coastal saline-alkali land soil by returning biomass to fields. Relevant research results were published in Science of the Total Environment (JCR Q1, IF2021=10.753).
Application of char amendments (e.g., pyrochar or biochar, hydrochar) in degraded soils is proposed as a promising solution for mitigating climate change via carbon sequestration and greenhouse gases (GHGs) emission reduction. However, the hydrochar-mediated microbial modulation mechanisms underlying N2O emissions from coastal salt-affected soils, one of essential blue C ecosystems, were poorly understood. Therefore, a wheat straw derived hydrochar (SHC) produced at 220°C was prepared to investigate its effects on N2O emissions from a coastal salt-affected soil in the Yellow River Delta and to distinguish the microbial regulation mechanisms in comparison with corresponding pyrochar pyrolyzed at 500°C (SPC) using a 28-day soil microcosm experiment. Compared with SPC, the acidic SHC (pH 4.15) enriched in oxygenated functional groups, labile C and N constituents. SHC application more efficiently depressed cumulative soil N2O emissions (48.4–61.1 % vs 5.57–45.2 %) than those of SPC. SHC-induced inhibition of ammonia-oxidizing gene (amoA)-mediated nitrification and promotion of full reduction of N2O to N2 by nitrous oxide reductase gene (nosZ) were the underlying microbial mechanisms. Structural equation models further revealed that SHC-modulated bacterial N-transformation responses, i.e., inhibited nitrification and promoted heterotrophic denitrification, mainly contributed to reduced N2O emissions, whereas modification of soil properties (e.g., decreased pH, increased total C content) by SPC dominantly accounted for decreased N2O emissions. These results address new insights into microbial regulation of N2O emission reduction from the coastal salt-affected soils amended with hydrochar, and provide the promising strategies to enhance C sequestration and mitigate GHG emissions in the blue C ecosystems.


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Kajo-Keji traders demand for road repairs
Traders and residents in Kajo-Keji County of Central Equatoria State have appealed to the national and state governments to prioritize the rehabilitation of the 75-mile road connecting the town to Juba.
Kenyi Emmanuel, a local businessman in Kajo-Keji town, told Radio Tamazuj that traders have been finding it difficult to transport goods from Juba city to Kajo-Keji town and urged the government to use the dry season to repair dozens of broken bridges and the dilapidated road before the commencement of the rains this year.
"The roads are bad, the bridges are all broken down and during the rainy season, trucks can spend over one week before reaching Juba and the road connecting Kajo-Keji through Morobo to Yei is not operational due to insecurity and we want the national and state governments to work on these roads so that people feel the Government is close to the people," Kenyi said.
Gloria Modong, a resident in Mere area, said several pregnant women in the area are suffering without access to antenatal care due to the poor road network linking Kajo-Keji County to Juba and other neighbouring counties. She added that local businesswomen are forced to buy and import goods from neighbouring Uganda at exorbitant prices.
"Due to poor roads, we are now buying goods at a high cost from Uganda and we want the Government to repair the roads because many traders cannot reach Kajo-Keji town from Juba due to the bad roads," Modong said.
James Rudo, a retailer in Kajo-Keji town, said due to relative peace and stability, some traders have started re-opening businesses in Mere and Wudu downtown.
"Businesses have resumed in Kajo-Keji and they are operating very well but the challenge is that there are no good roads and at the moment people are renovating their previous business centres. Traders also spend several days on the road before reaching Kajo-Keji and once the road is repaired I am sure other traders from Uganda will come to buy goods from Kajo-Keji town," Rudo said.
Another businessman in Kajo-Keji town, Charles Sapire, called on the government to ensure the rehabilitation of the mobile phone and road networks to improve security and business in the area.
"Networks such as roads and telecommunications are big challenges to the people of Kajo-Keji and we are suffering because there is no road network that connects us to the cities like Juba and Yei and these are some of the challenges retarding business growth in Kajo-Keji County," Sapire lamented.
Meanwhile, Anthony Philip, the director for road maintenance in the former Yei River State ministry of physical infrastructure said the Government lacks funding to embark on major road rehabilitation.
"We appeal to partners like UNMISS to support us in grading the bad roads and fixing bridges connecting our towns in Central Equatoria State," Philip said.
Since the outbreak of the conflict in the country in 2013, the Juba-Kajo-Keji road has not been repaired, hampering trade, movement of goods and passengers as well as transport of sick patients to Juba for medical care.
At the height of the conflict in 2016, thousands of residents and traders fled the area for safety into neighboring Uganda.
However, following the signing of the revitalized peace agreement in 2018, thousands of residents and traders are finding their way back to Kajo-Keji town.
Source: Radio Tamazuj
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Hellloooo Detroiters, PPPers, and those of you who have ever been "more probable than not...at least generally aware of inappropriate activities."
Gentrification and displacement occurs when the hipsters start moving in.
If you start fighting displacement when you see hipsters moving in, you're too late.
These clarifications are critical because we can't fight displacement if we don't start with the whole truth.
Half Truth #1: The gentrifiers are the new white people moving into the neighborhood.
The Whole Truth #1: Many gentrifiers are white but they also hail from other racial groups. Gentrifiers also include the people who spurred the original gentrification who may never actually move into the neighborhood. No need to belabor the racial point - not all gentrifiers are white. Despite what you mostly see and read, that's just factual. Moreover, gentrifiers are not just new residents, but also include the public, private and non-profit actors who implemented the original redevelopment plans that spurred the gentrification. This whole class of gentrifiers are often left out of the public conversation.
I call these folks the Original Gentrifiers (OG's for short), and most of them will never move into the neighborhood, and many of them are not white. Whatever their racial makeup, I also hold the OGs (particularly the public sector OGs) at least partially responsible for not putting in place mitigation and prevention strategies to counteract any negative effects that may occur when gentrification does happen.
When I say OGs, I mean the Original Gentrifiers, not OGs like Cube from Boyz N the Hood.
Half Truth #2: Gentrification and displacement occurs when the hipsters start moving in.
Whole Truth #2: Gentrification really starts when the neighborhood redevelopment plan is laid out, not when the hipsters are moving in. Much of the public narrative about gentrification is misfocused on hipsters and their plaid shirt wearing, bicycle-riding brethren. There's some truth that hipsters are a sign of gentrification when they arrive in droves, but I think they are more likely to be an effect of gentrification, not a cause. The hipsters get labeled as gentrifiers, but they are not OGs. Gentrification starts when the neighborhood redevelopment plan is laid out, and properties are bought and sold. Gentrification starts to happen when certain people already in the neighborhood start re-naming areas that already had names. Gentrification begins way before the hipsters and higher-income people start moving in.
Final Truth: If you start fighting displacement when you see hipsters moving in, you're too late. Displacement is a real problem that can occur during the revitalization of a neighborhood. The root causes of gentrification-based displacement can be best addressed when the gentrification process starts, not when the hipsters move in. These clarifications of half-truths are important because we can't fight displacement if we don't start with the whole truth. We can't bring more social equity to neighborhood revitalization if we are fighting the wrong battles against the wrong enemy at the wrong time.
Up Next in Part 2: Public discourse also tends to ignore an important segment of the ranks of the gentrified: The local businesses who made it through urban disinvestment, riots and downturns, but could not survive the gale force winds of gentrification.
Posted on May 15, 2015 by Mosaic Urban Partners and filed under Most Read.


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2012 NCAA Tournament: Looking at the South Region
By Glenn Logan Mar 14, 2012, 6:56pm EDT
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The Western Kentucky Hilltoppers defeated the Mississippi Valley St. Delta Devils last night to earn the right to face the #1 Kentucky Wildcats on Thursday in the KFC Yum! Center.
Tomorrow, the Kentucky Wildcats host the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (my alma mater) at the Chicken Ranch KFC Yum! Center in Louisville. Now that we know that, let's preview the entire South bracket:
#1 seed: Kentucky Wildcats.
We all know this team, and what it is capable of. This is the #1 team in the country for a reason. They are the odds-on favorite to win this region and get to the Big Easy for a Final Four showdown
UConn has the talent to pull off the upset if they make it to the second round, but they are not a cohesive team. Wichita St. is a very dangerous sweet sixteen opponent, and Indiana could also be a threat, but it would take a lot to go wrong for UK and a lot to go right for them.
UNLV in the Elite Eight would be a tough matchup. Duke, less so.
Log5 odds of Kentucky as South Region Champion: 48%, highest in the entire field.
#2 seed: Duke Blue Devils:
Duke has a major player, Ryan Kelly, with an injured foot, but he should be able to play. How effective he can be will determine how far Duke goes.
Right out of the gate, Lehigh is a major challenge for Duke. They are a very dangerous from the perimeter, make their free throws, and are capable of the upset.
Duke is likely to win out over Xavier or Notre Dame, although Xavier's backcourt and decent size could give Duke problems. UNLV looks like a bridge too far, but if they get past them to the regional final, Kentucky will likely be far too much.
Log5 odds of Duke as South Region Champion: 9.5%
#3 seed: Baylor Bears
Baylor is extremely adept at beating itself. When they are good, they are a top 5 team. When they are bad, they can lose to nobody - and have.
Baylor should get past their first opponent, South Dakota St. After that, they likely face UNLV, which is a much tougher prospect. If they manage the Runnin' Rebels, they have a good shot at whoever their next opponent is and could get to the regional final against UK.
Log5 odds of Baylor as South Region Champion: 10.9%
#4 seed: Indiana Hoosiers
Indiana has been a monster team at home this year, but they won only 5 road games all year. They have been better on neutral sites though, but lost a semi-home game in the Big 10 tournament to Wisconsin. Starting guard Verdell Jones III has recently been lost to injury, which also reduces the Hoosiers' chances.
The Hoosiers have a very tough out in New Mexico St. in their very first contest. If they get past that, they will most likely face Wichita St. and then Kentucky. The Hoosier's road figures to end in the first two rounds, though.
Log5 odds of Indiana as South Region Champion: 9.2%
#5 seed: Wichita St. Shockers
Wichita St. is an extremely potent, experienced, and dangerous basketball team that is many people's favorite for a Cinderella Final Four pick, and with good reason.
Last year's NIT champs get a tough first round opponent in VCU, but they should get by Shaka Smart's team, which isn't as good as last year's version. Indiana or New Mexico are not likely to stop them, but Kentucky is in the Sweet Sixteen. If the Shockers could pull off that upset, they could easily get to the Final Four over UNLV, Baylor or Duke.
Log5 odds of Wichita St. as South Region Champion: 11.8%
#6 seed: UNLV Runnin' Rebels
Perhaps the most dangerous team in this bracket outside of Wichita St. and Kentucky, UNLV could possibly show up as Kentucky regional final opponent.
Any team can suffer an upset, but Colorado is not likely to pull a shocker on UNLV, and they are capable of pulling the upset over Baylor and even Duke, but those worthies will be favored. Kentucky, of course, presents a much more intractable problem.
Log5 odds of UNLV as South Region Champion: 3%
#7 seed: Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Notre Dame is a strange team this year. Far from the run and gun Irish we remember from last year, this year's version controls tempo and plays tough, half-court defense.
Notre Dame is likely to lose against the dynamic back court of Xavier, but if they get past the first round, they are likely to run into Duke, and after that, UNLV, both likely to be too tough for the Irish. Notre Dame is not likely to make it out of the first weekend.
Log5 odds of Notre Dame as South Region Champion: 1.9%
#8 seed: Iowa St. Cyclones
Royce White is a dynamic, if somewhat troubled, player who has really prospered under Fred Hoiberg. He has a triple-double this year and is the reason the Cyclones are even in the tournament
The Cyclones are pretty much one great player surrounded by some complimentary players. UConn is a difficult first-round opponent, but Iowa St. is capable of defeating them. But after that, they face UK. If they pull off that massive upset, they are likely to have to defeat either Wichita St. or Indiana, both very bad matchups for Iowa St.
Log5 odds of Iowa St. as South Region Champion: 1.7%
#9 seed: Connecticut Huskies
Next to the Kentucky Wildcats, this is the most talented team in the South. They are not, however, a cohesive unit at all, and they have consistently underachieved all year. They have given Syracuse trouble, but their 8-10 conference record speaks volumes.
If the Huskies get past Iowa St., they run smack into the #1 seed Kentucky Wildcats. They are unlikely to repeat their Final Four performance against this Kentucky team, which is vastly more talented, cohesive, and experienced than even last year's team, while the Huskies are decidedly inferior to their predecessors. If they do get past the Wildcats somehow, Wichita or Indiana are both better.
Log5 odds of Connecticut as South Region Champion: 0.9%
#10-16 seeds: Xavier Musketeers, Colorado Buffaloes, Va. Commonwealth Rams, New Mexico St. Aggies, South Dakota St. Jackrabbits, Lehigh Mountain Hawks, Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
These seven seeds all have very small chances of advancing to the Final Four, 0.9% or less. Xavier is the most likely to move on, and if they get past their first round game, they have decent matchups all the way to the Sweet Sixteen, although they are likely to have to go through Duke to get that far. UNLV or Kentucky is likely to be their demise.
Colorado stole the autobid from the Pac 12 field, but despite the fact they are a good defensive team, they are a poor offensive one. It would be a shock if they got past UNLV, and it's almost unthinkable that they could somehow get past UNLV and Baylor in the same weekend.
VCU is a good, solid team, but they were the second-best team in their own conference next to the Drexel Dragons. They have no wins inside Ken Pomeroy's top 50 other than Drexel, whom they stole the CAA bid from. I can't see them upsetting the much better Wichita St. Shockers, but if they do, Kentucky blocks their path to the regional final.
New Mexico St. is very solid team, good enough to get past #4 Indiana and earn a right to face the Shockers or UK. Hard to figure them beating either of the latter two, however.
South Dakota St. features a very dangerous guard in Nate Wolters, a do-everything player who is an outstanding passer and midrange shooter. The Jackrabbits are likely to give Baylor a stiff challenge early, but it's hard to see them getting out of the first round, and if they do, UNLV or Colorado is probably too much for them.
The Lehigh Mountain Hawks are a genuine threat to upset the #2 seed at 22%, a remarkably high percentage for a 2-15 matchup. If they do get past the Blue Devils, they have a decent chance to knock off Notre Dame or Xavier and get all the way to the Sweet Sixteen. Dangerous team with a fortunate draw.
Western Kentucky is a young team with an new coach that has inspired them to reach what they never imagined they could. Unfortunately, my alma mater is vastly overmatched against the Kentucky Wildcats. Their chances of winning this game are so microscopic, they cannot be discerned with modern technology. I love the 'Tops, but they are "two and done." At least they got a win.
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Last week, the Combating Autism Reathorization Act was introduced into the U.S. legislature last week. Many organizations were ready with quick responses: the Autism Science Foundation,ASAN, and Autism Speaks to name a few.
How about the organizations which promote the idea that autism is a vaccine injury? Organizations like Generation Rescue, the National Autism Association and SafeMinds, and Talk About Curing Autism?
A quick survey of their websites shows nothing. Nothing on the front pages that I can see. Nothing on their news pages. If I've missed it, let me know.
Sure, you can find great information on their sites. Like "Vaccine Injury/Autism Study, A Federal Cover-Up?" or how to buy compounded drugs or sunglasses. Or "Jenny McCarthy" in big letters. But on a key piece of legislation comes through and there's essentially silence.
Congressmen Chris Smith and Mike Doyle, the co-chairmen of the congressional caucus aimed at helping autistic individuals, today introduced a package of bills designed to reauthorize the nation's landmark program for autism surveillance, research, education, awareness and intervention; to authorize new service programs; and to establish a national autism initiative.


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Susan Klopper
Executive Director, Goizueta Business Library
Susan Klopper became Executive Director of the Goizueta Business Library in August 2005; she started working at Emory in December 2002 as the Manager of Research Services. Prior to coming to Emory Susan was the Director of Arthur Andersen's Business Research Center for 18 years. Susan is a frequent speaker on business research and management topics at conferences for the information professional industry and regularly contributes articles to industry publications, such as Online, Business Information Alert, and Searcher. She has written a book on conducting accounting and financial research, Introduction to Online Accounting and Financial Research, 2004. Susan is very involved in the Special Libraries Association, most recently serving on the Association's Board of Directors; she is also an SLA Fellow. Susan is the recipient of several industry awards recognizing her knowledge and experience in the areas of business research and management.
AB in Art History
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Master of Library Science


Home » Blog » How to choose Saffron?
Given that saffron is the most expensive spice, great care has to be taken in choosing genuine organic saffron, which is also known as "red gold" due to its distinct colour and frightfully high price, and that is why fake saffron is often palmed off as the genuine one.
According to the bureau of International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) saffron needs to meet ISO 3632 certification to be declared pure, which also indicates there has been no adulteration.
When shopping for saffron, look for deep red colour threads. High quality saffron threads will appear dark red in colour.
Corn husk is a favourite with adulterers as its resemblance is closest to saffron. All that needs to be done is to colour the corn strands suitably to palm it off as genuine saffron after adding a bit of artificial flavour. Genuine saffron can be easily identified by the distinct aroma of saffron, apart from the colour. Moreover, genuine saffron is never sweet to taste, hence the best test would be to put a small bit in your mouth and if it is the least bit sweet, it certainly is fake. Moreover, the natural colour of saffron does not wash off in water when soaked. If artificial colour has been added it will bleed when soaked in water.
Another indicator is the price. Nowhere can you find saffron at dirt cheap prices, and if any tout is offering you saffron at half the price, claiming that he or she has a secret source, be sure that someone has indulged in adulteration of saffron. Some people try to cheat in the weight of genuine saffron. They do not dry the saffron properly, and leave it in the shade for drying, so that a lot of moisture is retained. As saffron is sold by weight, you can end up paying more for moist saffron, which will ultimately lose weight when stored. A stigma of genuine saffron cannot weigh more than 2 mg, and it takes 250,000 saffron flowers to weigh a kg.
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