I'm standing in a dark room looking at a holographic browser window displaying an Amazon listing for a pair of Nike shoes. The window is slightly translucent and locked in space in front of me. I lean around it and see it is a completely flat, 2D object in 3D space – the flattest screen possible.
Instinctively, I reach out to interact with the page, tapping at the picture of the shoes to get a better look. Instead of getting a zoomed in version of the flat image, a 3D model of the shoes appears. Reaching out and grabbing it, I was able to bring it closer to my face and examine the details.
Using both hands, I pull the 3D model in opposite directions, sizing it up to about the same size as my foot. Then I place it over my own shoe and slipped into the future… a future for AR begins now.
Today Meta, an augmented reality company based in California, announced their second development kit, the Meta 2. The much improved kit is currently available for preorder on Meta's website for $949 and is slated to ship in Q3 of this year.
Last week I had a chance to stop by Meta's offices with Robert Scoble and got a tried the device which impressed everyone at TED out for myself, and what I saw was AR growing beyond its infancy.
Meta 2 has a 90 degree diagonal field of view, offering a much more immersive experience than Microsoft's HoloLens which has an FOV currently less than half of 90 degrees. In addition to a large FOV, Meta's 2560 x 1440 display allows you to see details in the holograms. Perhaps the most important display factor, for a device whose initial function likely will be at an enterprise level, is that text appears crisp and legible even from a distance.
You can see Meta 2's screen above my brow.
One thing I did notice was my eyes had a bit of trouble converging on images at a super close range. This might be a pitfall of Meta's stereoscopic display technique.
Meta 2's display works by mirroring a standard display positioned above your brow onto the glass in front of your eyes. It produces a 3D image the same way the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive do, by rendering a scene for each eye. This approach greatly differs from, Meta's extremely well-funded competitor, Magic Leap's light field display.
Beyond the display, Meta's tethered system also uses a set of cameras and sensors for tracking hand/finger movements and positional tracking.
During my time at Meta's offices, I had a chance to experience the device in two stages: one built on top of the previous platform, and one that represents where the technology is today. The main difference is that the current technology no longer uses a peripheral camera based tracking system. However, the Meta 2's inside out tracking still leaves a bit to be desired, but it was effective enough in our short use cases. Out of the multiple areas to compare Meta 2 to HoloLens, tracking is the one where HoloLens wins by the biggest margin.
Meta's hand tracking forgoes the need for specific gestures unlike Microsoft's HoloLens. It should be noted that Meta's hand tracking is not as precise as Leap Motion's impressive new Orion platform, but it worked well for light interaction. Just don't expect to be using it for micro surgery anytime soon.
Although Meta's tracking still needs work, Yishai Gribetz, one of the lead engineers on the tracking system, says he wears it every day.
In addition to seeing what the future of online shopping looks like in AR, I got hands on with some other fairly impressive applications that indicated where this technology is going in the future. Including one that showed off AR as a social tool for collaboration.
Tapping the "accept call" button floating in front of me, a video window pops up and that shows someone waving at me– it's an AR Skype call. The video window disappears, and a moment later in its place stands a volumetric capture of the same person in 3D holographic form. Although was a low resolution capture, Meta says they are looking into higher resolution capture systems like the ones used by 8i and Uncorpreal.
What happens next is even more impressive: the hologram hands me a hologram over the internet. I was able to grab it and together, we were able to move it around the space, manipulate the size, and hand it back and forth. While the collaboration was limited by the things we were able to do, what Meta has accomplished is a testament to the infinite promise this AR holds.
The Meta 2 represents a leap forward, not just for the company but for the prospect of consumer AR. It still has its challenges to overcome, but it brings developers a step closer to the augmented reality future that many are aware is coming.
The Meta 2 isn't quite ready for the everyday Average Joe to use, and the fact that it is tethered limits full potential of AR in the near term. However, it is ready for developers and enterprise-level customers who understand the hurdles of early stage hardware. For them it is important to have a platform that can support future development.
Meron Gribetz, Meta's Founder and CEO, sees importance of engaging the development community with its platform.
Gribetz says Meta has learned a lot since launching the Meta 1, which a development community of "1000 or so developers." Meta plans to open source many of the "killer apps" they co-developed with its community and UX design guides for their "neuro interfaces" which are grounded in neuroscience and human behavioral research.
Microsoft, recently announced pre-orders and a shipping date, has the advantage of arguably better computer vision at this stage. However, the $3,000 price tag has turned a number of developers off to the prospects of buying in on the platform early. But the Meta 2 might change that.
To paint it in VR terms, it took the Oculus Rift DK1 with an accessible price point and just enough immersive power to create that 'wow factor' to get game developers (16% of them and rising, in fact) to create experiences for VR. Today, a little less than 3 years later, we have multiple headsets of far greater power than the DK1 which exist only because there was a strong initial interest and push. That same magical mixture of inspiration and accessibility needs to happen with AR, and that is potentially the stone that Meta has cast.


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Good Ol' Review: Lee Na Young and Jang Dong Yoon Power the Quietly Affecting "Beautiful Days"
Good Ol' Review
TYPE OF REVIEW
: GOOD OL' REVIEW
No spoilers.
Jero Yun's 2018 feature Beautiful Days (뷰티풀 데이즈) is a haunting slice-of-life melodrama that features quietly affecting performances from its main cast and an engaging film with a relatively simple and ultimately straightforward story.
The film opens with a father (Oh Kwang Rok) telling his son Zhen Chen (Jang Dong Yoon) that the mother (Lee Na Young) who left them fourteen years ago is alive and living in Seoul. Leaving their rural Chinese home, Zhen Chen travels to Seoul to find her. But he could have never imagined the life he finds her living in now: she runs a seedy bar and lives with a deadbeat boyfriend.
Zhen Chen's anger leads him to a violent encounter. And after spending the night with his mother and a morning of shopping for him, he flies home to China alone. But the mother slips in her diary and Zhen Chen learns the truth about how she was able to escape North Korea and eventually settle down with his Korean-Chinese father and his family before abandoning them.
The revelations don't stop there, however. And two lengthy flashbacks unravel the secrets that led them all to where they are today.
The film progresses in a slow, careful manner. The jumps between the present and past are the only jolts the film gets between quieter and pensive moments.
Beautiful Days has a melancholic tone that is excellently supported by Jero Yun's atmospheric direction and an affecting score by Mathieu Regnault. Music, framing and lighting are almost characters on their own as they highlight the sort of wistful sadness each of our characters feel in the moments depicted on screen.
You may not be shocked, per se, by any of the revelations. But the direction and the performances are that good that you will be deeply moved by the unfolding of events and feel for each character.
The experienced trio that lead the film elevate the material. Jang Dong Yoon has grown into one of the best young actors today. And he does a great job expressing the conflicting anger and longing Zhen Chen feels for his mother.
Oh Kwang Rok is measured as the father. After a quick appearance at the start of the film, his presence becomes more prominent and important later on. And when that happens, he is able to deliver a performance that is both quiet and strong.
The same can be said for Lee Na Young. The film does a masterful job of finding depth in silence. And Lee Na Young's performance manages to say a lot with less. Between the first meeting with her now-grown son to the telling flashbacks of her past, Lee Na Young is able to express so much depth with very little dialogue. It's a captivating performance.
Overall, Beautiful Days is an interesting, melancholic look at moments in time in this family's life and the unexpected paths they take before finding themselves back together.
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A police chase that started in Mequon ended in a crash in River Hills.Investigators said the driver of the car was wanted in connection with a theft at the Marshall's store in Mequon.The driver, a 27-year-old Milwaukee man, crashed near 6th Street and Good Hope Road. He ran away but was later arrested. Police said a 23-year-old Milwaukee woman was in the front. She was also arrested. Officers discovered a 2-year-old child in the car's backseat, strapped into a booster seat. The little boy was apparently the son of the two arrested adults. He was unharmed and taken into protective custody. The driver was taken to the hospital with a leg injury but was released. Police said they will not release names or mugshots of the people arrested until charges are approved, but the driver faces multiple charges, including attempted homicide. The woman also faces a number of charges and had outstanding warrants for her arrest.
RIVER HILLS, Wis. — A police chase that started in Mequon ended in a crash in River Hills.Investigators said the driver of the car was wanted in connection with a theft at the Marshall's store in Mequon.
The driver, a 27-year-old Milwaukee man, crashed near 6th Street and Good Hope Road. He ran away but was later arrested. Police said a 23-year-old Milwaukee woman was in the front. She was also arrested. Officers discovered a 2-year-old child in the car's backseat, strapped into a booster seat. The little boy was apparently the son of the two arrested adults. He was unharmed and taken into protective custody. The driver was taken to the hospital with a leg injury but was released. Police said they will not release names or mugshots of the people arrested until charges are approved, but the driver faces multiple charges, including attempted homicide. The woman also faces a number of charges and had outstanding warrants for her arrest.


0:00 Josh Perryman at goalie for ETSU.
01:23 Corner kick by ETSU Cameron Woodfin [01:23].
01:42 Substitution!Furman substitution: Jack Freeman for Dalton Souder.
09:00 Shot by ETSU Luke Parker, Wide.
12:18 Shot by ETSU Joe Pickering, Blocked.
12:49 Shot by ETSU Luke Parker, Wide.
15:37 Shot by Furman Emery May, Wide.
18:56 Yellow card on ETSU Nick Spielman.
18:56 Yellow card on ETSU Cameron Woodfin.
18:56 Corner kick by Furman Danny Kierath [18:56].
29:18 Corner kick by Furman Rocky Guerra [29:18].
29:24 Shot by Furman Danny Kierath, High.
29:50 Substitution!Furman substitution: Josiah Baker for Cole McLagan.
29:50 Substitution!Furman substitution: Conor Sloan for Rocky Guerra.
32:02 Substitution!ETSU substitution: Luke Howson for Luke Parker.
32:02 Substitution!ETSU substitution: Mohamed Jawara for Danny Barlow.
37:52 Substitution!Furman substitution: Connor Hubbard for Emery May.
38:19 Corner kick by Furman Danny Kierath [38:19].
40:55 Shot by Furman Jack Shiels, Save (by goalie) Josh Perryman.
41:53 Header Shot by ETSU Mohamed Jawara, Wide.
43:33 Shot by ETSU Cameron Woodfin, Save (by goalie) Ben Hale.
44:10 Corner kick by ETSU Bruno Andrade [44:10].
44:21 Corner kick by ETSU Bruno Andrade [44:21].
45:00 For ETSU: #11 Bruno Andrade, #31 Merveil Bilomba, #27 Luke Parker, #1 Josh Perryman, #5 Joe Pickering, #6 John Lucchesi, #7 Danny Barlow, #4 Cameron Woodfin, #10 Serge Gomis, #8 Nick Spielman, #17 Austin Bihlmeyer.
45:00 For Furman: #11 Josiah Baker, #3 Emery May, #10 Danny Kierath, #16 Miles Fenton, #1 Ben Hale, #8 Laurence Wyke, #6 Jack Shiels, #13 Jack Freeman, #2 Conor Sloan, #18 Arnor Adalsteinsson, #17 Cameron Robinson.
51:58 Shot by Furman Danny Kierath, Wide.
54:46 Goal!ETSU Cameron Woodfin PENALTY KICK GOAL, goal number 6 for season.
57:11 Yellow card on ETSU Joe Pickering.
59:51 Substitution!Furman substitution: Rocky Guerra for Conor Sloan.
62:39 Shot by Furman Danny Kierath, Wide.
62:49 Substitution!ETSU substitution: Javier Alberto for Bruno Andrade.
66:18 Shot by ETSU Danny Barlow, Save (by goalie) Ben Hale.
66:44 Substitution!ETSU substitution: Luke Howson for Cameron Woodfin.
66:44 Substitution!Furman substitution: Cole McLagan for Emery May.
66:44 Substitution!Furman substitution: Kevin Lingard for Miles Fenton.
70:41 Substitution!ETSU substitution: Bruno Andrade for Javier Alberto.
70:41 Substitution!ETSU substitution: Cameron Woodfin for Luke Parker.
71:30 Corner kick by ETSU Cameron Woodfin [71:30].
81:32 Substitution!Furman substitution: Emery May for Josiah Baker.
81:32 Substitution!Furman substitution: Miles Fenton for Kevin Lingard.
81:32 Substitution!ETSU substitution: Luke Parker for Luke Howson.
82:01 Yellow card on Furman Arnor Adalsteinsson.
82:10 Shot by ETSU Cameron Woodfin, Save (by goalie) Ben Hale.
82:33 Corner kick by ETSU Bruno Andrade [82:33].
87:51 Shot by Furman Miles Fenton, High.
90:00 For Furman: #1 Ben Hale, #10 Danny Kierath, #13 Jack Freeman, #6 Jack Shiels, #8 Laurence Wyke, #9 Cole McLagan, #16 Miles Fenton, #18 Arnor Adalsteinsson, #2 Conor Sloan, #11 Josiah Baker, #17 Cameron Robinson.
90:00 For ETSU: #1 Josh Perryman, #8 Nick Spielman, #6 John Lucchesi, #4 Cameron Woodfin, #31 Merveil Bilomba, #7 Danny Barlow, #10 Serge Gomis, #27 Luke Parker, #5 Joe Pickering, #17 Austin Bihlmeyer, #11 Bruno Andrade.
91:23 Yellow card on ETSU Bruno Andrade.
96:31 Shot by Furman Josiah Baker, Wide.
96:39 Substitution!Furman substitution: Rocky Guerra for Josiah Baker.
96:39 Substitution!ETSU substitution: Mohamed Jawara for Bruno Andrade.
97:31 Substitution!ETSU substitution: Glenn Holmes for Joe Pickering.
97:31 Corner kick by Furman Rocky Guerra [97:31].


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Q: Trying to translate this line of Python to Java- getting different answers Original Python code:
import hashlib
return int(hashlib.md5("string").hexdigest(), 16) % 100

My attempt to translate into Java:
import java.security.*;
import java.math.*;

String s = "string";
MessageDigest m = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
m.update(s.getBytes(), 0, s.length());
BigInteger i = BigInteger(1,m.digest());
return i % 100;

What am I doing wrong?

A: I see you haven't even tried to compile this code, since it's not working. BigInteger isn't a primitive type, therefore % operator doesn't work. You should use .mod method instead.
Your code, fixed:
String s = "string";
MessageDigest m = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
m.update(s.getBytes(), 0, s.length());
BigInteger i = new BigInteger(1, m.digest());
return i.mod(BigInteger.valueOf(100));

And since you're updating 0 - s.length(), you can just pass all the bytes to m.digest, make it one line shorter:
String s = "string";
MessageDigest m = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
BigInteger i = new BigInteger(1, m.digest(s.getBytes()));
return i.mod(BigInteger.valueOf(100));

And if you really want an one-liner... Warning, highly unreadable:
return new BigInteger(1, MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5").digest( s.getBytes()) ).mod(BigInteger.valueOf(100));

A: Suggestion
It's always recommended to specify the encoding of the input string while converting to byte stream.
Without specifying an encoding scheme, programming language implementations are free to choose their default format. This can vary across programming languages and even across different versions of the same programming language.
Python
An advantage of python is, the ability to handle arbitrarily large integer values
import hashlib

data: str = "string"
print(int(hashlib.md5(data.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest(), 16) % 100)

Java
BigInteger is needed to deal with long values outside the Long.MIN_VALUE and Long.MAX_VALUE boundaries.
MessageDigest instances are not thread safe, so use with care(new instances or ThreadLocal) in multithreaded use cases.
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.math.BigInteger;

public class TestMD5 {

    private static final String DIGEST_ALGO = "MD5";
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        String data = "string";
        byte[] digest = MessageDigest.getInstance(DIGEST_ALGO).digest(data.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
        int value = new BigInteger(1, digest).mod(BigInteger.valueOf(100)).intValueExact();
        System.out.println(value);
    }
}

Both these solutions will print 81 for the given input string
Note

*

*The implementation can print the same value for the given input string even without adding the encoding. It should not relied upon as this string is within the ascii range.

*Even for unicode character set, it is recommended to specify encoding as the same code point can be encoded in different encoding schemes like utf-8, utf-16

*while converting a byte stream to string, always specify the (de)encoding scheme

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NAR just released their 2010 Profile of Buyers and Sellers. Below are charts regarding Buyers' use of media and other informational resources in finding the home they purchased.
These charts track activity by week for the past 6 months through January 16, 2011 for SFDs, Condos, TICs & 2-4 Unit Buildings. The market is starting to wake up after the holidays.
New Listings: Starting to accelerate after the big slow-down of late December.
Listings For Sale: Increasing slowly but still very low by general standards.
Listings Accepting Offers: Accelerating as the market warms up.
Percentage of Listings Accepting Offers: On a percentage basis, we're back up over 5% (per week), which is among the highest percentages of the past 6 months. Of course, this is a function of both buyer demand (increasing) and inventory available (increasing, but still very low).
Interest Rate Chart from Bankrate.com: rates have significantly climbed from their 40-year lows, but at under 5% are still very low by historical standards.
2010 saw a very strong spring market turbo-charged by federal and state tax credits, a much slower summer, and then a strong finish from Labor Day on. The 4th quarter of 2010 had more accepted offers than the 4th quarters of 2009, 2008 & 2007. Comparing 2010 to 2009, overall median sales prices for SF houses and condos barely budged. The luxury home market woke back up. Interest rates jumped at the end of the year, but are still very low. Of those homes that did sell in 2010, most sold relatively quickly, without price reductions, at or a little above or below list price: the market identified them as good deals. A minority of sales sold after one or more price reductions, taking much longer and at a substantial discount to the original price. And many listings didn't sell at all because buyers perceived them as overpriced.
There seems to be a positive momentum to the market as 2011 begins. A large influx of new listings will arrive in coming weeks as both buyers and sellers jump back in after the holidays.
Statistics are generalities, subject to fluctuation due to a variety of reasons. Median prices may be affected by other factors than changes in value. Averages may be distorted by a small number of sales substantially higher or lower than the norm. New-development condo sales not reported to MLS are not included in this analysis. All information herein should be considered approximate. It is derived from sources deemed reliable, but may contain errors and omissions, and is not warranted.
Comparing 2010 to 2009, the market strengthened and sales went up in every property type except TICs. From 2007 to 2009, the total number of sales fell 23% (plus an approximate 15-20% decline in values). Now, house sales are almost back to 2007 levels; condo sales are 17% up from 2009 but still 14% below 2007; TIC sales are 62% below 2007; 2-4 unit buildings are up from 2009 but still down 28% from 2007; 5+ unit buildings recovered a bit but are still 34% below 2007.
These 2 charts are for SF house and condo sales over the past 3 years. From late 2007, early 2008, the median price dropped about 15% and the average dollar per square foot about 18%. However, there has been a remarkable stability over the past 7 quarters: the median was within 1½ % of $700,000 in 5 of the 7 quarters (the 2 other quarters were about 5% above that); and the average dollar per square foot remained within about 2% of $550/sq.ft.. 2009 to 2010, the overall median prices for both houses and condos was virtually unchanged.
Dollar per square foot is calculated on liveable square footage, which doesn't include garages, attics, storage or outdoor space. This calculation is based on those sales that reported square footage. Square footage figures are often unreliable or unreported, and average $/sq.ft. figures can fluctuate, but as a general statistic, this gives a relatively fair picture of the progression of condo values by neighborhood in San Francisco. Remember that the average age, size and condition of condos can vary widely by neighborhood.
The big districts for house sales were southern District 10 (hit hard by distress sales), western District 2 (Sunset/ Parkside), central Districts 4 (St. Francis Wood/ Forest Hill/ Miraloma Park) and 5 (Noe/ Castro/ Haight). District 9 (SOMA/ South Beach/ Mission), with dozens of large condo developments, had twice as many condo sales as District 8 (Nob/Russian/Telegraph Hills) and District 5. TIC sales have dramatically declined in the city and are mostly found in Districts 5, 8 (Nob/Russian Hills) and 6 (Hayes Valley/ NOPA). The big districts for 2-4 unit building sales are 5 and 1 (Richmond).
For sales of SF houses, condos, co-ops and TICs over the past year, the largest price segment by far was $500,000 to $750,000, with the next largest being the segments on either side. Once the million dollar mark is passed, the quantity of sales in each segment steps down dramatically.
Luxury house sales – sales of $2m and above – bounced back dramatically in 2010, but are still below 2008 levels except in District 7 (Pacific & Presidio Heights, Cow Hollow & Marina), which saw a large surge this past year.
High-end condo sales – sales of $1.5m and above — have not recovered as well as luxury house sales, except in Realtor District 5 (Noe/ Castro/ Haight), where after a huge decline in 2009, there was a huge increase in 2010 (though still slightly below 2008). The Pacific Heights area (District 7) also saw a small increase in 2010.
Bank-owned property sales and short sales (loan amount greater than market value) can be found throughout the city, but are heavily concentrated in specific areas. Distress house sales are concentrated in the southern band of neighborhoods running from Bayview west to Oceanview (Districts 10 & 3). Distress condo sales are mainly found in the eastern band of neighborhoods that experienced massive new development in the last 15 years (District 9). Compared to other counties, San Francisco has been much less affected by distress sales, with the overall percentage in the past year running at roughly 15-16% of total sales.
The dark blue columns delineate the number of listings accepting offers in any given quarter over the past 3 years; the purple columns show listings that expired or were withdrawn (without selling). In the top chart, last spring's market surge shows clearly. The 4th quarter of 2010 was more active in offers being accepted than the 4th quarters of 2009, 2008 or 2007, and the usual slowdown between 3rd and 4th quarters did not occur. However, a high number of listings expired without selling in the 4th quarter of 2010 as well. Many of these will be relisted in January at reduced prices.
These 2 charts pertain to SF house sales only, which is the hottest segment of the market. The gray columns show months' supply of inventory over the past 2 years, which at 2.5 months, is now at its low for that time period. Inventory will increase significantly in January. The dark blue columns show the average number of days it took a house to accept an offer (by quarter over 3 years).
If you believe your home may be eligible for a reduction in property taxes based upon a decline in value, there are two ways you might proceed: an Informal Review by the San Francisco Assessor's office and/or a Formal Appeal with Assessment Appeals Board. The Formal Appeal, in particular, can be a complicated and time consuming process. Generally speaking, homes purchased 2005 through mid-2008 (the time of peak values in most SF neighborhoods) have the best cases for a property tax reduction. Declines from peak value in the city generally range from 12-25%, though it all depends on the exact time, location and terms and conditions of your purchase. If your appeal is successful, the reduction in assessed value only applies to the 7/1/11 – 6/30/12 tax year. A decline-in-market appeal is only good for 1 year, the year for which it is filed.
If you need help gathering comparable sales data with which to make your case, I am happy to be of assistance. You may also hire a professional appraiser. The Assessor's "valuation date" is January 1, 2011, so the nearer your comparable sales are to that date, the better. However, all sales comparables submitted must have closed before March 31, 2011.
The SF Assessor's Office has announced that they will now accept "Requests for Informal Review of Assessed Value" for tax year 2011/2012. Such requests must be filed by March 31, 2011 and apply only to single-family dwellings, residential condominiums, townhouses, live-work lofts and cooperative units.
Q1: I BELIEVE THE MARKET VALUE OF MY PROPERTY IS LESS THAN MY CURRENT ASSESSED VALUE. HOW DO I PROTEST MY VALUE?
(Single family dwellings, residential condominiums, townhouses, live-work lofts and cooperative units only) – From January 3, 2011 to March 31, 2011, the Assessor will accept requests to review the market value of your property. Your request must be in writing by completing an application with supporting evidence of your opinion of value. If you were granted a reduction for the year 2010-2011, we will automatically review your assessment for the year 2011-2012 to determine whether a reduction is still warranted. Send your request to: Assessor-Recorder, ATTN: Informal Review, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, City Hall – Room 190, San Francisco, CA 94102. Mail-in requests for an informal review must be U.S. postmarked by the March 31, 2011 deadline. By Fax: (415) 554-7915 or E-mail: InformalReviewRP@sfgov.org. Be sure to keep a copy for your records.
(All property types) – From July 5, 2011 to September 15, 2011 you may file an Application for Changed Assessment with the Assessment Appeals Board (AAB), an independent body established to hear and resolve valuation disputes between the Assessor and taxpayer. A $60.00 filing fee due at the time of application and the AAB will schedule a hearing for you at a later date. Applications may be obtained by contacting the Assessment Appeals Board – Clerk of the Board at 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, City Hall – Room 405, San Francisco, CA 94102, by phone: (415) 554-6778 or directly from their website: www.sfgov.org/AAB.
Q2: CAN I, AS THE OWNER OF A SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING, DO BOTH PROCEDURES?
Yes. If upon the receipt of your annual Notice of Assessed Value, which will be mailed at the end of July 2011, you disagree with the assessed value, you can file an assessment appeal with the Assessment Appeals Board. Please see instructions above.
Q3: WHAT DOES MARKET VALUE MEAN?
Market value is the price a property would sell for when the property is put up for sale in a competitive and open market.
Q4: WHAT IF MY CURRENT ASSESSED VALUE IS BELOW MARKET VALUE?
The Assessor is required to enroll the lesser of your factored base year value (assessment) or the market value. For example, if the market value (what you could sell your house for) of your property as of January 1, 2011 is $500,000 and your assessed value is $200,000 the Assessor would enroll the $200,000 as your taxable value. You would not qualify for a lowered assessment.
Q5: WHAT TAX YEAR AM I APPEALING?
The assessed value being appealed will cover the fiscal year from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012.
Q6: WHAT TYPE OF INFORMATION WILL I NEED TO PROVIDE TO SUPPORT MY CLAIM?
You will need to submit sales information and/or an appraisal performed by a licensed real estate appraiser to support your claim. The sales information or appraisal's date of valuation should be near the January 1, 2011 lien date but no later than March 31, 2011.
Q7: IF THE ASSESSOR OR THE ASSESSMENT APPEALS BOARD AGREES TO REDUCE MY VALUE, WILL THE NEW ASSESSMENT BE PERMANENT?
No. The reduction is temporary and only applies to the tax year being appealed. Once a reduction is made, the assessor is required by law to annually reappraise the property until its fair market value exceeds the factored base year value.
Q8: WHY ARE TENANCY-IN-COMMON (TICs) UNITS EXCLUDED?
Unlike residential condominiums and cooperative units, TICs do not have separate parcel numbers. A review of a single TIC unit is more complex. TIC owners can appeal their taxes by filing an Application for Changed Assessment with the Assessment Appeals Board beginning July 5, 2011 thru September 15, 2011.
Q9: WHEN WILL I BE NOTIFIED OF THE RESULTS OF MY INFORMAL REVIEW REQUEST?
Homeowners will be notified of the results of their informal review in the annual Notice of Assessed Value which will be mailed at the end of July 2011.
The next open formal appeal filing period for San Francisco will be July 5, 2011 to September 15, 2011 — to appeal the 2011/2012 assessed value of your property. A formal appeal can be made for multi-unit and commercial properties, as well as for houses, condos & cooperative units. There is a non-refundable $60 processing fee.
It is possible to attend assessment appeals board hearings for other people to see how they work. They are open to the public.
All information is from sources deemed reliable but subject to change, error and omission, and not warranted.
Interested parties must contact the appropriate government agency to confirm all pertinent guidelines and procedures before proceeding.


Oregon women's basketball pulled away late to defeat Mississippi State 82-74 at home on Tuesday night. The Ducks were led by Sabrina Ionescu who finished with a team-high 29 points. Following the victory, Oregon advances to 9-1 overall.


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I cant wait for him to get homeee. Thank soom for making him!!
I can't wait for this perfect boy to arrive home! >.<" *fan girl squealing* I'm so excited. Thank you so much Soom for making him.
The undressed photo is perfectly presented. I really love this doll, particularly the wings and the horns. Overall, almost perfect.
omg a boy in violet!!!! thank you for this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love this boy, even from this one picture I can tell he is beautiful. I wish we could have 1 full month to purchase him, as it is so near to Christmas and my poor bank account can't take much more. Sigh, I think this boy might escape my clutches.
The bone wings that were visible in the first picture before it changed look amazing. He's got a pretty face with an odd looking skin tone. Looking forward to seeing the rest of him, even if there is no way I'll be able to get him!
This doll is going to be so beautiful! Good job Soom.
I hope he comes with a Mega gem body.
Hm.. 7 more hours, can't wait.
This doll is going to be so beautiful! Good job Soom. I hope he comes with a Mega gem body. Hm.. 7 more hours, can't wait.
he seems absolutely gorgeous so far!!! I can't wait to see the rest of the pictures!
I can not wait to see the pictures for this one! His face is beautifully sculpted and if those are wings I see consider me soom'd !
I'm in enough credit card debt already! Why you do this to me soom?! Hes so beautiful... AND the last MD?! *cries* That face is so gorgeous!!!!


Here's a fascinating personal story from Dean Radin, who I've talked about several times before in connection with his work on providing a solid, scientific basis for our minds' interaction with reality, as shown in his books the Noetic Universe and Supernormal. In this video, Dean relates a very strange encounter that he experienced, one that is such an astonishing coincidence that it's hard to regard it as simply 'a roll of the dice'. As Dean himself explains, the experience seems to point to the fact that our lives are not carved out in an impartially random reality. Instead, our will and intent not only brings reality into existence, through the quantum physical world, but shapes what happens to us, who we meet, when, how and why.
Sceptical viewers may conclude that the story is a fake and that Dean is severely distorting the story to support his agenda, or simply lying. Personally, I can see is no evidence that he is lying. Also, there is a terrible danger in assuming someone is lying to you, just to suit your own belief system; it's called paranoia. I find Dean's experience very interesting; it doesn't prove anything but it's a fascinating story nevertheless.


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And Lyle's likely to face more charges than just battery, on which he was arrested around 1:17 a.m. Monday.
That's all in Friday's order from Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Lisa Walsh, which came down Friday after Hernandez's Thursday death.
The order was overshadowed by the surveillance video that appeared to show Lyle running several strides to knock out the retreating 63-year-old at Northwest 27th Avenue and 14th Street. Lyle told police he feared for his family's safety after Hernandez approached their car.
Lyle plays Rodrigo Villavicencio, the male lead on the Mexican telenovela "Mi Adorable Maldición" (My Adorable Curse).
Though Lyle's arrest report said Hernandez was in Jackson Memorial Hospital "unresponsive, intubated, and suffering from an injury to the brain" as of the arrest, Lyle's request for permission to return to Mexico was granted Tuesday by a "covering judge" handling the court. He was out of Miami-Dade County Jail after posting $5,000 bond and had been charged only with a third-degree felony.
Walsh wrote Friday, "This Court has become aware by reading The Miami Herald today that the victim of this battery has died and enhanced charges are likely to be filed. Based on this change of circumstances, this Court is rescinding the travel order."
And, she wrote, while she doesn't have the authority to alter the bond without notice, "the bond contract at issue is vitiated by the victim's death and likelihood of enhanced charges. Accordingly, the bondsman is required to attend the hearing, along with the Defendant and counsel to address the bond."
The court docket says Bruce Lehr will be Lyle's attorney.
David J. Neal
Since 1989, David J. Neal's domain at the Miami Herald has expanded to include writing about Panthers (NHL and FIU), Dolphins, old school animation, food safety, fraud, naughty lawyers, bad doctors and all manner of breaking news. He drinks coladas whole. He does not work Indianapolis 500 Race Day.
Public awaits Jeffrey Epstein's bail hearing in New York City
EXCLUSIVE: Epstein victim's mother talks about first time learning of her daughter's abuse
Two teens wounded in shooting at a Southwest Miami-Dade park
By Carli Teproff
Two teens suffered gunshot wounds Monday in a shooting at Eureka Park in South Miami Heights. Police say the shooting appeared it may be drug related.
She was shot as she sat in a car, cops say. Her body was found on the side of a road
A machete-wielding man messed with the wrong guy, cops say. Here's why.
Man charged with murder tells cops: 'I am the one who shot him,' report says
Multimillionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein finds out Monday if it's jail or bail


Students for AIGA promote in style.
So many of these you may have seen floating around the School of Art and Design and greater North Campus area. I can't help but give some major credit to Mike Wang, James Reich and Arlene Zhao for making some pretty funny posters to promote the UM Student Chapter of AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts). There really is never an excuse for poorly designed poster when you have this many graphic design students running around.
These are way too legit.


The Center provides developmentally appropriate programs for the children of students, staff, faculty and the community.
The Center operates on the academic calendar of Los Angeles Valley College. During the fall and spring semesters, the following programs are available.
Location: Adjacent to corner of Oxnard St and Ethel Ave.
*The Center Will Be CLOSED for Spring Break from March 28-April 7th. Normal hours will resume April 8th.
AGES: Children two and a half (2 1/2) years of age up to five (5) years of age are eligible for the Day Preschool Program. Children must be potty trained.
DAYS: Monday Through Thursday evenings. Available one (1) or more evenings as needed.
The Campus Child Development Center is located in the northeast section of the Los Angeles Valley College campus, in parking lot "D", adjacent to the corner of Oxnard Street and Ethel Avenue.
Applications are available in the Campus Child Development Center office.
Applications for all programs, for the current and upcoming semesters, summer session(s) and winter intersession are accepted continuously.
Applications must be completed and submitted to the Campus Child Development Center office to be considered for service and placement on the appropriate waiting list(s).
Applications must be complete and accurate for proper placement and processing. Applications with missing or incomplete information will not be processed, as they cannot be rated for placement.
There are eligibility lists for all of the Campus Child Development Center programs. The length of the lists varies by program.
Student-parents have priority for service.
Fees for all Campus Child Development Center programs are calculated using a sliding scale based on family size and the gross monthly income. Subsidized service is available to eligible families.
Breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner and evening snack are provided for all children enrolled, at no charge.
Students, particularly Child Development majors, participate in the programs under the direct supervision of a Lead Teacher.
Service for summer sessions and/or winter intersession is offered if funding is available to operate any or all of these sessions. Program days and hours for summer and winter sessions may be different from those offered for the fall and spring semesters.


After the audit of an S corporation for the 2009 tax year, the IRS disallowed some corporate deductions and further disallowed the $24 million corporate loss allocated to the shareholders asserting that the shareholders lacked adequate basis. The shareholders retained us to dispute the IRS determination.
The shareholders claimed that they had adequate basis in the S corporation because they each loaned funds to the S corporation and that the loans created basis even though they were back-to-back loans. This means that the shareholders were the sole owners of both an S corporation and an LLC. The loan scenario was the following—the LLC received a bank loan and then loaned the funds to the shareholders who loaned the funds to the S corporation. IRS regulations allow back-to-back loans to create shareholder basis. The shareholder also argued in the alternative that the losses are deductible because in 2011 all shareholder loans were contributed to the S corporation for equity. Thus, at a minimum the losses would be deductible in 2011 and could be carried back as net operating losses to 2009.
We protested the results of the audit for a hearing before the IRS Office of Appeals. However, while the case was pending, the three year statute of limitations for the 2011 tax year was about to expire. We counseled the shareholders to each file protective claims for refunds so that in the event it was finally determined that the shareholders had no basis in 2009, the shareholders would, nevertheless, be eligible to take the losses in 2011. Unfortunately, the IRS Office of Appeals affirmed the loss disallowance and we filed petitions to Tax Court.
After completing discovery, IRS counsel agreed that the shareholders had adequate basis and were permitted to deduct the losses in 2009. IRS counsel further agreed to allow the corporate deductions. Thus, a collective $8.2 million deficiency was removed resulting in no tax due and no penalties owed.
The message is that persistence is often critical when fighting the IRS.
This alert originally appeared in the February 2017 Shiner's Dollars with Sense newsletter.


Section 17.700. Purpose and scope.
38 CFR § 17.700 - Purpose and scope.
§ 17.700 Purpose and scope.
This section establishes the Grants for Transportation of Veterans in Highly Rural Areas program. Under this program, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides grants to eligible entities to assist veterans in highly rural areas through innovative transportation services to travel to VA medical centers, and to otherwise assist in providing transportation services in connection with the provision of VA medical care to these veterans.


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Reduce the quantity of fat intake into the body: Individuals needs to watch the type of food taken into the body because, Foods that contains high calorie like sugar if taken too much can increase body weight which can also result into obesity. Therefore, calorie intake into the body controlled drastically. Excess carbohydrate should be avoided as this can also result into obesity.
Dieting: Try as much as possible to reduce the quantity of food taking into the body and also, the rate at which foods are consumed. Also, avoid taking foods which contains too much carbohydrate and fat.
Drink more water: water is just about the most excellent appetite suppressant you can find. It's natural and great for the body. The human body is 70 percent water by mass while blood is 90 percent water. Water loads the stomach and keeps you from overeating. It as well takes away toxins from your body and while helping to extract greater nutritional value from your food.
Vegetables – most of them have low calorie contents in contrast to meats. They are also tummy- and heart-friendly. Veggies promote good digestion and are thus good for weight-watchers.
Soya milk – it is rich in protein yet it will not make you fat. A high-protein diet uses more energy and, thus, it can make you burn fat faster. If this happens, your blood pressure and sugar levels are lowered.
Lemon juice is very useful and effective in obesity control. Take a glass of lukewarm water and add two teaspoons of lemon juice and one teaspoon honey. Drink this on empty stomach each morning. It will prove to be very beneficial.
Mint is an excellent herb which is used in the control of obesity. You can eat it as chutney or drink mint tea. Both are very beneficial. Mint is capable of burning your excess fats effectively.
Do physical exercise regularly. If you want to burn fats then you will have to do exercise regularly. Walking is also very good for your health. So walk everyday. Take the stairs in place of lift. You can skip ropes and also do sit ups and push ups. Be active throughout the day. Work, play and also take proper rest.
Eat less carbohydrate: carbohydrates such as those found in white rice, white bread, white sugar, processed cereals etc are all fattening. Focus on getting energy from proteins and healthy fats like those found in olive oil, avocado oil etc. and take only complex unrefined carbs such as brown rice, brown sugar, brown bread etc.


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Three quarters of a year old already. The next big milestone is totally the one year mark. How did we get here?! Nine months seems so short, yet so long. For instance, to think about being pregnant that length of time ago does not register with me. I can't remember what it feels like to even be pregnant anymore (don't mistake this for me wanting to get pregnant again to remember haha). Whereas, to think about Nia as this little thing curled up on me to sleep for an hour, feels like yesterday. I still get cuddles, but only when she's tired (aka on her terms haha). I'll totally take what I can get these days! Here's how this little 9 monther is doing this month!
My favourite one by far is her looking into the mirrors. You can guarantee that if you can find her in a mirror and she can make eye contact with you that you'll get a smile. Hilarious girl.
Another favourite is this video we took of her a couple of weeks ago trying to put her shirt on.


Are, SWE (Feb. 12, 2019) – Fans in Are and those tuning in from around the world were treated to action-packed, head-to-head slalom racing with the mixed team event at the 2019 Audi FIS Alpine World Championships on Tuesday, hosted under the lights.
The knock-out format of the team event sees four racers from each of the six-member teams race one, head-to-head run, with the winning team moving forward to the next round. Total time is used as the tie-breaker should it be required.
Canada was edged in the first round by hosts Sweden, who were defeated in the quarter-final by the eventual gold-medallists, Switzerland.
The Canadian contingent included Erin Mielzynski (Collingwood, Ont./Georgian Peaks Ski Club), Laurence St-Germain (St-Ferréol-les-Neiges, Que./Club de ski Mont-Ste-Anne), Roni Remme (Collingwood, Ont./Alpine Ski Club), Erik Read (Calgary/Banff Alpine Racers), Trevor Philp (Calgary/Banff Alpine Racers), and Brodie Seger (North Vancouver, B.C./Whistler Mountain Ski Club).
In addition to Philp, who was Canada's anchor, Canadians Mielzynski, Read, and St-Germain were tapped to race in the opening heat. All of the runs were close, with small bobbles being the difference-makers for the Canucks.
World Championships' racing is set to resume on Thursday with the ladies' giant slalom. All races are streamed live at CBCsports.ca.


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Pleiades has a new associate editor: Sarah E. Bond.
It is my pleasure, on behalf of the Pleiades editorial board, to welcome Professor Sarah Bond as our newest Associate Editor.
For the past two years, Prof. Bond served as Assistant Professor of History at Marquette University. This fall, she moves to a new position as Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa. In addition to teaching, she has been a contributor and editor at the US Epigraphy Project (Brown University) for 3 years. Her own digital project is called The Collegium Project. Its objective is to catalogue inscriptions and literary references to voluntary associations and professionals in the ancient Mediterranean from 500 BCE to 500 CE. Her archaeological field experience includes training on Total Station at Monticello andMorgantina.
Prof. Bond's research interests include Greek and Latin epigraphy, the topography of antique epigraphic habits, Roman law, unseemly professionals, and Late Antiquity. She has a book manuscript under contract with the University of Michigan Press that explores unseemly professionals, sensory responses, and the notion of disrepute in the Roman Mediterranean from 45 BCE to 565 CE.
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How to begin your small business marketing plan?
"Where should I begin?" seems to the main question that I get most when it comes to developing a small business marketing plan. Particularly when I meet small business owners who have done business in a traditional (non-digital) way for some time. Website. Search Engines. Facebook. Twitter. LinkedIn. Pinterest. Instagram. Yelp. Email. Pay-per-click. Blogging. YouTube. Podcasting. On and on and on and on…Of course it seems overwhelming!
So where should we begin? Well, before we dive into all these tactical steps. It is important to set a foundation. The foundation is defining your target market.
If you have been in business for some time, you should have a good understanding of your target market. If you're new to business, this is a good exercise to get some clarity on where to focus your attention and effort. The key for marketing success, and properly targeting your current and future customers is to define precisely what niche of the market you serve.
For example, a massage therapist can say "I provide services to anyone who has back pain". But that market is HUGE! How can you possibly begin to effectively market to that large consumer base on your small marketing budget? But if you start defining what are the traits or characteristics of this target market, you can whittle down to a more concise ideal customer.
So in my massage therapist example, perhaps the target market is young professionals (18 – 35 years of age) who sit in front of a computer all day (programmers, accountants, lawyers, etc – choose one, even better!) that live in a 10 mile radius from my office, who have back pain. This allows you to think more clearly on what offers to provide, what messages to use, and what channels to send those messages.
Everyone needs a starting point, and knowing your customer is the key to really attracting the right customer, without wasting your time and money learning through trial and error. Why begin with creating a Pinterest page, if your customers don't use Pinterest? Once you know you who your customer is, their likes, their dislikes, where they consume content (at work, on-the-go, in the car (podcast)), and what channels they frequent (email, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc), then you really have the foundation to start thinking of how you should create, design and format your website, what needs do they have, how to reach them, and what sort of offers to provide them.
So lets get to work. Here are some questions to help you figure out who is your target market, and certainly begin by looking and studying your current customers. If your business is new, answer these questions envisioning your ideal customer entering your store, or emailing you for more information.
Is your market geographically specific, for instance, if you are a brick and mortar store? If so, what geographic area do you service? Can you offer services nationally/globally?
What is the age range of your target market? (Specify a range, or perhaps you want to target classes of age ranges such as the elderly, or millennials).
Is this audience Male or Female or both? Marital status? Do they have children?
What values or ideas do they hold? What is meaningful to them, such as political affiliations, or what causes do they support?
What challenges do they share in their day-to-day life? (In debt, no time for family/other ambitions, back pain, etc).
Bonus question: What makes them buy from you? – This is a bonus question, because this puts you in the head of your customer, but you should (and will) actually ask them! You'll be surprised what you find out.
My hope is that you begin to see that developing your small business marketing plan is a process. You should have fun with it! Please don't get overwhelmed. Go fast! Think of lots of possibilities.
In my next post, we'll be asking your current customers for feedback. Scary, huh? But this can be a gold mine for your business, I will guarantee you will learn things that you have overlooked, which will give ideas on new goods/services you can offer. But first…get cracking on the questions above.


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Millicent Rogers (1902-1953) was the granddaughter of Henry Huttleston Rogers, one of the founders of the Standard Oil Company. At her homes in New York, Virginia, Italy and elsewhere, she entertained the great and splendid from American industrialists to European nobility. She was the fashionista of her day!
In her later years, she visited and eventually settled in Taos, New Mexico. Here, she became close friends with many of the founding members of the Taos artist's colony including Dorothy Brett.
Due to rheumatic fever as a child, Millicent was often ill and so the high mountain air helped her physically. Sadly, however, she died very young leaving three sons and a collection of jewelry, weavings and art that live on in the museum named for her. A central permanent exhibit in the museum showcases the turquoise and silver jewelry collection assembled by Millicent during her life .
The Millicent Rogers Museum was established in 1956 by her son Paul Peralta-Ramos as a memorial to her memory and to showcase the arts and cultures of the southwest that had so fascinated Millicent. Millicent's son Paul Peralta-Ramos dedicated much of his life to building the extraordinary collection of more than 7000 objects documenting the arts and cultures of the southwest.
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Our second woman writer of the month is Elizabeth Blackwell, whose influential and beautifully illustrated A Curious Herbal is in the Chawton House Library collection.
Elizabeth Blackwell, a 1737 lithograph by Villain.
Elizabeth Blackwell (nee Blachrie), a merchant's daughter, was born c.1700 in Aberdeen, Scotland. After her marriage to Alexander Blackwell, the couple were forced to flee Aberdeen when he was challenged for practising medicine without a licence. In London, and with the help of his wife's dowry, Alexander set up business as a printer. Once again he failed to follow the obligatory trade regulations, and was fined. Alexander's inability to pay the fines, and his mounting debts, saw him thrown into debtors' prison.
A Curious Herbal
In order to provide for herself and her child, the resourceful Elizabeth determined to produce a herbal (an illustrated book of plants describing their uses in medicine). Like many young women of her class, she had received tuition in drawing and painting. She made detailed botanical drawings of plants, and later took them to Alexander in prison where he would use his medical knowledge to provide descriptions for their use. Elizabeth painstakingly sketched, engraved and hand-coloured each illustration. Between 1737 and 1739 she published four plates each week until she had produced 500 images. The complete work was then published in two volumes as A Curious Herbal containing five hundred cuts of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick, to which is added a short description of ye plants and their common uses in physick. Her achievement would normally have taken three artists and craftsmen.
Blackwell's beautiful illustration of the dandelion includes drawings of seeds and progression of growth.
Until this point in the mid-eighteenth century, all of the major English herbals – Gerard (1597), Parkinson (1640), and Culpeper (1653) – had been produced by men. Blackwell's mid eighteenth-century herbal appeared at a critical moment that saw the gradual emergence of botany as a science distinct from simply the medical uses of plants. By the end of the eighteenth century, botany had become widely accepted as a suitable branch of scientific study for women.
The Elizabeth Blackwell Herb Garden
Chawton House Library's Walled Garden is home to a herb garden dedicated to Elizabeth Blackwell's work. Opened in July of 2016, the garden contains some of the very species that Blackwell studied and drew. The plants are arranged by their various medical benefits, as Blackwell herself might have categorised them. We welcome visitors to the beautiful Chawton House gardens, and several garden tours and events will take place this April.
Adopt the Herbal
Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal is one of the Librarian's Selection of books for our Adopt a Book program. For as little as twenty-five pounds, you can adopt A Curious Herbal or another book in our collection. Your contribution will help preserve your chosen book, and more than 15,000 other books in the Chawton House Library collection.
The #WomensWrites campaign will run throughout 2017 and will involve numerous activities to spread the word about early women's writing. Find out more, including why we think this is so relevant today, here.


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Irgens helped this national healthcare provider design and build a new, 137,000 square foot regional headquarters facility within a confined geographic area in a limited timeframe. Irgens interviewed and hired the design/build team, analyzed and ranked multiple sites, and on two sites, parallel tracked the project, negotiated purchase agreements and obtained government approvals. The project was delivered on the preferred site, ahead of schedule and under budget.


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Based on information gathered from the consultative meetings, we will distill the ideas into two sketches. We'll discuss changes and make revisions to the sketches as needed to capture that idea from your mind's eye.
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by Jennifer Van Evra on September 8th, 2005 at 9:00 AM
It was his first week of Grade 4, and already Ryan Gladstone was in serious trouble. He couldn't remember what he had done to raise the teacher's ire, but it was egregious enough to elicit the line that can strike fear into the tiny heart of any student: "Do you think you can do a better job? Would you like to try teaching the class?"
Where most other kids would shrink into their seats, Gladstone said yes. Soon he was at the blackboard making fun of the material while the teacher sat in Gladstone's seat, heckling and rolling her eyes in an attempt to show the student how difficult her job really was. Still acting the teacher, Gladstone expressed his deep displeasure with his student's unruly behaviour and ordered her out into the hall as the other students-amazed at his chutzpah-laughed out loud. The joke was over, and Gladstone soon found himself behind a room divider, separated from his peers for the rest of the day. But Gladstone had discovered what it was like to have the other kids' undivided attention. He had become the Class Clown.
Now a 28-year-old writer and actor, Gladstone has transformed his school experiences into a hit play on the Fringe festival circuit, Confessions of a Class Clown, and it's part of an ever-growing trend toward humorous one-person shows that are rooted in real life. Writers and performers such as David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim) and Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, McSweeney's) have moved out of their cult-favourite corners and into the spotlight, popularizing the form. On Fringe stages everywhere, actors are mining their own lives for material while eschewing the veil of fiction. At this year's Vancouver Fringe Festival (Thursday [September 8] to September 18) there are comedic first-person stories about everything from a mixed-religion wedding (Jew! [A Musical]) to life's fleetingness (PAIN: So Funny It Hurts) to work as a New York dominatrix (Girl's Guide), to name just a few.
"I think life can be as spectacularly fantastic as anything that we can imagine, and sometimes the real stories just capture people more because they're true. They know that this really happened," says Gladstone, who is in the process of relocating from Toronto to Vancouver but is speaking on the phone from his family home in Calgary. "They put themselves right there, back in Grade 4, and there's that kid, and he's misbehaving again, and the teacher has put him behind the wall or dragged his desk to the back of the class and he's still spitting spitballs. People want to see the truth, because it has that kind of resonance."
But according to Sara Bynoe, the Vancouver writer and actor who created Sparkle Bunny: The Last Raver Dancing from her experience of the mid-1990s rave scene for this year's Fringe, telling the truth can also be risky if it's not engagingly told. If you've ever endured a story that ends with "I guess you had to be there," you know that what's immensely interesting to the storyteller can be brain-numbingly boring to the audience.
"If it's about your own gratification, then it's just masturbating on-stage," says Bynoe, on the phone from a Fringe stop in Victoria. (She also hosts "Teen Angst Poetry" nights in Vancouver and gathered the horrible poems into an anthology called Teen Angst: A Celebration of REALLY BAD Poetry.) "You need to have an arc in mind. What's the greater story you're trying to tell? What is the character's journey or want? If you find that, then the story can be really beautiful. Because you know the performer is so close to the heart of the performance, it's always really raw. They might not be the most brilliant performer, but no matter what, there's that connection. Sometimes in fictional shows, if the acting isn't totally on, it just doesn't have that. There's a vulnerability in putting yourself out there. And that's always what I find so attractive about these kinds of shows. It's in the performer."
One especially tricky aspect of working with first-person material, says Vancouver-based writer and actor Cara Yeates, is deciding what to keep and what to cut. For her show, Knee Deep in Muck, Yeates drew from her real-life experiences of tree-planting-she even subjected herself to more planting this summer in order to flesh out her script-and had reams of material to pull from.
"When I came to my director this year, we sat down and we talked for three hours. She said, 'Okay, that's great. You have lots of ideas, but this isn't a six-hour show.' So over the course of about a month, we figured out what we could fit in and what we couldn't. And sometimes you have to learn to just let things go," Yeates says on the phone from Victoria, where she has been garnering rave reviews for the show at the festival there. Because it is her own story, she adds, getting up on-stage and performing it can be especially terrifying.
"My first night of doing the show was probably the scariest thing I have ever done, because it's me out there, 120 percent. But at the same time, it's the most rewarding thing because it is just you. It's all your work. And when you get people laughing or you can just tell the audience is listening to every word you're saying, it's just amazing," says Yeates, who also does puppeteering work for the B.C. Coalition of People With Disabilities and helps to run the Butcher Shop art gallery and music venue on Main Street. "I spent so much time struggling through Shakespeare in university and enjoying it but never really truly connecting to it. But at the moments when I'm relaying something that I have experienced or my friends have experienced, it's unlike anything else, because it's the truth."


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Justice Olalekan Owolabi of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan, has ruled that a former Governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala and two others have a case to answer in an N11.5 billion fraud case.
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Former Governor, Alao-Akala; Hosea Agboola, former Oyo State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters and Femi Babalola, an Ibadan-based businessman, are facing an 11-count charge of conspiracy, awarding contract without budgetary provision, obtaining money by false pretences, acquiring property with money derived from an illegal act and concealing its ownership.
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Manohary Rajendram
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Bioengineering
Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service Award, National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (05/2018-04/2021)
Bachelor of Technology, Anna University, Biotechnology (2009)
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin Madison (2015)
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Kerwyn Huang, Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor
University - Scholar Department:&nbspBioengineering Position: Postdoctoral Scholar
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A Gut Commensal-Produced Metabolite Mediates Colonization Resistance to Salmonella Infection. Cell host & microbe Jacobson, A., Lam, L., Rajendram, M., Tamburini, F., Honeycutt, J., Pham, T., Van Treuren, W., Pruss, K., Stabler, S. R., Lugo, K., Bouley, D. M., Vilches-Moure, J. G., Smith, M., Sonnenburg, J. L., Bhatt, A. S., Huang, K. C., Monack, D. 2018
The intestinal microbiota provides colonization resistance against pathogens, limiting pathogen expansion and transmission. These microbiota-mediated mechanisms were previously identified by observing loss of colonization resistance after antibiotic treatment or dietary changes, which severely disrupt microbiota communities. We identify a microbiota-mediated mechanism of colonization resistance against Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) by comparing high-complexity commensal communities with different levels of colonization resistance. Using inbred mouse strains with different infection dynamics and S. Typhimurium intestinal burdens, we demonstrate that Bacteroides species mediate colonization resistance against S. Typhimurium by producing the short-chain fatty acid propionate. Propionate directly inhibits pathogen growth invitro by disrupting intracellular pH homeostasis, and chemically increasing intestinal propionate levels protects mice from S.Typhimurium. In addition, administering susceptible mice Bacteroides, but not a propionate-production mutant, confers resistance to S. Typhimurium. This work provides mechanistic understanding into the role of individualized microbial communities in host-to-host variability of pathogen transmission.
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Marine Mammal Microbiota Yields Novel Antibiotic with Potent Activity Against Clostridium difficile ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES Ochoa, J. L., Sanchez, L. M., Koo, B., Doherty, J. S., Rajendram, M., Huang, K., Gross, C. A., Linington, R. G. 2018; 4 (1): 59–67
The recent explosion of research on the microbiota has highlighted the important interplay between commensal microorganisms and the health of their cognate hosts. Metabolites isolated from commensal bacteria have been demonstrated to possess a range of antimicrobial activities, and it is widely believed that some of these metabolites modulate host behavior, affecting predisposition to disease and pathogen invasion. Our access to the local marine mammal stranding network and previous successes in mining the fish microbiota poised us to test the hypothesis that the marine mammal microbiota is a novel source of commensal bacteria-produced bioactive metabolites. Examination of intestinal contents from five marine mammals led to the identification of a Micromonospora strain with potent and selective activity against a panel of Gram-positive pathogens and no discernible human cytotoxicity. Compound isolation afforded a new complex glycosylated polyketide, phocoenamicin, with potent activity against the intestinal pathogen Clostridium difficile, an organism challenging to treat in hospital settings. Use of our activity-profiling platform, BioMAP, clustered this metabolite with other known ionophore antibiotics. Fluorescence imaging and flow cytometry confirmed that phocoenamicin is capable of shifting membrane potential without damaging membrane integrity. Thus, exploration of gut microbiota in hosts from diverse environments can serve as a powerful strategy for the discovery of novel antibiotics against human pathogens.
Mechanical Genomics Identifies Diverse Modulators of Bacterial Cell Stiffness. Cell systems Auer, G. K., Lee, T. K., Rajendram, M., Cesar, S., Miguel, A., Huang, K. C., Weibel, D. B. 2016; 2 (6): 402-411
Bacteria must maintain mechanical integrity to withstand the large osmotic pressure differential across the cell membrane and wall. Although maintaining mechanical integrity is critical for proper cellular function, a fact exploited by prominent cell-wall-targeting antibiotics, the proteins that contribute to cellular mechanics remain unidentified. Here, we describe a high-throughput optical method for quantifying cell stiffness and apply this technique to a genome-wide collection of ∼4,000 Escherichia coli mutants. We identify genes with roles in diverse functional processes spanning cell-wall synthesis, energy production, and DNA replication and repair that significantly change cell stiffness when deleted. We observe that proteins with biochemically redundant roles in cell-wall synthesis exhibit different stiffness defects when deleted. Correlating our data with chemical screens reveals that reducing membrane potential generally increases cell stiffness. In total, our work demonstrates that bacterial cell stiffness is a property of both the cell wall and broader cell physiology and lays the groundwork for future systematic studies of mechanoregulation.
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New IT Clown Costume Revealed But is it Better Than The Original?
From director Andy Muschietti (Mama) and based on the acclaimed novel by master author Stephen King, comes the big-screen adaptation of IT. Starring Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard, Sophia Lillis, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs, Jeremy Ray Taylor and Bill Skarsgard. The film (part one) hits theaters on September 8, 2017.
EW has released the full look at Bill Skarsgard in his Pennywise The Clown costume for the upcoming big screen remake of IT. The upcoming adaptation will take place in the 1980's for part one (aka when the main cast were kids) while part two is slated to take place in the present day with the surviving members being adults. In the novels, the past was set in the 50's while present day was set in the 80's.
said Emmy-winning costume designer Janie Bryant (Deadwood).
Do you like the new look? It's definitely more "alien-like" than the original costume and make-up job from the 1990 TV mini-series. But you'll notice that both make-ups feature the same larger head shape which is a nice touch… I mean after all, this thing, is not of this world. It's a monster that eats children and changes shape to become your worst fear (or you know, deceptively changing form to look like a loved one).
I personally love the updated costume (but I'm still not convinced Skarsgard was the best choice), while fellow writer Sean isn't too sold on the new costume but likes Skarsgard for the role. Sound off below – which one is better?


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Q: Why do I get an empty plot? I have the following code:
AlphaCovarianceMatrix = 1/8*{{3, 0, 1}, {0, 2, 0}, {1, 0, 3}};
BetaCovarianceMatrix[2 θ_] :=
  1/8 {{-2 Cos[2 θ], Sqrt[2] Sin[2 θ],
     0}, {Sqrt[2] Sin[2 θ], 0, Sqrt[2] Sin[2 θ]}, {0,
     Sqrt[2] Sin[2 θ], 2 Cos[2 θ]}};
GammaCovarianceMatrix[4 θ_] :=
  1/8 {{Cos[
      4 θ], -Sqrt[2] Sin[4 θ], -Cos[
       4 θ]}, {-Sqrt[2] Sin[4 θ], -2 Cos[4 θ],
     Sqrt[2] Sin[4 θ]}, {-Cos[4 θ],
     Sqrt[2] Sin[4 θ], Cos[4 θ]}};
Cvol[mu_, n_] :=
  AlphaCovarianceMatrix + (2 n)/(n + 1) BetaCovarianceMatrix[2 mu] + (
    n (n - 1))/((n + 1) (n + 2)) GammaCovarianceMatrix[4 mu];
B[n_] := Eigenvalues[Cvol[μ, n]];
Plot[{B[n][[1]], B[n][[2]], B[n][[3]]}, {n, 0, 50},
 PlotLegends -> {"λ1", "λ2", "λ3"}]

And I get the following empty plot:

In order to find the reason, I have checked some of the issues suggested by common pitfalls and I see that everything is calculated normally.
B[n]
(*
{(1 + 2 n)/(2 (1 + n) (2 + n)), (
 3 + 4 n + 2 n^2 - Sqrt[1 + 4 n + 20 n^2 + 16 n^3 + 4 n^4])/(
 4 (1 + n) (2 + n)), (
 3 + 4 n + 2 n^2 + Sqrt[1 + 4 n + 20 n^2 + 16 n^3 + 4 n^4])/(
 4 (1 + n) (2 + n))}
*)
B[0]
(*{1/2, 1/4, 1/4}*)

When I write the code as follows: (I don't consider any argument for B)
B = Eigenvalues[Cvol[μ, n]];
Plot[{B[[1]], B[[2]], B[[3]]}, {n, 0, 50},
 PlotLegends -> {"λ1", "λ2", "λ3"}]

Everything's OK and the plot is done normally!!

Could you suggest me what the problem is?

A: AlphaCovarianceMatrix = 1/8*{{3, 0, 1}, {0, 2, 0}, {1, 0, 3}};
BetaCovarianceMatrix[2 θ_] :=
  1/8 {{-2 Cos[2 θ], Sqrt[2] Sin[2 θ],
     0}, {Sqrt[2] Sin[2 θ], 0, Sqrt[2] Sin[2 θ]}, {0,
     Sqrt[2] Sin[2 θ], 2 Cos[2 θ]}};
GammaCovarianceMatrix[4 θ_] :=
  1/8 {{Cos[
      4 θ], -Sqrt[2] Sin[4 θ], -Cos[
       4 θ]}, {-Sqrt[2] Sin[4 θ], -2 Cos[4 θ],
     Sqrt[2] Sin[4 θ]}, {-Cos[4 θ],
     Sqrt[2] Sin[4 θ], Cos[4 θ]}};
Cvol[mu_, n_] :=
  AlphaCovarianceMatrix + (2 n)/(n + 1) BetaCovarianceMatrix[
     2 mu] + (n (n - 1))/((n + 1) (n + 2)) GammaCovarianceMatrix[4 mu];
B[n_Integer] := Eigenvalues[Cvol[μ, n]];

ListLinePlot[Evaluate[Transpose[B /@ Range[0, 50]]],
 PlotLegends -> (Subscript[λ, #] & /@ Range[3]),
 DataRange -> {0, 50}]

For non-integer values of n
Clear[B];

B[n_] := Eigenvalues[Cvol[μ, Rationalize[n]]] // ToRadicals // N;

ListLinePlot[Evaluate[Transpose[B /@ Range[0, 50, .25]]],
 PlotLegends -> (Subscript[λ, #] & /@ Range[3]), DataRange -> {0, 50}]


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import React from 'react'
import { hashHistory } from 'react-router'
import { connect } from 'react-redux'
import {Tabs, Tab} from 'material-ui/Tabs'

const mapStateToProps = (state) => ({
  mainMenu: state.mainMenu,
  router: state.router
})

const MainMenu = (props) => {
  const tabsValue = props.router.locationBeforeTransitions ? props.router.locationBeforeTransitions.pathname : null
  return <Tabs showMenuIconButton={false} value={tabsValue} tabItemContainerStyle={{padding: 0}}>
    {
      props.mainMenu.map((item, i) => (
        <Tab
          key={item.label}
          label={item.label}
          style={{fontSize: 12}}
          value={item.to}
          onClick={hashHistory.push.bind(null, item.to)}
        />
      ))
    }
  </Tabs>
}

MainMenu.propTypes = {
  mainMenu: React.PropTypes.arrayOf(
    React.PropTypes.shape({
      label: React.PropTypes.string.isRequired,
      link: React.PropTypes.string
    })
  ),
  router: React.PropTypes.object.isRequired
}

export default connect(mapStateToProps)(MainMenu)

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Gliese 588 o GJ 588 (LHS 397 / CD-40 9712 / HIP 76074) es una estrella en la constelación de Lupus, el lobo, localizada visualmente a 34 minutos de arco al oeste de la brillante γ Lupi.
Situada a 19,36 años luz de distancia, es la estrella más próxima al Sol en esta constelación.

Gliese 588 es una enana roja de tipo espectral M3.0V y magnitud aparente +9,31.
Tiene una masa igual al 46 % de la masa solar y un radio equivalente al 48 % del que tiene el Sol.
Su luminosidad únicamente supone el 4 % de la luminosidad solar y su temperatura efectiva es de 3440 K.
Como posible estrella variable, recibe la denominación NSV 7119 en el New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars.
En concreto, la medida de su índice de actividad magnética mediante el doblete de la línea NaI de su espectro, ha puesto de manifiesto que dicha actividad varía en una escala de tiempo larga; además, existe una correlación significativa entre la actividad de la estrella y las variaciones de su velocidad radial.

Las estrellas conocidas más cercanas a Gliese 588 son GJ 3877, enana roja a 5,4 años luz, y Gliese 570, sistema estelar a 7,1 años luz.

Véase también
 Lista de estrellas cercanas a la Tierra

Referencias

Enanas rojas
Constelación de Lupus

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Thnk you so much for not saying first.
who cares if someone says first anyway! why is that such a huge deal to people i don't get it! i have better things to worry about then if someone comments that they were first.
god! who cares if they say first or not! don't you have anything better to worry about then to get annoyed when someone comments first on something(actually you probably don't...)!!! it's not a big deal when someone says first so why do people make it one! just ignore it if it so insults you! i for one have much bigger things to worry about!
Sorry I dont find this amusing or even FML worthy.
How long were you in there? ._.
you need to be proud of your junk!!
maybe you just didn't have to go? drink more.
Well you did put on quite a show.


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Spyridium cinereum, commonly known as tiny spiridium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a low-lying shrub with heart-shaped leaves, the narrower end towards the base, and heads of whitish, shaggy-hairy flowers with brown bracts at the base of the heads.

Description
Spyridium cinereum is a low-lying shrub or subshrub that typically grows to a height of . The leaves are heart-shaped with the narrower end towards the base,  long and  wide with a small point in the centre of the notch. Both surfaces of the leaves are woolly-hairy, especially the upper surface, and the edges of the leaves are rolled under. The heads of flowers are arranged on the ends of branches, each with a leaf and several brown bracts at the base, the head in flattish umbels about  in diameter. The sepals are about  long, the petals whitish,  long and shaggy-hairy on the outside. Flowering occurs from October to January and the fruit is a capsule about  long.

Taxonomy
Spyridium cinereum was first formally described in 1957 by Norman Arthur Wakefield in The Victorian Naturalist of specimens he collected near Mallacoota aerodrome. The specific epithet (cinereum) means "ash-coloured".

Distribution
Spyridium cinereum grows in coastal heath and low scrub in disjunct populations near Nadgee in the far south-east of New South Wales, far north-eastern Victoria and in the north-east Grampians.

References

cinereum
Rosales of Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Victoria (Australia)
Taxa named by Norman Arthur Wakefield
Plants described in 1957