Genevieve Madeline Knight grew up in the South and both of her sisters became math and science teachers. After the Russians orbited the first satellite (1956), Sputnik, the government put vast amouts of money to science and mathematics education. Knight chose mathematics "because it had fewer labs than any of the sciences."
Upon graduation from Fort Valley Colege, Knight became an NSF Fellow. It was at an NSF Lecture that Knight actually talked with a woman who had an earned a Ph.D. in mathematics and decided that she would like to have one too! At Atlanta University she had Adulalim Shabazz as thesis advisor at Atlanta University.
From 1963 to 1966 and from 1970 to 1985 she taught mathematics at Hampton Institute. In 1985, Dr. Knight went, as a Full Professor, to Coppin State College in Baltimore.
I was a college freshman in 1957 enrolled in HOME MAKE ECONOMICS! I was encouraged to major in the sciences or mathematics. In high school I had taken chemistry, physics, biology, French, etc. Guess what? The only major that had few labs was MATHEMATICS! The rest is history: SPUTNIK!


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Abstract. Due to their remoteness, altitude and harsh climatic conditions, little is known about the glaciological parameters of ice caps on the Tibetan Plateau. This study presents a geodetic mass balance estimate of the Purogangri Ice Cap, Tibet's largest ice field between 2000 and 2012. We utilized data from the actual TerraSAR-X mission and its add-on for digital elevation measurements and compared it with elevation data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. The employed data sets are ideal for this approach as both data sets were acquired at X-band at nearly the same time of the year and are available at a fine grid spacing. In order to derive surface elevation changes we employed two different methods. The first method is based on differential synthetic radar interferometry while the second method uses common DEM differencing. Both approaches revealed a slightly negative mass budget of −44 ± 15 and −38 ± 23 mm w.eq. a−1 (millimeter water equivalent) respectively. A slightly negative trend of −0.15 ± 0.01 km2 a−1 in glacier extent was found for the same time period employing a time series of Landsat data. Overall, our results show an almost balanced mass budget for the studied time period. Additionally, we detected one continuously advancing glacier tongue in the eastern part of the ice cap.
How to cite: Neckel, N., Braun, A., Kropáček, J., and Hochschild, V.: Recent mass balance of the Purogangri Ice Cap, central Tibetan Plateau, by means of differential X-band SAR interferometry, The Cryosphere, 7, 1623-1633, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1623-2013, 2013.


Can machine learning be useful for banks ?
There are several definitions of Big Data. Half a century after the computers entered mainstream society, the data has begun to accumulate to the point where something new and special is taking place.
With vast amounts of data available now, companies in almost every industry are focused on exploiting data for a competitive advantage.
The number of internet sites has been estimated to more than 1 billion with a yearly growth of 5,1% (estimation done by Netcraft).
The volume and variety of data have far outstripped the capacity of manual analysis and the capacities of one computer.
The world is awash with more information which is growing faster and faster. So is born the term "Big Data".
Big data refers not only to a high volume of data but also to new processing technologies, like data science and data mining. At a high level, "data science" is defined as a set of fundamental principles that guide the extraction of knowledge from data. "Data mining" is defined as the extraction of knowledge from data, via technologies that incorporate these principles.
DATA MINING: WHAT IS IT ABOUT ?
About data mining, the experts say that this is just a start. The era of data mining challenges the way we interact with the world. As from our past, most of the time we wanted to look after causality in order to get an explanation. This should change by looking after correlations between data. Correlations between data will contribute to really extract "information" from these data.
A general accepted definition of "information" is a quantity that reduces uncertainty about something.
One of the well-known areas where data mining is used, is customer relationship management which aims to analyze customer behavior in order to maximize expected customer value.
A very well-known example is "Predictive customer churn". Customers switching from one company to another is called "churn".
It is quite expensive for companies, as they spend on incentives to attract customers while they lose revenue when customer departs. Prevent churn has become a key strategic component for many companies in the world.
Each data-driven business decision-making problem is unique, comprising its own combination of goals, desires and constraints.
a) A few years ago, the CEO of Amazon intended to recommend specific books to customer based on their individual shopping preferences. From its start, the company looked mainly at the purchases. Amazon processed initially the data in the conventional way. The resulting recommendations were crude: if a customer buys thrillers, the recommendation was to buy "thrillers".
However this does not mean the customer could not be interested by other books. The company realized that the recommendation system didn't need to compare people with other people and decided to find associations or correlations among products: other books (not only thrillers) but also others products like movies.
This has generated far better and more appropriate recommendations for the customers, increasing the client's satisfaction.
Hurricane "Frances" was on its way threatening a direct hit on Florida's Atlantic coast. The CIO of Wal-Mart pressed her staff to come up with forecasts based on what had happened when hurricane "Charley" struck several weeks earlier. It is evident that clients will buy more bottles of water, for example.
Backed by the trillions of bytes stored in data warehouse, the CIO felt that the company could start predicting what's going to happen, instead of waiting for it to happen.
Data mining has contributed to determine for which products precisely the demand would highly increase. Wal-Mart has anticipated successfully these unusual demands for products.
There are a large number of data mining algorithms developed over the years. It is time now to delve into one of them, called "Classification and class probability estimation". This algorithm attempts to predict for each individual in a population, which of a set of classes this individual belongs to.
If we consider again the "Predictive customer churn", the classification algorithm determines which class (churn or not) one specific customer (called "an individual") belongs to and with which probability.
While the word "model" can be defined as the "simplified representation of a reality", a predictive model is a formula which aims to estimate an unknown value, called the target.
With other words, predictive models focus on estimating the value of some target variable. The prediction of the target variable is done by looking after correlations between (1) some variables (called attributes) and (2) the target variable, which we want to predict.
The objective is to identify which attributes are really relevant for the prediction.
Let's come back to the example of the Customer Churn: the objective is to try to estimate the likelihood that a customer will depart.
The target variable is thus "customer departs or not": there are only two values possible: "Depart or Not".
Based on the historical set of data, we can calculate the percentage of clients that have left the company. For example, let's assume that 10% of clients have left.
Currently a company generally calculates a cost estimation based on this information, as we already explained above.
However, with the rights attribute(s) correlated to the target, the management could get a more appropriate information in order to reduce the "churn" cost.
By using attributes, we classify the data and thus define subset of data. For these subset of data we also calculate the percentage of churn customers.
Let's take as attribute of the customers, the age: > 50 or <= 50.
The question is to determine (1) whether the attribute "age" brings gain in information and (2) how much gain in information this attribute gives about the value of the target.
As more the formula "entropy" approaches 100% or 0%, as more this attribute contains an important information about the target: 100% means no correlation at all with the target and 0% means full correlation: these measures are really informative.
If the result of this calculation amounts to around 50%, this would mean that the attribute does not give concrete information about the target.
This calculation has to be done for several attributes in order to detect the more informative ones.
After having determine the best informative attributes, we can obviously combine several of them and determine whether this combination brings more information about the target: this is still done by the same formula "entropy".
In this example we have combined two attributes: Revenue and age.
We see that we have four subsets of data for which we can calculate the entropy and check them with the entropy of each attribute calculated separately in order to determine whether and how much information gain has been created by these combinations.
At the end of this process, we could have learned that customers older than 50 and whose revenue > 5K are potentially faithful ones (eg with a probability of 95%), while customers younger than 50 and with revenues < 5K are less faithful (eg with a probability of 80%).
The company can thus adapt its marketing approach based on this information.
For Banks and Insurance companies, it is very important to focus on the customers' needs as today's customers have high expectations of the ways of how they interact with their banks or insurance companies. Financial players must be able to carefully understand customer preferences and motivation.
Big Data technology can improve the predictive power of risk models, exponentially improve system response times and effectiveness, provide more extensive risk coverage, and generate significant cost savings by providing more automated processes, more precise predictive systems, and less risk of failure. Risk teams can gain more accurate risk intelligence from variety of sources in nearly real-time.
Risk management / Fraud management: allow banks to make sure that no unauthorized transactions will be made, providing a level of safety and security that will raise the security standard of the entire industry.
Client segmentation: Big Data will give banks deep insights into customer spending habits and patterns, simplifying the task of ascertaining their needs and wants. By being able to track and trace each and every customer transaction, banks will be able to categorize their clients based on various parameters, including commonly accessed services, preferred credit card expenditures, or even net worth. The benefit of customer segmentation is that it allows banks to better target their clients with relatable marketing campaigns that are tailored to cater to their requirements.
Cost savings: Big Data will expand the banking industry in a way that will allow them to earn mores revenue through cost reduction. And by cutting down on unnecessary costs, the banking industry can provide customers with exactly what they're looking for, instead of irrelevant information.
Customer switching from one company to another (Churn): Big Data can help preventing churn by offering special deal retention deal prior to the expiration of the contract.
As the volume of banking customers' increases, it is almost bound to affect the level of service offered. But it is important for the banks to be on top of everything as they are responsible for the security of their clients' funds, as well as their personal data. Small scale databases simply cannot keep with the increasing volume of information. So, if the banking sector fails to successfully implement Big Data, their databases are almost certain to fail. Switching to Big Data will allow them to process this information faster, avoiding any potentially embarrassing situations.
The cloud presents a huge opportunity for the evolution of the banking sector, which has remained largely unchanged over the years. And although there are concerns related to data security, Big Data can offer a number of advantages for, both banks and their customers.


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I'm a native of the UK, born and raised in England. Eight years ago I emigrated to Australia with my wife and son and we settled down on the South Coast of New South Wales. We've explored a lot of Australia and while there are some awesome locations we don't think anything can beat the south coast.
I've been taking photographs for over 30 years now. I began with an old Instamatic and developed its black and white film myself in the family bathroom using a beach towel over the window and mum's kitchen tongs to handle the paper. Later on I did a degree in English and Journalism and received formal training in processing and development of film which helped me in my first career as a magazine journalist.
I like taking landscape photographs almost exclusively. Most of my photos are taken in and around South Coast NSW although I occasionally go further afield. This is an amazing region of Australia with some spectacular countryside and incredibly varied landscapes – you can go from rainforest to red dust via verdant pasture in half a day. I'm lucky enough to live right on the coast and next to a river and so these obviously feature heavily in my photos too. It's an inspiring place and I love exploring it through my camera lens.
Love your work Andy, I live on the South Coast and can picture so many of your locations.
Looking forward to the production of the calendar for next year.
Hey people's follow Andy on facebook to get details about when his calendar will be ready for ordering.
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Q: C# - Missing assembly/reference, Object-Oriented Programming I cannot seem to find the error to fix my code. I was given a tester class and was told to make the classes needed to run the tester properly. Here is the code i'm having a problem with:
Tester Class
using System;
using School;

namespace School
{
    class Tester
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Faculty scienceFac = University.createFaculty("Science");
        }
    }
}

Faculty Class
using System;

namespace School
{

public class Faculty
{
    public String faculty;

    public Faculty(String faculty)
    {
        this.faculty = faculty;
    }
}
}

University Class
using System;

namespace School
{

public class University
{
    private int numOfFaculties;

    public University()
    {
        numOfFaculties = 0;
    }

    public void createFaculty(String faculty)
    {
        numOfFaculties++;
        new Faculty(faculty);//?????
    }

    public int numberOfFaculties()
    {
        return numOfFaculties;
    }
}
}

Only the tester shows an error, is it something I am referencing wrong with the namespaces?

A: In addition to the issues mentioned by other people in comments:

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*The University class is "remembering" the number of faculties but not "remembering" the faculties themselves

*You don't need to initialise an integer field to 0

*There's no need to have a  int numOfFaculties field and a int numberOfFaculties() method - that's what properties are for: public int NumberOfFaculties { get; private set; } would do quite nicely.

I would suggest your University class needs to be something like this:
public class University
{
    private readonly List<Faculty> _faculties = new List<Faculty>();
    public List<Faculty> Faculties { get { return _faculties; } }

    public Faculty CreateFaculty(string facultyName)
    {
        var faculty = new Faculty(facultyName);
        _faculties.Add(faculty);
        return faculty;
    }

    public int NumberOfFaculties { get { return _faculties.Count; } }
}

Where CreateFaculty() creates a Faculty and stores it in a List inside the University object, and where the NumberOfFaculties count is simply the .Count of the list.
So to create a university with a science faculty you would call it like so:
University uni = new University();
Faculty scienceFac = uni.CreateFaculty("Science");

A: You need to change createFaculty to return the instance of Faculty.
public Faculty createFaculty(String faculty)
{
    numOfFaculties++;
    return new Faculty(faculty);
}

You also need to create an instance of University in your test project; createFaculty is not static.
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var instance = new University();
    var scienceFac = instance.createFaculty("Science");
}

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The company's innovative design approach and experience provides the most efficient systems while maintaining the best serviceability for maintenance. Designed and constructed off site, EAS AHUs can be pre-piped, pre-wired and pre-controlled to save installation time, overall cost and to improve the quality and safety of the completed product.
AHUs are shipped directly to the final destination where the EAS team will quickly install the system in a matter of days instead of weeks by having completed much of the trade work prior to shipment and delivery. EAS sets the benchmark for quality, efficiency, and innovation.
Double gasket doors providing 0% leakage @ 10"wg.


8/8. Ladies' nights are among the subjects of the impressionist's musings as his round-up of the wacky world of advertising concludes. Plus there's a selection of eccentric commercials featuring a cheating Belgian wife and a great "poker" face in the UK.


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Accountant General's Department of Malaysia (AGD) - Unclaimed Money & CDS-MOF
A. GENERAL INFORMATION
When will moneys in dispute between the parties having interest thereon be subjected to the Unclaimed Moneys Act 1965 ?
Moneys in the entity's savings will only be Unclaimed Moneys if the moneys is payable under the law but is still not paid within the specified period of time according to the provisions of the Act. Moneys in dispute between the parties having interest in it will only become payable under the law when the said dispute is resolved. After that, the money that is still not paid to its owner after the period of one year of within a longer period as decided will be known as unclaimed moneys.
How can moneys in fixed deposit accounts having automatic renewal instructions become unclaimed moneys ?
According to the Unclaimed Moneys Act 1965, moneys in credit of a particular account that is not managed by the owners within the time period of not less than seven years is interpreted as Unclaimed Moneys.
Issuance of a standing instruction by the account holder may be accepted by financial institutions as business managed by its owner. However, action upon the said standing instruction will be taken by the financial institution and this action cannot be accepted as business managed by its owner. For the purpose of calculating the time period of seven years as specified in the Act, it starts from the date of the last standing instruction issued by the account holder.
What should be done by the entity if there are errors in the Unclaimed Moneys Register (UMA-3) after it is submitted to the Registrar ?
If the submission of the Unclaimed Moneys has been processed by the Registrar, the said entity can submit an application to reclaim the moneys wrongly reported or the total surrender. To rectify the errors made, the entity is required to submit a new UMA-3 register.
If the said submission is still not processed by the Registrar, the said entity may apply to recover the UMA-3 register together with the payment cheque for the purpose of cancellation. The submission of the new UMA-3 must be forwarded.
Who is authorized to sign form UMA-3 and UMA-4 ?
a) Company – Director, Company Secretary and any of its officers or party given the authority.
b) Corporation – Any of its officers or party given the authority.
c) Firm – Partner, manager or any of its officers or party given the authority
What are the steps taken by the Registrar to create awareness among companies / firms on the requirement of the Unclaimed Act 1965?
Other than the entity check and guide book distribution, the Registrar also organizes briefing sessions on the provisions of the Act at his / her office and at all state offices of this Department (Accountant General's Department of Malaysia). The Registrar is also prepared to accept any invitation by the entity to conduct the said briefing at their office.
B. REFUND OF UNCLAIMED MONEYS
Where is the Application form for Refund of Unclaimed Moneys (UMA-7) available ?
Members of the public can obtain form UMA-7 from the Registrar's office. This form is also available at all state offices of this Department and at most commercial banks. Applicants can download this form from the website for official use (Click here for UMA- 7)
Will the Registrar impose any charges for processing the application for refund of Unclaimed Moneys ?
No charges will be imposed. The Registrar will refund the amount of moneys received without any interest given.
Is there a specified time limit for the application of refund of Unclaimed Moneys that had been submitted to the Registrar?
The time limit is not specified in the Act. Moneys in the Registrar's savings can be claimed by any person having right thereon and at any time in the future.
Can a particular applicant make a claim if the original document showing right over the Unclaimed Moneys is lost ?
Can. The applicant will need to submit a letter of confirmation from the entity that submitted the said Unclaimed Moneys as supporting document in his / her application.
Can a particular individual make inquiries whether he / she has Unclaimed Moneys in the Registrar's savings.
An individual can check their unclaimed moneys at Registrar office counter or JANM state office.
Parties genuinely having Unclaimed Moneys will be able to provide the information needed.
Does the Registrar appoint agents?
The Ministry of Finance or Unclaimed Money Registrar have never appointed any individuals/ firms/ companies as an intermediary or agent for the refund of Unclaimed Money.
Anyone who has Unclaimed Money can apply for a refund directly to the office of the Unclaimed Money Registrar without any charges/ costs incurred.
Where can the claims for the refund of Unclaimed Money (WTD) be submitted?
All refund applications or any enquiries related to WTD can be submitted to the WTD Registrar at the following address:
Pendaftar Wang Tak Dituntut
Tingkat 42, Menara Maybank
100, Jalan Tun Perak
Fax: 03-2072 5707/ 03-2026 7430


Ricardo Morais is Assistant Professor of Management at Catholic University of Portugal (Porto) and founder of Idea Puzzle (www.ideapuzzle.com). He holds a PhD in Strategic Management from the University of Jyväskylä (first Portuguese PhD in Finland in Social Sciences), having graduated in Management from the University of Porto. His research interests include theory development, critical realism, strategy formation, multinational management, and design thinking. Since 2002, he has lectured these topics in over 50 universities in 11 countries. He is a member of the Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and Academy of International Business (www.ricardomorais.com).
Some places are still available on the course. Please contact Anne-Laure Marteaux (anne-laure.marteaux@eiasm.be).
Interested doctoral students should register online (and add the required documents) no later than September 9, 2016.
The participation fee is 1100 € (VAT Excluded). This fee includes participation to the seminar, the documents, lunches and a group dinner.
The Institute offers a substantial reduction of the participation fee per member institution (1 scholarship per institution). These scholarships are strictly limited to students coming from an EIASM Institutional (the Academic Council). Allocation of the scholarships is entirely at the discretion of the European Institute.
Cancellations made before October 1, 2016 will be reimbursed with 10% deduction of the total fee. No reimbursement will be possible after this date.
The seminar will be held in Brussels.
Boulevard Adolphe Max, 7, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
The programme will start on October 24, 2016 at 09.00 and is scheduled to end October 28, 2016 at approx 16.30.


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import { Router } from 'angular2/router';

@Component({
  selector: 'home'
})

@View({
  template: '

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})
export class Home {

  constructor(router: Router) {
    console.log('Home')
  }

}

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Founded in 1853 by John Bausch and Henry Lomb, this contact lens company also manufactures products to be used with lenses and eye care, as well as branching into the eye medical field with procedures such as eye implants and eye medicinal products.
They started their innovation in 1861 with the creation of rubber glasses. In the early years they produced many types of larger physical products such as projectors and even camera lenses, however as the years have passed they have focused in solely on eye care products. They now have 13,000 workers in 36 countries.
Contact lenses are Bausch & Lomb's largest area of sales volume, and in past years have accounted for up to 28% of sales. Their Soflens in particular are the highest selling product. These lenses are made to be incredibly comfortable and are designed for all day wear. Their Soflens brand has special lenses, called Toric lenses, that are specially made for people who have astigmatism, which all types of lenses do not offer.
One of their controversial products is called the PureVision lens which are purported to have so much oxygen permeability that they are able to safely be worn for a full month during both the night and day without taking out.
People who buy contact lenses from Bausch and Lomb also need products to take care of their lenses, such as contact solution and contact storage containers. They also sell these, which make up the second largest part of the business right below contact lenses, and have contributed to up to 25% of their sales.


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Escondido singer Celina Graves moves ahead in TV's 'America's Got Talent' competition
In this screenshot from the pre-taped July 28 episode of NBC's "America's Got Talent," Escondido singer Celina Graves on the live video scren waits with anticipation for an answer from the judges.
The 31-year-old casino security guard was the first of this season's auditioners chosen to compete in the live rounds
By Pam Kragen
Fans of Celina Graves, the Escondido singer who wowed judges in her audition last month for NBC's "America's Got Talent" TV series, didn't have to wait long on Tuesday to find out if she will move forward in the competition.
Just 15 minutes into the the inaugural two-hour "Judge Cuts" episode Tuesday evening, Graves was the first performer pushed through to the live competition round. The judges, who include Simon Cowell and Heidi Klum, initially selected 100 acts from the hundreds they saw audition in the spring. They're now winnowing that number down to 60 semifinalists who will compete in live rounds that begin airing on Aug. 11.
Because of the pandemic, contestants in the pre-taped episode interacted with the socially distanced judges via a video link from their homes. The episode was filmed on a set that looked like a drive-in movie theater without a live audience.
Graves said Wednesday that the filming of the Judge Cuts episode was a very long day as contestants waited for hours for news from the judges. Several auditioners who were low on the judges' scorecards were given a second chance to perform in Tuesday's episode. Graves was told beforehand that she wouldn't be asked to perform again. She thought this meant that she was going to be told on camera that she was eliminated. Instead, the judges told Graves she was so good that she was immediately moving ahead.
During the episode, Klum said Graves was "born to be onstage." And when Cowell greeted Graves on camera, he didn't waste any time delivering the news.
"I will get straight to the point," Cowell told Graves. "You are one of those people who are going to be sailing through to the next round."
Celina Graves, an America's Got Talent contestant from Escondido, poses for portraits at Daniel Bourget's studio space in San Marcos on June 24th, 2020.
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The news came as such a shock that Graves started crying and her wife, Erica Graves, rushed to comfort her in the music room of their Escondido home. Graves said she was happy to be able to share that moment with Erica and their dog, Hope.
If watching that moment was a highlight for Graves, what followed was a letdown because she was sad to see that some of the other contestants she met backstage during the auditions didn't survive the judge cuts. But Graves said she has been in their shoes, having auditioned for many singing competitions without success. She said the experience will ultimately make the performers stronger.
"I've been told 'no' so many times that all I can do is give them encouragement to keep going. It's part of your journey," Graves said. "But it broke my heart to see their hearts break."
Graves' emotional vocal audition of Shawn Mendes' "Mercy" on the June 9 episode of AGT brought the audience and all four judges to their feet and a video of that performance has since racked up more than 4 million views on Youtube. In the video, 31-year-old Graves explained how she grew up dressing in boys clothes, was mistreated by other girls and feared by business owners for her seemingly tough exterior. But AGT lead judge Cowell told Graves in that episode that she looked great and she should never let a stylist change her look.
Over the past few years, Graves has been working security at Valley View Casino & Hotel in Valley Center and has been training for a career in law enforcement. But her real dream since her mid-teens has been to follow her father into the music business. Ed Graves, a longtime bassist and singer for the local bands NRG and Fattburger, said his daughter struggled growing up with rejection, bullying and a lack of self-esteem, so seeing her succeed on the national television show has been extremely touching for him.
In recent years, she has been developing a part-time singing career by recording songs and posting them on her Instagram page, which has grown in the past five weeks from 40,000 followers to more than 50,000. It's at instagram.com/celinagravesofficial.
For more information on upcoming episodes of "America's Got Talent," visit nbc.com/americas-got-talent.
Celina Graves cries while holding her dog, Hope, and getting a hug from her wife, Erica, after hearing in the July 28 episode that "America's Got Talent" judges have voted to move her through to the competition round.
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Facebook is expanding its efforts to combat on-line hate speech
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Facebook is expanding its efforts to combat on-line hate speech, based on a report In The Wall Street Journal. The On-Line City Courage Initiative, announced in January of the business, may transition from a phase to offer marketing guidance and ad credits to some broader range of teams that combat extremist messaging. The Berlin-based program has up to now focused its efforts on the UK, Germany, and France.
The announcement marks the latest effort of Facebook to battle propaganda from terrorist organizations and far right groups. Other important web companies, and Facebook, Facebook, Google have faced increased pressure to escalate anti-hate speech efforts, and also to more swiftly eliminate propaganda from teams like ISIS and far right extremists. While the companies have touted a rise in take-downs of extremist content, the Online Civil Bravery Motivation is focused on so called counter-messaging, which attempts to discredit propaganda and hate speech. A Google-funded study released over the summer found that such campaigns can be an effective means of triggering debate on the web.
"CENSORSHIP ISN'T SUCCESSFUL."
"Censorship is not powerful," Erin Saltman, program supervisor for the On Line Civil Courage Effort, tells the Log. "Dialogues would start on conventional systems and move to less controlled, encrypted platforms."
Face Book shows the newspaper that since January, its motivation has supplied €10,000 ($11,152) in marketing credits to help companies achieve more than 2 zillion people. The firm has pledged mo Re than €1 million in ad credits to the program over another two years, and will create a separate website for the motivation over the next year. The Online City Courage Initiative will also release "tendency reviews where we may keep our hand on the pulse a bit more and retain activists upgraded with trends which can be happening to allow them to react mo-Re in period," Saltman tells the Diary.
Growing concerns over on-line radicalization and resurgent far-right extremism have forced many technology firms to ramp up content moderation programs, which have so significantly mostly relied on personal-reporting mechanisms. Request of European governments, while, 38,000 bits of content in the European Union alone, at was eliminated by Face Book the in the second half of 2015 Twitter h-AS suspended 235,000 terrorist-linked accounts since Feb of this year.
Much of the global issue over extremist content has focused from ISIS, which includes used social media to radicalize folks abroad on propaganda. But a recent study from George Washington University discovered that whitened nationalist groups keep on to flourish on Twitter, while Facebook has faced especially severe critique from German authorities for not doing enough to police dislike language from far right nationalists. Jigsaw, think tank and Yahoo's technology incubator, announced this month that it is enlarging its own advertisement -established counter-extremism plan to concentrate in United States on both prospective IS-IS employees and white extremists.
Other organizations have looked to automated forms of content removing, which would use algorithms eliminate extremist content as soon as it's uploaded to sociable press websites and to identify. Municipal liberties groups have argued that the strategy might control free speech, although admirers state such approaches would substantially curtail the online reach of groups like IS-IS.
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IN 1979 WHEN BO LENANDER DIVED into a very small lake in the mountains of Jämtland in Sweden there was no Wikipedia to describe what he was doing and the "black space" he documented with his analog camera did not reveal its inner secrets.
The black space was forgotten until the summer of 1997 when some intrepid divers attempted to uncover its murky secrets, only to be beaten by strong currents, leaving the small lake quiet and undisturbed for another ten years.
The original photo of the cave from 1979, taken by Bo Lenander.
A new generation of cave divers took up the exploration in 2008. Now able to dive in the winter time, when the currents were more forgiving, they sawed a hole in the thick ice which finally revealed the black space from Bo Lenander's photo. After relentless digging through the dirt and shifting heavy sands, they finally entered the void.
The entrance of the cave where all the divers go in to the unknown depths.
EVERY SPELEOLOGISTS* DREAM is to discover something no one has ever seen before. What the divers in Bjurälven discovered in 2008 is still only partially known – they're far from the end. What has been revealed though is that Bo's analog photo from 1979 shows the entrance to what is now Sweden's biggest under water cave system.
"Why? Well… I think our drive is similar to other explorers': We want to see something new. And the special thing with cave diving is that we can't just take a look at Google Earth and get a pretty good idea about what we will find, like climbers and alpinists. We actually have to swim there and take a look. Every meter is… totally new, to everyone. That feeling, where every stroke with your fins brings you into something that no one has seen before, is a magic one."
Oscar is getting ready to enter the cold water
Oscar Svensson loves what many people would describe as a claustrophobic nightmare. The eagerness in his voice when he's talking about squeezing through a tight hole, hours of diving into the cave system, is special.
"No one can know what's behind the next corner. We learn more and more about reading the caves. But then, when you thought you had a good idea about what will come next, something totally different will happen. The smallest opening can be the entrance to the widest part of the cave. It never gets boring. For me just seeing something new is wonderful, but exploring something that is new to everyone puts the experience on a different level."
Dimitri: Since the caves most of the time are very narrov, the divers must hold their air cylinders by hand
Many would say this is just an extra level of scariness. And it's not hard to imagine that something could go wrong.
Totally unexpected, a big cave in the underground system
"There are dangers, of course. The biggest fear is a leaking dry suit as the water is only fractionally above freezing. To get back from the far end of what we have now discovered takes about two hours. It's always cold down there, but a leaking suit would be… too cold."
"EVERY NEW ENTRANCE in the system is surrounded by potential dangers so you need to think about safety that little bit longer. But everyone in this group is aware of what we're doing, we always carry backup tubes and equipment, and backups for the backups etc and we all know that the best safety comes from keeping a level head. But of course, if something goes really wrong, you're not exactly in the best place…"
Oscar sounds calmer and more focused when talking about the safety aspects of exploring under water caves. Which is probably the best combination – a will to explore, but enough cool to not rush and to think through the consequences. But what is the dream? What is the ultimate discovery?
"Last winter we discovered a part of the cave that was bigger than anything else we have encountered in earlier expeditions. That was a highlight for sure as it is about seven meters wide and three meters high. We named it Broadway as that's how it felt to us after swimming and pushing through tight caves for hundreds and hundreds of meters.
Not far beyond that we reached a big cave which was impassable. We were forced to swim back through smaller tunnels – thirty to forty centimeters high – to find a way around it. There's not much room to wiggle around, but enough to get through. In the end we could only find an opening which was too tight to squeeze through. We started digging to push through on the last day of the expedition, but we were forced to turn back."
WHERE IS THE END, and what is an end? The Bjurälven cave system is full of smaller and bigger openings, dead ends, tight holes and parallel tunnels – an almost endless task for the patient group of divers. But do they really want to find everything? Do they wish to reach the other side?
"Just like a climber, we want to reach the top. Which in our case is where Bjurälven "disappears" into the ground about three kilometers upstream from where we enter the cave. As a bird flies, that is. As a cave goes, it could be double, or triple. At the end of the 2015 expedition we had mapped almost two kilometers of the cave, which is a lot, but very far from close to the other side."
When Oscar starts talking about the 2016 expedition the tempo once again picks up. He speaks with the voice of an excited explorer, eager to peek around the next corner. Push through to where no human being has ever been before.
*) Speleology (also spelled spelæology or spelaeology) is the scientific study of caves and other karst features, their make-up, structure, physical properties, history, life forms, and the processes by which they form (speleogenesis) and change over time (speleomorphology). (Wikipedia)
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Feature image (on top) Bjuralven
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Total Immersion Racing es un videojuego de carreras de 2002 que cubre tres tipos de clases de autos: GT, GTS y PRO (Prototipo) e involucra carreras en circuitos tanto del mundo real como imaginarios. Hay cuatro niveles de dificultad: "Aficionado", "Profesional", "Leyenda" y "Extremo".

Total Immersion Racing fue lanzado para Mac OS X por Feral Interactive en 2003.

Modos de juego
Carrera individual: Corre en cualquier pista desbloqueada con cualquier auto desbloqueado. Se puede correr de una vuelta a veinticinco y la hora del día se puede cambiar a Tarde o Día (en la mayoría de las pistas).

Carrera: Empiece en un coche GT de baja potencia y ascienda de rango para ganar el campeonato de la categoría PRO y desbloquear coches y pistas.

Contrarreloj: Obtén los mejores tiempos de vuelta en cualquier pista con cualquier coche.

Desafío: Completa treinta y siete desafíos diferentes en cinco clases: GT, GTS, PRO, Fabricante y Resistencia. Se puede encontrar una lista de todos los desafíos a continuación.

Coches
Hay un total de diecisiete coches divididos en tres grupos (GT, GTS y PRO (prototipo)):

Pistas

Desafíos
Los desafíos deben completarse en orden, con la finalización del #1 desbloquea el #2 y así sucesivamente. Con cada carrera, el jugador acumula puntos por su posición final (10 por una victoria), que contribuyen a la puntuación del campeonato. No ganar el campeonato constituirá el fracaso del desafío. Los desafíos pueden ser específicos para un automóvil o pueden permitir la elección de varios o todos los automóviles de una sola clase. Completar desafíos desbloquea autos y pistas para su uso en un solo jugador y multijugador, así como un uso de prueba de tiempo. Por lo general, los desafíos del 'fabricante' (donde se desbloquean automóviles específicos) están separados por uno o dos desafíos generales (en su mayoría, permiten el uso de cualquier automóvil desbloqueado de la clase del vehículo previamente desbloqueado). Ganar carreras en pistas en las que no se corrió anteriormente las desbloqueará, ya que no todas las pistas están disponibles para competir desde el principio. Cada desafío incluye entre 1 y 8 carreras separadas, cada una de entre 1 y 50 vueltas.
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Q: Two Issues about mlpy.dtw package in Python? As a newbie in Dynamic Time Warping (DTW), I find its Python implementation mlpy.dtw is not documented in a very detailed extend. I have some problems with its return value.
Regarding the returned value dist? I have two questions:

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*Any typo here? For standard DTW, the document says

Standard DTW as described in [Muller07], using the Euclidean distance
  (absolute value of the difference) or squared Euclidean distance (as
  in [Keogh01]) as local cost measure.

and for subsequence DTW, the document says

Subsequence DTW as described in [Muller07], assuming that the length
  of y is much larger than the length of x and using the Manhattan
  distance (absolute value of the difference) as local cost measure.

The same so-called "absolute value of the difference" corresponds two different distance metrics?

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*Total distance? After running the snippet
dist, cost, path = mlpy.dtw_std(x, y, dist_only=False)
dist is one value. So is it the lumped sum of all the distances between each matched pair?

A: Yes, the mlpy.dtw() function is not well documented.

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*First question: no typo here. As you can see in the documentation, euclidean, squared euclidean and manhattan distances concern the local cost measure. In this case the cost measure is defined as a distance between two real values (one dimension), see cost in the pseudocode in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_time_warping. So, in this case, Manhattan distance and Euclidean distance are the same (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_distance#One_dimension). Anyway, in the standard dtw, you can choose the euclidean distance (absolute value of the difference) or the squared euclidean distance (squared difference) by the parameter squared:

>>> import mlpy
>>> mlpy.dtw_std([1,2,3], [4,5,6], squared=False) # Euclidean distance
9.0
>>> mlpy.dtw_std([1,2,3], [4,5,6], squared=True) # Squared Euclidean distance
26.0

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*Second question: dist is the unnormalized minimum-distance warp path between time series x and y. It is the unnormalized DTW distance. You can normalize it dividing by len(X)+len(Y). See http://www.irit.fr/~Julien.Pinquier/Docs/TP_MABS/res/dtw-sakoe-chiba78.pdf
Cheers,
Davide

A: It seems to be an error in the documentation. Euclidean distance is not the "absolute value of the difference", it is the correct description of the Manhattan metric. Probably author was thinking about one dimension case, as in R both Euclidean and manhattan metrics are the same (and Euclidean metric really expresses the absolute value of the difference then). I am not familiar with the library, if it only operates on 1 dimensional objects,  then there is no error and these two distance measures are equivalent
The dist value is the value of best time-warp (measured as the summarized costs of matching, see the algorithm definiton on wikipedia). So it is in fact the minimum edit distance between two sequences, where particular edits' costs are expressed in dissimilarity (distance) between "matched" objects


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Q: Reconfigure On Premise Data Gateway desktop app I have by mistake configured my on premise data gateway to point to a wrong data center. Now I am unable to reconfigure the gateway desktop app. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the data gateway. But as soon as I login to the desktop app it picks up the old config. I do not see an option in the app reconfigure it. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Tiklu

A: You should be able to go on app.powerbi.com, settings and manage gateways. From there you can remove/add gateways with full server identification and target of the gateways.

A: I did posted the same query in the Microsoft forum and got the answer for the same. The link is as bellow
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/900374fe-9249-41f0-9674-a4c32a882ccc/reconfigure-on-premise-data-gateway-desktop-app?forum=azurelogicapps


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Blood Poisoning's Toll on the Brain
Every year, some 750,000 Americans suffer from sepsis, a life-threatening ailment that many have never heard of. The condition, sometimes called "blood poisoning" though no poison is involved, is an inflammatory response to serious infection that can cause damage to multiple tissues and organs. New findings show that the condition may lead to loss of memory and thinking skills that, when severe, may mimic the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
Earlier this year, a study from the University of Washington in Seattle found that older men and women who receive critical care in the hospital are more likely to suffer from memory loss and cognitive decline than their peers who are not hospitalized and an earlier study, led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Hebrew Senior Life in Boston, found that an episode of delirium, marked by agitation, confusion and hallucinations, rapidly accelerates cognitive decline and memory loss in Alzheimer's patients.
In the current study, researchers at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor sifted through data from more than 27,000 men and women over 50 who were part of the Health and Retirement Study, an ongoing national health survey of American residents. Among the study participants, nearly 1,200 had been hospitalized for severe sepsis, a critical condition that requires intensive medical care and that can damage the skin, kidneys, lungs and other organs.
The researchers followed the sepsis patients for up to eight years and found that the condition was not just bad for the body. Many of those who had severe sepsis showed thinking and memory problems that were similar to those of Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.
"An episode of severe sepsis, even when survived, may represent a sentinel event in the lives of patients and their families, resulting in new and often persistent disability, in some cases even resembling dementia," the authors wrote.
The researchers found that the prevalence of moderate to severe cognitive impairment increased 10.6 percentage points among patients who survived severe sepsis. Their odds of acquiring moderate to severe cognitive impairment were more than three times higher than those who didn't have sepsis, including those who were admitted to the hospital for other medical problems.
"Cognitive and functional declines of the magnitude seen after severe sepsis are associated with significant increases in caregiver time, nursing home admission, depression, and mortality," the authors wrote. "These data argue that the burden of sepsis survivorship is a substantial, under-recognized public health problem with major implications for patients, families and the health care system." The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The authors added that given published dementia and sepsis incidence rates for those ages 65 years or older in the United Slates, their results suggest that nearly 20,000 new cases per year of moderate to severe cognitive impairment in the elderly may be attributable to sepsis.
Unlike Alzheimer's, sepsis is a curable condition, though it remains a leading cause of death in hospitals. Symptoms include fever, chills, difficulty breathing and general weakness. The condition can rapidly worsen, making immediate hospitalization and prompt treatment with fluids and antibiotics critical.
The findings point to the need for prompt medical care for serious infections in those with or without Alzheimer's disease. They also point to the need for long-term follow-up, since even if the infection is successfully treated, there may be long-term damage to the brain and body.
In an editorial accompanying the study, Dr. Derek Angus of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine noted that the findings "…can help physicians when assessing care options and discussing outcomes with patients and families." Researchers aren't sure why sepsis may contribute to cognitive decline, but by raising awareness of the issue, the hope is that doctors and family members will be more aware of the risk of thinking and memory problems during and after hospital stays.
A trip to the hospital, with its strange sights and sounds and change in routine, can lead to confusion and agitation in any patient. The problem may be especially challenging for someone with Alzheimer's disease. If hospitalization is needed, experts recommend that family members and loved ones stick close by whenever possible to help ease the transition.
By ALZinfo.org, The Alzheimer's Information Site. Reviewed by William J. Netzer, Ph.D., Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation at The Rockefeller University.
Theodore J. Iwashyna; E. Wesley Ely; Dylan M. Smith; et al. "Long-term Cognitive Impairment and Functional Disability Among Survivors of Severe Sepsis." Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 304(16), Oct. 27, 2010, pages 1787-1794.
Derek C. Angus: "The Lingering Consequences of Sepsis: A Hidden Public Health Disease?" Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 304(16), Oct. 27, 2010, pages 1833-1834.


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The Age of Polymorphous Perversity, Part One
Albert Mohler | President, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary | Monday, September 19, 2005
The sexual issues now confronting our nation--from the breakdown of the family to same-sex marriage--are really pieces of a much larger puzzle. In order to understand what is happening, one must look carefully at the entire picture, the entire trajectory of Western civilization over the past century. What we face today are not merely individual, isolated issues, but rather a massive social transformation which has not happened by accident and which will not break apart on its own.
In 1930, the esteemed historian Christopher Dawson wrote this: "Western civilization at the present day is passing through a crisis, which is essentially different from everything that has previously been experienced. Other societies in the past have changes their social institutions or their religious beliefs under the influence of external forces or the slow development of internal growth. But none, like our own, has ever consciously faced a prospect of a fundamental alteration in the beliefs and institutions on which the whole fabric of social life rests."
From the vantage point of 1930, Dawson looked forward to the rest of the 20th century, and he understood what was happening. He was a prophet.
In order to understand the shift that Dawson foresaw and that ultimately took place, it is necessary to look back to 1909, when Sigmund Freud released his understanding of human sexuality. Trying to understand something as powerful as sex, Freud turned to what he called the "infantile" stage of human development, and identified the leading characteristic of infantile sexuality as polymorphous perversity. Freud explained: "What makes an infant characteristically different from every other stage of human life is that the child is polymorphously perverse, is ready to demonstrate any kind of sexual behavior, with any kind of pleasure, without any kind of restraint." He then explained how "civilization" emerges only after this innate, polymorphous perversity is restrained by psychological repression, social form, and custom. Such restraint, Freud felt, was inevitable and indeed necessary, for procreation is necessary for the continuation of the race, and therefore heterosexual coupling was absolutely essential for civilization itself.
Even if we finally reject Freud's theory, it is crucial that we understand its influence. Freud is no doubt one of the ideological horsemen of the twentieth-century apocalypse, but even he was outdone by those who came after him.
In the second half of the twentieth century, Herbert Marcuse revisited Freud in his book Eros and Civilization, mixing his theories with those of Marx in order to develop a theory of sexuality as liberation. The whole problem, Marcuse thought, was the very restraint that Freud believed was inevitable and necessary, the repression that Freud saw leading to civilization itself. According to Marcuse, the only way to achieve liberation is to undo that repression, to reverse that restraint, and thus to unleash in society itself that infantile stage of pure sexuality--of polymorphous perversity.
When Eros and Civilization appeared in the 1960's, it received much attention on college campuses--where such ideas are always met with an enthusiastic audience--but the rest of the culture remained largely unaware of, and untroubled by, the assault that had begun to take place upon the very foundations of civilization itself. Now, in the year 2005, all one must do is look at the daily newspaper or review the events of the week, and it quickly becomes obvious that this ideology of polymorphous perversity is inch by inch, if not yard by yard, gaining ground. The very idea of normality, of fixed institutions, of heterosexuality, of something as basic as marriage being a heterosexual union, is now very much under attack, subverted by the culture and marginalized by cultural elites.
Now, in the year 2005, it has become obvious that this ideology of polymorphous perversity is inch by inch--if not yard by yard--gaining ground. Read the daily newspaper, or just review the events of a typical week. Even something as basic as the heterosexual nature of marriage is now very much under assault. The very idea of normality, or of fixed institutions, is being subverted by the culture and marginalized by cultural elites.
What we now face is the subversion of humanity's most basic categories and institutions--gender, marriage, and family. In the eyes of all too many in our culture, gender is merely a plastic social construct. Indeed, in the postmodern world, all realities are plastic and all principles are liquid. Everything can be changed. Nothing is fixed. All truth is relative, all truth is socially constructed, and anything which is constructed can also be deconstructed in order to liberate.
We are now told that even gender should be seen as a continuum. This means that human beings are no longer categorized as male and female, but as any number of chosen gender options. Furthermore, gender is flexible--at least according to the postmodern prophets of liberation. You can always change your gender if you do not like the gender you were assigned at birth. Interestingly, some surgeons are now even reversing gender transformation surgeries they had earlier performed.
All this represents a denial of gender as a part of the goodness of God's creation. According to the biblical account of creation, human beings were created as male and female, and these categories establish the very basis for human order. This is now dismissed as inherently oppressive and intolerant.
For years, the ideological elites have believed that marriage is repressive and inhibiting. It is, they say, merely a product of social evolution, an institution that developed because civilization needed a way to protect children and to encourage child rearing. But of course, that which has evolved can always evolve further, and the next step, we are told, is to move beyond marriage altogether. This was the goal of the cultural elites in the latter half of the 20th century, and we must admit that they have made great strides toward accomplishing this objective.
If any one institution in human life was most subverted in the 20th century, it was without doubt the institution marriage. Assaulted by divorce, by lifestyle, by media, by law, by politics, and by custom, marriage was undermined in its very essence. Of course, the attack also necessarily took its toll on the family as well. The very idea of the family as a fixed unit--a husband and wife and their children, together with their extended family--is now seen as an archaic, antiquarian, and intolerant institution, one which must be undone in order that humanity may be liberated from oppression.
The subversion of marriage and the family has extended to law and morality, to authority and to custom. The very habits of human life--the customs and traditions on which civilization is grounded--are now being reversed, marginalized, and discarded in an effort to eliminate all norms by normalizing the abnormal. For those whose agenda is to undermine Judeo-Christian morality and to disconnect Western civilization from biblical norms, there is no better strategy than to subvert marriage, family, and sexuality, and unleash on society an age and culture of polymorphous perversity.
[Editor's Note: This is an edited transcript of an address Dr. Mohler gave earlier in 2005. This is Part One of four. Tomorrow: What Kind of Strategy Has Been Employed? ]
R. Albert Mohler, Jr. is president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. For more articles and resources by Dr. Mohler, and for information on The Albert Mohler Program, a daily national radio program broadcast on the Salem Radio Network, go to www.albertmohler.com. For information on The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to www.sbts.edu. Send feedback to [email protected].
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Tales from the Tour: One Direction 'Stole My Heart"
Category: The Arts
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016 at 11:18 PM
By Kimberly Firestine
Published in: Vol. 115, No. 23
I'm not going to lie — I pranced about on the Internet doing everything I could to avoid them and pretend I didn't know who they were. It wasn't long before I caved and watched them perform on "The X-Factor" via livestream. It was there my slow decay into boy-band garbage began, sending me head first into the VIP section of a party I pretended I was too cool to be at.
The Palace Theater in Albany seats 2,844 people and is one of the nicest places I've ever been to for a concert. For this tour, I was that jerk who buys the meet and greet for a band they don't care about, just to get a good seat during the opener. With the money I made from babysitting, I bought a fourth row VIP seat to the show. Bridget and I had bought our tickets separately, but had made a deal to switch seats after One Direction's set was over.
There are very few things I remember from that show. But I'm not going to lie, I screeched pretty loudly when One Direction took the stage. I remember that not many people towards the front were really there for their performance, but I didn't let that stop me from singing and jumping around like an idiot.
My seat was lined up exactly center stage and I had a perfect view. I could see every curl on Harry Styles' head and every stripe on Louis Tomlinson's T-shirt perfectly. What I didn't realize was they could also see me.
It wasn't until Styles' solo during their last song — global hit "What Makes Your Beautiful"— that I realized my bright blue hair and horrible dancing was completely visible to them. It wasn't until Styles ended his solo, looked at me, clapped twice and said "thank you" that I realized I was in too deep.
When it was over, I thought it was a dream until I met Bridget at the bathroom to exchange seats. When we found each other, her eyes just about popped out of her head as she yelled "DID HE REALLY JUST DO THAT" at me. Apparently, it was visible to her and the rest of those in attendance via the screens the theater has on each side of the stage.
Fast forward to the summer of 2013. My next chance to see One Direction was July 5 at Hershey Stadium. This time I managed to score another fourth row seat and a meet and greet with One Direction. I was the first person in line for the meet and greet and was so nervous I almost threw up. It may have been the sweltering 90 degree heat, but I digress.
I left home around 10 a.m. to drive to Hershey and arrived with enough time before the meet and greet started to allow for parking and to find out where exactly I was supposed to be going.
The spot where the meet and greet was held was a small room inside the main gates of the venue. Those working the meet and greet gave us each a number, took our information and gave us our passes. They were also nice enough to hand us bottled water and move us into the shade, as the heat was almost unbearable and we had over a two hour wait before everything got started.
Roughly a half hour before it began, they moved the line from in front of the meet and greet room to under the stadium seating where the concession stands and merchandise booths were setting up. I'm assuming this was so One Direction could enter the room, because as soon as all of the line was there, screams erupted from outside the gate. Every time another batch of screams was let out, my heart rate skyrocketed. When the lead meet and greet person came to get us and move us to the entrance, I felt like time had stopped. I led the line back out to the door and waited for One Direction's security guard, now former security guard, Paul, to tell me to come in.
Just before we were let into the room, Styles — wearing no shoes and a floppy hat —poked his face out of the makeshift curtain door. That was the first time I realized he has tattoos covering both of his feet. He let out a soft "hello" and I replied with the same. Then Paul walked out and brought us in.
The time between walking into the room and walking up to them was the longest 30 seconds of my life. The band was still deciding who stood where when Paul directed me to walk up for my photo. As I walked up, Niall Horan and Tomlinson were playing rock, paper, scissors for who had to stand on the end. Tomlinson looked up at me, gave a polite "hello, babe" and hugged me tighter than I was expecting. I hugged Niall next and that was when Liam Payne said "all right then, group hug!" I suddenly found myself standing in the middle of the greatest group hug I will ever have the pleasure of being part of.
There were some jokes tossed around — mostly sass on the part of Horan — and I took a spot in between Horan and former member Zayn Malik. Styles kept yelling random things on the other side of Malik and Horan could barely stop cackling enough to get the photo. After the picture, I said "thank you" and "see you soon" quickly before I was hurried out of the room.
The sound check party was basically how any of them go these days. They played some songs, asked some questions and a half hour later they left the stage and we had to find our correct seats. For the show, I knew I was in the fourth row of the section, on the other side, but didn't realize my seat was actually right next to the catwalk that had been set up for that show. I'm honestly not sure how I've ended up with such great seats each time I've seen them, but I'm not going to start questioning it any time soon.
A lot of people don't know how fun concerts of this variety can be. I made friends with those sitting around me and we danced and sang our hearts out all night long. Aside from the barely tolerable performance from then-newcomers 5 Seconds of Summer, it was a pretty great show.
Kimberly Firestine is a Senior Staff Writer for The Spectator.
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Quiltville's Quips & Snips!!: Jared Takes a Wife in Traverse City!
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I just love these Canadian gals who road trip all the way down, spending more time shop hopping along their way than the actual drive would have taken, making this a special birthday weekend for one of their group, Susie!
I last met some of these gals when I was teaching in the U.P. and I am happy to be close enough again so that they could cross the border and bring their laughter and crazy personalities with them!
Gosh, what a great weekend we are having in Traverse City, Michigan!
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Blow out the candles, Susie!
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I was reading the words of Shannon L Alder last night and this just stuck with me so strongly.
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Vintage spider web quilt found in Kentucky.
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LG LA7400 55" Cinema 3D TV with Smart TV Review
We've reached the point where HDTVs just having a high definition picture (1080p) isn't enough; it now has to be as souped up as any smartphone. But while there's no denying that "smart TV" features are welcomed, it still always comes down to the "build" of the LCD panel that all of this is going to be displayed on. That's why the LG LA7400 55" Cinema 3D TV with Smart TV ($2299.00) is a good choice for someone looking to get all of the "bells and whistles", but not at the expense of a quality picture. Also, check out the LG 55EG9600 55-inch OLED Smart TV.
Once having set the LG LA7400 55" Cinema 3D TV with Smart TV on its simple base, I noticed first that the display had a very thin bezel. The next thing noticeable when turned on (and after the Wizard had completed a quick setup) was that the level of brightness was even from edge to edge — even at fairly extreme angles. This boded well for family watching, both 2D and 3D, where there can be more than one person off-center from the display.
The "Magic Remote" is used to navigate through all the LA7400's functionality. It's short and stubby but fits quite snugly in the hand. Navigating through menus can be done in a number of ways; the simplest being to bring up a graphical interface of the remote onscreen so as to be able to "see" what you are doing as you do it. These screens allow for accessing apps, premium websites and other content. The Smart TV hub is comprehensive and lets you connect with Internet and gaming content. These graphical page representations are large and well defined and do not require any learning curve in order to understand, as the organization of the content into "worlds" make it easy to jump to the content you really want.
To control different devices such as a cable box or Blu-ray player, pressing the thumbwheel button on the Magic Remote brings up a graphical representation onscreen controlled by the cursor (much like the way the Wii Remote Controller on the Nintendo Wii is used). This scheme would have become a bit tedious if not for the speed of the built-in hardware, which moves the screen imaging along at a good clip. Voice recognition was also available: by slowly speaking questions into the remote, an Avatar on the screen produced an all-encompassing answer. For example, I asked the Magic Remote to find the TV show, The Mindy Project and up came windows to select the next episode of the show [in HD or SD], as well as Mindy Project-related websites. The built-in WiFi is employed here and the speed of the response, while somewhat dependent on the speed of the connection, was quick enough not to try the patience.
The LA7400 has passive 3D and the LG 3D portal aggregates and can stream 3D content from LG's servers. Also, user-created 3D content can be posted to the LG "cloud" for anyone to watch. There is also the ability to convert 2D content into 3D content using internal software; a feature that worked fairly well, although it occasionally made 3D image errors.
The LA7400's employment of a dual core processor made for snappy menus and online gaming that didn't have any lagging or stuttering issues (Angry Bird from the app store displayed this). Menu screens pan across rapidly, scrolling occurs without any visual lags and the whole experience was in the background: that of getting to where you wanted to go without having to constantly wait for a refresh or for the TV to switch "gears." You might find, as I did, that changing the picture mode works better, depending on the content (example: Cinema is fine with movies but not so much with Internet videos).
I viewed a lot of broadcast television and found the picture at all times bright and cheerful. But to get the most out of the LA7400 I turned to stored content, specifically episodes of Community (season 4) on DVD and the last season of the Office (season 9) on Blu-ray so as to evaluate skin tones. While the characters looked natural in all of the scenes played, the lesser resolution of the DVD was evident in direct comparison to the Blu-ray's color palette, which gave the sitcom characters a more "healthy" glow to their faces thanks to higher detail and a better transition of one color to the next.
The last test discs were Blu-ray enhanced versions of Bruce Lee's early movies [Bruce Lee: The Legacy Collection – Shout! Factory] and I wanted to see how the display could handle them. I'd say if the LA7400 had been any less sharp, then the grain would have appeared "mushy" and all the detail would have been lost in a miasma of blockiness. The panel also had no trouble with color smearing as Lee went through his amazing physical actions, nor was there any "bleeding" of the colors on these films. I did find that adjustments of both contrast and the color temperature seriously improved on what I was viewing, so I was glad that the menu system via the remote could be accessed, adjusted and changed quickly.
Bottom line: LG's LA7400 55" Cinema 3D TV with Smart TV is an HDTV containing innovative and competent technologies that provide functionality extending past just a "picture." But since that "picture" appears on a high resolution and well lit display, it's worth having as the centerpiece of a home theater.
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how to use time machine II at lg47la7400 ?
Teo Tian Leng says:
The record and watch function in the Time Machine function does not work for me according to what LG has promoted. When I am recoding one TV channel and want to watch another live channel, the TV will force me to stop the current recording. So far there is no solution from LG yet.
The webcam came with the TV package does not work as well. When I pluged it into the USB port, the TV shown an error message. According to LG, the firmware is still not ready yet for the webcam. Very funny right? LG has invented a hardware but no firmware to support it.


This work examines issues of fear, safety and liberty in post-9/11 America. From 2003 - 2007 I am photographed facilities, equipment and personnel involved in the massive government and private sector efforts to prepare for and respond to terrorist attacks within the nation's borders. First responders and law enforcement officers train in large-scale simulated environments such as "Disaster City" in Texas and "Terror Town", an abandoned mining community in New Mexico purchased with funds from the Department of Homeland Security. Training scenarios, by necessity, involve simulated environments and threats. This blurring of fiction and truth mirrors the difficulty we have discerning between legitimate safety concerns and hyped-up fear.


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Gustave Marissiaux (Marles, 1872 - Cagnes-sur-Mer, 1929) was een Belgisch kunstfotograaf. Hij wordt gerekend tot de stroming van het picturalisme.

Leven en werk
Marissiaux werd geboren in Marles en vestigde zich in 1890 te Luik. Daar in de omgeving maakte hij rond de eeuwwisseling diverse fotoreportages, hoofdzakelijk landschappen, vaak badend in de mist. In 1903 kreeg hij opdracht om de kolenmijnen in Wallonië te 'vereeuwigen'. Naam verkreeg hij ook door een reeks foto's genomen tijdens een reis naar Venetië, Toscane en Umbrië, in 1905. Verder maakte hij stadsgezichten, portretten en naakten, steeds met veel artistiek gevoel gefotografeerd. Zijn stijl is picturalistisch, met symbolistische accenten. Een belangrijk deel van zijn foto's werden in 1908 gepubliceerd onder de titel Visions d'artistes.

Marissiaux was lid en mede-oprichter van de "Association Belge de la Photography" en de "Société Française de Photographie". Hij won belangrijke prijzen tijdens internationale exposities in Roubaix (1899) en Turijn (1903).

Het oeuvre van Marissiaux ontstond tussen 1895 en 1918. Samen met Léonard Misonne wordt hij beschouwd als de belangrijkste Belgische kunstfotograaf van zijn tijd.

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Literatuur
 Marc-Emmanuel Mélon, Gustave Marissiaux. La possibilite de l'art, Charleroi, Musée de la Photographie, coll. "Archives du Musée", 1997.
 Marc Vausort, "Gustave Marrissiaux (1872-1929). La possibilité de l'art", in Art&Fact, nr. 19, L'art et la ville, Luik, 2000, p. 90-91.

Externe links
 Visions d'artiste (1908), door Gustave Marissiaux, op de site van de Universiteit van Luik

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The on and off development of the Honda NSX has led many fans to give up hope of a revival, but a new report is indicating the car could be launched by 2014.
Citing an anonymous source, Auto Express is reporting the NSX will be inspired by the Acura roadster concept which will debut in the upcoming Avengers movie. However, an Acura spokesperson previously stated the vehicle is a "one-off, fictional car that was made just for the movie and will not be produced."
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