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Sara Trumm on the future of CCME
For Sara Trumm, providing spaces for intercultural engagement and understanding have long been a part of her life's work. Trumm, director of A Center of Christian-Muslim Engagement of Peace and Justice (CCME), recalls her time studying in Nicaragua as an undergraduate, her graduate-level work at the United Theological Seminary in Bangalore, her travels in Egypt, and her work teaching English to Somali immigrants in Minnesota as pivotal, influential experiences that brought her to her current position.
These and other life experiences have inspired her to nurture her own and others' curiosity, to always remember to listen carefully to people with experiences different from her own, and to remain patient with herself and others as they learn together.
Those values came in handy when one of her mentors, Mark Swanson (who serves as Harold S. Vogelaar Professor of Christian-Muslim Studies and Interfaith Relations and associate director of CCME), reached out to her in 2008 with some news. In his new position at LSTC, their newly inaugurated interfaith center needed a program coordinator. Would she like to interview for the position?
The answer was an emphatic "yes." During a recession, Trumm says, "It was incredible to have such a specialized opportunity that fit my interests so well!"
As program coordinator, Trumm focused on extracurricular programming while Swanson, Michael Shelley (former director) and distinguished affiliate professor of Islamic studies Ghulam-Haider Aasi team-taught academic courses that aimed to bring together people of different faiths.
"We worked together from the start, and continually built new ways of engagement that fit LSTC's public church curriculum," she says.
During these years, Trumm included programming in the arts: "I'd plan a music performance one year, and the next year I'd focus on visual arts, and then the year after that I'd have the center host a play."
Those programs provided a way for academics and members of the community to engage on various levels with people of other traditions. By inviting people such as the celebrated British-born American playwright Rohina Malik, who shared her one-woman play about 9/11 called Unveiled at CCME, the center soon became a keystone culture-shaper in Chicago's interfaith community.
Programming outside of the arts proved to be crucial as well. "There's one program that we started just before Dr. Shelley retired," Trumm recalls, "and that was a chaplaincy workshop for non-Muslim chaplains in healthcare settings … now we want to expand it to social workers, nurses and those people outside healthcare." It points to a new, more expansive future for the center, one that will continue to hold space for new avenues of cross-cultural and inter-faith understanding.
Trumm's favorite way to deepen relationships with people of other faiths is over a good meal. She points to the center's history of hosting Ramadan Iftar meals with Christians and Muslims alike and hosting a "Giving Thanks" meal at Thanksgiving time for international students and interfaith partners as successful ways in which CCME has brought together faculty, staff, students, community members and interfaith partners. "Those events are wonderful memories for me," Trumm says.
Now, post-pandemic, Trumm looks forward to a future where CCME works with partners to establish new physical spaces for shared educational, social and entertainment-based programs.
"I want to continually provide deeper and more mutual engagement in both theological and social realms that matter to people," Trumm says. "We can do more together. We're better together, I believe, than we are apart. Sometimes it's just a matter of getting over our fear of difference and discomfort with things we don't yet understand."
By Rhiannon Koehler, a writer, editor and content director in Chicago.

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Point/Counterpoint: Should Green Critics Reassess Ethanol?
Former U.S. Senator Timothy Wirth and former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray argue that environmental criticisms of corn ethanol are unwarranted and that the amount in gasoline should be increased. In rebuttal, economist C. Ford Runge counters that any revisionist view of ethanol ignores its negative impacts on the environment and the food supply.
By Timothy E. Wirth and C. Boyden Gray • May 25, 2016
For almost as long as there have been cars, gasoline has been the dominant fuel in transportation. But for a host of reasons — environmental, climate change, public health, and economic — the time has come to consider mixing higher blends of biofuels with gasoline. And in the United States, the best source for that biofuel today, surprisingly, is corn.
Such a suggestion will surely elicit cries of protest from the environmental community: A few years ago there was a flood of articles and reports about the allegedly disastrous ecological impacts of growing crops for biofuels. But we believe that ethanol has been unfairly stigmatized in the conventional wisdom and that the reasons for concern about corn ethanol deserve reexamination.
COUNTERPOINT The Case Against More Ethanol: It's Simply Bad for Environment
The revisionist effort to increase the percentage of ethanol blended with U.S. gasoline continues to ignore the major environmental impacts of growing corn for fuel and how it inevitably leads to higher corn prices, writes economist C. Ford Runge. It remains a bad idea whose time has passed. READ MORE
In the U.S., now is the time for that second look. In June, the Environmental Protection Agency will begin a mid-course evaluation of President Obama's ambitious fuel economy target, established in 2012, to have cars and light trucks reach 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. Increasing the ethanol blend in gasoline from the current 10 percent to roughly 30 percent would not only help boost gas mileage, it would significantly cut U.S. carbon emissions and air pollution. And because higher-ethanol blends greatly reduce the need to use toxic additives — known as aromatics — to gasoline, increased reliance on ethanol would sharply cut the emissions of deadly fine-particle pollutants.
Today, U.S. sales of ethanol have grown to nearly 15 billion gallons a year, due to the near-universal use of E10 (10 percent ethanol, 90 percent gasoline) to fuel the nation's cars and light trucks. We maintain that in the U.S., the principal reasons for concern about ethanol — the use of a food crop (corn) as a feedstock and the environmental impacts of high-production agriculture — are no longer valid.
New studies show that, thanks to ever-improving agricultural productivity, the food-versus-fuel debate appears to be over, and the verdict is in: There is no conflict. Increased demand for corn has not dramatically increased the cost of grain. Only a small share of corn is grown for human consumption, and global food prices are more affected by the cost of petroleum than they are by the price of corn. If anything, ethanol, by reducing the demand for gasoline, may lower the price of food by lowering the price of oil.
More corn is grown for animal feed than any other use. The ethanol process takes only the starch from the corn and leaves a high-protein byproduct — dried distillers grains — for animal feed, so cattle are not short-changed by ethanol production, either.
As for the environmental impact of corn, a quiet revolution — aimed at restoring the health of the land — has been taking place on American farms. The iconic image of endless fields of bare, furrowed soil ready for planting in the spring is no longer the norm. More and more farmers are choosing to leave the summer's residues — corn stalks, for example — on their fields after harvest, injecting seeds into the undisturbed soil in the spring. Some are planting winter cover crops to further stabilize and enrich the land.
A gas pump in Pembroke Pines, Florida indicating it has fuel with 10 percent ethanol. JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES
These practices have many names — "no-till" or "low-till" or "precision" agriculture, for example — but they are reversing decades of soil depletion and are turning cropland into a carbon sink. In the process, they enrich the soil with natural carbon and reduce the need for chemicals and water. According to the most recent Census of Agriculture, 62 percent of U.S. cropland (173 million acres) was farmed in 2012 with conservation tillage or no-till practices.
A recent nine-year study conducted in Nebraska by the U.S. Agricultural Research Service found that "no-till" corn increased the amount of carbon in the soil by nearly a ton per acre, per year. The researchers were surprised to find more than half of this captured carbon one to five feet below the surface: Corn has deep and extensive roots, but most previous studies sampled for carbon only to a depth of 18 inches.
The carbon footprint of ethanol has also been reduced, thanks to greater efficiency on the farm and in the production process. According to a team at Argonne National Laboratory, which for the past two decades has assessed the life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions from fuels — from extraction and production to use in a vehicle, taking into account indirect impacts on land use elsewhere — ethanol today results in 37 percent less carbon pollution per mile than gasoline. Adding in the now-uncounted carbon benefits of soil sequestration could potentially yield a zero-carbon fuel. At the same time, gasoline is becoming more carbon-intensive because of the increasing use of tar sands and other oils that are hard to extract and process.
The Obama administration's fuel economy rule is one of the pillars of the president's climate legacy, but it does not take into account the carbon content of the fuels in use. Crediting the life-cycle carbon footprint of fuels would provide an economic incentive for ethanol blends and encourage farming practices that enrich the soil by storing carbon: Carbon credits could be based on an annual field-level certification process. Even without those benefits included, the use of "mid-level" blends — up to 30 percent ethanol — would reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the new fuel economy standards by at least 10 percent.
Exposure to fine particle pollution from aromatics in gasoline results in 3,800 premature deaths per year.
In addition, higher ethanol blends are rich in octane, and higher-octane fuels enable automakers to increase the "compression ratio" of an engine without damage from knock — creating more power with less fuel. (Race cars in the IndyCar series use blends of 85 percent ethanol.) Mid-level blends would thus make it easier for automakers to achieve the 2025 fuel economy targets (and go beyond them after 2025), while at the same time delivering more greenhouse gas reductions.
U.S. automakers have advocated for higher octane in fuels while remaining neutral as to the octane source. Designing cars to accept mid-level ethanol blends with a higher compression ratio is a simple engineering task, and many cars that require premium fuel today would require little or no modification. A senior Mercedes-Benz engineer said such a combination would be attractive to car buyers because it would provide "ridiculous power and good fuel economy."
Currently, oil refiners supply octane through a distilled component of petroleum called aromatics — hydrocarbon chains with a stable benzene ring that resist combustion and prevent engine knock. These aromatics, mostly toluene and xylene, are neurotoxins; they comprise on average 25 percent of every gallon of gasoline, and their emissions are implicated in a variety of serious health impacts, especially affecting the heart and lungs. A 2013 assessment by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis estimated that exposure to fine-particle pollution from aromatics in gasoline results in 3,800 premature deaths per year and a total social cost of more than $28 billion annually.
Ethanol's economic value has been widely mischaracterized and misunderstood.
Most worrisome of all are the secondary pollutants that form in the atmosphere after combustion, especially PAHs — polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons — which are carried along on particles so tiny that, once inhaled, they can penetrate the bloodstream and reach the brain. A careful long-term assessment of women in New York City found a correlation between exposure to PAHs during pregnancy and reduced IQ in their children — an effect similar to that of airborne lead. The study's leader, Frederica Perera, director of the Columbia University Center for Children's Environmental Health, calls PAHs "carcinogenic, immunotoxic, neurotoxic, mutagenic, and endocrine disruptors." The use of mid-level ethanol blends could reduce the content of aromatics in gasoline by 60 percent.
Ethanol's economic value has been widely mischaracterized and misunderstood. Ethanol does have less energy content per gallon than gasoline, leading some to say that consumers get a bad bargain from its use. In mid-level blends, however, the improved efficiency made possible by ethanol almost completely compensates for its lower energy content, evening out the economic equation.
A more powerful economic benefit for consumers comes from weakened demand for oil. Much has been made of the effect of shale oil from North Dakota on world oil markets, but before it came along, the widespread use of 10 percent ethanol blends already had displaced a similar amount of oil, saving consumers nearly $1 per gallon of gasoline, based on a number of economic estimates. That has meant $100 billion per year for U.S. consumers.
Over the last decade, ethanol production more than tripled, even as federal tax credits for its use and import tariffs were eliminated. This rapid growth in demand contributed to a temporary price spike for corn. But corn prices have since retreated to recent historical norms, putting the lie to the notion that using crops for fuel will make food unaffordable.
The reason is clear: One of American farmers' most recurrent problems historically has been overproduction. The combination of favorable soils and climate in the Midwest, together with the astonishing innovation that continually increases yields per acre, means that the acreage planted in major crops has remained within a narrow band (315 to 325 million acres) for the last 15 years, despite the increased demand for corn. Indeed, farmers need growing markets just to keep up with their own rising productivity. With a sensible ramp-up, yield increases alone could meet additional demand for ethanol in mid-level blends, using land already in production.
To be ready for widespread use in 2025, the transition of fuels, vehicles, and refueling infrastructure must begin very soon.
The obstacles to this growth, however, are formidable. Once gasoline was established as the only way to move a car, the petroleum industry had a complete monopoly on transportation fuel, reflected in vehicle design and refueling infrastructure. (Electric vehicles may provide a viable competitor one day, but such a fundamental shift in American habits will take a generation or more to achieve. And vehicles that run on electricity will only be as clean as the source of the electricity.)
The successful phase-out of leaded gasoline in the 1990s suggests that the same could be done with aromatics, and the fuel economy rule provides a ripe opportunity. The mid-term evaluation required by the rule will begin with a draft technical assessment this June and conclude with a final rule in April 2018. It will consider a wide range of factors, including developments in powertrain technology, consumer acceptance, and trends in fuel prices. Missing from this list, however, is an assessment of other fuel choices.
Engineers in the U.S. Department of Energy's national laboratories are examining a large number of different fuel formulations to see which is optimal; clearly, increased levels of aromatics would be unacceptable. A mid-level ethanol blend is the best available alternative today, and the EPA should consider this in its mid-term review.
For automakers to demonstrate the benefits of higher-octane fuels, they need a green light from the EPA to proceed with a mid-level ethanol-blend test fuel that could become the standard for the car designs of the next decade. To be ready for widespread use in 2025, the transition of fuels, vehicles, and refueling infrastructure must begin very soon. The benefits of these blends for octane and performance justify this action on the basis of reduced carbon pollution alone. Beyond that, it is incontrovertible that substituting ethanol for toxic aromatic hydrocarbons will have benefits for public health. Rather than regulating aromatics directly, EPA could simply displace them by encouraging higher ethanol blends.
These benefits to climate and health have emerged through a combination of new practices and new research. The EPA should embrace the opportunity of its mid-term review to support higher-ethanol fuels and the myriad advantages they offer.
Timothy E. Wirth is the vice chairman of the board of the United Nations Foundation and the Better World Fund. A former U.S. senator and representative from Colorado, Wirth served as the UN Foundation's president from 1997 to 2013. More about Timothy E. Wirth →
C. Boyden Gray is the founding partner of the law firm Boyden Gray & Associates. He was White House Counsel under President George H.W. Bush. They both serve on the Steering Committee of the Energy Future Coalition, a partnership of businesses, labor, and non-profits that advocates for alternative sources of energy, including ethanol. More about C. Boyden Gray →
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"The Mexican Barcode of Life (MEXBOL) project started as an initiative by researchers who wanted México to join the international DNA barcoding (iBOL) collaboration to establish a genetic system of species identification and discovery. MEXBOL has three main nodes associated with different research institutions in the northern, central, and southern parts of the country. At the beginning of 2009, the laboratories of the three nodes began to operate with support from the University of Guelph in Canada where DNA barcoding began in 2003. By the end of 2011, the laboratories in México will be completely equipped and fully operational. The project is funded by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT). In addition, the steering committee of MEXBOL supports the Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO) initiative to offer grants to any university and research center for barcoding collections of Mexican specimens. We present preliminary results of projects dealing with barcoding Mexican mammals. The aims of these analyses are to evaluate the importance of the DNA barcoding (using cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene; COI) for the identification of species, study of genetic diversity, and taxonomic review. Our preliminary data suggest that DNA barcodes can be used for the discovery of cryptic species and have important implications to the understanding of the mega-diversity of mammals in México."


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Why does no one like baseball?
Behind those numbers lay many hidden problems for Major League Baseball as a national sport. A graying fan base, increasing competition from other sports, and a general apathy brought on by a long season have all helped to shrink the sport's following.
Likewise, is baseball getting less popular? Declining interest in baseball can be directly traced to a lack of action. Since 2015 — the last year the major leagues saw a minor increase in fans at ballparks — through 2019, attendance dropped 7.14%. That's a loss of 5.2 million fans. … * Baseball's star power is dimming.
People ask also, is baseball a dying sport? Baseball, America's national pastime, is a dying sport. The kids of this generation find it boring; its fanbase is dwindling with each passing season and networks like ESPN have begun to focus their coverage almost exclusively on other sports.
Also know, is baseball the least popular sport? A recent Gallup poll shows that only 9 percent of people in the United States are listing baseball as their favorite sport. That's the lowest number since Gallup started asking the question in 1937.
Also, is baseball the hardest sport in the world? Baseball is the Hardest Sport. For many years, athletes around the world have debated which sport is the hardest. … Overall, each sport is unique in difficulty, as some parts are harder than others. When it comes to the general difficulty of each, baseball takes the crown of the hardest sport.
Why is baseball not popular in Philippines?
Is American football a dying sport?
Is baseball a white sport?
Is the MLB growing?
Is baseball harder than softball?
Is MLB still popular?
Why is baseball so popular?
Why is baseball popular in Japan?
What is the easiest sport?
What is the hardest sport mentally?
Political conflict among baseball officials led to the decline of the sports in the country. Basketball eventually gained popularity over baseball. From 1971 to 1994, the Philippines did not take part in any international competition. Baseball suffered from lack of financial support and a decrease of baseball venues.
No, it's not dying, but it's getting older and evolving. As long as there is a large pool of very good high school players feeding into college football, there will be plenty of talented players trying to secure a spot on an NFL roster. So, the talent will be there for years to come.
While professional baseball was formally regarded as a strictly white-men-only affair, the racial color bar was directed against black players exclusively. Other races were allowed to play in professional white baseball. One example was Charles Albert Bender, a star pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1910.
MLB announced in April that its streaming service set an 18-day record to open the season. The amount of minutes fans watched of MLB.TV rose 12% from this past season and 43% from 2019.
Many people often question if softball is harder than base ball or vise versa. … However, it is scientifically proven that softball is harder than baseball. The speed of pitches, the reaction time for hitters and fielders, and the distance of the field indicates that softball is indeed harder than baseball.
BOSTON — Across the United States, baseball, long considered the national pastime, is still popular by most measures. Millions go to games each year, millions more watch on television, and quite a few will turn their attention to the Fall Classic — the 117th World Series — which begins on Tuesday in Houston.
Baseball holds a special place in the hearts and minds of many Americans. The rivalries (NY Giants/Brooklyn Dodgers) and friendships created between the teams in major cities showed a glorious sense of passion and commitment unmatched by other famous professional sports.
The game was also popularized with the help of a series of exhibition games that were played with American baseball legends like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Joe DiMaggio. The biggest reason for the popularity of baseball in Japan was that the baseball involved discipline, hard work, and team effort.
Running – I guess running is probably up there with the most easiest sports to play.
Basketball – It is rewarding for anyone to grab the basketball and pass it through the basket.
Volleyball – On the rise in popularity amongst many countries worldwide, it is of course volleyball.
Swimming. It may be surprising to most people that swimming is number 1 in the list of the most mentally challenging sports in the world. Many professional swimmers fall into a 7-day self-sabotage cycle.
Why should china have a baseball team?
Why was hank aaron important?
Why does baseball use 60 yard dash?
Why is baseball no longer an olympic sport?
Why does eren have a baseball glove?
Why does target not sell baseball cards?
Why does height matter in baseball?
Why does santiago worship baseball and joe dimaggio?
Why is baseball not as popular as it used to be?
Why does espn hate baseball?
Why does my arm hurt after throwing a baseball?
Why does my elbow hurt when i throw a baseball?
How far is the blue line from the net in hockey?
Are basketball cards a good investment?
Why is japan good at baseball?
Are juventus and piemonte the same team?
Can you play college football if you played semi pro?
Does basketball burn belly fat?
Do you have to register for usa hockey every year?
Why does college baseball use metal bats?
Are football cards valuable?
Popular question: How can i watch love and basketball?
Does basketball work your arms?
Question: How far do field hockey players run?


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Task of learning decision trees from data
Machine Learning: Classification
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课程 3(共 4 门,机器学习 专项课程)
Case Studies: Analyzing Sentiment & Loan Default Prediction In our case study on analyzing sentiment, you will create models that predict a class (positive/negative sentiment) from input features (text of the reviews, user profile information,...). In our second case study for this course, loan default prediction, you will tackle financial data, and predict when a loan is likely to be risky or safe for the bank. These tasks are an examples of classification, one of the most widely used areas of machine learning, with a broad array of applications, including ad targeting, spam detection, medical diagnosis and image classification. In this course, you will create classifiers that provide state-of-the-art performance on a variety of tasks. You will become familiar with the most successful techniques, which are most widely used in practice, including logistic regression, decision trees and boosting. In addition, you will be able to design and implement the underlying algorithms that can learn these models at scale, using stochastic gradient ascent. You will implement these technique on real-world, large-scale machine learning tasks. You will also address significant tasks you will face in real-world applications of ML, including handling missing data and measuring precision and recall to evaluate a classifier. This course is hands-on, action-packed, and full of visualizations and illustrations of how these techniques will behave on real data. We've also included optional content in every module, covering advanced topics for those who want to go even deeper! Learning Objectives: By the end of this course, you will be able to: -Describe the input and output of a classification model. -Tackle both binary and multiclass classification problems. -Implement a logistic regression model for large-scale classification. -Create a non-linear model using decision trees. -Improve the performance of any model using boosting. -Scale your methods with stochastic gradient ascent. -Describe the underlying decision boundaries. -Build a classification model to predict sentiment in a product review dataset. -Analyze financial data to predict loan defaults. -Use techniques for handling missing data. -Evaluate your models using precision-recall metrics. -Implement these techniques in Python (or in the language of your choice, though Python is highly recommended).
Logistic Regression, Statistical Classification, Classification Algorithms, Decision Tree
Very impressive course, I would recommend taking course 1 and 2 in this specialization first since they skip over some things in this course that they have explained thoroughly in those courses
Good overview of classification. The python was easier in this section than previous sections (although maybe I'm just better at it by this point.) The topics were still as informative though!
Along with linear classifiers, decision trees are amongst the most widely used classification techniques in the real world. This method is extremely intuitive, simple to implement and provides interpretable predictions. In this module, you will become familiar with the core decision trees representation. You will then design a simple, recursive greedy algorithm to learn decision trees from data. Finally, you will extend this approach to deal with continuous inputs, a fundamental requirement for practical problems. In this module, you will investigate a brand new case-study in the financial sector: predicting the risk associated with a bank loan. You will implement your own decision tree learning algorithm on real loan data.
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Intuition behind decision trees1:45
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[MUSIC] >> Let's now explore in more depth that learning task of learning decision tree. So just like before we're giving a set of training data, and we extract some features from that. And then we're going to take this decision tree model, T of x, and use it to predict y hat. So let's explore the T of x in a little bit more detail and discuss what the learning process might look like here. In particular we're given a data set here, which is a table where each row corresponds to a data point, and we have our features here, h1 of x, h2 of x, h3 of x. So credit, term, and income, so in this example it's only going to be three features, and then when try to predict a, what we call, loan status. Which is this variable y, which is whether the loan is risky or safe. And our goal is to learn the decision tree that can help us make that prediction. Given one or more of these input features. More generally we're going to be given N observations from our data of the form xi, yi where yi is the true label. And, we're trying to optimize some kind of a quality metric that tries to fit a tree that is as good as possible with respect to that metric. And, in the case of the decision trees the metrics we're going to use Is just straight up classification error. There are other metrics that you may use for decision trees, but just for this module we just want to focus straight up on classification error. And classification error measures the fraction of mistakes that we make when we try to make prediction of the trailing data. So that's the number of incorrect predictions divided by the total number of examples, just like we saw. In the logistic regression case. The best possible value here is 0, no mistakes, and the worst possible value here is 1. I made as many mistakes as there are data points. So hopefully you don't have error 1, hopefully you have error closer to 0. So now that we've seen classification error, we can state more clearly where our learning goal is. Given the dataset, find the tree that minimizes the classification error. The question is, how hard is this problem? How hard is this learning task? And it turns out that this is an extremely hard learning task. There's exponentially many combination of decision trees out there. Even if you consider just one branch of decision tree. Selecting what features to come next in an order can be a really hard problem and lead to explanation in many combinations. And in fact, for those familiar with this, this is an example what's called an NP hard problem. So, it's a really hard problem and there are no approximation algorithms for this problem with guarantees, but there is some simple ideas of heuristics that tend to perform extremely well in practice. And we're going to talk about one such idea today, Wwhich is called the greedy, simple greedy algorithm, basically. And we're going to incrementally build a tree, one layer at a time, in order to get the best possible classification error at each step. >> [MUSIC]


Why Mila Kunis + Ashton Kutcher do a 'no presents' Christmas - Motherly Inc.
Christopher Ashton Kutcher is an American actor and investor.
Christopher Ashton Kutcher (/ˈkʊtʃər/; born February 7, 1978) is an American actor and investor.
Kutcher began his career as a model and began his acting career portraying Michael Kelso in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show, which aired for eight seasons. He made his film debut in the romantic comedy Coming Soon and became known by audiences in the comedy film Dude, Where's My Car?, which was a box office hit. In 2003, Kutcher appeared in romantic comedies Just Married and My Boss's Daughter and, the same year, he created, produced, and hosted Punk'd which aired on MTV for five seasons until its revival in 2012. In 2004, Kutcher starred in the lead role of the psychological film The Butterfly Effect and gained public recognition.
Kutcher subsequently appeared in more romantic comedies, including Guess Who (2005), A Lot Like Love (2005), What Happens in Vegas (2008), and No Strings Attached (2011). From 2011 to 2015, he starred as Walden Schmidt on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men. In 2013, Kutcher portrayed Steve Jobs in the biographical film Jobs.


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LÓPEZ & ASSOCIATES is one of the leading full-Service firms in Ecuador is headed by Atty. Ariel López, who is considered one of the best attorneys in the country. We offer a solid corporate know how, with personalized attention and satisfactory results through the great team of professionals who are highly qualified in different areas. Currently, we handle the expansion of local businesses in Ecuador and the establishment of foreign companies in our country as well as strategic partnerships between local and multinational companies.


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Dave Stubbs: Veteran Habs defenceman Andrei Markov has much to say, in his own quiet way
Veteran Canadiens defenceman Andrei Markov has a great insight into himself and his sport, shared thoughtfully, even mischievously, in his own unique way if you care to listen.
Dave Stubbs, Montreal Gazette
All things being equal, Canadiens defenceman Andrei Markov will reach two milestones in the coming season.
His 54th game will be his 900th regular-season NHL match, coming in his 15th season with the only club he's known. Seventeen games later, he will play his 1,000th, including playoffs.
Markov considered these big round numbers noon-hour Thursday at a downtown restaurant, nodding silently. And he considered a June 1998 day in Buffalo, the city where he could play No. 1,000 next March 16.
On his first trip to the U.S., tired of waiting to hear his name called that NHL draft day in 1998, the 19-year-old left the Marine Midland Arena and went shopping, returning in time to hear the Canadiens make him their sixth-round choice, 162nd overall.
It's fair to say that he would prove to be a gem uncovered from deep in the earth of that draft.
"When I started, I didn't think that far," Markov said of the milestones on his horizon. "Right now, I'm just trying to have fun. Maybe one day I'm going to reach those numbers. Maybe more. You never know what's going to happen."
Hockey has changed dramatically during his career, rules rewritten to entirely change the way defence is played, young skaters arriving in bigger, stronger and faster waves.
The Russian's game has evolved along the way, and continues to do so. It remains a work in progress, he suggests, and will continue to be so until he hangs up his skates.
"If you want to be comparable with them, you have to work harder," Markov said. "But I also try to be who I am, not someone else – not to change the style of my game, but to adjust to new rules.
"Of course, it's fun. As long as you still have energy to challenge yourself, you must do that. It's fun to do something better each year. That's been my goal before each season, to play better or do something better than the year before."
At age 36 last season, Markov averaged 24:55 ice time per game; only twice before in 13 previous seasons did he play more. He spoke at season's end of knowing the playoffs weren't his finest hour, perhaps worn down from the grind of his 81-game regular season.
The off-season signing of Jeff Petry, the continuing development of Nathan Beaulieu and the massive workload shouldered by P.K. Subban should dial those minutes back a little this season, keeping him fresher in crucial situations.
Markov took two weeks off after the Canadiens' two-round, 12-game playoff run, visited Russia for a couple weeks, returned to his off-season Florida home then came north last Sunday to Montreal, where he'll train for a month before heading back to Florida until just before the start of September's training camp.
He's working out five days a week at Lachine's Premiere Performance, run by elite trainer and former Canadiens strength and conditioning coordinator Scott Livingston. With Olympic champions and high-end athletes from many sports, Markov is stretching, jumping, lifting and cycling, and running the punishing stairs on Mount Royal once a week as well.
It was Livingston who realigned, refurbished, even somewhat reinvented Markov in summer 2012, following his second ACL knee reconstruction and follow-up scope. The partnership has been hugely successful as the defenceman has missed only two games the past three seasons — both as late-season healthy scratches — after playing only 65 games from 2009-12.
"Scott has great experience working with many different athletes, in many sports," Markov said. "Whatever he does with my program, I like it. I feel strong and comfortable. Each year when we start training, I feel more comfortable. It gives me confidence in my strength and health."
The twice-rebuilt knee is so far in Markov's past that he gives it not a thought until a reporter might go there, having seen him hang his brace in his stall after a game.
It's that question, and one other, that he says he could do without.
"I don't like to hear about my injuries," Markov said plainly. "Some people will always ask how I feel, 'How's your knee?' I don't like to look back. If someone thinks about any athlete (being) an iron man, not missing any games, if they think it's easy for that athlete, believe me, it's not easy. You need to do so much work to be there, to play all those games, to deal with the different injuries, prepare your body. And mentally, too.
"It's a big challenge, but it's fun. I have fun right now playing the game every time I step on the ice. I also realize it's not going to be forever. One day, it's going to be over. …
"And I always don't like the question, 'What do you think about your game?' " he continued. "What am I supposed to answer? Either I'm so good or I'm so bad? To me, it's someone outside or upstairs (in management) or other people, reporters, they're supposed to answer that question. I'm always not talking about my game. We always have room to improve."
It is this frankness, sometimes viewed as an impatient brusqueness, and an economy of words in dressing-room scrums that has built Markov an unfavourable reputation with some over the years. He neither encourages nor discourages it; if you didn't realize long ago that this man marches to his own beat, you haven't been paying attention.
A conversation with Markov is not listening to a stream of consciousness. Neither a snappy sound bite nor a punchy quote, he sometimes paused for 20 seconds or more during our talk this week to formulate a thought or reply.
Markov says almost not a word about family, having long ago drawn an uncrossable line between his professional and personal lives, and those who know him understand he won't be engaged in that discussion.
If that fails to satisfy the curiosity of others, well, so be it. It is Markov's play on the ice and insight into the game, not his life beyond it, for which fans know him.
"I'm not trying to hide anything about myself," he said, shrugging about the idea that some view him as a dark mystery. "It's probably the way I grew up in Russia: I have my work, my job is hockey. And I have my personal life.
"I try to stay not secret, but it's my personal life. I don't want to open that. That's who I am.
"At the end of the day," he said, brightening, "the people have to know I can be a funny guy and that I like to have fun."
And indeed, Markov is by many accounts a very funny guy behind closed doors, having grown looser as he grew more comfortable with North America.
It was Markov who delivered the towel full of shaving cream with which countryman Alexei Emelin plastered Carey Price after the Canadiens' final regular-season home game in April, the goalie having recorded his franchise-record 43rd of ultimately 44 wins for the 2014-15 campaign.
"It just came to my brain in seconds," Markov said with a tight grin, admitting his role in the messy caper. "That was a great day for Carey and for history and the organization.
"Of course, it's much easier (to prank) than when I started. I feel comfortable now. I try to have fun on and off the ice. Those type of jokes we can do for many years and they're still funny."
Teammate Tomas Plekanec says that Alex Galchenyuk is a regular Markov victim, though the defenceman says there's never a favourite target, and suggests that things "just happen."
If he's not precisely the same player he was earlier in his career, Markov remains a quarterback on the ice, a gifted passer who single-handedly has the ability to change a game's pace.
He wears Montreal well, three times having decided not to test free agency and instead sign four-, three- and three-year contracts in 2007, 2011 and 2014, and he grins when asked about his next one.
"I will be happy if they sign me for the same amount of money after two more years," he replied.
"I'm just joking!"
Upon expiration of his current deal, Markov will have played a full decade for the same annual $5.75-million salary-cap charge. No, he said with a laugh, he never thought of asking for $10 more just so he could say he got a raise.
"I'm not the biggest fan to change something in my life," Markov said about the temptation to at least test the open market. "I was born in Russia, but I've spent a little less than half my life in Montreal.
"I've always said, the feeling you have when you step on the ice here, the crowd and the atmosphere, you can't compare it to any other building. The history and the organization here. … I always ask myself, 'Why would I have to change that?' "
Markov will shrug about the Canadiens' vacant captaincy, more an issue for those beyond the dressing room than inside it.
"I don't see the big problem," said the longtime alternate captain. "It's not the players' call, it's from the top of the organization. You should ask them, not the players. If you want to be successful, you need to have 23 leaders in the room. Twenty-three captains."
Now within a season of his 1,000th NHL game, Markov remembers what he says was perhaps the best advice that's come his way, the long-ago words of a minor-hockey coach in Russia.
"We trained a lot, ran a lot, and at a young age you try to skip something or cheat somewhere," he recalled. "Our coach always told us: 'Do you think you're cheating me or lying to me, or are you cheating or lying to yourself?'
"Maybe you didn't understand it at that time, but the quicker you realized it, the better you could be."
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Q: socket.io - when loading a view multiple times, socket.on method also runs multiple times Im using Framework7 and AngularJS.
Lets say there is a page called: "something.js". In this page there is a socket.io method.
When loading the page once, the actions in the socket.io method will be fired only one time (which is correct).
When navigating to a different page and back to the page that runs the something.js file, the socket method will be fired twice and so for and so on.
somethine.js code:
socket.on("notification", function(notification) {
  // some code here
});

Now the only above code is loaded twice, so first time loading the something.js file, notification will be popped once.
Next time, notification will be loaded twice, then three times.
How to tell socket.io to load the socket.on one time, or delete it when leaving the page or something?
Is it related to AngularJS views engine or to Framework7?
How to avoid this?

A: This happens because the subscription is not destroyed when the component is. In fact, you introduce by that a memory leak because your component cannot be collected by garbage collector until the event exists.
You have two options to fix that:

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*Subscribe to the event in the service instead of the component and on the component's side inject the service and use the results

*Every time the component gets destroyed unsubscribe from the events manually, see How to unsubscribe from a socket.io subscription?
I personally prefer the first way because as long as you need to have a single subscription you need to use a singleton (service) to hold it.

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There were also areas of weakness in the quarter that just ended. Disney Consumer Products reported another drop in operating income — its fifth quarterly decline in a row — because of write-downs related to the Disney Store chain and worsening licensing results for the "Cars" franchise. Disney also disclosed that it had written off about 40 percent of its investment in the moribund Vice Media, or $157 million.
And Disney turned to discounting to prop up attendance at Shanghai Disney Resort. "We saw some softness in the tourism market in China," Mr. Iger said. "Not just for us, but across the board." He added that much of the discounting had ended. "We still believe very, very, very bullishly" in the resort, he said.
Over all, however, it was a strong quarter for Disney, with each of its biggest divisions — movies, theme parks and television — contributing in a significant way to results, a contrast to a year ago, when movies and television sputtered.
Movie operating income more than doubled, to $596 million, because of fewer film-related write-offs and scorching ticket sales for "Incredibles 2" and "Ant-Man and the Wasp." Disney's theme parks had operating income of $829 million, an 11 percent increase, because of growth at Walt Disney World in Florida, which suffered from Hurricane Irma in 2017.
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What Would It Be Like to Live on Jupiter's Moon Europa?
By Joseph Castro published 3 March 15
Jupiter's icy moon Europa (seen here) could be one of the most hospitable places for life in the solar system. What would it be like for astronaut explorers? (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute)
Jupiter's icy moon Europa has long been thought of as a potentially friendly place for life in the solar system. But what would human explorers find if they set down their ship on the moon's icy shell?
Living on the surface of Jupiter itself would be difficult, but maybe not impossible. The gas giant has a small rocky core with a mass 10 times less than Earth's, but it's surrounded by dense liquid hydrogen extending out to 90 percent of Jupiter's diameter. If you were to step foot on the planet's core, "you would be crushed by the weight of the liquid hydrogen above," said Robert Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Jupiter has more than 60 moons, some of which are plausible locations for permanent bases. With its low radiation levels, geologic stability and large amount of water ice, Callisto probably would be the ideal Jovian moon for a settlement, said JPL astrobiologist Steve Vance. [Living on Europa: The Conditions Explained (Infographic)]
Scientists believe conditions may be right for life, under Europa's icy crust. See what it might be like for an astronaut exploring Europa. (Image credit: By Karl Tate, Infographics Artist)
However, another moon of Jupiter — Europa — is thought to have a vast water ocean beneath its icy surface, and is considered the best place to find life in our solar system. Setting up a research base on Europa would help scientists probe that potentially habited ocean.
Currently, there are very big holes in scientists' knowledge of Europa's surface, Pappalardo told Space.com. Eight spacecraft have visited the Jovian satellite, but only 10 to 15 percent of the surface has been photographed at a decent resolution.
Pappalardo and Vance are currently working on concepts for NASA's proposed Europa Clipper mission, in which a probe would perform 45 flybys of Europa, allowing scientists to get more detailed images of the moon's surface than ever before.
Photos from previous missions suggest that Europa's surface is relatively smooth, lacking large craters and mountains because convective ocean forces constantly recycle Europa's surface ice. But the planet's surface isn't featureless. Amazing Photos of Europa]
"If you were to look in any direction, you'd see little ridges, no more than a couple of meters high," Vance told Space.com. You'd also see numerous cracks that crisscross the globe. These cracks and ridges are likely the result of the daily rise and fall of Europa's subsurface ocean due to tidal forces from Jupiter, scientists have said.
The best location for a base on Europa would be on the side of the moon that leads the moon as it orbits around Jupiter — the planet's magnetosphere showers Europa with deadly radiation, which is far stronger on the trailing hemisphere of the moon.
A base there would also offer up a spectacular view: Jupiter would look almost 24 times larger in the sky than Earth's moon appears from the planet's surface. "It wouldn't be a boring place to drink your afternoon tea," Vance said.
However, residents of Europa would have to deal with the blistering cold. The temperature averages about minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 160 degrees Celsius) near the equator and minus 370 F (minus 220 C) near the poles, Pappalardo said.
Aside from the radiation and cold, a few other dangers exist on Europa. Modest ice quakes — which might feel somewhat like an earthquake on Earth — could occur every now and then, and you'd definitely want to watch out for giant plumes of water that could violently shoot out of the ice. There would also be a small chance you'd be hit by a small meteor or particles from space.
Europa's gravity is only about 13 percent of Earth's, resulting in a virtually nonexistent atmosphere. Because of this, Europa, like Earth's moon, has no weather, wind or sky colors. And walking on Europa would feel similar to walking on Earth's moon.
If you went for a stroll, you'd probably want to visit Europa's "chaos terrain," where the normally flat ice has been fragmented into jumbled blocks. "It might look like you're in Monument Valley," Pappalardo said. You'd also want to see the moon's depressions and ice domes, which are up to a little more than a half-mile (1 kilometer) high.
Amateur astronomers would want to keep an eye out for Jupiter's moons, particularly the large ones. Ganymede— Jupiter's largest moon, and the biggest satellite in our solar system — would appear in the sky once every two days on Europa (a Europan day is 3.5 Earth days), and would appear 1.5 times larger than our moon. Io — Jupiter's third-largest moon — would show up twice every day and would appear a bit larger than Ganymede.
If you wanted to share your experiences with people back home, an email would take at least a half-hour to get there — just make sure massive Jupiter isn't blocking your view of Earth.
Editor's Note: This is Part 5 in Space.com's 12-part series "Living on Other Planets: What It Would Be Like" to see what an astronaut would see on other planets and moons of our solar system and beyond. Check back each Tuesday to see what humans might encounter on other cosmic bodies in the universe. This story was corrected on March 16 to clarify where the best location for a base on Europa would be.
Follow Joseph Castro on Twitter. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.
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Joseph Bennington-Castro is a Hawaii-based contributing writer for Live Science and Space.com. He holds a master's degree in science journalism from New York University, and a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Hawaii. His work covers all areas of science, from the quirky mating behaviors of different animals, to the drug and alcohol habits of ancient cultures, to new advances in solar cell technology. On a more personal note, Joseph has had a near-obsession with video games for as long as he can remember, and is probably playing a game at this very moment.
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Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote celebrated his 61st birthday yesterday. The businessman marked the occasion privately in his office with staff and loved ones. He could be seen posing with cakes given to him by well wishers.
Also, a billboard advert was fixed in his honor in Lagos. Dangote is ranked by Forbes magazine as the 100th-richest person in the world and the richest in Africa, and peaked on the list as the 23rd-richest person in the world in 2014.
For he's a jolly good fellow… For he's a jolly good fellow… For he's a jolly good fellow….. And so say all of us..! Hurraaaaaaaayyyy Happy birthday GP/CE, Dangote Industries Limited.
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The 8% Solution
70%. Back in my University days, this was the percentage of test problems that I and my fellow engineering students needed to solve correctly in order to pass a class. For those subjects with which I had an affinity (like Hybrid Microelectronics or Analog Filter Design), the 70% rate wasn't overly onerous. But subjects such as Satellite Communications and Particle Physics didn't dance to the same beat that pulsed the synapses in my brain. To achieve the required 70% success rate, I'd miss meals, abandon inter-personal relationships, and skip many a night's sleep. Most times, I'd just barely squeak by — emaciated, friendless and quasi-narcoleptic — but wearily happy to have achieved the seemingly impossible 70%.
70%. The corporate world seemed to demand a similar performance. Every month or so, management would toss two or three assorted problems at me, and I'd concoct some sort of solution. Employees who were able to successfully resolve 7 out of 10 problems usually got to keep their jobs. Those with a lower rate of success were inevitably swept away in the next company "reorganization" — the corporate equivalent of apoptosis.
100%. That was the success rate required once I stopped working for large corporations, and moved into the invigorating world of startup companies. Startups have no room for error. One product miscue and you're out of business. One wrong decision, one offended customer, one botched marketing campaign, one fatal software bug, one mistake of any kind — and your company would vanish. I lived like this for nearly 20 years — never sure, from day-to-day, if I'd still have a job the next morning.
8%. That's the decadently luxurious success rate imposed by the life I'm leading now — the life of a photographer. That's right, all I ask is that 8% of my shots be successful. A measly 8%. That works out to 3 shots per roll of 36 exposures. Even more lenient are my Widelux and Xpan cameras, whose extra-wide negatives insure that only two decent shots need occupy each completed roll. Should I snap off two good frames on a roll of 120 threaded into a 645 camera, I'm a bona fide overachiever. And only a single successful shot is required each time I spool a roll through one of my twin lens reflex cameras.
How do I get away with being so unambitious? Surely an acceptance rate of only 8% would embarrass even the most dyed-in-the-wool slacker. So why am I happy with this?
Let's look for the answer through a wider lens… Think of some legendary photographers that you admire. I'm not asking you to think about the ones you're obsessed with — the ones whose books you spend hours caressing, analyzing and plagiarizing — I'm talking about photographers whose work you respect and know, but haven't necessarily turned into a religion. How many of their photos can you remember off the top of your head? 5? 10? These are photographers who spent their lives building everlasting fame on the strength of their photographic output, and yet you — a so-called "photography enthusiast" — can only recall a handful of that output. Let's assume this photographer worked for 30 years. If 10 of their photos impressed you enough that you can recall them sight-unseen, that averages out to one shot every 3 years. Three years they slave — dedicating their lives to their vision — just so you can remember a single photograph.
Now we see why Ansel Adams said that "a dozen photos in any one year is a significant crop."
So let's return to my slovenly slacker desires — my 8% solution. Truth of the matter is, I'm a very sparse shooter. At maximum pace, I tend to run roughly 1 roll of film through a camera each week — itself an appallingly slack quantity of photos, I know. That means I'm shooting only about 50 rolls of film in a year. Since I shoot mostly 35mm, that works out to around 1800 photos in a year. 8% of that number is 144 photos. 144 good photos… in a year! Chew on that Ansel. Now who's the slacker?!
Unless you're fulfilling the needs of a client — and that's fewer and fewer of us photographers these days — you're shooting for yourself. Ostensibly, you do this for fun. So where's the finish line? What's the rush? Is your goal to shoot a lifetime's worth of photographs within the next 6 months, then move on to a different hobby? I've known many photographers who get quite discouraged if they go out for an afternoon and don't come back with at least a dozen new photos for their portfolios. Why all the self-imposed pressure?
Smell the roses. Caress the scene. Try new things. Push yourself. Take chances — after all, you're free to fail 92% of the time. 30 years from now, you'll still have amassed 4320 photos you're happy to call your own.
When all is said and done, and you sit down to assemble your comprehensive, career-capping photographic anthology book, you'll have 4320 photos from which to choose. Even if you decide to include only the best 8% of that overall 8%, your magnum opus will still contain 345 memorable photographs. What photographer wouldn't want that as a legacy?
8%. Now that's living. Ain't photography grand?
©2013 grEGORy simpson
This article (along with many of its associated comments) first appeared in my f/Egor column for the Leica Camera Blog on November 12, 2013.
ABOUT THESE PHOTOS: For the purpose of pedantic illustration, I've included six shots with this article — three each from the two rolls I shot last week while testing my newly reconditioned 1948 Leica IIIc (thus deftly tying this article to the Leica blog, for which it was originally written). The following variables might be of interest to a (very) few: "Injunooity" and "Prescience" were photographed with a 50mm f/3.5 collapsible Elmar lens on Tri-X at ISO 320, and developed in a 1:50 solution of Rodinal. "Vansterdam" was also shot on Tri-X at ISO 320 and developed in Rodinal, but employed a 35mm f/3.5 Elmar instead. "Lawless," "Pay Here" and "Omega Man" were all photographed with a 50mm f/2 Summar lens on FP4+ at ISO 250, and developed in Diafine. Also, it should be noted that my 8% target applies to film photography only. When I shoot digitally (which, coincidentally, I did only 8% of the time this year), my acceptability target drops so low as to be both immeasurable and, I suspect, a wee-bit unhealthy.
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Giovanni Maggiora says:
I like the 8% of 8% rule, Gregory.
Roughly my own editing rule as well. Typically the first 8% is achieved upfront in two stages, picks to 1/4 and then one star to 1/3 of those. That's your 3 frames in a roll (also valid in digital!).
Publish of Flickr, let marinate for the entire year, rinse and edit again for the next 8% round once images have lost some of their emotional attachment to the shooting moment.
Don't know yet if I'll get to a third 8% round after 12 years!
dan sutherland says:
hey, we should be friends. i found you when searching for widelux… then i stayed and meandered a bit. i think i might stay a little longer… but maybe i shouldn't stay too long; you've already reaffirmed my decision to buy a widelux and convinced me to buy a pen f in a matter of 30 minutes.
Linden says:
Great set. Ming Thein wrote an article trying to figure out why his hit rate in film was consistently higher than on digital. I have a higher hit rate in film. Not sure why. 8% seems a good number though.
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Is a Fractional T1 line really cost effective vs. a Full T1?
While it doesn't hurt to check fractional T1 line pricing since every locations' cost do vary, the majority of T1 line users opt for the full T1. The price break point vs. speed averages around 768 Kbits, half a T1. You will find you can get a Full T1, twice the bandwidth, for approximately $10 - $25 more per month.
A fractional T1 offers less bandwidth than a full T1 and comes with the same quality and performance guarantees as a full 1.54 Mbps T1 but costs slightly less. How much less bandwidth vs. the cost savings is the question. See Fractional vs. Full T1 below. Although the price reduction is not what you might expect it to be, this may put a T1 in your budget and be a great way to get dedicated service into your building. Once you have fractional service upgrading to full service is easy. The reason it is easy is due to the installation of a fractional circuit. A fractional T is a full T1 capable circuit - it is throttled back to deliver only a portion of the full t1 1.54 Mb bandwidth and normally your bandwidth can be increased within 5 - 10 business days.
Fractional service typically comes in 256Kbps increments from 256Kbps all the way to a full T1 at 1.5Mbps. Find the service that's right for you, but if you are supporting critical services think reliability. Reliability becomes critical when customers or employees depend on your connection for immediate responses. If your customers use your connection to access your databases or your server or the internet then reliability of your connection is critical. If your employees depend on your connections because you host the e-mail server in house or host web servers or ASP type products, your connection is considered critical. A critical connection can be viewed much like a lifeline, without which your business would be negatively impacted.
In the late 1990's, the cost for a fractional T1 line might have been about 35% - 40% less than the full 1.54 Mbps T1. Today, there is hardly any difference in price, maybe 10% to 15% at best. The cost of a Full T1 has come down considerably in recent years. A fractional T1 has a 50% - 854 bandwidth decrease but only a 5% to 15% price decrease. Fractional DS-3 (T3) on the other hand is a very cost effective solution since pricing is based on a portion of a 45 Mbps circuit.
There isn't much of a cost savings between a fractional T1 and a full (1.5 Mbps) T1. Why? So we can better understand, let's start by taking a look at the specific costs of delivering a T1 service either Full or Fractional.
The service provider has two costs associated with your fractional T1 - the "local loop" and the "port". The local phone company ( LEC - Local Exchange Carrier ) provides and installs the loop. The T1 provider supplies the "port" which is the connection between the local loop and the Internet.
The cost of your local loop is exactly the same - regardless if it's a full or fractional T1 because the local phone company always sets the local loop a 1.54 Mbps. Why? Because it takes the same amount of copper wires, time to install, and equipment to run a fractional T1. The LEC passes this cost to your T1 provider. Since there are no cost savings for the T1 provider or the local phone company on a local loop, the end user doesn't get any cost savings on this portion. Advantages - This can save time and reduce or eliminate install fees in the event you expand your bandwidth in the future. The Full T1 circuit is already in place.
The cost of the port has two parts. Equipment and bandwidth charges.
The equipment is the same for the local loop. The amount of time required to install and maintain the fractional T1 port equipment is the same as required for a full T1 port. No cost savings on equipment.
For the T1 provider, bandwidth charges make up probably only 10% of the total cost of providing a T1. Fractional T1 providers are willing to discount services only slightly because it only costs them slightly less to offer the fractional T1 instead of the full T1! Except for bandwidth expenses, the T1 providers' cost of offering fractional and full T1 service is nearly the same when selecting speeds of 512 Kbits or 768 Kbits.


This section is an overview of projects and code i'm working / have worked on.
LiAR is a recursive acronym which stands for LiAR isn't A Raytracer, and it's the name my current raytracer project. My old one Platracer has become a complete mess. So LiAR is my new effort to write a proper and extendable raytracer with photonmapping and all that. It is an open source and freeware raytracer that is mostly written in C++ as an extension module for Python. The LASS library is being used as main utility library, so that should be cool as well. LiAR is licensed under the GNU GPL license and is hosted by SourceForge.
LASS is an open source C++ library written by Tom De Muer and myself to help us writing better code. It includes an interfacing library to Python, templated geometric primitives and spatial subdivision schemes, several design patterns and other utilities we use in our day-to-day codings. LASS is licensed under the GNU GPL and hosted by SourceForge.
pycpuid is a very simple Python extension. It reads the information available from the CPUID assembly instruction, and makes it available to any Python program. I needed it to decide on some codepath based on whether the box supported SSE2. I didn't found anything alike, so I coded it myself.
pyvtuneapi is a very simple extension that binds the VTune API to Python. If you have VTune, and you're using it to profile a Python driven application, you can use pyvtuneapi to pause and resume the analyzer.
xmp2exif is a very simple commandline utility that restores the EXIF metadata in a image from the XMP metadata.
Projects that are not my own, but in which I'm participating as a developer.
PixelToaster is an open source portable framebuffer graphics library for C++, designed by Glenn "Gaffer" Fiedler as a replacement for OpenPTC and TinyPTC. With PixelToaster, you can open a display at the desired resolution, and render your stuff render into an array of pixels. Both 32 bit truecolor and 128 bit floating point color pixels are supported. You also get basic keyboard and mouse input and a timer, plus portability across PC, Mac and Unix boxes. My contribution is mainly the X11 code branch of PixelToaster.
Pyshapelib is a small Python wrapper around shapelib to open ESRI shapefiles, originally written by Bernhard Herzog. My work includes the rewrite of the library as hand-crafted modules instead SWIG generated ones; and adding support for Z and M values, Unicode strings and filenames, and code pages.
Platracer is my old ray tracer i've started writing in 1999. Yes, that's the previous century. Previous millenium even. It is entirely written in C++, not even a bit of assembly. I just started to learn C++ at that time, so obviously, the code base turned out to be a complete mess. Sorry I'm not releasing any code of it, but it is way too ugly. It really is. Yet, over the years, I've been working on it, and I've got some nice results from it. Now days, the code base is entirely abandoned in favour for my new ray tracer: LiAR.
Callback is a tiny open source C++ library for object oriented callback functions (functors) for those days boost or libsigc++ is a bit too much. This library is also integrated in LASS. It is released under the GNU GPL license.
An attempt to write a quicksort using C++ template metaprogramming. Totally useless, but a bit of fun nevertheless.


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which seems very slow. According to Hyperlynx the driver impedance is around 30 ohms! How they can expect this to drive a bunch of memory devices I'm not sure. It has 4 chip selects, so the address lines should be capable of driving anywhere between 4 and 8 "typical" loads - or am I wrong in assuming this!?


Asthma is a common condition, but it should still be taken seriously, as it can lead to death in some unfortunate cases. The best line of defense is knowing you have it, then getting the proper remedy from the doctor – usually a steroid inhaler to open up the lung passages.
Health.com says that feeling chronically fatigued is a "byproduct" of asthma, meaning that the other symptoms – like coughing, which we'll get to – can tire you out. Also, you may be experiencing symptoms at night, which could lower your quality of sleep, it adds.
"When the airways become narrow, it makes the patient work a little harder to breathe on a more constant basis," notes the source. You may not think of this as extra physical activity, but it can take its toll. Fatigue can be a sign of many conditions, so it's best to let a doctor sort it out.
Many asthma patients have been directed by their doctors to take inhaled steroids on a daily basis.
Asthma, chronic inflammatory disease of the lungs and airways, is the leading cause of chronic illness in children, affecting nearly 12-percent of all American children.
Asthma is one of the most frustrating and dangerous respiratory conditions. Typically, it involves spasms of the lungs' bronchi, making it difficult to breathe.


Your home is your paradise. It is the place where you get all kind of comfort and relaxation both physically and mentally. No matter, how big or small it is, but you feel an immense pleasure when you come back home from outside. Even if it is one of the finest places where you have been till now, the peace and happiness that your home gives, you cannot get from anywhere.
Therefore, it is obvious for you to keep your paradise clean and tidy. Because a paradise should not look unclean. Let's begin with your kitchen room, a place where the tasty and delicious foods are produced regularly. Along with that a good amount of organic waste is also ready to be disposed of every time while you cook or after having your lunch and dinner. But today it is not possible to throw away the wastes here and there out of your house due to pollution awareness. Now you need to take care of your garbage all by yourself without disturbing the environment.
At this situation, the only thing that can solve your problem is a garbage disposal. But there are a lot of garbage disposals available in marketplaces offering varieties of benefits and features. So, it is not easy for you to select the right one. I am proud to present you one of the best garbage disposals and that is Moen ½ HP Garbage Disposal GX Series (GX50C). Now, it is the time to follow the features and benefits of this machine. Check it out.
The Moen GX50C ½ HP Garbage Disposal is a dependable one that really tackles your food scraps daily in very short time with the help of its fast grinding action to make the sink always look clean. This device provides you some extra space beneath the sink for its compact (7.5"x7.5"x13"size and 13lbs weight) and streamlines design which is even compatible for the smallest kitchens and cabinets. Moreover, it is equipped with a sound insulation that helps to reduce noise while the device is on. Let's follow all these features and benefits in detail.
This device follows a continuous feed system which means as long as the device is on, you can add the food waste directly into it. This will make cleanup more quickly.
A powerful High-Speed Vortex Magnate Motor is installed with this device that runs with speed up to 2600 RPM the moment it is powered on. This certainly inspires the exceptional grinding action which grinds through even the toughest food scraps and also helps to reduce jamming.
In many occasions, a complaint is always there with some devices that those are not easy to install and most of the time expert is summoned for that. But you will have no such problem with this device. The Universal Xpress Mount is easy and quick to install as it has three-bolt mounting assemblies. You have needed to position your disposal and then twist it, and then lock it into place.
Generally, it is seen that garbage disposal generates too much noise while working that sometimes can disturb your peace. But this unit is equipped with a design which is called SoundShield that certainly deaden the noise without compromising its high speed and active grinding and allows you to do your work quite peacefully.
This device comes with a pre-installed power cord. So you've no need to purchase a power cord separately. It helps you to save your time and money.
All the grinding components including the sink drain flange of this device are made of stainless steel which provides it the strength that you can use it years after years without tension.
This device offers you a 4-Year limited warranty to keep away your tension and if any fault of manufacturing has occurred you'll get in-home service in a very short time.
Besides the disposal unit and the pre-installed power cord, this device includes a removable splashguard to keep the thing clean, a drain elbow, sink flange, and a polished stainless steel drain stopper. All these come with the purchase of this disposal.
High-speed permanent magnet motor for high speed and powerful grinding.
Universal Xpress Mount for easy installation.
SoundSHIELD technology to deaden noise.
Price seems little higher than other devices to some people.
Motor capacity is slightly less.
Moen Garbage Disposal GX Series are well known among other disposal. Hope you like this review.


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His approach to music is intuitive, emotional and all embracing, but soundly rooted in the jazz tradition. Whether playing mainstream jazz, world music or urban contemporary, he moves seamlessly from one genre to another, always preserving stylistic conventions whilst injecting creativity and individuality.
Rod Youngs, centre, with Denys Baptiste and Larry Bartley.
His journey in music began in his youth and blossomed into a distinguished career that has spanned over two decades. A native of Washington DC, Rod developed an interest in music from his father, who managed some of DC's foremost R&B bands. He developed a life-long obsession with drums and percussion.
This led to him enrolling in the DC Youth Orchestra Programme, where he studied orchestral percussion. At around the same time he acquired his first drum kit and began independently developing his jazz skills. He continued his studies at Howard University and then at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester N.Y., where he studied jazz performance.
Since those early years, Rod's consummate musicianship has brought him a wide variety of work including concerts, numerous recordings and sessions for radio, TV and film. He has become the drummer of choice for a formidable array of artists including Gil Scott-Heron, Courtney Pine, Natalie Cole, Mica Paris, Abdullah Ibrahim and Julian Joseph, as he was for the late Hugh Masakela.
He will be joined for this performance by long-term collaborators Denys Baptiste on saxophone and Larry Bartley on bass.
Rod Youngs Trio Jazz Hastings, Tuesday 12 February, East Hastings Sea Angling Association (on the Stade behind the lifeboat station). Doors open 7.45pm for 8.30 start, tickets £10 on the door.


Check out this new Control Center concept from Sam Beckett that allows for more customization, adds 3D Touch support, and more.
A concept to show how Control Center in iOS can be improved to allow for greater customisation of hardware toggles and app shortcuts. Other improvements also include the integration of 3D Touch for extra options and a new system-wide dark mode.
● Repositioning toggles so that frequently used controls are always easy to find.
● Replacing unneeded toggles with more helpful functions.
● Adding quick actions to toggles with a single press.
● Customising the appearance of Control Center and iOS with a system dark mode.
Take a look at the video below or click here for more details.
Let us know what you like or dislike about the concept in the comments below!
This is a great concept!! Something needed for those of us who prefer not to jailbreak our phones. I'm not as technical but very enthusiastic about it though.
Next is a real double the time battery. How's that for a concept? Since we are referring to software the how about being able to customize the look of iOS a little. Maybe 3 or 4 themes. Again, without having to jailbreak our phones.
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You think you like it hard? Meet Gem Stone - dubbed by many as the 'Queen of Filth', she is ready with an aural ear-bashing for any challengers. Her flawless mixing and signature style of acid filled, fat, synthy and hoover filled hard house won her the 2006 Clubbed Up & Sundissential DJ competition and since then she's stormed the decks at the Bulldog Bash (twice), Sundissential's 10th birthday, Frantic, Twist, Killertrax, Filth Face and many other nights across the UK, and has guested on Clubbed Up Radio.
11 years ago she's also turned her capable hands to producing tracks and has worked with the likes of Riggsy, Frank Farrell, Dave Owens, Dom Sweeten, Steve Hewitt, Pickup & Rise, Ann Tsoulli, Mini Minx, Discam as well as many others that she has engineered for to create some storming new sounds. She's mastered the art of the hard hitting beat and fat riff and is now busy getting noticed in the international music world.
Gem Stone also owns Raw Power Recordings. Raw Power has been hitting the top of the charts for the last few years and has followers all across the world with it's unique style of filth and NRG.
If you would like to book Gem for one of your events or are interested in getting in the studio with her, please email - djgemstone@hotmail.com or search Gem Stone - DJ/Producer/Engineer on Facebook.


The Pantry Inc (Nasdaq:PTRY) announced on Friday that it has entered into a Branded Jobber contract to purchase motor fuel from BP Products North America Inc.
Today's race should be run much more to suit a horse who has always been at his best tracking the pace, as there are enough genuine front-runners in here to allow Jack Mitchell to drop The Jobber in behind.
Jobbers then purchase the gasoline at their chosen refiner's truck rack and then deliver and resell the gasoline to retailers who have contracted with the jobber for delivered gasoline.
NEW YORK-The jobber season is upon us as fabric wholesalers converge on the New York converters to ferret out the season's hottest new fabrics.
Perhaps the best way to position ourselves for the future is to cast aside the traditional jobber mindset ("perform as called upon") and search to provide customers whatever can't be found elsewhere.
com)-- Today, Jobber Group announces their new name and brand.
Tenders are invited for hss p/shank t/drill jobber 2.
New York-The New York jobber market will begin later this month and continue into early October.
Limited Tenders are invited for Supply of cutter end mill jobber 4 MM, wheel cutting ansi b71 55x25.
These allow direct access to its furniture manufacturers -- including Century, Sherril and Norwalk -- and jobber clients such as Robert Allen, Kravet and Stroheim & Romann.
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This store owned by prominent Jobber on the West Coast of FL.
Steve Dutson, executive vice president of marketing for jobber Peachtree Fabrics, said, "You have to have a variety.


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The most famous DJ's and why they're so cool
It is no secret that a number of DJs are earning big to mix a few house worth of bangers just in a couple of hours. Even though the times have changed from the late 80s to the early 90s rave explosion, the major concern for most DJs is the growing popularity of all forms of dance hit songs over the last 20 years. There is an increase in competition for getting venues for events, with more dance festivals becoming the norm in warmer months especially.
With some DJs earning six-figure amounts in one night, it is very easy to notice how they are making big numbers and increasing their popularity. Below is a list of the most famous DJs around the world. This is before deductions as the cost gather in keeping managers and agents and lawyers fees. Additionally, it is worth noticing that these figures are gotten from data from Pollstar, Bandsintown, Nielsen and Songkick.
1.Calvin Harris
The Scotland bonny prince of booth has maintained his spot as the most famous DJ this year after earning a whopping sum of $46 million. This is due to the success of his fifth studio album which featured appearances from Kehlani, Travis Scott, Khalid, John Legend, Big Sean, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Snoop Dogg and many more. He is already considering a sixth studio album, which could come into play next year.
2.The Chainsmokers
This year, they have amassed a sum of $45.5 million, but they have to split it. This duo from New York have been active for six years, after coming together again in 2012. It didn't take long before Andrew Taggard and Alex Pall became a household name in various countries in the world. They have a debut single which was among the top 20 hits in most countries.
3.Tiesto
The second oldest DJ on this list is Tijs Michiel Verwest, popularly known as Tiesto. Having earned $33 million this year, the Dutch master is seen as one of the most famous DJs of all time and the grandfather of EDM. He has released five studio albums, and worked with MOTi and Matisse & Sadko.
4.Steve Aoki
The founder of Dim Mak label has improved this year, with a total wealth of $28 million this year. He has been busy over the past 12 months with the release of his fifth album which can be found here.
5.Marshmello
Christopher Comstock, as his mother prefers to call him, is the only masked crusader on this list. Marshmello racked up a total of $23 million this year.
6.Zedd
The German born Russian DJ and producer, Anton Zaslavski goes by the moniker Zedd. He has managed to improve his worth in the past 12 months to $22 million following the success of his second album and regular tours.
7.Diplo
Just like most of the DJs on this list, Thomas Wesley Pentz popularly known as Diplo has fingers in many pies and his musical mastery goes beyond the booth with various remixing and production credits.
8.David Guetta
Having been DJing for longer than most guys on this list, David Guetta is the longest serving DJ on this list with an income of $15 million this year. After having several collaborations, he has released his seventh studio album. He is scheduled to take part in several tours this year.
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Contact le nses are very safe devices that have made life easier and less aggravating for many individuals with vision problems. However, wearing them can potentially damage your eyes if you fail to clean them properly or allow them to stay in place longer than the amount of time recommended by your optometrist. Even though it is not probable that your contacts will permanently damage your eyes, it is a good idea to familiarize yourself with the potential hazards associated with their use.
Due to the fact that corrective contact lenses sit directly on the surface of the eye and cover all or part of the cornea, less oxygen reaches your eyes whenever your contacts are in place. In order to keep your eyes healthy, a generous oxygen supply is necessary. Therefore, if you wear contacts for an inappropriate length of time, you are limiting this supply of oxygen and possibly damaging your eyes. Fortunately, there are several avenues through which to prevent damage from oxygen deprivation.
One of the best ways to avoid eye damage is to religiously follow the wearing schedule provided by your eye doctor when you first obtained your contact lenses. In addition, choosing silicone hydrogel lenses or gas permeable contacts may also benefit your eyes, as this material is considered by most experts to be safer for your eyes than the materials used to manufacture traditional soft contact lenses.
Another factor that plays a role in eye damage for contact wearers is the buildup of germs and bacteria on the surface of the lenses. As time goes on, this accumulation occurs on both sides of the contacts, ultimately leading to eye infections. Although the latter can be cured, it is important to understand that permanent damage is possible.
Even if you religiously adhere to the directions provided regarding your contacts, deposits will eventually build up on the surface of the lenses. This is why the longer you wear a specific set of contacts without replacing them, the greater risk there is of the aforementioned deposits reducing the oxygen supply to your eyes and subsequently causing damage. This is why it is important to dispose of and replace your contact lenses according to schedule given to you by your eye doctor. Finally, never skip routine eye examinations, as your optometrist is trained to keep your eyes healthy and safe by detecting problems before eye damage occurs.


The Powell Inferno Spinning Rod is ideal for trying out your fitness techniques or drop shotting, tubes and jigs. Constructed from MaxumFiber Mini Matrix high modulus graphite, this spin rod is lightweight, strong and sensitive. It is equipped with quality hardware such as Fuji® guides and aluminum galvanized non-corrosive trim rings. Inferno Spinning Rods feature a Pac Bay minima reel seat and high-grade cork for lasting durability and comfort. Really put the heat on gamefish with the advantages provided to you by Inferno Casting Rods. This casting rod is constructed with MaxumFiber Mini Matrix high modulus graphite, making it strong, lightweight and sensitive. In addition, it is equipped with Fuji® guides, Pac Bay minima reel seat and aluminum galvanized non-corrosive trim rings. Powell Inferno Casting Rods have high-grade cork and an Armorcoat sleek finish.
Powell Rods is the manufacturer of high quality bass fishing rods including three series which cover the entire spectrum of bass fishing applications. Powell Rods possess the most desired lengths, actions and powers for bass fishing's most popular techniques. The Endurance Mag Bass Casting rods are for the anglers that desire a long rod that's supremely versatile. Sporting a variety of lengths and actions, these rods can find use in all kinds of applications. Think jigs, plastics, big spinnerbaits, and much, much more!


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