Permaculture is a name coined and patented by the Australian visionary Bill Mollison. Mollison alerted Australians to the importance of protecting biodiversity and agricultural land. As well as promoting an organic, interlinked and labour saving agricultural approach, he also encourages gardeners to plant indigenous rather than exotic in order to provide sustenance for birds and wild life. He has been outstandingly successful as an arbiter of what is appropriate in Australia, and has, I think, contributed greatly to the sense Australians have of occupying their particular place.
Thanks to him, people recognize not just a genera of Banksias or Grevilleas, but specific species, and gardeners vie with each other to collect and nurture many varieties. To sustain the interest, he started indigenous nurseries to produce the plants that people wanted in their gardens and thus initiated a whole new trend in gardening. Gardens, by the way, sustain a multi-billion dollar industry around the world.
I was surprised to learn that a permaculture garden has been started in a suburb of KL and was delighted to be reacquainted with the methodology. The objective of the garden in KL is to show terrace house residents that they can grow enough to sustain, or at least significantly supplement, a family with home grown vegetables, fruits and herbs. It is organic in the sense that no pesticides are used and the application of natural fertilizers is minimized, but there are no complicated sequences of crops or treatments to protect the tender plants. The whole system works on common sense and labour saving planning, so I will try to paraphrase the principles without sacrificing too much of the content.
Most important is the soil, which should never be left exposed, but covered instead with a constantly maintained layer of mulch (and this can be anything from grass cuttings to leaves) that will protect it from weed growth, excessive heat and drying out. It will also sustain healthy earthworm and micro-organism populations. The concern that everything should be composted first before applying to the ground should be a bit flexible: better to place what you have on bare soil unprocessed than to tip it out. Obviously some mulches are better than others, sawdust is not as good as fallen leaves, for example, but if sawdust is all you have, then put it on but try mixing different sources of nutrients.
One warning about fungal attacks bears repeating: keep the mulch about 2″ from the stems of plants to protect them from fungal attack, especially in the wet season.
Place your vegetables where they will get the morning sun but not the hot afternoon sun. Apparently plants grow most in the mornings and 'shut down' when the heat threatens to overwhelm and dry out of the plant. Protection from the afternoon sun is important, either by a wall or other plants that provide shade.
Plant slow maturing vegetables at the back, faster ones at the front. Enhance this by making path loops into the garden bed so that access can be had to all plants but tramping over beds is minimized, because this can damage the soil structure.
Mix your planting, place individual leafy vegetables in amongst the herbs or tomatoes, don't group them together where a pest can readily destroy the lot. If you lack planting material to create this mix, scatter pre-soaked kacang hijau about. They will readily sprout and will provide the nitrogen fixing that will be advantageous to the neighbouring plants. Mix the legumes with fruit, leaf and root crops all together.
Compost and liquid manure are supplements that are needed in the tropics because of the heavy rainfall that leaches away nutrients so quickly. Where there is space, and you don't need much, chickens can also be introduced into the equation. Especially in an orchard, they will control weeds and limit pests, as well as provide fertilzer for the garden. In exchange, you can enjoy an occasional rendang ayam and fresh eggs!
The garden in KL has tried to develop a water retention system involving a pond and a water route for run off to be reused before discharging into the drain. A pond increases the biodiversity of the garden and encourages frogs and toads that are beneficial for a pest free environment. In the pond, this particular garden had tillapia, which did not sit too well with the ethics of Permaculture, as Mollison always stresses the importance of using indigenous animals and plants. As table fish they may be easy to grow but once escaped into our rivers they out compete indigenous fish and ultimately reduce the aquatic biodiversity. I would suggest sepat (gouramys) as they are very hardy, can feed of anything available, including mosquito larvae, they don't eat the aquatic plants and they can be harvested from time to time.
The garden we visited actually had a 'grey water' area, where kitchen water is discharged into a depression in the ground. Kangkong, bananas and ubi could thrive here and make use of the waste water and the nutrients in it. Obviously used cooking oil cannot be disposed of this way, nor can it be added to a compost heap, but a sand filled hole in the garden permits micro-organisms to break it down further.
Creating a sustainable system to produce safe food that utilizes nutrients that would otherwise be lost or wasted has always been my preoccupation, and it is intriguing that you can do it on even the smallest plot. It may require a bit of ingenuity to salvage runoff or to save rain water, but I think this is the ultimate challenge for a gardener: creating something that is worth more from your effort and ingenuity than it was before, and to see the benefits to other creatures, plant and animal. Keeping in touch with these natural processes and learning how to manipulate them for our advantage without harming other things is a great achievement, and it is so rewarding to eat your own kangkong or cucumber that you have nurtured through the hazards of pests and floods.
The word permaculture is a combination of 'permanent' and 'agriculture'. The objective is to create a mixed garden of fast and slow maturing plants that will gradually develop into a forest garden. Taller trees will bear fruit and provide nesting sites for birds that will help maintain the balance, and protect the more tender plants below. The immaculately laid out KL garden is designed to minimize labour input, and once established it will be a joy, but gardens will always need a degree of personal care and observation. By checking on plants regularly, you get to understand what they are likely to need, and the challenge is to transform these needs and our own into a compatible garden that supports us and wildlife on a sustainable basis.


A young boy stands in a flooded street in the Darou Salam district of Dakar, Senegal. Fighting cholera and other diseases during the annual rainy season, USAID provided support to health services in affected regions of Senegal. Thousands of Senegalese were forced from their homes and sought temporary shelter.
Everyday over 100,000 people move to urban areas. By 2030, 60 percent of the world's population will reside in cities. Most cities and governments are unprepared for this rapid demographic shift, which has led to greater health disparities between urban and rural populations, and left children and adolescents most vulnerable to urban health inequities. Understanding the policies and programs required to address the urgent and long-term health needs of these populations is one of the most critical priorities of current development work.
In collaboration with partners, the Implementation Science Collaborative will explore critical issues and priority interventions for children and adolescents of the urban poor. Our initial work will focus on water and sanitation as well as nutrition needs, recognizing that social, economic, and health systems challenges require attention. The nutrition work will address the double burden of malnutrition (both over- and under-nutrition). It has been noted that poor health outcomes are driven by multi-sectoral forces—violence and injuries, gender norms and standards, lack of access to education—and, therefore, our approaches will not be limited to working within the health sector.
We look forward to participating in the 15th International Conference on Urban Health, which is scheduled for 26-30 November 2018 in Kampala, Uganda!


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The Netflix series "The Politician" has been scheduled for a second season
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Ben Platt in The Politician
Netflix and Ryan Murphy's newest collaboration The Politician is the show everyone is talking about, and that is in no small part due to Ben Platt's star making turn as the overly ambitious future politico Payton Hobart. As soon as Platt was announced to be starring in this series, fans of this Tony winning actor were hoping that Platt's vocal talents would be weaved into the show somehow, and they have not been disappointed. During the run of the entire show, Platt was able to showcase the talents that made so many people fall in love with him, without it being heavy handed. His aching rendition of Joni Mitchell's "River" strings together a much larger plot point, while his version of Billy Joel's "Vienna" is a shiny new turn on a classic track. The inclusion of "Unworthy Of Your Love" not only includes one of the dynamic songs from the Broadway musical Assassins, but allows Platt to musically duel with his divine co-star Zoey Deutch, which also serves as a major plot point in the show.
Madonna "Crave"
Platt's album Sing To Me Instead was a musical and lyrical dream when it was released earlier this year, and including the track "Run Away" as the closing track is the perfect way to close out the soundtrack. As Season 2 of The Politician has already been confirmed, we are now left to anxiously see how more of Platt's musical talents will be threaded throughout future story.
Madonna's Madame X incarnation is presenting yet another new side of this legendary pop artist, as she collaborates with artists like Maluna and brings issues like gun control to the forefront in the video for "God Control." For the remixes from Madame X, Madge has decided to stick with a proven formula, and once again partnered up with the dynamic Tracy Young, who remixed a number of singles from Madonna's Music album to huge acclaim.
The debut album "Gravity" from Gryffin
The package for her latest single "Crave" showcases Young's abilities once again, while giving some shine to some other names who took a crack at remixing one of the best songs on the album. The "Tracy Young Dangerous Remix" shows amps up the beats on the track, with a baseline thrown behind the vocals, yet still keeping it quintessential Madonna. The legendary Benny Benassi checks in with the "Benny Benassi & BB Team" Remixes maneuvers the track into interesting territory, with some parts almost turning it into a dub, but keeping Madonna's chorus line throughout. "The Twisted Dee & Diego Fernandez Mix" is a true standout, with heavy drums and smart maneuvering of the vocals making this remix truly one of a kind. The remaining mixes on the package range from heavy electronica with the "Otto Benson Remix," gorgeously hypnotic on the "Dan De Leon & Anthony Griego Remix" and peak anthem with the RNG Club Mix. With this talented bunch at the helm, Crave is poised to be another jewel in Madge's crown of Number One Remixes.
Griffyn
Los Angeles based writer producer Griffyn has released his long awaited debut album Gravity and it is as daring and amazing as it has been anticipated to be. With the singles "OMG" (with Carly Rae Jepsen) and "Baggage" (with Gorgon City ft. Aluna George) both being released earlier this year to high acclaim, the bar was high for the full release. Tracks like the recently released "Gravity", featuring the ethereal Maia Wright, showcases a slowed down and breezy Griffyn, while "if I Left The World" featuring MARINA & Model Child truly is an epic musical event. "Hurt People" is a storming and reflective track of a fractured relationship gone wrong, while "Nothing Like You" (ft. Hana) is light pop track that fits perfectly within the deeper and more largely produced tracks.
The tracks on Gravity are sure to be on radios and dance floors throughout the remainder of 2019, with 2020 poised to be one of Gryffin's biggest.
For his first full length in five years, My Name is Michael Holbrook, MIKA explores his American heritage. Recording in places like Miami and in Tuscany, Mika has crafted an album that is true to his signature musical style, but indescribably a heightened sound. Opening the album with the production heavy opus "Tiny Love" is a stroke of brilliance, at it sets the tone for the remainder of the album.
"My Name is Michael Holbrook" album cover from MIKA
The tracks range from dance heavy ("Dear Jealousy", "Platform Ballerinas") to understated anthems ("Ready To Call This Love"). "This album has been a rich and intense journey. Inspired by life in all its glory and all its dark challenges. It's also inspired by love. Starting with an idea that was born in a cemetery in Savannah Georgia and ending the writing in a 650 year old farm house in Italy. My intention was to write about life as it happened. A sort of album made in 'real time,'" MIKA says.
His signature falsettos are featured throughout, with the ballads being heavy on strings. The down tempo "I Went To Hell Last Night" is an album standout, making Mika's sound both new, yet very much his own.
Out In Jersey contributor Michael Cook writes for several other LGBTQ publications across the country. Reach him on twitter @Cookster74
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VIDEO: US military sends Black Hawks to help South Koreans battle forest fire
A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crew with 2-2 Assault Helicopter Battalion, 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division/ROK-U.S. Combined Division, uses a Bambi bucket to drop water on the wildfire from the air in efforts to extinguish the blaze at Gangwon province, April 5. The effort is in partnership with Republic of Korea Army III Corps Command and other local agencies. (Sgt. Raquel Villalona/ROK-U.S. Combined Division)
April 08, 2019 Kim Gamel - Stars and Stripes
The U.S. military sent two Black Hawks equipped with water buckets Friday to help South Koreans fight a massive forest fire that has forced thousands to flee their homes northeast of Seoul.
The assist came as South Korean President Moon Jae-in made a surprise visit to the city of Goseong, which has served as a base for some 10,000 firefighters and military personnel working to extinguish the blaze.
The fire started Thursday and was spread quickly by strong winds in the mountainous Gangwon province, which hosted the 2018 Winter Olympics.
It was largely under control late Friday after destroying hundreds of homes and displacing more than 4,000 people, according to The Associated Press. One person was killed.
The government, which said it was possibly South Korea's biggest forest fire, declared a national emergency.
U.S. Forces Korea, the main command, said it sent two UH-60 Black Hawks and nine servicemembers, including pilots and crew chiefs from the 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade, to help in coordination with South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The helicopters were equipped with specially designed aircraft buckets, known as Bambi buckets, to scoop water and drop it on designated areas, USFK said, adding that additional assets are on standby if needed.
The Americans were working with the South Koreans "to protect local (South Korean) citizens," USFK spokesman Col. Chad Carroll said in a press release. "It's important we use our training and resources to partner with our allies when real-world issues like this arise."
Some 28,500 U.S. servicemembers are stationed in South Korea, which remains technically at war with the North after their 1950-53 conflict ended in an armistice instead of a peace treaty.
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Neller says Congress will approve $400 million for storm damage at Camp Lejeune, other bases
Iran says terrorist designation for IRGC would end 'calm' for US military in region


We fight for the Balanced CAP tour. when can you fight?
Let me know if you need help. Put up the WIP thread at least.
we got matched up for the CAP Seasonal, when you want to play?
That's a damn shame, I'm open often, so the time is up to you.
We got matched up for NU team tour, when can you play?


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PAMH - What does PAMH stand for? The Free Dictionary
https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/PAMH
PAMH Perth Association for Mental Health (UK)
A Behavior Change Communication campaign regarding the same had also been launched by PAMH in collaboration with Spectrum VMLYandR, wherein the 'Story of Salman' - a story that follows a young man's state of mind as he is stigmatized for his mental illness - was inaugurated at the occasion.
PAMH steps up efforts to destigmatize mental illness
Every fourth house has a psychosomatic/psychiatric problem and masked depressive disorder,' Dr Ahmed said, while citing data from a PAMH survey of mental health between 2007 and 2009.
2m Karachiites suffer from mental, other disorders: Dr Haroon
The PAMH president said that in the last eight to ten years, the suicide rate in Pakistan has increased quite drastically.
Pak Govt to blame for more than 50 per cent of suicides in country: PAMH
The variables that we assumed were under active control, usually temporal characters (AMPL, DRAM, DURCH, DURT, TLDUR), had a mean CV of 0.53 (range 0.25-1.00; Table 1) compared to spectral call variables, which we assumed are more likely to be under passive control (DB12, DOMH, FNLH, INIT, PAMH) that had a mean CV 0.18 (range 0.08-0.55).
Allozyme and advertisement call variation in the tungara frog, Physalaemus pustulosus
Members of the PAMH were also alarmed at the fact that the storm generated by the Zainab case had not led to any abatement of child abuse incidents.
How to prevent child abuse?
He said: 'One of the points the PAMH mentions as having an impact on mental health is insecurity, crime and violence.
Hawk-eyed reader
PAMH says the stress-ridden environment is impacting the individual and the community at large, with behavioural changes characterised by violence, sickness and withdrawing into oneself.
A horrifying scenario
PAMH has also produced short ads for radio and television in Urdu and Sindhi (the focus of the campaign is Karachi for now) to spread the message that mental illness is treatable and that patients do not have to suffer in vain.
The programme began with a talk by Prof S Haroon Ahmed, founder president of PAMH, who traced the history of mental illnesses and the meagre resources available to deal with them.
Month-long campaign begins on mental illnesses
KARACHI -- The Pakistan Association for Mental Health (PAMH) has said the country is increasingly getting 'depressed' with each passing day; while its largest city is offering much larger figures of people suffering from mental disorders.
Country turning increasingly depressed, mental health body warns
Haroon Ahmed, head of the Pakistan Association of Mental Health (PAMH); Dr Asma Humayun, a consultant psychiatrist in Lahore; Dr Ambreen Ahmad of Rozan, an NGO working for child protection; Prof M.
'School curriculum should include chapter on child abuse prevention'
Our guide is the Pakistan Association for Mental Health (PAMH), which celebrated the golden jubilee of its existence last year, quite an achievement for a civil society organisation in a state that likes to keep the entire civil society on the chopping block.
Declining mental health
PAMOR
PAMOS
PAMOT
Pamir Peoples
Pamir Range


In our previous article, about clinical commissioning groups' procurement challenge in their first 100 days, we examined the first days of the CCGs beyond their authorisation. We are now well over halfway through this period and some dominant themes have already begun to emerge, which are focusing the minds of clinical commissioners and those working with and depending on them.
Characterising each theme is a strong sense that the leadership of many CCGs are prepared to be innovative and to challenge the status quo where they have the capacity, and willingness of providers, to consider new ways of working.
The shift in emphasis towards local government and social care in the broader "wellbeing" debate is starting to have a bearing on CCG decision making. Healthcare commissioning decision making is starting to look vulnerable where it does not factor in the consequences for other public sector spending. The groups are required to involve the relevant health and wellbeing board when preparing their commissioning plan or when making revisions to it that they consider significant.
In addition, the national drive towards integrated working, increased private sector competition in procurement and jointly planned services for patients will all drive CCGs into the habit of collaborating both with other groups and more widely, which is likely to be matched by rationalisation decisions on the provider side of health.
CCGs will need to be very clear about the limits of their delegation and the assumed powers of joint committees and understand the difference between their own statutory duties and responsibilities and those of bodies seeking to influence them.
Plenty has been written in the press around the duty for CCGs to manage conflicts of interest and there is currently a real risk that this picture will become more confused by those seeking to give more primary care commissioning responsibilities to CCGs.
It will not be possible for CCGs to avoid conflicts of interest. However, by identifying where and how they arise and dealing with them appropriately, groups will be able to ensure proper governance and defensible decision making.
The Health and Social Care Act makes it a requirement that CCGs must have arrangements for managing conflicts of interest and potential conflicts of interest, to ensure they do not affect or appear to affect the integrity of the CCG's decision making processes. It is important these processes are put into place and monitored, as conflicts can emerge at any time during the decision making process.
The danger for CCGs is that, if the issues are not managed effectively "in-house", then they risk being played out in public. Recent Sunday Times headlines including "Doctors hurry to join NHS gold rush" and "GPs' private firms grab NHS cash", show that CCGs need to be aware that a failure to deal effectively with conflict issues could lead to greater public scrutiny.
The first month and a half of CCGs as new NHS bodies have served to re-emphasise that there is no substitute for a robust and regular review of the conflict implications for all CCG commissioning decisions.
CCGs are still in a new and developing relationship with providers of commissioning support but they are in a better position to begin to understand the shape and nature of the support they need and the service levels they will require with this. They will also need to be aware of the differing stages of development of the commissioning support units nationally. CSUs are also finding their feet in a new environment and are looking to develop their own commercial models for future service delivery.
The key point here is that the CCGs must maintain the capability, not only to judge the quality of the services which are provided to them by the CSUs, but also to give the units clear, unambiguous direction about their current requirements and, most importantly, future services that they may require.
CCGs have overcome the early challenges as new statutory bodies but this is not the end and we are starting to see the beginning of the real challenges for them. CCGs will need to be able to continually develop and evolve to meet the challenges these themes present − standing still is not an option.
A community trust that lost a key contract has written to members of Parliament, claiming the procurement process was "fundamentally flawed".
The number of generic drugs being sold above national tariff rose to its highest rate in over two years at the start of 2019, despite national efforts to cut this number.
Nearly one in five clinical commissioning groups are restricting access to at least three basic elective surgeries and treatments, according to researchers.


Two sites that are actively cataloging failed crypto projects, Coinopsy and DeadCoins, have found that over a 1,000 projects have failed so far in 2018. The projects range from true abandonware to outright scams, and include BRIG, a scam by two "brothers," Jack and Jay Brig, and Titanium, a project that ended in an SEC investigation.
Obviously any new set of institutions must create their own sets of rules and that is exactly what is happening in the blockchain world. But when faced with the potential for massive token fundraising, bigger problems arise. While everyone expects startups to fail, the sheer amount of cash flooding these projects is a big problem. When a startup has too much fuel too quickly the resulting conflagration ends up consuming both the company and the founders, and there is little help for the investors.
These conflagrations happen everywhere and are a global phenomenon. Scam and dead ICOs raised $1 billion in 2017 with 297 questionable startups in the mix.
There are dubious organizations dedicated to "repairing" broken ICOs, including CoinJanitor from Cape Town, but the fly-by-night nature of many of these organizations does not bode well for the industry.
ICO-funded startups currently use multi-level marketing tactics to build their business. Instead they should take a page from the the Kickstarter and Indiegogo framework. These crowd-funding platforms have made trust an art. By creating collateral that defines the team, the project, the risks and the future of the idea, you can easily build businesses even without much funding. Unfortunately, the lock-ups and pricing scams the current ICO market uses to incite greed rather than rational thinking are hurting the industry more than helping.
The bottom line? Invest only what you can afford to lose and expect any token you invest in to fail. Ultimately, the best you can hope for is to be pleasantly surprised when it doesn't. Otherwise, you're in for a world of disappointment.


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Breaking: Mass stabbing attack in Finland; Update: Police "searching for possibly more perpetrators"; Update: 2 dead
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 10:41 am on August 18, 2017
Update: ABC News now reports that two have died in the attack:
LATEST: At least 2 dead, 6 injured in stabbing in Turku, Finland, authorities say. https://t.co/Nki8UMcuZ9 pic.twitter.com/Wxg7KVyV31
— ABC News (@ABC) August 18, 2017
Update: The Twitter user who posted the video has removed the tweet, so I have removed it from the post. Fox has also removed the "Allahu akbar" reference in their report. As of noon ET, the police are still saying that they do not have a motive for the attack. That's why I warned to take all of these details with a grain of salt.
Update: Fox News reports that some witnesses — and one purported video — say that the assailant shouted "Allahu akbar" as he chased down his victims. Be aware that this has not been independently verified as legitimate video of today's attack. Take this one with a grain of salt at least for the moment. Could very well be legit, but … wait for more corroboration before including this in firm conclusions.
Update: Police have tweeted out that they "are searching for possibly more perpetrators in Turku." It doesn't necessarily mean there are any to find, but …
Update: Wisely, Finland is not assuming that this is a lone wolf, at least not yet:
The police have reinforced security at the airport and at train stations in Helsinki, about 100 miles to the east, in response to the attack, The Associated Press reported.
Update: This update from CBS News is pretty chilling:
Tabloid Ilta-Sanomat says six people were injured, one man and five women, and that a woman with stroller was attacked by a man with a large knife.
Terrorism is always cowardly, as it takes deliberate aim at civilians, but this is especially craven if it turns out to be terrorism and not just mental illness.
Update: I will add updates relating to the Finland attack in reverse chronological order at the top; any updates on the situation in Spain will go below the original post.
Original post below …
Is Finland next? It's too soon to know whether this relates to earlier mass-stabbing attacks, such as in London, but police shot a suspect after he allegedly attacked several people in Turku:
Several people have been wounded in a stabbing in the city of Turku, western Finland, police said Friday.
The suspected attacker was shot, according to police who urged citizens to leave the immediate area.
The Turun Sanomat newspaper reported that at least one person was killed in the attack.
That does not refer to the suspect, as ABC News reports that police shot him in the leg and then arrested him. They also have some raw video from the scene:
We'll keep an eye out for further updates, but at this point it doesn't appear to be the work of a cell. Remember that it doesn't pay to jump to conclusions in the first few moments of these incidents. However, this style of attack echoes that of other radical-Islamist attacks, and not just in London but right here in Minnesota as well. Knife attacks were also part of the plot that unfolded in Spain yesterday, too, although the terrorists in that phase didn't get to do much damage before police shot them down in the street.
Regarding those attacks, Rex Tillerson announced this morning that one American was killed in Spain:
Stuart Varney emphasizes that what happened in Spain was clearly not a "lone wolf" attack, but the work of a large cell of "jihadists." How did that cell manage to succeed in Spain, which has been targeted for radical Islamist terror attacks before? The Daily Beast wonders about that, too, and also wonders whether Spain has rolled up the network yet. They appear to have missed an opportunity on Wednesday after an explosion failed to alert them to the danger:
Spanish authorities concluded belatedly that an explosion Wednesday which brought down part of a building in the town of Alcanar, still farther down the Catalan coast, was the result of bomb-making gone awry. The Catalan police initially thought the blast was an accident, possibly related to drug making. One person there was killed, and one who was injured is reportedly now under arrest.
Another man, Driss Oukabir, was arrested when his documents were linked to the murder vehicle on the Ramblas. But after his photograph was widely disseminated by police, he turned himself in to authorities in the town of Ripoli about 60 miles north of Barcelona, claiming his passport had been stolen. His 18-year-old brother, Moussa, is now a prime suspect in the attack there and apparently still at large.
In all, four people are now reported under arrest.
There is growing speculation among terrorism experts that the Alcanar blast forced a cell of at least eight people to act much sooner than they had planned. (Something similar happened in Belgium when a high profile arrest led the plotters there, who had planned to attack European soccer championships in France, to rush instead to blow themselves up at the Brussels airport and in the Brussels subway.)
The mass-stabbing attack in London this past June should worry Western security experts:
But the London Bridge and Borough Market attack in June killed eight people, plus three terrorists "neutralized" at the scene, suggesting a revival of multi-attacker operations, and it may have been a model for attack that just took place in Spain.
We may be seeing a new phase, or at least a return to an older strategy, unfolding in Europe. The attack in Finland still looks like a single perpetrator, but we'll wait for more details to find out whether that's true, and whether it's related at all to radical Islamist terror.
Update: Here's video of Tillerson's statement:
Sec. of State Tillerson: We have "confirmed the death of one American citizen in the terrorist attacks in Spain." https://t.co/qtLjbVCRnd pic.twitter.com/O0GRyEQgGL
Tags: barcelona Finland radical islamic terrorism Rex Tillerson Spain terrorism


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Le musée d'Art de Saint-Louis (Saint Louis Art Museum) est l'un des principaux musées d'art des États-Unis qui est visité par plus d'un demi-million de personnes chaque année. L'entrée est gratuite, une politique rendue possible grâce à un subside de taxe culturelle offert par la ville de Saint-Louis.

Situé dans le Forest Park à Saint-Louis (Missouri), le musée de trois étages est logé dans l'ancien pavillon des Beaux-Arts de l'Exposition universelle de 1904.

En plus des collections permanentes, il propose des expositions temporaires.

Histoire

Le musée d'Art de Saint-Louis trouve son origine dans la Saint Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts. Fondée en 1879, cette composante de l'Université Washington loge dans un immeuble au centre-ville. Après l'Exposition Universelle de 1904, le musée déménage dans le palais des Beaux-Arts désormais vacant. L'architecte américain Cass Gilbert s'inspire des Thermes de Caracalla de Rome dans ses plans.

En 1909, il devient le musée d'Art de la ville (« City Art Museum ») après l'instauration d'une taxe municipale permettant son financement. À ce moment, la collection d'oeuvres d'art de l'Université Washington demeure accrochée, mais elle est séparée de la collection du musée.

En 1971, la création d'un district métropolitain qui englobe le zoo et le musée (« Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District ») permet d'élargir le financement de l'institution à l'ensemble du comté. En 1972, il est renommé Saint Louis Art Museum.

Entre 2005 et 2013, la firme de l'architecte britannique David Chipperfield réalise le projet de l'East Building, un agrandissement qui ajoute 9 000 m2 de superficie et 300 places de stationnement. Des embellissements concernant les jardins ont été confiés à Michel Desvigne, architecte paysagiste français, diplômé et président de l'École nationale supérieure du paysage de Versailles.

Collections
Le musée possède plus de 34 000 objets et œuvres d'art répartis en neuf catégories :

Art américain
Art antique et égyptien
Art africain, océanien et méso-américain
Art asiatique
Arts décoratifs et design
Art européen jusqu'en 1800
Art islamique
Art moderne et contemporain
Gravures, dessins et photographies

Œuvres
Parmi les peintures et les photographies, relevons :
 Rosa Bonheur, Relais de chasse, 1887
 Canaletto, Capriccio aux motifs vénitiens, 1740-45
 Paul Cézanne, Les Baigneurs, 1890-1892
 Jean Clouet, Portrait d'un banquier, 1522
 Gustave Courbet, La Vallée d'Ornans, 1858
 Lucas Cranach l'Ancien, Le Jugement de Pâris, 1530
 Edgar Degas, Les Modistes, vers 1898
 Constant Alexandre Famin, Deux petits paysans, vers 1859
 Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Les Blanchisseuses, vers 1756-61
Paul Gauguin, Portrait de Madame Roulin, 1888
 El Greco, Saint Paul, 1598-1600
 Juan Gris, Nature morte à la guitare, 1920
 Frans Hals, Portrait de femme, vers 1650
 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Portrait d'une femme, 1911
 Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Louis Jean-Baptiste Étienne Vigée, 1773
 Nicolaes Maes, Le Comptable, 1656
 Édouard Manet, Le Lecteur, 1861
 Bartolomeo Manfredi, Apollon et Marsyas, 1616-20
 Franz Marc, Les Petites Chèvres de montagne, 1913-14
 Amedeo Modigliani, Elvire à table, 1919
 Claude Monet, Le Pont de Charing Cross, 1899-1901
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir, La Rêveuse, 1879
 Pierre Reymond, La Pentecôte, vers 1522
 John Singer Sargent, Portrait de Ramon Subercaseaux, vers 1880
 Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Sous le parasol à Zarauz, 1910
 Vincent van Gogh, L'Escalier d'Auvers, 1890
 Giorgio Vasari, Judith et Holofernes, vers 1554
 Francisco de Zurbarán, Saint François contemplant un crâne, vers 1635

En 2019, le choix des conservateurs et des conservatrices porte sur trente objets :

Ansel Adams, Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite Valley, photographie argentique sur gélatine, 1944, épreuve de 1945
Oduntan Aina, masque en bois, pigment et fibre, début ou milieu du XXe siècle
Mary Cassatt, Afternoon Tea Party, pointe-sèche, aquateinte et peinture dorée, 1891
Joseph Claus, buste de l'empereur Caracalla, marbre, 1757
Piero di Cosimo, Vierge à l'Enfant trônant en majesté avec les saints Pierre, Jean Baptiste, Dominique et Nicolas de Bari, tempera et huile sur panneau, vers 1481-1485
Charles Eames, unité de rangement Eames (Eames Storage Unit (ESU)), bois, acier et autres matériaux, conçu en 1946-1950
Hans Holbein le Jeune, Mary, Lady Guildford, huile sur panneau, 1527
Anselm Kiefer, Heliogabal, aquarelle et huile sur papier, 1974
Kobayashi Kiyochika, Pictorial Board and Dice Game: Magic Lantern of the Subjugation of China, impression couleur au bloc de bois, 1894
Aristide Maillol, La Montagne, plomb, 1937
Henri Matisse, Les Baigneuses à la tortue, huile sur toile, 1907-1908
Julie Mehretu, Grey Space (distractor), peinture acrylique et encre sur toile, 2006
Rembrandt van Rijn, Les Trois Arbres, gravure, 1643
Francesco da Sangallo (attribué à), Pan au repos, marbre, vers 1535
Simeon Stilthda, figure de shaman, aulne ou cèdre, entre 1830 et 1880
Mickalene Thomas, Din, une très belle négresse 1, tirage à développement chromogène, 2012, épreuve de 2015
Bronze rituel chinois (fang lei) aux motifs zoomorphiques, XIIe siècle av. J.-C.
Tête barbue de taureau, culture mésopotamienne, cuivre avec décorations en lapis-lazuli et nacre, 2600-2450 av. J.-C.
Statuette égyptienne d'Osiris, bronze, 664-332 av. J.-C.
Buste d'un homme de la Rome antique, marbre, IIe siècle
Sculpture de Shiva Nataraja, bronze et fer, XIIe siècle
Accessoire du jeu de balle maya, céramique, vers 700-800
Coffre perse, alliage en cuivre décore d'or et d'argent, première moitié du XIVe siècle
Figure féminine aztèque, bois, matière végétale et pigment, vers 1350-1450
Tapis ottoman Uşak, laine, XVIe siècle
Figure hawaïenne d'Akua ka'ai, bois et pigment, XVIIIe siècle
Plastron civavonovono des îles Fidji, ivoire, nacre et cordage tressé, vers 1840-1850
Martingale de la nation Apsáalooke (Corbeaux), cuir, bois cotton et autres matériaux, vers 1900
Masque malagan de la Nouvelle-Irlande avec oiseau sur le chef, bois, peinture et autres matériaux, fin XIXe ou début XXe siècle
Reliquaire de la culture fang à la figure du gardien, bois, laiton, fer et huile de palme, avant 1910

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Trinity's Graduate Studies program, an institution of the College since 1889, will be incorporating significant changes and improvements to its program in the coming year. Under the direction of Dean of Academic Affairs and Strategic Initiatives Sonia Cardenas, Trinity plans to introduce a new one-year master's program in Public Policy, take advantage of its position in Hartford, and improve the quality of its programming.
Historically, the program was quite successful. Ms. Cardenas noted that graduate studies "have been a fixture at Trinity since 1889" and its long history makes Trinity "very unique" among liberal arts colleges. In fact, Ms. Cardenas noted, graduate studies were the first programs at the College to accept female students, beginning in 1927, 40 years before Trinity became coeducational.
From 1955, with the arrival of President Albert Jacobs, the program saw immense growth, with M.S. and M.A. degrees offered for many majors.
By the 1980s, however, the program began to shrink, leaving graduate degrees in only American Studies, Economics, English, History, and Public Policy. Since then, Economics and History have been discontinued, leaving M.A.s in American Studies, English, and Public Policy and the M.S. in Neuroscience.
Questions of quality and other suggestions for improvement were outlined first in Trinity's self-study and echoed in the 2017 New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) reaccreditation report. After a comprehensive evaluation of the school, the independent team found that "one area not addressed in the Bicentennial planning process is Trinity's Graduate Studies program, where there seems to be no history of planning." However, the college is currently in a "pre-planning phase" that seeks to redress this concern.
The Tripod sat down with Director of Graduate Studies in English Dan Mrozowski and Associate Professor of History and American Studies Scott Gac, Directors of the English and American Studies graduate programs, respectively, to address the report's recommendations and consider the future of the Graduate Studies program.
Mr. Mrozowski characterized the English program as being consistent. "Record-keeping is steady," he said, and "full-time tenure or tenure-track professors are teaching classes, no adjunct labor." Regarding the program as a whole, he sees English Graduate Studies as an integral part of the College's mission to "serve the community at large." Academically, it "allows for a depth of advanced courses to be taught, brings non-traditional people into the classroom, and allows faculty to teach esoteric or research-intensive interests." Although the growth of non-tuition-paying employees has been somewhat of a detriment, he believes it is important for "employee retention and well-being" for the "professional development of your labor core" to be emphasized. As for the future of Graduate Studies, he emphasized the need to present the program as more of an option for undergraduate students.
Mr. Gac, in his fourth year as director of the American Studies graduate program, is optimistic about the future but recognizes a troubled past. In the past, he said, "the institution was not providing enough resources to graduates studies for what it has to do." Despite a "decreasing undergraduate population" and a growth of non-tuition-paying employees, he argues that the result is not necessarily revenue lost, since most graduate students are not in fact employed by the college. As opposed to English, American Studies courses have been taught by non-tenure track faculty. However, Mr. Gac added, a newly redesigned curriculum will stipulate that almost every class will be taught by a tenure-track professor. Moreover, a new "5-year bachelor's/master's program" will allow undergraduate students of American Studies to start graduate work in their 5th year. Both English and American Studies see the opportunity to build a "bridge," in Dr. Dan's words, for undergraduates to stay at Trinity and pursue a graduate degree.
Dean Cardenas added that the importance of Trinity's positioning in Hartford cannot be understated, as she hopes that the new programs will also "attract people who work downtown and will find Trinity's offerings appealing." Mr. McMahon added, regarding the Public Policy program, that "Trinity is the perfect place for students to connect the liberal arts with the study and development of public policy." The College will continue to explore creating new MA programs, with the potential for programming at Trinity's Constitution Plaza location.


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US DOE Announces Quarterfinalists in $9 Million Solar Desalination Prize
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The American-Made Challenges: Solar Desalination Prize is a four-stage, $9 million prize competition, providing an additional $1 million in support, designed to accelerate the development of low-cost desalination systems that use solar-thermal power to produce clean water from salt water. Competitors will receive cash prizes as they advance through each stage of the competition, culminating in a $1 million grand prize for the successful testing and demonstration of a promising solar-thermal desalination system prototype.
The prize was announced September 23, 2019, and launched April 28, 2020. Participants may enter the competition as individuals or teams, but all competitors who advance beyond the first stage must form teams. Competitors may include private companies, nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, students, and researchers at National Laboratories.
To enter the competition, participants must submit their ideas for a solar-thermal desalination component or system prototype, along with a pathway to commercialization. If their ideas are selected, competitors will receive $50,000 in cash, advance to the second phase to form a team, and refine plans for a fully operating solar-thermal desalination system.
The teams selected to advance to the third phase will receive $250,000 in cash and a $100,000 voucher that can be redeemed at a National Laboratory and/or qualified partner facilities to design their systems. While they're completing detailed designs of their systems in the third phase, teams must also obtain the permitting and approval documentation necessary to build them.
Teams selected to advance to the fourth and final phase of the competition will be awarded a cash prize of $750,000 and another $100,000 voucher. These teams will then build their systems, demonstrate their operation, and validate key performance metrics. The U.S. Department of Energy will determine the winner, who will receive a $1 million cash prize.
Competitors can leverage industry expertise, access private capital, and obtain mentorship and support through the American-Made Network, a group of National Laboratories, incubators, investors, and industry experts. The Network also provides access to local capabilities that will help accelerate the development of their desalination system prototypes.
Out of 162 applicants, 19 quarterfinalists from 12 states were selected to advance to the second phase of the competition. They were announced on October 19, 2020. They are:
Heat Storage for 24-Hour Solar Desalination
Location: Arcadia, CA
Project Summary: Element 16 is a small company developing a sulfur-based thermal energy storage (TES) technology to generate low-pressure steam for desalination. Sulfur has a low melting point (105° Celsius) and low cost ($80/ton). By using lower-cost containment materials, this project aims to reduce sulfur TES cost to below $15/per kilowatt-thermal and reduce heat-exchanger costs, to attain a levelized cost of water below $0.50 per cubic meter (m3).
Solar Thermal Enhanced Evaporation
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Project Summary: Researchers from the University of Minnesota propose a humidification-dehumidification desalination system that will handle small-volume brine from industrial facilities that do work such as electroplating, which coats metal onto surfaces, dyeing, and mining. This project will use large fans, evaporators, and heat-pump-driven condensation systems to manage brine mixed with industrial metals. The team plans to industrially source forced-flow evaporators and fans to attain a levelized cost of water no higher than $1/m3.
NoAir: Super-Vacuum Gap NanoMembrane Distillation
Project Summary: This team, led by the small company Focused Sun, proposes a linear Fresnel solar-collector system that will generate steam for a process called thermal vapor compression (TVC) to provide pumping power for the system. The brine will be preheated by a membrane desalination (MD) system, which is then fed with brine from the TVC system to further desalt and recover water. This MD-TVC system could attain high energy efficiency at low pressure and be used to treat water produced from oil and gas extraction, with no electricity input.
TSSE Desalination of Hypersaline Brines
Project Summary: A Columbia University–led team proposes a desalination technique using a solvent that, when heated, attracts brine in high-salinity water, separating it from fresh water. Increasing the temperature of the feedwater will cause the clean water to float above the solvent, enabling reuse of the solvent in subsequent cycles. This method has the potential to be highly thermally efficient because it does not require evaporation and condensation, unlike in conventional desalination systems
Sorption-Based ZLD Technology
Location: Houghton, MI
Project Summary: A team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Michigan Technological University, and the company Artic Solar proposes to add an adsorption-desorption system to a multiple-effect desalination system (MED) to achieve zero liquid discharge (ZLD). They have identified a liquid that could extract all the water-vapor volume from the brine slurry of a MED system, thus enabling an energy-efficient, modular ZLD treatment
Portable Treatment of Oil/Gas Wastewater with ZLD
Location: Corvallis, OR
Project Summary: A team of researchers from Oregon State University and Michigan State University plans to advance a humidification-dehumidification process that can recover clean water from water produced by oil and gas extraction. A novel cyclone separator, which can be easily designed at small scale for portability, separates salt from humid air and enables the process. By separating humid air from solid salt particles, this technology could be a cost-effective method to achieve zero-liquid discharge (ZLD). The team intends to demonstrate their system with real produced-water brines integrated with solar-thermal energy and scaled up to 250 kilograms per hour.
Forward Osmosis – Biomimicry at Work
Location: Rohnert Park, CA
Project Summary: This team of researchers from the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii and Trevi Systems, a small company developing novel forward osmosis (FO) desalination technology, proposes to build a 500 m3/day FO system with solar collectors as a heat source. The team will advance its FO draw solution by significantly increasing throughput and lowering the system's energy requirements.
STREED – Resonant Energy Exchange Desalination
Project Summary: A team led by researchers from Rice University has developed prototypes of a nanoparticle-based high-efficiency, low-maintenance solar-heated membrane distillation technology. The team plans to develop a commercializable system design that uses spiral-wound architecture to minimize the plant's physical footprint.
Zero Discharge Multi-effect Adsorption Distiller
Location: Trenton, NJ
Project Summary: GreenBlu will develop a full-plant prototype of a zero-liquid discharge solar-thermal desalination system with mineral recovery using its multi-effect adsorption distillation technology. The concept has the potential to be much more thermally efficient, and require simpler operation and maintenance, relative to conventional distillation technology.
Modular Inexpensive Solar-Thermal Evaporative Desal
Location: Andover, MA
Project Summary: Physical Sciences, Inc. proposes to integrate a low-concentration solar receiver with a multistage flash evaporator in one device to reduce capital cost. The evaporator efficiently distills water by combining numerous distillation stages so that each one uses the heat output from the previous stage. The evaporator operates at low temperature, which allows the use of low-cost cylindrical optics. The team intends to build a 20-stage multistage flash device inside a cylindrical tube receiver to produce 100 m3/day of desalinated water.
Solar Aqua Flex: Off-Grid Solar Still
Location: Nashville, TN
Project Summary: This team, led by researchers from Vanderbilt University, will develop a multistage membrane distillation system made of floating, flexible, layered "mats" to desalinate water. The mat has a nonporous, heat-absorbing top layer; a water layer that evaporates; a distillate layer where the vapor ends up after moving through a membrane to condense; a feedwater layer; and a conductive layer that heats the feedwater. This concept has the potential to be modular and portable, with higher production than similar existing systems.
Brine Concentration with Managed Salt Precipitates
Location: Hopewell, NJ
Project Summary: This team, led by AIL Research, has proposed a membrane desalination system capable of handling very-high-salinity water and using recovered heat to preheat the brine feed. The membrane will not have to be corrosion-resistant because readily precipitating ions, such as magnesium and calcium, can supersaturate and crystallize in a brine tank above the membrane. Managing the precipitation of salt and using recovered heat allows more water recovery from high-salinity brines.
Urban Solar-Desal Building
Location: College Park, MD
Project Summary: A team led by the University of Maryland's Center for Energy Environmental Engineering will develop a vertical, building-integrated desalination system for urban areas. Solar-thermal collectors will be the energy source to heat multistage vacuum membranes in the system. This concept has the potential to decentralize desalination at the point of use.
Membrane Distillation with Ceramic Membranes
Location: Storrs, CT
Project Summary: This team, led by researchers from the University of Connecticut, will integrate a SETO-funded, newly developed ceramic membrane technology with a solar collector system to treat high-salinity or chemically complex brines. The ceramic membranes provide thermal and chemical stability that enable them to process challenging saline waters.
Mimicking Rain Cycle Using Traveling Liquid Beads
Project Summary: This team, led by researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, is developing a humidification-dehumidification process that lowers the cost of manufacturing high-surface-area components. By using low-cost polymer string architectures in the dehumidification process, the team expects cost-effective, energy-efficient desalination of high-salinity water.
Switchable Solvent Water Extraction from Brine
Project Summary: A team including researchers from Idaho National Laboratory and Trevi Systems is developing a solar-thermal-powered liquid/liquid extraction process that removes "hard" ions, like calcium and magnesium, in brine fed to reverse osmosis, a conventional desalination process. This method could improve the efficiency of reverse osmosis by allowing the process to operate over wider brine input conditions and requiring less maintenance to remove the scale caused by hard ions.
X-VAP: Self-Contained Distillation
Project Summary: Katz Water Technologies is redesigning its self-contained, compact distillation system to use solar-thermal energy instead of natural gas. The system distills and separates purified water in a closed-loop heat exchanger. The technology has the potential to be a modular, portable system that can supply fresh water where needed.
CCR's LTDis Technology
Location: Frisco, TX
Project Summary: Crystal Clearwater Resources is developing its "LTDis" evaporator technology, which can use solar heat to treat challenging waste streams and achieve zero liquid discharge. The concept uses a spray-based evaporation and condensation chamber to replace the stages with tubes (surfaces used for condensation and evaporation) in conventional multiple-effect desalination plants. Direct evaporation and condensation of sprays in vacuum chambers eliminate corrosion concerns and reduce the size and cost of vessels.
100% Solar Transcritical Water Desalination
Project Summary: Epiphany Solar Water Systems has developed a water desalination and crystallizer unit that uses solar-thermal energy to desalinate water by increasing the temperature and pressure sufficiently to cause water to transition to a supercritical phase, in which salt does not dissolve. The fully integrated system will use solar collectors to provide heat, heat recovery from the supercritical water distillate to improve efficiency, and crystallizers to separate salts from the distillate. This technology has the potential to be more thermally efficient than conventional distillation techniques.
Innovation: The first phase opened April 28, 2020, and closed July 16, 2020. Competitors were announced October 19, 2020.
Teaming: The second phase opened October 19, 2020, and closes January 12, 2021. Teams will be announced March 12, 2021.
Design: The third phase opens March 12, 2021, and will close when competitors have completed their designs and obtained the required documents, no later than March 12, 2024.
Test: The fourth phase also opens March 12, 2021. Finalists will have three years to submit their prototype system to compete for the Test prize. Test prize submissions will be evaluated every second Monday in March, starting in 2022. Winners will be determined after visits to their newly built system sites.
Visit the Solar Desalination Prize website for details on the competition.
Join the American-Made Network.
Download the technical specifications.
Watch a recording of the June 18, 2020 webinar that explains how the competition works.
For questions about the Solar Desalination Prize, email challenge@nrel.gov.
The Solar Desalination Prize is administered by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and is part of the American-Made Challenges.
Source: United States Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
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"Get Him to the Greek" is just like its predecessor "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" except that it isn't as original, clever, funny and the returning character isn't quite the same. Other than that it's an awesome followup, oh and the writing isn't as good either. But that's the only differences, and the humor comes from a different angle too. Otherwise it's right in line.
The idea for this movie was actually kicked around while filming "Forgetting Sarah Marshall", since Russell Brand's character Aldous Snow was going over so smoothly it seemed like a no-brainer to create his own spin-off. In this film, Aldous has fallen off his rockstar pedestal by dipping back into drugs, he's broken off his tumultuous relationship with long time girlfriend Jackie Q (Rose Byrne) and in dire need of some success after the disaster of his last album "African Child". Sean "Puffy" Combs plays Sergio, a head executive of a music label charges Aaron (Jonah Hill) with the task (and big career chance) of getting Aldous to L.A.'s Greek Theater for a 10th anniversary concert. The challenge of course is to overcome Aldous' "god of rock" habits to get him to the concert on time from London. Let the hilarity ensue.
Make no mistake, I am an enormous fan of "Sarah Marshall", I've kept it on my DVR for over a year and have seen it quite a few times, but what was delivered is pretty much the same failure every spin-off ends up with. "Let's take this awesome and interesting character and tell an entirely new tale!" They definitely picked a great character, Aldous Snow was awesome in "Sarah Marshall", but the problem is that Jason Segel didn't write this script, and now the tone of the character is completely different, as is the rest of the film.
That isn't to say there's no laughs here, but they don't come from where you expect it, and certainly not in the same inventive understated delivery that stemmed from interesting characters. Instead, "Get Him to the Greek" flips it and tries to create interesting situations for an over the top delivery by loud and straining punchlines. I can honestly say I didn't expect the best comedy to come from Puffy (he's "Puffy", not P. Diddy, he will always be "Puffy"), but Puff gave some awesome lines and nearly all my laughs came from him, he killed it. It actually took me a few scenes to realize he wasn't playing himself, I didn't piece together that they kept calling him Sergio, he really seemed to be playing his same caricature from "Making the Band", and it worked in brilliance.
The biggest disappointment was that Aldous did not feel even like a close relative to his original version. I guess the whole "going back to drugs" thing was supposed to be the reason for this, but it never felt true, which again comes back to Jason Segel not writing this. I can't recommend this for a theatric viewing, but definitely catch it on DVD for some good laughs, just don't expect the same quality that this attempts to steal from.
Running Time: 1 hr.49 min.
This entry was posted in Movie Reviews on May 22, 2010 by wes.


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From the daily archives:	Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Dem Team Set for Dann Impeachment Exploratory
On May 6, 2008 By Eric
From the mailbag:
COLUMBUS – Ohio House Democratic Leader Joyce Beatty (D-Columbus) today selected State Representatives Jennifer Garrison (D-Marietta), Dan Dodd (D-Hebron) and Mark Okey (D-Carrollton) – all attorneys – to lead the Caucus' efforts to explore articles of impeachment against Attorney General Marc Dann.
Indiana Tightening More!
51-49 with a vote total that closed from 40k to 20k. 91% reporting. Mayor of Gary (Northwest of state near Obama's Chicago) says he delivered for Obama big:
Gary Mayor Rudy Clay said just now that it might take a while yet to finish counting the vote in Lake County, which includes Gary, and said tonight his city had turned out so overwhelmingly for Barack Obama that it might just be enough to close the gap with Hillary Rodham Clinton.
I'm Voting For The War Hero
On May 6, 2008 By Joseph
Sitting at the bar tonight and talking about politics…
Guy next to me says: "I ain't voting for that spoiled, rich, elitist, ivy-league asshole. I'm voting for the war hero."
And I reply: "That's exactly what I said four years ago."
Dispatch Readers Want Dann Gone
443 people surveyed. Top two answers on the board…
"Do You Think Marc Dann should step down as attorney general?"
Indiana Tightens Up, This Should End It
I've watched Indiana go from +14 Hillary, to +10, to +8, to now +4.
This thing is over. She got blown out in North Carolina and barely won (if she does) Indiana.
Obama just gave a pre-acceptance speech and it was killer. He's putting John McCain on notice that he's coming and he'll take all attacks with the grace and urgency that he has taken all of Hillary's shit.
Make no mistake about it, the man is a player.
3 Obama campaign offices searched after bomb threat
Damn:
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities have evacuated and searched three Barack Obama campaign offices in Indiana in response to a bomb threat that was made while people voted in the state's primary.
That's the best exit poll you could ask for!
Obama Wins North Carolina, CNN Projects
(CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama will win the North Carolina Democratic primary, CNN projects, but the race in Indiana is still too close to call.
Obama will pick up the larger share of North Carolina's 115 delegates.
Please let there be a knockout blow! Please!!!
Indiana Voter ID Law is Anti-Christian
Indiana'a photo identification law isn't just impacting minorities and elderly voters – it's also causing nuns to turn away other nuns at the polls …
About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow bride of Christ because they didn't have state or federal identification bearing a photograph.
Sister Julie McGuire said she was forced to turn away her fellow sisters at Saint Mary's Convent in South Bend, across the street from the University of Notre Dame, because they had been told earlier that they would need such an ID to vote.
The […]
Democratic Presidential Primary Predictions?
Sure! I'm going with:
Indiana: Clinton 54.2/Obama 45.8 (Clinton +8.4)
North Carolina: Obama 55.3/Clinton 44.7 (Obama +10.6)
Make yours in comments
Dann Impeachment Discussions Start
According to today's Hannah Report, House leaders have started talking about impeachment proceedings for Marc Dann…
Reps. Jon Husted (R-Kettering), Joyce Beatty (D-Columbus) and Bill Batchelder (R-Medina) were all talking from the same playbook Tuesday when discussing the Marc Dann impeachment proceedings: it is not an overnight process; it will be precedent setting; they can't say much so as not to prejudice the proceedings; Batchelder and two, soon-to-be-named Democrats are studying the process; and they need to know the facts and to understand the grounds on which they could proceed.
Finally! Bipartisanship!
What the Hell Is Wrong With Youngstown?
Everyone – Democrat and Republican alike – is publicly calling for Marc Dann's resignation now.
Everyone except two party leaders from the Youngstown area who think he should stay.
Mahoning Democratic Chairwoman Lisa Antonini says "He's done some great things for the state and the party" and thinks stepping down is "a decision the attorney general has to make with his family."
Which might be a reasonable response if this wasn't an important election year and if the only thing Dann did was cheat on his wife. But, as we've seen, there is so much more to it than […]


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Q: Compressing and resaving multipage Tiff images I am trying to open up an already existing multi-page tiff image, break it up into all of its separate pages and save those to an array of bitmaps, compress the pages and resave them back into a TIFF image that is smaller than when we started.
My restriction is that this has to be able to run on Windows Server 2003, meaning I have to use wpfImage to compress the image.
So far I have been able to grab all of the pages and I am able to successfully save a single-page tiff, but my code fails if I try to resave a multi-page TIFF. Here is the main compression code:
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
                        {

                            TiffBitmapEncoder encoder = new TiffBitmapEncoder();
                            ms.Position = 0;
                            for (int i = 1; i < bmp.Length; i ++ )
                            {
                                //ms.SetLength(0);
                                Bitmap page = new Bitmap(bmp[i]);
                                page.Save(ms, ImageFormat.Tiff);

                                BitmapImage wpfImage = new BitmapImage();
                                wpfImage.BeginInit();
                                wpfImage.StreamSource = ms;
                                wpfImage.EndInit();

                                encoder.Compression = TiffCompressOption.Ccitt4;
                                encoder.Frames.Add(BitmapFrame.Create(wpfImage));
                                encoder.Save(ms);
                            }
                            Image tiff = Image.FromStream(ms);
                            tiff.Save(location);

                        }

As I said, this code works with single-page TIFFs and I get a pretty good amount of compression. I am just lost as to how to apply this to multi-page tiffs. The main error I get is that I am not able to call the Save() method more than once on an encoder, but how am I supposed to grab all pages after the first one if that is the case?

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Last week I posted about the new way to buy Office 2013. If you missed it you can read it here.
Today I'm going to let you know about the main changes to Office 2013 as against the last version – 2010. The features below are common to all the Office programs. My next posts will detail the changes specific to the main three – Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Previous versions of Office programs started with a blank document ready to create; in Office 2013 each program has a colour-coded start screen—blue for Word, green for Excel, orange for PowerPoint, green for Publisher.
These start screens are where you can create a blank document, select a template, search online for templates, search for a document on SkyDrive, or open a recent document.
Office 2013 is designed to work easily with the cloud—specifically Microsoft's SkyDrive. If you use SkyDrive, your account details will appear in the top left corner of each of the program's screens, as well as on their start screens. When you save a document, worksheet, or presentation, the default option is to save to your SkyDrive account, but you can choose to save it to your computer.
If you use Dropbox, you'll be familiar with using cloud based storage. SkyDrive works in exactly the same way by creating a 'virtual' folder on your computer just like Dropbox. The big benefit with SkyDrive over Dropbox is the amount of storage. A standard account with SkyDrive gives you 7GB of free storage. When you subscribe to Office 365 you get an extra 20GB.
If you do save your Office documents on SkyDrive, you'll be able to access them from any device, via Office 2013 on a PC or tablet, or via the WebApps. Another great feature if you are switching between devices, is that Word, Excel and PowerPoint will save the last location where you were working before you closed the program - down to the letter, cell, or image. This means you can be editing a document on your computer at work, and you can open that same document on your tablet or computer at home, and the exact position you were at will be shown so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
Office 2013 gives you the option of easily switching between using your mouse or a touchscreen. The touch mode spreads the commands out so that it's easier to use with your fingers on a touch screen.
If you'd like to try Office 2013 free for one month, click here. At the end of the month you can continue with a subscription of $12 each month, or you can just cancel the trial at the end of the month without cost. Also, the trial won't affect any earlier versions of Office on your computer.
My next post in this series will be about the new features of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
If you're already using Office 2013, or if you give the trial a go, please leave me a comment on your opinion of the programs.
Yesterday, worldwide, was Safer Internet Day, and in schools around Australia there are activities and events being held all week to promote safety online. If you have children at school this is a great opportunity to talk to your kids about their safety online, and also for you to get to know what the dangers are and what you can do to protect your children and yourself. There are some great resources available, and I've put together a collection for you of those I think are the best. Just click on the name of each to go to that article or site.
You could spend hours on this site – it has everything!
The Australian Government's cyber safety site. Great resources – broken up into different age groups.
Australia's Cyber Safety Lady, Leonie Smith, is an expert on anything online security related. Click on the Blog link on her site for lots of tips and information to keep your family safe.
Do you have any other sites or resources you'd like to add to this list?
Would you like access to expert organising advice whenever you need it, right on your phone or tablet? Today I have a brilliant new app for you. The Clutter Rescue app is an extension of the service provided by Helen of Clutter Rescue, an expert member of the Australian Association of Professional Organisers.
This app is my equivalent to a child's favourite game app – I just love anything to do with organising. But I've never seen an app that gives you so much…..
Organising Challenges to work through at your own pace that tackle specific clutter problems, like your car, handbag, tax, kitchen pantry, etc.
Articles and blog posts on all aspects of organising your home.
I've been using this app for a few days, and I just love that I can choose the spot in my home that I want to tackle today and this one app provides all the information I need to get it all sorted; and not just tips for me to read – there's videos, podcasts, blog posts and challenges.
In this video, Helen introduces and guides you through the app.
The Clutter Rescue app is available for iOS and Android and it's free.


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import chalk from "chalk";
import * as postsList from "../../../../../server/api/1.0/posts/list";

describe("server", function () {
  describe("api", function () {
    describe("1.0", function () {
      describe("posts", function () {
        describe("list", function () {
          it("/api/1.0/posts/list/", async function (done) {
            try {
              var queryParams = postsList.extractQueryParams();
              var result = await postsList.getPosts(queryParams);
              expect(result.data.length).toEqual(4);
              done();
            } catch (e) {
              console.log(chalk.red(e.stack || e));
              done();
            }
          });

          it("/api/1.0/posts/list/filter[tag]=javascript", async function (done) {
            try {
              var queryParams = postsList.extractQueryParams("filter[tag]=javascript");
              var result = await postsList.getPosts(queryParams);
              expect(result.data.length).toEqual(2);
              done();
            } catch (e) {
              console.log(chalk.red(e.stack || e));
              done();
            }
          });
        });
      });
    });
  });
});

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We did it, we made it through the first month of 2019!! So it is only fair that we take some time to discuss habits (making or breaking) and taking responsibility for things that may not be going our way. Whether we like it or not, we are usually the root of most of our problems. Enjoy our discussion on habits and responsibility.
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Debate moderators and voters should be asking presidential candidates what they would do to help heal our national divisions, writes Michael V. Murphy.
The question to ask in 2020
Michael V. Murphy
Murphy is director of the FixUS initiative at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which educates the public about issues with significant fiscal policy impact.
A dozen Democratic primary debates have already been announced, with the first taking place this week. While everything from Medicare for All to impeachment and immigration are sure to be raised, I fear not a single question will be asked on the topic most needing discussion – the state of our democracy.
Whether in Iowa living rooms, New Hampshire union halls or South Carolina coffee shops, the presidential primaries offer a chance to raise issues that often fall off the radar once nominees are chosen and the general election is under way. The first primaries and caucuses are a mere seven months away and there's no doubt that countless advocacy groups are already on the ground, organizing and hoping to elevate their issues with both voters and candidates.
Having run a coalition effort to bring attention to the importance of the national debt in the 2016 cycle, I'm intimately familiar with the work being undertaken by advocacy groups in these early states. Unfortunately it is now four years later, and our debt situation has greatly deteriorated. Next year, the federal government will spend more on interest payments on the debt than it spends on children – in other words, we'll be doing more to finance our past than invest in our future.
While candidates for federal office are and must be asked how they will fix the debt, this time around there is a more pressing question that needs to be asked – one that affects not only the debt, but the ability to make progress on a multitude of issues confronting the electorate.
The question goes something like this:
"My primary issue of concern is [fill in the blank], but politics in Washington have been mired in gridlock for years. Even when things are passed in Washington, it is often by party-line votes with the risk that it will be overturned after the next election given how divided we are as a nation. As [president, senator or House member] what changes will you make to help heal our national divisions and ultimately improve our government's ability to function and address pressing challenges? And how will you lead in Washington to make sure these changes are enacted?"
Pinning candidates down on specifics here is important, given that politicians for years have paid lip service to the need to bring us together to solve problems but to no avail.
The worsening of the debt, along with a range of other policy problems, symbolizes the brokenness of our political system – one that routinely discourages making tough choices or achieving bipartisan compromise, that focuses on short-term political gain at the expense of solving long-term issues, and that in many ways is set up to reward hyper-partisanship over making progress on behalf of the American people.
Consider the following report card tracking our lack of progress since the start of this century, the time in which the millennial generation, now the largest eligible voting bloc, came of age to engage in and observe our political discourse:
Since 2000, the gross national debt has risen from about $5.6 trillion in 2000 to nearly $22 trillion today, an average increase of $47,000 per person.
From 2000 to 2017, national health care costs grew three times faster than average household income (Table H-9).
Nine of the 10 warmest years have occurred since 2005, with 2014 through 2018 ranking as the five warmest years on record.
High school test scores in the United States ranked 18th in math and 14th in science among OECD countries in 2000. In 2015, the United States ranked 30th and 19th.
Average in-state college tuition has more than tripled since 2000.
The American Society of Civil Engineers gave United States infrastructure a D+ grade in 2001; in the most recent report in 2017, you guessed it – still D+.
Admittedly, focusing on just these stats is a gross oversimplification of the issues facing our nation. Each of these illustrative problems have strong ideological differences on how they should be addressed, and our system of government was designed to be slow in enacting change.
But what is important is this – majorities of Americans would agree that some sort of resolution is desirable. We have policy ideas that have been developed by those in each party, yet minimal progress has been made.
The hyper-partisanship that has come to define our politics has produced a predictable, all too familiar cycle. Major legislation is passed on a party-line vote, with the opposition vowing to undo what the majority has done.
Is it any wonder why public trust in government is at record lows?
As Albert Einstein said, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. While continuing to press for action on the debt and other issues remains important, the political climate seems ripe for a cross-partisan coalition to come together under common cause to reform our political system.
The good news is the seeds of such an effort have already been planted. Over the past few years a multitude of groups have sprouted up, dedicated to better understanding the root causes of our political divisions and advancing changes.
Some of these seek to enact electoral and governance reform, such as redistricting, campaign finance reform, ethics reform, changes to congressional rules and a host of other institutional reforms. Others are studying how our economic system has contributed to rising anxiety and political tension, and encouraging action to address increasing economic disparities and an economic system perceived as no longer working for many Americans. There are also those attempting to promote new models of civic engagement and civil discourse, seeking to confront a growing cultural divide and a sense of lost shared values.
Much like fixing the debt, there is no silver bullet or cure-all that will address the polarization that has led us to this state of affairs. The root causes are interrelated, long in the making, and may take years to enact required changes to alter our trajectory. With all eyes on 2020, and the nation's attention focused on politics, it is incumbent upon those who seek to lead our nation to answer how they would address the meta issue of our time and for us to ask it.
Fix US - Fix the Debt | Fix the Debt ›
FixUS | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget ›
Budget Reform and Political Reform: Conclusions from Six Cities ›
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"It's not always the lower price that attracts customers. It's how you take care of them. It's the relationship and appealing to their interests. What we do is personalize [our messages] as much as possible based on behavioral data." -Katie Johnson, corporate marketing manager for Village Chevrolet.
With the help of Digital Traffic Generator, powered by Outsell Fuel, Village Automotive Group in Minneapolis goes beyond demographic data, using behavioral targeting over time to zero in on potential customers with their campaigns.
Johnson says that since using DTG, Village Automotive Group has seen two to three more car sales per month.
Each of the Village Automotive Group dealerships have a specific type of consumer in mind. By monitoring online and offline behavior to understand shopping intensity and brand preferences, Village is able to arm their sales team with the information they need to focus their efforts on customers deepest into the buying process, tailor their sales approach, and close more deals.


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Eicher Motors shares jump 10% after 1:10 stock split comes into effect
Updated : August 24, 2020 12:10 PM IST
Pranati Deva
The share price of Eicher Motors jumped over 10 percent after the 1:10 stock split came into effect on Monday. The stock gained for the third trade session today, making it to the top gainers' list on Nifty in terms of gains in percentage.
The company, in its June board meet, had approved a stock split in the ratio of 1:10 -- sub-division of equity shares from the existing one equity share of the face value of Rs 10 each into 10 equity shares of the face value of Re 1 each.
"Members of the company at its 38th Annual General Meeting on August 10 approved sub-division of each existing equity share of the face value of Rs 10 each into 10 equity shares of the face value of Re 1 each," Eicher Motors said.
The stock, however, pared gains, trading 6.67 percent higher at Rs 2316.80 per share, at 12:01 pm. It has fixed August 25, 2020, as the record date for the stock split.
The management said that the purpose behind splitting share price is to facilitate a larger shareholder base and aid liquidity.
For the June quarter, the Royal Enfield maker reported a loss of Rs 55 crore as against a profit of Rs 452 crore in the corresponding quarter last year. The company's revenue from operations also declined to Rs 818 crore in Q1FY21 from Rs 2,382 crore in Q1FY20.
Post the earnings, global brokerage house CLSA downgraded the stock to 'sell' from 'underperform' and reduced its target price to Rs 19,000 from Rs 19,500 (Pre-stock split).
"Eicher Motor's 1QFY21 results came in lower than forecasts. Apart from operating leverage, the miss was largely driven by a lower gross margin. Unlike peers, Eicher has not been able to fully pass on BS6 related costs. The company also ran promotional schemes which resulted in gross profit/vehicle declining 13 percent over the past two quarters. We believe Eicher's valuation premium (80 percent over Hero and Bajaj) is unsustainable in the absence of volume and margin outperformance versus peers," added CLSA.
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Open Carry Texas Did Not March in Houston's Fifth Ward This Weekend
Dan Solomon
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/open-carry-texas-did-not-march-in-houstons-fifth-ward-this-weekend/
The past week has been a tense one in the U.S., and questions around race, guns, and state power have been asked repeatedly, every night, as the situation in Ferguson, Missouri, continues to develop. But these issues aren't exclusive to that part of the country, and they take many forms.
One form they've taken in Houston recently is the ongoing discussion of whether it's appropriate for members of the local chapter of Open Carry Texas to march through the Fifth Ward as part of their demonstrations of their support for the rights guaranteed to them by the U.S. and Texas constitutions to openly carry their long-arm rifles.
The Fifth Ward is an historically African-American part of northeast of downtown Houston, and the leadership of Open Carry Texas' Houston chapter is primarily white. When an initial rally in June, planned on Juneteenth Weekend, was postponed after public outcry, members of the group decided to wait until they'd met with community leaders in the Fifth Ward to hold their demonstration.
Those talks became publicly unproductive last week, as community activist Quannell X met with Open Carry Texas' David Amad.
Amad pointed out that the group has held demonstrations in numerous parts of the state, in communities with a variety of different demographics, and said that the motivation for visiting the Fifth Ward was no different from the motivation for entering any other neighborhood. He told Click2Houston.com that he's not blind to the racism that Fifth Ward residents face, either:
"We've done 2,000 of these walks that haven't been in Fifth Ward. It's not like we just decided, 'Hey, let's wave guns around and go to a black neighborhood and do it,'" said Amad.
Amad said the group's message is simply to educate all Americans about gun rights. He also said he's seen African-Americans treated differently than whites during similar events where people openly carry weapons in support of the Second Amendment.
"I don't need a brick to fall out of the sky to tell me that there's some kind of racism involved, and I don't like racism," said Amad.
"The black community has got its butt kicked for quite some time. We're going there to help with that, to help put a stop to that. Why in the world wouldn't he want us to come?" said Amad.
That rhetoric doesn't seem to have sat well with Quannell X, who responded that "If this is about gun rights, we can educate our own people about gun rights."
Indeed, the fact that Quannell X and his supporters in the New Black Panther Party seem as comfortable with weapons has become another part of the discussion: On social media, Open Carry Texas has decried press coverage that failed to point out that, at the meeting between Amad and Quannell X, the Fifth Ward residents brought semiautomatic weapons, while the Open Carry members were unarmed. If arguments made by Open Carry members in previous demonstrations is to be believed, being in the presence of law-abiding citizens with weapons during the heated debate probably didn't make them nervous—in fact, should have made them feel safer in the event that a criminal showed up. Regardless, the point from Quannell X that the community there is already familiar with their rights as they relate to firearms is hard to argue.
Still, things have gotten progressively uglier since the rally was postponed: Open Carry's Facebook page is full of accusations of "race-baiting" and claims that the "real racists" are their critics, with photos highlighting a number of unarmed black men shaking hands and posing with the armed, mostly-white members of Open Carry. (And, as seen above, more than just white people have participated in Open Carry demonstrations.) The organization says that it's since met with "real community leaders" and will reschedule.
There are, of course, a few ways to consider all of this. Photographs of unarmed black men shaking hands with white men carrying semiautomatic weapons can be illustrations of the fact that enthusiasm for gun rights is extensive and colorblind. Or they could just be images cherry-picked by Open Carry leaders and not necessarily a representative snapshot, so to speak. The fact that Open Carry continues to seek out leaders in the Fifth Ward who might support a rally could be proof that Quannell X and president of Fifth Ward Super Neighborhood No.55, Kathy Blueford-Daniels (who told the group, "Let me just say for the record, we don't want you here," according to Click2Houston), have hijacked the conversation for media attention. Or it could be an example of the group shopping around for people in the community who might be more sympathetic to their cause.
In any case, the words "indefinite postponement" might sound like "not gonna happen," but it really just means that the march is currently unscheduled—Amad tells the Houston Press that they're figuring out when the rally should take place:
A meeting last week in the Fifth Ward rapidly deteriorated into verbal scrapping while a bevvy of reporters looked on. After that members of the state branch of Open Carry Texas voted to cancel the Fifth Ward rally so they can sit down with some different Fifth Ward leaders to talk things out and see if there's a better way to handle the whole thing. "We haven't canceled anything. It's just been postponed," Amad insists. "The Fifth Ward leaders recommended that we meet with them in private, away from all the cameras, and then talk about this and see what we can do."
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Tags: Law, Politics, Fifth Ward, Guns, Houston, Open Carry, Open Carry Texas


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package network.aika.neuron.activation;

import network.aika.fields.Multiplication;
import network.aika.neuron.conjunctive.ConjunctiveSynapse;
import network.aika.steps.link.LinkingIn;

import static network.aika.fields.FieldLink.connect;
import static network.aika.fields.Fields.mul;

/**
 * @author Lukas Molzberger
 */
public abstract class ConjunctiveLink<S extends ConjunctiveSynapse, IA extends Activation<?>, OA extends ConjunctiveActivation<?>> extends Link<S, IA, OA> {

    public ConjunctiveLink(S s, IA input, OA output) {
        super(s, input, output);

        LinkingIn.add(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void connectWeightUpdate() {
        disconnectFieldLinks.add(
                connect(
                        mul(
                                this,
                                "weight update",
                                getInput().getIsFiredForWeight(),
                                getOutput().getUpdateValue()
                        ),
                        synapse.getWeight()
                )
        );

        disconnectFieldLinks.add(
                connect(
                        mul(
                                this,
                                "bias update",
                                getInput().getIsFiredForBias(),
                                getOutput().getUpdateValue()
                        ),
                        output.getNeuron().getBias())
        );
    }
}


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Sarai Madho is a village in Singhpur block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India. As of 2011, its population is 1,212, in 219 households. It has no schools and no healthcare facilities.

The 1961 census recorded Sarai Madho as comprising 4 hamlets, with a total population of 631 people (337 male and 294 female), in 149 households and 144 physical houses.
 The area of the village was given as 690 acres.

The 1981 census recorded Sarai Madho as having a population of 761 people, in 171 households, and having an area of 280.04 hectares.

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Villages in Raebareli district
Caravanserais in India


of us hardly ever think about. Many people have different opinions about this ethical and moral issue. Instead I came across information and countless stories of political blunders, red tape, indecision, and the general chaos that has rocked the charity world since that day. His objective is to turn the people against Brutus and the conspirators in a persuading way so the group will no longer follow what is wrong. . However, difficulty can arise when the listeners are opposed to the speakers idea from the start.
No doubt, whether youre taking a stand against junk food at school or trying to convince a professor to accept your late paper, the ability to create a compelling persuasive essay is necessary to help you get your point across clearly. Should the religious slaughter of animals be banned? Should the Church of Scientology be exempt from paying taxes? We should not be thinking with only greed in our minds, we should not be thinking only of benefits to ourselves, we should think of our fellow brothers and sisters. It is the goal of the speaker to make listeners mind change and agree with him or her (Rhoads, 1997). Look at different sources and points of view to be sure youre getting the full picture, and if you know any experts on the topic, be sure to ask their opinion too. Should tipping in restaurants be mandatory? But I can't see how a person can direct one hundred percent of their efforts throughout their life to one philosophy without asking themselves the big question. 3 Bonus Tips for Crafting Your Persuasive Speech Of course, giving a great persuasive speech requires more than just choosing a good topic. How to choose a great topic for your persuasive essay.