Gwaune Oren (Pete) Evans graduated from Catoosa High School in 1955, at the age of 16, where he was an All-Conference running back in football. He was offered a football scholarship by Murray State, but turned it down to accept one to Connors State College, where he played in 1955 and 1956.
Coached by Cecil Devine, he played linebacker and fullback his first season, only to break his leg the last practice and was in a cast for 14 weeks. His sophomore season he was once again playing fullback and linebacker.
Second semester his sophomore year he transferred to the University of Tulsa in order to work nights at a truck stop to help finish his education. However, with the help of Connors State Coach Tom Johnson, he secured a football scholarship to Missouri State University in Springfield, Mo.
However, when it was time to report he had a change of heart and enrolled at Northeastern State as a regular student. That led to a longtime teaching and coaching career in three states, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri.
Evans' first teaching contract, with the help of longtime friend and teammate Harold Cage, was at Chetopa, Kan. While at Chetopa he posted a 14-5 record in two seasons. He then posted a 28-6 record, 3 conference titles and an undefeated season while at Ensign and Spearville, Kan., over four seasons, while coaching basketball for six years, registering a 61-35 mark, which included 3 conference championships.
He returned to Connors State in 1965 as assistant football coach for Harold Cagle, teaching GPS and History. In 1967 he returned to high school teaching but got the call from CSC President Dr. Melvin Self to teach history and assist C.W. Lynch in basketball, while also serving as the Dean of Men.
Spring 1969 he made the career decision to remain in public school, taking a position at Warner High School, where he remained for 9 years, coaching basketball and football.
He served as high school counselor and was the elementary and middle school principal.
He then moved to Ketchum High School in 1978, coaching football and basketball, before moving to Chouteau in 1985 as head football coach and girls' basketball coach.
During his 36 years as an educator and coach, he was 41-28 as head football coach, 321-150 as boys and girls head basketball coach and 255-134 on the junior high level for an overall record of 576-284. He won 14 conference titles, 13 district championships, 8 regional crowns, 1 area title and reached the state semifinals one time.
He also wrote a manual on 8-man football, while being named Oklahoma Coaches Association Region 3 Coach of the Year twice, and serving as its director one year.
Evans and his wife Vivian have been married 56 years, and reside in Tahlequah.


Ads for unhealthy foods, gambling websites and alcohol brands are set to be limited on ACTION buses in Canberra, the ABC is reporting this morning.
ACTION buses are a government provided bus service in Canberra that a lot of children use.
The move for tighter restrictions was announced by the Minister for Territory and Municipal Services, Shane Rattenbury.
"Across the board we're looking to promote healthier food to school children and so leaving junk food advertising off the buses helps contribute to that overall objective of delivering a healthier message to our kids," he reportedly said.
The announcement comes in light of a push to ban ads for weapons in Canberra Airport, with a petition calling to have the "offensive" ads removed.
Canberra Airport declined to comment at the time. The group called No Airport Arms Ads (NAAA) launched a petition in late August saying the ads were inappropriate for people coming into the country who may have been affected by the weapons in the past.
"It could be pretty offensive if you're a refugee or somebody who has been traumatised in a war zone, to be confronted with these ads," said pokesperson for the group, Sue Wareham, at the time.
Rattenbury commented on the weapons ads saying it wasn't the image Canberra wanted to put out there.
"I think the same should be said for our ACTION buses as a reflection of our Canberra," he said.


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Any self-respecting roofing contractor in Cottingham should be perfectly able to deal with slate work, sheet roofing, guttering, fascias and soffits, clay and concrete tiling, leadwork, thatch, bitumen laying and stripping, flat roofing, cladding and waterproof fibreboard sheeting, along with any other roofing needs. Because all of these various materials come with their particular foibles and quirks, it takes the knowledge of a specialist roofer to fully understand them. That's the reason why finding the correct Cottingham roofer for this task is so vital.
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Building regulations in the British Isles enforce specific conditions in the case of rooves. The relevant local authorities must be given a minimum of forty eight hours notice if you are replacing more than a fifty percent of your roof's surface area. It makes no difference if this work is because of the age of the roof, is purely for cosmetic purposes or is due to accidental damage. Failure to do this may result in a 5K fine for the homeowner.
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Adam Levine Reveals Gwen Stefani Is on New Maroon 5 Album 'V' [LISTEN]
by Michelle McGahan June 17, 2014 12:36 PM | PopCrush
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Adam Levine is just full of surprises! The day after he dropped the new Maroon 5 song 'Maps,' he revealed to Ryan Seacrest that Gwen Stefani is on his band's upcoming release, 'V.'
While calling into Seacrest's radio show, the host had no problem flat-out asking him about the rumors that the No Doubt frontwoman was on the album.
"How do you know everything already?" Levine asked Seacrest, hemming and hawing a little bit. "I wanted it to be a surprise," he quickly admitted. "But she is."
The 'Voice' judge also talked about the sound of Maroon 5's upcoming album.
"It's kind of everything we've ever done as a band, musically — it's kind of all of those things on this album," Levine said. "It's what we used to sound like, it's what we sound like now, it's what we want to sound like tomorrow … it's all those elements all combined, to make, what I think, is a really great album."
Levine also touched on his upcoming wedding to Behati Prinsloo, and revealed that he asked her dad's permission before popping the question.
"I did ask his permission," Levine revealed. "I don't want to talk about it, you know how I am, but yes, of course I did. I had to. And it was extremely nerve-wracking."
We can imagine! But still, Levine and Seacrest both admitted that even hypothetically, if a father were to say no, you still have to go and marry the girl regardless.
You can check out Adam Levine's interview with Ryan Seacrest below.
Next: Top 10 Maroon 5 Songs
Source: Adam Levine Reveals Gwen Stefani Is on New Maroon 5 Album 'V' [LISTEN]


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L.A Candy.
Lauren Conrad; fashion designer, reality TV starlet(The Hills...for those of you completely devoid of current social pop life)...oh and just for fun lets throw in a new one. Author? Yup that is correct.
It has been established that miss-drama-reality-fashion-student-gone-designer Lauren Conrad has signed on to write a three-book series.
The first book of the series is said to be available June 16th (mark your calender/Blackberry), and is entitled L.A Candy. Creativity will be at its forefront as Lauren really steps outside her comfort zone through her writing. L.A Candy will feature a young girl who moves to L.A and unexpectedly becomes the star of a reality television show. What! I know, I know. Will Lauren be capable of accurately embodying such a foreign lifestyle through the eyes of her literary self...ahhh...I mean her fictional character.
To be fair, Lauren did go on to say that the book may have some sections loosely based on her own experiences. Imagine that.
I would just like to extend my thanks towards HarperCollins, at least young (who am I kidding... everyone seems to watch it) impressionable girls (pfft, okay I'm sure some guys watch it too- we don't want anyone to feel left out) will now be able to read about the complex issues and dramas faced by those of the young, rich and beautiful.
"I've always loved books that I could lose myself in, ones that would transport me to another place, but had characters I could relate to. So, I'm so excited to have this opportunity to write books like that for other readers." Lauren, 22
Don't judge a book by its cover, and well maybe in Lauren's case don't judge her based on her expensive designer clothes and/or hit reality TV show, either way despite how L.A Candy works out we will have not one(!), but two follow up novels to look forward to!
You can preorder your copy now.. m. little notes: -it seems to only be available in hardcover. that makes it legit, right? - on Amazon.ca, currently the only listed "tag" is polygamy - why! - I did read somewhere that someone ghosted for her, and that they did a pretty good job. I am not sure if there is truth to that or not...here's to hoping. - to be fair I dig the bathing suit.
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The code can show but... if the table is empty, the code show a message saying "You have no purchases.".
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A: Because $_SESSION['user']['username'] is empty, the table isn't even read.

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Private Space Flight
Boeing's Starliner Capsule For Astronauts Completes Water Test
Splash down!
By Sarah Fecht | Published Feb 18, 2016 3:30 AM
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Boeing and SpaceX are racing to become the first private companies to carry astronauts into space, as early as next year.
And although SpaceX is generally considered to be leading the race (it already delivers supplies to the space station), Boeing shouldn't be underestimated (the company built most of the International Space Station).
After carrying astronauts to space, Boeing's crew capsule, the CST-100, a.k.a. "Starliner", would use parachutes to land softly on the ground. But in some emergency situations, it might need to land in water, which is why the company recently dropped the Starliner into the 20-foot-deep pool at NASA's Langley Research Center.
https://twitter.com/NASA_Langley/status/700003563901218816/
Boeing performed similar tests in August 2015–watch it get flung from a crane:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeAbLlcpC4o?
Engineers like to do these tests from different heights and angles to account for all scenarios. No word yet on how the Starliner performed, but chances are, if it's built to handle going to space and back, it can handle a little water.


Beringer Blass has announced a new 100,000-case distribution deal with Japan's Sapporo.
The agreement between the multultinational wine giant – part of Foster's Group – and the Japanese brewery and distributor of beer, wine and soft drinks, will come into effect from 1 January 2003.
Sapporo will distribute 20 wines from the Beringer Vineyards portfolio, including the Napa Valley Merlot, Carneros Pinot Noir, Clear Lake Zinfandel, Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc and the Stone Cellars Sauvignon Blanc, which will be imported into Japan for the first time.
Japan has registered the second fastest growth in wine consumption among key markets worldwide over the last 30 years, with sales of red wine outstripping white.
Odell said as wines priced below 1000 yen (€7.22) represent 70 per cent of the market in Japan, the Stone Cellars brand has proved extremely successful since its launch in February 2002.
'We expect to see strong growth in Beringer Vineyards sales in Japan,' he said.


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Cleveland Heights introduces preliminary Severance redevelopment proposal
Updated: Oct. 23, 2019, 6:08 a.m. | Published: Oct. 22, 2019, 7:35 p.m.
Work continues on an effective stormwater retention system at the parking lot expansion between Grandview and Bellfield avenues in the Cedar-Fairmount district. (Tom Jewell, special to cleveland.com)Tom Jewell/Special to cleveland.com
By Thomas Jewell, special to cleveland.com
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- City Council introduced legislation Monday (Oct. 21) to consider a $223,000 preliminary redevelopment proposal for Severance Town Center.
The city received 18 responses to its request for proposals (RFPs) over the summer, with the best and most responsive offer coming from AE7 Pittsburgh LLC.
However, Councilmen Kahlil Seren and Mike Ungar requested that the emergency tag be removed from the legislation, with further discussion set for next Monday (Oct. 28).
Although the city does not own the 65-acre site, officials hope to come up with a vision that might spur development ideas with the current ownership that would be consistent with the city's Master Plan.
At least one member of the audience voiced his concerns about the proposal. Architect and Future Heights board member Paul Volpe said the colorful brochure was full of "attractive, sexy words, generalities and hyperbole" and was too "retail-centric."
"Pretty pictures aren't going to make it happen," Volpe added.
He wished that the city had approached him about the proposal, which is supposed to build off of a free study obtained several years ago through the National Resource Network that was actually worth about $120,000. That study was done by the consulting firm of HR&A.
While Volpe said the only projects that he could find from AE7 were in Colorado, the Great Plains and Dubai, the brochure does list proposals on the north shore of Pittsburgh, as well as its "inner-ring" Borough of Wilkinsburg, which could qualify as their mission of "helping to transform rust belt identities."
The AE7 Severance proposal notes that "Cleveland Heights seeks a catalytic cultural haven at the center of town, where the community can have a main space of interaction and gathering."
Resident Chris Hall, who approached the council podium with a cane, asked how much the AE7 proposal would cost, adding that she would like to see some "well-built, one story houses" or perhaps multi-level dwellings with elevators.
Calling most of Severance "a deteriorated and tattered blight on our community," Volpe said the RFP presented a "huge opportunity, but if you don't choose the right team, you're gong to screw it up."
Ungar, who chairs council's Planning and Economic Development Committee, assured Volpe that that would not occur.
"We're not going to rush into this," Ungar said. "There were questions asked about this at the Committee-of-the-Whole meeting last week. And, most assuredly, your input is welcome. We're not going to make a mistake and we're not going to rush it."
Breed-neutral dog ordinance
Perhaps the happiest people in the audience Monday night were pit bull owners, as council also introduced legislation amending the city's "vicious dog" ordinance.
If passed, the legislation would be "breed-neutral," rather than singling out various kinds of pit bull and Staffordshire terriers or mixes of those breeds.
That's what was done in either 1987 or 2004, which was the last time the city ordinance was updated, said City Law Director Bill Hanna, noting that state law has also been changed in recent years.
"This removes the 'breed specific designation,'" Hanna said, explaining that the "vicious" label wold be based on an individual dog's behavior and incidents such as unprovoked attacks.
There are also limits on the amount of time a dog can be tethered outside (proposed at three hours) and minimum lengths for the dog's tether.
In other business, Assistant City Manager Susanna Niermann O'Neil noted that the Russo brothers directorial team has been in town filming their new movie, "Cherry," based on a book about a veteran with PTSD who becomes a local bank robber to support his heroin habit.
Over this week and possibly next, crews were set to film at Forest Hill Park, Severance Town Center and in Coventry Village around Hampshire and Lancashire roads.
Responding to a question from Ungar, O'Neil said that Cleveland Heights would be in the credits when the movie is released.
"After all, we are the 'Home to the Arts,'" O'Neil said.
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spatial vision
I was recently reminded of one of my major "ah ha!" moments from my undergrad years at U.C. Berkeley.
It was in Russell De Valois' class on the biological basis of vision, and concerned Hubel and Wiesel's work on information processing in the visual system. It was one of those end-of-semester lectures where huge chunks of material from previous lessons slide around and sort of lock into place, suddenly making sense as a complete body of work. It was not the other kind of end-of-semester lecture, where animal rights activists pie your professor in class because of his past experimentation on live cats and monkeys.
The majority of the course had focused on how the eye and the primary visual cortex in the brain convert incoming light signals into higher-level information. Not quite recognizing faces or reading letters, but enough to pick out basic visual features such as edges, colors, and movement.
In general, the retina at the back of the eye is spotted with light-sensitive neural cells called rods and cones. Each of these cells is connected to further cells in the eye and later in the brain. Signals from each cell can excite or inhibit the cells that it's connected to: make them fire strongly, or prevent them from doing so. It turns out that simple combinations of cells in groups yield receptive fields (visual patterns) that have a center-surround shape, like this:
The left field responds positively to a bright spot of light surrounded by darkness, while the right field responds positively to a dark spot surrounded by bright light. Importantly, neither field responds much at all to large areas of unvarying brightness or darkness - detection of change turns out to be pretty much the one thing the visual system does, in varying combinations. You can imagine a group of light-sensitive cells feeding a single cell further back in the chain with a combination of positive and negative connections, maximizing the response when the exact center/surround pattern is seen.
These images show typical readings from neurons under various conditions, showing how excited they get when they see the pattern they're sensitive to:
This image shows how massively-redundant and parallel connections between neurons might work to get the results above, driving input from each receptor in the retina to a growing network of visual neurons deeper in the brain:
Hubel and Wiesel's work sticking electrodes into cat brains while they (the cats) looked at moving patterns showed how specialized brain cells in the visual system are. Almost by accident, they discovered that one cell might be responsive to a short, bright horizontal line, while another might prefer a long, dark vertical stripe. Many cells also showed sensitivity to movement. A combination of delayed connections among all those neural pathways might cause a cell to respond just to a bright line moving diagonally up and to the right. The primary visual cortex in the back of your brain is full of such cells, all with a narrowly-defined job to do.
Hubel:
...people often complain that the analysis of every tiny part of our visual field - for all possible orientations and for dark lines, light lines, and edges - must surely require an astronomic number of cells. The answer is yes, certainly. But that fits perfectly, because an astronomic number of cells is just what the cortex has. Today we can say what the cells in this part of the brain are doing, at least in response to many simple, everyday visual stimuli. I suspect that no two striate cortical cells do exactly the same thing, because whenever a microelectrode tip succeeds in recording from two cells at a time, the two show slight differences - in exact receptive field position, directional selectivity, strength of response, or some other attribute.
The bright line drawn around all of this evidence is that this same inhibitory/excitatory structure, made of the same cells with a small variety of connections, can be responsible for a lot of selective patterns besides just dots:
Spatially, the center-surround fields in the first image see spots.
Connected in combinations such as long rows or areas, they see lines and edges at various orientations.
When short delays are introduced, they see movement of spots, lines, and edges in specific directions over time.
When limited wavelengths are taken into account, they see color in the form of red/green, green/red, yellow/blue, and blue/yellow opposites. Experiments show that people use only limited information from edges and changes to perceive color anyway.
When signals from each eye are combined, they do basic stereoscopic vision, helping to fuse images into a coherent whole.
De Valois' work tied all of this together, and ultimately showed how all of these neural combinations weren't just detecting simple patterns, but could actually be made to compute Fourier transforms. If the center-surround structure varied in size, it could be interpreted as a spatial frequency detector, rather than just a line or dot detector. All this, in eight or so layers of dense cellular connections. The repetitiveness of neural connections is what makes this possible - calculations performed in a few milliseconds in the brain are much more expensive using computers, which must process pieces of information one at a time, in serial.
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hiding in plain sight
I'm reading Malcolm Gladwell's latest for The New Yorker, and thinking about why visualization, network analysis, data mining, and graph theory are rapidly becoming interesting to a growing number of people right now.
Of all the moments in the Enron unravelling, this meeting is surely the strangest. The prosecutor in the Enron case told the jury to send Jeffrey Skilling to prison because Enron had hidden the truth. ... But what truth was Enron hiding here? Everything Weil learned for his Enron expose came from Enron, and when he wanted to confirm his numbers the company's executives got on a plane and sat down with him in a conference room in Dallas. Nixon never went to see Woodward and Bernstein at the Washington Post. He hid in the White House.
In a nutshell, I think this passage captures what's different about corruption now vs. corruption then, which the article refers to as the difference between a puzzle (missing information must be found, e.g. Watergate's Deep Throat) and a mystery, characterized by excessive information and lots of noise. I'm seeing a lot of pushing in this direction from a bunch of smart people: Jeff Heer created Exploring Enron, a visual analysis application for corporate e-mail, while Adrian Holovaty thinks that newspapers need to fundamentally change and better adapt to DBA-thinking.
I think Jeff's more on-target than Adrian, mostly because Jeff is working on the analysis side of things, rather than the data creation side. I don't think the value of a newspaper is in its ability to populate a SQL table of obits or mayoral appearances, especially if the meat of the news is in the margins. Read the article for some finance-geeky details of Enron's accounting showing how hard it is to see a clear picture through the fog of hype, even when all the relevant facts are right there in front of you. The comments on Adrian's post ("microformats!" "semantic web!") reduce reporters to glorified UPS guys, waving their little hand-held journo-data-collectors around instead of asking insightful questions.
oakland crime maps, part II
Last week, I described my first steps towards extracting usable location and crime detail information from Oakland's CrimeWatch II application. I showed how to access maps for specific times, places, and crimes in Oakland, and how to parse those maps for crime icons using simple visual feature extraction.
Since then, I've moved on to extracting more detailed information for those matched crime icons, and roughly geocoding them to within an acceptable distance of their true location. I'll describe more of the process in this post.
Linked downloads:
Current python client: Crime.tar.gz (40K, requires additional libraries PIL, Numeric, and Twisted)
SQLite 3 database of Oakland crimes, September through December 2006: crime.db.gz (732K)
My initial image parsing script, scan-image.py, could only extract crime locations from a single map. In order to get a full picture of events throughout the city, I would need to be able to access over a hundred maps for every day: eight city council districts (including Piedmont, where nothing ever happens) and fourteen types of crime ("arson", "alcohol", etc.), so the next step was to construct a client script that would be able manage a large number of map downloads. The first iteration of this client was a simple shell script, which placed JPEG files into a directory. After I ran this a few times, it became obvious that the long response times from the CrimeWatch server (20-40 seconds) were going to make testing tedious.
Instead of spending a lot of idle time waiting for requests to return, I turned to Twisted Python for an asynchronous framework that would manage multiple pending requests, servicing each only as responses became available. I started by making several modifications to the twisted.web.client.HTTPClientFactory and twisted.web.client.HTTPPageGetter classes that would support a persistent cookie jar, to make each request appear to be originating from a single browser session. New map requests are dispatched every few seconds, and the JPEG responses inspected immediately upon return. This first iteration used a single cookie jar, and worked well up to the map-parsing step.
I quickly discovered that retrieving details about individual crimes was going to require a different approach. The initial map requests result in an image map-like response, and details on individual crimes must be retrieved by clicking on map hot spots:
For each crime detail, a complete round-trip to the server must be made, a new map JPEG must be downloaded (it includes a mark showing the clicked spot), and two separate iframes (the first displays a "loading" message) must be requested to access the table of detailed information. My first attempt to get to these deeper details was done asynchronously, and I quickly noticed that I was seeing incorrect results due to a server-side session model that assumed each browser was accessing a single map at a time.
So, the final downloading agent begins a new session for each map. These are requested in parallel, but the resulting crimes for each are requested in serial, like this:
----+- map A, crime A1, ..., crime An
+--- map B, crime B1, ...
+----- map C, ...
+------- ...
The primary tool that makes this process tolerable is Twisted. It supports an asynchronous programming model that makes it a breeze to set up dozens of simultaneous browser sessions, and spread their requests out over time to avoid overloading the CrimeWatch server. It has been persistent fear of mine that this process would be nipped in the bud as soon as a CrimeWatch admin noticed my relentless pounding of their service from a single IP. That, and getting a knock on the door from the Oakland PD.
Scraping the crime detail table is performed by BeautifulSoup, another Python wonder-tool. This one is a loose HTML parser written by Leonard Richardson, and its handling of badly-mangled, invalid markup is truly heroic. Not everything in CrimeWatch's responses could be parsed out of HTML, unfortunately: several important details, such as the URLs of the iframes above, has to be regexped out of embedded javascript.
The next step in the process is geocoding each crime, assigning it a latitude and longitude based on its map location. CrimeWatch publishes no geographical information beyond the map images themselves, so this part is necessarily an approximation. Fortunately, CrimeWatch also promises that the data is only accurate to within the nearest city block, so the fudge-factor of geocoding events from an image is probably acceptable.
I'm taking advantage of the fact that the City Council District base maps remain static across requests, covering the same area regardless of the crime or time I'm searching for. This allowed me to search for reference points on each map that I could geocode manually. This was probably the most tedious part of the project, because I had to find three widely-spaced, well-rendered reference points for each district map. To find the location of map points, I used Pierre Gorissen's Google Map Lat/Lon Popup, a simple javascript application that places markers on Google Maps and reports their exact latitude and longitude. I chose three widely-spaced reference points for each district, such as these District 3 locations:
Near Portview Park
Point on map, according to Photoshop: 466, 607
Latitude, longitude, according to Google Maps: 37.805775, -122.342656.
14th St. & East 20th St.
Point on map: 1861, 862
Latitude, longitude: 37.793211, -122.240968.
Broadway & 51st St.
Using three such points and the assumption that the map is a linear projection (or close enough), determining the geographical positions of each crime placed on the map is a short bit of algebra. Cassidy tipped me off to the fact that the linear system can be represented by this pair of equations, where x and y are icon points on the map:
latitude  = (a1 × x) + (b1 × y) + c1
longitude = (a2 × x) + (b2 × y) + c2
Finding the a1, b1, c1, a2, b2, and c2 is possible by solving the following two systems, based on the three known points:
37.805775 = (a1 ×  466) + (b1 × 607) + c1
37.793211 = (a1 × 1861) + (b1 × 862) + c1
-122.342656 = (a2 ×  466) + (b2 × 607) + c2
-122.240968 = (a2 × 1861) + (b2 × 862) + c2
This is described and implemented in some detail in the notes for a talk that Darren and I gave at Flash Forward NYC last year, Putting Data on the Map.
Finally, each named, dated, geolocated crime is written to a small database. SQLite has been a major godsend for this purpose, because it requires no configuration and is implemented as a simple library that reads and writes static files.
The end result of this process is a SQLite 3 database file containing crime incidents for all of Oakland from September, October, November, and December of 2006. I did a rough pass (14-day samples, with high risk of overlaps for common offenses, i.e. probably not as accurate as it could be) for those four months just to get the data, and I will be re-examining them in greater detail and retrieving additional data over the course of January.
Jan 2, 2007 7:10pm
digg swarm screens
I've encountered two Digg stories in the past few days that are no more than pointers to interesting views of Swarm:
"Watching the diggs go up and up on Digg.com was insane. I switched to Swarm and this is what it looked like."
"This is what happens when a digger does nothing but digg every new link that pops up."
The New York Times has published 3000 Faces, an interactive infographic of U.S. military casualties in the Iraq War, to-date:
Try the application at nytimes.com.
Casualties are classified according to age, race, service, duty, and time and location of death. The primary control for the graph affords selection of a variably-sized slice in time, for example the 52 weeks I have chosen in the screenshot above, between March 2004 and March 2005. This is the heaviest continuous one-year stretch of the war, encompassing the beginning of the campaign against al-Sadr, the second invasion of Fallujah, and the January 2005 Marine helicopter crash that killed 31.
All aspects of the chart react to the time slider: the date at top changes, breakdown charts in the middle adjust themselves, and location circles in the map on the right scale accordingly.
The time interface serves three functions:
It's a bar chart displaying the casualties per week over the almost four-year course of the war.
Small markers at the top note significant events, e.g. "Constitution approved" or "Saddam Hussein captured."
Input widget, for modifying the remainder of the graph.
The combination of display and interface in the time slider is strongly influenced by Google Finance:
Google Finance's central line graph also serves the same three functions: stock price display, news event markers, and input slider.
The entire casualty analysis application makes liberal use of tooltip-style information displays, which display detailed statistical information above the looser, less-detailed graphics:
Daniele Galiffa of Mentegrafica compares it to Minard's Napoleon's Retreat chart made famous by years of magazine advertisements for Edward Tufte seminars. He also says that improved understanding would result from additional data-mining features ("what was the worst day for white men?"), but I disagree. The tooltips demonstrate how selective hiding of information helps increase the overall information density of the graph, and the single input mechanism makes it a more accessible browsing tool for historical information. The pertinent information here is event-based, answering questions about the spikes in the chart, and offering direct links to significant points in the upper-right-hand corner. The one significant feature missing is the capacity to bookmark views into the data. Fortunately, there are only two possible variables for each view (start date, end date), but it would be interesting to provide a direct URL to the 52 weeks of heaviest casualties, above. For comparison, Google Finance also offers no way to link to a particular view that I'm aware of. Yahoo's new beta Finance charts do offer the fragment-style direct links first demonstrated by Kevin Lynch (e.g. this view of the same HAL data as the Google screenshot above), at the cost of an otherwise heavily over-featured application.
Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas's group at IBM is also doing some work in this direction, with their forthcoming Many Eyes project (look for "democratizing visualization" on this page). The two central features of Many Eyes that pique my interest are thumbnails and direct links to application states, simple technical additions that greatly multiply the usefulness of the application as a vehicle for argumentation or simple sharing.
Overall, I think the New York Times application is an example of serious, cutting-edge journalism, offering readers (?) a way to make and test theories about the progress of a long-term event. It's valuable in the same way as the terror alert vs. approval rating chart, and for many of the same reasons. The barrage of noise generated by the 24-hour news cycle is desperately in need of simplifying views that help illustrate co-occurence and possible causality of news events.
In contrast, John Emerson offers his own take on the latest milestone.


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Sushmita Sen honoured with Mother Teresa International Awardhttps://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/sushmita-sen-honoured-with-mother-teresa-international-award/
Sushmita Sen honoured with Mother Teresa International Award
Sushmita Sen,who has two daughters,took to Twitter to share her delight after receiving the honour.
Written by Press Trust Of India | New Delhi | Published: October 28, 2013 4:28:03 pm
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Bollywood actress and former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen has been bestowed with the prestigious Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for Social Justice.
The 37-year-old model-actress,who has two adopted daughters,took to Twitter to share her delight after receiving the honour.
"Beautiful people… 'The Mother Teresa International Award' I received last night. Precious," Sen posted along with a photo.
"What an overwhelming feeling to receive an award named after 'Mother' and with past recipients like his holiness Dalai Lama and Malala Yousafzai," she tweeted.
During the Miss Universe pageant of 1994,Sen had won appreciation by expressing admiration for Mother Teresa.
Currently in its sixth edition,the award ceremony is an initiative that highlights various endeavours taken up by individuals and NGO's to promote peace and social justice.
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A salad diet is similar to a vegetarian diet; however, many people look for great salad recipes not because they're participating in a salad diet, but because they want to make a great salad. While salad recipes designed for those trying to lose weight using a salad diet may be more restrictive, a great salad recipe, or even better, tasty salad dressing recipes, can spice up any meal.
The great thing about salad recipes is that really, anything goes. A good salad can have all kinds of vegetables, fruits, meats, cheeses and spices mixed together. Some of the best salads are made up of unexpected combinations, such as feta cheese, blueberries, and oranges mixed together on a plate of greens. Tastes that don't typically come to the table together can be combined to make a festival of flavors in your mouth.
Fruit salad recipes seem like they should be instinctual: combine a bunch of fruit together into a salad. However, there are many different types of fruit salad recipes that can make any regular day into something special. If you're trying to liven up your fruit salad, think unexpected tastes, such as exotic fruits or fruit that is out of season. You will also want to consider your fruit salad dressing recipes, as you can easily change your flavors with a dash of the right oils.
Many people top their fruit salad with whipped cream, but this really detracts from what could be a healthy snack or dessert. Instead, try honey, orange juice, lemon juice, pineapple juice, or yogurt and vanilla.
A great carrot salad really depends on the types of ingredients you add. Carrot salad is a great item to make your own and to keep as your hidden weapon when it comes to potluck meals.
One carrot salad recipe simply calls for you to add shredded carrots to your favorite salad. You can also make shredded carrot salads that feature the carrot as the main ingredient. If you choose to go with a shredded carrot salad, opt to throw in ingredients such as parsley, lemon and olive oil to spice things up.


Selling my low mileage 2008 Z06. It's machine silver with black interior. 2LZ package. Only has 13,500 miles. I am the 3rd owner. 1st owner had it 1 yr, 1000 miles, 2nd owner 7 yrs and 6000 miles. I purchased the car in 2017 with 7200 miles after looking nationwide for a good car. This was one of the best maintained and had a solid history. Driven approximately 1000 miles/yr, but and garage kept. I've driven it about 5k miles over the past 2 yrs. Mostly weekends, and the occasional autocross. I have always kept it in a garage also. Serviced only by Able Chevrolet in Rio Vista.
Car is mostly stock (details below), in excellent condition inside and out. Few nicks, no dents. Paint awesome. Everything works properly and the car is an absolute joy to drive. No accidents/body repairs/surprises. Factory build sheet in pics.
I have added a clear bra (Invisiguard) to the front nose, hood, front fenders, and side mirrors. Car was in such fine condition when I bought it, I felt this was a good addition.
It has a Corsa cat-back exhaust, nice sound, not too loud.
The heads were replaced last year by Able Chevrolet in Rio Vista. Heads are the American Heritage Package #4. (retail cost $6k+). Lots of peace of mind.
I purchased a 3 yrs, 24,000 GM warranty, Platinum Plan, zero deductible, good till October 2020 or 24k miles, whichever comes first. ($3k+ policy). Transferable to new owner.
Car has Firestone Indy500 tires on stock wheels, about 2 yrs old, 90% treadwear remaining. Stock wheels in great condition, very minor rim rash.
I am a long time SCCA member, Western States Corvette Council, Santa Clara Corvette Club, and forever car enthusiast. Cars a hobby, but also a passion.
I wanted to be able to autocross the Z06 occasionally, so I added my SCCA A-Street parts: (Autocross Package).
Strano front Koni lower shock mount w/ rod end.
Strano Delrin upper shock mounts front and rear.
Custom rear lower shock mount bushing.
Forgestar wheels (gunmetal gray), 18x9.5, 18x12, with BFG Rival-S 275/35-18, 335/30-18 (tires have 1 autocross event). Really awesome looking wheels.
Or $39,000 for car with stock shocks/swaybar installed, no autocross package.
As currently setup, the car is very capable on a autocross course, yet comfortable driving to and from.
Lots of pictures available. Glad to answer all questions. Would love to see it go to an autocross enthusiast as the car is very capable to compete at the highest level currently. Still, it retains much of the comforts and enjoyment of casual driving.
Last edited by toy4speed; 04-16-2019 at 02:49 PM.
correction: extended warranty good till Oct. 2020 or 24,000 miles.


BEFORE WE get to those unavoidable matter of those yellow stripes, let's explain exactly what we have here. This is the Mercedes-AMG C 63 S Coupé, the fastback version of the C-class, pumped up by Mercedes' in-house tuner AMG.
The "63" part of the name is slightly misleading these days as the engine is no longer the 6.3-litre naturally-aspirated V8 that was in the old car, but a new, downsized four-litre V8 with a pair of turbos. Which sounds a bit disappointing, like swapping a lump of steak for a healthy salad.
But don't worry, the new engine is essentially a wet-sumped version of the motor in the AMG GT sportscar, and more than capable of doing the heavy lifting expected of a Mercedes-AMG.
In fact, in standard format it manages 469bhp and 479 lb ft of torque, which is plenty. In the faster "S" version it has a faintly ridiculous 503bhp and 516 lb ft, which means that it has exactly the same power as the AMG GT S, but 37 lb ft more torque. In a smallish four-seat coupé, that's probably more than enough.
And when its ballistic BMW M4 rival has a muscle deficit to the tune of 78bhp and 111lb ft, you know before turning the key that the Merc is probably going to be fairly rapid.
Rabid is probably a better description, mind. The sprint from rest to 62mph takes 3.9 seconds, and hits an artificial limiter at 155mph. Option the Driver's Pack and you get a 180mph top speed, but that's probably only appropriate for those who own private airfields or regularly attack stretches of de-restricted German autobahn.
The car we have here is the C 63 S Coupé in Mercedes-AMG's now traditional 'Edition One' guise, which works as a fanfare special edition to whet enthusiasts' appetites for the new model.
Aping the company's racy DTM German Touring Car, all Edition One C 63 S Coupés get "Mango Selenite" matte grey paint, those rather attention-grabbing yellow stripes over the top of the car and the sides (the non-S Edition One gets graphite grey stripes), yellow detailing on the interior, a chunkier rear spoiler, front airdam and side skirts, and lots of gloss black bits.
There are black, forged wheels (19 inches on the front, 20 inches on the back), also with a yellow stripe around their circumference — you might be sensing a light theme here — and lots of other little tweaks that make the Edition One quite striking in a supermarket car park.
The flared arches look magnificent but actually they're as per the standard AMG Coupé — in fact, on all of these AMG-designated models, only the frameless doors, boot and roof are shared with the standard two-door; the rest is bespoke.
Suffice to say it looks… butch. Costing around £5,000 more than the standard S, as a special edition it's well thought out and relatively good value as an investment. However, unless your name is Kevin, as a daily driver it might be amusing for about a week before you got tired of people staring and started wishing the yellow lines away.
Go-faster stripes aside, it's a superb car from behind the wheel. The engine fires up like a V8 should, all grumpy thunder and gurgling brawn, and continues in the same vein. It's loud, but never annoying, bass-heavy and strong-sounding. As the revs rise so does the noise, until it's bellowing incoherent anger at everything it passes.
And pass it will — the C 63 S Coupé is devastatingly fast. With so much power and torque and a slick and well-sorted seven-speed gearbox that you can operate with wheel-mounted paddles, this AMG makes overtakes eye-blink quick.
Driving slowly around town is comparable to any other coupé, huge c-pillar blindspots and all, but when you really allow the car and that epic engine their due, something magical happens. Mainly that you find your own head permanently forced back against the headrests, and a manic grin plastered across your face.
If you do find yourself with a private stretch of road or a handy racetrack, there's even more to discover, because the C 63 S Coupé feels completely different to either of it's closely-related saloon and estate brethren. It's more focussed and a more committed driver's car.
The steering is excellent — not as fast as some, but well-judged — the power delivery inexorable and the grip on offer beautifully progressive. Go too fast and the car communicates without taunting, warning with a gentle huff of understeer, and if you fancy being a hooligan, you can provoke easily controllable oversteer with ease.
Be careful here, though, because this is one of those cars that is so easy to drive near the limit that you can actually have some fun doing powerslides. And it's got enough power to boil those very expensive rear tyres wallet-clenchingly quickly.
There are five dynamic modes available from the adjustable suspension and, as ever, they affect things like steering weight, throttle response, gearbox shift times and suspension stiffness.
Again, as usual, Sport + and Race are too stiff for UK B-roads, leading to some ungainly hopping and traction loss as the car fails to ride over our badly-scarred minor roads.
Sport is perhaps the best standard option for fast driving, and Comfort is the motorway and town go-to setting, though once you've set up the "Individual" settings, where you can programme your own preferences, I found myself just using that and Comfort. Race is best left for actual track days.
The best thing about this C 63 S Coupé is that although it looks aggressive, it's actually quite subtle, if you left off the Edition One stripes, obviously.
It's also devastatingly fast yet controllable, and feels reliable in its reactions. It's a car that works with you, rather than against. Bluntly, it's easier to drive quickly than something like a spiky BMW M4, and for 90% of us, that's a bonus worth having.
True, it's more expensive (an M4 starts at £57,000), struggles to do much more than 23mpg, is hell on gravel driveways and will cost you thousands in rear tyres if you decide to enjoy it to the fullest, but its the best thunderous four-seat coupé on the market at the moment. In the face of some strong competition, that's no small thing.


A: Unless prohibited by the condominium documents, yes. Section 718.112(2)(a)1 of the Florida Condominium Act provides that a condominium association's bylaws must provide for the title of the officers and specify their powers, duties, manner of selection, removal, and compensation, if any. If the bylaws are silent with respect to these items, this same section provides default provisions that are deemed to be included in the bylaws.
The statute also states that the association "shall have a president, secretary, and a treasurer, who shall perform the duties of such officers customarily performed by officers of corporations," who serve at the pleasure of the board, and without compensation unless otherwise provided in the bylaws.
Most directly on point, Section 617.0840(4) of the Florida Not For Profit Corporations Act (which applies to most condominium associations) specifically provides that same individual may simultaneously hold more than one office in a corporation, unless prohibited by the bylaws.
In fact, unless required by the bylaws, there is no requirement that officers be members of the board. I am familiar with many communities where the treasurer is a person with a financial background who chooses not to serve on the board, for whatever reason. It is important to note that in situations such as this, a treasurer who is not a board member must still be added to the association's fidelity bond.
While your president is to be lauded for taking on the extra work, I do not think this is a good idea for several reasons. For one, overloading any volunteer contributes to "director burnout" and makes it more difficult to find anyone to serve when this person is no longer willing to do so. Of equal importance, I believe your accountants would advise that allowing one person to hold those two offices does not provide the "separation of control" that is appropriate in associations as a customary protection against defalcation of association funds.
If the townhomes in your community are arranged with three or more units joined together, use of a propane grill must be more than 10 feet away from any structure, to the extent there is not an overhang above. If the townhomes in your community are instead arranged with only two townhome units sharing one party wall, then they may constitute a two-family dwelling as defined and would not be subject to that restriction.
Even if permitted by the Code, you also need to confirm that your association has not adopted any covenants or rules which prohibit or limit the use of grills. Properly enacted provisions of a community's governing documents can be more restrictive than the minimum safety standards of state or local law.


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Michael Dease
Michael Dease is one of the world's eminent trombonists, lending his versatile sound and signature improvisations to over 200 recordings and groups as diverse as Grammy winning artists David Sanborn, Christian McBride, Michel Camilo, and Alicia Keys. Born in Augusta, GA, he played the saxophone and trumpet before choosing the trombone at age 17. In 2001, Dease moved to New York City to become part of the historic first class of jazz students at The Juilliard School, earning both Bachelors and Masters degrees, and quickly established a reputation as a brilliant soloist, sideperson, and bandleader.
Bonafide (Posi-Tone, 2018), Dease's newest release, is a modern testament to the life-changers and truth-tellers in the jazz world, including artist-mentors Geri Allen, Marcus Belgrave, JJ Johnson and several others. The program is a journey of Dease's musical stops in New York City, reflecting upon relationships built at places like Smoke Jazz Club, Skidmore Jazz Institute, Birdland, and the Village Vanguard. As a bandleader, this is Dease's sixth album for Posi- Tone and twelfth of his career, and features veteran collaborators David Hazeltine, Todd Coolman, EJ Strickland, Conrad Herwig, Marshall Gilkes and newcomers Sam Dillon and Gina Benalcazar.
Dease, a winner of Downbeat Magazine's Critic's Poll for Rising Star Jazz Trombonist and two-time Grammy award winner, is also a sought-after lead, section and bass trombonist with today's leading jazz orchestras. His experiences include bands led by Christian McBride, Roy Hargrove, Nicholas Payton, Charles Tolliver, Rufus Reid, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band. However, it is on the frontline of quintets and sextets led by master musicians like The Heath Brothers, Winard Harper, Renee Rosnes, Bill Charlap, Claudio Roditi, and Lewis Nash, where Dease has revitalized the trombone's image. Not content to simply improvise, Dease arranges and composes for many different bands, constantly adjusting his tone and timbre to add just the right flavor to the music.
Dease's unique blend of curiosity, hard work and optimism has helped him earn worldwide recognition, including awards from ASCAP, The International Trombone Association, Yamaha, Eastern Trombone Workshop, New York Youth Symphony, Hot House Magazine, Michigan State University, among others. Dease was recently profiled in Cicily Janus' book, The New Face of Jazz: An Intimate Look at Today's Living Legends (Random House). His experience in the studio has led him to produce several recording sessions for emerging artists, often composing and writing liner notes for the releases.
Dease's singular talent has made him an effective and prolific teacher, resulting in invitations, master classes and residencies at University of North Texas, Scranton University, University of Iowa, Florida State College, Broward College, and many institutions abroad. He serves as Associate Professor of Jazz Trombone at the renowned Michigan State University jazz program, and has also been on faculty at Queens College - CUNY, The New School and Northeastern University. Many of Dease's current and former students are enjoying successful careers in the music world.
Always an informed, but forward-thinking musician, Dease learned the craft from trombone legends Wycliffe Gordon and Joseph Alessi. His associations have run the entire spectrum of musical experience: Alicia Keys, Paul Simon, Paul Schaffer and the CBS Orchestra, Elton John, Neal Diamond, Illinois Jacquet, Slide Hampton & The World Of Trombones, Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, WDR Big Band, George Gruntz, Billy Harper, and numerous others.
Dease enjoys spending every possible minute with his extraordinary wife and Professor of Percussion at MSU, Gwendolyn Dease, and their daughters Brooklyn & Charly. He is also an aspiring painter, sports car enthusiast, amateur coffee snob, 80's horror movie aficionado, and enjoys scooting up and down the Michigan highways in his Porsche Boxster Cabriolet.
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"A model of consistency, style and grace, Michael Dease stays at the head of the class among jazz trombonists." - Something Else!


The primary elections are almost upon us, and I want to encourage every Rhode Island voter to head out to the polls on Wednesday, Sept. 12, to vote, then again on Election Day in November. The primaries are important as they help to shape the direction of our state, sometimes as much as general elections.
I hope that Democratic and unaffiliated voters will join me in voting in the Democratic primary to reelect Governor Gina Raimondo. She has done an outstanding job promoting Democratic ideals and moving our state's economy forward.
She inherited double-digit, worst-in-the-nation unemployment, and has brought our state back to where we now have record numbers of jobs. She has invested in training Rhode Islanders for these new jobs – more than 3,000 workers were trained and placed in jobs through the Real Jobs RI program alone. She has invested in education at all levels, from preschool through higher education, including significant advances in technological training in high school, and a record, $250 million investment to repair and modernize our crumbling schools. She is fixing our roads – and the evidence is everywhere; it's hard to drive more than a few miles before encountering road construction. Rhode Islanders are seeing another type of construction, too: existing companies are expanding here, and new companies are coming here.
To put it succinctly: Gina Raimondo has done a remarkable job for our state, and she deserves our support for reelection.
Speaking personally, I have had the good fortune to work with two very strong women leaders during my time in office, former Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed, our first female Senate President, and Governor Gina Raimondo, our first female Governor. From them I have learned that not only does a leader need to be smart and capable, a leader has to be able to work with everyone, those you agree with and those you do not. Everyone has ideas they believe can fix this state, or take Rhode Island in a different direction. Only a true leader can implement those ideas and effectuate real change to make a difference in people's lives. Gina Raimondo is that leader.
As Senate Judiciary Committee Chairwoman, I have had the opportunity to work with the Governor on many difficult issues. She has disagreed with me and even vetoed bills that I have sponsored, but she has always been open to dialogue and compromise when it makes sense. She works with us in the Senate to improve proposals and enact important initiatives into law.
The committee I chair oversees firearms and weapons issues. Governor Raimondo has been a staunch advocate for sensible reform to our gun laws. We worked with her this year to enact "Red Flag" legislation to remove firearms from individuals who pose a clear danger to themselves or others, and to ban "bump stocks" that make semiautomatic weapons perform as if they were automatic. We worked in previous years to prohibit domestic abusers from possession of firearms, among many other steps.
Governor Raimondo worked with us to increase the minimum wage for three straight years – a proposal I have sponsored in the Senate each year – and we're leading the nation in terms of overall wage growth.
Her accomplishments are many, and any television viewer will likely be reminded of them often between now and the election.
But I know the Gina Raimondo behind the commercials. She is warm and caring, intelligent and exceptionally driven to do what is best for our state. When she meets someone who needs help, she intervenes in any way possible to provide any assistance she can. She is compassionate and always available to help a person in need. This is what I have seen when I have been with her out in our community in Warwick, and when I have worked with her at the State House. It is a rare combination of compassion and vision, caring and intellect that sets her apart as an outstanding Governor. Throughout this campaign season I have heard candidates use the phrase "the future is female." My response to that is the present is female. I hope that Rhode Islanders will join me in supporting her for reelection, first in the Democratic Primary on Wednesday, September 12, and then in November.
You must be overjoyed that Rhode Island is last on virtually every socioeconomic list in the country. With the latest being our roads and bridges. The problem in RI is that public service has proliferated into a life long position with far to many politicians holding their position for far too long, thinking that they own the seat. You included. Remind me please of what legislation you have introduced that has improved the quality of life in RI or just in Warwick for that matter. Having never seen you at a council meeting or at a budget hearing, my guess is that you simply do not care.
i was shocked and amazed last week when I spoke with another Warwick senator that had no idea how much the unfunded liabilities were in this city. No idea what our healthcare costs are at this point in time,, yet you folks are voting on legislation based upon "what the community can afford". What a joke.
Gina is a train wreck. Everything that she has touched has fallen apart. Pensions, roadworks, UHIP, registry, etc.. etc... etc.. As Ted Sidel has said, Raimondo has proliferated the largest financial crime in the history of Rhode Island. And you support that. Shameful.
Erin Lynch Prata theCaptain could not have said it better below. Clearly the only thing you learned from Gina is how to lie, pretend Warwick residents are idiots and the art of betrayal. Being a woman doesn't automatically qualify you or anyone else for a job. To insinuate that like you do is a first class insult to every female actually working hard and earning their way to the top. Hopefully you and Gina will have plenty of time to keep drinking the betrayal juice somewhere other than the State House after November. Even better would be after the primary. You and Gina must share the same mirror because no honest human would be able to look at and live with the reflection in yours.
I'm voting in the Democratic primary for Matt Brown just to stick it to Gina.
Then I will unaffiliate and vote for the Republican candidate who I hope is Patricia Morgan.
I am a proud member of the "Anybody but Gina" club.
What a wonderful idea, re-electing Gina. She's doing such a great job, isn't she?
The only good comment I have to make about a Democrat is that Seth Magaziner got us out of all her bad investments!
What is Sen. Erin Lynch Prata getting from Gina and the rest of the insiders to put her integrity on the line? That is the only reason I can think of as to why she would be crazy enough to put a bunch of lies in writing.


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Morris Brown College Adds Hotel Development Project To Its Campus With $30 Million Investment from CGI Merchant Group
By wp admin Media March 30, 2021
CGI Merchant Group, LLC (CGI), a minority-owned global investment management firm focusing on private equity and real estate, is making a $30 million investment in the historic Morris Brown College.
This new venture will support the more than one-hundred-year-old Historically Black College and University (HBCU) as it works to achieve its national accreditation and will fund the conversion of existing facilities into a 150-key upscale hotel and hospitality management training complex. Construction on the 90,000-square-foot state-of-the-art location is expected to begin later this year. Hilton, the global hospitality leader, will also play a prominent role, managing the hotel under its Tapestry Collection, spearheading curriculum development and offering internship and post-graduation career opportunities for Morris Brown's students.
Founded in 1881, Morris Brown has been a long-time advocate for the Black community, as the first college in Georgia owned and operated by African Americans. Over its long history, the college has produced notable alumni, including Alberta Williams King, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr., and James Alan McPherson, the first Black writer to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. That legacy continues with this partnership, making it the only HBCU in the nation with a flagged hotel and hospitality management training program directly on its campus.
"Many industries are pushing for diversity and inclusion, and the hospitality sector is no different. CGI hopes this partnership will serve as a catalyst for change and encourage others to support important institutions like Morris Brown," said CGI Senior Managing Director, Euclid Walker. "We are excited to be at the tip of the spear in our industry and grateful we found partners who share that vision."
While Black employment in hospitality is nearly 19 percent, the demographic is severely underrepresented in the industry's leadership roles, holding merely 1.5% of executive positions according to a 2020 report. An alumni and board member of the neighboring HBCU, Morehouse College, Walker helped conceptualize this project with the goal of making Morris Brown's hospitality program one of the top in the country and diversifying the sector it serves.
"The leadership qualities and sense of purpose I gained from attending an HBCU made me aware of the importance these institutions have in creating opportunities for people of all colors and creeds," said Walker. "It is a privilege to unite the investment world I work in with my own personal goals to meaningfully and measurably impact others."
For Dr. Kevin James, president of Morris Brown College, CGI's investment is also the latest milestone in his mission to re-establish the school as one of the region's leading academic institutions. Other recent notable accomplishments include getting the college's reaccreditation application approved in November 2020, an objective Morris Brown sought to achieve for nearly two decades. Following a successful onsite evaluation from its accreditor in January 2021, Morris Brown is on track to have the rights of a fully accredited college in April 2021, allowing the institution to apply for students to receive federal financial aid and recognition for their degrees.
"As our youth look for a future beyond the pandemic, which has disproportionately impacted the employment rates for people of color, HBCUs like Morris Brown are more important to their success than ever," said James. "With the support of CGI and other likeminded partners, we are providing the next generation with one-of-a-kind professional avenues, such as this hospitality program."
In addition to the creation of the hotel and training complex, CGI has committed to the establishment of an endowment to support several initiatives, including financial aid to students, future expansion goals, and assisting minority and women-owned businesses in the surrounding community.
Founded by formerly enslaved religious leaders with the goal of inspiring others to better themselves and the world, it is only fitting that over a century later, that philosophy lives on through individuals and organizations, like Dr. Kevin James and CGI Merchant Group, who have come together with the same commitment to progress and diversity Morris Brown's founders had.
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Most two-year-olds aren't too concerned with the cares of the world, but Bristol-based World Images isn't your average toddler. The archive is the alter-ego of World Television, a production company specializing in short-form news and current affairs projects for international organizations...
By Brendan Christie
Most two-year-olds aren't too concerned with the cares of the world, but Bristol-based World Images isn't your average toddler. The archive is the alter-ego of World Television, a production company specializing in short-form news and current affairs projects for international organizations like the World Wildlife Fund, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and the International Red Cross.
The archive is made up of about 10,000 hours of footage, shot by both World Television and the organizations themselves – sometimes in covert and dangerous circumstances. 'Over the last couple of years,' explains archive director Peter Sibley, 'we've been encouraging our organizations to develop their archives as a commercial asset. As a result, we've ended up with one of the world's largest specialized libraries.'
As might be expected, given the source of some of the material, the main focus of the collection is human rights, humanitarian, wildlife, environmental, and developmental issues. The archive also represents some exploratory and travel programming like U.K.-based Pilot Productions' Lonely Planet. While the library is only a couple of years old, much of the footage is far older. World Television has been working with some of the organizations for almost a decade, and some of their footage dates back 25 years (the majority of it being broadcast quality). 'Certainly for the last ten years,' observes Sibley, 'most of these organizations have been shooting high-quality, good production value material on Beta SP or other [higher quality formats].'
Some of the archive contains powerful and controversial images (like those of hangings and other executions), especially the footage garnered from such sources as Amnesty International. Sibley explains that such content can sometimes limit commercial viability, but for productions which require a hard-hitting, honest look at world issues, he can usually provide the footage – providing the outlet is acceptable to the organizations themselves.
'Part of World Images' role – which is quite a crucial element – is that we manage the archives on behalf of these organizations, to ensure that the images are not abused, and are used only the right way. The contract we have with the organizations [commits us to] check back with them on each footage request, which adds a level of security in the way that we manage their archives. It's very different from a lot of stock companies who will simply buy a collection and will then exploit the rights where they can.'
While few requests for footage are refused, it is not unheard of. In some cases, requests for Amnesty material can be refused for security reasons – if it could potentially compromise the safety of people working in the field. Some requests will also be refused for corporate use – corporations trying to look `green' by cutting Greenpeace images into advertising, for example. It is, however, in the organizations' best interest to get their footage into circulation, so requests are usually granted.
Although some of the footage is unique, Sibley says licensing is not set at a premium rate, but rather adheres to the industry-standard sliding scale, depending on footage use. World Images can offer producers world rights to all their footage, save Greenpeace's, where they only have U.K. rights. They can, however, mediate the deal with Greenpeace headquarters in Amsterdam.
World Television has recently been recognized for its work with a PR Week National Award for Best Broadcast Campaign. The award is unique in the U.K. and was earned for a series of six films under 15 minutes (distributed by satellite through Reuters), which the production company made for the World Wildlife Fund. The films concentrated on the Fund's drive for countries around the world to dedicate ten percent of their forest to preserves. According to World Images, the films garnered an international audience in excess of 250 million viewers.
World Television produces between 80 and 100 films every year, most of which are ten to fifteen minutes in length. All that footage, as well as the outs, eventually finds its way into the World Images archive.


Instacart, the retailers' delivery service, raised $600 million in a fresh round of funding, giving it a valuation of $7.6 billion.
According to a report in Recode, the funding round was led by D1 Capital Partners, the hedge fund, and comes just six months after the startup closed on a $350 million round of investing. At that time, the company had a valuation of $4.35 billion.
Investors who have given Instacart more than $1.6 billion over the past six years are betting that grocery delivery will become a normal part of shopping, and that there will be room for multiple delivery companies other than Amazon. Instacart does have some challenges, reported Recode, pointing to the fact that it charges customers delivery and service fees, which makes it more of a luxury than a necessity. What's more, the report noted that about 30 percent of its grocer partners mark up the prices in addition to the fees – and Instacart hasn't turned a profit yet.


My husband has a PhD in Mathematics, and because of this, we have the privilege of living in France for the year. It feels ridiculous, at times, how easy it is to get around Europe. The three hour plane ride to Turkey felt like nothing at all. Yet, there we were, in Istanbul! This will never get old to this American.
From Istanbul we had a one hour plane ride to Izmir, then from the airport, a one hour bus ride to the remote math village (yes, you read that right), just outside of Sirince. The village itself is beautiful and simple. Their website is here for more information. Though it looks as if it could have been there for hundreds of years, it is very new, having been built within the last 10 years. I am not a mathematician, so during the week, Noah and I explored, rested, and made friends with the only other kids there. One of the participants of the conference had brought her three daughters along for the week, and Noah became fast friends with them. The girls' grandmother was taking care of them while their mom attended talks. Noah and I didn't speak Turkish, and the girls and their grandmother didn't speak English, but we got along fine with sign language and laughter. I even got to paint a bit while Noah played with the girls. It was a great week to slow down and reflect. We ate delicious Turkish food and I drank more than my fair share of Turkish tea. I'm so glad to have these memories of this wonderful place.


Swedish actress and Ingmar Bergman's muse, Bibi Andersson dies at the age of 83. Best known for her roles in Wild Strawberries (1957), The Seventh Seal (1957) and Persona (1966), she collaborated with Ingmar Bergman in many other films.
Born as Berit Elisabeth Andersson the actress first worked with Ingmar on a soap commercial in 1951. She made her name as Elma in 1966's Persona which got her the Best Actress Award at the 4th Guldbagge Awards which is the Swedish honoree award equivalent to the Academy Awards.
Due to prolonged illness, Bibi Andersson died on Sunday, in Stockholm at the age of 83. "She has been sick for many years, but it is sad. I found out that Bibi passed away lunchtime today," her longtime friend and a film director Christina Olofsson confirmed her death to the Stockholm news outlet Aftonbladet.
She had been living in a Swedish nursing home ever since Andersson suffered from a stroke in 2009, which left her unable to speak making it ironic to her counterpart's turn in Bergman's Persona. Winning hearts of the many with her defying roles in major films, she also won Silver Bear for Best Actress award in 1963 at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival for her role in Vilgot Sjöman's film "The Mistress".
While she is well known in Sweden, the world cinema audience knows of her because of her constant collaboration with legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergan. She worked with him on more than 15 films. Having worked in more than 50 films, Bibi would be especially remembered for her incredible turns in John Huston's "The Kremlin Letter" and Robert Altman's "Quintet." In her early years, she joined the Dramaten (Royal Dramatic Theatre) and continued acting in films throughout her career. In the late 1990s, she started directing several plays for the Dramaten which is a Sweden's National Stage.
I'll rather watch a movie than fix my life right now.


Oct. 10 (UPI) -- South Korean singer IU is making her comeback with a new music video.
The 25-year-old K-pop star released a video for the single "BBIBBI" on Wednesday following the 10th anniversary of her debut.
The video shows IU wearing a number of cute and colorful ensembles. She promoted the video in a tweet Wednesday.
"#IU Digital Single '#BbiBbi' M/V," the singer wrote. "#IU #BBIBBI."
"BBIBBI" topped the major realtime charts in South Korea, including Melon, Genie, Bugs, Mnet, Naver and Soribada, according to Soompi. The video had received over 2.3 million views as of Wednesday morning.
"BBIBBI" marks IU's first release since the EP A Flower Bookmark 2, which debuted in October 2017. She released her debut EP, Lost and Found, in September 2008.


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