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Please Keep Mark Zuckerberg Away From My Bones
Shoshana Wodinsky
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Most of us might think of Facebook as the social network of choice for suburban moms and conspiracy theorists, but the company hasn't been shy about branching out to become much more than an app on our phones, even if that's the last thing we want. Here's an example: earlier today, Facebook put out a company blog post outlining its latest venture, this time into the wild world of medicine.
As the post explains, the company's AI-research wing—called FAIR—has spent the past two years quietly toiling alongside professionals at the NYU Langone Health Center to create what they call fastMRI: an algorithm that promises to cut down on the long-as-hell process of folks typically undergo when stepping into an MRI machine. They just need some photos of your bones to do it.
Okay, not all of your bones—at least not yet. The first round of research for the fastMRI program, at least thus far, is based exclusively off of a massive open-source library of pictures from a slew of knee-MRI's that NYU helpfully offered up for the sake of the project. By training a machine learning algo on these knees, the team was able to create an algorithm that can guesstimate an accurate MRI image using a fourth of the data that your typical MRI machine takes in when putting together a crystal-clear image of your bones or brain or what have you. Or put another way: because an algorithm's doing the heavy lifting here, you get to spend less time getting photographed while trapped inside a weird, noisy metal tube.
You see, the main reason that any given session in an average MRI machine can end up lasting more than an hour boils down to the way those machines work in the first place, which is... a bit complicated to explain. In short: if a machine is, say, taking a scan of a given person's head (or brain, as the case may be), that means applying super-strong magnetic forces to a person's head, shooting that head with a radio current, and then forming a composite image based on the behavior of the god-knows-how-many protons in that person's head once they've been subjected to those sorts of signals. As it turns out, the signals these protons give off can be very weak, which means that the whole mess might need to be repeated again and again in order to form a crystal-clear composite.
Using AI to cut-down on the time it takes to get that final picture isn't a new idea by any stretch, andI'll be the first to admit it sounds like a great idea—until you remember that Facebook's one of the names behind this particular project. This is a company whose insane rate of growth is largely built on gathering our data, bundling that data, and then sliding it over to third parties like major advertisers or federal agencies. And that's not including, y'know, all those massive data breaches the company somehow keeps finding itself at the center of.
And just like Facebook's ambitions as a platform, its data sources have also been rapidly branching out: Facebook doesn't just know what we're doing on its platform or on Instagram, it also knows what we buy, where we buy it, and, well, a ton of other stuff, thanks to its oodles of partnerships across a buffet of industries, including—surprise surprise—big pharma and medicine.
This year alone, the platform's made a noticeable push to court ad dollars from major medical brands, and it's been working, thanks in part to the pharma-data we've been freely giving up about ourselves online. And if that part of our medical history's being used for targeting, then, well, there isn't much stopping Facebook from doing the same with any other sort of medical dataset, even one that's sourced from our literal bones and organs. Generally, these sorts of details are supposed to be covered under legislature like HIPAA, but as we've covered before, the lines between what can and can't be monetized get kind of blurry depending on whether that data's sourced from a doctor or a tech company. And in the case of something like fastMRI—or something like Alphabet's Verily—we've got a partnership between public health and privatized tech, meaning that HIPAA might not be protecting these MRI-scans as much as we'd hope.
Facebook undoubtedly saw some of the potential discomfort before putting out this blog post, because the company snuck in this little disclaimer towards the middle:
(The fastMRI data used in the project, including scans used for the study, are from the open-source dataset that NYU Langone created in 2018. Before open-sourcing the data, NYU Langone ensured that all scans were de-identified, and no patient information was available to reviewers or researchers working on the fastMRI project. No Facebook user data was contributed to creation of the fastMRI data set.)
Okay, so it looks like these bone-scans aren't being used for tracking and targeting—at least, not yet—but the team's own blog post makes it sound like the fastMRI project isn't going to just stop with pictures of stranger's knees. "Today's clinical study is an important step forward, but there are many more advances to come. Next, Facebook AI and NYU Langone researchers want to show that fastMRI works just as well with other vital organs, such as the brain," Facebook wrote.
Even if we're going to scrap the whole "my bones are being used against me" narrative (which, I'll admit, is more speculative than I'd prefer), there's still a ton of reasons that you shouldn't want this company anywhere near your medical data. This is a company that's shown again and again that it'll put its profit margin before the safety of its users, no matter how much it tries to pretend otherwise. Hell, the same day that Facebook put out this AI research, reports emerged that the company is still witholding evidence about its role in the wave of genocides in Myanmar back in 2017. Here in the states, the company's continuously struggled to take any action against the antivaxx groups that've already caused at least one child's death. And, of course, there's the whole alleged goat murdering thing.
I'm not saying Facebook's medical research won't genuinely help anyone, but I am saying that maybe fastMRI would be less icky if it was being spearheaded by absolutely any other company.
I cover the business of data for Gizmodo. Send your worst tips to swodinsky@gizmodo.com.
A Drop of Hell, A Touch of Strange
Just when I've decided that Zuckerberg is a malfunctioning android sent from the future like the wimpiest Terminator ever he goes and shows himself to be something different. Specifically a ghoul which I'm not sure is an improvement. Soon enough they'll find him in a graveyard claiming he's digging up 'data'. That's all us humans are to him anyway. He's like Renfield but the insects are salable information.


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That Fiji Feeling
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I regret to inform you that we have all been wildly misinformed about pineapple. I'd been going through life fishing rings of the stuff out of tin cans onto gammon and indulging my controversial affection for it on pizza, so I cavalierly assumed I had a pretty good idea of what it tastes like. I was wrong. I realise my mistake the moment I casually bite into a slice of freshly-picked pineapple and it explodes in my mouth: sweet and rich. It's like hearing Beethoven's Fifth when you'd been expecting a drunk banging on a bin. It's as if happiness itself had a taste.
At the moment of my epiphany I'm standing in the kitchen of Sala Lacabuka's home, in the tiny village of Vacalea. With a population somewhere around 80, it sits on a hilltop towards the eastern end of Kadavu, Fiji's fourth largest island. The house was built by hand by her husband Seimisi and is painted a slightly deeper shade of blue than the vast sky above. When Sala started preparing dinner – tuna, spinach, eggplant and the tropical root vegetable, taro – Seimisi picked a baby pineapple from one of the plants outside and sliced it up to serve as a snack. We eat greedily, while above our heads shiny DVDs hang from the ceiling, catching the fading light. Sala's incongruous choice of decoration is a complete box set of Scrubs.
Outside the window every child in the village – from toddler to teenager – is engaged in an energetic game of pani, a local game roughly equivalent to dodgeball. Behind them the sunset is beginning to turn the horizon candy-floss pink. Earlier, approaching the village by boat, thick green vegetation had made the whole place appear uninhabited, and there are no cars or roads on this side of the island. At 411km2, Kadavu is just slightly bigger than the Isle of Wight – but home to an awful lot more palm trees swaying over white sandy beaches. The sea is turquoise and clear. Pineapples grow freely. If you were ever shipwrecked on Kadavu, you probably wouldn't be in any particular hurry to be rescued. For their part, the islanders don't seem to be in any particular hurry about anything. Sala's catchphrase is: 'Take your time, no rush.'
I'd come to Fiji to find out why people here are so happy. A 2017 Gallup poll found that 92% of people who live in Fiji describe themselves as 'happy' or 'very happy', the highest proportion anywhere in the world. This statistic comes as no surprise to Seimisi, who as well as growing most of the food we'll eat tonight also farms kava, the root crop used to make a mildly sedating drink which is Fiji's main form of social lubrication. As we sit down to dinner, joined by their children Lusiana and Samuela, Seimisi points to the bountiful natural harvest spread out on the table in front of us as one of the reasons why Fijians are so content.
'No money, no worries,' he says. 'In your country, you need to have money. Here you can pull up cassava and taro from the ground and get fish from the sea. In the evening you can drink kava. You may have no money, but you have no worries either.'
Be hospitable
The plentiful food also helps to facilitate Fiji's culture of generosity and hospitality. Sala, who works as a manager at the nearby Matava Resort, invites guests to come and stay in her village. She's just as welcoming to her own neighbours. 'We keep our door open,' she says, and she means this literally. The front door has been propped open all day. 'We're eating now, and whoever walks past we'll say: 'Come, have dinner!' Anyone can just walk in if they feel like coming in. If they're starving they'll just come straight away and we'll serve them food. Families don't cook just the right portion. We cook extra so that we can invite anyone to come and have a meal with us.'
This sense of tight-knit community is strengthened by the islanders' rich folklore and collective mythology. Over the dinner table Lusiana cuts off her parents to eagerly regale us with the story of Dakuwaqa, the fearsome Fijian shark god who was only defeated in battle by an octopus who lived in the shallow waters around Kadavu. 'When they fought, the octopus wrapped his arms around the shark and used two of them to block the shark's nostrils,' explains Lusiana. 'The shark surrendered and promised he would never bite or eat any Kadavu people.' Local fishermen claim Dakuwaqa has protected them from shark attacks ever since.
After dinner I settle down for bed on a foam mattress in Sala's living room and am quickly lulled to sleep by the quiet of the village. A chorus of cockerels breaks the silence a little before 6am, but another couple of hours pass before Sala appears in the kitchen to start shaping dough to bake into fresh buns. 'In island life this is how we do breakfast,' she says with a shrug. 'There's no rush.'
Most of the men who live in Vacalea are farmers, like Seimisi. For those women who don't work in tourism like Sala there are more traditional forms of employment, such as weaving grass mats from pandanus leaves. A couple of doors down from Sala's house I meet Kelera Raivasi, who learned to weave this way when she was just six years old. 'All through Fijian history people have been weaving like this,' she says. 'The skill is passed from grandmother to mother to daughter.'
She sits on the mat as she works, happy to chat away as the weaving has long since become second nature. Her eyes light up when she hears that I plan to visit Bouma National Park on Taveuni, another island 200 miles to the north-east. Slightly larger than Kadavu, it is known as Fiji's 'Garden Isle' because of the incredible diversity of its flora and fauna. By chance Kelera's in-laws live there, and she's spotted an opportunity to display that characteristic Fijian generosity. 'The head man of that village is called Iosefo, he's my husband's father,' she explains as she fetches two sulus, the Fijian sarong. 'Can I give you these to take to him and his wife? He looks after the waterfalls. They're beautiful.'
Cherish nature
Bouma National Park lives up to Kelera's billing. A three-hour hike through the teeming rainforest reveals three waterfalls, each forming its own perfect pool. After the long climb I can't resist the chance to dive in, washing the sweat from by body in the cool, fresh water. From vantage points near the top of the trail the island appears entirely untamed, a sea of green from which coconut palm trees grow like church spires. As I walk downhill, hibiscus, gardenia and heliconia flowers provide bright splashes of colour while frogs and purple shore crabs cross my path. In a small village near the entrance to the park I meet Chief Iosefo Raupuga, who welcomes me to his simple home and happily accepts Kelera's sulus. As we talk, he points out that this pristine natural environment can't be taken for granted. His community had to fight for it.
He explains that in the 1980s, a Korean logging company did a deal with the most powerful chief on the island to turn Taveuni's trees into timber. They even went so far as to construct a sawmill. However, the chief still needed to get the assent of the various village chiefs, which at that time included Iosefo's father. They all refused, the deal fell through and the barely-used sawmill fell into disrepair. In a poetic twist, the mill itself is now part of the forest, overgrown and tied up with vines. A tall, unfelled palm towers over the forgotten doorway.
'They turned down a lot of money,' says Iosefo. 'They decided the island was more important. They were thinking of future generations, and I think they made a wise choice. Now we're reaping the benefits of it. Money comes into the village from the tourists who visit the waterfalls every day.'
Like everyone I meet, Iosefo quickly agrees with the portrayal of Fijians as happy people. 'We're happy because we live as a community,' he says. 'We live as neighbours among these beautiful surroundings and we can always go and talk to the other villagers, our brothers and sisters.'
This sense of togetherness is another clue towards understanding Fijian happiness. Importantly, it even extends across what other countries would called 'religious and cultural divides'. While around 64% of the population identifies – like Sala and Seimisi – as Christian, the sizable Indo-Fijian population helps explain why 28% of the population are Hindu.
Many of those Indo-Fijians live on nearby Vanua Levu, which at 12 times the size of Taveuni is significantly larger than the two previous islands I've visited and has much to explore. On the south coast near Savusavu I stroll along a white sandy beach and swim surrounded by tiny but curious fish. The island's biggest town, Labasa, is home to almost 30,000 people – a heaving metropolis by Fijian standards built around one main street, with a bustling market and a busy bus station. Just outside of town is one of Fiji's most significant Hindu religious sites: Naag Mandir, literally 'Snake Temple'. The red and yellow building contrasts sharply against the rolling hills and is built around a three metre tall rock which resembles, from certain angles, a cobra. Some Hindus believe that this island is the place referred to in their scriptures as Ramanaka Dweep, where Lord Krishna sent a snake god.
When I visit, the rock is garlanded in red, yellow and white flowers. Although the priest's chanting echoes around the room, there is a sense of stillness. Families from as far afield as Australia and New Zealand kneel, pray and give offerings of apples, bananas, coconuts and milk. The air is thick with the smell of burning camphor.
After the families leave the priest introduces himself as Anil Maharaj, and explains why people travel such distances to pray here. 'They come to have their desires fulfilled,' he explains. 'Their problems are solved and their sicknesses are healed.' He adds that religious tensions in Fiji are non-existent. 'There are never any problems here,' he says. 'It's a beautiful country. People are very happy.'
In Fiji that happiness springs from many wells. It's easiest to see in the natural beauty of those untouched beaches and waterfalls, but it rises too from the strength of the communities that protect them. It's there in the spirit of hospitality, the giving of gifts for no reason, and sometimes it's in places you might not expect it – like that first bite of really fresh pineapple.
Published in Lonely Planet Traveller, January 2020.
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I'm going to say something really radical here. Are you ready? Sitting down?
I like roasting chicken cut up, rather than whole.
I know this is clearly not the mark of a real cook. I admit it. I am not a real cook. I am a busy, multitasking, corner-cutting home cook. And I have a butcher who is willing to do all the messy stuff.
So I go to the wonderful Bob's Market, just around the corner, and I ask Rich the butcher for two of their terrific corn-fed whole chickens. And I ask him to cut them up for me. He knows how I like it by now: in eighths, with the backbones in a separate package for making stock.
I come home with four legs, four wings, four breast halves, and four thighs, which go onto baking sheets. No, I do not separate the dark and light meat. I like them to commingle, so that the fat from the dark is available to baste the light. I sprinkle everything with a generous amount of garlic salt, which I consider to be a deity among seasonings. And then into the oven it goes.
The oven I preheat to 450. When I slide in the chicken, I turn on the convection for 15 minutes. No more, or things will be dried out. I find that the blast of circulating hot air gives the skin a head start on crisping. After this initial period, I turn off the convection and turn the oven down to 375. About 40 minutes later, it's all done. Oh, I look in on it occasionally, baste once or twice. But that's all the TLC this chicken requires.
While the chicken is roasting I start the stock. I put the backs and any odd scraps of fat I've pulled off the thighs into a pot with water and turn it on. No onion or carrot or anything else. Just chicken. I let that simmer until the roasted chicken is done.
The first thing I do when the chicken is cool enough to handle is to eat the wings. All of them. All by myself. My reward for being the cook. Haven't you wondered, Michael, why there are never any wings on the chickens I roast? Ha.
And then I do something completely un-real-cook-like.
I get out a big plastic container. I take all the chicken meat off the bones. Some comes off in big pieces, some I have to pick. Doesn't matter. This chicken I will serve to my kids, or put into quesadillas, or make into chicken salad, or throw into a casserole. It is a necessary component of my culinary life.
And I take all the bones and skin - including the ones left from the wings after I've devoured them - and throw them into the stock pot. Using already-roasted chicken scraps gives my stock a full, meaty flavor you just don't get from raw chicken. My chicken stock takes like big, fat, weightlifting chickens. Nothing delicate about it. The stock simmers for another hour or so. I strain it, cool it, de-fat it, and put it away for soup, or casseroles, or cooking rice in, or a hundred other things.
Wherefore art thou, Bon Appetit?
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Hooey? Just a bunch of fooey!
I'm currently in the middle of a 12-week mindfulness course. You'll hear more about why I'm in this course in another post. For now, just know that I'm in the class.
This week, a part of our homework is to practice a self-compassion meditation. Accepting compassion as "a desire to alleviate another's suffering," self-compassion is a true desire to alleviate one's own suffering. Suffering is also very broad…it can be everything from mild discomfort to the most incredible emotional or physical pain. For the work of the meditation, we are asked to be mindful of compassion that we can feel toward others and to slowly realize some compassion for ourselves, too.
Right now, it's much easier for me to contemplate compassion for someone I know who is suffering in some way. The desire to alleviate emotional or physical pain for someone I care about comes much more quickly than a desire to alleviate my own turmoils. In fact, it's easier for me to feel compassion even for the difficult people in my life before applying it to myself.
May you/I be kind to myself.
May you/I accept myself as I am.
May you/I feel at ease.
These are so simple when I'm wishing these things for my husband, an old friend, or an acquaintance. But even after settling into the exercise and repeating these phrases directed at me, there's a little voice in the back of my head that says "yeah, but…" or "you don't really believe that for yourself." All themes for how my mind talks to itself. All things for me to be aware of, listening for, and naming when they come up throughout the day.


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A Mirror into Ken's Past -- 1996
At the SCA's Twelfth Night (January) a couple of things happened. Carolyn had written a play the previous year called "Peermalion", based rather loosely on "Pygmalion". It was an SCA morality play (why do people do some of the things that they do in the SCA, what motivates them, good examples, bad examples ...). The Golden Stag Players presented it at this event and got a huge standing ovation. People still talk about this play, which is pretty cool.
At the same event Carolyn became the "Chancellor of Scribes" for the Kingdom (this was her second go around in this position). One of the things she did was to ask me to write a software program (using dBASE) to handle the backlog of thousands of scrolls that the scribes were responsible for creating. This was a fairly hefty undertaking as the database then had to be populated, and updated based on information that was available from the past. It's not as easy as it sounds! It was a task that I jumped into feet first. I also worked on the Scribe's Handbook finishing up what someone else had started, getting it all into the computer, getting a clean master printed so that Carolyn could something out there for the scribes, so they could work on that huge backlog.
Then I got a job offer that was just too hard for me to refuse. It wasn't really an offer, but ... Ken Chan, formerly of TeamB, was working on the dBASE Team at Borland, doing documentation. He told me about an opening in Quality Assurance for dBASE. I applied, and got the job. OH NO! Carolyn and I had been using her father's old truck, which had four cylinders and a manual transmission. Getting to Scotts Valley from El Cerrito meant heavy traffic and going over Highway 17, which goes into the "Santa Cruz Mountains" (sorry, it's the Alaskan in me -- when it comes to Mountains, these aren't big ...). The highway is a tricky one, and so we decided to get a better car for this -- one with an automatic transmission, but with enough power (six cylinder) to handle 17 on a daily basis. We got a used Ford Taurus Wagon (which at the time I'm writing this, we're still using).
I started at Borland and spent two years driving there and back every day (or nearly so). Somewhere in here Tim and Laurie had moved to Santa Cruz, as had Jeff (he was living with Tarik, a friend of Tim's). This was convenient because if traffic was horrid on 17, or if I'd worked late, or whatever, I could crash over at Tim and Laurie's house. The one drawback to working at Borland was that I couldn't be a member of TeamB, but that's the way it worked. Despite what it sounds like once I got past the worst of the traffic, I actually enjoyed the drive. Going to Scotts Valley was a "reverse commute" -- most people were LEAVING Scotts Valley as I was going into it, and vice versa. It meant 17 wasn't as bad that way. If I'd had the "normal" commute there, it would have been hellish.
Shortly after I got hired on to work on the next version of dBASE (Visual dBASE 6.0, 32-bit architecture) the developers came up with an idea for a web-based database software package called IntraBuilder. I was told to learn JavaScript so, away I went. That was kind of fun, but it wasn't dBASE. Well, it was sort of. For the technogeeks -- this software was actually merged with the dBASE source code in C, so that changes made to one affected the other in the core software (which was still the new 32-bit dBASE code). IntraBuilder was the hot product at the Borland conference that year ... at least in theory.
In the two years I drove to Scotts Valley for work I got hit twice, once per year. That was annoying. The first was by a guy who fell asleep at the wheel in his pickup truck, hit the guy behind me, who then hit me. The second one was a straight hit, but it hurt my back a bit. Luckily we had insurance ... In both cases the car had to spend some time in the shop.
In the SCA there was a Thirty-Year celebration held in Texas. We didn't attend, because it was long, and we needed our vacation time. I thought I'd mention it to show that the SCA was still trundling along. Carolyn and I were still attending events, and still doing those things we did, including the Golden Stag Players.
The Borland Conference came and went, I went as a speaker, but I had to share a room with someone else from the company. I'd gotten spoiled at previous conferences, as speakers who weren't employees got their own rooms.
On the plus side, this conference was in Anaheim, and therefore the big party of the conference was a free evening at Disneyland. Not that big a deal since Carolyn and I usually went every year (although not this year), except that the Indiana Jones ride was brand spanking new. Unfortunately we didn't get the deal that we had when the conference was in Orlando where we had the park to ourselves. But, it was still fun, but exhausting.
The TeamB conference in Scotts Valley happened. I was no longer on TeamB, so while they were in town I came and visited, but I wasn't part of the whole TeamB conference thing. It was sort of a letdown, since in a way I was largely responsible for the makeup of the dBASE Team. dBASE wasn't being supported much by the head-honchos at Borland, which was depressing, but the community was still out there. dBASE had been around almost from the beginning of the PC industry, and it wasn't dead yet, as much as Microsoft and some others wished it might be. Some folk were still pushing hard, including Alan Katz, to keep the software alive.
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Q: Proof of Quadratic Approximation to $f(\mathbf{\vec{x}})$ Let $\mathbf{\vec{x}} = \left[\begin{array}{c} x_1 \\ x_2 \\ x_3 \\ . \\ . \\ . \\ x_n \end{array}\right]$ and $f(\mathbf{\vec{x}}): \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}$, $n \in \mathbb{N}$ be a scalar-valued function, then its Quadratic approximation $Q(\mathbf{\vec{x}})$ about a point $\mathbf{\vec{x}}_0$ is given by:
$$Q(\mathbf{\vec{x}}) = f(\mathbf{\vec{x}}_0) + \mathbf{\nabla}f(\mathbf{\vec{x}}_0)^T (\mathbf{\vec{x} - \vec{x}}_0) + \dfrac{1}{2} (\mathbf{\vec{x} - \vec{x}}_0)^T \mathbf{H}_f (\mathbf{\vec{x}}_0) (\mathbf{\vec{x} - \vec{x}}_0)$$
where $\mathbf{\nabla}f$ is the gradient and $\mathbf{H}_f$ the Hessian matrix of $f$.
We know that the function $Q(\mathbf{\vec{x}})$ is suppose to have the same output, first and second partial derivatives as $f(\mathbf{\vec{x}})$ at the point $\mathbf{\vec{x}}_0$.
Clearly, $Q(\mathbf{\vec{x}}_0) = f(\mathbf{\vec{x}}_0)$. Now, how do I prove the following?:

$$\mathbf{\nabla}Q(\mathbf{\vec{x}}_0) = \mathbf{\nabla}f(\mathbf{\vec{x}}_0)$$
$$\mathbf{H}_Q(\mathbf{\vec{x}}_0) = \mathbf{H}_f(\mathbf{\vec{x}}_0)$$

A: You can verify that the gradients and Hessian agree by direct calculation.  Observe that both $\nabla f[\vec{\mathbf x}_0]$ and ${\mathbf H}_f[\vec{\mathbf x}_0]$ are constants, so the second term of $Q$ is a linear function of $\vec{\mathbf x}-\vec{\mathbf x}_0$ and the third term a quadratic form in $\vec{\mathbf x}-\vec{\mathbf x}_0$. (I use square brackets to indicate evaluation at a point in an attempt at disambiguation in the following.)
Analogous to the single-variable differentiation rule $(cx)'=c$ we have $$\nabla(\vec{\mathbf v}^T\vec{\mathbf x}) = \nabla\left(\sum_i v_ix_i\right) = \vec{\mathbf v},$$ therefore $$\nabla(\nabla f[\vec{\mathbf x}_0]^T(\vec{\mathbf x}-\vec{\mathbf x}_0)) = \nabla(\nabla f[\vec{\mathbf x}_0]^T\vec{\mathbf x})-\nabla(\nabla f[\vec{\mathbf x}_0]^T\vec{\mathbf x}_0) = \nabla f[\vec{\mathbf x}_0].$$ More generally, the differential of a linear function $A\mathbf x$ of $\mathbf x$ is $A$—the best linear approximation to a linear map is the map itself.
For the quadratic term, we can use the product rule $\nabla(u^Tv)=u^T\nabla v+(\nabla u)^Tv$: $$\begin{align} \nabla\left(\frac12(\vec{\mathbf x}-\vec{\mathbf x}_0)^T{\mathbf H}_f[\vec{\mathbf x}_0](\vec{\mathbf x}-\vec{\mathbf x}_0)\right) &= \frac12 (\vec{\mathbf x}-\vec{\mathbf x}_0)^T \nabla({\mathbf H}_f[\vec{\mathbf x}_0](\vec{\mathbf x}-\vec{\mathbf x}_0)) + \frac12(\nabla(\vec{\mathbf x}-\vec{\mathbf x}_0))^T{\mathbf H}_f[\vec{\mathbf x}_0](\vec{\mathbf x}-\vec{\mathbf x}_0) \\
&= \frac12 (\vec{\mathbf x}-\vec{\mathbf x}_0)^T {\mathbf H}_f[\vec{\mathbf x}_0] + \frac12 {\mathbf H}_f[\vec{\mathbf x}_0](\vec{\mathbf x}-\vec{\mathbf x}_0) \\
&= {\mathbf H}_f[\vec{\mathbf x}_0](\vec{\mathbf x}-\vec{\mathbf x}_0) \end{align}$$ since ${\mathbf H}_f$ is symmetric. This vanishes at $\vec{\mathbf x}_0$, therefore $\nabla Q[\vec{\mathbf x}_0] = \nabla f[\vec{\mathbf x}_0]$. (We could've gotten to this without actually differentiating by noting that the result must be a linear combination of $x_i-x_{0i}$ terms, all of which vanish.)
For ${\mathbf H}_Q[\vec{\mathbf x}_0]$ we can proceed in a similar fashion by differentiating $\nabla Q = \nabla f[\vec{\mathbf x}_0]+{\mathbf H}_f[\vec{\mathbf x}_0](\vec{\mathbf x}-\vec{\mathbf x}_0)$ directly, producing ${\mathbf H}_f[\vec{\mathbf x}_0]$ per the earlier observation regarding the differential of a linear function, or note that the Hessian of a constant or linear function vanishes, while the Hessian of a quadratic form is 2 times the (constant) matrix of the form (analogously to the single-variable $(ax^2)''=2a$), so that the only term that survives when computing the Hessian directly from $Q$ is ${\mathbf H}_f[\vec{\mathbf x}_0]$.

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Q: python open HTTP or HTTPS session over TCP and listen I need to open an HTTP or HTTPS session over TCP and listen for events being sent from a remote server, can anyone point me in the right direction. Been playing with python's "socket" module, am I headed in the right direction...
Thanks!

A: If it's a normal HTTP session, you should be able to use typical web page-handling libraries such as urllib2.  But if you're trying to do something particularly unusual or non-standards-compliant at the TCP level like open an HTTP session but not treat it as a normal HTTP connection, you should use twisted.  Twisted is a networking library for Python that will give you all the flexibility at the networking level you could possibly need.  In particular you might want something like this: http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/clients.html

A: Take a look at BaseHTTPServer (also available in HTTPS).  You will need to implement your own request handler logic to process the data coming from the remote application.


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Q: Find the critical points of the following system I want to find the critical points of the following three-dimensional system:
\begin{align}
\dot{x_1} &= x_1 - x_1x_2 - x_2^3 + x_3(x_1^2 + x_2^2 - 1 - x_1 + x_1x_2 + x_2^3)\\
\dot{x_2} &= x_1 - x_3(x_1 - x_2 + 2x_1x_2)\\
\dot{x_3} &= (x_3 - 1)(x_3 + 2x_3x_2^2 + x_3^3)
\end{align}
I know that the critical points of the system can be found by solving
\begin{align}
x_1 - x_1x_2 - x_2^3 + x_3(x_1^2 + x_2^2 - 1 - x_1 + x_1x_2 + x_2^3)= 0\\
x_1 - x_3(x_1 - x_2 + 2x_1x_2) = 0\\
(x_3 - 1)(x_3 + 2x_3x_2^2 + x_3^3) = 0
\end{align}
for $x$, so that's what I've tried to do. From the second equation I find that
$$
x_3 = \dfrac{x_1}{x_1 - x_2+2x_1x_2}
$$
From the third equation I find that
$$
x_2 = \sqrt{-1/2 - x_3^2/2}
$$
or $x_3 = 1$. Unfortunately, I don't really know how to proceed from here. If I plug in $x_3$ in $x_2$ I don't get anywhere. Furthermore, I don't know how to find $x_1$.
Question: How do I find the critical points of the system described above?

A: I would start with the 3rd equation
$$ (x_3-1)x_3(x_3^2+2x_2^2 + 1)=0.$$
Since the third factor is always positive, $x_3= 0$ or $x_3=1$.
Case A: $x_3=0$. Substituting $x_3=0$ in equation 2 gives $x_1=0$. Then equation 1 reduces to $-x_2^3 =0$, so $x_2=0$.
Case B: $x_3=1$. Substituting $x_3=1$ in equation 1 gives $x_1^2+x_2^2=1$. Moreover, equation 2 reduces to $x_2(1-2x_1)=0$. From the latter it follows that  $x_2=0$ or $x_1= 1/2$.
Case B.1 $x_3=1$, $x_2=0$. Equation 1 simplifies to $x_1^2=1$, so $x_1 = \pm 1$.
Case B.2 $x_3=1$, $x_1=1/2$. Equation 1 simplifies to $x_2^2=3/4$, so $x_2 = \pm \frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}$.


Sina Sohrab was born in Tehran and raised in Detroit; Joseph Guerra is a native Los Angeleno who grew up outside Atlanta. Yet when the pair met as undergrads at RISD, their backgrounds turned out to be their most influential commonality: "There was this emphasis in both our families on earning your possessions and respecting them — it's something we really connected on," recalls Sohrab. "Joey's dad, for example, had this idea that he wanted all of his possessions to reference an older possession he'd had at another point in his life. This timeline of objects and the idea of emotional value became really important to us." Upon graduating in 2012, the duo knew they wanted to team up; Sohrab moved to New York and took a job at Bec Brittain studio, while Guerra spent six months in Europe working for Industrial Facility and Big-Game before joining him. They're now hunkered down in Brooklyn preparing to launch their first collaborative collection during ICFF in May, under the name Visibility.
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CCE February 7, 2017
Ryerson reveals design for newest building
Buildings Moriyama and Teshima Architects Ryerson University
The design will preserve an original three-storey historic building, inserting two additions with green roofs.
Rendering of the new Centre for Urban Innovation at Ryerson University in Toronto
Ryerson University has unveiled the design for its new Centre for Urban Innovation building, a research, incubation and commercialization hub focused on solutions to urban infrastructure issues.
Designed by Moriyama & Teshima Architects, the Centre will provide 40,000 sq. ft. of research and fabrication space for faculty and students conducting research on alternative energy, water management, food production and data analytics. Construction has begun and the projected completion date is July 2018, with projected opening in September, 2018.
The building site at 44 Gerard St. E. in Toronto, was the first school of pharmacy in Canada (built in 1886), and in 1963 Ryerson acquired the heritage site which housed the university's department of architectural technology and later Ryerson's performance and journalism programs.
The new design preserves the original three-storey historic building, inserting two additions with green roofs. The alterations include a three storey (north) and a five storey (south) additions. The design will conserve the heritage resources by retaining the original 1891 building in its entirety and a substantial portion of a 1940s addition. The north addition is attached to the existing building with a link that steps back from the heritage building facade and has a reduced height that reveals the north elevation. The new south addition is separated from the original building with a three storey sky-lighted atrium. The exterior of the additions will be clad in a metal siding that will act as a growing medium for vines.
The major spaces within the building will be retained, including the original 19th century lecture hall. The project is designed to LEED silver standards, adaptively reusing the existing building and reducing the construction footprint.
"The materiality and details for the building and its interiors are meant to convey a light touch that draws from the innovative nature of the Centre," says Carol Phillips, lead architect at MTA. "The new additions will be distinguished by metal elements, glass and wood to express the aspirations of the program: efficiency, clarity and lightness in our use of energy and resources for sustainability and health."
Aerial rendering of new Centre for Urban Innovation at Ryerson
The Centre of Urban Innovation will be home to:
The Centre for Urban Energy: focusing on clean energy and alternative energy innovation, including smart grid technology, energy storage, net-zero homes and renewables. Founded in 2010, CUE has launched major projects involving electric cars, wind and solar energy, and battery storage systems
The Smart Urban Infrastructure Hub: combining expertise in engineering and business to examine urban infrastructure and transportation logistics
Ryerson Urban Water Institute: develops cost-effective solutions to support a healthy urban water cycle
Data Analytics Lab: develops techniques for the structure and use of data in fields such as health care, software engineering, social media and finance.
"The striking design of the Centre for Urban Innovation preserves the building's rich history while transforming it into a modern state-of-the-art research facility," said Ryerson president and vice-Chancellor Mohamed Lachemi. "We are grateful for the investments from the provincial and federal governments, which will create new spaces and opportunities for Ryerson researchers to collaborate on finding solutions to critical to urban issues."
The Centre for Urban Innovation was made possible by a $19.8 million investment from the federal government, and the building is set to open in September 2018. This development is led by the Project Management Office within Ryerson's Facilities Management and Development department.
Construction manager: PCL Constructors
Architect: Moriyama & Teshima Architects
Structural engineer: LEA Consulting
Mechanical & electrical/ IT: Crossey Engineering
Heritage: ERA Architects
LEED/ sustainability: RWDI
Lab consultants: NXL Architects
Civil engineer: A.M. Candaras
Geotechnical engineer: Sirati & Partners
Landscape architect: PLANT Architects
Environmental consultant: ECOH
Traffic consultant: BA Group
Montreal reveals design for new urban park
Library and Archives Canada's reveals design for net-zero preservation centre
Company news round-up: Hatch in China, WSP on New Mobility, and IBI at Ryerson
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New $126 million Gouin bridge project for Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu begins
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HomeFloralDavid Kirby Appointed Executive Vice President of TreeTown USA/Village Nurseries/Hines Growers
David Kirby Appointed Executive Vice President of TreeTown USA/Village Nurseries/Hines Growers
TreeTown USA/Village Nurseries/Hines Growers Floral February 7, 2019
HOUSTON– TreeTown USA CEOJonathan Saperstein today announced David Kirby has been appointed to the position of executive vice president of TreeTown USA/Village Nurseries/Hines Growers.
Kirby will report directly to Saperstein in the newly-created position while based at the company's Western Division headquarters in Orange, Calif.
His career spanned nearly 30 years, most recently at Azusa, Calif.-based Monrovia Nursery Company, where he acquired a wide-ranging knowledge of plants and growing conditions. This experience was instrumental in creating successful retail programs throughout the country.
"It's a tremendous opportunity to join such a great team of experienced industry professionals who have the knowledge, commitment and resources to become the #1 nursery in America," Kirby said. "With the combined experience in the rewholesale, landscape, mass merchant and IGC retail market segments, TreeTown USA is in the best possible position to develop the right plant mix and customer programs to grow with our changing industry."
"After an extensive national search, we were fortunate to recruit David Kirby as our new executive VP," Saperstein said. "He'll assume responsibility for a number of key functions including leading our national sales team. David has built an enviable reputation as an extraordinary leader with a thorough knowledge of the nursery business. He will become a key executive in what I consider one of the strongest leadership teams in the industry."
Kirby is an active member of the California Association of Nursery and Garden Centers. In 2014 he was honored by Texas Tech University's College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources as a distinguished Alumni. The award is bestowed on graduates whose careers bring distinction to the college and to their professions in agriculture and natural resources.
In conjunction with the Kirby appointment, David House is retiring after 37 years with the company, first as Village Nurseries CEO, then president of the West Coast Division of TreeTown USA.
"I believe the sale of the company to TreeTown USA is the best thing that could have ever happened to Village Nurseries," House said. "We are now part of a much larger family, one that continues to grow under the leadership of Jonathan Saperstein. While the company continues to grow, it still maintains the same family-like culture we shared at Village which is something everyone should be proud to be a part of. On a more personal note, I am certain that my father, Tom, who started the company and has since passed, is proud of all of our accomplishments and certainly where the company is heading."
Saperstein commented, "David House's industry knowledge and proven leadership abilities helped propel Village Nurseries into one of America's most successful wholesale nurseries dedicated to landscape professionals. Bringing him into the TreeTown USA family was one of the major factors in acquiring his company. We wish him a wonderful, productive, and stress-free retirement from the nursery industry."
About TreeTown USA/Village Nurseries/Hines Growers
TreeTown USA, founded in 2001, is a privately-owned business headquartered in Houston, Texas, with 18 growing facilities totaling over 6,000 production acres across Texas, Florida, Oregon and California. With its recent acquisition of a West Coast Division, including Village Nurseries and Hines Growers, the combined company now has a coast-to-coast footprint for its broad mix of high-quality plant material that includes over 5,000 unique plant selections and variations. To learn more about TreeTown USA, visit the company's website at http://www.treetownusa.com.
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TreeTown USA Acquires Midas Nursery Solutions
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TreeTown USA announced today it has acquired one of the leading horticulture automation companies, Midas Nursery Solutions of Hillsboro, Oregon for an undisclosed amount. …
TreeTown USA Sponsors UC Davis SmartLandscape Program for Developing Water-Conserving Landscapes
May 21, 2019 TreeTown USA
TreeTown USA today announced it has made a donation to the University of California, Davis' California Center for Urban Horticulture (CCUH) to help develop water-conserving landscapes under its SmartLandscape Initiative. It is part of the company's ongoing commitment to support the horticulture industry in providing resource conservation and sustainable urban landscapes, …
Father and Son Team Built Village Nurseries into a Wholesale Powerhouse
May 1, 2019 TreeTown USA
Village Nurseries, the West Coast Division of TreeTown USA, today announced the father and son team of Tom and David House, who built the company into a preeminent wholesale nursery for landscape professionals, will be among eight industry achievers honored for their contributions to the green industry by the Green Industry Hall of Fame at an awards ceremony and dinner to be held May 4, 2019 at the Proud Bird Event Center, 11022 Aviation Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. …


Josh Nichols: Never put your finger in me again!
Big fan of the show since it came out five years ago, and the first two TV movies were great. But this? It's different. It wasn't really very funny; I laughed maybe five times. The humor was over the top at times and tried too hard to be funny; unlike the show, it just wasn't in a lot of scenes. Josh Peck just isn't Josh Nichols anymore; he not only looks different but IS different. The plot was unbelievable in most instances, and not overly creative. While other Drake and Josh movies/the TV show didn't try to make you learn a lesson, one thing that's nice about them since a lot of kid's TV shows do, this movie definitely did. And the ending was just kind of cheesy, honestly.
But, it was Drake and Josh, and seeing both of them together again on screen was kind of nice. They still have that great on screen chemistry that helps pull this movie together. Josh still has his wonderful spazzy moments, and Drake is still an obnoxious, self centered jerk at times.
Worth a watch if it's on TV or somewhere, but I wouldn't say buy it. It definitely disappointed me, as I was looking forward to more of the Drake and Josh that you just don't get here.


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The Three Rivers Endowment Trust has selected its officers for new fiscal year. Leading the organization as its chair is Keith Holloway, whose term begins July 1 and runs through June 2019.
He and his family live in the Cape Girardeau area, where Holloway owns Professional Packaging, a regional pallet brokerage. His wife, Kathy Bess Holloway, is the General Manager at Bluff City Beer; the couple have two sons, Joda and James.
Holloway grew up in Poplar Bluff, and both he and Kathy have deep connections to Butler County and Three Rivers College. Holloway's father, James A. "Bud" Holloway, served on the first Board of Trustees for the College and was instrumental in promoting the establishment of the College. The Holloway and Bess families (also including Herschel Bess, Joda Bess, Buddy Bess, and their families) have provided much financial support for TRC through the years.
Holloway has served as a Board Member of the National Wooded Pallet and Container Association and president of the Butler County Board of Realtors. He was the recipient of the State and National Award of the Missouri and United States Jaycees when he was an officer of the Poplar Bluff Jaycees in the mid-1980s. While living in Poplar Bluff, Holloway taught a real estate continuing education course and attended management courses at Three Rivers and was the recipient of the Raiders Booster Award when he was a member of the Three Rivers Booster Club.
Regina Griffin of Doniphan, a Three Rivers alumni who works in the insurance business, preceded Holloway as chair. Other officers for the upcoming year are secretary Allen Brooks and treasurer Christy Frazier-Moore, both of Poplar Bluff.
In addition to accepting annual gifts, pledges, and planned gifts, the Three Rivers Endowment Trust is involved in activities throughout the year, including a Trivia Night, the "Day at the Ballpark" with the St. Louis Cardinals, an annual golf tournament, a benefit run, and other activities. It awards thousands of dollars in scholarships annually.
Stepping off the board this year are Rebecca Wilcox of Doniphan, Natalie Riley of Dexter, Michael Hackworth of Piedmont, and Dr. Richard Logan of Charleston.
For more information on the Three Rivers Endowment Trust and ways to support Three Rivers College, visit trcc.edu/development or contact Michelle Reynolds at 573-840-9077 or michellereynolds@trcc.edu.


Published: June 29, 2016 at 08:57 p.m.
Updated: June 30, 2016 at 08:22 a.m.
If this week's reveal of The Top 100 Players of 2016 is not proof that coaching matters, we're not sure what is.
Checking in at No. 11 and No. 12 were Washington Redskins cornerback Josh Norman and Arizona Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer, respectively. Neither of them made the list the previous year or any season prior. Both are playing for two of the most respected coaches in the NFL.
Norman ventured out to Washington in an effort to prove us wrong, leaving a hostile negotiating situation in Carolina after a banner season at age 27. Palmer returned from a serious injury at 36 to throw for 4,671 yards and 35 touchdowns. The Cardinals' offense might get figured out at some point, but for now Palmer is behind the wheel of one of the most electric systems in football.
Though the two are nearly 10 years apart, it's a great example of never giving up on a player. Norman earned playing time tooth and nail, while Palmer drifted southwest after a pair of egregious seasons in Oakland near the apex of his prime. Both are getting the chance they deserve and both were serious contenders to win a Super Bowl a season ago.
While Norman will have an upstream swim to regain the same place on this list next year (Washington's defense will simply not be as dominant as Carolina's was a year ago), Palmer is entering the type of sweet spot where he can grab hold of his legacy in a Kurt Warner-type fashion. We would not be surprised to see him crack the top 10 a year from now.
» Richard Sherman is too low at 20. We know that, and probably most of the players voting know it too. Sherman is still the best cornerback in football, and there would be more than a few executives lining up to sign him long term if he hit a contract snag and appeared on the open market this spring.
» I can't think of many players I'd rather have on my team than Khalil Mack (13) and Aaron Donald (14). On one hand, their presence this high on the list -- ahead of Von Miller of all people -- is progress. People are looking harder at non-playoff teams and recognizing how effective an explosive interior presence like Donald can be. I will continue to tell whomever will listen that, current salary factored in, Donald and Mack are the two most valuable defensive players in football. If nothing else, being this high on the list isn't a bad starting place for two players who haven't even tapped into their prime years.
» Cam Newton has yet to make an appearance, but Russell Wilson clocked in at No. 17 (Last year, 22). His progress was less meteoric but more tangible in terms of steady growth. Based on Seahawks coach Pete Carroll's lofty offseason expectations, this might be the last time we see Wilson outside of the top 10 for quite some time.


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Elizabeth (…), whose parents are unknown (or not traced here), died after 1684.1
Elizabeth married (1) William England about 1640;2 she married (2) Hugh Parsons before 1662. The ancestry of both men is unknown (or not traced here).1,3
William England d. bef. 1662
Eleanor England2 d. 1686
William England2 b. abt. 1641, d. 10 Jun 1651
Josiah England2 b. say 1643
Susana England2 b. say 1647, d. 1684
Elizabeth England2 b. say 1649
Hugh Parsons b. 1613, d. 1684
Grace Parsons1 b. say 1653, d. aft. 1677
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[S913] John Osborne Austin, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690 (With Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation). Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1887, 144. CD-ROM reprint, Compendium of New England Pioneers: A Collection of 14 Classic Genealogical Dictionaries of Early New England Settlers (Columbia, Maryland: Archive CD Books USA, 2006), further cited as Rhode Island Dictionary.
[S913] Austin, Rhode Island Dictionary, 72.
[S1872] Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011), 1146, further cited as Torrey, New England Marriages (2011).
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Honda To End Car Production In Argentina In 2020, Focus On Bikes Instead
Earlier this year, Honda announced its intention to stop making cars in the United Kingdom and Turkey from 2021.
Now, we learn that the Japanese automaker will also end automobile production in Argentina from 2020. Honda Motor de Argentina S.A. (HAR), a Honda subsidiary in Argentina which currently produces both motorcycles and automobiles, announced it will discontinue production of the HR-V subcompact crossover at the Campana plant in the province of Buenos Aires next year.
Starting on May 31, 2020 the facility will focus on manufacturing motorcycles, Honda added. Models currently built at the plant include the Wave, CG150, and XR150L.
The move is motivated by Honda's need to strengthen its automobile business structure "in the face of abrupt changes occurring to automobile industries around the world." More specifically, the automaker says it wants to optimize automobile production allocation and production capacity on a global basis.
Honda has been building cars in Argentina since 2011 (City and HR-V) and motorcycles since 2006. The company said it will continue its automobile sales and after-sales service operation in the South American country.
The Campana plant has around 1,000 employees and the fate of roughly half of them is unclear at the moment. According to Reuters, Honda is in talks with the local union to offer a buyout for workers involved in auto production.
Also read: Honda Reveals South America's Sub-Compact WR-V In Brazil
The company also said the timing of the announcement has nothing to do with the results of the primary elections in Argentina on Sunday. The country's peso and stock market crashed on Monday after a center-left coalition won the elections.
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Four Things You Didn't Know about Disneyland Resort in California & Why You Need to Go Now
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Gone are the days when theme parks were the dream time of children. Over the past sixty years, Disney magic has transformed the humble adventure park into a bucket list holiday destination for everyone. With the trend to low-priced flights to the USA here for a while and the popularity of inter-generational travel on the rise, there is no better time than now to head to Disneyland Resort in California and experience it's two theme parks, Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure Park. Whether a family, group of friends, romantic couple or solo traveller, Disneyland really does have it all.
Something for Everyone: Character Meet & Greets, thrill rides, night-time spectaculars, and Fine Dining
We all know that a Disneyland adventure comes with childhood hero meet-and-greets and adrenaline-fuelled rides. But did you know that Disneyland Resort also boasts Broadway-style musicals, fine-dining restaurants, wine-tasting, parades and fireworks displays alongside its over 100 Disney, Pixar, Star Wars and Marvel attractions.
The young (and young at heart) will light up at the sight of their favourite characters. Guests can enjoy breakfast with Donald Duck or meet the four-wheeled stars from Cars at their hometown of Radiator Springs. New to the park in 2018 is Pixar Pier, a Pixar themed neighbourhood featuring your favourite Disney.Pixar characters as well as the thrilling new Incredicoaster.
Teens and adrenaline junkies will love the thrill of rides such as Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission BREAKOUT! - get ready for some breathtaking fun starring one rag-tag crew of heroes; Space Mountain - a pitch-black otherworldly rollercoaster that reaches rapid speeds and the fiery explosions, collapsing bridge, and rolling boulders of Indiana Jones Adventure. Insider tip: the teacups at the Mad Tea Party ride in Fantasyland might look like a leisurely ride, but if you jump into an orange diamond-encrusted or purple cup, you're on the fast track.
Age-old Disney favourites are reborn in a plethora of rides that introduce new generations to timeless heroes: Snow White's Scary Adventures, Peter Pan's Flight and Pinocchio's Daring Journey not only thrill the older family members but enthrall the youngsters too.
It has never been easier to visit: Disneyland Resort Hotels and FASTPASS convenience
There are three Disney hotels located within the Disneyland Resort providing guests the incredible experience of staying within the magic. Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa is a premium choice with its own entrance to Disney California Adventure Park, while Disneyland Hotel located in the park's original lands is the perfect base in between both parks. Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel embraces the Californian beach lifestyle and charm.
Beating the Californian traffic may be one good reason to stay on site, but don't forget that a Disneyland Resort hotel allows access to one of the parks one hour earlier than the general public each day of your stay with Extra Magic Hour.
We recommend that you take advantage of the FASTPASS queuing systems to make the most of your time in the Parks. Or upgrade your ticket to include MaxPass which allows you to book in your FASTPASS selections via your mobile phone. In addition, make sure to download the Disneyland app and organise your entire itinerary before you arrive: make restaurant reservations, locate your favourite characters and find your way around the park. As an added tip, board the Disney Monorail to familiarise yourself with the park layout and create a list of must-dos over your four-day itinerary.
There are magic and secrets everywhere to be found
The parks are full of secrets; Disney Imagineers have scattered hidden Mickey's around hotels, restaurants and attractions. Interacting with your favourite character goes beyond taking a selfie. Whether you ask Cinderella if she would like to trade one of your shoes for her glass slipper, let Cruella de Vil know her fur is out of fashion, or ask Aladdin and Jasmine if they can take you on a magic carpet ride, the Disney magic spell is already cast.
Walt Disney really did put thought into every aspect of the park. The window signage on Main Street, Frontierland and Toontown is an inscription in honour of past employees, while the Morse code that plays on repeat at New Orleans Square Train Station is the same message Walt spoke on Disneyland's opening day. "To all who come to Disneyland, welcome. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savour the challenge and promise of the future".
It is the Happiest Place on Earth
Disneyland Resort in California is lauded as the 'Happiest Place on Earth' for good reason. From adrenaline rushes, night-time spectaculars and classic Disneyland attractions to Mickey Mouse shaped foods and Disney character encounters, every section of the theme parks have been designed to make you smile.
Meeting Spiderman, Woody and Buzz Lightyear, and Mickey and Minnie Mouse will make you feel like you are the character in a movie. However, you can also be a member of the audience: head to the Royal Theatre to watch live shows where there are unique twists on the classics of Beauty and the Beast and Tangled. The Hyperion theatre, meanwhile, showcases a Broadway-style version of the global phenomenon of Frozen, which has enchanted people old and young around the world.
Even the food is a fairy tale. From Mickey-shaped Pretzels available throughout the resort to the classic pineapple soft-serve Dole Whip served at the Tiki Juice Bar and French-style macarons resembling the aliens from the Disney Pixar Toy Story films, there is something deliciously fun for everyone to enjoy.
Disneyland Resort really is the Happiest Place on Earth.
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Arab Women and Business
Syllabus of the Subject: Arab Women and International business (Businesswoman and Executives). Master, Doctorate
Most powerful Arab Women
Arab Businesswoman and Executives
Tawakkol Karman (Yemeni Nobel Prize)
Haifa Al-Mansour (Saudi film-maker)
The Subject "Arab Women and business" is part of the following Online Higher Education Programs taught by EENI:
Masters: Business in the Muslim Countries, International Business, Foreign Trade, Religions & Business
Doctorates: Islamic Business, Ethics, Religion & Business, Global Trade
Course: Islam & Business, Business in the Middle East
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Doctorates and Masters in International Business adapted for the Middle East Students: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Iraq.
Why study "Islam, Ethics and Business"?
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Description of the Subject: Arab Women and business.
Traditionally, the Arab Women have not held senior management positions in large companies, but since the last years, the Arab Executives and entrepreneurs are occupying important positions especially in the Middle East (Arab Economic Area of the Islamic Civilisation).
We will analyse several cases of a businesswoman, executives, and politics of the Arab Countries (if nothing is indicated is that they are Muslim).
Her Excellency Sheikha Lubna Bint Khalid Al Qasimi (United Arab Emirates)
Her Excellency Reem Ebrahim Al-Hashimi (United Arab Emirates)
Amina Al Rustamani (United Arab Emirates)
Shaikha Al Maskari (United Arab Emirates)
Lubna Olayan (Saudi Arabia)
Hayat Sindi (Saudi Arabia)
Shaikha Al Bahar (Kuwait)
Maha Al-Ghunaim (Kuwait)
PHanan Al Kuwari (Qatar)
Nayla Hayek (Lebanon/Switzerland) - Orthodoxy (Christian)
Randa Ayoubi (Jordan)
Ayah Bdeir (Lebanon)
Minoush Abdel-Meguid (Egypt)
In the United Arab Emirates, two women are Minister:
Her Excellency Sheikha Lubna Bint Khalid Al Qasimi (Minister of International Cooperation and Development - United Arab Emirates) is the most powerful Arab woman in the World; she was the first female Minister of the United Arab Emirates
Her Excellency Reem Ebrahim Al-Hashimi - Minister of State, Her Excellency is also the Chairperson of Dubai Cares and the Emirates Competitiveness Council
Amina Al Rustamani is the CEO of TECOM Investments (UAE) and a recognised expert in wireless technologies
Lubna Olayan (Saudi Arabia) is one of the most influential Businesswomen in the World and CEO of Olayan Financing Company. She is a member of the International Advisory Boards of Rolls- Royce and Citigroup
Hayat Sindi (Saudi Arabia) is one of the World's leading biotechnologists, Goodwill Ambassador of the UNESCO for Science and co -founder of "Diagnostics for All" and "i2 Institute."
Shaikha Al Bahar is the Managing Deputy Director of the National Bank of Kuwait. She is also on the Board of the International Bank of Qatar
Nayla Hayek (Lebanon/Switzerland) is the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Swatch Group (Switzerland), Harry Winston, and Hayek Group
Maha Al-Ghunaim is the co - founder and President of the investment firm Global Investment House in Kuwait, one of the largest in the Middle East
Furthermore, the Arab Women are gradually achieving access to other areas of society that until now were reserved almost exclusively for men, such as:
Tawakkol Karman - Nobel Peace Prize (Yemen)
Haifa Al-Mansour - Directress of Cinema (Saudi Arabia)
Arab countries: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
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TMC Announces Rs 5,000 Per Month Cash Transfer Scheme for Women in Goa Ahead of Assembly Polls
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday announced to roll out a direct cash transfer scheme for women in Goa if it is voted to power in the state after the Assembly polls due in February next year.
Under the scheme titled Griha Laxmi, Rs 5,000 would be transferred to a woman of every household per month as guaranteed income support to counter inflation once the party comes to power, TMC leader Mahua Moitra said.
The party would soon start distributing cards for the scheme, she said, adding that these cards carrying unique identification numbers would become operational once the TMC forms a government in Goa.
The Mamata Banerjee-led party has announced that it would be contesting all 40 seats in state. "The women from 3.5 lakh households in the state would be covered under the Griha Laxmi scheme as it will also do away with the maximum income ceiling, which is mandated in the current Griha Aadhar scheme of the BJP government in the state," Moitra, who is TMC's Goa in-charge, said.
She said that the current scheme of the BJP government in Goa provides only Rs 1,500 per month to women and it covers only 1.5 lakh households due to the income ceiling.
"The actual implementation of Griha Aadhar scheme requires Rs 270 crore annually, but the Goa government has earmarked only Rs 140 crore annually because of which many people are not able to get the benefit," the TMC parliamentarian said. The projected expenditure for the TMC's scheme would be six to eight per cent of the total budget of Goa, she said.
"Latest studies have revealed that COVID-19 has shrunk the country's economy, which needs to be revived," Moitra added.
Earlier, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which will also contest the Goa polls, had announced that it would increase the remuneration provided to women in the coastal state under the state-sponsored scheme and also promised financial assistance to women not covered under it, if it is voted to power.
During his recent visit to the state, AAP's national convener Arvind Kejriwal had said if his party comes to power in Goa, then the existing remuneration of Rs 1,500 provided to women under the Griha Aadhar scheme would be increased to Rs 2,500, while other women aged 18 and above, who are not covered under the scheme, would be paid Rs 1,000 per month.
On Friday, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who was on a day long visit to Goa, had promised 30 per cent quota in jobs for women in Goa if her party came to power in the state. She had claimed that the ruling BJP's ideology was "anti-women", and asked people to check the track-record of the new parties coming from "outside" the state.
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What are Monoterpenes and Sesquiterpenes?
As cannabis has become more widespread and legal, the therapeutic benefits of the plant are coming into clearer focus, and some of those benefits come thanks to terpenes — aromatic compounds found across the plant world affiliated with their plant's particular smell. Some of the more common terpenes found in marijuana include pinene (pine), linalool (lavender), myrcene (mango), and humulene (hops).
ScienceDirect tells us, "Terpenes, also called isoprenoids, are largely found as constituents of essential oils. They are mostly hydrocarbons. The building block is a five carbon isoprene unit. Terpene hydrocarbons have a molecular formula of (C5H8)n; the n dictates the number of units involved. Terpene hydrocarbons are classified according to the number of isoprene units."
I know that's a bit to digest, but hang in there. Still with me?
Terpenes are then subdivided into monoterpenes, which have two isoprene units and 10 carbon atoms, then sesquiterpenes with three isoprene units and 15 carbon atoms. There are more subdivisions like diterpenes, triterpenes, and tetraterpenes, each adding more isoprene molecules along the way. Terpenes can also be acyclic or cyclic. All this to say, terpenes have a lot more going on than their signature scents.
But will monoterpenes or sesquiterpenes act differently in our bodies than terpenes as we generally know them? Let's take a look.
Monoterpenes and Sesquiterpenes in Cannabis
What do monoterpenes do?
Is a monoterpene an essential oil?
What do sesquiterpenes do in your body?
What essential oils have sesquiterpenes?
How do you pronounce sesquiterpenes?
Though the total number of terpenes found in cannabis is subject to debate, we do know that there are more than 100, a good percentage of which are made up of monoterpenes. Some common monoterpenes found in the plant are alpha-pinene, beta-pinene, terpinolene, myrcene, limonene, and linalool.
Some terpenes have been used medicinally throughout history. More recent research suggests there's a scientific basis for such use. Recent research supported by in vitro, animal, and clinical trials showed that terpenes may have a range of medicinal and therapeutic benefits, including antioxidant, antibiotic, neuroprotective, and more. Healthline has a good overview of common terpenes and their effects.
For example, pinene has shown potential as a bronchodilator. A study published in the journal Biomolecules notes, "A wide range of pharmacological activities have been reported, including antibiotic resistance modulation, anticoagulant, antitumor, antimicrobial, antimalarial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-Leishmania, and analgesic effects."
Pinene is a common terpene found in cannabis. photo credit
Occurring at a much smaller percentage are sesquiterpenes, which comprise only around 7% of terpenes (though, as with monoterpenes, sesquiterpene levels can vary greatly due to genetics and growing conditions). Their main function is to act as a plant pheromone to attract pollinators and repel pests. Some of the more common sesquiterpenes are probably ones that haven't gotten on canna-consumer's radars, including cedrene (cedarwood), zingiberene (ginger), bulnesene (patchouli), and caryophyllene (black pepper).
Much like monoterpenes these terpenes also have effects that are still coming into focus with increasing study. Studies on cedrene have shown potential for, "antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, tonic, astringent, diuretic, sedative, insecticidal, and antifungal activities." We've discussed some of the ways that caryophyllene interacts with anxiety on PotGuide as well.
There is still a lot we don't know about how terpenes and cannabinoids like THC and CBD deliver their therapeutic benefits, and the entourage effect — a theory that posits that the cannabis plant works more effectively when compounds work together — is still being teased out.
To wrap it up, the differences between monoterpenoids and sesquiterpenoids boil down to different numbers of isoprene units and carbon atoms. As a consumer, leave the worrying about the differences to the chemists and kick back with a strain that has a terpene you enjoy and makes for good medicine.
Monoterpenes don't do anything differently than a terpene in general. They are simply defined differently by isoprene units and carbon atom counts.
Not exactly. Monoterpenes are compounds that are found in many essential oils, like lavender (linalool), lemon (limonene), and so on.
Like monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes may interact with your body in the way you might expect a terpene to do.
Some of the oils that contain sesquiterpenes are cedarwood, patchouli, and ylang ylang.
Ses-quit-er-penes, with the emphasis on "quit"
What's your favorite terpene? Share in the comments!
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