The CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub, led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), applies a One Health approach to support the efforts of low- and middle-income countries in controlling agriculture-associated antimicrobial resistance risks, through promoting and facilitating transdisciplinary partnerships.
In line with the CGIAR antimicrobial resistance strategy that recognizes the need for evidence on links between agriculture and public health outcomes, the CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub develops evidence-based solutions that are locally relevant and applicable, while being adaptable to other contexts. Research on how to best implement and scale workable solutions is embedded in capacity development activities and supported through advocacy for enabling policies. This research needs effective partnerships across disciplines, which are at the heart of the hub's activities.
Antimicrobial resistance is a global concern which has motivated the mobilization of scientists, international agencies, governmental institutions and relevant stakeholders to reduce antimicrobial use and minimizing the selective pressure for resistant microorganisms as a consequence of indiscriminate use of antimicrobials. It is a complex issue that requires the understanding of social, economic and political factors as much as biological ones. The World Bank estimates a reduction of 3.8% of Gross Domestic Product by 2050 as a result of antimicrobial resistance, especially affecting low- and middle-income countries.
The key function of the CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub is to convene different stakeholders with interest in antimicrobial resistance research to influence the development agenda. This is achieved by providing an environment that enables collaboration, facilitates the establishment of new research partnerships, and streamlines communications around agricultural-associated antimicrobial resistance to support evidence-based discussions.
capacity development and guidance of scaling of solutions.
CGIAR is ideally positioned to tackle agriculture-related antimicrobial resistance risks and their implications for human health in low- and middle-icome. Through the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (led by the International Food Policy Research Institute), the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock (led by ILRI) and the CGIAR Research Program on Fish (led by WorldFish), researchers at CGIAR develop activities to understand, improve and design innovative strategies to tackle antimicrobial resistance in low- and middle-income countries. Further, involvement of the International Water Management Institute allows environmental and water system challenges in antimicrobial resistance to be addressed more holistically.
The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health has a research partnership with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine which ensures that public health perspectives are included in all research stages, enabling a One Health framework as endorsed by the United Nations and the World Health Organization in 2016. Further, opportunities have arisen through collaboration with new partners.
The CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub contributes to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs) adopted by United Nations, supporting global efforts to attain SDGs 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 12 and 17.
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author: Daniel Dietrich
date: 2012-05-11 07:00:34
layout: post
tags:
- Offenes Wissen
- Berlin
- Europeana
- Hack4Europe
- Hackday
title: Hack4Europe! am 5. und 6. Juni 2012 in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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Europäische Kultur digital erfahrbar machen: Die Europeana Stiftung und ihre Partner laden zum [Hack4Europe! 2012](http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/hackathons), einer Veranstaltungsreihe mit Hack Days in mehreren europäischen Städten. Ziel der Hack Days ist es, das kreative Potenzial der frei zugänglichen digitalisierten Kulturobjekte in Europa zu erschließen.

Die Idee: Der Hack Day **[Hack4Europe! 2012 Berlin](http://www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu/berlin-hackday)** bringt bis zu 30 Softwareentwickler aus Deutschland und weiteren europäischen Ländern zu einer auf zwei Tage konzentrierten Veranstaltung zusammen. Dort bekommen die Entwickler Zugang zu den [Sammlungen der Europeana](http://www.europeana.eu/portal/) mit ihren über 20 Millionen Objekten aus allen Kulturbereichen durch die Europeana Search API, plus Test Key und [technischer Dokumentation](http://europeanalabs.eu/wiki/EuropeanaOpenSearchAPI).

Organisiert wird der Berliner Hack Day als Teil des EU-Projekts [Europeana Collections 1914-1918](http://www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu/) an der [Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin](http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/) – Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Kooperation mit der [Open Knowledge Foundation](http://okfn.org), der [Deutschen Kinemathek](http://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de/) – Museum für Film und Fernsehen und [Europeana Inside](http://europeanainside.eu/).

Gesucht werden Teilnehmer, die Ideen zur kreativen Nutzung der Bestände der Europeana entwickeln und auf dieser Basis Prototypen entwerfen möchten, die das Potenzial der Europeana-Sammlung unter Beweis stellen.

**Hack4Europe! Berlin – 05./06. Juni 2012 – Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. [Jetzt Anmelden!](http://hack4europe2012-berlin.eventbrite.com/)**

Die besten Prototypen des **Hack4Europe! 2012** werden in vier Kategorien ausgezeichnet:

  * sozialer Mehrwert
  * Innovativität
  * wirtschaftliches Potenzial
  * Favorit der Entwickler (gewählt von den Teilnehmern des Hack Days)

Die Gewinner des Berliner Hack Days kommen in die nächste Runde: Ein Finalist aus jeder Kategorie wird zur **Digital Agenda Assembly am 21. und 22. Juni nach Brüssel eingeladen. Die besten Prototypen aller Hack4Europe!-Hackathons werden dort präsentiert und in einem weiteren Wettbewerb ausgezeichnet.**

Ein Themenvorschlag zur Orientierung:

Erster Weltkrieg: Anwendungen, die Zugang zur Alltagsgeschichte des Ersten Weltkriegs auf Basis der Europeana-Inhalte aus dieser Zeit ermöglichen. Anwendungen zum Thema Erster Weltkrieg sind auf dem Hack Day in Berlin besonders willkommen, aber nicht verpflichtend.

Mögliche weitere Themen:

  * **Going mobile**: Anwendungen, die die Europeana-Inhalte auf mobile Endgeräte bringt – seien es Smartphones oder Tablet-Computer! Beispielsweise durch Nutzung geographischer Daten...
  * **Mashing-up**: Anwendungen zur Verknüpfung der Inhalte von Europeana mit anderen frei zugänglichen Datenbeständen, z.B. Wikipedia.
  * **Social curation**: Anwendungen, mit denen Nutzer selbst Inhalte von Europeana verwalten und über soziale Plattformen teilen können.
  * **User annotation**: Anwendungen, die Nutzer Objekte kommentieren, taggen oder verlinken lassen oder sie mit anderen Objekten aus Europeana verknüpfen – zum Beispiel in einem Spiel?

Prototypen von früheren Hack Days finden sich [hier](http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/hackathon-prototypes). Einen Eindruck von der Atmosphäre bietet der Rückblick auf die [Hack Days 2011](http://dl.psnc.pl/2011/06/22/podsumowanie-hack4europe/lang-pref/en/).

**ANMELDUNG**:

Die Registrierung ist eröffnet unter:

<http://hack4europe2012-berlin.eventbrite.com/>

**FRAGEN UND KONTAKT:**

Thorsten Siegmann – Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

siegmann@eu1914-1918.eu

**ALLGEMEINE INFORMATIONEN**

  1. Entwickler müssen sich im Vorfeld anmelden, um ihr Interesse zu signalisieren. Abhängig von der Nachfrage entscheiden die Organisatoren über die endgültige Teilnehmerliste und versenden zwei Wochen vor der Veranstaltung Bestätigungs- Mails. Die Registrierung ist bis zum 25. Mai möglich. Eine möglichst frühe Anmeldung wird empfohlen!
  2. Der Berliner Hack Day findet im Ausstellungsraum der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in der Potsdamer Straße 33 - 10785 Berlin statt.
  3. Die Rechte an Prototypen und Ideen, die während des Wettbewerbs entstehen, verbleiben bei den Teams, die diese Prototypen oder Ideen entwickelt haben. Die Teams sind selbst für alle weiteren rechtlichen Belange ihrer entwickelten Prototypen verantwortlich (z.B. Fragen der Kompatibilität mit den Lizenzen verwendeter Open Source Komponenten).
  4. Der Berliner Hack Day ist eine internationale Veranstaltung, Arbeitssprache ist Englisch. Die technische Dokumentation der Europeana API ist ebenfalls nur auf Englisch verfügbar.
  5. Das Programm der Veranstaltung folgt keiner festen Struktur, um den Teilnehmern größtmögliche Flexibilität zu garantieren.
  6. Weitere Informationen werden unter www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.de/berlin- hackday/ veröffentlicht.

 Diese Einladung gibt es auch als PDF in [deutscher](/files/blog/2012/05/Ankuendigung-Hack4EuropeBerlin-deutsch.pdf) und [englischer](/files/blog/2012/05/Ankuendigung-Hack4EuropeBerlin-deutsch.pdf) Sprache.

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I would like a simple way, that it merges the missing rows only, if there are rows that already exist, it shouldn't try to copy them
Thanks
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The first section of this Logic Games course will teach you how to beat the most common LSAT game type: Ordering Games (also called "Sequencing Games" by Kaplan). The simplest type of these games is called Linear Ordering.
These games require you to arrange a set of subjects by a trait, either from front to back, up to down, or left to right. For example, imagine a group of people standing in line for the theater.
Who is second from last in line?
How many people are behind Thomas but in front of Christina?
Or, perhaps you'll be asked the order of several books on a shelf.
Is the art book next to the gardening book or the photography book?
How many books can be to the left of the philosophy book if the drama criticism book is not at either end of the shelf?
The teacher is measuring seven students by height. Is Julie taller than John?
Quick – use a shorthand abbreviation system to save time.
Clean – messy notations will cost you points.
Easy to Understand – You must instantly understand what your notations mean during the pressure cooker of test day.
Marcos can only be either first or fifth in line of five.
Gaston can't be either 1st or 5th in a row of six.
Restrictive items like "can't be" go below the item slots.
There are at least two spots, up to a maximum of four spots.
A is earlier than B, with at least one entity between them.
A and B are somewhere in spots 2, 3, and 4, but we don't know which ones, and we don't know in what order.
Inference: Neither A nor B can be in spot 1.
Four slots are numbered from left to right as follows: 1, 2, 3, 4.
Token A can be placed in positions 3 or 4.
Inference: A will never be in spots 1 or 2.
The same element must go into spots 1 and 4.
The item in spots 1 and 4 are different.
One of the most important rules on test day is to consolidate rules so that you simplify them.
L arrives after the delivery to J.
J's arrives exactly 3 days after F.
You can combine the statements on the left to make a better diagram.
Since both statements share a common entity (J), you can consolidate them.
(AKA "Brackets") are locked-in relationships between entities.
Ava is always in front of Brock.
Brock is always two positions ahead of Ann.
Two men are in front of Paul but behind Steven.
There are at least two people between Ava and Bo.
There is only one spot between X and Y.
Student A works either directly after or before B.
Carl cannot be positioned before David.
There are never two people between Albert and Brad.
Read the premise of the game and the conditions.
Create the roster and symbolize the conditions.
Determine which type of diagram is necessary to represent the arrangement of elements in the game.
Write the conditions for the game to the side.
Insert any fixed conditions into the diagram.
Reassess conditions to see if any new information can be deduced when considered together with your diagram.
Proceed to the question and add any new information to your diagram. If there is more than one possible arrangement, draw the different variations out.
Read through the answer choices, compare them to the diagram and answer the question!
The first step to doing this question is to draw out the diagram. She uses shorthand techniques roughly like what you've learned above to diagram the rules.
Now that the Set Up is complete, we can move on to the questions! Click to the start of each question, press pause, and then see if you can answer the question. Press play when you want to review your results.
In addition to Linear Ordering Games (which have one position for every entity in the question), there are Tree Diagrams, Two-Dimensional Ordering (that have two or more rows) and Over/Underbooked Ordering Games (where the number of entities and spots available doesn't match).


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You can depend on us to advise you on what surveys need to be undertaken and when. A number of surveys are seasonally dependent. They may also need to be spaced through the season in order to obtain sufficient baseline data to inform your proposal. As such, it is crucial to consider the need and scope of surveys as early as possible in your project. We will guide you through this process. Our Ecology Survey Calendar provides a handy guide, but is no substitute for the bespoke expert advice that we can provide at any stage in a project.
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35 This Isn't My Brother
 "He says he does, but none of us have seen her. She works in America and is beautiful, apparently."
Li Jing's facial expression changed, "He has a girlfriend?"
"Yes. It's a shame that I've never had the chance to meet her."
Mo Han drove, with his colleagues from the law firm sitting at the back of the car. They were looking for a place to have lunch, before heading back to the law firm to continue working.
Mo Han's phone in his bag rang.
Mo Han glanced at his phone, before asking Liu Zhiyuan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, to check who was calling.
"It's a local unknown number without caller identification." Liu Zhiyuan placed the phone in front of Mo Han for him to take a look.
"Answer it. If it's a stranger, just hang up."
Liu Zhiyuan answered the phone. "Hello...?"
"Hm? This isn't my brother's voice?" Xia Qingyi double-checked the number, but she had dialed correctly.
"Who is calling, please?"
"I'm Xia Qingyi, Mo Han's sister."
Liu Zhiyuan immediately thought of the girl that had suddenly appeared at his boss' office the night before. He passed the phone to Mo Han, and mouthed, "It's your sister."
Mo Han was still focused on driving, looking straight ahead, "Please take out the Bluetooth earphones from my bag and pass me the phone."
"When did you get my number?" Mo Han asked, after putting on the Bluetooth earphones.
"I got it last night. I saw your name card in your office yesterday, and just took it with me. You always ask me to call you, but you never gave me your phone number," Xia Qingyi said.
Mo Han had been so busy handling President Zhang's case these past few days that there had been many things that had slipped through the cracks, "I'm sorry. I've been so busy these few days that I forgot about it. Is anything the matter?"
"I'm at school, and have already seen the staff. She says that we need to hand over some documents regarding our family background, but I didn't have any. So, I just wanted to ask if you had any?"
"You're at school?" Mo Han had not thought that she would have gone to school already.
"Yes. I was bored at home this morning, so I just came to school," Xia Qingyi answered casually.
Compared to Xia Qingyi's casual tone, Mo Han's tone was less pleasant. He was obviously not too happy with Xia Qingyi's actions. "Didn't I ask you to rest at home for a few days? And to go to school only when you've recovered?"
The people in the car were shocked into motionlessness at Mo Han's chiding tone. They all knew that he rarely wore his current expression. If it appeared, it would mean that the case he was handling was very tricky and troublesome, and that they all needed to work overtime.
Xia Qingyi explained, "Well... I feel fine. I went for my check up yesterday. The doctor said that I'll be fine as long as I don't do any vigorous exercise. Aren't you the one that wanted me to go to school?"
"Why didn't you let me know before you went to school?"
"I called your phone but you must've been in court and didn't pick up."
Mo Han had no idea how to continue questioning her, merely asking, "Have you met your classmates?"
"I've met them. I just had one lesson. I'm calling you only after class had ended."
"Are you adjusting well?"
"I'm adjusting okay. There isn't really anything that I'm uncomfortable with." Xia Qingyi asked again, hesitation clear in her voice. "I don't have class at night but I don't want to go home so early. Can I come and stay at your office?"
Mo Han paused momentarily. He did not like his personal life overlapping with his work life. He was always been busy and had little time to care about his personal matters, with his time split between the courts and the law firm. Due to President Zhang's case, his life had been a mess as he shuttled back and forth between the two places. It was why he had forgotten to pick up Xia Qingyi from the hospital, and had caused her to wait in vain at his office for long periods of time.
Since she was legally his sister now, it was his responsibility to take care of her. Though, he did not seem to be doing a very good job as he seemed to have neglected her.


Demon Knights #0 – In this "Before the New 52" issue, we get a look at Jason and Etrigan before they were merged. We see Etrigan's attempt to rise to power and Jason's desire to find a meaning to his life and some adventure. It's interesting to see how things come together to form the Demon that we know now.
Green Hornet #28 – This issue starts a new story arc. There's a couple things going on. The original Kato headed off to Iowa to meet a woman from his past and meet someone who may be his son. (He's a chubby blonde who is "an embarrassment to people who play video games" as Kato puts it.) He starts to train the kid as the whole crew (Britt, Mulan, Clutch, and "Moonbeam") show up. Meanwhile, a new set of characters are introduced as a bald man, his wife, and their son make their way to Century City, killing along the way.
Green Lantern Corps #0 – Even though the book is about the corps, this issue is all about Guy Gardner. We see his interaction with his family and how he was before he got his ring. While the story starts with him as a recruit in the middle of a big battle, it jumps to a flashback and we get to see him save his brother and get his ring. We then ump back and see Kilowog give him his emblem and see Guy choose his own costume, and then meet Hal for the first time. It's a good story.
Harbinger #4 – We start out with Faith, the chubby girl introduced before. She gets brought to the Harbinger facility so that Peter can try to bring her powers out. He's not able to do it and tells them to send her home. Meanwhile, Peter is haunted by images of Joe and Kris. He wants to find them and is assisted in escaping which allows him to find that the Harbinger group may have killed his friend. Things are about to get real messy here.
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe #2 – We start out finding out that Adam is Skeletor's nephew. (Huh?) Skeletor also seems to be in charge of Castle Greyskull. Adam gets captured by Trapjaw but rescued by Teela who also seems to have amnesia. There are so many questions and they seem to be taking their time answering them. It's interesting but I sorta miss the regular stuff going on.
Legion Lost #0 – Despite everything seeming to have not changed with the Legion, we've got an all new origin for Timber Wolf. It starts out with him as a kid and his parents getting killed, moved to him as a vigilante called Lone Wolf, and eventually calling himself Timber Wolf. He doesn't actually join the Legion in the issue though.
The Ravagers #0 – This issue shows more about the early days of Terra and Beast Boy after they were captured by Harvest. We see Gar get changed into Beast Boy. He is connected to the Red (like Animal Man) which is probably why they went to the new color. He also mentions Rita so it makes me wonder if we'll see the Doom Patrol. We've seen Niles already after all. We're left with the pair prior to the Teen Titan's arrival.
Resurrection Man #0 – This is a 0 issue but also the last issue. It's also the secret of Mitch's origin. It turns out the Mitch we've been following actually came from the discarded arm the original Mitch lost that was destroyed and reconstituted itself due to the nanites. Kinda weird explanation. The angels and demons return for their bounty and take the soul of the original Mitch instead. That means our Mitch is still around and may still show up somewhere.
Scarlet Spider #9 – Kaine and the Rangers finish their team up as they take down Mammon and Roxxon. Kaine is getting to hate Peter more and more for setting the bar that is making him become a hero.
Shade #12 – It's not a 0 issue but it is the origin of the Shade… finally. After all the time in Starman, it's good to see something of his origin. It's possible it could even fit the whole pre-52 history. The only questionable part of Simon Culp's part in the Shade's origin (as well as his own). The Shade is a great character and it's good to dig into the history.
Team 7 #0 – This book takes place 5 years ago and involved the members of Team 7 getting pulled together. It's interesting that the team s actually comprised of characters with their own modern day stories which sort of limits the book unless the characters are replaced. We have the early days of Black Canary (Dinah Drake for now), Grifter, and Deathstroke. The other recognizable characters are Lynch (who narrates), Kurt Lance (who I guess is this universe's version of Larry, the husband of the original Black Canary), Alex Fairchild (Caitlin's father), and Amanda Waller. There are more but I don't recognize the names right now. They are brought together to take care of all the super powered beings that were popping up. Now sure if they will stay in the past or what.
X-O Manowar #5 – Aric is finally coming to accept he's in the future. The Vine (the alien race) send a team of humans (and the alien Dorian) out to get the armor but Aric takes them down without breaking a sweat. Since that didn't work, they hire Ninjak to take him down which ihe is able to do with ease. It didn't help that the armor was off of Aric and in ball form at the time. I've been trying to give this another try since I like the other book but this one doesn't have the draw of the other titles so far. Maybe it's the lack of interesting action, just being sudden and quick big battles.
There were a number of interesting books but not all of them exceptional. I think my top 3 this week are Demon Knights, Green Lantern Corps, and Shade.


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Above in the top row, from L-to-R are B-western heavy/henchman Tex Terry, Pat Starling, William Boyd and Bob Nolan. Bottom row from L-to-R are Roy Rogers, a mystery lady named "Mrs. Peters", and Spade Cooley. Patricia/Pat Starling did a few westerns, including a Jimmy Wakely and four of Sunset Carson's later films which were NOT at Republic Pictures. This photo is from the 'Western Hall of Fame Hoss Opera' at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles on November 28, 1948. It was organized by Tim Spencer (Sons of the Pioneers) and singer/song writer Cindy Walker ("You Don't Know Me" and more, including nearly all of the Bob Wills songs in the Russ Hayden films).
October, 2011: Joe Hyatte is the owner of the Rock Run Cafe and Bakery in Parke County Indiana (formally owned by movie badman/henchman Tex Terry who called it "Tex's Longhorn Restaurant"). Tex had sold the restaurant to Joe's parents, and the property included a bunch of movie memorabilia as Tex had saved just about everything from movie days. "Mrs. Peters" was Dorothy Peters and she was married to Tex before he married his agent Isabel Drasemer.
Calin Coburn (Bob Nolan's grandson) and Elizabeth Drake McDonald have created a fantastic website on Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers. There's a webpage with all kinds of details, images, and copies of the program and the purpose of the event was a fundraiser to create a Western Hall of Fame museum. That museum didn't happen, nor did they do another 'Hoss Opera' in 1949: http://bobnolan-sop.net/Special%20Features/Photo%20of%20the%20Month/2009/05%20May%20-%20Hoss%20Opera.htm
Above is the pressbook cover for SQUARE DANCE JUBILEE (Lippert, 1949). Though the film starred Don 'Red' Barry and the blonde-tressed Mary Beth Hughes (shown upper right corner), it featured Spade Cooley and his western swing band, Cowboy Copas, the Tumbleweed Tumblers, more. The producer was Ron Ormond who also did the 'Western Adventures Productions' with Lash LaRue in the late 1940s. The film was a 'Donald Barry Production' and released through Lippert Pictures. The storyline has talent agents Don Barry and pal Wally Vernon running into cattle rustlers while searching for performers to appear on Cooley's TV show.
Above is a blowup of the bottom right corner of the SQUARE DANCE JUBILEE pressbook showing Cooley and his larger band (with four saxophones, three trumpets and a trombone). The gal is vocalist Virginia 'Ginny' Jackson.
Kevin Coffey was able to identify the band members:
Four sidemen in the right side of the image in the back row - L-to-R are trumpet players Joe Ciffelli, Art Atwell and Freddie Thompson; then trombonist Billy Wright (who doubled on fiddle).
In the leftside grouping are Freddie Haynes, piano; Stan Puls, bass; Les Anderson, steel guitar; Muddy Berry, drums. Then L-to-R are Wally Ruth, sax; Gus Ehrman, sax; Lon Doty, sax (also doubled on fiddle). Hidden behind Cooley or Ginny Jackson is saxophonist Bob Riedel.
THE KID FROM GOWER GULCH (1949) pressbook cover.
Above is a biography on Cooley from the pressbook for THE KID FROM GOWER GULCH (1949).
THE SILVER BANDIT (1950) pressbook cover.


Dr. Suvi Haukka, executive scientist at ASM International, located in Finland, was awarded the ALD Innovation prize at the ALD 2016 Ireland conference (Figure), as chosen by the conference chairs. Haukka has had a lifetime career in Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), starting at Microchemistry Ltd. with ALD pioneer Dr. Tuomo Suntola in 1990, and now holding over 100 patents.
Since ASM bought Microchemistry in 1999, Haukka has worked on the manufacturability of ALD processes for the semiconductor industry. Today, ALD technology is essential for the high-volume manufacturing (HVM) of advanced ICs, with growing demand for the fabrication of nanoscale 3D devices such as finFETs and 3D-NAND Flash cells.
* 2015 Gregory Parsons (North Carolina State University).
More on the ALD 2016 conference can be read in the travel report blog.
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This category refers to traders who casually enter the market during the day like lunch or coffee break. These inconsistent traders can also use some other strategies to help their cause. The inconsistent trader should always look after the most active pairs during his trading time. This implies knowing the schedules of trading sessions in different markets and taking into account opening hours for trading like in New York, London, Sydney, etc., which are mostly active until noon. From noon until afternoon usually European and Japanese markets take over. This information need to be studied before placing any investments, as well as the market as a whole and currency movements. Picking the most active currency pair is not enough, but it has to move according to your predictions if you want to trade successfully.
Luckily, many automated options are available with each trading platform, and the Stop-Loss and Take-Profit options are the best known. No one expects you to watch over the market day and night and if you placed a trade and needed to go somewhere, then simply activate the Stop Loss or Take Profit option. You simply enter the amount at which you want to sell your option if the market moves against your favor and it will sell the currency pair at the amount stated, as well as take the profit at the entered amount if it reaches that far.
You can make your trading decisions based on chart analyses where you observe how the currency pair moves you want to trade. It simply refers to looking at the higher highs and lower lows bars and where they are heading. Make sure to use the chart that best suits your schedule, if you are there for an hour or two, choose the hourly chart.
If you are a trader that has no time to observe the market, besides the above strategies, some other tricks can be applied for more successful trading. You can, for example, place fewer trades which last for several days. You do not have to keep dozens of trades at once, especially if you are a part-time trader, but take as many positions as much as you can follow them. Trades with longer timeframes can always be backed up with Stop Loss options so that you still get to keep your money if things start to go against your predictions.
Part-time traders can also benefit from daily and weekly charts. Looking for a long-term trend enables you to only check once a day your trading activity, as opposed to placing hourly trades.
Exit-enter trade options are in line with Stop Loss and Take Profit options, so they come in handy from time to time. If you want to stay in the loop with the market events, you can also use features such as SMS or e-mail alerts where big and small market changes and events will be emailed or texted to you. In that way, you can keep an overview of what is going on in the market without being constantly logged in to your account. Use all available tools and options that can help you cope in the market.
These two strategies are somewhat more sophisticated and represent options of how to trick the market. They are also mostly used by active traders who have more time to trade since they involve close market observation. Hedging is a risk-reducing strategy where a trader goes for two different but correlated currency pairs (like the USD/GBP and USD/EUR) at the same time but takes opposite directions, as in one trade the trader predicts the USD goes up, and in the other that goes down. In that way, the trader creates a safety net when trading under risky conditions.
Scalping or small-volume trading is taking advantage of small price gaps of the bid-ask spread. The rule is to go in and out of a position for several hours, where traders buy pairs at the ask price but then try to sell it at the bid price to someone else. Trades have to be short and executed quickly lasting for few minutes or even seconds. Hedging and scalping usually require certain trading experience to work properly, so beginners might not enter trading at this level until they are completely ready.


Abstract: Reinforcement learning has steadily improved and outperform human in lots of traditional games since the resurgence of deep neural network. However, these success is not easy to be copied to autonomous driving because the state spaces in real world are extreme complex and action spaces are continuous and fine control is required. Moreover, the autonomous driving vehicles must also keep functional safety under the complex environments. To deal with these challenges, we first adopt the deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) algorithm, which has the capacity to handle complex state and action spaces in continuous domain. We then choose The Open Racing Car Simulator (TORCS) as our environment to avoid physical damage. Meanwhile, we select a set of appropriate sensor information from TORCS and design our own rewarder. In order to fit DDPG algorithm to TORCS, we design our network architecture for both actor and critic inside DDPG paradigm. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our model, We evaluate on different modes in TORCS and show both quantitative and qualitative results.


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Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy Spring Musical - Newsies
Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy Art Center - Mozilo Family Theater
La Canada, CA
They delivered the papers, until they made the headlines... Newsies, the smash-hit, crowd-pleasing musical from Disney is coming to Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy. A two-time Tony Award®winning show, Newsies has audiences and critics alike calling it a musical worth singing about (The New York Times). Filled with one heart-pounding number after another, it's a high-energy explosion of song and dance you don't want to miss.
Based on true events, Newsies tells the captivating story of a band of underdogs who become unlikely heroes when they stand up to the most powerful men in New York. It's a rousing tale about fighting for what's right... and staying true to who you are.
Newsies was brought to the stage by an award-winning creative team. It features a score by Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast) and Jack Feldman (The Lion King II: Simbas Pride) and a book by Harvey Fierstein (La Cage aux Folles).
Now is the time to seize the day with Newsies, playing April 47 at Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy in La Cañada.
Thursday & Saturday Cast:
Pulitzer Emilie Olmsted
Davey Kaitlyn Thomas
Katherine Meg Momsen
Friday & Sunday Cast:
Pulitzer Colleen Clapp
Davey Simone Crowder
Katherine Gabie Garibyan
Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy Art Center - Mozilo Family Theater (View)
440 Saint Katherine Drive
La Canada, CA 91011


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31 Secret Truths - Fluxus Poetry by Litsa Spathi
31 Secret Truths - 2009 by Litsa Spathi - Germany/Netherlands
Lock box containing 31 wine corks and wine opener hidden inside of a box resembling a cloth bound book. Front and back covers open independently. The box is part of the Fluxmuseum Collection in Texas - USA. The box was created as a contribution to the Fluxhibition #3: Thinking Inside of the Box - Boxes, Cases, Kits and Containers.
Labels: Fluxmuseum, Fluxus Video, Litsa Spathi, USA
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Article by Charles Dreyfus - FLUXUS
AT THE BEGINNING OF December 1961, John Cage explained a passage from his book Silence starting with La Monte Young's concerns (repetition of or playing a single sound over and over again); he concluded the interview hoping that Europeans become more American.
"My opinion is, not that it does something to me, but that I am able to feel in a different way, like I never felt before."1
La Monte Young discovered Cage during summer 1959, at the Stockhausen Seminar in Darmstadt ("The Composition as a Process" in which Cage developed his ideas on indeterminate music in relation to its execution); at that time, Young worked on the West Coast where Cage was practically unknown.
The following summer, back in California, he took part along with Terry Riley, Warner Jepson and Bill Spencer in the creative workshop of choreographer Ann Halprin, at Kentfield. From the interview by Yvonne Rainer with Ann Halprin one can outline better the meaning of the use of doors and windows, as well as of the walls' and floors' resonance in the room in which she works.
"We utilized objects and accessories, we made use of the space in a definite way. I wanted to isolate these elements. I began to work by means of a system, thanks to which all those things became independent from the phenomenon of cause and effect; to make the music do THIS, one shouldn't have to do THAT."2 In the mid '50s, George Brecht and Jackson Mac Low had also explored the diverse possibilities of the indeterminate; then John Cage invited them to present their works in his class which began in the summer of 1958 at New York's 12th Street West. This New School for Social Research seminar was attended by Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, composers Maxfield and Toshi Ichiyanagi (Yoko Ono's first husband), etc., and by irregular visitors: Jim Dine, Larry Poons, George Segal. As yet, a study had not been made on the many performances derived from Cage's classes (New York Audiovisual Group, etc.); individuals coming from the San Francisco area made their works of that period known in New York: Simone Forti, Robert Morris, Walter de Maria, Terry Jennings, Terry Riley, Dennis Johnson, Joseph Byrd. George Maciunas attended Maxfield's classes, where he met Young; thanks to him, Maciunas, who has a degree in the History of Art and Musicology, plunged into the avant-garde. This man of Lithuanian origin, though, was certainly not inactive. He funded an orchestra of Renaissance music, playing on copies of ancient instruments he imported from East Europe along with stocks of food preserves; plus a full-time job as a designer at Knoll and in a gallery on the first floor of 925 Madison Avenue; this gallery, A/G — A for Almius (Salcius, his partner), and G for George — exhibited, according to Higgins, "terrible modern art."3 Two series of performances most particularly attract our attention: those in Yoko Ono's Studio at 112 Chambers Street, with La Monte Young as the organizer, which took place episodically from December 18, 1960, to June 30, 1961; and those by George Maciunas in his own gallery from
March 14 to June 30, 1961.
The name Fluxus appeared for the first time on an invitation card to three conferences by Maciunas, "Musica Antiqua et Nova," from April 25 to May 16, 1961: "a three-dollar contribution will help to publish Fluxus magazine"). Such publication projects would come to occupy just as important a place as performance within the history of Fluxus.
When the poet Chester Anderson left New York for California in 1959, his magazine
Beatitude split in two; he asked Young to take care of an issue of Beatitude East. The magazine disappeared, and along with Anderson, the documents as well; their reappearance, and the joint efforts of Young and Mac Low allowed Maciunas to compose the layout of this book An Anthology before his departure for Wiesbaden in November 1961. Ready for printing in October 1961, An Anthology, of which certain documents had already been published in 1959, were finally printed by Young and Mac Low in 1963. Among the contributors to An Anthology living in Europe, we find the names of Claus Bremer, Nam June Paik, Dieter Roth and Emmett Williams.
Daniel Spoerri met Bremer and between 1957 and 1959 became the assistant of playwright Gustav-Rudolf Seller, the Director of the Landestheater of Darmstadt, where Bremer himself was Stage Director; in collaboration with Bremer he published Beispiele für das dynamische Theater,4 and on his own, Über das Autotheater (1959)5; he initiated Emmett Williams to concrete poetry; Roth, who was passing through Paris, joined Spoerri's selection Art et Mouvement of the Festival d'Avant-Garde (1951) at Porte de Versailles (November 18 - December 14, 1960). Thus, in November 1961, George Maciunas arrived in Germany and immediately got in touch with Nam June Paik, the 'European from Korea,' already famous on the other side of the Atlantic for having cut off John Cage's tie. At the beginning of 1958, Paik's teacher in Freiburg, 12-tone composer Wolfgang Fortner, decided there was nothing more he could teach him, and found him a job at the Electronic Music Studio (Radio Cologne) founded by
Herbert Eimert and subsequently entrusted to Stockhausen. But before going to Cologne, Paik saw Cage's Music Walk (October 14, 1958) at Gallery 22 by Jean Pierre Wilhelm in Düsseldorf, and fell in love with the indeterminate; he decided to meet Cage in his hotel room in Darmstadt and of Cage he retained the "sound collage" and "his sense of things which are out of order." He also saw "Dada, Dokumente einer Bewegung" at Düsseldorf Kunsthalle (1958), and one assumes that that was the determining shock, and not for Paik alone, who started making a few tapes before he felt a need for action whose violence is "the effect more than the cause;" he is aggressive, but only toward himself, as on November 13, 1959, again at Gallery 22, where his concert lasted six minutes: electronic music for three tape-recorders and a sheet of glass to be shattered; he turned a piano upside down in front of an audience of 'connoisseurs,' among whom several artists from Düsseldorf, like Joseph Beuys, Winfred Gaul, Richard Goetz, Hoem. The concert was titled Homage to John Cage. Then, Mary Bauermeister's studio (she was Stockhausen's wife) in Cologne became the "anti-Radio Cologne" site, and starting in 1960 it presented works by George Brecht and La Monte Young; here began Paik's fame in the United States. On the other hand, Wolf Vostell seldom attended Mary Bauermeister's studio, since action music did not satisfy him completely; he declared that the action per se was a work of art. Beginning in 1958, following the Studio's indifference towards his idea of 'electronic vision,' he made the "TV décoll/ages" whose first score, "TV décoll/ages for millions of spectators" is dated 1959. George Maciunas visited Vostell for the first time in his Cologne studio in April 1962; on his table, there was the project for the first Décoll/ages, which came out for the Neo-Dada in der Musik concert (June 16, 1962). November-April: more than five months had passed since Maciunas arrived in Germany.
Maciunas thought big. To begin with, he had planned a year and a half of concerts, from June 1962 (Berlin) to January 1964 (Tokyo), passing through Moscow etc. Everything had been planned: a big city or capital a month, and Fluxus magazine gathering all local information into a large United Front. The Neo-Dada in der Musik concert managed to take place thanks to Jean Pierre Wilhelm, but was organized by Paik. Had this concert been organized by Maciunas, "He was kind of mad, and of course he understood that this new art would be known before he made Fluxus; above all because of the concert organized by Paik and then, the same evening, because of the first issue of Décoll/ages." (Interview by C.D. with Vostell). "Vostell always tried to be in competition; one never gets to do anything if we compete with the same thing, but he needed competition, and sometimes collaboration… (unintelligible tape) — so that Vostell never really belonged to Fluxus." (Interview by C.D. with Maciunas).
Then why did Vostell follow this horrible tyrant, who dared to fire some virtuoso violinists from Vienna because they did not go to sleep at 10 P.M.? And what about Maciunas who got ridof Vostell? What was the magic power which enabled Maciunas to reject Paik's personal concert in the name of the collective? To make the situation more complicated, before the Neo-Dada in der Musik concert, on June 9, in the Parnass Gallery, presented by Rolf Jährling, the concert Neo-Dada in New York took place (that is also the title of Maciunas's exposé); Vostell and Paik were absent. Can one speak of sabotage? Ben Patterson and Maciunas (the two Americans!) presented works by Higgins, Riley, Jed Curtis, without forgetting their own. And on the very same day of Maciunas's fast passage through the streets and at the Girardon Gallery in Paris, along with Patterson and Robert Filliou, Vostell made his happening Petite Ceinture, Cityrama II in the same city (July 3, 1962).
Festa Fluxorum, then, began its tour throughout Europe: 14 concerts in Wiesbaden in
September 1962, interpreted by Alison Knowles and Dick Higgins (arrived from New York), Paik, Patterson, Maciunas, Williams, Pierre Mercure, Karl Eric Welin, Vostell.
Maciunas, Paik, Williams, Addi Koepke, Filliou, Vostell, Higgins, Knowles, performed six concerts in Copenhagen, in November, while in Paris, the following month, Tomas Schmit and Daniel Spoerri joined the company with Domaine Poétique staged by Jean-Loup Philippe (Filliou, Gherasim Luca, Jean-Clarence Lambert, François Dufréne, Brion Gysin).
In February 1963, the experiment with Joseph Beuys took place in Düsseldorf; Alison
Knowles and Dick Higgins spread the good news by themselves in Stockholm and Oslo in March, followed once more by Copenhagen and Amsterdam in June; finally Nice, where Maciunas was received by Ben Vautier (from July 25 to August 3, before going back to New York in September).
The performers traveled with their own means, to free spaces they themselves discovered; no fees and, for the composers, no royalties (besides their own work, they played compositions by Cage, George Brecht, Robert/Bob Watts, La Monte Young, Jackson Mac Low, etc.); Maciunas, the coordinator, in spite of his poor health, spent all his nights making poster-programs, whose contents were often far removed from the actual possibilities of the executions; in a specially made suitcase, he carried the smaller accessories. In September 1963, Maciunas went back to New York, where, during the Spring, the Yam Festival by George Brecht and Robert Watts had somehow kept the American scene busy. A totally theoretical group, then, could form itself around the Fluxus-Maciunas publications, performances, objects and films.
Of the projects, 10% were carried out and realized; 70% of that 10% was distributed free to the idea-givers; Maciunas had in fact produced all the projects (except, in recent years, the ones produced by Giancarlo Politi, Gino Di Maggio, etc.); he announced them and depending on the demand he made them by hand one by one; no bookkeeping and no problems of distribution (three collectors in 1975), which was carried out by the artists themselves. Certain works, like those by Ann Halprin (remainders not used for An Anthology) reappear 15 years later. Dick Higgins founded Something Else Press (1963) and recuperated his manuscript Jefferson's Birthday/Postface (1964) from one of Maciunas's forgotten zones. In 1964, under Henry Flynt's impetus, Maciunas became the executive director of a bureau for Action Against Imperialistic Culture (A.A.I.C.); their second action consisted of picketing, on September 8, 1964, in front of New York's Judson Hall, where Originale by Stockhausen was to be performed. Henry Flynt (who introduced the concept of Concept Art back in 1961) blamed Stockhausen and his magazine Die Reihe for being a decorative element of West German ownership, but above all, he blamed him for a conference held at Harvard in 1958, in which Stockhausen had denigrated jazz; himself an exviolinist with La Monte Young, he composed and defended hillbilly music from North Carolina where he was born. Flux-schism: Paik and Higgins participated in Originale, while Flynt, Maciunas, Ay-O, Takako Saito, Tony Conrad and Ben remained outside.
A pioneer of SoHo, Maciunas set up seven real estate cooperatives between 1967 and 1968; because of his commitment to this project he came close to dying, and in fact he lost an eye. There was endless fighting with hidden forces and local authorities. Maciunas managed to renovate these cast iron buildings, some of which are architectural masterpieces; this made speculation impossible, while communal arrangements assured for the future minimum overhead expenses which were managed democratically. Thus, beginning in 1967, Jonas Mekas started his film library on the ground floor of 80 Wooster Street (The Filmmaker's Film Library); as a matter of fact, this was SoHo's first public place, except for Flux-Hall, a tiny space at 359 Canal Street which housed performances as well as the Fluxus shop after Maciunas's return (1963). Eighty Wooster Street presented for the first time in the U.S. Hermann Nitsch's Origien Mysterien Theater in March 1968, as well as Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Then in 1969-70, Maciunas tried to establish a 60-member cooperative on Ginger Island in the British Virgin Island; of its 230 acres, 11 were reserved for a Fluxus settlement; the day before the signing of the contract, the owner died. For the last two years, a 17-building village once more gave Maciunas the opportunity to express himself: a 'new Bauhaus' in the countryside of Massachusetts. But the latest news from my friend is very bad. He had to go back to New York wasted by illness where, on the 9th of last May, 1978, he died.
Charles Dreyfus is a performance artist and an art critic. He lives and works in Paris.
1. Interview by Roger Reynolds, at Ann Arbor, beginning of December
1961, in John Cage, C.F. Peters Editions, Frankfurt 1962, p. 52.
2. Tulane Drama Review, volume 10 n. 2, New Orleans, Winter 1965, p.145.
3. Dick Higgins, Jefferson's Birthday/Postface, Something Else Press, New York 1964, p. 66.
4. In Movens, Wiesbaden 1960.
5. In Zero n. 3, Düsseldorf 1960.
source: http://www.flashartonline.com/interno.php?pagina=articolo_det&id_art=206&det=ok&title=FLUXUS
Labels: Article, Charles Dreyfus, FlashArt, Fluxus
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Location: Auburndale Florida Looks nice in the pics. Too bad I don't have the money.
Location: Auburndale Florida Oops I just realized Forward Look 55-61 and this is a 62. Sorry.
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Looks like a bargain to me. If It was on the west coast it would be on my trailer in a heartbeat. Here's a few pics of a solid 62 300 I just picked up. Wrecked in front from a brake failure, but super solid body. I've located all the front clip already.
It certainly is a good deal. Way better condition than my 66 Mustang project that needs complete body work. Which I paid for around the same price as this 300 for it.
ChristineFury - 2018-12-04 9:33 PM Oops I just realized Forward Look 55-61 and this is a 62. Sorry.
I still consider it FL. These 62's are a great source of parts for the 60's and 61's, a lot cheaper too. They're everywhere on CL.
Location: Florida There's another '62 within an hour of this one, not mine.
Location: Auburndale Florida I seen that one before and wouldn't mind having it either. Thinking about selling or trading my 66 Mustang project next year. But it's not worth as much as that one though.
The old link is gone and there is a new one with more pictures. Needs a new trunk and the floor doesn't look too bad for most of it.
I say pawn the mustang, and get the 300 and the 4 dr in located in the same state. If decide to get them,I'm working on getting a few 62 parts cars in spring. Whatever I don't use on my 62.
I would ask that 62 chryslers be adopted as a official FLs.
Location: Auburndale Florida I need to do a little more work on my Mustang before I would get rid of it. So it will be awhile. Also I am thinking more for a truck instead of a car now.


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