Hibernian have signed Australia international striker Jamie Maclaren on loan until the end of the season.
Maclaren, 24, has made only eight appearances for German second-tier outfit SV Darmstadt 98 this season.
The Melbourne-born forward, who has five caps, is desperate for first-team action to boost his prospects of making Australia's World Cup squad.
Maclaren has joined the rest of the Hibs squad at their winter break training base in the Algarve, Portugal.
The Leith side are fourth in the Scottish Premiership, and face Edinburgh rivals Hearts in the Scottish Cup fourth round on their return to action on 21 January.
"I am delighted to be joining Hibernian for the rest of the season," he said.
"I've spoken to the manager and he has high hopes for the second half of the season, and hopefully I can contribute to that.
"It's a big few months for me personally with the World Cup on the horizon, so I'm very motivated to get some goals and hopefully force my way into the final squad for Russia."
Maclaren, who previously represented Scotland at Under-19 level, will compete with fellow strikers Anthony Stokes, Simon Murray and Oli Shaw for a place in the Hibs side.
Hibs head coach Neil Lennon has already brought in goalkeeper Scott Bain on loan from Dundee during the January transfer window, while Shaw has signed a new contract extension.


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Az ajánlórendszerek speciális információszűrő rendszerek, amelyek felhasználói és termékprofilokat építenek tanuló algoritmusok segítésével, majd a modellek alapján ajánlanak olyan tartalmat (film, tv, vod, zene, könyv, hír, kép, weboldal, cikk, stb.) a felhasználónak, amely nagy valószínűséggel érdekes lesz neki.

Az ajánlórendszerek alternatívát kínálnak új termékek és tartalmak felfedezésére a keresés mellett. A keresés direkt és irányított. A felhasználónak valamilyen elképzelése kell legyen arról, hogy mit szeretne. Az ajánlórendszer olyan személyre szabott érdekes tartalmakat is felkínál, amelyeket kereséssel nem érne el a felhasználó, mert kívül esik látó- és keresési körén.

Felhasználói visszajelzések típusa

A termékpreferenciára vonatkozó felhasználói profil építésénél megkülönböztetünk közvetlen és közvetett (explicit és implicit) felhasználói visszajelzést, illetve értékelést.

Példák termékpreferenciára utaló közvetlen adatokra:

felhasználó rögzített skálán adott termékértékelése (pl. 1-től 5-ig);
felhasználó tetszik/nem tetszik visszajelzése adott termékről;
két vagy több termék közül a legkedveltebb kiválasztása;
felhasználói preferencialista adott termékekkel.

Példák termékpreferenciára utaló közvetett adatokra:

terméknézési események online kereskedelmi oldalon;
terméknézési események hossza;
termékvásárlások;
felhasználó saját gépén nézett vagy hallgatott termékek listája (főleg film/videó és zene esetén)
felhasználó kapcsolati hálójának analízise és ismerőseinek visszajelzései.

Ajánlórendszer megoldást szállító cégek
blinkx videótéka
The Filter szórakoztatás és információ
IMDb filmek
Jinni filmek, televízió
Rotten Tomatoes filmek
TV Genius televízió
Gravity R&D webshop, társkeresés, film és televízió
Tank Top TV online televízió
Last.fm zene
Genieo események

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Dom Research Workshop
Kırkayak Kültür-Dom Research Workshop, carries out efforts to improve the socio-economic conditions of Dom communities and other relevant groups living in Middle East countries, improve education, housing, health services, and employment for these communities, prevent discrimination, improve human rights, and provide them with access to social and public services. The main objective of the center is to conduct social, cultural, and artistic activities in order to ensure Dom groups become active members of the society in counties where they settle, participate in and contribute to economic, social, cultural, civil, and political life of these countries, develop socially and culturally as these communities are socially and culturally risky and disadvantaged communities, and ensure cohesion in the society within the framework of coexistence, dialogue, and solidarity to fight against prejudices and discrimination. In this context, the center creates strategies and action plans, and aims to conduct cultural studies in countries where Dom communities and other relevant groups live in cooperation with public institutions and civil society organizations.
"Kırkayak Kültür – Dom Research Workshop has conducted a comprehensive study in the Middle East to describe the living conditions of Dom communities. Kırkayak Kültür was founded in 2011 in Gaziantep as a civil society organization to advocate for disadvantaged groups and minorities who are socially and culturally at risk, and carries out activities aimed at integrating them in the society through dialogue and solidarity, ending prejudices and discrimination against them. Since the massive influx of refugees in Turkey, and especially in the region of Gaziantep, the association has also been working specifically with minorities among refugee groups and conducting rights-based work on the problems of Syrian migrants. The association runs culture and arts workshops in neighbourhoods with Dom populations to support the education and school attendance of children in the Middle East. Researchers at the association have been conducting academic and non-academic researches, field visits and a mapping study on such needs of Dom groups in the Middle East. Currently, they are carrying a study on the living conditions and problems of Syrian Dom communities in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, together with possible solutions. Kırkayak Kültür has been actively informing NGOs and public institutions, and accelerating bureaucratic procedures and processes in order to secure the necessary permits for the tent sites established by the Dom groups in the region and to establish a network among local and international organizations supporting the rights of Dom communities. Since many years, the experts of Kırkayak Kültür Dom Research Workshop have been publishing a great number of articles and surveys and exhibiting photos related the situation of Dom and related groups in conflict in Middle East also in order to sensitize public opinion and the international community on the subject.
Middle East Gypsies web site hes been prepared to present "The Project on Supporting the rights of Dom and other related minorities from Syria seeking asylum in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey" which has been implemented between 2017-2019 by Kırkayak Kültür and supported by European Commission under European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) programme.

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I am in the US and I need to send money to Australia. What's the best service to use?
I am in the US, banking with Wells Fargo. My freelance copywriter is in Australia, banking with Citibank. She usually gets paid via Paypal but they'd screwed me one too many times and I swore to never use them again. My copywriter is willing to try someone different. Is there a cheap service that would allow me to pay her easily that's not Paypal or owned by PayPal? By cheap I mean low fees for the transfer itself and a fair exchange rate. Thank you.
Give Transferwise.com a look. I've only used it to move money across the border, but they're set up to transfer between people as well. You'll both need to register a local bank account with them.
I just did some international work (me in the US, the company abroad) and they paid me through Veem. Id never heard of them before but it seemed to have worked seamlessly.
I've used Transferwise, CurrencyFair, and xe.com for US -> Australia payments. CurrencyFair was the most transparent about the exchange rate and timetable, but I don't think they have a presence in the US anymore.
Exchange services generally take some time and effort to set up an account and verify your identity remotely. Would it be easier for you to open an account with Citibank?
I don't know about Wells Fargo, but I have Bank of America and I was paid for some consulting by a company in London. They just did it via electronic wire transfer. I had to give them my electronic routing number -- it's like when you have to give people your routing number for direct deposit, but this is a different number for wires. I found it just by logging into my online account and looking at my account numbers. The annoying part was Bank of America charged $16 per overseas wire transfer, so it came out of the total I was sent, but the money showed up in my account without me needing to do anything.
Bank Australia is a customer-owned Australian bank, formed by successive mergers between credit unions, and continues to do an extremely good job of not screwing its customers over. My father was a founding member of Ed Credit whose office building in Kew is now Bank Australia's head office, and I have been banking with what is now Bank Australia ever since. I have never even once been given cause to swear at them, which is almost unheard of for an Australian bank.
If your freelancer were to open a Bank Australia account, she could receive international money transfers without being charged a fee. Bank Australia does these via Western Union.
She'd also be doing business with a far less horrible bank than Citi, which would have to be to her advantage.
NZ based here, paying a contractor in Australia. I'm in the process of signing up with TorFX . A friend here has used them for NZ to AUS payments and found them cheaper by far. They actually seem helpful and I had a 10min call with a competent sales guy yesterday. They claim to give 5% better on the exchange rate and have a lower fee structure too - we'll see.
Currently paying by bank from NZ (BNZ) which costs me NZ$40.00 per transaction but does not cost my contractor. Paypal actually took more, about NZ$42.00 and takes a bit from each end. Pay yes, but Pal - yeah right!
Negative experience: I used XE a number of times in the last 5 or so years for transfers between UK, Germany, and Australia, and was previously happy with them. No transfer fees, they make their cut with a non-divulged margin in the exchange rate. They offered a better rate than the banks.
In 2015 they were taken over by Euronet, and in my most recent EUR->AUD transfer experiences I had the impression their margin from a transaction had increased significantly; their quoted rates were further than expected from the mid-market rate and, comparing over time, the quoted rates didn't seem to reflect large swings in the mid-market rates. It felt like funny business and I'm going to switch next time I need to move money.


Sheffield Hallam University has appointed content agency Brawl to a wide-ranging brief.
The campaign will see the Leeds based agency create a series of films aimed at helping parents and students choose an appropriate course and get the most from university life.
Sheffield Hallam University has more than 31,500 students and is one of the largest universities in the UK. The university works with hundreds of businesses across the North, helping to create jobs and attract new investment through innovation, research and skilled graduates. Studies have shown that the University adds an annual £424m to the regional economy.
Brawl operates internationally from its offices in Leeds and London. Its clients include Superdrug, Audible and The Mayor of London.


John Steinberg believes the city's public pools would be cleaner if swim caps were mandated.
YORKVILLE — When John Steinberg was swimming laps last summer at John Jay Park's outdoor pool, he noticed a nasty clump of hair float past him at the leafy Yorkville park.
But rather than recoil in disgust, the 62-year-old scooped it out and put it in a plastic baggie, sending the evidence along with a letter to Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe urging the agency to take action.
When Steinberg swims — which he does three times a week during the summer season — he always wears a swim cap.
Now, he's on a mission to make sure other pool-goers do, too, claiming the swim space suffers from poor hygiene.
"The issue of hair in the pool is the most revolting," Steinberg, who's been swimming at the space for more than a decade, wrote to Benepe in July, calling for a mandatory swim-cap policy. "I do not accept that city facilities must be second rate or in the worst case approach third-world hygiene.
"The caps cost $2 a piece," the letter continued. "You could sell them or have the concessionaires sell them or you could give them away to the poor children. I even told your managers that I'd try to get a grant for you to defray some of the expense."
The Parks Department didn't foresee any changes to the swim cap rule "in the immediate future," Benepe wrote to Steinberg in October.
"The water is routinely tested, and the facilities are inspected and monitored to the health code standards," Benepe added.
Many private pools require swim caps, such as the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Aquatic Center and the Sports Center at Chelsea Piers. Public pools, however, do not mandate caps under city health codes.
John Jay's pool received nearly 46,000 visitors last summer, according to the Parks Department, and the agency doesn't want a swim-cap policy to act as a deterrent.
"A bathing cap requirement may discourage potential swimmers from using the pools, especially on hot days when a cool public pool is the best means of relief against the heat," a Parks Department spokesman told DNAinfo.
Former New York City Parks Commissioner Henry Stern, who lives a few blocks from the John Jay pool and used to swim there regularly, didn't recall the pool being dirty.
He also suggested that requiring swim caps could cause more trouble.
"A bully might take a kid's cap and toss it back and forth," he offered. "You shouldn't have to worry about it."
The 145-foot-long John Jay Park pool, is "one of the treasures of the city," Stern added.
It was built by Robert Moses in 1939, as one of the Work Projects Administration pools and put in Yorkville as a favor to Robert Wagner, who represented that area as a state assemblyman before he became mayor, he explained.
"It's a very special location," he said of the park overlooking the East River at East 78th Street. "The beautiful breeze comes in. … It's probably the most beautiful setting of any pool, certainly in Manhattan."
Steinberg, too, soaked in the pool's beauty.
"You take a lap and look up and see trees," he said. "It's delightful — but filthy."
Despite meeting resistance from Parks Department officials — one emailed him saying swim caps were not feasible — Steinberg remains undeterred, and recently attended a local community board meeting trying to enlist neighborhood support.
"The pool is way beyond capacity and the filter works overtime," Steinberg said. "There's no reason this pool can't be as clean as every private pool in New York."
Even the Central Park Zoo's pool for seals appeared to have cleaner water, he told the board.
"To say this is not feasible is to say that bodies don't float," Steinberg said.
The city's outdoor pool season begins June 28.


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Photographs of astronomical equipment, astronomical events, and outer space, late 1800s-1967
Identifier: DR-H 31
Research Library Special Collections
Photographs of telescopes, observatories, antennas and other astronomical equipment as well as drawings of solar events, star maps and photographs of nebulae and galaxies. NASA photos and press kit for Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter also included.
American Museum of Natural History (Organization)
This collection is unprocessed and is not yet available for research.
10.5 Linear Feet (7 boxes)
Richard S. Perkin Library in. Method of acquisition--Transfer from the former; Date of acquisition--1996..
Collection is unprocessed; organized by topic.
Contains some reprinted photographs of constellations from the 1800s.
Department Records
Hayden Planetarium (Organization)
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Organization)
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation provided support to make this finding aid available in ArchivesSpace (2016-2017). Minimal level collection record created with support from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Hidden Collections grant, 2010.
Part of the Research Library Special Collections Repository
http://library.amnh.org
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New York 10024-5192 USA US
Photographs of astronomical equipment, astronomical events, and outer space, late 1800s-1967, DR-H 31. Research Library Special Collections.
Photographs of astronomical equipment, astronomical events, and outer space, late 1800s-1967, DR-H 31. Research Library Special Collections. https://data.library.amnh.org/archives/repositories/3/resources/2117 Accessed January 28, 2023.


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Greta Van Fleet Dot the Origins of 'The Battle at Garden's Gate'
Music	by Tina Eves June 2, 2021
In the three years since releasing their debut Anthem of the Peaceful Army—headlining shows in five continents and selling a million tickets within a three-year span—the trajectory of Greta Van Fleet is just as meteoric as the arena-rock deliverances of the Michigan-bred Fleet, made up of the Kiszka brothers, twins Josh and guitarist Jake, and bassist Sam, along with drummer Danny Wagner.
Formed in 2012, just north of Detroit in Frankenmuth, Michigan (a town often dubbed "Little Bavaria," an ode to its German settlers), the past nine years have transitioned GVF from playing smaller sweaty bars to the release of two EPs—Black Smoke Rising and From the Fires in 2017, the latter nabbing a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album—a more epic debut one year later, and the recent arrival of the band's sophomore album The Battle at Garden's Gate.
A reflection of the band's evolution, spiritually, personally, and as songwriters nearly a decade in, The Battle at Garden's Gate opens a new portal to Greta Van Fleet.
Recurrent comparisons to Led Zeppelin aside, Greta Van Fleet brashly don their myriad influences on their well-designed sleeves. Garden's Gate marches through war and peace, varied human conditions, and a connection to the natural world, while melding of the band's shared experiences, personal revelations, and more esoteric discoveries along the way.
"Garden's Gate is everything that remains in the natural world, and the conflict is what threatens the natural world," says Kiszka. "There are biblical elements to this whole thing, but I think it really did start with just sort of having such fascination with mythology, and we built this sort of Greta Van Fleet universe, which in a way acts as a platform for us to be able to communicate much more complex themes."
Pulling from the cosmic and philosophical realms, for Kiszka, who grew up surrounded by music and books on philosophy—his father had a degree in the field—Alan Watts is an enduring inspiration, while also delving into more Aldous Huxley and other worldly connections for Garden's Gate. "It's some of the Eastern philosophy mixed with exploring the the human condition and breaking down barriers and I think underneath all of the facade that we have permeating our culture is that at the end of the day, we are free. We are humans on a pale blue dot, and we have been given the limitless freedom to create upon all of this, and to be mindful of that, and not to destroy it."
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Mature Nerve Cells Made from Skin Cells
Janet Fang
May 22 2014, 04:38 UTC
Mature nerve cells generated from human cells using enhanced transcription factors / Fahad Ali
Researchers in the UK have converted skin cells into functional, mature nerve cells that act like cells found in the human body -- making them better models for studying neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
Several years ago, researchers showed how a group of proteins called transcription factors regulate the division and differentiation of stem cells. More recent work revealed that adding these proteins to skin cells actually reprograms them to form other cell types, including nerve cells. These are called induced neurons. But so far, only small amounts of these induced neurons can be created with existing methods, and they aren't quite functional.
"When you reprogram cells, you're essentially converting them from one form to another but often the cells you end up with look like they come from embryos rather than looking and acting like more mature adult cells," Anna Philpott from University of Cambridge says in a news release. "In order to increase our understanding of diseases like Alzheimer's, we need to be able to work with cells that look and behave like those you would see in older individuals who have developed the disease."
By studying how nerves form in tadpoles, Philpott and colleagues found a way to push human nerve cells to mature faster. They manipulated the signals that transcription factors send to the cells, promoting differentiation and maturation -- in spite of conflicting signals directing the cell to divide.
The team was able to produce more mature cells by engineering proteins that can't be modified by phosphate molecules. In cell division, transcription factors are activated and altered by the addition of phosphates -- a process called phosphorylation. By adding these engineered, un(der)phosphorylated transcription factors to human cells, they were able to create mature "adult" cells that could serve as models for age-related brain disorders.
The findings were published in Development this week.
[Via University of Cambridge]
Image: Fahad Ali
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Solar Impulse grounded until 2016
GENEVA - The sun-powered plane Solar Impulse 2 will be grounded for months in Hawaii to carry out battery repairs, after completing nearly half of an unprecedented round-the-world flight, the project said Wednesday. "Irreversible damage to certain parts of the batteries will require repairs which will take several months," it said in a statement.
The team said last week that battery temperatures in the innovative craft had surged during a gruelling, five-day journey from Japan to Hawaii, and there was no way to cool the battery packs once the aircraft was in flight. There had been hope that repairs could be completed by next month, but the statement said fixes will take until "early spring 2016."
A spokeswoman for the project separately told AFP that it was possible the battery packs needed to be replaced entirely if the existing system could not be repaired. "We don't know yet if we have to change everything or if we can repair (the existing material)", but any new parts would have to be produced by the project, she said.
"It's not like you can order them," as the craft is unique, she added.
The aircraft has been flown by Swiss businessman and pilot Andre Borschberg, 62, who has already set a new record for the longest solo plane flight.
His 118-hour journey across the Pacific smashed the previous record of 76 hours and 45 minutes set by US adventurer Steve Fossett in 2006.
His partner, Swiss aviator Bertrand Piccard had been scheduled to pilot the next leg of the journey from Hawaii to Phoenix, Arizona.
The Solar Impulse 2 team said the battery overheating during the long flight across the Pacific Ocean was not caused by "a technical failure" or "a weakness in the technology."
Instead, the problem was a failure to fully anticipate the quick rate at which battery temperatures can rise in tropical climates.
"The Solar Impulse engineering team will be studying various options for better cooling and heating processes for very long flights," the project said.
The aircraft took off from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) earlier this year powered by 17,000 solar cells, with the project aimed at promoting the use of renewable energy. Its wingspan is longer than a jumbo jet but its weight is roughly the same as a car thanks to its light construction.
Once repairs are completed, the plane is expected to cross the United States, stopping in New York before a trans-Atlantic flight to Europe. From there, the pilots plan to make their back to the point of departure in Abu Dhabi. The battery damage is the latest in a series of hitches.
Borschberg experienced a problem with one of his eyes, which forced him to cut short his flight over Asia and return to Switzerland for several days.
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The plane was also not supposed to land in Japan, but bad weather en route from Nanjing in China to Hawaii forced a diversion at the start of June.
Solar Impulse 2 was stranded in Japan for nearly a month, with the crew scouring long-range forecasts for a favourable weather window. "Setbacks are part of the challenges of a project which is pushing technological boundaries to the limits," the project said Wednesday.
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package org.kududb.ts.core;

import com.google.common.base.MoreObjects;
import com.google.common.base.Objects;
import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
import com.google.common.collect.PeekingIterator;
import com.google.common.collect.UnmodifiableIterator;
import com.google.common.primitives.Longs;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.PriorityQueue;
import javax.annotation.concurrent.NotThreadSafe;

import org.apache.kudu.annotations.InterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.kudu.annotations.InterfaceStability;

@InterfaceAudience.Public
@InterfaceStability.Unstable
@NotThreadSafe
public class Datapoints implements Iterable<Datapoint> {

  private final String metric;
  private final IntVec tagsetIDs;
  private final LongVec times;
  private final DoubleVec values;

  Datapoints(String metric, IntVec tagsetIDs, LongVec times, DoubleVec values) {
    Preconditions.checkArgument(tagsetIDs.len() > 0);
    Preconditions.checkArgument(times.len() == values.len());
    this.metric = metric;
    this.tagsetIDs = tagsetIDs;
    this.times = times;
    this.values = values;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the name of the metric.
   */
  public String getMetric() {
    return metric;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the tagset IDs of the datapoints.
   * Package private because tagset IDs are an internal implementation detail.
   * @return the tagset IDs
   */
  IntVec getTagsetIDs() {
    return tagsetIDs;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the time of the {@link Datapoint} at the provided index.
   * @param index of the {@code Datapoint} whose time to return
   * @return the time of the {@code Datapoint} at the provided index
   */
  public long getTime(int index) {
    return times.get(index);
  }

  /**
   * Returns the value of the {@link Datapoint} at the provided index.
   * @param index of the {@code Datapoint} whose value to return
   * @return the value of the {@code Datapoint} at the provided index
   */
  public double getValue(int index) {
    return values.get(index);
  }

  /**
   * Returns the number of data points.
   */
  public int size() {
    return times.len();
  }

  /**
   * Returns an iterator over the {@link Datapoint}s of this {@code Datapoints}.
   * The iterator reuses the same {@code Datapoint} instance to save allocations,
   * see {@link Iterator} for details.
   */
  public Datapoints.Iterator iterator() {
    return new Iterator();
  }

  /**
   * Returns the vector of datapoint times in microseconds.
   * Callers should not modify the vector.
   * Package private because {@link LongVec} is internal.
   *
   * @return the vector of datapoint times
   */
  LongVec getTimes() {
    return times;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the vector of datapoint values.
   * Callers should not modify the vector.
   * Package private because {@link DoubleVec} is internal.
   *
   * @return the vector of datapoint times
   */
  DoubleVec getValues() {
    return values;
  }

  /**
   * Aggregate multiple {@code Datapoints}. The {@code Datapoints} must have the
   * same {@code metric}, but may come from different time ranges or tagsets.
   * This method takes ownership of the provided {@code series}, they should not
   * be used after calling this.
   * @param series the list of series to aggregate
   * @param aggregator the aggregator
   * @return an aggregated series
   */
  public static Datapoints aggregate(List<Datapoints> series, Aggregator aggregator) {
    final class IteratorComparator implements Comparator<Iterator> {
      @Override
      public int compare(Iterator a, Iterator b) {
        return Longs.compare(a.peek().getTime(), b.peek().getTime());
      }

      @Override
      public String toString() {
        return MoreObjects.toStringHelper(this).toString();
      }
    }

    if (series.isEmpty()) throw new IllegalArgumentException("no series to aggregate");

    PriorityQueue<Iterator> iterators =
        new PriorityQueue<>(series.size(), new IteratorComparator());

    String metric = series.get(0).getMetric();
    IntVec tagsetIDs = IntVec.withCapacity(series.size());

    for (Datapoints s : series) {
      if (s.size() == 0) throw new IllegalArgumentException("empty series");
      iterators.add(s.iterator());
      tagsetIDs.concat(s.tagsetIDs);
      if (!metric.equals(s.getMetric())) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("unable to aggregate datapoints from different metrics");
      }
    }

    LongVec times = LongVec.create();
    DoubleVec values = DoubleVec.create();

    while (!iterators.isEmpty()) {
      long time;
      {
        Iterator iter = iterators.remove();
        Datapoint point = iter.next();
        time = point.getTime();
        times.push(time);
        aggregator.addValue(point.getValue());
        if (iter.hasNext()) iterators.add(iter);
      }
      while (!iterators.isEmpty() && iterators.peek().peek().getTime() == time) {
        Iterator i = iterators.remove();
        aggregator.addValue(i.next().getValue());
        if (i.hasNext()) iterators.add(i);
      }
      values.push(aggregator.aggregatedValue());
    }

    return new Datapoints(metric, tagsetIDs, times, values);
  }

  public static Datapoints aggregate(List<Datapoints> series,
                                     Aggregator aggregator,
                                     Interpolators.Interpolator interpolator)  {
    if (series.isEmpty()) throw new IllegalArgumentException("no series to aggregate");
    String metric = series.get(0).getMetric();
    IntVec tagsetIDs = IntVec.withCapacity(series.size());

    List<Interpolation> active = new ArrayList<>(series.size());
    List<Interpolation> inactive = new ArrayList<>(series.size());

    LongVec times = LongVec.withCapacity(0);
    for (Datapoints s : series) {
      if (s.size() == 0) throw new IllegalArgumentException("empty series");
      tagsetIDs.concat(s.tagsetIDs);
      if (!metric.equals(s.getMetric())) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("unable to aggregate datapoints from different metrics");
      }
      times.merge(s.getTimes());
      inactive.add(interpolator.interpolate(s));
    }

    // TODO: use mergeUnique instead of merge above to get rid of dedup.
    times.dedup();

    DoubleVec values = DoubleVec.withCapacity(times.len());
    long nextMinMaxTime = Long.MIN_VALUE;
    LongVec.Iterator timeIter = times.iterator();
    while (timeIter.hasNext()) {
      long time = timeIter.next();

      if (time >= nextMinMaxTime) {
        nextMinMaxTime = Long.MAX_VALUE;
        { // expire active interpolations, if possible
          java.util.Iterator<Interpolation> iter = active.iterator();
          while (iter.hasNext()) {
            Interpolation next = iter.next();
            long maxTime = next.maxTime();
            if (maxTime < time) {
              iter.remove();
            } else {
              nextMinMaxTime = Math.min(nextMinMaxTime, maxTime);
            }
          }
        }
        { // promote inactive interpolations to active, if possible
          java.util.Iterator<Interpolation> iter = inactive.iterator();
          while (iter.hasNext()) {
            Interpolation next = iter.next();
            if (next.maxTime() < time)
              throw new IllegalStateException("inactive interpolation is expired");
            long minTime = next.minTime();
            if (next.minTime() <= time) {
              iter.remove();
              active.add(next);
              nextMinMaxTime = Math.min(nextMinMaxTime, next.maxTime());
            } else {
              nextMinMaxTime = Math.min(nextMinMaxTime, minTime);
            }
          }
        }
      }

      if (active.isEmpty()) throw new IllegalStateException("no active interpolations");

      for (Interpolation interpolation : active) {
        aggregator.addValue(interpolation.getValue(time));
      }
      values.push(aggregator.aggregatedValue());
    }
    return new Datapoints(metric, tagsetIDs, times, values);
  }

  @Override
  public boolean equals(Object other) {
    if (this == other) return true;
    if (other == null || getClass() != other.getClass()) return false;
    Datapoints that = (Datapoints) other;
    return Objects.equal(metric, that.metric) &&
           Objects.equal(tagsetIDs, that.tagsetIDs) &&
           Objects.equal(times, that.times) &&
           Objects.equal(values, that.values);
  }

  @Override
  public int hashCode() {
    return Objects.hashCode(metric, tagsetIDs, times, values);
  }

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return MoreObjects.toStringHelper(this)
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                      .add("series", tagsetIDs.len())
                      .add("datapoints", times.len())
                      .toString();
  }

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   * A {@link Datapoint} iterator over a {@code Datapoints}. The
   * {@code Datapoint} returned by {@link #next} is reused, so callers should
   * not hold on to it. If the {@code Datapoint}'s time or value needs to
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    public boolean hasNext() {
      return timestampIter.hasNext();
    }

    @Override
    public Datapoint next() {
      datapoint.setTime(timestampIter.next());
      datapoint.setValue(valueIter.next());
      return datapoint;
    }

    @Override
    public Datapoint peek() {
      datapoint.setTime(timestampIter.peek());
      datapoint.setValue(valueIter.peek());
      return datapoint;
    }

    /**
     * Seek to the first datapoint at or after the provided time in microseconds.
     * @param microseconds the time to seek to
     */
    public void seek(long microseconds) {
      timestampIter.seekToValue(microseconds);
      valueIter.seek(timestampIter.getIndex());
    }
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}

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Apple faces multiple lawsuits over iPhone battery speed
Apple Admits To Slowing Phones Down As Their Batteries Age
By Kelcie Willis, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Soon after news emerged that Apple admitted to slowing down iPhone performance as the devices' batteries age, multiple lawsuits have been filed against the company.
CNBC reported that Stefan Bogdanovich and Dakota Speas filed a class-action lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against Apple, claiming the company never asked for consent from them to alter the performance of their phones.
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The lawsuit says Apple breached the implied contracts with Bogdanovich and Speas "by purposefully slowing down older iPhone models when new models come out and by failing to properly disclose that at the time that the parties entered into an agreement," according to WCBS.
The complaint also says that the two are entitled to compensation because the slowdown of their devices cause them to suffer "economic damages and other harm."
Related: Apple admits to throttling iPhone CPU speed as battery ages
"Our goal is to deliver the best experience for customers, which includes overall performance and prolonging the life of their devices. Lithium-ion batteries become less capable of supplying peak current demands when in cold conditions, have a low battery charge or as they age over time, which can result in the device unexpectedly shutting down to protect its electronic components," Apple said in a statement to The Verge about performance of the devices.
"Last year we released a feature for iPhone 6, iPhone 6s and iPhone SE to smooth out the instantaneous peaks only when needed to prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down during these conditions. We've now extended that feature to iPhone 7 with iOS 11.2, and plan to add support for other products in the future," Apple said in the statement.
Apple is being sued after it said it slowed down the performances of older iPhones as the batteries in the devices age.
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Bogdanovich and Speas are trying to get the case certified to cover all U.S. owners of iPhones older than the iPhone 8, according to CNBC. Their suit is not the only one against Apple since the company released its statement about iPhone battery speed. WCBS reported that a second class-action lawsuit was filed in Illinois on Thursday night.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported that the suit was filed in Chicago by two people in Illinois as well as by Ohio, North Carolina and Indiana residents with iPhone models 5 through 7.
The suit says Apple "needlessly subjects consumers to purchasing newer and more expensive iPhones when a replacement battery could have allowed consumers to continue to use their older iPhones."
Unspecified damages are being sought in the suit.
Kelcie Willis, Cox Media Group National Content Desk


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Legal battle over teen abortion goes on
Overtaken by changing developments in lower courts, the Supreme Court acted narrowly on Monday o end one of the challenges to the Trump Administration policy of refusing to allow abortions for undocumented teenagers being held in official detention centers after entering the country illegally. In a five-page, unsigned opinion, the Court said the initial test case no longer had any legal significance after the young woman had an abortion arranged by her lawyers.
But the end of the so-called "Jane Doe" case was not a victory for the Administration: the Justices did not order lower courts to end all such challenges, as government lawyers had asked, and neither did the Court impose any disciplinary action on the young woman's lawyers, as the government wanted.
Meanwhile, the judge who initially granted a right to abortion for the young woman has broadened the case to include all undocumented teenagers who enter detention and are or become pregnant, and has ordered officials not to interfere with those procedures. That broader order is now on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Monday's actions by the Justices, which showed no dissenting votes, wiped out an earlier ruling by the D.C. Circuit declaring that the young women in detention do have a constitutional right to end their pregnancies, if they get permission as required by a state judge where they are held. The fact that that ruling has now been erased by the Supreme Court does not appear to undermine the new round of activity before the judge in Washington, D.C.
The Administration, however, is expected to use the Justices' new ruling as support for its continuing efforts in the lower courts to regain complete control over access to abortions for undocumented teenagers held in immigration detention.
The D.C. Circuit is now considering the government's plea to overturn the Washington judge's latest orders supporting abortion rights for those teenagers, and to block those orders in the meantime.
The "Jane Doe" case has been pending before the Supreme Court since November. The Justices have seemed unable to get to it, or to make up their minds what to do with it. The Court's staff submitted the case to the Justices for consideration more than a dozen times, before the action finally came on Monday.
The Justices indicated that they were simply following a host or past precedents in wiping out the lower court ruling in favor of "Jane Doe" after the dispute became "moot" when she had an abortion. In essence, the opinion indicated, there was nothing left to decide.
While the opinion contained some implied criticism that the young woman's lawyers might not have kept government lawyers fully informed of their swift action in arranging for her abortion, denying the government the opportunity to seek help in the Supreme Court to prevent the abortion, the opinion also noted that her lawyers had an obligation to defend her interests. It simply took no action on the government's specific request to punish her lawyers for alleged ethical misconduct.
The opinion issued Monday contained no hint of how the Justices themselves might rule on such disputes when and if the continuing case reaches them in the future.


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New Years Eve always seems to be a time for reflection and this one more obviously than most. I have been thinking about some of the people who have inspired me in life, who have given me the fire in my belly. Here are just some of them.
My mum. The biggest inspiration of all. From a traditional old fashioned Jewish background, she went to university (almost unheard of amongst her cohort ), lived alone in Paris for a year as a student, got a job in advertising. Wow. She gave up work to be a stay at home mum and gave every inch of herself to the job. No one could have had a more selfless, more hard working, more dedicated, more loving, more sensible, more empathetic, more encouraging mother. She would have fought to the death with her bare hands to protect my brother and me.
My dad. A Jewish boy and accountant from Hendon, who left school at 16 with poor qualifications, but who went on to be a senior director of one of the world's largest publishing companies, flying around the world doing deals in far flung places. How amazing that he was able to achieve so much, to build himself up from such a humble beginning, and to pass on to me the most incredible and powerful work ethic. I've never been afraid of a glass ceiling thanks to him. He has ingrained in me the knowledge that hard work and intelligence and being someone who gets on with people stand you in very very good stead.
Mrs Pearce. My infant school teacher. She was a tough cookie. She sounded like she smoked 100 a day. She was a divorcee in an era when that was still a bit scandalous. She gave as good as she got. Age 5 I thought she was the bees knees.
M. Bardou. My secondary school French teacher. He was never heard to utter a word in English in the classroom. He shouted at us, corralled us, pushed us, helped us, encouraged us, didn't let us give up. He was the best teacher in the school.
John Davies, tutor in law at Brasenose College. John always intimidated me a little. We were clearly bright – after all, we'd won our places at Oxford – but John had seen loads of bright kids over the years and it took a real effort to find something to say to him that made him look interested. But his intellect, calmness, stoicism and patience were always inspiring and always made you hope that you'd be the one to pique his interest.
Barry Nicholas, former principal at Brasenose and Roman Law Tutor. We all had to take Roman Law with Barry in our first term. Barry had written the definitive textbook on the subject. This little small bent over figure in a brown tweed jacket and feet tucked into shoes that used to be brown but were polished into a sort of orange colour would greet us. The feet would be twisted round the legs of his chair in a way that defied human biology. He would listen to your essays then question you on them. It wasn't uncommon to tell him that you'd written something because he'd said so in his book. But the came the day that he replied "hmmmm. I might have changed my mind". At that point I knew I loved him for life.
Romano Prodi. Prodi was president of the European Commission during my stage. He used to eat his lunch in the staff canteen. That was impressive. I admired him hugely for that.
Robyn Durie. Robyn was a partner at a major City law firm representing the company my dad worked for. She was kind enough to take me on for work experience for a fortnight when I was 16 (and wearing a VERY short skirt!), and then again for some time during the following 2 summers. Robyn scared and inspired me in equal measure. She wore bright red lipstick and her hair tied back tightly in a coiled bun. She spoke quietly but with immense authority. There seemed to be nothing she didn't know about IP law and telecoms regulation. It's fair to say she had both friends and detractors – but to me she was just awe inspiring. What an intellect. What presence. What a reputation. Wow.
Catherine Wolfenden. Catherine was head girl at my school and a couple of years older than me. We were never friends at school and didn't stay in touch. But work made our paths cross a couple of years ago. She is incredible. An amazing lawyer. A brilliant mum and wife. A truly lovely friend. A wonderful warm personality. Incisive. Hard working to a fault. Perceptive. The sort of person I hope I might be.
Pat Treacy. My partner and lead competition lawyer at Bristows. Pat really is incredible. It goes without saying that she is intelligent and an excellent lawyer. But there is so much more. She is thoughtful, considerate, good hearted, straightforward. She has no hidden agenda. She doesn't do office politics. She is measured and realistic. She is a good person through and through, always thinking about others. She is calm. She is a true inspiration.
Rabbi Lawrence. Rabbi Lawrence is the new rabbi at our local synagogue. He had enormous boots to fill as his predecessor is now the Chief Rabbi. During the early days of my diagnosis I considered contacting the synagogue. But I didn't feel any real connection. As I've blogged before, I'm a very traditional Jew, observant in some ways but not to the really observant, but culturally connected. I have mostly gone to synagogues affiliated to the United Synagogue, the biggest community in the UK. When I was growing up, most people I knew went to a US synagogue – it was the norm. Most people weren't all that observant but were traditional. As I've grown up, the US has got more and more hard line and my friends have tended to get less and less religious and observant, while I feel I've stayed in the middle. Luckily I met and married a wonderful man with very similar views. Anyhow, the point of this rambling is that the US rabbis have tended to intimidate me by making me feel inadequate for not being observant enough. It's a Jewish thing. And then I met Rabbi Lawrence. He was heavily involved in AJ6, the Jewish youth group that I was involved in as a teenager. He read law at Oxford. Only then did he go and study to become a rabbi. He led communities in Australia and New Zealand so he's been away from the politics and increasingly hard line views of the US. And now he's my rabbi. I met him. He listened and understood. He didn't reel off long quotes from the Torah. He didn't tell me I should be ashamed for not being more observant. He got me. He is the rabbi I have been looking for. I am so glad I have found him in time.
My husband and kids. They inspire me to keep going. To push through. To be the very best version of me that I can be. To fight and fight and keep fighting.
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Helga Breen
Dear Rosie Whoever said you should publish your posts was absolutely right. You write beautifully and have found an outlet in extreme adversity. Just like your other friends and followers I am moved and inspired while feeling sad angry and everything in between. Don't stop writing and don't stop fighting
Thinking of you and the family
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January 15, 2022 By Richard C. Gilbert
A yet to be disclosed number of Caldwell County Deputies are on paid administrative leave after a Friday night fatal shooting.
Deputies responded to a call off Terrapin Ridge Lane in Granite Falls and found a man who was later identified as 56-year-old Troy Lee Carter armed with a gun and knife holding two females hostage. According to a release, a Deputy or Deputies fatally shot Carter after he refused to comply with demands.
A man said to be Carter's brother-in-law, 48-year-old Timothy Lewis Davis was who lived at the residence, had been shot and stabbed Davis prior to law enforcement's arrival. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Carter had active arrest warrants at the time of his death for charges including criminal trespassing and second-degree arson.
Caldwell Deputies involved in the incident have not been named. They are on leave while the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation takes charge of the case.


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Texas Tech Athletic Hall of Famer and former football coach Robert Hall has returned to his native Dallas to coach budding quarterbacks. His private coaching business, Raiderone, is "a quarterback training and development place where quarterbacks or future quarterbacks can come to improve and enhance their skills," according to his Twitter page.
He has been coaching privately in Texas for years. When he was featured in Sports Ilustrated in 2016, he was doing more than four training sessions a day at $100 an hour and training kids as young as second grade.
Hall has come a long way since Carter High School. Back in the day, he was the quarterback of the 1988 Texas State Champion team, which inspired the movies "Friday Night Lights" and "Carter High," and was depicted in the ESPN's "What Carter Lost." He went on to play quarterback for the Texas Tech Red Raiders – one fan site even named him the No. 3 Red Raider quarterback of all time.
He has done pretty well for himself in the training business, too. Some of his students have gone on to earn Division 1 scholarships and play professional football.
So, who knows? Maybe this kid is the next Tony Romo.


Buying Bank Owned Properties. In the world of real estate there are many, many types of properties that you can buy. The majority of the time people hire a real estate agent to help them buy a property that is listed on the MLS (multiple listing service) of the area that they are looking for.
Ask your agent to do a search for bank-owned properties. Define the location you desire and the specific features of the property--for example, a specific ZIP code or number of bedrooms. Ask your agent to e-mail you a link to view the results of the search.


The Department of Justice U.S. Attorney's Office Central District of California announced on February 28, 2018 that two California doctors, one of whom had his medical license revoked in 2009, have been arrested pursuant to a federal indictment charging them with mail fraud, wire fraud, false statements, money laundering, and aggravated identity theft arising from their alleged involvement in a scheme involving more than $250 million in allegedly fraudulent bills related to the 1-800-GET-THIN Lap-Band surgery business and sleep study programs between May 2010 and March 2016.
The federal indictment alleges that one of the defendant doctors controlled, in part, the GET THIN network of entities that focused on the promotion and performance of elective Lap-Band weight-loss surgeries. The defendant doctor is alleged to have established procedures requiring prospective Lap-Band patients, including those covered by insurance plans he knew would never cover Lap-Band surgery, to have at least one sleep study, and employees were incentivized with commissions to make sure the studies occurred. The federal charges allege that the purpose of the sleep studies was to find a second reason – a co-morbidity, such as sleep apnea – that GET THIN would use to convince the patient's insurance company to pre-approve the Lap-Band procedure.
After patients underwent sleep studies (often with little indication that any doctor had ever determined the study was medically necessary), GET THIN employees, allegedly acting at the defendant doctor's direction, allegedly often falsified the results of the sleep studies to reflect that the patient had moderate or severe sleep apnea, and that they suffered from severe daytime sleepiness. The federal indictment charges that the defendant doctor then caused those falsified sleep study reports to be used in support of GET THIN's pre-authorization requests for Lap-Band surgery.
Insurance companies would then authorize payment for some of the proposed Lap-Band surgeries, relying on the false sleep studies as well as other false information, including patients' heights and weights, according to the federal indictment. The federal indictment alleges that GET THIN received at least $38 million for the Lap-Band procedures.
The federal indictment alleges that even if the insurance company did not authorize the surgery, GET THIN still was able to submit bills for approximately $15,000 for each sleep study, receiving millions of dollars in payments for these claims.
The other defendant doctor is alleged to have allowed his electronic signature to be used by GET THIN to make it falsely appear that he had reviewed and interpreted the falsified sleep studies, even though he knew the reports were being altered. The federal indictment also alleges that he demanded to be paid for the use of his electronic signature on hundreds of prescriptions for devices to treat sleep apnea, which prescriptions he allegedly did not review, which were sent with the falsified sleep study reports to durable medical equipment providers that billed for sleep apnea equipment that patients often did not need.
If the defendants are convicted of the charges contained in the federal indictment, they face a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for each of the 31 mail fraud and wire fraud counts alleged in the indictment.
If you or a loved one may have been injured due to medical negligence in the United States, you should promptly seek the advice of a local medical malpractice lawyer in your U.S. state who may investigate your medical malpractice claim for you and represent you or your loved one in a medical malpractice case, if appropriate.
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About the Transaction
CSX Congratulates NNEPRA on 20 Years of Downeaster Passenger Service
This is Why the CSX-Pan Am Merger Benefits Passenger Rail in New England
The proposed acquisition of Pan Am Railways by CSX benefits not just freight rail operations, but passenger rail, too. With a strong record of accomplishment in hosting passenger rail services, CSX's increased presence in New England is good news for riders of Amtrak and regional commuter rails. As the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority's Downeaster service celebrates its 20th Anniversary, it is a good opportunity to highlight the benefits of having CSX as a partner in New England.
Hosting Passenger Trains
At the heart of CSX's passenger partnership is a dedicated team that oversees the operation of passenger trains on the company's network. The team works proactively with dispatchers to ensure that passenger trains remain on schedule. CSX hosts more passenger rail service than any other Class I railroad, and in densely populated areas. Looking at Amtrak specifically, 53 of its trains currently operate over CSX tracks. Since 2018, the company's contractual on-time performance with Amtrak has progressively improved from 73.3% to 93.6%, an increase of nearly 20 percentage points. These figures reflect CSX's continued commitment to ensuring seamless passenger rail operations, and New England is bound to benefit from this if the transaction is approved.
Investment is also critical to the future of passenger rail operations. While Pan Am has sometimes lacked the resources to deliver improvements to its own rail network, the acquisition by CSX will see an influx of capital into New England's rail infrastructure. The numbers speak for themselves. During the last five years, CSX has invested more than $12 billion in capital expenditures, and in 2021 is poised to spend toward the top end of its $1.7-1.8 billion projection. In its application under consideration by the Surface Transportation Board (STB), CSX details plans to invest significantly in Pan Am's infrastructure to better align it with CSX's industry-leading operating model. Over the next five years, CSX will upgrade Pan Am Railway's lines to a higher class of track, which will improve safety and efficiency of trains moving across these tracks.
While passengers want to get from point A to point B quickly, it is also imperative that they arrive safely. Safety is a vital component of CSX's operating model, resulting in CSX having the lowest injury rate of all Class I railroads last year.
Overall, CSX has proven to be a critical partner for passenger rail operations across its network. The acquisition of Pan Am and CSX's increased presence in New England will bring the region's rail infrastructure and operations into the 21st Century. As former Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray recently said, "CSX has demonstrated that it is a good corporate citizen that's committed to investing in and improving its network," noting that it is a company "run by smart people that has proven itself willing to think creatively and collaboratively so freight rail and passenger rail can co-exist and benefit from one another."
The future is bright for freight and passenger rail if the STB gives the transaction its blessing next year.
DORSEY: Railroad merger and environment
CSX/Pan Am: Bringing New England Into the Class I Railroad Network
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"There is a micro-trend evolving by way of unexpected fabrics. Real or faux leather seemed to be the material of the moment," confirms Aiken. "Found by way of trenches, blouses, skirts and dresses. Among my favorites include Nanuskha's vegan leather in the brand's cult-favorite puffa or streamlined leather dress, as well as the bold variations of color from Khaite and Proenza Schouler." Last year, the trend extended down to lower price points and the high street, so we're expecting the leather look to spread far and wide.
One of the world's most successful fashion designers, Diane von Fürstenberg impressed the fashion world when she introduced her now-iconic "wrap dress" for the working woman in 1972. Elegance, ease, and accessibility have always been the core of her design philosophy, which has allowed her to turn DVF into a global luxury lifestyle brand. In 2005, she became the recipient of the CFDA's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Casual is a combination of elegance with comfort. This simple style has caught up well with the passage of time and is one of the most sought after fashion styles as of now. None of the exotic and bold items will be in the wardrobe of a woman who follows casual fashion. They would prefer to put on a white T-Shirt and black pants over tight and uncomfortable exotics any day. They tend to keep it simple and match the accessories with whatever the simple clothing they are wearing. See Causal look shopping on Christmas Season.
Although the '70s aesthetic is visible in some corners of planet fashion for autumn 2019, in general, the look hasn't taken hold in quite the same way it has in previous years. However, the item that really has infiltrated from this epoch is platform shoes. Whether in rubbed-soled pull-on boot form at Stella McCartney or in curvaceous lizard print at Alexa Chung, this is a good time for super-high-heel lovers. They can be worn with anything and everything, and they shouldn't be saved for retro looks only—try a pair with your favourite straight-leg jeans and see what we mean.
Fashion design is the art of applying design, aesthetics and natural beauty to clothing and its accessories. It is influenced by cultural and social attitudes, and has varied over time and place. Fashion designers work in a number of ways in designing clothing and accessories such as bracelets and necklaces. Because of the time required to bring a garment onto the market, designers must at times anticipate changes to consumer tastes.
Tom Ford studied design at the before he worked for Perry Ellis andCathy Hardwick. Tom was hired in 1990 to oversee Gucci's women's wear collections, and had a breakthrough four years later when he was appointed creative director. The Gucci makeover masterminded by Ford was the biggest fashion success story of the late 90s. His sultry rock-star velvet hip-slung trousers, leather stilettos, and Halston-esque dresses were blockbusters. After Gucci's buyout of Yves Saint Laurent in 1999, Ford also became creative director of YSL Rive Gauche. In 2005, Ford launched the Tom Ford brand.
Calvin Klein studied fashion in New York and apprenticed for a suit manufacturer. In 1968, he opened his own company that was initially recognized for suits and coats, but his sportswear line became popular and top of the line. He received three Coty Awards for womenswear. His business now includes clothing, cosmetics, fragrances and home collections.
20th century saw some serious improvement in terms of both men's and women's apparel. Spearheading this reform were a class of fashion icons whom we refer to as fashion designer artists. Most of the famous iconic fashion designers of the last century are known till at the present time for their ability to exhibit the beauty of a woman's body by way of stylish, modernist, creative and elegant clothing. Below you will find a 10 list of all such iconic fashion designers, who have made women look stunning,beautiful, sensuous and gorgeous through their interesting and unique fashion designs.
The ethnic Indian wear isn't only for the Indians any longer. Wear your saree with an advanced turn, and wrap it like an outfit. Hotshot those bends in the styles that are shaking the slope, or bring back the old present day style of Mumtaz. Still insufficient? Toss in a coat, a harvest top, a tube, or anything that gets your favor, set up of the exhausting old pullover, and include a radical new, particular measurement to the conventional 9 yards. Include a belt. Make a flat out combination to possess the saree-clad look this year.
Known for balancing modern designs with traditional elegance, Vera Wang is arguably the most prominent designer of bridal wear in America. Wang introduced her first bridal collection in 1990 after fifteen years editing at Vogue and a two designing for Ralph Lauren. After spending more than a decade dressing countless stars for weddings and red carpets in her ultra-elegant, custom-made gowns (even publishing a book in 2001, "Vera Wang on Weddings"), it was a natural progression for Wang to introduce ready-to-wear in 2004.
Fashion. Fashion is completely transparent. It's fun, it's confusing, and it never dies off. Fashions from the past are still being worn by women across the country and new fashions are being designed every day. There's SO many different fashion styles, and we've come up with a list of the top 20 looks, from elegant to gothic, exotic to casual, and everything in between.


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'I can't stand it anymore': Retired coal miner Percy Verrall details struggles with 'black lung'
By Matt Peacock
Updated December 01, 2015 18:11:44
Photo: Percy Verrall says he is on tablets but still coughs up blood from time to time. (ABC News)
Related Story: 'Black lung' makes comeback in Queensland coal mines
Percy Verrall used to be a fit man, but is now struggling for every breath.
The 72-year-old former coal miner spent most of his working life in Queensland's Ipswich coalfields and is now paying the price.
I'm on tablets to keep me going and now and then I still bring up a bit of blood.
Black lung sufferer Percy Verrall
He has what is called "black lung", coal miner's pneumoconiosis, a disease thought to have been eradicated in Australia.
Mr Verrall is one of four Queensland coal miners that was recently identified with the disease.
"I feel very weak all the time," Mr Verrall told 7.30.
"Pressure on my chest is like if somebody's hit me — a bloody tonne truck or something.
"I'm on all medications to try and keep my airways going.
"I'm on tablets to keep me going and now and then I still bring up a bit of blood."
The mining union has expressed alarm that none of the four cases were detected by the industry-wide medical surveillance scheme.
CFMEU Industry Safety & Health Representative Stephen Woods told 7.30 he was worried more cases would surface.
"I'm shit scared. Shit scared that we are going to have a major epidemic, another James Hardie, but in my industry," Mr Woods said.
Mr Verrall, who is now in excruciating pain, was pensioned off for ill health in 1997 and was subsequently referred by his doctor to a specialist, who diagnosed black lung.
"I just can't stand it anymore," Mr Verrall sobbed.
Do you know more about this story? Email 7.30syd@your.abc.net.au
When his condition worsened earlier this year, Mr Verrall contacted the union's solicitors to sue for compensation.
The union has since learnt of three additional cases amongst people who worked underground in the Bowen Basin.
The CFMEU's Queensland president, Stephen Smyth, believes there may be more.
Mr Smyth is angry that when he took the X-rays of one worker who was given the all-clear locally to the US, an expert there immediately identified black lung.
"I actually took these X-rays across, sat down with these guys, brought it up and said, 'here, these are the X-rays from 2009, put the X-ray up' and within a matter of about two minutes the expert said, 'yes, there are three nodes there, that this gentleman actually had it in 2009, on that X-ray'," Mr Smyth told 7.30.
"And he said to me after that, 'what action was taken?' And I said, 'that's the issue, he was allowed to go back to work for another five years'."
Photo: Percy Verrall has trouble breathing and has to use an asthma puffer.
The union claims there are currently no qualified 'B readers' of X-rays to detect black lung in Queensland.
Dr Cecile Rose, a black lung expert at National Jewish Health in the US, the country's leading respiratory research hospital, said with early warning through X-rays and lung tests, miners could be removed from harmful dust and the progression of black lung halted.
The disease has claimed tens of thousands of lives in the US.
"It's a complex mixture of materials that can trigger this injury and inflammation in the lung and over time can lead to scarring or emphysema," Dr Rose explained to 7.30.
"If you don't have doctors that are trained to be 'B readers' using the ILO (International Labour Organisation) system, then they may miss these early signs of black lung on a chest X-ray and then miss the opportunity to prevent the disease from getting worse."
That is little consolation for Mr Verrall, who now wishes he had never worked in the industry he once loved.
"I didn't think I'd end up like this," he gasped reaching for his puffer.
"No way in the wide world."
Topics: health, coal, mining-industry, australia, qld, ipswich-4305
First posted December 01, 2015 17:53:11


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Leading Cardiologist Appointed to NIH Project Review Committee
John M. Canty Jr., MD
Adding to his list of national leadership roles, John M. Canty Jr., MD '79, Albert and Elizabeth Rekate Professor of Medicine and chief of cardiovascular medicine, has been appointed to a four-year term on the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Heart, Lung and Blood Program Project Review Committee.
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Committee members advise the directors of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the NIH concerning programs and activities in the areas of:
heart, blood vessel, lung and blood diseases
blood resource management
The committee initially reviews grant applications for program projects and makes recommendations for support.
Career Focus on Noninvasive Cardiology
Canty has led UB's Division of Cardiovascular Medicine since 2006, fostering expansion of education, research and clinical care programs and integrating cardiology sections at UB-affiliated teaching hospitals and health care systems.
During a career focused on translational research and noninvasive cardiology, Canty has worked with interdisciplinary experts to develop bench-to-bedside personalized treatments for heart disease patients.
He conducts research in UB's Clinical and Translational Science Institute, a unique 170,000-square-foot facility that allows physician-scientists to perform both cutting-edge research and state-of-the-art patient care.
Numerous National Leadership Roles, Honors
Canty has served various leadership roles and has been recognized with numerous awards at the local, state and national levels.
He received the UB medical school's Stockton Kimball Award in 2005 in honor of his academic accomplishments and worldwide recognition as an investigator and researcher. He also won a 2010 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.
He is immediate past-president of the Association for Professors of Cardiology, comprised of academic cardiology leaders throughout the nation. In 2003, he was elected by his peers to membership in the Association of University Cardiologists.
A fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the American College of Physicians, Canty also has served on numerous NIH peer-review and data safety-monitoring committees. In addition, he serves on the editorial boards of several leading cardiovascular journals.
Canty has been recognized by Best Doctors in America since 1998. He is a practicing cardiologist at the VA Western New York Healthcare System and Gates Vascular Institute, and he sees patients through UBMD, the physician practice plan of the UB medical school.


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'Swede' Escape for the Red Devils
EPL Index > EPL Index Featured Article > 'Swede' Escape for the Red Devils
Zlatan Ibrahimovic's deal invoked a lot of variation in reactions among both critics and fans alike. Some felt like he wouldn't do well in the Premier League, while some felt like he was getting too old to take up this role. Others were delighted at the thought of having Ibrahimovic in the team. However, trust Ibrahimovic to prove the ones who doubt him wrong, and to do it with class!
He has established the fact that he is a force to be reckoned with in all leagues. He put in an impressive display in the pre-season games, and his goal for his Premier League debut was simply sublime.
United were leading 2-0 early on in the second half owing to goals by Juan Mata and Wayne Rooney. Of course, Zlatan is not one to be left behind and he seized the opportunity as soon as he saw one.
The Swede obtained the ball in the middle, ran towards the Bournemouth goal and fired a perfectly angled 25 yard drive past a seemingly stunned Artus Boruc to give the Red Devils a dominating 3-0 lead.
What's even more amazing about this is the fact that this goal has completed a full set for Ibrahimovic – his debut Premiere League goal is now added to the ones he scored on his Champions League debut, Serie A debut, La Liga debut and his Ligue 1 debut.
There are some players whose talk doesn't match their play, but Ibrahimovic can afford to have the kind of attitude he has, because his play always matches up – or sometimes even exceeds, and that's what's important.
He already made a place for himself in the hearts of the United fans after he scored the winner in Community Shield match against Leicester, and he also showed some clever touches throughout as the whole focus of the United attack ahead of Rooney, who played behind the Swede in the number ten role.
It is his determined, aggressive and focused approach is what United was lacking all along and moreover, the amount of experience he has had can only mean good news. Ibrahimovic looked like he was in the game to win it, right from the opening minute, trying to release Rooney with a neat, flick which the pair repeated a couple of times throughout the match.
He is always involved in the game and that was seen as he tried to block Bournemouth captain Simon Francis trying to get on the end of a cross from Valencia, with both players needing attention after a rather nasty clash.
Although Ibra was influential in the second half, his touches in the first half did not seem to do much for him. He took his own time to settle in before he went for the goal. He was low-key till half-time and, soon after the break, the match was still 1-0.
Rooney's header pushed United up to a 2-0 lead, shortly after which Zlatan stepped up to take a free kick just outside the Bournemouth area, but his whipped effort was well claimed by Boruc in the centre of the goal, and Bournemouth looked safe for the time being.
But then, in the 64th minute, Ibrahimovic gave the United fans exactly what they wanted to see, firing in his delightful, long-range strike. It's been a while since United fans witnessed such football from their team and the happiness was clearly writ on their faces.
Although Bournemouth did score five minutes later through Adam Smith, they knew that the fate of the match was already sealed. And that's when Zlatan began experimenting with a variety of cheeky tricks – which given the situation seemed okay, but then he would need to tone it down for the big games and keep his head in the game till the very end.
Having said all that, the Red Devils were elated after the victory, and the rest of the Premier League needs to be extremely cautious of them as they are here to win!
by Meghna Sengupta
Eternal optimist.
http://www.thesportscircle.wordpress.com
One response to "'Swede' Escape for the Red Devils"
drew farion says:
what about when he thru his body up at the header and then wnet to the bench to see if he needed stitches? You did not see that… him exulting a challenge to his team mates that if I can make this sacrifice … you can not either?
How about the pass across his body to Martial in 76th minutes that sent him galaventing away deep into enemy territory….
I think you and I need to combine our writing skills to the 'THunder Man' after Friday game to cover off all the elements and or any other player, coach roach for that matter
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Маурісіо Пінеда (,  13 липня 1975, Буенос-Айрес) — аргентинський футболіст, захисник.

Насамперед відомий виступами за клуб «Удінезе», а також національну збірну Аргентини.

Володар Суперкубка Іспанії з футболу. Володар Кубка Інтертото.

Клубна кар'єра
У дорослому футболі дебютував 1993 року виступами за команду клубу «Уракан», в якій провів два сезони, взявши участь у 73 матчах чемпіонату.

Протягом 1995—1996 років захищав кольори команди клубу «Бока Хуніорс».

Своєю грою за останню команду привернув увагу представників тренерського штабу клубу «Удінезе», до складу якого приєднався 1996 року. Відіграв за команду з Удіне наступні сім сезонів своєї ігрової кар'єри.

Перебуваючи на контракті з «Удінезе», протягом 1998—2003 років також пограв на умовах оренди у складі команд клубів «Мальорка», «Наполі» та «Кальярі».

Завершив професійну ігрову кар'єру у клубі «Ланус», за команду якого провів п'ять матчів у 2003 році.

Виступи за збірну
У 1996 році дебютував в офіційних матчах у складі національної збірної Аргентини. Протягом кар'єри у національній команді, яка тривала усього 3 роки, провів у формі головної команди країни 12 матчів, забивши 1 гол.

У складі збірної був учасником чемпіонату світу 1998 року у Франції, розіграшу Кубка Америки 1997 року у Болівії.

Титули і досягнення
  Володар Суперкубка Іспанії з футболу (1):
«Мальорка»:  1998
Володар Кубка Інтертото (1):
«Удінезе»: 2000
  Срібний олімпійський призер: 1996

Посилання
Статистика виступів  на footballdatabase.eu
Статистика виступів  на national-football-teams.com

Аргентинські футболісти
Гравці збірної Аргентини з футболу
Гравці чемпіонату світу з футболу 1998
Футболісти на літніх Олімпійських іграх 1996
Срібні призери літніх Олімпійських ігор 1996
Гравці розіграшу Кубка Америки з футболу 1997
Футболісти «Уракана»
Футболісти «Бока Хуніорс»
Футболісти «Удінезе»
Футболісти «Мальорки»
Футболісти «Наполі»
Футболісти «Кальярі»
Футболісти «Лануса»
Аргентинські футбольні легіонери
Футбольні легіонери в Італії
Футбольні легіонери в Іспанії
Уродженці Буенос-Айреса
Аргентинські срібні олімпійські медалісти


How would you like to add "Instagram Butler" to your Hospitality CV?
Home » How would you like to add "Instagram Butler" to your Hospitality CV?
Guest Services staff at Conrad Maldives Rangali Island, who have an eye for what makes an Instagram worthy photo, certainly can. Yes, as though the palm trees, white sands, perfect clear blue seas, and stunning resort facilities were not enough to entice guests, the resort now has its very own "Instagram Butlers".
We all know about hotels around the world encouraging guests to step up their selfie game. Some resorts include selfie scavenger hunts in their list of activities and others have Elevator Selfie Stations (because we all know how prized that perfectly lit a selfie-in-a-lift is!). The JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort and Spa even had a Selfie Package complete with a selfie stick and a guide to the best places and angles at which to take your prized selfie, and at other hotels you can hire a driver to take you around the city to take selfies of yourself at the best tourist sites.
Conrad Maldives Rangali Island however understands that sometimes it is more than just the perfectly lit selfie that its guests are after. Situated in the very beautiful Maldives, the opportunities to take stunning Instagram worthy photos are plentiful – the key is to get the perfect one. That is where the Instagram Butlers come in.
Guest Services staff were often being asked by guests to take their photos and the hotel decided to offer the service officially. This ingenious idea takes customer service one step further, by helping guests get the perfect instagramable photographs. These Instagram Butlers are trained to ensure that their guest's photos are the envy of all who follow them. Trained to help the guests find the best spot for pictures, the best time of day for the best lighting, which poses work best, add visual props and even take the photos for the guests. All for that perfect Instagram shot.
There is also an #instatrail that has handpicked scenic spots around the resort and island for Instagram photos that will make the guest the envy of all their friends and Instagram followers. For the more supple, guests can also take a yoga class where the resident Yogi will teach them the best poses with the ocean as the backdrop.
Just when you thought you knew all the opportunities that Hospitality holds, along comes another one. Although the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island are the first to have Instagram Butlers, many hospitality business owners are wanting to be as Instagram-friendly as possible. We are sure that they will not be unique in this offering.
The hospitality industry is really diverse and has many opportunities in many areas of the hotel. These opportunities change all the time with new and different opportunities which arise as trends, fashions and guests' needs change.
So, if you have Instagram Game, who knows, you could end up including this experience in your Hospitality CV.
A special thank you to @santinisara from @prettylittlelondon who used the Instagram Butler service at Rangali Island and allowed us to use her pictures. Look at her profiles for stunning photos from her travels around the world.