It's been a spell since I last posted, folks. School became pretty intense for a while there: I was blessed with the challenge of creating and carrying out a lesson plan to teach 7th and 8th graders about the connections between sugar consumption, obesity, and diabetes. At first blush this seemed like a straightforward task, but the lines between these three "epidemics" of our nation are more blurred that you might think. Perhaps there will be more on that in another post, this one's about cookies. Then last week I had my wisdom teeth taken out, an experience from which I gleaned a deep-seated gratitude for the ability to eat solid food. Even just 6 days of milkshakes, mashed potatoes, and pureed soups left me fantasizing about biting into a juicy cheeseburger or a fish taco or anything with more than a singular taste and texture. I haven't graduated to caramel apples or chips and salsa yet, but I'm glad to report we made perfectly medium-rare grassfed burgers on the grill last night and I was able to satisfy my craving quite successfully.
I found the recipe in a cookbook I borrowed from the library: The Kinfolk Table. It calls for vegetable shortening rather than the more commonplace butter. The payoff is a denser, more robust chew that preserves the luscious, fat-coated crumb of classic oatmeal cookies.
The oatmeal to flour ratio in these bad boys is 3:1, perfect for cookies that are both acceptable breakfast fare and nearly-guiltless nighttime snack. I switched out the AP flour for whole wheat pastry, my MO for most all baked goods. The vegetable shortening I use is a non-hydrogenated, organic palm oil made by Spectrum, who quells my fears of being an accomplice to orangutan murder with this pleasant blurb: "we craft our shortening from sustainably harvested organic palm oil sourced from dozens of small family farmers in Colombia." (Palm oil has a rather complex reputation which you can read about here.) That said, if you're leery of the ingredient you can certainly use butter, the texture will just be slightly different, as noted by the original recipe's author.
The recipe note also recommends combining all ingredients by hand, stating that using an electric mixer will alter the intended texture. (I gather the texture is paramount to the success of these cookies.) I must disclose I still used my Kitchen Aid to cream the butter and sugars, but the rest of the ingredients I mixed in manually.
The dough should be refrigerated for at least one hour before baking to ensure, you guessed it, optimal texture. For a fascinating NYT read on how cookie outcomes improve as dough is allowed longer fridge time, click here. Well, this post has taken me almost two hours to write, so I'm just going to get down to the recipe now, which is what you came here for anyway, right?
In a large bowl, combine the sugars and shortening and mix until creamy. Add in the vanilla, salt, baking soda, and eggs, and stir until just combined.
Combine the flour, oats, and chocolate chips. Incorporate these into the wet ingredients in three or four additions, stirring until mixture is more or less uniform. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour until the dough is chilled and firm.
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Place a rack in the center of the oven. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
Using a spoon, or in my case a melon-baller, scoop the dough into approximately 2 tablespoon spheres and place them on the prepared baking sheets about 1 inch apart. Press the dough down gently with your fingertips.
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes until the cookie edges just begin to brown, rotating the sheets halfway through if your oven bakes unevenly.
Transfer the baking sheets to a rack and cool for 5 minutes then transfer the cookies directly to the rack and cool completely, about 30 minutes (eat at least three before they cool).
Serve or store in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
Amid buzzing from task to task in preparation for the trip, I baked some hearty, nutty, just-sweet-enough trail bars to keep up our energy as we leg along the paths, float in the lake, or crush PBR cans by firelight.
This recipe is a slight modification of the "almond date breakfast bars" I found in The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook. I used spelt flour in place of whole wheat, sunflower seed butter rather than almond butter, added flax, chia and sunflower seeds and vanilla extract in place of half the almond extract. Thank you, Deb for the excellent recipe.
If you have any road trips or epic hikes in your future, or just lots of busy mornings, I highly recommend baking up a batch of these angels. According to The Smitten Kitchen, they freeze well too, so make a double batch while you're at it.
I like to get most of the ingredients in these bars in the bulk section of a natural foods or well-stocked grocery store. It's cheaper, uses less packaging and I find the staples like oats and wheat germ are always really fresh.
Preheat your lovin' oven to 350 F. Line an 9x13 glass (preferably) or metal pan with parchment paper, allowing it to hang off the end on two sides. Or, if you have no parchment paper like moi, grease the pan generously with fat of choice.
Use your clean hands to combine the dates, oats, flour, wheat germ, almonds, cashews, flax seeds, chia seeds, sunflower seeds, salt, and cinnamon in a large bowl. The dates like to stick together in clusters, much like teenagers, but they must be convinced to venture out on their own into the world of oats and nuts, so break them up with your fingers and ignore the comments about how they're never talking to you again.
In a separate smaller bowl, whisk together the sunbutter, olive oil, honey, orange zest, and almond and vanilla extracts until smooth. Pour the wet over the dry ingredients, and muscularly stir them together with a rubber spatula until the dry ingredients no longer dry.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan, then use some plastic wrap or your clean hands to smush the mixture firmly onto the bottom, edges, and corners of the pan.
Bake the bars for 20 to 25 minutes, until they are light brown around the edges. They'll still seem soft in the center but don't fret – they'll firm up nicely once completely cool.
Let the bars cool in their pan on a cooling rack.
Once cool, use a serrated knife to cut the bars into squares (or rectangles if you wish). If you start cutting the bars, and they begin to crumble, put them in the fridge for an hour or two and try again. If this doesn't work, congratulations, you just made some awesome granola.


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Die Frankfurt-Leipziger Burschenschaft Arminia ist eine pflichtschlagende und farbentragende Studentenverbindung in Frankfurt am Main. Die Burschenschaft wurde 1860 gegründet und war Mitgründerin der Deutschen Burschenschaft, der Roten Richtung und der Initiative Burschenschaftliche Zukunft. Sie ist seit 2012 verbandsfrei und gilt besonders in den Reihen der CDU als politisch gut vernetzt. Ihre Mitglieder sind Studenten und ehemalige Studenten an Frankfurter Hochschulen und werden als "Arminen" bezeichnet.

Geschichte

Am 18. Juni 1860 gründete sich in Leipzig die studentische Vereinigung Arminia. Ein Jahr später wurde die Satzung vom Universitätsrektor als Burschenschaft anerkannt. 1902 war sie Gründungsmitglied der Deutschen Burschenschaft und deren erste Vorsitzende. Dort leitete sie unter anderem die Einweihung des Burschenschaftsdenkmals in Eisenach. Bis 1910 zählte die Arminia über 550 Mitglieder.

Durch Leipziger Arminen und andere Burschenschafter gründete sich in Frankfurt am Main am 28. April 1926 die Frankfurter Burschenschaft Arminia. In diese gingen 1926 die Landsmannschaft Chattia und 1934 das Corps Moenania auf.

Nach der Selbstauflösung der aktiven Burschenschaften 1935 unterstützte die Altherrenschaft der Frankfurter Arminia die Kameradschaft Steckelberg des NS-Studentenbundes, die allerdings im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen Kameradschaften keine engere Beziehung zur Altherrenschaft aufbaute und sich nicht als Fortsetzung der Burschenschaft verstand. Die Kameradschaft nutzte auch nicht das Haus der Arminia, sondern nutzte ein von der Studentenschaft gemietetes Haus.

Mit Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges war für die Leipziger Arminen ein Verbleib in Leipzig nicht mehr möglich, darum schlossen sich 1949 die Alten Herren der Leipziger Arminia, aktive Studenten gab es keine, mit den Aktiven und den Alten Herren der Frankfurter Arminia zusammen zur Frankfurt-Leipziger Burschenschaft Arminia zu Frankfurt am Main. Seitdem führt die Verbindung einen Doppel-Zirkel doch weiterhin nur ein Band. Die Verbindung ist Träger der Frankfurter und auch der Leipziger Tradition. Daher gründete die Frankfurt-Leipziger Burschenschaft Arminia nach der Wende die Burschenschaft Arminia zu Leipzig. Weiter war sie Gründungsmitglied der Roten Richtung und der Burschenschaftlichen Initiative innerhalb der Deutschen Burschenschaft.

Die Arminia war die erste vom Rektorat nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg anerkannte studentische Organisation an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität. Sie pflegt ein Freundschaftsverhältnis mit der Freiburger Burschenschaft Teutonia, der Alten Darmstädter Burschenschaft Germania, der Gießener Burschenschaft Germania und der Burschenschaft Arminia zu Leipzig.

Von 1947 bis 1955 hieß die Kaiserstraße in Frankfurt Friedrich-Ebert-Straße. Die Umbenennung war in der Bevölkerung wenig populär. In einer Nacht-und-Nebel-Aktion überklebten Aktive der Arminia alle Straßenschilder mit dem ursprünglichen Namen und informierten die Presse. Am 12. Mai 1955 wurde die Rückbenennung in Kaiserstraße beschlossen.

Zuletzt führte die Arminia im Geschäftsjahr 1998/99 als Vorsitzende die Deutsche Burschenschaft, wobei es ihr gelang Helmut Kohl als Festredner für den Burschentag zu gewinnen. Dies war das einzige Mal, dass ein amtierender oder ehemaliger Bundeskanzler am Burschentag sprach. Am 3. März 2012 begründete sie als eine von 21 Burschenschaften der Deutschen Burschenschaft die Initiative Burschenschaftliche Zukunft (IBZ), welcher sie seitdem angehört. Im Dezember 2012 erklärte sie ihren Austritt aus der Deutschen Burschenschaft und gehört seitdem keinem Korporationsverband mehr an.

Couleur und Wahlspruch
Die Arminia trägt schwarz-rot-goldene Couleur (von unten gelesen) mit karmesinroter Mütze. Füchse tragen keine besonderen Fuchsenfarben. Der Wahlspruch lautet Ehre, Freiheit, Vaterland.

Bekannte Mitglieder
 Friedrich Bachmann (1884–1961), Politiker und Teilnehmer am Hitler-Attentat
 Max Berg, Professor für Psychologie
 Rudolf Bonnet (1889–1977), Professor für Stenographie, Historiker und Gründer und Leiter der Stenographischen Bibliothek Frankfurt
 Ernst Paul Brink (1856–1922), Oberbürgermeister von Glauchau, Initiator des Bismarckturmes
 Wilhelm Brink (1848–1912), Oberbürgermeister von Offenbach am Main
 Jens Ekkenga (* 1956), Rechtswissenschaftler und Hochschullehrer
 Harry Gerber (1888–1959), Historiker und Archivdirektor des Frankfurter Stadtarchives
 August Gleichmann, Theologe und Hofprediger des Herzogs Ernst von Coburg-Gotha
 Edmund Kurt Heller (1884–1954), Professor für Germanistik
 Robert Hofmann (1869–1943), Bürgermeister von Altenburg, 2. Bürgermeister von Leipzig
 Erich Hüttenhain (1905–1990), Kryptologe, Abteilungsleiter der Chiffrierungsabteilung des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht
 Ernst Jerusalem (1845–1900), Generalsekretär der Nationalliberalen Partei
 Franz Jung (1888–1963), Schriftsteller, Mitgründer der Kommunistischen Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (KAPD)
 Emil Jungmann (1846–1927), Professor für Philologie und Rektor der Thomasschule zu Leipzig
 Felix Klingemann (1863–1944), Chemiker, Entdecker der Japp-Klingemann-Reaktion
 Rudolf Körner (1892–1978), Turner, Olympiateilnehmer der Olympischen Spiele 1912, Mitglied des Admiralstabs
 Karl Larsen (1900–1978), Präsident des Deutschen Genossenschaftsverband
 Friedrich Leipner (1896–1957), Landrat in Pirna
 Wolfgang Lohmann (* 1935), MdB
 Hermann Lorenz (1860–1945), Studiendirektor, Archivar und Heimatforscher
 Ludwig Müffelmann (1853–1927), Freimaurer, Journalist und Schriftsteller
 Hugo von Muralt (1886–1974), preußischer Offizier, Vorsitzender des Hessischen Kriegerverbandes Chattia
 Alfred Paul Neff (1853–1934), Oberbürgermeister von Saarbrücken
 Walter Niens (1905–1999), Professor für Ingenieurswesen und AEG-Vorstand
 Johannes Rechenberger (1909–1982), Professor für Medizin
 Ernst Otto Schimmel (1889–1930), Oberbürgermeister von Glauchau
 Erich Süßenberger (1911–2007), Präsident des Deutschen Wetterdienstes
 Hugo Thiel (1839–1918), Geheimrat und maßgeblicher Entwickler der Saatzucht
 Kurt Versock (1895–1963), General und Ritterkreuzträger
 Felix Wahnschaffe (1851–1914), Professor für Geologie, Vorsitzender der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft
 Fritz Wasgestian (* 1934), Professor für Chemie
 Arthur Wichmann (1851–1927), Professor für Geologie
 Wilhelm Wiegand (1851–1915), Professor für Geschichte, Historiker und Archivdirektor an der Universität Straßburg
 Heinrich Anton Wolf (1908–1984), Politiker und Verteidiger bei den Nürnberger Prozessen
 Max von Zabern (1903–1991), Landrat in Heidenheim

Mitgliederverzeichnis:
 Willy Nolte (Hrsg.): Burschenschafter-Stammrolle. Verzeichnis der Mitglieder der Deutschen Burschenschaft nach dem Stande vom Sommer-Semester 1934. Berlin 1934, S. 1028.

Siehe auch
 Liste der Burschenschaften
 Liste der Studentenverbindungen in Frankfurt am Main

Literatur
 Werner Schötz, Rudolf Wilsch: Die Frankfurt-Leipziger Burschenschaft Arminia: 100 Jahre burschenschaftl. Leben in Leipzig u. Frankfurt 1860–1960. Frankfurt am Main 1960.
 Bruno Rath: Die Toten der Frankfurt-Leipziger Burschenschaft Arminia. Wolfenbüttel 1981.
 Helma Brunck: Studentische Verbindungen in Frankfurt am Main. Kleine Schriften des Historischen Museums. Frankfurt am Main. Band 29. Kelkheim 1986, S. 14, 63–67.
 Hans-Georg Balder: Die Deutsche(n) Burschenschaft(en) – Ihre Darstellung in Einzelchroniken. Hilden 2005, S. 138–140, 269–270.
 H. de Rouet: 150 Jahre Frankfurt-Leipziger Burschenschaft Arminia. Frankfurt am Main 2010.
 Rudolf Körner: Das Deutsche Waffenstudententum. Ein Wort an die studierende Jugend und ihre Eltern. Inkl. Biografie und Bibliographie von Rudolf Körner. Hilden 2010, ISBN 978-3-940891-44-0.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks
 Offizielle Webseite der Frankfurt-Leipziger Burschenschaft Arminia

Arminia Frankfurt
Arminia
Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen
Gegründet 1860

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Dr. Wajda received his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Oklahoma before embarking on graduate work in radiation physics, and being awarded the degree of Doctor of Osteopathy from the Oklahoma College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1987. He completed his internship and residency in General Psychiatry at the UCSF-Fresno Medical Education Program in 1991.
Dr. Wajda is board-certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Physician Specialists, and serves as a Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Medicine. He is a Life Fellow of the American College of Forensic Examiners, and a buprenorphine-certified physician with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Additionally, Dr. Wajda has served as a member of the oral and written certification examination committees for the American Academy of Physician Specialists, and is a member of the Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of California. He has authored numerous mental health articles in local and national periodicals, Dr. Wajda has been published most recently in the American Journal of Clinical Medicine, and is a regular contributor to Fresno Life Magazine. He has a weekly segment on Central Valley Today on KSEE 24 and is being featured on In Focus Television hosted by Martin Sheen. Dr. Wajda can currently be heard on his weekly call in program on Power Talk Radio with Clear Channel 96.7 and AM 1400.


The Kuwait embassy in the US is horrible. Before we went over, I called them everyday and left a message every time for a month straight and I never received a phone call back.
Tell me one thing, who hires people in the Kuwait embassy, be it US or any other place?
I'll tell you the answer. It's Kuwaitis and Kuwaiti Government who hire them. Kuwaitis just like Saudis are known to hire people just LIKE THEMSELVES. i.e. Arrogant, Self-centered, Hypocrital ar$eh0les.
Just go to any Ministry in Kuwait and see how the Kuwaiti men/women behind the counters behave (especially with expats). It will be 10x worse then what you may have encountered outside Kuwait.
Well hello there, I just had a similar experience in Europe, so just to inform you, they dont have website for Kuwait Embassy in Austria either and they serve also people from other countries like Slovakia for example, which means a full day trip to Vienna to get your papers done and if they dont have any website, thats a first dissapointment.


FoodPrime is addressing the problem of hunger, minimizing food waste, and bridging the gap in food inequality via the FoodPrime Mobile Application that connects those who have surplus food that could go to waste to those who need food in their community. This is achieved via the application interface that allows registered users on the platform offer their cooked or uncooked food, swap food items or browse through list of offers and claim food items for themselves with no money changing hands. Alternatively, users can indicate that they are hungry via the Request feature on the platform. The FoodPrime approach is to help communities reduce hunger, reduce waste, redistribute surpluses, diversify their pantry and build stronger community. A new feature on this platform currently under development allows registered grocery store, food producers and food retailers display and sell food items that are approaching the end of shelf-life at a discount hence minimize food waste and reduce profit loss.
FoodPrime mobile application notifies users in real time whenever other users within two kilometres radius of their physical location want to share their surplus or leftover food, swap food items or indicate they are hungry. The platform will also send real time notification to users when food items that are approaching their end of shelf-life are added by a registered food retailer and ready to be sold at a discount.


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Tiago Prado (født 3. maj 1984) er en brasiliansk fodboldspiller.

Eksterne henvisninger

Fodboldspillere fra Brasilien


Lets rename a folder of annoying Twitter .jpg-orig files to what they should be–and lets do it in less than five seconds!
In the GIF at the top, you can see an entire folder get renamed seemingly instantly. What's happening here is the handywork of a little Emacs tool called "Dired", Emacs' built-in file manager.
Now, Emacs having a built-in-file manager is about as surprising as the ocean being wet, but it has some really cool features that are a lot less obvious. The one we are interested in is the part where Dired allows you to edit folders as if they were text files!
Because of this, all I did above was simply find and replace "-orig" with nothing, then save. Simple as that!
How can I do this too?
In Emacs, C-x C-f 1 lets you open files and folders… And when you open a folder, you are placed in "Dired"; the mode you saw me use above.
By default, Dired is read-only to stop you from making sweeping changes to your folders (Imagine running across this without knowing what you're doing!), but you can turn that off with C-x C-q, allowing you to perform all kinds of magic.
When you do this, it indicates so in the bottom line.
After that, you can edit the folder as if it were a text file, using whatever style of editing you prefer. When you are done, you can save your changes to the folder by simply saving the buffer as if it were a normal text file–or by hitting C-c C-c like the text at the bottom suggests.
…and that's it! Now you wield the power of mass-renaming!


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Q: Checkpoint package R not finding dependency I'm trying to set up a checkpoint using the checkpoint package.
I'm doing a simple example in which I only load tidyverse and I run into an error for missing dependencies.
library(checkpoint)
#> Warning: package 'checkpoint' was built under R version 3.6.3
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#> checkpoint: Part of the Reproducible R Toolkit from Microsoft
#> https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/rro/reproducibility/
checkpoint(snapshotDate = "2020-06-12", forceInstall = TRUE)
#> Scanning for packages used in this project
#> No file at path 'C:\...'.
#> - Discovered 3 packages
#> Unable to parse 1 files:
#> - reprex_reprex.spin.Rmd
#> Removing packages to force re-install
#> Installing packages used in this project
#>  - Installing 'tidyverse'
#> tidyverse
#> also installing the dependencies 'tibble', 'broom', 'dbplyr', 'forcats', 'haven', 'modelr'
#>  - Installing 'knitr'
#> knitr
#> checkpoint process complete
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library(tidyverse)
#> Warning: package 'tidyverse' was built under R version 3.6.3
#> Error: package or namespace load failed for 'tidyverse' in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]):
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According to the documentation, I'd expect the dependencies to install automatically but this seems not to be the case. If I update the rlang package on using install.packages everything works fine:
library(checkpoint)
#> Warning: package 'checkpoint' was built under R version 3.6.3
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#> checkpoint: Part of the Reproducible R Toolkit from Microsoft
#> https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/rro/reproducibility/
checkpoint(snapshotDate = "2020-06-12", forceInstall = TRUE, auto.install.knitr = FALSE)
#> Scanning for packages used in this project
#> No file at path 'C:\...'.
#> - Discovered 2 packages
#> Unable to parse 1 files:
#> - reprex_reprex.spin.Rmd
#> Removing packages to force re-install
#> Installing packages used in this project
#>  - Installing 'tidyverse'
#> tidyverse
#> also installing the dependencies 'tibble', 'broom', 'dbplyr', 'forcats', 'haven', 'modelr'
#> checkpoint process complete
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library(tidyverse)
#> Warning: package 'tidyverse' was built under R version 3.6.3
#> Warning: package 'ggplot2' was built under R version 3.6.2
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I believe it might be related to having rlang loaded via a namespace (and not attached), but I thought checkpoint isolated these issues.

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Coming On Home Soon is set on the homefront during WW2, and is written in simple, poetic language. It tells the story of young Ada Ruth, who lives with her grandma while her mother is away working in the factories. Emotions are palpable in this beautifully illustrated story of family love.We're not sure...we haven't read this book yet. We have a strict policy of only listing books that we have personally read and reviewed, but we're making an exception here so that our 2005 Caldecott winner list is complete. For now we can't share our own thoughts on the book and its classroom use, but we'll hopefully be able to add a review soon.
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En el campo de inteligencia artificial, los problemas más difíciles son informalmente conocidos como IA-completos o IA-duros, al implicar ven que la dificultad de estos problemas computacionales es equivalente a solucionar el problema central de inteligencia artificial –hacer ordenadores tan inteligentes como personas–, o IA fuerte. Llamar un problema refleja que no sería solucionado por un algoritmo específico sencillo.

Hipotéticamente, los problemas AI-completos incluyen visión por ordenador, procesamiento de lenguaje natural, y tratar con circunstancias inesperadas mientras se soluciona un problema del mundo real.

Actualmente, los problemas IA-completos no pueden ser solucionados solamente con tecnología de computación moderna, también requieren computación humana.  Esta propiedad puede ser útil, por ejemplo para comprobar la presencia de humanos usando CAPTCHAs

Historia
El término fue acuñado por Fanya Montalvo por analogía con NP-completo y NP-duro en teoría de complejidad, el cual describe formalmente la clase más famosa de problemas difíciles. Los usos tempranos del término están en la disertación de doctorado de Erik Mueller en  1987 y en el Archivo de Jerga de Eric Raymond en el 1991.

Problemas IA-completos
Hipotéticamente, los problemas IA-completos incluyen:
 Visión de ordenador (y subproblemas como reconocimiento de objetos)
 Comprensión de lenguaje natural (y subproblems como minería de texto, traducción automática, y desambiguación.)
 Tratar con circunstancias inesperadas mientras se soluciona un problema del mundo real, ya sea navegación o planificación  o incluso razonamiento hecho por sistemas expertos.

Traducción automática
Para traducir con exactitud, una máquina tiene que ser capaz de entender el texto. Tiene que ser capaz de seguir el argumento del autor, así que debe tener alguna capacidad de razonar. Tiene que poseer un conocimiento general extenso de modo que  sepa de qué está siendo hablado -al menos tiene que estar familiarizado con todos los mismos hechos de sentido común que el traductor humano mediano sabe-. Parte de este conocimiento está en la forma de hechos que puede ser explícitamente representado, pero otra parte es inconsciente y estrechamente ligado al cuerpo humano: por ejemplo, la máquina puede necesitar entender cómo el océano hace sentir a una persona para poder traducir con exactitud una metáfora en el texto. También debe modelar los objetivos, intenciones, y estados emocionales del autor para reproducirlos con precisión en un nuevo idioma. En resumen, se requiere que la máquina posea una gran variedad de habilidades intelectuales humanas, incluyendo razón, conocimiento de sentido común y las intuiciones que subyacen al movimiento y la manipulación, percepción e inteligencia social. La traducción automática, por tanto, se cree que sea IA-completo:  puede que requiera IA fuerte para que sea hecho tan bien como los humanos lo pueden hacer.

Fragilidad del software
Los sistemas de IA actuales pueden solucionar versiones restringidas muy simples de problemas IA-completos, pero nunca en su total generalidad. Cuando investigadores de IA intentan "escalar hacia arriba" sus sistemas para manejar situaciones del mundo real más complicados, los programas tienden a convertirse en excesivamente quebradizo: sin sentido común o una rudimentaria comprensión de la situación fallan tan pronto circunstancias inesperadas fuera del contexto del problema original aparecen.  Cuándo los seres humanos tratan con situaciones nuevas en el mundo, son ayudados grandemente por el hecho de que  saben qué esperar:  saben qué son todas las cosas a su alrededor, por qué están allí, y aproximadamente qué pueden hacer. Pueden reconocer situaciones inusuales y ajustarse en consecuencia. Una máquina sin IA fuerte, no tiene otras habilidades en las cual apoyarse.

Formalización
La teoría de la complejidad computacional trata con la dificultad relativa de funciones computables.  Por definición no cubre problemas cuya solución es desconocida o no ha sido caracterizado formalmente. Dado que muchos problemas de IA no tienen ninguna formalización aún, la teoría de complejidad convencional no permite la definición de IA-completitud.

Para abordar este problema, una teoría de complejidad para IA ha sido propuesto. Está basado en un modelo de computación que divide la carga computacional entre un ordenador y un humano: una parte es resuelta por el ordenador y la otra parte por el humano.  Esto está formalizado como una Máquina de Turing asistida por humanos.  La formalización define complejidad de algoritmo, complejidad de problema y reducibilidad, la cual permite definir clases de equivalencia.

La complejidad de ejecutar un algoritmo con una máquina de Turing asistida por humanos está dado por un par, donde el primer elemento representa la complejidad de la parte del humano y el segundo elemento es la complejidad de la parte de la máquina

Resultados
La complejidad de solucionar los problemas siguientes con una Máquina de Turing asistida por humanos es:
 Reconocimiento óptico de caracteres para texto impreso:
 Prueba de Turing:
 Para una conversación de n-oraciones donde el oráculo recuerda la historia de la conversación (oráculo persistente):
 Para una conversación de n-oraciones donde la historia de la conversación tiene que ser retransmitida:
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Perspective: Contact Tracing with Privacy Protections is a Formula for Saving Lives and Boosting Economy
By Asm. Andrew Zwicker | June 18, 2020
We need effective contact tracing with privacy protections to open NJ's economy and save lives.
In NJ, more than 12,000 people in the last three months have died from COVID-19 – more than we lost during all of WWII. During this same time period as Governor Murphy issued his stay-at-home order that shut down all but essential businesses, more than one million people in NJ claimed unemployment and the budget deficit over the next year is now predicted to be close to $10 billion dollars.
During this past week, my committee, the Assembly Science Innovation and Technology Committee, together with the Assembly Community Development and Affairs Committee chaired by Assemblywoman Shavonda Sumter held a hearing on one of the key tools needed to reopen NJ's economy safely: contact tracing.
Contact tracing has been a weapon in the battle to prevent the spread of communicable diseases for decades. According to the World Health Organization, the eradication of smallpox, for example, was achieved in 1979 not by universal immunization, but by exhaustive contact tracing. Diseases for which contact tracing is commonly performed include tuberculosis, vaccine-preventable infections like measles, sexually transmitted infections (including HIV), blood-borne infections, some serious bacterial infections, and novel infections (e.g. SARS-CoV, H1N1, and COVID-19).
Technology plays a crucial role in contact tracing, and as our world has been more technologically advanced, our personal data have become more vulnerable. While NJ has no plans to develop a contact tracing app that we would download on our phones to track our movements, it does intend to use a central database to store contact tracing data in "the cloud." This information, collected through telephone calls to those suspected of being in close contact with someone that has tested positive for COVID-19, will include your name, ask about how you are feeling, ask about others with whom you may have had close contact, and ask that you quarantine yourself. You will NEVER be asked for money, your social security number, bank information, immigration status, or other personally protected information.
Contact tracing will only work if people willingly participate in the process. And one of the key ways to get that participation is through guarantees of individual privacy, which is why I introduced A4170 that has bipartisan support in the General Assembly. The bill is not about the value of contact tracing or whether it should occur. Rather, the bill focuses on how it should be implemented with an appropriate protection of privacy. This bill provides that public health entities (such as the NJ Department of Health, county and local boards of health) collecting information on an individual for the purposes of contact tracing related to the COVID-19 pandemic, may only use the data for the purposes of completing contact tracing. Furthermore, these public health entities must delete the personal information once contact tracing is complete.
The more we protect a person's privacy, the more willing they will be to participate honestly in contact tracing. People have to feel comfortable in responding to contact tracers.
This measure also requires that the Commissioner of Health publish website guidelines regarding how collected data may be used and how its security and confidentiality must be ensured. A mechanism where the public can submit comments over a 30-day period must be provided before any NJ Health Department guidance can be finalized.
As NJ continues to reopen and we spend more time with friends, family, and others, we must do everything we can to minimize the spread of this horrible virus that has killed so many. Ensuring that contact tracing is done with the involvement of local community members in a sensitive and caring way yet with strong privacy protections in place is essential.
NJ STATE ASSEMBLYMAN ANDREW ZWICKER, 16TH LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT
Parts of Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset, and Hunterdon counties
AsmZwicker@njleg.org
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Overlapping Territories Don't Violate Territorial Exclusivity
A recent decision by the United States District Court in Kansas clarifies the interpretation of "protected territory" clauses in franchise agreements. The case of Black Angus Holdings, LLC v. Backyard Burgers, Inc. originated in the bankruptcy court in Kansas.1 In its complaint in the adversary proceeding, the plaintiff/franchisee asserted that Backyard Burgers, Inc. (BYB) breached its franchise agreement by granting an additional franchise to another operator in violation of the "protected territory" provision in the franchise agreement.
The franchise agreement in question contained the following territorial provision:
"Territory." Franchisor [BYB] agrees that, during the term of this Agreement, it will not sell or establish any other franchises or company-owned Restaurant or any other restaurant which sells hamburgers and/or chicken sandwiches in the following territory: a site located at 124 North Clairborne, Olathe, Kansas, 66062 [location of plaintiff's restaurant] with a one mile exclusive radius. ("the Territory"), except in or in conjunction with any military installation, zoo, amusement park, or stadium/arena/ coliseum.
The plaintiff alleged that the franchise agreement was amended to extend the radius to two miles. The plaintiff further alleged that BYB breached this agreement by granting a franchise to another operator for a location 2.17 miles from the plaintiff/franchisee's location. BYB moved to dismiss the complaint arguing that a restaurant 2.17 miles from plaintiff's location did not breach the protected territory provision even as amended.
In opposing this motion, the franchisee asserted that the offending location was granted a one-mile area of protection under its franchise agreement. Consequently, the plaintiff argued, the "areas of protection" for the plaintiff's location and the offending location overlapped. The plaintiff focused on the term "exclusive radius" in the franchise agreement. The plaintiff asserted that if any other restaurants' radius touched plaintiff's radius, then it was not "exclusive" and the franchise agreement had been breached.
The bankruptcy court observed that BYB's interpretation of the provision was the most obvious one; however, the "exclusive radius" language was sufficiently ambiguous to warrant denial of the motion to dismiss.
BYB sought leave to appeal this decision to the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, and the appeal was accepted. In an order dated September 2, 2010, the district court reversed the ruling of the bankruptcy court and dismissed the adversary proceeding.
The district court noted that the franchise agreement provided that it was to be interpreted under Tennessee law. Tennessee courts have long held, consistent with the majority of jurisdictions, that if the language of a written contract is clear and unambiguous, a contract is interpreted according to its plain terms as written, and the language used is taken in the plain, ordinary and popular sense.2 Employing those principles, the district court noted that the territorial provision in question provided that BYB could not sell or establish a restaurant "in the following territory: a site located at [plaintiff's address] with a [two] mile exclusive radius (the Territory)." Thus, under the ordinary meaning of this prohibition of a restaurant "in" the territory defined by a two-mile radius around plaintiff's restaurant, a restaurant could not physically be situated or located two miles or less from plaintiff's restaurant. By that interpretation, a new restaurant more than two miles from plaintiff's restaurant was not prohibited, regardless of any other circumstance (for instance, the operation of a territorial provision benefiting the new restaurant).
The district court rejected the plaintiff's argument regarding "exclusive radius." The court held that the use of the word "exclusive" meant that other restaurants were physically excluded from the defined territory.
Finally, the court notes that the franchisee's proposed interpretation simply did not pass the common sense test. When the franchisee executed the franchise agreement, it could not have known what kind of protected radius that a future restaurant might have. For instance, under the plaintiff's interpretation, a new restaurant with a five-mile protected radius could not be located within seven miles of the plaintiff's restaurant, while a new restaurant with no protected territory could be as close as two miles away. Consequently, the plaintiff would not have known how close other restaurants could be to its own, and therefore, would not have known the extent of the benefit for which it had bargained.
The court held that the protected territory provision was not ambiguous and, interpreting that provision according to its plain and ordinary terms, a restaurant located 2.17 miles from the plaintiff's restaurant did not constitute a breach. The adversary proceeding was dismissed.
Mr. Podesta is an attorney in our Memphis office.
Bankr. Case No. 09-21349-11
Maggart v. Almany Realtors Inc., 259 S.W.2d 700, 703 (Tenn. 2008).
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Top 10 Takeaways | The Canadian economy in focus
October 16, 2020 | 4 min read
As part of our ongoing webinar series, RBC's Deputy Chief Economist, Dawn Desjardins discussed the current state of the Canadian economy and short-term prospects during this time of unprecedented challenges. We share Dawn's top ten insights.
1. Substantial economic impact: The policies to contain the virus, which resulted in halting economic activity, have had some substantial impacts. From a global perspective, there has been a decline in economic output of close to 5%, one of the worst on record.
Following the significant declines in economic activity in the first half of the year, we started to see some pick-up in growth in the summer and expect recovery to continue through the remainder of the year and into 2021.
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2. Strong government support: The extraordinary levels of government support have had a material impact on economic recovery. In Canada, supports equaling almost 20% of GDP have been introduced, including direct income supports for individuals, loan guarantees, and tax deferrals for businesses to help them migrate through this very difficult period. This support has been key in providing households and businesses with funding to keep them afloat.
3. Quantitative easing? Yes, in Canada too: Central banks also moved very rapidly to ensure that financial systems were able to continue to function and that borrowers could get access to loans at low interest rates, for example.
In Canada, the Bank of Canada (BoC) went into unknown territory by introducing quantitative easing to ensure sufficient liquidity and flows in the front end of the market. Over time the program has moved further out the yield curve and the policy is now aimed at ensuring that interest rates across the entire maturity spectrum remain at very low levels.
Canada matches the picture of other advanced economies. We had a significant drop in economic activity as lockdown measures took hold and the BoC lowered policy rates in March. Rates are expected to remain extraordinary low.
We are hopeful that the worst impacts of COVID-19 and the policies and measures introduced to contain the virus are 'in the rear view mirror'. However, it is still going to be a bumpy road ahead and will take a sustained period of time for economies to fully recover lost ground.
4. Contraction, contraction, growth: From mid-March through to the end of the month, the Canadian economy contracted by over 8% at an annualized rate. But the first quarter was totally overshadowed by second quarter results with a further contraction of close to 39%, annualized. These declines were slightly offset by the gradual recovery that began in May and June as parts of the economy reopened.
Growth rates are coming in slightly slower than that first bump up in June but are on a recovery path. Data suggests third quarter growth of around 40% annualized. While we are seeing some recovery from this deep hole, digging out is a slow process. Even if we see another 6% gain in the fourth quarter, we will still be significantly below where we would have been if we didn't experience COVID-19, and the policies that followed. We expect growth in 2021 will still leave us to a shortfall from where we would have been.
5. A different downturn: Rather than a demand side shock this has been a supply side shock. The typical sectoral breakdown has reversed. Usually the goods side of the economy gets hit first, which then leads into the services side. In this case, as economies are more driven by services, they were most dramatically hit and continue to be under pressure.
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In Canada, retail and housing activity did recover quite quickly. Low rates have given some uplift to the consumer side of the economy and manufacturing has started to recover. Yet, it is still down 6% from pre-shock levels. Areas that will continue to be under pressure will be those sectors with person to person contact such as travel, accommodation, tourism, entertainment, etc., even as we re-open.
6. Labour worries: What has this meant to the labour market? Initially, three million jobs were lost in Canada due to COVID-19. At this time, 1.9 million jobs have been recovered but, on an industry basis, there are still areas that will continue to underperform, in our view. Food and accommodation services, and entertainment are still down 250,000, and 100,000, respectively.
Jobs in manufacturing are still down by 83,000 but we expect this to slowly come back online, as well as education which we anticipate to grow as schools have reopened.
This will not be a quick recovery for Canada's labour market. While we entered the crisis with an extraordinarily low unemployment rate, at 5.6%, it spiked to a high of close to 14% and now hovers above 10%. We expect to end 2020 about 3% higher than where we started the year.
7. Business sentiment–cautious optimism: While business saw a quick rebound as we started to reopen, data from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business' (CFIB) Business Barometer index, which measures small business confidence, reveals that has since stalled and sits at 59.2. For small and medium-sized business, only two thirds have fully opened. Furthermore, 25% of businesses said they may have to reduce staff over next three months versus only 15% that say they will be hiring. A business barometer index of 65 is considered to reflect 'normal' economic conditions. Clearly there is continued uncertainty which may be alleviated once vaccines are developed and we can adopt a new normal.
8. CAD resiliency: The Canadian dollar has been relatively resilient as the USD has weakened over the past few months. Oil prices, which are another driver of Canada's currency, have come back from the very low levels but still sit well below where they were in 2019.
As we move forward with recovery, we anticipate oil prices will move a bit higher but remain around the $40/$43 mark West Texas Intermediate. This won't be a huge help to Canada's currency.
9. Oil patch struggles: All provinces are experiencing downward pressure, some less so than others. The differentiator is exposure to oil and gas production. Into 2021, we anticipate that all provinces will recover to a large degree in some cases, but oil producing provinces will likely run deficits in the next few years.
All provinces are experiencing downward pressure, some less so than others. The differentiator is exposure to oil and gas production.
10. The final word: Fortunately, Canada had the fiscal room to introduce programs to help households and businesses stay solvent and confident. They have also reassessed programs and pivoted those that may not have been performing to make them more accessible. While this will bump up our debt to GDP ratio, the government was confident in taking such actions because they started in a stronger place than many economies. The government now needs to decide how we progress and get spending levels back to normal.
RBC Investor & Treasury Services Webinar (October 1, 2020) Economic Update: A progress report on Canada's Economy


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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art presents (RE)CLAIM: Indigenous Artists Reflect on Identity
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111 United States
The selection of artists in this exhibition is representative of a larger community of contemporary Native artists working to assert Native perspectives and challenge misconceptions. Presented entirely through the artists' own works and words, (RE)CLAIM shares their reflections on the always relevant question of identity.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art presents The Contemporary Figure
January 9, 2019 - December 31, 2019
This collection of works features contemporary objects from the 1960s to today with varying presentations of the human figure. Although artists have depicted the human figure for millennia, 20th-century movements such as Conceptual art, Minimalism, and Abstract Expressionism moved away from the time-honored practice of figurative art. Our current moment is rich with a resurgence…
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art presents 15th-17th Century Italian and Spanish Textiles
January 9 - June 16
This exhibition showcases silk and linen fragments spanning the 15th-17th centuries, a period of expanded exploration and trade, when Italy and Spain emerged as major centers of textile production.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art presents Divine Inspiration
January 16 - July 14
Few individuals have exercised such a powerful grip on the Western imagination as Jesus of Nazareth. Believed by his followers to be the Son of God, he was central to religious life in Europe. Unsurprisingly, the defining moments of his life figure prominently in Western Art. The drawings and prints in this rotation will explore…
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art presents Discriminating Thieves: Nazi-Looted Art and Restitution
After the World War II, Allied forces found much of the art and looted by Nazis and returned it to the rightful owners. But other items disappeared in the chaos of war and remain lost to this day. In light of this fact, the Nelson-Atkins researches the ownership history of its artworks. This research revealed…
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art presents Expedition to the ChimaCloud
March 1 - September 1
Contemporary artist Saya Woolfalk's body of work transports visitors into a fantastical world where they encounter a fictional race of women Woolfalk has created called the Empathics. Expedition to the ChimaCloud continues Woolfalk's extensive narrative of the Empathics, who will be introducing their newest groundbreaking technology at the Nelson-Atkins. The exhibition is an immersive, multimedia…
Belger Arts Center presents Keep It Real
March 1 - July 6
Belger Arts Center, 2100 Walnut St.
Keep It Real is the first of a three-part series in celebration of Belger Cartage Service, Inc.'s 100th anniversary. This exhibition includes decorative and historical objects that reflect the cultural fabric of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through these objects, we get a glimpse into the issues leading to the rapid innovation and shift…
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art presents Child's Play: An Exploration of Adolescence
March 1 - August 4
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd.
Child's Play: An Exploration of Adolescence situates contemporary works of art from Kemper Museum's Permanent Collection in conversation with concepts brought forth by neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (Austrian, 1856–1939). Freud suggested that humans can trace their compulsions back to their childhood. From this idea, Child's Play explores artists' depictions of children, their…
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art presents Andy Goldsworthy: Walking Wall
March 4 - November 29
Andy Goldsworthy, who collaborates with nature and time to create site-specific installations, will build Walking Wall in five successive sections at the Nelson-Atkins in 2019. Over the course of nine months, Goldsworthy and his craftsmen will hand-build a wall that will "move" across the museum campus.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art presents Creatures of the Night: Women in Paris from 1850-1900
Women in Paris gained more rights in Paris toward the end of the 1800s, and nightfall offered the perfect cover for a variety of their activities from the innocent to illicit. The public feared women's shifting role from motherhood to independent woman. These feelings played out in popular media and fine art, with artists using…
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art presents Renaissance to Restoration
April 3, 2019 - March 22, 2020
The first portrait miniatures appeared in the 1520s at the French and English courts and they were particularly useful to the monarchy. Small enough to be given as gifts, they signaled a monarch's favor when worn publicly. Take for example Nicholas Hilliard's portrait of Queen Elizabeth's favorite, George Cumberland, Third Earl of Clifford. He is…
May 25 @ 10:00 AM - September 29 @ 5:00 PM CDT
Union Station, 30 W Pershing Rd.
Over 1.5 million people annually travel to the south of England to experience this mysterious wonder and World Heritage site, dating back 5,000+ years. Now, within this America's premiere exhibition, step back into ancient civilizations and ask the "Who", "How" and "Why" yourself. Consider the evidence. Meet the fascinating people behind the stones. Study their…
Kansas City Symphony Presents: Mozart's Fifth Violin Concerto with Brahms
May 31 @ 8:00 PM - June 2 @ 4:00 PM CDT
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway Blvd.
Brahms' Piano Quartet in G minor is one of his most energetic and uninhibited pieces with a wild gypsy dance at the end. In Schoenberg's technicolor arrangement of the chamber work for orchestra, the Quartet emerges as a thrilling showpiece. Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5, "Turkish," is a technically demanding yet sweetly poetic romp. Within…
Rock of Ages at Starlight Theatre
May 31 @ 8:00 PM - June 2 @ 11:00 PM CDT
Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd
Broadway's Best Party is turning up the volume to ten! The Rock of Ages Tenth Anniversary tour is blazing across North America. Nominated for five Tony Awards®, including Best Musical, Rock of Ages captures the iconic era that was the big bad 1980s Hollywood. "Know What Love Is," "Feel the Noise" and "Take Your Best…
I Love the 90s Bar Crawl
June 1 @ 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM CDT
KC Live! Block, 13th & Grand Blvd.
Alright stop, collaborate and listen! The I Love the 90s Bash bar crawl is coming back to Kansas City Saturday, June 1st from 11am-4pm! We're lacing up our high tops, putting on our fanny packs and gettin' jiggy wit it to the best music of the 90s.
High Tea at the Kemper Museum
June 1 @ 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT
Join the Kemper Teen Arts Council in the exhibition Child's Play to watch the movie Alice and Wonderland, have a tea party, enjoy edible treats inspired by the painting Cakes and Pies by Wayne Thiebaud, and make your own hat perfect for the occasion.
Tech N9ne at KC Live!
June 1 @ 4:00 PM - 11:59 PM CDT
Get ready Kansas City! Tech N9ne and Strange Music are taking over the Power & Light District on Saturday, June 1st, for STRANGFEST 2019!
Kansas City Art Institute Art & Design Auction
Kansas City Art Institute, 4415 Warwick Blvd
An event so spectacular, it only happens every other year! Browse and bid on artwork in the silent and live auctions, enjoy creative fare and festive libations, all while supporting arts education. All proceeds benefit student scholarships.
Kansas City Art Institute Art and Design Auction
Browse and bid on silent and live artwork, enjoy creative fare and festival libations, all while supporting arts education.
Rezound! Handbell Ensemble in Concert
We hope you'll join us for an evening of exceptional music with Rezound! and members of Resonate 2019 on Saturday, June 1. Resonate is a biennial performance event for advanced handbell musicians who spend a day rehearsing with Rezound! and join the ensemble onstage for a portion of this unique concert. This year, 18 dedicated…
B.M.W. at The Phoenix
June 1 @ 9:00 PM - June 2 @ 1:00 AM CDT
The Phoenix, 302 W. 8th St.
This five-piece jazz band has made its mark in the Kansas City area, performing at outdoor festivals, corporate events, wedding receptions, and so much more. Featured artist and founder of B.M.W., Saxophonist Kenny Glover, has set the standard for the distinct sound of Brothers Making Waves. B.M.W. has performed all over Europe and the U.S.…
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Your options for submitting your consolidation loan application aren't limited to the web. You'll find lenders who will let you send the application over the snail mail and even over the phone. Any approach you select should function exactly the same way, although some ways are quicker than others.
When you have filled out the consolidation loan application form, you are going to wait for a response. Your credit score should be excellent and also your info has to be correct. If you are accepted or denied, you'll find out once the loan company has made a final decision regarding your application. You will want to look for an email, a notice, or a telephone call from your loan provider. More often than not, the way in which you're approached will depend on your own private personal preferences and exactly how you filled out an application for the consolidation loan to start with.
Approved candidates shall be expected to fill in and sign a few related forms. You should sign your name on the paperwork to make progress, but you should not do it if you've not studied them carefully first, or if you are not confident with what you have read. This also includes the fine print. Overlooking fine print could be a serious mistake, even if you are employing a highly rated and well reputed company. Once you have signed, the lending company pays off your accounts, can open a new account, and starts billing you one time each month. It won't be long before you're receiving the letters that notify you of debt repaid completely from your consolidated accounts. Do not toss these types of messages away. Keep them for possible future need.
Obviously, we also have to deal with the well-known truth that not everyone that is troubled with consumer debt will enjoy the kind of credit ranking which is required for this option. You cannot obtain this kind of loan with a credit rating below 675. It's still possible for you to pay back your debt faster for less. Simply investigate the other solutions.
If you are living in Ramer and are still crumbling with the burden of such a lot of debt that you cannot expect to ever pay it back in your lifetime, you will need to look into the local debt settlement programs. Tremendous sums of financial debt, if put together with unfavorable credit ratings, render settlement the most useful solution. A lot of your consumer debt can in fact be eradicated by working with a debt settlement agency. Through this method, you will get a far more reasonable deal from the help of your creditors and loan providers with the debt settlement agency. You may also work it to ensure you'll be paying less every month than you were before. If your installments are inexpensive, you make them effortlessly and on time. Therefore, as time passes, you close in on meeting your financial obligations and also make great progress towards fixing your credit.
Debt settlement offerings are not free, however. You're going to most likely be charged a predetermined portion of the quantity of debt you request they settle . Contingent upon your current credit worthiness as well as your economic conditions, it may be the most suitable choice for yourself.
When you are really in way over your head, then perhaps it is time to start looking into bankruptcy. Of course, you do not want to even look at going bankrupt except when you have got not any other reasonable solution. Normally it takes many years to overcome the awful impact of personal bankruptcy with your credit ratings. You'll find it difficult to be accepted for any sort of financial loan, and will also be generally untrustworthy to banking institutions. After all, most financiers will simply not feel confident lending funds to those that have a fresh consumer bankruptcy on their file.
Filing for bankruptcy will be the fastest way for you to devastate your credit rating. The majority of people who declare either Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy discover that their scores instantaneously fall 200 steps or even more. Your alternatives and prospects on this planet can be less and more challenging to get as you become ineligible for loans, certain transactions, and in some cases certain job opportunities which entail a credit score assessment.
One more drawback to filing for bankruptcy would be that it costs money and needs you, in many cases, to employ a lawyer. By hiring a bankruptcy attorney, you'll be able to ensure you end up going through the course of action properly and that you get through the difficult actions as fast and easily as you possibly can. However, individual bankruptcy attorneys will charge you a fixed charge or a percentage of your total financial debt as repayment, which means you should know this prior to deciding to make an attempt to file for bankruptcy.
On the other hand, with all this focus on the disadvantages of individual bankruptcy, we should certainly not disregard the advantages. The most beneficial point is that consumer bankruptcy consists of paying back personal debt with assets and having many other debts forgiven. This is naturally better than attempting to repay your debt throughout your life, never ever managing to pay off the interest charges. If you file for bankruptcy, you will also see that selected bad debts may not be covered. You may count your student loans one of the debt that won't be resolved with the personal bankruptcy proceeding.
Never consider bankruptcy to manage your debt in Ramer without speaking to a credit debt counseling professional. Hopefully, you will discover a better method.
Lots of alternatives exist to help clients like you get back on track economically by handling their unsettled debt. The foremost and most challenging step is to investigate your alternatives and pick the one that is the best for you. This is the way towards a economically sound, free of debt future.


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Gardener State: How green is your school?
Nicholas Polanin
Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
The aim of the U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools effort is to inspire schools, districts and institutions of higher education to strive for 21st-century excellence by highlighting promising school sustainability practices and resources that all can employ.
Initiated in 2011, the effort recognizes schools, districts and post-secondary institutions' cost-saving, health-promoting and performance-enhancing sustainability practices, and encourages others to adopt these practices as well.
Three pillars of sustainability include: reducing environmental impacts; improving health and wellness through coordinated school health initiatives; and offering effective environmental and sustainability education that emphasizes hands-on, real-world learning, civic engagement, STEM connections and green career preparation.
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Annually, state education officials participate by nominating their top schools, districts and post-secondary institutions. Awardees are nationally recognized and each year, representatives from all honorees are invited to Washington, D.C. for a ceremony to celebrate their successes.
The 2019 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools recognized here in New Jersey are Holland Brook School in Whitehouse Station and Saint Leo the Great School in Lincroft. Here are just some of the highlights of their sustainability efforts. While some ideas may sound simple, their great impact can't be denied.
Holland Brook School
Students actively promote sustainable behaviors throughout the school community. Student leaders assess classrooms on walk-throughs to see whether students and staff are following energy conservation behaviors by turning off lights and electronic devices and closing blinds for temperature regulation. These efforts have paid off, with the school reducing energy use by over 30 percent in four years.
Eighty percent of the school grounds are green spaces that include grassland; areas of forest, trees and landscaping; a solar field; an outdoor running track; a naturally seeded retention basin; a preserved meadow; and an outdoor classroom. The fourth-grade students, in partnership with Raritan Headwaters, visit the river to learn about the interconnectedness of ecosystems by analyzing the surrounding environment, water quality, and biodiversity of wildlife present in the water, resulting in the school attaining the River-Friendly School certification, www.njriverfriendly.org/school.
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Students in the environmental club provide information on how, what, and where to recycle; create bird feeders and organize recycled materials; and initiate voluntary recycling programs for hard-to-recycle items with TerraCycle and Crayola Colorcycle. In the cafeteria, the use of reusable trays and composting of food waste greatly reduces solid waste.
Students also learn about engineering houses with modifications to withstand natural disasters, and they planned a green redesign of the Township of Readington (in which the school is located) to reduce environmental impact and reliance on cars.
Saint Leo the Great School
The school grounds are home to over 22 native species of wildflowers, shrubs, trees, and grasses. The school uses plantings for erosion protection and slope retention as well as for natural/grass high-traffic parking area preservation. Also, a rooftop drainage system feeds into the courtyard for subsurface watering. Underground irrigation in garden beds reduces water use and the athletic fields were rebuilt to drain off of a planted berm that feeds down into an outdoor picnic, chapel, and forested area, reducing irrigation demand.
Because students come from 28 different communities, 82 percent of them ride the bus. The bus routes are shared, however, with between five and 11 other schools in the area to consolidate routes. This makes for greater efficiency and lowers fuel use for all the schools and bus companies.
In addition, the school installed a half-acre solar field, which produces 85 percent of the school's fossil fuel power needs.
In 2014, the school's nature courtyard, located in the center of the school building, was designated by the National Wildlife Federation as a Certified Wildlife Habitat®, serving as a living classroom for students. Preschoolers grow butterfly habitats and release the butterflies into the courtyard wildlife sanctuary, while older students study New Jersey's native species and the role they play in the environment. Younger students build miniature wind fields and study the parts and life-cycle of seeds by planting pumpkins and watermelons.
Older students simulate oil spills and cleanups, studying the domino effect on affected life forms, and they research waste reduction and its effect on the planet. Students also construct functioning robots and design playground equipment and dams from recycled and upcycled materials.
Green Strides, www.greenstrides.org, offers all schools and districts many tools that can help them move toward the Pillars of the recognition award. The award does not single out one program or standard, but instead encourages everyone to use as many of the helpful resources as possible, including those detailed in the newsletter — grant deadlines, sustainability events, and upcoming webinars.
Nicholas Polanin is associate professor, agricultural agent II, Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Cooperative Extension of Somerset County. Email him at polanin@njaes.rutgers.edu.


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Cabrera getting close to full baseball activities
The AlterG is apparently working its magic with Miguel Cabrera.
Cabrera getting close to full baseball activities The AlterG is apparently working its magic with Miguel Cabrera. Check out this story on detroitnews.com: https://detne.ws/1AcUwQN
Chris McCosky, The Detroit News Published 4:52 p.m. ET Feb. 26, 2015 | Updated 4:54 p.m. ET Feb. 26, 2015
Miguel Cabrera and Jose Iglesias make their way to the batting cages on Thursday.(Photo: Elizabeth Conley / Detroit News)
Lakeland, Fla. – The AlterG is apparently working its magic with Miguel Cabrera.
Manager Brad Ausmus reported Thursday that Cabrera is now running 20 minutes on a slight incline at 65 percent body weight on the AlterG treadmill.
"Once he can do 80 percent of his body weight, we can start hitting ground balls right at him," Ausmus said. "I was also told that generally speaking, it will move pretty quickly from 65 percent to 80 percent body weight. It's not like it takes two weeks. It generally takes a couple days, maybe three days."
Cabrera, who is recovering from ankle surgery, could be cleared for full baseball activities once he's able to maintain 100 percent body weight.
He has been hitting in the cages and throwing every day. Ausmus said Cabrera has the option to hit on the fields against a batting practice pitcher, but thus far has preferred to stay in the cage.
The Tigers' morning routine Thursday was altered by a mandatory 90-minute MLB meeting on the topic of domestic violence. Victor Martinez, who is rehabbing his knee in Orlando, made the drive to Lakeland.
"Victor said he did his rehab at 5 a.m. before he came to the meeting," Ausmus said.
Martinez didn't stick around. It'll be at least another week before he joins the rests of the team.
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President Trump's Call To The Georgia Secretary Of State Was Secretly Recorded: By The Republican Secretary Of State.
By Tom Zenner • Jan. 4, 2021 • News Flash, Politics & Election 2020
FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally for Senate Republican candidates Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., and Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., at Valdosta Regional Airport, in Valdosta, Ga. Twin Senate runoffs in Georgia, on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, just 15 days before Trump leaves office, will not only determine which party controls the Senate but also offer the first clues about how long Trump can maintain his grip on the nation's political affairs once he loses the White House megaphone. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger took a phone call from President Trump on Saturday. If you want to know what was discussed, you're in luck, because Raffensperger secretly recorded the conversation and then turned it over to the Washington Post, which published the details of it in full.
On Monday, President Trump's attorney Kurt Hilbert said Trump, as well as his entire legal team, weren't pleased about it. "We are disappointed that the secretary of state and his staff secretly recorded and released a confidential settlement discussion to settle the two pending lawsuits," Hilbert said Monday.
"While they may think that behavior is appropriate, we do not. Consequently, we will not be commenting on settlement discussions."
The settlement discussions pertained to Trump asking Raffensperger to see if they could find additional votes to put Trump over the top in Georgia. "All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state."
According to the Post story, Trump later added: "So what are we going to do here, folks? I only need 11,000 votes. Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break."
The certified election results in Georgia showed that Trump fell 11,779 votes shy of Joe Biden in the Nov. 3 election. Raffensperger insists there was no voter fraud in his state, after conducting two recounts, and tweeted Sunday: "Respectfully, President Trump: What you're saying is not true. The truth will come out."
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Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac dealers in the United States delivered 229,296 new vehicles in November 2015, a 1.5 percent increase compared to November 2014. Sales of Chevrolet and Cadillac were up, while those of Buick and GMC were down.
Crossovers remained a hot-ticket item, with total Chevrolet crossover sales up 35 percent at Chevrolet, 11 percent at Buick, 12 percent at GMC, and 53 percent at Cadillac. Industry-wide, crossovers now account for 40 percent of the retail industry, up from 37 percent a year ago.
"We believe U.S. auto sales will continue to grow in 2016, based on the underlying strength of the economy, and we expect customers will continue to embrace crossovers and SUVs because they are meeting their fundamental needs for utility, comfort and fuel efficiency," said Mustafa Mohatarem, GM chief economist.
November 2015 had two fewer selling days than November 2014, and GM's sales incentives were below the industry average. On a selling-day-adjusted basis, GM's total sales were up 10 percent and retail sales were up 14 percent.
GM gained an estimated 1.0 points of retail market share to reach 16.5 percent during the month for the company's eighth consecutive year-over-year increase.
Based on J.D. Power PIN estimates, Average Transaction Prices (ATP) were a record $35,800, up about $740 from October 2015 and up about $580 year-over-year.
GM's incentive spending was 10.0 percent of ATP, down 1.6 percentage points from October 2015 and down 1.2 percentage points year-over-year.
Industry average spending was 10.5 percent of ATP in November, down 0.3 percentage points month-over-month and up 0.2 percentage points year-over-year.
The seasonally adjusted annual selling rate (SAAR) for light vehicles was an estimated 18.2 million units in November. The six-month moving average for the SAAR is now estimated to be 17.9 million units. The industry's best sales year ever was 2000, when 17.8 million light vehicles were delivered.
Silverado sales were up 5.14 percent to 45,001 units, the highest for any November since 2003; Silverado retail sales were the highest for any November since 2006, having now increased for 16 consecutive months.
Encore sales were up 12.15 percent to 5,133 units and retail sales of the subcompact CUV were up 50 percent; the Encore is on track to set a full-year sales record.
Why are GMC Sierra sales down? Availability or some other issue?
Anyone else curious that 3 "non Gm Cadillacs" are struggling while 3 old time Cadillacs are selling at the same rates. The outdated srx, soon to be cut xts and the unstopbbable escalade which is a truck are all selling at great numbers. Sales of Ats, cts and elr are falling at a troubling rate.
The ELR is as GM as it gets.
The reason for your observations on the ATS and CTS is that this is the first time EVER that Cadillac has competed directly with Germans in their segments, rather than competing between segments. So yes, sales volume will suffer for those vehicles in the short and medium terms until people get used to the fact that Cadillacs are as good as the German completion and until the brand image improves.
Eric you need to go test drive an ATS. (seriously, or even the CTS if you like a bigger car since it's a midsize-)- I'm not saying purchase ,just go drive one. And also read the part of the reviews that matter about that car.
The ATS is a serious competitor to the Germans. the consumers are just waking up to what Cadillac is now putting out there.
Right there with you, DeliveryMan.
Today's luxury car world is defined by the German three. To play in the luxury car space today, you must compete with them head-on, otherwise you'll be relegated to Acura and Lincoln status — making affordable premium cars for people who don't really want to buy them, but do so because they can't afford a BMW, Mercedes-Benz, or Audi. So, you either play with the Germans… or you become an also-ran.
In that respect, Cadillac is just now starting to compete head-on with the German brands. And it's doing relatively from a product standpoint. It will take a bit for sales to catch up/catch on, as sales volume in this space is highly dependent on brand image, cachet, etc, and Cadillac doesn't yet have the same pull as, say, BMW or Mercedes-Benz. But one day, it will… and the way to get there is by making cars like the ATS, CTS, and CT6.
You may need to see my post elsewhere but the future of the current iteration of the ATS is not good.
Sales have tanked, just look at November sales with $1,500 incentives at the beginning of the production run! This is with a new V-6 and eight speed automatic, some fairly substantial improvements.
You can belittle CR all you want, but the ATS reliability ratings as reported by their OWNERS have been unreliable for 3 years running–pathetic. Furthermore in the satisfaction ratings in the current issue, the ATS is near the bottom in the compact luxury category of owners indicating they would buy the car again–pathetic.
Just to clarify the CR situation, the two ratings can be independent. As an example both the current Corvette and Escalade are rated unreliable by their owners. Nevertheless, those owners indicate they would very likely purchase again. In the Corvettes situation, it has the highest percentage in the performance category and the Escalade is close to the top in the luxury SUV category. Guess owners with a warranty are willing to accept some level of mediocrity.
I personally drive a 2014 ATS Premium that stickered for just shy of $55K. It is one beautiful car and handles spectacularly. Reliability has been abysmal. Complete DIC replaced, part of blind side alert system in right side replaced, windshield replaced week after delivered since car delivered with delaminating windshield, one of FOBs replaced stopped working, steering knuckles replaced, and yes 6-7 warranty recalls–totally out of character for any vehicle claiming to be the standard of the world. Yet in spite of this, I might consider purchasing another. As a side note, the car only has 25K miles and has been given meticulous maintenance.
Let's go a step beyond and talk about the ATS-V–respected yes, but not aware of any one comparison test where it finished first.
Current iteration of ATS is damaged goods and Cadillac needs to turn around the reliability reputation because long-term will be a big drag on the next iteration.
Hey, I totally agree with you. The ats and cts are amazing cars if not on par with the Germans maybe even better. You don't win a motor trend coy award for nothing my point was as I have said many times before those two are a bit over priced for the market.
Like the article on here said yesterday you have to earn your reputation in the luxury market so they have now priced the CT6 and most likely the XT5 accordingly. You have to get people in your cars and over time build the price as mid cycle refreshes come along or successors. When I said non gm I didn't mean they weren't great cars they are but people need incentive to get into a unfamiliar product and price can be a driving force.
But how are the cars overpriced? The ATS and CTS offer more for a bit less (bigger savings on the CTS, actually) than the direct German competitors.
Not over priced in terms of quality, over priced in terms of not many people are going to jump ship from a BMW or Mercedes to a cadillac right now. You should do what Audi and Lexus did about 5 years ago and aim on the bottom end of the luxury market (which is still a premium market) and get a reputation.
This is the first time cadillac is going to roll out a full line up in a long time. Time to entice people who want to enter the luxury market not people already in it. Most people in it are already brand loyalist and the main way to get new people is price. Don't do what 2003 cadillac did and sell them for just above Chevys but there is room to go down.
The ats is in it's 4th model year and has won countless awards and comparisons and sales are dreadful. Same can be said about the cts.
1. Cadillac is already following the "underprice and overdeliver" strategy.
The ATS is priced thousands below the C-Class and the Audi A4, while offering more. The BMW 320i costs less than the ATS by $100, but that's for a bare-bones model that offers significantly less than the ATS 2.5 in the Standard trim level.
2. That said, I disagree about taking that approach. I would rather see Cadillac prices at or slightly below the competition, but offer more. Though that's already happening with the ATS, CTS, and CT6, I think the strategy can be taken just a little further.
As Cadillac reputation and customer base grows, new trim levels with less equipment can be added back into the lineup.
3. Also, I would contend the notion that the most effective way to attract new customers is price. Nay, the most effective way involves a significant amount of effective marketing, which Cadillac currently has close to none.
4. The ATS is indeed in its fourth model year and has won notable awards and accolades. Sales are not "dreadful" — it's the brand's first-ever effort in a highly-competitive segment, and the car was developed using bankruptcy money. Even so, the car receives nearly no marketing. When's the last time that we saw a hard-hitting, catchy, and enticing TV commercial for the car that made you want to go buy one, or at least check it out online and then test drive it at a dealership? Not since its launch (the Green Hell campaign)… and that was a rather short-lived venture.
Ultimately, Cadillac currently has a brand image problem that is overcome with 1) great product and 2) great marketing to communicate the new direction of the brand and the greatness of the new product. Cadillac has achieved #1… but has yet to come close to taking care of #2.
But why does GM hold-up Buick's marketing plan as some sort of success?
If that's the second-most effective automotive marketing scheme, it makes you wonder what their metrics were.
As a whole, sedan sales are down in the current hot-for-crossovers market. This is the case for the industry and for Buick — hence the increase of the downright old Enclave and aging Encore.
The only sedans whose sales were up for the month are ones that either had 1) a significant amount of incentives on them or 2) are highly-desirable because they are all-new. Buick's sedan lineup is either old (LaCrosse) or getting old (Regal and Verano). So yes, sedan sales are down. No amount of marketing will save that when market trends are swinging so far towards CUVs.
Yes, we get that it's a CUV/SUV world.
problem. The Envision might help.
A cool hatchback Verano, a Regal that can compete w the A4.
Wait (pun fully intended), the ATS is the competitor to the A4, not the Regal. Not in price, not in features, not in quality or refinement. And a hatchback Verano will be cool… but will appeal to a limited market and isn't likely to be a runaway sales success, especially in light of the upcoming Cruze hatch.
Now, the marketing effectiveness award you are referring to is based on consumer perception and conquest rate. Buick ranked first in the industry for three or four quarters running in both of those, which is a significant achievement for a brand that has been associated with… well, you know the kind of image Buick has achieved over the last 2-3 decades. So yes, marketing was very effective and Tony DiSalle & company know exactly what they are doing. In fact, they're probably the most focused and most effective marketing group within GM U.S.
The significance of the achievement is even more astonishing given the fact that Buick has one very old crossover (Encalve) and one not-so-old-but-getting-there crossover (Encore) in a market hot for crossovers and colder for sedans. In effect, Buick did it with a weaker lineup than its competitors… mostly thanks to marketing.