The bathroom remodel is complete!
It's been more than a decade since our house was built, and I was starting to feel that the master bathroom was boring and out of date . . . I'd never liked it that much anyway, and when the grout began to get moldy and cleaning just wasn't cutting it, I made the jump and decided on a complete remodel. We had all of the tile removed, and replaced the tub, sinks, and faucets, but we didn't have to make any structural changes.
The shower is tiled with "wood" porcelain tile, with the "boards" running vertically, and the back wall is in thin-stack stone. The floor is made up of round black river rock.
This entire exterior window wall is tiled in thin-stack rock.
The tub deck is in this really cool tile, kind of a dark stone with a metallic finish to it, that picks up light and shines in the sunlight.
The sinks are tiled in the same stone used on the tub decking; because I wanted a set-in sink, but the ones we chose weren't cooperating, the installers built up the decking around the sinks so that they could tile right up to the edges, over the lips of the sink. I love the final look, and the square sink is a very cool, functional shape.
The backsplash is the same tile that's used on the sink decking, with a line of 1″x1″ copper squares running through the middle, and a 2″x2″ glass tile interspersed every foot or so. I found the knobs online at www.uneekglassfusions.com and custom-ordered them, for a splash of turquoise to brighten up the earth tones.
This is a view of the entire wall of vanities – we used a terra cotta (in color, not actual composition, because terra cotta breaks so easily) stone on the floor in large, 24 inch-square tiles, and painted the walls a soft, warm grey – all but one interior wall, which divides the bathroom from the bedroom. On that wall, we used an accent color of rusty orange-red, to set off the rust color in the slate tiles around the fireplace.
These bunny hooks are on the back door of the water closet, as towel hangers – I like the bit of personality they add to the room!
The love seat in front of the window (I chose to remove all of the curtains and went without window treatments, because our windows are huge and beautiful and open up to gorgeous south-facing views of our 20 acres of farmland).
I chose an accent color of spring break suede-feeling fabric for the bench seat.
Our installers were Casey Beatty of CMB Properties, Inc and Dana Geister of Timber & Steel Artisan Builders – they did beautiful work, and came up with many small touches and attention to detail that really enhanced the end result. The final part of the project is to have the carpet ripped out and hardwoods installed – that happens later this month, stay tuned for photos!
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Sonia Sotomayor: Supreme Court Justice Offers Life Lessons to Houston
Marco Torres
Marco Torres | January 23, 2013 | 2:00pm
Stories of life challenges and the determination to overcome them is something that will always attract attention and admiration when we select our role models. On Tuesday night inside Cullen Hall at The Wortham Center, a room full of admirers welcomed Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as she shared her inspirational and incredibly relatable story.
The Progressive Forum of Houston, who claims to be "America's only civic speaker organization dedicated expressly to progressive values," hosted the event that served as the first stop on Justice Sotomayor's promotional tour in support of her new autobiography entitled My Beloved World.
The book is an extremely personal recollection of her childhood and journey from her poor upbringing in the Bronx, to attending and excelling at Princeton and Yale Law School, until her eventual nomination and confirmation as a Supreme Court Justice. She would be the third woman and first Hispanic to achieve that position in the justice system.
"It is so nice to be in Texas!" she proclaimed as she walked slowly across the stage. She looked genuinely grateful and surprised by the applause and cheers she received after being introduced. Her demeanor and manner of speaking was akin to a fun-loving tia as she flashed her toothy grin, cracked jokes and interspersed "Ay Dios mio"s throughout her talk.
With her book, she told us that she felt the need to give us more than just the facts, more that what was already printed in the newspapers. To inspire her readers to find the courage to learn and achieve, that if ordinary "little Sonia from the Bronx" can make it, so can the rest of us.
She spoke directly to the kids in the audience, of which there were many. "Television is wonderful, but words paint pictures like nothing else can!" she said.
As an example, she read from chapter two of her book, the story about going to the neighborhood vivero (small-scale slaughterhouse) in the Bronx with her abuelita. As she read about the smells, sounds, and colors of that place, I realized how gifted Sotomayor is in the art of storytelling. "Are you in the vivero with me?" she asked. Yes, we were definitely there.
One of the greatest outcomes of her nomination was the extensive exploration into her life and history during her confirmation. She visited Puerto Rico to find out more about her father, who died when she was young. She also took the opportunity to sit with her mother and hear her story. "If there is one thing you learn tonight," she said, "let it be this: Do not wait to hear your family's history from your parents and grandparents. Learning, especially about the ones you love, is a beautiful thing."
She did not spend much time at the podium, but instead walked slowly amongst the crowd (due to her "weak ankles"). She lovingly leaned on people for support as she walked, including Mayor Annise Parker. She read from her book again -- this was a book tour after all -- but it didn't feel rushed or unnatural.
She left us so many nuggets of wisdom that it was hard to keep up: "Be strong, ask questions. Tell the truth! Be stubborn, but not proud or arrogant. Money doesn't buy happiness. Life sometimes deals us a bad hand, but don't let it knock you down. It's okay to say 'I don't know.' If you fail, get up and try again. You may not reach the moon, but maybe on a passing asteroid that will also lead you to happiness."
In these challenging times, an asteroid to happiness sound pretty awesome.
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Creating a new and improved San Antonio
Kenneth Caruthers|September 21, 2012
What will San Antonio look like on September 25, 2020? SA2020 is leaving that up to the citizens of San Antonio. Launched on Sept. 25, 2010, SA2020 acts as a steward, connecting San Antonio citizens to opportunities that contribute to their aspirations for their city. SA2020 hopes to motivate the entire San Antonio community into passionate, focused and sustained action to achieve the shared goals that will transform San Antonio into a world-class city by the year 2020.
"SA2020 has always been, and will always be, different because it's rooted in the aspirations of everyday San Antonians. It's a people's movement, not a government initiative led by politicians," said San Antonio Mayor Julià¡n Castro during the one-year anniversary of SA2020.
Ben Scheiner, a senior economics and mathematics double major who interned with SA2020 over the summer, agrees with Mayor Castro's analysis.
"Not only are we making change, but we are also doing it in a way that ties directly back to what the public asked for. In that way, it's more democratic than other city planning processes are, which I think is really important because that means every individual has a stake in what SA2020 is doing," Scheiner said.
Scheiner thinks that SA2020 is a great outlet for Trinity students to get off campus and see what San Antonio has to offer while finding ways to improve aspects of the community.
"San Antonio is an incredible place, and I don't think a lot of students at Trinity realize that. There's so much more than what we're normally exposed to when we're at Trinity. I mean, the bubble is kind of real, right? Part of it is we don't all have cars, but the other part is we just don't really try hard. Whether or not you're going to work here in the future, you're going to be here for the next several years, so it's really about finding things you enjoy in San Antonio and investing in them," Scheiner said.
SA2020 has laid out 11 key vision areas, such as community safety, education, downtown development, economic competitiveness and transportation, which need to be focused on in order to get the city of San Antonio to the level where it wants to be.
"I think one of the biggest things they can improve is the art and culture aspect. The art needs to be of bigger importance in the city. I think there's a lot of people in the city who have talent and the desire to do things but don't have the financial resources or capabilities to do that stuff," said Jonathan Hernandez, a sophomore and lifelong resident of San Antonio.
Claire Osburn began working with SA2020 at the end of the summer as a communication intern, and she is excited with the progress she has already observed in her short time with the company.
"There's already been a lot of success measured by SA2020: San Antonio became the first city to appoint a Poet Laureate, SAPD became one of only two big-city departments in America to earn national accreditation in 2011, 1,500 downtown apartments have been added to the city center since February 2010, more than 1,000 clean-energy technology jobs have been created since May 2011, the list goes on. Very cool things are happening in San Antonio right now, and this is still just the beginning," Osburn said.
Osburn believes her internship is not only teaching her practical job skills, but also an appreciation for her city community.
"I'm learning concrete things like networking skills and abstract things like how meaningful it is to feel a sense of ownership for the city I live in. I'm also learning the value of community involvement on a new level, seeing every small act of individual volunteers contribute to real change on a broad scale," Osburn said.
Osburn feels very strongly about Trinity students volunteering with SA2020. Even if students are not from San Antonio and only live here while classes are in session, Osburn does not see that as an excuse not to get involved in the surrounding community of Trinity University.
"I am not from San Antonio, but I've been going to Trinity for over three years now. Even though I've spent the majority of that time here and used my San Antonio mailing address, I am just this year starting to feel like a citizen of this city. Even though it's not my hometown, it's where I live right now and where I see a real opportunity to do something meaningful. Anyone who cares about teen pregnancy rates or youth literacy should care about what SA2020 is doing. Trinity is an institution that strives to matriculate students able to contribute to the global community, and SA2020 is a model of just such contribution. Not only can you make a direct impact on the lives of people around you, but you have the chance to support an idea that's going to serve as a model for cities around the world. Other places in the U.S. are already emulating what's happening here, and the success of SA2020 means a new way of building strong, thriving communities everywhere," Osburn said.
People looking to see what they can contribute to SA2020 simply need to visit sa2020.org and create a short profile identifying the areas that they are passionate about. Then the site matches them with volunteer opportunities in the database connected to a long list of local nonprofits. Some of the opportunities are ongoing, while some are one-time, so there's an option for even the busiest student.
Osburn stresses that community support is necessary for SA2020 to accomplish its mission of a better San Antonio.
"People interested in SA2020 can make a huge difference just by getting the word out. To be successful, SA2020 depends on the interest and involvement of the people who live here," Osburn said. "Getting passionate people connected with ways to make a difference is key to reaching our goals, and one of the best ways to make that happen is to share your passions with other people and spread the good word on how to get involved."


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In 1633 William Erbery, Vicar of St.Mary's, Cardiff, Cradock his curate there, and William Wroth, were reported to William Laud, and the Court of High Commission turned them out for unorthodox preaching, and on the technical grounds and acid test of orthodoxy, of refusing to read the Book of Sports. From late in 1634 Cradock spent almost a year in Wrexham, preaching, and making a convert of Morgan Llwyd. From there Cradock had to move to Herefordshire, where he met Vavasor Powell. With John Miles, Cradock, Erbery, Powell, and Llwyd are the group of recognised Puritan leaders, who founded the later Welsh Nonconformist congregations.
He was also at Shrewsbury at this period. Sir Robert Harley, of Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire, took Cradock in, during 1639. He moved on to Llanfair Waterdine, and an independent congregation there. On the outbreak of the English Civil War the Llanvaches congregation, an independent conventicle, moved with Cradock to Bristol, where there was an independent church at Broadmead. Since royalist forces then occupied Bristol, in 1643, some moved again to London, and made contact with Henry Jessey, who had been a supporter of the congregation from the start; Cradock preached with Jessey at All-Hallows-the-Great.
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With a refreshed lineup and newfound energy, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band remains one of the most accomplished bands in American roots music. Following an extended 50th anniversary tour, the ensemble
With a refreshed lineup and newfound energy, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band remains one of the most accomplished bands in American roots music.
Following an extended 50th anniversary tour, the ensemble grew to a six-piece in 2018 for the first time since their early jug band days. The group now includes Jeff Hanna (acoustic guitar, electric guitar), Jimmie Fadden (drums, harmonica), Bob Carpenter (keyboards), Jim Photoglo (bass, acoustic guitar), Ross Holmes (fiddle, mandolin), and Jaime Hanna (electric and acoustic guitar). All six members also sing, and when their voices merge, the harmonies add a powerful new component for the legendary band. And with the father-son pairing of Jeff and Jaime Hanna, the band carries on a country music tradition of blood harmony.
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band played their first gig in 1966 in Southern California as a jug band and by 1969 had become a cornerstone of the burgeoning country-rock community. Their career breakthrough came in 1970 with the release of the record Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy and the single "Mr. Bojangles," a folksy Top 10 pop hit that remains a staple of their live show. During a tour stop in Nashville around that time, Earl Scruggs and his family came backstage to say hello. That introduction led to a friendship and some of the connections the band needed to record Will the Circle Be Unbroken. That three-disc album brought Nitty Gritty Dirt Band together with a number of country, folk, and bluegrass legends. Heroes like Roy Acuff, Mother Maybelle Carter, Jimmy Martin, Merle Travis, and Doc Watson joined the scruffy, young band to record country music standards such as "I Saw the Light" and "Keep on the Sunnyside." The acclaimed project is considered a landmark recording in American music.
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band earned a pop resurgence in 1980 with "An American Dream" and "Make a Little Magic." Those singles also found traction on the country chart, setting the stage for a major run at country radio. The band secured 16 Top 10 country hits between 1983 and 1990, including three No. 1 singles: "Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream)," "Modern Day Romance," and "Fishin' in the Dark." Bernie Leadon, a founding member of The Eagles, played in the band from 1986 to 1988 filling a vacancy by longtime member John McEuen.
Today, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band consists of Jeff Hanna, Jimmie Fadden, Bob Carpenter, for years known as "the new guy," and Jim Photoglo, a friend of the band whose credits include co- writing "Fishin' in the Dark", as well as touring and recording with Carole King, Dan Fogelberg, and Vince Gill. Newest members Jaime Hanna and Ross Holmes also bring years of experience to the band. Hanna toured and recorded with The Mavericks and Gary Allan, while Holmes toured and recorded with Mumford & Sons and Bruce Hornsby.
"The energy these days is so up — and our fans have responded in a really great way," Hanna says. "As a fan of other bands, I know how complicated it can be when members come and go. You can either embrace that or you don't. Our fans are really gracious and I appreciate that. It's been a really good run and there's a lot of daylight ahead of us."


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Notice of Requirements for China-bound Passengers to Obtain COVID-19 Negative Certificates of Both Nucleic Acid and Antibody Blood Tests Before Boarding (Updated on 27 November 2020)
Important updates including:
I. The IgM antibody test must be performed using serum of venous blood samples. Other testing methods such as finger-prick blood sampling shall not be accepted by the Chinese Embassy/Consulates in South Africa.
II. Applications by the passengers flying from South Africa to China via connection flights in other countries or regions shall not be approved by the the Chinese Embassy/Consulates in South Africa.
In order to contain cross-border transmission of COVID-19 and protect the heath of passengers, as from 5th November 2020, all Chinese and foreign passengers who are to fly from South Africa (or Eswatini) to China are required to take both nucleic acid and IgM antibody tests for COVID-19 and then apply for a Green Health Code (for Chinese citizens only) with the "HS" mark or Green Code of Health Declaration Form (for foreign citizens only) with "HDC" mark before boarding flights. The specific requirements are as follows:
Sample of Green Health Code
Sample of Green Code of Health Declaration Form
I. Test Requirements
(i) The nucleic acid testing must use samples collected from respiratory system, and its result report always shows PCR or RT-PCR.
The IgM antibody test must be performed using serum of venous blood samples. Other testing methods such as finger-prick blood sampling shall not be accepted by the Chinese Embassy/Consulates in South Africa.
(ii) Passengers flying straight from South Africa to China must take nucleic acid and IgM antibody tests within 48 hours before boarding flights. They must take the tests at testing facilities designated by the Chinese Embassy/Consulates in South Africa and then apply at the Chinese Embassy/Consulates for a Green Health Code with the "HS" mark or Green Code of Health Declaration Form with "HDC" mark with negative certificates of both tests. To check the list of designated testing facilities, please visit http://za.china-embassy.org/chn/lqfw/zytz/t1800122.htm OR http://za.china-embassy.org/eng/sggg/t1828312.htm. Pleas note that both Codes have a certain validity period that starts from the earlier collection date of samples, instead of report date.
(iii) Passengers flying from Eswatini to China via connecting flights in other countries or regions must take nucleic acid and IgM antibody tests in Eswatini within 48 hours before boarding flights to the transit countries or regions and then take both tests again in the transit countries or regions within 48 hours before boarding the flights to China. Passengers must apply at the Chinese embassies/consulates in both countries for a Green Health Code with the "HS" mark or Green Code of Health Declaration Form with "HDC" mark with negative certificates of both tests.
II. Application Procedure
(i) How to Apply for a Green Health Code (For Chinese Citizens Only)
Chinese citizens should upload photos of their COVID-19 negative certificates of both nucleic acid and IgM antibody tests, passports and itineraries to the WeChat mini program COVID-19 Prevention Health Code International Version ASAP after obtaining both said test reports.
QR Code for WeChat Mini Program COVID-19 Prevention Health Code
(ii) How to Apply for a Green Code of Health Declaration Form (For Foreign Citizens Only)
Foreign passengers should log in the application program by visiting https://hrhk.cs.mfa.gov.cn/H5/ or scan the following QR code, and upload photos of their COVID-19 negative certificates of both nucleic acid and IgM antibody tests, passports and itineraries to the program after obtaining both said test reports.
QR Code for Application Program
(iii) Passengers upon approval by the Chinese Embassy or Consulate will obtain a Green Health Code with an "HS" mark or Green Code of Health Declaration Form with "HDC" mark for a certain validity period. All passengers are required to travel within the validity period, and cooperate with airlines for codes checking. Hard copies of COVID-19 negative certificates are strongly recommended to be kept on hand for further checking.
(iv) Passengers are requested to remind the testing facilities to send both said test reports to Chinese Embassy or Consulates according to the consular districts where they are domiciled:
1. Consular district of Chinese Embassy includes Pretoria, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and North West provinces, and Eswatini.
Email address of Chinese Embassy: nflssf2@gmail.com
Emergency Call: 0785857708, 0124316537
2. Consular district of Chinese Consulate General in Johannesburg includes Gauteng (excl. Pretoria) and Free State.
Email address of Chinese Consulate General in Johannesburg: ccgjhb1@gmail.com
Emergency Call: 0100100708
3. Consular district of Chinese Consulate General in Cape Town includes Western Cape, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape provinces.
Email address of Chinese Consulate General in Cape Town: chinaconsul_ct_za@mfa.gov.cn
4. Consular district of Chinese Consulate General in Durban includes KwaZulu-Natal.
Email address of Chinese Consulate General in Durban: consulate_durban@mfa.gov.cn
IV. Important Reminders
(i) Applications by the passengers flying from South Africa to China via connection flights in other countries or regions shall not be approved by the the Chinese Embassy/Consulates in South Africa. Those who fail to get Green Health Codes with an "HS" mark or Green Codes of Health Declaration Form with "HDC" mark before journey, will be denied boarding the relevant flights and have to change their itineraries.
(ii) As for the validity period of both Codes, they shall be valid through the third day from the collection date of sample. For example, the passenger will fly to China on 10 December 2020, so he/she can get tested at any time during 8th to 10th December 2020. Considering that the turnaround time, all passengers are expected to make applications for said Codes immediately when obtaining both tests results.
(iii) Because of still-limited testing capacity at transit areas of international airports in South Africa, at present China-bound passengers cannot take both nucleic acid and IgM antibody tests at transit areas of airports in South Africa, so they shall not be allowed to board connection flights to China.
The Embassy of the People's Republic of China in South Africa
Updated List of Designated COVID-19 Testing Facilities in RSA (2020-11-13)
Recommended COVID-19 Testing Facilities in RSA (2020-11-13)
Q &As About Chinese Consular Services (2020-10-22)
Extended Closure of Consular Service (2020-04-27)
Important Notice Regarding Consular Service (2020-03-18)
Holiday Notice (2020-01-22)
Holiday Schedule for Consular Services of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China 2019 (2018-12-19)
Chinese Embassy Spokesperson's Remarks (2018-06-18)


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Q: Python methods added dynamically to classes not working as expected I have the following piece of code:
d = dict(q='q', w='w', e='e')

class A(object):
    pass

for o in d.items():
    print o
    def _method(self):
        return o[0]
    setattr(A, o[1], _method)

a = A()
print a.q()
print a.w()
print a.e()

Output:
('q', 'q')
('e', 'e')
('w', 'w')
w
w
w

Desired output:
('q', 'q')
('e', 'e')
('w', 'w')
q
w
e

For the sake of simplicity, I have simplified the dictionary d and the class A. In reality, they are complex. Basically, I am trying to add methods dynamically to my class A since they are all pretty much similar and I don't want to copy paste code for each method. But the problem is all the dynamically assigned methods are equivalent to the last value of _method.
How do I get the desired output?
Thanks in advance!

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Here's what's new on Indiana's redesigned driver's licenses and IDs
The cards look a little different, but that's not the only change.
Here's what's new on Indiana's redesigned driver's licenses and IDs The cards look a little different, but that's not the only change. Check out this story on IndyStar.com: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/transportation/2019/06/19/indiana-id-new-indiana-drivers-license-features-race-car/1486159001/
Ethan May, Indianapolis Star Published 7:00 a.m. ET June 19, 2019 | Updated 3:12 p.m. ET June 21, 2019
Starting in October 2020, a standard California driver's license won't be accepted for boarding a domestic airline flight. For that, you'll need a REAL ID. Steve Byerly, Ventura County Star
Indiana's driver's licenses and IDs are getting a makeover — but not all the changes are superficial.
The new designs will have more safety features, including a see-through image that changes colors at certain angles, more images viewable under UV light, and a laser-engraved image of the cardholder, said Christine Meyer, the director of communications and public affairs for the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
What cardholders may notice most, though, is the new color scheme: out goes the pinkish banner and in comes a cream color scheme with Indiana written in orange.
Samples of newly redesigned Indiana driver's licenses and ID cards, which will be available at Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles locations in mid-July 2019 (Photo: Photos provided by Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles)
The Indiana Statehouse sits in the background of the horizontal cards given to those 21 years old and older, replacing an outline of the state and the state seal.
And that's not the only bit of added Hoosier flair: a red cardinal is now featured on IDs, and a blue IndyCar-esque race car is on driver's licenses.
Another stylistic change is an angelic circular glow behind the smaller portrait in the lower right corner. The new designs will be available across the state by mid-July,
Do the new cards impact Real ID requirements?
The new-look cards do not impact Real ID status, Meyer said.
A Real ID card is one that meets federal guidelines for security. Beginning Oct. 1, 2020, a Real ID-compliant license, ID or permit will be needed to fly or enter some federal government locations.
Anyone who already has a Real ID card will not need to take extra steps to receive a Real ID card with the new design. The new design will still feature a star in the upper righthand corner.
Anyone with a card not compliant with Real ID will still be able to receive a new-design card without receiving a Real ID card. It will not feature a star.
Real ID: What you need to know
Anyone applying for their first Indiana license or ID must receive a Real ID card. To receive one, go to a BMV location and provide proof of identity, a Social Security number, proof of lawful status in the U.S., and two pieces of proof of Indiana residency.
Call IndyStar digital producer Ethan May at 317-444-4682 or email him at emay@indystar.com. Follow him on Twitter @EthanMayJ.
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The Diana Award is given out in Diana, Princess of Wales' name to young role models, aged 9-25 from across the world who are selflessly transforming the lives of others. They are looking to recognise young people going above and beyond in their daily lives to create and sustain positive change.
All Diana Award recipients and their nominating organisations will be publicly announced in the Roll of Honour on 1st July, Princess Diana's birthday, and all of their press releases related to successful nominations for that year.
Diana Award recipients will also receive a personalised certificate as well as exclusive access to the Development Programme; a network of alumni Award recipients, opportunities and events.
Successful UK based nominees will be invited to attend an Award Ceremony near their local area, where their achievement will be celebrated alongside their peers.
Successful international nominees will be celebrated virtually on the International Ceremony Day which takes place on International #YouthDay on 12th August 2021.
If your nomination is successful, you will receive a resource pack to help you contact local press to shine a spotlight on your inspirational Diana Award recipient.
Both UK based and international recipients of The Diana Award are also eligible for The Legacy Award, which takes place on a biennial basis. The next Legacy Award ceremony will take place in 2021.
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My nominee is aged 9-25 years at the time of nomination
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Please note that you cannot nominate yourself for a Diana Award. All nominations must be made by an adult who knows the young person in a professional capacity.
Download the Nomination Guide to support you in your application from the official link. Please note that they do not accept posted or email nominations.
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If you're ready to make your nomination, head to the nomination form through the Apply Now link.
Once you have submitted your Diana Award Nomination you will receive an email notification confirming receipt so you can rest assured it has been received and is in the queue to be processed by the judging panel.
Each Diana Award nomination will then be reviewed against the criteria by an external regional judging panel, comprising of young people, experts in the youth sector, business and educational professionals. They will decide if your nomination has been successful in April 2021.
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Q: How do I query to fetch number of Posts made by a User using mongoose? So I'm trying to fetch the total number of posts done by a specific user.
Models
Post.ts (In post model I have user ref)
user: {
      type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
      ref: "User",
      required: [true, "Please provide user ID."],
    },

I tried
const posts = await Post.find({ user: req.user._id});
const postCount = posts.length;

But I want to aggregate the User so I can get the user data along with the post counts.
what I tried is below but I'm getting 0 number of posts.
const user = await User.aggregate([
      {
        $lookup: {
          from: "post",
          let: { userId: "$_id" },
          pipeline: [{ $match: { $expr: { $eq: ["$$userId", "$userId"] } } }],
          as: "posts_count",
        },
      },
      { $addFields: { posts_count: { $size: "$posts_count" } } },
    ]);

I searched but couldn't find any related answer.

A: You can slightly alter the query as follows. From the post model, I see that the field referenced for user collection is user. In the aggregate, you have used $userId.
const user = await User.aggregate([
      {
        $lookup: {
          from: "post",
          let: { userId: "$_id" },
          pipeline: [{ $match: { $expr: { $eq: ["$$userId", "$user"] } } }],
          as: "posts_count",
        },
      },
      { $addFields: { posts_count: { $size: "$posts_count" } } },
    ]);

Let me know if this helps. Thanks


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Albertus Antonius Hinsz (auch: Albert Anthoni Hinsch; * 1704 in Hamburg; † 17. März 1785 in Uithuizen, Niederlande) war ein Orgelbauer in den Niederlanden, der die Tradition Arp Schnitgers fortführte.

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Albertus Antonius Hinsz absolvierte seine Lehrzeit möglicherweise bei Joachim Richborn und/oder bei Franz Caspar Schnitger. 1728 ließ er sich in Groningen nieder und heiratete am 28. Dezember 1732 dort die Witwe Franz Caspar Schnitgers und übernahm auch dessen Werkstatt. Hinsz baute zahlreiche Werke in den Provinzen Groningen und Friesland in norddeutscher Orgelbautradition, die noch weitgehend erhalten sind. Klanglich zeichnen sie sich durch die Terzmixturen aus, die den Hinsz-Orgeln den charakteristischen "goldenen" Glanz verleihen. In optischer Hinsicht orientiert sich der Aufbau des Prospekts an dem Vorbild Arp Schnitgers. Eine lebenslange Freundschaft verband ihn mit dem ebenfalls aus Hamburg stammenden Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, der Organist an der Martinikerk in Groningen war. Hinsz starb während der Bauarbeiten an der Orgel in Uithuizermeeden. Sein Grab befindet sich in Groningen (Lutherse Kerk), wo heute eine Gedenktafel an ihn erinnert.
Nach seinem Tod übernahm sein Stiefsohn Frans Casper Snitger jr. zusammen mit Heinrich Hermann Freytag seine Werkstatt, die noch bis ins 19. Jahrhundert die Tradition Arp Schnitgers in den Niederlanden fortführte. Seine Gesellen sollten sein Werk fortsetzen und die nordniederländische Orgelkultur in der nächsten Generation nachhaltig prägen.

Werk
Die römische Zahl bezeichnet die Anzahl der Manuale, ein großes "P" ein selbstständiges Pedal, ein kleines "p" ein nur angehängtes Pedal und die arabische Zahl die Anzahl der klingenden Register.

Literatur
 Jan Jongepier (Red.): Een konstkundig orgelmaker. Enkele bijdragen over het werk van de orgelmaker Albertus Anthoni Hinsz (1704–1785). Stichting Groningen Orgelland, Groningen 1994, .
 Willem Jan Dorgelo: Albertus Anthoni Hinsz. Orgelmaker 1704–1785. Lykele Jansma, Augustinusga 1985.
 De Groninger orgelmaker Albertus Anthoni Hinsz (1704–1785). Ommelander Museum, Leens 1981.

Weblinks
 Orgel in Noordbroek
 Orgel in Bolsward
 Orgel in Kampen
 Dispositionen von Hinzs-Orgeln (PDF-Datei; 232 kB)

Orgelbauer (18. Jahrhundert)
Orgelbauer (Niederlande)
Orgellandschaft Niederlande
Geboren 1704
Gestorben 1785
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Publications – Papers – B. JUANG – Georgia Tech
"Technical advances in digital audio broadcasting," with C. Faller, P. Kroon, H.-L. Lou, S.A. Ramprashad, and C.-E.W. Sundberg, Proc. of the IEEE, vol. 90, no. 8, pp. 1303-1335, Aug. 2002. (.pdf)
"From information delivery to information sharing – new aspirations and challenges in telecommunication," Keynote Speech & Proceedings of NTT workshop on Communications Scene Analysis, Atsugi, Japan, Jan. 2002.
"Speaker Authentication," with Peter Li, Book Chapter, in Pattern Recognition in Speech and Language Processing, Wu and Juang (ed.), CRC Press. (.pdf)
"Verification of Multi-Class Recognition Decision Using A Classification Approach,", with T. Matsui and F.K. Soong, submitted to IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, September 2002.
"Naturalness in speech communications," with Paul Lustgarten, submitted to Special Issue of IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Processing, on Spontaneous Speech Processing, December 2002. (.pdf)
Pattern Recognition in Speech & Language Processing, (edited book) with Wu Chou, CRC Press, 2003.
"A new algorithm for fast discriminative training," with Q. Li, Proc. ICASSP-2002, IEEE, Orlando, FL., May 2002. (.pdf)
"Multiple descriptive speech coding with diversity," with Xin Zhong, Proc. ICASSP-2002, IEEE, Orlando, FL., May 2002. (.pdf)
"Classifier design for verification of multi-class recognition decision," with T. Matsui and F.K. Soong, Proc. ICASSP-2002, IEEE, Orlando, FL., May 2002. (.pdf)
"Ubiquitous communications interface," Proceedings Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, IEEE, Trento, Italy, December 2001.
"Verification of multi-class recognition decision using classification approach," with T. Matsui and F.K. Soong, Proceedings Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, IEEE, Trento, Italy, December 2001.
"Speech recognition and utterance verification based on a generalized confidence score," with M.W. Koo and C.H. Lee, IEEE Trans. Speech & Audio Processing, vol. 9, no. 8, pp.821-832, November 2001.
"Pattern recognition using a family of design algorithms based upon Generalized Probabilistic Descent method," with Shigeru Katagiri and C.H. Lee, in Intelligent Signal Processing, Haykin and Kosko (ed.), IEEE Press, 2001.
"Hands-free telecommunications," with Frank Soong, Proceedings of International Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communications, p. 5-10, ATR, Kyoto, Japan, April 2001.
"An Application of Discriminative Feature Extraction for Filter-Bank based Speech Recognition" with Alain Biem and Shigeru Katagiri, IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, February 2001.
"Digital speech processing", with Mohan Sondhi and L.R. Rabiner, The Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Robert Meyers (ed.), Academic Press, 2000.
"Hidden Markov Models", The Encyclopedia of Telecommunications, John Proakis (ed.), John Wiley and Sons, 2000.
"Automatic verbal information verification for user authentication", with Q. Li, Qiru Zhou and C.H. Lee, IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Proc., vol.8, no.5, pp.585-596, September 2000.
"Automatic recognition and understanding of spoken language – a first step towards natural human-machine communication," with Sadaoki Furui, Proceedings of the IEEE, August 2000.
"A Block Least Squares Approach To Acoustic Echo Cancellation", with Eric Woudenberg and Frank Soong, ICASSP-99, Phoenix, March 1999.
"A unified structure-based framework for indexing and gisting of meetings," with T. Kristjansson, T. Huang, and P. Ramesh, IEEE ICMCS99, 1999.
"Recent advancements in automatic speaker authentication," with Q. Li, C.H. Lee, Q. Zhou and F.K. Soong, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, March 1999.
"Modeling context dependent anti-subword models for utterance verification," with P. Ramesh and C.H. Lee, Int. Conf. Spoken Lang. Processing, Sydney, Australia, December 1998
"Statistical modeling of pronunciation and production variations of speech recognition," with F. Korkmazskiy, Int. Conf. Spoken Lang. Processing, Sydney, Australia, December 1998
"Pattern recognition using a family of design algorithms based upon the generalized probabilistic descent method," with S. Katagiri and C.H. Lee, IEEE Proceedings, vol.86, no.11, pp.2345-2375, November 1998
"Flexible speech understanding based on combined key-phrase detection and verification," with T. Kawahara and C.H. Lee, IEEE Trans. Speech & Audio Processing, T-SA, vol.6, no.6, pp.558-568, November 1998
"From speech recognition to understanding: shifting the paradigm to achieve natural human-machine communication," Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of International Congress on Acoustics and Acoustic Society of America, Seattle, June 1998
"The past, present, and future of speech processing," with IEEE SP Society 50th Anniversary Speech Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, pp.24-48, May 1998
"Technology advances enabling "in-Band-On-Channel" DSB systems," with Carl-Erik Sundberg, Deepen Sinha, Hui-Ling Lou, and Peter Kroon, Proceedings BroadcastAsia 98, pp.289-294, Singapore, June 1998
"Speech Recognition by Machine" with L.R. Rabiner, in The Digital Signal Processing Handbook, CRC Press and IEEE Press, 1998
"Speaker Verification Using Verbal Information Verification for Automatic Enrollment," with Q. Li, IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, & Sig. Proc., Seattle, May 1998
"A new decoder based on a generalized confidence score for speech recognition and utterance verification," with M. Koo and C. H. Lee, IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, & Sig. Proc., Seattle, May 1998
Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, (ed.) with Sadaoki Furui and Wu Chou, IEEE Press, Dec. 1997.
"On speaker authentication," with Li, Q., Zhou, Q., Lee, C.-H., and Soong, F. K., IEEE Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies, Stony Brook, NY, pp.3 – 6, Nov. 1997
"Speech, acoustics and audio processing for multimedia," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 1997
"Verbal information verification," with Li, Q., Zhou, Q., and Lee, C.-H., 5th European Conf. Speech Communication & Technology Proc., Rhodes Greece, pp. 839 – 842, Sept. 1997
"A new hybrid decoding algorithm for speech recognition and utterance verification," with M. Koo and C. H. Lee, Proc. of IEEE ASRU97 Workshop, Santa Barbara, December 1997
"Discriminative Training of the Pronunciation Networks," with F. E. Korkmazskiy, Proc. of IEEE ASRU97 Workshop, pp.223-229, Santa Barbara, December 1997
Multimedia Signal Processing, with Y. Wang, A.R. Reibman, T. Chen, and S.Y. Kung (ed.), IEEE, 1997.
"Filtering the time sequences of spectral parameters for speech recognition," with Climent Nadeu and Pau Paches-Leal, Speech Communication, 22, pp.315-332, 1997
"Combining key-phrase detection and subword based verification for flexible speech understanding," with T. Kawahara and C. H. Lee, IEEE Proc. of ICASSP97, May 1997
"Generalized Mixture of HMMS for Continuous Speech Recognition," with F. E. Korkmazskiy and F. Soong, IEEE Proc. of ICASSP97, pp.1443-1446, 1997
"Minimum classification error rate methods for speech recognition," with Wu Chou and C. H. Lee, IEEE Trans. Speech & Audio Processing, T-SA, vo.5, No.3, pp.257-265, May 1997
"Pattern recognition using discriminative feature extraction," with A. Bien and S. Katagiri, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol.45, No.2, pp.500-504, Feb. 1997
"Selective feature extraction via signal decomposition," with K. Wang and C. H. Lee, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol.4, No.1, pp.8-11, Jan. 1997
"Key-phrase detection and verification for flexible speech understanding," with T. Kawahara and C. H. Lee, Technical Report of Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, NLC96-55, SP96-86, pp.61-68, Dec. 1996
"Maximum likelihood learning of auditory feature maps for stationary vowels," with Kuansan Wang and C. H. Lee, Proceedings Inter. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, FrP2P1, Philadelphia, October 1996
"Combining key-phrase detection and subword-based utterance verification for flexible speech understanding," with T. Kawahara and C. H. Lee, Proceedings Inter. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, FrA2L3, Philadelphia, October 1996
"Discriminative adaptation for speaker verification," with F. Korkmazskiy, Proceedings Inter. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, SaP1P1, Philadelphia, October 1996
"A study on task-independent subword selection and modeling for speech recognition," with C. H. Lee, Wu Chou and J. J. Molina-Perez, Proceedings Inter. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, SaP2L1, Philadelphia, October 1996
"A survey on automatic speech recognition with an illustrative example on continuous recognition of Mandarin speech," with C. H. Lee, Proceedings of Conf. on Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Taiwan, August 1996
"Key-phrase detection and verification for flexible speech understanding," with T. Kawahara and C. H. Lee, Proceedings of Acoustic Society of Japan, 1996
"Time-frequency analysis for automatic recognition and auditory modeling of speech," with J. W. Pitton and K. Wang, Proceedings of IEEE, Special Issue on Time-Frequency Representations for Signal Processing, pp.1199-1215, vol.84, no.9, September 1996
"Signal conditioning techniques for robust speech recognition," with M. Rahim, Wu Chou and E. Buhrke, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, V.3, No.4, pp.107-109, April 1996
"Signal bias removal by maximum likelihood estimation for robust telephone speech recognition," with M. Rahim, IEEE Trans. Speech & Audio Processing, V.4, No.1, pp.19-30, January 1996
"Discriminative utterance verification using minimum string verification error (MSVE) training," with M. Rahim, C. H. Lee and Wu Chou, Proc. ICASSP-96, Atlanta, May 1996
"An overview of automatic speech recognition," with L. R. Rabiner and C. H. Lee, in Automatic speech and speaker recognition: Advanced topics, Lee, Soong and Paliwal (eds.), Chapter 1, Kluwer Academic, 1996
"Speech recognition by machine," with L. R. Rabiner, to appear in CRC Handbook on Applications of Signal Processing, CRC, 1996
"Discriminative methods for speech recognition," with W. Chou and C. H. Lee, in Automatic speech and speaker recognition: Advanced topics, Lee, Soong and Paliwal (eds.), Kluwer Academic, 1996
"Recent developments in robust speech recognition," Modern Methods of Speech Processing, Ramachandran & Mammone (ed.), p.231-250, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995
"Model compensation for robust ASR," with R. Rose and C. H. Lee, Proceedings IEEE ASR Workshop, Snowbird, Dec. 1995
"A vocabulary independent discriminatively trained method for rejection of non-keywords in subword based speech recognition," with Rafid Sukkar and C. H. Lee, Proceedings EuroSpeech, 1995
"Utterance verification," with Mazin Rahim and C. H. Lee, Proceedings EuroSpeech, 1995
"Hidden Markov models for speech and signal recognition," with R.C. Rose, J. American EEG Society, April 1995
"Deployable automatic speech recognition systems – advances and challenges," with D. Thomson and R. J. Perdue, AT&T Technical Journal, Vol.74, No.2, 1995
"A training procedure for verifying string hypotheses in continuous speech recognition," with R. C. Rose and C. H. Lee, Proc. International Conf. Acoust., Speech & Signal Processing, WA02.01, pp. Detroit, May 1995
"Robust utterance verification for connected digit recognition," with Mazin Rahim and C.H. Lee, Proc. International Conf. Acoust., Speech & Signal Processing, WA02.02, pp.285-288 Detroit, May 1995
"A Study on Minimum Error Discriminative Training for Speaker Recognition," with C.-S. Liu, C.-H. Lee, W. Chou, and A. E. Rosenberg, Jour. Acoust. Soc. Am., Dec. 1994
"Minimum Error Rate Training of Inter-word Context Dependent Acoustic Model Units in Speech Recognition," with W. Chou, and C.-H. Lee, Proc. ICSLP-94, pp. 439-442, Yokohama, Sept. 1994
"Filtering of spectral parameters for speech recognition," with Climent Nadeu, Proc. ICSLP-94, pp. 1927-1930, Yokohama, Sept. 1994
"Recent technology developments in connected digit speech recognition," with J. G. Wilpon, Proc. ICSLP-94, pp. 2135-2138, Yokohama, Sept. 1994
"A high resolution N-best search algorithm using inter-word context dependent models for continuous speech recognition," with Wu Chou, T. Matsuoka and C. H. Lee, Proceedings ICASSP-94, Adelaide, Australia, April 1994
"Signal bias removal for robust speech recognition," with Mazin Rahim, Proceedings ICASSP-94, Adelaide, Australia, April 1994
"A study on minimum error discriminative training for speaker recognition," with C. S. Liu, C. H. Lee, Wu Chou and A. E. Rosenberg, Proceedings ICASSP-94, Adelaide, Australia, April 1994
"A minimum error rate pattern recognition approach to speech recognition," with W. Chou, C. H. Lee and F. K. Soong, Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence, Special Issue on Speech Recognition for Different Languages, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 5-31, 1994
"Statistical and discriminative methods for speech recognition," Proc. NATO Advanced Study Institute, A. Rubio (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, 1994
"On the bias of the Turing-Good estimate of probabilities," with S. H. Lo, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol.42, No.2, 496-498, Feb. 1994
"A study of minimum error rate pattern recognition approach to speech recognition," with W. Chou and C.-H. Lee, IEEE Workshop on Speech Recognition, Snowbird, December 1993
"Discriminative feature extraction for speech recognition," with Alain Biem and Shigeru Katagiri, Neural Networks for Signal Processing III, IEEE Workshop NNSP-93, pp.392-401, IEEE, Piscataway, September 1993
"Discriminative analysis of distortion sequences in speech recognition," with P. C. Chang and S.H. Chen, IEEE Trans. Speech & Audio Processing, SAP-1, No.3, pp.326-333, July, 1993
"Discriminative training of dynamic programming based speech recognizers," with P. C. Chang, IEEE Trans. Speech & Audio Processing, SAP-1, No.2, pp.135-143, April 1993
"Optimal quantization of line spectral pair parameters," with F. K. Soong, IEEE Trans. Speech & Audio Processing, SAP-1, No.1, pp.15-24, Jan. 1993
"Signal analysis and representation for speech recognition," Acoustical Society of America Spring Meeting, Paper 2pSP1, pp.2317, April 1993
"Minimum error rate training based on N-best string models," Proceedings of International Conf. Acoust. Speech & Signal Processing, ICASSP-93, pp.II-652-655, Minneapolis, MN, April 1993
"Statistical and discriminative methods for speech recognition," in Speech Recognition and Understanding, Rubio (ed.), NATO ASI Series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993
Fundamentals of Speech Recognition, with L. R. Rabiner, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1993 (Book)
"Line Spectral Pair (LSP) and speech data compression," with F. K. Soong, IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, pp.15-25, vol.1, no.1, Jan. 1993
"The use of cohort normalized scores for speaker verification," with A. E. Rosenberg, J. DeLong, C-H
Lee and F.K. Soong, 1992 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Proceedings ICSLP-92, pp.599-602, Alberta, Canada, Oct. 1992
"Hidden Markov models with first order equalization for noisy speech recognition," with K. K. Paliwal, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol.40, No.9, pp.2136-2143, Sept. 1992
"Discriminative learning for minimum error classification," with S. Katagiri, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol.40, No.12, pp.3043-3054, December 1992
"Discriminative training," with S. Katagiri, invited paper for Special Issue on Discriminative Training for
Speech Recognition of the Journal of Acoustical Society of Japan, Vol.13, No.6, pp.333-339, November 1992
"Continuous speech recognition based on combined string models," with Wu Chou and C-H. Lee, Proceedings of ARPA Microelectronics Technology Workshop on Continuous Speech Recognition, pp.65-69, Stanford, CA, September 1992
"Spectral representations for speech recognition by neural networks," with L. R. Rabiner, Neural Networks for Signal Processing II, IEEE Workshop NNSP-92, Kung, Fallside, Sorenson & Kamm (eds.), pp.214-222, IEEE, Piscataway, August 1992
"Hidden Markov models for speech recognition – strengths and limitations," with L. R. Rabiner, in Speech Recognition and Understanding, Laface and De Mori (ed.), NATO ASI Series, pp.3-29, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1992
"Discriminative template training for dynamic programming speech recognition," with P. C. Chang, Proceedings of International Conf. Acoust. Speech & Signal Processing, ICASSP-92, San Francisco, CA, March 1992
"Vector equalization in hidden Markov models for noisy speech recognition," with K. K. Paliwal, Proceedings of International Conf. Acoust. Speech & Signal Processing, ICASSP-92, San Francisco, CA, March 1992
"Segmental GPD training of HMM based speech recognizers," with Wu Chou and C. H. Lee, Proceedings of International Conf. Acoust. Speech & Signal Processing, ICASSP-92, San Francisco, CA, March 1992
"A minimum error approach to speech and pattern recognition," with S. Katagiri, Proceedings 25th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 1991
"Minimum error rate training for dynamic time warping & hidden Markov model recognizers," with Wu Chou and P. C. Chang, 1991 IEEE Workshop on Speech Recognition, Arden House, NY, Dec. 1991
"Discriminative multi-layer feed-forward networks," with S. Katagiri and C. H. Lee, Proceedings 1991 IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing, pp.11-20, Princeton, NJ, Sept. 1991
"New discriminative training algorithms based on the generalized probabilistic descent method," with S. Katagiri and C. H. Lee, Proceedings 1991 IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing, pp.299-308, Princeton, NJ, Sept. 1991
"Discriminative analysis of distortion sequences in speech recognition," with P. C. Chang and S. H. Chen, IEEE ICASSP-91, 12.S8.6, pp. 549-552, Toronto, May 1991
"Adaptive discriminative learning in pattern recognition," with W. Chou, submitted for publication in the IEEE Trans. Information Theory, 1991
"Speech recognition in adverse environments," Computer Speech & Language, vol. 5, pp.275-294, 1991
"Hidden Markov models for speech recognition," with L. R. Rabiner, Technometrics, vol.33, no.3, pp.251-272, August 1991
"Issues in using hidden Markov models for speech recognition," with L. R. Rabiner, Advances in Speech Signal Processing, Furui & Sondhi (ed.), p.509-554, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1991
"A study on speaker adaptation of the parameters of continuous density hidden Markov models," with C. H. Lee and C. H. Lin, IEEE Trans. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol.39, no.4, pp.806-814, April 1991
"Recent developments in speech recognition under adverse conditions," Proceedings International Conf. Spoken Language Processing, pp.1113-1116, Kobe, Japan, Nov. 1990
"A generalized probabilistic descent algorithm," with S. Katagiri and C. H. Lee, Acoustic Society of Japan, Fall Meeting, pp.141-142, Sept. 1990
"Hidden Markov models for speech recognition – Strengths and Limitations," with L. R. Rabiner, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), ASI Proceedings, 1990
"The segmental k-means algorithm for estimating parameters of hidden Markov models," with L. R. Rabiner, IEEE Trans. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ASSP-38, no.9, pp.1639-1641, Sept. 1990
"Optimal quantization of LSP parameters using delayed decision," with F. K. Soong, Proceedings IEEE ICASSP-90, pp.185-188, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 1990
"Speaker recognition based on source coding approaches," with F. K. Soong, Proceedings IEEE ICASSP-90, pp.613-616, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 1990
"Statistical segmentation and word modeling techniques in isolated word recognition," with S. A. Euler, C. H. Lee and F. K. Soong, Proceedings IEEE ICASSP-90, pp.745-748, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 1990
"A study of speaker adaptation of the parameters of continuous density hidden Markov models," with C. H. Lee and C. H. Lin, Proceedings IEEE ICASSP-90, pp.145-148, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 1990
"On the application of hidden Markov models for enhancing noisy speech," with Y. Ephraim and D. Malah, IEEE Trans. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ASSP-37, No.12, pp.1846-1856, Dec. 1989
"A family of distortion measures based upon projection operation for robust speech recognition," with D. Mansour, IEEE Trans. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ASSP-37, No. 11, pp. 1659-71, Nov. 1989
"Speaker independent isolated word recognition based on acoustic segmentation," with S. Euler, C. H. Lee and F. K. Soong, International Symposium on Signals, Systems and Electronics, A.4.6, Erlangen, F.R. of Germany, September 1989
"Speech enhancement based upon hidden Markov modelling," with Y. Ephraim and D. Malah, Proceedings IEEE ICASSP-89, 23.S7.2, pp.353-356, Vol.1, Glasgow, Scotland, May, 1989
"HMM clustering for connected word recognition," with L. R. Rabiner, C. H. Lee and J. G. Wilpon, Proceedings IEEE ICASSP-89, 24.S8.5, pp.405-408, Vol.1, Glasgow, Scotland, May, 1989
"Some new recognition results using a segment model based approach," with C. H. Lee, F. K. Soong and L. R. Rabiner, Proceedings IEEE ICASSP-89, 42S12.22, pp.683-686, Glasgow, Scotland, May, 1989
"The short-time modified coherence representation and its application to noisy speech recognition," with D. Mansour, IEEE Trans. Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing, ASSP-37, No.6, pp.795-804, June 1989
"Design and performance of trellis vector quantizers for speech signals," IEEE Trans. Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing, ASSP-36, No.9, pp.1423-1431, Sept. 1988
"Hidden Markov models with imbedded equalization for noisy observations," Proceedings of the 1988 IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop, S. Lake Tahoe, CA, Sept. 1988
"Large vocabulary speech recognition using a segment model based approach," with C.-H. Lee and F. K. Soong, Proceedings, 1988 IEEE Workshop on Speech Recognition, Arden House, Harriman, NY., May 1988
"A globally optimal quantizer design," with F. K. Soong, Abstracts of Papers, International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT-88), pp. 38, Kobe, Japan, June 1988
"The short-time modified coherence representation and its application to noisy speech recognition," with D. Mansour, IEEE ICASSP Proceedings, pp.525-528, Vol.1, Apr. 1988
"A family of distortion measures based upon projection operation for robust speech recognition," with D. Mansour, IEEE ICASSP Proceedings, pp.36-39, Vol.1, Apr. 1988
"A segment model based approach to speech recognition," with C. H. Lee and F. K. Soong, IEEE ICASSP Proceedings, pp.501-504, Vol.1, Apr. 1988
"On the application of hidden Markov models for enhancing noisy speech," with Y. Ephraim and D. Malah, IEEE ICASSP Proceedings, pp.533-536, Vol.1, Apr. 1988
"Optimal quantization of Line Spectral Pair (LSP) parameters," with F. K. Soong, IEEE ICASSP Proceedings, pp.394-397, Vol.1, Apr. 1988
"Some properties of autoregressive model related cepstrum," with David Mansour, Journal of Acoust. Society of America, Suppl. 1, Vol. 81, Fall 1987
"On the use of bandpass filtering in speech recognition," with L. R. Rabiner and J. G. Wilpon, IEEE Trans. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ASSP-35, No. 7, pp.947-954, July 1987
"Performance evaluation of a connected digit recognizer," with L. R. Rabiner and J. G. Wilpon, IEEE ICASSP Proceedings, 3.10, pp.101-104, April 1987
"Signal restoration by spectral mapping," with L. R. Rabiner, IEEE ICASSP Proceedings, 6.6, pp. 2368-2372, April 1987
"An investigation on the use of acoustic sub-word units for automatic speech recognition," with J. G. Wilpon and L. R. Rabiner, IEEE ICASSP Proceedings, 20.7, pp.821-824, April 1987
"A vector quantization approach to speaker recognition," with F. K. Soong, A. E. Rosenberg, and L. R. Rabiner, AT&T Technical Journal, vol. 66, issue 2, pp. 14-26, March/April 1987
"A model-based connected-digit recognition system using either hidden Markov models or templates," with L. R. Rabiner and J. G. Wilpon, Computer Speech & Language, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp.167-197, December 1986
"Matrix quantization for very low data rate voice coding," with D. Y. Wong and D. Y. Chen, Journal of Acoust. Society of America, Suppl. 1, Vol. 80, Fall 1986
"A segmental k-means training procedure for connected word recognition," with L. R. Rabiner and J. G. Wilpon, AT&T Technical Journal, Vol.65, Issue 3, pp. 21-40, May/June 1986
"Vector quantization, hidden Markov models and speaker independent recognition of speech," Technology Session on Current Research in Speaker Independent Recognition, Speech Tech '86, New York City, April, 1986
"Design and performance of trellis vector quantizers for speech signals," IEEE ICASSP Proceedings, 9.1, pp. 437-440, Tokyo, Japan, Apr. 1986
"On the use of bandpass filtering in speech recognition," with L. R. Rabiner and J. G. Wilpon, IEEE ICASSP Proceedings, 14.18, pp. 765-768, Tokyo, Japan, Apr. 1986
"Mixture autoregressive hidden Markov models for speaker independent isolated word recognition," with L. R. Rabiner, IEEE ICASSP Proceedings, 2.1, pp. 41-44, Tokyo, Japan, Apr. 1986
"A continuous training procedure for connected digit recognition," with L. R. Rabiner and J. G. Wilpon, IEEE ICASSP Proceedings, 21.1, pp. 1065-1068, Tokyo, Japan, Apr. 1986
"Speech coding – review and outlook," Annual Conference of Chinese Institute of Engineers, New York, Nov. 1985
"Maximum likelihood estimation for multivariate mixture observations of Markov chains," with S. E. Levinson and M. M. Sondhi, IEEE Trans. Information Theory, Vol. IT-32, No.2, pp.307-309, Mar. 1986
"An introduction to hidden Markov models," with L.R. Rabiner, IEEE ASSP Magazine, Vol.3, No.1, p.4-16, Jan. 1986
"Mixture autoregressive hidden Markov models for speech signals," with L. R. Rabiner, IEEE Trans. Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing, Vol. ASSP-33, No. 6, pp. 1404-1413, Dec. 1985
"Maximum likelihood estimation for mixture multivariate stochastic observations of Markov chains," with S. E. Levinson and M. M. Sondhi, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Brighton, England, June 1985
"On application of vector quantization to speaker recognition," with F. K. Soong, A. E. Rosenberg, and L. R. Rabiner, IEEE International Conference on Communications 1985, paper 45.8, Chicago, June 1985
"Recent developments in the application of hidden Markov models to speaker-independent isolated word recognition," with L. R. Rabiner, S. E. Levinson, and M. M. Sondhi, IEEE ICASSP-85 Proceedings, pp. 9-12, Tampa, Florida, March 1985
"A vector quantization approach to speaker recognition," with F. K. Soong, A. E. Rosenberg, and L. R. Rabiner, IEEE ICASSP-85 Proceedings, pp. 387-390, Tampa, Florida, March 1985
"Recognition of isolated digits using hidden Markov models with continuous mixture densities," with L. R. Rabiner, S. E. Levinson, and M. M. Sondhi, AT&T Technical Journal, Vol. 64, No. 6, Part 1, pp. 1211-1234, July-August 1985
"Continuous density hidden Markov models for speaker independent recognition of isolated digits," with S. E. Levinson, L. R. Rabiner and M. M. Sondhi, Journal of Acoustic Society of America, JASA Supp. 1, Vol. 76, Fall 1984
"Some properties of continuous hidden Markov model representations," with L. R. Rabiner, S. E. Levinson, and M. M. Sondhi, AT&T Technical Journal, Vol. 64, No. 6, Part 1, pp. 1251-1270, July-August, 1985
"A probabilistic distance measure for hidden Markov models," with L. R. Rabiner, AT&T Technical Journal, Vol. 64, No. 2, pp. 391-408, February 1985
"Maximum likelihood estimation for mixture multivariate stochastic observations of Markov chains," AT&T Technical Journal, Vol. 64, No. 6, Part 1, pp.1235-1250, July-August 1985
"Line Spectral Pair – its deterministic and statistical properties," with F. K. Soong, IEEE ICASSP-84 Conference Proceedings, 1.10.1-4, San Diego, CA, March 1984
"On hidden Markov model and dynamic time warping for speech recognition – a unified view," AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal, Vol. 63, No. 7, pp. 1213-1244, Sept. 1984
"On using the Itakura-Saito measures for speech coder performance evaluation," AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal, Vol. 63, No. 8, pp. 1477-1498, October 1984
"Line Spectral Pair – its deterministic and statistical properties," with F. K. Soong, Acoustic Society of America, Semi-annual Meeting Record, Cincinnati, May 1983
"Very low data rate speech compression with LPC vector and matrix quantization," with D. Y. Wong and D. Y. Cheng, IEEE ICASSP-83 Conference Proceedings, pp. 65-68, Boston, Apr. 1983
"Speech enhancement with harmonic synthesis," with B. A. Hanson and D. Y. Wong, IEEE ICASSP-83 Conference Proceedings, pp. 1126-1129, Boston, Apr. 1983
"The acoustic descriptive encryption method – a new class of analog secure voice communication techniques," Technical Memorandum, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Oct. 1982
Vector/Matrix Quantization for Narrow-band Digital Speech Compression, with D. Y. Wong, Final Report Contract F30602-81-C-0054, Signal Technology, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA., July 1982
"Multiple stage vector quantization for speech coding," with A. H. Gray, Jr., IEEE ICASSP-82 Conference Proceedings, pp. 597-600, Paris, May 1982
"Voice coding at 800 bps and lower data rates with LPC vector quantization," with D. Y. Wong, IEEE ICASSP-82 Conference Proceedings, pp. 606-609, Paris, May 1982
"An 800 bps vector quantization LPC vocoder," with D. Y. Wong and A. H. Gray, Jr., IEEE Transaction Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing, vol. ASSP-30, no. 5, pp. 770-780, Oct. 1982
"Distortion performance of vector quantization for LPC voice coding," with D. Y. Wong and A. H. Gray, Jr., IEEE Transaction Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing, vol. ASSP-30, no. 2, pp. 294-304, Apr. 1982
"Dynamic range observations in wideband satellite communication," with A. H. Gray, Jr. and D. Mansour, Network Speech Compression (NSC) Proceedings No. 146, Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA), September 1981.
An 800bps LPC Vector Quantization Vocoder, with D. Y. Wong and A. H. Gray, Jr., Final Report Contract N00039-76-C-0450, June 1981.
Vector Quantization for Linear Predictive Voice Coding, Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA., May 1981.
"Recent developments in vector quantization for speech processing," with D. Y. Wong and A. H. Gray, Jr., IEEE ICASSP-81 Conference Proceedings, pp. 1-4, Atlanta, March 1981.
"An 800 bps speech compression system based upon vector quantization," with D. Y. Wong and A. H. Gray, Jr., IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Abstract of Papers, pp. 147, Feb. 1981.
Voice Response Aids for the Handicapped – An Innovative Approach, with D. Y. Wong, National Science Foundation, SBIR Award No. PFR-8009724, Final Project Report, Feb. 1981.
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Ghanaian Investigative journalist, Anas Finally Removes His Mask
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Anas Aremeyaw Anas, Ghanaian Investigative journalist
Investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas has made a rare public appearance, removing his trademark mask in an interview with the BBC's Sammy Darko. Profile and Biography of Anas Aremeyaw Anas Anas grew up in a military barracks in Ghana.
He attended the University of Ghana. After university he turned down an opportunity to work as a reporter for the Ghanaian Times newspaper, instead choosing to join the Crusading Guide newspaper in 1998. The editor of the newspaper, Kweku Baako Jnr, had just been released from jail in the same year.
Anas Aremeyaw Anas is a Ghanaian investigative journalist born in the late 1970s. Anas's motto is "name, shame and jail", and he is famous for utilizing his anonymity as a tool in his investigative arsenal; very few people had seen his face until an "unmasking" during a BBC interview in November 2015 — and this was a prosthetic. A politically non-aligned multimedia journalist who specializes in print media and documentary, Anas focuses on issues of human rights and anti-corruption in Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa.
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Anas has won critical acclaim for his work advocating for basic human rights such as the right to not be held in human slavery or servitude and for his work exposing corruption. His investigative works have won him worldwide acclaim, including President Barack Obama highlighting his virtues in a speech during a 2009 visit to Ghana: "An independent press.
A vibrant private sector. A civil society. Those are the things that give life to democracy. [...] We see that spirit in courageous journalists like Anas Aremeyaw Anas, who risked his life to report the truth." Anas has won more than 17 international awards for his investigative work. He was polled as the fifth most influential Ghanaian in 2011 by e.tv Ghana, and named one of the "Most Influential Africans of the Year" by New African magazine in December 2014.
Chameleon by Ryan Mullins, a documentary about Anas's life and work, was premiered at the 2014 IDFA festival in Amsterdam. In December 2015 Foreign Policy magazine named Anas one of 2015's leading global thinkers, an honour previously granted to the likes of Barack Obama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Pope Benedict XVI, and Malala Yousafzai.
In March 2016, Anas was invited by Harvard Law School as a keynote speaker to share his experiences as an international undercover journalist creating change on the continent of Africa in 2016.
He is consistently invited to talk on his work at gatherings all around the world. In the period from October to December 2016, Anas made his first foray into public life, outside of the world of investigative journalism, as a powerful advocate for peace in his "Anas4Peace" multimedia campaign.
These films, jingles and interactive social media posts brought together 22 of the most powerful non-alinged Ghanaian celebrities to advocate for peace during the election period.