The Urban Heritage group are Old City real estate developers.
Jesper Bethe and his wife Olenka, partners in the Group,host an art exposition on the evening of November 7th, 2014 to promote their vision for the area to investors and business people and lovers of the arts.
At seven, art lovers, friends, associates, clients, friends of the band, hired help arrive to celebrate art, business,and throw a grand party. In addition to art by local artist Roberto Ybarra, there are posters of Urban Heritage properties prominently displayed that show what can be done to change abandoned industrial properties into good looking functional living and business spaces.
Roberto works with wood, string, metal, paper, leather, and found objects. He is an older man doing young art. I decide to take a Roberto piece home and find a small one that fits in my suitcase. It is understated, simple, a leather collage titled "Violinista. ", created for budget art lovers like myself.
Roberto's show blurs differences between reality and art.
When does an object belong in a museum? When does art become just a bed you can't sleep on? Is art more than materials that make it? Is art a way of looking, or a way of living? Is art what we see or what goes on in our own head when we look at it, or both?
" Violinista" is now hung on my dining room room wall at home and brings back memories. I swear sometimes that the violinists bow moves and makes a trill so soft it would make a conductor cry.
When I see my violinist and remember Montevideo, I start to hum a slow sultry tango.
Nice piece about the art show….did you just stumble on it or did Jesper invite you to the show? You seem to fit right in……hand your camera to some people and let them take your pic occasionally!


FT is short for Finishing Touches, located at Oysterbay Shopping Centre, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The boutique focuses on catering clothing and accessories to the modern African woman. It's own line Easy Wear infuses an African take on new trends in Western fashion incorporating signature dashiki prints, and East African favourites - khanga and kitenge fabrics.


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'Everyone can breathe sigh of relief' Anton Du Beke takes humorous swipe at Kevin Clifton
ANTON DU BEKE joked that viewers can "breathe a sigh of relief" that Kevin Clifton won't be stirring up any romance rumours this year following his departure from the BBC show.
By Jessica Williams
06:30, Sat, Jul 24, 2021
Strictly: Anton Du Beke says he 'won't miss being voted off'
Not only is Anton Du Beke, 55, known for his graceful moves on the Strictly Come Dancing dance floor, but viewers have also come to love his quirky sense of humour as well. Now, he's taken a hilarious swipe at his former co-star Kevin Clifton, and his ability to stir up romance rumours with his partners on most series.
Strictly Come Dancing: Four new pros replace Janette and Anton
Anton Du Beke turns 55: Youthful Strictly pro on surgery rumours
Anton Du Beke takes swipe at Kevin Clifton's show romances after exit (Image: ITV)
Anton replaced Bruno Tonioli as a judge in last year's show (Image: BBC)
He's not in it this year, so everyone can breathe a sigh of relief!
Anton Du Beke
But after his departure in 2020, Anton, who is set to appear on Michael McIntyre's The Wheel this evening, revealed viewers can "breathe a sigh of relief" that there will be no funny business in that department from him ever again.
In a recent interview, the dad-of-two was asked if whether celebrities who are in a relationship prior to going on the BBC show should "kiss goodbye" to their other halves if they're paired with Kevin, and his response was full of humour.
"He's not in it this year," he shrugged, before chuckling.
"So everyone can breathe a sigh of relief!"
READ MORE: Stephanie Beacham addresses why she 'hated' Strictly Come Dancing
Kevin and Stacey began dating after they won Strictly 2018 (Image: BBC)
The dancer announced his exit from the BBC show in 2020 (Image: GETTY)
Strictly romances (Image: EXPRESS)
Kevin and his current girlfriend Stacey Dooley met on the show in 2018, and eventually lifted the glitterball trophy together.
Following their success, the pair were catapulted into the limelight further when their working relationship blossomed into romance.
Exactly when the couple started a romantic relationship is not known, but they did confirm their romance shortly after her ex-boyfriend Sam Tucknott gave a tell-all interview in April 2019.
Stacey insisted that there was no overlap between the relationships, and in July she spoke publicly for the first time about boyfriend Kevin.
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Kevin was previously married to fellow dancer Karen Hauer, and following their split in March 2018 they still remain close friends.
The "Strictly curse", as it's referred to by fans of the show, has struck many a professional and their partner down over the years, but for some happy couples the romance has lived on, long after the show is over.
Gorka Marquez and Gemma Atkinson weren't actually paired up on the BBC dance show in 2017.
Gemma was waltzing with Aljaz Skorjanec, and Gorka was with Alexandra Burke, however rumours of a romance between them began circulating during their time on the show, and the pair finally confirmed their romance in February 2018.
In July 2019 they welcomed their first child together, a daughter called Mia Louise.
Anton Du Beke's judging role in jeopardy if Bruno returns
YouTuber Joe Sugg and his dance partner Dianne Buswell went public with their romance as soon as the 2018 series ended and since then have shared lots of cute selfies.
In August 2019 the pair announced that they had moved in together.
Countdown star Rachel Riley welcomed her first child with professional Pasha Kovalev, after they danced together on the show in 2013.
They wed Las Vegas in July 2019 and the same year Maven was born.
The Wheel airs tonight at 8:30pm on BBC One.
Anton Du Beke announced as Strictly Come Dancing 2021
Anton du Beke breaks silence on replacing Bruno Tonioli on Strictly
Oti Mabuse talks Anton Du Beke's Strictly judge news
BBC ITV Strictly Come Dancing Anton du Beke Kevin Clifton

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CNN's Cooper Blasts Trump's Presser: Most Disgraceful Performance by an American President
'You have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president at a summit in front of a Russian leader certainly that I've ever seen'
COOPER: "You've been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president at a summit in front of a Russian leader, certainly that I've ever seen. An extraordinary press conference. I'm back with CNN global affairs analyst Susan Glasser, CNN senior political analyst David Gergen, CNN chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour. Christiane, the president -- given the opportunity, asked by an American reporter who he trusted on the issue of Russian meddling, the U.S. intelligence community or Vladimir Putin, he blinked and he went to Hillary Clinton's e-mail server. As to who he holds responsible, he says I hold both countries responsible. I think we are all to blame. We have a chance to do some great things; made no mention of Georgia, the shooting down of a Malaysian plane, Crimea and Ukraine, and election interference."


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Apparently the Drake Curse Dates All the Way Back to "Draft Day"
By Sarah Murphy
Intentionally or not, Drake has been controlling a multitude of sports this year — from his hometown Toronto Maple Leafs to European football teams to the Toronto Raptors' foes — but it seems the curse has even earlier origins than we thought. Apparently, Drake has been playing the long game and cursing athletes since releasing "Draft Day" back in 2014.
The track is experiencing a resurgence thanks to the release of Care Package, and fans have noticed that a few athletes mentioned in the lyrics have suffered similarly poor fates to those of this year's cursed teams.
Drizzy namedrops both Johnny "Football" Manziel and Andrew Wiggins in the intro to the song, and both athletes have since been unable to live up to the hype they once generated.
Despite being the first freshman to ever win the Heisman Trophy in 2012, Manziel's NFL career fell far short of expectations. He was notoriously dropped by the Cleveland Browns after two seasons for numerous drug and alcohol offences, and an arrest for domestic violence.
After lengthy contract negotiations, he signed a deal to play in the CFL for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats — which Toronto superfan Drake couldn't have been happy about.
Drake also mentioned Toronto basketball wunderkind Andrew Wiggins, who at the time was just the second Canadian player to be picked first overall in the NBA draft. He won the Rookie of the Year title in 2014-15, but he had a rough start to last season and has been criticized for his lack of defensive play — not to mention his practically un-tradable $147.7 million USD contract.
As if the floundering careers of Manziel and Wiggins weren't cursed enough, Drake may have even snapped the career win streak of Jennifer Lawrence.
She's namedropped in the song, and since its release her films have become increasingly polarizing. She went from being an awards season darling for Silver Linings Playbook and an action hero in Hunger Games to roles in critically divisive films like Joy, Passengers, Mother!, Red Sparrow and Dark Phoenix.
See some of the reaction to "Draft Day's" retroactive curses below.
Draft Day might have been the first Drake curse
— Jovan Buha (@jovanbuha) August 2, 2019
Damn Drake wasted draft day on wiggins and manziel .... I know he furious 😁😁 pic.twitter.com/2CkAasAgll
— Christian Pulisic Properganda (@DPRINCE_10) August 2, 2019
Shame what happened to Manziel & Wiggins but they'll always have "Draft Day"
— Alphet Pujols (@antenehgeb) August 2, 2019
when johnny manziel hears draft day on care package: pic.twitter.com/Odwug0nvNe
— jusuf twerkić 🌹 (@_yungkoala) August 2, 2019
Have been thinking about the legacy of "Draft Day" — a snapshot of the improbable moment in time when Andrew Wiggins and Johnny Manziel were two of the coolest athletes in the world https://t.co/DKVZqDtt49
— Jeremy Gordon (@jeremypgordon) August 1, 2019
Don't get me wrong, Draft Day still bangs but hyping up Manziel and Wiggins and dissing Chance probably isn't going to get the same reaction in 2019. pic.twitter.com/krQG1OmmX7
— Kyle Miller (@kylemiller3313) August 2, 2019
The people who haven't heard draft day gonna immediately know it's old when they hear Andrew Wiggins name LMAOOO
— quis🏆 (@quistalktoem) August 1, 2019
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It's safe to say that we'll get plenty of new material from the ever-busy Drake in 2020. Until then, Toronto's favourite rapper has treated...


In Ithaca, landlords determine which utilities are covered in your rent and which the tenant pays directly. There is no standard. Below is a listing of the local utilities, including phone and cable companies.
Check with your landlord regarding which garbage collecting service picks up your garbage, and whether you will need to pay.


Thank you for stopping by our exhibit at the Landscaping with Colorado Native Plants Conference and signing up to hear more about our Front Range Wild Ones Introductory Meeting. We are excited to have you as part of our community!
You are receiving this email because you have specifically expressed interest in attending our first 2017 meeting! The goal of this meeting is to introduce ourselves and what we do as a Wild Ones chapter.
Come find out what great ideas we have to help you with your native plant garden. We are also interested to know what events, speakers, workshops, and more you would like to see on the calendar. What do you feel passionate about? How can you contribute your time and expertise?
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Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Recently we complemented the raster image correlation spectroscopy (RICS) method of analysing raster images via estimation of the image correlation function with the method single particle raster image analysis (SPRIA). In SPRIA, individual particles are identified and the diffusion coefficient of each particle is estimated by a maximum likelihood method. In this paper, we extend the SPRIA method to analyse mixtures of particles with a finite set of diffusion coefficients in a homogeneous medium. In examples with simulated and experimental data with two and three different diffusion coefficients, we show that SPRIA gives accurate estimates of the diffusion coefficients and their proportions. A simple technique for finding the number of different diffusion coefficients is also suggested. Further, we study the use of RICS for mixtures with two different diffusion coefficents and investigate, by plotting level curves of the correlation function, how large the quotient between diffusion coefficients needs to be in order to allow discrimination between models with one and two diffusion coefficients. We also describe a minor correction (compared to published papers) of the RICS autocorrelation function. Lay description Diffusion is a key mass transport mechanism for small particles. Efficient methods for estimating diffusion coefficients are crucial for analysis of microstructures, for example in soft biomaterials. The sample of interest may consist of a mixture of particles with different diffusion coefficients. Here, we extend a method called Single Particle Raster Image Analysis (SPRIA) to account for particle mixtures and estimation of the diffusion coefficients of the mixture components. SPRIA combines elements of classical single particle tracking methods with utilizing the raster scan with which images obtained by using a confocal laser scanning microscope. In particular, single particles are identified and their motion estimated by following their center of mass. Thus, an estimate of the diffusion coefficient will be obtained for each particle. Then, we analyse the distribution of the estimated diffusion coefficients of the population of particles, which allows us to extract information about the diffusion coefficients of the underlying components in the mixture. On both simulated and experimental data with mixtures consisting of two and three components with different diffusion coefficients, SPRIA provides accurate estimates and, with a simple criterion, the correct number of mixture components is selected in most cases.


I thought it was a very interesting talk and what made it more interesting is when she spoke about the stress hormone called Oxytocin. There was this invisible light bulb that suddenly brightened up on top of my head and went DING!
It made perfect sense when you put the pieces together. Just let me explain the pieces and you should be able to put the puzzle together after my explanation. Throughout the years I understood that breeding a true dwarf (half normal and half dwarf) to a true dwarf (half normal and half dwarf) will often produce a FULL dwarf (half dwarf and half dwarf). Some call the the deadly double dwarf genes a.k.a. peanut. Peanuts usually suckle but their growth are extremely stunted and to a point they just fade/waste away.
The reason that peanuts are extremely stunted is because of damaged or abnormal pituitary gland. You may want to read up on pituitary dwarfism and its effect on the affected organism.
The speaker Kelly mentioned that Oxytocin is produced by the pituitary gland. Over the years I have also seen does with retained kits and other breeding problems. Today, I have reasons to believe that the dwarf gene could be the cause of these problems. Perhaps the pituitary gland is not efficient enough to produce enough Oxytocin for the doe to go into labor thus causing retained kits?
I hope by now you should be able to understand the relation between the desire for dwarfism and the effect of the gene that may cause damage to the most crucial organ that produces a very important stress hormone. And the difficult challenge for dwarf rabbit breeders is to ensure rabbits used for breeding have healthy pituitary gland and I believe some are already successful since they have no problem breeding a true dwarf to a true dwarf while keeping a healthy birth rate. Another way to increase the chances would be to breed a true dwarf buck to a normal doe which has been the desired breeding practice.


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Republican nominee for governor Pete Ricketts has chosen the current lieutenant governor, Lavon Heidemann, as his running mate.
Heidemann, 55, has been lieutenant governor since February 2013, when he was appointed to the post by Gov. Dave Heineman to replace Lt. Gov.Rick Sheehy. Heideman served eight years in the legislature, six years as chairman of the appropriations committee. In 2012, he was elected a University of Nebraska regent.
Heidemann, whose website describes him as a farmer, rancher and volunteer firefighter, links the billionaire Ricketts to the everyday world of agriculture. As a former state senator, Heidemann also would be an asset in dealing with the legislature. Ricketts has no previous experience in government.
Ricketts faces Chuck Hassebrook in the race to replace the term-limited Heineman.
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Since you asked, we think he's too old. He'll be 67 when his term ends, and we'd prefer he pursue the normal activities of a retired governor his age: Run for another office, find a nonprofit to join, sit on corporate boards, scout Washington for a lobbying gig. Who knows? There's an election in 2016, and there might be a new Republican administration looking for a guy just like him.
No offense to the governor, but we just think he's too old to start a new career as the top administrator of an institution as large and diverse as the university system. Maybe if he'd done a better job with the large and diverse state Department of Health and Human Services …
Jim Jenkins of Callaway, an independent in the race to succeed Mike Johanns in the U.S. Senate, told the Fremont Tribune that he has more than enough signatures to get his name on the ballot, and will be submitting them in a couple of weeks.
Jenkins runs the family ranch in Custer County. After college, he worked in Illinois and Ohio , then returned to Nebraska to raise his family. He launched the Whiskey Creek Steakhouse chain and Skeeter Barnes restaurants.
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NUMBER_REGEX='^[0-9]+$'
DEFAULT_DATASET_ARCHIVE_NAME='dataset.tar.gz'
DEFAULT_BATCH_SIZE=20000
DEFAULT_TEMP_DIR_NAME='tmp'

# Names of dataset directories
ALBUMS_DIRECTORY='albums'
ARTISTS_DIRECTORY='artists'
LANGUAGES_DIRECTORY='languages'
RATINGS_ALBUMS_DIRECTORY='albums_ratings'
RATINGS_ARTISTS_DIRECTORY='artists_ratings'
USERS_DIRECTORY='users'

# MapR-DB JSON Tables
ALBUMS_TABLE='/apps/albums'
ARTISTS_TABLE='/apps/artists'
LANGUAGES_TABLE='/apps/languages'
RATINGS_ALBUMS_TABLE='/apps/albums_ratings'
RATINGS_ARTISTS_TABLE='/apps/artists_ratings'
USERS_TABLE='/apps/users'

# MapR-FS directories
ALBUMS_MFS_DIRECTORY='/tmp/albums'
ARTISTS_MFS_DIRECTORY='/tmp/artists'
LANGUAGES_MFS_DIRECTORY='/tmp/languages'
RATINGS_ALBUMS_MFS_DIRECTORY='/tmp/albums_ratings'
RATINGS_ARTISTS_MFS_DIRECTORY='/tmp/artists_ratings'
USERS_MFS_DIRECTORY='/tmp/users'

#######################################################################
# Functions definition
#######################################################################

function print_usage() {
    cat <<EOM
Usage: $(basename $0) [-p|--path] [-b|--batch] [-r|--recreate] [-h|--help]
Options:
    --path      Specifies path to the dataset archive directory. Default value is current directory.
                Assumes dataset archive name is 'dataset.tar.gz'.

    --batch     Specifies batch size of imported documents, allows to import large dataset
                and prevent problems related to lack of memory. Default value is '20000'.

    --recreate  When specified, MapR-DB JSON Tables for dataset will be recreated.
                Note, that in case of tables recreation all added changelogs will be deleted
                and must be readded manually after script completion.

    --help      Prints usage information.
EOM
}

function create_table() {

    TABLE_NAME=$1
    RECREATE=$2

    EXISTS=0
    maprcli table info -path $TABLE_NAME > /dev/null
    EXISTS=$?

    if [ "$EXISTS" -eq 0 ] && [ "$RECREATE" -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "error: Table '$TABLE_NAME' already exists. Exiting. "
        echo "Please, specify '[-r|--recreate]' if you want to recreate it."
        cleanup
        exit 1
    fi

    maprcli table delete -path $TABLE_NAME > /dev/null
    maprcli table create -path $TABLE_NAME -tabletype json
    OUT=$?
    if [ $OUT -eq 0 ];then
        echo "Table '$TABLE_NAME' successfully created!"
    else
        echo "error: Errors occured while creating '$USERNAME' table. Exiting."
        cleanup
        exit 1
    fi
}

function import_documents() {

    local DIRECTORY=$1
    local TABLE_NAME=$2
    local MFS_DIRECTORY=$3
    local BATCH_SIZE=$4
    local TEMP_DIR=$5

    # Check if specified directory exists
    if [ ! -d ${DIRECTORY} ]; then
        echo "error: Dataset directory '$DIRECTORY' does not exist. Exiting."
        cleanup
        exit 1
    fi

    # Delete MFS direcory
    { hadoop fs -rm -r $MFS_DIRECTORY; } 2> /dev/null

    # Check number of documents to prevent redundant copying
    DOCUMENTS_NUM=$(ls -l $DIRECTORY | grep ^- | wc -l)
    if [ "$DOCUMENTS_NUM" -lt "$BATCH_SIZE" ];then
        load_into_mapr $DIRECTORY $TABLE_NAME $MFS_DIRECTORY
    else

        BATCHES=$(expr $DOCUMENTS_NUM / $BATCH_SIZE + 1)

        echo "Number of documents('$DOCUMENTS_NUM') is greater than batch size('$BATCH_SIZE')."
        echo "Documents will be imported batch by batch. Total number of batches: '$BATCHES'"

        for (( b=0; b<$BATCHES; b++ ))
        do
            echo "Processing batch '$b' ..."

            # Clean temp directory
            { rm ${TEMP_DIR}/*; } 2> /dev/null

            # Copy files to temp directory
            OFFSET=$(expr $b \* $BATCH_SIZE + 1)
            find ${DIRECTORY} -maxdepth 1 -type f | tail -n "+$OFFSET" | head -n "$BATCH_SIZE" |xargs cp -t "$TEMP_DIR"

            # Load into MapR-DB
            load_into_mapr $TEMP_DIR $TABLE_NAME $MFS_DIRECTORY
        done
    fi
}

function load_into_mapr() {

    local LOAD_DIRECTORY=$1
    local LOAD_TABLE_NAME=$2
    local LOAD_MFS_DIRECTORY=$3

    local LOAD_DOCUMENTS_NUM=$(ls -l $LOAD_DIRECTORY | grep ^- | wc -l)
    echo "Importing '$LOAD_DOCUMENTS_NUM' documents into '$LOAD_TABLE_NAME' MapR-DB JSON Table."

    # Loading into MapR-FS
    hadoop fs -copyFromLocal $LOAD_DIRECTORY $LOAD_MFS_DIRECTORY

    # Import into MapR-DB JSON Table using importJSON utility
    mapr importJSON -idField _id -src ${LOAD_MFS_DIRECTORY}/* -dst $LOAD_TABLE_NAME -mapreduce false

    # Delete MFS direcory
    { hadoop fs -rm -r $LOAD_MFS_DIRECTORY; } 2> /dev/null
}

function change_table_permissions() {
    local TABLE_NAME=$1
    maprcli table cf edit -path $TABLE_NAME -cfname default -readperm p -writeperm p -traverseperm  p
}

function create_temp_directory() {

    # Create temporary directory to import documents batch by batch
    mkdir $TEMP_DIRECTORY
    OUT=$?
    if [ $OUT -eq 1 ]; then
        echo "error: Cannot create temporary directory '$TEMP_DIRECTORY'. Exiting."
        cleanup
        exit 1
    fi
}

function cleanup() {
    { rm -Rf $ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH/$TEMP_DIRECTORY \
    $ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH/$ALBUMS_DIRECTORY \
    $ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH/$ARTISTS_DIRECTORY \
    $ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH/$LANGUAGES_DIRECTORY \
    $ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH/$RATINGS_ALBUMS_DIRECTORY \
    $ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH/$RATINGS_ARTISTS_DIRECTORY \
    $ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH/$USERS_DIRECTORY ; } 2> /dev/null
}

#######################################################################
# Parse options
#######################################################################

OPTS=`getopt -o hrb:p: --long help,recreate,batch:,path: -n 'add-wildfly-users.sh' -- "$@"`
eval set -- "$OPTS"

ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH='.'
BATCH=${DEFAULT_BATCH_SIZE}
RECREATE_TABLES=0
while true ; do
    case "$1" in
        -b|--batch)
            case "$2" in
                "") shift 2 ;;
                *) BATCH=$2 ; if ! [[ $BATCH =~ $NUMBER_REGEX ]] ; then echo "error: Batch size is not valid" >&2; exit 1; fi; shift 2 ;;
            esac ;;
        -r|--recreate) RECREATE_TABLES=1 ; shift ;;
        -h|--help) print_usage ; exit 0 ;;
        -p|--path)
            case "$2" in
                "") shift 2 ;;
                *) ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH=$2 ; shift 2 ;;
            esac ;;
        --) shift ; break ;;

        *) break ;;
    esac
done

ARCHIVE_PATH=${ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH}/${DEFAULT_DATASET_ARCHIVE_NAME}
TEMP_DIRECTORY=${ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH}/${DEFAULT_TEMP_DIR_NAME}

# Check if dataset exists
if [ ! -f ${ARCHIVE_PATH} ]; then
    echo "error: Cannot find dataset archive '$ARCHIVE_PATH'"
    cleanup
    exit 1
fi

#######################################################################
# Create MapR-DB tables
#######################################################################
create_table $ALBUMS_TABLE $RECREATE_TABLES
create_table $ARTISTS_TABLE $RECREATE_TABLES
create_table $LANGUAGES_TABLE $RECREATE_TABLES
create_table $RATINGS_ALBUMS_TABLE $RECREATE_TABLES
create_table $RATINGS_ARTISTS_TABLE $RECREATE_TABLES
create_table $USERS_TABLE $RECREATE_TABLES

#######################################################################
# Extracting dataset archive
#######################################################################
echo "Extracting dataset archive to '$ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH'"
tar -zxf $ARCHIVE_PATH --directory $ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH
echo "Archive is extracted"

#######################################################################
# Import documents into MapR-DB JSON Tables using importJSON utility
#######################################################################
create_temp_directory
import_documents $ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH/$ALBUMS_DIRECTORY $ALBUMS_TABLE $ALBUMS_MFS_DIRECTORY $BATCH $TEMP_DIRECTORY
import_documents $ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH/$ARTISTS_DIRECTORY $ARTISTS_TABLE $ARTISTS_MFS_DIRECTORY $BATCH $TEMP_DIRECTORY
import_documents $ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH/$LANGUAGES_DIRECTORY $LANGUAGES_TABLE $LANGUAGES_MFS_DIRECTORY $BATCH $TEMP_DIRECTORY
import_documents $ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH/$RATINGS_ALBUMS_DIRECTORY $RATINGS_ALBUMS_TABLE $RATINGS_ALBUMS_MFS_DIRECTORY $BATCH $TEMP_DIRECTORY
import_documents $ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH/$RATINGS_ARTISTS_DIRECTORY $RATINGS_ARTISTS_TABLE $RATINGS_ARTISTS_MFS_DIRECTORY $BATCH $TEMP_DIRECTORY
import_documents $ARCHIVE_DIRECTORY_PATH/$USERS_DIRECTORY $USERS_TABLE $USERS_MFS_DIRECTORY $BATCH $TEMP_DIRECTORY

#######################################################################
# Change MapR-DB Tables permissions
#######################################################################
change_table_permissions $ALBUMS_TABLE
change_table_permissions $ARTISTS_TABLE
change_table_permissions $LANGUAGES_TABLE
change_table_permissions $RATINGS_ALBUMS_TABLE
change_table_permissions $RATINGS_ARTISTS_TABLE
change_table_permissions $USERS_TABLE

cleanup

exit 0

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The annual search for Asia Pacific's most outstanding travel organisations that spans 2 months from April to June, calls upon industry professionals, including readers of TTG Asia, TTGmice, TTG China, TTG India, TTG-BTmice China, TTGassociations, and TTG Asia Luxury, to name their preferred travel suppliers in the region who have risen above the competition and surpassed expectations.
There are 2 voting categories, Travel Supplier Awards and Travel Agency Awards.
For Travel Supplier Awards, only votes cast by travel consultants, tour operators and destination management companies count towards the final result.
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I am a retired combat veteran, 24 years in the U.S. Army Infantry has slowed me down a bit physically, but all the cumulative mileage has made me mentally tough and gritty as hell. There's nothing I cannot do, that I used to be able to do. I'm just a little slower now. Then there's the philosophical side of being, "slow." When it comes to small individual tasks, simple or complex, it doesn't matter – the best philosophy is, "Slow is smooth and smooth is fast". Try tying a bowline knot ten times and time yourself. Go slow for the first ten and as fast as you can for the second ten. The slow ten will be faster. When it comes to larger things, like entire missions, I always taught my young officers to slow down and get it done right the first time. I would usually say something like, "There is no prize for getting there first, if you get it wrong, because you have to do it again." Plus, things are more enjoyable when you move slowly, you see more, you smell more, and you feel more. Finally, if you think about it – life is a hunt from the womb to the grave. I'm not going to run down the mountain and get one. I am going to walk down the mountain and get them all.
I have one very simple goal – to help my fellow middle-aged adults get their butts in gear and live their lives to the fullest before they're too old and regretful to do it right. Yep, that's it. You see, I simply cannot stand to hear the following phrase, "Wow! I wish I could do that kind of trip. That's the trip of a lifetime." Seems like every time I break out my phone and show pictures of some adventure at least one guy or gal says that terrible phrase. So, I have decided to campaign against the mundane and droll existence that some of my peers, men and women, fall into. That rut of giving of yourself and your time, to the family and the job, until you don't even recognize the old you. There's got to be a way to carve out something you want to do for yourself at least once a year. The elk hunt in the Rocky Mountains, that float trip down the Flathead River of Montana or the trip to see the Great Wall of China are possible, trust me.
A little about me - I grew up in a very diverse urban setting in Metropolitan Washington D.C., but my extended family were all from rural areas. I got to see both ways of life, spending school days in the city and time off on a farm, in the woods or on the water. I realized early on, that I was happiest when I was away from the hustle and bustle of the city and in the quiet of wild places. I've done many things, in my short wonderful life. Started off playing a little small college football, before being commissioned as an Infantry Lieutenant upon graduation. I met my lovely wife, Aline, when I was on Active Duty and we were an Army Couple for a while. Later I left the Regular Army, so she could be closer to home to help run her family's business. I started teaching school and became a small city mayor at the age of 27. Then 9-11-01 happened and like many young men and women in the Army National Guard, my life changed dramatically. I was deployed shortly after 9-11 and never went back to teaching school or public office. I stayed in the Army another twenty years and retired in 2017. Somewhere along the way, Aline and I rekindled our childhood passion for wild places. We've hunted and fished all over the world and the adventures continue today. This website is really the modern evolution of my handwritten adventure journals that I've always kept. In fact, I will be writing or rewriting some of those adventures and publishing them here for the first time. I plan to keep challenging myself with different adventures, because if the war taught me anything - life is too short and if you don't take your time, someone else will.
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PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY: The Cold War - Class 3: Fall of Empires
Class 3: "Fall of Empires" with instructor Dr. Joseph Laker
Dr. Laker will talk about decolonization, discussing the three main phases of Empire building and the empires built, the reasons that the empires began to decline and disappear, and finally the consequences of colonialism both for the colonized and the colonizer.
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Joe Laker is Emeritus Professor of History at Wheeling Jesuit University and a Board Member of the West Virginia Independence Hall Foundation. Following his graduation from Marian College with a degree in history, he spent two years teaching English conversation in Kyoto, Japan. He returned home to seek advanced degrees at Indiana University and received his Ph. D. in history in 1975. He spent the next 33 years at Wheeling Jesuit University. He has written a number of articles on various aspects of Japanese and world history. Since retiring in 2008, he has written a history on Wheeling Jesuit and a variety of articles on West Virginia history.
People's University: The Cold War
The "Cold War" was the crucible by which the United States was transformed into a global superpower and laid the basis for the national security state. The ideological and geopolitical competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union shaped the global and regional makeup of the modern world. A driver for the development of both conventional and nuclear forces, the Cold War played out not just between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R, but also in Europe, East Asia, the Middle East, indeed, the entire world, leaving legacies that continue to influence global politics in the twenty-first century. We'll look at the origins and developments of the conflict, from containment, the red scare, the space race, the building and tearing down of the Berlin Wall, to the collapse of the Soviet Union. We will also explore memories and events of Wheeling and the state of West Virginia during the period and end by examining how the Cold War is still impacting the world today.
Class 1: Dec. 2 — Introduction: Iron Curtain Rising. What was the Cold War? — Instructor Dr. Gary Kappel
Class 2: Dec. 9 — Wars of Containment — Instructor Dr. Gary Kappel
Class 3: Dec. 16 — Fall of Empires — Instructor Dr. Joe Laker
Class 4: Dec. 21 (Tuesday) — The Second Red Scare — Instructor Dr. Hal Gorby
Class 5: Dec. 30 — More Bombs, Bigger Bombs, Better Bombs — Instructor Dr. Gary Kappel
Class 6: Jan. 6 — A Global War — Instructor Dr. Joe Laker
Class 7: Jan. 13 — Reagan and Gorbachev — Instructor Dr. Korcaighe Hale
Class 8: Jan. 20 — Epilogue, Duck and Cover: Is the Cold War Over? — Instructor Dr. Korcaighe Hale
Class starts at 7:00 pm in the Library Auditorium. This program will be available to watch live on Facebook Live, on YouTube, and on the OCPL website's People's University: The Cold War Livestream page. Log into your Facebook or YouTube account during the program to leave questions for our presenters in the comments box. They will answer them during the live broadcast.
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Neighborhood Electric Vehicles
A neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) is a four-wheeled vehicle that has a top speed of 20-25 miles per hour (mph). It is larger than a golf cart but smaller than most light-duty passenger vehicles. An NEV is usually configured to carry two or four passengers, or two passengers with a pickup bed or other utility box that allows it to function as single-purpose vehicles such as fire trucks or ambulances
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration defines NEVs as subject to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 500 (49 CFR 571.500). According to FMVSS 500, NEVs have top speeds of 20-25 mph, weigh less than 2,500 pounds, and are defined as "low-speed vehicles." While "low-speed vehicle" is the technically correct term, "NEV" has become the term used by industry and fleets to refer to passenger vehicles subject to FMVSS 500.
FMVSS 500 requires that NEVs be equipped with headlamps, stop lamps, turn signal lamps, tail lamps, reflex reflectors, parking brakes, rear view mirrors, windshields, seat belts, and vehicle identification numbers. About 40 states have passed legislation or regulations allowing NEVs to be licensed and driven on roads that generally are posted at 35 mph or less.
While NEVs were initially used in gated communities, they have been increasingly used by the general public for transporting children to school, shopping, and general neighborhood trips. NEVs are very efficient in terms of initial capital costs, fuel costs, and overall operating expenses.
In addition, many federal, private, and public fleets are using NEVs at military bases, national parks, and commercial airports and for local government activities. NEVs are reducing petroleum use and simplifying fueling requirements by decreasing or eliminating the need for a gasoline infrastructure. For federal fleets, NEVs can help the fleets comply with Executive Order 13149 (Greening the Government Through Federal Fleet and Transportation Efficiency); which requires a 20% decrease in annual petroleum use.
A California Air Resources Board (CARB) mandate provides credits for NEVs used. Many large automobile companies in the United States have made investments to build NEVs. NEVs help decrease petroleum use and air emissions.
The Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity has initiated NEV testing. The first step was to develop baseline performance test procedures based on the EVAmerica test procedures. These were adapted with input from NEV manufacturers and fleet operators. The EVAmerica baseline performance test procedures require vehicle performance capabilities that are not part of the NEV specification, FMVSS 500. For instance, NEVs are not capable of coastdown testing from 65 mph as preferred for calibration of the drive-cycle dynamometer testing. The final NEV EVAmerica procedures include drive range, acceleration, and maximum speed tests on closed tracks.
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«Баборня» — роман українського письменника Мирослава Лаюка. Уперше опублікований в Україні 2016 року у «Видавництві Старого Лева». Книжка увійшла у Довгий список літературної премії Книга року ВВС-2016, а згодом і у короткий.

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Марія Василівна, 71-річна вчителька біології, підсумовує своє життя й виправдовує його вагомість тим, що в нім була присутня велика любов, хоч і в далекому минулому. Одначе те кохання, а за ним і решта фактів, стає сумнівним, коли в шафі свого покійного чоловіка-підполковника літня жінка знаходить подвійне дно… Організація клубу юних атеїстів і розслідування факту з'яви Богоматері, дві мертві людини і безліч тварин у формаліні, зйомки у музичному фільмі з популярною співачкою і пошук порозуміння з найріднішими, краса буднів, жах буднів… Це спроба гідно довести всі справи до кінця, знаючи, що вже нічого не можливо виправити. Та чи є місце людяності у глухих кутах?

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Член журі Книга року Бі-Бі-Сі Марта Шокало написала, що роман «Баборня» Лаюка … схожий на розтин. Автор, із незворушністю студента-медика, ніби копирсається у трупі і вивчає людські органи, понівечені хворобами". Літературний оглядач Євгеній Стасіневич у своїй рецензії описує одну з магістральних тем «Баборні» так: «Без сумніву, оця письменницька нехіть і неприязнь, навіть ненависть до старшого — принципово негероїчного — покоління дідів і бабусь могла б бути чудовою романною емоцією, такою, що намертво цементує собою текст: могло би вийти яскраво і сильно, свіжо і "по-справжньому". Проте Лаюк маскує цю емоцію іронією і сатирою, навіть гротеском — і "Баборня" безкінечно втрачає від цього.». Літературний критик Ярослава Стріха, член журі премії ЛітАкцент року у своєму огляді цього роману написала так: «У центрі роману — проста теза про те, що оцінка подій залежить від суб'єктивної перспективи, і в сюжеті це розіграно подиву гідно майстерно…Один і той самий набір подій для когось із героїв — романтична драма про приречене кохання, а для когось — чи не шпигунський роман. Образи повторюються, двояться, розшаровуються у бездонний mise en abyme. Не можна сказати, що в цій рекурсивній конструкції немає нічого зайвого — але його значно менше, ніж можна було боятися, й елегантності структура від того не втрачає.»

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«Баборня» потрапила до короткого списку премії Книга року ВВС 2016. У 2017 році роман увійшов до фіналу премії «Еспресо. Вибір читачів» у номінації «Доросла література».

Видання
 2016 рік — «Видавництво Старого Лева»
 2017 рік — «Видавництво Старого Лева» (видання друге)

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Catholic Malta legalizes gay 'marriage'
Words such as 'husband,' 'wife,' 'mother,' and 'father' are now eradicated to 'modernise the institution of marriage.'
Wed Jul 12, 2017 - 1:21 pm EST
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MALTA, July 12, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) -- Three years after Malta's Parliament legalized same-sex civil unions, the nation's Parliament this evening changed its laws in a whipped vote to allow two men or two women to call their homosexual relationship "marriage."
The amendment to the country's Marriage Act and other related laws legalizes homosexual "marriage" by eradicating the words "husband" and "wife" and replacing them with the gender-neutral word "spouse." The words "mother" and "father" were also replaced by the word "parent."
"The object of this Bill is to modernise the institution of marriage and ensure that all consenting, adult couples have the legal right to enter into marriage," the bill states.
The bill also changes the language surrounding adoption so that two persons of the same-sex can easily adopt children. While media hype surrounding the bill focuses exclusively on "equality," pro-family campaigners note that there will be no equality for those children attached to same-sex "married" couples who will be deprived of a mother or father in their upbringing.
Nationalist Party MP Edwin Vassallo was the sole vote against the bill.
"With respect to my beliefs, the people, the Parliament, and society I will be voting against this law," he said.
Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, who says he is Catholic, pledged to quickly introduce a gay "marriage" law in the predominantly Catholic country after his Labour Party won a snap election last month.
Muscat told the BBC prior to the vote that promoting the LGBT agenda is a top priority of his administration.
"Malta wants to keep leading on LGBT issues and civil liberties, to serve as a model for the rest of the world," he said.
Maltese bishops missing in action
Catholic faith in Malta stretches back some 2,000 years to Saint Paul's shipwreck on the island while on his way to Rome. The Constitution of Malta states that the "Roman Catholic Apostolic Religion" is the official state religion. Almost 90 percent of Malta's 431,000 citizens say they are Catholic, including the Prime Minister.
While Saint Paul, regarded as the country's spiritual father, is known for his strong condemnation of homosexual behaviors, the same cannot be said of his current successors, the country's bishops.
Malta's principal Catholic leaders have been largely missing in action since Muscat pledged to legalize homosexual "marriage."
But not entirely.
Last month Malta Archbishop Charles Scicluna said in a homily that no law can change the fact that marriage remains exclusively a union between a man and a woman, a union that leads to procreation.
"We can do what we like in our laws. I can decide that a carob and an orange should no longer be called by their name. We call them trees. But a carob remains a carob and an orange remains an orange, whatever the law says. And marriage, whatever the law says, remains an eternal union exclusive to a man and a woman," he said.
Scicluna also told the BBC that the "suppression of the cherished terms 'husband and wife', 'mother and father' in Maltese law is lamentable."
But there has been no call from Scicluna or Gozo Bishop Mario Grech for Maltese Catholics to pray or fast so that the legislation fails to pass. There has also been no explanations of Catholic teaching on marriage issued on the Archdiocesan website. There has simply been no leadership, no rallying call to oppose the legislation.
In May, when Catholic faithful in Malta published a full page ad in a widely read paper defending real marriage against "unnatural" homosexual "marriage," the Archdiocese of Malta headed by Scicluna criticized the ad as "propaganda," saying it had nothing to do with the group.
Malta Archbishop Charles Scicluna. SOURCE: (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)
And while Scicluna distanced himself from a faithful Catholic group, he drew close to pro-homosexual group "Drachma LGBTI" that labels itself "Catholic," even though it campaigns for the Catholic Church to accept homosexual "marriage," sodomy, and adoption of children by same-sex couples.
Scicluna has not only presided at a Eucharistic celebration for "Drachma LGBTI," but has unofficially given the group a free pass to operate with his Archdiocese. The group made headlines last month after posting images of a prayer event in a Catholic chapel to end "homophobia" where an altar was draped in a rainbow "gay pride" flag.
Scicluna has also openly dissented from Catholic teaching on homosexuality, telling Malta Indep in an interview last year that homosexual civil unions are a "service to the dignity of these people."
"I think that we should support legislation that gives same-sex partners their dignity and their social protection," he said in the March 19, 2016, video interview that was posted to YouTube.
The Catholic Church teaches that God created humans as "male and female" and gave them to each other in marriage so they could "increase and multiply." Sexual attraction and sexual acts between a male and female are specifically created by God for the purpose of procreation. The Catholic Church is therefore logical and consistent when she teaches that homosexual acts are "acts of grave depravity" and "intrinsically disordered" since they are "contrary to the natural law" in that they "close the sexual act to the gift of life."
"They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved," states the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
And since God did not make a mistake in creating humans as male and female for one another, the Church also teaches that same-sex attraction is "objectively disordered" since God created members of the opposite sex to be attracted to one another for the sake of procreation.
The lackluster response of the Maltese bishops to the gay "marriage" bill follows on the heels of the country's bishops deciding earlier this year to allow civilly-divorced-and-remarried Catholics living in adultery to receive Communion.
But there are some who have raised a voice of opposition to the bill.
Yesterday a coalition of hundreds of pro-life-and-family Christians, atheists, and Muslims protested the "marriage" equality bill in front of Parliament, saying that it would dismantle the traditional family.
Former Azzjoni Nazzjonali candidate Philip Beatie said during the rally that amending the marriage law was simply "Communist" because it imposed "uniformity" between male-and-female unions and same-sex unions where there was none, reported Times of Malta.
Beatie also echoed concerns expressed by life-and-family advocates that the amendments will open a Pandora's box to abuses against human life.
"The law hides its true intentions to introduce surrogacy and sperm donation and is another attack on life by a government that believes it can replace God," he said.
Beatie said that while redefining marriage would mark the "ugliest day in this country's history," nevertheless, the "last victory will still be with Christian civilization and democracy."
Malta Prime Minister, a Catholic in good standing?
Catholic leadership in Malta has related to the Prime Minister as if he were a Catholic in good standing. On the morning of his swearing in ceremony where Muscat announced his push for same-sex "marriage," a National Maltese TV station filmed the Prime Minister along with his wife and family having a private Mass in his home. Muscat is shown receiving Holy Communion. The Xarabank program of the event was run days later (Private mass begins at 27:46 of linked video).
Catholic sources in Malta told LifeSiteNews that they suspect the incident may have been a media stunt to portray the Prime Minister as a faithful Catholic in order to win Catholics over and improve his public image in general.
"It is a great scandal to see the Prime Minister of Malta — a baptised Catholic of immense responsibility and authority — constantly approving laws that go against Catholic teaching and still being portrayed as a practising Catholic. Even worse is the fact that there has been no public outcry from other Catholics, not even by the Church hierarchy," a Catholic source in Malta, who asked to remain anonymous, told LifeSiteNews.
"It has become common for many Catholic politicians here in Malta to publicly attend Catholic Mass while obstinately working to enact laws such as this marriage amendment that go directly against what the Catholic Church stands for," the source said.
Nationalist MP Edwin Vassallo was also the sole politician who voted against the bill during its second reading. He became a kind of hero to those resisting the bill's passage.
Vassallo criticized the bill prior to the vote as a "dishonest law" that will change the very fabric of the Maltese culture that loves and respects life and the family.
He said the bill is essentially "totalitarian."
"The predominant logic of Busuttil and Muscat is a totalitarian logic that does not allow any ideas that are different to theirs. Today, parliament is founded on the ideals of democracy and liberty, but when it really matters – on issues that are fundamental issues of conscience which are tied to human dignity – if you dare to have a different opinion than your leader, you are doomed to either vote as your party dictates, or declare your vote against the will of the party," he told the Independent.
Same-sex couples are anticipating "marrying" in Malta before the end of the month.
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Welcome back to The Strategy Hour Podcast all of you wonderful and beautiful business badasses! We are so excited about today's show and believe us when we say it's an extra special one. Our guest today is Alma Omeralovic, who we met a few months ago when Amanda Boleyn brought her out at a speaking event and she guided a group of us through a meditation. We both felt an instant affinity for her and immediately and excitedly asked if she would join us on the show for a taste of what her mediation practice has to offer. So today we have a 30 minute, uninterrupted meditation, guided by Alma, followed by a short discussion on our experiences and questions. Sounds great, don't you think?
This is an episode you may want to come back to a few times, depending on your needs. If you do not make it through all 30 minutes the first time, that's okay, just go at your own pace. We recommend marking when the actual meditation starts in the audio so that you can skip directly to that part each time you would like to practice it. Another point we would like to make here, and something Alma mentions in our discussion, is that you do not have to have some perfect environment or situation to begin. We often might put off something like mediation because we do not have a perfectly serene, empty room, Alma says one of her favorite places to meditate is on the train or at the airport! So no excuses! Just try do as much as you can and see how you feel, it will definitely be a learning experience. So make yourself comfortable, find a gentle seat and keep an open mind.
Alma began the meditation with a focus on the breathing. Slow inhales, holding and then a slow exhale. After doing this a few times it is possible to already notice how your state is shifting. You can notice how you are feeling and you do not have to make judgements, just observe. This early part of the meditation is like checking in with yourself, seeing where you are at within your body. Alma then instructed us to slowly acknowledge the parts of bodies, starting with the scalp and working slowly down, all the way to the soles of the feet. The process is slow and relaxing and when this is done it is time to set an intention for the meditation. This part can be whatever you feel like you would like to focus on, or have more of in your day. If you cannot think of anything Alma suggested thinking of the idea of being present. From there she guided us through our practice, consistently focusing on breath and moving into more visualization and gratitude based periods. Throughout this exercise it is important to remain relaxed but aware, that is the state you want to be in.
After the meditation period, Abagail admitted that she found it very hard to stay awake for the whole thing, and felt she was constantly being pulled towards sleepiness. Alma says this is not a bad thing and it is merely your body telling you that you might need more sleep. She also says that sleep is the most important form of meditation and so if you fall asleep while practicing that is okay too! When you are meditating you are essentially tapping into a deeper part of your consciousness, below the surface of your conscious mind, so a lot of things and feelings might arise that are easier to ignore when you are in your normal mind-state. Emylee said that she felt very heavy and like her body was moving very slowly. This again, is just the body adjusting to a new way of thinking and vibrating at a different frequency. It does take some practice to get used to all of this. The transition from normal thought to a meditative state and back again also needs some time, so do not rush out of your practice into something straight away, let your mind adjust naturally.
Emylee admits that she finds practicing gratitude regularly quite difficult. It is just not something that comes naturally to her but she is working on it in her own time. However, when prompted by Alma, she found that she was more easily able to find things to feel grateful for beyond the most everyday and immediate ones. She felt grateful for the fact that she has the ability to change and knows that this process of gratitude can allow this feeling to grow. This is one of the beauties of meditation, it can help you get to the state you need to be in and create the sensation and feeling that go along with this. Abagail added she often feels overwhelmed by gratitude and feelings of empathy, so this is not an issue for her, but this sensitivity can also be something to work on when it becomes too much. Here again meditation can help to manage these feelings. Alma closed out the discussion reminding us that there are so many different ways to meditate and if one way does not really suit you, maybe just try another. In public spaces like a train station or the park, you can use your senses and help them guide your practice, focusing on sounds or smells to center your mind. It can be a challenge but these challenges are great for your mind and the longer you stick with it the greater the rewards!
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Known for slow flowing intentional movements, Alma will bring you through a mind, body and deep soul experience. By practicing yoga and meditation with intention and a certain quality of heart, Alma has come into right relationship with herself and overcome anxiety. Shifting from physical, mental, and emotional patterns of dissonance to deep connection. Encouraging others when practicing to find their own unique voice and listen to that voice. Expressing whatever the body needs in that moment truly believing that our deepest and most profound healing occurs when we learn to listen to the unique language of our bodies.


NEW YORK (Reuters) - A district court judge set a court hearing for Tuesday to decide whether an exclusivity agreement in Citigroup Inc's bid to buy Wachovia Corp's banking assets prevents a competing deal by Wells Fargo to go forward.
Citigroup announced on Monday it had agreed to buy Wachovia's banking operations in a deal backed by the U.S. government. But in a surprise move on Friday, Wells Fargo said it had signed an agreement to buy the whole of Wachovia, upstaging Citigroup's government-backed bid.
To thwart the Wells Fargo deal, Citigroup said late on Saturday it had won a court order blocking Wells Fargo from buying Wachovia until the court ruled otherwise.
Separately, a person familiar with the matter said Citigroup is seeking $60 billion in punitive and compensatory damages against Wells Fargo for interfering with the deal.
Wachovia and Wells Fargo said on Sunday that the court ruling did not block their proposed deal.
Citigroup and Wells Fargo are battling for the sixth-largest U.S. bank, which has suffered losses in the credit crisis but has a large and desirable network of bank branches.
Wachovia asked the court for a temporary restraining order that would have prevented Citigroup from doing anything that interferes with the Wells Fargo deal.
U.S. District Court Judge John Koeltl denied the request, but he said the court will hear on Tuesday whether or not the letter agreement that Citigroup is arguing prevented Wells Fargo from making the bid for Wachovia is enforceable.
"What is critical is Citicorp cannot use the letter agreement to prevent Wachovia from considering the far superior proposal offered by Wells Fargo," said Wachovia's lawyer, David Boies, referring to Citigroup.
But Citigroup argued in court the letter precluded Wells Fargo from making an offer.
"We entered into a term sheet and exclusivity agreement (with Wachovia) in order to prevent Wachovia from failing," said Citigroup lawyer Michael Helfer.
Meanwhile, Wachovia headed to a New York state appeals court late on Sunday to try to reverse the injunction granted last night to Citigroup.


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Recently, much interest has arisen in the health administration for middle, small or petty scale industries in our country, though there is the difficulty of approach to thier problems because of economic and social conditions. Great significance in the study on the enterprises of these scale is in the following points; (1) the economical role played in our industrial circle, (2) overwhelming majority both in number of enterpises (99.8%), and in the population of working people there (66.0%), (3) the necessity of combination of the approaches to the problems in community and industrial health for solving the probloms in the enterprises in these scales, showing quite a clear contrast against lagre enterprises in which the problems could be solved mainly in the enterprises themselves. At first, the author has discussed the significance of the existence of the middle, small or petty scale industries by analyzing the present-day economical tendency of our country. Then he has chosen an experimental factory of rubber goods manufacture having around 500 workers. He has managed to set up a dispensary and studied its relationship with the doctors in the environmental community. He has analyzed the clients of various kinds of diseaeses, health counselling and the occupational accidents there, and discussed the situations which have been quite different from those in large enterprises. Further, he has evaluated the administration done and the changes of the health status of the workers during the research period, using Okayama Medical Index-Health Questionnaire (O.M.I.). A conclusion was made that the trial practice with scientific analysis described above may be a creative step for the progress to approach the difficult theme in the field of our industrial health.


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By Ben Rashkovich
The Problem With Tomorrow
A woman in Arkansas with severe cerebral palsy sees her Medicaid-provided caretaker hours reduced from 56 to 32 per week. Some public school teachers are fired while others receive paycheck bonuses in Houston. A teenager gets a harsh sentence in juvenile criminal court in D.C. Police officers in New Orleans patrol the streets with a list of "high-risk" individuals to check in on periodically. Black families in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, receive disproportionate attention from the county's Department of Human Services for child abuse-related issues. Twenty thousand individuals were told they had won the Green Card lottery in 2011—only to learn that there was a mistake and that the lottery would be run again, potentially costing them their futures in the United States.
One common strand ties these disparate threads together: none of these governmental decisions were made by a human being.
Instead, they were outsourced to an algorithm in one form or another. Our government is leaning on algorithms more and more to analyze, assess, and decide the fates of its citizens. From access to benefits to the allocation of public resources, sentencing in the criminal justice system, immigration, and more, algorithms increasingly determine how the government affects our lives and livelihoods. And what's more, these algorithms are rarely developed by the government itself—rather, they are outsourced in the truest sense of the word, purchased from private corporations in return for lucrative contracts, reams of data, and the protections offered by trade secret law.
Companies sell their software products. The government sidesteps the public accountability offered by transparency—and intelligibility—in pursuit of a world of technologically-driven efficiency and accuracy. We are left to grapple with decisions we struggle to contest, often because they refuse explanation by definition.
This is the story behind the examples this post began with, and many more. In some cases, attorneys manage to convince the court that the government cannot continue to rely solely on a number-crunching algorithm to decide which teachers keep their jobs or on a complicated decision tree to calculate disability benefits. But in others, companies claim that trade secrets law protects their code from dissemination or even examination—including by judges—even when someone's freedom is on the line.
How is it that the government can prioritize a business's investment in the secrecy of its product over, for example, one's constitutional right to confront their accuser or enjoy due process of law in a criminal proceeding? In other words, how is it that government accountability bows to corporate ambition when algorithms are involved?
Trade secret law gives us insight into one aspect of this problem. It's what enables businesses to contract with the government, gaining access to enormous amounts of data while safely avoiding public oversight of their work by keeping it under lock and key.
Algorithms & Trade Secrets
A trade secret is information of some sort that (1) provides an economic benefit to its possessor by virtue of its secrecy, (2) and which is the subject of reasonable and successful efforts to maintain that secrecy. If you think that definition sounds vague, you would be correct. It is an expansive protection that covers a great deal of much intellectual property in the business world, from Coca-Cola's soda recipe (allegedly kept in a custom vault in Atlanta that can be opened only by two senior executives, whose names are unknown to the public and who cannot fly on a plane together) to Google's search algorithm (protected by the less literal vault of nondisclosure agreements, employment contracts, and in-house counselors with trade secret misappropriation suits ready to fire at a moment's notice). While most states have adopted their own form of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act to further define what a trade secret is, they generally allow for information that could qualify as a "formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process" to be protected from misappropriation. Courts also often refer to § 757, comment b, of the Restatement of Torts (1939) for its finer six-factor test to comb through the claims at issue in a case where the status of something as a trade secret is in question.
Algorithms have roundly been accepted as trade secrets by courts across the country. In the trade secrets context, an algorithm has been defined as some variation on "a series of commands designed to accomplish a specific task" whose "architecture is a series of functional blocks, each of which makes an independent inquiry and represents an individual step of the algorithm."1 More simply, they are "the steps taken by a computer to solve a particular problem."2 This amorphous definition has especially helped corporations claim trade secrets by focusing vaguely on what their algorithms do as opposed to what they are.3
When determining whether something is a trade secret, some courts focus on the economic benefit of keeping algorithms secret over whether the algorithms, in and of themselves, are discrete protectable types of information.4 Others focus on the level of secrecy at which the disputed algorithms are kept.5 These rationales extend to forms of information we might think of as comprising, resulting from, or adjacent to an algorithm, such as source code.6 On the whole, there seems to be little investigation into what exactly an algorithm is composed of, aside from occasional and superficial walkthroughs of terms like source code, programming language, and so on.7
In sum, courts have found it fairly uncontroversial that algorithms can be trade secrets. This is not a problem in and of itself. As described earlier, however, issues arise when the government uses algorithms to make the kinds of decisions that we hope are carefully reasoned, intelligible, and balanced by empathy. In these situations, the economic rationale for trade secrets protections falls away in the face of our values for government fairness, transparency, and accountability.
The Freedom of Information Act includes an exemption for trade secrets. Algorithm proprietors argue against subpoenas for their source code in criminal cases.8 Judges are under pressure to conduct in camera reviews of alleged trade secrets and release redacted documents to opposing parties conducting discovery. These are just some of the ways that the balance of priorities has shifted from protecting the public to protecting private interests when a suit turns on a secret with economic value. As the government continues to outsource its decision-making to proprietary algorithms, this imbalance will chip more of our safety mechanisms for accountability away.
A Few Potential Solutions
This problem of diminishing government transparency falls right into the MFIA clinic's wheelhouse. So what can we do to solve it?
There are at least three forms of the government-algorithm relationship where we might explore inserting some accountability measures to correct the public/private balance of power: procurement, public requests, and litigation.
Procurement: When an arm of the government—state, local, or federal—decides to automate some analysis or decision-making process typically carried out by humans, it could be held to a higher standard of transparency. There is not much in the way of regulation here today: indeed, most politicians in New Orleans were not aware that the city had contracted with Palantir, a Big Data software company, to develop a predictive policing algorithm. Imagine instead if the government had to lay out the terms of the contract; share the goals, training manuals, and datasets of its algorithms; offer a notes and comments period to gather public feedback; hire unaffiliated software engineers and academics to examine the source code; and commit to limiting each algorithm's use to an exploratory test run before signing the full contract. These and other policies could ensure that the public was aware and in control of government automation—and would therefore have the knowledge to decide whether increased efficiency was worth the cost, or whether the algorithm accomplished what it claimed.
Public requests: The Freedom of Information Act's Exemption 4 protects against the disclosure of trade secrets. Many states have their own versions of FOIA with similar exemptions. While this is an important safeguard to make sure the government can find willing contractors—some companies might be deterred from public works if that meant sacrificing their intellectual property—there ought to be a middle ground between fully disclosing a trade secret and redacting it entirely. If a proprietary algorithm is requested via FOIA or a similar law, the government could respond with something similar to the Vaughn index. Instead of giving away a company's source code entirely, the government could instead release a report that details the types of variables used in an algorithm, its general controlling logical principles, the ways in which biases get investigated, snippets of its code taken from open source hubs, training documentation for government employees, and so on. In addition, we might also require that for each algorithm the government uses, it offers black box testing opportunities upon request, and similar chances for experts in the public to probe the validity of algorithms without disrupting their status as trade secrets.
Litigation: Finally, courts might consider delving deeper into which parts of an algorithm are protectable by trade secrets law and which ought to be, if not publicly accessible, then at least discoverable during litigation. Let's return to Palantir's predictive policing algorithm that New Orleans had used for an example. The economic value of this algorithm is its "accuracy": how well it anticipates the risk levels of certain individuals or neighborhoods, and thus how successfully it helps the police reduce crime. The algorithm's accuracy results from the mechanisms by which it takes a massive amount of data, draws connections between this piece and that, and "design[s] targeted interventions to protect the city's most vulnerable populations." Those mechanisms might be fairly categorized as trade secrets, since they fuel the algorithm's economic value. However, other aspects of the algorithm—like the data it gets fed from criminal records and social media histories, the high-level logic behind its code, the publicly available open source code snippets it uses, the particular insights it provides to the police department—ought to be discoverable, since revealing them would not jeopardize the algorithm's market position. Greater technical literacy among the judiciary would go a long way: trade secrets protection wielded as a scalpel, rather than a club, could help protect us against the tyranny of unaccountable governmental automation.
[1] ClearOne Commc'ns, Inc. v. Chiang, 608 F. Supp. 2d 1270, 1273 (D. Utah 2009).
[2] Morley v. Square, Inc., No. 4:10CV2243 SNLJ, 2016 WL 1615676, at *2 (E.D. Mo. Apr. 22, 2016).
[3] See, e.g., Whetstone Holdings, LLC v. Thorell, No. 13-CV-24138-UU, 2014 WL 11906593, at *4 (S.D. Fla. Feb. 5, 2014) ("Plaintiff describes its trade secret as an algorithm that, based on certain information, more accurately predicts which potential customers own automobiles. Plaintiff need not describe the algorithm in greater detail, and, as such, sufficiently alleges the existence of a trade secret"); DVD Copy Control Assn., Inc. v. Bunner, 75 P.3d 1, 6 (Cal. 2003) ("The algorithm [in this case] is a type of mathematical formula for transforming the contents of the movie file into gibberish").
[4] See, e.g., Vermont Microsystems, Inc. v. Autodesk, Inc., 88 F.3d 142, 149 (2d Cir. 1996) ("Autodesk takes issue with the district court's implicit finding that the triangle shading algorithm qualifies as a trade secret under California law ... This argument is unavailing here. The economic value of VMI's triangle shading algorithm is readily apparent"); Workgroup Tech. Partners, Inc. v. Anthem, Inc., No. 2:15-CV-00002-JAW, 2016 WL 424960, at *22 (D. Me. 2016) ("[T]he inner workings of the Workgroup software program were the essence of the thing of value that Workgroup licensed to Anthem").
[5] See, e.g., Altavion, Inc. v. Konica Minolta Sys. Lab., Inc., 171 Cal.Rptr.3d 714, 738 (Ct. App. 2014) ("[Algorithms and source code] information is unquestionably protectable by trade secret law").
[6] United States v. Aleynikov, 737 F. Supp. 2d 173, 187 (S.D.N.Y. 2010) ("The source code … contains highly confidential trade secrets related to the Trading System. A market for such valuable trade secrets could readily be proven at trial").
[7] See, e.g., Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes, 111 F. Supp. 2d 294, 304 (S.D.N.Y. 2000).
[8] See United States v. Ocasio, No. EP-11-cr-02728-KC, 2013 WL 2458617, at *4 (W.D. Tex. June 6, 2013); United States v. Ocasio, No. 3:11-cr-02728-KC, slip op. at 2 (W.D. Tex. May 28, 2013). See generally Rebecca Wexler, Life, Liberty, And Trade Secrets: Intellectual Property In The Criminal Justice System, 70 Stan. L. Rev. 1343 (2018) (arguing that increasing automation in the criminal justice system should not continue to enjoy the protections of trade secrets law).
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Buyers Guide – DJI Mavic 2 Pro In-depth Review
By Aldryn Estacio – 2018-09-10
The best of both worlds is finally here!!! The DJI Mavic 2 Pro is a combination between the Mavic Pro and Phantom 4 Pro, which is something everyone's been waiting for. Why is this a big deal? First of all, the compact size, image quality, flight time and sleek design of the Mavic Pro set the bar extremely high in the drone industry. Then the Phantom 4 Pro came along, sporting a larger 1" sensor, geared towards more professional photographers and videographers. The Phantom would be considered more of a professional use drone because of the camera, but the size would always come into play when it came to traveling with the P4Pro. The one wish everyone, including myself had was "Man wouldn't be amazing if we could have a 1" sensor on the Mavic Pro size body"? Fast forward a couple years, and we are finally here with the Mavic 2 Pro.
Unboxing -What's in the Mavic 2 Pro box?
The Mavic 2 Pro comes with all the standard equipment to get you up and flying. To take full advantage of the First Person View, you will need to provide your own mobile device or tablet.
So what's in the box:
1 DJI Mavic 2 Pro
6 Propellers
1 Charger
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Camera Sensor -The Hasselblad 1" difference
When it comes to image quality, low light performance and adjustable aperture, the larger 1" sensor goes a long way as a photographer and videographer. You have the ability to capture more light, increase your dynamic range and of course, produce higher quality and larger image sized photos. Not to mention, DJI partnered up with the well-known Swedish camera manufacturer Hasselblad, and this camera is the first of it's kind to come out since this merger occurred over two years ago. After shooting images side by side with the Mavic Pro and Mavic Air, the camera quality difference is very clear. Also, the 28mm lens give a really nice perspective compared to the wider 24mm on the Mavic Pro.
Size -Almost identical in size to the Mavic Pro
With all that new technology and camera upgrade, it's hard to believe that DJI was able to maintain the same form factor and size as the Mavic Pro. As you can see in my side-by-side comparison video, the size of the Mavic 2 is just about the same as the Mavic Pro. I can't even imagine the trial and errors the engineering team at DJI had to go through to pull this off. The footprint of the Mavic 2 is only about a half-inch difference in the front of the drone. While there is a significant weight difference between the two (Mavic Pro 734g / Mavic 2 Pro 907g), it's good to know that DJI also increased battery life to 31 minutes.
New Features – Omnidirectional Sensing, OcuSync 2 and ActiveTrack
The Mavic 2 Pro has an all new Omnidirectional obstacle sensing systems. The sensors on the left and right of the Mavic only work when using Tripod and ActiveTrack mode As if the camera upgrade wasn't enough, I almost feel like that Omindirectional Sensing is a huge bonus for this drone. Even though side sensors were present on the Phantom 4 Pro, I didn't expect to see them on the Mavic 2. Not only did they add side sensors, but also they added top and bottom infrared sensors to assist in tight spaces and upward movement.
The Mavic 2 now uses the latest OcuSync 2.0, giving the pilot 8km Full-HD Video transmission. Although I never plan on flying that far out, it's good to know that DJI has tested it at those ranges. I'm extremely excited about the new T/P/S mode switch on the side. This allows the pilot to go from flying fast (S – Sport Mode) with extreme slow motion (T – Tripod) in a matter of seconds.
ActiveTrack 2.0 is now enhance with trajectory prediction, which means it's updated 3D mapping system helps reduce the loses of a target during ActiveTrack.
Smart Modes – Hyperlapse and POI
Two new Smart capture modes that DJI introduced with the Mavic 2 is Hyperlapse and Point of Interest Vision. The two unique ways of capturing footage can really add value to your story. Hyperlapse is the next level of timelapse photography. With one click, you can now do an aerial timelapses with custom flight patterns, all programmed from the DJI 4 Go App.
I'm really excited about the new Vision Point of Interest mode for a couple reasons. The updated user interface is very intuitive and allows you to make radius, height, speed and directions changes quick in easy in the app. Vision POI is perfect for landmarks, events or other situations where flying directly over a person or subject is not safe or allowed. Being able to fly up and select what point you want to fly around makes setup and fly super fast and reliable.
Who is this Drone for? – Is the M2P for you?
If you are a serious hobbyist, photographer, videographer or traveler looking for the most portable, highest quality drone and camera then look no further. The compact size makes for easy packing in any backpack or camera bag and the ease of setup makes getting up in the air quicker and safer. As a photographer first flyer, the Hasselblad camera and 1" sensor is something I've been waiting for a very long time. It still seems unreal how far the drone industry has come in the past few years, and once again DJI continues innovate an already industry standard drone with the Mavic line-up.
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How to Fly Safely Over Water By DJI Support – 2018-09-10 The prospect of flying over water can be a scary one for most drone pilots. Water environments are often filled with potential hazards such as boats, waves, high winds, and even birds. Although DJI does not encourage flying over water, professional aerial photographers and videographers will...
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How to Fly a Drone: Beginner's Guide By Justen Soule – 2018-11-01 You've picked up a drone, congratulations! You have taken the first step into a fun new world. A limitless world with new perspectives and freedoms that come with being un-tethered by gravity, free to travel the skies any way that you chose. Drones can be...