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It took two-plus years but I finally started writing. Well, I've been writing on this blog for years. I've written our newsletter to you for years. But I'd been avoiding the serious, deep work of writing my first book for over two years. I'd tried to start (more than once) and stopped. I wrote outline…after outline…after outline. I have sketches of chapter ideas, and I have a full page of iPhone notes with proposed book titles….
"__________ is winning because they have more talent or advantages than I do." How many times have we heard that excuse from someone? Or from ourselves? Learn why the disadvantages you *think* are holding you back may actually end up creating the advantages and skills that help you win – but only if you're competing every day.


The library also provides interactive well being-choice tools and links to our ladies's care docs and specialists in addition to articles on various matters referring to women's health. A brand new Canadian research discovered that utilizing certain antibiotics during pregnancy was linked to the next threat of miscarriage.
Comply with the hyperlinks beneath to find a physician in your neighborhood and learn should you could also be eligible to obtain free or affordable health companies. The physicians of Seven Hills Ladies's Health Facilities are the leaders in girls's health care in Cincinnati.


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Thomas Joseph Smith (born December 10, 1984) is an artist who specializes in painting, sculpting, and video. His works have been shown in cities such as New York City, Taipei, Sydney and Rio de Janeiro. Early in his career he created illustrations for the New York Times Op Ed. page, How China Got Religion, under the alias Thomas Jay.

Early life and education
Tom Smith was born Thomas Joseph Smith on December 10, 1984 in Pennsylvania. Smith is the middle of three children, and was primarily raised in Elkton, Maryland. Smith's mother was a craft artist who later became a web designer, and his father worked in a chemical plant in Wilmington, DE.

Smith attended Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where he majored in illustration, and also became interested in colors, inspired by the artists Josef Albers and James Turrell. Furthermore, following his undergraduate at MICA, Smith spent a semester abroad in France, attending Centre pour l'art et la culture in Aix en Provence. Subsequently, Smith traveled to New York where he would go to the School of Visual Arts for his graduate school.

Career
Tom Smith is a painter, sculptor, and video artist who exhibits a strong technological influence that he describes as "digital output".

In 2009, Tom Smith experimented with collages of found superhero/comic images by taking the pictures and slicing them into tiny strips to combine characters. Due to the limitations of this technique, he instead began painting his own pictures on paper and combining them together. Currently, Smith's work is a culmination of this technique of visual effects through the combination of imagery, described as "viewing a scene through a filter."

Smith's first notable exhibition was Double Vision in Brooklyn in 2009, followed by Making Strange featured in Spring Break Art Show in 2016 in Brooklyn and Heavenly Bodies in New York City in 2014. Heavenly Bodies was an exhibit in which Tom Smith showcased his collages and multimedia artworks. These collages were inspired by his time in Brazil and Iceland. Smith's latest and most significant exhibit was Swimming in My Head in New York City, at Olsen Gruin Gallery, which he describes as the "most involved" exhibition. Swimming in My Head is the most involved exhibition I've ever put together and houses one year of painting (13 total). It also marks my transition from collage work to painting on canvas which has unlimited the possibilities of optical patterns and illusions within my paintings through silkscreen processes.While exhibiting his work, Tom Smith worked at Two Palms Studios, in which he created his work. Two Palms also worked with many different artists, and Smith described his time there as being a transformative and significant one.

Public service and arts activism
Smith is a co-creator of DragOn, an annual drag and costume ball. DragOn focuses on raising money for the LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS community in New York City. Smith is passionately committed to advocacy in the LGBTQ community. DragOn was founded to create a space for people to experiment with drag and creative expression through costume.

Each year, the event is DJ'ed by Occupy the Disco and has a unique theme, with past themes including: The Dollhouse (2014), Glamatron (2015), High Society (2016), and Ms. Mayhem (2017). The highlight of the event is a runway show for which guests are nominated to walk and compete. One guest is crowned the winner by guest judges such as Milk (of RuPaul's Drag Race), Iconic stylist and designer, Patricia Field, Editor at Large of Vogue, Hamish Bowles, Real Housewife of New York, Dorinda Medley, and American journalist, Michael Musto. Since 2012, DragOn has raised $100,000, with 100% of proceeds going to charities like, GMHC, the world's first and leading provider of HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and advocacy.

Selected works

 Double Vision, collage of superhero images, exhibited at Eyelevel BQE, Brooklyn, NY (2009)
 Red Pulse, tiny strips of painted paper, cut and collaged on wood panel (2011)
 Delusions, an installation that included paintings and sculptures as well as sound installation by Gryphon Rue (2013)
 The Knot, an exhibition in partnership with partner Jonathan Rosen to promote marriage equality abroad, Sydney, Australia (2015)
 Making Strange, employed set design tricks to create a playful environment in which to exhibit psychedelic paintings (2016)
 Airglow, Tom Smith's largest work, part of the exhibition Swimming in My Head at Olsen Gruin, NY (2017)

Awards
 Atlantic Center for the Arts, Artist in residence, 2014
 Largo das Artes, Artist in residence, Rio de Janeiro, 2014
 The Drawing Center, Viewing Program, 2010 – 2014
 Maryland Distinguished Scholar 2002-2006

Films
 Siren Song, 2014
 DragOn: The Dollhouse promo video, Producer and Art Direction, 2014
 Tamala and the Volcano, 2015
 DragOn: High Society promo video, Director, in collaboration with Deven Green, 2016
 DragOn: Ms. Mayhem promo video, Director, 2017

References

1984 births
Living people
American male sculptors
American video artists
Maryland Institute College of Art alumni
Painters from Pennsylvania
School of Visual Arts alumni
American contemporary painters

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HA NOI (VNS) — President Truong Tan Sang has urged the education sector to continue urgent reforms in education and training ahead of the start of the new academic year.
The President hoped the sector would collect opinions from the public, educators and educational managers to get results.
In his letter for the start of the new academic year 2015-16 which resumes tomorrow, Sang asked the education sector to be prepared for reform of curriculum and textbooks.
In April, a national project worth about US$36 million to reform textbooks and curriculum for schools was approved. The project was targeted to change the entire education system (from grades 1 to 12), and focus on building students' practical learning skills and increasing interaction between teachers and students.
A complete set of new textbooks will be introduced at the start of the 2018-19 school year.
In many cities and provinces, the preparations for the start of new academic year have gotten under-way.
In Kien Giang province, nearly 400 new classrooms have been built and 120 upgraded at a cost of VND266 billion ($11.7 million).
In Rach Gia city, three new pre-schools were put into use with room for 960 children from 18 months to five years old. More than 80 teachers have been hired to solve the shortage of teachers in the city.
In Go Quao district, 28 classrooms have been built and more than 30 have been upgraded at a cost of more than VND13 billion ($572,000). However, the building of infrastructure, especially for pre-schools, remained difficult.
Nguyen Tan Phat, head of the district's sub-department of education and training said that pre-school students had to use 55 classrooms in primary schools as temporary study places.
Many parents said they were afraid that their children would study at schools without playgrounds or in overcrowded classrooms. Many preferred keeping their children at home or sending them to schools in Hau Giang and Bac Lieu provinces.
Phat said the sub-department has required local schools to go to these households and encourage them to send their children to school. Local schools were asked to organise boarding classrooms so children were looked after while their parents went to work.
In Bac Ninh Province, director of the provincial department of education and training Nguyen Duc Buoi said the province has planned to apply the new school model for Viet Nam at 42 primary schools in this academic year, raising the total to 77.
The model, being applied on a trial basis at some schools in the province since 2012, has created positive changes. Teachers reportedly no longer had to take time making lesson plans and students could study actively, voice their thoughts and correct mistakes themselves.
Buoi said after receiving support from parents, students and educators, the province had decided to increase the use of this model, with half of primary schools now using it.
In Tram Tau District, Yen Bai province, one of the poorest regions in the country with more than 90 per cent ethnic people, universal pre-school education for children aged five has become the key task.
Ha Thi Bay, principal of Sao Mai Pre-school in Hat Luu Commune said that the school, as well as authorised agencies, has decided that all five year olds must go to school.
The school has worked with students' families to set up a nutrition regime for children, reducing the percentage of malnourished children to 8.6 per cent since 2011. All classrooms were upgraded and equipped with studying tools and toys.
Tran Thi Tuyet, deputy head of the district's sub-department of education and training said that the sub-department has called for support from local authorities and associations to help poor students while upgrading facilities at schools.
There is still a shortage of labs and classrooms in the central highland province of Gia Lai, even though the local educational authority had spent VND116 billion (US$5.1 million) on infrastructure.
Huynh Minh Thuan, deputy head of the provincial department of education and training said many schools lacked labs or had outdated ones. Other facilities such as libraries did not meet national standards.
He cited Le Van Tam primary school in Po To Commune as an example. The school had no fence, so nearby cattle grazed in the playground. Many windows, tables and chairs were broken down.
Other schools were in a similar state. Financing the building and upgrading the infrastructure of schools has remained difficult for the local educational authority.
To encourage students before the start of new academic year, many organisations and units have offered scholarships. In Da Lat City, 174 scholarships worth VND8.5 million ($374) each have been presented to ethnic students and poor students who performed well.
The Vallet Scholarship Fund has presented 2,250 scholarships worth more than VND20 billion ($880,000) to disadvantaged students.


Regions of Interest (ROI) image coding enables the regions important to medical diagnosis to be encoded and transmitted at higher quality than the other regions. In the paper, a new ROI coding method called Compensation-based Partial Bitplane Alternating Shift (CPBA- Shift) is described. The proposed method divides all bitplanes of ROI and background (BG) coefficients into two portions-Alternating Shift Portion (ASP) and Compensation Shift Portion (CSP). In ASP, partial the most significant bitplanes of ROI and BG coefficients are shifted by bitplane-by-bitplane. In CSP, the least significant bitplanes of ROI and BG coefficients are scaled using compensation scheme according to the compression quality in ROI and BG. Simulation experiments show that the new method, in addition to alleviating the drawbacks of both ROI coding methods in JPEG2000, can support arbitrarily shaped multiple ROI coding with different degrees of interest without coding the shapes information.


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Home/News/USA News/Spiderman surprises young leukemia patient at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Spiderman surprises young leukemia patient at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
One superhero paid a visit to another at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Friday.
Spiderman surprised Jabari Henley, who is being treated for leukemia, on his fourth birthday.
The two unwrapped presents and played with action figures inside Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children's facility.
The surprise was made possible by the Lifedriven Foundation, a Beverly Hills nonprofit that supports young adults and children diagnosed with cancer along with their families.
"It was beautiful," Jabari's mother, Cedulla BochMartinez, said in a video released by the hospital. "We don't have anybody so it felt really good and warming to have others out there caring and thinking about my child like that."
The new, 23,000-square foot Guerin Children's hospital opened in June of this year with 26 beds.
It was built thanks to a $100 million gift — the largest lifetime gift in Cedars-Sinai's 119-year history — from the Shapell Guerin Family Foundation, the medical center said.
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I have been sorting through some boxes of 'stuff' in my store room, and came upon this miniature painting. It measures only 5 x 6cm, and was made by my cousin Marjorie from a photograph. My mother commisioned it for my birthday a number of years ago (I'm not telling how many!) and as you might guess, the subject is me, with an old bear in my lap. Eventually it will be displayed in the library of a 1/12 scale dolls house that I am restoring.
I'm catching my breath after two weeks of daily teddy bear making workshops at Tin Soldiers. Sharing knowledge and teaching techniques to bear makers is one of my great joys. After doing it for so many years I have also learned the importance of creating time for quiet in between, to write, work on new designs, to savour creative life in its many forms. I am truly blessed.
So, let me tell you what is in store for the next few days.
A post about new patterns from Nerina.
The teddy bear crochet dungarees instructions that I promised.
Schnozzle's pattern, and Sabine the pin cushion elf, as soon as I finish the instructions.
An update on Bearathon 2012 progress.
Whatever else I manage to get done. My to-do list grows daily!


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{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
{-# OPTIONS_GHC -fno-warn-orphans #-}
module Main (main) where

import Test.Framework (Test, defaultMain)
import Test.Framework.Providers.QuickCheck2 (testProperty)
import Test.QuickCheck
import Control.Monad (liftM)
import DCLabel.TCB
import DCLabel.Secrecy
import DCLabel.Integrity
import Data.List (tails)
import Data.Serialize

instance Arbitrary Principal where
     arbitrary = do p <- oneof $ map return ["A", "B", "C"]
                    return $ principal p

instance Arbitrary Disj where
     arbitrary = sized disjunction
                 where disjunction 0 = return $ MkDisj { disj = [] }
                       disjunction n = do a  <- arbitrary
                                          m  <- choose (0, n-1)
                                          djs <- disjunction m
                                          return $ MkDisj $ a:(disj djs)

instance Arbitrary Conj where
     arbitrary = sized conjunction
                 where conjunction 0 = oneof [return $ MkConj { conj = [] } ,
                                              return $ MkConj { conj = [MkDisj []] },
                                              return $ MkConj { conj = [MkDisj [], MkDisj []] } ]
                       conjunction n = do a  <- arbitrary
                                          m  <- choose (0, n-1)
                                          cjs <- conjunction m
                                          return $ MkConj $ a:(conj cjs)
     shrink (MkConj ls) = [MkConj ll | l <- tails ls, ll <- shrink l]

instance Arbitrary Component where
  arbitrary = do m <- choose (0, 1) :: Gen Int
                 if m==0 then mkArbLbl arbitrary
			 else return MkComponentAll
    where mkArbLbl :: Gen Conj -> Gen Component
          mkArbLbl = liftM MkComponent

instance Arbitrary (SLabel) where
  arbitrary = do s <- arbitrary
                 return $ MkSLabel s

instance Arbitrary (ILabel) where
  arbitrary = do s <- arbitrary
                 return $ MkILabel s

instance Arbitrary DCLabel where
  arbitrary = do s <- arbitrary
                 i <- arbitrary
                 return $ MkDCLabel { secrecy = s, integrity = i }

instance Arbitrary TCBPriv where
  arbitrary = do p <- arbitrary
                 return $ MkTCBPriv p

-- cleanComponent does not modify the semantics of the label
prop_cleanComponent :: Component -> Bool
prop_cleanComponent l = let l' = cleanComponent l
                    in l `implies` l' && l' `implies` l

-- Reduction function toLNF does not modify the semantics of the label
prop_toLNF :: Component -> Bool
prop_toLNF l = let l' = toLNF l
               in  l `implies` l' && l' `implies` l

-- Idempotenncy of toLNF
prop_toLNF_idem :: Property
prop_toLNF_idem = forAll (arbitrary :: Gen Component) $ \l->
  let l'  = toLNF l
      l'' = toLNF l'
  in l' == l''

-- Partial order for DCLabels
prop_dc_porder :: (DCLabel, DCLabel) -> Bool
prop_dc_porder (l1,l2) = let l1' = toLNF l1
                             l2' = toLNF l2
                             ge = l1' `canflowto` l2'
                             le = l2' `canflowto` l1'
                             eq = l2' == l1'
                         in (eq && ge && le) ||  -- ==
                            ((not eq) && (ge || le) && (ge /= le)) || -- < or >
                            (not (eq || ge || le)) -- incomparable

-- Check that labels flow to their join for DCLabels
prop_DC_join :: (DCLabel, DCLabel) -> Bool
prop_DC_join (l1,l2) = let l3 = l1 `join` l2
                           t1 = l1 `canflowto` l3
                           t2 = l2 `canflowto` l3
                       in t1 && t2

-- Check that join is the least upper bound for DCLabels
-- TODO: we need to fix this since it is difficult to satisfy the
-- hypothesis.
prop_dc_join_lub :: (DCLabel, DCLabel) -> Property
prop_dc_join_lub (l1,l2) = forAll (arbitrary :: Gen DCLabel) $ \l3' ->
 (l1 `canflowto` l3') && (l2 `canflowto` l3') ==> (l1 `join` l2) `canflowto` l3'

-- Check that meet flows to the labels making it, for DCLabels
prop_dc_meet :: (DCLabel, DCLabel) -> Bool
prop_dc_meet (l1,l2) = let l3 = l1 `meet` l2
                           t1 = l3 `canflowto` l1
                           t2 = l3 `canflowto` l2
                       in t1 && t2

-- Check that meet the greatest lower bound for DCLabels
prop_dc_meet_glb :: (DCLabel, DCLabel) -> Property
prop_dc_meet_glb (l1,l2) = forAll (arbitrary :: Gen DCLabel) $ \l3' ->
 (l3' `canflowto` l1) && (l3' `canflowto` l2) ==> l3' `canflowto` (l1 `meet` l2)

-- Check that the top is indeed indeed the highest element in the lattice
prop_dc_top :: DCLabel -> Property
prop_dc_top l1 = forAll (gen l1) $ \l -> l `canflowto` top
    where gen :: DCLabel -> Gen DCLabel
          gen _ = arbitrary

-- Check that the bottom is indeed indeed the lowest element in the lattice
prop_dc_bottom :: DCLabel -> Property
prop_dc_bottom _ = forAll (arbitrary :: Gen DCLabel) $ \l -> bottom `canflowto` l

-- LIO's lostar
lostar :: TCBPriv -> DCLabel -> DCLabel -> DCLabel
lostar p l g =
  let (ls, li) = (toLNF . secrecy $ l, toLNF . integrity $ l)
      (gs, gi) = (toLNF . secrecy $ g, toLNF . integrity $ g)
      lp       = toLNF $ priv p
      rs'      = c2l [c | c <- getCats ls
                        , not (lp `implies` (c2l [c]))]
      rs''     = c2l [c | c <- getCats gs
                        , not (rs' `implies` (c2l [c]))]
      rs       = if ls == allComponent || gs == allComponent
                  then allComponent
                  else rs' `and_component` rs''
      ri       = (li `and_component` lp) `or_component` gi
 in toLNF $ simpleNewComponent p (newDC rs ri)
      where getCats = conj . component
            c2l = MkComponent . MkConj
            simpleNewComponent pr lr | pr == rootPrivTCB = g
                                     | pr == noPriv      = l `join` g
                                     | otherwise         = lr

{-
lr = lostar p li lg satisfies:
   - canflowto lg lr
   - canflowto_p p li lr
   - lr is the greatest lower bound
-}
prop_lostar :: TCBPriv -> DCLabel -> DCLabel -> Property
prop_lostar p li lg =
  let lr = lostar p li lg
  in forAll (arbitrary :: Gen DCLabel) $ \lr' ->
   	canflowto lg lr &&
   	canflowto_p p li lr &&
	not ( canflowto lg lr' &&
              canflowto_p p li lr' &&
	      lr' /= lr &&
	      canflowto lr' lr)

-- | Test serialization.
prop_DC_serialize :: DCLabel -> Bool
prop_DC_serialize l = case decode (encode l) of
                        Left _ -> False
                        Right l' -> l == l'

main :: IO ()
main = defaultMain tests

tests :: [Test]
tests = [
    testProperty "cleanComponent" (prop_cleanComponent :: Component -> Bool)
  , testProperty "toLNF" (prop_toLNF :: Component -> Bool)
  , testProperty "Idempotence of function toLNF" (prop_toLNF_idem :: Property)
  , testProperty "Property of top" (prop_dc_top :: DCLabel -> Property)
  , testProperty "Property of bottom" (prop_dc_bottom :: DCLabel -> Property)
  , testProperty "Join operation" (prop_DC_join ::  (DCLabel, DCLabel) -> Bool)
  , testProperty "Join operation is the least upper bound"
                 (prop_dc_join_lub :: (DCLabel, DCLabel) -> Property)
  , testProperty "Meet operation" (prop_dc_meet :: (DCLabel, DCLabel) -> Bool)
  , testProperty "Meet operation is the greatest lower bound"
                 (prop_dc_meet_glb :: (DCLabel, DCLabel) -> Property)
  , testProperty "DC labels form a partial order"
                  (prop_dc_porder :: (DCLabel, DCLabel) -> Bool)
  , testProperty "lostar implementation"
                  (prop_lostar :: TCBPriv -> DCLabel -> DCLabel -> Property)
  , testProperty "Serialization of DC labels"
              (prop_DC_serialize :: DCLabel -> Bool)
  ]

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A XWiki skin is used to customize the interface of a XWiki instance.
All these components are stored on the server that hosts the XWiki instance, inside the webapps/xwiki/ folder. Each XWiki skin has its own directory.
The full list of XWiki skins that are included in your XWiki instance can be found on the server filesystem, inside the webapps/xwiki/skins folder.
For the entire XWiki instance. If no skin is set at other levels, the pages will use the global instance skin.
For a space inside the XWiki instance. It has a higher priority than the instance level skin.
For a specific user. It has a higher priority than the space level skin. For more details check this tutorial.
For other custom levels that can be created by modifying the Velocity templates inside the skin (for example, a skin can be set for a specific page, for a specific group of users and so on).
To change the Skin, the user must have administrating rights. In the case that you have these rights, make sure that you switch to the Advanced mode in your profile, to enable the advanced options on the top main menu.
To check how a page looks when changing the skin, you can add a parameter named skin to the page URL. For example, to preview the wiki main page with colibri skin, use the following URL: http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome/?skin=colibri. If you want to preview the page using a skin document named MySpace.MySkinDoc, use the following URL: http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome/?skin=MySpace.MySkinDoc.
You have multiple text areas where you can override the default behavior of your skin. Make your desired modifications.
If you have defined another skin, you should fill in the directory name which contains the skin.
The names of the skins are case-sensitive.
In order to find out more about the XWiki Skins, check the Skins Tutorial in the Developer Guide and the Skins Tutorial in the User Guide.


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3 books turned into plays to hit local stages next month
By Whitney Butters Wilde Aug 24, 2017, 7:05am MDT
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Left front and moving clockwise, Cameron Garner as Frankie, Sean Bishop as Sparky, Scott Sackett as Jinx and Chase Petersen as Smudge in Hale Centre Theatre's "Forever Plaid." Douglas Carter
Craig Williams as Dan in Ziegfeld Theater's production of "Next to Normal." Ziegfeld Theater
Shawnee Kennington as Diana in Ziegfeld Theater's production of "Next to Normal." Ziegfeld Theater
Tanner Horan as Gabe in Ziegfeld Theater's production of "Next to Normal." Ziegfeld Theater
Hailee Olenberger as Natalie in Ziegfeld Theater's production of "Next to Normal." Ziegfeld Theater
Pioneer Theatre Company will be staging the regional premiere of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time." Pioneer Theatre Company
SALT LAKE CITY — Three plays that were adapted from novels as well as the debut of a new venue are among local theater highlights next month. Here's a closer look at a few productions opening in September:
'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'
Fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone, who is autistic and struggles in social situations but has a great talent for math, is on a quest to find out who killed his neighbor's dog in the Tony Award-winning play "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," which opens Sept. 15 at Pioneer Theatre.
The story, an adaptation of a 2003 novel by Mark Haddon, was named best play at the 2015 Tony Awards and takes audiences into Christopher's world and the story "forces you to adopt, wholesale, the point of view of someone with whom you may initially feel you have little in common," according to The New York Times.
The show runs Sept. 15-Nov. 4 at Pioneer Theatre Company, 300 S. 1400 East, $25-$44 (801-581-6961 or pioneertheatre.org).
'A Tale of Two Cities'
Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" makes its way from the page to the stage in the musical adaptation of the story, which opens at the end of the month at CenterPoint Legacy Theatre in Centerville. "Testing the limits of love and loyalty, this story will have you crying for justice and cheering in your seats," according to CPT's website. It opens Sept. 29-Oct. 28, CenterPoint Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, $19.50-$25.50 for adults, $17.50-$23.25 for seniors and students (801-298-1302 or centerpointtheatre.org).
'Jekyll & Hyde'
While researching a cure for his father's mental illness, a physician named Dr. Jekyll accidentally creates a violent alternate personality in himself known as Mr. Hyde. The musical, based on a novella by Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson, hits the stage at Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 E. 4700 South, Washington Terrace, Sept. 29-Nov. 11, $9-$14 (801-393-0070 or terraceplayhouse.com).
'Forever Plaid'
Hale Centre Theatre's proscenium thrust Jewel Box Theatre in the Mountain America Performing Arts Centre will open its doors for the first time with a production of "Forever Plaid," beginning Sept. 1.
The show is the first in HCT's new facilities in Sandy and provides a sneak peek at the rest of the venue, which will open in full in November.
"Forever Plaid" is a concert revue that tells the story of four friends in the 1950s hoping to make their big break as a doo-wop group called Forever Plaid. On their way to their first gig, the Plaids get in a car accident and all four men die but are given the chance to perform their show before heading to heaven.
Audiences can catch the show Sept. 1-Nov. 14, Hale Centre Theatre Jewel Box Theatre, 9886 Monroe St., Sandy, $39 for adults, $18 for youths (801-984-9000 or hct.org).
'Next to Normal'
What appears to be a stereotypical suburban family has a secret in "Next to Normal," which is being put on by the Ziegfeld Theater in Ogden. While the dad works as an architect and the mom cares for her seemingly perfect children, the mother has been battling manic depression for more than a decade. According to Music Theatre International, the company who licenses the show, the musical is an examination of mental illness that "takes audiences into the minds and hearts of each character, presenting their family's story with love, sympathy and heart."
Ziegfeld's production will play on its own stage and at the Egyptian Theatre in Park City. The shows in Park City run Sept. 8-17, Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, $23-$45 (435-649-9371 or egyptiantheatrecompany.org). The shows at the Ziegfeld Theater in Ogden are Sept. 22-Oct. 1, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., $17-$20 (855-944-2787 or theziegfeldtheater.com).
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An illustrious casino located in the center of the Las Vegas strip.
The Bellagio poker room is known for hosting the highest stakes poker games, which are especially vibrant when the casino hosts its $15K-$25K buyin poker tournaments.
Bobby's Room is part of the Bellagio's poker room and is host of The Big Game, which runs the highest stakes ring-games in Las Vegas. The room is named after Bobby Baldwin, the former youngest winner of the WSOP main event (he has since been trumped by Stu Unger, Phil Hellmuth, Peter Eastgate, and most recently, Joe Cada). The Big Game has featured the likes of Patrik Antonius, Doyle Brunson, Barry Greenstein, Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, and Tom Dwan.
The Fountains of Bellagio are a unique water, music, and light display that run multiple times throughout the Las Vegas night. Below is a video of one of the shows.


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Maybe you do all that in one day!
Sometimes though, despite our best intentions, the days get away from us and sometimes things go wrong. We might miss a deadline or burn breakfast or run late to an appointment. On tough days, especially on tough Mondays, it's also important to celebrate life's little wins.
Happy moments can come upon you when you least expect it, and they are definitely worth celebrating.
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Gallery: The 2019 Steigen #1
Is this the most exciting concept in track?
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The first ever "Steigen #1" was hosted at Geelong's Landy Field this weekend, a radical new concept developed to create greater fan interest in track racing.
Steigen, the local running accessories and apparel manufacturer, has been behind the Steigen Spectacular since 2011, a pre Christmas track meet known primarily for its 10,000m race. This year, event organisers created #1, a teams based knockout format with a player draft, coaches, and a 4 race eliminator.
Simply; 40 men and 40 women are drafted to 10 teams. Each gender races a 3000m with the top half going through to a mile, then the top half going to an 800m, before finishing with a 400m. Runners earn points towards a team prize, and also an individual cash prize for winning the final race.
The event was headlined by Australian record holder in the 1,500m Linden Hall, and on the men's side Jordy Williamsz.
With the first 20 across the line in the 3000m going through to the mile, it was interesting to watch the strategy unfold. Up front, a group of 4 were clear after 600m, while behind them a second group had also put themselves in a safe position. There was however a huge cluster of athletes from positions 15-30, as runners looked around and tried to work out where the cut off would be and how many places they needed to move up.
Following the 3000m, the top 20 athletes had 10 minutes to get ready for the mile race. Again, it was Linden Hall and Lydia O'Donnell up the front, keen to lock in safe passage to the 800m.
Unfortunately for the TEMPO columnist, O'Donnell couldn't crack the top 5 in the 800m and was forced to watch the final 400m race from the stands.
And so, the final race. 400m for $5,000. Linden Hall was deservedly a warm favourite, but those in the know might have given 800m runner Sarah Billings a chance.
Billings took front position from the gun, and at 200m had half a metre on Hall. As the two came roaring up the straight Billings held her nerve, collecting the $5,000 and capping off a big week - she also graduated university on Thursday. Hall collected $2,500 for second place.
Up next was the men's race. Jordy Williamsz, Lachie Barber, Sam McEntee, and Sydney's Will Austin-Cray all promising to add some spark to this one.
It was McEntee, the Rio Olympian in the 5000m, who decided to spice things up from the jump, launching a long range attack one lap into the 3000m.
Local youth Jack Rayner cheers on McEntee
After Sam McEntee had his fun in the 3000m, surely the mile would see a more typical racing strategy, right? Wrong. McEntee again launched off the front as early as possible, ensuring that regardless of who won the 400m race at the end, he would go home as The People's Champ.
Lachie Barber saw his first bit of action in the 800m race, immediately going to the front and assuring himself safe passage to the final race of the evening - where newly crowned (by me) People's Champ Sam McEntee was still in the race.
All the pressure leading into the 400m was on Jordy Williamsz, especially after his partner won the women's race. Keen to make sure he could hold his own on the car ride back to Melbourne, Williamsz did not disappoint, taking a well deserved win.
So, what to say about this new concept? Steigen #1 provided fast paced, high energy track racing. We spoke to at least 15 of the competing athletes about the format at the track, and all of them had only positive things to say.
It wasn't perfect, but that only means there's room to make next year's event bigger and better. It was refreshing to see an Australian track race place so much importance on all stakeholders - from the athletes, to the fans, to the sponsors. Long may it continue.
Riley Wolff
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James "Athenian" Stuart
For other people with the same name, see James Stuart (disambiguation).
James "Athenian" Stuart (1713 – 2 February 1788) was a Scottish archaeologist, architect and artist, best known for his central role in pioneering Neoclassicism.[1]
James Stuart as a child, self-portrait
(1788-02-02)2 February 1788
Interiors Spencer House, London
Garden Buildings Shugborough Hall
All Saints' Church Nuneham House
James Stuart, architect, early miniature by Josiah Wedgwood, British Museum
1.1 Early life
1.2 Naples and Greece
1.3 Antiquities of Athens
1.4 Work in England
1.5 Later life
3 Gallery of works
LifeEdit
Early lifeEdit
Stuart was born in 1713 in Creed Lane, Ludgate Street, London, to a Scottish sailor who died when he was young. Proving a talented artist while his family was in poverty, he was apprenticed to a fan painter to support the family financially. However, in around 1742, he was able to travel to Italy (albeit on foot) for his artistic improvement, working there as a cicerone and a painter, learning Latin, Italian and Greek, and studying Italian and Roman art and architecture. There he produced his first major work, his illustrated treatise on the Egyptian obelisk of Psammetichus II within A. M. Bandini's De obelisco Caesaris Augusti, and met Nicholas Revett, a young East Anglian nobleman and amateur architect on his Grand Tour.
Naples and GreeceEdit
In 1748 Stuart joined Revett, Gavin Hamilton and the architect Matthew Brettingham the younger[2] on a trip to Naples to study the ancient ruins and, from there,they travelled through the Balkans (stopping at Pula) to Greece. Visiting Salonica, Athens, and an Ionic temple on the River Ilissus among others, they made accurate measurements and drawings of the ancient ruins.
Antiquities of AthensEdit
Illustration from The Antiquities of Athens, 1762
Stuart and Revett returned to London in 1755 and published their work, The Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece, in 1762. There were more than five hundred subscribers to its first volume and, although few of the subscribers were architects or builders, thus limiting its impact as a design sourcebook, it later helped fuel the Greek Revival in European architecture.[3] Its illustrations were among the first of their kind and the work was welcomed by antiquaries, scholars, and gentleman amateurs. William Hogarth satirised its fastidious depiction of architectural detail in his 1761 engraving Five Orders of Periwigs.
In April 1758 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society as "Mr James Stuart of Grosvenor Square History painter and Architect, eminent in his profession and who hath particularly applyed himself to the study of antiquity, during a long residence in Greece and Italy, as will appear in a work now publishing by him in four volumes in folio, entitled, "The antiquities remaining in the city of Athens and province of Attica"."[4]
Work in EnglandEdit
On his return to England, he also acted as an interior designer, medal designer, and architect, creating the first tripod in metal since antiquity,[5] building and remodelling country houses, garden buildings, and town houses (e.g. Shugborough Hall, Hagley Hall, Spencer House, and the Temple of the Winds), creating book illustrations, designing commemorative medals and tomb monuments, and being appointed Surveyor to the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich.
Later lifeEdit
Stuart c.1788
Stuart's more and more chaotic business practices (possibly to be explained by his chronic gout and deteriorating health, and to his coming into a private fortune – a contemporary report on his death in The World stated that "unexpectedly to most people, [he] has died possessed of much property, chiefly on mortgage on new buildings in Marybone") attracted adverse comment from the late 1760s. By the early 1780s, his devoting the afternoons not to business but to drinking (sources state he "regularly frequented a public-house on the north side of Leicester-fields, of the sign of the feathers" and that "his face declared him to be fond of what is called friendly society" – J. T. Smith, Nollekens and his Times, 1929, 27) and playing skittles was even commented on by his friends. Enemies even accused him of 'Epicurianism' in reference to his alcoholism and recent second marriage at 67 to Elizabeth, a maidservant of 20, by whom he had five children, of whom two died before him. (His first marriage had been to someone described in different places as his housekeeper and as a 'Grecian lady'.)
Stuart continued to work on and off, and returned to working on The Antiquities of Athens, though it was still unfinished at the time of his death in 1788, with the final volume only appearing in 1816, when the Greek Revival it had fostered was starting to become the dominant force in British architecture. He died suddenly on 2 February 1788 at his house on the south side of Leicester Square, London and was buried in the crypt of nearby St Martin-in-the-Fields.
His London buildings played some part in popularising Neo-classical taste. The Antiquities of Athens allowed architects, sculptors and designers in Europe and America for the first time to use Neo-Classicism without having to go to Greece themselves and acted as a sourcebook for them for the next two centuries. The first retrospective on his life and works was held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in early 2007.[1]
James Stuart & Nicholas Revett, The Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece (London, 1762). ISBN 1-4021-5984-6 (2002 reprint edition. According to at least one review, this modern "facsimile" is incomplete.)[6]
James Stuart, Critical observations on the buildings and improvements of London (London, 1771). ISBN 0-404-70189-2 (1992 reprint edition.)
In 2007 "The Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece" was published as a hard bound reprint edition by Princeton Architectural Press. It is represented as a complete reprint. Running in size: 9 x 12 in or 22.9 cm by 30.5 cm. 496 pages with 400 illustrations.
Gallery of worksEdit
Chapel, Greenwich Hospital
Doric Temple, Shugborough Hall
Temple of Hephaestus in Athens painted by Stuart
^ a b Victoria and Albert Museum (Spring 2007). "James 'Athenian' Stuart, 1713–1788". Archived from the original on 16 June 2011. Widely recognised for his central role in pioneering Neo-Classicism, Stuart developed his influential career across various fields: interior decoration, sculpture, furnishing, metalwork and architecture.
^ Anderson, Stanford (1994). "Matthew Brettingham the Younger, Foots Cray Place, and the Secularization of Palladio's Villa Rotonda in England". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 53 (4): 428–447. doi:10.2307/990911. JSTOR 990911. The younger Matthew Brettingham (1725–1803) ... In 1748, he visited Naples in the company of Gavin Hamilton, James Stuart, ...
^ Glancey, Jonathan (27 March 2007). "Greece is the Word". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 16 June 2007. He was the Indiana Jones of his day, dodging murderers to pull off astounding architectural coups.
^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 22 October 2010. [permanent dead link]
^ Victoria and Albert Museum (Spring 2007). "Tripod perfume burner for Wentworth Woodhouse". Archived from the original on 12 June 2008. This tripod perfume burner is one of Stuart's most important and enduring designs. It is based on his sketch of a reconstruction of the tripod that once stood on the roof of the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens. On his return to London, Stuart revived this tripod form, which appears as a decorative object in his drawings dating from as early as 1757.
^ Stuart, James; Revett, Nicholas (4 August 2006). Customer review of The Antiquities of Athens and other Monuments of Greece.. ISBN 1402159846. According to the publisher "This Elibron Classic Replica Edition is an unabridged facsimile of the edition published in 1837 by Charles Tilt, London." However, where the original is a folio size this reproduction is reduced to an octavo size measuring only 21 x 13.5 x 1.75 centimetres. The text is still very large but the drawings – reduced to a quarter of the original size – suffer: the linework is so fine that it disappears in places and most of the dimensions are unreadable. This paperback has glued binding and 104 pages. The original publication was in 3 volumes. This edition seems to be incomplete. It is certainly missing the full page drawings of the metopes that I recall from my university's first edition.
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Home Asia Protests Erupt over Australia-Cambodia Refugee Deal – But Is It Such a...
Protests Erupt over Australia-Cambodia Refugee Deal – But Is It Such a Bad Idea?
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The Australian Green Party on Saturday condemned the refugee transfer memorandum of understanding signed on Friday between Australian Immigration Minister Scott Morrison and Cambodia's Interior Minister Sar Kheng. The Greens called it a "dirty deal, " The Australian reported, and said the celebration of said dirty deal in Phnom Penh was "crass, " seeing as the two ministers toasted their agreement with champagne.
The Australian Labor party, according to The Australian, said the deal was a "complete farce."
The deal will allow refugees who have been processed on the Pacific island of Nauru to resettle to voluntarily move from Australia's offshore processing center on the small Pacific island of Nauru to Cambodia, where they would settle permanently.
As many as 1, 000 refugees will transferred under this deal, and in return Australia will pay Cambodia US$35 million over four years, in addition to US$70 million in aid already allocated for the 2014-15 financial year, the NY Times reported.
"A number of those found to be in genuine need of protection will now have the opportunity and support to re-establish their lives free from persecution, " Morrison said in a statement.
Morrison said Cambodia will decide how many refugees it wants to take in, and when. Cambodian officials say they'd like to start off with five refugees, according to The Australian, but Morrison is expecting a whole lot more, saying Phnom Penh has made a "very strong commitment."
"What Cambodia is saying, and we agree with them, is that you have to start off small, make sure the program is working, and then build it up over time, " Morrison ABC.
The Greens are unhappy with the deal, no matter how small or how slow, calling it a "fundamental failure" and a $40 million bribe to a corrupt government sure to bring on human misery.
"On budget night we had Joe Hockey dancing, and now we have Scott Morrison popping champagne corks after signing a dirty deal with one of the most corrupt and poorest nations on Earth, " Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young told reporters on Saturday, adding, "It's crass, it's sickening."
The UN refugee agency said it is "deeply concerned at the precedent, " urging the Australians to reconsider.
"It's crucial that countries do not shift their refugee responsibilities elsewhere, " UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said on Friday.
The NY Times quotes Amnesty International as saying there are about 3, 300 asylum seekers in Australia's offshore detention centers, including about 222 children on Nauru.
This may emerge as a test case for the ability of first world countries to unload their immigration problems on less fortunate countries for the right price. Naturally, Israel's illegal migrant population comes to mind – it currently stands at well over 50, 000 illegals seeking asylum, who have fled the Sudan and Eritrea. Would Cambodia or anyone else out there be interested in them for the right price?
Here's another thought: the cost of $35 million to shelter 3, 300 refugees comes to a little under $11, 000 per asylum seeker. Wouldn't they prefer to take the cash and go back home—war torn or not—on their own?
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At Mishkan Ha'am we have Jewish education opportunities for all ages and we strive to create a learning community where all are welcome under our tent, our Mishkan. Mishkan Ha'am is Hebrew for Tent of the People or Sacred Tent of the People. When we form tight knit, mutually respectful groups, we can explore our interests and passions and we can teach and learn in wonderful, inspiring ways.
Our Adult Jewish Learning program topics are generated by our members and our Rabbi, through the congregation's Adult Learning Committee. Programs take place on weekends (mainly Sunday at 11:00 a.m.) and some weeknights. In April 2020, our Adult Learning programming took a dramatic shift in terms of location due to the COVID pandemic. We continued using Zoom links with programs that we had planned and added more to our list, since members and some newcomers enjoyed opportunities to learn and to be able to communicate with each other and our Rabbi about important issues.
Our increased programming has provided opportunities to extend topics over two or more sessions and to interlace topics presented by the Adult Learning Committee and the Book/Film Discussion Group. This summer we held several sessions where we discussed many insidious aspects of racism and learned about how to identify and practice anti-racism. This fall we have been exploring the development of Zionism and development of the State of Israel, searching to understand past and present plans to bring about peace in Israel, and seeking to create/participate in viable future plans for peace.
As a follow-up to our November book discussion, we will be exploring the visions of Mordecai Kaplan and Early Zionists. Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, formulated his own ideas about what Israel might look like before its founding. We will look at how Kaplan's vision fit in with the other voices of his time, such as Martin Buber's, and how each of these constructs measures up to Israel as it is today.
Throughout the year, our Rabbi has also presented programs focusing on religious thought, perspectives on God, liturgy patterns, and psychology with examinations of Reconstructionist ideas and practice, sometimes compared with other forms of Jewish expression. The spring, we will turn to a study of Different Voices/Authors in the Bible and then look at the Beginning of Midrash and Rabbinic Arguments.
In this time of relative isolation, our opportunities to connect with Mishkan Ha'am members and newcomers have been consistently valued and enjoyed. Everyone is encouraged to participate in our Adult Learning and Book and Film Discussion meetings, or to just listen and learn. Please join us!
Book/ Film Discussion Group
As part of our Adult Learning Program we have developed a Book/Film Discussion Group that chooses works by or about Jewish or Israeli writers or topics. The topics are generated by our members through the Book/ Film Group Planning Committee. This has stimulated interesting and sometimes difficult discussions such as those about the Israeli/Palistianian conflict. Often the Rabbi leads the discussion, but sometimes a member of the community leads the discussion on a topic that he/she is interested in or knowledgeable about. Last year we read books about Spinoza and Maimonides and for our film, we watched "Unorthodox".
This summer we interfaced with the Adult Learning committee and presented two programs on racism. One was a film, "Just Mercy" and the other was a book, "How to be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi. This fall we read and discussed "Ten Myths About Israel" by Ilan Pappe. We will continue to interface with the Adult Learning Committee while trying to understand the past and present of the Israeli/ Palestinian conflict and future plans to hopefully bring about peace in Israel and Palestine. Going forward, we will be asking the community for recommendations for Jewish and Israeli novels and films.
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Have you ever read a book that's changed the course of your life? Even if it subtly steered your mindset in a new direction? If you did, you already have experienced the power a book can have in changing your own life. Now imagine if you shared your knowledge and experience with other people and impacted them in the same way! The ripple effect would be infinite. That fact alone would be motivating enough to get your book out there and in people's hands.
When you write a book and put your ideas and knowledge on paper (digital or physical), you will really get to see how well you know it. When you share information, it helps you to learn it at an even deeper level and by the time you've completed your book, you will have a new level of understanding that will be definitely deeper than before.
Writing forces you to draw upon your creative resources within, synthesise information, and break concepts down into easy to understand parts so new-comers are able to learn easily and efficiently.
Writing a book takes effort and can require a lot of work and time. That's why very few people do it. When you publish your own book, you are perceived as an expert of the topic you wrote about. A book gives you credibility that you can leverage to build trust with your readers and create a relationship with them. This can be further leveraged when you lead them to the next steps in helping them along their journey by offering them products or services later in the marketing funnel.
If you thought "I'm not an expert", you actually are, but you haven't given yourself credit for it. How? An expert is simply a person who knows a little bit more than the target audience they are helping. For example, a person who knows how to play the piano is an expert compared to a person who does not know how to play piano. Simple right? You don't have to be Mozart or a rocket scientist to call yourself an expert. Learn to value the knowledge and experience you already have and find a group of people who don't know what you know already.
When you crystallise your thoughts on paper, you subconsciously give your brain the signal that it doesn't have to mull it around anymore in your conscious mind. It's similar to when you know you have 20 things to do today and these thoughts keep bouncing around in your mind, causing you stress and takes your focus away from the present moment. However, when you write those 20 things down on paper, then all of a sudden you don't have to "remember" them because they are readily accessible with a quick glance.
Once you've dumped your knowledge on a specific topic into a book, then you may feel more focused and motivated to dive into learning a new area you'd like to tackle for your next book!
This ties into the previous benefit of deepening your understanding, but slightly different. There's a lot we don't know. In fact most of the knowledge out there, we don't know that we don't know. When we start writing our book, we start to realise there are gaps in our knowledge that needs to be filled. That will force you to do some more research and learning, opening your mind to even more. Who knows, maybe it will lead you down a rabbit hole where you realise you have to restructure your whole book based on the new information you integrated.
Finally, once you finish publishing your first book, you'll start to appreciate much more how much work it actually takes to do this. Next time you pick up to read someone else's book, you know it probably took them hundreds of hours to put it together, let alone the lifetime of experience and knowledge they had to acquire to come to share these golden nuggets with you.
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Debbie Dingell is set to continue an 80 year legacy of Dingells occupying the same seat in the House of Representatives. That's not a good thing.
Debbie Dingell has won the Democratic primary to succeed her husband, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), the Associated Press reports.
Dingell easily won Tuesday's contest against attorney Raymond Mullins in Michigan's 12th District. She will face Republican Terry Bowman in the general election.
John Dingell is the longest serving congressman in U.S. history. In February, the 88-year-old announced that he would retire from Congress after nearly 60 years on Capitol Hill, citing frustrations with how "obnoxious" Congress has become.
Just days after her husband's announcement, Debbie Dingell announced she would run for his seat.
Given that the district Dingell represents is solidly Democratic, there is really no doubt that Mrs. Dingell will win her election in November. This means that, when she takes office in January she would be the third member of the Dingell family to hold the seat since John Dingell's father, John Dingell Sr. won election to Congress in the election of 1932. As I have noted in the past, there really wasn't anything admirable about Dingell's five decades of service and, indeed, the fact that he has not faced a serious challenger in decades stands as a perfect argument for Congressional term limits. Now, though, we have an excellent example of yet another problem in American politics, political family dynasties. There is simply no good reason why the same family should hold the same seat in Congress for more than eighty years, a streak that could end up being as a long as 100 years depending on how long Mrs. Dingell decides to stay in office, because it's rather obvious that she will find it as easy to get re-elected to this seat as her husband and late father did.
As a general rule, there is something unhealthy about both political dynasties and long-term incumbency, and the Dingell case provides ample examples of both. The fact that Congressman Dingell has not faced a serious challenge in decades is, in and of itself, a major problem both because of what it says about the ability of an incumbent to stifle internal challenges in his own party and because it stands as another excellent example of how, through redistricting, Congressional seats such as Dingell's are made virtually immune from challenge by the opposing party. Additionally, as I said above, there is just something distasteful about the fact that the same family has held the same Congressional seat since Franklin D. Roosevelt was first elected to the Presidency. These things are not supposed to be viewed as entitlements, and yet it is quite obvious that this is how the Dingell family views the matter. After Debbie Dingell does finally retire, which again may not happen before 2033 when the seat will have been in the family's hands for 100 years, it wouldn't be at all surprising to see one of Dingell's four children run for the seat, or perhaps one of his grandchildren. Voters being what they are, they will probably reflexively vote for whatever Dingell happens to be on the ballot, and the legacy will continue. Some people may consider this to be a good thing, but I do not. Instead, it is, along with the fact that we could very well end up with another President Clinton or President Bush in the White House, a sign of how clannish our politics has become. In some sense, Barbara Bush was right when she said that it was time for other families to contribute to the country, and that applies as equally to a seat in Congress as it does the Oval Office.
There are several changes that ought to be made to deal with problems such as this, of course. Redistricting needs to be a far less partisan process than it is today, although accomplishing that is quite obviously a far harder task than saying that it ought to be done. Additionally, as I've stated before, it seems quite apparent to me that Congressional Term Limits are an idea whose time has come. Twenty four years in the House and the Senate, seems to me like a perfectly reasonable limit on the amount of time that any single person should be serving in Washington. Contrary to what the advocates of long-term incumbency would tell you, there is no single person in Congress who is indispensable, and our political system would do well to bring in fresh blood on a continuous basis. Indeed, that is what the Founding Fathers envisioned Congress would become. None of them anticipated that we would have people like Dingell, Robert Byrd, John Coyners, Ralph Hall, Don Young, or Orrin Hatch, who have served in Congress longer than some other members of Congress have been alive. Congress will do just fine with John Dingell in office, and it would do fine without Debbie Dingell as well, and our political system will be better off if we eliminate the factors that lead Representatives and Senators to believe that they are entitled to their seats.
As I have noted in the past, there really wasn't anything admirable about Dingell's five decades of service and, indeed, the fact that he has not faced a serious challenger in decades stands as a perfect argument for Congressional term limits.
No, it's an argument for ending gerrymandering.
In some sense, Barbara Bush was right when she said that it was time for other families to contribute to the country, and that applies as equally to a seat in Congress as it does the Oval Office.
No, there's 435 members of the House, 100 members of the Senate, but only one President.
Twenty four years in the House and the Senate, seems to me like a perfectly reasonable limit on the amount of time that any single person should be serving in Washington.
Currently, 34 members of the House (7.8%) have served for 24 years or more.
12 members of the Senate (that would be … 12%) have served for 24 years or more.
That's not a problem that needs to be addressed with term limits.
Wouldn't term limits for federal office require a constitutional amendment?
Except for the fact that there's no real voting to be had in North Korea.
Other than that, clearly just as democratic.
Political dynasties and Term Limits is not related. Mexico has LOTS of political dynasties(A large number of Mexican politicians have the same name of other prominent politicians of the past – take a look at Mr. Gustavo Madero), and they also has very strict Term limits. Probably the strictest term limits in the world.
Term limits also has it´s problems, specially because in fact it decreases, not increases competition for the seat. Without candidates with personal name recognition money and party affiliation becomes more important. Besides that, without experienced lawmakers that understands the poltical process, the non-elected staffers become more powerful.
And above all Political Dynasty is not the real problem here. The problem is that absence of competition for the seat. I don´t like Political Dynasties, I associate them with caudillismo/coronelismo, but that´s not the issue with the Dingells.
@PJ: Yeah, that is a laughable statement by Doug. You can dislike political dynasties, but at the end of the day they still go through the primary process and an actually general election……can't say the same for North Korea.
@Doug Mataconis: Dictatorships with no dynasties aren´t much better than dictatorships with dynasties.
I was being just a little bit hyperbolic there.
But, surely, the fact that John Dingell has not faced a serious opponent in decades is not a good thing.
Of the 34 Representatives who will have served for more than 24 years next year, six are retiring.
And of the 12 Senators who will have served for more than 24 years next year, of the five up for reelection, three are retiring.
Again, not an issue that needs to be solved with term limits.
While there are obvious cons to this, there are also a few pros to so-called dynasties, especially if you are voting for a local rep. The scions know the ropes, so they won't be exactly rookies. They are used to the legislative process, so they don't have unrealistic expectations. They have connections to those already in place.
And I am open to a lower number for term limits such as 18 years. Three terms in the Senate and 9 in the House seems like enough to me.
I just think it's sad when smart women fall for a guy based solely on looks.
The problem here is not term limits, but corrupt and incompetent representatives. The solution is corruption is campaign finance reform ( which Doug opposes) and ethics reform ( which Doug is lukewarm about). The solution to the second are fair elections (ending gerrymandering would help that).
I understand Doug disliking dynasties. But dynasties are as dynasties does. The Adams and Roosevelt dynasties were good: The Bush dynasty not so much. As to the Dingells, they haven't been either bad or good apart from the founder. Voters seem to like them, though and absent findings of corruption or incompetence, that's enough in a democratic system.
Now, term limits for federal judges? I could get behind that.
No, but again, he's one of 435. As long as people in his district are happy sending him to DC, let them.
The system needs fixing. Make districts competitive. End gerrymandering. Increase the number of Representatives. Representatives shouldn't have to spend all that fundraising. And so on. Term limits is far down on the list of things that needs to be done.
I'm curious why you would want term limits for federal judges.
Hell I'm curious why most would want to take the federal bench. The pay cut is normally huge and while there's a certain amount of prestige involved unless one has further political aspirations I don't get it.
Democracry is neutral. Whether it is good or bad depends on whether what the demos wants is good or bad.
One argument against term limits is that the un-elected administrators and civil servants would get more power through longevity. But the 24 years of terms should take care of that. Other than that, I believe that voters can make their choice…term limits not needed.
How about instead of just stating it is "not a good thing", you try to explain why?
1. It feels "icky" to you – which is no better here than it is when opposing SSM.
2. Voters are idiots that I need to protect from themselves. If they were smarter, they wouldn't keep electing the same family.
Both strike me as inherently anti-libertarian.
indeed, the fact that he has not faced a serious challenger in decades stands as a perfect argument for Congressional term limits.
For 50 years running his electorate's been poking holes in that argument. There's nothing left but a tatter of cheesecloth.
'm curious why you would want term limits for federal judges.
Because there is now no check at all on them once they get in. The result is that you have Scalia, Thomas, and Alito wreaking havoc for decades. Worse, you have Janice Rogers Brown and Priscilla Owens sitting one Republican Presidential win away from joining in the destruction FOR DECADES.
This is one of the reason why we absolutely cannot risk screw up holding on to the Presidency in 2016. It's frustrating for liberals, because it means we have to unstintingly support the one candidate that everyone agrees we have to get behind. The stakes are just too damn high for anything else.
One way to lower the stakes is to give judges 15 year terms, with an option to renew through a Senate vote. Now of course, that could work against us if a Republican Senate happens to be sitting when a liberal judge's term is up. But I think it's worth it to provide SOME check on the judges.
My solution would be to get rid of supreme court justices entirel. Each year 9 random federal apellate justices would get picked to be the supreme court. Additionally, they would only get to hear cases picked for review by the previous set of 9 justices and would choose the cases to be heard by the next 9. That way they don't know who will be deciding the case when they select it for supreme court review.
How about we award seats in the house the same way jury members are picked? Randomly from from the general population.
@Stormy Dragon: Now there's a thought.
I'd set term limits for Congress at 12 years: 6 house or 2 Senate terms. Congress shouldn't be a career. Power corrupts, people get set in positions and then instinctively defend them forever no matter what (psychology 101), the world changes (remember all the jokes about these guys trying to set laws relating to the "internets" and other gaffes?), and national politicians simply don't live in the same reality as the rest of us. You need decent turnover to keep them connected.
Judges I'd put at 12 years at their current position, for the same reasons. So they can make a career out of it by moving through different levels, but not clog the Supreme Court for decades.
And a pony. I want a pony too.
I live in John Dingell's district. Apart from his inexplicable coziness with the NRA, I like everything he's done in Congress. He supported LBJ's civil rights legislation back when he represented a white working class district in Dearborn. He's been a lifelong supporter of single payer health insurance. He voted against the second Iraq War. He was a little too liberal for his previous district, the one in Dearborn, but still managed to get re-elected repeatedly. He's a perfect fit for his present district, centered on Ann Arbor. Like a few other older Democrats — Tip O'Neill and Henry Waxman, for example — he's carried on the progressive tradition of FDR and Harry Truman. I've always disliked term limits laws, and John Dingell's record is one of the reasons.
Here is an idea: House of Rep.: 4 terms in, 2 out and you can return. Senate: 2 terms in, 1 term out.
This plan would satisfy everyone.
Again, I don't believe in term restrictions for members of Congress.
Also, your idea seems to be rather easily circumvented for the kind of dynasty that Doug dislikes.
Representative serves four terms, then his/her spouse/son/daughter/mother/father/brother/sister serves two, rinse and repeat.
I find serving in the House to be obnoxious… It's become very hard because of the acrimony and bitterness, both in Congress and in the streets.
So he wants his wife to do it?
(1) Upon election, representatives will receive no salary or benefits for the duration of their term.
(4) members' personal spending will be limited to the median income of his or her district. The trustee of the blind trust may not give them any more money for any reason (even family emergency).
This will be quite a demotion from her previous job, being a DC lobbyist. I suppose she'll get used to having less control over legislation once she's in office.
@Mu: Yes, they would, which makes Doug's comments even funnier.
Yoo-hoo, Doug? Don't you remember your Constitutional Law class?
The way some people talk about term limits one could conclude that they will cure all political ills and the common cold.
AZ, AR, CA, CO, FL, LA, ME, MI, MO, MT, NE, NV, OH, OK and SD are 15 states that currently have legislative term limits of varying durations.
If anyone can demonstrate that the bills passed through these chambers are measurably wiser and more efficient than the work of the 35 other states I will consider they might be useful at the Federal level.
Am I the only one who thinks the voters in Michigan's 12th are perfectly happy with their representation in Congress and just enjoy chuckling to themselves whenever they mention their representative's last name is Dingell?
It's a sad crapsack of a world out there, people. You take your little jokes where you can!
@Tillman: It's a sad crapsack of a world out there, people. You take your little jokes where you can!
Did your scrip for Prozac run out?
Apparently President Obama has authorized air strikes in Iraq. Now I am depressed.
You have to admit Debbie Dingell is fun to say.
Go ahead…say it 5 times fast.
But I have to ask…what's an attractive woman doing with an old bag of bones 30 years her senior? I guess those little blue pills work, eh?
It's what makes you a Libertarian.
@ernieyeball: Nah, but my Cymbalta's running low.
The ads for Cymbalta were always more upbeat. You got the idea it was an ED med.
@Tillman: You got the idea it was an ED med.
uh…maybe you did. I never saw the ads.
My TV at home does not get any channels. I use it for DVDs.
I see a lot of sports events on the 45 TVs at my local Buffalo Wild Wings. Including the two TVs in the pisser. One on the wall above each urinal.
Some times the sound is on for a game. Like when the Cubs rip up the StinkBirds. Mostly it's it loud music.
Commercials? It's easy to miss them as a game will be on the next screen.
@rudderpedals: Yes. The Buffalo Wild Wings in Sleepytown is my home.
On my 66th birthday last January all the employees pitched in and got me a BWW Gift Card for $80! On Wing Tuesday that's about 160 Chicken Wings.
To acknowledge their kindness I donated $40 to the local Boys and Girls Club and told the B+G Club it came from the workers at Wild Wings.
Ughh how did I miss your mentioning Wild Wings? It's right there in the same post.
@rudderpedals: When I am not "living" at BWW I sleep in my 14×60 trailer house. The 1/2 acre lot it sits on has many trees I have watered on occasion. Does that count?


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I saw the urgency of winning this battle firsthand during a trip to Africa. I met with valiant men and women committed to using every available means to roll back this plague in their countries. During the trip I launched projects - part of the president's unprecedented $15 billion plan to combat HIV/AIDS worldwide - that focus on workplace education and prevention. This has proved to be an effective way to reach out to HIV victims, the vast majority of whom are employed.
THE NEED to address HIV/AIDS in the workplace is urgent. In Africa and many other countries, AIDS is dealing a heavy blow to the most productive members of society. About half of the new cases of HIV infection occur in those under age 25 - and few of these people live to see their 35th birthday. It is causing an alarming reversal of the trend toward longer life spans that we see in the developed world. Experts predict that by the end of this decade, HIV will reduce average life expectancy by 30 to 40 years in some of the nations of sub-Saharan Africa.
Without effective action, many poor countries will face not only a humanitarian crisis but an economic one, as HIV deprives them of the workforce necessary to grow their way out of poverty. That's just one reason the United States, through the Department of Labor, supports workplace-based HIV/AIDS prevention and education. The department works with local communities to help them cope with the fear, social stigmatization and discrimination that inhibit prevention and education efforts that can prevent infection.
In the last four years, the Department of Labor has funded and obligated nearly $35 million in tailored, comprehensive workplace-based HIV/AIDS prevention and education programs. These programs address the need for behavior change and help stricken workers and their families find the care and support they need.
Some of these projects support the formation of HIV/AIDS steering committees at work sites and others have provided training for HIV/AIDS educators and peer counselors at the worksites of the largest employers in Malawi, Namibia, Haiti, India, Vietnam, Ukraine, Nigeria and the Dominican Republic. Still other projects assist governments, employers and workers in coming together to fight HIV/AIDS.
Especially noteworthy are the U.S.-funded projects that focus on teachers, a sector of the workforce hard-hit by AIDS. American-supported programs in Uganda, for example, are educating teachers about prevention behaviors as well as providing the afflicted with support and services.
IN REACHING out to these teachers, we are not only helping them to protect themselves. We are ensuring that their knowledge and awareness will be passed on to their pupils. It is a sad fact that myths and taboos about HIV/AIDS persist in all too much of the world. Teachers can be an invaluable resource in dispelling these misperceptions and spreading accurate information that can save lives.
These programs are a good example of the many different ways to approach the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The president has committed nearly every government agency to joining this worldwide campaign. It is an unprecedented effort to fight a battle that the world must win.


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For those of you who missed my earlier post about this, the conformer (or conformateur) set is a fantastic and very rare 19th century machine used to customize a hat to the customer's exact head size and *shape*. The fit of a hat is a lot like the fit of a shoe- to be worn comfortably (or at all), the hat has to be the correct size and shape for the head. Mass market hat companies make all their hats to an average shape, which means that they fit a few people well and everyone else not so well. Many guys think that they have trouble fitting into hats because of the sizing, when usually it's the shape that's the problem. I am super excited to now be able to offer custom shaping this special service to my clients. All that's required is for me to have access to your head once to take the initial measurements, then even long-distance clients can be assured of a perfect fit. I'm planning to have a special case made for the set, so I can take it with me and measure long-distance clients when I travel.
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Q: What should the input to DeepLabV3 be in training mode? I am trying to train a deeplabv3_resnet50 model on a custom dataset, but get the error ValueError: Expected more than 1 value per channel when training, got input size torch.Size([1, 256, 1, 1]) when trying to do the forward pass. The following minimal example produces this error:
import torch
import torchvision

model = torchvision.models.segmentation.deeplabv3_resnet50(weights="DEFAULT")
model.train()

batch_size = 1
nbr_of_channels = 3
img_height, img_width = (500, 500)
input = torch.rand((batch_size, nbr_of_channels, img_height, img_width))
model(input)

I do not understand this at all. What is meant by got input size torch.Size([1, 256, 1, 1]), and what should I do differently?

A: The error you get is from a deep BatchNorm layer: deep in the backbone, the feature map size is reduced to 1x1 pixels. As a result, BatchNorm cannot compute std of the feature map when batch size is only one.
For any batch_size > 1 this will work:
batch_size = 2  # Need bigger batches for training
nbr_of_channels = 3
img_height, img_width = (500, 500)
input = torch.rand((batch_size, nbr_of_channels, img_height, img_width))
model(input)  # working with batch_size > 1

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Partnering with Tourlane: Bringing Specialty Travel Online
We're delighted to announce that we recently led Tourlane's Series B.
By Andrew Reed
Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer
At Sequoia we strive to partner with companies that create lasting influences on their customers.
A great trip leaves a permanent imprint.
We've long been excited about the intersection of technology and travel. It's a market that holds the potential to build beloved and dent-making consumer companies. The opportunities in the space are global. We're fortunate to be partnered today with companies like Airbnb, Meituan-Dianping, Oyo Rooms and Traveloka that are transforming the industry around the world, and in prior years have worked with Kayak, ITA, Skyscanner, and Despegar, among others.
In a market where so much of the discovery and transaction experience has moved online, specialty travel remains one of the last bastions of offline bookings. Until recently, there was no way for individuals to efficiently design custom experiences, such as those with multiple or remote destinations.
That's why our ears perked up when we first heard about Tourlane. We knew Tourlane's co-founders had notable backgrounds — Julian Stiefel at Airbnb and Julian Weselek at Rocket Internet — and when they described their vision for the Berlin-based company, we instantly began dreaming about its potential.
Given the complexity of arranging multi-day trips with countless documents and reservations, Julian and Julian had to reimagine what an online travel company should look like. The result is a unique business, both complementary to much of the online travel industry and poised to reshape the existing model of offline booking via agencies and operators. Tourlane's vertically integrated technology platform allows travelers to customize their itineraries and bundles flights, accommodations and activities together for a seamless experience. The company's fingerprints extend beyond the booking into the trip itself, and they are building an engaged and loyal customer base that will pay dividends in the years to come.
The early reviews of Tourlane are fantastic, and, even amid a $100B+ market, it's easy to see how such a category-redefining product could expand the market to an entirely new cohort of travelers.
That's why we're delighted to announce that we recently led a $24M Series B alongside existing investors Spark Capital, DN Capital, and HV Holtzbrinck.
We're eager to embark on this journey with Julian and Julian; the entire Tourlane team; our friends at Spark, DN and HV Holtzbrinck; and the company's incredibly supportive angel investors and advisors, including Nate Blecharczyk from Airbnb, Johannes Reck from Get Your Guide, Rolf Schrömgens from Trivago, Wolfgang Heigl from Swoodoo and Hometogo and Fritz Demopolous from Qunar.
The global flow of technology-empowered travelers is a tailwind we'll be thrilled to ride for decades, and we're confident this partnership will be at the very least as fun-filled, efficient and rewarding as a Tourlane vacation.
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When highschool student Kurono Kei meets up with his childhood friend Masaru Katou at a subway station, their lives take a drastic turn. They both cooperate to save a homeless man who falls onto the tracks, but get run over by the train in the process. Moments later, they appear in an apartment filled with several other people, and a giant black ball in the center of the room. The black ball lights up and informs them that they are now completely under its control. It tells them to go and kill a certain humanoid creature, then it provides them with an arsenal of futuristic weapons, armor, and equipment; and teleports them outside the apartment to a certain alleyway in Tokyo. The people are soon forced to fight for their lives against the creature, each other, and an unexpected visitor. Those who survive are allowed to go free, but they soon discover that it will not be so easy, as the black ball still has control of their fates, and it likes to play games. - Source ANN.


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The 10 Best Campaign Videos of 2011
December 20, 2011 / J Scott Willey
eM&P Picks the Ten Best Videos of 2011
Yet another arbitrary end-of-the-year list of the best (or most memorable) campaign produced videos of 2011.
1) Strong
Candidate: Rick Perry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PAJNntoRgA
2) Now is the time for action!
Candidate: Herman Cain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhm-22Q0PuM
3) Believe in America
Candidate: Mitt Romney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3a7FC0Jkv8
4) Romney's Remedy
Date: Oct 9, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfcOGWRfXdk
5) Ron Paul - "The one who can beat Obama"
Candidate: Ron Paul
Date: Aug 15, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pChzOaIeyxY
6) Tim Pawlenty - Courage to Stand
Candidate: Tim Pawlenty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfkNEq1XioE
7) Obama 2012 Strategy Briefing
Candidate: President Barack Obama
Date: Apr 25, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH0fiMGvW2k
8) The Herman Cain Train Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOFB-2yJzCY
9) New Ron Paul Ad - BIG DOG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXCZVmQ74OA
10) Tim Pawlenty - A New Direction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGXb8OFLlRs
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