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SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Rom. 1:11-12, Prov. 11:25 INTRO: We are often trained to see the world through a zero sum lens. In other words, where in order for one to gain, there must be a corresponding loss. However, when it comes to the community of Christ; could it be that it all works another way? What if making another strong, through the exercise of your gifts actually makes you stronger? What would it look like for our community to extend our giftedness and strength to each other; in such a way that we all reap the strengthening benefits?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: 1Peter 4:7-10 INTRO: Whether sought, or seen on the screens; we just can't get enough of love. But love is only real when it is sincere; whole hearted. Today as we look at a defining characteristic of authentic community in Christ, how can we appropriate the call to love truly; even to the point of boiling in love?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Acts 2:42-47 INTRO: Appearances can be deceiving. The beauty and nature of a thing isn't always fully grasped through external lenses. Rather, they often only pointed to through symbol, and revealed through experience. Today as we continue to look at doing community God's way, how might we understand and leverage the sacramental nature of church in practice?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 INTRO: Amidst an epidemic of loneliness, many find themselves on a quest for community. But what does community look like, and why is it so hard to find and build? Today as we start a new series on "Forging Community," we will reflect on how we might tap into our hunger for connection toward building biblical community.
Speaker: Pastor Martin TEXT: Psalm 139: 23-34; Philippians 3:12-14 INTRO: Life feels like it speeds by so fast that we don't know where we've come, much less where we ought to be going. Today as we note the end of this year, and the coming start of the next; what would it look like to practice the discipline of prayerful reflection and self examination in God's Presence?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TITLE: Proclaiming Jubilee TEXT: Luke 4:14-21 INTRO: Celebrations are usually tied to an occasion, e.g. a birthday, or a holiday. But there are special occasions that call for grand celebration, e.g. a 50th year anniversary. Now imagine how you would celebrate if you were diagnosed with terminal case of cancer, but then declared cancer free? Or if you were unjustly imprisoned for life, but then set free? Today as we reflect on Jesus' proclamations of Jubilee in His coming, how might we echo His calls to freedom for the oppressed amidst our celebrations this season?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TITLE: Gifting Hospitality TEXT: Luke 14:12-14; Leviticus 19:33-34 INTRO: Hosting family and friends; or being hosted is a central part of our holiday celebrations. But as we reflect on the true nature of hospitality in Christ, what would it look like for us to gift expressions of hospitality to the vulnerable this season?
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Luke 2:1-7; Matthew 2:13-14 INTRO: The season of Christmas has been largely taken over by nostalgic, if not straight up consumer agendas. But at the heart of Christmas is the stunning advent of God in the flesh, into our broken lives and world. Today as we start out our Advent season proper, how might we take into account Jesus' coming into such a vulnerable position. And how might we look to identify with Him by identifying with the vulnerable in and around us?
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: James 1:22, John 14:21 INTRO: For most of us, initiating change in our lives is hard enough. But a good start only gets us so far. The real test for lasting change comes with the follow through. Today as we finish out our GRACE group series on Practicing Devotion, what will following through look like in our first hand spirituality lifestyle? And how might we apply principles of the follow through in our discipleship life in Christ?
SPEAKER: Pastor Richard Lee TITLE: The Liturgy of Life TEXT: Exodus 20:8-11 INTRO: From the way we think about time, to the way we use it, God cares. As we continue in our series on Practicing Devotion, we'll consider what it means to leverage our time and life rhythms for worship.
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: John 14:26, Isaiah 30:21 INTRO: If a stranger declares that God talks to them, most of us are inclined to quickly diagnose mental health issues. However, what we see in the Bible is that God is always talking to His people. Today as we continue on in our Practicing Devotion GRACE group series, how can we open our attention to the God who speaks personally to us? How can we engage the Scriptures and the Spirit in the practice of hearing God?
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Romans 14:12, Hebrews 10:24 INTRO: When it comes to our leaders, or even our peers; we generally like the notion of someone being held "accountable" for their actions. However, it's not always clear how that is supposed to happen, especially when it comes to others keeping us accountable. Today as we reflect on the power of accountability toward personal and spiritual growth, what does accountability look like? And how can we handle it well, when it comes to a lifestyle devoted to God?
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Psalm 1:1-2, Joshua 1:8 INTRO: Given all the information that comes across our minds each day, our attention spans grow all the more short and shallow. Close and careful reading is training that few possess, much less practice. But what if the Scriptures were not meant to just be accessed, but rather meditated upon: slowly and deeply? This week as we discuss what the ancients called Lectio Divina, i.e. "divine reading"; how might the practice of slowing down and contemplating through the Scriptures connect us deeply with God?
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Luke 4:16, 5:16. INTRO: They say that 40% of all that we do is out of habit. Depending on whether these habits are good or bad, our lives are profoundly affected. Today as we look at the lifestyle of Jesus, and how he habitually worships and prays; how might we leverage the power of habits in our lives; for greater godliness and devotion?
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: 2Timothy 2:15, John 16:13 INTRO: While some might claim that "truth isn't truth", when it comes to living Knowing what is true and what is not can make all the difference in the world. Today as we start our GRACE groups proper, how can we practically get into the daily rhythm of infusing our thoughts with God's Word and truth?
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Job 42:5-6 [The Message] INTRO: In a courtroom, hearsay is the situation where second hand information is deemed inadmissible. There is a validity about a first hand experience that trumps anything second handed. Today as we start a new series, we want to look at the incredible experience of knowing and walking with God first hand. What does it mean to hear and talk with Him directly, and how might we develop a sustainable lifestyle of knowing God first hand?
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Luke 7:44-47 INTRO: Many of us grew up with the operating system of merit, i.e. you get what you deserve. But what if the way God meets and treats us works another way? Today as we talk about how God finds the low, humble, the broken; how can we respond to the gravity of His grace?
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: 1Peter 4:10, 1Corinthians 12:12-20 INTRO: While most people want the life of a "baller," with everyone around serving you hand and foot, the life in Christ means that we get to serve! Today as we talk about the call and benefits of a life of service, in the church and in the world; how might we join in teamwork at New Vision? Following our worship, we'll be hosting a Ministry Fair to highlight all the ways you can plug in!
SPEAKER: Pastor Marting Chang TEXT: Matthew 6:33, Phil. 3:20 INTRO: We have the dubious honor of living in an "unprecedented time," particularly in regards to politic discourse and policy. What does it look like to be both an earthly and heavenly citizen? How should a Christian think through policy issues and navigate through the world of politics in America?
SPEAKER: Pastor Richard TEXT: 1Tim:6:11-16, 20-21 INTRO: In his letters, Paul often uses the image of sport to illustrate what it looks like to live out our faith. Here, he calls us to fight the good fight, to persevere in our faith. Today we consider what that fight is, how we participate, and the reason behind it all.
SPEAKER: Pastor Richard TEXT: 1Tim:6:9-10, 17-21 INTRO: Money is deeply intertwined into our culture and the way we understand and engage the world around us. Christ calls us, not to detach ourselves from money, but to be aware of the dangers that come with a love of money.
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: 1Tim:6:3-8 INTRO: Whether in business or in a consumer transaction, the goal is to gain as much as we can for the investment we make. What does this look like in the Kingdom of God? Today as we look at what it means to accrue the greatest gain, how should investments in godliness and contentment transform the way we calculate the way we live?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TITLE: Church-Family TEXT: 1Timothy 5:1-16 INTRO: These days, the sense of family is something that is so prized, but hard to find. Family is still the strongest, and truest expression of community that we are called to build. Today as we jump back into the book of 1Timothy, what does Paul have to say about treating others in our church as family? How can we care and build each other up in God's own family?
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin TEXT: Prov.27:17; 2Tim.2:2 INTRO: Growing spiritually mature in head, heart, and hand is not automatic, or easy. Rarely do we get there alone. Today as we round out our Together in Worship season, how can we engage in mentoring relationships to stir our growth in Christ?
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Matthew 22:37, Philippians 4:3 INTRO: Some Christians say that we should shut off our brains, and just have blind faith. But God is a God of truth, who commands us to grow mature in our thinking and understanding! As we continue on in our Together in Worship month, how can we love God with all of our minds?
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Change TEXT: Galatians 4:19 INTRO: For any living organism, growth can be exciting! But it also comes with stretching; even pain. Today as we start our month Together in Worship, how might we see the full path to spiritual maturity marked out for us? And how can we manage growing pains associated with becoming like Jesus; in head, heart, and hands?
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: 1Timothy 4:11-16 INTRO: We often hear much talk that doesn't jibe with one's lifestyle. Though "walking the walk" is rare, it is that which we in the household of God are called to devote ourselves. How can we respond to Paul's encouragement in 1Timothy to set our lives as examples; watching our life and doctrine closely?
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: 1Timothy 4:1-10 INTRO: Happy Father's Day! Today as we honor our fathers, we also continue on in our trek through the book of 1Timothy. As Paul underscores the value of godliness training, how might we grow in our focus and skill in godly living?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: 1Timothy 3:1-16 INTRO: What makes a great leader? Corporations and communities alike wrestle with this question with greater intensity as future challenges increase. Today as we continue on in the book of 1Timothy, what are the core qualifications that we are given for leadership in the church? How can we build into all the more a core value of biblical leadership in our midst?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TITLE: ENGENDERED WORSHIP TEXT: 1Timothy 2:8-15 INTRO: Since the fall, the war of the genders have left persons and communities in turmoil. Today as we look at the fault lines in the Ephesian church's gendered approaches, how might we gain a better understanding of how men & women can lead and worship in the church?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TITLE: Pressed for Prayer TEXT: 1Timothy 2:1-8 INTRO: When it comes to prayer, it is often the last option; when we feel pressed for God's help. But as we dig into the book of 1Timothy, we see Paul's immediate emphasis on prayer as a pressing demand. How can we respond to God's heart as He presses us for our prayer.
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: 1Timothy 2:1-8 INTRO: When it comes to prayer, it is often the last option; when we feel pressed for God's help. But as we dig into the book of 1Timothy, we see Paul's immediate emphasis on prayer as a pressing demand. How can we respond to God's heart as He presses us for our prayer.
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TITLE: Fight for Faith TEXT: 1Timothy 1:1-6, 18-19 INTRO: Almost everything suffers the effects of degradation. This includes our relationship with God. What is called for is an active, and intentional fight. Today as we start a new series covering the book of 1Timothy, how might we respond to the charge to fight for a life of sincere faith?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TITLE: Never Forsaken TEXT: Isaiah 49:14-16 INTRO: Happy Mother's Day! Today as we reflect on and celebrate, how might our hearts be attentive to God's unbreakable, unconditional love to us that transcends even that of our mothers?
Speaker: Lisa Plunket TEXT: 1Samuel: 17:42-50 INTRO: In our challenging world, true courage is a commodity that is both precious and in short supply. Today our guest speaker Lisa Plunket will speak to the nature and source of true courage as we walk through once again the story of David and Goliath. Particularly, we will be challenged to step into the courage God has for us.
Speaker: Pastor Martin TEXT: Isa.60:15-22 INTRO: Different persons and cultures have different ideas of what eternity in heaven will look like. Today as we round out our series, Gospel in Life; what picture does the Bible portray? As we look at the vision of the eternal city that awaits us, how can we live in preparation and hope?
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TITLE: Justice: A People For Others TEXT: Micah 6:8; Isaiah 58:6-8 INTRO: These days, it's "fashionable" to wear badges of social justice and advocacy on our social media chests. But as we look to how God identifies with the poor and oppressed, what does doing justice and loving mercy look like for the people of God?
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TITLE: Work: Cultivating The Garden TEXT: Mat.6:19-21; Col.3:23 INTRO: New Yorkers work more than those from any other American city; on average more than forty nine hours a week! Occupying more than just our time and energy, work speaks into our sense of identity and purpose. Given all this, how does the gospel change the way we understand and do our work?
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Ephesians 1:18-21, Matthew 5:14 INTRO: For many, one's religion is a private choice and lifestyle. But Jesus tells his disciples that they are to be together, a light unto the world, a "city on a hill" that is shines amidst the world. What does it look like to be a "city on a hill," an alternate city that actively illustrates and invites others to the age to come?
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: 1Peter 1:3 INTRO: He is Risen! He is Risen Indeed! This morning as we once again celebrate Jesus' resurrection, how might we understand the significance of His being raised from the dead? What does it mean to us, and how might we step into the path of new life that He's blazed?
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: 1Pet. 2:9-12 INTRO: Even non Christians have quipped that genuine community is as basic a need as food and shelter. But more than supplying a mere commodity, communities that are built off of Christ and His gospel are distinctive and deep. How might we intentionally look to shape gospel community here, in and around us?
SPEAKER: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Romans 1:18-25 INTRO: Those who understand human nature end up paying attention to ulterior motives. The Bible points to sin not just in terms of external behavior, but the motivation that drives our actions. How do we identify our idols, and how do we experience heart transformation through the gospel?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TITLE: Heart: Three Ways to Live TEXT: Luke 15:11-32 INTRO: We live our lives, inside out. Our behavior is not just determined by our thoughts, but at the level of our heart; i.e. how we interpret what is significant at the core. Today as we discuss the three different ways of operant living, i.e. the religious, the irreligious, and the gospel; what would it look like for us to live the gospel, from the heart?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Jeremiah 29: 4-15 INTRO: People are not just visiting the great cities of the world, they are moving to them. As the world rapidly urbanizes, what is to be our understanding of God's purposes for the city? Today as we start our GRACE group season proper, how might we seek the prosperity of our city?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TITLE: Gospel: The Reign of God TEXT: Mark 1:14-15 INTRO: For some, the word "gospel" evokes images of African Americans singing passionately together in robes. For others, it's the idea that Jesus died for us on the cross, and that if we believed in Him our sins would be forgiven and that we would secure a ticket to heaven. What does "the gospel" mean? Today as we explore what Jesus means when he begins to proclaim his gospel. We'll also survey our spring GRACE group course, "Gospel in Life"; in how we can live out the gospel in our every day life.
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TITLE: Living Walk TEXT: Genesis 5:21-24 INTRO: One of the more cliche' metaphors for being in right relationship with God is that of walking with HIm. Despite its shallow overuse, there is something deeply valid and centering in the metaphor that is worth our deepening attention. What does it mean to walk with God, and how can we respond to God's call for friendship and close proximity in our daily lives?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TITLE: Venturing Together TEXT: Joshua 3:9-17 INTRO: As the old cliche goes, "nothing ventured, nothing gained." For those grappling with fear, or loss; the call to step forward into uncertain waters may seem too daunting. But God has a way of empowering us with courage via faith; as we step forward with Him and the family of Christ. Today as we celebrate the start of a new season, in a new venue; how might we reflect on the call and privilege to venture forward...together?
Speaker: Pastor Richard Lee TITLE: Taming the Beast of the Tongue TEXT: James 3:7-18 INTRO: We teach children "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything." But over time, we build habits of avoiding conversations that make us uncomfortable including repentance, loving correction, and healthy confrontation. James speaks of an untamed tongue as being full of deadly poison and calls us to walk in wisdom. With that in mind, Christians shouldn't shy away from speaking, but as Paul says in Ephesians 4:15, we're called to learn to "speak the truth in love," with wisdom from God (James 3:17-18).
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Micah 5:1-9 INTRO: The bigger the better, go big or go home. We have a love affair with the big. But God has a way of overturning our hallowed expectations; even in deciding to highlight the small when bringing His Kingdom. Today as we look at the book of Micah, we find God declaring that God would bring a saving ruler through the little town of Bethlehem. How ought we to align with God, as He moves to choose the small?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Genesis 22:1-13 INTRO: Two different strategies for how to navigate a chaotic world are represented by those who plan, and those who wing it. But when the stakes are high, those who really love and care tend to plan. Today as we look at the story of Abraham's call to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac, what might we learn about God? And how He's foreseen and planned ahead for our greatest needs?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Isaiah 11:1; Gen.3:6-9, 14-15 INTRO: The story of Christmas goes back much further than the birth of Christ. As early as the third chapter of Genesis, after all was lost due to sin; God promised a fuller restoration through the coming of a Savior. Today as we start our Advent series in the tradition of the Jesse Tree, how can we understand and prepare our hearts for the divine restart that God has planned for us all in Christ?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: John 6:53-69 INTRO: When following Jesus, it's often easier to start following than to stay following. A great temptation is to somewhere along the way, hit the "unfollow" button. Today as we round out our GRACE group season, how can we stay on course when we face inconvenience, embarassment, and dissapointment in our following of Jesus?
Speaker: Pastor Paul Kim TEXT: Luke 17: 11-19 INTRO: Thanksgiving should a joyous time as we spend time with friends and family; nevertheless, we often fill ourselves with activities that may lead us away from Christ. This season as we enter into the advent season, let us prepare our hearts in giving thanks to Christ Jesus!
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Mark 10:32-44 INTRO: It is often said that great leaders are those who know how to follow. But when it comes to Jesus, the opposite applies as well: followers of Jesus are also called to lead. What does it look like to lead like Jesus; and how can we bring His brand of change and growth in the lives around us?
Speaker: Pastor Richard Lee TEXT: Matthew 26:6-15 INTRO: We tend to imagine God to be like a genie or vending machine - that we if we behave a certain way, he will grant us what we want or make life look a certain way. Without fail, we repeatedly hit points of tension where our will and God's will for our lives don't match up. Jesus calls us to lay down our will and to trust that his is better.
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Mark 8:31-37 INTRO: When approached with an offer of life changing significance, it is important to find out the true costs that are involved. Today as we hear about the challenges of discipleship, how might we begin to respond to both the worth, and the costs of following Jesus?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Colossians 3:12 INTRO: True fans "represent" by wearing the jersey or fan-gear of their favorite team. But as a Christ-follower, rather than wearing external gear, we are called to "clothe" ourselves with His very character. How might we grow in putting on Christ's "follow wear" as we look to follow Him?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Matthew 10:26-31 INTRO: Far too often, fear is the driver when it comes to our decisions and lifestyles. But for those who follow Jesus, a profound confidence is given that brings robust freedom to truly love and thrive.
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Luke 5:1-11 INTRO: The call of Christ is to follow him with all of our lives - beyond merely knowing about God, Christians are called to take action and live each day following Jesus. As we continue in our Fall Grace group season, how might Jesus be calling us to take action to follow him?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Change TEXT: Matthew 9:9-13 INTRO: Sometimes it's easy to fall into the trap of elitism, even in church. But Jesus was comfortable with, and invited every kind of person to just follow him. Today as we start our Fall GRACE group season, how might we respond to and repeat His gracious and universal invitation?
Speaker: Pastor Samuel Choi TEXT: Matt 14:22-33 INTRO: We were made to be with Christ, to follow Him. It is here we are most satisfied and transformed. God desires us to see life's circumstances as opportunities to draw near instead of hinderances.
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Mark 1:16-19 INTRO: Christian, believer, born again, saved. All terms describing the identity of one who has responded to God in Christ. But the earliest term was disciple, or follower. Today as we hear an intro to our upcoming Fall GRACE group season, how might we understand the kind of relationship that God is calling us into as Christ followers?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Psalm 146 INTRO: A world in rebellion to God reverberates with hunger, distress, and oppression. But Creator God is also Redeemer God, upholding the cause to restore the broken. Today as we round out our Summer in the Psalms, we turn our praise to our God in Christ, and look to participate in upholding His cause.
Speaker: Pastor Marting Chang TEXT: Psalm 42 INTRO: Whether recognized or not, spiritual hunger is a universal experience. For those in relationship with God, rich experiences of God are often followed by periods of thirsting for His Presence. Today as we look to Psalm 42, what should we do when we find ourselves spiritually dry; thirsting for God?
Speaker: Pastor Martin Chang TEXT: Psalm 67 INTRO: Many are those that seek God's favor, for their health, wealth, and families. But what if God's favor was meant for more than just us? Today as we look at Psalm 67, why does the Psalmist seek God's face and favor? Could it be that seeking God's blessing is so that the peoples of the earth would come to see and know God?


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Robocop / screen print / regular / Martin Ansin / USA
Robocop: O batsos robot (Greece)
Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer
Action | Sci-Fi
Part man. Part machine. All cop.
A striking design by Martin Ansin on this screen print for Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi masterpiece, Robocop. Set in a dystopian future Detroit where organised crime is rampant and the city is close to financial ruin, the mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products enters into an agreement with the city to run the police force and plans to introduce a robotic enforcer to work alongside the human officers. When tests with a weaponised droid called ED-209 go awry and an OCP junior executive is killed, the chairman agrees to back the plans of Bob Morton (Miguel Ferrer), another OCP executive with designs for a cyborg (half-man, half-machine) cop.
Shortly after, veteran officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) is brutally attacked and effectively killed on his first patrol at a new precinct and Morton sees him as the perfect candidate for his Robocop program. OCP quickly goes about transforming his ravaged body into the future of law enforcement, but when he reawakens Murphy initially struggles with his transformation and loss of his family. Soon he sets about avenging his 'death' at the hands of crime boss Clarence Bodicker (an unforgettable performance from Kurtwood Smith) and attacks the corruption that is destroying Detroit, which leads all the way to the boardroom of OCP.
This print was one of several created by Martin Ansin for a joint show with fellow artist Kevin Tong held at the Mondo Austin gallery during March 2014. Tong also worked on a print for Robocop and other films covered included Flash Gordon and Alien. Badass Digest went to the show and interviewed Ansin and Tong, which can be read here and Collider.com ran an article featuring loads of images from the show. There was a variant of this print available that was printed with metallic inks and has a different colour scheme, see here.
One of my favourite artists working today, Martin Ansin's work has graced many of the best posters released by Mondo, including several in the Universal Monsters series like this amazing Phantom of the Opera print and an excellent Dracula (1931) one. You only have to look at the gallery on his official site to see how talented an artist he is, with an eye for composition and detail unmatched by most of the artists in Mondo's roster. To see the other posters I've collected so far that were designed by Ansin, click here.

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Child Obes. 2018 Feb/Mar;14(2):81-88. doi: 10.1089/chi.2017.0164. Epub 2017 Dec 1.
The Relationship between Structure-Related Food Parenting Practices and Children's Heightened Levels of Self-Regulation in Eating.
Frankel LA1, Powell E1, Jansen E2.
1 Department of Psychological, Health, and Learning Sciences, The University of Houston , Houston, TX.
2 Center for Children's Health Research, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Queensland University of Technology , South Brisbane, Australia .
Food parenting practices influence children's eating behaviors and weight status. Food parenting practices also influence children's self-regulatory abilities around eating, which has important implications for children's eating behaviors. The purpose of the following study is to examine use of structure-related food parenting practices and the potential impact on children's ability to self-regulate energy intake.
Parents (n = 379) of preschool age children (M = 4.10 years, SD = 0.92) were mostly mothers (68.6%), Non-White (54.5%), and overweight/obese (50.1%). Hierarchical Multiple Regression was conducted to predict child self-regulation in eating from structure-related food parenting practices (structured meal setting, structured meal timing, family meal setting), while accounting for child weight status, parent age, gender, BMI, race, and yearly income.
Hierarchical Multiple Regression results indicated that structure-related feeding practices (structured meal setting and family meal setting, but not structured meal timing) are associated with children's heightened levels of self-regulation in eating. Models examining the relationship within children who were normal weight and overweight/obese indicated the following: a relationship between structured meal setting and heightened self-regulation in eating for normal-weight children and a relationship between family meal setting and heightened self-regulation in eating for overweight/obese children.
Researchers should further investigate these potentially modifiable parent feeding behaviors as a protective parenting technique, which possibly contributes to a healthy weight development by enhancing self-regulation in eating.


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RideLondon-Surrey
More than 50,000 register for RideLondon-Surrey 2015
In just 72 hours, more than 50,000 people have registered for next year's Prudential RideLondon-Surrey cycling event
Natasha Salmon
(Image: TMS)
More than 50,000 people have registered to take part in next year's Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 event.
Just 72 hours after the ballot opened, on Monday (August 18), tens of thousands of people had already applied to take part in the amateur cycling event.
Officials said the ballot will close once 100,000 people have applied for a place.
The 2015 event will take place on Sunday August 2 as part of the Mayor of London's annual two-day festival of cycling.
Event director Hugh Brasher said: "After conditions that have been aptly described as biblical, we are delighted to see that the enthusiasm of Britain's cyclists and would-be cyclists to participate in the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 has not been dampened.
"This fantastic response underlines the popularity of the world's greatest festival of cycling."
More than 20,000 amateur cyclists finished this year's 100 event on August 10, despite organisers shortening the route to 86 miles due to heavy rain and wind.
The cyclists began at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, pedaling out through the capital and into the Surrey Hills, before returning to a hero's welcome on The Mall in St James' Park.


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Posted on August 9, 2016 September 25, 2017 by KW
By Michael Chan (English '14)
I began my undergraduate career as an Architectural Studies major before making the switch to English about halfway into my sophomore year. It wasn't an easy decision for me to make, but after extensively consulting with family, friends, and several trusted mentors, I was prepared to commit myself to the new program (and to the condensed course load that came with it). What I wasn't prepared for, however, was deciding upon a definitive career path within the next two years.
Throughout my junior year, I met with several professors, advisors, and grad students to discuss the possibility of grad school and to get a better understanding of what an academic career would entail. I also frequented the Career Center to explore alternative career paths outside of academia. I knew that I thoroughly enjoyed research and writing, but I also didn't want to limit my options—especially since I had only taken a handful of English courses at the time and wasn't sure if I wanted to dedicate another 6-8 years in pursuit of a Ph.D.
As senior year approached, I decided to look for a job after graduation so that I could gain some practical work experience; this would allow me to spend some time away from academia and to develop my skills as a working professional. After sending out numerous applications, I finally received an offer to work for an immigration law firm as a legal writer. I didn't have any experience in legal writing, but I viewed this as an opportunity to expand my writing capability. Therefore, I accepted the offer and began my first day of work on November 11, 2014.
As a legal writer, I was responsible for drafting a variety of legal documents that communicated complex and technical information in plain and accessible language (all of these documents followed a customary form and structure that were taught during the training process). I also had to present that information in a compelling light in order to support the rest of the arguments being made for a client's case. While I'm unable to provide any further details (due to the confidential nature of my work and also at the firm's request), it's clear to see that the type of writing I discussed above combines several key aspects of persuasive and argumentative writing (i.e. making a claim, citing supporting evidence to substantiate that claim and to make it more convincing) with technical writing (i.e. translating complex and technical information into more relatable terms for a more general audience). It's important to note here that legal writing is just a type of technical writing that incorporates certain elements from both of these writing styles to serve a wide range of legal services/areas—immigration law being one of them.
Being an effective communicator is central to any genre, form, or style of writing; the ability to communicate your thoughts, as well as the thoughts of others, in a clear, concise, and effective manner is critical to your overall success as a writer and it is also one of the many skills you develop as an English major. Learning a new type or style of writing can seem daunting – and it will undoubtedly take some time and practice to achieve any sort of proficiency in it – but having a solid foundation of writing experience to draw from will take you much farther along the process. The countless papers that you wrote as an undergrad, the feedback you received on those papers, what you did to improve your writing based on that feedback, the range of elective courses that you took in Creative Writing, Business and Technical Writing, Rhetoric—these all make up your collective writing experience. These are all experiences that can be taken for granted as a student, but they are all imperative to the development of your writing capability.
Working as a legal writer has added significant value to my own writing experience and it has also added a new dimension of practicality to my writing. For any English majors who are interested in obtaining valuable work experience outside of academia (or for those who just need some time away from the books before reconsidering grad school), legal writing is just one of many options for you to consider and explore.
If you would like to reach out to Michael with any additional questions, you can email him directly at chan.michael.08@gmail.com.
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Q: Why do loggers recommend using a logger per class? As per NLog's documentation:

Most applications will use one logger per class, where the name of the logger is the same as the name of the class.

This is the same way that log4net operates. Why is this a good practice?

A: With log4net, using one logger per class makes it easy to capture the source of the log message (ie. the class writing to the log).  If you don't have one logger per class, but instead have one logger for the entire app, you need to resort to more reflection tricks to know where the log messages are coming from.
Compare the following:
Log per class
using System.Reflection;
private static readonly ILog _logger =
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public void SomeMethod()
{
    _logger.DebugFormat("File not found: {0}", _filename);
}

One logger per app (or similar)
Logger.DebugFormat("File not found: {0}", _filename); // Logger determines caller

-- or --

Logger.DebugFormat(this, "File not found: {0}", _filename); // Pass in the caller

Using the second example, the Logger would need to build a stack trace to see who was calling it or your code would always have to pass in the caller.  With the logger-per-class style, you still do this, but you can do it once per class instead of once per call and eliminate a serious performance problem.

A: I can see a few reasons for this choice.

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*You will always know where a particular log statement came from, if you include the name of the logger in your log output format.

*You can control what log statements you see at a fine grained level by turning certain loggers on or off, or setting their level.

A: There is also a performance benefit in the case of NLog. Most users will use
Logger logger = LogManager.GetCurrentClassLogger()

Looking up the current class from stack trace take some (but not much) performance.

A: In most cases, the name of the class provides a good name for the logger.  When scanning the log files, you can see the log message and associate it directly with a line of code.
A good example where this is not the best approach, is Hibernate's SQL logs.  There is a shared logger named "Hibernate.SQL" or something like that, where a number of different classes write raw SQL out to a single logger category.

A: Advantage for using "logger per file" in NLog: you have possibility to manage/filter logs by namespace and class name. Example:
<logger name="A.NameSpace.MyClass"      minlevel="Debug" writeTo="ImportantLogs" />
<logger name="A.NameSpace.MyOtherClass" minlevel="Trace" writeTo="ImportantLogs" />
<logger name="StupidLibrary.*"          minlevel="Error" writeTo="StupidLibraryLogs" />

<!-- Hide other messages from StupidLibrary -->
<logger name="StupidLibrary.*" final="true" />

<!-- Log all but hidden messages -->
<logger name="*" writeTo="AllLogs" />

NLogger has a very useful code snippet to do this. The nlogger snippet will create the following code:
private static NLog.Logger logger = NLog.LogManager.GetCurrentClassLogger();

So only few keystrokes and you have logger per class. It will use namespace and class name as the name of the logger. To set different name to your class logger, you can use this:
private static NLog.Logger logger = NLog.LogManager.GetLogger("MyLib.MyName");

And, as @JeremyWiebe said, you don't have to use tricks to get the name of the class which is trying to log a message: Name of the logger (which is usually the name of the class) can be easy logged to file (or other target) by using ${logger} in layout.

A: Two reasons immediately spring to mind:

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*Having a separate log for each class makes it easy to group together all log messages/errors pertaining to a given class.

*Having a log within a class allows you to log internal details which may not be accessible outside the class (e.g., private state, information dealing with a class's implementation, etc.).

A: From a development standpoint, it's easiest if you don't have to create a logger object each time.  On the other hand, if you don't, but rather you create it dynamically using reflection, it'll slow down performance.  To solve this, you can use the following code which creates the logger dynamically asynchronously:
using NLog;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace WinForms
{
    class log
    {

        public static async void Log(int severity, string message)
        {
            await Task.Run(() => LogIt(severity, message));
        }

        private static void LogIt(int severity, string message)
        {
            StackTrace st = new StackTrace();
            StackFrame x = st.GetFrame(2);     //the third one goes back to the original caller
            Type t = x.GetMethod().DeclaringType;
            Logger theLogger = LogManager.GetLogger(t.FullName);

            //https://github.com/NLog/NLog/wiki/Log-levels
            string[] levels = { "Off", "Trace", "Debug", "Info", "Warn", "Error", "Fatal" };
            int level = Math.Min(levels.Length, severity);
            theLogger.Log(LogLevel.FromOrdinal(level), message);

        }
    }
}

A: Probably because you want to be able to log methods that are only visible to the class without  breaking encapsulation, this also makes it easy to use the class in another application without breaking the logging functionality.

A: Makes it easy to configure appenders by namespace or class.

A: If you are using NLOG you can specify the callsite in the config, this will record the class name and method where the logging statement was located.
<property name="CallSite" value="${callsite}" />

You could then use a constant for your logger name or the assembly name.
Disclaimer: I don't know how NLOG collects this information, my guess would be reflection so you may need to consider the performance. There are a few issues with Async methods if you are not using NLOG v4.4 or later.

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The Ole Miss junior and former St. Aloysius star has been named to the watch list for the 2020 Rimington Trophy, which honors the top center in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
Announced by the Rimington Trophy Committee on Wednesday, the list includes at least one player from every FBS conference. A total of 90 players are on the watch list.
Brown has started in 27 games over the first three seasons of his Ole Miss career — the first 24 at right guard, and three this season at center. He has started every game of his college career, and was selected to the Southeastern Conference's All-Freshman team in 2018.
Brown has helped Ole Miss' offense to get off to a fast start this season. Through three games, the Rebels are averaging 41.6 points and an SEC-best 573 yards per game. They are scheduled to play at Arkansas Saturday at 2:30 p.m.
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We wanted to visit something in the sprawling 92 hectare Lake Gardens in Kuala Lumpur and the KL Bird Park sounded like an appealing oasis of nature. Coming from a distance away outside the gardens, we actually caught a taxi which dropped us nearby the bird park as we wanted to wander within the gardens for a while.
The KL Bird Park cost us RM 42 each (about £7.45) - not cheap for Malaysia and made worse for us turning up having forgotten to withdraw some more cash.
A credit card signature later and we made our way in to visit the 21 acres of terrain split between four different zones, housing 3,000 birds made up of 200 local and foreign species. Got all that? It basically boiled down to a free-flight ecosystem within the cage that we happily walked through.
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Hornbills also featured in their own park, least of all having a restaurant named after them, and since visiting Malaysia, these ivory-headed and endangered birds have now become my favourite winged icon.
There were other varieties of birds but in the absence of timely photos and labels, I needed a degree in ornithology to identify them!
Aside from the usual restaurants and souvenir shops, the KL Bird Park also offered a number of attractions to bring visitors closer to the inhabitants. These consisted of an egg incubation room and nursery, a number of bird shows and a variety of feeding activities.
We actually missed the bird show but got a chance to feed the ostriches. More in a later post.
There was also an outstanding opportunity to have our photo taken with different birds at the Photo Booth, either with the assistants using our camera or their own (including a print out). At a smaller cost, we got our portraits taken using my camera and I sneaked in more shots of just Linh, since one of the parrots had taken a shine to her.
Here's a few more shots and a video from the Bird Park.
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More photos from the KL Bird Park on Flickr.
Visit the KL Bird Park website.


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The culpability of black people is enforced by white supremacy and the cops!
April 17, 2018 /0 Comments/in Culture /by R Jeanty
Let's face the real issue here, we wouldn't be boycotting Starbucks, if the cops were held accountable for their racist behavior toward black people. All white people understand when they call the cops, the cops will support their bullshit, no matter what. White supremacy is backed by the police. The Black Skin White Mask coon of a police chief in Philadelphia saw absolutely nothing wrong with what his officers did, and went on record to tell the world that. According to my "Law, Education and Society" course in college, the police cannot just show up to place somebody under arrest, without first asking them to leave the premises. Those 2 men in Philly were waiting for a friend, and their presence alone was a threat to some hick manager who wanted them removed from the premises for no reason. While many of you may think this was an isolated incident, well it was not! Another black man at another Starbucks tried to use the restroom, he was asked to leave, because he didn't purchase anything. However, he caught a white man walking out of the bathroom who also didn't purchase anything, but was given the code to the bathroom. I understand that many people in the world are delusional when it comes to white progress, as it relates to racism, but there has been no progress at all. Stop your delusions! The old racists passed their beliefs on to their children. The cycle of hate will only stop when all racists cease to exist. Luckily there was a liberal white woman in Philly who made it her point to scream out on video that the 2 black men did absolutely nothing that warranted their arrest, but imagine if that worker had reported these 2 men were a physical threat to other customers? You know how many black men have lost their lives because of a simple phone call from a white person to the police? It happened just last week in Sacramento, California where a man who supposedly posed a threat to police was shot 7 times in the back. How can someone pose a threat to you when they're running away from you, and you had to shoot him in the back? That was pure unadulterated, calculated murder, orchestrated by the cops. Whenever cops are called to a scene to deal with black people, their mentality is shoot to kill, or at the very least, criminalize somebody, even when there's no need to. A white police chief has even admitted that it's cheaper to kill black people than to wound them. We have to get to the root of that mentality, because white people are always apprehended alive, even after they have murdered 9 or 17 people. In addition, black people should be forced to rely on white witnesses to prove their innocence to the police. In other words, our lives don't mean shit, and our words don't mean shit! We cannot allow these people to take away our will, our freedom, our voice and our power!
The police department is white supremacy, and even some black cops reinforce their white supremacist mentality, because a lot of them adopt the same stupid racist mentality that is taught at the police academy and practiced by all the KKK cops. Too often black cops only realize the level of racism practiced by the police when they're out of uniform and become victims of police brutality themselves. You seldom hear of any white undercover cop, or off-duty police officers getting shot by other cops, but it's rampant against black cops. The situation at Starbucks was a simple one, where the cops could've easily asked the 2 men to vacate the premises, but the abuse of power among cops against black people is the norm, because too often, these cops are not disciplined for violating the rights of black people. For some odd reason, black people are foolish enough to believe bodycams were going to change the outcome of police officers murdering black people unjustly and indiscriminately. We found out that the hard way that white people just wanted to expose to other white people how devalued black lives are. Once they get you desensitized to the murder of your own people at their hands, you'll start to find it normal behavior, and you're gonna get tired of standing up to them. No matter what proof they have to convict a white officer, white people are blinded by racism and white supremacy. We can continue on that same path where we are victimized by them, or we can change course by arming ourselves and defend ourselves when we are unjustly attacked by the police. We have allowed white supremacy to force us into a position of victimization for too long, and too many fake and cowardice black leaders don't have enough balls to let black people know they have the right to arm and defend themselves against the police. No one has the right to take your life without justification, just because they're wearing a uniform and a badge. We have to change our mentality and let these people know we are no longer going to die in vain. Nobody's son should be shot 7 times in the back in his own backyard for carrying a cell phone, and the cops will most likely see no time behind bars for murder. We have to show valor and start averting the deaths of our loved ones. The police cannot continue to kill black people with impunity and black folks are supposed to just accept it. Fuck that! We must all be ready to stand up and fight, but more importantly, we must all be willing to put our lives on the line against these racist assholes. Otherwise, we'll continue to sing the same old song about black people being murdered by cops for no reason every fucking day! Aren't you tired of marching, begging and pleading for reason from a group of people who don't understand fairness and reason? Did you forget about slavery? Why do you think they want you to forget about slavery? Until you stand up and fight back, you're a fucking slave!
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Legacy Series, Cummings Research Park
Creation of CRP Zoning Ordinance
A Different Kind of R&D
Legal research helped develop Cummings Research Park
By Wendy Reeves, Contributing Writer
As Huntsville's footprint races toward becoming the largest city in Alabama, Charles "Charlie" Younger reflects on his role in helping lay the foundation for its growth with what is today the fourth largest research park in the world.
Of the many projects Younger was involved with as Huntsville's city attorney for more than 25 years, one of the most pivotal moments included creating the zoning ordinance that created Cummings Research Park.
"Whatever I've done to help people with ideas or information to make some change in community policy, I feel so fortunate to have been able to do that," Younger said. He's still involved today, providing counsel to the Industrial Development Board.
Nearly 60 years ago, Younger moved to Huntsville. He is one of five diverse and influential leaders the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber is featuring in this special series in Initiatives. Other contributors include Hundley Batts, W.F. Sanders, Jr., Julian Butler, and Loretta Spencer.
Younger was born in 1932 in Columbus, Miss., about three hours southwest of the Rocket City. In 1961, he was hired as an assistant city attorney to work on the Research Park Ordinance for the City of Huntsville, a move that made the park possible despite the city lacking the resources to buy large quantities of land at the time.
"One of the first questions I was confronted with by then City Attorney Jack Giles was to give my opinion of this proposed ordinance to zone about 4,000 acres of private land that could only be used for research and development," he said. "There was really no precedent for that in the country."
Younger learned there were examples of research parks in North Carolina and California, which had involved private or public ownership of land for research and development. He used those as a guide.
"The city planner was a very innovative person," Younger said. "He proposed that we use performance standards instead of traditional zoning to regulate this land. The question was that a regulation of that type was so restrictive that it would amount to taking the property."
Younger didn't think it would be a legal regulation. However, City Councilman Charles Cummings Jr., held a meeting with Younger and City Attorney Giles.
"He said to the two of us – 'This is so important to the community that we have to do it. I respect your opinion, but this is too important,' and in my opinion, although the record may show a unanimous vote for the ordinance in March of 1962, I believe the sentiment on the council to pass the ordinance at best was 3-2."
One hundred percent of attorneys representing the landowners, who were principally farmers, argued against it privately.
"I'm not sure how much of it was on the public record, but I assure you they were all adamantly opposed to it," Younger said.
Councilman Cummings told Giles and Younger that the council would adopt the ordinance, but directed the attorneys to find a nationally recognized expert, to take whatever time was needed and spare no expense to determine if and how it could work.
"He said if that expert tells us at the end of a year that this is not a valid regulation, then we will repeal it. Then he got up and left the room," Younger recalled.
Younger had extensive education in planning and zoning and was right out of law school where he had been taught by a nationally recognized professor in the field.
"So I said to Jack, there is no such thing as a nationally recognized expert, so I don't know what we can do except just go and research the question and try to find a way to defend this ordinance or revise it to where we can defend it."
Younger says he spent his first year in Huntsville reading zoning cases from every state in the union – state and federal cases. It's important to keep in mind, he said, that the U.S. Supreme Court first upheld zoning regulations in 1920. The validity of zoning was still relatively new.
"I remember saying to the city council at the end of that year that I felt like I could defend the ordinance, and we tweaked it a little bit," Younger says. "In March 1963, the city adopted a new comprehensive zoning ordinance, and part of the research park regulations were a part of that. It was modified somewhat from the one introduced in 1961, but here is what I concluded:
"All zoning is based on there being a reasonable demand for usage, so it's regulated in the community within the foreseeable future. Now that doesn't mean next year or the next five years or even 10 years. That means for the life of the community," Younger said.
His justification example included someone going to a fishing community like Ketchikan, Alaska, and taking a large body of land and regulating it solely for cotton gins, cotton mills, and cotton warehouses, he said. That would be patently unconstitutional because it would be unreasonable – there would be no demand in Ketchikan in the foreseeable future for such uses.
On the other hand, the same would be true for Huntsville if you tried to regulate a large body of land for fish canneries, processing plants, or warehouses.
Then came the performance standards for Huntsville's research park, having to do with vibrations and emissions of sound and radiation, etc.
"As long as you could conform your use of the property in a manner that didn't harm the neighbors unreasonably, then you could use it for research and development, and manufacturing that is related to research and development," Younger said.
There was another key component in bringing the new research park to life.
The group who got together to create The University of Alabama in Huntsville Foundation was also crucial to the plan. Younger said the group began to buy up the property from the farmers and hold it for long periods of time, keeping it available for industry.
The park was initially named Huntsville Research Park. At the time, Brown Engineering, headed by Milton K. Cummings and Joseph C. Moquin, was the first business to move in after company leaders purchased a 100-acre lot in 1962 at the end of the dirt road that developed into what is known today as Sparkman Drive. Today the company is known as Teledyne Brown Engineering and still remains an anchor tenant in the park.
Councilman Cummings was a nephew to Milton Cummings, he said.
"I can tell you for sure that we would have no research park ordinance without Charles Cummings Jr., so the name Cummings Research Park should really commemorate Milton and Charles Jr.," he said.
In the end, the research park was created through the public regulation of 4,000 acres of land.
"There has never been a single acre added to that original boundary, and in my opinion, we implemented the plan by doing what North Carolina and California had done by someone actually taking title to the land and marketing it to users," he said.
It's a remarkable thing today, he said.
"It is said that we are the second largest research park in the country," Younger said. "I would say if we take in the research and development occurring adjacent to the park on Redstone Arsenal, which I think someday needs to be annexed into the city, but if you take that into consideration, clearly we would have the largest research park probably in the world."


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Suhas Pai
All things Natural Language Processing.
Politics + NLP
The Political Embeddings Project
This is a 10 part blog post series on using natural language processing techniques to better understand and gain insights into the Canadian political system.
Part 1 - Introduction
Citizens are constantly reminded of their civic duty to participate in democracy by being politically informed and casting their vote responsibly. However, even the most seasoned political aficionado would find it hard to keep track of all political developments, policy proposals, and electoral candidates. Politics is simply…complex.
Politics, as presented in the media to the general public, is extremely simplified. Complex multi-dimensional ideological positions are compressed into a constricting left-right spectrum. Voters are forced to identify themselves within this narrow spectrum even while they reconcile with holding seemingly contradictory positions due to the lack of representational capacity in this unidimensional space.
Can we do better? Can we use natural language processing and machine learning techniques to give citizens better insight into the political process? In this upcoming series of blog posts, we will aim to do exactly that.
Drawing on publicly available data on Canadian parliamentary proceedings, we aim to better understand the ideological positions of the parties involved as well as gain more insight into the bills introduced and voted on in the Parliament. We aim to provide a means to compare and contrast different political parties and representatives and help understand which party/politician comes closest to representing any individual's political views.
We will start with a short primer on the Canadian parliamentary system for those unfamiliar with it. If you are already well-versed with the system, please feel free to skip the next section.
The Canadian Parliament
The Parliament has two houses - The House of Commons and the Senate. The House of Commons is the more powerful house of the two.
The House of Commons has 338 members called MPs (Member of Parliament), voted in directly by the Canadian population across the ten provinces and three territories. Each Member of Parliament represents an electoral district ('riding' in Canadian parlance), with each riding containing an average of 75,000 voters (as of 2015). Elections are held once every four years unless the ruling party or coalition loses 'confidence' of the parliament. To maintain confidence, 170 votes are required (50% + 1 votes).
The Senate is comprised of 105 members and its members are appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister. Senators usually keep their seats until the age of 75 unless they choose to resign or are removed.
The Party System
Canada has a multi-party system and there are currently 5 parties represented in the House of Commons. The parties and their ideological positions (according to Wikipedia) are as follows:
Liberal Party of Canada (Centre to Centre-Left)
Conservative Party of Canada (Centre-Right to Right-wing)
New Democratic Party (Centre-Left to Left-wing)
Bloc Quebecois (Centre-Left)
Green Party of Canada (Centre-Left?)
A bill is a proposed law that is introduced into the Canadian Parliament by a member of the HoC or the Senate. Bills can be 'public' or 'private'. Government bills are usually introduced by a member of the ruling Cabinet from the HoC. Private Member's bills can be introduced by either MPs or Senators, regardless of political affiliation.
Voting for bills
Once introduced into Parliament, a bill goes through multiple readings and is voted on in both the HoC and the Senate. If the bill gets the requisite number of votes, it becomes law after receiving Royal Assent. Generally, voting for Government bills falls strictly along party lines, while Private Member's bills usually see more independent voting.
Now that we have introduced the Canadian parliamentary system, we proceed to give a brief overview of the insights that we aim to uncover using NLP and machine learning techniques in the coming blog posts.
Party Embeddings
We learn a vector for each party based on the voting history of its members and the text of the bills that they voted 'Yes' for. Using vector space distance measures, we try to understand the ideological distances between parties based on their voting records.
Of course, every bill does not represent the same amount of ideological significance. A bill about making a particular day of the year National Autism Awareness day is much less ideologically informative than a comprehensive bill about environmental regulations across multiple sectors. We experiment with different weighting schemes of bills to take into account the relevant ideological importance of these.
Once we have learned the vectors, we visualize them in 2D/3D space using dimensionality reduction techniques. From the data and visualizations, we aim to answer the following questions:
It is often alleged that the Liberals 'campaign from the left, but govern from the right'. Does the data support it?
How similar are the Green Party and the NDP from each other?
Which party is the Bloc closest to, based on their voting record?
A yes/no signal sometimes doesn't take into account the complex nuances behind the vote. For example, MPs of a party may vote against a bill not because they disagree with its contents, but because they feel it does too little. We experiment with different techniques to try to deal with these nuances wherever possible.
M.P Embeddings
In a similar vein, we learn M.P embeddings for each individual MP based on their previous voting record and the text of the bills they voted for. Once we obtain the embeddings, we try to answer questions such as the following:
Who are the habitual aisle crossers?
Do we observe local clusters within a party cluster representing different factions within a party?
For a particular M.P, which other M.Ps are its nearest neighbors in terms of voting records?
How deviant is a particular M.P from the party voting average?
Bill Embeddings
If Parties and MPs can get their own embeddings, why not Bills? We learn a document vector for each bill which can then be used for cluster analysis. We perform topic modeling using these representations to understand the different types of bills being voted on.
We also use the bill text to summarize the contents of a bill using both extractive and abstractive summarization techniques. Further, we also build a text simplification model to remove the 'legalese' portions of the bill text and produce a more layperson amenable text.
Now that we have all these representations, can we use them for prediction? We can certainly try. We perform the following predictions:
Predict if a bill introduced into parliament will become a law or not, based on the past voting behavior of the House's members.
Predict the number of days/months it would take for a particular bill to become law based on past trends.
Predict the number of minutes for which a particular bill will be discussed in Parliament based on its initial text.
We will test our predictions using bills from the new Parliament. However, we are limited in some aspects - we do not have past voting behavior of new members. 91/338 members are newcomers to Parliament.
In the next post, we will introduce party embeddings and discuss the results and the techniques used in detail.


Grammar rules (XML files containing regular expressions) and grammar checker. Currently only for the English language, although it could be extended. Unit tests are built into the rules. Might form the basis of a grammar checker for Open Office.org.
Ginger Page for Safari offers 2 different ways to compose and enhance your text.
Grammar Slammer answers those questions that the Grammar Checkers can't!
WhiteSmoke grammar checker software is a powerful tool for improving your writing and well worth a look. At the heart of WhiteSmoke's grammar checker is a sophisticated artificial intelligence database.
English Software's online grammar check software for professional proofreading works in all text based programs including browsers like Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer. It also works as a spell check for Facebook and other social me.
Grammarly is an automated proofreading and grammar checking tool.


We invite you to check out our blog series, "Re: Thinking." The weekly blog features perspectives from a variety of contributors on topics relating to the emerging digital environment, research, and higher education. In this week's blog, DLF Program Director Rachel Frick reports on the LODLAM 2 conference and what made it remarkable.
Measuring is parcel to higher education and librarianship. We have lived with and by statistical counts for decades: our citation indices can determine an individual's promotion and tenure just as annual assessments of library acquisitions, expenditures, and subscriptions can determine an institution's ranking. These numbers, in turn, can influence a scholar's future choices or an organization's strategic planning. In this respect metrics are not simply a capture of past activity, but can have a contributory causal effect on future actions as well.
It is this causal effect that deeply interests me. CLIR, as a national organization committed to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments, sponsors several programs focused on leadership—programs that identify and foster the skills and qualities requisite to enhance those environments. These include the Leading Change Institute, the Postdoctoral Fellowships in Academic Libraries, and the Rick Peterson Fellowship. From CLIR's perspective, metrics and leadership are correlate, and profoundly so: a profession content with an arithmetic counting of its assets or numbering of its citations will value and promote individuals who are comfortable with these assessment methodologies. The type of people we choose to elevate and agree to follow can be extrapolated in part from the means by which we measure our resources. Simply put, metrics are determinative of a particular kind of leadership. The philosophical tradition of drawing a hard line between ontic and ontological is misleading: the ontic has a great deal to say about the ontological self; the lens by which we calibrate our efficacy is a mirror as well.
Not surprisingly, the need to rethink the way certain disciplines in higher education measure performance and influence has gained momentum of late. This is in part a response to a widening acknowledgement that traditional methods of counting do not adequately capture the more complex aspects of knowledge discovery and reuse in a digital era. For many decades the sciences could seemingly quantify the uptake and thereby the inferred influence and strength of a publication in a given field by enumerating its subsequent citations. Academic libraries could similarly satisfy their performance mandate by pointing to a steady increase in acquisitions and subscriptions, with often a concomitant rise in budgetary spending. Today, these metrics are under serious scrutiny.
A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education described the current tension between traditional and alternative metrics (usually shortened to altmetrics).2 A succinct source for gleaning the frustrations of the older measuring schemas and the new is the Altmetrics Manifesto.3 The authors cite new aspects of scientific research and new means of communication as requiring new approaches to assessing and gauging the importance of a particular article or publication. Conceptualizing the product of research as a fixed object usually published in paper form or designed to fit a paper-based publication model, the manifesto argues for considering other forms of expression and background information used in the research as equally important. Data sets, raw data, and code are integral to a researcher's argument but are currently difficult to access, let alone assess. Nanopublication, or semantic publication, in which a single quote or selected passages are incorporated into a new research work, can be essential to the new research, but the use of short passages is presently not monitored or valued. The proliferation of blogs, annotations, comments, and other forms of what the manifesto defines as self-publication also carry considerable intellectual weight and influence, but again have been considered marginal and not integrated into an assessment of a scientist's influence.
In the field of academic library assessment, alternative metrics have appeared over the last decade or so. LibQual+ began in 2000 in response to the perceived limitations of the Association of Research Libraries' annual statistics compilation for analyzing the quality of library services, and strove for a more nuanced assessment of such programs and services. LibQual+, however, also relies on a quantitative scale when finally tabulating the results of interviews and conversations. MISO (Measuring Information Services Outcomes) is a promising method for measuring the efficacy of college library and IT operations that has been used for several years with considerable success. Its rigorous, more qualitative set of metrics has enjoyed wide adoption.
When viewed from within the disruptive churn of digital technology that touches nearly every facet of our workplace, and acknowledging the powerful tools and applications at hand that can discern far more subtle patterns and connections within the commonwealth of knowledge, an assessment of many of our current methodologies is unambiguous. The long tradition of collecting numerical statistics—the counting of books, journals, digital objects, subscriptions, datasets, staff, and dollars—is inadequate to capture the dynamic response of modern research libraries at the analog-digital boundary. This is an unprecedented historical circumstance. The compilation of statistics presents a static, nineteenth-century formula for silos of physical mass, a construct that essentially pits libraries in a counterproductive competition, works against collaboration, encourages redundancy and waste, and fosters disengagement with the wider world of accelerating change, impeding the kind of leadership requisite for our contemporary conditions. The continued reliance on baseline statistics can also mask a lack of innovation and strategic engagement of institutions.
A related, fundamental problem is the interpretation of these statistics. For decades, these routine compilations have been regarded as performance metrics: they were used to infer institutional standing, accepted as indicators of progress (or lack of progress), and employed as benchmarks when setting goals. Yet, in a world of powerful, networked resources in which information created every three weeks is equivalent to the previous three thousand years of recorded history, the only relevant performance captured by these statistics is the counting itself.
New standards of performance and new approaches to measurement need to be adopted. A research library's functional categories should be deconstructed, exposing its component parts. These elements can then be recontextualized within a nest of interrelationships that form the core of the library's purpose. These connections include the relationship of a library's internal components to the library as a whole; its relationship to the university as defined by its response to the primary constituents it serves; its response to trends and influences in research beyond the campus; its ability to meaningfully partner and collaborate; and the methods and means that the library uses to discover and appropriate resources, tools, and ideas from the wider world. One way to visualize this is to bring to life the interconnections that lie invisible in the white spaces between the rows of our currently sleeping numbers.
For the professionals who will analyze and parse the information generated from new metrics, an ability to extrapolate a successful strategy from these levels of interplay is also paramount. In this way the questions that help construct a new benchmarking schema can help frame more accurately and honestly the new responsibilities, mission, and strategic evolution of contemporary research libraries. Using new measuring tools, new leadership can be fashioned.
Art museums have long controlled the images of objects in their collections by charging fees for their use. In recent years, however, several art museums in the United States and United Kingdom have adopted policies permitting more open access to these images.
A new report, prepared for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and published by CLIR, describes the current approaches of 11 art museums to the use of images from their collections, when the underlying works are in the public domain. The report, Images of Works of Art in Museum Collections: The Experience of Open Access, was written by Kristin Kelly. Ms. Kelly, a freelance museum professional and writer, spent nine years as the manager of administration at the J. Paul Getty Museum, and nine years overseeing public programming and communications at the Getty Conservation Institute.
The author found that each of the eleven museums studied has taken a slightly different approach to making images of the works in its collection more openly accessible. Some have put high-resolution digital files of works online for use by anyone for any purpose. Others have established a "fee and free" system that considers whether use is for commercial use or for promotion of scholarship. Still others evaluate each request on its individual merits. By presenting the thought processes and methods used in these institutions, the report aims to inform the decision making of other museums that are considering open access to images in their collections.
Providing open access is a mission-driven decision. Every staff member of each museum in the study emphasized that museums exist to educate and serve their audiences, and that providing access to images of works in their collection is part of their institutional mission.
Different museums look at open access in different ways. Some museums have the technological, financial, and human resources to provide free, immediate, high-quality downloads of collection images, while others are taking the process in steps as resources and time permit.
Internal process is important. The decision to provide open access to images can affect many people in a museum. Each is a stakeholder in the process, and each needs to understand and participate in the decision making. Senior-level commitment is critical.
Loss of control fades as a concern. While many museum staff had legitimate questions and concerns about providing open access to images of works in their collection, their worst fears have not been realized. Several of the museums are part of the Google Art Project, or have contributed to Wikimedia or other social media sites, which means that images of many of their works are already available online.
Technology matters. While a decision to provide open access to images is not based solely on the available technology, it is important to have clean and complete metadata, an effective digital asset management system, generally solid museum technology, and the staff to manage all of these systems.
Revenue matters less than many institutions think it does. While revenue remains a topic of interest to many museums, staff generally acknowledge that their desire to provide information about the collection in as open a manner as possible trumps revenue concerns.
Change is good. No museum that has made the transition to open access for the images in its collection would return to its previous approach.
The report is available as a PDF download at https://clir.wordpress.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub157/pub157abst.
CLIR has received a 24-month, $1.55 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support general operations starting July 2013.
"We are deeply grateful to the Mellon Foundation for this award, which is testimony to the value of our programs and will help ensure that CLIR's investments of time and resources in new and successful activities can continue to be realized for the benefit of the communities we serve," said CLIR Board Chairman Herman Pabbruwe.
CLIR has named eleven recipients of CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowships in Academic Libraries, five recipients of CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data Curation for the Sciences and Social Sciences, and five recipients of CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data Curation for Medieval Studies.
Fellowships are awarded to individuals who recently received a Ph.D. degree in the humanities, social sciences, or sciences. Nine fellows from the previous cohort, including seven Postdoctoral Fellows in Data Curation for the Sciences and Social Sciences, are spending a second year at their host institutions.
The CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data Curation for Medieval Studies, launched this year with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provide recent Ph.D.s with professional development, education, and training opportunities in data curation for Medieval Studies. Through this program, CLIR seeks to raise awareness and build capacity for sound data management practice throughout the academy.
All Postdoctoral Fellows will begin their program at an orientation seminar at Bryn Mawr College from July 28 to August 6, 2013. The seminar will introduce fellows to issues facing twenty-first-century libraries and provide an opportunity for fellows to meet others in their cohort who can share experiences and information. Portions of the seminar are devoted to discussing data curation and management.
CLIR administers the fellowship program in collaboration with academic institutions as a means of recruiting talent into the library profession. Information on the fellowships is available at https://clir.wordpress.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc.
CLIR seeks candidates for a newly created position of Curriculum and Research Strategist. The Curriculum and Research Strategist will be responsible for coordinating the planning, design, and delivery of online and face-to-face education and training across CLIR's programs, including the activities of the Digital Library Federation Program. He or she will work principally on the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the DuraSpace/ARL/DLF E-Science Institute.
More information about the position and a link to the application is available at https://clir.wordpress.clir.org/about/news/curriculum-and-research-strategist.


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Sharing your best Super Smash Bros. Ultimate media is now way easier in the new Switch update but there's a weird hoop to jump through first to do it
Posted by Dakota 'DarkHorse' Hills • December 1, 2020 at 8:23 a.m. PST • Comments: 4
Most of us probably have quite a few highlights and screenshots from our Super Smash Bros. Ultimate just sitting on our Nintendo Switch doing nothing, but now it's easier than ever to share them with the world or keep them in a personal collection.
Nintendo has released the largest firmware update for the Switch in quite some time with version 11.0.0 which brings with it a bunch of new quality of life changes including two new fairly simple ways to move videos and images off of the console — though one is a bit stranger than the other.
Now, users will have the option to transfer media wirelessly to phones / smart devices as well as a new way to copy on PC too. Guess which one is the oddball; hint, it's the phones.
By selecting a screenshot or clip you'd like to move, a new Send to Smartphone option is available. Clicking that will allow players to send up to 10 images or one video to smart devices at a time.
What's weird is the actual process of connecting the Switch and phone together using the camera, as the console will bring up a screen with a QR code that needs to be scanned. This attaches the device to the Switch like a Wi-Fi hotspot.
Then a second QR code appears that will open a browser page containing the selected media that can then be downloaded one by one.
It's not the most elegant solution around, but it does connect and work surprisingly fast once you learn how to properly use the feature while maintaining the original quality of the media.
The way to connect to PCs is completely different, however, as it requires users to go into the system settings, select Data Management and find the Manage Screenshots and Videos option.
Connect the Switch to the computer with a USB cable and press Copy to a Computer via USB Connection to open up the albums to access the media.
Before players could share through Twitter and Facebook though the social media platforms degrade the quality of the pictures and videos posted there. There was also the option to remove the microSD card and access captures though it requires extra steps of turning the Switch off completely which introduced enough steps to make me never want to do it unless absolutely necessary.
Some Android users have reported issues connecting to the Switch with the QR Code though a workaround seems to already exist by simply turning off the phone's mobile data temporarily first.
The new update also brought with it the ability to automatically download cloud saves across multiple systems, added a new trending feature, allow for download prioritization and more.
Unfortunately, it looks like Smash users still can't take full advantage of these since Nintendo still won't let us capture video and export it normally, but here's to hoping that support will come at some point.